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STJN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUAIIi 10, 1844 k

obtained as the public can ._reasonably desire.
Now, as to expense, there are already many
checks, as the long code of college rules with re-
ference to hours, company, the indulgence in
expensive amusement, which, rigidly enforced—
and if not rigidly enforced such rules are worse
than useless—would go a great way ; and
when these failed we do not see why expense
might not be properly treated as a substantive
offence, incurring the penalty of removal from
the University. If a man will not conform to the
habits of a society, after repeated admonitions,
we do not see upon what grounds be can affect to
complain of his--removal from that society. But
it will be said, how are you to ascertain that a
man is expensive in his habits.? The answer is,
that the external evidence is generally sufficient;
but if it fail, you have the man himself, whom
you may examine as to his expenditure. A place.'
of education is, as regards the pupils, properly in-
quisitorial, and it ought to be vigilantly inquisito-
rial. The parental authority is communicated to
its governors, and we suppose it will not
be denied that in a case of doubt a father is en-
titled and bound to make a strict inquiry into
the habits of a son still under his roof. Two
or three examples of young men removed
from the Universities for " expensiveness,"
eo noinine, would do much good in render-
ing expense unpopular. This applies to the
pupils who receive too much money from
their parents, or have, otherwise, too much
money at their own- disposal but it ap-
plies also to those who squander borrowed
money ; for these last an additional guard
might be 'found, in an Act, not of the Univer-
sities, but of the Legislature, barring the reco-
very of any debt incurred by a young man in
state pupillari, whatever his age, nor could
money-lenders or tradesmen justly complain of
such an act ; to every debt there must be two
consenting parties, the creditor and the debtor,
but if you want to get rid of the evil, you must
address yourself to him of the two who has most
power to obviate the mischief, and who is most
likely to be acted upon by considerations of rea-
son and interest—this, every one sees, is the cre-
ditor in all cases, more especially in cases where
the debtor must be an inexperienced youth.

STATE or TRADE.—The commercial intelligence
from India and China, received by the last overland mail,
being generally considered unfavourable, had a prejudi-
cial effect upon the market yesterday, and manufacturers
cf shirtings were willing to accept prices which they gene-
rally refused last week. Printing cloth, though notlower in
price, was less inquired atter, and but little business
was done in it. Stout domestics, however, whieh have
been for a long time greatly depressed, and of which the
manufacture has been somewhat diminished, were in
better demand, at prices somewhat higher than those of
last week. In the yarn market there was not much
business done. The accounts from Germany not being
very favourable, and the demand for the east
having been supplied, there was little inquiry for
reeled yarn, except from the Greek merchants, who are
now considerable purchasers of low numbers of water
twist. The Liverpool cotton market having also be-
come a little easier, prices of shipping qualities of yarn
were in many cases from *d. to -id, lower than last week.
For the home trade, there was no material difference in
prices ; but the amount of business done was limited.-
1 Manchester Guardian.

Gregory, Faulkner, Gregory, and Bourdillon, Bedford-
row, London ;Cooper, Manchester.
EVAN EVANS, draper, Llangurdirne, Carmarthen-
shire, Jan. 25 and Feb. 22, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Court. Acraman, official assignee ; Clarkes,

Bristol.
WILLIAM EASTHOPE, white smith, Shrewsbury,
Jan. 23, at half-past eleven, and Feb. 23, at one. Chris-
tie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Newman, Lincoln's
Inn-fields ; Garbett, Wellington ; Hodgson, Bir-
mingham.
NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY.
T. Joy, beer-seller, Liversedge, Yorkshire.
D. M. Thomas, surgeon, Cum Ammen, Carmarthenshire.
B. Woffenclen, woollen yarn maker, Water-gate, Yorksh.
G. Buckley, beer retailer, Almondbury, Yorkshire.
J. Joseph, oilman, Richmond, Surrey.
T. Hoile, farmer, Sandwich, Kent.
J. Moulton, gardener, Garden-row, Clerkenwell.
J. R Leese, lodging housekeeper, Regent-st, City-road.
J. Mullens, schoolmaster, Lewes, Sussex.
P. Robinson, traveller, Warrington, Lancashire.
J. Mews, jun., confectioner, Great St. Andrew-street,
Seven Dials, Middlesex.
G. Callaway, grocer, King-street-terrace, Islington.
R. Lockett, beer-Seller, LOngton, Staffordshire.
W. Parsons, attorney, Tottenhain-court-road.
E. Manning, messenger, Park-place Walworth.
E. Tucker, discount agent, Upper Park-place, Walworth.
R. Manuel, carpenter, David. street, New-road, Middlesex.
R. G. Cattle, tobacconist, Goswell-street.
J. Nicholas, iron fitter, Dudley.
J. Sherratt, card case maker, Berkeley-street, Lambeth.
M. Sides, farmer, Ruyton of the Eleven Towns, Shropsh.
A. H. Tanner, schoolmaster, Ebury-street, Pimlico.
Levick, clerk, High Holborn.
R. 11. Rodwell, pianoforte maker, Providence-place,
Kentish-town.
G. Berkeley, farmer, Eastington, Worcestershire.
J. Berkeley, farmer, Longdon, Worcestershire.
A. Berkeley, farmer, Eastington, Worcestcrshire.
I'. M'Elroy, dresser of silk, Salford, Manchester.
J. Holmes, school proprietor, Tottenham-green.
I. Shayer, tailor, Berwick-street, 'Westminster.
J. Simpson, oilman, Grosvenor-row, Pimlico.
J. W. Mott; sheriff's officer, Chancery-lane.
E. Casement, earpenter,West-st.,Neckinger,Bermondsey.
L. West, attorney, Bath.
E. Webb, servant, Wolstanton, Staffordshire.
T. Firth, innkeeper, Almondbury, Yorkshire.
I. Robson, farmer, Thornton, Yorkshire.
J. Garner, joiner, Woodchurch, Cheshire.
T. Crowe, provision dealer, Liverpool.
L. B. Bartholomew, Whitley, Berkshire.
W. Swain, joiner, Hulme, Lancashire.
A. L. Moore,,Leicester.
'F. Cheshire; cabinet maker, Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
J. Carden, grocer, Penshurst, Kent.
0. Foulds, stone mason, Bingley, Yorkshire.
R. Pettit, bricklayer, St. Thomas's-square, Hackney.
11. Woodgate, farmer, Heathfield, Sussex.
R. Routh, Camberwell-grove, Surrey.
J. Routh, jun.; Camberwell-grove, Surrey.
W. Forster, whitesmith, Warrington.
SECOND NOTICES.
G. Chapman, Nicholl's-square, Aldersgate-street, Jan.
15, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee.
H. Hedges, Bridge-street, Southwark, Jan. 15, at half-
past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee.
P. F. Faucher, Cook's-ground, Chelsea, Jan. 15, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Jan.
15,
assignee.
J. Ogden, coach-smith, Shouldham- street, Maryle-
bone, Jan. 15, at half-past one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee.
IL Payne, mast-maker, Wapping-wall, Shadwell, Jan,
15, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Turquand, official assignee.
G. Clutterback, locksmith, Old Compton-street, Soho,
Jan. 15, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Graham, official assignee.
J. Woodman, Hampden-street, Camden-town, Jan.
15, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham,
official assignee.
J. L. Adcock, carpenter, Southampton-street, Fitzroy-
square, Jan. 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Graham, official assignee.
J. Huckstepp, Lewes, Sussex, Jan. 13, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy, Green, official assignee.
J. 11. Greenlagh, medical student, Edward-street,
Hampsteael-road, Jan. 13, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee.
J. Turner, lodging-house keeper, Amwell-street,
Clerkenwell, Jan. 17, at half-past two, at the court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee.
J. B. Shiflcock, chemist, Bromley, Kent, Jan. 17. at
half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lacking-
ton, official assignee.
J. Walker, milkman, Oxford, Jan. 17, at two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, official assignee.
J. R. C. Colman, surgeon! Hethersett, Norfolk, Jan.
17, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lack-
ington, official assignee.
T. Bird, upholsterer, Tottenham-court-road, Jan. 17,
at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lack-
ington, official assignee.
H. Marks, jeweller, King's Lynn, Norfolk, Jan. 20, at
half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom,
official assignee.
G. A. Gibbons, shipowner, Dempsey-street, Commer-
cial-road East, Jan. 20, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee.
J. Mullins, commission traveller, Baldwin-street, City-
road, Jan. 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, official assignee. -
H. 0. Stutely, solicitor, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-
park, Jan. 20, at half-past two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Groom, official assignee.
J. Duck, coach painter, Queen-street, Oxford-street,
Jan. 20, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Groom, official assignee.
J. H. Thomson, unman, Liverpool, Jan.l3, at twelve,
at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee.
J. Holdroyd, joiner, Robert-town, Yorkshire, Jan. 13,
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official

assignee.
R. Davies, tinner, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Jan. 13, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee.
W. Teale, cloth maker, Yeadon-moor-end, Yorkshire,
Jan. 13, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope,
official assignee.
J. Bratss founder, Birmingham, Jan. 20, at
eleven, at , bra
the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston,
official assignee.
R. Buckeridge, clerk, Forebridge, Staffordshire, Jan.
19, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
official assignee.
M. Gill, tkrmer, Hoton-mills, Leicestershire, Jan. 16,
at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
official assignee.
J. Clark, paviour, Toxteth Park, Lancashire, Jan. 15,
at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official

assignee.
T. Jones, law stationer, Liverpool, Jan. 15, at eleven,
at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee.
K. Bennett, Littleton, Cheshire, Jan. 15, at one, at the
Liverpool District Court, Turner, official assignee.
J. 'Popham, linen draper's aFsitant, Bristol, Jan. 15,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman,
file the
Grenoside, YorkshireJ. ,
at the Leeds District Court. Fearne,
official assignee.
Jan.
officialßl3eciaret assigneerenlLN• n ,
J. Marshall, butcher, Stannington, Yorkshire, Jan. 13,
at eleven, at the • Leeds District Court. Hope, official

assignee.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
T. Chappell, licensed victualler, Sudbury, Suffolk, Feb.
2, at two—S. P. Gladstone, shipwright, Poplar, Feb. 2,
at half-past two----J. E. Beerbohm and W. E. Slaughter,
merchants, Fenehurch-street, Feb. 2, at one—C. Iloilo-
way, victualler, Stoekbrid.ge; Hampshire, Jan. 30, at
half-past one—ll. Jones, victualler, Canterbury, Jan. 30,
at one—A. T. Harwood, lodging-house keeper, Streatham,
Feb. 1, at eleven—R. Collier, draper, Hythe, Kent, Jan.
chants, Walbrook-buildings, Jan. 30, at one----R. r,
Parke 30, at twelve—A. 14. Bensusan and J. Brandon, mer-
J
linen draper, Deptford-row, Rotherhithe, an. 30, at
twelve—J. H. Arnold and W. H..Woollett, ship agents,
Clement's-lane City,3o, at half-past twelve—H.
M. Low and lir. M. Westerman, merchants, Chunder-
nagore, Feb. 2, at eleven.
In the Country.
J. Levett, farmer, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, Feb.
1, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court
—J. B. Williams,wholesale ironmonger, Bristol, Feb. 1,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court—W. Castle, sheep
dealer, Wanborough, Wiltshire, Jan. 31, at one, at the
Bristol District Court—R. Potter, Jn. Potter, and Js.
Potter, cotton spinners, Manchester, Feb. 7, at eleven, at
the Manchester District Court—W. Scott, blanket ma-
nufacturer, Earl's Heaton, Yorkshire, Feb. 2, at eleven,.
at the Leeds District Court—J. Senior, fancy cloth ma-
nufacturer, Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, Feb. 3, at eleven, at
the Leeds District Court—B. Hargreaves, tailor, Man-
chester, Feb. 2, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court—R. Conibere and B. Butler, jun., woollen drapers,
Birmingham, Feb. 9, at half-past twelve, at the Bir-
mingham District Court—C. J. 'Williams and.E.'Nevill,
factors, 13irmingliasn, Feb. 5, at half-past eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
G. J. Pottelice, stationer, Oxford-street, Feb. I—S.
Pears, wine merchant, Old Jewry, Feb. 2—J. B. L.
Farrant, agricultural machine maker, Maidstone, Kent.,
Feb. 1-11. W. Diamond, surgeon, Frith-street, West-
minster, Feb. I—W. B. M`Pherson, victualler, Hox ton,
Jan. 30—W. B. Cockerill, butcher, Reedham, Norfolk)
Jan. 30 —P. A. Nattall, newspaper vender, Cheltenham,
Feb. I—J. M. Wintle, silversmith, Drury-lane; Jan. 30
—W. Rolfe, farmer, Therfield, l!ertfordshire, Jan. 30—
L. Mosely, Staffordshire warehousemen, 11igh•street,
Shadweil, Jan. 3I—W. Warren, blacksmith, Pownall
Fee, Wiltshire, Feb. I—J. Millington and T. Salter,
calico printers, Manchester, Jan. 30—R. Stevens, farmer;
Stewkley, Buckinghamshire, Jan. 30 G. Taylor, mercer,
Moreton-in-the-Marsb, Gloucestershire, Jan. 30—H.
Bourne, scrivener, Wolsingliam, Durham, Jas. 30—W.
S. andT. Bate, brewers, Rugeley, Staffordshire, Jan. 30.

. _
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
D. Prince, E. Hopewell, and J. E. Barnes, slop sellers,
Le adenball-street—W. Wilcox and C. Lord, mercers,
Grantham, Lincolnshire—J. Bowden, J. Downer, and
G. Oakley, booksellers, Newport, Isle of Wight—A. and
11. Aldous, grocers, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury—
A. Prat and L. J. Mazure, goldsmiths, Lower Ashby
street, St. John-street-road—T. H. Bough and E.
Saxton, attorneys, Shrewsbury—R. T. Chippin-
dall, and J. Chippindall, calico printers, Manchester—J.
Clarke and
R. Milne,
Walker, J. Winship, 'and W. Winship, ironfounders,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne— J. R. Tetley and B. Lewis,
rocers, Liverpool—W. IL
g
cotton brokers, Mincing-lane—J. L. Sanders and T.
Higgins, merchants, Exeter—E. Sawyer, H. N. Perry,
and S. Perry, haberdashers, Marlborough, (so far
as regards E. Sawyer) —J. Collingwood and M.
O'Sullivan, surgeons, Corby and Calk Bythain, Liu-

colnshire—J. H. Burlingson and A. Page, boot makers,
Old Broad-street—W. Wilson and F. W. Hoysted, cattle
salesmen, Liverpool—W. Prowse, J. Prowse, H. M. Bar-
clay, and C. R. Cheshire, ironmongers, Liverpool—T.
Lowrey, F. Staniford, and J. Elliott, jun., ship brokers,
Newcastle-upon-T3 n?—T. Sims and J. Watkins, rope-
makers, Bristol—T. Buist and A. Thompson, joiners,
Ashton-under-Lyne—J. Munro and M. H. Simpson,
theatrical managers, Birmingham—E. and W. Eager,
mealmen, Newark, Surrey—G. and E. Freeth, cheese-
mongers, St. John-street, ClerkenwellW. H. Fitzllugh,
R. E. Walker, and J. Fitz Hugh, merchants, Liverpool
(so far as regards J: FitzHugh)—E. Gwyer and R.
Gibbs, ironmongers, Bristol—W. and J. Harlcck,
common brewers, Ely, Cambridgeshire—E. Cooban and
and J. Barton, brewers, Liverpool—W. Browne and G.
Dean, dating-house keepers, Farringdon-street—W.
Sparkes, jun., and J; Thompson, ironmongers, Bridge-
water, Somersetshire—R. Crawford, T. Muir, and A.
Morton, ship brokers, Liverpool (so far as regards R..
Crawford)—A. Whitaker, J. Leek, and J. Bridgeford,
newspaper proprietors, Sheffield—W. and St. J. Butt,
shoemakers, 'Winchester—J. and G. Coombe, builders,
Pershore. 'Worcestershire—J. Page, C. Page, and N.
Page, maltsters, Ware, Hertfordshire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
JAMES HALKETT, manufacturer, Dundee, Jan.
15 and Feb. 5, at two, at the Royal Hotel, Dundee.
CHRISTOPHER KEENAN, linen draper, Edin-
burgh, Jan. 16 and Feb. 6, at one, at the Old Signet
Hall, Edinburgh.

COURSE OF EXCHAN
Amsterdam CF. 12 7
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .........2 U l2 7i
Antwerp
HamburghM.B l3 15
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight
Ditto, 3 months 25 95
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 5
Frankfort on Maine 122

l'etersburgh, 3 Us. 36i
Berlin

GE.-(YESTERDAY.)

Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 0
Tritste, ditto lO 1
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilbao 36
Barcelona

F. evale

Gibraltar ..
Leghorn ~. .... 30 9b
Genoa 26 b
Milan ..... 3l
Venice
Naples
Palermo, per oz 1184
1 isbon
Oporto 524
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21days sight 4611
Philadelphia 46
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin.. 3 1 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars... 0 4 94
Silver in Bars... 0 4 Ili

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

Three boys and an unfortunate woman of the town were
brought before the Lord Mayor by M'Arthur, the superin-
tendent of the " lock• up," at the Nlansion-house.
The boys, it was stated, had called at the side door of the
Mansion-house, near to which is the window in which so many
panes of glass were demolished the day before, and said they
wished to speak with the Lord Mayor. APArthur told them
his Lordship was engaged on public business of importance and
could not see them until the charges were concluded. " Oh,
then," cried the boys, " We can't wait, we must see him at
once." 111'Arthur told them, if, as he supposed, they wanted
relief they must go to " No. 65, Cannon-street, and apply to
the relieving officer." " No," replied they, "We won't do
so, but we'll smash the rest of the b--y glaze." They were
about to put their threat into execution when they were seized
and locked up until his Lordship finished the business in which
he was occupied at the time.
The LORD MAYOR put a few questions to the boys, to which
they answered that they did not mean to break the windows,
and that all they wanted was to be supported without going to
such a place as Peckham workhouse, the accommodations of
which they did not by any means relish.
M'Arthur said there was no doubt of the intention of the
three young vagabonds, who assailed him with the most re-
volting language.
The LORD MAYOR said he should try. to deal with such
spirited persons in a manner adapted to their violence, and sen-
tenced each of them to hard labour for three calendar months,
and to be fed not a bit too abundantly. His Lordship expressed
his intention to punish, with the utmost severity known to the
law, all who should hereafter be brought before him upon
proved charges of window breaking—a mode of obtaining pro-
vision of late very much practised.
The wretched woman said she had no resource but Bridewell
or the Compter, or rambling in the streets. She could not,
she declared, appear in the cold without accepting the worst
alms she received from unthinking people, who, instead of giving
her a few pence, asked her to drink gin, and the effect of spirits
upon her head was next to madness.
The LORD MAYOR—You have been lately in Bridewell ?
Defendant—l was there but a fortnight ago. I got no spirits
there, and I am happy and comfortable there. I wish your
Lordship would ask Captain Kincaid, the Governor, whether
I do not act as I ought in such a place ; but in the streets the
life is dreadful beyond bearing.
The defendant, who had evidently been drinking in the course
of the morning, then began to cry aloud, and begged hard to be
helped out of her present dreldful situation.
The Loan MAYOR—I shall send you to Bridewell for
fourteen days; you will then become perfectly sober, and if
you conduct yourself properly I shall render you some assist-
ance when you come here after your discharge.
The defendant then cheerfully accompanied the officer to
Bridewell.
The LORD MAYOR acknowledged the receipt of Si. from
T. 13. Richards, Esq., Naples ; 51. from a lady with the initials
G. S. ; and a New Year's Gift of 10s. for the Mansion-house
poor-box. His Lordship also acknowledged the receipt of half
of a Si. note, No. 64,144, for the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's
Inn-road. The gift to the hospital was inclosed in the follow-
ing note :—" The benefits conferred by the above admirable
institution on the diseased suffering destitute poor, induce an
old soldier to trout le your Lordship with his mite towards its
support. The other half note is sent by post, addressed to
the secretary of that charity, with the request that he will
acknowledge the receipt to the Chief Magistrate at the Mansion-
house. N. N."

CLERKE.NWELL.
Mr. Combe was occupied, during the greater part of yester-
day, in investigating into the cases of three young men, named
Kedgell, French, and Honin, the former being charged with
creating a disturbance at the Clerkenwell workhcusP, and the
twe latter with knocking at the door of Mr. Cooksey, the

overseer.
The boys had been working in the yard of industry attached
to the workhouse, all day. They were drawing trucks laden
with wood. In the morning the parish gave them their break-
fast ; but ninepence each was considered sufficient remunera-
tiong for their day's work, which they received. There was
no complaint that the boys had not performed the work as-
signed them, but when they applied for lodging in the evening,
at the workhouse door, they were refused it. They had ex•
pended on food the ninepence, and could rot consequently ob-
tain lodging, unless at the workhouse. They applied to the
overseer, Air. Dyer, but he refused them, and the poor fellows,
not liking to wander about the streets all night, in severe wea-
ther, knocked at the workhouse and overseer's doors. For so
doing they were given into custody, and lodged at the station-
house.
It was contended by the parochial functionaries that the
boys had formerly misconducted themselves in the workhouse.
Mr. Comax said that if the boys had misconducted them-
selves in the very worst manner they had a right to admission
as destitute poor. Surely they should n.,t be suffered to wander
about the streets, perhaps be driven into the commission of crime.
It was quite plain that ninepence would not feed them during a
days' hard work and pay for their lodging. It was absurd to
think so. if they misconducted themselves at the workhouse
they could be punished for it, but even a murderer if he were
utterl
woy destitute ould not be legally refused a night's lodging
in a rkhouse.— cThe boys were discharged.
In the course of the investigation it was stated that there are
at present 600 paupers in the Clerkenwell workhouse which
was built to contain only half that number.

WORSHIP-STREET.
SHARPERS OUTWITTED.—Two wtll-dressed men, named
George Mumford and Charles Jarvis, were charged, con-
jointly with Henry Lovitt, a simple-looking countryman, with
-having been concerned in an attempt to rob Mr. Thomas Wil-
son, a builder, residing at Upminstrr, in Essex.
The prosecutor stated that he had come to London to trans-
mit some business, and, on the preceding afternoon, was pass-
ing through Norton Folgate, near the terminus of the Eastern
Counties Railway, where he was accosted by the prisoner
Mumford, who asked him if he was going down by the railway,
as he himself was about to engage a place by the four oclock
train. Witness replied that he intended to go by the five &clock
train; upon which the prisoner said that, as he bad plenty of
time to spare, be should protract his stay for an hour, that he
might have the pleasure of his company. After some further
conversation, the prisoner proposed an adjournment to a public-
house, when the stale trick of inducing every one in the room
to exhibit his money was resorted to. The prosecutor was
asked to exhibit what he had, to show his respectability.
He apparently agreed to the proposition, but said
he had sone urgent business to transact in tha
neighbourhood, and would return in a few minutes.
He then left them and proceeded at once to the station-house,
where he obtained the assistance of a policeman, with whom he
returned back to the public house and gave the prisoners, toge•
ther with Lovett, whom he found in their company, into
custody.
The policeman produced a roll of flash notes which the pri-
soner Mumford had thrown from him on their way to the sta.
tion-house, and also a purse containing 19 sham sovereigns,
which was found concealed underneath the sleeve of his coat.
Sergeant Coleman stated that, the prisoner Lovitt had been
ascertained to be a highly respectable man, who had acciden-
tally fallen into the prisoners' company. He therefore wished
to withdraw the charge against him.
Mr. William Shurey, cashier at the establishment of Sir H.
Meux and Co., the extensive brewers, stated that the prisoner
Lovitt held the situation of bailiff to Sir H. Meux, and was a
person of, unimpeachable integrity. He had come to town to
settle his annual accounts, and had 63/. in his pocket, of which
he would no doubt have been speedil,, dispossessed, had he re-
mained much longer in company with the prisoners.
The MAGISTRATE instantly ordered Lovitt to be discharged,
and on,asking him how he got into the prisoners' company, he
said that he entered the public-house to procure some refresh-
ment, and found the prisoners in the parlour, who were in
the act of relating a story, when the recital was cut short by
the arrival of the policeman, who conveyed them all to the
station-house.
Sergeant Coleman applied to the Magistrate to remand the
prisoners, as he expected to be able to establish other charges
against them.—The prisoners were accordingly remanded.

SUICIDE.—Yesterday a young man, apparently not
more than twenty years of age, committed suicide in a part of
Chalk Farm-fields, adjoining the. carpet-ground. A son of
Mr. Jones, the proprietor, observed him entering the ground,
but thinking that he was going to have a shot at some birds,
took no particular notice. Be was horrified, however, to ob-
serve the young man place a pistol to his chin, and commit the
act of self-destruction; his head being literally blown to atoms.
The alarm was immediately given, and the remains of the un-
fortunate suicide were conveyed to the werkhoute. There was
found upon his person 4s. 6d. in silver, a couple of pistols,
with several bullets, and a flask of powder. He had no card,
and the only piece of paper found upon him contained the
words," suffer," and " accounts." lie was dressed in a brown
frock coat, tweed trousers, and undress military cap. Notice
was immediately given to the Coroner.
WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE. -- It appears, from the
statement of Mr. Barry, the architect, that no patching can
make this bridge secure, it is altogether in such a dangerous
state. "It has become notorious," he says, " that the system
pursued by Messrs. Walker and Borges for securing the fLun-
dation of the piers has failed, and the bridge is consequently in
such a critical state as to cause an order to be given by the
Commissioners to suspend all further works for the present.
From what 1 have seen of the recent alarming dislocations of
the present structure, it is now, in my opinion, no longer a
question as to the propriety of re-building not the superstructure
alone,yit EburtmtAhesoelintitirle._brildgvee.;
regret to bear that the Mar-
quis of Salisbury has withdrawn from Freemasonry. The
refusal of that body to elect him Grand Master, in succession
to the late Duke of Sussex, is the general assigned cause.—
Bury Post.