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'THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING-, MARCH 10, 11445,

ing. With not one of these great articles had
he dealt, except sugar, with respect to which he had
sacrificed revenue with very little benefit to the con-
sumer, and simply for the interest of the West India
planter.—(Laughter from the Opposition.) Now, if
the Right Hon. Baronet had dealt with the articles
to which he had referred, fairly and fully, his Budget
would, indeed, have been beneficial to the poor, it
would have come home to the case of the poor man
by greatly diminishing the cost of necessary
articles of consumpeion. It would also have
been in accordance with the soundest
principles of economical science. If the Right Hon.
Baronet had dealt in a proper manner with these
several items of taxation, he might have rested satis-
fied that, through increased consumption and the
prevention of fraud, the revenue would have
so recovered from the effect of reduced
taxation, that at the end of three years he would
have been able to dispense with the income-tax, the
country getting the full advantage of the change
which had taken place.—(Hear, hear.) For such
an object as that he (Mr. C. Buller) would have
been ready to submit to the income-tax for three
years, and to run the risk—which he was persuaded
would have been a very small one—of incurring the
necessity of its further continuance.— (I Lear,
hear.) But the Right Honourable Baronet
came forward and proposed a reduction of taxes,
which, though they might have been properly re-
duced one by one at any convenient time, ought not
to have been allowed to interfere with the wiser ap-
plication of the whole surplus en masse.—(Cries of
" Hear, hear.") The proposed reduction of taxes
did not hold out the slightest of the revenue being
restored.—(Hear, hear.) It was true that the Right
Hon. Baronet, with that goodness which distinguished
him, turned round to his' supporters and told them
that he left them the most unfettered liberty of deal-
ing with the income-tax as they pleased at the end
of three years, and the mode in which he prepared
the way for doing this was by sweeping away from
his budget every farthing of the surplus which he
possessed above the expenditnre, ever while the
income-tax was continued.—(Hear, hear.) They
were told that as a matter of course
if they reduced taxes the revenue would recover and
produce the same amount. But he did not find any
one who was sanguine enough to go with the Govern-
ment in that statement. They must loek upon this,
therefore, as the sole experiment which they had to try
with the revenue, they must regard this as the sole gain
which they were to have for the surplus. They were
to get the remission which the Right Hon. Baronet
proposed to make, and for that they were to have the
income-tax fur ever. Thus the question was,
what the House had to decide—whether they
would take the income-tax fee ever, and receive,
in satisfaction, the reduction of taxes, which
the Right Honourable Baronet proposed to make.
He must confess that he did not think that anything
that had been offered could reconcile him to the con-
tinuance of the income-tax.—(Hear, hear.) It had
been said that this was eminently a poor man's Budget.
Now, he had always observed that when the Govern-
ment did not know what to say in support
of any measure which they might have happened to
propose they invariably said that it was for the benefit
of the poor man, and some Hon. Gentleman on that
side of the House had been allured by the cry that
this budget was for the benefit of the poor man.
Now be (Mr. C. Buller) could not see how
they could have by any possibility reduced
an equal amount of taxation on any articles which
would have conferred so little benefit on the poor
inan.—(Hear, hear.) First their was the sugar tax.
Now, they were all agreed on that (the Opposition)
side cf the House,: that they could not have reduced
any tax with such little advantage to the in-
terests of everybody except the West India
proprietors. He believed that there was not
any body on that side of the House, always except
the lion. Member fur Dumfries, who was so en-
amoured of the income-tax, that he would rather see
the proceeds thrown into the sea than not have it
—with the exception of the Hon. Member for Dum-
fries, there was not one Gentleman on that side of
the House who would consent to the continuance of
the income-tax for the sake of the reduction in the sugar
duty.—(Hear.) Was it the auction duty the reduction of
which was to benefit the poor man.—(Hear.) 'Was
he to gain by the removal of the tax upon exports?
—(Hear, hear.) He must confess that it seemed to
him that the export duty was paid by foreigners.
He did not think the poor man could .gain much by
its reduction. But then there were the 420
article of the tariff. Now, he had looked
at them all, and he could not conceive
what the poor man was to gain for the reduction in
them. The Right llon. Baronet would not give the
poar man corn.—(Cheers.) He would not give him
butter—(Cheers)--but he would give him alum to
adulterate his bread—(Cheers and laughter)—and
lard to adulterate his butter.—(Renewed cheers and
laughter) Now he did not know, unless it was per-
haps, upon such articles as Divi Divi and albanalla,
on what it was the poor man was to gain. It was
true he had never before heard of these articles, and
he had no very longing desire to hear an explanation
as to their qualities.—(A laugh.) Then there was
glass. Now he believed the poor man would
benefit some by the reduction of the
etbuthe
Chancellor h e
of
the
duty on glass than upon that of any other
article ; not that he believed he would get it much
ocheaper,to
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poor
men eloquently
would onder the
ee ;
and the First Lard of the Treasury had dilated at
length upon the advantages which the poor woman
would derive from a cheap cotton gown. Now he
(Mr. C. Buller) never treated of millions ;
he left those to the First Lord of the
could
dressed calculate.
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Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer; but
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imagine
a poorce he
man,
toe in fustian -- that is to
say, with a fustian
e
coat, a fustian waistcoat, and fustian trousers—
Now let them consider this subject scient. r•ca y—let
them come to weights and measures. He had made
numerous inquiries, and had taken great pains to as-
certain, and he had come to tha conclusion that at
the outside the weight of this dress would be four
and a half pounds.—(Roars of laughter, occasioned
by the admirable mode in which the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman inmitated the manner in which
the Premier usually makes his statistical statements.)
He had been told that he must make an allowance
of an additional half pound for waste. That would
give five pounds as the quantity of raw cottom em-
ployed in the manufacture of the suit of fustian.
The duty on raw cotton was five-sixteenths of a
penny per pound ; therefore the poor man could
save, on the suit, twenty-five•sixteenths of a
penny, or one penny and nine - sixteenths.
He then took the case of a woman'e gown.—(Laugh •
ter.) In that he had also made inquiry.—(Much
laughter.) Ile made allowance for waste, and he
found that the reduction in a woman's cotton gown
would be about Ss, 4d. Supposing a woman, there-
fore, to have two gowns a ye, her husband would
save lid. a year. The two, the husband and
wife, would have to be grateful to the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer for a saving of
3d. a year. His (Mr. Buller's) own belief was
that they would never get their 3d., for he be-
lieved ;that the poor consumer would never have
a chance of getting jacket, waistcoat, and trowsers,
which cost altogether 13s. or 145., even though they
reduced the cost of the articles by lid. 11 hy, the
poor man, although he might save 3d. a year, vet he
would have to pay 3d. a month, in the shape of taxes,
to the West India proprietors. There could be no doubt
that reducing the duty on raw cotton would be useful
to the poor man, as the means of increasing his em-
ployment. In the reduction of the duty on glass, the
most important effects would be the sweeping awey
of the restrictive system in the excise laws. He was,
however, inclined to think that the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet would have done a great deal of service to
the labouring classes of the country by diminishing
the taxes which raised the cost of the necessaries of
life. And this could not be done without increasing
their employments. He did not believe that they
could serve the cotton trade more effectually by
sweeping away the tax upon raw cotton, than
they would by sweeping away of the taxes
on tea, as that would enable the merchant
to get a return from China. He could point
to one or two other duties, as most material for such
an experiment. He was sure that Hon. Gentlemen
would not agree with him in saying that the wine
duties and the spirit duties were proper subjects for
reduction ; but every body would agree with him
that it would be well if by reducing those duties they
could largely increase our trade with France, and es-
tablish commercial relations instead of those
of rivalry and hostilility.—(Cries of " Hear.")
He thought that by reducing those duties, they would
do double good to the poor man, by diminishing the
cost of living, and also increasing his employment by
forwarding trade with foreign markets.—(Hear, hear.)
The Right Hon. Baronet held out the expectation
that the reduction of duties was so great, that they
would make up the income-tax. Now that
was the oddest delusion that so sensible
a gentleman could well fall into.—(Laughter.)
But the very same thing was said when the Right
Hon. Baronet brought forward the Budget of 1842.
(Hear.) He (Mr. Buller) asked every person whom
he met what he thought about the reduction. He
said that the Right Hon. Baronet was the greatest
Minister they ever had (of course those to whom he
said this did not know who he was)—that he lowered
everything, but he could never get a single
person to agree with him. In what did any man gain
by the reduction, except, perhaps, in Westphalia
hams.—(Hear, hear, from a Member on the Ministe-
rial side of the House.) He was not surprised that the
Hon. Gentleman expressed his suffering at the dimi-
nished price.—(A laugh.) He fully understood his ex.

sion, and he must say that he went forward to his
object with an undsviating consistency, but as
for the rest of them they seemed to be
perfectly mastered by his energy. The general sup-
porters of the Right Hon. Baronet opposite seemed
more adverse to the tax than any others, and seemed
less inclined to vote for it on account of the fiscal
alterations proposed by the Right Honourable
Baronet.; and then with that noble independence
—that self-reliance and vigour of intellect—
which marked all their conduct—(A laugh) they
stated that on no account would they consent to make
the income-tax permanent; but then they all said they
believed it would be permanent, were it not for the
assurances of the Right Hon. Baronet. He never saw
so large a hope hung on so little an assurance—
(Laughter)—for the other night, when they pushed
the Right Hon. Gentleman, all he said was, that he did
not despair that at the end of three years it might be taken
off; and as they believed they had a firm confidence
in the Right Hon. Baronet, and had every reason to
rely upon his professions—(Laughter)—they were
prepared to come forward in the face of glaring facts
to vote an income-tax, not one of them having the
slightest hope that it would be got rid of in three
years. On his (Mr. Buller's) side of the
House they were a sharper set of men.—(Laughter.)
llon. Gentlemen opposite thought proper to laugh
at the observation ; but he could assure them that the
Hon. Members by wnom he was supported would
join in the assent to that assertion. He could also
say, with great truth, that they were shrew der men,
too—(Laughter)—and in their names he would
say to the Right Honourable Baronet at
the head of her Majesty's Government, that
there was not the slightest chance of having
the income-tax removed at the end of the next
three years.—(hear, hear.) He had heard it said
that this tax would not be submitted to by the country,
or would not be insisted on by the Minister for so long
a period unless it should be greatly modified ; but it
now appeared that it was to be continued without
any modification.—(Hear, hear.) What, then, was
he to think of those who upon ene occasion
voted for the tax, and at another time voted against it ?
Those lion. Members to whom he alluded had al-
ways been in favour of this tax being imposed, in what
they called a less and less oppressive form each year.
Now, he .(Mr. B.) had always expressed himself in
favour of a system of indirect taxation ; and he would
ask, would it not be worth while of the Ministry to
establish such a system ?—(Hear, hear.) Ile might,
perhaps, be told that the taxes amounted to "so and
so," but he would ask, had they not the poor-
rates, and the borough-rates, and city-rates
to meet, in addition to the assessed taxes ?
Fourteen or fifteen millions, out of fifty millions,
must necessarily be raised by indirect taxation.
Therefore, the main reliance of the Government of
this country must be an indirect taxation, and their
first object ought to be to ameliorate that indirect
system of taxation, and make it as perfect as pos-
sible.—(Hear, hear.) When he came to the
conclusion that the main reliance of the Go-
vernment must be upon indirect taxation, he thought
there was much wisdom in the old idea, that in
ordinary times it ought to be the sole reliance
of the Government. This fund, raised by direct
taxation, ought to .be kept for extraordinary emer-
gencies, and. not to be drawn on except in the
greatest of those exigencies, because, after all, a
property and income-tax must be unjust and
sexatious ; they ought not, therefore, to impose it
except in those. great emergencies, when the excited
feelings of the country would induce every man to
put up with any amount of inconvenience for the sake
of aiding in the national struggle. It was wise, too,
that the world should be made to understand that the
country had such a fund to resort to in the period of
such a struggle, for the knowledge that they had
such a treasure to fall back on would add far more
to prevent aggresion and unreasonable pretensions by
foreign countries than anything they could do for the
fortification of their coasts, or the increase of their
force in any way whatever. He would not trouble
the House with any further discussion on the com-
parative advantages of indirect over direct taxation,
because he was aware there were other exigencies
in which he should be willing to submit' to
an income-tax. For the sake of trying a
great fiscal experiment, he should be willing to
consent to an income-tax for three years, it
measures could be devised that would assure them of
getting rid of the tax at the end of that time. But if
those measures tended to diminish taxation, no
Minister was justified in trying the experiment,
unless he had a considerable surplus at his command
If the Right lion. Baronet would come forward and ask
them to submit to the income-tax for three years, for
the sake of establishing a better system of taxation, he
would cheerfully accede to it. The admirers of the
budget, particularly on this side of the House—for
this was the adulatory side of the House this
session—(Great laughter)—praised it as a measure
especially calculated to benefit the poor, and
as an advance towards free trade. Ile be-
lieved it was calculated to do a great deal
of good ; but the Right Honourable Baronet had
also thrown away a great opportunity of re-
forming one system of taxation, because he had
an unprecedented surplus at his command. The
Right Hon. Baronet had the largest surplus that ever
a Minister of this country had to deal with. lie did
not complain of the Right Hon. Baronet's having
misapplied or misused the surplus, but he had no'
made that practical use of it which the circumstances
warranted. It was only when there was a large surpw
that the great articles of taxation could be touched.
with half a million, they could only touch the minor
articles. It was only as now when they had three 01
four millions to spare that they could meddle with
the great articles of revenue, and favourably affect
the great mass of the people. He contended, that
Ministers with such a surplus, was bouni. to make
the best use of such ample means ; and he
was culpable, if he only made such changes as were
ineffective as regarded the great body of consumers—
in fact, if he made only such changes as could be
made at any time, he (Mr. Buller) again said that he
had a surplus which enabled him to make a reorma-
tion, if not a great reformation, of the whole fiscal
system, which enabled him to lighten the burdens
of the people, without lessening the revenue,
The Right Hon. Baronet had thrown away a golden
opportunity. It seemed to him that the great scandal
of taxation was the large amount of revenue raised
by undue taxation on the articles of consumption of
the great masses of the people. The taxation of
articles which, if they were not necessary to the poor
man, were at least the luxuries of the very poor
man. In this legislation he thought they were guilty
of the fault of great injustice, because of indiscrimi-
nate taxation. They taxed low-priced articles which
the poor man consumed, as high as high-priced arti-
cles which the rich man consumed, and therefore they
taxed the consumption of the poor man out of all
proportion with the articles used by the rich
They diminished the scanty comforts of the poor, and
taxed articles too high, for the purposes of revenue;
thus checking consumption, and opening a door fot
all kinds of fraud. With regard to the tax on sugar,
for instance, of which they had heard so much, and
the reduction of which was put forward as the
most popular thing in the budget, he must say a
few words. With respect to that question, lie meant
the questicn which had never got an answer.—Laugh-
,
' ter.) It appeared that the average price of British
manufactured sugar in bond was 345. the cwt. The
Right llon. Baronet would reduce the duty to 145.,
so that the tax and original price would raise the
article to 48s. It was elicited in the course of
the discussion that the price of Brazillirn sugar
was 215., and that by no restrictive duties
upon this article we more than doubled the amount
of the cost of the poor man's sugar. Take the
article of tea, for instance. The low priced
article cost 9d. the lb., whilst the poor man
was obliged to pay four times that amount.—(Hear.)
By these taxes they more than doubled the price of
the poor man's coffee, and they nearly doubled
to him the price of soap and malt. They
raised the price of tobacco nearly sixteen times,
and the same results answered with respect
to brandy and geneva. Surely it was to be
desired that sugar, coffee, malt, and soap, should be
more easily obtained by the poor man. The duty on
spirits and tobacco, he admitted might be attended
with some good, but it led to smuggling
and fraud, and to many of the crimes and
bloodshed, that took place in order to keep
up the custom duties. Ile believed that the picture
drawn by his Hon. Friend the Member for Montrose
with respect to the tobacco duties was one of the most
dreadful pictures that could be drawn. He thought the
great articles of taxation to which he had referred ought
to be the great object of every financier to remove,
partly to put an end to smuggling and fraud, and
partly to put in the poor man's reach those enjoy-
ments of which he was at present deprived.—(hear,
hear.) There was no writer who had written on the
subject, who had not adverted to those articles
as matters on which the duties ought to
be removed. He would venture, to say that if the
duty was removed from tobacco and spirits, not only
would better articles be obtained in this country, but
half a million would be saved in the expenses of the
coast guard ; but then it was said the articles he had
referred to were great articles of revenue, and that,
therefore, it was not safe for the public service to make
experiments in those large articles of taxation.
The facts admitted with regard to the tobacco and
spirit duties, that in order to try the experiment fairly,
they must take away three millions of duties, and
that a Minister would not be justified in making
such an experiment with large items of taxation
unless he had a very large surplus to fall back
upon. But the Right Honourable Baronet
had that surplus, he was the first Minister who ever
had such a surplus to deal with, and therefore the
first who ever had it in his power to give this boon
to the poor man, to deal effectively with
smuggling, and to put taxation on a right foot-

chunation.—(Laughfer.) He dared say the Honour-
able Member suffered much in that article.—(ln-
creased laughter.) But though that might not be
well for those who lived in the country, it was good
for those who lived in towns. He was about to go
through the article of sugar. He would take an in-
stance of a man-having 500/. a year. A person of that
income would have to pay 13/. 14s. 4d. income-tax.
That was positive, and there was no mistake about it;
and if the same person consumed 401. worth of sugar,
taking it that he would save a penny a pound (though
he did not believe he would), he would save twenty-
five shillings; so there was twenty-five shillings
as a set-off against 13/. 14s. 41—(Hear, hear.) But
then there were other articles on which he might
make up the tax. There was physic.—(A. laugh.)
He himself once thought lie would make it up in
physic —(Much laughter.) He supposed it was the
reduction on physic that made the Honourable
Gentleman below him (Mr. Wakley) so pleased
with the budget.—(Great laughter.) But even
in this article he believed the druggists
would save everything, and that the consumer
would gain nothing.—(Laughter.) 'There was
certainly a very good change with regard to furni-
ture, and if all the inhabitants of the country were
composed of new married couples of a 1,000/. a year,
they might make something in the articles
of furniture and glass. (Great laughter.)
But, after all, to think of giving up this tax put him
very much in mind of an incident in the opera of
Il Nozzi de Figaro, or " The Marriage of Figaro,"
as it was called, in which the principal character said
he was ready to consent, provided there was no law
against politics, no enactment against certain prin-
ciples, and no prohibition to the full en-
joyment of the inclinations of the law.—(A
laugh.) So it was with the Right Honourable
Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Govern.
ment.—(Laughter.) He said, " You shall have a
reduction of taxes so and so, provided you do
not ask me to take the duty off tobacco ;
to take the duty off coffee ; to take the duty off
sugar"--(Laughter)—in fact, the Right Honour-
able Baronet was quite willing to make any
concession that was asked of him, provided
that he not called upon to do that which
the people of this country were likely to be' most
benefited by.—(Hear, hear.) Oh 1 but then the
Right Hon. Baronet took the duty off pigs' bristles
—(A laugh)—and off lard—(A laugh)—and off all
those other twopenny-halfpenny articles—(A laugh)
—but he forgot that, in doing so, he still kept
on the most important restrictions on other articles ;
and he said very coolly to those opposed to him,
that they could not have their loaf and eat it—
(Laughter)—that they could not, in fact, deal in
butter, deal in cheese, deal in corn, and deal in any
other description of foreign prcvisions, without pay-
ing a certain proportion towards the two millions of
extra taxes.—(Great laughter.) But the Right
Hon. Baronet conceived that by removing the duty
upon glass, and the duty upon cotton, he would be
doing much to abolishing this cause of warfare
against the taxes, and he had hoped it would be re-
garded as a boon by the people of this country.
And what did they gain by bowing so implicitly to
the will of the Right Hon. Baronet? What did
they gain by it? Why, their great object was
placed further than ever from them, and, in fact, they
were playing into the hands of the monopolists.
While they talked of free-trade as their first great
object, and while they dealt out their "total and
immediate" anathemas against all those who differed
from them, they were actually playing the game
of the monopolists by voting for an income-tax which
bolstered up the differential duties. Let them look
at this one question —what was the chance of their
ever recovering this surplus? The Chancellor of the
Exchequer seemed to take this as a matter of course.
Now he had the pleasure of sitting in that House
with that Right Hon. Gentleman for fifteen years,
and slowly and with difficulty had the very elements
of these truths been forced on his mind. In every
Budget he had seen him introduce he had heard him
urge the-danl.,er of lowering taxation for the purpose
of increasing the revenue. But when the Right Hon.
ientleman did go into a good principle he must say
le went, with a plunge, head over heels—(Laughter)
—he was now not only lowering taxes to increase
be revenue, but altogether abolishing them.—
[LEFT SPEAKING.'

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, March 8.
ExerMus To WITNESSES.—In a case which occu-
pied some time respecting a fiat, a question arose whe-
ther witnesses summoned. to prove an act of bankruptcy
were entitled to their expenses. One was an attorney,
and the other an auctioneer, both residing in town, and
both claimed their expenses for two days' attendance,
Mr. Commissioner GOULBULIN was of opinion that the
witnesses must be paid, if their testimony was required.
The attorney to the fiat strenuously urged that they
were bound to attend, and to give evidence.
The matter was referred to the taxing-master, who
was of opinion that the parties were entitled to a guinea
a day. They again came into Court, and again the at-
torney resisted payment as they were town witnesses.
He produced u case decided before Lord Tenterden.
The attorney procured other witnesses who made out
an act of bankruptcy, and he did not require the assist-
ance of the two persons summoned. Ile had previously
declined to pay them; and stated his intention to appeal
to the Court of Review.
At the termination of the business, one of the parties,
an auctioneer, applied to the Court. He wished to know
whether he had no remedy against the person who had
summoned him. He had been obliged to postpone a sale
he had to- day, and had been put to great inconvenience.
, Commissioner GOULBURN was of opinion that, as the
parties ha 4 not been required to give evidence, they were
not entitled to payment. They resided in town, and he
was afraid that they had no remedy. If, however, they
had been required to give evidence, he should have or-
dered payment to have been made in the first instance,
but as their testimony had been dispensed with, he had
no power to grant the application.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
Wm. Webb eras indicted fur stealing 19s. from the
person of Henessy ; and the indictment further
charged that the said robbery was attended with vio-
lence.
It appeared that the prosecutor had bean spending the
evening with some friends, and was returning home at
a late hour, in that state in which parties often find them-
selves after spending a pleasant evening, when he was
induced to hire the prisoner's cab, in which, however, he
had proceeded but a very short distance before the priso-
ner drew up, and, taking advantage of his situation,
dragged him out of the vehicle, and picked his pocket
of the above sum. The prosecutor, however, was suffi-
ciently aware of what was going on to call for the assis-
tance of the police, by whom the prisoner was taken
into custody.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The ItEcoaDER said that it was necessary to make an
example of persons in whom, from the nature of their
occupation, the public were compelled to repose a cer-
tain degree of confidence, and where that confidence was
abused, particularly where, in addition to that, gross
violence was resorted to, a severe sentence must follow.
lie then sentenced the prisoner to be transported for
ten years.
John Dougl is Niven pleaded Guilty to an indictment
charging him with stealing in a dwellii g- house, and
was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
John Green pleaded Guilty to a similar indictment,
and received a similar sentence.

NEW COURT.
(Before the CommoN SERGEANT.)
IVm. Williams was acquitted on the charge of stealing
several pieces of copper from the factory of Messrs. Mad-
dox and Co., East Hackney.
Wm. Alezander was found Guilty of entering the pas-
sage:of a house in Middleton-square, and stealing there-
from two bats and two umbrellas, the property of Mr.
Sinclair.—Sentence, transportation for seven years.
Daniel Sinclair was charged with stealing one loaf,
value 3d., but the indictment failing he was discharged.
Robert Huggins Smith, an elderly seaman, was indicted
for obtaining, by false pretences, of John Allan, St.
Paul's churchyard, three sovereigns, with intent to cheat
him of the same. The prisoner represented himself to
Mr. John Allan as a particular friend of his brother's,
residing in Rotterdam, who, however, denied all know-
ledge of him.
Mr. BALLANTYNE took several objections to the in-
dictment, which were overruled by the Court, and the
jury finding the prisoner Guilty, he was sentenced to
nine months' imprisonment.
John and Margaret Murphy, aged 20 and 49, were
indicted, the former for stealing a hundred yards of
printed cotton, value 505., the property of Jonathan
Crocker, his master ; and Margaret (who is his mother)
with feloniously receiving the same, knowing it to be
stolen. It appeared that the male prisoner was formerly
in the employ of Messrs. Crocker and Co., of Friday-
street, Cheapside, as light porter ; and on the 27th of
December last the property mentioned above was missed,
and suspicion falling upon the prisoner, he was taken
into custody by Daniel Forester, on the 10th of January.
Two duplicates were found on his person, and it was
proved that the prisoners were.the parties who pledged
the articles.

The jury found the prisoners Guilty, and they were
sentenced to seven years' transportation.
Henry Whitten was convicted of stealing a shoe, and
sentenced to seven years' transportation. Before sentence
was passed the prisoner's mother, who happened to be in
court, hoped his lordship would be mercitul.—The Com-
mon Sergeant said the blame principally rested on her
for not bringing him up better.—On being removed from
the Court (as ordered by the Common Sergeant) she ex-
claimed, in a pitiful tone, " Oh, my poor dear boy—good
bye I" " Good bye, mother I" returned the prisoner in
a tone which set the Court in a roar of laughter.
Sheargold, aged 43, pleaded guilty to the
charge of embezzling and stealing the sum of 31. 15s. and
5/. 75., of William Taylor, his master.—Judgment ar-
rested until next session.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
WORSHIP-STREET.

Mary Pritchard, alias Flaxman, a decent-looking
woman, who is employed with several others at the Ex-
cise-office in book sewing, at 14s. per week wages, was
brought up for final examination upon a charge of having