The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-10 00:00:00

LONDON. SATURDAY EVtNINO-, A.ITatTST iti 1644.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BRIGHTON RACES-FRIDAY.

Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, for two and three yrs olds;
fillies allowed 3lbs. Winner to be sold for 401. T.Y.C.
(4 Subs.)
Mr. H. Stebbing's Mainstay, 2 yrs, Est 111 b (Butcher) 1
Lord G. Bentinck's The Great Mogul. 3 yrs, 9st 2
Lord G. Bentinck's Duke of Cornwall. 2 yrs, 7st 3
Mr. W. Jones's Pnantasia, 3 yrs, Bst 111 b 4
Even. on Lord George's two, and 6 to 4 against the
winner. Mainstay led to the hill, and was then passed
by the Great Mogul, but came again near the end, and
won on the post by a head. The winner was claimed.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, 2 ft, with 50
added. New course. (9 Subs.)
Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth, aged, Bst .... (Rogers) 1
Lord Exeter's Pergularia, 3 yrs, 7st,
Mr. Dockeray's Black Stocking, 3 yrs, Est 81b
Lord Exeter's f by Gladiator, 4 yrs, Bst 61b
Mr. E. Walker's Cab Horse, 6 yrs, 7st 71b
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6 to 4 agst Pergularia, and 7 to 4 against Naworth.
After the first mile-and-a half, the two favourites took
the running from the Cab Horse, and ran together till
a short distance from the chair, when Naworth went on
by himself, and won by a length.
The Amateur Stakes, of 5 soya.- each. Gentlemen riders.
Heats. T.Y.C.

Mr. E. R. Clarke's Young Lochinvar, 4 yrs,
11 st 71b (Lord Maidstone) 2 1 1
Mr. P. Roles Argos, aged, 12st 1 2 2
Lord G. Bentinck s Great Mogul, 3 rs,l 61b 3 dr
Firt heat-7 to 4on Young Lochinvar. Won by half
a length. Second heat-7 to 4on Argos. Won on the
post by a head. Third heat-6 to 4on Young Lochinvar.
Won by half a length.
The Beaten Stakes were not run out when the last
train left.

SALISBURY RACES.—THURSDAY.
Sweepstakes of 50 sons. each, h ft; for colts, Bst 91b, anti
fillies, Bst 61b; untried allowed 31bs, &c. One mile.
Mr. Herbert's c by Elis out of Delightful, walked over.
The City Members' Plate of 501., added to a Sweepstakes
of 5 SCTS. each, 3 ft ; 3 yrs old, 6st 121 b ; 4 yrs,
B.t 61b ; 5 yrs, 9st llb ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 71b.
Mares, &c.,alliwed 31bs. Heats, one mile and three-

' quarters. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Williams's Elysium, 4 yra (Sly) 1 1
Mr. Crofton's Cornopean, 4 yrs dis.
Mr. Caffall's Mobarick, 6 yrs
The Scurry Handicap of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added.
T.Y.C. (5 Subs.)
England's Spring Bok, 7st (Rice) 1
Herbert's Ajax, Sat 101 b
Herbert's Sister to Queen Charlotte, sst Mb 3
Crofton's Cornopean, Sat llb
Saunders's Mind-your-Pockets, 7st 71b

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Won easy.
The Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added for
the beaten h(prses, one mile, were won in two heats by
Mr. Crofton's Cornopean, Bst 41b (Sly), beating Mr.
Bray's Midnight Star, 7st 11b, Mind your-Pockets, Bst
121 b, and The Lord of Misrule, 7st 41b.
HORWICH BACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Willoughby Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 20 added.
Heats, twice round and a dis. (14 Subs.)
Mr. J. Osborne's bg by Slane, 3 yrs...(Hiley) 0 1 1
Mr. Walker's The Hobble, 3 yrs 1 0 3
Mr. Whitworth's Lady Sarah, 3 yrs
Five others started. Won cleverly by half a length.
The Tradesmen's Gold Cup of 60/. added to a Handicap
of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared. Two
miles and a quarter. (31 Subs.)
Mr. Wesley's Councillor, 5 yrs, ist 121 b (11. Darling) 1
Sir C. Monck's Glossy, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b 2
Mr. Take's Ermengardis, 6 yrs, Est 121 b
Seven others ran. Won very easy.
The Hunters' Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 20 added.
Heats, twice round and a distance. (8 Subs.)
Captain Boyd's Lara, 6 yrs (Owner) 1 1
Mr. Thompson's bc by IShrigley, 5 yrs
Sir C. Monek's Flaggon, 6 yrs
Mussulman and Mudlark also started. Won by a length.

BARNET RACES. _
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, AUGUST 21ST AND 22D.

FIRST DAL—The Trial Stakes of 2 sous. each, with
101. added from the fund ; free for any horse. Three
years old to carry 7st 51b ; fours years, Bst 71b ; five
years, 9st llb ; six years and aged, 9st 41b. A winner
this year 51b extra. Mares and geldings allowed 31b.
Three horses to start, or the money added will not be
given ; if more than five horses start, the second horse
to save his stake. The winner to be sold for 801., if de-
manded in the usual way. To name and close on the
entrance night. Heats, twice round and a distance.
The Green-Man Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 201.
added frow the fund. Heats. Weights and distance the
same as for the Trial Stakes. Three horses to start, or
the money added will not be given ;':if more than five
horses start, the second horse to save his stake. Any
reputed half-bred horse to be allowed 71b. Mares and
geldings allowed 31b. To name and close on the entrance
night.

the Tally-Ho Stakes of 3 soya. each, with 15 added
from the fund ; free for any horse carrying 11st. Heats,
twice round and a distance ; six leaps to be taken in
each heat over hurdles. Three horses to start, or the
money added will not be given ; if more than five horses
start, the second horse to save his stake. To name and
close on the entrance night. A winner once in 1844,
to carry 41b extra ; twice, 71b ; three times, 10Ib.
SECOND DAY.—The Town Plate of 2 sovs. each, with
10 added from the fund. Heats. Weights and distances
the same as for the Trial Stakes. A winner of the
previous day to carry 51b extra. 'Three horses to start,
or the money added will not be given ; if more than five
horses start, the second horse to save his stake. To
name and close before nine o'clock in the evening of the
first day's races. The winner to be sold for 701., if de-
manded, in the usual way.
The Barnet Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 15 added.
Heats. Weights and distance the same as for the Trial
Stakes. A winner once this season to carry 51b extra ;
twice, 71b. Three horses to start, or the money added
will not be given ; if more than five horses start, the
second horse to save his stake. To name and close before
nine o'clock in the evening of the first day's races. The
winner to be sold for 1501., if demanded, in the usual way.
The Hunters' Stakes of 10 soya. each, added to a
Sweepstakes of 2 soya, each ; free for all horses carrying
lOst 71b A winner this season to carry 41b extra ; twice,
71b ; three times, 101 b. Heat; twice round and a dis-
tance ; six leaps to be taken in each heat over hurdles.
Three horses to start, or the money added will not be
given ; if more than five horses start, the second horse
to save Ms stake. To name and close before nine o'clock
in the evening of the first day's races. The winner to
be sold for 80/., if demanded, in the usual way.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRIGHTON RACES—FRIDAY (CONCLUDED).
Sweepstakes of 3 sous. each, and 2a added for the beaten
horses. Winner to be sold for 601., &c. Heats, one
mile. (6 Subs.)
Mr. E. R. Clarke's Sir Edward, 5 yrs, 9st 51b... 1 1
Mr. Smith's Queen of the Chase, 3 yrs, 6st 81b... 4 2
Mr. Wilson's Dart, 5 yrs, 9st 41b

Mr. Law's Black Duchess, 4 yrs, Bst 41b 5 4
Mr. Monk's Beggar Girl, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b 2 dr
7 to 4 on Sir Edward, - who won the first heat easily,
and the second by a head, and was claimed.
lIORWICH RACES—THURSDAY.
The Ladies' Purse of 15 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes
of 3 sovs. each, mile and half, gentleman riders (3
Subs.), were won in two heats by Mr. Fowler's Jack,
aged, beating three others.
The Cup of 50 Guineas, given by Mr. Standish, added
to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft ; one mile and a
half and a dis. (20 Subs.)
Mr. G. Osborne's Sloane, 3 yrs (Riley) 1
Mr. Worthington's Collina, 6 yrs
Mr. Thompson's Hudibras, 6 yrs

Several others also ran;

The Hurdle stae;WeiOsoirs.;;ch,lit, with 20 added,
twice round, over four hurdles, were won in • two
heats by Mr. Wesley's Counsellor; 5 yrs, beating se-
veral others.

MANCHESTER BETTING—FRIDAY.
GREAT EBOR HANDICAP.-7 to 2 agst Franchise (t)
—6 to 1 agst Pedometer (0-10 to I",figst Rowena-10
to 1 agst Lucy Banks-15 to 1 agst Belle Dame.
ST. LEGER-3 to 1 agst The Cure (t)-9 to 2 agst
Ithuriel-6 to 1 agst Bay Momus-13 to 2 agst Va-
lerian-10 to 1 agst Red Deer-10 to 1 agst Ugly Buck
—l3 to 1 agst Foig-a-ballagh-20 to 1 agst Murpeth-
-30 to 1 agst Lightning.
DERBY.-Nothing done.

COURSE OF EXCHM
Amsterdam CF. 12 4i
Ditto, at sight l2 2
Rotterdam 2U. 12 5
Antwerp 25 90
Ramburgh M.B. 1313 f,
Altona l3 14
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine l2l

1 GE.—(YE STERD AY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 85
Milan
Venice .
Naples 39i
Palormo, per oz llBl
Lisbon s4i
Oporto s4i
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
PRICZA OF BULLION, PER oz.
Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons-- 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 10
Silver in Ears 0 4 11

Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37

Berlin — 7

Vienna, effect f 1.3 M 952
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 37

Cadiz
1311bao 36
Barcelona 36

Seville

FATAL ACCIDENT.—DANGER or RIDING ON THE
SHAFTS OF WAGGONS.—Mr. Gell yesterday held an inquest
at St. George's Hospital, on the body of Charles Prior, aged
thirty-five, of Prescott-street, Windsor. In evidence, it
appeared that, on Tuesday morning last, deceased, with. his
wite, quitted his residence in Windsor, for the purpose of
coming to London to get work. In the Bath-road, near the
Magpie public-house, they *overtook a waggon, the
driver of which gave them a lift as far as he was going.
The woman got on the top of the waggon, and her
husband sat on the shafts ; but he had net ridden far before
he fell into the road, and was seriously injured by the wheels.
He said, when removed to the hospital; that he did not know
what caused him to fall, but he recollected trying to escape
by rolling his body away. He died in two days. The acci-
dent happened at three o'clock, and he was not admitted to
the hospital until eight o'clock. He was thus five hours
without medical assistance, and the jury expressed much
surprise that he had not been instantly carried to a surgeon
in the neighbourhood. Verdict—" Accidental death."
THE EIGHT OF CORONERS' JURIES TO INSPECT
BODIES.—At an inquest held yesterday before Mr. Carter,
the Coroner for Surrey, one of the jurors inquired if they were
permitted to have inspection of the body, in order really to
ascertain if ;here were any marks of violence upon it, which
lie understood to be the meaning of "viewing" the body, ac-
cording to the Act of Parliament; or were they, as was too
often the case in gentlemen's houses, just to look into the
room where the corpse was? He was induced to ask this
question because he had often been on juries, and there gene..
rally appeared a desire to prevent the proper examination.
The Coroner observed, that it was the tindoubted.right of the
jury to make what they considered a proper inspection, in
order that they might be ablo to judge of the weight of the
evidence afterwards laid before them, and to put such ques-
tions fie any appearance suggested to them.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM
RAILWkY.
On Friday the FroprittOrs of the London and Birmingham
Railway held their general meeting at the station, Euston-
square, for the purpose of receiving the report, and the trans-
action of business for the last half-year, The meeting was
most numerously attended, it being generally known that a
piece of plate and a purse of money were to be presented by
the Proprietors to Mr. Richard Creed, the Secretary to the
Company. George Carr, Esq., the Chairman, in opening tilt
business of the day, said that the affairs of tlit tiompany
were in a most prosperous condition, and that the various
branches of the lint frotii the present trunk were rapidly ap-
proaching to completion. The report was read, from which
it appears that the balance in hand on the 31st of' December
last was 333,904/. 14s. 5d., and the cash received from that
time up to the 30th of June last was 750,674/. 4s. Id., making
in the whole 1,134,578/. 18s. Gd., of which sum 468,373/. 16s.
sd. had been expended on the London and Birmingham line,
22,1241. 13s. I Id. on the Warwick and Leamington branch,
147,854/. 3s. 9d. on--the Northampton and Peterborough
branch, 100,000/, on the Chester and Holyhead Railway—
making a total expenditure for the six months last past
of 722,3921. 145., and leaving a balance to be divided
among the Proprietors of 405,226/. 48. 5d., on which a
dividend of five per cent. was immediately declared,
leaving 15,000/. as balance in hand. An important
part of the day's proceedings was the presentation of a
splendid piece of plate, in the shape of a candelabrum, and
two large dishes, all of solid silver, value 300/., in addition to
a purse of 2,100 guineas, to the secretary for his services.
Colonel Alcock, as Chairman of the Committee appointed by
the Proprietors to manage the subscription list, presented
the plate to Mr. Creed, accompanied with a high eulogium,
upon which Mr. Creed replied in a very feeling manner for the
high compliment paid him by his employers. The candela-
brum excited the admiration of every person present, being
executed in the highest style of art, and representing Peace,
Plenty, and Britannia at the base, in addition to a view of
the Euston-square station. On the different pieces of plate
are engraved the arms of the Company, and of Mr. Creed,
with the following inscription engraved on each :—" Pre-
sented to Richard Creed, Esq., together with a purse of 2,100
guineas, being the voluntary contributions of nine hundred
Proprietors of the London and Birmingham Company, in ac-
cordance with a resolution passed unanimously, -at a general
meeting held on the 9th of February, 1844, as a testimonial
of their high appreciation of the indefatigable zeal and dis-
tinguished ability manifested by him for fourteen years, in
promoting, under the auspices of the Court of Directors, the
general interest and prospects of the Company, of their esteem
and respect for his private character, and an evidence of the
manner in which they appreciated his courteous and gentle-
manly demeanour upon all occasions."

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAIL-

WAY.

The half-yearly general meeting of the Proprietors of this
Company was held on Friday, at the terminus, London-
bridge, William Nash, Esq., Deputy-Chalrman,,in the chair,
for the purpose of receiving the Directors' report for the half-
rear, and also a statement of the accounts of the Company.
The meeting was also made special, for the purpose of decid-
ing the means of raising the money for constructing the rail-
way from Brighton to Chichester, and from Brighton to
Lewes and Hastings. The report stated that the receipts
for ordinary traffic during the half-year ending the 30th of
June, as compared with the corresponding period of 1843,
showed an increase of 10,118/., while the expenses of working
the line (exclusive of toll and rates and taxes, as contrasted
with the same period) exhibited a decrease of 1,8801., the
result of the whole account being an increase on the balance
of net revenue of 10,2151. The agreement which had been
entered into with the Greenwich Company, by which that
Company were to receive a fixed sum in lieu of toll, having
terminated on the 30th June last, the Directors had entered
into a fresh arrangement, by which the Brighton Company
would in future pay for the first-class passengers 4d., second-
class 3d., and third-class 2d., so long as the whole Brighton
passenger traffic to and from London should pass over the
Greenwich line. The Directors had given unceasing atten-
tion to the necessity of improving the communication with
France, a subject on which their powers were very
limited. After several interviews with the General Steam
Navigation Company, some improvements had al-
ready been affected, and the Directors were enabled to
state that for the month of August the departure of steamers
from Brighton to Dieppe had been increased to six in the
week. If either of the projected railways from Dieppe to
Rouen should be executed, the advantages of improving the
sea passage would be still more important to the interests of
this. Company. The report having been adopted, the follow-
ing resolution was agreed to :—That the London and Brighton
Railway Company be authorised by the Proprietors, present
at this general meeting, to purchase an interest in the
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Company, to an
extent not exceeding 3,500 shares, and in the Brighton and
Chichester Railway Company, to an extent riot exceeding
1,195 shares. That in, order to complete these purchases the
Brighton Railway Company be authorised to raise by the
creation of new shares in eighths, at 6/. ss. each, a sum not
exceeding 234,7501. That such shares be offered to the pre-
sent Proprietors of the London and Brighton Railway Com-
pany in the proportion of one-eighth share for every original
share registered in the books of the Company. That the
time for taking up such shares by the Proprietors be
limited to the Ist of September. That 2/. shell be paid on
each such eighth share, and that each share should bear in-
terest at the rate of five per cent.
A dividend of 1/ 2s. 6d. per share was then declared, and
Mr. Cooper having been elected a Director of the Company
in the room of Mr. Parsons, who had retired, the thanks of
the Shareholders were voted to the Chairman, and the meet-
ing separated.

THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.
The following is a copy of the petition of the medical
officers of the Horse and Foot Guards which was lately pre-
sented to the House of Commons :

TO THE 110 N. TIIE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRE-

LAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.

" THE PETITION OF THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THB HORSE

AND FOOT GUARDS

" Humbly showeth,--
" That the recent charter granted to the Royal College of
Surgeons of England, a copy of which was lately laid on the
table of your lion. House, presses with peculiar severity on
the officers of their department, nearly the whole of whom
are by it deprived of those privileges they have hitherto en-
joyed, in consequence of an undue precedency granted to
surgeons in civil life, whilst they will also be deprived in
future of the hope of succeeding to offices of honour and profit
in the College, whatever may be their ability,. or the eminence
they may have acquired in the service of their country.
" Your petitioners now appeal to your Honouable House,
in full confidence that their claims ',rill be fully and favour-
ably considered.
f
" Your petitioners, whenever employed in the service of
their always endea
their country, either at home or abroad,
voursd faithfully to discharge the duties of their station,
and have used every exertion to improve the practice of their
profession.
..Your petitioners respectfully, but earnestly, submit that
they should not, in consequence of being employed in the
•
public service, be considered to have forfeited by any subse-
quent enactment, their civil rights as Members of the Royal
College of Surgeons.
" Your petitioners humbly pray that your lion. House
will not confirm any measure depriving them of their hitherto
acknowledged rights and privileges,swithout giving them an
opportunity of being heard by themselves or counsel, either
at the bar of your Honourable House, or in such other way as
your Honourable House may please to direct.
"And your petitioners will •ever pray."

THE HERRING TRADE.
ADERDEEN.—We are sorry to say that the fishing here
continues very indifferent. Some of the boats have had four,
six, or ten crans occasionally; but others have frequently re-
where to fish.
PETERHEAD, AUG. 6.—The number of boats 401 fishing
here ; average on Saturday last, 301 crans each boat.
turned clean ; and a good many of the boats have gone else-
BANFF, Auci. 6.—The July fishing this season has fallen
far short of 1843. There have been a few pretty good shoals
during last week. The average up to this date may be
stated as under—viz., Banff and Whitehills, 25 barrels per
boat ; Macduff, 20 to 25 ; and Gardenstown, 35 to 40.
FRASERBURGH, Atm. 6.—Our herring fishing proceeds but
very poorly. Little was done last week, owing to the un-
settled weather; and this week the prospects are clouded by
the same cause. The wind has gone out far to eastward, and
it looks quite stormy. The total average Tor this season up
to this date will not exceed 28 crans 280 boats.

A correspondent on whom we place reliance assures
us that land is certainly in the ascendant. The other
day a farm near to Hemel Hempstead was sold, and by a
country practitioner, at near forty years' purchase. There
is a property contiguous to it, which was announced
in our columns yesterday, by Mr. George Robins.
It includes an ancient mansion and 300 acres of land,
with a tenant whose family have numbered one whole
century upon it; there are ornamental woods, extending
to 50 acres ; and our friend the knight of the hammer
facetiously observes in his announcement, that it will be
in accordance with good judgment to have them grubbed
up, and substitute crops of wheat and barley, concluding
thus—" A farmer does not need. the luxury of woodland
scenery to interfere with his more important avocations."
THE CONVICT DALMAB.
The convict Mamas has
been removed, by order of the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, from the Millbank Penitentiary to
the Insane Ward of Bethlem Hospital, there to be con-
finedgiteisd this theatre
during her Majesty's pleasure as a lunatic,. The
reports of the medical gentlemen who have daily visited
Dalmas since his incarceration in the Penitentiary, leave
but little or any doubt of his insanity.
hheofohlalvoewvinis a list of the
during the week :—The Duke of Rutland, the Duchess
disLtinTguCEiUshaledT
of Bedford, Duchess of Leinstcr, the Countess of Glen-
gall, Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Earl and Countess
filliEshAiroltnEablesiw'
of Wicklow and family; Earl and Countess of Wemyss
and March and family; Lady Malcolm, Lord A. Lennox,
Lord and Lady Macdonald, Lord Paget, Lord George
Loftus, Lord Viscount Dillon, Lord Viscount Cants-
lupe, Lord Dorchester, Lord Gardner. Lord Rendle-
,sham, Earl and Countess of Harrington, Lady Joddrell,
Lady Manley, Lord Ranelagh, Sir George Hayter, Sir
George and Lady Pocock, Sir J. Campbell, Sir Walter
Blount, Sir George Barclay, Count Mataxa, Sir Henry
Webb, Sir Henry Mildmay, Hon. Leicester and Mrs.
Stanhope, Colonel Anson and family; Hon. A. Dun-
combe, Major Bulkeley, Hon. Mrs. Douglas, Hon.
Fitzroy Stanhope, Captain Carlton, Mr, Ramsden, Hon.
Mr. Lascelles, Major White, Captain Cartwright, George
Wombwell, Esq., Mr. Drummond, Mr. Beaumont, Mr.
Calder, Mr. Knatchbull, Captain Cole, Mr. Truelbck,
Lady Kinloch, Lord Eliot, Lord Suffield, &c.,
FAITHFUL LABOURERS REWARDED.--At the death
of Mr. Lawrence Wilkin, a wealthy farmer, of Barrow-
upon-Humber, his
.property was left to his sister, a
maiden lady, who is lately dead—and by her will, to
thirteen of her brother's farm labourers she has left four
acres (tn some seven) of most excellent land, adjoining
the road from New. Holland Ferry, to Thornton Curtis,
and Boston. On those allotments the labourers are
building very neat and tiled cottages, adding to each an
extensive garden. The rest of the inclosure is in a very
high state of cultivation.—Doncaster Gaz!tte.
ACCIDENT ON THE ARTIFICIAL ICE.—OH Friday
evening last an accident, attended by serious consequences,
occurred upon the sheet of artificial ice at the Mechanics'
Institution. As Mr. S. Campbell, of the Albion News-room
and Temperance Hotel, Great Charlotte-street, was pro-
ceeding down the glacier, or inclined plane, he came in con-
tact with the projections representing rocks. His right foot
was jammed in between two of them, and, as he was passing
along at a rapid rate, the sudden jerk caused his body to
turn-quickly round, and, broke his leg a little above the
ankle. He was instantly conveyed home, where the neces-
sary medical assistance was obtained. Fran inquiries yes.
teiday morning, we learn that Mr. C. is doing we11...44v er-
pool Tim,.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

HER MAJESTT.

Yesterday a Court was held for the purpose of con-
sidering an address to her Majesty on the birth of a
Prince. Although the season of the year was parti-
cularly unfavourable to the assembling of the mem-
bers of the Corporation, the Lord Mayor had not
been in the chair four minutes when it was an-
nounced that a Court was made. _ _

Strangers having been ordered to withdraw, Alder-
man BROWN moved, we were given to understand,
after a few words expressive of the high gratification
the Court felt at the happy event which more fully
secured the hope of a long succession to the present
Royal Family, that a humble and dutiful address be
presented to her Majesty on the subject.—(Cheers.)
Sir PETER LAURIE seconded the motion, which
was carried amidst acclamations. An address was
then drawn np and unanimously agreed to. The
Court was then opened.

A SERIOUS NUISANCE.
The inquest jury of Aldersgate-ward made a
formal presentment of a whalebone manufactory kept
at No. 69, Aldersgate, by. a Mr. Westall. The pre-
sentment described the nuisance* as altogether odious
and intolerable.

Mr. GODSON (the Deputy of the ward) addressed
the Court upon the subject. He believed the laxity
which had marked the conduct of the authorities in
regard to Puddle-dock, and other dreadfully offensive
sinks of the City, was occasioning a total disregard,
as it would appear, of the health and comfort of the
inhabitants of the City elsewhere. He was so unfor-
tunate as to live next door to the whalebone manu-
factory which excited so much disgust, and the neigh-
bours actually thought that he fancied and he
favoured the offence, as he was not for ever crying
out against it.----cA laugh.) He had witnessed
the meat markets in their worst condition, but the
stench of the worst of them, at the worst of seasons,
was nething compared-with the stench arising from
the working of the whalebone. To the vaults of a
crowded churchyard alone could he compare it, and
he assured the Court that in that description there
was no exaggeration. He referred, if any proof be-
yond that afforded by passers-by appeared to be ne-
cessary, to the fact, that the house adjoining the ma-
nufactory, although spacious and commodious, was
empty, and to defy any man to introduce his family
to the vicinity of such an abomination. It happened
that this business was extremely lucrative, the last
resident having retired, after having, in a few years,
realised 100,0001. by stinking the ward, so that un-
less the Court would use its powerful authority, to
cause the removal or abatement of the nuisance, there
would it remain, a perpetual source of annoyance.
, The RECORDER intimated that the best course
would be to indict the manufactory as a nuisance.
That the parish could do.
Sir P. LAURIE (the Alderman of the ward) said
he did not wish to interfere in any matter of the kind,
except the occasion seemed to him to be very pressing.
He certainly had heard of the offensive nature of the
nuisance alluded to, and he believed it would not be
easy to find in the whole list of villainous smells any
compound producing a more intolerable effluvia.
The RECORDER asked whether it could be proved
that the stench was prejudicial to health ?
Mr. GODSON replied that he could prove that it
occasioned sickness of the stomach. He suggested to
the Court the propitety of referring the question to
a Committee.
Alderman MUSGROVE said that if the subject were
referred to a Committee expectations might be raised
which it would be impossible to satisfy, and others
might come to that Court to seek the abatement of
other nuisances which ought to be met by indict-
ments by the parochial authorities.
The REcoRDER advised the jury by all means to
prosecute by indictment.
The presentment was then recorded, and ordered
to lie upon the table.
The Court, without proceeding to any further bu-
siness, adjourned.