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W. NI. Pehraid, Aieidswite. baler. J. St.usbeld, Stoakport
J. Perry. Nanewisls, linen-dralizr•
DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS.
.2.and W. Wood, Mansfield, dealers. Robinson and Ca
orth, Yorkshire, dyers. Pasha and Coppin, Market-
asitoreuSb. Leicestershire, atomics. Gibson and Co. Green-
' Mad, Yorkshire. Courtis and Lathrope, Higher Broad-street,
Plymouth, bilio4Tuta. Cote and Co. St. Duostan's.hill. Hall
and Co. Buford, Nottinghamshire; lace-manufacturers. Same
and Butells, Aldersgate-street, wine-merchants. Bragg and
Griffith, Birmingham, jeviellsrs. Samuel and Co. Lime-street,'
merchants. Beearey and Morley, York, coach-makers. Jens-,
melt, *en. and jun. Tottenham Cuurt-road, coach-makers. Sang.
seer and. Co Milk-street, warehousemen. Beyer and Co. Bush-
lane, Cannon-street, wool-merchants. Bent and Jackson, Brown-
street, Manchester, dealers in cotton waste end weft.
AVERAGE PRICES of CORN in England and Wales, from
the Returns received in the week ending August 15, 1819.
Wheat I Rye. I Barley. I Oats. I Beans. I Feiss.
s. d. a. d. a. d. a. d. a. d. s. d.
79 11 50 4 50 9 31 6 66 0 58 3
The Avetage Price of Sugar, from the returns made in the
week ending the 19th August, 1918, is .11s. 2b0:1. per cwt.

POLICE COMMITTEE-THIRD REPORT.

The Committee appointed to inquire into the State
of the Police of the Metropolis, have published their
Report, and also the Minutes of the Evidence taken
before the Committee, occupying, with the Appen-
dix, 238 folio pages. They disclose some interesting
and curious matter: . _ _

The Rev. Mr. Ford, one of the persons examined before the
Committee on the Police of the Metropolis, says in his evidence,
" Generally speaking, the prisoners consider transportation a
benefit more than a punishment ; the young ones are delighted
with it, and the old ones are rejoiced at the expectation of meet-
ing their old acquaintance."
Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, in her evidence, stated, that several per-
sons, husbands in anxiety to follow their wives, and tree versa,
were induced to commit crimes. She instanced one woman
who lately suffered death, viz. Ch irlotte Newman, who was ac-
tuated bye desire to follow her husband to Botany Bay, who
had committed the same offence ; but it was thought proper to
make an example of her, and she was executed.
Mr. Benjamin Baker, in his evidence respecting forgery, says,
there is a material difference of feeling among the prisoners with
regard to forging Bank notes and that of uttering them, those
who utter forged notes thanking themselves offender.; io a lesser
degree, and in general witness finds they have been ChilIAL tet
who have been drawn into the commission of the crime Isy the
craft and subtlety of others. They arc principally youth. Ont
of the young men now urier orders for execution told witness,
that the person who seduced him was in the habit of passing at
least 400 notes a week, and that he was the person who supplied
Finney, Spicer, and Kelly, with notes to a considerable amount.
Mr. Newman,late keeper of Newgate, speaking of the effect of
capital punishment, says, twenty is the greatest number he ever
knew suffer at once. There were twenty-one intended for one
day, but only nineteen were executed There were two execu-'
thins following each other—one nineteen, the other twenty.
These w-ere after the riots in 1780. Mr. Newman says, from
his observaticn, the effect of capital punishment has not been to
serve as an example to the public. Persons of bad disposition
embrace crime as a dangerous profession—a game in which they
m_y get prizes as well as blanks; and when they are unfortunate,
there is a sort of heroism atternang It, and they do not wish to
appear cowardly. He remembered one instance many years ago
A boy of the name of Cox, who had been tried at the Old Bailey
several times, and had re:eived mar.y addresses from the Court,
and he used jokingly to call the Recorder his " Godfather."—
Ilu came to be executed at last, and the night before his exeru-
tion, he amused himself by engraving on a plain half-penny, the
picture of a man hanging, and W. C. on the other side. lie was
not above nineteen or twenty at the time of his Heath. When
young, he used to go about with a pin-a-fore, and a Sall or top
in his hand, which he used to throw down areas, and by that
means gain admission to the house, and steal sometlir.lg from it."

THIRD REPORT
FROX THE SELECT' coMMITTEC ON TIM POOR
LAWS.
• •
Ths &het Committee appointed to consider of the Poor Laval,
sed•to Raven their Obser+ations the; ttipon to the lloope
have, pleasant to the Orticr wf the furth,..r examined
the natters to them referred, and have agreed to the follow-
ing Report :
" The Committee, in their Report of the last Ses-
sion. anticipated a further valuable accession of de-
tailed information respecting the practical manage
matt of the poor in Seotlaisch and your Committee
have now the satisfaction to state, t&ii.such an ex-
pectation has not been disappointed. The inquiries
instituted by the General Assembly a the (lurch of
Scotland, at the instance of your Committee, appear
to have been prosecuted with so much zeal and abi•
li:y, as to have furnished a Report (which they now
beg leave to lay before the house) full of informa-
tion the most valuable to those who have this subject
under their immediate consideration, and in the
highest degree interesting to all classes of the com-
munity. Your Committee cannot allow the Session
to close, without stating to the Ilouse, that it has
been their object, since the commencement of their
sitting, rather to carry into effect the suggestions
contained in the Report of the last Session, than be-
stow more time on the investigation and discussion
of the subject.at large, being satisfied of the justice

of those principles and opinions which had been be-
fore submitted to the judgment of the House. They
proposed, therefore, in the first instance, such mea-
sures as they presumed were likely to be attended
with the least difficulty ; the smallert Alteration,
however, in the laws respecting the management of
parochial concerns, excited so much attention, and
such a natural anxiety in different parishes to adapt
the proposed enactments to their own peculiar cir-
cumstances, that the detail of those measures which