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PARLIAMENTART COMMITTEES."

THAMES EMBANKMENT.

The committee appointed to consider the question
of the embankment of the Thames, re-assembled
yesterday, Sir J. Paxton in the chair. The members
present were Mr. W. H. Cowper, Lord R. Montague;
Mr. Roupell, Mr. Walter, Sir J. Pakington, Lord
J. Manners, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Alderman Cubitt,
Mr. Beamish, and Sir S. M. Peto.

Mr. Ledger, wharfinger, of Queenhithe' was ex-
amined, and said that the plans which he had seen
for a Thames embankment, would take 30 to 40 feet
from his wharf wall, and if effected he should be
compelled to put his barges into the stream, as the
plan would deprive him of nearly the, whole of his
present wharf convenience. The distaice between
the pillars supporting the embankment should be
as distant from each other as would be equal to the
length of his barges, which was between 60 and 70
feet. They were taken in sideways, as they had no
rudder. His wharf stood rather more in the river
than most of the other wharves in the neighbour-
hood. As the current would be increased by the
embankment, it would require more men to navi-
gate the barges. If his barges were to be placed
outside the embankment, it would increase his ex-
penses by £BOO per annum. The grain he received
at his wharf found its way to every part of the
kingdom. There was now very little current near
to his wharf wall. The barges were aground half of
every tide. The steamboats agitated the water,.and
kept- the banks clear, while docks would collect mud
and be more objectionable than the present state of
the banks.

Mr: Gould, another wharfinger, said he was the
largest occupier on the Thames, and his premises
were adjacent to those of the last witness. He con-
sidered that the proposed embankment would be
most injurious to his trade. The colamns would be
the least objectionable. His frontage extended for
90 feet, and the barges required 85 feet. He admit-
ted that the embankment would be a great public
convenience, but it would militate against his inte-
rests. A majority of the wharfingers objected to the
embankment: His rent was about £2,000 a-year
for 90 feet. Mr. Bazalgette said that he expected,
to underpin the warehouse by. 4 fe4 t6;get a foun-
dation, whereas from 12 to 40 Tedt had been re
quired for that purpose. •
Mr. Smith, another wharfinger, about 300 feet
to the west of Queenhithe, said he had a frontage
of 60 feet, his business being principally in the
different descriptions of grain. He had a3O feet
wharf at a ground-rent of £l3O, and he had laid
out several thousands of pounds upon it to make it
convenient. The, ernbankrneut would reduce Ms
present wharfa,,e, instead of extending it.
Mr. Kennard said he occupied premises on the
banks of the Thames. An embankment would give
great facilities from the City to the West-end, and
at the same time greatly relieve the crowded state
of the streets, so that it would be a great pub-
lic convenience. It would be a great public im-
provement, and would be the best way of giving
facilities for traffic between both ends of the town.
He did not, think it would injure his premises, and
all that it would do would be to increase the ex,
pense of .his lansiness. .But it"was the duty of ever"
one to give up `.something to effect a- great conve-
nience. There wchild-be no-inconvenience in barges':
lying outside the embankment, as the river was
wider there. He had driven piles into the river to
keep the barges safe and firm, and the barges were
kept there without any difficulty whatever.
Mr. Hadley, of Puddle-dock, was examined. He
said he had a frontage of 60 feet to the. Thames.
He said his premises were erected in 1850 at a cost
of £30,000. They are flour mills, and manufac-
tured a thousand sacks of flour daily. A large pro.
portion of that was sent out by water carriage. If
a dock was formed in front of his premises, with
facilities for the barges going in and out, it would
be a great advantage. If there were to be a dock
of 150 feet in width in front of his premises, it
would be satisfactory, but while this embankment
was being made he wanted to know what was to
become of their trade. He should be glad to give
his assent to any scheme which would give them
greater facilities, but at present they had all the
facilities they required. Any compensation to be
given to the wharfingers for tlfh obstruction of
their business while the embankment was being
made should be given after the work was done, for
until that time they would be unable to properly
estimate the loss which hag been occasioned. The
streets would be greatly crowded or stopped during
the making of this embankment. They would also
become stopped if a sewer was made down the Strand
and Fleet-street. All they required was that their
barges should come in and go out as they do at
present. In two or three years he expected to
carry on a larger business, and to be able to grind
800 qrs. of wheat daily.
Mr. Graham, an iron merchant, said his dock was
at the narrowest part of the river between Black-
friars and Southwark bridges. He said that all he
required was a proper facility for his barges to enter
the docks. A suspension bridge near Queenhithe
would remove his objections.
Mr. White, of Carron Iron-wharf, said the pro-
posed embankment would interfere with his barges,
and if it was made they would be compelled to lie
out in the stream. If any public benefit could be
arrived at without doing them an injury, of course
they would be ready to give their assent to it.
Their frontage to the river was 130 feet, the front-
age towards Thames-street 150 feet, and the depth
200 feet.
Mr. Josiah Harvey, of the Grand Junction-wharf,
Whitefriars, said they had at present 205 feet of
wharfage, and this embankment. would take two-
thirds of it. They should require space for their
barges to get in and out of the docks. If he was to
obtain by the embankment the same facilities as he
now possessed he should not offer objections to it.
He paid a rent of £9OO a-year, and the term of his
occupation was for 31 years. This embankment
would be so limited in its advantages that he did
not think it would be desirable. If there was to be
a fine wide roadway, which could be used as a pro-
menade, and the river could be restored to its former
purity, there was no doubt that it would be of great
advantage to the Population in the present crowded
neighbourhood.
Mr. Rathbone, of Thames-street, gave similar
evidence.
culMtyr.wßoua
lydrrb.eenetxgpaevrieenitceads
ih.
ni his
eosppiencito
on f tthhaetc ao
udmi ffin s-
proposed. One wharfinger would require them to
be a certain distance apart, and
persons'the
proposed
r o p o s e d premises.l
an
Mr. Alderman Rose was
examtlilnated7auuldd
shaaivdeththae
effect of causing somet
of them to be in front of other
would take away the whole of his
premises. He said there was great
misapprehension
as to the dock entrances, and he felt assured
l
six months they would be filled up with m
mechanical means could be provided for removingituong
from time to time that objection
would no
r:.
exist, but his experience of the river showed to
l him
that an accumulation of mud would take place.
There would be great difficulty in getting the barges
into the docks on account of the strong run of the
tide. He believed that the docks would be imprac-
ticable, as there was such a great inerease of trade
that they would require a dock entrance to every
wharf. In his own case he had sometimes to un-
load or load a barge in a single night to save a ship,
and he preaumßa
his neighbours required 'the
same, and to enable
them to carry on their

ness they ought to have a dock entrance to every
W'aarf. Although engineers had given evidence
that there would be no difficulty in carrying out
tiis embankment in reference to the trade
on the river, he would rather take the opinion
of a London lighterman, who knew the dif-
ficnitiesof working barges on the river, which had
not been touched upon by the engineers. The
whole of his property would require to be under-
pinned, and as he had some expErience of under.
pinning his own warehouse, he knew that it wont('
be most expensive. Queenhithe was not an en-
croachment on the river, but was the identical dock
where Queen Elizabeth landed her wines.
The committee then adjourned.

INT_ERNA2'IONA L 874T1S TICA L

CO2 CRESS.

Yesterday'the Congress r'e'opened at 10 o'clock
in six sections, under their respective presidents.
In the first section (Judicial Statistics), in the
course of the proceedings,
Lord BROUGHAM, the chairman of the section,
said the term " Judicial statistics" signified' the re-
gular and constant record of the whole particular's
connected with the administration of the law in all
its branches, its administration by.- all courts,-civil
and criminal,. local and general ; the state of those
courts, as to the judges and other office7bearers;
their whole proceedings through every stage,
together with every Matter concerting the working
oT:the .14w; though not having come within the
cognisance of any tribunal—in a word, the record
in minute, and for the most part in a tabular form,
of all the facts connected with the execution of our
laws. Without such information they could not
exercise their legislative functions safely, not to
say effectually. How could they know huw a la'W
Wotlickt unless-:tliay!hltsl:aktlie factS before. them
It behoved' them ,therepFe, to • collect statistics ,con 7
stantly with ierereno to theWcirkinir of their
Four years ago he had Lbronglf this,.4ubyet.-b'etlire
the House of liorsols.7
.Government was too apt to
be nennx ayise' ana pottna
,A very in:ere-Sting iliSeiasionvthenlooE plaVe on,
tke subject of salaries tqad vs gad judici4l.l3SrAgPs
in various parts of the Continent, the fees and modes
of payment; together, with tb9ir, qualiac.a.t)ions, the
manner of their' appointnept, 'and, the -nature of
their ,duties. Several orthe .delegates gage
variety of very interesting details. At 12 'o'clock
his Royal HighnesiS"thi.)PfineeConsert entered the
section, and Lard:Brougham explained to:him:that
a discussion haslqtakon place on the salaries 'of
judges in various countries, when it appeared that
their salaries were in most cases exceedingly small,
and that in certain countries—which he very much
commiserated—the judges were elected by univer-
sal suffrage. It was agree d " that the statistics of
juries should show the number and description of
jurors in the book, the number called during the
year for one or more times, number of days and
hours the jurors were employed, number of trials
by jury in civil and criminal cases, distinguishing
special juries, the remuneration of jurors, the num-
ber of jurors; and the cases in which trial by jury
is obligatory, cases in which it is optional, and
cases in which juries were unanimous, or have given
their verdict by a mere majority, or by some other
proportion, the number of jurors discharged, and
on what grounds." •
In Section 11. (Sanitary, Lord Shaftesbury pre-
sident) a lengthened and interesting discussion took
place, the result of which will be consolidated and
reported formally to-morrow."
. In Section 111. (Industrial, Sir Roderick- Mur-
chiffon. president) au interesting discussion, took
plade, which, chiefly referred to the questions re-
lating to naines and mining, in which Mr. Hunt., of
the Mining Record Office, and M. Visschers took
part.
• On the entrance of his. Royal 'Highness the Pre-'
sident'of the Congress, . .
Thet CHAIRMAN explained that Mr.' Hunt had.
.made some interesting statements on the important
question of coals, and had shown that we might
.with advantage apply to our country the Belgian
systeM, and render our mines mere profitable by
the employment of.engineerA Who-had the confi-
dence of the Government of the-couutry. 'These
gentlemen would have rto diregalu.thority or influ-
ence over:the mines, but would give, their counsel
and advice., Ije Ives just saying, as his Royal'
Highness entere4,-:tliat they'N,i,ere doing-the best
they could to instill& such a class of gentlemen,
and when it became known that they were fully
qualified to go out and give advice on these subjects,
no doubt their services would be more generally
called into requisition, and this would prevent the
upper beds of coal being totally destroyed for the
sake of getting at the richer beds beneath them.
In 'Section IV. (Commercial Statistics, presided
over by Mr. Nassau William Senior) the whole
morning Was occupied with the discussion of a
paper by Mr. Newmarch, on "The Statistics of
Prices 114. 'Wages in the Principal Trades."
In. Section V. (NaVal and Military Statistics,
-4ver which Bail. Stinhopepresided) a paper by. Mr.
V. T. Hammack was read by the author, on " The
Census," referring to the means of obtaining the
necessary information as to theenumera.tion of 'the.
population, and the existing methods in connexion
with the recommendations of the Congress to ob-
tain the most satisfactory results.
The discussion on this paper occupied the whole
of tae morning.

In Section VI. (Statistical Methods, over which
M. Quetelet presided), a paper on the statistics of
literature was read by Mr.T. WINTER JONES, of the
British Museum, in which the following general
propositions were put forward. The literary sta-
tistics of a country ought to embrace all that is the
result of the exercise of the human intellect, so far
as the same is manifested through the Press. The
most ephemeral street ballad must find a place .
its details, no less thah the work of the highest
scientific character. The Press affords an index to
the material, intellectual, and moral condition of a
nation ; and, if carried sufficiently far, will show
the special character of the industry of every coun-
try. The several points -of inquiry ought to be—
The number of new works and volumes published
annually under the several classes of theology,
jurisprudence, philosophy, and science (pure and
applied), history, geography, and biography, fine
arts, general literature, the classical writers of
Greece and Rome, dictionaries, grammars, and
educational works, periodical publications, includ-
ing the transactions of learned and scientific socie-
ties, newspaper literature, and ballad literature.
After some discussion, a vote was taken, affirm.
ing the general principles laid doWn.
The propositions were then discussed in detail,
and, with the exception of that referring to the
number of copies printed, which several gentlemen
practically acquainted with the subject showed it
was impossible to get at, were accepted.
The Congress assembled at two o'clock under the
presidency of the Right lion. W. F. Cowper, M.P.
The first business was to read a list of the repre-
sentatives of departments and societies in foreign
countries not actually deputed by their respective
Governments, attending upon the Conference.
Belgium—M. Corr Van Der Maeren, President
of the International. Customs Reform Association.
France—M. Chatelam , of the Statistical Depart-
ment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Prussia—Dr. S. Neumann, delegate from the
Central Society of Prussia for the Improve-
ment of the Condition of the Labouring
Classes, and from the Society of SCientific
Medicine of Berlin. Russia—Captain Siera-
korski, delegate from the Russian Minister of War.
Professor Kaponskine, representative of the Uni-
versity of Moscow, and Gregorief, Fellow of the
Imperial Geographical Society, and member of the
Central Statistical Committee. United States--Dr.
Jarvis, delegate from the Government of the United
States, and President of the American Statistical
Esq., James.from th Wynne,
enGneeOgraphical and Statistical
Esq., and Sheppard No-
n
Societies of America. The British Association, the
National Association, and the Manchester Statisti-
cal Society were also represented.
M. CHEVALIER L. DEBRAUZ DE SALDEPENNA
Society.s
urged that the whole of the proceedings should
I be in French, which was the international lan-

guage.
The CHAIRMAN said it was optional at these
Congresses to speak in French, • or in the language
of the country in which the Congress was held. In
this they followed the precedent of the Congress at
Vienna.
i4el .
e r Deb r Chatelain, and M. Carr Van der
m n were
secretaries.
A variety of foreign delegates, Russian, Prus-
sian, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, and others read
addresses,
French,metod in which the busi-
ness was managed, wore
a a u z,
appointed l‘'l.
foreign
the AISS. of which,
w
confused
t the mostlyin
h
given unfairly to one re-
porter; he of course went off with them, and thus
gentlemen representing other journals were de-
prived of the opportunity which had been pro-
mised them of siimmari4ing their contents.
Dr. C. N. DAVID (Denmark) gavo an account
of the progress of statistical science in Denmark,
and •stated the nature of the contents of the
volumes, 21 in number, published under his di-
rection. Re deplpred the Wain of on m unifo

system as regards weights and measures, and ex-
pressed his conviction that in no country were
suicides noted with sucfioient accuracy and fulness.
Dr. ASHER (Hamburg) spoke in English. It was
impossible that any Legislation could proceed with-
out an arithmetical knowledge of the factors that
come into competition in forming a law. They
could least of all dispense with this knowledge in
all questions of financial legislation. He laid
before the Congress valuable tables relating to
the gross revenue of Hamburg from 1818 to 1859;
both inclusive, with the average of every five years,
And a variety of other matters. The value of the
imports subject to duty had increased about 117 per
cent., forming one-fourth of the entire value of im-
ported goods. The value of the imports for the
laSt three years was about 5871 millions of marks
banco—an increase of about 709 per cent. as com-
pared with 1815. The export duties had varied,
and as many of them as remained wei e abolished
in 1857. He referred to a general asylum for the
poor, supported partly by voluntary contributions
and partly by the State. During the last seven
years the State had provided 80 per cent. of the
.expenses, or 356,500 marks currency out of 447,000
marks a year. There had been a decrease of pau-
perism in the septennial period ending 1859, as
compared with the septennial period ending in
1852, of 7 2-sths per cent., though the number of
births had increased 9.27 per cent.
Mr. L. K. DAA spoke in English, and described
the official statistical publications of Norway
which he represented. From 1815 to 1855 there
had been decennial censuses, which had been gra-
dually it* :roved and enlarged, embracing (a) the
number of the people, arranged according to
Age, -sex, marriage, and employment ; (b) the do-
mestic cattle—horses, oxen, sheep, goats, swine,
'and reindeer; -(o) -seeds: of different- kinds sown
annually., 'Every fifth year sincolB3o, the county
.rnagjstrates. collected statistics. as to. agriculture,
'fisheries; -trade' Mentifactures, mines, poor-rates,
rate of wages. savings-..banki,:&c: He raid !oh..the
ahle, these,. deports froinlmic to, 1855, and- stated
That. reports were • alsomade 15j;.: tti 'clergy' and
• -f •- • •

.A.ll4lorohk .Otber: delootes ~spoken, the
proceedings were,
..9.4ouree4. till till% day at-ten
o eloCk; when the Congress will reopen in sections,
and afterwardg ihassenibie- in ith dollective• capacity
nt two o'cltclEo.,• • . • • •

#l2lilgikY?,lA-S'*IZE.T.. 'll

WESTERN PIRCITIT.,--WINCHESTER, July 17.

CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)

MURDER OF A WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN IN THE

ISLE OF WIGHT.

William Henry Whitworth, a soldier, aged 39,
was indicted for the wilful murder of Mtrtha, his
wife, and Frederick, William, Robert, Mary Ann,
Elizabeth, and Ellen Whitworth, his six children,
at Saudown, in the parish of Brading, Isle of
Wight.

Mr. W. M. Cook appeared for the prosecution ;
Mr. Cole for the defence.

It will be remembered that Whitworth, who was
a sergeant in the Royal Artillery, was the master
gunner at Sandown Fort, in which his quarters
were situated, there residing with his wife and six
of his children. the seventh being absent. On the
18th of May Whitworth ran across the parade
ground, and threw himself upon his knees before
Captain Robinson, and exclaimed, " For God's sake,
sir, save me !" He handed to Captain Robinson
his watch, some papers and money, and added,
" He's used me dreadfully ! He's held a pistol at
my head, and swore he'd shoot me if I didn't cut
my throat." He then opened the collar of his coat,
exhibited his throat cut and covered with blood, and
There's awful work down there! Pray go
down !" :He was sent to the hospital. On entering
the house: the_ whole, of the inmates were found
inurdered. •

The prisoner, when placed at the' bar; stared
vacantly about the court, muttered some incoherent
sentences, and was apparently eating something.
A jury was empanelled to try the question whe-
ther the prisoner could understand the pleadings to
an indictment, and •

Dr. Lyford, the surgeon to the county gaol at
Win ehster,. stated . that the prisoner's Mental
powers•were almrost entirely extinct, arising frOin
the softening, of the brain, a disease which had
apparently been going on for some time.
The prisoner, who had placed his arm round the
neck of the turnkey who had him in charge, smiled
at and pointed to his lordship, and appeared to be
much amused at the 2ppearance of the court.
After an explanatory address from his lordship,
The jury found that the prisoner was unable to
plead.
• His Lordship said then he should direct the usual
order to be itade

The gaoler motioned to the prisoner to leave the
bar, but he appeared quite unable to comprehend
the meaning,- and when he was led away by the
arm, he exclaimed in a loud tone of voice, "Gracious
God, look down upon you all, miserable sinners."

LOVE AND SUICIDE.-EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF
ATTEMPTED DOUBLE MURDER.

Robert Simpson, aged 23, was indicted for
wounding Sophia' Rowe, with intent to murder her,
at Winchester.

Mr. Gunner prosecuted.
The circumstances of this extraordinary case
formed one of those recurring instances that " truth
is stranger than fiction." It appeared that Rowe,
who had been a domestic servant. is the daughter
of a brickmaker, named James Rowe, residing at
Stowmarket, in Suffolk, and on the 24th of last
December, being out of a situation, she went
to the Painters' Arms, a public-house in Sussex-
street, Winchester, to assist the landlady, who
was in ill-health, and there she remained until
the morning of Saturday, May 12. Previously to
this she had become acquainted with the prisoner ;
the Thursday and Friday nights preceding the
12th they slept together; and on the Friday morn-
ing the man said he was tired of soldiering, he
should cut his throat, and requested that Rowe
would obtain him a razor. She told him that she
would not borrow one, upon which, according to the
girl's account, he became so unhappy that she gave
him ls. 6d. to purchase a razor. He bought one, re-
turned to the Painters' Arms, and remained there for
the rest of the day, giving the razor to Rowe, who
locked it up in her box. At night, when they went
to bed, at the prisoner's request, Rowe took the razor
out of the box and placed it under the bolster.
Another girl, Rachel Welby, also got into the bed,
being accustomed to sleep with Rowe ; she arose
at seven o'clock the next morning and went down
stairs. A bout five minutes after wards Simpson took
the razor from under the bolster, and Rowe desired
him to cut I.er.throat. He replied that he had not
power to do it, and Rowe declared that if he did not
cut hers he should not cut his own. Simpson asked
her to lay her arm down for him to put his head on,
and she then laid her arm down and he laid his head
upon it. At that time he had the razor in his left
hand, and with it he first cut Rowe's throat and
then his own. Mrs. Watlen, the landlady, heard
some noise, and, on running up stairs found them
both lying on the bed with their throats cut and
bleeding. Rowe held out her hand, and said
" Good bye." Simpson said, " This is love," and
Rowe added, " I shall die happy."
1 Mr. Buckle, a surgeon, was called in, and on an
examination of the wounds discovered upon Rowe
a very large incision in the neck, dividing a por-
tion of the trachea, attended` ith much hemorrhage.
The prisoner's neck was not so seriously lacerated.
The jury convicted the prisoner of the attempt to
murder.

His Lordship characterised the conduct of the
parties as a foolish and wicked act—an offence
against morals, religion, and law ; and ordering
sentence of death to be recorded against the pri-
soner, told him that he would have to suffer a long
term of imptisonment,

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LEICESTER, July 17.
(Before Mr. Justice Wightman.)
Hannah Holmes, 16, domestic servant, was in.
dieted for the wilful murder of Samuel Wells.

Mr. Merewoather and Mr. Sargeant for the pro-
secution ; Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Palmer defended
the prisoner.
Prisoner had been a domestic servant to the de-
ceased Samuel Wells, and they had had daily dis-
agreements. She had been heard to say that she
hated him (deceased), and that "she wished the
old devil was dead." Prisoner was sent by her
master to the house of Henry John Wells, a son of
deceased, for some wheat and some arsenic. A
small bag of wheat was given her, and a packet of
arsenic containing lb. Afterwdrds the packet
was returned to the son's house, and it was found
that the packet then contained 21- ounces. On the
following night Samuel Wells wished to have
son►e.gruel for supper, and prisoner made him
some. On taking it he remarked that it was
thick, and he could not "get through it."
Shortly afterwards he was seized with vomiting,
which continued all night, and he kept his bed next
day. On the evening of that day his daughter-in-
law ordered prisoner to make some thin gruel, and