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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY _ MORNING, JUNE 5, 1847.

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they conducted themselves improperly, they could be
rev,:ked but the plan of giving them their
thsceerge as soon as they arrived at the end
of their journey, might, lead to great evil,.
He therefore contended :net the views of the Right
Hon. Gentleman were perfecey cenaieient with the
measure of her Majes,y'e tesivs-ristnent. He del admit
the ditßeailti• a of canitreilieg &scant col. mes, bte. the
irit of econemy, whe!ia rya, rraeaet tor Ulf. good of the
coteery, wat too much d• te.loped over the •alter sl:, of
the wort I. A m re liberal expenditure wouel eecare them
a barer oiepectien. for the isinsunt of rein in, ration was
not at ti.e preN-nt momer.t siitficierat. The eviis which
were a -netted to have areen eail a'• fry m the want of
t co ;en nest vigilance, from ihe to suit OP ,:epration,
frem rt r. w at of and th, want of aceom-
Illoriarion, He i.aa.e i seal. ihat it gre.er taeiiit.a-s w-re
aff e• led hey weuel ae-nerly ale fees, eviis ; and the
Au treei(silti eeloniea ache. ed en.. vely meahs to
ett-ct the hj,..et weiele lo be d sated. they had
numerous natural prison, where seclusion was
ff eted by a _cure, and from wnetice escape
would b: less fregeelit as this autemot aveuid he mufe
4:ffietilt. All they wanted in IT:an i/iemen's Laed
was
labeus; they Inel in that coontry, with a pepieetion
60.0011. an area cqnal to that. which Ireiane ers reinr_ele
with 8 000,000. It east net his intention to itneure th
seise!. .te system, but the Reuse should net “t e eetle'
believe that in this system they had the cure of . the
evi:s complained of; it appeared to him that toe much
had been said in its favour, for it was a n torious fact
that many of those who were the best conducted con-
victs in Pentonville had proved themselves the worst in
the penal colonies. In the last report which had been
made upon the convicts who hail been sent from
Pentnnville, and who had obtained whits:, there high
marks of confidence, in which it was stated that they
gave way to temptation the first moment it was placed in
their power. The reason of this might be that the
crinkliest was too soen exposed to danger, and in his
opinion the separate system would he much better pre-
ceded by the gang proposition, thus the criminal would
first receive his punishment, and when his mind was in
a healthy state, then the separate system would work
- well. The second stage appeared to him to be encum-
bered with more than financial difficulties. There was
a feeling, a desire of reaching home, which
could not be gratified in the penal colonies.
and, therefore, one of the motives towards the reclama-
tion of the convict did not exist. They had the ex-
ample of a neighbouring country, France, on this
subject, where a military system existed, but so ditli-
cult was it to control convicts, that theugh a sentry
stood with a loaded piece on the ramparts of their pri-
sons, yet still they found it impossible to make the
system work well, and whole districts were overrun by
runaway convicts, who carried with them all the
contamination which was the natural consequence
of their dissolute lives. A large portion of
the convicts might, under the present system,
be sent abroad under control. If sufficient information,
pro tanto, could not he obtained, he would wish to know
what course the Right Hon. Gentleman would propose?
He was afraid that the system proposed by this Bill
would entirely fail. In 1845, in France, under
of a
the penalrn s7ste, 7,961 men were withdrawn. 0
had been removedpopula-
tion
of about 35,000,000, about 8,000
from the country. As to the general effect of transpor-
tation, he might refer to the advantages that accrued to
the penal colonies from the system of transportation.
He would refer to the authority of Mr. Biker, a barris-
ter who, appalling of Sydney, spoke in the most favour-
able terms of the state of society there ; and this was
most important, because S) dray was a great resort of
convicts ; and then the vices of prostitution and drunk-
enness were, for its populati el, numerically small. Fe
thought, therefore, the case for the total abolition was
not made out so strongly as to call upon the House to
give its assent to a system to that effect.—(Hear, hear.)
If it was intended to establish any sy tam of transports-
tien, and apply the syseun of giving tickets of leave, a
new and entirely indeeeedent colony wsu.d have to be
I sue led for the purense. There could be no doubt that
the colony of Soath Austral!a owed its prosprrity to the
assieaisee it had derived at an early stage of its exist-
ens!u fro n es-sweet labour.
Mr. E. De NES( )el hail eensiderahle fear, from what
had passel in atiota,.r pe.ace, that the system of trans-
port-16...n W,4a 10 Is:. pet an end to, aid a system of
exile, sr veluntary bani,hanent, was to take its
pl.iee. FL? was 'happi, to see that the system
wa• net t', h t ae dished, awl that convicts
were net to he sent eut -1 he country to exile as free
m'"• hut. nrel•.r seeerviaion, aed un ler a sveem 0.
ticket', of i top, Ihe present state or Norfolk Leland
was mainly owing to the tadadmini-tration of the af-
fairs of that celeny. The course pursued by Captain
Meccenssehie wee more adapted to the government of
persoes 11,4 predispose,' to crone, rather than to persons
who hart, in most et the cases been twice convicted and
once transported from this country, and which could
only be considered as the scum of society, which had
risen twice at least to the surface of the putrescent mass
of crime congregated in that colony. Upon the com
mencement of his reign he distributed among the con-
victs allowances of grssg, and entertained them with fire-
works and plays. It had been said that the sys-
tem of transportation was Tint looked upon as '1
a terror in this csiuntry. A report had been
presented to the Howie by the Committee appointed to
inquire into the subject, in which it was strongly re
commend-al that as capital punishment had b -en very
much reduced in extent, it was highly necessary that
some effective secondary system of punishment should
be kept up. The opinion of Mr. Biro,' Alderson, re-
ferred to last night by the Hon. Member for Southwark
was not a fair exposition of his Lordship's opinion, as is
the portion of hie evidence directly bearing on the ques
Lion of transportation, he stated that transportation was
absolutely necessary. The opinnns of Lord Denman,
Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron Rolfe, Mr. Justice Erie,
Mr. Justice Wightinan, most, if not all, of the superior
judges in the Scotch Courts, B trims Lefroy and Penne-
father, of the Irish C nirts, were also decidedly favour-
able to the continuation of the syste,n of transportation.
as the most effective system of secondary punishment.
There was no doubt that the colonists of New
South Wales were favourable to the assignment system,
and he felt that if something of the nature of the assign-
ment system could be connected with the punishment of
transportation, it would have the best effects upon the
criminal, while it would directly ben-fit the colony
to which he might be banished. The inhabitants of
many of the penal =e tlements found a difficulty in pro-
curing free labour, and they were naturally anxious for
the estaelishtnent of some system which should enable
them to take advantage of the services of the convict.
He thought, therefore, that Government ought to turn
their attention to this branch of the subject. Ile wate
quite ready to leave the matter in their hand-, and ha
hopei, now they were about to introduce some improve-
ment into the existing system of tran portation, that his
suggestien would not b. lost sight of,—(Hear, hear.)
Sir JIM-1N PAWING CON cold not agree vaith the
opinions expressed by the Hon. Gentlerna,i who had just
eestuned his sest, no- could he csncur in the
plan which her Majesty's Government had
brvnght forward, no doubt with the best in-
tenti 'us. This question of secondary punishment
had occupied the attention of suceessive Parliaments,
but inste,id of its healing to any improvement in the
system it would appear that y••ar after year the subject
was, beeeming mere oesettled anti mor-
had carefully examined the speeches of the Right Ron.
Barouet the SecriAttry of State for the Home Depart-
ment, and of tee Neble Lord the Secretary fur the
Colonies, and he must express his regret that it ap-
p area to him that her Majesty's Government
feel not paid that attention to the subject which
its importance demanded. It was said that the
probationary system, as established by Lord
Stanley. had failed. Now Honourable Gentlemen
who made that assertion should remember that Lord
S. inky ma be has exte lenient under very difficult cur-
cutustanu s; leas suppesing the probationary system haul
failed, it did not therefore fallow that the pu .i-hment '
of' transpertation ought to be abolished. He had the
fullest confidence in the probe ionary system. It had
never vet hat a fair trial, arid he very much regretted
to find her Majesty's Government proposing their pre-
sent plan as a permanent one. The Right Honourable
Baronet opposite, in a letter he had written to Earl
Grey upon the subject of tais plan, said it was
to be an experiment ; why, then, had the
Right Honourable Baronet departed from the
declaration contained in that letter. Now, let him
point out one of the difficulties which surrounded this
plan. Under the existing system, it occasionally hap-
pened that the sentence of transportation was passed
upon an offender, and yet, from the complicated nature ,
of the law, the criminal often left the dock without
knowing what would be his real punishment. Now, the
difficulty of such a system had long been felt, but under
the change now proposed the law would be rendered still
more uncertain. The sentence of transportation if this
plan were adopted, would same times turn out to be
merely a tirade of words, and the criminal, after his
trial would return to bis cell, not knowing whether he
labourer see
ender
:otaist
on
de d
no. upon
tel
was to be shut up in a prison at home or sent abroad
with hie family to a flourishing colony, and there set
free to enjoy a state of things that was far more pros-
perous and happy than the condition of the honest
loafbouresuchreat home. Ile could not agree in the propriety
change, and he reeretted very much that it
should have emanated from herr Majesty's Government.
Hiacetidoidasnooptp.raiitnpoit,tnirtout these defects in the plan from a
to her Majesty's Government; but
with the view of
ling into by adoptintulhg out the difficulties they were get-
first portion of the faanally changes in the law. To tho
would prove a satisfactor'y he would givo support. It
changett in the law, and he had
no doubt it would produc :itLnost beneficial results,
upon criminal offenders; but
ed
the
egard to the second
uns,,tost unqualified
stage of the plan, he entertain
arreason
opposition to such n change. He d 4
for depriving the honest industriousog
em-
ployment, by bringing the criminal
- comps_
'Won with him. SW'h a proposal wet,
surprised principles of sound legislation, and he was
see a gentleman with the experience of the Noble Secre-
tary a
for the Colonies,
advocating
hes changeentertain
to have detained
system. These were the views
the subject. He was s, Try
the House so loess, but after the remonstrances of' the
other Howse of Parletteent, atter the expression of the
opinion of the jiiiges against the
charge, he (lid hope
the measure would not be proeeesled with, and should
any vote be propes d to arrest the progress of the Bill
he should Certainly support it.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. 11U -I.E sued there were few subjects of more
importance' than that at present bef re the House. %V I h
respect to the B 11 itself, he must say thet he entirely
concurred in the prieciple of it, as he thought
the general central superintendence welch it created
would be attended 'tith the best possible results. One
of the grand evils at present existing in the
prisons of this country was the want of uniformity, and
he was long w opinion that they should have been

change I, ar.d that they should he under one individual
mandg..inv nt. Tni re ought to he a Niti,ister of Public
Justice, to whom should be confided the general super-
intendence of all 'natters of this kind. Lit listened with

great satisfaction to the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet,
and he very much approved of the principles he laid
down. He tiered, however, very much from the Hon.
Member for Dumfries, and the Hon. Member for
Sberhempten. He did not object to the punishment of
transportatien, but to the mode in which it was carried
out. For a leeg time transpeetaion was not considered
a pu,lisl.m-nt at all, and the con-equence was must in•
,jurieus. a, it ceased to opiate as apreventive of crime
A-. an Him Nfl,...irtit3rLatihdeocio-nl nhist,,st,htehree wßerrietisthhrpeee,p)palre:
ties to ths cii s
and the criminal—and the interacts of none of these
were consulted. They had not 1- se than from 20 to
30.000 convicts in this p puloes country, and, according
to Mr Ru-eell. there were eonvicted within the last five
year., 108,800 prs ns. His opinion was, that those
who were sent unread would be werse at the end of the
terin of exparriatiote under tha plan of the Government,
then the y were before, He hat qtieedoned managers of
cams • t' twer ty rani stand.og—i.e had con-tilted ma-
gistrates of the City of seine considerable expetience—
the late I.l,lerman Weed for instance—(lh:ter,
hear) —and h, !cm nd that confinement in this
c, unary h,d 1141 e effec:, and what hitter would the
coevicts be by being sent abroad, where a change
of eeene and their Itherty would lead them to fresh
cent a ? But they would endanger tee safety of society
by c 'Wining such an initmn-e number of offenders in
this cotedry. There would be 30,0)0 or 40 000 prisoners
confined in the gaols of this country, hat if there was
any outbreak, the greatest danger might come. They
had not two large a number of soldiers in this country
for the duties they were called upon to perform, so that
it would be neceseery to have 15,000 or 16,000 additional
soldiers for the pti -pose of reereseine any outbreak which
might ensue. But what benefit would there be in the third
stage ? Ii they let men loose in their colonies, what
would be the advantage of the separate confinement
which they had undergone? Then he wished to see
some line drawn between those transported for seven,
fourteen, and for a longer term. Many of the convicts
they had sent te the colonies had conducted themselves
well; in fact, but for them 30.000,0001b5. of wool would
not have been sent to this country. Therefore, the pre-
sent system if carried out properly would, he conceived,
answer well. To show that the confinement of prisoners
at home did not promote their moral reformation, he
quoted an extract from a report to show that the re-
committals of criminals in Scotland was sixty-seven per
cent. In Liverpool, curing a period of seven years, out
of 51.000 prisoners, 32,000 males, and 19,000 females,
500 under 17 years of age had been committed; 25,000
of maturer age were committed, and 25,000 twice, thrice,
four. and five times committed; and a person who had
visited Tuthill-fields yesterday, had informed him that a
person was confined there who had been committed
180 times.—(Laughter.)sos crronhveicteddiffeirnencFeranbceetwaenedn
the number of prisoners
England was not more than 1,000,000/. The whole of
the re-commitments in France was 33 per cent., from
the galleys 30 p,:r cent. ; in Belgium, 33 per cent,. and
in England 33 per cent. This was a singular coinci-
dence. but still it was a fact. In London, the range of
re-commitments was 47 per cent., whilst the average
number of committals in the more distant and less po-
pulated places was but 16 per cent.—(Cheers)—showing
that the removal of criminals from the dense society of
towns into the country was favourable to mo-
rality. On the same principle, the aseiten-
Ment principle was better than any other system
they could adopt, because the cenviets were removed from
the contamination always to be met with in dense masses
of society.—(Hear, hear.) A man ought to be relieved
from his punishment on account of his good conduct,
and he held that this would be more retormatory than
any other system they could adopt. He considered that
Captain Macconochie had been badly treated ; his
system had not failed, but it was owing to the
conduct of his successor that such a report
had been spread abroad. Let them only remem-
ber what had been said by Sir George Gipps.
namely, that on his arrival in the islafid, although it was
wholly unexpected, he found the conduct of the convict=
nrderly, and their demeanour respectful. However,
Captain Maeconochie was recalled, without any proper
reason. and an officer was sent out who adopted the cruet
system, and it was no wonder that the former failed.
Ile considered, therefore, that transportation ought to be
c mtinued under a pro; erly revised system ; the
eulonial appoin,rre.nfs should he filled with proper
pereoes, the men sent out were generally those whom
the Government were anxious to get sent out of the
country. He had never objected to a proper salary for
a compet• nt person, but a high salary rendered them un
fit for fluty. No men coule stand a high salary.—
(Latiehter.) lie would recommend the Government to
reconsider their determination, and although he should
a fpport the Bill, he would propose several alterations in
the Committee.
Mr. HAWES said that he was surprised to find that
the plan was ex..l,isively regarded as it affected the mother
countries, and not with reference to the mi-chievous effects
upon the colonies. There could not be a plan devised
to destroy and dig up the resources of any colony what-
soever. The Hon. Baronet (Sir John Pakington) had
referred to the system of transportation as being bene-
ficial to New South Wales. Ho had also said that the
couvie•t should undergo the probation system in this
country. Why, that was the very proposition of the
Goveenrnent. The House should not for a moment
suppose that the greatest efforts had not been made to
secure the strictest discipline. Let them only turn to
the reports which had been made to the House from
time to time. Well, then, it they had given 15 years
succe,sive , fferts by succeeding Secretaries of State to
re,nedy the evils of the whole sa stem, and if all
these had failed, were the Government to be blamed for
endeavouring to introduce a new and well considered
prop isition, ouch as in his opinion was the present. He
was prepared to show his Hon. Friend the Member for
Montrose (who was a S,!otch Member) that it would
be mere economical to adopt the principle of prison
discipline at home than the mode in operation of depnrt-
ing convicts keeping them at compulsory labour in toe
penal settlements, and employing °awe to superintend
the system there. One fact would for this purpose serve
as well as a thousand. The reports from the penal
colonies described the population as ever moving from
the court-house to the scene a punishment,
and from that again to the court-house. Mr. Miller, a
gentleman intimately conversant with these mutters
proved that the expense of 1,200 convicts for a period
Of four years would be, if transported to the penal
settlements, 177,9001., while, taking the average c:,st of
the prisoners in the penitentiary at home, the same
number could be maintained for 85,0001. On the ground,
therefore, of exeense alone, he thought that a sufficient
case was meek out for a change in the system hitherto
pursued with regard to the sus ject of transportation. It'
was surrounded by difficulties, but, on a lull considera-
tion of it, he conseier, d the medification proposed by
the Government one which would be productive of the
te st r sults, and would be less expensive to the
country and more effective for the repression of crime.
He hoped diet the Howie, seeing the difficulties attend-
iog on the present system of tran .por;ation would agree
with her Majesty's Government in considering that the
present was the only practicable syqcm that could be
car, i-d out.
On th:! motion of Mr. NEWDEGATE, the debate
was arliou,rwd.
Lord M A II( tN asked the Noble Lord which question
would-be tirat taken up ..n Nlon,'rty?
Lord JO li N It.: SELL replied that the Lord Advo.
sate hart a statement to make on the Scotch Marriage
and Registration Bills, attar which the adjourned debate
w.,uld ate t k-n.
NEWFOUNDLAND GOVERNMENT BILL.
This Bill went through Committee.
13Ult, ifl POLICE (aCO I'L 1 ND) BILL.

The report of this Bill was bniught up and received.
PIG/IN/AY RATES BILL.
This Bill wen' through Committee
STAGE CARRIAGES, 840. DUTIES BILL.
The House went into Committee on this Bill.
Colonel SIBTHOHP ciilled attention to the very
crowded state of the omnibuses in the metropolis, and
the cruel way in which the horses were treated. On
many occasions he saw these vehicles crowded in the
closest manner, while the horses were scarcely able to
draw the conveyances behind them, far less the great
number of persons.
Mr. PARKER stated that provisions were in the
Bill by which the Commissioners would be
empowered to deal with the matters to which the Hon.
Member had reierred.
The Bill then passed through Committee.
SOAP ALLOWANCES BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock.
The fat

in the grain markets of the French de-
partments becomes, according to the intelligence received by
every mail, more confirmed, and alterations in prices of
between 4f. and sf. per hectolitre are commonly reported.
At Alt kirch the decline is quoted from 121. to 13f. per hecto-
litre, with scarcely any buyers, the supplies brought forward
being beyond all expectation. The accounts from Sezanne,
Auterive, Blere, Provins, and Orleans were highly favourable
respecting the crops.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received
fifteen sovereigns from " Conscience," which will be paid
into the receipt of the Exchequer.
THE WEATHER.—The weather, as we lately prog-
nosticated that it would, continues delightful, and the
country everywhere is looking beautiful.—Giasgow Consti-
taional.
THE LATE Da. CHALMERS.—We understand that
the funeral of Dr. Chalmers takes place on Friday (this day),
at two o'clock, and that the place of interment is the New
Southern Cemetery at Grange. Thu General Asaembly of
the Free Church have resolved to be present at the funeral,
and the Assembly has expressed a desire that as many of the
ministers (not members of Assembly)and other office bearers
of the Church in the city and throughout the country as
could make it convenient should also attead on that mourn-
ful occasion.—Scotsman.

~
1 lin COBDEN rESTIMONIAL.—A meeting of the
committee was held this morning (Tuesday) in the Town
ccicenioro_iiett\.eve,,
liiii, King-street, fur the purpose of considering the pro-
priety of closing the subscription lists, and of making the
requisite arrangements for the collection of the sums which
ay be outstanding W. B. Watkins, Esq., chairman of the
spjiesid,ed., and the meeting was also attended by
Esq.,6l,_,lnitu,
n,?,t ~1.-sq., W It. Callender, Esq., It. Nicholson,
(tall, E 5,,.. /.1.),,t.,(25,E,q.. C. J. S. Walker, Esq., B. Svd-
a report of the present state Hunter, L,q . , tannril
lii,‘ sun, Esq., John Brooks, Eil ,
(as one of the treasurers) made
eaot the fund, trom which it ap-
isu3ms.
spd. paid
andin Manchester and London,
the committee. Mr. Vlill7P':ii" Pattison, the secretary of
pearel that the total
581ub.criptions printed,
tinaking the total
amounted to 65.288/.
but as yi,t unpaid. amounted to 15tte
:tilrentyhole king-
ilia expen-
-89,4831. I3s. Bd. Mr. Wilson also reported'
diture in Mauchesier, which really included
dom, except London, amounted to 2,600 i.
exceed 3,000/, unless a much longer time jioauld not
then out.
The committee _
expected should be expended in collecting was
standlog subseriptia3ex
pressed the
highly gratified at the report, and at the
ability and economy displayed by the managing com-
mittee. It was then moved by Mr.
Callender, and seconded
by Mr. C. J. S. Testimonial
Walker, " that it appears to this committee
that the time has arrived when the Cobden
Fund should be closed." The committee shortly afterwards
separated.—Munclicsta paper.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, MAY 8, 1847.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Henry Ash-
ton. of Stockport, in the county palatine of Chester, Gent.,
to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 4.
Ist Regiment of Lite Guards—Captain Charles Kerr Mac-
donald, from half-pay unattached, to be Captain, vice George
Rushout, who exchanges; Lieutenant John Farrer to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Macdonald, who retires ; Cornet
and Sub-Lieutenant Henry Dorrien Streattield to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Farrer; Sir William Augustus
Fraser, B frt., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Streatfield, June 4.
7th Dragoon Guards—Captain Arthur Cavendish Ben-
tinek, from the Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Captain, vice
Atwood Dalton Wigsell, who retires upon ball-pay of the
60th Foot, June 4.
16th Light Dragoons—Regimental Sergeant Major George
Lamb to be Quartermaster, vice Rosser, appointed Pay-
master, June 4.
Gth Foot—Augustus Davies, Gent ,to b Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Davern, app 'hated to 53d Foot, Jule 4.
18th Foot—Lieut. % illiam Tyrrell Bruce to be Captain,
without purchas vice Evans, decease,!, May 15.
30th F oot—Francis Topping Atcherley, Gent., to be
En-
sign,
by purchase, vice Coventry, promoted, June 4.
53d Foot—Ensign and Adjutant John William Follows to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lucas, who retires ; Ensign
Avery Jordan Davern, from 6th Foot, to be Enzign, vice
Follows, June 4.
67th Foot—Thomas Blatberwick, Gent., to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Webb, appointed to the Staff, June 4.
76th Foot—Ensign James Cumming Clarke, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Burdon, who retires; Walter
Montford Westropp, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Clarke, June 4.
78th Foot--Assistant-Surgeon James M‘Nab, M.D., from
the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bowie, deceased,
dated June 4.
89th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon George M'Clure has been
allowed to resign his commission, June 4.
90th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Ross to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Pugh,' who retires ; Ensign Richard Rhodes
Wyvill, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ross; William
Pattison Tinting, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Wyvill, June 4.
93d Foot—Lieutenant William Thomas Wodehouse, from
half-pay as Paymaster of Ist Dragoons, to be Lieutenant,
vice Brown, promoted ; Ensign Warner Westenra Carden to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wodehouse, who retires;
William Donald Macdonald, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Carden, June 4.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Captain George Johnston, from
half-pay 60th Foot, to be Captain, vice Bentinck, appointed
to the 7th Dragoon Guards, June 4.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon Vere Webb, from
the 67th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice
ArNab, appointed to 78th Foot, June 4.
BREVET.—To be Majors in the Army—Captain Charles
Kerr Macdonald, of the Ist Regiment of Life Guards;
Captain George Johnson, of the Cape Mounted Riflemen,
Nov. 23, 1841.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire.
South Harts Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—James
Walter Earl of Verulain to be Lieutenant-Colonel ; James
lirownlw William Gascoyne Marquis of Salisbury to be
Major, May 19.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Mid-Lothian.
Royal Mid-Lothian Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Sir
James Ganiiner Baird, Bart., to be Captain, vice James
Maitland Hog, resigned, May 20.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire.
Southern Regiment of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry
—Richard Milward, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Henry
Frederick Savile Robinson, deceased.
Newark Troop of Sherwood Rangers—James Thorpe, Gent.
to be Cornet, vice John Henry Manners Sutton, promoted.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
John Richard Dobson, hop-merchant, St. Thomas-street,
Southwark.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY. June 4.

The Lord Chancellor beard unopposed lunatic petitions,
appeal motions, and appeals to-day, but no case of any
public interest came before his Lordship during the whole
morning.

two ladies in a private carriage to Tower-wharf, in order
to see them safely on board a steamer bound to the Con-
tinent. The steamer lay in the middle of the river, and
the defendant was employed to row the party to her.
The complainant returned with the defendant, and upon
landing asked him the fare, to which question the latter
replied, " fare is 7s. 6d." A volley of the most dis-
gusting abuse followed the refusal to pay so extortionate
a demand, but the defendant thought proper at last to
accent the offer or 2s. 6d., which was about twice as
much as he was entitled to. _ _ _

Toe defendant said the hour at which the party em-
ployed him being a late one, he considered himself bound
for the sake of his family to make an extra demand, par-
ticularly as the watermen had scarcely anything to do
at present
Mr. Williams said he happened to know a number of
instances in which la( iea who went on board steamers
about to sail for the continent bad been imposed upon by
the watermen. It frequently occurred that when ladies
were not accompanied by some person who intended to
return and punish extortionists of this description, 15s.
or 16s. were demanded and insisted upon, and the of-
fenders generally escaped, as complaints must generally
be mode w►thin a limited time, which was usually ex-
ceeded by the necessary absence of the victims. The
tnguage uttered by the present defendant was of the
:cost r-volting
Alderman Gums said he was quite aware of the
plunder committed by the watermen upon parties who
could not return to London in time to complain. It was,
in fact, most rash in females to venture into the power of
,welt fellows as the man at the bar withoUt being accom-
panied by somebody determined to punish any attempt
at extortion. The defendant was then fined 405., and as
he refused to pay the money, he was sent to prison to
hard labour for one month.