The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-19 00:00:00

UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)

CHARGE OF STABBING.—John Gifford, the proprietor of a house
of ill.fame in Vine-yard, Tooley-street, was charged with stabbing
Henry Howard with a long cavalry-sword, and wounding him in
the breast.
It appeared that between ene and two o'clock that morning, as
policeman, 59 M, was on duty in Vine-yard, a man came running
to him and said that he had been stabbed by a man in a house,
pointing at the same time to the prisoner's residence. The wounded
man was bleeding profusely from a wound in the breast, and no
time was lost in conveying him to Guy's Hospital, from the surgeon
of which the following certificate was produced :—" This is to
certify, that Henry Howard is not in a fit state to be removed.—
Signed, T. Pearce."—The policeman went on to state, that after
the wounded man was taken to the hospital he returned to Vine-
yard, and took the prisoner into custody. The prisoner, however,
denied that he had any altercation with Howard, but a female,
who was with the latter, stated that she was present during the
affray, and that she saw the prisoner strike Howard with the
sword during the affray that occurred, during which Howard took
up the poker to defend himself.
Mr. TRAIL!, remanded the prisdner until the wounded man is in a
condition to appear.

FlRE.—Yesterday, at a few minutes to twelve
o'clock the upper part of the house No. 64, Lambeth-street, next
door to the Flying Horse Tavern, and not snore than twenty
houses from the Police-court, was discovered to be on fire. The
house was occupied by Messrs. Clarke 3nd Denyer, feather mei'.
or attic used for the purpose
of baking the feathers, and burned
chants, and the fire is supposed to have been occasioned by the
overheating of the furnace at the toP
for some time with such
violence, that the safety of the houses on either side was considered
doubtful. By the prompt attendance of the engines, and the ex.
ertions of the firemen, the flames were confined to the upper
story and roof, which were destroyed. The damage done to
the stock amounts to over 601., but had not the flames been
subdued so quickly, the damage would have been considerable, as
the stock on the premises was very large. The sufferers are not
insured.

SIR FRANCIS BURDETT.—The answer to inquiries
yesterday at Sir Francis's mansion,
in St. James's.place, was, that
the venerable Baronet continued indisposed with a severe cold,
y,
wi.ich, it is expected, will prevent him from attending the obse.
quicg b his deceased lady, whose remains will be removed to-mor.
row for inttlrment from town to the family mausoleum, at Rains.
bur Wilt.
Burdett Coutts will leave town after the funeral
for Brighton,

MONEY. AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was a steady demand for Cotton in the Liverpool
market yesterday, at previous rates, but the market had rather
a dull aspect. Speculators took 2,000 bales, and altogether
8,000 bales were sold.—There was an improved demand for
Railway Shares. Eastern Counties were 103/4 ; Grand Junc-
tion, Halves, 1164; Birmingham, 240%; Ditto, New Thirds,
42 ; Brighton, 44 ; North Midland, 'thirds, 301 ; Paris and
Rouen, 32%; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 19s. 3d. ; Paris and Or-
leans, 334.
The condition of the Cotton market in the United States is
a matter of much interest on this side of the water. We have
received a table showing the value of the export of this staple
for about ten years ; and it appears that the lowest estimate in
the period stated was that of 1e42 and 1843.
" The table exhibits a great regularity in the consumption
in bales at home, and in the exports to Europe, but the in-
crease of actual quantity does not appear visible. The con-
tinual increase in the size of the bales, from year to year,
shows the additional number of pounds consumed. For only
two years has the yield of cotton exceeded two millions of bales,
in 1839-40, and in 1842-3. The past season has, without
any very important exception, been very unfavourable in all
parts of the country for a great crop; it has not been
propitious enough to produce an average yield. The season
opened very late and closed very early, and the harvesting has
been attended with many unfavourable circumstances. In
several sections continual rains prevented the gathering of what
little the previous weather suftered to mature. In some dis-
tricts a fair average quantity was raised, but w e have not heard
of a single section where the crop was over abundant. The
season that produced 2,378,875 bales of cotton in this country
was early and late, and without a solitary unfavourable event,
to injure the plant from first to last. It was one of those for-
tunate seasons, as regards length and quality of weather, that
seldom occur in any country, and which must again be expe-
rienced in this before we can raise a like quantity of produce.
" There is very little cotton going forward from any port of
this country. Prices in Liverpool, from last accounts, ranged
considerably lower than the quotations that rule in any market
on this side."
Some private letters received from Athens by merchants
in the City, represent that plots were in embryo to bring
about the ancient order of misrule. King Otho has been
soured in temper by the late movements, and would, if he
dared, have vengeance against the plotters of the recent peace-
able revolt.
There are not colonial arrivals in the City to-day. The
foreign arrivals possess but little interest. In fact, public
attention is almost exclusively directed to the State trials in
Dublin.
A firm market has ruled for Consols to-day. The Commis
sioners bought about 20,0001., partly on account of the Savings'
Banks, and partly far the redemption of debt. For Money
Stock, and for time bargains as well, the price has been 97.
Bank Stock continues to advance-191 has been obtained to-
day, a rise within a month of full 8 per cent. The
opinion is becoming very general, that the terms
upon which the Government intends to renew the
Bank Charter are all but arranged. India Stock too,
has been on the rise. From 273 the price has been en-
hanced to 275. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have
been quoted at 102, and the Reduced Stock, bearing the same
interest, at 1023 3. The premium upon Exchequer Bills has
fallen to 655., and India Bonds are heavy at a reduction to 795.
premium.
The Northern Bonds still command a ready sale. For
Austrian 1131 have been paid to-day, and for Danish
Three per Cents., 87. The Portuguese Converted have risen
from 454 to 453. Spanish Actives were va.rth 224 4; and
the Three per Cents. 301. For Dutch Bonds rather ad-
vanced prices have been paid to-day. Mexican Bonds have
advanced a trifle, the present price is 32%.
London and Birmingham Railway Quarter Shares have ad-
vanced to 274 prem. ; Manchester and Leeds to 32 prem. ; and
most of the Shares of the principal lines have rallied. Austra-
lian Bank are at 54 to 6 premium ; and Provincial Bank of
Ireland at 16 premium ex-dividend.
BRITISH FUNDS Tins DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9784
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities:
34 per Cent. Annuities, 1818 ...
34 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 34 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 7-164
Delia Stock for Opening 2734 275
India Bonds, 1,000
Ditto under 1,000
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, 14d. lid.
1000/.
500/.
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent..... ... 1133
Columbian Bonds ...
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent B7
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.......-.. 3281
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted 454
Ditto for the Account 45443
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 224
Ditto Passive Bonds
Ditto Three per Cent. •••
Ditto for the Account
- Ditto Deferred 9
24 per Cent ......... 5481
Dutch 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Derby ... 100
Ditto Eighths -
Eastern Counties
Do. Extension .. l3s. 4d.... 33
Edinburgh and Glasgow ......... 50
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
Liverpool and Manchester .....100
Ditto 4 Shares
London and Birmingham Stock 2404 to 241
Ditto A Shares
London and Greenwich
London and South Western ... 41% .. 7334
Ditto Eighths 2341— to
London and Croydon ( Trunk) 133 164 to
Manchester and Leeds ... 70 lO2 ..... to
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Midland Counties .. -.100
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 15 ...... 283 to' 29
Northern and Eastern
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen . ... 20 ..
South Eastern and Dover... 5O 341 to 35
Ditto Scrip
West London, Old Shares 2O ...... 5
Yarmouth and Norwich... ... 13
York and North Midland...
Ditto Scarboro' Branch 24 184...... to 18
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
Provincial Bank of Ireland
PRICE OF IRISH STOCKS, JAN. 16.
Three per Cent. Consols.... 9613
Three and a Half Stock, lOlB
Ditto New, 1830 10134
34 per Cent. Debentures
Grand Canal Debs. 6 per Cent ...
LAST PRICE OF SHARES.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Dublin and K. Road
Drogheda
Hibernian Bank 25 ...... 284
City of Dublin Steam Company
British and Irish Steam Company ... 50
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 18.—There is
more disposition to do business in Railway Stock, and prices
have rather a tendency upwards. Our quotations are :—Man-
cheater and Birmingham, 384 ; Lancaster and Preston,
Three Quarter Shares, 241 ; Dublin arid Drogheda, 564 ;
South Eastern, 354 ; Eastern Counties, Five per Cents., 15s.
prem. ; Manchester and Sheffield Water-works, 554.

SERIOUS OUTRAGE.—Yesterday, at noon, several
coal-backers in the employment of Mr. William Convett Wright, a
coal.merchant, of Rateliff; entered the Thames Police Court under
the protection of police-constables of the K division, for the purpose
of obtaining warrants against a number of the same fraternity, who
had committed a most unprovoked outrage upon them. The appli-
cants exhibited the marks of recent injuries. one man's check was
cut open, and the blood was streaming down his face; another had
blackened eyes ; a third was crippled from violent kicks he had re-
ceived; and the others were bruised, their clothes torn, and their
faces marked. Six of them were sworn, and it appeared from their
statements that, about an hour previous they were employed on their
master's wharf, when a sudden attack was made upon them by fif-
teen coal•backers recently in the service of Mr. Wright, who drove
them into the lobby, beat them in a most savage manner, and tried
to force several of them into the river. An attempt was then made
to close_the • doors of the lobby, for the purpose of hemming
ing in the applicants, and preventing the escape of any one, whiih
would have enabled the assailants to carry their apparently mur-
derous intentions into effect. A desperate fight ensued, and the party
attacked defended themselves in the best way they could, but were
overpowered by numbers, and the most serious consequences would
have taken place if Police-sergeant Pitt, No. 40, and Hooke, a con-
stable, No. 245, of the K division, had not opportunely arrived. The
fellows, on seeing the police, fled from the place, leaving their vic-
tims on the ground, some bleeding profusely, and others in a state of
exhaustion. The rioters soon rallied, and threatened to pull the
wharf down, and to sacrifice the lives of their fellow workmen, when
a strong force of police from the Shadwell station-house came to the
spot and intimidated them. No more violence was attempted,
.but
the rioters, who were joined by many idle blackguards in the neigh-
bourhood, continued groaning and hissing for some time. Mr. Bal.
lantine issued warrants for the apprehension of nine men, named
John Simmons, Thomas Trotter, William Moriarty, Coffee Joe,
Thomas Swains, Moey, Henry Bridgman, Thomas Nightingale, and
James Harris, the principals in the affray. The worthy Magistrate
said, if there was any more rioting going on the warrants we. e to be
immediately exrcuted. The rioters heard what was doing and kept
out of the way, and the police were stationed at the wharf to prevent
any further breach of the peace. The men attacked had been con-
tinued in Mr. Wright's employ because they were the best and most
steady hands, and the services of the others had been dispensed with
only till business became more brisk.

STEEPLE CHASE AT TRING.— On Wednesday last
for the first time, a steeple chase took place in the immediate vicinity
of the little town of '1 ring. The stewards wero Sir J. 1). King,
Bart., the Baron N. de Rothschild, and Mr. Metcalf. The stakes
were a handicap of 15 sovereigns and 50 added. Fifteen horses were
entered, and one paid forfeit; of the fifteen, twelve started, amongst
them being some of the most celebrated steeple-chase horses of the
day—Lottery, Ncedwood, Ragman, Carlow, Tom Tug, and Box.
keeperAthergwere also Duenna, Student, Premier (an untried horse,
belonging to Mr. Hrown, of the Harcourt Arms Hotel), Squib, and
Little Robert. The three horses drawn were Mr. Ekin's orty-
two, Mr. Mead's Paddy, and Mr. Powell's Roulette. Mr. Oliver's
Cheroot paid forfeit. The course was over a fair hunting country,
with the exception of two brooks rather difficult to be got over, in
consequence of the state of the ground from the severe frost that
had set in on the night before. The start was in a field, a part of
Tring-park, lying to the left of the Tring-road, and about half a mile
distant from the Tring station. The length of the course was about
four miles. At the first brook, which was only a short distance from
the starting-place, three of the horses, I)uenna, Premier, and Stu-
dent went in, but, after some little scrambling, got out without any
accident. The others got well over. At the second brook, the more
dangerous of the two, all the horses went in, when there was for a
few minutes a general scramble. Here, also, the riders contrived to
extricate themselves and steeds without any accident. The race
after this was finely contested. Lottery, ridden by Mason, was lead-
ing about three-quarters of a mile from home, and appeared to have
tne race to himself, when, unfortunately, in going over an awkward
fence, he fell, and wai thus thrown out of all chance. Carlow and
Needwood then came in front, and made a beautiful race of it to the
winning field, the latter winning by about half a length. Boxkeeper
came in a toed third, and Lottery fourth.
ALARMING FlRE.—Last evening, between six and
seven o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises belonging to Mr.
ltichard Russell, milliner, of 166 B, Oxford-street. the fire origi-
nated in the shop, through the goods in the window having come in
contact with the gas light. Owing to their light nature they blazed
away with amazing fierceness, quickly demolishing the whole of the
plate-glass front. Several of the inhabitants on seeing the fire ranjo
render assistance, and to them principally may be ascribed the early
subduing of the flames. The parish and three brigade-engines were
with all promptitude on the spot, with Mr. Fog, the foreman of the
London Fire Establishment. Fortunately the fire had been so far
got under in the interim, that the firemen, with the aid of a few
buckets of water, got what remained of it out, and without calling the
engines into requisition. The damage done, although confined to
the shop, is somewhat considerable. Mr. Russell is insured in the
Phoenix Fire-office, and the building is insured in the Westmin-
ster-office.

The payment of the differences on the Consol
Account was made yestereay, and though heavy in most instances,
they were very punctually met. It may be well conceived that con-
siderable amounts on the present occasion would change hands, when
it appears that, notwithstanding the limited extent of speculative
business transacted, a rise of nearly two per cent. has taken place
drain the last six weeks.

FRANCE.
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.-SITTING OF JAN. IG.

The Order of the Day was the adjourned discussion on the
addresai

After a brief speech from M. de Beaumont,
The President here intimated that as no other party seemed desi-
rous of speaking, the general discussion was closed.
M. Ducos said that he wished to explain the motive which had
actuated the two members forming the minority of the Committee in
their votes. He should, however, give way, as he perceived that
an Hon. Deputy near him had expressed an intention to speak.
M. Thiers said he must explain to the Chamber the motives which
induced him to aderess them. For two years he had taken no part
in its discussions, and if on a late melancholy event he had spoken,
it was because, on the occasion of the death of the Duke of Or-
leans, he considered it became the Chamber to show a strong AC.
cord and a sympathetic unity of feeling, Deeply devoted to the
Government, he nevertheless since felt it his duty to ally himself
with the Opposition, because he considered that the interests of
France abroad were not properly defended ; he, therefore, de.
manded permission of the Chamber to make known his own opinion,
and that of his friends on that point. He begged their indulgence
while he did so, for he should be obliged to speak very frankly. He
cid not mean to deny the prosperity of the country, and the calm
which it enjoyed—a calm which certain events in London had not
been able to disturb ; but he would remark that in 1830 the pros.
perity of the country was also great ; there was then perfect calm
under the Ministry of the 15th of April, and yet they had attacked
the Ministry, and, if he remembered rightly, overthrown it.—
(Laughter.) He merely meant now to show what they then de-
manded, and what they had since had. They wished for a firm
Government, which, would by well-applied concessions, and a well-
defined line of conduct, create for itself great strength in the
Chamber, which should screen Royalty from attack, and possess
liberty of spirit necessary to carry out either trifling or extensive
affairs. It was under that impression he had accepted a seat in the
new Cabinet, and he declared that he would rather have submitted
to remain a stranger for ever to political affairs, than accept it on
other conditions. He had r o taste for innovations, and M. Pisca.
tory, the Minister in Greece, said that lie hated progress. This
was not exact : he certainly distrusted progress, and, if he urged
the necessity of subscribing to reforms and reasonable concessions,
his sincerity was not questionable. Now, he thought that by an
Administration anxious to govern long, firmly, and in a pro.
fitable manner for the country, reasonable concessions should be
made, even at the risk of displeasing the Court. M. Thiers, after
recapitulating a number of facts to prove that the Ministry was not
sure of a majority, contended that it had compromised the powers
of the State in the question of the right of search. The Chamber
had formally required its abolition, the Ministry had promised to
negotiate, and since the opening of the sesssion M. Guizot had an-
nounced in another Chamber that negotiations were pending. M,
Thiers did not believe it. The public voice in England was a cer-
tain indication to him that no concession was to he expected, and
if the Chamber did not wish completely to forfeit all consideration,
it was bound to insert an article in the address demanding that the
French navy be replaced under the protection of the national flag.
M. Thiers then undertook to demonstrate that the Ministry, not
only did not cover the Crown, but actually compromised it in a
more flagrant manner than the Ministers of the 15th of April.
The dotation of the Duke de Nemours, which Ministers acknow-
ledged by their silence to have been imposed upon them by an
irresponsible power, was, however, the only argument he adduced
to substantiate his assertion.

M. Duchatel, the Minister of the Interior, in reeling to M.
Thiers, showed the injustice of his attacks, and reminded him that
when he was himself at the head of affairs, Ilia had followed pre-
cisely the same system, although he had not had to contend with
the Parliamentary difficulties which the present Administration
had experienced. M. Duchatel maintained that the latter had
been invariably supported by the majority in all political questions
on which it had staked its existence, and only sustained defeats in
the discussion of Bills of minor importance, which did not impose
upon the Cabinet the obligation to resign. He then vindicated it
against the charge of leaving the Crown uncovered. He consi-
dered, he said, the dotation of the Duke de Nemours a good and
useful measure, and when he should advise the King to present
such a law, he would bring it forward and defend it at his own risk
and peril, without mixing up the Crown in the question.
M. Thiers said he had but a few more observations to make,
for he considered that a discussion which might appear purely
personal would be unworthy the dignity of the Chamber. He had
drawn a comparison between the situation of the country in 1839
and 1844, but the terms of that comparison had been denied. The
country had been troubled in 1840 ; and why ? Because a grand
question of foreign policy had been raised ; one party thinking that
the Eastern question was one.on which France ought to declare
war, and the other party being of a contrary opinion. For his own
part, he defended the cause of Egypt with more strength than those
who then sat on the Ministerial benches; he replaced the French
Ambassador at London by one who was considered to be more fa.
vourable to the cause of Egypt; but he no more deserved to be ac-
cused of wishing to bring about a foreign war than the present Ca-
binet merited to be accused of wishing to produce a civil war by the
census.—(Murmurs).

The Chamber adjurned at half-past five.
WEDNESDAY, J. 17,

The Chamber having closed on Tuesday the general discussion
on the Address, commenced to-day the discussion of the para-
graphs. The Presidnet read the first paragraph.
M. Ducos, the first speaker, contested the truth of the eulo.
giums bestowed upon the Government in the paragraph, and said,
for his part, he felt little disposed to ratify them, the Ministry not
enjoying either his sympathy or confidence, nor that of the
Chamber, whose loyal concurrence was anything but secured to
them. The Ministry, he admitted, had devoted friends, but the
majority, on whom they relied for support, was hostile, and their
main force consisted of what he wculd term a foreign legion. Its
stability only rested on the difficulties which the construction of a
new Cabinet presented. After enumerating several points of minor
importance, on which the Ministry was abandoned by the majo-
rity, M. Ducos reminded them 'of the signal defeat they had suffered
in the discussion on the right of search, when the Chamber tore
the Convention of 1841, already signed by the Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs, and commanded him to demand the abrogation of
the treaties of 1831 and 1833. M. Ducos said, that the country
certainly enjoyed a considerable share of prosperity; but that
welfare was the result of the Revolution, of the intelligence,
activity, and good sense of the people. So far from the progress
keeping pace with the past, he would tell Ministers that there
was actually a marked falling off in the public fortune, and he
then mentioned numerous facts to prove that the maritime trade
of France had never been in a more suffering condition than at
present.

M. Cunin Gridaine, the Minister of Commerce, contested the
reality of the gloomy picture drawn by M. Ducos, and proceeded to
substantiate, by quoting official returns, the truth of th e favourable
accounts of the trade of the country exposed in the Royal disc urse.
In 1842, he confessed there had been a decrease of 105,000,000 f.
in the sum total of the commerce of France, but he would remind
the Chamber that the preceding years had been years of extraordi-
nary prosperity, the amount of the commercial transactions of
France having exceeded 2,187,000,000 f.. In 1837, a much
greater reduction had taken place; the general returns were in
that year 300,000,000 f. less than in 1636, which did not prevent
the commerce of France making a new stride, and rising from
1,500,000,000 f. in 1837, to 2,187,000,000 in 1842. To prove
the progress of commerce, M. Cunine Gridaine compared the aver-
age results obtained from 1827 to 1836 with those of 1837 to
1841, and stated the augmentation to have been 717,000,000 in
1842. In 1843, the documents already forwarded to his depart-
ment showed that the improvement still maintained itself, that
there was an increase of 20,000,000 in the imports, and a still
greater in the exports.

M. Lestiboadois, who succeeded the Minister, produced official
returns to show that the decrease in the trade had not been
partial, but had endured for several years—that is, ever since the
accession to power of the present Ministry, and which he ascribed
to the fatal concessions they had made to foreign nations. He
cited, amongst others, the ruinous effects of the conventions con-
cluded with England and Belgium, in respect of the thread and
linen trades.

M. Fulchiron, was obliged, notwithstanding his devotion to the
Ministry, to confess that agriculture was, in many departments, in a
suffering condition, and required to be encouraged by the esta-
blishment of strong protective duties.

M. de Tocqueville reproved in strong terms the conduct of the
Minister of Justice throughout the deplorable quarrel which had
arisen between the clergy and the patrons of the University, and
expressed fears that the culpable indifference at first manifested by
the Government, and the impolitic war which it had afterwards
waged against the former, would in the end be detrimental to re-
ligion, and terminate in the tranformation of the ministers of the
gospel into a class of public functionaries, and Catholicism into a
political religion—a transformation which would ultimately lead
to its extinction in France.

M. Villemain, the Minister of Public Instruction, vindicated
the glorious University of France against the imputations cast of
late upon its professors by the enemies of the existing order of
thinks, and which, he said, were entirely inspired by party spirit,
for nobody in France, no more than O'Connell in Ireland, believed
that the institutions of the University were schools of impiety.

M. de Tocqueville afterwards rose to explain, and was followed
by M. de Chambolle.

A FATHER SETTING FIRE TO
HIS OWN CHILD.

An inquest was concluded on Tuesday night, which had
been adjourned twice, at the King's Arms, in William-street,
Bishopsgate-street, Birmingham, on the body of Eliza An-
drews, four years old, which disclosed the following revolting
details :

On Tuesday morning, the 9th inst., an alarm of fire was
given in No. 10 Court, Vale-street, and it was discovered, a
little before eight, that a room in the court was on fire, and
the deceased, who was alone in the house, was so dreadfully
burnt as to cause her death in the Queen's Hospital the next
morning. On the jury meeting on Thursday, circumstances
of so much suspicion against Richard Andrews were elicited,
that he was ordered by the Coroner to be forthwith Placed in
the custody of Sergeant Hall.
Among the evidence taken en that occasion was that of
Joseph Pearce, who said,—l live in No. 10 Court, Vale-street.
I know the prisoner, who lives in the same court. I knew the
deceased, his daughter • her mother has parted from her father
about three weeks. The father and the child were the only
inmates. On Tuesday morning, a little before eight, I heard
screams in Andrews' bed-room. I ran up into my attic, where
I could see into his room. I there saw the child in flames
amongst a parcel of shavings, on which she slept. She ap-
peared as if fighting with the flames. I ran down, and found
the door locked. I burst it open, and brought the child out,
and tore her clothes off as well as I could. No one was in the
house but the child ; there was no fire in the grate upstairs,
but there was a fire down stairs. The child was taken imme-
diately to the Queen's Hospital. It was burnt more in the
upper part of the body, and the clothes as well were mostly
burnt at the top.
Elizabeth Chambers, after describing the state of the fire,
and the burning of the child, said, that after it was taken to the
hospital, the father came up the court with a key on his finger.
I said "Do you know that your child is burnt to death ?" He
said "Isit ?" He took no further notice whatever. He did
not display any feeling. I never saw him ill use the child ;he
seemed very fond of it.
Betsy Woodhall, of 53, Vale-street, heard Andrews slap the
child about six o'clock on the morning of the accident, and de-
clare that if it did not go to sleep he would cash its brains out.
Sophia Griffiths, of 10 Court, Vale-street, Mr. Bull the
agent of the landlord, Lucy Ridding, who resided with Sarah
Griffiths, and Caroline Pearce, of the same court, all swore
positively that a cinder was found among the remains of the
bag of shavings on which the child lay.
Mary Whittaker, a patient in the hospital, said that about
eight o'clock on Tuesday the deceased said she was cold and
had gone down stairs to warm herself. She afterwards fell
asleep, and on awaking about eleven o'clock, when I was giving
her some drink, I said, " My dear, you will not set yourself
on fire again ?" She said, " I did not set myself on fire, it was
my father set me on fire, and he gave me a slap and covered
me with a rug, and called me a little naked frog." I consider
the child was in her senses when she said this to me. She re-
peated the same thing many times, and said, " Oh 1 naughty
father l" The father came to see her in the hospital, and she
clasped him round the neck.
The CORONER pointed out the various bearings of the evi-
dence upon the case, and the jury having retired for about
ten minutes, gave in a verdict of Wilful Murder against Ri-
chard Andrews.

DESTRUCTION OF PORTAVO-lIOUSE r3Y FIRE.—'
Portavo-house, the seat of Mr. David S. Ker, M.P., has been burnt
to the ground. The destructive element, it is supposed, had been
secretly progressing for some days, but on Sunday morning last, at
two o'clock, it burst forth with irresistible fury in Lady Selina's Ker's
bedchamber. t•uch was the rapidity with which the flames extended,
that scarcely ary thing was saved, and had the family been in bed,
the consequences must have been truly deplorable. We are happy
to learn that no lives have been lost, or bodily injury sustained by
any person.
A lake of ninety acres, on Sir C. Burrell's Essex
estate, was drawn off the other day, and the take of fish was—carp,
2,917, weighing 49 cµ t. 2 qrs. ; pike 466, weighing 5 cwt. 2 qrs. 231bs. ;
eels, a cwt. 1 ci,x. Insides 176 perch and 100 toncb, not 'Embed.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of public bug.
ness. It was the first Court since the election upon St.
Thomas's Day, and there was a large attendance of members.
A great part of the day was occupied in the appointment of
the various Committees for the ensuing year.
THE FARRINGDON-WITHOUT WARD ELECTION.
A petition was presented from Mr. Samuel Wells. It stated
that he had petitioned the Court of Aldermen against the return
of Mr. R. Taylor, Mr. 013 bard, Mr. Hodgson, and Mr. Gre-
sham, as representatives of the Ward of Forringdon. Without,
upon the ground that they were not resident inhabitant house-
holders, and the petitioner prayed the Court that he might be
permitted to examine the records of the Corporation, for the
purpose of supporting his opposition to the return,
been informed that an ordinance passed in the reign of Richard
11., and other ordinances passed since that time, defined and,
specifically described the nature of the qualifications required °I
a candidate for the office of Common Councilman. as he had

The petition was then ordered to be laid upon the table.
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
Mr. R. L. JONES (the Chairman of the London-bridge Ap-
proaches Committee) brought up a Report from that Cow"
mittce, " On the state of the funds connected with the er
preaches to London-bridge, and for authorising the raising
of the sum of 50,0001. for completing the same ; and for the
completion of the improvement by the removal of the sce't
block of Bank-buildings, in the vicinity of the Royal El"
change ;" and said his object at present was to point out the
necessity of immediately empowering the Committee to direct
the Controller to serve certain parties with notices with respect
to premises which were required for the further improvement
of the city of London, as the Act which gave the Committee
power would expire in August, and if immediate measures
were not adopted, it would be necessary to apply again to Far-
liament.—( Hear, hear.) He thought it was due to the Cent-
mittee to state, that, after a period of twenty years, during,
which it had existed, and expended upwards of-two millions 0'
money in the erection of the bridge and the sormation of its
approaches, the present was the first time it had come to the
Court to state any deficiency in its estimates.—(Cheers-)
He felt pride in asserting such a fact, the more so as he
was able to allow, he trusted to the satisfaction of the Court'
that no blaaae was imputable to the Committee. What were
the facts of the case? After the Committee had finished
the various streets which it had been intrusted with the
power to form, and which constituted so noble a mass of in"
provements, it considered that a surplus would remain suffi-
cient to carry out the great object of making a street front
the Bank to the Post-office 'I he conduct of the Bank of Eng-
Island wa-, he regretted to say, in direct contrast to the lib"
ralty which there had been reason to expect from such a bedYP
and which the Governor and Deputy-Governor several )ears
ago had given the Committee every ground for supposing would
have been exercised.—( Hear.) It was natural to cell
upon the promise then held out that improvements which in se
many respects benefited that building would, to a certain ex"
tent, receive its patronage and assistance ; but instead of heir
ing the Corporation in promoting the grand design which the
Committee was labouring to carry out, everything had been
done by the establishment to which he alluded to show their in"
cl,fference to the exertions which had been made.—( Hear.)
The Committee hid been called upon from all quarters of the
city, to extend to them the vast advantages which had been id'
ready completed. The law expenses in investments became
greater than had been calculated upon, and the interest eel
the sums required to complete the purchases which were indeP
pensable in effecting the improvements was what the Cow
mittee had never been subjected to upon former occasions.--"
( Hear, hear.) The necessity for improvement became every
day more and more apparent. 'I he largest item in the report
related to the block of Bank-buildings, the freeholders of
which were the Governors and Company of the Batik
England, who had repudiated by their illiberality t'''
evidence of the former Governor and Deputy-Gt.°.
vernor, Mr. Curtis and Sir J. Reid, before teej
House of Commons' Committee. That Committee prone°
upon these gentlemen the necessity which existed for
giving up that block of buildings, as no buildings were 0
be erected on the site, and the Bank would be itself throng
open to public view by so splendid an improvement. Their
answer was, that they could not think of recommending such'"
gift, as the Bank would be put to a very large expense 11
throwing open Bartholomew-lane and hreadneedle- street, but
they would be liberal in their views with the Corporation on
the subject. Now, the Bank had made no improvements in
Bartholomew-lane or Threadneedle-street, and their libeLe`
views amounted to an evasion of everything like liberality. D°
felt that the Court were determined to do justice to the Jabal*
and instructions, and integrity of the Committee.—(Cheers
from all parts of the Court.) A general cry was then raise
of " Move that the Report be received.")
Mr. JONES moved that the Report be agreed to and printed.
Mr. HEprELL said he rose, as one who did not belong W f
the Committee, to second the motion. He fully approved 0
the Report, and of everything which had been stated by the
Chairman.—( Hear.)
Sir J. DUKE called the attention of the Chairman to the
state of the eastern end of the Royal Exchange, and eekea
whether it was likely that the improvement which the pub°,
had frequently called for, in the throwing back of the house
in Freeman's-court, would be effected ?—( Hear.)
Mr. JONES said he regretted that the ground in the Wit
described was unfortunately out of the hands of the Corpora'
tion. In fact the ground was never in their hands. Morde
College had a clause giving that iastitution a right of rld
emption, and it had been appropriated accordingly. It WO
be, and 3ed, a most important addition to the splendid irnprole,,
ment of the Royal Exchange • but the Committee congrild
lated itself upon what it had already accomplished, and won
not relax its exertion to gain every possible advantage.—( gel",,;
hear.) He would venture to say that the ground at the eastec
end of the building would be made a fine pathway 47 feet
width.—( Hear, hear.)
Alderman UMEHERY said, that every one in the GI
would be delighted to see the block of houses at the easter_
end of the building removed, and he thought the Corrirnittte:
might beneficially make the experiment of applying to tr„
Commissioners for the Improvement of the Metropolis, v;°.'
were about to wait upon her Majesty, and were to meet_ors,
Wednesday next to sign their Report, to represent the fecl;
alluded to in the proper quarter.—( Hear, hear.) A awn!'
money was about to be raised by a tax of 6d. per ton upon ecoilh,
and, as the City would be very large contributors, they had 0
right to expect a share of the advantages.— (Hear.)
The Report was then received and unanimously agreed Oh
and ordered to be printed.—Adjourned.

COURT CIRCULAR

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen, a‘tended by 14r,
Lady in Waiting, the Viscountess Canning, walked
morning on the Castle terrace and in the slopes.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went this forenooll4or
enjoy the sport of shooting at Bagshot, accompanied by
is
Robert Peel, and attended by Mr. G. E. Anson, coo
Meynell, and the Hon. C. A. Murray.
In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness Fria°.
Albert walked in the grounds adjoining the castle.
The Royal Family were taken for their usual airings to-dais;
The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham arrived io-d0,4
the Castle, on a visit to her Majesty and his Royal Higb°'
Prince Albert,
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Lady Fang
Howard will join tho royal dinner circle at the castle

evening.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambricites
arrived in town yesterday morning from their residence ;
Kew. Their Royal Highnesses paid a visit to her Royal Hike
ness the Duchess of Gloucester. A dejeune was served tot,'
royal party in the afternoon at Gloucester House.
A Deputation of the Broad Silk Hand-loom Weeeersoboa
Spitaifields, consisting of Messrs. W. E. Burroughs, ;tit
Poyton, and John Sherrard, had an interview yesterday el
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, President, and the Earth,
Dalhousie, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, WO
depressed condition of the body which they represented...„;
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, and Mr. with
ham. Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes had interviews
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official re
dence in Downing-street. • elf
Count de Pollon, Sardinian Minister, transacted hi's°
yesterday at the Foreign-office. to
Mr. William Maury, deputed by the American Chalta
of Commerce, at Liverpool, to advocate a reduction in the si
on tobacco, had an interview with Mr. Gladstone yesterdto,
the Office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Maury had also ee I
terview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. ter.
Bishop Griffiths had an interview with Lord Stanley Yes
day, at the ColonialM.P.,-offic. the
Colonel Wood, P., .transacted business yesterday et
Home-office. Cher
Lord Granville Somerset had an interview with the
cellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday.
•
DEAFNESS.—The victim of blindness comparabv_A eli to
feels his misfortunes, because his privations are not manifesWeste
him through the agency of any of the remaining senses. Ifoti.
the blind enjoy the pleasures of social intercourse ; they °p a,:
verse; they can amuse and be amused. Let us, however,' t of.
trast the miserable picture of the deaf. Sometimes the 01)j'; ate
sneers and sarcasms—at one time abused as a pest, at anothe-ot•
sport of ironical commiseration—his condition is the most ism pot
able that is possible to conceive. Vision renders him sensible
pit
only to his defects, but to the fund of amusement which the/folio,
too often afford to the bye.standers. If engaged in public oast
ness, to the transacting of which hearing is essential, his allij:4(0/
is rendered still more painful.—Dr. Cronies on the so 44—

treatment of Deafness by Arnica.
pst
ACCIDENT FROM CARELESS DRIVING.-Ir--deJoV
morning, about seven o'clock, as a poor old man, named Davi 401
residing in Ann street, Pentonville, who gains a precarious 11."44 IV;
by selling milk, was crossing St. John-street-road, whilst geediog to
rounds, he was knocked down and run over by a cab proce oOr
the direction of Islington. The groans of the poor old 01" ed 1,1
the
heard by some passers by, who picked him up and couveY of
home, when it was found he bad received a severe fracture, ft ar''"
ribs, from the shaft of the cab striking him on one side ; his
she
was also broken, and a large portion of the scalp torn from hl
,00 he
by one of the wheels grating against it Owing to the dal, to
the morning but few persons witnessed the accident, and it
regretted that, from this cause, the perpetrator of the Wage te
escaped detection. The accident can only be attributed to t
less driving of the cabman. 1.01:
LONDON AND BIRMINGIIAM
lowing contains an account of the taxes, direct and indirect,
,0 PIO
were paid by the proprietors of the London and 11;rminghtosenles
way from their earnings in the year 1843 :-5 per cent. t),,iltdo
duty, 27,0;3/. , income-tax, Iti;il4/. • local taxes and paroci:',Oe'
18,351/. ; duty on transfers of stock' and stamped receipt`
10,0001. Total, 71,738/.
The remains of the lamented Marquis of - dpoi
were removed from Southampton on Thursday evening, a,.eir
through London yesterday morning at an early hour, on !Po tir
to Donnington. park, Leicestershire, where the body will
posited previously to the interment in the family vault. of3l
yeeteroit
LIE 'W FATTIER AND VEGETATION.' iher
and for the last few market-days, Coventgai den, and thee w„iist
and vegetable markets, have been very abundantly' sulto, o'o4
ready every descr ption of antumnal and spring vegela;'icojeso.,o,
what is more properly the winter supply, as savoys all. the
,1111.
be en but small and of inferior quality. In fact, yesterlike dg that voir,
tity as well as tho character of the supply was more
narily seen in March or April than so near after ChristTwolocf
umstance to be attributed to the continued mildness uf,,Test ro'cplP
there having been as yet no frosts to impede in the of 00 orl,
the outdoor labours of the gardener. Every descriptioll_vv, ce of"
as gre, cabbages, c arrots, turnip-tops, turnips,
.tsei!
small salad, &c , was unusually cheap. The sh,,vt of flu"'"„;111-0
log of camellias, tulips, hyacinths, narcissuses, violctso_farge.
crocuses, heaths, roses, &c., gave this portion of the "•
gay appearance of a very advanced period of spring. _

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