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      that several of tha defendants energetically exclaimed that it was so , the prosecutor , af . er some prevarication , positively denied that there was any foundation for the charge , farther than that tbo young woman referred "to bad voluntarily taken up her residence in his premises _, and that he had aee-pted her services la the capacity ol housekeeper . —Mr Arnold said , that HOthing _con'd jds tify such sin outrageous attack as had been undoubtedly established , aad , as he considered it ef f * r too _serious a nature to be disposed of summarily , he should send the oaso to tha sessions ss one of assault and riot , and order each of the _deftndants to put in substantial bail for their appearance there to anawer It .

      Cbik .-CoK . AWD _Bobbeit . — _Ajoong man named Wm . Smart was placed at the bar bef -re Mr Araold , charged with having feloniously _appreciated a timepiece and a * _*** quantity of household furniture , the property oi Mr Join Grjves , a poulterer , living la Poole Street , Hoxton . —The prosecutor who was greatly distressed and ezoitei , stated that tbe prisoner bad formerly lodged in bis _honoe / or aboat fonr months , and that _although daring the latter part of hia so doing several circumstances occurred which indnosd him to fear that » u intimacy of too close a description subsisted be tween tho prisoner and his wife , to whom he had been married nine years , and who was the mother of fonr chiUren . HOthing transpired to positively confirm his suspicions until tbe morning of Satnraay week , when npon _returning home from transacting his business at _Lssdenhall Market , he

      was shocked at finding that his wife bad absconded , leaving her children , the eldest ef whom was only lertn years old . crying hy themselves in one of the lower room * ; and that tbe house had beea completely stripped ftbe whole ofits furniture , and every other article in it . Having aaeertaiatd from the eldest child that ths goods had been removed in a cart _Bhort- ' y after he had gone ont , under the direction of hia mother , he felt convinced that she had been _seduoed to such gross misconduct by _thepersuasion of the prisoner , and therefore obtained the assistance of the polica to enjeavoar to Snd him . bat every effort to trac * the retreat of either of them had been uuucctst >{ ul until a few days ego , when be accidentally discovered the prisoner in tae oompany of his wife at a house in Tabernacle "Walk , and immediately gave him iu charge . Thu most conclusive

      part of the ease was established by tbe evidence of Curzob , a constable of the G dlvlson , and a man named Needle or Kiddle , iu the service of a carman , the former of whom stated that ho wis selected to accompany tbe prosecutor ia search of the prisoner aad Mr * _Oroves , frota hiving some pravloas knowledge of the latter , and tbat having ,- while passing through Taberssele Walk accidentally caught sight of the prosecutor ' s wife lookteg out at the top window of one of the bouses , be _imtaeuiatel-r made b > s way _up-ntslri , and demanded of ber where the prisoner was ts be foand , as he had a charge of robbery against him ; the woman positively denied that he waa there , or tbat she had had anything to do win him ; bnt , as her answer was manifestly false tbe witness p-oceeded to search the place , and upon examining a turn-up bed .

      stead found the prisoner doubled up , secreted behind it , and at ence secures bun . — -Needle stated tbat at bb early boar on the morning of Saturday week be was knocked up by the prisoner , who told him to go immediately ta the honse No . 33 , Poole Street , to remove the goods of tbe occupants , who were about to change their residence . Tbe prisoner accompanied him a ebort distanas with a horse and cart whleh be ( tbe prisoner ) had brought with bim for the purpose , and upon reaching Poole Street it was leaded with furniture out of the pro setutor ' _a house , with tbe assistance oi that person ' s vrlf . » who was shortly afterwards joined by tbe prisoner , when both of them got on ths cart and directed him to _driva to a house in Mark Street , Finsbury , wher _* hs left them together , and at which latter house the prosecutor sub . seqaently discovered the greater portion of his property .

      At the close of tbe evidence for tbe prosecution , the mt . _griitrate asked the prisoner if he wished to make anj answer tothe charge ; but beforo be bad time to reply flaunting , _sbowlly-dressed woman , who announced herself as the prosecutor ' s wife , pushed forward from the rear of the court , and with great flippancy and boldness expressed her determination to _taka upon herself the whole _respoasibttity of _abstracting the goads , the re . moval of which she declared to be solely nnder bar direction , and that the prisoner was entirely innocent of any culpability in the matter . Sbe and ber husband bad been upon very bad terms fer a long tune past , aad it was ao great whUe ago that a penalty had been _inflicted upon her for assaulting him . —Mr Arnold , how-« _ver wa « dearly ef opinion that a sufficient « asportation * on the part of the prisoner had been established

      against him to _fol & l tbe requisitions ot tbe hw , and therefore , ordered him to be brought np again in a week fur the formal completion of the cue , The pri soner was then removed hy Alderman , the gaohr , bni before he stepped ont of the dook the prosecutor ' s wife rushed forward , and , uttering io him some endearing expression , flang her arms ronnd the prlsener ' a neck , and , regardless of everybody present , hissed _hioi so loudly that it was heard distinctly aU orer the court . This called forth an observation of acute bitterness from her unfortunate huahsad _, open which tha wife attempted to follow the prisoner out tothe cells , bnt tha _gasler forced her hack and took the mas out by himself , Oa Wednesday Smart « aa reexamined , and some farther evidence was gone into , which went folly to establish the fact that the prisoner had been instrumental in the removal of the property , which was deposited , with hi * assistance , at a house in Mark Street , Finsbury , where

      it was subsequently discovered hy the injured _huBbsnd in tha joint possession of his wife and her paramour , when the latter waa taken Into custody . The deposi tions ware ordered tobs at ones taken , and the prisoner was oommitted for trial the magistrate refusing to accept bail for hts appearance . —Immediately the case was disposed of , tbe wife af the prosecutor entered the wit . ness box , snd made au earnest appeal to induce a more favourable consideration ef his conduct ou the part f the magistrate ; but finding him inexorable , ahe besought bim with the utmost coolness , as she was now without tha means of support , to compel her husband to enter into aome _psnnanent arrangement , with a view of providing for her future maintenance , — -Mr _Ham-oiil told the woman , that after the heartless profligacy that had been developed in the whole of her _oenduct , he was astonished at her assurance in making snob an appllca . tion , and ordered ber instantly to stand dowa and quit the oourt .

      LAMBETH . _—Extraoidijtaxt Case . —Mr 0 . Englan _d , the eminent engineer , and proprietor of the Hatcham Iron Works , ia _Pooeroy-street , Old Kent Roid , ap . peered before Mr Elliott to answer to two _summon-es _, taken ont against him by the Rev . Augustus K : _tr Boni GrenvlUe , Incumbent of St James , Hatcham , tbe oae charging him with using threatening and the other abusive language to that Rirerend Gentleman . Mr Greaville , upas being sworn , said : On Snnday hut I was walking with my wife , and aet the defendant and _aaather man by the Railway Tavern , at New Crow , Deptford . They eame oat as we were puling , and on seeing me he ( Mr England ) called mea vagabond parson . He also said I was a scoundrel , and that he should like to kick my —— . I looked to see if I could recognise the person who was with him , when the defendant aaid ,

      * If he looks round again I ' ll punch his face . ' Tha defendant also aaid , 'I'll never let him alone wall * he is In the nelghbonrhood ; I'll stick to him . ' I had , by virtue of my office , to remonstrate with ths defendant , and I did In the mQdeit manner possible , In 1845 , and ever sinoe he hai annajed me whenever he sees me . On bis cross-examination hy the defendant , the R . v . Gentleman said he was certain defendant oame ont of the Railway Tavern , and thought be had waited ther * : until be and Mra Greaville came up , Oa a former _occasion be had slackened his pace on meeting him ( _defendant ) because ho wbb looking out for a policeman . Ob that cession he had also passed his own house because he wu in search of a constable , tho defendant having tben abused and threatened him . Oa Friday week he ( Mr flrcnville ) did slacken his pane , but that waa occasioned

      In consequence of Mrs _Grenville _becaming very unwell . Mrs Grenville was next _sworsf and said—I was walkins ; with my husband oa _Friday lost , aud we were fellowed by Mr Eagland and Another man . Mr England called my bus hand a rascal and a vagabond , and on my bnsbmd lousing round _MrEogland said , ' If he does it again I'll punch bis head , ' and alio said be was sorry I was married to such a _r * _gaboad . He farther said , * I'll stick to him bb long as ha la in tbe neighbourhood . ' X was so frightened at the defendant's manner that on my husband taking tae into a shop I fainted . —Mr Eagland , when oalled an for hia defence , said tbe causes which led to the present complaint were of some years ' standing . Inthe firstplaee , hesaid , he had been instrumental in the appointment of Mr Grenville to the incumbency of tbe hamlet of _Hatcham , having been a

      member of ths committee who had petitioned the _Eeoleslastical Commissioners to send him to that newly * formed parish , Sarin- ' taken an active pert in tbe finanolal matters ot the hamlet , with tbe view of checking at much as possible all _naneoecsory expenditure , be " _xsame ' _obnaxiou * to the rev . complainant , and considerable annoyance was tha remit . —Mr Elliott here remarked that he could bave nothing to do with matters that passed seme years ago , and requested Mr England would comedown to the circumstances of Friday last— -Mr England then went on to say that Mr Grenville bad _aummened him before a magistrate at Sreenwloh for an alleged assault , wben ba was fined £ 1 , and be , in bis turn , _broaght an action fer damages against iho rev . gentleman fer a _coantsr-assault , and got one shilling damages , each paying bis costs . After this the reverend gentleman _soajht various means to _anaoj bio . On one occasion be went so far as to denounce bim from tha pulpit fer keeping a woman , as be

      alleged , nnd ealltd upon kis _eengregatton on tbat oecssioa to assist hia in getting rid of bim ( Mr England ); nd on another objected to bis _bscoratac a menbf r ef Ibe loreittra' Olub , held at tfae _iailway Tavern , ds-« l * _rl « g hi _**» ( MrEngland ) to _bsBnfit'for tba society ot moral or _respeoUble men , ant said that , { falcated , he / Mr Grenville ) shoald withdraw from tha soelety as its honorary chaplain . —Tha Rot . U . _GrearOle—In _rsfere & ce to tke elLegea _kaunelatien from the pul pit , and t he other matters alluded to by Mr _Bsglsnd , he would only ay tbat at the time , tbe whole of the _clreumitenees were brought nnder the notiee of bis bishop , whe thoroughly investigated them , ami , after swob invest * ** **)** , ae quitted , turn of aay charge ef _Im ** coprf « ty . —Mr log laad baring been _rtpealsdly _requested by tbe -nafistrate te eome to _tbesutjee * _eaattw ail complaint , tald Oat on the day In question be was wrdUn _** with a Mead , and , « a _aaeinr the complainant _, ho , addressing ; his frisnd , slid « _Ttatisi _« B _^ ut » _iWf K »« i I _ti-at is _-ay vsfaboafl _pa * tW He dsalsd usUf the _rthjar lan | Uife * sn-

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      lloned , and expreised much regret that anything he had said should annoy Mrs Grenville , sa nothing oould bs more distant from his intention than that of doing so . H 9 thea _called a witness , who corroborated hU statement . —In reply to the magistrate , hesaid tbat tho defendant ' s first expression was . ' That ' s the parson I told you of . ' He then said , 'Hs ' a a beautiful fellsw to go en about me as he has done . He ' s a pretty vagabond p » r . _oa to talk-of me . ' Ha did not . _hear anything said about _pnnshtng .-or . kicking , nor did be hear any bad _Isngnage . —Mr _Eiijott _runarked . that there , could be no doabt the _txpressiona and manner of the defendant were . highly improper , and for the abusive language he convioted him _In-tke penalty of 40 s ., and for the other he ordered him to find bail . —The defendant compiled with both , and was at onoe discharged .

      A GE * m , iH * jn . T 'Thim— Edward Stone , alias Googer , a notorious member of the * ewell mob , ' was charged with being concerned , with two others not In caBt-. dy , wiih breaking into . tbe hoose of a widow lady , named Tlnkin , in _Lsipslc Boad , Camberweii , on Snnday evening last , and stealing therefrom , two valuable watches , the one gold and the otber silver , two gold chains , brooches , rings , and ether property belonging to that lady . Fr » m the evidence adduced , it appeared that on Sunday evening last , Mra Tlnkin , and a young tady _residing wiih her , left home about half-past four o ' clock to take tea with a friend in the _neighbourhood , and on their return at about a qaarter before eight , they discovered that daring their absence tbe house bad baen entered by thieves , and the property _before-mentioued stolen , Tbe theives _, it appeared , bad first tried

      to get into the house by meanB of skeleton keys , but the do _^ r ha ving boen oouble-locked tbey could not manage it in -hat way . They tben broke a piice of glass In tbe parlour _window sufficient ta enable them to undo the fastenings and throw up tha nnder sash , and thus they accomplished an entrance . The prisoner was identified a- _> being one ef tbe three persons seen coming from the bouse , and whe effected the robbery , by a little girl who lives next door to ths _proseouTix . —The prisoner declare * > e nan totally innocent of the charge , an > watoh the case , here informed the _maglstrat-.- tbat the prisoner was a notorious member of tbe swell mob , and bad been frtquen-l y in custody for the mvBt daring _robbfrie * . H- ( 'he prisener ) bad _jntterly _gose to live , in bis ( Mr Robinson ' s ) division , and be

      waa sorry to say that since he had done so robberies of tbis description hsd increased , and on the evening in question no less than two of tbem had been con . misted wltbtn s few deora of eaoh otber . For years the prisoaer had been without the slightest visible "Wars or esistense , yet he had at this moment as elegantly a tarnished house as any of its size in tbe parish of _Ctmberwell , and also all tke appearances of wealth jud affluence . —The prisoner said it was perfeotly trne that by getting Into bad company he bad been _frequently in custody , and sofftrei imprisonment ; buf he was perfectly Innocent of the present oharge . Indeed , tha oftvHce ,, he said , was one in wbich be could not join , as he had recently lost the use ot his left arm , and snch rough work as that of _bonsebreahng would not suit him . Wife _respect to the furniture lu his honse , he aaid it was well _hnawn to all wbo were acquainted with him that be had some taste in that , so tba' it ( the furniture ) , exclusive of the paintings , was worth £ 508 . Ths prisoner waa remanded .

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      Sheriffs' Court. Cb1m Cos— H08ht0i* T. W...

      SHERIFFS' COURT . CB 1 M COS— H 08 HT 0 I * T . WIG 5 IT . This was an action t -recover compensation for criminal conversation . Judgment was allowed to go by default , and a writ of _isqairy was issued to assess the damages , MrH . F . Hod £ 8 on opened the pleadings . The plaintiff was Henry Hoghton , who complained that tbe defendant , Clarence Wigney _, had _seduotd his wife , _L-misa Josephine Hoghton- The damages were laid at £ 10 , 000 . Sir Frederic The _* i ? er stated the case . The plain _, tiff , Mr H ghton , now only 98 years of age , was the eldest eon of Sir Henry Hoghton , Bsrt . In 1842 , on the plaintiff coming of age , he became entitled to considerable estates in the coanty uf Lancaster . He _beoitne acquainted with the subject of the present

      aotion , Misa Louisa Josephine _Saunders , who was then only 17 , and possessed of greet personal _attractisns . under the care of her mother . Mr Hoghton followed her to Boulogne ia June of tue same year , proposed , and was accepted * The marriage took place on the Uth of August , 1845 . The defendant was the son of a gentleman who was formerly a banker at Brighton , asd he was an officer in the service of the East India Company . It appeared that on the 9 th of April an arrangement had been made _between Mrs Hoghton , and Mrs Push , the lady of the member of parliament for Montgomeryshire , to * o to Greenwich : On arriving at Hungerford Stairs tbe defendant , who was unknown to Mrs Hoghton , presented himself ; he waa introduced by Mrs Push ,

      and having , as was understood , missed hia party , he was invited to join their party . On the next day ho called on Mr Hoghton , aad they drove about to notice the Chartist demonstration . On the 17 th of the same month Mr Hoghton wss called into Lancashire , and his wifo was left , visited by her mother , acd sufficiently protected . It would be _impossiblo for him to trace the parties through _<*> ut their course until the fatal consummation . Ic would appear that the iefendant met Mra _Hcghtcn in the Park , and Kensington Gardens . Ihe man servant observed assignations made to meet at the Zoological Gardens and other places . On Wednesday , the 21 st June last , the fatal step was taken . The family was to leave town on the 21 st June . Preparations were

      made , and on the morning ot ihe day before Mrs Ho- 'hton's staid was allowed ts go to Bristol . Mrs Hoghton had informed her husband that he had an invitation to dine that evening with Sir Archibald M'Clay , and that she would go to a friend at Langham place to tea . The invitation to dinner waa for the 21 st of June last , and whether it was designedly represented by Mra Hoghton to be on the day before ho would not stop to enquire . After Mrs _Houghton was set down at Langbam Place , the carriage returned to take Mr Hoghton to dinner , when the mistake was discovered thst the invitation was for tho day following . Mr Hoghton desired his servant to drive h _<* n to tho University Hotel , where he would dine . The servant had his suspicions exoited ,

      and be harried back te Mivart'a , and hia suspicions were confirmed . Ho hastened to his master , and on their return it was too clear to be doubted that Mrs Hoghton had eloped with the defendant . Mr _Hoch ton waa dreadfully affect < -d . He would not remain another night at Mivart _' s , and removed to _another hotel . He consulted bis _se'icitor , aud it was ascertained tbat the parties had left by the train for D : verandhadgoneto Ostend . afterwards to Brussels , and to Wiesbaden , on the Rhine , whither _Hifet , t he s ervan t , and Leadhetter , who was employed , fonnd them passing as Mr and Mrs Wilmot . They remained for aome time on the continent , and afterwards returned te London , and on the 20 ; a of

      Ootober last the guilty pair embarked for India , where they had now probably arrived . Could anything compensate the plaintiff for the Joss he had sustained ? He ( Sir F . TheBiger ) asked himself , what will be the palliation offered for such atrocicui _conriaot ? The jury oould only afford pecuniary satisfaction for the irreparable Injury , and it would be urged that he was unable to pay . But was th . it auy excuse for his conduct ? The action waB for the great ir-jnry inflioted . Although the duty of the jury was to compensate and not to punish , if their verdict should BeriouBly affect the defendant , it wonld perhaps make him , as well as tbe partner of his guilt , feel , though he could not sufficiently atone for the atrocious injury he had inflicted .

      Mr John Wilson Patten , M . P ., the Rev . Arthur Truman , Mr FJowerdew , steward to the plaintiff ; Mrs Pugh , the . , lady of Mr Pagb , M . P . ; _George Hirst , ths servant ; and a Mrs Newimn , were oalled on the part of the plaintiff , and established the _priaoipal facta detailed by Sir Frederio Thesiger The marriage settlement was put in after an objection to its admissibility on tbe part ef the defendant . The witnesses described the . & _ffeotionate terms on which the plaintiff and his wife lived . The servant said he did not mention his suspicion ? , beoaus e netnought it would make them unhappy fer life . Mrs Newman , who resided in Welbeok Street , proved that Mra Hog hton and the defendant resided in her noes * under tha name of Wilaot .

      Mr _Peteradoiff ( with whom waa Mr Prentiee ) addressed the Conrt on the part of the defendant . He appeared on the part of Lieutenant Wigney , not to justify his conduot , but to confess his _transgresaion _. andtourgecitcumBtancesin mitigation of tha large amount of damages sought to be recovered . The action waa not to obtain large damages , but with a view to ulterior proceedings , te enable the p ' aintiff to obtain a divorce . The defendant waa a young man , only twenty-three years of age , and , without abusing the claims of friendship bad yielded to a sudden temptation .

      SirF . Thesiger . —Mot a sndden temptation . Mr _Petersdofff ventured te say & sudden temptation , aud the evidenoe proved it . Only a few weeks had elapsed before tbe elopement . What object would tba plaintiff gain by large damages , surrounded as he was by wealth ? Money be did not want ; and ceuld it be imagined for a moment that , if they could be paid , he would touch one peBny of th ? sum awarded for the dishonour of his wife f . What effect would large damages have on the defendant 1 Was he not already ruined ! .. The learned counsel asked the jnry not to award such an amount of damages as would render tbe defendant an exile for life . ; or , a he returned , consign- him to perpetual imprisonment . After a few observations from thfr Under Sheriff , The jury retired for a quarter of an hour ., and en their return a «<» Bed the damages at £ 5 , 000 *

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      Mr Cobden's Plan Of Financial Re. .Eqrm ...

      MR COBDEN'S PLAN OF FINANCIAL RE . . _EQRM AND NATIONAL ECONOMY . The following is an _abitract of Mr Cobden ' s plan of national retrenchment and financial reform , . which fotmed the Bubject oi Mr O'Connor ' s comments in last Saturday ' s Stab . A communication from Mr Cobden on the subjeot of national _retrenchment and financial reform , wss read on Wednesday night week , at the meeting of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association . We are prevented by its length from giving it entire , but the following abstraot will be found to embraoe the priacipal points :- —Mr Cobden commences his letter hy stating that his object in addressing the association is , to _suggest whether it might not bo advisable to publish a national budget , exhibiting on ., one : side

      a considerable reduction in the expenditure , _andean the otber the several excise and customs duties which the asioofatiou propose in tho first plaoe to abolish . ' I do not , ' he says ' mean by tbis a perfect financial soheme , each as may be contemplated , as the ulterior object of your association , but a plan which , whilst it went in the direction of your prinoiple of direot taxation , and relieved tbe _masspfeoaaumers from a , heavy , tux upon their necessaries and comforts , should commit tbosB politicians of all shades who now join in the vain , ory for ' economy apd retrenchment' to some practical measure worth contending for . ' . Mr Cobden tben recommends , ; as the basis of this national budget , the expenditure of the year 1835 . the whole oost of the government in that year , _including interest and debt , amounting only to

      £ U 422 , 000 , whereas in tfae year ending in April last it amounted to £ 55 , 175 , 000 , being an inorea _* -e of £ 10 , 753 , 000 . According , however , to the estimated expenditure of tbe current year ending tbe 5 th of Anril , 1349 , tbe increase in round numbers ia about £ 10 000 000 . This sum Mr Cobden proposes to take off , bnt before he details his plan he desires to add a million and a half to the . revenue by the extension of the _prolate and legacy duty to real _property . He 6 _ays : ' In the last year upwards of JE 2 _. 000 _. 0 Q 0 were paid into the Exchequer by the heirs to personal prooerty , consisting mainly of the hard earned accumulations of our merchants , manufacturers , professional men , traders , and mechanics ; whilst the doo » l . domain , or the estate of the great landed proprietor , pass untaxed from the dead to ths living . ' i « Hede « e

      not think that great resistance will be offered ' to th > equitable adjustment of thia tax , provided the people speak out as becomes ( hem , and adds , ' No living proprietor will be affected by the ohange ; and the landowners are as conscious as you or I that these are not times for transmitting such a class of privilege to posterity . ' Mr Cobden then proceeds with his plan , and begins with the customs duties . He wonid reduce tbe duty on tea frem 2 s 2 } _i to ls per lb ., or to an ad valorem duly yielding the same amount of revenue , by which , according to the estimate ofthe Chancellor cf tbe Exchequer , there would be a loss for the first year of £ 2 , 000 . 000 . The duty on timber and wood must be wholly abolished . TbiB is a necessary consequence , if not an accompaniment , of the Repeal of the Navigation Laws . The amount

      is £ 945 , 000 . The duty , must be taken off butter , cheese , and upwards of one hundred items of the Customs duties , yielding altogether £ 51 * 3 , 000 ; and leaving only about twenty articles in the tariff pay . ing duty . These three sums amount to £ 3 , 461 , 000-Tbe next subject is the _Exoise , in wh i oh department he would abolish the malt tax . amounting to £ 4260 000 _>* he hop dnty , £ 416 , 000 ; the duty on _eoap , £ 850 , 000 ; and the duty on paperi £ T 20 000 ; the feur sums amounting to £ 6 , 246 , 000 . Lastly , Mr Cobden demands the abolition of the _window-b | x and the advertisement duty , tbe former producing £ 1 , 610 , 000 ; the latter £ 160 , 000 ; the two _tsgether _amcuntiaE to £ 1 , 770 000 Tne total loss to tbe re-Venue by these reductions will be £ 11 , 477 , 000 , or £ 23 , 500 less than the £ 11 , 500 , 000 of surplus whieh

      he proposes to create by the diminution of expenditure and the equalisation of the probate and legacy duty . On the diminution of expenditure Mr Cobden says : ' The great increase since 1935 bas been upon the army , navy , and ordnance . In theyear 1835 our armaments oost ub £ 11 657 000 ; for the twelve months ending on the 5 th day of April last they reached , _including £ 1 . 100 , 000 for the Caffre war , _£ 19341 , 000 ; and I expect tbat tho charge for tbe present year will not be much leas . For the same time tho total expenditure of the government , _exclu . _sive oi the interest oi the debt , was £ 26 , 747 , 000 , and deducting . € 19 , 341000 , the cost of our warlike establishments , it leaves only £ 7 , 406 , 000 to cover the whole of the oivil expenses of the government . It will be self-evident , then , that if any material

      retrenchment be effected , it must be upon our armaments , tbe cost sf whieh haa been inoreased £ 7 000 , 000 ; and thia during a period of profound peaoe , and in the _abwnce of all revolutionary convulsions , and whilst eaoh successive epeeoh from the throne assured the assembled parliament of the peaoeful disposition of all foreign powers . But if we take iBto calculation the present reduced value of commodities , it will ba found that £ 10 , 000 , 000 expended upon our armaments now will go much further than £ 11 , 657 , 000 did in 1835 ; and I suggest that yeu propose the former sum as the maximum expenditure for the army , navy , and ordnance , by whieh you will ( rain about £ 8 500 , 000 of the pro . posed saving of £ 10 , 000 , 000 , I by no mean ? , however , wish to commit your association to £ 10 000 , 000

      as _themmimt'm coat of our armaments , for I believe that you will live to see the waste reduced to * less than half that sum . Ihe remaining £ 1500 , 000 to complete the proposed reduction of £ 10 , 000 00 ( 1 _yta will bave no difficulty in saving from all the other heads of expenditure , including the oost of oolleoting the revenue , and the management of the crown lands . ' And he adds , * I repeat emphatically , all hopes of any material relief irom taxation binges npon the question ofa large reduction in the cost of our army , navy , and ordnance . ' Mr Cobden contends that to laoiliiate a reduction in the amount of our armaments changes must be effeoted in our colonial and domestic policy ; . the prinoiple of non-interference in the affairs of foreign countries must be oarried into praotice ; the colonies must support their own oivil and military establishments ; and finally , that we must endeavour to aot at home more in

      accordance with the good old constitutional prinoiple of governing by the civil , and not the military power , We are , I fear , tending towards too great a reliance npon soldiers , and too little on measures calculated to insure the contentment of the great body of the people . It was madness , indeed , to think of relying on bayonets for tho permanent support of . our institutions , after the warning examples afforded by _^ o many countries on the continent , where so lately we saw military despotism crumbling beneath the weight of its own intolerable costliness . And even if armed authority has everywhere resumed its sna / , has that solved the problem of their financial , embarrassments ? Oa the contrary , they have only entered again upon the more vicious circle , where enormous armaments , lead . to inoreased expenditure , to be met with augmented taxes , which will b , _a _fallowed by groaning discontent , and end as before ,, in _Qiinvukuon . '

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      MR _M'SREGOR'S FINANCIAL SCHEME . Mr 3 . M'Gregor has pabiUbed _, in a letter to his _consti . _'aentt , a detailed exposition of the retrenchments whleh he thicks may immediately ba made in pablio expenditure , and of the way in which he would nvuil himself ofthe saving tbna tff : oted to relieve tha tax * payors , Hia proposals are _brl > fly as follows : — Tbe total expenditure of 1817 ( after dedaotlng £ 1 . 525 . 809 for Irish distress ) was £ 57 701 , 614 . Ur M'Greger Is of opinion that , by certain arrangements , tbe expenditure of the year might be reduced to £ 12 * 90 , 000 . Of tbis sam he allots £ 28 , 250 , 000 to pay the interest of the debt ; and ia _orler to make ths remaining £ 21 , 153 , 000 meet the remaining current ex > pensea of the year , he proposes the following reductions : —Army , navy , and ordnance , from £ 18 , 500 , 009 . 10

      £ 11 , 350 , ( 00 ; _oi-U'llst , from _£ 893 , 809 to £ _29 l _) , 000 > ther charges on the consolidated fatu _) , from _SJ- _. _Sl _^ _MQ to £ 2 , 290 . 000 ; miscellaneous a » rriots from ; £ 3 , 561 , 067 to £ 3 , 250 , 000 ; charges of _oolltcting the revenue from £ 3 , 963 5 * to £ 3 , 350 , 000 ; other payments out of tbe t > xes ia their . progress to the _Exchequer , from £ 763 , 926 to £ 710 . 009 , Tbe tetal _propnsrd _savlog he states at £ 3 301 . 611 , of whioh £ 1 , 150 , 000 la to be effected by reduoing the expenses of our defensive establishments _. The fonr ordinary sourees of revenue open whioh Ur H Qregor reltss to raise the revenue required fer his estimated _exteaature are . - - " -Customs . _Exoise ( underone - . me * _mAA . Stamp * - , , tow _Ofaoe , ana Crown Lands . He WOUld levy ouatoma _dutleaonly on eight _artiolea—tobacoa , sugar ( at present duties ) , _disiilled spirits ( all

      hinds ) , winea ( at dalles adjuited for _revenue ) spices ( all kinds ) , fruits ( all hinds ) , tea ( at Is . per lb . ) , silk _maBuf-atures , and other articles of luxury ( at an ai aalortm duty . The rovenue collected by the combined excite and stamp boards , he would have raited upon spirits and malt , licenses , stamp * , and iegaoy and probate duties . He estimates the total return from customs , escjse and stamps , past-office , and crown lands Bt £ _4 l , OCe , 00 _» , _thusleaTlngade 6 elt of £ 11 , 000 . 800 . ' . Te raise this be would Impose ln lieu of . the present tax of three per esnt . upon all incomes , b ' duty of fire per cent , upon tbe rents or profits of all realised _propa-tty , whether funded , houses , lands , warehouses , docks , Bast India Stook , Bank Stock , and all slocks and sbarei whatever bought and sold iu the nurket . '

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      Dxhbt . —CHABet or Wu * ol MunOTB . - _^ On- Thursday week last , an adjourned inquest was held bafore Mr Balguy , coroner , and a reepeotable jury , at tbe Town Hall , Derby , on view of . the body ot . _Elisa Bull , whose death was euppo'ed . to have beea caused by ill-treatment received from her hu band . It appears tbat the parties kept a disreputable house in the George Yard , Sadler Gate , and have four cbi ' - dren . The deceased was again enceinte ; some blows received from ber husband produced premature COn _* hnement and death . Bull was taken into custody , and brought beforo the coroner and jury , in the oustody ol Serjeant Hardy , when , after hearing evidence confirming the above , the jury oonsulted for a snort time , and returned a verdiet of Wilful murder , ' _adjust Henry Bull , who was OOmmitUd to take hut _tdal at tho nut iHitet ,

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      _SuietM _pfiOK Revj * ssb o- > -FonT * H * J * . —On Saturday last * air inquest was held by Mr W . Carter , at the Surrey Arms , ' Thomas Street , Kennington Comtnon ,-as to the death of Mr Robert _Duran , aged 50 . The deceased was a master _bui'dsr , and lived . at 2 , Hereford Street , Kennington Common . On Thursday morning Jie had his breakfast , but in a few minutes afterwards his wife heard a _ureadtul moaning in the room , and on going upstairs she discovered that the door . was fastened , and on making au entrance the deoeased was sitting on the side pt the bed . with his head leaning forward , and a large poolof _jblood at his feet . Oa raising his head it fell

      baok ; the throat was out a great length and depth , indeed so as to separate the windpipe , and after two heavy groans he _eipiied . It wa 3 elicited that the deceased had been ill for the last year with a paralytic stroke , and had been unable to attend to his business . _$ _is property had _dwindled away ; he applied to a club to whioh hehad subscribed many years , and he -waa allowed 15 * . a week to support himself , a wife , and four ohildren . This was reduced to 74 ., and would , at tbe the end of the year , be but 3 j , 6 d . They applied to the-parish officers at last , ahd had relief . Thejury . returned a verdict of ' Temporary insanity /

      _Dariko Buholabt . —A burglary was committed on Sunday morning at- the hou _» a of Mr _Joaepbs , a jeweller and watchmaker , near Zion Chapei , Water loo . Road . The family were aroused by some _neighbours , who saw the shop door open , and it waa found that the whole of tbe stork had been stolen . Ingenious _Robbbbt bt a Fbbisndkb _Clbrotuan . —* 6 ii Wednesday evening week , between live and six o ' clock , a parson , having all the _appr-aranoe of a clergyman , entered the shop of Messrs Lambert and Rawlings , jewellers , in Coventry Street , and stated thathewiBhed to make some wedding presents at tbe Bishop of Winchester ' s , 19 , St _Jamta ' a Square . He required some ladies' watches , chains , and bracelets . Articles of thia kind were shown him , and he

      selected , several of considerable value . He also gave an order for a dinner service of plate , and said he should call on Monday and pa ? for it by cheaue . He said his name was the Rev . John C mlson . Having made all hia . selections ; and deBiied the dinner service to be laid before him . he laid , 'Will you have the kindness to send a shopman with me to _theBishon of _Winchester'u , with tho ornaments for the ladies V His . _nquest was ac ceded to , and a shopman putting ths articles into a bag accompanied him in a cab to No , 19 , Sjt James ' s Square . He got out aud knocked at the door with easy a « _uranw , and when it waB opened be asked the servant' Has the Rev . Mr Flint arrived J' [ A clergyman ot that name rending at Morden ) Surrey , is in the habit of visiting the

      Bishop of Winchester at bis mansion , St Jamea _' e _Sqnare-1 The servant said he had not . ' Oh , don't mind , ' said the false clergyman • Is Mr Snmner ( the Bishop ' s son ) in ? ' The servant answered in the _affirmative , but added that Mr Sumner was at dinner . ' Nevermind ; do not disturb him . I will t ake ' wine with him by and by . I want in the meantime to write a note to him . ' He was then Bhown into the waiting-room , tfae shopman entering with him . He immediately commenced writing a note , bnt suddenly stopping and addressing the shopman , he said , 'By the by , I want some _signefrriigs ; I forgot to- order them . Go back ' , and bring me some ringB of that ' - sort . ' The shopman , completely off bis guard , went , leaving the bag aud

      its costly contents . The otber finished the note to Mr Sumner , which he left with directions to the servant to deliver it , and then quietly walked away . He did not take the bag , but abstracted its contents . Ih the meantime the shopman oame back , Baying te the servant . ' I have brought these rings for the pen tleman . ' 'Why , the gentleman is gone— ' said the Bervant . ' Where is my bag V exclaimed the shop _, man . ' Here it is , ' said the servant , bringing it to him . It waB empty ! Information of the robbery was , without delay , communicated to the police , and a detective _rerv * eant took tbe affair in hand . He waited on Mr Sumner in St James ' s Square , who said be knew no suoh person aB the Rev . John Coulson . The delinquent was telegraphed to all the London

      railway stations , and notices were sent to all tho pawnbrokers and police stations of the several me * _tropolitan outride . However the sharper was too quiok in his movements , for he bad already pawned tbe three bracelets and three of the watohguards for £ _* 70 at tbe _shoptf MrVaughan , pawnbroker . 39 , Strand . The seven watches he did not pawn . On Friday morning the Messrs Lambert and _Rawlingx reoeived a letter from him , dated Bath ; and _bearing the postmark of tbat city . In it he expressed his deep contrition for what he had done—declaring tbat be was the unfortunate dope of more deigning parties than himself—entreated the Messrs Lambert and

      Rawlings to preserve the greatest _seoresy , asseverating that if they did they Bhould be paid in full when the writer came baok to England . He wrote that of his own knowledge he knew nothing of any of the persona in St _James ' a Square , but that he had derived information respecting them from oertain parties living in the parishes of St Luke and St George ' s in the East . Mr Lambert , though convinced that tbe letter was a ruse , proceeded te Bath , bnt of course without hitting off any traces of tbe chevalier _tfindustrie . ¦ As yet he is lying in some undiscovered looality—very likely in the beart of London . A reward of £ 50 is offered , fcr his apprehension .

      _CiUTWH ro _Buh-dem . — - On Monday morning an inquest was taken before Mr Payne , the coroner , al the Cross-Keys . Wood Street , Cheapside , relative to the origin of a fire wbioh occurred on the previou-Friday on the premises of Mr SoholeaSeld , Manobess ter warehouseman , of No . 2 , Clement ' s Court , Milk Street . Some prefatory evidence having been given , Mr Braidweod , superintendent ef the Fire Brigade , was called , and fully detailed the cause of the calamity . He stated that on an examination of the place he found that tbe fire bad resulted frem kindling a fire oh the hearth of Mr _Scholesfield'a warehonse , tbe surrounding brickwork being about Four inches and a half in thickness . The fir _? penetrating through the brickwork had ignited what is

      termed a ' dead shore / inserted in the party wall . These dead shores were very dangerous , being concealed , and they were only to be deteoted by pricking tbe wall ; Kindling a fire in suoh a place , if it were known that there was a dead shore behind , or indeed kindling a fire ih any plaoe where there was no stove , waB highly imprudent , and could not be too muoh guarded against . Mr Montague , the distriot surveyor , stated that the recent alterations in the premises in question had been made under his _superin tendence . There _waane law to prevent a builder raising a chimney against an old party wall , and it

      was out of his power to interfere in suoh a oase . The _cttroner , having summed up , and remarked upon the peculiarities of the ease , asd the necessity for the exercise of the utmost caution in these matters , the jury returned the following _speoiaj verdiot : — ' That the fire originated through the ignition of a certain portion of timber in an old party wall againat whiob a fire-place had been reoently erected . That it appeared tbat all the usual precautions were adopted by the builder , but it ia the opinion of thejury that more stringent regulations are required ip similar eases . ' Mr Braidweod stated that ninety-nine fires out of one hundred resulted from a like cause .

      TheCht _GasQuksiiom . —On Tuesday a deputation from the inhabitants of Farringdon Ward Withont , waited upon the Lord Mayor vrith a requisition signed by _upwards of SOD ef the inhabitants , praying that hia lordship would convene a wardmote for the consideration of the question of the enormous price of gas in the City of London . His _lardship appointed the wardmote to take plaoe on Friday , tbe 12 tb instant , at the Court House , in the Old Bailey , at six o ' clock : in the evening . Nuisances in Sx _Pakoras . —A correspondent of the Joubnai of Public Hbalth says : ' I would wish to point to the neglected and disgraceful condition oi some portions of the parish of St Pancras . There

      is a . main thoroug hf a r e ( Cambrid ge Street , north of King's Cross ) , whioh it unpaved and nnsewered—a very ety of filth and impurity , bounded on one side by manure-wharfs , where swine revel in putrefaction ; on another by a gas manufactory ; on a third , in the centre of human dwellings , by a large churchyard . Such ia tbe condition of ths chief street—you can easily infer the state of the by streets of the distriot . Tour spaoe will not persit me to enter into further particulars ; but I may ba allowed to mention that tbere are otber streets and alleys in the parish wbicb , though not in as primitive a state as Agartown , are full of disease , misery , and wretched ness , brought on by removeable causes . '

      Two Cijildrbk _BoBHin to _Dsaih . —On Tuesday night Mr Payne held two inquests in St Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on the bodies of Jane Irons , aged bix years and a half , and Shadraoh Fulerd , aged fonr years , who were burnt death , Tbe evidence in the first case proved that on Saturday forenoon last a man named Alfred Walker , in passing Pierpoint Row , Islington , heard some women crying ' Fire !* He went to No 11 . and on getting on to the stain be found a number af rags burning , and tbe plaee fall of ¦ meke . He however succeeded in getting into tbe

      firat floor front , when he found the child lying in tbe middle of the room , surrounded with fire . By taking his coat off , he wrapped it ronnd the deoeased and extinguished tbe flames , aad then brougkt the ohild to the hospital , where it died on Monday . The evidence in the second case proved that the child lived with its parents at No . 2 , Clarke Street , Gosvell Road , and on Saturday week it set fire to its clothes similarly to the other , and received snob injuries as to oause its death on Snnday laat . Verdiot in eaoh case , ' Accidental Death . '

      Thk Eablt Cuxuno _Movmisnt . — Pursuant to directions issued by the Bishop of London , tbe metropolitan clergy are actively engaged within their re speotive districts , forming for the instruction of the young men released from business by tho early closing movement , evening classes ia Greek , Hebrew , Latin , Mechanic ; , Philosophy , Drawing , die . ; the instruc tors , chiefly elergyneeB , will give tbeir _servieea gratuitously . Rewards for prafioirmey and honorary certificate ! for attendww , to to gruted . \ o the jeans

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      men . Seventeen of these olasses have already been established in the metropolis . . . ¦ _iHWBsrs on TrasDAT . —Mr Bedford held an inquest at the Morpeth Arms , Milibank , on the body of Mr Nichola s L o ftus , aged 3 i , a gentleman known in the literary world , whose death oocurred under the following * .-melancholy- circumstances : — -It appeared , in evidence , that the deceased resided st No . 37 . Ponsenby Plaoe , Pimlico , and for some days had _suffjred from an effusion on the brain . On Saturday last be was so bad as to be obliged to keep his bed . but the following day he was so far recovered as to be able to walk out . Whilst proceeding _down Roehampton Street , adjoining his own re _* idence , by _BomB means whioh could sot be clearly ascertained ,

      he fell down one of tbe areas of an unfinished _hsuae and fractured his right collar bone . He was takes hem e , and Mr George _Pearse , surgeon , of Regent Street , attended and reduced the fracture , and de ceased appealed _afterwards more comfortable . The next morning Mr Pearse was sent for , and on his arrival he found that deceased-had tern off his bandages , and that he was in a partial state of delirium He again bound up the fracture , and left him ; but in half aa hour afterwards a person oame and informed him that he was deed . He immediately hastened to the howe , and found that life wae extinct . A post mortem examination proved tbat deceased had died of apoplexy . The jury having consulted , they returned a verdiot of death from apoplexy , accelerated by a fall —Mr Baker held two in * que jib ; tbe first at the Windsor Castle , City Road .

      nn the body of Charles Barker , aged 56 , of No . U , Regent Street , City Read , who was fonnd in his bed with his throat out on the evening of Friday last . It appeared from the evidence of Mrs Mary Fawoett , and other persons irith whom he was intimate , that deceased had been in independent oircumstances , ' but , having been reduced by misfortune , he had lately been- , engaged aB a tradesman ' s clerk . Verdict , ' Temporary Insanity . ' The second inquest waa at the Spread Eagle , Homerton _, upon the body of a male person of gentlemanly appearance , aame ur * known , who was found in the Regent ' s Canal , near the Cat and Mutton bridge , Hackney , on Saturday afternoon last . There was no due whatever to the circumstance , and whether doath was the result of aocicent or - premeditated deed Temaica _unknown . Thejury returned a verdict of Found drowned . '

      Dbath of an Eccbnirio Charactbr — -A considerable deal of excitement has been caused in _Lis _' son Grove , Marylebone . in consequence of the following di- oovery . For many years an elderly man ... named Arch . Armstrong , a retired surgeon , had resided at 19 , Earl Street East , Liaaon Grove , and his _habifeoi life were ef a most singular and eccentric nature . Hia shutters having beea closed for several days , some of his neighbours felt convinced tbat _semething was the matter , and they accordingly made known their suspicions to the polioe . Inspector Porter and Sergeant Bennett of the D division , repaired to the house , and an entrance having been effected through a _siairoase window , on entering the back parlour they found the individual alluded to lying upon his

      oloak in front of the fire-place , dead . Tbete were two dogs in the room , and tbe greater portion of the flesh was eaten from the face by the animals , who had nothing else in the place upon whioh they ceuld feed . An inquest was held before Mr Wakley , 'at the Royal Champion , Lisson Grove , as to the death of Mr A . N . Armstrong , aged sixty-five , formerly _surgeon of the 5 th Royal Veteran Battalion of Guards , ' lately carrying on business aa surgeon and apothe cary at No . 18 , Earl Street East , Edgewsre Read . —Bennett , 18 D , said he discovered the body of the deceased , on Saturday evening last , in the back parlour of his house , No . 18 , Earl Street ; was induced tag * there by Mr Yates , a neighbour , who said that as _ihs abutters bad been up for eight or ten days past

      he feared the doctor was dead ; obtained admission by the parlour window . The body was lying wrapped in an old coat'in front ofthe fire-place , and the par lour door was open , and there were two dogs eame running in and out , snuffing at tbe body , and then running away . All tbe { Un had been eaten off the face , and the hands partially . On searohing the body there was found 16 s . in silver and copper , and ia an old stocking in the corner of the room was found £ 3016 * . 6 d . in gold and silver . In the room were found eight pistols , eix of whioh were large horse pistols , allloaded , some of them with as ma » y aa six bnltata . Found two diplomas _bearing his name oae from the Royal College of _Surgeors , and the other from the _Apothecaries * Company , hearing

      date respectively Maroh and April . 1816 . Ue hod searched the deceased ' s letters and paper * , and there was not one bearing date later than 1841 . Hehad endeavoured to seek out some relatives , one of waom , he understood , was engaged in the service of her Majesty at one of the palaces , and others who reaide J in the _Commercial-ioad , but had not been successful . —Mr H . Obr 6 . surgeon , of Lisson Grove , said when he saw the body it was lying on the floor in a very filthy condition , enveloped in an old ooat . The body was in snch an emaciated condition thatit presented all the appearance of having been reduced to tbe last Btage of exhaustion . The whole ofthe integuments of the face were removed , and the entire bones , from the top of the forehead to the bottom of the lower jaw , were completed denuded of flesh . —By

      the Coroner : My opinion is that the flesh had been eaten away by some animal or other . I , at first , supposed il might ba by the dogs which were found running about , but I thought it impossible that dogs would be enabled to have cleaned the orbits of the eyes ao completely out . I should aay rather that it must have been rats or mice . Mr Obre , in contination , said thatthe flesh was also eaten from both hands , * . nd that since the body had been looked np , and the dogs removed , he found there had been etill more eaten . He found , at the apex of the right lung , a large abscess touching the clavicle . Thia abscess had broken and discharged itself into the air passages of the lung , no doubt _eaueing deatb . The deceased had evidently been dead for ten _daya—The jury returned a verdict of ' Natural death . '

      _SunniK _DaAtH . —An inqueat was held on Wednesday at St George ' s Hospital , on the body of Mr Georga Stevenson , aged 37 an _artiss of some celebrity . By tbe evidence of John Luther , driver of the Windsor stage coach from the _Bolt-in-Tun , Fleet Street , it appeared that the deoeased hailed him aud mounted his coaoh in Picoadilly , on Saturday morning last . Deceased having placed himself on the seat at his back , _witnest asked him if he wonld not be more comfortable on the box , but he replied that he would rather ait where he was , because he oould hold his parcel better . Immediately that he uttered those woids he sunk baok on the seat and died , Mr Henry Potter , the assistant apothecary , said the deceased was brought into the hospital quite dead . A post mortem examination of tbe

      body bad been made , and all the viscera found healthy . Having heard that the deceased had run very fast for some distance ba fore be overtook the coachi bethought he _haddu-d from exhaustion . This was very probable ; bnt the witness could not say that the cause of death was beyond deubt . The inqueat wat adjourned for an analysis of the contents of the stomach . Regulations of tub _London _BwoAna m Ca « oi Firb . —On Wednesday , the London fire engine establishment issued tc the police a code of regulation * for the better guidance of that force and tbe publio generally in the event of the outbreak of a fire within the metropolitan district . It is printed on th ' _-ck cards , and a copy will in the course of a few days , be within the hands of every police oonstable in the City and metropolitan distriota . On one side of the card _» punted a hat ofthe several fire-engine stations _, and the names of the companies formine the brieade

      On the other side is printed the following :- 'It is found very useful in preventing the spread of fire to keep abut the doors and windows of tbe premises ( after the escape of the inmates ) till tha water is ready to be thrown , aa nothing causes a fire to bum so rapidly as the admission of air . Any _police-constable who first discovers a fire , without having his attention called to it by any one , is allowed a sum not exceeding 10 s ., provided no human lives are lost : and it will be generally _moreprudehtfiw one police _, man to remain on the spot , and send another person to call the engines . Any person giving the first call to a fire at any of the engine stations ia allowed one shilling for eaoh station , which will be paid by the engineer . Cab hire or other expenses incurred by a _pelice-sonstable . for the sake of expedition , will be repaid , on the oharge being certified by his Buperintendent .- ( Signed ) Jambs _BuAinwoen , _Supeiinj _^ _-umL ? "' _" _•** street » Ci _*

      - , 1 ? " _£ _*** w Lonboh during last week number 1403 ; the average being 1 , 154 . This excess is partially explained by the Registrar-General , who aays : The present return exhibit * a great increase of deaths registered above the weekly average . But , it must be observed , that the excess ia on !? to a slight extent produced by inoreased mortality ; it is chiefly due to an accumulation of coroner ' s cases , many of which _ooourred in former weeks , but were sot registered till the end ef the quarter . Scarlatina , tbe mertaUty from which is double the avenue ? aid typhus , continue to be the only epidemics which pre _IW \ - _» - _*^ o _rii _RK _6-' Tho Wrtbs during the week were 1458 The mean temperature was , _ _\ 2 _wL 5 _£ , ? _r ? ? _« _Cutham Com-0 N .-6 n Wednesday , at Clapkam Common , the ice gave wav on a large pond , known as Twining ' _e Pond ? while J great number of _peraoaawere skating _andS-r 8 «! e i L ° J » t » m _1-d _» _™ _J _narroi £ !_ i _ Ti _

      arownmg , and one fine youth , fifteen years of age _H _t _^ i J _^ _f' , _-J _^» tanM _' wasrend - irS ; but twenty minutes elapsed before the drags oould ba procured , when the body was found and Xn to t £ man had a warm hath procured , and tendered ! Z assistance humanity oould _auggerT Df _Paw 0 S _?? f Clapham , was in attendanoe , and need am ** 1 < . to restore animation , but wSoT -ffi ? " _^ 8 _SS . the wa of Mr Ta , l 0 '» _-Sm Q _^ _WtifeS _^ _RSV . Health at ohair , a _deputation fro £ _J _& _- *!* Aanle - ' in tte the _ttayor . TlK _^^^^ th _» to _* wn . eleik . _hri » fflsfif M hne » u »]"• petition from _thtTrated ' ffiSEI » . ,,, d _-W _^ , -

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      _Fians . —A * Bow . —Late , on Thursday night a firs broke out tipon the premises belonging to the Northumberland and Durham Coil Company , known as the Railway Wharf , lower side of Bow Creek ; It oommened ina wooden building about _'briy-fipe . feet long by nearly twenty broad . Owing to the easy ignitable nature of the building , but few minutes elapsed ere tbe same waa in flames . Information was promptly forwarded by the railway guards to ths engine stations , and ia a short period several engines attended , but not in time to render any _assistance , for the fire had almost burnt itself out . Ar Poplab . — _Another fire , at No ? 5 , Tetley Street , Poplar New Town , was caused by some children playing with lire ,, and thereby setting a bed , in whioh two

      ohildren were lying , in dimes . The cries ofthe inmates brought _a-sistanoe , and the ohildren were rescued , but not before one was dreadfully burned ; the others narrowly escape _^ ,. _hquas — , _fsiDAX . —¦ Fara « _r io Djuth . — -Before Mr W . Payne and a jury , in the vestry of St Magnus ehurob , Fish Street Hill , relative to the death of a _Lrscar sailor , who was found dead on the steps leading from Upper Thames Street to King William Street , London Bridge . — W-Cormick , City _poliaemau , deposed that on Wednesday morning laat , abonfi half-past fire , whilst on duty in Upper Thames Street , a man called his attention to a person whs was lying dead on the western steps of the bridge , near Fishmongers' H « U . The deceased appeared to bs a foreigner , and was very badly clothed . —Mr Smith , the surgeon , wss ealled , but life hsd been extinct some time . —A Juror : Is it not your duty to visit tha steps in question occasionally during the night f Yes .

      sir , it appears now tbat it is a part of my duty , but I have only been onth » beat four nights , and my superior _ofiioernevsrms . demAacquainted with it . I did not go farther than Mile ' s Lane , if I had I should hava aeen the raan earlier . —Mr C . _Snith , of _Gracechuroh Street , surgeon , stated that when he saw deceased he was quite dead . Witness bad examined tbe body , and , from the climate deceased bad been used to , he WM of opinion that his death was accelerated by exposure to the extreme frost during the night . If he bad been discovered sooner , most probably his life might hare been saved . — -The Coroner , after hearing a severe censure from several of the jury relative to the neglect of the polioe , summed np the oase , when the following speoial verdiot was recorded , ' Died from natural causes , and thejury are of opinion that the death was hastened by exposure to the eold , aa the spot wbere deoeased was found had . not been visited'by the police for _nins hou-s . '

      Fatal _Accnffli _* _- * to a SoMNAMBtrHsr . — Before Mr Baker at the Frying Pan , Brick Lane , upon th _« body of Mr C . _Vander'tein , the landlord of the tavern , aged 86 —Emma Ramsden , the niece of the deceased , deponed that six weeks ago a disturbance accurred in the house , and that deoeased had made extraordinary exertions lo expel a number of riotous aBd disorderly persona . This circumstance exoited him very considerably , and there was an irritable exoitability observed in his manner from the time of fie occurrence nntil he died . Shortly _befern two o ' clock in . the morning the inmates of the honse

      were awoke by hearing ths crashing ef glass , ai-I npon investigation it was discovered that the deceased had fallen iron bis bedroom window upon the second floor . Ho lingered nntil Wednesday laat , when ha died . He bad in tbe meantime stated that in hia sleep Lis thoughts reverted to tbe previous night ' s disturbance in tbe house , and that he imagined ba w _* _aagain _employed in a personal ooifi'otwhh some of the parties . He rose to pursue them , rushed to tha window , and hene _» the accident . The jury returned a verdiot of Death from injuries reeeived by falling thr < agh a window , whilst in a stato af _Bomnatabslism . '

      Reprieve Of Radcliffe. We Are Informed T...

      REPRIEVE OF RADCLIFFE . We are informed that _Ridcliffa , sentenced for execution at the late Liverpool _ass'zss . oharged with the murder of police-constable Bright , at _Ashtonuoder-Lyne , in " ; August , has been reprieved . It is said that Constantine , at nrs _, tried _aa-aa accomplice and a-quitted , but afterwards found guilty under another indiotment and sentenced to transportation , has . made disclosures of an important kind , in which he exculpates Radcliff * from all participation in the ori * n «» , and fixes it upon a person still at large . _m-Daily News .

      €I)T Mnvhttz.

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      Corn. Mas K Lame , Uonday, Jan. I. —Onr ...

      CORN . Mas k Lame , Uonday , Jan . I . —Onr supply of English wheat was very limited today . and fine _sampleswers taken more readily by the millers at fully former prices , We had more buyers of foreign wheat , both free and ia bond , but to effect sales of any quantity lower terms were nibmntea to . The flour trade was very heavy , but not cheaper . Owing to further large arrivals of foreign ba-ley prices were fnlly le lower , and sales very limited . Malt very dull . Beans and peas sold slowly , and is cheaper . Foreign rye was offered on lower terms , but met very little de : « and . In oats we had not much dolne , t 0 U _* * _fc tl ? , eo - rrlvals were not large , and Koodqualitlfl offered faiiy is per or . under former prices . _LinBeed and cakes were dull . Tares continue very duil .. _Noeh'ng _. ret dome ; in _cloverseed . The current prices as

      _,,-. _oJT E ? _S 0 , , ' and Kent , red , 36 s to 50 s : ditto white , 88 s to 48 * ; Llnco n , Norfolk , and Yorkshire _^ red , _« * *• * ' . I ? p . _? _7 * 1 8 Hd Scotch , white , 4 Ps to it L « _L ° ! ft 88 _l- 'IV •? _n on and Somersetshire _^ red , 88 s to 13 s ditto while , i is to 50 s ; flour _. per sack ( Towni IIS to 46 s ; barley , 2 « s to 33 s ; Scotch . 24 _sfto Ma S ordinary , _WtoffSs- line , 58 s to 60 s ; rye ? _als _' to _^ oY peas , _hoir , 3 2 s to 35 s : maple , 32 a to W ; ] boilers n . w ns to Us ; _teans , tick , 3 « s to 33 s _; pigeon , 32 stoTal-Harrow . 2 _« _s to 36 *; oats , feed , 17 s to 2 os -fine J 2 _» to 24 s ; Poland , 18 s to 24 s ; potato . 30 s to 25 s . ' _* ' "

      DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN . W | f _»!« l | _Alrtia -JS ! K _' fc _^ _JBJSftr 3 ? W buyers are extremely reserved , and little _busineM _nomS _° that Prke 3 May - _b . _consS _^"

      CATTLE SMiTHmw , Monday , Jan . _i _.-From our princioal _gr-mnr . districts the arrivals of beast , freshrun tCmo ? n . ing were seasonably good as to number , and of fair ™ ver f _£ n * _. ' Notwithstanding the at en dan L of _Wh town and conntry buyers wsr | ood . and the weatber de is . _Ai _persibB . There was a considerableit . _Pro _& _Co . i _« . _k _^

      SSS 3 _™ , ! r _?* _2 WtaB , t 0 Whicb ' _**» « - « " _«»* i tor that de-Half-breeds and long « ools were _particulars dull Al the pork _teidVw * . dull . ' To snow the el ent _oftb-TT v _nvssof the trade in to-day ' s market _w _»« _% L " that beef was sellinz at frem 2 d to im m . _» _«^ 8 erTe 10 d , and pork 2 d to _4 d per _Mbs . lower _th-inat'Z «' Veal ponding period hi 1848 . -ower than atthe corres .

      _Roapto HEAD ° _„ TTlE ' SMI * HriEI . D . Beasts ... . ..... 3 , 891 j Calves ... . , Sheep and Lambs ... bi _. _Wo j Pigs ... ' . i _^ _n _ r Pri f » a stone of bfl > 3 f _**» Dkinir " theoff , l _> . "' _aaL-f _.-VftM sa ;;; <;¦ •;•»' ¦ •« . a _?^^_ _ __^__ 1 _ ta £ _ _ijj s

      COLONIAL MARKETS . _ss _& _isass previous to the holidays . 5 « 0 hhds West India a _ssoS « _Refinld { J - _?' _^ Mad 1 ? _» old at Ct _fdvaSe _lember . 7 , aa « Tance on the loweBt point in De ' but 70 » bags sold at 2 s _toT _. Lbove theSn * _SrlJET vioustothe holiday-. Good _ordinal na _«« _r « _il Pr ?* new _urmuU-Wea . None - _^^ i _^ _JX

      COAL . * _itodsW _^^^^ Fresh arrival ,, 803 leftfrom latt _^ . _" _?^^^ _- WOOL . _Iondon , Monday—The market for raw w _« m * ,.. i , Tery steady , hut fiull as _nanal at tWs narT- _^^ _£ ** been The imports into London ,. lait week L _»« 0 f * _« J * - ** _, few bales from Germany ' -ll va _^ _Ttigg * *

      State Of Trade. ¦• Issm?^*^^ *. Bave Lit...

      STATE OF TRADE . _¦• _iSSm _?^*^^ _* . bave little Prices , both for _Xd * 8 nd « r » ie Mp ? of lut week _, _amennt of b « fnf . _~ doinf is lf _» iLT * _T-, flr ? ' but th _« houses are busy _stcck-takinr aad tL \ -. Tlw nome » r { MJe pretty generally out _ot _ _Tmu \ SS l VhV ? , _^ are withhold their rdera _iv ? " f **• foreign _h-wsea _tbefimaessefthe _^ ket _^ _n _?^ _** \ V ' affec generally are t .-l * L I ? ' * S ag _« d as the producers houses hav . t _^^^ - _^__\ __^ -J * _-6 t * el __ _ln consequence of _uiteward Jit * _tV _™ r m tlu market , _matted _so _»^ festedbytha hand , ! . some of & * out ) -- _* _?*?™ distrlsts , _andaninteoaen _sxorMsVi _^ . Ma _»»*» cturing advance otvragea . « _P"ased to turn cut for » ri _HCDBSaSFIKLn , Jan . 8 : _ Thereh _«« h _.. _« . v-i , _herate-. _-1-. y , aad mors aataa _^ _osTlr ? S _l * fl _" _«*»* have _-witnesasa for ssme _ttKnaat _** " th *» _I-mds , Jas , 2 . _ _Wehavs _„& . »„ . n-. _^ _*' . ..

      ness in eur sloth Market . l _? o _£ T ¦ , „ " Z . v 'I * 19 of B 1 »* - _ths cloth halls _ths'lait _thrsf m 7 _rE » Vi ™ *? _* . _* _" ¦ * t > _lrt _»* the casa sine . _Vtovemwer ' * _** _" th , ka *»¦ _»««

      Street, In The Pari A Of At A^** I *&Lt;*C&Lt;-Lesfielr - . The Mated By W1lliah Rimn *» -* .

      street , in the pari A of at _a _^** _i _*<* c < -lesfielr - . the Mated by W 1 _LLIAH Rimn _*» - * .

      Street, In The Pari A Of At A^** I *<*C<...

      ftintingOSce , 18 _iLt _^*'_ _^ "mlnstw . at market , in tie city _'_{^ _r _?* _^•¦ _M-street , B » y . _rBAROUs . _O-ofiHffflT _BsTlLp" _^ _M _« L _2 ? ' ¦ _M W « mu > i tim ! Liu . _Hm _** , ** b-h < i

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 6, 1849, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06011849/page/8/