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      • n * . ASril session of tha above courtcom-^ on Monday morning before , the Lord *** the Recorder , Aldermen Sir G . Carroll , M 8 f ^& h % CarBen , & c . - : ^ erJare ^ he names of 212 prisoners for trial on * rSS " A 0 ^ ' * C ^ mi ^ . - Kchird < £ S an elderlypenonofgentlemanlyap-# fld " surrendered to take his trial upon an psir anee , ^ , ifeaeneanom . — Mr . Ballantine infi an * Mr . Parry appeared for the deprosecut e 0 ' Ballanl jne t in bis address to the f endantcr * „ tte ( j very much to be compelled * rV . S 8 ld HO I * gi J „„ . ; , ;„„ „ rtl , i » nmnncr juj iu

      , .- n , person me p" « " » - — - — r- —""' - " ^ Vbelievfd , was a clergyman of the Church wh ° , fl f or an offence of this description , but ° * ^ ° « me ' time he was afraid that when they had « t *? f * } acts of the case it would . be impossible h to come to any other conclusion than that f 0 r them - ^ whica the prisoner was charged * i " by made out . —Mr . W . Smith deposed thai ** \ Vine merchant , carrying on business in be * r . a . iare , and was acquainted with the L . On the 12 . h of February , 1849 . the P * " ? piodac ^ a cheque for £ 2 upon Messrs . P ^ ^ nnd and Co ., signed by himself , and asked

      - cash " > Ma ne "C curu'UEiy gave mm tne bi D 1 , 0 t xhe cheque was presented , and it turned 8 °° ° fl , e p risoner fcpt no account at the bank . ° u \ lr . P * - r : ** ad known the prisoner for " pits * ' & vaa on verv friendly terms with ^" ifhe had asked him to lend him the ^ " t he should certainly have done so . —Mr . ?? Cox , cashier , at Messrs . Drummond ' s , de-A tfat ' the prisoner kept no account at their T ^ L , a nd when the cheque in question was preted he wr-te upon it to that effect . —By Mrv ^ t' He knew that the prisoner kept no omit with the hank , from having examined the S « The books were not here . — -Mr . Parry wtted that the bosks themselves ought to have SQOmiK eu

      * o . n , _ .: „„ „„„»„„ j j it .-. Zn product . - Mr . Ballantine contended thai . here was Quite sufficient prima facie evidence to i to the Jury . If the hooks had been produced tbev would only prove a non-existing fcc * which las ' auiteasc learlv established hy the evidence ef the Witness —The Recorder said the case must go to Ihe iurv .-Mr . Parry according ly addressed them for the defence . He said he was sure tbey would not blame him for endeavouring to rescue the unfortunate gentleman at the bar . bis learned friend

      who had been truly described hy as a clergyman of the Church of England , from ths degrading ' position in which he stood at the present moment . The learned counsel then remarked upon the circumstances of the case , and the fact , that the prosecutor would have lent the prisoner the money if be had asked him , without the cheque beine at all resorted to ; and he earnestly called upon Ae jury , if they could find ground for reasonable doubt as to the intention of the prisoner , that tbev would give him ihe benefit of that doubt , and

      acquit him . —The Recorder having summed up , the W j deliberated for a short time , and they then wished to be informed of the reason why the charge lad not been brought forward before the present lime ?—Mr . Ballantine said the ptosecutor was not desirous to prefer any charge . The prisoner was in custody upon some other matter , and Mr . Smith was summoned by the magistrate . —The prosecutor sras recalled , and , in answer to a question put by t he court , he said he did not see the prisoner from lie period when the offence was committed till he was in custody ; but he might have done so if he had p kascd * . —The jary , after a short / briber

      deliberation , returned a verdict ef ' Not Guilty . The prisoner * as then charged upon another indictment , with obtaining money by false pretences . In this case it appeared that the prisoner went to the Sa-Hionere Hotel , in Leicester-square , accompanied by a lady , and having dined he tendered in payment a deque , which was made payable at Messrs . Currie and Co . 's , and received £ i 15 s . 2 d . change . I < turned out that the cheque was altogether fictitious . —Mr . Parry took some ingenious objections to the indictment , founded upon the form ot the cheque , hat they were overruled hy the court . —The jury returned a verdict of' Guilty . '—The prisoner was then

      charged upon a third indictment , with an offt-nce of the same character . —It appeared in this case t ' aat he had gone to Haven ' s Hotel , Piccadilly , and having run up a bill of . £ 3 3 s . Gd , be gave a cheque for £ 1413 s . Id ., arid being known as a customer of the house , no suspicion was entertained , and the difference was handed over to him , the cheque , as in the other cases , turning out to be of no value . — The jury again found the prisoner' Guilty/—Mr . Ballantine stated that there were no less than twelve other charges of a similar character against him . — The Learned Judge sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for one year .

      Charge of Defratjdixg a Raii . wav Compast . —Henry Kelly , 30 , builder , a respectable looking man , surrendered to take his trial on an indictment , charging him with having defrauded the South Eastern Railway Company of the sum of JE 7 10 s . —Mr . Bodkin and Mr . Robinson appeared for the j-rosecutor , and Mr . Ballantine defended . —• The fact ? of the case were these : —In the course of fie past year the company in question received from

      an agent , named Giles , residing in Upper Kingstreet , Bloomsbnry , five copies of the Post-office Directory , and upon the period arriving for the payment , a letter was sent from the office of the South Eastern Railway to the agent Giles * address , bearing the superscription of the publishers of the Directory , Messrs . Kelly . The agent was not known hy the name of KtlW , and the only person of that same in the immediate district was the prisoner

      Tho carried on business as a builder in Gloucesterstreet , near where the agent Giles , lived . The letter , was in consequence , taken there , and received by the prisoner . It contained a request that an application might be made for payment of the sum in question , and on the following day a man named Humphreys came to the offices of the company , and presented a blank receipt signed Colin Kelly , which he fil ' ed up and received a cross cheque on the

      company for the amount . On 22 nd of December , thrf e dajs after the letter tvas seat , the agent Giles calling , it was found that the money had been paid . Upon this Captain Graham , the treasurer of the company , sent to the counting house ef the prisoner a clerk named Ludlaw , who saw the prisoner , and astod him if he had received a letter on the day in question , and he denied that he had . The carrier who delivered the letter then came in , and the prisoner admitted that he had received it , but that findins it

      was not for him bad thrown it on his desk , that he had afterwards a & ed for it but could not find it . the receipt was then shown to prisoner , and he said the writing was something like his father's . The affair was then placed in the hands of the police , and several were set lo watch the prisoner ' s place of business and his movements , and they ultimately apprehended the man Humphreys who had obtained the money . Whilst Humphreys was iu custody prisoner went to Captain Graham , and said that the police were doing him

      an incalculable amount of injury , and that sooner than remain an ? longer under their espionage he would repay the amount . Humphreys then stated that he had received the receipt from the prisoner , and had brought him back the cheque , which , being crossed , he had some difficulty in getting changed , but did so upon alhmiug five per cent , discount . There being corroborative proof of Humphrey ' s statement , he was admitted evidence , and prisoner , after some remands , was sent for trial , bail being « ien for his appearance . The most remarkable pat of the affair was the numerous volratarv

      statements made by the prisoner , all tending to implicate . To some of the witnesses he said he knew all about Jt jand wha had it ; and to Giles said , « Of course I know all about it ; it was never intended to defraud the company . I thought it belonged to roy father , and I meant to nave kept it from him for a time to o « e a spree with /—In the course of cross-examination Mr . Ballantine elicited from the witness Hu < n-Pkreys that he had not borne a good character , and had been in trouble , but otherwise failed to shake * s testimony of the witnesses as to the facts . —Sever al persons of respectability were called , who gave h & frisoner an excellent character . —The Common ~^ ffant having summed np , the jury , after a short ne hberaiion , retired , and , having been absent for JJ ? * " * « t « nied , bringing in a verdict of ' Not

      MusDfi « EASOrai __ Janies Catfaghan , John Z 7 * ^ ° t Horloclr ' miiim Horlock , torrendered to take their trial for a misdemea-S ™™ " ^^ pratagthe case , saidthattfae ^ emeanour imputed to the defendants was , that "SLS ^ Tf t 0 gether to defrand their em Pbyersof money to a considerable amount . The Prosecution , was instituted by the directors of the s 2 « r f ^^« P ** known as the Citv 5 teao . boat Company , and the Lond We 8 tmin ; . ^ and VauxhaU Coaptny and the * defendants * e « m their seme * The learned counsel then

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      proceeded to explain , that although these companies were entirely aeja'ftte establishments , so far as the Bqsmesa . of carrying - passengewwM . coficerned , yet , for the saving of expenserand with a view to prevent rivalry , which might ba ; dangerbn ' s arid inconvenient to the' public , they arranged that at the several piers or landing places joint servants should be employed to deliver and receive the tickets from the-passengere . The fraud impJated to the defendanta wis , that by xollusion with each other arid other persons , after a ticket had been ' issued at London-bridge , or any other station , the same . ticket , after it was given np by the passenger at the end of the journey , wasreturned to the original station

      and re-issued—this system of frand , according to the case fer the prosecution , being carried on to a very great extent , and occasioning serious loss to the companies . It appeared that the alleged fraud was discovered in rather an accidental manner , from the circumstances of a gentleman , named Oldfield , who was acquainted with , one of the directors , taking notice that the ticket which was given to him at ihe City pier appeared very crumpled ; and this exciting bis suspicion , he re . tained the ticket , and having communicated with the company , inquiries were set on foot , and Jackson , the ticket taker at the city pier , was directed to attend the directors , and from the inquiries that were

      mzde of him , farther suspicion was created . Jackson , it appeared , was allowed to depart at the time , and nothing more was heard of him until six weeks afterwards , when his body was found in the Thames , and from the circumstance of stones being found in his pockets , there was no doubt that he had committed self-destruction . The defendant Callaghan , it appeared , was the ticket taker , at the Cadogan pier , Chelsea , and it would seem that suspicion being attached to him , he was questioned , and he then made a statement which ultimately led to his apprehension upon the present charge , the effect of that statement being , that ever since 1848 this system of fraud upon

      the comrany had been carried on to a very great extent , and as the result the present charge was preferred against the defendants . The evidence against Jeffreys appeared to depend entirely upon the state , mentmade by Callaghan , without any corroboration ; and with regard to William Horlock , all that was shown was , that he was in the service of one of the companies , and that he was employed in conveying messages backwards and forwards between the parties . —Evidence having been adduced , the Judge addressed the jury , and expressed an opinion that the charge of conspiracy had not been made out ; and nnder his lordship ' s direction the jury returned a verdict of « Not Guilty . '

      Bobbery . —Jane Griffin ,, 19 , was indicted for stealing a gold watch value £ 30 , and a gold chain value ^ 8 , the property of Lester Garland , in" the dwelling-house of our lady the Queen—It appeared from the statement of the case bj the counsel for the prosecution that the prosecutor is a lieutenant in the 11 th Hussars , and in September last he was stationed with a detachment of bis regiment at Hampton Court . The prisoner had been employed in a subordinate capacity to wait upon the officers , and , • herefore , had an opportunity of taking the property ; but it was admitted that a number of ether persons had the same facility to do so ; and it likewise appeared that she had openly disposed of the watch and chain , and gave her true name and address . —The Becorder having summed up , the jury almost immediately returned a verdict of ' Not guilty . ' _ .

      Bobbery in a Dwelling-house . — Benjamin Davis , aged 20 , was indicted for stealing in the dwelling-hoose of "William Layman Cowan , three brooches , valued at £ 3 , bis property , —It appeared that the prosecutor , who is secretary to the Shropshire Union Railway Company , resided on the second floor of some chambers , No . 9 . Great George-Street , Westminster , and the property was stolen from the apartments on the 6 th of February . — The evidence being insufficient as to the prisoner ' s identity , the jury acquitted him The prisoner was again indicted for stealing a silver fork , the property oi the same prosecutor . — The jury found the prisoner * Guilty' on this charge . — The Common Sergeant sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve months .

      Charge of Embezzlement . —lohn Gregory j 28 , stationer , was indicted for embezzling the sum of £ i Is . the monies of John Thomas Smith and another , bis masters . —The Jury acquitted the prisoner .. Uttbebing a Fokged Acceptance . —George Lyon , 32 , clerk , pleaded « Guilty' on two indict , ments charging him with ottering a forged bill of exchange , with intent to defraud William Miller Christie and others' —Judgment was postponed . The Argvxe Rooms . —This case is postponed until the next" sessions , in order to know the result of an indictment removed by certiorari to the Queen ' s Bench .

      A "Wife killed bt her Husband . —Alexander Lovey , 43 . gun > mith , was indicted for . the . wilful murder of Charlotte Lovey , his wife , by stabbing her in the neck with a knife . The prisoner by the coroner ' s inquisition was charge with the offence of manslaughter only . —Mr . Ciarkson conducted the prosecution ' by the direction of the court . The prisoner was defended by Mr . Parry ,. through the humane intervention of the Sheriffs . —The learned counsel having briefly opened the case for the prosecution , the following evidence was adduced in suppoit ef the charge . —John Weolcot deposed that he lived at No . 13 , Crown-court Whitecbapel . He knows the prisoner , who is a gnnmaker , and was at

      work for him on the day when this occurrence happened , in February last . The prisoner and the deceased lived at No . 4 , Boars ' s Hf ad-court , Whitechapel . On Tuesday , the 19 th of February , the deceased went out in the early part of the day . He and the deceased had had a quarrel the same evening . The deceased did not return home until about dusk , and the prisoner then asked her where she bad been , and she replied that she bad been at his mother ' s . The prisoner thea- said if she had been there , they would have a comfortable tea and he added that he would give her a drop of wine if she would be commonable . with him . The deceased told him to fetch the wine , and the

      prisoner took a stone bottle and went out as she desired , and he came back with the wine and some meat also—a sweetbread . Deceased took the stone bottle , and poured some of the wine into a tea-cop , and drank it , and while the prisoner was engaged frying the sweetbread , with a knife in his hand , the deceased told him she had been up to the court to get a warrant out against him . The prisoner replied , with an oath , 'Ton want to swear my life away , ' aud immediately stuck the knife in her , close to her breast and shoulder . He stabbed her once . The deceased cried out ' He bas stabbed me , ' and ran into the . street . At the time the prisoner stabbed her she was sitting against the fireplace , in a chair . Witness followed the deceased

      into the street , ard saw her taken to a doctor s shop near Petticoat-lane . There was a great deal cf blood in the street that had flowed from her person . Witness accompanied a police sergeant back to the prisoner ' s house , and found him sitting by the fire , in the act of finishing his tea , and witness pointed him out to the sergeant , and be took him into custody . He was using the knife he stabbed the deceased with to cut bread , and the sergeant took that away also . There bad been a deal of quarreling between the prisoner and the deceased the same morning , and he saw the latter sharpening the knife in question upon an earthenware pan , and she said she was going to cut her throat . The prisoner said , ' Do it , ' and then took the knife awav from her . She was a sober woman . —

      Mr . Thomas Wyatt deposed that he was house surgeon at the London Hospital , and remembered the deceased being brought there on the evening of the 19 ih February . Upon examining her he ascertained that she was bleeding from a wound onthe right side of the neck , and was in a state of partial collapse , and very much exhausted . It was a punctured wound , and such a one as might have heen produced by the knife in the hands of the officer . The wound web about three quarters of an inch long , and three inches deep . At first he did not Consider that the wound was mortal . The deceased lingered from the 19 th to the 2 ? th February , and then died .

      Her death was occasioned by inflammation , caused by the wound . Upon a post mortem examination , he found that the gullet had been completely transfixed , and the knife bad passed through to the other side , and had passed so close to the carotid artery that its pulsation was visible . —Several witnesses were examined , and a statement made by the dr . [ ceased was read , which confirmed the evidence already given . —The jury , after deliberating for five minutes , returned their verdict , finding the prisoner * Guilty ' of manslaughter . —Mr . Justice Erie or . dered the prisoner to stand down , and said he Would consider what sentence ought to be pronounced upon

      him . Aggravated Assault . —Charles Cartwright , 25 , was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding Daniel Maji with intent to resist bis lawful apprehension . It appealed tint May , who is a City

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      policeman , was on duty in Ludgate-street on the morning of'the : 12 th of Marchyiin-plain clothes , when htiaWj ; the prisoner apd , anotherman named Judge prowling about , and having some knowledge of their character : he watched them ; and saw them go to Hbe shop of a" tailor named' Hayes / in Famrigdon-street , where they both handled a coat that was outside and ! then ^ lked oiBf . ^ wards returned , and Cartwfight boldly took ' . down the coat and ! put , it ' under'the one he had on , . Judge in the meantime ' covering' him , and they were both about to decamp , with their booty ; when May came up and seized Cartwright , and . on an alarm being raised the other prisoner was also secured . . -The constable was then about to proceed to the police station with Cartwright , who at first went quietly j but just as they got to the Suow . hill end of

      Farringdon-street , he stopped and said , that if the constable would not let him go he would kill him , and at the same moment he drew a . clasp knife from his pocket , and inflicted several severe and dangerous cuts upon his hand . The constable , notwithstanding the injuries he had received , still retained hold of the prisoner , who was eventually secured and lodged in the police station . —The jury found the prisoner 'Guilty ' of wounding the prosecutor , with intent to prevent his lawful apprehension . —Cartwright was then charged by another indictment , jointly with the other man , Judge , with the larceny of stealing the coat . —The same facts , with the exception of the wounding of the constable , were put io ! evidenc-, and the jury foond both prisoners * Guilty . '—Mr . Baron Piatt sentericed Cartwright to be transported for fifteen years , and Judge was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one vear .

      Post-officb Robbery . —W . Stephenson , 22 , a Post-office clerk , was indicted for stealing letters containing money , the property of the Post-master General . —The prisoner , by . the advice of his council , pleaded ' Guilty . '— Sentence deferred .- ' Obtaining Goods by Fraud . — Richard Price , 42 , was indicted for feloniously uttering a forged order for . the delivery of a . quantity of cloth , value £ 23 , with intent to . defraud Messrs . Bull and Co . — The prosecutors are warehousemen earning on business in St . Martins-lane , and it appeared that on the 15 th September last an order was presented at their house purporting to come from another firm , Messrs . Boyd and Co ., with whom they were

      in the habit of doing business , requesting that a quantity of a peculiar description of cloth should be sent by the bearer , which was done ! The prisoner it appeared was not taken into custody until the 28 th of March , and he was then positively sworn to as being the person who presented the order . It was also proved that about the lime when the forged order was presented , the prisoner had requested a person ' named Hatton , who was in" the service of Messrs . Boyd and Co ., to get him a bill head .. of ., that firm , saying that he wanted it to . decide some wager , and it appeared that the . forged order was written upon a paper of this description . —Mr . Cockle endeavoured

      on behalf of the prisoner to show that the witnesses might be mistaken as to his identity , and it also appeared that he had previously borne a good character . —Tlie jury , without any hesitation , returned a verdict of' Guilty . '—The prisoner , with a dreadful imprecation , declared that he was not the person who preseu ' ed the order to ; Messrs . Bull and Co . — Mr . Justice Erie told the prisoner that bis conduct was an aggravation of the offence he bad committed . The evidence was quite conclusive , and' not the slightest doubt could be entertained of his guilt , and but for the good character he had received be should certainly have sentenced him to transportation . He then ordered the prisoner to be kept to hard labourer for fifteen months .

      The South Staffordshire Colliery Distric...

      THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE COLLIERY DISTRICTS . Informations under the Truck Act were again brought before the county magistrates at Wolverhampton on Wednesday ; the dissatisfaction consequent on the persistence in the *• tommy " system seems to be so far ripened , that in all probability there will be full employment for the justices for some time to come . To-day there were new points to be raised and decided on , and the increased amount of interest felt was evidenced in the large attendance at the magistrates' room . It is quite true that the Truck Acts are explicit enough , but

      that tbey are not simple enough to answer all the purposes required is equally clear , inasmuch as the truck-masters manage to evade the act , and to escape the penalties , by the ingenuity of lawyers , and the numerous loop-holes afforded for their escape ; nevertheless ,, there . seems . to' be good grounds for the assurance that the system—fraudulent arid wrongful as it is—will before very long be put down . The magistrates on the bench to-day were John Leigh , Esq . ( stipendiary ) , J . Barker , W . Baldwin , W . Foster , C . B . Dimmack , and G . B . Thorneycroft , Esqs ., and Dr . Dehane .

      Information for Illegal Cheques . —The Messrs . Creswell are large ironmasters at Tipton , in this county j'they have , it seems on their premises a Tommy shop , and , until a very recent period , their plan has been , through the agency of one Mr . Silver , their pay clerk , to issue cheques for sums' under 20 s . each to their workmen . On the 29 th of March last ,- a workman named Hiras , a puddlcr , sent his daughter to the works for 15 s . on account ; the sum was paid to her by cheque upon the Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company , this cheque being , as was well understood , not for presentation at the bank , but at the Tommy shop of Messrs . Creswell . Instead of this , however , the wife of Hims carried the cheque to a prrson named Hipkiss ,

      from whom she received the amount in . money , and 2 s . 6 d . as a bonus . -In consequence of-this circumstance , an information was-laid by the Tipton Anti-Truck Association , for , an infringement of the clause in the act which provides that cheques issued for less amount than 20 s . are illegal . The information was kid under the act of 48 Geo . III ., and the facts above set forth were fully proved . On the part of the defendant it was contended by Mr . Bolton , solicitor , Wolverhampton , that the cheque issued did not partake of the character of a promissory note , or bill of exchange , and that consequently it was not negotiable and transferrable as necessary to bring it within the meaning of the act . It . was further contended that no evidence

      had been offered to prove the existence of a partnership between the Messrs . Creswell , or that the cheque had been paid by their authority , or with their consent , and upon these technical grounds it was sought to get rid of the information . Silvers , the pay clerk , on being called , swore that he had not issued cheques for a less amount than 20 s . within the last nine months , with the exception of the instance no-v before the court ; but he admitted that for sums . due to workmen of 10 s ., 12 s ., and 16 s ., he had issued cheques for 20 s . in discharge of the same . He also admitted that the profit to the Messrs . Creswell on all goods bought at their Tommy shop by means of the tickets issued from their office , was seven and a half per cent . Such were the means taken by these ironmasters for the infraction of the . law . In answer to this , it was

      proposed by the prosecutor ' s aUorncy to show that cheques had been issued by Silvers on behalf of the Messrs . Creswell for a less amount than 20 s . within even the last three months ; the magistrates , however , separatinng the points raised in the information , gave . their judgment upon one fact , reserving the other for consideration . In giving the decision of the court , Mr . Leigh reviewed the various acts of parliament which exist for the suppression ofthe iniquitous truck system ; these acts commenced so long since as the loth Geo . III ., arid have since been modified or altered to suit the circumstances of the times . The act , however , mainly relied upon , and upon which the information was laid , was that of 48 lh Geo . III . Having regard to it , the magistrates said that the bench were unanimously of opinion that cheques issued for sums of less than 20 s . came within the

      statute , and were illegal , but they left the question open for consideration as to whether there had been sufficient evidence offered in this case to prove the publishing and uttering by these defendants , one or other of which was necessary to completely substantiate the charge . There are a great many other informations for track against this firm , and others , and although for a time the defendants may obtain a temporary success upon technical points , there is little doubt that in the long run they will be beaten . It is satisfactory to announce that at the Shrubbery , and one or two large works , the truck system has been abolished .

      The Ensuixo Easier Term.—On Monday Next,...

      The Ensuixo Easier Term . —On Monday next , the commencement of the Easter Term , the several law and equity courts will resume their sittings . The arrears in the three common law courts amount to 204 , consisting of 130 in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , 31 in the Common Pleas , and 43 in . the Court of Exchequer . In the Queen ' s Bench there are of special cases and demurrers f for judgment and 50 for argument . In the new trial paper there arelforiudcmentand 78 for argument . In the

      Common Pleas there are three enlarged rules in the remanet paper , 9 for new trial , 3 for judgment , and 16 demurrers entered . In the Court of Exchequer there are four matters in the peremptory paper , 8 causes and motions for judgment , I demurrer for judgment , 9 special cases for argument , and 21 rules nisi for new trials . Lord Campbell will take his seat for the first time on Monday in the Court of Queen ' s Bench ' as Chief Justice of England . "What makes treason reason , and causes distress in Ireland ? Answer—The absenitlee .

      The Ensuixo Easier Term.—On Monday Next,...

      > THH l CONDITION OF BNGLArfD —— —— y $ mm < m ^™ ~ - ' " - ,- -, . .. i :..- ^^ i u :-: n : axrjJiaumall * ;¦¦} k- < z .:-: V j-: . ( C ^ ndw ^ froiii , ^ ili . « ij ^ r . c ) i ^ | , vy r' : ' ^ NfS QME ^ oP THE' - METROPOLIS ^ TnaS r ? $ SW "iT , - THE . VPH 0 ^ STER ! I ^ USINEgS ^ DlgTkESSED / GENTL ^ WOMElN ; ; «^; to # oand !^ anotnericlassflf . ;« hands'Cdependsnton their needle fojcitheir hying ,. .. . Tfie - follo ^ ng may ; be taken -as a fair ^ average ^ statement , ' as ,. to , the * usual earnings ol persons engaged in ' this branch of business . The woman , 1 was informed by , herlandlord , ' was a hardworking , sober ,, and thrifty ! widow :-• 1 am a widow with four children . , My e ' ldeslh

      fourteen—is a boy—and the youngest is a girl , fourand-a-half . My eldest boyearns 3 s , a week . He is anews-boy . , My second bov . is out at the print colouring ^ business . He gets Is . Od . aweek . This is his nrst week , of being employed . I . have no other money coming in but what I get by my own needle . I am a cloakmaker-shat is , I raa ! te up mantles for a warehouse ^ the city . My employer pays somewhat less than . the other houses do , 'because he supplies other warehouses who supply the linendrapers , and theyare , consequently , three profits to come out of his goods , imtead of two , as is the usual custom . I get from 8 * d ,. to Is . 3 d . each for such as I generally make . I have had more—indeed , I have had as much as 5 s . for some , but then they take me much

      longer to make , so that my earnings is no more at the blgb Price work than it is at . the low . Those mantles at 8 id . are for children , and very common ones . The work is so fluusy that . they pay equally as well as the best .. 1 should say , with a little assistance , I could make two of those at 8 Jd . in a day . Wi-h my i-wn single hand I could make one a dav , that is , if I was to sit for long hours at it . Take one day with another ^ I sit , . upon an average , at my work from nine m the morning till eleven at . night ; often longer , seldom h > s . Fourteen hours is my usual day ' s labour . Out of the 8 d . I find all the sewing materials ; they come to about Id . a e ! o = > k . It will take about Jib . ot cotton to a dozen mantles , besides cotton-cord andhooks-and-eyes . ; I generally use about lilb . of candles in a week , and that ' s 1 H . I can make about six of the 8 Jd . mantles every week , and they'll come to 4 s . 3 d ..-Out of this there ' s 6 d . for sewing

      matemis and 7 M . for candles , so that at that work I can earn 3 s . lid . per week when I ' m fully employed ; and theSJd . mantles will pay better than those I ' m doing now . I can earn more money at the others . I get for those I am about now Is . 3 d . each . The . expenses are much about the same . I get Is . 2 d . clear out of each one 1 make . They are children ' s cloth mantles . It takes two * hands' to make one of them in a day . It would take me myself two days' to make ! one . I have to sew eight yards of braid to every cloak , and it takes me an hour to do two yards of it , At this work I can earn upon an average 7 d . a day , or , deducting caudles , I get a little less than 6 d ., clear , or 2 s . lOJd . a week—that ' s , about my earnings , taking one week with another .. I sometimes have ladies ' mantles to do , For some in the same style as those I am now making I got 2 g . 6 d . But they didn ' t bring me in any more than the children ' s—rather less ; indeed , I was obliged to throw them up . "

      I was referred to a person living in-a court running out of Holb 6 rn , who : wa 8 willing to give me the Information I desired respecting the prices paid to the female hands engaged in the upholstery business . Her room was neatly furnished aud gave evidence of her calling . Before the windows were chintz curtains tastefully arranged , and in one corner of the room stood a small easy chair with a clean brown holland case over it . On a side table were ranged large fragments of crystal and spar upon knitted mats or d ' oyleys . and over the carpet was a clean grey crumb cloth—indeed . all was as neat and tasty as a person of limited means and following such an employment could possibly make it . The person herself was as far above the ordinary character of workwomen , both

      in manner and appearance , as her home was superior to the usual run of untidy and tasteless dwellings belonging to the operatives ,, I found her very ready to answer all my questions . "I am a widow , '' she said . " 1 have been so for five years . My husband was an upholsterer . I was left with one child twelve years old . My husbandwas in considerable difficulty when he died . Since his death I have got my living by working with my needle at the upholstery business . I make up curtains and carpets , and all sorts of cases , such as those for covering the furniture in drawing , rooms . I also make up the bed furniture , and feather beds and mattresses as well . My present employer pays me for making up window curtains 2 s . per pair . I have nothing to find . Upon an average

      I can make a pair of curtains in two days . I might do more of the plainer kind ; but if the curtains are gimped , I shall do less . Taking one with ihe other , I can safely say I can make a pair of curtains in two days . It is impossible for me to give an estimate as to the cases , because furniture is of such various descriptions . We generally charge such things by the time they take us . It is the envelope that goes over the article of furniture , and protects the silk or satin that the chair , sofa , or ottoman may be covered with , that I call the case . These cases , or overalls are generally of chintz or holland , and are made by females , and sewn together . The satin or damask , cover of the furniture itself is nailed on , and made by male hands . By working at cases for twelve hours I can

      make about Is . 6 d . a day . I do my work always at home . There are some shops send their work out , but " the generality have it done at their shop . The wages given to the workwomen at the shop are ! from 9 s . tolls , per week , and the time of labour is twelve hours per day . I don ' t think any house gives less than 9 s . to any one who understands the business , and lis . I believe is the highest price to the workwomen in the upholstery business . Forewomen who hold responsible situations of course get more—they get 12 s . a week . For the making of cases we . who work at home are paid by time and not by piece-work . The rate is l * d . per hour . Those who do the work at home are seldom more than half their time employed , and those who work in the shops are

      discharged immediately a slack occurs . There is more fluctuation in the upholstery business than , in any other in London . It used not to be so ; but of late years it has fluctuated extremely from the competition m the trade . The linendrapers have taken to supply furniture ready made . There are many large houses who do a great trade in this way , and they sell at prices that the others cannot compete with . " I think the slacks are in consequence of the times and the general want of money . You see persons can do without furniture when they run short , whereas they must have other commodities . My earnings for this last year have been so triflin * that I have been obliged to do many things I never did before . I have gone back dreadfully . I have been obliged to

      pledge my things and borrow money to make up sums that must be paid . I must keep a homo above my head . If . it hadn ' t been for the Queen ' s intended visit to the Coal Exchange , I don ' t know what I should have done . It was a little bit of help to me ; but , at the same time , it doesn't free me from my difficulties . Still it came like a Providence to me . I got about 35 s . for what I did there . I was at work all Sunday . I was between a fortnight and three weeks engaged upon it . But I wag not paid equal to what I did . 1 don ' t tell my affairs t » everybody . It ' s quite enough for me to struggle by myself . I may feel a great many privations that I do not wish to be known . I got about 35 ? . in three weeks , and for that I had to work from ekht in the

      morning till ten at night , and one entire Sunday . The female hands employed in the business are generally middle-aged people ; there are not many young people employed in it . A great many are widows , but the majority are old maids . I do believe there are more old maids employed in the upholstery business than in any other . They are generally sober steady people ; in fact , they wouldn ' t suit if they were not . The principal part is upon very expensive materials—silk , satin , and velvets—that it requires great care and nicety . The prices paid to the workpeople have ' decreased materially within the last five years , to the extent of one half in bed furniture . We are now paid 10 s . for making up

      the furniture of a four-post bedstead , and formerly we used to have £ 1 for the very same thing . The wages of the women working in the shops were 12 s . a week till lately , now they are mostly 9 s ., though some are lis . Window curtains ( plain ) used to be 5 s . per pair , now we have 2 s . And the price paid for making up Hie other articles has decreased in very nearly the same proportion . I don't know the cause of this , unless it be that there is less work to be done in the trade I don ' t think it arises from an increase of hands , but from a decrease of work . The slacks occur much more often now than they did formerly .: I think the hands arc out of employ now one-third of their time throughout the year , there ' s such very great fluctuation in the business . "

      I had seen all classes of needlewomen but one . I had listened to the sufferings of the widow , the married woman , and the young unmarried girl , who strove to obtain an honest living by their needle . I had also heard , from their own lips , the history of the trials and fall of those who had been reduced to literal beggary and occasional prostitution by the low price given for their labour . Still it struck me that there was one other class of needlewoman whose misery and privations must be more acute than all . It was the distressed gentlewomen — persons who , having been brought up in f ase and luxury , must feel their present privations doubly as acute as those who , in a measure , had been used to poverty from their very cradle .

      I was directed to one of this class who was taking care ofa large empty house at the west end of the town . I was no sooner in the presence of the poor family than I saw , by the manner of all present , how differently they had once been situated . The lady herself was the type of the distressed gentlewoman . I could tell by . the regularity of her features that her family for many generations past had been unused to labour for their living , and there wa < that neatness and cleanliness about her costume and appearance which invariably distinguish the lady from the labouring woman . Again , there was a gentleness and a plaintiveness in the tone of her voice that stove all things mark the refinement of a

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      woman « nature . The room in which the family hreo , 'though more destitute of eveiry article cffuwV toe and JMmfort than any I had : yet visited , was at least ontainted by the atmosphere of poverty . . '¦ I was no longer sickened . with that overpowering smell that always hangs about the ; dwellin gs of the very noor The home ofi the . distressed gentlewoman consisted literally-of-four bare walls ; There was no table and only two . chairs in , the ; place . At the foot of the lady was an old trayelling . trunk , on which lay a few of the * nightcaps that she and her . daughters were occupied in making .. One of the girls stood . hemmiins" by the window , and the other . seated in a

      corner of the room upon another , trunk , busily engaged in the same manner . Belore the fender was a piece of oldcarpetjng about the size of a napkin ! On the mantel-piece we ' re a few balls of cotton ,: a small tin box" of papers ,. and . ! a Bible and I ' rayer Book . This was literally all the property in the place . It was not difficult to tell , by the full black eyes , nlive complexions , and sliarp Murillo-like features of the daughters , that their father , at least , had been of Spanish extraction . The mother herself , too , had somewhat of a foreign look , thought this I afterwards discovered arose from long residence with her husband abroad . '

      , It was not till now that I had found my duty in any way irksome to me , but I must confess , when 1 began to . stammer out the object of my visit to the distressed lady , I could not help feeling that ray mission seemed like an impertinence , and to betray a desire to pry into the . miseries of the pnor that was wholly foreign to my intention . I could see by the proud expression ofthe gentlewoman ' s features , that she felt the privacy of her poverty had been violated by my presence , and I was some little ' while endeavouring to impress upon her that I had isot come to her with the menu object of publishing to the world the distress of individuals , which 1 was well aware was made doubly bitter from the fear of its becoming known , even to tlieir friends , much more to the

      pub-He generally . At length I informed her , that whatever she might communicate to me would bo given fo Ihe public . in such general terms that it would be impossible to recognise that she was the person alluded to . Upon this assurance she told me as follows :--• ' I work at needlework generally—I profess to do that , indeed that is what 1 have done ever ' since I have been a widow . But it is shocking payment . What 1 am engaged upon now is from a private lady . I haven't , as yet , made any charge . I don't know what the price will be , I did intend to ask 3 d . each . The lady has been a great friend to me . I can't say exactly how long it will take me . Persons call to look at the house , and I have interruptions . They are plain night caps that I am making , and are for a

      lady of rank . Such persons generally , I think , give the least trouble for their work . I can ' t say how long they take me each to make . Latterly I've had no work at all , only that which Iget from an institution for distressed needlewomen . They wero children ' s chemises . I think I made seven , and got 7 s . for-them . I have also made within this time one dozen white cravats for a shop ; they are the wide corded muslin cut across , and the very largest . I have 6 d . a dozen for hemming them , rind had to Gnd the cotton of course . I have often said I would never do any inore of them—I thought they would never have been done , there was so much -work in them . Myself and daughter hemmed the dozen in a day . It was a day ' s very hard work . It was really

      such very hard work that I cried over it , I was so ill , and we were wanting food so badly . That is all that myselfand daughter have done for this last month . During that time the two of us ( my daughter is eighteen ) have earned 6 d ., and 7 s ., and 2 s ., making in all 9 s . 6 d . for four weeks , or 2 s . 4 id . per week , to keep three of us . I have not been constantly employed all the month ; 1 should tay I have been h > lf the time occupied . The nine and sixpence may be fairly considered as the earnings of the two of us , supposing we had been fully occupied for a fortnight . My daughter and I have earned at plain needlework a good deal more than that . But to

      get more we mive scarcely time to eat . I have with my daughter ' s labour and my own , earned as much as 10 s . ; but then such hard work injures the health . I should say an industrious quick hand might earn at plain needlework , taking one thing with another , 3 s . Cd . a week , if she were fully employed . But there is a great difficulty in getting work—oh , yes , very great . The schools injure the trade greatly . Ladies give their work to the National Schools , and thus needlewomen who have families to support are left without- employment . That , I think , is the principal cause of the deficiency of work—and many others I know consider so with me . I think that is also the cause of the

      prices being so low . Yes , I know it is , because ladies will tell you plainly , I can have the work done cheaper at the school . Generally , the ladies are much harder as to their terms than tho tradespeople ; oh , yes , the tradespeople usually show more lenity towards the needlewomen than the ladies . I was obliged to take the blankets off the hod ,, and sleep'with . only a . sheet to cover us . I sold my bedstead for 3 s . 6 d ... to a . person , who came herself and valued it . That very bedstead , not a month ago , I gave 8 s ; 6 d . for . It was what they call a cross-bedstead . Our bolster we were obliged to pledge . That was quite new ; it cost 2 s . 6 d ., and 1 pledged it for a shilling . Our blankets , too , we pledged for Is . each ; they cost me 6 s , the pair ;

      but I ' ve taken one out since . Of course , now we sleep upon the floor . Our inside clothing we have also disposed of . Indeed , 1 will tell you , we artstill without our clothing , , both . my daughter and myself ; and I have chewed camphor and drank warm water to stay my hunger . My pains from flatulence have been dreadful . We hnv , e often had no breakfast , and remained without food till night , all of us ; and at last I have made up my mind to pledge my flannel petticoat , and get 6 d . on that . Once we were so badly off that 1 sent for a person to come and pledge my bed . She pledged it for half-a-crown . This persori told a lady in the neighbourhood , what I had done , and the lady came in the evening and brought me 5 s ., and with that the

      bed was redeemed . What I want is a situation for my . eldest daughter . She can speak Spanish , and she works well at her needle . I myself speak Spanish and French . You won't put that in the newspaper , will you ? " she asked mc . I told her I would insert nothing that she wished to keep secret . She said , "I am afraid they will guess it is I . I would rather starve than it should be known who I am . I do not wish to bo made a public spectacle of . I am not ashamed to be poor , understand—for I am so through no fault of my own—but my friends would be ashamed to have my poverty known . " I told her I would do as she wished , and I told her I had come there to alleviate rather than to aggravate her distress . After a little hesitation she consented to tho publication of

      what she . might , communicate to . mo , and continued as follows .: — " You may say . my father was an officer in the English army , and my grandfather was an officer in the English army , too . I have a brother-in-law a clergyman . It ' s not in his power to assist me . " My husband was an officer in the army as well , but he was in the foreign service , lie has been dead five years . He left me penni-Icss / with thrco children . My son is in the West Indies . Ho is doing well there : he is but younghe is only seventeen . - He has £ 36 a year and his board . " lie assisted me last year . I was in hopes to have some assistance this year . They only pay them now once a year , according to the last letter I had from him . I do feci it very hard that I—

      whoso father and grandfather have served the country—should bo left to " suffer aa I doi Thank God , I ' m not in debt—that is a great consolation to ine . I don't owe any person a penny . " She was afterwards kind enough—for the sake of others situated like herself—to let mo see the duplicates of the different articles - that her poverty had compelled her to make a meal upon . Thoy told so awful a tale of want that I begged permission to copy them . The articles pledged , and the sums lent upon them , were as follows : —Gown , Is . ; bed , is . ; petticoat and night gown , Is . ; gown , is . ; gown , skirt , is . ; two books and apron , is . ; shawl . Is . ; gown , Is . ; umbrella , Is . ; petticoat and shawl , Is . ; bolster , is . ; petticoat and shift , is . ; ditto , 6 d . ; counterpane , 2 s . ; cloak , 3 s . ; a whittle , 3 s . ; gown , 3 s . ; sheet and drawers , Is . ; gown , is . ; petticoat . Is . ; petticoat and piece of flannel 9 d . ; wedding-ring , 2 a . Gd . The lad ) also took hie into tne

      the garden to show me the window by whion thieves had sought to enter the house at midnight . On the flagstones immediately beneath it , and which were green with damp and desolation , were the marks of men s hobnailed boots . It is but right , for the poor gentlewoman s sake , that I should add that her statement has been fully investigated and corroborated . She seems a lady in every way worthy of Our deepest commiseration . : As I had an introduction to another needlewoman , a maiden lady , who had been reduced from a position of great affluence and comfort to one of absolute want , I thought it would be better to see her , so that the public mig ht have a further insight into the distress ofa class of persons who perhaps suffer not only more privations , but feel more acutely tho pain of them , than any who depend upon their needle for their daily bread . At first sight the distress of the second gentlewoman was not so appa rent as that of the first ^—indeed , you would hardly

      have believed , from the neatness of tho room in which she lived , and the dress of tho lady herself , that you were in the presence of one absolutely in want of bread . And yet from the bedding on the floor that was rolled up and covered over with a cloth in one corner ofthe room , the handful of fire , about the size of that in a smith ' s forge , that was smouldering in the grate , and tho thin face and pinched features of the gentlewoman herself , it was not very difficult to infer the distress that she was in . Moreover , it was plain , from the general spareness and chilliness ofthe frame , that she was Buttering from insufficient nutriment . Indeed , there seemed to belittle or no animal warmth in the body . Over her shoulders was thrown an imitation Shetland shawl , evidently more for use than ornament . Her narrative was even more pathetic , for her comforta had once been greater , and her transition from

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      extreme wealth to extreme poverty had been more suddeh , 'thah theladyThiid visited but ' a'di y ° ^ tv ? $ before . -vv - -v o-: ; w , ; - ' j- .-- ; - ; -:. ' - ' ' " I live entirely by my needle , " shesaid . " I do any plain work I can gef . ~ I make chemises , children ' s drawers , nightcaps / shirts , petticoat bodies , to : ' I am a good needlewoman , and nothing conies amiss to me . I get for the chemises Is . 3 d . if they ' re plain ; and if . 'there's much stitching , Is . 6 d ; For children ' s drawers I have about 6 d , or . 8 d . per pair j nightcaps , full trimmed , . about lOd . ; petticoat ; bodies , about Is . There's agreat dealof . work in a petticoat body . If they ' re trimmed , I ; get 1 -. 6 J - : for , them . For hemming pocket handker-. chiefs I : get > Jd ' . a side , and Id . a aide for towels . " Lgot about a twelvemonth back some habit-shirts ; - they were full trimmed down the frontand : lace >

      , round the collar .: I hadto cut them out entirely , and the people only gave me 2 s . Cd . for a dozens VVell , I began them about ten one day , and I had to : sit up to till two in tho morning , and then I couldn'tfinish them tilt four the next day-there was so much work m them . I have now been five or six - years engaged in needle-work , doing it whenever I could obtain it . Yes , I ' m very anxious ; I never letany thing pass me if I can get it . For the last year tho outside that I have made in any one week is 5 s For many weeks I have done nothing—I coui ( k « oi get . anything . to do . I went round and almost begged for work—entreated of the shops—but tbey said they hadn ' t it . Taking one week with , another , I may have made through the whole year

      from 2 s . to 2 s . 6 d . a week ; but not more , 1 am certain . I know I have not made enough to pay my rent . I have been living , till the last few months , on a little money I made from keeping a school in the country . The trade is over-stocked . There are more hands than they have work to give to them . The charity schools do agreat deal of injury to us . They get almost all the work io do , and do it at such a price that we can't live by it . My father was an East Indian . He was a native of Calcutta , but I was born in England . I was brought ' up in every comfort anu luxur . v . My father was a man of large property , lie had £ 140 , 000 in Ferguson ' s bank when it failed in India . He died the week before the bank broke , and we heard of it for tho first time when bo was lying dead in tho house . Will this be published ? What ! in the papers ? Well , if there will be no

      name attached to it , I do not mind , because should not like any name to appear . My father was an officer in the Queen ' s service . My mother was an Englishwoman , and living at the time of my father ' s death . My father died in England . We lost every sixpence we had in the world by the failure of the bank . After that ; I went alone into the country , and opened a day school . For four years I kept on very well with it , until my health forsook mc , and I was compelled to leave , unless , as the doctor told roe , I wished to be buried in tha town . My mother is still Jiving . She resides with my brother abroad .- He is an artist ; but then he gets very little for his painting , and is wholly unable to assist me . I have often been four or live days together with a piece of dry bread and a little water to drink . " ( To be Continued . )

      Medals Of Jamss Morison, The Hygeist, An...

      MEDALS OF JAMSS MORISON , THE HYGEIST , AND GltEAT MEDICAL REFORMER , May be had of all the Ajeats for the sale of Mori « on's Pills , " PRICK ONE SHILLING BACH . In Bronze , 10 s . Gd . ; in Silver , 21 . ; in © old , 181 . JAMES MORISON , the Hjgeist proclaimed—THE IMMORTAL lstly . —That the vital prin . ciple is in the blood .-HARVEY 'indly—That all diseases aiise from impurity ot tha PROCLAIMED THE blood . Srdly . —That such im-^ CIRCULATION OF THE purity can only be eradicate * by a purgative such as BLOOD , Morigon ' g Yegetuble Universal Medicine of the Bri ^ tish CoUege of Health , Newroad , London . 4 thly . — That the deadlypoisons used as medicines by the doctors are totally unnecessary in the curs of diseases .

      The National Debt.— The Lords Commission...

      The National Debt . — The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty ' s Treasury having certified to tha Commissioners for the Reduction of the Kational Debt , in pursuance of the act 10 th George IV . c . 27 , sec . 1 , that the actual surplus revenue of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , beyond the actual expenditure thereof for the year ending tho Sth day of January , 1850 , amounted to the sum of £ 2 , 008 , 126 2 s . Id . The Commissioners for the Reduction of tho National Debt hereby give notice , that the sum of £ 524 , 53110 s . 6 d . ( being one * fourth part ofthe said surplus of £ 2 , 098 , 126 2 s . Id . ) will be applied under the provisions of the said act , between the 7 th day of April , 1850 , and the Sth day of Julv , 1850 , viz . : —To be applied to the purchase of stock , £ 52153110 s . 6 d . ; add interest receivable

      on account of donations and bequests , to be applied to the purchase of stock , £ 1 , 945 5 s . lid . —Total , £ 526 , 476 16 s . 5 d . —J . Haigham , assistant controller , National Debt Office , April 4 th , 1850 . HieawAT Robbkbt is France . —In the night of the 3 rd instant a most audacious robbery was committed on the van of the Messageries Nationale , on the road from Lyons to Avignon . The van contained specie to the amount of lOO . OOOf . It had scarcely passed Pierrelate when the postilion was called upon to halt by a number of persons placed in ambush on the branch road to St . Esprit . Five armed men and three women rushed upon the carriage , and ransacked it for the money , which no doubt they were informed was part of its contents , and eventually gained possession of several parcels ,

      farming a sum of 36 , 000 h , with whieh they decamped . As soon as the event was reported to tha authorities of Pierrelate , measures were immediately taken for the capture of the culprits , who , in all probability , belonged to the locality . The Gendarmerie prosecuted the search with so muoh zeal that in a short time six of the robbers were arrested , three men and three women , and they were on the track of the other two men , who cannot fail falling into theit hands before long . Thank * to a garde champkrei who saw two of the women digging in their garden , and was struck with the notion of searching in the newly-tiirned up earth , 23 , 000 f ' „ which he found buried there , have been recovered . —Constitutionnel , Strikes . —The strike among the woollen weavers

      at Langholm is now gradually giving way , the union formed at its commencement having virtually terminated by the voluntary return of a considerable , majority of the members to their accustomed work . The ship carpenters of "Whitehaven , after standing out hopelessly for some time for an advance of -wages , have turned in . again at the old rate . " Never " says a Protectionist contemporary , " never was a strike tor wages so ill-timed and uncalled for—ill-timed inasmuch as it is notorious that ship-building is unprofitable mid uncalled for be « cause the present wages are greater—taking into account the unprecedentedly low price of pro visions — than for many years past . " The ship carpenters of Workington have turned out lor an advance of wages .

      The Anti-state Church Conference are calling udoii their supporters to send delegates to the approaching second triennial conference of the Antistate-church Association . This association originated at a conference of upwards of 700 delegates from all parts of the country in 1844 , and that its constitution provides for similar assembly every three years , at which its plans of action are subjected to a general revision , with a view to suifc them to the varying circumstances of the times , Tho Anti-state-church Association disavov ? s all the theological or sectarian prefei'ences , while tha committee " wish it to be distinctly understood that all persons—whether previously connected with tho society or not—who concur in the society's fundamental principle , and in the propriety of organised efforts for giving it effect , are eligible both to appoint and become delegates . "

      Regimental Fbacas . —It appears that the ap « pointment of an old captain , who lately joined from half-pay a regiment stationed sit Portsmouth , has given much umbrage to the junior officers of tha corps . They have , in consequence , been in the habit of annoying him in every possible way and occasion . A few days ago the regiment gave a dinner , and some of the juveniles , being elevated with wine , took it into their heads to break open the door of the captain ' s room , who , on appearing to inquire what they wanted , was saluted with tha contents ofa tub of water in his face , and other wisa insulted . Two of the ringleaders were placed in . arrest , and the whole affair fully investigated . Tha captain , however , not wishing to press the matter further , the officers were released from arrest witfr a severe reprimand . —United Service Gazette .

      The Sword or Charles I . - Mr . Planche inquire ! { So . 12 , p . 188 ) , . « When did the real sword of Charles the First ' s time , which , but a few years back , hung at the side of that Monarch a equestrian figure at Charing-cross , disappear ? It disappeared about the time of the coronation of her present Majesty , when some scaffolding wag erected about the statue , which afforded great facilities for removing the rapier ( for such it was ); and I always understood it found its way , by soma means or other , to the Museum , so called , of tha

      notoriously frolicsome Captain D—— , where , in company with the wand of the Great "Wizard of tha North , and other well-known articles , it was carefully labelled and numbered , and a little account appended of the circumstances of its acquisition and removal . —John Street . [ Surely then Purka was right , and the " age of chivalry ia past l" , — Otherwise , the idea of disarming a status would never have entered the head of any man of arms , even in his most frolicsome of moods . ]—Note and Queries ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 13, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_13041850/page/7/