The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-05 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE VESTRY•

THE POOR-LAW COMMISSIONERS AND THE

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The usual weekly meeting of the guardians of this
parish took place yesterday in the board-room of the
workhouse, in the New-road.
Sir James Hamilton was the chairman.

Some of e minutes of the last meeting having been
confirmed, when that relative to the communication from
the Poor-law Commissioners, was read for confirmation,
a discussion ensued relative to it. _ _

HI asked what was to be done with that com-
munication. He apprehended that it should be an-
swered in the way that all such communications to that
board from the Poor-law Commissioners had hitherto
been answered—in a way to show them that no direct
interference on their part in the affairs of that parish
would be sanctioned by that board. The Commissioners
asked to be furnished, amongst other information, with
the books, registers, diaries, and documents used by that
board, which was a stretch of authority he would not
yield to. He had no objection for the Commissioners to
see such books as would enable them to judge of the
general management of the parish; but he would not
accede to their request to be furnished with what they
had no•right to ask for.
The CHAIRMAN—That is something like throwing de-
fiance at the Commissioners.
Mr. MECHI—Just se. I, for one, as a guardian of this
parish, will never consent to be governed by the Poor-
law Commissioners, and if they should ever attain the
power in this parish at which they are aiming, I shad
cease to be a guardian or director.
Mr. POTTER said ,t he hoped the Commissioners
would be now rot !I the same spirit that had been
hitherto opposed • t • isi. He begged to move, there-
fore, that the lett u_ question be referred to a com-
mittee, and they be viqp.e.,ted to prepare an answer to it.
Mr. MECHI seconded the resolution, which was car-
ried unanimously.
A committee was then appointed, consisting of the
following gentlemen :—Sir Wniter Stirling, Mr. Ander-
son, Mr. Mechi, Mr. Perry, and Mr. Potter.
After the transaction of much local business the board
separated.

MEETING ot, MIDDLESEX
MAGISTRA ES.-FRIDAY.

The report of the visiting justices of the Westminster
Bridewell was read. It appeared that in the cases of cer-
tain juvenile criminals who were too young, or in other
respects unfitted for Parkhurst, a sentence of imprisonment
had been substituted for a sentence of transportation. A
warrant had been transmitted from the Home-office for
their reception into this prison, which it was intimated
in the communication from the Home-office would not
cause any augmentation in the county-rate, as the addi-
tional expenditure occasioned by their maintenance
would be defrayed by Government out of a sum voted
by Parliament last session for such purposes. If this
system is acted upon it will virtually put a stop to the
transportation of certain classes of young offenders.
The report gave some detail of the increased duties
devolving upon the officers of this establishment, and
especially upon the governor, since the demolition of the
new prison, which gave rise to the necessity ad interim
of constituting it a reception prison ; and concluded by
stating that the Governor (Lieutenant Tracy) had dis-
charged his arduous superintendence of the two depart-
ments of the prison in a manner which entitled him to
augmented confidence and the highest commendation.
The visiting justices had spontaneously, in the Gover
eor's absence, deemed it their duty to record this fact,
and to recommend the court to present him with the sum
of 1001.

Mr. WILKE; then moved that the court concur with
the visiting justices of the Westminster Bridewell, in
the expressions of approval of the manner in which
Lientenant Tracy, the governor, had superintended that
prison during the past year, and ably and discreetly met
the extraordinary duties imposed on him, in consequence
of the vast number of 6,300 prisoners, who would have
gone to the new prison, having been committed to that
gaol, and under circumstances that required special vi-
gilance and prudence in him, and that as a proof of the
particular approval of the court he be presented with a
gratuity of 1001.
The motion was seconded and agreed to.
A vote of 1001., under similar circnmstances, was
carried to John Levis, Esq., the surgeon; of 501. to
the chief warder, Mr. Cree; and'of 201. each to the gate
porters.
TLe salary of Mr. George Hoare, the chief warder
of the Middlesex House of Correction, was augmented
from 2001. to 2501. per annum, after some debate.
There were nearly 60 magistrates present, and only
three dissentients.

GRAND JURIES.

The ASSISTANT-JUDGE moved, pursuant to notice,
that several presentments of the grand juries with re-
spect to their duties be referred to a committee to report
upon to the court. He briefly referred to some facts
which had come under his notice while presiding in
that court to show that grand juries were often
a mode by which villains escaped. A short time
ago he had impounded a document, which was a
written agreement between certain parties that a sum
of money should be paid to a witness, in the
event of his varying his evidence before the grand jury,
so as to obtain the acquittal of the accused. In another
case there was a notorious offender, a woman who had
been five times indicted before-the grand jury, and every
time the bill had been ignored. This was certainly un-
accountable, and it was equally strange that in other
cases they not unfrequently found a true bill when there
was no evidence at all.—(Bear, hear.) After animad-
verting upon some of the City authorities, to whom he
had written upon the subject, and who had not had the
courtesy to answer his communication, he moved the
appointment of a committee, and expressed a hope that
the legal members of the bench would afford their
assistance.

Mr. LAURIE threw out some practical suggestions on
the subject. He had made a motion in that Court some
years ago, that a clerk should attend the grand juries,
which had been carried, but it was singular that it had
never been acted upon. Since that course had been
adopted at the Central Criminal Court the number of
bills thrown out had decreased from twelve per cent. to
five per cent.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE feared that that plan would
not be of the same value in the small cases tried in that
court as it was in the cases of greater magnitude tried
at the Old Bailey.
The motion was agreed to nem. con., and a committee
nominated.—Adjourned.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 28th day of No 1846.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
X.
Notes issued .. .. . • • . 28,313,545

Government debt .. 11,015,100
Other securities .. 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 11,807,087
Silver bullioa ...... 2,506,458

428,313,545

£ 28,313,545
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1846.
,EPARTMEN T.

Dated the 3d day of December.

BANKING D.
X.
Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000
Rest .. •••• • • • • 3,479,967
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 12,808,119
Other securities .. • . 13,562,822
Notes
Gold and silver coin.. 694,687

vidend accounts).. 8,447,560
Other deposits .... • • 8,018,391
Seven day and other
bills.• •• •• •• •• •• 692,355

4 35,391,273

£35,391,
ALMARSHALL, Chief Cashier. 273
,846.

Dated the 3d day of December,

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY FOR DEC EMBER.—The
power. which a really accomplished writer exercises
over his readers is strikingly exemplified in Fenimore
Cooper's new romance, " Captain Spike; or, the Islet of
the Gulf." In the portion which he has yet given to the
public, through the medium of this Magazine, no extra-
ordinary incident is narrated, no monstrous character is
introduced, no trick is played off to electrify or galvanise
the spectator. A rakish, suspicious looking craft, com-
manded by a regular sea-dog of a captain, is highly de-
scribed working out to sea in a manner to keep clear of
an impertinent revenue steamer; and yet such is the art
with which the manoeuvres on board are related, that
even the most determined landsman is excited, despite
of himself, and feels an unaccountable interest in the fate
of the impudent Molly Swarth, her Captain, and her
crew. Maxwell's story of " Brian O'Linn," is as rollick-
ing a picture of life ashore as Cooper's romance is of
is an amusing sketch of that'
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Albert Smith,
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NEW POSTAL ORDER —This day (Saturday) the
new postal order, requiring letters for the first delivery
to be left at the London receiving- houses before a quar-
ter to eight, instead of eight o'clock, will take effect.
The collections will H future be made at forty-five
minutes past seven o'clock, in order to dispatch all
letters and newspapers by the• morning mails.
MANCHESTER, DEC. 4.—Last night a gang of
well-experienced burglars, by means of the use of the
jemmy," forced an entrance through the front door of
Mr. James Boon's house, Wilcombe-street, Hulme, and
by means of false keys succeeded in opening several of
the drawers, from which they stole jewellery to the
value of 701., and 291. in gold. Nothing has yet been
beard of the thOTes.