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      Imperial Parliament

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      Uoiss Of Commons, Tuesday, March 18. T- ...

      UoisS OF COMMONS , Tuesday , March 18 . t- . ' _-.. ii « i met at lour o ' clock . . ' . _52 _U Midland ( _Doncwter Extension ) _B , _^ . 1-5 . « nl the Vork _and-Vorth _aadUndCHan-o-Mtc-X _^ h ) Railway Bill , were each read a second time -La _« r . ' _--v-1 io be e » - . milted . Lra ' ; . vcANm .- - -l for the appointment of a select _JZ _&^ zo i .. _quii ,: nto thc pres ent mode of assessin g . ¦ _££ _, - . _,. nl o-i _. eii _* _-.:, - the windowdutiesi _*> GreatBntata , and :. * Wrttv . drv n « ionthereupon to the house . The tax v . --. _* . _V' . _s contend .-- ! , veiy unequal m ifa presiure , the ratio of _cbaige di mulshing ai the number of windows increased - thus _rciucins t int ratio in proportion to the _increased means of the _occupants The Noble lord also _unte-1 various sanatory reason * applicable to large towns , toslww the impolicy ot excluding li ght and air by the _opexarion of these taxes . Ca ptain Boot seconded the motion .

      The Chascellor of the _Exchiquer opposed the motion for a committee of Inquiry , "because agreeing to it would be equivalent to an admission that the tax ought to be immediately repealed—a step which no Hon . Gentleman would , under existing circumstances , think of recommending , when it is remembered that no less than one mi . Eon -iud a half of revenue wa-s involved in the question . Ihe dwelling-- of the humbler classes were _altosetls-: _! ' exempted from the operation of the tax , and even in lodging-house ** , where it n-dght be supposed it would indirectly reach them , " its repeal would be of little advantage , for the rentals in such houses were governed Vy ihe circumstances of the lorality , and the landlords would pocket the full amount of there-mission , without making the smallest reduction to tlieir tenants . CaptainPechdl , Sir C . "JSapicr , and Mr . E . Ellice , jun ., supported the motion .

      _Ht . IIche regretted that the house didnot appear to attach the same importance to the motion as it related to the health and social comforts of the labouring classes that he did . As we were now in a time of change , he thought it & proper time for the Chancellor of ihe Exchequer to turn his attention to the subject , and if he thought there _wa-eany chance that _-Trorerniiient-ivonld hare agreed to the motion , he would have suggested tliat the committee should inquire , whether the amount now levied as -window duty might not be commuted or levied as a house tar . Mr . F . _Uabijsg did not see that , in the present state of the revenue , the tax could be given up , and he would therefore oppose the motion .

      Mr . WisiET , seeing Lord Duncan rising to reply , asked whether the house was to suppose that this tax was to be given up ? The Chancellor cf the Exchequer had made a most lame excuse for it , and nobody else had said a word for it . Was nothing to be said in behalf of it 1 Then , of course , it was going to be given up . lie declared his intention of voting in support of the motion for a Committee . If it had been for a repeal of the window duties , he could not have supported it , "because the house had already affirmed Sir R . Peel ' s budget for the present year . " Sir K . Peel was sure that the house would believe him when he said that he had not proposed the remission of taxation contained in this budget without reviewing the window tax , and several other taxes . Ke had , however , been of opinion tliat the remission of taxes which he had proposed would he more advantageous to the public than the remission of the window tax . Another Gentleman might follow and propose the remission of thc soap

      duties , and so make a strong impression on thepublic mind . It would be impolitic for any Government , before It resolved to remit any tax , to enter into a denunciation of it Whenever a Government denounced a tax , it ought to be prepared to follow up its denunciation by a repeal of it . Sir R . Peel then proceeded to examine Mr . Hume ' s proposition for imposing a per ccntage of 9 d . or lOd . in the pound upon every house and cottage in the country , for tha purpose of making up the loss wliich would be occasioned to the revenue b y the repeal of the window tax , and said _ihat it would surprise the country very much indeed if the house should adopt such a proposition in the same session in which it had imposed a property tax of 7 d . in the pound , from which it exempted all _persons with incomes of less than £ 150 a year . To induce Lord Duncan not to go to a vote on this question , he would not say that he would take this subject under special consideration , but he would say that it should ha taken into consideration with other taxes

      whenever another remission of taxation was practicable . He could not promise at least a year before any remission of taxation could possibl y be made that he would repeal anyparticular tax , or auy portion of a particular tax . This tax had one circumstance in its favour—it was easily collected , and nearly every farthing of it came into the Exchequer . After a few observations from Mr . Hawes and Colonel _Sibthorp , "Mr . Duncombe hoped that Lord Duncan would follow up his motion by a division , and on the very ground laid down by the other side , that the motion for a committee was tantamount to a motion for the repeal of tho tax . His constituents wanted no inquiry—they had no doubt of the oppressive and unequal nature of the tax . After a short reply from Lord Duncan , the House divided , when there were for the

      motion—Ayes ... ... ... ... ... 47 Noes „ 93 "Majority against it —IS Mr . G . "W . Hope then rose , pursuant to notice , to move fer papers relative to "New Zealand , with a view to the defence of Lord Stanley from the charge of having given instructions to Captain Fitzroy on the eve of bis departure to assume fhe government of that colony , in direct vari ance with the agreement _between the Colonial Office and the : New Zealand Company . The hon . Gentleman en . tered into a lengthened defence of the Noble Lord , drawn almost entirely from official documents and correspondence , tending to establish the fact that his Lordshp had not committed any deception whatever , though some portion Of the correspondence might hare been misunderstood or misconstrued .

      Mr . C . Buixee entered into a-history ofthe transactions between the Colonial Office and the New Zealand Company , with a view to make the House , if possible , without reading the correspondence , understand the precise nature ofthe complaint which the company preferred against Lord Stanley . Under any circumstances the instructions of tlic Noble Lord were so vague and ambiguous , and contained so many very wide and indefinite qualifications , that thc company to this hour had never been able to obtain the execution of the agreement , or to obtain possession oi ihe land to which they were entitled . The

      company had laboured under a deception , and that deception sprung from no fault of their own . They had every reason to suppose that the agreement would be carried out in one spirit , whereas itwas carried out in a spirit wholly the reverse of what they expected . They remained in this state of deception for a period of nine months , and all because Lord Stanley had not , according to the ordinary course of Dusincss transactions , made tbe company aware of the second scries of instructions given to Captain "Fitzroy . The hon . Member concluded by moving as an amendment , -for the production of all the correspondence between Lord Stanley and the New Zealand Company .

      Mr . G . iv . Horn said , the difficulties in Lord Stanley ' s way , arising out of the claims of the natives , had been entirely overlooked by the hon . and Learned Member , and yet it was entirely owing to those chums that the title of the company had not been completed . After a few observations from Capt "Rice Trevo . Mr . Sheil said , that Lord Stanley's construction of the agreement ( addressed to Captain Fitzroy ) was marked confideati-al , and this word was afterwards carefully erased . He wished to know why such a word should hava been written on a public document , forming an agreement between two parties f "Why was one of those parties , the New Zealand Company , kept in ignorance of instructions given by the other party , Lord Stanley to Captain Fitzroy , who was acting for both ? They might quote the words of one of the New Zealand chiefs , who said to some of the settlers , " speak yonr words as you mean , hut do not speak one thing and mean another , " words which he ( Mr . Shell . ) said should be written in letters of gold in thc Colonial Office .

      The Solicitoe-Gehekal referred to various portions of the correspondence , in eruer to prove that there had heen no breach of faith whatever on the part of Lord Stanley . After some observations from Mr . Hutt , Captain Bods contended that every step taken with regard to New Zealand was opposed to equity as regarded the rights ofthe natives . Lord Imgestbe said the whole affair originated in a misunderstanding , which , however , was a fetal one to the company . Mr . _AatlOyiB * " professed Lis Inability to _understand the explanation of Mr . Mope .

      Sir B . _VtxL said the impression left upon his mind by the discussion -was , that lus Noble _Nriend ( Lord Stanley ) had neither deceived the New Zealand Company inten . tionally nor otherwise . That tha House shared in that impression he inferred from tbe met that ofthe few Mem . bers on the Opposition benches , who staid to listen to the debate , three out of four were members of the New Zealand Company . It should not be forgotten that Lord Stanley was placed in a peculiar position as the natural protector of the rights ofthe natives , which it became his duty to guard against infringement ; and the House would also bear in mind , that after the company was perfectlyaware of all that had taken place , they addressed a letter to his Noble Friend , in which they stated that they placed flie -whole affair under consideration in his hands with the most perfect reliance ; and yet they now said that his breach of faith was so great that it was impossible to hqld communication with him .

      Mr . Aclio . ibt explained that the word " confidential , " ana its erasure , had given a stronger colour of deception to the fecte previously known-After some observations from Mr . Manglei , Capt . Kica Trevor , Mr . C . Buller , Mr . M . Milnes , and Sir B . Peel , the motion was agreed to .

      _TEOIBCTIOH OF WOKS OF AST . The So _* -icitob-Gensbal stated , that he had prepared _abiHont ; . 5 _s subject , the necessity for which had been -recently forced upon them in a very _gtriHng manner hy fhe destruction of the Portland vase at the British Mateam . The matter -was one of great importance , but he ea not propose in the then condition of fh _« House to do 'more than simply move for leave to bring in * Mil for _*• protection of property contained in pnblic _mr-Mums , galleries , _rabine _* _-- * , libraries , and other public repositories , from malicious injuries . ( Hear , hear . ) _-riln _? _TSI _iL afir 8 ttiln 8 > and •¦*•*¦ _swm-J _mawg w « ap _* _aoinUafor-li , Itt 8 ttBj . ° The House then adjourned _.

      Uoiss Of Commons, Tuesday, March 18. T- ...

      Wednesday , March 19 . In reply to a question from Mr . Aldam , Sir B . Peel expressed his regret that the President of the United States should have made the treatment of slaves captured by the English the subject of a message to Congress ; but if the President would appoint a commission to inquire into the subject , there existed every disposition to give all the requisite information as to the condition of the liberated slaves . The message asserted that the captured negroes were subjected to an apprenticeship in the West Indies for a term of years . This was

      a mistake arising from the treaty withSpain in 1835 , which contained provisions by which the captured negro was placed on the same footing as an apprentice ; since then , however , the system of apprenticcshi ** - had eeased , and the captured negro , on being landed in the West Indies , was in the same condition as a freeman . With respect to another portion of the message , which alleged that British capital was employed in the slave trade , he must say that he was not prepared to deny the accusation ; but he hoped that Parliament would he able to reach and remedy the evil .

      CAPTAIN WARNER ' S L _6 HG EANGE . In reply to a question from Mr . Somes , respecting Captain Warner ' s long range , Lord I » oe 3 Tbe read a letter from Capt . Warner , stating that he had no wish for another inquiry , not expecting a favourable result ; but he adhered to his undertaking to blow up , at his own expense , a line-of-battle ship at a distance of five miles , restricting the spectators of the details of the experiment to the Prime Minister , the Commander in Chief , and certain other official personages . Sir C . Kapiee asked if the Government would not allow Captain Warner to try this experimeot at his own expense !

      SirR . Pbel said he had received a great number of letters from individuals , offering to blow up line-of-battle ships on much more reasonable terms than those proffered by Captain Warner . If , however , Captain Warner was really in earnest , he would advise him to apply to the Master GMieral of the Ordnance , from whom his proposition might receive favourable consideration .

      THE KEW TAEIFF . The House then went into committee on th » Customs Acts . Mr . Bbahston moved , that the article of grease be omitted from the remission of duties proposed by the resolutions of Sir It . Peel , and that the old duty be retained . His reason for making tins motion was , that butter would be introduced under the title of grease . Sir J . Tirell seconded tho amendment . Sir 6 . Clerk , observed that grease , in the language of the Custom-house , meant butter so damaged that it could not be used as human food . Before it could be landed it must be mixed with tar . It was then used for smearing sheep . The reduction of the duty was absolutely a benefit to the agricultural interest .

      Mr . Wabd said there was something grand in a comprehensive monopoly , but such paltry , dirty , contemptible monopolies as those which were about to be repealed , were calculated to reduce the bold barons aud aristocracy of England to a level with area sneaks . After some discussion , Mr . Bramston said he would not divide the house , and the motion was negatived without a division . Mr . Serjeant _MonrHT moved , that tanned hides , in the first stage of manufacture , should be omitted . He made this motion in _consequence of a representation from a numerous body of his constituents . Sir R . Peel advocated the retention of this article in the tariff , and gave Iub testimony to the superiority of English tanned leather over that of every other country . Mr . Serjeant Mubphi was on the point of withdrawing his motion , when Mr . Long supported it , and expressed his intention of dividing upon it .

      A division took place ; immediately before it Mr . Serjeant Murphy quitted the house . The numbers were—For the amendment ... , 27 Against it ... ... ... ... T 3 Majority ... ... ... ... —40 On coming to tho article of lard , Mr . Gbogan moved that it be omitted from the list . Lard could bo produced in foreign countries so cheap and so good , that it must drive all other lard , be it Irish or British , from the home market . Colonel Windham regretted to perceive his agricultural friends imitating the members for the manufacturing districts , by starting up every moment with these claims of

      exemption from the remission of the protective duties . There were three Parliaments sitting outside thc walls of that house—the Conciliation humbug in Dublin , the Covent-garden League , and the little House of Commons in Bond-street , issuing its edicts to the representatives of the agricultural interest , which was an unwarrantable liberty . Ho declined , at their dictation , to vote for the motion of Mr . Miles ; nor would he be dictated to while he continued a member of that house by a society where a certain noble duke pulled the strings and moved all thc little goes . " The agriculturists , like Polyphemus , hod but one eye , and could see nothing but a turnip field , instead of being able to take a comprehensive view of the general interests ofthe country .

      Lord A . Lensox thought that such sentiments would not be very grateful to the hon . gentleman ' s constituents . Mr . Ward applauded the speech of Colonel Wyndham , and expressed his contempt , in the parliamentary sense of the word , for the paltry , peddling opposition to the measures of Sir B . Peel , offered by the agriculturists . Sir J . Tibell said , that the advocates of free trade proceeded on the principle that every _aian was justified in keeping up the protection for his own pig . The hon . member for Wolverhampton held an office in the Court of Chancery . That office might _bo-a sinecure , and might have alarge salary attached to it , and yetif offered foropen competition , people might he found who would perform the duties for £ 500 a year for which he was paid perhaps £ 1000 .

      Mr . Viureas could not see what the office he held in the Court of . Chancery * had to do with protection to agriculture . Ha worked for what he received from the public , whereas the landholders taxed the people in order to enrich themselves . Sir R . Phel deprecated such personalities , and maintained that hon . members on Ills side of the house had a right to bring forward any propositions which they might think calculated to benefit their constituents . Lord J . Russell said , if the agriculturists were disposed to act intelligibly , they would at once either surlender the principle of protection altogether , or otherwise resolutely stand by it both in and out of Parliament . Mr . Gj . apstoj .-e defended the reduction of lard , not because it made a reduction in the price of an article of food , but because it entered largely into consumption as a raw material of trade . Mr . _Gmogas then withdrew his amendment .

      On coming to the article of rosin , Sir W . James asked the Committee to proceed gradually with the reduction of the duty oa this article , and to retain a shilling duty upon it . Sir G . Clebk . contended tbat the turpentine distillers of Hull had no reason to feel any alarm at the proposed reduction of duty on this article . Sir W . James , after a short speech from . Mr . Gladstone , withdrew his amendment . On coming to the article of thrown silk , Mr . T . Eoebton objected that the reduction of the duty on this article would be very injuriouB to the silk throwsters , and would give a bounty to the foreign manufacturer .

      Sir G . Clerk defended the reduction , on tho ground that the silk trade had flourished and increased undr the successive reductions of the duty which had taken place on this article , although the parties engaged in the trade had regularly predicted that each reduction would be its ruin . Since the last reduction of the duty the importation of raw silk had steadily increased . After afew words from Mr . Grimsditch , Mr . Struttgave his support to the proposition of Government , and read a memorial from thc silk-throwsters of Derby , in which they declared their readiness to give up tha protection which they enjoyed at present . He trusted that their example would be followed by other protected interests .

      Mr . Bankes observed , that whatever might have been the beneficial result in other places of roducing the protection given to thrown silk , it had been very prejudicial iu Dorsetshire and Somersetshire . Before the last reduction , there were two silh-rnanulactorlesin Sherborne ; now there was only one , and that must be abandoned if this reduction were carried . There was also a silkmanufactory at Hminster , but , as he understood , it was declining _. Sir B . Peei . also considered that thc alarms felt by some persons engaged in the silk trade were visionary , and read several returns , for the purpose of showing that the quantity of raw silk imported since the reductions made in the silk duties in 1835 had increased from fifteen millions to thirty-seven millions of pounds , and that the quantity of thrown silk had diminished from 3 , 608 , 000 lb . to 2 , 300 , 000 lb . If the silk trade had failed at Sherborne and elsewhere , it was owing to local causes , over which Government had no control .

      Mr . _Laboucheue said that there was no article of manufacture as to which predictions of ruin from reduction of duties had been so completely falsified as in the ease of silk . He believed that the changes now proposed , wliich met with his support , would be equall y beneficial to those engaged in manufactures with the previous ones . The state ofthe silk duties was such as to cry aloud for revision . An alteration _oould not but be beneficial to the revenue itself , for now all the advantage was reaped by the smuggler , to whom some of the duties _offsred a premium of fifty per cent , although nominally of only fifteen per cent .

      Mr . Bbocklehubst said , if the smuggler had "benefitted by the duties , no seizures had been heard of . The loss to the revenue seemed rather to have been in the Customhouse . They would not , by reducing the duty on thrown silki obtain all the advantage they expected ; and , so far from the looms in thiB country being stimulated , they would be in a worse position than they were now , because they would encourage the silk trade abroad . Mr . Hche said , he had visited tho silk establishments of France and Belgium , and also that of the hon . gentleman who had just spoken , and he must say , thathe had seen none so perfect as the last . He was , therefore , surprised to hear the opinion of the hon . gentleman npon the present proposal of the Government . He . thought that the 'Government ought to have removed the duty from _manufectured silks , altogether . He feared that his hon . friend , being a throwster , was biassed by his profits against the interests of the general manufacturer . ( A laugh . )

      Mr . W . Williams g old , that foreign countries were making great strides In asanufectures , aud unless this country was placed upon _* q allty with those countries

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      with whom they were entering into competition , he was quite convinced that distress of the most appalling character would visit almost every department of our manufactures . Place his constituents on an equality with regard to the price of provisions with the artisans of other countries , and they would not want protection . Their industry was equal , ay , superior to the industry of any people ; but , having to pay half their wages in taxation and for the support of the aristocracy , they could not compete with foreigners . The Government should reduce the taxes not only on bread , but on other articles which were

      equally essential for the comforts of life . He expressed a hope that her Majesty ' s Government would pause before they took into consideration the recommendation ofthe hon . member for Montrose to abolish the duty upon manufactured silk , by which trade , according to the statement of the hon . member for Whitehaven , 800 , 000 persons obtained their livelihood . He was a free trader , but not one of those who would take away the bread of 800 , 000 of his fellow-countrymen , women , and children , and give it to foreigners , for the sake of carrying out any particular scheme .

      After a few words from Dr . Bowring and Mr . Brocklehurst , in explanation , the gallery was cleared for a division . The numbers were , — For the repeal of thc duty 85 Against it 26 Majority ... ... —D 9 The other articles of the tariff were then agreed to . The resolutions werc then ordered to be reported to the house . The house resumed , and the report was forthwith agreed to . Thc house then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply , and in the committee two votes , amounting to £ 140 , 000 , were then granted to the Ordnance Department . The house resumed , and immediately afterwards adjourned .

      THURSDAY , MABCH 20 . The Speaker took tho chair at four o ' clock . Mr . Duncombe gave notice that he should , on the 8 th of April , move for leave to bring in a bill for securing letters from being opened at the Post-office .

      _XAYIfeOTU COLLEGE . Mr . Wam ) said he held in his hand a motion of which he intended to give notice , but before he did so he would wish to ask the rig ht hon . baronet at the head of her Majesty ' s Government a question , namely , whether it was not customary , in moving for a money grant , such as that of the proposed grant to Maynooth , to first bring it before a committee of tho whole house . Sir R . Pee * -, said the hon . member opposite was correct ; such was the course pursued by the house in all cases of motions for money grants , and such , certainly was the course he intended to adopt in reference to liis motion for the increased grant to Maynooth . Mr . Wabd then begged to givo notice that he would , at the time it was most fitting to do so , move that all further money grants for tiie purposes of religion bo made out of the funds at present appropriated for the maintenance of the Protestant Episcopal Church . ( Hear , hear . )

      Mr . Dennistoon wished to know whether it was the intention of thc G overnment to support a measure for preventing burial in towns , and whether that was intended to be extended to burghs in Scotland ? Sir J . Geaham was not prepared to prevent interment in towns . Mr . _Mukeison , in a speech of some length , in which he contended that the public ought to have the benefit of railway travelling at as cheap a rate as was compatible with the present reduced rate of outlay , moved the following

      resolutions : — "That it is the duty of Parliament ,, in giving its sanction to the establishment of new railways , to render them the means of affording to the public the best and safest communication , and the greatest possible amount of accommodation , at the lowest possible rates . " " That for this purpose every committee ou a Railway BiU , in the present or any future session of Parliament , shall report a table of fees and charges , the lowest which they shall judge to be consistent uuder the circumstances of each case , with a fair and reasonable return for the capital to be invested . "

      Mr , Wabbcbton seconded the motion , and briefly sup . ' ported thc view taken by thc mover . Lord Granville Somerset was opposed to the motion in its present form . He did not , however , object to tho principle of the resolutions , but thought the object sought to be obtained could behad by an alteration ofthe standing orders of the house with respect to railways . Lord Howies also supported the motion , and expressed himself in favour of a system by which the railways of the country might be made to revert to tho Governmout for the benefit of thc public . Sir Robeet Peel thought it was not advisable to interfere with railway projects , as proposed to he done by tho resolutions , no did uot think it would be safe to muddle with the fares of railway companies , further than to compel them to run third-class trains at a low rate on each line , so as to secure ample accommodation for tho poorer classes .

      Mr . Dennistoun and Mr . S . Wortley having brief !* , spoken , the motion was , by consent , withdrawn .

      POST OFFICE . 3 fr . Wakley gave notice that on the first supply night after Easter he would move for a copy or copies of any warrant or warrants which had been issued by the Secretary of State , authorising the opening of any letter or letters addressed to Thomas Duncombe , Esq . Some routine business having been gone through , the orders of the day were disposed of , and the house adjourned till Monday , the Dlst . Tue Fibst Good Act passed this Session , —Parliament adjourned on Thursday for a week , —Punch ,

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      MANSION IIOUSE . Saturday . —Stolen Notes and Bank Post Bills . — William Day aud John Johnson were brought before the Lord Mayor , charged by Mrs . Catherine Maxwell Logan , a lady of fortune ( who was accommodated with a seat on the bench ) , with being iu illegalpossession of some stolen notes . The case had been partly heard on Monday , and adjourned to this day . Mrs . Logan stated that on thc llth ult . she went to the banking-house of Messrs . Smith , Payne , aud Smith , and in exchange for an order obtained two Bank Post Bills for £ 100 each , and twenty-five £ 0 Bank of England notes , and on her arrival home she discovered she had lost them . —Mr . Wm . May , ( an accountant ) deposed , that he went to the house of Mrs . Logan , on the 21 st ult ., and obtained the numbers of tho

      lost notes ; the two notes produced are a portion of them _. The prisoners , it appeared , bad gone to the shop of Mr , Morris , tailor , of 76 , Cheapside , and purchased a wrapper and vest , for which they paid £ 4 19 s ., tendering a £ 5 note , and receiving one shilling in change . The prisoner Day then asked change for another £ 5 note , which excited tbe suspicion of Mr . Morris , and he despatched a messenger to the Bank of England . In the meantime the prisoners walked out of th _« shop , and were again professing to admire the surrounding building ; at length a clerk from the Bank of England arrived , accompanied by Henry Montagan _, an officer of the City police force , and the notes having been proved to

      be stolen , the prisoners were given into custody . —Mr . Robinson , a solicitor , who appeared on behalf of the accused , said , his clients were highly respectable men . They had come in possession of the notes in the legitimate way of business , namely , by the sale of a horse in Smithfiold market . The officers of tho detective force had closely examined the defendants , and admitted that they knew nothing of them . Under theso circumstances he appealed to remand thc case until Wednesday next , in order that he might have the opportunity of calling witnesses who would p lace his client ' s innocence beyond doubt . —The prosecutor acquiesced in this arrangement , and the case was remanded accordingly .

      GUILDHALL . Satcbdat . —The " Heir-at-Law" Society _Aoaijt , — Mr . Williams , whose name has figured recently before the public in connection with the Heir-at-Law Somty , applied to Sir Peter Laurie for a copy of the depositions taken in a recent case of a man named Joseph Bridges , who had summoned tho secretary of this Society for taking between two and three pounds of his money , on tho plea of finding a register of certain names which were required to recover a sum of money that the coinplaintmt alleged ho was heir to . Mr . Williams also wanted to kuow the date of the summons , and who had taken it out , aa he was given to understand that it had been issued without the consent of the party whoso name it bore . —Sir Peter Laurie intimated that tho

      applicant might have a copy of the depositions at auy time he pleased ; but with respect to the summons being issued without the consent of tho applicant , he did not believe it was so . It was never the practlco of the court to act in such a manner . Bridges had called upon him in his private room , before tho summons was taken out , and there denounced , in very strong terms , the Heir-at-Law Society , for the treatment which he had received at their hands . In fact , it was with the greatest difficulty that he ( Sir P . Laurio ) had bean able to- get rid of the man . With respect to the proceedings ofthe Society , he had that day issued a fresh summons against it , and another tribunal would havo to adjudicate upon the conduct of its managers . Ho was only sorry

      that the directors were not known , that they might bo brought to account for the charges which had been brought against the Society . Sir Peter Laurie then askod Williams very pointedly , who tho directors wero «—Williams * . I decline to answer tbat question , or go into tho subject . They are respectable men , and do . not like to have their names paraded iu the police report . —Sir P . Laurie * ¦ Where is the Secretary , Robs ?—On the applicant refusing to answer this question , Sir Peter Laurio said he believed he knew very well where he was ; in fact , he was in "Surrey , " as they called it ; or , in plain language , in the * _3 ueen ' 6 Bench . — 'W illiams afterwards withdrew . Tho fresh summons will come on for hearing either on Monday or Tuesday _noxt .

      Robbebi or Plate . —William King and William Todd , who had been remanded from Thursday , were brought up for final examination , on the charge of stealing fifty ounces of plate from tho house of Mr . Thomas 5 * 0 . 8 , Thavies-inn . About twelve o ' clock on last Wednesday , the servant girl had gono out on an errand , and left the door ajar . During her absence the prisoners , who were on the look-out , went in , thoro being no person In the house , and abstracted tho plate . They were subsequently detected trying- to sell It . The prisoners Were fully « 0 mmitted to take their trial at the Central Oi'iminal Court .

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      HARYhlSriUfllS . _SATUEDAt . —BKoaiNO . — -WiUiam Bothroyd , a tall powerful-man , attired iu the garb of au agricultural labourer , was charged before Mr . Long with . the atrocious crime of being in a state of destitution and of begging in the public streets . —A policeman in private clothes found the defendant soliciting alms in Berkley-street at ten o ' clock this morning . He was going from shop to shop , telling a mournful tale of his distresses . He took him iuto custody , when the defendant stated that he was driven to that course af livelihood by distress . —In answer to questions from Mr . Long , ho stated that he came up from Mirfield , near Huddersfield , about a month ago . Soon after he came here he became unwell , and was obliged to go into Westminster Hospital , where be remained for three weeks . He came up to London in tho expectation of obtaining employment , where a dock is in the course of being made . His intention was to make his way back to his native place as soon as possible . —Mr . Long gave lum a shilling to help him on lus way . —The defendant thanked him , and withdrew .

      Tubsdat . —Novel and Extensive System or Robbery . —A tall , respectable-looking young- man , who gave his name John Parish , was placed at the bar before Mr . Rawlinson , upon the following charges of robbery : —Henry Flood , a lad in the service of Mr . Giblett , butcher , Bond-street , deposed that on Tuesday ,- tho llth inst ., he wont out on horseback as usual to deliver meat to liis master ' s customers and collect orders , and amongst the houses he called at was Sir George Murray's , 5 , _Belgrave-squarc . On making his egress therefrom , he found that the horse which ne had left standing opposite thc area gate while he went into the kitchen had disappeared . lie ( witness ) returned home as speedily as possible , and mado Mr . Giblett acquainted with what had occurred .

      The horse had since been restored , but the saddle and bridle had not . —Cheshire , 188 , D , stated that in consequence of information which had been given at the station-house , relative to a person who was supposed to have committed the above and other robberies , he imagined that the prisoner , who was his lodger , at 3 _J , St . John ' s-place , _Lissou-grove , answered the description of tho thiof , and accordingly on . the previous uiglit he _(^ _witaeasi took Mm into custody , on suspicion of being the guilty party . On being told that he was charged with stealing a horse of Mr . Giblett , he said that he knew nothing about any horse , except one which he had bought ot a man in thc Uxbridge-road , and that soon after the purchase thereof he ( prisoner ) had " swapped" it away to a man named John Moiikhouse . —John Monkhouse stated tliat he was a butcher ' s carrier , and that on the previous Tuesday ( the day of the robbery ) , as he was proceeding with his horse and

      cart along the New-road , he met the prisoner on horseback ; witness had some difficulty in getting his horse along , owing to its not liking the collar , when tho prisoner offered to exchange his animal for tho other , upon condition that £ 1 should be given to hini in tho _bargain . This having heen agreed to and the inonoy pa id , the prisoner saddled witness ' s horse as soon as it was taken from the cart , its place in the vehicle being supplied by that from which he ( prisoner ) had j ust ali g hted . Sometime after the prisoner was gone , witness fancied that the horse he had got possession of was one which he had often seen driven by persons in thc employ of Mr . Giblett ; and on his meeting one of his ( Mr . G . ' s ) men on the following Friday , he ascertained from him that the animal was the identical one which had been stolen . Witness had since given it up .- —Mr . Rawlinson : Did you know tho prisoner prior to your having this dealing with him ?—Witness : I had seen him before . He

      told me he brought thc horse from Bristol , and had ridden it from ten miles below Windsor , on the morning ofthe Tuesday when I met him . — -Cheshire _^ the constable , produced a saddle and bridle , which he found under the prisoner ' s bed . The articles were identified as "being Mr , Giblett ' s property . —Jacocks , 81 D _, said that about two years ago the prisoner was tried for stealing a sot of harness , and suffered six months' imprisonment for the offence . —A second charge was then gone into . —Joseph Jackson , in the emp loy of Mr . James Cover , a butcher , in Southstreet , Berkeley-square , deposed that on Friday , the 28 th ult ., he went out with a horse and cart , and called at the Marquis of Lansdowne ' s in the square ; he waa not absent more than five minutes , during which time he was waiting fbr orders , and on making

      his egress from the mansion by the area steps , hewas surprised to find that both horse and cart wore gone . —A __ man named Walpole identified the prisoner as having "been seen by him lurking about in front of the marquis ' s residence a few minutes before the robbery was discovered . — Cheshire , the constable , further stated that , in addition to the saddle and bridle before referred to , he found under the prisoner ' s bed a smock-frock and a blue coat , such as were usually worn by butchers . 81 D , _said _. that on the night after the robbery he found ihe cart standing in a mews in Copland-street , Lisson-groYe , and it was now in the owner ' 3 possession . Numerous robberies of a similar description have within the last few months taken place , and in order to afford time for further inquiry the prisoner was remanded till Tuesday next .

      MARLBOROUGII-STREET . TuEsoAr . —A Dbspijiuts _ltror . —Francis Nix , Edward Ford , John Shephard , and John Shaw , were put to tho bar , charged with liaving violently assaulted aud beaten several persons in the Royal Tar publichouse , Pitt- _^ _trcetjTottenhani-courtrroad . It appeared that about half-past four o ' clock on Monday atternoon Shaw and Shephard went into tho tap-rooin of the Pitt ' s Head , and interfered rudely with seme persons who were playing at dominoes . This interference was resented , and the result wa 3 that Shaw and Shephard began to fight with the persons with whom they had interfered . Shaw and Shephard werc put out of thc house , but iu a very snort time they returned , accompanied by a cans of their comrades ,

      and commenced a violent and indiscriminate attack on all persons in thc house . —Francis Mozer proved ( . hat he was merely drinking a glass of ale at the bar , when the defendants and others rushed into the house , and he was immediately knocked down . The man who assaulted him ran out ofthe house , but he followed him into Cumberland-street , where he was again assaulted by others of the party , and severely beaten . —David York proved thathe had been beaten by the defendants and their party . —Henry Thompson , William Thompson , Stephen Silmere , and William Best , also proved that thoy had received ill usage from the _defendant and liis party , without cause or provocation . —The landlord , Mr . Carter , said he

      mtenered to keep the peace , but he was struck by several of the party . His wife was also knocked down by on _« of thom . —The defence of the parties was ) that they met Shaw and Shephard in the street , Weeding , and on being told by those defendants that they had been assaulted in the Royal Tar public-house , they offered to accompany them to the house to get the names of the parties who had assaulted them , in order that assault warrants might be procured . When they got to thc public-house they were all assaulted , and they merely defended themselves . —Mr . Maltby was satisfied that the defendants had acted violently and unjustifiabl y , and aeeordingl y fined Nix , Ford , and Shephard £ 5 , or two months , and John Shaw £ Sy or six weeks' imprisonment .

      WORSHIP-STREET . Tuesdat . — Ferocious _AasAuw . — John Purcell , a powerful journeyman blacksmith , and his wife , Emma Purcell , werc charged with violently assaulting and endangering the life of a police-constable of the II division , named William _Sparky , at the house of Mr . Stainbury , a beershop-keepcr , in Old Montague-street , Whitechapel . — It appeared from the evidence , that at ten o clock , on the preceding evening the prisoners , in company with other , disorderly characters , entered thc house in a riotous manner , and . proceeded upstairs to tho club-room ,. where they demanded refreshment . While the landlord was considering whether he would execute ihe order , he heard the fall of some heavy body on the floor of

      the room above , and oh going up found the female prisoner l y ing on thc ground , and thc male prisoner standing ever her and ill-treating and kicking her iu the most brutal manner . Mr . Stainbury forced the male prisoner away from the woman , whomhc assisted on to ner feet ; and in return was instantly assailed by the prisoner and his companions with sueh violent andthreatenin'jlanguage ,.. tho fomiei * declaring that he would dash his brains out , that ho was compelled to retreat down stairs . Thither ho was followed by the whole of the party , and the male prisoner , seizing a quart pot , dealt him _' a blow on thc . head with it . A struggle ensued , and he succeeded in wresting the pot out of the prisoner ' s hand , hut was instantly knocked down by him , and the wife , to whom he had

      but just before _rendered-such ( si gnal service , actively assisted hor husband , and rushing at him like a tigress , bit hun severely in the arm .. His cries for help at length reached tho ears of the policeman Sparks , who cntered . the house ; buthe had no sooner made his appearance ,, than hewas also knocked down by the prisoner , two of whose companions kicked him with savage violence and trampled upon hia body . One ofthe party , a cabman named Barnett , _jthen ran into thc road , and ,, returning with a large cranite stone , struck tho oflicer , as he was freeing himself from his assailants-and rising from the ground , a terrible blow on tho back ' of the head with it , which laid open a frightful wound in tho skull , covered hun with Mood , and rendered Mm totall y - _^ sensiDle for more than ten minutes . As he was returning to a state of conscioHsness , M'Mitchih . and several

      otherconstables , who had been sent tor , arrived , and so _^ cured the two prisoners , after a violent resistance , but the rest ef the party succeeded in effecting their escape . The injuries the oflicer Sparks had sustained were of so serious a nature that the divisional surgeon was ot opinion he would be for a long time wholly unfit for duty , and that should erysipelas buperveno , which was very probable , he might lose his hfe . —lhe stone the witness waa struck with was produced in court . It was a large jagged piece of granite , about nine _inehes long , five in width , and the _aamfe in thickness _^ and altogether suoh a formidahlo instrument that it was wonderful the officer had escaped death . —In answer to tho charge , tho male prisoner said , that having had a quarrel with his wife , the landlord had interfered with them in the first instance in an uncalled-for manner , and that all the subsequent violence complained of had been perpetrated hy thc other men who had escaped , he him-

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      self laving had little or nothing to do with it . —Mr . Bing ham had very great doubts whether he ought not to remand the prisoner till the other man who had inflicted sueh serious injuries upon the constable , and for whose apprehension he should order a warrant to be instantly issued , was in custody , and then send thc whole of them for trial at the sessions ; but , as it had not been clearly proved that the prisoners had positively incited the man Barnett to the commission of the brutality he had heen guilty of , he should , on consideration , deal with the ease summarily , and order tho nialo prisoner to be committed to the House of Correction for one month with hard labour , without thc infliction of a fine , and the woman to undergo a fortnight ' s imprisonment .

      Tm-BSDAY . —ATTEMPr to MuKDEK . —Hayward , the warrant officer , made a communication to Mr . Bingham , relative to a poor woman , named Ann Brick , who is now lying in a dangerous state in St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , from a frig htful wound in her head , inflicted with a chopper , by her husband , a journeyman brlcklaver , now under remand at this court on the charge of attempting to murder her _.-lhepwr soner was placed at the bar on Tuesday evening , just before the rising ofthe court . —Serjeant Ellis stated thathe had ascertained from the neighbours that the prisoner had been constantly drunk for several days , and that on the morning in question he had ordered his wife to take off her wedding ring , that he might nle < ko it to procure more li quor . On her refusing to

      do as desired , the prisonerloadedherwith abuse , and endeavoured to break open a box in which she kept her clothes , when a strugglo ensued between them , in the course of which the prisoner felled her to the ground with the chopper , and afterwards dragged her down stairs , and flung her into the street , where she was found by the policeman . Mr . Bingham ordered the prisoner to be remanded . The officer , Haywavd , now reported to the magistrate that he had seen Mr . Moore , the house-surgeon at tho hospital , who had requested him to state that although the w . _*\ man continued in a hig hly dangerous condition , he did not consider the case so extremely urgent as to require tho attendance ofthe magistrate for the above purnose ; but if any unfavourable change took place , timely notice to that effect should be forwarded to

      the court

      CLERKENWELL . WEorasDAT . _—Tmi "Borial Gbound Nuisance _Aoais . —A poor woman entered the court in a state of great affliction , and in an earnest manner besought the assistance of the magistrate . She said her name was Harrietto Jesse Nelson , that she lived at No . 3 , Cross-court , Vinegar-yard , Drury-lane ; that she was a widow , and earned her bread by working as a laundress , had three children , and was in very destitute circumstances . Having read an account of the revolting occurrences alleged to have taken place in Spafields burial ground in the newspapers , she became greatly alarmed lest the remains of her poor husband , which had heen interred there on the 23 rd of March , 1842 , should havo been removed from the

      grave in which she had seen them placed . She iurther learned from thc newspapers that Mr . Bird , one of the managers of the graveyard , had publicly ofiered to open any grave , and show the relatives of deceased persons interred there that the remains had not been disturbed . She accordingly went to the burialground on Monday week , saw Mr . Bird , and asked him to open her husband ' s grave . He declined , saying , *• That ground had not been opened for fifteen years . '' She went over , pointed out the spot , and begged of him -to open it , but he replied , " It shall not be opened , " and then walked away . —Mr . Combe : Were you at thc funeral ?—The Woman , crying : Oh , yes * , I was at the funeral with my three children . It was a wet wintry day , so I could not see exactly how deen the crave was . nor how the coffin was laid .

      I lingered about the grave on Monday week until one of the grave-diggers came , and I asked him to open the grave for me : he said he would , but had scarcely begun , when Mr . Bird came up , and said to me , " I told you the ground was not to be opened , " and sent the man away . I followed Mr . Bird down tho churchyard , and again entreated of him to show mo my husband ' s coffin , but he replied , "You have got teeth to dig a grave yourself . " I went back to the grave again , and having seen three men near tlio churchyard , and not connected with it , I asked them to dig the grave , * they said they would . The first man had not been more than a minute at work , when the stench became so intolerable that he was obliged to leave off ; the second and third tried consecutively , but the sniell became so intolerable ,

      that they were obliged to quit the place . —Mr . Combe : How soon did the stench issue ? —The Woman . Thc veiy first _shc-volful thoy threw up . A fourth man took up the spade , but he too was driven away by the smell . I asked hini what the charge waa ? He said a pot of beer , and I gave him my last 3 d . to get it . I went the next day again , and made the same request of Mr . Bird . He took down my name and address , and said he would writo to me on the following Friday , but I never since heard from him . I forgot to state that Mr . Bird toldmc tliat Superhitendent Macey , of the G division , had given directions that no more graves should be opened , —Mr , Macey ; I gave no such directions . —Thc Woman : On the Sunday after my husband was

      buried , I went to the graveyard with my children , and found thc grave in which he had been buried , open . I asked the grave-digger to allow me to see the coffin of my husband ; hut he said there was another coffin in thc way , and that he could not do so . Myself and my children went every Sunday during the summer to see the grave -. at length my children became dangerously iB , which plunged nie into such distress , that I have not recovered from it yet . Mr . Wakeling , vestry-clerk of Clerkenwell parish , said he attended thereon behalf of the parish , knowing the woman was about to make the statement . It appeared that the managers of this graveyard had , by an advertisement in a weekly newspaper , expressed their readiness to open the graves at

      the request of relatives of persons interred there . They liad not complied with this advertisement , but had opened a whole batch of graves about ten days ago ,, which were still open , and from which a steuch issued that was diffusing itself over the whole neighbourhood . Mr . Macey never had given any such directions , and the advertisement was inserted as a means for the defence to tho indictment which the parish would assuredly prefer _against them at the ensuing sessions . It might be _saict that _theatatements in the newspapers regarding this place were of a revolting character , but facta ten times more revolting relative to this place had conic to his knowledge Ho had evidence to show that the corpses were tumbled'out of the coffins in heaps , and thrown upon a mound ' of clay , then beaten and chopped up with ihe clay , ¦ and when compounded together the whole was thrown to the bottom of a pit dug for the

      purpose . —Mi" -Superintendent Macey : I went to the graveyard a few days ago , and the smell was so- intolerable that I could not remain more than afew minutes in it .. The effluvia was dreadful , and Mr . Bird himself said ho could hardly stay in the ground . Sixty graves were open . One man , in looking , for the remains of his child , struck his p ick-axe into a coffin , and its-contents poured out in a thick fluid state , emitting tho most horrible smell . These graves had not been opened at the request of the relatives , but opened on speculation , inorder to pacify the relatives of deceased persons . —Mr . Combe said , the mode adopted by tha managers of the place was most unsatisfactory to the relatives of thc deceased , as well as most pernicious in its consequences . Tho magis trate directed that Mr . Vinall . should be communicated with forthwith , and humanely directed a small sum from the poor-box to be given to the poor woman , who left the court in the deepest affliction .

      WANDSWORTH . Fbidat . — "Wholesale Robuebt . —On Tbursday Edward Naughton , a bricklayer ' s labourer , was charged , before Mr . Clive , with stcalins a- cart load of timber _,. the property of several builders wlio are erecting houses-at Battevsea . The prisoner was seen , on Saturday morning last , to go into- an unfinished house in the Bridge-road , with an empty basket , and come out " with it filled , with chips and a piece of quartering under his arm . la the course of tlio . ensuing week the prisoner's master , a Mr . Heather , a builder , was made acquainted with the circumstance , and taxed the prisoner with the theft . The latter denied it , and demanded , what wages were due to liim , declaring he would stay no longer where his _charaeter was . suspected . The mastei * refused to pay lata ,

      and the prisoner had thc effrontery to come to . this court on . Wednesday last and obtain a summons for the non-payment of his wages . Mr . Heather , who was sub-coniractor to Mr .- . Featherstone , a builder in the Borough , informed the owner of the property f what , had occurred , and he ordered the prisoner into custody for stealing the _quartering . The prisoner , when apprehended , declared the charge had been got up to do . him out of his wages , and at the first blush such an accusation was colourable . The prosecutor , however ,. put in bail to answer for his proving liis charge ; and police-constable Daly , 127 V , was sent , to search the prisoner ' s room in Blackland-street ,. Chelsea ,

      fos the piece of quartering . This room , in which the prisoner professed to live ,, was found to be literally piled with , wood and building materials of ; every description . The quantity discovered completely filled a car , t _,. ajid required a powerful horse to draw it . There was old and new wood , boards , skirting , hand-vails , bundles of laths , _packets of lath nails ,, an iron bar , a gate , and many other articles of builders' property . Nearly the whole of these articles were identified b y Mr , Featherstone and Mr . Ullathorno , another builder . The prisoner made no defence with respect to the propertg found in his room , but said he did not take the quartering on Saturday morning . Mr . Clive committed him to take his trial at 'she ensuing assizes , at Kingston ,

      | THAMES _POLICE . ! FnmAT . —Aw Ungrateful _YoyuG TmEr . —On Thursday , J . Richards , aged 13 years , in the garb of the free . ; school at Poplar , was brought before Mr . Ballantine on ' a charge of stealing a gold keeper from the residence of Mrs . Duff , a lady residing at Manor House , Bast Indiaroad . The prisoner was employed in thc house for a few hours daily as errand-boy , and he was fostered and treated with the very greatest kindnesss by Mrs . Duif and her . family , out of respect to the memory of his mother , who was fbr nineteen years a domestic in the establishment . In return for the care and kindness shown to th » "boy _, he had been for some time robbing his benefactress and her

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      daughters . The case having been made out a gainst th ungrateful urchin , Mrs . Howard ( a daught Cr 0 f v ' Duff ) was called upon to sign her deposition . si , » v _/*' with great reluctance—Mr . Ballantine commit-- 1 « prisoner for trial . tu «

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      _Suockwg Affair at _Whithxoton . —On Thimorning , about ten o ' clock the villace of Wli . _* t »; i - two miles from Chesterfield , was the _sccrT _^ 011 _* excitement , in consequence of thc rumour i _*^ Mrs . Green , who resides there , had oit . ii-. Ji a murdered or had committed suicide . It _anno-.,. i 7 * shortly before tlic hour named , she hadfi _™ H several neighbours to enter the gate of h premises leading one of her grand-child re „ L _™* hand , and holding the other hand to _hiW One of tho neighbours going to the place " ,, _nT * . Mrs . Green reclining upon a stone in the _^\ bleeding profusely from a frightful wmmii - ' ?? throat . Shewas unable to speak . The S tlle at once given , and a messenger disuttTi _^ Chesterfield for medical aid . Mr ft , _* t 0 arrived in a very short time , but life » , ! ' _^ before his arrival . The wound was exccedWh- ] * - and deep extending

      , from " ear to 3 -, _? oesophagus and jugular vein were _pavti-dk . 1 tl 1 _* and the carotid artery was laid bare ' ihL , > cut . A > azor marked with bloodwas foil ml p thc hearth ; the deceased appeared to _l- > n _* j ° cleaning the hearthstone . It is stated _ih-T ] Wa seen to run out of her house , _holding 1 , 1 ' ,. ii ,, her throat , and to go to the door of tho f i to Magpie publicJiouse , and thou to a nrf « l i _^ house , but- it appears that she failed to _» , unn person hear her . Her house adjoins tint „ r i nrt _J in-law , Joseph _Hawsldey , andit _fe _Si _^ _T was thc onl y person about thc _nremiC j , ?« deceased at tlic time ; Mrs . IlaKv h * ldc tlle out shortly before , and a boy a < _-ed siv v _. s S ona Green , a grand-son of the deceased _wlmum' I * a cd with her , having been sent awa _^ _ofteTfi _^ the same morning . The farm belonged _ft * f ceased Mrs . Green , of whom Ilawffi- _, _?> tenant . Many disputes havo arisen l % » S 5 ? Green . and her son-in-law of late , and it St sincethey appeared before the mag istrates , on iS _? occasion Mrs . Green applied for _Ilawksiev to t bound over to keep the peace . The application _wS refused b y the magistrates , who reprimanded |» £ parties . At the same time , a son of the deceased 2 toed for wilfull y damaging a plough fcWhj-, £

      _STl i _' . . 0 Tlsm ot tiie mela ncholv _affairnf Ihursday last is at present a mystery , ' _rxw Ji was m good health and spirits at eleven on _"KWday night ; previous to which ho ur Hawk _^ cv 4 ' tempted to force his way into her house bur- ™ prevented by Sidney Green , her son . _iWfcW states we leam , that on the Thursday morniu _* . hi immediatel y went towards liis house , thin _-inrr % } J some of his children had set their clothes _^ [ I he approached he saw his mother-in-law run out d " her home , holding her hands to her throat . In < 'oin » to his own door he mother , and immediately sent a . boy for assistance . The statement of one of tile "' chadren is very different to this . An inquest was oneuc-1 hefore Mr . Hutchinson , coroner for Scarsdalc on Thursday afternoon , at the Cock and Ma <* pie but immediately adjourned to Friday next . The circumstances to which we allude have made a verv gi \ at sensation throughout the district . —Derbiidin Courier .

      Extensive Fire at a Lckatic _Asru-u . —At about nine o clock on Monday morning the inhabitants of Nottingham were alarmed by a report , tliat the Lunatic Asylum , which is erected just outside the town , on the Southwell-road , was on fire On has . tening tothe spot the rumour was found to be _coirect ; but happily the conflagration was subdued before any fatal accident occurred , although it has been attended . with a considerable destruction of proportv . It anpears that at about twenty minutes past ei ght , one ofthe female domestics went into the laundrr , a new and commodious building at the wost end of the asylum , to fetch some chips which had been placed near the steam-dry ing apparatusand found that they

      , had ignited , and that thc room was full of flames . The alarm being givcn , _ a messenger was instantly despatched to the town for assistance ; and in a short time the engine of the Nottingham and Derbyshire fire-office arrived on the spot , drawn by two posthorses . It was immediately taken up tho lawn and commenced playing , and by its means , combined with the energetic exertions of a large body of firemen and the Nottingham police , who were in attendancc , the fire was got under by ten o clock . Thc scene after the fire was one of extreme desolation ; large heaps of half-burnt rafters lay in cheerless contrast with the snow which lay on the lawn to thc thickness of several inches ; and the roofless building , with its blackened

      walls and windows deprived of their glass , proved that the devouring element had done its worst . Thc asylum is an extensive range of building , erected in 1 S 10 , and at the present time contains about 20 Q patients . The laundry and other buildings which have been burned had been recently added tram designs furnished b y Messrs llawksley and Jalland of this town , _ architects . They consist of a room 61 feet by 24 , in which is the drying apparatus , anil two other apartments , that would inako together a room of similar dimensions . The drying room is completely gutted , and the other rooms arc considerably damaged ; a large quantity of clothes , which were being dried , were also destroyed . These buildinga

      are detached from the patients' wards , so that it waa not considered necessary to remove those unfortunate persons ; but had the wind been east , it is thoucht that the fire would have communicated , in which case the consequences must have been dreadful , as the part nearest the fire was occupied by thc most dangerous of the lunatics . Immediately after the news had become public , a considerable number ot the committee assembled on the spot to make inquiries into the circumstances of the case . _Amonsst those present were Mr . W . Hodgson Barrow , of

      Southwell ; the _Hisrh Sheriff ; the- Rev . T . Coates Cane , of Southwell , Chaplain to the High Sheriff aud magistrate , of the county ; Messrs . T . Close , I Braithwaite , W . Hannay , and Dr . Williams , magistrates of . the town ; Mi- . G .. Rawson , clerk to tha borou _^ _li magistrates ; and Dr . Powell , thc resident physician . Having examined the buildings and the servants , they came to the conclusion that the occurrence was purely accidental . The damage cannot now be ascertained , but it must amount to several hundred pounds . The building , is understood to be uninsured .

      Death. On The 13th Inst., After A Long A...

      DEATH . On the 13 th inst ., after a long and severe sicfc _" - j Mr . Thomas Marquis , of Bun _& y , Millwright , _^ - 38 years . He was a firm and consistent supporter ?; the " People ' s Charter , " and oue who whenever _w fellow man was wronged would beard the _wrong-a-J-T and say , " Thus did ' st thou . " He was interred " the Unitarian Chapel , Padiham , on Sunday , the 16 * his remains being followed to the grave by a ' train of his Chartist friends and acquaintances .

      Printed Hy Dougal M'Gowai*F , Of 17, Great Wiu* N £

      Printed hy DOUGAL _M'GOWAI _* f , of 17 , Great _Wiu * n

      Street, Haymarket, In The City Of Westmi...

      street , Haymarket _, in the City of Westminster , »• *" Office in tha same Street and Pariah , for th « _*"•* prietor , FEAR 6 US O'CONNOR , Esq _., and _publish W "Wiiium Hswitt , of No , 18 , Charles-street , Bra « 4 _^' street , Walworth , in the Parish of S _^ . Mary , _Ne _»^' ton , in the County of Surrey , at the Office , No . *•' Strand , In Hie Parish of Sr , Mary . loStr » nd _•**' City of Westminster 8 aturday March 22 , 1845

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 22, 1845, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_22031845/page/8/