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London, England, 1844-05-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1844.

No man holds a more enviable position in society
at the present day, than Lord ASIILEY. He has
sacrificed office, and pensions, and political power for
the good of those who had none to help them. He is
called a visionary and enthusiast, but these are mere
words, and have been applied to all reformers. The
.greatest of reformers and the.best friend, too, of the
poor had to submit to the same obloquy. Lord
ASHLEY, when his party came into office, might
have had almost any situation that he could have
Limed, but when he found the Government hostile
to the great object he had in view, he rejected any
. offer, he stood firm in his integrity, ho followed the
path which conscience dictated, and to his honour he
now stands forward as the protector and advocate of
the poor. And who are these poor?—The labouring
classes, the operatives, the men that perform every
work of drudgery, the sailors and the soldiers
who have defended our country, and rendered her
name illustrious in every quarter of the globe. NEL-
sos and WELLINGTON are entitled to every praise, but
what fame would they have acquired without the
bravery of that class for which Lord ASIILEY now
pleads? When NELSON gave his last signal, " Eng-
land expects every man to do his duty," was there
_any aristocrat, any Lord, or Baronet, or Knight, or
any man whose promotion awaited the result, who
fought more manfully for his country than the corn-
mowsailor ? When NAPOLEON, for eight hours, at
the battle of 'Waterloo, made the most furious and
vigorous attacks ever made against any army, who
crowned the heights between Hougomont and La
Haye Sainte f—who stood immoveable against the
showers of bullets, and the attacks of the finest
cavalry and artillery in the world I)—who formed
thAt imPenetrable line which. General FOY, an

enemy, described as fixed in the earth, till at
the proper time they moved forward as one man,- and
achieved the greatest victory of this or any other age ?
The men who belonged to that class whom Lord
ASHLEY wishes to protect. It is needless to advert to
the tens of thousands engaged in our manufactories, or
to their skill and perseverance, and patient endurance,
because these are known to the world, and to them
the country owes much of its wealth and power.
That class has never been treated as rational beings.
The Legislature has taxed them and oppressed them,
and has laid all the heavy burdens on their shoulders;
it has made them pay a duty of 100 per cent. on tea
and sugar, and many other necessaries of life; it has
taxed the very staffoflife for the benefit of the legislators
only, and when they assemble to complain or pray for re-
lief, they are put down by guns and bayonets. There
is no sympathy between the high and low classes.
Those who have power use that power with a strong
hand, and instead of consulting for the good of men,
and women, and children, who contribute to their
wealth, their only object seems to be to keep them
under ; to pass laws for protecting the rich, and to
oppose those which are intended for the relief of that
class who have no voice in the Legislature. Lord
ASHLEY, to his honour, has taken up this cause, and
we trust he will live to reap the reward. If some
of his plans are not the best that can be devised, he
has one great and lasting merit—he has awakened
public attention to the subject—he has secured one
half of the House of Commons in his favour—
he is getting up meetings every week on the
subject, and he may rest assured he will soon find
many followers. In another part of the paper
will be found an account of an interesting
meeting held on Saturday, at which he presided.
Several noblemen, one bishop, many clergymen, and
Members of Parliament were present, and lent their
aid in a forming a plan for the benefit of the lower
classes. A committee was appointed, and to
the honour of the higher classes, at least fifteen
noblemen were appointed members. The sub-
scriptions, too, were large. Lord ELDON,
sprung from the lower classes, subscribed
2001, Sir THOMAS BARING, 1001., Mr. R. B.
SIIE-
RIDAN, a name celebrated in the annals of the country,
1001., and a large number besides subscribed accord-
ing to their means. This is a good beginning, and
holds out bright prospects. This is a triumph for
Lord ASHLEY, greater than the most splendid vic-
tories; and we fervently pray that he may have firm-
ness and health to persevere in his noble purpose till
he earns the greatest and most consolatory of all re-
wards, the blessings of those " who are ready to
perish."

"No one, we suppose," says the Herald of this
morning, in reference to Friday night's debate in the
House of Commons, on the Factories Bill, "No one,
even of the warmest adherents of the long-hour sys-
tem, will attempt to deny that the adherence of
Government to that system, however conscientious,
has inflicted the most serious injury on the Conser-
vative cause that it has sustained since the last grand
mistake in 1829. That injury, too, is wide-spread,
and consists of many parts. One of these, and by no
means a slight one, is the deterioration of the cha-
racter of the House of Commons. This is too often
the forerunner of some hazardous organic change."
Our Contemporary then proceeds to comment on
the late speeches of that consistent couple, Messrs.
LIDDELL and GALLY KNIGHT, and adds :—" No two
speeches of such brevity were ever before fraught
with so much loss and damage to the party to which
the speakers belonged." There is a world of truth
in these remarks, and what adds to their significance
is the singular fact that they are put forth by a
journal which is a staunch supporter of that very
" Conservative cause" which it now frankly and
boldly insists has been seriously injured by the ob-
stinate tenacity of the Government on the factory
question. The mischief inflicted by that Government
on Toryism, «nd more particularly on " the cha-
racter of the house of Commons"—which House,
however, so far as we can see, has not of late
years had much character to lose—must,
indeed, have been great and undeniable, ere
the Herald would have dreamed of alluding to it
in such strong, emphatic terms. We respect our
Contemporary for his manly candour, and we cor •
dially subscribe to every one of his observations.
His allusion, in particular, to the deteriorated charac-
ter of the House, is true to the letter; for not a man
of any reflection but must acknowledge that by its
vacillating conduct on the factory question, the Im-
Ferial Senate has greatly lowered itself in public esti-
mation. But three short weeks since it was carried
away by a sudden paroxysm of humanity; so great was
its benevolence—so ardent its sympathy with the
sufferings of the factory women and children, that
the awe in which it habitually holds the. Premier
was laid aside ; and, despite his frowns, protestations,
and even menaces, it had the boldness to decide
against him, and even leave him in a minority. Such
was the bold, independent demeanour which the House
of Commons maintained not quite three weeks ago.
But since then a complete change has come over it.
It has had time for reflection; it was " drunk"--to
use Mr. GALLY KNIGHT'S appropriate phrase—when
it decided in favour of the overtasked factory opera-
tives; but it is now " sober," and being so, it feels it
its bounden duty to repudiate the claims of the poor
and the helples!=, and to stand by the interests of the rich
and the influential. Its humanity, like 808 ACRES'
valour, has fairly oozed out at its finger-ends, and it
is once again the obsequious slave of the Aladdin
Lamp—in other words, the ready, submissive tool of
that conjuror, Sir ROBERT PEEL. True, its final de •
cision is not yet made, but every one, endowed with
the slightest observation, can foresee which way the
debate on Lord ASHLEY'S clause will terminate;
every one can foresee that the House will most egre-
giously stultify itself; and that the Conservatives,
more especially, will rush, in breathless haste, to
follow the consistent—the enlightened—the high-
minded example set them by those twin political
luminaries, Messrs. GALLY KNIGHT and LIDDELL.
And all this wholesale tergiversation is to take place,
because, forsooth, the Premier will have it so! and
because—more and more humiliating still—if the
House persists in being consistent, the Home Secre-
tary will feel it his duty to retire from office, and
cultivate, like another CINCINNATUS, his garden at
Netherby ! To think that the threat of a GRAHAM
quitting public life should be sufficient to scare a
British House of Commons from the broad, straight,
obvious path of duty—of consistency—of common
sense—of humanity! We look upon this as one of
the most inglorious and humiliating " signs of the
times" that has been manifested for many years.

Before entering upon an examination of the resolu-
tions submitted to the House of Commons, by Sir
ROBERT PEEL, in connexion with the terms on which
he will propose the renewal of the Bank Charter, and
of the speech with which he introduced them on
Monday last, we are desirous again to call the atten-
tion of our readers to some important and significant
facts in the present aspect of the country, on which
the Right llon. Baronet observed a very guarded
silence. It did not consist, we can readily imagine,
with his purpose of exalting the merits of a currency
measured by a gold standard of value, to notice the
facts to which we are about to recur. They were
too palpably indications of
_its immediate and disas-
trous effects, under and with the aid of the enact-
ments of a statute like the Currency Act of 1819, to
have been introduced upon the canvas which he spread
before the eyes of the House, and tricked out with
such showy but unsubstantial tints. Nevertheless, to
enable the public at large more accurately to ap-
preciate the fixed and baleful shadows which the
existence of these facts throws over the actual face of
affairs, we shall briefly recapitulate these phenomena.
The first and most important of them is—the
anomalous state of a vast majority of our industrial
population. This community, as we lately remarked,
is composed of two great sections; the one, in em-
ploy, at wages generally inadequate to the demands
of mere physical subsistence for the toiling artisan or
labourer and his family ; the other, out of present
employ, and with little or no prospect of soon ob-
taining any in the districts wherein they have been
reared, or the factories and mills in which they have
' worked. The second fact is the confirmation of this'
deplorable aggregate of pauperism, coupled with that
of its progressive aggravation, which is afforded by
an inspection of the Returns of Poor-rate Assess-
ments levied in Englatid and Wales in the successive
years 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842. The third fact
consists in the result of a comparison between the
accumulating amount of those, assessments, and that

of our manufacturing production within the same
interval. The fourth is suggested by the evidence
which this pauperism and disorganisation afford that
there is no principle of corresponding distribution at
work to diffuse this enlarged amount of manufacturing
production among those classes of the community
who are suffering so grievously from the want of
them. The fifth is the fact, undisputed by the bul-
lionists themselves, that between thirty and forty mil-
lions of taxes are paid by the producing and indus-
trial labourers of this country, which should, on every
principle of common sense and common fairness, and
according to the contemplation and meaning of the
Legislature itself in imposing that taxation, be borne
by the consumer.
It may seem sufficient apology for our re-stating
these points, that they were wholly omitted by Sir,
ROBERT PEEL in his laborious but very ineffective
statement the other evening. No man knows better
than he, that the facts in question are all explicable
solely, upon grounds which are conclusive against the
folly, the dishonesty, and the mischief inherent in his
monster blunder of 1819. That blunder either he has
not the manliness to acknowledge, or he lacks the
spirit to retrieve. He is either the self-complacent,
egotistical dupe of his own mistakes, which are now
patent and palpable to half the world ; or he is the
political slave of that Ministerial embarrassment which
compels him to wear the trammels of Bank assistance
—conceded on exorbitant terms, but perhaps neces-
sary to keep fast in his seat the man who drives the
" strong Government" of May, 1844.
Now, this vast proportion of industrial labour, thus
under-paid or unemployed, is one of the most signal
consequences of a monetary system which has been so
tampered with by the empirical nostrum of a fixed
gold standard, as to leave to the manufacturer no
prices but gold or natural prices for his goods, and no
wages, therefore, to the operative but those which can
be afforded out of such reduced prices. Then the
progressive aggravation of this pauperism is shown by-
the Parliamentary Return (No. 63, TLC., of the pre-
sent session), which gives the following summaries of
the " Total Amount of Money levied for Poor-rate
for the Year ending Lady-day" in each of the follow-
ing series : viz., for all England and Wales—

In 1839
1840
1841..
1842..

£5,613,939
6,014,605
6,351,828
6,552,890

Such has been the increase of poor-rate in a period
in the last term of which the first product of the new
income-tax was received ; in the whole course of which
manufacturing production was so largely increased
as compared with the preceding years ; and which
introduced at its close a progressive improvement of
the public revenue, which has, in the year ended sth
April last, resulted in a surplus of income over expen-
diture of more than 4,000,0001. This increased
burden of pauper charge, then, has been coincident
with an increase in the capital of the country, so far
as that is measured by the amount and yield Gf its
taxation. The charge of pauperism has advanced
after the following rate in the pound of money levied
on annual value of real property in 1841, for each of
the following years, ending Lady-day, viz.' (for
England and Wales) :—ln 1839, one shilling and
tenpence in the pound ; in 1840, one shilling and
elevenpence ; in 1841, two shillings; in 1842, two
shillings and a penny. This difference of threepence
in the pound between 1839 and 1842, calculated on
the total annual value of real property assessed to the
poor-rate at Lady-day, 1841 (namely, 62,540,0001.),
exhibits an aggregate increase of charge of no less
than 781,750/. ; and this infers an enormous increase
of industrial distress, both in the agricultural and
manufacturing classes. But how much is the in-
tensity of that distress aggravated, by the reflection
that if there had existed a currency equal in amount
and facility to represent the exchangeable value of
floating and fixed property, the increased production
of manufactures, instead of lumbering up our home
warehouses, or stopping our home factories, or glut-
ting foreign markets, would have been distributed
to an enormous and a meritorious body of agricultural
and manufacturing producers, K hose wages would,
under the same better system of currency, have enabled
them to become the purchasers of such necessaries
and conveniencies of life, in the shape of manufac-
tured goods, &c., and at prices remunerating to the
manufacturing employer. If, with a paper currency,
it is evident that the manufacturer would have
been thus benefited, it is equally certain that the
thirty or forty millions of taxes now paid by the poor
producers in various forms, and especially on the
' Custom and Excise duties charged on various articles
indispensable to their subsistence, would not have
been, as now, NOT reimbursed or replaced to them
on the starving minimum wages of their maximum
labour, but added to these, and included in the
charge of the manufacturer as an element of the cost
of production to the consumer, the party in right
and equity liable to its payment.
These .points were adverse to' the Premier's
theories of a " standard of value," " convertibility,"
" sound currency," and the twenty other crotchgtty
necessities flowing from his rash and ill-digested
scheme of 1819, -and therefore, we presume, were
omitted out of his speech of Monday last. We are
desirous that they should not be forgotten, and have
thus disposed of them before we approach the con-
sideration of that speech and the resolutions it in-
troduced.

Madrid journals of the sth have been received. If
we are to credit the statements in them, put forth
by the Government, the decree abolishing mar
tial law is only the beginning of a new system,
which is to be in accordance with the Constitution.
The present Cortes is to be dissolved forthwith, and
a new assembly is to be convoked, to meet in
the month of August, for the dispatch of business.
Most of the State prisoners have been released,
now that NARVAEZ has obtained the object of his
wishes. LOPEZ and MADOZ who were committed
to prison at the breaking out of the insurrection at
Alicant, had presented themselves before the Political
Chief, and there being no charge against them,
they were set at liberty. BRAVO had also
been rewarded for his services by a valuable appoint-
ment. "fire know," says the Heraldo," that the ex-
President of the Council is animated with the best
sentiments for the triumph of the order of things to
which he so powerfully contributed, and we are aware
of the ardent desire which animates him to give to the
QUEEN and the country new proofs of fidelity and
devotion."

The ex-editor of a scurrilous journal has been ap.
pointed Ambassador to the Court of Lisbon.

The Three per Cents. were done at 34 cash, and
31 5-16, 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 211,60
days.

The French Chamber of Deputies are still engaged,
to the exclusion of all other business, in discussing
the clauses of the Prison Bill, and on Friday the
Government submitted to a material alteration in
one of them proposed by M. VATOUT. The original
clause declared that all prisoners should be shut up
in separate cells day and night, with one hour for
recreation ; whereas the amendment restricted that
terrible punishment to criminals condemned to the
galleys or imprisonment with hard labour. Several
Members were opposed to the clause even in its
amended shape, and contended that with the cellular
system nothing but absolute torture could maintain
discipline. The clause as amended, however, was
ultimately adopted. The domestic news in the Paris
papers is without interest. It was the general belief
at Paris that Louis PHILIPPE seriously intended
,to
pay a visit to the Queen of ENGLAND this summer,
either at Windsor Castle or London. "The report
of the KING'S journey to England," says the Courrier
Francais, "begins again to obtain credit. The Mari-
time Prefect of Cherbourg has commanded at Havre
several silk flags, on which are to be embossed the
arms of England and France. The KING, after
having crossed the Channel to London, where it is
said he is shortly expected, will proceed to Brest with
the squadron which is being prepared to accompany
him on his voyage. His MAJESTY is said to have
given orders to prepare for his reception at Brest,
where he proposes to pass two or three days."

The beer riot at Munich seems to have been rather
of a serious character. The following account of the
affair, probably derived from official sources, appears
in the Journal des Debats :
" Up to this moment no other cause has been discovered
for the riots which have been now continuing for four or five
days than the rise in the price of beer. This beverage is one
of the first necessity among the inhabitants of Bavaria, par-
ticularly of the working classes ; the price has therefore con-
siderably increased of late years. It has been the general
custom to advance the price during the summer months, and
that change has usually taken place on the lit of May. This

year, unfortunately, it occurred just at the period of the cele-
bration of the marrirge of the Princess Hildegarde with the
Archduke Albert. the people made grievous complaints
that on this occasion there had been no public rejoicing
ordered by the Government, no illuminations, nor fireworks,
nor theatres opened gratis. These causes united provoked,
during the Ist of May, some disorderly proceedings, which
went on increasing on the following days. About five o'clock
the garriion beat to arms, the mob had attacked all the
breweries, breaking the windows, and destroying everything
that fell in their way. Barricades were begun to be thrown
up in one of the principal streets. The cavalry on reaching
the spot were obliged to charge on the mob, when two or
three persons were killed.
" On the following days the city was pretty quiet ; the
people assembled in considerable numbers before the houses
which had been destroyed, but without making any hostile
demonstrationS. Numerous detachments of troops patroled
and kept the streets clear. But in the evening the disturb-
ances recommenced in the same quarter as on the previous
day, and it was necessary to have again recourse to the
cavalry. These tumultuous scenes took place whilst
the King and Royal Family were at the theatre. A nume-
rous mob bent their steps in that direction, exclaiming that
they would not allow the rich to divert themselves whilst
the necessaries of the poor were advanced in price ; but
the guard at the door presenting their arms on the approach
of the people, made them draw back. The people within
the theatre were in great alarm, fearing the building
might be set fire to, and several retired as fast as
they could. The King and Royal Family, however,
stopped out the first act, and then retired. In
the course of the evening numerous arrests took place, and it
was hoped the discord had ceased ; but on the following day
some disturbances again took place, and several bakers' shops
were entered and pillaged. His Majesty went out each day
in his carriage. The director of police issued a proclamation
prohibiting more than ten persons assembling together at the
same time. On the following day, the troops of the garrison,
who were very much fatigued, were relieved by the garde
bourgeoise, and this display of force was the means of preserv-
ing order. In the meantime the Government deemed it pru-
dent to make some concession, and the burgomasters circu-
lated placards, announcing that beer would be sold at the
old price. This news was soon spread through, the city, and
tended so much to restore quiet, that the sth passed without
disturbance, and the King was preparing to set out for Rome
on the Bth.

" There is every.reason to hope that there will be no re-
currence of those violent scenes, tranquillity having been se-
cured by the timely concession made to the roused passions of
the multitude."

THE BOURSE-SATURDAY, MAY 9.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents...• •• 122 55 • • 122 55 • • 122 45 .. 122 45
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents B4 40 .. 84 45 .. 84 40 .. 84 45
Bank of France 3120 ••3120 . 3120 ..3120
Belgian Bank.. ..
Belgian Fives, 1831 ••.• • • • 1031 .. 103 f • . 103 f • • 1031
1840 •••• • • • 106 106 .. 106 .. 106
1842.• •• •• • • 1081 .. 108} .. 108 i .• 108}
Spanish Active
Threes •••• • • • ..... 36 • • 36 .. 36 .. 36
Passive • • 61 .. fif .. 61
Neapolitan.. •••• •••• • .. 102 50 .. 102 50 .• 102 35 .. 102 35
Roman, ex div....

RAILWAY SUARES.
St. Germain .• • . 830 .. 830 .. 830 .. 830
Versailles, R.B.—
L.B.
Rouen
Rouen to Havre. 737 50 .. 737 50 .. 736 25 736 25
Orleans ••• • • • • •• •• •• • • •• • . 983 75 .. 983 75 .. 982 50 .. 983 75
Strasburg to Bale 275 .. 275 272 50 .. 273 75
Avignon to Marseilles— • 766 25 766 2.5 • • 766 25 .. 766 25
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.

Vcr-allies,R.B..• •• ..••••• 377 50 .. 377 50 .. 377 50 .• 377 50
•••
Rouen •••• •• •••••• •••• •• •• 976 25 .. 978 75 .. 97G 25 . 978 75
Rotten to 1iavr0...•..•..•-. 737 50 737 50 .. 737 30 737 50
Orleans •.••
Strasbtug to 8a1e......-- 271 25 .• 275 .. 271 25 .• 275
Avignon to Marseilles...... 766 25 .. 76G 25 . 766 25 .. 766 25

A Cabinet Council was held this afternoon, at the
Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers as-
sembled at two o'clock. All the members of the
Cabinet were present.

THIS DAY'S NEWS

QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY)
(Before Chief Justice DENMAN, and a Common Jury.

TACKIER v. PATERSON.

Mr. Platt, with whom was Mr. Gunning, appeared for the
plaintiff, Mr. Jervis and Mr. 13rainwell for the defendant.
This action was brought by Mary Lockier, executrix of
her late husband, to recover compensation in damages of
Mr. John Paterson, a baker, carrying on business at 10, Green-
street, and 72, Princes-street, Leicester-square, for an alleged
illegal distress. The facts, as detailed in evidence and by the
Learned Counsel, are briefly these :—ln the month of August
last the defendant entered into possession of the premises
at No. 10, Green-street, which were formerly occu-
pied by a baker of the name of Miller, who became a
bankrupt; and of whose assignees he purchased the premises
and business. The shop is situated at the corner
of Green-street, Leicester-square, and adjoining thereto is a
small shop, in which the plaintiff carried on the business of
a tobacconist and newsvender. In January last the defen-
dant, after repeated endeavours to obtain the rent then owing,
put in a distress, which was withdrawn on the following day
on the payment of the rent. The distress was stated to be
illegal, on the ground that the plaintiff was a quarterly tenant.
It appeared in evidence that an agreement was entered into
between Miller the bankrupt and the husband of the plaintiff
to pay 15s. a week for the shop and adjoining premises ; but as
the plaintiff's late husband received a sum ofmoney in quarterly
payments, Miller consented to take ,the rent quarterly, but
the agreement did not appear to have been altered. On the
part of the defendant, it was contended that he'acted on the
belief that the plaintiff was a weekly tenant, and that, whe-
ther that were so or not, he was entitled to make a distress if
only a shilling were owing at the time.
Lord DE MAN having summed up the evidence,
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages,
91. 14s.

COMMON PLEAS._(TIIIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.

ELIOT V. ALLEN AND ANOTHER.

This eve, which has already occupied the Court two days,
was resumed this morning, when

Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD replied on the part of the plaintiff.
Lord Chief Justice Tim)Ar. summed up the evidence and
left it to the jury to say which of the defendants was liable,
if they thought either of them was—whether they had esta-
blished their plea that the plaintiff was a pauper, or that
the state of his mind was such as would justify them in confin-
ing him in the workhouse, and if they had not established
their plea, what amount of damages they considered the plain-
tiff entitled to.
The jury retired to consider their verdict, but had not re-
turned into Court when we went to press.

INSOLVENT COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
IN RE DANIEL FRYER.
The insolvent in this case had carried on business as a piano-
l:y;En said, that although very
forte maker, and was opposed in pmeras(oienablyvatywytoicariedpirtoopres,rtoyn.
yet the facts, as proved
able him to remand the
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evidence,
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race:x-1i:
inisoegtfte fraudulently
oruafffito3l listeilunse:ntpititcoi
suspicion,
insolvent.
The insolvent was then ordered to be discharged.

drunk,
fi—(THIS DAY.)
woman, singular appearance, was
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charged having and using abusive and AC nle lEdweißrti(liEttleN )bireoemiEladni,r,
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Police-sergeant Peck, of the E division, deposed that the
in-
sultingperson,
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prisoner, who sweeps a crossing, was drunk, and used lan-
guage of an insulting description to a lady who gave her
only a farthing, saying "What a pretty lady you are, to
hand me a farthing.
Sergeant Lester said the prisoner was in the habit of getting
drunk, and there were many complaints of her using insulting
language towards persons at her crossing.
Mr. LoNG—What have you to say to this charge? Pri-
soner—l am very sorry for it your Worship, and I promise
you it shall never occur again.
Mr. LONG sentenced her to pay a fine of ten shillings, or
seven days' imprisonment in the House of Correction.
The woman had not the money, and she was locked up.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Ann TVright, a tall powerfully grown young woman,
about 27 or 23 years of age, dressed in extremely gaudy and
vulgar style, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a
purse, containing gold and silver, to the amount of 101., from
the person of a gentleman of very high respectability, resid-
ing at the West-end, but whose 'name, for what reason or
cause, we could not learn, was not allowed to transpire. The
following are briefly the circumstances of the case. Between
twelve and one o'clock this morning, the complainant was
stopped by the prisoner and another female in her company,
in Cleveland-row, and while stopping for a few seconds in
conversation with them, they succeeded in extracting from
one of- his trouser's pockets the purse and contents in ques-
tion with which there is no doubt the prisoner's companion
instantly made her escape. The complainant, however, after
some resistance, succeeded in detaining the prisoner until the
police took her in charge. On being searched by a female at
the station-house; neither purse er any money was found in
her possession.
On the prisoner being placed at the bar, Inspector Frowd,
of the E division informed Mr. Maltby that the complainant
had not made his appearance, although he had been ex-
pressly directed to be in attendance by half-past ten o'clock.
Mr. MALTBY asked if the prisoner was known.
Inspector Frowd said—As a very disorderly and drunken
character as a prostitute, but not, as he believed, a thief.
She was ordered to be detained until a later hour.
Ann Wilson, a nymph of the pave, well known to the po•
lice, was charged with robbing a gentlefnan in Burlington-
gardens, at twelve o'clock last night, of a purse containing
103. or 12s. in silver, under precisely similar circumstances.
The complainant not being in attendance, she was also
put back.

UNION HALL.—(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Jackson was charged with stealing a quantity of
plate from the house of Mr. Westley, Dencipsey'a-ter-
race, Camberwell.
Harriet Jewel, the servant, stated that sho Was cleaning
the steps of her master's house on the preceding morning,
and had occasion to leave the door for a moment; when she
returned she saw the prisoner coming up the area [steps,
putting something in his pocket. She knew he had been in
the kitchen, and followed him about a Mile, and meeting
with a policeman, gave him into custody. The witness here
identified the two silver forks and the two spoons as her mas-
ter's property.
Mr. George Taylor, of South-place, Camberwell, stated,
that on the morning in question he saw the prisoner walk
quickly along, and when he came in front of witness's house
ho threw something into the front garden amongst the
flowers, which lie (witness) found to be the silver forks and
spoons produced.
The prisoner, who denied the charge, was remanded, as
the other articles of plate have not yet been found.
George Hyatt, a smartly-dressed young fellow, was charged
with stealing a purse containing 21. Bs. 6d. from. the person
of Mrs. Ann Wade.
The complainant stated that as she was walking along the
Borough she caught the prisoner's band in her pocket, and
held him until a policeman came along. She then gave him
into custody on missing her purse containing the above sum.
The prisoner, however, contrived to "cling" the purse and
its contents to a companion who is expected to be taken into
custody.—He was remanded.
John Downs, an extraordinary looking old man, was ,
charged with pilfering various articles from different shops in
the New-cut.
A large bag, which the prisoner carried was produced, in
which was found a variety of articles, consisting of pieces of
beef, mutton, veal, kidney, mutton chops, red herrings, salmon.
&c. It was stated that the prisoner was in the habit of
sneering along by the Aides of show, And outdating tip