The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-30 00:00:00

Average Anount.
Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—Williams,
Clinch, and Co 9,804
Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 46,832
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,606
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter-
borough—Messrs. Yorke
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson,
White, and Simpson
Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and
Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven,
and Co 1 31,097
Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 33,595
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and
not received
Co
Richmond Bank,Richmond—Stapleton,and C 0... 6,437
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds,
and Co 4,94b
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Ban)t, Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson
Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot-
ner and Son
Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 12,790
Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 13,823
Rye Bank. Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 80,234
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate--Nash and
14,865
Co
Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard
and Allaw ay 4,640
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and
18,210
Co
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall
and 24,523
Co
Shrewsbury and Market Drayton Bank, Shrews-
bury—Adams, Adan.s, aid Co 8,290
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons,
Co..
and
Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne
—Valiance and Son
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton—Maddison and Son 18,371
Southwoll Bank, Southwell—Wilde and Co.
St. Alban's Bank, St Alban's—J. S. Story 3,988
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie 22,711
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and

Average Amount
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 70,647
Vir(st Riding Union Banking Company, Ilud-
dorsaeld 35,642
Wiaitchurell anJ Ellesmere Bankiug Company,

his name stands especially associated, and with which
the lower Church views, and liberal velleities, as re-
gards Ireland, of his leading colleagues, exhibit a con-
trast which no longer admits of being palliated—how
could Mr. Gladstone take the prominent part in re-
versing, which he took in advocating, the pokey
hitherto affected in favour of the colonial and free-la-
bour interests, as regards the admission of tropical pro-
ducts? We have already laid before our readers some
intimations of this reversal ; and it is no more than we
should have expected of any man who desired to be
deemed of otherwise than as a mere tool—a mere
mouthpiece of any opinions made up for him in his
office—that Mr. Gladstone, having been Sir Robert
Peel's right-hand man so conspicuously on one side of
these questions, should decline making volte face, in
order to remain his right-hand man on the other.
It is less surprising that Mr. Gladstone should re-
tire now, than that he should not have retired sooner.
He represented in this Ministry the Church, in its
highest pretensions—just as the Duke of Buckingham
represented the corn-laws, and " no surrender" of
protection. We knew what speedily became of
the stuffed figure, which was to frighten the pre-
datory tribe from descent on the landed inclosures.
And now the more efficient champion of the
other rallying sign of Toryism has followed him ;
and in consequence of these successive epurations, the
Government, according to the Times, will be " more
able to encourage its friends and silence its opponents
by a policy worthy of the great party who placed it
in office." We have no longer, indeed, "a Tory
Government "—according to the fond aspirations of
Tadpole ; but " a sound Conservative airninis-
trstisn " according to the wiser mind of Taper.
"I see! I see !" Paid Tadpole musingly—
" Tory men and Whig measures." Power gravi-
tates, however, naturally towards the hands
in whose direction it is exercised; and therefore we,
at least, have no disposition to complain of the pre-
sent tendencies of the Government. Whether " the
great party which placed it in office" has equO
reason to be satisfied, is its own affair. Perhaps we
are to understand the assertion in a non-natural
sense. The " great party" is said to be satisfied,
as Dandle Dinrnont was said to be " content," when
he had got a sufficient knock-down blow on the
head, and was placed hors de combat. Nothing can
be more satisfactory certainly to those active sections
of Toryism, which stirred most, and worked hardest,
and bawled loudest, to place Ministers in power, than
to have acquired the final conviction they must now
have acquired, that no Ministry they can make will
march through Coventry with them. They could
indeed do yeoman's service against the Whigs with
the wavering public ; but they cannot keep Tories
like themselves at the head of affairs. Of this they
should now be satisfied.
STANDARD.—The Times will no more sur-
render the Ministerial crisis in France than it will
" the diocese of Exeter," or than it did the Bridge-
water union—the riots in South Wales—the fires in
Suffolk—the fabled murders and other outrages in
Candahar—the treacherous seizure of Sinde—or any
other of the thousand-and-on: events, true or
feigned, which it has spun out to a thread
until the whole world was sick of them.
The Ministerial crisis, however, though the
Times would keep it alive, was at an end on Mon-
day, when the whole Ministerial Address was carried
by a great majority. The Times and its fellow-la-
bourers of the Thiers-Palmerston dress endeavour to
assimilate the condition of the reach Cabinet to
that of the Mole Ministry, which did not resign
when its majority had been reduced to eight, or
until a dissolution of the Chamber had reduced
its majority, such as it was, to a minority.
Again, the Times and its accomplices try to
establish a resemblance between the position of the
French Cabinet, and that of the Whigs in this
country from 1838 to 1841 ; but the Whigs did not
resign, though having a less majority than that
to which the French Government was reduced on
Monday, by a concurrence of accident, surprise,
error, and passion in the Chamber, such as pro-
bably never can again occur. The working majo-
rity of the present French Ministry was no more
reduced by the seeming diminution of Mon-
day, than was Sir Robert Peel's working ma-
jority reduced when he was out-voted last spring
upon the West Indian and factory questions. But
supposing, contrary to the truth, that the work-
ing majority of the present French Cabinet were
less than 40 or 50, or even less than 10. It
would not place them in the position in which
the Mole Ministry and the Whigs were placed.
The weakness of the Mole party, and of the
Whip • did not lie in their numerical defi-
ciency so much as in their want of cohe-
rence and of external support. The Mole and Whig
Ministries were coalition Ministries, and whatever
their strength in one House of Parliament, each
was, we believe (the Whigs certainly were), the ob•
jects of aversion to the other House of Parliament
in their respective countries, and both were, as
coalition Ministries always are and always ought to
be, the objects of, disgust to their several nations.
There is, therefore, plainly no parallelism
between the position of a Ministry possessing the
confidence of the Crown and the confidence of the
Upper House of Parliament, and thoroughly united
in principle with its supporters, and either the Mole
or the Whig Ministry. If the majority of the French
Cabinet were either small or doubtful, the nearest
parallel would be that of Mr. Pitt in 1783, or Sir
Robert Peel in 1834. Mr. Pitt had the confidence
of the Crown and of the House of Lords, and
opposed a corrupt coalition Ministry, supported
by a corrupt majority in the House of Commons.
He, however, for some months carried on the Go-
vernment, though in a minority, and succeeded in
establishing an Administration of nearly twenty-four
years' duration, with a very short intermission.
in 1834, supported by
the Again,
confidence Si R r
ePe el,
Crown
and of the House of
Lords, and a united though numerically inferior
party, carried on the Government for five months
against a coalition party, and did not think
it necessary to resign, though repeatedly de-
feated by the Lichfield House conspirators ; nor
did he abandon his post until the parties to " the com-
pact," by their factious proceedings, rendered it impos-
sible for:him to carry on the Government—then he
withdrew, and about a million and a half of the people
testified their regret that he did so, in their grateful
addresses to him. Now the examples of Mr. Pitt
and Sir Robert Peel are good precedents in the law
of Parliamentary government ; and, according to
these examples, the Soult-Guizot Ministry, even in a
minority, would not be justified in thinking of
resignation. But Sir Robert Peel has elucidated
the subject by more than an example. It is very
well known that at any time between 1837
and 1841, it was in his power to render im-
possible the carrying on of the Government
by his opponents. He abstained, however, from offer-
ing any obstruction, because he would not do that
indirectly which ought to be done directly; and
even when the Whigs had suffered defeat after de-
feat he allowed them to remain until compelled
to interefere by an irresistible becessity. The
finances of the country had been thrown into
ruinous disorder by the misconduct of public
affairs; the Ministers had no remedies to propose for
the pressing evil but measures, if possible, more
ruinous than the state of things which they were to
correct. These, their ruinous expedients, were one
by one rejected by the House of Commons. Then,
when they had brought the country as it were to a
dead lock, and not before, Sir Robert Peel told them
that they ought to resign ; even then, however, they
would not resign. Sir Robert Peel next proposed his
memorable vote of want of confidence, and the terms
of that vote put in few and clear words the whole
question of the degree of confidence which justifies a
Minister in retaining office, or which rather, while it
lasts, renders a resignation unjustifiable. "The Mi-
nisters were unable to carry through Parliament,
measures which they considered essential the
public service." The Ministers, however, paid no
more attention to the solemn declaration of their in-
capacity than they had paid to the repeated proofs o
it. They would not resign, and they remained in
office until they were fairly turned out. We do not,
however, propose for imitation by any one
this disgraceful tenacity of the Whigs. We
use the case merely to show Sir R. Peel's opinion
of the precise point at which, and not before, a minis-
try ought to resign. A small majority, or even a
minority, which can effectually carry on the Go-
vernment, does not justify resignation. A minister is
bound to do his duty as long as he can do
it effectually. As we have before remarked, these
arguments are not necessary to the French Cabinet,
which has an united and sufficient working majority;
but as the principles of Parliamentary government
have been brought into question, it is proper to state
them clearly.

W hitch urch
Worcester City id County Bankivg Company,
Worcester... .
York Union Ban ing Company, Y.,,tk 72,230
York City and Ct. inty Banking Ccrupany, York 87,865
Yorkshire Bankir. Company, Leeds
P. EANS, Registrai of Bank Returns.
Stamps and Ta.: es, Jan. 25, 1815.

7,940

10,464

12,661

4,674

9,883

King
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton—Atherly and Fall
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 8,050
Stourbridge Bang, Stourbridge —Rufford,
Wragg, and Co 15,739
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 12,239
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
Cayley, and Co. . 31,936
Stourbridge Old Bulk, Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
18,026
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward, and Co.

_..,
St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-
son and Sturt
Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 26,573
Tavistock Bank, Tavirtock—Gill, Rundle, and
12,85'
Co
Thornbury Bank, Thornbu ry—Rol ph, Yates, and
Parslow s. ..
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns-
ford and Barne
13,766
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,995
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But-
cher and Son
Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S
Percival
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and
15,450
Co.
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith,
and Co. 24,559
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. 12,912
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick—
Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 27,967
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox,
Brothers
West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield_Leatham, Tow, and Co.
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap-
man, and Co 13,959
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester—Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire Bask, Winchester
—Wickham and Co
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank,
Weymouth—Elliott and Pearce
Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank,
Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech—
Gurney and Co.
Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W
Hancock
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good-
riche and llolyoake.
Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender,
and Co. , 13,090
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 83,637
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley
and Turner
Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil-
kinson
11 Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and

8,715

4,833

441/2

1,832

Walsa,
Sons
Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster-
Everett and Co.
Wrexham Bank, Wrexham-J. and S. Kenrick 2,238
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-
Messrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurney.
Birkbeck, and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth-Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 12,783
Yeovil, Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten ... 9,470
York Bank, York-Swarm, Clough, and C 0.... 46,269
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 49,393
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad-
-20,380
ford
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union
Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
-32,080
ington
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 14,605
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company,
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,040
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley
37,158
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,515
Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington . 24,145
East of England Bank, Norwich
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 134,921
Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 17,783
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 35,825
Hull Banking Company, Hull 28,627
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 13,674
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax
Holston Banking Company, Helston
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster
Leeds

44,464
1,461
19,541

27,236
4,315
47,121
24,301
69,605
48,681

Leeds Banking Company,
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln
Leamingto.i Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Leeds and West Riding Banking Company,

20,999
13,957
10,057

Leeds
Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds...
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-
Stock Banking Company, Newcastle
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
373,950
London
North Wilts Banking Company, Melkaham 54,529
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 75,712
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-
a
mpton
North and South Walos Bank, Liverpool 48,785
Pares's Leiwstt rehire Banking Company, Lei-
cester .... .
Saddleworth Ba.tking Company, Saddleworth 7,926
Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 33,299
Stamford, Spaleing, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamibt
Stucky's Bank; rl Company, Br-
shiree B ank, and Somersetshireistol Bank,Somerset Lang-
port
Shropshire Baniting Company, Shiffnall
Stourbridgo and It.idderminster Banking Com-
pany, Stourbt idge
Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company,

30,778

24,88

73,518

CONSECRATION OF ST. JOHN'S
CHURCH. NOTTING-HILL.
This new church was consecrated yesterday by the
Lord Bishop of London. Besides his Lordship, there
were present a great number of clergymen, among them
the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair, the incumbent of
the district ; the Rev. Mr. Houldsworth ; the Rev. Mr.
Dalton, Chaplain of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn ;
the Rev. H. H. Milman, &c. The consecration service
was in the usual form, and the Archdeacon read the
prayers. The sermon of the Bishop, who preached on
the occasion, was rather of a practi :al than a doctrinal
nature. It inculcated the necessity of enabling the
Church to keep pace with the wants of an increasing po-
pulation ; and insisted on the propriety of making the
house of God accessible to all classes of the community.
The Right Rev. Prelate then adverted to the occasion for
which they were assembled, and stating that those who
had the management of the edifice had, in their zeal for
religion, exceeded their means, he appealed in forcible
terms to the congregation, of all ranks and conditions, to
come forward in aid of the good work. His Lordship
concluded his sermon by observing that, according to the
ancient usage of the Church, the collection for the pur-
pose would be made during the offertory.

5),76

20,102

Sheffield
Sheffield and R )therham Joint• Stock Banking
Company, Sheffield
Swaledale and Wcusle3dale Banking Company,

51,389

44,238

Richmond •
Stockton and Duel= County Banking Com-
pany, Stockt'r
Storey and 121k(tmas's Banking Company,
Shaftesbury .
Sheffield and R,:ttord Bank, Sheffield ...
Suffolk Banking 42ompany, Ipswich
Wolverhamptou. ausl Staffordshire Banking Com-
pany, Wolverhampton
Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield
Whitehaven Joint Stock Banking Company,
Whitehaven . .
Warwick and Le►auu_gton Banking Company,
Leamington _

West of England said South Wales District
Bank, Bristol.

THE SUN, LONDON, THU'RSDA'Y EVENING, JANATARY 30, 1845

The church is early Norman in its architectuu,an d
it presents a pleasing specimen of the manner prevalent
at the period of the first introduction of that style into
English ecclesiastical edifices. It consists of a nave and
two•asles, with s!:ort transepts and a channel. The ro.if
is an open one of timber, and very light and elegant,
springing from at-cues supported by massive circular pil-
lars of Caen stone. The tut: rior is plain, and dwarf
,eats, wiZh r=oars at either ext:etnity, Occupy the floor of
the church. The exterior is lo:ty and handsome, being
built of rough-cut limestone, dressed at the doors and
windows with Caen stone; it presents features of solidity,
in character with an ecclesiastical edifice. The spire,
which is central in the roof, is composed altogether of
Caen stone, and has a remarkably good effect. The ar-
chitects were Messrs. Stevens and Alexander. Altogether
it is not alone an ornament to the populous neighbour-
hood in which it is planted, but it also supplies a want
which was hitherto most severely felt by the whole po-
pulation, namely, that of sufficient church accommoda-
ti .n. is a wrll4,..ned and powerful organ and one
painted window in the church.
The ceremonial was over about half-past two o'clock,
having comnr!need at half-past eleven. The church was
crowded throughout the service.

SUICIDE BY A MEDICAL MAN.—Yesterday Mr.
Carter, coroner for East Sarin, held an inquest on the
body of Mr. George Youd, aged thirty-six, assistant to
Mr. Taylor, surgeon, 37, Harley ford-place, Kennington-
oval, who on Sunday night last committed suicide, in
bed, by swallowing prussic acid. The evidence esta-
bli, hed the fact that deceased was not right in his mind,
and the jury consequently returned a verdict of " Tem-
porary insanity."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSIOIV-HOOSE.
Yesterday, in the course of the sittings before the
Lord Mayor, Mr. Lachlan Mackintosh Rate and his
witness attended for the purpose of completing their
depositions in support of the charge preferred against
Mr. R. Forbes, jun., for having published certain
false, malicious, and defamatory libels of and con-
cerning the firm of Messrs. Rickards, Little, Rate
and Little, and particularly of and concerning Mr.
L. M. Rate, one of the parties of the said firm. The
particulars of the extraordinary case were fully de-
tailed in the journals of Tuesday's date, and the pro-
ceedings of yesterday's were limited to the mere read-
ing over and signing the depositions, and binding the
witnesses, in the usual recognizances, to appear and
prosecute at the session of the Central Criminal Court.
The defendant, Mr.-Forbts, jun., was in the justice-
room, but took no part in the proceedings.
Mrs. Mary Frances Keele surrendered, in discharge
of the recognizances entered into by, her husband on
IVednesday last, for her re•exareination upon the
charge of bigamy preferred against her by her mo-
ther-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Keele, of Canterbury.
Mr. Clarkson appeared on behalf of the defendant,
who, in consequence of her ill state of health, was
ordered by the Lord Mayor to be accommodated with
a chair in front of the bar. The evidence which had
been given by the prosecutrix; and her son (the
husband), as well as the statement made by the de-
fendant at the last examination, having been read over,
John Dixon, City policeman 619, produced two
marriage certificates from the register of the parish of
St. George's, Hanover-square ; the one of a marriage
solemnised between John Weller and Mary Frances
Witham, on the 7th June, 1831, and the second of
the marriage of William urney Keele with Mary
Frances Weller, in the month of October last year.
Mr. Clarkson remarked that the defendant had
never denied or concealed the fact of her first mar-
riage—on the contrary, she had always spoken of it
to the young man, her present husband, who had
sworn that he was of opinion the defendant believed
her former husband to be dead. If she had sought
concealment of the fact of her previous marriage, it
was somewhat singular that she should have taken
the young man Keele to the very church where the
evidence of her first marriage existed. In short, so far
from attempting any concealment, she had afforded
the only evidence which existed against herself.
The LORD Mayon (to the prosecutrix)—Are you
prepared now with any further evidence in support of
the charge ? The prosecutrix—No, my Lord. I
have written tolhe sister of the first husband, Weller,
but she has refused to have anything to do with the
matter.
The LOUD MAYOR —Then you have no further
evidence ? The prosecutrix—Only that my son
wants to get rid and clear of the defendant altogether.
Mr. Clarkson—l rather think it is somebody else
who wants to get rid of her.
In answer to a series of questions put by the
Learned Counsel, the prosecutrix stated that prior to
his marriage her son had been in the habit of allowing
her Bs. a-week out of his earnings, but that this
allowance had, since the marriage, been discontinued,
though some money had been remitted to her, as she
thought, by her son, though she would not swear it
had not been sent by the defendant. The witness
had visited them since their marriage, and washed for
them, but she had not been in the habit of endeavour-
ing to persuade her son to leave his wife and return
to Canterbury. She had, however, done so since she
had heard the first husband was still living. She
positively denied that she had ever promised her son
that if he would leave his wife and return to Canter-
bury she would not appear before the Lord Mayor,
neither had she threatened to prosecute them both if
he did not return to his father's house.
William Gurney Keele repeated his former test
_ _

mony, and added That this prosecution had not been
instituted by his desire or wish. The letters pro-
duced were in the handwriting, of his mother, who
had repeatedly applied to him to leave his wife and
return home. Since his marriage he had not sent
any money home, but when he and his wife left Can-
terbury to come to London, the latter, knowing the
condition of his mother, gave her thirty shillings.
Mr. Clarkson—Answer this question : Have you
not stated since you have been here to-day, that
nothing on earth should induce you to leave the
defendant, though your mother has stated that you
wished to leave her?
The witness hesitated, but on the questiox being
repeated, replied that he had no reason to complain
of his wife's conduct, and that he should not wish to
be separated from her in case her first husband was
really dead.
Mr. Clarkson submitted that the only question
was as to whether the first husband was alive or dead.
Of this important fact there was not a scintilla of
evidence, and therefsre the charge must fall to the
ground.
The young man, Keele, said he would become an-
swerable for his wife's appearance in case she should
be required again.
The LORD MAYOR intimated to the prosecutrix
that, if she could procure any evidence to show that
the first husband was still in existence, the defendant
could be brought up again—at present the defendant
was discharged for want of evidence.
The parties then quitted the justice-room together
WORSHIP-STREET.

Thomas Miller, n middle. aged man of muscular
appearance, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bing-
ham, charged with having created a violent disturb-
ance at the house of his brother, a builder in the
City-road, and assaulted and wounded his daughter,
a child about three years of age.
It appeared from the statement of Mrs. Jane
Miller, the prisoner's sister-in-law, that the prisoner,
who had been for some time in the employment of
her husband, and had been accommodated with
board and lodging in the house, was a person of
very irregular habits, and repeatedly returned home
in such a state of intoxication as to occasion the
greatest annoyance to herself and family. On the
preceding evening he entered the house in a highly
excited state from the effects of the liquor he had
taken, and had no sooner got into the apartments in
which she was sitting, with an infant in her lap, than
he began to abuse her in the grossest language,
threatening to smash all the furniture in the place,
' and set fire to the house. She expostulated with him
gently on his conduct, and used her utmost endea-
vours to moderate his violence, but all to no purpose,
for he became still more outrageous, and at length
suddenly caught up a carving-knife from the supper
table, and, with a shocking oath, hurled it at her
face. She providentially saw the action, and by
making a hasty movement to avoid the weapon,
escaped the intended injury to herself ; but the blade
of the knife unfortunately struck the child upon the
forehead, and inflicted such a frightful gash that its
face was covered with blood. She instantly raised
an alarm, which brought other persons to her assist-
ance, and, after a strong resistance on the part of
the prisoner, he was overpowered and taken into
custody.
The police-constable who took the prisoner in
charge stated, that upon being called to the house he
found the prisoner conducting himself with great
violence, and that he repeatedly threatened he would
" do for" his brother, and burn the place down.
The prisaner now said, that he was very sorry he
should have misconducted himself in the manner de-
scribed by the witnesses, but ;he had been drinking
more that he was accustomed to do, and had not the
slightest recollection of what had taken place.
Mr. BINGIIAM said, that nothing whatever could
extenuate the gross outrage of which the prisoner had
been guilty, and he might consider himself very for-
tunate that he was not standing where he then did
upon a charge of manslaughter. He had very great
doubts whether he ought to deal summarily with the
case ; but, rather than subject so near a relative to the
pain, expense, and inconvenience of appearing against
him elsewhere, he should take upon himself to do so,
and punish the prisoner to the utmost extent in his
power. He should therefore order him to pay the full
penalty of 51., or in default to stand committed for
six weeks to the House of Correcticn ; in addition to
which he should require him to find substantial bail
for his good behaviour for the next three months.
The money was not paid, and the prisoner in con-
sequence was removed.
CLERKENWELL.

This Court was crowde i with spectators, in conse-
quence of its having been generally known that the

parish officers of St. Luke's were about prosecuting a
woman, living in 3, George's-yard, Golden-lane, St.
Luke's, for cruelty of a most atrocious character to-
ward:; her step-child.
John Marks, a smith, and Anne 111-arks, his wife,
were brought up on a warrant, charged with cruelty
towards Anne Marks, aged 10 years, the daughter of
the furznar and step-daughter of the latter prisoner.
Several of the parochial officers of St. Luke's were
in attendance. Between four and five o'clock on
Saturday evening last, a poor woman, living next
door to the prisoner, went to the police-station, and
informed the sergeant on duty there that a child had
been most brutally treated in George's -yard. The
police-sergeant ltidney, and police-constable Pew,
154 G, went to the house of the prisoner, and found
the female prisoner sitting in a lower apartment,
somewhat intoxicated; they asked for the child, but
she refused to give any answer concerning her until
her husband was present. The husband was sent for
to a public-house, and, upon his arrival, the child,
who had been washing out a room, was produced.
The officers declared that her appearance shocked
them. She had no covering but a threadbare shift,
black with dirt, and a piece of sack, quite as filthy,
about her shoulders. There was an ulcer on one
of her feet, and a bruise on her back, and another
sore on her neck. Her skin was literally covered
with scales of dirt, and the smell proceeding
from her was intolerable. When brought into the
presence of her parents she cried and seemed terribly
frightened. She refused to say a word. The officers
sent for Mr. Birch, the relieving-officer of St. Luke's,
and he had the child removed to the workhouse. Mr.
Birch and the two policemen then proceeded upstairs
to the apartment in which the girl was chiefly con-
fined, and in which she and her three brothers always
slept. Upon entering the room they were so dis-
gusted with the smell as to be obliged to retire.
Upon re-entering it they found the floor covered with
human excrement, and the only thing it contained
was a small heap of carpenter's shavings which had
been picked from the dust-holes, and huddled into a
corner of the room, and on this heap the prosecutrix
and her three brothers slept, with no other covering
than a part of a filthy old sack. The child said that
they strove to keep themselves warm by huddling to-
gether when the nights were cold. There was only
one small window to the room which was closed, and
the constables declared that it would be cruelty to
put a dog or a pig in it. The house contains but
three rooms, and that in which the female prisoner
was found, and in which herself and husband slept
and lived, was rather a comfortable apartment, and
was as well furnished with food and furniture as most
mechanics' dwellings. When Mr. Birch spoke to the
mother she laughed at him, treated his remonstrance
with the greatest derision, and set his authority at de-
fiance. Ile accordingly applied for and obtained a
warrant.
The child cried bitterly on being brought into
Court, and seemed to regard the female prisoner with
the greatest terror. She sobbed so bitterly and fre-
quently that there was great difficulty in collecting
her testimony. She was lame from the ulcer on
her foot.
Mr. COMaE determined on sending the case for
trial for the assaults inflicted on the child on Satur-
day, and hence the child's testimony was confined to
what occurred on that day.
She deposed—My name is Anne Marks, and I
shall be 11 years of age next April. My mother sent
me for a kettle of water on Saturday morning, and
when I returned evithit she met me at the door, and,
saying that I had been idle, she seized me by the hair
and dragged me into the passage. She lifted me up
in her arms and threw me down as hard as she could
on the floor, and kicked me on the body. I screamed,
but she took me up, and " chucked" me down again.
She kicked me on the side and n the thighs, and when
I was lying on the ground she poured the kettle of
water on me. I lay there crying. When my
mother went away, I went out and sat
upon a door step in the court. I sat
there crying for half an hour, when a woman
came and took me in. I had nothing to eat up to this
time. The sore on my leg was caused by a kick my
father gave me a fortnight ago. My back was very
sore. I stopped more than an hour in the neigh-
bour's house, when my father came for me, and
brought me home. As soon as my mother saw me
she ran at me and kicked me again, but my father beat
her for doing so. The child added, that she did not
wish to hurt her father, who had given her bread and
butter. All the clothing she had on was a shift and
a bit of a sack, and sometimes the skirt of a petticoat
fastened upon me with a rope. The poor child, who,
as she proceeded with her testimony was becoming
more and more convulsed with grief, at length swooned
away in a paroxysm of grief, and was removed from the
Court in a state of insensibility. The male prisoner
burst into tears, and seemed deeply affected, as was
almost every one present. The female prisoner did
not seem in the least moved, but actually shook her
head and laughed when the child was borne by her
like a corpse.
Mary Dowlan, a poor Irishwoman living next door
to the prisoner saw the child sitting on a door step
and took her into her house. The only covering she
had was a dirty ragged chemise, and a piece of a sack
round her shoulders, both of which were saturated
with wet. She made the child dry herself at the
fire, and gave her a . potato. Before the child
left the door-step she told witness to watch her
mother, lest she might be at the window. She was
trembling from cold, and said her mother had kicked
and thrown cold water over her. There were several
bruises on her, and a sore on her leg. One bruise
was on the small of the back. The child was very
hungry. Witness never saw any one in so horrible
a state before. When the child's rags were dry, wit-
ness went in to the mother, and begged that she
would not beat the child, and she promised she would
not. When the child was taken in by her father she
heard her screams, and soon after seeing her crying
at the window gavelher another hot potato, which she
eat up.
Sarah Angelina Hewett, a very respectable-looking
matron, corroborated the above testimony in every
respect, and also deposed to the general brutality of
the female prisoner towards her. There was an ulcer
on her neck about a fortnight ago, as if she had been
burnt. Her back and legs were bruised. Witness
went into the house of the last witness whilst the
child was there, and the latter seeing her said, " Oh,
Mrs. Hewett, pray do take me from my mother ; she
beats me dreadful.' The child had her hand on her
back, saying it ached very much from the kicks.
After the child was taken in by her father witness
heard her screams for ten minutes after, and her cries
for " mercy." Heard the female prisoner say,
"You , by --- I will have your life, if you
go into a neighbour's house again ; or the life of any
neighbour that will harbour you." She used other
horrible expressions and threats.
The female prisoner here exclaimed, "And your
life too, you b—y perjured wretch !" and she held up
her clenched fist menacing the witness.
Mary Hewett and John Ward corroborated the
above testimony in every respect.
Elizabeth Howse, the workhouse nurse, deposed to
the nature of the injuries above described. Her flesh
was encrusted with dirt, and it required great labour
when the child was in the bath to scrape the dirt off;
the smell was horrible. On Sunday morning when
the child got up she said her bones felt sore from
lying on a bed, she had been so unaccustomed to it.
Mr. COMBE said, he should discharge the male
prisoner, but send the woman for trial, and wished to
know if she had anything to say, telling her she
Might say nothing if she pleased.
The woman—Then if I may not I will say nothing.
She was committed for trial.
THAMES POLICE.

A man, who seemed by trade a shoemaker, waited on
Mr. Broderip and stated that on the preceding night
his wife was called in to attend a woman who was
said to be in a dying state at the house, 63, Rose-
mary-lane, kept by a dairyman named William Chap-
man, who is the owner of thirteen or fourteen cows,
and is considered by the neighbours to be worth a
considerable sum of money. On going to the house
she was almost suffocated with the nauseous smell
which issued from the place, and informed her hus-
band of the circumstance ; he went back with her,
and the dying woman informed him that two brothers
lived in the house who entertained a deadly animosity
to each other, and that but for her interference some-
thing terrible would be the consequence. Mr. Cripps,
surgeon, of Wellclose-square, was sent for, but before
his arrival, the woman expired. The applicant hearing
the sound of distress in an upper apartment, proceeded
up stairs, and in a small room more like a cell than
an apartment, having neither window nor fire-place,
and lighted day and night by a rushlight, he found a
miserable creature, who, though only forty-five years
old, seem bowed down by want and age to the verge
of the grave. His beard seemed to be the growth of
several months, his face and body were terribly
emaciated, and his legs, which were swollen to an im-
mense size, were eaten into by sores as large as a half-
crown piece.
Mr. BRODERIP—Was he sane ? The applicant
said, he seemed to be as sane as a man in so wretched
a condition could be supposed to be. Ile stated, that
he had property in some houses in Leicestershire, but
that no rent had been paid out of it for some years.
The only furniture in the room was an old bedstead
on which the wretched man sat with a piece of old
sacking wrapped about his loins, and the filthy rags
upon the bed were calculated to create a contagion.
Seeing a human being in such a condition, applicant
thought it his duty to apprise the magistrate of the
matter, that some inquiry might be made into it.
Mr. BRODERIP commended the man's conduct, and
directed Macready, the warrant•officer, to inquire
into the case, and, if necessary, report it to the pa-
rochial authorities.
Macready, on his return, stated that he never be-
fore witnessed anything so filthy as the premises.
The deceased woman was sister to the two brothers
who resided in the house, and her parshnonious habits