The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-24 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 24, 1851.

applying for beds when they find it difficult to get ad-
mission at the several unions.

The Loup MAYOR, seeing before him an object very
different from those obstreperous nightly visitors whom
he is obliged to transfer to Bridewell for 14 days' chas-
tisement, said—Well, old lady, what did you mean by
ringing me up last night? The ancient defendant said,
in broad Scotch, that she had comp up to town from
Aberdeen to see her son, but on the way she had somehow
lost his " whereabouts," and, after walking about looking
for him, she was so worn out with fatigue she was obliged
to sit down in the streets, and some good people told
her to call upon his Lordship to have a little conversa-
tion with him, and she wa■ likely to be accommodated
with a lodging.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR said that such an applicant as she
was would not be denied the accommodation she re-
quired if she had applied at the union.
The old woman said she thought her best way was to
go to the magistrate, who was best able to supply her.
She was the widow of an Englishman who was killed at
the battle of Waterloo. Jamie was a Lancashire lad,
and his old lassie hadn't a baw bee in the world; but all
she wanted was a little, very little, Biller to pay for her
victuals bask, for she could walk ten or twelve miles a
day well.
The LORD MAYOR—How did you come to London?
The old woman—l had half•a crown when I left Liver-
pool,whete I worked, and I came thirty miles, at a penny
a mile, by the railroad, and walked the rest of the way.
Jamie is dead, or he wouldn't lot the lassie walk; but
the lassie hasn't got a bawbee.
The LORD MAYOR—And of course you don't want to
stay here? The old woman—Na, na; I want to go back.
The LORD MAYOR—And how much money do you
want to take you back? The old woman—Oh, very
little siller indeed; for the lassie is able to walk well,
though she is auld.
The LORD MAYOR directed that the poor old creature
should be cherished for the day, and supplied with ample
means of returning home, and his kindness and huma-
nity were acknowledged by a hearty blessing.
WORSHIP-STREET.

A middle-aged woman of very ladylike appearance,
whose husband was stated to be one of the chief clerks in
the Bank of England, was charged with felony at the
shop of Mr. Charles Carden, an oil and colourman in
Cross-street, Horton.

The prisoner, who had just got up from her confine-
ment, appeared to be in very delicate health, and was
accompanied by her nurse, carrying a baby in long-
clothes only five weeks old. She seemed completely
crushed by her degrading position buried her face in
her hands and bosom beneath a thick veil, and sobbed
and shuddered convulsively, the only time she turned her
head being to obtain a sight of her infant. Her husband,
a very gentlemanly-looking man, was incessantly pacing
the court in a state of pitiable grief and excitement, and
before his wife was placed at the bar repeatedly adjured
her to tell him why she had so disgraced herselt, but
the woman's utterance was too stifled to give him an
answer.

William Garrett, shopboy to the prosecutor, stated,
that about half-past twelve o'clock that day the prisoner
entered the shop where he was serving aad asked for
two ounces of blue. The witness showed her some blue,
but she said she required a better article than that, and
ho turned round to get some out of one of the drawers
behind him, when, on turning round again to
exhibit the other blue, he saw the prisoner,
who had taken up a position close to a
wooden tray containing common washing soap cut up
into pieces, take one of the pieces of soap out of the
tray, and quickly thrust it into the pocket of her dress.
He took no notice of the theft at the time, but went into
the next shop to his master, leaving the prisoner alone
in the first shop. On acquainting Mr. Carden with
what he had witnessed, the prosecutor returned with
him to the shop, the prisoner still standing in the same
position; but upo❑ again looking at the soap-tray he
found that, short as the interval was that the prisoner
had been left to herself, four more pieces of the soap
had been taken. He then formally accused the prisoner
of the robbery, and the prosecutor went round to her
and seised hold of her hand, she at the same time pull-
ing all fire pieces of the soap out of her pocket now
pruduced. The prisoner then became dreadfully
agi-
tated, and said, " Pray, do let me go; I've got a little
baby at home;" but the prosecutor said he could not do
so, and sent witness fora constable, with whom he shonly
returned, and the prisoner was given into custody. The
soap, which altogether was only worth one shilling, was
then taken possession of by the officer, and the accused
was transferred to the station. The witness added that
he had seen the prisoner at his master's shop on the Sa-
turday preceding, and saw her take a pound of the soap
at that time, a fact which he communicated to his em-
ployer, but the latter did not believe him in consequence
of the prisoner's apparent respectability.
Alworth, a constable of the N division, stated that on
being summoned to the shop of the prosecutor at the
time in question he found the prisoner in the parlour at
the back of the shop in a state of great affliction, on her
knees before the prosecutor, earnestly imploring him
not to give her in charge, and promising to make
any recompense if ho would only forgive her and
let her go. The prosecutor, however, told her he felt it his
duty not to accede to her request, and she was there-
upon given into custody.
Mr. YET/VOW:MT asked the prisoner, with the usual
caution, if she wished to say anything in explanation of
her conduct, and she was apparently about to ejaculate
something, but was immediately stopped by
Mr. Vann, who had been retained by her husband
and who said that, in the face of such evidence, he con-
sidered it most expedient to reserve the defence.
Seeing the delicate state of the prisoner's health, how-
ever, and the peculiar circumstances of the case, he
trusted the magistrate would consent to accept substan-
tial bail for her suture appearance, which could be pro-
cured to any amount the Bench might think proper.
Mr. D'EYNCOURT considered the case clearly esta-
blished, and, having directed the depositions to be taken
by Mr. Vine, the chief clerk, ordered the prisoner to be
fully committed to the Middlesex sessions for trial, but
acceded to the application for bail, which he fixed at
two sureties in 501. each.

The bail was shortly afterwards put in, and ea estate
agent at Stepney and a private gentleman at Vauxhall
becoming her sureties ; and the prisoner, who had
never once raised her head or ceased crying the whole
time she was in court, then left with her husband and
friends.

THE PUBLIC OFFICES.
(From a Sunday Paper.)
So many changes have lately takes place in the
locality of the several public offices, and so many
more are in contemplation, that we think it is not
amiss to publish as accurate a list of those removals
and alterations as can be collected up to the present
time. Many partial statements have found their way
into the papers, which makes it desirable that the
public should know as accurately as possible what
has taken place and what is intended. The expe-
diency of consolidating public departments as much
as possible has long been felt by the Government to
be desirable, with a view to economy and convenience
wherever it could be done. And even before the
attention of the House of Commons had been called to
the subject, efforts were directed to economise, by
bringing together departments of the public service
hitherto carried on under different heads. This sys-
tem of consolidation was specially acted upon when it
was possible to unite two or more departments that
were intimately connected in their working, the one
with the other. In this way much saving of
time and money has been effected in the civil
service of the Crown. Another source of saving as
well as a matter of convenience, in the public service,
has been to bring together under one roof the scat-
tered elements of public departments, which were
spread about in all directions in the most admired
disorder. This state of things occurred in various
ways, chiefly through the difficulty of procuring any
possible resting place in the over-crowded area of
London for all our several branches of the public ser-
vice, owing to our increasing wants and our swarm-
ing population, as well as the high value of property
in all the central and convenient localities of the
metropolis.
The reduction and the consolidation of establish-
ments have done much to diminish the want of ac-
commodation required for each. Theincrease, on
the other hand, of boards and of commissions, created
by the authority of Parliament, has told in the oppo-
site direction. If two or more departments are con•
solidated into one, there is so much space saved—
there is another public building rendered available.
If, on the contrary, a new commission is voted, or a
new board created, by the authority of Parliament, a
local habitation is immediately to be found.
If all our public buildings were collected in one
quarter, it would be perhaps all the better for the
purpose of mutual communication. Messages, a well
as other modes of intercourse, would b e greatly eco-
nomised. If this be true respecting different depart-
ments, how much more important . is it when a single
department is in question. It is easy to elucidate this
by stating what has taken place and what is in con-
templation, both in reference to the reduction of the
establishments themselves, by which an immense
saving has already been effected, and also by bringing
together the department which had been hastily and
unavoidably scattered about under the old arrange-
ments. If it had not been for the creation of new
boards and commissions—for which space had to be
found—the reduction and consolidation of the old
offices would have enabled the Treasury and the
Board of Works to have had at their disposal a very
considerable amount of valuable property. Even as
it is, the more systematic arrangements for combining
the scattered elements of the public service will be
attended with the best results, although there are
many circumstances connected with the old irregular
way of manazing these things that will delay the
perfect consummation of the reforms that are con-
templated.

There can be no better illustration of the evils and
inconveniences that hare gradually grown up with the
increase of business and of population than is to be
found in the separation of the Courts at Westminster,
and of the law offices scattered about the Inns of
Court and Chancery-lane. If people had to begin
now, there is no doubt that all the law offices and all
the law courts would be constructed in and near and
around each other. But that is now found impossible.
It is so with the public-offices, but all approach to such
a condition ought to be effected as nearly as possible
whenever occasion shall arise. This is the doctrine
with which all concerned ought to be regulated, and
we believe that it is a doctrine which gains ground
every day with men in office, as well as with the public.

It is in deference to this general principle that it
has already been settled that the entire of the Ord-
nynce D,p3rtment should be removed into one build-
ing; and the office of the Ordnance in the Tower
will be removed to Pall-mall as soon as the alterations
and extensions going on there shall be completed.
This will be the first great consolidation effected, by
which so many messages will be saved, so many mis-
takes will be rectified, and so many expenses will be
reduced, by concentrating the entire department un-
der one roof

Another—and a greater—concentration will be the
removal of the Excise Department from Broad-street
to Somerset-house, where the Stamps and Taxes are
located, and which are now consolidated with the
Excise under the name of the Inland Revenue. Our
readers are aware that a saving of little less than
200,0001. per annum was effected by Sir Charles
Wood tbreeor four years ago by the reduction in sala-
ries consequent upon uniting these two establishments.
By bringing them both into one locality another large
saving will be made so soon as the new buildings just
commenced at the west wing of Somerset-house shall
be completed, and tivit accommodation can be found
elsewhere for the several establishments which now
occupy that building. Several builings in Whitehall
and its neighbourhood will have to be procured for
these other offices ; but independent of the advantages
of that neighbourhood to the House of Commons and
to Downing-street, it is also to be take❑ into account
that most of the locality is Crown property, and can
be retained for public purposes on the dropping of the
present leases. We believe that even with the pro-
posed buildings on the west side of Somerset-house,
on the ground obtained from the Duchy of Lan-
caster, that the building will not do more than
accommodate the united Board of Inland Revenue,
composed of the old Excise and the Stamps and Taxes.
New locations must therefore be found for the other
public bodies occupying Somerset house. Tais can,
we understand, be gradually accomplished in the
neighbourhood of Whitehall; and all expenses in-
curred in the change will be greatly more than com-
pensated by the sale of the immense concern in Broad-
street now occupied by the Excise, and which will be
at the disposal of the Government by the removal of
that department to Somerset-house.

Already symptoms of the clearing of Somerset-
house for this operation begin to exhibit themselves.
Gwydyr-house is being evacuated for the Poor Law
Board, which is expected to find accommodation for
its entire staff by the addition of some three or tour
rooms to the present building. The exodus from
Gwydyr-house already comprises the Board of Health,
which has been located i❑ Parliament-street, in the
house formerly occupied by the Messrs. Driver, but
the lease of which has lately fallen into the Woods
and Forests. The solicitor of the Treasury and all
his assistants and clerks have also left G wydyr-house,
and gone to the Treasury over the way, where they
will be more appropriately and conveniently placed. I❑
like manner the Lord Advocate of Scotland and the
counsel to the Home-office will vacate their places and
proceed to No. if, New-street, Spring-gardens, which
is in possession of the Woods and Forests. So a:so is
No. 1 in the same street, whither it is likely the
School of Design will be removed from Somerset-
house. It is hoped, also, that the portion of the Ad-
miralty offices which fill so large a place in Somerset
house, may be accommodated at the Admiralty in
Whitehall as soon as the buildings there can be ap-
propriated and altered for the accommodation of pub-
lic offices. The Registrar-General's offices are also
to be removed from Somerset-house.

The Tythe and Enclosure Commissioners are to be
consolidated, and a caving in their establishments will
thus be effected. They will probably occupy a por-
tion of the residence of the late Lord Harrington in
Whitehall gardens, which is finally to revert to the
Crown, but the lease of which, in so convenint a lo-
cality, will be secured for public purposes.
The offices of Woods and Forests and Public
Works have been divided by the Act of last session.
The office of Works is removed to 12, Whitehall-
place, with Lord Seymour as the head, which will in
future be the Parliamentary and Cabinet office. The
office of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenue, under
the superintendence of the Treasury, like all the other
public revenues of the country, will continue at the
old place, 1 and 2, Whitehall-place, and will be pre-
sided over by the Hon. Charles Gore and the Right
Hon. T. F. Kennedy, the former permanent Commis-
sioners of the board.

THE CO UN T

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 22.-1
prices unchanged from yest,
e. d , e. d

Wheat, per 701 b —1
English, white ~ 5 10 to 6 3

Do. red .. 5 4 5 6
Irish, best red .. 4 8 5 2
Do, lower quality 4 6 5 01
Manx, red and wh. 4 10 5 3

Dantsic, high mixed 6 6 6 10

t Y MARKETS.
'he demand is steady to-day
3rday.

Do., mixed .. .. 5 6 6 0
Rostock, &c.. .. 5 6 6 0
Hamburgh and
Lower Baltic .. 4 10 5 3
American & S' white 5 6 5 10
Canadian, 1 red 5 0 5 4

d. 1. d.
Do. Meal, perl96lb 15 0 to 16 0
Barley, English, pr
imperial quarter 26 0 28 0
Irish, Scotch, and
anx,per 601 b.. 3 8 3 10
Foreign, grinding 3 0 3 6
aye, par 601 b .. 3 6 3 9
Boans, English, pr
imperial quartr 32 0 34
Irish and Scotch,

per 4801 b.. .. 27 0— 30 0
Dutch .. .. 30 0— 32 0
Egyptian .. .. 23 9 24 6
Peas, English, per
imperial quartr 34 0 36 0
Foreign .. 32 0 33 0
Oats, per 451b:—
English, Scotch,

Antwerp &LOuvain 5 6 5 8
French, red.. .. 5 7 5 9
Hungarian and
.sfarlaropoli .. 5 0 5 2
Odessa, Polish 4 10 5 0
Do., common .. 4 6 4 9
Egyptian .. 3 8 4 0
Flour, English &
Irish, per 28011 27 0 29 0
Do., extra line 30 0 32 0
United States, per
barrel .. . 19 0 22 0
Canadian .. .. 19 0 20 0
Indian corn, per
4801 b, white .. 29 0 29 61
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 22 --"
the week has not been by al
have been steadily matotai
this morning was pretty well
and flour met a free sale at

and Welsh, old 3 5 3 6
Irish, no- rest
mealin; .. 2 8— 2 9
Do., feeding .. 2 3 2 5
Do., foreign .. 3 0 3 2
Oatmeal, English,
&Scotch,pr24olb 24 0 25 0
Irish, new .. .. 22 3 —23 0
Do., pinhead .. 25 0 26 0

The demand for fLur during
ny means active, still prices
fined. Our Corn Exchange
I attended by buyers. Wheat
the extreme rates of our last
teal, and brans, we note no
for each is quite Equal to the

market day. In oats, oatm
alteration, but the demand f
supply.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 2S.—The trade during the week
has continued to exhibit much firmness, and a fair con-
sumptive demand has been experienced f all approved
marks and qualities of flour on fully previous terms.
Oatmeal has moved off steadily, but by no means tr.( el),
without material change in value. The arrivals of oat-
meal from Irt land at Liverpool and Runcorn are this
week to a fair amount, but scanty of other produce
thence, and from our own coast the supplies continue on
a very limited scale. From abroad the imports of wheat
and flour are liberal, but of Indian corn only moderate.
At our market this morning there was again a very firm
feeling exhibited by holders of wheat and flour, and the
beat qualities of both articles must be noted the turn
dearer. In the value of either oats and oatmeal no change
was observable, but the latter sold more readily than
during the week.

NOTTINGHAM, Nov. 22.—At Newark, on Wednesday,
much business was done in nearly all kinds of grain at
last week's prices, factors thereby driving good bargain,
as all rates have since risen and appear still to be on the
rise. Large quantities of wheat changed hands, and the
same may be said of barley. Oats and beans were not
so much
in request, but were not of less value than in-
dicated in previous reports. Wheat., white, 39s to 41s;
red, 353 to 395; barley, for milling, 27s to 30s; for
grinding, 21s to 24,; oats, 17s to 265; beans, 283 to 345.
At Worksop, on Wednesday, the grain market was
well attended, and a large amount of business was
transacted. Wheat sold much as last week, being 14s
to 14s 6d per load of three bushels for white of good
quality. Barley in good supply at from 263 to 29, per
quarter. Other grain as before. At Melton there was
a better attendance than for some time past, and trade
brisker. Wheat nearly 2s dearer than the previous quo-
tations. At Derby yesterday and at Melton to-day both
wheat and beans commanded rather more money. We
had a moderate supply of wheat at our own market to-
day. An advance was generally asked, but reluctantly
given. The trade may be called very firm, at a little over
last week's rates. The show of barley was large, sales
were in favour of the buyer, but wo retain our quota-
' Hons. Old and new beans were is per quarter dearer.
In oats there was no change.
Itxanisio, Nov. 22.—Wheat, per qr, 30s Od to 48s ; barley,
251 to 32s ; oats, 155 to 22s Od ; beans, 25e to 34s ; peas,
26s to 32s per qr; average price of household wheats, Os to.
to Os. Poultry—Fowls, 3s Od to -Is Od ; ducks, 3s Od to 4s 6d,
geese, 5s Od to bs 6d ; turkeys, each, us Od. Butter, is to
Is Id. Eggs, 9to 12 per Is.
DALICEITH, Nov. 20.—The relative weight per four bushels
of the three prices of wheat were..1..8.5t..1.0..13b7,155116.td11tb,
16stand 1461bst,
41b. Oats, 13st 01b, 12st 01b, and lOst 11111 Barley,
15st 111 b, and 14st 81b. Peas and beans. I9st 21b, 19st 211),
sad 18st 31bs.
Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior.
xi 17 0 £1 7 0
278 Wheat ... £2 2 0
0 18 0 0 13 4
1666 Oats
1 '2 6 0 18 0
1068 Barley 1 6 6
1 15 0 1 10 0
24 Peas and Beans 1 16 0
Od. 15s 6d
per e rl6s bushel; Od,
Average of wheat.
..........37s
21s Od to 22s
AREEDZIN, Nov. 21.—Grain—Oats
401bs per bushel; foreign oats, 00s Odbtuosheis;
barley, 215 Od to 22s Od. 521bs per
ud, 521bs per bushel; wheat 000dstope4r2ss;aocakt.meapr,olv2issi.30dntso2B3see
per boll ; flour, 29s to 30s
4d to 6d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 6d; veal, ditto, 4d
to 6d ; pork, per stone,
° 30sdOdtoto 33586d6d;
;lamb,pr per peck, lb, 4d to 6d ;
potatoes, tallow, per stone, ~
4d to 6d ; rabbits, each, Od to. Od; hares, each, Os
to Os Od ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os , butter, per Ib, 8d to 90 ;
eggs, per doz, 10d tots ; •
cheese,
er cwt, 188 to 2.3 s Od ; hens,
per pair, 2s 6d to 3s Od; chickens, 2 1 s ditto, fid to Os Od; ducks, do.,
Is 6d to 2s Od; ducklings, ditto, sto 2s 6d; turkeys, per pair, 7s
to 8s Od; geese, ditto, 7s to 8a ; butter for exportation (present
cure), per cwt, 68s to 00s; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, Od
to 7d; 41b loaf, cash, 5d ; credit, 6d ; pork, per stone of 141 b-,
Os Od to Os Od; pork fine, small, 55 6d to Os Od ; pork, large
3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of '204 Ibs, Os to Os
Meal—Oatmeal, Is 3d to Is 4d; barley dust, 8d to Od;
peasemeal, Is 7d to Is 8d; side, Od to 6d; beremeal, Is 2d
to Is 3d; flour, Is 7d to is 8d; barley, per lb, lid told; barley
flour, ls 3d to is 4d.
GLASGOW CATTLE ITAREET, Nov. 20.—At our market
to-day the numbers were—oxen, 1,013; sheep. 2,472.
Owing to the large supply of cattle sales were slowly
effected. Best ox beef realised 425.. current 40s, and
inferior from 30s to 36s per cwt., sinking the offal. At
the close of the market a great number were turned out
unsold. The scarce supply of sheep caused sales to be
easily effected. Best aged wethers brought sd, current
sd, inferior 3d to 4d per lb; all sold.
DUBLIN, Nov. 21.—We have no alteration to report
in the currencies of our corn market since Tuesday, but,
with the exception of malting barley, every article met
rather adull sale to-day. Indian corn and foreign wheat
were difficult of sale at Tuesday's prices. Wheat, white,
new, 18s to 22s 6d; red ditto, 178 sa to 21s; bere, 103 to