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London, England, 1844-11-22 00:00:00

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BAPTISM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

• No medical gentleman was present to give evidence.
The defendant, in answer to the Magistrate's in-
quiries, said that she had been turned out of doors by
her mother, an upholstress, at Camberwell, with
whom she had resided during the greater part of the
last three months, but who had refused to give her
any further support. She had been in service at St.
John's-wood since th• death of her father, about
seven years ago, and not being able to get another
situation was the cause of her mother's cruelty
towards her. She was not aware that she had ever
given her mother greater offence than either of her
sisters, who were more kindly treated, and yet she
was turned into the streets at half-past eleven o'clock
at night, and left to walk about till the next morning,
when she applied to the Lard Mayor, at the Mansion-
house, and also to the magistrate at Union-hall, to
both of whom she declared that she was destitute.
They refused, however, to hear her story, and feeling
too ill to bear another night's exposure to the cold,
without food, she resolved to destroy herself, for
which purpose she procured and drank the laudanum.
Mr. HALL asked her if she had any friends ?—The
girl replied that she had lived two weeks with a mar-
ried sister at Windsor; but she was now ill, in Guy's
Hospital. All she wanted was, to get some shelter
until she could hear of a place, as her mother would
do nothing for her until she had obtained one.
Mr. HALL directed the constable to take her to St.
Martin's "Workhouse, in order that her case might be I
investigated.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—As the Court of Aldermen has shown a
disposition to listen to the remonstrances and recom-
mendations of Sir James Graham in the matter of the
evening sittings of the Central Criminal Court, we
venture to suggest to the Right Hon. Baronet that he
offer a hint to their worships as to the expediency of
taking the state of the City prisons into their serious
consideration. An intimation from him, that the
Government may find it necessary to interfere, if the
civic authorities do not undertake the obvious duty
of rendering their prisons sufficiently capacious
for the purposes of health, and to admit of
something like classification of the prisoners,
might act as a spur upon the proverbial indifference
of the Court of Aldermen to such matters. Really,
it is too bad that, while every other city and town
of the empire has provided suitable buildings for the
purpose of introducing the plans which are required
for rsiedering prisons not merely places of confine-
ment, but of discipline, the criminal prisons of the City.
of London, provided and controlled by the Corpora-
tion authorities, should be, as they are, miserably de-
fective in everything that is required for the attain-
ment of this important object. Were it not notorious,
and thus placed beyond all controversy, it would
scarcely be credited that, in the very centre of the
metropolis, stand ill-constructed buildings for the re-
ception of prisoners, placed therein for the punishment
of offences against society—buildings which ought to
be so constructed as to conduce to the reclaiming of
those of the inmates who have not yet become har-
dened in crime. When surprise is expressed at the
manifestly defective state of these City prisons, the
answer which the inquirer in the cause receives is—
" The Government has no control here : the Copora-
tion has absolute management of these prisons ; is
extremely jealous of its privileges ; and, though the
funds at its command and disposal are immensely
large, it has not found either time or money for such
purposes." Newgate—the principal criminal prison,
situated in the heart of the metropolis, is notoriously
in competent in point of size, and inconvenient in its
construction, for the required purposes. We admit
that there have been attempts to improve the system
of management in this prison ; and that a marked
change for the better has been effected. But the de-
fects of the building cannot be cured. These would
prevent the best intentions of the most efficient prison
disciplinarians from being carried into execution. The
site of the prison is too contracted, and the formation
of the wards and yards too confined, for the purposes
of preserving the health of the prisoners ; classification,
on which their reformation so much depends ; and
stringent discipline, without which mere deprivation
of personal liberty is no punishment to a London
thief. But if Newgate be objectionable, as a pri-
son, for the reasons we have assigned, what shall
be said of Giltspur-street Compter ? That prison
was constructed according to the crude and im-
perfect notions of the prison architects of
nearly a century ago ; when to thrust the largest
number of prisoners within the narrowest pos-
sible space, and to surround them with immensely
thick walls, was regarded as the perfection of
prison building. With these now-exploded notions
Giltspur-street Compter was constructed to accom-
modate about 150 prisoners. It is now by no means
an unusual occurrence for 200 to be incarcerated
therein :-210, and even 220, have been huddled to-
gether within its walls, exposed to the malaria arising
from almost living putrescence ! We are not now
describing things that were, and have passed away.
Within the last few days, as we have reason to know,
this was the case in Giltspur-street Compter What
renders this state of things the more blameworthy
is, that there is literally no excuse for their existence.
So valuable is the site occupied by this ill-constructed
and inefficient prison—especially to the Governors
of Christ's Hospital, whose edifices it adjoins—
that the latter have offered to build the Corporation
of London a new prison, constructed after the best
model, and on a convenient spot, in exchange for
Giltspur-street Compter, and the site it occupies.
Yet the prison stands—a monument of reproach to
the City of London, and to the age and nation in
which a Corporation is permitted to perpetuate a
building which lacks every requisite, as a prison,
suited to reclaim as well as punish its wretched in-
mates.
STANDARD.—We insert to-day a great number
of communications and letters upon the subject of
some late proceedings in the diocese of Exeter, and of
some further proceedings in the same diocese, which
are expected with anxious alarm. These communi-
cations are not one-twentieth part of the communi-
cations and letters upon the same subject received at
our office within the last two days ; and we can state
with perfect truth, that, in selecting them from the
voluminous mass, we have been actuated chiefly by a
desire to publish those only which appeared the most
moderate in their views and the most temperate in
style. Let us not, however, be understood as con-
demning the spirit of those correspondents whose fa-
vours we suppress. We hope that the channel of pub-
lication which they have preferred is warrant that
they are good Protestants and zealous Churchmen; but
the best men, when they are dissatisfied and in earnest,
will, as was well remarked by the late excellent Michae
Sedley, say bitter things ; and the case is one from
the consideration of which we would, if possible, ex-
clude all bitterness. Every Protestant must feel a
deep debt of gratitude to the Bishop of Exeter—all
acknowledge his stupendous talents, so long and
so indefatigably devoted to the service of our
Protestant Church ; and they who are acquainted
with the kindness, the purity, and the sincerity
of his private life, must unite love of the man
with their veneration of his public character.
The errors of such a man are, it is true,
the least to be overlooked, because they are by their
example, the most dangerous ; but, surely they are
to be treated with gentleness in the exposure of them.
The fheling that the serious errors, into which we
conscientiously believe the Bishop to have fallen in
the recent proceeding, command such gentle treat-
ment, might have caused us to modify even those
of the articles relating to the proceedings in ques-
tion, which will be found in our columns, but that
we dislike to meddle with the writing of our
friends when we can help it, and also consider
it necessary that the Bishop, and others who may be
disposed to imitate him, shall be informed of the
impression made upon the minds of some of the best
Protestants and best Churchmen of the country,
by his Lordship's treatment of the Helston case.
Fully apprised of that impression, the Bishop of
Exeter would, we are convinced, be among the
very first to labour in effacing it by the manly
abandonment of a course which, though re-
commended to him by his fullest conviction leads,
as he knows, to nothing essential in religion, to
nothing at least both essential and good (for it may,
in many ways, lead to essential evil), while it
causes both offence and fear, not to say scandal.
We have already more than once lamented the
prevailing propensity to make such questions as this
before us the subject of newspaper discussion, but
what can we do ? Views are presented and even
acts are done that excite discontent and alarm from
one extremity of England to the other, and
the discontented and alarmed classes are composed
precisely of those whom we are most accustomed
and most bound to respect. Are we to impose
sileneo upon their remonstrances, even if we our-
selves could say that we stand indifferent in the
ratter, which certainly we cannot say ? The
able and truly learned correspondent, whose
letter we annex to these observations, proves, we
think, most satisfactorily, that even the etter of the
law does not enjoin any rigour of rubrical con-
formity, like that suggested in the Helston case,
upon either bishops or clergy ' • but what if
the letter of the law did enjoin such
rigour ? The letter has been a dead letter
for at the very least two centuries. Now this
long desuetude would be treated as an absolute
repeal of the law in every country of the world
except England ; and upon these obvious grounds
of reason, that in the lapse of many years changes
of manners Arise, new institutions have birth, new
laws are enacted, to which it is natural to suppose
the dormant law would have been adapted had
not the law slept in the practical disregard of the
people. In the secular code of England, and in
this code only in all the world, desuetude, as we
have admitted, does not work a repeal ; and
why ? Because in England, the Legislature has
for centuries been presumed to be always alive,
and awake, and vigikint to relieve our code from
mischievous or frivolous and useless laws ; an un-
merited compliment to the Legislature of the coun-
try, as was proved by all the, cloud of disused and
obsolete laws swept from the Statute-book
in 1824 by the present Premier ; but a complimen-
tary notion which sufficiently explains why in Eng-
land only desuetude does not work the repeal of a
law. " Cessante ratione," however, " eessat et lex."
Our ecclesiastical legislature is not constantly sit-
ting—on the contrary, it has not for more than
a century sat for any effectual purpose ; and,
therefore, by the analogy of all other codes
in similar circumstances, we are bound to con-
sider as repealed all ecclesiastical laws that have
fallen into desuetude. Even supposing, therefore, in
defiance of the clear demonstration of our corres-
pondent, that the law relied upon by the Bishop of
Exeter was ever of force, it is of force no longer; and
why in the name of peace and common sense should
it be now revived,
to distract the Churyfell no other possible effect than

SlR,—Great dissatisfaction appears to reign at many
of the decisions given of late by Bishops upon com-
plaints made against many of the clergy. Now, as it
is not generally known that charges against the
clergy for non-conformity to the Book of Common
Prayer may be made before the civil courts, I beg to
solicit space to point out the authority, in ca3e parties
should prefer a civil to an ecclesiastical tribunal.
The Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, of
the Ist Elizazeth, declares, that" it is enacted and or-
dained by the authority aforesaid, that all and every
Justice of Oyer and Determiner, or Justice of Assize,
shall have full power and authority, in every of their
open and general sessions, to inquire, hear, and de-
termine all manner of offences that shall be
done contrary to any article contained in the present
Act, within the limits of the Commission to them di-
rected, and to make process for the execution of the
same, as they may do against any person being in-
dicted before them of trespass, or lawfully convicted
thereof." It also enacts, that if the offender first re-
ceive punishment from the Ordinary, no proceedings
shall be taken in the civil court, and if the party have
had punishment awarded by a civil court, the party
shall not be liable to be brought afterwards to answer
for the same offence before the ecclesiastical court.

This Act of Elizabeth was not repealed by the sub-
sequent Act of Charles 11. for the Uniformity of
Common Prayer, but was confirmed fully by this
latter Act, enacting, " That the several good laws
and statutes of this realm, which have been formerly
made, and are now in force for the uniformity of
prayer and administration of the sacraments within
this realm of England, and plans aforesaid shall stand
in full force and strength, to all intents and purposes
whatsoever, for the establishing and confirming of the
said book, intituled, ' The Book of Common Prayer,
and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites
and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of
the Church of England,' &c. &c., hereinbefore men-
tioned, to be joined and annexed to this Act, and shall
be applied, practised, and put in use, for the punishing
of all offences contrary to the said laws with relation
to the book aforesaid, and no other."
I believe, at the present time, there are five or six
suits before different ecclesiastical courts against cler-
gymen of the Church of England for refusing to bury
parties who have been baptised by Dissenting minis-
ters, and this after the decision of the Court of Privy
Council against the Rev. Mr. Escott for the same
offence, and his suspension from the performance of
the functions of his office for three months.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday Mr. Attenborough, the pawnbroker of
Crown-street, Finsbury, attended before Mr. Bing-
ham to show cause why he refused to deliver up a
coat, of the value of 205., which had been pledged at
his shop, and the principal and legal interest on
which had been duly tendered.
Anne Barrett, a poor Irishwoman, proved pledging
the article on the 4th inst., and that on going to re-
deem it, the defendant refused to restore it, on the
ground that he had already delivered it over to another
person.
The defendant produced the usual printed form of
" declaration," filled up in the name of William Bar-
rett, which is that of the woman's husband, deposing
to his having Jost the duplicate, and said that the
pledge had been delivered to the person presenting it.
He maintained that he had thus exonerated himself
from all liability.
The complainant declared that neither she nor her
husband had either made the declaration themselves,
or authorised any other person to make it for them.
She had pledged the coat herself, her name was upon
the duplicate, and all the defendant's shopmen knew
her intimately, from her being constantly obliged to
pawn articles there.
Mr. BINGHAM said, he was strongly inclined to
think that the defendant was answerable for the pro-
perty or its value, and that he was in a correlative
position to that of a banker and his customer, in
which, if any of the customer's money were paid to a
third party by fraud, the loss in such case clearly fell
upon the banker.
The defendant pointed out the extreme hardship of
such a liability upon pawnbrokers, as it would place
them entirely at the mercy of any unprincipled per-
son who thought fit to commit a fraud upon them.
They were imperatively required by the Act of Par-
liament to give the necessary forms of declaration to
be filled up, not merely to the owner of the property
pledged, but even to any one representing himself as
the owner, and as the property in dispute might some-
times be of the most valuable description, the magis-
trate might at once see to what a serious extent their
interests would be endangered.
Mr. BINGHAM, after referring to the Act, said the
question involved in the matter was of such vast in-
terest to the public and to pawnbrokers in general,
that he was of opinion no single magistrate ought to
be called upon to decide on the point in issue, but
that it should be settled by a deliberate decision in
Westminster-hall. He put it to the defendant, whe-
ther it would not be worth while to refer the ques-
tion to some eminent counsel, as similar cases re-
peatedly came before him, and ke was very much
afraid that the owners of property themselves were
frequently in collusion with persons who committed
such frauds.
The defendant said, he should certainly forthwith
adopt the magistrate's suggestion, as during the forty
years that he had been in business he had never once
been compelled to return property under such cir-
cumstances.
Mr. BINGHAM felt the case to be one of great diffi-
culty, and should therefore take time to form a judg-
ment upon it, and would meanwhile recommend the
defendant to consult his brother tradesmen, with the
view of obtaining competent professional assistance,
and having the matter further and more fully dis-
cussed at a future day.
The defendent expressed his determination to do
so, and the case was adjourned for a fortnight, that
its legal difficulties might be put into a train of deli-
berate investigation.
CLERKEIV WELL.
Yesterday Mrs. Phillips, residing in Henrietta-
street, Brunswick-square, and Mr. Charles Olivar, a
solicitor, living there, were charged with violently
assaulting Mrs. Lucinda Montague, and her servant,
Eliza Jennings, lodgers in the same house.
Mrs. Montague, who seemed very nervous and de-
licate, deposed, that her husband having fallen into:a
small arrear of rent, they received notice to quit
from the defendant Oliver, as attorney for Mrs.
Phillips, with whom he was on terms of close inti-
macy. The notice expired on Thursday last, but
witness, in consequence of the delicate state of her
health, did not leave on that day. At five o'clock,
in the evening, her husband, on returning from busi-
ness knocked at the street-door; she sent her ser-
vant, a girl of sixteen, down to open it, but not hear-
ing the door open, nor the servant return, she ran
down stairs, and on reaching the hall was shocked at
seeing the girl on the ground, and the defendant
Oliver with his knee on her chest, and both his
knuckles pressing her throat, so that she was almost
suffocated. The door was barricadoed with chains
and staples. Witness screamed, and ran towards
the door to admit her husband; but Olivar immedi-
ately seized her by the throat, and squeezed her with
all his force. She burst away from him, but Mrs.
Phillips grasped her arm and twisted it round with
so much force as to sprain her wrist, which was for
several days after :greatly swollen. At length she
got up stairs to her own apartments, but the de-
fendants rushed in after her, where they again used
violence. Her three infant children screamed, but
Olivar, tearing her shawl from her back, exclaimed,
" I seize this in the Queen's name," and desired them
all "to turn out." The witness detailed other acts
of violence by the defendants.
Eliza Ann Jennings, Mrs. Montague's servant,
corroborated her mistress's testimony in every re-
spect. She had been nearly suffocated from Mr.
Olivar's violence.

Let one single case be taken before a Judge of
Assize, and all this contumacy of the law will soon
be put a stop to.—l am, Sir, yours, &c. &c.
Nov. 19, 1844. NOT : CANT., U., R.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 21.
MUNN V. DENTON.

This was an appeal from the borough of Bury St.
Edmund's. The claim to Tote was made for a house,
which was in reality but a cow-house, with one room
occupied by the person in care of the cows.
The COURT held that where there was a habitable
room actually occupied as a dwelling, that constituted a
house, and the claim was good.

MOSS V. THB OVERb3EERS_OF_ST. MICHAEL'S, LICHFIELD.

: The appellant occupied a house jointly with his father,
who alone was rated, although the son paid the rent.
The barrister refused the claim, and the Court now de-
cided against the appeal on the ground that the payment
by the son was a voluntary act, and could not entitle him
to vote, u he was not rated.

MARSHALL V. BROWNS.

This appeal was also from Lichfield. It appeared that
the appellant, with five others, took a house jointly, for
the purpose of procuring votes for the city of Lichfield.
The barrister disallowed the claim on the ground that
it came within the meaning of the Act the 7th and Bth
Wm. 111., for the prevention of splitting votes.
The COURT took time to consider their judgment.
There being now but nine cases decided out of thirty-
three, and this being the last day set down for hearing
registration appeals,
Mr. COCKBURN begged to ask their Lordships whether
they would name a day for resuming the hearing ?
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said they must appoint a
day out of term, as Monday would be the last day of
term, and it was impossible to take any of the remaining
appeals in the meantime.
The Court then rose.

POLICE ,INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday Walter Bennett, an errand-boy, about
thirteen years of age, in the service of ➢lr. Graham,
an ivory-turner, in Bride-lane, was brought before
Mr. Alderman Humphery, charged with stabbing
Edward Ingram, an apprentice working for the same
employer.
A surgeon's certificate was put in that Ingram's life
was in danger.
Ingram's sister attended as complainant. Sh. said
she was not present at the time the assault was com-
mitted, nor when her brother was brought home.
He was first taken to a surgeon, who dressed the
wound and sent him home to his lodging in Parson's-
court, Bride-lane. She believed he was dying. She
understood he was wounded about six o'clock on
Tuesday evening.
John Speakman, City police-constable 329, stated
that the prisoner was given into his custody on Wed-
nesday evening by the mother of Ingram. The
wound was at the top of the abdomen. He produced
the tool, a gouge, about eighteen inches long.
Mr. Alderman HU2dPIIERY asked the sister how old
her brother was ? She said he was about twelve.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY asked her if she had
heard what led to the assault ? She said the prisoner
and her brother had words.

The prisoner said the apprentice had extinguished
his own light by spitting on the candlewick, and
finding a difficulty in lighting it again, he put pri-
soner's candle out in the same way. Having got a
fresh light from a neighbour, the prisoner attempted
to set fire to his hair, and prisoner in return tried to
burn his shoulder. This made the apprentice cross,
and he struck prisoner over the arm. Prisoner in
return threw a gouge at him.
Mr. Alderman HUMPIIERY did not believe the tool
would pass through the clothes and pierce the body
if it had been thrown. It must have been pushed at
him.
The prisoner said it was.

Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY asked if any one was
present at the time ? The prisoner said there was
another boy.
The prisoner's father put in a certificate from some
person that the prisoner was an inoffensive, mild-
tempered boy, and the father asked if he might be
admitted to bail.

Mr. Alderman HumrnEay said he could not admit
to hail a person who might be chargqd with murder.
The father smiled at the observation, and said it
could not be murder.

Oliver admitted having seized the girl, hut did not
use the violence described.

Mr. Alderman HUMPIIERY asked him what he
called it ? It was impossible that he could be a mild-
tempered boy, or he would not have seized a sharp
instrument and thrust it into the body of the appren-
tice. It was very indecent for the father to be laugh-
ing while the son was about to be charged with mur-
der.---The father said it could only be manslaughter•
Mr. Alderman th.:SIPHERY said he should not ad-
mit the prisoner to bail, and remanded him till Sa-
turday.

Mrs. Phillips denied the assault, and called two
witnesses, who did not, however, refute the com-
plainant's testimony.
Mr. GREENWOOD said it was a gross outrage, and
he would fine Olivar 3/. for the assault on Mrs. Mon-
tague, and il. for the assault on the servant; and
Mrs. Phillips 2/.
Mr. Olivar—ls there no appeal ?
Mr. GREENWOOD—I cannot answer you that ques-
tion.

BOW-STREET.
Yesterday an elderly man, most respectably dressed,
who refused to give his name, was brought before
Mr. Jardine, charged with having attempted to steal
a piece of cloth from the auction-rooms of Mr. George
Robins, Piazza, Covent-garden.
The prisoner, it appeared, was present at a sale of
cloth belonging to a pawnbroker, which was going on
yesterday afternoon at Mr. Robins's auction-rooms,
and was observed by one of the porters to cut a piece
of cloth, about two yards long, from off a roll near the
fireplace, with a penknife. The porter told Mr.
Robins, who ordered him to go outside, under the
Piazza, and wait till the prisoner came out, which he
did, and walking up to him asked him to go back into
the auction-room with him. The prisoner complied,
and was there given into custody. On being searched,
a penknife and two duplicates were found on him, but
the duplicates had only " Groves, 25, Charlotte-street,
Bedford-square," and gave no clue to his identity.
The cloth lay just where the prisoner had left it.
The prisoner, on being asked for his defence, in-
dignantly denied the charge, and stated that he was
merely standing by the fireside, along with others,
and never touched the cloth. He was quite surprised
when he was given into custody outside, and he ap-
pealed to the fact of his having left the cloth behind,
as to whether he intended to steal it. lie was inno.
cent of the whole affair.

Mr. Olivar—Could not we compromise the matter ?
Mr. GREENWOOD—No such thing. It is a dreadful
outrage. If you do not pay the money I will commit
you for five weeks.
Mr. Olivar did not pay the money, and was
locked up.

HINTS TO THE NEWLY MARETED.—In commencing
your matrimonial career, start with a determination that
no ordinary circumstances shall induce you to spend
more than two-thirds of' your available income. Having
resolved upon this, most rigidly adhere thereto, This is
the first element of success, if accompanied with industry
and perseverance. Pay all your household expenses, at
any rate, at the time they arise, Take no credit upon
such items of expenditure; if you can adopt the Rarnki
plan in your business, you are on the high road to fortune.
Let no foolish pride, no ridiculous example, no superficial
advice, make you incur expenses in furnishing your house
which your present means will not warrant, louts atten-
tion must also be specially directed to the propriety of
limiting your circle of friends to such a compass and to
such a class as will not interrupt your boeitieSa, or tempt
you into expenses t these elt rOcics upon which the hap-
piness of hundreds have been wrecked. Are you to have
a servant or servants ? is another question of no mean
importance. Each servant, upon an average, will cost
from thirty to forty pounds per annum; bc..sides the waste,
the breakage, and the destruction through unnecessary
roughness. Spend your evenings at home.
A specimen of Irish linen, denominated " the golden
flax," has recently come before us, as a manufacture in
this neighbourhood ; and we cannot withhold our testi-
mony to the beauty of its bleach and fabric, uniting the
Tneatest softness and brightness with the strongest fibre.
his bids fair to put further off than ever all foreign
competition with Ireland in the linen fabric, and to ex-
tend our home consumption for this beautiful manufac-
ture ; affording at the same time an additional encou-
ragement for the production of the fltlest qualities of fiax
at home, for which our soil and climate are found in
every way suitable. We cannot help itAttigihg the hope
that ere long Belfast may be to the linen trade what
Manchester is to the cotton, with this further advantage
on the side of the former—that her looms May be work-
ing up the product of a happy industry—gradually ex-
tending itself throughout our agricultural districts in the
south—yielding food and clothing—an appreciation of
comfort, with means for its gratification—and, above all,
issuing in an honest independence of mind, capable of
discerning, and daring to choose, the truth.—Belfast
paper.

Mr. JARDINE—Do you choose to give your name 1
Prisoner—l cannot ;I am most respectably con-
nected, and I cannot live any name.
Mr. JARDINU—Then I remand you till next Tues-
day, in order to try and add your name to the deposi-
tions, and the witnesses must he bound over to prose-
cute at the sessions.
The witnesses were accordingly bound over, and
the prisoner will be committed on Tuesday.
Yesterday a young woman named Mary Ann
Jefferies was charged with having attempted suicide
by taking laudanum. She had been brought up the
preceding Monday to answer the charge, but as she
was then suffering intensely from the effects of the
poison the case was deferred, and the poor girl con-
veyed back to the hospital.
No. 104 A stated, that on Thursday night, the 14th
inst., while on duty in St. James's-park, he found the
defendant lying under the milk stands, near Spring-
gardens, apparently asleep. On arousing her (which
he had some difficulty in doing), she told him that
she had just taken fourpennyworth of laudanum,
and produced a bottle, which had evidently contained
the poison. Ile then took her to the police-station,
and thence to Charing-cross Hospital, w usual antidotes were effectively adrainisterhere the
ed.

,olt/ITRING NEvv.—Those curio in the contem-
plation of the vagaries of nature na:a.t
opportunity of gratifying their euricilstiltsynr haeiegan
young ttto)vbibt tvegs, in the possession ofym[6reTa- a
skinner, y This strange qua(,_lrupeaZe
pfAtAne-lreTjr Tainily.of five, is of the rvewfoundland
brkedi.an about five weeks old. The additional ler,
t 6 the right shoulder, and b(,!h seem to work
kperfeet Wiiikin."—Dundco Advetiser,
.fit

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Tull NEW POLICE COURT IN THE BOROU4III.
This Police-court, which has been built on the west side
of Blackman-street, Borough, adjacent to the Queen's
Bench Prison, is completed, and the Secretary of State
has issued orders for the removal of the public business
from Union-hall to the above court by the early part of 1
the ensuing month,

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TH.E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 1344.

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.
A commission de lunatico inquirendo was opened
yesterday at the Manor-house Tavern, Stoke New-
ington, before Mr. Commissioner Barlow and seven-
teen special jurors, to inquire into the state of mind
of Jane Edwards, a maiden lady, aged thirty-six,
daughter of the late wealthy George Edwards, Esq.,
of the Hampstead-road, described in the commission
as "late of Clarendon-place, Maida-hill, but now of
Northumberland House, Stoke Newington, spinster."
Mr. Gregory, of the firm of Gregory, Faulkner,
and Co., appeared as solicitor in support of the com-
mission, which was unopposed.
The Learned COMMISSIONER explained the law of
lunacy in the usual terms, and, in the absence of
counsel on either side, stated the nature of the case ;
from which, and the evidence adduced, it appeared
that the unfortunate lady had in her infancy been
affected with convulsive fits, which had weakened her
mind, but decided unsoundness had not manifested
itself till 1825, when she was seventeen years of age,
when she was placed in Bethnal-green asylum. She
then laboured under the delusions that people were
continually breaking into her room, and also that
many people were conspiring against her, and she
ultimately became perfectly imbecile. rater her
father's death, in 1839, she was removed to her
uncle's, in lielgrave-square ; and upon his death, in
1842, to another relative's, at Maida-hill ; who, hay •
ing also died, she, in September, 1843, became an in
mate of the above asylum. Her father, at his death,
left her a handsome annuity, to secure which the
commission had been issued.
Mr. Anthony White, surgeon, of Parliament-street,
deposed to the imbecility of her mind from October
1, 1842.

Dr. Alexander Sutherland also stated that she said
her father was still alive, and she appeared incapable
of understanding the value of money, figures, or any
subject, though it appeared she had been originally
well educated. She was decidedly of unsound mind.
Her chief amusement was tearing paper, handker.
chiefs, and other articles ; but she never asked for
food or anything else. She was attired in deep
mourning.
The lady was introduced ; her countenance was
mild and pleasing, with fine hazel eyes, and she had
evidently been pretty. She continually smiled at the
Learned Commissioner's questions, but her answers
were chiefly " Yes," or " No." A book ws handed
her to read, but she merely muttered indistinctly and
unintelligibly. By request she took a pen to write,
and first drawing off one glove she wrote in a good
neat hand the words, "Miss Jane Edwards," when
her mind appeared to wander, and she joined to the
latter word " edsredseds," and was so continuing,
when the jury expressed themselves satisfied, and re-
turned a verdict, dating the unsoundness of mind from
Oct. 1, 1842.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals-Madeira, Smith, from Madras, in the Downs,
sailed July 16, St. Helena Sept. 24; Arrow, 'Walker,
from Zanzibar, in the Downs, sailed Aug. 3, St. Helena
Sept. 29; Herald, Bolton, from Singapore, in the Downs,
sailed Aug. 1, St. Helena Oct. 11 ; Agile, Small, from
the Cape of Good Hope, in the Downs, sailed Sept. 22,
St. Helena Oct. 7; Helen Stewart, Whittingham, from
China, in the Downs, sailed June 20, St. Helena Oct. 1;
Ganges, M`Donald, from Sydney, off Torbay, sailed
July 30, Pernambuco Oct. 15 ; Achilles, Veale, from
Sydney, off Torbay, sailed July 11; Tamerlane, M`Kenzie,
from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed July 14, St. Helena
Oct. 2; Pilgrim, Rawlins, from Bengal, at Liverpool,
sailed June 13, St. Helena Sept. 26; Orient, Wales, from
Bengal, in the Downs, sailed June 29, Mauritius Aug. 21,
St. Helena Sept. 29.
Arrivals at St. Helena-Malvina, Sept. 30, from
Batavia, and sailed Oct. 1 to Hamburgh ; Magnolia,
Royal, 3d, from west'coast of Africa, and sailed to Liver-
pool ; Edward Boustead, from China and sailed 4th
to London ; Sylphide, from Batavia, and sailed 4th to
Amsterdam ; Freedom and Damon, 3d, from Ichaboe ;
Antoinette Marie, 4th, from Batavia, and sailed to Rot-
terdam ; Rosanna, from Ichaboe, and sailed 6th to Cork;
Hawk, from Ichaboe, and sailed 4th to Cork ; Gabrielle,
from Bordeaux ; Marina, sth, from Ichaboe, and sailed
Bth to Bristol ; Flora, sth, from Ichaboe, and sailed 6th
to Cork ; Elizabeth Walker, 6th, from Ichaboe, and
sailed 7th to Clyde ; Emperor, sth, from Manilla, and
sailed to Antwerp ; Bouthsook, from Bourbon, and
sailed 7th to Havre ; Arab, from Manilla and Mauritius,
and sailed to London ; Canada, sth, from Bengal, and
sailed to Liverpool ; Windsor Castle, from Bombay, and
sailed 6th to Liverpool ; John Graham, from Ceylon,
passed to London ; Bencoolen, Oct. 7, from Manila, and
sailed Bth to Cork ; Indus, from Bourbon, and sailed
Bth to Marseilles ; Bretagne, from Bourbon, and sailed
Bth to St. Malo ; Prins Hendrick, from Batavia, and
sailed Bth to Amsterdam ; Thomas Naylor, from coast
of Africa, and sailed Bth to Liverpool ; Brooksby, 10th,
from Manilla, and sailed to London ; Eliza Scott and
Eliza, from coast of Africa ; Pondicherry from Pondi-
cherry.
Arrivals in Table Bay-Edward Robinson, Sept. 1,
from China ; G. H. Harrison, 21st, from Singapore ;
Hope, from Mauritius.
Departure from Table Bay-Owen Glendower, Sept.
18, to Madras and Calcutta.
Arrival at Hobart Town-London, Attwood, July 9,
from London.
Departures from Hobart Town-Ben Nevis, June 28,
to Launceston ; Eudora, July 10, to New Zealand.
Arrival at Launceston-Agostina, Volum, for London.
Arrivals at Sydney-Sarah, July 21, from Singapore ;
Star of China, 27th, from New Zealand ; Lady Gray,
from Hobart Town ; Blundell, from London and Nor-
folk Island.
Departures from Sydney-Georgetown, July 20, to
Guam; Nimrod, 25th, to South Seas; Governor, to Cape.
Arrival at Port Philip-Sovendrapony, July 12, from
Hong-Kong and Batavia.
The Sea Queen cleared at Port Philip, July 21, for
Liverpool.

THE PRICE OF A JAW.
(From Punch.)
One would think that Plutus made most of our
English laws, there are so few of them that are not to
be mended with money, if the breaker can afford the
tinkering. This is, indeed, the true aristocracy of
wealth, and makes a man with gold in his pocket feel
that he is unquestionably one of the superior classes--
in fact, a chartered ruffian, who may knock clown his
fellow-creatures like nine-pins, if he have ready cash
sufficient to pay for the sport. Blessed privilege of
wealth ! How cor temptuously must the rich offender
eye the pauper ruffian, who can RO more afford to
enjoy the broken members of his neighbours than he
can afford green peas at Christmas ? Again and again
do Magistrates by their judgments—call upon us to
marvel at the healing principle of gold—the never-
failing auruo potabile of the police-office.
The subjoined case, however, applies, we presume,
to a penniless ruffian :
" CLERKENWELL.— George Combes was charged
with breaking the jaw of an unfortunate girl, named
Anne Gorman.
" The poor girl was standing quietly in the Chalk-
road, when the prisoner told her to accompany him.
She refused, upon which he dealt her such a blow
with his elenched fist as broke her jaw, and felled her
to the ground, where she lay insensible for half an hour
She was then conveyed to a surgeon.
" Mr. Comns—Will you make this poor creature
some compensation for the grievous injury you have
done her ? Prisoner—l won't give her a farthing.
" Mr. COMM —Then you will pay 51., or go to the
House of Correction for two months."
" Some compensation" for a broken jaw ! George
Combes could not, or would not, pay for the article,
and—we cordially hope—he is a prisoner for two
months, with the supplementary punishment of hard
labour. If, however, he could have paid Si., he would
have been free to break another jaw the next night on
the same terms.

The Magistrates say they have no discretion in
these matters. If the ruffian have none', justice
*rites him a receipt in full of all demands.
It is the men who make these laws who are answer-
able for their injustice,
Well, we will suppose it eight in the evening—the
place, palace-yard. There goes Lord to his seat in
the Commons. A ruffian, thinking that he has a good
qiiattel with his Lordship's jaw, with his clenched
fist breaks lt, Does his Lordship—the law-maker--
think the fine of a sufficient punishment for the
atrocity ? We think not; but th.n Lords are so sel-
dotn assaulted : such doings generally fall upon the
" lower orders," and they being made of coarser clay,
are—like pipkins—to be paid for when broken, Men
with money ca❑ afford it.
We are pretty certain that Mr. Thomas Duncombe
must read the police reports, and equally sure that
the iniquity of this law is wholly worthy of his re-
forming energy. Or where is Young England ?
Wherefore does it not champion the jaws of what
breeches pocket, in its big complacency, calls the
lower orders?

WORRYING SHEEP. —An immense number of
sheep have been worried during the summer in the
'Vicinity of Haydon-bridge ; and, strange to say, the
depredator has up to this time escaped, in spite of all
attempts to discover him. The sheep are all bitten in
one way, in the windpipe, which is generally torn out,
and some of them clean bled. Many valuable dogs have,
in consequence, been destroyed on suspicion. What is
strangest of all is, that none of the worried sheep are in
the least eaten or mutilated, which seems to prove that
the love of blood rather than hunger is the cause. Many
years ago a dog, near Wooler, killed great numbers of
sheep, of which he only drank the blood and eat the kid-
ney, which he tore out very scientifically. After many
attempts, he was shot op Cheviot.—Trine Mercury.
ADVANCE IN WAGES.—We are happy to learn that
an advance in the wages of all hands employed by the
three extensive flax-spinning establishments here has
taken place this week. The rise is from 10 to 15 per
cent., making an aggregate increase to the income of
that section of our population of about 50/. per week.
We sincerely hope that the advance will be general
throughout the country, and that the state of trade will
justify its continuance. Notwithstanding this appearance
of prosperity, we could wish to see the manufacturing
interest in a more favourable relation, for the seller finds
it impossible to realise an advance on linen equivalent to
the rine in yorna—hlontron.Reviem

THE MIDDLE CLASSES.
It has been often observed, that a good middle class
is the strength and glory of a nation: Without this
unfailing source to draw upon, no great efforts can he
long sustained. An aristocracy may be splendid for
its wealth, and honourable for its generosity ; a pea-
santry may he respectable for its spirit and numbers,
and still more so for its domestic virtues. But
neither of them possesses the stamina of a good
middle class for any great purpose, either of peace or
of war. It brings to bear upon one another all the
great elements of social strength, industry, talent,
wealth, public spirit, and public opinion, in a far
more efficient manner than any political effort of
the state; because in the most natural way—bv actual
combination. Where there are wide intervals between
the classes, energy and promptitude are lost by dis-
tance of operation, by bad leverage, so to speak, and
ill-direction of forces. When you have a good
middle class, you have not far to fetch your mate-
rials, to communicate your intentions, to apply your
impulses. There the state has not to get at the noble-
men, the nobleman to get at his dependents ; spirit
has not to awaken industry, and industry to go
t,aiut looking for means, and means to waste for
want of hands. The electric circle is always com-
plete. The industrious man is also enlightened and
wealthy; the wealthy man is also energetic and able.
Go into the market-place and look around, and there
you have in one view all the elements you want for
any great internal improvement or external under-
taking. In this class you possess a storehouse and a
school, on which you may depend for a constant and
equable supply of political means and virtues. The
state has not to set to work as soon as it foresees an
exigency, or conceives a design, putting all the scat-
tered parts of the social machine together, and dis-
covering, at the last moment, to its cost, that it is
not prepared, for that something is missing, some
joint has gaped, or some member has shrunk since
the last great turn-out of the nation. In such a
predicament the results mu-t always be precarious
and imperfect. But with a large class, neither very
rich nor very poor, neither incapable of great efforts
nor above them, always engaged in extensive and
arduous designs, always augmenting and concen-
tratir's the resources of the country, the statesman
has three parts of his work done to his hand. Even
if he slept, ethers worked. He has only to speak to a
prepared people, and open a well filled magazine.
We are aware of the prejudices we offend by elevat-
ing the middle class into the saviours of their country.
There are persons who would rather not be saved at
all than by such means ; at least in theory, for most
of them appear to acquiesce very contentedly in the
historical fact, and to enjoy without any reserve the
numerous benefits thence accruing. But when-
ever they can abstract themselves enough to mo-
ralise, and forget enough to be ungrateful, then
they complacently meditate on the middle class
as all that is vulgar, pushing, conceited, selfish, and
unsocial, with the world for its god and money for
its religion, without either the dignity of command or
the grace of obedience; neither lofty nor dutiful;
removed alike from the beauties of nature and the
perfections of art ; a novelty on the past,
a cload in the future, intrusive, encroaching,
upstart, without right or inheritance, with-
out father or mother, absolutely without place in
a perfect system, anti-aristocratical, anti-monar-
chical, anti-ecclesiastical, anti-everything, excepting
only its own odious self. If so great an absurdity ad-
mits of aggravation, it receives it from the circum-
stance that most who so feel and talk are them-
se:ves of the middle class, and are only removed
from the warehouse or the shop by one generation of
parentage, or perhaps by seven years of school and
college, or even not at all. As we never yet heard
any serious project for dispensing with this class, and
showing how England was to continue England with-
out it, and not relapse to holes in the earth and painted
skins, such sentiments as the ahove do not pretend to
be anything else than a rebellion of one's tastes
against an inevitable dispensation ; and, as such, have
not a very religious or rational character. However,
they exist and continue. There are, and will be,
thousands who consider their inward revolting at the
middle classes to he the most exalted and precious
part of their nature, and the most certain evidence of
their soul's nobility. Such a prejudice, ridiculous as
it is, is yet injurious. It estranges from paths of
public usefulness many who might do service in their
day; it diverts into the ideal many who might be
practical ; and, though not in itself a very active
principle, it furnishes the groundwork of dangerous
appeals,—appeals from the living present to the dead
past, from realities to chimeras, from duties to dreams.
It is then with very great pleasure that we find
the use, the necessity, and the rightfulness of a middle
class, and an unbroken gradation of middle classes,
advocated by men likely to command attention, and
recommended by arguments which cannot be denied.
With some minds use, with others rightfulness will
have more weight. For the benefit of the former
we will extract a very important passage, as seenis to
us, from Mr. Tremenheere's exceedingly interesting
report on the state of the population in the mining
districts
" Another result of the truck system, not less in-
jurious, though not so directly appreciable, is, that by
checking the growth of a middle class it reduces the
amount and effect of those civilizing influences which
descend upon the labouring classes from the various
gradations of society above them. The large sum of
200,000/. a-year, part of the wages paid by the principal
works having stores as abovementioned, has been al-
ready shown not to be expended in these stores. The
growth, therefore, of the class of retail dealers in those
neighbourhoods has been considerable, as is proved by
the case of Coatbridge, where there are at present 134
shops and three inns, besides six shops at Dandyvan
kept by persons belonging to the works, who deal in the
same kind of articles that are sold at the Dundyvan '
store. It is stated that eight years ago there were only
16 shops open at Coatbridge. The increase is un-
doubtedly great; but it must not be overlooked that
the profits of the 50,000/. a-year estimated to be ex-
pended at the stores of the enumerated works would,
under other circumstances, have been so much added to
the fund which supplies the well-being and wealth of
the class of retail dealers. It would have promoted pro
tanto their advance towards the middle ranks of society,
and therefore towards filling that void the existence of
which is one of the fertile sources of evil in districts new
and rapidly peopled."
Only the old story, some will say. Who wants to
multiply small shopkeepers ? They are enough
already : one at every corner. What will a state
come to of which retailers of sugar and cheese are
the predominant citizens ? Well, we burn coals, and
are glad to warm our hands and cook our dinners by
their aid. Coals involve smudgy pitmen, smudgy
pitmen involve smug shopkeepers, and what is more,
if we have any bowels of mercy or of gratitude
for the said pitman, lying naked on his side for
live-long days, and picking laboriously at the walls
of his dungeon, in utter darkness, and in deadly
vapours, more than a hundred fathoms below the
cheerful realms of day, we may be glad to think
that he has a chance some day or other, before age
surprises him at his toil, of standing upright, clad
and clean, behind a counter, enjoying the light of
day and the sight of fellow-men. The middle classes,
we maintain, have an hereditary place in England,
from which they have too generally been ousted.
In the golden age of the old English gentleman there
was a rising class above the labourer, and step above
step to the highest station. This we have repeatedly
asserted, and believe there is no fact for which
more abundant and conclusive evidence can be
adduced. There is hardly a village where, in the
memory of man, there were not many times more
holdings than there are now, and consequently many
opportunities for the poor man to escape from that
poverty which England calls a crime. The very sur-
face of the fields, the traces of ancient homesteads,
roads, and hedgerows, declare the same historical
fact. The statement in the following extract from
Lord Willoughby D'Eresby's very excellent and sug-
gestive letter, which we published on Tuesday,
would be found confirmed wherever the inquiry NA as
made :

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS'

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The subject of the stamp on receipts is one
which engages some attention among the trading Inge"
rests in the City, and a suggestion has. been made by an
intellieent member of that interest, following the Illy
ciple of the universal penny postage, to tax all recoptl
for sums above 51. at Id. only, and make it compulsory
to give stamped receipts in all cases, which he thinks
would produce a revenue of 1,000,000/, while the tax
yields at the present time a sum less than 200,000/. The
party referred to, with whose respectability we are str..
quainted, has furnished a long written statement in
elucidation of his plan, the leading points of which will
be sufficient to render it intelligible to the public.
He proposes that the paper to be used shall be issued,
statnps d. as heretofore, by the Government, which /3 t°
print on the same paper a form of receipt, besides which,
he would allow all acknowledgments of the receipt 01
money, written on paper which bears the Post-otfiee
stamp, as evidence of passing through the Post-office, Ti
be considered legal receipts. All other paper to he used
for invoices, accounts-current, &c., to be found by Per"
sons requiring it, and to be presented for stamping at the
Stamp-office. He proposes, also, that all hankers' cheques
should have the penny stamp attached to them, whirl'
will make them legal vouchers, instead of being we
means commonly in uSo, as they now are, of evading
the tax altogether.
The calculation of the amount likely to be raised bi
such a tax seems a startling one, but the writer adverts,.
to data which bear him out in concluding such a row'
to be at least probable ; and he points out one more
advantage from his plan, in its inducing better habits of
business in taking vouchers for all payments—a practice
which may prevent litigation and disputes, which Os
constantly occur through the neglect of such a precatr
tion. It is something also, on that side of the question,
to get rid of a law, the infringement of which is of daily
and hourly recurrence.
We have proposed only now to offer an outline of the
plan, and leave it to make what impression it may 11201)
the public.

Ever since the passing of the new Bank Act, Inge:
nuity seems to have been at work to devise methods
which Ihe country bankers may escape the legal prow_
sions. A day or two ago.we noticed two plans which tb.
Bankers' Circular advanced for the benefit of those whop
interest it represents, and to-day our attention has bee"
called to another scheme which looks very practicablet
though it is perhaps less ingenious than the others. The
11th section of the Act only forbids the bankers to issue
notes on bills payable to bearer on demand beyond 20
certain extent, and if any instrument can be contril°'
that will answer the purpose of circulation, and not core°
within this dt scription, it seems that the statute may be
evaded. The new scheme proposes that a firm of banker.,
shall sign a note payable at sight or on demand, 81
the banking-house, to the order of one of the partners
or one of the clerks, and that the payee shall enclor°
the note in blank. Such a document is not, it appesr!
according to repeated decisions on the Stamp Act, a "note
payable to bearer," and yet it can be transferred by de"
livery only, and imposes just as much liability on the
banker as the note such as the statute contemplates'
Here, then, we have an instrument against which toe
law is probably powerless.
One view remains to be taken of all these expedient?'
In the opinion of nearly all the disinterested persons
the City who have spoken upon the new Banking Bi's
it has been considered a very judicious measure, chilli')
because it checks excess in circulation, and therefor°
tends to repress reckless speculation. One class of Per
sons, however, find that it does not accord with their oyre
individual interests; and therefore, though there can beno
doubt whatever as to the spirit and meaning of the 1a!
all sorts of schemes are recommended to evade the letter
of the statute. Everybody who is aware of the exist'
ence of the Act, is also aware that its object is to 07
the circulation of the country within defined limits ;
those gentlemen who avail themselves of the varion°
stratagems we have described, will place themselves
no very enviable situation, with regard to the country °
large, who will consider a public benefit of more con 0:,
quence than an individual interest. Suppose these pis;
succeed for a time, it is scarcely possible that they e""
produce any lasting benefit to the parties who adoill
them. If they are carried on to any important exten4
they will probably be checked by some supplementary
statute that will render the provisions of the existing
law more stringent and defined. A great and importaLi)
principle is contended for, and either that must o'
sacrificed, or these small contrivances must, in the led
run, be crushed.

SUN.—The Funds close firmly, Consols being 100 i if
for Money and Time. The New Three-and-a-Quat4e.
per Cents. were 1024 Bank and India Stock were the
same as in the morning'
The Foreign Investments did not improve much uP°lll
the quotations of the early part of the day. SpaoL°
Five per Cents. were 24 to 24i; the Three per Cen"4
35 to 354 • Portuguese Converted, 551 to 544; Mexican'
36 to 34; Chilian Deferred, 53; and Brazilian, Nell'
85k. Russian were 1194.
The Railway Shares have been rather drooping this
afternoon, but the sales were of no maenitude.

ADVERTISEMENT. ANOTHER EXTRAORDINAII,
CURE OF ASTHMA. BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS !—Patrie*
Casey, residing at No. 1, Compton-place,- Brunswick'
square, had suffered from a chronic asthma for more she
three years. This poor man was so great a sufferer that
he did not dare go to bed for fear of the phlegm choking
him ; indeed, he could not even lay his head upon
table for half an hour lest be should be suffocated
nevertheless, this person is now labouring from morning
to night, sleeps as well as ever he did in his life, and, is
fact, is completely cured by the use of Holoway's Pills'
Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at 244, Strand (whete
advice may be had gritis), and by almost an respectable
vendors of medicine throughout the civilised world. t
COMMERCIAL LITERATURE. —An advertisement
appeared the other day for a clerk, who was wanted ¢t
Lloyd's, where he would receive a hundred a year, and It
was added that editing Lloyd's List would be a part of his
duties. Lloyd ought to be ashamed of himself to pay his
editor so shabbily. It is true the List does not require II
very imaginative I•nind, or a very fertile fascy ; but tbee
editor of such an important paper must be cognisant el
commerce, immersed in the mysteries of mustard, tho'
roughly ground in pepper, and, in fact, a walking price.
current. The man to edit Lloyd's List should be able t°
see which waythe wind blows without the aid of a weather
cock, and to discriminate at a glance between the varlet!,
degrees of fresh, squally, and moderate. The noble
sciences of breeze-ology, wind-ology, and tide-oh:0
should all be at his fingers' ends. He should be on the
constant look out for bits of vessels washed ashore;
and, as Hamlet knew " a hawk from a hand•saWy
the editor of Lloyd's List should be able to distinguish.
figure-head from a marling-spike. No blacking-boa,i,'e
washed up by the tide should elude his editors' vig`,:
lance ; for some of the most interesting articles in Llo.ll°,
List have been written on the subject of bits of pile,'
discovered corked up in a former recipient of V
and Martin's jettest of all jets that ever were mannilic'
tured. Such should be the mind that ought to presine
over the putting together of Lloyd's List ; and if our nOll.
temporary don't strike for an advance, he is a traitor i°
a
the press, a villain to himself, and wretch to his fit.
mily I—Punch.
STRANGE SCENE.--On Friday last, a most singtllsrt
scene took place at St. Peters, near this town. -c,;)
some time, cracks and rents have been observed in ,
walls of various houses in this vicinity, and especially In
those near the docks. On Friday, however, as the land'
lord of the Ship Inn was at breakfast, several squares et
glass gave way with a crackling noise, and an evide°
settling or sinking took place in the house. This n'l4
followed by a sinking of some other houses, and of the
docks. Some walls tell, and the whole had the apPeA5
ante of an earthquake on a small scale. No person
hurts were sustained, but the damage is great, and scant:
of the houses are closed. The cause is a shrink °`
" creep" in the older workings of Friar Goose Collie*:
(on the opposite bank), which extend ander the river 05
this spot.—Tyne Mercury.

BIRTHS.
On the 4th ult., at Pernambuco, in the empire of Braol
the wife of George Francis Fox, Esq., of a son.
At Bruges, the lady of John Stephen Dwyer, of Castle
Connell, county of Limerick, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 4th inst., at St. Leonard's, Sussex, Mrs. H. TrewWes
of a son.
Oa the 13th inst., at Colonel Romer's, St. Heliers, Jersef'
the Countess du Pontavice de Henssey, of a son and
On the 16th inst., at Inchbrakie, Perthshire, the Hon- DP'
Grreme, of a daughter.
Qn the 17th inst., at Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, the wife of
the Rev. Thomas England, of a son.
On the 20th inst., at the Grove, Highgate, the lady of
Nisbet, Esq., of a son.
-ere.
On the 19th inst., in Burton-crescent, Mrs. W. H. Ss./
of a son.
On the 19th inst., at Grove-road, Perth Brixton, °l*
Frederick Wix, of a son still-born.
On the 19th inst., at Ipswich, Mrs. Thomas Clement'
Browne, of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., at Clapham New Park, the lady of
T. West, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., at St. John's-park, Kentish-town, the
lady of George Shearwood, Esq., of a son.

" The occupation of three acres of pasture would give
him that great necessary of hfe, a supply of milk for his
family, which he can very rarely buy, and at the same
time afford him a profitable investment for his money,
by the purchase of a cow and sheep, which would pro-
duce him as many pounds yearly as he could get shil-
lings in the savings' bank. It would consequently en-
able him to accumulate the capital necessary to stock a
MARRIED.
small farm. I cannot refrain from adding two very sig-nif,cant facts for the benefit of those who talk of the im- On the 19th inst., at the Chnrc.h of ma Holy Trim.a.rviO
Brorepton, Middlesex, thi Rev. P. C. NiaboliOn, to l'ilio
possibility of the labourer's purchasing a cow:—l have daughter of Isaiah Linwood Verity, Esq., late major 0=
seen the plan of A parish of the date of 1717, in which 92d Highlanders. g'
every cottage had an allotment of pasture. At some On the 19th inst., at St. Marys, Islington. Mr. Jamonly
subsequent periods all three were taken away and let Tuit, of Colet-plece, Commercial-road, to Mary Ann: t,
with the large farms. Ten yeat'z ago they were restored, daughter of the late Mr. R. Dickens, of Judd- trset• "
bourers who; pur- Pancras.
and there are now in the parish 33 2!1, coal°
chased cowt. for themselves as soon as the allotments On the 19th inst., at Alphington, Devon, Thomas .4-
Sanders, of Exeter, Esq., to Mary Elizabeth, second daub
were granted-"
ter of Joseph Buckley, ofAlphingte , Esq. A et,
These two passages, from different quarters, con- On the 20th of' June last, at St. Yhilip's Church, SY"lleus
atitute a very sufficient case for the practical benetit;- Mr. Richard James Hunt, late of London, to Mi°3 A°
and successional right of an unbroken gradation of I lia:lker, of Princes-street, Sydney, New South Wales._
middle classes. If, however, they have been banished
from the country to the town, and made thereby more
democratic, whose fault is it ? Not their own.—
Times.

DIED.
At the Royal Hospital. Chelsea, in the 15thyear or his la.
elf,' "
Hugh Percy De Batibe, fifth son of the Rev. G. R.
Chaplain-General to her Majesty's Forces.
On the 10th inst., at Blackwell, Halifax, Miss HolniSltg,P"-
~,
On the 12th inst., at Weston-super-Mare, Aims
widow of the late Captain Lamb, of Leamington. „AMMO
On the 15th inst., in Sussex-square, Kemp Toni, `"'"'"
Madame Lefaudeux, aged 71. 100614
On the 19th inst., at Ashley Cottage, Walton-on-Thames
Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Campbell, Esq,, cf K,..,i1a111,./i St.
On the 19th inst., at Chailey, the Hon. uel1"-
John, aged 82. -ormbilsll'
On the 19th inst., Richard Fowlkes, son of S. ivl
Esq., of Finchley, aged 32.
Pretley.
On the 20th inst., at Hayes, Middlesex, Mr. T. Jost,
On the 20th inst., at Liverpool-terrace, Islingt°l3'
the wife of Charles Wilkinson, M.D.
On the 21st inst., in Wimpole-straet, Adam Askew, Tsi.,
On the 21st inst., Esther, the wife of Thomas Allan'
of Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.

THE CUSTOMS.—It was stated, a short time since,
that an additional landing surveyor had been stationed
at the London Docks, besides the two regular officers,
owing to the great increase of business in that large
establishment. It has since been also determined by the
board to place an additional officer of the same standing
at the St. Katharine Docks, where the business has also
of late increased to a very great extent, the time of the
one landing surveyor originally and till now placed on
the station being almost entirely occupied in super-
intending the number of vessels from Leghorn which
discharge their cargoes there, it being, consequently,
impracticable for him to devote as much attention to the
other portione of the docks as the wants of the public
and the necessities of the case require. Besides being
a great advantage to the mercantile world, as affording
them additional means of dispatching their business,
a greater degree of security is also afforded to their
goads and the revenue,4 a measure strongly recom-
mended n the VMS MA of the Demo Inquiry
Coo 4,

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