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      ywu * -- * 2 » Mg wxi .-fQUE On Sanaa * morning a moat calamitous fire oc-„ r « a ' * towm f " ? Thames-street , which , 2 X * towwW "S «* w 4 A » loss of four lives * SSio > ° injury to a fifth . The Bose and Crown & hoose , on the west side of Love-lane , where ^ catastropbe ^ occurredisscarcel ^ inore than two SB *** * from the wene of the frightful accident which took place m Gracechurcb-street . Abont half-past two o ' clock Trinder , one ofthe fitrpolice , * ? P ^^ S ^ P the ] ane , when he ob-- ^ ved smoke issuing from between the shutters , „ d o ther apertures on the basement floor of the " e . Beforehehad tone to alarm the inhabitants , , a screams and piercing ones for help were heard proce eding from tbe upper part of the house , and , L looking up , a man was seen at the third floor m ^ m Rf cm . ^ om

      findo * struggling to escape . He is supposed to lare been a young man who was known to have ^ en a bed at the house for the night . Thepolice iaaHdirectoonsto procure ladders to preserve im , whdette inhabitants of the adjoining premises ^ t upon their roofs , but there being no parapet leading tothevnudow the poor fellow could not be , ot at ; indeed , the flames speedily penetrated t & tong b tbe roof , and bo pnt a stop to all exertions cu ds in that direction to save him . Thefire escapes 6 om the Royal Exchange and Aldgate stations were ex peditiously conveyed to the scene , but , in consequence of the narrowness of the lane , it was impossible to work than . The unfortunate creature clung to the window for nearly ten minutes , his cries

      bec oming jajnter , ana at length he disappeared amidst die dense body of smoke tbat ponred from the chamber . Within a quarter of an hour the entire fctdfdtng was in one general blaze , the heavy stock of spirits and liquors adding vigour to the flames . The engines Of the Custom-house first arrived at the spot and . got into effective operation . Previous to this a shocking scene was witnessed at the rear of the house , which abutted on another tavern , known as the White Hart , in Botolph-lane , kept hy Sir . RaymonL It appears that the residents oi tbe White Hart were aroused by cries of "Firehelp , " and ere they-had time scarcely to leave their feeds , the flames which were emitted from the rear windows of the Hose and Crown burst through those l > f their apartments , and' they were compelled to make a hasty retreat . Calls for assistance still being beard , King , the potman of tbe White Hart , went iato the taproom , in order to look round at the back

      of the flaming premises , when he observed" a YQU & g girl iu a state of nudity , almost drenched in blood , frith fire playing round her , on a kind of outhouse . Her clothing was all consumed , and she appeared in a dreadful state of suffering . Sing courageously broke away tbe sash of the window and the poor girl joshed into his arms , and was so preserved . She proved to be Elizabeth Chambers , about seventeen reus of age , servant to Mr . Harvey . She escaped fjr jumsing from the window of her bedroom on the second floor , and- unhappily in her descent'fell through a skylight on the outhouse . She was most { rightfully lacerated , and no time was lostincon-« nne ; her to the surgery of Mr . BlowSeld , in the neighbourhood , from whence she was removed to Gov ' s Hospital . By five o ' clock tbe destructive element was effectually suppressed , but of tbe Bose and Crown nothing was left but the blackened walls and the charred timbers of the floors .

      Inquiries were then instituted as to tbe fate of tie inmates , as none of tbem , with the exception of the p > or servant girl , bad been seen to escape . Mrs . Harvey , the wife of the landlord , was known cot to be in tbe house , as she was on a visit to some faeodsat Barking , bnt it was certain tbat there were in addition to the servant , inmates—Mr . Harvey , Sirs . Elizabeth Grey , Mrs . Harvey ' s mother , the potman , known by the name ol George , and tbe lodger , Abraham Clark . Fears being entertained tbat they had perished , Mr . Braidwooddirected some of his men to proceed by their scaling ladders up to tie windows of the upper Boors , with a view of seeing whether any of the remains of the missing creatures were there . Accordingly Bradley and

      Storks , two expert firemen , ascended , and beneath the window of the second floor they discovered the charred remains of a human being , supposed to be Mrs . Grey . Search was then , continued to the third aw , and there were found the bullies of tbe three remaining missing inmates , viz . Mr . Harvey , the landlord ; George , the potman ; and Clark , tho lodger . They were all much burnt . With as much privacy as possible the firemen lowered the bodies dswn into the street , and shells being procured , fiiey were removed to a neighbouring dead house , to jwait the coroner ' s inquiry . In the course of the day the poor girl Chambers sufficiently recovered-as to afford the authorities vkat information she could in respect to the

      deplorable occurrence . She stated that she retired to rest about a quarter past twelve , as did her master and the rest of tbe inmates . She was awakened by the dense suffocating smoke that filled her room . She opened herbed-room doorwith a view of making her escape down the staircase , but the smoke and heat drove her back , and finding that the flames were fast approaching her apartment she resolved spon jumping from the window as the only means of escaping , which she did with the melancholy consequences stated . She neither heard nor saw any of ike inmates , with the exception of ^ lrs Grey , who res calling , " Richard Harvey , Richard Harvey , " tbe landlord ,- and her son-in-law . She however did not see her .

      Kt . Harvey was a very quiet , sober , and Careful dan , and had only been married eighteen months . ' THE ISQUEST . On Tuesday evening Mr . Payne held an inquest , at tbe Coal Exchange Tavern , St . Mary-at-Hill , on tie bodies of the four unfortunate individuals-Richard Harvey , Abraham : Cfarfe , Elizabeth Gray aad George Hare—who perished by the fire at tbe Hose and Crown Inn , Love-lane , City , on Sunday ifiornin" last . The jury having viewed the bodies , wnich presented a shockingly charred and mntilated appearance , the evidence was almost exclusively a repetition of the facts above mentioned . Trinder , tie policeman on duty when the fire was first suspecteddetailed his ineffectual attempts to arouse

      , the inmates ofthe doomed house , the impracticability of using the escapes , and the great progress ende by the fire before the water could be applied . George King , of the White Hart Inn , stated bow he saved the young woman , whom he found faint aad bleeding , by polling her through tbe window . — ilradley of the fire brigade stationin JeBreysquare , said when the engines arrived the house was blazing from top to bottom . The fire burnt about two hours . He found the bodies shortly after four o ' clock . The first was ' that of a female , which rested cornerwise on the foot of the bed , as if she had been awoke and endeavoured to escape On

      tlie third floor he found three bodies of men lying oa their faces in the front room . -He knew nothing of ihe cause of the fire , but it was his opinion that i ; began in the back room of tho first floor , from * u : ck it had burnt upwards and downwards . The beds were entirely consumed on the tnira noor ; acd the man , who was a lodger , had evidently been Jutof bed , as he was lying near the window . — The coroner said that tbe young woman who bad seen saved was in St . Thomas's Hospital , but * ould , be thought , beable to give evidencem ; about a week , and it would therefore be advisable to adjourn the inquiry until she was in a position to attend . —The inquest was accordingly adjourned .

      Bheadful Accident And Loss Of Life Ox Th...

      BHEADFUL ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE OX THE MIDLAND RAILWAY . ClavCboss . —A most fearful accident occurred 3 t this place on Mondav night , by which tbe lives oi o gentlemen have been sacrificed , and many Other Prisons seriously injured . The express train , which starts from London at 3 p . m ., leaves Derby at 9 . 5 p . m . About five minutes fftw the express left Derby station , it was . followed % a goods train ; The former pursued its course ^ td it had passed the Clay Cross tunnel , whip , in SO useouenco of « i « hreakinfr of the pump-rod , the

      * Ogine became disabled , and was brought to a stand . - Meanwhile the goods train continued , its course , and about ten minutes after the express train had f ^ sed the Clay Cross station , itfoHowed at a speed w abut twenty miles an hour ; and directly afterwards ran with tremendous force into the passenger **»» , then stationary . A scene ° ? ln £ f" " ; « afoao nensued-for * amidst the crasbwe of tee ^ images and the shrill whistle of tbe locomotives , ^ the pie rcing erv of lhe affrighted passengers . 4 « ooa as possible " attention was directed to tbe **»» . Tlleynell , Esq ., of Tapton Grove , near \ testeifield , an active and inteHigent magistrate , * bfl 5 e death will he weatly felt , and J . Blake , fcfq-.

      « the firm of Bbke and Parkin , merchants , fciwr-~« d , were found to have received fatal injuries , ; * ° d most of the passengers were more or less sen-* s ) y injured . Those of the passengers wk « se bruises were not ? Tery serions character , were , after a few hours « elay , forwarded to their respective destinations ; 6 at those whose injuries were mora dangerous , *« re accommodated at the station and in the lmmeli ate vicinity . ' - ' " ' . . The following is an official list of the parties ,

      Aether with the nature and extent of thenr wia-**» : —Mr . Mevncll , of Tapton , dead ; Mr . Blake , « Sheffield , dead ; Mr . Tennent , TJnited States , foised sliohtlv ; Mrs . Tennent , United States , fWured thigh ; Mr . Allan , of Derby , broken arm ; * r . Benuettfot Chesterfield , knee and leg injured : 51 r . Broadbent , of Sheffield , bruised ; Mr . Horace , of Sheffield , bruised ; Mr . Ashwortb , Ot pbfcffield , bruised ; Mr . Ward , United States , head ^ Jat-ed- . Mr . Beebe , United States , bead m-J * ed : Mr . Rlaridock . Dumfries , head injured

      ?» leg fractured ; Mr . John Todhuuter , of Dublin . loth l egs broken ; Mr . Joshua Todbnnter , of JJoUin , injury to the shoulder blade ; Rev - "atme , ankle and leg severely injured ; Mr . fox , # Chesterfield , injured ; Mrs . MeyneH , shghtly

      Bheadful Accident And Loss Of Life Ox Th...

      *^ oI ^^ 7 ^ 7 : „ ^ SSfiSSiS /^ S- \* T ffnard ' s br /» at nf « , ! , - ? ' » l wbo was m the SSS ^^^^^^^^ tat !; SStfftS ? 00 mp ' are Mtreme , y r * ° - SSrtaffi ^ S l ! f i . a 810 t , ie cause of this Z £ * S f - ' ifc » a ,, e sed by the pasof XISrSn ™ f wnsequenee of the guard M 8 ta 2 ^^ ,, ,, win * wd to signal tbe accident to the approaching goods train . r . ME INQtfESI . and Kfi ° View of the bodies of Mr . MeyneH rhLr c , '' aHWa 8 Opened at tbe Commercial Inn , thesterfreld this ( Tuesday ) afternoon .-Mr . H . E . rShll ^ M tb T e , fiwt witness . -1 am a surgeon at SSH" ^ ' kDew the , ate Mr - MeyneH . 1 was 1 8 ceue of the accWent on Monday

      • h * ° night about a quarter past eleven . A short distance this side Of the clay-cross tunnel I saw the body of Mr . MeyneH , which was pointed out to me by one of the porters . The body was lying on the embankment on the right side of the line . He was quite dead . I have since examined the bodv , and find extensive effusion of blood from both " eras , considerable ecbymosis and discouloration of the shoulders extending to the Joins , and very severe compound fractures of both legs , that of the right extending to the knee joint . The immediate cause of death was severe concussion of the brain . From the position and appearance of the body he had pitched upon his head . I saw Mr . Blake near

      where the accident occurred . He was quite conscious , but bad no power whatever of moving the lower part of his body or legs . He was very much exhausted and depressed , and complained of injury to the spine . We had him removed into a van , but he died on his way to Chesterfield . The immediate cause of his death was injury to the-brain . — Mr . Blake was quite sensible , and gave rational answers to the questions Tasked , —Mr . James Blake , of Sheffield , identified the body of his brother , Mr . John Blake , who he stated was 34 years of age , and was returning home from a journey at tbeJime ofthe accident . —No other evidence was called , and the inquiry was adjourned .

      A Second Collision On The Midland Line. ...

      A SECOND COLLISION ON THE MIDLAND LINE . Beanr . —On Tuesday afternoon a second collision took place on the Midland line , at the Long Eaton junction . A passenger train from Notting ham to Codnor Park came into collision with a coal train at the junction , owing to inattention to the signals . The engines were doubled up , but fortunately the passengers escaped with a few bruises only .

      Middlesex Sessions. The Adjourned Sessio...

      MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . The adjourned sessions for tho month of May commenced oa Tuesday ; at Hickes ' -ball , Clerkenwell-green . The calendar contains the names of sisfy-one persons for trial , fifty-six of whom are indicted for the commission of felony . The learned Judge , in the course of his charge to the grand jury , remarked , that it Was DOt a little remarkable that as yet they had scarcely heard of any pocket picking inthe Crystal Palace . As Iscorbigibib . —^ Dennis Darkin , who was convicted at the last sessions of a robbery from the person , was now brought op for judgment . Upon the conviction of the prisoner the officers of the House of Correction asked the court to postpone its

      judgment , to enable them to draw up a paper which should show the number of times the lad , who was seventeen years of age ; "had been convicted . This morning this paper wa ^ handad up to the Court . — The learned Judge then read the statement it contained , from which ifc appeared that the prisoner , since the year 18 H , had been convicted no fewer than thirty-two times , his offences having been those of vagrancy , illegal possession' of property , disorderly conduct , gaming , " drunkenness , riot , threatening , and using obscene language , assaulting the police , frequenting public places with intent to commit felony , larceny from tbe person , and various other offences . —Among his convictions were two at the Central Criminal Court , and one at this

      court , theothertwehty-nineconvictions having been what are denominated " summary . " It also appeared that the prisoner had been convicted from nearly every police court in the county . —The prisoner made a strong effort to cry , ' and earnestly pleaded for mercy The learned Judge , observed , it was quite clear that any future efforts to obtain a livelihood by the prisoner must be exercised in another " country , for after his career here it was impossible that be could be allowed to remain in England . The sentence upon him , therefore , was , tbat be he transported beyond tbe seas for the period often years . . " . '' - . Robbery . —W . Gent , . aged 19 , was indicted for having stolen a coat' of the value of £ 2 , the property of B . Band . —The case was clearly , proved

      against the prisoner . —Mr . Carter , the counsel for the defence , called a witness , who stated that be had known the prisoneffor * seven years ' , during the whole of which he had borne an excellent character . —The learned Judge thereupon told the , witness tbat tbe-prisoner bad been twice convicted of felony and sentenced to imprisonment for nine months and six months . Tbe witness must , therefore , have perjured himself , and consequently be should order him into custody .- —Tbe prisoner , having been convicted , was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment andhard labour . —Thewitness was taken to tbe House of Correction , Coldbath-fields , with the other prisoners . — The witness was brought up the follow * ing day , and , after , receiving a caution from the court never again to impose upon a court of justice by stating that which was untrue , he was discharged .

      - Robber * . — "W . Adams , 27 , and Thorns Harney , 24 , were indicted for having stolen a sovereign from the person , of Fredrick Sinclair . —Mr . Carter conducted the defence . —It appeared that on tbe loth inst . the prosecutor was at a public dinner , where he imbibed a considerable qantity of " the rosy , " and on his return found his way into a , public-house in Ratcliff-highway , and as a natural consequence called for a farther supply . Influenced by . the effects of his potations he fell asleep in the parlour , and on awaking discovered that his pockets had been rifled . The prisoners , who were sailors , were observed by another sailor taking liberties with the pockets of the prosecutor who on receiving the information called in a policeman and placed him

      under his guardianship . —Mr . Carter cross-examined the sailor at length ,- and was interrupted by Mr . Buchanan ,-who remarked that if the learned counsel knew anything about the habits of seafaring men he would not cross-examine the witness , as he had done . —Mr . Carter commented strongly upon this interruption , which he designated as an interference with thediscretiou-of the advocate , who had to sift the evidence , and thus test the credibility of a witness . :. He would contend that if wit nesses were not subjected to a rigid questioning there would be no security for any person whatever ; and if such a system was to prevail , the sooner they -went to California and experienced the blessings of Lynch law the better . —The jury having

      found tbe prisoners Guilty , tbey were sentenced to six months'imprisonment with hard labour . A Thief Wbll Caught . —John Jones , a young man of respectable , appearance , was indicted for attempting to steal a gold watch , value £ 610 s ., tbe property of Mark . Wing . —Tbe prosecutor deposed that he kept , a watchmaker ' s shop . in Goswellstreet . About nine o ' clock on the night of the 10 th instant the prisoner . cameintohis shop , and inquired the price of a watch in the window . He . told him £ 610 s . t and the prisoner requested to be shown it . Prosecutor handed tbe watch to . him , but baying some suspicions of tbe prisoner , he flrew a string which acted upon a secret bolt at . tbe top of the door This fastened , the ; door , without any noise . The prisoner seemedto jjke the watch ; andhanded it back to tbe prosecutor to wind it . up . The proand it in

      secntor wound the watcb ; up , placed againi his hand . He had no soonerreceired . the watch the second timeUbah he turned sharply . round seized the handle of the door , and made violent , efforts to get out . The secret bolt ,, however , effectively . resisted hia efforts , and the / prosecutor got-over the counter and collared him . He then threw the watch on the counter , and in assuming a highly indignant tone , threatened to , put the law in motion agaiait him { prosecutor ) for . tearing the buttons pfl his coat .-A policeman ^ however , was sent for ,, and the prisoner was given in . charge . —The prisoner , ween called upon for his defence , said that he had ' no intention jof . stealing the watch ; that be merely went into the shop to ask the price , but made no attempt to get away . rrThe jury found the prisoner Guilty , and the learned judge sentenced him to six months'hard labour . ...

      Assira-T . —John Mills pleaded guilty = to an indictment charging hini yitu assaulting Wm . Powers , The prosecutor and defendant are . carriago makers in the employ of Mr . . Cotton , of Worship-street . The prisoner it appears is a very irritable man , and bad been discharged frowi several shops in conse ; ouence ofhis bad temper-and proj-eness to commit violence , ta the present instance be had struck the prosecutor with a heavy piece of ash across the head without the least provocation , and , when restrained from ' further violence , ' . he > said he was sorry that he had . not killedbim . —The learned Assistant Judge ordered him to be imprisoned twenty-one days , in : consideration of bis having bpen already three weeks m prison ; and , at the termination bl that time , to enter into his own recognisances in MO to keep the peace for twelve months . - ^

      A Fhaobas* Foustmn-T Two^Rge Casks Coino...

      A Fhaobas * FousTMN-T Two ^ rge casks Coinone water have arrived by a vessel vm Belgium SET S ? con tinent , on account of the Austrian Koiiiioners , for the Great Esbibit . on-tbe same t , omuiis 3 ioue »» , v 8 „ nniy 0 f a fountain of , Co-J ^ ^ KtoB p Spetual ^ in play in i r ^^ iisrat ^¦^ . itss * * ** i the time .

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      M £S° A Sroi F^ A °Psrit. -Solomon Hyams...

      m £ S ° a Sroi f ^ ° PSRiT . -Solomon Hyams , 4 ft ,, described . as a dealer , and Sarah Hyams , 27 , his wife , were indicted for stealing a quantity of silk and other articles , the property of Richard Alton borough . Iu other counts the prisoners were charged with feloniousl y receiving the property , knowing it to have been stolen . The jury found the man Guilty of recei ving , and Acquitted the woman . —Ihe Recorder sentenced him to be transported for seven years . Hobse SiBAuso . —Thomas Jones , 20 , horsedealer , was indicted for stealing one horse and one mare , valued at £ 15 , the property of William Mead . It

      —appeared that the prosecutor , a farmer , residing in Kent , had seen the horses in question safe on tlie night of the 25 th of April , and the next morning they were missed . On that morning the prisoner was stopped near Charlton by a police-sergeant , having with him the two horses . Not being able to give a satisfactory account of them , he was detained . The account he gave of them was , that he had bought them of a man he did not fcnow at Partford , . In the course of a few days a description of the horses was sent round , and when the prisoner was seen , he was identified as having been seen hanging about near the prosecutor ' s premises on the day before the horses were taken . —The jury found him Guilty , and'he was transported for seven years .

      Stbamso a Pour , Cart , and Harness . —John Bray , 26 . carpenter , and Charles Chamberlain , were indicted for stealing a pony , cart , and harness , valued at £ 30 , the property of John Court . — The prosecutor lives ins Mint-street , Borough , and has stables in Itedcrosa-streefc . On the 20 th the property was- securel y . locked up in tbo stable ,, and the next morning the stable was found looked , but the pony , cart , and harness gone . The same morning the prisoners , who live near-prosecutor , were seen near Stratford with tbe horse and cart , and Bray offered to sell it for £ 8 . They were subsequently seen at Romford market , where Bray sold the whole affair for £ 6 but it did not seem that Chamberlain had taken any part m the , sale . —The jury Acquitted hiro , and found Bray Guilty . —The police proved tbat he had been before convicted , aud was a most notorious bad character . —He was ordered to be transported for ten years .

      A . Receiver . —John Russell , 3 S , furrier , and Ann Reynolds , 35 , married , were indicted for receiving 500 squirrel skins and 400 squirrel tails , valued at £ 10 , the property of Frederick Freutel , knowing them . to have been stolen . —The jury Acquitted tho male prisoner , and found the woman Guilty , and she was sentenced to nine months ' imprisonment . Plosions AssAOH .-Robert Round ' tree , 5 G , la-Dourer , a repulsive-looking old man , was indicted for feloniously assaulting Ellen Pope , a pretty , innocentJooking little girl , under eleven years of age . —The jury convicted the fellow , and he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment .

      CoscKiuso the Brain of a Cmu > . —Sarah Collier , 26 , spinster , was indicted for concealing the birth of her hewly-born female child . —The prisoner , a pretty-looking young woman , who was so ill that she had to be carried into the dock , and seemed to be in a dreadful state of suffering pleaded Guilty . —Mr . Gurney . sentenced her to be imprisoned in Newgate for one month , and to be taken care of in the infirmary of the prison . Robbbrt . —Charles Hughes , 26 , engineer , was indieted for stealing a box , containing four rings , a muff , and a variety of clothing , the property of Sarah Ttobertson Hughes . —It appeared from the evidence that Miss Hughes , the prosecutrix , started from the Fenchurch station by the quarter to five o ' clock train on the 2 nd of . Mayon her to

      , way Gravesend , and she had with , her , a hat-box and a large deal box , on which was a card , with her name , and the address of a friend at Stepney , with whom she had been staying . The deal box was putioto the luggage van , and upon . the arrival of the train at Blackwall it was found to be missing . —Inquiries were speedily made by the railway authorities , and it turned out that the prisoner got out of the train at the Shad well station ,- that he claimed the deal box belonging to Miss Hughes as . his property , and took it away with him ; and he was proved to have proceeded on an omnibus to Whitecbapel , where he hired a cab , in which he went ; to his own residence , at So . 1 , Factory-row , Stepney ; but instead of entering by the front of the house , he was observed to

      jump over the garden wall , and go in by the back door . On the following morning a constable belonging to the railway went to . the prisoner ' s room , and he there found the box , with the address torn off , but it did not appear to . have been opened , and none of the property was disturbed . It appeared that when the prisoner first got home with the box he : told his wife that it belonged to hissister , whom he expected ; from the country , and ho . repeated the same statement to the policeman , and added . that having discovered he . was mistaken , and . that the box did not belong to . his sister , he had intended to restore it tbe same morning . :. ' ; lt also appeared that tlie prisoner was intoxicated . . on ; the evening after the bos . was taken away in the manner described

      from the railway , but there was no evidence to show he was in that position when he left the train . —The Recorder , ; in summing up the case , said that the counsel for the prisoner had undoubtedly made a most ingenious . defence , but it would be for tbe jury to say whether they considered the facts would justify them in adopting the suggestion that had been made by the learned gentleman . —The jury , without any hesitation , returned a verdict of Guilty . —It was stated that the : prisoner bad formerly held an appointment inj the Essex constabulary , and that nothing was known against his character . —It appeared that he had latterly addicted himself to drink , and this had led to his being placed in his present position . —The Recorder sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for

      nine months . Thk "Conspiracy and Abbdctionat Stepsbt . — William Day surrendered to take-his trial for misdemeanour upon an indictment preferred against him under , tbe statute known as tho Bishop of Oxford's Act , for conspiring to procure the defilement of Harriet Newman , she being under twentyone years of age . —The prosecutrix , who is rather a good-looking and quiet-mannered girl , stated tbat she was just turned nineteen ' ¦ years , and lived with her father and mother in Manning-street ,

      Newman's-field , Limehouse . Having received a letter purporting to come from a young man named Richard Roberts , with whom " she had for some time kept company , she went , in accordance with an appointment made in that letter , at about five o ' clocK in the evening of the 31 st of March , to the Ben Johnson , at Stepney , where she saw the prisoner , whom she had not before known ; he came up and asked her if her name was Harriet Newman ; she said it was . He said , " Are you not waiting to see Richard Roberts ? " She said she was . He then said he had come atid would take her

      to him . Sheasked him why he had not come himself , and prisoner said ' hewaa ashamed to come ; and witness added , "And well ho might . " ; She then followed him a short way down by the Ben Johnson , when he beckoned a cab , and / taking her by the arm , said she must go with him ; she resisted him , but he told the cabman she was his wife , and , with the Giibmaui' forced her into the cab , jumping in himself . The man drove on ; prisoner then put a handkerchief over her mouth , aud she soon became insensible , and when she recovered she found herself on a sofa , in a large house ; she did not know where , or had ever been able to find out . A young woman sat opposite id her , and asked her if she was better . Witness said she did not know

      she was ill . The woman asked her if she knew where she was , she said she did not . The woman told her that if she was a respectable girl she had better leave the house as soon as she could , and gave her a knife to defend herself with . An olderly woman then came into the room and said she must stop aU night and should be made a lady of . She pressed some drink on her , which she said would make her better , the effects of which drink witness immediately felt , and ' made an attempt to to getaway , but the old woman stopped her and made a noise which brought three gentlemen down stairs , and one put his watch- and chain round her neck and made - improper overtures to her , and forced her backed to the sofa . She took the watch off and threw it on the floor , and with the knife

      cut the woman on the arm ; she also threw the tumblers and glasses at them ; she also cut one of the gentlemen in the hand , and finally she dropped the knife and they . then tried , to force her up stairs ; butfiridihg that she still resisted , one of them called Day , and told him to get a cab and . take her away . ' He said it she would go quiet , he WOUiu take her bometo her father . She felt much stupefied and got into the cab with Day , and they drove until they came to a dark street , ' where he got her out and said they would walk the rest of the distance ' When they got a short way down the street she felt that the use of her limbs was going , and prisonerleftheronthe step of a door , with a direction in her hand , and she then became insensible , and the next day found herself in the ho spital . She was very ill but recovered ; and on the Saturday iu

      after ' she went with a constable to a beer atop Holywell-street , and there saw the prisoner , wno was differently dressed . —The prosecutrix underwent a searching cross-examination by Mr . Payne , who failed to shake her testimony or elicit anything to her discredit . Sbepositively denied tbat she had got Mrs , Woodfield to write the note or the address found ' in her band . — Mr . Payrie called a host of witnesses to prove where the prisoner was at the hour the girl said she first met ' him , but they all disagreed about the time , and not one could account for where lie was all the night . —Mr . Payne then called Mrs . Woodfield , the alleged fortunetcller , a dirty . gipsy-looking old woman , and the instant she got into the witness box she witbout being asked said that she had known the girl Newman from a child , and was tweuty-three years of ago . That she had written the letter supposed to come

      M £S° A Sroi F^ A °Psrit. -Solomon Hyams...

      J s ? the addiS * he "on of tbegirl herself , « i ? d £ v wireftofn Tt Ler hand - Hewmro » dd to 'iSSSJS $ t 0 ^ a bu * .-Wh « . bespoke JLS that tiL ° * 10 U 8 nature <» f the charge , she 3 ? her & Z rf ne 8 . r uld not » P"t . W t would tunes -she & . U D , ed ^ 8 he livei h J telling for-Sactodas ^; ff amwa tion ji appeared that she SbeSd beeuTn A r ? ey in getting up the defence , nali S ! ° r Correction for an iisonen withirL f f * t , ? > and 8 he cut h « r ^ ? n tLurison ^ n ^ r' Witne 8 ^ *>« rteen days TherfuKW- ? * r namonth in thehospital . ihejuryhaving rotiredforan . iflrifli . nfun i . «„ C , „ .

      See 7 A ° J . uilt y-r ^ 6 « rney , in ^ ™™« ? . d 'he prisoner's offence was a very bad un ' Thereto aggTated b ? the defe 2 set th-it the « irl h , l 0 t b S the least dou » t but taken to tffhn ad r ^ lu im A and afterwards anK tad nojX th U Tf ° '"" T ^ hlflBt ho * « uL-i \ "y tho defence sought to Thf J £ Chalact ( * by attributing to her perjury . ^ LDr ? 3 o ~^ WaV , ! len senteDced » tw *! ve "' onths ' court X ? hr Pa £ ies bad sc *" y M < - "'« b ? 2 o rf ?„?«« 0 mui u W , > oMeM was br 4 ht « ack « ri £ ? m « ^ r 5 0 har « adwith threatening the fin » Sf d < ? or of the « our t .-Mr . GSrney having heard her explanation , caution . *! ! , « . ... t „

      neriuture conduct ; and she left the court taking « in ^ f ^ T l 80 ner ' innocence , and uathemMl-Th < Tr Partles « oncernei 1 in his conviction . ^ L ^ T " T "t 8 a t »« the New Court , and ft Af 5 8 eve \ ar ca 3 es ™» t for publication . The above case , which lasted from the sitting of the court until late m the evening , ended the session .

      Co-Opeiutioff And Social Pltogress. Jnsi...

      CO-OPEIUTIOff AND SOCIAL PltOGRESS . JnSi Sff *" " ! 0 ^^ Redemption Society ind ? ii ! f /^ Nati 0 . Gongr « ss of ttie ™* ° er and friends ofthe society , as well as Co-operative ( societies , and friends of Commuity of Prooevtv in the Socety ' s Room , Lambert' / yard , B ffate Leeds , and to ad journ to larger promise ' s if nlces ' sary . on Whit Monday , the 0 th day of June , and following days , till tbe business is concluded . The object of this Congress is to obtain a more extended and united effort in favour of pure Community of Property , through the medium of the Redemption booiety . The following is from their programme :-1 st . —A plan for a great simultaneous national propagandism . As tho society has branches or members m many cities and towns in the kingdom , this plan , with due exertion , may be made highly successful .

      2 nd . —A plan for the more spee . dy raising of the funds for the erection of the Communal buildings on the society ' s estate , the plans of which will be laid before Congress . _ 3 rd . —A plan for the immediate raising of capital for the prosecution of the Shoe , Hat , and other Trades . The successful establishment of theso trades will . beneHt the unlocated members to a greater extent than the amount" of their subscrip . tions , while it will greatly increase the capital of the society , and enable it more rapidly to locate its members . 4 th . —The new law relating to the enrolment of branches .

      5 th . —The institution of a Propagandist Fund . 6 th . —To consider the propriety of appointing a paid Secretary ( to be supported out of the Propagandist Fund ) , who shall conduct the correspondence , communicate with the general press , and lecture . 7 tb . —To consider the feasibility of uniting , as far as practicable , all existing Co-Operative and Communistic efforts into one movement . It is probable that some notice will be taken of a plan of graduated assurance locations .

      Communications for the Central Board in Leeds must be addressed to Mr , David Green , 166 , Briggate , Leeds .

      Social And . Pohiican",Reform.—A Meeting...

      Social and . PoHiicAn " , Reform . —A meeting of delegates from the trades and workshops of Aberdeen , and of others favourable to social and political reform , was held in tbo committee rooms of the Union Hall , on Monday evening last , May 19 th , to take into consideration—1 st , the Programme of Social and Political Rights adopted by the late National Convention ; 2 nd , the propriety of forming a local association to carry out the said Programme , and a general union of the trades in support of the same ; 3 rd , the Hungarian and Polish Refugees ; and , 4 th , the arrangements for the visit of Mr . 6 . Julian Harney to Aberdeen . Mr . G . Smart was called to the chair , and briefly introduced the business ofthe evening , and called upon every deleeate

      to express his opinion . on the Programme . The whole of those in the meeting expressed their entire approval ofthe Programme , with the ! exception of Mr . Ord , who did not approve of keeping the move , ment'distinct from , every other movement : and after some conventional discussion on Mr . Ord ' s objection tlie Programme was agreed to . —Mr . G . Ord then moved : — " That a local association beat once formed ; " which was seconded by Mr . D . Thompson ; and after several parties'had expressed their opinions and promised to render their assistance to carry out the resolution , it was unanimously adopted , and thenames of those present were taken down as a provisional committee . It was considered advisable to postpone taking any active steps on behalf ofthe Hungarian and Polish refugees until thelooal association is

      properly organized , when it . can be done more effectually ; It was then unanimously resolved : — ' « That a public meeting be got up on the occasion of Mr ; Harney ' s visit , for the purpose of memorializing the government to interfere for ihe liberation ofthe patriot Kossuth . " It was then resolved : — " To adjourn the meeting till Monday , as Mr . Harney had been requested .. to postpone his visit till the 9 th and 10 th of' June , as the date previously fixed fell upon the term . days , and would not suit so well for " public meetings as the date now fixed . "—The meeting will accordingly be held again on Monday , when any delegates who may not have received' circulars in time for the last meeting , as well as all who take an interest in the movement were sfrongly invited to be present .

      Protest or Manchester Chuiichwardens against Pluralities . —On retiring from ah office they have held for the last two years , the churchwardens of Manchester feel it to be » duty which they owe not merely to themselves but to the parishioners at large , to record their entire concurrence in , and approval of , the protest of ' their predecessors , Messrs . Brooks , Hiokson , and Crutenden , against the retention , by the Rev . R . Parkinson , of the presidency and incumbency of St , Bees , with the emoluments arising out of his preferment , as one of the canons of Manchester ; and their deep regret that the loud and general expression of public opinion , on thepart of the clergy and laity in favour of the sentiments enunciated in that protest , have

      had no effect upon the apparent determination of the rev . gentleman to retain both those preferments .- The churchwardens cannot ' but regard , with still deeper regret , the announcement' that the example of the Rev . R . Parkinson ,: although thus condemned , is about to be followed by two of the remaining three clergymen holding c ' anonries in cathedral of this parish ; tbe Rev . C . D . Wray has accepted the valuable rectory of South Runoton , in the county of Norfolk ; and the Rev . R . C . Clifton has expressed his intention to retire from Manchester to the living he holds in the county of Oxford ( the duties of which have hitherto been discharged by a curate ); so tbat this parish , with its vast and rapidly increasing population , its sniritual

      destitution , Its need : of every means which can be devised of implanting moral and religious principles in the minds of tho people and attaching them more closely to our protestant institutions , is to be almost entirely deprived of the personal services of three clergymen holding hi gh preferments in tho church and deriving large emoluments from the revenues of ' the parish , whose position necessarily invests them with commanding influence for good or evil according as their actions and line of conduct are inraccordance or at - variance with the obligations ot their sacred . office . Although Mr . Parkinson mi ght have accepted St .- Bees under an . impression that the act of 1840 released him from his duties as one of the rectors of this

      parish , and placed the dean and canons of Manchester in tne same position as most other chapters in the kingdom , ample and convincing proof . has since been given , that whatever duties attached-to the office of warden and fellows are still due from the dean and canons ; and that the cure of souls of the parishioners was at the foundation , vested in the College of Christ , in Manchester , is now placed beyond all reasonable doubt , and is admitted by the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Bishop of Manchester , and the eminent counsel , Dr . Addams and Mr . Biddelcy . ^ But apart from the . requirements of the law , and the foundation charter of Charles the First , it might have been expected that the claims of such a community as this , especially in times like the present , would have been felt by clergymen of the Church of England , and could not bave been so lightly discarded . Believing , therefore , that tho course pursued b y Mr-. Wray , Mr . Parkinson , and

      Mr . uitton , is m direct violation of the spirit , if not of the actual hw , of the church , as it indisputably is of both the spirit and letter of the foundation charter ; that it betokens a lamentable indifference to the spiritual wants of the parish ; that it diverts the ecclesiastical property « ' from the course its original bestower intended it totake ; " that it must prove a fruitful 80 urce of danger and scandal to the church , damping the hopes , and paralysing the efforts of her members-the churchwardens conceive . they would be guilty of a dereliction of their duty were they to retire from office without entering upon the books of the parish an expression of opinion as to the injurious consequences which must inevitably result ' from , and a formal protest against , such a course of prewdurc - . —Resolved"That a copy of this memorandum be forwarded to the dean and canons , the Bishop of Manchester , and to the Archbishops of Canterbury and lork . "Manchester Guardian .

      Social And . Pohiican",Reform.—A Meeting...

      PROTESTATION ADDRESSED TO THE SUR LIME PORTE , BY LOUIS KOSSUTH , LATE GOVERNOR OF HUNGARY .

      The undersigned , late Governor of Hungary , is by his prolonged detention reduced to despair of either justice or generosity . He who is forced to abandon hope has nothing further to fear from force or violence ; he is beyond all constraint . The undersigned has reached this point . To-day is the anniversary of our arrival at Kutahja ! Kutahja ! the tomb , where the Sublime Porte has buried us alive , while speaking to us of hospitality . j Pursued by misfortune , wo stopped before the threshold of the Mussulman , and asked from him , in the name of God , in the name of humanity , in the name of bis religion , a hospitable asylum , or a free passage . The Turkish government had entire liberty to receive us or not .

      • It had the right of saying , I will give you shelter in a prison , or in some distant place , where you will be detained and strictly guarded . This is tbe hospitality which Turkey offers you . If it does not please you , hasten your departure—rid us of your embarrassing presence . This was not said to us . The Sublime Porte deigned to open to 118 its sheltering tent ; it entreated us to cross the toreshold , and swore by its God and its fitith that it would grant us hospitality and a safe asylum . We trusted ourselves to the honour of the Turks . We ate of their bread and of their salt-wo reposed under their roof . We prayed to God to bless them andl we offered them our courage , our experience matured by vicissitudes

      , and our everlasting gratitude . And Hungarians keep their word . Look at Bosnia , where Mussulmans , subjects of the Sublime Porte , are in revolt against it . A handful ot Hungarians are in tho ranks of its soldiers . It is but a handful , for tho Porte would not accept more . Well ! who are first upon the breach * Who are first in the charge ? Who are they who never retreat , who advance in the midst of fire and grape-shot , bayonet in hand , to victory ? Thoy are this handful of exiles . They die for turkey . The Hungarian keeps his word . They offered us hospitality , and they gave US a prison , They swore to us that we should meet with an asylum , and we have found banishaont . God will judge , and God is just ,

      • We have suffered ; but , for the sake of not causing embarrassment , we havo been silent . They bogged us to have confidence . We have shown it . They begjed us to wait . We have waited long . j They said to us , it is only until Austria shall succeed in re-establishing tbat which tho despots call order ( the order of oppression ) , that which they call tranquillity ( the tranquillity ofthe tomb ) . iW « f lI , she has re-cskiblished this order , this tranquillity , by her executions ; She has re-established it so far as to dare to provoke Prussia to war ; so far as to dare , trusting to the support of her master , the Czar , to encroach upon the nations of Europe , to extend her forces from the Baltic to Rome—so far as to threaten . Piedmont and Switzerland—so far as to bribe the border provinces of Turkey to revolt ; she has re-established this tranquillity—she has even announced its re-establishment to the Sublime Porte—and we are still

      prisoners . They begged via to wait one year , reckoning from the day on which wo first placed our foot upon Ottoman soil . Wo waited . Afterwards we were told to reckon the year from the day when . the . sentence for our transportation into the interior was decreed . A gain we waited patiently . At length they seemed to revolt at being any longer the gaolers of Austria , and tbey permitted us to hope that on the anniversary of our arrival at Kutahja our liberty would bo restored to lis .

      Well , this anniversary has arrived , Let us see what it has brought us , A poor Hungarian , Major Domotor , preferring , as I do , exile , or even death to servitude , destitute ofall means Ipf subsistence , had come eight months before to ask my advice and some assistance to go to Belgrade , in order to send for his wife thither , who was living at "Peter wardein . It was a matter of simple humanity . I gave him some slight assistance , and he departed for Belgrade . When he arrived there he had been already anticipated by the accusation of Austria ^ who sees everywhere my band in the well-founded discontent of ! her oppressed people , and who , as her whole life

      is a conspiracy against God and humanity , finds conspiracy in everything . Austria then anticipated him , by the lying accusation of being tho bearer of proclamations from mo to the Hungarian nation . The accusation was false , I affirm it on my honour . Nevertheless ,-on the faith of spies without honour or character , Austria caused to be arrested at ; Semlin his poor wife , on her way to join her exiled , husband , and the imaginary proclamations were demanded as the price of her liberty . . Domotor justified himself before the Servian government in bo striking a manner , that that government / although only a feeble vassal ofthe powerful Ottoman empire , found sufficient strength in the justice of hh cause to protect him .

      . . Austria was obliged to loose her hold . The poor wife was permitted to join her husband , but upon condition that Domotor should immediately leave Belgrade . This poor woman is a creditor of Austria . Her entire heritage , the money of the orphan , is in the hand of Austria , not by confiscation , but in trust . Domotor resisted the insolent demands of the Austrian consul until the debt due to his wife should be paid . This is his crime . Ho dared to demand- the return of the poor orphan ' s heritage . The Servian government continued generously to support and protect him for eight months . But as the Austrian consul persisted in his

      persecution , and as the dragoman of the Pachalik of Belgrade ( who is rather an officer of Austria than of the Sublime Porte , ) made common cause with the consul , the Servian government was at length obliged to remove him from Belgrade ; but his cause was so just that that government , even then , gave him permission to reside at Kragujevaer , and continued its protection'to enable him to follow up bis judicial dispute with Austria . It was under such' circumstances that Major Domotor , seeing the commercial enterprises which he had undertaken in order to support himself and his wife ruined by this removal , and finding it impossible to provide for the existence of . his wife in the city in which a residence was offered to him ,

      was obliged to leave her without money , exposed to die of hunger , to coma again to ask my assistance and advice , & c . He came furnished with regular passports . s . Hewas upon the point of departure , when , on the anniversary itself of our detention at Kutahja , an order suddenly arrived from the Grand Tizir that he also should be detained at Kutahja . ' His passports were regular ; he was neither a subject nor a guest of Turkey ; his wife was friendless , and dying of hunger at Kragujevaer , hut what of that ? It seems that the agents of Austria have the power to treat with ridicule tbe rights of nations , and the personal safety of individuals in Turkey . One of them caused an Hungarian to be publicly arrested-at Smyrna because he was one of my

      servants , and transported him to an Austrian dungeon , where he still languishes ; another caused Turkish houses to be searched even in the capital of the Padishah , in order to possess himself of papers belonging to the ' Hungarian emigrants . ' He inveigled others into his official residence , as in a trap , and there he caused them to be bound and carried on board Austrian vessels , because they refused to accept an insulting amnesty from the hands ofthe executioners of their country ; ' others enticed there , and detained by force , have been so menaced and threatened that they have sought a voluntary death to escape Austrian disgrace . .

      -At length the Austrian agents drew up a calumnious denunciation against Major Domotor , which the Servian government found upon inquiry to be so totally without foundation , that it notonly treated it as such , but oven gave permission to Domotor toreside a . t Kragujevaer , the Servian capital . And the Sublime Porte , upon the faith of this calumnious denunciation , without inquiry , without , investigation , arrested my countryman , and ordered his confinement at Kutahja , although he was only a traveller , provided with regular passports , recognised as innocent by the Servian government , and taken- under Us protection . It was enough tbat he was an Hungarian .

      There is yet more : in the order which inflicted this crowning act of injustice upon Major Domotor , the phraso which follows ia literally tybe found : — "As the departure ofthe individuals detained at Kutahja is already decreed , it is ordered that the said Donwor , who is by chanco amongst them , be arrested and detained also . " Is it , then , to inspire us with confidence in our approaching liberation that these fresh detentions have just been effected ? Behold the consolation which the anniversary of our detention has brought to us !

      . I most solemnly protest against this act . I appeal from it to the eternal justice of God , and to the judgment of all humanity . . I appeal from it with the more confidence , as this act gives a proof to all foreigners , travellers , or residents in Turkey , that their personal safety cannot besuaranteed , and that no one can be sure that in consequence oi some denunciation he may not be similarly treated . . I appeal from it yet more , because this act cannot fail to bo followed by disastrous consequences , in destroying all confidence in the belief that the rights of nations are respected in Turkey . I appeal from it , besides , because it cannot fail to . compromise the dignity of the Servian government before its subjects , and to diminish the attachment of Ser via to the Sublime Porte , and tbat in a moment when the Milosh party , supported by Austria * nd Russia , is upon tbe eve of destroying the tranquillity of Servia , and of proving to Europe

      Social And . Pohiican",Reform.—A Meeting...

      that amongstali the Slavonian provinces of the Otto « , hl ! P ? . thwo is not a 8 in £ le onD * hich is not ; suoject to discontent and to emeutes to the advantage of Russia . t f « fi ? ? 3 elf and m J companions in misfortune , iieei bound to declare , before God and humanity , whivhi ff t reduced t 0 t , ia * P'tch of d-spair afc SllLihiX r , quenocs or of the sc a " ot rather thin S ^ ^ ? roroked - determined to die sffferLS t 0 SUbra , b t 0 * Ration of their Kutafik April 13 , 1851 . Loui 9 KossvIU -

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      Monday, Mat. 10. House Of Lords.-Income-...

      MONDAY , Mat . 10 . HOUSE OF LORDS .-Income-Tax Biu ,. —Marquis of Lansdownk rose and moved the second reading of the Income-tax Bill , and proceeded to state the reasons why he thought the house should allow the bill to pass . He had always been aware ofthe inconveniences attending such a measure , and of the many objections which might be made to it on the score of the unequal way . in which it pressed on rarions classes of the community ; but ,

      va , spite of all those objections , he thought that when the house considered how far , by continuing the income-tax , they would , in the first place , facilitate tho importation of raw produce , and in the second , to what an extent they would be enabled to take off other taxes which pressed more heavily on the community , they would find that these objections were met and answered . The noble Marquis then men tioned the taxes which the government proposed to repeal and modify as a sot-off against tbe income-tax , and concluded by moving the second reading of the bill .

      Lord Stagey agreed with tho Marqnia of Lans * downe as to the necessity for maintaining the public credit , for which reason it was , perhaps , impossiblo to dispense with it this year , but he utterly dis * sented with him as to the expediency of continuing tho income-tax as a means of extending and developing free trade , and of facilitating the importation of ioroign produce , which had alrea-iy brought such distress on tbo country . The noble lord then enumerated several propositions which had been made for getting rid of this tax by degrees , and of which the government ought to have availed itself , but concluded by stating that in the position in which 1

      the question stood he shouldbe very sorry to take upon himself the responsibility of advising the house to reject a bill which tbey were unable to amend , but the passing of which was necessary for securing the credit ofthe country . Lord Bkbners considered it a duty to endeavour to make the law as little objectionable as possible , and would , therefore , inquire whether the government contemplated any check upon frivolous and vexatious surcharges . Lord Montkaolk had no objection to the incometax on occasions of great emergency , but thought the country ought not to be led blindfold into a system of perpetuation under the pretext of a periodical renewal .

      Earl Gret , in reply to Lord Berners , said that he was afraid that no further check could be put upon , surcharges than those employed at present , unless the secrecy which it was necessary to throw over the levying of the tax were interfered with . Ho agreed , to a considerable extent , with Lord Monteagle in his objections to the income-tax as a peace tax , and ho had expressed very strongly in 1842 those objections , which he still continued to entertain ; but he was bound to say , experience-bad convinced him that the immense advantages to tho country which bad been procured by means of the income-tax were well worth the sacrifice they had made . After » few words in explanation from Lord Berners , The bill was read a second time ; and their Lordships then adjourned .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS .-TnE Ecclesiastics Titles Assumption Bin .. —The house having re * solved itself into a committee upon this bill , Mr . Reykolbs moved that the chairman report progress , observing that this was not the first or second bill which had been laid upon the table ; that notices had been given of amendments Which did not apply to the hill in its present shape ; and that time should be given for considering its new provisions . Sir G . Grey left the Committee to decide whether this proposition was in the spirit of tbe understanding of Friday . The Earl of Arundel and Sobrev seconded tha motion , which he thought was not at variance witb > tho understanding . Mr . Roebuck and Mr . Gladstone suggested that ; one of the law officers of the Crown , or some member of the government , should explain the legal effect of the bill as it now stood , which appeared to Mr . Gladstone full of perplexities .

      Lord J . Russell did not think this an unreason * able request when they came to the first clause ; but Mr . ReyuoMs'a motion . must bo first dis * posed of . A good deal of discussion followed respecting the understanding of Friday , and an alleged arrange * ment between the government and Mr . Walpole ; ultimately , the motion for renorting progress was negatived on a division by 262 against 40 , Tbe ATTOBtfEr-GBiWJRAL then explained the legal effect ofthe bill as it stood , which he denied to be a new bill . After an exposition of the preamble , be observed , with respect to the first clause , nowadded to the bill— " that the said brief , & c , and all jurisdiction , authority , or title conferred thereb y .

      was unlawful and void' '—that it was declaratory , embodying the recited in the preamble , and he had at first thought it to be superfluous . The second clause , which forbade the assumption of titles to pretended sees or dioceses ,, & e „ in the United Kingdom , under a penalty of £ 100 , merely extended the act of 1829 ( 10 George IV ., c . 7 ); and the simple answer to the objection that it would interfere with charitable bequests and trusts of Roman Catholics was tbat the act of 1829 had not had that effect in Ireland . This explanation was much canvassed , and led to further elucidations of tho scope and operation of the bill . .

      The question that the preamble be postponed underwent a long debate , or rather conversation , in tbe course of which Mr . Reynolds moved tbat tha Chairman report progress , which was negatived upon a division . Tho other question was affirmed upon a division . Lord Arundel and Surrey then renewed the motion tbat the Chairman report progress , which was supported by Mr , Reynolds , who declared that , no matter how many divisions took place , the first ; clause should not pass that night . Mr , Roebuck and Sir F . Thusiger recommended the government to concede this delay tbe latter

      observing that after tbo opinion expressed by tho Solicitor-General , it would be proper to amend the first clause , applying it not only to the particular brief , but to all similar briefs and rescripts in the United Kingdom , Sir G . Grey , on the part of the government , assented to the Chairman leaving the chair , to sit again on Friday . The Hainault Forest Bill , the Sale of Arsenic Regulation Bill , and the Appointments to Offices , die , Bill , were severally committed . * The Gunpowder Stores ( Liverpool ) Exemption Repeal Bill was read a second time .

      Lord Seymour had leave , to bring in a bill to extinguish the right of the Crown to deer in the Kew Forest . The house adjourned at a quarter before one o ' clock . TUESDAY , Mav 20 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —Lord . WiiABScnrFE asked Lord Grey for an explanation ofthe modo in which the commission appointed by the government to proceed to the Cape had been appointed . E ; irl Grey explained that the commission about to be sent to the Cape was not , strictly speaking , one of inquiry . The two gentlemen selected were to act as Assistant Commissioners under Sir Harry Smith , who was invested with a separate authority as High Commissioner for the adjustment of claims made for land by the border tribes . The gentlemen , appointed were intimately acquainted with the habits ofthe colonists and the natives , and he had no doubt would be enabled to render Sir II . Smith

      the greatest assistance . ,. After some further discussion the matter dropped . The report of the select committee on the Registration ot Assurances Bill was . brought up by Lord Campbell , and ordered to be laid on tbo table . The Income-Tax Bill passed through committee on the motion of Lord Lassdowne . , Their lordships then adjourned . . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Upon , the question that the house at its rising do adjourn until Toursday , Mr . Hume engrafted a short . discussion on tbe subject of the recent alterations in Kensington Gar « don ' s , respecting which Lord Skyhook offered an ex * planation . TRANsroftTvnoNov Criminals . —Sir W ,-Molesworth moved an address ptaying for the discontinuance of transportation to "Van Diemen ' s Land .

      He detailed the subject of petitions from the island , signed by all classes , in which the evils resulting from the continued influx of convicts were depicted in the darkest colours . The petitioners alleged that in 1847 , the Lieutenant-Governor , Sir W . Den-Bison , announced that the transportation of convicts to the colony was to be abolished ; they protested against the non-performance of this promise as a breach of faith , and claimed its fulfilment by the rescission of . the . O . rderjn Council , which mado Van Diemen ' s LTOd . a ., pla ' ce for the reception of convicts . Sir Willjam entered at much length into the proofs , derived mostly from official documents , by which he proposed to establish the allegations of tho petitioners , especially the frightful secial state Of the colony , owing to the large and fftl" ^ '" fusion of criminals from Europe , who , while they de-

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 24, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_24051851/page/7/