The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-13 00:00:00

ROYAL ACADEMY BOAT-RACE.

A very beautiful four-oared race took place yesterday
evening amongst the gentlemen of this highly flourishing
aquatic Club. A very dull, heavy, and wet morning wasa•
succeeded by a beautiful afternoon, and the anticipation of
good sport drew a strong muster of river clubs, who accom•
parried the race. The distance was from Westminster to
Putney.
Red, 1.-1. W. Revell, 2. Hunbert, 3. Joy, Atkinson
(stroke), H. C. Smith (cockswain).
Green, 2.-1. G. Smith, 2. W. Howard, 3. Blunt, A. D.
Cooper (stroke), Henderson (cockswain).
Blue, 3.-1. C. D. Smith, 2. Mead, 3. J. A. Howard,
Emery (stroke), Stackpole (cockswain).
Yellow, 4.-1. Daarman, 2. Robins, 3. Gregory, H. M.
Cooper (stroke), Pybus (cockswain).
The whole of the boats went away together, shortly after
which yellow got a lead, which they, however, did not keep
long, being soon picked up by blue, which was in its turn
passed by red, which kept the lead. About the Red House,
green, which was the last to start, challenged yellow, and
after a spirited struggle, passed them, and came up to blue,
when a beautiful race ensued between the two boats, which
were oar and oar almost to Battersea-bridge, each crew ex-
hibiting the most determined game, as well as very pretty
rowing, when by dint of a very sharp spirt, green managed
to get through first, and increased the advantage all the way
up, coming in about three lengths astern of the winning boat,
which was very hard pulled, and could scarcely be kept in
advance of the second boat. Blue was 10 or 12 lengths astern
of green, and yellow about the same astern of blue. Mr. A.
D. Cooper had been very ill nearly all last week, and conse
quently was not in the best condition for such a powerful
struggle. The gentlemen afterwards sat down to a very fine
dinner at Aviss's, the Bells Tavern.

CORNWALL AND DEVON WREST-

LING MATCHES.

A society of the natives of the above counties has lately
been formed, told new rules and regulations issued, whereby
the players are to be divided into two classes ; eleven stone
and above to be called the "heavy weights" and under that
weight to be entitled to play as " light weights." The
society commenced their opening under the new rules yes-
terday afternoon, at the Brecknock Arms Tavern, Camden
Town, and the attendance was very numerous and respec-
table, as was also that of the players, the entry being nume-
rous in consequence of its being open to all England, and the
wrestling without shoes.
The play during the day was very good, and much science
displayed in this old English game. The principal bouts
came off as follow :
John Dyer, of Cornwall, and Bent, cf the same county, both
good men and heavy weights, played for some time, in which
many foils took place, Dyer displaying much science; and
after a severe struggle threw his opponent by the inside lock.
J. Walters, of Devon, and George Bond, of Norfolk,
light weights, contested for a short time, when Bond was
thrown, but no back. They again entered the ring, both
showing play, but Bond soon threw his man very scienti-
fically, by the heaving-toe, amidst loud cheers. William
Mildrum, of Cornwall, and Samuel Bond, of Norfolk, light
weights, were the next players, and both men displayed
much science, Bond falling; but after a severe long struggle,
Mildrum threw his man by the back heel.

One of the !‘ old school," J. Jury, of Devon, and Winsly,
a young man of Somerset, played for some time, and much
foul play took place, and the umpires ultimately turned both
men out of the ring.
Edward Ball, of Cornwall, and E. Pope, of Devon, two
heavy weights, fine young men and good wrestlers, were the
next competitors. Science was displayed on both sides, each
man falling, and after a good deal of toeing Ball caught his
man by the fore hip, and threw him a very fair back, amidst
loud cheers. This was the best play of the afternoon, both
men playing. with good feeling.

WHIT-MONDAY.

The weather commenced very unpropitiously for the
holiday folks yesterday, and threw a damper on the festivi-
ties of Whitsuntide. Great was the despondency of the
people until noon, when it began to clear up, and the after-
noon turning outfine, and the lads,and lasses in their sum-
mer gear began to make the best of their way to Greenwich,
Stepney, Wandsworth, and other fairs and places. It is
fortunate that there is more than one fair at Whitsuntide,
for the population of the capital is now become so great, and
so many thousands are determined on amusement and to
forget the cares of life at this season of the year, that Green-
wich would not be able to hold all the pleasure-seekers.
There were the usual bustle and confusion at the various
piers and landing-places, and the number of steamers in re-
quisition amounted to 115. Of these, 26 were employed
in conveying passengers to Greenwich, calling at
landthe
Tunnel-pier, and the Limehouse• hole pier, to
passengers for Stepney fair, and take up others for
Greenwich and Wandsworth. There were twenty
steamers plying between Gravesend and Lonheredon.
They were all well-freighted with excursion
G preenwicharties.
where
T
was a trementrons bustle at the pier at ,
steamer after steamer arrived in rapid succession, and fortu-
nate was it that the threatened removal of the Watermen's
floating pier, by the Lord Mayor's orders, had not been ear-
-1 ried into effect. The fair has been shorn of some of its prin-
cipal attractions, but Richardson's large theatrieal booth and
Alger's canvass temple, are still the leading curiosities of the
place. There was the usual entertainment at Richardson's
theatre, a melodrama, with a ghost and blue fire in the last
scene, a comic song, and a pantomime, performed with amaz-
ing speed in twenty-five minutes; clean sawdust in the nit,
and new deal boards for the boxes. Alger's sdancing-
booth advertieed the Polka, which the visitors danced
in the " ball-room " with great vigour. On each side
of the principal roadway was a long array of gilt gin-
gerbread and spice nut-stalls, from which numerous well-
dressed females importuned the visitors to taste and try,
and they seemed to drive a profitable trade
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expenditure in the town would not amount to less than 15,000/.
up to the close of the fair, independent of the sums paid to
the railway and steam-boat companies fur conveyance to and
from the place. The steam-boats were, as usual, overcrowded.
We did not hear of a single material accident, and the police
arrangements, under the control of the superintendent of the
It division, and XI". Fisher, the High Constable, gave much
satisfaction.
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/of the legitimate drama. At the former a " Romantic Melo-
drama," and at the other a " Fairy Tale of Enchantment,"
were dished up to admiring audiences every 20 minutes. The
appearance of Hylton's and Wombwell's menageries, with
their large and gaudy paintings of the various animals exhi •
bited within, reminded the spectators of Bartholomew Fair
in the olden time. Some minor exhibitions, including two
strapping boxers, who gave exhibitions'of the art of self-
defence, a miniature " Ducrow's Circus," Wilson's theatre,
learned pigs, conjurors, tumblers, and puppet-shows, occupy
the rest of the field. The field was lighted up by a brilliant
jet of gas at sun-set, In another field, behind the Prince of
Wales Tavern, the veteran Clarke, an old stager at Bartho-
lomew Fair, with his stud of horses and equestrian company,
has erected a large circus; and in another part of the field is
the Crown and Anchor booth. Its ball-room is upwards of
250 feet in length, and the whole affair was lighted up with
30,000 variegated lamps in the evening, when some hundreds
were dancing, who seemed to bid adieu to dull care for the
night. The police arrangements were excellent, and they
preserved a sufficient space between the rows of swings to
ensure the safety of the people. The stalls extended some
distance from the two fields. The public-houses were
crammed with merry customers.
There was not a single charge brought before Mr. Broderip
at the Thames Police-court, which adjoins the fair, during
the day.

AiieXtensive fair was held at Wandsworth yesterday,
where there is another monster booth, similar to the one at
Stepney, and Baker's very curious dramatic booth, where
the company got through a tragedy and pantomime in twenty
minutes, to the edification of the youngsters, and many chil-
dren of a larger growth.
The day was observed as a general holiday. The vans to
Hampton Court were very numerous, and perhaps this is the
most pleasant excursion out of London. The Cartoons afford
much gratification not only to connoisseurs in the fine arts,
but also to the illiterate, while the surrounding country is
teeming with beauties. There were numerous processions of
charity and Sunday schools, and several benefit societies
embarked in excursions both up and down the river. There
was an immense traffic on the river with the steamers, and
the railway excursion trains on the Dover and Brighton
Railways took upwards of 5,000 persons from the terminus at
London-bridge.

Mira FoR BABES I—The Rev. Hugh M‘Neile, of
" No Popery" notoriety, in a discourse the other day delivered in
Liverpool, said—' We must Protestantize the school. We must
have new catechisms and new primers. We must begin from the
beginning with little children ; and instead of telling them that A
stands for apple, we must have a newvocabulary. A must stand
or atonement, and A for antichrist. B for burn, B for Bible, and
B for bishops; and the children must be taught how the Ro_
monists burned our Bible bishops. C for council, C for creed, and
C for canon; and they must be tofd how the Romish creeds and
canons opposed the primitive truth. D for decretal, D for
dungeons, and D for death ; and they must be told how the
Romish decretals consigned men to dungeons and death. E for
emanipation that let in the flood; and F for fire, faggot and faith ;
and they must be told how the men of faith were consigned by
Romanism to fire and faggot." Such a catechism may make good
Churchmen—we must be permitted to doubt if it would make good
Christians.—Norfolk News.

WOOLWICH, MAY 12.—Lieut.-General Sir Howard
Douglas, G.C.8., and G.C.M.G., Colonel Jackson, 6th Dra-
goon Guards (Carbineers), and several distinguished officers,
visited Woolwich this day, and at 2 o'clock, P.M., reviewed
the Royal Horse Artillery, under the command of Colonel
Dyneley, C.B. The gallant Lieutenant-General when the
exercises were concluded, expressed to Colonel Dyneley the
satisfaction he experienced from the excellent manner in
which the evolutions were performed. Lieutenant-General
Sir Howard Douglas and the other gallant officers then pro-
ceeded to the Marshes with Major-General Sir H. D. Ross,
K.C.8., to witness the new experiments with three 56-
pounder guns on Lieutenant-Colonel Dundas's principle, and
three 56-pounder guns, on Mr. Monk's principle, at 1,100
Lards' range. Colonel Cockburn, Colonel Paterson, Colonel
acy, Lieutenant Colonel Dansey, C. 8., Lieutenant-Co-
lonel Dundas, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmer, Assist-
ant Director-General of Artillery ; Lieutenant Hard-
inge, K. 71., Royal Artillery; and Lieutenant-Colonel Bar -
ney, Royal Engineers; Major Sandilands, Major Strang•
ways, Major Armstrong, Major Macbean, and Brigade-Major
Cuppage, Captain Palliser, Captain Dupuis, Captain and
Adjutant Mitchell, Captain and Adjutant Nedham, Captain
and Adjutant Tireman, Captain and Adjutant Forbes, Cap-
tain and Adjutant Cockburn, and Captain Harrison, and a
number of officers of the Royal Artillery, had previously
assembled in the member to witness the experiments. The
firing to-day was excellent, the objects aimed at being six
targets 12 feet square, each placed in a line making a target
72 feet by 12, and a great number of the shots fired went
through it. The whole of the shots went so close that a
ship-of-war would have been struck in every instance. The
three first rounds from each of the six guns were fired at an
elevation of 1 deg. 50 sec., and the two last rounds at an
elevation of 1 deg. 45 sec. The following is the average re-
coil of the carriages on the traversing platforms during the
experiments to -day :—Lieutenant-Colonel Dundas's first
round 6 feet 7 inches, 'second round 6 feet 5 inches, third
round 6 feet 6 inches, fourth round 6 feet 6 inches, fifth
round 6 feet 7 inches. Mr. Monk's first round 7 feet 3
inches, second round 7 feet 3 inches, third round 7 feet 4
inches, fourth round 7 feet 6 inches, fifth round 7 feet 4
inches. The experiments concluded for the day at about five
o'clock P.m.

THE LATE EXECUTION AT BEECON.—From the in-
formation given by Thomas Thomas (lately executed at
Brecon for murder and robbery) to the Rev. Mr. Jones, the
chaplain of the gaol, that gentleman proceeded last week to
search for the pocket-book of the murdered man (David
Lewis) in a hedge near the convict's father's house. After a
long search, in which the Rev. Mr. Jones was assisted by
several persons, the pocket-book was found under an ash tree ;
there was no cash in it, but there were several memoranda of
importance respecting the deceased's business transactions.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OP A GENTLEMAN.—
The family of a gentleman, named Stoddart, of Lambeth-
road, Southwark, have been greatly distressed by the myste-
rious disappearance of Mr. William Stoddart, 30 years of age.
It appears that Mr. Stoddart's brother went, on the 7th inst.,
to the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railroad,
and proceeded by railway into Berkshire. When Mr. Wil-
liam Stoddart took leave of his brother he stated to him that
he should immediately return home, but he has not since
been heard of. Information has been sent to all the police
stations in the metropolis, giving a description of his person
and dress.

WHOLESALE DESERTION OF WIVES AND FAMI-
LIES.—The parish of Clerkenwell has lately suffered severely
from the wholesale desertion, by men belonging to that pa-
rish, of their wives and families, some of them leaving as
many as six children, thus casting a heavy and permanent
burden upon the rate-payers. Within the last few days
twelve men have thus absconded, and to such au extent has
the system been carried, that the parish has determined to
adopt vigorous measures to check the practice if possible, and
intend to offer handsome rewards for their apprehension.
AN AMERICAN PLEA FOR ACQUITTING A Must-
DEnEn.—At New Orleans, a young man, named Hatch,
stabbed a companion, so that he died. He was arraigned for
murder, but the jury acquitted him, on the plea that " the
deceased had threatened to slap his (the prisoner's) face."
BEACKHEATH STOCK FAIR.—The Spring fair took
place yesterday, with a good show of heavy cart and other
draught horses, with a sprinkling of saddle horses of a
middling character; a fair supply of mulch cows with calves
at their sides, and a large supply of store pigs. In the
morning there were but few buyers, owing to the great fall
of rain ; but towards the evening, the weather being fair,
a considerable demand was created. Cows and pigs fetched
better prices than at the last fair, as did all horses of a sound
and useful sort; many of an inferior character left the
ground unsold.

- MR. Calms Wusort.—The following description
of Mr. Wilson's place of imprisonment is given in the Jersey
which
convicted
felons
News :—" Mr. Wilson is confined in a cell in the House of
Correction,
cell
"Tehefifivrestotrwosixdayo-sthhee rs
wasin
fed upon prison fare, coarse black bread, gruel, and soup,
thickened with oatmeal ; and was not offered for breakfast
tea or coffee with bread and butter, for dinner, a pound and
a-half of meat cooked in any way he might direct, with
bread and vegetables at discretion, and for tea the same as
breakfast.' It was only after Mr. Wilson could not possibly
eat the prison fare, and that he had ascertained by the prison
regulations he could provision himself, that he did so. lie
cannot be spoken to by any one, not even by his wife,
except in the presence of the turnkey. Every letter that
is received by or sent from him is opened and its contents
read by the gaoler. A letter received on 'Wed-
nesday by Mr. Wilson from the Postmaster, sealed,
and superscribed 'On her Majesty's service. To C. C. Wil-
son, Esq., (marked) R. Fullerton,' was broken open and
read before it was delivered. The small yard in which Mr.
Wilson -is allowed to take exercise has an open privy in it,
and the effluvia from it a medical gentleman has declared to
be prejudicial to any person's health. Mr. Wilson was, be-
fore being remanded by the Court of Queen's Bench, con-
fined in the debtors' ward, where he had intercourse with
the others, but now he would be in solitary confinement, if
not visited by his friends. All this treatment, it must be re-
collected, is sanctioned by a prison board composed partly
of members of the Court which illegally condemned Mr.
Wilson—yea, even one of the members of that prison board
is the constable of St. Helier's (Peter Le Suer), the plaintiff
in the suit at issue I There can be no question, that this
treatment is altogether illegal. Mr. Wilson has not been
convicted of any crime ; his contempt of Court is, at most,
only a misdemeanour, and that of a very slight degree."
THE NEW LORD Or THE TREASURT.—We under-
stand that it is the intention of Mr. W. F. Mackenzie to
oppose Sir James Graham's plan for the endowment of three
Colleges in Ireland, his reason for so doing being his firm
conviction that six Colleges are absolutely necessary in the
present state of Ireland. He has not intimated his views on
this subject to the Right Hon. Baronet, but he has communi-
cated them in strict confidence to a friend, who, he has every
reason to believe, is in correspondence with Ministers, from
the circumstance that he sailed last Saturday on a voyage to
Norfolk Island, the expenses of the trip being furnished by
the Government.— Times.

OFFEIcCES IN THE PARRS.--The Commissioners
of Woods and Forests, to prevent, as far as possible the repe-
tition of offences in the parks, either by damaging the shrubs,
or otherwise, cause (as a warning to evil doers) a list to be
placed at each of the entrances to the inclosure in St. James's
and the other parks, containing the initials of the names,
together with the amount of fine or imprisonment, as well as
the nature of the offence of every person convicted of any
misconduct in the parks during the past month—the list
being altered and renewed on the first of every succeeding
month. This precaution, no doubt, deters many thoughtless
persons from acts of wanton mischief.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—The fifteenth meeting will
be held at Cambridge in the• week commencing Thursday,
usual 2
tth. in s
irorderjoh tno
Herschel],suit the " "commencement,"
tm.,ente m.
se n. ,
picrhesiisdeonnt the
for
19th June. The time was fixed thus much earlier than
I's" thew h
the present year.
SCARCITY OF SHEEP.—During the past few days
the provision market in this town has been very scantily
supplied with mutton. Two causes are assigned for this;
first, the farmers at this season always hold back their stoc
from the market in consequence of the great improvement
they make; and, secondly, the wholesale butchers here find
the demand so great in London as to send all they can to the
metropolis The scarcity thus produced is almost beyond all
precedent. At the Barton market en Monday there were
nearly as many buyers as sheep, and at the Beverley fair on
Wednesday the demand waswbolly inadequate to the supply.
As a natural consequence, the prices have much increased.
This scarcity has been felt in many other places; but in
Liverpool the supply, considering the time of the year, has,
we learn, been extraordinarily and unaccountably heavy
_
there being on Tuesday no less than 4,349 sheep for sale.--
Hull Packet.
• motion has
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high that
ter._, ' The duty on this produce_is_so
and
the
just taken pier.'. —.ld for the use of Syeiner
the last imported were...
Channel Islands. .
in the quantity
considerable
Increase
There was a const London in April as compared with
of coals 'imported into
year. Newcastle has sent 86,467
the same month last .
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54,70 ,• Stockton and Uartlop ,
tons ; Sunderland,
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WESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENTS
The Third Report of the Commissioners appointed by
warrant under your Majesty's sign manual, he
date
the 23.1 of November, 1842, " To inquire into atel con-
sider the most effectual means of improving the metro-
polis, and of providing increased facilities of communica-
tion with the same."
Your Majesty's Commissioners have had under their
consideration the means of improving a large and densely-
peopled district in the southern parts of Westminster,
the condition of which, from defective drainage, and from
other causes, has for a very considerable period been
alike offensive to public morals, and to the public health.
The expediency of improving the communications in
Southern Westminster, as a means of ameliorating the
social oondition of the district, has been at various pe-
riols under the consideration of Parliament. It formed
the subject of inquiry before a Select Committee of the
Ilettse of Commons in the session of 1832; it is adverted
to in reports of Select Committees on Metropolitan Im-
provements subsequently appointed; and it was u!ti-
mately recognised by the Le.gislatur e in connexion with
meesures affecting other p n-tions of the metropolis, by
the assignment of a sum of 39,0001., in aid of a saacious
and convenient communication between the neighbour-
hood of the Parliament Houses and that of Buckingham
Palace.
The appointment of the earliest of these Committees
was moved by elr. Rigby Was then representing the
town of Ipswieli in Pesliainent ; and feom the corres
poadence inserted in the appendix, it will appear that
proposals funded upon the recommendation contained
in its report have, at variants subsequent periods, formed
the subject of communications between Mr. Wason and
the Government.
Upon the appointment of these Commissions by your
bi ajestv, these proposals were renewed. In conjunction
with Mr. Thomas Ashton Yates, and Mr. Richard
Rushton Preston, Mr. Wason addressed to the First
Lord of your Majesty's Treasury a memorial reciting
the various proceedings to which he had been a party,
in connexion with the question of an improvement in
improvement in Westminster, and expressing a desire
that his offer should be referred to, and reconsiderei by
this Board.
In accordance with the prayer of this memorial, Mr.
Wason and his coadjutors attended and submitted to
this commission plans, partly original, and in part the
suggestion of others, for lines of communication between
the Broad Alinonry in Westminster and the immediate
neighbourhood of Buckingham Palace. Of these lines,
varying chiefly at their termini, and haring a common
(or very nearly common) centre in Strutton-ground, the
memorialists proposed to complete and open to the
public a portion, extending from Strutton-ground to
Pimlico, for a sum not exceeding 25,0001.
On investigation, these proposals were found to apply
to but a comparatively inexpensive division of the dis •
tance between Pimlico and Westminster Abbey, and as
they contemplated at the same time the absorption of
nearly two thirds of the sum set apart by Parliament in
aid of the entire cost of the improvement, your Majesty's
Commissioners declined to entertain them. Further
proposals were thereupon submitted for guaranteeing the
completion of the whole distance, at a cost to the public
not exceeding 50,0001.
Your Majesty's Commissioners have endeavoured, by
evidence and otherwise, to arrive at an opinion which
should guide:them in dealing with this offer, and they
feel bound to admit that, if the question submitted for
their consideration were one involving the expediency
of undertaking this improvement solely at the public
charge, its solution might be sought in vain in the con-
flicting and unsatisfactory testimony before them, both
as to the present value of property in Westminster, and
its probable increase hereafter, supposing the projected
line of street to be completed.
But looking to the assistance sought for by the me-
morialists in the light in which it has evidently been
viewed by the Legislature,—as in the first instance an
incitement to private enterprise, and ultimately as a
contribution only to the cost of a great public im-
provement, to be" paid for in great measure
out of private resources,—your Majesty's Com-
missioners are of opinion that the evidence, though
conflicting, and inconclusive for ulterior objects, is
sufficient for the immediate purposes of this inquiry, and
such as to justify them in recommending subject to the
hereinafter-mentioned conditions, an addition of the sum
f 11,0001. to the 39,0001. already granted by Parliament.
Your Majesty's Commissioners may observe that they
have had the less difficulty in arriving at this conclusion
from the fact that the sum at present available under
the authority of Parliament for the purposes of an im-
provement in Westminster, was set apart without
reference to considerations in any way connected with
its probable cost, but as the estimated residue of a fund
to be created, under the same authority, for effecting
improvements in other districts of the metropolis.
The lines of communication submitted by the me-
morialists, and referred to in a previous portion of this
report, have been slightly modified by this commission.
The immediate object of this modification has been to
avoid any interference with the workhouse of St. Mar-
garet's parish, and with the burial-ground attached to the
chapel in the same locality ; but its effect has also been to
divert the channel of communication between the Broad
Alinonry and Strutton-ground, in a direction further
south, into a more imperfectly drained, a more densely
peopled, and, consequently, a more objectionable por-
tion of district.

Your Mijesty's Commissioners are aware that, in
all great measures of local improvement, modifica-
tions like these are seldom to be effected but at the
expense of advantages of another character. But in de-
vising means to meet the complicate 3 exigencies of such
a population as that of Westminster, within the limits
defined by the Legislature, and restricted by the peculiar
circumstances of the district, the course of their pro-
ceeedings has admitted of but little room far considera-
tions eevoted exclusively to subjects of taste, or of
architectural development. -

Your Majesty's Commissioners, however, are of opi-
nion that a line of street has been devised which, both in
itself and as the parent of other improvements in the
communications of Southern Westminster, may promote
the health, the morals, and the social comforts of a large
body of its inhabitants ; and with the conviction that, as
far as the conditions imposed by Parliament and the cir-
cumstances of the district will permit, it will supply an
important defect in the existing thoroughfares of the
western portions of the metropolis, they have decided
upon recommending to your Majesty its adoption upon
the following basis, viz.:-
1. That the contracting parties shall obtain, in the
present session of Parliament, an Act empowering them
to make and complete a new and direct line of commu-
nication between Pimlico and Westminster Abbey, ac-
cording to the plan modified by this commission.
2. That the Act shall contain clauses requiring them to
give or provide security to the extent of 10,0001., for the
complete execution of the undertaking, according to
such plan, within the space of five years from the passing
of the Act ; such security to he approved by the Com-
missioners of your Majesty's Treasury, and to be given
to such persons as they shall nominate, who shall be
empowered to enforce the same.
3. That the Act shall empower the Commissioners of
';your Majesty's Woods, &c., to pay to the Commissioners
:for executing the projected improvement the 39,0001.
which, by an Act of the fourth of your Majesty's reign
they are ernpo',Tred, with the consent of the Trea-
sury, to advance in aid of a communication between
the neighbourhood of the Houses of Parliament and
Buckingham Palace ; and that it shall also empower the
payment to the said Commissioners, out of any moneys
which may b.', raised for metropolitanimprovements
hereafter, of the further sum of 11,0.10!.
4. And that neith2r the 30,000/. nor the 11,000/. shall
be paid to the Corn:nission,o3 for executing the Act until
after the projected improve:n:la shall hwe been ful!3-
c,,mpl 'tel to the satiifaution of the Treasury.
Y.),lr :vlajesty's Commissioners think it their duty
to certify, with exception, no other plans for the
improvement of Westminster have been sub.nittFil for
their consideration within the pzrioi comprised in this

rep, irt.
The Dean and Chlpter of Westminster were invited
to produce plan 4, and declined, on grounds which will
be found stated in the annexed correspondence.
The Society for pr emoting Metropolitan Improve-
rs etts submitted a plan (of which a copy is appended),
invulving a total re-arr ingement of the district. Your
Majesty's Commissioners have declined, therefore, to in-
clude the plan of the seciety in their inquiries.
Your Mejesty's commissioners, since their engagement
to recommend the plan which forms the immediate sub-
ject of this report, have very recently received intim-
tiou of th'e exiitence of other plans fur the improvement
of the same district, which, however, by the fact of such
engagement, they do not feel themselves at liberty to
call for with a view to their investigation.
For the immediate purpose, however, of any inquiries
connected with the amelioration of this portien.of the me-
tropolis, they have caused the whole district of southern
Westminster to be surveyed and levelled, and the
levels to be carefully laid down, on a plan which is
inserted in their app !ndix ; but while there is evidence,
they conceive, on the face of this document, of the eligi-
bility of the line of street which they have recommended,
it forms, they feel assured, the best foundation that at
present czu be devised for a course of future and more
enlarged. improvement.

All which i~ inJ3t humbly and dutifully submitted.
t.Signe..l) LINCOLN (L.S) It. LEMON (L.S.)
LYTTLETON (L.S.) ' 11. G. KNIGHT (L.S.)
COLTS .IRNE (LSO A. \IILNE (L s.)
J. C. HERRIES (L.S.) CHAS. GORE (L.S.)
J. HUMPHERY (L.S.) R. SMIRKF: (L.S.)
R. H. INGLIS (L.S.) CHAS. BARRY (L.S.)
1. Whitell%ll-pl ice, April 9, 1545.

GREENWICH.—Up to seven o'clock last night up-
wards of 20,000 persons proceaded by the trains from
the London-bridge station to Greenwich.
ME-rnopor.is INIPP.OVE:IIENfS.-00 Saturday last the Com-
missioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests received
tenders, at their ofilees, Whitehall, for letting, on building
leases, the ground on the east side of the new street between
long-acre and Broad.street, St. Giles's, and which is to ba
;ailed Endell-street. The fronts of the houses are to be
" architectural elevations," according to the terms of the
contract, and no objection will be made to buildings of the
style known as Elizabethan. The lessee is to forfeit all right
to the lease, unless the carcase of each house be completee
iey or before Christmas-day, 1845 ; and the houses are to be
zompletely finished and rendered fit for habitation by Mid-
summer-day, 1846, under penalty of forfeiture of the lease.
Ihe several pieces of ground are to be let on lease for a terns
of eighty years, from Midsummer- day, 1843, at a rent of
one peppercorn for the first year, and at such rent, for the
remainder of the term, as shall be agreed upon. The lessee is
to reimburse the Commissioners for building the vault and
paving the street at the rate of 700/. for 114 feet six inches
or 331. a year ; and the ground excavated for the founda-
tions, if required by the Oommissioners, is to be deposited to
fill up the low ground around the illillbank Prison. The
street, in 'which the water and gas-pipes are laid down, will
vary in width from fifty to sixty feet.
The Marquis of Londonderry, during the last
month, has given 20 keels of.coals to the poor of Sunderland,
which have been distributed under the direction of the Com •
mittee of the Indigent Sick Society.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Mau 12.
(Before the Lord Chief BARON and a Special jury.)
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. WALTER HENRY AUSTIN.
➢ir. JARVIS said he was anxious to have the damages in
this case assessed now. He would be willing to fix the
amount at 2001. _

Mr. Humritmas said he had no objection to consent to a
verdict for the Crown for that amount.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

Henry Hays, a person of respectable appearance, sur-
rendered to answer an indictment for misdemeanour in
having unlawfully contravened the statute referring to
the registration of births, &c.
Mr. BODKIN, who appeared for the prosecution, briefly
stated the circumstances under which the charge was
made against the defendant, and said that the offence
imputed to him was having wilfully given a wrong de-
scription of the infant to the registrar, but under the pe-
culiar circumstances of the case he did not intend, if
such a course met with the sanction of the Court, to offer
any evidence in support of the indictment. The defen•
dant had been on intimate terms with a young female,
and the result of that intercourse was the birth of the
child in question, and it was in reference to the descrip-
tion given of that child by the defendant to the registrar
that the present indictment was framed. The defendant
had since made all the reparation in his power to the
young woman, and as there was an entire absence of
anything like fraud or fraudulent intention on the part
of the amused, it was considered better, in order to
spare the feelings of all the parties, that the circum-
stances should not be gone into publicly, and that no
evidence should be offered in support of the charge.
Mr. BALLANTINE, who was instructed fur the defen-
dant, said he should be perfectly satisfied with the adop-
tion of this course, but he at the same time remarked,
that in his opinion it was very doubtful whether the
charge could have been legally made out, and whether
the defendant had in pint of fact committed any offence.
He was charged with having given false information re-
specting the child to the registrar, but in reality he be-
lieved it would appear that he had given the true Chris-
tian and surname of the mother, and had not given any
false statement whatever, although the real connexion
between the parties might have been concealed.
After some further conversation the Recorder Con-
sented to the course proposed by Mr. Bodkin, and a ver-
dict of Not Guilty being returned, the defendant was
discharged.
Pierce Wall O'Brien, Thomas Maunde, and Thomas
Rawlings surrendered to answer to an indictment for
misdemeanour in having unlawfully entered into the pos-
session of a house in Fetter-lane, the property of Thomas
William Reeve. _ _

Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Allen appeared for
the defendants.

After a long and uninteresting legal argument, the
Court ruled that the precise charge contained in the in-
dictment ceuld not be sustained, and the defendants were
therefore acquitted without any evidence being gone into.
William Joseph May, 37, clerk, pleaded guilty to two
indictments charging him with stealing two cheques, one
for 8L 175., and the other for 51. 3s. 4d., the property of
his master, William Temple.
The prosecutor, in answer to questions from the
Court, said that the prisoner had behaved honestly
while in his service, with the two exceptions referred to
in the indictment. He had frequently sent hies with
considerable sums of money to his bankers, and he had
always found him convey them safe. He begged to re-
commend him to the mercy of the Court.
The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to be kept to
hard labour for six calendar months.

John Jackson, 31, pleaded guilty to a charge of steal-
ing_an apron from the person of William F. Inglis.
The offence was committed at the execution of
Hocker, on the 28th April.
The prisoner was proved to have been before con-
victed of felony.
The Recorder asked the prisoner whether he wished
to say anything. It was proved that he had been be-
fore convicted of felony, and the second offence was
committed at an execution.
He made no reply, and the Court sentenced him to
hard labour for one year.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

A young man, named Robson Botterall, was brought
before the Lord for final examination, upon the
charge of having robbed his employers, Messrs. Boyd
and Co., of Friday-street, warehousemen. Mr. Hum-
phreys attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Pelham
for the defence. The brother of the principal witness
for the prosecution, it appeared, was the discoverer of a
system of plunder carried on by another servant of the
prosecutors, against the house of Cooke and Co., of St.
Paul's Churchyard, as well as against the prosecutors
themselves, and the individual so charged had been
committed trial, at the present sessions, by the Lord
Mayor.
Mr. Walker, of the firm of Boyd and Co., stated that
when the prisoner was taken he made a confession, upon
being told that he should be confronted with the pawn-
broker to whom he had parted with the goods ; at the
same time, no promise whatever had been made to him.
The prisoner said he had taken altogether seventeen
pieces of lawn, and two dozen of handkerchiefs, to New-
man, the pawnbroker, in Drury-lane ; and that he had
also taken to the same place twenty-six or thirty yards
of vesting satin, and a quantity of satin scarfs, but he
had had the vesting satin and satin scarfs from a friend
in Lancashire, who had sent them to him in payment of
a debt of honour.

The LORD MAYOR—Did he give you the name of
that friend ? The witness replied that the pri-
soner refused to disclose the name because, as
he stated, the friend was a junior partner in a
a house in Manchester, and the disclosure would ruin
him. Witness sent for an officer (Inspector Waller),
and the prisoner told witness to take the keys from his
coat pocket in the linen warehouse. The prisoner said
to witness, as the latter was going to look for the
keys, " I may as well tell you you will see there a dozen
handkerchiefs in my pocket, which I have taken."
Witness declined to go to search the coat-pocket with-
out being accompanied by the officer. Inspector
Waller accompanied him and found the handkerchiefs,
but not the keys.
Inspector Waller corroborated the statement of Mr.
Walker.

Mr. Avant. who is in the house of Mrs. Newman o
Drury-lane, stated that the prisoner had sold goods to
the house on the 31st of March and on subsequent days.
The Loup MAYOR—On what day did the prisoner go
into the service of the house of the prosecutor Mr.
Walker—On the 31st of March.

Mr. Avant said, that on that very day the prisoner
called at the house and sold two pieces of lawn.
The LORD MAYOR—What, on the first day of his
employment ? Mr. Walker—On that day he began.
The witness stated that on the 2d of August the pri-
soner brought in 12 pieces of lawn, and sold them to the
firm for 31. 15s. (five of the pieces were here produced
and identified as part of the stolen property). Seven of
the pieces had been since sold by the house. On the
sth of Nay the prisoner brought in 12 handkerchiefs,
and on the 6th witness, upon going into Messrs. Boyd
and Co.'s warehouses to mike a purchase, saw the
prisoner there, and was served by him. Witness said to
him, " llallo, are you here ? Why, you told me last
night you were not in a situation. The prisoner re-
plied, " it's all right." Witness said, " where had those
lawns come from ?" The prisoner said nothing, and
witness remarked that he had purchased up stairs some
of the patterns which he had purchased of the prisoner
last March. The prisoner said, `• I assure you it is
quite right. They never came from here." Witness,
after some further comment, asked the prisoner wheeter
he did not know that his (witness's) brother had de-
tected a party who had been plundering them some time
before ? to which the prisoner replied in the affirmative.
Witness completed the purchase he was making with the
prisoner, and made a communication to the house upon
the subject.
The Loan MAYOR—Does the prisoner wish to say
anything on the subject of the charge? Mr. Pelham—
Nothing.
The Loon MAYOR—I commit him for trial.

Mr. Walker expr,ssed an earnest wish that as a gen-
tleman of t`le name of Joseph Battrell, who had been in
the house of Messrs. B )yd and Co. for several years,
and was a person in whose integrity the greatest reli-
ance was placed, mi4ht be prejudiced by the report that
a man of his name was charged, the press would make
the distinction in-tho account of the transaction.
The witnesses were „then bound over to appear to
give evidence at the sessions of the Central Criminal
Court.

A young woman of engaging appearance was put to
the bar. _

A policeman stated that a Captain P--, who had
folio sed the prisoner from Norwich, and charged her in
the City with being in possession of a trunk containing
his property, hal thought proper not to appear to sup-
port the charge.
It appeared from the reluctant statement made by the
young woman that Captain P— had been paying marked
attention to her in Norwich, and had promised to marry
her, but that findin,g his intentions were not honoura'3le,
she had sad !only left the town and c -me to London, to
avoid importunities which were insulting and degrading
to her; that the Captain followed her t) town, and, per-
ceiving that she was determined to shun him, charged
her with:having robbed him of his trunk, just as she was
getting into an omnibus.
The Captain sent a eertificate to the Mansion House,
atating that he had no intention to appear against the
young woman, and the Lord Mayor discharged her.