The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-12 00:00:00

NEW BILLS.

Mr. BOURKE obtained leave to bring in a Bill for
the better preservation of sheep, and the more speedy de-
tection of receivers of stolen sheep, in Ireland.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE obtained leave to bring in a
Bill to continue, for a limited time, certain temporary
provisions relating to the collection of grand jury cess in
Ireland. _ _ _

Both Bills were afterwards brought in and read a firs

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.

On the motion of Mr. CHARTERIS, the following
gentlemen were nominated as a Select Committee on the
Eastern Counties Railway Compauy :—Mr. Charteris,
Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Roebuck, Mr.
llenley, Mr. Ord, Mr. Disraeli, Sir David Dundas, and
Mr. Monsell.

The Hoube adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock ti
Monday.

THE RATE IN AID BILL.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 11.
The following are lists of the Majority and Minority 01
he Peers who voted upon this

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CONTENTS.
Effingham Clanricarde Colborne
Spencer Carlisle Minto
Montfort Lansdowne Campbell
Scarborough Cremorne Grey
Cottenham Eddisbury Westminster
Yarborough Ponsonby Downshire
Carrington Erskine 13readalbane
Craven Teynham . Longford
Camoys Granville Waldegrave
Westmeath Sayc and Selo Leigh
Strafford Li/ford Besboroug,h
Devon Byron BISHOPS.
Foley Cowper, Durham,
Devonshire Bruce Manchester
Burlington Elphinstone Ripon;
Fortescue Ilowden Worcester

NON-CONTENTS. - - •
Roden Downes , Bill
Glasgow De nos Ashburton
ReAleadale Sandys Galloway
'mean Blayney Abercorn
Ilawardeu Winehilsea Ratifurl I
Lorton Monteagle Abinger
Caledon Wicklow Drogheda
Stradbroke Sligo Londonderry
Mountcashel Beaumont
Romney.
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Clarina Crofton Hat rowby
Enniskillen Egmont Wharnelille.
Bosse Boston Combermere
Templemore Fitzwillittnl ARCHBISHOP.
Desalt Rolle Dublin
Ely Downslilre tumor,. ,
Castlemaine Manchester Cashel r

PARLIAMENTA RY COMMITTEES. SMITHFIELD
MARKET.—On Taureday, on the rc-assembliug of this
Committee, Mr. Mackinnon in the chair, additional
evidence was taken as to the nuisances connected with
Smithfield-market. Mr. Langham, butcher, of Edg-
ware-road, was of opinion that the substitution of two
markets on the north-eastern side of the Thames
would remedy the evil, and obviate the great incon-
venience that now arose from the driving of animals
through London. Of the 4,000 butchers in the metro-
polis not half slaughtered their own meat. There was
no combination in London to keep up the price of
meat, though there was a combination of butchere,
bankers, and salesmen, to keep up Smithfield-
market ; and witness had Inca " mobbed," and
threatened with violence the other day in Newgate-
market, on account of his hiving given evidence be-
fore the Committee. Several sergeants and inspectors
of the City Police were then examined, and spoke to the
rushing of bullocks into the London Coffee-house, and
the smashing of glass in Fleet and Bridge-streets.
There were thirteen police b) day and seven by night
to keep order. There was by no means sufficient space
for the animals. This occasioned what was called
the "ring drove," the main cause of cruelty ;
and this might be avoided it' the room was
adequate. The habit of " pething," or hitting
a bullock hard behind the horns, was a very great
cruelty ; and twisting the tails until they broke,
another ; though there was no more cruelty exer-
cised by drovers at Smithfield than by jockeys at
Newmarket. Comparatively speaking, no accidents
occurred. Mr. Norris, a member of the Common Coun-
cil, said he had constantly occasion to pass through
Smithfield, and the violence inflicted, from attempts
made to accommodate the mass of beasts on the insufficient
space, were disgraceful and provoking. The drivers
were almost educated in cruelty. There were 67 houses
in Smithfield-market and 13 public houses, or one in
every five. The other shops were where butchers' and
drovers' tools were sold, and coffee and eating-houses
which depended on the drovers. In the streets imme-
diately leading out of Smithfield the public .house 9. In
s were
one in seven; in other ordinary streets, o
andth e whole
oof t thehf es
these
city 6 500 fwLe
were
dpounbtl
public-houses,
seer
se,lonsre,9ollo at :h
ehouses,
of one in 25. The chief trade encouraged in Smithfield
was that of public-houses and gin palaces. O
were proportionably discouraged. The P
rne oecirtjthere was
the market deteriorated house property,
e
a difficulty in letting lodgings.
These
gave the worst
d of lodgers.
were
andt he
poorest
accommodation, and took in the lowest kin
within
The market encouraged the most offensive trades
its neighbourhood, such as sausage-making,f
cat -skinning,
_or
knackers' yards, bone-boilers', and establishments
Other
tryadnesf
twisting the entrails of sheep into fiddle/strings. Those
health,ari ie
safety,t
portions
ofo fay
parishesniaL onadbuontt,inagndontheth
the market
convenience of the inhabitants demanded its removal.
The present market could not be enlarged to the extent
of halt an acre without very great outlay. About 2,000
cabs and carts had to go round the market on market
days. The managers of the Eastern Counties and Great
Western Railways had told him that thousands of bul-
locks came by rail without blotch or blemish, leaving it
to be inferred that they were injured after leaving the
rail. The Committee then adjourned.

The Lady Arabella liesketh was safely delivered
of a son at Milford Hall on Wednesday last.

POISONING AT BATIL—The adjourned inquiry into
the death of Henry Marchant was yesterday renewed at
the Guildhall. Tne prisoner Mrs. Harris had so far
recovered as to be ible to be brought up. She and the
other prisoners were accommodated with seats. Several
witnesses were examined to show the terms of intimacy
subsisting between Mrs. Harris, then Mrs. Marchant,
and the male prisoner 'Harris, and to prove the purchase
by her in April last of arsenic at the shop of Mr.
Bright. The Rev. Dr. Starner, rector of St. Saviour
Waicot, deposed that on Friday before the marriage the
male prisoner Harris applied to him for a marriage
license, and said he wished, if possible, to be married
the next day. He was told the license would not be re-
ceived till Sunday's post, and he then said he would be
married on the Monday. Inspector Sutton deposed to
having searched the apartments of the prisoners the
Shaylors. In a box of linen he found a small bag, con-
taining 40 sovereigns; another bag, with 150 sovereigns
and 32 halt-crowns; and a third bag, containing 6 halt-
sovereigns and two half•crowns; a fourth bag, containing
eypBiec half
pieces
and- crowns;
some
5 crown pieces and 16 half-crowns; a piece of rag, con-
taining)nafitlhbag containing 45 four-
insixpences; a purse, containing 92
farthings and some halfpence and penny-pieces; a
stocking, containing a half-sovereign; a silver watch, a
duplicate ticket of another watch, 12 women's dresses,
&c. The inquest was then adjourned.
Tilt PHONETIC NEWS.—The following joke ap-
pears in the ll9an in the Moon:—

Sukred
2 de memmuri oph
DE FONETIC NUZ,
witch expiured Marteb, 1849,
ephtur lingering 4 suns weex,
in de gratist pane
oph de publisher's windo,
knott wits itself, but de tors oph wit in odirs;
itz de:ees will be sinseerli regretted
by itz survyving publisher.
A fllixyuns soar long time it boar,
FiziAhunz was in vane;
It wood knot scl, so down itphel,
.
And eye hope dey went tri agane.
NVEtZcA-Wnr-ESS-AAT rASEX 11

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.)
THE BELLE ASSEMBLEE.
The Belle Assemblee is adorned with a fanciful
portrait of Effie Deans, the hapless " Lily of St.
Leonard's." One of the best, because the most prac-
tically useful, of the many excellent articles in this
Magazine, is from the pen of Elizabeth Youatt—" A
Lament and a Lesson." The lament consists in a
widow's tear falling on the bridal dress of her
friend; and the lesson is suggested by her heart-
touching exclamation—" I was not grieving so much
for his death, but because I am afraid I did mot make
him as happy as I might have done !" In the
hands of Elizabeth Youatt, this simple sentence
becomes the text of a most beautiful and
impressive sermon. It concerns not those who weep
for friends departed, but all who are blest with living
ones to lore. It gently exhorts them so to act that
they may never have occasion to cry in heart-broken
accents, " I did not make them as happy as I might
have done." The accomplished editress of the
Belle Asseinblee this month adorns its pages with
one of her always-interesting papers.

THE JOURNAL OF DESIGN.
Because the Journal of Design contains a variety
of designs,' and descriptions of. those designs, it may
be supposed that it is chiefly adapted to the artist or
the manufacturer. It is likely to be very useful to
both these individuals without doubt, but it will be
chiefly useful to that vast body entitled general
readers. To these it may be of essential service, it
will convert them into general observers, and
tend greatly to develop their powers of per-
ception and discrimination. It is difficult, in-
deed, to say for whom the Journal of
Design is not designed. In the drawing-room
and boudoir it will be invaluable, its suggestions and
its criticisms will be of infinite advantage to the fair
arbitresses of taste and fashion; and, moreover, it
gives no inconsiderable exercise to the reasoning
faculties, for it is not content with telling us that such
a thing is beautiful, and such another is the reverse,
but it shows the why and the wherefore in a manner
that is as interesting as it is instructive.