The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-17 00:00:00

ei.*ll3---LINT
Ave '' G AND USURY.
were 1
Lsw_._ a ways of opinion that the old Usury
so
_eradmitting to their fullest extent the objections
comPtnuneveringly urged against it in the House of
p_ sby the late Lord SYDENHAM, when Mr.
wtrustiErr Tnomsoe—was precipitately repealed, and
subse-
quent e". amended." But. Mr. SPRING RICE'S iliilsxeension of the principle to the discount of
er
ern under a certain date, was a far more questionable
thr in ent towards a free trade in money-brokering,
e_
_e°attsequences of which have long since ceased to
i7.ers Of merely speculative apprehension. There
sTid,
eeption 1"n dialectics, to be "no rule without an ex-
all ' In political economy this is true of almost
irl g;leral principles. That free trade in capital, as
coura her commodities, should be upheld and en-
°F ged'
is a postulate which few men, as this time
day,pra would be rash enough to .contest ; yet the
„,,e'ets'e.al experience of every week demonstrates the
ti'leetircs,ity tor its qualification to the extent of clear,
tent, Le' and even stringent, legislation for the pro-
the tc°,ll of those who are the buyers of money from
411. %e_rwhelming exactions of those who have it to
di,s_ In commercial dealings, or transactions of or-
be"tarY barter, there is always more or less of equality
of
t7l:vn the two parties to a bargain. In the nature
al.,_ 'flga the competition, on one side, to sell goods is
""Ys greater than it is—among those who have '
money—tonec._s. advance it. But, on the other hand, the
aitr:e,sit:es of those who deal for its advance upon
theiPri,e loan, or security, are so much greater than
to s who consent to relieve them ;—the importance
thenli_ rectification of the borrower's position of econo-
to Zing time is so much more urgent than it can be
that 'a who is to put down the pecuniary means for
Purpose, that the law has hitherto wisely
assumedn that the borrower will be prone .to pay the
must extravagant and ruinous price for such advances,
saci
1„ for their acceleration ; and that the lender will
ilvz_ but_ too well disposed to take every advantage of
distress and of his recklessness. The restrictions,
therefore,rate which Acts of Parliament imposed upon the
seas,Of discount which could be legally taken for HARBOURS- OF REFUGE
am
the
bills of acceptance and promissory notes, No man can doubt, at this time of day, that private
tetw'ne Penalties and disabilities of suit which it at- enterprise accomplishes, in England, nobler public
Unlit d to the infraction of its enactments as to the works,—appropriates to their completion more liberal
takenation it prescribed to the rate of interest to be supplies of capital,—and in all points of design and
sal for the use of the money, were, in the main, execution exhibits a higher feeling and a more sus-
tarY and effective. They sometimes operated with tained purpose, than are usually found associated with
gTeat
frt_e,hardship and injustice on the lender, and encou- what are technically called " Government un . der-
thKe
balance
collusive actions or fraudulent defences. But takings." Our railroads are a magnificent exemplifi-
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their
of good, it is very generally allowed, was cation of this truth; and the accommodations secured
has 'air favour. Since they were repealed society in our provincial docks in many respects suggest a
he_ been incessantly shocked and disgusted at the comparison little favourable to the improved science,
pressed
avarice and guilty connivance with which or the enlightened experiehce, which has presider'
v money-lenders and bill-discounting attor- over similar works immediately under the control of
tile': have aided thoughtless and improvident young officers of the Crown. Foreigners are disposed to
tieh to anticipate, in the most wanton excesses of attach the highest possible value to this principle of
Gambling,
or the more insidious excitement of leaving to private capital the development of material
pertbling, their own patrimony or estate, or the pro- and economic resources, and they run into the ex-
tionS and expectations of their families and connec- treme on the other hand, of doubting whether Go-
itt S. Ever since the money-lender has been secured vernment aid would not mar, instead of accelerating,
411).11114y in taking interest for his money, within the the march of such public works in all cases. But
wits only suggested by his own very expansible this is, like all extreme opinions, at once unjust and
se, elence' we have noted an appalling increase of mischievous. Unjust, because its reception would
of
eees
wa,..outrageous spoliation of young men, whose operate to withhold from private speculation, under
tleut of common sense and ordinary caution have been any circumstances, the wholesome and not unreason-
f. 'lrately proportioned to their criminality and dis- ably-expected encouragement of the National Trea-
'Daton.
An sury. Mischievous, because its natural effect is, to i
Ivinstructive specimen of these was disclosed on suggest difficulties in the way of Government's step-
nielnesday last, in the Court of the Vice-Chancellor ping forward, even in cases where its assistance
sl,tl".ngland—" Stratford v elight." .air. HUGH must be indispensable to the proper completion of
ATFoRD STRATFORD, a young gentleman of four- a line of railway, a harbour, a bridge, already well
and-te, • -
tin, enty, inherited a portion of the property, with- begun and proceeded with—which difficulties their in-
h' a fraction of the sagacity, of the late Master in dolence or their timidity is but too successful in induc-
hisa'lcery STRATFORD, his paternal uncle. It was ing Ministers to plead in excuse for their neglect or
tranil'isf°rtilne to have been victimised by " gaming indifference towards it. 'We are sorry to perceive that
'actions " In June, 1842, he lost, at a game this is a growing fault in our chief administrative de-
aallea „ . •
thr blind hookey," no less than 20,0001.; but partments. And because it is calculated to prejudice,
fu ugh the instrumentality of one COOKE, of Clif- materially, in some very important particulars, the
h 'Street, an attorney, the bills which STRATFORD interests of the public, we take leave to enter our pro-
els'ai given for this sum were restored to him, and the test against its wholesale adoption in the domestic
prolu--so righteous as it doubtless was—was cone- policy of the present Government.
4'ised for the modest • sum of 5,0001. The disin- An instance occurred, in a debate in the House of
t
be'rested attorney's good offices did not stop here—he Lords on Monday last, which will exemplify its ac-
tteaule his gambling companion. After this new tion on measures even of the most pressing exigency.
s's,eeies of professional attendance had continued for We have, from time to time, directed attention, in The
ltn"e time, in the course of which very many gamb- Sun, to the proceedings of the Committee on Har-
tog houses were visited by them, this interesting bours of Refuge; and we have especially commented
441)1e—the dupe and his "friend"—met, (of course on the able and interesting report of Mr. WALKER,
pl. the merest accident in the world, and without any the celebrated engineer, on the harbour of Holyhead.
I,niitY or collusion on the part of one of them,) a The Marquis of CLANRICARDE, on Tuesday, on the
Ibtt'Y at an inn in the country, consisting of two men " order" being read relative to the Chester and Holy-
as-4',,,ed COGIILAN and EVANS, and a female, who passed head Railway Bill, stated that he would postpone his
1-14Irs. COGHLAN. After dinner, Mrs. COGHLAN, as motion on this Bill, until the report connected with the
. 'mv 1. diver:•proposed agame of " blind harbour should have been laid on the table. Other Noble
too , - ike ion,
eY ;" and Mr. STRATFORD, who even in this pro- Lords, who were friendly to the Bill, considered that
t,,ing saw nothing, it would seem, in the least ex- as the harbour itself was unconnected with this Bill,
fur
or suspicious—with a simplicity calculated the two subjects ought not to be mixed up together ;
14' the meridian of Arcadia, in the most innocent that this Bill should be allowed to be proceeded with,
fira of pastoral society—consented to make one at so that the parties to it might not incur unnecessary
e table. This was on the sth of April, 1843. The expense, as they must do should they be compelled to
flee
Played until two o'clock the next morning. On keep their witnesses in town for another week, or until
the 6th, after breakfast, one of the "gentlemen" was the report in question could be laid on the table. The
s
Ic°°!)liging as to make up the score which had been Duke of LEINSTER showed the importance of coin-
beit)'i' and the results were very singular, no doubt, pleting, as this Bill proposed to do, the communication
ilt
Ise, Painfully disastrous for the " squeezable" Mr. between the two count .
ries. No delay that could be
I,k•k•rroßD. He had lost to COWMAN, 10,843/. (this pessibly avoided ought to be interposed in the way of
:ill loved to be particular, even to fractions) ;to his the Bill. Lord CLANRICARDE still contended that it
ili-t'llahle, faithful, and disinterested " adviser "—the ought first to be known how far the Lords of the Tree-
fit,4)ruea', 4,060/. Why the score should have brought sury would go in recommending a sufficient grant for
~RA'reottp a debtor to EVANS in the paltry sum of the completion of Holyhead harbour, and Parliament
ril"., or what, if any, were the winnings of the fe- in holding the promoters of the gill to the liability of
sale Upon a match so admirably arranged for the building a bridge over the Menai, &c. The Earl of
b 4iefit and delegationof the man COGHLAN, and the
Att Daenousse, on the part of Government, said that the
I 41'nev CooKE, the report does not state. But result of the inquiries and survey which they had
kik - ,
p,— Was the first act of the three of which this do- caused to be instituted proved that Holyhead might
Ege•
~,`'e drama consisted. be made a good packet harbour; that they were an-
t -the second exhibited the foolish victim yielding to xious to see such a measure introduced and adopted
see--" persuasions"—the " gentle violence"—of his as would facilitate the intercourse between Ireland
tY good friends On the 28th of April he was in- and this country to the utmost in point o.f safety and
i:ed; poor man ! to give his acceptances for the speed. " The Government, however, declined to make
:a-Innt of his losses. Four of these bills, for 1,0001. any pledge, until they saw what line of railroad would
'et' h b COOKE, himself—who, be adopted. When such a line was adopted, her Mk-
t' ' happened to be drawn y OOKE,
Cier anxious to accommodate" STRATFORD, Was So JESTY'S Government would be prepared to state what
ett-4d as to make them payable at his (Coolie's) own sum they would recommend Parliament to grant to-
u'e •however, Mr. wards the completion of Holyhead harbour."
.t.„ ' in Clifford-street. Presently,
ti,-ATFORD's friends (friends in the better accepts- Now, in all this there is the disinclination to take
41;: of the term, not attorneys) discovered the whole upon itself the initiative, in furthering the completion
dear' and filed two "bills" (not quite such pretty of works, the public convenience and, perhaps, poli-
tees as 1,0001. acceptances), the one against COOKE tical importance whereof it is not possible to over-
one, the other aeainst COOKE and Coe tiLAN; and state—of which we complain. Does it not occur to
re art, on the sth of May, not being sufficiently Lord DALHOUSIE, and the department to which that
lisrightened on the equity of such transactions, was so Noble Earl belongs, that if Government would only,
1401.,!``sueable as to grant an injunction restraining at this advanced and mature stage of the undertaking,
Aioll Practitioners—the professional and the unprofes- intimate its real intentions with reference thereto, that
(404 k-from negotiating such hills. This count which Government desires to see, (namely, the intro-
,lei the second of this serious farce. duction of the best measure for carrying out the plan
ee he third and last opened ominously. On that proposed,) would infallibly take place ? Let it be
0rf311,4'13r, "the critical day," as the report terms it, certain that Government will improve, extend, and
vet -i's churlish inj unction, something else " happened" deepen a most important harbour at one point of the
ii,,t,' Oddly
t‘s '—but the whole history is full of coinci- line of "a " railway, which is to connect and approxi-
e• On that very day, it happened, then, that mate, by means of locomotive power, England and
1,1 01 these four bills were endorsed to a Mr. Tito- Ireland, and can anyone believe there will be hesitation,
ark: IrLIGOT, the defendant in the suit whereof we or difficulty, or distrust, or any holding back on the
teeegiving th;): outline. THOMAS FLIGHT, who part of private capitalists, touching the suggestion and
sin"s to be a eort of unprofessionally-profes- the completion of "the best line" for such a purpose ?
ti„rral discounter, subsequently brought an ac- There would be nothing of the sort. But so long as
, "
al, ,„°li these bills, and obtained a verdict; but, the Government follows out this shilly-shally course
if")r him ! a new trial was afterwards directed. of making a demonstration in favour here, and intl..
1114Qites defence and plea were meant to show that timating a tardy discouragement there—to-day ex-
clstQc3nduct on the affair has been bona fide. He has pressing itself in terms of more than hypothetical
that all knowledge of the gambling. it "happened"
encouragement as to a plan already submitted to it,
be,n°rla EICKE (not otherwise described), who had and proceeded with; to-morrow affecting a sublime
hiss in the habit of bringing him bills to discount, but cold impartiality, open to all parties, influenced
the Vt.lriiin the four 1,0001. bills to discount, about by none, and coquetting with the last applicant,—so 1
BT,a,„t" °f April. FLIGHT states that he was told long it is paralysing, not fostering, the energies that
ebotj: FORD, a young man of good expectations, ;Ind would be otherwise achieving the desired object.
was '' to be married to the daughter of a Baronet, Stich a mode of proceeding is throwing the boon of
Ce,:tlxicms to raise money for his marriage ; that Government patronage, or support, or aid, as a wild
to ,f;t' his attorney, had drawn three bills upon him "scramble" among mere adventurers, rather than re-
of
eoable hi
in ---in to effect this object. Just the story, serving it for bond fide associations of spirited specu-
I,Na'rse, calculated to lull the suspicions of a liberal, lators, who are content, under such auspice:, to risk
divNbmPic, benevolent, discounting " friend to the their capital to the full extent of their subscriptions,
leitit'',"*:-4 —quite a duck of a moneyeleefler. But and of the prospectus of the work they have embarked
A,
0, Was ,his FLIGHT altogether such a perSOR-,,, 41)ern, We do not intend these remarks to apply to
~f.,'''''n•liearted ansi open-handed? What is hie own the ease of the Chester and Holyhead Railway alone.
w:nt of his own term: ? In the first instance lie We object to the whole of that portion of the system
he ads. COOKS to give a judgment for the amount to on which the Board of Trade in the first lis4nvp, awl
h "need to STRATFORD ; and, on COPKE'S refusal, Parliament in its subsequent legislation, entertain
e de"'lett, fled to discount. But afterwards, ill 4F. I ilailway Bills. A false indulgence in the Board of
aer
h, 0 mood, we suppose— I rl'ade, and in Parliementary Committees, for the con-
rat, lee agreed to dis an ar- '
coction of new, or more or Jess isicelifiee, Oasis fgr 2117
geinen count two of them, upon
se iri t that Stratford should pay him Sot a year es
b. serail 'end the same railway—the excessive encouragement,
ins w ranee on his life until the bills were paid, The
e„
c, ere for three months'and were discounted at 604 li4 54PYr1 !If - competing . ~„
, . e
on "t•• and flee obe accomplished
1) - Icause lat so mupli re ..,,,Ti
th, 5,,
of re amount, less the discount (1080 , , WAN
.„ „_
i.,c. 'eine 4 railway, cone.
°II the s',:" May paid Eicke on behalf of Cooke, and lin tb& comphitinn of a geuer - .L.--•: ; ~.,i ~ ~ , lia.
to ally .‘' day Coke gave an undertaking- to appear Nild„ '4\ bllt utin4rFd of
~w action wi 'Le munication throu,ool4 thi:
.11c h llbe b '.• -0-qinst himseh
~:!ci trateird hn •snu t rougns ...,„, ,
..,
lien thousands of pounds have been sticrii.iced in 0.-egms4-0
'' ty became
(,i. ~ase thp bills should not be pain ~_..: • .—;n vexatious opposition to Bills, and especially,
We feel from'''''. 1 s;ess'u"-- -senuent on "competing lines,
, this statement, a vast respect for ,Alr. in the litigation ce.....„ • --tance—like this
1 enterprises of the most pressing tinpv.,...:,.

" Mr. Bothell contended that, accordinc, to Flight's
version of his part in the transaction, he had made
Eicke and Cooke his agents in discounting the bills, and
he was therefore fixed with their knowledge of the origin
of the hills. _ _

" Mr. Stuart and Mr. Wood,• for Flight, contended
that no equity was confessed upon the answer to support
the injunction."
His Honour reserved the epilogue—we beg pardon
—his judgment, until he should have read the answer.
In :the meantime, may we suggest to Sir JAMES
GRAHAM that if he would turn his attention to put
down such nefarious practices as these wholesale and
legalised spoliations of the young and silly possessors
of property, by means which are openly challenged
in courts of justice (! !) to legalise the work of
iniquity and plunder ; he would render a far nobler
service to society and to his own fame, than in
framing protocols of secret conferences with Police
Commissioners, as to the means of a combined system
of hostile operations against the irregular forces of
thimbleriggers and roulette-table keepers on the
downs of Epsom, or the heath of Ascot.

COOKE and Mr. FLIGHT ; yet we venture to say, that of the Chester and Holyhead Railway—have been
any "arrangement," as it is called, of such singular hung up, if not absolutely discarded, and the time of
modesty and forbearance, on the part of those gen- I both Houses frivolously occupied and consumed in
tlemen, would never have been dreamed of whilst the hearing pleas and arguments which a little common
wholesome restraints of the Usury Laws were yet in sense would have disallowed at once, where they were
being. That such a bargain could be perfected is a palpably vexatious, and infinitely shortened where the
disgrace to the age we live in, and the law under i Committees were already satisfied on ,the general
which it can be protected. It gives to the money merits of the particular Bill in support of which they:
capitalist the power of life and death, as it were, were offered. We were glad to observe the disap-
through its sanction, to such monstrous exactions, probation expressed, in the case of the Chester and
over the lives and souls, bodies, fortunes, and rela- Holyhead Bill, by Lord BROUGHAM and the Marquis
lions in life of the miserable and imprudent fools of LANSDOWNE, of the principle of suspending the
who have placed themselves within his clutches. The staniing orders on private Bills; and we trust that
drama concluded with a curiously contrasted charge the Select Committee, to which the measure is for the
and defence; the former rested on mere moral and present referred, as an opposed Bill, will make a
equitable considerations, independent of the legal or speedy report upon it. The public are deeply in-
technical bearing of the facts ; the latter based on a terested in the active and early completion of so great
merely technical objection to the answer given in, a work; and it is pleasant to see that the House of
utterly irrespective of considerations, equitable or Lords are little inclined to occasion any delay in the
moral : matter.

PRO VINCIAL ISSUES of the BANK

of ENGLAND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—By the 3d and 4th William IV., c. 98, see, 4,
it is enacted, " That all promissory notes payable on
demand of the Bank of England, which shall be
issued at any place in England, out of Lon-
don, where the business of banking shall be car-
ried on for the said Bank of England, shall be made
payable at the place where such promissory notes shall be
issued: and it shall not be be lawful for the said Governor
and Company, or any committee, agent, cashier, officer,
or servant, of the said Governor and Company, to issue
at any such place, out of London, any promissory note,
payable on demand, which shall not be payable at the
place where the same shall be issued."
How is this clause to be brought into operation, and
only one issue department of the Bank of England, and
that one in London? In the new Bill there is no mention
of " issue departments," but only " The Issue Depart-
ment," so that the banking part of the establishment
using the notes of " the issuing department," will be
no more than that of any other bank using Bank of
England notes at the present time ; and any person
wanting to cash a note will be refused, and
referred to "the issue department" for cash—parties may
refuse to take notes at the banking
_department, out as
the issue was not made at such department, they must
proceed to the issue department for cash, in case they
have notes in their possession.
Thus the London banking department will obtain
notes from the issue department, and from thence supply
all the provincial branches, and as notes paid away from
the banking department will not be an issue from such
department, but from another department, so will not
the notes paid over the counter of a provincial
branch be an issue of that branch, but an
issue from " the issue department" in London. Cash
will not be able to be obtained for notes in the country
without some special provision be made for the purpose.
According to the present Bill, the branches will
be no longer banks of issue, but branches using notes of
" tha issue department," of the Bank of England
in London—thus, these branches will be placed in the
precise position of every country bank using Bank of
England notes. How can the issue department be
totally separated from the banking department, if the
notes are made payable " at the branch in Bristol, and at
the issue department in London," when the branch in
Bristol forms no part of the issue department of the Bank
of England in London ?
Is any branch of the Bank of England to have a se-
parate and distinct "issue department?"
At present it is illegal for an officer of a branch of the
Bank of England to pay over the counter any Bank of
England note that is not payable at such place.
Every London issued Bank of England note
taken at a branch must be remitted to the pa-
rent branch in London. It is, as far as the legal-
lity of the affair, but waste paper in the provinclial
branch—so, that if there be not some provision made for
" the issue department" to have some connexion with
the banking provincial branches, those branches cannot
issue any notes of the London issue department as they
will not be made payable at the various branches—and
they cannot issue a note not made payable at the branch
were issued.

As I read the Bill, neither the London banking de-
partment of the Bank of England, nor any of its branches
can be called upon to pay cash for Bank of England
notes, and the only place where gold can be demanded
will be " the issue department" of the Bank of Eng-
land in London. I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
Ilfracombe, June 12, 1844. R. W. D.

TT:I[Z SUM LOItT-DON, MONDAY EVEN

LITERAT URE. '
AFLOAT AND ASHORE. 3 Vols.
Bentley, London, 1844.
With the exception of the apparently inexhaustible
Mr. James, who must by this time have written as
many volumes as would furnish an ordinary library,
Mr. Cooper is unquestionably the most prolific no-
velist of his day. Once or twice a year, for the last
twelve `years and upwards, he has never failed- to
bring forth a work of fiction ; and it is surprising how
little diminution there is of that spirit and freshness
which characterised his earlier productions. The
tale before us, which the author mentions in his pre-
face as being founded on fact, exhibits much of_ the
graphic vigour of the " Last of the Mohicans," though
it is infinitely less romantic in its tone, and less
lavishly coloured in its scenic sketches. It is in the
form of an autobiography, and professes to record the
actual experiences of Miles Wallingford, by land and
sea, in almost every quarter of the habitable globe.
The adventures of this enterprising individual are full
of variety, and are told in a homely, nervous style,
without the slightest attempt at display. His account
of his shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, of his subse-
quent visit to London, of his naval engagement with
the French vessel, La Dame de Nantes, of the
sudden death of his father by being entangled in the
machinery of a mill-wheel of his own invention, and
of the distraction of his bereaved mother ;—these
various incidents are related with singular spirit in
Mr. Cooper's most effective and characteristic manner.
As a whole, h3wever, the tale is somewhat heavy,
owing principally to the author's well-known fond-
ness for dwelling too much on mere unimportant
matters of detail, as in his description of the paternal
farm of Clawbonmy, which is as minute and circum-
stantial as an auctioneer's catalogue.

HYDE MARSTON. 3 Vols. Golburn, London, 1844.

As a considerable portion of this tale has already
appeared, if we remember rightly, in the columns of
one of the monthly sporting periodicals—the Sporting
Magazine or I?epository, we need say little more, on
the present occasion, than that it is a passable story,
neither better nor worse than the general run of such
productions.

HISTORY OF GERMANY.
Chapman and Hall, London, 1844.
We have here a translation from the German of
Professor Kolransch, executed with elegance, and we
are willing to believe also, with fidelity. The work
is a history of Germany from the earliest period down
to the present time—a work which has been long
wanted, and which has been already received with
marked approbation throughout the country whose
eventful annals it records. Though the author is a
staunch Protestant, yet he exhibits no towards
the rival faith, Catholicism ; but maintains a scru-
pulous and dignified tone of impartiality, even in
places where it might naturally be supposed his pre-
judices would be actively on the alert. His work
contains an immense mass of historical information
carefully digested, and put forth with much luminous-
ness and simplicity of manner.

The Council of the Royal Society of British Artists
have kindly invited the children of the St. Ann's Society's
Brixton Asylum to their exhibition in Suffolk-street,
Pall-mall East, on Wednesday afternoon next, at one
o'clock.

DI:ATM BY DROWNING.—On Friday, Mr. Baker
held two inquests on youths who were drowned. The
first was held at the Royal Crown, Ratcliff-highway,
and was on the body of Thomas Carter, aged 16, late
belonging to the Milford trader, of Bristol. It appeared
by the evidence of Robert Hutchinson, mate of the Her-
bert, of Scarborough, that on Tuesday he was aboard his
vessel, when he heard an alarm of " man overboard."
Both vessels were in the London Docks, and looking in
the direction of the cry, he saw an empty boat, and de-
ceased beneath the water. He jumped into the boat and
held an oar out to deceased, who was too far gone to
seize it. A man jumped into the water to try and save de-
ceased, but he failed, and became so much exhausted
that he was conveyed to the London Hospital. Drags
were employed, and deceased was got out in about 20
minutes' time. He was then taken to the docks' re-
ceiving-house, and promptly attended by Mr. Blomfield,
but that gentleman failed to restore animation. De-
ceased was rowing from the vessel ashore when one oar
slipped from the rowlock, and deceased tumbled into the
water. The second inquest was held at the Waterman's
Arms, Lower Shadwell, and was on the body of George
Hood, aged fourteen. It appeared that he was the son
of a shoemaker residing in Shakspeare-walk, and left
home on Sunday afternoon to amuse himself. He went
down to Shadwell Dock-stairs, and got playing on the
barges moored there, when he slipped off one of them
into the water. A man named Nowland tried to save
him, but without success. Half an hour elapsed before
the body was found, when it was taken tothat house, and
atten-led to by Mr. Archer, a surgeon, who tried in vain
to resuscitate it. Verdict in both cases—" Accidentally
drowned."

SERIOUS STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Thursday
afternoon, between three and four o'clock another painful
accident happened on the river, off Greenwich, by the
Waterman's steam-boat, No. 10, running down a boat,
with a poor dredgerman upwards of sixty years of age.
The vessel had but a few .minutes left the pier, and was
proceeding up the river with her usual speed, when just
as she had arrived abreast of the Dreadnought hospital
ship, moored off the lower part of the town, a boat was
observed coming down a-head of the steamer, rowed by
a very old man. The mate was on the larboard paddle-
box at the time. but his attention was directed to some
conversation abaft the funnel. Hearin the cry, how-
ever, of " A boat a-head," he beckoned to the person in
charge of the wheel to pert the helm, and shouted to the
man in the boat to haul off, but by that period, although
but a few moments had elapsed, the steamer had gained
so much upon the boat that it seemed impossible for the
dredgerman to get ont of the way, for in a few moments
the steamer came in contact with the boat, which passed
completely under the paddle-box, the paddles being in
motion at the time. On running to the after part of the
vessel not a vestige apparently of the boat and man could
be seen, butin a minute or so the boat floated to the sur-
face of the water bottom upwards, and at the same mo-
ment the man was observed struggling for life. The
steamer was then at least fifty yards from where he was
noticed, and an order was instantly given to turn her
astern, which was promptly attended to, and in a few
moments came alongside of him. He was then secured
by a boat-hook, although in a most exhausted condition,
and so held until two boats came off" one from the ship
Walter of Newcastle, and the other from one of her
Majesty's cutters lying
into former. he steamer then, without stopping to
avertain how far the poor man was injured (blood was
at Deptford, and he was dragged
issuing from his ears), his name, or what property he had
lost, proceeded on her journey, leaving the boat and her
contents floating down with the tide. From inquiries
since instituted, we have learned that the poor fellow was
taken on board the Dreadnought hospital ship, where he
still remains.

PROJECTED ENCROACHMENTS IN GREENWICH PARK.
—Pursuant to public notice issued by the parish officers of
Greenwich, a crowded meeting was held on Friday in the ves-
try-room of the church of St. Alphage, and by adjourment in
the National Schools, to consider the propriety of opposing the
steps about being taken by the Governors of Greenwich Hos-
pital to inclose a certain portion of the park. Precisely at
seven o'clock, the rector, the Rev. W. A. Soames, took the chair.
Mr. James, the vestry-clerk, having read the notice conven-
ing the meeting, the Rev. Rector said, that he considered the
present meeting of the utmost importance, not only to the
inhabitants of the immediate locality, but to the vast popu-
lation of the metropolis, who sought relief from the crowded
city in the quiet seclusion of their ancient park. Rumours had
long been circulated that the Governors of Greenwich Hos •
pital had determined to inclose about an acre and a half of
the ground facing Croom's-hill, upon which it was intended
to erect two villas for the special residence of two of the
officers of that establishment. Farther, a tank was to be
dug out several yards wide, and six feet deep round which a
mound of gravel was to be thrown up, upwards of five feet
in height, by which the view would be obstructed, and the
park, confessedly the most beautiful one contiguous to the
metropolis, would be entirely despoiled, and the inha-
bitants, as well as the public at large, deprived of
a source of relaxation and amusement. These en-
croachments did not now exist in imagination, for they were
actually commenced. In the upper part of the park there
was a collection of valuable and ancient relics; indeed, so
valuable were they considered, that an attempt had been
made to shield them from destruction by the members of the
Archeological Society, who had stepped forward to pre-
serve the antiquated " barrows," admitted to be upwards of
1,000 veers old, all of which would be swept away by the
construction of the proposed reservoir. Impressed with these
facts, he (the Rector) had made it his business to wait upon
Mr. Sydney Herbert at the Admiralty, where he presented a
memorial upon the subject. He had also forwarded a copy
of the same document to Lord Haddington the First Lord
of the Admiralty, and to Lord Lincoln at the office of Woods
and Forests. Thursday was fixed for an interview, and he
(the Rector) attended upon that day, and attempted to reason
the matter with the scientific gentlemen present. To all his
objections on the part of the public, resistance was made by
the representatives of Government. Last night he had re-
ceived a letter from Lord Lincoln, to the effect that his
Lordship could not consistently advise that the recommenda-
tion of the Rector should be acted upon, as the scientific gen-
tleman had stated that the object of fixing the reservoir—
the protection of Deptford dockyard and Greenwich Hospital
from fire—could not be effected-if any other part of the park
were chosen for the purpose. To that communication he
(the Rector) had replied, that he was of opinion the pa-
rishioners had apt with contumely, and that it was con-
sidered very contemptuous treatment of a large and re-
spectable community. Resolutions in accordance with the
sentiments of the worthy Rector, and expressive of the ut-
most determination to resist the encroachments proposed,
were moved and secondedtobs-tllylr.tth'e. Angerstein, late Mem-
ber for the borough, Mr. C. Millington, Mr. A. Young, one
of the county magisptreatitteiso,n'Aslirl.ol4u'l.aßbaernpirse,psaorleicditaourd, apnrdeseontlit other
gentlemen ; and ultimately it was agreed without a dlssen-
-111‘NV-eitriet' resumed, by order of Lord Lincoln,
encroachments, which
yesterday
,ioee
snit,tearri•lioiaai
ycme
morning
f gt
the Chief Commissidner of the Woods and Forests.
LADIES IN THE STOCKS.—On Saturday, market-
day, at Newport, in this county, the attentipn her.
Majesty's lieges was attraqte4 ro the lows Ball, in con-
sequen6e of stOcfis being occupied by two young
ladies, Miss Ann Bullock and Miss Harris, who, with a
gentleman named Jones, alias Girdler, had the pleasure
'a(:ttriC:ic;ich clock in the New-road, is
of rusticating in the above enviable position for. si4
SOCKS.—Ourhours.—
Marylebone Corre-
still iu spondent
aLSw:(s,rieritei)tsvosuut:ilisiirtar
piece is said to be going fast. The pendulum, which ought to
be at
fcr
tixa
crly seventy, and the wind-tan is dospair-
%l I= :cacti ward
cveinnl
bcl 'oh
:41eiidncier Lacivrenee: Rector ci• Marnhaui, who when closing
his sermon in the afternoon, was taken ill, and upon 'being
re-Moved to the Rectory House, almost instantly expired.—
Nottinham Review.