The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The sixth Report of the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests presents some biting matter
for observation, but we can only refer to the titles
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new teyott there stands Buckingham-palace, esti-
in'ated ad capanduni, at no more
2-32,700 t., but after that money had been
voted, ;-;;;!1 the work begun, estimated a second
time at 433,600!.i besides a sum of 63,000/.
for that tasteless and inappropriate plagairism
from Bonaparte, the marble gateway now erect-
ing, and ler fees to Mr. Nrch and the trades-
people not does it appear that gven this sum
ill of half a million will suffice; for !•licre is no
assurance Otth that we shall not have supple-
mentary estimates to the amount of another half-,
million or more, before the unwieldy, but mean
and frivolous edifice is fit to reteive its destined
inmates. The various improvernet ;:r the west
end of the metropolis, and in the sevta-.41 parks,
though fa. vottrably represented in the report, de-
serve to be well looked after; not so much for
the plan or execution of the works, which arc
manifestly advantageous to the public, but fur
the pecuniary arrangements connected
,w;th
them, which must be viewed with the more sub-
picion in the same degree in which they are in-
tricate and extensive.— Times.

A letter from " A. 8.," in another column.,
deserves some notice, in consideration of the
feelings by which it appears to be prompted, and
of the helpless and unoffending classes of stock-
holders for whom the writer pleads. It may, 4,-,
very just and wise to substitute a fund beating
31 or 3 per cent. interest for one of 4 per cent.;
but let the change be brought about fairly, with-
out any concerted schemes or manoeuvres between
great political power on one side, and great mo-
nied influence on the other—such as playing
with rates of discount, and taking new forms
of security for loans, the effect of which
is of necessity to make money more
abundant, to lower intercet, to force
up stocks, and to create facilities . for a
financier, by: inflicting wretchedness on those
who have none to help them. The last cqnvera
sion of Fives into Fours was productive of much
distress of families and females whose property
was under trust, and who were compelled to

take whatever terms might be offered them by
Ministers : it was likewise attended with a con-
siderable increase to the capital of the public
debt, and a corresponding retardation of the pro-
gress made by the sinking fund in its reduction.
We repeat, that the measure of reducing interest
may be politic, but that it becomes a question
also whether some reference ought not to be
made to the proportionate market-value of the
several funds when the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer brings forward his alternative to the stock-
holders,; whose 4 per cent. capital has risen,
from causes which they had no hand in pro-
ducing, to 4 per cent. above par, of " Give me
up a fourth of your interest, or you shall lose 4
per cent. on your capital by the operation of
being paid off." If this be justice, it is a harsh
measure of justice.—Bid.
A meeting is to be held to-morrow at the
London Coffee-house, to petition the Legisia..
ture for the repeal of the Malt and Beer Duties.
At present the Beer Duty falls exclusively on the
poor, the Legislature having very considerably
exempted those who brew their own beer from
the operation of it—that is, deemed it reason-
able that poverty should be a ground for addi-
tional taxation. To remove the Malt Duty, and
leave the Beer Duty, would be to exempt the
rich altogether, an obvious extension of the ex-
isting partiality. We trust, therefore, that the
people will petition for the removal of both the
Malt and the Beer Duties. But it will not be
enough to petition for the repeal of the duties.
If we wish the people to return to their old par-
tiality for ale and beer, we must free the trade

in these commodities from the monopoly under
which it now suffers. It is the licensing pub-
lic-houses, which is the great cause of the dete-
rioration of the beer. We are not aware of any
one reason for restricting the trade in beer which
would not justify the restricting the trade in any
other commodity ; and of this we arc certain,
that whenever i❑ this country a discretionary
power is given to any men, to grant or withhold
a license to deal in any commodity, the power
will be exercised for the benefit of the holder.
Money or money's worth, in some shape or
other, will always be exacted for the com-
munication of a privilege which is worth mo-
ney to the person who receives it. It has
sometimes been said that the people of this
country have little inclination for science ; but

this must be understood with at least one excep-
tion—the science of jobbing, which is cultivated
here as assiduously as in any country under the
sun ; and the jobbing in licenses affords abund-
ant proof that Justices of the Peace are hot be-
hind any other class of citizens in their profi-
ciency in that science. The proper judges of
public-houses arc the persons who require ac-
commodation in them, and not Magistrates ; and
all that is necessary for the good government of
the houses, and the security of the public against
irregularities, is to subject them to proper regu-
lations, and to punish the violation of them by
suitable penalties. It has been again and again
proved, that the licensing houses, so far from
offering any security to the public for good con-
duct, only promotes impunity, because the cul-
prit is always withdrawn in time, and his place
supplied by another creature of the brewer.—
The police regarding public-houses requires
no aid from licensing, which indeed can serve
no other purpose than that of establishing a
monopoly, under which the brewers endeavour
to force on the public the wretched stuff they
designate by the names of beer and ale. The
statement in " The Treatise on Brewing," pub-
lished by the Society for the Diffusion of Use-
ful Knowledge, that beer of the quality and
strength of London porter can be made at pre-
sent by any one who chooses to be at the trouble
for a penny-farthing a pot, has never been con-
tradicted. Are we to be astonished, then, that
the poor should fly from this washy stuff to the
gin-shop ? Every impediment is thrown in the
way of the supply of en innoxious beverage of
good quality, while the consumption of spirituous
liquors has been favoured by lowering the duty.
But while we would give beer fair play, we pro-
test against all interference with the supply of
ardent spirits beyond what is necessary for pur-
poses of revenue. What Burke says on this sub-
ject, in his " Thoughts and Details on Scarcity "
is as applicrble now as ever :—" As to what is
said (he observes), in a physical and moral view,
against the home consumption of spirits, expe-
rience has long since taught me very little to re-
spect the declamations on that subject—whether

the thunder of the laws, rir flit timelier of elo-
splenCe IlUfleft On ss-st: aliva sl am thunder-
proof.The alembic, in In!y lentil, has iiirnished the
world a far greater benefit and blessing, then if the
opus tuaxinturn had been really found by che-
mistry, and like Midas,: we enuld turn every
thing into gold. '' Undoubtedly the! c may be
a dangerous abuse in the excess of spirits s itnd
at one time I ant toady to believe the abuse was
fere it. When spirits are eltrap the business of
drunkenness is achieves with little time or labour,
but that evil I consider to be wholly done away.
Observation for the last forty years, "tt Yeq
particularly for the last thirty, has furnisbsetsl nns
with ten instances of drunlcr_lll,losifroin other
eatiees for one from this. Astient spirits is a
great medicine
.often tto remove distempers--
much more frequently to prevent thenn or ti
chase, their eway in their beginnitwa It is not
seettitivt In any great degrees But if not foss si ft
grestly alleviates the ant of its It invittoretes
kid stomach for the digestioncofror meagre diet
hot sasilyalliable to tire IsusiOn 'constitution. Wine
the pcor cannot touch, ricer, as applied to many
occasions (as among seamen and fishermen, for
instance) ssAll by no means do the business
Let nee ltdd—what wits inspired with champagne
ttri t'ntret will turn into ridicule -it is a medicine
the mind. Under the pressure of the cares
1:7.a so; rows of our mortal condition, men have
at all times, and in all countries, called in sortie
physical aid to their moral consolafinS ,Wine,
beer, opium, brandy, or to-be:To." It may be
said, and, w. believe, with truth, that Burke has-
exaggerated the Asa:gages of ardent spirits, fted
softened the unfavourable features of the pie-
suet.. The world, perhaps, would hare been as
well as it is now if the alembic had never been
discovered. However, be this as it may, we do
not see how it falls within the province of the
Legislator or the Magistrate to prescribe for the
moral government of individuals. Our vices.,
only come within the province of the Magistrate
when others stiffer inconvenience from them.
Wherever a faculty is given, that faculty may be
abused. A man who can read may read noxi-
ens books. The privilege of publishing without
restraint may be used to the dissemination of
erroneous doctrines, and false views. Whoever
possesses the means may indulge to excess in
the pleasures of the table. The rich man may
drown his senses in wine, and the poor man in
e;iti. The wise will be moderate in their enjoy-
ments, and the imprudent immoderate. We know
of no means by which excess can be guarded
against, except the dispositions of individuals,
which it is the business of instruction and
not laws to improve. Of this, however,
we are certain, that no men are entitled
to erect themselves into judges of what
indulgences ought to be allowed to others. We
protest, therefore, against all reformations effected
by Magisterial interference. Who shall draw
the line of distinction between what is beneficial
and what is hurtful ? And why should difficul-
ties be thrown in the way of those who wish
ardent spirits, because some may avail them-
selves of the facilities to drink to intoxication ?
The rubicond complexions of half the people
in• easy circumstances you meet in the streets,
are a proof of their drinking as well as eating
more than is strictly necessary for their health ;
but they would resent all attempt to regulate their
indulgences according to any standard fixed by
others. The poor people are entitled to the
same liberty as the rich. When they violate the
saws, punish them ; but do. not punish them by
sumptuary laws. We have a strong suspicion
that the brewers arc at the bottom of the outcry
against shops for the sale of spirituous liquors,
which has lately been made. As to the observa-
tions of the Police Committee, we hold them
to be little better than twaddle. We do not be-
lieve that drunkenness has materially increased ;
mid at all events we very much question whether
the interference with gin shops would materially
diminish it, while we are sure the power of in-
terference would be abused. The surest way of
counteracting the inclination for gin is to place
within the reach of the people some beverage
which is more palateable to them. We protest,
at all events, against any extension of this sys.em
of petty Magisterial interference, under the pre-
text of improving the public morals.—Morning
Chronicle.

We have just received a pamphlet, publiAed
by Mr. Cadcll, under the title of " Thoughts
explanatory of the Pressure experienced by the
British Agriculturist and Manufacturer ;" which
places the case of the agriculturists a new
light. The conclusions of the writer are some-
what startling—no other, indeed, than that
foreign trade is injurious to the country. This
mode of treating the subject is entirely ncw, and
the praise of ingenuity cannot be denied to him.
He commences with showing that food is raised
at less expense in this country than in any
other. " He was led. to this conclusion (he
says) by information incidentally gleaned from
Polanders, which induced him to think that the
gloss produce obtained from equal extents of
hind of average quality, in a term qf.
.five or six
years, was greater in England than in Poland—
that the portion of such produce retained by the
Polander for the use of his soil was a greater
proportion of it than is reserved by the English
landholder—that the human and animal labour
employed in the production and transport to
market of a given quantity of corn was defrayed
by a less proportion of it in England twin in
Poland." He enters into a variety of calcula-
tions to show that, measured in labourers' wages,
the cost of wheat at Dantzic is one-eleventh
more than in England, or as 34.8 to 32. Speak-
ing of the light soils, the cultivation of which in
England had been said to be a great loss, he
observes, " Through inattention to facts, undue
weight has been given to this outcry, emanating
from a correct principle erroneously applied.—
The greater portion of the light, miscalled poor
soils, was taken into cultivation, in consequence
of the introduction of a new system of hus-
bandry, more peculiarly applicable to them than'
to the heavy clay lands, previously considered to
be the only productive soils. Land, before in-
capable of growing wheat, was rendered produc-
tive of it by the mode of feeding off the pre-
ceding crops, and, fertilized by a new system of
husbandry and rotation of crops, and worked
with much less labour than the heavy soils, it
yielded a surplus produce little inferior to them."
Accordingly, he shows, by a comparison of the
prices of wheat and labour, that wheat is consi-
derably cheaper now than during the last cen-
tury. " It is in vain," says the writer, " to look
to the opening of Ole corn trade for a h.:ligation
of the pressure which is experienced—:cur sup-
ply may be drawn from a market nominally
cheaper, but in reality dearer. The Polander will
not part with his corn without being. indemnified
for the taxes raised upon it in his own country ;
and the amount of indirect taxation heretofore
levied upon the prOdUce of our own land must
be replaced b 3 direct imposts, in some form or
other, for the 'maintenance of the revenue and

the payment of the puhlic creditor. Our sup-
ply of food will, hi this case, be'obtained'at
highet elementary cost of production, and with a
greater super-added taxation." The theory of
the author shortly stated ood being;
raised and brounolU to market at less cost in Eng-
thau elsewhere (taxation not taken into the
account), to import food in return for manufac-
tures i 3 to obtain less for those manufactures
than could be ol.tained at both; abd to throw
the 7;hat-e: t f tal.tittioti, *ould have been
litirtre hy 110:i tiOttsli agriculturist, exclusively on
the uiltuttracturer. "It has been clearly esta-
wished (he observes) that the labourer in Eng-
land can earn, by a day's werk, a greater com-
mend of food 1it,,.,: the t'olander ; and he toast
riectsntisiy Cotimmiftod by his labtinr & itiOre ero-
tiomiell supply t f those Matutftkettt'dis and com-
modities whiol Att.?. Or would be exported from
tlti tt-Aintry to Poland, such as cotton goods,
cloth, metallic utensils, the products -of our
colonies, &c. . . . The distress felt by him

at this crisis, in various districts) proteeds from
ats'insufficient demand for his labour, and not
from the proportion of wages absorbed in pro-
curing his quota of necessaries—this proportion
being demonstrably less than must be expended
in the acquisition of the same articles by the Po-
land r. " Proof has also been given of the
greater efficiency of the English land and culti-
vation beyonth-those of Poland, and that the ex-
cess" 'bt the sirogtistss4 rate of the supplies from
the former arises not from a cause extraneous to
the comforts and conveniences of themianufac-
wring workmen, but from one inseparably con-
nected with them—in fact, from the employment
of labour conducive even in a greater degree
than his own to the national wealth, and more
particularly of the public funds, the burden of
which, by the discontinuance of that labour,
must press with aggravated force upon the ma-
nufacturing class of the community. Whatever
portion of manufacturing labour is kept in
action, or whatever portion of the products of
that labour is purchased by the proceeds of
this fund, the exchange, so long as the main-
tenance of the fund is a condition imposed
upon the manufacturing workman in com-
mon with his fellow subjects, is one a 5 ad-
vantageous as can be effected by him—the
remuneration for his labour being secure, and, in
so far as it is afterwards expended in purchases
from the British agriculturist, exchanged fOr
supplies at the lowest elementary costs. Thus
no part of the demand for his labour derived
from this exchange can be beneficially superseded.
It follows, therefore, that the quantum of la-
Lour to be put ;n action remaining undiminished,
and a reduction in the condition of its supply,
and, consequently, in its price, impracticable
under the existing levies raised upon it, the fund
from which it is to be defrayed must be upheld
at its present amount ; in other words, our di-
vidends and rents, and consequently our taxes
and our produce, from whence they flow. Such
will not continue to be the case in the event of
the introduction of foreign produce to any consi-
siderable extent. By the substitution of Polish
produce for that of English growth, the price
and total amount of the latter must be diminished,
and, of course, the amount of the country's
gross surplus and rents ; indeed, without that
result, the substitution would be nugatory. But
it has been proved that the rate of the vendible
supply of the English produce, exclusive of the
influence of taxation involved in the conditions
of its supply, is lower than the
.foteign; conse-
quently that the price of the foreign can only be
less by reason of the levies (contributions to our
Dividend Fund), which are foregone upon it.
Admitting these conclusions to be correct, with
a constant tendency in the producers of commo-
dities to increase in number faster than the
sphere of demand for their labour can be ex-
tended, there is only one expedient by which the
manufacturer can regain and retain an undimi-
nished power of procuring the necessaries and
convcniencies of life—the introduction of more
economical modes of manufacture, of more
economical moving powers, or other improve-
ments to the like effect. In the course of the
last century, by the application of steam power,
of improved cotton, woollen, and flax-spinning
machinery, and the various mechanical and phy-
sical inventions and processes, almost concur-
rently introduced into our manufacturing esta-
blishments of the foregoing articles, and of our
iron, pottery, and other commodities—lig eco-
nomy of our productive powers kept pace with our
progressive accumulation of wealth and capital,
and a corresponding outlet and demand for the
products of our very enlarged industry was pre-
served with few interruptions. The occasional
checks to the prosperity of our manufacturing sys-
tem are caused bytwo inherent and counteracting
principles—the constant tendency of manufac-
tured articles to °weep the demand for them,
and the equally constant conjoined action of taxa-
tion and money accumulation in producing mo-
difications of its exchangeable value in different
countries. Whenever the economy with which
commodities are produced by a country possess-
ing superior skill and dexterity in manufactures
;$ counteracted by the difference between the
exchangeable value of money in that country
and in the marts supplied from it, the barrier op-
posed to the extension of its manufactures, so as
to admit of the full employment of the increas-
ing number of its manufacturing labourers, can
be removed only by addition to the money accu-
mulations of the foreign customers, made through
their own exertions, or by the reduction of our
own money accumulations, or by a reduction in
the elementary costs of our manufactures, so as
to enable a greater portion of the inhabitants of
foreign States to become demanders, without
lessening the number in the home market."
Again, he says, " The community becomes
hpledged to furnish, from the proceeds of its
labour and capital, nearly 30,000,0001. per an-
num to Government, exclusive of the current
expellees of 20 millions more—together 50 mil-
lions per annum. Every portion of labour, skill,
and material exerted and fashioned for exchange
must be charged with a proportional contribu-
tion towards the redemption of this common
pledge, before any surplus can accrue effective
for the maintenance of the individual by whom
the labour is exerted and material fashioned.
Here is, therefore, a constituent in the condi-
tion of supply of every commodity, unsusceptible
of abatement or modification by the efforts of
skill or industry, so long as the national an-
nuities and costs of Government are upheld at
their present nominal amount and the range of
demand is circumscribed within its present limits.
The remuneration to the producer must be ade-
quate to defray the proportion-of this constituent
charge attaching to the sun p ;t's (immediate
elementary costs, and to tha ..00lYed in the
price of the materials and: ools required in the
production of his commodity If ne parts with
it without such an indemnification, he becomes
an insolvent trader ; and if the labourer parts
with his labour without such a compensating
, remuneration he becomes a pauper. Additional

advances to Covet nneent fay stirim!atiog industry
by extended demand., entail angineiltation of
the national zinnulties anti enlianci;inctit of the
tined cthiditions Of supply. This enhancement
opposes an insuperable obstacle to an extended
interchange of products with foreign States, and
narrows even the existing range of demigod lin
our commodities. 'l' htis +Are n't ade:--
quatt 'eotinteisietion, and at a barrier to the un-
limited extension of a system producing in the
first instance high excitation and great apparent
prosperity. A counteractive principle; the re-
sult of the cOniplitated action of taxation and
concomitantly increased revenue, will l,a neces-
sarily disguised under intricate modifications;
and aceordingiy; in the preceding remarks, its
latent operation has been shown to paralyse our
efforts by effects variously manifested, though
emanating from a common cause. Another col-
lateral consequence of the funding system is to
he noticed. The enhancement in the conditions
of supply, and of course of price, was detrimen-
tally manifested in the first instance in those pro-
ducts of which labour formed the main con-
stituent, and with the least scope of counteract-
ing the effects of the additional change-upon it
by the introduction of improved processes and.
machinery. Agriculture, navigation, and the
arts in which labour is employed in its simplest
form, notwithstanding the introduction of great
improvements, were first affected ; their products
and remunerating charges were advanced beyond
the corresponding rates of countries exonerated.
from the levies comprehended in our prices • It
was found in those arts, that our productive
powers must be superseded by those of our less
burthened rivals, or be protected by fiscal impo-
sitions charged upon their products. The range
of our profitable industry, unless where main-
tained by improved skill and facilities, or by ex-
tending protection, became progressively circum-
scribed with the advance of taxation, till our
labour and skill at length could no longer be
brought into successful competition, excepting
in conjunction with machinery of peculiar effi-
cacy, and ingenious processes not practised by
our rivals. This sphere of successful compe-
tition will be successively narrowed as the pecu-
liarities by which it is maintained become com-
mon to both parties, and the participation cannot
be avoided. From the earliest interference of
foreign competition those producers not affected
by it have contended for the right of drawing from
our neighbours, free from countervailing imposts,
the commodities offered by them ; and the claim
continues to be preferred to the present time. Un-
less, however, the principles enforced in the preced-
ing observations are invalidated, the alleged policy
and advantage of such an intercourse will not be
realised by it, more especially in those commo-
dities with elementary costs of production (ex-
cluding the effects of taxation) exceeding those
of the same products in this country. " The
total assessment upon a country cannot be sup-
plied less onerously to the several branches of
industry than when derived from the co-operation
of the most efficient producers." So much for
this new theory of the advocate of the Agricul-
turists. It seems hard to swallow the possibility
of the country always producing, at a less ele-
mentary cost, food than any other country. If
our population were tripled would this be the
case ? Surely there may come a period when
the elementary cost of raising food will be higher
here than in some oilier countries, and when,
consequently, industry will be more beneficially
emphoed rising manufactures to exchange
for food -than in esising food. To sliest—how
much cheaper food is now than in the time of
Henry VIII., the author has recourse to the
Northumberland Household Book. " A No-
bleman eminently distinguished by magnificence
and taste maintains an establishment of 160
persons, constant residents in the house, with
many occasional followers, and in the permanent
retinue has several individuals, gentlemen by
birth and office, viz. the Comptroller, Chamber-
lain, Treasurer, &c., stations filled by Sir John
Norton and others, his agents (see page 27),
eleven priests, including a doctor and a bachelor
of Divinity ; irr short, the whole Knights' table ;
and he is no less munificent in his charities,
comprehended also in his expenditure." The
average expence was 1,2001. per annum ; the
average price of wheat was 6s. 2d. the bushel.
Oats are cheaper now, relatively to wheat, than
at the date of the Household Book. "At the
rate of 6s. 2ti. the quarter, the sum of the ex-
penditure, 1,2001., is represented by 3,891
quarters of wheat, or with the equivalent of this
quantity of wheat, the expenditure was defrayed
at the period of the Household Book. At the
present time, 3,891 quarters of Wheat, at 52i.
per quarter, would command the sum of 10,1161., •
a sum totally inadequate to the maintenance of
the retinue and splendour of this magnificent
Earl ; or, in other words, as wealth quite inferior
in potency to the proceeds from a similar quan-
tity of Wheat in 1512."—Ibid.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE

On Saturday a considerable bustle was excited at
the Mansion-house by a great variety of complain-
ants, who came forward to claim several articles of
furniture, of which they stated that they had been
fraudulently deprived by a man of the name of
Simmons, who formerly kept a broker's shop at
Newington. The complainants consisted of chair-
makers, bedstead-makers, looking-glaSs-makel s,
watch-makers, and a whole hOst of tradespeople of
almost every denomination.
llerdsfield and White, two active officers, were
despatched to the warehouse of Mr. Joel, a respect-
able auctioneer, where the articles had been depo-
sited for sale. Mr. Joel gave every assistance to
the officers, when he understood the nature of the
transaction, and, through his communication and
their exertions, several of the poor hard-working
people have recoVered their property. Simmons has
not been found, but a youth, about 16 years of age,
who has been keeping company with his daughter,
lays claim to a considerable part of the furniture
still on Mr. Joel's premises, on the ground that he
had purchased them of Simmons. Further inqui-
ries are now in progress on the subject, and it is ex-
pected that many other tradesmen will come for-
ward, when the circumstance ha., been made public,
to identify the property of which they have been de-
prived.
BOW-STREET.

On Saturday night Mr. Loir, of Museum-street,
Bloomsbury, came before Mr. HALts, and gave in-
formation of a robbery which had taken place in his
house on the preceding day.
The gentleman had let the entire of his house in
Museum-street, reserving to himself the back pre-
mises, and had removed all his furniture and pro-
perty from the house, with the exception of some
valuable articles, which he had left in a room on
the second floor. These consisted of a gold watch,
seals, and chain, a silver tea-pot, and other articles
of plate, some ingots of gold, and amongst other
things a large Mosaic, representing St. Peter's at
Rome, the value of which he could not with any
degree of accuracy state, as it was an exceedingly
rare and beautiful specimen of Mosaic. The rob-
bery must have been effected some time in the
course of the day, but how the thief or thieves ob-
tained access to the premises did not appear.
Mr. HALLS recommended that bills, containing a

ileeription of the strilEn propeity, should be imme-
ditit,cly pririt'c.d.and sent totinil to the different pawn-
lirhkers ; atio; ad a fijattcr of precaution, he advised
diat Mr. Loir liimBelf, or driie person deputed by
him, should see that the bills were so distributed.—
IN all such cases it would be necessary to do so, as
he (the Magistrate) understood that pawnbrokers'
boys *ere in the habit of tearing up bills describing
propelly, so feet they were seldom, if ever,
seen by the pawnbrokers themselves.
DradcacV AND HUMANITY OF PARISH OFFlctms.
—The following shocking occurrence took place at
this office, which called forth from the presiding
Magistrate, TDOMAS HALLS, Esq., very strong ani-.
Madveroions upon the conduct of parish officers :
A Very clean and decent woman, about 39 years of
age, arrived at the office door in a hackney coach,
about one o'clock, in the care of Burke, the beadle
of St. Clement Danes, for the purpose of being re-
tnoved to her legal settlement, Paddington. The
poor creature was so very ill, that it was with much
difficulty she could crawl from the coach to the
Public Office, and Mr. Halls observing her situa-
tion—though he had not the remotest idea of the
real cause of her illness—very humanely suspended
other business to dispatch her removal. After tak-
ing the usual oath, she appeared to be much worse,
and as she was leaving the back office, she groaned
deeply and became ghastly pale. On descending
the steps she fell into premature labour, and
brought forth a still-born child. The beadle lifted
her into the coach in the dreadful situation in which
she was, and took -her instantly to Paddington,
leaving the child—foe it was perfect in all its parts,
and appeared tt have retained life for some time—
on the paverneiti; -Goodson, the keeper of Bow-
street Office, removed the child, and informed Mr.
Halls of the circumstance. •

Mr. 1-.lAus expressed himself quite indignant that
the woman should have been removed in her situa-
tion, and complained, as he had repeatedly done be-
fore, that the Overseers of St. Clement Danes, in-
!teed of attending themselves before the Magistrates
in person, or by some proper representative, sent a
beadle only. He directed an officer to go to St.
Clement's 'Workhouse, and request the attendance
of Mr. Crooke, the acting Overseer.
Mr. Crooke in a very short time appeared, and
Mr. HALLS said that it was disgraceful that the
Overseers should hare removed a woman under
such circumstances : her death might be the conse-
quence of her being hurried out of the parish all
the way to Paddington, and if that should be the
result, he would take care that the Overseers
should be prosecuted. The scene which had been
exhibited in the street in front of the office was re-
volting to every feeling of delicaey and humanity.
Mr. Crooke said that the woman complained only
of a pain in her limbs when she was at the workhouse
that morning.
Mr. HALLS—She was not in a fit condition to
be removed, that is very certain. Perhaps you
were afraid of the child being born in your parish ?
Mr. Crooke—When she complained of being un-
well a coach was ordered for her.

Mr. HILLS—She could not walk, and ought not
to have been removed; and I repeat, the Overseers
shall most unquestionably be held responsible if the
poor woman's life should be sacrificed by their mis-
conduct.

Mr. Crooke bowed and quitted the office.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

James Butler, Mary Butler, Charles Box, Mary
Pickett, William James, and Jane Simpson, were
charged with housebreaking. The prisoner, Mary
Butler, is a remarkably handsome and fashionable-
looking female, and celebrated in the theatrical sa-
loons as a dashing courtezan. Butt, r passes as her
husband, but it is believed that he is only her " fancy
man ;" and he cohabited with her at No. 80, Drum-
mond-street, Euston-square, which the new police
have discovered to be a general depot for stolen pro-
pel ty. On Sunday morning last, during the absence
of the family of Mr. Baylis, a grocer, in High-street,
Portland-town, the prisoner James Butler, who on
the three previous Sundays had
_been seen lurking
about the neighbourhood, -approached Mr. Baylis's
house, and, with the aid of skeleton keys, delibe-
rately walked in through the street-door, which he
shut after him. Mr. James, a neighbour, observed
the whole of his prcc'cdings, and saw two men, re-
sembling James and Box, standing near the spot at
the time Butler entered. An alarm was given; the
police surrounded the house, and on Butler making
his appearance at the back door, he was secured.—
Mr. Baylis'a bed-room was broken open, and the
contents of the drawers were strewed about the
floor ; the plate and Miss Baylis's trinkets were
picked up on the stairs. A policeman, on searching
Butler's house, found a cart-load of stolen property,
consisting of every variety of wearing apparel, silver
plate, and gold and silver watches. In the back
kitchen a large chest was found, filled with phos-
phorus boxes, ales, screw-drivers, skeleton-keys, and
every other description of house•breaking imple-
ments, and also a box containing 70 so% ereigns,
which Mary Butler attempted to seize. James
Butler said that " Charley Box" and James, who
keeps a green-grocer's shop, were " in it" as well as
himself, and they were also apprehended ; but he
said that they had time to remove any " swag"
(stolen property) which they might have had in their
possession, and if the officers had been an hour later
they should not have found any at his house.
Mr. Tianewel, of Junction-terrace, Edgware-
road, whose house was broken open on the 22d
inst., when property of about 601. value was stolen,
identified a chinchilla tippet, some bracelets, and an
eye-glass, found at Butler's, as his property. Many
other felonies are expected to be brought home to
the prisoners, who were remanded for a final exa-
mination. The case seemed to excite great inte-
rest, and the office was crowded to excess during
the investigation.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
A barber, who resides near Rochester-row, was
charged with causing two children to become
chargeable to the parish. The barber, it appeared,
had a notice posted in his window, " Children
taken into nurse by the day." On Monday a female
called at his shop and said she wished her two
children—one 18 months, and the other four years
of age—to be boarded and lodged for the day.
-They were accepted, but the woman never called for
them afterwards, and the barber was compelled to
call upon the parish to support them.
The barber pleaded, that owing to the distress of
the times, he was unable to afford the children the
least relief, for gentlemen now-a-days were in the
habit of being shaved only once a week, instead of
every day, and the cold weather was not favourable
to the growth of beards.
The Magistrate said the parish must support the
children, and advised the barber to remove the bill
from his window.