The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-26 00:00:00

STATE OF IRELAND.

Mr. J. O'CONNELL, adverting to the former subject,
was glad to hear the Noble Lord at the head of the
Government state that he would cause inquiries to be
made into the nature and extent of the sufferings of the
people of Ireland.--(Hear, hear.) He confessed he felt
rather anxious upon the result of the inquiry, as on a
recent occasion when he made a statement to the House
with regard to the existing distress, he was
accused by the Home Secretary of great exaggeration.
While theys were discussing what money should be
granted they were willingly or unwillingly allowing
thousands to die in destitution. According to the re-
turn which had been made in consequence of the motion
of the Hon. Baronet the Member for Londonderry, it
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Mr. MONSELL would remind the House that while
they were discussing this point no measures had been
taken to relieve the destitution in Ireland. He was quite
sure that the several Members of the Admininis-
tration were anxious to relieve the distress,
but as :a Government, while they were dallying, no
stay was put upon the destitution in Ireland.
From the returns it appeared that in Connaught and
Munster, on the 28th of April, 1848, there were in the
several workhouses 122,369 paupers, and that the
deaths in the course of one week were not less
than 1,703, or, on an average, fourteen in every 1,000,
whereas in this great metropolis, where there was a
population approaching to two millions and a half of
souls, according to the statement made by the Poor-
law Commissioners, in the very worst week of the
year, that which ended on the 29th January, 1849,
the proportion of deaths was only five in a thousand, and
in Connaught, during the previous year, the proportion
was about the same. Such being the case, he trusted
that the House would not refuse to lend its immediate
attention to the subject.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. OSBORNE said that the great obstacle to the
granting this relief was the Honourable Member for
Ripon himself.—(Hear, hear.) When the grant-, for
50,0004 was asked for by Government the Right Hon.
Baronet had stated his intention to vote for
the grant, provided it was not the first; of

a series, but that he should decidedly op.
pose it unless it was the beginning of more compre-
hensive measures. It was then stated that 600,000/.
would be insufficient to meet the emergency, and the
84,000/. now in the hands of the Commissioners would
hardly satisfy the momentary necessity of the period. He
thought that for the sake of their own character, to ap
peal to no other principle, they ought not to suffer
thous Inds thus to perish from absolute starvation.
There were now upwards of 160,000/. owing to the
contractors to supply food, and they had determined
to forward no more food until this debt was discharged.
He trusted, therefore, that while thousands were perish.
ing. they would not be wasting the time of the country
in discussions upon an evil which all acknowledged to
exist in an extreme degree.—(Cheers.)
Colonel SIBTHORP said he did not wish to inter-
rupt the business of the evening, but he would like to
ask any Member who was more conversant with Ireland
than he could possibly presume to be, whether the
free-trade measures had not, in a great degree, been the
cause of distress in Ireland?—(Laughter, and cries of
" Hear.") He could feel for Ireland, and he could
also feel for England ; but he had every
reason for saying that if free-trade measures
were continued, England would feel the effects of them
just as much as Ireland had done.—(Hear.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not
think it expedient to go into the discussion upon free trade.
So far as Ireland went he thought it had contributed
very largely to the preservation of life in that country.—
(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") The effect of free trade
had been to preserve the lives of a greater number
of persons in Ireland than could have been done
when provisions were dearer. The Honourable
Gentleman behind him (Mr. Scrope) had stated that
Id. or lid. a day was sufficient to preserve the life of a
person, but that arose from the importation of Indian
meal, which had already preserved so many lives in
Ireland—(Hear)—and that was one of those free-
trade measures of which the Hon. Gentleman com-
plained.—(Hear, hear.) lie would not, however, pursue
that subject further.—(Hear, hear.) He had to warn
the House not to be led away by the statements,
or he should rather say, sentiments, respect-
ing the distress which it was said now
existed, and if he wanted anything to justify such a re-
quest he would find it in the admission made by the Hon.
Member for Limerick. That Hon. Gentleman had
stated that 860 deaths had taken place in
the Ballinasloe Union,. but he now corrected
himself, and said the truth was that the 860 people were
not dead, but were ill of fever and cholera.—(Hear,
hear.) At the early part of the session the Government
proposed a grant of 50,000/. for the preservation of life
until some other measure was introduced for the purpose of
making Ireland contribute its fair and equal proportion.
It was a doctrine maintained by several Irish Members
that property should contribute to the support of po-
verty, and he believed it was the universal opinion of
the House, when the grant was proposed, that
it was unreasonable to expect that any further demands
could be made upon the Treasury, and that if they were,
it was indispensable that they should look to Ireland
for the repayment of advances made by the Govern-
ment.—(Hear, hear.) A measure for that purpose
was brought forward, and so far from a reproach being
made on the Government, he (the Chaneellor of the
Exchequer) was accused of making sentimental speeches
and impassioned appeals to Irish Members to
contribute towards the relief of distress in
Ireland.—(Cries ot " Hear, hear.") The opposition to
granting relief came not from him, but from Irish Mem-
bers, and the Hon. Member (Mr. John O'Connell)
voted against the Rate in Aid, against measures for
relieving distress, and now he turned round and
complained that he (the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer) was hard hearted and indifferent to
the distreis which existsd.—(Hear, hear.) He
thoug'it that those Irish Members who made such ap-
peals for the suffering Irish might have accelerated
the progress of the Bill through the House.—(Hear.)
Now, he thought, under those circumstances, it was not
true either that Parliament had itself the means or that
Government had not used the means, or that it was ne-
cessary at present to make any further appeal to Par-
liament for further advances for the relief of the distress
which, he was sorry to say, still prevailed to a great
extent in the west of Ireland. The Government would
not shrink from asking the House for a further advance
when they believed it to be necessary to mitigate the
distress, or from appealing to Parliament, if necessary,
for money on the credit of the rate in uid.
Mr. E. B. ROCHE asked what were the reel facts of
the case with regard to the matter of the Ballinasloe
Union. Though his Hon. Friend the Member for,Limerick
had inadvertently misstated the number of people who
had died in the workhouse, yet 460 or 490 people died
in one week in that workhouse—(Hear, hear)—if his
(Mr. Roche's) recollection served him. They had it
on the authority of the best medical men that those
epidemics, the cholera on the one hand and the fever on
the other, arose from the utter destitution and suffering
of the people. He must say for one, that the Noble Lord
at the head of the Government, and the Chancellor ot the
Exchequer had succeeded in throwing from their own
shoulders a great deal of the responsibility of that very
urgent distress. Several Honourable Members who op-
posed all former grants were now pressing upon the
Government the necessity of the case, and calling on
them to relieve the distress in Ireland. Now was the time
for the Government coming forward to relieve that distress;
they had not been able permanently or adequately to
relieve the distress of the people ; many would have
been dead now who were not dead, if the Government
had not done the little they had done; but they had
not done what, as a Government, they ought to have
done—they had not preserved-the lives of the people
of the country, and he said it was the first duty of
a Government to preserve the lives of the people over
whom they ruled.—(Hear, hear.) Therefore he said,
now was the time for bringing forward some comprehen-
sive measure; there never was a better opportunity than
the present.
Sir JOHN YOUNG denied having attempted to
underrate the distress prevalent in Ireland. The
facts of the case were that in the Ballinasloe

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people
had been effected by the epidemic. Some of the auxi-
liary workhouses had been changed into cholera hospitals,
and those people who had taken the cholera were driven
into those auxiliary houses. Nov: it was shown that the
people died in a few days after they came into the work-
house, and not from the insufficiency of relief.—(Hear.)
He concurred with the Noble Lord at the head of the
Government, that it was not in the power of the Go-
vernment, or of any Government, to put an end to the
state of suffering in Ireland.
Mr. explained.RODCEHNEo s
Mr. B. rs remarked that it was easy to say
that a few additional thousands would put an end to the
distress in Ireland, and that the deaths of thousands
rested upon our shoulders.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
The Noble Lord had taken a step which every-
body must approve of, namely, saving thousands
of the people of Ireland from starving. It was
utterly impossible that the great mass of the people could
be fed save by the soil on which they had been born,
rather than by means supplied from a distance. He
was one of those who had always advocated the
cultivation of the soil in order that the people might be
enabled to support themselves.—(Hear, hear.) He
thought it could not be said that the Government had
been behindhand. He did not think this 'country
would be disposed to give much more to relieve
Ireland, looking at the comparatively small
effect and to the amount of money which, be was
sorry to say, bad b !en squandered.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. REYNOLDS did not wish to blame the Govern-
ment or the House for any neglect of the people.
Nevertheless hundreds of thousands had died, ur
rather were dying, and within twelve hours'
sail of the great and wealthy capital of Great
Britain and Ireland, hundreds :and thousands of British
subjects were dying of starvation. He did not under-
stand the Honourable Member for Cork to speak in
an offensive spirit of the Honourable Gentleman, but
he was prepared to state that the Hon. Gentleman was
underservieg of such a charge, as he never saw a chair-
man evince a greater desire to sift the whole question to
the bottom. With respect to,Ballinasloe, it appeared that
the population of the town, which was a small one,
was 4,000; and that 4,700 of the population of the
union were in the workhouse. Since a statement
ho had made on a former night had been denied,
ho must be permitted to say that the guardians,
whom he charged with the grossest inhumanity, passed
a resolution by which they concentrated the whole of
the diseased and famished poor within the walls of
the workhouse. They said, in effect, to a destitute per-
son, twenty miles from the house, "Now, you are af-
flicted with typhus, you shall obtain no relief except you
go into the house at a distance of twenty miles," fur
the union contained an area of 2,500 square miles.
He asked the representatives of the British people
whether they were prepared to sit quietly on the benches
of the House of Commons while these awful slaughters of
the people in Ireland were taking place. If one life in Eng-
land was lost in a singular manner, the whole press teemed
with it, while in Ireland thousands were dying every
week without any notice being taken of it. What had the
Rev. Mr. Anderson, the minister .of Ballinrobe,
stated to the Noble Lord at the head of the Govern-
ment iiinsnearthyleattitehHartohuweseaehoadfexicwoerintiithg pten to him? He had stated
tthhheeaatrmd no language he could use could describe
land—comprehensive measuresre
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could not walk. It had been said
what had Ireland done for herself ? He would answer
that question by stating that she had paid two mil-
lions and a half in eighteen months for the
relief of her destitute poor. In his opinion the first duty
of the Government was to save the lives of the people,
and he trusted that they would not allow the people of
Ireland to say this, which in fact they were saying, that
if you cannot govern Ireland let Ireland govern herself.
Sir G. GREY said the Hon. Gentleman who had just
sat down had fallen into error in some of his figures;
while with regard to the charge that the people of
England were callous to the sufferings of the
people of Ireland, all he could say was,
that in addition to the grants from the public
pursetthest
teartseosfolrrethlais country.—(Hear, ndhtaltdry.thfrunealra,rgheenbru)rdens
upon the local
Lord CASTLEREAGH wished to have a distinct
answer to this question, Was it to be understood that
would
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made to Ireland, whatever
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the
grantstxtent of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL had always refused to give
a pledt.,e that under no circumstances would Government
b prep ared to make any further grant to Ireland.—
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ownits
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way.—(hear.)
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL rose to explain, but loud
cries of "Order, order" compelled him to resume his
seat.
Colonel DUNNE then explained that the
ream Irish Members opposed the UAW

Aid Bill was because they felt that it would aggravate
instead of mitigate the evils.

After a few words from Mr. HORSMAN,
Mr. JO EIN O'CONNELL again rose, and was met by
loud cries of " order " and " spoke." He presumed that
he would be perfectly in order if he moved the adjourn.
ment of the House.

The SPEAKER trusted that the Honourable Gen-
tleman would confine himself to the question of ad-
journment.
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL then proceeded to state that
it was quite clear that there was no disposition on the
part of the House to consider the question of Irish dis-
tress.—(Loud cries of " Oh, oh," and laughter).
Mr. SPOONER wished to know whether the Hon.
Member had moved the adjournment of the House, with
a view to the speedy discussion of Irish distress.—(Cheers
and laughter.)
Mr. J. O'CONNELL continued —The scale of relief
administered in Ireland was too low—lower in fact than
it was either in England or Scotland. The Honour-
able Gentleman proceeded to charge the Government
with a design of starving out the Irish people—a charge
which he hal already made, but which bad never been
answered.
The SPEAKER inquired who seconded the motion of

the 1103. Gentleman? No one replied, and the subject
and the motion dropped together.
MR. HUME'S MOTION FOR PARLIAMENTARY

REFORM.

In answer to a question from Mr. CAMPBELL,
Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY said that the Hon.
Member for Montrose fully purposed bringing on his mo-
tion for Parliamentary reform on the sth of June.
REPORT ON SUPPLY—NAVY ES lIMATES.
On this motion for bringing up the reports upon the
votes agreed to in the last Committee of Supply,
Mr. COBDEN hoped that the report upon vote No. 8
would be postponed, us the Hon. Member for Montrose,
who was prevented from attending by indisposition, had
an amendment upon the paper with respect to it.
Sir F. BARING consented to postpone taking the re-
port on the vote until next Thursday.
Colonel SIBTHORP then rose to bring under the at-
tention of the House the salaries of the principal officers
of the Admiralty. He observed that the members of
Government, in their zeal for economy, were reducing
everybody's salaries but their own, and contended that
the salaries of the principal officials of the Admiralty
were greatly overpaid. He would reduce the salary of
the 5001. a year. He would next propose
to
e Firstop
off
Lordsoo., the other to 1,2004 a year. Thus
altogether, whose salaries amounted,
n
e Lordtot by o 1 ,
0/a
reduction of 2,7004 would be at once effected. He
would then propose to, strike off 10 per cent, from the
ol of
t h
salaries of the secretary, the storekeeper, the surveyor,
and-several subordinate officials, who would still be very
very handsomely paid. Tne Hon. and Gallant Colonel
concluded by proposing the reduction of the vote from
136,3031. to 132,7534
Captain PECHELL observed that the Honourable
and Gallant Gentleman could not be serious in his mo-
tion. There was no department of the Government the
officers of which were worse paid, and—if they did their
duty—harder worked, than were the gentleman con.
nected with the Admiralty. He had risen, however, for
the purpose of calling the attention of the House to the
petition of the masters in the royal navy, which he had
some time since presented to Parliament. Nominally,
these officers, who were persons holding a very re,pon •
sible position, were ranked with lieutenants, but actuary
and in practice they only held a position between the
junior lieutenants and the midshipmen. lie trusted that
the admiraly would take into consideration the case of
the lieutenants and commanders, who complained that
the promotion list was improperly made up, and that
the system of retiring pensi,ins was detective. He com-
plained of the present system of freights fur treasure,
and contended that the practices of smuggling specie on
the coast of Mexico had a prejudicial effect upon the
Spanish bondholders. The sums which had accrued to
the Admiralty from various sources should, he main
tained, be applied to the increase of the half-pay, and to
making a provision for the widows of offic:,rs in the
service.

After a few words from Colonel SIBTHORP,
Mr. B. COCHRANE said he was desirous of asking
the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the Admi-
ralty whether, in the face of events passing abroad, it
was the intention of the Government to continue these
reductions in the navy? It was not his own opinion
alone, but the opinion of the entire public press, and of
all those who had turned their attention to foreign
affairs, that even if a general war were not inevitable, it
was likely that the whole of the continent would soon be
involved in hostilities. He asked the Government
whether they deemed this to be the proper moment for
carrying out reductions, which he admitted at another
time might be reasonable and just? In 1792, Mr. Pitt
had built upon a fifteen years' peace, but it had been
terminated in six months. Looking at the recent decla-
ration of the Emperor of Russia, and the events which
were passing around us, he asked the Government whe
ther they did not think it was unwise and injudicious to
continue a course of reductions which, should danger
come upon us, would have to be made good at a double
cost to the country.
Admiral DUNDAS, replying to the objections of the
Hon. and Gallant Member for Brighton, maintained that
masters ought not to expect *to be placed on the same
footing with Lieutenants. Captain Hall had risenbyhis
own merit, and he trusted that others would follow his
example, but he was averse to sanctioning the principle
for which the Hon. and Gallant Member contended.
Sir F. BARING observed that it was not a pleasant
thing to be involved in a discussion on one's own salary.
—(Great laughter.) But he did not think that the
case of the Admiralty was one which presented features
particularly calling for the pruning knife. In 1831, a
period of great anxiety with respect to economy and
retrenchment, a Committee of the House had gone
through the different Government salaries, and had
fixed what they considered to be proper sums for each
office. On that occasion the salary of the First Lord of
the Admiralty had been reduced by .500/., leaving it at
4,5001. instead of 5,0001. The salary of the four Lords was
fixed at 4,0001., and after an inquiry they were declared
entitled to half-pay. The salary of the first secretary
had also been reduced to its present standard. Last
year the Committee appointed to revise all the estimates
of the Admiralty, had not found that the salaries were
excessive. If the House were disposed to enter upon the
general question of salaries (No, no), he was prepared;
but he trusted that he need not further dwell upon the
salaries attaching to the Admiralty. He thought that the
clerks of accounts fully earned their salaries in the check
which they constituted to improper expenditure. The
Hon. Member for Bridport had spoken of reductions,
and he (Sir Francis Baring) thought there was an im-
pression abroad that those reductions were more consi-
derable than they ought to be. If the house recurred
to the number, 40,000 men, which had been voted in
the present year, and compared it with the numbers
voted in former years, they would find that the present
numbers were by no means inconsiderable. If it should
occur that we were called upon for an active exercise of
our strength, be trusted that the navy would not be
found inefficient. He could assure the House that there
would be no shrinking on the part of the Government in
asking the country for assistance, should it be needed.
The subject of freights was one which should not be lost
owroduerldtobebet-
ter discussed on another occasion.
effect
a higerneSraPl°r°edNuEctlilown aosf otfhOe salaries of Government offi-
sight of; but he thought it
pwiansi oonn, ethat whichin
cers, you must begin with the salaries of individuals.
The policy of the country having declared that low
prices were to be the order of the day, he thought that
the present scale of Government salaries ought not to
ba maintained. What would be the moral effect upon
the people of the Government, by their policy, beating
down the incomes of others, and still keeping up their
own? In the present state of the country, he did not
think that those salaries coull be justified.—[Sir J.
Graham : Put the Government on corn rents.]—
(Laughter.) If the Hon. and Gallant Colonel went to a
division, he should have his support.
Captain BERKELEY contended that since 1770 the
salaries of the Lords of the Admiralty nad not been
raied, whilst those of other Government officers had been
augmented.
Captain BOLDERO admitted that, with the exception
of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, and
the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for the Home
Department, the duties of ,the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty were the most onerous attaching to the Govern-
ment.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Mine
are rather heavy.—(Laughter.)
Captain BOLDERO would also except the Right
Hon. Gentleman, it he pleased. The Hon. and Gallant
Member recommended that the Government should turn
its attention to the subject of honorary distinc-
tions as affecting the Marines, contending that that
branch of the service had not their full share of re-
wards. He thought also that the Marines were
entitled to the same consideration with respect to their
admission to the national hospitals as the two other
branches of the service. If the Government would be.
stir themselves in this matter they would receive the
thanks of a brave, honourable, and gallant class of men.
Colonel SIBTLIORP, in reply, expressed his wonder
at the absence from both sides of the House of the usual
sticklers for economy.—(Laughter.) He should not
divide the House, resting content with having " shown
up" the Government to the country.—(Laughter.)
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY asked fur explanation re-
specting a sum of 484,738 L, which had been carried to
revenue in the year just closed. Had any portion of that
amount arisen from the sale of old stores ?
Sir F. T. BARING said the item alluded to included
all kinds of stores and the repayment of certain advances
under the same head; but if the Hon. Baronet wished it,
a detailed statement would be produced.
The report was then agreed to.
SUPPLY.—AitiNIY ESTIMATES.
The House then went into Committee of supply; Mr.
Bernal in the chair.
The first vote proposed was a sum not exceeding
1,855,5881., for defraying the charge of her Majesty's
land forces in the United Kingdom and in stations abroad,
being part of a sum of 3,655,5881.; of which 1,800,000/.
had already been granted on account.
Mr. B. OSBORNE (alluding to the thinness of the at-
tendance in the House) said it was not very encouraging
for any Hon. Member to enter into the discussion of
questions affecting the expenditure of the country, be-
cause it appeared that, whenever that which more than
anything else fell within the peculiar business and pro-
vince of the House had to come on for consideration, Hon.
Gentlemen, and even the financial reformers themselves,
deserted their posts, and left bat a beggarly account of
empty benches for any diligent advocate of economy and
retrenchment to address his remarks to. He therefore did
not prupose at present to go into any lengthened de-
tails; but he must say he felt convinced, from the condi-
tion in which the army was kept, and the enormous
establishments ehicfly connected with the civil de-
wpaurtmceittits,edthaltin:atthrel.edteiedtiiffoenrsecould easily be effected,
and the army maintained in increased efficiency by being
managed with greater simplicity. The British army
different heads. First, there

was the !infantry and cavalry under the Horse Guards;
then the Ordnance corps, under a separate board; and,
lastly, the commissariat, which was a separate branch,
under the management of the Treasury. Now, he
maintained, that in no other country in the world was
there such an arrangement of the three different branches
of the army under three separate heads. The manage-
ment of the Horse Guaros cost 94,1991.; that of the
Ordnance 91,136/.; and that of the commissariat, which
was said to be the cheapest managed of all, being under
the Treasury, 316,0001. Now, if they were all placed
under a Minister of War, having a seat in Parliament,
as was the case in other countries, instead of being ma-
naged in the present cumbrous and costly manner, the
country would gain considerably in point of economy and
simplicity. This was not a new idea of his. In the year
1837 a commission was appointed to inquire into these

matters, and their repoit recommended that the army
should be placed under the management of such a minis-

ter ; that the Ordnance should be consolidated with the
Horse Guards; and that the civil department should be
kept separate. However, from that day to this, and
although they had a committee sitting upstairs, no steps
had }'et been taken to carry out the report of the com-
missioners. It was plain a very considerable saving in
this manner might he made. Why not abolish the office
of Master-General of the Ordnance, by which they
might save 9,0001. a year? The same might be said of
the Secretary at War's office, upon which they might
save 5,0001.; and by abolishirg the olilco of Judge-
Advocate—whose excellent deputy, Mr. Rogers, did all
the work, and bud a salary of 8001.-2,5001. more might
be saved. Then 6,836/. a year was the charge in this
country for agency, although there was no agency re-
quired for the Indian army, and he could not therefore
understand why it should be necessary for the
troops at home. Altogether he was persuaded
about 56,0001. a year might be saved in these
departments.—(Hear.) He must also call attention to
the great disproportion of generals to the number
of men in our army as compared with the armies of other

countries. In 1783, about the time of the American
war, we had 824 general and field officers ; in 1799,
about the time of the French war, the number was 1,863;

and
no
to 20
now,
in
tl:7 . We had a staffand anumber
year
increased of
officers greater than was required for the whole French
army of 400,000. We had 9 field-marshals, 58 generals,
67 lieutenant-generals, 174 major-generals ; and yet the
whole strength of our army was only 180,000 men.
Eight or ten thousand a year, too, might be saved by
doing away with brevets. Were the House not so empty
he might pursue the question further ; but he was sure
he would be able to show a Committee that a material
saving might be effected as regarded the staff of officers,
and that a much better arrangement might be made with
respect to the retired and half pay list. Then, as re-
garded the clothing of the regiments, there could not be a
worse system than leaving it in the hands of the colonels.
He believed that if the Government took the clothing
into its own hands, and adequately remunerated the
colonels, as they did in the case of the artillery, giving
them sufficient pay, instead of leaving them to eke it out
by a profit on the clothing of their men, the men would
be better clothed, greater satisfaction would be given,
and a saving would be effected to the country of about
14,000/. a year. He found that in the year 1847, the
clothing of the French army, including the expense of
tents and encampments in Algiers, was only about
464,000/. for 370,125 men; or an average of 1/. 13s. 2d.
per head. Then again in Prussia, the average cost
of clothing in the Prussian army was only 11.:15s. 10d.
per bead ; hut in England, in the year 1847, the
cost of clothing an army of 132,199 men was 402,142/. ;
or more than 3/. per man. How it was that the
French and the Prussians clothed their soldiers
better and cheaper than we, who were considered to be
the best manufacturers in the world, could do, he would
leave it for-the Manchester manufacturers themselves to
say, but he hoped the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell)
would use his influence with the Horse Guards, to alter
the whole system of clothing, which, besides its other
evils, exposed the colonels tai invidious remarks; which,
as a class of men, he was sure they did not deserve.
Instead of receiving their present allowance upon the
clothing of their regiments, to make up their insuffi-
cient pay, why not give them a salary of
1,000/. a year, and save 35.0001. to the country ? Then
the proportion of officers to the number of men was
excessive. There was one officer to every nineteen men
in the army. In the Horse Guards there was one officer
to eleven men, and ono-non-commissioned officer to every
six of the men. The second-majors of the infantry might
altogether be done away with, and a saving of 45,000/.
thereby effected. Tne cavalry force, exclusive of house-
hold cavalry, equalled twenty-two regiments. Five of
them were under the East India Company;' but the re-
maining seventeen ought to be condensed into twelve
regiments, which would reduce the staff, and lead to
economy. A saving could also be effected by filling up
the places of assistants in the various offices of the dif-
ferent departments of the army from the retired or half-
pay list. A clerk in the Commander-in-Chief 'a office
retired, after forty years' service, upon 700/. a year;
whereas the retiring pay of a general was only 400/. a
year. In these various methods they might go on re-
ducing item after item, until they effected an aggregate
saving, he would venture to say, little short of half a
million a year. Our old colonial system must also be
remodelled; and in this way alone could they reduce their
estimates, that were so excessive.
Mr. F. MAULE having, he said, entered fully into
the whole question of the army when he introduced the
estimates to the House, should not think it necessary to
trouble the Committee at any length on the present oc-
casion, the more particularly as most of the topics upon
which the Hon. Members had touched were at present
undergoing the consideration of the Committee up stairs
to which the estimates had been referred. Far from
concurring with the Hon. Member in the condemnation

which he had passed on the agency system, he believed
that it was as economical to the public as it was conve-
nient to officers. As regarded the question of clothing,
he begged to remind the Hon. Member that a Committee
which sat in 1833, after fully investigating the matter,
came unanimously to the decision that, both as regarded
economy and efficiency, it was the best system which
could be adopted. For his part, however, he was not
wedded to the present system, and if it could be proved
that greater efficiency as well as economy would result
from the Government taking the matter into its own
hands, as was done in the Ordnance department, doubt-
less that course ought to be adopted.
Mr. COBDEN complained that whilst the reduction
of men this year had been carried to 10 per cent, the re-
duction of officers had been limited to two per cent. He
did not say that either the army or navy was overpaid,
but what he complained of in both services was that we
had more than we wanted, and it any retrenchment
were made it must be a reduction of the number. But

to effect that reduction in the army there must be a
change in our colonial system; at present the army in
the colonies acted as police.—(Hear.) They bad lately
heard of acts of incendiarism in Canada. Some parties
there burned the Parliament-house because the majority
in the House did hot vote in a manner to suit the views
of those incendiaries. He would call them incen
diaries—(Hear)—and no person in that House or in this
country would have any sympathy with them. But it
appeared that at that time there were only two consta-
bles in Montreal; and why?—because the English Go-
vernment undertook to treat these colonies as children
to find soldiers for the service of the police.—(Hear,
hear.) He would tell the people of every town in Canada
that they must depend upon themselves for the main-
tenance of their own peace.—(Hear.)
Mr. OSBORNE wished to refer to what was com-
monly called the shell jacket question." Perhaps the
Right Hon. Gentleman himself did not see the unfortu-
nate officers in those jackets, as they really were in the
position of scarecrows—(A laugh)—going about the
country, laughed at and stigmatised wherever they went.
—(Hear, hear.) If the Right Hon. Gentleman could
see some of the old officers in those shell jackets, and
the ridiculous objects they were, he would admit that
either the whole army ought to be clothed alike, and the
principle applied to the household troops as to the line,
or that thii jacket should be abolished.—(Hear, hear.)
But the officers of the line were not allowed to wear
them when they might really be of service, namely, at
mess; though the Dragoons who came from the richer
classes, were allowed to mess in their stable dress.—(A
laugh.) If they intended to make the army a terror to
the enemy by their hideous appearance, the rule should
be applied to all branches of it.—(A laugh.) He wished
also to ask why the bearskin caps were taken from the
Fusileers but retained by the household guards?
Mr. F. MAULE believed that this question had made
more noise in the House than in the army;—(hear)—for
his part, he had heard no complaint of the dress. It was
adopted simply because it was thought necessary that
officers when employed in the lino should be clothed in
the same dress as the men.

Colonel LINDSAY observed that the reason why the
bear-skin caps were taken from the Fusileers was that
the price of bears rose.—(Great laughter.)
The vote was then agreed to.
On the vote for the sum of 86,376/, being part of a
sum of 173,3761., for the charge of general staff-officers
and officers of hospitals at home and abroad,
Mr. LOCKHART complained of the increase in the
estimate for the general staff at Malta, in consequence
of the appointment of a civil governor over that island,
and said he believed that not a single military man in
the united kingdom would defend such an appointment
in times like the present.—(Hear, hear.) He wished to
test the opinion of Hon. Gentlemen whether they thought
it a, job or not; and he should therefore move that the
salary of the staff allowance to the Lieutenant-General
should be stopped after the Ist of September.
Mr. HAWES thought the Hon. Gentleman, without un-
derstanding much of the subject on which he had spoken,
had, he must pernnt him (Mr.Hawes) to say, characterised
this transactionin a manner utterly unjustified and un-
justifiable. The Hon. Gentleman had denounced the ar-
rangement made for the government of Malta as a job.
He (Mr. Hawes) did not know one thing that the people
of Malta had longer called for than the appointment of a
civil governor; and he did not know any appointment
ever made that had been more successful for the interests
of that island. When his Noble Friend was called on to
appoint a governor of Malta he took into his considera-
tion undoubtedly that there would be an increase of ex-
pense, but he reduced the salary of the governor 5002 a
year, in order partly to meet that adlitional expense.
From the island there was no complaint—no petition.
(Mr. Osborne—They don't pay for it.) On the contrary,
' there had been the strongest expression of approbation
at the appointment. It was true that. a civil gover-
nor could not be appointed without me eased expense,
because the former governor (Sir P. Stewart) being a
general officer united in himself the civil duties of go-
vernor and the military dutif s of Cornmander•in• Chief,
which would not be done by Mr. O'Ferrall. He did
not wish to speak in the slightest degree invidiously of
the preceding administration of Sir P. Stewart; he was
a gentleman of high character and ability, and adminis-
tered the government to the sati•daction of previous
Secretaries of Sate—(Hear)—but when Mr. O'Ferrall
when to Malta there was very considerable popular dis-
content and dissatisfaction; but ho could say now that.
was entirely allayed by the wisdom and umbra= cq

the measures of Mr. O'Ferrall, and the various reforms
he had introduced in all departments more than eqwdled
the additional expense. It was true that the additional
expense fell directly on the Imperial Treasury—(Hear)
—but were not the interests of the people of the people
of iaita to be regarded? He did not know an instance
in the whole range of the colonial government which
could be regarded as a stronger justification of the ap-
pointment of a civil governor.
Mr. OSBORNE wished to know how it was that the
present estimate had been increased?
Mr. HAWES stated that the ( xpences of the civil
government had been reduced to the .tent of 5001., and
a sum equal to that amount had been added to the pay
of the military (Beer in command at Malta.

Mr. OSBORNE saw ne reason why the Maltese should
not pay the diGrenee.
Mr. LOCKHART wished it to be understood that he
did not mean to cast any refl .etion on Mr. M. O'Ferra
The Committee then divided, when the numbers were-
Fur the amendment .
Against it

. 50

Majority —33
The vote was then agreed to.
The following votes were also agreed to:-
9.4081, being part of 17,4084, to defray the expenses
of the Military College.
10,2984, being part of 19,2981., for the Royal Military
Asylum and Hibernian School.

On the question that a sum of 33,286/, being part of
66,286/, for the volunteer corps, be granted.
Mr. W. MILES observed, that not calling out these
volunteer corps in regiments would not increase their
efficiency. It had been suggested, and he believed upon
very good grounds, that there was nothing more calcn-
lated to promote their efficiency than their being perio-
dically inspected by a military man.
Mr. F. MAULE said that the discipline and efficiency
of these corps had been tested, unfortunately too often, in
the course of the past year—not too often for their re-
putation, because they bad performed their duties with
military precision and with great forbearance.
The vote was then agreed to.
The following votes were also agreed to:-8,120/,
being part of 15,1201. to defray the charge of allowances
and rewards for distinguished services.
39,908/, being part of 79,9081., for the pay of general
officers not being colonels of regiments.
200,0001:, being part of 400,000/, for half-pay and
allowances of retired officers of the land forces.

22,1561., being part of a sum of 44,1561., for half-pay
and reduced allowances to officers of disbanded foreign
corps.

64,7782, being part of a sum of 128,7781., for pensions
to officers' widows.

47,500/., being part or a sum of 95,500/., for allowances
on the compassionate list.
On the vote of 18,5411., being part of a sum of 25,5412,
for Chelsea and Kilmainham Hospitals,
Mr. B. OSBORNE said that the Committee on the
estimates had recommended the abolition of the Civil
Board at Chelsea Hospital. He should like to know why
the office of secretary to that board bad been recently
filled up by the appointment of Colonel Alderson? The
reason, ho believed, was that the Railway Board was
abolished about the time, and Colonel Alderson, who
was one of them, was thereupon appointed to this sine-
cure office of 7001. a year, he being allowed at the same
time to retain his pay as Colonel of Engineers. Mr.
Neave, the former secretary, was even allowed to retain
his house, and the public had to pay for the expense of
a house for Colonel Alderson.
Mr. F. MAULE reminded the Hon. Member that
when Colonel Alderson was appointed the office of as-
sistant-secretary with a salary of 600/. a year, was
abolished. So long as the Civil Board was continued it
was absolutely necessary that it should have a secretary,
and that with regard to the fact that Mr. Neave was
suffered to retain his house, it was thought hard, after
so many years' service on the part of that gentleman,
that for the few years of life which remained to him he
should be removed from the house in which he had spent
his official life.—(Hear, hear.)
The vote was then Itgre,fi to.

On the v,..te of 624,8531., being part of a sum of
1,224,0531., tor cut pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, &a.,
Mr. HENLEY oboe rved that the East India Company
were creciEed %NW' 60,0001., as their share of the pay-
ment of the non-t ffective service of the army employed
in India. Had the Government taken into consideration
the increasing proportion of troops serving in India ?
The sum had stood at 60,0001. for many years, and he
would suggest whether it was not disproportionate to the
present number of the effective force in India, which was
28,000, the total number in every other part of the em-
pire being 103,000?

Mr. F. MAULE explained that the sum had been long
paid, and was conside, ed at the period when it was fixed
as a just proportion for the East India Company to pay.
He was nut quite sure that the sum was so inadequate as
the Hon. Member supposed, but it was an arrangement
which had taken place between the Government and the
East India Company at the same time with many others,
and any alteration must be made when many other
things were also under discussion.
After a few words from Mr. G. THOMPSON the
vote was agreed to, as was a vote of 19,0001, being
part of a sum of 38,0001., for superannuation or retired
allowances.

The House then resumed, the report was brought
up, and the Chairman obtained leave to sit again on
Thursday.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in the absence of
Mr. Baines, obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend
the procedure in Courts of Genera and Quarter Ses-
sions of the Peace in England and Wales, and for the
better advancement of justice in cases within the juris-
diction of those courts.

Lord DUDLEY STUART moved for returns of all
salaries and other emoluments received by the several
officers of the Palace and Marshalsea Courts, in each
year from July, 1838, to July, 1848, inclusive. Of the
number of actions brought and causes tried in
the above courts during every week of the same period.
Of the number of costs in every action brought and
cause tried during the years 1847 and 1848 ; distin-
guishing those tried from those in which judgment went
by default, and also distinguishing the number of cases
submitted to taxation during the same period. And of
all fines paid by counsel or attorneys for liberty to prac-
tise in the same Courts.

The other orders of the day were then disposed 01
and the House adjourned at half-past Nine o'clock unti
Thursday next.

he h

At ti, alf-yearly meeting of the National Bra-
zilian Mining Association, held yesterday afternoon, the
report and accounts were presented and approved. It
appeared from what transpired that, notwithstanding the
limited means at the disposal of the board, the working
of the property, including the mines Cocaes and Cuiba,
was steadily improving, and that there was a near ap-
proach between actual expenses and receipts. The di-
rectors were still under some advances, and it was stated
that if the calls due from defaulting shareholders were
paid, not only might those advances be discharged, but
increased means would be supplied for augmenting the
available force necessary to carry out vigorous opera-
tions. While the Cuiba mine continues premising in its
appearance, the two veins in Cocaes are specially men-
tionkel as indicating in the progress of their exploration
satisfactory results. The affairs of the ccmpany having
latterly undergone a complete investigation, it was not
thought advisable to trouble the shareholders with any
lengthened dissertation upon them. Before the close of
the meeting the auditors personally vouched for the ac-
curacy of the accounts.

DEPARTURE OF FATTIER MATHEW.—This devoted
and elistu,guished apostle of the temperance cause con-
tinued his labours on Tuesday last at the Htberrian
School, in Pieasant-street. There was a large attend-
ance, comprising a number of the working classes, and
several of the most influential ladies and gentlemen re-
sident in the town. The Rev. Gentleman was accom-
panied by Mr. William Rathbone, whose guest he has
peen since his sojourn here, and who has been most un-
remitting in his kindness and attention towards him. A.
number f the scholars who had signified their wiiling-
ness to take the pledge, were, along with the assembled
adults, addressed by Father Mathew, who enforced,
chiefly by scriptural references, the duty of sobriety. No
incense, he said, could be more grateful to heaven than
that they were about to offer. The pledge was then
administered to about three hundrsd children of
both sexes, and the same number of adults. At the
close of the day's proceedings it was intimated that
Father Mathew would, on retiring from the school,
administer the pledge to any one who desired it that
evening and the following morning, it they favoured him
with their attendance at the house of his friend, Mr.
Rathbone, of Greenbank. Many availed themselves
of the opportunity, waited upon Father Mathew, and
entered into the teetotal bond. On Wednesday morn-
ing Father Mathew embarked for America in the
packet-ship Ashburton. Such, however, was his de-
votion to the cause of which he has become so dhtin-
guished an advocate, that, before his departure, he went
round several of the dock quays, and there induced
many to become total abstainers, and go through the
usual formalities required. to ratify their acknowledg-
ment of temperance principles. He was also engaged in
a similar manner on board the Ashburton, and, jud;ing
from the feeling displayed in his favour, many converts
would be.made during the voyage. The vessel left the
Waterloo dock about eleven o'clock, when a vast con-
course of people, together with some of the immediate
friends of the Rev. Gentleman, were present to witness
his departure. Many congregated on the piers, and as
the vessel passed into the river a loud and prolonged
cheer was given, several of the spectators expressing
their hearty good wishes and prayers for the safety and
prosperity of one whose self-devotion and sacrifices to
the cause with which he has identified himself are, per-
haps,-without parallel. The scene was a most gratify-
ing one. The Rev. Apostle, though in good health and
spirits, appeared to feel his position, prising out of a
separation from so many of his attached friends at home.
We understand he expressed the highest sense of the
gentlemanly and benevolent conduct shown towards him
by Mr. William Rathbone and the circle of friends to
which he was introduced during his stay in Liverpool.
The Ashburton left the river early yester;lay (Thursday)
morning.—Liverpool Mercury.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Bad Legs of Fourteen Years'
Duration Cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Mrs.
Priscilla Waters, of Pentney, near Lynn, had been a dreadful
sufferer for upwards of fourteen years with bad legs, which
several of the Faculty had tried to cure, but without success.
Her digestion was much impaired, and at times she was quite
incapable of attending to her household affairs. As the medi-
cines which she had been taking afforded her no relief, she was
recommended to try Holloway's Pills and Ointment, by the use
of which she was completely cured, and for more than twelve
months past has been able to attend to her domestic duties, and
could, if necessary, walk 10 or 20 miles with ease. Sold by all
Druggistv, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244,
Strand, London.

By the litters from China it appears that the
amount of gold which had been received from California
bet we,n the Ist of January and the 31st of March, w:
estimated at 350,000 dollars. The demand fur goods in
return had cleared the market of some articles that bad
fig a lvng time reuagiuecl vn

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
LAMBETH.

A middle-aged Hibeeniee, bearing the name of Geo'ge
Bytne, was placed at the bar betore the Hon. G. ().
Yawn, charged with the commission of a most wanton
and unprovoked assault upon Aire. Ann Darkiu, the wife
of Mr. Henry Willisrn Darkin, residing at No. 7, St.
Albeu's-terreee, Kennington-read.
The complainant stated that about 11 o'clock that
mornieg the defendant, whom she had never before seer,
knocked at the door of her hwband's residence, and was
answered by the complainant herself. The defendant de-
mended to hate returned to hire a circular, which he
a'leed he had left there on the previous day—a fact
NV ilia she (rho witness) qui, tly denied, observing that no
such document heel been left at her husband's house. The
defendant reiterated his assertions, and accompanied
them with applying to the witness a torrent of abwive,
abominable, and opprobrious epithets, such as she declined
to mention, end the very recollection of which dreW forth
a burst of tears. She, however, gave the defendant an
assurance that he was quite in error in supposing he had
left any circular, and desired him to quit toe house. His
violent language was then repeated, on which the witness
having called out to an elderly invalid gentleman named
Mitchell, lodging in the house, that gentleman from the
stairs witnessed the remainder of the transaction. On
the repetition of his insulting language the witness took
him by the shoulders to put him out of the door, when
the defendant turned round, and with his closed fist
struck her with great force a severe blow on the left
temple, which was much swollen from the effects.
Mr. William Mitchell corroborated the evidence, and
proved further, that he-and a servant boy named Billing,
pursued the defendant until they met a policeman, 10
whom he was given into custody.
Mr. NORTON inquired what was the nature and cha-
racter of the circular which the defendant alleged he had
left at the complainant's residence?
The defendant handed one to the magistrate.
The circular announced that " Mr. George Byrne,
phrenologist," called the attention of the gentry and the
public in geceral to the fact that phrenology was ease°.
tial to the development of the character of indiViduals
and the primary tunctions and elements of the mind;
and that it offered most important aid in the selection of
guardians for the young, of clerks, confidential assist..
ants, and of partners, &c. In all these matters be
pleaged himself to describe character and talents with
strict adherence to the principles of phrenology on the
terms of one shilling and sixpence for a phrenological
chart with relative proportions; of half a crown for a
similar chart, with outlines as to character and talents;
and of five shillings for the same, with a full written
analysis. The circular gave the address of Mr. Bymer
" the phrenologist," No. 24, Allen.street, Lambeth.
Several respectable persons in court complained of the
annoyances to which they and their neighbours and,
families were subject from the visits of these "circular'
depositors on all possible and impossible subjects.
M. NORTON sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of
31., or to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for,
the term of five weeks.

On hearing this decision the defendant "looked due'
gers" at the magistrate, and strutted out of the dock in
the care of Cook the gaoler. The fine had not been paid
when the court rose.

THAMES. • , •
Rhoda Smith, alias Jones, alias Green, with other in'
numerable aliases, was charged with obtaining money
under false pretences from the Rev. Mr. Gribble,, chap-
lain to the new church lately founded by Prince Alba!,
in connexion with the Merchant Seamen's Home, Well
close-square. The system of frauds developed was of
very extraordinary character, extending over a 'number
of years. On Thursday evening the prisoner, who is
about forty years of age, called on Mr. Gribble, and
presented a paper purporting to be a petition for a
subscription opened for the purposes of getting
young man named James Lewis, aged eighteen into
the asylum for the blind at Portsmouth. The
document bore the signatures of Messrs. Mauds-
lay and Son, engineers, Lambeth ; Messrs. Robinson,
Mill-wall, and several others, as subscribers of 'various
sums, and amongst the other subscriptions was one
signed " A few fri,.nds at Ipswich," for 71 63. As soon
as the prisoner presented hers;.ll to the reverend gentle-
man, he at once recognised her as a person who had
called on him twice before under very peculiar circum-
stances. Oa her first visit she represented herself as the
wife of a transport, whose term of punishment had ex-
pired, and who, owing to
,his previous good character,
was about to settle respectably and wishsd her toejoin
him. She produced on that occasion a printed document
which had every appearance of authenticity, and the,
reverend gentleman advanced her 10s. out of a fund
placed at his disposal for the relief of persons connected --
with the merchant sea service. In one or two days
afterwards she again called upon the reverend geu-'
tleman, accompanied by a person whom she repre
sented to be the master of the vessel in which she
was about to sail to join her husband, and said that
she wanted some few necessaries, which would amoulst
to about 11. 125., and which sum would be repaid in
an hour or two after being advanced. The amount
was given to her from the Champney fund placed,
at his disposal, but he never saw the prisoner again anti'
she appeared in her new character on Thursday evening,
at which time she was considerably disguised in liquor.- .
Mr. Gribble, recognising her as the person who had
imposed on him on two previous occasions, sent to the
Leman-street station-house, when Sergeant Ball, 21 it,
attended and took her into custody. She prayed of the
reverend gentleman to forgive her, admitted having re;
ceived 10s. and 12s. on two previous occasions, and
exclaimed, whilst going to the station-house, " WY,
God, I have told a falsehood, shall I be transported ?'
When she obtained the 11. 12s. from Mr. Gribble, the
person who represented himself as the captain with whom
she was about to sail, and who assisted in several of her
impositions, was so fully recognised from the descriptions
that it has since been ascertained he is at present ani
inmate of one of the metropolitan prisons on another
charge of fraud. Information was instantly forwarded to
the Mendicity office, when Captain Wood directed Hors-
ford, the active agent of the society, to attend to the case.
Horsford immediately recognised the woman as a very old
and well-known acquaintance. She has been twice cons-
mitted from Neagate for six months each time, ten
times suminerily convicted at various police-Courts,
and twice tried but acquitted at the Old Bailey on two
charges of felony. She had lived with a man named
Smith, who was transported, and under whose name the
first fraud upon Mr. Gribble had been effec'ed. She
then lived with another flash man at Wentworth.street,
Whitechapel, whom in a drunken fray she threw down
stairs, whereby his neck was broken and he died. After
that she cohabited with another fellow named Welch
Tom; her latest pal was Bob Owen, better known in the
locality as " Crump." •
Mr. _INGHAM said that there could not be the slightest
doubt that the prisoner was a most abominable impostor,
carrying on a most nwarions trade, and preying upon
funds intended for the relief of the deserving poor con-
nected with the naval service. She belonged to a class
who were the greatest pests of society, and he regretted
exceedingly that owing to technical aifficulties he could
not visit her offences with the punishment they deserved,
and, by sending her fur trial, place her in a position
which would for ever remove her from this country.
would, however, inflict the highest punishment in his
power by sentencing her to three months' insprisonneent
with hard labour.

William
Cajjyn- , a newsvender, residing at 31, Sidney'
street, and, and two persons in his employment,
named 7 kreac'gold and Smith, were charged with utter-
ing an infamous libel, with a view of vilhfying the HO.
and Rev. Robert .Liddell. The libel was contained in a
low publication, issued nom the defendant Caffyn's shop+
and denominated Sam Sly, dieing the eastern counter'
part of the Paul Pry, which for so long a time has be. in
the vehicle of western slander. The libel in question
purports to be a " Story of Barking," of which parisil
Mr. Liddell is vicar, and professes to be written by one
of the " sly dogs" there. The article is written in the
loosest style which characterises these prurient publics.'
Lions, charging the lion. and Rev. Gentleman with avail'
ing himselt of the absence of his wife to seduce a near
cook, who is described as possessing no remarkable
amount of beauty. The publication of this worthless
print was brought home to the parties implicated, and
they were held to bail, to answer the charge at the se 5.•
sions of the Central Criminal Court.
Henry Stockman, mate of thebarque
mßarunnslsawuigehkt,erw
finally examined, charged, with the
of
Joseph Frost, a black boy, engaged on board that vessel.
The facts appeared in our journal of Saturday last. Th.o
boy was drunk. The prisoner was about to give hint
a " ducking," the tackle gave way, and the boy w 5
drowned.—Committed for trial.

WESTIVINSTER.
Charles Simpkins and henry Bond, :two middle-Bga •
persona, were finally examined, charged with stealing as
101. note, a Bank dividend warrant for 221. 16s. 4d., and
six sovereigns, under circumstances of a very singular
description.
.The money was the property of a Mr. Pimantel,, 0 ,
lunatic, Simkins, who was a friend of the family" of
three or four ) ears' standing, persuaded Mrs. Pimante.l
again to place her husband in Bethlem, as it was found
expedient to have a second keeper. Bond and ..he were
to etlect the necessary strangements, and under that pre-
tence they took forcible possession of the property above
mentioned, which was the amount of the lunatic's an-
nuity. When Mrs. Pimantel asked Simpkins for thv
money, the latter, who was drunk, threatened to stick
a knife in her. Simpkins had also demanded to see Mrs. _
Pimantel's marriage certificate, which he also refused to,
return to her. Bond was said to be a sort of " Tillage
lawyer," at Chelsea particularly.
The accused were fully committed fur trial at the Con-
tral Criminal Court.

BIRTHS.
On the 18th inst., at 24, Cheyne-walk, Mrs. D. B. Read►
of a son.
on the 22d inst., at Porteus_terrace, Paddington, the latiY
of the Rev. H. Nowell Barton, of a daughter.
On the 2 d inst., at 19, Imperial-square, Cheltenham, the
wile of Captain Allan, 63d Regiment, of a daughter.
On the :2d inat., at Hampton Manor-house, near Baal;
Mrs. Philip Sheppard, of a daughter.
On the 23d inst., at the Firs, Hampstead- heath, the wiftill
of William Dugniore, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, barrister-at-lavv,
of a daughter.

MRRIED.
On the 23d inst., at the chapel of the French Embasrry
Captain Charles Eward Petro, of the 7th Dragoon Guardl',
to the Hon. Charlotte Pttre, second daughter of the Hon. Lord I'etre.
On the 2:7d inst., at the Independent Chapel, Cannon-
street, Preston, Henry llmpson, Esq., of Manchester, to
daughter of Mr. Chambers, na.ik-parade, Preston.

On the 20th inst., at Chernock-plac?, Winchester, aged
92, Mrs. Atkinson, relict of the late Thomas Atkinson, Esq.,
of Bury-house, near Gosport.
Ou the 13d inst., at his residence, Butland-gate, Hyde-
park, Samuel Charles Weston, Esq., aged 57.

London: Printed and Published by MU!DO YOUNG, of
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county (
Saturday, May 26, 1849.