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country,. should _become imperative, that the same l SPECIAL COMMISSION.
ought to be general in its operation, it would BURNING OF THE REV. DR. VALE'S HOUSE.
be manifestly unfair to expose some interests to STAFFORD, TUESDAY.—The following is the con-
, elusion of the evidence given on Tuesday in this case.
active rivalry. with Continental producers, and,
at the same time, screen others from the
• John Nichols was at the fire; and' saw Whiston
• -
throwing furniture on the fire. He received the
like competition, by' granting them a close mono-
poly. Common justice requires that all parties I things out of the windows. He said "It was the
should be. treated alike; this desirable result Sir Ro- Lord's work, and that he was feeding the hungry and
bat Peel's tariff fails to realise. Consumers are pro- clothing the naked." He appeared to have taken a
raised cheap bread, cheap meat, and cheap beer, at the little drink. Witness thought it very extraordinary
landlord's expense ; they are to have cheap clothing, language for any man to use.
French hats, boots, gloves, &c., at the manufacturers Richard Hawkins saw Whiston burning and de.
expense ; but, in order to foster an interest, •undeserv- stroying property to a great extent. He said "Glory,
ing the boon, they are to pay an exorbitant price for glory ! when I have done some things lam going to
Sugar, and other colonial produce ; the tariff, which heaven." The house inside was on fire as well as th•
ought to treat all alike, leaves the West India mono- fire outside. There were more than a hundred
poly untouched. When the question was asked in people at, the burning.
the House of Commons why this marvellous favourit- Joseph Woolly, parish clerk of Cadderswall, was
ism should be shown to these monopolists, it was an- at Dr. Vale's on Monday, the 15th of August, about
swered, that the influence of the West Indians had half-past two o'clock. The mob were then breaking
dwindled in that House to a shadow; that, in conse- I the windows. Some were inside. Phillips threw a
quence of the effects of the Reform Act, it was now a dressing-table on the fire, and jumped on it. He
ieeble interest, needing the sympathy and the support said, God was on their side and no one could harm."
of the Legislature. This answer was a tolerably bold Phillips threw many, things on the fire. Williams
assertion, considering that at the very moment it was then threw a bed on the fire. About an hour and a
announced two Ministers of the Crown, holding most half afterwards there was .a fire in the house. When
important offices, were interested in and mixed up with the engine arrived Williams endeavoured to cut the
West India affairs, and that a third party, who, though hose with a knife which Cartledge handed to him,
not actually holding property in' the plantations, was but he was prevented by Cyples. Richard Edge and
the person through whose persuasion a loan of fifteen Josiah Gilbert, two others of the prisoners, were
millions was converted to a gift of twenty millions throe` ing furniture out of the windows, and Whiston
sterling, being called compensation to the West In- threw a pianoforte on the fire. Some of mob were
dia slave proprietors, for allowing their negroes hi a state of intoxication.
perform the same, description of work, coerced by 'The witness was cross-examined at some length by
nearly the same means of savage punishment, under Mr. Price, Mr. Allen, and Mr. Lee, as to the identity
the name of apprentices. Surely it is absurd to call of the prisoners, but his evidence remained unshaken.
that interest feeble in the Hou-e, which has for its ad- Thomas Moorcroft was then recalled, and identified
vocates the Chancellor of the Esichequer, the Vice- the several prisoners he had assisted in taking into
President of the Board"of Trade, and the Secretary of custody on the premises of Dr. Vale. He pointed out
State for the Colonies. , The apathy displayed by the Harris, H. Jackson, Wagstaff, Shaw, Gilbert, and
landed interest, with regard to the Nest India mono- others.
poly, is really truly astonishing. That the En- Richard Cyples arrested Williams with the hose in
glish landlords should have allowed the cloak of pro- his hand, which he was endeavouring to force open
hibition; which had kept their shoulders and pockets in a part where it leaked. Williams endeavoured to
warm "for so many years, to be removed, without dee escape over a wall.
manding and ensuring the demolition of all other mo- Michael Holt knew James Saunders for 20 years
nopolies, betrays an unaccountable supineness on past. He saw him at the Market Hall on the morning
their parts to their own welfare, especially leaving of the 15th of August. He was then throwing stones
such a monopoly as that in question in vigorous ac- and breaking windows. •
tivity. The landowners, the farmers, the labourers and Elizabeth Bramrner, 'who resides near Dr. Vale's
others dependent on the soil for their livelihood, house, saw John Owen, the day of the fire, break the
are one and all interested in obtaining cheap bottom row of the panes of glass in the dining-room
Sugar for their consumption, sufficiently, it windows with a book.
would be supposed, to induce them to com- Charles Hatton--Saw John OWen break the win-
bine their best efforts for that purpose; the dows, and then he took a chair and broke the sash to
former class, the landlords have, to stimulate them pieces, and threw the chair out of the window. He
into active hostility against the "West Indian mono- was quite drunk after 'that, and was unable to get
poly, two objects far more important in their results away, and his friends threw him over into a field,
to their own pockets, than the one mentioned—namely, where witness found him, and pointed him out-to the
they especially need a large supply of Sugar at a constables.
cheap rate, with which to preserve the produce of their George Bailey identified Joseph Hurst as very ac-
numerous garden grounds and orchards, in order that tively employed with an axe splitting 'up tables and
the fruit may be put into a condition which will keep chairs.
it good for twelve months, instead of limiting its use to George Barker saw. Dimmock breaking the wood-
the month in which it happens to become ripe. It is no- work of the windows. He was very drunk, and his
torious that a large proportion of fruit is annually al- brother-in-law and others were endeavouring to per-
lowed to decay, rather than incur the expense of pre- suade him to go home.
serving it with West India Sugar ; the process will Robert Cope deposed that Dimmock was one of the
not pay, because foreign fruits cured with cheap fn-_ four persons who put abed upon the fire.
reign sugars can ,be 'entered at the Customs for lessThornas Wain, a hairdresser of Longton, saw Eaton
money than the cost of preserving British fruit. with a piece of iron trying to break open the door.
Again, foreign Sugar spread on the land, as manure, Hains was very active in the work of destruction ; and
would more effective and cheaper than guana or when.the engine arrived he asked was there any man
nitrate of soda, both which articles are now eaten- to help him to shift it off the ground again.
sively used by the farmers to enrich their land. Fo- Hannah Phillips also saw Eaton engaged in destroy-
reign Sugar also would prove an excellent ingredient, ing the kitchen door by striking it with a large piece
mixed with other articles, for fattening cattle. When of iron.
intended for either of these two purposes it ought to George Leece—Knew James Hurst, the prisoner,
be issued duty free. There are abundant modes of for two or three years. He saw him breaking the
adulterating it to prevent its being taken for domestic shutters, and throwing' the panels on the fire. Hurst
use, without damaging its powers for manure, or for is about 12 or 13 years old.
fodder. The annihilation of the Sugar monopoly, George Barlow saw Millington breaking the win-
consequently, would confer a greater benefit on the dows with a staff. The house was then on fire. The
landed interest than on any other class, though all are witness also identified Smith,
deeply interested in its prompt destruction.' On his cross••examination he admitted that he had
There is paid annually out of British taxes near upon been tried for a highway robbery and acquitted. There
a couple of millions sterling for maintaining the army, was another charge about a watch, and a third charge
the navy, and various civil departments in our West about taking a tambourine, but he was acquitted. He
India colonies ; if the produce of these colonies were was taken up for gambling, but his accuser did not
sold in the United Kingdom for a price two millions venture to face a Magistrate.
below that, for which an equal quantity of foreign Charles Harvey acted as a special constable, and
produce could be bought, the money account would took Millington into custody the evening of the fire.
exactly balance ' • but unfortunately for the mother He was lying very drunk in a field at some distance
country, instead of recovering the outlay of two mil- from the road.
lions, she has to add to them five more, the amount to Enoch Maher resides at Hanley, and saw the mob
which monopoly raises the price of Sugar, Coffee, at Earl Granville's engine; from thence they went to
&c., beyond its continental value ; the gratification,- Dr. Vale's, where witness remained two hours. Saw
therefore, of holding those pestilential colonies (the Williams and Toft in the house ; the latter had a tea-
West Indies) costs the British nation seven millions pot, and the people were drinking out of it. He
sterling a year.
afterwards rolled a barrel into the fire. Sampson

SPORTING INVELLIGENCE. Whitehouse helped to put a bed on the fire. Witness
TATTEIISALL'S—YESTERDAY. was at the police-office at Stoke when the windows
The betting yesterday afternoon was confined to the were broken, and was taken into custody, but dis
Cesarewitch, for which several horses were backed at charged. Was in Dr. Vale's house, in the study,
and up stairs in the bed-rooms, about a quarter past
amounts barely large enough to determine their value.
in the market. On three only was business at all brisk, three o'clock. It was to see who the parties were
via., Bellissima, Portrait, and Heslington • the mare was that were doing the mischief. 'Was never charged
backed freely at 7to 1, and closed at' takers of a frao- with being concerned in the attack upon Dr. Vale's
tional improvement. Portrait had a few friends, but a house.
strong feeling against him was shown in two or three - James Carter saw Joseph Saunders breaking fur-
quarters, and he finally closed at layers of 10 to 1. niture in one of the rooms. He met him next morn-
Heslington was backed in two instances at 10 to 1, and
i
in several others at 12 to 1, with repeated offers to go
n and told him he was so ry he had seen him so
a been in the
on at the latter price. We have quoted the closing odds engga' ged the night before. Sraunders h d_y.
against him at 11 to 1, but doubt if it could have been witness's employment for some time previously.
obtained. Latest prices :
Samuel Bailey knew Hollins for several years, and
CESAREWITCH STARES. saw him among the mob throwing articles upon the
6to 1 ngst Mr. Sadier's Belissima—take 13 to 2. lire. Thomas Jackson was also engaged with a big
10 to 1 agst Mr. Jones's Portrait—taken, and af. off. stick breaking the windows. Witness had been pre-
-11 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Heslington vious'y with the mob when they were breaking the
12 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Blue Bonnet windows of, the police-office, and was twice in prison.
12 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Florence • Was charged with having taken some money, and was
13 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Ralph—taken
13 to s agst Mr. Clark's Arcanus—taken fourteen days in prison, and on the second occasion
two months. The man in the factory said to him, that
16 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Tamburini—taken to if he would tell of somebody else there was a pardon
a small sum
16 to 1 agst Lord Kelburne's Tuley Moloch colt for him. Hollins' uncle 'charged him with stealing
18 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's The. Gleaner—taken money from his mantel-piece.
18 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Lucy Banks—taken Thomas Coke—Has known the prisoner Thomas
20 to 1 agst Mr. Goodman's The Shadow—t. to 501. Cotton for several years. Saw him in the study
20 to 1 agst Mr. Etvvall's Thistle Whipper—taken putting furniture on the fire.
and afterwards offered Ephraim Baxter saw John Powell breaking chairs
6 to 1 ae'st Blue Bonnet and Florence—taken and throwing them through the window.
PERTH RACES.—TIIESDAY. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated that the case for
Match, 50 sovs. One mile. Bst 71b each:l.-Mr. Merry's
Cable beat Lord Glenlyon's Christopher. the Crown was then closed. The only witnesses who
had not been examined were a surveyor, who had
The Caledonian Cup of 105/. for. Scotch-bred horses ;
made apanof D . 1 , _ ,
I r Vale's house and another person,
3 yrs, 7st ; four yrs, Bst 21b, ; five yrs, Bst 91b ; six yrs
and aged, Bst 101 b ; mares allowed 21b. Three miles. who was not in a fit state to be examined.
Mr. Ramsey's Whistle Binkie, 3 yrs ... (Robertson) 1 The Court adjourned at a quarter to seven till half-
Mr. Meilclam's Florence, 3 yrs
Mr. C. Alexander's Niagara, 3 yrs
Won cleverly. morning, at half-past eight o'clock, and the trial of
The Perth Hunt Plate of 50/. ; three yrs, 7st 41b ; four the prisoners charged with the burning and destruc-
yrs, Bst 51b ; five yrs, Bst 121 b ; six yrs and aged, 9st ; tion of property at the Rev. Dr. Vale's, was imme-
mares, &c. allowed 31b ; winners extra. Two miles. diately proceeded with.
Mr. Merry's Smike, 3 yrs (M. Noble) 4 1 1 FOR THE DEFENCE.
Mr. Meiklam's Aristotle, 3 yrs
Mr. PRICE said he would, in the first_instance, call
Mr. Ramsay's Recorder, 6 yrs ' 2 dr
the attention of the Court to- the indictment, and
Mr. Scott's Chester, 4 yrs
Maiden Plate of 50/., the gift of the Caledonian Hunt. started two objections upon the face of it, which the
Heats. One mile-and-a-half. Chief Justice held to be untenable.
Mr. Johnstone's fby Voltaire, 4 yrs, Bst 71b 1 1 The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, before his Learned
Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Wm. le Gros, 3 yrs, Bst 21b 2 2 Friend commenced his address, he wished to state that
Mr. W. M. Alexander's Jack, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b.... . 3 3 after consulting with his Learned Brethren, there ap-
Lord Glenlyon's Glencromie, 3 yrs, Bst. 131 b 4 dr peared to him two of the prisoners, namely, 'William
Won by a head. Hollins and Thomas Jackson, who were not proved
WREXHAM RACES—WEDNESDAY. to have taken any part in the proceedings, except
The Bryn-y-pys Stakes of 25 sovs. each for 3-yr-olds. upon the evidence of the boy Richard Bailley, and he
Once round and a distance. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Price's Valentina, Bst 31b wo
aakde.d over.
• The Gold Cup of 100 sovs. Thrice rle
himself, and the circumstances that had induced him
to give the information, he would not be exercising a
Mr. Mostyn's Prince Caradoc, 4 yrs, Bst3lb(Marlow) 1
Mr. Prices Valentina, 3 yrs, 7st 81b
Sir R. W. Bulkeley's fby Bay Middleton, 6st 121 b 3 tention to press the charge against them.
Won easy. The CHIEF JusvcE—Then the better course will
Handicap of 10 sovs. each, 5 flit- declared, with 30 added, be to acquit these two boys at once, as the others may
the second saves his stake. One mile, heats. (5 Subs.) wish to have their evidence.
Mr . Price's Marion. 3 yrs, 7st 121 b. .(Cartwright) 1 1 The Jury then, under the direction of his Lord-
Sir It. W. Bulkeley's Cerito, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b
Mr. W. Jones's Lydia, 4 yrs, Bst 21b
2 3 Wiliiiun Hollins and Thomas Jackson, and they were
Won easy.
ordered to stand aside for the present.
The Selling Stakes, of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added by
Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart. The winner to be sold for Mr. PRICE had been instructed to 'ask a question of
1001., &c. Heats, once round. 5 Subs. Mrs. Vale, who was in court—namely, whether she
Mr. Skerrat's Hudibras, 4 yrs, 9st 61b
Mr. Thompson's 6,-by Shrigley, 8 yrs, 7st 111 b 1 2 2 commencement of the riots.
Mr. Roberts's Drayman (late Hooks), 7st 1 llb 33 dr Mrs. Vale replied in the negative.
Mr. Price's Ernestine, 3 yrs, Bst 2dr Mr. PRICE then, on behalf of Whiston and Colt-
Mr. Graydon's Short Bob, 3 yrs, 7st 71b
A good race. his clients stood charged was of the most extraordi-
The Hurdle Race Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added
nary nature, and their object should be to endeavour
by Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., tl
12st each. Genemen
riders. Heats, one mile. to procure some information as to, the cause of so
Mr. R. Birch's Slashing Harry, 6 yrs 1 1 much wanton and useless destruction of property. He
Mr. Jackson's Bonny Grey, 3 yrs
Mr. S. Birch's Stella, 4 yrs , 3 3 that these persons had been actuated by any feeling of
YORKSHIRE UNION HUNT CLUB MEETING. ill-will or hatred towards the prosecutor. He would
• WEDNESDAY. take the case of his two clients in the first instance, as
The Tally-ho Stakes of 5 sovs. each, p.p., for all ages, if it had been made out, and he would take it that
13st. The winner to be sold for 2001., and the last to 'they were there. But he would put it to the Jury to
Mpay
(Owner)
nu e)
I weigh the evidence on that point with great caution,'
e One mile. (7 Sr. H. t
S. he
Thomsecond p son horse'ss' H stale
. onesty, aged
because he hoped, by-and-by, to be able to satisfy
.2 them that the witnesses on that point were mistaken.
Mr. E. Reynard nd Kirby, 5 yrs .
They would inquire whether the riot was not insti-
Mr. G. H. Reynard nd arifa,Z aged
at CI by persons who were not then present on their
to a Sweep- g e
tawddoeldengths. 41. "
trial; b in 'his • •
;because, opinion, there was nothing to show
given
by
stakes of 10 sovs. each. Two miles. (8 Subs.)
The
eCnu on
n,the W
Co ill
u by
y,
Colonel Thompson's Nelson, 4 yrs, l Is.. t 21b (Owner) 1 that any one or more of the prisoners were the insti-
Mr. Reynard's Infidel, 5 yrs, list 21b
2 ga ots
3 who were in his opinion the real offenders, were be-
Mr. H. S. Thompson's Haidee, aged, 12st
-2to 1 on Nelson. Won easy, by two lengths. fore them, it would be for the. Jury to decide upon
The Champagne Plate, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 their culpability, and for the Court to punish
sovs. each. Mile and three quarter. (9 subs.) them. The Learned Counsel then proceeded at some
Mr. Bell's Thirsk, 4 yrs (Col. Thompson) I 3
length to comment upon the evidence that had been'
2 •
Mr. Bell's Man Friday, 4 yrs ' given as to the part taken by his clients in the out-
Mr. W. H. 0. Powlett's Bobadil, aged
Lord Milton's bby Medora, out of Gipsy, 4 ,1•3
6t04 on Thirsk, and 3tol on the Man Friday. IN on
much' of it h • been obtained from aving parties who
easy by three lengths.
were mixed up with the proceedings of the mob, and
MARKET RASEN RACES, —MONDAY.
res • The Subscription Purse was won in two heats by 111 r. who would naturally endeavour to shift the pm,.
liuke's Coronation, beating Mr. Hargrave's Tickle-me- i bility upon other shoulders. He was sure that even
Dick and Mr. Davy's Lottery. the Rev. Prosecutor himself would be the first to join
The Town Purse was won by Mr. Davy's Lottery, the Jury in the solemn and merciful exclamation,
bearing Mr. W. Davy's Van Tromp and Mr. Penning- " The Lord forgive them, for they know not what
ton's Beeswing. ' they do." .-
The Hurdle Stakes were won, after a fine race, by Mr. 1 Mr. LEE then addressed the Jury on behalf of
Rawlinson's m Wicked, beating Mr. Kirwan's Diana and I Phillips, Smith, and Toft. He relied principally uponl
Mr. North's Violet. , i+the vague and uncertain nature of the evidence, as it
The Hack Stakes were won by Mr. Hutchinson 's
affected his clients. With regard to his clients, he. Toby ; and the Sweepstakes by Mr. Davy's Romp.

LEICESTER-SQUARE LITERARY
and SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION.
Dr. Truman delivered a lecture at this Institution
yesterday evening, upon the Chemistry of Animal
Food. The Learned Lecturer opened his discourse
by an explanatory account of the different elements of
which animal food is composed, and spoke of their
respective qualities in sequent order. Fibrine first
attracted his attention. Chiefly obtained from the
muscles of animals,, it took upon itself all colours, ac-
cording to the creature of which it formed part. The
botrilli of France was its best representative, as a sub-
stance in the mass, in which the original meat was
deprived of its gelatine; fibrine was also to be
found in the papaw tree. Albumen, the most nutri-
tious of substances, existed in oysters to a great
extent, and in its raw and uncoagulated state, per-
mitted dozens of them to be eaten with impunity :
its coagulated state in the stewed oyster tended to a
very different effect. Gelatine had its wholesome
applications in a culinary point of view, with a variety
of other uses. Osmozome was another substance,
deriving its name from the Greek words, oc-mc,
smell, and ?wp,o4:, broth : its peculiarity consisted in
giving that taste best designated by the expression,
savoury." Game and the unctuous flesh of grown
animals had a 'remarkable share of it, as also the
common mushroom. Mucus was the first formed
and most primary of animal substances. Dr. Truman,
after thus analysing the chemical substances of food,
proceeded synthetically to enumerate the animals
in which these were found in their compound
form, as used for food and substance of nutrition
by the people of various countries. The habits
or various nations in this respect furnished a
curious diversity of gastronomical tastes and epi-
cureianisms. Ai an instance of food eatem in its un-
mature and unsolidified state, the 7'blind traveller
Holman stated that at Fernando Po, ,couple of lambs,
grown to no more than six inches long, were served
up to him by order of the King. Galen reports of
swine, that their flesh possesses no less than fifty
flavours, and is greatly assimilant in kind to human
flesh. Du Chatelain relates that in his days, dogs and
Eats were eaten at Paris as they now are in China :
indeed, Sir Joseph
_Banks and-Dr. Solander affirm
that dog's flesh is the sweetest imaginable. At Rome,
camel's heels were the choicest tit-bit for an epicure's
tooth. Whales' tongues ranked among the delicacies
feasted on in the middle century by Europeans. The
Caffre eats his lio.i for food, and the traveller Bruce
among them ate his lion-steak with, gusto. A Rio Ja-
neiro friend, the Lecturer stated, had informed him that
in that country an ordinary dish was a monkey pie ; in
this, the head of the ape was left to appear above the
crust for ornament, in the style of the feet in our
pigeon-pies. The turkey, it appears, which is about
to adorn our Christmas tables, was first eaten in
France in 1579, at a royal marriage, though brought
over some fifty years earlier by the Jesuits ; it is a native
of America or West India, from which originates its
French name of I)indOn, or d'bule don, "the gift of
India." Among reptiles, continued the Lecturer, the
class consumed was not numerous : the nutritious turtle
was the chief. Bred in the preserves
,of Jamaica, they
there cost less than our beef or mutton, and the food af-
forded by one was sufficient for a hundred trencherman.
Steam-boat traffic, as it increases, will greatly multi-
ply the supply of this commodity. • Of other reptiles,
the vane esculenta of France was mentioned. Touch-
ing upon fish as food, Dr. Truman remarked that it
was, from its specific nature, not calculated to fill out
the solid parts :of the body. Owing to this fact,
jockeys wishing to reduce their weight antecedent to
a race, fed upon it. The old Greeks considered it to
be food productive of effeminacy ; the. Romans at
first disdained it, till they alit upon one fish which,
from its rarity and deliciousness, they called " the
brain of Jupiter ;" and at a later age the Senate was
called together expressly to consider of the dressing
of a turbot. Dr. Franklin originally had a great
antipathy to eating cod fish. Ho considered it cruel
to eat that which was inoffensive and harmless of
nature. One day, upon this ground, the
frying-pan was disencumbered of one that
had been put upon the fire for his ccenacular
repast. The cook, however, happened to open it
while the Doctor still lingered down stairs. In its
stomach appeared half-a-dozen smaller types of itself.
" Ho, ho !" said the famed experimentalist, " if you
eat each other, I see no harm in eating you." From
that day the Doctor's scruples vanished, and he ate of
the Newfoundland bouncers as heartily as any one.
The talented Lecturer concluded his remarks with
some excellent strictures upon milk, and expatiated
upon the generality of cannibalism among most abo-
riginal nations.
The audience was crowded and attentive; and the
curious disquisitions of the Lecturer received frequent
awards of applause. In addition, we observed with
pleasure that the reading-rooms of this admirable and
long-established institution are fully attended, and the
excellent advantages which its extensive library, lec-
ture-rooms, and classes for languages present, are
participated in by numerous members both of the
City and West-end.

would ask, were the Jury to infer, in the absence of
all evidence upon the subject, that these three men
were present when the plan was proposed to burn
down and destroy the house of Dr. Vale ? There was
nothing to show that these men were there at all till
after the fire had been lighted, and they might as well
involve in the crime all those who were mere specta-
tors—who had taken no part in the proceedings, and
had given no countenance or encouragement to the
rioters. There was nothing whatever to show any
premeditation on the part of his clients. "
Mr. METEYARD, on behalf of Hamlet Jacl<son,
William Shaw, and Dimmock, said, with regard to
Jackson, when he looked at the statements which had
been made by the witnesses against him, they were of
the most slight and flimsy texture : and as regards
the great bulk of the witnesses' who had been exa-
mined, he must say that men who could stand coolly
by, and see the property of their neighbours de-
stroyed, without making an effort to arrest that de-
struction, and who afterwards came before the Court
to point out the offenders, stood before thein, to say
the least of it, with somewhat ragged reputations.
Mr. ALLEN, who appeared for Edge, Harris, Met-
lington, Saunders, Cartledge, Williams, and the two
Hursts, spoke in extenuation of the prisoners to
the effect that their original intention appeared to
be to destroy the furniture; and the fact of a fire being
lighted in the frent of the house, and the furniture
being brought out and placed upon it, sufficiently es-
tablished that fact. Now, if that was the conviction
of the Jury, as it was his these men were entitled to
an acquittal. Had notthe Learned Solicitor-General
thought proper to scout the testimony of the witnesses
against the two lads who had been acquitted, they
would, perhaps, have had the painful reflection of hav-
ing recorded a verdict of guilty upon testimony te-
terly unworthy of &edit. He would commence with
the last of his clients, young liurst.—(The prisoner,
a diminutive bogy, marked' in the calendar " 11 year;
old," but who did not appear older than a boy of 9,
was here ordered to stand up.) He would ask the
Jury seriously whether they believed that boy went
to Dr. Vale's house with the premeditated intention
of demolishing and destroying his house?
(The trail was proceeding when the train left.)

EXTRACTS PROM THE « INQUIRY
INTO THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE
LABOURING POPULATION OF GREAT

BRITAIN"

MORTALITY OF ENGLAND.—A conception may be
formed of the aggregate effects of the several causes of
mortality from the fact, that of the deaths caused
during one year in England and Wales by epidemic,
endemic, and contagious diseases, including fever,
typhus, and scarlatina, amounting to 56,461, the great
proportion of which are proved to be preventible, it may
be said that the effect is as if the whole county of West •
moreland, now contitining 56,469 souls, or the whole
county of Huntingdonshire, or any other equivalent
district, were entirely depopulated annually, and were
only occupied again by the growth of a new and feeble
population living under the fears of a similar visita-
tion. The annual slaughter in England and Wales
from preventible causes of typhus, which attacks per-
sons in the vigour of life, appears to be double the
amount of what was suffered by the Allied Armies
in the battle of Waterloo. It will be shown that
diseases such as those which now prevail on land, did
within the experience of-persons still living, formerly
prevail to a greater extent at sea, and have since been
prevented by sanitary regulations; and that when
they did so prevail in ships of war, the deaths from
them were more than double the amount of the deaths
in battle. But the number of persons who die is to
be taken also as the indication of the much greater
number of persons who fall sick, and who, although
they escape; are subjected to the suffering and loss oc-
sioned by attacks of disease. Thus it was found on
the original inquiry in the metropolis, that the deaths
from fever amounted to one in ten of the number at-
tacked. If this proportion held equally throughout
the country, then a quarter of a million of persons
will have been subjected to loss and suffering from an
attack of fever during the year. 3, 4.
I have repeatedly noticed in the country that the
occurrence of fever has been connected with near
proximity to even a small amount of decomposing or-
ganic matter; and it is certain that all measures for
effecting improvement in the sewerage of streets, the
supply of water, and ventilation, may be rendered
nearly inoperative for the obviating the causes of
disease, if a little nidus of morbific effluvia be per-
mitted to remain in almost every corner of the con-
fined court.—Page 7.
DR. ARNOTT'S VISIT TO GLASGOW. We entered
a dirty low passage like a house door, which led from
the street through the first house to a square court
immediately behind, which court, with the exception
of a narrow path around it leading to another long
passage through a second house, was occupied entirely
as a dung receptacle of the most disgusting kind.. Be-
yond this court the second passage led to a second
square court, occupied in the same way by its dung-
hill ; and from this court there was yet a third pas-
sage leading to a third court, and third dungheap.
There were no privies or drains there, and the dung-
heaps received all filth which the swarm of wretched
inhabitants could give ; and we learned that a consi-
derable part of the rent of the houses was paid by the
produce of the dungheaps. Thus, worse off than wild
animals, many of which withdraw to a distance and
conceal their ordure, the dwellers in these courts had
converted their shame into a kind of money by which
with the their lodging was to be paid. The interiors of these
houses and their inmates corresponded
exte-
riors. We saw half-dressed wretches crowding to-
gether to be warm ; and in one bed, although in the
middle of the day, several women were imprisoned
under a blanket, because as many others who had on
their backs all the articles of dress that belonged to
the party were then out of doors in the streets. This
picture is so shocking that, without ocular proof, one
would be disposed to doubt the possibility of the facts;
and yet there is, perhaps, no old town in Europe that
does not furnish parallel examples. London, before
the great fire of 1666, had few drains and had many
such scenes, and the consequence was,
curing at intervals of about twelve years,. each
destroying at an average about a fourth of the inha-
bitants.—Page 24.
Another defect in some parts of Edinburgh is the
great size and height of the houses (some of them ex-
ceeding ten stories), with common stairs, sometimes
as filthy as the streets or wynds to which they
.open.
By this construction the chance of cleanliness is les-
sened, the labour of carrying up necessaries, and par-
ticularly water for the purpose of purifying, is in-
creased ; and if any malaria or contagion exist
in The house, the probability of its from dwel-
lingl S passing
to dwelling on the
same stair is much greater
than if there were no communication but through the
open air.—Page 25.
A frightful picture of a considerable proportion of
the labouring population of Leeds in respect to
ge n
is afforded by the report
os sewerage eirra. Baker,ad drainagew who
giv
gives
s
the following instance of
amendment :—" In one of the streets of Leeds where
stagnant water used frequently to accumulate after
rain, and where there was perpetually occurring cases
of fevei of a malignant character, a deputation of fe-
riellmmedy capacity of Town-Coun-
cillor could be applied to this
declared was not only offensive
nmniulaillosearsnSteVneai tasewdkhuiciphfo upon me
they
but deadly. I directed them to communicate with the
owner of the property, and to say that if the griev-
ance was not remedied I should take further steps to
enforce it. Never hearing again from the deputation,
I presumed that the remedy had been applied, and
had forgotten the circumstance, until the house sur-
geon of the fever hospital in 1840, in noticing the lo-
calities from whence fever cases were most frequently
brought to the institution, remarked that formerly
report many cases of malignant fever were brought in from
street, but Oar two or three years there had been
none or not more than one or two."—Pages 29, 30.
snts,
appointedo,ooO Ibny
a the
i vThereerpoo ,araen
and
th upwardseir o c
conf
pnBa,otosO 'inhabited cellars in
are
estimated at from
35,000 r
made by the
surveyors, 4
Council of Liver-
pool to examine the condition of the court and cellar
residences within the borough, it is stated that of
2,398 courts examined, 1,705' were Closed at one end,
so as to prevent thorough ventilation. Of 6,571 cel-
lars, whose condition is reported on, 2
~.,88 are stated
Town latery
to be either wet or damp, and nearly one-third of the
whole number are from five to six feet below the level
of the street.—Page
I3etween a town population similarly situated in
general condition, one part inhabiting streets which
are unpaved, and another inhabiting streets that are
paved, a general difference of health is observed. The
town of Portsmouth is built upon a low portion of the
marshy island of Portsea. It was formerly subjected
to intermittent fever, but since the town was paved,
in 1769, it was noticed by Sir Gilbert Blanc, that
this disorder no longer prevailed ; whilst Kilsea and
the other parts of the island retained the aguish dispo-
sition until 1793, when a drainage was made which
subdued its force.— Page 37.
Of the 586 streets of Leeds, sixty-eight only are
paved by the town, i. e., by the local authorities ; the
remainder are either paved by owners, or are partly
paved, or are totally unpaved, with the surfaces
broken in every direction, and ashes and filth of every
description accumulated upon many of them. . . .
It might be imagined that the streets over which the
town surveyors have a legal right to exercise control
would be serVered. But this is not the case ; of the
sixty-eight streets which they superintend, nineteen
are not sewered at all, and ten are only partly so
nay, it is only within the three or four years past'that
a sewer has been completed through -the main street
for two of the most populous wards of the town; em-
bracing together a population of 30,540 persons, by
which to carry off the surface and drainage water of
an elevation of 150 feet, where, indeed, there could be
no excuse_ for want of sufficient rall:—pages 40, 41.

APPALLING MURDER at STANLEY
(From the Derby Reporter of this day.)
On Friday morning last, intelligence was
brought to Derby, that a daring burglary, at-
tended with murder, had been perpetrated at
the house of the Miss Goddurds, of Stanley,
about six miles hence. We have obtained the
following particulars of the transaction from
Mr. Radtbrd, the Magistrate. _

The house in which the Miss Goddards re-
sided is a large one, standing alone, and not
within 100 yards of any other residence. It is a
large brick house, surrounded by orchards and
fields, and the direct approach to it is by means
of a private road. The two Miss Goddards were
considerably advanced in years, the deceased
(Martha) being in her 70th year, and the sur-
vivor (Sarah) but lbw years younger. They
have resided alone in this (the family) house,
without servant or assistant, for more than forty
years ; and although their habits were somewhat
eccentric, they had the reputation of being very
charitable, kind, and humane ladies. Their
father was the Vicar of Tideswell, in this county,
and they possessed a comfortable independence.
In April last, we published an account of a bur-
glary committed on the same premises, when
two men decamped with some articles of silver
and several sovereigns, without committing vio-
lence. A few weeks ago a second robbery was
committed, and some linen and other articles
stolen.

On arriving at the house, the place where the
murderers entered was pointed. out to us. A
door (which was at the time open) leads from
the coal-house into the kitchen, and another door
leads out of the kitchen into the house-place,
where Miss Sarah Goddard was sitting about
half-past twelve o'clock on Friday morning, when
she heard a noise in the coal-house. The three
rooms are in a direct line, and the doors lead di-
rectly one to the other. The deceased had re-
tired to bed. On hearing the noise, Miss Sarah
Goddard went in the direction of the coal-house,
and was startled by meeting (to use her own
words) two stern savage looking men, who shook
their fists menacingly at her, and then im-
mediately knocked her down and beat
her unmercifully. The villains then proceeded
up stairs, and as soon as she had slightly re-
covered she escaped into her own bed room, the
door of which she bolted. She had not
been there long when the door was forced open,
and the two ruffians demanded a 51. note which
they said they knew she had in her possession.
She denied having a Si. note ; and they answered,
menacingly, that money they wanted and money
they would have, for that they were determined
not to starve. She then gave them two sove-
' reigns and a few shillings, but they still de-
manded the Si. note, and after again beating her
severely, partly with crow bars and partly with
their fists, they went in the direction of her
sister's room. After the lapse of some time, and
when she thought the men had gone away, Miss
Sarah went to her sister's room, arid was horri-
fied to discover her lying across the bed, co-
vered with blood, with her legs hanging
over, the side ; she moaned, " Sarah—
Sarah !—man—man !" and never spoke after:-
wards. Not daring to leave the house, poor
Miss Sarah remained with her insensible
sister until daylight began to dawn, and then
.ran down the road to the cottage of a labourer
named Scattergood, whom she alarmed, and he
and his wife immediately got up and went to the
house. Miss Sarah told them what had hap-
pened, and on going into deceased's bed room
they. were shocked at the spectacle
,that pre-
.sented itself. The deceased was lying across the
bed, with her legs resting on a chair (the posi-
tion in which her sister had placed them), and
she was literally a mass of blood from the head
to below the middle. The bed clothes were sa-
turated; there was also a pool of blood on the
floor by the bed-side; and the wall and door-
post were stained, as if; after the blows, the
blood had spurted that distance. Mr. Boden,
surgeon of Smalley, was immediately sent for.
The poor creature did not die until between seven
and eight o'clock, but she was insensible the whole
of the time, the only evidence of life being
gentle action of the respiratory organs. The
surviving sister (Miss Sarah) also presented a
horrible speetable. Her face and head were
covered with blood, and a finger had been broken
by a blow from a crow-bar; but, strange to say,
she is not dangerously wounded. Her face on
Saturday morning was terribly discoloured, and
her appearance was most deplorable. The N vounds
inflicted on the head of the deceased (evidently
by some blunt instrument) were dreadful ones;
there were three severe cuts on the left side of
the forehead, a
fracture of the skull, bruises on
t
the neck and hands, and one finger broken.

The corn averages for this week do not differ ma-
terially from those of last week; the import duty on
wheat remains at 18s. per cinder.

-1-----7-ir-
ths contractors : they have at all times, with the
utmost promptitude, complied with the orders of the
engineer-in-chief.
" The few accidents which have really occurred on
the line have been greatly exaggerated; they were
perhaps inevitable on such a difficult and extensive
line of works, requiring so much rapidity in their exe-
cution ; but hey were most promptly attended to, and
always at the charge of the contractors.
" If these works have been adjudged on terms not
hitherto obtained here, be assured, Gentlemen, that
their solidity has not been sacrificed to a false
economy ; every means have been taken to secure
their stability, and to affbrd, at the same time, perfect
security in the working of the line. A railway is of
itself a great monument. Its splendour is to be found
in its utility.
"During the period which has intervened since our
last meeting we have completed our contracts for the
supply of rails and chairs. The distance of the iron
works is very great, and the extraordinary dryness of
the season, together with accidents on the canals,have
hitherto retarded the deliveries ; but we have taken
every means to secure the strict execution of our con-
tt v e assurances
ac
ts
'and we have,tt
the besides,
whole quantityreceivedth will be
the most
de-
livered within the present year.
"The construction of the engines, carriages, kc.,
for working the line has kept pace with the works ;
two months ago there was but one engine at work in
the manufactory where our locomotives are in the
course of construction ; at this moment more than
five hundred men are actively employed, together
with the most complete machinery ever vet in appli-
cation here.
" In fine, every part of our enterprise is in the most
satisfactory position, for which we are greatly in-
debted to the powerful resources you have confided to
our care.
" The calls have been paid up with remarkable
punctuality.
" At the period of the last general meeting, the re-
ceipts amounted to 12,602,086 f. 23c. (504,083/. 95.) '
on the 30th of June last they reached 28,320,991 f.
25c. (1,139,8380 ; and at this present time they
amount to 31,703,872 f. 35c. (1,286,154/. 18s.)
"We have not been obliged to have recourse to
legal proceedings to get in any of the calls. Ninety-.
four shares only have been sold, and these sales have
generally been caused by the death or absence of the
party.
"Your example will not fail to produce a beneficial
influence in the execution of great public works. In
France, complete justice was rendered to you in the
Chambers during the discussion of the law on Railways.
" Our monthly outlay has increased with the pro-
gress of our works ; and in the last six months of the
past year it has progressed from 1,200,000 f. (48,0000
to 2,606,000 f. (94,000/0, and it now reaches 3,500,000 f.
(140,0000 each month.

supposed that deceased got out of bed on
eeing the men, in order to escape from them,
and that they then struck her with the crow bar
several times with all their power. The mur-
derers missed two 51. notes in a drawer.
On examination in front of the house, two
footmarks were, found on the flower borders. In
order to prevent an escape by the front door, the
villains had placed a hedge stake across the door-
frame, and tied it to the handle of the = door, .F 0
that a person attempting to open the door from
within would be foiled.
A well-known character in that neighbourhood
named Keehng has been taken into custody
on suspicion of being implicated in the murder,
and also a man named Green. These parties
have been remanded for further examination.
Atter the usual preliminaries had been gone
through, an inquest • was held on the body on
Saturday morning, before Mr. H. Mozley, Co-
roner, and a respectable Jury. The survivor was
not in a state to give an account so clearly as
could be wished of what really did take place.
The foregoing statement is an exact recapitulation
of what Miss Sarah Goddard gave upon exami-
nation
before the Magistrates, as also that of Mr.
Robert Roden, the surgeon.
The Jury returned a verdict of 4t Wilful Mur-
der against some person or persons unknown."
In the course of Friday a handbill, of which '
the following is a copy, was issued :
" WILFUL MURDER.-1001. REWARD.

" Whereas the dwelling house of the two
Misses Goddard, at Stanley, in the county of
Derby, was burglariously broken into, and en-
tered early in the morning of the
.30th day of
September, and both of the inmates inhumanly
beat about their heads and faces, one of whom
has since died from the wounds inflicted ;
Notice is hereby given, that a reward of 100/.
will be given to any person who shall give such
information as will lead to the conviction of the
perpetrators of the above crime, on application
to Mr. R. W. Birch, solicitor, Derby.
" Stanley, Sept. 30, 1842."
The following letter has been received by Sir
Henry S. Wilmot,Bart., by which it will be seen
that Government offered a reward of 1001. (in ad-
dition to the reward of the same amount offered
by the friends of the deceased), for the discovery
and conviction of the murderer or murderers:—
" Whitehall, 3d October, 1842.
" am directed by Secretary Sir James
Graham to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the Ist inst., relative to the murder of a lady
named Goddard, at Stanley, about four miles from
Derby, on Thursday night last;—and I am to in-
tOrm you that in this case a reward of 1001.
will be paid by the Government (in addition to
the reward of like amount offered by the
friends of the deceased), to any person who shall
give such information and evidence as shall lead
to the discovery and conviction of the murderer
or murderers; and Sir James,Graham will ad-
vise the grant of her Majesty's gracious pardon
to any accomplice not being the actual perpe-
trator of the murder, who shall give such evi-
dence as shall lead to the same result.

" The total amount of the expenditure is 27,428,591 f.
:31c. (1,097,1431. 125.) Although our resources are
not yet exhausted, we, nevertheless, thought it expe-
dient at the commencement of the year to make ap-,
splication to the Minister for Public Works for the re-
turn of our caution money, and at the same time to
pave the way by .complying with the various forms
required, for claiming the loan of fourteen millions
from the State. At this moment, even, we are press-
ing the Ministers for return of the 3,600,000 f.
(44,0001.) caution money, which must precede the loan.
of fourteen millions (560,0001.); return of 4-sths of
the same has just been granted, and it is perhaps owing-
to a greater respect for the letter rather than the
spirit of the law, that the whole is not returned, for it
is impossible Ibr the Government not to perceive that
our money would be much better employed in carry-
ing on the works than it is in the cotiers of the State,
that a security is only of real use in guaranteeing
the formation of an association ; but when a company
has already executed works to the amount of twenty-
eight millions (1,120,0001.), the guarantee of a few
hundred thousand francs must be perfectly useless.
" You may rest assured we do not lose sight of the
period when the payment of the loan will commence,
and we have too much reliance in the interest which
the Government takes in our enterprise, to have any
fear in respect to useless delays.
" As our works proceed, we are better able to ap-
preciate the future resources of this undertaking, and
we have every reason to believe that our estimates of
revenue will prove to be as correct as are those of the
cost of the construction.

" I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient
servant, "T. M. PHILLIPPS.
Sir H.S. Wilmot, Bart., Chaddesden, Dtrby."

CAPTURE OF THE MURDERERS.
Two men have been taken into custody at
Belper, and we understand the evidence against
them is clear. We shall endeavour to obtain
full particulars, and publish them in a Second
Edition.

PARIS AND ROUEN RAILWAY.
(From the Liverpool Standard.)
A numerous meeting of the English Shareholders
in the Paris and Rouen Railway, was held in the
Clarendon-rooms, South John-street, at one o'clock,
on the 29th ult., for the purpose of receiving a Report
of the. Directors and Engineer, with respect to the
state of the concern up to that time.
On the motion of Mr. C. Lawrence, Mr. Moss was
called to the Chair.

The CHAIRMAN commenced by stating that the
Directors had convened the meeting for the purpose
of answering any questions which the Shareholders
might desire to ask. The best course, in his opinion,
would be in the first instance to read the Report, in
order to enable gentlemen to put more pointedly any
questions either to the Directors, or to Mr. Locke, or
to Mr. Reed, who were also present. As far as the
Report went, he (Mr. Moss) thought it would be
found satisfactory. In one respect certainly it must
be so, for it gave an assurance that before they had
again the pleasure of meeting, the opening of the line
for the purpose of working would have taken place.
The only question for the consideration of the Share-
holders now not connected directly with their own
line, would be, how far they would think it desirable
to give support to the projected continuation line to
llavre, by taking shares in that concern. Some ex-
planations would be given to them on that subject, and
with those explanations he would leave it in their hands.
Mr. SWIFT then read the Report of the Directors,
of which the following is a copy :
" Paris, August 30, 1842.
"Report of the Conseil d'Administration to the Ge-
neral Meeting.
" Gentlemen—At the period of the general meeting
last year, we were in a manner but preparing for our
labours.

"The first year had been employed in arranging
the final plans, and accomplishing the formalities pre-
scribed by the law, in letting a portion of the works,
and in entering into contracts for the engines, rails,
and chairs.

" Our plans and propositions have afforded general
satisfaction to the legitimate claims of the localities,
and were subjected to very little alteration.
" The purchase of the land, which one year ago was
scarcely commenced, has been carried on with the
greatest activity, and now draws to a close. For this
purpose the line was divided into two sections—the
one containing 19 communes, and the other 29 com-
munes. The first section has all been purchased, ex-
cepting that part required for our goods station at the
Batignolles, of which a few parcels remain to be ex-
propriated,* in order to complete this station. We are
nevertheless in possession of a sufficient portion of the
land to be enabled to commence the works. In the
second section, all the land required for the railway
and the intermediate stations, with one exception in
the communes of Sotteville and Rouen, is already
purchased. The contemplated construction of the
Havre line required some alterations in our plans in
these communes, or the land would also have been
purchased by this time. The new plans have, how-
ever, passed the ordeal of the Committee of Inquest,
and we shall now proceed without loss of time to ob-
tain the land.

" Notwithstanding that the property required for
the railway is divided into 7,500 parcels, the value of
the land and houses, together with the difficulties at-
tendant on passing through towns and villages, such
as Poissy, Mantes, and Vernon, the result has been
satisfactory. The greatest portion of the purchases
have been made by private contract. We have only
had recourse to expropriation in a few cases, where
the properties were of great value, and these were
settled by the jury in the most equitable manner.
" Great care has:been taken in drawing up the dif-
ferent conveyances. As soon as the few remaining
purchases are completed, an exact account of this por-
tion of our outlay will be made out. In the interim
everything is so settled as to place the Company in
perfect security.
" In the last accounts which we had the honour to
lay before you, the expenditure for the works
amounted but to 200,000 f. (8,0001.) ; on the 30th of
June last it reached the sum of 11,419,404 f. 36c.
(456,7761. 35.) ; and at the present moment it
14,338,460 f. 41c. (573,5381. Bs.) This will show
the activity which has prevailed in conducting the
works. We now lay before you the Report of the
engineer-in-chief, which will give you a more com-
plete account of the progress of our enterprise."
(Then follows Mr. Lock's Report upon the state of
the works.)
" To this Report we beg leave to add, that the-Ad-
vanced state of the works leaves us under no appre-
hension as to their early completion, nor have we any
fear that the expenditure will exceed the capital. Our
hopes and calculations on these two points have not
been disappointed. The whole line will be finished
two years earlier, at least, than the time allowed us
by the Bill. We shall thus be enabled to diminish
the charge for interest payable during the construc-
tion of the line, and anticipate the period when the
dividends will be paid from the profits of the railway
"The result will fully justify the manlier of con-
tracting for the works which we selected. We have
taken advantage of the experience acquired in Ets,...
land in these matters. Every doubt which existed
as to the success on the application of this mode of
proceeding, so new to France, has been completely
removed by the energetic means which our contractors
have employed—difficulties have been overcome, and
new methods introduced with perfect success.
" Upon this subject we fee called upon to contra-
dict, in the most formal manner, the incorrect reports
which have been (simulated in respect to the
want of
othing has ever
harmony among the workmen of various nations em-
ployed on our works. We can safely affirm that,
it is almost
among the 6,000 men now employedwo
iomccploirsrseibdlebetyoonpdrevseliogthtaindoisnpgutesos,vastich
nature as to
the works.
They have never been of such a t
In respect to the nature and solidity
niligJ a' even retard the execution 0 a body of men.
cornpro-
me every precaution
stand
(ci atuhteiot ne ht aot
tbhe: been to
sa kt en in order the
Nst.otrhkeys:
They, have been adjudged according to anon.tion.
engineers has been
iunr i
es i nd ge
iebxe a m n a
°Mims, drawn up after the mosstemrutttt
Adi
eerflienetiepnotrtsitoaiffis of f etnhgeinr
execu-
tion of the works in their placed on the
me to watch over the
We have never hA Most minute details.
imvortanevl as Au, occasion, in any matter of
118 regucts
the works, to differ with

" The llavre line is the necessary consequence of
the Rouen line. It promises a vast addition to the
number of passengers, and its construction will re-
move every doubt as to the extent of the transport of
merchandise.

" We have taken • a prominent part with the Go-
vernment and the Chambers in obtaining the assist-
ance of the State for this line, and we may say that to
the example of the Rouen Company may be mainly
ascribed the favourable terms of this Bill. The coin-
mon interest which unites the two Companies will
continue to be the best guarantee for their mutual co-
operation.
" In conclusion, permit us, Gentlemen, to rcler
back to the origin of our undertaking. You will
bear in mind that the law of concession dates from
the 15th of July, 1840, some days after we met in
general assembly to examine the modifications made
in the law and in the statutes, but a graver subject
then occupied and kept public attention in suspense..
In the presence of great political embarrassment you
did not hesitate to maintain the association. You
had confidence in a better futurity.
" You did not for a moment believe that one of the
best creations of a time of peace could possibly be.
suspended by the mere rumour of war. By your:
energy and resolution, you gave us the first exainp'le
how to overcome all difficulties. This confidence 'Ras
nobly responded to by your associates on the cther
side of the water. If we allude to the ciscumAene,
of the Shareholders being of two nations, it is only t-,0
the purpose of assuring you that only one feelkag has
always animated them, .although the oliject to be at-
tained was a great and national work, the advantage
of which would exclusively belong to France.
" On all occasions, under the critieal circumstances
which threatened our commencement, and in the pro-
gress to those better times which have now arrived,,
the English co-operation has never nagged ; we have
received all that we could hope for, the powerful a 3.
sistance of its capital, and the benefit of its great 'er
perience.
abeebeall'utirf:u.l
or
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huepiotni
sitt
ulsNe• haveefuhl
" Thus, nothing has been able to shake The t
bmaistitsedoftootfl
monuments of human activity, and to cvlsecrate the
noble alliance of the industry of two great. nations,"
h
The CHAIRMAN again rose, and e%pressed opinion that the Report was most satisfactory. 1s
It own'
w
an important fact, and therefore he -would state itwas'
pu
licly ; there was not a single Director who now
had
the smallest doubt as to the line being completed within
the first estimate of cost, and within the stipulated time.
He himself felt sure, not only that the •
line would be
completed, but that every part of the works, engines,
•
stations, &c., would be furnishedwithin the • •
original
estimate; and Mr. Locke, who was present, would con-
firm him, and would state, that when the line should
be opened, the Company would have paid all their ,
engagements, and have some little capital still int_
hand. He trusted the meeting would not separs:tek.
without returning their thanks to the Directors. in
Paris for their very great exertion in forwarding tbek.
undertaking. They and the English Directors hack
worked together for two years, and although tha
English Directors had originally bad reserved to them
the power of voting by proxy on all points in which.
they difilred from their French colleagues, they be,
never had occasion to put that power forth, so lAr.r..
moniously had the two bodies worked together. He
had to add, that owing to the rate of exchan
be-
tween. the two countries, a sum of money woulu stand
to the credit of those English Shareholders 'who but
paid their calls in this country.
A lengthened discussion then followed on the
tension of the line from Rouen to Havre, ,
Nvuzil the
following resolutions were adopted
That this meeting., having heard the 9btements
just made as to the projected extension lir
to Havre (both as to its intrinsic inerlt from Rouen
ing on the Paris and Rouen Rails ,S and its bear-
and strongly recommend all the ,ray), unanimously
in the latter line to take sly .ereprietors of shares
and, that copies of the proeld'Ales Ills° in the former;
warded to each Pro • --e-algs of this day b prietoze,e far-
" That the thanks of the
and are now aecordi Proprietors ar •
e justly d•Je
generally, and to the tendered, to the D. 4
Direct
chair to-day.''—Thes -chairman for his conduct in the.
* By the
word meeting then separated.
take the land r expropriation" is meant the power to,
re for the •
railway.

On Thursday a somewhat novel parcel was. re-
ceived into the Glasgow post-office
viz , a pair of
boots, whose destination is Bombay, and for the
transmission of which 61. sterling was paid as postage.
The reduction of the rates has been the means of
sending some very strange packets through the pose,
and the transmission of ladies slippers from one place
to another has become quite common ; but we have.;
never heard of gentlemen's boots undertaking such, a
long journey under the care of the post -office, And
cannot help thinking that they will be rather a c• nu ),
pair to the destined wearer, by the time the
an,
tumbled out at Bombay amongst the Englis'a
oveE
land despatches.—Glasgow Constitutional.
KiLwii,,,,NG.—Thursday last being the -arth_day
na
of the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, a pa, fki.
mers and others, connected with and dra
A together
by their esteem for the Noble Earl,
assembled in the
Masons'-hall. The party numbered
Hugh King, Esq., Chairman ;W. about sixty—,
111'Jannet,
Croupier. The Chairman 'ups felicitous in his
speeches, and the night was spent, happily and harm- •
piously. The toast of the eirening, " Long life to the,
Earl of Eglinton and Winton" called forth bursts 4-4.
applause. That of his amiable Countess and the
young Lord Montgomerie.were
similarly received
All connected with the boble house were warmly
proposed and responded to.--Ayr Observer.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 14.—The following is the
Imperial Rescript (Hatti Houmayoun), appointing
Mehemet Raouf Pacha Grand Vizier :
"26 Rejeb, 1258 (1 Sept. 1842).
" My faithful Vizier Mehemet Itaouf Pacha—ln-
vested upon several occasions with the supreme func-
tions of Sadry Asem (Grand Vizier-lit-elevated seat),
thou hast always conducted the affairs of this eminent
office in a satisfactory manner, and with distinguished
intelligence and fidelity. Nevertheless, certain alto-
fives having at a former period caused thy removal,
Izzet Mehemet Pacha was directed to replace thee.
But, whatever may have been the, reason, Izzet Me-
hemet Pacha not having succeeded in watching. over
and directing the affairs of state, in conformity with
our Imperial will, his dismissal became expedient, and
we have chosen thee to replace him. In considera-
tion, therefore, of thy high reputation, and the numer-
ous guarantees thou 'last given to our Imperial con-
fidence, we again appoint thee Grand Vizier, and
hereby invest thee with most extensive powers.
" Thou who art distinguished amongst the most
eminent Ministers of our Sublime Porte, by seniority
of service and profound knowledge of all affairs and
questions that concern the interests of our empire, the
defence of which requires the greatest tact and dis-
cernment—thou who art endowed with the most per-
fect intelligence and sagacity—inspiring thyself with
the sentiments of fideity and integrity that cha-
racterise thee, and acting in concert with all
ministers and public functionaries—thou must conse-
crate all thy efforts and zeal to regulate and conduct '
all administrative, financial, and military affairs of the
empire, in conformity with Divine law and our Im-
perial will.
" Through the favour of Divine Providence the re-
pose and prosperity of all our subjects, without dis-
tinction, has been assured throughout the whole ex-
tent of our empire ; and at the present moment the
solicitude of our governors, and other depositaries of
power, is principally directed to this object, which
ought to attract thy constant attention and most vigi-
lant watchfulness.
" All the efforts of thy administration must tend to
establish the prosperity of our empire upon a durable
and solid basis—to insure the happiness and tranquil-
lity of all its inhabitants without distinction, and
thereby to realise our dearest wishes. Lastly, thy
utmost care and attention must be devoted to cement
more closely the bonds of amity and perfect harmony
solidly established between my Government and the
august Courts of Europe.
" May the Most High accord to thee the succour of
Divine assistance, and thus permit thee to render long
and useful services to the empire."
CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 17.—A circular, of which
the following is a translation, has been transmitted by
the Reis Effendi to the different legations accredited
to the Sublime Porte :
" 2d Shabau, 1258 (Bth Sept., 1842.)
" It is matter of notoriety that, in consequence of
repeated violations of the Ottoman territory on the
h

•
SPIRIT of the PUBLIC. JUVENAL&
EitU3l THk EVENINi; PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The promoters of free American
emigration to the West Indies (a topic we treated
generally a few weeks back) are directly at issue
with the Anti-Slavery Society and its followers.
The possible important consequences of the ex-
periment induce us to recur to its consideration,
and endeavour calmly to estimate the value of
the two great objections used against it. These
are reducible to two heads--lst, that it would be
a revival of virtual slavery under another name ;
2dly, that the emigrated Africans would not
return to their own country. The first is an
assumed case of hardship towards the Afri-
cans themselves. This might take place
in two ways—their being induced to em-
bark from their native shores by violence
or unfair representations, and their being
ill-treated when arrived in our colonies, or.de-
nied the means of returning. The responsible
authorities to whose control the obtaining emi-r
grant labourers in Africa would be confided,
would afford a strong guarantee against the em-
ployment of crimping, kidnapping, and other
means not unknown in the annals of colonial ad-
ministration ; but a still surer economical check
would seem to exist, in the numbers who are
eager to leave the shores of Africa—for who
would incur the gratuitous infamy of crimping,
when the nuinger of claimants exceeds the
present demand or means of transport? With
respect to the deluding emigrants under unfair
representations,, the recent Report of the Colo-
nial Commissioners says, " No person is allowed
to go who has not been a resident in Sierra
Leone six weeks, nor any child without the
written consent of its parents or guardians, nor
any liberated African without the like consent of
the Government superintendent. Their adequate
comforts on the voyage are also provided for by
the Passengers Act. There remains their con-
dition when arrived in our colonies. Here again
the economic state of the West Indian colonies,
to which emigration will be chiefly directed, seems
to ensure good treatment and abundant wages.
Their arrival will be a boon to the planters, suf-
fering under scarcity of labour; they will compete
with an inadequate number of emancipated negroes
now receiving more than an adequate remunera-
tion, and consequently unwilling to labour for more
than a limited period. No case can be more pro-
mising for good treatment and fair remuneration,
unless the supply of emigrants should increase so
as to cause a redundancy, which would of course
cad for an administrative check to further emi-
gration, such as has lately been applied to New
South Wales. Neither could they be oppressed
in the colonies in defiance of the laws, under
whose full protection they would be placed; and
a free passage back, after a certain period, com-
pletes the guarantees for the welfare of the Afri-
can. But suppose, 2dly, they are not willing to
return. We will assume this; but still the great

part of Persia, and of the mcstite incursions coy '.
economic question of supplying labour where
ted by the subjects of that power on the frontier pro-
urgently wanted remains untouched ; there
vinces, the Sublime Porte's agents have been directed
remains, too, uninjured, the less probable perhaps,
to repulse and chastise the aggressors. In the mean
but still grander, result of underselling slave
time it is natural that, in the midst of these hostilities,
labour by free. All that would have to be given
the frontier population should be thrown into a state
up would be the regenerating Africa by a con-
of confusion and disorder, which must, for the moment,
stant reflux of civilised labourers. This would
interrupt the security of commercial transactions in
be a great drawback doubtless, but still how
that quarter. much [night be gained ! But the weight of tes-
the Sublime Porte cannot, however, hold itself
timony and evidence is on the other side. From
responsible for any accidents that may befal merchan-
those who have studied the character of the
dise that may henceforth be expedited into Persia.
natives, it appears that the desire to return and
Consequently, it hastens to communicate this state of
permanently settle in their native land is com-
of affairs to friendly Powers, in order that they may mon to them alon with most other nations; and
forthwith inform such of their subjects as may be in- this tendency would be naturally increased by
terested in trading with the Persian provinces. It is acquisition of capital, civilization, and intelli-
for this purpose, and for no other object, that the pre- gence. But facts speak more distinctly, and
sent memorandum is addressed tosmall as has been the number who have crossed
(Signed) " SARIM EFFENDI." the Atlantic, there has already been a re-etnigra-
The above memorandum is similar in purport to tion to Sierra Leone.
that recently addressed to Foreign Powers by the STAN DARD.—We must once more recal
Court of Naples_, when it anticipated acts of ag- attention to the real state of the question which
gression upon the part of the Dutch navy. But was the subject of the late negotiations with
the Porte has stronger grounds for adopting this America. This is the more necessary, because
precautionary course, as scarcely a day occurs with- the real state of the question has been carefully
out reports reaching the Pachas of the northern
concealed by the Opposition journals; and it is
districts of misfortunes occurring to travellers, cara- not likely to occur to those who are familiar
vans of merchandise, and even to Government couriers, only with such negotiations as have generally
upon the roads between Bayezed and thel'ersian bor- occupied diplomatists. Now, the usual subjects
der. The Turkish authorities have adopted every of diplomatic arrangement relate to a status quo.
possible precaution that may conduce to the security of I A. has that, and claims to have it of right, which
the routes ; but the Persian Kurds contrive to elude B. claims also upon a plea of right. ]f• in such a
their vigilance, and execute their forays and acts of negotiation A. surrenders anything without an
rapine and plunder with comparative impunity. The equivalent, he confesses that he has been a
direct road by Bayezed and Etch Maidan to Khoi is wrong doer, or that lie is too weak and spirit-
thus rendered nearly irhpracticable, and if interrup. less to assert his right. Such are the usual
tion to trade and loss to merchants ensue, the blame cases of diplomacy, and as such the Op-
must fall upon those who, by a display of greater I position journals affect to treat the case
energy and activity, might have imposed upon the of the late arrangement with America: but the
Persian Government, and compelled it to adopt, mea- \ state of the question between us and the
sires of police similar to those commanded by the United States was wholly different. In this there
Porte. This state of affairs is most prejudicial to I was no status quo; the subject of negotiation
British commercial interests, and calls for earnest in- ' was, and had for ever been, a matter left uncer-
tervention on the part of Great Britain. To Russia ; min by agreement. Great Britain or the United
this state of affairs is an advantage. On the one , States might, therefore, have freely surrendered
hand, her trade between Constantinople and Persia is ' the whole without the slightest compromise of
comparatively insignificant. On the other, the less honour. As to the sacrifice of interest, whoever
the security and traffic by the ordinary route, the looks at the map of our American possessions,
I greater will be the demand through the Russian pro- inhabited and uninhabited, explored or unex-
vinces. Merchants must henceforth run all risks, l•plored, named and unnamed, must see that the
without prospect of indemnity, if they continue to greater the amount of the forests of the disputed
expedite goods through Trebizonde and Erzeroum, or territory (we beliest that it has not yet got a
they must ship their wares to some Russian port in name) we should obtain, the greater would be
the Black Sea, and then forward them in transitu to our loss, because the more extensive, the weaker,
Tabreez, at an immense increase of expense and loss and the more distant from resources would
o_4 time. The knowledge of these results, combined Ibe our frontier, the security of our corn-
win various collateral circumstances, tend to throw munication with Canada the only con-
grea., doubts upon the sincerity of the Russian Go- sideration that makes an acre of the dis-
vernment in connection with Persian affairs. puted, or rather undetermined , territory
A tatnr, with despatches from the Foreign-office, worth accepting. The question of honour
received by the French steamer, left this place for had been settled (if such a question could exist
Teheran. yesterday. It is to be desired that our Go- in such a case) by the King of the Netherlands—
vernment should lose no time in exerting every nerve the question of interest is apparent from the map.
to
bringb the Shah to hire senses and thus put an end But Lord Ashburton put forward claims upon
to eof affairs so pjudicia‘ to the interests of which he did not ultimately insist. To be sure
our trade with Persia through this country. lie did. Does not the very essence of an un-
The Syrian affair, again, occupies the greater por- determined question require that every imagin-
tion of diplomatic time and attention. A conference able claim be advanced on both sides by those
was held upon this subject on Tuesday last between who are appointed to adjust it? Is it not thus
the . British Ambassador and Sarim Effendi; and that men settle accounts? Could they ever
upon 'Thursday, the 15th, a collective conference of settle an account if, instead of setting down
the relpresentatives of the five Powers took place at to present and balance all. imaginable claims,
the -residence of the Reis Effendi on the Bosphorus. each should draw up 'a balance sheet
The project of establishing a Christian prince as go- upon his own views, and then insist that
verr.or of the Maronites, and a Druse ehief as admi- the sum at foot must be admitted as the
nien-alive ruler of the Druses, Moslems, and Muta- sum due? And why are negotiations called
w( ,llys, subject to the higher jurisdiction of a Turkish by the name, if not because in this re-
P acha, and the retention of a Turkish garrison on the spect diplomatists are to imitate the practice
....V fountain, was again discussed. The first three points, of merchants and accountants? For the rest; h-
i( report be true, have been consented to by the five is surely unjust to charge Lord Ashburton with
r ,presentatives, ad referendum, but they have failure, because, though he has succeeded in all
o hjected to the fourth. The maintenance of a Turk- the principal objects of his mission, he has not
it h garrison in such place as the Turkish authorities rendered impossible the arising of new causes of
n may consider expedient, is held to be dangerous to the quarrel with the citizens of the United States-
-ace of the Lebanon, and calculated to excite distrust
P - an omission gravelya: charged against his Lord-
_ id private dissension among all classes. , The Porte de- ship. Lord
Ashburton was not the Minister of
Glares, on the otherhand, that a garrison is essential, not the United States, but of Great Britain ; and all
ynly in order to maintain the supremacy of the central that, as such, he could effect was this—that no
i 3overnment—which it is evident that England ought to
ut
cause of quarrel should arise that would not
sicourage and support—but as a means of preventing
the Republic in the wron
g. This lie has donpe,
a, collision between the Druses and Maronites, who, and we suspect were he the dictator of the Union
'fr abandoned to themselves, would shortly come to he could riot do more, as the conduct of the
The object of the British Ambassador and
blows. Sympathisers seems sufficiently to prove.
the Porte t.,nn
;his colleanues has been to overcome ,
that the
the scruples of
- n this point, but it appearsre-
port of Mini Rey,and the arguments used by that
functionary, have vended to confirm the determination
of the Ottoman Goarnment, and
the conference con-
sequently broke up at a late hour, without any pro-
gress having been made.
In
conceding the first twoconsiders itself
points to the rive Courts, the Porte
have gone to the extremest length ,
_compatible
with its own security and dignity. Further con-
cessions will not be, made, and if our Government T
be wise, it will remain satisfied with this victory. o
suppose that Russia. or France sincerely unite with
us in any measure tending to strengthen the Ottoman
Government, is a proof of utter ignorance of the views
and machinations of those powers, whose sole object
is .to ruin what England is bound to support. Upon
the morning follov ring the grand conference (yester-
day), the Russia: a Charge d'Affaires had a private
.
naidience of the Grand -Vizier, at his Highness's villa
at Bebek. These private audiences with the Grand
Vizier are innovations which show a considerable
proyi-ress in facilita ting general intercourse between
the i-,4 ultan's mini sters and foreign envoys, but they
aiwayo excite jealousy. The small squadron of Turkish
ships sei',l on a cruise into the Archipelago have re-
turned tb- their 17 moorings in the Bosphorus. The
combined .or uncon ibined philanthropic squadron con-
tinues off ;the Syr_ fan- coast. Orders have been, con-
sespientlA issued
by the Porte to its commanders in
Syria to act w.ith. promptitude and energy, in the
event of these dc mrno:istrations producing an outbreak
in the meantime.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—The declaration of the London bankers
that the hours of business shall cease at four instead
of five o'clock, which has long been in agitation, is
now in a state of some progress. The whole of the
City bankers have, it is understood, already signed
it, and it is now in a course of signature at the west-
end. The agreement to close at four o'clock is
merely expressed conditionally if the consent of the
Bank of England to fall in with the new arrangement
be obtained. The bankers themselves, and the
number of persons engaged in their counting-houses,
are looking forward to the operation of the plan with
great eagerness, as the addition to domestic comfort
which they would gain would be immense. On the
other hand, there are many of the public
who look with no kindly feeling on the proposed
alteration of the old plan, and who think that
the few who would be benefited would obtain their
own convenience at the sacrifice of that of the public.
That the liability of a banker to pay his checks should
cease at five o'clock, they consider is already a suffi-
cient privilege ; and as it is the interest of persons en-
gaged in trade to have it in their power to procure
cash as long as possible, they do not see why the time
which is allowed for that purpose should be abridged.
Besides, they are fearful lest, when the custom is once
broken in upon, some further limitation might be
sought at a future time, so that the public might lose
perhaps another hour in a year or two. That a great
deal of convenience would arise to many individuals
if the alteration were adopted, there can be no doubt,
but the arguments on the other side are well worth
attention.

I A letter forwa nII
by our correspondent at M to us
1 alta.profes!;es to,. give most %A, elcome news from our
army in AffghaniA tan. we publish this extract in
.t.b.very words in vi hich it has reached us, but with-
in any degree pit dbn o ourselves for the correct-
itess of a statement given., not on the authority of our
.-:9l;vn.co,Trespondent but by him from a respectable re-
sident at Beyrout, 'who hs.d received it in a letter from
Bagdad. The foil owing is the extract:---" General
Ifoltock has reached: Caubt il, and the Affghans have
succumbed.". —Tintes.
E /%P. -ANTCILL: TT COMMISSIONERS.—The fol-
lowing is underCtood to be a correct list of the new
Bankrupt Commis,sione: ts. It is said their Honours
will meet the other. Co mmissioners on Monday, the
10th instant, to take int 4) consideration certain rules
to be adopted in practic 'e of the several Courts over
which they will preside ::—Mr. Sergeant Stephens,
Mr. David Pollock, Mr. 1 Tor.-2.ce Twiss, Mr. Shepherd,
Mr. Wray, Mr. Kenyon
_:!arke.7, Mr. Henry Revell
vies The number
Reynolds, jun., and --line? la
to be. appointed is said to

The proposal of the bankers has caused the same
subject to be started at the Stock Exchange, where
there is a notice of closing at three, which, it is said,
may well be done considering the little business then
transacted. At present, however, it is no more than
the conversation of the house, and has not in any way
been brought before the Committee.
The necessity of transmitting bullion to India,
which has already been urged on our attention, has
been again brought forward by a mercantile cor-
respondent of great experience yin Indian commerce.
lie refers to the opening of the Government loan in
1841 as one cause of the great pressure, since even
though it failed to produce the sum required, it ab •
sorbed a, large amount of the capital which would
otherwise have been employed in commerce, or in
advances on landed security. This was accompa-
nied by the confiscation of 3,000,000/. of the mer-
cantile as property in China, and while, our cor-
respondent observes, either of the events singly