The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-12 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,-It ought to be generally known that it has long
been a regulation of the Post-office to tax letters with
the postage that is to be paid on the delivery by marking
the amount in black ink, and when the postage is pre-
paid the amount of money so paid is marked in red ink ;
so there is a difference in the postage marks " between a
letter already paid and one to be received for, the red
ink mark being prima facie evidence on the face of the
letter that the postage was prepaid.
Should any letter-carrier in future demand postage on
the delivery of a letter having a red ink postage mark, I
would advise that the demand should be complied with,
and the fraudulent letter-carrier then handed over to the
charge of a constable, and by him taken before a magis-
trate, taking care to obtain the evidence of the local
postmaster as to the regulations relative to the ink
marks on paid and unpaid letters ; request a remand of
the party charged until communication can be had with
the authorities of the General Post-office, who will pro-
ceed with the prosecution without putting the party de-
frauded to any expense, and any trouble the party may
be at by giving evidence on a trial will be paid for.
I would advise that the Postmaster-General should
order that at all post-offices and receiving-houses
placards should be exhibited, giving the public the in-
formation as to the difference between the red and the
black postage marks.

I will prepay the postage of this letter in money, and
see the red ink mark put upon it ; I will also simply put
your name and address, without the usual word "Paid ;"
you will then be able to discover whether I am correct
or not ; if so perhaps you will publish this communica-
tion, and certify to the correctness of my information by
a note of your own below it.—l am, Sir, yours, &e.,
IlfracOmbe, Jan. 11. R. W. D.

MODEL PRISONS FOR THE
COUNTRY.

Sir J. G. Graham appears to have a vast liking " to be talked
about," as the following will show :—He is proposing to the
country magistracy the erection of a " model' prison in every
county I His project has been discussed in Gloucestershire and
Leicestershire, and treated as it deserved to be. It has been
well observed that this project is too flattering for any Govern-
ment, never, at the best, the most disinterested class in the
country, to be discountenanced; and the present Administra-
tion, in the person and department of Sir J. Graham, seems
prepared to carry it out in its worst and most hateful form.
But so long as men in this country prefer light to darkness,
open inquiry and public scrutiny into their actions and treat-
ment of their fellow-creatures to the reverse of these, in fact,
to the revival of the Inquisition adapted to modern times, so long
we shall never fear the general establishment of model prisons
throughout the country. Astonishment is manifested at the
temerity of Sir J. G. Graham, of which no parallel in the con-
duct of any Minister in this country can be recollected, in pre-
suming to • require, or even recommend, the justices of a
county to supersede Nil the prisons in it, and erect one or seve-
ral at cost of 157Q00/., upon• a aystem, too, which is yet upon
trial, and has not yet received the sanction of Parliament, and,
it is to be hoped, never will receive it. The Chairman of the
Gloucester Quarter Sessions. held ,ten days ago, in reference
to this subject, said,!" Ths the Government could not en-
farce the plat; upon them; and the only way they could compel
the county to build a model prison was by Act of Parliament ;
which,, if the'county Me,Mbers did their duty, the Government
could never obtain." . The present Home Secretary's prison
" dietary "'has already stampe'd his fame as respects gaol disci-
pline. Hear what Sir Peter Laurie, in a letter to the Leices-
tershire magistrates, says:-" The Model Prison at Pentonville
being .a.Government prison, I am unable to give you an opi-
nion on anything but the system as a mode of imprisonment,
and not on the manner in which it is carried out at that place.
I can, however, state, as President of Bethlem Hospital,
that although the Model Prison has been opened so short a
time, and although every prisoner is carefully examined, and,
indeed, selected with reference to his health, two pri-
soners have become insane, and have been trans-
ferred from the Model Prison to Bethlem. The Mo-
del Prison system of discipline was acted upon at the Milbank
Penitentiary, and during the year-before last nine prisoners
were sent from that place to Bethlem. We have received a
great many prisoners from the Penitentiary, and we always have
found that, 11y associating with others, they recovered rapidly."
Notwithstanding the full knowledge which the Government
possess of these startling facts, they, through the Home Secre-
tary of State, recommend model prisons in every county ;
but, it is to be hoped, the magistracy in every part will oppose,
by every means in their power, so alarming an innovation and
a constitution of " secret doings " for the present public pro-
ceedings—a description of despotism which makes oae shudder !

THE BUTCHERS' CHARITABLE INSTITUTION.—The
annual general meeting of the members of this Institution was
held yesterday evening at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great
Queen-street. Mr. Giblett (the president) was in the chair.
The Chairman said this was the 15th annual general meeting
at which he had the pleasure of attending. He was thankful to
have it in his power to cengratulate the subscribers on the state
of the funds of the charity, and also on the fact that the Institu-
tion was prospering on every band. They were, he believed
he might say, held in higher estimation than ever by the public;
and he was sure they were doing more good than they had
contemplated they would have it in their power to effect. It
was a source of high satisfaction to know that they were not
spending their time and money in vain, but that they were
doing much good to a most deserving class of their decayed
fellow-tradesmen.—( Cheers.) The minutes of the previous
meeting having been confirmed, the annual report of the com-
mittee was laid before the meeting. It stated the amount of
donations and subscriptions for the past year to be 1,343/. 18s.
In the month of February last 300/. were invested, which in-
creased the sum standing in the names of the Trustees in the
Three per Cent. Consols to the amount of 8,305/. I Is. sd. ;
and since the formation of the charity no fewer than 104 dis-
tressed members of the trade, male and female, have been ad-
mitted to the enjoyment and participation of the funds. The
number of pensioners is fifty-three, there being twenty-eight
men and twenty-five women. The report was, upon the motion
of Mr. Comfort, seconded by Mr. Jeffries, carried unanimously.
A vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and the meeting
separated.
HAsTlNGs.—Several of our fishing boats have
lately brought home a considerable quantity of fine
mackarel. Yesterday Z. White made upwards of 32/.,
and to-day he brought home about 3,000 fish, which
sold at 31s. per 100. Two brothers rhumfrey, with
two. boats, cleared 1001. in two days.—Brighton Gazette.

; SEWERS OF WESTMINSTER AND
PART OF MIDDLESEX.
The following is the entire Plan proposed by Mr. Leslie at
the meeting of the Board on Tuesday last :
Resolved, lst,—That it is desirable to place the whole de-
partments of the business, under the Westminster Commis-
sion, into a combined state of the utmost efficiency and economy.
Resolved, 2d,—That the present office be united with the
Drawing Clerks' office, by adding the present Committee-room
to the office, and opening a communication therewith ; and
that an office-door be opened for the public into Soho-squa::e.
Resolved, 3d,—That it is of the utmost importance to continue
the present system of daily returns, mutually exchanged by the
officers of the Court of. Sewers and the contractors, ith the ad-
ditions of a return for each district, and of a column in the con-
tractors' daily return, in which must be specified the charge to
the Commission of each item, and the total. These daily returns
to be immediately examined, signed by the officers (clerks of
the works and surveyor or assistant surveyor), and forthwith
entered in the books and accounts of the Commission.
Resolved, 4th,—That the Surveyors and the clerks of the
works he relieved from any further writing connected with the
preceding daily returns, such as the weekly abstracts, first
abstract, second abstract, and examination of quarterly accounts.
Resolved, sth,—That the contractors' daily returns, as
amended, be the only accounts between the Court and the
contractors.
Resolved, 6th,—That the contractors' daily returns, verified
by the surveyor and clerks of the works, shall be so entered
daily in books for each district as to shots' what works are
done, the particular locality and the cost, thereby rendering
unnecessary the present system of weekly and quarterly abstracts
r.nd accounts.
Resolved, 7th,--That the surveyors and clerks of the works
being thus relieved from a great amount of labour, the advan-
tage to the public will be great, as they will be enabled to
devote much more time to the personal and vigilant superin-
tendence of the works in progress, than they can possibly do
under the present system—and their hours of labour notwith •
standing be materially diminished.
Resolved, Bth,—That the present system as to Petitions for
sewers and drains (v.z. :-
Ist. The petition, in the printed form, is filled up and
retained by the Court.
2d. Two lists of the petitions, one for the Chairman,
ome for the Court, are made.
3d. After presentation to the Court each petition so
copied, in considerable detail, into the rough Minute
Book.
4th. Re-written into the Fair Minute Book.
sth. Entered into the Surveyor's Monthly Report.
6th. Re-entered monthly until the work be done, or the
leave of the Court expire).
Contains useless repetitions, creating labour and liability to
error which it is desirable to prevent, and that, in future, the
petitions, granted at each Court, be consecutively numbered
and entered on the Court Minute-books in the following
manner :

t Place. ,Amount

Contributions to the! No. of Name.
various Districts the Pe_
against the Nuns. Vtion
ber and Name of
the Petitioner. Feet

Deposit.

W D £l4 10 6 2 J.
W.Smith I 101 12n
rxefeld.;ts.t.
L 2 0

•
Resolved, 9th,--That all Reports of the Surveyors be pre-
sented to the Court written in a book, to be called the
Court Book of Surveyors' Reports, dated and consecutively
numbered, the order of the Court thereon to be added. In the
Court Al inute•book, a reference to each Report and the Court's
order be sufficient,

Resolved, 10th,—Thatthst present arrangements for making
a sewers' rate, viz.:—

Ist. By the Vestry-clerks making returns of the persons
and rentals.
2d. By the Surveyor marking the different districts on
these returns.
3d. By the parochial returns being Then copied on skins
of parchment.
4th. By attending all the Vestry-clerks' offices with
these skins of parchment, and comparing them with
the Poor-rata book.
sth. By a Jury being summoned, who adopt No. 3, and
not the original document.
6th. By the skins of parchment being then copied on
sheets of paper figured out and hound.
7th. By the rate being then made up in volumes.
Bth. By an index of No. 1 being then prepared.
9th. By an index of No. 3 being then prepared.
10th. By an index of No. 7 being then prepared.
Entails an enormous amount of labour, which may be most
safely and materially diminished.
Resolved, llth,—That it would be of great public advantage
and it is desirable, that maps be prepared and engraved of each
district, showing the mode by which every tenement is drained ;
and that such district maps be on such a scale as ultimately, and
with all convenient speed, to show every street and tenement
in the district, and its private drainage into the public sewers.
And that every addition, alteration, or diversion of the sewage
be added thereto.

Resolved, 12th,—That as occasion may require for the purpose
of a rate, tke portion of each parish in the district be separated
from the map, and with an order in writing be sent to the
various vestry clerks, requesting them to supply the names,
residences, and rentals of all persons rated to the poor within
the limits of such map.
Resolved, 13th,—That the vestry clerks' returns to the
preceding order of Court, under the authority of the 52d
George 111., cap. 48, sec. 7, being a true copy of the rate-book
of the persons assessed to the poor-rate, with the designation
and rental of the property they occupy, together with the map
of the drainage of the district, are the best documentary evi•
dence the Court of Sewers can supply to the jury touching
two important questions left for their decision and presentment,
viz. :—The property that receives benefit or avoids damage by
the sewage of the district, and the persons who are legally and
judicially recognised as the occupiers of that property.
Resolved, 14th,—That the expense of collecting the sewers'
rate is very great, and that the system of such collection
is most defective ;—that the exclusive occupation of the
collectors should be as clerks to the Commission, and their
whole time devoted to the business thereof,—that the
remuneration should be by fixed salaries, and not by
a per centage, which most unequally pays the collectors,
varying as it does under the existing system from 100.
per house to 44d. ; yet in the aggregate entails, taking the
average of the last 5 years, cn annual charge upon the rate-
payers of three pounds sixteen shillings and eightpence per hun-
dred pounds collected, or a gross annual sum of one thousand
pounds :—and that the present system of allowing the col-
lectors to take away from the office the rate-books, and per-
mitting them to have blank notice papers arid blank receipts
to be filled up by themselves, is a very improper mode of col-
lecting public taxation.
Resolved, 15th,—That the rate-books do always remain
in the office, and be so prepared that every party charged in
such rate may, immediately on payment, be thereon discharged.
Resolved, 16th,—That the collecting clerks take with
them, on proceeding to collect, books of receipts prepared
in the office, and al'o a form of daily return, showing
the name of the person, the locality, and the amount
received, to be filled up on the spot; that at the close of
the day's collection the amount tendered by each clerk
be chequed against the stumps of the absent receipts,
such stumps to be stamped with a stamp prepared for the
purpose, showing the day each sum was accounted for, and li
that from these daily returns the party charged on the rate-
book be discharged.
Resolved, 17th,.—That public intimation be made that the
rate-books are always at the office, that any party desiring to
pay the rate there may do so, during office hours, and see the
same entered and discharged in the rate-book. And that a
similar return paper to the Collecting-clerks' return be kept,
to be called " The Office Return" of persons who pay their
rates at the office.

Resolved, lBth,—That immediately after the Collecting-
clerks' daily returns, and the office return are examined, the
amount be made up in the following form, and paid to the
Treasurer, and that his account be so prepared and kept as to
show of each day's receipts and payments the various districts,
and the total, in one line, thus .

DATE•lEastern WesterniCounters I Rane-I Bays-I Sun- I TOTA L
Creek 1 lagh 1 water dries

Resolved, 19th,—That the book of daily receipts and pay_
ments, the petty cash and general disbursements, be kept on
the same plan.
Resolved 20th,—That at the back of the last folio of each
rate an account be commenced, and continued to the conclu-
sion, of the receipts therefrom, and the expenditure thereof.
Resolved, 21st,—That the Clerk do appropriate monthly the
petty cash and general disbursements to each district, either in
the proportion of the rentals, number of assessments, or other
mode which the Court may think more equitable.
Resolved, 22d,—That the present office hours (from nine to
four o'clock) are too limited for an establishment so purely one
of business as the Office of Sewers, and that ft om nine o'clock
to six o'clock be substituted.

Resolved, 23d,—That under the Chief Clerk there be ap-
rinted six Clerks, one of whom to be particularly qualified to
enter the daily returns, three or four of whom to have a know-
ledge of collecting, and all to be cenverrant wirh accounts.
Resolved, '24th,—That all the Clerks do find seeurity for the
faithful discharge of the various duties they may be called upon
to perform as Clerks to the Commiss'on.
Resolved, 25th,—That the same system of daily return of
exchange of ♦oucher be ordered as to the accounts between the
Court of Sewers and the various Paving Boards, and that the
sums owing by the Court of Sewers to the parishes be not
suffered to go in arrear.

Resolved, 26th,—That, as the sewers' rate is a tax upon the
owners and occupiers of property for the improvement of that
property, and to promote the general health and safety of the
inhabitants of the district upon which it is assessed, it is the
law, as well as the interest of the parties so charged, forthwith
to pay such tax, and that if they neglect so to do, under the
Statutes of Sewers they subject themselves to a fine and an
Exchequer process. And that the greatest publicity be given
to this Resolution.
Resolved 27th,—That any of the present Bye-laws which are
at variance with these Resolutions be repealed.

ALARMING FIRES.—At a few minutes after five
o'clock last evening, a fire broke out in the residence of Sir
Wm. Curtis, Bart., in Portland-place, Regent's-park. It was
discovered by some persons passing by the mansion, who per-
ceived a great light in the upper part, apparently issuing from
the front room on the fourth floor. The inmates were imme-
diately apprised of the fact, and on entering the apartment, the
window curtains were found in a blaze, and flames issuing forth
from the wainscote underneath. Water being plentifully sup-
plied to the engines that arrived, the fire was extinguished. It
proved to have originated through a large portion of soot ig-
niting, which had lodged on a ledge in the hall Chinese stove
flue. The damage done is rather considerable, which *ill fall
on the Phoenix fire-office. In about an hour after the above
fire was got under, another fire broke out in the lower part of
the mansion belonging to the Marquis of Anglesea, in Burling-
ton-street, Burlington-gardens. Several engines were soon in
attendance, but the firemen were refused admittance, conse-
quently the extent of damage done could not be ascertaied.
ACCIDENT AT THE WINDSOR THEATRE.—Mr.
Otway, " the celebrated tragedian," who has been performing
at the Windsor Theatre during the past week, met with a se-
rious accident, arising from the extreme clumsiness of one of
the other performers, in the last scene of Hamlet, which he
had selected for his benefit on Wednesday evening. In the
struggle for the "poisoned chalice," between Hamlet and Ho-
ratio, Mr. Otway, who was performing Hamlet, was carelessly
struck by the wooden stage property upon the forehead, before
he had obtained possession of it, and with such force as to
inflict a deep cut in the immediate region of the temporal ar-
tery. The blood gushed forth in a stream, running down his
face and vest, and it was not until past one o'clock yesterday
morning that the hemorrhage was staunched by Mr. Andrews,
surgeon, of Windsor, who was fortunately soon at hand after
the accident. The house, which was most respectably filled,
was in a state of considerable anxiety to ascertain the result.
Mr. Otway, who was called for after the play, appeared before
the curtain with a baadage on the wound, and walked across
the stage with considerable difficulty.
PIMLICO IMPROVEMENTS.—There is a new square
being laid out and planted in the Belgravo.road, to be called
%Ara:wick-square, which will be the most extensive on the
Grosvenor estate. Where the Lock Hospital formerly stood
there are several splendid mansions. The White Horse and
several adjoining houses are to be taken down to make a more
commodious entrance to the Equeries' entrance into Bucking-
ham Palace.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Her Mal( sty promenaded in Claremont Park on Wednesday .„;
atOnded by cne of the Ladies in waiting.
Yestei day morning his Royal Highness Prince Albert wer a
out shooting. His Royal Highness was attended by Major
General Sir Edward Bowater (Equerry in waiting), Los 11
Rivers, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Mr. George Edward Ansos 1.
The Prince and suite returned on horseback at tvko o'clock t
lunch.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
ce3s Royal were tat; en an airing in a carriage yesterday forenoorP.'
The Queen and Prince Albert left Claremont in the after+
noon for a drive, her Majesty and his Royal Highness ;tamp-r—
-ing an open pony carriage, the Prince driving. Colonels.
Arbuthnot (Equerry in waiting on her Majesty) and Sir Ed-
ward Bowater (Equerry in waiting on his Royal Highness}
attending on horseback.

The Royal party took their departure from Claremont at
half-past three o'clock.
A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yesterday after-
noon at the Foreign-office.
The Duke of Buccleuch arrived at his residence, Montague
House, Whitehall-gardens, at half-past one o'clock, from the
North, and went to attend the Council. The other Ministers
present were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the
Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, the Earl of Aberdeen,
Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Earl of Haddington, Eatl of Ripon, Mr. Gladstone,
Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir Edward Knatchbull.
The Council sat three hours.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
The Hon. Francis and Lady Anne Charteris left Grove
Cot tage, the residence of Lady King, yesterday, for Godford
House, near Haddington, the seat of the Earl and Countess of
Wemyss and March.

ANTI-LEAGUE MEETING in BUCK-
INGHAMSHIRE.
Shortly after three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon last, it
meeting of about 200 tenant farmers was held at the Swart
Hotel, Newport Pagnell, for the purpose of forming an asso-
ciation for the protection of agriculture.:
Mr. E. GREAVES, of Haversham, was called to the Chair,
and said that he thought the farmers had remained quiet muck
too long, and had thereby given an opportunity to their ene-
mies to acquire a position in the country which they necer
could have attained had they been vigorously opposed. If they
were to have free-trade, let it be in everything—in tea, coffee,
wine, &c., and not ill agricultural prcduce alone. This agricul-
tural interest was the most important in the country, producing
as it did 3(10,000,0001. per annum, whilst manufactures only
yielded 173,000,0001., of which 126,000,000/. found a market
at home. Again—the number of persons employed in agrictil-
tore above twenty years of age was 2,470,411, and only 710,351
in manufactures. Looking at those statements, would they allow
themselves to be trampled under foot by the League ? He was
sure they would not, for they would unite heart and hand, and
oppose that dangerous combination.
Resolutions to the following effect were then moved, and
carried unanimously
" That this meeting participates in the now almost universal)
feeling of abhorrence excited by the false and insidious state-
ments put forth by the Anti-Corn-law League, with a view to
obtain free trade in corn, but to preserve ,tke protection en-
joyed by the manufacturers.
" That the protection now given to agriculture is but an in-
adequate equivalent for the burdens imposed upon land.
" That this meeting do form itself into an association for the
purpose of opposing the proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law
League, and for securing to the farmers of Buckinghamshire
that fair share of protection to which they are entitled."
Several excellent apeechea were delivered ; and, after a Com.
mitten had been appointed, the meeting separated.
A considerable sum was subscribed in the room, and it was
estimated that the subscription for the county would amount to
several thousand pounds.

SUICIDE AT REIGATE. - Captain Grindal, an
elderly gentleman, who had been lodging for some weeks in
Norfolk-square, Brighton, left his home last Thursday after -
noen, and no tidings of him were heard till Tuesday, when
Mrs. Grindal ',received information that her husband was dead.
On leaving his house he took a coach and proceeded to Rei-
gate, where he arrived on Thursday afternoon. On Friday
he appeared very unwell, and medical aid was called in. On
searching his pockets a phial, containing laudanum, was found.
Every effort was made to counteract the effects of the poison,
but in vain ; the unfortunate gentleman expired on Saturday
afternoon.

THE LATE REPAIRS AT RIPON CATHEDRAL.Tha
venerable cathedral at Ripon has, during the last two years,
undergone several repairs. The south-west tower has had its
bands, mouldings, window heads, and pilasters, restored; and
the walls tied together with large iron bars, thus rendering it
more fit to sustain the peal of bells which hang therein. Ths
apex of the middle compartment of the west front, down to the
string course under the top lights, has also been thoroughly
restored, and an early English cross, in good taste, fixed on the
point. Groined ceilings, in the Norman style, have been added
to the transepts' roofs. The whole under the arebitectural su-
perintendence of Wm. Railton, Esq., the architect of the Net-
son Column.— York Courant.

FURTHER REGULATIONS IN THE CITY POLICE.—
In consequence of the numerous robberies which have recently
taken place in the City, the Commissioner of Police has insti-
tuted an inquiry, which has resulted in a return of the different
periods of the day in which such robberies have taken place.
Most of them, it appears, have occurred during the time of
changing the men by " relief," upon which occasion it has
been the practice for the men to leave their beats, and march
to the stations of their several sections in files. the relief body
following to occupy the places of those who have thus quitted
duty. During this time the whole range of ground has been
left, and thieves, seeing the opportunity, have burglarieusly en-
tered the premises, and escaped with their booty. To obviate
this evil, Superintendent Sperry, of the lit (or Moor-lane)
division of the City, has received instructions to adopt the fol-
lowing plan, prior to being generally practised, if it is found
to work well, which we understand it has done up to the pre-
sent time :—lnstead cf the men being collected and taken to
the station of the district, as heretofore, the man So be relieved
is furnished with a ticket by the relief-constable, who receives
it from the superintendent at muster. This he gives to the
relieving-constable, who returns it immediately to the officer
on duty at the station, who receives it as the discharge of the
constable from duty. By this simple, and, as it appears to us,
effective arrangement, the whole ground is covered, so that
when the full system is in operation, no part of the public pro-
perty will at any time be left unprotected. The relief will in
future, we are informed, be granted only three times in twenty.
four hours—at eight o'clock in the morning, four in the after-
noon, and at midnight.
FOOT PACES AT LEWISHAM.—TWO very well con-
tested foot-races took place yesterday near the eight-mile-stone,
at Lewisham, and gave considerable satisfaction to a very
numerous assemblage of the patrons and admirers of pedestrian
performances. The first, which was to determine a race before
disputed, was between Goldsmith, of Greenwich, and Banks,
of the West-end-250 yards, for 201. a side. Both men started
well together on the signal being given, and far the first dozen
yards there was no lead taken by either party. Banks then
went gradually away from his opponent, and, after a race in
which first-rate speed was exhibited, won by three yards. The
second match was between Parr and Perch, two men who cone
tended about a fortnight ago, when a close and doubtful race
was the result, which was succeeded by arrangements for the
match of yesterday. The distance was 150 yards, the stake bl.
a side. A good start, and a smart struggle followed. They
were together the whole way, and Perch won by half a yard.
INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF LICENSED VICTUAL.
LEES.—Yesterday afternoon a special meeting of the Governor
and Committee of Management of the above Society took place
at the office in Fleet-street, for the important purpose of elect
ing the Governor of the Corporation for the year ensuing.
The three gentlemen qualified, by four years' service on the
Committee, to fill the office of Governor, were Messrs.
Wicker, Fox, and Taplin ; but the latter gentleman having,
for reasons of a domestic nature, declined standing as a candi-
date, the contest (which was of the most friendly character)
rested between Messrs. Wicker and Fox, and the former gen-
tleman, having the majority of votes on the ballot, was declared
by the Governor, Mr. Keasley, duly elected to the situation of
Governor of the Society for the ensuing year. Mr. Wicker,
the Governor elect, expressed, in suitable terms, his acknow-
ledgments for the high honour conferred upon him, and was
congratulated upon his success by all his colleagues, and by none •
more heartily than by his unsuccessful competitor.
WooLwldn, JAN. 11.—Letters have been received
here by the mail which arrived on Tuesday from Bermuda con-
veying the intelligence of the entire subsidence of the fever '
there, and of the return to Halifax, Nova Scotia, of the medi-
cal officers and gentlemen who had kindly tendered their pro-
fessional services and attentions to the sick and dying during
the recent fatal epidemic. Until this information had been
furnished, no more troops were to be sent to that region ; but
now that the group of islands has been declared to be free of
the fever, reinforcements will shortly be sent out to fill up the
deficiencies occasioned by the mortality of the disease. The
widows and orphans of the non-commissioned officer" and men
of the Royal Artillery and Royal Sappers and Miners, arrived
at iouthampton, in the Clyde mail-steamer, and reached
Woolwich yesterday evening in a waggon. There are nine
women and about forty children of the two companies of these
two corps at Bermuda thus thrown on the world, without pro-
tection and support. The sight was a very melancholy one,
and excited the deepest:sympathy. It is consolatory to know
that the Royal Sappers and Miners, in consideration of the •
deep distress to which the widows and orphans of those who
served in their corps, have been reduced, have entered into a -
subscription for their relief, and, being aided by their officers,
belonging to the Royal Engineers, the contribution, which is
still increasing, already amounts to a sum which reflects the
highest credit on their liberality.
ROYAL FREEMASONS' SCHOOL FOR FEMALE CHIL.
DIIF. N. —Yesterday a General Court of the Governors, con-
nected with this excellent institution, was held at the school-
house, in the Westminster-road, for the purpose of transacting
the general business of the charity. The institution was
founded in 1788, and owes its origin to the late celebrated
Chevalier Ruspini, of whose grandchildren two are now in the
school. The objects of the charity are the maintenance, cloth-
ing, and educating an unlimited number of the female children
and orphans of reduced brethren belonging to the fraternity.
The children are eligible for admission at the age of eight
years, and they are maintained until they arrive at the age of
15, when they are apprenticed or otherwise provided for.
There arc now 75 children in the establishment, and since its
formation 5:30 have participated in its benefits.
Louis PHILIPPE'S MEMORY.—On Captain Crowdy,
R.N., being presented to his Majesty at the reception at the
Tuileries, on Friday last, the King did the gallant officer the
honour to say that he always saw with satisfaction a Captain
of the British navy ; Captain Crowdy, in acknowledging the
compliment, reminded his Royal interlocutor that he had had
the honour of conversing with his Majesty onboard the Volon.
taire frigate, in the Mediterranean, in 1806. " ith !" said the
King," you were First-Lieutenant of the Pilot,CaptainWalpole.
How is my old shipmate, Admiral Sir Charles Buller)! I
hope he is well." This is an instance of correctness of memory
really remarkable, considering the length of time that has since
elapsed (nearly 40 years), and the momentous events which
have subsequently marked his Majesty's career, so strongly
calculated to obliterate minor circumstances from the mind.—
Galignani's Messenger.
THE ASHBURTON TREATY.—The good effects of
the Ashburton Treaty are manifesting themselves every day,
in the bringing to justice offenders who flee to the United
States, or from the United States to Great Britain and her
colonies. The Kingston (Canada) Chronicle last received
furnishes a fresh instance. A murderer (says that paper) has
been at large for eighteen months in the vicinity of this town,
who under the:treaty has been arrested, and is at last likely
to meet the punishment due to his crime. It appears that some
three weeks ago the American Government applied, through
the British Minister at Washington, for the arrest of a man
named Denniston Rogers, who murdered his wife about
lti
months ago, at Cooperstown, New York. His Excellency. the
Governor-General caused immediate instructions to be given
to our energetic Sheriff, who lost no time in seeking, out the
accused. He was found on Saturday, about 23 Le.s
town, and in five hours afterwards was safely lodgnejoicaitnmediSitrill
gaol. On Monday morning the Sheriff commu Kingston
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I,cirtnh(ey,roltrce.rtnhme eAnrat,earniedanreeei
oliancl
which
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authorities,vreceived
orders
es
activity displayed by the Sheriff, as t
accord-
ingly. It is worthy of remark, that this man's arrest is en
h
tirely owing to the
accused's brother arrived here on the day of his arrest for t
purpose of putting him on the alert.—No; Prk Courier *
Inquirer

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TUE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The state of Ireland will, it is gene-
rally understood, be brought before Parliament
very early in the approaching session. If in the
Speech from the Throne there be any allusion
to the condition of the sister country—and- it
is scarcely possible to assume that the en-
grossing subject of Ireland should be alto-
gether omitted from the Speech of the So-
vereign
at the opening of the Parliament—an
amendment will be moved on the Address. If,
aware of 'the embarrassing position in which they
are placed by the State prosecutions, and the
extraordinary proceedings by which the prepa-
rations for the trials have been marked, they be
desirous of gaining a short respite from the con-
sequences of a discussion in Parliament on those
topics, and Ministers resolve on having an open-
ing Speech from which the most important and
generally interesting, topic shall be omitted, them
on an early day, of which notice will be given by
Lord John Russell on the first evening of the
Session, the Noble Lord will announce his inten-
tion of moving that the House resolve itself into
Committee, for the purpose of taking into its
most serious consideration the state of
Ireland. • The Ministerial organs already de-
precate the inquiry ; and complain of the course
which, it is understood, the Opposition will
adopt in forcing on a debate upon the policy of Mi-
nisters in Ireland, in the agitated state of public
feeling in that country, and while the trial of
the Repeal leaders is yet pending. We cannot
concur in the view taken by the objectors to
inquiry. It cannot be forgotten that Govern-
ment last session refused a Committee. They
preferred coercion to conciliation. They sought
to intimidate, by a multiplication of military
force, a country which they, as a party,
had exasperated by injustice. They point to
their strong measures as a proof of the superi-
ority of their policy. Upbraided with their
inertion, when promptitude was required to pre-
verit dissatisfaction from growing into disaffec-
tion, and agitation into open insurrection, Minis-
ters became suddenly active. But it was
mischievous activity. They had far better
have remained, as they were, indifferent and
apathetic. Their prosecution of O'Connell and
his coadjutors—instead of inducing the Ca-
tholic population to desert him, or the pro-
ject with which he deludes their hopes of
obtaining relief from the pressure of varied
and accumulated grievances of which they
complain—has but increased their attachment to
the chief agitator. Enthusiasm for Repeal is
raised to a still more dangerous pitch than while
Parlianient was sitting. Such being the state of
things in Ireland—the country occupied by a mi-
litary force, as though it had been recently con-
quered ; the people fevered by excitement ;
a State prosecution against the leaders of
the agitation pending, on the trial of
whom the Government has admitted—not
by :equivocal words, but by unmistakeable
acts—they: cannot trust a single Roman
Catholic juror, although the members of that
community number as seven to one of the entire
population; an aggregate meeting of the Catho-
lics convened in Dublin to protest against this
injury and insult to the religion of the bulk of the
Irish people, and to that of a very large number
of the.-English—with these portentous appear-
ances, attributed to the policy of the Government,
is there not a case for Parliamentary inquiry? Is
it not demanded by the country as the necessary
result of such a combination of facts, which in-
volve the tranquillity, if not the integrity, of an
important member of the empire ? Will not a
refusal-by• Ministers to go into Committee on the
statif' Ireland. amount to a virtual admission
that they shrink from investigation ; and thus
condemn themselves by allowing judgment to
issue by default ? In 1828, when Sir Robert
Peel was in power, Ireland exhibited a scene
nearly similar to that which it now, unhappily,
presents. That we may not be chargeable with
distorting facts, or drawing upon imagination for
effect, we will quote Sir Robert Peel's own testi-
mony to the effects of the policy of his own Go-
verntisent at that period :
" A dreadful commotion distracts the publie mind in Ireland
--a feverish agitation and unnatural excitement prevail to a
degree scantly credible throughout the entire country—social
intercourse is poisoned there In its very springs—family is
divided against family, and man against his neighbour. In a
word, the bands of social life are almost dissevered—the foun-
tains of public justice are corrupted—the spirit of discord
stalks openly abroad, and an army of physical force is mar-
shalled in defiance of all law, to the imminent danger of the
üblic peace."
When excusing himself to his party and the
country for not taking office in 1839, to which he
was then called, he declared, " Ireland was my
chief difficulty." In May last he confessed that
the Whigs had kept Ireland tranquil, but which
was again disturbed under his rule. " Ireland
was tranquil two years ago [the Whigs were
then in office], it is now most disturbed." Thus
out of his own mouth we obtain proof of the
failure of his Irish policy. The disturbed
state of Ireland is coincident with a Peel
Ministry. Sir Robert Peel has admitt©d the
fact; and Ireland supplies the evidence. On what
imaginable grounds can inquiry be resisted by
the Government ? " Let Sir Robert Peel," says
the writer of the pamphlet j" What is to be
done ?".1 " compare the picture of Ireland, drawn
by himself in 1828) with the tranquillized state
of Ireland under Lord Noruianby, or Lord For-
tescue, and blush for the calumnies he sane-
tionedin Parliament against their Governments.
Let him Compare the thriving and friendly state
of Ireland in 1841, with that to which he has
again ieduced it in 1843; and then ask himself;
where are the fruits of his Conservatism, his
boasted statesmanship, and good government ?"
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle will
not lay aside the question of the Dublin jury
panel, which it is pleased to say has been packed.
Our Contemporary has this day an article of a
column length upon the subject. With all re-
spect to the Chronicle, we must say that
in its:argument it has, no doubt inadver-
tently,,;borrowed from the Repeal journals
as impudent a falsehood as ever dropped
from the lips or pen of man. The
panel has not been packed in any sense
in which the phrase has hitherto been used.
The panel has been taken in strict conformity
with,the provisions of a law introduced by Sir
Michael O'Loghlin and Mr. Justice Perrin, under
the government of the Marquis of Normanby.
This cannot be called packing. We will however
tell 419... Morning Chronicle what packing is, by
an example. -Axon]. "Pluliket packed a jury for
the trial of.the O'rangemen in 1823, when he set
aside- thirty out of the first forty-two names
called—the panel, we suppose, consisting of 48.
Now this was packing, and it may be said pick-
ing, a jury. It was a gross and scandalous abuse
of the prerogative—but we do not find in the
Morning Chronicle of that day a single word
of reproof of the then Irish Attorney-General.
In the late case there has been no exercise
of the prerogative whatever—the public prose-
cutor has simply complied with the terms of
the law;. he was to strike off 12, the defendants
were to strike off 12. The law does not allow the
parties to strike off the same names, even
were they inclined to do so, and the natural
course was, for him to strike off the 12 whom
the defendants would be most desirous to
keep Via., That they wished for a Roman
Catholic jury- is pretty plain, from the fact
that though the process of reduction was, of
course, progressive, they did not strike off one
Roman Catholic. But surely, if it was natural
fur the defendants to wish for a Roman Catholic
jury, as likely to favour them ; it was no less so for
the public prosecutor, who thinks them guilty, to
dislike the jury they wished for. However we have
been informed, and we firmly believe it, that the
religious profession of most of those objected to
was wholly unknown, though their political bias
was not, until Mr. Cantwell, eagerly on the
watch to catch a Roman Catholic juror, pro-
elaimed in succession the sect of the rejected.
If any one, therefore, has insulted the Roman
Catholic body, it is Mr. Cantwell, who was
the firsts and indeed the only, person who
made any reference to religious distinc-
tions through the whole proceeding. He it
is who has told that among the persons to
whoml upon general grounds, the Crown prose-
cutors were compelled to object, ten or eleven
were Roman Catholics. Does any one be-
lieve that Sir Robert Peel's Government
wished to • affront the Roman Catholics ?
Nobody will charge such a folly upon it;
there is no one can doubt that the Ad-
ministration would be delighted to have
the whole jury, or at least a considerable
part of it, composed of Roman Catholics, if; for-
tunately the ballot-box had turned up the names
of Roman Catholics, of whom we willingly believe
there are many in Dublin, who could be trusted
to give a fair verdict; but as such, unhappily,
was not the case, the Crown prosecutor could
not dare to trifle with his duty in a case involv-
ing the peace and liberty of Ireland, and the
safety of the empire. It is quite plain that the
firmness and honesty of the Irish Attorney-
General have deranged the whole plan of de-
fence, and miserably disappointed the expecta-
tions of the anti-Saxon. For the last three
months the Irish Repeal journals have teemed
with paragraphs warning the Crown prosecutor
that he must not challenge a 'Roman Catholic
—plain proof what was anticipated from a
Roman Catholic jury, or from even one
Roman Catholic upon the jury ; and we have
no doubt that if the most notorious among the
%tnprosecuted Repealers had been the single

Roman Catholic among the forty-e'ght names
drawn, to challenge him would hwe pro-
' yoked the clamour that we hear, because
the ten or eleven like him, though per-
haps less notorious, have been challenged.
The truth is, it was hoped that the
Attorney-General would not forget, but that he
would carefully remember, religious distinctions,
and that in submission to the clamour of cant, he
would leave unfit men—men whom, if Protes-
tants, lie would challenge—to sit on the jury be-
cause they are Roman Catholics. He has pursued
a wiser, a manlier, and a more honest conduct, in
total oblivion of religious distinctions, and hence
the clamour.

DEATH OF SIR HUDSON LOWE.
Sir Hudson Lowe expired on Wednesday night
from the effects of the severe attack of paralysis of
which he was recently the subject. As the
officer to whom was entrusted the custody of the
Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena, his conduct
toward the fallen monarch was strongly cen-
sured ; although, as a military officer in com-
mand, obeying the orders of his superiors, he
was merely the agent of others.
Sir Hudson Lowe was an Ensign in the East
Devon Militia, and served as a volunteer with
the 50th Regiment in 1785 and 1786, nearly sixty
years ago; and in Sept., 1787, was appointed
Ensign in that regiment, and Lieut. in Nov., 1791.
He served at Gibraltar six years, and subse-
quently at Toulon and in Corsica. He was pre-
sent at the attack of Martello tower, the storming
of Convention Redoubt, and the siege of Bastia
and Calvi.
Whilst holding the ranks of Lieutenant and
Captain he had in succession the following situa-
tions :—Regimental Paymaster, Assistant Pay-
master-General, Deputy Judge Advocate, and
Assistant Inspector of Foreign Corps. He next
served in Portugal two years, and. at Minorca
one. He had then the command of a corps of
Corsicans. He served in the expedition to
Egypt, and was in the reserve under Major-
General Moore. He was present in the princi-
pal occurrences of that compaign, and subse-
quently appointed Secretary of a Board at Malta
for the adjustment of claims; he received a
Majority in the Corsican Rangers, which was
ante-dated the sth of July 1800, and, in 1802, was
reduced to half-pay.
In April, 1803, he received a majority in the
7th Foot, and was appointed permanent Assistant
Quartermaster-General in the 'Western dis-
trict. He was afterwards sent, at the desire of
Lord Hobart, on a secret expedition to Portugal,
and subsequently on a similar mission to Sar-
dinia. He raisedand completed the corps of Royal
Corsican Rangers, of which he was appointed
Lieut.-Colonel Commandant, in June, 1804. He
served in Naples under Sir James Craig, and
afterwards, in Sicily, he was detached with five
companies to Capri, and was stationed there two
years and a half. The French attacked this post
with 3,000 men, and after a resistance of ten
days, the walls being breached, the guns dis-
mounted, and ammunition expended, Lieut.-Col.
Lowe evacuated it, by a convention, which
gave the right of free departure with arms and
baggage.
In the expedition to the Bay of Naples, under
Sir John Stuart, Lieutenant-Colonel Lowe coni-
manded the first line of the advance ; he was
present at the attack and capitulation of Ischia.
In the expedition to the Greek Islands he was
selected to act as second in command to Colonel
Oswald; he was at the attack and capitulation of
Zante and Cephalonia, and, subsequently, ap-
pointed Commandant and Chief of the Provi-
sional Government of the latter island.
He was Quartermaster-General to the British
Army in Flanders. In January, 1812, he re-
ceived the rank of Colonel, and the Colonelcv
of the Royal Corsican Rangers ; the 4th Of
June, 1814, that of Major-General. In 1814
the honour of Knighthood was conferred upon
him, and in 1815 he was appointed to have
the custody of the Emperor Napoleon at St.
Helena, in which charge he continued until the
Emperor's death. This is the event in his life
which may secure him immortality.
He was appointed Lieutenant-General in July,
1830, and obtained the Colonelcy of the 50th
Foot, Nov. 17, 1842. He was K.C.B. and G.C.,
St. Michael and St. George.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSNOUTII.—The vacant command at the Wore is
still discussed, and we understand that the successor to
Sir Edward Brace will not be appointed yet. In the
interim, the Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, Capt.
Shirreff, R.N., is acting Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness.
The Albion, 92, Capt. Lockyer, C. 8., is nearly ready
for sea, and is intended to proceed to Cork, to receive
the flag of Rear-Admiral Bowles, which is at present
flying on board the Caledonia, 120.
The free-trader, Zenobia, is to convey Sir Peregrine
Maitland to the Cape of Good Hope, instead of the Ves-
tal, 26, Capt. Talbot, at Sheerness, the latter not yet
ready for sea.
The Hyacinth, 20, Commander Scott, having been
found overmasted in her cruise on the coast of Ireland,
has returned to Plymouth, and is to be fitted for the Cape
station, and to convey to Bona Vista, W. Macaulay, Esq.,
appointed Slave Commissioner for captures en the west
coact of Africa.

The Russian corvette store-ship, Irtysh, Captain Von
Liarski, bound to liamtshatcks, is still in the harbour,
re-stowing her cargo and completing her fitments.
The transport Pestonjee Bomasjee, Lieut. Still, agent,
is to return to the West Indies, to bring home the re-
mainder of the 59th regiment, now serving at the island
of Barbadoes.
The corvette La;ne, 20, Commander J. W. Brisbane,
is daily expected from the River ; but her destination is
not accurately known.
The brig Lily, 18, recently returned from the west
coast of Africa, is to be overhauled, preparatory to being
re-commissioned.

At Spithead—No vessel of war.
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Pene-
lope, Satellite, Echo, Fearless, Pestonjee Bomanjee, and
Russian corvette.—Brighton Gazetir

_ ..tte.
THE NEW NAVAL REGULATIONS.
The long-looked-for new naval regulations have a,
length been issued by the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty, and are now in force. The book contains
many alterations, but the following which we enumerate
form the principal :
CAPTAINS.—The pay of Captains serving afloat, for-
merly, was according to six grades or classes. By the
new regulations they are reduced to four grades, the pay
of the largest rate being less, and the lowest rate more,
viz.:—Captains commanding first-rates (not being flag
ships) formerly received 611. is. 4d. per month ; they
are henceforth to receive 531. 145., which is the highest
pay now to be given. Captains commanding sixth-
rates formerly received 261. 17s. per month ; they are
now, to receive 301._135.8d.,-beiiig the lowest class of pay
to captains serving afloat.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.—AII officers are now to be
appointed by commission, including masters, surgeons,
pursers, mates, and assistant masters.
WARRANT OFFICERS.—The only warrant officers in
the navy will bo gunners, boatswains, carpenters, and
engineers.
PURSERS.—The designation of pursers is in future to
be " pursers and paymasters."
FIRST CLASS VOLUNTEERS.—VOIULIteeTS Of the Ist
class are in future to be known as " naval cadets."

ALLEGED HARSH CONDUCT OF
WORKHOUSE OFFICERS.
Wednesday evening a protracted and adjourned inquiry
touching the death of E. Goldsmith, aged 34, a brick-
layer, was concluded before Mr. Higgs, at the King
William, King William-street, Strand. Sophia, the
wife of deceased, said that on Saturday last, a little after
noon, he was seized with a fit, whilst working on a
scaffold in Great St. Andrew's-street, Seven Dials. lie
was taken to a neighbouring public-house, and two
surgeons attended him, one of whom was Mr. Bennet,
a parochial surgeon. They advised his removal to
Charing-cross Hospital ; but witness objected, and in-
sisted that be should be removed to St. Giles's Work-
house. The surgeons assented, and the parochial one
wrote an order for deceased's admission to the work-
house. She conveyed him thither in a cab, and saw
the head nurse, on whom she urged the immediate re-
ception of deceased, lest he should die in the cab. The
nurse answered, " Oh, you are in a very great hurry
If you are in a hurry, I am not. You must go to the
overseer and get an order before I can take him." She
said the surgeon's order was of no use. Witness then
went to the assistant-overseer for an order, and having
told him all that had just taken place, be refused to
grant an order, saying that it was an accident, and that
deceased should be taken to an hospital. Witness told
him it was not an accident, for that her, husband
had had Gorily a fit. The assistant-overseer still
refused an order, and she had her Lusband con-
veyed to Charing-cross Hospital, in which he died at
four o'clock the same afternoon. A young man, named
Mitchell, employed by deceased, corroborated the above
evidence.
Elizabeth Elston, the head-nurse referred to, said,
the reason she had not admitted deceased was that
his wife told her he had met with an accident, and
she, therefore, referred the case to the overseer. A
written order from the surgeon, though sufficient at
night, she did not consider sufficient in the daytime,
and therefore desired a printed order from the overseer.
By ajuror—Though a rate-payer should bring a dying
man witness would not receive him, without an over-
seer's order. I deny having used the unfeeling lan-
guage attributed to me by deceased's wife.
Thomas Tucker, the assistant overseer, said he should
have signed an order for admission had not deceased's
wife said he had fallen from a scaffold. Accidents aro
not admitted to tho workhouse.
The wife was recalled. and asserted that she never
said her husband had fallen from a scaffold, but on one,
in a fit ; and that the overseer said they did not admit
persons with fits.
Two witnesses having corroborated the evidence of
the wife,
The jury consulted a long time, and returned a ver-
dict—" That deceased died from compression on the
brain ;" adding, " We cannot separate without ex-
pressing our disapprobation of the conduct of the au-
thorities of St. Giles's workhouse, particularly that of
the nurse.'

GENERAL RAILWAY INFORMA-
TION.

N.B. In the following Tables M signifies before Noon, and
E after it.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM
STATIONS, with their Distances from London.
LONDON, Harrow 111, WATFORD 174, King's Langley 21,
Boxmoor 241, Berkhampstead 28, Tam; 31i, Aylesbury 431,
LIICIiTON 41, 131etch1oy and Fenny Stratford 461, Woonte-
TON 524, Roade 60, BLISWORTII b2l, W'edon 691, Crick
and Welton 754, RUGBY (Midland (.4.4..nties Junction) 83,
Brandon 89, COVENYILY 94, Hampton (Derby Junction) 103,
BIRMINGWAM 1121.

Departure Arrival A:rival
DOWN TRAINS. from i at at
London. Rugby. Birmingham
- -
Mixed, to Birmingham ... 6 0 M 930 M 11 6 M
Third Class, ditto
*Mixed, ditto
First Class, ditto
Mixed, to Rugby
°Mau, First Class
Mixed, to Birmingham
Ditto ditto
Ditto, to Aylesbury t3 0
Ditto, to Biriningha m 5 0 838 10 0
• Ditto, to Wolverton
*Mau, Mixed
*MAIL, to York, by Rugby! 9 0 'l2 15 M
Departure Depar- Arrival
UP TRAINS. from lure from at
Birmingham Rugby. London.
-- -
*Mixed, from Wolverton...
Ditto ditto . .
,
Ditto, from Birmingham... 7 0 M 823 M 12 30 E
Ditto, from Aylesbury I
*MAIL, First Class
Mixed, from Birmingham 10 0 11 17 3 0
Ditto ditto .... 12 Noon 123 E 530
Ditto ditto.
Ditto, from Rugby 4 0 7 30
Third Class, from Birming.i 220 413 10 0
First Class, ditto 4 0 517 9 0
Mixed, ditto
*MAIL, Mixed, ditto l2 Night 123 M ' 5 30M
*Mixed, from Rugby
The Sunday Trains are marked *.
In addition to those marked, there is a Mixed Train leaves
Birmingham on Sundays at 1 30 E, calling at all the Stations,
and arriving in London at 7 30 E.

BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY.

DOWN.

Departure,, Arrival /Departure Arrival
TRAINS. I from Bir- I at I TRAINS. from lat Biz,
i mingham. Derby. Derby. mingham.
-- - '

20M 10 10M
45 1 30 E
45 E 330
30 6 20
15 1 OM

}
'Malt ....;12 30M 2 1511 *.Mixed,..) 8
*Mixed,... 110 30 725 915 Ditto—ill
lst &2d 12 15 E Ditto.. 1 1
Class 1115 E 3 0 Ist &2d ...! 4
Trains 4 0 545 ..MAIL ...'ll
Mixed ..... 6 0 7 50
.1
The Trains marked * rust on Sundays, in addition to which
Trains leave Birmingham and Derby at 7 30 E, and arrive at
either place at 9 15 E.

COUNTIES.
r Distances from Rugby.
Broughten-Astley 11, Wig-
-2.41, Sileby 274, Barrow 30,
h (Nottingham Junction) 37i,
1E It BY 49i.

DOWN

GREAT WESTERN,
OPEN TO BF:AMBRIDGE.*
STATIONS, with their i)istances from Paddingt
PADDINGTON, Ealing si, Hanwell 7L Southall 9, West
Drayton 13, SLOUGH 18, MAIDENHEAD 22i, Twyford 30:;4,
READING 354, Pangbourne 41k, Goring 44i, Wallingforo
Road 47i, STEVENTON 56k, Farringdon Road 631, Shriven•
barn 711, SwiNnoN 77 (Junction with the Cheltenham Rail-
way), 11:30TON 13.kSSET 824, CHIPVENHAM 931, Corsham
98k, Box 1914, BATH 1061, Twerton 10ik, Saltford 111 i,
Keynsham 1131, Batsror. 118 k, Nailsea 126 k, Clevedon Road
130 k, Banwell 13.31, WEirrorr SUPER MERE 1364, High-
bruste 1454, BRIDGEWATER 1511, TAUNTON 1621.
DOWN TRAINS Departure '
_ •
_from

1 Departure 'Arrival at Arrival at
DOWN TRAINS' from Swindon their
Daily, exeerSundays. Paddington. Junction. Destination
Goods Train to Taunton .... 430 M 10 011 935 E
To Taunton ... 6 0 835 12 50
Ditto . 8 0 10 45 2 40
Short Train to Maidenhead 9 •
MAIL, to Taunton •••••• 10 15 1 ! E 440 E
Short Train to Maidenhead 11 0
To Taunton , 12 Noon 2 58 6 30 E
Short Train to Slough ' 130
To Taunton 2 OE 450 855
Short Train to Reading
To Bristol
Short Train to Maidenhead 530
To Swindon
MAIL, to Taunton ...... 855 41 35 2 55M
Goods Train to Taunton .... 930 215 M 10 25
SUNDAY DOWN TRAINS
Short Train to Slough
To Reading
Short Train to Slough ....•• 930
Man, to Taunton . ...... .. 10 15 1 0 E 430 E
To Taunton • 2 0 E 455 855
Short Train to Vaidenhead 5 0
To Swindon 7 0 10 0
MAIL, to Taunton _!B 55 11 35 2 5511
UP TRAINS Time Leave Arrival
of Swindon at
Daily. except Sundays. Starting. Junction. Paddington,
Short Train from Reading... 730 M '=B 55
Ditto from Slough • ••• 9 0
From Swindon
From Bristol
Short Tr. from Maidenhead' 11 15 12 15 E
• •
MAIL, from Bristol ..... ••• 840 10 28 110
Short Tr. from Maidenhead 345 E . 4 4.5
Goods Train from Taunton.. 730 M 540 E 12 I,
Prom Taunton
Ditto
From Taunton
Short Tr. from Maidenhead 730 ..
From Taunton
45 9 30
MAIL, from Taunton
Goods Train from Taunton 630 E 240 745
SUNDAY UP TRAINS,
Short Train from Slough ... , 8 0M ; 8 45 M
From Swindon
MAIL, from Taunton .......' 645 10 30M
Short Train from Slough ....I
12 .
5 300 E .4.i0 .
E. .
From Taunton ..
Short Tr. from Maidenhead,' .
7 30
Ditto from Reading,,,, 9 0 I 10 30
MAIL, from Taunton ....... 11 15 1235 M 1 525 :II
The Short Trains stop at all the intervening Stations.
* Beambridge is 81 miles from Taunton, and the distance is
performed in from 20 to 25 minutes.

TERN.
,e 3 from Nine Elme.
ledon 6, KINGSTON 10,
in 1* Weybridge 174,
inchfield 38, BASING.
EsrEm 64, Bishopstoke
N 77, Bottley 77, Fare-

SOUTH WES
STATIONS, with their Distance
NINE Elms, 'Wandsworth 3, Wimbl
Esher and Hampton Court 13, Walto
WOKING 23, Farnborough 31i, Wi
STOKR 46, Andover Road 56, WINCH
(Gosport Junction) 72, SOUTIIAMPTO
ham 82, GOSPORT 87.

Departure Arrival at Arrival
Departure Arrival Departure' Arrival DOWN TRAINS, from Southamp. at
I'RAINS. from at TRAINS. from at Nine Elms. ton. Gosport.
Rugby. Derby. Derby. Rugby. ---------_—_
—.....:... ----- -- ---. Mixed Train ... .................. 70 M 10 '2O M I() 45 M
Ist
( Ditto .
2d ...... 945 12 10 E 2d
Goods Train . ..... ..
.: ............................... 1219 i
00Noon 610 625
3d
4th4th I ° E 4 50 5 0
250 530 E I 4th ...... 440 7 0 Fast Train ........................ 3 0 6 0 ',s
sth B4O 10 50 ! sth 8 0 Mixed Train .............. ....., 5 0 850 9 0
6th Mail 12 15 M 224 MII 6th Mail 10 49 10 M MAIL
Train ....... 830 It 57 12 32 NI
10 0 4 051 5 0
ON UNDAYS. SUNDAYS,' ...... .............
Ist
Ist ...... 645 11l 930 E Mixed Train ...................I 10 0 M 145 E 210 E
2d
12 15 E 2 30Ras 910
11 57 12 32 M
34
4th
callingi.n Trains .o:
tW... o:
interveningk i'n. . e.a. 101,4s!a:3100i
.nEs Morning,3ndairldr
performing
.24i ,
),
g 4 I
the,
jaonudn
iseil
The times of arriving at and departing from Nottingham and in an hour and ten miautes. Sundays at 914 M, and at 214 and 714 F.
Derby are nearly the same. ..._._.__„,__---,-----._._
Departure Departure Arrival
NORTH MIDLAND. UP TRAINS, from from South. at
Gosport. ampton. Nine Elms.
(IN CONJUNCTION WITII THE MIDLAND COUN-
filitCedt Trai 135 M 215 ii„f
5 25 M
TIES, BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY, MANCHES•
630 7 0 JO 30 TER AND SHEFFIELD, MANCHESTER AND Goods Train Bl5 915 315 E
LEEDS, HULL AND SELBY, AND THE GREAT Mixed Train B3O 0 ii 12 30
NORTH OF ENGLAND.) Fast Train lO 30 11 0 2 0
FMaistxedla
Trainrn i
12 30 E 1 0 E
4 30
DOWN TRAINS.2 30 3 9 6 0
Mixed Train 5 30 6 0 9 15
Departure from Arrival at Goods Train
- SUNDAYS.
Derby Bhe
Man. Darling. Man
ffield. Sheffield. heeds. York.
9 30 10 0 1 45 E
ton. Mixed Traits che.ter.
4 30 E 5 0 E 8 45
2 53M .........5 OE 5 53M 8 30M I 6 25M 9 851
ShorliNTrroains leave Wokin ... ....... at 7.34 M, 14, 514, and 7E. Sun. . 3 45M . 19 0 12 0 ill 30 215 days at gl4 M, 6.4 and 81,E,
5 0 650 9 OM' ..
930104511 30 1 10E 4 30E 1145 E '5 15E LONDONAND BRIGHTON.
12 45E 2OE 2 45E 410 7 0 430 7 0 STATIONS,
330 445 530 7 0 910 \7 30 Lo DON, New Cross 3
6 0 730 S3O ,10 0 . CROYDON 103, Godstone Road 131,
Stoat's Nest 143, Merstham 193, Ran HILL 211, Horley 2;33
Tgaax Beinaes 294 11 I , ,T.TI TT
•,, ....a,corrioe ..,..,g, nAYWARD'S HEATH
SUNDAYS. 373, Hassock's Gate 433, BRIOHTON 503.
2 53E
Leave i Arrive in Leave ,Arris, in
7 OM\ 8 20511 9 10511,10 3051\12 55E
DOWN. London. Brighton. UP. Brighton.' London.
3 10E 4 40E 5 30E1 7 10E 10 45 \7 30 I
.... 830 51 IL G M From Croy-
•* • The Down Trains arrive at Hull in about two hours
mixed ~ 9
later than their arrival at York.
MAlL,First don
Clans lO 20 1] 90 E mixed ....... 70 M 9 2551 0
=,__ - —_ ----- _. ______
_r_ _ —,risas Mixed ..., 12 0 I 230 First Class...
UP TRAINS. First Class 20 E 4 0 Mixed 9 0 11 0
1 i 0 12 ao E
',lived 3 0 530 1114,11, Nlixed 11 20 130
First Class 445 645 I Mixed ....... :45 E 415
Departure from I Arrival at Mixed 630 9 0 I First Class... 330 530
‘ll::3ntil:TaElat 8 20
and 1030.51, and at 1 0, 3 30a
',ton. ' &fan. i ToCroydon 1 0 ? (:Duds.., 90,12 30 51
Leeds. Sheffield. Sheffield. Derby. ~, _ . __, eheste tocroyuon 0 311
ton. 1 York.
•
iriora SUNDAYS. i
A,,,,re,}!,:-151.ixed Trains leave Brighton for7S3ohorMe.
a2nldsll):llltt3ttt Nixedola4lis.2,:d... ..................... 4:6275n3,341:0561iEM440551,
a.atin,9sld()llB7°osoo
E.E.
6 15M 8 45Mi 6 4531 j 930 10 40 11 30 12 45E Dittoltt
915 12 Noon!10 50 12 45E 2 OE 2 45E 415
12 15E 2 50E1 1 20E 4 0 528 ,6 20 750 sTii°hCiitssYdEhudao,H°i
rlidyle,
ath)al :111:617Ba.S1
ft3olßlo,:auf3,
A, ; 1 1 i
.:
347 i 6 25 14 45 7 9 to 20 , 9 0 10 18
surtnx-rs.
01 4.I2STONE.
1 6 45M1 ... ..... 7 30M 8 50M 9 40M 11 15M FrsO°3omn , and 7 30E. Sunday's atloosl
3OE 4 20E 5 20E 7 OE The Mixed Trains stop at all the Statio;,Othle7FEirßst Class Trains
3 47E1 6 25E1 7 9 820 09 0 10 18 only at First Class t..itio'_
_____
.* Trains leave Hull for Derby daily at 63 and 11M, and
at 23 and SE. On Sundays at 5E only.
----71----------------._
MANCHESTER & BIRMINGHAM_ I - ....L..,77P.Y.NT1N9::. ----

iProTlit A 1 NS..
TRAij‘.°lkeAtine. Folkeitone. London.
IPal at IllepartureU
MANCHESTER & BIRMINGHAM.
m Arrival in
Leaves 'Arrives at Leaves Arrives Arrives Leaves
firming_ Man.. 1 Man.. at at Itir -----...---..., ______________
11 47 M • M -------
ham. Crewe. Chester. cheater. Crewe. mingham. 80 M 948 NI
1 '2l E 7 0 10 43
;------- Departure from
_ LO WN:
9 30
:), 52 9 3ch
1 7 E
145M40M 5 15 M I 6 45111 815 NI 111 30 M 11 0
5 21 11 40 3 23
730 9 0 730 9 0 130 E
7 47 1 20 E 4 40
6 0 9 0 10 30 9 0 10 7 12 45 E 4 0
5 no
11 30 20E3 15 E 11 15 12 25 E 315 7
3; ,
9 21 3 50 6
50 I 10 27 7E33
245 E 5 0 6 15 1 45
515 E 7 0 10 15 SUNDAYiI.
240 E: 950 M I 2 9 EtiUNn•vs.
j
4157 10 840 745 85011 30 931 M I
SUNDAYS. SUNDAYS. 440 I•.` 50 E 4 0
1 30 E
SI 0 5 10
50 s o
6
1 45M 4 OM' 5 ISM , 8 30M 10 OM 12 45E 5 0
730 930 II 0 11 15 12 27 E 315 I
I
245 E SOE 630 E. 745 E 850 11 30
___________
-- • -- -

MANCHESTER AND LEEDS.
STATIONS wl4ll their Distances from Manchester
MANCHESTER, Oldham Junction 5, Mills Hill 6, Blue Pits 9,
Rochdale 11, Littlehorough 14, Todmorden 20, Eastwood 21,
Hebdon Bridge 24, Luddenden Foot 26, Sowerby Bridge 28,
Elland 31, prlghouse 34, Cooper Bridge. 36, Dewsbury 4!,
Horbury 44i 'Wakefield 48, Normanton 51, ',KIDS 60.

A. M.
5 30
8 151
11 15
roc
1 0
4 0
7 15
9 0
4 15

Shoreditch.
TO BISHOP'S STORITORD EASTERN.
witt
mtheir Distances from '
Ponde:s End 1134,
%,ElONNTSoltenh.t Edmontr 9r. ,ow
NORTHERN AND EASTERN
Lea BrNiTdOgAeli
Waltham 141 , Broxbourne 19, Itoydon 22
worth 254 Stortford 324• Sawbridgo-

2 37
5 lb
9 55
7 40
9 45

Arrival

2 47
5 22
9 1
10 40

3 36
6 45
9 45
11 30
9 0

RAND JUNCTIO

LA W INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QuEEL,,- s ,BEN Cl, J. 11,
(Sittings in )
THE QUEEN V. THE NORTH MIDLAND RAILIVA.Y COM-

PANT.—MANDAMUS.
Mr. Sergeant CLARKE moved for a rule calling ou the
North Midland Railway Company to show cause why a
mandamus should not issue, ordering them to build a
bridge across a certain road which was crossed by
the line of railway. The affidavits stated that at the
time when this portion of the railway had been first
planned, the officers of the Company had stated it as
their opinion that such bridge ought to be constructed,
and had agreed to construct it. They had, however,
neglected so to do, and were proceeding with the con-
struction of the railway to the injury of the road, and
without constructing the bridge.
: The application was granted.
THE QUEEN V. TUE COMMISSIONERS FOR BUILDING

NEW CHURCIIES.-31ANDAMUS.
Mr. KELLY moved for a rule, calling upon the defen-
dants to show cause why a mandamus should not issue
ordering them to set apart a sufficient number of sittings
in the new district church at Highgate, for the accom-
modation of the master, the governors, and guardians
of Sir Roger Chohnondeley's Free Grammar School,
together with their families, and also scholars of the
said school. Prior to the year 1830 there had been a
chapel attached to the school, capable of accommodating
700 persons. Under certain proceedings in Chancery, a
scheme had been agreed upon, and an Act of Parliament
had passed in 1830 to carry it into effect, under the pro-
visions of which the chapel was to be pulled down, and a
new district church built upon its site, towards the
building of which the school property was to contribute
2,0001., and what the governors were to receive in ex-
change for their chapel and for their 2,0001., was
accommodation in the district church for themselves
and their families, for the master and his family, and
for the scholars. Time church had been built, and the
Commissioners had set apart a pew containing eight
sittings for the master and his family, and for the go-
vernors two pews, containing twelve sittings. The go
vernors were six in number, and considered themselves
as entitled to each a separate pew containing six sit-
tings. At all events, twelve sittings could not be consi-
dered as sufficient accommodation for six persons and
their families.
Lord DENMAN—Take a rule nisi.
Application granted.
LOVEGROVE V. lIENIIA3I.—PICKERSGILL V. BENHAM.
These were actions against one of the overseers of
the parish of Windsor to recover penalties, to which he
had rendered himself liable by neglecting to pay the
plaintiffs the amount of costs which they had incurred in
prosecuting to conviction a party for keeping a disor-
derly house. The plaintiff in the first case was the con-
stable, and in that case the verdict was in his favour. In
the second, the plaintiff was one of the inhabitants,
and in that case the verdict had been for defendant, the
plaintiff having failed to prove a sufficient demand. In
both cases leave had been reserved by Mr. Justice Wight-
man, before whom they had been tried, to the respective
parties to move to set the verdict aside.
The Solicitor-General in the first case, on behalf of'
the defendant, and Mr. Platt in the second case, on be-
half of plaintiff, now moved accordingly.
The COURT ordered the two sasses to be argued as a
special case.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 11.
(Sittings in Banco.)
CLARKE V. KENDRICK.
This case was tried at the London Sittings after last
Michaelmas Term, and a nonsuit entered for the plain-
tiff. The plaintiff it appeared had discovered a mode of
cleansing and enamelling cast-iron hollow ware, particu-
larly saucepans, to be used for culinary and che-
mical purposes. so as not to be injured by fire,
for which he took out a patent. The invention
turned out to be a highly ukeful one, and the defendant
having interfered with the rights conferred by the pa-
tent, the plaintiff brought his action against him. On
the trial an old patent, dated 17g9, and granted to a per-
son named Hinckley for the same purposes, was produced
by the defendant, under whom he alleged he worked,
and a verdict was given in his favour, the plaintiff being
nonsuited. It was proved, however, at the trial, that
the saucepans produced by the plaintiff were far superior
to the others produced under Ilinckley's patent, and that
the materials employed were different.
Mr. MARTIN now moved for a rule to set aside the
finding of the jury, and for a new trial.
Rule nisi granted.

SHERIFFS' COURT, Jan.
LEVY V. PERKINS.

In this action the plaintiff was a Middlesex sheriff's
officer, and the defendant a gentleman, residing at Ilox-
ton.• The action was brought to recover a sum of
money paid by the plaintiff' for and on account of the
defendant, and at his request.
It appeared, that In the year 1839, an action was
brought against the defendant by a person of the name
of Carr, and judgment was issued against him fur the
debt and costs, amounting to 1201. The writ was then
put into the hands of the plaintiff for execution, and, he
sent a man to take possession of the defendant's house.
The defendant upon this said he would pay 701. down
if the plaintiff would stay the execution, which he con.
rented to do. Shortly afterwards other sums were paid,
making in all 1171., which the plaintiff gave credit for,
and the plaintiff then discharged Curr's claim, but still
held possession of the defendant's house. The present
action was brought for the balance, which consisted of
sheriff's expenses.
For the defendant two gentlemen were put into the
box who swore, that subsequently to the payment of the
117/. by the defendant, they paid to the plaintiff, at his
own house in Norfolk-street, the sum of 101, on account
of the defendant. They asked the plaintiff for a re-
ceipt f,r the amount, but he declined giving one, saying
that the Sheriff never gave receipts. Another witness
was called, who was formerly a clerk in the employ of
the plaintiff, and he stated that subsequently to the pay-
ment;of the 1171., he went, at the request of the plaintiff;
to the defendant's house, and made a demand for
221. 10s., which the defendant paid him, and he handed
it over to the plaintiff. So that, in fact, the defendant
had paid the plaintiff a great deal more than he claimed.
The UNDLII•SUERIFP having summed up the evidence,
the jury without any hesitation found a verdict for the
defendant.

POLICE -INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES.—Mary Stuas, the wife
of a man of very good character, and the sister of a
respectable publican, was brought before Sir Peter
Laurie, in the custody of John Forrester, the officer,
and charged by Mr. Bush, the solicitor to the Com-
mittee of Bankers for protection from forgeries and
frauds, under the circumstances stated in the evidence
below :

Mr. Bush having represented that the prisoner was
stopped at the Bank upon presenting at the counter a
portion of the bank notes, of which a clerk in the house
of Messrs. Barnard and Dimsdalo, bankers, in Corn-
hill, vvas robbed a few days ago, added that he had de-
sired the brother of the prisoner to attend, as she had,
upon being questioned, stated that she received the notes
from him, and applied for cash for them at his request.
The brother of the prisoner hero stepped forward, and
declared that be never knew until that moment the na-
ture of the barge against. his sister ; th<at be never, in
thecourse :of his life; had sent her to the Bank, avid
that he was ignorant of anything connected with the
transaction,

Mr. Bush said he had not the least reason to doubt
the statement of Mr. Stubbs. He then said that the
clerk alluded to had on the 3d of January been robbed
by some pickpocket in the street, after he had received
to the amount in various sums of nearly 2,000/.
Edward Barry deposed that he was clerk to Messrs.
Barnard, Dimsdale and Co., bankers, of Cornhill, and
collected what were called " the afternoon charges." In
the course of that collection it was his duty to call at
the London and Westminster Bank, and the London
Joint-Stock Bank. On the 3d of January he collected
certain notes at these and other banks, and (pointing to
a paper) that was a list of the particulars of the notes.
The last bank to which he went on that day was th,?
London Joint-Stock Bank in I'rinces-street, after having
left which he proceeded to the corner of Lombard-street,
and near the Globe Insurance-office he felt his pee:et
tugged. lie put his band to it, and immediately
missed the case in which he had deposited the bank
notes. He had not seen the notes since.
Mr. J. G. Dimsdale, of the firm of Barnard, Dims-
dale and Co., deposed that he saw the prisoner at the
Bank of England on Wednesday, and heard her ac-
knowledge in ttie Secretary's office that she had pre-
sented the notes. He also heard her say that the name
"F. Stubbs," written on the notes, was her husband's
name, and that she had received them from her brother.
The amount of the notes presented was about 300/.
The prisoner's brother (to the prisoner)—What did
you mean by saying that I sent you to the Bank with
the notes ?

The prisoner There were so many gentlemen
about me that I became timid, and did not know what
I said. I thought it would .clear me if I said I had
them from my brother ; but I said wrong. I had them
of a young man who told me to take them to the Bank,
and I was to meet him in Bishopsga,te-street to be re-
compensed for my trouble.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.
ROBBERY OF THE EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK
WAREHOUSES.— For some time it has been suspected by
the managers of the East and \Vest India Dock Com-
pany that some of their servants connived at certain ex-
tensive robberies committed upon the premises, and po
]icemen were appointed to watch in coloured clothes
about the neighbourhood. Yesterday two then, named
Samuel Harmer and Joseph Neal, were put to the bar,
ehaged- with having stolen a large quantity of tea, the
property of the Company, and John Illacket, Thonias
Redmond, Sidney Johnson, and George Green, servants of
the Company, were charged with having been concerned
with them in committing the plunder.
Mr. Richard Williams, principal warehouseman at
the premises of the Company, at Fenchurch-street and
Crutched Friars, stated that he saw Harmer enter one
of the warehouses in the afternoon of Wednesday with a
bag, and return with the bag in a different condition
from that in which it was when he went in. The pri-
soner had no business in the place at all, and was stopped
by a policeman who had received instructions on the
subject.

W. D. Davis (policeman H 36) stated that at twelve
o'clock, as he was watching at the Crutched Friars gate
of the warehouses, he saw the prisoner come out with
a full bag, and followed him to a public-house. After-
wards he again saw Harmer come out of the warehouse,
with another bag on his shoulder, and asked him what
he was carrying, to which he replied, " All right, Sir."
Witness asked him his name, and he said it was Henry
Weedon, and that he resided at No. 8, Gee-street,
Clerkenwell. Upon being questioned further Harmer
said he would answer no more questions, that it was no
good, mul gist his ;awe was Samuel klarnam