The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

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Tlir SUN) LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING-, NOVEMBER 28. lB4B,

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
The following. were posted at Lloyd's:—
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Berbice, Oct. 18.

Sir—l have to inform you that the light— hip was
brought in from the bar, at the mouth of our river, to
undergo some necessary repairs; she remains t anchor
in the river, and a pilot boat is kept cruisin-,.; to wind-
ward in her place.

(Signed) JAMES LANG.
Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N. Secretary, Lloyd's.
Messina, Nov. 6.

Sir—A quarantine of twenty-one days has been put
on all arivals from England; and if direct from either
Hull, London, or Leith, no communication of any sort
is permitted.
(Signed) MENRY NEWTON REW, Agent to Lloyd's.
Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.
Oporto, Nov. 17.
Sir—l have the honour to transmit herewith a transla-
tion of a dispatch received here by the Board of Health,
wherein all vessels from infected or suspected ports
(which includes the United Kingdom), are prohibited
entering this port, and are directed to;Lisbon to perform
quarantine.
As the Lazeretto at Vigo is ono of those officially de-
clared accredited, vessels bound to this port may per-
form quarantine there if they prefer it.
(Translation).
In reply to the dispatch, No. 145, of the Civil Go-
vernor of Oporto, dated 27th October, representing ate
risk to which vessels admitted to quarantine in the River
Douro are exposed during the present season, her Ma-
jesty the Queen orders henceforward, vessels arriving
from infected or suspected ports destined for Oporto,
shall be admitted at Lisbon only; and that the same
destination be given to vessels at present in quarantine
in the Douro, where the discharge and purification of
their cargoes cannot be effected with safety before the
fresher of the Douro, on,' which point the Civil Go-
vernor, in combination with the chief officer of the Board
of Health, and the Captain of the Port, will provide
opportunely.
Palace of Necessidades, Lisbon, Nov, 8, 1848.
(Signed) Duke of SALDANHA.
T. C. Wromasi, Agent to Lloyd's.
Capt. G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.
NOTICE.

Constantinople, Nov, 5, 1848.

Sir,—l have the honour to annex, for the information
of the underwriters and traders in general, a copy of a
circular from our Consul-General, intimating the pro-
hibition of exportation of grain from the principality of
Wallachia after the 13th inst. _ _

(Signed)

T. R. BLACK, Agent to Lloyd's.

Capt. G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's. -
Constantinople, Nov. 4.
Gentlemen—the Ambassador has signified to me that
the Wallachian Government has announced, officially, its
intention of prohibiting the exportation of grain from
the principality, on and after the 13th of this present
month of November, and I hasten to communicate this
intelligence to you.
His Excellency at the same time expresses his hopes
that the representations which have been made will pre-
vent any kind of retroaction in the measure, and that
British merchants will have the full benefit of any con-
tracts which they may have already entered into for the
exportation of grain from Wallachia.
(Signed) A. CARLTON CUMBERBITCH,
British Consul-General.
The British merchants, Galata.
QUARANTINE NOTICES.
British Consulate, Cadiz, Nov. 6, 1848.
Sir—l beg to acquaint you, for the information of the
Committee for Managing the Affairs of Lloyd's, that
the Board of Health of this city have imposed a
quarantine of eight days on all vessels arriving from
England with clean bills of health.
Vessels from ports where the cholera morbus is known
to prevail, or with foul bills of health, will be compelled
to proceed to Mahon or to Vigo, to perform quarantine.
(Signed) J. M. BRACKENBURY,
British Consul, and Agent to Lloyd's.

Captain G. A. Halsted, RN., Secretar,
Nov.
-
Gibraltar, 15ith Nov. 1848.
Sir,—l have the honour to acquaint you, for the in-
formation of those whom it may interest. that it having
been officially communicated to his Excellency the
Governor that the Board of Health of Malaga and
Algesiras had reduced the quarantine of observation
from 15 to 8 days on vessels from the United Kingdom
bringing clean bills of health—according to the quaran-
tine regulations actually in force at Cadiz, Lisbon, and
Vigo—the Board of Health at this port has made a
similar order.
The passengers by the steamer Jupiter, which arrived
here on 7th inst., have consequently been admitted to
free pratique this morning.
The attention of masters of vessels to the bringing of
bills of health from ports of departure cannot, however,
be too strictly observed, to prevent their being excluded
from the advantage of the above modification.
(Signed) J. LONGLANDS CowELL, Agent to Lloyd's.
Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.
Sardinian Consulate, No. 31, Old Jewry,
Nov. 24, 1848.
Sir,—l have to acquaint you that the Council General
of the Maritime Health Office at Genoa have directed
that vessels coming from the ports of the United King-
dom, or from those of any other country infected with
the cholera, are to be subjected on their arrival in the
Sardinian Ports to a surveillance of only six days.
(Signed) J. B. Heath, Sardinian Consul-General.
Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.
Tuscan Consulate, 15, Angel-court. Nov. 24, 1848.
Sir,—l beg to acquaint you, for the information of the
shipping interest, that I have just received from his Ex-
cellency the Governor of Leghorn, a copy of a decree
issued by his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tus-
cany, under date the 12th instant, ordering—
That all ve3sels arriving at the port from Great Bri-
tain, the Baltic, the Low Countries, the Island of Malta,
or from any other port or ports where the cholera mor-
bus may hereafter manifest itself, shall be subjected to a
quarantine of observation of six days.
(Signed) JAS. C. C. BELL, Consul-General.
Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.
Madeira, Oct. 28, 1848.

Sir,—We have to acquaint you, for the information of
the Committee for Managing the Affairs of Lloyd's, and
all parties interested, that, in consequence of the preva-
lence of Asiatic cholera in various parts of Europe, the
local authorities here have determined upon imme-
diately putting in force the following quarantine regu-
lations, viz.:-
1. All vessels arriving from ports in Great Britain,
or other countries where the existence of cholera has
been declared, will only be permitted free pratique after
the expiration of thirty days from their last port of de-
parture.
2. All vessels arriving, on board of which death or
deaths from cholera may have occurred during the
♦oyage, will only be allowed free pratique after the ex-
piration of thirty days from the last death which may
have so happened.
3. Pratique will not be granted on any terms to
vessels arriving with any case or cases of cholera on
board; and all communication between such vessels and
the shore will be strictly prohibited, except for the pur-
pose of lending mails and letters.
A suitable locality has been engaged as a lazaretto
(the expense of which is to be provided for by private
subscription), where passengers on landing from packets
and vessels which cannot be detained to perform the
stipulated quarantine, can be accommodated and pro-
vided for, under the inspection of officers to be appointed
for that purpose.
Mails and letters from packets and other vessels, sub-
ject to the foregoing quarantine restrictions, will be per-
mitted to come on shore, under the superintendence of
the competent officers, and subject to fumigation and
other sanitary precautions usually observed in such cases.
The officers of the Board of Health promise to afford
every facility in their power to the shipping interests at
this port, and express a desire to modify the stringency
of these r.•gulations, so soon as the instructions from the
Lisbon Government will justify them in doing so.

(Signed) STODDARD AND CO., Agents to Lloyd's.
Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.

ELECTRIC LIGHT.—The Electric Light of M. Le
Mott, was tried on Saturday evening last, in the train
which ran down to Exeter on the Great Western Rail-
way. At half-past six o'clock, a truck, containing a
wooden square box, about the size, though not the shape
of a sentry box, and having a galvanic battery of some
sixty or seventy small jars disposed around it, was at-
tached to the last carriage of the train, then about to
proceed from Paddington. The light was produced in-
side the box, and the rays, condensed and heightened by
a powerful reflector, were emitted by au aperture con-
trived for the purpose. The light was produced before
the train left Paddington, when a dazzling blaze filled
the whole of the spacious station, casting the numerous
gas lamps there co,apletely in the shade. As the train
proceeded on its way, the reflection left a long train of
clear bright light for the distance of a mile and
more behind it, in such a manner as to ren-
der it utterly impossible that any train coming up
behind should run into it, except as the effect of delibe-
ratew intention. The reflection, as seen from the carriage
as very
beautiful, the prismatic colours being distinctly
an vividly delineated along the outer edge of the circle
of d vividly de
lineated
and as these tell upon the dense column of
salidoksetrlkacienngcl. inrora the engine, the effect was singular
night was dark, but clear, and so
far favourable theto
experiment; and objects, such as a bridge, was rendered
distinctly visible at the distance of
about two mites i The exil!erinaent was made as far as
Slough, on arriving at which station the truck was de-
tached there for about
While
at
Slough,rrived. with which it re-
turnedtached from the train,
gentleman sta-
tionedor so from the
half an hour, till the up-
the light to town.
himself at a distance of 20 a
apparatus, and could read a newspap.errt.l4
pro-
duced, which he found he could do with perfect ease.—
fFestern Times.
FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLlTAL—Yesterday his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, President of the Royal-1
Female Orphan Asylum, Westminster-road, attended
Divine service in the chapel of the institution,which was
crowded by the governors and lady-patroncsses. The
sermon was preached by the Rev. C. B. Dalton, M.A
Rector of St. .lary's, Lambeth. At the close of the :ser-
vice five young woman, who have been brought up in
the Asylum, received from the Royal President the re-
wards periodically bestowed upon the more meritorious
pupils, as an encoursgQment to diligence and good con-
duct. A liberal subscription was made in aid of the
funds.
The Mining Journal notices a newly-invented
razor, with a guard which so effectually protects the
skin from the cutting operation of the razor that the
manipulator may shave upwards, downwards, and in
every direction, as quickly as he pleases, without the
slightest danger or even possibility of injuring the skin.
MILITARY SURVEY.—The preliminary operations
for the military survey of this neighbourbQOd hale been
commenced.—Devonport Chronicle.

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC AS-
SOCIATION.—EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOlt.
The "street orderlies" pres:mt their humble respects
to the editor of The Sun, and earnestly hope he will
kindly insert in his paper the enclosed account of a
benefit in their behalf..
Ham-yard, Witohnill-2,treet, Nov. 22, 1848.

Oue of the moat useful of the many useful and bene-
volent institutions which abound in this great metro-
polis, is the " National Philanthropic Association,'
by means of whicha number of individuals taken from the
parish workhouses, or rescued from penury and destitu-
tion in the public streets, are supported wholly
by voluntary contributions. The most generous efforts
have been made for some time past by that Association,
aided by the householders and shopkeepers of the pa-
rishes of St. James, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and St.
Anne, Soho, for the employment of the poor in those
districts, and at this moment forty-eight men are engaged
as " street orderlies," or employed in keeping the streets
in those parishes clean, who are paid out of funds col-
lecttd and advanced from private sources. This is, in-
deed, true benevolence, but as individual generosity,
Gannet cope with the mass of destitution which un-
happily exists, M. Dubourg, the proprietor of
the Hall of Rome, Windmill-street, generously
advanced the receipts of his establishment yester-
day, in order to prevent those poor, but deserv-
ing men, who evince such a deep anxiety to earn
their livilihood by their own industry, from want
of employment, either to return to the workhouse,
or lead a life of misery in the streets of this
great city. The history of the majority of these in-
dividuals throws a clearer light upon the working of our
social system than entire volumes could do, whether writ-
ten by political economists or plodding philosophers.
And from this sample we may gather many of the causes
which lead to the ruin of so many thousands, and the ul-
timate misery and destitution wedaily witness, and hourly
hear of. Some among those who are now designated
" street orderlies," and occupied in the humble employ-
ment of cleansing our thoroughfares and public high-
ways, once moved in respectable society. Some were
professional men—some the owners of considerable pro-
perty—others engaged in business, and doing well; but
all, from a variety of circumstances over which some had
no control, and others, perhaps, had, having started
into life from different points, and at different
periods, met at the one common goal of penury and dis-
tress. Some speculated, and were unfortunate ; others
failed in commercial pursuits ; others, pursued by a
train of circumstances over which they may not,
or perhaps conceived they had no control ; but the
end of all is the situation in which they are now
placed. We know no association deserving so much
support as that which step.; forward to relieve indi-
viduals of this description. The lot of the poor man
is at all times hard enough, and deeply to be sympa-
thised with; but that of one who had seen better days,
who knew what it was to be in independent circum-
stances, who tasted the blessings of life, and was then
compelled to drink the cup of its miseries and
misfortunes even to the dregs; that is the case
in which all the sympathies and kindly and bene-
volent feelings of our nature ought to be enlisted. To
those who have devoted their time, their energies, and
even private fortune to the relief of objects such as
these, it is hardly necessary to say the heart-
felt thanks of a benevolent public are justly due,
but individual benevolence cannot cope with so great
an evil, nor the private contributions of one or
more persons be adequate to relieve the wants of
those who seek for aid. A generous public must come
for ward to sustain the good work, and it is because we
believe a beginning has been made in the right direction,
that we think M. Dubourg deserves great praise. It is
not even the extent of the aid, but the generosity and
alacrity with which it was tendered, that we think en-
titled to public commendation. A performance took
place at three o'clock in the afternoon, which was well
attended, though not so crowded as might be expected,
but the deficiency was made up in the evening, when the
hall became thronged almost to suffocation. Between
the first and second parts of the evening's performance
the following was spoken by Professor Burlington B.
Wale, who kindly contributed it for the occasion:—
" By the rude hand of a vexatious need
Compelled the public charity to plead ;
Within the parish poorhouse, sad, forlorn,
The hireling's byword, and the proud man's scorn !
Our self-respect and self-dependence fled,
Because dependent for our daily bread
Upon the scanty meal by menial hands
Doled out to satisfy the law's demands
For us along life's pathway, sad and lone,
No sunshine linger'd, and no flowers were strewn !
No kindly sympathy—no helper nigh,
To chase our grief, and bid our troubles fly !
Such was our present ! our future doom—
Cold, cheerless, sad—a thing of grief and gloom
When, like the good Samaritan of yore,
Your kindly aid unlocked our prison door ;
Dispelled our sadness, and relieved our fate,
And bade us labour for the bread we ate.
Still poor—not friend!ess—for, kind friends, to you
Our earnest thankfulness this night is due
Your patronage and presence here reveal
The sympathy that with our lot you feel !
Accept our earnest thanks sincere, though rude,
The expression of a heartfelt gratitude.
Whate'er of honest pride or joy we know,
In labouring for our bread, to you we owe I
Nor must we e'er forget, while thanking you,
One friend, to whom our warmest thanks are due
Monsieur Dubourg 1 to whose kind heart we owe
The profits of this day's artistic show !
But should your kindly succour be withdrawn,
The brighter days that on our spirits dawn,
Will end in gloom ! and back we sadly hie,
Within the workhouse walls to droop and die !"
Of the Tableaux Vivans it is hardly necessary for us
to say more, as they have been recently noticed, than
that they were as attractive as ever, the more particu-
larly La Giselle, which was received with rapturous ap-
plause, and called for a second time. .leplalia's Daughter
and the Tableaux Finale were given with great effect.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

THE QUEEN v. GRAY AND OTHERS.—In this case,
which stood over from the last session, the defendant,
Roderick Gray, and a number of other prisoners, were
indicted for unlawfully conspiring together to intimidate
and prevent other workmen from entering the service of
the prosecutor, Mr. Trego, the builder. _ _

Mr. Bonam, for the—protecutor, now applied to the
Court to postpone the trial, on account of the absence,
from illness, of Mr. Gunn, the clerk of the Lambeth
Police-court, who took the depositions of some of the
defendants upon another inquiry, and which depositions
it was absolutely necessary, for the purposes of the pre-
sent inquiry, should be proved on the present occasion;
and; as he be'ieved he could not, as counsel for the pro-
secutor, safely proceed with the trial in the absence of
that gentleman, he trusted the Court would postpone the

Mr. CLARKSON said he appeared for six of the de-
fendants, and he must, on their behalf, object to their
being compelled to attend again upon this charge. He
begged to remind the Court that in the first instance a
charge of assault was preferred against one only of the
defendants, and, in consequence of what took place upon
that inquiry, twenty other persons were now indicted for
a conspiracy. They had already been put to great ex-
pense and inconvenience, and rather than the trial should
be again postponed, he was ready to admit all that could
be proved by the absent witness.

Mr. Boning, in answer to a question put by the Re-
corder, said that he desired to prove the evidence given
by the witnesses who were examined at the police-court,
for the defence, upon their cross-examination. The
persons who were so examined were defendants.
The RECORDER, after looking at some of the deposi-
tions referred to by Mr. Bodkin, inquired whether any
other object could be expected from this prosecution than
to vindicate the law and make the defendants and the
public generally aware that such proceedings were illegal
and unjustifiable ? Upon this point, he had no hesita-
tion in saying that any attempt by violence or intimida-
tion to prevent workmen from continuing in the service
of their employer was clearly are illegal act, and subjected
the parties committing it to be punished under the
statute. With this understanding he would suggest that
a course might be adopted a hich would render further
proceedings unnecessary.
Mr. BALLANTINE, who appeared for others of the de-
fendants, said that they were now aware of the effect of
the law, and having been already put to very great ex-
pen-e, he considered that the purposes of justice would
be quite answered by the course suggested by the Court,
and that it would be very desirable, under the circum-
stances, not to weste the public time in an inquiry which
would probabty occupy two days for no purpose.
Mr. PARRY said that ho was also instructed to defend
some of the defendants, and on their parts he was re-
quested to state, that if any act of indiscretion were
proved against ems or two of the parties who were in-
dicted jointly with them, and which he believed was the
case, that they utterly repudiated such an act, and were
perfectly aware that the resorting to any act of violence
or intimidation was perfectly illegal and unjustifiable,
and were therefore quite willing to accede to the sug-
gestion of his Lordship. The defendants were all hard-
working and industrious men, and when his Learned
Friend took into consideration the inconvenience they
had already suffered, and the enormous expense they had
been put to, he trusted he would feel that he would not
be neglecting his duty, as Counsel for the prosecution, in
adopting the course pointed out by his Lordship.
Mr. BODKIN said he entertained as much respect for
persons in the position of the defendants as any one
present, so long as they conducted themselves with pro-
priety in the position in which they were placed ; but if
they committed what appeared to him to be a serious
infraction of the law, they must abide by the conse-
quences. The prosecutor was net in attendance at
that moment, but he felt that he was justified in stating
that he bad no vindictive feeling towards the defendant.,
and his only desire was to vindicate the law and to show
persons in their position that such proceedings could not
tyke
; e e a
ohs 1
eto be countenanced. As to the mischievous character of
r(t, after it
•
the offence of endeavouring, by violence and intimida-
ahney a
remarks
woulds i '
e pleased,
to prevent an employer from carrying on his busi-
ness was
what
h communicatead
fallen
a unnecessarylwlei
nt fhof rrt
hohim t
prosecutor,ht
the Court,
make
and upon the next occasion ho should have further in-
struetions upon the subject.
The RECORDER then said that the case should stand
over
until next Monday, and without giving auy opinion
upon the facts, ha could not help saying that, consider-
ing the position of the •
parties, workmen to be em-
ployed, and as
masters requiring their services, that
the sooner they could come to soamicable
some arrange-
ment the better.

The whole of theldefendants, who had been out on bail,
then left the court.

Charles Lysham and Thomas 14'orcester were in-
dicted for unlawfully obtaining money by false pretences.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Sleigh prosecuted; Mr. gorry
ppored for the defence,

Mr. CLARKSON, in opening the case, said that before
he informed the jury of the circumstances under which
the charge 'MIS preferred, he felt it his duty to tell them
that the offence alleged against the prisoners was con-
nected with one of those proceedings termed Derby or
.e not clearly laid down to be
swvererot:e lslta.hiliye•hCoi:;.
s idered to be very mischievous
in their tendency. The prosecutor of the indictment
was Mr. William Harris, a respectable licensed victu-
aller, in Southwark, and who had been extensively en-
gaged in carrying out " sweeps" of this description; but
he should state to the jury that since the public expres-
sion by the magistracy of London of the illegality of these
proceedings, he had resolved to have nothing more to do
with them. The fraud imputed to the prisoners was com-
mitted in June last, and there could be very little doubt
that a sum of money was obtained from the prosecutor
by means of a fraud, and he apprehended that what-
ever opinion might be entertained regarding the ille-
gality of the sweep in every lottery system, that this
would afford no justification for the conduct of the pri-
soners, if it should be satisfactorily established that they
were the authors of the fraud. The Learned Counsel
then proceeded to state the circumstances under which
the charge was preferred. It appeared that in Juno a
sweep was open at the house of the prosecutor, the
Equestrian Tavern, in the Blaekfriars road, for one of
the races to be run at Ascot, each chance in which was
55., and the holder of the first horse was to be entitled
to 71. Two persons, named Cockley and Davidge, pur-
chased a joint chance in this sweep, and the
ticket, numbered 34, referring to a horse named
Vampyre, was drawn for them, and this horse
turned out to be the winner of the race. The defend-
, Lipsham, acted as clerk to Mr. Harris, and ma-
naged the different sweeps, and it was his duty to
have given intelligence to the parties who were
the winner of the prizes ; but instead of doing so, it
seemed that he marked the name of Davidge upon the
ticket of a horse called Feargus, and retained the
winning ticket in his possession. Very soon after the
race, the other defendant, Worcester, went to the pro-
secutor's house and tendered the ticket referring to
Vampire, and Mr. Harris, having no suspicion, paid
him the amount of the prize. It turned out upon in-
quiry that Worcester was brother-in-law to the prisoner,
and the latter, when he was apprehended, admitted that
he had bad the money from Worcester, but said that he
had been picked up the same night, and had lost the
whole of it. The Learned Counsel having concluded his
statement of the facts, said that the question to be de-
eided in this ease was quite apart from any considera-
tion as to the prudence or propriety of carrying on these
sort of proceedings, and was simply whether a servant
could have any justification for obtaining possession of
his master's property by a false pretence.
Mr. Harris, the prosecutor, was then examined, and
he proved the facts as stated by the Learned Counsel.
He said that Lipsham was engaged by him to keep the
accounts connected with the different sweeps, and he had
the means of knowing who were the winners. On the
13th of June, after the race, Worcester presented the
genuine ticket to him. He at the time did not know
that he was related to the other defendant, and he paid
him the amount of the prize, and soon afterwards, from
information he received, he discovered that a fraud had
been practised, and he paid the prize a second time to the
parties who were really entitled to it. He added, that
he afterwards went, accompanied by a policeman, to the
house of Worcester, and on his being questioned he ad-
mitted that he had received the money, but said that he
presented the ticket at the request of Lipsham, and he
had no benefit from the transaction.

---...
In answer to questions put by Mr. HORRY, Mr. Harris
said that he took no tickets, and had no interest in any
of the sweeps at his house himself, and he also forbade
his servants from taking any chances in them.
Mr. HORRY here submitted to the Court that the
charge could not be sustained, inasmuch as the whole
transaction was one of a gambling and illegal charac-
ter; and that the prosecutor had no such legal interest
in the money as would entitle him to the protection of
the law.
Some discussion ensued upon this point, but at length
The RECORDER said that, although the transaction
might be of an illegal character, yet he did not think
the objection would apply to the charge of obtaining
money from the prosecutor by false pretences. He would,
however, he said, reserve the point for further conside-
ration, if such a course should become necessary.
William Romayne, the constable who apprehended
Worcester, was then examined, and be deposed that
when he took him into custody he denied all knowledge
of any fraud, and said that he merely presented the
ticket at the request of his brother-in-law, and that he
handed him over all the money.
The RECORDER expressed his opinion that the evi,
denco did not support the charge of conspiracy. The
evidence just as much tended to show that Worcester
was the instrument merely of Lipsham, as that he was a
co-conspirator with him.
Mr. CLARKSON said be felt the difficulty supposed by
his Lordship, and as he had no further evidence to con-
nect that person with the transaction, he should with-
draw from the prosecution.
The RECORDER then addressed the jury, and ex-
plained to them that by the law a charge of conspiracy
could not be supported unless two persons at least were
shown to be concerned in it, and, therefore, as the evi-
dence failed in this case to establish the fact, they must
acquit the defendants. But, at the same time, said he
could not help stating that this was a most useful lesson
for persons who were connected with such illegal and
dishonest proceedings as these racing sweeps in his
opinion clearly were. It was a proceeding merely
for the purpose of getting custom and profit in a
most improper manner. There was no pretence
for saying that it promoted the interest of the
turf, and it had none of the justification that was ex-
tended to horae•racing as tending to improva the breed
of horses. On the contrary, it was entirely mischievous
in its action, and only had the effect of inducing persons
to gamble and speculate small sums of money, in the
hope of obtaining a larger amount, and had, in fact, no-
thing to do with racing. It had happened to him on
several occasions to hear persons who had been con-
victed of larceny in that court ascribe the commission
of the crime to the temptation held out to them to join
these miserable lotteries, or sweeps as they were
termed, and he was not sorry to see that those who
encouraged such proceedings were ultimately sufferers
by them.
The jury then, under his Lordship's direction, re-
turned a verdict of Not Guilty.
The RECORDER, in handing back to the prosecutor the
tickets connected with the sweep, observed that he hoped
that he should never again see such things in a cuurt of
justice, He, at the same time, advised the prosecutor
not to have anything more to do with Derby sweeps in
future. _

Mr. Harris said he had given them up entirely.
The RECORDER said he had acted wisely in so doing, for
independent of the risk he ran with regard to his house,
he would be liable under a particular statute, to a penalty
of 5001. if his connexion with such a lottery as these
Derby sweeps clearly were, was made out.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. BULLOCK.)
David Green, 45, and Joseph Green, 43, both described
as tripe-dressers, were indicted for stealing 1 cwt. of
fat, valued at 155., the property of John Wm. Messen-
ger, their master.
Mr. Bodkin prosecuted.
It appeared that the prisoners had been 20 years in the
employ of th© prosecutor, who is a tripe-dresser and
fat dealer, carrying on business in the Borough-market.
Having for a long time missed a quantity of fat, and
there being a number of men engaged on the premises, a
watch was set, and the prisoners, together with a man
named Pnlbrook, who escaped, were detected taking the
property away.
The prisoners begged for mercy, and said it was their
first ofitmce.

The jury found them Guilty, and they were sentenced
to six months' imprisonment an I hard labour.
William Legg, 28, butler, was indicted for feloniously
intermarrying with Dinah Squire Rowe, his first wife
being alive.
The,prisoner pleaded Go:4y.
In answer to the Court, the second wife said the pri-
soner had married her after a courtship of twelve
months, and they had lived together for eight months.
Sentence, twelve months' imprisonment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE. _ _

- - -
Ifitnnalt Norton, a girl about 17 years old, was charged
by Mr. Rae, of 5, Easteheap, with having set fire to his
house.
Mrs. Rae, who appeared to be quite an invalid, said
that on Saturday morning the prisoner and I were left
alone in the house. At 11 o'clock I called her from the
uppe kitchen on thefloor,
and in five minutes aft:r she
x
came down I heard a noise from above, as if some
weight had fall.-n down. I aAted her what she thought
it was, and wheth r any friends of hers were up stairs.
She said it must have been the cat. Five minutes after-
wards I heard a similar noise, and I begged her to go up
and see what was the matter. She did so, and some
time after she came down and said the house was on
fire, and she told me to get up, for I was ill in bed. She
then alarmed those below stairs. I remained in bed stu-
pified. I thought the chimney was on fire. She came
in again with her bonnet and cloak on, and told me to
get up and save myself. I got out of bed, and I went
up stairs to the kitchen, and saw the oak chest, which
lay at a distance from the fire, on fire. The fire was
out in the kitchen grate. When I looked in at
the door my hair was singed and my hand was scorched.
I looked into the other two rooms on the upper floor,
but I saw no fire in either of them, or in any other part
of the house. By this time the alarm had been :effec-
tually given. I gave the prisoner two trunks to save,
and she took them down stairs.

The LORD MAYOR —You did not jump out of bed at
the alarm of tire? The witness—No, I was very ill, and
I was quite stupified. I supposed it was the chimney
that was on fire.
The LORD MAYOR—What did the oak chest which
was on fire contain? The witness—Papers and clothes,
the property of a lady of the name of Boyce, who lived
with us. I do not know anything of the value of the
contents.
The LORD MAYOR—Was the kitchen in other respects
in disorder? The witness—l did not observe that it was
in an unusual state of disorder. The prisoner was by no
means a good servant.
The LORD MAYOR—Did you observe anything in
the kitchen which was c:,.lculated to account for the
noises ycu heard overhead ? The witness—Nothing,
exe,pt the weights of the cluck, which were completely
burnt, fell down. The prisoner disappeared for two
hours after she took away the two boxes, and she was,
I understand, seen by a Mr. Fostcr walking about the
street, and sent up to me, and she then told me that at
eleven o'clock she had seen two distinct fires, and that
cue of them, attended with smcke and flame, had pro-
ceeded from her bedroom. The fireman was present at
the time, and I said we did not think she could have
se,ellLflame and smoke proceed from her bedroom, to
"" She replied that, upon looking round the corner,

I she distinctly saw them. She then began to contradict
hereelf, but Ido not recollect the exact words used by
her, and by the fireman's advice, I ceased to question
her any further. Mrs. Boyce was not at home at the time.
The LORD MAYOR—Is the house insured? The V. it-
ness —The house was insured by the landlord, we being
tenents. There was no property iusered, I believe, ho-
palci the stock in the shop, w ,ich wets not at ail affected
by the fire. The prisoner had to wait upon Mrs. Boyce.
The Lone) MAYOR—Was there any misunderstanding
between the prisoner and Mrs. Boyce ? The witness—
The prisoner was to have left us on Friday, for she was
an unsatisfactory girl eta regarded her work. She was very
civil until within the last few days, and then she began
to be less civil. We gave her notice for the last month
from time to time, and merely kept her until we could
get a satisfactory substitute. She had no quarrel with
Mrs. Boyce, but that lady used to make her sit up late
to do the work she had neglected to do at the proper
time. We had been told by the people in the neigh-
bourhood that she had disreputable companions, and
notwithstanding our cautions to her, she persisted in as-
sociating with them. We had no personal quarrel.
Mrs. Boyce went to her mother on Friday, and it was
agreed that we should keep her till we could provide
ourselves with another. When I told her so, she said it
was making a fool of her, and she must look out for
another place immediately, and that she expected her
cousin to call for her clothes, which she had packed, and
she intended to leave that day (Saturday).
The prisoner—l did not say I was going away that
day. When I went up stairs I saw the fire coming out
of the boxes. I then ran down and said there was a
fire, and called to Mrs. Rae to pet on some clothes.
Charles Jones, a fireman, said he was called to the
fire on Saturday, at about half past eleven o'clock. In
the prisoner's bed-room he saw smoke issuing from a
box which lay under two other boxes. He removed the
tw ) top boxes and opened the under box, and found a
smouldering fire in it. There was no room for flame to
come out of it. The fire in the bed room was quite dis-
tinct frcm that in the kitchen, that in the kitchen being
in a trunk, and that in the prisoner's bed-room being in
a box. The dresser and the wainscoat in the kitchen
were burnt. When the girl came back to the house at
half-past two or three o'clock, she said, upon being
asked whether she knew anything about the fire, that
she supposed the cat had done it; and upon being ques-
tioned about the fire in the bed-room, as well as in the
kitchen, she said she had seen the flames issue from
the box.
Roots (policeman 577), said he went into the house
twenty minutes past eleven, and kept away the mob till
the fire was extinguished. After four o'clock he took
the prisoner into custody by direction of Mr. Rae, and
she then said the cat must have done it.
The prisoner then, after having received a particular
caution from the Lord Mayor as to the account she
might give of the transaction, stated that there was but
one box, one, that which was on fire in the bed room,
and not as had been stated, two. She thought the cat
had gone into the chest, as was her custom, through the
hole; and as Mrs. Boyce's son kept gunpowder there,
the fire might have been caused by that, and the cat
might have brought it into the bed-room. When she
went to see what it was she saw a blaze and smoke in
her bed-room, as well as in the kitchen. While the
fire was burning I was in Mr. Foster's shop, and I
stayed there until it was quite put out, and then I went
home. I considered it was done by the cat.
Mrs. Rae—Not a hair of the cat was singed at all.
The prisoner was remanded till Friday.
GUILDHALL.
William Nutter, one of the men attending to the
wheels of fortune, at an exhibition in Holborn, was
brought up in custody of William Ballard, 233 G, on
the charge of detaining half a sovereign under the fol-
lowing circumstances:—
An intelligent young girl, named Sarah Ann Meek-
ings, of 40, Princess-street, Kingsland-road, said that a
short time previous to arriving at the court, she passed
the exhibition in Holborn, and feeling inclined to try her
luck at the wheel of fortune, she entered and placed what
she thought a sixpence in the prisoner's hand, and re-
ceived sd. in change. At the time of her entrance she
had wrapped up in paper the half-sovereign, four shil-
lings, and a sixpenny piece. On leaving, before she had
gone far, she opened the paper and discovered that she
still retained the sixpence, but the half-sovereign was
gene, upon which sho returned and said, that by mistake
she had given him the gold, but this he denied, and
showed her a box, where he said ho had thrown all the
money he had taken, but she did not see the half-sove-
reign, in consequence of which she went out for an
officer, and gave him into custody, but not before asking
two gentlemen to keep him in the same place, and to
watch his movements.
The officer said ho searched the prisoner, but did not
find the half-sovereign.
Alderman GIBBS to the prosecutrix—Can you swear
you gave it to the prisoner ? Meekings—l can, for I
had it safe when I entered, and missed it almost imme-
diately atter I left.
Alderman Genns—Was there any one near the pri-
saner when you paid him what you thought the six-
pence ? Meekings—There was another man close to
him, attending a similar wheel of fortune.
The prosecutrix here produced a small teaspoon, of
the value of little more than a farthing, which she said
had cost her twopence before she was lucky enough to
obtain the prize. •
The constable said there had lately been innumerable
complaints made at the Clerkenwell Police Court re-
specting this exhibition, which was a nuisance to the
whole of the inhabitants.
, Alderman Gins—l have not the slightest doubt the
prisoner received the money, and immediately passed it
to one of his fellow-companions. However, I shall not
let him go until the half-sovereign is produced.
Prisoner—l did not have it; nor have I money to that
amount about me.
Alderman GIBBS —Then you are remanded until to-
morrow.

Prisoner—Won't you take bail for my appearance?
Alderman GIBBS—Yes; the half-sovereign must be the
bail.

He was then locked up ; but in the course of an hour,
the money was forthcoming, and he was liberated.
MORE IRISH PAUPERS. —There were no less than 23
vagrants brought up, the greater portion of whom were
sentenced to short terms of imprisonment, while others
were discharged on a promise never to enter the City
again for a similar purpose.

THE LATE MR. DUCROW'S
SISTER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,--Having observed vin your journal, a few days
since, a police report of Lambeth-street, wherein it
stated that relief had been given to my wife (the late
Mr. Ducrow's sister), I had but one recourse, to imme-
diately forward to the magistrate, at Lambeth Police-
office, the full particulars and documents, contradicting
the statements of desertion, and now respectfully soli-
cite, through the medium of your valuable journal, the
publicity of this letter, as a public man, in vindication of
my character.
Being miles from London, I have no other remedy
than to claim your justice, and that of the magistrate to
whom I sent the amount of sums weekly paid, from the
period of our separation in 1841, one year before her
brother's death (and not afterwards as she states), the
cause of which separation is well known to the pro-
fession and all the members of her family, as I am the
last husband of the three sist.rs, and each husband was
obliged to separate from their wives.
£ a. d.
Sept. 1841 to Sept. 1842 (weekly) llO 0
Sept. 1842 to Sept. 1843 (weekly) 1 10 0
Cash legacy left by her brother, Aug.
1842
Doctor's Bill, 1843
Taking clothes out of pawn,
1844 (weekly)
Fortune changed, and thus:-
1845 (weekly)
1846 (weekly)
1847 ( six months) 0 12 0
1847, Oct. (?)

In March, 1848 (out of situation),
(weekly) 0 8 0
. _

In the preient period my engagements have been
precarious (in point of salary and very limited), and her
going to the workhouse was her own act and deed of ca-
price. Let the magistrate point out the manner cf
her receiving a weekly sum (as I rise or fall), she will
receive it. It is not my wish for her to starve,
as you will perceive by the sums already paid, and as
the truth must out, my wardrobe, propertiees, &c.,
all have been sold to keep her when I was out of a
situation ; and I do not care now how far my exertions
are given to pay money for her living, so that I am not
insulted and reminded of the cause of my fate. Apolo-
gising for this long detail, I am yours obediently,
W. I). BROADFOOT.
Victoria Theatre, Edinburgh,
Nov. 23, 1848.

COLLISION ON THE BRIGHTON AND SOUTH COAST
RAILWAY.—A collision took place on this line yesterday
morning. A goods train which had left Brighton at
pat six for Portsmouth, was stopping at the King-
a fstastion, about three miles from Brighton, when a
sphtaaosls-e
passenger train, which left Brighton at five minutes past
seven, came up, and though the stop signals were ex-
hibited and a red light waved to intimate imminent
danger, the train ran into the goods train with great
violence, smashing some of the carriages of the latter.
Several of the passengers were hurt by the shock, and
some bled, but none sustained serious injury. The line
was strewed with the wrecks of broken carriages, and
two hours elapsed before the traffic could be resumed.
John Pemberton, the driver of the passenger train, was
apprehended and brought up before the magistrates sit-
ting at the Town-hall, Brighton, and charged with mis-
conduct. Evidence was given that the stop-signals
were hoisted, and red lights waved, which could be
seen and were seen half a mile off by the guard of the
train; and that the train, when first perceived, was
going at from 40 to 50 miles an hour, which was much
beyond the usual pace. He was fined 51. or a month's
imprisonment.

TILE BURNING OF TIIE GLASGOW [DELPHI
THEATRE.—We learn that from the peculiar circum-
stances connectzal with the. recent fire in the Theatre
Adelphi, the authorities and the chief superintendent of
police have considered it their duty to make a rigid in-
vestigation into the matter. It would be improper to
enter into details, but we feel warranted in sa3 ing that
we believe; considerable quantity of dresses, decorations,
and properties, which were supposed to be consumed,
have been recovered, and now he in the Paisley police-
oflicE,.—G/asgow Constitutional.

Commander Alexander Boyle, who was dismissed
the service by sentence of a court-reartial for the loss of
the Thunderbolt, steam-sloop, at the Cape of Good Hope,
has been reinstated in his former rank in the navy, much
to the satissletion of every ona acquainted with the pro-
ceedings under which he was cashiered. The master,
also, of this vessel has likewise been restored to the navy.
—Devonport Independent.

CHAPEL PROPERTY IN JERSEY.

The following letter has been addressed to Dr. liutit
ring, M.P., on this subject:—

Alderbury Lodge, Les Veux, Jersey,
November 23, 1848.
Sir,—ln the month of August. last year, you were
kind enough to lay before the Secretary of State :A. peti-
lion from several congregations of Protestant Dissenters
in Jersey, praying for a reform of our laws affecting
real property, so as to provide for trusts and uses, in
order that Dissenters may be enabled to perpetuate their
chapels to religious purposes with perfect security, and
enjoy the same rights, liberties, and franchises in Jersey
as they would if they were living in England.
The Dissenters are sensible of the interest you took
in their behalf; and feel grateful that it should have had
the effect of enlisting the atlention of her Majesty's
Government to their wants; but, as those wants have
not yet been redressed, and very serious consequences
threaten them, owing to it, Item iirluc,,d to trouble you
again on that subject.
It will be necessary, however, to acquaint you with
what has been done, before I enter into particulars of
the calamities which are now approaching us. In the
beginning of November, of last year, Sir George Grey
transmitted this petition to the Lieutenant-Governor,
and strongly recommended that immediate measures
should be taken by the States of Jersey to redress the
grievance complained of. It was brought before the
Assembly on the 11th of that month, and referred to
a committee composed of two Jurate, two Rectors, and
two Constables, who were charged to prepare a Bill on
the subject. The committee, however, failing to do
anything, a gentleman who takes great interest in the
matter, wrote to the Secretary of State, upon which
Sir George Grey called on the authorities to report
progress, when the committee became alarmed, and met
to proceed with their work ; but finding themselves
utterly incompetent to the task, they prevailed on the
Attorney-General Dupre to undertake it—with whom
it is likely to remain, unless more vigorous measures
are adopted.

We had already experienced a foretaste of the inse-
curity of chapel property by the operation of our bank-
rupt laws. To be brief, a chapel built for the Inde-
pendents, and another for the Baptists, were lost, and
made liable for the private debts of the parties who pur-
chased the ground, notwithstanding they had recon
veyed the buildings to persons who, it was thought, held
them in trust for special purposes; and we are now upon
the verge of experiencing more serious robberies. A
large chapel, built some years ago, at an expense of
3,0001., by the Wesleyan Methodists, and placed in
trust, is in jeopardy through the bankruptcy of one of
the trustees, for notice has bee❑ served on all the parties
to bring in that title-deed for insertion in the decret—in
other words, to choose whether they will substitute the
bankrupt, by taking to his debts and assets, or surrender
the property as part and parcel of his estate.
Since then another chapel, belonging to the Unitarians,
has been notified for plunder. This was originally built
by the Independents, and placed in trust (!) but subse •
quently sold by the trustees to the Unitarians, who have
held it about two years. It turns out, however, that
the private property of ono of those trustees
is become overcharged with debt, and the mort-
gagces have given notice to the holders of the chapel
to substitute the bankrupt by taking his property and
paying his hypothecations, or surrender the chapel to
the next who shall be entitled to that option. I for-
ward you one of our local journals, that contains the
public notice to this effect from the attorney who
is conducting this bankruptcy, in order that you may
see it.

It is necessary that you should understand that the
bankrupts in these cases never possessed one shilling of
interest in the chapels; the money was furnished by the
religious communities to whom they belong; and it is a
very great hardship that the latter should be plundered
under colour of an antiquated custom, because one of
their trustees is unable to fulfil his own engagements.
But it would be just the same if the prior owner of the
ground became bankrupt, as in that case the trustees
would have to substitute him in his rights and discharge
his prior debts, or surrender the chapel to the common
stock for another to do it. There is no such thing as
setting apart a property for any use whatever under the
old feudal law of Normandy, for, as that law is prac-
tised in Jersey, it must be mixed up with the private
property of every one through whose hands it passes,
and become subject to the laws of inheritance, bank-
ruptcy, and forfeiture.

Surely, Sir, it is not reasonable or just that the buyer
of a property should be called o❑ to take to the estate
and effects of the seller, or for the seller to take to the
property of the buyer, with additional charges, or other-
wise lose their respective rights? Why should the
vendee be encumbered with the bricks and mortar of the
vendor, or vioe versa, according to whichever side the
bankruptcy may arise? and this for a period of forty
years! It is monstrous and roguish too. Every dis-
tinct property ought to be liable only for its special in-
cumbra,nces, and not to be mixed up as it now is with
each other.

There are at least fifty chapels in the island, which
must have cast in the aggregate upwards of 25,0001.,
exposed to these risks, in which perhaps 20,000 Dissen-
ters are interested. This state of things is really de-
plorable, and calls loudly for redress. It is vain, how-
ever, to petition the States, or Local Assembly, one-
third of which is composed of Church parsons, who have
no community of feeling with us; another third of
jurats, who are opposed to the enactment of any laws;
and the remainder of constables--men who, with the
exception of two or three, have not even sufficient
capacity to write out the charges they present
with their prisoners, much less to devise legislative
remedies for these grievances. It is therefore pre-
posterous to look to them for redress. Now the kind
of redress which we want is the prompt and energetic
intervention of her Majesty's Government, to originate
a law for the purpose. There are petitions lying with
the Clerk of the Rolls of our Assembly crowded with
signatures, in whose custody they have been for years,
some praying for an alteration of the laws of inherit-
ance, to enable persons to will and devise real estate;
others to abolish seignorial rights, to create trusts, and
set apart chapels for religious purposes, without being
subject to bankruptcy or forfeiture. I have, therefore,
to beg—first, that you will be kind enough to press
those reforms on the consideration of the Secretary of
State; and if you should find him disposed to entertain
(hem, I have, secondly, to request that you will be
pleased to suggest to him the propriety of his ordering
a return to be made of those petitions, with such ob-
servations thereon as the States of Jersey may be pre-
pared to make, within a given time; and, lastly, that you
will be pleased to urge him to bring the whole under the
consideration of the Queen in Council, in order that her
Majesty might legislate thereon.
I beg to resew my sincere thanks for the very able
and zealous manner in which you have seconded my
efforts in the cause of reform, and to subscribe myself,
Sir, your must obedient, very humble, and ever faithful
servant, ABRAHAM JONES LE CRAB,
Author of a work entitled " The Laws, Customs,
and Privileges of the Island of Jersey."
Dr. Bowring, London.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
The betting was on too small a scale to call for one
word of observation.
LEAMINGTON STEEPLECHASE.
4to 1 agst Lord Strathmore's St. L'oger —taken
and afterwards offered
Bto 1 agst Mr. Salt's Dcctor
10 to 1 agst Lord Strathmore's Red Lancer—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Harrison's Venom—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Flower's Knight of Gwynne
600 to 200 agst Lord Strathmore's two—taken
CHESTER CUP.
35 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack
50 to 1 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar—take
1,000 to 15
1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Fugleman—taken
and afterwards offered
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Disney's Bon-mot—taken
2,000 to 30 agst Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale—taken
2,000 to 20 agst Mr. Merry's Limestone—taken
DERBY.
9to 2 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman
7to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Tadmor—take 15 to 2
12 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Honeycomb taken
to 501.
1,000 to 20 agst Lord Stanley's Escalade—taken
10 000 to 200 agst Mr. Pedley's Old Dan Tucker—t
Saucy Dick arrived in town yesterday, on his way to
join W. Dilly's lot at Littleton, near Winchester.
OARS.
6to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Escalade—taken
1,000 to 50 agst Duke of Richaloi,d's Highland Fling—t
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Sir 11. Seale's hds., Wed.. Slapton Green; Sat., Kennel.
Tiverton hds., Thurs , Spring Grove Park; Sat., Idele
Station, near Bradninch-10k.
Lord Redesdale's Ws.' AV( d.. Barrington Park; Fri.,
Addlestropp Gate; Sat., Northleigh.
Mr. Fane's harrs., Thurs., Quartermain's Ground;
Sat., Wallington.
Berkshire hds., Wed., Wytham; Fri, Little Coxwell.
Harrogate beagles, Fri.. Beckwith Shaw-10k.
Mr. Brand's hds., Fri., Kennel-10k.
Puckeridge hds., Wed., Peverils; Sat., Sandon-10k.
Wigton and Carlisle harrs., Wed., Bothel; Fri., Gil-
crux-9. -
Dimwit harrs., Wed., Skirwith; Sat., Tirril-10k.
Sir John Cope's bds., Wed., Crookham Screet;
stag hds, Binfichl-10.
South Wilts hds., Thurs., Beekfoid Aims, Font-
Cheltenham stag hds., Sat., Racec.)urse-12.
Grindon hds., Wed., Swatibridge; Fri., Wenvoe.
llambledon hds., Wed., Warnford Park; Fri., Mar-
well House-10k.

CNUSAN VIE GARDEN OP CHINA.-16 The length
of the island is twenty-three miles, breadth from eight
to eleven; the circumference 150. Its physical aspect
presents numerous ranges of hills, from 500 to 700 feet in
height, with broad interwening valleys, some of which
are eight to nine miles long., and pr sent (Ale continuous
scene o! rich cultivation: there are 33,750 English acres
on the island, producing two crops of rice annually. The
population 26,150. With respect to climate, it is truly
called the Montpelier of Chins.' If Chusan were still
in our possession (we had only to eels it) we would be
within two days' sail of Japan, with its 30,000,000 of
highly civilized inhabitants; and more easily regain our
lost Risition in that rich empire. Our occupation of
Chosen would sooner or later open to us an entire new
commercial world. We -you'd also have as (ur neigh-
bour the wealthy and extensive kingdom of Corea; like.
wise Mautchaurea, Loo Choo, the nineteen Kurile
islands, and other regions around."—China,
Commercial. and Social.

Sir George Grey is about to institute a searching
inquiry into the expenditure of prisons under Govern-
ment control, and of the convict department generally.—
Sunday Paper.