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THE LONDON GAZETTE, May 9.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
e E. Ridley, Leicester, linen-draper and mercer, May
30, at one—W. Tiley, Reading, Berkshire, common
brewer, May 30, at half-past one—W. Collins, Rugby,
Warwickshire, tailor, May 30, at half-past one.
In. the Country.
A. G. Robinson, Leicester, woolstapler' May 30, at
half-past ten, at the Court, Nottingham—S. Leviugtou,
Devizes, Wiltshire, grocer and t3eedealer, June 6, at
eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J. Holland, Preston, Lan-
cashire,' tallow-chandler and soap-merchant, June 2, at
twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Houston, Whitby,
Yorkshire, hotel-keeper, June 20, at eleven, at the
Court; Leeds.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
J. Robinson, Stanwix, Cumberland, cattle-dealer, ls.
11d., on Saturdays, between ten and three, at the office
of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
W. B. Harrison, Sunderland, draper, 3s. 9th on Satur-
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Newcastle upon-Tyne.
G. Charnock, West Derby, Lancashire, baker and
provision-dealer, 3s. 9d., on Wednesdays, between eleven
and two, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
J. Blain, Liverpool, stationer, 23. 9d., on Wednesdays,
between cloven and two, at the office of Mr. Morgan,
Liverpool.
Brown and Todd, Liverpool, provision dealers, 5d.,
on Wednesdays, between eleven and two, at the office of
Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
W. Laycock, Liverpool, iron merchant, ls. Bd.' on
Wednesdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Morgan, Liverpool.
Golborne and Dobbs, Liverpool, wino merchants, sixth
dividend, ld., on Wednesdays, between eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
J. Cheshire, Hartford, Cheshire, salt manufacturer,
61, on aVeesdays, between eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
T. Andrevce, Southampton, ironmonger, 25., cn Tues-
day, May 13, or any subsequent Tuesday, between
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-
chambers, Basinghall-street.
J. Nash and T. Neale, Reigate and Dorking, bankers,
35., on Wednesday and Thursday, May. 21 and 22, or any
subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the
office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers,
Basinghall-
street.
S. Tutor, Staines, grocer, 3s. 4d., on Tuesday, May
13, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and
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Basinghall-street.
B. Angle, Moorfields, victualler, Bd., on Tuesday, May
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C. Scarfe, Hall-street, City-road, timber merchent,
33. 10d., on Tuesday, May 13, or any subsequent
Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Pennell, Guildbalacharebers, Besinghall-street.
W. Heygate, Watford and Chardstock, brickmaker,
3s. 4d., on Tuesday, May 13, or any subsequent Tues-
day, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell,
Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street.
A. Mitchell, Cardiff, Glamorgan, draper and tea
dealer, lid., on Wednesday, between eleven and one, at
the office ot,Mr. Hutton, Bristol.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall•stroet.
J. H. Brown, Norwich, wine and spirit merchant,
May 31, at eleven—J. Buttroy, Woolwich, victualler
and hetelkeeper, May 31, at twelve—R. Avant), Canter-
bury, felluaonger, May 30, at eleven.
In the Country.
11. Collings, Wickwar, Gloucestershire, farmer, June
3, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—H. Smith, West
Bromwich, builder and upholsterer, June 3, at twelve,
at the Court, Birmingham.
CERTIFICATES GRANTED.
W. Waterman, Sheffield, grocer, a certificate of the
first class, 21 days after May 3—T. Truly, Bicester, Ox-
fordshire, hardwareman, a certificate of the second class
—W. Neck, juu., Torre, Devonshire, corn and hay
dealer, a certificate of the second class—T. Tappenden,
Friendly-place, Old Kent-foad, tailor, a certificate of
the third class—J. Thompson, Piccadilly, linendraper, a
certificate of the third class.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
Y. J. Moore and C. R. Huxley, Mount-street, Gros-
venor-square, medicated vapour practitioners—J. and G.
Peppiatt, New Norfolk-street,St. Leonard, Shoreditch—
J. Hulme and W. Pownall, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk
manufacturers—R. Goddard and J. Hartshorn, Notting-
ham, designers—J. J. Welsh, J. S. Illargetson, G. E.
Mitchell, E. Price, and T. Welsh, Cheapside and else-
where, stock and brace manufacturers (so far as regards
the said G. E. Mitchell)—J. Trippett, F. T.,Garrettson,
and J. Trippett, Liverpool, provision merchants (so far
as regards the said F. T. Garrottson)—W. Ogden and
J. Hadfield, Lees, Lancashire, cotton spinners—H.
Bright and IL Woodmansey, Doncaster, silversmiths—
J. Park and J. A. Dowdeswell, Pillgwenlly, Monmouth-
shire grocers—E. Bilton and G. Newsome, Somersall,
Yorkshire, plumbers and glaziers—L. Smith and D.
Conolly, Manchester, cotton manufacturers—J. Rabone,
J. Labone, jun., and W. IL Rabone, Birmingham, rule
`manufacturers (so far as regards the said W. H.
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'Glover, Salford, Lancashire, starch and gum manufac-
tutors—G. A. Levick and J. M. Dolby, Market Rasen,
Lincolnshire, chemists and druggists—J. W. Hollings-
worth and J. T. Hollingsworth, Watford, Hertford,
butchers—G. Myers and A. Wolff, Birmingham, cigar
manufacturers—J. Gumbrell, sen., and J. Gambrel!,
jun., Dunsfold, Surrey, farmers—W. Whitaker and A.
Porter, Coopers-row, Tower-hill, wine and spirit mer-
chants—J. Perry and G. F. Bloxsome, Eaton-square and
Eecleston-street, Pimlico, surgeons.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Alfred Green, Ramsgate, Kent, journeyman cabinet-
maker.
Robert Hills, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, farmer.
Frederick John Clark, Mildonhall, Suffolk.
George Foat, Ramsgate, Kent.
Robert Barton, Walsall, Staffordshire.
Thomas Ackling, Inglaworth, Wiltshire, general shop
keeper.
Thomas Knights, Lowestoft, Suffolk, coal-dealer.
Ann Bloxham, Soatham,War wickshire, licensed victualler.
John Goodenough, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire,
carpenter.
William Tripp, Binfield, Berkshire, licensed victualler.
William Tindale, Askew, Yorkshire, farm servant.
John Johnson, East Horsley, Yorkshire, farmer.
Charles Lister, Green Hemmerton,Yorkehire, stonemason.
Thomas George, Oxford, tin-plate worker:
William GratyShrewsbury, carpenter. -
Thomas Dennis, Torrington St. John's, Norfolk, buteaer.
John Norton, Blue-town, Isle of Sheppy, Kent, Inland
Revenue officer.
John Martin, Chew Stoke, Somersetshire, farmer.
Charles blingsby, Wintringleam, Lincolnsbire, ship car-
penter.
Robert East, Wiaterton, Lincolnshire, common carrier.
William Mating Quy, Carlton, Cambridgeshire, licensed
victualler.
Wm. Armstrong, Great Finhorough, Suffolk, carpenter.
William. Clayton, Burton-upon-Humber, Lineolwhire,
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METROPOLITAN SANITARY ASSO-
CIATION.
On Saturday evening the Metropolitan Sanittery As-
sociation and the friends of sanitary reform held their
first public festival at Gore Honig, Kensington, under
the auspzeas of M. Soyer, who, for the first time, threw
open the portals of his univereal 'symposium for the en-
tertainment of a public body. The banquet was laid out
in the baronial hall in the grenn4s, which was elegantly
fitted up for the occasion. The Walls were hung with a
number of paintings, the produceions of Madame Soyer.
Behind the chairman was a trophy emblematical of the
gratin banquet supplied by M. Soyer, at York, to his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the mayors of the
different English cities and boroughs. Chinese lanterns,
euspended from the ceiling, diffused a mellow and
pleasant light over the brilliant pageant below, and the
tables were decorated with a profusion of plate, rare ex-
otics in vases, and silvered mirror globes which multi-
plied and reflected the brilliant scene. A military band
was in attendance, but concealed; from the view of the
eeecte.tors ' and tho gallery at the end of the ball was
tilled with ladies.
The chair was occupied by the Earl of Carlisle, and
on either side were the Right Rev. the Bishop of Ripon,
the Right Hon. Viscount Ebrington, M.P.; Dr. Wilson;
the Right Hon. Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P.; the
Right fon. Lord Ashley, M.P.; Lord Moreton; 13.
Bond Cebbell, Esq, M.P.; Hon. W. F. Cowper,
H. T. Hope, Esq., M.P.; R. Ai Sleney, Esq., MP.: W.
Evart, Esq., NI.P.•, W. J. Evelyn, Esq, M.P.; R. G.
Babington, 111. D.; W. Baker, Esq., coroner for
Middlesex; Charles Cschrane, Esq.; J. W. Barnett,
Esq.; Sir B. Broths; George Craikshaek, Esq ;
Charles Dickens, Eiq.; Rev. T. G. Driffield; Hon.
Dudley F. Fortescue; Georeo Godwin, F.R.S.; R. D. '
Grainger F.R.S.; Rev. H. &Worth; Colin Mackenzie,
Esq.; J. C. Morris, Esq., F.R.S.; '3. J. Rammell, Esq.,
F.G.S.; H. Roberts,' F.S.AW-Willittra Rogers, E-sq.,e
barristerest-law • Dr. JeSoutliwood Smith; H. R. Vii it-. 1
hams, 11sq.; W. Lusignan, M.A.; Adolphus Bar-
nett, Esq., !IP., and about 170 other gentlemen.
The banquet was one every way characteristic of the
high ,artistic and culinary character of M. Soyer—the
wines were unexceptionable, the champagne bier: frappi,
and all the accessories in excellent taste.
Mr. Harker officiated as toast-master.
The Noble CHAIRMAN gave " The Health of her Mas
jesty the Queen," " His Royal Highness Prince Albert
and the rest of the Royal Family," adverting to the
great interest his Royal Highness had always taken in
promoting the sanitary improvement of the dwellings of
the working classes. "'she Church," which was re-
sponded to by the Bishop of Riper —" The Army and
Navy," responded to by Dr. Gilchrist.
The CHAIRMAN sad—My Lords nod Gentleman, in
yoer attention to the present sentees, I feel that
there is eat.) thing above all others I ought to bear in
mind, and that is, to commit no trespass against the re-
cognised lava of health. Now an address after dinner
of undue length would, I am convinced, undoubtedly bo
such a trespass—(A laugh)—bad, perhaps, for the diges-
tion and elmost dangerous, and on the part of those who
hear it, calculated to disturb that placidity of temper
which we are told ought to follow, especially upon such
a meal as that of which we have just partaken.—(Hear,
hear.) I think we shall find in Shakspere, who always
hits the right nail on the head, that the true thing to
wish for on these occasions is " may good digestion wait
on appetite and health on both."—(Cheers.) I feel,
moreover, that it is not for me to impress on such a
company as this, which, by its very presence, gives an
assurance of its own conviction, the importance
and digeity of what is called the sanitary cause—
(Cheers)---a cause which has its business with
deaths that may be prevented—(Hear, hear)—
since, as we know, in districts where from accident more
favourable sanitary condition exists, these deaths do not
occur—(clear)--with deaths arising from epidemic end
contagious diseases, which amount to some 50,000 in the
course of every year—(Hear)—with deaths consequently
outstripping in numbers the carnage of the most destruc-
tive campaigns and the most protracted wars—with
deaths, moreover, which strikes down those whom our
modern warfare especially saves, and cats off one-half in
some districts of all who are born before they reach five
yearsur
t_
o
le or
ain fine, which threaten all,
whofi the many walks of humble
eewi
dcheers.) Such a cause as this is surely one
of i
those t h
deaths,
a importance, which we should do all we can to
ibes.especiallyt
increase in the appreciation of all classes. I have alluded
to the claims and the dangers of humble labour. Wo
have, indeed, close to where we sit, a remarkable build-
ing, which is in itself a shrine of labour, but while we
gaze on the large area of its vast extent, on the won-
drous results of its harmonious and completed combina-
tions, on all their gorgeous magnificence, let us
not refrain from tracing them back to that
crowded workshop, that damp cellar, and that
stifling garret, in which so much of that col-
lected mass of ingenuity and splendour has
been elaborated.—(Loud cheers.) Anti we shall derive,
perhaps, not the least precious lesson which the Crystal
Palace itself, in all its complicated maturity, and in all
its glittering.nuity, eon tranaferring our care
from the work to the workmen, wherever it may be his
lot to weave the slender thread or guide the ductile
metal, we study as best we can to surround the scene of
his daily labour with some portion of the decencies, the
comforts, and the enjoyments with which he so plenti-
fully enriches our own.—(Loud cheering) There is too
much reason to fear that the stimulus of drink is often
resorted to us a diversion to the depressing effects of an
uncleanly house or a polluted atmosphere.—(Hear,
hear.) And it is well known that the typhus fever se-
lects a large proportion of its victims from among the
adult population, and in the full vigour of bodily labour.
—(Hear, hear.) And, if I may borrow another hint
from the immediate subject under discussion, and the
place in which we are mot, and the recollection of
which, if I may so speak, must still linger on your
palates—(Cheers and a laugh)—.l would beg to re-
mark that nothing can be so little sanitary as bad
cookery.—(Great laughter.) I am not without reverence
for the substantial and invigorating qualities of our old
English fare, but I think we should be carrying the
spirit of nationality very far if we did not admit that
with respect to our culinary character we are somewhat
hasupo
near eoaadrye- ardemalliyrathbleinkdisbp:simatioyn tdooente
deficient in variety and resources.—(Hear, hear.) And
I would observe that our worthy host here, M. Soyer,
edrialaw3'heidchanl
sub-
stantial service, if, besides exercising these more recon-
dite mysteries, which qualify him to take his place
with Vete', Ude, and Careme, he should communicate
to our English kitchens some of those arts which would
render them at once more cheap and more versatile than
they have hitherto been.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.")
I believe it will be found an almost unfailing rule that
the best articles and the beat methods are in the long
run the most economical. And if this were .the fitting
opportunity I believe it could be satisfactorily shown
that the sanitary cause rests its claim to public support
as triumphantly upon the ground of financial and econo-
mical reform as upon any other. After some further
remarks, the Noble Chairman gave " The Metropolitan
Sanitary Commissioners."
Tho toast was drunk with great enthusiasm.
Lord R. GROSVENOR said—Gentlemen, some twenty
years ago I joined that almost forlorn hope, the So-
ciety of Metropolitan Improvement. This I may' say,
was really a forlorn hope at that time, for we had to at-
take a frightful mass of evil, 'which we have been gra-
dually overcoming over since. However, lam happy to
say, in the language of the lawyers, that there is Another
gentleman about to follow on my side who really has
taken upon himself the principal burden of the acting
committee of this association, I mean the Rev. Mr.
Herne, who is much more able than I ern to throw some
light on, and to give some notion of the proceedings of
this society. Before I will permit him to follow nee, as
I am senior in the case, I beg to be permitted to say a
few words in reference to the immediate question before
us. I say that, viewing the state of things as they
existed twenty years ago, and as they now are, I must
be permitted to congratulate you on the position you
now occupy. You have obtained the prohibition of
Parliament to intramural interments. Do not then
say that this society has been called together for no
purpose. You have obtained the abolition of the in-
come-tax—(Loud laughter)—l mean you have ob-
tained the abolition of the window-tat.—(Loud cheers.)
Gentlemen, you are very powerful, but I do not suite
think that you have arrived at the amount of steam
power which I had attributed to you when I said that
you have obtained the abolition of the income-tax. It was
a lapses linguce. But you have accomplished, after all,
that which is more important as regards sanitary matters
—I mean the abolition of the window-tax.—(Cheers.)
You have,
.besides that, obtained the prospect of a eon-
tinuous supply: of good and wholesome water; and I
trust that we shall not be disappointed in our expesta-
dons upon this head—namely, a continuous supply of
the purest water to the poorest classes in the metropolis.
And you have nearly obtained another thing, and I trust we
shall get it; but, to follow the shim of Lord Castlereagh,
" We should not holloo until we are out of the woods' I
refer to the abolition of one of the greatest nuisances we
have to complain of in this town. I hope that you sill
obtain this boon—that the decent and respectable lan-
guage of the cattle-drivers shall not be any longer heard
in the streets of this metropolis—(Cheers)—that that,
agreeable titillation which is applied to the unfortunate
animals that are driven to Smithfield shall not be per-
mitted any longer—that that:peculiar perfume which is
engendered by the congregation of so much cattle shall
be removed—and that the sewers of the citizens Lear
that locality shall be no longer overpowered by the
filth that is distributed in the immediate vicinity of
Smithfield Market. All these advantages you
have obtained, or nearly obtained; but you have, not
quite obtained all yet. There is something still to
be
sought after. I do offer you mysincere congratula-
tions upon the altered position in which you now stand
to that which you occupied when I first joined your
association. The Noble Lord concluded by wishing
every success to the Metropolitan Sanitary Associa-
tion.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. HUME also ackeowledged the toast.
Lord CARLISLE then gave " Tho Sanitary Reformers
in Parliament."
Viscount EBRINGTON would not say he wished the
duty of responding to the toast had fallen upon a greater
veteran in the service, for although Lord Robert Gros-
venor had said th twenty years ago he had joined
societies established for the purpose of sanitary reform;
he believed be might say, that prior to the year 1641,

iho year in which he first entered Parliament, the cause
of sanitary reform could not be considered to have be-
come a Parliementary question. Although allusion
was made in the reports relating to the factory question.
and the papers connected therewith, to the health of
factory workers and their dwellings, all of which re-
marks originated in the almost prophetic sagacity of
that invaluable friend of his whose name was almost
indissolubly bound up with sanitary reform (he
meant Mr. Chadwick). and although in some of the
poor-law reports remarks were to be found, indeed ho
might say, very elaborate reports, by Dr. Southwood
Smith and others, of tho amount of preventable
diseese and: death arising from want of proper
drainage, and although calculations had been actually
made as to the cost of the requisite alterations, yet he
believed that previous to the completion of the inquiry
into the sanitary condition of the metropolis, and indeed
of the whole kingdom of Great Britain (he feared Ire-
land was not included), which was instituted by the
Bishop of London in 1839, he believed, ho said, that
prior to that inquiry no view had been presented to
Parliament of sanitary reform as a social and religious
question. He believed that until that time the public
had not been made aware that pestilent* and death—
the great check to population—were two of the greatest
scourges under which the labouring and industrial
classes of the population were suffering, and were two
of the main causes of distress among those classes.
Until then they did not seem to be aware, or the fact
had not struck them, that next to a criminal population
the most expensive was a diseased population. He said
that since he entered Parliament a mighty
change had been effected throughout the civilised
world in the view taken of this question. He duly
appreciated the difficulty in which the Government
was placed.• He admitted that to deal with the " august
monopolies," and the " concentrated ignorance," strong
pressure from without was required; but he could not
help reminding gentlemen present that they were the
Metropolitan Sanitary Reform Association, and that it
was from them that the necessary pressure must come,
and such a pressure, moreover, as would cause this me-
tropolis to be dealt with in the same manner in which
less important places were dealt with. To effect the
thorough drainage of this metropolis he thought was im-
possible
while the duty was entrusted to a large and no- I
plid body of commissioners, who as long as they were
unpaid, and had other business to attend to, would never
execute what was required from them. A regular mid
body was necessary for this; and also, he might aid, that
until the privilege of supplying this great city with
water was pieced upon such a footing that it was no
longer in the hands of persons who could make it a
commercial speculation, he feared ant even a paid
board could do nothing. In conclusion, the Noble Lord
thpialLed the company in the names of the sanitary re-
formqrs in Parliament, and begged to aseuro them
that he for one, so long as he rernainad a Member of
Parliament, would do his duty in the cause which they
had met to commemorate. Tao Nob'a Lord sat down
amidst loud cheers.
Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, in proposing " The Board of
Health," said ho was placed in that awkward position
which involved the necessity (if ho faced the chairman)
of turning his back upon the company; and if he faced
the company he must necessarily turn his back upon the
Noble Chairman—(Laughter)—but as the company
formed the majority, he thought, with the chairman's
permission, he should pursue the wisest course by turn-
ing to the more numerous body, especially as he thought
that course would be most acceptable to the chairman
himself. Few were the words which were left for him
to say to them, either upon the need there was for sani-
tary reform, or as to the usefulness of the Metropolitan
Association. No man could estimate the amount of mis-
chief which was born of dirt ; no man could say it
stopped here or there in its morel or physical effscts,
when both were begun in the cradle and were not at
rest in the miserable grave.—(Bear, hear.) The air
that was generated in Gin-lane would be carried by a
stray wind into May-fair ; and when pestilence raged
in St. Giles's no list of lady patronesses, however long,
could keep it out of Almack's.—(Hear, hear.) Twelve
or fifteen years ago, some of the valuable reports of
Mr. Chadwick and Dr. Southwood Smith much enlarged
his (Ur. Dickens's) previously imperfect knowledge
of those truths, and made him earnest in his sphere
of helping on the sanitary cause. He could honestly
declare that all the use ho had since made of his eyes
and nose—(Laughter)—had only strengthened his con-
victions that a searching sanitary reform must precede
all other remedies, and that even religion could ,do
nothing until the way was paved by cleanliness and de-
cency.—(Cheers.) He did not want authority for that
opinion. The speech of the Right Rev. Prelate (the
Bishop of Ripen), who was a true sanitary reformer,
they could have thirdly listened to without emotion. Of
what utility was it to send missionaries to masses of
miserable men and women condemned to live, degraded
and filthy in their persons and habits, in the most
wretched holes and dens? Putting himself in the posi-
tion of one of those poor benighted and neglected persons
he would ask what natural chord of feeling remained
in his bosom? Was it the remembrance of his children?
That remembrance was of sickness, distortions, scrofula,
and fever. Had it reference to his hopes, his latent
hops, of immortaliy ? He was so surrounded with
material filth, that his soul could not rise to the contem-
plation of immortality. Or, supposing he was a mise-
rable child, bred and nurtured in some noisome place,
and admitted in these better days into a ragged school,
what could the few hours' teaching that they gave him
even there do for him against the force of the vicious
and ever-renewed example of his whole existence.--
(Hear, hear.) Give him his first glimpse of heaven
through a little of its light and air.—(Loud cheers.)
Give him water—help him to be clean; lighten this
heavy atmosphere in which his spirit flagged, and in
which he became the indifferent and callous creature
that they saw him. Gently and kindly take the deco
body of his relation out of that close room in which he
grew to be so familiar with the change of death, that
even its sanctity was lost amid the surrounding filth and
squalor, and then he would listen—oh, how wiliingly—
or Hire whose thoughts were so much with the poor,
and who had compassion for all of human suffering.—
(Applause.) The toast he (Mr. Dickens) had to pro-
pose was, the health of those without whose assistance
that which was so much to be desired could never be
carried into effect. His toast was " The Board of Health,"
and while recommending this toast to their notice he
would make a passing allusion to the transparent palace
so near them, which was an illustration of the fact that
no groat thing no ever be done without a quantity of
abuse and a number of absurd rumours being heaped
upon it. They had, no doubt, all heard of that unfor-
tunately always-in-difficulties and never-to-be-too-
much-respected lady, and his very old friend, " the
unprotected Female. —(Laughter.) At a family
dinner party, where he last heard from that venerated
lady, she was seriously alarmed for the sparrows in
that certain casks of gunpowder had been smuggled into
Mth re. PEaxxht oibni'tsi
Exhibition
a s
us glass-palace, are, for she mysteriously hinted
the semblance of coffee.—
(Laughter.) Those dark lints of the old lady wore very
much of a piece with the names which had been applied
to the Board of Health. That Board had been called a
Board of " centralization," and, therefore, it was con-
demned. He thought that in the time of the cholera
the public had a pretty good opportunity of judging
between this so-called centralization and what he might,
he thought, call " vettrylizetion."—(Loud laughter.) He
dared to say that the company present had read the re-
ports of the Cholera Board of Health, and he dared to
say they had also read reports of certain vestries.—
(Laughter.) He had the honour of belonging to a con-
stituency which elected that amazing body—the Mary-
lebone Vestry—(Laughter)—and he thought that if! the
company present would look to what was done by the
Board of Health at Glasgow, and then contrast those
proceedings with the wonderful cleverness with which
affairs were managed at the same period in the parish of
Marylebone, there would be very little difficulty in judg-
ing between them. His (Mr. Dicken's) pet vestry even
took upon itself to deny the existence of cholera
as a weak invention of the enemy (Loud
laughter)—and although that stout denial had, unfor-
tunately, had no effect in stopping the ravages of the
pestilence, still it would now serve as an example to
show gentlemen what was the meaning of " vestryliza-
tion "as distinguished from "centralization." There
was another word, also, which had been used in accus-
ing the Board of Health—he meant "delay." In this
accusation there might be some truth; but he would,
just in defence of the Board, suggest to them a case
somewhat in point. Let them suppose a good chorno-
meter, which would not go when its master forgot to
wind it up. Now ho thought the Board of Health was
in a somewhat similar predicament; there was all the
anxious desire to " go," all the machinery was in per-
fect order, but the machine could not be put in motion
from the fact that its gentle lord and master had fallen
into a slumber, and forgot to wind it up. Lord Rb.
Grosvenor had alluded to a saying of Lord Crtlerecgat
" Do not halloo until you; are out of thewpo'' Ttent
would make a capital adage for sanitarytntthe Woods—and
reformers.
them not halloo before they
wereout
Health was in the
Forests.—(Laughter.) The Board u
pleasant predicament that it could not stir until it was set
f Woods .
a-going by the Commissioners o
of Health,and Forests
and would
He would give them the Board
Noble Lord, of whose
couple with it the name of a
,
earnestness in works of benevolence no
man could
the cant, which was thdoubte
and who had the courage to face
he cant of philanthropy.
commonest of all, the cant about t b
allowed to re-
Lord ASHLEY felt honoured bybeing
he Board of Health for the
turn thanks on behalf of t
aid to th(Cheers.)
compliment which had just been . p
He had great pleasure in considering that it was to the
ed—through the great
exertions of that board that they ow
n up the cause—the many
talent of those who had take
improvements which had taken
few place
sn of
h
the people during the last years—(Cheers)—As
in the condition
believed it *as principally and in
win to the enertions of that
body that the syraput y
h aud interest of the public had
been enlisted in their cause. He would not dilate upon
these exertions, but he would refer to the reports which
had emanated from the Board of Health, to show the
interests which they had taken in promoting the best in-
terests of the people.—(Cheers.) He had for many
years studied the reports upon there subjects with the
greatest interest, rind he must admit that he was Intr.
prised
to find the little attention which was paid to the
reports of Dr. Southwood Smith and others relative to
them.—(Hear, hear.) He was:pleased by the mention
which had been made by the Board of Health. because be

The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks.
The SECRETARY then announced a number of sub-
scriptions to the association, amounting to about 3001.,
including Lord Robert Grosvenor, 251., and the ch3ir-
mati 101. 103. _ _

Mr. GEORGE CRUIHSHA.NK proposei "The health of
he visitors," and tir. RCGERS, Q.C., that of" The ladies.'
The company then separated.

GyDa IrISWTe s tRIOn dßi anAlEa
tOb Le DR
0-
ROBBER
Lam-packet
longing to
By the arrival of the Great Western steam-ship, be-
Cornpsny, a few days since at the port of Southampton,
an immense quantity of gold from California was brought
to this country, and which was consigned to the Bank
of England, The gold, principally dust, was enclosed
in tin canisters, which were again enclosed in small
wooden boxes, about 18 inches long, 7 or 8 inches
broad, and 6 deep, the average weight of each box being
half a cwt. On Thursday 157 of these boxes were un-
shipped from the Great Western, and placed in four
railway trucks by the servants of the Southampton-
docks, and the packing superintended by officials of the
Weit India Mail Company, and two clerks, as under-
stood by the informant, attached to the Bank of Eng-
land. The four trucks were pro?erly " sleeted" and
made secure before leaving the Deck Company's pre-
mises, and before they were attached to the ordinary
goods train for London, they were separately placed on
the weighing bridge at the Southampton station of the
South-Western Railway, the weight of each being
taken. Tho usual time for the goods up-trein starting
was eight o'clock, but frets some delay it did not
leave Southampton until nine o'clock. It is customary
when property of a valuable description is not insured
and taken by the ordinary goods trains, for the per-
sons who are acting as agents for the owners or con-
signees to ride in the trucks containing the property.
This custom, however, was departed from by the four
gentlemen who were in charge of the gold-dust
amounting in value, it is said, to a million and a half,
and they occupied a first class carriage, which was next
to trucks containing the treasure. These gentleman
were—Mr. Beard, Mr. Beardmore, Mr. Winohip, and a
Mr. Quirk. Two of the gentlemen are clerks in the
Bank of England, and Mr. Winohip has been for eight
or nine years past frequently intrusted with the convey-
ance of very valuable property. It had been remarked
as a singular fact that the parties in charge of the four
trucks were most pressing on the guard and his breaks-
man to go and get something to drink at the different
stations which the train stopped at, commencing with
Bishopstocke, six miles from Southampton. The guard
did have, as also his breaksmen, something to drink at
Basingstoke, and at a station some further distance on,
but both men were sober when the train arrived at
Nine Elms, which was about three o'clock on Friday
morning. Between five and six o'clock the same
morning Mr. Thorne, the night superintendent of the
goods traffic, found that three of the boxes containing
the gold-dust were missing, and the aid of the local
police was called in, and Thomas Bent, a detective
constable of, the metropolitan police, but attached solely
to the South-Western Railway, was soon upon
the spot. The boxes missing were severally
marked—the first, " B." en the top, and " N.M.R." on
the bottom, and weighed 531 b, •, the second was marked
" C. M." upwards, and " J. J. C." underneath—this box
weighed 3elb. 120 z.; the third box had written on it
" D. Dunbar and Son," had no weight marked, but was
valued at 6,500 dolls. After the gold had been removed
from the truck whence the boxes were supposed to have
been taken, the truck was loaded with iron to the same
weight as the gold taken out, and Mr. Bent, Mr. Thorne,
and Sergeant Eastman, of the V division, took the truck
by special engine to Southampton, where it was put upon
the weighing-bridge, and the weights tallied, thus prov-
ing incontestably that the three boxes of gold-dust were
not in the truck when it left Southampton, or there would
have been a deficiency. They then returned to London,
and information was sent to all the stations between Nine
Elms and Southampton to search the intervening spaces,
and at a late hour on Friday night information was
received that the box directed to " D. Dunbar anti
Son" had been discovered by a boy on the bank
of the railway near Winchester station, and unopened,
and that a man was in custody on suspicion of being
concerned in the stealing of it. On Saturday, William
Plankin, a middle-aged and respectably attired man, who
described himself as a tailor, living in Earl-street, Soho,
WAS taken before the Mayor and several other magistrates
at Winchester Town-hall;lMr. Crombie appearing for
the South-Western Railway Company, and Mr. Duffel!,
the superintendent at the Southampton-docks, was also
in attendance. The evidence given was to the effect
that on Friday afternoon a boy, the son of a licensed
victualler, whose house is near the Winchester station,
was looking for birds' nests on the railway bank near the
station, when he discovered the box partly hid by a bush.
He took it home, and his father wont with him to the
station, and Gradidge, the railway policeman, suggested
that a watch should be kept near the spot, which was
done, end as late as half-past 11 o'clock that night the
prisoner came to the spot, and the constable took him
into custody. Tho box had not been replaced, and when
the prisoner was asked why he was there, he
said he had lost his way in going to the station.
On being questioned by Inspector Field, one of
the detective officers, who is specially employed in this
mysterious affair by the South Western Railway Com-
pany, ho said he lived in Earl-street, Soho, and which I
has subsequently proved so be correct; that he was a
tailor, arid came down to Winchester by the train which
leaves Waterloo station at 1 P.N.; but it was proved at
the examination he was seen in Winchester before the
arrival of that train. Ile said his object was to look
for work, but he had not asked a single person, although
he went to the public-house kept by the boy's father
who found the box, where he partook of bread and
cheese, and afterwards to another inn, where ho had a
chop, and said he bad unfortunately lost the 2 o'clock
up , -.rain- but there is no train leaves Winchester at that
hour.
Tho prisoner declared his innocence before the Mayor,
who considered the circumstances sufficiently suspicious
to remand him.
A large body of the city detective police are posted on
the various roads leading from Sauthampton and other
places to prevent, if possible, any of the missing property
finding its way to the metropolis through that channel.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Naval Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, Ad-
miral the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.8., returned from
short leave of absenee to attend her Majesty's state bail,
on Satnrday evening, and his flag was re-hoisted on

board the Victory.
LIE DEATH OF CAPTAIN KNOX, OF THE FIREBRAND.
—The following, dated May 2, is from a Malta corres-
pondent:—
and terminated
I am sorry to report the death of Captain T. 0. Knox,
of the Firebrand, steam-frigate, which took place very
unexpectedly on the morning of Wednesday. Deceased
was a little indisposed on the Wednesday preceding, but
had recovered. On Sunday, it would seem, he had ex-
posed himself to a draught, when a violent rheumatic
attack ensued, which flew to the heart on the morning
referred to, about two o'clock, ix.,

mt haen gid
efrt,
faallcotmo
fatally.
thus filled up:—Com-
of Sir Win. Park©r havne, De
to be Captain, with an acting
mender E. Codd,_9a_beeran .;
d Lieut. the Hon. Mr. Doug-
appointment to m re
lass
cl- and a nephew of Sir James Stirling, Mr. C.
vice Cod ,
Doug-
las, promoted.
Captain Knox was a first-rate officer, and the com-
sichsonb-yi—nth-elanisw,caltaomibt:
:nand of the Eireband was his first employment as cap-
tain.
Captain Codd, promoted to the vacancy, is a com-
mander of 1844, and lieutenant of 1834. He was lien-
tenant of the Talbot, 26, at St. Jean d'Acre.
Commander Douglas is a lieutenant of 1844, and was
the third lieutenant of the flag-ship.
Stirling, mate of the
Retired Commander William Johnson (b) 1850, a
lieutenant of 1810, died recently in Canada.
On the report of survey on the Alert, brig of 8 guns,
at Devonport, the estimate for her repair being more
than her original cost, their Lordships ordered her to
be broken up.
The survey on the Cambrian, 40, in No. 3 dock, in
Davenport Dockyard, by the three master shipwrights,
Messrs. Edye, Leire, and Abethell, has been completed,
and their report forwarded to the commodore superin- 1
tendent. Messrs. Laire and Abethell left Devonport for
their respective yards. 'red at
Hecate, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Hand, arri
Spitherid on Saturday, and afterwards went into harbour.
Avon, steamer-tender to the admiral at Do
712sPoome
arrived at Portsmouth on Sunday morning, with
supernumeraries for the Prince Regent, So. On a for-
THE FIRST CAPTURE OF THE PENGOIN.---
6, Comniander
mer occasion we stated that the Penguin,
on
Etheridge, left Sierra Leone for the southward the
12th of March. After helping the Athol,
store-ship,
which had touched the
ground, and returning with ht r
to Sierra Leone, she started again on a cruise. On the
morning of the 30th, at daylight, she sighted a suspi-
cious vessel, and crowded sail after her. At eight A.M.
the winds fell light, and both the whalers manned and
armed were sent away under the orders of Lieutenant
Veitch; and after six hours' hard pulling and some firing
the vessel rounded to, and was Worded without re-