The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-05 00:00:00

r THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMI3ER 5, 1846.

1' Mr. WALTER again rose and said, though the honour
of proposing the toast, with which I shall conclude, I
might have been assigned to an abler person, yet I am
sure that none could have undertaken it with more zeal
than myself. The occupant of the civic chair has a rare
combination of functions to discharge, and should,
therefore, have a rare combination of virtues ; as public
spirit, ability for business, a nice sense of justice and
honour, good temper, and warm social affections.—
(Great cheering.) You will indicate your opinion
whether these high qnalities are united in our present
chief magistrate, by the manner in which you receive
the toast. I therefore now propose, " The health of the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."—(Great cheering.)
The LORD MAYOR, in acknowledgment of the toast,
said, he felt that his Hon. and excellent friend Mr.
Walter had depicted precisely what a Lord Mayor
should be. He was only sorry his humble abilities had
not enabled him to realise the views of his highly
esteemed friend. Before sitting down he begged to pro-
pose the next toast on the list—" The health of their
honorary secretary, Mr. Alderman Hughes Hughes ;"
on whom so much duty had devolved in the course of the
committee's operations, and who had so admirably per-
formed his functions that the committee had subscribed
to present him with a salver commemorative of his im-
portant services, which he now begged to present to him
as a memorial, not valuable so much on account of its
intrinsic worth as of the part he had taken in conduct-
ing to so successful an issue the Times testimonial.
Mr. Alderman IL HuGnEs then rose and said—My
Lord Mayor and Gentlemen,—l feel deeply grateful for
the kind compliment paid me by my brother committee-
men in the unanimous resolution engraved on the salver
now presented me in their name in such handsome terms
by your Lordship, to whom I beg to express my best
acknowledgments. lam happy to avail myself of the
opportunity thus afforded me of reviving in the recollec-
tion of those present some of the circumstances con-
nected with the movement now so successfully perfected.
The deeply-ramified conspiracy exposed in the trial
" Bogle v. Lawson," was concocted in 1839, and had for
its object the plunder of the principal European bankers
to the extent of about 1,000,0001. sterling, by means of
circular letters of credit, purporting to be of Messrs.
Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Company. The Times jour-
nal was instrumental in exposing this enormous super-
structure of fraud. The proprietors of that most
.able
and influential journal, at immense risk in the first in-
stance, laid bare, by their publication, that most nefa-
rious conspiracy, and afterwards, with spirit, ability, and
.uncompromising integrity, sustained and completed the
exposure. It was universally felt that the unmea-
sured praise and warmest gratitude of every honest
member of the community were due to the proprietors
for this display of public spirit, energy, and fearless-
ness, and that the exposure of such schemes by the
public press was of incalculable value to the public
in general, and to the commercial part of the com-
munity in particular. Although, therefore, the
triumph of the Times was signal and complete, the
mercantile public could not content itself with silently
congratulating the proprietors of that spirited journal
upon their victory, but, regretting, in common with all
who wish well to justice and detest crime, that that vic-
tory was obtained at such an enormous cost, and also
that the proprietors refused to allow the public at large
to express its gratitude by reimbursing them their
outlay, determined to take measures for recording in a
more permanent and substantial manner, the sense of
obligation conferred by them upon the commercial
world. Accordingly Messrs. Rothschild, Masterman,
Baring, and ethers of the leading merchants and bankers
of the City of London, in September, 1841, requested the
then Lord Mayor to convene a meeting on the subject,
which was held at the Mansion-house on the Ist of Oc-
tober in that year, and over which the Lord Mayor pre-
sided. Resolutions were passed, and. a subscription
opened; and, notwithstanding it was limited in the case
of firms to ten guineas, and of individuals to five guineas,
upwards
of 2,7001. was immediately raised. The sub-
scriptions were 555 in number, and, as will be seen from
the following analysis, the compliment thus paid to the
Times proceeded alike from all classes of the commu •
nity :-38 public companies; 64 magistrates and officers
of the Corporation of London; 58 London bankers and
joint-stock banks; 129 London merchants, manufac-
turers, and traders; 116 country bankers, manufacturers,
and traders; 21 foreign bankers, merchants, and public
companies; and 129 individuals and anonymous. The sub-
scriptioli from fiireign bankers, merchants, and public
companies were from Alexandria, Antwerp, Cadiz, Cal-
cutta, Cologne, Dantzic, Florence, Geneva, Hamburgh,
Laguayra in South America, Macao, Malta, Messina,
Naples, Newfoundland, Ostend, Paris, Venice, Vevay,
and Wiesbaden—thus literally embracing the commer-
cial representatives of different languages and blood
from Antwerp to Cadiz. Of the sum so raised, nearly
1,8001. was invested in the purchase of 2,000/. Three per
Cent. Consols, in the names of the Lord Mayor, the
Bishop of London, the Governor of the Bank of England,
and the Chamberlain of London, all for the time being,
the dividends to be applied to the support of two scho-
larships, to be called " The Times Scholarships," in con-
nexion with Christ's Hospital and the City of London
School, for the benefit of pupils proceeding from those
institutions to the University of Oxford or Cambridge ;
and 150 guineas has been expended in the erection of a
commemorative tablet, with a suitable inscription, in
the New Royal Exchange, and a similar one at the
Times printing establishment. All these objects have
been most satisfactortly carried into effect; and tablets,
commemorative of the establishment of " The Times
Scholarships" have been placed in the Grammar-school of
Christ's Hospital, and ow the principal staircase of the
City of London School ; the former erected at a cost of
above 150 guineas, bears the following inscription:--
"This Tablet was erected to commemorate the foundation
of a scholarship for the benefit of the pupils of this house,
proceeding to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, to
be denominated The Times Scholarship,' which was esta-
blished out of a portion of a voluntary subscription, made by
many merchants and bankers of London, and other commer-
cial places, in testimony of the warm admiration and grateful
sense entertained by them of the indefatigable perseverance,
distinguished ability, and unsparing disregard of expense,
displayed by the proprietors of the Times newspaper, in the
detection and exposure of the most remarkable and exten-
sively fraudulent conspiracy ever brought to light in the
mercantile world, which was developed in the trial of 'Bogle
versus Lawson,' A.D. 1841.

" The proprietors of the Times having generously declined
to accept any portion of the subscription, it was devoted to
the foundation of two scholarships for the encouragement of
education for ever: one of which is assigned to the pupils of
Christ's Hospital. "July 26, 1842."

The following is a copy of the inscription on the table
,n the City of London School:—
This Tablet was erected
as a perpetual Memorial of the foundation of the
Times Scholarships ;
one in connexion with the City of London School,
the other with Christ's Hospital,
for the benefit of Pupils proceeding from those Institutions
to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
The Endowment of these Scholarships
was effected out of the proceeds of a subscription
entered into by
English and foreign merchants, bankers,
and other persons interested in the
preservation of mercantile confidence and security.
To testify their warm admiration and grateful sense
of the moral courage, indefatigable perseverance,
and distinguished ability shown by the
Proprietors of the Times Newspaper,
A. D. MDCCCXLI,
in the ready detection and fearless exposure
of a most extensive and fraudulent Conspiracy,
which, from its subtle and daring character,
was unparalleled in the Annals of Commerce.
These distinguished Services
derived an additional lustre from the
unexampled generosity and disinterestedness
of the Proprietors,
in their refusal to be reimbursed any portion of the
heavy expenses incurred in the progress of
their noble and arduous exertions.

The Honorary SECRETARY having again returned
thanks for the compliment which had been paid to him,
sat down amidst loud cheers.

The LORD MAYOR next proposed "The health of the
Governor of the Bank of England, the Bishop of London,
and the trustees of the Times exhibitions."
Mr. HEATH, in acknowledging the toast, said the con-
duct of the proprietors and editors of the Times well
entitled them to the gratitude of all commercial men ;
indeed, be might say that, as the representative not only
of all the bankers in London, but of all in Europe, no
eulogiurn too high could be pronounced upon them.
The LORD Masan had great pleasure in next pro-
posi❑g the health of John Masterman, Esq., M.P.
Mr. MASTERMAN felt truly obliged for the kind man-
ner in which his health had been proposed.
The LORD MAYOR next proposed " The health of Mr.
Thomas Baring, and the Members of the House of Com-
mons," which was drunk with loud cheers.
Mr, T. BARING, M.P., said that, with reference to the
immediate occasion of the present meeting, to nothing in
this country was the House of Commons more obliged
than to the Times newspaper for a faithful and honest
report of its proceedings.—(Cheers.) He repeated that
to none should the whole of the Members of the House
of Commons be more grateful than to the Times, because
in its columns they found good speeches faithfully re-
ported. and when bad speeches were made, their flimsy
materials were put in the most becoming dress.—
(Cheers.) They were met on the present occasion to do
honour to the honest exercise of a great power.—
(Cheers.) He might differ from some who were pre-
sent, but he would fairly state his opinion, that though
he might differ from the political and commercial views
of the Times, and the manner in which those views were
advocated, there could be no difference of opinion as to
the talent, the zeal, the perseverance, the integrity with
which its power was exercised—(Cheers)—as well as
its freedom from Ministerial and Government control,

which constituted it a most useful organ in the state.—
(Loul cheers.) They all knew the power of the press;
they had heard in the course of the evening the words
of Sheridan, which immortalised it. No doubt there
were many evils for a public press such as the Times to
attack, many abuses to expose, but it might truly be said,
although occasioltally a modest individual might be the
victim of public exposure, yet in the aggregate there
could be no doubt "the fourth estate' exercised its
powers with propriety, ability, integrity, and usefulness
for all classes of the community.—(Cheers.) Whatever
difference there might be among them in politics, of this
there was but one opinion in regard to the Times.—
.

(Cheers.) He happened to know the circumstances of
the conspiracy whose successful exposure by the Times
they had met to celebrate. Very early in the progress
of its discovery, Mr. Dobie, the solicitor for the Times
—whose constant activity, zeal, and judgment, were en-
titled to the most honourable mention in that company
—(Cheers)—communicated with the correspondents of
the firm of which he was a member. It was a compli-
cated scheme of fraudulent continental conspiracy ; the
greatest danger existed that it would be carried out by
numerous and skilful agents. The Times was the first to

disclose it ; the Times was the only power to stop it ;vend
the Times having done thus much, having gained all the
good for the commercial world the immediate exposure
of the villanous scheme could afford, might,
in the uncertainty of the law of libel, with the

difficulty of procuring evidence, have rested satisfied
with the attainment of the object it had then accom-
plished. But no ; the Times showed its energy, the cor-
rectness of its information, its indefatigable zeal and re-
sources, in completely disclo,ing the fraud ; and richly
bad the talent, public spirit, and devotion of its con-
ductors earned for them that " Testimonial " in the
Royal Exchange, which but feebly expressed the unan-
imous approbation of the commercial world.—(Loud
cheers.) He hoped the House of Commons, of which
he was a Member, would on all occasions exercise the
same zeal, honesty, and integrity in detecting fraud and
punishing crime which had been so successfully mani-
fested by the Times journal.—(Loud cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR next proposed " The health of
the Magistrates of the City of London," whereupon
Sir P. LAURIE returned thanks.

The LORD MAYOR next proposed " The health of Mr.
Dobie, the solicitor to the Times," whose talent, skill,
and industry had done so much in procuring the evi-
dence on which the exposure of the fraudulent conspi-
racy depended, and to whose efforts the public at large
were greatly indebted.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. WALTER, in Mr. Dobie's absence, felt very un-
willing that this toast should pass without remark. He
regretted Mr. Dobie's absence, but he hoped he might
be allowed, in one word, to acknowledge: the compliment
which had been paid to that gentleman, and to express
his own sense of that gentleman's distinguished merits.
The LORD MAYOR next proposed the health of his
excellent and worthy friend Baron Rothschild, whose
name alone would give character over all Europe to the
proceedings of such a meeting, and whom he had great
pleasure in seeing amongst them that evening.—(Loud
cheers.)
Baron ROTHSCHILD, in returning thanks, expressed
his surprise that such a toast had been given from the
chair. It certainly was not in the list of toasts he had
seen, and he had at all times great diffidence in ad-
dressing a public assembly. If he were to express his
opinions on that occasion, he should merely be repeating
what his excellent friend Mr. Baring had so well said.—
(Cheers.) A debt of gratitude we felt they all owed to
the proprietors and other gentlemen who were connected
with that powerful organ, the Tines newspaper, and its
successful exposure of a great and well-organised system
of fraud would be long remembered by all who were
connected with commercial pursuits.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Alderman HUGHES HUGHES next proposed the
health of Mr. John Walter, jun.—(Cheers.)
Mr. J. WALTER, jun., briefly acknowledged the toast.
The health of Mr. Tite, the architect of the Royal Ex-
change, was next proposed amidst loud cheers, for which
that gentleman returned thanks in a neat speech.
The LORD MAYOR next proposed the health of Dr.
Rice, the head-master of Christ's Hospital.
The Rev. Dr. RICE returned thanks in a speech ofgreat
ability and eloquence, in which he eulogised the- public
spirit and manly virtue of the Times proprietary.
The LORD MAYOR next proposed the health of those
excellent and able gentlemen who took the most active
part in the management of the Times newspaper.
Mr. J. T. DELANE, in his own name, and in behalf of
his colleagues, briefly expressed his deep sense of the
kindness of the Lord Mayor and the gentlemen present
for the manner in which they had drunk the toast.
Mr. J. D. FOWLES begged to propose a toast. He
was old enough to recollect the introduction of the first
"City article," a feature which had been continued in
every newspaper since. He could bear his testimony to
the great honesty, integrity, ability, and zeal with
which that department in the Times had from the first
been conducted.—(Cheers.) This he would say, that
those in the City who felt it necessary to communicate
with this department of that large and influential jour-
nal, had always received from his friend Mr. Alsager
the most respectful attention upon all occasions.—(Loud
cheers.) For one, he felt deeply grateful to him. The
public possessed in that department the most useful
communications collected from all quarters, and exhi-
bited in a well-digested and lucid form. None of the
other newspapers had in that respect at all approached
the Times, and he defied any one to detect in any por-
tion of the City article anything like partiality.—(Loud
cheers.) This compliment was due to his friend Mr.
Alsager ; to him the whole of this great merit was
owing ; and he had no doubt that the company would
think that their duty to the Times was ill-performed
without paying that gentleman the mark of respect to
which he was entitled.—(Cheers.)
Mr. ALSAGER said, that however incompetent he
might be, and however he might look around him for
assistance on that occasion, yet, in responding to such a
compliment, feeble as he was, he must sustain the whole
weight of it. He could assure his worthy friend who
had proposed the toast, that he felt very deeply the
compliment paid to the department to which he hap-
pened so long to belong. It was now founetimes seven
years since he appeared in the City as the medium of
commercial communication between it and the con-
ductors of the Times. During that time he thought he
might say, without at all invading the province of truth,
he never betrayed a friend, nor made an enemy. The
principle by which all were governed on the establish-
ment was the feeling of public independence, each being
emulous, irrespective of party concerns, to perform con-
scientiously the important duties entrusted to him.—
(Cheers.) If he ever failed, it was only from want of
capacity.—(Loud cheers.)
The party then partook of coffee in the drawing-
room.

The proceedings terminated at eleven o'clock.

NATIONAL SECURITY BANK.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
In a country like this, which has attained its position
as the most powerful nation in the world solely by its
commercial credit and resources, any proposition which
is calculated to preserve and invigorate that germ of all
its prosperity, must be an object of public interest. Our
advertising columns of this day contain the announce-
ment of a banking project upon a novel combination of
principles, which we are convinced will meet with
general commendation, proportioned to the great benefit
which cannot fail to result from such an institution.
Our warnings have been many. We all recollect the
hurricane of distrust and insolvency which not long since
swept away the joint-stock banks of the United States
before it. The periodical convulsions we have experi-
enced at home have proved destructive to numbers of
private banks, and the repeated fall of some large joint-
stock establishments of our own from time to time, an-
nounces that their foundations are yet unsettled. A
more meritorious object, in a commercial view, than that
which proposes to introduce a system tending to bestow
upon them the needful stability, we cannot imagine.
The title of the National Security Bank, to which we
refer, sufficiently indicates its character. As its name
imports, it binds itself up with the financial credit of the
country. Assuming the true functions of a bank, it pre-
sents itself as the safe depository of capital, and the con-
venient instrument for affording those facilities which
fall within the banker's legitimate operations. On the
other hand, it excludes all possibility of lending encou-
ragement to reckless speculations, of yielding to the
necessities of private interests and connexions, or of
aiming, by increased risks, at the accumulation of
greater profits.

As king as different classes of society exist, with
various wants in their own peculiar circumstances, banks
will be found to adapt their transactions to the calls of
their constituents, from the inflexible severity of the
Bank of England down to the lax accommodation of
houses in the most speculative manufacturing districts.
Between these extremes the National Security Bank
occupies, for the first time, an intermediate station.
With an unimpeachable stability, it will offer induce.
ments to the general customer, which combine in them-
selves every advantage for which a banker's doors ought
to be opened. _ _

An ample field, we apprehend, presents itself in the
metropolis for the operations of such an establishment.
A remarkable diminution has taken place in the number
of private bankers, hardly replaced, considering the
continued and vast accession to its population, by the
joint-stock banks that have more lately been founded.
In a still greater degree, perhaps, the growth of its mer-
cantile business has been developed. The crowded state
of the counters of the principal houses, often attended
with inconvenience to the customer, sufficiently illus-
trates this observation.

We recommend our readers to the perusal of the
prospectus with these remarks, which we have no doubt
will be confirmed by their deliberate judgment. The
plan will, we hope, be received by the public, and re-
warded with that measure of success which we sincerely
believe it to merit.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE
SEPT. 2, 1846.

The Queen has ',leased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Knight
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto
David Pollock, 11.e..1., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Judicature at Bombay.

Mr. Charles Durham, a gentleman residing in Pleasant-
place, hackney.
It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor, who
gave his evidence with 'risible emotion, that in the early
part of the presant year an unfarturiate iniimacy had been
clandestinely cornmanca.d between the prisoner, who was
a rnarrioal mao, alai the witneis's:daugh t.. r, a young lady,
only eighteen years of age, which 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 tranquAlise her mind, he was
disturbed by a violent knocking at the door, at which he
fund the prisoner, who denia,rdA admittance, which
witnes refused arid 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 accianpany 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 great 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. BnorGwroN severely reprehended the prisoner's
conduct, which displayed as great a degree of heartless
depravity as h id ever come under his notic,i ; 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 801., and
find two sureties in 501., to be of goo behaviour for the
next six months, and 24 hours' notice must be given to
ascertain the sufficiency of the hail.
LAMBETH.

W. Garter Willoughby Hellier, a fish salesman at Bil-
lingsgate, appeared before Mr. Elliott, to answer to a
summons take n out against him by Hanningham, an
inspector on the S,,uth- 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 Trewrio, a ticket collector at the Brieklayers'
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 bad 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 123., 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 groat, 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, he
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 Ramsgato was a "Parliamentary"
carriage, roofed in, and infinitely more agreeable and
comfortable, as he had 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 precluled the possibility of adopting it.
Mr. ELLIOTT observed that under the circumstances,
and the earritv.,!es of the second and third-class being
somewhat similar, such a mistake as that mentioned by
the defendant might be made. It wac, however, quite
clear that, by his own undertaking, he had rendered
himself liable to Fay 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 actetated him
in refusing to pay. He would now bow to the magis-
trates decision by paying 12c. and costs.

no objection to accept of bail, himself in 1001., and 'two
sureties of 25/. 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.

MEETING of MIDDLESEX MAGIS

TRATES.

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

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. WHALESBY 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 Home
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, 1846.
"Sir,—As Chairman of the Committee of Visitors of
the Middlesex Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, in the absence
of Mr. Talk, 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 fur the county of Middlesex, without previously
affording them 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 of 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 bent:—

"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, •
" To C. A. Tulk, Totteridge Park."

" W. SOMERVILLE.

The Court was only occupied half an hour, and did
not consist of more than twelve members. The whole
of the business having been diposed of, the Court ad-
journed at half-past twelve o'clock.