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London, England, 1848-06-16 00:00:00

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE 16.—Wind S., light breeze and fine
clear weather.

FAVERSHAM, JUNE 14.—The Huntcliffe, Tourtel,
from Memel, which grounded on a mud flat in the East
Swake, was yesterday got off, and has sustained no
damage.
DEAL, JUNE 15.—The Inconstant, Wilson, from New
Orleans to London, which arrived in the Downs to-day,
lust her foremast on 23d ult., in lat. 44 N„ long. 45 W.
TEIGNNOUTII, JUNE 15.—The Philemon (schooner)
of Brixham, got ashore last night near Maden Combs,
is lying on her broadside, water-logged, and it is ex-
pected will become a total wreck.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 15.—The Ellen Jenkinson, Bright-
man, of Africa, in proceeding to sea this morning, Kot
on shore near Egremont, and will have to return into
dock and discharge.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 14.—Arrd. Finland Johnson,
Apalachicola. Sailed, on the 15th, Alice, Brooks,
Monte Video ; Grace, Coquimbo ; Albert Edward, Rio
Jantiiro; Olinda, Maranham ; Colingwood, St.Thomas's;
Havannah packet, Matanzas ; Europe, Philadelphia ;
Peter Lletterick, New York ; Sarsfield, Halifax ; R. C.
IVenthrop, Boston ; Northumberland, Quebec ; Albion,
ditto; Favourite, ditto ; Britannia, ditto ; Coromandel,
ditto ; Martin, Labrador ; Love and Unity, New-
foundland ; Dreamore, ditto ; Pearl, ditto, Symmetry,
ditto. _

DEAL, JUNE 15.—Arrd. Despatch, Williams, River
Gambia ; Inconstant, Wilson, New Orleans. Arrived
from the River and sailed Competitor, Hyde; Adelaide,
South Australia; Minerva, Marsden, Pernambuco ;
Regina, Foreman, Dominica ; Queen of Britain, Fite-
gibbon, St. Lucia.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—DEFARTURE OF THE
FRENCH.—The anti-monopolists as a morning contempo-
rary has facetiously termed the troop of French actors
whose performance at " Old Drury" has• given such
offence to the English public, leave London next week,
after giving two farewell performances for which they
modestly charge only a guinea. The warm reception they
received, we should think, will effectually prevent any si-
milar attempt of the kind being made by French artistic:.
Patronage of foreign talent to a limited extent is very
good, but when the bounds of moderation are passed,
results like the present must be expected.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, JUNE 14.—1 n a convocation holden this
Morning, the University seal was affixed to an humble
address of condolence and congratulation to her Ma•
jesty; the address voted on the 17th having since been
somewhat altered, in consequence of the death of her
Royal Highness the Princess Sophia.
At the same time the Rev. George Hext, M.A., fel-
low and tutor of Corpus Christi College; the Rev.
William Basil Tickell Jones, M.A., fellow of Queen's
College; and the Rev. James Peers Tweed, M.A.,
fellow and tutor of Exeter College, were nominated mas-
ters of the schools for the year ensuing.
In a congregation holden immediately afterwards the
following decrees were conferred, viz.:—
Master of Arts—Charles James Stuart, University
College; Rev. John Horne, Balliol College; Adol-
thus Leighton White, ditto, grand compounder; Rev.
Jaarles Garvey, Exeter College; Samuel Archer,
ditto; George Seton, ditto; William Keating,
ditto William Money Kyrle, Oriel College ; John
Burgon, fellow of ditto ; Chas. Crawley, ditto ; Rev.
James J. G. Graham, Queen's College ; Rev. James
Elwin Millard, Magdalen College ; Rev. William Har-
vey, Brasenose College ; Rev. George John Banner,
ditto ; Frederick Earnshaw Marshall, ditto ; George,
Wingate Pearce, scholar of Corpus Christi College ;
Richard Arthut Le Mesurier, scholar of ditto ; Wm.
Trevenon, Trinity College ; Rev. Hinton Castle Smith,
Wadham College ; Simeon Sturges, Magdalen Hall,
grand compounder ; Henry Liviers, St. Edmund Hall ;
Rev. Walter John Dare, New lan Hall ; West Wyatt,
ditto ; and Rev. Arthur C. Saunders, scholar of Pem-
broke College.
Bachelor of Arts.—P. Oxendon Papillon, Univer-
sity College ; Henry Seymour, Balliol College ; Ed-
ward Parry, St. John's College ; George William
Pigott, Exeter College ; Thomas Owen Tudor,
ditto ; George Porter, ditto ; John Samuel,
ditto, grand compounder ; Charles Matthew Robins,
Oriel College ; Thomas Tuting, Lincoln College ;
Oharles Arthur Molony, ditto; William Dunn Macray,
Magdalen College; William Molyneaux, Christ Church;
Montague Blackett, ditto; Charles C. Plowden, ditto;
William B. Findlay, ditto; Alexander J. W. Philip,
Trinity College; John Edgar Gibson, St. John's Col-
lege; Howell Powell Edwards, scholar of Jesus College;
George Samuel Rees, scholar of ditto; Henry Hodgson,
Wad ham College; Thomas Gale Curtler, ditto; Edward
Duncan Hale, Pembroke College; Henry Llewelyn Ro-
berts, Worcester College; Charles E. Freeman, Mag-
dalen Hall; Cladius Roberta Rowlett, ditto; George
Bishop, ditto; James John Chichester, ditto; Henry
Douglas Munro, New Inn Hall; and Edward Pallin,
fellow of lit. John's College.
The Professor of Poetry (the Rev. James Garbett)
will deliver his terminal lecture, at the Clarendon, on
Thursday next, at two o'clock.
OXFORD, JUNE 15. Richard Arthur Le Mesurier,
ILA., scholar of Corpus Christi College, was this day
admitted a probationary fellow of that society.
The election for fellowships at Merton took place
this morning, when the following gentlemen were
elected:—
Henry Musgrave Wilkins, 8.A., former scholar of
Trinity.
Henry Baskerville Walton, 8.A., of Pembroke.
John Young Sargent, postmaster of Morton.
CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 15.—The gold medal given an-
nually by his Royal Highness the Prince Chancellor for
the encouragement of English Poetry, to such resident
undergraduate as shall compo,:e the best ode or poem in
heroic verse, has been adjudged to George John
Cayley, Trinity College. Subject " The Death of
Balder."
The gold medal given annually by the Marquis
Camden, as a prize for the best exercise in Latin Hexa-
meter Verse, has been adjud4ed to A. F. Birch, King's
College. Subject—" lona Insula."
The four prizes, of 15 guineas each (two to bachelors
and two to und. ergra !notes), given annually by the
representatives in Parliament for the University, for the
best Latin Prose Compositions, have been awarded as
folio/vs:—

Bachelors—J. Pilkington Norris, 8.A., Trinity Col-
lege; David James Vaughan, 8.A., Trinity College.
Subject—" De Arturo Britannorum Principe, utrum
aliquid yeti memorim traditum sit."
Undergraduates—R. Elwyn, Trinity College; A. W.
Beadlam, Trinity College. Subject—" In cultu divino
quaznam sint*•Musicre partes."

ELECTORAL CONSTRUCTION OF

PARLIAMENT.
(From the Trades' Weekly Messenger.)
"It is necessary to describe the present plan of
elective franchise in Scotland as compared with the
system that prevailed previous to the year 1832. In
the first place, there is a very considerable difference
in the number of electors in the two periods. In
1832 the total population was 2,365,000 ; of whom
were male adults 540,000 electors, 2,340 ; or 1
elector to every 1,000 souls; or 1 elector for every 230
men above twenty years of age. In 1842 the total
population was 2,620,184 male adults, 630,000 ;
total electors, 83,200 : 1 elector for every 31 souls,
or thereby; or 1 for every 7 or 8 male adults; or la
other words, there are 544,800 men who live by food,
and of legal age, but who have no voice, directly or
indirectly, in the choice and election of men to concoct
and enact laws of life or death—of peace or war—of
taxation and religion. Compared with the franchise
before the year 1832, there is at present a considerable
increase of the electors; but compared with the unenfran-
chised adult male inhabitants there is yet much to be done
towards an augmentation.
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England in 1841, had total population 14,995,138
Of whom were males 7,323,i87, and females

7,671,7.31
Male adults above twenty years of age
Men above twenty years of age who pos-
sessed the elective franchise (1542, 1843) 808,216

Unenfranchised men or fiscal slaves
The electors form one for every 18 of population of
tr,wcro(n, and children, or one elector for every
male adults.

911,603
447,707

Wales in 1841—total population
Total males
Males above twenty years of age in posses-
sion of the franchise (1842, 1843)
" One elector for every 181 total population, or fur
every 4i- male adults.

Unenfri;nehised male adults... 185,105
Ireland in 1841—total population
Electers in 1843, 1844 117,440
" One for every seventy, or thereby, of total popu-
lation. .

" What is to be remarked in the foregoing state-
ments is the disproportion between the number of elec-
tors in Scotland, England, and Wales.
" Scotland has one elector for every thirty-one of the
total population; and England and Wales one fur every
eighteen to nineteen of them.
The whole political influence of Scotland is neutra-
lised by thirty-one English boroughs returning the same
number (fifty-three) of Members to Parliament, thus—

_
Electors. Male adults. Mem.
Scotland 85,244 630,328 53
Thirty-one Eng. boroughs
" We find in the same manner, the legislative votes of
Ireland neutralised in the House of Commons by 66
English boroughs, returning the same number of Mem-
bers as Ireland.

Electors. Male adults. Mem.
Ireland .„ 117,448 1,890 743 105
Sixty-six English boroughs 26,443 122,500, 105
"But a very extraordinary and alarming part of the
electoral system of Great Britain is, that the thirty-one
boroughs that are able to neutralise the whole political
weight of Scotland in the Lebislature, are almost
powerful enough in votes to give check-mate to all the
most populous and influential cities in England and
Scotland together ; including London and the metro-
politan boroughs. The abstract is this :
Electors. Male adults. mein.
Twenty-seven large ci-} 203,945 916,923 53
ties and boroughs. • •
Thirty-one small bo-}. 9,862 41,560 53
roughs . .
" It thus appears that a Minister who possesses the
means, through money or place, of controlling the thirty-
one boroughs with their fitty- three representatives, can,
on questions affecting Scotland, neutralise the Scottish
votes, and, turned in another direction, can defeat the
representation of the most important cities of the empire.
"On looking into the representation of counties we
shall discover similar results of equal numbers of votes
representing very unequal constituencies. There are
eighteen counties, partly in England and partly in Scot-
land, with 21,027 electors, that have twenty Members or
legislative rotes, against ten English counties with
140,457 electors returning only twenty Members.
"JAMES J. MACINTYRE."

SALE OF THEATRICAL PORTRAITS, AND RELICS
0) GnntsLni.—Wednesday a collection of theatrical
portraits, originally forming part of the gallery of the
late Thomas Harris, Esq., for many years lessee of
Covent Garden Theatre, and a quantity of theatrical
property of the late inimitable pantomimist, Joe Gri-
maldi, was sold by auction at Mr. Robins's rooms,
Covent-garden. The novelty of the sale attracted many
persons. The portrait of R. B. Sheridan went for
21" 26. ; C. Young, by Harlowe, 2/. ; two full-lengths,
and one three-quarter, of Fawcett, in the respective
characters of Frippon, Dr. Pangloss, and Jerry Sneak,
sold for I/. los. and a guinea each ; a portrait of Liston,
by Clint, 2/. ; of Suett, by Northcote, 1/. 83. ; a whole
let
n J.
of Barry, as Macbeth, by Uogarth, 1/. Is. •
and
of .P. Remble, as Penruddock,; a whole length
of C. Mathews, sen., as Obadiah, by D. Wilde, 21. 4s • the full length portrait of the celebrated Miss Foot.; now the Countess of Harrington, as Maria Darlington, '
by Clint, A.R.A., an exquisite painting,
sold for
51. 73. 6d. The portraits of Grimaldi produced from
Is. 6d. to 1 Is., his coat of arms, Is. ed. ; a water-
coloured drawing by Bologna, the celebrated harlequin
of „ Joey's ' cottage at Finchley, 20s. The manuscript
folumes, written by himself, of all the pantomimes in
which Grimaldi performed, sold for 30s. ; his songs, in
his own writing, "Hot Codlings," ‘. Tipity witchet," &c ,
sold for 53. 6d., and the identical silver watch, b.
Abrahams, representing on its face the celebrated downy
mounted on a donkey, familiarly termed by him me
and my Neddy," and of which he was plundered by
footpads on his way to Finchley, and which was re-
turned by them on finding they had robbed their fa-
vourite, sold for 51. ss.
NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—The following
(important!) second report from tho Select Committee
on the new Houses of Parliament (Kitchen, &c.) is just
delivered, printed by order of the House of Conlmons:
WSP
—That one or more of the small rooms adjoining the
A: transverse corridor, or the two rooms at the opposite
side of that lobby, now entered for private bills and door-
keeper's department, be fitted up as washing-rooms, &c.,
for Members; and that hot-water pipes should bo con-
ducted thereto. That a portion of the upper cloister be
erranged for an additional cloak-room.

14

7.: "q.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
BAIL COURT, June 15.
(Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)

THE QUEEN V. BUSHELL.
Mr. WILLIS said in this case the defendant was in-
dicted at the Middlesex Sessions, for keeping a common
gaming-house in St. James's, but he was ignorant
of the name of the prosecutor, or of the street
in which the alleged gaming-house was situated. A
rule nisi had, therefore, been granted calling upon the
prosecutor to furnish the defendant with the particulars
of the house and his own name. That rule had been
served upon the attorney who endorsed the indictment,
but an affidavit had been filed by him, statinc, that he
had ceased to be engaged in the case and that he neither
knew the situation of the house nor the name of the
prosecutor. Under these circumstances he now moved
that the rule be made absolute.

Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN directed the rule to be en•
larged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTMINSTER.
Mr. Henry Clarke, Idol-lane, Tower-street, appeared
to a summons charging him " with having composed
and published a certain libel containing divers matters
and things of and concerning" Captain George Beau-
clerc, Grosvenor-street West, Pimlico.
Certain letters having been read,
Defendant, in reply to the charge, complained in
strong terms of the mode of proceeding adopted against
him, declaring that he had been persecuted as well as
prosecuted. Proceedings had been first taken with a
view to put him in a bad position before the world. to
create a strong impression against him in the public
mind, which the life of . a century might not ertite, by
charging him, in the first instance, with threatening to
publish certain things, with intent to extort money.
There being no evidence to support that charge, one of
libel was next exhibited against him.
After hearing the case, which bad no public interest,
the Magistrate felt bound to call on defendant to find
bail to answer the charge at the Central Criminal

Court.
The Captain was boutnnd obavielrtotoapnrsowseeerutthee, in the usual
way, and defendant
was held Ttßo EhaEillfe. r having-e a
guTnhaenmdablikatllllA-cala:rnLterßsid.p:wuelhs;o°in
be liberated,
for Chartist
was brought up to
curedpurposes,
two respecsabl, tradesmen to bo answerable for
I;is future good behaviour..
One of the tradesmen said the. defendant he had known
from a child, and had given him work. He was a steady
hard-working man, but had been led away by others of
a more designing character, and he was now heartily
ashamed of his conduct.
Mr. HARDWICK asked the bail if they were willing to
be bound for his future good conduct, and that he should
not frequent seditious meetings?—The bail answered in
the affirmative.
Haynes then came forward, and, with a most peniten-
tial aspect, promised future good behaviour, declaring
he would give up " villanous company," and stick to
work like an honest man.
Mr. HARDWICK accepted the proffered bail.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Mr. 'David Waterworth, a bootmaker, in the Hack-
ney-road, was placed before Mr. Hammill, for final exa-
mination, charged with having assaulted and danger-
ously injured Mrs. Eliza Kirby, the wife of a tradesman
in the same neighbourhood.
The complainant stated, that on the night of Wed-
nesday, the 17th ult., she was standing at the door of
her house, with her niece and daughter, having been
attracted there by an alarm of fire, when the defendant,
with whom she had some previous misunderstanding,
suddenly came up, and after assaulting her with the
coarsest abuse, and declaring " that he would give it to
her, now that he had got her alone," instantly struck
her several violent blows in the face, and knocked her
to the ground. The moment she regained her feet, the
defendant struck her a violent blow over the right eye,
which again knocked her down, and rendered her sense-
less. Upon recovering her senses, she found herself in
her own parlour, under the attendance of a surgeon, and
bleeding profusely from numerous wounds, and being
at the time in an advanced state of pregnancy, a mis-
carriage soon afterwards took place, and she was con-
fined to her bed, in a very precarious state, for nearly
three weeks.
The evidence of the complainant was fully corrobo-
rated by that of Amy and Susan Kirby, her niece and
daughter, and a tradesman, named Gomer, who stated
that although the defendant was an entire stranger to
him, he was enabled to identify him from having seen
him at the door of his shop, which was rendered con-
spicuous by a profuse display of Chartist bills and politi-
cal announcements exhibited in his window.
Mr. Mark Pickering, a surgeon at llaggerstone,
proved that upon being called in to attend the complainant,
he found her face severely lacerated in six or seven
places, her nose seriously contused, and both her eyes
blackened, and he attributed her subsequent miscarriage
to the injuries she had so sustained.
Mr. HAMMILL said that he considered the case of far
too serious a nature to be summarily disposed of, and h,,
should therefore send it before a jury, and the prisoner,
who expressed his intention to reserve his defence, was
accordingly committed for trial ; but the Magistrate
consented to take substantial bail for his appearance.
Frederick Illurgatroyd was charged with having stolen
a gold watch, of the value of .35 guineas, the property
of a gentleman named Winterford, residing at Cottage-
grove, Walworth.
The prosecutor stated that while passing through New-
street, Whitechapel, at a late hour on the preceding
night, the prisoner made a sudden rush towards him, and
grasped hold of his watch-guard with such a violent jerk
that he snapped the swivel and got possession of his
watch, with which he instantly darted off. Witness pur-
sued the prisoner with a cry of " Stop thief," and kept
him in sight until he was seized by a policeman who was
advancing; but although he was subjected to an imme-
diate search the watch was not recovered, and he had
no doubt he transferred it to one of his confederates,
who escaped in a different direction, just before he was
captured.
The prisoner, who protested his innocence, was fully
committed for trial.
BENEVOLENCE.—The Magistrate announced his re-
ceipt of a letter, with the signature " A. 8.," enclosing
the half of a 201. note, No. 60,522, and lettered " T.F.,"
for the poor-box of the Court, and the remaining
moiety of which was promised to be transmitted upon
the acknowledgment of the receipt of the first in the
daily papers.