The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-21 00:00:00

ART UNIONS BILL.

This Bill was also postponed to this day fortnight.
CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES.
This Bill went through the Committee pro forma, and was
ordered to be re-committed for the purpose of considering
an amendment proposed to be inserted by Mr. T. Duncombe.
VISCOUNT HARDINGE'S ANNUITY BILL.

This Bill was read a third time and passed.
LORD GOUC'TIPS ANNUITY BILL.
This Bill was also read a third time and passed.
ART UNIONS.
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Lord G. BENTINCK presented a petition in favour of Ari
Unions.

THE WHITSUN HOLIDAYS.
Mr. REDHEAD YORKE wished to know from the First
Lord of the Treasury to what period he was prepared to ad-
journ the Hou.e for the Whitsun holidays?
sir ROBERT PEEL said he did not know what busine,33
was yet fixed. In the meantime, he would have no objection
to take the adjournment from Friday week till the Thursday
following.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS BILL.
In answer to a question from Mr. HAWES
Sir J. GRAHAM said that on Friday next he would state
what course the Government intended to pursue with re-
spect to the Metropolitan Improvements Act.
THE POISONING IN NORFOLK.
Mr. WAKLEY called the attention of the Right Hon.
Baronet the Home Department to the case of poisoning six
members of a family in North Walsham, Norfolk. He
thought it was a case which called for the interference of the
Government.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that Government were pre
pared to give every assistance in their power to the roves
tigation.
The House then adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday, Margaret Glynn, the poor girl who was
a few days ago falsely charged with numerous robberies
by a man named Francis Bennet, his daughter Maria,
and his nephew, who sometimes "'passed as Thomas
Spencer, -sometimes as Thomas Thorpe, and who was
stated to have been confined in Newgate under the name
of Thomas Ryder Walker, was brought before Alder-
mam Gibbs from the Compter, to which place she was
sent as a voluntary inmate.
Alderman Gums asked if any of the parties who had
appeared before the young woman were in attendance?
Inspector Fosberry said, that not one of them were
present, as he concluded would have been the case from
the intelligence he had received from the officer whom
he had sent to make inquiry into the truth of the state-
ments made by the girl, relative to the character of her
three violent accusers.

Sergeant Folger (No. 89 City police) stated to the
Alderman that he had ascertained that Bennet, and his
wife and daughter and nephew, belonged to an organised
gang of swindlers, who had been plundering extensively
in all parts of the metropolis, as Margaret Glynn had
described. A sergeant of the Metropolitan police was
present, who had been long watching their movements,
and who could, if the Alderman considered it necessary,
would Alderman
enter into a variety of details.
correctly icvtilnyg repre-
sented, police,
stepped Dubois, 14 Nof the Metropolitan..
d forward, and stated that, to his positive know-
ledge,steppe moment,
Sergeant brief outline
Bennet and his wife, daughter, and nephew, were
only b eGiBBs '
required having
aavti nt
gh e said
present that
m
part and parcel of a gang consisting of upwards of fifty
icw.hoAhsadobieeenyofuornga
femalelength hoafdti
they obtained goods upon the strength of false
references, beer-shops, greengrocers'
shops, and other
places of apparent business having been
taken by mem
bers of the gang in different
ptheerspounbsi
parts of the town as blinds
for their operations. The moment promised payments
were to be made the whole •
face of things became
changed—neither principals nor referees were to be
found, and the goods and the names and addresses of
Dubois)
e parties disappeared altogether. He (Sergeant
had himself taken from time to time twenty of
the gang into custody, all of whom he knew lived upon
swindling and thieving. Eight or nine of them had
been committed for trial to Newgate, and five or six had
been transported.
Alderman Ginns—Do you know that Bennet keeps a
house of infamous character? Sergeant Dubois—Cer-
tainly I do, and I know that his wife attends to the
business of it. The unfortunate girl could not have got
amongst a more infamous set, and it was most fortunate
for her to have been charged by them with robbery, for
the exposure must not only give a check to some of their
plans, but will save her from any further connexion
with them. I know, beyond a doubt, that she was
trepanned into Bennet's brothel by Spencer. I have
followed up the inquiry into the transactions in which
they have been engaged, and I know that nothing could
have been worse.

Alderman Gruns—The girl says that Thorpe, or
Spencer, has been in prison for thieving. Do you know
anything of his committal? Sergeant Dubois—l know
that he was committed to Maidstone Gaol for twelve-
months for picking pockets, in the name of Walker.
He generally used to work with a man of the name of
John Scott, a notorious swindler and pickpocket. Scott
has opened several beer-shops and chandler's-shops for
the purpose of reference. Thorpe resides in Hyde-
place, Hoxton, and Spencer, besides his counting-house
in Oxford-court, Cannon-street, has a house at No. 52,
Dnke-street, Aldgate, to which his wife attended.
Alderman GIBBS, after having had a private commu-
nication with Sergeant Dubois, said to the young woman,
" You see into what dreadful hands you have been
thrown ?" _ _ _

Margaret Glynn—l do, my,Lord. lam thankful that
I have escaped.
Alderman GIBBS—And you are anxious to go to your
mother ?

Margaret Glynn—Yes. She will gladly receive me.
Alderman Gians—l do not know that I can do any-
thing better for you than send you to your mother, and
the officer has kindly promised to see you safe under her
care.

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was
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neighbourhood of the Mansion-house at that moment.
He should take care to protect her to the utmost extent
of his ability.
Alderman GIBBS desired the girl to give any of the
persons she dreaded into the custody of the pplice, if
she or her mother saw there was any thing to be appre-
hended from them. He then put into her hands a sove-
reign, which had been left for her by a friend of his,
and which she gratefully received.

STATE OF
suspense as to
R MAY 19.—The continued .
MANcurcsTE ,
ministerial measures keeps this market in
the passing of the
limited as the demand was last
- • and,
very languid state ,
a vestill more so now. Prices of yarn, however, con-
tinueweek, it is
firm. Indeed some spinners are asking
perfectly TRADE.
higher rates, on account of the advance in the price of
cotton. Goods, though nominally unchanged in price, are
in some cases bought on rather lower terms.
MiDnintsFm.n, MAY I9.—There is some improvement in
'our market to day, and we have a fair quantity of buyers
present. but the transactions have been principally for job
lots. After the close of the wool sales in London, greater
activity is expected amongst our manufacturers, there being
an actual scarcity of goods on hand.
LEEDS, MAY 10.—Our market to-day has been very quiet 1
and no change worth reporting has taken place.

ON THE EDUCATION OF THE I
OFFICERS IN THE ARMY.
(Frwa the laut.,,i.,bd
When we compare the way in w wen young men are
severally appointed to commissions in the Queen's, and
in the East India Company's Service, we are justified
in affirming that the officers of the Royal Army, as
a body, are, in point of education, inferior to those of
the company's land forces. We say not this invidi-
ously ; far from it, for the two services are twins, and
the members of the one ought to look upon the mem-
bers of the other as brothers ; but we do make the asser-
tion in the hope of stirring up the autliorities at the
Horse Guards, to test the scholastic attainments of can•
didates for commissions before they be gazetted.
The senior officers of the scientific corps of both her
Majesty's and the Company's service have been taught
at the same military academy ; and, although the offi-
cers of these corps are now educated in separate esta-
blishments, we presume that they are on a par, the one
service with the other, as to theoretical knowledge ;
but, at the present day, the balance of practical know-
ledge must, we think, be with the company's scientific
corps ; as, for the last thirty-one years these have
been frequently actively engaged in the field, while the
Queen's engineers have not been called upon to put a
spade in the ground, or the artillery to unlimber in
action, since the year 1815. But how stands the result
of comparison with the infantry officers of the two ser-
vices ? Why, a candidate for a commission in this
arm 4, her Majesty's service, need not, of necessity,
have so much educaticn as a national school-boy. Ay,
young gentlemen may, and do often obtain commis-
sions, who can do little more than write their own
names, who would be puzzled to know how many days
there are between the 25th of January and the 25th
of June, and to whom the plan of a fortification would
be as unintelligible as a sheet of paper covered with
Arabic characters ; while, on the contrary, those des-
tined for the Company's Infantry, with a few exceptions,
must, for two years previous to obtaining commissions,
be under professional instruction at the Company's mili-
tary seminary. We cannot, then, be wrong, when we
say that there must necessarily be a preponderance of
military science in that Service, whose officers have at
least been grounded in its elements previous to their en-
tering, than in that where commissions are given to
those who may not be able to numerate a line of six or
seven figures, or know a berme from a banquette.
Considering, then, the number of our youths who are
destined for the civil and military service of their
country, it is to be regretted that the education in our
public schools, and other large seminaries, is so ex-
clusively classical and mathematical, so wholly intended
as introductory to our Universities, for which indeed
the greater portion of the students are not intended.
We should therefore be glad to see, in all these sehool4
a branch in which the education should be more par-
ticularly English. This plan has been found to be
eminently successful in the Cheltenham College, which
has now been established nearly five years, where, while,
as we believe, the classical instruction is not surpassed
by that given in any school in the kingdom—one de-
partment is wholly appropriated for preparing candidates
for the military colleges, and for direct appointment to
commission in the Queen's and the Company's service.
Indeed every pupil that has hitherto passed at once from
thence to Addiscombe has either been posted to the
Engineers, or his position now in the seminary is such
as to ensure his appointment in that corps.
We may take it as an approval of this combined
course of education, that Sir James Lushington, G.C.8.,
has placed an Addiscombe cadetship at the disposal of
the directors of the institetion in question, to be com-
peted for in December next. In this liberal and con-
siderate disposal of his patronage as an East India
Director, Sir James Lushington has not only evinced
his interest in the Cheltenham College, of which he
has lately become one of the vice presidents and
an ex• officio director, but has shown how much he
has the welfare of that Service at heart, of which he is
so distinguished a member, by thus selecting from up-
wards of three hundred pupils, which the college num-
bers, seventy of whom are in the civil and military
department, that young gentleman, whose attainments
shall prove most likely to do credit to the Company's
military seminary, and eventually, in all probability,
qualify him for occupying a prominent position in the
service of the Company itself, whose possessions are so
extensive.
If the Commander-in-Chief would, in like manner,
think fit to give a portion of the nominations to the
Military College at Sandhurst, and from time to time
recommend to her Majesty for commissions, even by
purchase, those students at the public schools and large
institutions where education is given with a special view
to the military service, who, on competition, should
show themselves the best qualified—a host of
talent would be thus infused into our military
system. Moreover, if schools of soldiership should be
established for the instruction of our troops, officers, and
men, in the science and art of war, much of England's
best and dearest blood would be saved, which otherwise
must again be lavishly shed in the event of war. The
British army thus officered, and thus instructed, would,
at least, be on a par, in point of military science, with
the continental armies, and, perhaps, after a time, be-
come as pre-eminent for professional intelligence as they
now are for overbearing valour.

RIOTOUS PitOCEEDINGS NEAR

THE CLARENCE DOCK, LIVERPOOL.
A riot took place near the Clarence Dock last night,
which, though arising from a comparatively slight cause,
was soon, partly from ignorance, and partly from the
spirit of mischief that lurks amongst a portion of the
dock labourers, and especially the " navies," and the
boys, women, and others of that densely-populated
locality, threatened for a considerable time dangerous
consequences, and caused great alarm amongst the
peaceable portion of the inhabitants. It appears that an
emigrant ship called the Rappahannock had received on
board in the Victoria Dock 460 steerage pas-
sengers, her complement being, according to her ton-
nage, only four hundred and fifty. The Government
emigration agent of the port having gone on board and
ascertained the fact, ordered the chief mate, Mr. Cushen,
to transfer the ten extra passengers last entered to an-
other, and we believe equally fine vessel, the Ocean.
The mate on announcing the fact in the steerage, that
ten of those in the vessel must relinquish their places,
was answered by shouts and yells from the whole
of the parties intending to go by her. An abso-
lute refusal to quit, was, of course, the result. In
this state of affairs, the Government agent told Mr.
Cushen that he must exert himself to get rid of the
supplement of passengers, and he employed the steward,
we believe, to effect this object. A rope was fastened
round the body of the most uproarious malcontent,
which eventually fastened on his ankles, and he was
hauled up by it from under the deck, partly in a frolic,
and partly as an example to the others who had to leave.
The man, thus rather roughly handled, and probably
subject to fits, fell into, or threw himself into a fit, and
when being carried on shore, and afterwards to the
Northern Hospital, a hue and cry was raised that be
was dead, and that the mate was the aggressor and the
cause! Mr. Cushen (who is stated to us to be a gentle-
manly and humane man), is son-inwlaw ()f Mr. Hickson,
of the George the Fourth Inn, in ate ri 00-road, in the
neighbourhood ; and,
being recognised as he went to the
house, an immense mob collected round it (at the bottom
of Stewart-street), demanding the " murderer." Mr.
Inspector Johnson was early on the spot, at
first with only four police-officers, and by
the most strenuous, yet temperate, exertions,
prevented the house from being broken up and
gutted. The assailants quite forced one of the doors, but
were gallantly repulsed. The family of Mr. Hickson,
including Mrs. H. and several young ladies—her
daughter and others—were dreadfully alarmed ; but a
reinforcement of police-officers was got up and pro-
tected the house, though unable to do so until many
panes of glass were broken by the infuriated mob, who
(men and boys) assailed the officers with successive
showers of stone, pieces of brick, &c. Immense crowds,
including females and children, continued to gather in
the streets adjacent for a period of about two hours, bent
upon mischief. The whole of that part of Waterloo-
road, Stewart-street, Oil-street, &c., presented, from
time to time, dense masses of the lower classes, chiefly
Irish, who seemed to be much inclined for a bloody
affray, but the disturbance was quelled by about nine
o'clock. After all, the passenger who had been ejected
from the ship remained only a few minutes in the hos-
pital, being so little hurt that he would not remain, and
he was soon afterwards walking about the inn, though
not known to the crowd. Mr. Cushen was secreted in
the house, which was protected through the night.—
Liverpool Standard of Tuesday.

THE ENGLISH ARMY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

the Gazette of yesterday evening I find the fol-
lowing announcement :
" His Serene Highness, Prince William Augustus Edward
of Saxe Weimar to be Ensign and Lieutenant in the Grena-
dier Guards."
Permit me to ask some constitutional lawyer, through the
medium of your columns, whether this admission of a fo
reigner into the army of Great Britain be not illegal, and
violation of the Act of Settlement?
It may be supposed that the Prince of Saxe Weimar has
availed himself of Mr. Hutt's Act, and
übine I appre-
hend, the
Secretary of State a certificate of naturalization.
nesuch thing. He
however, that the Prince has done
d
would hardly take a step which. w"iwo involve the renancia-
n
tion of his patural allegiance;
have granted him a certificateuonruld Sir James Graham
unless he were quite satisfied
that the Prince was living in
the country with an intention
to abide hero, according to the terms of Mr. Hutt's Act.
I have no doubtme thati the Horse Guards has acted illegally
on in the Queen's army to a foreigner.
It would not have in granting a come
mended
the matter, in the opinion of the
greatauthors of the Act of Settlement, to say that this
foreigner ikuer is nearly allied to a Sovereign Prince ; but it ap-
pears to me desirable that the relations of our illustrious
Queen should not be held up before the minds of the people
of this country as involved in any violation of its laws.
Lincoln's Inn, May 20. BRITANNICUS.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING,
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals—Macedon, Redknap, from China, in the Downs,
sailed 3d Oct., Singapore, 28th Nov., Cape, 14th March;
Neptune, Stuart, from Mauritius, off Margate, sailed 12th
Feb., Cape, 14th March, St. Helena, 29th March; David
Clarke, Mills, from Bengal, off Liverpool, sailed sth Dec., St.
Helena, 17th March; Thomas Loury, Gratiani, from New
South Wales, in the channel, sailed Ist Feb.
Arrivals at Sydney—Will Watch, Barry, Jan. 17, from
Launceston; Anita, king, 19th, returned to port; Kinnear,
Veal!, from Manilla; Coolangatha, from Auckland; Aurora,
22d, from Auckland ; Spee, Dicey, 22d, from Batavia ; Judith,
Phillips, 21st, from Manilla; Essington, from Port Fairy;
General Hewett, Golden Spring, and Midlothian, from Lon-
don; Templar, 25th, from Adelaide; Joseph, Wheeler, from
Manilla; Dundee lllerchant, 27th, from whaling; Baltic
and Nile, from the South Seas; Forte=cue, 29th,
_ from Nor-
folk Island ; Olinda, Crickmay, from Oporto ; Fortune and
Ninus, from whaling; Wave, from Sandwich Islands; Phoebe,
30th, from Port Philip.
Departures from Sydney—William Metcalfe, Jan. 17 ; Jane
Gondie, 21st; Enterpise, 28th; all to London. Janet Dring,
21st, to Auckland; Cecilia, 27th, to Newcastle; Harponer,
29th, to the South SeM.

Arrivals at Mauritius—Jane, Buckland, Feb. 10th, from
Launceston; Solway, Spence, 13th, put back leaky, bound to

fr,,it: 1,41). lbw, to aiada-
gascar ; Lightning, to Swan River.
Arrivals at Port Philip—William Wise, Jan. 23d, from
London ; Robert Matthews, from Manilla, and cleared 22d,
for Sydney.
Departure from Port Philip—Reward, Jan.2lst, for London.
Arrivals at Sydney—Lucy Ann, Jan. 3, from the South
Seas ; Munford, 4th, from Port Nicholson ; British Sovereign,
sth, from Auckland; her Majesty's Steamer, Driver, 7th,
from Hobart Town; Tasmania, Bth, from Hobart Town;
Margaret, Courtenay, from the South Seas.

RAILWAI SH ARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, MAY 20.

STOCK ERCHANGE.—The sales are--Caledonian, 11X—Ditto, New,
li—London and York, 2%—Manchester, Buxton, and Midland,
. 9-16 p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 3%.
MANCHESTER, MAY 20.
_

STOCK EYCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingham, &C.,
17s. 6d. dis.-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 1% p.-Black-
burn, Clitheroe, &c., I dis.-Blackburn, and Preston, 4 p. -Boston,
Newark, and Sheffield, % c. dis.-Chelmsford and Bury, 165. c. dis.
-Chester and Manchester Direct, 295. c. dis.-Clitheroe Junction.
1 dis.-Derby and Crewe, 3 p. - Direct Northern, 12s. 9d. dis.-
Eastern Counties, 24 - Es,ex and Suffolk, dis.-Exeter and EK.
mouth, % c. dis. -Glasgow and Dumfries, % dis.-Goole, Doncaster.
Sheffield, &c., % dis.-Grand Union, IGs. c. dis.-Lancashire North
Yorkshire, % dis.-Leicester and Bedford, par-Leicester, Birming-
ham, and Trent Valley Junction, 1 dis.-Liverpool and Bury, New.
17. p.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, % p.-Manchester, But-
ton, and Matlock, 1 p.-Manchester and Birmingham, 80%-Ditto.
Quarters (C), 7 13-16 p.-Manchester and Birmingham Continuation
and Welsh Junction, 17s. dis.-Manchester and Hyde, %
Northumberland and Lancashire, 21s. dis.-North Eastern, 1 7-16
dis.-North Staffordshire, 3% p.-North Wales, 1% c. dis.
Western, 5-16 c. p.-Oldham District, % p.-Oxford, Southampton.
and Gosport, 17s. dis.-Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, NO. 3,
3-16 p.-Seropshire Mineral, 1% dis.--Shropshire Union Railwai,,
and Canal, 16s. 6d. dis.-South Midland, % p.-South-Eastern and
Dover, Halves, No. 4, 5-16 p. -Welsh Midland, 235. 6d. dis
West Riding Union, 2% p.-York and Carlisle, 1% dis.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 20.
NEW STOCK ExcaANoE.-The sales are-Chester and Birkenhead.
201. Shares, par-Eastern Counties, 23% -Ditto, York Extensions.
1 p.-Glasgow and Ayr, 76-Grand Junction, Eighth Shares, 2796--
Manchester and Leeds Extensions, 3 p.-Manchester and Birmingham,
Quarter Shares (A), 9% p.-Ditto, ditto (B), 9 p.-Ditto, ditto (C)•
s p.-Midland, 401. Shares, 1 .% p.-Preston and Wyre, Half ShareS
(B), 9s. p.-Sheflield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. I, 4% P;
-Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 3 (scrip), % p.-South-Eastern and
Dover Consolidated, Half Shares, 3% p.-Ditto, Half Shares, 96 P.--
York and Selby, East and West Riding Extension, 114 p.-Hudders-
field Railway and Canal, par-Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction.
5% p.- Leeds and 1 hirsk, 4 dis.-Liverpool and Bury, 8% p.-Ditto,
Fifth Shares, 1%-Goole and Doncaster, 13s. 6d. dis.-London
York, Is. 6d. dis.-Sheffield and Lincolnshire, % p.-Direct North"
ern, % dis.-Glasgow and Dumfries, Si. Ws.- Liverpool, Ormskirk.
and Preston, p.-Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction,-1% p.--
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 1% p. -Boston.
Newark, and Sheffield, dis. -Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham.
dis.-Buckinghamshire, 3s. 6d. p.-Cambridge and Oxford, 101. 6il-
- and Crewe, 3%-Furness and Windermere, 1 dis.-Grand
Union, a dis. -Great Eastern and Western, 1% dis.-Inverness and
Perth, 19s. dis.-Leicester and Bedford, par-Leicester and Birming-
ham, % dis.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, Par
-Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, 16s. dis.-Manchester.
Midland, and Great Grimsby, % dis.-Matlock and Midland June- -
Hon, 265. p.-Northumberland and Lancashire, 19s. dis.-North Staf-
fordshire, 765. 6d. p.-North Western, % p.-Rugby and Hunting-
don, 16s. 6d. dis.-Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, % dis.-Trent
Valley Continuation, 1 dis.-Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand
Junction, % dis.-Warwickshire and London Junction, par-Welsh
Midland, 23s 6d.-West Riding Union, 565. 6d p.-York and Carlisle,
1M dis.-Dutch Rhenish, 2 p.
LEEDS, Mar 20. _ _

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York g!"
tension, 20s. p.—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 5% p.—Leeds and Brad'
ford, 28% p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 1% p.—Leeds and Thirs4.
3 dis.—Ditto, New, 2/. Is. dis.—Newcastle and Berwick, 10% 1,•-"
North British, Carlisle Branch, 235. 6d. p.—Sheffield and Manchester,
Quarter Shares, No. 3, par—Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, I.3.Pci
—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, % dis.—Bradford, Wakefield, ."„z
Midland, 1 dis.—Chtheroe Junction, 16s. dis.—Direct Northern, 76
dls.— Grand Union, 13s. div. —Glasgow and Dumfries, 10s. dil;
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 7s. dis.— Lancashire, Yorl'.sf—S,
and North Eastern, 28s. 6d. dis.—Leeds and York, 28s. dis.-11d.
Wakefield, and Midland, 6s. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, 15',„d
dis.—London and York, par—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock. "dig.
Midland, I% P. —Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 195,4,4 d,
—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—North Western, 3s. p.—She"„'"
Rotherham, and Goole, dis.—Shropshire Union, 14s. clls.—S°,
7t4 •
Midland, 225. p.—Welsh Midlands, I dis.—West Riding Union.