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LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1828.

SUMMER ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILFORD, AUGUST 2.
oLnvir.t.n mu.r.Ea.
l‘r epened the pleadings. The declaration
chargedi LtAvhlat the defendant had maliciously arrested
the plaintiff for a sum of 1,000/. and afterwards sued
out a commission of bankruptcy against him, whereas
no such sum, or any part thereof, was due from the
plaintiff to Ole defendant. For the injury thus sus-
tained the present action was brought.
Mr. GURNEY said, that the plaintiff asked com-
pensation of them for a series of injuries committed
upon him under circumstances of great aggravation.
He regretted that he could not introduce either par-
ties as persons whose previous lives had been free
from blame. The plaintiff was convicted in the
year 1824, and sentenced by the Court of King's
Bench to a long imprisonment, and to the payment
of a heavy fine. It was during this period that the
transactions occurred out of which this action arose,
and the Jury would have but little reason for doubt-
ing that the defendant had taken advantage of the
plaintiff, conceiving it unlikely that a person so in-
volved should ever call him to account. He had re-
presented to the plaintiff that he could get his
tine remitted, through application to a certain
Noble Lord, but that the application would require
to be backed by a sum of 1,000/. Upon this re-
presentation, the plaintiff gave him an I. 0. U. for
1,000/., with an understanding that whenever the ne-
gociation was ripe for a conclusion, the I. 0. U.
was to be returned, and the 1,000/. paid over through
Miller to the Noble Lord. The money was after-
wards paid by the plaintiff to Miller, but the I. 0. U.
was not returned, neither was the object effected for
which the money had been paid, for the plaintiff still
continued in custody on the suit of the crown.
Finding that he had been imposed upon, the plaintiff
preferred an indictment against Miller for obtaining
from him 1,0001. by false pretences, and immediately
upon this Millar lodged a detainer against him, and
sued out a commission of bankruptcy, which he ob-
tained by swearing that the I. 0. U. for 1,000/. had
been paid to him by Oldfieldfor a valuable consider-
ation. At that time the plaintiff was carrying on an
extensive business as a wine-merchant, but under the
commission his stock was swept away, his connec-
tion destroyed, and his family deprived of that source
of maintenance. The plaintiff petitioned the Vice-
Chancellor to have the bankruptcy superseded, and
after affidavits had been put in on both sides, the
Vice-Chancellor directed an issue to be tried to de-
termine whether Oldfield was indebted to Miller in.
the sum of 1,000/. or not. The cause was heard at
the last Assizes, at Kingston, when the Jury found
that Oldfield did not owe Miller 1,000/. or any part
of that sum. The consequence was that the com-
mission of bankruptcy was superseded. But in the
meantime Oldfield had sustained serious injuries
from the conduct of Miller, and it was to recover
compensation for these that the present action was
brought.
Mr. Hill produced a copy of the affidavit of
Miller, swearing a debt of 1,000/., and upon which
the Commission of Bankruptcy had issued.
Mr. Parish, of the King's Bench 'Prison, proved
that the plaintiff was detained at the suit of Miller
three months. He was then within the walls.

Cross-examined by Mr. AboLPilus.—He was not

taken within the wails because of the detainer, lodg-
ed by Miller, but because he had broken the rules.
There was a detainer previously lodged against him
by a Mr. Abbotburn.
Mr. Thomas Mason, auctioneer, proved that the
auetioio value of the wines, taken under the Com-
mission, was 2,698?. _ _

Mr. Porter, clerk to Oldfield, proved that he ma-
naged the wine business for him. The, profits were
about 8001. a•year. The profit on spirits was 20 per
cent., and on wines from 10 to 15.
Cross-examined.—From the 53 00 / profits were to
be deducted his salary, the rent of the warehouse,
and other incidental expences. Oldfield had been
exchequered in the sum of 500/. for a false permit
which had been drawn. He had made no deduction
for that in estimating the profits.
Mr. Wm. Berwood, messenger to the Commis-
sioners of Bankrupts, proved taking possession of
Oldfield's goods under the commission.
Nlr. Spur, attorney to the commission, proved
that the difference between the taxed costs recover-
ed by Oldfield after the superseding of the com-
mission, and the costs actually incurred, was
225/. 16s. ld.
Mr. ADoLPiltis, for the defence, :contended that
the damages ought to be very moderate, as it was
clear that, with regard to the imprisonment, Old-
field had sustained no injury from the detainer
lodged against him by Miller, he being, previous to
and during that time, in custody at the suit of ano-
ther person.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 225/. 16s. Id.

SHREWSBURY, Attu. I.

search had already bees made for the body of James
Harrison, by digging over a field in which it was
said to have been buried, but that search proved in-
effectual. On Pugh being apprehended, he almost
immediately offeredlto confess, and, in consequence
of information given by Pugh, the body of Harrison
was found in a field called Hocknell's Field, and the
other prisoners were immediately taken into cus-
tody. Harrison, at the time of his disappearance,
lodged at the house of Pugh's father; the last time
be was seen was with the prisoner Pugh, whom he
went out with for the purpose of stealing some ba-
con; and the Jury would hear that a crime, hereto-
fore unknown in England, had been committed, a
suns having been paid for the murder of Harrison, iii
order to prevent his appearing as a witness against
Thomas Ellson.
Henry Holt lives at Drayton-in-Hales, and knows
T. Ellson. In consequence of some information he
received from Ellson, he caused a field in that
neighbotrhood to be dug up on Thursday the 26th
of June last. It was dug 12 yards by 10, and two
yards deep ; there was nothing found then ; but on
the following Sunday the prisoner, Joseph Pugh,
pointed out a particular spot, in Mr. Hocknell's field,
which the witness immediately caused to be dug
up, and at the depth of four feet from the surface a
dead body of a man, with the clothes on, was found.
Witness had it carefully dug round, and then re-
, moved to Drayton poor-house.
John Harrison was the father of James Harrison.
In June this year the witness Holt showed witness
a body at the poor-house. The hair was left, and
he could swear to the hair. It was the body of his
son James Harrison. .

Sarah Harrison, wife of the last witness, corro-
borated this testimony.
Ann Pugh knew James Harrison, the deceased,
very well. In the early part of last year he lodged
in her house. The last time she saw James Har-
rison was on Monday night, the 4th July, 1827.
On that night she went to bed about 11 o'clock.
When she went to bed James Harrison was by .the
fire-side; Joseph Pugh, the prisoner, was with him.
After she had been in bed two hours her husband
wakened her, and she heard a whistle, and got up
to the window to see who it was. When she got
to the window she saw the prisoner young John
Cox; he was skulched under the hedge, so that the
witness should not see him. Some time after she
heard some one in the house move with their feet. '
Witness went down stairs the next morning, about
a quarter before five o'clock, and found Joseph Pugh,
the prisoner, on the chair. She wakened him, and
asked him how long Harrison had been gone; he
said be had not heard him go. The last time witness
saw J. Harrison, he had a blue coat, a striped waist-
coat, and blue trousers on. She saw the body at
the poor-house, and thought the clothes on it were
the same. She never saw Harrison after she heard
the whistle.
Thomas Ellsoa—l come now from Shrewsbury
gaol. Last year I was in Stafford gaol. I was taken
there the• day before Good Friday, on a charge of
stealing some potatoes. From Stafford gaol I was
taken to Shrewsbury gaol on suspicion of sheep-
stealing. I remained three months in gaol till the
Assizes were over. I married the daughter of the
prisoner, old'John Cox. The two young Coxes now
at the bar are his sons, and my brothers-in-law. The
prisoner Ann Harris is ray mother. After my libera-
tion from Shrewsbury gaol, I went to old Coxes, at
Drayton, and there saw the two young Cox's. Old
Cox and his two sons went with me to the Star
public-house, where we had some beer together ; '
Robert Cox said to me in the presence of his father
and brother, " If it had not been for me and Joe
Pugh, you would not have been here now." My
mother, Ann Harris then came in, and I went home
with her. While I was at my supper in her house
that night, Robert Cox came in, and said to my
mother, Ann Harris, " your old eyes, if you
don't give me some more money, I'll fetch him and
rear him up against thy door." The next morning
at breakfast-time, Robert Cox came again, and my
mother gave him 25., and desired him " never to
come bothering her any more." Some time after
this I saw Joseph Pugh and young John Cox at my
house. Pugh said he was the man that 'ticed Har-
rison out of his (Pugh's) father's house, under pre-
tence of going to steal some bacon; he then took
him down to the town-field by the penfold, and
when they got by Dale's barn, told him they were
too soon to steal the bacon, and he must go and lay
down by Cartwright's stack. John Cox and Robert
Cox were waiting at the stack at this time. Pugh
said he then caught Harrison by the wind-pipe, and
Robert Cox took him by the legs, and John Cox
was digging the grave the while. The last words
Harrison said when he was dying were—" Oh, Lord,
spare my life, and I'll not hurt Shooter" (rneaniug
the witness, that being the nick-name he was known
by). Pugh said they killed Harrison in the mowing
piece,
and then took him into the next field (a
ploughed piece) to bury him in. Old Cox after this
told me that if it had not been for him and my
mother, I should not have, been there. I remember
being confined in the lock-up-house at Drayton about
some fowls. While I was there, old John Cox came
to me about twelve o'clock at night, and said to me
if I would say nothing about the murder, he would
employ a lawyer and counsel for ate at the Ses-
sions. I saw old John Cox give Robert and John
Cox (id. a-piece. I had some conversation with my
mother, Ann Harris, on this subject, and she told
me she had given 505., and old John Cox had given
505., to have James Harrison murdered.
Henry Holt :—Joseph Pugh was in my custody
on the 30th of June last. I had some conversation
with him on this affair ; 1 had offered him ne in-
ducement to say any thing on the subject. I went
to him with the Rev. Mr. Edwards. When' we
went into the room, he said to me that he took
Harrison down the Wiper-lane, and there he met
John Cox the younger and Robert Cox. He then
knelt down upon Harrison, and young John Cox put
a twisted string round Harrison's neck, and pulled it
till he was dead. Robert Cox, he said, stood by,
but did not assist, and he and John Cox buried him.
Edward Simminster, constable of Drayton, sat
Hp with .Tohn Cox the night he was brought from
Newcastle, and remembered on the following morn-
ing Mr. Edwards coming to him. On Mr. Edwards
going away, Cox asked me for my knife to cut his
nails with; after that he told me he did not want to
cut his nails, but to cut his throat with it. He said
his brother Bob was not guilty of the murder, and
then proceeded to give a detail of the murder, simi-
lar to that given by the last witness, adding that he
had the cord, and the two ends being knotted fast
together, he put *it over Harrison's head, and had a
hooked stick in his hand, with which they twisted
the end till he was dead.
The confession of Ann Harris was now read. It
stated, that wizen her son, Thomas Ellson, was taken
to Stafford gaol, she went to old Cox, and told him
they were both done, without Harrison would go off
with her Jack, and he had said he would take him
and throw him into a coal-pit. Old Cox said,
" him, if Trunkec Pugh had his freedom, he
would cut his throat in a waggon; but Harrison
said he would not go off with Jack without Joe
Pngh went off with him, and Joe said he would not
go away, as he had done nothing amiss." Bob Cox
asked it she would give hint a to get him out of the
way, and in a few days after Bob came to her and
said,"-- your eyes, you old --; give me the
money." She afterwards met him at his father's,
and gave him three half-crowns, and sent her father
some meat. Cox said be did not care about her

PRICE 7D.

boy being hanged, but it was a hard thing that her
boy should suffer. The Wednesday after her son
came out of gaol, she said to the Coxes, pray God
Harrison may come back alive, and Robert Cox said
he had taken him to Gloucester and listed him.
Old Cox told her she should get some poison to
poison Harrison.
Elizabeth Ellson, daughter of the prisoner old
Cox, and sister to the prisoners John and Robert
Cox, was wife of Thomas Ellson. Remembered
being in her father's (old Cox's) house after Har-
rison was missing, and Joseph Pugh was present,
and Ann Harris said she placed a shovel for several
nights out at her door. It was fetched, and brought
back again, all over blood and hair ; and the night
before James Morrison was found, she wanted to go
and fetch his bones, and throw them in the well, be-
cause if they did not find him they could not -do any
thing:
. _ _

Alice Lewis, sister of the prisoner, Ann Harris's
husband, saw Ann Harris before Ellson came out of
prison, in July, 1827. She asked me if my husband:
was going to Newcastle that day. • / -said f" Yes."
She said, " Will you do one thing for mer I said
" Yes, I will if I can." She then told me to ask my
husband to bring her sixpenny worth of poison from
Newcastle. I said, " What do you want such a
thing as that for, Nanny ?" She said she wanted it
for that rogue Harrison, who, she believed, was as
big a rogue as any one of the lot. I said, " Nanny,
I would not do it if you'd give me my apron full of
guineas, and I beg you'll never attempt to do any
such a thing." She said, " I never will."
The case for the prosecution being closed, the
prisoners were called on for their defence, after which
The Jury returned a verdict findin.g•Joseph Pugh,
John Cox the younger, and Robert Cox, " Guilty."
The foreman said that they had not decided respect-
ing the elder Cox and Ann Harris; but after a few
minutes further consideration, found both John Cox
the elder and Ann Harris " Guilty."
Mr. Justice GASELEE having expressed a wish
that the jury would again re-consider the case of
John Cox the elder, and read over the evidence
affecting him,
John Cox, the elder, now called out, " My Lord
Joodge, my Lord Joodge, I'll speak, I'll speak now
I wool; that there lawyer chap (pointing to his at-
torney) and: that counsellor there, they a' kept my
witnesses out a court, and would not call them.
They would not ; and I have them to call."
Mr. J. JEavis—My Lord, I have exercised my
discretion in not calling witnesses for the prisoner.
I have only one on my brief, and if I have done
wrong, I must take the responsibility on myself.
Old Cox.—My Lord Joodge, let me call my wit-
nesses.

Mr. Justice GASELEE having consented, and di-
rected the attention of the Jury to their evidence,
Mr. J. JERvIs called Mr. Reeves for the prisoner.
After a considerable delay the witness made his
appearance. He said Ge was a sawyer : all he knew
about the business was, that something had passed
between Pugh and old Cox, and he had agreed with
old Cox to become answerable, jointly with him, for
the price of a pair of shoes.
The Jury having again consulted for a few minutes,
found John Cox and Ann Harris." Guilty."

Mr. Justice GASELEE then passed sentence of
death on all the prisoners, and ordered Joseph Pugh,
John Cox, the younger, and Robert Cox, to be exe-
cuted on Monday next, and their bodies to be dis-
sected.

The prisoner Pugh has a gipsy cast of feature,
with a look of savage fierceness -when his attention
is excited, and is a powerful young man. The two
younger Coxes are ill-looking, but their father is ex-
tremely forbidding both in his countenance and de•
meanour. his squalid face exhibits deep traces of
revenge, malice, and low cunning. Ann Harris is a
remarkably keen-looking woman, with a most ma-
lignant pair of sparkling black eyes. It was alto-
gether a most revolting case. Pugh, the father, was
called to convict his son, Ellson to convict his own
mother and father-in-law and brothers-in-law. His
wife corroborated his evidence against her own fa-
ther and brothers ; and the evidence of Mary Bate-
man, the daughter of Ann Harris, tended to con-
firm the testimony which fixed the guilt on her mo-
ther. Such was the intense interest excited by this
trial, that, although it rained heavily, the Court was
completely filled before seven o'clock in the morning.
The trial commenced at eight, and lasted till half-
past eight in the evening.
Michael Hickman, a ragman, aged 35, was in-
, dieted upon a charge of having committed a rape
upon the body of Hannah Morgan, spinster, in the
parish of Ellesmere, in this county, on the 17th day
of June.

Hannah Morgan, examined by Mr. Whateley.—
My father works and lives at Duddleston, in a little
bit of a house; my mother lives there also; that is
Michael Hickman at the bar; I recollect his coming
to my father's house on a Tuesday, but I do not
know die month, or how long it is since; when he
came to the house I was below stairs, and there was
no one at home, except a little child about two
years of age; when the prisoner came in, he asked
if I wanted to buy any thing; I said, no, and then
he offered me twopence and some garters, to play
tricks with me ; he said, you had better take them,
and I gave him a slap in the face; I do net re•
member the words he used when he asked me to
play tricks ; he then caught hold of me and threw
me down; the first time 1 got away from hitn, but
the second time he mastered me ; that was in the
house (the kitchen); when I got away the first
time he went to the door and looked about him; Ga
his coining back he caught hold of me again, and
threw me down; I tried all I could to get away,
and fought him as Well as 1 could; he succeeded,
however, in ill-using me, and I told him to get
along, as he would catch it ; he staid as long as he
liked, and then he went away.
Cross-examined by Mr. C, was
not examined by a doctor, but I was very bad for a
long time. M'bet; ha went out the first time, I did
not take die opportunity to run away, because 1
thought lie was gone ; I did not bolt the aim., be-
cause I could not find the key of it; I looked for the
key on a shelf, because I was afraid of his coming
again; I did not run away, because I was afraid of
some other persons coming to the house.
The prisoner being called upon for his defence,
declared he had no more to say than that be was
quite innocent.
The Jury, after a brief consultation, returned a
verdict of—Not Guilty.
The Learned Junin: immediately ordered the Pri-
soner to be kept in custody, and directed a bill for
the assault to be sent:up to the Grand Jury."—.The
'
Grand Jury immediately returned the bill, and there
is no doubt, from the observations which fell fitoio
the Jury, that he will be convicted when brough to
trial. The object xceedinglv
ge as
Main-lookinoyfothiniand,sgammo.orzism,ata was properly observed, of 4tapip,karies an exceedingly
aboutlB
years of a ,
very weak intellect.

CAMBRIDGE' WiT 1,
,yGnArE V. FILTER, ESQ.
Mr. GUNNISG opened the pleating, stating that
this was; an action of trover to recover the value of
some' household furniture, and the defendant had
suffered judgment by default.
After Mr. ROBINSON had sufficiently explained
the nature of the case, and called Witnesses in sup-
port of it, the Jury found for the plaintiff for " the

BURY ST. EDMUND'S, Auo. 2.
CORDER'S CAGE.

At five o'clock this
.day,• Chief Baron ALEXAN-
DER and Mr. Justice HOLROYDr escorted by Hart.
Logan, Esq., the High Sherif for this county, ask'
otd,
T.. Holmes, Esq., his Under-Sheriff, entered Bury.
nroughout the day carriages of noblemen and
gentlemen }rave been rolling in in rapid succession,
and the oldest inhabitants of Bury observe, that they
have never known it so crowded.
• Corder, whose trial is the principal object of at-
tention,unt;l he was locking up last night, when he became
ratherery possessed
nervously
agitated: all
e his apparenti
le ltalself-possession
yesterday a t
ree
hours' interview with his solicitor (Mr. Charnock
and the supposition is, that to the unfavourable view
he has given of his case, his 'change is to be attribut-
ed. He, with the other prisoners, this morning at-
tended divine service in the chapel of the gaol. The
service was performed by the chaplain (the Rev.
Mr. Stocking), who,. after reading the prison for-
mula, pronounced an admirable exhortation on the
future judgment.
Corder entered the chapel from the right hand side
of the pulpit, and walked with rapid and steady pace
to the pew directly opposite. He was dressed in a
drab frock coat, blue trousers, Wellington, boois,
black military stuck, and aehlack- waistcoat, •
As. the sentences particularly Allueive to his situa-
don were read, his feelings evidently overcame him,
and the tears, which he in vain struggled to repress,
found a temporary vent. In appearance lie is not
much changed, and his bodily health, since his con-
finement, is, as we heard, upon the whole. much im-
proved.-
The following facts, connected with the prisoner's
imputed crime •have, since the close of the inquisi-
tion, been furnished to the Coroner, and deposed to
on oath, and have not hitherto been published. On
the night Maria Marten disappeared, she took with
her an umbrella, which was seen by her mother
three months after she left home in the prisoner's
possession,
while attending the funeral of his brother
James, and on her questioning him as to where ho
had got it, knowing it to be her daughter's, he de-
nied the fact altogether, and said that he had pur-
chased it at the shop of Miss Pyke, in Stoke. 'l' he
conversation on the subject then terminated, and,
nothing more was said ; but on her meeting hirn
second time, it was reiwed, and she in the interim
having made inquiries at Miss Pyke's, he in reply to
her telling him se, said'that he had made a mistake,
and in explanation added, that he had lately
seen Maria, and had borrowed it, as it was iainia
when he had left her. Additional testimony has
also been obtained from Phoebe Stows (the witness
who proved having lent Corder the spade), and she
further says, that having met him during the last
harvest, she asked him .what had become of his
child that was born at Sudbury l He replied that
he had married Maria, who he Was certain would,
never have any more children; he'd be -- if site
should, for she had had her last. She next invired
why, if he was married, he did not live witl her
observing, she supposed he was jealous of her. He
answered no ; that he could go to her whenever
lie pleased, and he was sure that when he had not
any intercourse with her, nobody else had.
An event is this revolting case, which is ne.a ge-
nerally known is, that the first seducerof Maria Mar-
ten was the prisoner's eldest brother Thomas, b)
whom she had a child. .Her next paramour was:
Mr. Mathews, to whom she bore another; and her
third and last, the person who is accused with her
'assassination. Mrs. Corder, after the apprehension
of her husband, received a pressing invitation to
visit her friends in France; hut this she deslined,
and is resolved to await the result of his trial. She
';is much older than he is (about 36 years of age), of
alady-like appearance, and, though her countenance
is not prepossessing, her figure is good.

EXETER, Juty 31.
BUCHANAN V. PACE.-r-SLANDER.

Mr. MOODY having opc:ted the pleadings, and
stated generally the nature of the action,
Mr. Sergeant WILDE stated the plaintiff's ease at
large. His client now appeared in a court of jus-
tice to prove that he was not the cheat which he
had been represented by the defendant, and that the
latter had been solely influenced hy a wanton malig-
nity in making imputations upon the plaintiff's ho-
nesty, which this trial would prove to have been
wholly unfounded. The defendant had pleaded, be-
sides the general issue, four special pleas in justifi-
cation, By these pleas he had alleged, not only
that the plaintiff had, upon a particular occasion,
used false weights and measures, but that he had
been in a continual, habit of practising such fraud,.
The Learned Sergeant then stated that the de-
fendant had been, with some others, appointed in
the course of last year to make a survey of the
weights and measures of tradesmen in Stonehwse,
netli weights near Plymouth, where the plaintiff resided. As the
adtitnhtentlleausstedof i
fromnece necessarily
Is2it
aeonwore
il them" was
away,asi
detected, it was the custom of persons in business
to send their weights and measures occasionally to
the makers to have them re-adjusted. At the tim,-
when the examination was in progress, part of the
plaintiff's weights were at the maker's for the pur-
pose of being so corrected, and another part which
remained at home were subjected to the examination
of the inspectors. The defendant, after the ex-
amination, went out into the open street, where a
great number of persons were collected, and there
publicly repeated the words which were the ground
of the present action, The Learned Sergeant Then
went on to detail at great length the facts and ch.,
cumstancea of the case. After which,
Air, Justice PARK summed up the evidence.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 50/.

YORK, Auc. 1.
trial, Mr. Justice
DOE, Dr.u. HIRST V. HIRS:t ANT) OTHERS.
possession was
a
Honley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The
actiontt
of of el'
certain
trpterenmt
ibsteosusgilttitiatt(e) %el ceoa -r
plaintiff was the brother of the defendant. The
',Jillnail:
devisee under the will by which the property wet,
plaintiff claimed as heir at law, and the defendant .11S
given to the defendant. •
BAYLEY summed tip the case, and the Jury imme-
diately found a verdict for the plaintiff, saying that
they did not believe the will to be genuine. •
This is the Commission day at
Durham, but I‘Tr.
Justice 13AvLEr and all the leading Con Iclremain. I ..'
After a long but uninteresting
at York, and will' 03 be
able to leave-
until to-mor-
ro„, An Assize has seldom been known at York
where the business has been mere heavy, less
interesting, car
interesting, than the present.
Sir James Scarlett
arrived
here yesterday, having
e.
d
been specially retained in the cause of the Hull Dock
but dn i
Company finding that the cause had been
,;;..de a remariet, he left on the same day.

have taken
some wholesome reform
place in Billingsgate market lately, with re-
spect to preventing the sale of stale and unwholesome fish ;
leg the article, at the same Shoe, still continues exorbi-
tantly dear. This will be the case so long as the supply
comes through one market only, and that supply is fur-
nished from the depots at Gravesend, and scantily sent to
liillingsgatc, so that the price is scarcely ever reduced. In-
stead of having the fish sickened and deteriorated in confined
depots, it should be brought direct to market, fresh and in
a healthy state. When this regulation was urged formerly,
it was stated to be impracticable, when the wind and tide
were unfavourable for vessels to come to Ilillingsgate. This
excuse, however, no longer exists, as fish could be brought
directly to market by steamers, and the public be supplied
at a reasonable rate. There should be a fish market at the
West as well as the East of the town, for the accommoda-
tion of the inhabitants of Westminster.