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METROPOLITAN PROFLIGACY.

Yesterday afternoon, the adjourned meeting of dele-
gates, comprising some of the most influential clergymen,
churchwardens, &c., of the metropolis, was held at the
Chambers of the Society for the Suppression of Vice,
No. 57, Lincoln's Inn:fields, for the purpose of further
considering the state of different parts of the metropolis
in reference to the flagrant exhibitions of street profligacy
that nightly disgrace the streets at the West-end of the
town.

Mr. JAMES BEAUMONT having been called to the chair,
expressed hie pleasure at, seeing the great interest that
this movement had occasioned, for he felt it must lead to
some practical result. He felt that the Government
would do something in the cage, when it was found that
there was such a- universal feeling in favour of the
movement.

After a few remarks from Mr. Churchwarden CRANE
and Mr. STEVENS, of St. James's, Piccadilly,
Sir J. J. liamthiorr (Crown churchwarden of Mary-
-1.3b0t e), bore testimony to the willingness of the vestry
of Marylebone to support this or any movement that
had for its objtot the suppression of prostitution, or any
other vice.

Mr. War. ACTON then said he thought they should
proceed to something practical. In dealing with this
question he thought that they should have a knowledge
of the condition of the women. The result of investiga-
tion had shown thnt one in 13 or 14 of the adult female
population were living in prostitution. They must be
informed that their condition was known. What this
society intended to do was to improve their moral
and physie%l condition and The appearance of the
streets. His opinion was that there was sufficient
legislation without going to the Government, and they
should show these women that there is a law, and
Oat it would be carried out against them to the very
letter. In conclnsion he moved the following reso-
lution :—" That a deputation do wait as early as
possible upon Sir George Grey, for the purpose of most
respectfully but earnestly representing to her Majesty's
Government the necessity of effectual measures being
taken to put down the open exhibition of street prosti
tution, which in various parts of the metropolis,
particularly in the important thoroughfares of the
Haymarket, Coventry-street, Regent-street, Portland-
place, and other adjacent localities, is carried on with a
disregard of public decency, and to an extent tolerated
in no other capital or city of the civilised world."
The Rev. Mr. BYRNE (St. James's) briefly seconded
the motion.

Some dii,cussion ensued, in which the Rev. Mr. KEMP

(rector of St. Pancras) said he had prepared a resolution
which he should like to be submitted to the tneeting,and
it was arranged that it should be taken as the third

motion.

The Rev. Professor MARKS (Marylebone) suggested
that if a deputation was appointed, the number of
gentlemen from each parish should be limited to three.
The motion was then put and carried unanimously.
Mr. STEVENS (St. James's) then moved, " That such
deputation be instructed to urge upon her Majesty's
Government the following measures, whereby it is
believed that the evil complained of may be effectually
controlled :-Ist, the enforcement, upon a systematic
plan, by means of a department of the police specially
appointed and in,tructed for that purpose, of the provi-
sions of the 2d and 3.1 Vict., cap, 47, in reference to
street profligacy ; 2d, for passing an act for licensing
and placing under proper regulations, as to supervision,
the hours of closing all houses of entertainment, it being
a matt,r of public notoriety that hiiuses of this descrip •
tam popularly known as night houses, have, by hi= coming
the places of resort for cro ids of idle and disorderly
persons at all hours of the night, greatly contributed to
the present disgraceful state of thine."
The Rev. Mr. MAIILE seconded the motion, and

The Rev. T. GAHM.= (farylebone) having briefly
supported it, drew a vivid picture of the condition of
the streets of the metropolis, and urging the necessity for
an alteration of the law, the motion was put aid carried.
Mr. GREBNE (late M.P. for Lancaster) then proposed
the resolution submitted by the rector of St. James's—
" That this meeting, understanding that a meeting of
delegates from the metropolitan vestries is to be held to-
morrow at St. James's ♦estry•room, desires to express
its cordial sympathy with the object of that meeting—
viz , due control of the night houses, the removal of the
public scandal in the metropolis, and to tender any
support and co-operation which it may be in its power
to give for the furtherance of that object, sad that this
resolution be communicated to the chairman of that
meeting."
Tho Rev, Mr. TEIOROLD seconeed, and the motion was
carried.
'rhe Rev. Professor MARKS, after some general ob-
servations, referred most warmly to the subject of the
importation of foreign girls to this country tor immoral
purposes. He moved, "That the attention of the'
Government be also directed to the great numbers of
foreign females systematically imported into this
country, and to the means of controlling this increasing
evil."
Sir 3. J. HAMILTON briefly seconde I the motion,
which was also unanimously agreod to.
The usual cimplimentary vote having been passed to
the chairman, the meeting adjourned.

occasions during Mrs. Sager's absence from home, and
during those different periods she had slept perhaps 30
times at the workhouse ; but she denied sleeping on any
of these occasions with Sager, or ever having improper
intercourse with him except in the presence of his wife.
She also stated that she had seen Martha Wadsworth
(a married sister of the deceased), sleep with Sager and
his wife. Witness was asked-if she had ever slept with
Sager at Mrs. Stocker's, which she denied, but after-
wards admitted that she had once done so, and stated
that Sager slept with her and Mrs. Stocker on thatocca-
sion, Mr. Stocker being absent in Lancashire.
Martha Wadsworth denied most distinctly that she
had ever slept with the prisoner and his wife.
Some other witnesses were called, but their evidence
contained nothing of great importance that was not
elicited at previous stages of the inquiry, except that
one of the inmates of the workhouse deposed to seeing
the prisoner take his wife by the hair of the head and
kick her against the doorway, about three weeks before
her last illness.
Two witnesses proved that the deceased kept a
druggist's shop at Culling worth about 13 years ago, and
that he sold arsenic.
At about half-past six o'clock the Chairman said that
in consequence of information which had come to the
knowledge of the magistrates, the prisoner would be
remanded to that day weak.
The prisoner, on hearing this, exclaimed, "You are
going to murder me ; you are going to murder me."
The excitement which this remarkable case has pro-
duced in Keighley and its neighbourhood is very great.

THE SUICIDE OF LIEUT.-COLONEL
JAMES STUART.

Last evening Mr. Bedford, the coroner, and a
highly-respectable jury of the locality, assembled
at the Peathers Tavern; Grosvenor-street West,
Eaton-square, to inquire into the circumstances
attending the melancholy death of the late Lieut.-
Colonel James Stuart, aged 68, who committed
self-destructio❑ by shooting himself through the
head with a pistol, on Sunday morning, the 3d
inst. .

Mr. John Henry Daniels of Halkin-street West,
Be]grave-square, stated that the deceased was his
uncle by marriage, and was a retired lieut.-colonel
of her Majesty's service, having formerly belonged
to the 45th Foot. (There is such an officer according
to " Hart's Army List," a retireelieut.-colonel
on half-pay from the 84th Foot.) He had served
in the Peninsular war. He had also been in India
and suffered severely from the jungle fever caught
in Eurmah. A piece of bone had recently come
away from his head, and he laboured of late under
a thiusion tha people were haunting him to poison
him, carrying his belief out to such au extent as to
refuse dining with his friends occasionally. At the
suggestion of his relatives lie was examined a short
time ago by Dr. Sutherland, with the view of ascer-
taining whether his eccentricity was such as to re-
quire any restraint or confinement at all, but he
was pronounced to be perfectly harmless. A few
months ago he went to the police station an-1 com-
plained of his imaginary tormentors, thereby leav-
ing no doubt about his mind being affected. Dur-
ing the past summer he had been to Germany for
the benefit of his health, and returned considerably
improved.
Mr. James Laing, jun., son of the eminent gun-
maker, Cockspur-street, Cl:wino...cross, deposed to
the deceased having purchased' the pocket-pistol
with which the deed was committed from wit-
noes on Saturday, the 2d inst.
Wm. Sumner, the butler of the house where de-
ceased had lodged, and his wife and servant gill, as
also Dr. Griffith,
,d-3posed to the nature of the
wound. The latter gentleman further stated that

the most extranrdivary part of tie matter was,
that notwithstanding the far.t of the ball having
gone as it were c'•eau through the head, the de-
ceased ,howed not the least symptom of pain, and,
stranger still, seemed a little conscious at times
during the nine days' illness tkat supervened be-
tween the inflic ion of the wound and death. Such
a circumstance was perhaps unparalleled.
Nit's. Sumner stated, that she had heard Colonel
Stuart wish that somebody would blow his brains
out, but he never threatened to commit suicide.
After he had breakfasted on the day of the occur-
raw, he declined to order anything for dinner, as
he said, with tears in Lis eyes, that Le was miser-
able. _

After hearing some further evidence, the jury re-
turned a verdict to the Pfred that the " deceased
gentleman bad destroyed himself during a state of
temporary insanity."

DARING BURGLARY IN BERKSIIIRM

on theb
A burglary of a most daring character was cone
Correction on the night witted a few nights ago,usaitnetshseofreasmidieireale,
aotfTMwyr..
last, where he
Davis, carrying
penalwho madese servitude i thui ds
ford, in Berkshire
gaoh by a man named Charles Butler,
given on hiprlsoner,
from Wandsworth House of
night of the 31st of December
e Escape
was
the crime of arson. From the
Wandsworth eonfined under a sentence of
statement of the ' as well as from the evi-
dences examination before a magistrate,
it seems that the second night after his escape from
e committed a burglary at Farn-
ham Etoyal, near
carrying off a good Slough, Bucks, and succeeded in
number of things, some of which
were of considerable m
value. He left that place, in-
tending to go to Hinton, in Soersetshire, where
his relatives are residing, but when he reached Twy-
ford he was tempted
inspection of the
several houses in the village, he
made a "plant"
Accordingly, aboutupon the residence of Mr. Davis.
gained access to midnight on the sth inst., he
which the back premises through the gar-
den,extends to some fields and meadows in
the rear, and he
in that way. The kitchen window was fastened,
iron bar ; but this
closed, having at the back an
s was nothing difficult to him ; he
soon contrived t
enable him to ° make, an aperture sufficient to
remove the fastening and throw up
the window, The
only obstacle in the way of his
progress were the shutters but with the expertness
of a practised burburglar he was not long be:ore he
succeeded in removing
done, he entered iug
the iron
bar, which being
the kitchen. He then commenced
a careful search of
valuables as he the house, and put together such
and convert into could with tolerable ease carry off
money. A young lady, a relative
h was
her h disturbed by some one attempt-
ing to enter
was fastened on edroom, but fortunately the door
downstairs, and the inside. The burglar returned
confined his attention to the draw-
ing-room, sitting -
lady who had heer°oln and kitchen. The young
noise below for upreviously disturbed heard a
more than an hour; but, fancying
that some of her friends
had risen unusually early,
she gave no alarm
about 6 o'clock, when However, in the morning,
downstairs he at One iVr.
er. Davis rose and went
Perceived that a burglary had
Leen committed, and
wearing apparel were that a great many articles of
Sic. A messenger wmisaed, besides prate, watches,
of Readine, about fie' dispatched to the tee town
eate the fact to the e_ miles distant, to commuf ii-
unlikely the burglarpoitee, who, imagining it not
would
seek to dispose of the
property by pawning, went
cha-
racter, and was informedtl-' to
a shop of that
previously pledged some knives
a man had not long
and other articles, answering
to the description of
v°s and forks, boots,
those stolen. The officer
quickly proceeded to
another pawnshop, where he
saw the principal, who
on hearing the object of his
visit, stated there was
a man in his other shop offering in pledge a numle
of articles, and fancying they were such as he could
,r
not have honestly become
him waiting, while one _p.o possessed of, he had kept
u
to the police-station. Tbel "l
officer was introduced
his assistants was gone
to Butler, who at that moment
hat, powder-flash, and shot'i w
lt, had two coats, a
Jec., all of which
were identified as the peopert
Yof Mr. Davis. He
was thereupon charged with
having committed the
burglary, upon which he became extremely violent
but the officer with assistance
secured him and con-
veyed him to the police 4-
atio s.ll. Several other of
the missing articles were discovered
con-
cealed under a hayrick not f in a bag
ar from Mr. Davis's
premises. The prisoner, when before the magi-
strate, admitted that he committed the burglary,
but that he was led to do it from
want of food. He
disclaimed all intention of wa
'tin to hurt
fanyone
personally. The Governor of Wandsworth Gaol
attended. He recognised But ler as
an escale I
convict. Butler c oily stated that ho got out of
tile gaol because an opportunity offered itself, and
he had been there quite
long
enough. He was
committed to the Berkshire ael for trial on the
charge of burglary-, and also fur having broken out
of the House of Correction at' Wandsworth. He is
about 26 years of age, and has a very repulsive ap-
learance.

STATE OF EMPLOYMENT IN MANOITESTE3. —The weekly
returns of the state (f employment in Manchester, made
by the Chief Constable yesterday, is of a much more
satisfactory cba!acter, shotsugh the total number out
of emlloyment (9,058) an increase of 325 on the
previous week, there is an increase of 6,708 in full em-
ployment ; making now a total of 25,302 in full work
out of 46,499. Tare are 12,109 on sh .rt time, being a
decrease since last week of 6,938. This shows. a very
Bath-factory irnprovemeot of trade, and confirms the
statements which have been made in the trade reports.

LETTERS FROM INDIA.

The following is from an officer of the 60th Rifles,
attached to the 64th, at Cawnpore :
" Entrenched Camp Guard, Cawnpore,
Nov. 26, 1857.
" Here lam again ! Outlying piquet, across the
river the night before last ; ditto last night • guard
to-day ; stiffish duty—rather. The whole of Gen.
Windham's force moved from their ground (about
six miles off) last night, as it was reported that the
Gwalior force was advancing ; and this morning
the 64th Regiment moved out to the Delhi road,
leaving only sufficient men to form the main guard
and piquet, which have to-day been amalgamated,
in the entrenched camp. The quartermaster of the
64th has just ridden in to get provisions for the
men, and says that firing has been heard distinctly
for the last hour in the direction of Gen. Windham ;
so perhaps they have been lucky enough to fall in
with the rebels. The ladies came half-way from
Lucknow the other day, but were obliged to turn
back, as the wood was blocked up by the rebels.
We have had no news from Lucknow since the
19th. What do you think the Gwaliors say
That they intend waiting until we are hampered
with the ladies from Lucknow, and then, that they
will easily take Cawnpore ; that Allababad will
take a little longer to capture, but that some of their
force is sure to take it.' J ust letthem try to do either !
I saw another nigger strung up the other day ; he
was a swell in his way, and was hanged for having
in his possession Government paper and money to
a large amount, and also for favouring the rebels.
Whom do you 'think I met yesterday ?
Paliologus He is with the 34th Regiment, and
is with General Windham's force. Swire has just
come in from the fight ; it occurred about 18 mil
from this, and we completely routed t em. Of
ceurse I have no particulars as yet. Captain Dy,
88th, killed. I saw him only yesterday. Swire
had a narrow escape—a round shut and a round of
grape passed underneath his horse. As ho was
riding in he met an officer on the road, an ensign,
I believe, cf the —th, and asked if he was badly
hit. Oh, no,' answered the sub., ' only half my
thigh carried away by a round shot.' Piquet again
for me to-night across the river. The rebels fought,
and fought hard too, for an hour and. a half.
Quartermaster-General M'Crea had his horse shot
under him. There are three friends of T—'s here
—Brackenbury, who was at the fight to-day, a Dr.
M`Nah, and a Captain Cunliffs, Bengal Fusiliers.
The latter came out from England, and went up as
far as Meerut with T--, and lie and I were on
guard together to-day.
" Outlying Piquetl, Oude Territory, 6.39 p.m.
"Here I am again (as the clowns observe) in
charge of a small mud fort, two guns without
wheels, and 30 men, in an enemy's country, and
with some 3,000 of the beauties' all abotr. I wish
they would come on. I think we could make a few
of them food for jackals. This said piquet com-
mands the approach to the bridge ; so in case of a
scrimmage, I shall abandon the mud edifice and
wheelless guns, retreat to the end of the bridge,
and then walk into the niggers until a force comes
down from the fort. As lam left to my own dis-
cretion, I think this the best course to adopt.
" Good news from Lucknow. It is entirely in
our po session—rebels defeated, and Sir Colin and
the ladies coming in. At present they are 30 miles
from this. I have not taken off my clothes for
two days.
" Back again at my tent in camp. Iha I only
just finished my breakfast when the bugle sounded,
and out we all turned again. As I write very
heavy firing is going on, apparently about five
miles from this. The big guns are distinctly au-
dible, and sometimes the muikotry ; so Windham
is 'at 'em' again. Our piquet last night were
within 500 yards of theirs.
" Poor old Gen. Havelock is dead. The firing is
still going on.

"7.30 the same evening.

" Well, we have just come back from the fight ;
that is, we were obliged to retire. Windham has
evidently been deceived by his spies, who repre-
snted the enemy's forte to be 2,000 or 3,000 ;
whereas there could not have been less than 25,000
opposed against us. At one time I never expected
to get back to camp alive. We were retiring down
a road, and the shot and shell went flying along its
centre whilst we skulked along in the ditch. You
can't fancy what a 21-pounder is wh-'n it p;t3hes
within a few yards of you. cannot think how we
eAc.tpcd. One shell burst within a few yards of me,
but not a man was touched. One of our felluws
was hit in the hand.