The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-05 00:00:00

VERDICT OF THE INQUEST AT

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HOUNSLOW.
We have received from the Coroner's office the following
copy of the verdict at Hounslow, it being an authorised
transcript, with the intimation that " the Jury at the inquest
are very anxious it should be reprinted." We readily com-
ply with the request (though we see no mAterial alteration
of our report) because the verdict cannot be to often read by
the public :
"That the deceased soldier, Frederick John White, died
on the 11th of July, 1846, from the mortal effects of a se-
vere and cruel frogging of 150 lashes, which he received
on the 15th of June, 1E146, at the Cavalry Barracks on
Hounslow Heath, at Heston ; that the said flogging MO
inflicted upon his back and neck under the sen-
tence of a District Court-martial, composed of officers
of the 7th Regiment of Huss.:,rs, held on the 10th of
June previous, duly constituted for !As trial. That the said
Court-martial was authorised by law to pass ,`be said severe
and cruel sentence; that the flogging was if, flitted upon
him by two farriers, in the presence of John Jams... 3 Whyte,
the Lieutenant-Colonel, and James Low Warren, the sur-
geon of the said regiment ; and that so, and by me.ws of
the said flogging, the death of the said Frederick john
White was caused.
" In returning this verdict, the jury cannot refrain from ex.--
pressinc, their horror and disgust at the existence of any law'
amongstb the statutes or regulations of this realm, which
permits the revolting punishment of flogging to be inflicted.
upon British soldiers ; and at the same time the jury implore
every man in the kingdom to join, band and heart, in for-
warding petitions to the Legislature, praying, in the most
urgent terms for the abolition of every law, order, and re-
gulation, which permits the disgraceful practice of flogging
to remain one moment longer a slur upon the humanity and
fair name of the people of this country."

WORLD'S TEMPERANCE CON-

VENTION.
At the instance of the National Temperance Society,
about 250 delegates from different parts of Great..l3ritain
and America assembled to-day in the City of Lo..lclen
Literary Institution, Aldersgate-street, for the purpt 'e
of ascertaining the state of the temperance cause in aLI.I
parts of the globe, to receive suggestions as to the most:
effectual method of extending the temperance reform.-
tion, and to effect the formation of a Temperance Uaion'
throughout the world. The sitting in the morning was
occupied with the preliminary arrangements for the
regulation of the proceedings. Several interesting state-
ments were also made respecting the progress of the
movement in America, Edinburgh, and other places.
The afternoon sitting was taken up with the reading of
a paper by a gentleman from America, in which a
variety of facts were enumerated against the usage of
spirituous liquors.
A long and somewhat disorderly discussion ensued,
after which the meeting adjourned.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
'From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
TUESDAY, AUG 4.
STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE.

The following resolution was reported from the above Wm-
mittee : •
That, in the case of the Cork and Waterford Railway Bill;
the standing orders ought to be dispensed with : —That the parties be:
permitted to proceed with their Bill, on amending the section by re-•
ferriag the datum horizontal line to the soffite of the keystone of the'
centre arch of Patrick's Bridge, and on obtaining the consent of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to their crossing the Glanmiro
Channel ; and that the Committee on the Bill do examine, in the
first place, how far such order has been complied with, and do report
the same to the Heuse on the report of the Bill."

Resolution agreed to.
DUBLIN AND SANDYMOUNT RAILWAY BILL.
Sir George Clerk reported from the Select Committee on Group 70
of Railway Bills, to whom several petitions against the Bills coin-
prised in the said group were referred, that, in the case of the Dublin
and Sandymount Railway Bill, they had heard counsel in support of
the petition, and had also heard counsel in favour of the Bill, and
had examined the allegations contained in the preambel of the BM.
but the same had not been proved to their eatisfixtion.