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A report ftom the Committee upon the Irish
Tithes was presented last night, in the House
of Lords, by the Marquis of Lansdowne. This
report does not conclude the labours of the Co-
mmittee, which is still occupied in hearing evidence
on the subject. There is something unusual,
inconsistent, m such a mode of
and anparently
proceeding. A report should be the result of
the whole evidence maturely considered ; but in
this case the evidence is confessedly unfinished :
the report is, therefore, in some respects, an an-
ticipation which may or may not be realied,
which may or may not be founded in fact, ac-
cording as the investigation may turn out when
it shall have been completed,. Perhaps the state
of Ireland, and the misrepresentations which had
already taken place concerning the intentions of
The Government, may justify such a course in
this particular instance ; hart., generally speaking,
it is not more opposed to the practice of Parlia-
ment than to the dictates of common sense. One
thing, however, is, we should suppose, defini-
tively settled by the report—we mean the outline
of the plan which Government is about to sub-
init to Parliament. The plan embraces two ob-
jects—the putting down of the present resistance
to the law, and the extinction of the tithe sys-
tem. The first step which the Committee
recommends for the accomplishment of those
objects is that of enabling his Majesty " to ad.
vance to incumbents of' parishes, not having
received their tithe, sums of money propor-
tioned to the income of each for the year 1831."
By this operation the tithe will be converted
into a debt to the Crown, and enforced, if ne-
cessary, under a less obnoxious form—the
Attorney-General to proceed for the re-
covery of the same in various modes to
be prescribed by the Act of Parliament.
But the most important recommendation
of the report is that which suggests the
total abolition of tithe, and the substitu-
tion of an equivalent, either in the form
of a tax on land, or an exchange in land. In
either case it is hoped that the ferment which
now exists in Ireland upon this subject will be
appeased without recourse to any extraordinary
powers. It would be presumtuous to speak with
confidence as to the merits of the plan without
any of the evidence before us. That there is
great boldness in the decision to abolish tithes
is manifest, but, if ever there was a case which
called for a strong remedy, the condition of Ire-
land would appear to be that case, even if we
had no other evidence than common rumour to
the fact. Our first impression is certainly,
favourable to the report. How far that impres-
sion may be advanced or checked by the detail,
of the future measure it is impossible for us to
say, but every one who considers the vast im-
portance of the subject will recognize the neces-
sity of approaching it in a calm and candid
spirit, and with a desire to legislate upon en-
larged principles of policy.—Morning Herald.
'e have great satisfaction in announcing,
that Government has ordered a legal inquiry into
the conduct of the Bristol Magistrates on the
29th, 30th and 3lst of last October. Whilst
luckless and insulated military men are brought
to a severe account for their supposed neglect in
not supporting the authority of the civil power,
—although there is reason to believe that their
inaction arose from their consciousness of the
jealousy with which all military interference in
domestic tumults is regarded by the people a
this country,—it is utterly disgraceful to those
whom the Constitution recognizes as lawful guar-
dians of the public peace, that they, in a body,
should so act as to induce a general, and in Eng-
lishmen, an unnatural, wish for the constable's
staff to be superseded on any occasion by those
arms, the edge of which ought never to be felt
but by a foreign enemy. The effect of cowardice
or indifference to their duty in civil functionaries
would be truly dreadful, if it were to generate
in any portion of the community a more implicit
reliance upon the standing army than on the
firmness of magistrates, and the protecting
power of the laws. Ministers have done wisely
and patriotically in directing this investigation.—
Times.

The report of the Lords' Tithe Committee
was yesterday presented by Lord Lansdowne to
the House, and the substance of it will be found
amongst our Parliamentary proceedings. In
this Paper the Committee state the arrear of
tithe now due to the clergy in the dioceses of
Ossory, Leighlin, Cashel, and Ferns, arising
from the recent combinations to resist the py-
ment, at not leas than 85,0001. They propose
to grant to the individual clergymen so deprived
of their incomes, relief from the Exchequer in
certain proportions, decreasing with the value of
the living. The grants so made are to be se-
cured upon the arrears of tithe themelves, which
the Attorney-General in the King's name is to
be emt,owered to levy by civil bill in the Courts
of Chancery, Exchequer, and at the Quarter
Sessions. This process may, undoubtedly,
prevent further collision between the clergy and
their Catholic parishioners; but it will bring the
executive power itself into immediate conflict
with the people. However, that can be only
tOr once. The Lords proceed to assert etn•
phaticallv their conviction, that the clergy
must be supported by some other means than
tithe, which they pronounce the necessity of ex-
tinguishing altogether, as well those which be-
long to the lay impropriator as those belonging
to the clergy, and they recommend an equiva-
lent, either on the land, or in land, as may be
hereafter settled. Now, to a full equivalent in
favour of the existing clergy, we apprehend that
there can be no objection, but, on the contrary,
that it will command universal assent and con-
currence. But if it be designed to perpe-
tuate the present amount of income, and to ap-
propriate it indefinitely to clergymen of the
Established Church, without reference to the
amount of Protestant population, or of actual
duty to be performed, it appears to us that no
success can attend a measure founded on such
partial and unreasonine, views ; but the whole
landed interest of Irelarld will eventually oppose
to it a resistance, not indeed so fierce and san-
guinary as that of the wretched peasants has
been, but one, beyond comparison, better or-
ganized, more skilful, formidable, and rapidly
triumphant. To prepare a general measure, on
statesmanlike principles, the Legislature ought
to embrace within it a provision for the Ca- I
tholic clergy as well as for the Protestant ; as
likewise for the relief, the education, and ge-
neral improvement of the poor. To a tax
for the exclusive benefit of the established
clergy, all but that clergy, and some, per-
haps, among their own congregations, will he
hostile ; but in support of a tax which shall
extend its application to the maintenance of
the Catholic priesthood, to the. poor man's
relief, and to his children's instruction, a
powerful combination of feelings and in-
terests co-operate. The Protestant clergy-

'man and his Catholic neighbour will be alike'
eoncerned for the easy collection and ample pro-
duce of such a common fund. The poor, above
all others, will see in it the acknowledged means
of physical and intellectual succour ; and as for
the probability of any opposition on the part of
the Protestant Church itself to anu scheme by
which a regular payment from the Treasury can
he provided for their subsistence, instead of the
precarious, odious, and dangerous resource of
tithe, or, in other words, a war contribution
from an insurgent enemy, on which hitherto they
have been compelled to place their sole depen-
dence, it appears to us that the Established
Clergy must be mad if they to not loudly bless
the King and Par!imaent for opening to them
such a refuge from calamity. We ought to have
remarked sooner, in speaking of the report, what
small hopes it encourages of slightest benefit
from any modification of the tithe system which
has yet been suggested, since it is in evidence
that of the whole arrear of tithe, an infinitely
greater portion is due from parishes where the
Composition Act has been put in execution than
in those where the tithe is uncompounded. The
Lords have come to the right conclusion—that
the mortal hour of the whole tithe system has
arrived.—Times,

Our readers will see, from our report of the
proceedings last night in the House of Lords,
that the first step has been taken towards re-
medying the evil of tithes. The report presented
by the Marquis of Lansdowne, from the Tithe
; Committee, embraced the past and the present.
With regard to the past, the Committee recom-
mend that the Government should pay to the
incumbents the amount of tithes withheld in
1831, being 84,9541., and that the Government
should be empowered to levy the amount of
tithes due for that year ; and that the incum-
bents should be empowered to proceed against
the persons for the sums due for the years
1827, 1828, and 1829. But the most im-
portant part of the report was that which'
related to the future. Though the Committee
were not able to make up their minds as to the
specific measure which it might be adviseable to
adopt, yet they thought they had had sufficient
evidence to prove the necessity of a permanent
alteration of the mode of paying the tithes, as
well as of the lay impropriators as of the paro-
chial clergy, either by an equivalent charge upon
land, or by an exchange for land, so as to pre-
vent collision between the clergy and the occu-
piers of the land. It is thus admitted that a
permanent commutation of tithes must take place.
The question which remains is, what equivalent
shall be given ? In the preface to a third edi-
tion of Mr. Senior's letter to Lord Howick.
On Legal Provision for the Irish Poor, and a
Commutation of Tithes," a light is thrown on
the project of commuting the tithes for land,
which, it is understood, originated with Dr.
Whately :
" Every one," says Mr. Senior, " seems to admit that
a commutation must take place; the only doubt is as to
the nature of the commutation. The plan of commuting
them for laud, which is proposed in the following letter,
still appears to me to combine more advantages, and fewer
obj• ctions than any other scheme that is before the pub!ie.
I am informed that the Archbishop of Dublin, by whom
that plan was originally sugges,ed, has supported it by his
evidence before the Comtnittt e of the House of Lords on
Trish tithes, and has also proposed to subject to the same
sort of administration the episcopal lands. And I under-
stand that a most important su,gestion has been made in
the Committee, namely. that a part of the purchase moneys
of the tithes should he employed in the purchase of the
leasehold interest in the episcopal lands.
‘. When we consider that the episcopal lands exceed a
million acres, and that the beneficial interest of the lease-
holders is worth from five-sixths to six-sevenths of the
whole value of the fee, it appears likely, that if they could
all he so applied, they would be sufficient to absorb nearly
the who'e value of the clerical tithes. The arrangement
which I have proposed in the following letter might then
be made, and the estates divided between the different sees
and the purchasers of the leasehold interest, in proportion
to the value of their respective interests, the see giving up
the fee-simple in one portion on receiving a surrender of
the leasehold interest in another. Such an arrangement
would put an end to the whole grievance, real and ima-
ginary, of tithes, without increasing the quantity of land
held in mortrnain, or increasing the visible amount of
Church property."
This plan supposes a valuation of the tithes, on
some principle analogous to that adopted by the
Parliament of Scotland, and a sale, with a power
of pre-emption at a certain number of years'
purchase, by the owner of the soil. By employ-
ing the purchase money in redeeming the lease-
hold interests of the episcopal lands, the clergy
would no longer come into collision with the
owners or cultivators of the soil. Should this
matter be arranged, another question will arise.
Are the clergy of a sinecure Church to be per-
mitted to enjoy exclusively, in all time to come,
the enormous revenue arising from upwards of a
million of acres of the best land in Ireland ? It
may be said, sufficient for the day is the evil
thereof; and
that the first great point is the effect-
ing the commutation. But besides reconciling the
existing incumbents to the commutation, the
Catholic population must be reconciled. Mr. Senior
admits, that " the experiment which we have been
trying for the last two hundred and fifty years in
Ireland—that of devoting a large portion of the
rental of the country to the support of a clergy
whose doctrines are admitted by only a small
minority, and of leaving the clergy professing
the religion of a vast majority totally unpro-
vided for—is one that never has been attempted
in any other country since the beginning of the
world ;" and that " to suppose that it will be
tolerated an instant after it can be shaken off;
seems to imply great ignorance of human nature ;"
and he would willingly apply a portion of the re-
venues towards the payment of the Catholic
clergy, but he doubts the practicability of any
transfer in the present state of violent excitement
of both parties.
" There are, however," he adds, " some purposes to
which the surplus revenue of the Protestant Establishment
may be applied, which would be a relief to the Catholic
population,
latioa without exciting those feelings of gratified hate,
which I fear would be raised by its direct application to the
support of the priests. Among these I have mentioned, to
the following letter, church ceas and expences of education.
And as these purposes would probably exhaust all that could
be expected fur a considerable time from that source, it is
unnecessary to form any plans respecting a still further sur-
plus to he hoped I or at a distant period. But, both to facilitate
the repression of the present insurrection,. and the recovery
of the arrears, and to satisfy those whom justice can satisfy,
it is essential that the Government should immediately
bring forward sonic plan for the gradual reduction of the
Protestant Establishment, us the present life-interests de
terrnine, to its proper dimensions, and for the application
of revenue so to be obtain d. That any such plan
should be approved of by both parties, or by the violent
of either party, is of course impossible. But, though there
is not a moderate party,-there are moderate persons in Ire-
Lind; and in England, where we are mere bystanders,
the great majority, as far at least as this question is con
cerned, are of that character; and it is on their assistance
that the Parliamentary success of the measures which Nli-
nisters may adopt in the present emergency must depend."
Mr. Senior thinks the assumption of the ar-
rears by the Government will be a title to their
confidence and their gratitude, and will smooth
the way to their consent to a commutation.—
However, all is not over when the consent of the
Protestant clergy is obtained. The Catholic
peasantry will have no objection to Government
!paying the arrears to the clergy ; hut we suspect

it will be no easy matter to reconcile them to the
re-payment of the arrears to Government. It is
much easier to demand the arrears than to reco-
ver them by any imaginable process.—Morning
Chronicle.

The subject of cholera continues to excite
the general attention of the metropolis ; and
though we deprecate panic and alarm not jus
tified by the history and nature of the disease, yet
where human life is endangered, particularly the
lives of the people—and the interests of the
humbler classes must be a peculiar anxiety with
humane and patriotic men—the Government.
cannot be too prompt, liberal, and earnest in
measures of precaution and alleviation. Before
the cholera becomes extinct, death may close
the mortal existence of one or two hundred thou-
sand British islanders, and twice the number
may be subjected to the disease and the misery
of protracted recovery. We confess also that
we cannot anticipate the introduction and spread
of the disease in Ireland, where it will be more
virulent and fatal in its ravages, without the
most painful feelings. Precautionary measures
cannot be too early adopted to anticipate its ar-
rival in that unhappy country, already the scene
of an unparalleled political cholera. This may
be done by ordinary activity in the Irish Go-
vernment, who, through the Magistracy and
parish officers, may disseminate simple and pru-
dent descriptions of the disease, with proper
printed precautions and directions of treat-
ment. The Irish are a quick people, and it
would appear by late events, tolerably alive to
their worldly interests, whatever their reli-
gious superstitions. The journeys of the
disease are not rapid, though unexpected ; and
much may be effected by anticipation. We can-
not forget the dreadful prevalence of typhus
fever in that part of the empire three years since.
In all the necessary preventive measures, how-
ever, the greatest care should be taken not un-
necessarily to interfere by quarantine regulations
with trade or commerce, as there is little differ-
ence between death by starvation, through an in-
terruption in the demand for labour, and death
by cholera. An article in another column al-
ludes to a most opportune and valuable discovery
of our scientific countryman, Dr. Henry, of
Manchester (one of the most eminent chemists
in Europe), alluded to in the House of Com-
mons on Tuesday night. From the experiments
of Dr. Henry, it appears that heat is a com-
plete dis-iqftctant of the virus of contagion.
Such a fact is, of course, capable of de-
monstration, and at this moment of great na-
tional importance to determine. If proved, it
must necessarily become a highly important
subject, in connection with quarantine and
lazaretto discipline. The application of the
necessary degree of heat would thus liberate the
great proportion of commercial goods from the
ruinous loss to which their owners are subjected
by quarantine detention. The immediate atten-
tion of the Government to the proof of this dis-
covery, cannot he too promptly afforded. From
the report of the Commons' debate on Wednes-
day, it might be inferred that Dr. Henry de-
' sired a course of experiments to be made on the
disinfecting powers of heat at the public ex-,
pence ; but such is not the fact. Dr. Henry,
in the disinterested spirit of a philosopher, wor-
thy the country of Wollaston and Davy, pub-
licly communicated his important discovery,
seeking no personal interest or reward. Dr.
Henry certainly authorised the communication
to the Government and the Board of Health,
and would doubtless aid by advice the practical
application of his principle of disinfection. Mr.
Warburton and Mr. Hume justly urged, that
the name of Dr. Henry and the vital importance
of the subject, commanded an official and imme-
diate attention to test, on behalf of the public,
the value of such a desideratum in medical
science.—Morning Chronicle.
The report of the Lords' Committee upon
the Irish tithe question is now before the public.
Its recommendations are of course to be con-
sidered as an exposition of the views and in-
tentions of his Majesty's Government, by whom
the Committee was proposed and its members
selected. We forbear for the present from any
observations upon the larger scale of a perma-
nent settlement of tithe, as the Committee have
not yet proposed any definite measure upon this
more comprehensive and important branch of the
subject ; and confine ourselves to a very few
words upon the contrivance by which his Ma-
jesty's Ministers propose to escape from the im-
mediate difficulty in which the untractableness
of their Irish friends have involved them, and
avoid at the same time the odium of starving the
Irish clergy, and conniving at the habitual prac-
tice of violence and outrage. The contrivance
is an ingenious one, and, so far as it has for its
object to neutralise opposition to Parliament, we
can scarcely doubt that it will be to a very great
degree successful. It is this : The people of Eng-
land and Scotland are to pay their arrears of tithe
for the Irish nation. For the Irish nation, did we
say ? No, but for such parts of it only as have ac-
quired a title to this favour by rebellion. And
then the Attorney-General is to recover the
money as soon as he can from the parties who
now owe and refuse to pay it. There is much
cleverness in this as a mode of getting rid of a
difficulty. The O'Connell party will pro:note it
of course, as an immediate boon to their friends,
the tithe insurgents ; while the conservative party
will probably be restrained from any very deter-
mined opposition by considerations of humanity,
by the conviction which the whole conduct of
Government has tended to produce, that, so long
as the administration of affairs is in such hands
as at present, they have no choice but to agree
to the payment of Irish tithe out of the Trea-
sury of Great Britain, unless they can endure to
see the Protestant clergy of Ireland subjected to
the horrors of actual famine.—Morrting Post.
An Evening Paper yesterday, whose informa-
tion we have:generally found to be correct, states
that it has been given to understand that " legal
proceedings are to be instituted against the
Magistrates of Bristol for their conduct during
the late riots Thank Heaven for this tardy
attempt at justice to all parties—not because we
anticipate any great good to result from the in-
quiry, but because it is a mere act of justice to
the army and to the spotless character of the late
commanding officer, as well as to Captain War-
rington, that such- inquiry should take place.
It is possible that the worthy Corporation of
Bristol may be enabled, with the aid of Sir
Charles Wetherell's eloquence, to prove themselves
to have been much injured men ; anti if so, it
must, after all that has been said about them,
be a matter of satisfaction to them to have an
opportunity of clearing themselves; but after the
facts sworn tpo on the trial of Captain Warrin,.a-
ton, these Magistrates were not to be found,
or had given orders to prevent their place of re-
treat from being known to the military, there are
tew, we suppose, who will not agree with us in
thinking that justice is required on other grounds.
The law declares that, in its eye, all Englishmen

are equally entitled to its protection and to its
penalties ; and if so, why, we ask, should the
late Colonel Brereton and Captain Warrington
have been subjected to a severe military in-
quisition, and the civil authorities, who, ac-
cording to all appearance, were the real author s
of the mischief, allowed to pass unpunished ?
If the Government has determined, according
to our cotemporary's statement, to institute a
legal inquiry into the conduct of the Bristol
Corporation, it is so far well—but if they have
not, we beg to assure them that the country will
not hold them guiltless. There ►►ever occurred
in the country such a needless destruction of pro-
perty, and never were there apparently such un-
deniable grounds for instituting an inquiry into
the conduct of the supposed authors of the ca-
lam i tv.— Morning Advertiser.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, FEB. 10.

John Silke, described as bite of Colchester, one
of his Majesty's surveyors of raxes, whose case had
bees adjourned from a former hearing, to give an
account of some property not accounted fur in the
schedule, particularly " some valuable articles,"
stated to be concealed in three tea-chests among
some Government papers, came tip this day pursuant
to that adjournment, when Mr. KNOWLEs appeared,
as on the former occasion, to oppose his discharge,
and Mr. COOKE, on the part of the petitioner, to
supppit the application.
Mr. COOKE submitted that lie had a most amusing
catalogue to read to the Court, descriptive of the
supposed concealed property, which he thought
would excite the Court's risibility. The Learned
Counsel then proceeded to read the items—to wit,
three odd volumes of" Tom Jones"—(Laughter)—
" Humphrey Clinker," a " Family Bible," with a
cornet register of births, burials, marriages, Sze., of
the insolvent's family—(Reitewed laughter)—"llla•
teria de Illedica," which work, said Mr. Cooke, at
this moment of alarm and agitation, must be of
considerable consequence to the whole world—
(Great laughter)—.“ Gil Bias ;" part of a patch-
work counterpane; a leaden pincushion; a slop-pail;
and six old chairs, without bottorns—(Roars of
laughter, in which the Commissioners joined
which mighty property, said Mr. Cooke, had been
estimated at 61. Is.

Mr. KNowLEs said this might be a very good
joke ; but the creditors were far from being satisfied
with the account, and proceeded to read a counter-
affidavit ; after which the Court asked the insolvent
whether he expected to retain his situation as sur-
veyor of taxes ?—when he replied he had received
a letter from the Board, stating that it depended
upon circumstances. His sal ,ry at present was 901.
s-year, with perquisites amounting to 1901.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER snd that, taking all
the circumstances of the case into consideration, with
the unsatisfactory account given by the insolvent of
his property, the judgment of the Cow t was, that
he should receive no benefit under this Acr until he
should have been imprisoned for a period not exceed-
ing six calendar months from the date of filing his
petition, under the 47th section of the Act, and that
such imprisonment be within the walls.
Upon which M—. KNowLlis said he hoped the
Court would order an allowance from the insolvent's
salary, provided the Board < f Taxes reinstated him
in his situation.

Mr. COOKE said he was afraid the judgment of
the Court would operate against the insolvent's re-
appointment.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER observed there was a
great deference between She 47tk section (the dis-
cretionary clause) and the 48;h.
Mr. COOKE—But it will be the same in effect.
CIIIEF COMMISSIONER—We cannot help it—men
should act rght.—Costs allowed.

ROMANCE AND REALITY.—From the com-
mencement of this new Novel by the fair " Improviia-
trice," we have a very shower of epigram and antithesis,
and sarcastic truths, which fly as thick and hit as hard as
hail-tones. We are told of the heroine, " that with the
exception of young gentlemen she had refused, and young
ladies she had rivalled, she was universally liked"—of her
father, that " be was a Captain in a dragoon regiment,
who spent his allowance on his person, and his pay on his
horse—that he was the last man in the world who should
have fallen in love except with an heiress, yet he 'Parried
suddenly and secretly the pretty and portionle•s Emily
Delawarr, and wrote home to ask p irdon and cash'."
The story is made, as it were, the string upon which to
bang the gems of wit, and the pearls of condensed obser-
vation, which have been brought together i❑ such rich
profusion.

LAUD AND STRAFFORD.—Never were tea-
features more strikingly- characteristic of the indivi-
du as to whom they belonged than those of LAUD
and STRAFrottn, as they still remain pouttrayed by-
the most skilful hand of that age. The mean forehead,
the pinched features, the peering eyes of the pre.
Late, suited admirably with his disposition. They
mark him out as a lower kind of Saint Dominic—
diff,ring, from the fierce and gloomy enthusiast who founded
the Inquisition, as we might imagine the familiar imp of
a spiteful witch to differ from an archangel of darkness.
But WENTwoant—who ever names him without think-
ing of those harsh, dark features, ennobled by their
expression into more than the majesty of an antique
Jupiter—of that brow, that eye, that cheek, that lip,
wherein are wri!ten, as in a chronicle, the events of many
stormy arid disastrous years—high enterprise accomplished
—frightful dangers braved—power unsparingly exer-
cised—suffering uushrinkingly borne—of that fixed look,
so foil of severity, of mournful anxiety, of deep thought,
of dauntless resolution, which seems at once to forebode
and defy a terrible fate, as it lowers on us from the living
canvas of VANDYKE! Even at this day the haughty
Earl overawes posterity as he overawed his contempora-
ries, and excites the same interest when arraigned before
the tribunal of history, which he excited at the bar of the
House of Lards. In spite of ourselves we sometimes feel
towards his memory a certain relenting, similar to that
relenting which his defence, as Sir JOHN DENHAM informs
us, produced in Westminster-hall.—Edinburgh Review.

SINGULAR CASE OF SHEEP-STEALING.—
On Friday morning Mr. JOHN TAYLoR, farmer, of Chig-
well, having received information that three sheep had
been driven, about ten o'clock the previous night, past the
house of a neighbouring farmer, was induced to examine
his flock, three of which be missed from the field adjoin.
ing his house. Mr. ROWE, the constable, was imme-
diately in requisition, and that active officer, with his
usual assistants, and acc-mpanied by Mr. TAYLOR, pro-
ceeded to trace the footsteps which marked the progress
of the depredator from the " field of action." This was ac-
complished as far as Bentry death, five miles distant,
when on inquiring of a constable there whether any sus-
picious characters resided in that neighbourhood, they
were informed that the only person of doubtful character
was JAMES Baowy, who resided at Dagenham. about
three miles off, and his principal and only cause of suspicion
teas, that he retailed mutton at a very cheap rate. This was
powerful encoura.4ement to Mr. RowE's keen scent, which
was fully confirmed by the footsteps continuing to the
dour of BROWN'S house, where they terminated. BROWN
was not at home; but on searching the premises two
sheep were found in the shop, another in a back shed,
and three skins in the yard. The mark on the skins (a
circle of black paint) had been partly obliterated with
identify
them. ochre, but Mr. TAYLOR was able clearly to
them. Shortly after ROWE apprehended BRol.vN whilst
returning home, and on stating the object of his visit,
BROWN said the sheep belonged to his father, a sheep-
] ,fiber at Little Parndon, who had given him leave to
fetch them away. On inquiry it was ascertained that
the sheep actually belonged to BRowN's father, for whom
slr. TAYLOR had taken them in to graze ; but the time
and manner in which they were taken still exciting strong
suspicion, Mr. ROWE having secured BROWN, proceeded
to Parndon, a distance of IS miles, to question the father
isj;aentesflo
upon the subject. He denied having empowered any one,
not even his son, to fetch away his sheep ; but on being
thatund at
his
shiso whon son's
ihouse, v
with
he
himb e-
might have given him leave. This, the latter said, was
ct told
e thatala r tmheeiyi had been
the case, but he had foreotten to mention it to his father.
On RowE's return to Chigwell, BROWN was examined
before the Rev. THOMAS LAYTON, a Magistrate, and fully
committed for trial at the ensuing Assizes, on a charge of
stealing his father's sheep. The prisoner bad resided at
Dagenham about three months, and although during that
period a great many sheep had been missing, one farmer
having lost as many as seven, no suspicion attached to the
prisoner.— awa-
y Citron f

POLICE LNTELLI GEN CF.

QUEEN- S QUARE.

Madame Maria de Bavois, a lady of very fashion-
able appearance, residing at No. 31, Upper Eaton-
s reet, Pimlico, was charged before Messrs. MAR-
RIOTT and GREGORY, with a,,saulting Miss Margaret
Wilson, of No. 2, Charlotte-street, Pimlico.
The complainant stated that on Monday evining
Madame de Brvoie knocked at her door, which was
opened, when she seized hold of witness by the
hair of the head in a most violent way. Witness
called out for help, and the Rev. Mr. Sone, who
lodged in the house, called out for a police constable,
who came to her assistance.

Madame deßavois denied the statement, and said
that the complainant committed the first assault upon
her.

Mr. Mattatorr, having consulted with his c()',.
league, ordered Madame de Bavois to pay the full
penalty of 5/. for the assault.
There was a second charge against Madame de
Bavois for violently assaulting the Rev. Mr. William
Stone, on the same day, a few hours previou-4 to
the la,t as:ault.

The Reverend Gentleman stated that on Monday
he was in Davies-street, when Madame de Bavois
came up to him, and said that she wanted to speak
to h'ni. He stopped, and she seized him, and tore
his coat from top 10 bottom; she then struck him
several violent blows in the face, and knocked off
his ha,. He called for the police, but there was no
constable near, and Madame de Bavois called a
hackney-coach, and drove away.
Mr. William Levastege, of No. 83, Berwick-
street, Oxford-street, confirmed the greater part of
the Reverend Gentleman's statement.

Mr. MARRIOTT—What have you got to say to
this second charge of assault 1' Madame de Bavois-
-1 deny it : call Thomas Jenkinson.
Thomas Jenkinson said that he was a hackney-
coachmati, and he was called by Madame de Bavois
on Monday. ller clothes were torn, arid there was
a gentleman with her, who told him not to drive
her away. She got into his coach, and he did drive
to the place she directed him.
In answer to a question, the witness said that he
did not see the beginning of the affray, he only saw
the gentleman catch hold of her.
_ _

Madame de Bavois said that Mr. Stone first us,
saulted her; she ct-rtainly spoke to him in Davies-
street, and told him that she had got a writ out
against him, when he called her an infamous woman,
and seized her and tore her cloth, s. In self-defence
she caught him by the coat, which was a very old
one, and it tore. She was forced to strike hint to
make him loo,e his hold.

Mr. MARRIOTT, after consulting with his col•
league, ordered her to pay another line of 51. to the
King. Madame de Bavos—l am determined not
to pay a farthing.
Mr. MARRIOTT —Then, as you do not choose to
pay the money, you will be imprisoned two months
for each assault. Madame de Bavois—Very well,
Sir, I don't care for that.

She was then locked up, but in a short time re•
pented, and paid the money.

THAMES- OFF! GE.

Yesterday, soon after Mr. BALLANTINE,the sitting
Magistrate, had taken his seat on the Bench, Mr.
Gole, the senior churchwarden of St. George's in
the East, called in consequence of the statement
which appeared in the Morning Papers of the dis-
tressed situation of two families, in a place called
Star-court, where typhus fever is raging, and where
several persons have died.

Mr. Gole said, that the overseers of the parish to
which he belonged were charged with neglecting to
afford relief to a family named Clark, in whose
' house the fever first broke our. He begged leave
to state that directly he was made acquainted with
the distressed condition of the family, the parochial
surgeon, Dr. Hopke was sent to the house, and
every attention was paid them. He had since sent
two shillings every morning to the family by the
beadle, and caused the house to be lime-washed. It
was previously in a very filthy state, and an elderly
woman, named Clark, who had died of the fever,
actually kept several dogs, which she suffered to lie
in the same bed with her daugh,er's children, and
when the beadle entered he found them all huddled
together. After the old woman's death, he gave
orders that the bed on which she had died should
be brought out and burnt, and a new one provided,
but her daughter on learning this, sold it for sixteen
shillings. He had also paid a bill of nineteen shil-
lings for dogs' meat, which the old woman incurred,
and provided her daugh►ter's children with every
necessary.

BILLANTINE said, that immediately after the
report was made to him by Mr. Sage, a medical
practitioner in the neighbourhood, he sent Mr.
Evans, the chief officer of the establishment, to
make inquiries, and from the information of the
neighbours it appeared that the parochial authorities
had paid every attention to the family, and relieved
their wants. He was quite satisfied that no blame
was attributable to them.

Mr. Gole said that two persons afflicted with
fever had been removed from the house in question
on Wednesday by his orders, and he had used
every precaution to prevent the contagion from
spreading. He complained that such a statement as
had appeared in the Morning Papers of that day, re-
flecting on the parochial authorities, should have been
published.
Mr. BALLANTINE said he was bound to state that
the statement which appeared in the Morning Papers
was very fairly and correctly reported. It had been
given by Mr. Sage, a respectable medical practi-
tioner, in that office, who had called his attention
to the circumstance of a malignant fever which was
prevailing in the parish. He had no doubt that
Mr. Sage had been misled as to the conduct of the
overseers.

Mr. Gale then called his attention to the fact
that he had fitted up a cholera hospital in Vinegar-
lane, St. George's, to which there was a back en-
trance from Sun Tavern Fields. He had provided
sixteen beds, with entirely new bedding, nurses, a
surgeon to attend on the patients and pipe-con-
ductors of steam, to convey heat to the afflicted
persons and the beds. lie had also provided a litter,
made of wicker, and which could be covered in at
pleasure, for the cal removal of persons from their
own houses, and immediately under the patient, a
portable steam apparatus, which would act to keep
the patient warm during his conveyance through the
open air. The hospital was quite ready, and was
situated in the most airy part of the parish, and,
should the cholera break out, he was prepared to
meet it.

Mr. BALLANTINE said the arrangement reflected
great credit on Mr. Gole, and he hoped that other
parishes would follow the example of St. George's.
Mr. Gole said he was sorry to state that the ad-
joining parish of Shadwell had as yet made no pre-
parations to meet the cholera, and lie thought it was
time they should do so.

Mr. BALLANTINE inquired of Mr. Dowling, an
overseer of Shadwell, who was present, the cause of
this neglect.
Mr. Dowling replied that the overseers had been
unable to procure any place to fit up as a cholera
hospital. In fact, no person ►could let them a house
fur the purpose.
Mr. BALLANTINE said be should expect the over-
seers of Shadwell to fit up a temporary cholera hos
pital without delay, and he thought that a place
could be easily found if the authorities would put
their shoulders to the wheel. It was no use waitint
until the cholera actually appeared.
Mr. Dowling promised compliance ►with the Ms.
gittrate's orders, and the parties then retired.
Mr. Evans, the principal Surveyor of Thame•
Police, was, after the above conversation terminated,
sent to inquire into the typhus fever now raging u.
St. George's, and which has caused great alarm iii
that parish. The first person attacked was a cos
termonger, who lived in the house inhabited by the
family of the Clarks, in Star-court, St. George's.
He was a man of very dirty habits, who used to run
about the streets vending oranges, without either
shoes or stockings on his feet. He died, after a