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No. 16,146. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING SUN7 MAY 15, 1844.

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SALES BY AUCTION,

FREEHOLD RENTAL of 811. 10s. a Year, well secured.
111 R. GEORGE ROBINS is instructed by the
Executors of the late James Thompson, Esq., to SELL
by AUCTION, at the Mart, To.Moßnow, May 16, at Twelve,
in Two Lots,

TWO CAPITAL FREEHOLD INVESTMENTS,

producing 811. 10s. a year, and secured upon

TWO SETS OF EXCELLENT COACH-HOUSES AND
STABLING;

situate Nos. 3 and 5, Masons' Arms-yard, at the rear of George-
street, Hanover-square, and leading out of Maddox-street. Both
properties are let upon lease, and there can be no question that in
this important position a certain rental may always be relied on.
Particulars may be had at the offices of Messrs. Roy, Blunt,
Johnstone, and Walton, solicitors, Lothbury ; at the Mart ; and at
Mr. George Robins's Offices, Covent-garden.

SECURE INVESTMENT of 97/. 10s. A YEAR, arising from

a Capital RESIDENCE in BEDFORD PLACE, RUSSELL-
SQUARE.
MR. GEORGE ROBINS is instructed to
SELL by AUCTION, at the Auction Mart, Ta.. Mo-
n May 16, at Twelve,
A MOSP ELIGIBLE INVESTMENT,

PRODUCING A CLEAR RENTAL OF 971. 10s. ♦ YEAR,
and secured upon a Capital Residence, in a thorough state of or.
namental and substantial repair, being

No. 35, BEDFORD-PLACE, RUSSELL-SQUARE,
with coach.house and stabling, and every accommodation for a
family of the first respectability; on lease to Richard Manna, Esq.
at 1501. a year, who covenants to repair and pay all taxes and rates.
It is held for an unexpired term of twenty-seven years, at a ground.
rent of fifty guineas.

Particulars may be had of Mr. Giraud, solicitor, 7, Furnical's
Inn; at the Auction Mart; and at Mr... George Robins's Offices,
Covent-garden.

MUNSTER-ROAD, FULHAM.
EXCELLENT PROPERTY for OCCUPATION or INVEST-
MENT, and TWO PLOTS of VALUABLE BUILDING
GROUND.

MR. GEORGE ROBINS is instructed to SELL
ty AUCTION, at the Auction Mart, To-Morolow,
May 16, at Twelve, in Six Lots, most ELIGIBLE PROPERTY
for occupation or investment, erected in the best style, and very
attractive in its situation. It comprehends four capital residences,
known as

THE MUNSTER VILLAS,
MUNSTER-ROAD, FULHAM.
Three of the houses are most respectably tenanted, by Mr. Howson,
Mrs. Lukin, and Mr. Walpole, presenting secure investments.
The fourth offers a tempting abode for a family; it is in excellent
order, replete with every convenience, the situation most delight..
WI, and the advantage of a double garden, admirably laid out and
planted. Also,
TWO VALUABLE PLOTS OF BUILDING GROUND,
with frontage of 60 feet each, and a depth of 166 feet, each plot
being calculated for the erection of two villa residences, and the
situation extremely rural and delightful, in the centre of extensive
garden ground.
May be viewed daily, and particulars had of Mr. Potter, builder,
Fulham ; of Messrs. Roy, Blunt, Johnstone, and Walton, solici-
tors, Lothbury; at the Auction Mart; and at Mr. George Robins's
Offices, Covent-garden.

GROUND RENTS ADMIRABLY SECURED for NEARLY
SEVENTY YEARS, PRODUCING SIXTY GUINEAS A
YEAR, and IMPROVABLE LEASEHOLDS, PRODUCING
ONE HUNDRED POUNDS A YEAR.
MR. GEORGE ROBINS will SELL, at the
Auction Mart, To-Monaow, May 16, at Twelve, in
Two Lots,
GROUND RENTS, AMOUNTING TO SIXTY-THREE
POUNDS A YEAR,

indisputably well secured upon newly-erected and very well-built
houses, approximating upon the Islington Spa, near to the New
River Head, and surrounded by a populous neighbourhood. It is
secured upon, altogether, sixteen houses, and the value to secure
these ground-rents, which will form One Lot, is about
FOUR HUNDRED A YEAR;

S Re
weekly. TELIn'IOSe
meeting
SOCIETY FOR THE EMANCIPA-
nAgNOoKfFt Nhe n
CHARTEReDI
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ofs iTt ERt
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held last evening, the subject of discussion being the Bank
Charter Resolutions of Sir R. Peel.
The Earl of Mountcasbel was present.
presided.
The CHAIRMAN opened the business of the evening, by a
speech of some length. Having announced the subject of
discussion, he said it was not only a question affecting the
charter of the Bank of England, but one connected with the
whole currency of the country—a subject, he need not say, the
mostimportant that could be discussed either by the Minis-
ter! the Parliament, or the people. They had now been suf-
fering for twenty-five years under a system which the Prime
Minister now boasted of having propounded, a system which
superseded one that he was pleased to call a "fatal measure,"
but under which the country was rich and prosperous, and
defeated the whole world that was in arms against her.
tinder that system it' employed and fed the whole of her
working population, and during the war and after it paid off
many millions of the National Debt. The measure which
superseded this fatal one had stopped the I payment of the debt,
had increased by a double weight the burdens of the people, and
had corainued to impoverish every class of the community,
except one. But that class itself had begun to be pinched
at last. Though their fortunes had been tripled since 1819,
under the operation of this system, yet they found that now
they could not receive more than one-third of the interest for
their money that they used to do. That class, therefore,
would make one struggle more, and the present system was
not only to be continued, but to be made more screwing than
ever. He then explained the nature of the currency of the
country, and its division into two parts, as discussed at length
at former meetings--one, the commercial currency of the
country ; the others the money of the Government ; and
stated that it was A truism that the Government should be
the'only issuer of money, but then it did not follow that all
the currency of the country was to issue from one source.
If this was his only principle, he should pronounce the plan
of Sir Robert Peel to be a total failure, contrary to the prin-
ciples of common sense and to commerce. He censured the
plan of reducing all to one bank of issue ; and stated that
the principles of the plan were those which the Society
could not entertain, and they should think it their duty to do
all in their power to stop the Minister from taking so rash
and fatal a course. That a man in such an elevated posi-
tion should be so misguided and misadvised as to'throw away
all the popularity he had gained, and finish his public career
as the enemy of his country instead of its protector, was
a thing that, a short time ago, was beyond his comprehen-
sion. He thought it the more strange that he should persist
in this policy, since he had already been three times defeated
by it in the House of Commons. The three adverse divi-
sions on Lord Ashley's proposition arose from the conse-
quences of this system; it had acted through the master on
the labourer, and produced such a mass of distress and mi-
sery, as to oblige the House of Commons to devise a remedy.
He also, to the short time allowed the country to
consider a proposal of such magnitude. To give only a fort-
night for the consideration of this question, was trifling with
the nation ; it would take a twelvemonth to consider it
thoroughly.
Mr. RoGERs opened the discussion by adverting to the
measure of Mr. Pitt—the Bank Restriction Act—stating his be-
lief that Pitt had been unjustlypraised for his wisdom in fram-
ing it, when, in fact, it was forced upon him by the circumstances
of the time, there being no other mode for the Bank of Eng-
land to escape the disgrace of stopping payment altogether.
He reprobated the infamy of the Act of 1819, but it was in-
famous, not because it was unsound in principle, but:because no
;equitable adjustment was made, which was necessary then.
The consequence of this was, that the poor suffering people of
this country had been subjected to a course of extortion—he
might say,
,swindling—ever since. But the remedy for the
evils must not be a course of direct hostility to the Bill of
1819 ; and he complained that no one had stated what that
remedy ought to be.
Mr. LASSIE MURRAY said, with regard to the question of an
" equitable adjustment, according to the plan proposed by
.Mr. Cobbett, it was a giving up of private property for the
use of the State. An equitable adjustment between the
debtor and creditor interest might have been made in 1819,
but it could not have been done on Mr. Cobbett's principle—
that would have caused endless confusion. He did not believe
that Mr. Pitt was highly praised as the author of the plan to
which he had recourse in 1797 ; he had only stated, that
had not Mr. Pitt adopted it, the country could not have gone
on, nor could it have attempted those great undertakings
which it did attempt during the war. He was not an ad-
mirer of Mr. Pitt's Act, but that Minister discovered, by ac-
cident, an approach to a better system of currency, and
should they be involved in another war, they would be
obliged to have recourse to that system again. With respect
to the measure of Sir Robert Peel, which he now approached,
he almost shrank from discussing it at any length; he felt,
however, that if Sir Robert Peel should carry it without some
remonstrance from those who had studied the question, they
would be guilty of injustice to their own countrymen, if they
did not lift up their voice, however feeble it might be, to
warn the country of the gulf it was about to be plunged
into. The plan was to contract the currency. One would
have thought that the Bill of 1819 would never have
been re-enacted by the same man by whom it was
introduced, one would have thought the consequences
of that Bill had been so shocking in themselves, and so
palpable to the eye, that no man would have had
the hardihood at this time of day to have tightened
" the screw" which that Bill laid on. The consequences of
that Bill had' been the successive panics of 1822 and 1825, and
the clouds that had ever since appeared in the commercial hori-
zon. This, it might have been thought, would have prevented
any man from glorying in that Bill, however much he might be
bent upon increasing the fortunes of the great annuitants of
this country.—(Hear, hear.) He was glad, however, that
Sir R. Peel had. discussed the question. They might now
take his spech as the text of the bullionists ; yet, if they exa-
mined it they would find that every sentence of that speech
contradicted each other. It divided itself naturally into two
parts, one on banking, and the other on currency, but both
so interwoven as to effect the grand object—that of restriction
of the representative of value of the country. Sir Robert
Peel had asked what was a pound sterling? Did he suppose
it was au unanswerable question, or that lie alone was able
to give its solution ? The sovereign he produced with an air
of triumph was but a bad representative of a standard of
value. As gold, it was subject to more variations in its quan-
tity
.than any other commodity the produce of labour, and
yet it was in this commodity that it was sought to give
to a certain fixed weight an invariable value. The produce
of industry might fluctuate as it pleased, the same quan-
tities of them commanding at different times more or less of
the precious metals, but gold alone was to be exempt from
fluctuation. The same quantity must always represent the
same value. This was, in fact, constituting that which should
be the servant of the public, its master. But it might be
asked, why was this so ? He would tell them. The fund-
holders, the Government aanuitant of all classes, and the
capitalists were the masters of this and every other Govern-
ment. It was they who not only cried out for an unvarying
standard, but although they lived by the taxes, they hated
being paid in tax-burthened money. He would reply to Sir R.
Peel, by asking him if the weight contained in the pound .
sterling, or ounce of gold, had not also an intrinsic
and, if as such, it was not liable to fluctuate in relation to
other commodities, as other commodities fluctuated in rela-
tion to each other? He would also ask if it was not possible
to discover the intrinsic value of all articles of production, by
ascertaining how much of other things were consumed in
their re-.production, and if this argument held good, what a
great injustice was committed when you fixed the price of
'one article, gold for instance, above all others the most liable
;to fluctuate, as a standard of value, for other things the least
liable to vary either in quantity or cost price. He contended
that the great commerce of the world was carried on without
the intervention of gold, or without a standard of value at
all, other than the intrinsic relationship of value existing in
the things exchanged. It was at home that a standard be-
came necessary to measure the quantity the creditor had power
to demand fr,ona his debtor, that a common measure became
neeessary4.hut. was it fair to the debtor interest, which
toniprised the tax.-paying part of the community, to demand
payment by any; other standard than that which regulated
their means of payment? Corn was this standard—it was
the very element that ruled the intrinsic value of all things
in this country, and the least fluctuating in a given number
of ,'ears. :There could be no objection to the use of gold as a
co?t,',lrut--it was unjust to the productive classes to
.say that
Itgiv weight of'gold should always represent a given sum
Of•moneyi.' while their wages and the product of their in-
dustryavere permitted to fluctuate. In answer, therefore, to
Bir Robert Peel, lie would say let the pound sterling repre-
dent a certain number of bushels of wheat, say three bushels
—let this be fixed on the average of ten years. This is
what people could understand, and whether the circulating
pound' sterling was composed of 5 dws. 3 grs. of gold, or a
bank note, the people would know how much corn they were
entitled to for every pound sterling they earned in wages.
If the world only consisted of consumers and producers, men
would contrive to do without such a measure of value as
gold, by exchanging the commodities that each had to bring
into the market. e considered this an answer to the
question
Sir Robert Peel had asked with such apparent
complacency. With respect to the banking part of the
subject, it appeared that Sir R. Peel endeavoured to lessen
the quantity
of money in circulation. During the last year
the Bank acquired a greater power of issue than ever it had,
and this caused money to be cheaper, not because men had
increased their property, but because money laid in the
hands of the private dealers, and the Bank of England was
ready to go into the money market and compete with them
in the discount of bills, &c. This had naturally caused a
great deal of envy on the part of private capitalists, and they
were glad to see this measure of Sir Robert Peel's for reducing
the circulation of the Bank to 14,000,000/. ; for they said,
when the demands of the country require more than this
amount, we shall have the power of charging whatever the
public will be able to afford for the use of our money. The
measure, therefore, was one that would benefit the capitalists ;
but what might prove beneficial to the capitalists might not
be beneficial to the producing interests. This should make
the agriculturists, as the chief producing interest of the
country, look sharply after Sir Robert Peel, and
not believe in all the calmness and tranquillity
that reigned in the City of London. In fact, h
was a " joy suppressed." They must not take the
opinion of the moneyed capitalists, the plan would work in
their favour, as they had money to sell ; but those who had
to sell corn, coals, or iron, or wool, would be injured and
mulcted of a portion of their profits. And the evil would not
fall alone on them, but on the working men of the produc-
tive classes, whose wages would be lowered and profits
diminished.
Mr. Cam's confined his observations entirely to the cur-
rency part of the question. He denied the truth of the posi-
tion asserted by Sir R. Peel, that the " pound" had always
been fixed and invariable. It was at first a pound weight of
silver, but it had undergone many mutations. Henry the
Eighth altered it no less than four times, and Edward the
Sixth reduced it to a very low amount indeed. But in con-
currence with it was another kind of pound, consisting of the
Exchequer money, or tallies issued by Henry the First. He
argued for the issue of a Government money to the amount
of the taxation of the country, stating, very forcibly, that by
the system of indirect taxation the Government has effec-
tually raised the price of commodities, or made less sell for the
same money, as if they adopted the old and barbarous plan
of sending a man with a pair of shear% to cut off twelve
inches from every yard of cloth imported, a process from
which our present word Exclet was derived.

NOTICE
THE LONDON OFFICE OF THE STAR
PACKET COMPANY IS
REMOVED FROM LONDON-BRIDGE WHARF,
TO TIIE
OLD SHADES PIER,
ABOVE LONDON-BRIDGE,
THE PACKET LEAVES EVERY MORNING AT
NINE.
N B. No charge for wharfage or passengers luggage.
Star-olflce, Thornton's Wharf, April 13, 1844.

MR. ERAIIAM'S CONCERT.
COMBINATION OF TALENT.
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN, MONDAY, MAT 20.
First Act of the Creation : " With verdure clad," Madame Dorus
Gras—, In splendour bright," Mr. Braham—":Rolling in foaming bil-
lows," M. Staudigl—Trio, Madame Dorus Gras, Mr. Braham, and
M. Staudigl—" Jepthah's rash vow," and " Gentle airs," Mr. Bra-
ham, accompanied by Mr. Lindley—" Thus saith the Lord," Mr.
7.lamilton Braham, Madame Dorus Gras, the Misses Williams, Miss
Alleyne, and Mrs. Martin. Mr. Braham, Mr. C. Braham, M. Stau-
digl, and Mr. Hamilton Braham will aing favourite Songs in the
two miscellaneous acts. Concertos on the Violin and Violincello, by
Mr. Blagrove and Mr. Lindley. Mr. Braham will, for the first time,.
sing the Duet, " When thy bosom," with Madame Dorus Gras ; and
" Shall the mountain," with M. Staudigl ; " Vaglio dire," with Mr.
Hamilton Braham; and "Gallop on gaily," with Mr. Charles
Braham.

Band and Chorus, 200 Performers.
Tickets, Programmes, and Places of Mr. Notter, at the Box-office
or of Mr. Braham, 5, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park-gardens.

To commence at half-past Seven o'clock

Mr. Spot tiswood

Mr. RICHARDSON objected to the plan of Sir. B. Peel that
he was undertaking to do what would be impossible. He
should wish to see some practical step taken with a view of
proving to Sir It. Peel that he was promising what he could
not perorm.
Mr. HOLLAND contended that it mattered not how little
money was in the country provided it circulated with suffi-
cient rapidity. He stated a curious calculation, made on the
authority of Diodorus and Pliny, that in Egypt at the period
the Pyramids were built, so little coin was required for the
purposes of life, that to feed, clothe, educate, and bring a man
from childhood to maturity, it did not cost more than 13s. of
English money of the present day. He eulogised the plan of
Sir IL Peel.
Mr. O'BRIEN remarked that he had heard that there was
nothing so hideous in the world but what had got some-
thing to admire it ; and he found the saying illustrated by
the admiration the last speaker felt for the currency plan of
Sir 11. I'eel. He denounced it as unsatisfactory, illogical,
and inappropriate to the circumstances of the country, and
he felt indignant that no movement had yet been made to
oppose it.
The CHAIRMAN stated that it was a tacit arrangement that
no opposition was to be made to the measure on introducing
it. He had, however, the satisfaction of knowing that the
"cheering" with which the plan was received came exclu-
sively from the Opposition side of the House. He then an-
nounced that the discussion of the same subject would be..
continued at the next meeting, and the proceedings ICrllli-
nated.

TIORTICULTURAL SOCIETY of LONDON.
EXHIBITION AT THE GARDEN. The First Meeting
will take place on SATURDAY, the 18th of May; subjects for Exhi-
bition must be at this office on Friday, the 17th ; or at the Gardens
before half-past Eight o'clock, A.M , on the day of Exhibition.
The gates will be opened at One, P.m, Tickets are issued to Fellows
at this office, price Is. each ; or at the Garden, in the afternoon of
the (lays of Exhibition, at 7s. 6d. each ; but only to orders from
Fellows of the Sociey.
N.B. No Tickets will be issued In Regent-street on the day of
Exhibition.
21, Regent-street.

PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the Housc of Commons.)
TUESDAY, MAY 14.
PARLIAMENTARY SUFFRAGE.

Motion made, and Question put, " That leave be given to
bring in a Bill tq extend the Parliamentary Suffrage, and to
secure the Representation of the People :" The House
divided

MUSIC OF ITALY.
Without Extra Charge to the Public, at the
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The Directors have engaged Mr. C. E. HORN, to deliver
A SERIES of LECTURES on the MUSIC of EIGHT different
NATIONS. Tho MUSIC of ITALY commences on the 13th
instant, and will be continued during the week, on Monday, Wednes-
day, and Friday Evenings, at Eight o'clock ; and on Tuesday, Thurs-
day, and Saturday, at Three o'clock, with VOCAL and INSTRU-
MENTAL ILLUSTRATIONS. All the other LECTURES and
EXHIBITIONS as usual. LONGBOTTOM'S PHYSIOSCOPE and
OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS, ARM-
STRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE, Re., Re.
Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

is. consequently, a security without doubt or risk, and this, be
remembered, with
THREE PER CENT. CONSOLS AT PAR,

assuredly this must be a good time to transfer them into ground_
rents. Adjoining is a snug private house, respectably occupied,
close to the celebrated Spa, which, by industry and tact, may be
rendered very productive ; and there are two houses adjoining.
The produce of these leaseholds Is 751. a year, and the rents are
paid most punctually. In olden times, 301. was the usual morning
receipt from the Spa, or, as it was denominated in 1773, " The
Holy `Nell;" but it must be made more public to secure again the
entire patronage of the public. For cutaneous disorders it is said
to be an infallible cure. The situation of this desirable investment
is rapidly progressing in public estimation. It is held for sixty-
eight years.
Particulars at the Peacock and the Angel, 'lslington ; of Mr,
Aldridge, solicitor, Great Russell-street, near the Museum; the
Mart ; and in Covent-garden.

MINORITY-AYES, 31.
Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth O'Connell, M. J.—Kerry
Archbold, Robert—Kildare Pa i,on, James—London
Barnard, E. G.—Greenwlcts Pechell, Captain—Brighton
Bright, John—Durham Plumridge, Captain—Pei.tyit and
13 rotherton, J.—Salford Falmouth
Dennistoun, J.—Glasgow =choletield, J.—Birmingham
Duncan G.— Dundee Se .le, Sir J.—Dartmouth
Duncombe„ T. S.—Finsbury Strickland, Sir G.—Preston
Ewart, William—Dumfries Trelawny, J. S.—Tavists.ck
Fielden, John—Oldham Villiers, C.—Wolverhampton
Gibson, T. Nl—Manchester NVarbu i ton, H.—Kendal
Gig orne, Thomas—Nottingham Ward, H. G.—Sheffieldl
Hatton, C,apt.—WeVord Co.: Wawn, .1. T.—South Shields
Heron, Sir R.—Peterborough Williams, William--Coventry
Hill, Lord A. M. C.—Evesham
Johnson, NV. Augustus—Oldham TELLERS.
M'Taggart, SirJohn—Wigton, &c. Crawford, S.—Rochdale
Murray, Alex.—Kirkcudbright Bowring, Dr.—Bolton

NEAR the Rural VILLAGE of PINNER, close to Harrow-on-
the-Hill, Middlesex, within a Mile from a Station on the Lon.
don and Birmingham Railway.
MR. GEORGE ROBINS has received instruc-
tions to SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, To-Moaaow,
May 16, at Twelve, in Six Lots,
EXTREMELY ELIGIBLE BUILDING GROUND,
possessing the advantages of being
FREEHOLD, TITHE-FREE, AND CLEAR OF LAND-TAX.
The property is delightfully situate near to
THE RURAL VILLAGE OF PINNER,
CLOSE TO HARROW-ON-THE-HILL,

a locality which is already so famed for its healthy air and scenes of
landscape beauty, that any comment in this announcement would
be altogether superfluous. The meadow has been divided into six
excellent lots, and each lot is extremely well adapted for the erec-
tion of

ONEY. GRAND DISTRIBUTION of
70,170/. sterling, authorised by his Imperial Majesty, and
the Government of Austria, on the Ist JUNE NExT, at Vienna.
highest Prize, 23,000/.; Lowest, Mt.: 700 Prizes.—Apply for pro-
spectuses, to Messrs. F. E. Fuld and Co., Bankers and Receivers-
General, Frankfort ; or, to save postage, at 26, Bouveric-street, Lon-
don, by letter only, from Twelve to Three.

Seven were imprisoned for one month, and several in New-
gate for 14 days and under. The grand jury only ignored
two bills, viz., those of Elizabeth Lawless and Jane Nayler,
a circumstance which never before occurred within the me-
mory of man. Joseph Flower and W. B. Neweuham,
(charged with abduction) were remanded to the next ses-
sions, which commence on the 10th of June.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(Before Mr. WALESBY and a full Bench of Magistrates.)
-Yesterday Alfred Matthews pleaded guilty to a charge of
stealing a piece of pork, the property of John Marshall.
After his plea had been recorded, the prisoner handed in a
paper which the Chairman on perusal stated, if true, showed
that the case of the prisoner was one of a most heart-rending
description. From his statement, it appeared that when
taken before the committing Magistrate, on the above charge,
lie stated that distress had driven him to the commission of
the offence, and that having previously applied for parochial
relief, he was sent into the stone-yard, and received some
bread, with an intimation that he must not apply to them
again. In reply to questions from the Court, the prisoner
said he could not obtain more than from 6d, to Bd. a day by
breaking stones—that being a kind of work to which he had
never been subjected—that he had a wife and three children
to support—that he belonged to the parish of• Hackney, and
that it was from the officers of that parish he had received
the treatment he complMnedo£ • •
The CHAIRMAN said the case was .vne of so painful a
nature, that he felt it his duty to 'make some observations
upon it before he pasted sentence upon the. prisoner—in the
hope that their publication through the medium of the press
would have a beneficial operation not only upon parochial
authorities in general, who adopted the practice complained
of, but on those of Hackney in particular. It appeared from
the prisoner's statement, that he had formerly been engaged
in an extensive way of business, and had for a considerable
period maintained his wife and family in comfort and re-
spectability, but had since, from unforeseen causes, become
greatly reduced in his circumstances, and frequently with-
out the means of obtaining food for his wife and family—
that while in that state he applied to the guardians of
Hackney parish for relief, who, after giving him some bread,
sent him to break stones, and told him not to apply to
them again, and that was all the assistance they extended to
a man who, with his family, was in a state of starvation,
and at length in a tit of desperation, after he and his family
had been in want of food for a day and a half, he was unfor-
tunately led to the commission of the offence to which he had
pleaded guilty. He (the Chairman) hoped that the publica-
tion of this case would induce parochial officers to act with
a greater degree of mercy aid consideration towards those
unfortunate persons who were compelled to seek for assist-
ance at their hands.

iMPERIAL RUSSIAN•POLISH LOAN of
150,000,000 Florins (of 1835), IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN
of 30,000,000 Florins (of 1839), guaranteed by their Majesties the
Emperor of Austria and the Emperor of Russia.
GRAND DISTRIBUTIONS AT WARSAW AND -VIENNA.
In the Russian-Polish Loan the following Dividends will he re-im-
bursed:—One of 1,000,000f1., one of 300,00011 , two of 150,00011., six of
25,00011., eight of 14,00011., &c., together 7,000 dividends, gaining
7,970,00011. Smallest dividend 750f1., largest 1,000,00011.
In the Austrian Loan 700 bonds will obtain 701,70011 , in lots of
230,00011., 50,00011., 15,00011., 10,00011., &c. Smallest dividend 50011.
10 florins are equal to 1/. sterling, a trifle more or less, as per day's
exchange. The prices are—

1 Russian-Polish Scrip for £2 10 I 1 Austrian Scrip for £3 0

4 do. do. do. 10 0 I 6 do. do. 15 0
9 do. do. do. 20 0 13 do. do. 30 0
Payable by bank notes, remittances, or drafts. Dividends re-im-
bursable at Frankfort, Paris, London, or New York, at the option of
the holders

To save postages, foreign subscribers may apply to his houses in Paris,
New York, and at Mr. A. Schwarzschild's, I, Plough-court, Lombard-
street, London, by letter only. Prospectuses, with full particulars,
and Lists of the Distribution, promptly forwarded to every share-
holder abroad ,

J. A. SCIIWA/tZSCIIILD, Banker and Receiver-General.
Frankfort-on-Maine, April, 1844.
*,,,* A Florin being 25., it follows that a fifth share at 12s. in the
Austrian Government Distribution is relatively much more valuable
than one Red Bond in the private speculation of tho 25th.

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS.
" There are passions grateful to the breast,
•
And yet no friend to life : perhaps they please
Or to excess, and dissipate the soul,
Or while they please, torment."
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their Purport and Control. On Chastity, its abuses and diseases
arising therefrom—on Marriage ; its duties and denials—on infeli-
citous and unproductive unions.—Law of Divorce, &c.
By R. J. CULVERWELL, M.D., Member of the Royal College of
Surgeons, &c.
" Rut happy they, the happiest of their kind,
Whom gentler stars unite; and in one fate,
Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend."
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A juryman said he could confirm the truth of the prisoner's
statement, that it was the custom of the officers of Hackney
parish to send persons like him, who applied to them for re-
lief, to the stone-yard.
The CHAIRMAN said he was glad that the juryman had so
far confirmed the statement of the prisoner ; indeed, if any
portion of his statement wero untrue, the police who had
ample opportunities of making inquiries about him, would
have contradicted it.

The policeman who apprehended the prisoner here said,
that such inquiries had been made, and the statement of the
prisoner found to be true in every particular. He had parted
with every vestige of his furniture, and he and his wife and
children not only slept on bare boards, but had not a morsel
to eat.

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wretched condition of the prisoner and his family, so far from
wishing to go on with the prosecution, he was anxious to
drop it, but was informed that he could not do so. The pri-
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mended him to the merciful consideration of the Court.
The prisoner said that since he had been in custody several
charitable individuals, who had known him when in better
circumstances, had kindly offered to give him employment as
soon as he obtained his liberty.
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LAME KT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
" He who in ple:sure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or youthfuleharms,
A hero lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me behold a man !"
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afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Practical
Observations on Marriage, and on the Anatomy, Physiology, and
Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, with plain Directions for
their perfect Restoration
By SAMUEL LA.MERT, Consulting Surgeon, •
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Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of
Apothecary's Hall, London,&c.
" The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, alb in-
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through the follies and fkailties of early indiscretions. To such,
among others, this Essay addresses itself; and by its perusal many
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to the most confidential friend."—Stafford Gazette.
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Another still more distressing case was afterwards tried, in
which an old man, aged sixty-four, named John Goodwin,
was convicted of stealing a knife, value one shilling, and who
had been subjected to similar treatment by the officers of the
Lambeth Union, and who having been turned out of the
workhouse, wandered about from day to day in search of em-
ployment, which he was unable to obtain, and having walked
from town to town, at length, in a fit of desperation, commit-
ted the offence of which he was convicted. He was sentenced
to a month's imprisonment, the Chairman promising to pro-
cure his re-admission to Lambeth workhouse when the term
of his imprisonment had expired.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.
MANCHESTER, MONDAY NIGIIT.—The canvass for the free -
trade candidate goes on gloriously. The reports from all
parts of the southern division of the county speak in the most
glowing terms of success. In the manufacturing towns,
especially Manchester, Bolton, Oldham, Bury, Rochdale,
Ashton, and Warrington, and also in Liverpool, according
to the correspondence of the Committee, there are many per-
sons who at the last election supported the Conservatives,
who have expressed their determination to vote for free trade.
Mr. Brown, the free-trade candidate, addresses his Committee
to-morrow, at Liverpool, and in the evening a great meeting
is to be held in the Free-trade Hall, Manchester, at which
Mr. Cobden will be present, and Mr. Robert Hyde Greig. On
Wednesday Mr. Brown commences his canvass personally, and
will visit Manchester, Bolton, Ashton, and Oldham on
Thursday ; and on Friday he is expected to be at Ormskirk
and the neighbouring towns.
Mr. Entwistle met his central committee at Newton-in• the-
Willows, at twelve. There was but a slender attendance,
and though it included several considerable landed proprie-
tors, there was a great lack of spirit, arising from not getting
a candidate of higher mark—a man of family and influence,
all which men, it is now ucdisguisedly admitted, have
shirked the contest from a fear of the expense, which is cal-
culated at from 20,0001. to 30,000/.

The Sheriff's proclamation was issued this morning, fixing
the nomination for Friday, the 24th instant, at the Horse
and Jockey, Newton-in-the-Willows, and the polling it is
presumed, will take place on Whit-Monday and Tuesday.
The following is from the Liverpool Times :
" The free-trade candidate tor South Lancashire, Mr.
Brown, was born at Ballymena, county of Antrim, and edu-
cated in Yorkshire, in which county he now possesses a large
landed estate. He left this country for the United States in
the year 1800, returned to England in 1808, and has resided
in the neighbourhood of Liverpool ever since. We mention
these circumstances, about which there is no more doubt than
there is about Mr. Brown's existence, because it has been
stated that he is a native of the United States; and, for the
purpose of contradicting another mis-statement, we add, that
Mr. Brown, though born in one of the most Presbyterian
districts in Ireland, has for many years been a member of
the Established Church, and one of the congregation, as well
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which the present Lord Ashburton held before his elevation
to the peerage—a rank fully equal to that which the founders
of the Peel and Arkwright families earned for themselves by
their pre-eminent success in another departmeht of industry
and enterprise. It is one of the proudest distinctions of this
country, that eminent success in improving the useful arts
and in extending the beneficial intercourse of commerce, has
ever been held a legitimate title to the favour of the Sove-
reign and the honours of the State ; and it is, therefore, on
good and solid grounds that a man who has eminently pro-
moted the commercial greatness of England solicits a share in
the honours which the people also confer, appealing to the
mercantile and trading classes as one of themselves, and to
the landowners as one of those whose activity and skill has
added so immensely to the value of their estates."
The same journal informs us that there was a meeting at
Liverpool on 'Monday, which Mr. Cobden and Mr. George
Wilson addressed at some length, giving the most encourag-
ing assurances.

THE GOVERNMENT PLAN OF
BANKING AND CURRENCY.
The following resolutions of the private country bankers
now in London have been sent to every member of their body
in England and Wales :

_
At a general meeting of private country bankers, held at
Herbert's Hotel, Palace-yard, May 8, 1844, William Rodwell,
Esq., in the chair.
Resolved—That, adhering in all respects to the reasons
which induced them to deprecate all legislative interference
with the present system of circulation, it is highly satisfac-
tory to private country bankers to find that in the proposed
alteration in the law relating to banking establishments,,
these reasons have not been disregarded by her Majesty's
Government.
deliberation, that the measures announced by Sir Robert Peel
might be modified
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Thomas Birkbeck, Esq. Esq , Richard Spooner,
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at two o'clock. Wednesday next, the 15th last.,

FOR BILE, INDIGESTION, AND DISORDERS OF THE
STOMACH AND LIVER.
DR. A. A. HARVEY'S ANTIBILIOUS and
FAMILY APERIENT PILLS have long been prescribed
and found eminently useful by one of the most experienced
members of the ( ollege of Surgeons, who, from his extensive
practice since he has resided in Bath, and in the East Indies
while Surgeon in the Honourable East India Company's Ser-
vice, has had innumerable instances brought under his notice
of the relief afforded by these Pills. They have been found of
great service in restoring a healthy action to the Liver, and in pre-
venting and also curing the Jaundice; and passing off Gall Stones
and other affections of the Liver • and being prepared from the
simplest and purest drugs, may be eaken with safety by the most
delicate female ; are mild in their operation, and their occasional
use will preserve the organs of the stomach in perfect health.
These Pills are a good preparatory Aperient to Sea Bathing, and
likewise previous to and while drinking the Bath, Cheltenham, and
other Mineral Waters, or using the Warm Bath, as they prevent
Giddiness and other unpleasant sensations of the Head. They are
also an excellent Medicine for all excesses of the table.
Dr. Harvey's patient,, and the public in general, are informed that
his Pills are to be obtained genuine of Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Church-
yard, London ; also of Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; White, 24, Corn.
ill; and most respectable Chemist

DEAFNESS.—From John Sawyer, Esq., of Hay-
wood Lodge, Maidenhead, Berks, to Messrs. S. and B. Solo-
mons, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Gentlemen, having
been deaf for some time, I was induced, in the month of No-
vember, 1839, to make trial of your Invisible Voice Conductors,
and, although at my advanced age, at that time past my 77th
year, I had no hope of obtaining any relief, yet immediately I
applied them I could hear the general conversation, and my
hearing has become so much improved by their use, that I can
now hear acutely without their aid. I am, Gentlemen, your
most obedient servant, J. Sawyer. 22d June, 1842.—From
the late Henry Cowper, Esq., of Tewen Waters, Herts, to
Messrs, S. and B. Solomons :—Gentlemen, having been deaf
for many years, I was induced to try your Invisible Voice
Conductors. They enable me to hear persons in company,
and at a place of worship most distinctly. The Spectacles and
Handglass which you have sent me are very excellent, and
suit my sight perfectly, the transparency of which is so bril-
liant, that although I have passed my 86th year the 22d of
MaY last, yet they enable me to read, and by candle-light, with
the greatest ease and comfort to myself. I return you my best
thanks, and remain your obedient servant, Henry Cowper.-
22d June, 1839.—Telescopes, Opera Glases, Henry
&c. of the same kind of Lenses.—Caution.—Messrs. S. and B. So-
lemons, Opticians and Aurists, arc not in any way connected with
a person of the same name in their immediate neighbourhood.
Nor n any part of the country. To prevent mistakes, be cau-
tious, and Observe,—Only to be had at 39, Albemarle-street,
Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel.

THE COUNTESS DE ST. AULAIRE'S SOIREE.--U he
Countess de St. Aulaire had a soiree at the French Embassy,
on Monday night. It was a small and early party, agreeably
to the cards of invitation. The company was very select,
and included—The Duke of Wellington, Duchess ofNorthum-
berland and Miss Percy, the Turkish Ambassador, Duchess
of Buccleuch, Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Augusta Somer-
set, his Excellency Baron Nieumann, Marquis of Salisbury,
Marquis of Normanby, Marquis of Clanricarde, Marquis and
Marchioness of Ailesbury, Marquis of Headfort and. Ladies
Mary and Olivia Taylour, Earl and Countess of Haddington,
Viscountess Palmerston, Countess of Tankerville, Earl and
Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine.. Villiers, Earl and
Countess Cowper,Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Ashleyillaonwsgledr
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Countess of Mansfield and Ladies Murray, Earl of
`Mansfield,
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Fielding and Miss Fielding, LadyShdley.

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LITERATURE.
DER BLAUBART; EIN MARCHEN IN FUNF
AKTEN. Von Ludwiek Tiech. With a Translation
of all Difficult Words and Passages, explanation of
Grammatical Peculiarities, 6.c. By H. Aprl.
The tale of Blue Beard has furnished the English
stage with a musical melodrama, a pantomime, and
may, perhaps, afford Planche the materials of a clever
burlesque ; but it has not been recast by any hand
capable of lifting the old tale to a higher level than
the literature of the nursery. For the Germans it
has done more ; it has given to their literature a
comedy which may rank with the best for the purity
of its language and style, well marked variety of
character, and playful satire. Tieck has dramatised,
in the same form, most of the popular nursery tales
common to both countries, and his Puss in Boots,
is an admirable specimen of his style ; but for the
purpose of M. Apel " Blue Beard " is the most suita-
ble. It is intended as an assistance to the student of
German in acquiring the idiom, and turns of ex-
pression, of familiar, every day conversation, far more
likely to be acquired from a perusal of a comic pro-
duction, than from the more elevated style of tragedy.
On the same principle, a foreigner learning English
would form a better notion of the familiar language
of the time from a modern comedy, Bell's Mothers
and Daughters, or Jerrold's Bubbles of the Day, than
from Macbeth. It is no slight credit to Al. Apel
that he has been the first to depart from the
usual mode of putting into the hands of the learner
the highest works of Goethe and Schiller, which if
they could be read, certainly would not be fully
comprehended by a child, who would be perfectly at
home with his old acquaintance "Blue Beard,"
though presented in a foreign dress. The publica-
tion of Tiecks' tale will also make him better known
to others than beginners; for it is here, for the first
time, printed in a separate form, being extracted from
the collection of the author's tales and dramas, enti-
tled "Pliantasus." But whether it is read by the
pupil or the proficient, it cannot fail to please. The
conversion of the Eastern Wife-killer into a partly
German Baron of the middle ages, half soldier, half
robber; the use of the machinery of a feudal time,
combined with the language and ideas of yesterday, and
the continual contrast of the characters, kept up through-
out with admirable artistic skill, all arrest the attention
by exciting us to a good-humoured laugh. Nothing
can excel the rich stupidity of Heymon and Conrad,
who, at the commencement, are leading an expedition
against Peter Berner (the Bluebeard), and mar it
with a pompous blundering that renders the whole a
most happy burlesque of campaigning. The Coun-
sellor and the Fool are capital pendants to the two
most incapable of commanders; the sisters, Anne and
Agnes, are finely discriminated, and there is an equal
distinctness in the characters of their three brothers,
while old Mechtilde, the housekeeper of Blue Beard,
has a careless malignity in her, which, combined with
the effects of " age and envy," make her a sort of
domestic Sycorax. The work is clearly printed in
roman type, a departure from the usual " black letter,"
which will be acceptable to many; we believe the use
of this antiquated form is becoming less general in
modern German works. A translation is given at the
end of the work of the difficult words and passeges,
which the learner will find always useful and often in-
dispensable. Asa work both useful to the beginner and
agreeable to the more advanced, M. Apel's edition of
" Blue Beare will secure an extensive circulation.

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SUDDEN DEATH OF A LADY.—The lady of Mr.
Magnay, brother to the Lord Mayor of London, arrived in
this town early yesterday morning, from Dublin, and, having
been indisposed on the passage, she was conveyed in a car
to the house of Mr. Cripps, surgeon, Dale-street, where, not-
wsthstanding the means that were employed for her relief,
she died in the course of a short time. The cause of death
was congestion of the lungs.—Liverpool Timee.
On Monday last John Entwistle, aged twenty-
three, of Manchester, plunged suddenly into the water on the
north shore, frbm a bathing machine, and was killed by the
shock.—Liverpool Albion.
An "extra Sun" /of New York of April 13, con-
tains an elaborate hoax, or joke, entitled " Astounding
News"—" the Atlantic crossed in three days."—" Signal
triumph of Mr. Monck Mason's Flying Machine," &c. &c.
In the details there are some happy hits at the amusing
minuteness with which aerial travelling has occasionally
been narrated. It is well got up, the headings with notes of
admiration occupying half a column!
The showers of Thursday last have had a most
beneficial effect on the appearance of the country. As a
proof of the earliness of the season, we may mention that
we have just now before us a bunch of rye, fully barbed, and
in ear. It was taken from a field of eight acres on the farm
of Millburn, Dumbartonshire ; and we almost regard it as an
earnest of a plenteous harvest.—Glasgow Herald, Ma 13.
DEATH OF SIR JOHN LOWTHER, BART.—The de-
mise of this highly respected and venerable Baronet, took
place on Monday last, at Swillington Hall, near Leeds, his
principal residence. He was the son of the Rev. Sir William
Lowther, Bart., Rector of Swillington, and Ann, his wife, a
descendant of the ancient family of the Zouches ; was born
in April, 1759, and had consequently just completed his 85th
year. On the 4th September, 1790, he married Lady Eliza-
beth Fane, second daughter of John, the ninth Earl of West-
moreland, by whom he had three sons and three daughters,
but one of the latter died an infant, and another in 1812. Sir
John was next brother to the late excellent Earl of Lons-
dale, whom he strongly resembled, both in features and per-
sonal disposition. His baronetcy dates from the year 1824.
The successor to his title and estates is his eldest son, John
Henry (born March 23, 1793), one of the Members for the
City of York—now, ofcourse, Sir John Henry Lowther, Bart.
A SINGULAR COINCIDENCE. —ln the parish of
Harrow-on-the-Hill the offices of churchwarden, overseer,
cal errok
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one or two of its members having uniformly held offices in
the parish for upwards of a century.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT. —A shocking accident oc-
curred at Blenheim Palace yesterday. News arrived in the
afternoon of the birth of a son by the Marchioness of Bland-
ford. Some cannon in the park were fired off in honour of
the event, when a young man named Henry Summer, who
was employed in discharging one of the guns, proceeded to
reload the same without unfortunately having cleaned it ;
having put in the charge, it ignited from some fire left in the
gun, at once exploded, and blew off both his hands. He was
as speedily as possible brought to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Os.
ford, where every attention is being paid him, but with very
slight hopes of his surviving many days. His age is 25, and
he has a wife and two children.

ARUNDEL, MAY 14.—INCENDIARY FIRE ON THE
DUKE OF NORFOLK'S ESTATE.—On Saturday evening, about
half-past ten o'clock, a portion of the inhabitants were
alarmed by the cry of fire, which, on inquiry, turned out to
be a wheat-rick, belonging to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk,
situate in Park Bottom, about a quarter of a mile from the
dairy. The engines were soon on the spot, and the attention
of the fire-brigade, under the direction of Mr. John Hart-
well, were directed principally to the saving of the adjoining
buildings, which was with great difficulty effected, owing to
the scarcity of water. The rick, which contained about ten
loads, was literally burnt to a cinder, and was insured in the
Royal Exchange office. Every exertion has been made to
discover the perpetrators by our police, but hitherto without
effect. No reward has yet been offered. This is the first and
only fire by incendiarism that has ever occurred on the Duke
of Norfolk's estate ; and, of course, has caused the greatest
excitement in the town and neighbourhood, as well with
those connected with the estate.—(From a Correspondent.)
DETERMINED SUICIDE: Yesterday afternoon in-
formation was received at the police-station, Arbour-square,
that a man of the name of Simonds, residing at No. 25, East-
field-street, Limehouse, had written a letter to a relative, in-
timating that it was his intention to destroy himself. A
constable was instantly sent to investigate the matter, and
on forcing an entrance into the house, and bursting open the
door of an apartment which was locked from the inside, the
unfortunate man was found lying upon his bed, quite dead.
Beside him was a coffee cup, which smelled strongly of
laudanum, and a bottle labelled "Laudanum—poison," which
contained a portion of the deleterious drug. A surgeon who
flowasac;
several
inho gaveur T
i t ash his p
The
deceasedyears of age, but looked much older. He had been a seafaring
man, and had received some injuries of the eyes and hands,,
oiont
was haett liatfeedhatod
be been extinct
forty-four
which had much enfeebled him, and considerably soured his
pre-
sumed, will disclose his reasons for committing the rash act.
He was not in want, as he had only recently purchased the
deceasedtem pe r. ,
i As
a mloenttgsert
addressed
deodcutomtehnets Coroner, left behind
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PUTNEY-BRIDGE.
—Yesterday afternoon Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., coroner, held
house
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LATE which
FATALh e resided.
ACCIDENT
-h
Ryland,ou s e ,
aFulham,ged2o years, Middlesex,who
AT Z.
was drowned in the river Thames on the evening of Wednes-
tnlgie
ay rowiere
oufpt thhee
bridge river.
day last, the Bth inst., under the following distressing circum-
stances :—lt appeared that the deceased, who resided in
onan itroeubodesty-aotf
Mr.the ArcherS
Cleave-lane, Camberwell, was the eldest son of Mr. Ryland,
office, Somerset-house. On the evening of Wednesday last
the barrister, and held a situation in the Registrar-GeneraPs-
He was alone, and, as he returned through Putney-bridge,
wan puCroftblic
before he was aware he was so near. He immediately put
he
ee
found
ur
nedd ahibmoasetlffohrrtoleiedspiudrepoonseoonfehoafvi
but his hand to endeavour to clear the boat from the pier,
but his doing so upset the wherry, and he was immediately
immersed in the water, and, after h id' li
o mg up is hands for a
few moments for assistance, he sank and never rose again.
Several boats were promptly the and commenced
upon spot,
dragging for the unfortunate young gentleman ; but, al-
though every effort was made to find the body that evening
and during the next day, it was not discovered until turned
up by one of the steamers on Monday last, about 200 yards
from the spot where the accident took place, and, being Fat
ashore, was conveyed to the above house. The jury, being
satisfied that no one was to blame in the sad affair, returned a
verdict of " Accidentally drowned."
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday afternoon Mr.
T. Wakley, M.P., Coroner, held an inquest in one of the par-
lours of Mr. Ives, Ivy-cottage, Ealing-common, Middlesex,
on the body of Mr. Edward William Percy Sinnett, Red 49
years. The deceased gentleman, who resided at No. 9
Ehrenburg-place, Regent's-part, had, it appears, for thed
last twelve months been labouring under consumption, an
had latterly been persuaded to abstain from active s
the writer
exer-
tion, and especia4 from night employment a
in Herald.
of the Parliamentary summary for the r 9
had°n complained
For the last three days of his life he
greatly of a giddiness in his head, and a few minutes after
t
his leaving the train,
bu the station being a short dis-
tance from Ivy Cottage, he was seen by Mrs. Ives to
approach the house in a
staggering manner. The
n and, on his door was opened to him by Mr. Ivesou ~
.en-
tering,deceased, "Well, Sir, you have
Mrs. Ives said to the
come back again." The deceased smiled and bowed, and
went up stairs, but he did
not speak. Within ten minutes
called Mrs.
deceased's sister-in-law Ives, and
afterwards the
asked her to procure some water,'which that lady did ; and,
on taking i
into the room in which deceased was, she ob-
servedl
that deceased looked very black in the face. He was
mediately laid on a sofa, and Mr. Johnson, a surgeon, sent
for, who promptly attended and bled him ; but human aid
was of no avail. The deceased had been seized with an at-
tack of venous apoplexy, after which he never spoke, and ex-
pired about a quarter to nine o'clock the same evening. The
jury returned a verdict of " Natural death from venous
apoplexy."
rAIRS ON LORD ASHLEY'S AMENDMENT.--GORMII
Morison, against, with R. Etwall, for; Stewart Maijoribanks,
against, with Lord Rendlesham, for; J. HUMES against, with.
Admiral Dundas, for; the Hon. W. B. Baring, against, with
C. Buller, for.