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FIELDEN and Mr,

Mr. WAKLEY suggested that the inquiry should be ex-

tended so as to include as well the agricultural as the ;manu-
facturing employers, the truck system being used on farms
in the north of England, and also in Scotland. The hon.
gentleman proposed an amendment with this view of the
case.

Colonel SIBTHORP was prepared to assent to the amend- 1
ment, fully confident that the agriculturists would come out
of the inquiry unscathed.
Mr. BROTHERTON feared the inquiry would be too much
extended by the amendment. He was aware that a good
deal of oppression took place in the manufacturing districts,
and he had no objection to the appointment of a committee
for the purpose of arriving at the truth.
Sir J. GRAHAM thought the cases referred to by the hon.
member for Knaresborongh were exceptions to the prevailing
rule of honour and integrity which distinguished British mer-
chants and manufacturers. It was altogether superfluous to
ask for protection for the witnesses. He had no objection to
an inquiry into the truck system, and therefore moved as an
amendment that a select committee should be appointed to
inquire into the operation of the law prohibiting the payment
of wages otherwise than in the current coin of the realm.
After some further discussion, in which Mr. S. Wortley,
Mr. Muntz, Mr. M. Philips, Mr. Plumptre, Mr, Yorke,
and Mr. Cobden took part.
Sir R. PEEL said he could not agree to the motion of Mr.
Ferrand, which contained charges -against the manufacturers
of the whole kingdom. There would be frauds in manufac-
tures as long as the world lasted, 134 the remedy for those
frauds was found in open competition,
Mr. FERRAND withdrew his motion in favourof that of Sir
James Graham, which was agreed to.
The remaining business was then disposed of, and the
house adjourned.

On Monday Daniel Good was brought up at Bow-street,
before Mr. Hall, charged with the late horrible murder at
Roehampton. The court was densely crowded, and the
anxiety to catch a glimpse of the wretched miscreant was
intense. The prisoner was introduced into court very quietly
at precisely half-past ten o'clock, and no manifestation on
the part of the auditory marked his presence. He was dressed
in a dirty fustian labourer's jacket and trousers, and wore a
blue and white spotted cotton neckerchief. In his band be
had a brown stuff cap without a peak. In appearance he is
a man apparently about 45, of swarthy complexion and dark
visage, the under part of which projects, and if a dog had such
a nether jaw he would be called " undershod." His forehead
is of moderate size, much wrinkled ; his hair and whiskers jet
black. Altogether he is small of size, and liy no means mus-
cular. When placed at the bar, he appeared perfectly calm
and collected ; and his first gestures were to stroke his chin
with his left hand, and to pass it over the crown of his head,
rubbing the hair forwards over the crown, which was bald.
He remained generally in one position, resting his cheek
upon his left hand. Whenever any noise appeared in court
he looked in the direction, and then his sunken small black
eye appeared exceedingly piercing.
His wife, who was in a cell near the court, kept weeping
and wailing so loudly that the prisoner could plainly hear her
where he stood : her complaints did not appear to move him.
Mr. Barnaby, the Clerk, asked the prisoner what was his
name, to which he immediately replied, in a firm tone,
" Daniel Good."
Evidence was then given of the circumstance which took
place when the body of the murdered woman was first dis-
covered, all of which have already minutely been reported
in our columns.

Lydia Susannah Butcher produced a gown, a shawl, a pair
of boots, and gloves and bonnet, which the prisoner gave to
her on the 6th instant, stating at the time that thay belonged
to Mrs. Good, who died some years ago.
Mrs. Elizabeth Christie identified the bonnet and shawl
as having belonged to Jane Jones, or Good, who went, she
said, by both names. The last time witness saw Jane Good
alive was on the 3d inst., when she had on the bonnet and
shawl produced.
The prisoner refused to ask the witnesses any questions,
and said he had no application to make.
At several periods of the examination the prisoner's wife
indulged in bursts of grief and audible lamentations. The
prisoner looked coolly round towards the spot from whence
the cries proceeded, and then resumed his former position.
He was then remanded until Thursday next, at 10 o'clock.
After the examination had concluded, and the prisoner
bad been removed to the waiting-room, he observed " Thank
God, it is over for to-day. A man can die but once, and all I
wish is that my body may not be given up for dissection, and
all I hope is that they will not do so." One of the constables
observed that that was not likely, for if he were found guilty,
he would be interred inside the walls of Newgate, and would
have slack lime thrown over his body.
The prisoner then laughingly remarked, " An sure that'll
burn the guts out o' me.

EXAMINATION OF GOOD'S ALLEGED WIFE,
AND THE MAN GAMBLE.
At half-past three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon Richard
Gamble and Mary Good, who has recently been known to
the public as " Old Molly Good," were placed in the dock
before Mr. Hall, charged with having in their possession
certain articles the property of Jane Jones, who was :mur-
dered at Putney Park-lane.
Mr. Heywood, cleric to the Solicitor of the Treasury, con-
, ducted the case for the prosecution.
Police-serjeant Thornton, 4 E, stated that he had been
employed to watch the prisoners, the premises of Mrs. Good
being in Flower and Dean-street, Spitalfields, and Gamble's
at No. 2, Tindale's-buildings, Gray's Inn-road. He had seen
the prisoner Gamble go on several occasions to the house of
Mrs. Good, and remain there some time. He had also seen
him leave the house of the woman Good accompanied by her
and return again with her. On one occasion he saw Gam-
ble come out of Mrs. Good's house with a bundle, which he
took to his own place. On Saturday he went to Gamble's
lodgings with Inspector Pearce, and in the front room second
floor he found the three cotton gowns produced, hid under
the bed. He searched the lodgings of the prisoner Good on
Tuesday afternoon, and found a piece of blue silk wrapped up
in a pillow-case, as also a black cloth bag, containing a purse,
with 3s. 10d in it, two black mitts, three napkins, a towel,
two dinner knives and forks, and a small knife, a piece of
black glazed calico, and two pairs of stockings.
Inspector Pearce, of the A division, deposed that lie had
also watched the prisoners, especially the male prisoner. He
had followed him to Tooley-street—from thence to the resi.
dence of Mary Good, where he stayed half an hour. On Sa-
turday evening, he met the prisoner in Gray's Inn-lane. He
asked him " If he had received a parcel from Good ?" and
he said "He bad not." He left him in the care of a consta-
ble whilst he went to his lodging, and, upon searching it, he
found two shirts (produced, one marked S. Perry). Pri-
soner said they had been given him by a woman named Mary
Good. He also said he had a bundle as well from the same

person.
Mary Anne Clarke, of No. 18, South-street, Manchester-
square, indentified the piece of blue silk produced as belonging
to Jane Jones, and part of the piece which she had made the
bonnet from She also s;:id that the gowns produced were of
the same pattern and make as some she had seen Jane Jones
wear.
Edward Pritchett, of No. 3, Edward's Hoxton, said
he knew the two prisoners, and was employed to watch them ;
he saw them on Thursday last at the George and Guy,
Fashion-street, Spitalfields. He heard the female prisoner
say to the male prisoner, " The last night I saw poor Dan he
said I am afraid I shall be taken, " but he said, " I shall
keep out of the way as long as I can. " Gamble said, " Hold
your tongue, leave it to me, he'll never be taken."
Mary Anne Grayson, of No. 4, Flower and Dean-street,
said the female prisoner, Good., lodged with her. Gamble
had been three times. A man, whom Good represented as
her husband, came at seven o'clock on the morning of Thurs-
day week. She didn't see him with any bundle.
Mr. HALL, the magistrate, here observed that be did not
see that a case of robbery could be made out against the pri-
soners. If they were at all implicated, it was for being ac-
cessories after the fact of the murder. He should, therefore
commit them both till Thursday next, when they would be
brought up with the prisoner, Daniel Good.
The prisoners were then removed in custody.

CONDUCT OF GOOD IN THE BOW-STREET CELL.
On the arrival of Good at the Police-station in Bow-street,
on Sunday night, the charge was taken and entered by Mr.
Saunders, the superintendent of the F division of police, and
he was at once placed in a cell in company with two police-
men. For the first hour or so after his incarceration he
appeared to be buried ip thought. Suddenly, however, his
manner changed, and he uszd every endeavour to engage the
police in conversation. lie commenced by narrating to them
the circumstances which led to his apprehension', through
the instrumentality of the ex•policeman Rose, at Tonbridge
Wells. He said he bad seen Rose some days before, and at
once recognised him ; and on Rose taxing him with being

Good, he -denied it, and considered from Rose's manner thai
he believed him, and that all was sate. He (Good) then
went to work again as usual, and on being again taxed by
Rose with being Good, he still persisted that he was not,
for he did not believe that he could know him in the rigging
he had on, He did not even suspect any thing wrong when
the police-constable Humphrey asked him to go and have a
glass of ale, until he got into the Angel public-house, and saw
another policeman with his (Good's) bundle. He then knew
that all was up, and he had no ,chance of escape. Good,then
spoke in the most affectionate terms of his boy, and asked the
constables if they knew what had become of him. One of
them informed him that he was quite safe, at which he ex-
pressed much satisfaction, and exclaimed, " Oh I his poor
mother died five years ago this day. I was married to her
on the day the Duke of York died." He then expressed a
hope that all his property would be given to the boy, and
said that he must look after that he had left at Tonbridge
Wells, or the d— thieves would prig it (alluding to the
watch and money taken from him by the police there).
Good then inquired who was the last man hung at Newgate,
and was answered by one of the policemen, " Blakesley,"—
(this was not the fact, Ward being the last for the murder of
a child), on which he exclaimed, " Ah, so it was ; a woman
was the cause of that too." He supposed he should be the
next, but it was a d— good job ; he could die but once.
The constable cautioned him to he careful what he said be-
fore them ; to which Good replied, " Oh, it's no use ; I can
; die but once." He then asked the constable what they did
with persons after they were hung at Newgate—whelher they
were given over to dissection, against which he had a great
abhorrence, or to their relations. The constable replied,
" No, they are buried within the prison, and quick-lime put
in the coffins to destroy the bodies." Good involuntarily
shuddered, and exclaimed " oh, then, my flesh will be burnt
off my bones." He is remarkably cool and indifferent in his
behaviour, and professes utter innocence of any crime, al-
though be admits that appearances are " rather black I against
him." The constables cautioned him against saying any'
thing to them which he did riot wish repeated; but he con-
tinued to talk freely, and even spoke in a light manner of
having locked the police-constable Gardiner, and the two
lads, in the stable at Putney, appearing to think the matter a
remarkably good joke. He admits that he was in company
with Jane Good on the Sunday night, and that he took her
with him to his master's stables in Putney Park-lane; but
says he knows nothing as to what became of her after that.
He also told the constables that when he ran away from
Putney Park-lane he came directly to London, and on ar-
riving opposite the Spotted Dog in the Strand took a cab and
proceeded to Whitechapel, and thence to his wife's house,
after which he pledged the articles which were found at the
pawnbroker's in Brick-lane, Spitalfields. About three o'clock
lon Monday morning he became rather heavy and fell off to
sleep. He remained sleeping until shortly after five, when
he awoke up and had breakfast—namely, a pint of coffee and
bread and butter as on the overnight.

Standard-office, Three o'clock

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,--THis DAN

om Messrs. B. MAKIN & SONS' O.-nutty.)

Under the act still in force, an increase of duty has taken
place this week on Foreign Wheat to 28s. Bd., on Barley to
225. 10d., on Rye to 19s. 9d. per quarter, and on Flour to
17s. 2td. per barrel, From the accelerated progress of the
New Corn Bill, however, we shall shortly have to notice the
operations of the averages in conformity with the reduced

scale of duties ceatained in its provisions.
Our fresh arrivals of Grain, Flour, and Oatmeal, within
the past three days, are light; but having no recent impulse
from other markets, the trade here in all free articles, be.
tween our first report this week and to-day, has been exr
tremely inactive ; and though we have still had inquiries for
Wheat and Flour in bond, no further business appears to
have transpired during that period, beyond 500 barrels of
Western Canal Flour sold at 285., and 2000 qrs. of Egyptian
Wheat, to arrive and to be landed here at ss. per nibs.
Having very few country buyers at our Corn Exchange to-
day, and our local millers remaining much upon the reserve,
the transactions in Wheat for !consumption here were very
limited in amount ; and although some further parcels were
taken for Jr-eland, ptices generally receded id. to 2d. per
%lbs. from the current rates of Tuesday.

All sorts of English, Irish, and foreign duty paid Flour
continued to meet a slow demand on the terms last noted ;
and the only sale of bonded produce reported this morning,
was confined to 1000 barrels of States Flour at 28s. per brl.
Barley, Malt, anal Pease ruled dull at former prices; and
Beans, except Egyptian, for which there was some inquiry,
were unaltered in value.

Oats, although not readily saleable, appeared to attract
rather more attention, and good qualities maintained our
last quotations. Oatmeal, however, seemed to meet very
little notice, and was the turn cheaper.
Notwithstanding the prevalence of cold, harsh winds for
some time past, the weather otherwise has been highly fa-
vourable for all the labours of husbandry ; thus, except on
some still' clay soils, spring culture upon most lands in this
district is progressing rapidly to a close, and the temperature

,ecome more genial, rain only seems requisite

to promote ye

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the i9th to tho 21st April, 1842, Ina/urine