The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-21 00:00:00

COMMON PLVAS—(TiIIs DAV.)
The ()cruet was engaged all the morning with a cage,
Young v. Limey, respecting the infringement of a patent,
but the particulars were of no interest except to the
parties concerned.

the other ztdo or the water would have to go
half a mile further than at present in order to
reach St. James's and Hyde Parks. Besides, the Go-
vernment had sanctioned a new street running towards
Westminster- bridge, and the parties in whose hands it
was placed are bound to compli-,te it under the pain of
heavy penalties. Could they believe that the G o verum nu t,
after bringing responsible men into an under, aking like
that new street, would render the improvement pertectly-
useless, by placieg a bridge at some distance from, and
compelling the traffic wishing to cross the river to go a
considerable, distance round? He did think then that he
was justified in saying that the project was one which
was calculated to injure every body who had property in
the neighbourhood of the present site, and do no public
service whatever.—(Hear, hear.) Believing that they
would agree with him in these sentiments, he would
proceed to read a series of resolutions which the
directors had framed, with a view of opposing the pro-
position in the ensuing session of Parliament. Three
bridges with so many piers would be a serious
interruption to the navigation of the river. It
was a subject, however, of which he hoped the
City would take cognizance. It had always been
a great point with them not to have too many
arches on account of the navigation. Judging by
the plans of the new bridge, he thought it would have
seven or eight piers, and that the arches would
be low, and this was proposed to be done at a short
distance from their own and Waterloo bridge. The
directors thought that as this was a matter of the
greatest importance to the shareholders of the bridge,
and to the market company, that it would be
moat desirable that a Parliamentary Committee,
the appointment of which the directors proposed,
to watch whatever proceedings might be taken with
respect to the new bridge, should contain some one
highly connected with the Market Company. They
therefore proposed that it should consist, in addi-
tion to several of the directors of the Bridge
Company, of one of the largest shareholders' and
proprietors, and the deputy-chairman of the Market
Company, if he would do them the favour to accept a
seat in the committee.—(Hear, hear.) The directors
thought that by the adoption of this plan
they should have the aid of the Market Com-
pany, which they considered very important, and
also that the friendly intercourse which would thus be
engendered would tend to the amicable settlement of
matters which hitherto they had not been able satisfac-
torily to adjust. The chairman concluded by submitting
the first proposition.
Mr. FEW suggested the addition " of Charing cross-
bridge, so recently sanctioned by Parliament," and the
expulsion of the word " alarm."
The CIIAIRMA.N thought they might justly use the
word, as they were more than surprised by the an•
nouncement of the new bridge.
Mr. FEW thought they had no cause for alarm, as the
Legislature would never sanction the project.
Another SIIARETIOLDER considered that as the Le-
gislature had sanctioned the construction of Charing-
cross• bridge, they would not be so unjust as to utterly
destroy their property.
Mr. SFUTELY, the deputy chairman of the Market
Company, said that as that was the first time he had
heard of the proposition of adding him to the committee,
he must have time for consideration. _ _

DEATH FRoNT STARVATION.

A shocking case of destitution has just occurred at
Worcester, where a woman named Dovey was left for 24
hours by the parish authorities without relief during her
confinement,
in an empty house, without a bit of covering
for her newly-born baba, which was consequently killedby the intensity of the frost and want of proper care. It
appears that the relieving °racer was applied to by the
sister of the child's mother, but he at first refused to at-
tend to the case, because the woman had had a child [A-
fore, and actually did not make any further inquiries
into it until after a lapse of 24 hours. Meanwhile the
child died.

AIAW3R(i-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

James Ewer, a respectable-looking young man, was
charged with robbing John F. Nehan.
James Naigle, barman at the Tower public-lsouse, in
Tower-street, said he was told on Saturday night that
several persons in the taproom were plotting to rob a
gentleman there. Ho went in and saw a gentleman sit-
ting there helplessly drunk, with two valuable hand-
kerchiefs about his neck hanging quite loose, a handsome
watch, with guard-chain adappendages, all of gold, on
his person, but quite exposed and loose, and three or
four gold rings on his fingers. In the room at the same
time, and about him, there could not have been less than
twenty persons, most of them ill disposed and suspected.
When he laid hold of the gentleman to take him out of
the room several of them opposed it, and expressed their
disapprobation, and some cried out,"Knock him down,"
meaning witness. The pot-boy then said to the prisoner,
" Come give up the handkerchief that you have got;"
but he denied having any handkerchief. However, as
witness saw that he held his hand obstinately in his
pocket, he insisted on his giving it up, and he then pulled
out a handkerchief and gave it up.
John Frederick Nehan identified, and said the hand-
kerchief was his, but he could not say who hat taken it
from him.
The prisoner, who had not been seen by any one to
take the handkerchief, said he put it in his pocket as a
thing which nobody owned. Ha gave a good account
of himself, which was found to be true, and ha was dis-
charged.
The Goldsmiths' Company sent in their annual dona-
tion of 101. in aid of the poor-box.

The facts developer' on the inquest, which was held on
the body of the infant on Friday, are really startling, as
showing the amount of rithery suffered by some of the
poor during the late inclement weather. The inquest
was held before Mr. J. Tymbs, coroner, at the Gloucester
Arms Inn, and the following are extracts from the evi-
dence:—

Ann Pool, a midwife who attends the poor of Wor-
cester, deposed that she was called in to see Sarah
Davey, the mother of the infant, whom she found lying
on the bare floor in an empty Louse, in Bridport-street,
Worcester. She had no covering over her, and nothing
whatever to protect her from the severity of the
weather but an old gown. There was a very little
fire in the grate, but there was no bed or fin niture either
in the room in which the woman was lying, or in any
other part of the house. The woman had for her
pillow two bare bricks. The midwife went on to say,
that she delivered Dovey of the infant, which was full-
grown and apparently very healthy. The woman had
no clothes for the child, and her partner (a man named
Boulton, with whom she lived, but to whom she was not
married) was obliged to strip himself of his shirt, in
order to :Afford a covering for the child. In this old
shirt the child was wrapped. The midwife, though the
parties were too poor to pay her for her services, was
so struck with their misery and destitution, that she
subsequently purchased with her own scanty means some
baby-linen for the child, which she found on the second
visit to be very cold. -On the following day she visited
her patient again, and found her in the same destitute
condition in which she had left her. The woman ob-
jected to go to the workhouse, and said she should soon
get about again. Her child was then lying on her bo-
som. It appeared fast sinking, and was very cold. She
considered that the child died rather from exposure to
the cold than from want of proper nourishment.
Elizabeth Scott, Sarah Dovey's sister, corroborated
the testimony of the first witness as to the destitute eon-
diti in of her sister and Boulton at the period of her sis-
ter's confinement. Oa the day after the confinement she
went to the relieving officer of the district (Mr. Crisp),
and applid to him for assistance to the lying-in woman.
Crisp applied abusive epithets to Dovey, and said he
should not go to her that day. Witness told him that
if they had not some immediate help, both the mother
and child would be lost for want, for they had not a bit
of food in the house, Boulton having been unable to
work for three weeks, in consequence of lameness. Crisp
replied that it would only " serve her right," and with
that humane observation on his lips, Mrs. Scott left him.
She believed the child had died from want of proper
protection from the inclemency of the weather.
Mr. Woodward, surgeon, who was not called in until
the child was dead, gave his opinion also that it bad died
from inflammation of the lungs, brought on from cold.
Mary Grubb and Elizabeth Davis gave similar evi-
dence to the previous witnesses as to the destitute con-
dition of the mother. The fotiiner, .by direction of Mr.
Sidebottom,the police magistrate, took to the house a
blanket to cover the woman, and gave them Is. for pre-
sent necessities. This was after the affair had become
known. There was iio fire at all in the house during a
considerable portion of the time while the woman was
lying-in.
Mr. Crisp, the relieving-officer, was called in by the
Coroner, and questioned by him and the jury as to his
omission of duty in not furnishing the starving family
with necessaries when app:ied to. lle denied that he
had been told by any one that the woman was destitute
of bedding. When questioned as to his reason for not
having attended to the case for 2l hours after informa-
tion had been given to him, he stated that he understood
that tea and gruel had been given to the mother and
child, which was all that it was desirable to give to them
at that stage. Many of the jury expressed themselves
strongly as to his conduct, alleging, from their own
knowlei'ge, that this was not the first case in which the
officer had been charged with neglect.
At the close of the inquiry the jury returned the fol-
lowing verdict :—" That the death of the deceased was
caused by exposure to the inclemency of the weather
without proper clothing." Theyalso appended to theirver-
diet the following censure on the relieving officer:—" The
jury cannot separate without expressing their opinion
that there was negleet on the part of the relieving-officer
in not giving more prompt attention to the case."

MURDER AND SUPPOSED
SUICIDE.—(THIS DAY.)
Between the hours of ten and eleven this morning,
two boys, who obtain a living by dredging along the
water side, whilst passing along the bed of the river
nearly opposite to Waterloo dock, found a human body
firmly embedded in the mud ; on towing it near they dis-
covered that it was the body of a female, with a child tied
round her waist by means of a piece of rope yarn. The
arms of the woman were both pressed round the neck of
the child, leaving one to suppose that in the agonies of
death she was firmly pressing the little innocent to her
breast. The two bodies were immediately removed to
the vaults of St. John's Church, in the Waterloo-road,
where a more minute examination was mule. It was
there found that the child was of the male sex, apparently
about fourteen months old, the female seemed to be
between 33 and 36 years of age. The latter was dressed
in an old black stuff gown, black stockings, and side lace
up boots. The rest of the apparel appeared very old and
ragged. The child, a fine-looking boy, wore (to all ap-
pearance) a black frock, long worsted socks and callico
under clothing. The dress of the two denoted extreme
poverty.

CITY OF LONDON ELECTIONS.

(THIS DAY.)
This being St. Thomas's Day, wardmotes were held
n the several wards for the election of members to sit
n the Court of Common Council.
LIME-STREET WARD.
A wardmote was held in the Ward Schools, St. Mary-
axe, Alderman Farebrother in the chair. After the
precept had been read, and the inquestmen far the
ensuing year returned, Mr. G. Rawion was re-elected
ward beadle. A letter from Deputy Mitchell was read,
resigning his office.
The worthy Alderman and several inhabitants bore
testimony to the faithful manner in which Mr. Mitchell
performed his duties.
The following gentlemen were then elected to serve
as Common Councilmen for the year ensuing :—Daniel
Cork, Thomas Budge Simpson, Thomas Symonds, and
William 'Fanner ; the two last are new members in the
room of Deputy Mitchell and Mr. Corse, resigned.
BISHOPSGATE WARD.
In addition to the former members, Messrs. Tagg and
Gilpin were proposed, and a poll demanded.
COLEMAN-STREET WARD.,
At a wardmote, held in the Ward Schools, London-
wall, Alderman W. Hunter in the chair, the following
gentlemen were elected Common Councilmen :—Messrs.
Allen (deputy), Hall, W. Hall, Davis, Johnson, Phillips,
Bracher, and Perkins.
BILLINGSGATE WARD.
A wardmote was held at the Fellowship Porters' Hall,
St. Mary-at-Hill, when the following gentlemen were
proposed for Common Councilmen for the year ensu•
ing :—Messrs Curling, Old, jun., Bower, Knill, John-
ston, Roberts, Phillip, Williams.
PORTSOKEN WARD.

Mr. FEW considered that a greater number of pro-
prietors ought to be in the committee, as the labour
would be excessive. . _

The CHAIRMAN said they would act in concert with
the Westminster Committee, and would, consequently,
derive great aid from them.
Caotain KELLY though that the two gentlemen that
had been named. Mr. Robert Few and Mr. Stutley, one
the recent solicitor of the company, and the other the
deputy chairman of the Hungerford-market Company,
amply sufficient for all purposes.—(Hear, hear.) He
would, therefore, strongly recommend that the number
should not be increased. If a further addition was re-
quired it might be easily obtained at a future period.
The CHAIRMAN said that he had considered the sub-
ject to be discussed at the present meeting of such
vital importance, both to the Bridge and the
Market Company, that he wrote on Satur-
day last to Mr. Robert Few, expressing a hope
that he would forget all past differences, and heartily
join with the directors of the Charing Cross-bridge
Company in their endeavours to annihilate their common
enemy—(Hear, hear)—and he was happy to say that
he had received from that gentleman a letter, fully
bearing out the high opinion he had ever held of him,
and expressing the happiness he felt at its reception, and
stating his determination to co-operate with the Charing
Cross-bridge Company in putting an end to a scheme
that, if carried out, would be alike fatal to the interests
of the company and themselves.—(Hear.)
Mr. STAINTON wished to know from the chairman
whether the proposition to erect the new bridge to
Charing•cross emanated from private individuals or
railway jobbing ?—(Hear, hear.)
The CHAIRMAN said that he had already, in fact,
answered the question of the Hon. Proprietor. He
did not believe it was a matter of railway jobbing, or
that it emanated from the South Western Rail-
way Company ; he had no doubt, because Lord
Morpeth had told them so, that it did not
emanate from the Government (Hear, hear)—
but that it was the project of a commission, no doubt,
anxious to do something for the public, but at the same
time extremely reckless with respect to what property
belonging to the public they injured.—(Cheers.)
Mr. FOWLER thought that a committee of the pro-
prietors ought to be appointed to act with the directors in
opposing the measure ; he also thought they ought to
be informed whether the Chancellor of her Majesty's
Exchequer was prepared, on the part of the public, to
find the funds for building the new bridge? He was
surprised that a measure that had for its object the
annihilation of public property should not only be con-
templated but recommended by a public beard.—(Hear.)
The CHAIRMAN thought that the appointine,it of a
committee of shareholders to act with them would be
tantamount to a vote of want of confidence in the direc-
tors. The only wish of the directors was to act for the
interests of the company—(Hear, hear)—and he was
sure that every gentleman present would cordially give
them credit for such intentions.—(Hear. hear,)
With respect to the other statement of Mr. Thomas,
he could assure him that her Majesty's Chancellor of the
Exchequer was not prepared to find money for the erec-
tion of the proposed bridge.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. GILBERT—WhiIe he thought that the number of
gentlemen, to assist the directors, should be increased to
four or five, begged to disclaim any notion on his part,
of a want of confidence in those gentlemen.—(hear.)
Mr. FEW, sen., said that there could be no objection to
the resolution containing a direction to the directors to
appoint four or five of the directors to act with them.

A ver strong contest is expected in this ward, the
electors of the Jewish persuas►on being determined to
oppose every person who voted against Mr. Saloman
when he stood for Alderman of the ward.

THE PROPOSED NEW BRIDGE.
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CHARING- CROSS
BRIDGE COMPANY.—(TIIIS DAY.)
A special general meeting of the shareholders in this
company was held at one o'clock this day, at the offices,
No. 9. Villiers street, Strand, " to take into considera-
tion the notice advertised in the London Gazette of 4th
November last, of an intended application to Parliament
far powers to erect a bridge across the Thames, from or
near Whitehall-place to the opposite side of the Thames,
with approaches thereto from York-road and elsewhere,
as in such notice particularised : and further, to take
into consideration and to determine the course to be pur-
sued, and the steps to be taken in reference to such in-
tended application to Parliament and the proposed new
bridge, and to pass such resolutions as in the opinion of
such meeting shall be expedient for the better protection
and advancement of the property and interests of the
shareholders, or otherwise to give effect to the deter-
mination of the meeting."
William Hawes, Esq., the deputy-chairman of the
company, presided. There was a numerous attendance
of proprietors.
Mr. Lawrence, the secretary, having read the adver-
tisement convening the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN proceeded to address the meeting.
He said it was scarcely necessary for him to say that the
reason the directors had called the proprietors together
was for the purpose of laying before them what
they (the directors) had already done with respect
to the project now before the public, for erecting a new
ie across the Thames, to state their views with
haodf.
tdheeveisoemdpafonrythaes
regard to it, and for the purpose of submitting to the
purpose of tlih'ehicinhtetrheesyts
shareholdersptrhoteeeptlianngs
much advertisement,
that as possible. The directors thought, as soon as
not to take any public steps in the
that it would be best
they saw the plans, or rather read the
matter
ac-
cordingly 1 until the 30th of November had ex-
until the plans were deposited ; and they t
might planshave an opportunity of examin-
ingthat they
pired, when the had to be deposited, in order
waited on Lord Morpeth, the Chief
immediately
them. When they had procured them, they
Woods and Forests, from whose
Commissioner of tares which would be imposed
to him the extreme
if the Government stepped forward
office the plans app
to were furnished, and explained
upon this company,
hich they had so recently
juxta-position with
powers
of` an Act of Parliament, which
erected under the
and erected a new bridge in direct opposition, and in
public advantage." That
which would be of great
advantage from the bridge
specified that "the compan
the public had derived
were to erect a bridge,
was sufficiently proved
it. The utility of the
traffic that daily passed over
of the Bill, had,
bridge, a 3 set forth in the preamble
They urged upon
therefore, been amply demonstrated.
by the large amount of
but he
tion which had emanated from the Government,
Lord Morpeth that the bridge appeared to be a proposi-
tation
considering the subj,ct for some time, the
made no reply whatever to this observation ;
deputation
after
epu the
asked his Lordship where the funds requisite o fr _
erection of a new bridge were to come from ? Lord
,
Morpeth said, " We have no funds—l have nothing to
do with the funds " adding that the plan was put
before the public by the Commissioners of Metropolitan
Improvements; he did not, however, say that it was not
a Government measure beyond that it had emanated
fr,un these Commissioners. He likewise added that he had
no funds whatever at his command, either to erect a
bridge or to give compensation to any parties whom the
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to carry into effect the object for which the meeting was
called, and that committee was now in active operation.s
A meeting would be held this afternoon on the Westminster
side of the bridge, in order to take steps for the holding
of a public meeting, at which Sir De Lacy Evans would
occupy the chair, and at which there would be, he
believed, a strong expression of public feeling against
what he was justified in terming an almost useless pro-
ject.—(Cheers.) The directors had been endeavouring
to ascertain by whom the bridge was put forward. Mr.
Barry had bean aimed at, but he saw a gentleman there
(Mr. Grissell) who was intimate with Mr. Barry, and
who stated, at the meeting in the Westminster-road,
that the project was not Mr. Barry's, and that he did
not approve of it as it was laid before the
public, as he spoke from an intimate knowledge
of the views of Mr. Barry. They were, therefore, not
justified in saying that it had emanated from a gentle.
man of the power and position of Mr. Barry. Then
from whom did it emanate ? It had been intimated that
the South-Western Railway were its promoters ; but he
(the Chairman) declared that he could not believe it,
because they had Westminster-bridge on one hand, and
Waterloo and Hungerford-bridge on the other, and
would necessarily be anxious to avoid the confusion
which the new bridge could not fail to create in the im-
mediate vicinity of their proposed terminus in
the York-road, He believed, then, that it was
a suggestion of the uild,?P Officials of the Im-
provement Commission, who had dune 2!'thing yet—
it was a crude, unconsidered proposition, etnatiV."l^
from them ; at least, that appeared to him the only way
to account for it, because no one on the face of the earth
would derive any benefit from it.—(Cheers.) Why, if
it were made, the very converse of the conduct of the
Government would take plaza. For some years they
had been doing all they could to afford the people the
benefit of largo open areas like the parks, but if
sthe bridge were wade, those who resided on

Captain KELLY deprecated the adoption of any other
course than that proposed by the chairman.—(Hear.) He
thought forcing any of the proprietors upon the direc-
tors to assist them would be most injudicious.—(Hear,
hear.) He believed that there was not a single party,
from John o' Groat's house to the Land's end, but
what would oppose the erection of the proposed bridge
out of the public money.—(Hear, hear.) He thought
the property of the Charing cross-bridge was exceed-
ingly sate, and that they had nothing to tear.
A PROPRIETOR thought after what had been stated in
the early part of the meeting by Mr. Stutely, that' it
would be desirable to know whether or not that gentle •
man would act.

The CHAIRMAN felt a delicacy in putting such a ques-
.
don to Mr. Stutely after the observations he had made.
He thought the proper course would be, for the request
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Company, considera-
tion, would respond to their call.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. STUTELY would repeat what he had stated at
the opening of the meeting, that the request came by
surprise upon him.—',Hear, hear.) He begged to
withhold his decided consent at present as
Deputy Chairman of the Hungerford Market Com-
pany, to accept the honour proposed to be conferred
upon him, thinking that he ought to consult with his
board before he did so.—(Hear, hear.) He could,
however, assure the meeting that if his joining with
them to oppose the erection of the proposed '
new bridge would lead to putting an end to
the unhappy differences that had existed between
them it would give him great pleasure.—(Hear, hear.)
After some further discussion the following resolutions
were unanimously agreed to :
" That this meeting has heard with extreme surprise
of the intended application to Parliament for powers to
erect a new free bridge from Charing cross, at a dis
tance at the latter place of thirty yards only from the
bridge so recently constructed by the Company under
the express sanction of Parliament.
" That the projected measure, while it is altogether
uncalled for by the public, would be most ruinous to
the property of this Company.
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Thanks were then proposed, and unanimously carried,
to the Chaim an and Directors, especially to the Chair-
man, and the meeting broke up.

MONEY ORDER OFFICES, ALDERSGATE. STREET.—
On Saturday notice was given that the
opposite the General
building, recent ly
erected in Aldersgate-street, nearly p
Post. office, intended as a grand centt?alpm
January. The
money office, will
be opened for business on the sth of
same way as
offices are capacious and light, fitted in the w
a banking house, every attention being
eommodation of the public.
frost
paid to the ac•
A BITER BlT.—Last Thursday night (the being very intense), I thought I would make some ice in
my garden; I accordingly placed a basin full of traw-
berry and cream on the snow. In the course of an hour
I ordered my servant to go for it, thinking it would be
by that time sufficiently frozen. He returned with a
smile on his face, informing me that the basin was en-
tirely emptied. At this I was rather surprised, but it
soon struck me that a cat must have been the thief. I
therefore replaced the basin, with more cream in it, con-
cealed myself behind a bush with a gun. In the course
of a few moments, I may say, I heard—mew, mew, mew,
which cries were shortly followed by a female: cat and a
tribe of little ones. I was not more than ten iyards off
the basin, the moon being very bright, I was able to see
plainly. When they were seated round the cream in
the midst of their enjoyment I let fly, and bagged the
mother and two of the little ones, one or more making
escape.—From a Correspondent.
NOVEL AND EXPENSIVE FUEL. The Tagus
steamer, on her last homeward voyage from the Penin-
sula, left Lisbon without having, from some mischance,
shippe,4 her usual full supply of coal. Her fuel conse-
quently failing, :,?nl e spars., &c., were first resorted to,
anl then, to make up tig3 lefteien.cy, two tons of ches-
et
nuts, part of her cargo, were cacrii.l'd to heevourin g
gdevouring
element, before reaching Plymouth. She Called at that
port, and took in a supply of coals, to fte1,•416 her
.to
complete her voyage to Southanarton,--211anrhio
Independent,

!PHA MUNI, LONDON', M®_ DAY Eviji...4p2DE.CEMßErt, 219 me.

WEST INDIAN MAII;:

The Royal• Mail steam-packet Forth, C. :CI. Chaprna,n
commander, arrived at Southampton yesterday morn-.
ing, at nine o'clock, bringing thirteen passengers and
mails of the following elates:—From Demerara, Nov.
19; Tobago and Trinidad, 20; B:.rbadoes, 24; Grenada
and St. Vincent's, 26; S. Lucia, Martinique, Domi-
nica, and Guadaloupii, 27; Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis,
and St. Kitt's, 28; Tortola, 29; St. Thomas's, 30; Sr.
Jago de Cuba, 19; Jamaica, 23; Jacmel, 25; and
Porto Rico, 27.
She also brings, on freight-810 dollars on merchants'
account, 2,723 oz. gold dust, 991. Is. British coin, 400
francs in gull, and 1,6971 oz. of silver. Cargo-2
cases of cigars (flavannali), 38 serons of sarsaparilla,
5 serous of indigo, 2 serous of hides, 113 serous of
tobacco, 14 tierces, 12 barrels, and 4 half•barrels of
coffee, 1 tierce, 8 half-tierces, and 35 barrels of ginger,
125 cases of saccades, 40 kegs of saccades, 8 cases of
tortoiseshell, 1 tierce of beeswax, and 30 packages and
parcels, _

- The Forth had a fine passage home, excepting on
leaving St. Thomas's, when she experienced a strong
headwind and heavy sea. At the time of her leaving
that island the Royal Mail Company's ship Clyde was
in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dee was on her passage from
Grenada to Jamaica, the Teviot on the Spanish Main,
the Trent had sailed from Havannah to Jamaica, the
Eagle to Porto Rico and Grenada, and the Reindeer
was at Demerara.

We learn also, that her Majesty's ship Limns was at
Port Royal, her Majesty's ship Pickle was on her
voyage to the Bahamas, and her Majesty's steamer
Vesuvius to Barbadoes ; her Majesty's ship Thundcr
was fitting at Bermuda, preparatory to proceeding on
survey at Antigua.
The following Spanish men-of-war were lying at St.
Jag) de Cubs :—the ship Soberano, the steamer Con-
greso, and the schooners Teresetal and Isabel 11.
Merchant Shipping—The British barque Ellen Simp.
son, the brig Alderman Pirie (Captain Gardiner died at
sea), and barque Helen Hardy.
British shipping at Kingston, Jamaica, Nov. 23 :
The Superior, of London ; the Elizabeth, of Newport ;
the Alice Haviland, of Liverpool; the Union, of Bremen;
and the Grange, of Glasgow.
The Forth exchanged colours with the Isabella, from
Liverpool, outward bound, on the morning of the 18th,
and in the afternoon with the Providence, lat. at noon
48deg., lon. 10deg. 40w.
M. de Fabron, a passenger from Guadaloupe, has been
delegated to advance the money for compensation on the
emancipation of the negro population in the French
Islands.

The news from the other islands is unimportant, ex-
cepting the favourable reports generally as to the grow-
ing crops. The 48th Regiment at Jamaica and the 71st
at ailbadoes have received orders for Cork, and the
Vengeance and Balleisle are expected out to take them.
We have our usual file of Jamaica papers by the
Forth, by which we learn that the House of Assembly
had been opened by the Lieutenant-Governor, in the
absence of his Excellency Sir Charles Grey. There is
like to be a brisk session. A Bill has been brought in

I • reducing all the salaries of public officers, including
the clergy. The subject of proposing an income-tax
had been suggested. The agitation on the Sugar Duties
Bill was kept up, numerous meetings had been held in
different localities, and the following resolutions had
been a,zreed to by the House of Assembly :
"1. That the policy pursued by the Imperial Parlia-
ment towards the West India colonies has been most de-

trimental to the interests of property ; and the Sugar
Duties Act, passed last session, by which they are to be
subjected to an unequal struggle with slave• cultivating
and slave-trafficking countries, must tend to complete
their ruin, anal exhibit a flagrant violation of national

faith, consistency, and honour.
" 2. That with a limited protection to their produce,
and that fair measure of support from the parent state,
in procuring free African labourers, which they had a
right to expect, the British emancipated colonies might,
in a few years, have been restored to prosperity, and
rendered capable not only of producing, as they for-
merly did, more sugar than England could consume, but
of competing successfully with slave sugars in the general
market of the world, when protection should have ceased
to operate in their favour.
"3. That by withholding that assistance, and preci-
pitately withdrawing protection in our yet infant state of
freedom, the enormous sacrifices made for benefiting the
African race will not only have been made in vain, but
lead to the aggravation of their misery. Sugar cultiva-
tion must and will be extended in slave-cultivating coup-
cries as it declines in the free ; while freedom, fostered
and c!lcouraged, would far more efficiently have
secured to England the object for which she endangers
her own colonies, rivets the chains of slavery,
and compromises her character in the cause of humanity.
" 4. That although the colonists have painfully felt
that the diminution of more than 1,500,000 of annual
exports, and that the scantiness of productive labour, are
mainly traceable to imperial policy, yet they feel more
deeply still, that the recent imperial policy, which tends
to foster the increase and to prolong the duration of
slavery in foreign countries, has destroyed all moral
value of the exercise of the imperial will in 1833, in re-
spect to the natural rights of man, and has weakened the
veneration of the colonists for the moral character, here-
tofore high, of the mother country.

" 5. That, in the now reduced state of the colony,
the prospective benefits of free trade will afford no ade-
quate compensation for the protection so hastily with-
drawn, tu:d more especially when those principles are
but partially applied to our relief; important restrictions
being still maintained to our prejudice fur the protection
of influential interests in the parent state.
" 6. That, urged by the British Government, and
actuated by our sincere desire to make successful the
great national measure of negro emancipation, we have,
amidst accumulating difficulties, largely increased the
public burdens of the island to prcvide the costly estab-
lishments rendered necessary by the change in our
social system.
"7. That, now cast off by the Government which
pressed those changes upon us with an impatience and
recklessness, justified only by its avowed abhorrence of
slavery, and with little hope of returning prosperity, it
becomes the painful but imperative duty of the House,
in justice to the public creditor, to the owners of pro
perty, and to the labouring population (for all must
suffer together), to reduce the whole of the island estab-
lishments commensurately with the diminished and
diminishing means of its impoverished inhabitants.
" 8. That at the period of the passing of the Emanci-
pation Act, the Government held out to us the most
solemn assurances of assistance and protection, to secure
a successful issue to that great measure of philanthropy.
If that course of policy is now to be abandoned—if we
are now to be invi,lved in a ruinous competition with
slaveliclding foreigners—if her Majesty's Government
are now of opinion that the protection and assistance
which alone can avert our destruction are incompatible
with the national interests, it will then only remain for
us, in the faca of the nation and of the world, to demand
of Parliament that equitable compensation to which as
British subjects we are clearly entitled.
" J. That a committee be appointed to draw up a re-
monstrance and petition to the Queen in terms of these
resolutions, faithfully setting forth the depressed condi-
tion and hopeless prospects of the colony, and humbly
praying her Majesty to direct her Ministers to review
their proceedings, and grant us relief."
Jamaica papers announce the arrival of the Indus at
Port Royal, from St. llelena, with 340 emancipated
Africans, captured by her Majesty's brig Waterwitch on
the coast of Africa, and chartered to Jamaica as free
immigrants.

EXPORT or HORSES.—The celebrated race horse
Sir R ibert Peel, with a thorongh-bred mare, and a
showy entire horse, purchased by Mr. Benson for a

Hungarian nobleman, were shipped yesterday evening
from Hamilton's livery stables, Carr-lane, on board the
Rob Roy steam-ship, for llamburgh.—Hull Packet.
DISTRESS IN MARYLEBONE.—On Friday last the
overseers were engaged until ten o'clock at night in dis-
tributing relief to the out-door poor. The average
monthly distribution of bread amounts to 8,000 loaves.
DARING BURGLARIES.—Yesterday morning, about
seven o'clock, a daring burglary was discovered to have
been committed on the premises of Mr. Joseph Mappin,
dressing-case maker and cutler, of 15, Fore-street, City.
The shop had been left securely fastened at nine o'clock
the previous evening, and yesterday it was discovered
plundered of a great pardon of the contents, consisting
of dressing-cases, cutlery, surgical instruments, and pearl
and iv..ry, &c., valued at 4001. The shop of Mr. Robib-
son, tailor, 15, Bow-lane, Cheapside, was also stripped
of a quantity of cloth, &c., valued at 1501. These rob-
beries are supposed to have been effected by means of
skeleton keys.

FIRE AT PENTONVILLE CHAPEL. Yesterday
afternoon, between four and five o'clock, Pentonville
Chapel was discovered to be on fire. It appears that on
one of the pew openers going into the building, he found
the place so filled with smoke that he was obliged to
make a retreat. Having sent intelligence to the engine
stations, with all speed, the parish engines arrived, and
also the brigade engines with Mr. Colt; the chief officer
of the B section. Upon the firemen entering, they found
the flooring of the communion burning fiercely. By tear-
ing up the boards and cutting away the joistings, the
firemen happily succeeded in extingaishing the flames.
The fire originated from the overheating of the furnace
used for warming the building, which is immediately
under the communion table.
TIIE EXTENSIVE FIRE IN DRURY-LANE ON
SATURDAY MORNING.—The following is a report of the
damage:— Mr. Noblett's factory and contents nearly de-
stroyed, with two upper floors of the front house and
the roof—insured iu the Westminster Fire-office; Messrs.
Kendall and Son, wholesale shoemakers, No. 25, roof
burned off—stock insured in the same office, and the
building in the Royal Exchange; Mr. Durieu, oil and co-
! lourman No. 23, back premises and stock damaged, and
part of front roof burned off—insured in the Imperial
Fire- offi.:e. Several other buildings have also been
damaged to some extent by fire, watr, and removal of
goods.
THE WEST-END REFUGE FOR THE HOUSELESS
pooß.—ln consequence of the severity of the weather,
this institution, situate in Market-street, Edgeware-road,
has been thrown open for the nightly reception of 200
poor. Each is furnished with a supper of bread and half
a pint of beet soup, a comfortable bed, and breakfast in
the morning.
The following announcement appeared among the
marriages in the papers last week:—" On the 2d of
August last, at the British Embassy, Paris,
,by the late
Bishop Luscombe, Dr. Lordlier, to Aviary, only daughter
of Colonel Spicer, late of the 12th Lancers; the mar•
riage having been previously solemnised in the United
States."
The wife of an inhabitant of Armelingcr (Male.
Campagne) says a latter from Basle, has hadTive children
in the aourso of the present year, T 9 the tarly pi,t of
March she had twins, and e, few days gml she km
livered of three ehildren, The twie§ afo §tiii
but the last tilreP ehiltifeq, whq 0.4h10 iht4 tkkt nr9,44
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COURT OF QUEEN'S BEIVCH, Dec. 19.
ELBISLIE v. BAXTER AND OTRERS.----"PlIE TILING AND
REIGATE RAILWAY.
Mr. Crowder, Q C., was for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Sergeant Allen for the defendant
This was an action to recover 1101., being the balance
of an account for work and labour rendered by the
plaintiff to the defendants under the following circum-
stances :—The plaintiff is a civil engineer, at
present engaged under the Government upon ord-
nance surveys, and in the autur nn of last year
he was engaged as the engineer cif the Tring and
Reigate Railway. The defendants, Messrs. Baxter,
Dixon, and Co., were the solicitors to the company,
which was only projected six weeks before the memor-
able 30th of November, but finding I hey could not com•
plete the reference-books by that day,. they called the aid
of the plaintiff into requisition, and lir, and a stuff of 12
assistants were engaged for some drys before the 30th
in making eight copies; the company were, therefore,
enabled to deposit the plans by the proper time, but as
the " panic" had made speculators fearful, and money,
consequently, " tight;" the project fell to the ground, in
consequence of its promoters wit being able to deposit
the requisite amount. The. Pl'aintiff and his assistants
were engaged almost night and day upon the
work. The assistants were employed at the
office of the plaintiff, in Abingdon-stret, and
were boarded by him during the period. He
charged 21. 2s. per day per man, a small sum the Learned
Counsel said, considering the time and the great diffi•
culty experienced in geatting persons to perform the
work. He charged 1471., 'but the defendants had charged
the company 4601. for the work. He bad received 301.
and 40/. had been paid into court, thus reducing the
claim to 701. The defendants denied the liability beyond
the above amount.

The defence was that the charge was exorbi!ant,
that the plaintiff had charged for the work in a bill sen
in by him to the committee of management. Even.
tually the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 501.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 19.
BARNARD V. COLLS.
In this cause, which was part heard yesterday, the
Attorney-General, Mr. Martin, and Mr. Cleasby ap-
peared for the plaintiff ; Mr. M. Chambers and Mr.
Bramwell for the defendant.

This was an action in which the plaintiff sought to re,
elver the sum of 4571., alleged to be due under the fol
lawing circumstances :

It appeared that the defendant was formerly the
proprietor of the Rainbow Tavern, Fleet-street, which
was subsequently taken by Mr. Isaac Argent, who was,
prior to that, a waiter at the tavern. This person con-
duoted the business of the tavern for several years, until,
in the year 1844, he became a bankrupt. The plaintiff
proved to a large amount under the bankruptcy, but for
the present amount, due to him as a balance upon some
wine transactions, he preferred to bring his action against
the defendant on the ground that he was a partner with
the bankrupt.
In support of the plaintiff's case a number of wit-
nesses were called, to prove that defendant sometimes
gave orders for goods for the use of the tavern.
On the part of the defendant Mr. M. CRAMBERS con-
tended that there was not the least ground for the pre-
sent action. The plaintiff was not in business at present;
he formerly carried on business as a wine merchant in
New Broad-street. Mr. Argent, the late proprietor of
the Rainbow Tavern, had been in the habit of discounting
bills to a large amount for the present plaintiff; these
transactions extended over a long period of years.
The defendant in the present action made an agreement
to let the business of the Rainbow Tavern
to Mr. Argent at the rate of 101. per week, but the
business was to be carried on as formerly under the
name of Coils, and there was a further condition in the
agreement preventing Mr. Argent from discounting.
accepting, or endorsing any bills of exchange without
the previous consent had and obtained of the present
defendant. The defendant never ordered the wine, the
payment of which was now sought; never knew of its
delivery, and, further, the account was kept in the books
of the plaintiff in the name of Argent only, the invoice
was made out in his name, and beyond all that, the
plaintiff knew perfectly that Coils had given up all con-
nexion whatever with the tavern; there was not, there-
fore, the slightest ground for bringing the present action
against the defendant.
Mr. Isaac Argent was then called, who stated that he
was the brother-in-law of the defendant, who formerly
waited at the Rainbow Tavern; had been in the habit of
discounting bills for the plaintiff and others to a very
large mount.

By the LORD CHIEF BARON—He 11M formerly been
in business, and had saved a considerable sum of money.
By Mr. BasszwELL--Purchased the Rainbow Tavern,
and carried it on from the time of taking possession
until his bankruptcy, in 1844. Defendant had nothing
whatever to do with the business; he never slept in the
house once in a twelvemonth; he resided in the
country, and upon every occasion when he came to town
he used to come to the Rainbow Tavern. He always
paid for everything he had in the same manner as any
other customer. He did so to encourage witness. The
plaintiff, and his clerk, Mr. Hayes, used to come very
frequently to witness, and request him to purchase wine
of him. He said that he could not purchase his wine,
as he was bound by his agreement not to do so, without
the consent of the defendant. At the time of his bank-
ruptcy, defendant obtained execution against him, and
took possession of the tavern ; since that time he had
been living as a waiter at the tavern, having no other
interest whatever in the business.

Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY GENERAL—Re-
ceived a letter a short time since from Mr. Hayes,
threatening to bring the present action against Coils.
Had offered to pay 100/. out of his own pocket to
plaintiff, rather than have the affair brought up again.
The name of Coils was kept over the door; the license
was in hia name, though, previous to his bankruptcy, the
name of witness had been joined in the license.
By a juror—Defendant knew nothing whatever of the
wine having been sent by the plaintiff.
Several other witnesses were then called, and
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied.

The LORD CUIEF BARON, in summing up, said that,
in his opinion, the agreement between the parties was
nothing more than an agreement to let the busi-
ness a kind of agreement totally new to
him, which he believed altogether unprecedented,
and, in his opinion, was altogether a fraud upon the re-
venue and police laws applicable to taverns; and, there-
fore, so far as the agreement itself was relied upon as a
defence, it aas clearly altogether null and void,
With respect to another part of the agree-
ment, namely, that part by which he was to
receive 10/. per week, if the jury were of opinion
that such a sum was to be considered as a portion of the
profits of the business, then the lessor was clearly liable;
it was nothing more nor less than a partnership. The
lessee had no powers whatever to discharge a servant or
order wine without the consent of the lessor, and he was
not at all surprised at the disastrous results which had
occurred to Mr. Argent at least. The defendant had
named 101. a week for six years, and 50/. a year for six
years, which amounted to the large sum of 3,4404, and
then he stepped in and took possession of all again. The
jury, under all the circumstances, would consider whether
the defendant had really parted with his interest in the
business, and if so, whether the plaintiff knew of his
having done so ; if they were of that opinion it would
be their duty to return a verdict for the defendant.
The jury retired, and, after a short absence, returned
into court with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages,
457/. 6s. 2d.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 19.
HALL V. GURNEY.-THE CHINESE EXHIBITION.
This was an action brought by William John Hall, a
wharfinger and general merchant of the city of London,
against Mr. Samuel Gurney, j un., the son of the well-
known capitalist and money broker, to recover 5001.,
which it was alleged the defendant, as one of the
executors of the late Mr. Dunn, the proprietor of the
Chinese Exhibition, owed to the plaintiff, being the
balance of commission still due on certain bonds to the
Treasury, executed by the plaintiff, to allow the free
importation, for the purposes of exhibition, of the col-
lection in question.
Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Sergeant Dowling ap-
peared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Sergeant Channel and Mr.
Peacock for the defendant.

Mr. Sergeant BYLES opened the case, stating that the !
present action arose out of the well-known collection of
foreign curiosities at Hyde Park-corner, called the
Chinese Exhibition. Tho proprietor of that exhibi-
tion, now deceased, was an American, who, having been
engaged in business at Canton for some years, had
selected a rare and valuable collection of articles, illus-
trative of the manners and customs of China, which, in
the first place, were taken to Philadelphia, from
whence it was transported to this country. Mr.
Hall was the agent to arrange with the
Custom House authorities. It resulted in the landing
of the goods, and after some negotiation with the Custom
House authorities, they were allowed to be taken out for
six months, duty free, for the purposes of exhibition, on
condition of a bond being given for 20,0001. to restore
them at the end of that tune. This was in 1841. At
the end of the six months the bond was, on petition, re-
newed. Altogether the bonds were renewed five different
times, half per cent. being charged on each bond as
commission. To this was added 52/. 125., as brokerage
for the landing of the goods, and three guineas for each
renewal of the bond. The articles were ultimately ad-
mitted by the Government duty free. Other payments
of sums of money had, it was alleged, been made by
Mr. Hall from time to time on account of the deceased.
Mr. Dunn, while alive, had paid several sums towards
these debts, which reduced the amount claimed to
about 5001.

This is an outline of the defendant's case, to which the
defendant pleaded the general issue, and that he was not
indebted.

A great number of witnesses were called in proof of
these facts, and to show that the charges were fair and
reasonable. The majority of them, however, stated that
the transaction was of such an extraordinary character,
and so much out of the usual nature of Custom-house
business, that they could not give a definite opinion a fie
the charges.
Mr. Sergeant. CHANNEL, on behalf cif tht derehaartt,
said his client had no pecuniary ititerot ht tlt@ present
action ; bet he had a duty to port torn, ki tht only acting
English executor of the deemed, Mr. Dunn. That
duty prompted him to resist the claim, which he con-
sidered exorbitant and uncalled for. With regard to the
brokerage, he maintained that the plaintiff had done
little or nothing to effect the passage of the goods through
the Owitcau•house, but that it was nte,ini, done through
Mr, Lahgdon, the curator of the exhibition, assisted by
My. Gurney, At the outside, all that Mr. Hnll
eottla el- int wait the ordinary Custom-house agent
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