The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-15 00:00:00

THE 8 UN

IRELAND TO THE IRISH.

We learn from the Times that Prince Alert is in
treaty for the purchase of the estates of the late Mr.
(" Cruelty to Animals") Martin, of Galway. From
Saunders's Newsletter the further announcement
is made that " a very influential company has
been formed in England, at the head of which is
represented to be Prince Albert, for the purchase
of lands in this country (Ireland). Their purchases
are expected to be on a most extensive scale,
and persons in their employment are now busied,
obtaining information on the spot, as to the position
and value of various estates." It may be remembered
by our habitual readers that a few weeks ago we ven-
tured to inform the founder of the Crystal Palace that
we bad other work for the master-band of one who
had proved himself so able a journeyman, and that we
called upon him to address himself to the regeneration
of Ireland—an achievement to which we con-
sidered him perfectly competent. Our words,
it will be seen, have not been uttered in vain.
The suggestion was not more apt than the apprehen-
sion has been rapid. The nation, by the anoint-
ment of public opinion, is unanimously crowning the
Prince with the civic coronet of master of this public
work. We earnestly hope that the announcement of
our contemporary rests on some basis more authentic
than an Irish report, which is too often the
result of a mere blank cartridge. We are the
more induced to entertain this expectation, because
the statement is adopted, and carried to a further
circumstantiality, lay the "first journal in Europe, '
and because it carries with it much antecedent
probability. The considerations which we have pressed
upon the attention of statesmen as conditions prelimi-
nary to any overt action in this direction, suggest
themselves therefore at present with more than ordi-
nary urgency. In reference to these Martin estates,
it Las happened to ourselves to know inti-
mately that their acquisition was very strenuously
recommended to a great capitalist, by a party
who understood that the whole could have been ac-
quired for 40s. an acre in fee simple, or at a price of
500,000/. The reply was characteristic, and at the
same time most instructive :—" I can buy the whole
at =3os. an acre, or for 250,0001.; but who will
guarantee me a maximum poor-rate, or insure me
against the whole being swallowed up in feeding
sturdy beggars ?" We intreat these best and most
devoted, because most practical and utilitarian, pa-
triots, to pause before entering pell-mell into this
undertaking ; and to insist upon having an assu-
rance from Government of protection from ex-
cessive local burdens, as an indispensable prelimi-
nary condition of their commencing a work
which can only be successful by being exempted from
subjection to the vicissitudes of eleemosynary mendi-
cancy and the pauperism of universal famine. Here
is a scarecrow that may well frighten the
most enterprising from settling on this field
without the securities upon which we have
insisted. " A single modern instance, " observes
our contemporary of the Atlas, is worth a thousand
saws ;' let us take one from the records
of the Irish Encumbered Estates Court. In the
peerage of that country is inscribed the name of a
family who have heretofore been wealthy in more
than repute. The grandfather and father of the present
Peer enjoyed enormous revenues, and expended be-
tween them 80,0001. in the erection of a baronial man-
sion. Perhaps from this outlay on bricks and mortar,
perhaps from other causes, they transmitted the ancestral
estates, burdened with a mortgage of 50,0001.
When the last heir succeeded to the title he inherited
a considerable estated from a collateral branch, settled
and without encumbrance, together with a prior claim
of 30,0001., upon the paternal properties other-
wise burdened, as we have stated. He had,
therefore, the choice of succeeding to the property
under all contingencies, or of resting contented
with his 30,0001, and his separate estates. As the
lands left by his father were valued at the time at
nearly 130,000/., the heir elected to take the whole.
He resigned his own debt, and became liable for the
50,0001. mortgage, and took possession of the whole
property. But ere long came the potatoe blight,
and the consequent era of distress. The new
peer found his rents melt under his hands, the
rates for relief continued to mount, until they rose
to a nominal sixteen shillings in thappound, and a
real amount for transcending the net receipts from the
rental. He was unprepared—not knowing, unfor-
tunately, that, after all, he was only a manufacturer
—for this call upon his capital. The mortgage in-
terests fell into arrear ; the mortgagee, using his own

legal powers, superseded the accustomed steward by
a ' receiver,' who neither saw nor considered the
exigencies of the case; the tenants were uncared
fur, and, as an inevitable consequence, the whole
enterprise went to rain. The estate now figures among
the lands to be sold by Baron Richards, and will pro-
bably yield scarcely as much as will satisfy the mort-
gage creditor, dragging the noble name of Gort
through the derogations that attend a process in the
Encumbered Estates Court." The shrewd insight of
the capitalist into the real dependencies which sur-

round the subject was, it may here be seen, prophetic.
The correspondence betwQe❑ the Earl of Lucan and
Lord John Russell arises out of, and illustrates, the
practical results of the same policy. The Board of
Guardians contend only for this, that a national cala-
mity should be relieved, not by local, but imperial
resources ; and that there can be no security for
sober calculations of investment, or the fair enjoy-
ment and proper improvement of property, if pauper
relief is to be made so capriciously local, and so
rigidly parochial, as that a proprietor must maintain,
not only the poor on his own, but also those on his
neighbour's estates ; and may at any time find that
all his energy, enterprise, and skill are totally inade-
quate to avert the entire absorption of his means by
hordes of clamorous and idle beggars. We observe
that, besides the larger and more wealthy institution
at the head of which British capitalists are desirous
to have the countenance of the Prince Consort, a
company has bees registered under the provisions of
the Friendly Societies Act, called the " Small Pro-
prietors' Society of Ireland," which proposes to apply
to the acquisition of arable soil for the purposes of
farming, the principle and working machinery of our
English Benefit Building Societies, or rather our
Freehold Land Societies, which buy at wholesale
price large blocks of land, and retail them out in
small parcels to their members also at prime cost.
Mr. Scully, in an elaborate pamphlet, vouches for the

. . .
perfect technical legality of the projects ; and we see
by the calculations in the prospectus that by the ma-
chinery of co-operative capital, good land may be
acquired at 101. per acre in fee simple, so that a
snug little farm of fifteen acres may be transferred
to the frugal hoarder of 1501., made up in
monthly instalments. All these projects and ru-
mours of projects prove that the revival of a yeoman
class who till their own land is the chief topic of the
day ; and that the mutual co-operation and purse-
clubbing of the many is rapidly changing the tenure
and class of landowners. Absenteeism is being vir-
tually starved out or sold up. A new constituency,
resident local, democratic, and independent, will gra-
dually command the entire representation of the
island; and the feudal power and principle will dis-
appear in everything but in name and title. We con-
fidently predict that, under such a system, these
realms are more likely to produce a surplus of food
for other nations, than to require foreign contingents
to supply their own deficiency ; because it is as true
now as it was in the time of Arthur Young, that
" give a man a nine years' lease of a garden, and he
will convert it into a desert ; give him the secure pos-
session of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a
garden." Now a poor-law deprives him, as we have
seen, of that secure possession. Its operation is
capricious and uncertain ; the amount of its demands
upon the household exchequer of the industrious is
purely problematical, inveterately irregular, entirely
beyond all power of reckoning. The poorest son of
toil and industry may find himself called upon, not
only to maintain himself and his large family, but
his neighbours', and that, too, at the very time when
the pinch is greatest upon himself. The nonsense
about local self-government is but a poor answer
to this. Give every householder the right to return
continuing the
v legislators of the kingdom, and " local self-go.
ofe r nrn n"will look after itself without the necessity
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tin g o
ridf
ofavowedly
creating one nuisance another.
We insist upon it thata poor-rate should be national,
noteh jepeajoeshuicahl;eeththaet, indeed, local taxation for public
tion and repair of the prosecution of crime, the construe-
in poor-rate
proportion should
te b e
theadlitieal economics. A
to every sound principle of bridges, &c.,
valuemed sum,
al , is opposed
assessable uniformly
as that, in
property throughout
the kingdom, and so estimaPtso
fund may be
surplusseabuthnedtarincee,graeat
edemoiefanl demand
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absolutelye a
shouldd
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accumulated, prosperity
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defined
able to
made on the resources of
hthehe
calamity and scarcity,
meet it. Such rate should alsoPeholil
maxi-
mum amount, so that every purchaserbe able throughout the kingdom to know
wtiat deduction for public burdens he should k
from the natural value. For another object also shulo4uld4
this principle be adopted. Whenever the cost of sup-
porting the poor encroaches seriouE ly and permanently
upon the resources of the nation—that is to say,
whenever the maximum poor-rate is inadequate to
meet the claims upon the fund, it is high time to de-
vise other means of relief, and a power should be
' given to parishes to remove their surplus pauperism
to your healthy, wealthy, happy, and thinly populated
colonies, where they are wanted, and may become
but for
in-
dependent_,t if they will, or to transplant them to our
"0 tie waste lands, which they may labour and
make productive,
kingdom.
of Ireland, the increase
not only for their own support,
increase of the permanent wealth of the
A noble career opens to the regenerators
and. It IS
should begin Modern the
I them. Modern
they should not
()eve all things important that
improvement,
end. The field is open to
a false start, and that they
enlightened, progres-

Capital_ ...

sive, and philosophical legislation, are not likely to
be resisted with reference to that island, as they are
by the sordid interests and absurd prejudices which
stand in the way of every useful measure in England.
Let Irish planters begin well, and we venture to pre-
dict that the moat sanguine of them will find their
hopes transcended by the realities.— Weekly Dispatch.

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on Oct. 9:—

ASSETS.

Cash in hand ... . . f. 498,058,883 22
Ditto in branch banks ... 124,613,947 0
Bill 3 past due ••• ••• ••• 127,158 13
Bills discounted, but not yet due, of
which 12,644,063 f. Oc. were received
from the Branch Banks 35,421,927 31
Bills in the branch banks ... 58,634,461 0
Advances on coins and ingots... ... 620,800 0
Ditto by the branch banks ... 2,140,700 0
Ditto on French public securities ... 7,961,891 10
Ditto by branch banks... ... 3,310,848 0
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0
I)itto on the loan of 75 millions ... 50,000,000 0
Itentes of the reserve fund ••• 10,000,000 0
Rentes, disposable funds ... ... 42,680,121 28
Investments of the new branch banks in

the public funds ... ... 12,952,725 74
Hotel and furniture of the Bank 4,000,000 0
Real property of the branch banks ... 3,558,874 0
interest in National Discount Bank 200,000 0
Ditto branch banks 108,000 0

Expeuses of administration of the Bank 293,209 13
Ditto at the branchts 3u3,054 0
Miscellaneous ... 321,759 16

LIABILITM S.

L9U5,338,359 7

... f. 67,900,000 0

Ditto of the Branch Banks ... 23,350,000 0
Reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0

Ditto of the branch banks ... 2,980,750 14
R.,serve-immobiliere 4,000,000 0
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 418,070,600 0
Ditto of the branch banks ... 118,351,650 0
Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 8,224,787 27
Account-current with Treasury creditor 83,069,108 97
Various accounts current 119,100,090 48
Ditto in branches ... 29,697,013 0

Bills payable at sight ... 11,556,500 0
Ditto at branches 4,093,412 0
Dividends payabl© 489,744 25
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 7,275 0
Expenses anticipated ... ... 261,782 IS
Discounts, interest, and expenses 1,930,960 5
Ditto of branch banks ... 976,186 0
Re-discounts of the last six months ... 96,733 70
Ditto in branch banks .. ... 227,245 0
Interest on protested bills 540,350 19
Nliscellaneous ... 414,170 84

f. 905,338,359 7
Certified by the Governor of the Bank,
D'Ancouv.

It appears from the preceding account that the cash in
hand bas decreased by 3,000,000 f. The commercial bills
discounted have decreased by 2,300,000 f. The Bank
notes in circulation have increased by 1,300,00 W.
The balance to the credit of the Treasury has de-
creased by 7,400,000 f. Sundry credits have increased
by 1,200,000 f.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY

'IN BE CREED.

far as regards J. La't)—J. Marshall and Jane Allen,
Birmingham, hotel keepers—B. Lloyd and T. Mason,
Cottin&l ham, Yorkshire, coach and harness makers—E.
Ridgway and F. Purser, Sheffield, ironmongers—E.
Lloyd, L. Lloyd, jun., W. J. Lloyd, H. Norman, and C.
W. Tabor, City, bankers (so far as regards C. W. Tabor)
—F. C. Saunders and H. C. Millard, Southamp-
ton, ironmongers—F. H. Garrad, C. Garrad, and
N. Jones, Paddington-street, Marylebone, coach
platers —W. Mason, W. Bodman, and R. W.
Sharp, New London-street, Fenchurch (so far
as regards R. W. Sharp)—J. Greenaway and W.
Wright, Wine Office•court, Fleet-street, wood engravers
—N. Bodiugton and P. Bench, jun., Dudley, Worces-
tershire, millers—J. Davenport and W. Davenport, Bir-
mingham, general factors—J. Turner and A. J.
Worthington, Leek, Staffordshire, silk-manufacturers—
J. F. Puest and J. Wicke, Gower's-walk, Whitechapel,
sugar refiners—J. Storey and J. Bailees, Borwick, Lan-
cashire, tailors—W. Wilson and W. Frackelton, Liver-
pool, wine and spirit merchants—J. Ashton and F. E.
Calton, Leadenhall-market, provision merchants—E.
Lovatt and W. Lovett, Bilston, Staffordshire, grocers—
T. Jukes and B. Blaine, Tisbury, surgeons—W. Hughes
and J. Ingold, Bishop Stortford, well diggers—W.
Roberts and A. F. Wood, Chancery-lane, survey ors
T. Timewell and J. S. Timewell, Dover—J. Bonar, P.
F. Robertson, S. Neave, and J. R. Robertson, Old
Jewry, merchants (so far as regards S. Neave).
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.

Thomas Pitchers, Haeltford-next-Rapham, Norfolk,
shoemaker.
Wiliinm Southgate,Dilham, Norfolk, tea dealer.
Hugh Morgan, Birmingham, draper.
John Wells, Birmingham, retail brewer.
Robert Newland Orton, Birmingham, attorney.

Henry Christy Buller, Birmingham eating-houso keeper.
Samuel Giles, Birmingham, licensed victualler.
Elizabeth Grey, Bristol, grocer.
Robert Dy ball, Great Massingham, Norfolk, machine
maker.
John Warrington, Blytho Marsh, Staffordshire, china
dealer.
Robert Kirkwood Hood, Broughton, Lancashire.

Oakley Brighten, Launceston, Cornwall, inn-keeper.
Robert Kirkwood, Broughton, Lancashire.
David Seaman, Swaffham, Norfolk, publican.
Henry Hack, Walsall, Staffordshire, grocer.
Stephen Sully White, Herne Bay, Kent, coal merchant.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
W. Buchanan, Glasgow, shawl printer, to meet
within the Globe Hotel, Glasgow, Oct. 20, and Nov. 10,
at twelve.

J. Boyd, Glasgow, commission merchant, to meet
within the Star Hotel, Glasgow, Oct. 20, and Nov. 10,
at twelve.

A. Dallas, Glasgow, coach builder, to meet within
the Globe Hotel, Glasgow, Oct. 17, and Nov. 7, at
twelve.

A. Christy and D. Christy, Glasgow, soap manufac-
turers, to meet within the Buck's Head Hotel, Glasgow,
Oct. 21, and Nov. 14, at one. _ .

D. Stark, Glasgow, wholesale grocer, to meet within
the Buck's Head Hotel, Glasgow, Oct, 20, and Nov. 10,
at twelve.

J. Taylor, Glasgow, merchant, to meet within
Whyte's Temperance Hotel, Glasgow, Oct. 20, and
Nolo- 10, at twelve.
joie M'Call, Sybella Jackson, and Eleanor Pater-
son, Edinburgh. straw bonnet makers, to meet within
Dowell's Salo Rooms, Edinburgh, Oct. 21, and Nov. 13,
at twelve.

W. Jackson White, Glasgow, merchant, to meet
within the Buck's Head Hotel, Glasgow, Oct. 22, and
Nov. 19, at one.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct 14.
(Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD.)

IN RE SALTER AND EVANS.

The bankrupts were described as tailors, and bad
carried on business in Upper King-street, Blooms-
bury, and Cornhill. This wag the certificate meeting.
Mr. Lawrance appeared for the bankrupt Salter,
Mr. Linklater for the assignees, and Mr. Ripon for a
creditor.

Mr. LAWRANCE said that the bankrupt Evans was
suffering from an accident, and it was suggested that
there should be an adjournment. The only question
was whether Salter's certificate should be adjourned.
Mr. LINKLATER said the assignees were perfectly
ready to go into the case.
Mr. RIPON, on the part of an individual creditor,
applied that the matter should be adjourned, in order
that both bankrupts might be present to explain cer-
tain matters face to face.

Mr. Liwitericn said his client would not be preja.
diced by an adjournment for three months.
Adjournment for three months ordered, and pro
tection granted.

The bankrupt, I. Creed, innkeeper, Chadwell St
Mary, Tilbury Fort, obtained a certificate of the se,
cond class without opposition.

IN RE IS46TEHEAD AND M.TT.'

The bankrupts were rectifiers in Lambeth. This
was an adjourned examination. The last examination
was adjourned for the production of one Bowskill.
Mr. MICHAEL, for the assignees, said nothing had
been heard of him up to this day, and the commis-
sioner before whom the last examination took place
said it was necessary that Bowskill should be produced.
Mr. Wilkins appeared for Whitehead the elder and
Whitehead the younger, and Mr. Smith for Wyatt.
The COMMISSIONER said there was nothing which
he had heard to-day to alter the opinion with regard
to the necessity of producing Bowskill, the production
of Bowskill being necessarily imposed upon the bank-
rupts. The transactions with him being so shortly
before the bankruptcy, it was necessary they should
be inquired into before the bankrupts passed. He
(the Commissioner) could not draw any distinction
between the bankrupts till all the facts were before
the Court. The better course would be that each
bankrupt should have protection for a month, and the
examination be adjourned sine die.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
William Wilmhurst and George Cousins were
charged with having robbed Esther Hooper of a
watch. The prosecutrix, an old woman, keeps a
grinder's shop in Artillery-lane, and on i'ednesday
Cousins walked into the place and asked for a half-
penny worth of nails. While she was serving the
nails she heard her kitten "bawl out and spit," and
looking into the parlour she saw Wilmshurst treading
upon little puss. Suddenly he darted out of the house
with the watch, which was in a stand, and was fol-
lowed by Cousins, who left the nails behind him.
The poor woman in vain ran after the thieves. On
the same evening Cousins sold the watch for Bs. to a
porter, whom he and his companion met and told
they were tradesmen out of work. The prisoners
were two days afterwards apprehended by Jarvis, one
of the most active of the City detective police, and as
the officer was taking them to the Mansion-house,
Wilmshurst acknowledged that he had stolen the.
watch while Cousins was occupying the old woman's
attention about the nails.
The prisoners were committed for trial.
GUILDHALL.
Catherine Samson, describing herself as an un-
fortunate young girl, was placed at the bar before.
Alderman Sir R. W. Carden, charged with stealing
a gold watch, value 101., from the person of Mr..
James Malkie, of Cork.
Prosecutor said I was walking down Chancery-
lane last night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, when I
met the prisoner, and I lost my watch.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—A nd what do you, charge the,
prisoner with ? Prosecutor—Why, Sir with taking;
my watch.
Sir R. W. CANDEN—Did. you see her take it ?
Prosecutor—No, Sir, but I know she is the person
who took it.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—Did she speak to you ? Pro-
secutor—Well, Sir, perhaps I had a little drop in my
head, for I do not recollect what she said to me..
Sir R. W. CARDENHOW do you know she took
your watch ? Prosecutor—l could not swear to it.
I know the chain was round my neck, and tb e swivel
gave way.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—Did you feel any jerk? Pro-
secutor—Why, of course I must have felt it.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—That will not do ; did you
feel a jerk ? Prosecutor—Certainly ; but I don't re-
member it.—(Laughter.)
Sir R. W. CARDEN—Did you speak to the girl ?
Prosecutor---I believe I did.
Sir It. W. CARDEN—You said that perhaps you
had a little in your head—pray what had you been
drinking ? Prosecutor—Some oysters (Great
laughter)—and some ale, Sir.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—How much ale ? Prosecutor
—I don't know the name of it, Sir.—(Laughter.)
Sir It. W. CARDEN—I did not ask you for the
name. Did the prisoner drink with you ? Prose-
cutor—l am not sure; but she was with me when I
was drinking at Pearson's, in Cursitor-street. I can't
remember how much I had, for I had been in a public-
house in Holborn previously.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—What had you to drink there ?
Prosecutor—Some oysters also—(Laughter)—and
some ale, but I can't recollect how much.
Sir R. W. CARDEN-110'N many public-houses had
you visited before that ? Prosecutor—l really can't
tell—(Laughter)—l had been all about town.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—Then you do not know any-
thing of the affair at all ? Prosecutor—l do not, Sir.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—N or the prisoner ? Prosecu-
tor—No, Sir. But I know the girl at the bar.
Prisoner—Did you not tell the inspector at the
station that you had never seen me before ? Prose,
cutor—l did say so.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—Tb.en what do you mean by
swearing here that you know her ? Prosecutor—No
more I do know the girl--that is, I knew her then.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—You appear to recollect no-
thing of what has transpired; Pray,
.are you sober
now ? Prosecutor—l believe I am.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—I suppose you are not sure of
that—are you ? Prosecutor--No, Sir.--(Laughter.)
Sir R. W. CARDEN—Ha ve you recovered your
watch ? Prosecutor—No, Sir. I wish I had; I
wouldn't be here.
• Sir R. W. CARDEN—And now tell me what you
are by trade ? Prosecutor—Nc,thipg, Sir.

Sir E. W. CARDEN—What are you, then ? Pro-
secutor—l am a gentleman, living on my means.
Sir E. W. GARDEN—Then you ought to know
better.

The officer here said that he had found the handle
of the watch near the spot indicated by the prose-
cutor, who was so intoxicated that he was unable to
give any information 0.3 to the person who had stolen
his watch. Witness apprehended the prisoner merely
on suspicion. He had made inquiries, and found that
the prosecutor had been drinking at Pearson's, in
Cursitor-street ; but the landlady positively declared
the prisoner was not with him at all in her house.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—There is no evidence against
the girl, and I must therefore discharge her.
Prosecutor—Very well, Sir, I have no objection.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—And you will lose your watch.
Prosecutor—l suppose so.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—YOU see, Mr. Malkie, this is
all the effects of getting drunk.
Prosecutor—l admit it is very improper.
Sir R. W. CARDEN—It certainly is. However, the
loss of your watch is a good penalty for your indis-
cretion, and I hope it will be a lesson to you, that
when you stray again from home you will not forget
that you are a gentleman of independent property, and
not get drunk.—(Laughter.)
The prisoner was then discharged, and the prosecu-
tor was seen inquiring most anxiously for the re-
porters, as he was afraid his friends in Curk would
hear of him through their means.
MARLBOI?OUGII-STREET.

lgnatz Griller, a printer, was yesterday charged
with defrauding Susannah Dixon of a half-sovereign
and 103.
The prosecutrix stated that she was a national
schoolmistress, and resided at No. 42, John-street,
Tottenham-court-road. About six weeks ago she
lent the prisoner about 41., and on the 29th of Sep-
tember last he came to her and told her he was going
to pay her 10s. off the 41. He then gave her the medal
produced, which she thought was a sovereign, and
she gave it to her assistant to procure change, and
when she came back the prisoner took the change,
consisting of a half-sovereign and 103., and left the
place without giving witness the 10s. he had
promised.
Ann Austin, an assistant to the last witness, proved
changing the coin produced, and giving the change to
the prisoner.
Susannah Webb, 6, Little Howland-street, confec-
tioner, deposed that on the 29th of September the
medal produced was brought to her by last witness,
and she gave her a half-sovereign and 10s. in silver.
She put the medal, which she thought was a sove-
reign, in the teapot in the parlour ; no one went there
but herself, till about half an hour after, when she
required change, and took it to the Bull's Head, in
Tottenham-court-road, where it was refused.
Drake, 122 E, proved taking the prisoner into cus-
tody.
Hayes, 82 E, said, about fifteen days ago he took
the prisoner into custody for another offence. He
then searched him, and found upon him 16 medals
similar to the one produced, bearing on the obverse
side the Queen's head, and on the reverse a man on
horseback, surrounded by the words, " the way to
Hanover."

The prisoner, who seemed to treat the matter very
slightly, denied all knowledge of the coin being
worthless. He was a foreigner, and not well ac-
quainted with English money. The prosecutrix, to
whom he formerly paid his addresses, must know that
he did not intend any fraud.
The defendant was committed for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Samuel Monsire and William Welch, two youths
of 15 or 16, both of whom were recognised as the con-
stant associates of thieves, and one of them numerous
times in custody and once convicted of felony, were
charged with robbery at the shop of ,Mr. Charles
Faulkner, a silversmith and jeweller in Catherine-
street, Hoxt on.
The prosecutor's wife stated that, while seated in her
parlour at four o'clock on the previous afternoon, the
prisoner Monsire and another youth suddenly pre,ented
themselves at the window, round one of the panes of
which, opposite a jewel-tray, she saw the former ra-
pidly draw one of his fingers. This act excited her
suspicion, and she went to the door, but both boys
had then disapeared, and upon looking at the pane
where they had been standing, she was surprised to
find that in that short time not only had the greater
part of the putty which secured the glass been cut
away from it, but that the pane itself had been starred
in a very peculiar manner, though she had not heard
the sound of its cracking. She communicated this fact
to one of her neighbours, who expressed an opinion
that it had been done by shoplifters, who would be
sure to return, and she therefore kept a sharp
watch for two hours, but nothing more was seen of
them till half past six, when the prisoners returned
with a third boy, and, arranging themselves so as to
cover each other, Monsire went up to the glass,
rapidly touched the bottom of the pane, handed
something to the third boy, and then all three has-
tened quickly away. The whole occurrence was so
dexterously executed that she had not time to get
near them, to interrupt their operations, but upon
again looking at the pane they had touched she found
that a portion of the glass had been silently forced
out, and two valuable gold rings abstracted through
the hole they had made in it.
David Howe, the neighbour referred to, deposed to
seeing the two prisoners at the prosecutor's window
at four o'clock, and then suddenly dart away. Upon
learning from Mrs. Faulkner the result of their la-
bours he also kept watch for them, and when they
returned, two hours and a half afterwards, he saw
Welch go cautiously up to the window, apparently
force something through it, and then, after hand-
ing something to their accomplice, who
stood ready to receive it, all three ran off.
He hastened out to intercept them as fast as
be could, though not quickly enough ; but upon
noticing the hole made in the glass he pursued and
captured the two hindmost ones, Welch and Monsire,
whom he forced back to the prosecutor's, where he
held them till they could be given in charge, when
upon their removal to the station it was found that
they had left behind them in the shop a stout piece of
wire twisted into a hook, with which there could be
no doubt that the rings had been drawn through the
fracture.

Robinson, of the N division, deposed that upon
taking the prisoners into custody they indignantly
denied the charge, but upon taking them to the station
and searching them he found two strong clasp-knives
in their possession, the ends of the largest blades of
which were bent back in a peculiar manner, similar
to a farrier's paring-knife, and admirably adapted to
rapidly cut out any window to which they might be
applied.
Morrell, of the H division, who was accidentally in
court upon other business, identified both prisoners as
old acquaintances in much the same terms as those
before given, and, the prisoners having confined them-
selves to a general denial of all that was alleged
against them, they were ordered to be committed for
the completion of the depositions.
SOUTHWARK.

John Lucas, the driver of a cab plying at the South-
Eastern Railway terminus, was summoned by Mr.
Welch, a barrister, for refusing to take him as his
fare, and also with refusing to show his metal ticket
when requested so to do.
The complainant stated that on his arrival at the
London-bridge terminus from the country, being
anxious to get to his chambers as quickly as possible,
having an important engagement, he went up to the
stand, and, seeing the door of the defendant's cab
open, he placed his carpet-bag inside, and then got in
himself, and desired the defendant to drive him to
Stone-buildings, Temple. The defendant, however,
refused to take him, and he was compelled to get out,
and the detention he experienced before he could get
another cab put him to considerable inconvenience.
He added that he had been served in a similar manner
before, the cab-drivers imagining that they were jus-
tified in refusing to drive any but those from whom
they expected the longest and best fares. But his
(the complainant's) principal object in preferring the
charge was on public grounds, as he was convinced
that several travellers by railroad were put to the
same inconvenience. Although he had also summoned
the defendant for not exhibiting his badge, he should
forego that, not wishing to press that charge.
Mr. ATECKETT referred to the Ist and 2d of Wil-
liam IV., which rendered it imperative on the driver
of a public carriage, if not previously engaged, to go
with any person by whom he was hired, under a pe-
nalty for refusing. The magistrate then asked the
defendant what he had to say in answer to the charge ?
The defendant said that he acted in conformity with
the regulations of the South-Eastern Railway authori-
ties by refusing to take the fare in question; his cab
was not the one on the rank whose turn it was to
take up; and if he had complied he would have sub-
jected himself to a fine of si. by the railway regula-
tions, besides being turned off the rank, and not per-
mitted to come there again.
Mr. Welch said, if such regulations were in ex-
istence, they were calculated to put the public to
much inconvenience by detaining passengers on their
arrival at the terminus in the manner he was detained.
Mr. A'BECKETT asked a railway inspector present
if such regulations were made by the railway
company ?
The answer was in the affirmative, upon which the
magistnste said that the Act of Parliament to which
he previously referred made the charge against the
defendant an offence for which he was liable to a
heavy penalty, independently of the rules of the rail-
way company ; it was evident, however, he had acted
under a mi sapprehension, as he considered he was
justified by the regulations. On that account he
should not in. qict the full penalty, but on future occa-
sions, if the cab drivers who plied at the railway
terminus did not comply with the Act, and think
.they
were justified in picking their fares instead of going
with those la.! r whom they were hired, if not previously
engaged, he should in that case put the law in force.

The magistrate then inflicted a nominal penalty on the
thfenciant, together with the costs.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN.
half-yearly meeting of this company was held
on Saturday at Dublin, Mr. J. Magee in the chair.
The report stated that the revenue account for the
half-year ending the Ist of September showed a small
decrease in the receipts of 4441,, as compared with
the corresponding period of last year, which was
nearly compensated for by a reduction in the expendi-
ture to the extent of 4301. Including the balance
from the ,last account, the result of the half-year's
working Produced an available sum of 15,0701., being
1,4691. more than the corresponding period of 1850.
The engineer reported that the works on the line were
in a perfectly efficient state of repair, and that the
bridge over the Dodder was completed in the most
efficient manner, without having occasioned any ma-
terial interruption to the ordinary traffic, and with no
extra charge for the ironwork beyond the sum con-
tracted for. The director. stated that the application
to Parliament for a Bill to enable the company to treat
with the Waterford, Wicklow, and Dublin Company
for a re-assignment of the powers for making the line
from Kingstown to Bray had failed through the
opposition of the other parties. The Dublin and
Kingstown Company made a proposal to the Com-
mittee on the Bill to construct the line from Kings-
town to Bray, as the company were desirous of secu-
ring its formation, which they believed could be done
within a period of twelve months, and that if the
powers to make the line to Bray were transferred to
them, they could on the completion of the Waterford,
Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin line from Bray to
Wicklow, within a given period, and on repayment
to them of the sum expended in the formation of the
line from Kingstown to Bray, retransfer the line to
the three W.'s Company, subject and without preju-
dice to any agreements now subsisting between the
companies. The proposal was at first favourably
received by the Committee, but was resisted by the
other parties, and finally rejected. From the available
balance before stated the board recommended a di-
vidend for the half year of 4 per cent. on the paid up
capital of 260,0001., leaving a balance of 4,530/. to be
carried to the next account. The income of the
railway for the past six months amounted to 27,0441.,
and after paying working expenses, rates and taxes,
together with the interest on borrowed money, the
sum of 15,0701. remained for dividend.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re-
port, observed that the next half-yearly meeting was
the one at which a detailed account of the receipts
and expenditure would be given. The rolling stock
was in perfect order, and considering that they had a
dividend of 4 per cent. for the half-year, he thought
they were in a satisfactory position.
Mr. KANE seconded the motion, and it was adopted
unanimously.
It reply to a question it was stated that the atmo-
spheric line from Kingstown to Dalkey did not
yield a profit of itself, but it was looked upon as a
feeder to the main line. The fares were exceed-
ingly low—namely, 2d. per passenger by the first
class, and ld. per passenger by the second class car-
riages. The gross receipts on the atmospheric line
during the half-year amounted to 1,1341., and the ex-
penditure to 919/., leaving a profit of 2151. ; but this
amount would be absorbed in the expenses during the
winter half-year, at the end of which it would be
found that the receipts and expenses would balance
each other, and leave neither profit nor loss. The
first year the Dalkey line was open for traffic the
receipts on the Kingstown line were increased by
5,0001. over those of the previous year, and although
the extension to Dalkey showed no profit on the work-
ing, it was profitable as a feeder to the Dublin and
Kingstown line.
A resolution approving of the dividend was then
passed, and the meeting separated.