The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We have inserted elsewhere a selection from
the last country papers of the articles in which
they gave an account of the proceedings of the
Corporation Commissioners, and of the general
result of their investigations, so far as they have
gone. The local press seems to have been fully
penetrated with a sense of the importance of the
inquiry, and to have registered the examinations
of the Commissioners at sufficient length,
though not, in all cases, with an unbiassed
spirit. In the course of the inquiry many
abuses have been detected, much mismanage-
ment and venality has been exposed, and a '
strong foundation has been laid for an extensive
and urgent municipal reform. From even the
partial and desultory accounts in the provincial
newspapers of what the Commissioners have
done, and without having access to the more
detailed information which their reports must
furnish, we may thus safely maintain that the
working of the commission has been eminently
successful—that its itinerant courts, open to the
public, have brought to light many abuses which
might otherwise have remained unnoticed or
concealed—and that more has been done in the
last two months, and at a trifling expense, by
inquiries on the spot, than could have been ac-
complished in so many sessions or years, and
at an infinitely greater public charge, by Parlia-
mentary Committees. To have summoned to
Westminster all those persons in the numerous
cities and boroughs of England who could give
evidence on corporate delinquencies, and to
have required the attendance of all the corporate
officers, with their deeds, hooks, and accounts,
would have been more expensive, and probable
more inconvenient, than calling out the militia
of the counties—while the general muster of
corporators and their accusers, at a distance
from their homes and local influences, would
have turned out, perhaps, as an exhibition of
mere parade and uselessness. The delay, too,
in taking the depositions of such " a cloud of
witnesses" by one Committee, must have ope-
rated as a mischievous postponement of that
municipal reform which has been so urgently de-
manded by the people, and which the Govern-
ment is so solemnly pledged to introduce. The
Commissioners have been the more successful in
their labours, and have accomplished their task
with the more expedition, that they have held
open courts in the different boroughs which
they have visited, and have invited the public
evidence of all the inhabitants who had useful
information to communicate. Had they sitten
in secret conclave, with only their registrar or
secretarv,and the witness under examination, their
information must have been often partial, and
their motives always liable to suspicion or misre-
presentation. Besides, a municipal corporation
should have no secrets to disclose. The persons
who compose its management are a public body,
appointed in the policy of the law to act for the
local public, and the very attempt to conceal
from their constituents any part of the conduct
of their stewardship lays the foundation for a
grave suspicion of guilt, and warrants the insti-
tution of a rigorous course of scrutiny. It cannot
be pretended that any portion of corporate pro-
perty, or of the funds of a borough, is private
property. It cannot be pretended that the cur-
porators could, at any moment, divide it among
themselves, and break up the corporate firm like
a private partnership. As little, surely, can it be
alleged that the individuals composing it can
employ the funds intrusted to their care for the
purely personal object of defraying the election
expenses of their friends, or clearing the score of
their tavern dinners. Least of all can they be
justified in employing the corporate money to
bribe the support of unscrupulous voters, to cor•
rupt the morals of their fellow-citizens, or to
promote the cause of civil dissension and faction.
If the consciousness of having perpetrated these
acts is pleaded as an excuse for concealing or
withholding the documentary evidence which
establishes the charge, then public exposure be-
comes the more necessary, as a punishment on
the delinquent—and if, on the other hand, there
be no consciousness of guilt, there can be no
dread of the fullest public disclosure. Though in
the course of the inquiry much malversation,
corruption, and knavery has been brought to
light, and though the guilty parties must, from
the beeinning, have anticipated such a result, it
is creditable to their good sense that, with onl)
one exception, all the corporations of the United
Kingdom have bowed to the authority of the
King's commission, and have surrendered, with-
out reserve, into the hands of the Commission-
ers all the papers and documents of which they
required an inspection or a copy. The borough
to which we have thus alluded as having attained
" a bad pre-eminence" among its most splendid
rivals in corruption, we need scarcely say, is
Leicester. The corporation of this town has a
second time resolved to persevere in the contu-
macious conduct, the audacity and folly of
which we formerly exposed. It will he remem-
bered that their Town Clerk, after submitting to
nearly a week's examination, and after disclosing
or admitting some of the most extraordinary
acts of corporate delinquency which ever met
the public eve, refused at last to exhibit the
accounts and deeds relative to the borough pro- '
perty, by which their malversation might be
substantiated. This refusal was sanctioned by
the corporation itself, whose contumacious
resolution was delivered to the Commis-
sioners ; but, as it pretended to be grounded
on a misrepresentation of facts, which the
Commissioners charitably ascribed to their
agent, the latter adjourned their court for a week,
to allow the parties an opportunity of reconsi-
dering their decision, and of submitting to the
terms of the Royal Commission. Their second
refusal is a repetition of their Tory and loyal
contempt for the King's authority. The deed
which they were at first required to exhibit,
before they proclaimed their disobedience, was
a political mortgage of 10,000/., given on tine
borough property to defray the expenses of an
election struggle. But this is not the only
enormity of the kind of which they have been
guilty. It is now in evidence that they have
alienated 34,800/. of real property belonging to
the borough, of which no account can be ob-
tained, and that they have besides incurred a
further debt of 14,000/. ! On the production
connected
of the accounts with Sir Thomas
White's charity last session to the House of
the way, was only effected
Commons—which, by
by a threat of being called to its bar—it was
•
found that this fund was mixed up with
other funds, while the corporators pretended
that they could not separate them. This charity,
in which, at least, they surely cannot pretend to
have any private property, and which they
can only manage as trustees, is thus thrown
into a common stock, liable to the same mis-
management as the property of the • borough it-
self,
which we have stated to be alienated or I
mortgaged to such an extent ! ! As this is the I

only corporation in the United Kingdom which
has had the hardihood to resist the King's corn-
mission,—as even this refractory body is afraid
to avow its undisguised contumacy, fixing upon
its dislike td publicity as the reason for refusing
the required documents,—and as, in the interval
allowed for reflection, it. has itself ceased to be
unanimous in its disobedience (a schism having
manifested itself among its members), it would
be superfluous in us to go over again the grounds
on which the authority of the commission rests.
We formerly cited the preamble to a commission
of William and Mary, founded on an Act of
Parliament, for inquiring into the state of the
Royal burghs of Scotland, in which the principle
is broadly laid down and formally asserted, that
the King has the right to appoint commissioners
to inquire into the condition and management
of the funds of all municipal bodies. All cor-
porations, particularly municipal corporations,
are the creatures of the Crown ; their lands,
funds, tolls, market dues, and other sources of
revenue, were often conferred along with
their charters, and always made, subject
to the same conditions as those of the
property so conferred, for the benefit of
the whole citizens or burgesses. We know of
no corporation created by the Crown for public
purposes whose management may not be in-
quired into, and whose funds may not be directed
to be applied to their original objects by a com-
' mission from the Crown. In the recent coin-
' mission of George IV. under the Great Seal
for inquiring into the state, conduct, and reve-
' trues of the Scotch Universities, the King, not
in his character as vizier of these institutions of
learning, but in his capacity of creator and su-
perintendent of corporate bodies, directed the
Commissioners to inquire into every part of their
management, and not a professor's salary, or a
bursar's pension, or the management of a library
or museum, in these four literary corporations,
has been left unnoticed or unexamined in
their admirable report. Every college deed
was produced, and the disposal of every acre
of landed property accounted for. But
even though there were any legal doubt upon
the question, it is difficult to conceive what the
corporators of Leicester can gain by contesting
its authority and delaying the production of their
accounts. They must see that the Parliament
which recommended the commission to his Ma-
jesty will not allow its progress to be thus ar-
rested, or its efficiency thus baffled. The Town
Clerk, if necessary, will be summoned to give, at
the bar of the House of Commons, his reasons
for refusing to comply with the double mandate
of the Crown and the Parliament. In the mean
time the accounts must be produced, and the
mortgage of the corporate property to defray
election expenses must be displayed before the
whole world, unless (as happened in the Scotch
burgh of Dunbar a few years ago) a corporate
tire opportunely comes to consume the leaves of
the book on which such transactions are recorded.
—Times.
We extract from the Leicester Herald a se-
cond series of resolutions passed "at a Common
Hall" of the Corporators of the borough of
Leicester, when on Monday last the self-elect
determined to adhere to the refusal of their
accounts, and so far to resist the legal and
reasonable authority of the Corporation Corn.
mission. The Corporators judiciously preserve
their pretended respect for the Royal powers of
the Commission, but persevere in their objections
to the mode of inquiry and the publicity of ex-
amination adopted by the Commissioners. The
Corporators allege, in substance, that the public
mode of investigation subjects them to the dis-
respect of the burgesses ; but by public rumour
!he closeness of their Corporate Constitution,
ind the secret and illegal nature of their muni-
cipal and political acts— in their notorious crea-
tion of the 800 honorary freemen, and in the
mis-appropriation of the trust property of the
burgesses to party and political objects—have
long deprived the Aldermen of the confidence
of the inhabitants of Leicester. The sagacity of
the Corporators is not very conspicuous on a
comparison of their two sets of resolutions passed
in September and October. In the latter docu-
ment they appear determined to record in a Pro-
tocol every possible argument in their justifies-
Lion ; and among their manifold objections is a
moral dread of the perjury of burgesses, and
!he supposed impunity of false oaths. This
refined objection clearly denotes that the Learned
Recorder or Town Clerk, or the two function-
aries of the corporation together, prepared this
elabbrate document. What can the corporation
of Leicester seek to gain by its solitary and ab-
surd conduct ? Surely the public, who read in
die country papers the general respect paid to
the commission everywhere, except in Leicester,
will believe that the corporation of the latter
borough has peculiar reasons for concealing ac-
counts. If the Leicester corporation is as pure
as it would have us believe, the corporators are
adopting a destructive course of conduct, which
must involve them in deep suspicion. If they
have committed themselves, and abused their
trust, how will they conceal their misconduct,
or avoid ultimate exposure and legal punish-
ment ? The position of professing obedience
to the commission, and assuming the right of
controlling the procedure of the commission, is
truly absurd. If the commissioners had not
adopted publicity of inquiry, could they have
satisfied local or public opinion ; or, indeed,
,:ould they have attained the objects of the
Royal Commission ? The fact is, that the
motives of the Leicester corporation contu-
macy are palpable : the corporators have plunged
themselves in debt, and illegally alienated the
public property. The members trust to the chap-
ter of accidents to preserve themselves from ex-
posure. But they will be grievously disappointed.
The Legislature never can or will sanction such
malversations of public trust, or support the soli-
tary resistance of the Leicester Corporators to an
authority obeyed in all the other municipal
towns. We do not notice the editorial personal
abuse of the Commissioners, by the Leicester
Herald. Such vulgar and calumnious com-
mentaries can make no public impression but
against the Corporators they are intended to
support. We do not doubt that the Leicester-
shire liberal Journals will sufficiently answer
these secondary and irrelevant objections to the
conduct of the Commission ; and we are satis-
fied, especially as the last Common Hall Reso-
lutions are not stated to be agreed to " unani-
mously," that the Leicester Corporation is not ,
on good terms with itself ' • and we are confident
that its members will ere long see cause to regret
the folly of their refusal to produce roduce accounts.
They may gain a teifiporary reprieve, but the
execution of the public sentence must be soon
carried into effect. In the meantime the sub-
mission of the Provincial and City Corporations
to the authority of the Commission will secure
tor their members the better opinion of the coun-
try. If the Corporators of Leicester are resolved

to be an exception to the general rule, they must
abide the consequences.—Morning Chronicle.

The Revising Barristers have now nearly
completed their circuits, and, though there are
some instances to the contrary, the general result
Of this year's registration of votes will, we appre-
hend, exhibit a considerable falling off in point
of numbers, as compared with that of last year,
which latter, it must be remembered, was said
to amount to little more than half of the actual
constituency created by the Reform Act. For
this result, so contrary to what might have been
reasonably hoped and expected, various reasons
may be assigned. Among others, the neglect
of overseers in making out the lists and passing
them through the necessary forms, and the dis-
qualification of so many persons, owing to the
non-payment of rates or taxes ; added to which
an indifference to the matter has been found to
prevail to an extent scarcely to be credited. In
every point of view, such a state of things is
greatly to be deplored. Next to the extinction
of rotten boroughs, the great advantage to be
derived from the Reform Act was the creation
of a new and enlarged constituency, by means of
which the Members of the House of Commons
might become, what they had not hitherto been,
the real representatives of the people. As far
as this object has been hitherto defeated by a
neglect of mere forms, the Government are, we
think, to blame. As their favourite and pet
child they were hound, we think, to look more
narrowly and attentively to its movements, and
not have left it to go alone before it had learned
to walk. It was too much to expect that overseers,
without instructions and without reward, would
unravel and set in motion all the intricacies of
an Act of Parliament ; and it was, therefore, we
apprehend, the bounden duty of the Government
to have taken the proper and necessary measures
to set the machine a-going, and to watch and
direct its movements. Lord John Russell, for
instance, as the official parent of the Act, and
who, probably, is not overworked in his own
particular department, might have made it his
business to furnish the necessary forms and in-
structions required upon !he occasion, and for
want of which so much difficulty and temporary
disfranchisement have arisen. That there are
some defects which it will require the aid of
Parliament to remove we can readily ima-
gine, nor can we at all impeach the delay
which has up to this time taken place. The
experience of two years' registration was ne-
cessary to enable the Barristers to point
out with accuracy what the defects in the ma-
chinery of the Act really are ; but the Revisers,
both of this year and the last, should now be
called upon to report them, which reports should
be forthwith referred to competent persons to
condense, as well as to frame the necessary re-
medies. The non-payment of rates and taxes
up to a particular period forms the sweeping
head of disqualification in towns and boroughs ;
and both its policy and justice call, we think,
for reconsideration. Though no friends to uni-
versal suffrage, we are warm advocates for
opening the doors of suffrage as wide as the
spirit of the Reform Act intended. The spirit
of the Act certainly is that liability to pay should
form the ground of qualification ; and the letter,
therefore of the Act would, we think, be more
in accordance with the spirit, if the being rated,
and not the having paid the rates or taxes, were
made the ground of qualification. The revenue
and parochial laws furnish ample means for
compelling payment of taxes and rates, without
a forfeiture of so high a nature as that of the
elective franchise being brought in aid of their
powers.—Morning Herald.
The Revenue Returns for the Quarter just
ended present a decrease upon the Quarter of
253,2761. ; and on the Year, as compared with
the Year ending in October, 1832, of 380,4201.
Taken in conjunction IA ith the pernicious system
which leaves no surplus in the public Treasury
beyond the current demand upon its means, this
is unquestionably a state of things which cannot
be regarded with much satisfaction. At the same
time we are free to admit that, under the incubus
of so miserable a financial Administration as that
to which the resources of the country have now
for a considerable period been subjected, it is a
matter of congratulation, as well as surprise, that
its energies have been no further crippled or re-
pressed. The deficit will be found, indeed,
chiefly under those heads of income with which
the meddling of the Government and the opera-
tion of its principles have been most direct.
The causes alluded to by the Ministerial
prints, in their attempts to bolster up the ac-
counts as producing the extraordinary decrease
in the Customs revenue, are totally inadequate
for that purpose. They forget, however, to
press into their service the mass of legislation
recently applied to this department by the " fruc-
tifying" Vice-President of the Board of Trade,
and which was hurried through Parliament at
the fag end of the Session in a manner defying
all investigation or discussion. We think it more
than probable that a considerable portion of the
loss to the revenue may have been occasioned
by those measures. Upon the whole we repeat
that there is ground for sincere congratulation in
the fact that, in spite of Lord Althorp's Bud-
gets, and the general financial blundering of
Whig officials, the point of bankruptcy has not
yet actually been reached. The improvement in
the Excise revenue, as an index of the increased
means of consumption on the part of the peo-
ple, is a fact in which all parties must rejoice.—
Morning Post.

One of the most common effects of milliners'
apprentices working so constantly is a disease in the eye,
which leads to blindnes.

COMPARATIVE MORTALITY IN ENG-
LAND.—Froin tables of the persons, and their ages, buried
in the districts treated of from 1813 to 1830, prepared
for the Factory Commission Report, it appears that of
those who attain 100 and upwards, Rutland, a healthy
county, produces 2 ; London 102 ; Essex, a maisby
county, 28 ; Chester, which is old and closely built, but
not manufacturing, 7 ; Norwich, old and closely built,
and m inufacturing, with but few or no factories, S
Carlisle, partly manufacturing and partly spinning, from
1818 to 1830, 1 ; Carlisle, front 1779 to 1787 inclusive,
according to Dr. Heysham, 4 ; Bradford (Yorkshire)
worsted spinning the staple, 2 ; Macclesfield, silk throw-
ing and spinning, 5 ; Preston, cotton spinning, &e., 3 ;
Wigan, manufacturing and spinning, 1 ; Bury (Lanca-
shire), cotton spinning. &c., 1 ; Stockport, the same, 5 ;
Leeds (town), manufacturing, and woollen, flax, and silk
spinning, 3 ; Bolton-le-Moors, cotton spinning, &c., 2
Holbeck, flax-spinning, 1. There have died in there
various places under five, in Rutland, 1,707, the metro-
polis 172 409 Essex, 29,483 ; Chester, 3,107, Norwich,
8,838, Carlisle 3.395 (do. according to Dr. Heyshatn's
perb fl 812), Bradford 3,058, Macclesfield 4,230, Preston
Wigan 3,8,11, Bury 4,930, Stockport 5,732'
Leeds 9,708, Bolton 8.563, Holbeck 1,010. The num-
b4ee6re9dos9f, deaths between 80 and 40 (the medium calculation),
has been in Rutland 336, in the metropolis 37,573, Essex
6,296, Che,ter 658, Norwich 1,120, Carlisle 429 (Dr.
Heysham's period of calculation 89), Bradford 346, Mac•
td esfiel
745,
d 6725, Preston 615, Wigan 451, Bury 578,
Stockport
Leeds 1,083, Bolton 1,082, and Holbeck
118. In every 10,000 persons buried there were in the
metropolis 4,580 under 20, 6,111 under 40, and 3,889
lived to 16 and upward,. In Leeds there were burl"
under 20, 6,213 ; under 40, 7,441 ; lived to 40 and
upwards, 2,559.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HO USE.

BRITISH LEAF.—Yesterday being the day ap-
pointed by the LORD MAYOR for hearing evidence
to prove that the 11,000 pounds weight of British
10,f seized by the Excise upon The premises of Mr.
Heck should not he consumed with fire, the Justice-
room was crowded by mercantile men at eleven
o'clock.

Mr. Adolphus said that his course was a very
simple one. He had only to prove that the seizure
of something in imitation of tea had been made, and
to call upon the Lord Mayor to issue his order for
the destructi.on of such article.
The warrant was then read.
Sergeant Bompas and Mr. Phillips took several
objections which were overruled.
Sergeant Bompas intimated that when the first
seizure of the leaf was made, nearly twelve months
ago, it was understood that the Lord Mayor was to
ask the opinion of the Attorney-General as to the le-
gality or illegality of fabricating the article, and that
according to the judgment of that authority would
the Board act. The broad arrow, which had, he
said, been put upon the " British leaf" at that
period, was subsequently removed, and the irresis-
tible inference to be drawn from that fact was, that,
the opinion of the Attorney-General being against
that of the Solicitor of the Excise, the idea of pro-
secuting was abandoned.
Mr. Dean, upon being questioned as to this
matter, admitted that the broad arrow had been re-
moved, but could say nothing as to any understand-
ing entered into by the Excise as to future proceed-
: ings. The manufactory had been allowed to pro-
ceed ever since until the great seizure was made.

The beadle of the parish proved that the pre-
mises in which the seizure was made was in the
parish of St. Dunstan in the East.
Mr. Faraday had within a few days examined the
leaves of which the samples produced by the Ex-
cise were composed, and found them not to be tea-
leaves.—(Laughter.) He found amongst them
elm-leaves, sloe-leaves, a wing of the seed of maples,
and rose-leaves. There were sloe-stones amongst
the sarnoles. He was but little of a botanist.

The LORD MAYOR —Do you consider sloe-leaves
pernicious ? Mr. Faraday—l do not know it. I
consider the sloe-leaves to be of the class of plants
which are pernicious, but I do not know that they
are. Some plants which are in their wild state per-
nicious are in their cultivated state wholesome.

Mr. G. T. Burnett, Professor of Botany in King's
College, had examined the samples, which consisted
of the leaves of elm, sloe-leaves, apple-leaves,
poplar-leaves, and willow-leaves. The sloe and
willow leaves were the most numerous. He had
no objec,ion to a cup of the infusion now and then,
but he objected to the ordinary use of it. He spoke
as a medical man as well as a botanist. He did not
think it wholesome. It was astringent and reputed
unwholesome.

The LORD MAYOR—Were there any leaves to
neutralize the astringent in it ? Witness—Back-
thorn i 3 of an opposite tendency, but I observed
little of that. There was a strong resemblance be-
, ween the leaf and tea.

Sergeant Bompas—ls not green tea more astrin-
gent than the infusion of these leaves?—Nu.

Sergeant Bompas—Would you give green in
quantities ?—YeA.
Sergeant Bompas—And you don't think that it
would do people any injury ?—No.
Mr. Phillips—Would not green tea taken four
or five times in the day do mischief ?—Any food
taken so often would injure.

Re-examined—He knew that those leaves con-
tained some of the most active poison in the vege-
table kingdom—prussic acid.
Sergeant Bompas—Do you say that there is the
slightest portion of prussic acid in sloe-leaves when
they are dried?
Witness did not answer this question in an audi-
ble manner.

Several witnesses proved the leaf strongly re-
sembled tea.

Sergeant Bompas then contended that the proof
had altogether failed; that the conduct of the Ex-
cise was oppressive in the extreme ; that the be-
verage, instead of being noxious, was wholesome;
and that the Act was not in the most distant de-
gree infringed; and he then called
Doctor Birkbeck,who had examined theßritish leaf,
and could discover in it nothing at all injurious to ihe
stomach. It was not as astringent or aromatic as
tea. He had taken some of it down to Waltham-
stow, and tried it with his family for a week. He
considered that sloe-leaves were wholesome; an
opinion which had been held by Dr. Witherby and
Dr. Woodfield.

The LORD MAYOR—If you saw any of your
patients take the leaves instead of tea would you
say it was not injurious? Witness—No; but if I
found them taking tea I might say .omething of the
kind.—(A laugh.)
Mr. John F. Daniel, professor of chymistry in
King's College had examined the British leaf, se-
ezindant artent, and had not the least objection to
drink the infusion. There was not the slightest
particle of prussic acid in it. He was convinced
there was nothing deleterious in the sample. He
should say that green tea was more astringent. It
was quite impossible that after steaming, prussic
acid could be in the leaf.

Mr. Pereira, who had been long at the Alders-
gate-street Dispensary, said that there was nothing
injurious in the British leaf, and not a particle of
prussic acid in it.
Mr. Hume, the chymist, stated to the same effect.
Mr. Sergeant Bompas produced the specifica-
tion of the patent, which was read by Mr. Hobler.
Mr. Adolphus then replied. He stated that the
question was whether the public were to be de-
frauded by the sale of such abominable trash instead
of tea, and that the patent could not justify the sale
or fabrication of it.

The LORD MAYOR retired with the City Solici-
tor and Mr. Hobler to the private room, and on his
return stated that he and his advisers were unani-
mously of opinion that the British leaf ought to be
condemned.—Condemned accordingly.

Mr. Heale signified that he should apply to Par-
liament.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Mrs. Marsh, the wife of a house-agent residing
in Park-street, yesterday, appeared on a warrant
charging her with assaulting a Mr. Hay.
Complainant was the partner of Mr. Marsh. Wed-
nesday morning he went out in a gig with one of
the clerks, to transact some of the business of the
firm. On his return he found his drawers and all
his wearing apparel put out in the yard, and the
defendant declared he should leave the house, and
commenced a very unladylike attack upon him, by
spitting in his face. She then kicked and struck
him, and attempted to fling different articles at him.
Mrs. Marsh said that her husband had nothing to
do with the business. She was the person who
managed everything. Her husband knew nothing
about it, and when people came they addressed her
on business, and not her husband. Mr. Hay was no
partner of hers, and she was determined she 'wouldn't
have him in the house. She had not assaulted him
until he had put his arm round her waist, to put her
on one side.

Mr. CONANT inquired whether it was Mr. Marsh's
wish that Mr. Hsy should leave the hou.e.
Mr. Marsh knows nothing about it," observed
the lady. " He's no partner of mine, and he shan't
be there." Here the lady commenced abusing the
complainant, whose conduct was mild and gentle-
manly.

Complainant said that Mr. Marsh wished his re-
turn to the house.

Mr. CONANT and Mr. HALLS, having consulted
together, ordered the defendant to find bail to keep
the peace towards Nit.. Hay.
She was removed in custody, to be committed in
default of producing the necessary securities.
A young woman, named Randall, servant in the
family of a distinguished Nobleman, was charged
with secreting the birth of her infant.
The principal evidence
.was Mr. Sawyer, a sur-

peon, who proved the recent birth of the child,
which was found, a few hours afterwards, concealed
between the sacking and bed in her sleeping-room,
quite dead.
A fellow-servant stated an admission made to her
by the prisoner, that she was delivered of the chill
while standing before the fire in her own room.
Mr. sawyer was of opinion that the birth of the
child might have so occurred.

The prisoner, who was in a very weak and lan-
guid state, declined saying anything, and was fully
committed for trial.
MAR YLEB ONE.

Caroline Warbrook, an intere,ting little child,
about ten years of age, was yesterday brought before
the sitting magistrate, Mr. HOSKINS, by police-con-
stable S 36, who stated that about ten o'clock the
previous night he found her siting on the step of a
door in the Kilburn road, when, having a,certaitied
that she was destitute, he took her to the station-
house.

Mr. HOSKINS (to the girl)—Where do you be-
long to ? Girl—Hastings, Sir.
Mr. HosKiNs—Where are your parents ? Girl—
My father is dead, Sir, and my mother ran away
from me at Hastings about six months ago.
Mr. HOSKINS—How did you get here ? Girl—
Begged my way up, and have ever since subsisted
on the charity of strangers.
Mr. HosKINs then desired the policeman to take
the child to the overseers at Hampstead, in whose
parish she had been found, anti to request them to
take care of her till the truth of her statement was
ascertained.