The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 205 1851.

have been able to effect some sales, without generally
submitting to lower rates than they would have taken
towards the latter end of last week. There has been
a rather more general inquiry in this department, with
some increase of purchases, and more of a disposition
for business than has been observable in yarns. In both
departments, however, there is much irregularity
amongst sellers, with much unsettledness of pur-
pose amongst buyers. It appears from the accounts
brought by the overland mail, that the depres-
sion in the Bombay market has increased;
but from Calcutta the advices are better than the
previous telegraphic notice had led people to expect.
The market was very quiet, 'but there was little altera-
tion in prices; and stocks and arriving supplies were
light. At both places there was a monetary pressure,
which had led the banks to raise the rate of interest.
Letters from the United States also show an increased
tightness in money matters, and much rates for loans.
The accounts from China, we are happy to say, are
more favourable than for some time past, and caused an
increase of business in fabrics suited for that market.
ROCHDALE, Moxnair.--We have had an extremely
dull market in flannels; very few buyers have attended,
and the business transacted has been of a very limited
nature. The wool dealers complain of the limited de-
man l for the raw material, but prices remain stationary.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—The manufactured goods
trade remains exactly in the same state es reported in
our last, scarcely anything worth notice having
taken place in the interim ; and production
is going on, though to a more limited ex-
tent than has been the. case for some time
past. Many manufacturers, however, anticipate a re-
sumption of business in the course of next month.
The throwing mills generally continue to be well em-
ployed, and in this branch there exists a demand for
hands; very little business has, however, of late been
transacted in the thrown material; this, no doubt, being
caused by purchasers waiting the result of the public
sales of raw silk in London. The dyers are rather
better supplied with work. We regret to have
to note a failure of a firm here, engaged in silk
throwing and manufacturing, who stopped payment the
latter end of last week. The liabilities are said to be
upwards of 5,0001., but there is every appearance of the
greater part being paid up, if time be allowed. The late
failure of a firm in Manchester, engaged in buying and
selling wholesale manufactured goods, will not affect the
Macclesfield manufacturers very much.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have no new feature
in our market to-day. Business has been generally
slack, there not having been many buyers in the town.
There has not been much doing during the week in the
warehouses. The wool trade is quiet.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There has been scarcely so
much business done in oar Piece Hall to-day, and the
merchants are rather more shy of giving orders, espe-
cially for those fabrics which are partly made of cotton;
but for damasks and low lastings there is still a good
demand. The yarn market continues; languid; and the
merchants are bidding lower prices, to which the spin-
ners are unwilling to accede. The wool trade is quiet,
and, owing to the slackness of the demand, wool is a
little easier to buy.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—There is no change to notice in the
woollen trade since last week. The market has been
dull to-day, but a fair quantity of goods continue to be
delivered to order. Prices keep very firm, and stocks
are lighter in the cloth halls. There is rather more
doing in the warehouses, both for the home trade and
for shipping.

PRICES OF SHARES
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COll-
- STOCK.
From the Official List.
1117ELISIIED EVERT TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Return.)
The present return indicates some improvement in t'ie
public health. Under the influence of more favouraole
weather, the deaths, which in the first week in February
were 1,109, have fallen to 1,036; and this tendency of
the mortality to decline is perceived both amongst young
and old.
In the ten corresponding weeks of 1841-50 the aver-
age number of deaths was 1,050, which, if corrected for
comparison with the mortality of last week, becomes
1,145. On this latter result, the 1,036 deaths of last
week show a decrease of 109. However, an important
difference is perceptible between the two classes of old
and young persons, for, while nearly as many of the
latter are now dying as usual for the period, the mor-
tality of the aged has fallen considerably below the cor-
rected average.
In the zymotic class of fatal diseases, small -pox
destroyed 26 lives; and in 8 of these cases the sufferers
were between 15 and 50 years of age. On the Bth of
February, at 16, Bishops'-mews, Paddington, a labourer,
aged 47 years, who had never been vaccinated, died of
confluent small-pox (after twelve days' illness); and on
the following day, at No. 1, in the same mews, the wife
of an ostler, aged 25, who had been vaccinated when a
child, died of the disease thirteen days after the eruption.
A boy also died of small-pox all Church-place in the
came sub-district. Four deaths occurred on the 7th,
Bth, and 12th of February in the Small-pox Hos-
pital at Holloway, at the several ages of 29, 32,
33, and 39. A woman, who was brought from West-
bourne-place, and died of " small-pox confluent, un-
modified (14 days' illness)," had been vaccinated young,
and had " one very small cicatrix." An ostler, who
came from Bartholomew-close, and a bricklayer from
Islington, were not protected by vaccination; and a sea-
men from Sweden also died in the hospital of "small-
pox confluent, unmodified (12 days' illness)," though he
had been vaccinated when young in his native country,
and had three cicatrices. Out of the 26 fatal cases of
this disease, it is only recordel in five that the patients
had been previously vaccinated.
As regard.: other epidemics, measles carried off 29
children, scarlatina 19, hooping-cough 43, and croup 10,
these complaints not differing materially from their
several averages. Typhus numbers 43 victims, the
majority being of middle age; whilst the average
number in ten corresponding weeks was 37.
Complaints of the respiratory organs are now less
fatal, and have declined to near the average. Consump-
tion, under which a greeter number fall than any other
malady, was fatal to 124 persons, of whom 105 had
reached some period of life between 15 and 60. The
average of this disease, raised for increase of population,
nearly equals 150.
The births of 821 boys and 755 girls, in all 1,576
children, were registered in the week. The average
number in six corresponding weeks of 1845-50iwas 1,373.
The following selections are made from the Registrars'
reports
In Pancras, subdistrict of Somers-town, at 23, Drum-
mond-crescent, on the 9th of February, a cab-driver, aged
32, was " found dead." The coroner's jury adds, " dis-
ease of the heart and mortal effects of the foul air of the
room where he slept." Mr. Matthews states that he
died " in a back kitchen about 10 feet; three persons
slept in one room—namely, the cabman, a stonemason,
and a haiiehristler."
In Pancras, subdistrict of Camden-town, at 23, Ashby-
street, on the 13th of February, the daughter of a
labourer, aged 16 months, died of " bronchitis laryngtis,
pneumonia (7 days), produced by inhaling the steam of
boiling water." The child had attempted to drink boil-
ing water from the kettle. In the same subdistrict, at
4, Wood's-place, Paradise-row, on the 9th of February, a
bricklayer, aged 51 years, died of " phthsis pleuritis,
dyspr asa (3 days)." Mr. Roll describes this as a dirty
and crowded locality, inhabited generally by cuter•
mongers of the poorest class."
In Holborn district, at 13, Tindall's-buildings, Gray's
Inn-lane, on the 10th of February, the daughter of a
Meurer, aged 2 years, died of " small-pox (1 week)."
Mr. Holmes states that " this place is as usual over-
crowded with Irish families and other strangers. Small-
pox is very prevalent among the children."
Bethnal-green, Hackney-road subdistrict, at 3 and 20,
Collingwood-street, two children died, one of hooping-
cough, the other of diarrhea;. " The street is crowded,
and partially drained." Vincent-street, where a child
died of bronchitis, without medical attendance, is stated
by Mr. Murray to be " close, crowded, and undrained."
Ie St. James's, Bermondsey, at Edward-street, on the
11th of February, the son of a labourer, aged 16 months.
died of " small-pox, natural, no medical attendant."
" Small-pox (says Mr. Martin) is very prevalent in
Jacob's Island; the mother of the above child acknow-
ledged that it had not been vaccinated owing to negli-
gence. Some persons object to the introduction of what
they conceive to be the disease of an animal into their
children."

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEB. 15, 1851.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*212
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ...
Tubercular Diseases ...
... 167
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 106
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels .. 47
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ••• ••• 2:20
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and. other Organs
of Digestion... ••• --
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c. •••
I`,lalformations...
Premature Birth
Atrophy ••• ••• .•• •••
••• Old Age ••• ••• ••• •••
••• Sudden ..• ••• ••• •••
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intomperauco
Causes not specified

••• ••• 56
••• ••• 19
••• 9
••• 5
••• 0
••• 2
••• 27
••• 26
••• 33
••• 9
••. 35
.•• 5

DEATHS FROM ALL CAusEs
Population Deaths in corre-
Enumerated, sponding week
1841. of 1850.
West Districts... 301,189 133
t/orth Districts.. 376,568 183
Central Districts 374,199 153
East Districts ...393,067 ••• 205
South Districts .. 503,346 •.• 264 •

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1,035
Deaths
in the
Week.
165
2101
175
209
:277

T0ta13... ..... 1,948,369
Females

... 93S ... 1,036
... ... ... ... ... 515
... ... ... "Al ... 521

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY by the KEEPER
of a WEST-END LODGING-HOUSE.
At Marylebone Police-court, on Monday, Mary Anne
Ferrer, a very respectably dressed womae, about 30
years: of age, residing at 57, Beaumont-street, High-
street, Marylebone, was brought up in custody, and
placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, on the charge
of having stolen bank-notes, jewellery, &c., to a large
amount, the property of Mr. Thomas Hillman, chief
clerk to the Accidental Death Inserance Company,
Lothbury.
The prosecutor, on being sworn, said—l and my
family have recently occupied apartments at the pri-
soner's house. Last Saturday week I came home at
six, and directly afterwards I went out; at twenty
minutes past six I returned, and the door was opened to
me by the prisoner, who asked me if I had not met a
man coming out of the premises? I told her I had not
that I was aware of ; upon which she observed,
" Your son is sitting in the dining room; I think I
heard footsteps across the passage; l'isa very much
afraid that a robbery has been committed, and it's most
likely there's the thief up stairs now." I remarked that
I would send for a policemen, and I spoke to ssveral
persons who were passing along to request that they
would look for one while I remained at the door.
Prisoner said that she would sr-e after one, and she
went into the street. While I was waiting at the doer
the prisoner's sister came running down stairs
with dishevelled hair, and carrying a candle in
her hand, exclaiming, " Oh my God, there's a man un-
der the bd." At this moment a policeman came to the
door, and I said to him, " Let's go up stairs." Prisoner,
who had returned, took hold of the candle and went up-
stairs, and I and the officer followed her. When we
got to the bedroom floor on the second hurling I saw
the front bedroom door, which room is not occupied,
open, and in the apartment was a velvet cloak be-
longing to my wife. The policeman said jokingly,
"There's your man," and on removing the cloak there
was found behind it the drawer of my wife's dressing-
case, with a few trinkets in it. I opened my dressing-
room door, and at once discovered that the case itself
was gone. My wife came up and found that her
drawers had been disturbed, and the cloak which I have
mentioned was gone. We then went up to my daugh-
ter's bedroom on the next landing, and I found on the
drawers the outer covering of her dressing-case. The
case itself was nowhere to be met with.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Did the prisoner go with you into
the room where the cloak was ? Prosecutor—She did, Sir.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Did she make any remark to you?
Prosecutor—Nothing more than that a robbery had taken
place.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Where was her sister then? Prose-
cutor—l don't know.
Mr. BROUGHTON—What did your wife's dressing-case
contain? Prosecutor—Either one or two 51. bank-notes,
a half-sovereign, an emerald ring, a gold and emerald
brooch, a tepee brooch with pearls, a gold Breguet
chain, a double opera-glass, a gold ring set with a dia-
mond, and a cumber of other articles—value, independ-
ently of the cotes, from 801. to 901. I should say that
my wife kept the key of her dreasing•case and she saw
it safe at five o'clock on the afternoon of the robbery.
By Mr. BROUGHTON—I don't know the numbers of
the notes myself. My wife received some notes from a
brother, one of her trustees, and a police-sergeant will
tell you that he has traced one which I have every rea-
son to believe forms a portion of the plunder. My wife
is not present, and nay daughter is now at Worthing.
Sergeant Battersley, 4D, said—At half-past seven in
the evening of last Saturday week I repaired to the pri-
soner's house by direction of Superintendent Hughes,
who had received information that a large robbery
had been effected in a most mysterious manner. After
examining the house I saw the prisoner and her sister,
and a man named Sanderson, who lives with them.
I could not detect any thief there, and I asked the
prisoner if she had seen any one in the house, or whether
any one had been in besides herself, her sister, and San-
derson. She replied, " No, not that we are aware of;
but we heard some one pass along the passage."
d Mr. BROUGLITON—Who is the man Sanderson? Wit-
ness—He is, I believe, by trade a gardener, and Mr.
Hillman knew nothing whatever of his being au inmate
of the place.
Mr. Brtoucimet—What more have you to say ?.Wit-
ness—From inquiries which I subsequently made I as-
certained the numbers of the notes stoles, and stopped
them at the Bank, and at length traced the payment of
one of them, by the prisoner, to Shoulbred and
Co., Tottenham-court-road. On Saturday night
last I repaired to the prisoner's house, and told her
I must take her into custody, as I had traced
one of the notes which she had passed at Shoolbred's,
when she said, " If I must go with you, let me have
time to wash myself and change my things," I told
her she might do that, but I must go with her. I fol-
lowed her up-stairs, where she went into a room with
a little girl and closed the door. I waited outside, and
in a short time I heard her move something. I went in
and saw her at a small writing desk on the drawers. I
teld her I must look into that myself; which I did, and
found therein two pawnbrokers' tickets and sundry pa-
pers, and in another desk in the apartment were ten
more tickets. I went out again, and while waiting at the
door I heard the prisoner as she was dressing herself say
to the girl, " Ohl what a fool I was to go so near"
(meaning, no doubt, that she ought to have changed the
note at a greater distance from her residence). I con-
veyed her to the station-house, where she was searched,
and in her pocket was found a ticket for a brooch and a
ring pledged on Saturday last.
Mary Ann Bridge, who searched her, deposed that the
prisoner said the articles referred to in the ticket were
her own. She also found upon her a purse with a red
silk lining.
Newman Hunt, assistant to Shoolbred and Co., said—
This day week, between 12 and 1 o'clock, the prisoner
came to the shop, and I sold her goods to the amount of
sd. I observed that she had exactly such a purse as
that now produced. She drew from it a Si. note, and I
saw that she had in it a piece of gold; she gave me the
note, and on my asking her address she said, "Mrs.
Bennett, 15, Euston-square." I wrote the name and
address upon it, and gave it to the cashier, and the pri-
boner received the change. She then went away.
The prisoner, on being asked what she had to say,
denied that she was the person who changed the note at
Shoolbred's, and said she was not out of her house until
eight in the evening of the day named.
In order to afford time for the production of impor-
tant witnesses, the prisoner was remanded till Monday
next.

would be unnecessary to proceed with them. He then
sentenced her to be transported for seven years.
THE HACKETT GANG. —James Blher a de,perate-
looking fellow, a member of the Hseket° gang, was
charged with having st,slcn two watches, the property of
Charles -Lacher; and was further charged with having
stolen 45., the moneys of Joseph Thomas Winter.
(It may here not he out of place to state, that while
the prisoner was in the cell at the police-office waiting
for his examination on this charge, he made an exchange
with another man, who was in tha cell with him on a
charge of drunkenness, of their clothes, and it was far-
ther agreed between them that Baker should answer to
the name of the other man, and nice ver6d, so as to ena-
ble him to escape on a trifling fine for drunkenness, and
as soon as he had been discharged the other would have
pretended that a mistake had been made, and that he
had accidentally answered to the wrong name. The
deception, however, was detected by the officer on duty,
and the prisoner was accordingly committed on this
charge.)
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Tho Lcarnoti JUDO E sentenced the prisoner to b 3 im-
prisoned and kept t) hard labour for twelve months.

POLICE INTELLIGENC,E.
LIIANSION HO US E.
William S. S. Heat:, a clerk in the banking house of
Messrs. Cunlifro and Co., of Lombard- street, was brought
before Aldartnan William Hunter, upon the charge of
having embezzled a bill of exchange for 1501., the pro-
perty of his employers.
Mr. Roger Cunlitfe, clerk in the bankingehouse, said
it was the duty of the prisoner to enter all bills and
moneys received by him. There was a bill for 1501.
upoa Messrs. Smith and Co., which was overdue, and
not accounted for in the boolsi,; but it would be necessary
to have a witness who was at present in the country to
establish the charge.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.
BOW-STREET.
Yesterday Edmond Tisdale, a dyer and scourer, car-
rying on business at 5, Church-street, Kensington, and
Oxford•street, appeared before Mr. Henry upoa a sum-
mons, charged with having counselled and aided two
men, named Stockin and Shepherd, to dispose of pam-
phlets and exhibit placards in Holborn, reflecting upon
the character of certain Dissenting clergymen, con-
nected with Horbury chapel, at Notting Hill, whereby
an obstruction was crested in the public thoroughfare.
Mr. Clarkson attended to support the complaint.
William Stockin, a young man employed by the de-
fendant, was apprehended on the 12th instant in Hol-
born, by Sergeant Carr, F, and being brought before the
sitting magistrate for causing a crowd to assemble, he
gave up the name of the person by whom he had been
hired, and which also appeared on each of the pamphlets,
in consequence of which he was discharged o❑ his recog-
nizance, to give time for a summons to be served on the
defendant, that he might explain to the Court upon what
grounds he caused such an exhibition to be paraded in
the most frequented thoroughfares.
Sergeant Carr stated that the man Stockin was mov-
ing along the street carrying two boards on his person,
and two others in a frame, on which there were paint-
ings of men and women sitting at a table drinking, and
two servant-maids helping themselves from a barrel of
beer; at the same time he was offering for sale pamph-
lets, at a penny each, supporting to be an account of the
disgraceful scenes, inside and outside, which took place
at the opening dinner of the Horbury chapel, which was
dedicated, without permission, to certain ministers of re-
ligion, by whom such proceedings were sanctioned,
and whose names were set forth, in consequence of
which the thoroughfare was obstructed by a crowd, and
he took him into custody, as he refused to desist, alleg-
ing that he was committing no offence, as he continued
to move on.
The articles complained of were brought into court,
and it appeared that the defendant, being a member of
a teetotal society, had caused handbills to be freely circu-
lated at the door of the chapel, cautioning the members
of the congregation, and particularly the complainant,
to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors, which
caused much comment in the neighbourhood, and led to
the publication of the placards in question. The bills were
headed "the priest and the prophet have erred through
strong drink." The names of twelve Dissenting ministers
and deacons were also enumerated as having by their pre-
sence sanctioned, encouraged, and perpetuated what must
cause ruin of character, constitution, and soul.
Mr. Clarkson said that the assertions made by the de-
fendant were of the most scandalous and malignant cha-
racter, and read the following passage:—" It is you, gen-
tlemen, and such as you, who are the real enemies of
religion i❑ this country; for you appear to borrow tho
sanctity of its name merely to sully the purity of its cha-
ractor. We beseech you to abandon either your drink-
ing practices cr your Christian profession, and thus se-
cure the single merit of consistency."
William Stockin, being admitted us a witness, proved
having received the articles produced from the defendant,
and he was to be allowed 81 out of every dozen or
pamphlets he sold.

Mr.
Shean, a solicitor, who appeared for the defend-
ant, said that the insinuations made use of in the bills
were not intended to affect the character of any of the
clergymen, nor was it intended that any such inference
as that they indulged in intoxicating liquors should be
drawn, but they were directed to their servants, and in
future the pacards should not only be withdrawn, but
destroyed.
Mr. Clarkson said the defend int should go further, and
declare in the presence of the public that every one of the
charges wore false without any qualification, which
being refused,
Mr. Shean said that his client had been led into error
by a serjt.ant of police, as regarded the question of ob-
struction in the public streets, as he was given to under-
stand that if his men kept moving along, he could not
be considered as instrumental in causing a crowd to as-
semble.

Mr, HENRY said, there could be no doubt that the de-
fendant had rendered himself liable, having counselled
tho man Stockin to go about the streets, causing an ob-
ztruction by such exhibitions, merely for the purpose of
indulging his private spleen against a few of his respect-
able neighbours, whose forbearance was very creditable,
to them, for which he should be fined in the penalty of
40s. for Each of the two offences, or two months' impri-
sonment.

The fines, including costs, were immediately paid.
MA R YLEBONE.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEE.A'S BENCH, Fcb. 19.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius at Guildhall, before the LORD
CHIEF JUSTICE a Special Jury.)
WILKS, PAUPER, V. LAWSON.
This was an scGon to recover compensation in
damages for a lib alleged to have been published in the
Times newspn:per.
Mr. Sk'diner appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Humph :0y and Mr. Peacock conducted the defendant's
case.

It appeared that on the 27th of April last year, a per-
son named Hackett was brought up on a charge of bur-
glary at the Marlborough Police-court, and was re-
manded until the 2d of May following, on which day he
was conveyed again to the court, and placed in a cell
previous to undergoing his examination; but on the
officer afterwards proceeding to the cell, with the view
of taking him before the magistrate, he was astonished
to find that he and another prisoner, named Mackeexie,
had escaped. It happened that Wilks, the plaintiff, who
was assistant gaolerat the court, and whose duty it was
to lock up the prisoners, was absent at the time on sick-
leave, but suspicion arose in the minds of the authorities
that some officer, connected with the office had been a
party to the liberation of the two prisoners, owing to the
circumstance of the door of the cell having been appa-
rently opened by aley, and to the fact that three other
prisoners in the mina) cell had not been able to escape.
An investigation was immediately instituted into the
whole matter, and a. a few days afterwards Wicks was
discharged, though fit did not appear from what cause,
no direct proof havieg been obtained as to the person
through whose connivance the prisoners had been libe-
rated. Considerable suspicion, however, attached to
hies, a messenger who had been sent to his house having
found in a locker a duplicate key of the cell.
Hackett was subsequently arrested several months
after his lucky escape from the police office,
and became an inmate of Pentonville Prison,
from which he also succeeded in effecting his liberation.
On the 3d of December, 1850, an interesting account of
his exploits and adventures was published in the Times,
and in one passage it was stated that a turnkey had
been discharged from Marlborough police-court in con-
sequence of it having turned out on inquiry by the au-
thorities that he had received a large sum of money to
effect Hackett's liberation. This was the libel com-
plained of. The plaintiff alleged that the article had
not only damaged his reputation as a trustworthy per-
son, but prevented his obtaining employment from indi-
viduals who were, previous to its publication, in the
habit of employing him; and under these circumstances
he contended he WAS entitled to damages at the hands of
the jury.
Evidence having been given to prove the application of
the alleged libel to the plaintiff.
Mr. HUMHRE PY addressed the jury in reply, admit-
deuce to support a plea
ting that a verdict would have to pass for the
plaintiff, as it was utterly impossible to procure evi-
of justification with respect to
the statements in the article ; but urging, in mitiga-
tion of damages, that all the injury which the cha-
racter of the plaintiff bad suffered had arisen, not from
what appeared in the Times, but from the actual fact
of his dismissal, which happened many months pre-
viously. There could be no doubt in the minds of the
jury that the circumstances were extremely suspicious
against Wilks, and that the prisoners could not have
escaped without the intervention of a " golden key."
He contended, therefore, that the smallest possible
amount of damages would meet the justice of the case.
Lord CAMPBELL having summed up,
The jury intimated they were all unanimously of
opinion that there should be a verdict for the plaintiff,
with a farthing damages.

TUE " GUNPOWDER PLOT."—FINAL EXAMINATION.
—Yesterday this Court was again crowded to excess,
principally by wall-dressed persons, who were anxious
to hoar the further proceedings in the case in which John
1{ illiarn Hamilton stood charged with having caused a
quantity of ,gunpowder to explode at the house of Mr.
Millbank, a carpenter, residing at 10, Cumherland-street,
New-road, and thereby doing damage to the amount
of nearly 3001., his presumed object being that of sa-
crificing the life of his mother.
The particulars of what transpired in reference to this
very mysterious case have already appeared in our
paper, and it will ho remembered that the third remand
took place on Tuesday last, owing to an intimation
given to Mr. Broughton that a very important witness
could bo produced to show that the prisoner had
uttered such words as to leave but little, if any, doubt
with regard to his diabolical intentions.
Mr. BROUGLITON, after carefully reviewing the whole
of the evidence, and expatiating thereon, came to the
conclusion that there was not sufficient to justify him in
committing the prisoner for trial upon the serious charge
against him. Tire affair, however, was one of a very
mysterious and suspicious character.
The MAGISTRATE discharged him from this court,
and handed him over to Superintendent Brown, of the
Bury St. Edmund's police, who was armed with the
authority of a warrant to apprehend him on a charge of
forgery.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Feb. 19.
(Before Mr. Sergeant Anesis,Assistant-Judge, and a
Bench of Magistrates.)
WHOLESALE ROBBERY OF CHILDREN.—Mary Evans,
18, was charged with having stolen a gown and other
articles, the property of Elizabeth Pitchers; and was
further indicted for having stolen two cloaks, the pro-
perty of Elias Lipman; with having stolen wearing ap-
parel, the property of /Lary Allen; wearing apparels
the property of Jacob Burdock; and linen and other ar-
ticles, the property of Robert Young.
There were several other charges for similar offences
ready to be' preferred against herin the event of the
possible failure of the above.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE said there were several other in-
dictments against the prisoner, • but he thought
that haying beeil uiregiy convicted upon three, it

lup by a poor woman named Elizabeth Nfercer, of 10,
Stone-street, Commercial-road. The prisoner is the
same person who a few months since was charged with a
similar efrAice, sod whose tteterment as a 6istressed
needlewonsen so excited the sympathies of the humane
that upvards of 401. were forwarded for bet, of which
she received a considerable portion; but it hai,ing been
subsequently shown that the offence with which she was
then charged was not the first of the kind of which she
had been guilty, the magistrates, conceiving that to ad-
vance her any mere would be a bonus on crime, publicly
announced not only that they would not receive any more
sums on her account, but would devote the residue in
hand to the funds for the general poor, unless the bene-
volent donors chose to reclaim their respective advances.
In the case of yesterday, the prosecutrix stated that she
had employed the prisoner to make up linen blouses at
6d. to 7d. each, receiving herself Is. profit on
every dozen. About three weeks since the prisoner
had six blouses to make up, the value of which might
be about 4s. 61. each. Complainant's husband dying,
and she herself being very ill, she sent frequently for
the articles, being apprehensive that the delay would lose
her her own employment. On Friday last the prisoner
absconded from her lodgings. Yesterday she was met
by the prosecutrix in Rosemary-lane, who, as she re-
fused to give any account of the property, gave her in
charge to Smith, 415 K. Prosecutrix had known the
prisoner since March last.

Mr. YARDLEY—I; not this the same Rosina Herbert
who was here a sh )rt time since, and on whose behalf
such con:;iderablo sums were advanced by a benevolent
culdic? Witness—The same, sir.
Mr. YARDLEY—And yet, knowing what has since oc-
curred, you have employed her?
The prisoner (who pretended to be much affected at
her position), complained that the constable had pulled
her about, and taunted her with what had formerly
taken place.

Smith denied the truth of this statement, and said he
did not know who she was until she was taken to the
static,n•house.

Mr. YARDLEY—I am not at all inclined to credit any
assertion of hers. It is clear that she pawned six blouses,
value 4s. 6d. each, and I shall commit her on the pre-
sent evidence, but she will be brought up again on
Monday, so as to allow the officers time to trace the
property.

REPEAL OF THE WINDO W TAX.
Last evening a special meeting of the delegates of the
various metropolitan parishes took place at the Court-
house, Marylebone, for the purpose of considering the
declaration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in re-
ference to the window-tax and the attempted imposition
of a house tax.
The most extraordinary excitement appeared to pre-
vail. Long before the hour appointed for holding the
ne, cling the doors of the Courthouse were besieged,
and every part of the spacious building, as well as the
gallery, was in a short period densely crowded by a de-
termined and enthusiastic auditory.
Among the Members of Parliament present were—
Lord Duncan, Sir B. Hall, Mr. Waklcy, Mr. J.
Williams, Mr. Mowatt, Mr. J. Bell, Sir De Lacy
Evans, Mr. C. Lushington, &c.
Mr. J. NecuonAv, of bilarylebone, the chairman of
the metropolitan delegates, having been called to the
chair, observed that there were delegates assembled, not
only on the window-tax, but with regard to the sewers
commission; but the latter gentlemen, feeling the vast
importance of the subject of the window-tax, had at once
adjourned their meeting. Although they had been
called together at a few hours' notice, the present as-
sembly indicated the feeling which the statement
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made upon
the metropolis.—(Bear, hear.) That assembly was, in
fact a council of war; and they meant to show the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer that they meant war, and no
mistake.—(Cheers.) What they hail assembled for was
to consider the Chancellor of the Exchequer's budget.
—(Groans, hisses, and cries of " We'll make him
budge-it.") It was such a budget as had raised the in-
dignation of all classes of the community—from one end
of kingdom to the other.—(Hear, hear.) The time
had come when they must call things by their proper
names, and he pronounced the budget of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer the greatest insult and the greatest
piece of humbug that was ever attempted to be perpe-
trated upon the people.—(Cbeers.) It was neither more
nor less than a downright swindle—(Loud cheers)—and
entitled the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the cogno-
men of " Thimblerigger-General " to her Majesty.—
(Hear, hear.) The game was in the hands of the peo-
ple of the metropolis. The position of the Ministry was
so tottering that the metropolitan Members could turn
the balance.—(Tremendous cheering.) The game was
in their hands, and, to speak in plain English, they
would not suffer themselves to be humbugged.—(Hear.)
They had not only been taken in by the Chanceller of the
Exchequer, but done for.—[Lord DUNCAN—" Not yet."]
—(Tremendous cheering.) It depended entirely upon
themselves, and so far from accepting a house-tax as a
boon, they were determined to fling it back in his face
with the contempt it deserved.—(Loud cheers.)
Lord DUNCAN, on presenting himself, was loudly
cheered. He was delighted to see such an assembly of
delegates from all parts of the metropolis to express
their indignation and disgust at the recent proposal of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Com-
mons. The Government was pledged to reform and
retrenchment; and if they departed from those princi-
ples, the time had come when the people would tell them
they were no longer worthy of support.—(Cheers.) Ile
(the Noble Lord) was not going to mince the matter. A
more disgraceful insult to the people was never proposed
by any Chancellor of the Exchequer. Instead of
according with the feeling of the people of England that
the window-tax should be totally repealed, he had
proposed what he called a house-tax.—(Shame.) Let
them not be deceived in the matter. It was nothing of
the kind; it was only the old window-tax back again.—
(Hear, and Shame.) He called upon them not to be de-
luded by names.—(Hear.) It was a complete humbug.—
(Cheers.) He repeated the word " humbug."—(Renewed
cheering.) The people had been deluded on this subject
before, in 1834 and 1841, and they had borne it because
they were a patient and quiet people.—(Hear, hear.)
But the time had come when they must uplift their
voices and show that they were patient no longer.—
(Hear, hear.) Not only were the people insulted by
this speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but it
now appeared that great care mast be taken that no ex-
pression should be conveyed to the House of Commons
which was at all distasteful to the Chancellor. Ile had
on the previous night presented a petition which he
(Lord Duncan) had received from his constituents at
Bath, stating that they viewed the Budget with surprise
and regret.—(Hear, hear.) He was called to order by
the Speaker, and was told that the people of England
had no right to express surprise and regret at any-
thing done in the House of Commons.—(Shame, shame.)
The Noble Lord at great length denounced the Budget,
and declared that whatever might be the result, he would
with his colleavues prevent the Government from carry-
ing out other measures if they would not give the uncon-
ditional repeal of this tax. He called upon the metro-
polis to speak out upon this insult on their understand-
ing, and the sooner they spoke the better.—(Tre-
mendous cheering.)
Mr. HEALEY, of St. Pancras, urged that the dele-
gates who were the ratepayers should express their
opinion first, and the members afterwards.—(Hear.)
Mr. GEORGE, churchwarden of Sr. Ann's, Soho,
moved the first resolution. The Government had not
only broken faith with the nation, but the proposal of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer was a delusion and a
swindle.—(Hear, hear.) He moved—
That the imposition of a house-tax as proposed by
the Government is not only unequal, unjust, but ob-
noxious and unnecessary, and this meeting pledges
itself to oppose it in every legal manner, and never
LAMBETH. io remain satisfied till they have obtained the uncondi-
EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES ON THE SOUTH-EASTERN tional repeal of the window-tax; and in the event of the
RAlLWAY.—Yesterday George Barrett, who keeps a Government persevering in their measure in opposition
general shop at Newport Pegnel, was placed at the bar to general opinion, the various Members of Parliament
before Mr. Elliott, for further examination on a charge of be requested to give such obstruction to the Ministers
being concerned, with his brother Enoch Barrett and as will show that they no longer possess the confidence
William Evans, in stealing at different times from the of the Government."—(Tremendous cheering )
stations and carriages belonging to the South-Eastern Mr. GEESII4, churchwarden of St. James's, seconded
Railway Company property of all descriptions, amount- the resolution,
and however unpalatable it might be to
tog in value to over 2,0004 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, ho hoped he would
The prisoner had been given into custody on Satur- read in the morning the public expression of opinion
day week by a servant at the shop of Mr. Terry, a book- that his proposal was unequal, unjust, unholy, and un-
seller in the Kent-road, where he had offered some Christian.—(Loud cheering.)
books and weekly publications much beneath their value, Mr. MITCYLELL, of Oxford-street, said, so far from
and had been remanded on suspicion of having stolen this house-tax being a benefit, it would be a positive
the property. Some days after it was found that the augmentation of the window-tax.—(" Hear, hear," and
properly formed a portion of a parcel which had "
Shame.") He paid now, for 48 windows, 151.165. 10d.
been stolen from one of the trains on Friday per year, and if he paid 9d. in the pound for property-
week, and which had been directed to a tradesman tax return, it would cost him 161. 11s. 6d.._.(" Shame!")
in Deal. The apprehension of the prisoner led to a The resolution was carried unanimously amid loud
strong suspicion against his brother Enoch, who was applause.
a switch turner in the company's employ, and Mr. T. M. NELSON, of St. James's, moved the second
also against William Evans, at stoker in the victualling resolution—
yard, Deptford; and upon their houses being searched " That the Members for the metropolitan boroughs
upwards of 2004 worth of silks and other property were and counties be requested to oppose the income-tax, or
fothad, and both men and their wives are
at present in any other tax, until the Ministers consent to the total
Maidstone Gaol. On Thursday last Sergeant Carpenter, repeal of the window-tax, and no substitution of any
of the R division of police, who has the case in-hand, other tax in its place; and that a copy of this resolution
examined the shops of the present prisoner, at North- be transmitted to all the metropolitan Members."—
end, and Newport Pagnel, and there discovered nearly a (Cheers.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer had thrown
cart load of property, all of which has been identified as down the challenge, and this was their answer to it.—
forming, like that found at the dwellings of the other (Cheers.) Tho Ministerial whippers-in were already
prisoners, portions of parcels stolen from the South- crying out that tne Government was in danger, and
Eastern Company's stations or luggage trains. that if the Ministers were beaten on the property-tax
The prisoner,
tion in can't have a worse.")
in reply to the charge, said he had been they would have a Tory Government.—(Cries of "We
in the habit of purchasing goods of every descrip Let them not heed that cry, but
Rosemary and Petticoat lanes, and the books and papers call on their Members to pursue the course laid down
which he had offered for sale
at the shop of Mr. Terry by the resolution.—(Cheers.)
he purchased from a man on Tower-hin. He had been Tho resolution having been seconded,
employed, ho said, for some years on the Brighten Rail- Sir B. HALL, amid loud cheers, explained the course
way, and he defied any one to bring forward the slightest he had already pursued with respect to being determined
imputation against his character. to divide the House on the house-tax. He viewed the
Mr. Owen, an inspector belonging to the Dover line, proposal as the most delusive that ever emanated from
observed that it was a fact that up Co the present trans- any Chancellor of the Exchequer, and could answer for
action the prisoner and his brother had borne the very himself and Noble Colleague, who was unavoidably abe
highest character. Such, indeed, was the estimation in sent, that they would both vote against the income-tax.
which the South-Eastern Company held the latter., that —(Tremendous cheering for several minutes.) The
they gave him a handsome gratuity but a few 'weeks Hon. Baronet called upon the metropolis to back up since; and, in fact, he was perhaps one of the last .of the their Members, whether the Government had to resign servants in their employ that they would suspect of dis- or not, and sat down amid protracted cheering.
honesty. Mr. Owen further informed the magistrate Lord DUNCAN pledged himself to be by the side of the
that amongst the articles found in the
pouession of the se is
Leon. L'arenet in his vote on the income-tax unless the
prisoner and his brother, were four whistles each, and
the most suspicious part was that four of the whistles window- tax was at once repealed.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Toon:erg Seirru denounced the proposal of the
had each a different sound or note, the of her four eon- Chancellor of the Exchequer as having for its basis fraud
responded to a perfect nicety. They are Wade of wood,
and confiscation.
and are of the workmanship of the prison er, GeorgeMr.WABLEY, ALE, was also received with tremendous
who is by trade a turner, and there can he no deal a cheering. Ile had hardly recovered the surprise and
they were used as signals by both brothers, and s, s.
indignation with which he heard the gross insult to the
siated them in carrying on their extensive system
,of feeling and the intelligence of the metropolis contained
plunder.
in the Chancellor's speech.—(Hear.) Notwithstanding
The prisoner was remanded until Monday next Whet the mistyatmosphere of the House of Commons, be could
his confederates also will be brought up for further exe not but perceive the smile of satisfaction which pervaded
amination.
THAMES. the countenance of some Members—not among the
Rosins Herbert, a good-looking young marrie stneporters of the Government, but the enemies of the
d We.
u Goiernu ient.—(llear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman
man, 26 years of age, described as of 2. Turner's-build..' gape a humorous description of the political suicide
jogs, St. George's, was charged with illegally pawnir
g which the Chancellor of the Exchequer had committed,
six blouses, which bad been entrusted to her for teak'
g and decivred that, eye at the risk of turnin cut the