The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-16 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice MauLE and Mr. Baron ROLFE.)
William Biggs and Daniel Biggs, father and son,
were indicted with stealing on the Ist of the present
month, one ewe, the property of Mr. George Johnson,
of Barking Side.
William Biggs pleaded guilty.
Thomas Fletcher, the shepherd to Mr. Johnson,
stated that his master had 200 sheep all safe on the Ist
of September, at eight o'clock in the evening. On the
following morning he missed one ewe, and upon searching
about he discovered the skin, with the head hanging to
it, the feet, liver and lights. Was certain the skin be-
longed to the missing ewe, as it was one of their own
breeding.
Henry Stammers, a police constable, proved finding
the mutton in a tub under the bed at the elder pri-
soner's house. The legs and shoulders were cut up in
the same way as butchers usually cut them, but the re-
mainder was cut into smaller pieces. A sack with blood
on it was also found at the same time, and the prisoners
had been met going towards their homes. At that
time the elder prisoner had a sack under his arm.
Mr. Justice MAULE here stopped the ease, observing
that there was no case against Daniel Biggs, but one

(From the Leeds Times.)
" One half of the world," it is said, " does not know
how the other half lives." That this statement is very
much within the truth, appears from a lately published
Parliamentary Report, containing the evidence taken
before a Select Committee on the health of large towns.
For we can scarcely conceive it possible that the facts
there brought to light could have been generally known
to the public, without having led to the immediate
adoption of measures of improvement and relief. Did
the people of Leeds, for example, know that there
existed about and around them, on every side, hot-beds
of malignant fever, from which deadly contagion daily
extended into the dwellings of the rich ; that the deaths
of thousands were annually caused by the filthiness and
narrowness of our streets, the crowded state of the homes
of the poorer classes, the entire absence, in many quar-
ters, of every thing like drainage and sewerage ; that hu-
man beings were crowded into small, dark, and damp
rooms, where mothers, perhaps newly become such, and
infants naked and hungering, lay huddled indiscriminately
together upon straw or shavings, with scarcely a rag to
cover them; that from such dens, where vice herded with
want and destitution, issued immorality and crime, to be
revisited on those upper clases whose neglect and mis-
government had chiefly caused then :—We say, did the
people of Leeds clearly understand that such fearful
evils existed in their close vicinity, they could scarcely
Fail to take immediate steps to effect their cure and ex-
tirpation. Yet, that most, if not all, of these supposed
evils do exist, appears as clear as day from the Report
on the Health of Large Towns now lying before us.
In the North-cast Ward of Leeds, which is almost
entirely inhabited by families of the working class, only
Three streets are furnished with efficient sewers ; twelve
have them partly ; thirty-eight have none ; and the state
of forty is unknown, but most probably in these sewers
ire also deficient. At the same time, the cleanness of the
surface of the streets is, from want of proper fiscal regula-
tions, very greatly neglected. The accumulation of pu-
trescent animal and vegetable substances infects the air,
to many places, with pestilent exhalations. In Leeds,
~here are whole districts of unventilated dwellings, of ill-
paved and sunless streets. Efficient paving, cleansing, and
training are seldom or never thought of and enforced.
The movements of the atmosphere are intercepted.
Flth and offal of every kind is allowed to stagnate in
the wet streets until an active poison is generated which
arematurcly destroys a large proportion of our popula-
tion. There is no exaggeration in this statement : it is
oorne out by indisputable facts. The second annual
report of the Registrar-General of births, deaths, and
narriages, wonderfully corroborates the state:ncnts
made in the course of this evidence, regarding the un-
healthy condition of the dwellings of the working
classes. Thus, in manufacturing towns, the mortality
of infants (whose tender frames are peculiarly suscep-
tible to the influence of all physical agents) is nearly
double of what it is in purely agricultural districts!
In Leeds, the proportion of deaths of children under
three years of age, is 447 in every thousand ; while in
the North Riding of Yorkshire the proportion ire only
282 in 1,000 I In other words, about half the deaths
which occur in Leeds are those of infants under three
years of age—a most fearful proof of the poisonous
condition of the atmosphere breathed by our popula-
tion. Putrid and malignant fevers are also exceed-
ingly prevalent, and more especially in those parts of
the town which are the dirtiest and the worst venti-
lated. The following extract from the evidence of
Dr. Williamson, of this town, delivered before the Se-
lect Committee, is highly instructive on this point :
" It is stated, that in the Boot and Shoe Yard there
are a number of rooms, inhabited by 340 inhabitants ;
the number of rooms being about 57, with an average of
six persons to each room ; the annual rental being 214/.
That there are three out-offices, from one of which,
during the period of the cholera, 75 cart-loads of soil
were removed by the order of the Commissioners, and
which is reported not to have been cleaned out since.
There is no water within a quarter of a mile ; very few
of the inhabitants possess vessels in which to hold or to
attach water. Is that a correct description ?—lt is. If
the Committee will allow me, I will add a fact or two
in confirmation of the statement. The Boot and Shoe
Yard terminates in a cul de sac ; there is no free pas-
sage of air through it : there is no means whatever for
the regular perflation of the yard. From that yard I
have reason to know, as one of the physicians of the
Fever Hospital in Leeds, that cases of malignant fever
are continually being sent to our Fever Hospital.
" Does that arise, in your opinion, from the neglect
of these regulations as to the cleansing, drainage, and
ventilation ?—ln some instances I have reason to be-
lieve that the fever did originate in that neglect ;
when, for instance, persons in previously good health
visited and lodged in the houses, and were very soon
afterwards seized with fever, and those who nursed
them, from healthy districts, were in succession at-
tacked ; and in further confirmation of the fact, I may
state, that in an adjoining yard, where all the circum-
stances of the people are very similar, there was one
'louse which for many years had been the seat of a
fever of a very malignant character. Three years ago
the attention of the Commissioners of Police was di-
rected to the effect of the extremely imperfect drainage
of the surface water ; at that time a better escape for the
refuse water was provided, and since that period, I be-
lieve, we have not had a single case of fever from that
particular locality."
We have heard of numerous instances which fully
bear out the testimony of Dr. Williamson. There
is now one lodging-house in Wellington-court, in which
cases of malignant fever are constantly occurring, and
from whence the poisonous contagion propagates itself
abroad on all sides. This lodging house consists of two
MOMS separated by a thin wooden partition ; which
rooms contain fifteen beds, which are sometimes occu-
pied by three, four, and six tenants a piece. A medical
gentleman has informed us that in one bed alone he has
witnessed six children and two women, a moving heap
of destitute humanity. Malignant fever cases occur in
that house in all seasons. The plague (for what else is
it ?) is there a perennial lodger. How can it be
otherwise, amid the rank poison generated by so
much confined and concentrated human effluvia ?
Another case has been mentioned to us, of the con-
stant occurrence of fever in a district in Harper-street,
near which was an undrained puddle of stagnant water.
On a representation of the matter to the local autho-
rities the pool was drained, and the fever was imme-
diately banished from the neighbourhood Indeed, we
feel assured, so generally may the fever be traced to the
want of efficient drainage and sewerage, that a correct
map of the fever districts of Leeds might be made out
from a map of the sewered and drained districts—fever
being prevalent where drainage is imperfect, and fever
being proportionally absent where drainage and sewer-
age are complete.
We make a further quotation from the evidence of
Dr. Williamson :
" Can there be any doubt that the circumstance
which you have confirmed with respect to the cleansing,
draining, and ventilation of this district, has the effect
of making any disorders of a contagious nature more
virulent, and less likely to be cured in that district ?—I
have had extensive experience in reference to that
locality, favouring the dissemination and aggravation of
cases of malignant disease, and I have no doubt what-
ever of the injurious operation of consequences to the
public health.
" Are the inhabitants of the district which has been
described chiefly of the working or the poorer classes ?
Almost altogether so ; the great proportion of them arc
the settled population, but they are mixed up with a
large portion of the more vagrant population.
" Does not the character and station of the inhabi-
tants and persons inhabiting this district more particu-
larly call for attention in the drainage and cleansing
of the courts and close places in which they live ?
The scanty means of support on which many of them
subsist, and their peculiar exposure to the causes of
mental and physical depression, render them under such
circumstances of imperfect drainage and cleanliness,
very liable to serious diseases, and seem peculiarly to
call for precautionary measures."
Dr. Williamson, subsequently referring to the ex-
treme deficiency of sewerage and drainage, states that
he is quite satisfied, from a very careful observation,
that the health of the inhabitants suffers very materially
from this cause, " not only in the occasional breaking
out of malignant diseases, but in the deteriorating effects
of foul air, and noxious emanations from the surface,
upon the general health and comfort of the people.
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has an injurious effect upon the
moral character of the
people, as well as upon their physical condition ?—I
quite sure that the physical depression arising from
stheill
se causes exercises a very powerful influence in pro•
ducing a morbid state of the animal feelings, and in
lowering the moral tone of the people.
Do you think that it has a more peculiar effect
upon the young population who are just coming into
life, and who arc exposed to the evils consequent upon
being ,in these dirty, neglected, and miserable dwellings
and courts ?—I should conceive it has a less prejudicial
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Do you not think, that if the children go to any
schools where they may be well-instructed and well-
taught, where cleanliness and decency of deportment
may be enforced, and where kind manners towards each
other may be taught them, that the evil examples they
find immediately around them, and the neglect of clean-
liness and decency they see every moment about them,
tend to neutralise very much anything that they
might
learn at the schools ?—I have no doubt of it ; and I
believe such filthiness and disorder experienced at home
loosens the domestic) principle so materially as to op°-

of suspicion.
The Jury then acquitted Daniel Biggs, and
Mr. Justice MAULE sentenced the prisoner, William
Biggs, to eighteen months' imprisonment and ha:d
labour

George Grimes, a youth 19 }•cars of age, described
,n the calendar as a poulterer, was convicted of burg.
lariously entering the dwelling-house of George Fin-
more, Grove-street, Commercial-road East, and stealing
thereout eleven live tame pigeons, his property.
Mr. Baron RoLFE sentenced him to six months' im-
prisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction.
FoncEnY.—Danicl Davis, a rope-manufacturer, wilt
has for rnetny years carried on a respectable business
Old Fish-street, was indicted with uttering a forged bill
of exchange for 1081., purporting to be accepted by a
person named Hinclicliffe, with intent to defraud Sa-
muel Fox Stevens. The prisoner at first pleaded not
Guilty, but subsequently retracted that plea, and con-
fessed himself guilty.
Mr. C. Jones, who appeared for the prisoner, said
that he had sent 801. to Mr. Stevens, who had dis-
counted the bill, and promised to send the remaining
2SI. This, together with the recommendation of the
prosecutor, coupled also with the fact of the prisoner
having nine children wholly dependent on him for sup-
port, he trusted would induce the Court to take tit(
case of the prisoner into its merciful consideration.
Several highly respectable persons gave the prisoner
most excellent character, and
Mr. Baron MAULS sentenced him to the smallest
amount of puishment allowed by the Jaw—Two year'.
imprisonment.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
William Phillips, aged 18, convicted of stealing thirt7
yards of linen, the property of Sarah Garden, was sen
tcnced to four months' imprisonment and hard labour.
John Robertson alias i'FAlistcr, was indicted for
stealing one shawl, value 2s. 6d.;the property of Sarah
Preston.
It appeared that the prosecutrix was walking along
Tower Hill on the 2d of Septemter, at about seven
o'clock in the evening, when she felt her shawl snatched
off her shoulders. She turned and saw the prisoner, and
immediately crave him in charge to a policeman, who took
him and found the shawl under his arm.
The prisoner said, in his defence, that he was drunk
at the time.
The Jury found him Guilty.
The COMMON SERGEANT said that it was a most
audacious robbery, and if the prisoner had been guilty
of the slightest violence towards the prosecutrix the
Court would have felt it to be its duty to transport
him ; as it was, the sentence of the Court was that he
be imprisoned for twelve months, and kept to hard
labour.
James Poole, an omnibus driver, was indicted for
stealing four traces, a cigar box, and other articles, the
property of Win. Morgan.
The prosecutor is an omnibus proprietor, and has an
office at 5, Portman-street. On the night of Angus;
17th last, his premises were broken open, and some
traces and a cigar-box stolen. The traces and cigar-
box produced he believes to be his propenrtLisson-grove.
y.
Ann Redding keeps a lodging-house i
Prisoner lodged with her. lie always conducted him-
self properly. Less than a week before he was taken
into custody a friend came to his lodgings and slept
there one night.
ginton took the prisoner into
Police-constable Hed
custody five days after the robbery. He foua
hannd the
traces under the prisoner's bed, wrapped up in d-
kerchief which he supposed belonged to the prisoner.
The COMMON-SERGEA.NT—Why do you suppose the
handkerchief belonged to the prisoner? Witness—Be-
cause the traces were wrapped up in it.
Mr. CLARKSON—Then, Sir, you have no business
to say it belongs to the prisoner.
Witness—There was also this coat found at the pri-
soner's lodgings, marked with paint, which is now pro- I
duced. The premises of the prosecutor had been fresh
painted. (Toe coat having been shown to the Jury,
they said that the mark was so faint that it was inipos
sible to say whether it was a paint mark or not.) When
he asked the prisoner how he came by the traces, pri
soner answed " Never mind."
Mr. CLARKSON addressed the Jury for the defence,
and animadverted severely on the manner in which the
policeman had given his evidence. He contended that
the property might have been, and most probably had
been left at the prisoner's lodgings by the friend who
slept there.
Several witnesses were called who had known the
prisoner for many years, some of whom had employed
him, and they all gave him an excellent character for
honesty.
The COMMON SERGEANT having summed up,
The Jury expressed a desire to have the witness Red-
ding recalled. She was recalled accordingly, and stated
that the stranger slept with the prisoner on the Satur-
day befole he was taken into custody on the Monday
morning ; that she did not sweep out the room on the
Sunday, nor could she say whether or not the prisoner's
nd brought in a bundle with him, as she did not let
frig
.hem in.
The Jury found the prisoner Not guilty.

GUILDEIALL-(THIS DAY

EMBEZZLEMENT.—John F. Nelson, a very respect- i
able looking young man, was placed at the bar on the
charge of receiving various sums of money belonging to
his employers, Messrs. Shirk and Son, house-furnishing
ironmongers, of No. 10, Cheapside, for which he
never accounted, and procuring goods without their
knowledge.
A great number of witnesses were present to prove
the case against the prisoner, who was remanded in the
absence of the prosecutor.
SMASIIING.—An elderly man named Thomas 2.ll‘Car-
thy, who was dressed as a mechanic, was brought up in
custody of a Metropolitan Policeman of the A division,
on a charge of coining.
The constable stated that from information he re•
ceivcd, he apprehended the prisoner in the city on sus-
picion of being one of a large gang of coiners who at one
time lived in Westminster. Upon searching him he
found seventeen base half crowns on his person, and
9s. Gd. in good silver. The policeman said that he
waited on Mr. Powell, the Solicitor to the Mint, who
requested that the Alderman would postpone the inves-
tigation until Saturday.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded to Saturday

Bell's Life in London of Sunday, the 20th inst
will contain the best account of the Doncaster Races, with
a Portrait of the winner ( Launcelot), as PROPHECIED
irl
Bell's Life in London of Sunday last, Sept. 13.—The
price of Bell's Life in London is Fivepence.
SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.--The last
dahlia and miscellaneous flower show for the season, of the
South London Floricultural Society, took place yesterday
at this delightful place of recreation and amusement, and,
though the day was unfavourable, great crowds attended.
The flowers and plants were disposed on tables under large
tents, so that both they and the company were fortunately
protected from the rain, which once or twice descended
with much vehemence. The show was a very fine one,
and on a very large scale. In addition to the dahlias, there
were some rare specimens of South American and tropical
plants, some grapes of very splendid growth, a large as-
sortment of apples, pears, and more homely, yct scarcely
less valuable fruits, and some good pine. apples. There
were, in addition to the large collection of wild animals, a
military band, and an extracrdinary eruption of " Heels."
The medals distributed to the successful growers of fruit
and flowers were more than usually numerous and valuable.
Indeed the Society, from the goodness of its rules, the
proper manner in which they are enforced, and the ju-
dicious and liberal manner in which its funds are ma-
naged, has secured a reputation and position which enables
it to be munificent in the encouragement of the objects
for which it is instituted. The following are the names of
those who obtained the gold and the larger silver medals.
For the best 24 dahlias, Mr. Headly, the gold medal.
For the second best Mr. Barrup. For the best collection
of miscellaneous plants, Mr. Coutts, the gold medal. For
the second best collection, Mr. Atlee, the large silver
medal. For the best 40 dahlias for nurserymen and gar-
deners, Mr. Mountjoy, the gold medal. For the second
best collection of 40, Mr. Williams, the large silver
r
medal. For the best specimen plant, Mr. Cooper, t
large silver medal.
THE TIMES AND THE NEW ZEALAND RE-
PORT.—Though our Contemporary has been slow in cor-
recting the error into which it was betrayed as to the R -
pars of the Committee on New Zealand, it has at length
done it effectually. It contained this morning a lead:- on
the subject, of which the following is an extract : We
deem it right not only to exonerate the Committee from
the imputation of having adopted and brought up a dis-
graceful Report, but also to apprise such misguided per-
sons as may still be disposed to identify their destinies ith
the New Zealand Company, thst the territorial usurpa-
tions of that Company are, at this moment, as far from
being ratified as ever,"

INSALUBRIOUS STATE, of LEED. 1 rate very detrimentally on the characters of children. I
mean to say, that the disorder and filthiness of many of
the houses, by rendering home the object of disgust to
children, exposes them to various injurious,infuences
out of doors.
" \Vas not the same cause a tendency. to drive the
adults from their homes to public-house,i -and spirit-
,-,A1:2-1.
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shops, instead of finding their comforts by di irsfireside ?
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—I believe it does, and one can scarcely won 'li-itjinn '",c tta:,43""
being tempted to frequent the public-house w -----ito.-V o.i-''
inspects the wretchedness and squalor of some o their
dwellings."
There can be no question as to the deleterious con-
sequences of public neglect or local misgovernment upon
domestic morals. The dirtiness of the streets commu-
nicates itself to the dwellings of these who reside near
them. Cleanliness ceases to be esteemed as a virtue.
Families crowded together into narrow rooms by degrees
become blunted in the sense of decency and self-respect.
The young grow up devoid of that delicacy of feeling,
in which virtue finds so much of its defence ; and
coarseness of mind, manners, and language, from being
daily familiar to childhood, at length becomes the con-
firmed habit of maturcr years.
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COURT CIRCULAR•

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WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty, accompanied
by the Princess Therese of Hohenlohe, rode out in a
phaeton into the Park, followed by the Countess of
Charlemont, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss Cocks,
and the Hon. Miss Cavendish, also in phaetons.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert left the Castle
on horseback, some time previous to her Majesty, at-
tended by Mr. George Ed.ward Anson and Sir Edward
Bowater, to shoot at the Flemish Farm.
The Duchess of Kent walked in the vicinity of (le
Castle this afternoon.
General the Hon. Sir William Lumley took his de-
parture from the Castle this morning, and has been suc-
ceeded as Groom in Waiting on the Queen by Vice-
Admiral Sir Robert Otway.
Lord Lilfcrcl, Lord in Waiting, also left this morning.
Toe Royal Dinner Party at the Castle this evening
is expected to include the Hon. Colonel Cavendish and
Mr. George Edward Anson.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Princess
Sophia yesterday at Kensington, and the Duchess of
Gloucester at Gloucester House.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from
his scat at Broadlands, Hants.
The Turkish Ambassador and the Russian Minister
transacted business yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-

office.
Despatches from Sir J. Harvey, Lieutenant-Governor
of New Brunswick, and from Sr C. Campbell, Go-
vernor of Nova Scotia, were received yesterday at the

Colonial-office.
Sir Hcdworth Lambton, M.P., and his lady, have
left town for Italy.

THE PRINCESS AUGUSTA.

The following account of the health of the Princess
Augusta was issued yesterday :
The Princess Augusta has passed another very rest-
less night, and continues in the same state.
" Clarence House, Sept. 15, 1840."
Towards the afternoon her Royal Highness became
easier. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and the
Duchess of Gloucester, came together at five o'clock
to Clarence House, to visit her Royal Highness. The
Duke of Cambridge also called during the day, to learn
the state of his Royal sister.
Lady Mary Pelham and Miss Wynyard arc in wait.
ing on her Royal Highness. Sir Henry Halford at-
tended several times yesterday ; and Mr. Moore re-
mained in constant attendance on the Princess.
Among the inquiries yesterday at Clarence House,
St. James's, were—the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van de Weyer, the Netherlands Minister and Ma-
dame Dedel, the Sardinian Minister, the Danish Charge
d'Affaires, and Countess Bille Brahe, the Duchess
of Inverness, Marchioness of Wellesley, Earl and
Countess Brownlow, Lord and Lady Mahon. Lord
and Lady Strafford, Lady Augusta Cotton, General
Sir E. and Lady Harriet Paget, Colonel and Lady
Mary Fox, Lieut.-General Sir J. Macdonald, Lieut.-
Colonel Sir E. Cust, the Solicitor-General, Rev. Dr.
Kuper, Rev. Dr. Wesley, Rev. J. Povah, Rev. J.
Haden. Mr. Henry Pownall, Colonel Sir A. and
Lady Dalrymple, Hon. C. G. Noel, the Marchioness
of Westmeath, Mr. Fox Hanle, and Mr. Frederick
Stephenson.
In the early part of last night her Royal Highness
was more composed. His Royal Highness the Duke
of Sussex called last evening at Clarence House, and
remained some time. His Royal Highness was re-
ceived by Mr. Moore.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Mrs. and Miss de Rothschild, at Bolton House ; Mr.
Courtenay, M.P., the Dowager Lady Mountnorris, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, Lady Georgiana
Fane, Sir Henry Verney.
DEPARTURES.
Lady Blakeston, for Leamington Spa; the Rev. A. P.
Brereton, for ditto ; Stafford O'Brien, Esq., for ditto ;
Lord Saye and Sole, for Brongiaton Castle, near Ban-
bury; the Hon. C. A. Gore, for Brodrick Castle, Isle
of Arran ; the Dowager Lady Clinton and Sir Horace
Seymour, for Cowdray Park, Sussex ; Sir William
Young, Bart., M.P., for Dover ; the Duke de Richelieu,
from Fenton's Hotel, for Havre de Grace ; the Hon. Mr.
and Mrs. Adolphus Capel, fur M'ivenhoe-lodge, Essex ;
Mr. Mervyn Archdall,Riversdale House Fer-
managh ; the Marquis Nadaillac, for Brighton ; 'Lords
George and Henry Bentinck, for Doncaster ; Mr. Len-
nox Conyngham, for the Continent ; the Earl of Wicklow
and Lord Cranley, from the Clarendon Hotel, for Ox-
fordshire; Lady Huntingtower and the Hon. Misses
Tollemache, for St. Leonard's-on-sea; Lady Ellen-
borough and the Hon. Miss Law, for Dover ; Lord Bos-
cawen, for Northampton House, Newbury, Borks ; Colonel
and the Misses Clithcroc, for Hastings; the Earl of
Thalia, for Hothfield-place, Kent; Sir Edward Deering,
Bart., for Surrenden House, Ashford; Mrs. and Miss
Mitchell, for Brighton.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Tuesday
last, in the chapel of the British Embassy, at Paris, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Sir Henry Wyatt, late of the Ist Life
Guards, was united to Louisa Henrietta, only daughter of
the late William Brownlow Sheridan, Esq. The gallant
Officer's accomplished bride is distinguished by her lite-
rary attainmnats, and was a protege of the late Duchess of
St. Alban's.
The Marquis of Waterford intends to manage
the Tipperary hounds during the season about to com-
mence.
DEATH OF GENERAL BENJAMIN GORDON.
—This gallant and venerable officer died at his chateau
near Paris, on the Ist instant, at an advanced age. He
formerly commanded the 80th Regiment, and was advanced
to the rank of Lieutenant-General May 27, 1825. Gen.
Gorden was one of the 21 officers receiving reward pensions
for distinguished services, which leaves a vacancy to be
filled up in the list by the General Commanding-in-Chief.
Her Royal Highness the Piincess Augusta, we
understand, notwitstanding her extreme debility, still pre-
serves the good 11,w of spirits natural to her from her
jouth. Clarence House, yesterday, from four to six P.M ,
was thronged with the carriages of the principal nobility
in to an, who inscribed their names in her Royal High-
ness's book.
The Earl of Howth will entertain a large party
of sporting noblemen and gentlemen, during Howth Park
Races, which commence on Tuesday next.
Lord Brougham, in company with the Earl of
Thanet, attended Ashford Races, and appeared in excel-
lent health and spirits.
Holcroft's sterling comedy of The Road to Ruin
was played at the Haymarket Theatre last night; and from
the cordial manner in which it was received by a full
house, will, we have no doubt, be frequently repeated.
THE PEOVEB. MURDER.-The silent system
so strictly observed at the examinations of the various per-
sons in charge on suspicion of this murder, has been con-
tinued during the past week. We, however, learn that
the worthy Chairman of the Quarter Sessions has at last
expressed his belief that it would be better to have ono
public examination, prior to sending the accused for trial
at the next Cheshire Spring Assizes. This public exa-
mination will, in all probability, take place on Mr. Har-
per's return from Dublin, where he has gone for the pur-
pose of making further inqu'ries. It has been ascertained
that Murray purchased a watch on the day after the mur-
der, for thirty shillings, in Liverpool ; also, that on his
arrival in Dublin he spent about 41. in payment for a
stock of hardwEre, which it was his intention to have car-
ried about the country for sale.—Liverpool Times.
EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF STOLEN
PROPERTY.—It will be remembered that two men, named
Bugler and Batbgate, have undergone several examina-
tions at Marylcbone Police court, on the charge of having
been concerned in stealing from the residence of E. W.
Martin, Esq., 61, Upper eymour- street, Portman-square,
a 3001. Bank of England note, his (Mr. Martin's) pro-
perty. Inspector Penny, of the G division, who has been
extremely active in the case, and who ab initio harb3ured
an idea that Bathgatc (who was in the habit of meeting
Bugler at his master's residence) had the greater portion
of the money concealed in or about his premises, repaired
thither on Saturday morning last, and after searching. the
house, which is situated at Four Oaks, near Bir—lag b
frouad
aandgon ictis
made his way into the garden. A
adjoining the hen-house attracted his at.toenoti
aanister. which,
digging with a spade he turned up
on robbery is in many
551, in bank notes of Si. each.
ntlloo sovereigns and
on being opened, was foundoteo cgoonpitda.i
respects similar to that of
nd the actual perpetrator of
dust Face—too many
small piece
and
have been concerned in it,
penny as his share.
IRTIST.-Yesterdav mornino,
the plunder has not, in all parobability, received a single
A SOARING r
eoti upon on
the a
b n
y belfry adventurousmeansofosfa
t.
he Strand, and hundreds of persons were attrac-
t
w„imuch alarm and curiosity were excited in the neighbour-
hododto h
o
e
tfte avenue that leads to Hungerford-market and its
v
hadfear atnalodwm.
ruend wonder
himself
ivi Church, Ittrc contrived
hand
single rope, fastened from above, into the very narrow
Epee° between the two dials facing Pall-mall and the
Strand ; and there he remained at a height of at least
ilnhittYv; who
gazingi
a had witha
150 feet from the ground, upwards
of
three hours, making
sketches with as much composure and apparent UnCOneera
as if he bad been using a crayon in his own atelier,