The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-26 00:00:00

DIED.

On the 3rd August, at sea, on his passage from Africa to this
port, Captain JOHN RAISBECK, commander of the Sylph, of
this port.
On the 14th ultimo, at Puckeridge, aged 22, ELIZABETH
GODDARD. Four years since deceased slept in a damp bed,
in consequence of which she lost the use of her limbs, and has
been bedridden ever since. Her parents and intimate friends
assert that she had not eaten any solid food for three years,
attempting to take nothing but water, and her stomach even
rejecting that. They refused to allow her body to be opened.
• On the 18th ultimo, in Russell-street, aged 48, Mr. OWEN
BROWN, paper dealer.
On the 2nd instant, at Houseley Hall, Ecclesfield, Yorkshire,
aged 73, Mr. W. FROGGART. By his death this valuable as-
tate becomes the property of the lion. James Wortley, M.P.,
having been bequeathed to him at the death of Mr. Froggatt by
an entire stranger.
On the 7th instant, after a short illness, Mr. G. DICKSON, .
of the firm of Dickson and Glover, drysalters.
On the Bth instant, suddenly, aged 60, Mr. JAMES CHAM-
BERS, of Manchester, estate and land valuer. He had been on
a visit to Congleton, and returned in the coach that meets the
railway train at Ilolmes Chapel. On arrival at the station, the
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driver of the coach was startled at finding Mr. Chambers quite
dead.
CountlencY
Extraordinary
M SameAGN I Ud aSY
and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Great Britain.
On the 11th instant, aged 84, Mrs. ELLEN HESKETH, wi-
dow of the late William Hesketh, paper maker, Manchester.
Deceased was mother to twelve children, grandmother to fifty-
three, and great-grandmother to thirty-nine. She was carried
to her last resting place by eight of her grandsons.
On the 13th instant, at Lahinch, the Rev. T. M'INERNY,
Scariff. At the Clare election, in 1828, " Father Tom" was play-
fully called the " Ajax of the cause." Mr. Steele has stated,
that, at the consecration of the 'Rev. Mr. Wlnerny's chapel
among the wild mountains of Feacle, in 1827, and the dinner
party after, was laid the foundation of the Clare election and
triumph of O'Connell.
On the 14th instant, at Beotle, in her 68th year, of a polypus,
after a long and patient suffering, NANCY, wife of Mr. EDW.
COWDELL.
Same day, aged 32 years, ARABELLA, wife of Mr. WIL-
LIAM WALKER, watchmaker, High-street, Everton.
Same day, at Eldo-house, near Bury St. Edmunds, aged 72
years, Major-General P. RAY.
On the 15th instant, aged 67 years, Mr. JOHN JONES, clerk
to Messrs. Rowson and Cross, solicitors, Prescot. He had been
employed in the same office for a period of 44 years.
On the fifth instant, at his residence, Trumpington-street.
Cambridge, the Rev. WILLIAM HODGSON, D.D., master of
St. Peter's College.
Same day, at his residence, Waterloo, aged 90 years, the Rev.
G. VANBRUGH, LL.D., prebendary of Wells, and formerly
rector of Aughton.
Same day, at Brighton, aged 48 years, JOSEPH CROUCHER,
Esq.

Same day, at his residence, Breck-road, Everton, aged 67
years, Mr. JAMES TOWERS.
Same day, in Bittern-street, aged 34 years, Mr. WM. GAR-
NER, joiner.
Same day, in Duke-street, azed 71 years, WILLIAM GRAY,-
Esq., late her Majesty's Consul for Virginia, in the United
States.
k On the 17th instant, at his residence, 63, Soho-street, after a
long illness, Mr. JOHN T. MAKIN, late from Africa.
Same day, aged 47 years, BARNET MINIFIE POOLE; Esq.,
late of Goulden-terrace, Barnshury-road, London.
Same day, ANN, daughter of Mr. JOSEPH STRETCH,
Warrington.
Same day, at Boulogne-sur-Mer, HARRIET ST. CLAIR, wife-
ot Dr. HARRIS, of Croyden, Surrey, and second Naughter of
the late Lieutenant-Colonel KELLY.
Same day, at her residence, King-street, Edge-hilt, Mrs.
PINCKNI?X, mother of Mr. J. A. Pinckney, master of the Old
Church Charity Schools, Moorilelds.
On the 18th instant, at Moye, county of Carlow, ag,ed 5
months, THOMAS, only son of Captain M'CLINTOCk BUN-
BURY, R.N., M.P., for that county.
Same day, at Victoria-road, near Douglas, Isle of Man, MAR-
GARET, eldest daughter of the late IGNATIUS PURCELL,.
Esq., of Prospect-point, near Swords, county Dublin.
Same day, JANE, relict of the late Mr. DAVID EVANS,
Mile-end, Scotland-toad.
Same day, of typhus fever, tr::ed 39 years, Dr. JAMES COCK-
BURN, of 174, gurlington-str&t. By his unexpected death his
wife and family are plunged into the deepest distress.
Same day, in the 29th year of his age, at Portstnouth, the Rev.
WILLIAM BISHOP, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cam-
bridge .
Same day, aged 61 years, SAMUEL WILLS, Esq., Richmond-
place, St. Leonard's, Exeter-
Same day, at his residence, at Holmesdale-house, Nutfield,
Surrey,anie day, at
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Cumming-street
Penton
Esq.
Same eet,
ville, in the 25th year of his age, PETER, sou of WILLIAM
lAWELL, Esq.
Same day, at llenley-park, EMMA AUDREY BOURCIER,
youngest daughter of the late James Audrey Bourchier, Esq.,
Of Little Berlthampstead, Herts.
On the 19th instant, at Ramsgate, aged 95 years, LEVI
ABRAHAM, Esq.
Same day, at his residence, Kingstown, Dublin, Mr. WIL•
LI.kM ROOCH, late the commander of the Chance, revenue
cruiser.

Same day, ELLENt wife of JOHN ARDERN, Esq., Pen'
keth-green, near Warrington.
Same day, at his house, Chatham-place, Walworth, aged GByears, lIESJAMIN REDHEAD, Esq.
Same day, MARY, relict of Mr. RICHARD HEATH, of War-
rington.
Same day, in his 78th year,.Mr. WILLIAM POLLARD, for
half a century local przlicher the Wesleyan connexion, and
one of the first advocates of teetotalism in Manchester.
On the 20th instant, at his residence, Stratford-place, St. Ma-
rylebone, aged 72 years. T. J. BURGOYNE, Esq.
Same day, aged 40, Mr. RICHARD EDWARDS, plumherand
glazier. of this town, son of the late JAMES EDWARDS, Esq.
On the 21st instant, JAMES HAYDON, son of Mr. JOHN
BARTON, organist of Paradise-street Chapel.
Same day, in Guildford-place, London, aged 80, R. G.
BUCK, Esq.., special pleader, Middle Temple.
Same day, in Upper Stanhope-street, aged 10} months, RO-.
BERT, only son of ROBERT Stanhope-street,
master
Same day, at her residence in Bedford-street, Toxteth.:park..
of typhus fever, MARY, second daughter of ELIZABETH.
ARTHY. _

On the Pod instant, at Holyhead, MARGARET JONES.,
aged 75, mother-in-law to Captain Thomas, of the star, of this.
port.
On the 24th in.italit, after a prctraeted toed 15 years.
MARGARET. only daughttr of the late 'WILLIAM TAILOR
Esq., Latirtl House, Fairtehl,

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TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 26, 1847.

THE events of the past week have staggered even
those who most sanguinely promised us that the
cloud was passing away. It is now almost uni-
versally acknowledged that the worst is not over ;
that the commercial community, left by the almost
criminal apathy of Government to shift for them-
selves, must pass through an ordeal, the severity of
which has never been paralleled within memory,
and which will affect not the leviathan speculator
only—not those houses who are reproached with
having extended their operations beyond the limits
of their capital, but the humble tradesman as well,
who has not so sinned; who has neither dabbled
in cotton or corn, in railway shares or in scrip. It
does not even stop here. The mechanic and the
labourer, who toils for his daily wage, must endure
alike with their superiors in station. Already we
hear increasing announcements of suspension of the
productive industry of the country, by which thou-
sands must inevitably be deprived of employment
and of bread • and unless some prompt measure of
relief is speedily devised, the prospect is before us
of a winter of anarchy and, for the working classes,
of actual famine.

In the worst stages of most human difficulties
there is to be discerned a termination somewhere.
However long the vista of evil through which we
have to pass, there is a light, though it be a distant
one, which shews where we may hope to emerge
into the sunshine. At present, however, we see no
such indications of a period being put to the coun-
try's sufferings. The superlatively wise philoso-
phers, who have embarked us in our present course,
are themselves unable to spew us a gleam of hope
of extrication. All that they tell us, in reply to our
—appeals for help, is that we must struggle on with-
out a deviation to the right or to the left; and that
however many of those whom they have impelled
upon that struggle may fall down by the way, ulti-
mately a few may battle to the end. But they
cannot convince us that whilst the banker, the
merchant, and the manufacturer are thus groping
their way to a termination of their monetary diffi-
culties, the millions willing to toil, and anxious to
be fed and clothed, will be content to watch the
experiment and starve in quietness. They cannot
tell us how the Government itself can exist with a
deficient revenue long enough to be enabled to
witness the result. It is easy to say to individual
sufferers you must pay the penalty of your miscal-
culation; you must forfeit a portion of your pro-
perty to secure the rest ; you must realize your
corn, your cotton, your railway stock, and other
descriptions of convertible property, and cease to
import until the drain upon the country is met by
the increased amount of imports ; but it is not
quite so easy to inform us how goods are to be pro-
duced and paid for without money; how proderty
is to be converted without buyers, or how hands
are to be made to work without mouths being
ailed.

IT may not be uninstructive to examine a few of
the recipes which are proposed to us in lieu of the only
real cure, the retracing of the policy by the party
whose crotchets have brought us into our present
dilemma. " Stop the Railway Expenditure" ex-
claim some of those parties. Well, what will that
step effect ? It will throw probably a million
labourers, artizans, miners, workers in iron, &c.,
into a state of compulsory idleness ; deprive them
of the power of consuming the grain of the farmer
and the importer, of buying the goods of the ma-
-nufacturer, or the produce of our Colonies or of the
foreigner. It would involve the merchant, who has
stocks of these commodities, stored up, in ruin ;
decrease the trade of the shopkeeper, and strike off
a few millions per annum from the national revenue.
" Wait until our gold comes back" is the cry of
another set of people. But how long are we to
wait for Duch an issue ? When we stop our pro-
duction of exportable commodities ; stop our mills
and our mines, we ensure the continuance of an
adverse rate of exchange and take the very course
by which our gold will be prevented from returning
to us. The instant that we resume our commercial
and industrial activity, so as to enable us to export,
we begin to consume in greater quantity imported
products. We spend in short as much as we can,
or a little more, until having increased our produc-
ing power to its full capability, we are hurried on
to a crisis like the present, in which we find our
circulating medium insufficient for the required
magnitude of our transactions. _ _

There does it seems exist another source of relief.
It is understood that the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer is looking forward to an investment by the
Emperor of Russia of three millions sterling in the
British Funds. By selling to that monarch the
pithlic securities at 80 per cent., the Bank of En-
gland is to be released from its present inability to
accommodate the commerce of the empire. A
most humiliating admission for a British statesman
it is that this is the only staff upon which he has to
lean ! It is however not at all an improbable sort
of speculation on his Majesty's part. Consols at
80 per cent., which may in a few months be once
more worth 90 per cent., leave a fair margin of
profit for the royal speculator. But it would be
quite as well if such a personage as Sir Charles
Wood would condescend to lay aside his preten-
sions to infallibility; and, candidly confessing that
he knows as much about the commerce and the
currency of the country as he knows of Sanscrit,
allow its interests to be relieved without the Emperor
dipping his hands into our pockets.

THE Budget of the present Whig Ministry, if its
members hang together long enough to produce
one,• will undoubtedly be a very ingenious affair,
We presume that some attempt will be made to
regulate our expenditure with the national revenue ;
and as cutting down expenditure is by no means
an operation in favor with Whiggery, some novel
expedient must be found for increasing the pro-
ductiveness of the sources from which that expen-
diture is supplied. At present our Customs and
Excise, our Stamps and Taxes are in a lethargic
state. A population, of which a large portion is un-
employed cannot consume largely, A Commerce,
which is almost suspended, does not require the
ordinary supply of stamps to carry on its trans-
actions. Even an Income Tax, with all its inqui-
sitorial racks and screws, cannot drag money much
longer from merchants and traders, whose balance
is on the wrong side of the account. There is no
happy windfall, however, to be expected from
China, or elsewhere, and we dare not in the pre-
sent condition of European affairs economise one
shilling of the cost of maintaining the efficiency of
the army and navy. What then is to be the de-
vice by which the income of the country, already
showing symptoms of proving by next Easter three
or four millions sterling below its expenditure, is
to be patched up, and that awful stumbling-block,
which trips up Whig ministers a deficiency
avoided ?
Borrowing will not do just now. We should be
paying off, instead of increasing, the amount of
the national indebtedness. A few months ago we
heard a good deal of some further carrying out of
the measures of free trade—some further removal
of duties on foreign products; but as that course
in itself involves a sacrifice instead of an increase
of income, we presume that at present it cannot be
thought of, although nothing is more popular with
the many-headed multitude, whom Whiggery wor-
hips, than such reductions. The common sense
course seems to be in an opposite direction. If
our present customs' rates upon the amount of
consumption which we may look forward to for
the next twelvemonths are unequal to provide us
with the required income they must he raised, or a
new element of taxation be found. The same re-
mark applies to the Excise, with the difference
only, that raising the impost upon native produc-
tions—as malt, British spirits, &c., cannot be
thought of by any man in his senses. The Stamp
Duty is sufficiently high already ; the Assessed
Taxes already too burthensome and impolitic be-
sides; and the proposal, now, to raise the rate of
postage, in the hope of drawing a revenue from
that department, would draw down upon its pro-
poser the ire of every epistolary young lady anti
gentleman in the United Kingdom. The Income
and Property Tax, then, is our last resource. We
must double that, or extend its application to
persons with an income of under a hundred and
fifty pounds per annum ; or, but for the dislike of
our political economists to its very name, we might
even have it regulated upon the principle of a
sliding scale.
We can imagine some little hesitation of manner

in the worthy Chancellor of the Exchequer—a little
abatement of his usual flippancy and self-satis-
faction—whilst announcing, at the conclusion of
the first year of Free Trade in Corn, the existence
of the necessity of increasing the Taxation of the
Country. Of course he will have reasons " plenty
as blackberries " to urge, as having brought about
this sad contretemps. There will be the effect of
the Potatoe rot, although that is a little worn out.
He may, perhaps, read a lecture, after the manner
of The Times, to the merchants of Liverpool, ac-
cusing them of over-speculating, and importing too
largely; and if no twinge of memory reminds him
that such very increase of importations was calcu-
lated upon to take place, as the result of free-trade
measures, and to diffuse universal prosperity over
the country, he will ride off on this topic in tri-
umphant style. We shall be told of the Railways,
too, attempted too rapidly to be constructed ; and
much excellent indignation may be directed against
directors, provisional committee-men, solicitors,
secretaries, and shareholders, unless the worthy
gentleman is pulled up short in his diatribe by a
question from Mr. Hudson, or some other Railway
representative, how much further our consumption
of Foreign commodities, and consequently of the
Revenue derived from them would have been
decreased, had the mouths of some five hundred
thousand navvies and their families, and of the
numerous other classes dependent upon Railway
formation been closed ? or he is asked by the
representative of some manufacturing community
what he considers has been the effect upon the
home trade for our manufactures, of all these
families having been enabled to clothe themselves
in something better than the rags of an Irish
peasant, or the scanty covering of an English
ditcher.

The most perplexing topic, however, with which
Sir Charles will have to deal, will be the fact of
our decreasing exports of manufactured goods in
the face of largely increased exports; the closed
mil's and the idle machinery and labour of Man-
chester and Stockport, Leeds and Huddersfield
contemporary with the increased ability of the
foreigner to consume our goods. Where is the
realization of the glowing picture drawn of the
universal exchange of commodities, which was to
be the result of Free Trade—of the Manehester
weaver giving his labour to the Polish, the Rus-
sian, or the American farmer, in payment for their
cheap breadstUffs ? It has not been realized ; and
it would probably puzzle wiser people than Sir
Charles Wood to tell us when it is likely to be
realized.

It will perhaps not occur to the mind of the hon.
bart., unless his ' opinions shall have undergone
some very material alteration in the interval, that
one great reason why the glowing picture has not
been realized,—why the mills of Manchester and
Leeds are not in full work, why manufacturers are
not exporting goods to foreign markets, why the
operative is not employed, not consuming, and not
creating revenue,—is that the merchant, or the
agent, is not able to procure discount for the bills
remitted in payment of such goods, except upon
terms which sweep away all chances of profit from
such transactions. We hope that some provincial
Member—Mr. Brown could do it very satisfactorily
—will inform him of the numberless orders from
foreign markets, which have been compelled to
remain unexecuted from this cause. Any manu-
facturing member could assure him that it is not
from any want of capital that exports are not made
—that imports are not paid for in goods instead of
in bullion ;—for the goods are already in existence
and paid for, a drug in the heaped up warehouses
of Manchester and other towns—but solely because
the medium for effecting the exchange is not in ex-
istence, or is too costly to be employed.
That the Government can ever weather over
such a financial expos‘, we have not the slightest
expectation. They must give way to other men,
who are not so obstinately wedded to a theoretical
measure, which has broken down in working. They
must go out, leaving the stigma fixed upon their
name of having permitted the revenue once more
to fall into deficiency. Yet, except for their obsti-
nate rejection of counsel, the stigma in question
cannot fairly be attached to them. They have
fallen into a trap cunningly baited for them. On
the two successive occasions on which they have re-
cently held office, the periodical revulsion of com-
mercial and monetary affairs has taken place. The
cycle contrived by Sir Robert Peel's Currency Bills
has shown its dark side towards them. That most
astute tactician knows well what is required to
make it revolve with a quickened motion—how its
axis is to be oiled and the bright side to be again
presented to us; and he will be under no delicacy
in applying the remedy, whenever he can secure the
helm in his hands, and in appropriating to himself
the honour of having restored again the credit and
the revenue of the country. "

WITH some degree of sorrow, although it is
" required" from us " as an act of justice," we
give insertion to the following letter addressed to
us by the Rev. Cecil Wray, Incumbent of St.
Martin's. It is painful to us to see a gentleman
occupying, like Mr. Wray, the position of a clergy-
man of Christ's Church, descending, had even the
tone of our remarks been such as to furnish an
excuse for so doing, to language so unworthy of
his sacred office as that contained in the letter in
question. We are, however, willing, so far as we
are ourselves concerned, to waive all notice of the
unseemly and undeserved acerbity of language, in
which we are addressed; to set it down as an ebul-
lition of temper, which the rev. gentleman 'has no
doubt before this time regretted. We had pre-
pared a reply to the various points into which the
rev. gentleman has chosen to divide his general
charge of "falsehood " against us, but which the
pressure upon our space, this day, has reluctantly
compelled us to withdraw. We shall, however, be
able to find room for the article in our next; and,
in the meantime, we request our readers to re-
peruse the article in our last, which has given rise
to Mr. Wray's attack upon us, and to say whether
his letter meets any assertion which we have made.

ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

- - - - - - -
have been advised to require you, as an act of
justice, to publish a contradiction of a number of false
statements which you have thought proper to make against
me in one of your leading articles of Tuesday last; and
I only consent to take any notice of your remarks under
a protest that I do not consider myself amenable to you
for my conduct, or for the manner in which divine worship
is solemnised in St. Martin's Church.
I shall content myself by simply denying the truth of
all and each of the charges you have brought against me,
reserving proofs and explanations for those parties who
have some right to require them, and who know how to
treat my office at least with common decency, if not with
respect.
First, then, I deny that I have been guilty of the
dishonesty of robbing the Corporation of their property.
On the contrary, I maintain that the property in St.
Martin's Church has, by the late alterations, been greatly
improved and rendered more valuable.
Secondlv,—l deny that I have destroyed twelve pews
from which a rental of £4O was produced. So far from
it, the same occupants continue to pay the rental,
and have volunteered to pay an increased sum for the en-
larged accommodation now offered, and for the privilege
of kneeling, of which they were before deprived by the
narrowness of the pews.
Thirdly,—l deny that there has been any " misapplica-
tion of the public funds." About £6O was voted for im-
proving the kneeling accommodation, and it was applied
to this object.
Fourthly,—l deny that I have defrauded the poor of
their rights by " curtailing their free sittings." On the
contrary, I have largely added to the space formerly
occupied by the labouring clashes, who have now more
ample accommodation, and this in a better situation than
is afforded in any other church in Liverpool.
Fifthly.—l deny that the "alterations were made with-
out due authority." On the contrary we had the authority
of a resolution of the Church Expenditure Committee,
which • the chairman subsequently assured us would
sanction the widening of the pews, and the consequent
diminution of their number. The surveyor was not
troubled in the matter simply because the terms of the
resolution placed the superintendence in the church-
wardens.
Sixthly.—l deny that it is my custom to preach upon
forms and ceremonies ; or that I preached on this subject
on Sunday week.
Seventhly.—l deny, also, that the notice given on the
same day had anything to do with " alterations in the
services," as you suppose ; or, again, that the services are
" unacceptable to the congregation."
These seven false charges I distinctly and emphatically
deny. As to the last, it is sufficiently known that St.
Martin's congregation appreciate the devotional character
of our choral service, and they are not a little scandalized
that spies should be sent among them, to mock where
they ought to pray, and turn our sacred rites into ridicule.
To the £6O given by the corporation, they have freely
added about £5OO more of their own to provide chancel
screens of carved oak, and a painted window which is an
ornament to the town, and they reasonably think that
some credit is due to them for thus improving and beau-
tifying the church. Moreover, they have raised no less a
sum than £1,700 to supply National Infant and Com-
mercial Schools for their wretchedly poor district, and
these schools are attached to St. Martin's Church for ever
to be a blessing to the neighbourhood. Nor are they now

maintained without great exertions, the salaries alone
paid to teachers being £3OO a-year. All these things
come from the " empty pews" of our deserted church.
It must at least be admitted that we are respectable in
our poverty : and possibly we may yet survive the unre-
lenting malice and unscrupulous attacks of " religious "
newspapers. I am your obedient servant,
CECIL WRAY,
Incumbent of St. Martin's.

MORE PAUPER IMMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.

We noticed last week the increasing influx of paupers
from the sister island, and remarked that those now arriving
were of the worst class, and never likely, if indeed willing,
to become a self-supporting population. This week we have
to notice a further arrival of 1723 men, 935 women, and 475
children—in all 3133 persons, which make up the number,
from the Ist to the 24th, of 11,772 persons, against 10,369,
the total arrivals in all September. A still worse feature
than any which We have hitherto noticed, we learn from Mr.
Dowling, our head constable, attends the present immigra-
tion. Not only are the bulk of them of the most confirmed
description of paupers, ragged, filthy, and half starved,
but from the moment of their arrival, the women and
children especially, commence the practice of petty pilfer-
ing around our docks and in our streets. They surround
the carts and waggons, laden with cotton, or make
their way to the bales as they are landed on the quays, or
are hoisted into the warehouses, in such swarms, end with
such determination, that it is found impossible to prevent
portions of the contents being abstracted ; and it is lament-
able to find that such booty, notwithstanding the recent
restrictive regulations, is received by some of the marine
store-keepers. They are still more eager in their attempts
upon any thing in the shape of food—wheat, Indian corn,
&c. ; and as it is well known how large a portion of the
warehousemen of the town and the porters about our
docks are Irish, the public will not be surprised to learn
that, in many instances they are rather encouraged than
suppressed by these parties in their depredations. The
police, we understand, with all their vigilance—and how
active that vigilance is, may be judged from the fact that
fourteen parties were brought up last week by one officer
—cannot efficiently protect the vast masses of property
scattered over our fourteen miles of lineal dock space, or
in course of transit through our streets, from such an in-
vasion of pilferers ; and how to get rid of them it is not
not easy to see ; for they do not as last year, present
themselves to receive relief, and thus enable us to
send them back to their own country. To a number of
those brought up on Saturday at the Police-court, Mr.
Rushton put the question whether they were wishful to
be sent back to their own country. In every case, how-
ever, an evasive answer was returned ; and the magistrate
sent them to gaol for a month, intimating his determina-
tion to continue this course at the risk of filling our pri-
sons, if steps were not taken to remove this nuisance and
cruel burthen upon the inhabitants of the borough.
That to the bulk of the prisoners thus committed, im-
prisonment in a gaol is no punishment, may be inferred
from the fact that, as fast as they have been released
hitherto, they have rushed to the commission of some
petty crime to entitle them to a few weeks more of the
comfortable lodging and good food which any one of our
gaols affords, compared with the wretchedness to which
they have been accustomed. The women, we are assured,
seem to think their quarters quite enviable ; the only
punishment to which they object being the necessity of
performing the necessary ablutions insisted upon ! Un-
fortunately we possess no means in our borough prison of
either classifying them, or setting them to any labour of
a character and severity to make confinement distasteful
to a class proverbially lazy, confirmed in filthiness, and
satisfied with any lot which affords a supply of merely
animal wants.