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London, England, 1849-05-18 00:00:00

THIRD READINGS.

The following Bills were read a third time ;and
passed :
Black Sluice Drainage Acts Amendment (Amendrlent
of Acts, Extension of Time for Completion of Wor ks,
Powers to levy and raise further Rates and Mori ;.es,
to alter existing Rates and Tolls, and for other P ur-
poses) Bill.
Charing Cross Bridge (Amendments of Acts, Powers
to alter authorised Approaches, &c.) Bill.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and Wilsonfxrivn,
MorningEidc., and Coltness Railway Amalgamation
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Barmoor and
Alemouth New Branches, 8z:..) Bill.

PETITIONS.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented several petitions
from Yet kshire against granting new licences to i`Jeer
shop:.
Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition, agreed to a t a
public me Ling at Birmingham, praying for universal
suffrage, vote by ballot, payment of Members, ann.ual
Parliaments, electoral divisions, and abolition of property
qualifications.
Mr. ANDERSON presented a petition, signed by
10,000 inhabitants of Kirkwall against the Registrati on
of Marriages, &c. (Scotland) Bill; also a petition co:na-
plaining of the operation of the Scotch poor-law.
Alr. FAGAN presented a petition from the Cc rk
Union praying for some amendment of the poor-law-.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from MsAd-
stone against the Parliamentary Oaths Bill.
Mr. GLYN presented a petition against granting ad-
ditional licenses for beer-shops.
Sir J. HOPE presented a petition against the S'xitch
Marriage Bill.
Mr. HODGSON presented a petition from railway
proprietors residing in Carlisle, complaining of the pre-
sent mode of assessing railways for the poor and church
rates.

Mr. B. DENISON presentcd a petition from. the
West Riding, complaining of the powers granted to
county courts; also one against the extension of beer-
shops.

Air. CHRISTOPHER presented two petitions from
Lincolnshire; one against the alteration of Yarliamontary
oaths, and the other in favour of international arbitration.

Captain BERKELEY presented a petition from
Gloucester, praying for the abolition of capital punish-
ment.

Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from the copy-
holders of Ellenborough, in Cumberland, praying,that the
Bill for the compulsory enfranchisement of copyhold
land might pass into a law.
GROUP XIX.

Mr. WRIGHTSON moved that Mr. Parker, Mr.
Osborne, Mr. Frewen, and Mr. Brisco be allowed to
vote in the Committee on Group 19 of Opposed Private
Bills provided they deliver in the.prescribed forms of de-
claration.

The motion, after a few observation from Mr. WIL-
SON BATTEN, was agreed to.

NEW NOIITII ROAD BILL.

Mr. J. B. SMITH moved that tho petition of inhabi-
tants, householders, and owners of property in the New
North Road, Hoxton, and its vicinity, against the New
North Road (Continuation Act) Bill, (deposited in the
Private Bill-office on the,l.sth inbtant), be referred to the
Committee on the Bill; and that it be an instruction to
the Committee to entertain the same, notwithstanding it
was not deposited in the Private Bill-office within seven
clear days after the second readily, of the Bill, by reason
of the illness of Mr. Hume, the Member to whom it
was intrusted.—Agreed to.

Mr. C. BRUCE begged to give notice that when the
House went into Committee on the Bill for the Regis-
tration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for Scotland,
he would move an amendment to clause 37.
ALLEGED BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.—THREAT-
ENED EXCLUSION OF STRANGERS FROM
THE HOUSE.

Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL said he rose to call the
attention of the House to a breach of its privi-
leges, which was connected with the last discussion
in the House on the Parliamentary Oaths Bill. In
consequence of his having seen in the limes newspaper
an infringement of the rules of the House—(oh, oh)—
in a report of the last discussion on the Bill which
he had mentioned, in which report not only
were the rules of the House violated, but the oaths taken
by Catholic Members were entirely omitted from that re-
port, whilst other oaths were given. He should when the
House went into Committe on the Parliamentary Oaths
Bill to-night, notice whether strangers were present or
not, and if he should ascertain that fact, he should draw
the attention of the House to it.—(" Oh, oh," and
laughter.)
SENDING CONVICTS TO THE COLONIES.
Sir W. MOLESWORTH said he wished to know
whether it was the intention of the Government to send
any more convicts to Van Diemen's Land; secondly,
whether there was any dispatch from the Governor of
Van Diemen's Land as to whether or no there was any
more room for convicts in that island?

Mr. HAWES said in answer to that question he
could give no pledge that the Government would cease
to send convicts to Van Diemen's Land. With regard
to any dispatch from the Governor of that colony as to
whether there was any more room for convicts in that
colony, he begged to state that no such dispatch had
been received on which any interpretation of the kind
could be put.
ARBITRATION CLAUSE IN TREATIES.

Sir R. PEEL presented a petition from the congrega-
tion of the Unitarian chapel at Tamworth, praying for
the insertion of an arbitration clause in international
treaties.

ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved that the House at its
rising do adjourn till Monday next.
WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS.
Mr. HORSMAN asked the Noble Lord when the
House would adjourn for the Whitsuntide holidays?
Lord J. RUSSELL said on Friday next he would
move that the House at its rising adjourn till the Thurs-
day following.

SICILIAN AFFAIRS.
Mr. BANKES rose to ask the Noble Lord at the head
of the Government a question, in the absence of the
Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, that
last named Noble Lord having having stated on a pre-
vious occasion that Great Britain did recognise the in-
dependence of the Sicilian Government, independently
of the Two Sicilies. He now asked whether Great Bri-
tain still recognised the independence of the Sicilian
Government instead of the Government of the Two
Sieilies?
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said his Noble Friend the _
Ss
ieocnr ettoa r
which
forh ichFtohree ill HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.—To-morrow being
Foreign ffaanidrsLheaadrnesdtatmedemobnerthhe the day appointed for the celebration of the 30th anni-
yersary of her Majesty's birthday, there will be a grand
had re- inspection of
ferred, if he (Lord John Russell) recollected rightly, a battalion of each of the Foot Regiments
that there was at that time a negotiation going of Guards on the Parade, St. James's Park, in their new
on with the Government of Sicily. He had only uniforms, attended by their respective bands. It will
to say that an independent Government of Sicily no be observed as a holiday. at the different Government
longer existed.—(Laughter.) offices—Stamp-office, Excise, Customs, &c. Her Ma-
Mr,, BANKS would ask the Noble Lord seconding, jesty will hold a drawing-room on the occasion at St.
whether he was aware what was the result of the per- James's Palace.
mission given to transport ordnance from Her Majesty's The world is certainly more and more sensible of
stores for the avowed use of the Sicilian insurgents, the truth that there is no wisdom, and of course no
and other encouragement given to those parties who poetry, in exeluAveness; and that to promote the happi-
formed the provisional insurgent Government in Sicily. ness of the masses is to promote that very improvement
A British officer, who had formerly held a command In which will qualify them for enjoying those high and
Sicily when Lord William Bentinek was there, was ennobling pleasures now so prized by the few.—Eliza
i afterwards engaged in the British service in the Penin- Cook's Journal,
sular war ; and understanding that guys had Coax, MAY 16.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Mary, Friend,
been thus furnished, and stores from the Mauritius ; Stratton, Jean, Patagonia ; Friendship,
ordnance of her Majesty, he accepted a Clelland, Manzanilla; Northumberland, James, New
command under that Sicilian Government. And Orleans; Gratitude, Davison, New York.
he accepted a mission to this country to raise MARGATE MAY 18.—The 1.), chess of Buccleugb, from
troops for the use of the Sicillians. Those arms and Shields to Calcutta, is totally lost on the Long Saud;
troops were, he understood, partly embarked in a crewsaved.
steamer named the Bombay, then lying in the Thames, .
..DE.a, MAY 17.—The Norden, Aspgrcn, from C
1 I
and the others in a ship then lying at Liver-
o oga, went on shore on the Goodwin Sands early this
pool. 'I he steamer engaged to leave the morning; has been assisted off with considerable damage,
and has anchored off the North Foreland.
Thames was detained by order of the Cus-
P°Rl' Talmo m
T, ~..AY 16.—The Jersey Tar, from
toms. A question rose upon the matter, and the
You h 11
whole thing was referred to the Treasury. The Board carne off
caught the bar yesterday in coming in, but
of Treasury, after deeply considering the subject, and (...,(3, otf:ast night alter clicharging part of esrgo.
after much conversation with the Noble Lord, and Ocean,V7E.,S MAY 17.—Wind S W., hard gale,—Arrived
most likely with the Minister of the Crown of Edward,l'eterson Bahia; Superior, Sodermann, Bahia;
the King of the Two Sicilies. He might, how- Moller. Pernambuco, for Stockholm; Condor!
Helot, Fort Au Pciuee.
ever, be mistaken, but he understood that it Wag

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Constantine Askzvith, a German, was brought be-
fore the Lord Mayor, in the custody of Daniel For-
rester, the officer, who apprehended him in Holbrach,
in Lincolnshire, under the circumstances detailed in
the following evidence :
Mr. John Lee, clerk of Mr. George Lee, ship agent,
in Crutchedfriars, said—On the 16th of April the pri-
soner called at our counting-house, between 12 rind 1
o'clock, and said his name was C. Brand, that he -was
captain of a Russian ship and that he had just left
the vessel, which was called the Russia, a little bef ow
Gravesend ; that he had employed as his broke rs,
occasionally, Messrs. Sack and Bramen, and lilrew ise
Messrs. Cs, zenoth and Schlu ton, butthat, being dissatis-
fied with the manner in which these finale had transac red
his business, it was his intention this time to employ
Mr. George Lee as his agent, for the purpose of re-
porting the ship and doing other necessary business
connected with her at the Custom house. He said he
was not in a hurry to report his vessel that day ; in.
deed, he was, he said, without the quarantine cerEfi.
cate—a document necessary to be produced upon the
occasion. His object in leaving his ship at Graves
end was to go to Bristol, in order to pay a visit to a
lady to whom he was going to be married, and he
would return on the following day, when he would
expect the vessel to be up, for the purpose of reporting
her. He produced bills of lading, and a manifesto in
the German language, representing the cargo to be
timber, planks, &c. He then particularly directed
my attention to an indorsment on the bill of lading
authorising him to sell the cargo, and remit the pro-
ceeds to the consignee. " By the by," said he, " be-
fore the report be made I wish you would go to
Messrs. Sack and Bremen to see whether anything is
lying there for me," and he wrote an order to these
gentlemen to deliver up any letters which might have
been received there fur him. I accordingly sent one of
the clerks of cur establishment to Messrs. Sack and
Bremen's, and he brought back two letters which the
prisoner read in my presence, and put into his poCeet
without making any comment upon them. He then
inquired whether we could recommend him to any
respectable person who would undertake to copper
his bran new ship, as he called her; and we said we
would do so. After some conversation as to the most
eligible docks in which to place his ship, he said
" By the bye, I want a little money."—(A laugh.)
It is customary with us to advance money to captains
of ships upon their arrival from abroad ; and believ-
ing that the representation was corrects, I raked him
how much he wanted. He said '251., and I imme-
diately counted 25 sovereigns into his hand. We
spoke upon various matters, and he seemed to be ac-
quainted with several Prussian captains, some of
whom he named. He signed a memorandum for 25
sovereigns, and he showed an anxiety to start for
Bristol by railroad by the next train, and had a cab
at the door. I told him the next train would go off
at two o'clock, and he said, " Good bye," and I think
he said, " God bless you."—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—You have not been on board
the Russia, I dare say ? Witness—l should have
been happy to see her. I looked lm at Lloyd's next
day and found there was no use in making further
inquiry about the vessel. I never saw the prisoner
since until last night, upon his arrival in. the custody
of the officer.
The LORD MAYOE—You are sure the prisoner is
the man ? 'Witness—Yes. I have two witnesses
who can identify him. I believe there are other cases
of the kind against him.
Prisoner—l want an interpreter. I do not under-
stand the language.
Mr. Lee and three other persons said the prisoner
understood the language well ; and Forrester declared
that, on the journey to town, the prisoner showed
that he understood the English language well.
Prisoner—" I do not know it." He then said,
with great rapidity, that the witness was quite mis-
taken ; that he had never been at Mr. Lee's office at
all ; that he never had received or asked for 251.
there; and that a similar mistake had been made
before as to his personal identity.
Mr. James Henry Lesley, clerk to Mr. Lee, said
—I was in the office on the 16th of April, when the
prisoner called, arid I was the first person who spoke
to him. I can corroborate all that the last witness
stated. I heard the money counted out to the pri-
soner, and I fetched the two letters from Messrs.
Sack and Bremer's, and delivered them to the pri-
soner. •
Prisoner—This man I have nothing to say to, but
that he is the servant and the witness of his master.
I don't know any of the people at all. If they mis-
take my person I can't help it; it is no fault of mine.
Another clerk in the office of Mr. Lee also con-
firmed the evidence as to identity, and the prisoner
was remanded until next Thursday, when it is
expected that a number of gentleman who have been
defrauded will attend.
BOW-STREET.
Jane Neuman, cowkeeper, of -Upper Gower Mews,
near Gordon-square, was summoned, under the late
Nuisances Prevention Act, to answer the charge of
having suffered large quantities of offal, sour grains,
and other filth to accumulate upon the premises in
her occupation, to the annoyance and danger of the
families residing in the immediate neighbourhood.
The name of Sir J. Romilly appeared upon the in-
formation as one of the complaining parties.
The serious nature of the nuisance having been
proved by several of the parishioners,
The defendant, who keeps about two hundred
cows, replied that the premises had been in the same
state for twenty years without having been com-
plained of.
Mr. JARDINE told her that such a plea would not
avail against the present Act, and accordingly di-
rected the immediate removal of the nuisance.
John Scanlon, late porter at the Freemasons'
Tavern in Great Queen-street, and at the Whitting-
ton Club, in the Strand, was charged with stealing
several articles of plate, &c., the property of his em-
ployers.
The prisoner had pawned some of the articles, in-
cluding a gold pencilcase, identified by Mr. A. E.
Bacon, of the Freemasons' Tavern; and-at his lodg-
ings the officers found a quantity of crockery, glass,
&c., no doubt belonging to the same establishment,
besides some forks, spoons, and several books, the
property of the Whittington Club and Metropolitan
Athenteum, where he had received temporary em-
, ploy.
The prisoner made no reply to the latter charge ;
but with respect to the first denied that the gold
pencilcase was ever the property of Mr. Bacon.
He was committed on both charges.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Emma Harvey, a young woman who had evi-
dently sustained very serious injuries, was brough t
before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having stolen a
gold watch and other articles from No. 8, Lower
James-street, where she had recently lived as servant.
It was made known that the young woman, on
gaining intelligence that the police were in search of
her, and on seeing them enter the house where she
had taken up her temporary residence, in Shire-lane,
suddenly threw herself out of a two pair of stairs win-
dow into the yard beneath. The prisoner, in conse-
quence of the injuries she had sustained, was allowed
a seat within the bar.
Mr. Henry Newman said he lived at Nantes, in
France. On Monday last he went with his wife to
Windsor, and returned about six o'clock in the after-
noon. Before he set out on his journey, he left a
gold watch and chain in his room, and there were
some stockings and other articles on the sofa. When
he returned at six o'clock, the watch and several other
articles of property were gone. The prisoner, who
was servant in the house, had also disappeared.
An assistant of Mr. Attenborough, pawnbroker,
Fleet-street, produced the watch, which had been
pawned by a young woman who gave the name of
Emma Foster.
Police-constable Quarterman, 361, said, from in-
formation he received he went to 4, Serles'-place-
Fleet-street, and tried to get into a room on the
second-floor. Hearing a noise at the back of the
house he went into the rear and found the prisoner
lying on the ground insensible. Witness procured a
cab, and caused her to be removed to the hospital.
In defence, the prisoner said, she went to a raffle
the other evening and met with a young man who
went home with her, and after some conversation, he
induced her to take the watch. The young man stole
the other things. Prisoner afterwards pawned the
watch, and gave the young man the 'money. The
young man afterwards took her to the theatre, and she
did not return to her place as she was afraid she should
be accused of the theft.
The prisoner was removed to the House of Deten-
tion, Clerkenwell, until Saturday.
TV OR SHIP-STREET.
Mr. Hugh Burgess, of the firm of lleathfield and
Burgess, experimental chemists and naphtha distillers,
in Prince's- square, Finsbury, appeared before Mr.
Hammill, to answer an information exhibited at the
instance of the parish authorities of Shoreditch,
charging him with having suffered to exist upon his
premises an alleged dangerous nuisance, which was
pronounced, upon the certificates of several medical
practitioners, to be highly injurious to the health of
the inhabitants of the neighbourhood.
Mr. William Bullock, clerk to the Board of Health
of the district, conducted the prosecution, which ex-
cited an unusual degree of interest, and several trus-
tees of the parish attended to watch the proceedings.
Mr. Bullock stated, that in consequence of almost
incessant complaints being made to the board by the
occupants cf the houses in that neighbourhood of the
bad effects produced upon the health of themselves
and families by the noxious vapours arising from the
napththa distillery established within the last few
months upon the defendants' premises, he waited upon
them, accompanied by a deputation, about three
weeks since, to point out the evil And requf.st its iei-
mediate suppression, which they assured him should
be at once effected; but, as the complaints had been
since renewed that the nuisance still continued with ,

almost unabated force, he felt it his duty to adopt the
present course to insure its abolition.

- Mr. John Dichman, an inspector under the sani-
tary Board, proved the existence of the nuisance on
the 7th of March List, when he visited the place, and
that it consisted of a most noxious efiluviutn, arising
from the refuse matter deposited in the distillation of
the naphtha being discharged from the defendants'
distillery into two contiguous drains extending along
a densely populated court closely adjoining their
premises, and that upon again visiting the place a
few days since he found the cause of complaint still
existing..

Holland, the warrant officer, gave similar evidence,
and stated that a great number of the inhabitants bed
complained to him of the deleterious effects produced
by ,tho vapour in question, and that several of them
were then in attendance to give evidence of its con-
sequences to themselves.
Mr. Richard Pares, a master turner in Horseshoe-
alley, stated that one of the defendants' drains passed
under his workshop, and threw off such an over-
powering vapour, resembling the fumes of burnt
shell -lack, that he and all his family were affected by
the most strange sensations, pains in the head, and
giddiness, and that some of his workmen occasionally
suffered so severely from its effects that they were
seized with a sort of stupor, and compelled to suspend
their occupation. They were obliged to keep all
their windows constantly closed to exclude
the effluvium, but having been induced a few
days since to open one of them for the
admission of air for the benefit of his daughter-
in-law, who was then in the last stage of consump-
tion, and now lay dead in the house, she was ahnost
instantly seized with a violent retching, produced by
the vapour, and complained that everything she
either ate or drank afterwards was impregnated with
the taste of naphtha. Upon that occasion, notwith-
standing the essential necessity of the patient having
fresh air, her medical attendant, Dr. Herring, who
visited her at the moment, ordered the window to be
immediately closed, and expressed his decided opinion,
subsequent to her death, that such an atmosphere was
calculated to greatly aggravate her disorder and pre-
clude her recovery.

George John Pares, son of the last witness, de-
scribed the sensations he had repeatedly experienced
whilst at work from the exhalations referred to, which
caused such a sensation of giddiness, contraction of
the chest, and general prostration of strength, that
his tools dropped from his hands, and he was com-
pelled to abandon his work and to seek purer air
before he felt at all restored. Upon one occasion he
suffered so severely, that the injurious effects con-
tinued for four or five days afterwards, and his wife,
who was in apartments some distance from the work-
shop, complained of suffering the same symptoms,
although neither was subject to such attacks, and
both were in excellent health previous to the distilla-
tion being carried on there.
A married woman, named Jane Martin, also de-
posed to the pernicious effects produced upon her and
her family by the vapour proceeding from the defen-
dants' laboratory, which was so intolerable that,
whenever she had occasion to open one of her closets
contiguous to the party-wall, she was forced back by
the stench, and was obliged to retreat from the room
to allow it to escape.
Mr. F. Ingoldby, a surgeon in Finsbury-square,
stated that upon visiting the court in question the
atmosphere was so impregnated by the fumes of
naphtha that he was seized with a violent attack of
coughing, which lasted a considerable time, and the
usual effects it produced were nausea, loss of appe-
tite, rejection of food, irritability of the mucous
membrane, spasmodic action, and a general failure of
health. The witness handed in a certificate describ-
ing its injurious effects upon two of his patients,
named Archer and Cressall, residing in that locality,
and similar certificates were produced from three
other surgeons to the like effect, and stating the nui•
sance to be such as to call for immediate suppression.
Mr. Travers, who attended for the defence, assured
the Magistrate that his clients had used every effort
they could to mitigate the evil complained of as soon
as they were made acquainted with its existence; and
to prove that its effects were not of the destructive
nature alleged, he had then in court one of the de-
fendants' workmen to establish that although he was
exclusively engaged in this distillation he enjoyed the
most perfect health.
Mr. Bullock said that there could not be a mora
conclusive proof of the deadly effects of this vapour
than the fact a man who had been employed to cleanse
an adjoining sewer since the notice had been served
on the defendants had been taken out in a state of
insensibility ; and, besides its pernicious effect upon
the health of the poor inhabitants, it was so seriously
detrimental to the value of the neighbouring property
that one gentleman, who was rated at no less than
227/. for poor-rates alone, had complained that he
was losing all his tenants in consequence, and that he
would be unable to retain one of them unless the
nuisance were suppressed. He proposed to call a
number of other witnesses to speak to facts similar
to those before stated, but

Mr. HAMMILL said that, after the convincing evi-
dence just detailed, there could he no question that
the nuisance was one of a most dangerous character,
and he should therefore make an imperative order for
its entire abolition within 48 hours, and, further, re-
quire the defendants to pay all the costs attending the
prosecution.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7 th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32,f0r
the Week ending on Saturday, the 12th day of May, 1849.
ISSUE DEr &EINE NT.

Notes igsued— .• •• •• 27;4t-.i0,625

Government debt .. 11,01.5,100
Other securities . • '2,984,900
Gold coin arid bullion 13,137,c56
Silver bullion ••• • • • 323,569