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London, England, 1844-06-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVE:kHNG, JUNE 27, 18“

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—With the best wilt in the world, we have
extreme difficulty in understanding what our friends, the
nothing,hut-free traders,' an an by their distinguishing
" principle." We ase.as mach enemies as they of the
Peel corn-law—and, if possible, still more of the Peel
sugar-law. In our opinion all just principles of na-
tional commerce are by both of these laws violated—aed
by the latter violated by similat anti-commercial devices
to the former—only with additional aggravations by the
abuse of moral sentiments and criteria. The sugar
sliding-scale is so far worse than the corn one, as it not
only purposely obstructs commerce,• but brings in fraud,
and perjury, and offence to h' therto friendly Powers.
It is here thst occurs our difficulty in understanding
the distinctive " principle" of our anti-corn law gentle-
men. They tell us (an.l we hear the announcement
With perfect good humour, but profound mystification)
that this same " principle," whatever it is, renders it
necessary that, on the one hand, they should accept no
assistance from any one who maintains any duty on
corn, and on the otner hand that they should support a
sugar-duty even worse, in principle, than the corn sliding
scale. We du not understand so much strictness—and
so much laxness. The one makes the other inconceivable.
Or, rather, perhaps, when we look closer, it is the one that
explains the other. There is in both the desire to dis-
tinguish themselves .as a separate body, nature! to new '
sects. Sydney Smith Once talked of the patent Chrisianity I
of Clapham common. The re is something of a similar
desire to stand forth as patentees of orthodox commer-
cial doctrine. But all exclusive protections are exceed-
ingly misleading in public conduct. In these very two
last discussion=, they have given a Ministry brought in
by betrayed class interests, two decisive divisions—the
one essential to ies existence, the other to its perrna-
nem,. Sir R. Peel, on Monday last, declared the
question to he a question of a vote of confidence in his
Ministry. That vote was carried by cur exclusive
friends of free trade—and carried by voting for a- scale
of sugar duties, framed on still worse principles than the
sliding-scale on corn. We should scarcely have recurred
to this vote, but for the extraerdinery contrast to it
presented by the rigid terms of Mr. Cobden's declaration
of last evening :—" If any man tells me that he is for a
free trade in tarn, and not in silk, I repudiate It's co-
operation ; and we put out our proclamation distinctly
to say that we do not ask a shilling from anybody
who is not ready to abolish all protections."
This language (and much other language which has
been used about the inadmissibleness of all terms of
compromise) would appear to evince a determination
to. obtain everything, or accept nothing. But how
does it tally with the fact of stepping in to support a
falling Minister—and giving him cc-operation on the
plea that whit he proposed, though defying all 1 rinci-
ele, was some shadow of a shade better than Mr.
'Miles would thereupon propose to substitute ? How
does it happen that gentlemen who refuse co-operation
from all whose views come short of their own, should
give it to Ministers, on the strength of some impercep-
tible colour for preference beta eta the tiolation of
commercial • principles they proposed, and some ether
violation, which, with every deference to our friends,
we must say they had nothing whatever to do with.
If Ministers were proposing a glaring departure from
all principle, a " great moral lessen" would have been
afforded by leaving them in a second minority on their
sugar duties. From this the " thirteen " saved them ;
and it was quite in character with that remarkable
incident that the two companies should last night
combine their forces, as Sir Robert Pi el said,
fur " the benefit" of the League, and that the
latter should take its benefit at St. Stephen's instead
of Covent-garden. In sober sadness, we are convinced
that what we may term the bigotry of free trade will
only defer the attainment of its practical benefits, as
regards the articles most important. Such is our-opi-
nion ; which any of our friends are entitled, ef course,
to " repudiate." . Their " principle" is safe, at present,
from our reprisals; for we do not at present understand it.
STANDARD.—The debate upon Mr. Villiers's mo-
tion terminated a little before two o'clock this morning,
in a division of 328 to 124, against the motion of the
lion. Member for Wolverhampton, Mr. Ferrand having
by consent withdrawn his amendment, We have not at
hand the -sad register of the Anti corn-law defeats,
but this, we believe, is the most signal discom-
fiture that the free traders have sustained during
some years, and it caneot !be accounted for by
anything but the melancholy retrogradation of
their cause. The general Conservative ascendancy
in the House of Commons will not supply. the solution,
for the Conservative mijority is but 100, or thereabout ;
but here there was a clear majority of 204 against the
League—in a House of 457 Members, Speaker and
tellers included—a full House fie. the 26th of June. Nor
can it be pretended by the Leaguers—that the
free trade men had not all the help which
their services to the ousted Whig-Radical fiction en-
titled them to claim ; as, for example, Lord Howiels
a protectionist, unmindful of the paternal pledge to
stand by " the order" of landlords, voted with Mr.
Villiers ; and Lord John Russell, another avowed pro-
tectionist, after making a speech, slunk away from the
division, to prove, we suppose, the manly decision of
character becoming one whose ambition aspires even to
the station of Prime Minister. It is for the persons who
have collected from among the more particularly
stupid gulls of the population 100,000 L sterling,
to show that this result is a sufficient equivalent fur the
money paid to them, and to explain why they could
not be so handsomely beaten at less cost. Defeat and
disgrace must be expensive luxuries it last night's
overthrow—an overthrow which it is impossible to
palliate in any way—was not dear at 100,0001. This
ALLEGED CHILD MURDER.—Mr. Higgs held an is, however, an affair between the League and its
'ncluest yesterday afternoon at the Savoy Palace, Savoy-street, subscribers. W e have nothing to do with the
Stearns on the body of a newly-born nude infant, alleged to adjustment of the account between the League
have died by the hand of its mother, a young woman named and its tributaries ; for the excisemen of Water-lane
Sarah
Hyland, late housemaid in the service of Mr. Gibson, never had a penny from us, notwithstanding that we,
landlord of the above house. The circumstances of tins like every one else, have had a plenty of their applications
—models in the begging letter line—to which we would
Icoa,se, as gathered from the lengthened examination of a fel-
, A -servant of the accused, may be briefly• narrated. Hy-
direct the attention of the Mencheity Society's officers.
'a had been in the service of Mr. Gibson during the last
three and her latterly had given rise By the way, are not the sums extorted by the League,
months,
to suspicions that she was enciertte. When questioned as it now plainly
le legal process ? We think
°tl the subject, however, she stoutly denied the fact, and recoverable by a strap
that the
p
will
Illatters went on as usual until Monday last, when she corn- they are, and we hope that experiment be
!stained ve---,
re much of spasms in the chest, and was unable tried. It would be, if our view be correct, an excel-
to perform her usual work. She retired to rest with her lent precedent as regards the Irish reaealers. We
fellow-servant about, eleven o'clock, but appearing to be in have a great preference for those laws that
great pain the latter got up and went down stairs for a in some measure execute themselves, and a law
nttle of warm water, which the accused placed upon her
which should compel traders m sedition to re-
hest This her relief, and her sufferings appearing
gave no profits of their execrable trade to those
o increase, the witness went down to her mistress's bed- fun .1 the 1
d cheated, • would certainly sooner
jr"'n, whom she informed of Hyland's illness, and inquired whom they la
effectually •
',.,` she should call in assistance, or take her anything. Mrs. or later execute itself, and thus more extm-
`iihsen inquired if Hland was in labour, and the witness guish the sedition trade than any number of state pro-
replied that she did not know, adding that she complained secutions or coercion acts. Let us but fancy an agita-
ZPIY of acute pain from spasms. Mrs. Gibson then said, tor, for money, treated one year with as many writs of
if that were the case, it was not necessary to send for any- summons as he had wheedled or extorted subscriptions
thing, and the witness returned to her room, where she the year before. With such a prospect before them
found
Hyland walking about, apparently in great agony. men would be a little sloe er than they have teen
IT • ltnnately, both parties went to bed again, and Hyland t„
accept
commissions •
as "repeal wardens or " collec-
called the witness between five and six o'clock on Tueszlay u fur
d tors the League." As to the Leaguers, however, if
me •
ming, saving she was unable to get up to do her work, and the have conscience or honour, they are bound to refund
wished that a charwoman might be sent for. A slight link in ..
the money in hand sitter last night's, or rather this morn-
the chain of the witness's evidence was here wanting, the
morn-
next point upon which she entered being the departure of ing's, solemn and final decision against their project:
ITY,land, at nine o'clock in the morning, from the Savoy We must, how.ever, return to the debate for a few mi •
Palace, in a cab. Her quarter's wages had been previously nutes. The discussion, as elways happens with the nine
Paid to her by Mrs. Gibson, and after paying two or three teenth or twentieth discussion of the same subject, was,
anal accounts to her fellow-servants,' she requested wit- for the most part, pretty wide of the question proposed,
;A_e,..S. Bto curd up her box and send it to a certain place, 'to be being generally directed to former discussions and their
allots
till called for; cautioning her, at the same time, not to incidents ; somewhat according to the maxim of the
,Lteshhis mistress to look in it, as there as was some linen to
moral poet,
she did not wish her to see. Subsequently to Hyland's " Make each day a critique on the e
departure past.
one the
svrae • box was • examined, On uestions like the corn laws men forget the merits,
' pod up in a petticoat, one string of which was wound q ,
tightly round its neck was discovered therein. The police and make
were instantly informed' " Each debate a critique on the last."
in .. of the circumstance, and succeeded
was insufferably dul but
discovering the mother at a lodging-home, near Shoe- The first day's debate . , for the
rnalter-r w itl 1r ' from Mr. Gladstone's
te the °-, ----acedears, whence she had been removed 1 slight interval of sunshine during • .
~ . grace-
t9 Strar - • • ' argument. Mr. Viloers' ofening
havird , .d Union workhouse, where she now remains It ! ful and conclusive
,f _.. beets thought desirable that a post mortem examination speech of nearly four hours would " sink a navy," or,
Be-
the body should be made before the the •
closing inquiry, to speak less figurately, would swamp a session. Be-
proceedine •
„ u Proceedings were adjourned for that purpose. I sides leading his discourse with copious extracts
c orneemalLlN AND CASHEL RAILWAY.—The House of 1 from . .Mr Villiers caked up the old
ons havin-, newspapers, •
the _ro_ t, suspended the Standing Orders in favour of i
ISlalthusian scare-crow, to prove that the country
ti. I' eress of this measure, the Bill has been read a secoad ' ' .
°la and will ro • ' ' - Ist 'unlit to be made to produce less feod because. it
Ths
:liar
.6 into Oommitteeson Monday next, Jululy. , a , . d conclusion.
Mammais producing more people—a net very lob
of laden)
gills and Marchioness of Douglas (Princess
Porten n are expected to arrive at the Duke of Hamilton's, W e are not disposed to deswith such non-
-1 seriously
non-
e Arran, on Monday neat, from Brodrick Castle, Isle . sense, but we beg to ask Mr. Villiers for the proofs of a
—.Aim, - [ redundant population. Are these proofs to be found in

the arguments of the millowners upon the Factory Bill ?
Is it a proof, that th re are too many hands, that the peo-
ple are (for the safety of the country; as we-are told) undo r
a necessity of working a greater numter of hours than is
consistent with health and moral improvement ? and
that th.y must begin to work at an age, and in a con-
dition, when, according to the order of Providence, they
ought not to be labourers ? If the excess of population
is such as Mr. Villiers describes, the remedy wcuLl
seem to lie in distributing lab:)ur among the many,
not in aceumulating it upon the few ; the former
is, at least, the way in which a ship or a gar-
rison, when its population is too great for its resources,
ekes out its supplies, by putting all upon a short allow-
ance. But, overlooking this more obvious and simple
remedy, Mr. Villiers says, employ more people in
manufactures by repealing the corn laws. Now, we
have grave doubts that a repeal of the corn-
laws would employ more people in manufactures.
As regards the home market, we know that the
measure would diminish, to an -enormous crent, the
number of persons employed in manufactures, and
we do not sea abroad the elasticity of wealth that
would speedily supply the void. Referring again to
the Factory Bill debates, wz. seem to ourselves to re-
member tales of people working in the United States,
in France, in SwitzerlAnd, and in Germany 16 and
18 hours a day. Now, the countries in which the popu
lation must work 16 or 18 hours a dly for a living are
surely not in a state which promises much from their
cu,tom as purchasers ; and let it be remembered that it
is always to the mass of the pbrulation—to the workers
for 18 hours a day—in the particular case we must look
for purchasers

when there was an objection before the Committee,
it would he proper to briuglhe subject before. the House,
which would then act in the nature of a court of appeal.
After some ol:.-servations from Mr. GiUIENk:, . _

Mr. PUSEY :aid that he thought the course of the
debate had justified what the Committee had dong.
Mr. ESCOTT wished the House would make some
positive role on the subject, as the question would cen-
stantly arise. _ _

The SPEAKER then put the motion, which was car-
ried without a division.'
_ _ .

Mr F. FRENC II presented a petition, but the nature
of it could not be heard amid the noise which prevailed.

NOTICES OF MOTION.

Mr. COLQUHOUN gave noticp that on the third
reading ef the D;ssenters Chapels Bill, he should move
that the Bill be re d that day six months. Be wished to
know when the Right Hon. Baronet intended to. intro-
duce the measure?

Sir R. PEEL said, as the measure bad already been
so ful'y discussed, he thought there was no need that the
third reading of the 13th might be taken after the
Bank Charter Bill on that evening.
1)r. BOWRING gave notice—that he should to-mor-
row ask the Right Hon. Gentleman, if the report was
correct that the Zonvervia had. determined to merease
the duty on the importation of British iron.
STATE OF THE LABOURERS IN NORFOLK

AND SUFFOLK.—INCENIIARIS2I.
Sir WALTER. JAMES rose, awl was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships wsernbled at Five o'clock.
BROTHELS SUPPRESSION BILL.

LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND —We - b?lieve
that we can now positively state that Lord Heytesbury
his bcen appointed to succeed Earl De Grey in the im-
portant office of Lord Detitenant of Ireland.—Evening
Paper.

• At therecii:e:t of the Duke of WELLINGTON,
The Earl of GALLOWAY, vho in the absence of
the Bishop of Exeter had charge of this Bill, postponed
its third reading till Thursday next.
The Bishop of LINCOLN presented several petitions
against the Dissenters' Chapels Bill.
The Bishop of LICHFIELD presented similar peti-
tions from Derby and other places.
Earl POW L, presented petitions against the union of
the Sees of St. Asaph and Bangor.
The Bishop of LONDON presented upwards of 90
petitions from various parts of the country against the
Dissenters' Chapels Bill. Ile took that opportunity of
stating that the discussions which had taken place upon
this measure had not hal the elf, ct of altering nis opinion
respecting it. Although seme amendments hart been
made in another place, yet he did nat think those amend-
ments would have the effect of doing away with the
mischievous tendency of the measure. He hoped his
Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack would give
their Lordships some time tti-r,onsider before they were
called upon to pass those amendments.
PRIVY COUNCIL BILL.

TATTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING.
QUARTER TO SIX O'CLOCK.
GOODWOOD STAKES.
9 to 1 agst Red Deer
20 to 1 agst Gunter
20 to 1 agst Ara
20 to 1 agst The Pride of Kildare
20 to 1 agst The Currier
25 to 1 agst Subduer
25 to 1 agst Croton Oil
25 to 1 agst Ajax

THE LATE DERBY.

5 to 2 on Orlando

I MPERIA L PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS. •
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
KINGSTON-UPON-HULL DOCK BILL.
On the order of the day being read for the third read-
ing of this Rill,
Mr. WAWN moved the addition of the following
clauses :—" And be it enacted, that no vessel re-
sorting to. the Port .of Hull, and not entering the
docks, or ona of them, of- the said Dock Company,
shall be liable to any tonnage duty to :itch Company.
And be it enacted, That vessels entering the port of
Hull from any of her Majesty's North American colo-
nies, shall not be charged or chargeable with more than
one ski ling and threepence per register ton dock
dues, being the same rates as vessels ply. from Rus-
sian ports within the Baltic. Also the omission of the
following clauses in the amended Bill:—viz., clauses
183, 190, 289, and 290."
After a short conversation the clauses were referred
to the Standing Orders' Committee, and the third read-
ing of the Bill ordered for next Tuesday.
VOTING IN COMMITTEES.
The adjourned debate on the right of Members to vote
in Committee on questions in which they have a personal
interest, was then resumed ; the question arises from the
Committee n the Middle Level Drainage Bill.
Mr. ESTCOURT city d a variety of cases from de-
cisions of former Speakers of the House, against the
right of voting under such circumstances, and moved a
resolution to the effect that no Member, either in the
House or in Committee, should give a vote where he had
a direct interest. _ _ _ .

At the request of the LOiW CHANCELLOR,
Lord BROUGHAM postponed the second reading of
this Bill tit Monday.
POOR-LAWS (IRELAND).
The Marquis of CLANRIUARDE r se to move f::.r
copies of any declarations in ejeetments or re:tices to
quit that have been served upon the Poor-law Commis-
sioners in Ireland, or upon the guardians of any union—
His object in moving for these returns was to obtain
film her Majesty's Governimnt some expression of opi-
nion with re-peat to the present system of poor-laws in
Ireland. He nished, also, to call the attention of
the Government to the manner in which the work
houses in Ireland were built, and as to the manner
in which they were supplied with water. In many
of them the drainage and sewerage u ere entirely
neglected. lie was borne out in this statement
by the statement of Mr. Penethorn on the subject.
Ir might be thought that this was a very unimportant
matter, but he could assure their Lordships, that the
subject was one well worthy of thisir con-
sideration. The Noble Marquis then read several
extracts from various reports which had been made
upon this subject of workhouses in Ireland. While
the poor-laws in Ireland remained in their pre-
sent state, they could not hope to see any
remedy for tho, evils which were so widely
complained of. At present it frequently cost more
to collect the poor. rates in Ireland than the
actual amount of rates collected. He knew
that in the Ballinasloe union no less than 400
men had been employed in the collection of the rates,
yet they did not succeed in' collecting above 141.
(Laughter.) At the union of Tuam the guar-
dians were unable to get a collector, and
having no rates to meet the charges of the union, an
execution upon the workhouse had been put into the
hands of the sheriff.—(Great laughter.) A meeting
of the guardians of this union was lately held, and at
that meeting a motion was made to admit the public,
but the motion was rejected, on the ground that
if the public were admitted to the board-room,
the sheriffs' officers themselves would take ad-
vantage of the opportunity and rush into
the House.—(Laughter.) He thought the poor-law in
Ireland required the earnest attention of their
Lordships, and ho thought that inquiry ought
to Le instituted into the subject as early
as possible. Ile blamed the Commissioners, fur
he believed that they might have carried out the law f,:r
the advantage of the country than they had adopted
a different course to that which he had taken. He
trustal, haw,ver, that the Governmrnt would take up
the subject, and institute a thorough inquiry into it.
[LEFT SITTING.]

Mr. HAWES thought it would be impossible to carry
out this resolution. In the case of Railway Bills and
Bills for the improvement of towns, though Members
had an interest in them, it was absolutely necessary that
they should possess tie right to vote.
Mr. WARBURTON thought that as long as the rules
of the 'louse were in existence they ought to be oberved,
and on this ground he was of opinion that the votes of
the Hon. Member for Cambridgeshire and the lion.
Member for Huntingdonshire ought to he objected te.
Mr. MILES thought it utterly impossible to carry
those general rules of the House into effect, but he
thought that the constitution of the Committees of the
House ought to be altered.
After a few words from Lord GRANVILLE
SOMERSET.
Mr. WAKLEY thought such motions as these most
contemptible. If the vote of Mr. Yorke, the Member
for Cambridge, was to be considered bad because he had
some interest in the question, what, he would ask, be-
came of the votes of Hon. Members last night on the
question of the corn-laws ?—(Hear.) lied rot two-
thirds of the Members who voted an interest in the ques-
tion ? What, also, besame of the votes of those who gave
their votes on the sugar question, which was shortly to
come before the House ?—(Hear.) The landlords who
voted last night for a continuation of the corn laws,
voted for h;gh rents, and their own individual interests.
If Mr. Yorke's vote was to be questioned, he was ready
to question two-thirds of the votes given last night on
the corn-laws, and a great number of those given on the
sugar duees.
Colonel SIBTHORP would like to know how the
Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down had voted on
the Coroners' Bill ?—(Hear, hear, and laughter.)
Mr. WAKLEY had no hesitation in stating to the
Hon. aed Gallant Mtmber the course he had pursued ;
and all he could say was, that he hoped the
Hon. and Gallant Member would follow his example.
On every division when it was proposed to give the
coroner an additional sum for mileage, he had invariably
left the House, and his name was not to be found in a
single division on that question.
Mr. B. ESCOTT thought the Speaker should state
what was the rule of Parliament as applicable to this
question.
Mr. R. PALMER thought it would be better to leave
the question as it was.
Mr. ESCOTT withdrew his amendment.
Mr. Greene's amendment, nearly to the same effect,
was then read.
Mr. HAYTER thought it would be a cause of great
inconvenience and uncertainty if, after a Committee had
sat for seven weeks, the report should be rejected on
Account of some objection to the vote of a particular
Member who had not been before objected to.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER agreed
with the Hon. Al( mber who spoke last, and thought that
when a Member had once given his vote, it could not
afterwards be objected to.
Mr. ELIOT YORKE would have no objeefon to
withdraw his Laotian.
After a few words from Mr. PUSEY, the motion was
withdrawn.
The report was then brought up.
Mr. GLADSTONE hoped there would be no objec-
tion on a point of form, to the proceeding which be was
about to propose. It appeared to him that the debate
which had just taken place on the subject had left ti e
matter in a very unsatisfactory state. It appeared that the
Committee had the power of deciding the question, but
he thought the Committee ought to have this imforma-
tion communicated to them in a more formal manner. It
was not sufficient that they should gather that information
from what passed in the House in the course of debate.
He had therefore framed a proposition affirming that
the rule of the House, with respect to the vote of an in-
terested Member, extended likewise to Committees of
the House. He did not think that a question put for
direction and guidance ought to remain without a re-
sponse. He moved, " That the rule of this House re-
lating to the votes of Members having an interest in a
question, does apply likewise to any vote of a Member
in a Committee."
Mr. WARBURTON had no doubt that the rule of the
House applied also to Committees—the only point was,
could the Committee determine the point for itself ?
He should like to have the decision of the chair on the
point.
The SPEAKER said there could be no doubt what-
ever that the rule of the House was binding also
on Committees. It had been so decide] on many
previous occasions. The Honourable Member for
Oxford ' had quoted a decision of Mr. Speaker
Abbott in 1811, who then laid it down as a rule, which
had existed for 200 years, that the vote of a Member of
the House having a direct interest in a question must be
disallowed.
Sir ROBERT PEEL could not doubt but the autho-
rity of the Speaker must be decisive on this
point ; but what was to be the authority
to determine it--the chairman. of the Committee or a
majority of it. In some cases it would disqualify Mem-
bers for voting on a Railroad Bill. The question was,
whether in a doubtful case, the Committee could deter-
mine the application to the rule.
Sir G. GREY said that the rule would have disquali-
fied some of the Members on the South Devon Railway
Committee.
Sir R. PEEL said the Right Hon. Baronet had not
quite apprehended the nature of his objection. He quite
rdmitted that the duty to be discharged was an invi-
dious one; but it was a constitutional question, whether
any authority less than the House itself should have the
power of deciding that a Member should not vote.
Mr. F. SHAW thought it would be very inconvenient
to lay down a general rule, with respect to a particular
case. He was of opinion that if the Chairman intimated
to a Member that he ought not to vote, that Member
would not persist in voting. If he did, it would be open
to the Committee to appeal to the House.
'Mr. WAKLEY said it might happen on the Post-
office question that a motion would be proposed that
the Government did not pesstss the confidence of the
House. In such a case would Hon. Gentlemen veto for
maintaining themselves in office ?—(Hear.)
e The SPEAKER said the Bill applied only to Mem-
bers who had a direct pecuniary interest.
Lord J. RUSSELL said his own opinion was, that
very often Members were more interested indirectly
than directly. It happened that he himself had pro-
perty to the value of 80. or 901. a-year in these lends,
though he did not think that that occurrence would in-
fluence his vote. If the House agreed that the rule
ap(,pinli:ds:atoteCd,oamnn;ittees of the House, then the Committee
Laving this resolution before them, upon a question
Honourable Member who felt he came
within the ru:e, .eveu:d abstain from Vbting. ; if, en
the other hand, he did rot come within the rule,
it would be inconvenient for the Committee to de-
cide that particular question. He thought that

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE,

MUC

PROMOTIONS.
Mate—Charles J. Austen (1840), of the Agincourt, to the
rank of Lieutenant.
Assistant-Surgeon—Hugh T. S. Beveridge, M.D. (1839),
of the Lightning, steam-tender, late attendant on the Em-
peror of Russia, to the rank of Surgeon.
APPOINTMENTS.
Midshipman—Patrick Johnson, to the Camperdown.
Assistant-Surgeon—David Russell (1839), of the St. Vin-
cent, to the Fearless steam-vessel.
The Queen, 110, Captain Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart., ar-
rived at Spithead on Tuesday from Lisbon, which place she
left on the 13th inst., consequently has had a long passage of
twelve days. When she left a French brig of 16 guns was
the only man-of-war of any nation in the Tagus. The Queen
has brought home a large quantity of the dianthus marbles,
which she will land here to be forwarded to the British Mu-
seum. She was ordered to be ready yesterday morning for
Rear-Admiral Hde Parker (in the absence of the Com-
mander-in-Chief) to inspect the ship's company firing at a
target, &c. She will take out her lower' deck guns, and go
into Portsmouth harbour probably to-morrow; and as soon
as her books can be got ready, which will take about a week
or ten days, she will be paid off, all standing, and be ready
for re-commissioning.
The Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, Admiral Sir
Charles Rowley, Bart., has sailed in his yacht, the Fanny, on
a cruise in the Channel, visiting the islands of Jersey and
Guernsey, and the Scilly Islands, the extent of his command.
The Fanny hoists his flag, which will be struck in the 6t.
Vincent during his absence.
The Bonetta, stirveying-ship, Commander Brock, sailed
from Portsmouth on Saturday morning for the Mediterranean.
The Wanderer, 16, Capt. Seymour, has been dismantled at
Portsmouth, and will be paid off this day.
LETTING GO THE SHEET ANCHOR.
A trial of the relative good qualities and best adaptation
for the service of two plans for the most speedy and best
method of letting go the sheet anchors of her Majesty's ships
took place in Portsmouth Harbour on Tuesday, Admiral Sir
Charles Rowley having been ordered to report thereon. Rear-
Admiral HydeParku, C. 8., Captains Eden, Rowley, Sey-
mour, &c., in commission, attended by a number of distin-
guished half-pay officers—viz., Vice-Admiral Fred. Warren,
Captain Sir R. Grant, &c., embarked at the King's-stairs to
witness it. One of the plans we have already noticed; it was
invented by Mr. Brown, the assistant-master attendant at
this dockyard, and submitted last year to the Admiralty,
who approved it; and, in consequence, many ships have been
fitted with it. It consists of two strong iron cranks or
crutches fitted to the ship's side on swivels, one clipping the
shank of the anchor near the crown, the other the shank
near the stock; when the stoppers are let go, these
crutchea bear the anchor out clear of the ship's side, so
that the anchor can be let go at a moment's notice, even
with the guns run out. The other plan was by the Surveyor
of the Navy, and appears to be only an alteration from
Mr. Brown's. He has only one crank or crutch, that
nearest the flukes ; substituting for the other crutch
the lower part of the anchor-stock, the end resting on a
strong wood work secured to the ship's side. The Surveyor
has placed his sheet anchor further aft, whereby he clears
the fore rigging, and stows his anchor more in board. This
might also be done with Mr. Brown's plan. The sheet
anchors of the Britannia and the Rodney, both fitted on Mr.
Brown's plan, were let go, and nothing could demonstrate
the admirable Ilan more completely than the way in which
they both went off from the ship's sides into the water. The
Collingwood's anchor, fitted by the surveyor, was also let go
and answered very well. Both plans appeared excellent, but
to Mr. Brown is due the credit of the invention, and we pre-
fer his, as we think the anchor would be more easily get into
its place and secured than by the surveyor's, as we think
there would he some difficulty in getting the end of the stock
in its place in the chock, if there should be much motion in
the vessel when stowing the anchor.
DIE WEST INDIES.—The Imaum, 72, Commander Sharpe,
C. 8., was at Port Royal, on the 22d May, with the Griffin,
brigantine, Lieut.-Com. Jenkin, which vessel arrived from
Jamel, on the 19th ult. The Pickle, schooner, Lieut.-Com.
Bainbridge, was at Aux Cayes on the 16th ult. The Spartan
was at Port-au-Prince on the 9th May. At Bermuda, on the
23d ult., were the Inconstant, 36, Captain Fremantle, and
the Electra, 18, Commander Arthur barley ; the latter was
to sail in a day or two for Cayenne.
CORONATION DAY.—On eriday next, the anniversary of
her Majesty's coronation, the men of the dockyard establish-
ments will have a whole instead of a half-holiday, agreeably
to the new dockyard instructions. Henceforth they are
also to have the whole day on the anniversary of her Ma-
esty's birth.

his garden-gate, and the witness, who stopped to speak to
11;m, heard a woman talking to Mrs. Crosby within the house.
Another witness •recollected having seen a strange s'.-cman
enter the deceased's cottage; and a third witness, who went
to assist when the deceased was taken ill, deposed to a
statement made by Mr. Crosby a short time before ho
died. lie described to the witness that "a strange
woman had come to the house that morning, and asked
to be allowed to sit down and rest; they complied with
her• request, and whilst there the stranger had assisted
.Mrs. Crosby in making the tea for breakfast ; that when they
Were taken ill the strange woman went out, saying she would
fetch' some spirits, but had not returned." Another of thc,
wi7neSses deposed that he met a woman walking hurriedly hi
a direction which led from the house. The medical gel3lle-
-men moved, from the analysis of the contents of the tea -pot
and the tea-kettle, as well as from the appearance of the
bodies, that death in each case was produced by arsenic,
which had ben introduced into the water of which the tea
was made, and in a very considerable quantity.
The jury, after a long consultation, returned a verdict,
" That the deceased persons had come by their deaths by
means of arsenic, administered by some person or persons to
the jurors unknown."
The local constables have scoured the country in pursuit of
the woman, who is supposed to be the sole perpetrator of the.
crime, but hitherto without effect; nor has any clue been oh--
tained to show the motive.

Mr. Crosby had abnut4ol. and a good deal of property in
ie house, but nothing whatever has been missed.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
Yesterday a meeting of the Shareholders in this Com-
pany Inas held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of
considering the propriety of granting power to the Di-
rectors to appropriate the sum of 535,0001. to the con-
struction of a continued line of railway from Hertford,
by Kitchen and Biggleswade, to Bedford. Henry Bo-
sanquet, Esq., in the chair. After the report had been
read, _ _

The CHAIRMA:7 explained the objects of, and benefits I
that would be likely to accrue from the proposed even- I
sion, and said that the profits of the trunk line would '
be considerably increased by it. The Extenson Coln-
mittee had caleulatel that the increase from this source
would be in all about 48,8881.
Mr. LEE said, upon consulting the map, he found the
proposed line would run parallel with the Birmingham
Railway for a considerable distance, It was proposed to
extend the line beyond Cambridge, but he very
It doubted the prudence of. such a measure.
,e thought by consenting to the expen&ture
of so large a sum they would be doing an injustice
to a great many of the old Shareholders whose means
would not enable them to purchase any of the new
stock thus created. There was one other point to which
he wish,d to al ude, and that was the privacy which was
obierved in making the contracts for work. He thought
the utmost publicity should he given to this matter, and
that advertisements should be inserted in Gibe public
papers.
The CHAIRMAN denied that any injustice would
be done to the old Shareholders. With respect to the
contracts the strictest economy and impartially had
been observed.
Mr. G mapoN hoped the Proprietors would be afforded
the fullest information at the present critical moment
when seine Legislative enactments were pealing with
respect to railway property. If the many advantages
possessed by the Company were properly tut .named the
line would become the principal means of traffic with the
north and east of England by connecting it with Lynn,
Yarmouth, and Ipswich.
In riply to a question from a Proprietor,
The SECRETARY said, that at the present moment the
Directors w ere not in a condition to state the
exact means by which the money would be raised, but
in a short time every information would be given.
In ansv er to another question,
The CHAIRMAN stated that the Directors had entered
into such a contract as prevented them from stopping at
Cambridge, and they were consequently compelled to
proceed with the line beyond that town.
The SECRETARY stated that, the Directors were most
anxious to form a junction between a line of the Eastern
Union Railway, but could not accede to the terms pro-
posed by that Company.
After some further discussion a motion was put and
carried, authorising the Directors to create additional
extension stock to the amount named, and the meeting
separated.

THE LOSS OF THE MANCHESTER.

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By the Vivid steamer, which arrived last evening from
Hull, we ascertained that the Transit steamer made that
port on Monday, from the Elbe, and the additional particu-
lars brought by her confirm the melancholy fact that not a
life was saved. When the Transit left the Elbe on Saturday
the wreck of the Blanchester could be seen to the northward
of the harbour, but the crew were unable to gain any tidings
of any bodies washed ashore. The following is a copy of a
circular sent by Mr. Sanderson, the agent of the Company
at Hull, to which the Manchester belonged, to the several
parties interested in her loss :

"Hull, June 24.

"In reference to my advices of the 21st inst., the following
is an extract of a letter received this morning from Ilam-
burgh, too truly confirming the melancholy anticipations.
We have now no hope as to the disastrous fate of the Man-
chester and those on board :

" Hamburgh, June 22, 1844.
Our apprehensions have unfortunately been too well-
rounded, and the loss of the beautiful vessel, the Manchester,
is no longer to be doubted. The wreck has been seen at the
north-east end of the bank of Vogel Sands, about 13 miles
distant from the Danish coast, where a great number of pieces
of wreck have been driven ashore. There is a report that part
of the valuable cargo has been picked up, but we have no
particulars about it. The clock of tle cabin has been brought
to Cuxhaven, showing the time of half-past one o'clock, and
also a pocket watch, showing the time of one o'clock, so that
the unfortunate accident appears to have occurred about mid
night, after a run of about 32 hours from HulL Her frag•
ments brought here are nearly all dashed to pieces by the
violence of the breakers, and all lives are undoubtedly lost.'
" I may further add, besides the crew, consisting of :h per-
sons, the following arc ascertained to have bean on board:—
Mrs. St. George Smith and her son and daughter (the two
latter being about 26 and 22 years of age), from Drogheda,
on their way to Graffenburgh, in Silesia, for the benefit of
their health ; Mr. Rothsay, of Leeds, wool merchant ; and it
is thought that there was one or two others, but nothing par-.
ticular has positively been ascertained.
J. SANDERSON."

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS

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The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from
all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the
22d of June, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General:—

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Weekly
Total. Average of
Five years.
Epidemie,Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 226 178
Diseases of variable or uncertain seat B7 111
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l5l 157
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration 233 286
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 24 21
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 1 5
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 8 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles-- 7 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c .. 0 1
_ _

A 11..,..........,...
Old Age, or Natural Decay 46 71
By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance
Causes specified 9lB 942
Deaths from all Causes 920 946
DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER
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TILE ABOVE HEADS.

Total. Weekly AveraLe
of Five Y ears.
Consumption 125 147
Scarlatina 7B 34
Pneumonia . .. ....1. 66 79
Dropsy ..... .. ..
Hooping Cough 22 33
Typhus
Small Pox
Disease of the Heart
Measles ... 2l 28
Apoplexy
Diseases of the Brain ......
Diarrhoea..
Sudden Deaths l5 15
DISTRICTS.

West 142
- -- 138

171
188
NC.E.eaoirttthrL.tl
21311
49
41
207
South..

Total

SCENE IN THE SHERIFF'S COURT,
One of those unseemly altercations which sometimes dis-
turb the serenity of a court ofjustice took place here on Tues-
day, between Mr. Under-Sheriff Kennedy and Mr. Thomas,
the barrister. In the course of a trial in which Mr. Thomas
appeared for the plaintiff, the Learned Under-Sheriff appeared
to suffer considerable annoyance from certain irregularities
that Mr. Thomas had been guilty of in conducting his case,
and it was partly in consequence of this that a quarrel soon
afterwards ensued. Several cases on the list of causes hav-
ing been rapidly disposed of, the last (Boatman v. Burgess),
in which Mr. Thomas appeared for the defendant, was sud-
denly called on. The plaintiff's attorney appeared to be taken
by surprise, and said something about withdrawing the
cause. Almost at that instant, however, he discovered that
the witness to prove his case, and whom he had believed to
be absent, was in Court.
Mr. Under-Sheriff Kennedy—Now, Boatman against
Burgess.
Mr. Thomas—lt's withdrawn, Sir; I have just marked my
brief to that effect.
Mr. Under-Sheriff—It's not withdrawn—there's the plain-
tiffs attorney ready to go on with the case.
Mr. Thomas—l distinctly heard the attorney say that he
withdrew the cause, and I call upon him to sa:v whether that
is not the fact?
The attorney explained.
Mr. Thomas still insisted that the cause had been with-
drawn.
Mr. Under-Sheriff (angrily)—This is another specimen of
the ungentlemanly and irregular conduct you have been
guilty of all day. Such behaviour is too common here, and
I now give notice that if it be persisted in I shall take effec-
tual means to repress it, by formally representing it to the
Court.
Mr. Thomas—l don't care what you represent.
Mr. Under-Sheriff—Then I now tell you, Sir, I shall re-
present it. I consider your behaviour to be disgraceful.
Mr. Thomas—l don't care what you represent., or what
you think of my conduct.
Mr. Under-Sheriff—Don't be impertinent, Sir; I shall not
sit here to be insulted.
All further dissensions were now happily interrupted by the
plaintiff's attorney in the cause, "Boatman v. Burgess," sud-
denly commencing his addres to the jury.
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