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London, England, 1846-11-05 00:00:00

is a serious charge against you. Perhaps she may die.
I shall remand you until her fate is known.
She was remanded.

John Gayer, James Carr, and Henry Wilkinson were
charged on remand, the two former with stealing a large
quantity of valuable mahogany, and the last with re-
ceiving the same. knowing it to be stolen.
Mr. H. Walker stated that he was a cabinet-maker,
residing in Pear-tree-court, and Carr and Gayer had
been in his employment for some years. Having re-
ceived some information which induced him to think
the prisoners Carr and Gayer were robbing him, he
caused a watch to be kept, when they were seen carry-
ing away three large planks of mahogany. Two police-
men followed them in plain clothes, and saw tf.em enter
the house of Wilkinson, who kept a kind of marine store
or general shop, and upon searching there the constables
found a quantity of other wood, which the prosecutor
identified as his property.
Mr. GREENWOOD committed the prisoners for trial.

SOUTH WA 1?K.
Margaret Murphy, a woman with a child in her arms,
was charged with the following fraud :
The prisoner watched until she saw a printer's wife,
in Thomas-street, leave the house, and her back was no
sooner turned than the former went into the shop, and
producing three book-slates, told the daughter of the
woman of the house, that her mother had sent her there
with the book-slates, and that she was to give her 7s. 6d.
for them. The daughter, believing the statement, ac-
cordingly gave the money, and she went away ; when,
however, the mother returned, it was found the slates
were nearly valueless. The prisoner was subsequently
found drinking in a public-house, and givenlinto custody.
She pleaded that she was in great distress, and had seven
fatherless children. She was committed for trial.

WANDS WORTH.
On Tuesday George Frost, a labourer, aged about 60,
was finally examined upon a charge of attempting to
murder his wife, by stabbing her in the arm with a table
knife.

It appeared from the evidence given on the previous
day, that on Sunday afternoon last, about half-past three
o'clock, the wife of the prisoner went to the residence of
police constable Pearce, 250 V, in the Bridgeway, Wim-
bledon, and exhibiting her right arm, which was stream-
ing with blood, said her husband had stabbed her, and
produced the knife with which he did it, a common table
knife, the blade of which was smeared with blood. After
the wound had been dressed by Mr. Tapley, a chymist,
the prisoner was taken into custody and brought to
Wandsworth station-house, where he admitted having
committed the offence. The wife nor surgeon being pre-
sent, the prisoner was remanded.

To-day the wife of the prisoner attended, and when
called upon to give evidence said she had been married
thirty-two years, that she was very hasty, and consi-
dered herself as much to blame as her husband. She
thought it a hard thing to be obliged to swear against
him.

Mr. CLIVE observed that the witness must be sworn,
but recommended her to be careful that the account she
now gave did not vary too much from the statement she
had made at the police-station on Sunday night. She
deposed that on Sunday last they had both been par •
taking freely of beer, and had some high words. Her
husband did not do any more to her than in attempting
to pass him she found her arm cut, and went out, and,
seeing a policeman, he took her to a doctor's to have it
dressed.

Mr. Edwin Fennell, surgeon, proved that the woman
Frost had received a wound in the fleshy part of the
arm, which had been inflicted by a knife; the instrument
had passed completely through, but, fortunltely, avoided
the larger vessels.

Johrr Payne, 11-V, acting inspector 'at Wandsworth
station, proved that the wife, when she made the charge,
gave the following statement :—That she and her hus-
band had some words, and he said, " D—n you, I'll stab
you." He took a knife out of his pocket and opened
the blade, but he did not stab her with that one, but
one from oft the table. She then struggled with him,
threw him down, and wrested the knife from him ; after
which she went for the police. The `prisoner made
answer that she had taken up a knife scores of times to
him, and she replied she had never used it. The pri-
soner then said, " I own I did it, but it was all through
jealousy.
The prisoner, whose defence was that he did not stab
his wife intentionally, was then fully committed for trial
upon the charge of cutting and wounding with intent
to murder.
The wife fainted on hearing the decision.

OPENING OF THE PORTS.
BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY.—A town's meeting was held
in the Town-hall here to-day, convened by the Mayor,
in compliance with a requisition to his worship, for the
purpose of memorialising Ministers to open the ports for
the free admission of all kinds of food, in consequence
of the high price of provisions, and because of the tailure
of the potato crop, combined with the alarming famine
in Ireland and in many of the highlands of Scotland.
The great Music-hall, in which the meeting was held,
was well filled.
W. SCHOLEFIELD, Esq , moved the first resolution:—
" That this meeting view with sentiments of .slarm and
deep commiseration the starving condition of a large
portion of the Irish people, and the severe suffering felt
in many parts of Scotland, from the almost total failure
of the potato crop; and that the subtraction of so large
a portion of the customary supply already presses
heavily on the whole of the United Kingdom, as is fully
proved by the advanced and still advancing price of all
descriptions of human food."
Mr. Alderman GEACH moved the second resolution:—
"That while the meeting is grateful for the late
changes in the corn-law, it considers that the duty
which is still levied on the importation of foreign corn,
tends greatly to enhance its price, and its retention in
the present state of the nation is altogether indefensible."
R. K. DOUGLAS, Esq., moved the third resolution:—
"That it appears to this meeting that the issuing of an
immediate Order of Council for the opening of the ports
to the free unrestricted admission of all descriptions of
human food is the only means of mitigating the existing
evil, which is much too pressing and great to await thee
slow remedy of enactment by a Parliament which may
not assemble for some months to come."
This was seconded by Mr. BLAXLAND, and carried, as
were also the two following resolutions:—
"That this meeting does resolve to memorialise her
Majesty's Cabinet Council, calling on them at once to
issue such an order, and that the following be the form
of the memorial:—' That the memorial now agreed upon
be signed in the name of the meeting by the Mayor,
and that he, together with the movers and seconders of
the resolutions (with power to add to their reamber), be
a committee to carry the resolutions into effect."
G. F. MUNTZ, Esq.. M.P. defended his conduct with
reference to the corn-laws for the last 30 years. He was
opposed to them from the beginning, and he was op-
posed to them still. With reference to the four-shilling
duty, he declared that he told Sir Robert Peel, when he
brought in his Bill, that he was wrong; that the corn.
laws ought to be repealed at once; that the duty he im-
posed would deceive both the consumer and the grower;
but at the same time that he advocated a repeal of the
corn laws did he also advocate,, and they would be
driven to adopt this principle eventually, a repeal of all
protective duties whatever. He .wanted free trade in
reality, not in mere words; and it would not be very
long before it would be seen that the taxed labour of
this country could not compete with the untaxed of other
countries. He perfectly agreed with their resolution
as to the expediency of opening the ports, but for
very different reasons to theirs. The opening of the
ports would not cause corn to be sent in, because there
was very little to come, except from America;
but by opening the ports it would bring that about
sooner which he had contended for years must be the
result of a repeal of the corn-laws—an alteration of the
laws, and of the whole mode of taxation. The whole
system of legislation at present went to make the rich
richer and the poor poorer ; for although that did not
entirely regulate the rate of wages, in the long run it
would be found to do so. That was the opinion of Adam
Smith, and, said Mr. Muntz, " I am convinced that when
the corn-law is repealed, your money law won't stand
six months." As to Ireland, it was the wretched state
of the body politic that brought that country to the con-
dition in which she then was. The condition of the
people, in his opinion, would have been nearly as bad
had there been no failure of the potato crop whatever.
My opinions (said the lion. Gentleman) have undergone
no change since you knew me. lam proud to be your
representative. I defy any man to say lam not honest,
but I will never be your delegate.—(C beers.)
Mr. SPOONER, M.P., next addressed the meeting, and
a memorial having been adopted embodying the spirit of
the foregoing resolutions, the meeting separated after
a vote of thanks to the Mayor.
DEPUTATION TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—On Tuesday
afternoon a deputation, consisting of Charles Cochrane,
Esq., Mr. Ramsey, Mr. Jones, and other gentlemen,
waited by appointment on Lord John Russell, in Down-
ing-street, ,1
for the purpose of presenting a memorial to
the Lords of the Treasury, praying their Lordships to
open the ports for the admission of corn duty free. Mr.
Cochrane having read the memorial—Lord John Rus-
sell said, I do not think it necessary to make many re-
marks on -the memorial which has just been read. But
I cannot forbear observing that it seems to preceed on
the assumption that there is now a prohibitory
duty on the admission of foreign corn. That
was not a correct representation of the facts of the
case. Sir Robert Peel, last session, brought in and car-
ried a measure which very considerably reduced the
duty on corn, and under this new measure 3,000,000 quar-
ters had already been let in, and a very large quantity
more might be soon expected. Sir Robert Peel, seeing
the impossibility of carrying the total abolition of the
duty at once, proposed such a measure as he thought he
could carry, and I, feeling also that total and imme-
diate repeal could not be carried, accepted and supported
Sir Robert Peel's measure. The circumstances, were,
therefore, altered from what they were this time last
year.—Mr. Cochrane—l can inform your Lordship that
arrangements are now making for a vigorous agitation
in the metropolis on the subject. Perhaps an enegetic
agitation will have the effect of prevailing on your Lord-
ship to listen to the prayer of the memorial which I have
had the honour to present to your Lordship.—Lord John
Russell (smiling)—No, that would not induce me to take
the step you suggest. But if I doom the measure neces-
sary, it I see a probability that prices are about to rise,
I will not, in that case, hesitate to advise my colleagues
to order the immediate opening of the ports. The depu-
tation then withdrew, thanking the Noble Lord for the
great courtesy with which he had received them.

AMOUNT OF NUTRITIOUS MATTER IN THE FOLLOW-
ING ARTICLES OF ANIMAL FOOD.—In 100 parts: bones,
510; mutton, 290; beef, 260; chicken, 270; veal, 240;
pork, 250; blood, 215; cod and sole, 210; brain, 200;
haddock, 180 ; white of egg, 140 ; milk, 72. On an
average, the nutritive matter in a pound of meat is not
more than four ounces. This, however, applies only to
raw meat, for when dressed a considerable portion of its
constituent matter is dissipated,— The Plough.