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London, England, 1847-07-22 00:00:00

TUESDAY, JULY 20.

BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY BILL.
Order for Third Reading read ; Motion made, and Qaes-
tion proposed, " That the Bill be now read a third time :"
—Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and
at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this
day three months :"—Question put, " That the word now'
stand part of the Question." The House divided:—

MAJORITY-AYES, 45.
Anson, Colonel Fox, C. R. Paget, Lord A.
Antrobus, E. Goulburn, Henry Palmerston, Viscount
Berkeley, Captain Graham, Sir James Parker, John
Blackburne, J. I. Grey, Sir George Philipps, Sir R.
Rodkin, W. H. Grosvenor, Lord R. Rich, Henry
Brotherton, J. Hallyburton, Lord Russell, Lord H.
Brown, W. Hatton, Captain Russell, Lord C.
Buller, Charles Hobhouse, Sir John Rutherfurd, A.
Cowper, W. F. Jervis, Sir John Shell, R. L.
Craig, W. G. Labouchere, Henry Somerville. Sir W.
Denison, J. E. Macaulay, T. B. Thornely, Thomas
Dodd, G. Maule, Fox Ward, H. G.
Dundas, Sir David Morpeth, Viscount Wood, Sir Charles
Ebrington, Viscount Morris, David TELLSIIB.
Elwell, Ralph Norreys, Sir D. Tamil, IL
Ferguson, Sir R. O'Connell, M. J. Hill, Lord Marcus

MINORITY-NOES, 18.
Bankes, George Fuller, A. E. Taylor, E.
Bentinck, Lord G. Henley, J. W. Trotter, John
Bentinek, Lord H. Hudson, G. Vyse, R. H. R. H.
Boldero, H. G. Law, C. E. Waddington, H. S.
Bramston, T. W Neeld, Joseph TELLERS.
For, S. L. Palmer, G. Borthwick, Peter
Frewen, C. H. Rashleigh, William Stuart, J.

SUPPLEMENT To THE “LONDON

GAZETTE" OF TUESDAY.

PALACE OF WESTMINSTER, LORD GREAT
CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, JULY 21, 1847.
All Peeresses, on announcing their intention of being
present on the occasion of the prorogation of Parlia-
ment, will have places reserved for them in the House of
Lords, if the announcement be made at the Lord Great
Chamberlain's Office before five o'clock on Thursday,
the 22d instant.
Peers' eldest sons, wishing to be present at the proro-
gation, will have tickets for the Peers' eldest sons' box
forwarded to them, upon a written or personal applica-
tion at the Office.
No strangers can be admitted, on the day of the pro-
rogation, except by a ticket from the Lord Great Cham-
berlain's Office.
The doors will be opened at twelve o'clock.
WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY, G.C.

PALACE OF WESTMINSTER, LORD GREAT
CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, JULY 20, 1847.
Notice is hereby given, that, i❑ consequence of the
approaching prorogation of Parliament, and the imme-
diate resumption of the works for the completion of the
House of Lords, the weekly issue of tickets from the
Lord Great Chamberlain's Office, for viewing the House
of Lord., will be for the present discontinued.
WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY, G.C.

REGISTRY of BIRTHS and DEATHS
DURING THE WEEK ENDING JULY 17.
i
Deaths registered in the week. Births registered in the week.
Males ... ... ... 479 Males ... ... 6OO
Females ... ... 465 Females ... .... 582

•- -
Total . . 944

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Total ... 1,182

Miss BUBDETT COUTTS'S NEW CHURCH.—The
ceremony of laying the first stone of St. Stephen's
Church, in Rochester-row, Westminster, by Miss Burdett
Coutts, took place yesterday, with the usual ceremonies
on such occasions, in the presence of an immense con-
course of people. Miss B. Coutts was accompanied by
Lady Antrobus, Lady King, Mrs. Rams,-ten, &c. There
were present, besides the Bishop of London, who assisted
in the ceremony, the Bishops of Oxford, Adelaide, and
Tasmania; Lords Brownlow, Sandon, and Ashley; the
Dean of Westminster, the Rey. Lord John Thynne,
Archdeacons Sinclair and Bentinck, and many of the
clergy of the Abbey and the adjacent districts; Sir F.
Trench, &c. The whole of the expense of the erection
of the church about to be built is to be defrayed by Miss
Burdett Coutts, together with the endowment and the
building of schools for 230 boys and 170 girls. The
site has been presented by the Dean and Canons or
Westminster. The church, which has been designed by
Mr. Benjamin Ferrey, of Trinity-place, and which will
be built by Messrs. Rigby, of Westminster, will be in
the decorated style of the fourteenth century. It will
contain a nave 82 feet long by 21 feet wide; aisles 82
feet long by 13 feet wide; and a chancel, 47 fet long by
21 feet wide. There will be a massive tower and spire
at the east end of the north aisle, the base of which
will be 23 feet square, and the entire height 200
feet. The materials used in the construction will
be Sneaten ragstone for the walls, And Anston stone for
the quoins and dressings ; the roof will be English oak
covered with lead. For the seats, stalls, and screens
Riga wainscot will be used. There will be a peal of
bells in the tower. The church will be capable of ac-
commodating 1,000 persons. The silver trowel used by
the munificent founder was presented to her by the in-
habitants of the district ; on it was engraved an appro-
priate inscription to that effect. The following is the
copy of the inscription enclosed within the foundation
stone of the church :--

Hujusce .lEdis sacrosanctse,
Deo, Creatori, Suspitatori, Sanctificatori,
in honorem B. Stephan protomartyris, dictates,
lapidem auspicalem posuit
Angela Georgiana Burdett Coutts,
fifia natu minima
Francisci Burdett, Brunetti,
hujus civitatis Westmouasteriensis
Suffraglis ohm in Senatum per XXXL atmos
cooptati,
eadem ilia, pietatis ergo in pattern,
et grates in Deum observantiss,
quam nunc inchoavit sadem,
proprio sumptu exstructura,
ornatura, dotatura,
singulars in hoc seculo
Pr id . tantse m
l. uAniuficenti
19 exemplar.
XIII
A.D. MDCCCXLVfI.
The Rev. W. Tennant, M.A , formerly curate of St.
John's, Westminster, has been licensed, on the nomina-
tion of Miss B. Coutts, by the Bishop of London to the
incumbency.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—GENUINE EAU DE COLOGNE,
imported direct, and kept two years in the docks before
sold. Ross and Sons beg to say, that in consequence of
the spurious trash offered, they are induced to make
known the system adopted by them for the last thirty
}ears of selling only the genuine, and that two years
old. In consequence of their enormous consumptiotl ;
they are enabled to sell the best e.t little more than i
charged for the spurious, the latter being as inferior
British brandy is to foreign. Prices—a single bottle,
3s. ; a case of six, 16s. ; six cases at once, 155. per case, as
for cash only. Address Ross asd Sons,
119 and 120,
Bishlpsgate-street, London.
dozen left of some that has been
seven
.Bs.established They
a central
have still a few
ears in bond.
The Government of Berlin has
M. Duneker,
police for all the railroads of
Counsellor of the Government,
is placed at the head
of this important -branch
the Administration, and
is succeeded in his late
poet of director of the police of
ll;h
of
Berlin by Baron Minutoli, who held the same Office
at Posen.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
BLoOmillußY COUNTY COURT July 21.
(Before E. Dußors, Esq., Deputy-Judge.)
EXTRAORDINARY CASE-THE VALUE OF A DOG.-WREN
V. SOFTLY.
This was an action for trover. The plaintiff sought
t(, recover the value of a dog, his pi operty, detained by
the defendant.

The plaintiff stated that on the 19th of February last
he lost a dog, and after the lapse of a month he ascer.
rained that it was in the possession of the defendant, to
whom he immediately applied for its recovery. The
fendant refused to deliver up the dog, alleging that. it
was his property.
The dog, which was in court, was produced.
The defendant stated that he found the animal on the
23d of February, and he refused to give it up to the
plaintiff, as he thought it was not his dog.
The dog having been sworn to be the property of the
plaintiff, its restoration was ordered by the Learned
Deputy-Judge, the costs to be paid by the defendan

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT.—Lewes. July 20.
(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
Maria Renshaw, 20, was indicted for having unlaw-
fully abandoned a certain child of which she was tke
mother, with the intent that it should die, and thereby
intended to kill and murder it ; and in other counts
she was charged with the intent to cast the burden of
maintaining the child upon the inhabitants of the parish
of Bexhill, where she had so abandoned it.
Mr. Attree prosecuted, and Mr. Johnson appez.red for
the defence.
When the prisoner was arraigned, she at first pleaded
Guilty to the indictment.
Mr. Baron PARKE told her that the charge made
against her was a very serious one, and as the indict-
ment imputed several intents to her, each of which would
require a different degree of punishment, he advised.
her to retract her plea of Guilty and to bare the facts
stated, so that the jury might express an opinion as to
what her real intention was when she abandoned her
infant.

The prisoner then pleaded Not Guilty.
' It appeared from the testimony of the witnesses that
the prisoner had been in service at Hastings, and that
she was in the familyway and near the period of her
confinement at the beginning of June. On the 14th
of that month she left Hastings and proceeded by
the train to Brighton, where she took up her
abode at a lodging house kept by a person named
Howley, and on the 16th she was delivered of
the infant in question, which appeared to be a fine,
healthy child. On the 26th of June, ten days after her
delivery, the prisoner said she had received a letter.from
her father informing her that her mother was dying, and
that she must go home directly, and her landlady accom-
p %flied her to the railway station at Brighton, whence
she started with her infant by the halt-past twelve
o'clock train. At this time the child was dressed in a
new night-gown and shirt, and the other usual articles of
dress for an infant, and the prisoner, although weak
from her recent confinement, appeared otherwise in good
health. When the train arrived at the Bexhill station,
the prisoner got out with her child, and her conduct ex-
cited the attention of the clerk at the station, and it in-
duced him to believe that she was not in her right
senses. She asked a number of incoherent questions,
and was seen wandering about the station apparently in
great distress of mind for a considerable time, when She
again came to the station, and her conduct was still very
wild and extraordinary, and she at length left by the
half-past five o'clock train for Hastings ; but at this
time she had no child with her. On the
same evening, a person living at Bexhill had
occasion to go into a field in that neighbour-
hood to fetch a sheep home to be killed, and while he
was so engaged he heard ,he moaning of a child, and
proceeding in the direction whence the voice ap-
peared to come he was led to a ditch, where he found
an infant lying among some high nettles, and quite con-
cealed by them from the sight of any casual passer-by„
and but for the cries of the poor infant it appeared very
probable that it must have lain there and perished,
The child turned out to be the prisoners ' • but it ap-
peared that the shirt and night-gown had been taken
off it, and it had nothing on its body but a napkin and a
cap. The prisoner was afterwards taken into custody,
when it appeared that she admitted having deserted the
child, and the present indictment was then preferred
against her.
Mr. JOHNSON made a most feeling address to the
jury on behalf of the prisoner, and urged that she had
been driven almost to madness by the shame of her po-
sition, and that when she deserted her unhappy offspring
she was not in a state of mind to render her accountable
for her actions, and that therefore the jury ought not to
find her guilty of having any of the wicked intentions im-
puted to her by this indictment.
The jury, after deliberating a few minutes, returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.