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fishing vessels coming and dragging the nets of the
English boatmen with chains. The fishermen had no
monopoly, as was stated, but on the contrary, the French
fishermen had a monopoly. He feared the Government had
yielded a part of their right to search on the remonstrances
of the French Government. The Gallant Captain concluded
by reading the thirteenth article of the Convention,
After which the motion was agreed to.
Sir G. CLERK had no objection whatever to lay the
letter which the Hon. and Gallant Member asked for before
the House. Complaints had been made by the fishermen of
both countries that the 13th article of the convention sub-
jected them to great inconvenience, and rendered their
boats liable to be unnecearily searched by the cruisers of
both nations. The instructions in question were
therefore issued to do away with these vexatious searches
and only to render those vessels liable to be searched who
had given strong indications of having infringed the rules
and regulations of the convention. With respect to the
notice which the Hon. and Gallant Member had given of his
intention to ask a question of a Member of the
Board of Admiralty on the subject of these instruc-
tions, he might as well state that a copy
of the letter had been forwarded to the Admiralty for their
guidance. Perhaps the House would also allow him to take
that opportunity of answering a question which the Hon.
and Gallant Member had given notice ofon a former occasion.
The question related to the number of English fishing-boats
which had been detained under the convention, and he begged
to assure the lion. and Gallant Member that heshould have no
objection whatever to lay the information he required before
the House. _

THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE OF

LIVERYMEN.

The appeals from the decisions of the- Revising Bar-
risters having now been all heard by the Court of
Common Pleas, it may not be unwelcome to direct more
especial notice to some of those cases that must be of
peculiar interest to metropolitan voters, as relating to the
elective franchise of the liverymen of London. In the
appeal alluded to, the judgment pronounced by the
court, confirmed that franchise. It has long been a
litigated question, whether a livery man, who has ac-
quired his freedom by purchase, subsequently to the
passing of the Reform Act, March 1, 1831, is or is not
prevented from voting for Members of Parliament for the
city of London, by tha operation of the 32nd section
of the said Act. Our readers are aware that this ques-
tion has been each year contested with much zeal by,
the representatives of each party, and with varied suc-
cess at the periodical meetings of the Registration Court
for the city of London, there hating been one decision
against, and two in favour of the right. We now sin-
cerely congratulate the advocates for the intended fran-
chise on the result of their unwearied exertion-a-fin. the
attainment of so desirable an object. The case to which
we refer, it may be remembered, is that of Croucher
(appellant), Browne (respondent), being one of the city
of London appeals against the decision of the Revising
Barrister, at the last Registration Court. The qualifica-
tion to vote fur Members of Parliament for the city of
London, before the passing of the Reform Act, bad three'
requisites:-Ist, freedom of a company; 2nd, freedom of
the City; 3td, Livery of the Company whose freedom had
been acquired fur 12 months before the day of election.
These three conditions were essential to the existence of
the right. It was contended by the advocates for the fran-
chise, that an elector in London voted as a "freeman"
and " livery man," as contradistingsiished from one who
voted in other cities or in boroughs as a freeman or
burgess ; that the general scope and intention of the
Reform Act was to prevent corruption and an improper
introduction of freemen on the eve of a registration, as
had been the practice in many cities and boroughs im-
mediately preceding an election; that the constituency
of the Corporation of London could not be augmented
by such means, inasmuch as to entitle an elector to be
registered, he must have been a liveryman for twelve
months. That it was immaterial to the question at
issue whether a liveryman had acquired his freedom by
birth, by servitude, or by purchase, and that the
reason is hy the city of London was permitted
to retain the fr.nchise, of which all other
cities were deprived, was, that while the statute
of the 18th Geo. 1., cap. 18, was unrepealed, the Cor-
poration of London had no power of itself to make
voters, and, consequently, there could be no swamping of
the constituency. It was further urged, that consider-
ing the vast importance of this metropolitan city, the
high pe.itien it held in the earlier periods of our history,
undiminished in the present times, and the extent of its
franchises and privileges, it was probable that the Legis-
lature had seen reason not to disturb the electoral rights
of London further than by the introduction of a
class of voters, being 101. householders, and the limi-
tation to a residence within seven miles, of the old
franchise to liverymen ; and lastly, that the Reform
Act, being in the nature of a penal statute, ought to be
construed liberally, unless it contained a clear ex-
pression of an intention to disfranchise liverymen
who had been made freemen by purchase at the Ist
March, 1831. The Lord Chief Justice Tindal
decided that the disfranchising part of the 32d section,
before referred to, was inapplicable to the city of Lon-
don, and did not disable from voting for Members of
Parliament for that city, liverymen who had acquired
their freedom otherwise than by birth or servitude, sub-
sequently to the passing of the Reform Act. The judg.
went of the Revising Barrister was, therefore, affirmed;
and the Chief Justice, referring to his sound determina-
tion, paid, as is admitted by all parties, a well-merited
compliment to Mr. Arnold. Thus this important ques-
tion has at length been satisfactorily decided, and further
litigation thereof prevented. It may be added, with re-
spect to the other appeals to the Court from the decisions
of the Revising Barristers, that, though the arguments
of Counsel have been heard in all of them, several of
those cases are not decided, their Lordships' judgment
not having been pronounced.

Afters few words from Captain PECRELL and Sir J. GRA-
HAM the motion was agreed to.

HARWICH AND EASTERN COUNTIES JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

Mr. SPOONER presented a petition for leave to bring in
the Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction Railway Bill,
which was referred to the Select Committee on Public
Petitions.

MANCHESTER AND SOUTiIAMPTON RAILWAY.
Mr. EWART wished to bring before the House an affair
which, if true, would prove to be egress violation of the pri-
vileges of the House. A petition had been presented
from E. Carter, complaining that the standing
orders had not been complied with by the Manchester and
Southampton Railway Company That petition had been
interpolated, and was in that interpolated condition now,
in the hands of the officer of the House, and had been
printed with the Votes. He wished that a Select Committee
should be appointed to investigate the allegations contained
in the petition which he now presented, and moved that the
petition be printed with the Votes.—Ordered.
COURTS OF REQUEST.
Mr. KEMBLE wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet,
the Secretary of State, whether it was the intention of her
Majesty's Government to extend the jurisdiction of the
Courts of Request during the present session.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM was very glad the Hon. Gentle-
man had given him an opportunity of answering that ques-
tion. Many petitions during the part session had been pre-
sented, praying the Legislature to extend the jurisdiction of
the Courts of Request. Those petitions had been referred
"Mir zerect—comnuttee, wkl.l. 14.e1f communi-
cation with the Courts of Request, in various parts,
in order to get information on the subject. It
was intended to extend the jurisdiction of the
Courts of Request all over England, so that sums of
money up to 201. might be recovered in those Courts. No
time had been lost in making the necessary preparations for
the intended alterations. He (Sir James Graham) should
feel it his duty, in the course of the present cession, to ask
the House to pass a supplementary Bill, to establish these
Courts throughout England, aid to appoint barristers or soli-
citors of proper standing as assessors.
Mr. HAWES wished to know. whether any papers re-
lating to the subject had been laid before the House.
Sir J. GRAHAM raid that at an early period he should be
in a condition to afford every information.
The petition for the Direct Northern Railway Bill was
presented.
*The House then adjourned.

PARLIAMENTARY EASINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
TUESDAY, FEB. 3.

The following Petitions for Railway Bills were referred to the
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills :
Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Railway.
Grand Union Railway.
Midland Railway, Syston to Peterborough Railway (Deviation and
Branches).
Great North of England Railway Purchase.
Great North of England and Bedale Branch Railway.
Great North of England and Boronghbridge Branch Railway.
York and North England Railway (East Riding Branches—No. 2).
Leeds and Bradford Railway (Gaiseley Branch).
Leeds and Bradford Railway (Junction Line at Bradford).
Launceston and South Devon Railway (No. 1).
Clonmel and Thurles Railway.
Tenby; Saunicrsfoot, and South Wales Railway.
Great County Down Railway.
Belfast and Holywood Atmospheric Railway.
Direct London and Portsmouth Railway.
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway.
Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland Junction Railway.
Rugby and Huntingdon Railway.
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway.
Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction Railway.
Somersetshire Midland Railway.
Wilsontown. Morningside, and Coltness Railway (Caledonian Rail-
way Junction).
Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness Railway (Bathgate Branch).
York and Lancaster Railway.
Great Western and Wycombe Railway.

The following Petitions for Railway Bills wire presented, and
ordered to lie on the table:—
North Kant Railway.
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.

TUESDAY, FEB. 3.

Swansea Vale Railway—Committee on Petition, Wednesday, Feb. 11

3lalton and Driffield Junction Railway—Committee on Petition,
Wednesday, Feb. IL
_ _

,
Blackburn and Preston and East Lancashire Railways Amalgama-
tion—Committee on Petition, Wednesday, Feb. 11.
Clitheroe Junction Railway—Committee on Petition, Wednesday,
Feb. 11.

Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier—Committee on
Petition, postponed from Thursday 5 till Friday, Feb. 6.
Norfolk Railway Extension (Stowmarket, Wyntondham, and
Attleborough Branch)—Committee on Petition, postponed from
Thursday 5 till Friday, Feb. 6.

Norfolk Railway Extension (Dereham, Wells, and Blakeney Rail-
way Branch)—Committee on Petition, postponed from Thursday 5
till Friday, Feb. 6.

Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Amendment and
Branches (No.'6)—Committee on Petition, postponed from Thursday
5 till Friday, Feb. 6.

Waveney Valley Railway—Committee on Petition, adjourned till
Thursday, Feb. 5.

Taw Vile Railway Extenslon-Committee on Petition, adjourned
till Thursday, Feb. 5.

Great North of Scotland Railway- Committee on Petition, Friday,
Feb. 13.

Great North of Scotland (Eastern Extension) Railway—Com-
mittee on Petition, Friday, Feb. 13.
Deeside Railway—Committee on Petition, Friday, Feb. 13.
Alford Valley Railway—Committee on Petition, Fritay, Feb. 13.

HOPS, MALT, BREWERS, &c.
The following returns were moved far by Mr. Alderman Hum-
phery, and ordered :
Hors.—Accounts " of the total number of aeres of land in Great
Britain under the cultivation of Hops in the year 1845 ; distinguish-
ing the number of acres in each parish :"
" Of the duty on Hops of the growth of the year 1845 ; distin-
guishing the districts, and the old from the new duty:"
" Of the quantity of Hops exported from Great Britain to foreign
countries, from the sth day of January, 1845, to the sth day of
January, 1845 ; distinguishing the countries to which the same have
been exported, and also the quantities to each county ; also, British
from foreign growths, and the dates of the years in which the British
Hops were grown :"

"Of foreign Hops imported into the United Kingdom from the sth
day of January, 1845, to the sth day of January, 1846 ; distinguishing
the ports where imported, and the countries from :whence exported :"
" Of the total number of pounds weight of Hops charged with
duty in each of the several collections of the United Kingdom from
the seer 1840 to the year 1845, both inclusive."
Maur.—Account " of the total number of quarters of Malt made
between the 10th day of October, 1844, and the 10th day of October,
1845; distinguishing the quantity made in each country, and the
quantity used by brewers, victuallers, and retail brewers."
BREWERS, &C.—Accouut " of the number of persons in each of the
several collections in the United Kingdom licensed as ' Brewers,'
Victuallers," to sell beer to be drunk on the premises,' and to sell
beer not to be drunk on the premises ;' stating the number of each
class who brew their own beer, and the quantity of malt consumed
by them ; particularising each class in each collection, from the 10th
day of October, 1844, to the 10th day of October, 1845."
NAVY AND STEAM VESSELS (NAVY).

Oa the motion of Sir Charles Napier the under•named returns
were ordered :

Nevy.—lteturns " as far as the records will admit, of the number
so three deckers cut down to two deckers, since the year 1800
tating the date of launching and the date of cutting down, with the
expense of those cut down since 1832 ; the same as to two deckers
cut down to frigates ; the same as to frigates cut down to corvettes ;
stating the number of guns and weight of metal as frigates, distin-
guishing those which have a spar deck over the main deck and
height of bulwarks, the number of ships, and their names, whose
sterns have been changed on the plan of Sir Robert Seppings, and
the expense, and those changed on some other plan, and the expense
of those who have had their magazines changed :"
" Of the number of forty-six, forty-four, and forty-two gun frigates
built since the year 1815, the number cut down, and the number that
remain, stating how many have been at sea, and the length of time :'
" The total expense of all the alterations."

STEAM VESSEie (NAVY).— Return " of steam vessels (hearing
commanders), showing their length, breadth, and dep h of hold,
tonnage, quantity of coals they stow, and the number of days the
coals will last at full steam, and according to the usual expenditure ;
the depth under water of the upper part of the lower floats ; the
estimated draft of water with everything on board, and the actual
draft :"

" The same Return of steam vessels commanded by lieutenants
and masters, distinguishing the packets."

COU/tT OF LIEUTENANCY.

THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF THE CITY

MILITIA.

Yesterday a Court of Lieutenancy was held in Guild-
hall for the election of officers to fill the vacancies lately
declared.

'The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair.
The following was at the close of the business de-
clared to be the state of the balloting list:—
Recommended by the Committee to the adoption of the
Court :

For Major Captain J. B. Home B4
For Adjutant Lieutenant W. T. Ha 11........... 48
For Captains Lieutenant C. Finch Mackenzie 82
For Lieutelauts Lzinesui b
twenn awn t. Jja. nille a,sTlkheorm p s o n . . . 64
80

Thomas Hi-ath 72
James Qu allett....
For Ensigns ........... Messrs. George Borlase Childs 83
Jesse Charles Melford 77
Theodore Ling 72
Fred. George Windsor 77
ohn Harrison Allan 75
For Quartermaster...Sergeant-J Major Ward
67
For Major Captain James Berkley 1
Lieutenant Gritton, R.M.
For Adjutant Captain Edward S. James
Captain Henry Curtis ......... 43
Lieutenant Wm. Gun Mahon
For Captains William Guize Roper, Esq.
For Lku'enants Wm. J. Lawrence Macclonnell
Ensign William Sprott
For Ensigns John Charles Butcher
For Quartermaster Henry Dive Parrett, Esq.
Lieutenant Robert Dellinger.
It is proper to state, that all the parties recommended
and not recommended by the Committee, appeared with
very strong recommendations from individuals of high
rank and character.
Captain Henry Curtis, who lost the Adjutancy by 5 to
Lieutenant W. T. Hall, was supported powerfully by
several of the most eminent merchants and bankers of
the City of London. Mr. Childs, who bad the highest
number of votes on the list of EnsigUs, is the able sur-
All recommended by the Committee declared elected
goon to the polic force.e

NEWPORT, FEE. 3.—We understand that letters
continue to be received from all parts of the Principality, as
well as from the agriculturists of England, requesting their
names to be added to th© list of contributors for the testi-
monial to be erected to Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., on the
principal height in Tredegar Park, which is expected to be a
magnificent object from the surrounding country, 43 well aA a
useful laucluurk from the Bria Claxmcl.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORN]

RAGGED SCHOOLS.

A lecture on and in behalf of the ragged schools for the
destitute poor was delivered yesterday evening by the Rev.
Robert Ainslie, at the Literary and Scientific Institution in
Aldersgate-street. The theatre of the institution was not so
well filled as we should have wished to have seen it, but the
audience was of a most respectable nature.
After a short but fervent prayer,
The Rev. Mr. Ainslie rose and commenced his lecture, by
observing that he appeared before the audience in the cha-
racter of an advocate for the juvenile portion of the poorer
population, for the purpose of urging upon their attention
the necessity of judicious measures being adopted for the
improvement and education of children born into the world
under circumstances of a most unfavourable nature, born in
the midst of more want, distress, infamy, and crime, than
it was possible to conceive in an intelligent and free country.
It seemed to him that the present state of the public mind
and ofpublic morality was very advantageous for the improve-
Ment of the community. Something of improvement was
now being attempted in the shape of free schools, known as
the ragged schools for children. The origin of the name was
the fact that the clothes of the children were all in
a ragged condition ' • where one was ragged the others
were ragged also. The county of Essex had lately been
building a large county prison, at au expense of nearly
thirty-five thousand pounds. How much better would
it not be to have spent that sum in educating the poor than
in building a prison for punishing them? He had lately
been invited down to Epping, where they wanted a school of
this nature, and in one day there they raised 300/., and esta-
blished the school.. He found, however, that there were one
hundred and fifty children in the town who ought to be re-
ceiving the benefits of education, and were entirely without
them. It was matter of surprise to him when that was the
state of a small to,s n like Epping, that more prisons were not
wanted, and more crime was not committed. (The reverend
lecturer here quoted some portions of a return lately made to
Parliament, and which showed that in six of the counties of
England, taking one hundred of the men who annually came
to the registrar's office to be married, there were from forty
to sixty who could not write their own names; and that out
of one hundred of the females, there were from thirty to fifty
who could not write their own names.) The moral debase-
ment, the disgrace and crime in the metropolis was equally
great, if not worse; of that there could be no doubt; while
we needed such an extensive police to protect us. There
was not a greater disgrace to the metropolis than the police.
He was not speaking with reference to the force or
their character. It was a moat dreadful disgrace to
us, that we should require six thousand men to keep
us in order, at an expense of a quay ter of a million-
of money annually; and until that disgrace was wiped
out by the universal education of the people, we had no-
thing whatever to boast of. Prison after prison had been
built ; there was the Milbank Penitentiary, and lately the
one erected at Pentonville, with solitary cells, into which
man after man was put, where instead of thinking upon the
causes that had led to their imprisonment, they were most
likely nourishing feelings of enmity against those who had
placed them there, against the laws of the country in which
they were born, and against their more fortunate fel-
laweereaturee—(The reverend lecturer here gave a short
account of the general principles of education.) Ile ap-
pealed on behalf of the education of the young persons, be-
cause of our common humanity. The great Creator had made
us all alike, He appealed for it also on account of the great
advantages, both social and moral, that would accrue from
it. Last year, the total number of persons imprisoned in
the United Kingdom was 24,549 males and 4,993 females.
He would ask how many of those 24,549 men did they
suppose bad received a superior education ? Did they
think fifteen, ten, or five thousand, or the remaining
549? No ! The actual number was only 109. He stated
that fact as a reason for his appeal to them on behalf of the
poor, and to show the advantages that would accrue to society
from the general education of the people. Oft he 4,993 females,
to the honour of England, to the honour of the female sex,
and to toe honour of the cause of education, only three of
those females had received anything like a superior educa-
tion. lie had lately paid a visit to Windsor, where a school
had been established on the ragged school principle. There
were upwards of 100 young. persons present from the age of
18 to 10, boys and girls, all behaving with the greatest deco-
rum and respectability, tolerably well clothed—for, educate
the mind, and it immediately revolts at the body being clothed
in rags—they were in a shed, not boarded, the floor of earth,
with a fireplace to keep them warm and comfortable; and
there he had heard them read, some very well indeed, and
answer questions which but a few weeks ago might just as
well have been put to the very boards upon which they were
sitting. And who had done all this? Not the Court! Not
the peers! Not the clergy ! Not the Dissenting ministers !
Not the wealthy inhabitants of the neighbourhood! No, it
had been done by a poor and humble chimney-sweep ; who
had himself been a bad and abandoned man, but who was
reclaimed, and who now sat there, with his dirty face, teach-
ing and doing more good than thousands of others of ten
times his capacity. What was wanted was, that the inha-
bitants of London should collect together, in various places.
the wretched and needy—those in danger of being tainted
by crime—the juvenile portion of the poor—clothe them,
educate them, and give them a just and proper notion of their
stations in society, their social, moral, and political position
in this world. They proposed to educate all, without refe-
rence to sectarianism, bigotry, or any party whatever, but to
lay the Bible before them, instruct them in the good princi-
ples it contained, and bring them up in a manner that would
teach them to respect themselves, respect those placed in
situations above them—but giving them at the same time
the primary means of attaining to the highest stations in
life, should their talents and their assiduity bring them
within their reach—to honour their fellow-creatures and
their Creator, and by so doing to benefit the whole commu-
nity. The Rev. Gentlemen concluded his lecture by thank-
ing the audience for their attention, and appealing to them
to promote as far as lay in their power the cause of the
Ragged Schools.
The Reverend Gentleman then sat down amid loud cheers ;
his lecture was frequently interrupted by very warm ap-
plause.

LATE EXPLOSION at LAMBETH.
Yesterday morning, at 11 o'clock, Mr. W. Carter, the co-
roner for Surrey, and a jury, assembled at the John Bull
Tavern, Tyers-street, Lambeth, touching the respective
deaths of William Kenyon, aged 19 years, and . William
Holmes, aged 16 years, who lost their lives at the late ex-
plosion in King-street, Lambeth-walk.
The jury having been sworn, proceeded, with the coroner,
to the workhouse to view the bodies, which presented a very
shocking spectacle. The features of both were quite charred
by the action of the fire. Upon the return of the jury to the
inquest-room the following evidence was adduced :
James Robins, a labourer, of No. 2, Francis-place, Lam-
beth-walk, deposed, that about 2 o'clock on Friday afternoon
last, while standing in front of the bar of the Fountain
public-house, Lambeth-walk, he heard a cry of" Fire, fire !"
Witness ran out, and proceeded to No. 14, King-street,
where he found the lowerpart of the premises on fire. Smoke
was then issuing from the back cellar. Upon entering the
apartment witness found it filled with smoke. He searched
about, and then discovered two persons lying on the floor
apparently dead, and dreadfully disfigured. There were
several puppies in the corner of the room completely roasted.
Witness obtained assistance, and succeeded in dragging the
men out of the room ; theywere then quite dead. A stretcher
was procured, and after a few minutes the police arrived,
and carried the bodies to Lambeth workhouse. Water was
thrown into the room before they could be taken out.
Their clothing was entirely burnt off by the fire. Witness
had no idea how the accident originated. When witness
first reached the spot a ladder was being placed in front of
the house, which was on fire also on the first floor, where
the inmates had made their escape.
Frederick Kenyon, brother to one of the deceased persons.
said that he could identify both of them. He knew his
brother by the boots, and he recognised the young man
Holmes by his neckerchief and dress. On the day in ques-
tion, while sitting at dinner with his mother, brother, and
I I
father, they were all alarmed by hearing a loud explosion.
The leceased were making " stars,' which consisted of
sulphur saltpetre, and antimony.
By the CORONER.—After they were made they were placed
round a fire in the back cellar to dry. A candle had been
used that day by the deceased (Kenyon). He usually kept
it on his board in front of him. Witness believed that there
were about 2 cwt. of the composition in the lower room
at the time of the accident, and it would easily ignite. The
chief portion was in a dry state, and made up into tubes.
Witness, in continuation, said that when ho left his
brother he was packing up about twenty gross of " stars," to
take to the house of Mr. Darby, as they were dry and in a
finished state. Witness was of opinion that the accident
occurred by the candle falling on the combustibles. Smith,
Kenyon, and Spiers were with him at the time, and all
seemed on the most friendly terms.
Other evidence precisely similar to that taken before Mr.
W. Payne, the City coroner, at Guy's Hospital, having been
adduced, the Coroner briefly remarked on the melancholy
nature of the case, after which the jury returned a verdict,
"That the deceased individuals had lost their lives acci-
dentally."

MURDER NEAR MANCHESTER.
MANCHESTER, MONDAY EVENING.—This morning Na-
thaniel Curry, a spinner, in the employ of Messrs. Murray,
of Ancoats, who is in custody upon suspicion of having
thrown a young woman named Ann Ellison into the Rochdale
Canal, at Newton, near this town, was brought up at the
Salford New Bailey for examination, before H. L. Trafford,
and James Hayward, Esq...
Mr. Beswick, chief-superintendent of the Manchester
borough police, conducted the prosecution; and the prisoner
was defended by Mr. Aspinall.
The evidence was to the following effect :—On the even-
ing of the 10th of December last, at about half-past nine
o'clock, a man named Scott, who lives near the Rochdale
Canal, at Newton, observed a young man and woman
walking together on the towing-path of the canal, but
on the other side of the water to where he was stand-
ing. The man had his arm round her neck, and had got
one of her hands grasped within his own. After walking I
together a short distance, the female called out " murder ; '
but presently walked on with her companion. In a short
time they got out of sight of Scott, who again heard the girl
call out. "Lord ! dear me; don't murder me; do save my
life." This latter sentence he describes as having been
ejaculated in a half-stifled voice. As he would have had to
go a distance of a quarter of a mile to have reached the bridge
which crosses the canal, he appears to have troubled himself
no further in the matter, but walked quietly home. In the
course of half an hour afterwards some young men, who
were on their way home, saw something in the canal, and
upon getting a stick from the hedge succeeded in getting
to the bank the load body of a young woman. They
&Int for the police, and upon searching her pockets two
books were found in such a condition that it was quite
clear she had only been a short time in the water. The
body turned out to be that of Ann Ellison, and an
inquest was held on the body on the following day
by Mr. Rutter, the county coroner, and a verdict of
"Found drowned" returned. From inquiries which were
made by hr. Beswick, the prisoner was apprehended. The
girl was a "big piecer" fur him at Messrs. Murray's mill; and
as he had been known to be extremely lax in his conversa-
with her, at times, it was suspected that he had some band
in the matter. Two young women, named Russell and Far-
rington, swore most distinctly to having seen the prisoner
With a young woman answering the description of the de-
ceased, in a field close to the canal, on the night in question,
a very short time before the body was found; and upon the
body being
woman, who had always borne a good character for exemplary
exhumed, it appeared that the unfortunate young
conduct, was three months advanced in pregnancy.
Other eircurnstancts were stated in evidence, tending, in
some degree, to strengthen the suspicion against the prisoner,
who was remanded until Tuesday next, for further exami-
nation.

that countdr.
Earl and Countess Granville have left town for Staf-
fordshire, the Noble Earl having gone to vi-it his estates in
by Lady eorgiana Fullerton, has left Mount Felix, near
The Dowager Countess Granville, accompanied
Walton, to visit Lord and Lady Rivers, at Rushmore Lodge,
Dorset.
AN EXPENSIVE PAUPER.—The parish of Longhope, in the
Westbury-on-Severn Union, has had a pauper of the name of
Elizabeth Dutfield, in the Gloucester Lunatic Asylum for
more than twenty years. She has cost her parish nearly
500 i. ; And what is most remarkable, she died on the 24th inst.,
Aged 102.--qtßuceatershire Chronicle.