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that they shrink from investigatio:i ; and thus
condemn themselves by allowing judgment to
issue by default? In 1828, when Sir Robert
Peel was in power, Ireland exhibited a scene
nearly similar to that which it now, unhappily,
presents. That we may not be chargeable with
distorting facts, or drawilio• upon imagination for ,
effect, we will quote Sir Roberts' Peel's own testi-
mony to the effects of the policy of his own Go-
vernment at that period :
" A dreadful commotion distracts the public mind in Ireland
—a feverish agitation and unnatural excitement prevail to a
degree scarcely credible throughout the entire country—social
intercourse is poisoned there in its very springs—family is
divided against family, and man against his neighbour. In a
word, the bands of social life are almost dissevered—the foun-
tains of public justice are corrupted—the spirit of discord
walks openly abroad, and an army of physical force is mar-
shalled in defiance of all law, to the imminent danger of the
public peace."
When excusing himself to his party and the
country for not taking office in 1839, to which he
was then called, be declared, " Ireland was my
chief difficulty." In Nay last he confessed that
the Whigs had kept Ireland tranquil, but which
was again disturbed under his rule. "Ireland
was tranquil two years ago [the Whigs were
then in office], it is now most disturbed." Thus
out of his own mouth we obtain proof of the
failure of his Irish policy. - The disturbed
state of Ireland is coincident with a Peel

Ministry. Sir Robert Peel has admitted the
fact; and Ireland supplies the evidence. On what
imaginable grounds can inquiry be resisted by
the Government? " Let Sir Robert Peel," says

the writer of the pamphlet [" What is to be
done ?") " compare the picture (of Ireland, drawn
by himself in 1828) with the tranquillized state
of Ireland under Lord Normanby, or Lord For-
tescue, and blush for the calumnies he sanc-
tioned in Parliament against their Governments.
Let him compare the thriving and friendly state
of Ireland in 1841, with that to which he has
amain reduced it in 1813; and then ask himself,
:here are the fruits of his Conservatism, his
boasted statesmanship, and good government ?"
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle will
not lay aside the question of the Dublin jury
panel, which it.is pleased to say has been packed.
Our Contemporary has this day an article of a
column length upon the subject. With all re-
spect to the Chronicle, we must say that
in its argument it has, no doubt inadver-
tently, borrowed from the Repeal journals
as impudent a falsehood as ever dropped
from the lips or pen of man. The
panel has not been packed in any sense
in which the phrase has hitherto been used.
The panel has been taken in strict conformity
with the provisions of a law introduct'd by Sir
Michael O'Loghlin and Mr. Justice Perrin, under
the government of the Marquis of Nortnanby.
This cannot be called packing. We will however
tell the Morning Chronicle what packing is, by
an example. Lord Plunket packed a jury for
the trial of the Orangemen in 1823, when he set
aside thirty out of the first forty-two names
called—the panel, we suppose, consisting of 48.
Now this was packing, and it may be aid pick-
ing, a jury. It was a gross and scandalous abuse
of the prerogative—but we do not find in the
Morning Chro.nietl of that day a single word
of reproof of the then Irish Attorney-General.
In the late case there has been no exercise
of the prerogative whatever—the public prose-
cutor
has simply complied with the terms of
the law; he was to strike off 12, the defendants
were to strike off 12. The law does not allow the
parties to strike off the same names, even
were they inclined to do so, and the natural
course was for him to strike off the 12 whom
the defendants would be most desirous to
keep on. That they wished for a Roman
Catholic jury is pretty plain, from the fact
that though the process of reduction was, of
course, progressive, they did not strike off one
-Roman Catholic. But surely, if it was natural
for the defendants to wish for a Roman Catholic
jury, as likely to favour them ; it was no less so for
the public prosecutor, who thinks them guilty, to
dislike the jury they wished for. However we have
been informed, and we firmly believe it, that the
religious profession of most of those objected to
was wholly unknown, though their political bias
was not, until Mr. Cantwell, eagerly on the
watch to catch a Roman Catholic juror, pro-
claimed in succession the sect of the rejected.
If any one, therefore, has insulted the Roman
Catholic body, it is Mr. Cantwell, who was
the first, and indeed the only, person who
made any reference to - religious distinc-
tions through the whole proceeding. He it
is who has told that among the persons to
whom, upon general grounds, the Crown prose-
cutors were compelled to object, ten or eleven
were Roman Catholics. Does any one be-
lieve that Sir Robert Peel's Government
wished to affront the Roman Catholics ?
Nobody will charge such a folly upon it ;
there is no one can doubt that the Ad-
ministration would be delighted to have
the whole jury, or at least a considerable
part of it, composed of Roman Catholics, if, for-
tunately the ballot-box had turned up the names
of Roman Catholics, of whom wewillingly believe
there are many in Dublin, who could he trusted
to give a fair verdict; but as such, unhappily,
was not the case, the Crown prosecutor could
not dare to trifle with his duty in a case involv-
ing the peace and liberty of Ireland, and the
safety of the empire. It is quite plain that the
firmness and honesty of the Irish Attorney-
General have deranged the whole plan of de-
fence, and miserably disappointed the expecta-
tions of the anti-Saxon. For the last three
months the Irish Repeal journals have teemed
with paragraphs warning the Crown prosecutor
that he must not challenge a Roman Catholic
—plain proof what was anticipated from a
Roman Catholic jury, or from even one
Roman Catholic upon the jury ; and we have
no doubt that if the most notorious among the
unprosecuted Repealers had been the single
Roman Catholic among the forty-eight names
drawn, to challenge him would have pro-
voked the clamour that we hear, because
the ten or eleven like him, though per-
haps less notorious, have been challenged.
The truth is, it was hoped that the
Attorney-General would not forget, but that he
would carefully remember, religious distinctions,
and that in submission to the clamour of cant, he
would leave unfit men—men whom, if Protes-
tants, he would challenge—to sit on the jury be-
cause they are Roman Catholics. He has pursued
a wiser, a manlier, and a more honest conduct, in
.otal oblivion of religious distinctions, and hence
ie clamour.

DEATH OF SIR HUDSON LOWE
Sir Hudson Lowe expired last evening from
the effects of the severe attack of paralysis of
which he was recently the subject. As the
officer to whom was entrusted the custody of the
Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena, his conduct
toward the fallen monarch was strongly cen-
sured ; although, as a military officer in com-
mand, obeying the orders of his superiors, he
was merely the agent of others.
Sir Hudson Lowe was an Ensign in the East
Devon Militia, and served as a volunteer with
the 50th Regiment in 1785 and 1786, nearly sixty
years ago; and in Sept., 1787, was appointed
Ensign in that regiment, and Lieut. in Nov., 1791.
He served at Gibraltar six years, and subse-
quently at Toulon and in Corsica. He was pre-
sent at the attack of Martello tower, the storming
of Convention Redoubt, and the siege of Bastia
and Calvi.
Whilst holding the ranks of Lieutenant and
Captain he had in succession the following situa-
tions :—Regimental Paymaster, Assistant Pay-
master-General, Deputy Judge Advocate, and
Assistant Inspector-of Foreign Corps. He next
served in Portugal two years, and at Minorca
one. He had then the command of a corps of
Corsicans. He served in the expedition to
Egypt, and was in the reserve under Major-
General Moore. He was present in the princi-
pal occurrences of that compaign, and subse-
quently appointed Secretary of a Board at Malta
for the adjustment of claims; he received a
Majority in the Corsican Rangers, which was
ante-dated the sth of July 1800, and, in 1802, was
reduced to half pay.
In April, 1803, he received a majority in the
7th Foot, and was appointed permanent Assistant
Quartermaster-General in the Western dis-
trict. He was afterwards sent, at the desire of
Lord Hobart, on a secret expedition to Portugal,
and subsequently on a similar mission to Sar-
dinia. He raised and completed the corps of Royal
Corsican Rangers, of which he was appointed
Lieut.-Colonel Commandant, in June, 1804. He
served in Naples under Sir James Craig, and
afterwards, in Sicily, he was detached with five
companies to Capri, and was stationed there two
years and a half. The French attacked this post
with 3,000 men, and after a resistance of ten
days, the walls being breached, the guns dis-
mounted, and ammunition expended, Lieut.-Col.
Lowe evacuated it, by a convention, which
gave the right of free departure with arms and
baggage.
In the expedition to the Bay of Naples, under
John Stuart, Lieutenant-Colonel Lowe com-
manded the first line of the advance; he was
present at the attack and capitulation of Ischia.
In the expedition to the Greek Islands he was
selected to act as second in command to Colonel
Oswald; he was at the attack and capitulation of
Zinte and Cephalonia, and, subsequently, ap-
pointed Commandant and Chief of the Provi-
sional Government of the latter Island.

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He was Quartermaster-General to the British
Army in Flanders. In January, 1812, he re-
ceived the rank of Colonel, and the Colonelcy
of the Royal Corsican Rangers ; the 4th of
.Tune, 1814, that of Major-General. In 1814
the honour of Knighthood was conferred upon
him, and in 1815 he was appointed to have
the custody of the Emperor Napoleon at St.
Helena, in which charge he continued until the
Emperor's death. This is the event in his life
which may secure him immortality.
He was appointed Lieutenant-General in July,
1830, and obtained the Colonelcy of the 50th
Foot, Nov. 17, 1842. He was K.C.B. and G.C.,
St. Michael and St. George.

RECEPTION OF., THE FRENCH
CONSUL AT CANTON.
The Paris Messager, a Government paper, gives
the following official account of the interview between
the Count de Matti-Menton, the French Consul-
General in China, and the Imperial Commissioner of
the Emperor :
"M. de Matti-Menton, who was accompanied by
M. Fornier-Duplan, the Captain of the Alcmene,
having arrived at Wampoa, addressed a letter, on the
31st August, to the Viceroy, requesting an interview.
On the 6th of September the Consul, with his Chan-
cellor, M. Fornier-Duplan, and eight officers of the
corvette, arrived at the country house of the Viceroy,
where he was received by the Mandarin Yang- Quang-
Tong, Judge of Canton ; Hum-Seu, the delegate of
the Imperial Commissioner ; the Kwang-Tcheou-
Fou, Prefect of Canton; and the Sub -Prefect of
Casabranca. At noon the gongs announced the ap-
proach of the two grand dignitaries. After having
taken their seats in the great hall they sent a mandarin,
with blue crystal buttons, to inform the Consul that
they would receive hi:a with pleasure. There were
assembled in the hall his Highness the Imperial Com-
missioner, wearing the yellow sash, in token o:= his
relationship to the Imperial family, his Excellency
the Viceroy, the Kwang-Tcheou-Fou, and several
mandarins of blue and white buttons. As the Consul
and the persons with him entered the hall, his Im-
perial Highness and the Viceroy rose, and went to
meet them. The Count de Ratti-Menton delivered
in an enclosure of silk, a letter from M. Guizot,,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the Viceroy. After
having removed it from its envelope, the Viceroy pre-
sented the letter to his Highness, and read the transla-
tion which had been made of it. Nuemrous questions
were then addressed by the two dignitaries to the
Consul, and to the captain of the Alcmene, respect-
' in.. the King of the French, the Royal family, and
I. Guizot, and the relations existing between France
and the other powers. The French Consul then
presented to his highness the Imperial Commis-
sioner a letter requesting for France the same ad-
vantages as had been granted to England. The
Imperial Commissioner replied, verbally, that as
the Chinese Government had acted so generously to-
wards England, notwithstanding their ancient and
recent differences, the Imperial Government did not
think it could be less amicable as regarded France.
Matters being thus settled; the authorities uncovered
their heads, and invited the French to do the same
(in China, it is required by etiquette that the heads
should be covered whilit business is being discussed).
There were then served at different small tables a
variety of sweetmeats, and some of which the Im-
perial Commissioner presented to the French from
time to time. Before the meeting broke up, M.
Fornier-Duplan repeated to the Imperial Commissioner
a request that had already teen made to the Viceroy,
cor the liberation of a Chinese Christian, who was
arrested two or three years ago, and branded in the
face with a red-hot iron, for having been in the
service of a missionary who had been taken in the
interior of China. The Imperial Commissioner pro-
;nised to write to the Minister of Justice at Pekin,
and to recommend this request to him strongly. The
reception, which was alike brilliant and cordial,
lasted more than an hour.
The same journal publishes as follows the corre-
spondence connected with the above :
Ky-Ing, High Imperial Commissioner, &c., Ky-
Kong, Viceroy of the Province of the two Kwangs,
&c., to his Excellency M. Guizot, Great Minister
of France, charged with the department of Foreign

Affairs.
" The 13th day of the 7th intercalary moon of the
23d year of the reign of Taou-Kwang, we received
in audience the Count de Ratti-Menton, sent to
Canton by your Excellency in the quality of Consul
of the first class, and he transmitted to us direct the
letter in which the illustrious Minister manifests to
us such honourable sentiments of affection. Our
hearts are filled with joy on the occasion, and we
thank him for it. We have long known that the
empire of France is one of the first states in Europe.
Three centuries ago it carried on commerce with our
empire. Between these two empires peace and
friendship have constantly reigned. Never have there
been dissensions, discord, or any subject of litiga-
tion. The merchants of France have always observed
in their affairs a spirit of order exempt from all con-
fusion ; their conduct has always been regulated by
the laws and justice. I, the Imperial Commissioner,
have lately received from my august Emperor the
authority to allow foreigners to trade in the five ports
of Canton, Font-Chow, Amoy., Ning-Po, and Chanlc-
Hai, and consequently, and in accord with my col-
leagues, I have fixed and determined the regulations
relative to commerce, as also the tariff. The mode-
ration of the duties which have been established proves
incontestibly that we have been in this respect as
open and generous as possible towards the foreigners
who visit these distant countries. To the French
merchants we grant the same privileges as the
English and other nations have obtained from the
approbation of our Emperor. M. de Ratti-Menton,
who has just arrived at Canton in quality of Consul of
the first class, furnished with official letters from
the illustrious Minister, and who, besides, has already
filled several posts in other countries of Europe,
where he distinguished himself by his prudence, his
affability, and his conciliatory spirit, will easily suc-
ceed in directing the French merchants, whom he
will scrupulously cause to observe all the arrange
aients relative to trade, and will thus enlarge our re-
lations of commerce and friendship. Such is the reply
we have the honour to address to the illustrious Mi-
nister of Fra6ce, entreating him, in order to prevent
all confusion, to employ the same terms as those
which we have used to express his titles and powers
—Canton, the 17th day of the 7th intercalary moon
of the 23d year of the reign of Taou-Kwang.
soon as the Government of
Copy of a letter from M. de Ratti-Menton to his High-
ness the High Imperial Commissioner, dated Can-
ton, September 5, 1843.
Emperor of the French was
informed of the happy re-establishment of peace,
riziiigehsatyess c—he As
his
his first thought was to appoint a consul. He
imagined that this measure might contribute to
give snore extension to the relations already so ancient
„Lich exist between China and France, and every-
thing strengthens the hope that this desire will be
realised. Nevertheless, in the present state of things,
and notwithstanding the, harmony which has prevailed
between the two empires for more than two centuries,
his Majesty the Emperor of the French, my august
master, desires only for his subjects a participation in
the privileges enjoyed by other nations in the Celestial
Empire. I have consequently the honour to request
your Highness to have the goodness to give me a
document, sealed with the great seal, similar in all
respects to that which the English and the Americans
have obtained, as regards their future relations with
these countries ; this document will be sent by me to
the Government of his Majesty the Emperor of the
French, who will see in it a just reciprocity of thr
sympathy which France has always felt for China."
Letter of the High Comm
Count deissioner aßatti-Menton.
nd of the Viceroy
High Imperial Commissioner, Member
of the two Kvvangs to
" Ky-Ing,
of the Imperial Family, Viceroy of the Provinces of
the two Kwangs, &c., &c.—Ky-Kong, President of
the War Department, Viceroy of the two Provinces
of Koang-Tong and Kouang See, &c., &c., send
collectively this official answer. The 13th day of the
7th intercalary moon of the 23d year of Tamn-
Kwang (September 6, 1843). We, the said Ccm-
missioner and his colleague, had the pleasure of an
interview with the Honourable Consul of the first
class, who presented us directly with a letter, which
we have opened, read, and perfectly underetood.
France is an illustaious and powerful State of the
Western Ocean, which, for more than three cen-
turies, has entertained peaceable and friendly re-
lations with China, without the slightest dis-
agreement or effusion of blood. Having come
to Canton by the express orders of the
Emperor, my master, to there determine on
a tariff and commercial regulations applicable to
the merchants of all nations, and these regulations
having been drawn up and agreed upon, and the
tariff established and completed in a manner to abolish
all illegal duty, and all exaction, I, the High
Impe-
rial Commissioner, have respectfully submitted these
two documents to the arobation of his Majesty,
whose answer, received pp
through the medium of the
Minister of Finances, contains his gracious authorisa-
tion to carry the said tariff and regulations into exe-
cution. Henceforth the merchants of all rations
will superabundantly enjoy the kindness of the Em-
peror of China, who has condescended to manifest his
kindness for foreigners, and to open to them an inex-
haustible source of profit. France, therefore, who.
has so long maintained friendly relations of amity
with the Chinese,
conducted themselves peaceably, conformable to strict
equity exempt from all disorder—France has a
particular right to be regarded with equal kind-
ness. No other country shall certainly be snore
partially favoured.
We, the said High Imperial Com-
missioner, and his colleague, have, in consequence, on
the demand of the honourable Consul of the first class,
caused copies to be
made of the new tariff, and the
new regulations relative to commercial matters, and
have formally affixed to them the seals of our office.
We send them subjoined officially to the honourable
Consul of the first class, inviting him to have them
translated into the language of the Western Ocean,
and to publish them in his country, in order that
French merchants may knOw them and conform to
them. In consequence of the opening, for the interest of
commercial transactions, of the five ports of Canton,
Font-chow, Amoy, Ning-po, and Chunk Hai, the im-
perial duties specified in the tariff, as well as the ton-
nage dues, will be alone demanded, all other duties being
henceforth abolished ; the other provisions of the regu-
lations are the result of the good feelings of our great
Emperor towards foreign traders. His Majesty, de-
siring to relieve them from all impediments whatever,
and to open to them a large source of profit, his kind-

ness and great consideration on this occasion may be
said to have gone beyond ordinary bounds. To the
arrangements relative to smuggling ; to the fraudu-
lent injury of the revenue; to the fixing of the rate
of exchange ; to the confiscation of merchandises &c.,
&c., concerning the laws of the country, the agents of
the other countries have given their consent, and the
Honourable Consul of the first class should likewise
oblige the merchants, his countrymen, to obey them
implicitly, thereby avoiding every subject of dis-
pute or discussion. When merchant-vessels shall arrive
in one of the ports, they can only place themselves and
trade in a certain limited space, which they must not
go beyond, nor can they go to any other points of
China besides the ports above-named. The different
regulations are now in course of fixation, and when
the good pleasure of the Emperor shall be known it
will be officially announced. The Hon. Consul
being come on a mission to Canton, and having
brought with him a letter from the Grand Minister
of his country, we, the High Imperial Commissioner
and his colleague, will treat him with the greatest
courtesy and with all the required politeness, and
will place him on a footing of perfect equality with
the English Consuls.—lmportant official communica •
tion made to M. de Ratti -Menton, Consul of France
of the first Class, 23d year of Taon-Kwang, 7th in-
tercalary moon, 17th day (Sept. 10, 1843)."

A CHESHIRE JURY.
At the Chester assizes, on Friday, held before Mr.
Justice Wightman, William Venables was indicted for
killing and slaying his father, John Venables, by kick-
ing him in the belly and loins, on the 27th of September
last. The father of the prisoner kept a beer-shop at
Sandbaek, and the races took place on the 27th of Sept.
The prisoner was at his father's house on that day, and,
whilst in a state of intoxication, quarrelled with a man
named Sutton. He was removed from the room, but re-
turned, and persisted in fighting Sutton. His father
endeavoured to quiet him; and upon seeing, the prisoner
said, " You old rogue, are you coming ? " He struck at
his father, who fell on the floor, and the prisoner
gave the old man a savage kick in the belly. The
prisoner's brother immediately seized him, and prevented
his doing anything more to his father. The old man
was raised from the floor. He appeared to be in a very
bad state ; was put to bed, and died on the following
day. Upon a post mortem examination, it was proved
that his bowels had been ruptured. The defence was
that the rupture was caused by an accidental fall.
jury retired to consider their verdict. After an
absence of half an hour, they came into Court, and
returned a verdict of guilty, with a strong recom-
mendation to mercy. Judge—Upon what ground,
gentlemen, do you recommend him to mercy ?
Foreman—We recommend him to mercy on
the ground that it was done by accident. Judge—lf
you recommend him to mercy on the ground that it
might have been by accident, your verdict ought to
have been " not guilty." It is only in case you think it
was done wilfully that you can find him guilty. Fore-
man—We do not consider that it was wilfully done.
Judge—Then you had better retire, and re-consider your
rfadict. You must consider whether it was done by
accident or wilfully. If it was a pure accident, then the
prisoner is not guilty. if you entertain any doubt
about it, you are bound to give the prisoner the benefit
of it. If you think it was done wilfully, he must be
convicted. If you think it was not intentionally done—
if you think 'he had not the intention to harm, you must
acquit him—Foreman—We do not think it was inten-
tionally done. Judge—You must go and consider your
verdict. The jury seemed disinclined to leave the
court ; but his Lordship dirt cted them to go back to the
room, and reconsider their verdict. They then left the
Court, and, after an absence of half an hour, returned. It
then appeared that they had changed their foreman, who,
in answer to the usual question from the Clerk to the
Crown, gave a verdict of Not Guilty I

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION'-HO USE.
Two commercial gentlemen of the name of Ett-tns were
summoned before the Lord Mayor by Mr. Appleton, an
attorney, who resides in Fenchurch-buildings, under the

following circumstances:—
The complainant said that a client of his had instructed
him to proceed against the defendants for the amount of
a debt, and he accordingly wrote to them, politely re-
presenting theclaim of his client, and requesting a cheque
for the money ; not having received any answer, he
called upon them a few days subsequently, when they
apologised for not having written, and made a statement
to him relative to the demand, which statement he soon
afterwards communicated to the other party, who as-
sured him that it was s tissue of falsehoods, and peremp-
torily called upon him to proceed at law for the recovery
of the money. Thus informed and instructed, he again
wrote to the defendants, requesting the transmission of
a cheque, or their attorney's name and address, and no
satisfaction being offered, he went himself to their office
for the purpose of serving each of them with a copy of
a writ of summons. Upon arriving at the office he
found that one of them was engaged with a gentleman,
and he took particular care to deliver the message with
which he was charged with as much delicacy as possible
to each. Due credit, however, was not given to him for
the gentleman-like manner in which he had acted, for
he was not only rudely addressed, but pushed out of the
office by the two brothers, who, in thus violently getting
rid of him, knocked his hat down stairs.
The LORD MAYOR—What language did you use upon'
going to the defendant? Complainant—l said it ap-
peared, from what my client represented, that the state-
ment made by them to me was a tissue of falsehoods. I
am not in the habit of serving writs, and I assure your
Lordship that I acted on the occasion from motives of
delicacy towards them, as well as of duty towards my
clients, and I take this course on account of the outrage
done to my feelings.
The elder defendant described the transaction, on ac-
count of which the complainant had written to them, as
one which by no means sanctioned any demand upon
them, and stated that the particulars were distinctly de-
tailed to him..-and certain parties-referred to, who were
ready to verify their representations of facts. It is under
such a state of things extremely. aggravating that the
complainant should, after having called at their office and
served them with the copies of writs, declare that their
statement was a tissue of falsehoods (an assertion which
he had made, not from his client, but froin himself), and
then continue to hang about the office, although the
business about which he came was completed. The
complainant, upon being told to quit the premises after
all this, refused to move, and they had therefore pushed
him out, but with less violence than they considered,
since the affair bad taken place, they would have been
justified in using.
The LORD MAYOR, after having asked several ques-
tions of the complainant, said there was no evidence of
an assault in the case before him. He considered that
the language used by'the complainant was such as per-
sons who had the feelings and characters of gentlemen
would find it very diffieult to endure,_ and that there was
nothing in the statement made by the defendants to the
complainant, relative to the client of the latter, which at
all sanctioned the imputation or the suspicion of false-
hood, as regarded them. There were some individuals who
would look upon a foundationless charge of having told a
tissue of falsehoods • with silent contempt, others who
a mild repel it with -indignation, while others would re-
sent it with vindictive anger. He considered that the
defendants had adopted the middle course, and he
thought the complainant would act prudently in letting
the matter drop.
The complainant seemed to be exceedingly unwilling
to take the advice of the Lord Mayor, whom he endea-
voured to convince that his feelings had received a very
formidable wound. He also submitted that as he no
doubt shoald have some future dealings with the defen-
dants, it would be necessary that he should be secured
•
against ill-treatment.
The LOUD MAYOR—I think I can take upon myself
to state that neither of the defendants will offend you, if
you take care not to give them provocation.
The summons was then dismissed.
CLERKEN W ELL.
The Rev. John Harrington Evans, minister of the
Baptist chapel in John-street, Bedford-row, made the
following singular application to the Magistrate
He stated that a gentleman named Seers, a watch-case
manufacturer, residing in White Lion-street, Clerken-
well, was in the habit of disturbing his 'congregation
whilst assembled at Divine worship. A few days ago,
whilst the people were kneeling in the chapel, Mr.
Seers suddenly stood lip in front of them, and addressed
them in very unbecoming language. His words and
manner disturbed some, and alarmed all. Last even-
ing the same gentleman created a disturbance in the
vestry during the sermon, so that applicant could scarcely
be heard by his congregation. A policeman took him
into custody, but as the noise was made in the vestry,
which adjoins the chapel, the police inspector at the
station-house, refused to take the charge, and Mr. Seers,
was again set at liberty. He trusted his Worship would
protect a large and respectable Dissenting assembly
from interruption during the hours of public worship.
Mr. COMBE—What is the cause ? The Rev. Mr.
Evans said he believed the unhappy gentleman laboured
Under a delusion, for he said that he (Mr. E.) exercised
a supernatural influence over the clergy, magistracy,
and medical profession of the country for the last
eighteen years.
Mr. COMBE advised the Rev. Gentleman to give the
intruder in charge to a policeman, if he should again
interrupt the devotional exercise of his congregatior..

COURT OF COMMISSIONERS Of
SEWERS, GUILDHALL.

THE FILTHY STATE OF THE STREETS OF

THE CITY.

In consequence of the representation made by the
Lord Mayor in the Chair at the Mansion-house, upon
the subject Gf the condition of the streets, lanes, and
alleys of the City, and his Lordship's declared intention
to exercise all the authority he possessed as Chief Ma-
gistrate to compel the scavenging contractor to do his
duty, the subject has been, at length, introduced in such
a form in this Court as will be likely to lead to the im-
provement so long sought tor without effect, and even
without notice, from those who ought to have accom-
plished it long ago•
The Comnni,sioners having assembled on Tuesday, at
their Chamber in Guildhall, a great number of complaints
were made against the contractor, who attended by de-

putt' to answer them.
The result will be seen from the following resolutions,
to which the attention of the citizens has been most par-
ticularly called by the authorities :
At a public meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers
for the City of London and the liberties thereof, in the
Guildhall of the said city, Tuesday, January 9, 1844,
John Gore, contractor for rakers' a ork, having been
summoned to answer different complaints for neglect of
duty, in not duly cleansing the streets and removing the
dust, &c., from the houses of the inhabitants within this
city, being called, his foreman attends on his behalf,
and lays a letter from the said John Gore, and a sur-
geon's certificate of his inability to leave his house, be •
fore the Court.
The various parties complaining attend, and ate
heard at length.
Ordered—That the clerk do carefully- set forth the
streets, lanes, and places severally complained of in the
summonses, and that a fine be laid on the contractor for
one week's neglect of duty therein.
Ordered—That the clerk do inform the contractor of
the fines so laid, and that if he (the contractor) does not
pet form the duties required from him, according to his
contract, this Court will, at the next meeting, serve him
with notice to annul the contract.