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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENT NG, JUNE 3, 1847

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Messengers from the House of Commons brought up
several Bills, which were ordered to lie on the table.

ment in order to effect a great public good, and to carry
out that arrangement was the object of the present Bill. li
Mr. llU.►ti vial in +lemur of the Bill, but against the
mode in which the objects were to be carried out. He
objected to so many aldermen being members of the
board, considering that the City had no interest in
the measure, but the merchants of London had.
He considered such a board would be altogether ineffi-
cient, and it ought to be revised ; the acting managing
board should have a portion of gentlemen representing
the shipping and mercantile interests of the port of
London. He concluded by moving that the Bill be re-
committed, with the view of the board of conservancy
being reduced from 19 to 12, and that four of their mem-
bers should be connected with the shipping interest.
Mr. WARD opposed the amendment on the ground
that as all the funds for the improvement of the river
would have to be raised on the credit of the Corporation
of London, it was but right that they should have the
management. Were the City authorities favourable
to the alteration, he would have no objection to it.
He had asked an eminent engineer what would be his
estimate of expense for those improvements, and he had
laid it at 350,0001. Those were the objects contemplated
by the Bill. It appeared to him an immaterial point
whether the conservators consisted of 19 or 12, and
therefore he should oppose the amendment of the Hon.
Member for Montrose.

The Earl of LINCOLN said that it was universally
conceeded that the objects of the Bill could not be found
fault with; the only matter for the consideration of the
House was how to carry out these objects, and to re-
concile the conflicting interests connected with the sub-
ject. The Hon. the Secretary to the Admiralty said that
the present state of things had continued so long, that
no other: interest than the city of London could now be
represented. But he could show the House that
a different course from the present had been pur-
sued in the case of the river Mersey. From the
moment that understanding ceased another arrange-
ment had been entered into, which gave entire satis-
faction to the corporation of Liverpool. He wished to
bring this under the notice of the Hon. Secretary for
the Admiralty; and though he did not feel ready to throw
any reflections on his conduct, he yet might say that he
had not voted as be himself would have done if ho had
been at the head of the Woods end Forests. He felt
assured, therefore, that the Bill never could give
satisfaction, and he could not conceive that the
amendment of the Honourable Member for Montrose
would, in any sufficient extent, remedy the evil, and
he should, therefore, vote against it.
Lord MORPETH said that, when he entered upon
the duties of the office which he held he found consi-
derable doubt resting upon the circumstances on which
the Bill was founded, and he regretted that the speech
of the Noble Earl had shown that there was not

the same spirit of amicability which had formerly been
evinced. (The Noble Lord then read a letter of Mr.
Pemberton, the solicitor for the Bill, in which that
gentleman stated that he did not expect the suit upon it
to be terminated for perhaps less than five years.)
It was stated by the City authorities that this suit pre-
vented them carrying into € ffect certain improvements
in the river, which otherwise they would be prepared
to undertake. He entertained no doubt whatever
that the funds derivable from the use of the river
ought to be applied to its improvement. Whether
there were means to compel the City autho-
rities to undertake these improvements, he could not
venture to say, but he had agreed to the provisions of
this Bill, believing that it was the safest and e asiest
course to effect that object, and he trusted after this
statement the progress of the Bill would not be impeded.
The improvements would be carried on under the super-
intendence of the Board of Conservancy, and Govern-
ment would also take care to see that they were efficient!)
performed. It, was provided by the Bill that the receipts and
expenditure should be first laid before the superior board.
and that all the works should be subjected to an en-
gineer, who would also see that the board carried into
effect all they were bound to undertake by the Bill.
The details of the expenditure would be also laid before
Parliament, and if any circumstance should hereafter
arise of a nature to require legislative interference, Par-
liament might be called upon for its adjudication.
Mr. DUNCOMBE was not aware, after the speech of
the Noble Lord opposite, how the Bill would detract
from the character of the Corporation. He was of this
opinion particularly after the example set them by the,
corporation of the river Mersey. His Hon. Friend
wished to strike off seven aldermen, but the superior
board alluded to in the course of the discussion professed
to control the aldermanic board. Powers were to
be taken to levy taxes to the amount of 350,0001, for
the purpose of this conservancy. (Mr. Ward made some
explanation, which was inaudible in the gallery.) Well,
at any rate, with the one shilling fee sought to
be imposed, there would be taxation of the public
in some way or other ; at any rate it would bear
heavily on the consumers of coal—(Hear, hear)—but
the principal reason which led him to oppose the Bill
was this, that it was a public and not a private Bill—
it was a public Bill to all intents and purposes:
it was an important Bill, and one which would
materially affect the trade and commerce of the city
of London—it was a public Bill and ought to be
submitted to the whole House.—(Hear. hear.) Besides,
no one knew anything about the Bill, and he thought
the public was indebted to the Noble Lord (Lord Lin-
coln) for his statement with respect to the Bill. Even if
it came back from the Committee with a recommendation
that the seven aldermen should be knocked off, he should
still look upon it with suspicion.
Mr. WILLIAMS did not think the Bill was so ob-
jectionable as the Hon. Gentleman seemed inclined to be-
lieve. He quite agreed with the observation of the Noble
Lord the late Secretary for the Woods and Forests. He
thought it would be much better to carry out the new
system, rather than that which was proposed
by the Bill. The present board did not consist
of persons fit to manage the navigation of the river
Thames, and if they interfered at all they ought to do
so by rendering them an efficient body. So many com-
plaints were made against the management of the river,
that, in 1836, a Committee of Inquiry was granted,
in which such charges were fully proved ; in fact, they
could not speak to a single shipowner upon the sub-
ject without being eonfirmed in the general belief
that the present board was wholly inefficient. if
they were going to make a change in the
body they should include shipowners and merchants.
Such a class was not to be found in the corpora-
tion. and such a class had an interest in the navi-
gation of the river, which the corporation had not.
This was a question which seriously affected the public,
considering the enormous amount of traffic which took
place even above bridge. There were not powers suffi-
cient in the Bill to remove the abuses which existed, and
therefore this interference would do more harm than
good.
Alderman COPELAND then rose, but was for some
time inaudible in the gallery in consequence of the low
tone iu which he spoke. He thought that it was an im-
provement upon the previous Bill, and he would vote in
support of it.
Mr. COWPER said that the present Bill was a de-
cided improvement upon the former, because it gave a
check upon the corporation.
Mr. S. WORTLEY said that this Bill bad taken the
parties interested by surprise, and he should support the
recommittal, in order to give time for its consideration.
The House then divided, and on our re-admission we
found the numbers were—
For the amendment
Against it 65
Majority for the amendment —6
Monday next was fixed for the recommittal of the
Bill.

After a few words from Mr. LAW and Mr. WILLIAMS,

Lord LINCOLN objected to the Bill, as it did not
give private parties, who might be affected by it, the
notice which they should have.

Mr. HUME Wished to know when the House would
go into Committee of Supply, and whether the papers
which he had demanded in relation to Portugal would
be in the hands of Hon. Members on that day?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
that if possible the House would go into Committee of
Supply on Monday evening, and that the papers referred
to would be in the hands of Hon. Members on that day.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER :said
that when the papers were laid on the table that he
would move for a committee immediately, and if they
were laid on the table on Monday he would move for a
committee that evening.
Sir R. PEEL said that as it would be hardly pos-
sible for all the Members of the Committees, many
of them being engaged on Committees, to read those
papers on Monday. If those papers were delivered on
Saturday night it would obviate this difficulty, and he
thought the best course would be to wait till to-morrow.
Mr. HUME said that under these circumstances he
would wait till to-morrow.

The motion was accordingly withdrawn.
JUVENILE OFFENDERS BILL.
Mr. B. ESCOTT gave notice that upon the bringing
up of the Bill for the Punishment of Juvenile Offenders'
Bill that he would move for the omission of the clause
authorising the punishment of flogging.
PRISONS' BILL.

On the order of the day for going into Committee
on this Bill being read,
Mr. EWART presented a petition from the towns of
Maitland and Newcastle, in New South Wales, against
the renewal of the system of transportation.
Sir G. GREY then rose to move that the House do
resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House upon
this Bill. The present Bill, with the one which imme-
diately followed it (the Custody of Offenders Bill) was,
formed together, a comprehensive sehems of prison
reform proposed by the present Government. The
present Bill proposed to unite under one management
the government of the Parkhurst, Milbank, and Penton
villa prisons.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

THE ARMY SERVICE BILL.

PROTEST OF THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY, G.C.B.

Dissentient-1. Because an
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limited service was first proposed in 17.13. The system
total failure. It was tried, however, again in 17,5,
or plan lasted two years, and was abandoned from its _
and continued to the end of the war, but was unsuc-
cessful in its operations during the American war.
In later periods—in 1906—it was resorted to in
another form of periods of limited service ; but
sigually and completely disappointed the expecta-
tiolis that were formed of the measure to obtain more
recruits and a better class of men ; and in the midst of
pirecaution of the
the war in the Peninsula much inconvenience and dis-
order might have arisen but for the foresight and
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injudicious and inexpedient to attempt experiments
(which are avowed as such), and which experiments may
tend to shake the gwid feeling* n.,w ,xitiiing, and the
dii.eipline h:therto prevAing in the Bri.ish army, which
never at any moment In history stood higher for its
warlike achievements and admirable conduct.

3. Because, while it is admitted from the very highest
authority, that the old soldiers of the British army give
to it all its perfection and matchless excellence, it is
manifest that the present Army Service Bill presents a
risk, and offers an occasion of losing the very men who,
after their service of ten years, become the most velu-
able, and who may still be in the prime of life (from 30
to 40) for all purposes of hard fatigue and military ser-
vice. It is, therefore, highly impolitic to hazard this
experiment, and far more judicious to retain the present
regulations, which allow all soldiers, under a most libe-
ral plan and with good characters, to receive their dis-
charge by the recommendation of their officers, and the
decision of the Commander-in-Chief.
4. Because, as has been clearly and unanswerably
shown, great inconvenience must result to our colonial
service from the plan now proposed, and especially in
the minutia of every regimental arrangement. If men
had six or eight months to serve, and were ordered out
to India, that circumstance might occasion a degree of
discontent among them. The army in the East, as has
been ably shown, presents many further obstructions to
the eligibility of this measure; and it will be necessary,
when it shall be in full operation, and one-tenth annu-
ally of 72,000 men (our average force serving in the
colonies), shall be entitled to discharge, and must be
brought home, to make frequent reliefs of corps at great
difficulty and inconvenience.
Finally, because the Government must either have a
most extraordinary confidence in themselves, or expect
an unlimited confidence from others, if they imagine
that a measure of such magnitude, sanctioning changes
so hazardous and on such fanciful theories, and, above
all, against the opinion of nine-tenths of the British
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army, can be carried into effect without stronger and
more cogent reasons than have hitherto been advanced
by them for these new experiments, under their Army
bervice Bill, on the British army.

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL
ENGINEERS.

JUNE 1.-Sir John Rennie, President, in the chair.

The paper read was an account of the iron barque
Josephine, of Liverpool, by Captain Masters, who
commanded her in the voyages she has made.
Tile subject of iron vessels is one of great
importance, and the use of that material in naval
architecture has been steadily progressing since it
Arts introduced for sea-going vessels by Mr. Manby
in the steamer named after him, in 1821, and which was
the only vessel that ever conveyed a cargo direct between
Lontion and Paris without trans-shipment. Sanguine
hopes had been entertained of introducing iron vessels
,)t war, but it appears from the partial accounts that
have been made public of the results of the experiments
At Woolwich and elsewhere, that the effects of cannot,
-hot on iron vessels is more destructive than upon
timber.

The paper read was a plain and somewhat dry specifi-
cation 01 the construction of the vessel, w hich will
however, when printed in extenso in the minutes of pro-
ceedings, be extremely usecul. The main dimensions or
the barque Josephine are :—Length over all, 99 feet 6
inches ; extreme breadth, 24 feet 6 inches ; depth of
hold, 9 feet 9 inches. Register tonnage, 168 tons ;
by old measaroment, 221 tons. She was of a pe-
culiar build, differing from almost any other mer-
chant ship, being intended for service in the Mexican
trade, and calculated to cross the bar of Tampico, and
other impediments. She was entirely of iron, even to
the bulwarks; and as she lay low in the water, draw-
ing 9 feet aft, and eight feet 8 inches forward, her
ports were hung on hinges forward, so that they
should act as valves, and allow the water to escape
from the deck, and yet shut of themselves when she
heeled over deep on her side. Iler general rate
of sailing was from 114 to 12 knots per hour ;
she was very buoyant and very dry ; rising well
.o the sea. There was great capacity for stowing the
cargo, owing to the absence of large projecting timbers.
She was somewhat damp forward and aft, but was very
dry in the main hold. There was not found to be any
difference in the health of the crew from that of wooden
vessels ; she was a little cooler than other ships, owing
to her being so deep in the water, and the thin material
dal not retain the heat like wood.

Iron ships have generally been found to get very foul.
The Josephine was, however, paid with various compo-
sitions as experiments, that which succeeded best was 1
barrel of varnish, 2t cwts. of best tallow, 40 lbs. black
lead, 7 lbs. brimstone, 70 lbs. arsenic. This being ap-
plied hot, the iron having been previously warmed and
paid wtth boiled linseed oil, appeared to have prevented
foulness, as after her voyages there was little weed or
grass, and scarcely any barnacle; but very slight oxida-
tion took place, and that only where the composition had
been rubbed off.

They were as much annoyed by rats as in a timber
ship, nor could they be destroyed by any of the means
adopted.
The principal feature of the paper was that which
treated of the local attraction of the compasses, which
can scarcely be in an abridged form. It appeared
that as long as the ship was on an even keel and
perfectly upright, the compasses acted correctly, but
in proportion to the listing over so was the derange-
ment of the magnet, for the local attraction ;being
changed by the side frames and deck beams falling into
new positions, this caused great variation in the ship's
course, and it led to a conjecture whether this may not
have been the cause of the loss of the Great Britain, as
if her compasses were acted upon as much as those of the
Josephine, a deviation of six miles and a half from her
course might easily have occurred.
Captain Masters suggested the hanging the binnacles
complete in gimbles like the compass, in order to their
always remaining vertical, and also in adjusting the
compasses that they should be tried in every position,
a table of variation being made out fur every degree of
listing over. The paper was illustrated by drawings of
the vessel and of her rigging, which possessed peculi •
arities, and also by several tables for the corrections of
the compasses.

The piper announced to be read at the next meeting
was " On the Expansion of Steam," by J. M. Heppel,
Inst. C.E. _

At the monthly ballot the following gentlemen were
elected :—Messrs. J. B. Clacy, J. Phillips, W. Sayce, and
Captain J. L. A. Simmons, associate.

PROGRESS OF FEVER IN GLASGOW.-It is indeed
raging at a fearful rate, and no sufficient accommodation is
vet provided. Up till Wednesday, the 26th ult., there were
117 cases on the lines of the district surgeons of the poor
alone. On :hat day there were 38 cases of fresh lines ! This
simple statement carries its own tale. Since the above was
in type we regret to learn that four of the Catholic clergy.
men in Great Clyde-street are now laid up with fever, and
amongst them is the Rev. Mr. Gordon, whom we had the
pleasure of seeing officiate as chaplain at the Sunday Soup
Kitchen a few weeks ago. Their unremitting attention to
the poor, the destitute, and the dying, is no doubt the cause
of so many of these truly Christian clergymen being laid up
with the dire malady now so prevalent in Glasgow.—
F4foinzers' Gazette.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Edmund Duggins, clerk to Mr. Watson, a conveyancer,
of Dyer's-buildings, was charged by Mr. Charles Lemon
Greaves, a solicitor, of Furnival's lun, with enforcing
payment of his fee as a barrister's clerk by unlawful
means. Mr. Greaves laid his charge as either an assault,
an extortion of half-a-crown, or the stealing of half-a-
crown.

Mr. Ballantine supported the complaint, and Mr.
Ilorry defended the prisoner.
Mr. Ballantine stated that his client went to the con-
veyancer's chambers to speak to him on business, and
upon entering the prisoner closed the door, and refused
to let him leave until he paid him a shilling. There
being no such recognised fee, the prisoner raised it to
half-a-crown. Upon another person coming to Mr.
Greaves's call for assistance, Mr. Greares held out some
cash, and told him that he might take what he demanded,
but he would have to answer it. Either because he
wanted the money, or did not care what he did, the
prisoner actually took a sum of 28.-6 d., there being
nothing due to him at the time. He was not at liberty
to press the case as one merely of assault, but would
leave it to the magistrates to say what offence had been
committed. _ _ _

Mr. 11O1ry remarked that his client had been already
charged with felony at the station, and it would be better
to state whether that charge was now made or not.
Mr. Ballantine wished only to place the fact before
the aldermen, and leave them to say what the offence
was. _ _

• —.
Mr. Greaves then stated that he had been in the habit
of going to Mr. Watson's chambers, but he did not owe
him or his clerk any money. On Monday evening he
called at the chambers and asked if ho could speak with
Mr. Watson ? Without answering the question, the
children prisoner put his back against the room door, and asked
him for a shilling. Witness replied he did not owe him
a shilling. The prisoner said, " I'll be d—d if you shall
go out till you give me the shilling, unless you go out at
that window."ildn offer
in
been inconvenient, as he must have dropped a dis-
tance of 12 feet. Witness called out of the window to
some them by
wsay of the window would
penny to fetch a police-
man,g
and witness then said, " You blackguard, what
are you detaining me for ?" The prisoner then, in a
menacing attitude, said, " If you call me that again, I
will knock your head through the wall." Mr. Besant, a
solicitor, came to witness's aid, and in his presence he
held out some money in his hand to the prisoner, and
told him to take what he demanded at his peril. The
prisoner took 2s. 6d. Witness would have stayed in the
chreebers all night rather than have submitted to the
extortion, if he had not engaged to go to a dinner, which
ergagernent he incidentally mentioned to the prisoner
when he inquired for Mr. Watson.
Mr. Alderman Wool) said the facts, as stated, would
re Leaving
e in
support either a charg e of assault or larceny.
Mr. Horry asked the witness if he had not delivered
to Mr. Watson instructions to draw a bill of foreclosure
in the case of " Greaves re Godfrey."
The witriese said he had.
Mr. Horn, asked it he left the clerk's fee along with
the papers?
The witness said he had not, because the fees were not
due till the work was clone.
Mr. Alderman Woos said, there was this reason for
not paying the conveyancer's and clerk's fee at the time
the papers were delivered,—the solicitor could not fere-
see the extent of the work to be dune, and the proper
charge for it.
Mr. Horry asked the witness if the prisoner did not
ask for a shilling on account?
Witness replied he did not.
Mr. Horry asked if the prisoner had not called on him
for the fees in this case?

The witness said, yes, but only for the purpose of an-
noyance.

Mr. Horry inquired, what he meant by " for the pur-
pose of annoyance?" Was not the money due ?
Witness said, he meant by annoyance that he tried to
insinuate himselt into wi.rn-ss's room.

Mr. Alderman WOOD asked how the prisoner would
be relieved from the charge of assault if the money were
due. Sur pose it were due, he could not enforce pay-
ment by assault.
Mr. Alderman JoaNsolg asked, what was the custom
with regard to payment of fees to barristers' clerks?
Mr. Greaves said, sometimes fees were delivered with
the papers; but the usual mode was, to pay when the
work was done; and it had not been completed in this
case.

Mr. Alderman WOOD added, that generally the fees
were allowed to run to the end of the term, and then
paid off.
Mr. liallantine, to show that nothing was due to Mr.
Watson at the time, put in an I 0 U for 11. 7s. 6d.,
which Mr. Watson had signed on Saturday last and
given to Mr. Greaves.
Mr. Horry expressed his readiness to meet the case
at the sessions either as a larceny or an assault.
The Aldermen consulted, and
Mr Alderman WOOD then said, they would deal with
it summarily as an assault, which they had power to do,
and they fined the prisoner 405., or, in default, to be im-
prisoned for one month; and further, to enter into his
recognizance in 101. to keep the peace for six months.
Mr. Horry expressed some disappointment, as he
should have been prepared to go further into the matter
at the sessions. He was ready to give bail to appear at
the sessions.

Mr. Alderman WOOD replied, he thought it was a
proper case for the exercise of summary jurisdiction.
The defendant paid the fine and was discharged.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A solicitor and a gentleman (understood to be the
uncle of the Hon. Henry Arundel, who was lately fined
51. for an indecent assault on an Italian boy, and in ad-
dition sent to prison for a month for an assault on a
police-constable,) entered the Court yesterday and men-
tioned to Mr. Hardwick that an application had been
made to Sir George Grey, the Secretary for the Home
Department, for a commutation of the sentence of im-
prisonment on the Hon. Henry Arundel, and that this ap-
plication was now under consideration. The solicitor
also wished to know how it happened thut the circum-
stance of the apprehension of Mr. Arundel became
known to a certain individual who made his appearance
in court, and who took an active part in attempting to
procure an alteration of the sentence on Mr. Arundel.
Mr. HARDWICK said he could give no information on

that point. The police must be applied to. He also
said, in the course of conversation, that the public, and
indeed the rersons connected with the law, who rnighr
be supposed to know better, exhibited remarkable igno-
rance with resp,•ct to the powers vested by law in ma-
gistrates in cases of assault. In all cases of common as-
sault, however outrageous in character, or however re
spectable the station of the accused, a magistrate was
prohibited from inflicting a penalty higher than 5/. Now,
as this penalty was found to be totally inadi-quate to re-
press the taste for such outrages on police-constables,
the law was altered, and a magistrate had power given
to him to substitute a limited imprisonment for a fine.
The exercise 01 this -power has been found to produce
salutary results, and it was generally resorted to by ma-
gistrates, and this was the reason why he had inflicted
this punishment on Mr. Arundel. Magistrates were
frequently abused and vilified, and bad all sorts of im-
putations cast upon them, because they had not gone be•
yond the law in eases of outrage, and inflicted a punish-
ment that the law did not permit.
The applicants, after some further conversation, left
the court.

A military-looking man, who gave the assumed name
of Jobn Butler, was tined 51. t',.r an indecent assault
upon a boy in a public-house in Green-street, Leicester-

square.

THAMES.

A tall and powerful man, Henry Jones Harrison, was
charged with assaulting and wounding Anne Fox.
The case was brought before the magistrate by Police-
sergeant Nicholas, No. 1, K, in consequence of a com-
munication made to that officer by Mr. Cleland, a sur-
geon, residing in Ratcliff, that a patient of his was in a
dying state from the effects of injuries she had received
from her husband. Nicholas immediately took the pri-
soner into custody. Harrison is a labourer, and was
formerly a police constable of the K division.
Sarah Ince stated, that on Saturday fortnight the pri-
soner came home very tipsy, after the witness had been
to market, and quarrelled with Anne Fox, a woman
with whom he cohabited, and kicked her on the stairs.
Fox immediately afterwards exclaimed, " Oh, Harrison,
you have murdered me I" He then kicked her after she
was down, and the woman had been ill ever since, and
was now dying. Nicholas then put in the following
certificate:—

"I hereby certify that Mrs. Fox, of Dunstan-place,
has been under my care for the last fortnight, with an
inflammatory affection of the bowels, the result, as she
states, of violence offered to her by her husband, a kick
on the stomach, and from which I believe her to be in
imminent danger.
" June 2. "A. CLELAND, jun., surgeon ,Rateliff."
Mr. Cleland gave evidence in confirmation of his cer •
tifieate. The woman was in the most imminent danger.
Mr. BALLANTINE gave directions to Inspector Bilson,
of the K division, to proceed to the house in Dunstan
place, and take down in writing any statement which
Anne Fox might have to make in the presence of the
prisoner, and bring the case before him in the afternoon.
Some hours afterwards the prisoner was again ar-
raigned in the dock. He was in a very excited state,
and was made fully aware of his perilous situation.
Inspector Bilson said he found the woman very ill in-
deed, life was fast ebbing, and the doctor said he believed
his patient was in a dying state. He took down the
statement of Anne Fox in writing, in the presence of
the prisoner, and she afterwards signed it.
Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, read the statement, which
was to the following effect:—
" Anne Fox, residing at No. 6, Dunstan-alley, parish
of Stepney, says—On last Saturday night fortnight the
15th day of :limy, 1847, between ten and eleven
o'clock, the prisoner Henry Jones Harrison, withwhom
I have been living about eighteen months as man and
wife, came home very tipsy. He sent for some gin, part
of which I drank, and part the prisoner drank, about
eleven o'clock. No quarrel took place at that time, hut
on my returning between eleven and twelve o'clock,
having been to make!, the prisoner looked me out of
my room. I kicked the panel of the door, which I
pushed out, and, putting my hand inside, let myself into
the room. The prisoner jumped up, and made use of
the expression, I will scrag th.,, b--,' and kicked me
in the stomach. I fell down by the room door, in con•
sequence of the kick. After I was upon the fiaer, the
prisoner again kicked roe in the side. I then called out
• Police,' and I said, 'lam a murdered woman.' Sarah
Ince came up stairs to my assistance, and I asked her
to go for the police. She left for that purpose, and a
police-constable came into the room in a few minutes.
I did riot call on the constable to take the prisoner into
custody. I firmly believe that the illness lam now
labouring under, viz , pains in the stomach, is occasioned
by the violence of the prisoner on the night in question,
as I was previous to that in good health. Taken on the
2d of June, 1847. "ANNE FOX."
Mr. BALLANTINE (addressing the prisoner) said—This
is the declaration of the unfortunate woman, and the
doctor says she is dying.
The prisoner buried his faco in his hands, and sobbed
aloud.
Mr. BALLANTINE—You may hold down your head,
but your sorrow comes too late. You may have kicked
the woman to death, if she dies, as I am afraid she will;
and I commit you to prison without bail for a week,
when you will be brought up again, most probably to
be committed for wilful murder.
WE,N7 MINS7'ER.

Mr. Somers, M.P. for Sligo, accompanied by three or
four friends, waited upon Mr. Broderip, and solicited his
assistance under the following circumstances:—
Mr. Somers said, that on the previous evening a person
named O'Connor, the son of a highly respeetable towns-
man of the borough he represented in Parliament, came
up to him in the lobby of the House of Commons, and
called him a privileged swindler, a robber, and other
opprobrious epithets. He also shook a stick which he
had in his hand, and placed himself before him in a
menacing attitude, Mr. Gossett, the Assistant-Sergeant-
at-Arms, immediately had the person put out. On Mr.
Somers subsequently leaving the House, O'Connor came
up to him in the street, and repeated the same offensive
conduct. Mr. Somers said that he could with difficulty
keep his temper, and he felt that unless the man was
restrained by the law, a breach of the peace must be the
consequence. The person of whom he complained had,
without the slightest reason, annoyed him for a length
of time past in various ways, and it was the great respect
that he entertained for the offender's father alone that
had made him hesitate to take proceedings against the
son.

Mr. BRODERIP said that Mr. Somers could avail him-
self of either of two courses. He could take a warrant
against the offender for the intimidating conduct in the
lobby of the House of Commons; or he might proceed
against him under the Police Act for the abusive lan-
guage in the street.

Yin Somers gave the first-named course the prefer.
ence, and a warrant was accordingly issued.
HAMMERSMITH.
Amongst the names of persons charged on the police
charge-sheet laid before Mr. W. F. Beadon, the sitting
magistrate, appeared that of Lord Viscount Neville of the
2d Lite Guards, Regent's Park Barracks, charged with
having broken a window at the house of Mr. Barber,
hatter, Brentford end, Isleworth.
Mr. BEADON inquired if the noble offender was in at-
tendaisee?

lespecior Morgan, T. division, said he was not. He
had been bailed immediately that he was brought to the
station, bu: had not attended.
A gentleman who stated himself to be an officer in the
same regiment said he bad attended for his Lordship,
and had satisfactorily arranged with the complainant,
who had no charge to prefer.
Mr. Barber having confirmed that statement,
The bail book was Wen handed up to the magistrate
to mark with the accused's discharge, but
Mr. BEADON demurred at doing so, on the ground that
the noble detendant had not surrendered in cimcharge of
his bail, and eventually the book was marked that the
recognisance should be estreated.
The ground of the charge, Mr. Barber informed our
reporter, was, that about a quarter past eight o'clock on
the previous evening, as the Noble Viscount was driving
a four-in-hand, on which were four other gentlemen,
along the Great Western Road from Ascot, on passing
the complainant's house they discharged a shower of
oranges against a window at which his wire and child were
standing. Mr. Barber pursued them through Brentford,
and gave information of the outrage at the Brentford
station-house, when Policeman Ambridge, 'l' 162, in-
stantly jumped on a horse and galloped after them to
Turnham-green; where, notwithstanding the party swore
at him, and two said they were magistrates, he took his
Lordship into custody.