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DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENTS.
PETITION OF DRAMATIC AUTHORS.
The humble Petition of the undersigned Dramatic Authors,
Most humbly shew:th,—'Fhat, in the opinions of your pe-
titioners, the laws relating to the Stage are opposed to the
advancement of the Drama.

That a majority of your petitioners must cease to exist as
Dramatists if the 'aid laws were enforced

That no Manager of any Theatre situate «ithin twenty miles
of London (except in the city of Westminster), could perform
the productions of your Petitioners conformably to the said laws.
That no Court of Law, Magistrate, or Officer of State, or
Justice, actively enforces the said laws.
That, in licensing the Theatres situate out of the jurisdiction
of the Lord Chamberlain, the Magistrates sanction a violation
of the said laws. . .

That the said laws, though not actively enforced, by making
the pursuit of an intellectual art an illegal act, cast a reproach
upon your Petitioners in their prof.ssion of Dramatists.
That many of your Petitioners are emulous of pnr '' suina the
higher branches of their art, but are deterred by the diffi-
culties created by the said laws.
That your Petitioners hear with regret universal complaints
of the decay of the Drama, and despair of its regeneration until
the laws regulating the Stage have been taken into the wise
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Petitioners most humbly pray your Honourable House to
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. .

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DOUGLAS JEttitoLn, Author of " The Rent Day," &e. &c.
W. BALE BERNARD, Author of " His Last Legs," &e.
Wm. CoLLit:a, Author of " Is Shea Woman?"
JotiN OXENFORD, Author of " The Jay well Spent."
.INo. R. BUCKSTONE, Author of " Married Life," &c. &e.
Tom PARRY, Au: hor of "P. P. , or the Man and the Tiger," &c.
EDWARD STIRLING, Author of " The Blue Jackets."
JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES, Author of '6 Lose,"
LEIGH HUNT, Author of " The Legend of Florence."
JOHN A. HERAUD, Author of " The Roman BrOIII:T."
THOMAS WADE, Author of " The Je=7 of Arragon."
F. G. TomLiNs, Author of " Garcia," &c.
EDWARD MAYHEW, Author of " The Templar," &c.
ANNA MARIA HALL, Author of " The French Refugee," &c.
CH ARLES DANCE, Author of " The Country Squire," &c. &c.
H. Hord., Author of " Grace Huntley," &c. &c.
WILLIAM HENRY OXBERRY, Author of " Delusion."
RICHARD BEA UCLERK PERRY, Author of 6' Paired off."
FRANCIS BARitAm, Author of " Adamus Exul."
St H oN GRAY, Author of " The Spaniard," and " The Young
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GEORGE W. LOVELL, Author of " The Provost of Bruges."
GEORGE STEPHENS, Author of " The Queen of Hungary."
B. W. PROCTER, Author of Mirandola."
THOMAS JAMES SERLE, Author of "The Merchant of

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J. R. PLANCHE, Author of " Oberon."
HENRY MAYPIEw, Author of " The Wandering Minstrel," &c.
RICHARD RYAN, Author of " Every Body's Husband."
W. WILLS, Author of " The Muse and the Merchant," &c.
MARE LEMON, Author of " The Ladies' Club." &c. &e.
GEORGE WILD, Author of " Something New," &c. &c.
HENRY BAYLIS, Author of "But However," &e.
WILLIAM MoseI:JEFF, Author of " Giovanri in London," &e.
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THOMAS liontroN WILES, Author of " tly Wife's Den-
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LEMAN REDE, Author of " The Rake's Progress."
CHARLES PELIIAM THOMPSON, Author of "The Gambler's

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LAW IN
PREROGATIVE COURT, May 27

There were many motions disposed of, in which probate was
refused to papers not executed in conformity with the New
Will Art.
IN RE GOODS OF THE MOST NOBLE CHARLES MARQUIS

OF HERTFORD.

Dr. ADDAMS applied for the grant of probate. to the will,
and 33 papers offered as codicils, of the late Marquis of
Hertford, who died on the Ist of March last. 'The will was
dated on the 25th of February, 1823, and with the eodicils
ws.re all in the handwriting of the deceased nobleman.
Some of the papers were written abroad, others in Eng.
land, with many interlineations and alterations. Of the
codicils executed since the New Will Act came into opera-
tion, some were not in conformity with the provisions of
the law. The executors named in the will were Lord Low-
ther, Mr. (now Sir Robert) Peel, Mr. Henry Cooke, Mr.
John Wilson Croker, and Mr. Hopkinson. These parties
were also appointed residuary legatees in trust, and the
Earl of Conway (the present Marquis) residuary legatee.
A codicil, dated in 1830, revoked the appointment of
Mr. Robert Peel, and Mr. Cooke and Mr. Harvey were
named instead. A codicil of August, 1834, appointed Mr.
Meynell as an executor also. The Learned Advocate, in sup-
port of the grant to Lord Lowther and his co-executors, ob-
served that there were duplicates and triplicates of some of the
papers. Some were gifts conditionally. It was, however,
necessary that a representation should be given to the vast
property left by the testator, especially as there were civil and
criminal suits going on.
Sir H. JENNER FUST granted probates to the wills and such
of the codicils as could pass. And the Learned Counsel, with
the proctor and the registrar, were directed to loOlCover the
whole of the papers, to discover which should be passed or en-
titled to the grant. _

A question—arose as to some valuable property contained in
a box at Milan ; and which, by a codicil, was given to the
Countess Zichy.
The Cons r directed the box to b 3 opened in the presence of
the Countess.

DAWES V. FEUCHEKES.
The CounT was occupied the rest of the flay In hearing ar-
guments as to the admissibility of an allegation in this case.
The further hearing was postponed till the next session.

SECONDARIES' COURT, May 27.
LAWES AND ANOTHER V. SHAW.

In this case Edward Hudson Vitruvius Lawes and William
Barber, Registrars of the Bankruptcy Court, were plaintiffs,
and James Shaw the defendant. The action was brought to
recover the sum of 1,0001., being the sixth part of a bond of
6,0001., entered into by the defendant and five others, by way
of security for James Clark, late an official assignee of the
Court of Bankruptcy. The defendant having suffered judg-
ment to go by default, the Jury were now called upon, under
a writ of inquiry, to assess the amount of damages to which the
plaintiffs were entitled.

• Mr. PLATT, in opening the case, said that in January, 1832,
Mr. Clark was appointed an official assignee of the Bankruptcy
Court, at which time the bond was given that was the subject
of this inquiry. From that period various sums were entrusted
to his care, arising from various bankrupts' estates, and
the 12th of April, 1641, he wrote a letter to Sir Charles
Frederick Williams, the Commi4sioner, tendering his re-
signation, and informing that learned gentleman, of his
(Mr. Clark's) defalcation, and his inability to meet it. lle
had kept, it appeared, large sums of money in his possession,
arnount:ng in all to about eight thousand pounds, and
which he ought to have paid into the hands of the Accountant-
General. It, therefore, became necessary that the Court. of
Bankruptcy should call on the sureties, but on inquiry being•
made, some of them it was found had become insolvent, and
others were living abroad and were not worth a farthing. The
p'aintiffs hail, therefore, proceeded against Mr. Shaw for the
recovery of the sum of 1,0001. It would be proved that from
fourteen different estates the assignee had received above 1001.
and retained those sums in his own possession The Learned
Gentleman then detailed the several amoants received by Mr.
Clark from the estates of various bankrupts, the most of which,
he said, had found their way to Mr. Clark's private banking
account.

A number of witnesses were examined, connected with the
Bankruptcy Court, in support of the Learned Counsel's state-
ment, and the bond, signed by Mr. Shaw, the defendant, was
put in. It also transpired, in the course of the inquiry, that in
the case of Mb.rriss and Nicholson, in which Mr. Clark had re-
et ived upwards of 1,700/. and in other instances in which he
was a defaulter, that the fiats and commissions could not be
found, but the evidence, exclusive of those cases, showed that
Mr. Clark had ree, ivied the sum of 3,459/. 16s. 11d. It was
stated that 473,000/, and upwards, had pissed through Mr.
Clark's hands during the time he was official assignee.
Sir Charles Frederick Williams, the Commissioner of Bank-
ruptcy, was examined at considerable length, in the course of
which he stated that he had entertained a very high opinion of
Mr. Clark as an effilient officer. The per tentage ti which
the assignee was entitled on his receipts was 1/2 per cent. over
every 1,000/., 1 per cent. under that sum, 21/2 per cent. for
5001., and 5 per cent. below that sum. He was also allowed
51., 101., 151., or 201. for the examination of a bankrupt's ac-
counts, according to the discretion of the Commissioners.
Mr. Clark, in his cross-examination, stated that he believed
the Court owed him as much as he was deficient, and "a little
more." He admitted that some years ago he was deficient of.
4,0001., and that he had mentioned it to Mr. Commissioner
Fane, during the absence of Sir C. F. Williams, and Mr.
Fane had told him (Clark) that he should be bound to report
but he would do so favourably. On that occasion be bor-
rowed the motley, and made it all up but 1,2001. He had
allowed 990/. and upwards, which was in his banker's hands, to
remain there until it could be appropriated towards his defalcation.
Mr. Sergeant Snea addressed the jury for the defendant,
and made some stringent observations upon the culpable neg-
ligence of the Bankruptcy Commissioners in suffering the
deficiency in Mr. Clark's accounts to remain so long undis-
covered.

The Learned SECONDARY having summed up, the Jury
retired to consider their verdict at a few minutes before five
o'clock, and after an hour's absence they returned into Court
with the following special verdict :—" We assess the damages
at 6001., and it is the opinion of this special jury, from the
evidence brought before them upon this inquiry, that great
negligence has been proved in the management of the Court
of Bankruptcy with regard to the security of the property
arising from the estates under their control."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

PUBLIC EXECUTIONS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
"Murder, though it bath no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ."—SnaxspEßE.
SlR,—The horrid deeds of Daniel Good, Greenacre,
and Cook are not the first instances of the mutilation
and dismemberment of the body after murder. The
first case in this country occurred in 1726, with this
difference, that a husband was murdered by his wife.
As it affords another remarkable instance of retri-
butive justice, I will recapitulate the facis as briefly
as possible.
Mr. Hayes was a farmer's son, who married a
woman of a somewhat indifferent character. They
kept a house in London, part of which was let out
in lodgings, and carried on the chandlery and coal-
trade, in which they were very successful. Exclu-
sive of his profit by shopkeeping, he acquired a great
deal of money by lending small sums on pledges.
After having acquired a decent competency, he left
off housekeeping, and hired lodgings near Oxford-
road. Thomas Billing, a journeyman tailor,
lodged in the same house, and a connexion
was soon formed between him and Catherine Hayes,
the wife. Mr. Hayes having gone into the country,
his wife and Billings indulged themselves in all sorts
oF extravagance. On his return, some of his neigh-
bours informed him of his wife's misconduct, on
which he severely censured her for it ; and a quarrel
arising between them, they proceeded from words to
blows. No doubt she formed the resolution of mur-
dering him at this time, as the quarrel happened only
six weeks before his fatal exit. At this period Thomas
Wood, an acquaintance of Mr. Hayes, arrived from
the country, and being afraid of impressment, Hayes
kindly took him into his hoilse, and promised to use
his interest in getting him some employment. After
a few days' residence, Mrs. Hayes proposed to him the
murder of her husband ; but the man was shocked at
the idea, and told her that he would have no concern
in so atrocious a deed. In a short time,
however, by the repeated solicitations of Mrs.
Hayes, his scruples of conscience were removed—he
was prevailed on to be one of the execrable butchers.
Accordingly Billings and Wood murdered him with
a hatchet while he was asleep. The murderers now
consulted how they should dispose of the body, so as
to prevent detection. Mrs. Hayes proposed to cut off
the head, to which the villains agreed.. She accord-
ingly fetched a pail, lighted a candle, and all three
going into the room, the men drew the body partly
off the bed, when linings supported the head while
Wood, with his pocket-knife, cut it off, and the in-
flunous woman held the pail to receive it, being as
careful as possible that the floor might not be stained
with the blood. Billings and Wood then took the
pail with them, and threw the head into the dock of a
wharf, near the Horseferry, Westminster, leaving the
pail behind. They were both found in the dock
the next day by a watchman. When the murderers
returned home Mrs. Hayes proposed that the body
should be put in a box and buried, but the box which
she purchased being found too little to contain it, she
recommended the chopping off the legs and arms,
which was done ; but, being still too small, the thighs
were then cut off, and all the parts packed up toge-
ther, and the box put by till night, when Wood and
Billings took out the pieces of the maligned body, and
putting them in two blankets, carried them out of the
house unnoticed, and threw them into a pond near
Marylebone. Meanwhile, the Magistrates directed
that the head should be washed clean, and the hair
combed, after which it was ton a pole in the
churchyard of St. Margaret, Westminster, that it
might be identified. After it had been exhibited four
days, and no discovery made, a surgeon was de-
sired to put it in spirits to prevent its pu •
trifying, and keep it for the further inspec-
tion of all who chose to view it. At length
suspicion was excited ; haves was missing, and his
friends began to inquire of his wife what had
become of him, to all of whom she gave evasive and
different answers. Finally, after various subterfuges,
the trio were taken into custody. The dismembered
limbs were subsequently discovered, and Wood con-
fessed the several particulars already related, and
Billings made a similar confession. To conclude,
F-Wood died in Newgate, and thus defeated the final
execution of the law. Billings was executed in the
usual manner, and then hung in chains, not far from
the pond in which Mr. Hayes's body was found, in
Marylebone Fields. The wretched woman, the real
murderer, was fixed to a stake near the gallows, with
on iron chain round her body ; and she was literally
burnt alive.* Her body was not perfectly reduced fo
ashes in less than three hours. IVhat a horrible exit
from this life !—Your obedient servant,

* At Tyburn, May 9, 1726.

C. P. J.

John Darey, the driver of the cab, No. 1,152, was charged
with the following outrageous misconduct, while driving his
vehicle:—

LOCKING-IN" ON RAILWAYS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Fate," &c.
WILLIAM THO PSON TOWNSEND, ALIBIOTOf "John Stafford."
JOSEPH LUNN, Author of " Family Jars," " Fish Out of
Water," &c.
W. S. E' ,ADEN, Author of " Rear Admiral," &c.
WILLIAM DuNN, Author of " The Daughter of the Air."
HENRY PPUNKETT, Author of" The Minerali."
CHARLES SELBY, Author Of " Captain Stevens."
R. H. HORNE, Author of" Cosmo de' Medici," &c.
RICHARD BRINSLEY PEAK E, Author of " Chancery Suit,"
" Climbing Boy," &c. &c. &c.
MORRIS BAItNETT, Author of " The Spirit of the Rhine,"
" Monsieur Jacques," &c. &c. &c.
EDWARD FITZBA LL, Author ot " Siege of Rochelle," &c.

RAILWAYS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir John Rae Reid, Bart., of No. 4, Eaton-place, Belgrave-
square, stated, that between twelve and one o'clock yesterday,
qa his leaving the Spitalfields Ball, given at the Italian Opera-
house, he hired the defendant's cab in the Haymarket, but, at
the time of getting in, did not perceive that the driver was in-
toxicated ; he had, however, not proceeded far before he be-
came sensible that such was the case, and shortly afterwards
the cab came in collision with an omnibus. On reaching the
top of Piccadilly, opposite to Hamilton-place, the defendant
starting off at a furious rate, and, through his recklessness and
incapacity to guide his horse, the cab came in contact with the
carriage of Lady Montagu, which was coming in the direction
from Hyde Park-corner, the concussion was so tremendous
that the cab was instantly overturned, the driver precipitated
with fearful violence from his box, as was also Lady
Nlontague's coachman, whose head narrowly escaped being
erushed, and the cab horse thrown down, and so severely
injured, that seemed unable to get up again. At
the same instant the horses in the carriage took fright, and gal-
lopped forward, dragging the cab lying on its side, and the
prostrate horse, with fearful rapidity, for the distance of at
least between twelve and fourteen yards. Complainant being
" a pretty strong sort of fellow," got his arm out of the upper-
most window of the cab, and endeavoured to seize the reins of
the carriage horses, but could not succeed, and but for the
police. whose zeal and exertion on the occasion could not be
too highly lauded—having, at imminent risk to their own per-
sonal safety, stopped the carriage, his own life, in all probabi-
lity, would have been sacrificed. Complainant's face was cut
by his being thrown forward against one of the front glasses
of the cab. On being extricated, he was taken into the resi-
dence of Sir Edmund Antrobus, where every requisite . assist-
ance was most promptly rendered him.
Mr. HA KDWICK said he supposed there could be no mistake
about the defendant being intoxicated ?

SIR,—It falls to my lot to travel frequently on the
Great Western Railway, and I request permission,
through the medium of your able and honest Journal
to make a complaint against the Directors of that
Company.
It is the custom on that railway to lock the pas-
sengers in on both sides—a custom which in spite of
the dreadful example at Paris, I have every reason to
believe they mean to continue without any relaxation.
In the course of a long life I have no • recollection
of any accident so shocking as that on the Paris Rail-
way—a massacre so sudden, so full of torment—
death at the moment of pleasure—death aggravated
by all the amazement, fear, and pain which can be
condensed into the last momerts of existence.

Stu.,---As the subject of railway travelling now employs a
good deal of public attention, may I be allowed to correct an
error in the extract of a letter, published in your Journal of
last Monday evening, the 23d instant.
In your article, headed " French Railway Accidents, Aca-
demy of Sciences, Sitting of May 16th," a A.I. Delessert reads
a paper from a correspondent, on the subject of the regulations
observed on the London and Birmingham Railway ; and i❑ this
correspondence it is stated, that the passengers are " constantly
separateti from the steam-engine, by a waggon filled with par-
cels and goods."
Now that this, Mr. Editor, is an erroneous representation of
the actual fact, in reference to the London and Birmingham
Railway, I will, in a moment, demonstrate.
On Saturday last but one, at two o'clock, p.m., I took a
ticket at the Euston-station for Coventry, a second-class
ticket. But I found that the seats in all the second-class car-
riages were already occupied, except those in the foremost
carriage, and in this foremost carriage I proceeded to Coventry.
Between this carriage and the " tender," the space was not
more than four feet ; being just sufficient for the action of the
" buffers."

But, I pwitively assert, that the carriage in which I sat was
only separated from the steam-engine by the " tender," and
not as M. Delessert's correspondent stated, " by a waggon
filled with parcels and goods."
As the safety of railway travelling constitutes, at this
moment, a subject of considerable attention snd anxiety, I
trust that your arrangements will allow of this letter, or, at
least, of the purport of it, being inserted in your widely-disse-
minated Journal.-1 am, Sir, yours, respectfully,
J. B. SMITH.
Park-street, Leamington, May 26, 1842.

UNDER Ti-IE PATRONAGE OF PRINCE ALBERT.
THE SPORTING MAGAZINE for JUNE
Will be Embellished with

ci se theou n t of the progress
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continuation interestno
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contribu-
tors.
MOURIST FOR JUNE. —Edi t e d by TI 1 o
tAht
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Adventures,
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CO LBUR N'S NEW -I,ONbTy IlttihLteeyrax
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estingAt the
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andhum(oitrhopeurspjeer'istB,le'dho'omeospillriiistset—sr'ebsbysy Mr. Sheridan Knowles, a beautiful
tale called " Woman's Love —by Mr. Poole_
SOME more
of the Barnabys in the land of Jonathan—by Mr. Laman Blan-
chard, a capital Essay on Legs-:-by Peter Priggins, a glorious
fun
—by
Ainlrim.
iQtaubildeday
account in " Graduates and Under-Graduates" of Dr. Fuss-
bottom and his Soiree Musicale—and, besides all these clever
papers, we have the Adventures of a Night in the " Reminis-
cences of a Medical Student," a series of papers which promise
to rival those under the well-known title of " The Diary of a
Physician"—an anteing article called " Professional Idiosyn-
"acYt" &e. &c., making up altogether one of the best numbers,
,even of this successful 111agazine, that we have lately seen.
NEW NOVEL BY THE COUNTESS OF BLESSING-
TON.—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great.
Marlborough-street, has this day taiblished " The Lottery of
Life," a novel, by the Countess of Islessington, which can now
be had at all the libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just pub-
lished the following new works of fiction :—l. Passion and
Principle, edited by Captai❑ Frederick Chamier. 2. Lady
Anne Granard, or Keeping-up Appearances, by L.E L.
3. The School for Wives, by the authoress of " Temptation."
4. Fascination, a Tale, edited by Mrs. Gore. 5. Joseph
Rushbrook, by Capt. Alarryat, new andcheaper edition. 6. The
Man of Fortune, by Mrs. Gore; and. in a few days, will be
published, a new novel, by the authoress of " 'the History of
a Flirt," entitled •' The Manceuvring Mother."
The Milan Gazette states that a meeting of the
Shareholders of the Venice and Milan railroad was held in the
latter city on the 4th. It was decided by 6SS votes to 25, that
the Company was prepared to commence and complete the un-
dertaking. The Government Commissioner announced that
the State would forward the work as much as possible by loans,
or any other means in its power. It was agreed that the por-
tion of the line from Milan to Treviglio and Brescia should be
i forthwith
.commenced.

Who can say that the same scene may not be acted
over again on the Great Western Railroad ? That, in
the midst of their tunnel of three miles' length, the
same scene of slaughter and combustion may not
scatter dismay and alarm over the whole country ?
It seems to me perfectly monstrous that a board of
ten or twelve monopolists can read such a description,
and say to the public, " You must run your chance
of being burnt or mutilated. We have arranged our
plan upon the locking-in system, and we shall not in-
cur the risk and expense of changing it."
The plea is, that rash or drunken people will at-
tempt to get out of the carriages which are not locked,
and that this measure really originates from attention
to the safety of the public ; so that the lives of two
hundred persons who are not drunk and are not rash,
are to be endangered for the half-yearly preservation
of some idiot, upon whose body the coroner is to sit,
and over whom the sudden death man is to deliver his
.sermon against the Directors.
The very fact of locking the doors will be a fre,
quent source of accidents. Mankind, whatever the
Directors may think of that process, are impatient of
combustion. The Paris accident will never be for-
gotten. The passengers will attempt to escape
through the windows, and ten times more of mischief
will be done than if they had been left to escape by
the doors in the usual manner.

I. Sailing on Lake Windermere.—ll. Modish.
CONTENTS:-
TIIF. SPORTING LIFE OF ENGLAND,
By JOHN MILLS, Esq.,
Author of the Old English Gentleman :
"Newmarket—the Chester Cup—Anecdotes—the Derby and
Oaks."

Sir John—He was as-drunk as a fiddler ; and, although I
have been importuned on the part of the defendant not to press
the charge against him, I feel myself called upon, on public
grounds, to came forward and urge his being punished with
prop., severity. It is a piece of great fortune that Lady Mod-
tague's coachman, the defendant, and myself, were not all
killed, or desperately maimed, to say nothing of the peril the '
party in Lady Montague's carriage were placed.
Police-constable, N 0.55, of the C division, who principally as-
sisted
in stopping the horses, and also took the defendant into cu b•
tody, produced a splinter-bar belonging to Lady Montague's car-
riage which had been broken in two. There were in the car-
riage at the time, two ladies and Mr. Hope, of No. 14,
Curznn-street, May-fair. They all escaped without injury.
The defendant pleaded his having taken a "little drink"
which had a more powerful effect upon him than he had an-
ticipated. •

Mr. HA RDWICK, having strongly commented on his gross
misconduct, fined him 31., and in default of payment to two
months' imprisonment to hard labour, and also suspended
his license as a.driver for two months.

Newmarket First and Second Bath Races, by Phoenix.
Spring Met,tings. A Brunecheval's Journal of
Shropshi, e Hunting. Sport in the West, for April
The Stage Coach, or the Itoad and May, &c.
of Life, by John Mills, Esq.. Close of the Season with the
Author of the Sporting Novel. Perthsl.ire Hounds, &e., by
Chapter VII., " The Sleep. Brushwood.
walker." Irish Melange, by Roderick
Sailing on Lake Windermere. Random.
Sketches of Western Sport— Spooner's Edition of White's
No. XI., " Connemara." Compendium of the Veteri-
continued. nary Art.
An Extra Week with the Quorn The Sportsman's Lawyer, by A.
Hounds, by Clio. Barrister " Liability for
Conclusion of the Hunting. Furious Driving Epsom
Season with Mr. Drake. the Races."
Atherstone, and the War.. Sporting Intelligence, &c. &c.
wickshire, by Cecil.
London : M. A. Pittman, No. 11, Warwick-square, New-
gate-street, and all Booksellers.

The prisoner not having the money was sent to prison.
WORSHIP- STREET

The case of William Atttrell, a brushmaker, and Louisa,
his wife, who stood charged, conjointly with l'aria Atttcell,
his m•kiier, with having caused the body of their deceased in-
fant, five weeks old, to be privately buried as a still-born child,
was finally disposed of before Mr. Broughton.
Mr. Ware, the Vestry-clerk of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch,
vas present with the Churchwardens, and other parochial offi-
eors, in compliance with a request from the Magistrate.
Mr. BROUGHTON briefly detailed the circumstances of the
case, for the information of the parish authorities. The pri-
soners were first brought before him charged on suspicion of
having caused the death of their child, and a strong prima facie
case was made out against them. The body of the child had
not then been found, but, through the exertions of Westbury,
the officer, it was subsequently discovered that one of the assist.
ant grave •diggers of Shoreditch had been induced by the
prisoners to bury it, as a still-born child, in Hutton church-
yard. A coroner's inquest had been since held, and he (the
Nlagistrate) was happy to say that the evidence of the surgeon
who examined the body after its dismemberment, went com-
pletely to exonerate the prisoners from the more serious charge.
A subject of the utmost importance, however, was involved
in the case, to which he requested the serious attention
of the parish authorities. He alluded to the extreme facility
with which a burial might be effected, it being only necessary,
it would appear, to apply to an assistant gtave-digger, with a
half-crown fee, who would undertake it without hesitation or
demur. He hoped the parish authorities would give the matter
their most serious consideration, and adopt measures for the
remedy of so great an evil.
Mr. Hunt, the prisoners' solicitor, said that there appeared,
in fact, to be no case against his clients, and he hoped the
'Magistrate would at once discharge them.
Some further conversation of an unimportant nature took
place.
after which the Magistrate acceded to the solisitar's
re-
quest, and the prisoners were discharged.

It is not only the locking of the doors which is to
be deprecated ; but the effects which it has upon the
imagination. Women, old people, and the sick are all
forced to travel by the railroad ; and for 200 miles
they live under the recollection, not only of impending
danger, but under the knowledge that escape is im-
possible—a journey comes• to be contemplated with
horror. Men cannot persuade the females of their
family to travel by the railroad ; it is inseparably
connected with abominable tyranny, and perilous im-
prisonment.

Why does the necessity of locking both doors exist
only on the Great -Western ? Why is one of the
doors left open on all other railways ?
The public have a right to every advantage under
permitted monopoly which they would enjoy under
free competition ; and they are unjust to themselves
if they do not insist upon this right. If there were
two parallel railways, the one locking you in, and the
other not, is there the smallest doubt which would
carry away all the business ? Can there be any he-
sitation in which timid women, drunken men, sages,
philosophers, bishops, and all combustible beings,
would place themselves ?

The decorations used for the Spitalfields ball will
be retained at her Majesty's Theatre this evening, Saturday,
May 28.

I very much doubt the legality of locking doors,
and refusing to open them. I arrive at a station
where others are admitted; but lam not suffered to
get out, though perhaps at the point of death. In
all other positions of life there is egress where there
is ingress. Man is universally the master of his own
body, except he chooses to go from Paddington to
Bridgewater; there only the habeas corpus is refused.
Nothing, in fact, can be more utterly silly or mis-
taken than this over-officious care of the public ; as if
every man who was not a railway director was a
child or a fool. But why stop here ? Why are not
strait-waistcoats used ? Why is not the accidental
traveller strapped down ? Why do contusion and
fracture still remain physically possible?
Is not this extreme care of the public new ? When
first mail coaches began to travel twelve miles an
hour, the outsides (if I remember rightly), were
never, tied to the roof. In paCkets landsmen are not
locked into the cabin to prevent them from tumbling
overboard. This affectionate nonsense prevails only
on the Great Western. It is there only that men,
women, and children (seeking the only mode of

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transit which remains) are, by these tender-hearted
monopolists, immediately committed to their locomo-
tive prisons. Nothing can, in fact, be so absurd as all
this officious zeal. It is the duty of the Directors to
take all reasonable precautions to warn the public of
danger—to make it clear that there is no negligence
on the part of the Railroad Directors; and then, this
done, if a fool-hardy person choose to expose himself
to danger, so be it. Fools there will be on roads of
iron and on roads of gravel, and they must suffer for
their folly; but why are Socrates, Solon, and Solomon
to be locked up ?
But is all this, which appears so philanthropical,
mere philanthropy ? Does not the locking of the
doors save servants and policemen ? Does not eco-
nomy mingle with these benevolent feelings ? Is it
to save a few fellow-creatures, or a few pounds, that
the children of the West are to be hermetically sealed
in the locomotives ? Ido not say it is so ; but I say
it deserves a very serious examination whether it is so
or not. Great and heavy is the sin of the Directors
of this huge monopoly, if they repeat upon their own
iron the tragedy of Paris, in order to increase their
dividends a few shillings per cent.
The country has (perhaps inevitably) given way to
this great monopoly. Nothing can make it tolerable
for a moment but the most severe and watchful
jealousy of the manner in which its powers are exer-
cised. We shall have q-rannical rules, vexatious
rules, ill temper, pure folly, and meddling and imper-
tinent paternity. It is the absolute duty of Lord
Ripon and Air. Gladstone (if the Directors prove
themselves to be so inadequate to the new situation in
which they are placed) to restrain and direct them by
law; and if these two gentlemen are afraid of the re-
sponsibility of such laws, they are deficient in the
moral courage which their office requires; and the
most important interests of the public are neglected.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
May 21, 1842. SIDNEY SMITH.

•
MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
POST.—The effect of the progress which the tariff is
making in Parliament has already been felt in the produce
markets, where more confidence and a better feelin..,e N visible.
The exertions which are being used to obtain a relaxation of
the duty in favour of Coffee smuggled from the Cape of Good
Hope meet with but little sympathy from merchants generally,
the system of allowing it to be thus imported having always
been considered as radically bad, and the incompatibility of
three rates, and putting a stop to the practice being clearly
seen. No reason can be perceived for allowing the present
stock to be admitted at a duty below foreign, the purchasers
and importers having op-ratnl with the knowledge that an al-
teration in the then rates would be made, and if it were allowed
upon this particular article, justice would require that every
other similarly affected should be treated, and thus the whole
plan be deranged.
SUN.—The Funds, which had been firm during the whole of
the day, with an upward tendency, experienced a sudden de.
oression late in the afternoon, and Consols left off at 92/ for
Money, and 93* for the Opening, an eighth per cent. lower
than yesterday. The-cause assigned for this decline is a sudden
demand for money for commercial purposes, but this scarcely
appears probable, from the limited extent to which business has
1 late been carried on ; the more likely reason is perhaps to be
found in connection with some continental operas ens in the
exchanges. Exchequer Bills advanced Is., the old bills being
3S to 40, and the advertised 35 to 36 prem. Bank Stock, 167
168 ; India Stock, 249 251.
The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian 102 103 ;
Dutch 'lwo-and-a-Half per Cents., 52% 523:4 ; the Five per •
Cents. lIM 101* ; Danish, SO% 811/2; and Brazilian, 67* 68/.
Railway Shares were higher, and apparently recovered from
I the decline of yesterday. London and Birmingham, 179 l'9l ;
Birmingham and Gloucester, 50 52; Great Western, 91* 92* ;
the Halt Shares, 624 63k; South Western, 63 63/; Gosport,
63 b 3/ ; North Midland, 65 67 ; the New Shares, 32 33 ;
Eastern Counties, 9 9+4 ; South Eastern and Dover, 284 29,
the Scrip, 6/ 7h; Blackwall, 10/ ll* ; and Brighton, 35* 35/.
The foreign exchanges were lower than on Tuesday, Am-
Zterdam, 12 42,-, 12 4i; Rotterdam, 12 4i; Hamburgh,
13 104, 13 14; Antwerp, 12 4i; Frankfort, 151*, 151* ;
Paris, 25f. 77/c., 25f. 82/ ;c. Vienna, 9 52/, 9 53* ; Trieste,
9 54, 9 55, all at three mouths.
The quotations of the Bends were—Colombian, 26/ 27h ;
Peruvian, 19 20 ; Portuguese Three per Cents. 22* 23 ; the
Five per Cents., 38 384; Spanish Five per dents., 22/ 23,
and the Three per Cents. 22/ 23*.
The proposals made to the Bondholders by the Chilian Go-
vernment. for arranging the over-due interest, were unani-
mously adopted at the meeting to-day. Many of the holders
are even now very far from being satisfied of the inability
of Chili to do more than they have offered, considering,
from the flouri,hing state in which she is, that in
the courseuf a very few years the revenue would be in a condi-
tion to pay all the claims in full, and that, instead of waiting
so long for the first payment of the Deferred Stock, it would
have been preferable to have kept the negotiation in abeyance.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 7/ IGibraltar
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 Genoa ... 25 93
Antwerp l2 7 Milan ..
Ilamburgh M.B. 13 13i Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 Palermo, per ox 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux •2.5 95 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 152 i Bahia
26
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 364 Buenos Ayres
Berlin--
Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 956 Philadelphia 46
l'rieste, ditto
dadrid 3624 Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Cadiz
Bilbao .. 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0
llarcelona
ev ille ... 36 Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 ll}

WESTMINSTER HARMONIC
SoCIET Y.

This Society, established for the promotion of a practical
acquaintance with, and taste for, the productions of the tn st
composers, gave a concert of Sacred Music in the ti,eitre of
the Westminster Literary and Scientific Institution, Great
Smith-street, on Monday last. Mozart's highly. esteemed
" Twelfth Service" formed the first part, the solo parts b ing
most judiciously sustained by Miss Ward, Miss Thorn-
ton, Mr. Turner, and Mr. Stretten, and the grandeur
of the harmonies done ample justice to by a chorus of
sixty vocalists, and a most efficient band. in the second
part, the air from the Creation, "In Native Worth"
was sung with great sweetness and expression by Mr. Turner ;
the prayei, " 0, Lord have mercy," of Pergoliii, executed
with deep feeling by Mr. Stretton, who was in excellent voice ;
and " Ye sacred priests," sung by Miss Cubitt with her wonted
delicacy and good taste.
The ccncert repeatedly elicited the warm applause of the
audience, and we could but regret that the numbers of persons
who evinced their appreciation of the treasures of Handel,
Haydn; and Mozart, afforded such scanty encouragement to the
Directors to persevere in their laudable endeavours to revive a
taste for the highest order of music.

SALE OF ANCIENT FURNITURE AND ARTICLES
OF VERTU.—Messrs. Oxenham and Sons, of Oxford-street,
hare advertised for sale, on the 31st instant, and the four follow
ing days, a collection of valuable property of a curious and in-
teresting description, just imported from the Continent. This
collection, which we inspected yesterday at the rooms in Ox-
ford-street, is of a very miscellaneous description, consisting, of
obi French furniture, including some good specimens by De
Boule and Alarqueterie among which we noticed an elegantly
shaped rose and tulip wood table, the top of which is finely
inlaid with groups of flowers; a pair of mosaic cabines
01 fine proportions, in which there are an oval
centre panel and four angular panels representing fru.t
and flowers, firmed of sardonyx, red jasper, cornelian,
&c. ; a very handsome old Boule clock of the finest
neriod of Louis XV. ; a second pair of cabinets, still
finer than those above mentioned, which contain panels of mo-
saic in relief of very large dimensions, and decorated in a su-
perb manner with appliques of bronze d'ore of pure design; an
old royal Sevres porcelaine plateau, finely painted in Boucher
subject; a royal Sevres tazza, 46 inches in circumference, of a
very rich and elegant appearance, and several vases of the same
make and fabric. The collection also contains several very
handsome and well-executed terra-cotta figures and groups, and
some (finely well-moth lied bas-reliefs in terra-cotta. Among
the bijouterie, which is of a very unique nature, we noticed a
magnificent rosary of 27 lapis lazuli beads, with enamelled
sold ornaments, to which is attached a chrystal relic with a
figure of the Virgin, a work, we should suppose, of the 16th
century ; and a distaff and spindle of carved box-wood, com-
posed of numerous groups of figures and animals, executed in
an astonishingly elaborate manner, and of an extremely
elegant design. There are also some paintings of the French
and Flemish masters, varioussuits and fragments of armourof
different ages, oak carvings of almost every style, and some
large specimens, in an excellent state of preservation, of Beau-
vais tapestry. The recent sale at Strawberry-hill, which
consisted for the most part of articles of this description, has
probably given the public taste an impulse in this direction.
We can say that, though it is not likely anything like the ex-
travagant prices realised at that aale will again be reached,
many of the objects contained in this collection appeared toa s
to 1 ossess equal, if not superior attractions to some of the relics
at Horace Walpole's far-famed villa.

•
MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY OF THE COURT OF
QUEEN CHARLOTTE.—At the commencement of this vo-
lume, Miss Burney enters t•n the duties of her office at Court.
She constantly resided under the same roof w;th her Majesty,
was in daily communication, not only with her, but with the
young Princesseq, and frequently saw and conversed with
the King and the most distinguished personages of the Court.
Imagine, then, this observant, clever creature, with every fa-
culty sharpened by the novelty of her situation, and the im-
portance of the scenes in which she moved, preserving a record
of her life—not a dry dull diary of her breakfasts and dinners,
but a copious narrative of every circumstance that could gra•
tify public curiosity, varied with matchless sketches of indivi-
dual peculiarities; treasuring up the minutest details that could
illustrate the character of the Royal Family and their circles—
givirg the most animated and dramatic pictures of her daily
experience; imagine this and you may form some idea of the cots-
tents of the volume. It is like having Evelina or Cecilia at Court,
for the same general characteristics pervade the Diary as the
novels, with the conviction that every line is genuine and true.
The whole forms by far the most complete and lively represen-
tation of the Court of George 111. that has ever been given to
the world.—Britannia.

ROBBERY IN A LIVERPOOL ThYrEf..—A robbery
bhyada
Prussianwas co mmniatmte
edde nG
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rtiliceih hotels
rr This
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been staying at the hoe' for a month, representing himself as
a wool merchant. On Sunday he contrived to take a cash-box
from the bar, containing 411. 10s. in gold, and 6UI. wrapped in
papers of 51. each, without observation. He immediately pro-
ceeded to another hotel, where he requested to be shown to a
bedroom, under the pretence that he wanted to wash his hands.
Whilst there, he broke open the box, took out the cash, and
having concealed the box under the bed, went away. He then
returned to the hotel where he had committed the robbery,
and coolly ordorel dinner, after having partaken of which he
left the house, and has not yet been heard of.—Liverpool
Times,
We find the following painful and extraordinary
narrative in the Toulonnais :—" During a violent storm at
Vitiauban, in the Ver, in the afternoon of the 16th inst., four
peasants took shelter in an outhouse. The lightning atruek
the building, and, displacing the beam of the.roof, it fell upon
them, fractured the skull and killed a young man, and slightly
injured another, his wife, and a second woman. These three
persons were at the same time nearly suffocated by sulphurous
vapour. As they were being carried into the village on litters,
the dead and mutilated body of the young man was suddenly
seen by his mother, who was in the street. Having a child
at the breast, the shock had such a severe effect upon her,
that her milk rose instantly to her head, and flowed from her
mouth and nostrils."