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was only moderate. The demand for all kinds of Barley
was firm, and the quotations improved quite Is. per
quarter. The show of Malt being by no means adequate
to the wants of the buyers, the Malt trade was brisk,
at an advance in the currencies of 3s to 4s per quarter.
Parcels for delivery was held at a similar improvement.
We were rather scantily supplied with Oats, which
moved off readily, at a further rise in value of is per
quarter. The supply of those home-grown was small
in the extreme. All kinds of Beans moved off freely,
and, in some instances, the prices were is per quarter
higher. The sale for Peas was bisk, at 2s per quarter
more money. Indian Corn and Meal advanced is to 2s
per quarter, and Is. per barrel. The Flour trade was
brisk, and the best town made parcels rose to 55s per
2801bs.

ing from him a watch, value 61. and two sovereigns his
goods and moneys.
Mr. Huddlestone was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr.
O'Brien defended the prisoner.
From the evidence of the prosecutor it appeared that
on the 18th of ,August, he met the prisoner, who stated
that there were two policemen after 'him upon a charge
of smuggling, that 104. reward had been offered for him,
but that he could settle it for him if he would give him 101.
The prisoner then took the prosecutor's watch from him, and
two sovereigns.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and
The COMMON SERGEANT sentenced him to ten years'
transportation.
Richard Hardy, 22, a respectable looking young man,
a weigher in the London Docks, pleaded guilty to an in-
dictment charging him with stealing thirteen ounces weight
of cigars, the property of the London Dock Company, from
their docks, and was sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment and hard labour.
James Johnson, 26, a labourer, was convicted of stealing
47 dollars, and other pieces of foreign coin, the moneys of
Johann Hefting, and sentenced to twelve months' imprison-
ment and hard labour.
George Adams, John Arundell, and Win. Robins were con-
victed of stealing a purse, value 6d., and 16e., the property
of Jane Price, from her person.
Adams and Robins, having been twice previously convicted,
were sentenced to ten years' transportation, and Arundell was
sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

YORK AUGUST MEETING.—FRIDAY (CONCLUDED).
THE GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.—(FURTHER PAR-
TICULARS.)--Betting at starting-5 to 2on Springy
Jack, and 6to 1 agst Queen of the May. Beverlac and
Queen of the May got away together, the former with a
slight lead, followed by Wiasrna, Queen of the May,
Reality, and the Swiss Boy, the favourite lying in the
rear, with Distaffina and the Miss Lydia filly. Beverlac
retired before he reached the mile post, and Fleur de
Seine took up the running, which, with Wiasma, Queen
of the May, Swiss Boy, and Reality, in waiting. she car-
ried on to the gravel road. Springy Jack and Queen of
the May then went in front, closely followed by Dis-
taffina and the Miss Lydia filly. Half way up the dis-
tance Queen of the May gave place to Distaffina, and the
race seemed to lie between her and Springy Jack; Miss
Lydia filly, however, came a few strides from home, and
to the uproarious delight of the fielders, defeated them in
very clever style by a length; Distaffina losing the second
money :by a bead only. Queen of the May was a bad
fourth, Reality fifth, and Fleur de Seine sixth. Run in
3 min. 33 secs.

noon.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex & Kent, j Malt—Chevalier • • • • .. 63s tO 65s
Red. hi sto 57s 'Oats—Yorkshire and
Ditto,Whitc, New 57s 68* Lincolnsh., Feed. 20s 23s
Norfolk and Lin- Potato • 23s 269
coin, Red..... 488 548 Youghal and Cork,
Ditto, White ••• • .. 55s 62s Black . • ... 188 208
Irish, Red.. .... —s —s Cork, White — 208 23s
Ditto,White .. •• • • —s —s Scotch, Feed •. . . 238 26s
Rye—Old - "---- Tick .... 33s 35s

New... • • ........ 31s 338 Pigeons .... 36s 39s
Barley—Grinding..... 28s 31s Peas—Grey .. •• • ..... 39s 43s
Malting ......... 31s 33s Maple. •• .• SB3 42s
Chevalier .... 33; 35s White... •• •• •• 438 44s
Nfalt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers •• • • 448 46s
f01k............ 578 60s Flour—Town-mvle... 50s 558
Brown ........... 48s 548 Suffolk ..
Kingston and Ware 60s 63s :;tocktn & Norfolk 40s 443
SMITHFIELD.

It is rather singular that the winner was altogether
omitted in the card of the day, and, so lightly was she
thought of by her party, was not backed for a shilling.
The results of this race and the Ebor St. Leger have
quite revolutionized the St. Leger betting. The weather
was very fine this afternoon, and the attendance im-
mense. The meeting, looking at it without reference to
the weather, was the best and most interesting ever held
at York. Mr. Meiklam is the new steward in the place
of Mr. Fox.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Joshua Shaw, a cabinet-maker, was charged before Mr.
Hall with assaulting William Jones, of No. 5, Tottenham-
place, Tottenham-court-road, and creating a disturbance at
his door.
It appeared that the defendant occupied a furnished lodg-
ing in the house of the complainant, who was a fellow •work-
man in the same shop. The rent fell in arrear to the amount•
of 155., and on Thursday last, when Shaw was from home,
complainant turned his wife and child out of the house, put
a broker into the room, who distrained, and took away a few
articles belonging to the tenant; and afterwards the landlord
removed his own furniture from the room. The defendant on
Sunday having effected an entrance, he (as the complainant
stated) assaulted the latter, and created a great disturbance
at the door.
The defendant complained bitterly of the harsh conduct of
the landlord, in turning his wife and child into the streets.
He, with his wife and child, had not been able to get a lodging
since, but had been walking about the streets every night.
On Sunday he went to Tottenham-place for a parcel, which
he had given to another lodger in Jones's house, to take care
of for him. When he was admitted he met the landlord in
the hall, and seeing in his hands his (defendant's) case of ra-
zors, he said the broker ought to have had them, and he
(Shaw) ought to have received a catalogue. Upon this, the
complainant told him to go to the broker's, and attempted to
push him out. He was much provoked, and committed the
assault complained of.
Mr. HALL told the complainant that he bad behaved ille-
gally in forcibly ejecting the defendant's wife, and in remov-
ing his own goods from the room, He had a legal right to
distrain any goods belonging to the tenant, for rent in ar-
rear, but not to strip the room of the furniture, the use of
which was hired to the defendant. The magistrate made
some further remarks upon the unnecessary harshness which
landlords often showed in the exercise of their right. It was
daily complained of in that court; and in this case, as in
every other of the kind, whilst he recommended the tenant
not to resist the law in any way, he should tell the landlord
that he was not to take the law into his own hands, nor
could he legally withhold an inventory from the tenant, as
was too frequently and dishonestly done.
The defendant having promised to give up the key to
Jones, and not to molest him in future, was then discharged,
much to the satisfaction of a crowded court.

During last week the imports of foreign stock into
London were as follows:—
From whence. Beasts. Sheep.
Harlingen ... 161 ...
Amsterdam ... 34 ... 715 ... --
Havre .. 62 ...
Rotterdam ... 564 ... 3,003 ... 120
Hamburgh ... 50 ... 40

Lambs.

Calves?.

... 370

..• ..-'

Total 6lO 3,919
Corresponding
week in 1847 1,046 ... 3,429

.. 192 ... 336

Difference ... 436 less. 490 more. 72 less. 142 more
'The arrivals at the northern outports have not ex-
ceeded 1,200 head, mostly. from Holland. At South-
ampton, no stock has arrived from Portugal, but two
cargoes of Beasts are expected this week. The Go-
vernment inspector, Mr. Simonds, having seized 500
foreign Sheep, owing to their being diseased, the supply
of stock from abroad in to-day's market was compara-
tively small, yet the general demand was far from active.
The Sheep above referred to have been sent into the
Essex marshes. With home-fed Sheep our market was
very scantily supplied, the time of year considered; but
the show of Beasts was tolerably good, that of Lambs,
Calves, and Pigs, moderate. As the number of really
prime Beasts' was comparatively small, the demand for
that description of stock was firm, at prices quite equal
to those paid on Monday last, viz from 4s to 4s 2d per
Blbe. The middling and inferior breeds moved off
slowly, at barely last week's quotations. The general
quality of the Sheep supply was by no means prime.
For all breeds the demand was firm, but we have no
improvement to notice in prices. The primest old
Downs sold readily, at from 4s 10d to 5s per Blbs, and
at which a good clearance was effected. There was
only a moderate inquiry for Lambs, yet late figures were
supported in every instance. The currencies ranged
from 4s to 5s per 81bs. The Veal trade was tolerably
firm, at fully last quotations. In Pigs scarcely any
business was transacted. The bullock drovers from the
northern grazing districts consisted of about 1,000 short
horns; from the eastern counties, 800 Scots and short
horns; from the western and midland ditto, 800 Here-
fords, Runts, Devons, &c.; from other parts of England,
300 of various breeds; ad from Scotland, 240 Scots.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
John Flood, a notorious thief, was charged before Mr.
Bingham with having stolen three clothes brushes, from the
shop of Mr. Deprose. Hemmings-row.
Robert Deprose, the prosecutor's son, said that on Satur-
day afternoon, about half-past five, he was serving a customer
in the shop, when a person came in and told him that a lad
had stolen three brushes from the board outside. Witness
ran out and saw the prisoner running towards St. Martin's-
lane, with the brushes under his arm. He pursued and
came up with him just as he was crossing the street. The
prisoner threw the brushes away, and tried to make his
escape. A. constable at that time came up and took the pri-
soner into custody.
The prisoner, who did not deny the charge, was committed
for trial.

Joseph Shewarhl, and Mary, his wife, were placed before
Mr. :Bingham, charged with being drunk and assaulting a
police-constable in the execution of his duty.
Police. constable E 102, said .he was on duty in Tottenham-
court-road, shortly after two o'clock this morning, when he
saw the female prisoner rolling herself in the mud on the
pavement. The male prisoner was trying to lift her up, but
in consequence of being in such a state of intoxication, he
failed in the attempt. Witness then went and assisted the
woman to get up. The man then came and accused him with
taking liberties with his wife, and, without saying another
word, struck and kicked witness several times. He was pro-
ceeding to further violence when another constable came to
the assistance of witness, and took the man into custody,
The prisoners pleaded intoxication as the cause of their
present disgraceful position.
Mr. BINGHAM discharged the woman, and committed the
man to the House of Correction for ten days for the assault
on the constable.

MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.

The Lords' amendments to the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway and Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway
Amalgamation Bill were read and agreed to.

EARL OF GLENGALL'S ESTATE BILL.

The Earl of Glengall's Estate Bill was read a third
time, after the addition of some amendments.
BATTERSEA-PARK, &c., BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
POST-HORSE LICENSES BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee.
POSTAGE ON NEWSPAPERS (CHANNEL
ISLANDS, &c.) BILL.
This Bill also passed through Committee.
WEST INDIA COLONIES AND MAURITIUS

THE StlN, LONDON, MONDAY" EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1848.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORN 14;, SUNDAY.

Owing to the very unfavourable state of the weather
yesterday morning her Majesty and his Royal Highm as
were prevented taking their usual walks until nearly

The Royal dinner party, on Friday, included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, her lady in waiting, and
the Baroness de Speth.
This morning the heavy rain kept the whole of the
Royal Family within doors until a late hour.
Yesterday being the birthday of bis Royal Highness
the Prince Albert, a fete took place in the grounds at
Osborne. Tippoo Saib's tent and several large mar-
quees were erected upon the lawn opposite to the
principal entrance, and most of the residents in the
neighbourhood, as well as some of the principal visitors
at Cowes and Hyde, were invited.
The day was very unfavourable; a thick mist, accom-
panied with constant showers, confining the company to
the interior of the tents, and altogether precluding visits
to the gardens or grounds, or any out-of-door amuse-
ments. The guests began to arrive at about half-past
two, and at a little after three o'clock her Majesty the
Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, ac-
companied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, Princess
Alice, and Princess Helena, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, her Serene Highness the Princess
Hohenlohe, the Princesses Eliza, Adelaide, and Feodore,
and Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, and attended by her
Grace the Duchess of Norfolk, and the other Ladies
and Gentlemen of the royal households, entered the
marquee for dancing. Tho bands of the Royal Marines,
77th, and 91st Regiments, which were upon this occa-
sion formed into one band, playing " God save the
Queen."
Their Royal Highness the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary of Cambridge. and
his Serene Highness the Prince of Hesse, met the Royal
party in the tent, and dancing shortly after commenced.
Her Majesty, in the course of the afternoon, danced
with his Serene Highness the Fringe of Hesse, and the
Earl of Wilton.

The three bands during the day performed several
pieces of music, in a very superior style, and glees were
occasionally sung by a party of sailors from the royal
yacht.
A magnificent dejeuner was laid out in Tippoo Saib's
tent.

At about six o'clock a country dance was formed, in
which her Majesty danced with his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the royal children, and most of those of
the nobility and gentry present joining in the dance, and
shortly after its termination her Majesty and the Royal
party retired, at a little before seven o'clock.
The following hailthe honour of receiving invite-
.

tions :—Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge and Princess. Mary, his Serene Highness
the Prince of Hesse, the Duke and Duchess of Marl-
borough, the Marquis of Anglesey and Lady A. Paget,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury and Lord C.
Bruce, the Marquis of Conyngham and Lady :Jane
Conyngham, the Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford,
the Marquis of Granby.
Earl and Countess Wilton and children (four), Earl
and Countess of Gleogall, Earl and Countess of Sand-
wich, Earl of Cardigan, Earl of Uxbridge.
Lord and Lady Allan Churchill, Lord and Lady George
Lennox and Llisses Lennox, Lady E. Pennefather,
Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Lord and Lady
Somerville, Viscount and Viscountess Seaham, Lord
Churchill, Lord and Lady F. Fitclarence and Miss
Fitzclarence, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord and
Lady Downes and Miss Fleming, Lord and Lady Crof-
ton and children (5), Lady H. Paget and Misses Paget,
Major Paget, and Captain Paget, Lord and Lady Col-
ville, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl and Countess of
Hardwick and children (5), C. M. Talbot, Esq., Vis-
countess Dillon, the Hon. George and Mrs. Anson, the
lion. Mrs. Phipps and children (2), Admiral Sir
Charles Ogle, Admiral and Mrs. Prescot and Misses
Prescott, Captain the Hon. R. Dundas, Colonel and
Mrs. B. Drummond, Captain Crispin, George Ward,
Esq., Rev. T. and Mrs. Protheroe,__Colonel and Lady
Catherine Vernon Harcourt, the Honourable D. and
Mrs. Pelham, Sir R. Simeon, Mr. and Mrs. A'Court
Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Shedden, Mr. and Mrs. Stone-
street, Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford and Miss Clifford,
Mr. White, Lieutenant Sinclair, 42d Highlanders, Major
and Mrs. Harvey, Mr. and Lady F. Lambert, Lord and
Lady F. G. Hallyburton, Lady Templemore and Miss
Chichester, Sir Hercules and Lady Pakenham and the
Misses Pakenham, and the Hon. Miss Littleton.
The royal dinner party included her Royal Highness
The Duchess of Kent, the Prince Victor of Hohenlohe,
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and the Baroness de Speth.

The Earl of Leitrim had an interview with Lord John
Russell on Saturday. Viscount Harding() had also an
interview on Saturday with the Noble Lord, at his offi-
cial residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches from the Governors of the Mauritius,
Ceylon, and Hong-Kong were received on Saturday, at
the Colonial-office.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood left town on Saturday, on a visit to Mr. Harcourt
and Frances Countess of Waldegrave, at Nuneham'Park.
The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) left town
on Saturday, for his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev.
Dr. Wesley officiated. At the daily service the prayers
were read by the Rev. T. Helmore, and the Lessons by
the Rev. H. Thomas. The sermon was preached by the
Rev. Dr. Wesley. The anthem, " 0 Lord, I will praise
Shee" (Croft), was sung by Messrs. Barnby and Machin.
Mr. Cooper presided at the organ:

TIE LATE RAJA OF SATTARA.

[We would call particular attention to the sub-
joined petition, which was presented in the House of
Commons on the 25th inst., by Joseph Hume, Esq.,
M.P. The important character of the document laid
before Parliament by the Hon. Gentleman the
Member for Montrose justifies us in hoping that it
will receive a very general and attentive perusal.]
To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PAR-
LIAMENT ASSEMBLED.

The petition of the undersigned proprietors of
India stock, and other persons interested in the
welfare and good government of the British In-
dian Empire,
Sheweth—
That the assertions which have been lately made by
gentlemen connected with the Administration of India,
and others, viz.:— . _

That every opportunity had been afforded to
the late Pertaub Sheen, Raja of Savant, of defending
himself from the charges upon which he was de-
throned, is at variance with the official documents
which have been laid before your Honourable House.

That it appears, by a proclamation which was issued
by the Resident of Sattara, under the authority of the
Governor of Bombay, Sir James Carnac, on the sth of
September, 1839, that the late Raja was dethroned for
" having for a series of years held clandestine communi-
cations contrary to the stipulations contained in the sth
article of the treaty concluded between his Highness and
the British Government on the 25th September, 1819."
That although th 6 evidence, upon which that charge
professed tope founded, viz.—" That he had for a series
of years carried on clandestine communications with the
Governor of Goa and the ex-Raja of Nagpore," had been
in possession of the Bombay Government for upwards
of two years, the Raja was, for the first time, made ac-
quainted with tho charge on the 23d of August, 1839,
eleven days only before the issue of the above cited pro-
clamation, and that not one tittle of that evidence was
ever communicated to him.

That the Raja was also charged with having at-
tempted to seduce two native officers from their alle-
giance to the British Government. That as the accusers
in this case were the only witnesses it was totally im-
possible for the Raja to defend himself from this charge
without having the depositions which these witnesses
originally gave when they made the charge, and the de-
positions which they afterwards gave in support of the
charge, placed in his possession, in order that he might
compare one with the other.
That the Raja accordingly, after having beard the
depositions of only two of these witnesses read to him in
the Hindostanee, demanded that copies of them should
be furnished to him in the Mahratta, which was his own
language. That the Commission which had been ap-
pointed by the Bombay Government to investigate
this charge recorded in their proceedings of the 26th
of October, 1836, " that this request was not at the time
objected to."
That in the proceedings of the Commission of the
following day, viz., the 27th October, is this entry :
" The Commission were occupied the greater part of this
day in preparing Mahratta translations of the evidence
regarding the interview at the Palace, for the ultimate
use of the Raja of Sattara."
That whilst waiting for this evidence, the Raja sent to
the Commission a memorandum and certain depositions
elucidatory of the characters of some of the witnesses
who had deposed against him ; that without any further
communication with the Raja, and without having fur-
nished him with copies of the depositions of the wit•
nesses, without which, from the nature of the charge, it
was absolutely impossible for him to have made a de-
fence, the Commission, on the 6th November, 1836, re-
ported to the Government, " that having received his
Highness's explanations and defence, and examined the
witnesses, they considered the charge against him
proven."
That on the 18th of March, 1837, the Raja complained
to the Resident Colonel Lod wick that the Commission
" had one day promised, and the next day refused him
copies of these depositions ;" and on the 23d of May he
reiterated this complaint to the Governor of Bombay,
and on the 21st of June of the same year the Raja, in a
conference with Colonel Ovens, again requested to have
" what he had begged for at the time, a copy of the evi-
dence against him, that he might consider and answer it.
That the Commission had gone without seeing him, and
he had had no opportunity of entering into further ex-
planation then, but be hoped now he should be permitted
to do so, and then ho would be content whatever might
be the decision." That in reporting upon this request to
the Bombay Government on the 23d of June, 1837,
Colonel Ovens expressed himself thus :—" As regards
this, I beg respectfully to state that the proceedings of
the Commission being strictly secret, it did not consider
itself authorised to grant a copy of any part of these
proceedings to any person whatsoever."
That in support of the assertion—" That every oppor-
tunity was afforded to the Raja of defending himself,"
it has been alleged that the deposition of the witnesses
had been read over to him ;" but your Honourable House
will see from the facts here stated that the Commission
which had promised him a copy of these depositions, and
which had prepared a copy for that purpose, seven
months after wards rejected his earnest applications for a
copy upon the ground that the evidence which was said
to have been read to him was of a nature so secret, that
it could not be communicated even to the accused, and
that the Raja in point of fact never saw this evidence
until it was published by order of your Honourable
House four years after his deposition
That much stress having been laid upon the opinions
which sundry high authori:ies in India and in this country
have expressed of that guilt, your petitioners venture
to remark that authorities as high (including Captain
Grant, General Briggs, General Robertson, General
Lod wick, who were successively residents ut his Court,
and Colonel Carpenter, the agent of the Governor-
General, in charge of the ex-liaja at Bennres) have re-
corded their conviction of the litija's innocence of the
charges imputed to him ; and your petitioners mould
further observe, that if the judges in this country were
to charge juries, after having heard only the counsel for
the prosecution and the evidence in support of the prose-
cution, there can be no doubt that juries would be
strongly impressed with opinions of the guilt of the
accused. But they submit that it is a violation of every
principle of justice to assume the guilt of an accused
party when, as in the case now under consideration, the
only means by which it was possible for that party to
defend himself was designedly withheld from him by
those who were at once his prosecutors and his judges !
That so far from the Raja having been restored by
the British Government in 1818 to his dominions from
motives of pure generosity, as has been confidently
asserted, it appears from the papers which are upon the
table of your Honourable House, that that measure was
adopted from motives purely political. Mr. Elphinstone,
through whose instrumentality that restoration was
effected, having informed the Governor-General, Lord
Hastings, that the best means of securing the tranquil-
lity of the Mahratta country, of arresting the progress of
the war which was then raging, and of conciliating the
Mahratta people to the arrangements which the British
Government was then anxious to form, was the setting
up the Raja of Sattara, and your petitioners beg leave,
in conformity to this statement, to call the particular at-
tention of your Honourable House to the opinions ex-
pressed on that subject by Lord Hastings, Mr. Elphin-
stone, and his distinguished colleague, Sir Thomas
Munro.
That, in accordance with the suggestions of those emi-
nent men, Lord Hastings determined upon the estab-
lishment of the Raja of Sattara in an independent sove-
reignty, and on the 25th September, 1810, concluded a
treaty with that Prince, by which he ceded the territory
to the Raja Pertaub Skean, his heirs and successors, in
perpetual sovereignty.
That the Raj (Kingdom) of Sattara having recently
become vacant by the death of Appa Sahib, the late pre-
tended Raja, your petitioners have heard with the
greatest surprise and concern that the assumed guilt of
the Raja Pertaub Shean is advanced as a pretext by the
local authorities in India against the admission of the
claims of the rightful heir under the treaty of September,
1819.
But your petitioners trust and humbly pray your
Honourable House, that such member of the Raja's
family as fills the character of " heir " in the terms and
according to the true meaning of the treaty, may be
re-
cognised and admitted as his successor, and that your
Honourable House will not permit the violation of that
treaty by sanctioning any act on the part ofth,,eh.locttl
authorities in contravention of the rights of such '
scoured and guaranteed as those rights aro by the faith
of the British nation.
And your petitioners will ever pray.
(Signed) J. W. GRAHAM,
J. SULLIVAN,
A. J. LEWIS,
M. LEWIN,
CHARLES FORBES, Bart.,
JOHN POYNDER.
F. C. BROWN, AND OTHERS

Lord and Lady John Russell will not leave town
for Ireland until the more important business of the
House of Commons shall be completed, which may be
expected by Thursday, or, at all events, before the end
of the week. His Lordship will be accompanied by his
private secretary, Mr. R. W. Grey, M.P., and will first
proceed to visit Lord Clarendon, at the Vice-regal
Lodge, in the Phcenix Park, Dublin. After a stay of
ten or twelve days in Ireland, it is his Lordship's inten-
tion to go to Scotland, ou a visit to the Earl of Minto.
It is natural to attach some political importance to the
visit of the First Minister of the Crown to Ireland at
such a juncture as at present ; but wo believe that be-
yond the very lively interest which, as a statc.smau and
a politician, Lord John Russell has alsvays felt in the
condition of so important and interesting a.porti.on of
the empire, there is no specific or definite object in his
proposed journey. lie will, of course, bo enubled to
see with his own eyes, and to observe for himself, a
good deal of the physical and moral
condition of the
country', and he will have an opportunity
an of confeerriwng
in person with Lord Clarendon,
who cannot bell
ely
Saturday' t o
twhb aee e _ ,
spared from the seat of his Government, even for the
short visit to London which he is known to be so de-
sirous to make. Lord John Russell is not personally
unacquainted with Ireland, having spent some time in
that country; but at such a juncture as the present, even
linister is lik
a passing visit .of the Prime 2.
looked upon with more than ordinary anxiety on both
sides of the channel.—Observer.
COLLECTING TilE SEWER WATER.—On
goenrford-
a barge of peculiar construction, fitted with enormous
tanks and a powerful steam-engine puinpinr, apparatus,rm (miss
moored by the London Sewage Manure Company
north bank of the Thames, near the foot of Hn
bridge, and immediately contiguous to the great sewer
watera udie at
t o 10
t ii:
t
thatwate
water
eeroemdischarges
pumpingitself intothe thesew river,sewer
tanks. capable of holding about fifty
possesses greater irrigating powerstaus.
than
moinls. Thiswai''re
solid
ma-
nure, and is said to be worth to the
to 12s, the ton: