The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-20 00:00:00

REBECCA IN HUTCHESONTOWN

EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS.

Yesterday, an occurrence took place in Hutcheson-
town, in the vicinity of the Nursery Mill, opposite the
Humane Society House, which, but for the good humour
of a number of the parties engaged in it, might have re-
sulted in a formidable riot. From what we could learn of
the circumstances, it appears that an attempt was made
by two extensive iron founders, proprietors in this
quarter, to shut up a bye road, which has existed for the
last fifteen years, and which, besides giving easy access
to the public wishing to cross the river from the Ruther-
glen-road, by the ferry at the Humane Society House,
affords great convenience to the workers in the Nursery
Mill, and other works in the neighbourhood. The attempt
consisted of a strong wooden barrier, and a gate, which to
the surprise of the , corkers attempting to pass that way,
had been placed so as completely to shut up the road in
question from the u eof the public. Determined not to
be thus suddenly cl:t )rived of a privilege which they had
so long enjoyed, at arge body of the operatives and female
weavers connected with the Nursery Mill assembledabout
six o'clock in the morning, and made a regular assault
upon the gate; but by their intention being anticipated,
by the proprietors in question, a large assembly of the
sons of Vulcan,connected with their works, soon appeared
to defend the barricade. The result was thata slight skir-
mish took place between the opposing parties, which was
followed by several other encounters, in which, we are
happy to say, with the exception of a few bruises, no great
damage was done on either side. The operatives of the
foundry for a considerable period, forming a compact
body, defended the gate against all opposition, until a
lad, driving an empty coal cart, was engaged by the
opposing party, galloped amongst them and com-
pletely broke up their square, driving the gate
and all other impediments before his well-whipped
charger. After this the two forces retired to their
usual labours ; but during the forenoon the gate
was again set up, and apparently with a renewed
determination on the part of the Vulcan people to de-
fend it at all hazards. The women, however, of the
Nursery were not to be baulked in this way, and
accordingly they mustered in still greater force,
and being headed by several stalwart engineers,
Centers, and mill-wrights, and a certain sonny mus-
cular manager, they charged upon the gate,
and after a severe fisticuff encounter between the
male portion of the belligerents, succeeded in driving off
the defenders, destroying the barricade, and carrying off
the gate, which they tossed into the Clyde amidst vehe-
ment cheering. It is but due to the workmen of the
Vulcan Foundry, however, to say, that when the ladies
appeared to aid the other party, they gave but a feeble
and ineffectual resistance. The taking of the gates of
Somnauth was nothing to this.
Since the above was written we have been informed
that but fbr the timely interference of one of the pro-
prietors of the foundry, bloodshed would have ensued
and probably loss of life.—Glasgow Saturday Post.

THE YARMOUTH BEACHMEN.—Statement of ser-
vices rendered by twenty-one persons of the undermen-
tioned companies, on Sunday, March 10, 1845 :—" That
about 5 o'clock, A.M., observed a vessel aground upon
the Scroby sand, the wind being then about E. by N.
Rowing boats were immediately launched, and proceeded
towards the vessel, but owing to the dangerous situation
of the vessel, it being impossible to render any assistance
with boats of that description, the Star Company re-
turned to the shore and proceeded to launch the
life-boat, and with the assistance of other companies
they succeeded in getting afloat about six a.m., with a
crew of 21 men and the assistance of six horses to
tow the life-boat to the northward as far as Caistor ;
then proceeded under sail towards the vessel, but
owing to the flood tide and the wind we could
not reach the vessel, to which we tacked to the north-
ward, and the yawl Water Witch come and took a
rope to assist, and after having reached a consider-
able time to the northward, saw the vessel's mainmast go
overboard and again tacked towards the vessel,but could
Dot reach the said'vessel, and was c )mpelled to tack to the
northward the second time, and reaching in that direction
*sufficient distance to enable the life beat to fetch the
vessel, and again tacked the boat towards the said vessel,
which we succeeded in reaching through much sea and
great difficulty. The unfortunate vessel proved to be the
schooner Princess Royal, of Newcastle from Sligo
bound to London, with a cargo of oats, which we found
to have a crew consisting of four men and one passenger,
whom we were successful in saving from a watery
grave, as the boat had scarcely left the sand
when the vessel filled with water and became a
total wreck. The crew were landed cn Yarmouth
beach about ten, A.M., the same morning. The men in
the life-boat were as follows:—Star Company, eleven
men; llolkham ditto, seven men; Brock and Denny
ditto, three men: Total, twenty-one.—Cambridge
"hive, liser.
FALL IN THE PRICE or BREAD.—On Tuesday the
bakers of Drury-lane, Clare-market, and other places,
lowered the price of the 41b. loaf to 5d., being a reduc-
tion of one penny. There is some bread selling as low as
4d., called oountry bread, but not weighed. The high-
priced bakers still maintain their prices. This is the
first alteration that has taken place in the price of bread
during the severe winter.
STATE OF TRADE.—Owing to the continuance of
severe frosts, and the consequent closing of the canals
and navigabla rivets, at home and abroad, the market
has been very quiet during the last week. Spinners and
manufacturers, however, are generally under contract
for some time to come, and consequently not at all
inclined to press sales. Prices, therefore, continue steady.
—Tun ROCHDALE. FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY,
MARCH 17.—The flannel market is mach the same as it
has been for the last two or three weeks; the demand
very limited, and prices extremely low. The wool mar •
ket has been very quiet ; few purchases have been made
at last week's prices.—Manchester Guardian.
ANOTHER COLLIERY ACCIDENT FATAL IN ITS
CONBOQUENCES.—On the evenine•. of Saturday last, an
inquest was held before the Coroner at Wigan, at
the house of Mr. Hill, Robin Hood, Hallgate, on
the body of a boy, named Thomas Martindale, who
met with an accident at Swinley colliery, about a
week previous, in consequence of which he died that
morning. It appears that the father of the deceased
end his three sons were going down in the basket to
their work, when they were all thrown out and more
tr less injured. At the time of the accident they
bad got beyond the five-feet mine, when the
basket IR which they. were descending, from some
means or other, was interrupted, by which Martin-
dale and his children were precipitated to the bottom.
The deceased was found to have received several very
serious injuries on the head, and parts of his body, the
father had an arm broken, and was seriously hurt, but
the ;tither two escaped with a few very slight bruises.
The jury returned a verdict of " accidental death," with
deodand of ss. upon the engine.—Bolton Free Press.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDA!.
GLOBE.—The "organised hypocrisy" has a way of
proceeding amongst its organisers, which is not devoid of
a certain sort of poetical justice. Gentlemen, it seems to
say to them, you helped us to pull down our predecessors
on grounds more or less hollow—so far as addressed to
our rabble of supporters. We proceeded, in common, on
the great truth stated by Lord Bacon, and quoted by
Lord Mahon, that it does not signify whether opinions
are true or false, so far as regards their immediate
effects on action ; and that any cry, which is but be-
lieved, will serve its political turn. Abundance of such
cries were raised with your assistance, and our (at least)
connivance; and, buoyed up within reach of power by
these instruments of inflation, Sir H. Peel grandly de-
clared he would sooner be the leader of the gentlemen of
England, than possess the confidence of Sovereigns.
We don't hear much—it is sadly recalled to mind—
of the gentlemen of England now. They have made
a ministry ; and their part in the hive is henceforth—
to be got rid of, like the dam es. At a certain epoch
the services of these latter are indispensable ; but
afterwards the operative partners treat them as Peel
does his country gentlemen, or as Jonathan Wild
the Great treated his constituency, when they waxed
troublesome on his hands. If the gentlemen at the
back of the gentlemen now at the helm of affairs had
wished to make their terms about county rates, cart-
grease, or other interesting items, they should have
seized that stage of negotiation, which Brass did in bar-
gaining with Dick Amlet. It is too late for the be-
trayed, when the traitor has secured his rich wife, and
his stolen rank. Accusations of faithlessness to principles,
which were pretexts, have no effect on a Minister who has
once got a firm seat in the saddle. The repetition of those
pretexts only exposes their utterers to hear truths from
the lips of the very statesmen who have risen by ac-
crediting class-delusions. At every attempt above-
ground, they give unequivocal indications of springing
some mine below; at every reminiscence of their old
Opposition watchwords, they open one finger of the
whole handful of truths, which they have borrowed
from their opponents in terrorem of their supporters.
Thus Sir James Graham replied to Mr. Miles, and
his paupers' plea for relief from burthens, that the
agriculturists really had no excessive burthens, from
which to be relieved. Well might the unfortunate Mr.
Newdegate " whine" forth, " One might think that the
Hon. Member for Stockport (Mr. Cobden) was the high-
priest of free trade, and that the occupants of the
Treasury bench were chanting responses to the service."
By the way, we are here reminded of an ancestral
honour of the Newdegate family. If we remember
right, it was Sir H. Newdegate, that some time pillar
of landed pre eminence, and perennial patron of Oxford
prize poetry, who, under the last unintelligible Ministry
of Lord Chatham, surprised the House of Commons
into taking one shilling off the land-tax. That shilling
off the land-tax was the proximate cause of the quarrel
with America. The ministerial leaders had not virtue
or courage to call on the House to retract its landed
vote. The then Chancellor of the Exchequer was forced
on expedients to bring up the revenue ; and, under this
dunderhead-duress, he recurred to the project of taxing
the Americans, which had been wisely abandoned in its
first resisted shape of the Grenville Stamp Act.
STANDARD.--Long and earnest as were the de-
bates in the House of Commons last night, they can
scarcely be expected to have any very lively interest
save for the few, though highly respectable, persons
connected with the New Zealand Colony ; the very fact
of the alleged too great favour shown to the rights of
the natives, by her Majesty's Ministers, takes away
the wider interest by which patriots and philan-
thropists might otherwise be affected in such
a case. As respects the charge of duplicity
insinuated, if not directly made, against the Colonial
Secretary, we imagine that it does not give much con-
cern to the Noble Lord or his friends. Were there any
possible gain of profit or honour to be obtained by
double dealing, Lord Stanley's noble character would
be a sufficient defence against the charge of du-
plicity ; but in a case where the most rapacious,
or the most ambitious and least scrupulous man
that ever lived, could find no conceivable mo-
tive for deviating from the straight path, it is
surely the most absurd thing in the world to charge
such a man as Lord Stanley with resorting to crooked
ways. We are persuaded that the very men who make
the charge do not believe one word of it, though they,
not very fairly, make the pretence in order to furnish
matter for a debate to get up a grievance, or to carry a
job by the help of Parliament. As far as we un-
derstand the oharge it amounts to this, that Lord
Stanley having come to some agreement with the
New Zealand Company, he wrote a letter, marked con-
fidential, to the Governor of the colony, in which letter
were contained, as the advocates of the Company say,
some instructions militating against either the terms or
the spirit of the agreement. As much weight has
been attached to the circumstance that the instruc-
tions to Captain Fitzroy were marked " Confidential,"
it may be worth while to say a word upon
the point. We believe that all communica-
tions of the kind, not intended to be published,
instanter as state papers, are usually so marked ; at
least looking through the Parliamentary reports of cor-
respondence, from all the colonies from which the
correspondence of governors, &c., has been published, we
find confidential communications similar to that of Cap-
tain Fitzroy; and from this it is plain, that the term con-
fidential imposes no obligation of perpetual secrecy, for
every public functionary knows that all his correspond-
ence is subject to the inspection of Parliament,
but simply a present reserve from publication. We our-
selves, in our own small way, frequently receive commu-
nications marked confidential, which, nevertheless, the
writers would be very sorry not to see printed in a few
hours, should the condition that renders their
publication desirable arise. The letter that was
confidential yesterday may be properly placarded
on the walls to-day or to-morrow. There
is, therefore, no ground whatever for supposing that a
Minister meditates deceit, or even protracted secrecy, it
every case in which he marks as confidential his com-
munication to a subordinate Minister. The inconsis-
tency of Lord Stanley's instructions to Captain Fitzroy
with his Lordship's agreement with the Company, is
a matter upon which no rational mats will pronounce
a judgment until he shall have, in specie, before
him the instructions and agreement referred to in
the eharge ; and something more besides, namely,
the representations upon which the agreement was
obtained. The necessity of seeing the documents
said to conflict before admitting their inconsistency
must be apparent to all, but we must farther re-
-member that ministers, as well as kings, may be
misled by too sanguine and confident representa-
tion even of parties who meditate no imposture. These
errors have been so common, as to introduce a title
'' inconsulto rege" into our old law books. Before con-
demning Lord Stanley, therefore, of so serious a crime
as wilful duplicity, we must ascertain—First, That his
Lordship's instructions to Capt. Fitzroy are really incon-
sistent with his agreement with the New Zealand Com-
pany. Secondly, That the inconsistency is so unequivocal
and apparent, as to render it certain that the Colonial
Secretary must be aware of it. Thirdly, That the
agreement was obtained upon a strictly fair and un-
coloured representation of all the circumstances of
the case. Here are three questions, at least.
to be all affirmatively established, before the
slightest shadow of blame can attach to Lord
Stanley's conduct in the transaction ; and, granting the
first, namely, that there is an inconsistency between the
in tructions and the agreement, a concession which we
ma":e merely for the argument, the company will, we
g :pect, find some difficulty in establishing either of the
omers. The agreement appears to have been drawn up by
thecompany, and if they drew it up without intending to
take more by it than they wished the Government to see,
at once they are, we firmly believe, the very first san-
guine adventurers who ever manifested so much virtue,
self-denial, and skill. Not less singular must they be
in vitue, self-denial, and skill, if their representations
of the state and prospects of the colonies were rigidly
exact, and they must be not only more virtuous, de-
nying, and skilful than all who ever went before them,
but much wiser also. The honestest man rimy
cheat others by expectations by which he has first
cheated himself, and here'we believe we arrive at the
secret of this dispute, and at the secret of all colonial
failures, as many as there have been. More than
two centuries ago, Bacon, who saw and foresaw
everything, told that colonies and plantations are
not for present gain ; and that, therefore, such
heroical works are rather for immortal states than for
mortal individuals. We do not pretend to give the exact
words of the groat philosopher, but the truth of his ob-
servation is manifest. Commercial men, and indeed
men generally, look to quick returns of profit, however
small, rather than distant returns, though never so rich.
Miller, the gardener, proves very clearly that
an acre planted with chesnuts would be worth
one way or another more than 1,0001. at a century's
end ; but though Miller wrote a century ago, and his
book has been a popular book ever since, how few acres
of chesnuts have been planted in the interval. It is just
the same with colonisation ; adventurers seek the quick
return, and deceive themselves into the belief that such
quick return is possible without ruining the colony,
which it certainly is not.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' ASSOCIATION.--The fourth
annual meeting of this excellent Institution was recently held
at the London Tavern, Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., and
treasurer, in the chair. The report, which was read by Mr.
George Thomas, the chairman of the board of management,
after stating the result of the system of loans to several mem-
bers of both the benefit and benevolent departments, the pro-
priety of relief, and the continued connexion of the Society
with the sanatorium, recommended the establishment of a
pension of 25/. per annum to a member, and 151. per annum
to a widow, and that a meeting should be convened in May
to ballot for the same. The balance-sheet of the bene-
volent department was then submitted to the meeting, from
which it appeared that the receipts of the last year
amounted to 9171. 13s. 5d., the expenses to 562/. 18s. 3d.,
besides 84/. supplied to the benefit department,
leaving a surplus of 3541. 15s. 2d. It was also stated
that the number of members who had joined the Association
last year was 177 of which 110 were for effecting assurances,
and 67 by subscribing to the benevolent fund. The grail.; in-
come of the Association in 1844, from both departments,
was 2,630/. 16s. 3d. Resolutions were adopted confirming
the plan of granting loans, and also that in May next two
pensions to the amount above: named should be balloted for,
and the meeting separated, after a vete of thanks to the
chairman and officers connected with the institution.

THE BISHOP OP ELY.—We are sorry we cannot
to-day report favourably of his Lordship's health, the
affection of the chest having, yeaterday, become worse.
—Cambridge Advertiser.
At about one o'clock yesterday morning a fir*
broke outin the premises N 0.4, Boulevard Beaumarchais,
and 3, Quai de Valmy, belonging to M. Thuret, and occu-
pied by several saw-mills. The fire raged for two hours,
and notwithstanding the zeal and activity of the firemen
and the military, the buildings and all that they aolP.
tained were destroyed. Tho loss is estimated at 200,000 f.
Several persons escaped by the windows, almost in a
state of hudtti. No lap was lost.—Paris Papers of
Thursday.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME Cll?CUl7'.—Lewes, March 18.

The Commission for Sussex was opened yesterday. The
business is lighter than it lies been remembered for many
years, there being only twenty-six prisoners for trial, and
common jury cases, some of which were undefended, to be
disposed of on the civil side.
Both Courts were opened this morning at ten o'clock, the
Lord Chief Justice sitting on the Crown side, and Mr. Baron
Alderson at nisi prius. The causes disposed of by the
Learned Baron were of the most trivial character, and the
cause list was gone through by seven o'clock in the evening,
none of the cases involving any matter of the slightest in-
terest to the public.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
March 19.

Amos Patching, 44, and Thomas Burgess, 44, were in-
dicted for burglariou-dy breaking and entering the dwelling-
house of Nathaniel Blaker, at the parish of Edburton, and
stealing three gold seals, a writing desk, and other articles,
his property. Mary Anne Hounsell, 22, and Jane Reader,
alias Gates, alias Burgess, 41, were also charged in the same
indictment with feloniously receiving the property, knowing
it to have been stolen.

Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Cobbett conducted the prosecution.
The prisoners had no counsel.
This case appeared to create a good deal of interest, on
account of the male prisoners, together with a man named
Longhurst, also indicted at these assizes, being supposed to
have committed a great number of burglaries in this county,
there being five indictments against them, in the present
calendar, for burglaries at different places ; thel women being
charged, in each case, as receivers of the stolen property.
The prisoners were arraigned on Tuesday, before the Lord
Chief Justice, when the men pleaded guilty to most of the
indictments. It became necessary, however, to try one of
the cases, in order to include the female prisoners, and the
present indictment was accordingly proceeded with. It
appeared, from the evidence adduced, that the prosecutor,
Mr. Blaker, is a farmer, residing at Edburton, and, on the
night of the 31st of December, the premises were all left
properly secured, and the next morning, it was discovered
that, during the night, they had been opened by some
persons forcing open a cellar-flap, and the lower part of the
house had been ransacked, and a good deal of property
taken away. Nearly the whole of this property was found
in apartments occupied by the male and female prisoners
at Brighton, and, from the observations made by the latter
at the time they were apprehended, and subsequently before
the magistrates, there was very little doubt that they
were perfectly well aware of the means by which the pro-
perty had come into the possession of the male prisoners. It
appeared that the men had absconded, and very great credit
was due to a constable named Biddlecomb, who holds the
office of inspector of police at Godalming, in Surrey, for the
means he took to apprehend them and to make out the case.
After travelling in pursuit of them over a very great extent
of country, be at length succeeded in coming up with 4-t.,e,
prisoners near Alton, in Hampshire, and, as he was at this
time alone, they would probably have got away, but that he
very adroitly hit upon the following expedient to disarm their
suspicions. He told them, upon coming up with them, that he
was an officer, and that a farmer a short distance off had sent
him after them, on suspicion of their stealing some fowls the
night before. The prisoners said they could easily prove their
innocence of the charge, for they had slept at -Basingstoke.
The officer then said they could no doubt easily prove this to
the satisfaction of the complainant if they would go back with
him, and for form's sake they had better have on the handcuffs.
The prisoners consented, and very quietly allowed the officer to
handcuff them, and he then told them the real nature of the
charge against them. The prisoners, who are powerful, re-
solute- looking fellows, then said they wished they had
known what they were wanted for at first, adding, that if
they had, the officer should not have put those things (the
handcuffs) so easily upon them, and there is very little
doubt that but for the prudence of the officer, the prisoners,
from their desperate character, would have made a violent
resistance, and the result might have been of a serious cha-
racter, as the officer, although alone, was a resolute man
and determined upon effecting the capture of these indivi-
duals, who have for a long time been the terror of this and the
adjoining counties.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON having summed sup, the jury re-
' turned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners.
They were immediately called up for judgment, together
with Longhurst, the man who had pleaded guilty on the
previous day, and the male prisoners were sentenced to be
transported for ten years ; the women were ordered, Hounsell
to be kept to hard labour for two years, and Burgess for 18
months.
The Learned JUDGE said, that the inspector, Biddle-
comb, appeared to have acted with very great zeal and
activity in the case, and he should therefore order him a
reward of twenty pounds in addition to his expenses. He
likewise directed that two other constables who had assisted
him in his pursuit of the prisoners should also receive a re-
ward of five pounds each.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, March 17.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
Mary Ann Reading, aged 30, was charged with conceal.
ing the birth of her female illegitimate child at Kingswin•
ford, on the 16th of December.

Mr. C. Forster conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Neale
the defence.

The prisoner, who was attired in deep mourning, was in
December last cook and housekeeper in a family of great re-
spectability at Wordesley, in this county.
On the 16th of that month, during the temporary absence
ofhis master and mistress, the butler observed a very sudden
change in the appearance of the prisoner, and his suspicions
being excited, he examined her bed-room, where he found a
pair of blood-stained sheets, and on opening an unlocked box
discovered the dead body of a new-born child. He immedi-
ately questioned the prisoner, who at once admitted herself to
be the mother of the infant, which, according to her own ac-
count, had been born dead. No marks of violence were on
the body, nor was there any reason for supposing that the
infant had experienced a violent death.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, with a recommen-
dation to mercy. and the prisoner was sentenced to a month's
confinement in the common gaol.
James Walton, aged 25, and George Proj/it, aged 33, two
resolute-looking men, were indicted for having on the night
of the 28th of December last entered certain lands at Tam-
worth, the property of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, with
several other persons unknown, armed with guns, for the
purpose of destroying game.
Mr. Godson, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Lee, conducted the
prosecution ; Mr. Yardley appeared for the defendants.
The preserves of the Right Hon. Baronet had been visited
very frequently about Christmas last by poachers from Lich-
field, who, assembling in large gangs, rendered their capture
by the gamekeepers a matter of great danger, if not of entire
impossibility. On the night of Friday, the 27th of December,
a party of poachers, armed with guns and bludgeons, to the
number of 14 or 16, were discovered by four watchers on
land of Sir Robert Peel, calla Turnabout-field, and subse-
quently in the Rough-cover, a favourite retreat for pheasants,
in which the Right Hon. Baronet had intended to afford his
nests the gratification of a battue on the following morning
In compliance with the orders of their master, the watchers
made no attempt to capture the trespassers, and avoided a
conflict under such disadvantageous circumstances; but one
of them recognised among the party the prisoner Walton,
whom he had known as " a Lichfield chap" for five years ;
and two other keepers were equally positive as to the iden-
tity of Proffit. A muzzled mastiff, which ran from the
keepers into the Rough on the report of guns in that cover,
was found dead in the morning, the entire contents of a gun-
barrel having entered the body of the spirited but luckless
animal.

Mr. YARDLEY addressed the jury for the prisoners, and on
their behalf set up a very plausible alibi, but notwithstand-
ing all the skill and care with which it had been concerted,
the attempt to establish it was frustrated by the searching
cross-examinations of the counsel for the prosecution.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the ease with great care
and impartiality, and
The jury, having consulted for about 20 minutes, pro-
nounced both prisoners Guilty.
A previous conviction for a similar offence was produced
by the governor of the gaol against Proffit, who was sen-
tenced to 7 years' transportation, and Walton to an imprison-
ment of 2 years with bard labour.
CIVIL SIDE.

The Chief Baron has disposed of one common jury and the
first special jury case, involving a matter of account arising
out of mining transactions. Neither case presented any de-
tails of general interest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

Three men, named Langdale, Payne, and atridge,
were brought before the Lord Mayor, upon the charge
of having plundered the office of the Saracen's Head Inn,
Ahlgate, of a quantity of tea. The Justice-room was
much crowded during the investigation, which lasted a
considerable time.
William Ansell stated, that in consequence of infor-
mation which he had received he was induced to examine
the key of the office in the Saracen's Head Inn-yard, on
Thursday last. He found the wards filled with red
putty, and reported what he had seen to Mrs. Simrnonds,
the wife of the prosecutor, by whose direction he went
to the inspector at the police station in Great Tower-
street, who sent one of the City Force to watch
the premises in plain clothes. On the Sunday evening
following witness was called out of his bed, at Mile-end,
at about eleven o'clock, and informed that the warehouse
of the inn had been broken open. On his arrival at the
inn, he found that two chests of tea had been stolen from
the premises He then made inquiry of Policeman Offer
(No. 525), who gave him a description of a cab which
he had seen go down the yard. about a quarter past nine
o'clock. Accompanied by Offer and another pliceman
(Davis, 551), he went to the Blue Boar, Aldgate ; and
subsequently Offer took Ettridge, the driver of the cab,
into custody at that place, and the other prisoners were
soon after lodged in thn station-house.
John Shearlock stated that on Sunday evening, be-
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tween seven and eight o'clock, when ho was sitting in
his room which adjoined the warehouse, ho heard a
rumbling noise at the warehouse doors. He went out
and saw Payne standing about two or three yards from
the door. Payne walked down the yard, and at a little
after nine o'clock witness heard the same noise again,
and ho again saw Payne on the opposite side of the
yard. He then communicated what he had seen and
heard to Mr. Odell, the keeper of the Saracen's need Inn,
Mr. Odell stated that he went to look at the warehouse
doors, and found that they had been forced open, he
immediately left the place to inform Mrs. Symonds, but
on his way he saw Davis, the policeman, who returned
with him to the Saracen's Head yard, and was stationed
in the galleries, so that he might see the warehouse
doors. When witness came down stairs he went into
his house, and there he saw Ettridge, the cabman, and
the two other prisoners in the tap-room. They appeared
to be drinking together. He then went up to the gal-
leries and spoke to Davis, and whilst they were speak=
ing together he heard a noise as if a cab-door had been
shut, and he saw a cab at the same time start from the
stable-door. Langdale was gjose to the cab. Witness
and Davis then went to Mr. Anseil's house, in Devon-
shire-square, to mention what had been seen, and upon
their return they found that two chests of tea were
m iF sing.
Major Shaw, the superintendent of the City police,
who attended during the investigation, said, that there
never had occurred so gross a piece of mismanagement,
and that he had accordingly suspended the officers
whose conduct was so reprehensible.
A great deal more evidence was heard, ail of which
wept to show that if ordinary skill had been exercised,
the property would have been recovered. The whole of
the tea, howevei, ireG hepn lost, and upon one of the
prisoners were found seven soiekeign4, uA (1,94 ht part of
the produce of the robbery.
The prisoners were remanded for a few days.
Tllorn4,F Beckley, a metropolitan policeman of the E
division, was charmed by Major Shaw, the superin-
tendent of the City police, with Willi glP§erc,l ritga

the City police without giving notice to his superior
officer, or receiving permission to leave the force.
Ihe defendant had, it appeared, formerly
been a private in the Coldstream Guards, out of which
he purchased his release for 201. He then g a into the
City police, by using misrepresentations ; and a short
time ago, in consequence of the sudden appearance of his
wife, whom he had passed off as his sister, he abandoned
the City force and contrived to become attached to the
Metropolitan police.
Tr ,e LORD MAYOR, amongst other questions, asked
the defendant why he denied that he had a wife ? The
defendant said that his marriage, which took place at
Paddington church, while he was a soldier, was not a
legal marriage, as no man was allowed to marry without
the consent of his commanding officer.
The LORD MAYOR sentenced the defendant to pay
the sum of 5/., and as the money was not forthcoming,
sent him to Bridewell for one month.
CLERKEIV WELL.

Our reporter has been requested to acknowledge the receipt
of 51. for the poor-box from " Beta," also the half of a Si.
Bank note from " T. T." for the same benevolent purpose, the
donor promi sing to remit the second half when the receipt of
the first was acknowledged in the newspapers. A cheque for
251. was also received for the poor-box, being the legacy of the
Rev. William Winthrop.
A poor woman entered the Court in a state of great afflic-
tion, and in an earnest manner besought the assistance of the
magistrate. She said her name was Harriette Jesse Nelson—
that she lived at No. 3, Cross court, Vinegar-yard, Drury-
lane. Having read an account of the revolting occurrences
alleged to have taken place in Spafields Burial-ground,
she became alarmed lest the remains of her husband,
which had been interred there on the 23d of March, 1842,
should have been removed from the grave. She further
learned from the newspapers that Mr. Bird, one of the ma-
nagers of this grave-yard, had publicly offered to open any
grave and show the relatives of deceased persons interred there
that their remains had not been disturbed. She accordingly
went to the burial-ground on Monday week, saw Mr. Bird,
and asked him to open her husband's grave. He declined,
saying that ground had not been opened for fifteen years. She
went over, pointed out the spot, and begged of him to open it,
but he replied, " It shall not be opened," and then walked away.
Mr. Conlin—Were you at the funeral ? The Woman
(crying)---Oh, yes, I was about the grave on Monday week
until one of the grave-diggers came, and I asked him to open
the grave for me ; he said he would, but had scarcely begun
when Mr. Bird came up and said to me, " I told you the
ground was not to be opened," and sent the man away. I fol-
lowed Mr. Bird down the churchyard, and again entreated of
him to show me my husband's coffin, but he replied, " You
Lhave got teeth to dig a grave yourself." I went back to the
grave again, and having seen three men near the churchyard,
an il pinkcpneected with it, I asked them to dig the grave ; they
- I rreasur:A,ali atit 'man had not been more than a
minute a, ..ork wn......e stench became so intolerable that he
was obliged to leave off; the second and third tried consecu-
cutively, but the smell became so intolerable that they were
obliged to quit the place.
Mr. COMBS—How soon did the stench issue? The Woman
—The very first shovelful' they threw up. A fourth man
took up the spade, but he too was driven away by the smell. I
asked him what the charge was ? He said a pot of beer, and I
gave him my last 3d. to get it. I went the next day againand
made the same request of Mr. Bird—he took down my name
and address, and said he would write to me on the following
Friday, but I never since heard from him. I forgot to state
that Mr. Bird told me that Superintendent Macey, of the G
division, had given directions that no more graves should be
opened.
Mr. Macey (who was present)—l gave no such directions.
The Woman—On the Sunday after my husband was buried,
I went to the grave-yard with my children and found the grave
in which he had been buried open. I asked the grave-digger
to allow me to see the coffin of my husband, but he said there
was another coffin in the way, and that he could not do so.
Myself and my children went every Sunday during the summer
to see the grave, at length my children became dangerously ill,
which plunged me into such distress that I have not recovered
from it yet. _ ..

Mr. iVakeling, vestry-clerk of Clerkenwell parish, said he
attended there on behalf of the parish, knowing the woman
was about to make the statement. It appeared that the ma-
nagers of the grave-yard had, by an advertisement in a weekly
newspaper, expressed their readiness to open the graves at the
request of relatives of persons interred there. They had not
complied with this advertisement, but had opened a whole
batch of graves about ten days ago, which were still open, and
from which a stench issued that was diffusing itself over the
whole 'neighbourhood. The advertisement was inserted as a
means for the defence to the indictment which the parish
would assuredly prefer against them at the ensuing sessions.
He hid evidence to show that the corpses were tumbled out of
the coffins in heaps, and thrown upon a mound of clay, then
beaten and chopped up with the clay, and when compounded
together the whole was thrown to the bottom of a pit dug for
the purpose.
Mr. Watt, a pawnbroker, who lives in a house in Exmouth-
street, abutting upon the grave-yard, here remarked, that there
was one practice connected with this ground which was not
denied, and which there was abundant evidence to prove. A
mechanic was in the habit of officiating as clergyman, and per-
forming the funeral service. He was called in by the managers
of this place and received one shilling and sixpence for eaoh
service thus performed. He was, of course, dressed in the garb
of a clergyman.
Mr. Coatax—Who is this man? Mr. Watt—His name is
Brown, he is a straw-bonnet maker. We cannot open our
back windows on account of this odious stench arising from the
place, which has become vastly worse since the graves were
opened. A few days ago a coffin plate belonging to a coffin
buried last year was found in the churchyard by a friend of his.
Where was the coffin ?

Mr. Superintendent Macey—l went to the grave-yard a
few days ago, and the smell was so intolerable that I could not
remain more than a few minutes in it. The effluvia was dread-
ful ; and Mr. Bird himself said he could hardly stay in the
ground. Sixty graves were open. One man, in looking for
the remains of his child, struck his pickaxe into a coffin, and
its contents poured out in a thick fluid state, emitting the most
horrible smell. These graves had net been opened at the re-
quest of the relatives, but opened on speculation, in order to
pacify the relatives of deceased persons.
Mr. CoSIBE said the mode adopted by the managers of this
place was most unsatisfactory to the relatives of the deceased,
as well as most pernicious in its consequences. The magis-
trate directed that Mr. Vinall should be communicated with
forthwith, and humanely direcql a small sum from the poor-
box to be given to the poor woman, who left the court in the
deepest affliction.

THE IRON TRADE.—MERTRYR.--The iron trade,
which for several years past has been progressively declin-
ing, is now about to take a rapid stride in advance, and
this time we can congratulate our readers upon there being
no fear of a retrograde movement. In June last, the men at
the various establishments had an advance of 10 per cent.,
bat the price of iron having soon afterwards fallen, the iron
trade has ever since been making but slow progress. The
large numbers of railways now in contemplation in England,
Europe, America, and India, bespeak a flood-tide of prospe-
rity, and accordingly the price of iron is steadily, and, we
believe, permanently advancing. So encouraging
is the as-
pect of affairs, that the spirited proprietor of the Cyfarthfa
Works has not only many hundreds of men employed in
erecting a stupendous steam-mill for the manufacture of
rails; but last week he freely announced the intention of
giving the men in his employ another advance of wages.
The manner in which this intimation is conveyed is too cha-
racteristic of the enterprising, clear-headed, and business-like
writer not to merit insertion :
"To all the Workmen of Cyfarthfa and Hirwain Iron Works.
" London, March 1, 1845.
" I have much pleasure in communicating to you that it is
my intention to advance your wages after the expiration of
the present month of March. The improved state of the
trade enables me to do this ; but you must be well aware that
some old orders and contracts still remain on my books at
ofall the ie me
tradete beforegive I myself enjoy a little
low prices to be executed, and that the very heavy losses
which I have sustained in carrying on my works for the last
you the benefit of the
improvedofofutrhyema prospects' andvil I I
n)
t have fixed the end of this month as the
earliest period at which it will be mutually fair and reason- ,
able to commence an advance of wages. Trusting that you
will adhere steadily to your work, and enable me to execute
some of my standing orders without interruption, I am, your
friend and master, '6 Was. CRAWSHAY."
The other iron-masters, as in duty bound, are about to follow
the example so nobly set, and we hear upon good authority
that the next advance is to be 2s. 6d. in the pound, or 12i
per cent.—Cambriun-
uEsTrorr.--The dock establishments
I ancT placesoutheerSuGAß Q
in which sugar is deposited in bond pre-
sented a most bustling appearance on Saturday, owing to the
new sugar duties coming into operation on that day. Very
little sugar had been cleared from bond for some time past,
in anticipation of the reduction of duty, and from an early
boar in the morning the avenues leading to the docks, and
the streets in the neighbourhood of what are termed the up-
town warehouses, belonging to the St. Katherine and the
East and West India Dock Companies, were crowded with
waggons awaiting the clearance of sugars at the reduced
duties, Considerable delay necessarily took place, as accord-
ing to the provisions of the new Act, not a sing le package of
sugar could be delivered until sample lied out of hand a been
furnished for the inspection of the landing surveyors, and
pronounced by them to be inferior to the standard samples
with which the several departments in London and at the
outports had been provided by the Commissioners on Friday,
as was stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the
House on Friday night. -The additional amount of respon-
sibility and labour which devolves upon the Customs' officers
is very great indeed, at the dock establishments of the dock
companies and Customs ; officers remained for some time
after the expiration of the legal hour of business in order to
facilitate the deliveries of sugars for which warrants had
been passed in the Long-room In the early part of the day,
and as far as
possible to prevent complaint or dissatisfaction.
It was remarked that, considering the difficulty attending
the commencement of the new Act being brought into opera-
tion, the deliveries took place with very little delay. We
understand that the standard samples which have been fur-
nished to the revenue officers at the several departments, for
the purpose of comparing with the sugar in bond previous to
delivery under the Act, have been selected in a very liberal
spirit, the samples
being of such good quality that scarcely
any of the sugar in.aportaa from the West Indies, and very
little of the description usually imported from the East
Indies within the limits of the East India Company's char-
ter, will, with reference to it, come under the denomination
and be liable to the duty
e qual to white-clayed sugar,"gc,
as " white-elayed sugar, or sugar
rendered by any process
The amount of duty received at the Custom-house, on Sa-
turday, for sugar alone was about 105,0001., a large sum,
taking Into consideration the great reduction which had
a
taken place.

IMPORTANT INVENTION.—An invention by Captain
Mercer, R.N., superintendent of the packets at Dover, for
disconnecting horses from four-wheel carriages, in case of
the horifes running away
and becoming unmanageable, was
tried in a field belonging to Mr. Dray, Chariton-road, a few
days since, in the presence of Sir Francis Cockburn, Capt.
Washington, R.N., the Rev. Mr. Glover, and several other
scientific gentlemen. A stage-coach, with a pair of horses,
and the apparatua
ilttuhed as a splinter-bar, on the top of
which were several gentlemen, was drivel; rPilPd the fiPid;
when the horses were disconnected from the coach in an in
stant, at the will of the person on or within the coach. The
curiage was driven up and down hill, and the ease and
quid:Peas With whiph the ersonn op the box disconnected
the horses, leaving the cnadh
quits Ow with ttie 114WPagfOf
gave the greatest satisfaction to the numerous party as-
sembled, thereby proving the great utility of the invention,
?,p,.! that its application to four-wheel carriages would be the
means of preventing 4Ppifints in the event of the horses run-
ning away with a curiaga.. At the opplpsion
ment Captain Mercer was muck congratulated on the EiLthedia
of his invention by the numerous party of ladies and gentle
Fl.o came to witness the experiment.
ILLNESS OF T. RIDEa,L q r—We sincerely regret
to have to state that Mr. Rider-expeiietried on Wednes-
day last a similar but unfortunately more severe attack
th4f; that FFhich ho suffered a year ago. We lament to
say that very 'hopes ay? optpligriP4 pf 44
recovery.—Maidstone Gazette.
The Chairman of the Excise had an interview with the
Chancelpr c 4 the Embitter yesterday.
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 19.

The House resumed at Five o'clock.
Several petitions were presented in favour of Rail-
way Bills and other private Bills.
The report of the Committee on the Aberdeen
Railway Bill was brought up, the Committee re-
porting that the standing orders had been complied
with.