The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-14 00:00:00

JOINT- STOCK BANKS.

Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford A7,456
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitebaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
ford
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield
Cumberland Union B inking Company, Carlisle 33,316
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 14,640
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company,
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,789
Dudley and Wed Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,296
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington 26,001
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 150,448
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 18,690
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 33,994
Hull Banking Company, Hull
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,711
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax 40,598
Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,142
Herefordshire Banking Company, llereford 23,662
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough 26,910
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,786
Lancaster Bahking Company, Lancaster 50,444
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 47,435
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Leeds and West Riding Banking Company,
Leeds 17,665
Leech Commercial Banking Company, Leeds 12,685
Ludlow and Tenbary Bank, Ludlow 9,092
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 32,463
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 80,495
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London 384,740
North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 57,643
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 83,997
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-

11,01

ampton
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 61,833
Pares's Leicestershire Bunking Company, Lei-
cester 54,727
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 5,967
Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 84,490
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamford 47,361
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshirc Bank, Lang-
port
Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com-
pany, Stourbridge
Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company,
Sheffield
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint• Stock Banking

54,070

21,032

52,840

Company, Sheffield
Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company,
Richmond 49,159
Stockton and Durham County Banking Com-
pany, Stockton
Storey and Thomas's Banking Company,
Shaftesbury
Sheffield and Retford Bank, Sheffield
Suffolk Banking Company, Ipswich
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com-
_pany, Wolverhampton 27,968
Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 14,447
Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company,
Whitehaven
Warwick and Leamington Banking Company,
Leamington
31,967
West of England and South Wales District
Bank, Bristol.w
78,806
utti mollot Banking Company, salisbury 72,41 G

7,006

Average Amount.
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud
dersfield 30,800
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
Worcester 6,470
York Union Banking Company, York 69,895
York City and County Banking Company, York 87,356
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Taxes, Nov. 8, 1844.

7,560

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PIPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The project for the establishment of
baths and washhouses for the labouring poor is now
so far advanced, and so extensively supported, that
the completion of the undertaking may be reasonably
anticipated. We have, however, reason to believe
that the ideas prevalent among those who have so
honourably distinguished themselves in the promotion
of this project, as to the precise manner in which they
are to effect their object, or even as to the nature
of the obstacles they may probably have to con-
tend with, are yet exceedingly undefined. They
propose to put themselves in direct and imme-
diate communication with a class of persons with
whose habits and notions they most probably pos-
sess a very imperfect acquaintance. The daily life of
the poor and the destitute in our courts and alleys is
as little—perhaps less—known to those whose names
appear most prominent in the list of subscribers
to this benevolent scheme than the habits of the
aborigines of New Zealand or Labrador. Tact
and intelligence, in addition to an untiring spirit
of philanthropy must be employed to make the
means of cleanliness, about to be offered to the
poor, available for good, to an extent in any degree
commensurate with the expectations of those who
have taken so warm an interest in furnishing them.
It is not enough that the means be there. We
must also have, in those for whose use they are in-
tended, a disposition to use them. One of the most
constant results of a life of poverty in a large city
s an indifference to personal cleanliness. Such
an indifference is, we believe, at this mo-
ment, almost universal among the poor and
labouring classes of London. It would, indeed,
be surprising if it were otherwise. In the first
place cleanliness is scarcely compatible with the
miserable domestic arrangements, and the priva-
tion of light, air, and water, to which the poor ot
a city are always, more or less, closely habituated.
Their occupations also, which, with the industrious,
fill up nearly the whole of their waking hours gene-
rally oppose a barrier to the cultivation of a taste
for cleanliness. If it could be supposed that there
is in man, as there seems to be in some of the
lower animals, a natural tendency to be clean,
we might perhaps depend upon its displaying
itself whenever the obstacles to its indulgence
might be removed. But experience and observation
show that this is not so. Where food and warmth are
scarce, there is, on the contrary, a strong tendency to
shun cleanliness, as a positive infliction. There is an
old Scottish proverb—"the clartier the cosier"—which
recent researches in animal physiology have stamped
with the authority of a scientific truth. It is found that
men who are insufficiently fed and clothed are lite-
rally not fitted to bear cleanliness. It augments the
rapidity of the process by which the vitality of the body
is in a constant course of reduction, and renders an in-
creased supply of food and warmth essential to its
preservation in a state of tolerable comfort. These,
we apprehend, are causes which will greatly reduce
the numbers of those who are expected to take advan-
tage of the establishment of the proposed baths and
washhouses for the improvement of their personal habits.
There are also other circumstances worthy of careful
consideration in reference to any attempt to make such
an establishment generally useful. Among those of the
poorer classes who may be least affected by the causes
we have already enumerated, we may expect to find
many whose desire for cleanliness is one of the rem-
nants of a mode of life adopted in a station from
which they have been reduced. But in dealing with
this class we have to encounter another obstacle, and
one less likely to be readily obviated than any of
those yet referred to. Such persons will usually be
found to cherish strong objections to the receipt
of public bounty in any form. The preservation
of any portion of the habits and feelings of a
station from which they have sunk, is generally
accompanied by an unwillingness to acknowledge the
depth of their fall. They cling to all that remains
of the past, as something distinguishing them from
those by whom they are surrounded. And the same
course of feeling too commonly urges them to
reject everything which, however beneficial in
itself, might seem to place them upon a common
level with those who have no such remem-

brances to give dignity to the present, or to cast the
light of hope over the future. These are undoubtedly
the very persons to whom the benefits of the scheme
would be most acceptable, could they be accepted
without a sacrifice of the feelings which tend to make
them so. They form, probably, a large majority of
those who, in the present condition of the poor, will
recognise the value of the proffered advantages ; but
we fear they will also be found, in reference to this and
all simi ler schemes of public benevolence, most difficult
to reach and to relieve. There is much in the nature
and object of the plan alluded to, which must secure
to it the warm approval and hearty co-operation of
every intelligent and humane observer of the state of
the poor in this country. It reflects the highest ho-
nour upon all concerned in its formation and pro-
motion. But, with our best wishes for its success,

WC cannot but mingle some portion of anxiety.
Should this effort fail, its failure will long be found an
obstacle in the way of any similar scheme. We
should be sorry to see any movement, resulting from
the awakened attention to the manifold miseries of

the poor, frustrated by a want of care in con-
ducting it to a definite and beneficial result. And
there is probably no subject upon which the want of
accurate information is more general, or less appa-
rent, than upon the actual state of the lower classes
of society. Our past indifference to their sufferings
has indeed only one excuse—our ignorance. The
first motive to a change of our conduct has been fur-
nished by a partial removal of that ignorance. We
already see enough to discover our error ; but we fear
it will be neces-ary to push our knowledge much be-
yond its present extent, before we shall be in a fit
condition to amend it.

STANDARD.—The rapid decline of the repeal
rent for some weeks past appears to have filled the
arch-mendicant with unfeigned alarm, and to have
induced him to break the " sagacious pause in direct
agitation," which he had prescribed for himself.
The daily subsiding fanaticism of his followers, and
the dissensions which have arisen among them, have
imposed upon him the necessity of reviving, coute
hui coute, the expiring agitation. Another motive
ardly less cogent, has doubtless had something to do
with his decision. Next Sunday will be tribute day,
and unless he makes some show of not having alto-
gether abandoned his trade, he seems likely to have
a Flemish account from the " begging brothers"
of his order. Influenced by these very sufficient
rfasons for bestirring himself, he has, in a long
and wordy letter to the Repeal Assoiciation, an-
nounced his intention to be present at the Concilia•

tion Hall on the 25th instant, and to bring for-
ward two subjects of " great vital importance."
The first (risum tencatis) is his " proposal
to impeach the persons principally concerned in the
late monster prosecution," and to procure the aid
of the people of Great Britain in enforcing in
Parliament the necessity of such impeachment.
This little interlude will of course involve a sub-
scription, the alpha and omega of all his speculations.
But his grand object is the organisation of the
Preservative Society of 300, who will be re-
quired to subscribe 1001. a-piece, for the doubtful
honour of rendering themselves liable to prosecu-
tion ; and who will form a
_sort of provisional par-

liament until a repeal House or Commons- be
elected. It is confessed that the legal difficul-
ties which must attend such a scheme are great,
and that, if these cannot be satisfactorily overcome,
it will proceed no further than the deposit of
the " sum and front" of the speculation—the
collection of the cash. Here, then, is something
with which to amuse the repealers until the
25th. With regard to repeal O'Connell plainly
intimates that if the substitute he has proposed
does not yield him a little more profit than it has
u ehithertoadmdi
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experiment
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has, so far, proved unsuccessful ; for Protestant
gentlemen of rank, talent, and patriotism, have
not flocked to its standard in the numbers that
might have been expected. Mr. Grey Porter had, to
be sure, promised to enlighten his countrymen
on the subject, but the mountain is still in labour.
Mr. Sharman Crawford has treated us with an
outline of the benefits which federalism is to
realise for its adherents, but with all this there have
been no public meetings, no agitation, and worst of
all, no subscriptions. Such a state of things can-
not, of course, be tolerated any longer. Mr. O'Con-
nell has accordingly come forward to inti-
mate to his countrymen that federalism is but a
name for another sort of agitation, which
n the "simple
present
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but
boomnle3ihinegVemlltoUraely
llgolvaescrtihbee
failure of the movement to Whig disaffection from
its ranks,
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reprobates theo him a
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a de-
claration from the federalists," with the view, of
course, of taking a part in the speculation. We were,
therefore, not so far wrong when we expressed our belief
that a coalition was in course of negotiation, and
would have been effected had not Mr. O'Connell
demanded exorbitant terms as the price of his ad-
hesion. Looking at these disappointments and

mortifications, he proposes to consider federalism
as merely an interlude of the grand drama of

repeal. With these opinions, and with an eye
to some defections from the cause, and more
especially to that of Mr. Duffy and his newspaper
fellow-labourers, he proposes that federalism shall
no longer be one of his Cabinet questions, but shall
be thrown open. Looking to the unprofitable results
of the compromise, he now expresses his determination
not to be content with anything short of the repeal
9f the union, the restoration of the Irish House of
Lords, the reconstruction (on reform principles) of
the Irish House of Commons, and its investment
with all the power it enjoyed (and abused) before
the union ; that is to say, complete legislative
and judicial authority in Ireland, subject always to
the preservation of the connexion (ad libitum) be-
tween great Britain and Ireland, through the means
of a sole executive and the golden link of the Crown.
This is what he is pleased to consider simple
repeal, and those who do not care to call
it by that name, may call it federalism,
or anything else they please. His sole
object in giving it that title was, he can
didly confesses, to conciliate certain Protestant noble-
men and gentlemen who had held aloof from the ori-
ginal movement ; " seeing that repeal, to be useful to
Ireland, should have their assent." It is thus clear,
that he has not yet given up the hope of a coalition
with the Whigs, and that the " sagacious pause," of
which he has just spoken, was designed to afford op-
portunities for further deliberation and negotiation.

THE DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT
BLACKWALL.
CORONER'S INQUEST.
_ _ _

Precisely at half-past twelve o'clock, yesterday, the
Coroner for the Eastern District, William Baker,
Esq., attended at the Queen's Head, High-street,
Poplar, where a jury, composed of the most respec-
table inhabitants of the division, were met to inquire
into the cause which resulted in the death of Jacob
Samuda, Samuel Dodd, James Sclenders Henry
Scovell, Thomas Nugent, John Newman, and Arthur
M'Gee.

The jurymen afterwards proceeded to view the re-
mains of the sufferers, which lay in the bone-house
of the parish. The exhibition was truly a painful one,
for, in addition to the sad relics of mortality, the re-
lations of the deceased were in the immediate neigh-
bourhood, and their unaffected sorrow, if silently ex-
pressed, was only the more touching.
As the room in the Queen's Head was not suffi-
ciently large to accommodate the parties who, from
curiosity, or more generous motives, attended the
inquest, the jurymen retired to the Town-hall, where
the following evidence was taken before the worthy
Coroner :
(It is since ascertained that two of the unfortunate
men removed to the London Hospital have died, but
the jury will not take cognisance of their deaths to-
day.) _ _

The names of the jurymen having been called over,
the first witness called was an engineer, a workman
in the service of Messrs. Samuda, whose evidence was
merely taken to identify the bodies.
Joseph Reed, Blackwall, pattern-maker, knew the
body of Mr. Jacob Samuda, who was an engineer,
residing in Summer-street, Southwark. His age
was somewhere about thirty-one. Also the bodies of
Henry Scovell, aged 44, residing at 14, Earl-street,
Poplar; James Scianders, aged thirty-seven ; Thomas
Nugent, aged eighteen, of 157, Union-street ; John
Newman, fireman, aged thirty-seven ; Arthur M`Gee,
labourer, aged thirty-five, also of Poplar; and Samuel
Dodd, aged twenty-seven, of Blackwall. The bodies
were those lying in the dead-house.
George Low, 14, Hamilton-street, Deptford —I am
an engineer in the employ of Messrs. Jacob and
Joseph Samuda, the former the deceased. They are
builders of iron boats, as well as engineers. They
built and placed the engines in the Gipsy Queen,
which I believe belonged to an Irish company. A
ship of her size and measure might be worth about
15,0001. The engines were double, but moved by
one shaft. I believe the engine is patented. It is
generally known by the name of the " bell-crank"
engine. The engines stand fore and aft, instead of
across the vessel, the object being merely to save
room. The beam of a common engine revolves upon
its centre, but the beams of Messrs. Samuda's have
their motions at the end, and not in the centre. I
cannot say what effect the difference of engine may
have in causing the accident, but from my glance at
the remains of it I should say that the steam pipes
look as if they had been taken from an old vessel in-
stead of being new. The engines were condensing
ones and worked all day yesterday. The valve would
not rise at 101 b. to the square inch, and before mis-
chief could arise it was calculated to work 401 b. to the
square inch. The horse power would depend upon the
pressure, but I suppose the average power to be about
200, as the diameter of the cylinder was 45 inches. She
started at a quarter to three yesterday for the second
trial, she having been first tried from her moorings on
Friday last. She turned when off Woolwich, and
arrived at Blackwall at ten minutes past five, when
she was moored to a buoy off Brunswick Pier. I
worked dining the trip one engine, and the deceased
Mr. Samuel Dodd the other. The power was kept
up till the vessel was fast at her moorings, and then
the deceased Mr. Satnuda said to me, " That will do
with the engine." I replied, " Then I will draw the
fire and blow the boilers off," which meant that I would
throw the water ofl•. He said, " Don't do that." I
want to see 251bs. upon the boilers, meaning of course
251hs. to the inch. He added " fetch me a candle,"
and I (lid so, and we then looked at the guage, and
found it 101 b. to the square inch. He told me to go
and see if the steam was going strongly off. I or-
dered one of the firemen to go, but deceased would not
permit it, saying, " I cannot depend upon any one
but you." I then went, but had not gone 40 inches
or four steps on deck, when I heard the explosion. I
cannot tell what caused the explosion.

ByaJuror—No steam could blow off without a
pressure of 26 lbs. to the inch upon the boiler, for
then only would the safety-valve lift up. There was
a little steam blowing out when I got on deck, so
that, instead of the 10 lb. pressure which we had
when we got under weigh, we had a pressure of 25
'lbs. The main steam pipe has given way—it is jointed,
and the explosion has lifted it out of the socket. It
was only fastened by a packing, in the customary
mode, with cast-iron steam pipes. Messrs. Samuda
were under a contract to use up such parts of an old
engine as was fit for the purpose.
By the CORONER—TiIe cast-iron pipes, the air-
pumps, &c., used, were of that old material.
By a Juror—l am not awsre of the conditions of
the contract. I should think that the Messrs.
Samuda need not employ any part of the engine that
was defective.

The CORONER said that new, as he understood the
case, there did not appear to be any bursting, but a
giving way, if he might say so, of the socket.
By a Juror—The socket was fourteen or fifteen
feet from the boiler, and had the pressure never been
more than 101 b. there would have been no danger in
working with such a joint, but with the increased
pressure it was not safe..

The CORONER did not see how the same accident
should not happen every day, if the main pipes were
only connected with the engine in the way described ;
and if the witness, as a practical man, would mention
some other way more safe, they should feel obliged
to him.

Mr. Low's examination continued—The state of
the engine could not be seen for above an hour and a
half, in consequence of the dense volume of steam
there. If Mr. Samuda had remained where I left
him, beneath the joint, the steam would rush upon
him at its first escape. The deaths of all would, no
doubt, be instantaneous. Some men escaped. Holes
were cut in the deck to get at the deceased persons;
but, as I have said, it was more than an hour
and a half before the first of us could go down. I
have no doubt it was entirely accidental.
By James Pim, jun., Esq., of Monkstown Castle,
who appeared for the Brothers Samuda—The cause
of the accident was not in any way to be attributed
to the construction of the engine or boiler, neither
had the material itself of which the steam pipe
was composed anything to do with it. The sole
cause in my opinion was the mode in which the joint
was made. I could not, however, with the same pipe
resist any possible pressure of steam that these engines
could generate; but, by altering the pipe, I could
make it capable of withstanding any pressure.
The CORONER said there was no question of the
solidity of the engine or material, the only question
was in the socket itself; and he wished to know i
any person in court differed from the witness as to the
cause of the accident? None appearing, the inquest
was adjourned till Saturday next, at 10 o'clock.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
The Yarn Market continues without change ;
indeed the spinners are under contract to so great an
extent, as to leave very little yarn for present sale ;
and prices are very firm, except for some few of the
finer counts suitable for doubling, which are rather
easier to buy. Goods are steady at previous rates.
ROCHDALII FLANDIPIL MARKET, MONDAY, NOY. 11.
—There has been very little change in the piece
market to-day, except, perhaps, it may be said,
that the buyers have shown a greater desire to
purchase. The manufacturers have complained that
the forced sales of last Monday were quoted in
the Guardian, as it is well known that prices are
submitted to by some parties (at a slack time) in
November, which are, perhaps, not a fair criterion
for those who can hold their goods. It appears to us,
however, that the prices at which business is done
are the market prices, and as such ought to be quoted.
The wool market is much the same ; manufacturers
buy for immediate use only.

There was, we hear, a heavy slip of earth on the
Railway on Saturday night, just by the Burgess Hill
station. Great activity has been displayed by the Com-
bany's servants, and the traffic on the line has SOgrooly
een interrupted.--13righant Guardian.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 13.
(Sittings in Banco.)

THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE
MAGISTRATES OF BERKSHIRE.
In this case, which occupied the greater portion of yes
terday, the Conrt took time to consider their judgment.

BAIL COURT, Nov. 13.
IN RE THE REV. JAMES MEDE NIBDETT.
A writ of habeas to bring up the body of the de-
fendant was obtained in this case. As far as the
facts were disclosed it appeared that Mr. Nisbett was
imprisoned in this country for a debt due to Mr.
Bucannan, who discounted some bills for him. He
was in prison for sixteen months but lately applied
and obtained an order for his liberation, under the
late statute for the relief of insolvent debtors. He
was, however, detained under a warrant issued
by the justices of the peace for the county of Tippe-
rary, which was backed by Mr. Jardine, the police
magistrate of Bow-street, for a riot with which he
was charged. The warrant stated that the defendant
was " indicted at the peace-office" for a riot, and " it
charged and commanded the police-constables of
Tipperary to apprehend the said James Mede Nis-
bett, if found in Tipperary, and him in safe custody
keep, so as to have his body before the justices of peace
at Nenagh to answer for the said offence."
Mr. Humphrey, with whom were Mr. Bodkin and
Mr. Sturgeon, appeared in support of the discharge.
Mr. Doudeswell appeared to oppose the discharge.
Mr. Justice PATTESON, in giving judgment, said
that in this country there would be two fatal objec-
tions to the warrant. The first was, that it stated the
defendant was indicted " in the Peace-office." He did
not know what the Peace-office was. If the indictment
was preferred at the Court of Quarter Sessions, it
should be so stated. If it was not, then the justices of
Quarter Sessions had no jurisdiction. The other
objection was one which arose from the extraordinary
nature of the warrant. It directed the whole body of
the police of the county of Tipperary to appre-
hend the party if found within the county, and
him in safe custody keep, so that they might have his
body at the Quarter Sessions. It was clearly contrary
to law to give the police any such authority unless there
was some Irish statute to justify it. If the offence was a
bailable one the party was to be bailed by the proper
authorities, if not a bailable offence he was to be impri-
soned and kept in the custody of the Sheriff. But accord-
ing to this warrant neither of these things was to be
done, but the party was to remain in the custody of the
police till the next session. It appeared to him very ex-
traordinary. The party must be discharged.
The prisoner was discharged accordingly.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 13.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice
CRESWELL and a Common Jury.)
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
SUCH V. COBHAM.

This was an action to recover compensation in da-
mages from the defendant, for his breach of promise
of marriage to the plaintiff, under the following cir-
cumstances.

Mr. Montague Chambers was for the plaintiff; Mr,
Sergeant Jones conducted the defence.

It appeared that the plaintiff is the daughter of a
carpenter in Bowling-street, Redcross-lane ; and the
defendant is a 3 oung man about 22 years of age, and
the conductor of his father's business, who keeps an
oil-shop in Bow-lane. About eighteen months since
the defendant became casually acquainted with the
plaintiff, and having professed himself a suitor, was
introduced to her family, whom he was constantly in
the habit of visiting, and was received by them as the
plaintiff's intended husband. However, subsequently
the plaintiff proved pregnant, and was in due time de-
livered of a female child. Defendant broke off the
match, and got married to another young person.
Consequently the present action was brought.
The defendant by his plea admitted the promise,
but stated that he was justified in breaking off the
match, the plaintiff being a loose and immoral cha-
racter.

For the plaintiff the facts of her case were dis
tinctly proved.

The defendant having failed to prove his plea,
His LORDSHIP told the jury, the question for them
to decide was the amount of damages, in doing which
they were to take into consideration the quality and
degree of effect which the defendant's conduct had
inflicted upon the plaintiff. She was not entitled to
any damages for her seduction, for if she willingly
aoandoned herself to immoral courses, she could not
claim any damages for her own trangression. The
defendant having failed to prove his plea, the jury
would give the plaintiff such damages as they thought,
under all the circumstances, she was entitled to.

The jury, having consulted for a few minutes,
found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1001.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
A wretched woman, named Ann Navy, the unfor-
tunate victim of gin, was brought before the Lord
Mayor, charged with having attempted to strangle
herself with her bonnet strings on Wednesday last.
Thomas 13alchin, City policeman No. 618, stated
that on Wednesday, having been informed that a
female had attempted to destroy herself at the corner
of Widegate-street, Bishopsgate, he went to the place
and found the prisoner black in the face in conse-
quence of having tried to strangle herself with her
bonnet ribbons. When she recovered from her in-
sensibility, she said she had made the attempt because
she had murdered her mother. The agony of her
mind appeared to be so intense, as completely to da-
mage her intellect. She:was placed under the judicious
care of Mr. M'Murdo, who signified in a note to the
Lord Mayor that when she was first•conveyed to the
Compter she acted in the most violent manner, and
it was absolutely necessary to force the victuals down
her throat; that she had since become more calm,
but was very weak, and that her condition was attri-
butable to excessive drinking.
The LORD MAYOR—W hat are you, prisoner ?
Prisoner—l have no home, but I have been em-
ployed in the book business in Jewin-crescent.
The LORD MAYOR—What did you mean by say-
ing you murdered your mother ? The prisoner—I
consider that I did murder her. I broke her heart
by my wickedness; that's murder.
The LORD MAYOR—Where did she die ? The
prisoner—One day last week, in Bishopsgate Union
Workhouse.
The LORD MAYOR—Are you sure that if I send to
the workhouse I shall be informed of her death ?
The prisoner—Certainly ; there is no doubt of her
death, and I was the cause of it, I was so wicked.
The Loan MAYOR—In what respect was you
wicked ? The prisoner—By drinking.
The LORD MAYOR--Have you a father, or brothers,
or sisters ? The prisoner—No ; they are all dead.
The last person I lived with was my sister, who has
died since. She was obliged to turn me out on
account of my dreadful propensity.
The Loan MAYOR—How do you know she is
dead ? The prisoner—l heard so. She lived in Red
Lion-court, Fleet-street. I have been the cause of
dreadful misery.
The LORD MAYOR—Have you ever received parish
relief? The prisoner—Never. I have been able to
support myself by book- work, in which I have been
regularly brought up.
The LORD MAYOR directed that the unhappy •
creature should be taken care of in the Compter,
under the authority of the medical officer, and that
inquiry should be made into the melancholy parti-
culars of her case.

Edward Taylor, cab-driver, No. 4,144, was charged
with having loitered in such a manner about Fleet-
street and its neighbourhood as to cause serious
obstruction.

The defendant proved to be one of those fellows
who are constantly perilling the safety of the public
by turning about in the most crowded thoroughfares,
and impeding the transit of other vehicles. He was
described as having turned a deaf ear to the requests
and threats of the police, and to have lingered at a
variety of places in expectation of a fare.

The defendant said the police were prejudiced against
him, and that ho was the most respectable and amiable
of cab-drivers.

The Loa. MAYOR—You are fined 10s. and costs.
Mr. Goodman (the chief clerk) informed his Lord-
ship that the defendant had been summoned in Sep-
tember, by another officer, who described the route
which he had taken with his cab, and the stops he had
made, exactly as the present witness had represented.
The defendant said he would not pay the money.
He would rather go to prison for seven days.
The LORD MAYOR—I know very well you would
prefer going to prison for seven days, but my sen-
tence upon you is, that if you do not pay ten shil-
lings penalty and three shillings costs, you shall go
to prison for a whole month.—(A laugh.)
The defendant grumbled in a low tone, but in less
than a minute pulled out the thirteen shillings, and
walked off, while the Lord Mayor was directing the
officer to keep a particular look out for him in his
gyrations.

THIS QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY.-POLICE
REGULATIONS.

A letter, of which the following is a copy, has
been sent by the Commissioner of the City Police to
Mr. Sergeant Merewether, Town Clerk :
" City Police-office, 26, Old Jewry,
" Nov. 11, 1844.

" Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of a resolution unanimously passed at an especial Court
of Mayor and Aldermen, expressing their entire appro-
bation of the measures taken by the Commissioner of the
City Police.
" I have to request that you will do me the favour of
expressing to the Court of Mayor and Aldermen the
feelings of gratification with which I receive this dis-
tinguished testimony of my services, and to assure them
that it will be my constant study to merit their appro-
bation.

" The auspicious visit of her Majesty brought with
it responsible, and, to myself, untried duties; but the
liberality of the Committee of Aldermen, ih the means

placed at my disposal, the zealous and efficient co-ope-
ration of the officers and constables under my direction,
and still more, the kind-hearted and forbearing temper
of the people, relieved me from all apprehensions, and
rendered my duties as easy as they were honourable.
" I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your obedient humble servant,
(Signed) " D. W. HARVEY.
" To Mr. Town Clerk."
CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED BY THE LATE LORD MAYOR.
Last February Sir William Alagnay, the late
Lord Mayor, received the one-half of a 5/. note
(97,281), inclosed in a note, of which the following is
a copy :

" L. M. presents his compliments to the Lord Mayor,
and requests his Lordship will apply the inclosed to the
use of the lady connected with India, whose case appears
in the Post of this day. The other half-note will be sent
on the receipt of this being acknowledged in the Morn-
ing Post.

-"
February, 14, 1844."
Our readers will recollect that a great many con-
tributions were received about the time stated in the
note addressed to the late Lord Mayor, and this no-
tice of the receipt of the half-note described might
have escaped his Lordship's benevolent correspondent.
The half-note was received in due time.
Subsequently the late Lord Mayor received the
following note :
" Mr. L. M. presents his compliments to the Lord Mayor,
and begs to inform him that the day after his Lordship
mentioned in court the case of a lady connected with
India, who was in great distress, Mr. L. M. inclosed the
half of a 51. note (97,281) to the Lord Mayor, with a
request that the receipt of it might be acknowledged in
the Morning Post. As this has not been done, Mr. L.
M. is afraid the half-note has been stolen, and requests,
therefore, his Lordship will be kind enough to state to
the reporters of the Morning Post or Times whether it
has been received, that the Post-office may be informed
of the loss of it, or that it has miscarried.
" Thursday, February 22."
At the request of Sir William Magnay we insert
Mr. L. M.'s communication, and announce that the
late Lord Mayor has received the half-note described,
but never received the other half.
WORSHIP-STKEE T.

Two men, named Samuel Brown and James Keat-
ing, private watchmen in the service of her Majesty's
Commissioners of Woods and Forests, were charged
with being drunk, and violently assaulting the police
in the execution of their duty.
Mr. Humphreys attended for the prisoners.
The case had occupied the greater portion of two
days, but the facts were briefly as follow :—As po-
liceman 77 II was on duty at a late hour on Saturday
night in a new line of road now in progress of forma-
tion by the Woods and Forests from Spitalfields
Church to the London Docks, he was assailed by the
prisoner Keating with threatening and offensive ex-
pressions, of which, by the advice of his sergeant, he
took no ntice. On his return over his beat he was
assailed in a similar manner by Keating-, who, in ad-
dition, set a large dog upon him, which instantly
seized the constable by the coat, while Keating struck
him on the head with his truncheon. The officer at-
tempted to take him into custody, the dog still hold-
ing him, and, a violent struggle ensuing, they were
both thrown to the ground. The policeman called
for assistance, when Hope, another constable, came
up and seized hold of Keating, upon which the other
prisoner rushed out of his box and immediately dealt
77 II three blows on the head with his staff, which
knocked him down, and caused a great effusion of
blood. Sergeant Easthope then came up, and further
assistance having been procured, the prisoners, after
a violent resistance, were ultimately secured and con-
veyed to the station, threatening all the way the ven-
geance of Lord Lincoln and the Woods and Forests
upon the heads of the whole police force.
Sergeant Colman said that a formal complaint had
been laid on a former occasion before the Woods and
Forests against the prisoners, and that Superinten-
dent Pearce had been obliged to remove one constable
from that beat, in consequence of the exasperating
conduct of the prisoners towards him.
In their defence the prisoners preferred a counter
charge of malicious conspiracy on the part of the
police, and severe treatment towards themselves.
Mr. Humphreys, after calling several witnesses,
who gave them a good general character for propriety
of conduct and sobriety, deprecated any conviction, as
it must inevitably lead to the instant dismissal of his
clients, and their bread would be gone.
Mr. BROUGHTON expressed his total disbelief of the
alleged conspiracy by the police, and said that, under
the circumstances, he should have certainly sent the
parties to prison without the chance of paying a fine ;
but as the punishment he should inflict upon them
would most likely not be all they would suffer, he
should take a very lenient course, and sentence Keat-
ing to pay a fine of 205., or undergo a month's im-
prisonment in the house of Correction ; and the pri-
soner Brown to pay a penalty of 405., or six weeks'
imprisonment.
Several gentlemen connected with the Woods and
Forests attended in Court, and exhibited great in-
terest in the proceedings.
MARLBOROUGH-S7'REET.

Baron Morits Dam", Vander Pfortewas again
placed at the bar before Mr. Hardwick, charged
with obtaining money under a false representation.
Dr. Swaine, physician to Baron Gersdorf, stepped
forward and said he had waited on the magistrate, in
consequence of the report of the prisoner's examina-
tion, which he had read in the morning papers. He
begged to say that he knew him to be the person he
represented himself. He was related to some of the
highest families in Saxony, but he had given a great
deal of annoyance, not only to Baron Gersdorf, but
also to the Saxon Court, and his conduct had not
hepn such as to justify them in assisting him. He
(Dr. Swaine) denied, however, that the prisoner was
on terms of intimacy with Baron Gersdorf.
The prisoner declared that he was not only on
terms of intimacy with the Baron, but was his cousin
also.

Dr. Swaine said that it was possible there might
be a relationship, as all the oldest and best families
of Saxony were more or less connected.
Count de Witts, chamberlain to the Duke of Bruns-
wick, confirmed the prisoner's statement as to his re-
spectability, and said he believed that he was in the
expectation of receiving money from abroad ; but he
emphatically denied that any portion of the property
ordered by the prisoner had been sent to his (Count
lie Witt's) house.
After some conversation,
Mr. HARDWICK considered that, as far as the ques-
tion of respectability mas conserned, the prisoner had
satisfactorily established his claim to be considered the
person whom he represented himself to be ; there only
then remained the question of obtaining the 2/. from
Mr. Deneulain, for the case of Mr. Nichol, and simi-
lar cases were to be left quite out of consideration,
they being nothing more than debts, as the cheques
had been given in these instances after the goods had
been delivered. From the evidence given on the
former occasion, it appeared to him a matter of very
considerable doubt whether any offence which the
law could take cognizance of in the case of Mr Deneu-
lain had been committed. The cheque in question
had been given one day, and the money borrowed
some days afterwards.
Mr. Pollock, who attended for Mons. Deneulain,
said this was not exactly the state of the case. When
the Baron gave the cheque he told M. Deneulain he
was to have 2/. the next day. It was in the belief
that that the cheque would be paid that the money
was advanced.

Mr. HARDWICK said he understood very differently
the evidence given by M. Deneulain.
The solicitor said M. Deneulain might have ex-
pressed himself imperfectly, owing to his defective
English ; but the facts were as he had now stated, and
if proofs were wanting he begged to tender Mons.
Deneulain again. As yet no proof had been offered
that the Baron had real grounds for saying he should
have remittances in a given period.
The Baron said his letters would establish that fact.

Mr. HARDWICK said, from all he had heard, it was
his determination to proceed no further in the case.
If the parties chose to carry the matter further they
were at liberty to indict the Baron at the sessions.
Mr. Pollock said his client considered he had been
defrauded, and it was his determination to go on with
the proceedings.
When an application for the return of the letters
and papers was made to the Court, Count de Witts
took up his letter and declared his determination to
keep it unless the magistrate directed him to re-
linquish it.
After some altercation, the Count was allowed to
retain possession of the letter.—The Baron was then
liberated.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—A POOR MAN'S LIFE SAVED
BY HOLLOWAY'S PlLLs.—Jeremiah Laughlin, a porter
about the quays of Dublin, was afflicted for years with
shortness of breath, spitting of phlegm, night perspi-
rations, and general weakness of body, a want of appe-
tite, sick headaches, besides suffering much from the
liver. This man was in the second stage of consump-
tion, and not expected to lire three months, when he
commenced the use of Holloway's wonderful pills, and
by their means alone he is now as strong, as hale, and
as well as ever he was in his life.—Sold (also Holloway's
Ointment) at the establishment of Professor Holloway,
224, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by
almost all respectable vendors of medicine throughout
the civilised world.

LONDON, CAMBRIDGE, AND ELY RAILWAY.—The
line of road in the vicinity of Cambridge continues to
progress with the greatest rapidity. In a few months
the road will be completed throughout, opening a rapid
communication with the metropolis and the country be-
tween this town and the city of Norwich.— Cambridge
Chronicle.

THE LATE RAINS.—By putting our umbrella into
the fountains at Trafalgar-square, we have ascertained
that the quantity of rain fallen last week is just one cubic
ferule. This, if poured into buckets, will make tw, ny.
five pails, seven cups, and three saucers. This quantity
has been drawn out, and pumped into the Artesian well
so as to form a sinking fund for the fountains when they
can no longer play in their old age.—Punch.

BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS.
Yesterday Mr. Thick, landlord of the One Tura
Inn, Old Brentford, appeared before Mr. G. Baillica
(Chairman) and the Rev. 11. S. Trimmer, the sitting~
magistrates, on summonses under the last New Poor—
law Act (7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 101), calling on
him to show cause why he should not be declared to
be the putative father of the female bastard child of
Jane Lucas, the daughter of a tailor residing in the.t
same town.

Mr. Slcap, for the prisoner, objected that the jus
tices then sitting, being ex officio guardians of th-
union, were officers of a union within the meaning of
the Act, and thereby precluded from interfering in
the case, as they would be getting up evidence by in-
quiring into it.
Mr. G. Clark (the magistrates' clerk) advised the
bench that it had already been decided by the Courts
above, that ex officio guardians of a union are not
officers of that union.

The Magistrates accordingly overruled the objection.
Mr. Sleap then demanded that the provisions of the
second section should be carried out by the produc-
tion of proof that evidence had been adduced, before
the Magistrates granted the summons against bis
client, that he had within twelve months paid money
towards the maintenance of the child.

Mr. Baillie said the stop being only a comma, it
was intended by the Act that the mother should have
the right of coming upon the father at any time be-
fore the child has attained the age of thirteen years,
provided she can prove that the father has paid money
towards the maintenance of such child within twelve
months after its birth. This the Bench decided.

Jane Lucas, dressed in the workhouse garb, de-
posed that she was a single woman, and the mother
of the child, of which defendant was the father. It
was born on the 28th of July last.
Two men were then called for the defendant, on*
of whom deposed that he was an omnibus conductor.
He knew Jane Lucas, and had been intimate with
her twice. The first time was after dancing with her
at a ball, which took place at the defendant's house
about twelve months ago. The other, a• broker at
Isleworth, deposed that he also knew Jane Lucas.
He was first intimate with her on the night that a
dinner was given at Brentford to Mr. Hume, about
four years ago ; the second time, at the time of the
September fair the year before last; and a third time
about the latter end of October or beginning of
November last year. A day or two after that he
met her and had some conversation as to what had
happened between them, when she said, that should
she have another child she would make a good father
for it, and she afterwards said that the groom at
Mr. Richards's would be a good father to her and her
children.

The Bench, after a short consultation, said they had
given the case their best attention and consideration,
it being a most difficult and important one, and they
had come to the conclusion, after weighing the evi-
dence on both sides, that it had not been sufficiently
proved that the defendant was the father of the child,
and that the summons must be dismissed.

The father of the girl, who during the inquiry had
been in a state of great excitement,- here cried out,
"Mr. Magistrate, the child will be done away with;
it shall never enter my house, I'll take care;" and he
was ultimately obliged to be removed by the police.