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London, England, 1847-01-11 00:00:00

THE StiN, _LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,, JANUARY 11, 1847.

"MARY LEBON E VESTRY,

THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND THE SMALL

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

chair.

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

Mr. BELTON said that the meeting, of which the depu-
tation were the representatives, felt exceedingly disap-
pointed. after the struggle which the ratepayers of
Marylebone had made for many years past for a Local
Courts Bill, that the parish of Marylebone had not been
formed into a distrtct by itself. Under the plan laid
down by the Privy Council the parish was divided in the
following manner :—The division proposed was at Glou-
cester-place, and westward it extended a circuit Of ten
or twelve miles, taking in Paddington, Willesden, and
Twyford. The eastern division of the parish was to be
j• toed with St. Pancras and Bloomsbury, extending from
Gloucester-place to Gray's Inn-road.
Mr. SODEN wished to know what communication had
taken place with the Lord Chancellor ?
Mr. FLOOD, the vestry clerk, said he first communi-
cated with the Lord Chancellor by forwarding to his
Lordship the resolution of the vestry on the Ist of Sep-
tember last. To this he received no answer, and fear-
ing his letter had miscarried he went to his Lordship's
house. The Lord Chancellor was out of town ; and he,
in consequence, again wrote to his Lordship, but up to
that moment had received no reply.—(Shame.)
Mr. NICHOLAY was much surprised at the uncourte •
ous behaviour which had been exhibited by so high a
functionary as the Lord Chancellor to the vestry. In
common civility he ought to have answered the commu-
nication.
Mr. WiLsox then moved that the following memorial
be forthwith presented to her Majesty's Privy Council:
" To the Right Honourable the Privy Council of her
Most Gracious Majesty.
" The humble memorial of the representative vestry of
St. Marylebone in vestry assembled,
" Shovveth—That your memorialists most respectfully
express the regret with which they have found that it is
intended to divide the parish of St. Marylebone, and
unite it with other parishes for the erection of a local
court. They therefore do most earnestly beg that the
Right Hon. her Majesty's Privy Council will reconsider
such their intention, and give to the parish of St. Mary-
lebone a local court of its own, which the number of its
inhabitants (150,000) and its rental of 850,000/. so justly
entitles it to.

Atter a few observations from Mr. VANITEIMS,in

opposition, the resolution was carried with one dis

sentient.
DEFICIENCY IN THE PAROCHIAL FUNDS TO
MEET THE DISTRESS OF THE POOR.

Mr. DANIELL brought forward a motion relative to
the financial state of the parish. He said he had been
induced to bring forward the subject owing to the parish
having overdrawn to the amount of 501. on the poor-
rate account. This he considered had arisen from the
board of directors and guardians having asked for a sum
less by 3,0001. than the estimate, which amounted to
4,5001.
It was moved that a resolution embodying this state-
ment be forwarded to the directors of the poor.
Sir J. HAMILTON said, he thought that the circum-
stances which led to so large an increase in the expendi-
ture were such as no human foresight could have antici
paled. The prices of provisions had risen in a most un
expected degree. In 1846 flour was but 41s. 61. per
sack, now it was 535. 3d. ; cheese in 1846 was 575. per
hundred weight, in 1847 it was 625.; oatmeal per cwt.
was lls. 6d., now it is 16s. 9d.; barley was 13s. 6d.,and
now 14i. 3d.; peas, per bushel, were 7s. 6d.,- now they
wer! Bs. 6d.; and with regard to potatoes, whilst in 1846
they were obtained for 755. per ton, they had gradually
risen to 1205., and now they were 190 s. per ton.—(ilear,
hear.) All this, coupled with the tact that they had
given 9,819 meals to the casual and houseless, and that
there was an increase of nearly 3,000 as compared
with last year ; or nearly 9,000 in all, he thought
showed that the board of directors and guardians were
not blameable in the matter.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. WALPOLE EYRE said, the fact was that the
workhouse was now so full that they could not let an-
other person in.
After some further observations the resolution was
adopted.
TnE REGENT'S CANAL RAILWAY.

Sir P. LAURIE expressed to the vestry his gratification
at the course they had adipted on the previous Saturday_
with respect to the prokcted Regent's Canal Railway
He had communicated with the Secre.ary of State on the
matter, and had received a letter from Mr. Phillips, in-
forming him that the views of the inhabitants of the
Regent's Park were accorded in.—(Hear, hear.) He had
also received a communication from Mr. Jardine, the
ma'Yistrate, stating that if the railway was carried he
=,
must leave the park ; and from the owner of twenty
houses, stating if the Regent's Canal Company ob-
i hailed their Bill his property would be ruined.—
(Hear, hear.) The Royal Botanic Society, as well as
the Zoological Scciety, had also intimated their inten-
tion of offering the most determined opposition.
1 The vestry then adjourned.

THE PROVIDENT SOCIETY OF

DANCERS AND TEACHERS OF DANCING

On Saturday a general meeting of the members of this
society, instituted in the Midsummer of 1544, for grant-
ing pensions, pecuniary relief, medical attendance, and
medicine to dancers and teachers of dancing on and off
the stags, both native and foreign, male and female, was
held in the saloon of the Haymarket Theatre, by the
kind ptpinission of Benjamin Webster, Esq., for the pur-
pose of rec.-iving a statement of the receipts and expen-
diture of the society, to elect members, to elect another
chairman (Mr. James Byrne, the present _president,
having tendered his resignatim in consequence of his
removal from London), to consider the propriety of
taking a benefit at the theatre, or giving a ball in aid of
the funds, and to discuss the expediency of adopting Mr.
Edgar Webster's proposal of forming a school for dancing,
in connexion with the soc:oty.
Shortly after one o'clock, Mr. James Byrne took the
chair.

Several members having been elected, the secretary,
Mr. James Law, read the minutes of the last meeting,
which were contirrm.d.

The CHAIRMAN proceeded to detail some facts con-
nected with the working of the society, and congratu-
lated his fellow members upon the prosperous condition
which their institution had attained. He submitted to
the meeting an interesting letter he had received from
the celebrated C-larius of Paris, in reply to interrogato-
ries respecting the rules and regulations of the Acade-
mie Royale. Tne Professor promised to commuicate
the required information at as early a period as possible,
and gave an assurance of his hearty desire to promote
by every means in his power the views of English
artistes, for whose kindness on the occasion of meeting
them he felt deeply grateful. The next subject brought
under the consideration of the meeting, was Mr. Edgar
Webster'a proposal for forming a dancing school in
connexion with the society. He suggest. d the establish-
ment of such an academy under the management of a
committee of masters, selected from the members, and
two masters at a salary of 1001. per annum each—re•
commended the adoption of certain rules and regula-
tions for its conduct, and calculated the income annually
at 1,0001, from which, if were deducted about 300/. per
annum, for expenditure, a clear profit would accrue to
the society of 700/. each year. Mr. Webster further
advised the society to offer an annual prize of 101. for
the best essay on some subject in connexion with chore•
graphic art.
After some discussion among the members respecting
the propriety of risking the funds in what some termed
" a speculative and visionary schemer particulary as
there already existed at the Italian Opera House a danc-
ing school, it was agreed that Mr. Webster's pan should
be printed at his own expense, and circulated among the
professors of dancing for their consideration.
Mr. E. BYRNE proposed. and Mr. DELFE RIER secondecl,
a vote of thanks to Mr. Webster, for the tiouble he had
taken, and the talent he displayed in connexion with the
subject. The motion was carried unanimously.
The SECRETARY read a statement of the accounts,
from which it appeared that during the last three
months 561. Os. 10d. had been received, and 271. 4s. sd.
expended, leaving a balance on the quarter of 251. 15s. sd.
which being added to the fund in the bank, 3801. 2s. 23.'
made a total of 4081. 17s. 7d., independent of about 701.
due to the society.
Mr. JAMES BYRNE, at the special request of the so-
ciety, consented to discharge: the duties of chairman for
another year, his travelling expenses to be defrayed out
of the funds of the society.
Some other business of a routine character having
been transacted, the meeting separated.

PROPOSED METROPOLITAN
PROVE NI ENTS.
The following letter contains interesting information
with respect to various proposed metropolitan improve-
ments and railways. It is fro:n the rt fort at the Metro-
politan Railway Commissioners, and was written by Mr.
James Dean, architect; and it is dated Tottenham, April
20, 1846:
been engaged as agent to the graziers and butchers fre-
My Lords and Gentlemen—Having some years since
quentinot Smithfield Market in an inquiry before Parlia-
ment as to the enlarging of the site of the market; hav-
ing lately been examined by the Commissioners on the
Health of Towns-and Populous Districts, in which the
sewerage of the metropolis and the application of the
eewarage to agricultural productions came under con-
sideration; having lately been engaged by the Right
lion. the Speaker of the House of Commons and others
to treat with the Commissioners of Woods, Forests,
for land to lay into the Victoria Park, involving also the
consideration of the formation of new streets; and gene-
rally having been engaged during the last 50 years in a
variety of instances to lay out land for sites of buildings
and other improvements, both in town and country, and
knowing generally every part of London and the subur-
ban parishes, I feel competent to give an opinion upon
the matters referred to your consideration as commis-
sioners, and shall have much satiefaction if my labours
shall assist you in the difficult undertaking.
It has long been a source of sincere regret to many
thinking persons that no general plan for the improve-
ment of the metropolis has, in modern times, been at -
tempted ; everything appears to be done by bits and
scraps. Inquiries are perpetually going on—commission
upon commissions is appointed—the commissioners in-
quire and report—and there the matter generally ends.
There is the Board of Trade—then the Commissi,,eers of
Woods, &c.—then the Health of Towns Commissioners
—then yourselves—all inquiring into some particular
object ; and yet the objects of all relate to the name
thing, or nearly so ; to sever their proceedings would be
to destroy their value as a whole. Thus, for instance,
the inquiry as to the most eligible situation in the metro-
polis for railway termini necessarily involves the consi-
deration of street approaches and the sewerage of the
district ; then the cost and then the revenue. All these
are matters which ought to be considered together as a
whole ; not that it may be necessary to carry the whole
into execution immediately, or, indeed, for several years
to come, still there should be a unity of purpose, a one-
ness in the plan ; but that plan, I fear, can never be ef-
fected • until some master-mind , takes the lead, and an
amalgamation of the several commissions has been
brought about.
In my humble way, I have ventured to take, as I
imagine, a comprehensive view of the accommodation
required by the commercial, the manufacturing, the agri-
cultural, and the aristocratical interests of this great
country, in this great metropolis ; and though last, not
the least, to the comforts and convenience of our Sove-
reign, her august consort, and their family, both as re-
gards railway stations and termini, and the avenues lead-
, ing to them.
It has long been a matter of just reproach to us as a
nation by foreigners, that the entrance into London froth
Woolwich, Greenwich, Dover, Brighton, Portsmouth,
Southampton, and the other ports on the southern coast,
is unworthy of such a people. Commercial men and ma-
nufacturers, including the dense population of the metro-
polis, complain that the great thoroughfares are continu-
ally choked with waggons and carts, conveying goods to
and from the existing distant termini of the several rail-
ways, to and from the warehouses-of the merchants, and
to and from the docks. The farmers complain that their
cattle have so far to be driven to market, after arriving
at the railway depot ; and everybody exclaims against.
the driving of beasts through the streets at mid-day, and
the cruelties constantly practised on them, thronged as
the streets are with people, with carts, waggons, omni-
buses, and other carriages, almost to suffocation. Eng-
lishmen feel ashamed that between the Royal Palace at
Pimlico and the Royal Palace at Westminster there
should exist so much wretchedness and squalid misery,
reaching almost to the Palace door; and although hun-
dreds of thousands of pounds are yearly spent in im-
proving and embellishing distant parts of the metropolis,
Pimlico remains the same—the same filthy, pestilential
place it has ever been in the memory of the oldest
man living. Then, there is Westminster Abbey, its
chief entrance in a corner, on one side, shouldered by
houses on the other,. bounded by a churchyard paved,
or rather only half paved, with gravestones, so uneven
and so dilapidated as to be dangerous at all times, but
especially at night, to persons having business that way;
the church an emblem of days gone by, it is imagined
exits but to keep company with another barbarous pile
on the opposite side of the way, and Westminster bridge,
the most costly, the most ugly, the most unsafe in the
metropolis, upon which thousands have been, and are
yet to be, spent. To widen the way and to lower the
ballustrades little less than would build a splendid iron
bridge in a far more commodious situation, a situation
where, indeed, it would be an ornament to Barry's
noble work, and of immense utility in a local and national
point of view, and would render unnecessary another
bridge contemplated to cross from the Horseferry-road
near.
Then there is that horrible accumulation of mud and
filth between Whitehall-stairs and Blackfriars- bridge.
Surely the day is not far distant when the embankment
will take place, so well devised by the eminent Walker,
and so necessary for the preservation of the health of
those inhabiting near, and so necessary also to relieve
the streets between the Royal Exchange and Westmin-
ster Hall from the dense crowds always moving between
these points, especially when Parliament and the
courts are sitting. And now, having gone through
the catalogue of miseries, I come to the pleasing task
of showing how most of them can be remedied, if not
obviated altogether, leaving yourselves to decide how
successful or otherwise the attempt has been.
I have selected fur the site of the London general ter-
minus of all the railways now made, or that may here •
after be made, coming to London, the space between the
Minories, Whitechapel High-street, the new street lately
formed leading from Spitalfields church to the docks and
the Blackwell Railway, tinted yellow. I have chosen
that particular place, firstly, because it is within half a
mile of the Royal Exchange, and within the city, and
because a great part of the site is in an open waste, and
the remainder covered with houses of very moderate
value, except those next to Whitechapel High-street and
the Minories, which may still remain. I have chosen it,
also, because it is the only spot in or near London to
which passengers and traffic can be conveyed from every
railway on both sides of the Thames, without change of
carriage, except the Great Western, which, on account
of the gunge, cannot, I fear, participate in the benefit.
Whether it would be a convenience for the company to
make a short line across Old Oak Common, in Acton
parish, to the tunnel under Honeypot-hill, on the Bir-
mingham line, and there change passengers, cattle, and
goods, into carriages suited for the narrow gunge, would
be for the directors to determine.
The tunnel under the Thames may be continued under
the lock, which is between the two London docks, and
thence, ascending at 1 fo:-.t in 28 feet forward, arrives
within 10 f et of the surface, at the point of its inter-
section with the newly-formed street leading from Spital-
fields church to the decks. The other end of the tunnel
being also continued in the direction of the Croydon
Railway, will, at 1 in 30 feet forward, arrive at the sur-
face at the Deptford Lower road ; and thence ascending
at a gradient of 1 foot in 80 feet forward, would pass under
the Greenwich Railway, and form a junction with the
Croydon, South-Eastern, and Brighton Railways, at the
point where a branch railway proceeds to the Brick-
layers' Arms in the Kent. road. That line I would COM.
tinue to the South-Western Railway station at Nine-
elms, hereinafter more particularly described.
From the little value that the shares in the Regent's
Canal have been for some years past, and, as railways
multiply, the traffic on canals will, of course, fall off and
their value become less, I imagine there would be no dif-
ficulty in purchasing the site of that canal for railway
purposes ; and assuming that to be practicable, it will
be seen, on referring to the map No. 1, that a few yards
only intervene between the Birmingham Company's depot
at Camden-town and the canal.
Pursuing the course of the canal to where the Kings-
land-road crosses it, a new line wonld at that point com-
mence, and continue with deep cuttings (prob thly ten
feet) to the point &Junction with the Thames Tunnel in
the proposed grand terminus ; the surface of the ground
over the crossings of streets to be elevated four feet with
easy slopes each way.
I will here suggest for consideration, whether, if the
new cutting were to begin westward of the Kingsland '
Basin, that basin and wharfs might not be retained for
casual purposes in communication with the dock at
Lirnehouse,
The new cutting, it will be seen, crosses at the back
of the Eastern and Northern and Eastern Counties Rail-
way station in Shoreditch, and that two curved branches
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terminus at the Minories and with the 'railways
ham line.
The site of the basin in the Regent's Canal which
crosses the City Road, with the wharves and
warehouses,
would furnish ample accommodation for the c
and could not be better situated for that pur oitt!t traffic,
And here let me remark, that the .whole cutting passing
through the miserably poor parishes of Shoreditch,
B eth -
nal-green, and Spitalfields, is the worst drained district
in or near London.
From the point of junction of the railways in the pro-
posed London terminus, a tram-road might be formed to
lead to both the London and St. Katharine's Docks, for
conveying goods to and from those docks to the railways,
which tram-rood might be raised or carried upon a level
to the warehouses, as the parties interested might deem
most convenient.
I now return to the Croydon, Dover, and Brighton
linos of railway.
A sort of temporary railway commences and has been
formed between New Cross and the Greenwich Railway,
proceeding thence to the Bricklayers' Arms, in the Kent-
road. That branch I propose to make permanent on
brick arches, and be continued from the Bricklayers'
Arms, to form a junction with the South Western Rail-
way at Nine Elms.
At the junction of the carriage roads leading to all the
bridges near to the Obelisk, in St. George's Fields, I
propose to form a large station, for both passengers,
goods, and cattle, and to continue the Westminster road
in a direct line from the Female Orphan Asylum to and
along the bottom of the ornamental grounds c,f Lambeth
Palace, the residence of his Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury, thence by a bridge of handsome elevation,
in character with the palace, to cross the Thames at a
convenient distance southward of the Houses of Parlia-
ment and Westminster Abbey, in the direction of Buck-
ingham Palace, there to meet Grosvenor-place at its
junction with the King's-road; thus adding about five
acres of land to the Palace grounds, with an entrance to
the offices and the stable yard opposite to the Chelsea-
road.
I propose also to add space in front of the west
rend.of
the Abbey, end to form a street in the direction of, and
to fall into, the road last mentioned, which road, for

present purprT,e, I %s ill cell the -Qiieen'seroad, and ine
order to form an outlet from Tuthill-street and York-
street into the Queen's road, I hive shown a new line
of street, to lead from the Government Stationery
Office, by the wall of the proposed addition to the Palace
grounds, to effect that purr?•ete
These improvements, if adopted, would, I ilea:sine,
render unnecessary, as a public road, the Birdcage Walk,
which would then probable be placed under the same
regulations, as to the entre, as regulates the reading of I
Constitution Hill.
I will not go into any particulars as to the eligibility
of the new lines of streets fur building purposes—that
belongs to another commission. My object in mention-
ing them is to show their immediate connexion as ap-
proaches and outlets to the proposed station and ter-
minus, and the branch railways connected therewith.
For the same reason I will only glance at the space
proposed to be added to the entrance courts of the Houses
of Parliament, by the removal of the houses next to
Westminster Abbey, and the formation of a wide road
from Palace yard to the Queen's-road, and the proposed
l'alece-bridge.
The removal of Westminster-bridge altogether would
be a desirable advent at any rate ; the substitution of a
chain bridge in its stead would answer all the purp ses
really required, and would exhibit the elevation of the
new Palace and the proposed palace bridge to great ad-
vantage ; and whenever the perties interested in the
property abutting on the Thames shall come forward
with a subscription commensurate wite the advantages
to be derived by them from embanking between West-
minster-bridge and Blackfriars-bridge, they may be
quite sure that Parlament would meet them, on tie
Dart of the pubne, in a liberal manner ; and the sooner,
therefore, the thing is taken up and dealt with, the better
for all parties.
ith a new street, formed from the eastern end of
the embankment to the Mansion-house, a world of traffic
would by that means be taken from the exi: ting tho-
roughfares, now so thronged as at times to threaten the
stoppage-of all business.
Before quitting this part of the subject, I will claim
your a‘tention for one moment to another road impro, e-
poses, that of converting
purposes,
Sir consequent upon the using of a portion of the
IstiergGenetn'srgCnaonauleitcberesracnilawalyl,
whichar bounds the Victoria
Park on the eastern side, into a public road, carrying
the same across the marsh land to the settions of the
Eastern Counties and Northern and Eastern Railways at
Stratford.
Such a road would greatly relieve the traffic of the
City and Whitechapel; and if, from the junction of Sir
G. Ducket's Canal with the Regent's Canal, a line of
street were to be formed to meet the Bethnal-green-
road, and from the end of that road in Shoreditch an-
other line of road were to be made to meet the City road
a little beyond the turnpike-gate, the drive from the
West-end to the Victoria Park, and thence to the sta-
ions at Stratford, greatly relieve the thronging of the
City, and would add greatly to the public convenience,
and also very considerably enhance the value of the land
in and near to the Victoria Park for building purposes;
and, should the proposed site for the London Railway,
Terminus be adopted, I have no doubt whatever that
much of the money paid for houses to be taken down to
make the terminus would be laid out in the purchasing
and building of other houses in and near to the Victoria
Park.
The end of the new street, in continuation between
Spitalfields Church and the present terminus of the East
ern Counties Railway, is intended to be carried forward
by the Commissioners of Woods, who will also continue
the Commercial Road in a direct line to meet the new
line of street in Whitechapel, now made from Spitalfields
Church to the Docks.
One other most material object connected with the
proposed railway terminus is the removal of the market
from Smithfield, to the site tinted green, lying between
the new street last referred to and the Commercial-
road, Cannon-street-road, and the Blackwell railway;
the houses are smaller and in a worse state than those on
the site proposed for the London terminus, and therefore
less expensive to clear.
That nearly all the cattle coming from the country
will be sent by railway to market cannot be doubted,
when it is considered, as the fact is, that the cost of
driving, maintenance on the road, and the want of con-
dition upon arrival, frequently prejudices beasts from ten
to fifteen per cent., and sheep from seven to ten per cent.;
whereas if a convenient situation for a market close to
the terminus can be obtainer!, and it is seen at how many
places on the lines surrounding London cattle may be
delivered at or near to the purchasers, it is impossible to
doubt that such a situation would be far preferable to
Smithfield, great as the prejudice may be in its favour
from old associations. But we live in new times, and he
who is not prepared to go along with them is sure to be
left behind ; old prejudices must give way to the new
order of things ; which leads me to further suggest that
the site coloured blue should be purchased and cleared
for occasionally stowing away unsold cattle, and for an
abattoir for the slaughtering of such beasts, sheep, &c.,
as the purchasers may feel it their interest to remove in
dead meat, instead of driving them through the streets
alive.
I have not forgotten that it may also be desirable to
provide a dean-meat market instead of the present
butchers' shops in Aldgate and Whitechapel High-
street, and also a hay and straw market, now most in-
conveniently held in the open street. For all these pur-
poses I believe the spaces in question will be found suffi-
cient; and when it is considered how near to the centre
of London the proposed sites are, and the ease with
which they Daly be approached, I doubt if such another
could anywhere be found.
Nor must it be forgotten that the opening of commu-
nication for carriages with Thames street and Great
Tower-street and the Minories, the preposed terminus
and the docks across Tower-hill would be attended with
the greatest benefit to commercial intercourse, and
would prejtelice toe interest of no one.
The site of the present Smithfield market would
form admirably in:u a dead meat market, and the
sheep and pig market would form a general market for
all other articles, in substitution for Newgete market,
now so cramped fur room, and the approaches to which
are so narrow and inconvenient as to greatly interfere
with persons passing along Newgate-street to and from
the city.
As regards the sewerage that would be intercepted at
the sides of the proposed railway, I propose that a sewer
of the first class shall be sunk in the middle of the rail-
way space between Kingsland-bridge and the docks, and
thence carried to the nearest sewer, at a lower level
leading to the Thames, unless in the meantime an oppor-
tunity shall offer for carrying into effect the plan de-
scribed in my evidence before the Health of Towns' Com-
missioners for the conveyance of the sewage of the greater
part of London into the marshes below Woolwich, for
consolidation and sale, and otherwise to be used to pre •
mania has somewhat abated, it is
mote agricultural production.
expect that surplus capital will find vent in
the improvement of the soil ; and in. no way could it be
better applied than in removing. the sewage of towns and
reasonable ‘Viien th
teo
populous districts, and applying 6 the same towards the
production of food, which an enormously increasing
population is sure to require, and whether the produce
teeseewneeriagghebourhood of the palace, the
railway
be protected or not, is sure always to be in demand at
of Pimlico, so much needed,
prices always regulated by demand and supply.
direction of the proposed Queen's road would materially
facilitate that object ; whether the sewerage be carried
particularly A s
regards
to the Thames direct, or to reservoirs, to meet the ob-
jects of the sewage company, whose Bill is now before
Parliament, must depend upon circumstances ; but, at
inth
all events, no greater improvement can be made in Pim-
lice than that of thorough drainage.
Adverting once more to the proposed cutting throUgh
Bethnal green, Spitalfields, and Whitechapel, it is im-
possible to conceive the amount of disease and wretch-
edness among the poor weavers and the inhabitants ge-
nerally in the neighbourhood of the proposed line, from
the miserable state of their dwellings and want of suffi-
cient draining. A first class sewer along the line of the
proposed cutting would remove the existing evil as re-
gards drainage, and the removal of the poor inhabitants
from the tenements that would be required for the rail-
way, to cottas,es erected on the improved principles
adopted by " The Labourers' Friend Society," on sites
in the same parislics, of which there are plenty near,
would, of itself', be worthy of any Christian commu-
nity, independently of the object propeset to be accom-
plished by their removal.
[The above is interesting, as describing a great num-
ber of proposed improvements in various parts of the
metropolis. It is printed in the Appendix to the above-
mentioned report.]

ROSSINI'S PASTICCIO ROBERT BRUCE.—We have
received a long account of the second performance, with
an analysis of the music, in which every piece is traced
to its source; but the annexed extracts from a well
suffice:—
The notice in Geilignani, will
" The long-talk of rifa cciamento has been now twice
performed, and whatever hopes might have been enter-
tained of its success on the first representation —notwith-
sone which took place on that
standing the disorderly
occasion—they can exist no longer after the second hearing,
when, unfortunately for the claims of Robert Bruce, it was
listened to with the most
placid attention. Whatever be
music when heard in its ap-
the merits of the original
propriate opera, even the greatest worshipper of Rossini
cannot but admit that detached airs from La Donna del
Lugo, Zelmiro, Bianca e Faller°, Armida, &c., make
when united, a mass of splendid incongruities, resem-
bling the glittering patchwork of a harlequin's jacket.
The piece was performed for the second time on Monday
night ; there was no renewal of the attempts on the
part of the hired applauders to obtrude themselves on
the public, and consequently the piece went off quietly,
far too quietly ind.ed to allow the least hope of its eve:
becoming popular or attractive
DEATH OF MISS INVERARITY, THE VOCALIST._
This lady who, it will be recollected, performed some
fears since at Covent-garden Theatre, died on the 27th
of December, of consumption, at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Miss Inverarity, who was a native ef Edinburgh, was
born in March, 1813, Her uncle was the Scotch poet,
Ferguson. At an
early age she displayed much taste
for music, and her father determined upon having her
instructed in singing. Her improvement was so rapid
that in two years she had made great proficiency in the
art, and after sir,ging at some few concerts in Edinburgh
with great eclat, she was introduced by her father, in
1829, to Sir George Smart, who became her vocal in-
structor. After a course of study she appeared at Co-
vent-garden, in Member, 1830, as Cinderella, with
great success, and in April, 1831, the production of
Spohr's opera, " Azcr and Zemira," afforded an oppor-
tunity of improvin&" in public favour. Shortly after the
season of 1836, Mr. Martyrs, the bass singer, became her
hut,band, and at the expiration of her London engage-
uTtit they
made a tour of the principal cities of America
with profit and reputation. The fine person of Mrs. Mar-
tyn.made her :very attractive in the United States. They
then returned to England, after a stay of two years, and
'finally established themselves as teachers of music in
Newcastle-on-Tyne, where her decease took place.

MiLICE 'INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Adolphus Stone, a well dressed associate of thieves, and
..rayws Voisin, were brought before the Lord M:,yor upon
the ,a,a,rge of having robbed Messrs. Dodd, jewellers, of
N. 78. Corahill, of a (t aul,nd pin of the value of 8/.
Mr. Francis I)udd stated that the prisoners walked into
his shop at half-past four o'clock on Friday, and asked
to look at some breast pins. The tray, which was in the
window, was placed before them, and on it were arranged
four brilliant pins together, amongst other pins. Stone
took up a mourning pin, handed it to Voison, and asked
the price, and afterwards asked the price of other pins;
one of the brilliant pins, which was worth Si., suddenly
disappeared. The prisoners asked witness at what hoar
he closed the shop, and upon being told at half-past
seven, consulted together, and slid that they would call
again, and turned round and left the shop. The witness
put on his hat, rang the belt for his brother, and fol-
lowed the prisoners. The reason he did not attempt to
secure them in the shop was, that he apprehended his
property at,d his person might, in the struggle with two
able men, sustain damage of a serious kind, there being
noliody in the shop b,sides the persons already named,
except a lny b..hintl the counter, who ciuld have rendered
but slight a,sisaance in sack a case. Ile saw the pri-
sonets in GrAceeburch-street, talking, ta another man,

and spoke to a poAcernan, wit:, took the hint. lie then
himself, se:zA the two pri,oners, and told tin facer to
secure their e,fmpaniom Voisin broke from his grasp
and ran away, but was afterwards secured. The com-
panion of the prisoner e.:caperl.
The LOP.D MAYOR—Did they purchase anything?
Mr. Dcdd—Nothin.

The LORD MAYOR— Had they about them money to
purchase at ticks of such value as you describe? Mr.
Dodd—Certainly not. I understand they had only three
or four shillings between them, a pawnbroker's ticket for
a shirt, marked a shilling, and a pocket-book.
Mr. Robinson, a solicitor, attended for the prisoners,
and cross-examined Mr. Dodd, but the effect was that
the case was made more steong against them.
Huggin, a policethan. said he saw the two prisoners in
Gracechurch•street talking to a third person, whom he
knew to be one of the swell mob, before Mr. Dodd called
to him, and had been watching the three. Ile had seen
Stone an hour before in Gracechurch-street. Voisin
made a slight resistance.
Haydon, a policeman, said he had very little doubt
that evidence could be produced from the west-end of
the town to establish the guilt of the prisoners in similar
robberies which had lately taken place there.
The prisoners, who observed a profound silence, were
then remanded till Saturday.
Richard Addis who was discharged from the city
police force on the previous Saturday, was re-examined
on a charge of having defrauded the city of London of a
sum of money as expenses, for travelling to and from
Cheltenham, to bring a witness in a ease which was tried
at the Central Criminal Court. It appeared that the
prisoner, after the trial, applied at the office of Mr.
Clarke, the clerk of the arraigns, and received the sum
of V. 2s. 6d., he being really entitled to no more
than half-a-crown, his statement as to travelling by rail-
way to Cheltenham and back being all fudge.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
BOW-STREET.

Mr. Searle, landlord of the Salisbury Arms, Durham-
street, Strand, was summoned on Saturday for having
retused to receive into his house two recruits who had
been billeted on him.
The complaint was made by a recruiting sergeant of a
dragoon regiment, and Mrs. Searle attended, instead of
her husband, and pleaded Guilty.
Mrs. Searle said that neither her husband nor herself
ever objected to admit soldiers with billets into their
house, but rather than admit such persons as were sent
to her in the present instance, she would pay a penalty
of 201. ller house was usually frequented by very re-
spectable persons, in addition to which she had to com-
plain that her neighbours in the same business were not
subject to similar annoyances, for the landlord of the
Cock and Bottle, she knew, had not had a billet fur a
considerable period.
Inspector Stephens said the landlord of that house
was a free vintner, and as such was entitled to ex-
emption.
Mr. HENRY said he must inflict a penalty of 40s.
Mrs. Searle paid the penalty, and left the court de-
claring that she would always retuse to admit such dirty,
ragged objects as the recruits into her house.
CLE RKEN EL L.
CAUTION TO BILLIARD•ROOM KEEPERS. Henry
Hamson, a beer-shop keeper, in Little Warner-street,
Clerkenwell, was charged with keeping his house open
for the sale of beer after twelve o'clock at night.
An inspector and sergeant of the G division, proved
finding, between twelve and one o'clock on Tuesday
morning, a number of individuals in the defendant's
house smoking, drinking, and playing billiards.
The defendant, in his defence, handed in both his
beer license and his billiard license, the former of which
allows l him to keep open only until twelve o'clock, while
the latter gave him until one o'clock, and he stated that
none of the company had been supplied with beer after
twelve o'clock.
Mr. GREENWOOD (the magistrate) said he was sur •
prised to see such a contradiction in the licenses, but
the law regulating beer, shops was clear enough. The
license deprived them of an authority to suffer malt
liquor to be drank or cf,nsutned on their premises after
twelve o'clock, and for the defendant to allow beer or
ale in the billiard-room alter that hour would be an in-
fringement of the 1.,w, and, if not stopped, would open
a wide field for much abuse. As, however, he believed
the defendant had offended through ignorance, he would
only inflict a penalty of ss. and costs.
HAMM E RSMITH.

ALLEGED INEFFICIENCY OF THE POLICE.—On Satur-
day two men of the names of John Peisley and William
Southend, both known to the police as suspicious ciia-
racter.F, were brought belvre Mr. G. Clive, the sitting
magistrate, charged with stealing a sovereign under the
following circumstances :
The case was first gone into on Thursday last, when it
appelred that on the previous night a lad of the name of
Stephen Parker wus sent by his master, Mr. Goodwin,
confectioner, in King-street, Hammersmith, to the Jolly
Gardeners' public-house, close by, to obtain change for
a sovereign for a customer who was waiting. The
put the sovereign on the ledge‘of the bar window, and in
drawing his hand from it pulled the coin with it, which
fell down and rolled into the passage, where the two
prisoners and another man were standing. More
Parker could overtake it, the prisoner Peisley picked it
up and handed it to Southend, and he passE7cl it to the
third man, who was at the door. The sovereign was
never afterwards seen.
Mr. Goodwin, the master of the lad, then asked Mr.
Clive to allow him to state what he knew about the affair,
and having received ti.e magistrate's permission, he
stated as follows :—•' I came up and found police con-
stable 195 T there. I said I wish to give the prisoner
Peisley in charge, but he replied, Wait a bit, some one
else will be here presently.' In about five or six minutes
police-constable T 66 came up. I did not speak to him ;
hut during the time he was speaking to T 195, Sergeant
Mount. T 29, came up and said, 'What is the matter y'
I said, We have lost a sovereign, and we cannot find it.
Three men were standing there at the time it was
dropped, and one of them has got it, and will not gi7
up.' Mount said, I don't know what to do in it. I
said I wished to give them in charge. He said, have
they got the money in their possession ? I told him I
could not answer for that. Mount then said it was not
like a theft, because the boy dropped it. If it had been
taken out of his hand, or knocked out, we could take
them up for robbery. B, fore 66 T and Mount came up,
the two prisoners offered to be searched. T 195 said to
them, we are not in a hurry ; stop until some one else
comes up. When, however, 66 T came up and Sergeant
Mount, they did not enter the house, and the prisoners
were not searched."
Mr. CLIVE upon hearing that statement ordered the
three officers above-named to be sent for, and remanded
the prisoners. At a later period of the sitting, Mount
T 29, Graves T 195, and the third constable attended,
and had Mr. Goodwin's statement read over to them,
when they denied that any wish had been expressed
that they should take any of the men into castAy.
Saturday, on the prisoners being again put to the
bar, policeman Lowe, 'l' 50, who has the case in hand,
deposed that, from information he had received he should
be able if the prisoners were again remanded, to pro-
duce a witness who saw the sovereign passed to the
third man by the prisoner Southend.
Mr. CLIVE, in remanding the prisoners again to Wed-
nesday next, said the police, if not prepared to under-
take a little responsibi:ity in such a case, wore not at all
fit for the duty they had to perform. Their conduce in
the matter was, however, a question for the considera-
tion of their superiors, and he, therefore, did not think
it necessary to make any remark on the charge sheet.
He wculd, however, on Wednesday, consider what he
should du in that respect.

rmteorn es): s
si rilocnusr rfeodr
EXPENSE OF PURSUING A THIEF TO AMERICA.
Our readers may recollect a paragraph which appeared
in the papers under this heading, about three months
ago. It was agreed, by the magistrates of the county ,of
a,p
nNttudht r,evet
the
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ItoBwa4mi:na.agni
nascn namediasrmvvce r
Sir,—Having
a.rdvo,
nr Henry
gt
Dorset, t) memorialise the Lords of the Treasury for
them
Am America.
r ia. repayment
o nT of
uae
,day considerable
las
ta at the
t h sumo,
Quarter
ntdoaotrbrire:,l
efs
before
the[lleaWi
ictt nhh
Chambers,
a ICmchoobeuuenrr Court,
the Treasury to the application was read: —,4 Treasury
the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
your application of the 30th ult., made by direction of
the magistrates
respecting the expenses incurred in
takicg a prisoner named Henry Warr from America.
I am directed by their Lordships to acquaint you, for
the information of the county magistrates, that my
Lords cannot repay the expenses alluded to by you
unless such a course is recommended by her Majesty s
Secretary of State.—l have the honour to be your
obedient servant, H. TREVELYAN." After some little
conversation it was unanimously ordered that a copy of
this letter be sent to the Secretary of State, for the
purpose of obtaining his sanction to the repayment of
the money.
LORD ELLENBOROUGH.—Mr. Lewis, sculptor, of
this town, has. just completed for Lord Ellenborough a
handsome column, intended for erection at Sourham, to
commemorate the achievements of the British forcen in
India during the period of his Lordship's government.
The material from which it is composed is beautiful Caen
stone, and it is needless to add, that the workmanship is
faultless. On the several faces of the column the names
of the principal heroes of the period are engraved, as
well as the various scenes of their daring bravery. The
tablet on the top bears the following inscription:—" To
the honour of the brave men who, under his government,
restored victory to our arms in India, and dictated peace
to China under the walls of Nankin, this column record-
ing their achievements is dedicated, with grateful affec-
tion, by Edward Earl of Ellenborough." The public
will be admitted to view this interesting work for a short
time.—Cheltenham Chronicle.