The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY' EVENING, MARCH 27, 1845:

tattered, and not receipted as payments until February
'of the present year.—(Hear, hear.) Ho was anxious to
"certain the effect of the new Poor-law Bill, and to
enmpare the expenses of the first year under its opera-
withn their former heavy payments under the old
47: stem, and to his surprise, he found in the first year
Lsir rates were reduced one-halt (Hear, hear.) Now,
IteY would recollect that the complaint against a union
or !several parishes was that the poorer parishes would
entails, heavier expense upon the richer parishes in the
same union, and they naturally enough expected that
walbrook would suffer heavily when in co partnership
!fhb Whitechapel, but even with that drawback they
ha al saved nearly one-half a year in poor-rates, and it
could trot be said that this reduction arose from superior
rteatgement because the same gentleman who managed
to the former case was also chairman of the poor- law union.
„tr• Plight then referred to the letting of the houses in
'''e parish, and cited some instances where the rental
Was at a very low valuation, and that not in every case
taid regularly. If the meeting were satisfied that Mr.
4ock and himself had done their duty, they would be
l'erY happy to allow themselves to be re-elected, and he
OIL Plight) had no doubt that ultimately the cause
of truth and of justice would triumph. He would re-
rat then what he had stated formerly, that whatever
tends were wanted over that contributed by the parish-
Loners, he should be happy to advance, without seeking
an interest for it.
un the motion of Mr. CUNLIFFE,
Mr. Rock and Mr. Flight were re-elected Church-
wardens for the ensuing year.
On the motion of Mr. f
Mr. Henry Rock and Mr. Williams were elected over-
kers for the ensuing year.
Mx. CROSBY, the vestry-clerk, then detailed the law
,theceedinfrbs between the parishioners and Mr. Gibbs.
eY had not been able, in consequence of the impedi-
_tents thrown in their way, to g( t on so rapidly as they
7_Ould wish, but he had no doubt that in the next term
"e could give more satisfactory intelligence.
CROLY then, in a lengthened and effective speech,
,-"ijerted to the position of affairs, but the facts of it are
"" embodied in the statement by Mr. Flight.
. After Some further discussion the meeting adjourned
the Bth of May.

TRADES' DELEGATES CON-
FERENCE.—(THIS DAY.)
The delegates assembled at half-past nine this morn-
at the Parthenium Club Rooms, and proceeded to
etscu__
kit is the recommendations in the report of the Cora-
t" on General Purposes.
told the Conference yesterday a resolution was agreed
tor the formation of " A Society, to be called the
ratiitstoc4.a„tion of United Trades for the Protection of In-
The following recommendations of the Com-
Itpe were also adopted this morning:—
the' A Central Committee to carry out the objects of
fk said Association, and the formation of a fund to de-
Y the necessary expenses.
ti:3- The leading objects of the Association may be
ltisible into two departments—the first external, hay-
,:l...reference to the influence of the Legislature on the
07dition of the industrious classes; the second internal,
to efforts made by the trades to improve their own
edition
)34T, e delegates then proceeded to discuss " the este-
*htlalnent of local boards of trade, similar to those
tol°l have so long existed in France and
giam, composed of masters and operatives,
Whom all matters affecting the regulation of
b:gas, duration of labour, disputes, &c., shall
ofi referred, and their decisions have the authority
thAzt Committee
A very favourable opinion was expressed by
as to the effect of the adoption of such a
%oral ; but considerable difference of opinion prevailed
lilt °rig the delegates. It was objected to by some as
tae? to place the operative classes under the tyranny of
testers, and to make their condition worse than it is at
thellt, Other delegates considered that nothing but
itrrangernenb of this nature could remove the existing
ses, and thought that both masters and men would be-
tit by it.
4t• DELEGATE, a working man in the coal-mines of North
eshire, spoke at considerable length, and in a strain of
°(1 fleece that proved him to be a man of great intelli-
141ae, of the very many hardships which his peculiar de-
titinPtion of labour subjected the working miners to. He
ttqribed the different gasses exiting in the coal mines
their deleterious effects on the human constitution.
eihpre an instance of the destructive consequences of
li,r,2sive gasses, by which he said 17 men lost their
NZ, )•et their employers refused to pay the expense of
Ike i"lag the dead bodies. This statement was followed
"Aid cries of " Shame." These, he said, were his rea-
ea for agreeing in the opinion that local boards of trade
_VA act as a protection to the working classes.
lii;'l)xeEcek,rx, who represented the tailors, expressed
.11PPrehensions for the stability of the proposition even
should be carried out ; and he thought it would be
it: if each trade could place itself in a position to assist
cf in the first instance before it turned its attention to
lis,uPport of others.
high DELEGATE from the linen-weavers of Beverley
of Y approved of the proposition, and gave instances
1441" e hardships the linen-wearers suffered by the ab-
le,of it.
is that
sk-LJELEGATE from Bull cited cases where shipowners
the"St town were also magistrates ; and in consequence
pootaest monstrous decisions had often been made when
Nit °len made appeals to those parties for their wages.
kiwtbat could never occur if a local board of trade
CI in that town.
spt4 DELEGATE from the block-printers of Kent said he
h, Cher in favour than against the proposition ; but
thtshaad, if those local boards were of so much benefit in
*se° and in Belgium, how did it happen that so little
known in this country of their co-operation ?
%kit • CaRISTOPHER, on the part of the London shoe-
kler,3. expressed his surprise at the sentiments he had
to 6..l,istening to, which be said would be calculated
sts,."‘a people to believe that the working men had
Its,' found sympathy from their employers -, but
liseijeald like to know when and where that had ever
ip
h.eaPerienced. He would ask, what did the work-
IritC,!a mean by asking to be placed upon equal terms
thit,L'Qeir employers in courts of Justice ? Did they
Ste that, if even there were an equal number of masters
ter men in a court that would be placing them on equal
fors? If they did, they never were more mistaken,
tfor",,uatt were the masters present that they did not
Ste t the day ?—(Hear.) He feared the project would
ma found productive of the good anticipated.
Serelt. the debate concluded, and
qr. FLEMING, Chairman of the Committee, then rose,
sotdaid that as it was not likely that anything new
/totif., be offered in favour of the proposition, he
11164 take a short review of the objections raised to it.
Noi, be did at great length, and then described the
14048.,°Perandi of the proposed boards of trade, which
*„ort` Consist of six persons—three masters, and three
`seitlg men, and all questions referred to them for
decision were determined by a majority of votes,
ist k therefore an unfair or unjust decision could hardly
Vtaitila ; and, if any peculiar difficulty arose, the board
hire ,power to call in an umpire.
!tate,' w Atm, block- printer, corroborated Mr. Fleming's
setiZeat as to fixing the rates of prices for menu-
'Ss 4ng articles on the continent for certain periods of
N,ear• He said he had workedfive years in Belgium,
ltt found
th such to be the fact. He knew men to work
u
'strort,t, that
from sun-rise to sun-set for 10d.; but
,at sum went further than 2s. 6d. in this country.
t(t."'LEGATE from the wool-combers of Bradford was
titsjanr of the boards of trade, if for no other purpose
!!spir,t° prevent the workman from approaching his
Ittiler in too humiliating a position, or being the
'cansfj of their long purses.—(Hear, hear.) But the
loyoleg men could-never be respected by their em-
tlst:re so long as they did not respect themselves, or
Nos
sal themselves something better than mere machines
fed to make fortunes for their masters, and then die,
Arent, miserable paupers.—(Hear, hear.)
l'ht:ri.,some few other observations,
tZDo:;.3IAtamAN suggested an alteration in the fourth
iChitlen which he contended would have the effect of
the' acts of the boards free from the consequences
tl'theeastructive conspiracy and decisioe."—(Hear.)
alteration was in substance that an application
L'a made to Parliament for an Act to legalise the
The meeting
of those local boards.
lteeting then adjourned for an hour.

.44
-ifi SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
I)°N, MAncii 27.-Wind southerly..sTblr‘eretAair-irdac.lsououd.rh.
M 26t0 W.A. . •
CAhicnial; Amphitrite, Davison, 11 muffins ; Char-
, tw, Weble, Mauritius ; Britannia, Lyme for St. John's,
kg ,t,4nswick. Sid. li
saved!
South Stockton
t71141;i4e Margaret Thompson, and the crew of the
,P• le P• The Janet, of Alloa from Shie.higs,tobuCtoiNnsatsanatsi:
on the Goodwin Sand's this mornin
Ilithnht)ll With loss of an anchor, and anchored in the Downs
4 aPParent damage.
"CI,Lh-"J-111, MAncif 26.-Wind N.N.W., fresh breeze.-
-achelor, Na in, Ichaboe ; Andes, Smith and Cynthia,
2Ztohrthhy, Pernambuco ; Guiana, Kueft,
,Fernando Po,
- and sld. for London. Off Falcon, Rio, for
k,,„;rP ; Niord Kaufman, Havaunah, for'do.t
_v.N.w._
"td, 10Lou'rit 'M
kncii 26.-Wind N.W. \
lithei:res, Jamaica. Off Oriental, steamer, Alexandria, loft
Kincar-
-1,11.1144\1PT0v Marten 25.-The Hawkhill,
• ich had picked up at sea the crew of a voefssel from
nameunknocvn, was passed off Cadiz by the
t l'i,,"teaner arrived hero.
`chaCT°W, biaacit 25.-Wind W.-Arrd. Neptune, Jolly,
`)'•
4,4 ZWI,
11Iwncit 26.-The sloop Endeavour, of Tenby,
't "e beer, fell over on her broadside last night, and on
Poi:w,ing tide filled.
"tla f',:' 1 AiLatoT MARCH 25 -The Two Sisters,. Wood,. of
::1114t,a11,11,t?lita'rnsiitioltttli3,tls.ittra2h6icsk-m‘ on the Bar in coming in last
making much water.
ngu packet, with tmhe..
frorn this p'ort, !had not arrived at Perna
the 12th of February.
• aY serve as an useful caution connected with
14tioegt),„railwaY8, to mention a circumstance which has
1,/4 -smrred with regard to one proposed to be formed
ee-igtat,e of S dinia the name of which need not
i`ootssPe-'eu- Thrcircular issued states, that subscrip-
44%dare received by the London Joint-stock Bank, in
1/4()rruti' by a banking-house at Vienna, and by Messrs.
eti(l, Alberti, and Co., and Mr. Bartolomeo Parodi, at
111.(,):t.„ The latter, by, a letter of the 18th inst., de-
,frig- 'oat his name has been used without his know-
the I%°r; e"sent, and that he is in no way concerned in
°Act question.-Times.
pIete%OPOLITAN INIPROVEMENTS.-There is a COM.
Istr"t clearance of tho houses from Holborn to Lily-
of the Saffron-hill, comprising more than three-fourths
fork:(ll,ista.oce to Clerkenwell, and theopreonadreims
nnaenatrloyf-
flit 1, '0 its proper level, they whole
40411°e", Fleet ditch having been covered over. No an-
the „erzlont, however, has yet been made for the sale of
lapyialainder. The road now complete from White-
ou Spitalfield's Church has been formed and paved
Nvllo-le ",.bide, the gas lamps having been erected, and the
ct,_ nue to the docks will be ready for traffic in the
44" 9/ the summer.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CI l'Y QUARTER TO THREE.
A fair business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday.
The sales were 5,000 bales, all to the trade, and the market
was firmer.-The Share Market had a steady aspect, and
sales to a good extent were made. Barnsley Junction, ex
new, 71. I Is. 3d. ; New Shares, 34 ; Belfast and
Ballymena, 3% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accring-
ton, 61% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4% .44 ;
Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% to
93/4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 10%, Bs. 9d. ;
Caledonian, 9% 16s. 3d. 3/4 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6% ;
Chester and Birkenhead, ex div., 46%; Ditto, Half
Shares, at 5 dis.' ex div., 23 ; Chester and Holyhead, 814 ;
Churnet Valley, 7 714 ; Clydesdale Junction, 10 101/ • Cork
andpandon, ; Direct Northern, 4% 1/2 ; Dublin and
Belfast, 6%; Dublin and Drogheda, ex. div., 86%; Dublin
and Galway, 31/a ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 2% ; Dundee
and Perth, 3% ; Eastern Counties, ex div., 2114 21 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex div„ 611/2 ; Ditto,
New Shares, 5% %; Glesgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 1814
; Ditto, Half Shares, 914 ; Ditto, Preference Shares, 21.25. ;
Grand Junction, ex div., 223 ; Ditto, Half Shares, ex
div., 111 110 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, ex div., 55 ; Ditto,
Eighth Shares, 18%; Great North of England, 30/. Shares,
22%; Great Western, London to Bristol, ex div., 181 ;
Huddersfield and Sheffield, 41. 14s. 43/4 ; Lancaster and Car-
lisle, 351/4 ; Lancaster and Preston, Quarter Shares, 7%;
Leeds and Thirsk, 3 ; Limerick and Waterford, 414 ; Leeds
and West Riding, 7 6%; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
3/. lls. 3d. 3%; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares,
3114 ; London and Brighton, ex div., 62% 3/4 ; Lon-
don and South-Western, ex div., 80; London and
York, 31% % ; Manchester and Birmingham, New
Quarter Shares, 5/. 3s. 9d. W. ss. ; Manchester, Bury,
and Rossendale, 14% ; Manchester and Buxton, 1% ;
Manchester and Leeds, ex div., 145 • Midland Stock, ex div.,
141% ; Ditto, 401. Shares, '
14% 1518 ; Ditto, Birmingham,
and Derby, ex div., 109%; Newailt and Sheffield, 41/2 •%;
North British, New Shares, 4% •, North Wales, 2%;
Oxford, Worcester, and Rugby, 4% 4 ; Preston and
Wire, 321% ; Scottish Central, 51,i ; Sheffield
and Lincoln, 1/. ss. 6d. ; Sheffield and Manchester,
ex int., 112 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester,
4% 4 ; Shrewsbury, Wori•erhampton, and Birmingham, 514 ;
South-Eastern, ex new, 43; Ditto, New Shares, 16i die., ex
New, 113/4 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 814 8% ; South Wales,
6% ; Trent Valley, 22% ; Ulster, ex div., 441/ 454 ;
Lyons and Avignon (English), 21. 195.; Northern of France
(English), 61% 6 ; Paris and Lyons, Laffitte's (English),
4/. 18s. 9d. ; Ditto, New Shares, V. :s. 6d. ; Ditto (Gan-
neron's), 2/. Its. ; Sambre and Meuse, 6% ; Toulouse and
Bordeaux, 2% ; Sardinian, 17s. 6d.
The information received yesterday and to-day from the
United States, upon the subject of the annexation of Texas,
has taken almost all the merchants in the City by surprise.
Still, however, it is not expected by parties well acquainted
with American politics, that the scheme will be carried out
if our Government takes a bold front in opposition to it. The
majority of 2 in favour of the plan, will open a wide field
for discussion, as we have it upon very good au-
thority that four, if not six votes, were obtained
under a distinct (and our informant adds) a written contract
of future patronage being bestowed. Without question, this
is a subject of very deep interest to our mercantile
men, and much weight ought to be attached to the
intrigues which have been adopted to bring about the
decision of the Senate of the United States in favour of
the project. Although we have in our possession some
curious details on this subject, it is perhaps more
politic, in a national point of view, to withhold facts men-
tioned to us connected with this matter, until we find that
the confirmed policy of the Republican Government is that of
annexation, as far as Texas is concerned.
The message of the new President in other respects is
looked upon among merchants as of little worth. Commer-
cially speaking, the advices by the packet are somewhat sa-
tisfactory. Confidence appears to be rising, and, as a matter
of course, a better disposition is shown in favour of manu-
factured goods.
The public securities have been again under the influence
of the intelligence received from America, which so sensibly
and unfavourably affeeted their value yesterday shortly
before the market closed. Consols have been 9914 to 993/4
for present transfer, and 99% to 993/4 for Account. Exche-
quesiebills have receded to 575. and 555. premium. South Sea
Stock has not been done, but a resolution has just been come
to, declaring a bonus of 6 per cent. and the continuance of
the Company's affairs.
The value of Mexican Bonds has naturally suffered to a
greater extent than that of Consols, as whatever may be the
effect of annexation upon our relations with the United States,
the position of Mexico in reference to its aggrandizing neigh •
hour, must become critical. The value of the Bonds this
morning has been 35%, being dull. Colombian Stock
has been up to 15% and 1514. Spanish Bonds have been
29% to 3/4 for the Actives, and 7 for the Passives. Portu-
guese Converted have realised 621/, and Brazilian 91%.
Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. have been 63% to 62%.
Shares generally have been rather drooping, but Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, Churnet Valley, and one or two others,
are firmer.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 991,41%
India Bonds 1,000/ ••• -
Ditto under 1,000/ 6B
Bank Stock for Account.
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d.
1,000/. I
500/. - ..... 55 57 pm.

Ditto Small —
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9lp
Columbian Bonds. l5 es 151/214
Dall:sh Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent 9O /2
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Converted
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 — ,
Ditto for the Account 29% 3/4
Ditto Passive Bonds 7
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE
Aberdeen ••• 21/ 3V4... to
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1%
821,12......
to
to
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian S 2IA3/36% to 4
Cambridge and Lincoln ... 1% 7, 6% to 7M
Chester and Holyhead S .... 8
Churnet Valley 2 ...... 6 7% to 7
Cornwall ...
Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth 1% lq to 214
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2
Dublin and Galway
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ...... 62 ...... to
Ditto New % Shares
1 % ...
Ely and Bedford
214 ...
Great South and W. (Irish)... 5 ...... 141 5
Ditto Extension
Great Western - to
Harwich 1
Hull and Selby . . .. 50
Ditto Quarter Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle... l5 . .... 36% to
London and Birmingham ...100 232 ...... to
Ditto Quarters
London and Blackwell 16% 7%%... to
London and 8right0n........ 50
London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d..• 16.. ... to 17M
London and Greenwich... 121. 15s. 4d 1034 co
London and South Western.. 41% 79 A to
London and Y0rk...,.... ....... 2%...... 3%M to 3
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds 73 .....146
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Midland lOO 142 ...... to 143:
Ditto Fifths
Ditto New
Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 lO 9
Newcastle & Darlington Arne. 24 ...... 47%
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick l% l4l
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2% 2 to
Newark and Sheffield
North British
Ditto New 1 .. ... 4141,4 to
Northern and Eastern
North Wales ll4 2p%... to
Norwich and Brandon lO ... 16 2 to
Ditto New 1
Richmond and West End Junc. 1
Rugby, Worcester, and Tring 1
Scottish Midland l% 24/4%... to
Shrews.,Wolver., Dad., Birm. 2% 4%3/4— to 5
South Devon
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 42% %IA to
Ditto New, N 0.2 ...... 2 . .. 113/4 to
Ditto New, No. 3 2% 8 to
South Wales
Trent Valley
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 3M%... to
York and North Midland
Ditto Selby
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Bordeaux and Toulouse
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette 2
Great Northern of France ... 4
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 ...... 11
Paris and Lyons ( Laffitte) ... 2
Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's) 2 ...
Paris and Lyons (Calon's)... 2
Paris and Orleans
Sambre and Meuse
Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 26.—The sales
are :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 5 11-16 ;
Manchester and Leeds, 147 ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
20 ex div. • Manchester and Birmingham, 57M ex new and
ex div. ; Ditto, New Quarters, 51 14 prem. ; Midland Rail-
way Consols, 40/. Shares, 14% ; Preston and Wyre, 33% ;
Birkenhead, Manchester, and C eshire Junction, 9% ; Black-
burn, Dawen, and Bolton, 4 % ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver-
pool, 1014 ; Caledonian, 10 ; Clambridge and Lincoln, 6% ;
Erewash Valley, 15 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway
and Canal, 314 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 3 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 33/4 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and
Rugby, 4% 4 ; London and York, 3% 14 • Manchester and
Buxton, 2 1-16 ; Newark and Sheffield, 4% ; Scottish
Central, 5% ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction,
4 1-16 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 5 ;
Trent Valley, 16% ex new ; Great Northern of France
(English), 6%.

The author of "Cecil," after a silence of four
years, is again, it appears, in the field ; and exhibiting,
we are told, unabated causticity and vigour. The new
work, we understand, may be considered as much in the
light of a witty memoir of the times, in the style of
Walpole, as in its nominal character of a novel ;
abounding, it is said, with graphic sketches of the
powers that be and have been, treated in the usual auda-
cious style of this brilliant and powerful wrirer.
BUTCHERS' CHARITABLE INSTITUTION, WALHAM
GREEN.—The Committee have determined on holding a
grand fete and fancy fair at the Royal Surrey Zoological
Gardens, on the Bth and 9th of July next. We heartily
wish them that success so excellent a charity deserves.
POWDER. MILL EXPLOSION.—On Tuesday night,
about half-past 11 o'clock, an explosion took place at
one of the powder-mills belonging to Sir Henry Brydges,
and situated on Ewell-marsh. Fortunately there were
no men at work at the time, and the damage was con-
fined to the blowing off of the roof. These explosions
are of frequent occurrence, and it is seldom that they
can be satisfactorily accounted for.

MTDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the ASSISTANT -JUDGE.)
At the sitting of the Court this morning a number of
indictments which had been preferred by several of the
parish authorities of the neighbourhood of St.
George's, Hanover -square, and others, in the west end
of the metropolis, against persons for keeping houses
of ill-fame were heard, to which the parties
implicated pleaded, in most instances, guilty,
were and allowed to depart the Court, after entering
into recognisances to abate the nuisances. There were
also several indictments for keeping disorderly houses
in the liberty of the Rolls tried, in which Mr. Ballan-
tine appeared on the part of the inhabitants by whom
the indictments were preferred, and which were in
most cases disposed of in a similar manner.
7'hos. Williams was indicted for stealing a shawl, the
property of James Godson.
It appeared that the prosecutor kept a large draper's
shop and was in the habit of placing his articles outside his
shop-door for sale. On the 18th of this month, about
ono o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner was
observed loitering about the premises, and
finding the policeman off the beat, he made
a snatch at several of the articles hanging up,
but succeeding only in getting one shawl. He was
stopped by a gentleman who was passing at the time.
The prisoner immediately knocked his captor down and
brutally assaulted him, kicking him in the most dreadful
manner while he was on the ground.
A verdict of Guilty being returned, the Learned As-
SISTANT-JUDGE said l►e had considerable doubts whether

he ought not to transport the prisoner. However, he
should give him one chance more. The prisoner was
then sentenced to six momths' imprisonment with
hard labour in the Hou4e of Correction.

MARKET NE WS.-(THIS DAY.)
_EAT INZARZETS.

SMITHFIELD.— 61.7 s e Meadow Hay, if lOs to 41 lOs ; use-
ful ditto, 41 12s to 5/4s ; fine Upland do., 5/5s to 5/10s ; Clover
Hay, 4/ lOs to 6l; Oat Straw, 11 18s to 21; Wheat Straw,
2/ to 2l 2s per load. A limited supply, and a steady demand,
at full prices.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 15s to 4/ 15s ;
useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 5l 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 515 s to 51 10s ;
Clover Hay, 4/ 103 to 5/ 178; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ ;
Wheat Straw, 2/ Is to 2133 per load. Trade steady, at the
above quotations.
WrirrEctrApEr..—Coarse Meadow Hay, Si 12s to 4/ 14s;
useful ditto, 4/ 15s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to
5/10s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ ;
Wheat Straw, 21 to 2/ 2s per load. Supply tolerably
good, and trade rather dull.

Weeks Wheat. Barley. Oats. Rye. Beans. Pease.
ending
Feb. 15.... 45 4 32 3 21 7 30 6 35 0 35 0
22.... 45 2i 32 4 21 7 29 2 35 0 35 3
Mar. 1.... 45 0 32 3 21 7 32 6 34 9 35 7
8.... 45 0 32 2 21 7 30 5 34 8 35 5
15. ~ 45 11 32 2 21 4 31 1 34 7 35 8
22.... 45 5i 32 4 21 8 30 5 34 6 35 8
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TILE SIX WEEKii.

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Beans •• •• •• •• 8s Gd
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THE SALT-HILL MURDER.

AYLESBURY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—Iii the course
of yesterday evening, it was intimated to the condemned
man, John Tawell, that the final event was close at hand.
Upon being told that he may regard the remaining
interim between himself and eternity more as hours
than days, he seemed somewhat shocked, and an ex-
clamation escaped him ; yet he did not inquire the
precise day. There can be no doubt but that he clings
to life in some degree, notwithstanding the resignation
which he evinces. He certainly had not prepared him-
self for so early a day as Friday, but his self-command
soon returned. Tawell has not at all maintained the
character he assumed before his condemnation. Prior
to his trial there was a degree of briskness, cheerfulness,
and confidence about him, which has wholly departed
since. The people about him term him " a wonderful
man," consider him to possess excellent abilities, and ad-
mire his conduct. The behaviour which he has ex-
hibited since his committal, and more especially sub-
sequent to his conviction, is said to be more and more
studiously correct, than while in the world.
This morning the culprit's wife and her daughter,
Miss Cutforth, together with the brother, Mr. W. Ta-
well, arrived to take their final farewell. The prisoner
had prepared several memoranda for his wife. His
wishes were committed to paper with great method and
accuracy. Minute commissions were set down, and
various small and outstanding accounts were mentioned.
There is a chapel at Sydney upon which he has laid out
7001. or 8001., and to this he has given much attention.
fie at one time resolved upon making this property a
present to the Society of Friends; but he has now de-
termined that they shall only use it rent free for a cer-
tain period, and upon condition of their keeping it in
repair. This and other matters were all adjusted, and
having mentioned a trifling debt or two, he congratu-
lated himself upon not owing a penny, and remarked,
that if anything further should come across his mind, he
would commit it to paper. Upon this, as upon all former
occasions, he never alluded to his crimes, nor in any of
the numerous and long epistles which he has addressed
to his wife, and to others of his family, has he men-
tioned the circumstances of the murder. The subject
is one which he has always avoided. When pressed
to reveal all that he knew concerning it, he always
answered, "I am not prepared—l am not prepared ;"
at the same time leaving an impression that something
in the way of an explanation or confession would ulti-
mately appear. Mr. Wilcox, of Berkhampstead, urged
him to confess so earnestly, that after his departure he
expressed a disinclination to see his reverend friend
again. There is a reason for supposing that Tawell will
write some kind of confession, if he has not done so
already, and deliver it under seal to the chaplain, or the
governor cf the gaol, to whom he is very gratefully
attached. This gentleman will sit up with him all night
previous to his execution, and every possible precaution
will be observed in order to prevent his carrying out a
design which is regarded as probable outside the prison
only—that of his destroying himself. Within the gaol,
no such notion has been for a moment entertained.

The latter part of the visit of Mrs. Tawell was spent
in devotion. Her husband prayed earnestly and elo-
quently. Miss Cutforth was deeply affected, and wept
nearly all the time. Mrs. Tawell was reluctant to
abandon all hope or intenticn of seeing him again,
having some vague expectation of a favourable commu-
nication from certain personages to whom petitions have
been sent. This evening Tawell will be informed by
the chaplain that Friday morning ends his earthly career.
Independently of any confession of the murder, some
extraordinary disclosures will be made relating to the
fate of Jahn Tawell.

[We shall give full particulars of the execution (by
Express) in our Afternoon Edition of to-morrow.]

THE FOUNTAINS IN TRAIALGAR-SQUARPl.—Yester-
day at one o'clock these fountains were put in operation for
an experimental trial, which attracted a concour:o of
some hundreds of persons. Several experimental trials
have been made previously to test the works, which have
been ascertained to be complete, and they will again be
put in operation to-day at the same hour. Although the
water will ascend to a height of 40 feet, the jets were only
suffered to play to a height of from six to eight feet, as
with a greater ascent the water is driven by the wind to
a considerable distance across the square. These trials
are made with a view to ascertain the consumption of
water, and the dispersing jets with the water running
from the mouths of the dolphins into the basins had a
very pleasing and novel effect. The fountains will be put
in operation constantly as soon as the basins are repaired,
they having got out of order, and the cement being
cracked in many places from imperfect workmanship.
The fountains are to play for 10 hours each day, such
being the contract with the engineers of the works. The
cistern from which they are supplied at the top of the
engine-house in Orange-street holds 37,000 gallons of
water, and the higher main at the top of the tower for the
supply of the Government-offices about 20,000 gallons.
r .1
H B SCOTTISH HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday, at one
o'clock, a General Quarterly Court of the Governors and
supporters of the Scottish Hospital was held at the hall
of the corporation, Crane-court, Fleet-street, to receive
the report of the past quarter. Dr. Webster in the
chak. Major Adair, the secretary, read the report, from
whip it appeared that in January there had been relieved
297 Scotch poor, in February 318, and in March 310, at
an aggregate expense of 7211. 2s. 6d., that a balance of
6151. 4s. had been placed in the banker's hands, and that,
in pursuance of a recommendation of the last Court, the
Relief Committee had resolved to advise the medical
officers to give wine and other nourishing diet that was
necessary to the sick poor. The minutes being approved
of, Mr. Noble moved a resolution of condolence, upon
the death of the Honourable Mr. Fraser, of Saltoun,
brother of General Lord Saltoun, one of the Vice-Pre-
sidents. The resolution was agreed to unanimously.
Tho Court, having gone through other routine business,
broke up.
DEAD WElGnTs.—There was an advertisement in
the Times, the other day, fur a couple of millstones.
We understand that Sir R. Peel answered the announce-
ment, offering Sir James Graham and Lord Stanley to
the advertiser as a couple of millstones which he, Sir R.
Peel, would have no objection to part with.—Punch.
ACCIDENT TO IN ELDERLY MAN.—Yesterday
afternoon, as a man named Dodsworth, 73 years of age,
was crossing Oxford-street, he was knocked down by the
horses attached to the waggon of Messrs. Parker, of the
Old Bailey, and one of the wheels passed over his right
leg, which was so dreadfully smashed by the occurrence,
that on his being conveyed to St. George's Hospital, am-
putatioa of th© limb Nyco found to be necoutry.

THE LIVING AND THE DEAD.

BURIAL• GROUND PRACTICES.

" If indiscriminate mutilation and disturbance of previous
deposits, and consequent desecration of the last resting-
places of those who have preceded us, are still to be per-
mitted ; if the ashes of our deceased countrymen are entitled
to, or obtain too frequently under the present order of things,
no respect; if the ties of relationship and affection and the
best feelings of the heart are to be outraged by a trading
sexton or a brutal gravedigger ; if a system has too long been,
and continues to this hour, in operation, which most une-
quivocally tends to brutalise, to anchristianise, the officials
who execute the disgusting work, and the crowds of people
exposed constantly to such scenes; if our very beautiful
burial-service has been too frequently disgraced by the acts
perpetrated previous or subsequent to its performance, it is
more than time that such an evil were crushed, and for ever !
It degrades religion, brings its ministers into contempt, tends
to lower the standard of morality, and is a foul blot upon our
boasted civilisation."—G. A. Walker, Surgeon, in "Inter-
ment and Disinterment."—Nov. 3, 1842.

The condition of the Spa-fields Buring-ground has
recently attracted much attention ; and though the par-
ties who profit by a continuance of that most disgraceful
and dangerous receptacle of corruption are industriously
engaged in circulating statements to the effect that the
facts already before the public are much exaggerated,
the reality is in truth far worse than the representation ;
and that it is so the following ADDITIONAL FACTS, for
the correctness of which I hold myself in every respect
responsible, will abundantly attest.
The practice of burning the coffins and portions of
their contents has been carried on in Spa-fields burying-
ground for upwards of a quarter of a century ; a fire
has been continually burning day and night. It has not
been possible for a very long period of time to obtain a
grave for an adult, without mutilation and disturbance
of previous deposits.
Stephen Bishop, the WATCHMAN (?) of the ground,
has performed the double office of calling the hour of
the night and burning coffins, &c., in the BONE-lIOUSE.*
This person has executed the above-named compound
functions during seventeen or eighteen years. Some
years since he was accustomed to eat his food in the
bone-house, during the performance of his nightly tasks.
Of late he has become more fastidious, and wears a
" band-leather," to avoid contamination from the con-
tact of the coffin-wood. Some time ago he told one of
his associates that "'pen his soul he couldn't eat his
grub in the bone- house now." The relief-guard (the
gravediggers) entered upon their daily work in the
grave-yard as Bishop had concluded his nightwork in the
bone-house. The man has frequently " let his fire
down," and has been chidden by his employer for so
doing. He has replied that " the wood was wet." His
master has rejoined, " You ought to save all the deal-
wood you can for the purpose of keeping up the fire." .
The coffins of " still-born" children have been broken
up and used for the purpose of lighting the fire in the
bone-house; deal, of which they are composed, being
more combustible than the elm coffin of the adult.

A late " manager" of the ground has entered the bone-
house at various hours in the morning, and has observed
—" Ah, Steevy" (Stephen Bishop, the so-called watch-
man of the ground) " has been asleep. He's let his fire
out. Why don't you take care of the deal for lighting
the fire ?"

It has frequently occurred that the poor creatures who
have brought children to be buried (" still-born") have
left, as a pledge for the cighteenpence fee they lacked, a
shawl, an apron, or even duplicates, whilst the following
Machiavelian trick has been often practised :—The corpse
being taken into the parlour of the " manager," he has
removed it from the coffin, and has endeavoured, by the
exercise of a little tact, to elicit from the attendant or
nurse, as the case might be, whether the child had
breathed; if so, he refused to bury the child unless the
fee of four shillings was paid—threatening the party, if
they demurred, that he " would compel them to bury it in
a regular way, by an undertaker."
It has been a common practice to remove the grave-
stones from the "common" into the "best" ground. A
double object was thus accomplished—the ground had
a more respectable appearance, in consequence of the
array of tombstones; freer space was left for the
digging-up, levelling, and raking over the " worst "
ground, whilst an additional charge was demanded from
the relatives of every new-comer.
The stone designating the family-grave of has
been removed about thirty yards from the place it once
occupied, and the coffins of three other persons occupy
the original grave.
The stone marking the grave of has been re-
moved.

The family grave of - was shifted from its posi-
tion in the ' worst" to the " best" ground ; the differ-
ence in the charge for interment in the latter being four
shillings extra. The stone has been replaced, for spe-
cific reasons.

The stone marking the family grave of has been
removed about twenty-two yards from its original site.
The stone marking the family grave of -- has been
removed twenty yards from its original position.
The family grave of has been charged to the
surface with the bodies of others not connected in any
degree with the original purchaser, and this grave thrice
filled and thrice "cleaned out" within the last ten years.
The bodies interred in the family grave of —, of
street, have been mutilated ; upwards of two feet in
length of the coffins and bodies have been chopped off.
A highly respectable family, residing in —, pur-
chased a double family grave in Spa-fields burying-
ground. This grave was marked by a head and a foot
stone. The grave was opened some time since, for the
reception of a deceased member of the family. A tier
of eight or ten coffins was found projecting in every
direction, and filling up half this double grave. The
coffins and bodies of adults and children were remorse-
lessly cut through, and upwards of five hundred weight
of coffin-wood taken out of the grave and burnt. The
original occupant of this family grave, —, was "doubled
up' and thrust into the mud, &c., at the bottom of the
grave, out of which upwards of forty pailsful of a most
sickening compound were baled. His coffin was taken
to the bone-house, the fire being alight at the time. The
" manager" has frequently been on the watch through the
wicket of the large gates of the ground, and, as soon
as the mourners have made their appearance with the de-
ceased, he has shouted to the gravediggers, " Make
haste—they're coming ;" earth has been quickly thrown
over the floor of the grave, the body deposited, and
within half an hour—even before the funeral service was
concluded—the coffin has been covered by the water.
Water containing, in solution or suspension, portions of
human remains, has been almost constantly " bucketed"
out of the graves, more especially those situated in the
" best" ground. The earth covering the coffins and
their contents in the immediate vicinity has been pierced
in every direction by the boring-rod, for the double
purpose of getting rid for the instant of the fluid ma-
terial removed from the graves, and for promoting the
more rapid decomposition of the bodies.
The body of a male relative of an ex-gravedigger of
twenty years' practice in Spa-fields burying-ground has
been mutilated, and his coffin burnt.

The " head man" in this ground, Tom Smith, an
hereditary gravedigger, has committed the most fearful
and unheard-of atrocities on the bodies of the dead.
The long hair of' the women has been cut off and sold to
the hair-dressers ; " rails" (teeth) have been taken from
every corpse affording them of sufficient quality to stimu
late his cupidity ; whilst the materials in which the
bodies of the dead have been clothed by the hand of af-
fection have been, in hundreds of instances, torn off by
this midnight prowler.
On December 23, 1843, I attended at the Clerkenwell
Police-court, for the purpose of substantiating the above
and other allegations, and should have endeavoured to
do so had not the sitting magistrate, Mr. Greenwood,
peremptorily declined interfering in the matter of a me-
morial that found its way into the Clerkenwell Police-
office, although, I believe, it did not come under his offi-
cial cognizance.
I had the first intimation of the complaint then made
from the Times of December 21, 1843. It is probable
that the audacity of the manager, Mr. C. Bird, and his
attempt to intimidate, under a threat of legal proceed •
flip, induced me to give several hours of time, at much
inconvenience to myself, on that occasion, although,
from a sense of duty, I accepted a challenge I had nei-
ther desired nor provoked. Tho memorial, in my pos-
session, is signed by about a hundred and fifty of the
neighbouring inhabitants, and contains, among others,
the following allegations:—
" The inhabitants of the aforesaid places" (Garden-
walk, Exmouth-street, Northampton-road, Northampton-
row, Vineyard-walk, Fletcher's-row, Chapel-row, and
parts adjacent) "have been annoyed from the unpleasant
and exceedingly unwholesome smell arising from the
burning in the bone-house of coffins in the Spa-fields
burying-ground ; and from the nauseous fumes which,
at such times, impregnate the air, your petitioners firmly
believe that human bodies are consumed therein ; and
your petitioner James Wilson, humbly maketh com-
plaint, that he standeth in constant dread of being burnt
out, in consequence of the aforesaid bone-house being
joined to the back of his house, from the chimney of
which bone-house flames occasionally arise to a great
height ; and on last Thursday (December 21, 1843) the
bone-house was actually on fire, which caused the adja-
cent inhabitants to remove their goods in great terror."
In March, 1843, or thereabouts, I caused to be pre-
sented the following petition to the House of Commons.
Upwards of 500 signatures were attached thereto.
"To the Hon. the Commons of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament as-
sembled.
" The humble petition of the undersigned resident in-
habitants of Exmouth-street, Northampton row,
Chapel-row, and adjoining neighbourhoods,
" Showeth—That your petitioners are forced to com-
plain of, and are constantly annoyed by, the disgusting
practices employed in the Spa-fields burial-ground.
" That many of your petitioners have repeatedly wit
nessed the most shameful mutilations of the dead.
" That it is a common and almost daily practice to
break up and consume the wood of the coffins (not yet
decayed) in large quantities in an out-house in this place.
That many hundred tons weight of coffin-wood have been
thus disposed of.
"1"" That your petitioners are frequently sensible of a
most disgusting smell, which they have no doubt arises
from the surface of this grave-yard, and from the burn-
ing of the wood of the coffins ; and that your petitioners
have every reason to believe that the health of themselves
and families has been affected from the above causes.

" That, in the judgment of your petitioners, this bury-
ing-ground does not contain more than eighty-seven
thousand one hundred and twenty square feet of sur-
face. That your petitioners believe that, on a yearly
average, two thousand bodies have been pretended to be
buried in this ground. That this plaoe has been em-
ployed As a burying-ground more than half a century.
That it appears that not more than 1,500 bodies can
be decently and properly interred in an acre of
ground ; and that consequently upwards of fifty thou-

* The following sign-board is placed on the right-hard
side of the entrance, in the grave-yard, near the bone-house.
It is supported by a pole wedged in between two ledgers
(upright gravestones) :—" Take notice. The watchmpu in
this ground are provided with fire-arms. Take off your
patteae."

sand human bodies must have been displaced, mutilated,
and mixed with the moist soil of this grave-yard, lung
before the process of natural decay can have taken place.
That it is a common practice in this ground to displace
the stones marking the graves of deceased persons
whose relatives have purchased the ground in perpetuity.
That thus a fraud is perpetrated on the living, and gross
indecencies inflicted on the dead, whose bodies are fre-
quently mutilated and displaced to make room for fresh-
corners.

" That your petitioners desire to express their un-
feigned satisfaction and gratitude that the practices re-
sulting from the interment of the dead in towns have
been the subject of a long, searching, impartial, and
patient inquiry of a Committee of your Honourable
House ; and that your petitioners venture to express a
hope that the labours of your Committee will cause the
immediate introduction of such alterations in the pre-
sent system of interment as your Honourable House, in
its wisdom. may deem necessary.
" And your petitioners will ever pray, &c."
Having passed in review the scenes of the terrible
drama that has been constantly and systematically
enacted in Spa-fields burying-ground, I reserve to my-
self the choice of time for a further unmasking of hy-
pocrisy of a most disgusting description. I will prove
that " grave-yard management," even in its minutest de-
tail, is so perfect in its scheming, so determined in its
execution, so terrible and dreadful in its results, that the
well-constituted ;mind must indignantly recoil from its
imaginings, much more from its realities.
GEORGE ALFRED WALKER.
St. James's-place, St. James's-street, March 22, 1845.

BURIAL-GROUND OF ST. SA-
VIOUtt'S, SOUTHWARK.

A Vestry :meeting of the parishioners of St. Saviour's,
Southwark, was held on Easter Tuesday in the Vestry-
room, at which the following resolutions were moved by
Mr. H. B. Clark:—

" Resolved,—That it is the opinion:of this Vestry that
;he present state of the grave-yard of this parish is such
;hat the burial of the dead ought to be discontinued
;herein.

" That the churchwardens be empowered to call for
such information as will enable them to investigate the
subject, and to make arrangements, if necessary, with
one of the metropolitan cemeteries, or for any eligible
plot of ground, subject to the approval of a subsequent
'Vestry, for the interment of the dead of this parish."
In the course of some observations addressed to the
meeting in support of these resolutions, he stated that,
allowing the shortest time for the decomposition of the
dead which he thought possible, twenty years, according
to the size of the ground and the number of interments,
they must lay five bodies deep all over it ; numbers of
which were decomposing close to its surface, and spread-
ing an effluvia round, the evil effects of which could not
be calculated. He considered that it was high time
something should be done to put an end to what to him,
and he doubted not to them, appeared a most dangerous
and most repulsive system of burying the dead.
The resolutions were seconded, and carried unani-
mously by the Vestry, who have appointed a committee,
consisting of the churchwardens and three inhabitants,
to investigate the subject, with a view to its alteration
in accordance with the terms of the resolutions.

The grave-yard in question is a narrow strip of ground,
about 160 feet by 50, including a footpath, bounded on
one side by the thickly-populated Clink, and by London-
bridge and the Borough-market on the other sides. It
has been used as a burying-place for many hundreds of
years, and has become a complete Golgotha. This
resolution of the Vestry will, therefore, be hailed by the
inhabitants at large, as the first step towards the removal
of what has long been a nuisance and an eyesore. It is
to be hoped that other parishes will imitate their
example, and that soon these predisposing causes to
disease and death will be banished from amongst us,
and a more decent and healthy system of interment
substituted in its place.

DEFENSIVE ASSOCIATION OF
SURGEONS.
A meeting of a few members of this body was held at
the Literary and Scientific Institution, Leicester-square,
last evening, for the purpose, as the advertisement stated,
of " taking steps to defend the body from the wrong in-
flicted by the recent charter, and the further aggression
to be inflicted by the proposed Government Bill." The
meeting was called for seven o'clock, but it was long
after that hour before the proceedings commenced.
Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P., having taken the chair,
The Secretary read several letters from eminent me-
dical gentlemen, expressing their approval of the objects
of the meeting, which were stated to be in substance the
correction of certain evils, viz.:—
" The irresponsible management of the surgical
colleges.
" The varieties of grade recently introduced amongst
the members of the College of Surgeons of England.
" The Association is impressed with the conviction
that at a moment when wealth is so superabundant, and
the candidates for the learned professions so numerous,
a wise Government should take advantage of such cir-
cumstances to raise the whole body of medical practi-
tioners to so high a point of science as would preclude
the existence of inferiorly educated grades. Its mem-
bers have observed, however, with deep regret, that her
Majesty's Home Secretary has provided in his recent
charter to the College of Surgeons, for the creation of a
low class of practitioners unknown before to that Col-
lege. This forcible and uncalled-for creation of a de-
graded class of medical men, is not only confirmed by
that measure, but that the large body of British surgeons
are distinctly stripped of their titles as 'surgeons,' and
that equality of position with them is, for the future,
offered to any youth who may spend two years of medi-
cal studies in any of the British universities.
" The Defensive Association of Surgeons are con-
vinced that the new charter, and proposed Government
Bill, thus menacing the interests of British surgeons, will
re-act on the prosperity of the colleges to which they
belong, and thus doubly urged to action, respectfully and
earnestly invite their surgical brethren to unite with
them in one great effort to repair the wrongs already
inflicted, to ward off those that are now but too clearly
menaced, and introduce among all classes of surgeons
that good fellowship and contentment so necessary to the
happy and successful cultivation of their science."
The CHAIRMAN said, in consenting to take the chair
at this meeting, he was actuated solely by a desire to
forward the general interests, and to promote the condi-
tion of the honourable profession to which those whom
he now addressed belonged ; but not being a member of
that profession himself, he could not of course be ex-
pected to possess an intimate knowledge of the detail of
the differences which at present divided that body, but
no one could lament them more than ho did. That they
were matter of regret there could be no doubt, because
he felt convinced that, by the union and co-operation of
the profession, the benefits they individually derived
from experience could be applied with greater effect to
the well-being of humanity.—(Hear.) But at the same
time it could not be supposed that a learned profession,
like that of medicine, should be suffered by its professors
to permit an opportunity to pass without bringing its
grievances before the public, and stating what they con-
ceived to be the most fitting remedy for their removal.
—(hear.) However, while he wished to be understood
as holding himself disengaged from the differences and
divisions of the body, yet he could not refuse leading his
humble aid towards the furtherance of this, as well as
every other branch of education in this country.—
(hear.) The Legislature, in dealing with a question so
important as this, at least a Legislature constituted as
that of England was, should afford the highest possible
range to its full and free action, consistent with the
public tranquillity and safety ; and in order to
do this, there were two courses pointed out:—the one,
that any man should be allowed to adopt that branch of
the profession which he should deem the best suited to
his capacity, and most likely to serve his private in-
terests; while the other was to point out certain limits
beyond which it would not be safe to permit him to
pass.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member then drew a
comparison between the legal and medical profession,
and showed how much more important it was to the in-
terests of humanity to have a greater degree of care be-
stowed apon the education of the members of the latter than
of the former. The lawyer, he conceived, was a man whose
abilities and capabilities would soon be discovered and
appreciated by the public, without the use of those tests
applied in other countries, and even the worst results
that would attend an incompetent lawyer's efforts would
be a loss of property, results which he did not mean to
underrate; but then how much more serious would be the
results attending an inefficient, or incompetent, or badly
educated medical man?—(hear, hear.) It was upon
these grounds that the Parliament should feel justified
in interfering with this profession to the extent of taking
care that a guarantee should be given to the public that
life and health were not to be trifled with by the incom-
petence of persons, arising from their not having
gone through the necessary ordeal. (hear,
hear.) Indeed he did not think that in point
of scientific knowledge, intellectual attainment, or moral
culture, the test could not be carried too high.—(Hear,
hear.) As a practitioner, the surgeon and the medical
man should bring to bear extensive reading and practical
i knowledge, n which, in a moral point of view, he could not
be too particular, as he invariably became acquainted
with the most private affairs of a family, and, therefore,
IT should be a man of high morals, honour, and prin-
ciple.—(hear, hear.) He next alluded to the society of
apothecaries, amongst whom, he said, were to be found
men of as high attainments as in any other profession,
and who would be an honour and an ornament to any ;
and, therefore, the proposed Bill ought not to contain
any proposition tending to place them in a humiliating
position.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. W. B. COSTELLO proposed the first resolution,
which was to this effect :—" That the present state of
society is highly favourable to the requirement from all
future candidates for the medical profession, of high
proofs of scientific attainments." In so doing, he drew
attention to the state of the profession in France a few
years ago, when a class of medical men, of inferior grade,
called " Officers de Sante, or officers of health," existed ;
but the Minister of public Instruction having ascertained,
through the report of a commission issued for the pur-
pose, from the profession generally, that the abolition of
this grade would not be attended with any danger or
disadvantage to the public, he did abolish them, and the
results were most beneficial to the public, because me-
dical men were then obliged to be better educated ;
and therefore he would ask why not pursue the same
course in this country ?—(Hear, hear.) Ile regretted
that what was called the Warburton Committee had not
been attended with results such as this ; but unfor-
tunately the opportunity it afforded of doing good had
been converted into a plan for the advancement of a few
at the expense of the degradation of the body.
Mr. MORRIS seconded the resolution, which the meet-
ing, consisting of about twenty persons, declared to be
adopted unanimously.
Mr. HEALY, in proposing the next resolution, which
was in substance that the maintenance of the medical
profession in the highest possible position, is of as high
concern to the general public as to the medical com-

munity, complained of the slight which would be thrown
on the midwifery branch of the profession by the pro-
posed Dill, though none would deny that the midwifery
branch was one demanding as much care and attention
as any other.
Mr. LANE seconded the resolution, and it was declared
carried.
Messrs. Griffiths, Waite, and Osborne proposed and
seconded some other resolutions, which having been
passed,
Mr. Griffiths was called to the chair, and a rote of
thanks having been passed to Mr. Wyse, the meeting
separated.