The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-25 00:00:00

ST. PANCIMS WORKHO USE.

A copy has been palished of the dietary tables of St.
Pancras workhouse, Middlesex, as revised August
20, 1850, together with a statement of the
annual receipts and expenditure. It appears that
the diet allowed to able - bodied adults is as
follows:—Breakfast, 6 oz. bread, and (men) 1 pints
(women) 1 pint of mik porridge. Dinner on Tues-
day, Thursday, and Sunday, 6 oz. cooked beef, 12 oz.
cooked potatoes, and 1 pint table beer. On Mon-
day, 12 oz. suet pudding. On Wednesday and
Friday, men 1 pints, women 1 pint of soup.
On Saturday the clinker consists of 1 pint of Irish
stew and 1 pint of tabl, beer. The supper provided is
either 6 oz of bread and 2 oz. cheese, or 6 oz. of
bread and 1 pint of milk porridge, together with a pint
of table beer. Mothers and nurses with children at the
breast receive 1 pint of porter daily, and rice, sago, or
arrow-root at the discretion of the matron. The aged and
infirm in the workhouse receive both for breakfast and
supper, 5 oz. of bread, t oz. of butter, and a pint of tea,
dinner consists of the sate material given to able-bodied
adults, varied according to circunstances. The dietary
for children contains rice or bread pudding, milk and
water, treacle, beef-tea, ke., proportionately to their age
or constitution. The infirmary and sick dietary is
regulated according to the condition of the patient, who
receives full diet, half diet, low diet, or milk diet, as
circumstances may require. The distribution of beer,
wine, spirits, &c., is made at the discretion of the me-
dical officer. The total receipts on account of poor-rates
in the parish of St. Pancras, from the 26th March to
29th September, 1850, arsounted to 41,3561. is. Bd. The
payments were :—Expenses attending the maintenance
of the poor in the workhouse, 5,2071. 6s. ; repairs of
house, furniture, &C., 2,740/. 12s. Bd. ; miscellaneous
expenses, 538/. 19s. ed. • medical department,
5061. 10s. 7d.; expenses Of the poor out of the
workhouse—relief to settled and unsettled poor, 7,972/.
17s. 50.; roads, 1,7861. 13s. 11d.; highways, 1691.35.
9d.; expenses charged on the poor-rate, 10,1331. 19s.
3d.; salaries, 2,006/. 12s. 2d.; law expenses, &c., 781.
93. 4d.; sundries, 393/. 7e.; total expenses, 31,3341.
12s. Oil To deposit account of treasurers at ia-
terest, 8,0001.; balance in hand, 2,0211. 9s. 7id.;
total, 41,3561. ls. 81d. The number of poor in
the workhouse at the date of the report was 1,242;
out-door, 4,849; medical orders, 3,403; deaths, 139;
weekly average of in-door poor, 1,197; out-door ditto,
4,960. On the Bth of March this year, we understand,
the number of out-door poor was 5,300, while at the
same date last year the number was upwards of 6,600.
There is little difference in the number of the in-door
poor, as compared with last year.

A WOMAN SHOT AT 1N LEEDS.
A little before noon, on Friday, a woman, named Wid-
dop, was shot at in Blackman-lane, Leeds. Police-officer
Hales repaired to the place, a sort of lodge-house, where
he found on a table a brace of now pistols, and on the
floor a man, who appeared to be wounded in the side,
and in such a state that he deemed it necessary to have
him forthwith conveyed to the Infirmary. The officer
learned that, a little before the man had fired a pistol
loaded with ball at Mrs. Widdop, the wile of a gardener,
who resides in the lodge-house alluded to. The man's
name is William Scott, a whitesmith, residing in Reuben-
terrace, Little London. Scott, who has been for some
time well acquainted With Mrs. Widdop and her hus-
band, walked into the house of the latter a little after
eleven o'clock; and almost instantly drew from his
pocket a loaded pistol, which he fired off at Mrs.Widdop.
Fortunately the ball did not penetrate the body, but after
passing through Mrs. Widdop's clothes, came in contact
either with her stays' bone or her own ribs, and dropped
from the inside of her apparel upon the floor. The
first person who came to the place was Mr. Kay, a cow-
keeper, of Pleasant Dairy, and on getting to the door
of
Widdop's house ho observed Scott with a pistol in his
hand; supposing that he intended some further mischief,
Mr. Kay did not go in, but as he closed the door he
heard the report of a pistol, and on looking through the
window, he saw Scott fall upon the floor. Mr. John
Rhodes, a neighbour, arrived at the place shortly after-
wards, and found Scott upon the floor in a sitting pos-
ture; he asked him what he had been doing, but received
no answer. On Scott being taken to the infirmary, he
was stripped, when a ball dropped from the inside of his
clothes; blood was oozing from a wound on the left side,
just under the heart, the ball having passed through his
clothing, and penetrated the flesh to the ribs. In his
pockets were found a quantity of gunpowder, some gun-
caps, a mould for making leaden balls, and a screw for
taking the pistols to
pieces, all of wich are quite new, and
have probably been purchased for the occasion. A sur-
geon was called to Mrs. Widdop, and from the exami-
nation made, it is thought that one or more of her ribs
has been broken, but she is not otherwise seriously in-
jured. It is said that Scott bas for some time been in
a desponding state of mind, and that ho had committed
this rash act from some insane impulse.

THE SAILORS' STRIKE AT LIVERPOOL, SATUR-
DAY.—The sailors on strike in this pert still continue to pe-
rambulate the streets in procession. Last night there was a
performance for their benefit at the Amphitheatre. The
house was well filled. Last week the Mayor of Manchester
intimated that they would not be allowed to go round and
solicit subscriptions. On Thursday evening they visited
Ashton, and held a public meeting in the evening, for which
a charge of Id. or 2d. was made for admission, and the money
thus gained was contributed to their maintenance.
THE PADDLE VERSUS THE SCREW.—The recent
arrivals of the Teviot (paddle-wheel steamer) at Southamp-
ton from the Brazils, and the Bosphorus (screw steamer) at
Plymouth from the Cape of Good Hope, afforded a favour-
able opportunity for contrasting the relative performances
of the Cape and Brazil steamers, and the comparative
merits of the screw and the paddle-wheel. The Teviot ac-
complished the voyage from Rio de Janeiro (a distance of
5,241 miles) in 26 days, exclusive of stoppages, being an
average speed of 8} miles per hour; on some occasions, in
moderate weather, a rate of 10/ miles was performed. The
distance from the Cape to England via Sierra Leore, is
about 6,000 miles, and occupied the Bosphorus 33 days, ex-
elusive of stoppages, giving a mean rate of steaming of rather
under 71,4 miles an hour; and exhibiting an average advan-
tage of a little above three-quarters of a mile an hour in
favour of the paddle-wheel ateamer.--Hampshire Indepen-
dent.

IMPERIAL PARLIAME NT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, March 2

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Fivo o'clock.
COUNTY COURTS.

Lord BROUGHAM moved for further 3'eturns re-
lating to the removal of cases from the cola nty courts.
The former returns showed that the writs of c ertiorari to
remove causes into the superior courts a pplied for
had only amounted to one in forty thousand o.ises.
Agreed to.
SALE OF ARSENIC BILL.

The Earl of CARLISLE moved the third reading of
this Bill. He proposed that not only the selre r should
enter the name of the purchaser in a book, but; that the
purchaser should also enter his own name in t Lte same
book. It had been represented that several castes of ac-
cidental poisoning had occurred, and it had therefore
been proposed that arsenic should be coloured. That
might interfere with its use in the arts, bul not
for its use in agriculture; he therefore proposed t hat no
arsenic should be sold in less quantities than ten p ovmds,
except in cases where it was to be used for the arts,
unless it should be coloured with indigo or soot, al id that
no arsenic should be sold to any but a male adult Jerson;
and he should also propose that no arseni, s in a
less quantity than ten pounds should be sold ey:oept in
the presence of a person known to the seller. He
thought it would be better not to clog this Bill by
enacting any regulations with regard to the ether
poisons.
The Bill as amended was read a third time at id passed.
IMPORTATION OF FLOUR.

The Earl of DES ART moved for an acct a tnt for the
years 1849 and 1850, and for the first quarter of the year
1851 respectively, of the number of quarters of wheat,
barley, and oats, and of the number of sacks and
barrels of flour respectively, imported into Ern gland, Ire-
land, and Scotland severally, from the Unite+ i States of
America, from Canada, from France, and fro sa all other
parts of Europe, distinguishing the quanta: )7 of those
articles sent from each country respectively; i ,Iso stating
the number of quarters of wheat to which the entire
number of sacks and barrels from each oou i itry are an
equivalent, stating the difference of cost of freight
between imported flour and imported if heat from
Franco, Canada, and the United States i espectively.
Our millers suffered greatly by the competition of the
French millers, who, by an improved meth i od of con-
structing mills, were enabled to undersell the English
millers.

Earl GREY was disposed to think that the competi-
tion of the French miller would be greatly t the advan-
tage of this country. It was clear tie 3t in conse-
quence of our superior command 01. coal we
could beat all the world in steam machinery,
and now mills were erecting on the most im )roved prin-
ciple, which would enable us to produce a superior
article to the French at a cheaper rate. ' The French
had imposed a high duty on the importation of coal, and
that operated as a bounty to our miller; and the French
miller was confined to one particular ape c ies of corn,
whereas our miller had the range of the woAd; and the
consequence would be that our miller would eventually
distance the world, and that the article wou'A be greatly
improved to'the advantage of the consumer.
Lord STANLEY said that, however excellent and
able might be the argument of the Noble Earl, the fact
was French flour was now coming in.
Earl GREY said the fact was that mills upon the
French principle were now erecting in this country.
With regard to prices, ho had never at tempted to say
what the price of corn or flour would be. Pricey must
always be left to regulate itself.
Earl FITZ WILLIAM considered that ‘we were quite
competent to compete with the millers of France.
The Earl of MALMESBURY complained that we
were inundated with French corn and flour.. The millers
who thought to make fortunes by grinding :foreign corn
had found that they were beat by French millers. At
this moment every attempt was being mad o V) improve
the agriculture of this country. Our corn was ground
by steam, the French was ground by wate r• mills, and,
therefore, we were competing by artificial m ,e ans against
natural power
PETITIONS.

Earl FITZWILLIAM presented severs petitions
against Papal aggression.
The Earl of WINCHILSEA presented s e nteral peti-
tions from various places in England 1 tnd Ireland
against Papal aggression, and praying that, no cardinal
may be suffered to reside in this count !y, that no
person be permitted to publish any be,;!l, that all
monasteries and nunneries be put under inspection,
and that all Jesuits be banished Ihe realm.
Ho trusted that some measure would bts introduced
to prevent persons being immured in monasteries
against their will. It was impossible to r ad the ac-
counts of the cases in the newspapers wit tout feeling
the necessity of some such measure, and 11 a hoped the
N oble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack ill a case--
Lord CAMPBELL rose to order. The No,l-ile Earl was
out of order in alluding to a case which wo .8 at the pre-
sent moment the subject of an inquiry in a court of
justice.
The petitions were then laid on the table.
The Marquis of BREADALBANE presets ted several
petitions against Papal aggression, and !praying for
the enactment of an efficient measure against it.
Several of these petitions were presented frot n. congrega-
tions of the Free Church of Scotland. S o.me of them
prayed that measures might be taken by h es' Majesty's
Government to ensure for Protestants the se.me degree
of toleration in Rome as Catholics enjoyed here.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Afar rh 24.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'c.toek.
NEW MEMBER. _ _

Sir WILLIAM GALLWAY, introduced ky Mr. Henry
Herbert and Mr. A. Stafford, took the oaths and his seat
for Thirsk.
PETITIONS.

A petition was presented by Mr. Alderman and Sheriff
Carden and Mr. Sheriff Hodgkinson, from the Corpora-
tion of London, praying for a revision of the law of
settlement and assessment to the poor-rates, and that
owners and occupiers of property in the City may be
rated according to the value of their holdinws.
A great number of petitions were presence d by Sir R.
INGLIS and other Members against the Pa pal aggres-
sion, grounding the complaints chiefly on its being to-
tally imcompatible with the eajoyment of cir 'A and reli-
gious liberty.
Colonel TYNTE presented petitions from Bridgewater
and other places against the window-tax.
Mr. TUFNELL presented petitions from the Wes-
leyan congregations of Morice-town Chape 1, Morice-
street and Kerr-street, in Devonport, in favour of the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Mr. J. SMITH presented petitions praying ;for a revi-
sion of the system adopted in enforcing the income-
tax, and stating that very improper pers ons were
appointed to collect the duty. Among those iu. Scotland
was a boy scarcely fourteen years of age, who was alto-
gether incapacitated from making the necessary distinc-
tions between the parties assessed.
Mr. MOODY presented sixty petitions, chiefly from
Wesleyan Methodist congregations in different, parts of
the country. against the Papal aggression.
Mr. CAYLEY presented several petitions from the
North Riding of Yorkshire praying for the abolition of
the paper duty.
Mr. CAYLEY also presented several petitio ne from
the same district, complaining of the distress now expe-
rienced by the farmers and their labourers, From the
operation of free trade.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented petitions from Kir-
ton-in-Lindsey, and from Barton-on-Humber, to the
same effect.

Lord BARRINGTON and several other Members
presented petitions against the Papal aggression,.
Lord DRUMLANRIG presented petitions from seve-
ral places in Dumfriesshire, in favour:of the Eceliasiastical
Titles Bill.

Mr. RICE presented petitions, signed by 800 in-
habitants and the Chamber of Commerce of Dover,
stating several objections to the window-tax.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY presented a petition
from Bermondsey, praying for the re-introduction of the
second and third clauses into the Ecclesiastical Titles
Bill.

Mr. REYNOLDS presented a petition from the mem-
bers of the Apothecaries' Hull in Ireland, signed by
the Governor, and sealed with their common seal, pray-
ing that the Medical Charities Bill may not pass ; and
that if it do pass that the tenth clause may be so modi-
fied that it should not injure the medical practitioners
who are members of the hall.

Mr. HUNIE presented petitions from places in Norfolk
in favour of the formation of county financial boards;
also several petitions in favour of the Bill for the sup-
pression of Sunday trading; and several petitions from
different parts of Scotland praying for the repeal of the
Mercantile Marine Bill of last session.
ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL AND PAPAL

AGGRESSION.
A great number of petitions were again presented
upon these subjects.
BIBLE MONOPOLY.
Mr. FIUME having presented several petitions against
the Bible monopoly, moved for the returns of the number
of Bibles which had been printed; and also for returns
of the amount of duty which had been remitted for the
purpose of printing those Bibles.
COLLISIONS OF STEAM-VESSELS.
Mr. fIUME also moved for returns of the number
and consequence of the collisions which had taken place
between steam•vessels at sea.

SPANISH TARIFF.
Mr. G. BANICES gave notice that on Thursday he
should move for returns of the duty levied on British
vessels and goods in Spanish ports, and Spanish vessels
and goods in British porta.

NEWSPAPER STAMPS.
On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the following
returns were agreed to:—Returns of the aggregate
number of stamps issued for newspapers in the year
1850 in England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland re-
spectively. distinguishing the number at one penny and
at one halfpenny; showing the number of London news-
papers, the number of advertisements in them, the rate
and amount of advertisement duty paid by them in
the
year 1850. And similar return as regards the English
provincial, the Scotch, and the Irish newspapers (in
continuation of Parliamentary paper No. 203, Of session
1850).
THE RECENT FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION

IN SCOTLAND.

In reply to Mr. CAYLEY,
Sir G. GREY said he had received no report on this
subject except from the inspectors of collieries in the
district; and the inspectors of mines had no powers to
enforce any particular mode of ventilation upon the ma-
nagers of mines, but only to recommend such, and to see
that whatever mode we; adopted should be
Properly
carr6d out.

THE EXHIBITION.
Mr. K. SEYMER asked the Noble Lord at the head
of the Woods and Forests, whether any of the trees that

MAR CH 25, 1851.