The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-21 00:00:00

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER tock the Chair at Four o'clock.
WRIT FOR SLIGO.
A new writ was issued for Slig,o, to replace Mr. J. F.
Ff Iliott, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION.
Lord GALWAY presented several petitions from
Agricultural places in Yorkshire in favour of protection.
SUNDAY LABOUR IN THE POST- FICE.
Numerous petitions were presented from different parts
of the country against Sunday labour in the Post-office.
EXTENSION OF THE SUFFRAGE.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Sboreditch
signed by upwards of 16;000 person?, in favour of an ex-
of the suffrage.
SECOND READINGS.
The following Bills were real a secrnd time:,
Borough of Salford Waterworks and Improvement.
Childwall Waterworks.

Mr. HUME presented a petition numerously signed
from the letter-press printers of London, stating that
the present duty on paper prevented their obtaining
that employment which would arise from the issue of new
publications which sev,!ral parties were ready to give.
They particularly complained of the evil effect of the
stamp duty on f:evvspapr.rs.—(llear, beer.)
Sir E. COLEBROOKE gave notice that he should
po.cpone the motion which stood in his name for to-
,tight until that day fortnight. . .

RAILWAY AUDIT.
Mr. STANFORD gave notice that on an early day be
should move for leave to bring in a Bill for the better
audit of railway accounts.
CHANNEL ISLANDS.
Mr. HUME rose to ask Sir George Grey, whether
the, Government had decided upon carrying out the
recommendations of the Commissioners for alteration of
the criminal law, and the mode of its administration, in
Jersey; and, if so, whether by Bill in Parliament or an
order in Council ?
Sir G. GREY said that the Government intended to
introduce some reform, but the scheme which had been
forwarded by the Commissioners bad been remitted back
to them as not being altogether calculated for the
purpose.
In reply to Mr. HUME,
Sir G. GREY said the Government would have no
objection to lay the papers befere the House.
SALVAGE MONEY.

Mr. STAFFORD wished to know whether the atten-

tion of the Admiralty had been directed to a circum-
stance which had lately come to his knowledge
relative to a vessel that aas driven upon the west
coast of Ireland in a state of distress. but was saved
from destruction by a few fishermen. It appeared that
these fishermen had 8001. awarded to them tor salvage
money, but, in fact, only received 1101., the remaining
6901. being required to satisfy the Court.
Sir T. BARING said he had not received any infor-
mation on the subject, but would institute inquiries as to
the truth of the statement.
LAW OF REMOVAL AND SETTLEMENT.

In reply to Mr. STUART W ORTLEY,
Sir G. GREY said a Bill on the subject of the law of
removal and settlement was still under the consideration
of the Government, but they could give no assurance
that it would be introduced into the House this session.
DEATHS FROM STARVATION IN IRELAND.
Mr. P. SCOPE wished to know whether the Govern-
ment had received any information as to two inquests
which had been held in a union in Sligo upon the bodies
of two children, in which the verdicts were death from
starvation ?

Sir WILLIAM SOMMERVILLE: was sorry he
could not give a satisfactory answer to the question of
his Hon. Friend, but if his Hon. Friend would furnish
him with the facts of the case he would write to Ireland
and obtain the information for him.

unceasingly urged it, and the result of their inquiries had
been that a fixed duty of from ss. to Bs. would be the only
sufficient protection for the agriculturist.—(Hear, hear.)
To this he would adduce an authority which would be
there unquestionable. It was the evidence of one whose
word was always repeated in that House, and who was
still a Member of that House. It was a communication
which bore the date of the 22d January, 1846. It was a
communication of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member
for Tamworth. The Hon. Member then read an extract
from a speech of Sir Robert Peel, to show that there
were peculiar burdens on land which ought to be
compensated by some remission of fiscal imposition.
He was astonished that the Right Hon. Gentleman
should have recourse to so poor an artifice as this.
When, his Hon. Friend (Mr. Disraeli) introduced an
extensive measure the Hon. Gentleman said, " Ob, it
was so gigantic a measure that he could not take it in."
When his lion. Friend brought in a measure of less
extent then the Right Hon. Baronet said, " Oh,
it is only fourpence an acre, why make so
much talk about that ?" All that he (Mr.
Stafford) could draw was the inference that the Right
Hon. Gentleman was at heart convinced of the justice of
their claims, and as he had nothing better to say, he
condescended to artifices so poor as these ; and the
Right Hon. Baronet had said, now that all those meet-
ings were over of which they had hi and so much, he was
glad to find that he had given up all idea of a return to
protection. True it was there had been those meetings—
not stirred up by the landlords, as Hon. Gentlemen op-
posite said, but by tenant-farmers—at which they were
asked to do their best to return to a protective
system. On their first entering into the House,
they had introduced the subject, and had been defeated
by a large majority, and as they did not wish the theme
to descend to the level of a common debating so-
ciety, they had introduced it in the present shape.
Now, what they said was, that the question had not been
settled, and he began most strongly to believe that the
Noble Lord and the Gentleman opposite were of the
same opinion. It had been declared, and the assertion
had: never been controverted, that the agriculturist
had not free trade in land. They said, "We have a
right to deal with the commodity of land as we please,
but you have tied our bands, and prevented my dealing
with my produce as I like, and therefore, until you deal
with this question on your own principles, how can you pro-
nounce it settled?" The question was one merely of expe•
diency, as it always ought to be, and not a question of a
mere rule, which they could not or had not the courage
to carry out. The Hon. Member for Manchester
(Mr. Gibson) said he could not understand
how they could make out a case of appeal to
the House, and observed that he had some
doubt about their character, but he coupled this with an
expression! that there were two tests in store for them
during the present session, viz., the game-laws and the
Tenants' Compensation Bill. With regard to the latter
Bill he would remind Hon. Members that it passed
through the House last session with scarcely a
division, and when iti had been re-introduced this ses-
sion, the only observation made upon it came
from the Honourable Member for Cockermouth.
The Honourable Gentleman had tested the Protec-
tionists by their proceedings on the Game-laws, and be
would now ask the House just to see how the Hon.
Gentleman himself had dealt with that question during
the last five years. He found that in March, 1845, the
Hon. Gentleman had given notice for a Committee
on the game-laws, and in obedience to a suggestion of
the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth,
who was then at the head of the Government, the Com-
mittee was appointed. The Committee sat till July,
and then recommended it reappointment; but the Hon.
Gentleman the Member for Manchester had in the mean-
time either found his thirst cool or his difficulties increase,
and he never moved for the re-appointment of the Com-
mittee during 1846 or 1847. In February, 1848, he
ventured to inquire of the Hon. Gentleman what his in-
tention was, and his answer was, that he
had been engaged in the consideration of
the growth of cotton in India. That might have been
a satisfactory explanation ; but at all events, after so
long a consideration, be hoped the Hon. Gentleman had
settled that question.. In March, 1848, the Hon. Gen-
tleman moved for leeve to bring in a Bill,
but an amendment was proposed, that the
House should adjourn, which was carried, and
the Bill mysteriously disappeared, and it had not been
heard of since. Now, his Hon. Friend the Member fur
Derbyshire, not making such such great professions, bad
in the interval brought in a practical amendment of the
game laws which was carried, and had since been found
to work exceedingly well.—(Hear, hear.) So that they
were to go by that test, the Hon. Member for Man-
chester would come off very poorly indeed.—(Hear,hear.)
He now came to a subject on which the Secretary of
State for the Home Department had complained that
the Member for Buckinghamshire had touched but
lightly. He was sorry the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman had so closely followed the example of the
Honourable Member for Buckinghamshire. Anything
more meagre or niggard than his allusions to Ireland,
he (Mr. Stafford) had never heard.—(Protectionist
cheers.) It would be his painful duty to enlighten the
House on the state of Ireland—at all events, on that
part of it with which he was intimately connected—in
order that the Irish Members who intended to vote
against any reconsideration of the poor-laws and local
taxation on real property should be able to get up in the
House and say why they believed the present state of
the country should continue.—(Hear, hear.) He
took the establishment charges in Ireland to
amount 289,0001. He took the law expen9es at about
35,0001.; the collectoral poundage rate at 41,0001.; and
the administration of justfae- at about 55,0001. He pro-
posed is addition to that, that 90,0001 should be
paid for emigration ; 490,0004 was the amount
which he proposed to be granted to Ireland.
That would completely satisfy them of the truth of his
observations. He would then read to them the commu
nication of a highly respectable Roman Catholic eccle-
siastic, on whose word they might place the utmost
reliance. The Hon. Gentleman then read the letter,
and from histstatement it appeared that in a parish
in Ennis, for which he had acted as clerk.
in ruling off the applications for relief, which
it was determined to refuse. The refusal out of
a direction of the poor-law board to deny all relief to
able-bodied paupers, and the consequence had been that
throughout the union the relief had been reduced from
1671. to 1201. a week. Through that regulation upwards
of 120 able-bodied labourers had been put on the list.
He would next pass to the county of Limerick, whence
certain resolutions had been forwarded from the board
of guardians to the Noble Lord at the head of the
Government, in which the idea that pauperism was on
the decrease was fully refuted. He would ask the
Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary for Ireland whether
ho had not received information from Ireland, whether
the streets of Limerick had not been paraded by bands
of armed men, whose cry was, "Bread or Blood I"—and
to disperse whom, not only the police but the military
had been called out. This rule of the House refused
to allow Ireland to be separated from this question.
They believed that Ireland, once injured by an Eng-
lish system of monopoly, was now suffering aqua ly
from a system of free trade—equally a victim, though
to a more novel, but yet not less noxious, system.
They told Hon. Gentlemen opposite, that the question
raised was too momentous to be decided by a single
majority, and that they should continue, as far
as laid in their power, to try and save themselves
from their friends, if friends they could be called after
their language at public meetings.—(Hear, hear.)
They should still continue to contend that immediate
cheapness ought not to be the sole rule which ought to
guide the Legislature ; that with kingdoms, as with in-
dividuals, the cheapest bargain often proved the dearest
purchase; and that a Legislature which only considered
the interests of consumers, did not deserve that claim
to greatness which they ought to possess.—(Hear.)
They believed that they were an increasing party in the
country—a party not pledged to this or that import
duty, but deeply, and he trusted irrevocably, pledged to
that cautious and comprehensive policy which had con-
solidated the resources of this great nation.—(Cheers.)
- Sir R. PEEL and Sir J. GRAHAM, at the conclusion of
the last Hors. Gentleman's speech, rose together, and
immediately there were calls for each. The Speaker,
however, called upon Sir James Graham, and Sir Robert
Peel immediately gave way.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM then proceeded to observe
that it was with great diffidence that he intruded himself
upon the House, but if it should be the pleasure of the
House to hear his Right Honourable Friend, the Mem-
ber for Tamworth, than he would at once give way.—
(Hear, hear.) He was not aware that it was the inten-
tion 'of His Right Honourable Friend to offer any ob-
servations to the House at that hour, and it was only in
obedience to the call of, the Speaker that he
now had risen a sevand time.—(Hear, hear.)
Now he thought it most desirable that they should
fix as near as possiblia the precise subject
which they were to discuss, and, therefore,
he should not follow the
.Honourable Gentleman who
bad just Bat down into the Game Laws, the
Ten Hours' Bill, and much less should he
discuss the question of lanillord and tenant in the ques-
of Ireland, which was more german to the matter they
were about to debate.—(Hear.) lie agreed with the lion.
Gentleman that the que.ition they had to discuss was a
very large one if be thought it was to be narrowed
within the limits of the motion introduced
by the Honourable Member for Buckinghamshire.
be should have heed p erfectly willing to rest his vote on
the conclusive speect s of the Right Hon. Baronet the
Secretary of State for. the Home Department.—(Cheers.)
(Y,AFT SPEAKING.)

GREECE.
Letters from Malta of the lath state that the resti-
tution of Sapienza has formed no part of the condi-
tions under discussion between the British and
Greek Governments ; and that it is untrue that the
British marines have taken possession of Sapienza
and Cervi.
The Corfu Gazette of the sth publishes the fol-
lowing letter from the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands to the President of the Senate :
"Highness,—The uneasiness naturally caused here by
the present interruption of the friendly relations exist-
ing hitherto between her Britannic Majesty's Govern-
ment and that of his Majesty the King of Greece, and
the charges openly preferred against her Majesty's
minister at Athens and Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, of
having provoked the rupture by the precipitation
and dictatorial character of their demands, induce
me to communicate to the Senate a statement published
by her Majesty's Minister, Mr. Wyse, which places the
course adopted by him, and the nature of the matters in
dispute, in the clearest possible light. By this` your
Highness will perceive that the claims preferred by
her Majesty in behalf of British and lonian citizens,
who have thrown themselves upon her protection
are of very old standing, and have been repea'edly urged
upon the attention of the Greek Government, which has
either denied justice, or left the official applications made
to it without a reply. The whole of the cases
now at issue were recapitulated in a note addiessed
to the Greek Government by Sir E. Lyons, on the
6th December, 1848 ; and that note again referred to
matters, many of which were included in the warning
given by him so far back as May, 1847, not to mis-
construe the forbearance shown by her Majesty, or to
imagine that she was not determied to enforce the
justice dne to her subjects for wrongs and outrages
sustained, if that justice were further withheld.' I
need not point out to your Highness the fact, that
the right of Great Baitain to take the course which
she has taken is incontestable. Greece is independent,
but not irresponsible; indeed, it is because she is inde-
pendent that she is responsible for injuries inflicted upon
the subjects of other independent powers. Of these in-
juries the power that sustains them must judge; and
the Queen of England is no more bound by the
opinion of the law officers of the Greek Crown,
in sustaining what she considers to be the just rights
of her subjects, than France was bound, some years ago,
by the opinion of Mexican law officers, as to the
equity of the indemnity for wrongs, said to have been sus-
tained by French citizens, which she claimed and en-
forced. The time has now arrived when remonstrances
having been carried to the utmost extent, and justice
being still refused, her Majesty has been compelled
to have recourse to other means. Those means
are recapitulated by Mr. Wyse in the documents
which I have the honour to enclose. They have been
carried out with the utmost desire, on the part of
Sir William Parker and the officers under his com-
mand, to avoid irritation, or effusion of blood; but
measures at first restricted to Government property

have now been extended to Greek property engaged in
trade, an embargo being laid upon all Greek merchant-
vessels which will be detained by her Majesty's ships,
until a settlement can be effected of the matters in

dispute. Your Highness will perceive that there is
nothing in this question to affect the territorial in-
tegrity of Greece. The claim preferred by ber Majesty
is a pecuniary claim ; and I believe that there would
be no difficulty in submitting the details of that claim
to arbitration, provided proper provision were made
for the amount. It is the refusal of his Hel-
lenic Majesty's Government to entertain it in
any shape—and the assertion that they alone are the
judges of its equity—that have compelled her Majesty's
Minister and Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker to
resort to measures, the necessity of which they regret.
But the case is one of those in which a community must
suffer for the faults of its Government, because it is only
by these means that the Government can be coerced.
I hope that the evil will not be of long duration ;
and I believe that I am authorized in assuring your
Highness that so soon as the responsibility of
the Greek Government is acknowledged, and proper
provision made for the payment of such demands as
shall be shown to be justly due, commerce will be re-
lieved from its present restrictions, and the whole of the
property now seised restored. I have only to add, as
a proot of the caution vs ith which tier Majesty's Mi-
❑ister at Athens, and Vice-Admiral Sir William
Parker have proceeded, that although a note ad-
dressed to the Greek Government eleven years ago
by Sir Edmund Lyons upon the subject of the islands
of Cervi and• Sapienza, was left unanswered and un-
noticed till the month of December last, when it was ge-
nerally understood that ber Majesty's Government was
about to take measures for bringing this matter to a
close, the question has not been included in the claims
now preferred, facts having been stated in the note of
Mr. Glarakis, which it was thought desirable to submit to
the consideration of ber Majesty's confidential advisers,
before any step was taken to enforce a claim, which can
only be interesting to her Majesty, in virtue of the obli-
gation contracted by the Crown of England, under the
treaty of Paris, to maintain the integrity of the lonian
States. I have the honour to be• your Highness's most
obedient humble servant. " H. G.. WARD.

" His Highness the President of Senate, &c., Corfu."
The same journal publishes the following letter from
Sir Thomas Wyse to the British Counsul at Patras :
" On board her Majesty's ship Queen.
" Salamis Bay, 26th January, 1850.
"Sir,—Various ineorr accounts have been pro-
pagated with respect t.) e proceedings adopted
.by
Vice-Admiral Sir Willi Parker, commander-in-
chief/
of her Majesty's naval forces in the Mediter-
ranean, and me, in obedience to the instructions
of her Majesty's Government, for the purpose of
inducing the Greek Government to settle the long-pend-
ing claims for losses and outrages inflicted in Greece on
British and lonian subjects. It is therefore necessary to
furnish you with a correct account of them up to the
present moment, and you will find this in the accom-
panying paper, which you are at liberty to make
generally known, together with the contents of this letter.
You will be careful to make it clearly understood,
that the claims, of which We, demand the settlement,
affect, exclusively, the rights and interests of individuals
to whom her Britannic Majeisty's Government is bound
to afford protection; that the patience and forbearance
of her Majesty's Government during so many years
have bad no other effect ups* the Greek Government
than to cause it to treat with neglect and indifference
the repeated and urgent reutonstrances, and warn-
ings, addressed to it :—that. the demands of her
Majesty's Government do not, In the slightest degree,
affect the independence of Greece, of which her Ma-
jesty's and ever` will be, the effective
protector: bruttehat is
that, on the contrary, they are exclu-
sively limited to the enforceent of that just and
proper treatment,
. which is die by one Sovereign
togef
rtehaeter interestj subjects
sof another. No Government
basstate to
aln the tranquillity and pros-
perity Greece than that of hpr Britannic Majesty,
and by no one more than by Vicei•Admiral Sir William
Parker, and me, twill any evil be lamented which may
result to the. country, from the persistence of its Go-
vernment in refusing to redresa the wrongs and in-
juries, for the reparation of Which her Majesty's
Government has for so many years ineffectually ap-
plied. No stronger proof of this can be given than the
extreme care which was taken by me to avoid, to
the last moment, giving any publicity to tqe instructions
I had received. You will point out the opportunity
thus afforded to the Greek Government for settling
the questions, without its ever becoming public that
coercive measure had been in contemplation. The
very mild nature of the measures at first resorted
to, the slow degrees by *hick we have pro-
ceeded, and the extreme reluctance with which we
have at last resorted to measures affecting Greek com-
merce. It will cause us the gl
atest pain to be com-
pelled to have recourse to still re stringent measures;
but it must be evident to every one that the Greek
government is alone responsible for consequences
which it is in its power at cnce to obviate,
by complying with a just and simple demand.
Our present demands do not include the treaty engage-
ments relative to the regular payment of the interest on
the allied loan of sixty millions.of francs, nor do they re-
fer in any way to theislands of Cervi and Sapienza. I
have, &c.,

(Signe) T. WYSE.
T. Wood, Esq., H.M. Consul, &c., Patras,

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AN UNPLEASANT RESULT.—At a railway station
in this district, on Wednesday, an exciseman discovered
a " grey hen" hidden in a basket of fish, end, uncorking
it, took a drink, expecting the contents to be whisky,
but got -a mouthful of—cod-liver oil ! hope it did him
good.— G nteshead Observer.
Mr. Francis Galton:(South Africa) had an interview
yesterday with Earl Grey.
COULTERSAY, ISLAY, FEB. 14.—Some fragments of
wreck and part of the stern plank of a vessel marked
Mary Wilson, have come on shore.
WHITEHAVEN, FEB. 20.-The Magdalen of Cardigan,
from Liverpool, got on shore and received some trilling
damage.
SHIELDS, FEB. 20.—Sld. Orlando, New York; Anne,
Eliza, and Jane, America and Pernambuco.

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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1850.

I am not acquainted with the fact that any money bes
been given to the girl.
Mr. Lewis said that Mr. Solomon was most anxious
that the fullest inquiry should be made into the case,
and if a sum of money had been given, his client ought
not to be answerable tor the conduct of his friends, for
there was an old saying of " Save me from my friends,"
and Mr. Solomon's case might show that he was in the
position to make a similar exclamation. The bail taken
for his appearance on the last occasion was small, being
only himself in 80/., and two sureties of 401., and had
he been guilty, seeing the punishment before him, he
would have forfeited his recognizances and not attended.
Again, if he was guilty, it would have been a most un-
wise thing to give the girl in custody on a charge of
felony; hut the fact was (as he was instructed), the girl
never mentioned the assault upon her until after she was
in custody.
The Chief Clerk—l must disabuse your mind on that
subject; fur the evidence is, that she was not givel into
custody until after she had complainei of the ill-treat.•
meat she had received.

Sir P. LAtirdE—l have read the case carefully in the
newspapers, and a more disgusting remark made by
the prisoner's mother I cannot conceive, when she said
to the girl, " Well, I suppose ho did not kill you." My
experience has proved to me that females are the great
deceivers of their own sex.

Mr. Robinson said that it was rather extraordinary
that the brothers never moved in the matter until they
were told some money had been given to the girl.
Mr. Lonsda.le—ln explanation, I must say that the
brother, who is in service, only first saw the report in the
Sunday papers, and he then became anxious to get the
girl back, and not allow any compromise, whatever the
amount offered might be.
Mr. Lewis—Well, I appear to be the middle man in
the squabble (Laughter) but I must repeat that
Mr. Solomon is most anxious to court the fullest
inquiry; and he should like to hear what Webb, the
officer, had to say. _ . . .

Henry Webb said that be asked the girl's sister where
she was, and she said that she had been very honour-
ably remunerated, and had gone into the country. She
further said that since it had been set afloat that money
had been paid, her brother had come and demanded it,
and kicked up a row.
Mr. Lonsdale said there were four brothers, but he
only appeared for one to prosecute the cat°.
One of the brothers here stepped forward, and denied
being the one who called at Mr. Bradshaw's, and de-
manded the money. He only wished to know where his
sister was.

Bradshaw said he was not the brother who called to
ask how the case was settled. He told him (the other
brother) how it stood, and that the girl had received
some compensation.
Sir PETER LAURIE—Where is the girl? Bradshaw—
I don't know.

Sir PETER LAURIE—Did the girl say what money she
received? Bradshaw—l can't say.
Sir PETER LAURIE—Yes you can.
Bradshaw—l believe it was 501.
Sir PETER LAURIE—Where is your wife now ? Brad-
shaw—She is away because she should not be annoyed
by her brother, who wanted to get the money.
Sir PETER LAURIE—But where is she? You surely
must know. Bradshaw—l do not know where she has
gone.
Sir PETER LAURIE—WeII, I shall remand the case, as
the charge is one of an aggravated nature; and where,
most likely, chloroform has been used. He then re-
manded the case until Tuesday next, and increased the
bail, requiring Mr. Solomon to enter into his recogni-
zance of 200/., and two sureties of 1001. each.
Mr. Lewis hoped that at the next examination some
tangible charge would be made out.
Sir PETER LAURIE said be should remand the case
from time to time until the girl was forthcoming.
The required bail was entered into, and Mr. Solomon
left the court with his friends.
MARYLEBOIVE.

An extraordinary degree of interest was excited at
this court, in consequence of its having become known
that a woman named Elizabeth .Higgiits, the wife of a
wheelwright, living at 33, Little Carlisle-street, Port-
man-market, was about to undergo an examination be-
fore Mr. Broughton, on the heinous charge of having
attempted to murder her three children, of the respec-
tive ages of seven years, five years, and seven months,
by drowning, and to terminate her own existence by the
same means.
Ann West, 32, Orcas-street, Paddington, deposed that

on Monday evening last, at a quarter to seven o'clock,
as she was coming up the Bloomfield-road, adjoining the
Regent's Canal, she saw the prisoner on the towing-path
with the baby in her arms, and the ether two children
by her side; she lowered the baby gently into the water,
in order, no doubt. to avoid the noise which a splash
would have caused; and upon witness observing this, by
looking between some palings, she instantly gave an
alarm. The prisoner then put another child into the
canal in the same way, and having done that she went
in herself, dragging the third child in with her. _

Mr. BROUGHTON—Did the water appear to be deep?
Witness—Very deep, sir; they all went down, and pre-
sently afterwards rose again to the surface.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Did you hear any screaming from
either of them? Witness—One of the children cried out
"Father," and another " Help." A man came running
towards me, and I said to him, " For God's sake, master,
make haste, for there is a woman and her children
drowning." Ho pullecrofr his coat liiilthat, and was
going to jump in, when another young man plunged head
foremostinto the water, and being a good swimmer be
fortunately succeeded in rescuing the prisoner and her
family from a watery grave.
Mr. BROUGIITON—IWwhat condition were they when
they were got out? Witness—The prisoner %as very
faint and incapable of uttering a word, and the poor dear
infant was much convulsed; and at the doctor's to whom
they had been taken and properly attended to, the first
expression used by the prisoner, as soon as she was in
some measure restored, was, " What has become of my
dear children?" had her baby in my arms, and when
she saw it she burst into tears. _

John Rollins, a painter, living at No. 6, Devonshire-
street, Lisson-grove, stated, that hearing loud cries for
assistance ho hastened to the spot, and divesting himself
of his upper clothing, at once plunged into the canal, on
the surface of which he perceived four persons floating
in the middle of the water, the depth of which was very
considerable. He laid hold of and brought out the pri-
soner and two children, and just as he banded them to
some persons on the Lank, a boat came along, which
prevented him at the moment from seeking for the other
child. As soon, however, as it pawed by, he again
swam out, in order to find the remaining one, if possi-
ble, and was in the act of swimming back again, being
of opinion that the case was hopeless, when his foot
struck against something, and on his putting his hand
down as low as he could he seised hold of the other
child by its clothes and got it out. It was then to all
appearance dead.
James Buyle, who received some of the unfortunate
parties from the hands of Rollin, corroborated a great
portion of his (Rollins's) evideace.
Bates, 162 D, said that ho saw the prisoner with her
infant and eldest child upon the bank. The latter said,
" There was three of us; there's another in the water.'
Witness thought when he first Meld the prisoner that
life was extinct. He afterwards heard the prisoner say
to Mrs. West, " What a foolish woman you were to
give the alarm, for I wish that I and my dear children
had all gone to heaven, as I have lived so wretched a
life with my husband."

The husband (who sat by the side of the bar) had in
his arms ono of tbo children, five years old, and who was
so miraculously saved.
Mr. Sturt and Mr. Humby, surgeons, were examined,
and they deposed to the dangerous condition in which
the prisoner and two of her children were when brought
to them in a cab.

Inspector Wiggins, of the D division, was sworn,
and he said, the first time I saw the prisoner was at
halt past ten yesterday morning, at the Paddington
workhouse, when I called there to see if she was in
a fit state to be brought up here. I found
her in bed, and asked her how she felt after what had
occurred ; she then observed that it was all through her
husband's bad conduct that she threw herself and
children into the water. I said, " Does he beat you ?"
and she replied, " Very frequently, and for no other
reason that I had no dinner provided for him at times
when he came home. He earns27s. a week, and out of that
be gives me the odd 7s. to keep house and find every-
thing; the 20s. he spends entirely upon himself ; he
comes home drunk, pulls me out of bed, and beats me,
saying that he would be the death of me, and that it
should not be a sudden but a lingering death. I have
also been afraid that he would poison me, and I thought
I and my children might asoell die at once as not." I
this morning went down V-the workhouse and brought
her up to this court in a cab.
The prisoner had no questions to put to either of the
witnesses, and repeated that her husband's neglect and
ill-treatment had brought her into all the trouble. At
the time of her attempting to drown herself and children
her mind was in such a state that she knew not what she
was about.
Mr. BROUGHTON remarked impressively and feelingly
upon the heinous nature of the crime alleged against
the prisoner, and said that he was bound to send her for
trial; she would be brought up again next Wednesday,
when, after the depositions had been taken down in due
form and read over by Mr. Fell, the chief clerk, she
would be committed.
She was then placed in a cell by Mitchell, the goaler,
who took care that she was properly watched, and at
five o'clock she was conveyed to the House of Detention,
Clerkenwell. The children will, for the present, be
taken care of in the workhouse.
The magistrate praised highly the conduct of the wit-
ness Rollins, and said he hoped he would be hand-
somely rewarded by the Royal Humane Society. He.
also considered that much credit was due to Mrs. West
for her exertions in this very distressing and heart-
rending case.