The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBEA,

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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
THE COMMISSION.

On Monday the new Railway Commissioners, in pur-
suance of a notification in the Gazette or Friday last,
opened their office in Great George-street, Westminster,
and began to act in execution of the statute of last ses-
sion (9th and 10th Vic., c. 106), where spe fications, &c.,
for intended Bills in the next session mu,t be delivered
by the close of the present month. The Commissioners
are the Hon. E. Strutt (president), Earl Granville, Sir
E. Ryan, and Captain R. Brandreth. It was con-
sidered expedient to constitute a separate department
for the railway business, and likewise the superintend-
ence thereof, from the Board of Trade. Her Majesty
was empowered to appoint five Commissioners, but only
four have been gazetted. Any two of the Commissioners
are competent to act in execution of the power vested in
them. The second section provides that from and after
the day which shall be so specified in the Gazette (Mon-
day last) as the day on which the said Commissioners
shall begin to act in execution of the statute, all the
powers, rights, and authority vested in, or exercised by
the Board of Trade, under any Act with respect to any
railway or intended railway, shall be transferred to and
vested in and exercised by the Commissioners of Rail-
ways as fully as if they had been named in the said se-
veral Acts of Parliament, and all the provisions of the said
Act shall be deemed to apply to the said Commissioners
instead of the Board of Trade, and all proceedings
pending shall be continued and carried on by and before
the said Commissioners, who shall have and receive the
same powers, rights, and authority in respect of all such
proceedings, as if they had been originally commenced
before the said Commissioners. By another provision an
office is to be opened to which all notices and other do-
cuments must be given or sent. All documents sealed
with a seal, and signed by two or more of the Commis-
sioners, are to be received in evidence in all courts and
before all parties and others, without any further proof
thereof. After providing for the appointment of officers,
the payment of their salaries, &c., the Act goes on to
state that the Commissioners are to exercise the powers
vested in the Board of Trade, to prevent companies act-
ing contrary to the Acts constituting them railways.
Tne Commissioners are to report to her Majesty and
both Houses of Parliament upon any case specifically
referred to them. An important part of the Act has
reference to " local inspection and survey " by the Com-
missioners or their officers, and the expense incurred
thereon is to be paid by the promoters of the intended
line. On a matter being referred to them, the Commis-
sioners may inquire and report, on local inspection or
otherwise, whether there are any lines or schemes com-
peting with the proposed railway; whether it is proposed
to unite with any other railway, &c.; whether it is pro-
posed to constitute a branch, and whether the plans,
maps, and sections deposited are correct. The Act is
now in force, and much good is expected to result, espe-
cially from " local inspection and survey," in respect to
railways and proposed lines.

IRISH BILLS FOR NEXT SESSION.
What a contrast between the bustle and activity of last
November and the total absence of railway speculation at
present ! Twelve months ago the Dublin Gazette, owing
to the great mass of notices on the part of promoters of
railway Bills, was increased to six or eight times the
ordinary dimensions. Now there is scarcely a railway
scheme to be heard of, and the Gazette is filled instead
with proclamations from the Lord-Lieutenant for pre-
sentment sessions to adopt measures for the relief of the
destitute.

The Irish Railway Gazette of this day thus notices
the few railway projects that •appear to be in con-
templation :
"The Dublin and Drogheda Company will promote
several Bills, seeking powers to amalgamate and pur-
chase, and also to extend their branch from Navan, vid
Kells and Virginia, to Cavan.
" The Dundalk and Enniskillen Company propose to
obtain an Act to construct a branch line from Carrick-
macross to join their main line at Inniskeen.
" The Great Southern and Western Company will
again apply for an Act to construct a branch from Por-
tarlington to Tullamore, and we do not know that they
will be unopposed. Mr. Pim's letter to Mr. Carr, which
we noticed in our last, detailed a plan by which the
traffic of the western districts could be secured to this
company on very cheap and favourable terms ; but the
notice of an intention to apply for the branch to Tulla-
more would seem to indicate a disapproval of Mr. Pim's
proposal. Should no arrangement be come to, we may
anticipate a revival of the unpleasant opposition between
the Grand Canal and this company. There is another
line to Galway, which is proposed by parties in con-
nexion with the Mountmellick Junction. and which is
influentially locally supported ; and the Great Southern
and Western may conceive that it is better designed to
secure and develop the traffic of the western districts
than the Grand Canal line advocated by Mr. Pim.
" The Dublin and Dundrum Company have given no-
tice of a Bill to amend their present Act, and also to
extend their line so as to have the city terminus in Ste-
pen's-green. They are bound under their present Act
to make this application to Parliament, and they will
also apply for powers to sell or lease the line to the
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Company.
" The Cork and Bandon Company intend to apply for
a Bill to amend in some particulars their present Act,
but the notice has not yet appeared.
" The Newry and Enniskillen Company also intend
to make a similar application, but we cannot conceive
how they possibly can succeed to the full extent con-
templated."

EASTERN COUNTIES.— ERECTION OP DOCKS ♦ND
WAREHOUSES, AND A BRANCH LlNE.—Application is
intended to be made to Parliament in the next session
for an Act to construct wharfs, docks, and piers, and
other buildings at or near Gallows Reach, in the River
Thames; and also a branch to connect the Eastern
Counties with the docks. The line will commence at
the docks, near the boundary line of the parishes of
Barking and Woolwich, and pass through Woolwich,
Barking, East Ham, and West Ham, and terminating at
West Ham by a junction with the Eastern Counties, at
Caernarvon-hall Bridge.
THE RUGBY STATION OF THE LONDON AND NORTH-
WESTERN.—The London and North Western have pur-
chased thirteen acres of land whereon to erect a new
station at Rugby—the one now in use being inefficient
to the present and the anticipated traffic—when the pro-
posed junctions at Rugby with the Oxford and Rugby,
Rugby and Stamford, Rugby, Leamington, and War-
wick, and the Trent Valley lines will be completed. The
number of trains running into this station amount now to
fifty a day.
The South-Eastern are expending 100,000/ in the
erection of an extensive factory adjacent to the line at
Ashford, covering several acres of ground. It is in-
tended for the manufacturing and repair of looomotives,
their present premises at New Cross being inconvenient,
es well as being the depot of the Croydon and Brighton
Companies. There are also erecting at Ashford cot-
tages for four hundred workmen, with a railway church.
The London and North-Western are building locomotive
factories at Wolverton, which, when eompleted, will cost
nearly about the same sum.

RAILWAY SHARE. MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, NOVEMBER IC

STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate and East-
ern Junction, 6s. 3d. p.-Birkenhead, Lancashire and Che-
shire, 174, p.-Birmingham and Dudley, 3/4 p.-Eirmingham
and Oxford Junction, 7% p.-Chester and Birkenhead, 521,4
-Ditto, Halves, 26%- Ditto, 201. Shares, 1% p.-Dundee
and Perth, New, 3% p.-Eastern Counties, York Extension,
2 p.-East Lancashire, No. 1, New, 4 p.-Ditto, No. 2 (late
Ormskirk and Preston), cum new, 43/4-Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, Halves, 93/4 p.- Edinburgh and Perth, 3/4 dis.-Glas •
sow and Dumfries, 1/1 p.-Great Grimsby and Sheffield,
Quarters, % o, Extension, 1,4 dis.-Great Western,
New Shares, 5% p.-Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 4% p.
-Leeds and Dewsbury, 101,4 p.- Ditto, Branch (Blue), 6%
p.-Leeds and Thirsk, 2 dis -Liverpool and Bury, New,
Bs. 9d. p.-London and North-Western, 197-Ditto, New
Quarters, 14 p.-London and York (Direct Northern), 1,4 dis.
-Manchester, Bolt on, and Bury Extension, 183.91 p.-
Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 5% p.-Ditto, Extension, 21s.
3d. p.-Midland, 134-Ditto, 401. Shares, 10% p.-North
British, Quarters, 2% p.-Ditto, New, 11. Is. 3d. p.-North
Staffordshire, 34 p.-North Western, 114 p.-Preston and
Wyre, Halves (B), % p.-Sheffield and Manchester, Quer-
t-rs, No. 3, Is. 3d. p.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire,
dis.-Shrewsbury and Birmingham, p.-Shropshire
Union Railway and Canal, IA dis.-South-Eastern and Dover,
New, No. 1,3% p.-Ditto, New, No. 4, ifs. 3d. p.-South
Wales, 3i4 dis.-Armagh and Portrush, 21s. 3d.-Belfast and
Ballymena, 7 dis.-Newry and Warrenpoint, p.-Dutch
Rhenish, % dis.
MANCHESTER, NOVEMBER 10.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, p.-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Che-
shire, 2% p.-Birmingham and Dudley, 63/4 p.-Birming-
ham and Oxford Junction, 71,4 p.-Eastern Ccunties, York
Extension, 1 13-16 p.-East Lancashire, 4% p.-Ditto, No.
I, New, 414 p.-Ditto, No. 2 (late Liverpool, Ormskirk, &c.),
43/4 p.-East Lincolnshire, 14 p.-Edinburgh and Glasgow,
Halves, 1014 p.-Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 2s.
dis.-Glasgow and Dumfries, 14 p.-Great Grimsby and
Sheffield, 3 dis.-Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford, 1% p.
-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 4% p.-
Leeds and Thirsk, 3 dis.-Ditto, New, 1,4 dis.-Leeds, Dews-
bury, and Manchester, 111 A c. p.-Ditto, New Branches, 7%
p.-Liverpool and Bury, New Shares, 1 5-16 p.-Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, % dis -London, Man-
chester, and Birmingham, 75-Ditto, Quarters (C), p.-
Manchester and. Southampton, 128.6 d. dis.-Midland, Consols,
135-North British, Quarters, 2% p.-Ditto, Extension, 1% p.
-North Staffordshire, 3 p.-North Union (A), 220 -North
Western, 3/4 p.-Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., 17s. dis.-Preston
and Wyre, Halves (A), 4% p.-Ditto, ditto (B), % p.-
Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 1,4 dis.-Sheffield and Manches-
ter, Quarters, No. 2. 24%-Ditto, ditto, No. 3, par-Shrop-
shire Union. 14 dis.-South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 9-16
p.-West Riding Union, 1 9-16 p.-Wharfdale (late North-
Eastern), .!/4 dis.-Whitehaven and Furness, 23/4 dis.-York
and Carlisle, 2 dis.
LEEDS, NOVEIiBER 10.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction, 7 p.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 2 p.
-East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Liverpool, Ormskirk, &c.),
43/4 p.-East and West Yorkshire, 155. dis.-Huddersfield
and Manchester, 4% p.-Leeds and Bradford, 441% p.-Leeds
and Dewsbury, 11 p.-Ditto, Branches, 714 p.-Ditto, Ex-
tension, 18s. p.-Leeds and Thirsk, 21,4 dis.-Manchester
and Leeds Extensions, 21s. p.-Manchester, Buxton, Mat-
lock, and Midland, 265. p.-Midland, Preference, 5 p.-North
British, Quarters (late Carlisle Branch), 525. 6d. p.- Ditto,
Extension (scrip), 245. 6d. p.-North Staffordshire, p.-
Wharfdale Junction, as. dis.-York and Newcastle, New,
13% p.-Ditto, Preference, 4% p.-York and North Midland,
Preference, 8 15-16 p.--Ditto, East and West Riding, 16 p.
- Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 6s. p.-Bucking-
hamshire, 10s. dis.-Glasgow and Dumfries, 10s. p.-Leeds,
Wakefield, and Midland, 16s. dis.-London and York, 3s. 6d.
s. -Mahon and Driffield Junction, 13s. p.-Midland and
Thirsk Junction, 20s. dis.-North Western, 16s. 6d. p.-
Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 2s. 6d. dis.-West Riding
Union, 31. 12s. s.-York aid Carlisle, dis. 3.-Yorkshire
and Glasgow Union, 41s. 6d. dis. s.

MILL, NOVEMBER 10.
STOCK EXCUANGE.—Our market to-day has been equally
active with yesterday, and all our quotations, with the ex-
ception of North Staffords, are higher. All stocks dealt in
close firm, with a prospect of further improvement. The
sales are—North British, Quarters, 80e. 6d.—Ditto, New
Quarters, scrip, 235. W.—York and Newcastle, Preference,
41. 12a. p.—Abardasn, 21. 185. —Ambeagate, Nottingham, and

Boston, 21. 175.-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, Al
Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., % scrip-East Lancashire, No. 2
(late Liverpool, Ormskirk, &c.), Bs. p.-Fleetwood, Preston,
and West Riding, 225.-North Western, 13s. 6d. p.-North
Staffordshire, 31. 4s. p.-Northern Counties Union (York and
Glasgow Union), I Is.
SHEFFIELD, NOVEMBER 10.
STOCK EXCRANGE.-The sales are-Birmingham and Ox-
ford, 6/. 16s. p.-East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Ormskirk),
4/. lls. p.-East Lincolnshire, par-Great Grimsby and Shef-
field, 3/. 6s. dis.-Ditto, Extensions, 28s. dis.-Ditto, Quar-
ter Shares, 14s. dis.-Ditto, Docks, 13A dis.-Midland, New
Shares, 41,4 p.-North Western, 14s. p.-Sheffield and Lin-
coln, 12s. dis.-Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 2s. dis.-
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 2/. 6s. 6d. dia.-South
Yorkshire Coal Railway, Ils. die.
YORK, NOVEMBER 10.
STOCK EXCOMIGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Notting-
ham, &c., 23/4-London and York, VA-Manchester, Buxton,
Matlock, and Midland, 3%s Nee and erwick, 334-
North British, Halves, 16%-Ditto, Quartersß, 18s. 9d.-
Ditto, Extension, IL 165.-North Staffordshire, 5/. 95.-
North Western, IL 18s. 6d.-West Riding Union, 14a 6d.
scrip-York and Newcastle, New, 18% cum new-Ditto,
Preference, 6%-York and North Midland (East and West
Riding Extension), 2334 cum new-Ditto, Preference, 10%.

MR. HUME AT MONTROSE.
The Member fur this district of burghs having been
called hither last week to attend the funeral of a sister,
took an opportunity of holding an interview with the
Town Council. Most of the members were present, but
the meeting was more of a private than a public nature—
the Provost remarking, that although Mr. Hume, under
other circumstances, would have been happy to have
entered fully and publicly on a review of his conduct as
their representative, he had no intention at present of
appearing before the constituencies.
Mr. Rusin rose and stated, that it was not without
pride that he now looked upon the realisation of the
principles which he advocated thirty years ago, when he
first came before them. When he was first elected for
Montrose he was the only Scotch Member who stood
forward to condemn monopolies. At his now advanced
period of life—almost three score and ten —he might
naturally be expected to court retirement ; and
certainly, had not a chance taken place in the policy
of the Executive, he would have bid adieu for ever
to public life. But he conceived, now when it was
probable that, in one year, more good may be done
than in an age, that ho would sacrifice much of
the public advantage were he to decline giving the
benefit of his experience and information to the Legisla-
ture. His energy and meal for the public good were
still unabated. And, satisfied that much might be
gained in the next Parliament for the working classes,
by the abolition of those taxes which press most heavily
on them, he was prepared once more to become the re-
presentative of the burghs. He had been instrumental
in getting a resolution passed to sweep away all sine
cures—all offices where money was paid without services
rendered ; and whenever a sinecure fell in, he took
special care to remind Government of the fact. When
the Custom-house was thoroughly reformed, like as the
Post-office is to some extent, he anticipated great and
lasting benefits to the mass of the people. Sir Robert
Peel had been blamed for laying on as many taxes as he
had taken off. This was unfair. He had talon off eight
millions of taxes, and he had laid on five, but these lat-
ter were laid on upon capital, and the middle and lower
classes had been relieved. He (Mr. H.) expected to
see the whole of the assessed taxes removed, beginning
with that odious impost. the window lights, and includ-
ing all taxes on carriages, railroads, canals, and, in
short, everything which sets industry in motion. He
regretted much that Sir Robert Peel had seen it neces-
sary to retire from office. But of late he had been en-
couraged to put more confidence iu th- present Admi-
nistration; they were likely to pluck up more resolution,
and there was no chance of their going backwards. If
the burgh constituencies, numbering about 365, would
only act honestly towards themselves, all would be right.
The next Parliament was destined to effect great and
salutary changes in our social system; and he thought
that, if his health permitted, his experience would be
useful in maturing these changes. For a cone
siderable time he had been turning his attention to the
expediency and necessity of relieving the shipping in
terest from all port and light charges whatsoever; and
from the circumstance that Lord Palmerston, Admiral
Dundas, &c., took the same views with himself in the
Committee on light dues, he augured the happiest re
sults. At present the shipping of Britain is taxed
365,0001. per annum for lights, whereas he had shown
that 75,0001. would be amply sufficient to maintain
the lights efficiently. He thought nothing was more
practicable than to place our shipping on a footing
to compete with the shipping of the world.—
(Hear.) He had succeeded in getting an important
reform effected in the unwieldy composition of Com-
mittees of the House. Nineteen years ago, convinced of
the corruption that prevailed in these Committees, he
was hooted when he proposed to change their character
and to limit their number; he had lived to see them re-
duced to five; so that no one ought to despair of accom-
plishing good. Henceforward no private evidence would
be received in support of any local Bill, as Government
must now be satisfied by the report of a commissioner
specially appointed to make the necessary inquiry as to
all the facts and circumstances set forth in said Bill.
Education, he believed, would be the great measure of
the next Parliament. Something was absolutely neces-
sary to be done, in order to repress crime. The penal
colonies were surfeited with convicts; and we have now
almost arrived at the pass—unable to punish criminals;
for it was his opinion, that capital punishments would
soon be abolished. He thought a system of instruction
similar to that which obtains in Holland ought to be
introduced. There all go to the same school, and no
sectarian religious differences are introduced. He con-
ceived that it was the duty of the State to provide edu-
cation as well as food for the multitude. He would like
to know what were the feelings of the constituency on
the subject. He might be wrong in his views; if he were
told so, he would at least think it necessary to reconsider
them. As to the Free Church, he regretted the steps
its ministers had taken; but now that they had gone out,
he respected their conscientious views. He thought it
highly essential to bring the Kirk and the Free Kirk
together on this important question. The Hon. Gentle-
man introduced sundry other topics, in a discursive
style, and sat down by thanking the Council for the
kindness he had always received at their hands.—Mon-
trose Review.

ALARMING FIRE NEAR THE REGENT'S-4'MM.—
Last evening, between the hours of seven and eight
o'clock, a fire of a very alarming nature broke out in the
private residence, belong to Mrs. Needham, No. 12,
Stanhope-street, Park-place, Regent's-park. It appears
that whilst the inmates were conversing together in the
drawing-room they were alarmed at hearing the crack-
ling of wood, and smelling fire very strongly. Upon
making examination, it was ascertained that the two-
pair back-room was in flames. An instant attempt was
made to confine the flames to that room, by pouring
buckets of water upon them, but those so engaged were
soon obliged to abandon the place, for the fire had ,
already obtained such a strong hold that it speedily
communicated to the front room on the same floor ; and
having travelled through the roof, the flames rose to an
alarming height. The inmates of the adjoining building,
being apprehensive that the fire would not be confined
to one house, tore away the upper windows, and com-
menced throwing their furniture into the street ; which
was afterwards removed to the grounds of the Edinburgh
Castle Tavern for protection. By so doing, considerable
damage was done to the costly articles by breakage and
water. Information having been dispatched on the out-
break to the several engine stations belonging to the
London Brigade, with all promptitude the engines from
Wells-street, Crown-street, High Holborn, King-street,
and Baker-street, arrived. Unfortunately, however, the
firemen had to wait upwards of 20 minutes before any
water could be procured from the mains ; meanwhile
the fire continued to descend the staircase, and through
the flooring into the rooms beneath. Water having at
length been obtained, the engines were immediately set
to work, and being worked by the firemen and a strong
muster of soldiers from the Albany-street Barracks, the
flames were by nine o'clock entirely extinguished. The
damage done is considerable, but, fortunately, Mrs.
Needham was insured in the County office. The origin
of the fire could not be ascertained.
SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Sunday night
last an accident of a dreadful character took place on the
Lancaser and Carlisle Railway, near Kendal, which is
likely to terminate in fatal consequences, and by which
valuable property has been destroyed, it appears that
on the above day a party of sub-contracters and other
persons engaged on the line decided on having a plea-
ongtihneg to the company
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without
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and, therefore, arrived at its destination sooner,
and was incautiously left standing on the rails in the
direct path of the one which was behind ; and the fearful
consequence was that a collision ensued, which dashed
the former engine to atoms, and dreadfully injured those
who were being conveyed on the latter, they being
thrown off it by the force of the shock in all directions.
Gawth, a smith, who was on it, was dashed with tre-
mendous force into the furnace of the engine, and dread-
ully scorched about the upper parts of his body and
otherwise injured so much that two out of the three sur-
geons who attended him stated that they had no hope
whatever of his recovery. Another person had his thigh
lacerated, and others were injured to a great extent. The
engineer has absconded.

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now regularly taught to read the Bible by means of
copies printed in the embossed type. From the cash
account it appeared that the corporation was possessed
of 37,800/. 11s. sd. Three per Cents., 25,6111. ss. sd.
Three per Cents. Reduced, 1,2181. New Three-and-a
Quarter per Cents., besides some freehold and leasehold
property. The election having been concluded the
meeting separated.
ENLARGEMENT OF THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC IN
of the Royal Polytechnic
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STlTUTlON.—Yesterday a very numerously-attended
meeting of proprietors
Insti-
tution, was held in the Board-room, W. Nurse, Esq.,
presiding, to determine upon the expediency of perma-
nently enlarging and otherwise improving this popular
temple of science. After a good deal of discussion
among the proprietary, as to the best mode of affording
additional accommodation to the daily increasing num-
ber of visitors, it was proposed, seconded, and unani-
mously carried, that power be given to the directors to
enter upon arrangements for the construction of a com-
modious theatre attached to the institution, the cost of
such building, including the uncovered seats, but exclu-
sive of the fixtures, fittings, and paintings, to be de-
frayed by means of an annual rent from the institution.
The directors were further authorised to negotiate for
the purchase of an adjoining site, and to make definite
arrangements with approved contractors for carrying
out selected architectural plans of the proposed theatre.
From the statements made by the chairman and other
gentlemen, it appears that the new building will cover
an area equal to that which the gallery of the institu-
tion extends over, namely, 120 feet in length and 45 feet
in width.
THE WORKS AT THE NELSON COLUMN.—It is
stated that the long procrastinated completion of the
works on the Nelson Column in Trafalgar-square will
very soon be finally brought to a close. Workmen have
been actively employed on the work during the last
few days.
THE SEWAGE COMPANY.—Notices have been given
of the intention to apply to Parliament for as Act to
enable the Sewage Manure Company to make drains,
tunnels, sewers, ecc., under the City, to Barking-reach,
where reservoirs, &c., are to be formed for the reception
of the immure.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday Sir George Carroll took his seat for the
first time as Lord Mayor in the justice room.
Several younc, men were brought before his Lordship
charged, some ofh them with having picked pockets, and
others with having attempted to pick pockets, on Lord
Mayor's day.
A lad, named James Neill, was accused of having
picked a man's pocket of a pocket- book.
As George Wardle, City policeman, No. 25, was on
duty between 11 and 12 o'clock on Monday, near the
Guildhall Coffee-house, he observed the prisoner make
several attempts on the pockets of different persons. At
length the hand of the prisoner went deliberately into
the pocket of one man, and took out something, which
he put into his own pocket. The policeman instantly
followed the plundered party, communicated to him what
had happened, and took into custody the prisoner, in
whose trousers' pocket he found a pocket-book, which
was identified by a tailor, named Robert Linfort, as his
property.
The prisoner said that somebody in the crowd, no
doubt with the view to get out of a scrape, thrust the
pocket-book into his pocket, and the policeman mistook
one person for the other, and unluckily accident had
favoured the suspicion.
Committed for trial.
Thomas Swindle was doubly charged.
George Kemp, 82 N, of the Metropolitan Police, who
had been in search of the prisoner, saw him near Lon-
don-bridge on Monday, after the embarkation of the
Lord Mayor, putting his hand into the pocket of a lady
of the name of Pickford, the wife of a wine merchant.
The officer at once seized the prisoner, and found in his
hand two shillings and five halfpence, which the lady
said was the exact amount which she had in her peas es-
sion before she was robbed.
Elizabeth Woodcock stated that on the sth of No-
vember she was in Margaret-place, when a Guy Faux
passed, and in the crowd was the prisoner, who slipped
his hand into her pocket and drew out her purse, con-
taining 10s. 6d. in silver. She saw the fellow pull his
hand out, and pursued and took him, and held him about
ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, but could get no
assistance, and he escaped. She afterwards informed the
police of the robbery, and she had no doubt of the pri-
soner's identity.
Policeman 82 N, while looking out for the prisoner
upon the charge just uttered, cast his eyes upor. him as
he was committing the robbery described in the first
case, and caught him in the act.
The prisoner said that people were liable to mistakes
in the streets, in which there were such crowds and con-
fusion ; for his part, he never committed the robbery,
and if he suffered, he should suffer innocently.
The LORD MAYOR, who perceived that the prisoner
was a regular professional thief, committed him for trial
upon the two charges, in order to get rid of him for
some time from the streets of London.
Alexander Ogilby, a man of large size and peculiarly
brutal appearance, was charged with having committed
most dangerous assaults upon the police.
John Monaghan, (341) City policeman, stated that at
half-past nine on Monday night, he was called by an in-
habitant to remove the prisoner from a shop in Fen-
church -street. The prisoner appeared to he drunk and
refused to leave the shop, and witness took him to the
station-house, where the prisoner, who had a knife in
his hand, struck and tried to stab him.
Inspector Merchant stated, that he was obliged to lock up
the prisoner; his violence was of the most violent character,
and when witness opened the door to remonstrate with
him, the brutal fellow cut his hand completely across.
The witness then went to get assistance, and upon his
return found an officer, named Henry Martin (49) strug-
gling with him on the ground.
Martin said, that when the Inspector went for more
assistance, he had the prisoner by the collar, and imme-
diately the prisoner took a clasp•knife out of his pocket,
swore he would " give it to" witness, made a stab at
him, knocked him down, and cut his hand severely
between the thumb and the forefinger.
The LORD MAYOR asked the prisoner how it happened
that he bad been guilty of such desperate violence to
men who had been temperately doing their duty towards
the public ?—The prisoner said he knew nothing at all
about the business, as he was, in fact, dead drunk.
Remanded till Thursday.
William Bunt was charged by Mr. Gilbert, of the
Minories, with having most cruelly beaten one of the
horses he was driving in a waggon. He had been sitting
on the middle horse, which was without reins, and he
struck one of the poor animals most desperately about
the head with the butt end of his whip. The horse fell,
and the brute struck it even more brutally when down.
The LORD MAYOR expressed great indignation at the
conduct of the defendant, and was about to fine him to
the utmost extent, when he suddenly learned that the
fellow had a very large family, and that the infliction
would inevitably fall upon the heads of his wife and
children.
The LORD MAYOR (to the defendant)—You deserve
the weightiest punishment, but I cannot think of punish-
ing your wife and children. The sentence of the Court
upon you is that yon pay a fine of ten shillings, or be
confined in the House of Correction for fourteen days.
The defendant thanked his Lordship, and paid the
fine.
Maria Oldoak was charged. A policeman said that
on Cornhill the defendant had flowers for sale, and, be-
ing in a drunken condition, was soon surrounded by a
crowd ripe for any mischief. Upon being requested to
go away, she castigated the policeman severely about
the head and breast with her fists, and belaboured his
country, which was Ireland, with her tongue. The con-
sequence was that she was introduced to the station-
house.
She denied that she was capable of using the ugly
words attributed to her, and said that she brought out
the flowers to sell in honour of the day.
The LORD MAYOR—But I cannot forgive drunken-
Hess in a young woman. A female who indulges herself
in that vice subjects herself to the worst insults.
The defendant—Oh, my Lord, let me go ; and if you
ever catch me before you again, you may do what you
like with me.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—I shall fine you five shillings for
being drunk and disorderly, or you must go to prison
for seven days.
The money was paid.

THE SMALL DEBTS ACT.
(From the Law Times.)
Curiosity is on the rack to learn what is being done
or contemplated towards setting in motion the machi-
nery of this measure, or we should rather say towards
its construction, for the statute does little more than
prescribe an outline; all the practical details are to be
supplied by the Privy Council, the Lord Chancellor, or
the Judges.
The country is impatient for the consummation of a
desire so ardently pursued, and from which such impos-
sible benefits are contemplated, and the lawyers will not
be:displeased to have the measure of their good or evil
ascertained. Besides its suspended animation operates
most inconveniently just now. Clients are every where
holding back their claims, waiting the advent of the
cheap writs. The next term will exhibit a vast diminu
tion in the number of writs, and the contraction of many
an agency office. We understand that to Mr. Espi-
nasse, well known in the profession by his work on Nisi
Prins, has been committed the task of preparing a draft
of the forms of procedure, to be afterwards considered,
revised, and approved by the judges. Abler hands
could not have been employed upon this important duty.
But to him and the judges the work will be dis-
tasteful. To frame any forms of procedure that shall fit
the schedule of fees, will lash to the utmost the ingenuity
of the framer. He can scarcely hope to give satisfaction.
He will be laughed at by the lawyers for the brevity,
or be abused by the public for his length. Mr. Espi-
nasse's reply must be, what sort of law do you expect
for fifteen shillings ?
We hear the Lord Chancellor has resolved that the
duties of the judges (who will number about 100), shall
be onerous tbat of necessity they must abandon private
practice. In all, save the very large towns, they will
lead peripatetic lives—a perpetual circuit.
To carry out the "cheap" principle that has inspired
the entire statute, the judges (who must be barris-
ters of seven rears' standing), it is said, are not to be
paid for the first two or three years by salary, but by
fees. The object of this is to apportion pay to work.
It is supposed that the amount of fees will indicate nearly
the quantity of labour, and that the salaries may then
be fixed at the average of the annual fees.
In the choice of judges, we understand, the Chancel-
lor considers himself by no means bound to appoint
existing judges of local courts, save where the statute
e
ihna has
me xpperteesnst p
l y requiredersons. it.A n
dH He
iwills fearlesslysingle mindedness r e mov allis
such, that the most perfect assurance may be entertained
that in the selection of judges he will be guided by no
other influence than a sense of public duty. Lord Cot-
tenham is, by universal admission, not only one of the
ablest judges, but one of the most inflexibly upright men
that ever sat upon the woolsack.

FUNERAL or A TEETOTALLEIL—On Sunday last
the remains of Richard Turner,
originator of the name
teetotaller as applied to abstainers from intoxicating
drink, whose death we noticed in our last week's paper,
were interred in St. Peter's Churchyard, ground haying
been purchased for that purpose through the exertions
of a few zealous friends of the temperance cause. A
very large number of teetotallers attended the funeral,
and in addition to those residing in Preston, there were
several from Wigan, Hindley, Bolton, Blackburn, Burn-
ley, Padiham, Lancaster, &c. The funeral procession
was preceded by the Rechabite band; after which came
the teetotallers, two abreast, headed by Messrs. Swindle-
hurst, Howarth, Simpson, Bradley, D.'arden, and other
members of long standing. Next came the corpse,
in a hearse and pair, then the relatives of the de-
ceased, followed by the singers and Sunday school
children connected with the Primitive Methodists, of
which society he was formerly a member. Alto-
gether the number who attended the funeral amounted
to about four hundred. The streets through which
the procession passed were thronged with spectators.
The deceased had been upwards of fourteen years a
member of the Temperance Society, having signed the
pledge at the request of Mr. Swindlehurst and Mr.
Dearden, in St. Peter's School, in October, 1832, while
in a state of intoxication. It may not be generally
known how the term " teetotallers" became first adopted
by the members of the Total Abstinence Society, but
we may inform our readers that Dickey (that being the
name by which Mr. Turner was familiarly called), in
one of his speeches, which were generally characterised
by an equal mixture of wit and blunders, being at a loss
for a word which would convey to the audience that he
was an out-and-out total abstinence man, said, "I have
signed the tee, tee-total pledge." This speech was de
livered in the Cockpit, at the latter end of the year
1833. The word being short and expressive, was im-
mediately adopted by the abstainers of Lancashire, and
ultimately throughout England ; nay, we may say
throughout the world, for both in America and India
the term is adopted by those who are pledged to abstain
from all intoxicating liquorsa—kreston Chronicle.

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