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London, England, 1848-03-16 00:00:00

THE §ii.X, LONDON, THUItSDAY EVENING, MARC PI i 6, 184 S.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the
Woolsack at Five o'clock.
The Earl of FALMOUTH presented a petition
from Fowey, in Cornwall, signed by 1,000 persons, in
favour of the navigation laws.
The Earl of DEVON presented a petition from
Donegal, on the subject of electoral divisions, in
Ireland.
The NOBLE EARL then moved for copies of
the memorials, documents, and letters re-
ferred to in the letter of Mr. Stanley, addressed to
the clerk of the guardians of Newcastle union, bear-
ing date the 15th of November, 1847, and laid before
the House ; also copies of all memorials or applica-
tions from any proprietor in any other union
desirous of having his property formed into
an electoral division, with the answer thereto,
and all correspondence relating to such applications ;
also copies of an extract from the report of any
Assistant-Commissioner, upon reference made to him
respecting any such application; and also a return of
the electoral divisions (if any) which comprise the
property of a single person, or of two proprietors
only, showing the extent of the population thereof.
Earl FITZ WILLIAM said that it was a delusion
to imagine that the poor-law in Ireland would be a
relief to the rate-payers in England. Irish paupers
would continue to flock to England until they were
furnished with remunerative employment in their
own country.
Earl FORTESCUE presented a petition, praying
that on houses of less value than 101. the poor-rate
might be assessed to the owner instead of the occupier.

for Finsbury, to present it, and then to move that it
should be printed at the public expense.—(Hear.)
Mr. E\VART thought that as it was intended to
found a motion upon the petition, it would be
better to have it printed by itself, instead of being
lost among the voluminous masses of petitions
printed by order of the Committee. It was very
questionable whether the mode in which petitions
were at present treated by the House was not a con-
siderable grievance to the people of this country.
Mr. CRIPPS said that the expenses of printing
formed a very serious item in the expenditure of the
country ; he thought that if a much smaller number
of petitions were presented it would be much better.
The motion was then agreed to.
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.

Mr. E. DENISON postponed for a fortnight his
motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to
inquire into the composition and management of the
Ecclesiastical Commission of England and \Vales.
SIR J. FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.

Sir R. INGLIS wished to put a question to
the Hon. the Secretary for the Admiralty (Mr.
Ward), with respect to the expedition sent from this
country in the year 1845 to explore the North West
Passage, and in respect to which a great and natural
anxiety prevailed not only on the part of persons co-n
nected wit h that branch of science which that expedition
was intended to improve, but also upon the part of
the wives and families of those engaged in that re-
markable expedition. Those gallant fellows had now
been absent for three years, and nothing had been heard
from them for about two years and ten months. He
wished to know what steps Government had adopted
or were prepared to adopt in respect to the means to
be employed to discover the expedition of Sir F.
Franklin, whether they were prepared to send out an
expedition in :search of that officer and his crew, and
whether they were prepared to offer rewards to
to any whaler or other mariner, who in the course
of his voyage, or in the course of an extra voyage,
might obtain any information upon the subject. He
believed that if such an expedition had been sent
from any maritime country in Europe, he did not
think, and he hoped it would be found to be the case
in this country, that there would be found the want
of any pecuniary means to attain the object he had
referred to.

Mr. WARD said, in answer to the question put
by his Hon_ Friend, ho felt bound to state to the
House that there was, he was afraid, too much cause for
anxiety for the fate of the expedition to which he had
referred, for although the expedition went out
fully equipped for the voyage, it had only taken out
provisions for three years, and such being the case,
there could be no doubt, unless something was heard
with respect to it in the course of the present year,
the situation of Sir John Franklin and his crew were
in the greatest peril. He thought he could satisfy
the House that the Government had not been want-
ing in caution on this subject, in order that
every means should be adopted to secure the lives of
Sir John Franklin and his crew. Three expeditions
hed been sent out ; the Plover and the Herald were
directed to enter Behering Straits together, and the
boats of the Plover were directed to sweep
the coasts as far as the Makenvie River, and
every arrangement had been made to secure
proper researches after Sir J. Franklin and
his crew ; added to this Sir John Ross
had been sent out in the Endeavour, accompanied by
the Enterprise, both of which vessels had provisions for
two years, and also an additional supply from Sir John
Franklin and his crew should they be found to re-
quire it.—(Hear, hear.) He ought also add that re-
wards had been offered to any whale ship that
would bring intelligence to her Majesty's Govern-
ment, and those rewards would be regulated according
to the information received.
Sir R. INGLIS wished to know whether his Hon.
Friend the Secretary for the Admiralty was prepared
to state the amount of the rewadrs.—(Cries of " Oh,
oh.") As the whalers would leave this
country by the 21st or 92d of this month,
he trusted the reward would be commensurate to
the amount of human life proserved.
Mr. WARD thought it would be unwise to
state the amount of the reward that would be
offered would be equivalent to the expense of fitting
out a ship for the purpose. 1001. would be given for
information of the ship's crew, and that would be
increased in proportion to the value of the information.
MEDICAL RELIEF.

Lord ASHLEY then rose to move the following
resolutions, founded on the evidence taken before
the Medical Relief Committee in 1844 :—That
every woman claiming medical assistance from
the parish in consequence of being pregnant, shall be
entitled, in all cases, to the aid et the mediae' officer
with her first child, and also with the second or others
which may follow, provided she present a certificate
from the medical officer who attended in her
previous confinement, stating that circumstances had
occurred in it out of the ordinary and natural course
of events, which render it desirable that she should
have medical attendance on the next occasion of deli-
very. That, in the event of its being considered
necessary to destroy the child in order to save the life
of the mother, the union surgeon shall be at liberty
to seek the assistance of another competent practi-
tioner, if he see fit, before the necessary eperations
are performed, and who shall be paid for
the assistance rendered, on produoing to the
union or proper officer the joint certificate of
the union surgeon and himself that such con-
sultation and aid were essential, previously to the
expected legal and necessary deprivation of life. That
it is expedient that medical inspectors be appointed
by the Poor-law Commissioners, or by the Secretary
of State, or with his sanction ; one to ehch district to
which an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner or In-
spector is attached, at a salary not exceeding six
hundred pounds a year, exclusive of travelling ex•
penses, and exclusive of an allowance of a clerk, if the
duties should require one. That the duty of the me-
dical inspectors should be to inspect and report on the
medical tr4atment of the poor of the different unions,
and on the fitness of the medical men appointed by
the unions ; to inquire particularly into the treat-
ment of the sick poor in the union houses, and to
regulate such treatment; to inquire into and report
on the diets and healthful condition of the poor
within them generally, together with such other
sanitary duties of every kind as may be required
of them by the Secretary of Stote, or by
the Poor-law Commiseioners ; and particularly
with respect to the number of medical officers
who ought to be employed in each Union,
and, under the sanction of Poor-law Commissioners, 1,
to fix the salaries which ought to be awarded to
them for their services in each particular union, or
part of a union, in the district. That, from and
after the montn of March next, the appointment of
medical officers of unions shall be permanent during
good behaviour, they being removeable only by
the Poor-law Commissioners, whose decisions
shall be final. That no medical person be
appointed surgeon or medical officer ao v union
unless he possess a diploma in surgery, and a degree,
diploma, or license in physic, from one or other of
the Universities or Colleges of Physicians or Surgeons,
or Societies of Apothecaries of the United Empire,
legally entitled to grant respectively such licenses,
diplomas, or degree; and that if, under any circum-
stances, it should be found necessary to employ unqua-
lified persons, such unqualified persons must have a
special permission granted by the Poor-law Commis-
sioners, under their handwriting, with the reasons for
such permission annexed: all such permissions to be
annually laid before Parliament at the commence-
ment of the session. That it is the opinion of this
House that the Poor-law Commissioners should cause
a list to be made out, by the proper officer in each
parish of a union, of the poor ,who may be entitled
to attendance from the medical officer of the
union ; and that all such persons shall be at
liberty to ask the assistance, without pre-
viously obtaining an order to that effect from the
relieving officer, overseer, or other person, when so
seriously ill as to be unable to leave their homes.
That the poor thus applying shall not be entitled to
such medicel attendance beyond twenty-four hours,
unless they obtain the signature of the relieving
officer to the printed order usually issued by
him to the surgeon ; but which printed
order shall in such case be given by the surgeon to
the poor man in the first instance, to be carried by
him or his friends to the relieving officer for his in •
formation and counter-signature, as an acknowledg-
' ment of the fact of such medical relief having been
asked for arid obtained. That all casual
poor requiring medical attendance be treated
in a similar manner, the surgeon being at liberty
to refuse further attendance, if the counter-
signature of the relieving officer be not obtained.
In bringing these important resolutions before the
House, it would be his endeavour to spare as much
as possible the time of the House. He should take
every resolution separately, in order that the House
might discuss each on its own merits. He should
abstain from entering generally into the question of
the poor-laws, and confine himself strictly to the con-
sideration of medical reliefreferred to in the resolutions.
He should confine himself exclusively to the ques-
tions embraced by his resolutions, and refrain from
going into matters relating to the conduct of the
Commissioners, past or present. He had been met
by some Hon. Gentlemen with the objection that it
was not the duty of a poor-law to provide medical
relief, but as the ..law;had already made such pro-
visions, it was too late for Honourable Gentlemen
to raise that objection. In order to economise
the time of the House, he had placed the most impor-
tant resolution first, and, in the outset, he must be
allowed to protest that Boards of Guardians did not
pay that attention to the necessities of pregnant
paupers which their condition demanded. He
had, therefore, proposed that the House should'
entitle pregnant women to medical relief in
the first instance without having recourse to
the order of a Board of Guardians. Boards of
guardians were always- too anxious to save their

parishes expense, and it would be seen by the evi-
dence which had been taken on this sabject that this
practice of rigid economy frequently lead to the
demise of unfortunate creatures, whose approaching
periods of delivery 'required that they should
be immediately supplied with medical relief.
He would now refer to cases in which mutilation
and death had occurred in consequence of incom-
petent midwives having been employed instead
of properly skilled medical practitioners. He re-
gretted to bring such matters before the
House. He would much rather that they had been
adjusted out of the House, but as this had not been
done it would be necessary in order to substantiate
his motion that he should refer to some of the evi-
dence adduced before the Committee.
Mr. C. BULLER said perhaps it would save the
time of the House if he explained the nature of the
provisions by which relief to pregnant women was
given: If e woman who was pregnant could not get
through her labour without parochial relief, the
guardians, if they thought proper, were empowered to
do so.—(Hear.)
Lord ASHLEY proceeded—lt was just possible
that when a woman in this condition applied for
relief, if her husband earned 7s. or Bs. a week,
that this might be made a ground of refusal. At
present a pregnant woman could not be sure that
when her hour of travail came on, that she would
have the prompt attendance of a medical officer.
To make this certain, in all cases of distress, was
the object of his motion. Presently he should sug-
gest an improved mode of aceomplishing this. He
was prepared to show that the reprisals and delays to
which poor women were exposed when seized
with the pains of labour had led to the
most serious consequences, and that the
employment of incompetent midwives had led to the
mutilation of the child and the destruction of the
mother. Mr. White, the relieving officer of the White-
chapel union cited several cases before the Committee
in which the lives of both mother and child were lost,
in consequence of inefficient attendance. He stated
one case in which the midwife left the woman in
alarm, and another in which it had been found neces-
sary to call in a surgeon to perform a painful and
dangerous operation in consequence. He hardly
liked to read the detals to the House, but he did
not know how he could avoid doing so.—
(No, no.) Tf he wished. to umintalu the resolutions
he was proposing, he feared he must do so
as he thought the statement alone would be sufficient
to induce the House to accede to them ; but if they
thought it was of too disgusting and painful a cha-
racter he would forbear. The Noble Lord then
referred to other cases, showing the injury
caused by the employment of ignorant women.
He felt that he must make an appeal to the
House, if, in deference to the feelings of the House
and public propriety, he withheld the evidence
before him upon this subject, he trusted
that it would not be counted agains him
when it came to be decided " Aye " or "No "
upon the adoption of these resolutions. He
knew that it might be the opinion of
some persona that these resolutions would, if
carried out, lead to a large amount of fraud, but he
apprehended that that argument might be met
by a clause in the Act, making it legal to
attach the wages of such persons who had been
guilty of the commission of fraud upon the union.
Tnen it might be said that these provisions would
' tend to encourage immorality, inasmuch as they made
no distinction between the married and the unmarried
female. But could any person for a moment
suppose that a woman would enter upon a course of
guilt merely because she knew that in the time of
her delivery she could have the assistance of the
medical officer of the union. It might with far
greater justice and propriety, he said, that
the prospect of relief tended to the en-
couragement of immorality. The system as at
present constituted was the means of inflicting
great evil upon young females especially.
Under the present system, young females frequently
lacked the courage to apply to boards of guardians
for relief, and frequently some of these poor creatures
were compelled, in the last stage of their labour, to
have recourse to the aid of unskilful practitioners.
Vast sums of money were spent in this
country in shape of medical relief, but
the manner in which that relief was ad-
ministered :was most objectionable. He therefore
begged leave to move the first resolution.
Mr. WAKLEY seconded the motion.

Mr. C. BULLER could not help complaining
of the course the Noble Lord had pursued in
placing upon the paper a series of resolutions of the
whole system of medical relief as administered under
ahe poor-law, and then, at the last moment, confining
his attention and the attention of the House to one
particular case in which the system was defective.—
(Hear.) The Noble Lord had supported his motion by
reference to the evidence taken in 1844, without taking
any notice of what had been done by the Poor-law
Commissioners in the interim, and the result would
appear that it was the opinion of the Noble
Lord, and if the resolution were adopted of
the House too, that there was a neces-
sity for rectifying certain abuses which he
would undertake to prove, had long since been
most efficiently rectified by the Poor-law Com-
missiouers.—(Hear, hear.) He felt great pain in
being obliged to oppose the Noble Lord on
the present occasion, because he knew that
the Noble Lord had done much to alleviate the
sufferings of the poor of the county, and was looked
up to by them as their best friend, but he could assure
the Noble Lord and the House that this subject
had occupied his constant attention since he had had
the holding the office he now filled, and it appeared
to him that the question was too intricate to
be dealt with in the manner the Noble Lord
proposed.—(Hear, hear.) It appeared to him
that the principles and details of the questions
were the most anomalous, the most important
and the most difficult of any connected with
administration of the poor-law, and he should have
been exceedingly happy had the result of his
deliberations on the subject enabled him to
prepare some plan for the administration of
medical relief on a new proposed principle.—(Hear,
hear.) He apprehended, however, that no new plan
could be devised for the administration of medical
relief through the medium of the poor-law
and the result of all the considerations he
had been enabled to give the subject
was, that it was impossible to give medical
relief through the poor-law upon any general system,
that should prove better or more satisfactory than that
already in existence.—(Hear.) It was his opinion that
if they were to establish a more extended or complete
system of medical relief, they must abandon
the system of local agency, and local rates, and
administering the relief through the medium of the
poor-law, and devise some system of centralization
which would give from the funds of the county
a system of medical relief adequate to the
wants of the people. (Hear, hear.) His
conviction was that medical relief could not be
put upon a different footing to what it gas at present.
In stating this he did not mean to say that it might
not be improved in its details, as his belief was that
it was only by that improvement that it could
ba placed upon a proper footing. The expenditure
for medical relief was considerably on ,the increase,
and it could not therefore be said that any
economy that had taken place in the ad-
ministration of the poor - law had been
accompanied with any want of attention to the sick
poor. The Right liononourable Gentleman, in
order to prove this assertion, read several
returns with respect to the expenses for medical
relief, from which it appeared that from 1838 to
1846 the expenses for medical relief had increased
one-sixth upon the sum originally paid.
(LBYT

SALE OP A VALUABLE COLLECTION OP EN-
ORANIRGB.—On Tuesday a sale by auction of a valuable
collection of engravings; principally artists' proofs, was
proceeded with by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, the
superb
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81. 155.; Highland Drovers departing for the South,
lettere, sold for 41, Hs.; "The Reading Magdalen,"
after Correggio, by Longhi, choice proof before the
letters, 141.; " Deerstalker's Return," by Willmore, after
Landseer, artist's proof on India paper, sold for 81. 155.;
" Bolton Abbey in the Olden Time," by Cousins, first-
class proof on India paper, sold for 41. 10s.; The Queen
and Children, by Cousins, India proof before letters, sold
for two guineas; Deerstalking in the Highlands, a fine
set of artist's proofs, sold for 131. 55.; the Protestant
Protest at the Diet of Spiers, after Cattermole, engraved
by Walker, artist's proof, sold for 5/. 155.; "The Death
of the Stag," artist's proof, by Ryall, sold for 71. 103.;
" Not Caught Yet," artist's proof, sold for 6/. 125.;
"Christ Weeping over Jerusalem," after Eastlake, by
Cousins, a fine artist's proof, sold for 71.; " Prince Charles
Edward's entry into Edinburgh," engraved by Bacon,
an artist's proof on India paper, sold for 51. The other
engravings, although of the choicest description, fetched
but low prices, those noticed above selling for about
one-fourth of the price they were originally pub-
lished at.
EXTRAORDINARY FACT.....-A gentleman, named
Dutton, aged eighty, of the Brynne, near Wrexham,
Flintshire, was listening in bed to his clock striking the
hour of twelve at midnight, when, to his surprise, the last
six strokes sounded much louder than the former. The
old gentleman naturally supposed that a door had been
opened. Upon harkening, he heard the jingling of
keys, and to his astonishment, he was but too fully con-
vinced that an intruder had entered his bedroom, and
was about to take the contents of his bureau. He im-
mediately jumped out of bed, and clasped an individual
having on a fustain coat. He held him tightly, and
called lustily for assistance. The thief carried the fear-
less old gentleman through two rooms, when his son-
in-law and wife arrived, who succeeded in capturing
the burglar, who is now safely lodged for trial in the
county gaol. It appears the scoundrel had only been
dismissed from the service about three rseks.—Kentish
Gazette.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURTS, March 15.
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.)
WELSH V. TREVANIAN.

This cause, which involves a question upon a mort-
gage to the Bank of England, relating to property in
Cornwall to a large amount, was only part-heard, at the
rising of the Court. Further bearing adjourned.
(P.efore Sir J. KNIGHT BRUCE.)
THE ATTuRNET GENERAL V. MUNRO.

His HoNoun gave judgment in this case. The relators
alleged in their information that the church, schools,
and premises erected in St. Peter's• square, Manchester,
had been purchased by subscriptions raised in 1832
among certain members of the Established Church of
Scotland, and were vested in trustees by a deed dated
4th of April, 1832, under certain trusts, one of which
declared that the church should be used for the pur-
pose of public worship in connexion with and according
to the doctrine and discipline of the Established Church
of Scotland. They c.mplained that the defendants had
seceded from that church and in violation of the trusts,
appropriated the church to public worship in con-
nexion with the Free Church of Scotland. They prayed
an injunction, and an account of the pew rents and other
income. The deed of April, 1832, was not enrolled as
required by the statute, and the defendants, after the
secession, had a new deed executed in February, 1844;
and in their answer they contended that the deed under
which the plaintiffs claimed was invalid for want of en-
rolment; and the Rev. Mr. Munro, although ordained
by the Presbytery of Edinburgh, denied their spiritual
and ecclesiastical authority in England. Ilia Honour
declared that it was not necessary to state an opinion on
the question of enrolment, as possession had been taken
and held under the deed of April, 1832, which was framed
in perfect compliance with tho statute of George 11.
The question to be decided was whether the trusts
created under that deed had been imNoperly adminis-
tered. With respect to the trust prescribing that the
worship in St. Peter's Church should be in connexion
with the Established Church of Scotland, the defendants
declared that the practice and doctrines of that Church
had changed. Now, on that point, after reviewing the
evidence and materials before him, his Honour
felt bound to declare that the doctrine, polity, and
discipline of the Established Church of Scotland
was the same in 1832, and the same down to the
present time, as it was when Mr. Munro was ordained
and inducted into St. Peter's Church. In compliance
with the prayer of the relators' information, he also de-
clared that the spiritual and ecclesiastical authority of
the Established Church of Scotland did extend to those
in c(,nneirinn with it in this country, and that the Rev.
Mr. Munro had been ordained a minister of that Church,
and that he had ceased to be a minister in connexion
with the Established Church of Scotland in July, 1844,
and that he ceased to be in communion with it up to the
present time,:and that the worship in St. Peter's Church
had not been since July, 1844, and was not now, in con-
nausion with the Established Church of Scotland; and,
therefore, that the practical administration of the
charity was improper, and in direct contravention of the
rights and trusts created under the deed of April, 1832.
He therefore decreed that the defendants, whose pro-
ceedings ho designated as being contrary to justice, fide-
lity, and plain dealing, should pay the relators the costs
of the suit, at least, up to this time. He also declared
that the Rev. Mr. Munro, having ceased to belong to the
Established Church of Scotland, ought not to be allowed
to continue to act as:minister in St. Peter's Church; and
he directed an injunction to restrain him accordingly.
His Honour also decreed that the trustees should be
changed, and that an account of the rents and profits
should be taken.

CONS'S I ORY COURT, March 15.
(Before Dr. LUSHINGTON.)
DAWSON AGAINST DAWSON.
The wife, in this case, is the party proceeding against
the husband for a divorce, on the ground of cruelty and
adultery; and as no opposition was offered, the Court
granted the divorce.

ADMIRALTY COURT, March 15.
(Before Dr. LUSUINGTON.)
Motions were disposed of, this being default day, but
they were not of public interest.

For the defendant it was proved that two executions
from the County Court had afterwards issued against the
plaintiff', making together 431. 65.; that the carriage
and harness were seized under them, and sold for
381. 9s.

Mr. Bison ALDERSON said he should rule that there
was no lien in this case, giving Mr. Baines leave to
move to enter a verdict for the defendant, if that ruling
was wrong. Ile had himself a strong opinion on the
point. An innkeeper had a lien on the property of his
guest for the payment of his bill, but he held that the
plaintiff was not the guest of the defendant. His liabi•
lily for the bill contracted by his friend did not make
himself a guest, and the defendant a as, as regarded the
carriage and horses of the plaintiff, a mere livery-stable
keeper, and as such had no lien for the horses' keep, ex-
cept there had been an express agreement to that effect.
An innkeeper had a lien which a livery stable-keeper
had not, because the former was obliged to receive a
guest, but the latter was not obliged to receive a cus-
tomer. He therefore directed the jury to find for the
plaintiff, and told them the only question for their con-
sideration was the amount of damages. In forming
their judgment they must consider what damages the
plaintiff• had sustained by the carriage and horses being
refused on the 11th of December. Had they been then
given up the plaintiff might have removed them, and so
avoided their being taken in execution ; but, on the
other hand, the produce of the sale had gone i❑ payment
of the plaintiff's debts. They would, probably, in con-
sidering the value of the articles taken, neither take the
estimate of the plaintiff's witness nor the produce of a
forced sale.

The jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 30/
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.)
John Mullan, aged forty, with no education, ‘‘,as in-
dicted for a felonious assault on Rebecca Mien, a girl'
of the lowest order of intellect apparently, and aged
seventeen.

After hearing evidence the jury found the prisoner
guilty of an aggravated assault, and
His LORDSHIP sentenced the prisoner to be im-
prisoned two years, with hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Mr. G. A. Young, surveyor, attended before Alder-
men Musgrove and Gibbs, to answer the complaint of
Mr. Woodthorpe, the surveyor of the eastern district of
the city of London, for neglecting to pay him 21. 25., as
his costs and expenses, pursuant to an award of the offi-
cial referees of Metropolitan Buildings.
Mr. Young said, he refused to pay this sum as costs
to the district surveyor on the principle that those who
endeavoured to serve the public ought not to be mulcted
for their pains. In passing accidentally by America-
square, he observed a house to be in a condition dan-
gerous to the public, and he gave notice to the district
surveyor of the fact. The surveyor thought the build-
ing safe, but he (the defendant) still thought otherwise,
an brought the matter under the notice of the official
referees, having no personal interest in the matter at all,
and interfering solely for the safety of the public. He
might see a hundred unsafe buildings in the course of a
year, but he could not be expected to give warning to
the district surveyor if he were each time to pay a
couple of guineas for his trouble.
Mr. Alderman MUSGROTE observed, he was not sur-
prised to hear this, for the public was an ungrateful
master. He had been serving the public many years,
and had never got anything by it, though he had spent
some money.
Mr. Woodthorpe said the case did not stand exactly
as his friend bad represented. Mr. Young would not
have been asked to pay anything if he had not appealed
against his decision. The surveyor for the owner of the
house concurred with him that the building was safe,
and so did the official referees, who were also surveyors;
and as these four surveyors were of one opinion, the
magistrates would believe Mr. Young was wrong, and
troubled them all unnecessarily. He had had eight at-
tendances on the subject, and this might occur every
day if it were not checked by ordering the payment
of costs. _ _

He handed in the award, from which it appeared that
Mr. Young had alleged that the building was in a dan-
gerous condition, particularly as to the outer walls
thereof, which were considerably out of the perpendi-
cular, the walls towards America-square overhanging
towards the public way to the extent of thirteen inches.
Mr. Woodthorpe had previously certified that the build-
ing was secure,end the passengers in no way endangered;
but the official referees, on receiving Mr. Young's ap-
peal, visited the premises, and they decided that the huu•e
was not in a rainous or d tngerous condition, and that it
was not necessary to shore up, repair, or pull down the
walls. And they awarded that Mr. Young should pay
two guineas for their expenses, and two guineas to the
City surveyor.
The Magistrates, after referring to the statute, said
their duty was only ministerial, to enforce payment of
the award, without entering into its fairness or expedi-
ency. The fees must be paid.
Mr. Young said he had paid the 21. 2s. to the re-
ferees, but he considered it impolitic to load him with
further charges.
Mr. Alderman MusunovE said, the New Building
Act was filled with openings for vexatious interference
and enormous charges, and he hoped Mr. Young would
suggest how it might be amended. He had been a great
sufferer by it, almost to the extent of the loss of a free-
hold house.

Mr. Woodthorpe gave his fees to the poor-box.
BO W-S TREE 7.

Andrew Green, and his sun Samuel, were brought up
for further examination upon the various charges of
felony, obtaining money under false pretences, &c.
There being nothing to implicate the son in the
guilty transactions of his father, he was now discharged
from custody.
A number of other tradesmen now attended, prepared
to prove charges against the elder Green, precisely si-
milar to those which had been already reported, naint-ly
for obtaining money for the supposed insertion of adver-
tisements in is imaginary Parliamentary Chronicle, dur-
ing a number of years past.
Mr. Ley, the son of the chief clerk to the House of
Commons, proved that hi, father was defrauded of six
guineas by the prisoner, by his representations respect-
ing this paper.
Inspector Marsh said, a book was found on the pri•
sonar, containing a list of signatures, purporting to be
those of the subscribers to the work. Among them
was that of Mr. Ley.
Mr. HENRY had received a letter from Mr. Ley, deny
ing the genuineness of this signature.
The prisoner was prepared to stake his character on
this roint.—(A laugh.)
Inspector Marsh having proved that
.all the prisoner's
statements respecting the printing of his paper, &c.,
were false,
Mr. HENRY remanded him for further examination.
A letter•carrier in the Post-office, named Horace
Brown, who hail been detected by a messenger in the
act of stealing two letters, and upon whom they wera
afterwards found (the one containing is. 6d., and the
other sixpence) was fully committed for trial on the
charge.
IVESTMINSTER.

James Collier, described as a labourer, and Sarah, his
wife, were charged before Mr. Broderip with the follow •
ing gross outrage:—
William Baxter, assistant to Mr. Lucas, of the Cock,
North-street, Chelsea, stated that, between eight and
nine o'clock on the previous evening, the defendants
came in and asked for some biscuits and other refresh-
ment; with which they immediately regaled themselves,
and on witness asking for payment, the male defendant
very coolly observed, "That he did not mean to pay, be
was hungry and thirsty, and should eat and drink as
much as he pleased, and without paying for anything."
Witness said he must have his money for the articles
supplied, and, after some talk, the male defendant threw
down halt a sovereign. Mrs. Baxter placed their
change (nine shillings and fourpence) before defendants
upon the counter, and requested them repeatedly
to count it. The female observed that it was all
right, and told her husband to take it up, but he
refused, and let it remain upon the counter for a quarter
of an hour, when he pretended that there was a shilling
short. Both defendants then. made use of the most
horrible and disgusting language, swore they would
smash witness and his wife, and would demolish the
windows, and, advancing- furiously to the bar with their
fists up, threatened to attack them. The male defendant
then took a sovereign from his pocket and tossed it up,
and on its falling on the floor picked it up, and having
deposited it safely in another pocket, pretended in a
minute or two afterwards to feel in the pocket from
which he had originally taken it, and then swore that
witness had rubbed him of it. Witness attempted to
put the fellow out, but he resisted violently, and made
repeated blows at him, which. fortunately, did not take
effect, and the female seized a quart put, and threatened
to smash anybody's skull who attempted to interfere.
The police were called, and they wore both taken into
custody. In concluding
his statement, witness said that
the defendants created a disturbance for no less a time
than three-quarters of an hour, during which business
was entirely suspended.
In reply to the charge, the male defendant said there
was a shilling short in the change.
Mr. BRODERIP observed that their conduct had been
very violent, and ordered them both to find good bail
for the next three months.

They were committed in default.
SOUTHWARK.
Thomas Brown, a well-dressed, elderly man was
brought before Mr. Cottiugham, charged with stealing a
carpet bag, containing clothes and linen, at the Rose and
Ram Inn, Redcross- street, Southwark.
Mr. Bell, the proprietor of the inn, stated that between
four and five o"Clock on the preceding afternoon, the pri-
soner walked into the house, and having remained for
some time there, he said that he was waiting for a gen-
tleman with whom he had business of importance to
transact, and that he expected him every moment. This
explanation threw the people of the inn off their guard,
and while they were attending to the general business of
the house, the prisoner availed himself of the opportu-
nity, and stepped upstairs to a bed-room, occupied by a
Mr. Templeman, and possessed himself of a carpet bag
filled with clothes and other property. He then
descended, and passed quickly through the house, but
was observed by the complainant going out. of the door,
and having been pursued, he was taken with the carpet
bag and its contents in his possession.
The owner of the property said that he left the carpet
bag safe in his bed-room when he went out at twelve
o'clock the same day; that he had not sent for it, anti
that the prisoner was a perfect stranger to him.
The policeman, into whose custody he was given, said
that, when he was searched at the station house, there
was found in his pocket a new dark plaid scarf, with a
ticket attached, marked 1842, 205.; also a scarlet flowered
shawl, a pair of new white doeskin gloves, and other
articles, all of which appeared to have been recently
taken from some shop or warehouhe.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he had an ap-
pointment with a gentleman at the above house, who
L desired him, in the event of his not meeting him there,

to go up stairs and fetch away a carpet bs'g, which
would find in ono of the rooms, and that ho did 5511,1,
was directed, and was then taken into custody. 17,1_'1"
respect to the shawls, and other articles found upon n'll7'
they were his own property.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that be strongly suspected e'er
prisoner was one of those well-dressed men who, and
the pretext of having business to transact at the horned
of licensed victuallers, contrived to slip up stair', it'2,
afterwards succeed in plundering them of money
whatever property they could lay their hands uP011:
But with regard to the other property found in the rd.
soner's possession, it was possible ho had stolen its '1)1
therefore, for the purpose of ascertaining the fact, de
should remand him for a few days, and then he she'll
be committed on both the charges.
George Graham, a blind man, posseasinggreat strength`
was charged with stealing a half-crown from Frsucti
Willis, at the bar of a public house.
It appeared that the parties were in the public-110'i:
together, when the complainant having thrown done
halt-crown on the counter to pay for some liquor► to
moment the prisoner heard the sound it caused, hen°
a snatch at it, and passing it quickly into the hands ell
an associate, then proclaimed his innocence with s
oath, and challenged to fight any man in the place, i
though blind, 'IN ho dared to stigmatise him as a thieL
The prisoner, when called on for his defence, aria I,
was as blind as a bat, and that it was ridiculous to scan
lion of stealing a half-crown from off the counter, would
it was impossible for him to have seen; that he w 0 ho
not deny that he challenged any man to fight
charged him with such an ofence.
It was here stated that although the prisoner 0.11
blind, he had been in custody several times for commit;
Ling violent assaults, and that he was tried at the Stars'
assizes tor a highway robbery; that he was a ntenerr,
sussing great strength of body, and when engeg ,A•if
street riots he frequently eluded pursuit by the rainul;',
eith which he ran, and that knowing all the
in and out of the Mint— a locality which he l"0
knew, although deprived of his eye-sight—gave hin2,,o
6
advantage generally over those who ventured to foss

him.
The prisoner was remanded, in order that his steeoci6ts
might be taken.
THAMES.
Mary Gallagher, the wife of a labourer in the anii.l4,
of Ditchburn and Mare, iron steam-ship builders,
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with ststsli4,o
knife and fork, a drinking glass, and a metal spoolit
property of Thomas Gough, landlord of the Oral'
House, Blackwell.
It appeared in evidence that the prisoner brought herd
husband's dinner to the Orchard House on Tuesday, sl/
;ha remained in the taproom for several hours siler
wards. About five o'clock in the evening Brown, tt:
waiter, had occasion to enter the taproom, and SSW
prisoner in the act of concealing a drinking-glas_te wbtt
she was rolling up in her apron on her lap. He 00'
information to his master, and some time afterwards,
she was leaving the taproom, Mr. Goagh stopped ii
, e 0
and told her she had better give him the glass she a
secreted. She reluctantly returned to the taproot's' her
Mr. Gough compelled her to take tke glass from 'teo
pocket, and she also produced at the same time
and fork, and a metal spoon, Rhich she had also Pu'i
Joined. They were identified by Mr. Gough, who
had them in his possession many years.
The prisoner, in defence, said she had poured "Me
in the glass and used it, and she was not aware she P"-
it about her when she was stopped.
whir°
Mr. Yardley—How am I to believe that ?
was the knife and fork mid spoon ? Mr. Gough repo
that they were tied up in a bundle with the plates
which she had brought her husband's dinner.
Mr. Yardley—ln what part of the house were a 2,0
knives deposited ? Mr. Gough—ln the window of I'
taproom.
Mr. Yardley—Was her husband coming out with ber.
.
Mr. Gough —Yes, Sir ; both were coming out together{
Her husband is a very hard-working man, and I dorio
believe he knew anything about this. She was a lilt
intoxicated.
Mr. Yardley—From the tenour of your remarkii
suppose you don't wish to prosecute ? Mr. Gough---14
Sir.
Mr. Yardley—Very good. A great question 03-11
arise how far she was liable, having done what she
lae
under the eye of her husband. The Magistrate 1,1;
addressed the prisoner, and said she was very near ge.
ting herself, lad her husband too, in very °
serial:
trouble. He should have committed her for trial.ibti,
for the merciful construction put on her actions by °s',:
Gough, and he advised her to be more careful in War-
ne then liberated her on the intercession of the profs
cutor.

RAIL WA Y SHAKE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, ILtisost 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, LSO!:
shire, and Cheshire Junction, New, 7% dis.—East Lan
shire, New, 63/ dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late L. O
B.), 11:1 dis.— London and North-Western, 180— pitw
New Quarters, 2% p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincl
shire, Preference, par—Midland, 100—Ditto, Halved, 'O,
dis.—North Staffordshire, '3i dis.—Soath-Eastern and DofoA
N 0.4, Clls. 3d. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (N,.,*
B.), No. 2, t p.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 14
al
donian, 29%.
MANCHESTER, Mancx 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lap
t a
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 6% -dis.—East Anglian, 1.",.
ferenee (6 per cent.), 3 7-16—Iluddersfleld and Mann
ter Railway and Canal, Thirds, 1% dis.—Lancashire
Yerksb ire, Fifths, % dis.—London and North-Western(Dfas
chester and Birmingham), Quarters (A), 25Ai p.-04
ditto (B ), 2% p.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, k„,'
dis. slanchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preferen"
j.,
OR paid), par—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 7%?;ii
—North British, Thliiis 11,2 dis.—North Staffordshirelf
lis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No 4, 2 15-16
haven and Furness, 814 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Beffic
Extensions, No. 2, 1/2 p.
LEEDS, MAaCII 14. St
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following are to-day's pricsg'
which a moderate amount of business was done :—East Last
cashire, New, 614 n. dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 345. n.
and West Yorkshire, 9 n. dis.—Great Northern, 714 4t „t
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 17s. ad. dis.—Ditto (117,
Riding Union), 635. dis.—Leeds and Thirak, 1914 n• d
r
s London, Brighton, and South Coast, 30 n.—Manch.te4
Buxton, Matlock, &c., 555. dis.—North British, Thirds, i
dis.— Ditto, Quarters, 1% dis.— Ditto, Extension. 6s. id' ,"11,4
—North Staffordshire, 18s. 9d. die.— North-Westero.',,,r
dis. ex int.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, No. 2 Pe
Berwicks), 7s. 6d.. n. p. . . .

BIRMINGHAM, MAxem 14.
STOCK EXCILCIGIC.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notl°4:
ham, and Boston, 234 dis. (for pre. acc.)—North Stilns,
shire, 16s. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B),
6d dis.—Shropshire Union, 665. 3d. die.—South Statfor
shire, 565. 3d. dis. (for pre. ace. )_

BRISTOL, &ARM 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Great Weston,
ters, 1%2 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 11i p.—Midland Old, par--10/(
castle and Berwick, 2 p.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MARCH 14. r,r,
STOCK EXCHANGI.—The sales are—Newcastle and .„
lisle, 100—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (late N. And Pr
YORK, lifeatcla 14.
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STOCK EICHANGE.—The following were the inotittlo 131
ni,
this day: —(rest Northern, :OA—North British, Thirds, !;r.,
Ditto, Extension, 4s. 9d.—York, Newcastle, and Berton.
No. 2 (late New Berwicks), 10%—Ditto (G. IT. E.
chase), 8143.

EDINBURGH, MARCH 14.
„,„th ftb.
STOCK EXCIIINGE.—The sales are—Dundee and N.AeN,
275. 6d.—Glasgow and Ayrshire, 151.—Great Northern,ato?
Is.—Nurth British, 211. ss.—Ditto, Quarters, 1112.--PAA,
Thirds, SlB.—Edinburgh and Northern (Newperts). 44

PROMISING DISCIPLB OF ISAAC WALTOP' of
The youthful Marquis of Bowmont (son of the DIM
Roxbura,he), who is only eight and a half years of 14.71
captured six salmon with the rod on Saturday afterll°,o
in the Noble Duke's water opposite Floors Castle. Ins
every command over the mysteries of the gentle 10"0-0
as promising of future triumphs as it is, we hale ats
doubt,.much owing to the enthusiastic and affecti°%if
precept(irsbip of his Lordship's grandfather, the lsteof
Charles Dalbiac. The whole of the fish were 121tbe
by his Lordship with Out assistance. The weight 0:11,„,0
whole was 551 b., and the largest weighed 1411).--0
Chronicle.
Or
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Teas and Coffees delivered,
riage free, at the wholesale prices, by which mesas, fs'",,,
lies residing in the country. whose consumption is Illrirof
are enabled to purchase on-the first market terms, tkirjos•
string all the intermediate profits of retail @stab 1
00
tents. Sample& and a list of prices forwarded (WI ith
application by post. References or cash is expected 0'
first order. Mansell and Co., wholesale tea-dealelll
Bucklersbury, Cheapside.
oolt
rADTERTISEMENT.]—TEII CARL 07 AMOROSO- 0
AND HOLLOWAY', PILLS —s. oatorindlEf are by this stiractillo
'medicine, after every ether means had f sd. De* extraot trona 4b.
Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina. Leghorn, Feb. 21,
Professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint yea that year pine Oi'Lf
effected a cure •f a disorder in iny liver and summit all the 0:0;
eminent of tho factiltY, at hone and all ever the esnuasst,
bees able to effect r nay, not ever the waters St Carnataa sr ;4
rienbad. (Signed) .P.ALeseastrea.” These weaderral
cure any disease- of the liver er storiack.—Sold (ales Io11•^;01
Oimtmeet) at Protessqr lotablishmeat, 144, strmi4,
‘ll mediate rendpfs throagkiiit Le etvillood world.

S.
On the 13th inst., atBIRTA
No. 80, North Frederick-I,— (
Dublin, the lady of Sir James Pitcairn, Inspector-Goal-0P
Military Hospitals in Ireland,of a daughter. 01
On the 10th inst., at Barrow .House, Somerset, the -

J. H. Blagrave, Esq., of a son. ofh
On the 11th inst., Mrs. Henry Lee, of Balhant, Stirroff
daughter. tAiri
Ou the 11th rAc
inst., at Cheltenham, the lady of w--•
Hunt, Royal Navy, of a eon. tb°
On the 11th inst., at Ardmore, Waterford, the lad,' of
Rev. T. P. Thirkill, of a daughter. illy
. On the 12th inst.,in Welbeck-street, the lady ef Dr.
of a son. Id
On the 12th inst., in Bond-street, the wife of Mr. vw-

Asprey, of a (laughter. ER
On the 13th inst., at Margate, the lady of R. HOY-,

of a son.

or; the lith inst., at:Burntwood, Vrandemwth.a

he wife of Edward Herring, Eq., of a son.

AI ELI. h
On .the 18th of September AKK
llast, at St. David's 1, ,coor
Hobart-town, Leader Cox, eldest son of Leader
Esq., of Vanbrugh-fields, Blackheath, to Louisa
i° ~rtort•
daughter of John Swan, Esq., of Beaulieu, near
town.

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DIED.
On the Bth inst., at Charlton, Dover, Joshna Platt, P 641.
On the 12th inst., at Brighton, Elizabeth, the wits of
jamin Wilson, Esq. Agit'
On the 12th inst., at Kensington, Frederick Georg'
worth, youngest son of Charles Sturgeon, Esq., barrister; 40
On the 12th inst., at Tunbridge-wells Amela Marl.'
Moore, youngest daughter of the Rev Tunbridge-wells,
F. Moore•or
On the 12th inst., at Avon Lodge, St.. John's-wood,e,,yol
bella, second daughter of Captain IL Mangles Denham, P"'
Navy, aged 16.

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