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FEMALE SERVANTS' HOME SOCIETY,
Established 183 g.
11omes-21, Nutford-place, Edgware-road, and 110, Hatton-garden,

Under the Patronage of

H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent, H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge.
The ANNUAL MEETING; of the above Society will be held el
Exeter Hall, Strand, on TnunsoitY, May 10.
JOHN LinoucilElZE, Esq., will take the Chair at Seven o'clock,

Above 3,,00 lieryants have been i eceived into the 'lonics since
their commencement, and since July. 1844, 16,000 have registered,
ree of expense, and the greater part recommended to situations.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY•
Notice.—ln addition to presenting the card of admission which
has been forwarded from this °nice m the Holders of Consolidated
Stock, every person privileged to be present at the Adjourned Meet-
ing to be held at the London Tavern, on the 10th instant, at One
o'clock. will be required to sign bis name and address before he can
be admitted to the Meeting.
By order of the Board of Directors,
C. I'. RONEY, Secretary.
Bishopsgate Station, May 8, 1849.

L ONDON SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY,
EXETER HALL.
PRESIDENT-I:CY. George Roberts.
VICE-PRESIDENT—RSV. J. F. Stainforth.
HON. SECRETARY—Rev. W. Stanton Austin.
CONDUCTOR—Mr. Surman.

MENDELSSOHN'S ELIJAH will be performed by this society on
FRIDAY EN-ENING next, 1 Ith inst. The orchestra will consist of up-
wards of 500 performers. Principal vocalists,—Miss Lucombe,
Miss Dolby, Mrs. Noble, Miss E. Byers, Mr. Donald King, Mr.
Lawler, &c.
Tickets, 35.; Central Reserved Seats,ss. ; and Orchestra Galleries,
Is. each. May be had of the music-sellers, Mr. Boreman, No. 3,
Leadenhall-street, and at the society's office, No. 9, Exeter Hall.
The subscription to this Society is 1/. Is. per annum, er for re-
served seats Si. 25., entitling subscribers to TWO Transferable
Tickets for each Subscription Concert, and free admission to the
Rehearsals, which takes place every Monday evening at eight o'clock.
During the past year (ending 25th March), THIRTEEN" Transfer-
able Admissions to the Public Performances have been received by
each subscriber.

The Committee rennet that all applications may be made at the
Society's office, :co. 9, Exeter Hall, where every information can Le
obtained.

P. S. RECKNELL, Assistant-Secretary.
The performances on Friday Evening will commence at Seven
o'clock.

MR. CRIVELLE begs to announce that his
work on the ART of SINGING, adapted for the bass voice,
may be obtained at his residence, No. 71, 'Upper Norton-street, or of
the principal music-sellers.

Now ready, in Bvo., cloth lettered, price lOs.,
LONDON CATALOGUE OF BOORS
SUPPLEMENT, 1816-49, containing all the New Works
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r HE RATIONAL TREATMENT of STRIC-
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and she was in the habit of earning money for herself by
giving lessons in music.
Mr. PRENDERGAST—I believe, Madam, you know
nothing whatever about the prisoner having engaged a
lodging at this beer-shop? Witness—l knew nothing of
it. She used to be from home occasionally, and I
i under-
stood that she went to her mother, who resided n Lon-
don. The witness went on to say that the prisoner had
complained of pain in her head for several years, and
last August she had an attack of brain fever, and her
head was shaved, and since that period her conduct
had been flighty and very much altered to what it was
before.
Mr. John Betts, a surgeon at Hammersmith, deposed
that, in his opinion, since the attack referred to, the pri-
soner had not had the proper use of her senses, and he
said he had repeatedly observed that her conduct was
strange and eccentric.
The REconDER asked the witness whether he would
undertake to say that the prisoner was not capable of
distinguishing between right and wrong, or that she was
under such a delusion as not to be aware that she was
going, about robbing people.
Ihe witness said he could not go so far as to say that
this was the ease.

The RECORDER inquired whether the fact of such a
pocket as that which had been produced being made use
of, would not be a proof of so much contrivance en the
part of the party as to be quite incompatible with such
an opinion?

The witness said that a great deal of cunning was fre-
quently exhibited by insane persons.
The RECORDER said he was aware of that, but there
was a great difference between cunning of that descrip-
tion and the contrivance that was manifested in this ease
to facilitate the scheme of plunder.
His LORDSHIP then addressed the jury, and explained
to them that before they could give effect to the defence
that had been set up on behalf of the prisoner, they
must be satisfied not merely that she was a little flighty
in her mind, but that at the time she committed the act
she was incapable of distinguishing between right and
wrong, and it was for them to say, under the circum-
stances of the case, whether they could conscientiously
come to such a conclusion.

The jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty.
The RECORDER inquired of the constable what was
the value of the property which he found in the posses.
sion of the prisoner?
He replied that about 401. worth had been identified,
but there was a great deal of which no owner bad yet
been discovered.

The RECORDER then gave directions that all the arti-
cles which were identified should be restored to their
owners, and that means should be taken to find out to
whom the remainder belonged. He also respited the
sentence upon the prisoner until the next session, in
order that further icquiries might be made respect-
ing her.

W COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
Michael Kelly, aged 27, a labourer, was indicted for
feloniously assaulting Elizabeth Waters, with intent, Sx.
The prosecutrix, a respectable modest young woman,
the wife of a labouring man, living at Homerton, stated
that being on her return home at a somewhat late hour,
having been out visiting a brother-in, law, she was met
by the prisoner in a sequestered spot near her own
house, when he forced her against a wall, and finally
threw her on the ground, where he would have effected
his purpose but for her resistance and cries, which being
heard by the police on duty, they hastened to the spot
and found witness on the ground struggling with the
prisoner. When taken into custody he said she was his
wife.
The police corroborated the prosecutrix's statement,
adding that they heard her cries for help some distance
from the spot where they found them. When the pri-
soner was apprehended he was very violent.
Mr. ROBINSON, for the defence, said the story was a
most improbable one, and it was most dangerous to con-
vict in such cases upon the unsupported testimony of a
woman of whose previous character they had no
evidence.
The jury found the
,prisoner Guilty.
The COMMON SERGEANT said it was an extremely bad
case, and sentenced him to two years' imprisonment and
hard labour.
Thomas Storey, aged 39, a groom, was charged upon
several indictments with stealing a number of printed
books, some china cups, saucers, glass, a few towels, and
other articles of trivial value, the property of Lord
John Russell, M.P., and Caroline Baker, 29, a spinster,
was indicted for receiving the same, knowing it to have
been stolen.

—The male prisoner pleaded guilty, and the woman
pleaded not guilty.
The facts of the case were these :—The prisoners co-
habited together, and the man having been engaged in
his Lordship's stables, and so having an opportunity of
gaining access to the house, no suspicions were enter-
tained of his honesty. The woman, however, whom se-
veral witnesses stated to be very badly disposed, was
taken into custody for having stolen some things from
their ready-furnished lodgings, and upon the police
searching they found a number of duplicates which
turned out to relate to the property of bis Lordship,
and was identified by his steward. Some of the things,
all of which were pledged in different lots, for a few
shillings, had been in pawn for a length of time, and the
interest had been paid at the expiration of the twelve
months. Not any of the, property had been missed until
theintelligence was brought by the police.
Several pawnbrokers proved the female to have
pawned some of the things, and that she had stated they
had been given to her by his Lordship's bntler, and also
had been heard abusing Storey for not bringing her home
more things.
The jury found her Guilty.
Thomas Price, his Lordship's steward, said that his
master requested him to recommend the man to mercy,
and also to state that it was not his wish that the charge
should have been pressed.
The prisoner Storey said he intended to have redeemed
the things, and had taken them from distress.
The CONDIGN SERGEANT said the woman was evi-
dently the worst of the two, and sentenced her to
eighteen months' imprisonment, and the male prisoner
to six.

Two lads, named Donglasv and Burson, were con-
victed of stealing 10s. 6d. in silver from the till of Mr.
Bone, a publican, residing at the foot of Hammersmith-
bridge. . . .

Hurson had been seen to go in, and was taken with
the money in his mouth, and Douglass, who had been
waiting outside, was taken afterwards, whilst the police
were conveying Hurson to the station.
Hurson, who had been before convicted, was sen-
tenced to twelve months'
to four. imprisonment, and Douglass

DOVER BAY AND BREAKWATER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-
Six,—The insertion you
Colonel Williams, rt.E., respecting Dover Esplanade
in January, and also that relating to Dover Break
water on Saturday last, induces me to hope that you
will insert the following in your journal, so distin-
guished for impartiality. gave to the letter of
d in a
tion which the Gallant Colonel has acquirne
longtheorists
action. The
many theorists,
without
east, and th
service,lith lalml duuste
sdaeyf,ertehnactehteo,
likethe ptoroofessional reputa-
tion
condemns that which is being
serious obstructions thereby caused to the entrance of
travelling lslui nggg suggesting i nt
the
a shingle more p proper mode
west oftne
the Dover and .Folkestone Harbours, is a readily
admitted fact ; and whilst no obstruction WAS oftered
to this eastward progress of the shingle, the mouth of
Dover Harbour was seldom, if ever, to be entered in
safety, especially to vessels of heavy tonnage. Many
and erudite were the suggestions to get rid of this
dangerous barrier. The pier formerly known as
Cheeseman's Head was not only, denounced as the
evil source of the accumulating shingle, but it was
actually pulled down ; this only increased the mis-
chief. The shingle further raised its stubborn head
as Cheeseman's was laid low. Then reservoirs, basins,
sluices, and machinery were erected to scour away
the accumulation from the harbour's mouth—great
were the expectations, but small the effects, the shingle
still barred the entrance. Human skill and inge-
nuity were further put upon the rack, when a
sudden and unexpected incident supplied what
science and study had failed to achieve. The
operations of the South-Eastern Railway Coin-
pony, in the celebrated blowing up of the
Round Down Cliff, by which a headland of many
acres was formed, projecting several hundred yards
into the sea, were no sooner accomplished than the
Dover Bar begun to disappear, and soon to vanish,
leaving the chalk bed at the entrance to the harbour
as clean as a kitchen floor. This singular circum-
stance has certainly saved Dover Harbour from decay;
but the promontory produced by the fall of Round
Down Cliff being upwards of a mile from Dover to
the west, or ahingleward direction, the result would
have been, that as soon as the amassing shingle
rounded the outer angle of this obstruction the ordi-
nary easterly drift would without any doubt again
have called up Dover Bar. But we find genuine
engineering skill taking heed of the laws of nature,
and advantage of the effects of an unexpected clear-
ance of the shingle, and therefore the present pier is
being erected so close upon the harbour mouth as
will, without any doubt, carry the shingle quite past
the harbour entrance; and from very close observation
of the onward movement of the beach there, we are
convinced that the fears of Colonel Williams as to
the accumulation approaching the end of the pier will
not be realised before a century of years have rolled
away. The Gallant Colonel knows that a bar will
exist at Dover without an obstruction of some sort to
the westward, yet he tells us not what he would
do ; and in order to make his weak case as strong as
possible, he conjures up the original scheme of the
harbour
evenof privaterefuge e (projectedenterprise
ise spoke lightly of immense in those palmy days
when
amounts of capital), with all its enclosed area, its
entrances, the breakwater, and the two millions and
a half of money. Now FA We acquaint him

that the present operations, consisting of a massive
stone pier extending about 800 feet from the shore, and
having about 30 feet of water at low water ordinary
tides, terminate the present undertaking ; that this
beautiful monument of " engineering skill and a
nation's resources" is distinct, complete, and indepen-
dent in itself, giving those facilities so earnestly
required at that port, which must ever form the main
connecting link between our native land and the
Continent, in landing passengers at all states of the
tide. Future generations may perhaps complete the
gigantic scheme originally projected, but such, we
can safely say, is not the intention of the existing
race of men ; therefore Colonel Williams need have
no jealousy nor fear that the large amount will be
required, whilst the work will be of great national
utility, although he thinketh not.
I have the honour to be, Sir, yours,
May 8, 1849. ALPHA.