The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING JULY 23, 1845.

proceeding shou►d be for the general benefit, and the Committee
thought that this end would be best served by the Committee
taking the Cambridge and Huntingdon line. That was the course
they intended to take.
After a few words from Mr. HILDVARD, this course was agreed
upon. The Committee will, therefore, take the clauses of the
London and York line to-morrow, and after those proceed with
the Cambridge and Huntingdon. This was the arrangement at last
agreed upon.
The Committee then adjourned.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The House met shortly after Twelve o'clock.
SECOND READINGS.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that
the following Bills should be read a second time :—The
Customs Laws Repeal Bill, the Customs Management Bill, the
Shipping and Navigation Bill, the Customs Regulation Bill,
the Warehousing of Goods Bill, the Smuggling Prevention
Bill, the Customs Allowance and Bounties Bill, the Trade of
British Pcs',essions Bill, the Isle of Man Trade Bill, and the
Real Property Bill.
The Bills were all read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Friday, at twelve o'clock.

this motion should be granted. If he thought that the
motion should be granted, he (Lord G. Somerset) would, of
course, give his vote in favour of it.

Lord—COURTENAY said he could not at present express
his opinion as to whether or not the application should be
granted. An opportunity would be given for adjuticating on a
portion of the scheme, on which portion the Committee did not
think themselves at liberty to adjudicate.
Sir JOHN LOWTHER hoped that the Hon. Member
would postpone his motion to another period.
.Mr. DARBY expressed an opinion that the motion ought not
to be postponed.
Mr. DENISON then said he would withdraw his motion.
The London and Croydon Railway Enlargement Bill was
read a third time and passed.
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWA, .No. 2.
The Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill was read a third
time and passed.
WEST LONDON RAILWAY EXTENSION.
The Lords' amendments to this B►ll were taken into con-
sideration and agreed to.
ACADEMICAL EDUCATION.
The O'CONOtt DON presented a petition in favour of a
of a general system of academical education for Ireland, from a
county in Ireland.
_ _

Mr. ESCOTT presented a petition from a private soldier,
named William Foliet, complaining that he had been illegally
dismissed the service, and praying for Inquiry. The Hon.
Member gave notice that to-morrow night he should move
that the petition be printed with the votes.
Mr. SCOTT presented several petitions from turnpike
trusts in Scotland against the Bill for abolishing spirit licenses
to toll-bars in that country.

• PIIIVILEGE.
Mr. F. FRENCH rose and said, I see, Sir, in the public
papers a report that a breach of the privileges of this
House has been committed, in regard to a speech being
published in the Times newspaper of yesterday morning, and
declared to be incorrectly attributed—in fact that I never
made such a speech. Now I dare say that there are
many Honourable Members in the House at the present
moment who can bear me out in stating that every single word
reported in that speech was spoken by me in this House. 'I
sat by the Noble Lord the Member for the City of London,
and on the Ministerial Benches sat the Prime Minister, the
lion. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, and many other persons, and every one of them will vouch
that the report in the Times is literally and wholly
correct.—(Hear, hear.) I came into the House without any
idea of speaking on the subject, but an opportunity appeared
to me to offer itself, and I made some notes while
in the House. I happen to have those notes still
in my possession, and I have compared them
with the speech, as reported, and they bear out literally the
accuracy of everything in the speech. Now a reply to that
speech has come from another quarter.
(LEIT SPEAKING.)

present poor-houses
into
hospitals for the sick, infirm, and aged
paupers, and to provide for their support for six years, by
charging the necessary expenses on the Consolidated Fund.
IX. An Act to enable lessees for lives renewable for ever, to
convert their tenure into perpetuities, making compensation for
fines when payable.
X. An Act to empower tenants for life and corporations
sole or aggregate, including the corporation of Trinity College,
to grant leases in perpetuity.
XI. An Act to direct that in all sales of lands sold under the
authority of any court of equity, the estate should be sold in
small lots, with a right of presemption to the occupiers.
XII. That the principle of the Church Temporalities Act,
enabling tenants occupying under lease for a term of years,
with a custom of renewal to acquire perpetuity at a fixed rent,
be extended to all leases held under any corporation, sole or
aggregate, including the lands hell under the College of Phy-
sicians and under Trinity College, Dublin.
XIII. An Act to direct that such of the Crown estates in
Ireland as are not required for the convenience of the public
should be sold in small divisions, a right of pre. emption being
given to the tenants in possession, the purchase-money to be
payable by instalments.
XIV. An Act directing that in all. future conveyances the
original deed should, as in the case of wills, be deposited in the
Registry-office, Dublin, and that certified copies be admissible
in evidence, except when the validity of the original deed
itself shall be questioned.
At the termination of the proceedings, Mr. O'Connell an-
nouneed the rent for the week to be 3101. 18s. Id.

DUBLIN STOCK EXCHANGE-JuLT 21.

GOVERNMENT FUNDS.—Three-and.a. Quarter per Cent. Stock
101 i ',—Bank Sock, 208.

liltscxuasixotis.—Graild Canal Debentures Six per Cent. Be.
duced, 68i i—Royal Bank, 13j—City of Dublin Steam-packet
Shares, 104—Ditto, 1836, 51—Mining Company of Ireland, 14
Wick low Copper Mines, 18. _ _ _

RAILWAYS.--Belfast and Ballymena, 61 f —Belfast and County
Down, 3l—Cork and Waterford, 11—Dublin and Belfast Junc-
tion, 881 B—Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction, 2.—
Dublin and Drogheda, 14—Dublin and Kingstown, 235—Dun-
dalk and Enniskillen, 21 3—Great Southern and Western, 23
Great Southern and Western Extension, 121—Midland Great
Western Railway and Royal Canal Company, 3a i—Great Wes.
tern Extension to Sligo, 21—Irish Great Western Dublin to
Galway, 3I i—Kingston and Bray, 6l—Limerick, Ennis, and
Killaloe Junctions, 4I—Londonderry and Enniskillen, 31
Newry and Enniskillen, 3l—Waterford and Limerick, 6} 1—
Waterford and Kilkenny, 21—Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, I a.

THE CROPS AND THE WEATHER
We have had glorious weather in this part of the
country since St. Swithin's day, and there is at present
more of the appearance of settled fine weather than there
has been at any former time this season. Wherever the
wheat crop had been beaten down it has recovered
itself, and during the last two days it has begun to
change its colour. The present year's harvest cannot be
an early one, but it we have a continuance of such
sunshine as we had yesterday, it will not be nearly So
late as was feared. The rust that showed itself on the
flag leaf of the wheat plant is quite gone, and the colour
is clear and bright. Altogether the prospect, with re-
gard to this great crop, is wonderfully improved. All
the other crops continue to be as beautiful and promising
as ever they were known to be in the best of years,. and
the present line weather will give them quality as well
as bulk. The hay is all got in on the uplands, and by
the end of the present week very little will be out, eyrie
in the water meadows. The hay crops are excellent,
both in quantity and quality.—Liverpool Times.
The crops are everywhere most abundant, and if the
weather should improve, the yield will considerably
surpass that of any former year within our recol-
lection. From the same cause, the wheat crops
have improved little or nothing ; and the continual
recurrence of the heavy rains by which we
have lately been visited excites painful apprehen-
sions for the result, as any failure cf the crop, added to the
comparatively barren condition of the foreign granaries,
which are understood to contain little more than a week's
consumption, would lead to most disastrous conse-
quences by its effect on the Money Market, the railway
speculations of the day, and the general demand for
labour. Turnips and potatoes look well ; though there
is a feeling in some quarters that the latter have got on
rather too fast. —Dui ham Chronicle.
St..Swithin's day passed without a drow of rain falling ;
but the hope for fine weather indulged in by those who
have faith in saws and proverbs does not at present seem
likely to be realised, for showers fell early on Thursday
morning, and the clouds threaten. more rain. The crops,
however, have as yet been uninjured ; although, for their
safety, an early change in the weather is devoutly to be
wished. The few sunny days which have of late glad-
dened the farmers have enabled the hay harvest to be
proceeded with, and though much remains to be cut and
housed, fears for its eventual safety would now be prema-
ture. The grain crops are all in ear, and wheat especially
promises well.— Carlisle JournaL
APPLEBY.—The crops throughout this neighbourhood.
both hay and corn, are heavier than they have been
known for several years. The hay harvest has com-
menced in most place, but the unsettled state of the
weather has prevented much progress being made ;
meadow grass, as well as seed, turns off extremely
heavy, and a few fine weeks are all that is now wanted
to enable the farmers to house their abundant crops. The
corn crops would also be greatly benefited thereby, as in
some moist lands they are taking a little hurt from the
continued wet.— Carlisle Jocrnal.
A most glorious week of harvest weather—thousands
of tons of hay have been ricked in the neighbourhood
of Hereford in the primest condition. The sunshine
must also have had a most beneficial effect on all kinds
of corn and pulse, and the ripening process must be
going on so favourably and rapidly, that the corn har-
vest will be here in ten days or a fortnight, unless there
be an unpropitious change in the weather. We have
also improved reports iroin.the hop districts.—Hereford
Times.
The wheat and potato crops are looking 'mat promi-
slug, and there is at presentevery prospect of an abundant
harvest. We have seen a specimen of Pilley's Green-top
Swede, grown in the parish of lleminebrough, two acres
of which will average 2 feet 6 inches across, and the
bulbs 4 inches in circumference. Turnip crops are,
generally speaking, looking very blooming and healthy.
—Yorkshireman.
STIRLINGSHIRE.—St. Swithin's day has come and
passed away in drought, and therefore the farmer may
now rub his hands, or fold them upon his breast, or thrust
them into his breeches pocket, or, in short, do anything
with them he likes but work, for the next six weeks ; for
as we say in Scotland, " his bread is baken" till that time
The sun will do all that now remains till the 27th Aug.
We had showers till Sabbath evening, after which the
weather cleared up, and the other three days of the
week have been most delightful, promoting alike vege-
tation, the blooming of the wheat, and the carting home
of the hay crop, much of which is now safely housed,
and a better crop there has not been in this quarter in
general for many years, with an excellent promise for
the aftermath.—Stirling Observer.
KILMARNOCIL—There has been a moderate fall of
rain der'ng the week, and the dry days which have
been, being warm, have contributed much to the
growth and ripening of grain. We have seen
hay in several fields under " thack and rape." So
far as we have seen or heard, bulbous pro-
ductions are in capital growth. Nothing like want in
the potato crop appears to be anywhere felt. In the
neighbourhood of Paisley we saw, on Wednesday, one of
the finest fields of potatoes the eye could rest' on. The
Wade is generally fresh and strong.

DEATH OF MR. E. BOLTON CLIVE, M.P.—We
regret to learn that Mr. Edward Bolton Clive, M.P., expired yes-
terday morning at an early hour, at his son's seat, near Croydon.
He wits a Whig in politics, and bad for a long series of years re-
presented the city of Hereford in the House of Commons. We
understand the Honourable Member's health had been on the
decline ever since the sudden death of Colonel Clive. He was
related to the Earl of Powis, being cousin of the last Earl.

SUNDERLAND ELECTION.—SUNDERLAND, MONDAY
EvENtNo.—Colonel Thompson, the veteran champion of free trade,
arrived here by the morning train, from London, and has been
busily engaged in canvassing the borough. He is supported, and
indeed brought forward, by the Anti-Corn.law Association; and,
as a large majority of the electors are opponents of the cern.laws
(having memorialised their Members to vote for Mr. Villiers's
motion), no reasonable doubt can be entertained that the Colonel
will be elected. A gentleman named Bagshaw, who is also a
reformer and free-trader, has been expected all day, but has not yet
arrived, neither has an address from him been published. The
Conservatives have sought up and down for a candidate, without
success; and they now hope to inducc Mr. Hudson to spend a
portion of his wealth here—for that is all he will do : he cannot
possibly gain the honour he seeks. It is said that a special train has
boys sent with a message to him. To-night a meeting of the
inhabitants, convened by the League, is to be held in the theatre.
Mr. Wilson, and other influential members of the League, are
here, and working heart and soul to secure the return of a man
whom they r!ghtly designate " the father of the League."

The pitmen of this district have been holding variou
meetings during the week, at all of which the delegates who at-
tended recommended that preparations should be made for another
strike.—Newcastle paper.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.

C. Daly, bookseller, Red Lion-square—final div. of 7d. and
S 9-323. parts of a penny in the pound (making with former
divs. 15s. is. and 29-32 d.), Wednesday next, and any subse-
quent Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Belcher, King's Arms-
yard, Coleman-street.
J. Pim, draper, Clapham-common—first div. lAd. in the
pound, Wednesday next, and any subsequent" Wednesday, at
the office of Mr. Belcher, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
J. Graham, jun., wine merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—
first and final div. of Is. lid. in the pound, any Saturday after
July 21, at the office of illr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
W. Granger, paper manufacturer, Relly-mill, Durham—
finit and final div. of Is. 3id. in the pound, any Saturday after
July 21, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
T. Longstcn and A. M'Knight, stone masons, Whitfield,
Derbyshire—a div. of 20s. in the pound, July 23, and any
following Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester.
N. P. Wood, hanker, Burslem, Staffordshire—final div. of
IC3. 11d. in the pound, July 23, and any following Wednes-
day, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester.
P. Murray, draper, Manchester—a div. of 3s. 3(1. in the
pound, July 23, and any following Wednesday, at the office of
Mr. Putt, :Canchester.
11. Thorp, linen draper, Kensingston—first div. of 2s. 4d.
in the pound, July 26, and three following Saturdays, at the
office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane.

W. Hoed, grocer, Wickham, Hampshire—second div. of
Id. in the pound, July 26, and three following Saturdays, at
the office of .llr. Groan, Abchurch•lane.

... .
C. Dotesio, hotel keel er, Slough—a div. of J. in the
pound, July 123, or any subsequent Wednesday, at the office of
Mr. Follett, Saiubrook-court, Basinghall-street.

N. T. Smith, shipowner, Lime-street—a div. of Is. Bd. in
the pound, July 23d, or any subsequent Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Rasinghall-street.
R. Earham, linen draper, Emsworth, Hampshire—a div. of
31d. in the pound, July 23, or any subsequent Wednesday, at
the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-court.
B. Bright, licensed victualler, Wigmore-street—a div. of
2!d. in the pound, July 23, or any subsequent Wednesday,
at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street.
J. F. Wood, surgeon, Oxford—a div. of Sad. in the pound,
July 23, or any subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Mr.
Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street.
E. Witham, innholder, Speenhamland, Berk-shire—a div. of
9,1. in the pound, July 23, or any subsequent Wednesday, at
the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basingliall-street.
11. Tucker, farrier, Dean-street, Westminster—a div. of
Bid. in the pound, July 23, or any subsequent Wednesday, at
the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street.
R. G. Ward and J. Perry, meat salesmen, Newgate-street

a div. of 21 in the pound, July 23, and any subsequent
Inb."day, v.t the office of Sir. Follett, Sambrook-court,
"t.
Basingoan-. d IT! .
J. welch, 1, used victualler, Ibng-cross, Holloway—a div.
c pound, July 23, or any subsequent Wednes-
day,,f Is.
at Odi I .
the. P 111
_in 1"c aof Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basing-
hall-street. maker, New Bond-street a div. of Is. 7id.
S. Hoadly, eettna4, 3, or any subsequent 117ednesdav at the
in the pound, July
imbrook-court, Basin hall-street.
office of Mr. Full.: tt, ti.per, Dsventry—a div. of Is. 3d. in
B. W. Pe.itUr, subsequent Wednesday, at the office
of
the Mr. pounFollett ~ d, July tStm3, orbrook any-ok
urt, Basinghalbstreet.
DI VII.. ENDS.
At the cemrt of Bankruret.„ v, 13asinghall-street.
street, Soho, Aug. 12, at
W. Burton, upholsterer,
street, Gray's Inn-road,
two—T. Cook, Over cutler, Actt,n*.
Aug. 12, at wee.
In the Country.
J. and D. Sugdrn, fancy cloth manufactirers, Huddersfield,
Aug. 13 404 ft.", at eleven, at the Leeds A7llN.trict Court—J.
Forster, cl6tii m,lrehant, Armley, Yorkshire, _.tog. 20 and 22,
at eleven, at the . Leeds District Court—W. Hari.6,on, pattern
dyer, Leeds, Auk. 13 and 15, at eleven, at the Leeds District
. Court—R. Rollo vay, innkeeper, Evesham, Aug. 12,
half-
past eleven, at the'llirmingham District Court. •
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to t.t.'e
contrary, o n the day herein-mentioned.
G. H. Green and G. C. Green, stationers, Barge-yard,
Buckierrbury, Aug. 12,--R. P. Litten, grocer, Newmarket..
place, Kingsland, Aug. 1`2.--J. Plowman, ironmonger, Ox-
'ford, Aug. 14—G. Clement and H. Sammons, tea dealers,
Ne'son-terrace, Stoke Newington, Aug.l2—S. Fawcett,
linen draper, Chiswell-street, Aug. 12—G. C. Burns, uphol-
sterer, Devizes, Aug. 15—J. Turner, wool buyer, Grantham,
Lincolnshire' Aug. 21—B. S. Jones, grocer, Wrockwardine,
Shropshire, Aug. 16—W. J. Taylor, grocer, High-street,
Camden-town, Mug. 12— W. C. Tupper, grocer, Catherington,
Hampshire, Antg. 12—J. Li gingston and T. Brittain,
plumbers, MantrE ester, Aug. 12-1. Innes, brewer, Earl's-
court, Old Broutpton, Aug. 12—H. G. Gibson, wine mer-
chant, Noribavv, iHertfordahire, Au:. 12—J. Heaton, stationer,
Ludlow, Aug, I:L—W. Gadsby, jun., joiner, Manchester, Aug.
I2—A. Smelt, linen draper, Melton Mowbray, Aug. 12—W.
Aston, innkeeper, Stone, Staffordshire, Aug. 12—S. Hurd,
de';•_ler in glass, Rochester, Aug. 12.
FA RTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. Crosslard ,and T. Parkar, farmers, Kirkheaton, York-
shire—J. Seddon J. Dean, earthenware manufacturers,
Burslem, Staffordslti.o3—J. Canine and R. Dodson, stone
masons, Shrewsbury-. C. F. Gifford and W. Bishop. picture
dealers, Plymouth—W. Powell and W. H. Powell, brass
candlestick makers—F. L. B)rne and H. Porter, estate agents,
Liverpool—E. Taylor and !I: Caldecott, twine manufacturers,
Alanchester—J. Buckley ana I. Taylor, ironmongers, Liver-
pocl—E. H. Durden and jr,
.Barrett, wood turners, Pitch-
combe-mill, Gloucestershire—G- Newton and W. Trelvar,
coal merchants, Brist(d—J. Duel( And R. Henderson, coach
painters, Cleveland mews, Clevelcud-O•reet—J. Gibbons and
J. Gibbons, ironmongers, Walworti:-roarl—A. Lees and J.
Lees, corn factors, Birmingham—Al. Colbtott, J. B. Colston,
.1. E. Colston, 15. Colston, E. Colston, and A. Colston,
farmer!, Whitchurch, SomersPtshire—W. Berker and C. Hen-
,haw. millwrights, Newton moor, Cheshire—Z. Grierson and
J. Evarard, stockbrokers, Huddersfield—E. Ho. .e and A.
Johnston, milliners, Great Russell-street, Bloomelory —G.
Smith and B. Bolton, coal merchants, Blackburn= 4. P.
Simpson and W. White, Sunderland—G. Paine and J. QuAtr,
paper manufacturers, Cheriton, Kent—M. Moyle and R.
Harvey, grocers, Cbacewater, Cornwall—J. Harvey and G.
Harvey, lamp dealers, King William-street, City.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION S.

J. Nisbet, flesher, Edinburgh, July 30 and Aug. 20, at two,
at the chambers of Mr. Mitchell, Edinburgh.
Thomas Colquhoun and Co., printers, Edinburgh, July 23
and Aug. 18, at one, at the chambers of Mr. Deuchar,
Edinburgh. _ _ _

John ball, shipowner, Alloa, July 29 and Aug. 21, at two,
at the Royal Oak, Alloa.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

' Yesterday the Hammersmith Police-court was crowded to
suffocation by persons anxious to be present at the examination
of two young men of fashionable appearance, who gave the
names of John Keep and Godfrey Woone, who were brought
up in the custody of the police, before T. Paynter, the sitting
magistrate, charged with having stolen a large bow and arrows
and three copper-plate engravings.
Henry Spicer deposed that he was a broker, and lived in the
Marlborough-road, Chelsea. On the previous day, about five
o'clock, he went to the house occupied by the prisoners, No.
4, Canning-place, Kensington New Town, and put in a dis-
tress for rent, amounting to 10/. Having made the levy, just
as witness was finishing the inventory, he saw the prisoner
Keep throw a bow and arrows and three engravings out of the
window into the garden, and the prisoner Woone instantly ran
out of the house and conveyed them away.
By Mr. Paynter—There was not enough property to pay
the rent. The prisoners had been in the house nearly two
years, and they had paid no rent except what had been ob-
tained by seizing. Latterly they had turned the house into
a playhouse, and had distributed printed bills and cards,
announcing " A novel and original entertainment. Lively
Jack of Kensington will, by the particular desire of his
friends, give a short outline of the life and adventures of his
own beautiful self, and the battles, sieges, fortune that he's
passed, &c." On the cards was 'minted, "Lively Jack's en-
trance card. Admit his worthy friend. Not to be lost."

The witness then produced two of the windows of the house,
on one of which was written, in large white letters, "Mangling
done," and on the other, " Law taught in six lessons," and
underneath, "Meddling neighbours and arbitrary landlords
taught a lesson gratis." Also a large bill, on which was
written " Whereas some evil disposed person has circulated a
report that it is Jack's intention to leave this Castle. This is
to give notice that he means sticking here to the last moment
the law allows him.—Witness Jack's hand.—Cow Castle,
21st June."

Inspector Smith said the whole neighbourhood was in a state
of disturbance through the prisoners' proceedings, and had
been so for some time. When he got there, on the previous
eight, there were from 400 to 500 persons collected, and he
and a large party of his men were there till two o'clock in the
morning.

Mr. Paynter expressed his surprise that the parish did not
indicts the prisoners.
Inspector Smith was then sworn, and deposed that on the
previous night he was present in Canning-place from ten to
after one o'clock. The prisoners were inside the house, and
were adn.ittitg into it the lowest of the low. Heard the
prisorhr Keep haranguing the mob to excite them. He asked
them if the way in which he was being seized was either law
or equity, and he asked them to put down a penny a piece
to buy bailey water, otherwise porter, and saying he would
put down a shilling himself. A deal of drink was taken into
the home in that way. A system of annoyance to the neigh-
bourhood had been going on for some timc, a Chinese gong
being sounded all night, repeated complaints of which had
been made to the commissioners of police and to the magis-
trates.

Mr. Samuel Kettle, of No. 3, Victoria-grove, depose.l
that he was the father-in-law of Mr. Inderwick, the pro-
priethr of the estate. John Keep, the prisoner, was the
tenant of the house in question, and had been in possession
about a year and a half. The present nuisance had begun
about Lady-day last, when the first seizure was made. He
had sees, the prisoners running about the house in a state of
nudity, which appeared to be done for the purpose of ex-
citing the attention of the public passing the house. At times
they stood at the windows in grotesque dresses, with painted
faces, all which have drawn great crowds round the house,
and occasioned much disturbance. At night they have blown
bullock's horns, and on Sundays the prisoners sat out of tle
%Ninttow6 smoking short pipes, and their legs painted, and
dangling out.
Captain Reece said he was also a neighbour. He had not
long lived there, but although he had been to all parts of the
world, he had never heard such a riot and disturbance as had
the whole time been kept up by the prisoners. On Sunday he
had seen the prisoner Keep in the front garden with a woman's
bonnet on, and the other parts of his dress of a most grotesque
description. Crowds were thereby daily collected about the
house, amongst whom he had heard language repeated that no
female could hear without a blush. His lady was afraid to go
out for fear of being insulted.

Other witnesses-deposed to stuffed images being hung up
outside the house, and to the general nuisance the prisoners
and their companions were to the neighbourhood.
Mr. Paynter asked the prisoners what they had to say in
answer to the evidence given against them ?
Keep begged to be informed in what position they stood.
Were they to answer the charge of felony, or only the nuisance ?
Mr. Paynter said they were discharged from the felony.
They had, however, two charges to answer. The first one
was by the police—a charge of riot and disturbance ; and, se-
condly, by Captain Reece, that his wife could not go out with..
out danger to her person.
The prisoner Keep then entered into a lengthened state-
ment in answer to the charge, during which he most psi-
lively denied that he had ever gone about the house in a
state of nudity, saying he should have been unworthy the
name of a man had he done so, as ho had his own wife and
other females in the house. On the previous day the broker,
Spicer. accompanied by four men, three of whom were prize-
fighters, broke into the house, and carried away everything
that they could find, even to his wife's under linen, and that
after that they seized hold of him and tried forcibly to turn
them out of the house, and it was his screams of murder at
that time which occasioned the crowd and the police to as-
semble. They had also, since he had been in custody, attacked
his wife, and she would have been murdered had not a police-
man got in at a window and protected her, but that would
form matter for after proceedings.
Mr. Paynter said he should call on the prisoners to enter
into their own recognisances in 201. to appear as the sessions to
answer any charge that may be preferred against them, and in
another 20/. each for their f uture good behaviour.
The prisoners entered into the required recognisances, and
on being asked how they described themselves, replied, " Gen-
tlemen ; we always have been and will continue so."
On the return of the prisoners to Canning-place they were
received by the large crowd which had been collected in front
of the premises throughout the day by three tremendous cheers.

LONDON FRIENDLY INSTITU-
TION.

The twenty-first anniversary of this excellens Institution was
celebrated on Monday evening at White:Conduit-house Tavern, when
about 250 members and friends of the Society sat down to an
excellent dinner, which was served up in a manner that reflects
great credit upon Mr. Rouse, the proprietor of the establishment.
The object of this Society is to assure benefits to its members, an
income rising from Ss. a week to 28s. during sickness, with the
advantage of medical attendance, and sums of money payable at
death. To obtain these benefits, members are obliged to contri-
bu to small monthly or quarterly payments, according to the age
of the party at his entrance. The principle upon which the So.
ciety is founded is that of mutual reciprocity. Since the Society
has been founded it has paid 17,0001. to afflicted members, and the
reserved surplus is at present 6,5001. Mr. Alderman Challis pre-
sided on the occasion ; he was supported by C. Brady, Esq.,
Bainbridge, Esq.,and ether warm friends to the Institution. The
cloth having been removed,
The usual loyal toasts were given from the chair, and warmly
responded to.
The CIIAIRNIAN then rose to prcpese the toast,
but before doing so, he read a letter from ofT.thlleuenveco'riainbge,
Parliamentary in which
d
his
The worthy Chair-
tuht
duties
Hon
prevent him
h psfzosnms ciil,Aalbvi.isnregretthetpleasureliat
of being present on so interesting
an
°,cliament to the zeal of the
man, after paying a well-merited
cause of the working men,
Han. Member for Finsbur
Ytileintoast which he was about to pro-
proceeded to observe u
c",,Sausc
mostccs s it'aoo:txhieouLsofoodrotnh
es Friendlyuccess
()I Institution," ti us
institution, He
op owsiel sin at
hrnacti yh,
because he felt thatone-thhaeldfioflif.tliteiesevwilist,i, s
which h,uarnri:,nilstuy hadfleri to
of society sprung from
contend, and because he believed that such a society as the present
was well calculated to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and
by lending its aid to soothe the sorrows of affliction, make men
more
happy and comfortable than they could otherwise be.—
(Hear, hear.) And why should they not endeavour to
serve the humble working man ? All that made man worth
loving belonged as much to the poor man as to the rich.—(Hear,
hear.) They were, therefore, anxious by the support of such an
Institution as the present, to make men independent of precarious
support at a time when they could not serve themselves.—(Hear,
hear.) Although they owed no men anything, they were, no
doubt, as he was, the fathers of families—he was the father of
thirteen childten—(Laughter)—and they, consequently, owed
much to their wives and to their children.—(Hear, hear.) They
had a right on their account to make preparations to meet those