The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-11 00:00:00

THE S7N, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1147

MARYLEBONE VESTRY,
THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND ME SMALL

DEBTS BILL.
On Saturday a very numerous meeting of the Mary-
lebone Vestry took place ; Mr. John Williams in the
chair.

Messrs. Belton, Rathbone, Cooke, Temple, and several
other gentlemen, waited apois the vestry as a deputation
frost a meeting of the St. Marylebone Parochial Com-
mittee, held ou Thursday last, for the purpose of present-
ing a memorial calling on the vestry to take immediate
steps for preventing, if possible, the plan laid down by
her Majesty's Privy Council for dividing the parish of
Marylebone, with other parishes, for the formation of
local courts districts.

Mr. BELTON said that the meeting, of which the depu-
tation were the representatives, felt exceedingly disap-
pointed, after the struggle which the ratepayers of
Marylebone had made for many years past for a Local
Courts Bill, that tho parish of Marylebone had not been
formed into a district by itself. Under the plan laid
dow❑ by the Privy Council the parish was divided in the
following manner :—The division proposed was at Glou-
cester-place, and westward it extended a circuit of ten
or twelve miles, taking in Paddington, Willesden, and
Twyford. The eastern division of the parish was to be
joined with St. Pancras and Bloomsbury, extending from
Gloucester-place to Gray's Inn-road.
Mr. SODEN wished to know what communication had
taken place with the Lord Chancellor ?
Mr. FLOOD, the vestry clerk, said ho first communi-
cated with the Lord Chancellor by forwarding to his
Lordship the resolution of the vestry on the Ist of Sep-
tember last. To this he received no answer, and fear-
ing his letter had miscarried he went to his Lordship's
house. The Lord Chancellor was out of town ; and ho,
in consequence, again wrote to his Lordship, but up to
that moment had received no reply.—(Shame.)
Mr. NICHOL/7 was much surprised at the uncourte
ous behaviour which had been exhibited by so high a
functionary as the Lord Chancellor to the vestry. In
common civility he ought to have answered the commu-
nication.

Mr. WILSON then moved that the following memorial
be forthwith presented to her Majesty's Privy Council:
" To the Right Honourable the Privy Council of her
Most Gracious Majesty.
" The humble memorial of the representative vestry of
St. Marylebone in vestry assembled,
" Showeth—That your tnemorialists most respectfully
express the regret with which they have found that it is
intended to divide the parish of St. Marylebone, and
unite it with other parishes for the erection of a local
court. They therefore do most earnestly beg that the
Right Hon. her Majesty's Privy Council will reconsider
such their intention, and give to the parish of St. Mary-
lebone a local court of its own, which the number of its
inhabitants (150,000) and its rental of 850,0001. so justly
entitles it to.

After a few observations from Mr. VANHEDIS, in
opposition, the resolution was carried with one dis-
sentient.

DEFICIENCY IN THE PAROCHIAL FUNDS TO
MEET THE DISTRESS OF THE POOR.
Mr. DANIELL brought forward a motion relative to
the financial state of the parish. He said he had been
induced to bring forward the subject owing to the parish
having overdrawn to the amount of 501. on the poor-
rate account. This he considered had arisen from the
board of directors and guardians having asked for a sum
less by 3,000/. than the estimate, which amounted to
4,5001.
It was moved that a resolution embodying this state-
ment be forwarded to the directors of the poor.
Sir J. HAMILTON said, he thought that the circum-
stances which led to so large an increase in the expendi-
ture were such as no human foresight could have antici-
pated. The prices of provisions had risen in a most un-
expected degree. In 1846 flour was but 41s. 6d. per
sack, now it was 535. 3d. ; cheese in 1846 was 575. per
hundred weight, in 1847 it was 625.; oatmeal per cwt.
was lls. 6d., now it is 16s. 9d.; barley was 13s. Ed.,and
now 14s. 3d.; peas, per bushel, were 7s. 6d., now they
were Bs. 6d.; and with regard to potatoes, whilst in 1846
they were obtained for 751. per ton, they had gradually
risen to 1205., and now they were 190 s. per ton.—(Hear,
hear.) All this, coupled with the fact that they had
given 9,819 meals to the casual and houseless, and that
there was an increase of nearly 3,000 as compared
with last year ; or nearly 9,000 in all, he thought
showed that the board of directors and guardians were
not blameable i❑ the matter.—(llear, hear.)
Mr. WALPOLE EYRE said, the fact was that the
workhouse was now so full that they could not let an-
other person in.
After some further observations the resolution was
adopted.
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PROPOSED METROPOLITAN IM-
PROVEMENTS.
The following letter contains interesting information
with respect to various proposed metropolitan improve-
ments and railways. It is from the report of the Metro-
politan Railway Commissioners, and was written by Mr.
James Dean, architect; and it is dated Tottenham, April
20, 1546:—
My Lords and Gentlemen—Having some years since
bean engaged as agent to the graziers and butchers fre-
quenting Smithfield Market in an inquiry before Parlia-
ment as to the enlarging of the site of the market; hav-
ing lately been examined by the Commissioners on the
Health of Towns and Populous Districts, in which the
cewarage of the metropolis and the application of the
sewerage to agricultural productions came under con-
sideration; having lately been engaged by tho Right
Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons and others
to treat with the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, &c.,
for land to lay into the Victoria Park, involving also the
consideration of the formation of new streets; and gene-
rally having been engaged during the last 50 years in a
variety of instances to lay out land for sites of buildings
and other improvements, both in town and country, and
knowing generally every part of London and the subur-
ban parishes, I feel competent to give an opinion upon
the matters referred to your consideration as commis-
sioners, and shall have much satisfaction if my labours
shall assist you in the difficult undertaking.
It has long been a source of sincere regret to many
thinking persons that no general plan for the improve-
ment of the metropolis has, in modern times, been at-
tempted ; everything appears to be done by bits and
scraps. Inquiries are perpetually going on—commission
upon commissions is appointed—the commissioners in-
quire and report—and there the matter generally ends.
There is the Board of Trade—then the Commissioners of
Woods, &c.—then the Health of Towns Commissioners
—then yourselves—all inquiring into some particular
object ; and yet the objects of all relate to the same
thing, or nearly so ; to serer their proceedings would be
to destroy their value as a whole. Thus, for instance,
the inquiry as to the most eligible situation in the metro-
polis for railway termini necessarily involves the consi-
deration of street approaches and the sewerage of the
district ; then the cost and then the revenue. All these
are matters which ought to be considered together as a
whole ; not that it may be necessary to carry the whole
into execution immediately, or, indeed, for several years
to come, still there should be a unity of purpose, a one-
ness in the plan ; but that plan, I fear, can never be ef-
fected until some master-mind ,takes the lead, and an
amalgamatian of the several commissions has been
brought about.
In my humble way, I have ventured to take, as I
imagine, a comprehensive view of the accommodation
required by the commercial, the manufacturing, the agri-
cultural, and the aristocratical interests of this great
country, in this great metropolis ; and though last, not
the least, to the comforts and convenience of our Sove-
reign, her august consort, and their family, both as re-
gards railway stations and termini, and the avenues lead-
ing to them.
It has long been a matter of just reproach to us as a
nation by foreigners, that the entrance into London from
Woolwich, Greenwich, Dover, Brighton, Portsmouth,
Southampton, and the other ports on the southern coast,
is unworthy of such a people. Commercial men and ma-
nufacturers, including the dense population of the metro-
polis, complain that the great thoroughfares are continu-
ally choked with waggons and carts, conveying goods to
and from the existir's distant termini of the several rail-
ways, to and from the warehouses of the merchants, and
to and from the docks. The farmers complain that their
cattle have so far to be driven to market, after arriving
at the railway depot ; and everybody exclaims against
the driving of beasts through the streets at mid-day, and
the cruelties constantly practised on them, thronged as
the streets are with people, with carts, waggons, omni-
buses, and other carriages, almost to suffocation. Eng-
lishmen feel ashamed that between the Royal Palace at
Pimlico and the Royal Palace at Westminster there
should exist so much wretchedness and squalid misery,
reaching almost to the Palace door; and although hun-
dreds of thousands of pounds are yearly spent in im-
proving and embellishing distant parts of the metropolis,
Pimlico remains the same—the same filthy, pestilential
place it has ever been in the memory of the oldest
man living. Then, there is Westminster Abbey, its
chief entrance in a corner, on one side, shouldered by
houses on the other, bounded by a churchyard paved,
or rather only half paved, with gravestones, so uneven
and so dilapidated as to be dangerous at all times, but
especially at night, to persons having business that way;
the church an emblem of days gone by, it is imagined
exits but to keep company with another barbarous pile
on the opposite side of the way, and Westminster bridge,
the most costly, the most ugly, the most unsafe in the
metropolis, upon which thousands have been, and are
yet to be, spent. To widen the way and to lower the
ballustrades little less than would build a splendid iron
bridge in a far more commodious situation, a situation
where, indeed, it would be an ornament to Barry's
noble work, and of immense utility in a local and national
point of view, and would render unnecessary another
bridge contemplated to cross from the Horseferry-road
near.
Then there is that horrible accumulation of mud and
filth between Whitehall-stairs and Blackfriars-bridge.
Surely the day is not far distant when the embankment
will take place, so well devised by the eminent Walker,
and so necessary for the preservation of the health of
those inhabiting near, and so necessary also to relieve
the streets between the Royal Exchange and Westmin-
ster Hall from the dense crowds always moving between
these points, especially when Parliament and the
courts are sitting. And now, having gone through
the catalogue of miseries, I come to th pleasing task
' of showing how most of them can be remedied, if not
obviated altogether, leaving yourselves to decide how
successful or otherwise the attempt has heen.
I have selected for the site of the London general ter-
minus of all the railways now made, or that may here-
after be made, coming to London, the space between the
Minories, Whitechapel High-street, the new street lately
formed leading from Spitalfields church to the docks and
the Blackwell Railway, tinted yellow. I have chosen
that particular place, firstly, because it is within half a
mile of the Royal Exchange, and within the city, and
because a great part of the site is in an open waste, and
the remainder covered with houses of very moderate
value, except those next to Whitechapel High-street and
the Minoiies, which may still remain. I have chosen it,
also, because it is the only spot in or near London to
which passengers and traffic can be conveyed from every
railway on both sides of the Thames, without change of
carriage, except the Great Western, which, on account
of the guage, cannot, I fear, participate in the benefit.
Whether it would be a convenience for the company to
make a short line across Old Oak Common, in Acton
parish, to the tunnel under Honeypotshill, on the Bir-
mingham line, and there change passengers, cattle, and
goods, into carriages suited for the narrow guage, would
:be for the directors to determine.
The tunnel under the Thames may be continued under
the lock, which is between the two London docks, and
thence, ascending at 1 foot in 28 feet forward, arrives
within 10 f, et of the surface, at the point of its inter-
section with the newly-formed street leading from Spital-
fields church to the docks. The other end of the tunnel
being also continued in the direction of the Croydon
Railway, will, at 1 in 30 feet forward, arrive at the sur-
face at the Deptford Lower road ; and thence ascending
at a gradient of 1 foot is 80 feet forward, would pass under
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mence, and continue with deep cuttings (probably ten
feet) to the point of junction with the Thames Tunnel in
the proposed grand terminus ; the surface of the ground
over the crossings of streets to' be elevated four feet with
easy slopes each way.
I will here suggest for consideration, whether, if the
new cutting were to begin westward of the Kingsland
Basin, that basin and wharfs might not be retained for
casual purposes in communication with the dock at
Limehouse,
The new cutting, it will be seen, crosses at the back
of the Eastern and Northern and Eastern Counties Rail-
way station in Shoreditch, and that two curved branches
are added, one for ready communication with the pro-
posed terminus at the Minories and with the railways
south of the Thames, and the other with the Birming-
ham line.
The site of the basin in the Regent's Canal which
crosses the City Road, with the wharves and warehouses,
would furnish ample accommodation for the city traffic,
and could not be better situated for that purpose.
And hero let me remark, that the whole cutting passing
through the miserably poor parishes of Shoreditch, Beth-
nal-green, and Spitalfields, is the worst drained district
in or near London.
From the point of junction of the railways in the pro-
posedlead to both the London and St. Katharine's Docks, for
London terminus, a tram-road might be formed to
conveying goods to and from those ducks to the railways,
which tram-road might be raised or carried upon a level
to the warehouses, as the parties interested might deem
most convenient
I now return to the Croydon, Dover, and Brighton
lines of railway.
A sort of temporary railway commences and has been
formed between New Cross and the Greenwich Railway,
proceeding thence to the Bricklayers' Arms, in the Kent-
road. That branch I propose to make permanent on
brick arches, and be continued from the Bricklayers'
Arms, to form a junction with the South Western Rail-
way at Nine Elms.
At the junction of the carriage roads leading to all the
bridges near to the Obelisk, in St. George's Fields, I
propose to form a large station, for both passengers,
goods, and cattle, and to continue the Westminster road
in a direct line from the Female Orphan Asylum to and
along the bottom of the ornamental grounds of Lambeth
Palace, the residence of his Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury, thence by a bridge of handsome elevation,
in character with the palace, to cross the Thames at a
convenient distance southward of the Houses of Parlia-
ment and Westminster Abbey, in the direction of Buck-
ingham Palace, there to meet Grosvenor-place at its
junction with the King's-road; thus adding about five
acres of land to the Palace grounds, with an entrance to
the offices and the stable.yard opposite to the Chelsea-
road.
I propose also to add space in front of the west end of
the Abbey, and to form a street in the direction of, and
to fall Into, the road last mentioned, which road, for

present purposes, I will call the Queen's-road, and in
order to form an outlet from Tothill-street and York-
street into the Queen's-road, I have shown a new line
of street, to lead from the Government Stationery
Office, by the wall of the proposed addition to the Palace
grounds, to effect that purpose.
These improvements, if adopted, would, I imagine,
render unnecessary, as a public road, the Birdcage Walk,
which would then probably be placed under the same
regulations, as to the ant,* as regulates the roading of
Constitution Hill.

I will not go into any particulars as to the eligibility
of the new lines of streets for building purposes—that
belongs to another commission. My object in mention-
ing them is to show their immediate connexion as ap-
proaches and outlets to the proposed station and ter-
minus, and the branch railways connected therewith.
For the same reason I will only glance at the space
proposed to be added to the entrance courts of the Houses
of Parliament, by the removal of the houses next to
Westminster Abbey, and the formation of a wide road
from Palace-yard to the Queen's-road, and the proposed
Palace-bridge.
The removal of Westminster-bridge altogether would
be a desirable advent at any rate ; the substitution of a
chain bridge in its stead would answer all the purposes
really required, and would exhibit the elevation of the
new Palace and the proposed palace bridge to great ad-
vantage ; and whenever the parties interested in the
property abutting on the Thames shall come forward
with a subscription commensurate with the advantages
to be derived by them from embanking between West-
minster-bridge and Blackfriars-bridge, they may be
quite sure that Parliament would meet them, on the
Dart of the public, in a liberal manner ; and the sooner,
therefore, the thing is taken up and dealt with, the better
for all parties.
With a new street, formed from the eastern end of
the embankment to the Mansion-house, a world of traffic
would by that means be taken from the existing tho-
roughfares, now so thronged as at times to threaten the
stoppage of all business.
Before quitting this part of the subject, I will claim
your attention for one moment to another road improve-
ment consequent upon the using of a portion of the
Regent's Canal for railway purposes, that of converting
Sir George thicket's Canal, which bounds the Victoria
Park on the eastern side, into a public road, carrying
the same across the marsh land to the stations of the
, Eastern Counties and Northern and Eastern Railways at
Stratford. _

Such a road wont] greatly relieve the traffic of the
City and Whitechapel; and if, from the junction of Sir
G. Docket's Canal with the Regent's Canal, a line of
street were to be formed to meet the Bethnal-green-
road, and from the end of that road in Shoreditch an-
other line of road were to be made to meet the City. road
a little beyond the turnpike-gate, the drive from the
West•end to the Victoria Park, and thence to the sta-
ions at Stratford, greatly relieve the thronging of the
City, and would add greatly to the public convenience,
and also very considerably enhance the value of the land
in and near to the Victoria Park for building purposes;
and, should the proposed site for the London Railway
Terminus be adopted, I have no doubt whatever that
much of the money paid for houses to be taken down to
make the terminus would be laid out in the purchasing
and building of other houses in and near to the Victoria
Park.

The end of the new street, in continuation between
Spitalfields Church and the present terminus of the East-
ern Counties Railway, is intended to be carried forward
by the Commissioners of Woods, who will also continue
the Commercial Road in a direct line to meet the new
line of street in Whitechapel, now made from Spitalfields
Church to the Docks.-- ---
One other most material object connected with the
proposed railway terminus is the removal of the market
from Smithfield, to the site tinted green, lying between
the new street last referred to and the Commercial-
road, Cannon-street-road, and the Blackwall railway;
the houses are smaller and in a worse state than those on
the site proposed for the London terminus, and therefore
less expensive to clear.
That nearly all the cattle coming from the country
will be sent by railway to market cannot be doubted,
when it is considered, as the fact is, that the cost of
driving, maintenance on the road, and the want of con-
dition upon arrival, frequently prejudices beasts from ten
to fifteen per cent., and sheep from seven to ten per cent.;
whereas if a convenient situation for a market close to
the terminus can be obtained, and it is seen at how many
places on the lines surrounding London cattle may be
delivered at or near to the purchasers, it is impossible to
doubt that such a situation would be far preferable to
Smithfield, great as the prejudice may be in its favour
from old associations. But we live in new times, and he
who is not prepared to go along with them is sure to be
left behind ; old prejudices must give way to the new
order of things ; which leads me to further suggest that
the site coloured blue should be purchased and cleared
for occasionally stowing away unsold cattle, and for an
abatt9ir for the slaughtering of such beasts, sheep, &c.,
as the purchasers may feel it their interest to remove i❑
dead meat, instead of driving them through the streets
alive.

I have not forgotten that it may also be desirable to
provide a dead-meat market instead of the present
butchers' shops in Aldgate and Whitechapel High.
street, and also a hay and straw market, now most in-
conveniently held in the open street. For all these pur-
poses I believe the spaces in question will be found suffi-
cient; and when it is considered how near to the centre
of London the proposed sites are, and the ease with
which they may be approached, I doubt if such another
could anywhere be found.
Nor must it bo forgotten that the opening of commu-
nication for carriages with Thames street and Great
Tower-street and the Minories, the proposed terminus
and the docks across Tower-hill would be attended with
the greatest benefit to commercial intercourse, and
would prejudice the interest of no one.
The site of the present Smithfield market would
form admirably into a dead meat market, and the
sheep and pig market would form a general market for
all other articles, in substitution for Newgate market,
now so cramped for room, and the approaches to which
are so narrow and inconvenient as to greatly interfere
with persons passing along Newgate-street to and from
the city.
As regards the sewerage that would bo intercepted et
the sides of the proposed railway, I propose that a sewer
of the first class shall be sunk in the middle of the rail-
way space Between Kingsland-bridge and the docks, lied
thence carried to the nearest sewer, at a lower level
leading to the Thames, unless in the meantime an oppor-
tanity shall offer for carrying into effect the plan de-
scribed in my evidence before the Health of Towns' Com-
missioners for the conveyance of the sewage of the greater
part of London into the marshes below Woolwich, for
consolidation and sale, and otherwise to be used to pro-
mote agricultural production.
When the railway mania has somewhat abated, it is
reasonable to expect that surplus capital will find vent in
the improvement of the soil and in no way could it be
better applied than in removing the sewage of towns and
populous distriets, and applying the same towards the
production of food, which an enormously increasing
population is sure to require, and whether the produce
be protected or not, is sure always to be in demand at
prices always regulated by demand end supply.
As regards the sewerage of Pimlico, so much needed,
particularly in the neighbourhood of the palace, the
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whether the sewerage be carried
to to reservoirs, to meet the ob-
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Adverting once more to the proposed cutting through
Bethnal green, Spitalfields, and Whitechapel, it is im-
possible to conceive the amount of disease and wretch-
edness
among
thepoor weavers and the inhabitants ge-
nerallyneighbourhood of the proposed line, from
ain the m
the miserable state of their dwellings and want of suffi-
cient draining. A first class sewer along the line of the
proposed cutting would remove the existing evil as re-
gards drainage, and the removal of the poor inhabitants
from the tenements that would be required for the rail-
way, to cottages erected one the improved principles
adopted by " The Labourers Friend Society, on sites
in the same parishes, of which there are plenty near,
"
would, of itself, be worthy of any Christian commu-
nity, independently of the object proposed to be accom-
plished by their removal.
[The above is interesting, as describing a great num-
ber of proposed improvements in various parts of the
metropolis. It is printed in the Appendix to the above-
mentioned report.]

ReSsINI'S PASTICCIO ROBERT BRUCE.—We have
received a long account of the second performance, with
an analysis of the music, in which every piece is traced
to its source; but the annexed extracts from a well
written notice in Galignani, will suffice:—
" The long-talk-of rifueciomento has been now twice
performed, and whatever hopes might have been enter-
tained of its success on the first representation—notwith-
standing the disorderly scene which took place on that
occasion—they can exist no longer after the second hearing,
when, unfortunately for the claims of Robert Bruce, it was
listened to with the most placid attention. Whatever be
the merits of the original music when heard in its ap-
propriate opera, even the greatest worshipper of Rossini
cannot but admit that detached airs from La Donna del
Lago, Zelmiro, Bianca t Faliero, Armida, &c., make
when united, a mass of splendid incongruities, resem-
bling the glittering patchwork of a harlequin's jacket.
The piece was performed for the second time on Monday
night ; there was no renewal of the attempts on the
part of the hired applauders to obtrude themselves on
the public, and consequently the piece went off quietly,
indeed to allow the least hope of its ever
becomingf popular or attractive."
DEAT
11 Or MISS INVERARITY, THE VOCALIST.—
This lady who, it will be recollected, performed some
years since at Covent-garden Theatre, died on the 27th
of December of consumption, at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
instructedhatin two in
years sing i
snhge.
had Miss Inverarity, who was a native of Edinburgh, was
horn in March, 1813, Her uncle was the Scotch poet,
Ferguson. At an early age she displayed much taste
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or music, and her father determined upon having her
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great proficiency
with great eclat, she was introduced by her father, in
1829, to Sir George Smart, who became her vocal in-
structor. After a course of study she appeared at Co-
vent-garden, in December, 1830, as Cinderella, with
great success, and in April, 1831, the production of
Spohr's opera, " Azor and Zemira," afforded an oppor-
tunity of improving in public favour. Shortly after the
season of 1836, Mr. Martyn, the bass sinter, became her
husband, and at the expiration of her London engage-
ment they made a tour of the principal cities of America
with profit and reputation. The fine person of Mrs. Mar-
tyn made her;very attractive in the United States. They
then returned to England, after a stay of two years, and
finally established themselves as teachers of music in
Nevresitle•Qu-Tyne, where her deems took plaice,

•
POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
MANSION-HO USE.
Adolphus Stone, a well-dressed associate of thieves, and
Jaques Voisin, were brought before the Lord Mayor upon
the charge of having robbed Messrs. Dodd, jewellers, of
No. 78, Cornhill, of a diamond pin of the value of 8/.
Mr. Francis Dodd stated that the prisoners walked into
his shop at half-past four o'clock on Friday, and asked
to look at some breast pins. The tray, which was in the
window, was placed before them, and on it were arranged
four brilliant pins together, amongst other pins. Stone
took up a mourning pin, handed it to Voison, and asked
the price, and afterwards asked the price of other pins;
one of the brilliant pins, which was worth 81., suddenly
disappeared. The prisoners asked witness at what hour
he closed the shop, and upon being told at half-past
seven, consulted together, and said that they would call
again, and turned round and left the shop. The witness
put on his hat, rang the bell for his brother, and fol-
lowed the prisoners. The reason he did not attempt to
secure them in the shop was, that he apprehended his
property and his person might, in the struggle with two
able men, sustain damage of a serious kind, there being
nobody in the shop besides the persons already named,
except a boy behind the counter, who could have rendered
but slight assistance in suck a case. He saw the pri-
soners in Gracechurch-street, talking to another man,
and spoke to a policeman, who took the hint. He then
himself, seised the two prisoners, and told the officer to
secure their companion. Voisin broke from his grasp
and ran away, but was afterwards secured. The com-
panion of the prisoner escaped.
The LORD MAYOR—Did they purchase anything?
Mr. Dodd—Nothing-
The LORD Meron—Had they about them money to
purchase articles of such value as you describe? Mr.
Dodd—Certainly not. I understand they had only three
or four shillings between them, a pawnbroker's ticket for
a shirt, marked a shilling, and a pocket-book.
Mr. Robinson, a solicitor, attended for the prisoners,
and cross-examined Mr. Dodd, but the effect was that
the case was made more strong against them.
Huggin, a policeman, said he saw the two prisoners in
Gracechurch-street talking to a third person, whom he
knew to be one of the swell mob, before Mr. Dodd called
to him, and had been watching the three. He had seen
Stone an hour before in Gracechurch-street. Voisin
made a slight resistance.
Haydon, a policeman, said he had very little doubt
that evidence could be produced from the west-end of
the town to establish the guilt of the prisoners in similar
robberies which had lately taken place there.
The prisoners, who observed a profound silence, were
then remanded till Saturday.
Richard Addis. who was discharged from the city
police force on the previous Saturday, was re-examined
on a charge of having defrauded the city of London of a
awn of money as expenses, for travelling to and from
Cheltenham, to bring a witness in a case which was tried
at the Ceutral Criminal Court. It appeared that the
prisoner, after the trial, applied at the office of Mr.
Clarke, the clerk of the arraigns, and received the sum
of 31. 2s. 6d., he being really entitled to no more
than half-a-crown, his statement as to travelling by rail-
way to Cheltenham and back being all fudge.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
BOW-STREET.
Mr. Searle, landlord of the Salisbury Arms, Durham-
street, Strand, was summoned on Saturday for having
refused to receive into his house two recruits who had
been billeted on him.
The complaint was made by a recruiting sergeant of a
dragoon regiment, and Mrs. Searle attended, instead of
her husband, and pleaded Guilty.
Mrs. Searle said that neither her husband nor herself
ever objected to admit soldiers with billets into their
house, but rather than admit such persons as were sent
to her in the present instance, she would pay a penalty
of 201. Her house was usually frequented by very re-
spectable persons, in addition to which she had to com-
plain that her neighbours in the same business were not
subject to similar annoyances, for the landlord of the
Cock and Bottle, she knew, had not had a billet for a
considerable period.
Inspector Stephens said the landlord of that house
was a free vintner, and as such was entitled to ex-
emption.
Mr. HENRY said ho must inflict a penalty of 40s.
Mrs. Searle paid the penalty, and left the court de-
claring that she would always refuse to admit such dirty,
ragged objects as the recruits into her house.
CLERKENWELL.
CAUTION TO BILLIARD-ROOM KEEPERS. Henry
Hamson, a beer-shop keeper, in Little Warner-street,
Clerkenwell, was charged with keeping his house open
for the sale of beer after twelve o'clock at night.
An inspector and sergeant of the G division, proved
finding, between twelve and one o'clock on Tuesday
morning, a number of individuals in the defendant's
house smoking, drinking, and playing billiards.
The defendant, in his defence, handed in both his
beer license and his billiard license, the former of which
allowed him to keep open only until twelve o'clock, while
the latter gave him until one o'clock, and he stated that
none of the company had been supplied with beer after
twelve o'clock.
Mr. GREENWOOD (the magistrate) said he was sur-
prised to see such a contradiction in the licenses, but
the law regulating beer-shops was clear enough. The
license deprived them of an authority to suffer malt
liquor to he drank or consumed on their premises after
twelve o'clock, and for the defendant to allow beer or
ale in the billiard-room after that hour would be an in-
fringement of the law, and, if not stopped, would open
a wide field for much abuse. As, however, he believed
the defendant had offended through ignorance, he would
only inflict a penalty of ss. and costs.
HAMMERSMITH.
ALLEGED INEFFICIENCY OF THE POLICE.—OR Satur-
day two men of the names of John Peisley and William
Southend, both known to the police as suspicious c'ia-
rectors, were brought before Mr. G. Clive, the sitting
magistrate, charged with stealing a sovereign under the
following circumstances :
The case was first gone into on Thursday last, when it
appeared that on the previous night a lad of the name of
Stephen Parker was sent by his master, Mr. Goodwin,
confectioner, in King-street, Hammersmith, to the Jolly
Gardeners' public-house, close by, to obtain change for
a sovereign for a customer who was waiting. The la'l
put the sovereign on the ledge of the bar window, and in
drawing his hand from it pulled the coin with it, which
fell down and rolled into the passage, where the two
prisoners and another man were standing. Before
Parker could overtake it, the prisoner Peisley picked it
up and handed it to Southend, and he passed it to the
third man, who was at the door. The sovereign was
never afterwards seen.
Mr. Goodwin, the master of the lad, then asked Mr.
Clive to allow him to state what he knew about the affair,
and having received the magistrate's permission, he
stated as follows :—" I came up and found police-con-
stable 195 T there. I said I wish to give the prisoner
Peisley in charge, but he replied, Wait a bit, some one
else will be here presently.' In about five er six minutes
police-constable 'l' 66 came up. I did not speak to him ;
but during the time he was speaking to T 195, Sergeant
Mount, T 29, came up and said, W hat is the matter ?'
I said, We have lost a sovereign, and we cannot find it.
Three men were standing there at the time it was
dropped, and one of them has got it, and will not give it
up.' Mount said, I don't know what to do in it.' I
said I wished to give them in charge. He said, have
they got the money in their possession ? I told him I
could not answer for that. Mount then said it was not
like a theft, because the boy dropped it. If it had been
taken out of his hand, or knocked out, we could take
them up for robbery. Before 66 T and Mount came up,
the two prisoners offered to be searched. T 195 said to
them, we are not in a hurry ; stop until some one else
comes up. When, however, 66 T came up and Sergeant
Mount, they did not enter the house, and the prisoners
were mot searched."
Mr. CLIVE upon hearing that statement ordered the
three officers abeve-named to be sent for, and remanded
the prisoners. At a later period of the sitting, Mount
T 29, Graves T 195, and the third constable attended,
and had Mr. Goodwin's statement read over to them,
when they denied that any wish had been expressed
that they should take any of the men into custody.
Saturday, on the prisoners being again put to the
bar, policeman Lowe, T 50, who has the case in hand,
deposed that, from information he had received he should
be able if the prisoners were again remanded, to pro-
duce a witness who saw the sovereign passed to the
third man by the prisoner Southend.
Mr. CLIVE, in remanding the prisoners again to Wed-
nesday next, said the police, if not prepared to under-
take a little responsibility in such a case, were not at all
fit for the duty they had to perform. Their conduct in
the matter was, however, a question for the considera-
tion of their superiors, and he, therefore, did not think
it necessary to make any remark on the charge sheet.
He wcul&, however, on Wednesday, consider what he
should do in that respect.

EXPENSE
the
u magistrates
o r
money o f the countyinno_
rf
r d
or PURSUING A THIEF TO A MERICA.—
Our readers may recollect a paragraph which appeared
in the papers under this heading, about three months
Dorset, t 3 memorialise the Lords of the Treasury for
tahgeo.replatywmaesnatgorfeead by
considerable
in the capture of a man named Henry Warr, in
America. On Tuesday last, at the Quarter Sessions for
the county, the subject again came under the notice of
the Court, and the following answer from the Lords of
the Treasury to the application was read:—" Treasury
Chambers, Nov. 16, 1846. Sir,—Having laid before
the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
your application of the 30th ult., made by direction of
the magistrates
respecting the expenses incurred in
taking a prisoner named Henry Warr from America.
I am directed by their Lordships to acquaint you, for
the information of' the county magistrates, that my
Lords cannot repay the expenses alluded to by you
unless such a course is recommended by her Majesty s
Secretary of State.—l have the honour to be your
obedient servant, 11. TREVELYAN." After some little
conversation it was unanimously ordered that a copy of
this letter be sent to the Secretary of State, for the
purpose of obtaining his sanction to the repayment of
the money.
LORD ELLENITOROUGH.—Mr. Lewis, sculptor, of
this town, has just completed for Lord Ellenborough a
handsome column, intended for erection at Southarn, to
commemorate the achievements of the British forces in
India during the period of his Lordship's government.
The material from which it is composed is beautiful Caen
stone, and it is needless to add, that the workmanship is
faultless. On the several faces of the column the names
4;pf the principal heroes of the period are engraved, as
well as the various scenes of their daring bravery. The
tablet on the top bears the following inscription:—" To
the honour of the brave men who, under his government,
restored victory to our arms in India, and dictated peace
to China under the walls of Nankin, this column record-
ing their achievements is dedicated, with grateful affec-
tion, by Edward Earl of Ellenborough." The public
will be admitted to view this interesting work for a short
time.—Cheltenham Chronicle.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
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LIVtRPCia,-,TAxiiinit 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate and East-
ern Junction, 3s. 9d. p.-Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North-
Western, 1/4 dis.-Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 10% p.
-Bristol and Exeter, New, 4 p.-Buckinghamshire, 1,4 p.-
Chester and Birkenhead, 50-Ditto, 201. Shares, % p.-
Eastern Counties, York Extension, 1% p.-East Lanca-
shire, New (scrip), 1% p.-East Lincolnshire, 2% p.-
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 201/-Great Northern (Nos.
108,001 and upwards), p. cum int.-Huddersfield and
Manchester, 414 p.-Leeds and Thirsk, 11% dis.-Ditto, Pre-
ference, 11. Bs. 6d. p.-London and North-Western, 199-
Ditto, Quarters, (G. J.), 22 p.-Ditto, New Quarters, 131/
p.-London, Manchester, and Birmingham, Quarters (A), 73/4
p. -London and York, New, 6s. 3d. p.-Ditto, Direct
Northern, 6s. 3d. p.- Manchester and Leeds, Halves (late
Huddersfield and Sheffield), 6 p.-Ditto, Fifths, 614 p.-
Ditto, Extension, 1% p.-Manchester, Bolton, and Bury,
Fifths, 614 p.-Ditto, New (late Liverpool and Bury), 1 p.
-Manchester and Southampton, par-Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, Quarters, No. 2, WA-Ditto, Eighths, % dis.-
Ditto (late Great Grimsby and Sheffield), 23/4 dis.-Mid-
land Stock, 129-Ditto, New, 4% p.-Shrewsbury and Here-
ford, 14 dis.-Shrewsbury and Chester (late North Wales
Mineral), 5 p.-Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 151. 75. 9d.
(A), 2 p.-Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 6s. 3d.
dis.-South-Eastern, No. 4, Thirds, % p.-York and
Newcastle, New, 7% p.-Ditto, Preference, 5% p.-York
and North Midland, Preference 11% p.-Dublin and
Belfast Junction, 614 dis.-Newry and Warrenpoint, 2% p.
MANCHESTER, JANUARY 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Birmingham and
Oxford Junction, 111,E c. p.-Blackburn, Darwen, and
Bolton, 14 p.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 1% p.-
East Lincolnshire, 2 5-16 p.-Edinburgh and Glasgow,
Quarters, 19- Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junc-
tion, par-North Staffordshire, par-Northern Counties
Union,..% dis.-Shropshire Union, 14 dis.-South-Eastern
and Dover, 40-West Riding Union, 2 15-16 p.-Great
Luxembourg, 31% dis.
LEEDS, JANUARY 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-There was much buoyancy about
the Share trade in the early part of the week, but for a day.
or two past the disposition to give high prices has not been
so apparent, and as sellers have not been anxious
to force operations, the extent of business has
decreased. The sales are-Buckinghamshire, 10s. p.--
East Lancashire, New Shares, 3% p.-East and West
Yorkshire, 4s. dis.-East Lincolnshire, 2IA c. p.-Great
Northern (late London and York), 15s. p.-Huddersfield
and Manchester, 4% p.-Ditto Thirds, 31s. p.-Leeds and
Bradford, 46 p.- Leeds and Dewsbury, 93/4 p.-Ditto, Halves,
6 p.-Ditto, Extensions Scrip (green), 255.-Leeds and
Thirsk, 245. dis.-Ditto, New, 2s. 6d. c. p.-Ditto, Preference,
28s. p.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, par
-Melton and Duffield Junction, 15,f3 p.-Manchester and
Leeds, Halves (late Hud. and Sheff. ), 53/4 p.-Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 28s. p.-Midland, Pre-
ference, p.-North British, Extension (scrip), 18s. 6d. p.
-North-Western, 14s. 6d. p.-York and Newcastle, Pre-
ference, 53/4 p.-York and North Midland, Preference, 11%
-West Riding Union, 4%.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JANUARY 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-East Lancashire, New
Scrip 1 p.- Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction,
2s. p.-Newcastle and Carlisle, 115-Ditto, New, 13 p.-
Newcastle and Berwick, 15 p.-Ditto (North Shields), 13%
p. ex in.-North British Extension, 19s. 6d. p.
HULL, JANUARY 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-North British, Exten-
sion (scrip), 19s. p.-Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boatoll,
2/. 165., p.-Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., 14 dis.-Bucking-
hamshire, 1/4 p.-East Lancashire, New (scrip), 1% p.-
Great Northern (London and York), 16s. p.-Newcastle
and Berwick, 3514-Northern Counties Union, 315.-West
Riding Union, 4/. 7s.
EDINBURGH, JANUARY 8..
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 25/. 10s.-
Airdrie and Bathgate, 41. Bs.-Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-
Ditto, Halves, 15/. 55.-Armagh and Portrush, 6s. 6d.-
Ayr and Galloway, 2/. Bs.-Caledonian, 301.-Ditto, New, 21.
17s. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 2!. 65.-Clydes-
dale Junction, 391. 55.-Deeside, 3/. 55.-Direct Northern,
2/. 19s. 6d.-Dunblane, Doune, and Callender, 11. 155.-
Dundee and Arbroath, 41/. ex new-Ditto. New. No. 1, 341.
-Ditto, New, No. 2, 291.-Ditto, New, No. 3, 51. 10s.-
Dundee and Perth, 281. 10s.-Ditto, New, 141. 7s. 6d.-East
of Fife, 2/. 135.-East Lothian Central, 21. 10s.-Edinburgh
and Bathgate, 3/.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 801.-Ditto,
Halves, 221.-Ditto, Quarters, 191. 12s. 6d.-Edinburgh,
Leith, and Granton, 211.-Ditto, Preference, 211. 12s. 6d.-
Edinburgh and Northern, 151. 10s. ex new-Ditto, New,
51.-Ditto, Newport, 6/. 9s. ex new-Ditto, ditto, New, 3/.
10s.-Edinburgh and Perth, 11. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, 2/. 145.-
Glasgow and Ayrshire, 701.-Ditto, New Stock, 38/. 155.-
Ditto, Quarters, 17/. 7s 6d.-Ditto, Halves, 9/. 10s.-
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 6/. 12s. 6d.-Glasgow
and Dundee Junction, 1/. 165.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 411.
-Glasgow General Terminus, 121. 10s.-Glasgow and
Greenock, 19L-Ditto, Halves, 91.-Ditto' Preference, 81.55.
-Glaigow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 4/. 17s. 6d.-Great
North of England, 2381.-Great North of Scotland, 21. 17s.
6d.-Great Western, 126/.-London, Bristol, and South Wales,
11. 3s. 61-London and York, 3/. 55.-Ditto, Extensions
(scrip), 21. 155.-Manchester and Leeds, 1051.-Ditto, Six-
teenths, 81.-Ditto, Extensions, 31.75.-Newcastle and Ber-
wick, 351.-North British, 361. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, Halves, 151.
10s.-Ditto, Thirds, 3/. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters, 3/. 123.-
Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 1/. 12s. 6d.-Ditto, Fifths, 71.
-Scottish Central, 21/. 155.-Scottish Grand unction, 1/.
55.-Scottish Midland, 14/. 15&-Shrewsbury and Hereford,
155.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester,. 71. 53.-Ditto,
New, 1/. 35.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 3/.175.-Stirling
and Midland, 21. 10s.-Strathern Junction, 4/. 35.-Wishaw
and Coltness, 491.-York and Newcastle, 381. ex new-
Ditto, New, 15/. 55.-Ditte, Preference, 71. 12s. 6d.-Direct
Bombay and Madras, 4s. 3d.-East Indian, Ils. 6d.-Grest
North of India, 4s. 3d.-Great Southern of Madras, 55.-
Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 3s. 3d.
GLASGOW, JANUARY 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ayr and Galloway
455.-Direct Northern (scrip), 595. 6d.-Dundee and Ar-
broath, New, No. 3,5%-East Indian, Hs. 3d.-East Lothian
Central, 525.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 221.-Edin.
burgh and Perth, 575. 6d.-Glasgow General Terminus, 1234
-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, 914-Glasgow,
Dumfries, and Carlisle, 6/. 125.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and
Ardrossan, 5/.-Great Northern (Direct Northern Reg.),
845.--Great North of India, 3s. 6d.-Kilmarnock and Ayr
Direct, 525.-Manchester and Southampton, 395. 6d.-Mid-
land, Halves, 71.-North British, New Quarters (scrip), 335.
-Scottish Grand Junction, 295.-Strathern Junction, 82s.
6d.-York and Newcastle, Preference, 7%.

WARE.SHOCEING RAILWAY ACCIDENT ON FRI-
DAY.— On Friday evening an accident occurred at the
place where the railroad crosses the highway on a level
near the station. A train had just left the station at
Ware, and gone to Hertford, and another, the 4.50
P.M. train, was just coining up from Hertford, when a
man who had arrived from the direction of the post-
office attempted to cross the line. The gatekeeper tried
to stop him, and received a blow in the face for his pains.
Just at this moment the train came up to the spot, and
the buffer threw the unfortunate stranger on the line,
with his legs across the rail. The consequences may
easily be imagined. Both of his legs vt ere cut off below
the knee. He was conveyed to the Cherry Tree, under
the care of Mr. John Reilly, surgeon, who happened to
be at the station at the tine of the accident. We could
not ascertain his place of residence, but he states his
name to be Roe.— lierts County Press.
THE BARNARD-CASTLE MURDERS.—Thanks to the
pains- taking vigilance of Mr. Snowden, the gentleman
who conducted the prosecution of the parties accused of
this revolting case of double murder, the repugnance of
the jury to take away the life of a fellow-creature will
not be allowed to result in so heinous a crime going
wholly unpunished. The verdicts in these cases were so
great a surprise to those intrusted with the prosecution
that they determined to make a further investigation,
and the result is that evidence further corroborative of
the statement of Ann Humphreys, the principal witness.
has been obtained, and other facts have come to light
which we are not at liberty to disclose at the present
time. The magistrates of the division have, however,
determined that the case shall undergo a legal investi-
gation, and, under the requisite authority, Barker and
Raine were, yesterday week, re-apprehended and com-
...mitted to Northallerton House of Correction on a re-
mand for further examination. We suppose the charge
preferred against them will be that of stealing from
the person of Yates—for whose murder they have
already been acquitted, after much difference of opi-
nion on the part of the jury who tried the case, and, as
some of them subsequently declared, solely because
of the certain death that awaited the accused in case
of conviction. We have already stated our belief that
the same amount of evidence adduced against the pri-
soners on their trial for murder would have been held
sufficient to warrant a verdict of guilty if the charge
had involved a lesser punishment than death ; whereas,
shuddering at the contemplation of being the instruments
whereby three of their fellow-mortals would be precipi-
tated into eternity unprepared, and with the blood of
innocent persons upon their souls, the jury who tried
them preferred the lesser evil of again throwing upon
society men against whom such reckless and inhuman
atrocities had been alleged. The truth of that opinion
yet remains to be proved ; but we entertain no mis-
givings that in the due course of events its entire ac-
curacy will be shown ; and if it does, to what a start-
ling array of arguments against capital punishment will
it give rise !—Leeds Times.
A MAN KILLED BY AN ALE BARREL.—On Satur-
day, an inquest was held by Mr. Bedford, at St. George's
Hospital, on the body of Thomas Hughes, aged 50. It
appeared from the evidence that the deceased,
, who was
a gentleman's coachman, was at Mr. Wyatt s, the Lord
Nelson beer shop, Bryanstone-street, Bryanstone-square,
on Monday morning last, when some beer was brought
from Messrs. Mann and Cross's, and, at the request of
the landlady, he accompanied the dray man into the
cellar. A 36-gallon barrel of ale having to go back,
ropes were slung round it, and it was being pulled up
from the cellar by four men, but, when within an inch of
the top, it slipped from the ropes, and, before deceased,
who was beneath it, could get out of the way, it struck
him to the ground, resting on his left leg. He was ex-
tricated as quickly as possible, in great agony, and con-
veyed to the above hospital, where the limb was found to
be so severely shattered, that the only chance of saving
his life was to have it amputated. To that he strenu-
ously objected, saying that he would rather die with his
leg on, and, after lingering till eight o'clock on Wednes-
day night, he died perfectly insensible, from exhaustion,
consequent on the dreadful injuries sustained. Verdict
" Accidental death."

ACCIDENT AT THE CAVALRY BARRACKS, WIND-
SOR.—A very serious accident, which might have been
attended with a fatal result, occurred on Friday last to
Mr. Tardrew, the assistant-surgeon to the Ist regiment
of Life Guards, in garrison at Windsor. It appears
that while Mr. Tardrew was trying a young horse over
the leaping-bar in the riding-school at the barracks, the
animal fell, throwing its rider with great force to the
ground. Mr. Tardrew, who fell upon his head, was
rendered totally insensible ; however, after the lapse of
upwards of two hours, the sufferer was restored to a
state of consciousness. At the time of the accident (the
other surgeon not being at the barrack,), Mr. Tardrew's
servant immediately mounted the horse which had thrown
his master, and proceeded, at full speed, into Windsor
for medical assistance. The horse ran away with the
servantin the Spital-road, and being perfectlyunmanage-
able, rushed into the 'Criterion beer-shop, at the corner
of Pear:cod-street (throwing the man), and made part of
the way up stairs to the first-floor. The servant (who
again set off upon the animal for a doctor) and the horse
both escaped uninjured. Only some slight damage was
done to the bar of the beer-shop, through which the
hues rushed to the Itairo"