The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-20 00:00:00

Cl'o B KR 20, 1847.

of Italy seems to have covered this Minister with
ridicule to an immense degree. Goo of cur friends
recently arrived from Rome states the folio wing oc-
currence as having excited the laughter of all classes
of society at Rome. When the tempest which still
agitates the whole population of Italy was at its
height, the French Ambassador went to the Holy
Father, not to assure him of the active concurrence
of France, but to recommend him, in the name of
M. Guizot, not to suffer himself to be cast down,
but to remain calm amidst the passing events. 'M.
le Comte,' replied his Holiness, with that impertur-
bable sang froid which never abandons him, write to
your Ministerthat I thank him fbr having offered to
me his excellent advice.' Then looking at M. Rossi
with a meaning eye, the Pontiff added, ' Have the
goodness also to tell 11. Guizot that you have seen
me, and, at the same time, recommend him to be as
calm as I am.' "
It would appear that the French Government is
about to take possession of certain African islands
near Senegal. We read in the Constitutionnel—
" There is at this time in contemplation a measure of
the highest interest for the French colony in Senegal,
the execution of which was carefully planned by the
lately-deceased governor. It consists in the occupa-
tion of Cape Vert and the lands lying between the
Pointe des Mamelles and Cape Bernard. The con-
cession of this territory, which has never been dis-
puted, was made to France by three successive
treaties—in 1763, 1765, and 1787, by the Dame!, or
Sovereign, of Mayor. It is situated about three
quarters of a league from Goree, on one of the most
preferable points of this part of the African coast.
An establishment here would be extremely advanta-
geous to France."

The Bridge of Etaples, on the line of the Abbe-
ville and Boulogne Railroad, fell last week. It will,
however, be immediately reconstructed, and the line
from Abbeville to Nesle will be opened, as originally
intended, on the 15th November next.
The Prince DE JOINVILLE returned to Toulon on
the 14th, in the Titan, accompanied by several steam
frigates. Having taken in provisions, they sailed for
the coast of Italy, where it is said the Prince will
land, in order to fulfil a diplomatic mission with
which he has been charged.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Monday at 75f. 45c. ; the Five per Cents.,
115 f. sc. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,160 f. ;
Rouen, 905 f. ; Havre, 515 f. ; Great Northern,
5271. 50c. ; Avignon, 520 f. ; Vierzon, 5351.; Bor-
deaux, 458 f. 75c. ; Boulogne, 350 f. ; Troyes and
Montereau, 247 f. 50c. ; Basle, 1481. 75c.; Paris and
Strasburg, 391 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 3701.;
Paris and Lyons, 381 f. 25c.; Lyons and Avignon,
472 f. 50c.; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
50k; Spanish Three per Cents. 281.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OcroßEit 19.
Boulogne and Amiens, 131—Central of France (Orleans
and:Vivizon), 141 A—Luxembourg, •)i— Northern of France,
10A—Paris and Lyons, 4y—Paris and Rouen, 34—Paris
and Strasbourg, 314—Rouen and Havre, 1911—Sambre and
Meuse, 51A—WestFlanders, 13/1.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Francis Emerson, an elderly man of respectable
appearance, was charged with an assault upon Eliza-
beth Walters, the daughter of the landlord of the
house in which the pris(iner lodges.
The complainant stated that the prisoner came
home drunk yesterday evening, and went down into
the kitchen. The prisoner proceeded to make some
very indecent remarks, upon which she ordered him
to leave the room. Ile used a great deal of abusive
language, and when witness again hid him quit the
room, he struck her several violent blows. A female
lodger, who was present, interfered, whereupon he
turned upon her and assaulted her in a similar
manner. Witness went to the hall door and called a
policeman, who took the prisoner in charge. The
prisoner resisted, and struck the constable twice.
This statement was confirmed by the lodger al-
luded to and by the constable.
The prisoner said he was drunk, and was very
sorry for what he had done.

Mr. HENRY said that if the complainant wished he
would commit the prisoner for trial. The highest
fine he could inflict would be 51.
The complainant did not wish the prisoner to be
committed.

Mr. HENRY said in that case he would fine the
prisoner 51. for the assault upon her, 31. for that on
the lodger, and 3/. for that on the constable—in
all 111.

The fines were paid.

I HARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
7 homas Griffiths, a billiard-marker, was placed
before Mr. Hardwicke,charged with cutting andwound-
ing Isabella Robertson with a knife.
The prosecutrix stated that she lodged at No. 4,
Stacey-street, St. Giles's, and was a single woman.
The prisoner had cohabited with her for these last
five years, during which time she had experienced the
greatest ill-usage from him. She had latterly ex-
pressed to the prisoner her determination of leaving
him, and no longer putting up with his ill-treattnent.
This morning, about three o'clock, she was awoke
from her sleep by a violent knocking at her door. A
female friend, who was sleeping with her, got out of
bed and opened the door, when the prisoner rushed
in, and began to beat her severely. She cried out,
when the prisoner ran out of the room, but shortly
after returned with a knife in his hand, with which
he stabbed her on the left shoulder. She cried out
" Murder," when the prisoner said "D
—n you, I
will do for you." The other female then ran out and
procured a constable, sho took the prisoner into
custody,
The female who was sleeping with prosecutrix
corroborated her evidence, and proved seeing the pri-
soner strike her with a knife. She also heard him
swear that he would give her three inches of "cold
steel."

Police•constable F 40, said he was called by the
last witness to take the prisoner into custody for
stabbing a woman at No. 4, Stacey...street. On going
there he saw the prosecutrix bleeding from a wound
on her left shoulder, which she stated the prisoner
had done with a knife. He took her to the hospital,
where the wound was dressed, and subsequently con-
veyed the prisoner to the station.
The prisoner, who expressed his sorrow for what he
had done, was committed for trial.

Henry H'm. Pitman, late a clerk in the employ of
Mr. John White Moore, the extensive sporting print-
seller, of \Vest-street, St. Martin's-lane, was brought
up for final examination charged with embezzling
2/. 125., the property of his employer.
Mr. Moore stated that since the last examination
he had ascertained from Mr. James, the party who
paid the money to the defendant, that the defendant
had called upon him shortly after, he (defendant) had
received the money, and said that he took it from his
trousers pocket. He (Mr. Moore) had no reason to
doubt this, and should like to give defendant the
benefit of it. Under all circumstances he should
wish not to proceed any further in the case.
Mr. HARDWICK told the defendant that he ought
to be extremely obliged to Mr. Moore for his for-
bearance' as it was very easy for him to say that he
had not the money, and so excuse himself of the
offence. He should discharge him, and trusted that
this would act as a caution to him in future.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
A man of notorious character, named Brown, was
charged with the following impudent robbery.
It appeared that John Tozer, a boot and shoemaker
in Brick-lane, was making his way home in a state
of obliviousness, when he sat down on the step of a
door, and soon was sound asleep. The prisoner ob
served his helpless state, and at once proceeded to
strip the poor shoemaker. He first took off his hat,
and laid it carefully aside, and took off two silk hand-
kerchiefs which he wore around his neck, and, after
searching his pockets and making a transfer from
them of whatever was available, he took off
his shoes, and was in the act of unbuttoning
a pair of black gaiters preparatory, most likely,
to denuding him of another and more im-
portant garment, when a policeman came up and
asked him what he was doing, to which the prisoner
replied that he was an old friend of his, who lived
in Vinegar-yard, and he was about taking him home
to his wife and family. The constable, however,
asked where his handkerchief and shoes were, when
the prisoner said he had taken off his handkerchief
and shawl to save the poor fellow from being choaked,
and he knew nothing about his shoes, but on searching
him they were found in his pocket.
The prosecutor who looked very foolish after his
night's adventure, denied having ever seen the pri-
soner before last night, and even then he could
scarcely say he saw him.—(A laugh.)
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
IL G. forwarded the sum of 10s. for the use of the
poor-box, which he requested might be acknowledged
in The Sun.

THAMES.—('PHIS DAY.)
On Mr. YARDLEY taking his seat on the bench
this morning, he observed to Mr. Symons, the chief
clerk, that he had received a letter, signed by a num-
ber of the inhabitants of White Horse-street and
Palmer-street, Stepney, calling his attention to the
existence of a nuisance in that locality, arising from
an accumulated deposit of filth, which now attained
an extent that rendered it perfectly intolerable, con-
cluding by a request that he would be pleased to in-
terfere in the matter, and adopt some measures to
secure its removal. The nuisance complained of was
at the entrance of a court called Barton's-entry.
Mr. Symons observed that the whole of White
Horse-street, Palmer-street, 45ce., Were in the hamlet

of Ratcliffe, and that the church waro,,n of that htlrnlet.
Mr. Buchanan, was a gentleman of great mekiical
experience, and bad devoted great attention to the
sanitary improvement of the district ; and he had no
doubt if that gentleman were communicated with, the
result would be the removal of the nuisance.
Mr. YARDLEY accordingly directed Mackenzie, one
of the officers of the court, to go to Ratcliffe-cross,
to the residence of Mr. Buchanan, and request his
attendance at the court, as it was imperative that the
parish officers should interfere.

REGISTRATIONS.—(I ms DAY.)
CITY OF LONDON.
(Before Mr. T. Y. M`CnaisTin.)
The Court met this morning at twelve o'clock, for
the purpose of confirming and passing the accounts of
the overseers of the respective parishes.
The REVISING BARRISTER, on taking his seat, said
that he had gone through the various accounts, and
had found that some of the charges made in them
were perfectly preposterous.
The following is the summary of the revision
IN THE LIVERY.
Liberal claims allowed
Liberal objections sustained
Conservative claims allowed
Conservative objections sustained ..
Double objections
Liberal claims disallowed •••
Liberal objections failed.. 43
Conservative claims disallowed .... 4
Conservative objections failed ll]
Double objections failed

4
130

Number of cases ..... .. 455
HOUSEHOLDERS.
Liberal claims allowed
Liberal objections sustained
COnservative claims allowed
Conservative objections sustained 952
Double objections sustained
Liberal claims disallowed
Liberal objections failed or withdrawn 353
Conservative claims disallowed
Conservatire objections withdrawn
Double objections withdrawn

Household cases 3,253
Mr. APCuassue, before proceeding to dissect
the overseers' accounts said—With respect to the
payments which I am allowed to certify shall
be made to overseers, the 56th section of the Reform
Act enacts, that the expenses of the overseers, "ia
making out, printing, and publishing the several lists
and notices directed by this Act, and all other ex-
penses incurred by them in carrying into effect the
provision of this Act, shall he defrayed out of the
money collected, or to be collected, for the relief of
the poor." And the 57th section of the Registration
Act requires (which was not required by the Reform
Act) that an account of the expenses incurred by
the overseers, in carrying into effect the provisions of
the Act, shall be laid before the revising barrister;
and he " shall sign and give to the said overseers a cer-
tificate of the sum which he shall allow to be due to
them in respect of the said expenses :" and which sum
they are to receive out of the poor rates. I think it is
to be regretted that there is not some sort of scale given
for the revising barrister's government in the allowance
which he shall certify for, but I do not find any such
guide given in express words by the Act. It has been
stated to me that Mr. Arnold considered it would be
right to allow the overseers at the rate of Is. (to include
all expenses) for every name that might be on a list.
Probably that occurred to Mr. Arnold, from the Re-
form Act enacting that every person whose name was
on the register should yearly pay a shilling, which
payment was to go towards defraying the expenses of
the registration ; but that enactment has been done
away with by the Registration Act, which is part of
the Reform Act, and in many cases, as it appears to
me, it would be difficult to proceed upon such a scale.
It is quite clear that the Legislature, by the Regis-
tration Act, required the overseers to submit
their accounts to the revising barrister for
the purpose of checking or guarding against
extravagance and abuse, which it was pos-
sible some overseers might have indulged in,
when, as under the Reform Act, they themselves
having the custody, or at any rate the disposal of
the money collected for the relief of the poor, they
were at liberty to pay over to themselves just what-
ever sums they might have thought proper to put
down, not only for making out, printing, and pub-
lishing the several lists and notices, but also " all
other expenses incurred by them," in carrying into
effect the provisions of the Act: a very sweeping
authority to them fully to indemnify themselves,
certainly ; and it it is perfectly evident, from
what has come before me, that the protection
subsequently introduced against abuse under
that license, was imperatively called for. In
the accounts that have been laid before me,
there are the highest charges made for print-
ing that any respectable printers could venture to
make; still, where the lists have been made, and
printed with reasonable care, I do not know that I
can object to the allowance of those printers' charges.
Also, with respect to reasonable expenses incurred by
the overseers in making out the lists to put into
the printers' hands, I am unwilling to say a word
against them. I understand that overseers are
not salaried officers, but I believe that in all
parishes they have salaried officers, generally
known under the character of vestry clerks; and I
believe that all these vestry clerks are legal men,
and employed and paid by the different parishes for
the express purpose of giving their advice and assist-
ance to the overseers and parish authorities in all
matters relating to parish affairs ; and there can be
no doubt that it is their duty to render those services
for the salaries they receive. When I have adverted
to that fact before, the vestry•clerks have said, yes,
all that is very true, but we are appointed for life by the
parishioners, and as we had our appointments before
the Reform Act was passed, it is very hard that the
additional labour which that Act, and the Registration
Act, threw upon the overseers should be handed over
to us to execute, and that we should not be at lis
berty to make a distinct and additional charge for it.
It strikes me forcibly that if it were
broadly lai I down, that not one farthing
should be allowed fie- the new or extra work which
the Registration Act imposes on overseers, and the
overseers were still to require their vestry .clerks to
do that work, instead of doing it themselves, we
should hear of very., few resignations of vestry.
clerks, and see but very few advertisements for
candidates to fill their places. But be that as it
may, it is utterly impossible that I cae allow all
the sums that are put down in the accounts that
are presented to me. Parliament has required
overseers to do certain duties, and they must do
them. They are to be allowed the reasonable ex-
penses incurred in discharging those duties, but that
is all; 3/. 35., and 51. 55., and 71. 73., and so on, put
down for consultations with vestry-clerks, and for
those gentlemen (already paid parish officers for
doing the parish work) being called in to settle the lists,
and for attending this court, are preposterous. But it
does not end there. In numberless cases I have long
regular attorney s' bills handed up to me, in which there
are strings of charges "for perusing Secondaries pre-
cept, 10s."; "perusing the Act of Parliament, 10s.'--
they perused it to very little effect I think ;
"attendance upon collectors, 6i. 81. ;" " attendance
on several parties to make inquiries as to their places
of abode, 13s. 4d. ;" engrossing original list for sig-
nature of overseers, 10s. ;" "attending overseers for
their signature, 6s. Bd. ;" attending printers, giving
instructions for proofs," and many other similar mon-
strosities. I shall not allow fel. of these. I cannot
possibly in law do it. In innumerable' cases these
charges amount to far more than double the expense
of printing the list-, and all the legitimate expenses
the overseers can possibly be entitled to. In one bill
that I have glanced my eye at, there is this charge—
Paid for a cart and horse going round the parish
with notices and lists, Hsi' Really, if the over-
seers had called in Fleet-street to inquire what items
of charge they ought to put down, I do not think
that, with all the talent for which Punch is so uni-
versally distinguished, he could have suggested one
that could have beaten that. Then, in the same ac-
count there is—" paid coach hire to the returning-
officer with the lists, &c., arid back, 13s. 6d. ! "
Can people think that I am mad ? Could they
think that I was in a sane state if I consented
to he a party to such profligacy by allowing such
charges ? The expense of the registration to the
country is enormous, and yet people have nat
their franchise as the Legislature intended they should
have it ; and from the samples that have come
under my notice, of how the bulk of that expense is
made up, no one can longer wonder at the expense,
mfor tu ni toc
but only be astounded to think how that enormity
can have been suffered to go on. I(t.1
isy
nota
be under
cast a reflection upon any one
a mistake myself), nor do I presume to overseers are to dischar e an do so, but if
g y unpaid for duty, at all
affecting the registration, I verily believe, according
to their system of charging, the expense of the
registration must have been in many instances
double, if not more than double, of what it
ought to have been. The work is not
only not done unpaid for, but in some in •
stances the very same work is actually charged
for twice over. In one bill (and I have no doubt
there were many others of the same description,
which we shall see as we get on), there are these
items :—" Clerk making out list of voters, .5/. 55.!
attendance of collectors snaking out lists of voters,
41. 45." Now, what is that but actually charging
more than twice over for making out the self-acme
small list before it goes into the printer's hands ? It is
called lists in both instances In the account, to give it
a colouring. There is but one small list of voters in
that case ; and though any man of the cotnmonest share
of knowledge of what such work costs, must be per-
suaded that the 4/. 4s. is a most liberal and ample

WEDNESDAY.-Sir J. Hawley's Mendicant, then 5 yrs
old, agst Duke of Bedford's Bridle, then 4 yrs old, 8
7th each. A. V. 500, 100 ft.

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death of his Excellency Count Magnus Bjornstjerm,
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at tl
Court of Great Britian, general Inspector of Artillery,
Knight of many orders, Ste. He was born at Dresden,
on the 10th of October, 1779. His mother was a Ger-
man, Lady Wilhelmina Von Hager. His father was
Swedish Ambassador at Dresden, and present at the' German Diet at Regensburg. He took part in the
campaign of 1808 against Russia, where he distinguished
hunselt. In 1813 he came to Ilamburgh, and with
1314
regiment occupied Vierlander ; he also took part in tie
battles of Dennewetz and Leipsicr. He concluded the
Lubeck capitulation with Lallemand, and the armistice
with the Prince of Hesse. Count Bjornstjerna is known
us an author in politics and national economy, and hi!+t
also published several works in the East Indies. DI
political views were aristocratic, almost to eccentricity.
THE COURT, &O.—WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING.
—This morning his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge and the Duke of Wellington accompanied Prince)
Albert on a shooting excursion, to the covers in the
neighbourhood of Norfolk Farm. Major- General Bowles.*
Colonel Stevens, Colonel Seymour, and several other
gentlemen, were of the party. The Queen, accompanied
by the Duchess of Sutherland, walked in the Horner
Park this morning with the Prince of Wales and the.
Princess Royal. At four o'clock this afternoon thy*
Queen and Prince Albert rode out in their phaeton aria
pair, the Duchess of Sutherland, Countess of Gains-
borough, and the Lord in Welting following in another
carriage and four; Colonel the lion. C. B. Phipps, and.
Colonel Seymour attending. A crowd of respectable,
perscns assembled at the gates of the grand entrance,
:Ind saluted her Majesty and the Prince as they passed,
and their salutations were very graciously acknowledged.
The royal cavalcade took the road to Old Windsor, by
the Frogruore-road, and would return to the Castle by
Bisbopsgate, Spring hill, and the Long-walk.
MURDER OF A CHILD BY ITS MOTHER IN LIVEN'
POOL.—An inquest was held before the Borough Coroner
on Monday, on view of the body of a new-born female
child, which had been born and discovered under such
circumstances in Moon-street, es to excite very grave
su,picions that it hadcomo to its death by violent means,
and the jury ,by, their unanimous verdict of" Wilful mur-
der" against the mother, have, so tar as they are coa-
cerneci, confirmed these suspicions. The name of th•
mother is Eliza Matchan, a servant.—Liverpool Tames.