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London, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL,

THE HAGUE, Ocr. 30.—Among the petitions pre-
sented to the Second Chamber, respecting the tariff of
import and export duties, there is one from the
Chamber of Commerce at Tilburg, in which it is
affirmed that the woollen manufacturers are not in
general sufficiently protected ; that they require to
be powerfully supported ; and that it is of the greatest
importance to the Netherlands that suitable measures
should be adopted to make them flourish. It is stated
that, in England, France, Germany, and Belgium,
manufacturers are infinitely more protected than with
us ; that in all these countries the importation of
woollen manufacturers, if not wholly prohibited, is
subject to such heavy duties that the importation is
impossible. The Chamber goes into the subject at
great length, and proposes an import duty of
34 florins for every 1001bs. of woollen manufacture.
THE HAGUE, OCT. 31.—1 n the sitting of the
Second Chamber to-day, the debates on the address
ended with the adoption of that proposed by the Com-
mittee, but modified in some particulars, so that it
was sent to the First Chamber.

"VrERDAM, OCT. 31.—We hear that his Majesty
the King may be expected in this city on Saturday
next, to see the exhibition.

We have received the following intelligence from
Curcao, Sept. 8 :
" We have had this year a very remarkable mete-
orological phenomenon in these countries. While in
Cuba and other places to the north there has been no
rain for several months, such heavy rains have fallen
on the Continent, that some parts present the appear-
ance of the deluge. The valleys are inundated, the tops
of the trees and the hills rise above the vast expanse of
waters ; the cattle attempt to fly to the higher land,
and perish in the flood ; the people are obliged to use
canoes in some villages, and the crops are partly de-
stroyed. These heavy rains seem to have prevailed very
far inland in the northeastern part of South America,
for we read in a Venezuela paper that the members
of the Congress have not been able to reach Bogota
in due time, because the roads had been rendered
impassable by the floods.
A letter from Maracaibo, of the 24th of May,
says—" The whole valley of the Rio Cacho, from
Cucuta to Maracaibo, a distance of more than 600
miles, is entirely inundated ; the planters have been
obliged to leave their plantations and fly to the hills.
All the coffee plantations in this valley are under
water, and the cocoa is gathered by means of canoes.
The planters are very unfortunate with respect to the
cocoa, for a few days before the rain set in, there was
a prospect of an extremely good crop. In consequence
of this disaster, the prices of coffee and cocoa have
risen at Maracaibo."
" The communication between Maracaibo and the
interior is wholly interrupted, and many vessels have
been long waiting for freight. The communication
with Valencia, Caraccas, La Guayra, and Porto Ca
bello, has long since ceased."

HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.
(From the Nottingham Journal.)
The state of the cotton hosiery trade in nearly every
branch keeps gradually getting worse, the hands
labouring under almost every privation. The cut-up
hose branch is now equally dull with the wrought
hose ; and, notwithstanding the extreme low price
at which they are fabricated, it is now proved that
even extreme cheapness will tilt force a market.
The cotton drawer and pantaloon trade has not re-
vived, still it is in a much better state than it was two
years since. The system of making drop-offs seems
now abandoned, to the great credit of the hosiers, as
well as the workpeople, the latter of whom have reso-
lutely opposed this hateful system of manufacture
wherever it has appeared ; indeed, it is to them a
struggle for existence, for if drop•offs were generally
made, the public would soon drop off from wearing
hosiery drawers.
The silk glove branch is' if anything, worse. A
new description of glove has been made, termed
plates ; these are fabricated of two threads, one silk
and the other cotton ; these threads are conducted
under the jack-sinkers, by two separate carrier
needles, the inner needle conducting a silk, the outer
needle a cotton thread. The gloves when made upon
this principle have a coat of silk without and cotton
within. We expect that the invention will be soon
carried into Leicestershire, to make worsted and cot-
ton, and even worsted and spun-silk plated hosiery.
The bobbin net trade is still in a tolerable condi-
tion ; though not brisk, it is, in our opinion in a
much better state in fancy goods than if it was
moderately so ; the machine-owner's profit is in most
instances moderate, and the wages such that the
workmen can live by their industry. A great evil
still exists of night-working, which is extremely de-
trimental both to their comfort and their health. It
is pleasing to state, that with the amended means of
the machine-owners, they have, with a few excep-
tions, amended their conduct to the journeymen, who
have in many instances now an allowance while
altering, which some time since was strongly, and,
we must add, rather cruelly denied ; but it is but can-
did to state, that in many cases the low state of the
funds of the machine-owners were such that they had
not the means to pay for alterations, and to pay wages
likewise to the journeymen. The alteration of the
times has enabled them to be more generous, and
what is extremely gratifying, it has arisen, not from
turn-outs, or a great demand for workmen, but from
an innate principle of kindness and of friendly feel-
ing towards their workmen.
The warp lace trade has not at present much im-
proved, but still there are great hopes of a renova-
tion, as several additional new manufactures are now
making from this description of stocking machinery.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
A poor c_iuntrr fellow, who stated that his name
was Charles Harley, and that he was servant to a
brewer at Littleport, in the Isle of Ely, applied to
Alderman Wilson on Saturday for a summons, calling
upon the proprietor of the Bull Inn, Bishopsgate, to
account for detaining three boxes, containing wearing
apparel, directed to William Daniell, the property of
the complainant. The circumstances under which
the application was made were peculiarly distressing,
and Alderman Wilson immediately granted the sum-
mons, upon the representation of inspector Wood-
roffe, who behaved in a very humane manner up=
the occasion.
Yesterday the servant of the owner of the inn ap-
peared for his master, and the case was investigated
before Sir Peter Laurie.
From the confused statement of the complainant
the following particulari were collected:—William
Daniell, a man about thirty years of age, was, together
with his wife, without the means of support, in Ely,
where Harley, who could not endure the sight of a
man starving for want of work, gave him lodging and
food. After some time, Daniel and his wife left Ely,
but Daniel soon returned alone, and again threw him-
self on the humanity of Harley for the means of
keeping life and soul together. Although Harley was
in very narrow circumstances, having a wife and two
children to support, he willingly consented to give
the assistance required, and took his needy petitioner
into the house, as a boarder and lodger, a second
time. A bad return for the kindness thus shown was
contemplated and accomplished by the guest, who,
taking advantage of the absence of Harley at night,
on duty at the brewhouse, seduced his wife,
prevailed upon her to abandon and rob her
husband and children, and caused the acting
of a scene of unutterable wretchedness. While
Harley was at a public-house to which his
wife had sent him, she and her paramour contrived to
remove all that was of any value in the house, and ac•
tually left the poor children, one of whom was only a
twelvemonth old, and had been weaned no more than
a month, with nothing but the bare boards to lie upon.
Distracted at such an event, and being totally desti-
tute, he represented the facts to some neighbours, who
cordially advanced what they could afford to enable
him to follow and trace the fugitives and his pro-
perty. He soon learned that the three boxes contain-
ing his goods were at the Bull Inn, Bishopsgate, and
that they were directed to the very rascal who had so
fatally plundered him. Under these circumstances he
applied for the boxes of his property which he saw
upon going to the inn, but the landlord refused to
give them up, having received a letter from Daniel
threatening to proceed against him if he dared to de-
liver them to any one but himself.
Sir PETER LAURIE—What was the age of the
woman who deserted you and your children ? Har-
ley—She was twenty-six years old, and we had been
ten years married.

Hwhoireursh;eannid
Sir PETER LAUEIE--And what had been her pre-
vious conduct ? Harley—Very good indeea, your
usstheha kind
wveasbepeanrtpicluanlanrilnyg
gtoooldeavaendme
her children. I never in life
for one moiaent.
Sir PETER LAURIE--She was an attentive wife and
mother until she met with the scoundrel you w ereouso
charitable to ? Harley—He was a
scoundrel
Honour (striking the table with his hard hand). Ir
gave him bed and board when he had not a morsel of
victuals, though he was a stranger to me. She left
word with the neighbours when she was going to
leave her home to tell me that she was gone off in
haste to a dying brother, and she took with her all
my wages that I had given her, except the sixpence
she gave me to get me out of the way. She has left
me in debt, too ; for the money I gave her to pay for
her clothes she never paid to the tradespeople.
The porter of the Bull Inn here said that his master
had received the following letter from the person to
whom the boxes were directed :

" Cambridge, Nov. 2, 1844.
" Dear Sir,—l have seen William Swan and the
police, and the boxes that are directed of my name at
your Alice are under my command, and no other
person has no business with them ; and I give you to
understand that they were booked in my name at
Ely, and if you give them up to any person except j

me, I shall make you answerable for them; and
please to send me a letter by return of post.
"W. DANIELL.
" Direct W. Daniel, Littleport, Cambridgeshire."
Sir PETER LAURIE—I wish Mr. Daniell was here
before me; his next appearance should certainly be at
the Old Bailey. Such a compound of assurance and
villainy is but seldom to be seen, and I am happy, my
poor man, that you have come here for assistance.
The porter at the Bull Inn said that his master
would readily give up the boxes upon receiving Sir
Peter L curie's order to that effect, as security against
any measures Mr. Daniell might adopt, by the advice
of some ugly professional.
Sir PETER LAURIE—I shall give the order, cer-
tainly, to satisfy your master, but no danger of the
kind is to be apprehended from villains of this de-
scription. He will never call for the boxes. You
will not see him again ; but I hope that he will be
brought to justice.
Orders were then given that the expenses of the
disconsolate man and of the carriage of his property
back to the place of his employment should be de-
frayed from the poor-box, and he left the justice-
room much affected by the commiseration so unequi-
vocally expressed.
The steward of the Ocean steam•vessel, of Rotter-
dam, was charged with being in possession of a great
quantity of smuggled tobacco.
C. Atkinson Davis, a Custom-house officer, who is
frequently engaged in apprehending smugglers, stated
that having been informed that a large number of
packages of tobacco were secreted on board the Ocean,
he went to examine that vessel, arid he found, secreted
in a new and most ingenious manner, a considerable
quantity of the article. The packages were all pre-
pared so thoroughly in lead, that the water could not
effect the tobacco, and they were suspended by strings
bet Ween the timbers in such a manner as to afford an
almost complete security from detection.
The case, which has excited much curiosity in
consequence of the ingenuity and extent of the plan,
was, appointed to be entered into in detail on a
future day.
A complaint was made by two respectable inhabi-
tants of the City of the success of the labours of a
swindling firm, in which several victimizers are con-
cerned. We omit the details, as in all probability
some of the Company will be brought up, an active
officer of the City police force having received in-
structions upon the subject from Sir Peter Laurie.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday Mr. George Robins appeared before Mr.
Jardine, to prefer a complaint against George Millet,
the driver of a cabriolet, for using abusive and insult-
ing language towards him. '
The complainant said for the last seventeen years
he had not appeared before a magistrate to prefer a
complaint against any person, nor would he have
come forward in the present: nstance but for the pro-
vocation he had received, the cause of which arose
from the windows of the defendant's cabriolet being
broken, and he was surprised to find that no provision
was made by the Legislature in such a case. He
was in the ha-bit of daily riding in cabs for many
years, and on leaving Lis residence on Friday last to
proceed to his office under the Piazza, in Covent-
garden, he hired the defendant with his cab to drive
him, but when he raised the windows, the morning
being very cold, he discovered they were broken, and
calling to the defendant, he ordered him to drive him
to the stand in Oxford-street, to procure a more com-
fortable vehicle, upon which he said, "So you are not
going to pay me, :tent you, what a pretty gentleman
you are; I'll serve you out," and continued in that
strain until a crowd collected about him.
Mr. JARDINE said that a cabman using insulting
language or even gesture to any fare rendered him
liable to be summoned.
Mr. Robins said he regretted taking such steps
against the defendant, as he understood he hail a wife
and children depending on him for support.
Defendant, in a rage, "Don't say nothing of my
family, for you are the person guilty, and not I."
Mr. JARDINE said if the defendant had any com-
plaint to make he might have applied for a summons,
instead of using coarse and insulting language to a
gentleman in the public streets.
The defendant said he had driven Mr. Robins for
years, and he never had to complain of him before.
The complainant declared that he never saw him
before Friday, when he hired him.
The defendant's wife entreated of the magistrate
not to impose a fine, as it would be the means of de-
priving her and her family of the means of sub-
sistence.
Mr. Robins said he would willingly not press the
charge in compliment of the poor woman, to whom
he would be happy if any assistance could be afforded,
but it would be a pity to let such a fellow escape un-
punished.
The defendant, dashing his hat upon the floor,
said he would rather suffer death than plead guilty
for the purpose of obtaining pardon.
Mr. JARDINE then ordered the defendant to pay a
fine of 205., er be sent to prison for fourteen days.
IARLBOROUGH-STREET.
UNEXAMPLED BRUTALITY:—Edward Clarke, a
one-legged journeyman tailor, lodging at No. 13,
Peter-street, was charged with cruelly beating an
infant two years of age.
Elizabeth Ponton said the prisoner lived with a
woman named Feehy in the same house as she did,
and their room was next to hers. On Saturday night,
while in bed, she heard the infant scream repeatedly,
and feeling assured that some violence was being
exercised towards it, she knocked at the wainscot,
and the noise ceased, but in such a way as to con-
vince her that some one was stifling its cries with
their hand or with the bed-clothes. As the prisoner
had been in the habit of cruelly using the infant on
former occasions, witness resolved to get a sight of
the child to see its condition. She contrived to gain
admission into the room with another lodger, and
they examined the body of the infant. It was one
masa of bruises from top to toe, and its eyes were
both blackened. It was evident that the wretched
infant had repeatedly suffered brutal violence, and
that the prisoner, who was the only person in the
room when the child was screaming the overnight,
had inflicted the injuries, which were distributed over
the child's face and body. Information was given to
the police, and the wretch was taken into custody.
Ann Feeby, the woman with whom the prisoner
cohabited, who had the infant in her arms, came for-
ward, and said the prisoner was not the father of the
child, she having only lived with him about three
weeks. She knew nothing about the ill-usage in-
flicted on the infant, as she was engaged in nursing a
woman in another part of the house.
The witness Ponton said the mother must have
known that the prisoner was. in the habit of beating
the child. The prisoner was accustomed, when he
beat the infant, in order to disguise his brutality from
the other lodgers, to call out to it, " What's the mat-
ter, my dear ; are you frightened at the chairs ?
Here's a bit of bread and butter," at the same time
striking it a blow on the body or face.
The mother of the child admitted that the prisoner
had beaten both her children, and had also beaten her.
The prisoner, in defence, with great indifference,
said, "I was cross and the child was cross,iand so I
beat it."
Mr. HARDWICK said it was impossible to find lan-
guage sufficiently strong to express his abhorrence of
the conduct of such a brute in human shape. A
wretch who could find the heart to lift a hand against
a helpless infant, deserved the worst punishment which
the law could inflict. As far as the law allowed he
would go in this instance, though the penalty bore no
proportion to the offence, and he should inflict a fine
of five pounds, or two months' hard labour. Mr.
Hardwick then called the mother forward and warmly
reproached her for her unfeeling conduct, in not re-
sorting to the law for protection for her wretched in-
fant. Her conduct, he considered, to be but one shade
less infamous than that of the man with whom she
lived, and it further showed that she was wholly un
worthy to be entrusted with the care of her two chi
dren.

Police-constable, C 119, said the mother could
hardly be induced to come forward against the man.
Mr. HARDWICK requested a constable to ask the
parish officers of St. James's to step to the Court.
The churchwardens and the relieving overseer, Dore,
immediately attended, and were made acquainted with
the circumstances of the case.
Dore said the man and the woman belonged to St.
James's. They had both been taken iuto the work-
house, and both had discharged themselves about
three weeks ago, under pretence of getting married.
The woman was an incorrigible profligate ; her two
children were by different fathers, and she had now
taken up with the man just sent to prison, without
being married to him.
Mr. HARDWICK said he had no doubt that the
woman was perfectly worthless and wholkr unworthy
of commiseration or relief, but then it was quite clear

that something ought to be done to protect her un:
happy children.
The churchwardens, under the circumstances of the
case, consented at once to receive the woman and her
children into the workhouse.

MORE BRUTALITY.—Henry Pardoe, a pauper, was
charged with beating his wife.
The wife, when she entered the witness-box with
an infant in her arms, disclosed a shocking sight; her
face was blackened all over, and every feature was
beaten quite out of human shape. She said she went
on Saturday to the stone-yard, where her husband
was employed, to ask for some money for the support
of herself and child. Her husband offered her a
shilling, which she said was not enough, and words
arose between them. Her husband was about to
strike her, when she took up a stone to throw at him.
He took the stone from her, threw her down, and beat
her on the face with his fist until she became as she
now appeared.

Them- an, in defence, said the injuries occurred in
his attempt to take the stone from his wife. The stone
accidentally went against her face in the struggle.
Mr. HARDWICK said something must be done to

put a stop to these savage attacks of men on their
wives, or women with whom they lived. He should
fine to the full extent, namely, St, or two months'
hard labour.

ASSAULTS.—John Roderick O'Connor, assistant to
his brother, a furrier in Regent-street, was charged
With having been mad drunk the overnight, with
assaulting his brother, with having attempted
to commit suicide, and with having severely bitten
two of the police.
The defendant's brother did not attend to support
the charge.

The constables, who had been called in by the
brother, proved the state in which they found the de-
fendant, and the injuries they sustained in attempting
to take him to the station-house. One constable was
struck on the fac.", and bitten on the hand, and
another constable had one of his fingers nearly
bitten off.

In defence, the defendant said, his brother wanted
to prevent him from drinking as much gin and water
as he pleased. He told his brother he would do as
he liked in that respect, and an altercation ensued.
It was a mistake to suppose that he intended to com-
mit suicide; the mistake arose from his haring a
penknife in his hand, with which he was trimming
his nails. The police complained of ill-usage, but he
had a similar complaint to make, as he had been
struck over the arms with their truncheons. As to
the charge of drunkenness, he conld say, that he had
not drank more than the best part of a bottle of gin.
Mr. HARDWICK inflicted the fine of forty shillings
for each assault on the constables, or one month's im-
prisonment.

DESTITUTE CONDITION OF THE
LABOURING POOR.
A special session of Justices of the Bromley di-
vision was held yesterday at the Bell Inn, Bromley,
for the purpose of disposing of a great number of
! summonses, &c., against poor people residing in
Bexley, Bromley, Cudham, and other parishes, for
non-payment of poor-rates. The magistrates present
were the Rev. Sir C. Farnaby, the Rev. Mr. Scott,
the Hon. Mr. Dashwood, J. Goodhart, Esq., J.
Berans, Esq., and P. H. Dyke, Esq.
The first case gone into was a summons against a
poor old widow, named Evans, for non-payment of a
poor-rate for Bexley parish.
The poor old creature said she was not able to pay
any poor-rates. She was herself at this time receiv-
ing relief fro:n the parish.
The overseer admitted that that was the fact.
Sir C. FARNABY asked how it happened, as this was
the case, that she was called upon to pay the rate ?
The overseer replied that the vestry had heard
the old woman had a son who was earning money,
and they thought he ought to pay for her.
Mr. DYKE asked the old woman what she received
from the union P—She replied one shilling a week, and
a loaf of bread.
The BENCH said they thought this was a case in
which the party ought to be excused paying the rate,
and Mr. Goodhart observed that the poor old woman
ought to have an extra loaf given her for her trouble
in coming to the beach.
The next case was that of another poor widow,
named Martin. She was summoned for six shillings.
The poor woman said the reason she had not paid
the rates was because it was entirely out of her power.
Her husband, when he died, left her destitute, and
she had no means of subaistence but doing a little
needlework. During her husband's life they had
paid rates in the parish for twenty-one years.
Mr. DYKE asked whether this case had been re-
ported to the vestry ?—The overseer said it had, and
the parish authorities thought that, from the amount
of rent paid by Mrs. Martin, the rate should be
enforced.
Mr. DYKE—What rent does she pay ? Overseer
—Three shillings a week.
Mr. DYKE—People who pay 71. or 81. a year rent
must pay the rates. If not, they should take a
smaller place, or else a room.
Mrs. Martin—l should have to pay as much for a
room, and I have lived in the house with my husband
a good many years, and don't like to leave it. She
thought it was very hard, after paying rates for
twenty-one years, that she should be troubled in this

way.
The BENCH said that they must order the payment
of the rate. They would, however, allow her a fort-
night to make up the money.
The woman said it was no use to promise to pay.
She had not a farthing in the world. She had no-
thing to subsist upon but the produce of a little needle-
work, and everybody knew how badly that was
paid for.
Sir. C. FARNABY said the bench had no alternative
but to grant a distress warrant if she did not pay.
Another poor widow, named Street, was also sum-
moned for a rate of six shillings.
The reason for the non-payment was 'that she had
been left in very bad circumstances by bar husband,
and had latterly been ill. The rent she paid was
three shillings a week.
The BENCH said this was a similar case to the last,
and the money must be paid in fourteen days.
Mrs. Street said she could not pay. She had been
lying ill of fever for four weeks, and was quite
destitute.
'rho BENCH said, if the parish enforced the claim,
they must issue a distress warrant if the money was
not paid.
A man named Leamington, the occupier of a cot-
tage, which, with several others, it appears, is let on
lease by the parish of Wickham to a person whose
name did not transpire, and who underlets the pro-
perty to a number of poor persons, was summoned for
six shillings.
Leamington said that his landlord told him the pro-
perty was not liable to the payment of the poor-rate.
Mr. DYKE said that as the occupier there was no
doubt he was liable. It frequently happened, how-
ever, that the landlords of wattages told their tenants
they were not liable to pay poor-rates, in order that
they might get more rent.
The overseer said that one of the occupants of the
cottages had
undetrosldtanhdiimngthit sthtehpeareid
wadedreitionnoal rent,
poor-
rates to pay.
The BENCH said it would be a very good thing if
the landlords of cottages and property of that de-
scription were compelled to pay the poor-rates. At
present, however, the occupiers were liable, and the
payment must be enforced from them.
Leamington said that he and a number of other
poor people had acted upon the statement of their
landlord, and he trusted that under the circumstances
the bench would not compel them to pay the costs.
The MAGISTRATES said they could not remit the
costs, which must be paid, with the rate, in fourteen
days, or there would be a distress warrant.
Mrs.i Lawson attended to answer a summons for
eight shillings. She said she could not pay. Her
husband had not done a day's work for some months,
and there were nine of them in family.
Mr. DYKE asked what rent she paid, and she re-
plied, eleven guineas a year.
The BENCH said this was a case in which the rate
must be enforced. They had no business to keep a
house of eleven guineas a year if they did not pay the
rates.
The poor woman said that with seven children they
could not get a house jo shelter them for less rent.
Mr. DYKE said thrtrwas their look out. Houses of
that value must pay the rate, and if the amount was
not paid in fourteen' days there would be a distress
warrant.
The poor creature said it was quite impossible for
them to pay the rates. She had left her children at
home with nothing but a piece of dry bread to eat, and
if they took all they had got in the world they would
not make up the money.
Mr. DYKE said that if they were in such a destitute
state they should have applied to the Board.
She replied that it was no use going there, for if
she did they would not give her a loaf of bread for
her children.
The BENCH said they would give her a month to
pay the money.
She said that if her husband got any work they
would pay it, but if he did not, it was impossible
for them to do so. She added, that when she went
home she should not find a morsel of food, and she had
not a farthing in the world.
Several other summonses were then gone into, and
the parties, were ordered to pay in fourteen days.
They begged hard to be excused from the payment
of the costs, which in almost every case amounted to
the sum claimed for the rate, but the Bench said they
had no power to relieve them, and both the rate and
the costa must be paid, or there would be distress
warrants.
John Masters, a poor, decrepid old man, was sum-
moned for four shillings.
The BENCH asked how he got his living ?—He re-
plied, by shuffling about with a few coals and a cart
and horse.
Mr. DYKE—Oh !if you keep a horse and cart you
must pay.
The old man said the horse was not his. It was
only lent to him.
The BENCH ordered the payment in fourteen days.
The next case was that of John Vensels. He said
he was a cripple, and unable to do any work.
The overseer said this case had been before the
vestry, and they thought the rate ought to be en-
forced, because the old man had a son who was earn-
ing something, and they considered he should pay.
The old man said his son was a boy of nineteen,
and he had only done three weeks' work out of the
last five. He added that, if his son had not supported
him, he must have gone into the union long ago. He
had never received a farthing from the parish, and he
did not want to have anything from them.
Sir C. FARNABY inquired the character of the son ?
—The overseer said 'he was a hardworking young
ma-

The BENCH thought it was bad policy to ,enforce
the rate from the father because the son was willing
and able , to work, and they expressed their qinion

that the vestry aught to r:-conside•- their determi-
nation.

John Tippin was summoned for G. 6d. due for
poor-rates in the parish of Cudham. He appeared to
he a strong healthy man.
The reason assigned for not paying the rate was,
that he had three small children, and hii wife was just
about to be brought to bel of a fourth. He was
willing to work, but could not always obtain it, and
had had no regular work for three years.
The overseer said he was instructel by the vestry
to enforce the payment of the rate. The man was in
work now.

Tippin said he was in work, but the farmers had
lowered the wages to 10s. a week. Five shillings went
for flour, 2s. for rent, and ls. for firing, and he had
only 2s. left.
The BENCH said they had no alternative but to
order the payment of the rate, and ss. costs.
Tippin said he hoped they would not make him
pay any costs.
The NIAGISTRATES told him it was his own fault that
there were costs ; he should have paid the rate. An
order was then made for the payment of the whole
amount in a month.

GREAT PROTESTANT MEETING.
A crowded meeting of the members of the Metro-
politan Tradesmen and Operative Protestant Associa-
tion, and others friendly te Protestantism, was held
yesterday evening in Exeter-hall. The demonstra-
tion, if such it was intended to be (and the eve of the
" Gunpowder" Plot would seem to imply it), was most
successful. The large room was densely filled, and
the platform was crowded with respectable and influ-
ential, if not distinguished personages.
Among those present we observed the Rev. Mr.
Benson, of St. Saviour's ; the Rev. Mr. Thelwall, of
Bedford Chapel ; the Rev. Tennyson Cuffe, of Car-
lisle Chapel, Kennington-lane ; and R. H. Binden,
Esq., &c., &c.
The chair was taken by J. G. P. Smith, Esq.
The Rev. TENNYSON CUFFE opened the meeting
with prayer.
The CHAIRMAN, said that to-morrow was the anni-
versary of a great *itional deliverance—a deliverance
from tyranny—Popish tyranny and oppression ; and
surely that deliverance was a greater one than any
that could be obtained from any external aggres-
sion. That day was ordered, by Act of Parliament,
to be commemorated in after times, and they would
do so to-morrow, in the way most consonant to the
principles of God's word, namely, by prayer and other
religious observances.
The Rev. A. S. THELWALL moved the first resolu-
tion. He had not intended to speak at that meeting,
but he held that, as a minister of the Gospel by law
established, he should be always ready to advocate
Protestant principles, and that liberty which was dear
to every British bosom.—(Cheers.) He had, there-
fore, readily conceded to the wishes of the Committee
in coming forward to promote this resolution—
" That, in the opinion of this meeting, the spread of
Popery among the operative classes arises from igno-
rance of the real principles of the Church of Rome ;
and that, therefore, it is of the highest importance to
promote sound Protestant information among them.
This meeting, therefore, earnestly desiring the in-
crease and prosperity of the Metropolitan Traiesnien's
and Operative's Protestant Association, pledges itself
to renewed exertions on their behalf, trusting that by
the blessing of God their labours may be useful in
bringing many back into the good old paths from
which they have wandered; of confirming in the
truth those who are halting; and of arousing
in all that vigilant and prayerful spirit which,
under God, gained for us the Protestant Refor-
mation, and which alone can preserve it in our land."
The Rev. Speaker then went at considerable length
into an elucidation of the political domination which,
he maintained, had always been shown by the Roman
Catholic Church. He contended that it was a prin-
ciple inherent in their tenets, and inculcated by their
priesthood, to persecute Protestants whenever they
had an opportunity. He cited the case of the Rev.
Robert Kelley, of Madeira, who had been thrust into
prison contrary to the Portuguese laws. And why ?
In the hope that the dungeon would do the work of
the scaffold or the stake.—(Cheers.) He also ad-
verted to the case of a female confined in the same
island. She was a victim of Popish persecution be.
cause she had renounced that Church for the souls
saving truths of Christianity as explained by Protes-
tants. But he hoped they would that night and to-
morrow make a demonstration that would ring
through all quarters of the earth, and prove sufficient
to open the prison doors of that unfortunate sister.
Mr. A. V. ALLEN—It had been said by many—it
had been boasted by Roman Catholics—that the doc-
trines of their Church was on the increase in England,
and surely it was incumbent upon all right-thinking
Protestants to unite in preventing the further exten-
sion of those baleful principles. That extension did
not arise from an influx of Catholics, but it altogether
had its strength in the apathy of Protestants them-
selves. It was time to arouse themselves, o now,
alas, Popery had been intruded into the Church of
England, and it would require much watching and
much prayer ere they could get the evil eradicated.
True, the " Tracts for the Times " were now done
away with, but the principles of those tracts were
yet in full vigour, for they had now, written by a
clergyman of the Church of England, tracts entitled
" For the last day," and he would read them portions
of one, to exhibit the manner in which this clergy-
man spoke of that Church of which he was a member.
the speaker then quoted at considerable length from
the works in question. Let them not indulge
in vain regrets for the past, but, like true soldiers of
Christ, fight the good fight of faith for the future,
and with the blessing of God their efforts would he
folly crowned with success.—(Cheers.) He had
great happiness in seconding the resolution.
R. H. BINDER, Esq., rose to move the second reso-
lution. Popery did not aim at destroying the spirit
of the Constitution only—it would destroy the Con-
stitution itself.—(At this time the Rev. Hugh Stowell,
of Manchester, entered the Hall, and was greeted
with enthusiastic cheering. Silence being restored,
the speaker proceeded.) Popery had been the same
in all ages. She was the same now that she had been
when expelled from this island to her own home—the
city of the Seven Hills.—(Cheers) Why had they
got rid of Popery ? Was it not that she tried to
make the intellects of all, kings or vassals,
succumb to the power of a foreign mercenary ?
Would she not do the same still ? She would, for the
canons of the Church declared it.—(Cheers.) It was
her principle that the spiritual shoeld coerce the tem-
poral power by every possible means. Was it not the
policy of Protestants, therefore, to confine her within
her present Bounds ? If Popery were once to gain an
ascendancy in this country, where would she rest ?
The speaker quoted from many Catholic works to
prove the intolerance of the creed, and then instanced
the experiences of many individuals as proving the
same. If they had any love for their country or their
Queen—for Popery could not tolerate a Protestant Mo-
narch—they must withstand the spread of Tracta-
rianism, for what Papists were in the middle ages
Tractarians were now.—(Cheers.) The many mo-
nasteries and nunneries that were now building in
many parts of England afforded ample evidence of the
active spirit of Papery, and, therefore, he said, that it
behoved them to struggle as earnestly, and the Lord
would assuredly be on their side to help them.—
(Loud cheers.) He proposed the second resolution—
" net the struggles of Popery in this country are
unprecedented and alarming, and call for the most
strenuous exertions of all true members and friends
of our reformed Protestant Church to oppose and
counteract them."
The Rev. Ikon STOWELL then rose to second it.
He said it was worth hastening from Manchester to
witness a meeting like that he had the honour of ad-
dressing. They, in the country, were accustomed to
look to the metropolis as the heart of the community,
and if the life-blood flowed healthily and steadily
through the heart, they were pretty sure that its cur-
rents would be felt even to the extremities.—(Cheers.)
Yet he could not conceal that there was stagnation
among them. They trusted, he was afraid, too much
to an arm of flesh, and neglected that higher power
which could only lead them on to victory.—
(Cheers.) They trusted to party politicians, and
found that they leant upon a broken reed. They
found themselves deserted on the day of battle--for-
saken in the hour of need.—(Cheers.) But now
they had got rid of those recruits, and they had only
in their ranks sound and Protestant spirits ; they had
lost rank, and, it might be, talent, but they had re-
tained sound sense and religious consistency.—
(Cheers.) lie would not diverge into party politics,
but he would say that the pious ministers of the
Church, and the noble-minded among the laity, had
their confidence in the present Ministry sadly shaken
when they saw that, despite the earnest remonstrances
of their Church, the Dissenters' Bill was passed, con-
cessions made to the agitators of Ireland, the
grant to the College of Maynooth doubled,
in spite of the eloquent denunciations of a Sullivan
and a M‘Ghee.—(Cheers.) Well might a friend of
his say that " God was indeed doing all for them,
and man doing everything against them." Their pe-
titions had been indeed slighted by a Ministry whose
governing principle was concession, but were those
petitions slighted at a throne to which their earnest
entreaties should ever be directed ? (Cheers.) They
were charged as wild enthusiasts, who produced more
schism than unity in the church of heaven ; but let
them remember that but a few clergymen carried the
Reformation. Let them think of Luther, who walked
forth alone with his Bible under his arm, against
an embattled world, and, in the name of the
Lord of Hosts, fought and triumphed.—(Cheers.) Let
them take an example from their antagonists in their
industry, in their buildings of monasteries and of
nunneries in the face of Protestant England; not
that he would compare these doings with what their
own Church had done, and what she would yet do.—
(Cheers.) But it was of interest to observe the bold.
front that Rome now exhibited in old England. Time

,:,was when a Roman Catholic procession dared
t,xhibit their absurd paraphernalia in the broad ligh
of Heaven ; but now—as lately at Manchester—thef
poured their long length through the streets, and ern
the site of their intended church they planted a cross,
seven feet high, the emblem of their gross super-
stition. He would give them a scene which
occurred not long since in Manchester. It had been
announced that high mass would be said is
the chapel, and that prayers would be offered up for
O'Connell—(Cheers and hisses.) A detachment of a
regiment there were accustomed to go to that chapel,
and the officer in those circumstances took the advice
of his captain, who said that he must attend his meat
and if anything occurred which they should not see or
hear, he was at once to march his men out. Well,
they went there, high mass was said, and then the
priest commenced an harangue upon the wrongs of
Ireland, and he went so far that he as much as said
that O'Connell ought to be King of Ireland.--
(Cheers and hisses.) At that moment the British
officer started up, and in a stentorian voice called out,
Attention"—(Laughter)_e face about"—(Conti-
nued laughter)—" march ;" *and then the measured
tramp --of the men formed the fitting close to
scene so ludicrously unexampled.—(Cheers.) When
all parties were combining some for the abolition of
the corn-laws, some for their retention, some for their
seven points of the Charter—should not they, the
friends of truth and Protestantism, combine against
an open foe, or secret enemy, or perfidious friends ?--
(Cheers.) Should they not take their stand against
a false expediency—(Cheers)—a truckling to place
and pelf, and say, emphatically, and with uplifted
hands, " We shall have no more concession to Rome
not one step further down the precipice—no more sa-
crificing to man or devil ?—(Cheers.) Our watch-
word shall be, " The Church for which our fore'
fathers so nobly bled, uncontaminated and unreduced
in its fair proporti ins."—(Cheers.) Praise to God
they had not a Tractarian on the Bench of Bishops,
and it was creditable, at least to her Majesty's ad-
visers, that, in their appointments to the Church of
England, and still more to their appointment.
in the sister country of Ireland, they had
not advanced one of Tractariau principles. But
Tractarianism, he was happy to think, was at its
zenith, though, as sappers and miners, they raiaht
be still endeavouring to injure the Church of Christ.
The Rev. Gentleman continued in a strain of the most
thrilling eloquence, interrupted at every sentence by
the most general cheering, to expatiate upon the
duties incumbent upon the members of the Church of
England in that crisis. He commented, in withering
terms, upon an amalgamated system of education,
which, consisting of all religions, really inculcated
none. He concluded by exhorting them to be wary
and watchful—to make no cause with any of the wild
sects who called themselves Protestants, but •to trust
to a power, all wise and infinite, whose instructions
might be Ind in the Scriptures and in the Homilies
of the Church. There might be specks in the latter,
but there were specks on the sun, and they might
depend upon it that they would be found a substantial
shield in their warfare with the Romanists. But let
them show that it was Popery they hated, and 14
the souls of those who professed that principle. Let
them treat their antagonists with love, speak to them.
in love, and pray with and for them in the spirit 01
love and mercy. Let them hope that as it was a
glorious British Queen who fostered their Church ill
its infancy, so another Queen would at that time
nurse, and foster, and succour her, now in the hour
of her struggles. The speaker sat down amidst the
loudest applause. Several more speakers addressei
the meeting, and some resolutions were proposed and
seconded, and after thanks had been voted to the
Chairman, the meeting separated.