The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-29 00:00:00

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby inswing a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

MUSIC OF RUSSIA, POLAND, AND HUNGARY,
Without Extra Charge to the Public, at the
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The Directors have engaged Mr. C. E. HORN, to deliver
A SERIES of LECTURES on the 'MUSIC of EIGHT different
NATIONS. The MUSIC of RUSSIA, POLAND, and HUNGARY,
commences on the 27th Instant, and will be continued during the
week, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evenings, at . Eight
&clock ; and on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at Three o'clock,
with VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL ILLUSTRATIONS. All the
other LECTURES and EXHIBITIONS as usual. LONGBOTTOM'S
PHTSIOSCOPE and OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. NEW DISSOLV-
ING VIEWS, ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE, &c.

MPERIAL RUSSIAN• POLISH LOAN of
JL 150,000,000 Florins (of 1835), IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN
of 30,000,000 Florins (of 1839), guaranteed by their Majesties the
Emperor of Austria and the Emperor of Russia.

GUILDHALL, MAY 9, 1844.—The COM-
MITTEE for LETTING the CITY'S LANDS will MEET at
Guildhall, on WEDNESDAY, the 29th day of May inst., at Twelve
o'clock at noon, to receive TENDERS for a Deputation and Lease
for three years, from Midsummer next, subject to a power of resump-
tion, of the office or place of COLLECTOR and. RECEIVER of the
CITY'S TOLLS and DUTIES at Whitechapel-bars, and all the Li-
berties of this City from thence southward to the Custom-house, to-
gether with the same tolls and duties. Also a like Deputation and
Lease of the City's tolls and duties at Bishopsgate-bars, and all the
Liberties of this City, from thence westward, to the site of the late
Bethlem Hospital, and eastward to Whitechapel-bars, exclusive,
together with the same tolls and duties. Also a like Deputation and
Lease of the City Tolls and Duties at Aldersgate-bars, and all the
Liberties of this City from thence eastward to the site of the late
Bethlem llospital, including Cripplegate and Moorgate, together with
the same tolls and duties. Also a like Deputatiou and Lease of the
City's Tolls and Duties at Smithfield-bars, and all the Liberties of
this City from thence eastward, to Aldersgate-bars, exclusive, to-
gether with the same tolls and duties. Also a like Deputation a
Lease of the City's Tolls and Dtities at Holborn-bars, a

Libertis of this City from thence southward to Tern

eastward to Smithfield-bars, exclusive, together with theViri7tolls
and duties. Also a like Deputation and Lease of the City's Tolls
and Duties at Temple-bar, and all the Liberties of this City, from
thence southward to Puddle-dock, together with the same tolls and
duties

A deposit of three calendar months' rent on each district of the tolls
is to be made at the time of the meeting of the Committee on any
tender being accepted, and to be forfeited on non-performance of the
contract, and three calendar months' rent is to be continued to be paid
in advance. The conditions for lotting the said tolls may be seen at
the Comptroller's-office, Guildhall.

The Tenders are to be sealed up and delivered at the said Office,
before Twelve o'Clock on the day of the Committee's meeting, after
which time no tender can be received • and the party tendering must
attend the Committee at One o'Clock precisely.
THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller.

GOBE INSURANCE.
PALL-MALL and CORNHILL, LONDON.
EDWARD OOLDSMID, Esq., Chairman.
WILLIAM TITE, Esq., F. R.S., Deputy-Chairman.
GEORGE CARR GLYN, Esq, Treasurer.
ESTABLISHED 1803,
For FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE and ANNUITIES, and the
PURCHASE of REVERSIONS and LIFE ( ONTINGENCIES.
CAPITAL ONE MILLION STERLING.
The whole paid up and irivested, and entirely independent of the
amount of premiums received.
Rates and Conditions of Fire and Life Insurance, or other infor-
mation, may be obtained at the Offices in London, and of the Com-
pany's Agents in the Country.
By Order of the Board,
JOHN CHARLES DENHAM, Secretary.
London, May, 1844.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most
porfeet secttrity in a large paid-up Capital, and in the great success
which has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its ANNUAL
INCOME being UPWARDS of 60,0001.
tit 1041 the Company (lectured an addition to the Mharcholders of
one-half of their Stock, and also added a Bonus of 2/. per cent. per
annum, on the Sum Insured to all Policies of the Participating Class
from the time they were effected.
The Bonus added to Policies from March, 1824, to December 31,
1840, is as follows :
Sum Time Sum added Sum Time Sum added
Assured. Assured. to Policy. Assured. Assured. to Policy.
£5OOO 6 yrs. 10 mths. £683 6 8 £5OOO 4 years £4OO
5000 6 years 600 0 0 5000 2 years 200
The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need be paid for the first Five Years, where the Insur-
ance is for Life.
Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident
Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No. 8,
Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.

THE LONDON GENUINE TEA COM-
PANY beg to inform Families Visiting the Provinces, that
they may procure- GENUINE TEAS direct from the Company, of
their Agents, in nearly every town and village in the kingdom,
packed in Lead, and warranted Genuine by the Company.
Spurious and English made Tea being now commonly sold by
the shopkeep2rs in the country, the greatest caution is necessary.
Observe the Company's seal OR each package.
Applications for Agencies fur the sale of the above Genuine Teas,
by which a considerable income may be derived, to be made to the
Company at their Warehouses, 2, Lawrence Pountney-hill, London.

eiITY'OF LONDON FASHIONABLE
,t_f TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT, 52, King William-street,
London-bridge.
Messrs. BURCH and LUCAS, Tailors, &c., late J. ALBERT, re-
spetcfally invite Gentlemen and Families to view one of the largest
and best assorted Stocks in London, of Superfine Cloths, Cassimcres,
and Waistcoating of the most novel designs, Cachmcretts for Summer
Coats, &e. &c., for the present season. The style of cut and make of
every garment are guaranteed equal to the first and most expensive
houses at the West-end, and for cash payments a saving of 40 per
cent. will be effected, and will be found to the wearer much cheaper
than the inferior garments made up by puffing slop-sellers and hosiers,
at prices to astonish and delude the public, which description of goods
are entirely excluded from this establishment.
52, King William-street, City, Established 1818.
A large assortment of Summer Over-Coats ready made.

MYER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
and injurious metals called Nickel and German Silver sup-
planted by the introduction of a new and perfectly matchless ALBATA
PLATE.

C. WATSON, 41 and 42, BARBICAN, and 16, NORTON-FOL-
GATE, aided by a person of science in the amalgamation of metals,
has succeeded in bringing to public notice the most beautiful article
ever yet offered; possessing all the richness of Silver in appearance
—with all Its durability and hardness—with its perfect sweetness in
use—undergoing, as it does, a chemical process, by which all that is
nauseous in mixed metals is entirely extracted—resisting all acids—
clay be cleaned as silver, and is manufactured into every article for
the Table and Sideboard.

Fiddle. Threaded. ding's.
Table Spoons and Forks, per doz.. 16s. 6d. .. 30s. Od. .. 355. Od.
Dessert ditto, per ....... • •• 12s. 6d. • • 255. Od. .. 28s. Od.
Tea Spoons, per doz.
Sugar Tongs, each ..
Salt and Mustard Spoons, each 6s. 0,1. • . 13s. Gd. .. 13s. 6d.
Communion Services, &c.
C. Watson begs the Public will understand that this metal is pecu-
liarly his own, and that Silver is not more different from Gold, than
his metal Is from all others ; on its intrinsic merit alone he wishes it
to be tested, and from the daily increasing enlogiums he receives, he
is convinced that nothing can prevent its becoming an article of uni-
versal wear.

C. Watson's handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Current
is just published, and families who regard economy and elegance,
should possess themselves of thi3 useful hook, which may be had
gratis, and post free, from the above address.
Ivory Table-knives, I Is. per dozen, Dessert, Is. ; Carvers, 3s. 6d,
per pair.

TABLE. DESSERT. CARVERS.
doz. doz. pair.
3.1-in. handsome balance handle .... 18s. Od. 14s. Od. Gs. Gd.
t-in. balance handle, largest and best
made •••••• • • • • • •• • • ..... 20s. Od. 16s. Od. 7s. Gd.
Ditto with Watson's Albata Plate
handles, equal to silver 225. Gd. 18s. Od. Bs. 6d.

Forks half the above price.
Paper Tea-trays, 355. the Set of Three; very richly ornamente
50s. the Set of Three.
A Five Quart London made Bronze Tea-urn 355. up to 5/.
A Set of Six London made Dish Covers Its. 6d. ; Imperial Raised
Patent, 355. 6d. the Set of Six.
WATSON'S, 41 and 42, BARBICAN, and IG, NORTON FOLGATE.
These houses have for Fifty Years ranked pre-eminent for their
Cutlery, which is always exchanged, if not approved.

Send far his Catalogue.

4,,;! C 11\VE PPE'S SODA and POTASS WATERS.
k So much prejudice has been produced in the public mind by
spurious articles sold under these names, containing not a particle
of Alkali, that consumers are earnestly recomn4ended to ask for
SCHWEPPE'S, the original inventors, and still the largest manu-
facturers of these invaluable preparations. Each bottle contain, the
proper proportion of Alkali, scientifically amalgamated by the aid of
their powerful machinery, and every genuine bottle is distinguished
by a label on the cork, representing their name. This precaution is
rendered necessary by unprincipled persons frequently filling
Schweppe's bottles with their own composition, and passing it off as
Schweppes manufacture.
SCHWEPPE'S LIQUID MAGNESIA, for the cure of heart-
burn, gout, sea-sickness, &c., in bottles at Is., 2s. 6d., 4s. 6d., and !Os.
each, manufactured with care and skill, and sold by most respectable
cnemists.

London, 51, Berners-strret ; and at their Branch Manufactories at
Liverpool, Bristol, and Derby.

NO PUFF NOR IMPOSITION.
PENCER'S CELEBRATE I) CHINE SE
LIOUID HAIR DYE.
The thousands of individuals who have had the pleasure of using
Spencer's Chinese Liquid Hat, Dye, pronounce it to be the only Dye
rxtant which will efti•ctually change, in a few minutes, rest or grey
hair to a dark brown or black, and it can be proved incontestibly
that it is the safest dye in its use that ever was prepared. Red or
grey hair, whiskers, eyebrows, moustaches, &c., are changed without
trouble, by simply using a comb we' ted with the liquid; (me applica-
tion will produce a pleasing and a permanent change. The colou r
it imparts to the h iir can never be discovered to have been ef-
fected by dye, it being so perfectly natural, and wither washing, per-
spiration, or anything will in the least bade or affect the colour pro-
duced. tiodri.sds of ladies who wore false hair, because their own
became grey, wear naw their own. Also, thousands of gentlemen
who had grey or red whiskers, a. hich was a great disfigurement, have
become quite dark from the use of SPENCER'S CHINESE LI-
QUID HAIR DYE. Any lady or gentleman may dye their hair
with case and secresy in a few minutes. Price 3s. bd., bs., and 10s.
per bottle.
To be had of the sole Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Ficldgate-
itreet, Whitechapel.road, London; also of Mr. Johnstone, 6S, Corn
hill; Butler, 4, Cheapside; Prout, '2211, Strand; Sanger, 150, 9x.
ford-street; Barclay, 95, Farringdon-street; Atkinson, r 4, Old Bond..
street; Edwards, ci, St. Paul'. Churchyard; Connell, Camberwell-
green ; Kennaby, Brothers, 10, Westmoieland .buildings, A ldersgate-
street; Finnigin, Milsom-street, Bath; Elmore, 31, Bull-street,
Birmingham ; Shirley, 40, George-street, Hastings ; and of most
Perfumers and Medicine Vendors in Town and Country. Sent to
any part of the kingdom, by sending a remittance,post-paid.
Please to ask for Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair I)ye,
Merchant and Captains will receive a liberal allowance for expor-
tation, sod observe that the rioprictor's address is on the wrapper.

GRAVESEND STAR PACKETS.
Fare, Eightpence or One Shilling,
Boat and Railway included,
From the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwell,
Daily at Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Three, Four, Six, Half-past Seven.
The Trains leaving one quarter of an hour before each of these times.
The Terrace Pier, Gravesend,
From the Old Shades Pier, above London-bridge, Daily at Nine
and Eleven.
Greenwich Pier, Half-past Nine and Half-past Eleven.
Roff's Wharf, Woolwich, Ten and Twelve.
N.B.—These !splendid and fast Packets convey the public at the
lowest fares.
Star Office, Gravesend, May 25, 1844.

Just published, price 65.,
AN ESSAY on CALCULOUS CONCRE-
TIONS in the HORSE, OX, SHEEP, and DOG, with the
Modes of Extraction and Illustrative Cases. By W. J. T. MORTON,
Lecturer on Veterinary Materia Medico., &c.
Also, by the same Author, Third Edition, price 10s.,
A MANUAL of VETERINARY PHARMACY ; and A VETE-
RINARY TOXICOLOGICAL CHART. Price 3s. 6d. ; mounted in
a case, 6s. ' • mounted on a roller and varnished, Bs. 6d.
London : Longman and Co., Paternoster-row.

MORNING EXERCISES AT CRIPPLEGATE, &c.
On Saturday, the Ist of June, will be published in Octavo, the Second
•Volume (to be comprised in Six Volumes), price 125., bound in
Cloth,

,HE MORNING EXERCISES at CRIPPLE-
GATE, Giles in the Field, and in Southwark, being divers
Sermons preached, A.D. M.DC.LIX.—M.DC.LXXXIX. By several Mi-
nisters of the Gospel, in or near London. Fifth Edition, carefully col-
lated and corrected, with Notes and Translations of all the Quota-
tions. By JAMES NICIIOLS, Editor of Fuller's Church llistory,&c.
5.* A Volume will be published every alternate month, so as to
complete the publication within the year.

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London : printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside, and sold by all
other Booksellers.

REMOVED FROM BIRNIINGHAM TO LONDON.
Just published, price 2s. 6€1., and free by post (in a sealed envelope)
Price Is. 6d.,
THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on
Physical Decay, its causes, and the baneful effects of exces-
sive indulgence and infection, illustrated by engravings, with ob-
servations on Marriage, and directions for the removal of certain
disqualifications. By R. and L. PERRY and CO.
published by the Authors, and sold at their Residence, 19, Berners-
street, Oxford-street ; also by Strange, 21, Paternoster•row; Purkis,
Compton-street, Soho; Noble. 109, Chancery-lane; Crocker, I;
Milford.lane, Strand; Ward, Strand (opposite Exeter-hall) ; Wil-
son, 359, Oxford-street (two doors from Argyle.street); J. Gordon,
146, Leadenhall-sreet, London ; Guest, 51, Bull-street, Birming-
ham ; and by all Booksellers in Town and Country.
The CORDIAL BALM of SYRI ACUM is exclusively directed
for the cure of nervous and muscular debility, impuissance, &e.
Price Its and Ms. per bottle. Sold by all Medicine Vendors, of
whom may be had the " Silent Friend." The Five Pound Cases
may be had as usual.
PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS are the most effectua
cure for syphilis and secondary symptoms in both sexes, price 2s. 9d.
isig, and I Is. per box.
Isultation fee, if by let'er, 1/. A minute detail of cases is ne-
ssary. Messrs. Perry are in daily attendance, for Consultation, at
their residence, 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London from
Eleven till Twe, and Five till Eight, and on Sundays from Teri til
Twelve. One personal visit only is necessary to effect a permanent cure

LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS. AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
" He who in pleasure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or youthfu 'charms,
A hero lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me behold a man !"
Just-published (in a sealed envelope), Tenth Edition, price 28. ad.,
or sent by post, free, to any address, 3s. 541.,
QELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Essay on
those concealed disorders originating in youthful excesses,
and terminating In Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional
Weakness, and all those Sinkinge, Anxieties, and Tremors, which
afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Practical
Observations on Marriage, and on the Anatomy, Physiology, and
Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, with plain Directions for
their perfect Restoration

_AY4AMUEL LAMERT. Consulting Surgeon,
9, REDFORD-ST NO BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Matriculated M e University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of tM -.• hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of
Apothecary's
" The various geffe Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in-
herent privileges of_ mankind, ate frequently marred and prevented
through the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To-such,
among others, this Essay addresses itself; and by its perusal many
questions may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of no appeal ems
to the most confidential friend."—Stafford Gazette.

" The design of this work will be tolerably obvious from its title,
and we cordially recommend the author and his book to all who are
sulthring from nervous debility and general weakness."—Wakefield
Journal.

Published by the Author, and sold in London by S. Gilbert, 51 and
52, Paternoster-row; Starle, 22, Tichbome-street, Quadrant, Regent
street; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; Noble, 114, Chancery_
lane; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; and by all Booksellers.
At home every day till Three, and from Five till Eight.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAY 23, 1844.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Frederic Thesiger, Esq., her Majesty's So-
licitor-General.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.
2d Regiment of Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry.—Cornet J. Gar-
rard to be Lieutenant, vice J. Ciode, promoted ; H. W. Bonsey,
Gent., to be Cornet, vice the Marquis of Chandos, promoted,
May 18.

BANKRUPTS.
EDWARD GILL FLIGHT, publisher, Adam-street,
Adelphi, to surrender June 4, at two, and July 9, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-
lane, Cornhill ; Turner and Hensman, Basing-lane, Cheapside.
EDWARD LOUIS, perfumer, Gerrard-street, Soho, June
6, at one, and July 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Crosby and Comp-
ton, Church-court.
EDWARD OXLEY, jun., hatter, King's Lynn, Norfolk,
June 8, at two, and July 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-
street ; Dixon, Now Boswell-court, Carey-street; Ransom,
Sudbury.
THOMAS BRAND, livery-stable keeper, Stamford-street,
Blackfriars, June 11, at half-past two, and July 9, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Fre-
derick's-place, Old Jewry ; Harman, Earl-street, Blackfriars.
JOHN SISON, dealer in toys, Brighton, June 11, at
eleven, and July 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Rickards and
Walker, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
JOHN BERWICK, worsted stuff manufacturer, June 11,
and July 2, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Few and Co., Henrietta-street,
London ; Weatherhead and Burr, Bingley : Naylor, Leeds.
THOMAS KEARSLEY and THOMAS WATT, bone
merchants, Runcorn, Cheshire, June 8 and July 1, at twelve,
at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee,
Manchester ; Harrison, Birmingham ; Smith, Bedford-row,
London.
WILLIAM MONK, jun., currier, Nottingham, June 12
and July 4, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Parsons, Notting-
ham ; Spurrier and Chaplin, Birmingham.
JACOB BARNA RD, clothes dealer, Cheltenham, June 13,
and July 9, at one, at the Bristol District Court. Miller,
official assignee, St. Augustine's-place, Bristol; Messrs. R.
and J. B. Winterbotham, Cheltenham ; Dix, Bristol.

NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY.
G. Kersting, schoolmaster, Oxford-street, Stepney.
W. H. A. Cole, attorney's clerk, Church-road, Camberwell.
R. Ackland, Mapledurwell, Hampshire.
J. Fury, butcher, Chester.
J. Bridge, quarryman, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire.
R. Davies, landing waiter, Toxteth-park.
J. Rowley, chimney sweeper, Sheffield.
J. Samway, brewer, Yalding, Kent.
T. Doyle, marine store dealer, Liverpool.
J. Rantell, wheelwright, Thaxted, Essex.
J. M. Girling, veterinary surgeon, Northampton.
T. Basham, brewer, Fieldgate-street, Whitechapel.
J. Walker, tailor, Fetter-lane.
S. S. Oliver, clerk, Blenheim-place, St. John's-wood.
S. Blanchard, boarding-house keeper, Charles-street, Chelsea.
F. Wymer, steam ship steward, Southampton.
H. Tovey, carriage lamp manufacturer, Bristol.
J. J. Shotbolt, innkeeper, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire.
J. Wadge, carpenter, Holloway.
W. Turner, wine merchant, St. Alban-street, Lambeth.
H. B. Glover, clerk, Great Bland-street, Newington.
11. White, warehouseman, Arlington-street, Camden-town.
E. M. Danels, schoolmistress, Turnham-green.
C. Perkin, victualler, Bollington, Cheshire.
J. E. Adams, schoolmaster, workhouse, Marylebone.
G. Parker, coal dealer, Norwich.
E. Phillipps, Albany-street, Regent's Park.
H. Jennings, Princes-road, Lambeth.
W. Jones, saddler, Litebborough, Northamptonshire.
H. I'. Archer, attorney, John-street, Adelphi.
J. Reed, shoemaker, Cheam, Surrey.
J. W. Newton, farmer, Moulton, Lincolnshire.
R. Newton, farmer, Moulton, Lincolnshire.
G. E. Green, Whalley, Lancashire.
D. Roberts., stationer, Manchester.
7'. Singleton, druggist, Sheffield.
W. Hallsey, cheesemonger, Derby-street, Mayfair.
J. Lon bottom, woolcomber, Wainstell, Yorkshire.
E. Mcitland, assistant to a publican, Liverpool.
J. Johnson, bricklayer, Huddersfield.
J. Mathews, tallow chandler, Hammersmith.
J. Seagar, undertaker, Wood-street, Lambeth-walk.
P. Beer, tobacconist, Plymouth.
H. Silley, Shaftesbury-street, New North-road.
T. E. Wharton, comedian, Alount-terrace, Whitechapel-road.
H. J. Murton, lieutenant-colonel R. M., Brompton.
J. Robinsow, boot maker, Charlotte-street, Portland-place,
. Morgan, assistant grocer, Brompton.

—W. Baker, surgeon, Lower Grosvenor-street, Bond-street,
June 18, at eleven—T. Cornish, wine merchant, Great Marl-
borough-street, June 18, at half-past eleven—W. Scot:, wine
merchant, Regent-street, June 19, at two.
In the Country.
J. M'Connal, tea dealer, Liverpool, June 20, at half•past
eleven, at the Liverpool District Court—G. F. Fairclough,
banker, Liverpool, June 20, at one, at the Liverpool District
Court—C. Morrall and I. Borland, merchants, Liverpool, June
20, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—T. White,
merchant, Liverpool, June 20, at twelve, at the Liverpool Dis•
trict Court—J. Howie, merchant, Manchester, June 20, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court—R. Alsop, grocer,
Manchester, June 19, at eleven, at the Manchester District
Court—J. Cowen, linendraper, Penrith, Cumberland, June
19, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—B.
Gardner, farmer, Leigh, Worcestershire, June 21, at half-past
twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—W. Parr, shop-
keeper, Norton in the Moors, Staffordshire, June 21, at twelve,
at the Birmingham District Court—T. L. Parker, coal mer-
chant, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, June 19, at one, at the Bir-
mingham District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the
contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
J. Todd, Hartfield, Sussex,
June 18—T. Wilkinson, shoe-
maker, King-street, Holborn, June 20—J. Milner, engine
manufacturer, Brook-street, New-road, June 18—T. Watson,
victualler, Camomile_street, June 20—J. Thomas, grocer,
Reading, 20—Z. Parkes and R. Henderson, carpenters,
Duke-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, June 19—C. Williams, cur-
rier? Sunderland, June 18—T. Shillito, chemist, Leeds, June
27—R. Smith, attorney, Worcester, June 25—J. Atkins, beer-
housekeeper, Aston, Warwickshire, June 24—J. Smith, car-
penter, Darenth, Kent, June 18—W. Jackson, baker, Liver-
pool, June 18—N. T. Smith, jun., shipowner, Lime-street,
June 18—J. R. Bradley, horn merchant, Sheffield, June 18—
J. Wade, paper maker, Birmingham, June 18—J. Finney,
builder, Woore, ShisTshire, June 18—F. Hillam, ale mer-
chant, Cambridge-terrace, Edgware-road, June 18—E. Leiry
and A. S. Levy, fruit merchants, Oaford-street, June 18—W.
Butcher, commission agent, Great Marlborough-street, June
18—R. N. Munton, jun., miller, Greatford, Lincolnshire,
June 18—J. Sewell, money scrivener, Chatteris, Cambridge-
shire, June 18.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
E. Palk, jun., and J. Pinsent, brewers, Newton Bushel, De-
vonshire—M. A. Kiernan and H. Yon, milliners, Southamp-
ton—T. H. Pinder and R. R. Pinder, drapers, Wantage,
Berkshire—W. Bell, R. Bell, and J. C. Hughes, merchants,
Aldersgate-street (so far as regards W. Bell)—W. Frost and
J. Clarke, coach builders, Bury St. Edmunds—J. Tonks and
T. Tonks, printers, Birmingham—J. F. Earlidge and W.
Heath, sago dealers, St. John-square, Clerkenwell—H. G.
Gardner and W. Jenkins, patent firewood makers, Bath—R.
Horsefield and J. Fothergill, engravers, Manchester—M.
Perkins and T. Perkins, millers, Willesborough, Kent—J.
Gilbert and W. Gilbert, razor manufacturers, Sheffield—
W. Read and E. Page, ship builders, Ipswich—V. Morris,
sen., V. Morris, jun., and R. W. Morris, wine mer-
chants, St. Mary-at-Hill (so far as regards V. Morris,
jun. Williams and J. J. Richiardi, carvers, James-
street, New-cut—F. Bowman and F. E. Bowman, millers,
Waddon, Surrey—G. J. French, R. Badger, and J. Badger,
drapers, Lancaster—J. Norbury and W. Nockells, braziers,
Whitechapel-road—W. Davison and J. Combs, attorneys,
Bread-street, Cheapside—J. Keymer, J. Gibson, and T. Muir,
woollen printers, Merton, Surrey—J. Medland and J. Madge,
common carriers, Torquay—G. Sperling and T. H. Probert,
Halsted—R. Lambert and F. W. Allcroft, fancy stationers,
Quadrant, Regent-street—T. Baker, J. Davis, and J. Pea-
cock. Coal Leasow Colliery, Kingswinford, Staffordshire—W.
Bowker and W. Bowker, curriers, Stamford—J. Burton and
W. S. Darkin, newspaper proprietors, Leicester—R. Croton,
J. Jones, E. Croton, C. T. Jones, T. L. Longueville, and J.
Gibbons, bankers, Osnestry, Shropshire (so far as regards J.
Gibbons).
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
GEORGE WHITE, rice miller, Greenock, June 4 and 25,
at eleven, at the office of Dunlop and Neill, Greenock.

THE WOODBRIDGE UNION.
ALLEGED 'NEGLECT AND INHUMANITY
TOWARDS SICK PAUPERS IN THE
WOODBRIDGE UNION POOR-HOUSE.
The "First Report from the Committee on Medical
Poor-law Relief with Minutes of Evidence," has just
been issued from the Vote-office. This Select Com •
mittee, having had referred to them the petition of
Thomas King (the heads of which are sufficiently set
forth in an article which appears to-day in another
part of our paper), report the same, together with the
evidence of Sir John Walsham, Baronet, one of the
Assistant Poor-law Commissioners. It is an instruc-
tive but a melancholy document. The first thing
which strikes us is the affectation of lofty superiority
which the Secretary-Assistant of the Poor-law Com-
missioners at Somerset-house appears in this, as in
all. other instances, to adopt towards all complainants.
In this, wholesome practice we observe the Secretary
to the Police Commissioners in Scotland-yard is also
eminent. King is a schoolmaster, and is really too
fairly matched, as an epistolaiy writer, with the Mr.
Coode who answers him, to merit so marked a tone
of somewhat insolent or patronising communication
as is adopted by the latter:—
"Admiral's Head Inn, Ipswich, March 2, 1844.
" Gentlemen,—Having forwarded to you certain docu-
ments containing further charges against the officers of
Nacton workhouse, Woodbridge Union, I am much
surprised at the delay that has been permitted to take
place. I beg you will allow me four days' notice, as the
greater portion of my witnesses are now residing out of
the house.—l am, &c.
(Signed) "THOMAS KING.
" To the Poor Law Commissioners."
"Poor Law Commission Office, Somerset-house,
March 7, 1844.
" Thomas King,—The Poor-law Commissioners, in
reference to your letter of the 2d instant, desire to in-
form you that the documents containing further charges
against the officers of Nacton workhouse, forwarded by
you to R N. Shawe, Esq., and which were transmitted by
him to Sir John Walsham, have been inclosed by Sir
John Walsham to the Commissioners, who are in com-
munication with the board of guardians on the subject of
those charges.

" Signed, by order of the Board,
"Thomas King, Woodbridge. "GEO. COODE."
The next singular features of this Report are, that
only one witness is examined; that he is an Assistant
Poor-law Commissioner ; that he produces none of the
parties, but gives in and comments upon his own notes
of their examination, on their several depositions in
writing. Was this the best course for eliciting truth ?
Be that as it may, he handed to the Committee a
letter from King to R. N. Shawe, Esq., chairman of
the Woodbridge board of guardians. this letter, his
own charges thereon, and the letters of the Poor-law
Commissioners to the union clerk, well tell their own
tale, and enable us to leave the reader to form his own
conclusions on the facts at issue :
" Honoured Sir,—Notwithstanding my report of the
conduct of the nurse of the workhouse of Woodbridge
Union on Friday last, her cruelty and neglect has in-
creased rather than diminished. This morning a poor
man, named Haggar, was found dead and stiff in his bed,
although I entreated her to watch over him, as I was
sure he was dying. She called me from my bed to as-
sist her to tie the bedclothes on him with a rope, that
she might not be compelled to sit up with him all night;
her general conduct is certainly the most cruel and un-
feeling I ever witnessed. I discharged myself this morn-
ing entirely, because I could not behold such treatment.
This is the third time in twelve weeks four men have been
found dead, without the least attention having been paid
to their dying moments. I am truly sorry that such
neglect has never been reported to the board by governor
or matron ; the fact is, they are all equally guilty ; and
it is expedient to conceal each other's faults, and, thus
combined, deceive the guardians of the union. I am,
however, fully convinced that you, Sir, will not permit
your name to go forth to the world as an abettor of such
cruel conduct.

" It is a positive fact that the porter has been known to
threaten the master, and tell him he could ruin him at
any time, and that he would do so if it were not for his
wife and children ; it is likewise true that the porter at
one time left his office for two nights, in consequence of
quarrelling with the master, and that the master sent for
him again, and never. reported such conduct. The con-
sequence was, the porter soon found an opportunity to
gratify a base desire to seduce the unfortunate females
in the workhouse (one of whom bore him a child, which
is still in the workhouse). For three weeks before
Christmas, I had scarcely any rest, night or day, in con-
sequence of the severe illness of two persons, named Garrod
and Chilton, whom I attended to, unassisted by the nurse.
The man Garrod laid six days in his own filth, because
the nurse refused to trouble the matron for clean linen.
When his son, William Garrod, came to visit him, I
told him to call on you, and report the state he found
him in; he would have done so had you not been from
home at the time; he, however, told the matron' who
soon after came into the ward with linen; it was found
necessary even to change his bed. None of the sick
men had clean linen that week, as Master Samuel Con-
stable was expected home from London on the Satur-
day, and the matron was engaged in preparing for him.
As soon as William Garrod left, the matron came and
ordered every man in the ward to strip in her presence,
and put a clean shirt on. This was done about four
o'clock in the afternoon on the Sabbath day previous to
Master Constable's arrival. The nurse never did the
least thing to assist poor Garrod during the whole
time of his affliction, and very seldom inquired after him.
His affliction was of that character as to require clean
linen every day. About ten days before be died, I was
assisted by a female pauper, Anne Davy, to wash him
every morning ; and as he was unable to be removed, it
was expedient to draw a clean sheet under him as he
laid in the bed. Nurse told Garrod if he would give
her some money, she would take care of him ; he pro-.
mised to do so, and when the wife of William Garrod
came, he requested her to give nurse 6d., which she did
in my presence, yet afterwards did nothing whatever for
him ; the medical officer never examined him, nor did
anything for him, although he had a wound discharging
at least half a pint of very offensive matter daily. The
woman above alluded to was the only person who as-
sisted me to clean him every morning. He ate no food
for ten days, except what his sons brought him ; I
several times requested nurse to get him some sago ; but
she said there was none in the house. I sat up with him
the last three nights of his life, and never had my clothes

off during the last week of Garrod's life. My care was
divided between him and poor Chilton, who was actually
starved to death. Mr. Wilkin ordered nurse to be
sure to give him some sago : in the afternoon nurse told
me Master Samuel was very bad with a sore throat, and
she would be obliged to attend to him, consequently poor
Chilton received no sago ; I did not inform nurse of his
death until she had laid his bread on his bed, when she
said, There's your bread, Chilton.' I then said,
Nurse, he is dead and stiff.' She exclaimed, Oh
God! what shall I do.' I was so much affected as to
render me incapable of doing anything further for a
time. Poor Chilton inquired if his sago was come; I
told him no. This was about an hour and a half before
he died. He said, 4I am wholly starved! ' Although
I sat up to watch these poor' unfortunate men three
nights, I had no fire allowed me. As it respects the
treatment of the sick children, this was (if possible)
worse than that exercised towards the men, as in addi-
tion to neglect. they were beaten when they complained.
In 1840, nurse beat an orphan child, four years of age,
so violently as to cause his death eight hours after, and
totally ruined another boy.
" My dear Sir, I implore you to search patiently and
diligently to ascertain the truth of these statements, for
I have been careful to adhere strictly to the truth.
" Did I not know that 'you would do justice I would
not write to you, but take other steps to expose such
cruelty and wickedness. I have not entertained malice,
but am utterly governed by a fear to God and coin-
misseration for the misfortunes of my fellow-creatures.
" Yesterday a great many new patients were sent in
the ward by the governor ; these will, no doubt, receive
kind attention during the present week, that they may
have nothing to complain of ; their testimony therefore
amounts to nothing. The only persons to be examined
are Linstead, Bush, Flatt, and the woman Davy or
Davies, and such children as I shall name before the
Committee. I hope to be allowed to ask such ques-
tions as shall best elucidate the truth. Every refuge
will be sought by each officer to mislead and deceive,
but I confide in your judgment and benevolence to act
with uprightness and integrity, for such a den of ini-
quity ought to exist no longer. I have not tasted food
since yesterday morning ; it is now one o'clock Tues-
day ; probably I shall not receive any until I return to
the house on Thursday morning. I am, honoured Sir,
your most obedient and grateful servant,
(Signed) THOMAS KING.'

" (Witness.) After reading the foregoing letter, I
proceeded to shape its various accusations into separate
charges, as affording the best means of methodising the
proceedings ; and these charges I framed as follows :-
1. A charge against Mary Dunn, the nurse, for having
neglected to watch William Haggar, whilst dying, and
for having called upon Thomas King to assist her in
fastening the old man's bedclothes over him with a rope,
so that she might not have to sit up with him during the
night on which he died, namely, the 14th of January,
1844. 2. A charge against the porter for having seduced
female inmates of the workhouse, and for having bad a
child, then in the workhouse, by one of them. 3. A
charge against the master for having connived at the im-
moral acts of the porter, because that officer was able to
ruin him, and for having neglected, for a similar reason,
to report the porter's absence, on one occasion for two or
three days, from the workhouse. 4. A charge against
Mary Dunn, the nurse ; Mrs. Constable, the matron ;
and Mr. Wilkin, the medical officer, for gross neglect of
John Garrod, an old man, who died on the
23d December, 1843. 5. A charge against Mary Dunn,
the nurse, for gross neglect of William Chilton, who
died, aged forty-two, on the 24th of December, 1843.
6. A charge against Mary Dunn, the nurse, for cruel
conduct towards the sick children generally, and more
particularly for having beaten a boy, named James Al-
derson, to death in 1840; and for having also beaten an-
other boy, named William Roe, so severely in the same
year, as to ruin him totally, causing the loss of his
limbs, and his subsequent death. Those were the
charges which were framed in the presence of Thomas
King, of the master of the workhouse, and of the other
officers implicated. I then called upon Thomas King
to state whether ho was prepared to go into
these charges. He stated that he was per-
fectly prepared to go into them, and all the
witnesses he suggested were subsequently examined upon
oath by myself. Their depositions are all here ; but as
the papers are rather voluminous, perhaps the Commit-
tee would wish me shortly to state the course which I
pursued.

" You had better go on with the investigation, as you
appear to have it before you.—Having framed those
charges, I called upon Thomas King to give his evi-
dence in support of the fourth charge (namely, the
charge against the nurse, matron, and medical officer,
for having grossly neglected John Garrod), as the me-
dical officer was anxious to be released, and the copy of
his deposition, which I will put in, will show the pur-
port of such evidence :
" Thomas King, having been sworn and examined,
saith :—John Garrod, an old pauper of eighty-four
years of age, went into the sick ward on or about the
end of October, 1843, the same day as myself. Nurse
stripped him and put him to bed. At that time Garrod
said he had a bag containing 16s. 6d. in his pocket ; on
the 28th November, Garrod, who had previously got
something better, became worse, and took to his bed
again. From the 28th'November till the 3d December,
Garrod had no clean linen at all. I told nurse of the
want of the linen every morning. She answered that
she could not trouble the matron for clean linen, as Gar-
rod had had his linen only a fortnight, and there was
none allowed for a shorter period than a month. Gar-
rod's son, William, came in the afternoon of Sunday the
3d December aforesaid; I told him the state his father
was in, and advised him to call upon Mr. Shawe, the
chairman, and I requested him not to mention it down
stairs. Shortly after William Garrod had left the ward
the matron and nurse came into it; the matron said,
What for is all this piece of work about
clean linen? I won't be blamed for nurse's ne-
glect. I laid out the shirts on Saturday, and
nurse having neglected to come for them
the porter put them back again. As for you, men, I will
report you all to Mr. Edgar, and William Garrod shall
never come and see his father as long as he lives ;' and
turning to the nurse, she added, Give all these men a
clean shirt ; they shall strip in my presence before I
leave the room.' (This was about four o'clock, p.m., on
the aforesaid Sunday.) As we had had only one candle
for the six days from the 28th November to the 3d
December, Linstead said in my presence to the matron,
I have one favour to ask of you—allow us a candle in
the room at night, as Garrod and King are often out of
bed, and fall on us and hurt us ;' to which the matron
replied, that nurse was to give them one candle a night
till she ordered her to leave it off.

" John G arrod required constant attendance, as from the
character of his affliction he could not perform the duties
of nature without assistance ; and from watering his bed
he required clean sheets every morning.
" About 10 days before he died, a gathering which
Garrod had broke, and I told nurse that she had better
inform Mr. Wilkin of it. It is of no use,' she answered,
to tell Mr. Wilkin about it, as Garrod is an old man,
and he can do him no good.' I' replied, It is
your duty, nurse, at any rate, to inform Mr. Wilkin
of it.'

" On the following day, which was the next medical
day, Mr. Wilkin did not come himself, but his assistant,
Mr. Smith did, and inquired how the old man was.'
When, as I was going to speak, nurse said, ' I have told
him, King, about Garrod ;" upon which Mr. Smith di-
rected that he should be washed and kept clean.
" On the next medical day, viz., Monday, the 18th De-
cember, Mr. Wilkin came ; and when he got to the bed
said,' Well, how is old Garrod getting on?' No reply
that I heard was made, and Mr. Wilkin said, ' He has
got a great deal of fever, nurse, and you must not al-
low him any beer.'
" After Mr. Wilkin went, nurse called me into a sepa-
rate room and said, As you have been attending to
Garrod, who must not have beer, you shall have his
meat and beer, and let him have your broth.'
" And it was so arranged. At the same time, viz.,
about ten days before he died, William Garrod's wife
brought him a cake, and on the Thursday before he
died a loaf of bread, which he could not eat, and which
nurse told me to take.

" On the Sunday before he (J. Garrod) died, William
Garrod, John's son, came with two other men, and
brought the old man half a pint of port wine with some
biscuits and oranges. Nurse told me to take care of
the biscuits and oranges, and she took care of the port
wine.

" The old man had some biscuit soaked in wine,
which I gave him three times a day, about two table-
spoonfuls a time. This I told nurse was not enough to
support him, and that she should ask for some sago for
him. She said there was none in the house. As he got
worse, I told nurse he required more attendance at
night, and she answered, that then I must attend to him
myself, for she could not. I said to her that the nights
were cold, and begged that she would ask for some fire.
She at first refused, but afterwards went down, and on
her return said the governor had company, and she
could not speak to him. This was three days before
Garrod died. On the following morning, viz., Friday,
the 22d December, I told nurse that Garrod was worse,
and she answered, 6 I shall be glad when he is dead, as
old men are so much trouble, that they ought to die
when they can't do for themselves.' I said, ' Nurse, I
am astonished at you.' And she then said, ' You
know what I mean, King ; I mean,
that when they can't
do for themselves, it is a good thing when it pleases
God to take them.'
" From about ten days before, I and Anne Davy used
to wash him every morning till he died, and nurse was
only present on two occasions whilst Davy and I were
washing him.
" On the Friday morning, the morning before Garrod
died, nurse said, when we were putting on Garrod's clean
shirt, I hope this is the last clean shirt you'll want.'
" On the same day Mr. Edgar read the prayers for the
sick in the ward, being the only day on which I have
heard the chaplain read prayers in the ward. I used to
read the Scriptures three times a day to Garrod myself.
" On Saturday morning, the 23d of December, Garrod
died about two o'clock, A.M. I went and told nurse

about twenty minutes past two, and I helped her to lay
him out.

" Some time before Garrod's death, when his daugh-
ter-in-law was present, he told nurse that he wanted his
money, to which she answered, The governor has got it;
you can't have it.' Garrod said then, If you don't go
down for it, I'll see the governor myself.' A few mi-
nutes afterwards nurse asked how much there was. He
answered, There was 16s. 6d. when I came on the
room. To which nurse replied, There is oily 10s.
novv;' and on his exclaiming, Then you have robbed
me,' nurse said, I have not told it, but you shall have
what there is;' and, turning the money out before him,
she counted it, and there was 13s. 6d. Garrod then told
his daughter-in•law to give the nurse 6d., which she did,
and he gave 10s. to the daughter-in-law to take home
with her, leaving 3s. in his pocket. William Garrod also
told me he would give me ls. when his father died, and
he gave me this shilling, by nurse's permission, I having
first refused. On the Sunday after the old man's death,
nurse told William Garrod, who had more than once of-
fered to give me something, that he ought to bring me
some tobacco, and he did bring me an ounce.
(Signed) " THOMAS KING.
" Sworn before me,
(Signed) " JOHN WALSHAM, A.C."
We have no room for Sir J. Walsham's further
evidence ; but we pray attention to the premises, and
the conclusion from those premises, of the intelligent
and merciful Poor-law Commissioners finding on Sir
J. W.'s report to them. The notion of leaving it to
such men to decide whether or not cruel charges are
proved, is an absurdity of which we desire no better
proof than their meek suggestion " of the views"
they entertain to such delinquents as Constable and
his wife, who had so long tolerated—and, but for
King, would probably still have done so to this day—
the fiendish brutality of the nurse, Mary Dunn.
"Poor-law Commissioners' Office, Somerset House,
" 20th February, 1844.
" Sir,—The Poor-law Commissioners have had under
their consideration the report of the Assistant Commis-
sioner, Sir John Walsham, informing them of the facts
elicited at an inquiry which he held at the Nacton work-
house on the 24th ultimo, and on subsequent days, when
certain charges against the officers of that workhouse,
contained in a letter which an inmate of the house,
Thomas King, had addressed, on the 15th ultimo, to
Mr. Sham:, the chairman, were investigated by the As-
istant Commissioner. _

" The charges, framed from Thomas King's letter,
were these :
" I. A charge against Mary Dunn, the nurse, for
having neglected to watch William Haggar, whilst dying,
and for having called on Thomas King to assist her in
fastening the old man's bed-clothes over him with a rope,
so that she might not have to sit up with him during
the night on which he died, viz., the 14th January, 1844.
" 2. A charge against the porter for having seduced
female inmates of the workhouse, and for having had a
child, then in the workhouse, by one of them.
"3. A charge against the master, for having connived
at the immoral acts of the porter, because that officer
was able to ruin him ; and for having neglected, for a
similar reason, to report the porter's absence on one
occasion, for two or three days, from the workhouse.
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Constable, the matron, and Mr. Wilkin, the medical
officer, for the gross neglect of John Garrod, an old man,
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neglect of William Chilton, who died, aged 42, on the
24th December, 1843.
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cruel conduct towards the sick children generally, and
more particularly for having beaten a boy, named James
Alderson, to death in 1840 ; and for having also beaten
another boy, named William Roe, so severely, in the
same year, as to ruin him totally, causing the loss of his
limbs, and his subsequent death.
"The Commissioners, on looking to the evidence, and
to the statement of circumstances submitted to them,
have arrived at the following conclusions :
" 1. That with regard to the first, fourth, and fifth
charges (irrespective of the fact that some of Garrod's
money was alleged to be missing, and of the circumstance
that Haggar died when the bed-clothes were fastened
over him by a cord), Mary Dunn, who then held the office
of nurse, has been proved to have very culpably neglected
Garrod, Haggar, and Chilton. Having reference to the
sixth charge, the Commissioners think it proved that
Mary Dunn struck with her hand a sick child, six years
old, a short time before its death. The Commissioners,
therefore, 'entirely concur in the course taken by the
guardians in dismissing Mary Dunn from the office of
nurse.

" 2. Adverting to the fourth charge, the Commissioners
desire to state that the allegations against the matron,
medical officer, and chaplain, have not been proved.
" 3. The second charge, that brought against the porter
of having seduced women in the workhouse, was not
proved. The evidence of Mary Rattle is unsupported
and contradictory, and the tale derived from two name-
less prostitutes at Woodbridge, and told by Thomas
King, is wholly unworthy of credit.
" 4. The Commissioners feel bound to express their
opinion that the third charge, that brought against the
master, was not proved.
" The Commissioners desire, however, to add that
they have not failed to notice that the master andmatron
seem to have been ignorant of the gross neglect of the
nurse in the cases before alluded to.

" The Commissioners are assured that Mr. and Mrs.
Constable are generally efficient and trustworthy officers,
and that they have discharged their respective duties so
as to merit the confidence and approbation of the guar-
dians ; still, the Commissioners think that the facts dis
closed by the recent inquiry show that the master and
matron have been, to some extent, wanting in vigilance ;
and that blame must be imputed to them for not fully
satisfying themselves, by personal supervision and in-
spection, that the nurse's duties were properly per-
formed, that the last moments of the sick were accom-
panied by that attention which ought to have been ren-
dered, and that fires and lights were duly provided in the
sick wards whenever they were necessary. The Commis-
sioners wish the guardians to make Mr. and Mrs. Constable
aware of the view taken of their conduct, and at the same
time to admonish them to a general and unceasing watch-
fulness over every class of inmates in the workhouse,
and especially over those who occupy the ward for the
sick. The Commissioners; trust that the disposition for
kindness and consideration which the master and matron
have hitherto shown, will prompt them (now their defi-
ciency has been expressly pointed out) carefully to avoid
any just ground for future complaints, of which (if any
should hereafter arise) the Commissioners would feel
bound to take much more serious notice."

we blush for the public officers who could, upon
such a case, subscribe such a document.

LORD COTTENH.A.M'S DEBTOR
AND CREDITOR BILL.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
There is a disease of the nervous system which
is most prevalent in the luxurious and refined periods
of civilisation ; it produces such a weakness and
effeminacy of mind, as renders the patient unable to
bear the sight of immediate pain and trouble, and
causes him to sacrifice some of the most important
permanent matters, either to himself, or his family,
or his country, for the remission of a little present
suffering. The affectionate and caressing sympathy
which is lavished on horrible murderers, sometimes
even by ladies of rank and education, is the most
inveterate (but not very uncommon) form of this
disease, but its symptoms are generally shown in the
anxiety to relieve various classes of evil-doers, as
incendiaries, felons, larceners, and insolvent debtors,
from the ancient penalties awarded to their several
transgressions ; with regard to this last class of evil-
doers, these diseased persons have been so eminently
successful, that they have succeeded, after some thirty
years' labour, in giving almost complete impunity to
all insolvents, no matter what may have been the
conduct, :wilful or involuntary, which has caused
their insolvency.
A public document, on which a legislative measure
now in progress through the Lords is founded, is a
striking example of this disease, and of its obliterating
effects on the moral sense and the judgment. The
report of the Commissioners appointed to investigate
the Bankruptcy and Insolvency laws, 1840, says page

xxiii,
" The arrest of a debtor who is wholly insolvent is
of no direct use whatever" (observe the crafty intro-
duction of the word direct—the question is, as to its
use, and its indirect use may be very great. If by
direct use be meant compensation to him who is in-
jured, scarcely any evil inflicted on the wrong-doer
has any direct use), " and of this nature are the
greater number of arrests in execution. An honest
debtor who can pay, will do so before the costs of an
action are added to his debt" (such a sort of debtor
none but a lunatic or a wicked man would sue by
law, therefore this remark is only an irrelevance or
worse); " or if he be under temporary difficulties,
and have his liberty, he will exert himself to procure
the means of payment" (and such an one would be
rarely pursued by his creditors). " A dishonest
debtor will probably avail himself of the facility which
the laxity of the present law affords him, to dispose of
his property before the hostile creditor is able to
seize it," (and, therefore, he will not dispose of his
property under a law more lax, such as has lately
been made, and under one proposed still more lax.
under the Commissioners' recommendation !)
" The practical effect of the law of arrest or final
process, combined with the insolvency law, is the im-
prisonment of numbers merely to be discharged,
without opposition at the end of a few weeks," (and,
tnerefore, don't imprison them at all, intimates
this remark—would it not be more salutary, how-