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and goods into railway carriages nod trucks brought
right alongside, and taking mails and Manchester
and cotton goods aboard fr.;rn other trueleq, go to sea
again all in one tide. 'The c-mmunication between
the open tidal basin and the two docks will
be Effected by two locks. The one, 300 feet long
and 65 feet wide, bill admit the largest war-steamer at
any :time excopt an hour before and an hour after
dead low water. The other will be 200 fet long, and
45 feet wide. At the lowest tide there will be six feet
of water en the ,threshold of the dock gates. All the
ordinary class vessels and steamers will find water
enough to enter and lie in the basin at any hour. The
dock has capacity for accommodating 700 average ships,
and the basin 500: in all, 1,200. These docks, saving
twenty miles of river navigation, and lying 50 miles
nearer London than Hull, will elways enable passengers
and mails to reach the metropolis six hours sooner than
by way of full. The following is an:outline-of-the pro-
ceedings next Tuesday in Lincoln, on the occasion of
Prints: Albert's, visit on his way to Grimsby:—The cor-
poration will assemble in the Corn Exchange about
noon, and prozeid in carriages to the Midland Hiilway
station, to meet the Prince, who is expected to ar-
rive about half-past ore. They bill thin conduct the
Prince to the C,,rn Exchange, b here the addresses of the
corporation will he presented. - After the reply, the
boys of the Blue Coat School, assisted by the minster
choir, will sing " God save the Queen." Tho Prince
will then proceed to the Cathedral, where his loyal
Highness will be received by the dean and ehapte; ; and
after inspecting the building he will return to the rail-
way station, and proceed to Brocklesby. The Prince is
desirous of inspecting the \Vold system of farming in
the neighbourhood of Brocklesby, before dinner; and
therefore his stay will not be protracted at Lincoln.
The day bill be devoted to holiday in Lincoln.
There will be a dinner at the Great Northern Hotel; the
children of all the schools are to have tea and plum-cake
in their respective school-rooms; there will be an exhi-
bition of fireworks in Eastgate in the evening, and a
ball in the city assembly rooms at night.

LITERATURE.
THI HISTORY of PENDEIVNIS. No. VI.
By W. 3f. Thacheray.
The present number contains the narrative of
Pen.'s college career, in the course of which he makes
hosts of friends, and forms, under his uncle's advice,
various high connexions, and becomes the man
of the university, the admired and the imitated
of Freshmen. But, alas! in order to keep
up this character, poor Pen. contracts debts
which he is unable to liquidate, and neglects
studies to which he should have attended. His door
was beset with duns, and when the degree examina-
tions came " a dreadful rumour rushed through the
University that Pendennis of Bonitace was plucked."

CON. CREGAN, the Irish Gil Bias. No. IV.
In the present number Con. is fairly launched as a
livery servant in Quebec. He has at length succeeded
in obtaining a status, such as itis, which will open to
him a career, and he is the boy not to let slip an
opportunity. This number is full of variety and in-
cident.

THE ECLECTIC REVIEW.
The new series of the Eclectic Review proceeds
well. The present number contains nine articles
more than usually interesting and excellent. The
first article is on "The Nature and Office of the
State,".in which, in reference to punishment of crime,
it is justly said that the safety of society requires a
protective rather than a preventive principle in refe-
rence to crime, " a new science must be invented—the
science of moral diseases." In the second article, a
review of " Reade's Revelations of Life," we find the
following beautiful and truthful passage:—" To all
who reflect that above that unquiet stratum of physi-
cal activity in which we plunge forward and back-
ward, in which we are swayed hither and thither by
the currents of business, in which we toil and triumph,
love or hate, there is another stratum, calm and beau-
tiful, called the ideal world, and that in order to taste
of real happiness, we must often ascend from the
former to the latter; poetry becomes, in some respects,
a necessary of life, or, perhaps we should say, it is
the Sabbath of the imagination, that portion of our
lives in which we repose and think, in which we re-
flect on evils past ani happiness to come." " Ameri-
can Scenes and Christian Slavery," " The French
Revolutionary Press," " California ; its History and
Resources," " Celts, Britons, and Anglo-Saxons,'
" The Pulpit and the People," and last, not least,
" Milton's Prose Works," in which article we are
glad to find quoted Mr. Macaulay's admirable
description of the Puritans, which appeared some
years back in the Edinburgh .Review, constitute the
remaining article of the Eclectic.

ROBBERY BY A RAILWAY OFFICIAL.—PLYMOUTH,
APRIL 12.—At the Guildhall this morning a sub-in-
spector of the South Devon Railway, named Wrensley,
was charged with attempting to' steal 1171. 11s. 4i1., the
property of the company. It appears that shortly before
six. o'clock last night he procured that sum of mow
from police- constable Corm, whose duty it was to pay
the enginemen, &c., ou the line, drawing the money on
tho Wudnesday, and having some on Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday is each week. Wrenaley, instead of pay-
ing the men, went off by the train, and was arrested with
all the money in his pots.,esiun at Exeter, in consuqueuce
of a telegraphic communication. He wa. brought down
here, and aft,r an examination this morning was re-
manded till Saturday text, when he will be brought up
again.

'GUTTA PERCHA.—The vessel Duke of Bronte, ar-
rived from Singh; ore, has brought the very large (Pt"'
tity of 36 bags, 112 bides, 11,347 blocks, and 1,934 other
packages of thin peculiar article of mercbancize, as a
portion of her cargo, consigned to order; and the vessel
Ann Watson, arrived from Singapore on the follow-
ing day, has brought 7,402 packages, 120 blocks, and 3
baskets of the article,
consigned to order. Application
has recently been made to the r,venue authorities for
permission to land a quantity of gLtta perchs, which is
tree of duty, at one of the wharfs on the river side,
having sufferance privile„es to land and house certain
specified descriptions of goods from foreign parts; and
the request has been complied with; and the authorities
have further given permission fur the article to be al-
lowed to be lauded at all the first-class sufferance wharfs
on the river side, which are in possession of the addi-
tional privileges, as it is termed, when such indulgence
may be re quired by the parties.
SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL.
Yesterday afternoon, a
G,nerbl Court of the Governors of this charity
was held
at the offices, 74, King William-street, City, Rear-
Admiral Bowls, M.P., in the chair. The secretary
proceeded to read the report of the operations of the
society since the cemmencement of the present year.
Sir.ce the lst January,
1849, the total nninber af sea
men admitted to the hospital was 781, end of these 583
belonged to the British merchant service, and 26 to her
Majesty's navy. There had been discharged cared from
the hospital-ship 642, and there remained at present
under tieatment 142. The income for the quarter
amounted to 2,211/. 15s. 5d., including a former balance
of 152/. 7s. 4d. The fines levied under the 7th and Bth
Victoria, cap. 112, commonly
called the Seamen's Re-
gistration Act, amounted to 651. 'The expenditure bad
fallen short of the income by 7441. 12s. 4J. This report
wog .
slo resolutionthat
received
ar
tdb e .
adopted,
do
further slim of
UT], and the court agreed to a
re
8001. be invested in
the Threeand-a-Half per Cent. Consols, in the names
of the trustees of the hospital. Several members of the
court expressed their regret at the decease of Mr. Harvey,
who had acted as secretary since the foundation of the
charity, and it was resolved that the expenses of his
funeral be defrayed by the institution, and the sum
ofof
201. presented to his surviving relatives. vote
After a
thanks to the chairman, the court adjourned.AND._The
land enclosed by this work has proved t
NENE ESTUARY EMBANKMENT,
"r
ra of the most
productive and fertile character, and from a waste of mud
and weeds covered with water,
has emerged into a fruit-
ful and prosperous region, and the subject is _ one so:pecu-
litarly fitted to arouse the attention every
one .
in-
terested in the prosperity of the country, as to force
itself upon public attention. The last year's crops were
very large, exceeding the anticipations of the most san-
guine, and the present appear to be equally promising.
The quantity of land enclosed within this embankment
amounts to 2,500 acres, valued at 200,0001., and the
works were carried into execution under the auspices of
Commissioners of the River Nene Outten, Mr. Tycho
Wine being their chairman, after whom the reclaimed
land is called. The engineers were Sir John Rennie and
Mr. Hamilton Fulton. The undoubted success which
has attended this measure, not only as regards the recla-
mation of land, but also the improvement of drainage
nandcanpaiviaigliasttisotno,
uavi:l ur questienutilYdertakings of the same character, and draw the attention
of
from the experience which has been gained in executing
these works, a great saving would be etr.c.ted in carrying
out works of a similar nature. The Norfolk Estuary
Project is a like undertaking, for which an Act has
airs ady been obtained, and the works will be commenced
as soon as some additional powers have been granted to
the Company by Parliament during the present Session.
EADVERTISEMENT.]--CONSUMPTION,
ASTHMA, INFLUENZA, &c.—The following cases of the
severest forms of disease are selected from the clinical
report published by Dr. Cronin:— Mrs. Osborne, 8, Ox-
ford-street; Mr. Morley, Messrs. Croneock and Co., Bow
Churchyard; Major Lynch (late 14th Foot), 7, Wood-
land-place, St. John's Wood; Mr. Bryant, 7, Padding-
ton-street Marylebone; Mademoiselle Dupree, Royal
Academy of Music; Miss Erwood, 72, New Bond-street;
Miss Robb, at the Baroness Bassett's, Tehidy Park, near
Truro, Cornwal; Mrs. Tharmott, 29, Bedford-street,
Covent Garden; Mrs. Williams, Portobello Arm',
Kentish New Town; —, ]4, Leicester-place, Leicester
square.

The infant daughter of Lady Adeli/A Norman was
chri,quied at the pails!' church, Ilottesf, rd, on Good
Fridu afternoon, in the presence of the Duke of Rich-
tumid, Lady Caroline Leimox, the Marquis of Granby,
Lady E. Di =mond, Lords Charles and John Manners,
lion. Mr. and Mrs. Forester, &c. The church was
crowded to excess. The names given to the interesting
child are, " Elizabeth Cecil Sophia."
TUE DUKE Or BUCKINGHAM'S IRISH ESTATES.
—Notwithstanding the difficulty his Greco the Duke
of Buckingham's trustees have in disposing of the
Duke's English estates to their mind, it is a fact that
the estates in Ireland were readily disposed of at sums
amounting to 30 years' purchase on good rentals.
A MARKED SetatoN.—One of the Duke of Athol's
marked salmon, " No. 168," was caught at Benchill, on
Monday last, and was found to weigh fully 121 b. The
same fish was a kelt of 61b., weight when first caught
and'restored to its native element, which took place at
Poolin-arn, near Logierait, on the 25'h February last
year.—Perth Courier.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
TRIAL OF MR. DROU ET FOR MAN-
SLAUGHTER.

(Examination of Joseph Andrews, continued from our
Afternoon Edition of-yesterday.)
Mr. Baron PLATT—HOW many, my little boy, make
dozen? Witness—Twelve. He slept a good time in
the bed, aad remembered his brother being taken ill.
The room was in the attic. He was amongst
the little boys, and he and his brother
were treated like all the rest. We did not have enough
to eat. Sometimes his brother asked him for a portion
cf his allowance, and sometimes he gave it to him and
sometimes ho refused. He refused because he had not
enough for himself. The little boys dined in a hall.
They had sometimes rotten potatoes and meat, and
sometimcs meat and bread. When they had
bread they had no potatoes, and they had
no bread when they had potatoes. What he
meant by rotten potatoes was that they were black and
nasty. They had meat twice a week, and on these oc-
casions they had potatoes. He thought they were always
bad and used to throw them under the table. They
seldom Lad meat enough. For breakfast and supper they
had a piece of bread and some gruel. 'There was
generally in the room they slept in one tub for use,
which was removed every morning by the big buys.
Sometimes the tub smelt very badly, and in the day time
it was used to hold the water for washing cut the rooms.
Cross-examined by Sir F. Tfiesroen—He went to
Drouet's about two months before his brother. Pre-
vioudy he had been in the workhouse a fortnight. His
brother had been in the workhouse before ho went to
Drouet's. A man attended the little boys while they
were at meals. He was called "Jonney Cuff." lie had
meat three times a week—Tuesday, Thursday, and Fri.
day. On Monday they had soup, on Sunday meat, on
Friday pudding, and on Saturday they had soup. He had
half a s:ice of bread for breakfast and supper. He did
not know whether his brother had meat and porter
every day, but be had bad eyes, and his ward was there-
fore changed. He had not bad ayes when he carne to
Dr( net's. W hen his brother came to London ho had
bread and milk. His eyes had got well. No doctor
saw his brother till the morning after they came up
from Tooting. It was very cold the night they came up,
and it snowed.

Re-examined by Mr. Cu.nasoN—His brother did not
eat his bread and milk, but gave it away. He was too ill
to eat it.

By the COURT—They came up as late as 11 o'clock.
His brother was sleepy, and wanted to go to bed, but his
being sick was the reason he did not eat the bread and
milk.

Thomas Titan examined by Mr. CIIAMBERS—Was
sixteen years of age, and bad been fifteen months at
Droueey. He had to empty the slops and scour the
floors. He knew the attic in which the little boys slept,
but there was more than one attic in which the little boys
slept. One of them had about twelve beds in it, but he
did not clean that, though he had seen the state which
it was in. He knew James Andrews, who slept in a room
where there were fifteen or else twenty beds. The teds
were close together, and two or three used to sleep in
them. It was part of his duty to empty the tub used in
that room, and he remembered it often smelt very
strong. The room was perhaps as long as the court,
but not half so wide. They seldom had food
enough, particularly the little boys. The potatoes
were black, bad, and watery, and the boys generally
threw them way. When there was not potatoes they
had bread. The clothes James Andrews had were the
same as his own ; they did not keep them warns by any
means, but the corduroy clothes they wore on Sundays
were much better and warmer. Out of school hours
the boys were put into a yard, and he had seen some of
the little boys out us late as seven or eight o'clock. He
had often seen a half quartern loaf cut up into twenty
pieces.
On cross-examination by Sir F. THEME% he said
he was posted in the pantry for a week once, it was then
that he saw the loaf cut up into 20 parts. There were
four attics and about fifteen beds in each. He knew Mr.
Winch. He had been questioned once or twice by him
about little Andrews, and his answers were taken in
Samuel Jennings, another boy, said he assisted in
cleaning the rooms of the big boys. Was not able to give
any account of the mode in which the little boys were
treated. _ _

By the JUDGE—There were as many as a hundred
little boys, and they were about eight years of age,
quite old enough to state what they had to eat and how
they were treated.
A boy named Selby, aged 15, said he was 15 months
at Mr. Drouet's establishment. He had not complained
himself of the way in which he was treated.
Mr. Baron PLAIT—I really must complain of the
mode of proceeding.
Mr. CIIABIBERS—My Lord, we go upon our instruc-
tions, and the general management of the establishment
seems to me very important, both with regard to the big
and the little boys.
Mr. Baron PLATT—AII the witnesses are from 15 to
16; surely a Hula boy aged eight can tell whether he had
enough to eat, and how he was treated.
Mr. CLARKSON—The evidence we give was produced
at the coroner's inquisition.
Mr. Baron PLATT—I have observed that the evidence
of many witnesses was received by the coroner's jury,
who were not examined upon oath, and I cannot retrain
from saying that that was a most irregular proceeding.
(H ar is Ldhip said this with considerable emphasis, end
was cheered by several persons in the court. This ebu-
lition of feeling was speedily checked.)
John Welch was then called—He said he was 14, and
had been at the Tooting eataLlishment fifteen months.
lie slept up stair,. The little boys used to sleep three in
a bed. lied seen them at dinner—the potatoes were
sometimes good and sometimes bad; the bad ones were
black inside. H. collect, d some complaints bt log made
three months prior to November, with respect to the food.
Heard Mr. Drouet say to one of the boys aft, r the
gentlemen came to inquire abeut their treatment,
"I'll let you know, you youeg scoundrel, far letting them
know that you had not enough to eat." He (witoess)
was whacked by the schoolmaster next day.—(L- ughter).
Cross-examined—lt was not because he did riot say
his lesson that Le was whacked. Had enough to eat at
present—had plenty of meat and plenty of bread, and
could nut eat more if he had it given to him. Could not
say that the other boys were so satisfied.
Re-examined--Did not have so much to eat at Mr.
Drouet's. Was whacked by the schoolmaster for hold-
ing up his hand when asked if he had enough to eat.
By the COURT—Had now meat five times a week at
the Ilolborn Union. Had setnetimes bread and a basin
of milk for breakfast. Before going i,o Tooting he had
meat four times a week. Was Tait° well when he went
to Tooting, and also well when he came back.
Henry Hartshorn, aged fourteen, said he was among
the big boys at Tooting. The deceased Andrews was
among the little boys, and ho could not say how he was
treats d.

A long and somewhat desultory discussion hero took
place.
Mr. Baron PLATT observed that every man brought
to a criminal bar ought to have lair play, and that he
thought it but right and just to him that proper evidence
should be pro,iucerl.
Mr. CIIIMBERS considered that it was legitimate
and essential, under the indictment, to give evidence as
to the gener..l management of the children.
Sir F. THESIGER said, although he gave his Learned
Friend cr, dit for the firmness and perseverance with
which be had performed his duty, he could not give
him credit for offering evidence which he must know,
from his experience, was irrelevant.
The boy Patrick Shsen was again recalled, and in
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connect that treatment with the treatment of Androwa,
then evidence as to the general management might be
received.

Hartshorn was recalled, and said he got no additional
food in consequence of holding up his hand when the gen-
tlemen asked the boys who had not enough to eat to hold
up their hands. Mr. Monet said that it was a fair ques-
tion to put to them. Six boys held up their hands, and
there were eight present.
Mr. Winch, recalled—Said he recollected Mr. Dronet
saying " That's a very unfair and improper question—l
have a character to lose ; that boy," pointing to one of
them, "is the greatest liar in the school." Went down
to the establishment with the committee on the 30th of
May. Told one of the boys to cut up a loaf in the usual
way, and he divided it ipto sixteen pieces. He and
his brother guardians signed a paper approving of the
manner in which it was conducted. Recollected making
a suggestion confining his approval to that day. The
only meal of which the quantity was specified was break-
fast.

Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTYKE —I am an ivory
dealer at present, and keep a shop. As far as lam con-
cerned, I think the evidence of the children is not true.
It was Mr. Reding who asked the children if they were
satisfied.

By the COURT—A four pound loaf was cut into six-
teen pieces.
Mr. Shaw Mays, another guardian, said in May,
when he visited the establishment, he asked one of the
boys in the presence of Mr. Drouet, whether he had
enough to eat, and he said that he had not enough
bread. He went into the room where they were at dinner
and looked at what one of the boys was eating. The
greater portion of it was ne 1 meat but gristle. Mr. Drouet
lost his temper, spoke harshly, and stated that they (the
committee) were not fit to exasuine the boys. He made
an observation as to the ventilation of the building.
The attnosphere of the new be droom was very hot and
close, and be suggest. d that some ventilating holes
should be made, and that an iron grating should be put
in the wall, under the flooring. Mr. Drouet said if he had
to attend to the suggestion of every one, he would have
nothing else to do. Ho visited the establishment again
fourteen days afterwards, and found the dietary better,
and that more attention was paid to the children.
Cross-examined by Sir F. THESIGER-110 could
swear positively that there were no ventilating holes.
Mr. Kelly said he had two grand-children in the
Tooting establishment at the end of last year. One
was eight or nine, and the other four. He visited them
the last day but two of the year, and he found the eldest
one ill in bed. There were three in a bed.
Mr. Baron PLATT intimated that this evidence could
not be received unless it could be shown that the deceased
Andrews was in the same room with those two children,
Mr. CHAMBERS said that unfortunately he could not
show that. There was another branch of evidence upon
which he bad now to enter, and, as it would occupy a
considerable time, he wished to know whether his Lord
ship would proceed with it at once, or take that oppor-
tunity of adjourning the trial until to-morrow.
Si. Lamar *aid, to; they had hirted tat eight