The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY

EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 18i6

Their Lordships desire that it may be fully under-
stood, that even at these places at which Government
depots will be established for the sale of food, the depots
will not be opened while food can be obtained by the
people from private dealers at reasonable prices ; and
that even when the depots are opened, the meal will, if
possible, be sold at such prices as will allow of the pri-
vate trader selling at the same price with a reasonable
profit.

The relief commission ceased on the 15th instant,
since which period Commissary-General Sir Randolph
Routh has continued to transact such business as re-
quired immediate attention ; and, considering the expe-
rience which has been acquired by that officer, and his
well-proved ability for the task, their Lordships are of
opinion that the, duties confided to the relief commission
during the late operations may with great public advan-
tage be entrusted to Sir Randolph Routh, acting under
the authority of the Lord-Lieutenant, and in constant
communication with this board.
Their Lordships have taken steps to procure the early
arrival in this country, from the stations where they
are employed abroad, of a sufficient number of well-
qualified commissariat officers, not only to take charge
of the depots which it has been determined to retain,
but also, under the orders of Sir Randolph Routh, to
communicate with the local relief committees, and to
afford, through him, to her Majesty's Government, cor-
rect information as to the state of the districts in which
they will be stationed.
Measures have also been taken for strengthening the
Board of Works, to enable it to meet the coming
emergency, on which subject a separate communication
will this day be made to the Board of Works and his
Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant.
Transmit a copy of this minute to Mr. Redington,
and request that he will move the Lord-Lieutenant, if
he shall concur therein, to give the necessary directions
in regard to such of the arrangements as more imme-
diately depend upon his.. Excellency for carrying them
into effect.

Also transmit a copy to the Commissioners of Public
Works, and to Commissary-General Sir Randolph Reath,
or their information and guidance.

AIgERICAN PRODUCE.—The following comprise the
principal of the arrivals of provisions of various descrip-
tions from the United States and Canada at the ports of
London and Liverpool during the past week :—The
Aledora, from New Orleans, brought 2,495 bags of
wheat ; the Antwerp, from Richmond, 4,085 barrels of
flour and 4,500 bushels of corn ; the Roscius, from New
York, 2,641 sacks of wheat, 3,500 barrels of flour, and
336 boxes of cheese, 287 barrels and 724 kegs of lard,
100 barrels of bread, and 25 barrels of beef and hams ;
the Christiana, from New York, 1,206 barrels of flour,
1,456 boxes of cheese. 58 barrels of hams and tongues,
153 tierces of beef, 228 barrels and 20,5941 b. weight in
balk of oil seed cake for feeding cattle, and a variety of
other articles of food and general merchandise ; the
Europe, from New Orleans, 180 boxes of cheese, 31 firkins
of butter, 300 barrels of corn meal, several of flour, 20 bar-
rels of bread, and other articles ; the New Hampshire,
from New Orleans, 3,221 sacks of wheat ; the America,
from New Orleans, 806 barrels of flour, 4,119 sacks of
corn, and 3,315 sacks of wheat ; the Harwood from
Richmond, 2,275 barrels of flour and 4,707 bushels of
corn; the Waldron, from New Orleans, 427 sacks of
wheat, 105 packages of lard, 373 barrels of flour, and
114 tierces and 15 half-barrels of beef ; the Champion,
from. New Orleans, 1,466 barrels and 6 half-barrels of
flour, 136 barrels of lard, and 566 kegs, 10 barrels, and
39 11f-barrels of grease butter ; the Concordia, from
New Orleans, 300 sacks of wheat and 4,800 sacks of
corn ; the Devonshire, from New Orleans, 132 kegs of
grease butter and other articles ; and the Thomas Cope,
from Philadelphia, 1,550 barrels of flour, 50 half-barrels
of beef, and 197 kegs of lard; the Roger Sherman, from
Alexandria, United States, 7,100 barrels of flour • and
the Archelaus, from New Orleans, 4,414 barrels of flour
and other produce. In addition to the supplies men-
tiontd, which have taken place since our last notice of
the aubjectin our columns, extensive arrivals of cottons,
wood goods, and other productions of a general charac.
ter from the United States, and of wood goods genere:dy
front Canada and other British provinces of North Ame-
rica, have, as usual, taken place.
T HE EXILES OF LAMBETH.—Lambeth has become
a so rt of Siberia since the stopping up of Westminster-
brid ge, for there is now literally no communication be-
twet- n the inhabitants of the northern shore, and the
trans pontine people. All means of social intercourse are
comp letely cut off, and Astley's Amphitheatre might as
well be on Salisbury Plain, as far as there is anypossi-
bilitA v of getting to it from any part of Westminster.
Lam Seth is in a state of utter desolation, and the prin-
'
cip 1 street reminds one of a strada in Pompeii. A civil
war might break out and be all over before any one on
this side of the Thames could know anything about it.
The people are becoming quite isolated from the rest of
their' fellow-subjects, and the interests of civilisation and
sever tly suffering. Already Lambeth is a week behind
us in the polite arts, and every day that the blockade
conth cues will send them backward 24 hours towards
the bE rbarism which it.has taken centuries to get out of.
We si tould not be at all surprised at hearing through
some c ircuitous channel that a provisional government
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says that " common cholera," meaning
scarcely
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afforded.
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PORTUGUESE ONIONS.—A vessel arrived at one of
the wharfs adjoining the Custom-house from Oporto
has brought a cargo consisting entirely of onions, com-
prising, consigned to different houses, the large number
of 800 boxes of this description of vegetable, the pro-
duction of Portugal. We have lately alluded to the ex-
tensive importation of onions which have taken place
from the quarter under notice, but no instance of an
entire cargo, or so large an arrival at one time, has come
under our observation. Whether they be imported to
so great extent for pickling purposes, which is so general
at this season of the year, or otherwise, they evidently
form an important and interesting feature in the list of
foreign supplies to our markets, and the. present im-
portation, on account of, the large quantity, is entitled to
partieular notice.
EARLY CLOSING OF PAWNISROKERS' SHOPS.—
Yesterday, the Act to regulate the hours of business in
pawnbrokers' shops, which was passed on 'ridgy, was
printed, It will take effect in the course of the present
month. The following is the enacting clause c—" That,
from and after the 29th September next after the pass-
ing of this Act, no pawnbroker shall receive or take in,
or permit or suffer to be received or taken in, any goods
or chattels by wey of pawn, pledge, or in exchange, be-
fore eight t the clock in the forenoon, or after seven
of the clock in the evening, between the 29th September
and the 25th March following, or before seven of the
clock in the forenoon or after eight of the clock in the
tm
evening during the remainder of the year, excepting only
until eleven of the clock on the evening of Saturday
throughout the year,
is and
as the,
daV• evenings
thanksgiving day appointed by he and n Next
everpy r
Majesty; and in case
any pawnbroker offend against the provisions of this Aet,
every such pawnbroker shall, for every such offence, on
orefacsetdin
Good Friday and Chrorg
conviction thereof upon the oath df any one or Mort cre-
dible witnees or witnesses, before any one or more of
her Majesty's justices of the 'peace 'having jurisdiction
over eao place where such offence shall have been or
shaP, be committed, forfeit and pay not less than 205.,
nr,,r exceeding W., as such justice or justices shallad-
judge ; and every such penalty shall and may be levied,
together with all the costs attending the information,
summons, and conviction, by distress and sale of goods
and chattels of the offender or offenders, or person or
peraons liable to pay the same respectively, by warrant
under the hand and seal of any justice or justices before
whom such offender or offenders, person or persons shall
or may be convicted; and every such penalty shall be
applied and disposed of in like manner as forfeitures in-
curred for any offence against the last recited Act" (the
39 & 40 Gee, 3, O. 99).

The serious attention of every person who will DEER STALKING.
have to take a part in the measure of relief rendered ( ABHORRENCE OF THE DEER TO SHEEP.
necessary by the new and more complete failure I The detestation of the deer to sheep is so great that
of the potato crop, should be particularly called , they will not inhabit the same ground with these
to this important fact, that the limitations and , animals. A remarkable instance of this antipathy was
precautions which have been prescribed to the Govern- observed in the end of the last century by an old drover
meat boards and officers in carrying out the relief : familiarly called "An drobhair ban," when crossin one
operations, with the object of rendering the necessary , of the great moors of Satherland,
soon after the g first
interference with the labour and provision markets "head of sheep" had been turned into Lord Ray's forest.
I
productive of the smallest possible disturbance of the
The narrator was surprised by the appearance of a large
ordinary course of trade and industry, will be rendered column of near a thousand deer, marching out of the
nugatory if the same prudence and reserve are not prat- country in a steady determined emigration. Disgusted by
tise by the relief committees in the administration of the invasion of the sheep and their clorrs, they had col-
the funds placed at their disposal by private or public lected from all parts, and unable to find h"
clean ground,'
benevolence ; and their Lordships therefore feel it to be continued their course out of the country, dispersing
their duty earnestly to request that every person con- into the most solitary glens. From these they never re-
cerned will, to the extent of the influence possessed bY turned, and harassed and killed by the shepherds and
him, endeavour to secure such a restriction of the mea- farmers, their numbers became reduced to the few and
jsures of relief to cases of real destitution, and such a scattered fugitives which lingered in a state of outlawry
ust consideration for the interests of merchants and in remote coiree, until the " commercial spirit" of Eng-
dealers, in the free exercise of whose callings the public land spread to the Highland hills, and it was discovered
welfare is so deeply concerned, that instead of the habi- that harts and hinds could be converted into marketable
tual dependence upon charitable aid which might other- stock like other cattle. Hence deer are now " grown"
wise be apprehended from the extensive measures of re- for Saxon guns, as wool for Manchester looms, or beef
lief in progress, every description of trade and industry for Smithfield shambles. The abhorrence of the deer to
may be stimulated by them, and the bonds of society sheep did not result merely from the disturbance of their
may become more firmly knit, by the benevolent and in- dogs. It is true that, like the corollary of St. Columbus
telligent co-operation of the different orders and ranks concerning cows and women, " Where there are she
of which it is composed, to avert a common calamity, there must be dogs, and where there are dogs there must
and to prepare for recommencing the ordinary lam
be mischief." But the chief cause for which the deer
s
lions of social life, with advantages which are at present
the society of their woollen enemies is the closeness
only imperfectly enjoyed in some parts of Ireland. of their feeding and the foulness of their fleece. The
The limited Grant Fund provided by the 10th Vice deer is very delicate in his food, and exceedingly
cap. 109, entitled "An Act to authorise a further Issue fastidious as to the purity of his pasture. Independent
ney in aid of Public Works of acknowledged therefore of the abridgement of his provision by the
utility in Poor Districts in Ireland," is, according to the excoriating teeth of the tree and herb exterminating
terms of the Act, applicable only to the case of unim- o gall goal], ' he cannot endure the. oily rancour of their
proved districts, like parts of the counties of Kerry, wool, which poisons the fresh heather and sweet green
Mayo, and Donegal, where, although roads and other shoaling. Wanting these nuisances, he exhibits no an-
works would be productive of more than usual public tipathy to the intercourse of black cattle, his old a
mo-
bo-
riginal brethren of the hill, whose clean coat and .
advantage, the districts are too poor to bear the
whole
expense of them; and the Act, therefore, directs, that derate feeding spare the grass and leave no taint of
in cases in which the repayment of loans to the amount tar and oil in the pasture. Hence the deer and the
of at least a moiety of the estimated expense of such sticks may be seen herding in the same coire and re-
works shall have been secured, and such further con-
tributions shall have been made as the Commissioners number yen an introduction into the Highlands since
of her Majesty's Treasury shall think fit to require from the latter end of the last century, in which it was dis-
, the individuals principally interested in the projected covered that mutton was not only a safer, but a more
works, such aid shall be afforded from this fund in the profitable stock than man. It is yet well remembered
shape of grants, as the occasion may appear to require. in Argyllshire, that the first Cheviot flock brought
The applications which may be received for grants into that country was introduced by Mr. Campbell,
under this Act will have to be carefully examined and of Combie, upon the farm of Balantyre, near Invarary,
inquired into by the Commissioners of Public Works, in the year 1771. The earliest similar colonisation in
who will recommend for sanction those works which Inverness shire was in Morven, about the year 1777.
he shepherd of these flocks—of whom the first was a
appear to them to combine the greatest permanent utility T
with the relief of urgent distress, taking care that the
proprietors specially interested are re certain John Todd from the neighbourhood of Dune-
quired to contri- harton ; the second, a Braidfoot from the border, intro-
bute, in addition to their share of the general assess- (limed the first `° maud," or " shepherd's plaid," worn in
ment, for the repayment of half the ex en se of the works, Argyll or Inverness. Similar flocks and their feeders
sums proportioned, in some degree, to the special bene- disseminated the expulsion of the deer, and the intro-
fits they will derive from them.
duction of the base " hoddcn-grey," which has since
My Lords have considered with the careful attention usurped the place of the tartans of the clans ; and at its
which the importance of the subject demands, the mea- first appearance, from the calamities b which it was
sures proper to be taken with a view to continue the late yy
accompanied, andits degraded supplantation of the national
dress, was truly and significantly named, "Bratgalla,"
plies of food for sale in districts commissariat operations to the extent which ma be
absolutely necessary for the purcts pose of providing s
to which the ordinary up- " The foreigner's rag," and "an riochel-mallaichte," " The
accursed
grey." This hue was to the Highlanders
operations of the provision trade cannot be expected to what black is to their neighbours ; and so desta
theble
extend
pledg, the been givene which hasstrictest rard being ,
anot t the
to interfere same time pinaidan to for its wan and ghastly appearance, that its asso-
y elation afforded the popular appellation for ghosts and
case in which there is a reasonable expectation that the devils ; hence an apparition—a phantom—" an Riochd."
market will be supplied by mercantile enterprise ; and The grey, or wan—the spectre foreboding death—
they will proceed to state the course which appears to aam bodach glees,' the grey earl ; another of an evil
them to be best adapted to secure the important object genius, in the shape of a goat—" an Glaetig," or
in view.
"
Their Lordships have already given directions that Glasdidh"*—" the Grey," or wan ; and, as in the
no portion of the stock of meal remaining in store in south, the great enemy is named familiarly " The Black
the different depots should be sold merely fur the sake of Gentleman," so, in the Highlands, he is called " Mac
an Riochd," the son of the grey. In the ideas of the
disposing of it.
It has been fully established by the experience of the old wives and children of the last century, all those per-
luteonifi operations, that the ports ou the northern, eastern, of theations,
modern " dubh gall," deer-stalkers cations, except one, were as nearly as possible those
in their
,
and southern coasts, -from Londonderry to Cork, and chequered " holden grey," wanting only the " Jim
those parts of the interior which are ordinarily supplied Crow," " ruffian," or "crush hat"—enormities which had
from them, may safely be left to the foresight and en-terprise of private merchants; and it will only be neees- not then completed lt is easy to trace the origin of this association. The tke masquerade of death and Satan.
sary for the Government, so far as this part of Ireland
ancient Caledonian hell, like that of Scandinavia, was a
is concerned, to take effectual precautions that the su p-rozen and glassy region, an island named f " Ifrztinn,"
plies introduced by private traders from abroad are
pro- far away among the "wan waters" of the northern
I perly protected, both while they are in the transit
and when they are stored for future consumption; and for ocean, and involved in the everlasting ice, and snow, and
foe' In this association, the appearace of the evil
tenant making every necessary arrangement in comma-s
this purpose their Lordships rely upon the Lord-Lieu-irits, its inhabitants, like that of mortals in similar cir-
c was believed to be dim, wan, and cloudy
nication with the Commander of the Forces in Ireland nnstances, ,
shades, such as men become when seen through a frosty
and the Inspector General of the Constabulary Force.
mist. Thus, a party of modern deer-stalkers, noble, well
Acting on this principle, their Lordships have directed
appointed, and gallant though they be, in despite of the
trated without
that the sup
delay at the plies of food now infolowing depots : store should be concen-
gold Geneva watch chains, and costly Purdie rifles,
which peep from beneath their shepherd plaids, would re-
In the interior—Longford, Banagher. w
On the coast—Limerick, Galw West ort Sli present to an old " Sealgair-nain-beann" the liveliest
And the Commissary-General Hay,
ewetson p,
has ben in- go. vision of the fiend and his familiars; and we have no
doubt that, if "Alastair Mac-Dhonacha-raidh," or even
strutted to take immediate steps for the transfer of the a Eoin-dublidrinachin," had ever met, in the grey of the
quantity remaining in store in the depot at Cork to
morning, either Lord 0., H. G. or
Limerick, in the charge of which depot he will relieve
of Aberarder," he would Sir
have fled the hill for " The Ruffithat
ans
Commissary-General Coffin, who will remain on full time, and
never have returned to it again, between sun
pay with a view to his being employed hereafter, as the setting and sun rising.—[* It has pleased a writer of
occasion may require. the " Cockney school" of Highlanders to convert this
Subordinate depots will be established under the word into " Glaslig," which
we take leave to observe is
charge of the constabulary, at other places on the western unknown in the Highlands, and did not exist before the
coast, as the necessity for taking such a step may become year 1841. apparent. ]—Caledonian Mercury.

THE MEXICAN SOLDIERY.
the Mexican soldier is of the middle stature, or below
it, small-boned, slightly built, graceful, with a smooth,
soft, glossy skin, scarcely any muscle, no visible sinews,
and of extremely light weight. He can be agile for a
short time, but is constitutionally indolent. This is the
Mexican Indian from the interior. The soldiers of
mixed blood, partaking of the.more northern races, and
of old Spain, are stronger, rather sinewy, and capable of
more continued exertion. These, however, comprise
only a minority of the soldiers of the Mexican army.
The Mexicans are capable of no great physical efforts
or endurance. Their constitutions are without stamina ;
and from their habit of getting into the shade whenever
they can during the day, taking a nap at noon, or lying
about under walls or in shady places, flat upon the
ground, to play at cards fur reales or medios (and
dollars, if they have any), they are so enervated that
the climate, during the sickly season, is very apt to
affect numbers of them, if much expossd during the
fiercest hours of the day ; to which, in fact, they have
never been accustomed. They very often take the yellow
fever, and even die of the vomit° negro (particularly at
Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Alverado), as well as the
temeritous foreigners. They even fear it beforehand.
A Mexican soldier who has been drunk over night
with aquadicnte, and has a sick headach next morning,
will ask permission of his sergeant to leave the ranks
during parade or guard duty, as he is very unwell, and
will go and squat down under a wall or shed. If you
ask him what is the matter, he shakos his head
with a melancholy, much injured, but resigned air,
and answers, " Calentura, senor—calentura." I will
answer for it that any moderately strong English grena-
dier—not a regular boxer, but who can only " hit
straight"—would knock down ten or a dozen Mexican
soldiers, equally unarmed, one after another, as fast as
they presented themselves. Put a sword into their
hauds, and give a stout Highlander a claymore, or a raw-
boned Irishman a good shillelah, and the ten soldiers
would be very likely to tumble to the right and left with
broken blades and heads. The Mexicans are by no
means deficient in courage. They have fiery spirits and
no fear of cold steel. They are "always ready to die." I
have even heard them in hours of danger use that very ex-
pression. What eney Wan tis physical force; the power to
justify their feelings. The Mexican officers are for the
most part not good. They are valiant but have no
judgment. They are far too exciteable, and without
self-government. Moreover they are much too young ;
many of their lieutenants, and even captains, being
mere boys. I was once acquainted in Vera Cruz
twith a Mexican colonel of artillery who was not
wo-and -twenty. He was a very well-informed, high-
spirited, amiable young man, a good mathema-
tician, and a good swordsman ; but, of course with-
out any adequate experience for such a post. The
Mexican cavalry is admirable—in respect of horseman-
ship. The artillery is good in all respects. In the re-
cent battles (as well as in former wars) they seldom
failed to throw their balls and shells directly into the
works of the fortress attacked ; and before General
Vegars little fort was taken, his guns had destroyed
one-third of the assailants ; but when the strong-armed
men got close in amongst the Mexican ranks it was all
over in a minute.—American paper.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Sept. 2.
GERARD, DART. 7J. CROSSFIELD AND OTHERS.
This was another action by Sir John Gerard against
.the defendants, who are alkali manufacturers, near St.
Helens, to recover compensation for the injury sustained
by the plaintiff's estate in consequence of the vapours
arising in the course of the manufacture. The case was
similar to that tried yesterday, of " Gerard v. Muspratt,"
and the evidence almost precisely the same. A verdict
was finally returned for the plaintiff—Damages, 4001.
The amount of damage which, on the plaintiff's case, it
was calculated the woods had sustained from the de-
fendants' works was, upwards of 3,000/.
Mr. Martin, Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Cowling, for the
plaintiff; Mr. Baines, Mr. Brandt, and Mr. Atherton, for
the defendants.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW STREET.
Thomas James, a letter-carrier, was charged with
stealing half a sovereign from a post-office letter.
The letter in question had been posted at the Bishops-
gate-street receiving-house by a clerk of the London
Docks, and a constable at the General Post-office de-
tected the prisoner in the act of destroying it, and found
half a sovereign in his waistcoat pocket.
The-prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the letter,
was remanded.
Mr. lIENny expressed his surprise that the public did
not now prefer the safer method of transmitting money
by post-office orders; upon which
Mr Peacock (the Post-office solicitor) observed that,
by a recent regulation, post-office orders may be had at
nearly every receiving-house in London.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Joseph Dodge, a young man of rather smart appear-
ance, recently employed as assistant-secretary to a loan
society at Kingsland, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Broughton, charged with creating a disturbance, and
using violent and threatening language at the house of
Mr. Charles Durham, a gentleman residing in Pleasant-
place, Hackney.
It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor, who
gave his evidence with visible emotion, that in the early
part of the present year an unfortunate intimacy had been
clandestinely commenced between the prisoner, who was
it married man, and the witness's daughter, a young lady,
only eighteen years of age, whicis resulted in her elope-
ment from home in June last. After a few weeks she
was left in a boarding-house in the Rue de Coigny, at
Boulogne. The prisoner, after effecting her ruin, had
remained with her at that house, where they assumed
the name of De la, Porte, until all their means were ex-
hausted, and a heavy bill contracted, when he suddenly
abandoned her. Since her restoration to her family
every means had been adopted to prevent a renewal of
the intercourse, which witness believed to have been
fully effected, until the preceding evening, when, on re-
turning home, he was informed by his daughter that the
prisoner had just left the house, after using the most
alarming threats to induce her to renew the intimacy.
The poor girl was dreadfully distressed and agitated,
and while endeavouring to tranquillise her mind, he was
disturbed by a violent knocking at the door, at which he
found the prisoner, who demanded admittance, which
witness refused and closed the door, upon which he made
his way round to the rear of the premises, and having
scaled the garden wall, kept up a constant knocking at
the back door until the arrival of a policeman, when he
was given into custody.
Mrs. Ann Stockweller, a married lady, residing next
door to the prosecutor, stated that in the early part of
the evening she saw the prisoner at the street door in
conversation with that gentleman's daughter, and heard
her exclaim, " For God's sake go away, or I shall go
mad." To which the prisoner vehemently replied, that
unless she consented to accompany him he was deter-
mined to fire the house.
On being asked by the Magistrate if he wished to
give any answer to the charge of molesting the prose-
cutor's family, the prisoner, with groat effrontery, re-
plied that his visit was quite justifiable, as he had gone
by appointment, and that the previous statement of the
father was much exaggerated, as he owed no debts at
Boulogne when he left the young lady and returned to
this country.
Mr. BROUGHTON severely reprehended the prisoner's
conduct, which displayed as great a degree of heartless
depravity as had ever come under his notice ; and said
that as he considered it necessary to take the most ef-
fectual means to secure the future protection of his un-
happy victim, and her father, he should require the
prisoner to enter into his own recognizance in ROL, and
find two sureties in 50/., to be of good behaviour for the
next six months, and 24 hours' notice must be given to
ascertain the sufficiency of the bail.
LAMBETH.
W. Carter Willoughby Hellier, a fish salesman at Bil-
lingsgate, appeared before. Mr. Elliott, to answer to a
summons taken out against him by Hanningham, an
inspector on the South-Eastern Railway, which charged
him with attempting to defraud the company of 125., and
for which offence he was liable, under the company's
Act, to a penalty of 40s.
John Trewrin, a ticket collector at the Bricklayers'
Arms station, deposed that on the night of Sunday
week, in collecting the tickets of the ten o'clock train,
he found the defendant and two other persons seated in
a second-class carriage, though they had but third-class
tickets. On their refusing to pay witness the difference
of fare, he took them before the superintendent of the
station.
Mr. George Weekly, a clerk in the company's em-
ployment, stated that the defendant was at first very
abusive, but ultimately offered to pay 125., the difference
of his own and that of the two other persons' fares,
provided he were allowed till the following morning, as
he had no money about him. On leaving his card, and
promising to call the following morning and pay the
money, witness allowed him to go. He did call on
Tuesday, but only offered to pay half the money.
Mr. Hellier, in reply to the charge, said, that on the
evening of Sunday week he procured a third-class ticket
at Ramsgate for town, and having done so got into what
he at the time considered an excellent carriage. On
arriving at Ashford, however, he and others were
peremptorily ordered out and desired to get into another
train. The crowd was here so pressing and the con-
fusion so great, that there was the greatest possible dif-
ficulty in obtaining any seat at all. While the bell was
being rung, and a number of passengers unprovided
with places, a policeman belonging to the company
opened the door of one of the carriages, and called out
that there was room there for three, and he (defendant),
an old man and his daughter, who had accompanied him
from Ramsgate, got into the vacant places. In fact, so
great was the confusion, that he had no choice whatever
between getting into the carriage opened for him or
being left behind, and therefore what he had done was
from necessity, not choice. The change, he begged to
assure his worship, from a third to a second-class car-
riage was by no means an improvement; on the con-
trary, that which he had left was vastly more comfort-
able than the one he had got into, and altogether he
considered the attempt to get from him more money
nothing less than an imposition. If, however, the magis-
trate should order him to pay the additional fare, be
should do so both for himself and the poor man and his
daughter.
Mr. Weekly here read from the Company's printed
time-table a caution to be observed in changing from the
branch carriages to those on the regular line, and said it
was quite impossible the defendant could mistake the
difference between the second and third-class carriages,
as the latter were open and uncovered, while the former
were 'perfectly enclosed.
The defendant declared that this was not the fact. The
carriage he got into at Ramsgate was a "Parliamentary"
carriage, roofed in, and infinitely more agreeable and
comfortable, as he bad before stated, than what was now
called the second class vehicle on the regular line.
Mr. ELLIOTT inquired if there were compartments
railed off on the line at the stations, as on the Great
Western, for the different class passengers ' • for if so he
did not see how a passenger could make the mistake of
going to a second instead of a third-class carriage?
Mr. Weekly replied that there was no such regulation
at Ashford, as the number of branch trains and passengers
meeting there precluded the possibility of adopting it.
Mr. ELLIOTT observed that under the circumstances,
and the carriages of the second and third-class being
somewhat similar, such a mistake as that mentioned by
the defendant might be made. It was, however, quite
clear that, by his own undertaking, he bad rendered
himself liable to pay the difference of the fares, amount-
ing to 12s. The company did not wish to press for a
penalty ; and if, therefore, the defendant paid the 125., as
he promised to do, there was an end of the case.
The defendant declared that from first to last the
difference in the fare was not the object that actuated him
in refusing to pay. He would now bow to the magis-
trates decision by paying 12s. and costs.
THAMES.
Two men, named James Lacey and Abraham Perriam,
were brought before Mr. Ballantine, the former charged,
on his own confession, with stealing fifteen dozen pewter
pots, of various sizes, the property of Mr. Thomas Sims,
the proprietor of the Earl of Effingham tavern and saloon,
in the Whitechapel-road, and the other on suspicioa of
being a participator in the robbery.
Mr. Pelham defended Perriam, who, up to the period
of his apprehension, maintained an irreproachable
character, and who keeps a small house, fitted up as a
pastry-cook's shop and refreshment room adjoining the
saloon, which he rents of a Mr. Wade, the lessee (under
Mr. Tims) of the theatre attached, where dramatic
representations are nightly given, under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Denvil, the tragedian. Lacy was waiter
and servant to Perriam, and left his employ about six
weeks ago. On Wednesday night Lacey delivered him-
self to Maloney, the constable who attends the saloon,
to whom he made a confession that he and Perriam
generally took the pots from the saloon after the per-
formances were over, and that Perriam gave him 6d. to
purchase a frying-pan, in which they were melted down.
He said the metal was disposed of to a marine store
dealer, named Baldwin. Eves, a police-sergeant, subse-
quently made inquiry at the shop of Baldwin, who has
been from home some time. The officer was informed
by Mrs. Baldwin that Lacey had offered her pewter for
sale, which she refused to purchase.
24r. Sin2°. :saiti Le had lost 15 dozen pewter pots of
various sizes, during the last six months, and that Per-
riam had access to every.part of the premises, including
the saloon. Lacey was in the practice of sleeping on
the premises while employed by Perriam, of whose
honesty he never entertained the least suspicion until the
present time.
Mr. Pelham read a letter written by Lacey to Perriam,
threatening the latter with exposure for not giving him
a good character to a person named Morgan. Mr.
Pel-
ham then urged that the accusation
against Tian;
was
founded upon malice.
Mr. BALLANTINE eventually decided on remanding
Lacey, on his own confession, till Thursday, and ac-
cepted bail for the appearance of Perriam on the same
day.

MEETING of iifIDDLESEX MAGIS

The Deputy Clerk of the Feace having read the mi-
nutes of the last Court, and disposed of the routine
business, proceeded to lay before the Court the reports
of the visiting justices of the several county prisons, each
of which presented favourable accounts of the health,
discipline, and general good conduct of 'the prisoners
confined within the respective gaols. In the House of
Correction, Coldbath-fields, there were no fewer than
1,031 prisoners—namely, 775 males, 256 females, and 9
children. The House of Correction at Westminster con-
tains 651 prisoners, of whom there are only two males
and one female in the infirmary.
The report was received.
Mr. WHALESDY gave notice of a motion, for the abo-
lition of female hard labour on the treadmill in West-
minster Bridewell.

The following correspondence between the late Secre.
tary of State, Sir James Graham, and the present 11
Secretary, Sir G. Grey, and the Committee of Visitors
of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, relative to the pro-
posed additional asylum, was laid before the Court:—
"Finsbury-square, June 5, 1895.
"Sir,--As Chairman of the Committee of Visitors of
the Middlesex Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, in, the absence
of Mr. Tulk, I obey their wishes, and express their
hope that you will not adopt any conclusiOn on the sub-
ject of the observations which they have submitted to
you on the 22d .of May, as to an additional lunatic
asylum for the county of Middlesex, without previously
affording theme the favour of a personal interview with
you ; and that they trust the importance of the matter
will appear to you to justify such an appropriation of
your valuable time.—And I have the honour to be your
obedient servant, "J. WILDS.
" To the Right Hon. Sir James Graham."
" Whitehall, June 9, 1846.
" Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the sth inst.,
and to inform you that before he gives any final opinion
on the subject of the proposed additional lunatic asylum
for the county of Middlesex, he will be ready to receive
the Committee of Visitors f the Hanwell Asylum, and
to appoint a time for the purpose.—l have the honour to
be, Sir, your obedient servant,-

" S. M. PHILLIPS.
" To John Wilks, Esq., Finsbury-square."
Since the Ministerial changes, a second letter, in-
closing Sir James Graham's reply, was addressed to Sir
George Grey, to which the following acknowledgment
was sent:—

" Whitehall, Aug. 4,1846.
" Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter and its in-
closure, and to inform you that he will appoint as early
a day as possible for the interview with the Committee
of Visitors of the Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum.--
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,

" W. SOMERVILI:E.
" To C. A. Tulk, Totteridge Park."
The Cdurt was only occupied half an hour, and did
not consist of more than twelve members. The whole
of the business having been disposed of, the Court ad-
journed at half-past twelve o'clock.

SOUTHWARK.
George Turner) a wan of respectable appearance, weik

placed at the bar before Mr. Cottingham charged with
obtaining 701. worth of leather, the property of Mr.
Walland, a tanner, of Bermondsey, under false.pretences,
It appeared that in March, 1845, the prisoner called
at the prosecutor's and selected a quantity of leather, of
the value of 701., in payment for which he gave the
acceptance of a person named Huggins for 501., and
the remainder in cash. When the bill became due
it was ascertained that the acceptor had no effects,
being insolvent at the time, and the prisoner could not
be found, as he had removed altogether from his former
place of abode. When he was at length discovered,
his account of the transaction was, that he had pur-
chased the acceptance in question for Si. of a person
named Sanderson, being ignorant at the time that the
acceptor was insolvent. When application was made to
Huggins on the subject, he had no recollection of having
given his acceptance to Sanderson, but admitted that he
had sent down two blank acceptances about the period of
the above transaction to Manchester, and that one of
them might be the bill in question, which was afterwards
filled up without his authority. Sanderson explained
before the magistrate that he had sold the accepted bill
to the prisoner, and that he knew nothing of its having
been subsequently filled up and put into circulation until
informed of the fact.

The prisoner denied that he absconded after he had
procured the leather, but admitted that he removed from
the neighbourhood where he was living at the time, over
to Whitecross-street, to more extensive premises.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM said, that as the case at present
stood, Sanderson's conduct in the affair did not appear
to be without suspicion. Turner, however, was the man
who had uttered the 501. bill, knowing at the time that
the acceptor was in a state of insolvency. The presence of
Huggins would be indispensable in the elucidation of the
case, and it would then be discovered whether there was
any collusion among: the parties to obtain money on
each other's acceptances by means of what was termed
" kite flying." The circumstances attending this affair
were of a description to favour that impression, and in
order that they might be thoroughly sifted, he should re-
mand the prisoner until Thursday next, but would have
no objection to accept of bail, himself in 100/., and two
sureties of 251.' each. The magistrate also adjudged San-
derson, who attended voluntarily, to enter into his own
recognisance of 50/., to appear on the same day,
and directed that every exertion should be used .to
procure the attendance of Huggins, the alleged acceptor
of the bill, at the next examination.

TRATES.
The usual monthly meeting of Middlesex Magistrates
took place yesterday, at the Court-house, Clerkenwell-
green, for the transaction of county business. Mr.
Pownall in the chair.