The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-30 00:00:00

THE NEW ROYAL HOTEL AT
SLOUGH.

fectly successful with his convoy for revictualling •
Medeah: He met with no obstruction, and during his
march attacked the tribe o c'the Mouzaias, killing five,
taking thirty prisoners, and carrying off 450 head of
cattle. General d'Arbouville's report mentions several
slight affairs, the result of which was the capture of
about 120 prisoners, and 3,000 head of cattle, and
the submission of some tribes who had until then
persevered in their hostility. On his way to
Mascara he found three pieces of small artillery,
which had been concealed at Saida by Abd-el-Kader,
when he evacuated that place.
We extract the following statement of the num-
bers of the Catholic clergy in France, and the pro-
vision made for them, from the Budget of the
Minister of Public Worship. The total amount of
these ecclesiastics is 36,014. They comprise 15 Arch-
bishops, of whom the Archbishop of Paris has at pre-
sent un income of 25,000 f. a-year, which, however, is
proposed to be increased to 40,000 f., and the other 14
have from 14,000 f. to 15,000 f. ;65 Bishops, having
10,000 f. ; but the three Cardinal Bishops of Rouen,
Lyons, and Arras, have an additional 10,000 f. Such
prelates as have two. departments in their diocese
receive 1,500 f. for the expences at their visitations,
and the rest have I,ooof. Sums of from B,ooof.
to 10,000 f. are granted to Archbishops and Bishops
towards the charges of their first establishment.
There are 175 Vicarsieneral. Those in the Arch-
bishopric of Paris receive 4,000 f., in the other Arch-
bishoprics, 3,000 f., and in the Bishoprics, 2,000 f. for
each ; 661 Canons, those of Paris having 2,400 f., and
the rest 1,500 f. ' • 3,301 Cures, with incomes of from
1,200 f. to 1,500 f. ; 26,000 desservans or curates—
such as are under 60 years of age receiving 800 f—
. 60 and 70 years, 900 f.—and of 70 and up-
wards, I,ooof. ; 27,600 Cures are established or au-
thorised ; 5,776 Vicars, with allowances of 350 f.
(6,276 are authorised): 21 Bishops' Canons, having
8,000 f., being dignitaries and canons of the second
order belonging to the Chapter of Saint Denis. There
are also 3,00 seminarists.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

GLOBE.---Sir Robert Peel's perpetual disposition
to do the plausible has got him and his majority into
a mess.- on the Compromise and Bribery question.
It is clear they do not wish to punish bribery when
they can possibly help it ! Ipswich to wit ! It
is equally clear that they do not like inquiry into
bribery. This was sufficiently evident from the
reception of the several speeches last night on Mr.
C. Buller's, motion to include Bridport in that in-
quiry. They are, however, constrained to vote on
the plausible side with the Prime Minister. Now
that vote is a second contradiction to their conduct
towards Ipswich. The case of that borough was
expressly referred to their consideration by the. Com-
mittee which reported it. On the evidence adduced
before it, the election had been declared void ; and it
was notorious that as much evidence again might be
had for asking. Now here was a case which came
regularly before the House for special inquiry., That
inquiry was negatived. In the case of Bridport,
on the other hand, the petition of Mr. Wurburton
is a sort of answer to the advertisement which the
House has published for fancy inquiries. We defy
the -- Minister (or a clever tempter) to explain
on what possible principle. inquiry is granted in
this case, after inquiry has been refused in the other.
And what sort of inquiry is it, after all, that is going
to be made ? Here we frankly confess that, after
reading the second clause of Mr. Roebuck's Bill, and
the last night's speech of Lord Stanley, we are as
much in the (lark as the House must be. It is not to
be a ' judicial inquiry at all; for a judicial inquiry
draws after it a judicial sentence ; and no sentence,
it seems, is to be passed on anybody, whe-
ther bribers or bribees. For what' purpose, then, is
Bridport added to the subjects of this inquiry
Not for the purpose of adjudicating between the
conflicting parties. Not for the purpose of reinstat-
:ing one, or of branding another—not for the pur-
pose (said Lord Stanley) of visiting of Mr. Warburton,
or either of those Honourable Members, with anypenal
consequences—"the less," said Sir R. Peel, "those pro-
ceedings possessed of a criminatory character towards
individuals the better. The House ought not to con-
template individual punishment ; he did not mean in,
dividual punishment so much as individual degra-
dation ; that ought not to be the object in view,
because it was out of the question to deny
that, for the last twenty or thirty years, compro-
anises of this sort had constantly been entered into."
Here is a precious mess now ! Here is a special in-
quiry into local and personal cases—without any in-
tention to found special proceedings upon its result—
without any purpose either of unseating Members, or '
of disfranchising boroughs —nay with an express
opinion, on the part of its institutors, that the less it •
partakes of a criminatory character towards indivi-
duals the better, and with an express provision for
kindemnifying those subjected to it from all its conse-
I quences 1
STANDARD.—AIIusion was last night made in
the Houses of Parliament to the improving condition
of the Irish peasantry. That the character of the
Irish population is improved we rejoice to believe • and
that a part Of the improvement is due to the land-
lords we as cheerfully admit. Irish landlords are
no better and no worse than other men. While
•it seemed for their interest, as it did until the
establishment of a system of Poor-laws, and until
they found that degradation could be carried so low
as to make the peasantry mere unreasoning instru-
ments in the hands of their enemies, they were
indifferent to a debasement of the population
which, at least, seemed to give them higher rents
than could be paid by a higher order of
human beings. The introduction of the poor-
law, ' however, and some sharp lessons they have
had at • elections, have taught them that in the de-
basement of the peasantry they have no longer an
advantage, but the reverse, and they naturally now
exert themselves to raise the character of the popula-
tion. This, in part, accounts for the improvement
that is acknowledged to have taken place. But
another beneficial influence, and a far more efficient
one; has been at work, in the exertions of the always
good landlords, and of the societies of good men who
have deVoted themselves to the instruction of
the people. In Ireland, the extension of true
religion has not merely made Protestants, it has made
Roman Catholics better than they were. What we
have to say of the ' temperance movement involves
something more like a paradox. The prevailing
opinion is, that until lately the Irish were
universally a nation of drunkards. This opinion
is founded on the fact, that the Irish labourers
in this country have been seen . to - indulge more in
the use of ardent spirits than our native peasantry,
and 'on all that we have heard of fighting at Irish
fairs. The truth, however, is, that the Irish
peasantry were never at any - time habitual
drunkards—they have been always, we firmly
believe, - less deserving of the opprobrious cha-
racter than even the English or the Sc-Otch. The
Irish labourer whom we ;see -here is one who
finds himself for the first time 'in the possession of
a superfluous shilling, and before habits of saving are
acquired it is the most natural thing in the world
for him to carry it to the gin-shop. As to the fights
at fairs, they prove nothing of intemperance,- for
they are generally arranged beforehand, and fought
out by men and . women most usually sober.
Drunkenness, indeed, in the Irishman's - life,
was for , the most part merely casual, and rarely
habitual, probably occurring once or twice a year,
' and therefore signalised by mere violence. 'Were
it not for this, Mr. Mathew's success would be
miraculous; but where there was .no habit to be
cbnquered, it is easy to believe and to- under-
stand the facility with which the temperance
roll has been filled. This . does not in the
least detract from the merit of the teacher of tem-
perance, although it somewhat diminishes the im-
portance of his achievement. Nor must we leave out
of sight the influence of the great religious movement
of which we have spoken, which, to its extent, has
disposed men to temperance, as well as to all the other
practical virtues.

The female adventurer Desjardins, who has figured
before the publics under the .names of Countess d'Arjuzon,
Countess de Mussy, Baroness Victoire de Vandeck, and nu-
merous other aliases, who has been condemned by default to
ten years' close confinement for an attempt to impose a sup-
postitious child upon a family, and also sentenced by default
to further ten years' imprisonment, as an accomplice in
the enormous system of forgery and fraud, detected and ex-
posed by the London Times, and who was give* up to
France by the Government of Turin, but on her way to Paris
escaped in the most unaccountable manner from the gen-
darmes of Boureouiti, in the Isere, has at length been found
residing in the Maison de Sante of Dr. Pinel, in the Champs
Elysees. It appears that she arrived in Paris only a few days
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was so called, pretending to be greatly suffering from an af-
fection of the chest which requited medical advice. Among
her effects was found a passport in the name of Louis Bonjars,
a travelling-clerk belonging to a house of Marseilles, which
she declared she had obtained with the intent of facilitating the
departure of the Count dArjuzon, who had been previously
have beenegu e brought
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of this accomplice, it has been postponed. The search
among her baggage produced the discovery of another 'crime.
A small file was found, upon which were remaining evident
traces of its having been recently used upon silver. On the
director and servants of the Maison dt Saute being insen.,_
grated, they deposed that since the arrival of the prisoner, a
considerable quantity of plate belonging to the establishment
hal been missed. Further inquiries being made, a silver..
smith came forward and declared that, on the previous day, a
young woman had offered him for sale several spoons and forks,
the engravings on which had been effaced with a file, but he
declined purchasing them. On being brought in presence with
Desjardins, he at once recognised her as the person. Upon
this, as well as the other charges against her, this adventurous
woman was committed to prison, and will be brought to trial
with Count d'Arjuzon, as soon as the preliminary proceedings
can be got through.

* The budget of the Ilamburgh State is about
4000,000 marks currency ; inhabitants about 150,000.
7 marks currency = 1/. sterling ; 13i marks banco=---
/. sterling.

BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, MAY 27.-A fair busi-
ness has been done in sugars during the week, and prices may
be quoted Is. to Is. 6d. higher than at the lowest point of the
recent. depreession. Extensive purchases of refined in the
London market, appear to be the cause of this improvement,
for the demand in groceries is but languid for the time of year.
—Arrived the Adelaide, 400 hhds.— Bristol Mercury.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May 28.
THE LIVERPOOL ABDUCTION CASE.
CRELLIN V. LEYLAND AND BULLER.

Mr. JZILVIS applied to the Court on behalf of the defendants,
who are bankers ►n Liverpool, for an interpleader rule calling
upon Ann Crellin and John Orr Macgill to come in and decide
their respective rights to a certain sum of money in defendant's
possession, to recover which an action had been brought by
Ann Crellin against the defendant. It appeared that Ann
Crellin had lodged in the defendant's hands a sum of
money, of which a balance of 1,6011. 18s. 9d. remained. She
had brought an action to recover this balance, and defendants
had received a notice, signed John Orr Macgill, stating that
he wis the lawful husband of Ann Crellin, warning them, at
their peril, to pay the said money over to Ann Crellin alias
Macgill, and demanding from the defendants that they should
pay the said sum of 1,6011. 18s. 9d. over to him. This they
refused to do, as it was notorious that the said Macgill was at
this moment in the gaol of Kirkdale, charged with having been
guilty of the abduction of Ann Crellid, of which charge, should
he be convicted, the marriage would be null and void. The
defendants were perfectly willing and desirous of paying the
money to thelawful owner, but it was rather hard that the
question of the validity of Miss Crellin's marriage should be
tried in this manner at their expense, more especially while
criminal proceedings were pending by which the question
would be decided. An application had been made for an in.
terpleader rule to Mr. Justice Wightman. but his Lordship had
directed the application to be made to the full Court.

Lord DENsiirr—Who would be the parties to the issue?
Mr. JERVIS—I am afraid the husband and wife, my Lord;
but the Act says nothing about that. The object of the Act
clearly is to prevent parties standing in the situation of the de-
fendants, who are willing to pay the money to those who have
a right, being placed in this manner between two fires.
Lord DENMAN—You may take a rule to show cause, on
bringing the money into Court.—Rule nisi granted.

POLICE liv TIELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Leonard Richards, a-man who stated that he was 52
years of age, was brought befure the Lord Mayor charged
with having presented a forged cheque, purporting to be
the cheque of Capel, Cuerton, and Co., of Pope's Head-
alley, Cornhill, for the sum of 1,7911. 16s. 2d., at the
banking-house of Messrs. Curries and Co., 29, Cornhill.
Mr. Bush, the solicitor to the Committee of Bankers for
Protection against Forgeries and Fraud, appeared for the
prosecution, and Mr. Wontner attended upon the part of
the prisoner.
Mr. John Robinson, cashier in the banking-house,
stated that the prisoner presented the cheque in the usual
way at the counter. It was dated 25th May, 1842, and
was as follows :—`• Messrs. Curries and Co. Pay Mr.
L. Richards, or bearer, 1,7911. 16s. 2d. Capel, Cuerton,
and Co." The banking-house had a house of the name
a customer. Witness referred the cheque to Mr. Wel-
ford, another clerk hi the establishment, after asking the
prisoner whether he would leave it a short time, to which
he replied in the affirmative.
Mr. John Welford stated that upon receiving the
cheque, he went to the par.tners, and immediately after-
, wards ran to Mr. Cuerton in Pope's Head-alley, and on
his return told the prisoner, who was still in waiting a
the counter, that he must be given in charge, as the
cheque was a forgery. The prisoner stated that he had
received it of a Mr. Watson. -
Mr. Richard Cuerton, of the firm of Capel, Cuerton,
and Co., stated that he neither knew the writing nor
the prisoner.
Mr. Bush said he had not had sufficient time to make
the necessary, inquiries, and requested that the Lord
Mayor would remand the prisoner for a few days, while
John Forrester was engaged in the investigation.
Mr. Wontner said his client had not the slightest ob-
jection to the most scrupulous investigation into the
circumstances.
The Lotto Mayon said that there were some matters
connected with the case which induced him to look upon
the prisoner with a great deal of suspicion. The prisoner
was then remanded.

GUILDHALL.
Wm. Henderson, a young man of respectable appear-
ance and connexion, a warehouseman, in the employ of
Messrs. Morrison, Dillon, and Co., the extensive silk-
mercers in Fora-street, was brought before Alderman
Thompson, upon a charge of extensive robbery of his
employers. Mr. Humphreys appeared to defend the
prisoner ; and Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, and Mr.
Ashurst, for the prosecution.
Mr. Clarkson stated the charge against the prisoner
at considerable length, and observed that after he had
examined his witnesses he should pray a remand, as
some of them hail gone to Scotland to pursue the in -
quiry connected with the prosecution.
Mr. John Williams stated that he is one of the firm of
Morrison, Dillon, and Co., and the prisoner was a, sales-
man in the ribbon department. Great confidence was
reposed in him. He received 100/. a-year salary and
board and lodging. Witness received a complaint from
a customer at Peterhead, in Scotland, complaining about
the price of ribbons supplied from their warehouse ; and
this led to an inquiry, which resulted in the apprehension
of the prisoner and a search of his apartment. A
manufacturer of the name of Merry supplied- their firm
with all the ribbons of a particular fabric, and those
found in one of the prisoner's boxes are part of the stuck
so supplied. Two other salesmen slept in the: same
room with the prisoner, and the keys he gave up un-
locked the boxes. It had been ascertained that a corre-
spondence had taken place between the prisoner and
Burney and Co., drapers, at Peterhead, and this was
confirmed by a letter found in the prisoner's box. Wit-
ness questioned him as to how recently he had corre-
spondence with Messrs. Burney and Co., when he made
a statement which was at variance with the date of the
letter. He said at first that he never had any dealings
with Burney and Co., but afterwards admitted it. In
the third box was found a quantity of betting-books,
which the prisoner said were his, and that he had been
in the habit of betting upon horses for some time. One
of the bets booked was loot to 61. on a certain horse.
He said he had been carrying on the betting btisiness
some time, and had been very fortunate. He had won
5001., which he had invested in a concern of his bro-
ther's at Newry. He also said that 6002 were owing to
him for bets which he had won. The letter written by
Burney and Co. to the prisoner, was addressed fo him
at " No. 35, Great James-street." Witness and Mr.
Randall, their principal clerk, went to the London Par-
cels Delivery Company, and ascertained that a young
man had,- been in the habit of bringing parcelso the
office, to be forwarded to "Burney and Co., of Peter-
head." He went with them to the warehouse? and
pointed out the prisoner as the person.
Mr. Merry stated that he is a ribbon-manufacturer,
living at Coventry. The articles produced—those found
in the prisoner's box"---were fabricated by witness. Never
sold any one of the patterns or quality to the pritioner,
or any other person beyond Messrs. Morrison and Co.
Patterns of other ribbons found in the boxes of thp pri-
soner were also made by him (Mr. Merry), and they were
sold exclusively to the firm in question.
Mr. Clarkson said that Mr. Randall, the principal
clerk to the prosecutors, and Roe, the officer, started yes-
terday for Scotland, in order to examine the stock of
Messrs. Burney and Co., of Peterhead ; hence he should
require that the prisoner should be remanded, as in all
probability he should have to examine into other facts,
for which he was not at present prepared.
Alderman THOMPSON said he had heard quite enough
to warrant a remand, and it was finally ordered that the
prisoner should be brought up for final examination on
Thursday, the 9th of June next.
Some gold coin, a watch, and some other property,
which had been taken from the prisoner, were restored
to him, to enable him to make his defence.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
CHARGE OF RAPE.—On Saturday, James Greenland,
regimental orderly servant to Lieut.-Colonel Yorke, of
the Fusilier Guards, who stood remanded from the pre-
vious day, was brought up for re-examination, and fully
committed to take his trial at the ensuing sittings of the
Central Criminal Court, on a charge of violating Jane
Matilda Arnold, aged twelve years and nine months, the
daughter of a respectable hairdresser, living at No. 4,
Hart-street, Oxford-street,
Mr. Robertson, the solicitor, attended on the part of
the accused.
The examination was a very lengthened one, but the
detail is unfit for publication, The offence was com-
mitted at the house of Mr. Bal, of Duke-street, Gros-
venor-square, where the prisoner was lodging at the
time, and the prOsecutrix living as nurse-maid in the
family.
The prisoner admitted partially the truth of the state-
ment of the prosecutrix, but alleged in his justification,
that she was " a forward girl," and -had " often taken
liberties with him," and that she was a consenting
party ; at the same time expressing deep regret for what
had occurred.
On hearing that he was to be sent to Newgate, he
shed tears, and said that justice had not been done him.
The prosecutrix is a smart and remarkably intelligent
girl, of, in appearance at least, between 16 and 17 years
of ags.

CLERKEN WELL.
Francis Day, clerk to Mr. Tyrrell, the barrister, in
Stone's-buildings, Lincoln's Inn, was charged by an at•
torney with ringing at his bell and otherwise annoying
him.

The complainant stated that the defendant came to his
house and rung his bell, which war answered by his ser-
vant, who, according to witness's directions, told the ac-
cused that he (complainant) was not at home. The
prisoner insisted upon seeing him,. and kept ringing at
the bell and knocking at the door is so annoying a man-
ner, that witness eventually sent for a policeman, and
gave him in charge.
Alr. CootMBE (to defendant)—What have you to say
to this ?—Defendant--I was sent by my master to de-
in"nd Payment of 91. from him.
Mr. COOMBE—What is that sum due for I Defendant
—lt has been due to him for fees upwards of six years.
Mr. COOMBE (to complainant)—Do you owe this mo-
ney ?
.Complainant--;Not legally.
kr. COOMBE —Ah ! not legally. I know what you
mean. You know that a barrister is in the same predi-
cament
us a physician—that is, that lie cannot sue fur
his fees. Du you deny ever having employed Me. Tyr-
rell ? Complainant (hesitating)—l did. not employ him,
but he
did sonic business in an affair in which I was
engaged. . _

COOMBE—And didn't you have the papers ?
Complainant—Yes.
Mr. COOMBE—I thought so. Now, to my knowledge,
there are a set of scamps of attorneys who have not the
ability to transact any business that may come into their
hands, and when that is the case they employ some bar-
rister to do it, and afterwards shield themselves from
payment on the ground that, according to your own
words, he cannot legally enforce payment. Now, if I
were the clerk of Mr. Tyrrell, I think I should dun you
a little more.
Defendant—Whenever I go to his house he is denied
me. I should not have rang the bell a second time if he
had not been denied. I knew lie was at home, having
seen his face at the window when I went up to the house.
A policeman, in answer to the Magistrate, said no
disturbance Was created by defendant.
Mr. CoounE--I am a barrister, and will give an opi-
nion and advice gratis. In the first place, you had no
more right to give the accused in charge than you have

to order an officer this moment to lock me up ; and if
Day canascertain that you are worth powder and shot, I
recommend him to bring an action against you. I am,
however, of opinion, that you are one of those pettyfog-
ging fellows so dangerous to society and disgraceful to
the profession. You may now go.

The Royal Hotel at the Slough station, which is to be
opened on Wednesday next, has been erected upon a
grand Italian elevation, by Mr. Chadwick, upon land
which the original proprietor, Mr. Bonsey, sold to the
Great Western Railroad Company. On the basement
projecting from the main building, quite distinct from the
hotel, is a suite of rooms for the accommodation of rail-
waypassengers of all classes, where refreshments can be
obtained at a fair remunerating price. There are two
capacious coffee-rooms, one looking over a most exten-
sive terrace (forming a part of the, edifice itself) to the
railway. and the other commanding a view over the ex-
tensive gardens, which are laid out ip the Italian style,
and planted with English, French, and Italian exotics,•
shrubs, plants, evergreens, &c. &c, Apart from these is
an elegant saloon, forty feet long by twenty-three wide,
which, upon days of great fashionable resort, will be
used for the purpose of holding a table d'hote upon a
grand continental scale.
The first floor is occupied by a series of sitting-rooms
each having its separate balcony, and replete with com-
fort and elegance. The carpets are chiefly from France,
and are of Ambusson and Tournay manufacture ; very
many, however, are of Brussels fabrication, of exquisite
texture and workmanship.
The next floor consists of bed-chambers and dressing-
rooms, tastefully ornamented, with baths adjacent, and
balconies to each; but the triumph of art seems to have
been achieved in one of the bed-rooms, called a " State
Room," which is fitted up in the style of Louis the Four-
teenth, and in it is a magnificent dome bed brought from
Versailles, and, it is said, originally the property of
Maria Antoinette. The hangings and draperies are of
rich silk, satin, and brocade. The head and foot cushions
are covered with, gorgeous Genoa velvet, with flowers
and emblematical devices painted thereon. In the centre
of the dome is fixed a splendid mirror.
All dinners, refreshments, wines, orders, and COMMU•
nications of every kind, are conveyed from the bottom to
the top of the building, or intermediately, by an unique
'mechanical arrangement, thereby avoiding the mingling
and jostling of visitors wikb waiters, chambermaids, and
servants; and immediate orders can by the same means,
and through the agency of whispering trumpets, be si-
lently transmitted to the kitchen, cellars, confectionary,
larders, ice-houses, still rooms, plate closets, in fact, to
every part of the structure:" The chef de cuisine is the
well-known artiste of the Roches de Concale at Paris.
On the opposite side of the way is a tap or minor
tavern, not less excellent in its way than its splendid
neighbour; and behind it are most extensive stabling,
coach-houses, with loose boxes for the accommodation
of the horses of the nobility and gentry following her
Majesty's hounds. The carriages (which are spendidly
got up) are very numerous, and of every description,
and the horses appear to have been selected by a person
of sound judgment.
The waiters, servants, coachmen, postboys, &c. (to
none of whom gratuities are allowed to be given) are
dressed in rich crimson liveries.

The furniture throughout (most of which, with the
upholstery, was furnished by Mr. Dawes, of Soho-
square), is of the best description.
There are 42 clocks in the various apartments of the
mansion.

The whole of this gigantic undertaking has been
planned, executed, and carried out under the untiring
industry, taste, judgment, and enterprise of Mr. Charles
Dotesio, the proprietor.

THE OXFORD-STREET WOOD•
PAVING.

On Saturday, at the meeting of the Marylebone Vestry,
the interminable question of wood-paving in Oxford-
street again occupied something like five hours of dis-
cussion. On the previous Saturday the anti-wood paviors
managed to steal a march upon their opponents, who,
lulled into security by their previous successes, failed on
that occasion to attend the vestry very numerously, by
moving and carrying a resolution declaring (in defiance
of previous resolutions of the vestry) that no further
wood-paving should be laid down in Oxford-street, or
the subject even entertained, until the expiration of the
present contract with the Metropolitan Wood-paving
Company, which does not terminate until tke year 1845.
This resolution roused the inhabitants of Oxford-
street to action, and on Thursday last a public meeting
took place, at which resolutions strongly condemnatory
of the conduct of the majority of the vestry who had
carried such a resolution were passed, and at which they
determined that the vestry's opinion should be tho-
roughly tested upon the question of paving . or non-
paving Oxford-street with wood, from Wells-street to
Vere-street.
Mr. Tabrum was in the chair, and since the passing of
the Vestries Act, never was there known so full an at-
tendance of vestrymen, there being nearly 100 out of the
120 members composing it present, amongst whom were
observed, Earl Manvers, Lord Kenyon, Lord Barrington,
Sir B. Hall, Sir H. P. Joddrell, Mr. Tufnell, M.P., Col.
Dacre, Mr. J. T. Hope, Mr. Waymouth, &c. The gal-
lery appropriated to ratepayers was also densely crowded.
Mr. JOSEPH moved the non-confirmation of the minute.
The course pursued by the opponents to wood-paving in
doing and undoing, week after week, was not only cal-
culated to bring disgrace upon the Board, but to bring
them justly into ridicule and contempt with the public.
(Hear.) The motion to put the wood-paving off for
three years was a most dishonourable and side-winded
attempt to get rid of the question. He called upon those
who wished to enhance the dignity of the Board to act
with something like consistency, and reject the confirma-
tion of such a motion,
Earl MANVERS seconded the motion. He thought
that every one must coincide with him that the question
was perfectly nauseating. He found it impossible to go
into the highest or lowest society without being asked
" Pray, when will your Marylebone Vestry squabbles
about wood pavement terminate ?"—(Laughter.) He
considered the motion of last week an act of crying in-
justice to the inhabitants of Oxford-street, and would
support the non-confirmation.
Mr. KIRBY condemned wood-paving, and declared, if
carried out, it would inflict and perpetrate a glaring in-
justice upon the whole parish.
Mr: JONES said, although he had always been the op-
ponent of wood-paving, still he thought the motion of
the previous week so unfair, and so dishonest an attempt
to destroy the previous resolutions of the vestry, carried
by large majorities, that he could not be a party to it,
and would vote for non-confirmation.
Mr. NISBETT took a similar view with Mr. Jones, and
said, as honourable men, the vestry could not support the
confirmation.
Mr. POTTER supported the confirmation, and offered
to challenge the supporters of wood•paving to a poll of
the parish, to test the opinion of the ratepayers, and he
would declare, that if the advocates of wood-paving were
not defeated by ten to one, he would forfieit one hundred
pounds.—(Laughter.)
Messrs. Waymouth, Thomas, Gomm, Clapp, Glasier,
Gibson, and about twenty other Vestrymen, severally
addressed the meeting, and a most stormy discussion
took place, when
Mr. JOSEPH, in reply, called upon the vestry not to
be behind other parishes in the march of improvement,
but to non-confirm this motion.

The question was then put, and the non-confirmation
declared to be carried ; and a division being demanded,
there appeared—
For the non-confirmation
For confirmation 26 •

Majority in favour of wood-paving 24
Mr. JOSEPH then moved, and Mr. Gibson seconded,
" That the Report of the Committee accepting the tender
of the Metropolitan Company to pave Oxford-street,
from Well-street to Vere-street, forthwith with wood, be
now adopted."
On a division the numbers were--

For the motion 36
For the adjournment .
Majority affirming the immediate
carrying out wood-paving in Ox-
ford...street

- 21

Mr. TRom.as then gave notice that the vestry, having
by a large majority affirmed the principle of wood•paring,
he should move that the entire streets of the parish of
Marylebone be paved with wood.—(Laughter.)

GENERAL STEAM j NAVIGATION
COMPAN Y.
(From the Kentish Mercury.)
On Wednesday, the Bruges, a new steam-ship,
made her first appearance on the Thames, having
crossed over from Ostend—between which lace and
London she is iAtended to run. We took occasion, a
fortnight ago, to refer to the unhandsome proceedings
of the Belgian authorities in the hostility they are
showing towards the General Steam Navigation
Company's vessels on the Antwerp line. The
Bruges, we presume, under sanction of the Belgian
Government, is placed upon the Ostend station, for
similar purposes of opposition.
The people of Antwerp and Ostend have full right
to start steam-vessels of their own, although it is
perhaps not very generous to do so in opposition to
the interests of a Company by whose exertions these
places have chiefly derived whatever wealth and im-
portance they possess ; but it is certainly not just, on
the part of the Belgian authorities, to throw obsta-
cles, as they do, in the way of the operations of the
General Steam Navigation Company, the instant a
rival vessel is placed on the waters. We look at such
a species of attack as not simply affecting the inter-
ests of this great Company, but as calculated to have
a most pernicious influence upon the welfare of the
nation at large. The example held forth is, that the
General Steam Navigation Company, or any other
like enterprise, may open a communication with a
foreign port, and perform regular voyages to it, for a
considerable period, at a loss, but as soon as a remu-
nerating trade is established, local parties step in, and
by illiberal restrictions and vexatious proceedings, en-
deavour to drive from the place the very vessels by
which its traffic has been created.

Considering the immense importance to this coun-
try of sustaining the steam division of its mercantile
navy, it appears to us that it should be made a point
of national honour to oppose these aggressions, by a
united determination, on the part of Englishmen, to
travel by no vessels but those composed of British
timbers.

We fear there is too frequently an indifference in
this matter on the part of our nobility. Surrounded
as they are by foreign servants—the parties usually
entrusted with the duty of engaging berths and cabins
—preference is often improperly given to the foreign
vessel, by such agency. We feel assured these things
occur merely from want of consideration of the im
portance of their bearing ; and we doubt not that if
the subject were brought generally under the atten-
tion of the nobility and gentry of this country, by the
intervention of the press, the evil would be speedily
reknedied,

ARTISTS' GENERAL BENEVO'
LENT INSTITUTION.
lac ot
The Annual Dinner of this Institution took p...„
the Freemasons' Tavern on Saturday, Sir ..3;
Archer Shee, President cf the Royal Academy: 1,1!,„, ;
Chair. He was supported by Samuel Jones Loyd,
fS:I.;
Daniel Maclise, Esq., R.A. ; David Roberts, Esck, 0 :10,1
W. C. Ross, Esq., A.R.A.; Thomas Landseer, Esq.'
many gentlemen of note in art and literature. ‘
i_ euvii
It may be necessary to state that two charitrleS who
have been established for purposes relative to those.
_.,s;
have been unfortunate in the practice of the Fine Istri`ier,
one entitled the Artists' Benevolent Fund ; the °
the Artists' General Benevolent institution. °lee
The first established was The Artists' Benevioei
Fund, in 1810. That fund is exclusively aPrPrets of
to the relief of the widows and orphans of a soetil2spi
artists, associated for the laudable purpose
assisting each other, during the pressure of siehlee'''Ar
the infirmities of old age, under the name of the sof
fists' Joint Stock Fund. It does not afford relief to
r,
artist, however great his merit or unfortunate his iliac
cumstanecs; nor can it afford aid to the widows or fart be
of those who died previous to its foundation. .I%kr•
since been incorporated, by Royal Charter, with the 4
fists' Joint Stock Fund, under the name of the Ae`ol
Fund, but still specifically preserving its own num
object. coo
As the principle upon which the Artists' Belle. sf,
Fund is founded thus precludes the possibility of 1",01,
fording aid to distressed artists, or to the widossstio
children of those who have not subscribed to the Ark
Joint Stock Fund (and many artists, from advance
from blindness, or from impaired health, could nee
admitted members of the Joint Stock Fund), the x
ssase
diency of establishing an institution without such:ol
tions, for the purpose of extending relief to disP le I
meritorious artists, as well as to their families, so''''
came evident. 1
The Artists' -General Benevolent Institution,a
therefore founded in 1814. Its object is to extends?
to all distressed meritorious artists, whether subscpcier
to its fund or not, " whose works are known Oaf
teemed by the public, as well as to their widows as it
phans," merit and distress constituting the claims' s,
benevolence.
lieend, the attainment of means to effect this s A loe
end, the Directors of the Artists' General Berdso
Institution appeal to the liberality of the public, 7.e, ,
fully endeavouring to impress upon the minds of tobje6
trons of the fine arts the consideration, that, as the'
of this Institution is so nearly unrestricted, unds ca
aer
quently so extensive, it stands in need of great 's"
tensive support. 49
1 After the cloth was removed, the CHAIRMAN gaveoup
Queen," the Patroness of the Institution, and an° tei
a donation from her Majesty a 1001. The to*.g
drank with great enthusiasm.
aft
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The health (J.- ei
Albert," who was known not alone to possess insi! I
nent degree all the virtues which appertained to owigi
alted station, but who was also reported to be hiol t,
artist. This toast was drank with all the honolat'esi i
then gave " The Prince of Wales," " Thessi#
Dowager," " The Duke of Sussex, the Patron, and l
Vice-Patrons of the Institution," " The Army eat"s)V "
and the Greatest Captain of the age—The Duke 01 i
lington."
,f,
The CHAIRMAN said that he should now.beg2
the attention of the Companssto the next toast se';)
list, namely—" The prosperity of the Artists' Gs, I
Benevolent Institution." He could have wished t)
good a cause had found a better advocate ; but 'OO
consoled for his own deficiency by the certaingiciii
eloquence could not be necessary to recommend 10/1
meeting an Institution established for the aid of j
employed in the same occupation as the greater
of the gentlemen present, though unhappily not `NV
same share of success.—(Hear.) To shelter the ws,
ing years of those whose ambition was greateti
their good fortune—to succour their families end
death—was the object of the Society; and those. 7
he was convinced would never be overlooked or y
garde4 by those he saw around him.—(Heur9
artists themselves, they were, no doubt, all sietl_,e
with the difficulties that beset the paths of sr" ,
every one who heard him was aware that those Wil„.°lt
of success fell lower, and their fall was '`
them much more acutely, than persons u.,'s 0, •
other profession—an unsuccessful artist, of 041 t
was the most helpless. He was generally unfit'
other occupations, and independent of that, felt the
.„41
fication of defeat to his dying day, much more -44,
felt misfortune, and poverty, and distress. That
of course, no institution could alleviate ; but it,
prevent his utter destitution—and what perhaps be p 9,
feel still more—it could prevent those dependant l'ol,
fir support from utter want. An artist inighnie(s
the best advocate fur his suffering brethren, and 'isfr
M. A. Shee) admitted his incapacity for the task %J.
~
was certainly the best authority on the subject ''...:fit
distresses and misery.—(Hear.) There were sre",e/
persons connected with the arts in this country's
suffered from want, that did not find their witY.,lo,
President of the Royal Academy; and few days I' if
passed over his head that he did not hear stories ?ft,/
fering and sorrow on the part of artists wi
could, unfortunately, only symisathise with.s,
cause it was not in his power to offer thew' 'A
other alleviation. That distress was by no
confined to a lower class of artists ; for there
some suffering under its infliction who had been +*
in their day, and who had enjoyed even the law,'
Royalty. It was creditable to the artists, however,
;
whengaj ity tohreyfr foeml I
vice
—their
hi misfortunes, rt u
occupationne s, it was
crime, but it also kept them without that provid
their affairs, wanting which, success is but little i
not from
parison. Hence they had no
in their day of sadness and 801 r.
enlarge on the subject further. He should leave . jii f
hearts of those present, satisfied that he come
cause of the charity to its most powerful and hi Oil
ceraßtouiste:iallelthsb;oot
intercessors. One observation only he show" sti
before he concluded : In the fifty years' experie°oo
had had of arts and artists in this country, hew
to say that he never knew a period when the bellAe e f
of the public was more needed by them than at ;pi,
sent moment. The Honourable Gentleman 09, of
by proposing, " Success to the Artists' Genertitowd
volent Fund."
' The toast was drank with the usual honours,'
.1,
by loud applause.
S. J. LOYD, Esq., proposed the health of the Pir
man, the President of the Royal Academy.
Sir M. A. SHEE, in returning thanks, said, in ,
the high station which he held he had ever ended e
,i 0
to maintain its just dignity, and to act impartiulli
out regard to personal interest or favour. il '
The Secretary in the course of the evening' n f
eis
Annual Report, by which it appeared that the rem' ' I
tributed from the Fund had increased year after/
the increase of its means, until that of' the lij
doubled the average of its three preckcessors. /
The list of subscriptions for the `present year 10
read, among the most conspicuous of which' NT
names of the Duke of Sutherland for 10/. 10s.'; ido'pe
Swinbourne, 10L 10s. ; the Lord Mayor of ' f:011
101. 10s. ; B. Bond Cabell, Esq., la ; the Earl 1 ,
lisle, 51. ; Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A., a. ',.• 1151,1
of Norfolk, 5/. ss. ; Daniel Maclise, Esq..
.11.k_.0 f, /1"
Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq., 211. ; Lady Chalarfit
&c. The amount in all was upwards of 5001., so"'
the company were highly gratified.

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ARMY
ARMY AND NAVY.—The June Number °,f
burn's United Service Magazine, and Naval and /10
Journal contains, among other important paper,rol.iy
Arms as they were and as they are, compare,' ~ fri
Opinions of Foreigners—Hzgieia's 'Visit to the BMW:wile
The United States and the Slave-trade—Sketches of wty'
trian Cavalry Service—Journal of an Excursion into
terior of the Northern Island of New Zealand, 11,4
Dottin Best, 80th Regiment—Our Naval Chiefs of 0t1"
by a Tar of the Old School—Passages' in the Life of, , 1
—Confessions of a Deserter—Tom Plunkett—Old P
sfea
Navy—Original Letters of General Elliott (Lord --toslio
,on the Siege of Gibraltar—Memoir of the late Gen h i
Ludlow, G. C.B.—Field-officers at Waterloo—Life of Pr,,
Keppel—The Affghan War—The Niger Ea edition."
nations at Sandhurst, with the Distributions of the if
Navy, General Orders, and all the Naval and Mili7ottiii
gence of the Month.
~,,,,
COST OF THE SUGAR MONOPOLY. —A r
11/LI
sample of foreign refined sugar costs 312. per ewf-;, rye/
were added 325, for duty—reckoning the duty equal!,
' British plantation sugar, and estimating 1 i cwt. of re"
be required to produce 1 cwt. of refined--ihe total W 0.., A
per cwt. But at the same time British plantat",
1 01
sugar, of equal quality, was selling for 89s. per cwt-, W*-
~,,#,
per cwt., or 2ad. per lb. , more than the foreign! A. es,
' Manilla sugar was shown, which was sold for 221-10010'
bond : add 245. for the duty, equal to the duty en
the total would be 465. But at the same time British t.,i
raw sugar, of equal quality, was selling for 665, per L! for
20s. per cwt., or more than 2d. per lb. more than wife
Such are the sweets of monopoly.—Leeds Mercuri“ of
ty
Towards the end of last week, the bodielsodA
male and of a young man, aged about 21, having u"--0,7
dead together, were taken to the Morgue. On- auleo4,
being made, the traces of an active poison were disc° /
their deaths attributed to it. They have since bee‘ii",
etc,
to be those of a married woman, who, having coon', . r
tery, was driven by remorse or fear of detection.
,Aoi.
suicide, and of her paramour, .01'o '
in he fatal act. whom
she
had
ind:eg,/
BIRTHS. . of',
On the Ilth inst., the lady of Richard Knight, Est' ' • ic
Vale, of a daughter.
_A d'l
On the 22d inst., at St. Andrew's, Fife, the lady -
sir"
Fairlie, Esq., of a daughter. so"
3" it
On the 26th inst., Mrs. Henry Mayor, of lIPP' 0
Islington, of a son, still-born.
the 1,,,i 'se
On the :6th inst., at Sherley House, Croyde°' foo_ttl''
Martin I'. Smith, Esq., of a son, who survived only liji o'
On the 26th inst., at Felpham, near Bognor, the
I. k
Rev. G. C. Luaford, of a son.
"1,00
On the 26th inst., at Broadstairs, the lady e. - •
Peake, R. N„ of a daughter.
E. iflit'
id
On the 27th inst.., at Highgate, the wife of ,
0
Esq., of a son. sil
On the 27th inst., the lady of Henry Thomas 1L......7/ee*
Dyhas Powis, Glamorganshire, of a daughter. ' i,
it
MARRIED. pen re,
On the 23d inst., at the Lutheran Church, Altottligi, %,
W. Sale, Esq., of Manchester, Solicitor, to PO. sool, g'
daughter of the late W. Cobden, Esq., of Midhurs.;, gloot,
On the 26th inst., at St. Mark's Church, KenPi met
Faithful, of Herne-hill, Surrey, to Catherine, dat2........",
John Barton, of Lambeth.
lb
DIED. F.ote .
On the 7th inst., Mrs. Ann Outhwaite, of Upp Aief
Smithfield, aged 65. If':
On the 17th inst., at Park, Renfrewshire, It°b6.- ....I.bor
son, Esq., merchant, 4 it On the 26th inst., in South Audley-street,u;;;ds, isoo
Esq., formerly a Captain in the 7th Dragoon
,i,Galef, OP fi
On the 26th inst., at Cowbridge, South n' IRV
Heath Malkin, Esq., LL.D., aged 72. Jo°
On the 26th inst., in Upper Harley-street, ,
Pat ker, Esq., of Green-park, Cork.
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London : Printed and Published by MURD°II2, SO
No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office. N°"„n_ LSO
the County of Middlesex, Monday, May '''"