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THE STIN,LONDONLSATURDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1544.

IVISIONS. I COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
took an airing this morning in a pony phaeton.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, and
the Princess Royal were taken their accustomed airings
in the forenoon.
Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting to ber Majesty,
returned to the Castle to-day.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took a drive
today, in an open carriage.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Royal, and
attended by the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe and the
Hon. Miss Paget, left the Castle, in an open carriage and
four, in the afternoon, Colonel Buckley, Equerry in
Waiting, being in attendance, on horseback. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert left on horseback, attended by
Colonel Bouverie, Equerry to his Royal Highness.
Her Majesty returned to the Ca:Ale at half-past six
o'clock.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, accompanied
by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, was taken an airing
this afternoon, in an open carriage.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
included Colonel and Mrs. Berkeley Drummond and
Mrs. Harcourt, of St. Leonard's.

(Frain the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
FRIDAY, JULY 26.

SAVINGS BANKS BILL.—(IN THE COMMITTEE.)
First Clause (That on the 20th day of November, 1844, the
interest payable on the Receipts issued to the Trustees of
Saving Banks by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the
National Debt shall cease, and that from and after the said
20th day -of November all receipts issued prior to that day
shall carry interest at the rate of three pounds five shillings per
centum poi annum) :—Amendment proposed, in page 1, line
13, to leave out " three pounds five shillings," in order to
insert " three pounds six shillings and eightpence," instead
thereof :—Question put, " That' three pounds five shillings'
stand part of the Clause ." The Committee divided :

MAJORITY-AYES, 51.
Ainsworth, Peter Escott, Beckham Norreys, Lord
Aldam, W. Forman, T. Seaton Peel, Jonathan
Alford, Viscount Gaskell, J. M. Pringle, A.
Archdall, Captain Goulburn, H. Smith,Rt.Hon. T. 8.0
Arkwright, George Graham, Sir James Sutton, Hon. H. id
Baring, W. B. Henley, J. W. Tennent, J.' E.
Beresford, Major Herbert, Sidney Thornely, Thomas
Boldero, Henry G. Hodgson, R. Thornhill, George
Bowles, Admiral Hope, Charles Trench, Sir F.
hroadley, H. Hope, G. W. Tro'lope, Sir John
Brotherton, J. Howard, P. H. Trotter, John;
Chapman, Aaron Hums, Joseph Wall, B,
Clerk, Sir George Jerrayn, Earl Wawn, John T.
Cole, Hon. H. Knatchbull, Sir E. Wodehouse, Hon. E
Cripps, W. Lennox, Lord A. Wortley, Hon. Jn. S
Denison, E. Beckett Martin, C. W TELLERS.
Eliot, Lord Meynell, Fl. Young, John
Elphinstone, Howard Nicholl, John Baring, Henry

Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a
dinner party at Cambridge House. The company con-
sisted of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Mar-
chioness of Londonderry, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Exeter, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the
Marquis of Salisbury, the Marquis of Worcester, the
Earl and Countess of Beverley, the Earl of Aberdeen,
the Earl of Mansfield, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl of
Cardigan, Earl Brownlow, Viscount and Lady Marianne
Alford, Viscount Castlereagh, Mr. and Lady C. Lister,
and Mr. Henry Greville.
In the evening, her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Cambridge had a very numerous evening assembly. The
whole of the State rooms were thrown open, and most
illuminated, and were decorated by a profuse display of
a most beautiful assortment of the choicest flowers.
Among the distinguished guests were her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester,' attended by Lady
Caroline Murray ; the Duke of Wellington, the Duke
and Duchess of St. Albans, Lady Southampton, Lady
and Miss Taylor, Lord Foley, Hon. Miss A. Foley, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Lady Eliz.
De Burgh, Earl Auckland, Hon. Misses Eden, Marquis
of Headfort, the Ladies Tayleure, Mrs. Young, Sir Geo.
and Lady Clarke, the Misses Clarke, the Countess
Grosvenor, Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor, Lady Alexan-
drina Vane, Countess of Tankerville, Mrs. and the
Misses Morier, the Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Glad-
stone, the Rev. Mr. Hutchinson, Baron Neumann, Col.
and Mrs. Hugh Baillie, Miss Baillie, Sir J. and Lady
Anne Beckett, Lady Georgiana Fane, Sir J. and Lady
Reynett, Mr. Swinton, the Solicitor-General and Lady
Thesiger, the Countess of Euston, Lady Louisa Fitzroy.
Miss Emily Seymour, Earl and Countess Beauchamp,
Lady Catherine and Miss Cavendish, Lady Abinger
and the Honourable Miss Scarlett, Earl and Countess
Kinnoull, Sir Thomas and Lady Louisa Moncrieff,
Lady and Miss Gordon, Earl and Countess of
Antrim, Mr. Rogers, Lord and Lady Jemima
Eliot, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury,
Mrs. Lawrence, Lady Rendlesham, Hon. Miss Thellus-
son, Countess of Haddington, the Duchess of leinster,
Lady Jane Fitzgerald, Lord and Lady de Ros, Hon.
Miss de Ros, Sir John and Lady Shelley, Miss Greville,
Mr. Mellish, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, Sir F. Trench, Mr.
Vincent, the Swedish Minister and Countess Bjorn-
stjerna, Earl of Wilton, Sir John and Lady Macdonald,
Lady Agnes Byng, Lady Adelaide Paget, Mr. and Mrs.
Bankes, Lady Dufferin, Mr. and Lady Harriet Clive,
Miss Clive, Lady and Miss Farquhar, Earl and Countess
Delawarr, Lady Mary West, Hon. Miss Mitford, Lord
Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Augusta Somerset, Mr. Culling
Smith, Mr. and Miss Mackinnon, the Countess Brown-
low, the Ladies -Cust, Countess Mansfield, Lady
Georgina Murray, Sir E., Lady, and Miss Dis-
browe, the Prussian Minister, Captain Perceval,
Colonel and Mrs. Walton, Lord Lovaine, Lady
Louisa Percy, Earl Howe, Lady Georgina Curzon, the
Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, Hon. General Upton,
Viscountess Forbes, Mr. Vaughan, Mrs. and Miss
Macleod, Mrs. Seymour Bathurst, Col. and Mrs. Come-
wall, the Earl of Besborough, the Ladies Ponsonby,
Lord and Lady Brougham, the Marchioness of Aber-
corn, Lord Claude Hamilton, Duchess Dowager of Bed-
ford, Lady Rachel Russell, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Normanby, Count Revel, Baron Brenner,
the Marchioness of Blandford, Captain Murray, the
Turkish Minister, Earl Dalhousie, Duchesse de Coigny,
Mademoiselle de Coigny, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce,
the Earl of Westmoreland, the Countess of Chesterfield,
Mr. Robert Gore, Lady Elizabeth and Lady Emily
Gore, Lord and Lady Leveson, Viscount Cantilupe,
the Earl and Countess of Jersey, Lady Clementina
Villiers, Lady Quentin, Miss Seymour, the Earl of
Denbigh, the Rev. Mr. Nepean, &c. &c.
In the course of the evening a concert was performed
of which the following was the programme :

THE DANGEROUS PIERS ON
THE RIVER.
_

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

FATAL ACCIDENTS:ON THE RIVER.—THREE LIVES LOST.
Late on Thursday night Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Coaci
and Horses, Flood-street, Westminster, on the body of John
Thwaites, aged 18, who, with his father and a man named
White, was drowned in the river on Sunday night last.
Alfred M'Evoy, a lad residing in Haydon-court, Saint
James's, said that, on Sunday afternoon last, the deceased,
his father, a youth named White, another named Picton,
whom witness did not know, and witness himself, engaged
a four •oared cutter at Hungerford-market. They all got
into the boat and rowed with perfect safety to Richmond.
When they were upon their return, and near Vauxhall-
bridge, three drunken men in a skiff endeavoured to over-
take them. Upon arriving off Chandler's yard, between
Lambeth Palace and Westminster-bridge, it being then half-
past ten o'clock, and quite dark, witness saw a number of
barges moored in the middle of the river, and directly in the
course in which they were rowing. Just as they reached the
barges, and under any circumstances they could not, owing
to the strength of the tide, have avoided coming in contact
with them, the skiff which contained the three drunken men
struck them at the stern, and the consequence was that the
cutter ran its larboard side against one of the barges. By
the force of the blow, the cutter was broken right across the
middle, but still held together, and witness caught hold of
the barge, and climbed into it. He then caught hold of the
arm of the boy, whose name he did not know, and held him
for about twenty minutes, when assistance arrived. From
the time that witness got into the barge he did not see the
deceased, his father, nor White, and he believed that they
were shaken out of the cutter by the force of the collision.
Picton was borne away in the boat, which, notwithstanding
the injury it had sustained, still kept afloat, and was carried
to Westminster-bridge, where a waterman saved him. Wit-
ness afterwards heard that one of the men in the skiff was
drowned, a few minutes afterwards.
Richard Maryland, a waterman, said that he found the
body of the deceased on Wednesday, not far from the spot
where the accident happened.—Verdict, Accidental Death.
i DANGEROUS STATE OF THE SERPENTINE.—On Thursday
Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Barley Mow, Mount-street,
Grosvenor-square, on the body of James Coombs. aged 23,
of No. 1, Clare-market, who was drowned in the Serpentine
under the following circumstances :
Charles Griffith, one of the Royal Humane Society's boat-
men, said he was on duty in the Serpentine on the morning
of Wednesday last, when he heard a cry of " boat" raised
from the north side. He rowed to the spot immediately,
and then ascertained that a person had that moment
sunk. With the aid of drags he found deceased com-
pletely imbedded in the mud, and after three-quarters of
an hour's hard working he got him out. His eyes and mouth
were filled with mud. The spot were deceased sank was one
of the most dangerous places on the river, there being about
ten feet of water and eight feet of mud. Three out of every
four persons who get in there are lost. Boards are placed
near as a caution, in spite of which people will bathe there.
James Bayfield said deceased and himself went to bathe
there on Wednesday morning. They had not been in the
water more than ten minutes, when deceased sank. He said
he did not see any caution-boards; neither was he aware that
the place was dangerous.
Dr. Woolley said something ought to be done to prevent
the public from bathing on the north side. On the opposite
shore the Society's men were in constant readiness in case of
accidents ; besides, it was more safe. The whole of the north
side was very dangerous, more especially that part just al-
luded 'to. That very afternoon, a gentleman on horseback
led hii horse to the side of the river, in order to water it, but
the animal having taken a step too far, both man and beast
were precipitated into the water. An extraordinary pull of
the rider turned the horse round, and they both escaped being
drowned.
Other evidence having been adduced, the jury returned a
verdict of accidental death.
ANOTHER DEATH WHILST BATHING IN THE SERPENTINE.
—IMPORTANT VERDICT.—Last evening Mr. Higgs held an
inquest in St. George's Hospital, on the body of James Davey,
aged nineteen, who was drowned whilst bathing in the Ser-
pentine on Wednesday evening last.
Charles Griffiths, chief boatman of the Royal Humane
Society, said that on Wednesday evening last, about half-
past eight o'clock, he was on duty at the east end of the
Serpentine river, near the north shore, when he heard a call
of " boat" proceed from the south side. He rowed there with
all speed, and found many persons in the water. The river
was crowded, and he had the greatest difficulty in rowing
among them. On reaching there a spot was pointed out
where a boy had sunk. It was about a yard from the weeds.
Just as he was commencing he saw another man sink, whom
he laid hold of, and got into the boat. That man told him
that the cause of his sinking was by the deceased clinging
to him. It about three minutes he brought up the deceased,
who appeared dead, but on proceeding with him across the
river, he observed him breathe. On reaching the receiving
house he was placed in a hot bath, and became so convulsed
that they were scarcely able to keep him in it. That is usual
with persons when recovering. He was then placed on a hot
bed, and havingbeen attended by Mr. Woolley, he recovered
his sensibility, and told them where he lived, but begged
them not to tell his mother of it too suddenly. He was
afterwards brought to the hospital in a cab. The place
where he sank was very dangerous, in consequence of the
great quantity of weeds, which are eight feet in length and
very strong. The deceased, whilst on the bed, said the weeds
got round his arms, and he was so exhausted that he could
not release himself. There are six hot baths.
By the Jury—Only three men are in attendance on the
bathers, and two in the receiving-house. The reason of the
deceased being brought to the hospital was because the re-
.

Thursday morning, the Lord Mayor, accompanied by
the Chairman of the Navigation Committee, and
attended by the Water-Bailiff, the City Solicitor, and
the Under-Sheriff, inspected the steam-boat piers above
bridge (i.e., above London •bridge). They disembarked
at Blackfriars-bridge, and minutely examined the con-
struction of the pier. His Lordship examined persons
who were present at the time of the accident, as to the
immediate cause of the disaster. It was quite manifest
to the Lord Mayor that the planks connecting the dumb
lighter with the shore had been of a thickness quite in-
competent for the purpose for which they were laid
down, and that the lighters themselves, and in fact all
portions of the structure were highly dangerous. The
result of his investigation of the Blackfriars-bridge pier
most powerfully confirmed the truth and necessity of the
observations which he had made on the preceding day
in the Common Council, when the subject was so pro-
perly introduced and handled by several of the members
of that body, and he had himself asked why the Com-
mittee which had ineffectually represented the con-
demnation of the pier to a former Chief Magistrate,
had omitted to make a similar representation to him.
The Lord Mayor and the City Officers, after having
examined the Blackfriars-bridge pier, attendeda Com-
mittee at the Guildhall, and orders were issued to the
Water-Bailiff and Clerk of the Works, to set off from
London-bridge and proceed up the river, and to compel
the owners of all piers immediately to put them in a
condition for the safe and convenient embarkation of
passengers by steam-boats ; and in the event of hesita-
tion in complying with the regulations, the Lord Mayor
declared that he would sign warrants, which the City
Solicitor had prepared, for removing with a strong hand
every pier nut rendered conformable with the rules.
Blackfriars-bridge pier, it appears, had been pre-
sented two years ago by a conservancy jury as unsafe,
and the parties engaged in keeping it in use
were informed that it would be removed, under the au-
thority of the Court, but intelligence having been re-
ceived, that the proprietors were poor watermen,
thrown out of employment by the introduction of steam
navigation on the river, the pier was permitted to remain,
upon an assurance that it should be rendered per-
fectly safe and secure. The manner in which that
pledge was redeemed the late melancholy event demon-
strates, and the Lord Mayor commented in strong lan •
guage upon the readiness with which such a pledge
was received, and the carelessness with which it was
ever afterwards treated. At the last Court of Conser-
vancy, a very intelligent jury presented several of the
floating piers as offering obstructions at a certain state
of the tide to the free navigation of the river. They,
however, accompanied their presentment with a state-
ment that "in the absence of better constructed per-
manent erections for the accommodation of
persons landing from, and embarking in steam-
boats, the continuance of some such piers was a neces-
sary evil, but they represented that measures should be
taken by the Corporation, as conservators of the river,
to compel the proprietors of all temporarypiers to render
them now more firm and safe for passengers, and that
they should be provided with coloured lamps at night, so
placed as to show the position of the piers, and to define
their limits."

It appears that the Navigation Committee, in concur-
rence with the Lord Mayor, have been for some time
engaged in making arrangements to give effect to these
recommendations of the conservancy juries, and it is to
be hoped that a calamity so deplorable will quicken the
speed of the authorities, and lead to an early consumma-
tion of such an important object.
At a Court of Common Council, held on the 16th of
December, 1841, Mr. Jonathan C. Prior, the Chair-
man of the Blackfriars-bridge Committee, whose
unwearied attention to the duties of that office, and
ability in completing the repairs, entitle his opinion to
great respect, said, in recommending that Mr. Walker's
plan of erecting a pier on the Bridewell side of Black-
friars-bridge, the Court could not forget that already
three or four deaths had taken place in consequence of
the wretched and badly-managed construction at present
in use. It was quite impossible that the Corporation
should allow such a melancholy appeal to pass unnoticed.
So long as that bungling piece of work was in existence,
the lives of the public would be in constant jeopardy,
and it therefore became the duty of the Court to inter-
fere without delay, for the sake of humanity." Sir Peter
Laurie supported Mr. Prior's view of the subject, and
dwelt most particularly upon the security of the lives of
the public, with reference to the pier.
On the 20th of January, 1843, Mr. Prior, in bringing
up the first report relative to Blackfriars-bridge, con-
cluded his remarks by "urging again upon the Court not
to lose sight of the necessity of remedying the existing
evil at the bridge, but at once to cause the present dis-
graceful landing-place to be removed." Mr. Anderton
also rose and said " he regretted that a committee which
had so admirably performed its duties should be dis-
solved before they had carried their plan for establishing
a better and safer landing-place, and it would be most
satisfactory to know that the committee, to whom the
keeping up of the bridge devolved, would not suffer the
question to rest."
The public will see from the above quotations from
the speeches made on the subject of the danger, the
lamentable evidences of which have so recently been
manifested, that some of the members of the Corporation
did not hesitate to speak aloud their apprehensions.

ceiving-housewas too hot, and there being ro room. He
was wrapped up in a. blanket, and removed by order of the
surgeon to the hospital. Whilst going there he complained
of pain in his chest.
Mr. T. W. Cowley, house-surgeon, deposed to the de-
ceased being received into the hospital, and to his dying at
half-past two the following morning. The cause of death
was congestion of the lungs, produced by submersion in
water. Ile could not state whether the removal had hastened
his death.

It further appeared that the deceased could swim a little,
and had got out into the river about twenty yards, when he
tried to turn round, but could not, and sank from exhaustion.
lie was a coach-builder's apprentice, residing in Glasshouse-
street, Vauxhall.

SUICIDES IN LEICESTER.—The frequency of sui-
cides in this town by young people, would appear to fully
justify the remark, that sympathy is a principal cause of
them. It was but in April last, that we announced the
death of a highly respectable young man, a druggist,
by shooting himself with a pistol, in consequence of
the receipt of a note from a young lady with a hom
he had kept company, disclaiming all further ac-
quaintance with him. At the latter end of that
month, a fine young woman poisoned herself by
taking arsenic, simply because she had been told
by some one that a young man, who had paid
his addresses to her, was about to be married to
another. A few weeks after that, another girl took a
dose of arsenic from a somewhat similar cause, and nar-
rowly escaped with her life. On Saturday week a girl
who worked in Messrs. Bedell's factory, put an end to her
existence under peculiarly distressing circumstances. her
namewas Matilda Jones, and having kept company with a
youth named George Potter, carpenter and joiner, but not
yet out of his apprenticeship, for some months, she be-
came pregnant ; on the discovery of which by the girl's
parents it was agreed the couple should be mar-
ried, Potter expressing his perfect willingness to make
the girl his wife. The banns were published, the ring
was purchased, and Monday, the 15th instant, was
fixed for the wedding. Alas ! on that very day the
poor girl was a corpse. The mother of the youth, hear-
ing of the intended union on the Saturday previous, ex-
pressed her intention of throwing every obstacle in the
way, and threatened to forbid the banns the next day
(Sunday); declaring she would sooner see her son hanged
than that the match should take place. The girl was
wrought to a dreadful state of excitement, and, having
ing gone up stairs Some time after her intended mother-
in-law's departure, took a dose of arsenic, which was
kept on the premises for the purpose of destroying ver-
min ; but as she declared she should get better, having
taken various remedies administered by her parents,
they, wishing to avoid additional exposure and dis-
grace, neglected to send for medical assistance, until
a great and sudden change appeared in their child
on the Monday morning, and it was too late. She
died in a few minutes after the arrival of the medical
officer, and at about the time when, in all probability, had
the course of true love run smoothly, the marriage cere-
mony would have been performed. There is now another
added to the above dismal catalogue. A girl named
Mary King, aged 18, of a somewhat profligate character,
the daughter of a widow living in the Wharf-street, a
low part of the town, having been out all Monday night
until three o'clock the next morning, was reproved by
her mother for her conduct, and a fierce quarrel arose
between them, the daughter declaring that her mother
should have reason to remember it before the
day was over. She at down for a short
time, but went out with her work (gloves)
in her apron, apparently to her employers, but
really to a druggist's where she purchased twopenny..
worth of arsenic on pretence of cleansing the bedstead ;
went to a neighbour's house, and drank it off in a cup of
water. She died in about four hours afterwards. An
inquest was held the next evening, and a verdict to the
effect that she died from the effects of poison adminis-
tered by herself with an intent to destroy life was re-
turned. She was buried the same evening, and although
it was nearly twelve o'clock at night, there were seine
thousands of people assembled to witness her interment
TIIE WEATHER AND CROPS.—Saturday last was
one of the most brilliant days of the season, and with a
breeze just strong enough, with the thermometer at 70
in the shade, to waft from field to field the grateful
odours of the clover and bean, and affording, we hope,
only a prelude to a long track of weather of a similar
description. Sunday, to be sure, was rainy, almost from
morning to night, with the temperature down to 55 ; but
Monday and Tuesday the weather was again clear and
bright, and although the thermometer stood at 75 in the
shade during the day, and fell only to 70 at ten o'clock
on Tuesday night, the atmosphere was soft and delicious
in the highest degree, and altogether devoid of tie
scorching fierceness with which so high a temperature is
usually accompanied, and of a character as favourable
was
sicrh fallen in .this neighbour-
hood within the last eight days has been considerable,
rainy ; and, although the quan-
tity
for maturing the crops as the heart of man could desire.
Yesterday
of again
moisture
it has has never been to excess, and its effect has been
to benefit every description of crop ; and in so far as vi e
have been able to learn, both from our own observation
and from the reports of others, it can hardly be said to
have occasioned even the most partial injury.
Wheat and barley are rapidly filling, and early
patches have already exchanged the verdant green of
summer for the sombre brown which precedes the rich
golden hue of autumn. The crops are from ten days to
a fortnight more forward than at the corresponding period
of last year, and if the weather be favourable, we shall
have an early as well as an abundant harvest. If there
be no check, we may expect to see the sickle at work
within three weeks. Extensive failures have occurred
amongst the potatoes, and numerous attempts have been
made partially to remedy the loss, by sowing turnips in
the intervals ; and we regret to say that in many in-
stances the latter will be the more valuable crop of the
two.—Caledenian Mercury.
VIENNA, JULY 16.—The Archduke Stephen, has
arrived here from Prague, and brings a lamentable account
of the excesses committed by the workmen. There had
been revived meetings of the Council of State, on this occa-
sion, at which all the Princes of the Imperial Family now at
Vienna, were present.
PORT or Lozpo)!;.-Notwithstanding the tronF
winds which have prvailed since operations were com
menced 'for raising the ship Atlas; paptaid J. FOSer,
the principal harbour-master, has succeeded in moving her
-41pwr.,zelsof two miles from the place where she fermaili
he 4'839e1 gs deeply laden wish` coals, and was eta-
bedded'in the sand; a bank of consideratle height had also
formed around her, over which she had been lifted with
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Verdict, " Accidental death," with the following addition :
"The jury, in separating, while they laud the endeavours of
the Humane Society, in restoring, &c., have to deplore that
the Institution does not employ an additional number of men
and accommodation at this season of the year, and earnestly
hope that the subject will be taken up at an early period by
the Legislature."
SUICIDE OF A LICENSED VICTUALLER.-Yesterday after-
noon, Mr. Joseph Payne, deputy-coroner, held an inquest at
St. Baitholomew's Hospital, on view of the body of Mr. W.
Rowles, aged thirty-five, late landlord of the Crown and
Sceptre, Great Arthur-street, Golden-lane, who committed
suicide. _ _

Edward Henley, an engine-driver, No. 2, Osborn-place,
Great Arthur-street, said that on Wednesday evening, about
seven o'clock, he was standing at his door, facing the Crown
and Sceptre, when he heard several persons exclaiming that
the deceased had committed self-destruction. Witness, with
several others, ran up stairs, and found the deceased in his
bed-room, on the floor, at the back of the door. Witness
raised him up, and then observed a deep gash across his
throat. A surgeon soon after arrived, who directed that he
should be taken to an hospital. Life appeared extinct.
George Wood, jeweller, No. 14, Rahere-street, St. Luke's,
said that he saw the deceased a few minutes before seven
o'clock. Deceased's sister-in-law had requested him to watch
deceased, who, she said, was in a state of distraction. About
seven o'clock witness had occasion to leave him. On his re-'
turn, in a minute or two, witness heard the gurgling in his
throat, upon which he immediately gave an alarm. In the
morning of the same day he was very excited. Witness saw
him in the yard, walking to and fro, and laughing in a very
strange way. Witness asked him what he was laughing at.
He replied, " There was heaven in a kiss," and laughed
again. He was not in a state of poverty, but he was a man
who had been much better off. His wife is out of town.
She went on Monday morning to Falmouth, to see her father
and mother.

By the CORONER—Deceased had formerly been a wine and
spirit merchant, and had a public-house of his own. He was
put into the Crown and Sceptre by Mr. More, the brewer.
Witness had no doubt but that his trouble had affected his
mind. Five weeks ago he was in a very excited state, and
on one occasion it required several persons to hold him down.
Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
A FAMILY OF SUICIDES.—Last evening, Mr. Joseph Payne
held an inquest at the Dun Horse, High-street, Borough, on
the body of John Crowley, aged 19, a porter in Billingsgate-
market.

From the evidence of the witnesses, it appeared that the
deceased resided with his father at one of the low lodging-
houses in the Mint. He was of a very uncertain, and at
times violent temper, and gave much annoyance to his fellow-
lodgers. The landlord said that he was in the habit of play-
ing "larks " with the other inmates of the house, such as
throwing stones of a pound weight at them, or sometimes
half a pint of water, and then run away laughing. On
Tuesday he was out nearly all day drinking, but was at home
at seven o'clock, and went to bed along with his father.
Shortly after nine o'clock he was found suspended by his
neckerchief to a rafter in the closet, and quite dead. About
three years ago the deceased hanged himself at the Queen's
Head, Billingsgate, but fortunately was cut down before life
was extinct. He was potboy at the house, and shortly be-
fore making the attempt upon his life, the cook succeeded in
destroying herself by the same means. The landlord in con-
sequence of what had taken place left the house.
The father of the deceased said he was sure his son was
not in his right senses, nor had he been for some time, and
that he made an attempt upon his life when only twelve
years old.
It was also stated in the Court that since the death of the
deceased his mother had attempted to hang herself, and his
father to cut his throat.

COLOGNE.—PubIic attention is just now strongly
attracted towards a new preparation, which has been
issued from the celebrated distillery of John Maria
Farina, 23, Rhine-street, Cologne. This extraordinary
liquid possesses curative and preventive virtues in an
unexampled degree, and its use is universally recom-
mended by the faculty in Germany. Taken internally,
it has, we are told, been found an almost certain remedy
in cases of weak or disordered digestions, and in liver
complaints; and, applied externally, it heals wounds and
bruises with surprising effect, and forms, when diluted
with water, a delightful wash for the complexion, ren-
dering the skin soft and smooth, healing all cutaneous
affections, and giving a healthy bloom to the counte-
nance. We understand that the inventor's attention has
been directed to this preparation for a number of years,
and we heartily congratulate him on the successful issue
of his exertions. We are glad to find that the respect-
able firm of Voelcker and Co. of No. 1, Carpentor's-
buildings, London-wall, have been appointed agents for
the sale of it in this country.
THE CAST IRON LIGHTHOUP.-1113 structure,
which has for many weeks past formed a prominent feature
on the Surrey side of the Thames, has been during the week
undergoing the process of dismantling—only a small portion
of the upper pert has yet been taken down, which has received
a coat of paint. Some portion of the ponderous plates, &c.,
The CORONER summed up the evidence very minutely, and have already been removed from the late site (Messrs. Cottam
The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." and Hallen's) to an adjacent wharf, preparatory to their
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SALE OF THE EGYPTIAN HALL PICCADILLY.—
by the Lords of the Admiralty to convey the whole mass to
The auction room at Garraway's was much crowded yester- its final destination in the island of Bermuda above has been temporarily erected in Messrs. . Since the
early
day by capitalists, in consequence of the announcement of
manufacturers' premises, they have allowed n Cottam's, the
20,000
the sale by auction of the above celebrated premises, which
were erected about thirty persons to ascend and inspect the same. Messrs. Cottam and
years since by Mr. Robinson, the 'fallen were also honoured by visits to view the work from
eminent architect, and were originally known as Bullock's many of the nobility and gentry, including several divines
Museum, but have since been used for different exhibitions. and military and naval ()flimsy amongst whom were the
The property, which is leasehold, having an unexpired term Duke of Leinster, the Earl of Normanton, the Earl of March,
of twenty-eight years from Midsummer last at a ground rent Lord De ROSI Lord Radstock, the Hon, F. Howard, the Hon.
of 300/. per annum, which, with the land tax, paving, light-
E. Ridout, the Hon. Mr. and This. Jekyll, Sir Jahn Wals'n,
ins, water, and parochial rates, would amount to the annual Sir T. Wilson, Sir B. Martin, Sir H. B. Hoghten, Sir T.
rent of 413/., was ordered to be brought to the hammer hv
, Fremantle, Admiral Oliver, Major-General Pasley, Major-
the direction of the executors of the late George Lackington,
General Pakenharn ; Colonels Peel, Angelo, Spiller, Cunn-
Esq. From the statement of Messrs. Rushworth and Jarvis, : ,
the auctioneers, it appeared that the premises realised a net inguarn, Willsen, Alderson, Emmett and Bibbing ; Captains
Montague, Dennison, Dirnsdale, Fanshaw, Sir S. Brown,
rental of 1,1001. per annum, after paying the ground rent and
Wilson, James, Larren,
Clarke, Wharne, Davison, Manning,
all rates and taxes. which income was derived from the exhi- Morris, Hatchard, Codrington, Bird, Gore, Oliver, Hobson,
bition rooms, the two shops on the ground-floor, let for 210/.
Stanley and Austin ; Major Watson, Mr. Joseph Hume, and
a-year each to permanent tenants, the lecture rooms, and Mr. C. Hammersley ;she Reverends G. White, R. Irvine ;
bazaar, the Waterloo gallery, and immense warehouse under j, Walker, J. A. Johnston, J. Lupton, C. Pritchard, and P.
the bazaar room. Mr. Rushworth said that, from a moderate
calculation of the net rental, the property would be worth, Sheppard ; F. Whitmarsh, Esq., Q.C., &c. &c.
for the twenty-eight years' purchase of the lease at six per TURN-OUT OF CARPET-WEAVERS.—This town was
cent., 14,850/. The competition then commenced by a bid-
in considerable excitement last week, owing to a tuna-out or
ding of 3,000/, but was eventually bought in for 6,2501. The strike among the men employed by T. SilliCOX
,
Lea, Esq.,
sale created considerable interest. It was stated by the the largest carpet manufacturer in the town. The case was
this. It is a rule among the carpet-weavers to exact
auctioneer that the exhibition of General Tom Thumb rea-
a heavier fee for footing, as it is called, from every person
lised at times as much as 125/. per day, and that 441. per
entering the trade who has not served a regular appretice-
month was paid for the use of the exhibition room.
ship to it, This money used to be spent in drink, but from
the 9th of March, 1844, it has been set apart as a defene-,
THE NEW NIGHT-POACHING ACT.—This addi-
fund for general purposes!. A young man residing in I-mai_
ditional landlord's law was passed on the 4th instant. It
lane, named Phinsy, had a loom ulven him by M:, Lea. He
sets forth that the former Night-poaching Act (passed
July 19, 1828), has been evaded and defeated by the was not twenty-one years of neither liad he been ap-
destruction, by armed persons, at night, of game or prenticed to any one. The 4 ieinanded 3/. for their
4116 y. They then requested
rabbits, not upon inclosed lands, but upon public roads korting, which Phais refusett
l'hiiis: oft or to make him pay. Mr.
,A 1 Lea either to turn and highways, and other roads and paths leading through
Lea. declined to int rill^
held at Meant-pleas:an:lit% Tuesday'they
m eeti negv
erring,of the workmen
and
adjourned
such lands, and also at the gates, outlets, and openings
between such land and roads, highways and paths; and
to Sutton-common,
about 300, marching fouerrathreeyasptroefteded to trheeedto numberst.ef
it then enacts that all the pains, punishments, and for
till their request was complied with. On Thursday eveningr
feitures imposed upon porsons by night unlawfully teltiag
or destroying game or rabbits in any land,
a open 9r in a meeting of the weavers from many of the firms in town
closed, sliall'be dpiAiCable to and impose upon any per- was held at Sutton-common, where a large number of persons
Of- remain out, anct that the root '
son by night unlawfully taking or destroying any game assembled, when it was resolved that Mr. Lea's men should
or rabbits' n 411$• plfblio rod, highway, or path.
. of the trade should support
fenders may be seized. This additional " landlord's them. Qii ilo,
'-fornino• the footing was paid, ar',., the
NW,' is a further disgrace to the English sw%4l,:y;\•lll , ~,4, L,,,.:
wince returned to their work. It is dos tO them to
The great folks seem r.s.:2,',;vett to yepaq fu.,-460,e).---:
state, that they offered Phaisy twelve month. to pay it in ;
01^"--- ' . dioll6 I they km been i•-• '
_......,,,Kuity o
.iare mg tu that
h' 'I and even said if he would pay it quietly they would return
direction for some time.him 30s.— Worcestershire Chronicle.

THE TEN HOURS BILL.
At a delegate meeting of the operatives of Lancashire,
the following letter from Lord Ashley was read to th•
delegates : " London, July 18, 1844.
" Sir,—You have done 1-ne the honour, in conjunction
with the other Members of the Short Time Committee, to
request my advice respecting the course you should now
adopt in pursuit of a Bill for the further limitation of tilt
hours of labour.

"In the first place, I most heartily applaud your zeal
and determination never to relax your efforts until yott
shall have obtained this just and worthy result of so many
years of anxiety and toil. So far as my services are of
any avail, they shall be unceasingly at your command,
though it may be treated as a serious question at your
meeting, whether you ought not to find some °that'.
Member less obnoxious than myself, and whose name is
not associated with constant defeat.

"In the second place, I would counsel you to begin
by an address to your employers by an appeal from
the work people of each mill to the proprietor of it,
and earnestly, though respectfully, to entreat them`
sympathy and co-operation towards the abatement
of your excessive labour. It is a matter of the
highest importance that this great end should be at.
tained, if possible, in unison with the feelings of yo.
employers, and not in despite of them. I cannot too
strongly urge the expediency, nay, the necessity, 'with st
view to the speedy and happy adjustment of the question,
of a good understanding between master and man. Yots
will, most certainly, by such a line of action, win dm
approval and sympathy of the country. Should yon be
successful you will have attained all that you desire ; and,
should you fail, you will have, at least, the satisfaction of
having made every reasonable and becoming effort, aid
of proving to the vl orld that amendment is altogether
hopeless without the aid of the Legislature.
"I am deeply thankful for the success of the Factory
Bill, which has just become law. My great difflinilty
was to combine the safety of that measure with the con.
stant assertion of our ten hours principle. I was sure,
even on the night of the first majority, that eventual
success was beyond outreach in the present session ;
I bent, therefore, all my efforts to secure this enactment,
and yet lose no proper opportunity of demanding more.
We were in constant peril ; but, by nod's blessing, w
saved the Bill ; and I venture to anticipate from it very
great and lasting benefits.
" With many and fervent prayers for your public and
private welfare, believe me
" Your very sincere friend and servant,
" ASHLEY.

" To the Chairman of the Lancashire
Central Short Time Committee, Manchester."

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
E. TIMES.—The rapid rise of CITY,
theFRIDAY ManchesterVENlNG
and
Leeds, and of the Birmingham and Gloucester shares,
since yesterday, is the most remarkable feature of the
share market. The former, it is said, are influenced by
a demand induced by the belief that the new lines wilt
prove productive ; the latter are in request, on account
of the receipts having surpassed general expectations.
Compared with last year, the increase is at the rate of
1,0001. per week. Bristol and Gloucester shares, though
their rise has been less sudden, have been steadily pro •
gressing from a similar reason, the receipts here also
exceeding the general belief, although the railway has
not not been open above three weeks.
The following has been sent by the Coniniit4* of
Spanish American bondholders, as the:official account of
their proceedings yesterday :
" 13, Austifriars, July 26, 1844.
" The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders held a
meeting yesterday, on the subject of the new Granadian debt,
when it appeared from recent communications from Bogota,
that there was some reason to expect, by the next arrival,
some specific communication on the subject of the adjustment
of the debt. The Committee, therefore, adjourned further
proceedings. The delay of the Government of New Granada
has been most unsatisfactory to the Committee and to all
parties concerned, after the very liberal concessions which
have been made to procure an adjustment of this long-pro-
tracted affair."
By this document it is tolerably evident that no public
meeting will be called till the receipt of further commu-
nications from New Granada. The bondholders, though
they are anxious to express their sentiments on the sub-
ject of this debt, will probably wait with patience a
little longer, on the understanding that the next arrival
will bring the " specific communication" desired. Then,
it is to be hoped, the Committee will lose no time in
calling them together, and the subject will undergo a
thorough consideration. Besides looking into the na-
ture of the proposal made by the indebted republic, the
bondholders will make stringent inquiries as to the sum
which is said to have been already remitted by New
Granada, and to be in the hands of Senor Mosquera.
Nothing definite is known respecting this sum, but it is
supposed Bette
be sufficient to pay 1 per cent. per annum on
the whole debt ior a period of two years.
The letters lately received from Lima represent a re-
spectable mercantile firm there as having refused the
offer to become local agent to the Peruvian bondholders.
The firm in question expressed their gratification at
being thought worthy of so high a trust, but stated that
the republic was subject to such constant c:nanges, that
it would be utterly useless fur any one, to undertake
matters connected with finance. On.e Government so
rapidly succeeds another in Peru, What an agreement
made with one, might be cancellA by the next before
it could be brought into operatir,o,
As some parties have incorrectly supposed that by
the Dutch decree, mentior.ed yesterday, the holders of
the old Five per Cents, are bound to change their
bonds into Four per Cents., it is as well to remove the
error. The decree in its preamble sets forth a wish
to afford to the holders of the old Five per Cents. an
opportunity to exchange their bonds on the same
footing as the holders of the "Indians" (the " speckle-. backs"), but it is by no means compulsory as to their
entering into the operation. To prevent all future
misunderstandings on the subject, we give the sth
article, which relates exclusively to the holders of the
old stock.
" Art. s.—ln order to enable the holders of the 01. d Five
per Cents. to transfer their bonds at the price mentioned in
Article 1 (viz., 95i per cent.), at which the Indians, can now.
'petted from.
be exchanged, an inscription register will be o
..er to convert
Four per Cent.
the Ist till the 20th of August ensuing, in ore
this stock (from the Ist of October, 1844) to
bonds, with a bonus of 4i per cent. (or 4r.) florins in cash),
and bearing interest from tie Ist of Ocuter, 1844."
SUN.—Consols closed at the lov,er quotations of the
morning, 99i to Exchequer Bill., were 80s. to 78s. pre-
mium ; and New Three-and-a-;half per Cents. 1021 to.
' 1 The other Stocks remained the same as in the
4
morning.
The Foreign market vms inactive up to the close.
Spanish Three per Cent& a ere 33+ to, and the De-
ferred 124. Colombian were 14 and Mexican 36.
Dutch Four per Cents, were 961 to 964.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares hare
been these :—Birmingham and Derby were 21 to 26i;
and Thames and Medway, 9I to discoi:mt. Bristol and Gloucester, 20 tot; Grand Connection, i; Hull and
Selby, 101 to lli; Birmingham, 1281; Brighton Loan.
Notes, 241; Manchester and Leeds, quarter, 71; Mid-
land, 1; Northern and Eastern, 14+, Norwich and
Brandon, 7i; South-Eastern, 5; York and North Midt-
land, Half, 291. Paris and Orleans, 181 to *; and Paris
and Rouen, 184 premium.
The Foreign exchanges have been rather higher on
one or two cities, but generally there is no particular
alteration.

THE LATE HORRIBLE CHARGE AT STOCKPriar.—.
Our readers will probably remember this charge, rlientioned
in The Sue of Monday. On Wednesday the rev. delft'.
quent, R. H. Cresswell, the incumbent of St. P
eter's Church,
Stockport, who was under bail to answer the, horrible charge,
underwent an examination before the May,,,r, and Mem& r.
Walmsley, C. Baker, and P. E. Marsland,
Churchmen and two Dissenters. As Ire
waswo not in a fit state
tof them being
to be removed from his bed, the examination took place pri-
vately at his residence, at the Par
menage House, St. Peter's-
square, Mr. W. Vaughan and Slr. H. Turner attending for
the defence. The first wi
`.,ness called was a youth named
James Booth, a servar,', employed in the prisoner's house,
who detailed several revolting particulars, unfit for publica-
tion. His eviderple was in many respects corroborated by
different domf.;stics of the house, and the cross-examinatisns
of the Tfisoner's solicitor did not at all shake his testimony;
The result of the inquiry was, that the magistrates considered
it their duty to commit the rev. offender to Chester Assizes
for trial. Not being in a fit state to be removed, however, he
was admitted to bail, himself in 2,000/., and two rarefies of
1,0001. each ; his uncle, said to be a magistrate it
shire, Leicester-
shire, and his father, a person in opulent ciscurnstances, we
understand, residing in the same neighbourhood, becoming
sureties. The revolting affair has caused mwzb. excitement irt
Stockport.
PARK THEATRE.--This house closed for the season
on Wednesday, and will re-opert_ on the 26th August..
During the recess the scenic rand decorative artists will
be
ess
employed on the opera of the Bohemian Girl, the
most successful novelty produced in London during the
past theatrical year. Macready plays a farewell en-
gagement in SeC:ember, and will be succeeded by scions
of eminence i•om the other side of the Atlantic. Mr..
Simpson, the worthy and estimable manager of "
Drury" for thirty years, has sailed for Europe to com-
plete arrangements for the next campaign, which, fro
the great improvement in every branch of business,.
promises to exceed in profit any season since the great
one of '37, when the Woods played to upwards of
17,000 dollars in twelve consecutive nights.--From the/
New York Courier and Inquirer.
The town of Bonifacio, in Corsica, was thrown into
consternation on the 10th by the disappearance of; M. Em-
manuel Ru, collector of taxes, aged seventy-four and one of
the most wealthy men of the canton. He want out in the
morning with his agent to visit a foie pro,
pert which he
possesses at Sanguiliano, about half
true o As he did
a I
?s
not return in the evening, Madame Ru oecame alarmed, and
.ff.
a minute search was made for him. At Sanguiliano his hat,
cane, and riding-coat were found in the hall, as if placed.
there on his arrival. For four days the search continued. when the arrival of the agent explained the whole affair.
They had been both zarried off by banditti, Wm) detained
M. Ru until a fttain of 12,000 francs in hard criAli should be
paid down as his ransom. Should their demand not be
agreed io, they threatened the most cruel treatment. The
:tuthorities were to assemble the next day
to be done.—Galignani. tA decide what wall

DEBT OF PUBLIC GRATITUDE TO 7410WLAND
We have learnt, with pleasure, that r,revious to the publics
subscription having been set about in Hull, one was com.
menced amongst the Society of Friends here, which amounted
to several pounds, and was privately forwarded to the Cote.
mittee in London. The plan appe.nrs worthy of adoption by
other religious denominations, ai3,..t we suggest to a few of the
right-spirited ones in each body in the town, whether they
will not be doing their duty,te a.public benefactor, by imme.
diately " going and doing liftemse."—Hull Advertiser..
LOWLAND HILL TESTIMONIAL.—We are glad. b
hear that the sal' criptions to the testimonial to Mr.
RQwland Hill already amount to about 731. We believe
the committee close their duties on the 29th instant,
and we trust that before that time such of our 'friends se
have not yet subscribed will send their co'aributioni
to Mr, George Mackay, treasurer. The cause is one de.
serving universal support.—lnverness Courier?.