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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1851.

be gratified, and that the income-tax should be r
remitted altogether, Now he was also sure that the re-
mission of the window duty for a house tax was an un-
certainty on which they never could rely. When he had
previously brought forward this motion the Noble Lord
at the head of the Government had been pleased t say
that he would look into the matter. He did not know
how the change of circumstances could affect the change
of measures. This was no party question, and
he would therefore beg to remind his Lord-
ship that he had already assented to the
necessity of abandoning the duty upon insurances.
He believed that the tax was part of a system the effect
of which would be to undermine the strength and re-
sources of the country, and on that conviction he should
move that the Bill be read a second time that day six
months.
Mr. MUNTZ seconded the amendment, and in doing
so begged to say that he concurred generally in what
had fallen from his Hon. Friend who had just spoken.
His Hon. Friend and himself were in the position of
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being better able to judge of the iniquitous working of
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large proportion of the manufacturers were small men,
and they were able to see that on those small men the
tax fell most unjustly.—(Hear, hear.) Next to the
tenant-farmers, indeed—(Hear, hear)—who were obliged
to pay whether they made any profits or not, the small
manufacturers were more oppressed by the tax than any
other portion of the community.—(Hear,) These men
were notoriously surcharged, often more than once.
They were surcharged on their first returns, and, not
being able to show their books, were obliged to pay.
The thing went on, and he had known
,instances where
persons had been surcharged three or four times over.
Could anything be more unjust than that?—(Elear.) It
was a common practice for them to come to him and
ask what they should do; but all he could say to them
was, that they should produce their books, show what
their profits were, and so get off. Their reply to
this was, that they could not do so without letting
their neighbours into a knowledge of their business, and
that they would rather pay the tax than show their
books under such circumitances.—(Hear, hear,) For
himself, he must say he would rather pay double the
amount of the property-tax than such an inquisitorial,
unjust income-tax, as the present. The great difficult;
with him was, how they were to get rid of such a tax.
He saw no end to it. It was a tax for ever. He asked
the House, if the principle was to be recognised, how
were they to get rid of the tax? —(Hear, hear.) Could
they get quit of it as they got quit of the duty on bricks
or coffee? It was clearly impossible. His Hon. Friend
(Mr. Spooner) was wrong when he denied that any re-
duction had taken place in the price of bricks. He
(Mr. Muntz) paid from Bs. 6d. to 9s. the teousand
less for bricks than formerly. At the same time the
abolition of that tax only gave partial relief, for it
was a tax that operated very partially in many parts
of the country where nothing but stone was used for
building. Instead of the brick-tax, therefore, they
should have taken off the income-tax, and if necessary
imposed an increased property-tax. He remembered after
the first year's collection of the income-tax having occa-
sion to wait upon Sir Robert Peel on business, when he
referred to his (Mr. Muntz's) having voted for the tax,
and then said it was the prettiest way of adding five
million pounds to the revenue. He (Mr. Muntz) said he
had voted for the tax because he did not think any tax
could be imposed on the working classes, and ho saw no
prospect that any other could be paid. By the way in
which it was levied, however, he had no hesitation in
saying that it was the means of making men rob them-
selves in the most iniquitous manner.—(Hear, hear.) It
was said that the window-tax was to be repealed; but it
was the middle class who paid the window-tax, and he
contended that they ought first to take off those taxes
that pressed most heavily on those least able to bear
them. There were a vast number of his constituents
who paid the income-tax who never paid one shilling of
window duty. They talked about taking off the taxes
on articles of consumption. Was the window-tax an
article of consumption? Yet they had repealed it, taking
care, however, to put it all on again in the shape of a
house-tax.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. FRESHFIELD, having had no opportunity of
joining in the previous deliberations of the House on this
question, and as this was the stage at which the prin-
ciple of the Bill would be determined, was anxious, on
personal grounds, to guard against any misconstruction
that might arise from the course he might take will re-
gard to voting on that occasion. The question was,
whether the income-tax, with all the objections that had
been rated against it, as being a war-tax now proposed
in time of peace, was to be continued, or whether they
were prepared with some other provisions by which the
expenditure of the country could be so met as to war-
rant them in rejecting the Bill? Were they to agree to
the second reading of the Bill that night, with the dis-
tinct understanding that it would be so modified in
Committee as to free it from many of the objections
urged against it, though not to the principle itself ?
(Hear.) In 1842, when Sir Robert Peel brought for-
ward this tax, and was so strongly opposed by gentle-
men now on the Government side, on the ground that
it was essentially a war-tax, he had this excuse, that
there was a deficiency in the revenue of 4,800,0001.,
while we were engaged in fighting on the Indus
and in China. Then in 1845, though Sir R. Peel
had a surplus, he was enabled to obtain a renewal of the
income-tax, on account of the many taxes which he then
remitted and moderated. In 1848, when the measure was
again introduced, not by Sir It. Peel, but by the present
Government, there was an excuse, if not re justification
of it, found in the misceievous measure of 1846; for the
period was approaching when, in IS4U, an end would be
put to the revenue from the importation of corn. In
1842 the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) stated that, h. 41
the commercial measures proposed by him in 1841
been adopted, he believed there would have been no
neci ssity for the Bill then introduced. What was the
ceretnercial measure of the Noble Lord? It was a
fixed duty of Bs. Now that the present measure was
before the House might they not hope, when they got
into Committee, to have brought under their considera-
tion the commercial measure that was desired by the
Noble Lord in 1841 as some reason why a part of the in

come-tax should be abandoned? He wirhed, when he
voted for the second reading of the Bill—for he was
not prepared to give up so much revenue without a sub-
stitute—to guard himself against its being supposed that
anything would induce him to vets for this measure if
he did not belitve that there would be important altera-
tions made in Committee—alterations as to extent in
point of time, the objects of the tax, and also the
amount of the tax.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped the Noble
Lord would find some substitute for the schedule
affecting the tenant-farmers, and he concurred in all
that had been said with reference to annuitants by
the Honourable Member (Mr. Spooner). With re-
gard to the proposal of the Chanceliur of the .xche-
, quer to give up one direct tax, and substitute another
in its place, he drew from it the inference that there
was to be a reconsideration of the whole subject of
taxation, and that a more just system would be the
result.—(Hear, hear.) In conclusion, he would vote
for a renewal f the income-tax, but for a limited time
only, in order to give the Government time to consider
what more befitting mode of taxation ought to be
adopted.—(Hear, hear.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could
not congratulate his Hon. Friend opposite (Mr. Spooner)
upon any great accordance between him and the Hon.
Gentleman who had seconded his amendment; for, though
they agreed on the general point that the Bill ought to
be rejected, there was not a single point in the argument
on which they did not differ.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon.
Member for North Warwickshire stated that the great
grievance of the income-tax was the existing unjust
pressure nn the lauded proprietors included in schedule
A. The Hon. Member for Birmingham, on the contrary,
was perfectly willing to double the pressure on the land
by increasing the property-tax, but thought it unjust
that the same rate should be imposed on trade.—(Hear,
hear.) The Hon. Member for North Warwickshire
spoke of the repeal of the duty on bricks as not having
reduced in any way the price of bricks; while the Hon.
Member for Birmingham said he himself paid Bs. 6d. a
thousand less for bricks than he did before. This was a
proof that considerable benefit had been conferred on a
large portion of the community. The Hon. Gentleman,
however, gave the oddest reason against the repeal of
the tax. He said it was an exceedingly partial
tax, and, therefore, ought not to have been

,
repealed.—(A laugh.) The Hon, Gentleman (Mr.
Muntz) blamed him exceedingly for taking off the

window duty and not repealing— the income-tax. Now,
the House had, o❑ former occasions, rejected motions for

the repeal of the window-tax; but he found, on referring
to the division list, that the Hon. Gentleman was one of

those who ♦oted with the Noble Lord 'the Member for

Bath on his motion for the total repeal of that tax.—
(A laugh.) The Hon. Gentleman was one of those who
last year voted for the repeal of the window-tax; and how
he could now object to hit (the Chancellor of the
Exche-
quer) repealing that objectionable tax it would piazz:
him, he thought, to explain.—(Hear, hear.) He would
not detain the House long upon this question, as he
thought it would not require many words to prove that
the Souse ought not to assent to the amendment of the
Hon. Gentleman oppotiti. He had proposed the re-
Thnigit
made what was a
newat of the income-tax for a limited number of years.
Lien. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Herries)
thereupon
fair proposition for him te
make. He proposed that the tax should be renewed 01 ly
to a certain extent. The Right Hon. Gentleman knew
well what was the state of the finances, and he proposed
to renew the income-tax to such an extent as would
leave what he thought an adequate revenue. He knew
too well what was due to the credit of this country
and to the maintenance of its establishments not to
propose the "ntlithance of such a portion
was the income-tax at least as necessary for those im-
portant purposes. It was his (the Chancellor of the
Exchequer's) duty to resist that motion of the Right
il°use had
Hon. Gentleman, 'Tel a majority of the "louse concurred
with him in the opinion he held, and voted the renewal
of the
determined,inco income-tax
ons fo ioteithatin.it_e. The
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vote, that a given
amount of revenue
should
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be sacrificed by the repeal of
the window-tax, and by the reduction of the duties on
tcau
coffee and timber.tax'an All these things would have been
motion of the Right lion. Gentleman
impossible if the
tax, the House had on the renewal of the income
Now, if
(Mr. Herries) had succeeded.- But, having determined
Gentleman (Mr. Spooner) was
amendment of the Hon. Gen
the duties on
deter-
mined that other taxes should be repealed. ow, the
but the repeal of the
coffee and timber be given up,
carried, not only must the reduction of
(Mr. Herries)
duties must be surrendered also; and more than
that, while the Right Hon. Gentleman ‘
would have loft revenue enough to maintain the esta-
blishments of the country, the proposition of thelion.
Gentleman (Mr. Spooner) on the present occasion would,
if carried, render necessary the imposition of further
taxes. lie stated, on the first occasion on which he had
brought the ::object before the House, that if the income-
tax were not to be renewed there would be a deficiency
of 1,000,000/. this year, and of 3,500,0001. next year.— '
(Hear,' hear.) He wished to know if the Houu was i 1

prepared, after the vote to which it had already come,
to go back to a state of matters in which nut only would
there be none of the relief he had proposed to give, but
in which it would be absolutely necessary to impose new
taxes, not only for this year, but for next year also.—
(Hear, hear.) That was a decision which, he believed,
the House was not prepared to sanction, and therefore
he trusted they would negative the proposition of the
Hon. Gentleman.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the
various proposals to which the Hon. Gentleman had re-
ferred for modifying the tax, he would only say, as he
hail done before, that they were very proper questions
to be considered when they came into Committee. He
would not now, therefore, go into the subject of the vari-
ous schedules, but would be prepared to do so very deli-
berately when the time for doing so came. In the mean-
time the question was, whether they should repeal the
income•tax or continue it. He was not prepared to
adopt the first of these proposals, and therefore he hoped
the House would reject the amendment of the Hon.
Gentleman, and reserve for the Committee a full consi-
deration of the various questions that might affect par-
ticular interests.—(Hear, hear.)
Colonel SIBTHOR' asked the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer whether it was his intention to go into Com-
mittee wirh the Bill on Friday next?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it
certainly was his intention, if possible, to go into Com-
mittee on Frid.iy; but, as there were some motions on
the paper which had precedence, he could not say whe
ther he shculd he able to do so or not.

Mr. MACGREGOR considered the schedules upon
which the ir.conie dutiPs were now levied to be in themselves
unjust, but h. would not say anything more on that sub-
ject until the Bill was in Committee. But this he would
say, that rather than abolish the income-tax altogether,
he would vote for it as it now stood, because they could
not abolish it without imposing other taxes of a much
more objectionable character.

Mr. DISRAELI said it appeared to him that the ob-
jections which had been urged by the Hon. Member for
Warwickshire (Mr. Spoono, many of which were very
just, might be brought under consideration when the
House should have res,lved itsflf into a Committee
with much greater eff,,et than on the present ecc,
sion. Under those circumstances, and considering
that his Honourable Friend had had an opportunity
.4 making a very able statement to the House, he
(Mr. Disraeli) did not think it was expedient to carry
the discussion further then. For his own part, he ob-
jected to many of the provisions of the Government
measure, but, at the same time, he was not prepared to
express an opinion to the effect that he was entirely op-
posed to the general scheme of the Government proposi
non. Therefore, seeing that his Hoe. Friend had
already fully given his opinion; on the subject, and con-
sidering that he would again have an opportunity of ex
pressing them in Committee, he trusted his Hon. Friend
would not ask the House to divide on the present oc-
casion.

Mr. SPOONER said he did not wish to press his mo-
tion against the feeling of the House, and he would
therefore certainly consent to withdraw his amendment.
The Hon. Gentleman here paused for a moment, and
then said ho would not withdraw his amendment, but
would prefer having it negatived.
The amendment was then put and negatived.
The Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Friday next.
The Stamp Duties Assimilation Bill, the Exchequer-
bills (17,756,0001) Bill, and the Indemnity Bill were se-
verally read a third time and passed.
The other orders of the day were then postponed.
COMMITTEE ON CUSTOMS.
Mr. MITCHELL moved that Mr. J. L. Ricardo be a
member of this Committee in lieu of Mr. Fagan, who had
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

The CHANCELLOITOITihe EXCHEQUER sug-
gested that some Irish Member should be nominated in
the place of Mr. Fagac,—and the name of Mr. Murphy,
the newly-elected Member for Cork, was mentioned.

Mr. MITCHELL objected to Mr. Murphy, as not
being a man of commercial experience.
The motion was finally withdrawn, with the under-
standing that it should be further considered on a future
day.

SWITZERLAND.

The government of the canton of Tessin°, in Swit-
zerland, has just addressed the following circular to
the commissaries, municipalities, and police agents of
the canton :

" It results from the official reports which have reached
the Council of State that several Austrian deserters have
lately arrived on our territory, and that there is reason
to fear that others may follow their example. Such a
state of things might give rise to serious complications,
and be the means of introducing into our country a class
of persons who would sooner or later become a charge
to the State for want of being able to find an asylum in
the neighbouring States. The Council of State in the
interest of the tax-payers as well as to fulfil its federal
duties, and from considerations of humanity towards
the deserters themselves, invites you to use the
strictest surveillance and to take the measures necessary
to send those deserters back again over the frontiers of
Lombardy from which they had arrived. It is important
that the municipalities of the frontier should not delay
the execution of this measure, in case of need, for their
promptitude will prevent or alleviate the punishment in-
curred by the deserters."

The Government of the Valais, in reply to a letter
from the Sardinian Chargé d'Affaires in Switzerland
relative to the construction of a carriage-road over
the Great St. Bernard, has given an assurance that
the work in that canton shall be completed by the
time those on the Sardinian territory were finished.

THE SEWAGE QUESTION.
MR. DOVER'S DISINFECTING PLAN.

Every one has heard of the convincing argument used
by the Emperor Vespasian in defence of a certain item
of taxation which formed part of the Imperial Budget.
Drawing forth a piece of coin which had formed part of
the contribution drawn from the obnoxious impost, he
placed it under the nose of the remonstrant, and with
the remark, non old mi filius, returned it to his purse,
and Titus no doubt was convinced, for we hear ao
more of his expostulations. Mr. Richard Dover is cer-
tainly the Vespasian of our day, for he proposes to draw
a revenue of somewhere about 3,000,0001 per annum
from those great sinks of impurity and filth which as yet
have produced nothing but infection and disease—the
sewers. If Mr. Dover should succeed in his plan, and
carry out the promises which he makes, we doubt not that
he will find the public of the present day le4s scrupulous
than was the Emperor's son, and perfectly ready to con-
cur with him in any undertaking which will not only
remove an evil of the greatest magnitude, but convert it
into a source of profit and revenue.
On Saturday last we were witnesses of some experi-
ments which that gentleman made, on a large beet., on
some sewage water from the great Essex street sewer.
The scene of his operations was an open space of ground
on the banks of the river, directly over the sewer which
discharges itself into the Thames at the bottom of Essex-
street; and into this grand canal of filth and abomina-
tions he had inserted a pipe, through which, by means
of a force pump, he drew off into a large tank some gal-
lons of dark, filthy, rank-smelling sewage water, which
in a few minutes more would have been precipitated into
"Father Thames," and formed a part of the giant
river so often apostrophised by poets and orators
as waving the shores of the Queen of Cities.
In this tank Mr. Dover had already placed
a portion of the chemical preparation which is the main
point of his discovery, and in a very short time the water
which we ourselves had seen pumped into the tank dirty
and of an almost overpowering odour, emerged through
a tap at the opposite side as pure to the sight almost as
a mountain brook, without the slightest offensive smell,
and which, on being further passed through a common
filterer, tasted not at all unlike a compound of Harrogate
and Cheltenham waters. The result of this part of the
experiment enacted before our own eyes was sufficiently
satisfactory, and if Mr. Dover had no other object in view
than that of rendering our river the pure and silvery
stream which it was in ancient days, we should have no
hesitation in pronouncing hits a public benefactor, and
a more efficient conservator of the Thames than all the
Lord Mayors who ever floated over it in a gilded barge.
But the best part of the plan remains behind, and Mr.
Dover does not let the sewage get off so easily. The che-
mical agent used by that gentleman to purify and deodorize
the stream of filth, acts, by fixing and precipitating all
those matters which emit noxious smells and poisonous
gases, which at the same time are of the utmost value for
agricultural purposes. A residium of these is thus left
at the the bottom of the lade, which, by a drying pro-
cess, is converted into a dark coloured sandy substance, to
which Mr. Dover has most uppropriately given the name
of British guano; a large quantity of this was submitted
to our inspection, and on putting it to the usual test of
foreign guano, that of rubbing it between the hands, we
found it did not discolour them. The practical experi-
ments which have been tried with this British guano in
agriculture have been moat successful, and we are in-
formed that in the growing of turnips it has been found
of the greatest veue. This Mr. Dover calculates could
be sold to the farmer, with a fair profit to the manufacturer,
at 51. per ton; and as this is not one half of the present
market price of foreign guano, it becomes a serious
question whether an extensive manufacture of this article
would not really be a step in the right direction towards
the alleviation of agricultural distress; particularly if
the declaration made by a Noble Duke be correct, that
with guan oat 51. per ton, the British farmer would
grow wheat to a profit at five shillings per bushel.
Mr. Dover proposes to erect works, of which the cost
would be slight when compared with other projects which
have been submitted to the public on the sewage
question, at the exit of each sewer, and
under his management, the dirty puddle of
a Thames which flows through the metropolis
would become a clear limpid stream, no longer the
bearer of poisonous odours and deadly infection—an im-
portant point in the great sanitary question would be
satisfactorily settled for ever, and the tons of agricul-
tural manure which each day are rolled uselessly on to
the ocean, would he arrested, and made the means of
increased fertility to our lands, and increased surplus in
our revenue.

The remuneration which Mr. Dover asks from Go-
vernment for his discovery is so moderate, as to re-
fleet discredit on thwm should they refuse to give him at
least the advantage of a fair trial. They have before
them a simple, efficacious plan for promoting, nay, en-
suring we mid; ht say, the sanitary welfare of the metro-
polis, cause in which they have been for some time
oli
boasting of their great zeal and anxiety, and with them
rests the responsibility if they neglect to take advantage
of the result of Mr. Dover's long experience and un-
wearied efforts. Wo understand that the experiment is
to be repeated in a short time, and we shall then have
much pleasure in announcing any new facts which may
be elicited on a subject which must be of the greatest
importance to every member of the community.

THE BRIBERY AT THE LAST FALKIRK
ELECTION.
On notice being given by Mr. Edward Ellice of his
Royal Commission of inquiry into
the late election for St. Alban's, Mr.
Cobden oen
gaveproceedings mnos a
oTteictfoora that be would move, as an amend-
ment, that the Commission be also required to investi-
gate the proceedings at the late election for the Falkirk
District of Burghs. It will perhaps be alleged as an
objection to the amendment, that there can be no
necessity to inquire into this case, seeing that the par-
ties who petitioned against the return of Mr. Bairn
withdrew the petition without bringing it to trial, from
want of evidence, apparently, to support the charges it
contained. Should some Member of Parliament in his
ignorance make such an objection, Mr. Cobden, we be-
efrom preliminary investigations which
a
to show that there is a great
l ireev
a,t willrr e s bee n able,t
being
rnad
reason for inquiry, and that the manner in which
the petition was got up and was afterwards withdrawn,
is as strong an argument for his motion as ally that can
be derived from the proceedings during the election,
as proving that besides the practices alleged to have
been followed at that time, a transaction afterwards took
place, from which it would appear that there is some
one in the burghs assuming the right to manage their
business as it they were his own domain, and as if
Mr. Baird were an interloper whom he alone
could have a right to call iu question. A Londoa
barrister of great experience in election matters spent
several days in this town last week, and is now, we be-
lieve, in one of the other burghs, making minute inquiry
into the practices on both sides during the canvass. He
is not carrying on his investigations with any view to
unseat Mr. Baird, against whose return a second peti.
tion cannot be received. His sole purpose, we believe,
is to collect for Mr. Cobden and the other Mem-
bers of Parliament by whom he has been deputed,
information which shall show the necessity of giving pro-
tection to the voter aga....st undue influence. It is said
the evidence he has already gathered is of a very de-
cided character, and implicates both parties. What-
ever may be the nature of the protection to the voters
intended to be proposed by Mr. Cobden, he will, at all
events, sea from the evidence which will be submitted
to him, that it is in vain to look to universal suffrage.
He will be informed that the night before the nomina-
tion of candidates, three hundred of the unenfranchised
—the men whom Feargus O'Connor delights to honour,
who have cheered his democratic sentiments to the
echo, and who, like that disinterested patriot, are pre-
pared to die for their rights—allowed themselves to be
put in a state of brutal intoxication, and bartered their
vaunted integrity for a few gills of whisky. Some
of them, too drunk for the purpose for which they
were intended, were carried from the scene of
dissipation in carts, which were literally emptied of their
cements in the open fields. It his been jocularly said.
that the opening of the public-houses to these men was
an experiment for the purpose of ascertaining with what
effect the system of treating could be carried on under a
more extended franchise; and it must be acknowledged,
that it fully showed that an extension of the electoral
privilege, without efficient protection to the voter, would
be a moral and social curse b )th to the inlividuals so
admitted to the right of voting and to the community of
which they form a pare—Falkirk Herald.

MURDER NEAR TRURO.
(From the Devonport Independent.)
It has happily been some time since the frightful crime
of murder has been perpetrated in Cornwall; but we are
sorry that we have again to add to the catalogue of
heinous guilt, a murder committed in this county on
Saturday last. The locality where the deed was per-
petrated is called Silverwell, near the Chiverton Arms,
on the road between Truro and St. Agnes, and about five
miles from the former place. 'rho murdered man,
William Kendall, occupied a small farm, and lived in
the house with his wife alone. This was his second
wife, to whom ho had been married about four years.
Her former name was Teague, and she had a son by her
first husband, called Elijah Teague, and now about
17 years of age. This son lived with his mother and
Mr. Kendall until January last, when he went to lodge
at a neighbouring house with Henry Grose; but he still
occasionally worked on the farm for his father-in-law,
who was about 72 year; of age, Ilia father-iu-law

had on Saturday last ridden to Chacewater; and
the young man was on that day working on the
farm, employed in threshing and boiling turnips. His
father-in-law was never more seen alive; but was disco-
vered on Sunday morning dead in his own house, sitting
on a chair in the parlour. There was a large wound
over the centre of his forehead, of an irregular oval
figure, two inchss and a half in length and two incbe
in width. The mortal blows appeared to have
been given with dreadful force; the bones were
broken in, and the surgeon who was called, inserted
his finger on the right aide to the depth of nearly an
inch. Sixty• one pieces of bone were extracted, and
the fissures were driven an inch and a quarter below the
surface of the skull. A hammer was found on the garden
heige, and this hammer fitted into the wound in the
man's forehead. A white hair was found attached to
the end of the hammer, and the surgeon, on a micros-
copical examination, believes it to be a human hair, and
that in all probability it was torn from the deceased's
eyebrow. An inquest has been held on the body, before
Mr. John Carly on, county coroner. The inquiry com-
menced on Monday at eleven o'clock, was continued on
Tuesday, and did not terminate until late on Tuesday
night. The result was, that a verdict of " wilful mur-
der " was returned against the deceased's son-in-law,
Elijah Teague, who was apprehended under the coroner's
warrant, and has been committed to the county gaol at
Bodmin, to take his trial at the next assizes.
The evidence o❑ which the jury grounded their ver-
dict was of a singular character, and wholly eircum-
st rntial. The son in-law was examined at the irqueat,
us well as other witnesses. He states that be found de-
ceased, who had returned from Chacewater, about eighty
yards from his own house, lying on the ground insensi-
ble, with a large wound in his head caused by a kick from
his horse; that be then lifted him up, and carried him into
his own house, his heels dragging on the ground. There do
not appear, however to be any marks of the body having
been thus dragged over the ground. Deceased's wife
was absent at this time, having gone to Henry Grose's
(Elijah Tesgue's lodgings). On her returning and ask-
ing for her husband, Teague said he was in the par-
lour, but he would not allow her to go io, saying the
horse had " thrown" to him, and it would hurry her.
She did not go in, but went went back
to Grose's who called one or two nighbours,
and with them and his wife proceeded to
deceased's dwelling. When they got there they found de-
ceased's wife walking up and down before the house, she
having left Grose's house in the interim, and gone there.
The neighbours found the door locked, and could not find
the key where it was usually placed when no one was at
home. As they could not get in, deceased's wife proposed
th it the door should be lifted from its hinges, but this
was not done, and strange to say, no entry was made into
the place until the next morning, when the old man was
found dead in the parlour, as before described. The sur-
geon, Mr. Moyle, does ❑ot conceive the wound in deceased's
forehead could have been caused by the kick of a horse,
as stated by Elijah Teague, but that the injury was in-
flictof by two or more blows from some heavy instru-
ment. Another circumstance was the fact of Elijah
Teague having been about three hours absent from home
to call a surgeon (according to his own statement), and
an explanation of which he was called on to give in his
evidence. He also pointed out five spots of blood at the
place where he says he found deceased's body before he
took it into the house; but the surgeon gives his opinion
that the spots are not blood that had flowed from a re-
cent wound.

The prisoner's own statement of the circumstance having
been heard, and the evidence of the surgeon, Mr. Moyle,
as well us that of Mary Grose, Henry Grose, and Ed
ward Mitchell, of Tregavethan, the jury, at the adjourned
inquest held on Tuesday, returned a verdict of " Wilful
Murder against Elijah Teague," who was committed to
the next assize for trial. There does not appear in the
evidence anything to show a motive for the committal of
the act, but it is stated in the neighbourhood that there
were frequent disagreements between the deceased and
his son-in-law.

the position in which the market stands, so much un-
steadiness pervades it; and to-day it has had more of ar.
uncertain character than during the last month. On
every hand loud complaints are uttered by producers
that they are offered prices which they cannot accept,
because they heve a reference to what the raw material
is expected to fetch instead of its present cost; and that,
unless they close with these low-priced offers when made,
they are not usually repeated unless accompanied by a
demand for further concession. Still it is remarkable
that we cannot hear of any accumulation of stocks ; pro-
ducers express a decidel repugnance to commence run-
ning short time, and there is a❑ increase of 700 bales in
the average consumption per week (as shown by the de-
mand on Liverpool) compared with the same period last
year, trade there being in a fair state. With such fact•
to be remembered, we are bound to repeat that the
causes which brought about what may be termed the mo-
mentary panic of to-day are not to be stated. Want of
confidence, which has hitherto been manifested solely in
respect to the continuance of toe raw material at its
present high price, is now manifested with respect to
the credit of certain parties; and the fact that one Greek
house has stepped, that some other small manufacturing
firms have failed, and that others are understood to be
asking for time, has led to rumours which we believe to
be exaggerated. The firms that are gone do not, in the
aggregate, represent any very serious amount of loss,
and would scarcely have been noticed at another time.
With a different state of feeling as to the circumstances
we have last named, it is not improbable that a large
business would be done on speculation, for Delia espe-
cially, as the latest accounts received thence warrant the
belief that extensive orders must be transmitted soon,
possibly by the next mail. Some of the shipping helms
seem to be of this opinion, for we understand that large
offers were made in the course of Thursday afternoon;
and we bear of houses that have given out orders much
more considerable than any before this year, though still
below those which they gave last year at this time. The
demand for home languishes, and does not come up to
that of last year.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, April 28.
(Sittinp in Banco.)

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE LONDON DOCK COM

PANY.

Sir F. KELLY baying addressed the Court for some
time on the general facts regarding the accumulation of
the sweepings, but not without interruption on the part
of the counsel for the Crown, was ultimately inter-
rupted by
Sir F. PoLLocx, who stated that in the opinion of the
Court it was desirable that mks should be granted on
both sides, when all poin's should be open both to the
Crown and to the defendants.—Rule nisi accordingly.

JUDGES' CHAMBERS, April 28.
(Before Mr. Ju.itiee Wicarrmest.)
THE QUEEN V. THE REV. JOSEPH SMITH.
In this case, during the list week, a writ of certiorari
wasissued upon an order made by the Lion. Mr. Justice
Coleridge, directed to Mr. W. Carrick, one of the coro-
ners for the county of Cumberland, to return the deposi-
tions taken before him; and an application was subse-
quently made before the same Learned Judge to admit
the Rev. Gentleman to bail, but, owing to an accidental
omission on the part of the coroner to return the depo-
sitions, the Learned Judge declined to make an order.
To-day Mr. J. F. Adams, of the firm of Plucknett and
Adams, Lincoln's Inn-square, the agents for the solici-
tor of Mr. Smith, renewed his application, and said that
as the depositions had been returned, and were then
before his Lordship, he was then in a position to ask the
relief sought; the peculiar circumstances of the case
were no doubt familiar to his Lordship, from the publi-
city given by the press to the evidence taken before the
coroner; and ho felt no doubt that his Lordship, on
reading the depositions, would readily concede that the
case was one which his Lordship would consider as a
fit and proper one for the exercise of the jurisdiction
which the Judge possessed of admitting the prisoner
to bail. On the former application he adduced before
Mr. Justice Coleridge sufficient evidence, by the certifi-
cates of the Learned Coroner and Dr. Graham, to show
that the Rev. Gentleman had been in a state of mind
since the fatal occurrence to render his removal danger-
ous, and call for the sympathy of his Lordship and justify
the application he then made. Notice of the application
had been given to the parties representing the next of
kin of the deceased, as also the coroner; and he (Mr.
Adams) had the satisfaction of producing the consent of
those parties to the prisoner being admitted to bail, and
the only question was, if his Lordship should be of opi-
nion that it was a case for making the order, what
amount of bail was rr quired. The prisoner was in cus-
tody under the coroner's warrant, and he would, there-
fore, ask that the bail to be fixed by his Lordship might
be taken before one of the magistrates fir the county, to
prevent the necessity of the defendant being brought up
by habeas corpus to London.
The Learned JUDGE having read the depositions, said,
he was of opinion it was a fit case for the allowance of
bail, the defendant entering into his own recognizlnces
in 4001., and two sureties in 2001. each.

An order was accordingly made for taking the bail as
fixed by his Lordship before a magistrate, the approval
of bail being in the discretion of such magistrate, upon
which the Ray. Gentleman will be discharged out of cus-
tody until the next [mixes.

The order was fur warded by last night's post to the
proper euthor►ties.

POLICE INTELLIGt;NCE.
HOUSE.ANSION-

Alderman Wilson waited upon the Lord Mayor for
the purpose of requesting his Lordship's assis'ance in
carrying out the alterations► he proposed as to the con-
veyance of the public in omnibuses—alterations which
had been so long considered necessary, on account of the
vast inconvenience arising from the packing of passen-
gers in these vehicles.
The Alderman said, that since the recent convictions

had taken place at Guildhall be had received more let-
ters than he could read, and more applications than ho
could attend to. It was admitted by Nlr. Lewis, who ap-
peared for a great number of proprietors, that the con-
struction of the omnibuses complained of was in the
proportion of ninety-nine out of one hundred illegal.
The clients of that gentleman accordingly pleaded guilty,
and he undertook on the part of 800 of them to have

heir carriages altered with as little delay as possible.
:t was gratifying to know that many omnibuses had
been altered, and the exempla ha.l been followed by
several proprietors who had not been aurora sned at all,
but were satisfied of the rational ground of complaint.
At the same time it was necessary to state that some
proprietors were res dyed not to make the required alte-
rations until compelled to act in compliance with the
orders of the regulations for the public accommodation.
Against some of the refractory parties he bad received
information, and he had ordered informations to issue
for Saturday, and it was his intention to deal with them
according to the strict letter of the law.
The LORD MAYOR said, he also had received com-
plaints upon the subject, and he believed the only mode
of proceeding likely to prove availing would be to et,-
courage those who suffered from the want of room, as
regulated by Act of Parliament, to come forward in the
general cause.
Alderman WILSON said, that on his way to the Man-
sion-house he had been stopped by a gentleman who
complained of the act of a conductor in thrusting a thir-
teenth person into an omnibus when twelve were inside,
all of whom grumbled at the intrusion as illegal, and
calculated to cause intolerable inconvenience, but were
obliged to submit. To meet that case he should direct
a summons to issue, but he wished it to go forth to the
public from the bench of the chief magistrate that the
excuse of want of time to make adequate alterations in
the seats would not be available in cases of future trans-
gression, and that the heaviest penalties would be in-
flicted upon the proof of the admission of an illegal num-
ber, or the admission of more than twelve when the
licence was for thirteen when there was not sufficient
room for the latter number, or unless the proprietors
could show that the corner seats were convenient accord-
ing to the terms of the Act, which required that their
should be sixteen inches in the front of each seat, mea-
suring lengthways in a straight line. A great majority
of proprietors have consented to make the required
alterations, and he thought it would not be justice to
those who had so readily acquiesced in the decision of
the magistrate to allow a few refractory persons to set
the law at defiance and to continue to give annoyance
to the public in the present condition of the metropolis.
The LORD MAYOR said that upon reference to the Act
of Parliament he found that the "convenience" of the
public was particularly and emphatically alluded to, and
he felt convinced that the admission of more persons into
an omnibus, whatever the licence might be, than could
be conveniently accommodated, would be a violation of
the law. He did not consider that the question was
whether the corner seats in omnibuses should or should
not be removed, but whether the accommodation con-
trived suited the convenience of all the passengers; and
he considered, too, that the Act required that there
should be associated together with the sixteen inches
allowance to each passenger other accommodations in
the construction of the public carriage. His Lordship
said he was persuaded that his brother magistrates would
join in carrying out to the full extent the necessary re-
gulations, and that such public notice of their intention
should be given as would arm all omnibus passengers
with the power of, to a great extent, protecting them-
selves. The penalty amounted to WI, and probably a
few convictions of the kind would check the practice
which daily increased of crowding in passengers going
towards the Wert-end. He believed, indeed, that Cheap-
side and Fleet-street presented at that moment many
instances of the inconvenience complained of, and of the
transgression of the law which it was so necessary to
observe.