The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-23 00:00:00

DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.

CHATHAM, MAT I9.—This day a Jury assembled at the
Duncan's Head public-house, New4oad, Chatham, to in-
vestigate the circumstances attendant upon the death of two
men, named Thoinas Turner and William Taylor, whos a lives
were lost on Monday night last, whilst emptying a cessi ,00l in
Best street. The first witness examined was Robert Taylor,
brother of the deceased, Wm. Taylor.. He stated that his
brother was a bricklayer, and had been employed in making a.
-
cesspool adjoining to another cesspool, on the premises of Mr-,
Farmer, Best-street. The new cesspool was nineteen feet deep„,
and the old one nine feet. A stage was erected in the new one„
about nine feet below the surface of the earth. On Monday.
night the deceased, Wm. Taylor, and Thomas Turner went..
down into the hole and made an aperture. Witness remained
above. Soon afterwards witness heard his brother cry out,
"Dear me, I can hardly breathe," when almost in an instant he
fell into the soil. Witness called to Turner, and said " For
Ged's sake put the rope down and fetch him up." Turner did
so; he, however, fell in also. Mr. Dunstan, the master, who.
was then on the stage, sang out for the rope, and before he
could be brought up he fell and fainted. He lid not fall into
the soil. Witness and a person named Farmer pulled out Mr.
Dunstan. Witness's brother and Turner were got, out, but
they were dead.

Benjamin Tribe, surgeon, said hi was. sent for on Monday-
evening al quarter before ten o'clock. Sari the deceased, Tay-
lor, immersed in the sewer with his head out of the fluid. The
body, havirg been brought up, witness found the deceased was
dead. Turner when brought up was also dead. Their deaths
were produced by suffocation, by inhaling• a quantity of gas.
The Jufy, after some little consideration, returned a verdict—
" Accidentally suffocated."

The Drury-lane season, as we announced last week
conchide to-night with AnderSon's benefit. It has
been merely experimental, and if illneready has managed
not to be a loser by it, under all the circumstances, he
has good reason to be satisfied. People, evidently in an
adverse interest, have been circulating stories all the week
regarding his supposed heavy losses ; but how little .is
really known upon the subject. • may be judged from
the fact, thwe all parties maintain that they are well
informed, and yet they vary in their statements between.
2,0001. and 12,000/. For our own parts, we do not profess
to lie at all in the secret, but this we 'can assert,
- that. there is nothing more absurd than such calcula-
tions. Macready could not commence operations without a
certain outlay. and that outlay was some above his esti-
mate ; but it is as it were seed sown for a next year's
crop, and it will enable him to renew his exertions in
OCtober under great advantage:S. It is to a certain ex-
tent Money sank, but with a view to a probable and a
large return. It has been ridiculously asserted in some
'tfitatterS that Macready will be content with his present
.sacrifice--Ahat he will consider - the experiment as com-
pleted, andtbatlnext year he will not continue his efforts.
These are weak inventions of the • enemy, and all
those who are favourable to Covent-garden fancy that
they must speak against Drnry-lane, I.rgetting that
experience has almost invariably shown that the pro-
, snerit v done house is the prosperity oft be other. As a proof
'that Macready does not intend to relinquish his under-
' taking, almost betbre it can be said .to. have commenced,
we may announce that he has carnally signed and sealed
articles with Mr. and Mrs. C. MattheWa (so we under-
stand Madame Vestris is to be 'called, in futurf,), giving
them jointly not 1001. per week- (110:was foolishly men-
tioned some time ago, when we rithculed the idea), but
more than half that sum. They will both be-soon re-
lieved from a weight of debt and anxiety, and we may
expect see them next year at Drury-lane in-
high health and full spirits. fiespecting the prospects
of Covent Garden, we have at present nothing further
to communicate. C. Kemble anti Bartley are to be the
managers for the rest of the proprietors, and when we
have stated this, we haie really given every thing that
has yet.been positively decided. The opinions respect
ing the return of Mrs. Butler to the stage are strongly
expressed both ways. Our notion of the matter we have
already stated, and to that notion we adhere, in spite of
all that may he said to the contrary. We have heard it
said that C. Kemble does not intend to exert himself
more than is necessary as an actor, and that with a view
to relieving himself he has been recently negociating
with Mr. and Mrs. C. Roan. We can vouch that there
is not one word of truth in this report.
A few weeks back Daniel Good met in the street
Dr. Wade, late surgeon of the. Penitentiary, a gentle-
man whose high professional attainments were, if possi-
ble, surpassed by his efforts to improve the moral feeling
of the culprits under his care. Good addressed him,
but receiving no answer in the first instance, said " I
feat- your forget me, doctor ;" the doctor's answer
Was "I do know you, Mr. Good, but it is a regula-
tion in the. Penitentiary that none of its officers should
recognise any person who had - been confined there' "
he added the expression of his anxious hope that Good
would profit by the lesson he had received, and be, for
the faw, a better man. Good instantly said, " Oh,
Sir:lrhave got an excellent situation, and-am coachman
to an excellent gentleman at Roehampton." " Coach-
man. !" said Dr. Wade, " why, I should think that
man who was capable of pulling, the tongue of a horse
out, . was, of all others, the most unfit to be a coach-
man ; and, but that the regulations of the prison forbicl',
me, I most certainly would write to your master, to
caution him against you." Good gave assurance of his'•
amendment, the sincerity of which has been since tested.
MANCHESTER SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE SUFFERERS
AT tiA.MIIITRGII.—It will be seen by the advertisement in
another colum, that, notwithstanding the present is a
holiday-week, when business is pretty much at a stand,
the warehouses closed, and many of our residents go
from home for a short time, the subscription has received
an accession, since our last, of upwards of 7601., and that
it amounted last night to the sum of 5,6271. We trust
that :nest week, when parties ge.nerally have resumed
their usual business habits and avocations, a further con-
siderable augmentation will be made :to the funds for
this object.-1 anelacster Guardian.*
TUE WEATHER.—After a somewhat long continu---.
anew,-of fine dry weather, a change ensued on 'Thursday
mornino'. 'At nine- o'clock the rain began to tall, and
the will of that day and yesterday's till evening, a suc-
cession el genial showerS, unaccompanied by thunder,
refreshed the parched soil and herbage, and 'must prove
'1 of great benefit to the young corn. It is unfortunate
that it should have spoiled the oat-door enjoyments of
many thousand people, especially the Sunday scholars,
who Were deprived of their long-atiticipated excursions
into the country, or made them only to get drenched
with, the rain. But the crops of the farmer and gar-
dener were in need 'of rain, and it has been hailed
throughout 'the country, as a- very seasonable supply.—
Manehe.iter Guardian.

At the special meeting of the. Town Council on the
20th,init., the Mayor drew, the attention of the members
to the report that the London mail `coach, rid Qxford,,
was to be taken off the road, when' it was unanimously
resolve& to memorialise the Postmaster-General against
so mischievous an alteration, and a Committee was up.
pointed to draw up the memorial for the signature of the
Council And the citizens generally. In the course of the
conversation that passed on the question, Mr. John
Hood stated that he had been in correspondence with
the Pm tinaster-General on the subject, and who had re-
pliedlhat the representations he had made, showing the
inexpediency of the alteration, should receive due consi-
deration.— Worcester Her old.
AIiTOTIIER SUPPOSED MURDER.—Throughout toe
whole of Friday Croydon was in a state of excitement,
owing to finding the bode of a young man which was
lying in afield near Croydon Common, with his head shattered
in the most frightful manner, his brains being scattered all
around hiM, and the body being covered with blood. At his
side was a small pistol, the contents of which had been dis-
charged, and from the situation in which it was lying it is be-
lieved that the young man could not have committed so rash an
act himself. On searching his pockets some gunpowder and .
bullets were found, which evidently had been thrust into them
while the, body had been lying on the ground, no doubt to
make it appear that the unfortunate man had committed sui-
cide. : His body,which has not yet been identified, lies at the
Mail Coach Tavern, Croydon Common. The deceased appa-
rently was about twenty years of age, 5 feet 4 inches in height,
and wore 'a brown frock coat.—( Another version:)—A meat
extraordinary and determined act of suicide was committed at.
Croyslonsain Friday night. The following particulars of the
transaction are furnished by one of our correspondents :
About eleven o'clock on Friday night the inhabitants near
Croydon-common were alarmed by the report of pistol-shots
upon the common, but as no cries were heard, or other alarm
given, no inquiry or search was made. Yesterday morning,
about six o'clock, a man named Bryant, going to his work, dis-
covered the dead body of a young man, very well dressed, lying
upon the grass. He gave an alarm, and Inspector Collier was
soon upon the spot., and the body was removed to the Mail
Coach public-house, when it was found that the head of the
deceased had been blown nearly to atoms. Near the spot, where
the body was discovered, was found a pistol that had been re-
cently discharged, and a hook entitled " Remarks on the In-
-Inence of Mental Cultivation and Mental Excitement upon
Health. By Amariah Brigham, M.D." This book appeared
beliagnhkt
lepalaveeess,tbeerveidtv.m.atslywrbitytenainpipsteonl-chilatlib,e afonld.
to have been made use of as a target, for it was perforated
oinn osenveeonf tohre
lowing sentence :—" Having no watch I. cannot say what
is the hour, but the sun appears to be down, or
below the horizon, and the crows and other birds are
busy and pleased, and all nature content and happy
but me; because of not knowing how to make a better
use of my brain, I have come here to have it shattered. It rains—
it is cold---or, at least, I feel cold—an tit is darkish." Upon the
personal the deceasedbeing searched six shilling and sixpence in
silver, and eightpence in copper acre found in his pockets, and
also several bullets, and a number of percussion caps, but nothing
whatever likely to afford a clue to discover the identity of the de-
ceased. He appears to be between 24 and 25 years old, and '
was dressed in a brown frock coat and black trousers and
waistcoat. 'the body still remains at the Mail Coach to await
the coroner's inquest.
'TRANSMISSION OF EXTRA AIAII.S.-,..-Very extensive
improvemeins in the Post-office department are now
making, by the Right Hon. Lee 1 Lowther. for establish-
ing a morning as,well as an evening mail, by railroad, to
places where letters and newspapers re at present re-
ctived but once a day ; and in some eases, in conse-
quence of their being no post-office or receiving-house
in the vicinity, but once in two days. A great many
towns in the western and northern parts
of England and
Scotland are to have the benefit of this arrangement
.
w hich will come into operation early in he month.
DECIDED.—An advertlsement appears in
the Church. Intelligencer from a clergyman wanting a curacy.
He stuns up a follows :—" The advertiser cannot. follow the
example which unhappily but too many advertisements afford;
he will not extol his own piety, nor will lie thank any one else
for doing it, and, as he is not now soliciting the place of bell-
man or town crier, he considers it unnecessary to allude to his
power of voice. No one need take or gore the trouble of re.
plyinz to this advertisement who does not hate the Record,. ,
and all prowl, sell-righteous, hypocritical, gloomy, -nasal, snuf-
fling tlecordism like poison." • ,
On the 15th instant a party as.gembetl at CitsF,ae,
near Toulouse, to celebrate the wedding of a young couple
of the commune, but were kept. waiting tor the broth r-in-law
of the bridegroom, who was an orphan, and had been brought
up by the former. At length the expected guest arrived, hilt,
instead of entering the room, he stopped at the door, and
levelled and fired a gun he had brought in his hand at the
bridegroom. who was so severely wounded in the head by one
of the slugs, with which it was charged, that, although be was
not killed on the spot, no hopes of saving his life were enter. ,
tained. The bride and one of the guests were also wounded,
but their injuries are only slight. The assassin made his
e; cape daring the confusion he had created.: He had been ad-
verse to the raarriage, not from having any objection to the
young woman or her family, but bee.ause it• would rends. nes--
4. cesury a payiti„eie of-Aa estat.k.held in .Itragton.):lilite WWI
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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF• FRIDAY.
GLOBE.—The ifouse of Commons will to-night re-
sume. business. A very considerable portion of the
sitting is likely to be occupied with debates on several
motions arising out of the election bribery and compro-
mise eases, which have already_ taken up so much of its
time, and excited so great an interest in the country.
The movements of the Tories •in Parliament, and the
manner in which their journals assail the inquiry the
Select Committee appointed by the House has been
„directed to institute tuts these transactions, disclose
the uneasiness felt by the old stagers on the well-beaten
Tory . road of corruption,- lest the practises on which
• their party.. generally depend for suocess in all election
`contests, in which money can be advantageously dis-
tributed in the form of bribery among the electors,
should be so effectually chocked as to deprive them
in tunes to come of the principal element of their
strength. Sir John Walsh is, it seems, to take the lead,
by an attempt to narrow the powers of the Seleet Com-
mittee. By confining its inquiry to the " compromises"
alleged to have been entered into, without reference to
the' existence of " bribery "—the probability of detecting
which by the Committees appointed to try the merits of
the petitions against the returns in the cases alluded to,
was the presumptive inducement to those compromises"
—it is hoped to accomplish this design. The following
is the form of motion by which the Hon. Baronet pro-
poses to effect the object we have explained :
" That in the order made by the House fur the ap-
pointment of a Select Committee to inquire respecting
certain alleged compromises of election petitions, the
wordy, 'and whether such bribery has taken place in the
aforesaid towns,' be struck out, and the inquiries of the
said Committee be confined to the objects indicated by
the previous notice of the Hon. and Learned Member for
'Bath, and embraced •by the motion which he first sub-
witted to the House:' _ . _

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It is— generally reported
.that a strong muster of the
Tory Members will take place, and a determined effort be
made to stifle the investigation into alleged bribery, and
to confine. it to the simple question, whether the "com-
promises" in the cases included in the motion of Mr.
Roebuck, were entered into under such circumstances
as to involve a breach of the privileges of the House. In
other words, whether the " arrangement" made by the '
petitioners and sitting Members, by which one, or both
the scats were to be vacated, was simply to avoid the
expense of prosecuting the petition and. defending the
return ; or whether suca practices had prevailed at the
election as it was desirable for both parties should be
concealed—without, however, making those practices the
subject-matter of inquiry. How this could be done, we
confess ourselves unable to discover.
STANDARD.—We confess ourselves at a loss to
unierstand the feeling of hostility that has been excited
by, Mr. Roebuck's Committee, convinced as we are that
corruption has in fact comparatively very few in-
terested advocates, and that the majority of the
nation regard it with just abhorrence. There may
be, perhaps, fortY or .fifty- members of the House
of Commons who owe their seats, either in the,
whole or in part, to-a dishonest influence, but they
are not more than a' twelfth of the whole. number ;
and looking at the matter iu a party light, certainly
not a twentieth, probably not a thirtieth, of the
great Conservative majority are tainted by the practice
of bribery. Why, then, should the House, for the sake of
its unworthy twelfth, or the Conservative party, for the
sake 6-r a twentieth or thirtieth weakening and disgracing
its number, seek to stand in the condition of conniving
at sin and crime ? We would give Mr. Roebuck what-
ever he has asked, and whatever (to be safely granted)
he may continuo to ask. We seem to have arrived at a
crisis, when the question is to be determined, shall the
Constitution of the United Kingdom stand as it was fixed
by th,.. Reform Bill, or must we proceed in that revolu-
tionary
carer that has' no term but anarchy ; and hap-
pily this crisis comes upon us at a time when the great
body of the people, attached to the Constitution—the
great Conservative body, may defy the imputation of
corruption with a perfeCt confidence. This our, enemies
confess when thoy charge us with obtaining " the fa-
mous majority" by a No-Popery cry—an anti-Nem
Pcor-ltitv cry—a reenopohi cry—cries which, what-
ever else can be said of them, are not the excla-
mations of those who offer or of those who soli-
cit hribes. • They are expressions of a public spirit,
good or bad, and in
.Imputing them as the cause
of Conservative succesi, our enemies acknowledge
that to public spirit " the famous majority. of ninety"
owes its .existence. Row the miserable minority was
scraped together may be learned at Sudbury, Ipswich,
Nottingham, &c. Certainly no popular cry was heard
:at any of these places, which the Whig-Radicals have
"coMpromised." It is in this' proud state of just eonfi-
&mac that the Conservative party find themselves called
upon to decide whether they will, for the sake of A, B,
or C, involve themselves in the disgrace of protecting
the guilt of their enemies—in the greater disgrace and
the guilt of conniving at. a course of demoralising crime,
and in the danger, as well as the disgrace and guilt, of
precipitating an anarchical revolution.
FROM TUE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

_
GLOBE.—Lord Stanley is of opinion that it is not
worth while to enter, into discussion of the doctrines

he May have stated eight or nine years ago. We
should advise the Noble Colonial Secretary and his
jiduir Achatcs of the Home Department, whose zeal
for Church interests is now so conspicuous (that
we- may not say, ostentatious), to obtain from
tho party which they now adorn, and which can
just now pass what it pleases, a Statute of Limi-
tation beyond which opinions shall not be referred
back to. This, like , the Standing Order against
debating on petitions, would much promote
the despatch of business, especially when its'
principal departments. happen to be in hands like
the 'present. Only, for the especial convenience of
the Home and Colonial Secretaries, we should re-
commend that narrower limits than eight or nine
years should restrict references to Hansard. We
agrco with most of the speakers who succeeded Sir
wilts Graham last night, in the discussion of the
Ecclesiastical Corporations Leasing Bill, that it pro-
ceeds on inconsistent principles towards corporations
sole and corporations aggregate. But we extend the
charge of inconsistency to his arguments, -as well as
his proposals. Sir James Graham, in his zeal for Church
interests, repeated more than once that he thought
it inexpedient and unjust to appropriate Church
incomes to State purposes. Now this is no answer to
the objection to their application to individual pur-
poses. The enrichment of an incumbent, and his
successors, is hardly an ecclesiastical purpose, in
any apostolical interpretation of • that expression.
Yet that will be the only consequence of the dis-
tinction most objected to in the Bill. Again, repairs
of . the fabrics of the Church itself are surely
a. Church purpose. That was the appropriation
proposed by the late Government of the increased
value intended to be given to Church property. But
Sir James Graham's distinction between Church and
State purposes cuts two ways, and it will hardly be
convenient to him to maintain it, if he supports Sir
Robert Inglis. It will be necessary, in arguing for
Church extension, to. maintain that Church exten-
sion is a legitimate State purpose. Church purposes,
as such, can be no good argument for taxing non-
Churchmen. There are, indeed, Churchmen, like
Lord John Manners, who, we hope, will grow older
and wiser, who are quite prepared to take the high-
fivino• theocratic view- of this subject. But that is
not the view to which political Churchmen will now
commit themselves. If they venture to advocate
Church extension, it must be on Stale principles.
STANDARD.—In the House of Commons, Sir
John Walsh's motion for limiting the subject of in-
quiry by Mr. Roebuck's Committee, dropped, in con-
. sequence of the Hon.- Baronet's absence when the
order for the motion was read. A question by Ma-
jor Vivian called for an explanation by Sir Robert
• Teel as to the course .pursued by the Government
with reference - to' Captain . Warner's invention. It
• • was proposed to the gallant inventor; that his ex-
veriment should be tested at the public expense,
with .the assistance of two 'persons appointed by
the Ministers, who should report upon the re-
sults; but Captain Warner declined the proposi-
tion, •except upon the condition that a large sum of
-Money should be insured to him in the event
'of the experiments proying satisfactory. We cannot
101 y enter into Captain-Warner's feeling of jealousy
upon this subject. That he is entitled to a liberal,
and even a-munificent_ reward, if he adds in anything
like the proportion be promises to the strength of the
country cannot be doubted, and of such a reward he
must have a perfect certainty if his invention prove
at all like what he describes it ; but on the other
deny that he,. or any
side, weother Englishman,
is entitled to any reward for not arming the
enemies of his country with the means of her de-
struction. If an individual soldier or sailor transfer
aid a szganz;n_inadnivdidutialc;
hit aid, though buetnesmuyeh,
can afford, to an
are warranted in doing so by the eternal principles of
justiee .; and we do not sec why the same principles
would not justify the same treatment of one who
should tranSfrr to our, enemy more 'efficient and for-
midable means of injuring us. We make this remark,
because Captain Warners' not having communicated
his invention to some foreign State is put forward as a,
plea of merit on his part, and doubtless constitutes an
element in the calculation of the reward claimed for
him. Allowing all that it is •possible to say of the
value of his invention, it appears to us that the
over made to him is a perfectiv fair one, and such
as a Just' and INK:curable man, who remembers that
lie ewes . at leest. frankness and confidence to his
country. if he owes nothing else, must accept, after at
'little deliberation. . • •• • •
COURIER.—'f he affair of the Caroline, of the
Creole, and the Right of Search question, sink into
insignificance coinpare,l with that of the Boundary.
Private letters from the accredited quarters , in the
Union, are all unanimous in this respect. Opinion
strongly prevailed with the majority of influential
men that the case of the 'Caroline is not rightfully
one on which Ameriea can found a grievance, or
prefer a claim for redress. On the subject of the
Creole opinions were perhapS more divided, but
still a feeling prevailed
.that . it was one susceptible
of explanation and adjustment, for the' opiniOns un
animously expressed in this country' both in Par-
liament. and out, by the first publicists of all parties,
on the. utterly untenable nature of the pretensions
of the United States, according to every sound con-
struction of the principles of international law, had
evidently Made aprafouinl.inipression- at -Washingt„,„.

But on the Boundary question there was no division
of sentiment; all were alike unanimous in conviction
of the indisputable right and justice of the claims to
the territory in- dispute, according to the treaty of
1783, from South to North, from New Orleans to the
Penobscot. It was no longer the comparatively
isolated opinion and interest of Maine and Massachu-
setts, but that of the whole Union. Here, therefore,
will be the grand, if not insuperable, difficulty of
coming to satisfactory terms of compromise—here the
real labours of Lord Aberdeen and Lord Ashburton
will commence and be found. The public will await,
therefore, with the deepest interest the appearance of
the Report and documents which Sir Robert Peel has
announced as being in preparation and about to be
laid on the table of the House.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, May 20.

IN RE EMILY ANNE BIRCH.
This day was fixed for the adjourned examination of the
bankrupt, who kept a boarding-house in Bedford-place, Rus-
sell-square, and within a few days of her bankruptcy, and while
an execution for 2,000/. was in her house, obtained furniture,
upholstery, silver plate, bronzes, &c., to the amount of nearly
4,0001. The creditors, having every reason for believing the
execution to have been concocted between a Mr. King, a Miss
Phillips, and the bankrupt, forthe purpose of defrauding them,
have caused the most rigorous inquiries to be instituted, and
to-day the bankrupt was examined at very great length by Mr.
Lloyd, as solicitor for the assignees, and a great number of the
victimized tradesmen were in attendance. She bad no capital
when she commenced businesi in 1836. The debts were
6,4764 and the assets 12/. She had destroyed a great portion
of her memoranda and accounts, as she did not expect they
would be of any use. After a lengthened examination, which
showed that the bankruptcy had taken place under the mast
suspicious circumstances, Mr. Commissioner Merivale said
the bankrupt has been most mercifully dealt with, and the
public was much indebted to the assignees for the trouble they
have taken in this wicked case. The further examination was
adjourned until the day fixed for, the audit.

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

A foreigner, whose appearance indicated great debility, ap-
plied to the Lord Mayor for advice, under very distressing cir-
cumstances. He stated he was a sailor, and a native of one of
the Austrian States in Italy; that he bad just left the Sea-
men's Hospital, in which he had been treated with the kindness
and skill to which patients in that admirable institution are ac-
customed, but was still too weak to resume his duties ; and that
he had in vain besought the Captain of the vessel in which he
had some to England from Leghorn, and which was about to
return to the same port, to take. him back. He added that he
had then solicited assistance from the Austrian Consul, but that
functionary had declined to afford him any relief, in consequence
of the unpardonable offence he had committed by accepting em-
ployment on board an English vessel ; so that he was considered
incapacitated, by being obliged to submit to imperious necessity,
from receiving the aid to which he was entitled as a natural
.right. NeW, therefore, he was left destitute and helpless in a
foreign country, without haring committed any fault of which
he was conscious.
The LORD MAYOtt regretted very much that he had no
power to interfere, and after having relieved the pressing wants
of the applicant, desired him to go back to his Consul, and im-
press upon him the necessity of giving immediate assistance.
His Lordship subsequently observed, that the application just
made was one of numerous applications almost daily made at
the police-courts at the eastern part of the metropolis, and from
which it was evident that avast deal of unmerited suffering upon
unfortunate foreigners from every quarter of the globe by the
cupidity of captains of vessels, and the want of feeling on the
part of the diplomatic agents of foreign Governments resident
in this country. He did not mean to say that the Austrian
Consul was culpable in the case which had just been
stated. He knew nothing of the circumstances except what
had been collected from the wounded feelings of the unfortu-
nate man who had sought his advice ; but he perfectly well
knew that hundreds of similar complaints were made upon tes-
timony which nothing could invalidate. There was a sort of
atrocity in the treatment to which-poor foreigners were sub-
jected from the various authorities to which they appealed
under peculiar circumstances. The ground upon which relief
was generally refused, namely, that the applicant had served on
board an English vessel, could only have validity when the
native country of the applicant and England were at war; but
when the two countries were in a state of perfect amity, it
seemed to be as unjust as it was stupid and unfeeling to resort
to so shalloW and paltry a pretext fOr witholding assistance.
Mr. Hobler stated, that a great number of cases of this kind
werebrought to the Justice-room in theabsence of Magistrates,
and all be could do of course was, in matters of great emergency,
to give pecuniary assistance from the bounty of the Lord ,Mayor,
and on ordinary occasions to refer the applicant tothe Consuls
of the Countries to which they belonged. He expressed a hope
that his Lordships observations on the subject would lead to
someremedy or alleviation of the evil, and that the streets would
be releived of the wretched population of foreigners with which
they now abounded. '
The LORD MAYOR said, he earnestly hoped that, as the Poor-
law Amendment Bill was to be continued, the subject of the
unfortunate condition of these poor foreigners might attract the
notice of some humane and enlightened member of the Legisla-
ture ; and that the English Government might be induced to
follow the judicious precedent of several of the Continental
Powers, and of the United States of America, which compelled
the owners and captains of vessels, under proper regulations, to
provide for the safe return offoreigners whom they should bring
over, when subsequently found in a state of destitution.
BOW-STREET.
Mr. William Charles Macready, the lessee of the
Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, was summoned by the
authorities of the Parish of St. Martins-in-the-Fields,:to
show cause why he refused to pay the sum of 601., due
due to the parish for four months poors-rate, in respect
of that theatre.
Mr. JENKINS said, he attended on the part of the de-
fendant, in the absence of Mr. Burgess, the solicitor to
the theatre, who was at present out of town; and he was
instructed to apply to the Magistrate to postpone the
hearing of the case, and to state that Mr. Macready
denied his liability to the payment of the rate, which he
contended ought to be paid by the Committee of Drury-
lane Theatre. There would be a meeting of the Coin-
mittee held on Friday next, when the matter would be
laid before them, and they no' doubt would direct that
the money should be paid. Under these circumstances
he trusted that the hearing of the case would he post-
poned for a week.
The Collector said, that he had beet instructed to apply
for a warrant against the defendant, in the event of the
money not being forthcoming. In the early part of
fast week he applied for the money, and was tat n told
by Mr. Burgess that the Drury-lane Committee would
hold a meeting on the following Friday, and that he
would then call their attention to the matter. Nothing
however had been done, and, under those circumstances,
it did seem to him that the present application was made
merely for the purpose of delay, and he therefore hoped
that it would not be granted. On a former occasion,
when Mr. Bunn was the lessee of the theatre, the parish
lost a considerable sum of money, in consequence of his
bankruptcy, it having been decided that the Committee
were not liable to the payment of the rate.
Mr. TWYFORD said he supposed the committee were
not the parties rated.—The Collector said certainly not.
The only name entered in the parish books was that of
Mr. Macready, who was the occupier of the theatre.
Mr. TWYFORD here inquired of Mr. Jenkins whether
be would undertake that the rate should be paid, sup-
posing he (Mr. Twyford) consented to the required post-
ponement of the hearing ?—Mr. Jenkins, in reply, said
that he did not feel himself authorised to give any un-
dertaking of the kind. He thought that his application
for a postponement of the hearing was a reasonable one,
under the circumstances. At all events, he was anxious
to avoid the expense of a warrant being issued, which.le.;
understood would amount to about 31
The Collector said he felt A his duty to apply for a
warrant, particularly as it was well known that the
Drury-lane season would close vin Monday. After that
time there might be some difficulty in meeting with Mr.
Macready, as he might leave town
_immediately 'to fulfil
some provincial engagements. •
Mr. TWYFORD said, that under these circumstances he
thought a warrant ought to issue, but he could not grant
it until the usual proof had been given of the service of
the summons.
The Collector said he was prepared with the necessary
evidence, and called
Cherrymun, one of the summoning officers of the
court, who stated that on his going to Drury-lane Theatre,
for the purpose of serving the summons in question, he
inquired if Mr. Macready was there, and was answered
in the affirmative, but told that he could not be seen as
he was engaged at a rehearsal, upon which lie left the
summons with the door-keeper.
Mr. Burnaby, the chief clerk, here suggested that the
service of the summons was insufficient, the Act of Par-
liament requiring that it should be served at the defend-
ant's place of residence.
The Collector said he was astonished at hearing this
objection, as on a: former occasion when he was under.
the necessity of summoning Mr. Elia Son, the then lessee
of Drury-lane Theatre, for the poor-rates, he caused
the summons' to be served at that gentleman's private
residence, and the Magistrate of that Court (Bow-street),
before whom the case was subsequently heard, decided
that the summons ought to have been left at the pre-
miSes (Drury-lane Theatre) in respect of which the
rate was made. He had acted upon that decision in the
present case,. and was naturally surprised to find that lie
had done wrong. 'But he would contend that Mr.
Macready's occupation of the theatre might, for all the
purposes of the act in question, lie considered as a resi-
dence there.
Mr. TWYFORD said that occupation and residence
were very different things. Mr. Macready undoubtedly
occupied the theatre, but it was not pretended he resided
there. He attended the rehearsals there, it was admit-
ted, but was it likely that when lie was busily engaged
in rehearsing Othello or Macbeth, that he would like to
be disturbed with the announcement that a parish officer
had called to demand payment of a poor-rate, or that
any of his servants would make a communication to him
tootnhiataoteitts 0 et. He (Mr. Twyford) though that all com-
m f that kind should be made at the resi-
dence of the party.
The Collector said he would bow to the decision of his
Worship,
against but shouldMacready,
ranpapblyra
lt-, fora fresh
mons
Monday,
as
he was convinced that if there was any' -further delay,
his object would be altogether defeated.
TVOItSHIP-STREET.
Thomas Henry, who stated. that hi was a druggist's assis-
tant out of e.nployment, wai charged will having committed
the following fraad :
A young man named -Frederick Francis, stated that the
prisdner called upon him, and induced him to purchase a
duplicate relating to sonic articles of wearing apparel that were
tpledgede duplicate,
at a p abwontborno kers
callingin hthi nr sleaeimi d rt
the articles, he found
. He gave 6s. for
that the prisoner had been there, before him, and had obtained
them on the faith of a false declaration that he had lost the
duplicate. He gave information of the circumstance to a
policeman who took the prisoner into custody. -
In his defence the prisoner adinitted the charge, and threw
himself on the clemency of the Court.
:lir. BINGHAM said that it was a very serious charge, as it
combined the two offences of perjury and fraud, and he should
take time to consider how he should dispose of it.
The prisoner was remanded until Tuesday.
if Stocker, a carter in the service of Mr. Wintle, of
Great Warner=street, Clerkenwell was brought before Mr.
Bingham upon a charge of having driven a cart, laden with
sand,• over the head of a child aged eighteen menthe, and
thereby caused its-instantaneous death. - - •
Thomas Barteitstated, that about two o'clock on that atter-

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