The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-18 00:00:00

THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP OF BOMBAY.

Lord GEORGE BEN TIN CK rose, pursuant to the notice
which he had given, to ask the President of the Board of Con-
trol, for some information respecting the Chief Justiceship of
Bombay. Yesterday it was his duty to bring before the
House a case with respect to the appointment of
the magistracy which be thought must have struck
the House very deeply, with the manner in which these duties
were performed by her Majesty's late Ministers. It was his
dsity that day to bring before the attention of the House, and
the attention of the country, a job which had been committed
with respect to the anointment of the Chief Justice of Bombay.
There were at that moment two Chief Justices of Bomb3y.—
( A laugh.) It would be in the recollection of the House, that
the division on the Coercion Bill, which put her Majesty's late
Ministers in a minority, occurred on the 26th of June. On the
29th of June following the announeement was made to that House
and to the country that her Majesty's Ministers had resigned
the reins of Government. On the 30th of June, Mr. David
Pollock, a Commissioner for the relief of insolvent debtors in
London, was appointed Chief Justice of Bombay ; and, as be
believed (and on that point he asked for information of his
Hon. Friend the President of the Board of S.;ontrol ), at
that time Sir Henry Roper, the then Chief Justice of B mbay,
bad not tendered his resignation to Government. He was
well aware that it was in the power of the Government to
supersede a chief justice in the celenies, but he submitted that
if it were within the power of the Government, it was con-
trary to the spirit of the constitution, that, for the sake of

patronage, the Goverr.ment should supersede those who held
office as judge in any part of the Queen's dominions. He be-
lieved that Sir Henry Roper was in the seventh year of the
performance of his duties as Chief Justice of Bombay. Five
years' service would give to him a retiring pension of 7001. per
year, and seven years' service would have entitled him to a
retiring pension of 1,0001. per year. The period of service
which would have entitled him to the full retiring pension,
of 1,0001. per year would have expired on the 2d of November
next, yet her Majesty's late President of the Board of Control
had, as he would show to the House, perpetrated a job, as he
had thought proper to supersede Sir H. Roper by appointing
Mr. David Pollock, when there were yet four months to run
before Sir Henry Roper would be entitled to his full retiring
pension. But this was not all. There was another and more
serious view of the case, and it was this—that by the
law of the land, as soon as Mr. David Pollock
was appointed Chief Justice, be became legally Chief Justice of
Bombay ; then all authority by which Sir Henry Roper could
try immeiately ceased.. The result of this was, that every
trial which should be held by Sir Henry Roper, between the
time of the appointment of Sir Henry Pollock and the arrival
of the news of his appointment at the East Indies, would be an
illegal trial, and every criminal who should be convicted—
that was, capitally convicted—would stand before the
laws of the country as a murdered man, and that was one of
the ways in which her Majesty's late Ministers performed the
ministerial duties of their places. At that very moment (he
did not know whether the Bill was actually in the House, but
if it were not he believed that it would be laid on the table
that night) it bad been necessary to introduce into the
other House of Parliament a Bill, which, under the title
of the East India Patronage Bill, was in point
of fact a Bill for concealing this nefarious job, and at
the same time to grant an indemnity to the perpetrators of it.
The object of the appointment of Mr. David Pollock was to
make a vacancy-in the Commissionership of Bankruptcy, with
which to reward the private secretary of Lord Lyndhurst, and
the mode of proceeding was this :—Sir Henry Roper was to be
superseded by the appointment of Mr. D. Pollock, which would
leave the office of Chief Commissioner in Louden kr the
relief of insolvent debtors vacant. Mr. David Pollock was
then in his turn to be succeeded in office by Mr. Phillips, a
commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy at Liverpcol, and
thus to make a vacancy there, to which Mr. Perry, the private
secretary of the Lord Chancellor, had been since ap-
pointed. He (Lord George Bentiuck) had nothing
to say against the character of Mr. David Pol.
lock; he did not wish to say or to insinuate
that he was unfit fur the discharge of the high duties to which
he had keen appointed. He believed that his legal attainments
were great, and though he might be something out of practice
as regarded the courts of that portion of the law which he
was to administer, from having been now occupied for some
time as an Insolvent Debtor ' Commissioner, he (Lord
George Bentinek ) did not mean to say that he was not
fit to hold the office of Chief Justice of Bombay—though
his age, being 65, was rather greater than that of those who were
sent out to the East Indies to fulfil the situation of Chief
Justice had generally attained. Well, then, with respect to
Mr. Phillips, he had nothing to say against his character or
against his legal attainments. He believed that a more capable
•

man for executing the office of Chief Commissioner for the
relief of insolvent debtors did not exist.--(Hear,
hear.) So far as he was concerned it could not
be imputed to him that he Ind taken any part in this job. The
office which be had vacated entitled him to a salary
of 1,8001. per annum, and the office to which he
succeeded entitled him only to a salary of 1,5001.
per year. Private reasons, and a feeling to which he would
not advert—founded upon a domestic calamity which he had met
with—had made it desirable tohim personally to leave Liverpool,
the place where he met with this ealamity. If it should
be that Mr. Phillips was indebted for his promotion to that
office, not to the fulfilment of the wishes of the ex-Lord Chan-
cellor, but to the patronage and friendship of another, who lie
(Lord George I3entinck) might say, supplied the office of
honorary Lord Chancellor during the existence of the late
Government—performing the legislative duties in the other
House of Parliament which were abandoned by others
—taking the part of defending her Majesty's Ministers
against those attacks which were constantly made on
them in that House, though not in this House, and upon their
honour and consistency in a late proceeding—that was
no disparagement to Mr. Phillips, and he (Lord George
Bentinck) rejoiced that Mr. Phillips, through the interference
of Lord Brougham should have obtained the appointment, if
it were through his interference that he did obtain that
situation. He could not say that he had no charge
to make against Lord Brougham as to the reward
of his fidelity and zeal in the defence •f her Majesty's late
Prime Minister, or that which was intended to have soothed
and gratified his feelings. When he came to another part
of th ease, and looked at the appointment of Mr. Perry
he was bound to say that he thought it was a very great job; Mr.
Perry, as he believed, had had no practice for some years
in the courts of law, and, as he was informed, he was accom-
panied to Liverpool by Mr. Commissioner Conroy in
order to dry nurse him in the new duties he had to perform. He
'had treated of this matter as though it was an appointment
made by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst, but, as he was
well aware the appointment did not rest in the gilt of the
Lord Chancellor, but it rested in the gift of the' President of
the Board of Control. He believed that the appointment was
actually enforced upon Mr. Perry, unsought and unasked
for by him; in fact, it was actually pressed upon him
by the late President of the Board of Control.
He cared not whether the appointment was to be attributed to
Lord Lyndhurst or the Earl of Ripon, it was a job, and one of
the most nefarious jobs ever perpetrated. It would be for the
Gentlemen opposite to show some justification of it, and to
show some precedent of a similar kind. It came with peculiar
bad grace from the present Government, and from Lord
Lyndhurst, who had exhibited such feelings in 1841 with
reference to a Charitable t Trusts Bill. A more profli-
gate avidity for patronage bad never been displayed
by any Government, and it contrasted very strikingly with the
indifference manifested with regard to the Lord-Lieutenaney
of Norfolkshire, lately vacant. There was a man, however,
who was entitled to the latter dignity, but be was guilty of
what the late Prime Minister could not overlook—he

was guilty of the crime of consistency with his
former political opinions and fidelity to his former
principles. The appointment was, therefore, left vacant for
30 days until the present Government came into power.
( LEFT SPEAKING.)

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Room A.
BIANCTIESTEn AND SOUTILaiViPTON,

The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock, Lord
Monteagle in the chair.
The first witness called was Mr. Harris, an extensive class
manufacturer at Islington, in the vicinity of Birmingham,
who testified to the great difficulty he and others carrying
on a shrilar avocation experienced from the defective com-
munication for sand, a fit e description, of which was obtained
from the Isle of Wight. He had 500 tons himself in
the course of a year, but he possessed the largest glass works
in that district. The present conveyance from the Isle of
Wight to Gloucester, by ship, and from thence by canal, was
most uncertain. During the last year he had it sent by the
Southampton Railway, and then by the London and Bir-
mingham, in order to prevent the stoppage of his works, but
the expense was twice that by the ordinary route. The pro-
posed line would be used by him and others.
Mr. Etwall, M.P. for Andover, considered that the line
would be most advantageous to the whole of the
agricultural district which it was proposed to traverse. The
want of such a line had been felt for many years, and the
feeling in 'favour of it throughout the whole district exceeded
in unanimity the feeling with respect to any other undertak-
ing. Had used salt as a manure, and it would be more
extensively used if the carriage were cheaper, as also would
other artificial manures. He became one of the provisional
committee, and a member of the local committee for allot-
ting shares, simply in consequence of the great advantage
which he considered the district would derive from the line.
By the ComairrrEF--The shares in that district were al-
lotted to the owners of land, and persons of the highest re-
spectability and opulence. This remark applied to a circuit
of twenty-four miles round Andover.
By Mr. TALBOT—There are no considerable towns in the
district but will have railway communication to London by
existing or authorised lines, but not to the north or south.
He did not know of an extension from Reading to Hunger-
ford, in connexion with the Berks and Hants, nor that a line
had been projected to Worthing. There were a number of
fairs held in the district, a great number of store sheep came
to them. Did not hear at the affirmation meeting that the
company would not call up more than 21. per share, up to 1848.
Mr. Rawlinson, farming 2,000 acres of land at Hole, be-
tween Andover and Salisbury, and rearing from 3,000 to
4,000, sheep in the course of a year, detailed the quantity of
oats and barley raised in the course of a year in Hampshire,
Wilts, and Dcrsetshire, the number of fairs, and the
numbers who attended them. Also the number of
cattle and sheep, and gave evidence generally in favour of
the line. He sent malt to Poole, in order to get it to Liver-
pool. The sheep and cattle of the district went to Warwick-
shire and Worcestershire, and to the other midland counties.
If the railway were made it would be extensively used.
Manures, which were much required, would no doubt be
brought in return. Guano was imported at Southampton.

OXFORD, WITNE Y, CHELTEN-
HAM, AND GLOUCESTER INDEPENDENT
RAILWAY.—(THIS I)AY.)
A general meeting of the shareholders and scripholders of
this Company was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
st reet this day, for the purpose (as stated in the advertise-
ment) of considering a proposal to be made to unite this
Companywith the proposed Cheltenham, Oxford and London
Railway, upon certain terms and conditions to be stated at
the meeting, and in case of such terms being Np-.
proved and accepted by the meeting, then to
authorise and empower the proper parties to unite
this company with the proposed London, Oxford,
and Cheltenham Railway Company, and to wind up the
affairs of the Oxford, Witney, Cheltenham, and Gloucester
Independent Railway Company.
Sir JAMES DUKE, the chairman of the board of directors,
took the chair a few minutes after twelve o'clock, and
opened the proceedings as follows :—Gentiemen, I am glad in
some respects to see so small a meeting here, because
I • believe that it will in some respect testify
that there is something like confidence in the
directors as regards anything which we may have
the honour of submitting to this meeting, and on their
part and on my own I confess that I feel a great obligation for
the confidence that has been manifested towards this Com-
pany, because, while I believe that it is generally understood
that the Company's finances are in a very low state, there
are no parties here who have come for the purpose of expres-
sing a want of confidence in the directors, because they have
nut thought proper to call the proprietors together. Gentle-
men, I have been anxious for some time past that we should
not abandon our line without some struggle, and an en-
deavour to obtain some advantages for you; and after
negotiations with various parties, we have now come
to the happy result of making such an arrange-
ment as I trust will be satisfactory—very satisfactory—
to us all, under the circumstances. Gentlemen. before
I allude further to that, I will state to you that
we are honoured to-day with the presence of the solici-
tor of what was formerly the London and Birmingham Com-
pany, but now the London and North-Western Company,
who attend li in order that he may confirm my statement,
or supply any deficiencies which I may inadvertently
make. Gentlemen, it has been my anxious wish on all oc-
casions to act straightforwardly, and, though our deed of settle-
ment gives the directors the cower of making this arrange-
ment, I thought it would be very ungracious, in return for
the confidence which von have always evinced towards us, if
we did not call you together, and give you an opportunity of
expressing your opinion upon onr conduct with respect to
this arrangement. And, at the same time, I may state that
if your views are in unison with ours it will strengthen our
hands in completing that arrangement. I will now, there-
fore, ask the Secretary to read. the advertisement calling
you together for this special object, and then I will endea-
vour to explain to you the terms of the arrangement,
Mr. J. Menzies, the Secretary of the Company, having
accordingly read the advertisement,
The CHAIRMAN continued as follows:—Now, gentlemen,
some time ago we were in negotiation with the London and
Birmingham Company, but their directors not being able to
prevail upon them to take the same views of the advantage
of taking us up, the negotiation (as, in fact, T apprehended)
went off. However, upon further consideration, they
requested me to see them again, and on Saturday
last I received from them officially such a communication
as I shall now read to you, with your permission. Having
read the communication, the Chairman thus continued:—
Now, gentlemen, there is another rival company in the
field, the Great Western Company, and I felt that to talk
to you about advancing more money, with the view of pro-
secuting this scheme in the next session of Parliament, was
not likely to be a palatable project, and I therefore thought the
0 ly alternative that we had to resort to seas to
those two
endeavourto
make the best arrangement that we could between
Companies. Now, I will read to you a letter which I re-
ceived from our solicitor at Witney,
sul"rts our inte-
rests of the
there, to show how much better the directors
Birmingham Company have viewed and treated us than they
were inclined to do. 1 will only read an extract, which is,
Ithiok, all that is necessary :—" Although I could make no
conditions relative to the independent line, yet I think
that 500/. a thousand would be taken for them." Now,
gentlemen, I need not tell you that, after such a proposi-
tion was made, I had nothing more to do than to secure that
(in my opinion) very liberal offer, which has been made to
us by the London and Birmingham Company.—(Hear.)
Gentlemen, they in fact give us 63. 80. per share tor our
plans and our intfrests. That is the real state of the
case. They give us three six-and-eightpences, and we give.
them three six-and-eightpences, making altogether 21.;
so that we give 11., and they give us 9/. for 1/.
You will see, gentlemen, that their shares being 201.,With 10/.
per cent. paid upon them, equal 2/., and that we give them
three t em
three shares, which are equal to thr. e six-and-eightpences ;
they give us one of their shares—they
to glvd3lisus, in tact, 40s.
for 20s. But, gentlemen, in addition ad-
vantage, I think that there is another great
advantage,
ry
angeinas.
y could
inas-
much as our line from Oxford to Wune
only
com-
mand traffic between the two towns, but the project
which the London and Birmingham contemplate is to make
it, in fact, the Cheltenham and London line to Oxford,
because it is to join their line at Tring, and by that means
it will bring the) two towns of London and Cheltenham
nearer than by any other route. Therefore, I am quite
satisfied, gentlemen, that if Parliament act up to the principles
which they have hitherto adopted, namely, in preferring the
most direct course, there can be scarcely any opposition
in the ensuing Parliament to this project. &sides, gentle-
men, if you look at the map you will see that the line from
Oxford to Cheltenham is a north branch (f of the Great
Western Railway ; and after both Houses of Parliament came
to a solemn resolution, and subsequently enacted it by
a Bill, that there an be no broad gauge north
of the Great Western Railway, it is quite clear
to me that this Company will have nothing to do but
to go to Parliament 'and present their plans and obtain their
Bill.—(Applause.) Now, gentlemen, there is also another
view to be taken of the subject. You get shares in this
Company. ' I have shown to you by the letter which I have
read that the Birmingham directors—l speak of them still as
the Birmingham directors, gentlemen, because as their
last title is so new you will better understand what

ay-
parties I mean, I call them vy the name of the Biritainghast
directors—they will be gnaranteed a subscription cf
nth ref,-
fourths of the capital required by that Company, an their
remaining fourth will be given to us, and such friends at
Oxford, at Witney,ltt Cheltenham, and other places on the
line, who have taken an interest in the undertaking. So ti tat,
gentlemen, I need not tell yen that there is no chance; er
those shares being at a discount, but that there is a very gr tat
prospect of there being at a considerable premiunt as soon as
this arrangement is completed.—(Cheers.) Now, gentlerneT!
with respect to the prospects that these gentlemen tertertarl
of their line, this is a skeleton of their prospectus. I at!;:
sorry to say that it is not quite so complete anvil
could wish; but the reason of that is obvious.
the arrangements were completed with the comParlY
and until they had an opportunity of consaltini ;
their principal engineer, Mr. R. Stephenson, and ascertain.:
ing in every way that they possibly could the exact amour
that they might consider necessary to carry on their lint 't
they could not make the arrangement complete. Gentlem.qt
they have shown the great sincerity with which they inters
to carry out thi: project—they have given no less doe!
eight members of their beard to the provisional eel
managing committee. • Now, gentlemen, I am cluSt
satisfied that you will understand the position of the Lon( el!
and Birmingham Company, and it will not be necessary
•me to oxplain to you the importance of such an accession t;
any company that may now be formed.—(Applause.)
names of those eight gentlemen include those of Mr. Robe 4
Benson, Captain Mangles, M.P., Patrick Maxwell Stool
Esq., M.P. Now, gentlemen, I was very anxious tbia.
I should be permitted, if I had the good fortune of eio.,,sl"„'
this affair, to retire altogether ; but the solicitors of the v"4.:
mingliam board said "we must have from you such a gle7o
rantce as will satisfy Parliament that we are, in fact, I'd,
legal and proper heirs of your state.—(Hear, hear.) •A‘,l
under these circumstances', it was agreed that I`3ao
of the members of this board should continue 111.°4
the provisional committee.—(Hear, hear.) I stal'',l
to these gentlemen from the first to the last. that I via3.l3
perfect blank sheet of paper, and that as long as they sb°l-f; a
wish me to continue on the committee of the cornpasY9 a- 1
any good was to be gained by the shareholders then 3'
would very gladly continue in any position which till
might wish me to occupy.—(aheers.) Now, gek-'ti;
nun, these are the names which the Birmingham hoft •
have furnished to carry out their proposed line, and in add`
tion to those, there are other gentlemen connected with t
0.4
towns through which this line would pass—they are nania,
of great respectability. Having read the names, the Chat
man continued to say—ln addition to those gentlenfT; •
there ie the respectable name, the well-known name, of Esb:;
Stephenson as the engineer. Now, gentlemen, I think these .0;
names which will satisfy you that unless the Birmingb:k
Company had seen that they were to carry it out with .0
vantage, and with a view to the advantage of those Part!at
who became subscribers with themselves, they Would Is"
venol(
have come here to have made that offer which they saes
made. Gentlemen, the merits of our line have J.n "AO
respect been tested by this fact, because you will Dea'er
mind that the Great Western Company endeavoured' t°
„°c)l •
a line from Cheltenham from their Wolverhampton 11°.-180
in the last session. That was thrown out, 'There was' a-ttis
another competing line running pretty nearly ",ifie
us, which did not succeed. It is, therefore,
ct
that the Great Western have fallen upon, as nearly as
sible, our line of road, and that the same line of road bel'
taken up by the Birmingham Company, does show, ateet,
events, some testimony of the merits of our original Pr..11)050
Gentlemen, you must bear in mind that, in taking uP tle of
shares, we shall hand over to the new company the Winde,
our plans, and de whole of everything that has bees io-
so that we shall have to pay a very small sum of m°°o'4 to
deed for the necessary preliminaries and preparao),°;
sa
enable us to go to Parliament. That, gentlemen, is n• !togs
object in addition to the direct pecuniary advar, ja
which you get fur those plans. You get another advantglit
fact, by saving the expense which would be required fin.„, 0
plans.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, the next point, and the
important pint, which I have to state to
with respect to the proposition which has pa
made by that Company, that we should r
them 6s. Bd. per share, they aiao giving us tcoal
a share, so that for 20s. we receive 21. ; so that _to
leave in fact, one share for three without being called OL:er
subscribe an additional penny.—(Hear, hear.) N0W,t1.1.4'.-pt
tlemen, these are as nearly as possible all the pool, ea'
information that I can give you, and with the view
tyive
abling you to come to some resolution on the subject, bleb,
sketched out, with my brother directors, a resolution, viol,
if it meets your approbation, parhap3 some gentleman
kind enough to take up and bring before the meet tug
" Resolved—That the proposal now made by then' ass
Oxford, and Cheltenham Railway Company, of givrinriers;
share in that undertaking in exchange for three .;0,0•0,
with a payment of 6s. Bd. per share, of the 1!
Witney, Cheltenham, and Gloucester Independent 13',4 c %
Company, be accepted by this meeting ,1409:
guarantee from the directors of the London eau of
Western Railway Company to subscribe three-fourths
capital required for the first-mentioned line, and t°,. aria!
lease thereof in perpetuity at a rent of 4% per eetTeabY
one-half of the surplus profits ; and this meetinititalt
1
authorises the managing committee of the Oxord, ',„seir •
Cheltenham, and Gloucester Independent Railway C°aa: tt°
to carry the proposed arrangement into effect, and touPsi-ciers'
sum of 6s. Bd. accordingly ; the shareholders, in
tion of such arrangement, releasing all claims, an:a e afro`",,
full powers to the managing committee to wind 11P dor'
and settle all outstanding demands in such maili.er 000.1
such terms as they may deem most advisable.' ••-('-'/
Now, gentlemen, having stated thus much to vo.a,
ero e
known that I have anything further to state.-- l
Z°b a g 1(1
Mr. KEDDLE said, he did not anticipate meetib,
‘t.
a dissentient voice in rising to proP°trhe
resolution just read should be adopted by any
It appeared to him that if the affairs
wound up, the shareholders
thing like 6s. Bd. a share, whereas t"estiln of Pan'
evOfut.7:,reesceenilt'earrsanngsso.
ment would secure to them the se or pretflht
share, clear of any additional In ad-
which might be attached to the ct
dition to that, as the chairman had very pr.opel
liking Of
new expense would have to be laid out in tat ru
ueeeessli
plans. He did not think that one word more was nog-
to ensure to the resolution which he had to prOpOSe "
mous reception. - (Cheers.) sharef—en(Cheelrs.)stated,
44
Mr. Ant:PER-1 shall be happy to second the resolua- .
The resolution was then put from the chair, tilid casfl
unanimously, with loud cheering.
„aafso
The CHAIRMAN then said—Gentlemen, I must v---,40P
that I am grateful to you for this mark of your 47.to-
deuce, and I am sure that my brother dirTtlei
must be equally grateful to you for this Mad vote arc(oar
assistance which you have always rendered to us in
,tlO
ing out this project ; and I beg to assure you, gentletneFoo.
we shall be most anxious, in our position as provisiou*i.,, ear
mitteemen iu the new company, to do everything 2'loo
power to maintain our character and the confidence you
been pleased to bestow upon us. .ietssll
Mr. Maesuann moved a vote of thanks to the taua'iivz
and his brother directors for the interest which they bth- ta
nifested in the concerns of the Company, and particuta`'
the former, for his conduct in the chair that day. 3OlO
The resolution having been seconded and carriea etiag,
acclamations, the Chairman responded, and tA_Alie Tite half
which was most unanimous throughout, separeee-
past twelve.

A NOTORIOUS BEGGING LETTER INPOSTEIL
Campbell, with many aliases, was on Friday last take'? 01"
d Li°ll 'at
D. Barclay, Esq., and other magistrates, at the lied 10101,
Dorking, charged by the Mendicity Society with,,cat, 130,1
money under false pretences-. Sir East Clayton -r-'"ceiceub-0
having teen sworn, produced a long letter he had re ott t,
his residence, Hall• place, near Maidenhead, v 000411;,
morning of the 19th of June last, bearing theth-str,6o
post mark, and dated from Mr. Peters's, Snti" "
Ot
Dorking, June 18, and signed " Henry Camp?' the or
letter stated that the writer had been a captainl-nto
Light Dragoons, bad sold his troop, and entered —O-4 iWhig
ciliation that totally ruined him. That a concern ,tior"&c•
offered him at Dorking that would enable him tolols'gda
family, but he required a few pounds to pay for f r, to. is
lie appealed to Sir C. East as a benevolent chararteoltlier.
his mite to assist in placing the family of an old `„ed tesb..
more comfortable circumstances. He enclosed a fbrp snt-,
monial as from the Colonel of the 12th, scititatOneisj,
scription of 21. against his name. Believing the
to be true, Sir Clayton East returned the t8,r90 sot,
fe
with a Post-office order for IL The pestratt,,st-n,PII
proved paying the prisoner the amount of the -I-
order from Sir East Clayton East. An officer frome
tot, Pe
Light Dragoons (now stationed at Brighton) plyv
_t toe,
had served thirty years in that regiment ; during 21110 11r;
no offfcer named Cam bell belonged to it. That on
searched the records of the regiment that morningto
back as 1797, but could find no officer named Cam
served in it, and that he did not believe the Prig" 06.7 j
ever served as a 'private in the regiment. The.,
trates sentenced the prisoner to three months p. 4
labour in the Guildford House of Correctioltie 11`ct
Knevitt, from the Mendicity Society, stated ,a 36, eiof
known the prisoner as an impostor since August, gild .
that he had been convicted and imprisoned for otw
offence. Mr. Knevitt then drew the altmagistrate'3d tpit -0
to the 17th clause of the Vagrant Act, and requeste'ci
copy of the present conviction might be Olt
Quarter Sessions, the prisoner being an old offendepr,
been for a long time writing in various names tnot.heer
lent, from Dorking, Reigate, Leatherhead, a;Ldrang pro"( 0,
and villages in Surrey. The postmaster 0f...%",„, canaPhe4
be had given the prisoner letters in the I"
name °I Alikj
and paid him another Post-office ordernf:
that he first applied to him for letters th
rag;
Bonomey.
sTRIC'' 'if'
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—THE LONDON je
—There aro now ten deliveries of letters in London dalge'circrie,
the following places in the environs of London, within ovevro,
three miles of the General Post-OfliCei there are eight 0011°150,
viz.:—Camberwell, Camden Town, Daiston, Hackney, 505..„erfl
that name, a.i:(
Islington, Kent-road tend), Kennington, Kentish Town, , g,
-N ewingtOn..bll Pentonville, Shaeldewell, South Lainhet ,;cril33,ils
Town, Vauxhall, and Walworth. Letters posted at the r it7i,
houses in London before six o'clock, are delivered at all P13,,c,e
the circle of three miles from the General Post-office the lies of
lug. There is also an additional delivery within six
c-DoN
p
iGnviticoin•adlotobset-toot
feo,
usroot,lcliaotekal,l theolertatetrsthpeosteridnetpal receilrbinjoce •
o'clock, are delivered within this limit the same evellinThird-e'to toedtrt
ABSENCE OF MIND. —A gentlemen
ail
intended to take a dose of o—mans'sßonesct Pills on gon
stead of which he laid the pills on the bed, and sv"l'n.
He did not discover his mistake till he tried to dress h° —ir
morning.— Yankee paper.

of
On the 11th inst., in lialtrefolOitsquare, the vilfe °I. Ile
William Schneider, E.q ,of a daughter. _ , —A_ the°
On the 11th inst., at Abbey-road, St. John s-wvu-'
of R. Dawes, Esq., surgeon, of a son i f• 14
.
On the 13t inst., at Kensin ton-s care,
the ivi'e °
Harper, Esq., of a daughter. g q vr ri; VI
On the 14th inst., at Talacre, Flintshire, the ..".°
Mostyn, of a son. f Veil'
On the 14th inst., at Eastbourne-terrace, the lads,°
_., 1,
tenant Colonel Norman Maclean, C.B ,of a daughte',' 1. ''
On the 14th inst., at Gibson-square, Islington, I‘ll.'
Robins, ot a daughter. aYl°lr.
On the 14th inst., at Broadstairs, the lady of Hari friv.-
which 511
E-1., of the Bengal Establishme,pt, of a son,
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only an hour.
MARRIED.tyte Vcit:'
On the 4th of June, at Mirzapore, Brands., the 10.-e
Bengal Civil Service, to Caroline Maria, daughter u"
Captain Pemberton, R.N.
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On the 9th inst., at MounDti lEtaPd.ford, Exeter, Adamit's°.
6i6n.st., Elizabeth, li
sono,aEstqt.e, aged 66.
Esq., of Mugzerhanger, Bedfordshire, aged y I.n Wife
On the 14th inst., W" dsor .as—,
at Datchet, near in ,
of John Fowler, E
t inst., in Wob l Euos7fsse:
sq., aged 75. wife
On the 14 h urn .p ace,
Finch,_ Esq., aged 68. Dar'
On the
Daniel 4:),nnttHeasillgtt,h inst., at Furze Down,
mester, E 15th inst., Susanna, relict of the late a
Esq., aged 87. Aarreit
0511
0 the 16th inst. in lloWaY,
, Junction-road, Upper So ..
Ins:tielar:ustctobt:
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Streatham,

Frances Hedger, aged 67.
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15,..1846.