The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-23 00:00:00

$ or alteration of the diet may in some cases be advisable,
and oatmeal porridge may be sustituted for gruel, as less
likely to irritate the bowels. Flannel under-clothing
should be supplied where it is not already worn, and the
general clothing should be ascertained to be in a proper
state.
" The necessity of frequent medical examination cannot
be too strongly insisted upon. All severe attacks of
cholera being (as far as at present known) preceded by
slight symptoms of diarrhma, it is essential that atten-
tion be directed at the outset to the minor disease, with a
view of averting the more serious consequences of which
it may be the indication. This can only be effectually
done by a frequent careful inspection of the prisoners,
the surgeon being prepared immediately to apply the
proper remedies in any
case where symptoms of disease
are discovered.
" Although they are not specially applicable to prisons,
I am directed to transmit to you the emlosed copies of
two notifications which have been issued by the General
Board of Health, and of a paper drawn up by a com-
mittee of the College of Physicians, containing informa-
tion and suggestions which you may perhaps find to
be of use.
"I have the honour to be, gentlemen,
" Your obedient servant,
"G. CORNEWALL LEWIS.
" To the Visiting Magistrates of the
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Court had uo more authority over Bridewell Hospital
than they hul over the institutions of the Emperor of
Rusiia.—(A laugh.) Sir P. Laurie ridiculed, in an ex-
trctrie degree, the extraordinary sympathies which im-
mediately connected themselves with the story of some
diabblical murderer, and attracted the vigorous endea-
vours of humanity-mongers to obtain remission of sen-
tence or complete pardon for the perpetrator.
Alderman CHALLIS made some observations upon the
tremendous influx of vagrants into the prisons, caused by
the execution of the order of the Commissioner of Police,
and hoped that the governors of Bridewell Hospital
would endeavour to make room for some of those, for
whom, according to the present system, it would be
necessary to provide.
The LORD MAYOR said, that the influx of vagrants
hadlbeen so great within the last few days that he bad
considered it necessary to apply to the office of the
Secretary of State upon so serious a subject.--(Hear,
hear.) He assured the Court and the publics that there
werb brought before him, every hour of the day, persons
of both sexes regardless of all law and authority, and he
hoped the community would not be led away by any un-
due sympathies. Vagrancy had increased to a most
enormous extent, and he was sorry to say that Ireland
contributed a most frightful proportion.
The subject was then referred to the Gaol Committee.
THE BETTING SWEEPS.
Upon the motion of Alderman HumPuxur, it was re-
ferred to the Gaol Committee to consider of the adoption
of more effectual means of causing the suppression or
correction of betting lotteries.
ALLEGED MISCONDUCT OF A BROKER.

The Court proceeded to " further consider the peti
tions of Edmund Rand Cock and William Spavin, corn.
pickling of the conduct of Robert Tuke, late a broker of
this City."
The complaint was relative to the sale of teas.
A second petition front Messrs. Cock and Spavin
was put in. It prayed that the Court would put the
bond of the sureties of the defendant in force, and afford
them such relief as might he considered reasonable and
just.

The TowN azus. informed the Court that the de
rendant's name was erased from the list of brokers.

Alderman SIDNEY urged the Court togive instruc-
tions to the City Solicitor to proceed against the sureties
of the defendant, as had been done in the case of Fel-
lowes and Chee-sewright, who bad been accused of fraud
upon the city of London.
The defendant submitted to the Court that he had as-
signed all his property to the complainants and another
person, for the benefit of all hia creditors; that tha irre-
gularities which bad no doubt taken place resulted from
disappointment and unforeseen circumstances, and that
Mr. Cock manifested his belief that fraud had never been
intended, by giving a most unexceptionable character of
hini to a Mr. Smith after the transaction had been ter-
minated to which the petitioners alluded.
The LORD MAYOR, after having heard from the so-
licitor to the complainants several statements in confir-
mation of the allegations in the petition, asked whether
the Mr. Smith to whom the defendant had alluded could
be produced in evidence, and upon the answer of the de-
fendant in the affirmative, immediately directed that a
messenger should be sent to request the attendance of
the gentleman before the Court.
_ _ _

Ina short time Mr. Smith, who is a resp?ctable tea-
dealer, arrived, and said:—Mr. Take referred me to Mr.
Cock about September, and Mr. Cock gave me such a
character of Mr. Tuke that I should have engaged Mr.
Tuke, but the state of business at the time was not such
as would, in my opinion, have justified me.
The RECORDER—Did Mr. Cock give you to under-
stand that he ha I been deceived by Mr. Take? Mr.
Smi:h—Certainly not.
The LORD MAYOR—Did he speak of Mr. Tuke OA a
person upon whose honesty reliance could be placed?
Mr. Smith—He did.

Air. Cock—l said I had no doubt Mr. Tuke would be
a p)od traveller, and that if he gave good security he
wuuld be serviceable.

Mr. Smith—l do not recollect that you said so.
The LORD MAYOR (to Mr. Cock)—Did you know
that Mr. Tuke referred to you for a character of him?
Mr. Cock—l did.

The ItECORDER—Did you feel yourself justified in
giving such a charact,?.r of a man against whom you
considered it nec,m-ary to bring such a charge u you
have brought ?

Mr. Cock—Whit I said I said to servo him; and I
cro that he would be a valuible traveller, with
go )d security. I did not wish to deprive him of the
means of b:ead.

'L'he LORD MAYOR—I wish to know from Mr. Smith
wi,ethor Mr. Cock said that Mr. Tuke owed him any-
thing? Mr. Smith—He did not.

After a considerable time occupied in the considera-
tion or the cue, the court was cleared ; and, upon the
re- admission of the public,
The RECORDER said he had been directed by the Court
to state that they had resolved to take no further pro-
ce.- dings upon the petition. They desired it to be dis-
til ctly understood that they did not take that course as
in any manner approving the conduct of the defendant.
On the contrary, the conduct of the eerendant had
been most irregular and at variance with his duty
as a broker, and raised grave grounds for suspicion that
the fraudulent conduct imputed to him was not without
foundation, although the evidence did not bring home
the charge. The Court felt, that by dismissing the
broker they had prevented the possibility of the recur-
rence of such transactions as those imputed to him. The
petitioners bad left themselves but little right to call
upon the sureties to pay a penalty for being responsible
fir the good conduct of a person whom they themselves
hxl sub,equently described as unexceptionable. They
had condoned his offences. They had taken an assign-
meat of all his property, and 'recommended him for cm-
pl.yment in a plats of trust to a brother merchant. It
was stated by them that their recommendation was ac-
co npanied by advice to Mr. Smith to take security for
sty property with which he might intrust him, but
Mr. Smith declared that he recollected no such obser-
ve+ ion, and he would have taken the defendant into his
employment if the condition of trade had not interfered.
—Adjourned.

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EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—NARROW ESCAPE
OF DR. WHITTAKER, VICAR OF BLACKBURN.—The train
that should have left Blackburn at 10.15 A.M. on
Tuesday, for Manchester, was nearly twenty minutes
after its time in arriving at Blackburn, and the
spy ed was in consequence accelerated. About four
miles from Bury one of the wheels of the first
class carriage broke, whilst the train was passing
through the tunnel, and immediately the carriage
gut off the line. The engineer did not appear to notice
the circumstance, although the passengers were calling
out loudly. At last, after being dragged for about a
mile, the front axle and wheels got twisted, and the front
compartment, in which was seated the reverend doctor
by himself, came down, and by getting imbedded in the
ground, stopped the train. It is strange that the guard
could not perceive that something was wrong; and he
must either have been asleep or riding inside one of the
carriages, as the carriage which broke down was violently
others. two of wrhioYh'
knocked about, and the passengers very In the same carriage Brock llollimnsulicehadsh, aEkseqn.,
on the spot to be were also
removed, an't W. Kenwe th were
their seats in two The carriage, with three
left
twaenzdond class carriages
thrownand t
the
eo off
passengersthe line, were
took
—Blackburn as far as Bury.
NEWC ASTLL A-ND C "
dent occurred on virednAessaasasLE RAILWAY.—An acci-
coal train from Blenkins ay last on this railway. The
Naworth Gates, with Colliery was coming past
its steam, and in consequence
t‘hvearons ; the engine lost
stopped until the steam was raisedraain Was obliged to be
red just past a curve, but during thgeait?' This occur_
any person could be sent to stop any train e,
whichrtnd before
be coming, the goods train came round the might
curve, the
driver not being aware that any train was stopell
When the engine-man perceived the coal train, thhere.
once put the breaks to and reversed the steam ; bute all
would not do. The engine ran into the trsin and threw
23 waggons off the rails, nine of which are made fer
ever unfit for use, they having been broken to finders
but no person was any worse, the eagineman and stoker
having sprung from their engine, after reversing the
steam.—Newcastle Journal.
SANITARY CONDITION OF BARNSLEY.—During the
la-t fortnight the commissioners under the Barnsley Po-
lice Act have been making a survey of the town, and
have caused many nuisances to be abolished or checked.
No less than twenty notices have been served upon the
owners of property to abate nuisances. Mr. Thomas
Dale, for allowing dung, &c., to accumulate in his -ard
in Market-street, and Mr. John Scholey, of the Cock
Inn, for a similar offence, and likewise allowing some
sla ,ghter-houses to become a nuisance in his yard, have
been ordered by the Barnsley bench of justices to pay a
fine of 10s. per day 50 long as such nuisances shall re.
main.—Leeds Mercury.