The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EV,ENING, JANUARY 12, 1847.

FREEMASONRY and the PRESENT

DISTRESS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Permit me through the instrumentality of your
widely-circulated journal, to remind my brethren, the
freemasons of England, that it behoves them in the pre-
atht time of extraordinary distress, to do something for
its alleviation. I would suggest that a collection be
made iu every lodge on their next meeting night. In a
society so extensive and so well to do in the world, I feel
certain the call upon their charity would be responded
to in a manner worthy of the principles on which the
order is founded Tho popular world seeing their
good works, will then believe that masonry is indeed
something more than a name. CATO.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
EPSOM SPRING MEETING.
Weights for the Great Metropolitan Handicap of 25 soya.
each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared on or before Tuesday
next, Jan. 19.
Alarm, 5 yrs, 9st 121b--Sweetmeat, 5 yrs, 9st 9st—Wolf-
dog, 5 yrs, 9st 31b—Dulcet, 5 yrs, 9st lib—Annandale, 5
yrs, Bst 131b—Morpeth, 6 yrs, Bst 121b—Sting, 4 yrs,
Bst 121b—Iago, 4 yrs, Bst 1 21b— Doleful, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b
Queen of Tyne, aged, Bst 91b—Queen Slab, aged, Bst 91b—
Akbar, 6 yrs, Bst 91b—Counsellor, aged, Bst 81b—Pine
Apple, aged, Bst 71b—intrepid, 6 yrs, Bst 51b—Red Rover,
6 yrs, Bst 51b—Lady Wildair, 5 yrs, Bst 51b—The Comet, 4
yrs, Bst Sib—Dexterous, 4 yrs, Bst 31b—The Premier, 4
yrs, Bst 31b—Arthur, 5 yrs, Bst 11b—Lord Saltoun, 6 yrs,
Bst Ilb--Laundry Maid, 4 yrs, Bst 11b—Wit's End, 4 yrs,
Bst lib—Refraction, 5 yrs, Bst—Campanile, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b
Clumsy, 5 yrs, 7st 131b—Roebuck, 5 yrs, 7st 131b—Boarding
School Miss, 6 yrs, 7st 131b—Giselle, 4 vrs, 7st 131b—What,
aged, 7st 131b—Best Bower, 6 yrs, 7stl2lb Gannet, 5 yrs,
ist 121b—The Lamb, 4 yrs, 7st Mb—Mildew, 5 yrs, ist I llb
—Mosque, aged, 7st 1 Ilb—Plaudit, 5 yrs, 7st Mb—Maid of
Lyme, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Roderick, aged, 7st 101b—Tom Tul-
lock, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Little Jack, 5 yrs, ist 101 b— The Duke
of Richmond, 4 yrs, ist 91b—Ukraine, 4 yrs, ist 91b—Dio-
med, 4 yrs, ist 91b—The Magnet, 5 yrs, ist 91b—Gwalior,
5 yrs, ist 91b—Driflield, 4 yrs, ist Mb—Queen Anne, 4 yrs,
7st 91b—My Mary, 5 yrs. 7st 9,b—Alliance, 4 yrs, 7st 81b—
False Report, 4 yrs, 7st 81b—Rufus, 4 yrs, ist 81b—Bourton,
4 yrs, ist 81b—Marquis of Conyngham, 4
_yrs, 7st 81b—
Ajax, aged, ist 81b—Banana, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Buttress, 4 yre,
7st 71b—Icicle, 4 yrs, 7st 71b-11 m by Samarcaud, out of
La Fille-mal-gardee, 4 yrs, 7st 7 lb--Shelforth, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—
Duc-an-Durras, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Sir Simon, 4 yrs, ist 71b—
Binnacle, 4 yrs, ist 71b—Finvaragh, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Flahow-
lagh, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Jenny Wren, 5 yrs, 7st 51b—Lynceus,
4 yrs, 7st 51b— Sheraton, 4 yrs, ist 51b—Farthing Candle,
4 yrs, 7st 51b—Secundus, 6 yrs, 7st 51b—Wyvern, 4 yrs, Tat
51b—Punch, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Flitch, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Camera
Obscure, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Buscot Buck, 6 yrs, ist 51b—Hyd-
rangea, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—The Little Vulgar Boy, 4 vrs, 7st 31b
Satyr, 6 yrs, 7st 31b—Lady Sarah, 6 yrs, 7st 31b—Sir Peter
Laurie, 4 yrs, ist 31b—Guarach, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Miss Shirley,
4 yrs, ist lib—Tit-bit, 4 yrs, 6st 13—Cherry, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b
Ileadsman, 4 yrs, 6st 121b—The Correct Card, 5 yrs, 6st 121 b
—Geraldine, 4 yrs, Est 121b—Polka,4 yrs, 6st 1 21b--Pimenta,
6 yrs, Est 121b—Ally Croker, 6 yrs, 6st 91b—Hannah Raine,
4 yrs, Est 91b—Forney, 4 yrs, 6st 51b—Cossack, 3 yrs, Est 31b—
Projectile' 3 yrs, Est 31b—Crozier, 3 yrs, sst 131b—Devil-
me-care, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Queen Mary, 3 yrs, sst 101 b
Comme ii faut, 3 yrs, sst 101 b—b fby Theon, out of Ilippona's
dam, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Halo, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Moodkee, 3 yrs,
sst 51b— Mirmillo, 3 yrs, sst 11b—Meance, 3 yrs, sst 11b—
So Nice, 3 yrs, sst Ilb—Pink Bonnet, 3 yrs, Sat Ilb—brother
to Stitch, 3 yrs, ast 121b—Vampyrs, 3 yrs, 4st 1 21b—c by
Euclid, dam by Taurus, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b—b fby Elis, or Veni-
son, out of Odessa, 3 yrs, 4st 121b—Emerald Isle, 3 yrs,
4st 121 b.
N.B. If the highest weight accepting is under Sst 71b, it
will be raised to Bst 71b, and the others in proportion.

TATTERSALL'S.— MONDAY.
NEWMAIIKET HANDICAP.
The only bet worth notice was 300 to 10 agst Mr. Cuth-
bert's Queen of Tyne.

CUESTER CUP.
40 to 1 agst Captain Pettet's Newcourt—taken
2000 to 40 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam—taken
1000 to 20 agst Mr. S. Herbert's Antler—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Dawson's Crim. Con.
2000 to 25 agst Mr. Gratwicke's The Flitch—taken
50 to 1 was laid to 301. agst Newcoart, and two or three
parties endeavoured to get on at the same price, but failed,
all the books being full.

DERBY.
15 to 2 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp
12 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote—taken
16 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's I'lanet—take 17 to 1
25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt—taken
33 to 1 agst Lord Caledon's Wanota—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Allertonian—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. Worley's Old Port
45 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Tantivy—taken
45 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigot's Conyngham—taken
45 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Hart
50 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Projectile—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Christopher—taken
50 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Bingham—taken
50 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Marpessa colt—taken
66 to 1 agst Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle—taken
130 to 1 apt Mr. Faller's Oxonian—taken
_ _ _ .

100 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Limestone—taken.
13 to 1 was taken in three or four quarters about
Epirote, and afterwards 12 to 1 ; a further advance may
be looked for. Planet was backed at 17 to 1, in hun-
dreds; Glentilt at 25 to 1, Allertonian at 40 to 1, 35 to
1, and 1,000 to 30, to between two and three hundred
pounds—all decidedly in force. 1,000 to 30 was
laid against Wanota, 45 to 1 each, to about 504, against
Conyngham and Red Hart ; 1,000 to 20 each, two or
three times, against Projectile and Christopher; 50 to 1,
in fifties, against the Marpessa colt'; 2,000 to 25 and
2,000 to 30 against War Eagle ; 1,000 to 10, twice,
against Oxonian, 4,000 to 40 against Limestone, and 450
to 10 against Van Tromp and Epirote.

OALS.
9 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Clementina
10 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Slander
10 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's Farmer's Daughter
16 to l_agst Sir J. Hawley's Miami—taken.
12 to 1 was taken eagerly about the Farmer's Daugh-
ter ; 250 to 25 each about the three favourites, and 160
to 10 about Miami in one bet, and 800 to 50 about the
latter singly.
The room was well attended, but the betting on the
whole was dull.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Sir C. Constable's staghds. meet Wed., at West Newton
—ll.
Sir J. Gerard's stghds., Fri., Black Brook-11.
Albrighton lids., Thurs., Hinnington ; Sat., Chaddesley
V alley,
South Berkafire lids., Fri , Bradfield.
Sir J. Cope's hds., Wed., Bulmerst Court; Fri., Silchester
Dials-101A.
Craven hds., Wed., Beduin Brail ; Fri., Heathangers ; Sat
Great Shefford-101/2.
Goggerdon hds., Fri., Aberaggon.
Ilambleden hds,. Wed., Idsworth Park; Fri., Upham Pond
—lo'4.
11. H., Thurs., Chilton Old House; Sat., Sutton Common
—lOl.
East Kent lids., Wed., Elham Park; Fri., Sunnyfield Park
—lO/.
Ludlow lids., Wed., Oaker Wood ; Fri., Hopton Park.
Lord Southampton's lids., Wed., Stoke Plain; Fri., Whistle
Wood; Sat., Biddlesdon Park-11.

A KNACKER'S TRICK. SUFFOCATION OF A
HousE.—At the Chelmsford petty sessions, on Tuesday
last, Edward Bentley, of Runwall, knacker, was charged
with killing a horse, the property of Mr. Thomas
Stock, of East Hanningfield. Mr. Duffield, solicitor, of
Chelmsford, appeared in support of the charge. From
the evidence adduced, it appeared that on Monday night
James Mason, a labourer, in the employment of Mr.
Stock, and who lives at his farm, had been attending his
club, about four miles distant, and on his return home,
about twelve o'clock, when within a few rods of his
master's yard, he heard a groan, and on getting over
the gate into the yard he saw the prisoner kneeling
down close to the horse's head, and on calling out to
him the prisoner immediately jumped up and ran off
so quickly that Mason could not stop him. Mason then
went and procured a light, and on going into the shed
found the horse dead, and four pieces of hay
twisted up very tight, and a halter lying
close to the horse's head. Mason then went
and called up his master, who lived half a mile from
the farm, and also a neighbour, who proved finding
the horse dead and the pieces of hay and halter as
described. The witnesses stated that from the shape of
the hay found, and also from the fact of their being
clamp, they believed them to have been forced up the
nostrils of the horse, and which, with the assistance of
the halter, had produced suffocation. The witness
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instances very early on the premises to purchase the
carcase.—Essex Standard.
FALL OF AN AEROLITE.—The inhabitants of Min-
dethal, in Bavaria, were scared from their Christmas
festivities and yule-logs on the 25th ult., by the unex-
pected arrival of an aerial visitant. I'Ve subjoin a tex
tual recital of this meteorogical phenomenon from the
Augsburg Gazette. "On Christmas-day, at 2 o'clock in
the afternoon, a noise was heard in the environs of Min-
dethal, in a circumference of at least 18 leagues diameter,
resembling, in the first instance, a distant cannonade.
After 20 almost uniform discharges, this noise changed
to a rumbling, the sounds of which strikingly resembled
those of a kettle-drum, tuned in F, and ended with
sounds like those of distant trumpets. The whole
phenomenon lasted about three minutes, and was heard
in the same manner throughout the entire district,
Every auditor imagined that he heard the noise over his
head, but nothing was seen explanatory of the pheno
menon. In the village of Schoneuburg, however, west-
ward of Mindethal, several persons remarked, above
the houses, a black ball rapidly descending, and a man
saw this ball fall into a garden. The news of the event
was soon spread abroad, and all the inhabitants, aban
doning their firesides and family festivities, ran to the
spot pointed out. They found an opening in the earth
which emitted a sulphurous vapour. On digging with
great zeal a stone was discovered two feet below the sur-
face, in the form of an irregular, truncated pyramid,
with four narrow lateral surfaces, and a fifth somewhat
wider ; the base is smooth enough. The summit is
prismatic, and the corners rounded. It weighs almost
8 kilogrammes (441 b. and upwards). Its dimensions are
8 inches in height, 7 in breadth, and 3 in thickness
This stone bears marks of volcanic origin, and resem-
bles a grunstein (greenstone). The fracture is grayish
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TILE ORDER OF QUEEN ISABELLA, THE CATHOLIC.
—lt is a curious fact, says one of our contemporaries,
that the Order of Elizabeth the Catholic, which has jnst
been conferred by the Queen of Spain on Baron Anselme
de Rothschild, of Frankfort, was founded in honour of
the expulsion of the Moors and Jews.
OMNIBUS ROBBERY.—Yesterday information was
forwarded to the metropolitan and city police that a lady
named Blencorn, residing at Chelsea, whilst riding in ar
omnibus which plies between Chelsea and the City, dis-
covered, on her arrival at the Bank of England, that she
had been robbed of her purse, containing ten sovereigns
The Earl of Verulam has given the munificent do-
nation of 1,5001. towards the endowment and building
of the proposed new church at Lavistock-green, St. Al-
s. The Noble Earl has also given a piece of land as
the site for the church.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
WORSHIP-STREET
A well-dressed man, named Austin Montrose, stated
to be a returned transport, was placed at the bar before
Mr. Broughton, charged with having burglariously en-
tered the premises of Mr. Joseph Berdoe, an extensive
clothier in Goswell-street-road, and stolen property to
the amount of upwards of 300/., and also on suspicion
of having broken into the house of Messrs. Huf ham and
%STestaway, tailors in the City-road, and stolen cloth and
other property of nearly the same value.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Berdoe that on
the night of the 23d of November last his premises
were entered by some burglars from the rear, and a
large quantity of cloth and fancy goods to the above
amount carried away. He immediately gave informa-
tion to the police, and, in consequence of a communi-
cation he had received that morning from Servant
Brannan, he repaired to the shop of a pawnbroker in the
Hackney-road, where a cloak and other articles of dress
were exhibited to him, which he immediately recog-
nized as having formed a small part of the produce of
the burglary upon his premises. He could unhesi-
tatingly swear to the cloak, altlieugh it had been much
altered, from having worn it for several years.
Sergeant Brannan stated, that in consequence of re-
ceiving information which indirectly implicated the pri
sorer in this and several ()Thor robberies of a similar
description, he went on the preceding evening to a house
in Martha-street, Hagg.erst one, where he found the pri-
soner in bed, and took him into custody. He afterwards
searched the place, and, on examining the drawers, dis-
covered several duplicates, three of which related to the
cloak and other articles of apparel since identified by
the prosecutor, and also a complete set of housebreaking
implements of a very superior and ingenious construc-
tion. On removing him to the station-house the prisoner
was recognised as having been connected with another
robbery of large extent, to establish which he should call
William Hill, shopman to Messrs. Hufham and West
away, who stated that on the 21st of October, 1845, the
prisoner, who was very respectably attired, entered his
employers' shop, and asked for a pair of straps; they
were unable to supply him with them, and he went away,
but returned twice afterwards, the last time accompanied
.
by a well-dressed man deep mourning, who imme-
diately took up his station at the furthest end of the
counter. On handing the prisoner the straps he re-
quested the witness to adjust them to his trousers, and
while so doing the other man, whom he noticed to have
been looking about him, abruptly quitted the shop; upon
which the prisoner, who displayed a fidgetty nervous-
ness, suddenly rose, and, although he had only one of
the straps on, instantly hastened after his companion.
As soon as they left witness missed a piece of velvet and
a roll of cloth from the counter and window, of the value
of 101., and hurried out in pursuit, but both men had
disappeared. On the Bth of December following he
saw the prisoner and two other men suspiciously eyeing
the shop through the. window, but on seeing they were
watched by the witness they instantly ran away ; and
two nights subsequently the premises were broken into,
and cloth and other articles of the value of between 2001.
and 3001. were stolen. Every effort had been made to
recover the stolen property, but none of it could be
traced, and although his suspicions rested upon the pri-
soner, whom he could positively identify as the man who
was present when the first robbery was committed, and
saw examining his employers' premises through the
window just before they were burglariously entered, he
had been unable to catch sight of him until he identified
him that morning at the police-station.
Mr. Vann, who appeared for tlse prisoner, expressed
his intention to reserve the defence for the present, as he
presumed it was the magistrate's intention to remand his
client upon two of the charges, although no evidence, he
contended, had been adduced to implicate the prisoner
in the latter burglary ; and
Mr. BROUGIITON, who expressed an opinion that the
circumstances against the accused were of a very strong
nature, ordered him to be brought up again next week
for the completion of the evidence.
THAMES.
Martin New, a tall Irishman, a brick-maker, who car-
ried a fine child about two years old in his arms, was
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged by Mr. John
Hughes, the relieving officer of the Whitechapel Union,
with creating a disturbance in front of his house on
Sunday morning.
The prisoner's wife was also charged with
in her hus-
band, but about an hour before he was placedthe dock
she was taken in labour in the police cell, adjoining the
court. Mr. Hughes was no sooner made acquainted
with her condition than he sent a messenger to the
workhouse for a nurse and some blankets. He also pro-
cured the immediate attendance of Mr. Falconer, divi-
sional surgeon of police, under whose care the woman
was safely delivered of a fine boy, who, with the mother,
is likely to do well. A cab was procured, and the woman
and her child were sent to the workhouse. Mr. Hughes
having seen the poor woman properly taken care of and
Provided with every comfort her situation required, pre-
ferred his charge against her husband.
Mr. Hughes stated that on Sunday morning he gave
an order to the man and his wife for their admission into
the workhouse as casual poor. An hour afterwards they
returned again with the order, and demanded other re-
lief. He informed them he was not at liberty to do any-
thing more for them, on which they made a great dis-
turbance in front of his house, and caused a mob to as-
semble. He was therefore under the necessity of giving
them into custody. The wife, who had just become a
mother, was the worst of the two, and her language and
threats were dreadful.
The prisoner said he objected to enter the workhouse
with his wife, where he should be separated from her,
because he had a sufficient taste of it on Saturday night,
after Mr. Hughes had given him and his wife an order
for a night's lodging. The place he was in was very
wet and cold, the floor was sloppy, and it would be the
death of him to go to such a place again.
Mr. Hughes said he gave the man and his wife 31b.
of bread on Saturday evening, and an order for their
admission into the workhouse. The woman was lodged
in the receiving ward, the
i most comfortable in the work-
house, and her husband u the casual ward, which was
dry and well ventilated, -and by no means deserved the
description given of it.
Mr. YARDLEY said the prisoner's conduct was very
reprehensible, and he appeared to be a dissatisfied man,
who would not receive with cheerfulness the provision
made for him by the public bounty. He had endangered
the life of his wife by his foolish conduct. He would
advise the prisoner to alter his behaviour, or he would
get into trouble, and find his way to a prison; but as he
was the lesser offender of the two he would suffer him
to depart. He should also discharge the case against
the wife, and was glad so much attention had been paid
to her.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

- -
Yesterday being Plough Monday, a Court was held
for receiving the presentments of the several ward in-
quests, and for swearing in the constables.
The Foreman of Bishopsgate ward made a present-
ment in which there was reference to a number of non-
freemen, who carried on trades to the prejudice of the
freemen. He begged to call the attention of the Court
to that fact, which in his opinion, was an inroad upon
the constitution of the city of London. Several years
ago he had paid between 301. and 401. for his freedom,
and if parties were allowed to carry on trades in the
City without having submitted to that process, the in-
terest and principal were his property, instead of being
converted to the use of the Corporation. The subject
of complaint was one of a very serious nature, for it was
excessively hard that the man next door to a freeman
should derive all the advantages of a citizen without hav-
ing contributed anything whatever as a counterpoise.
The LOAD MAYon said the subject was under the
consideration of the Court, and would certainly receive
their most attentive consideration.
The Foreman of the Inquest of Coleman-street ward,
in making a presentment, begged to be informed whether
the duty of an inquest-man was a compulsory duty?
He made the inquiry, because all the inquest of the ward
he represented had to do was to go about begging for the
poor, and he thought that office might be transferred to
persons who had not their various occupations to at•
tend to.
The LORD MAYOR—It iS a compulsory duty certainly.
Alderman WILSON said if the foreman would read the
charge, he would find that the inquest had a very im-
portant duty to perform, and that there was nothing at
all about begging in it.
The Foreman—We are tired of going to the top of
stories of houses for nothing, and would rather pay to be
excused the performance of a duty which is, after all, a
mere nullity. A gentleman has refused to serve on
the inquest, what are we to do about him?
Alderman WILSON said that in his ward a gentleman
who refused to serve had been ordered to be prosecuted
by the City solicitor, and he soon afterwards came for-
ward and offered to pay the penalty incurred, and to
serve next year.
The LORD MAYOR, having learned the name of the
recusant, stated that he should be summoned, and if an
adequate explanation was not made, the necessary pro-
ceedings would be adopted.
The Foreman of Cripplegate-Within Ward made a
presentment complaining that non-freemen carried on
business in that ward.
Alderman CHALLIS (the Alderman of the ward) said
there were an hundred people keeping shops in that
ward who would hale voted at the last election, but they
were not free.

Another Member of the Court said if that was the
case there would be no constituents at all.

THE COMMON COUNCIL RETURN OF FARRINGDON WITHOUT
WARD.

The Foreman of the Farringdon Without Ward made
presentment, to which was annexed a petition against
the return of Messrs. Lyas and Obbard as Common
Councilmen for that ward, upon the ground that they
were not qualified as resident householders. The peti-
tion stated that the two persons whose names ought to
have been returned were Mr. Harding and Mr. Carpenter,
and prayed that Counsel .might be heard before the
Court upon the subject.
Referred to the next Court, and intimation was given
that due notice of the day on which the appeal should be
heard would be given to the parties interested.
SANATORY REGULATIONS REQUIRED.
The Foreman of the precinct, Mary of St. Dunstan's,
made a presentment against certain old houses in Fetter-
lane, belonging to the City of London, which were made
depositories of filth to the great shame and injury of
the neighbourhood, and other house sin the same vicinity
in which the lives of the crowded inhabitants were in
constant danger on account of the enormous accumula-
tion of offensive matter in and about them. It also re-
lated to dilapidated houses.
Sir JAMES DUKE (the Alderman of the ward) said
there was abundant medical evidence to show that the
densely crowded state of the neighbourhood, and the
want of sewage, produced fever to an alarming extent,
in close localities, to which the presentment alluded.
The dangerous state of other houses, as regarded the
building of them, should be also particularly alluded to
by the Court of Aldermen.
The LORD MAYOR said the Livery ought to apply, in
the case of the apprehended fall of any house, to the
district surveyor. He should himself take care that the
other matters alluded to in the presentment should be
attended to.
The City Solicitor said, that in consequence of the
recent alteration in the law, any person who appre-
hended danger from a building, could apply to the dis-
trict surveyor, and at once oblige him to move in the
business.

Alderman JOHNSON said a vast deal of the filthy
nuisance spoken of in the presentment was attributable
to the neglect of draining those narrow and closely po-
pulated places, for great care and pains had been taken
to make the most extensive and efficient sewers. He
considered that it would be a great point to be informed
how the inhabitants could be compelled to make drains
from their houses into the common sewers, which had
been so largely formed throughout the city.
The CITY SOLICITOR said if a nuisance of this kind
was occasioned by the misconduct of an individual, that
individual was liable to prosecution by the Court. If it
assumed the public character of a nuisance, the Commis •
sioners of Sewers were the authority to which application
ought to be made. In the first case, the prosecution was
instituted by the City Solicitor, at the expense of the
city, under the direction of the Alderman of the ward.
The foremen of several other wards made present-
ments, complaining of the crowds of persons who carried
on business, without being freemen.
It was understood that the subject would be resumed
with all convenient speed in the Corporation.

IRISH SEA COAST FISHERIES.
(From the Dublin Evening Post.)
FOOD—EMPLOYMENT.

We are glad to find that practical measures have been
taken by the Board of Works to render the fisheries
immediately, and we trust permanently, available as a
source of food and employment in this season of un-
exampled distress. It is quite notorious that although
there is abundance of the best kinds of fish on our coasts,
the market supplies are miserably deficient ; and it is
equally beyond doubt. that this deficiency is mainly
attributable to the want of a steady demand and a re-
munerating price, near the site of the fisheries, for the
produce of the fisherman's labour. Create this steady
demand— render the fisherman secure of a market—and
you will increase to a vast amount the stock of"food, at
the same time that you will employ the fisherman in the
way most natural and best understood by him. Fully
aware of this, the Board of Works have established
three stations on the western coast—one at Roundstone,
county of Galway ; a second at Belmullet, county of
Mayo ; and the third at Killybegs, county of Donegal.
The agents there (as far as the means at their disposal
will admit) to keep up a constant and equable demand
by purchasing, at a moderate, but, at the same time, a
remunerating price, the produce of each day's labour,
without interfering with private traffic. All the fish not
required for consumption in a fresh state will be cured
on the best principles, and in such a way as to render it
edible with bread or cakes made of Indian or other meal.
But the good, to be extensively effective, must not stop
here. The course undertaken by the Board is not per-
manent, but an experiment to meet an emergency—it is
necessarily confined in its operations, and entered upon
with a view that private individuals, having been taught
the advantages of such a system in a commercial way,
may be induced to purchase and cure an ample supply
of fish in the more remote districts.
We hare before us a pFriphlet published by the Board
of Works on the subject of fish-curing, from which we
beg to lay before our readers the following extracts:—
" The Board of Public Works, as Commissioners of
Fisheries in Ireland, having received from. Sir Thomas
Dick Lauder, Bart., the annexed papers, hare directed
them to be printed and distributed amongst the fishermen,
and other persons interested, with a view to promote the
establishment of a system of curing, as the most certain
basis for the permanent improvement and extension of
the sea fisheries.
" Whilst'the Irish coast abounds with fish, it is a well-
known fact, that a very great portion of the salt or cured
fish consumed in Ireland is imported from Scotland,
where a spirit of trade and enterprise has generally led
to an extensive, distinct, and profitable investment of
capital, skill, and labour in the curing of fish.
The formation of curing establishments, where judi-
ciously managed, affords a steady daily market for the
fruits of the fisherman's labour, and affords extensive
employment in the various trades connected therewith.
" In the present season of distress and privation arising
from the failure of the potato crop, it appears to be
essentially necessary t 3 call attention to the vast supply
of food of nutritious quality that surrounds the island,
and which a moderate degree of local energy, foresight,
and enterprise might readily make available in aid of the
pressing wants of the country ; whilst the result of pro-
perly directed exertions would be the permanent im-
provement of the fisheries, and profitable employment to
a large portion of the coast population.
" During this season large quantities of fish taken on
the coast have been lost or sold at a nominal price for
manure, for the want of local energy to provide suitable
means of curing, or even a sufficient supply of salt ; and
this has taken place in portions of the country where it
has since been reported that men have died of starvation.
"The curing of fish is a trade that may advantageously
be pursued on a large scale, with a considerable invest
ment of capital, or which may be profitably followed in
the cabin of the fisherman's family, when properly in-
structed.
" The preparation, washing, salting, drying, or smoking
of the fish, with its subsequent transmission to market,
and its sale, would afford profitable employment to great
numbers of women and children, as well as men, whilst
the offal will sell well as a useful manure, and valuable
oils in addition may be extracted from the fish.
" The establishment of curing stations, especially for
round fish, which may be had almost without intermis-
sion throughout the year, producing a steady daily mar-
ket for the fishermen, will lead to increased exertion on
their part ; and the certain success attendant on perse-
verance, and increased industry, notwithst anding
established habits, will enable them to procurelaim roved
tackle, and to adopt improved modes of fishing. The
fisherman when encouraged by a fair
steady price, will
proceed to sea to look for and follow the fish, rather
than wait, as is too frequently the ease at present, for the
fish to come to them.
" Where a wholesome and even delicate article of food
for home consumption, and for keeping during a period
of two 'to four weeks can be prepared by an hour's
immersion in pickle, and a few hours drying or smok-
ing with even turf fuel, the immense loss annually
sustained by the people in many parts of Ireland, from
the total nhglect of any system of curing, can scarcely
be calculated.
" In any case, even a small outlay would effect much
gc2d, aud, judici9usly managed, be amply reamer:lAm

whilst there can be little doubt, thatif the trade be entered
upon in an enlarged spirit of enterprise and skill, and with
sufficient capital, the Irish merchant might soon need no
other " official brand" than his own name, to render his
cured fish acceptable at the highert price in the English
or other markets of the world.

" It is hoped that the many useful observations in the
annexed papers, may be carefully considered and acted
upon, as far as practicable, at least by the fishermen
themselves, to whom the Commissioners present the
work with the best wishes for their instruction and
improvement."
This invaluable little book, presented to the fisher-
men, contains the instructions prepared by Mr. Ffennell,
one of the Board's Inpectors of Fisheries, who had visited
the curing establishments in Scotland, and made himselt
thoroughly acquainted with the several modes of curing
adopted there, more especially those practised by the
fishermen in their own dwellings.
The Commissioners of the Board of Works, weighed
down as they are by the overwhelming labours of their
office, yet have contrived to carry out this project for
the permanent amelioration of the condition of the im-
mense population who swarm around our coasts. It is
thus that the Commissioners, carrying out the views of
a government devoted heart and soul to the welfare of
the Irish people, have been working practically and et
fectively, whilst they have been daily and hourly assailed
by shallow and factious scribblers, who, whilst helplessl%
ignorant about the really perilous condition of the
country, do all that lies in their small way to aggravate
all the evil affecting the landed proprietor as well as the
peasant.