The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1,146,

The Court then divided, when the original motion was
carried by a majority of 31 ; the numbers being—for
the admission of the bust, 65 ; against it, 34.

The prisoner was accordingly remanded to Tuesday.,
Before he was removed from the dock, he applied,
through Mr. Parry, to have restored to him the 51;
country bank-note which had been taken from him by
the officer of the Post-office constabulary, but upon
which no charge had been founded.
Mr. Peacock said that there could be no objection to
that, as no suspicion whatever any longer attached to
the prisoner on account of that note. On the contrary,
he understood froth Mr. Parry, the clergyman from
Raleigh, who paid it to the prisoner, was present to give
evidence, if required, as to the mode in which it came
into his possession.

THE COAL WHIPPERS.

Upon the motion of Mr. W. S. • HALE, the petition of
Mr. Hobler for the payment of his bill of charges in pro-
curing the Coal Whippers' Act, was referred to a com-
mittee. Mr. Hobler had by great labour and skill, and
at great expense from his private purse, obtained the
Bill in Parliament ; and Mr. Wire, who had been op-
posed to him all through, did justice to the extraordi-
nary exertions of the petitioner in all the laborious pre-
parations and in every stage of the legislative proceedings.

MARYLEBONE.
John Barker was charged with stealing three half-
quartern loaves from a baker's basket in Weymouth-
street that morning.
The owner of the basket having been informed of the
theft, he and another baker went in quest of the prisoner,
who, returning, dropped the three loaves into the basket
again, and made off.

Policeman 77 D took the prisoner into custody.
The prisoner said he had not broken his fast since
yesterday morning, and admitted having taken two loaves.
Mr. RAWLINSON said one loaf would have satisfied
the cravings of nature, therefore he must commit him
for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ALLEGED FAVOURITISM BY THE POLICE.—A batch of
omnibus drivers were summoned by the police for stop-
ping at the White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, longer than
was necessary to set down or take up passengerc.
Amongst these summonses was one against Andrew
Fletcher, the driver of a Richmond omnibus.
Police-constable C 134 nroved that on the day stated
in the summons the eefendant stopped before the White
Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, for two minutes, during whicls
time he neither took up nor set down passengers.
In defence, the driver said the police stationed at the
White Horse Cellar, from some cause which they alone
could explain, chose to favour the Hammersmith omni-
buses, and to deal oppressively with the Richmond om-
nibuses. The first were allowed to stop at the White
Horse Cellar without limit; the last were hardly allowed
to draw up before the office. The species of favouritism
was known to and protested against by several of those
gentlemen who resided at Richmond, and who were in
the habit of riding with him. He denied that he stopped
longer than was necessary, and he hadevidence to estab-
lish that fact.;
The defendant first produced a letter from a gntleman
at Richmond, named Wall, which stated that the defen-
dant had not stopped, as the summons declared, longer
in Piccadilly than was absolutely necessary.
Two witnesses, Mr. Godfrey Dyne, of Bolton House,
Turaham. green, and Mr. Whitby, of Richmond, deposed
to the same effect, and expressed their belief that par-
tiality was exercised by the police in the cases of the
Richmond and Hammersmith omnibuses.
Inspector Aggs, C division, said he was entirely igno-
rant of the suspicion of partiality entertained against the
police. He could assure the Bench the police had no au-
thority to show favour to any party. The constables
were to treat all alike, and as some proof that this par-
tiality was imaginary, be would just mention that the
very next summons the Court would be called upon to
hear was one against the driver of a Hammersmith omni-
bus for loitering.
Mr. HARDWICK readily acquitted the superintendent
and inspectors of any intention to act otherwise than
wi*s the utmost fairness; but as the impression of par-
tiality appeared to be shared by so many "respectable
witnesses, he could not help thinking there must be some
ground for the belief. The defendant had been sum
moned for stopping two minutes only, and respectable
witnesses had sworn that during that time the defendant
was engaged in the business of the omnibus. Now he
thought that it was attempting to carry out the Act in
a spirit and manner foreign to its real intention, for the
police to summon a person for stopping so short a time,
and more especially when the convenience of the public
appeared to require that this temporary stopping should
occur. Under the circumstances of the case he must dis-
miss the summons.
A second summons against the same defendant for a
like offence was also dismissed.

John James Knight, a well-dressed boy, was brought
up by Mr. Allenby, 195, Regent-street, who charged
him with embezzling various sums of money, to the
amount of at least 131. 85.

The complainant said the boy was cash taker in his
shop, and for some time had been entering the sums in.
correctly. The books were made up and balanced every
night by the boy at the bar in company with another,
who called over the sums in the small check-book. Le
one case the several items were properly and truly en-
tered, but summed up 31. 17s. instead of 4/. 17s_, the true
amount, but the boy called over the latter sum instead
of the one he bad put in the cash-book, showing that
the error was intended. On Monday night they found
onobalancing the books that there was a deficit of 5/.
The boy absconded on that day. lie had been in the
same shop for two years.
The prisoner admitted he had put down the wrong
sum and pocketed the difference.
The case was remanded till Tuesday next.
SOUTH WARK.
Thursday Frederick Dixon, a man of respectable ap-
pearance, appeared before Mr. Combe on a charge of
absconding with the wife of James Williams, a milk
man, of Portsmouth-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, and
stealing a portrait painting, a Bible, and other articles.
The complainant stated that about three years ago he
engaged the prisoner as his clerk, and in five' months
afterwards, business calling him into the country, he.
left home. His business being finished in. a month, fir
returned to town, when to his great surprise and morti-
fication he found that his wife had eloped with the pri-
soner, after having ransacked his house of a consider-
able quantity of property. He had made repeated in-
quiries after the fugitives, but could obtain no precise
information about them until last Friday evening, when
he discovered the prisoner was living in the Broadway.
•St. Thomas's Hospital. On the following morning he
went to the prisoner's place of abode, and finding several
articles his property, and which had been taken from his
house at the period his wite eloped, accordingly gave the
prisoner into custody.
The ,prisoner, in the. most indignant manner, re-
pelled the charge. and said that he never acted as
clerk to the complainant, who merely employed him
in his capacity of accountant, be (the complainant)
being at the time an uncertificated bankrupt. That
with . respect to the complainant's wife, she bad
been treated in a shameful manner by him, and his
conduct was so bad to her that she determined not

to remain any longer under his roof, and accordingly
quitted bis house without a shilling. At that period
be (prisoner) was living in the district of Queen square.
and out of cornpession admitted the poor woman into his
house from pure motives of humanity, and no other
feeling. That the complainant knew perfectly well where
his wife had taken refuge, and, as a proof of this being
the case, about 18 months ago he (prisoner) gave him in
charge for creating a disturbance in front of his house.
The next morning he was taken before Mr. Bond, at
Queen-square, and punished by the infliction of a fltle,
which he (prisoner) subsequently paid for him, not hay-
ing the money himself, in order to prevent him from
being sent to gaol.

The MAGISTRATZ said that he was very much in-
cline,' to believe the prisoner's statement of the affair, he
having admitted, without disguise, that the few articles
found at his house were brought there by the prisoner',
wife, at the time it was alleged she was compelled
to abandon her home. However, without the pro-
duction of much stronger evidence he (the Magistrate)
should not think of sending the case before a jury, but
merely continue the accused's recognisances to appear
when called on.

charge herself, and the prisoner was accordingly con-
veyed to the station.

In answer to the charge, the prisoner said that he had
been drinking freely, and was unable to explain how he
got into the house oranytbing that subsequentlyoccurred.
kr. BROUGHTON characterised the case as one of the
most flagrant that had come under his cognizance, and

said, that on a review of all-the circumstances, he could
come to no other conclusion than that the husband had
been accessory to the whole transaction for the further-
ance of some ulterior object, the nature of which was
sufficiently °l:minus. He considered the prisoner's
defence an aggravation of his conduct, and should
therefore, order him to be committed at once for a
criminal assault, and direct the immediate apprehension
of the husbace' to answer for
,the previous ill-usage
towards his unfortunate wife.

STARVATION IN LEWES GAOL.
The Sussex magistrates, living in the vicinity of
Lewes, and most of whom are visiting justices a the
House of Correction, held a meeting at the County Hall,
for the purpose of investigating the circumstances con-
nected with the death of James Allen, on whose body an
inquest waieheld on Monday week. The magistrates
present were the Earl of Chicester, Mr. Sergeant
D'Oyley, Sir H. Shiffner, Bart., Mr. Blackman, Mr.
Moline aux, and Mr. J. G. Blencowe. The meeting took
place at the termination of the usual business of the
weekly petty sessions, and the reporters of the local
press having left, Lord Chichester expressed his regret
at the circumstance; whereupon a message was sent to
the offices of the two Sussex papers, published in Lewes,
and in a few minutes reporters from those papers were in
attendance. On the arrival of the representatives of the
press, an examination of the officers of the gaol com-
menced; but in order to refresh the minds of our readers
with the circumstances of the case, we first give a sum
mary of that portion of the evidence adduced at
the inquest, which shows the cause of the inquest
being held, and which will be necessary to render the
present examination intelligible. Our readers, we take
for granted, remember that the verdict attributed the
death of the deceased to the rigorous enforcement of his
sentence of eight months' hard labour, interspersed, as it
was, with nine separate weeks of solitary confinement,
combined with the insufficiency of the prison diet.
The father and sister of the deceased deposed at the
inquest that the deceased entered the prison as a
healthy man, never having had a day's illness ; that at
the end of six months they were, for the first time, ad-
mitted to an interview with him, when they saw him
looking very ill, but that he made no complaint to them,
the governor of the gaol being present at the interview ;
that when the deceased came out of gaol at the end of
his eight months' imprisonment, he was very weak; that
he suffered much from diarrhoea, and soon afterwards
died, notwithstanding that he was attended by Mr. Ver-
rall, the parish surgeon at Brighton, and at his recom-
mendation was supplied by the directors and guardians
with all the nourishment which his case required ;
that while on his deathbed he stated, that in the
gaol he was very weak, that the food was not enough for
him, that when the prisoners had what was called soup,
it was only " skilly, ' that no meat could be seen in it,
but that there were bits of something resembling cow's
udder boiled up; that he complained to the surgeon and
the chaplain of weakness and illness, but was told that
he must work at the treadmill; and that one day he was
so ill that he could not go to the treadmill; and that in
consequence he was placed in/the woodhouse, where the
flesh peeled off his hands, and that notwithstanding he
was obliged to work. He stated further, while on.his
deathbed, that when he was in solitary confinement he
was very ill, and that from six o'clock in the morning
till six o'clock at night his bed was taken from him, and
that when he could not sit on the edge of the bedstead
be was obliged to be on the cold stones or boulders. Ile
thought he should have died, as there was no ore to see;
and he asked the doctor if he could not give him any-
thing for weakness in the inside; when the doctor gave
him some pills which did him no good. He told the
man who was over him in the woodhouse, that the flesh
came off his hand, on hearing which the man said he
must work or be reported. When they sent him to
chapel he was so hungry that he could not listen to what
the minister said, and if he dropped a crumb while eat •
ing his bread, so hungry was he that he would after-
wards cross his cell to pick it up.
This was the evidence, a rumour of which led to the
inquest. In addition, Mr. W. Verrall, of Brighton, sur-
geon, deposed that when the deceased came out of pri-
son he was suffering from diarrhoea and disease of the
lungs, for which he (witness) attended him almost daily,
being, however, satisfied from the first that there was no
chance of recovery. The disease ot the chest appeared
to have existed a considerable time, and from a post
mortem examination witness thought it was of five or
six months' standing. • A man with such a disease was
unfit for hardlabour or solitary confinement, and paucity
of food would tend to aggravate the disease. Such dis-
eases required a generous diet.
It was to meet this evidence that the magistrates now
examined witnesses, but not on oath. We subjoin an
sh.tract of their statements:—
Mr. John Sanders, governor of the Lewes House of
Correction, stated—James Allen, the deceased, was on
bail before his trial,.and he came into my c istody on the
27th of November, the day of the adjourned Michael/Las
sessions, fir stealing 25., the property of Mr. L. Siight,
clerk of the commissioners at Brighton, from a desk in
•the Town-hall. He was sentenced to eight calendar
months' hard labour, except the first week of every
month and the last week of his sentence, which was in
solitary confinement. He was discharged on Saturday,
the 25th of July. The greater part of his time he was
on the treadmill, besides the pump. and other labour. lie
never complained to me of inability work, or of insuffi-
ciency of food. I saw him every day. and sometimes
twice or more. When in solitary confinement, he was
in a boarded cell with the exception of two or three
weeks, when he remained in a cell having a stone
floor. He had a wooden bedstead, and need not lie upon
the stone floor. There is no floor with boulders. The
stone floors are fiat, the cell having the stone floor was
in the upper part of the prison, and very dry. He was
never taken from the wheel to the woodhouse, except in
his turn, and never for lighter work. Ile had a cough
sometimes in July, for which he was treated by the
surgeon. I saw him leave the prison, and meet his
friends outside. His friends had visited him in the
beginning of June ; they made no remark to me as to
his appearance or treatment. The meat in the soup
is from clods cut up into small pieces. It
was always beef clods, stickings, and shins.
There were -no pieces of cow's udder in it,
or anything like cow's' udder. It is wrong to say he
was obliged to sit upen the stone floor. He might sit
upon the bedstead or water-closet, the lid of' which is a
good wooden seat. I have no reason to think he ever
complained to a turnkey. The turnkey would have re-
ported it to me if he had. The dietatly consists of 111 b.
good wheaten bread, made of the best seconds flour,
two pints of gruel, 1 Oz. of meal (flour and oatmeal
mixed) to each pint, one pint of soup, 3 oz. of meat
(beef), without bone, 1 ox. of mixed meal. 2 oz. of pita-
tdes, and leeks or onions to flavour it, to each pint. This
is for the first three months. After three months 110.
of potatoes is allowed daily, in addition.
The witness having signed his examination, the next
witness was called.
Mr. R. Turner, surgeon, deposed—I saw Allen when
he first came into the prison. He was in good health.
Two months after he came in he labeured under a
gonorrhoea. I treated him for it accordingly. He was
very anxious about his complaint. His diet • was
141 b. of bread a day, one pint of soup, and two
pints of gruel. The soup contains three ounces of
meat without bone, one ounce of mixed meal, two
ounces of potatoes, and leeks or onions to flavour it to
each pint. This is for the first three months; after-
wards 11b. of potatoes was given daily in addition. I
have often tasted the soup; it is very good; no cottager
ever gets better. There could be no cow's udder in it.
It is good nutritious food, with three ounces of meat in
each pint. The soup is always stirred up; so that each
prisoner may have an equal quantity of meat. Allen was
from six weeks to two months labouring under the com-
plaint of which I have spoken. He was treated by me
accordingly. No obstacle has ever been thrown in the
way of increased diet. I have ordered, au-I my instruc-
tions are to order, extra diet, if think it necessary. I
consider one pound of potatoes as a great addition. The
prisoners are thankful for it. A prisoner now in the
gaol is having porter and mutton every day. The de-
ceased complained of cough on the Bth of July. He had
complained on the 20th of June of spasms in the stomach,
for which I treated him and cured him, and at the end of
June he said he was well. I prescribed for his cough
on the Bth of July, arid never afterwards. He never
complained of diarrhaes. I saw him the day
before he went out. I have seen him on the
wheel, and he made no complaint that he was
unable to work. The turnkey- would report every
case of weakness of a prisoner on the wheel, and
I should immediately attend to it. I cannot imagine
the diet iusutficient. The dietary agrees very well
with the prisoners generally. Free drinkers would feel
it most. There is au alteration ot diet from the labour
to the solitary cell of 21 ounees a day out of 49. They
do not have the soup and potatoes in solitary. I have
not seen the prisoners suffer from this change of diet in
solitary confinement.
The Rev. Richard Burnett, chaplain to the House of
Correction, deposed--I have a distinct recollection of
Allen's case. I saw the first entry in the surgeon's book
of some complaint. I ask;-d him if he had any complaint,
and he said he had not. He was low-spirited in solitary
confinement. He was naturally silent. He could not
read when he came in. He attended my school, and
learned to read and acquired information. He made no

Mr. HowELL considered the inquiry going on by the
board of direct Ors a partial ore. They were themselves
inculpated in the matter, and had constituted them-
selves the judges in their own case. fie considered the
only satisfactory mode to !)e pursued was to have a com-
mittee appointed on the part of the vestry, and another
on the part of the rate-payers, to go into the whole mat-
ter.—(Hear, hear.)
The CHAIRMAN considered the board of directors
could not be charged with conducting their inquiry
unfairly. The doors of the board room were open
to vestrymen and rate-payers, and there were three
reporters for the press present taking notes of their
proceedings.

Mr. BRIGHTON considered the more rigid and general
the ibtquiry was made, the more satisfactory it would
prove to the rate•psycrs. It would also be more satis-
factory if the vestry, who were the representatives of
the rate-payers, made the investit.►ation. He would move,
as an amendment, " that ten mmbers of the vestry b'e
selected to carry out the necessary inquiry, with the di-
rectors of the poor,"
Mr. MANN seconded the amendment.

Mr. Churchwarden JIOWARTR denied that the board
of directors were in any way ituplicated themselves in
the charges made. Many of the regulations had existed
for thirty years, and the board was a perfectly com-
petent tribunal to inquire into the general discipline of
the workhouse and the conduct of their trflioers. With

respect to the appointment' f vestrymen, the Vard were
an indernde,.t. body, and c uld not legally act with
them.—(Oh, oh.) The vestry, if they thought proper,
could appoint a committee of their own, but if they
did so it would imply a want of confidence in the di-
rect,irs.

Mr. GOODW/11 admitted that the guardians, as also the
vestry, were re-motely mixed up in the charges made, but
at the same time he thought the interference of the vestry
premature.

Mr. T. H. SMITH, as a director, was desirous of every
publ,city, and if the amendment, was withdrawn, he
should call upon the vestry clerk to issue a summons
calling upon the whole of the vestry to attend the next
investigation by the beard of directors.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HowanTH hardly saw the necessity, us the board
had determined, at the conclusion of their evidence on
Tuesday, merely to meet on the next occasion to consider
their report.
The amendment having been withdrawn, the original
resolution was put and carried.
Mr. SMITH said, afier the statements about the report,
he would now move that a committee be appointed to
inquire into the conduct of the directors, the rules and
regulations, and general management of St. Pancras
workhouse.

The CHAIRMAN announced that it was ten minutes past
four o'clock, and notice not having been given of the
motion, he could not receive it.

The vestry then broke up.

THE EARL OF RIPON AND THE
lux. MR: CROWTHER.
Mr. Crowther has addressed the following letter to
the Editor of the Times, in reply to the defence of the
Earl of Ripon's solicitor, of that Nobleman's conduct :
' Sir,--I have this moment seen a letter in your
paper of the 12th from Mr. Narson, of Sleaford, the
solicitor of Lord Ripon, which letter he states. he
writes by his Lordship's directions. In that letter
he states, " althoneh Lord Ripon had nothing to do
with Mr. Crowther's appointment, he, nevertheless,
(the Vicarage-house not being then vacant), put him
in possession of furnished apartments, rent free, and
paid 401. towards his salary as curate." After this
public statement from Lord Ripon, the public will: per-
haps, be surprised when I state that, instead of having
the furnished apartments ." rent free," I virtually paid
301. a year for the rent of the same. The stipend to
which I was legally entitled was 1201., instead of which
I only received 901.; and my vicar, the Rev. W. T.
Marsh, in one of his letters tells me that the remaining
301. he considers fully made up by the furnished apart-
ments which Lord Ripon had provided for his conve-

nience.
With respect to the other assertion of Lord Ripont
that he paid 401. towards my salary, I can only say i
is the first time I ever heard that he contributed any towards my stipend ; and if he did so, it must
have been paid to the vicar, the Rev. W. T. Marsh, who,
and who alone, was benefited by it, as I never received
one farthing, either directly or indirecly, from his
Lordship. I remain, Sir, yours very respectfully,
11ENRY CRO TIIER.
The Rectory, Waddington, Lincoln, Sept. 14.
P.S. I would add, that I know Lord Ripon is fully
aware that I was virtually paying the 30/. a year for his
furnished apartments, because in September, 1845, I sent
one of his principal tenants (Mr. Cartwright), in whose
house I resided, with the newspaper to Lord Ripon, con-
taining Mr Marsh's advertisement offering 90/. a year
and a furnished house ; and he told Lord Ripon, by my
direction, that Mr. Marsh considered himself entitled to
deduct the 301. for the apartments.

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT IN THE WEST INDIA
DOCKS.—Thursday an inquest was held at Mr. Finney's,
the Queen's Head, Poplar, .before Mr. W. Baker, on the
body of John Wood, a labourer, aged 50, who was killed
on board the Maria Hardy, a brig from Jamaica, lying
in the West India Import Dock. It appeared from the
evidence, that on Tuesday afternoon last the deceased
was in the after hold, under the half deck, engaged in
the delivery of the cargo, when a beam which supported
the door of the half deck over the hold gave a ay, and
fell with a loud crash, taking with it about half a
ton of coffee, ginger, and other merchandise, the whole
of which fell upon the unfortunate deceased. Several la-
bourers immediately went to his assistance, and in about
twenty minutes afterwards they succeeded in removing
the mass. The deceased was found, sitting on'a cask with
his head and shoulders bent down, and a heavy beam,
which had crushed him, lying across his neck. The poor
fellow exhibited no signs of life, arid he was taken to the
guard. house, where he was examined by Mr. Pritchett, a
surgeon, who pronounced him to be quite dead. His skull
was fractured, and there was an extensive bruise on
the neck. The beam whkh supported the flooring
of the half-deck and cabin was cracked in Jamaica, end
was not capable of supporting the heavy weight-placed
on it. Mr. Dixon, the sueerintendent of the dock com-
pany's police, who attended to watch the proceedings,
produced the remains of the beam, and an old fracture
was evident. The extra weight of the men sent on
board the Maria Hardy to deliver the cargo might have
caused the flooring to give way. The jury appeared to
be of opinion that sufficient caution had not been used.
The Coroner said the jury could not levy a sae, because
deodands bad been recently abolished, and unless there
was culpable negligence the jury were not empowered to
return a verdict of manslaughter. The law of deodands
he always thought a good one, and a check upon people
not to trifle with human life. There was, however, an-
other Act recently passed, which would in some measure
counterbalance any evils that might arise from the aboli-
tion of deodands. The executors or administrators of
deceased persons killed by accident could maintain an
action against the parties guilty of negligence, and re-
cover damages. The jury then returned a verdict of
" Accidental death."
SIMMER Volt RENT.—THREATENING NOTICES.—
Notices were posted on several chapel doors on Sunday,
theßhozArLyeaOrillyTHgeOuPtDllCe( stating that auctions for the non-payment of rent were
leave their work and give their attendance at the au
to be held in various places on the following district to
and Tuesday, and eirscting all the men in the district to
Lions and to fail not at their eril t Notices were alsct;
above-named hospital was held at the institution, Blooms-
-goOvefirmixls llorfsdtahye
posted on the dot Ts of the step ward f er lof the
bury-square. From the report fir the half-year, read gentry in the nei hbourhood. An stewards sev a ,
auction of corn wets
by the secretary, it appears that 856 patients have been
.illirtosorfrrtAht
to have taken
placa on Tuesday, for non-payment of
admittell to the benefit of the charity, 42 of whom were rent due to Jai
rus Willie ton L In consequence of
in-patients, since the annual meeting in February last. the determinationofthe people•to resist the sale it
The number of patients now in the hospital is 34. The was postponed fori .
. .a week, in order to app y to the
average daily attendance of out-patients is about 100. authorities fl a =War force to effect a sale.-11enagh
The list of subscribers is steadily on the increase, and Guardian )1.
y
the committee hope, ere long, to be enabled to receive a a '
RAPES FROM HoLLAND.—Thiirsday afternoon,
greatei number of in-patients than the limited state of I 5 "`
00 baskets of Dutch grapes, ex Rainbow, from
their finds viii at. present allow. Amongst the list of
Holland, were landed at the Custom House Quays.
sub,crihees we noticed his Royal Highness Prince
broke
Albert. The report having been received, some routine . Upwards of 3,000 bacets of this fruit have been im
'business was transacted and the meet
i ported from Bamburgh and Rotterdam within the last
, ing up. few days.

complaint to me whatever.
Mr. Turner being recalled, and questioned by the
magistrate, said the prisoner seemed to suffer more in his
mind than anything else.
After this evidence hal been adduce-d, we understand
that the magistrates expressed themselves satisfied with
the officers o the prison. We may, however, add, that
all these witnesses were examined before the coroner's

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Jury, who returned as their verdict that death wag occa-
sioned by the rigour of the sentence and the insufficiency
of the diet. Sir Henry Shifter has given notice that he
shall bring the subject before the tnagis;rates at the
Michaelmas Qu4rter

. . ,
TREATMENT OF THE POOR •IN
ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE.—MEETING OF
THE VESTRY.
A meeting of the vestry of St. Pancras took 'place on
Wednesday, at the Vestry-rooms, Gordon-square, at
which a long and stormy discussion ensued concerning
the recent charges made before a coroner's jury (in the
case of Mary Ann Jones, the pauper, who committed
suicide) against the authorities of St. Pancras Work-
house, and as to the general treatment of the poor therein,
Mr. Churchwarden Wagstaff was ie the chair, and the
foreman of the jury referred to and several ratepayers
were present to watch the proceedings.
The first business was to levy a rate for the relief of
the poor for the ensuing half-year, and an elevenpenny
rate having been proposed, and the various estimates read,
Mr. Lewis called the attention of the vestry to the
recent charges made in the public press a ith reference
to the treatment of the poor in their workhouse—
' charges which, if true, reflected not only discredit upon
those who had the management of the workhouse, but
upon the vestry, and indeed the entire parish. He
learned that the board of directors were instituting an
investigation into the treatment of the poor in the
women's " shed."---(Cries of " There is no shed.")
He thought the men's oakum room equally demanded
investigation.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") One case would
suffice—it was that of John Mackenzie. This poor
young man was of weak intellect. He wes a pianoforte
maker by tra,le, and had ben occasionally an inmate of
the workhouse for the less, three years ; he was out the
last time for three or four months, but whenever he re-
turned to the workhouse, although he had never com •
mitted the slightest offence, he was consigned to the
oakum room, and made the companion of vagabonds.
Mackenale's master and other gentlemen were at that
moment present in the vestry-room, and could speak to
the excellence of his character. The poor fellow's mind
had become so affected by the position in which he was.
placed, that he had written to Mr. Elsart, his master, to
say that unless removed from the oakum shed he would
destroy himself. Was this, lie would ask, proper treat-
ment in such a case? He (Mr. Lewis) also understood
they put the poor in a dirty cellar or black hole.
Mr. GOODWIN (a director)—The black hole is as clean
as this room. Is is a clean whitewashed kitchen.
Mr. DOUGLAS said he would be bound to say that
there was some strong reason for Mackenzie being sent
to the oakum room.
Mr. LEWIS moved a resolution &tiling upon the direc-
tors to make an inquiry into the case of John Macken-
zie. Under what circumstances he came into the oakum
shed, how long and why he is still detained there.
The motion having been seconded,
Mr. MANN said he considered the inquiry should be
made general, and that an individual case should not be
selected. A full and fair explanation to the ratepayers
and the public was demanded.
The CHAIRMAN said the board of directors were at the
present time pursuing an inquiry into the whole manage-
ment of the house.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, SEPT. 18.—Wind N.E., light breeze, and cloudy.
DEAr, SEPT 17.—Wind W. to WhS.W.—Arrd. Pandora,
Rio Grande. Arrd. from the River and sld. Tropic, Robert-
son, Hobart Town; Herald, Turnbull, Rio Janeiro; Chris-
tiana, Hammond, New York.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 17.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Herald,
Coubro, Moulmein.

COWES, SEPT. 17.—Wind S. to S. S. W.—Arrd. Pilot, Hall,
Quebec.

SOUTHAMPTON, SRPT. 17.—Wind S.E.—Sld. Clyde (st.),
Symons, West Indies, &c.; Madrid (st.), Lisbon, &c.
PLYMOUTH, SEyr. 16.—Sld. Mary Graham, Ceylon. Off,
Industrie, Altilen, New York for Norway.
BlisroL, SEPT. 17.—Wind N.—Sld. 14, Dockfour, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 17.—Wind variable ,and light.—Arrd.
Franconia, Gannett, New Orleans; Messenger, Garrick,
Quebec. Sld. Lady Sale, Law, St. Thomas's; Georgiana,
Williams, Calcutta; Mischief, Lewis, Mauritius; Lady
Douglas, Ritson, Africa; Mary Elizabeth, Thorn, Santa
Martha; Uranus. Hobarst, Angostura; Heinrich, Haealoop,
ditto; West Indian, Chapman, Cuba; Java, Berrv, New
Orleans; Columbia, Rollins, Philadelphia; Europe, Furber,
New York; Finland, Brown, ditto.
DUBLIN, SErr. 16.—Wind N.W. to S.E.—Arrd. West
Lothian, Berl, St. Sebastian.

OFF CAPE CLEAR.—Lady Falkland, Smith, Quebec.
HILL. SEPT. 17.—Wi►!d W.—Sld. Humber, Hopkinson,
St. John's, New Brunswick.

CLYDE„ SEPT 14. —Arrd. Rainbow, Scott, Berbice,
Antigua, and Belfast ; Mina, Giilies, Tubago ; Mary Har-
rison, Montreal.

TrtooN SEPT. 14.—Sld. Eliza. Brown, St. John's, New
Brunswick; 16th, Peru, Carey, Demerara.
OFT TusicAn, SEPT. 15.—New York, New York.
CORK, SEPT. 15.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Lord Lambton,
Stahl), Patagonia.

OFF CAPE CLEAR.—Lancasbire Witch, Jamaica.
11EDCAR, SEPT. 17.—The Robert and Hannah, Johnson, of
Whitby, which was on the rocks off this place yesterday,
drove off with the tide and sunk. and is now breaking up.
Hum., SErs. 17. —The Cousin Mary, Brown, from Wood-
bridge to Wakefield, which sunk on Redcliffe Sand sth inst.,
has been weighed and taken up the river for repair; part of
cargo saved in a very damaged state.
HARWICH, SEPT. 17.—Tbe Port Packet, of Lynn, Play-
ford, London to Antwerp, got on shore on the Long Sand on
the night of the 15th instant, and was abandoned by the
crew, arrived here with pait of cargo, stores, and materials;
the vessel has been since got off, full of water, and dismasted.
OFF BMA' HEAD, Stan. 15.--Majestic, Isbister, Calcutta.
OFF PENZANCE, SEPT. 15.—Eliza Frances, Miner, South
Seas, with 1,000 barrels, sld. 21st April; Columbus, Hogg,
St. John's, New Brunswick, under jury-masts, having been
totally dismasted on the 12th ult.
Orr HOLTREAD, Si.rv. 16.—Franconia, Gannett, New
Orleans for Liverpool.
MARKET NE WS.-(YES TERDAY.)