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      « n tnnl cession of : tbe » boTe court com-* 5 i TlHby morning before the Lord ^ esncea on Aldermen Sir G . Carroll , ^ ' ph . lHV Carden . &c flnNS , c ^ e me of 212 prisoners for trial on the ca ' end ar . gT A CtBRGrMAN . _ Richard CHA an elderly person of gentlemanly sp-Cbild «" > jeted to take his trial npon an pesrance , s arren ro js jemeanonr . — Mr . Ballantine indictment » P ^ p arry appeared for the depiosecn ied . an Ballant jnej } n i , is address to the fendan t . — Mr- lte ji very much to be compelled jury , saiii he 5 ^ - ^ p OSiuOn 0 [ tt , prisoner a . nrASPdlie ¦• r _ __ _ .. TawmimHi nf flia f ^ l * .. — .. ! . 1

      IU I" . lVVfid W * WClgJlunu u » » u < , UUUCK who , he oeii offence of th jg description , lint of Ens knd - g ^ ne was afraid that when they had at the same ^ fteW 8 e i uld be impossible ieaid tbe' ggjjje to any other conclusion than thai fox them wMch the prisoner was charged fte ofen * made 0 Ut—Mr . W . Smith deposed that ** Vine merchant , carrying on business in jewa 3 a aru j was acquainted with u , e La ^^ -L the 12 th of February , 1849 , the PJ 50 n ^ _ lOaB « d a chequ e for £ 2 npon Messrs . F * 0 liland Co ., signed by himself , and asked Via S it , and he accordingly gave him the inn to ca c ^ eq Ue was presented , and it turned amount . - soner k--pt no account at the bank . r" ? PaW : iIad known the P rfsoner fiw 5 * ar . d was on very friendly terms -with 5 - ire ' ifhe bad asked him to lend hisn the t he should certainly hare done so—Mr . amount"t j

      , . »» -- —— r »_ . ~«« j » _ _ ? T Cos cashier , at Messrs . Drummond ' s , de . a tta ' ' tl-e p ^ on er kept no account at their l * Z --dwben the cheque in question was pre-25 tew * npon it to that effect .-By Mr pTt He knew that the prisoner k ? pt no Kit with the banl-, from having examined the SL The books ^ ere not here .-Mr . Parry ilrittPii that the basks themselves ought to have SHIS . - ** Ballantine contend that there ias quite sufficient prima facie endence to so to the jury . If the hooks had been produced fhey * onld only prove a non-existing fact which Smite esc Wlv established by the evidence of

      the Bituess . -Tfae Recorder said toa * m * p to the jarr . —Mr . Parry accordingly addressed them for the defence . He said he was sure they would not Warae him for endeavounng to rescue the unfortunate gentleman at the bar , who had been truly described by his learned friend as a clersynian of the Church of England , from the degrading position in which he stood at the present moment . The learned counsel then remarked upon the circumstances of the case , and the fact , that the prosecutor would have lent the prisoner the monfv if he had asked Win , without the cheque

      beim at all resorted to ; and he earnestly called upon the jury , if they could find ground for reasonabb doubt as to the intention of the prisoner , that they would give him the benefit of that doubt , asd acquit him . —Tbe Recorder having summed up , -the jury deliberated for a short time , and they then wished to be informed-of the reason why the charge had not been brought forward before the present time?—Mr . Ballantine sa'd the prosecutor was not desirous to prefer any charge . Toe prisoner was in custody upon some other matter , and Mr . Smith was summoned by the magistrate . —The prosecutor ¦ was recalled , and " , in answer to a question pet by

      the court , he said be did not see the prisoner from the period when the offence was committed till he was in custody ; but fce mig ht have done so if 3 ie had pleased . —The jury , after a short further deliberation , returned a verdict ef 'Not Guilty / The p risoner was then charged upon another indictment , with obtaining money by false pretences . In this case it appeared that the p risoner weat to the Sablionere Hotel , in Leicester-square , accompanied by a ladv , and having dined he tendered in payceent a cheque , which was made payable at Messrs . Carrie and Co . ' s , anrl received £ i I 5 s . 2 d . change . I ; turned nut that the cheque was altogether fictitious . —A ! r- Parry took some ingenious objections to the indictment , founded upon tbe forro of the cheque ,

      but they were overruled « y tne court . —The jury returned a v < rdiet of * Guilty . * —The prisoner was thea charged upon a third indictment , with an t-ffi-nee of the same character . —It appeared in this case taat he had gone to Hatcheti ^ Hotel , Piccadilly , and having run np a bill ai £ Z 3 s . CJ , he gave a cheque lor £ 14 13 s . Id ., and being known as a customer of the house , no suspicion was entertained , and the difference was banded over to him , the cheque , in the other cases , turning out to be of no value . — The jury again found the prisoner' Guilty . '—Mr . Sallamine seated that there were no less than twelve other charges of a similar character against him . The Learned Judge sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to hard khour in the Honse of Correction for one vear .

      Charge of Defrauding Ji Raitwat Company . —Henry Keliy , 30 , builder , a respectable looking man , surrendered to take his trial on an isdictmenr , charging him with having defrauded tbe South Eastern Railway Company of the sum of £ " 10 s . —Mr . Bodkin and Mr . Uobinson appeared for the prosecutor , and Mr . Ballantine defended . — The facts of the case were these : —In the course of the past year the company in queeuon received from an agent , named Giles , residing in Upper Kinestreft , Bleomsbury , fire copies of the Post-office Directory , and upon the period arriving for the payment , a letter was sent from the office of the South

      Eastern Railway to the agent Giles" address , bearing the superscription of the publishers of the Directory , Messrs . K *? Hy . The agent was not known by the * name of Kelly , and the only person of that naoe in the immediate district was tbe prisoner who carried on business as a builder in Gloucesterstreet , near where the agent Giles , lived . The letter , was in consfqnence , taken there , and received by the prisoner . It contained a request that an application might be made for- payment of the sum in ques ti on , and on the following day a man named Humphreys came to the offices of fte company , and presented a blank receipt signed Colin Kelly which

      ae fi ' . ' ed np and received a cross cheque en the company for the amount . On 22 nd of December , ttm e days after the letter was sent , the agent Giles calling , it kss found that the money had been paid . Upon this Captain Graham , the treasurer of the company . ScEt to the counting house ef the prisoner a clerk Based Ladlaw , who saw the prisoner , and asked iim if he had received a letter on tbe day in question , and he denied tbat he had . The carrier who delivered tbe letter then came in , and the prisoner admitted that he had received it , but that finding it was sot for him had thrown * it on his desk , tbat he had afterwards aefced for

      it hut could not find it . The receipt was then shows to prisoner , and he said the writing was somethipg like his father's . The affair was then placed in the hands of the police , and several were Set to watch tbe prisoner ' s place of business and his movements , and they ultimately apprehended the inan Hump h reys who had obtained the money . Ifhilst Humphreys was in custody prisoner went to Captain Graham , and said tbat the police were doing him an incalculable amount of injury , and tbat Sooner than remain an ? longer under their espionage he would repay the amount . Humphreys then stated that he had received the receipt from the prisoner , and had brought him back the cheqae , which , being

      Crossed , he had some difficulty in getting changed , tmt did so upon allowing five per cent , discount There being corroborative proof of Humphrey ' s statement , he was admitted evidence , and prisoner , after some remands , was sent for trial , bail being taken for his appearance . The most remarkable part of the afiair was the numerous volrntary statements made by the prisoner , all tending to implicate . To some of the witnesses he said he knew all about it , and whs had it ; and to Giles said , * Of course I fcnow all about it ; it wa 3 never intended to defraud Jhe comp * ny . I thought it belonged to my fatter , * nd I meant to have kept it from him for a time to lave a spree with/—In the course of cross-examination Mr . Baliantine elicited from the witness

      Ham-Prevs that he bad not home a good character , and bad been in trouble , but otherwise failed to shake tl > e testimony of the witnesses as to 'the facts . —Se-T &al persans of respectability were called , who gave we prisoner an excellent character . ' -Tlie Common Sergeant having summed np , the jury , after a short deliberation , retired , and , having been absent for some time , returned , bringing in a verdict of ' Not utility . ' ** liT'T " -: ;"" Callaghan , John obert

      Jeffreys , R TJorloclj , and TOlliam Horiock , Borrendered to take their trial for a misdemeaaour .-Mr . Bodku ,, m opening the case , said that the toudemeanour imputed to the defendants was , that liey hadconspa-ed together to defraud their emplovers of money to a considerable amount The ^ Prosecution was instituted b y the directors of the Vo river steam-boat companies , known a s the Citv Steatn-uoat Company , and the London , Wtatmimter , a . * d Vauxhall Company , and the defendants * ere b fts ' r semce , The learned , counsel then

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      proceeded to explain , that although , these companies were entirely separate establishments , so far as the business of carrying passengera wag concerned , yet , for the saving of expense , and with a view to prevent rivalry , which mi ght be dangerous and inconvenient to the public , they arranged that at the several piere or landing places joint , servants should be employed to deliver and receive the tickets from the passengers . " The fraud imputed te the defendants was , that by collusion with each other and other persons , after a ticket had been issued at London-bridge , or any other station , the same ticket , after it was given up by the passenger at the end of the journey , wasreturned to the original station

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

      made of him , further suspicion was creatrd . Jackson , it appeared , was allowed to depart at the time , and nothing more was beard of him until six weeks aftf rwards , when his body was found in the Thames , and from the circumstance of-stones being found in his pockets , there was no doubt that he had committed self-destruction . The defendant Callagban . it appeared , was the ticket taker at tbe Cadogan pier , Chelsea , and it would s ? em that suspicion being attached to him , he was questioned , and he then mad * a statement which ultimately led to his appr ehension upon the present ehargp , the effect of that statement being , tbat ever since 1848 this system of fraud upon

      > the company bad been earned on to a very great , extf nt , and as the result the present charge was preferred against the defendants . The evidence against Jeffreys eppeared to depend -entirely upon tbe stare , mfntmade by Callaghan , without any corroboration ; and with regard to William Horiock , all that was , shown was , that he was in the service of one of the companies , and that he was employed in conveying messages backwards and forwards between the parties . —Evidence having been adduced , the Judge addressed the jury , and expressed an opinion that the charge of conspiracy had not been made out ; and under his lordship ' s direction the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilt ? . '

      Bobbery . —Jane Griffin , 19 , was indicted for stealing a gold watch value £ -30 , and a gold cba n value £$ , the properly of Lester Garland , in the dwelling-house of our lady Ibe Queen—It appeared from the statement of the case bj the counsel for the prosecution tbat the prosecutor is a lieutenant in the 11 th Hussars , and in September last he was stationed with a detachment of his regiment at Hampton C'lUrt . The prisoner had been employed in a subordinate capacity to wait upon the officers , and , therefore , had an opportunity of taking the prop erty ; but it was admitted tbat a number of ether p ersons had the same facility to do so ; and it likewise appeared that she bad openly disposed of the watch and chain , and gave her true name and address . —The Recorder having summed up , the jury almost immediately returned a verdict of 'Not guilty . '

      Robbery in a Dwelling-house . — Benjamin Davis , aged 20 , was indicted for stealing in the dwelling-house of William Layman Cowan , three brooches , valued at £ 3 , his property . —It appeared that the prosecutor , who is secretary to tbe Shropshire Union Railway Company , resided on ths second floor of some chsmbera , No . 9 , Great Georgestreet , Westminster , and the property was stolen from the apartments on the fith of February . — The evidence being insufficient as to the prisoner ' s identity , the jury acquitted him . — The prisoner was again indicted for stealing a silver fork , the property o ! the same prosecutor . —The jury found tba prisoner ' Guilty' on this charge . — Ihe Common Sergeant sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve months .

      Charge of Embezzlement . —Tohn Gregory i 28 , stationer , was indicted for embezzling the sum of £ i Is . the monies of John Thomas Smith and another , bis masters . —Tbe Jnry acquitted the prisoner . UlTKRtUNG A FOSGED ACCEPTANCE . —George Lyon , 32 , clerk , pleaded ' Guilty' on two indictments charging him with uttering a forged bill of exchange , with intent to defraud William Miller Christie and others *—Judgment was postponed . The Abgti . e Rooms . —This case is postponed until the next sessions , in order to know tbe result of an indictment removed by certiorari to tbe Queen ' s Bench .

      A Wife killed by her Husband . —Alexander Lovey , 43 , gunsmith , was indicted for the wilful murder of Charlotte Lovey , bis wifp , by stabbing her in the neck with a knife . The prisoner by the eoroner's inquisition was charge with the offence of manslaughter only . —Mr . Ciarkson conducted the prosecution by the direction of the court . Tbe prisoner was defended by Mr . Parry , through the humane intervention of the Sheriffs . —The learned counsel having briefly opened the case for the prosecution , the following evidence was adduced in support ef the charge . —John Woolcot deposed that he lived at No . 13 , Crown-court Whitechapel . He knows the prisoner , who is a gunraaker , and was at

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

      Tbe deceased told hira to fetch the wine , and the p risoner took a stone bottle and went out as she desired , and he came back with tbe wine and some meat also—a sweetbread . Deceased took the stone bottle , and poured some of the wine into a tea-cup , and drank it , and while the prisoner was engage ^ frying the sweetbread , with a knife in bis hand , tbe deceased told him she had been up to the caurt to get a warrant out against him . The prisoner replied , with an oath , 'Yon want to swear my life away , ' and immediately stuck the knife in her , close to her breast and shoulder . He stabbed her once . The deceased cried out ' He has stabbed

      me , and ran into the street . At the time the prisoner stabbed her she was sitting against the fireplace , in a chair . Witness followed the deceased into the street , ard saw her taken to a doctor ' s shop near Petticoat-lane . There was a great deal cf blood in . the street that had flawed from her person . Witness accompanied a police sergeant back to the prisoner ' s house , and found him sitting by the fire , in the act of finiBbing his tea , and witness pointed him out to the sergeant , and be took him into custody . He was using the knife he stabbed the deceased with to cut bread , and the sergeant took tkat away also . There had been a deal of quarreling between the prisoner and the

      deceased the same morning , and he saw the latter sharpening the knife in question upon an earthenware pan , and she said she was going to cut her throat . The prisoner said , ' Do it , ' and then took the knife away from her . She was a 8 ' jber woman . — Mr . Thomas Wyatt deposed that he was house surgeon at the London Hospital , and remembered the deceased being brought there on the evening of tbe 19 th February . Upon examining her he ascertained tbat she was bleeding from a wound on the right side of the neck , and was in a state of partial collapse , and very much exhausted . It was a punctured wound , and such a one as might have leen produced by the knife in tbe hands of the officer . The wound was about three quarters of an inch long . and three inches At

      deep . first he did not consider that the wound was mortal . The deceased lingered from the 19 th to the 27 th February , and then died . Her death was occasioned by inflammation , caused by the wound . Upon a post mortem examination , he found that the gullet had been completely transfixed , and the knife bad passed through to the other side , and had passed so close to the carotid artery tbat its pubation was visible—Seviral witnesses were examined , and a statement made by the dr . ceased was read , which confirmed the evidence already given . —The jury , after deliberating for fiNe minute ? , returned their verdict , finding the prisoner ' Guilty' of manslaughter . —Mr . Justice Erie ordered the prisoner to stand down , and said be would consider what sentence ought to be pronounced upon

      him . Aggravated Assault . —Charles Cartwrigbt , 25 , was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding Daniel May , with intent to resist his lawful appreheMjQn . it appeared that May , who Is a City

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      policeman , was on duty in Ludgate-street on the morning of the 12 th of March , in plain clothei , when he taw the prisoner and another man named Judge prowling about , and haying some knowledge of their character he watched them ; and saw them go to the shop of a tailor named Hayes , in Fairing- ' don-street , where they both handled a coat that was outside and then walked off . They shortly afterwards returned , and Cartwright boldly took down the coat and put it under . the one he had on , Judge in the meantime' covering' him , and they were both about to decamp with their booty when May came up and seized Cartwright , and on an alarm being raised the other prisoner was also secured . The constable was then about to proceed to the police station with Cartwright , who at first went quietly ; hue just as they got to the Snow-hill end of

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

      Post-office Robbery . —W . Stephenson , 22 , a Post-office clerk , was indicted for stealing letters containing meney , the t > roperty of the Post-master General . —The prisoner , by the advice of his council , pleaded ' Guilty . '—Sentence deferred . Obtaining Goods bt Fraud . — Richard Price , 42 , was indicted for feloniousl y uttering a forged order for the delivery of a quantity of cloth , value £ 23 , with intent to defraud Messrs . Bull and O . —

      The prosecutors are warehousemen carrying on business in St . Martin s-lane , and it appeared that on the 15 th September last an order was presented at their house purporting to come from another firm , Messrs . Boyd and Co ., with whom they were in the habit of doing business , requesting that a quantity of a peculiar description of cloth should be sent by the bearer , which was done . The prisoner it appeared was not taken into custody until the 28 th of March , and he was then positively

      sworn to as being the person who presented the order . " It was also proved that about the time when the forged order was presented , the prisoner . " had requested a person named Hatton , who was in the service of Messrs , Boyd and Cn ., to get him a bill head of that firm , saying that he wanted it to decide some wager , and it appeared that the forged order was written upon a paper of this description . —Mr . Cockle endeavoured on behalf of the prisoner to show that the witnesses might be mistaken as to his identity , and it also appeared tbat he bad previously borne a good

      character . —The jury , without any hesitation , returned a verdict of Guilty . '—The prisoner , with a dreadful imprecation , declared that he was not the person who presented the order to Messrs . Bull and Co . — Mr . Justice Erie told the prisoner that his conduct was an aggravation of the offence he had committed . The : evidence was quite conclusive , and not the slightest doubt could be entertained of his guilt , and but for the geod character he had received be should certainly have sentenced him to transpona * tion . He then ordered the prisoner to be kept to bard labourer for fifteen months .

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

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

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

      2 s . Gd . as a bonus . In consequence of this circumstance , an information was laid by the Tipton Anti-Truck Association , for an infringement of the clause in tbe act which provides that cheques issued for less amount than 20 s . are illegal . The information was laid under the act of 48 Geo . III . . . and the facts above set forth were fully proved . On t ! ie part of the defendant it was contended by Mr . Bolton , solicitor , Wolverhampton , that the cheque issued did not partake of the character of a promissory note , or bill of exchange , and that consequently it was not negotiable and transferrable as necessary to bring it within the meaning of the act . It was further contended that no evidence had been offered to prove the existence of a partnership between the Messrs . Creswell , or that the

      cheque had been paid by their authority , or with their consent , and upon these technical grounds it was sought to get rid of the information . Silvers , the pay clerk , on being called , swore that he had not issued cheques for a less amount than 20 s . within the last nine months , with the exception of the instance noy before the court ; but he admitted that for sums due to workmen of 10 s ., J 2 s ., and 16 s ., he had * issued cheques for 20 s . in discharge of the same . He also admitted that the profit to the Messrs . Creswell on all goods bought at their Tommy shop by means of the tickets issued from their office was seven and a half per cent . Such were the means taken by these ironmasters for the infraction of the law . In answer to this , it was proposed by the prosecutor ' s attorney to show that

      cheques had been issued by Silvers on behalf of the Messrs . Cresweil for a less amount than 20 s . within even the last three months ; the magistrates , however , separatiung the points raised in the information , gave their judgment upon one fact , reserving the other for consideration . In giving the decision of the court , Mr . Leigh reviewed the various acts of parjiament which exist for the suppression of tbo iniquitous truck system ; these acts commenced so long since as tJio 15 th Geo . III ., and have since been modified or altered to suit the circumstances of the times . The act , however , mainly relied upon , and upon which the information was laid , was that of 48 th Geo . III . Having regard to it , the mnaristrntes said that the

      bench were unanimously of opinion that cheques issued for sums of less than 20 s . came within the statute , and were illegal , but they left the question open for consideration as to whether there had been sufficient evidence offered in this case to prove the publishing and uttering by these defendants , one or other of which was necessary to completely substantiate the charge . There are a great many other informations for truck against this firm , and others , and although for a time the defendants may obtain a temporary success upon technical point ? , there ia little doubt that in the long run they will bo beaten . It is satisfactory to announce that at the Shrubbery , and one or two large works , the truck system has been abolished .

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      THB COHBITIOlf ! OF lNGLl < KI > t-. < - : : / /;; : /;;; .. ; ' : C ^ aTI 01 ^ . ' •'; ' ¦¦ -j- - ; " - ¦ • ; . ; " ( C « nd « ined 'IroBitfie . &H&& Ckrmilej . ' NEEI ^ LEWOMENVlo ^ : THE ^ ETROPOLIS-^^ WORKING AT , THE UPHOLSTERY BUSINESS—DISTRESSED GENTLEWOMEN . The cloak , skirt , , and , la dies' night-cap maker ib another class of' « hands ! ' dependent on their needle for their living . The following may be taken as a fair average statement ; as to the usual earnings o ! persons engaged in this branch : of business . The woman , 1 was informed by her landlord , was a hardworking , sober , and thrifty widow : —

      i am a widow With four children . My eldest is fourteen-ia a boy- ^ and the youngest is a girl , fourand-a-half . My eldest boy earns 3 s . a week . He is a news-boy ;! ; My second bov is out at the print colouring ^ business . He gets ' Is . Gd . aweek . This 1 S his first week of being employed . I have no other money coming m but what I get by my own needle . I am a cloakmaker-lhat is , I mako up mantles for a warehouse in the city . My employer pays Somewhat less man the other houses do , because he supplies ' other warehouses who supply the linendrapera , and they are , consequently , thiee profits to conic out of hJS goods , iti-tead of two , as is the usual custom . 1 get trom 81 d . to Is . 3 d ., each for such as I generully make . I have had . more-indeed , I have had as much as 5 s . for some , but then they take me much longer to make , so that my earnings is no more at the high price work than it is at the low . Those mantles at bid . are for children , and very common ones . The WOrK IS SO fllinsv that thev n ™ pnnnllv na well nK r . lie

      best . I should say , with a little assistance , I could make two of those at 8 id . in a day . With my own single hand I co uld makeone a dav , that is , if I was lo sit for long hours at it . Take one day with another , 1 sit , upon an average , at my work from nine in the morning-till eleven at night ; often longer , seldom less , Fourteen hours is my usual day ' s labour . Out of th e 8 d . I find all the sewing materials ; they come to about Id . a clonk . It will take about Jib . or cotton to a dozen mantles , besides cotton-cord and hooks-and-eyes . 'I generally use about l * lb . " of candles ma week , and that ' s ? Jd . 1 can make about six of the 8 id . mantes every week , and they'll come to 4 s . 3 d . Out of this there ' s 6 d . : for sewing materials and 7 U . for candles , so that at that work I can earn 3 s . l * d . per week when I ' m fully employed ; and

      the 8 id . mantles will paybetterthan those I ' m doinir now . I can earn more money at the others . I get for those I am about now Is . 3 d . each . The expenses are much about the same . I get Is . 2 d . clear out of each one I make . They are children's doth mantles . It takes two ' hands' to make one of them in a day . It would take me myself two days to make one . I have to sew eight yards of braid to every cloak , and it takes me an hour to do two yards of it . At this work I can earn upon an average 7 d . a day , or , deducting candles , I get a little less than 6 d . clear , or 2 s . lOJd . a week—that ' s about my earnings , taking one week with another . I sometimes have ladies ' mantles to do . For some in the same style as those I am now making I got 2 s . 6 d . But they didn ' t bring me in any more than the children ' s—rather less ; indeed , I was obliged to throw them up . "

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

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

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

      make about Is . 6 d . a day . I do my work always at home . There are some shops send their work out , but the generality have it done at their shop . The wages given to the workwomen at the shop are from 9 s . to 11 s . per week , and the time oflabour is twelve hours per day . I don ' t think any house gives less than 9 s . to any one who understands the business , and 11 s . I believe is the highest price to the workwomen in the upholstery business . Forewomen who hold responsible situations of course get more—they get 12 s . a week . For the making of cases we wlio work at home are paid by time and not by piece-work . The rate is l * d . per hour . Those who do the work at home are seldom more than half their time em - ployed , and those who work in the shops are

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

      sums that must be paid . I must keep a home above my head . If it hadn ' t been for the Queen ' s intended visit to the Coal Exchange , I don ' t know what I should have done . It was a little bit of hel p * to me ; bur , at the same time , it doesn ' t free me from my difficulties . Still it came like a Providence tome . I got about 35 s . for what I did there . I was at work all Sunday . I was between a fortni ght and three weeks engaged upon it . But I was not paid equal to what I did . 1 don ' t tell my affairs to everybody . It ' s quite enough for me to struggle by myself . I may feel a great many privations that I do not wish to be known . I got about 35 s . in three weeks , and for . that 1 had to work from eight in the morning till ten at night , and one entire Sunday .

      l'he female hands employed in the business are generally middle-aged people ; there are not many young people employed in it . A great many are widows , but the majority are old maids . I do believe there are more old maids employed in the upholstery business than in any other . They are generally sober steady people ; in fact , they wouldn ' t suit it' they were not . The principal part is upon very expensive materials—silk , satin , and velvets—that it requires great care and nicety . The prices paid to the workpeople have decreased materially within the last five years , to the fxtent of one half in bed furniture . "We are now paid 10 s . for making up the furniture of a four-post bedstead , and formerly we used to have £ 1 for the . very same thing . The

      wages of the women working in the shops were 12 s . a week till lately , now they are mostly 9 s ., though tome are 11 s . Window curtains ( plain ) used to be 5 s . per pair , now we have 2 s . And the price paid for making up the other articles has decreased in veiy nearl y the same proportion . I don ' t know the cause of this , unless it be that there is less work to be done in : the trade I don't think it arises from an increase of hands , but frum a decrease of work . The slacks occur much more often now than they did formerly . I think the hands are out of employ now one-third of their time throughout the year , there ' s such very great fluctuation in the business . " I had seen all classes of needlewomen but one . I

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

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

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      woman's nature . The room , in which the family hved , though more destitute of every article of furniture and comfortthan any . Iihad yet tisited , was at least untainted by the atmosphere of poverty . I was no longer sickened with that overpowering smell that always hangs about the dwellings of tbe very poor . The home of the distressed gentlewoman consisted literally of four bare walls . There was no table , and only two chairs ih the place . At the foot of the lady was an old travelling trunk , on which lay a few of the nightcaps that she and her daughters were occupied in making . One of the girls stood hemming by the window , and the other seated in a

      corner of the room upon another trunk , busily engaged in the same manner . Before the fender was a piece of old carpeting about the size of a napkin .. On the mantel-piece were a few balls of cotton , a small tin box of papers , and a Bible and Prayer Book . This was literally all the property in the place . It was not difficult to tell , by the fall black eyes , olive complexions , and sharp Murillo-like features of the daughters , thnt their father , at least , had been ot Spanish extraction . The mother herself , too , had somewhat of a foreign look , thought this I afterwards discovered arose from long residence with her husband abroad .

      It was not till now that I had found my duty m any way irksome to me , but I must confess , when 1 began to stammer out the object of my visit to the distressed lady , I could not help feeling that ray mission seemed hko an impertinence , and to betray a desire to pry into the miseries of the i >» or that was wholly forei gn to my intention . I could see by the proud expression of the gentlewoman ' s features , that she felt the privacy of her poverty had been violated by my presence , and 1 was some little while endeavouring to impress upon her that I had not come to her wilh the meun object of publishing to the world the distress of individuals , which 1 was well aware svas made doubly bitter from the fear of its becoming known , even to their friends , much more to the pu ' . i-

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

      lady of rank . Such persons generally , I think , give the least trouble for their work . I can ' t say how long they take me each to make . Luttfrly I ' ve had no work at all , only tha ' t which I get from an institution for distressed needlewomen . They were children ' s chemises . 1 think I made seven , and got 7 s . for them . I have also made within this lime one dozen white cravats for a shop ; they- are the wide corded muslin cut across , and the very largest . I have Cd . a dozen for hemming them , and had to find the cotton of course . ' I have often said I would never do any more of them—I thought they would never have been done , there was so much work in them . Myself and daughter hemmed the dozen in a tlay . ' It was a day ' s very hard work . It was reall y

      such very hard work that I cried over it , I was so ill , and we were wanting food so badly . That is all that myself and daughter have done for this last month . During that time the two of us ( my daughter is eighteen ) have earned 6 d ., and 7 s ., and 2 s ., making in all 9 s ; 6 d . for four weeks , or 2 s . 4 £ d . per week , to keep three of us . I have not been constantly employed all the month ; I should fay I have been h > Jf the time occupied . The nine and sixpence maybe fairly considered as the earnings of the two of us , supposing we had been fu ^ ly occupied for a fortnight . My daughter and I have earned at plain needlework a good deal more than that . But to get more we have scarcely time to eat . I have with my daughter ' s labour and my own , earned as

      much as 10 s . ; but then such hard work injures the health . I should say an industrious quick hand mi htearn at plain needlework , taking one thing with another , 3 a . 6 d . a week , if she were fully employed . But there is a great difficulty in getting work—oh , yes , very great . The schools injure the trade greatly . Ladies give their work to the National Schools , and thus needlewomen who have families to support are left without employment , That , I think , is the principal cause of the deficiency of work—and many others I know consider so with me . I think that is also the cause of the prices being so low . Yes , I know it is , because ladies will tell you plainly , I can have the work done cheaper at the school . Generally ; the ladies are much harder as to their terms than the

      tradespeople ; oh , yes , the tradespeople usually show more lenity towards the needlewomen than the ladies . I was obliged to take the blankets off the bed , and sleep with only a sheet to cover us . I sold my bedstead for 3 s . 6 d . to a person , who came herself and valued it . That very bedstead , nota month ago , I gave 8 s . 6 d . for . It was -what they , call a cross-bedstead . Our bolster wo were obliged to pledge . That was quite new ; it cost 2 s . Cd ., and I pled ged lb for a shilling . Our blankets , too , we pledged for Is . each ; they cost mo 6 a . the p ; iir ; but I've taken one out since . Of course , now we sleep upon the floor . Our inside clothing we have

      also disposed of . Indeed , 1 will tell you , we are still without our clothing , both my daughter ; ind myself ; and I have chewed camphor and drank warm water to stay my hunger . My pains from flatulence have been dreadful . We have often had no breakfast , and remained without food till night , all of us ; and at last I have made up my mind to pledge my flannel petticoat , and get 6 d . on that . Once we were so badly off that 1 sent for a person to come and pledge my bed . She pledged it for half-a-ci'own . This person told a lady in the neighbourhood what I had done , and the lady came in the evening and brought me 5 s ., and with that th (! bed was redeemed . What I want is a situation for

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

      what sho might communicate to me , and continued as follows : — " You may say my father was an officer in the English army , and my grandfather was an officer in the English army , too . I have a brother-in-law a clergyman . It ' s not in his power to assist me . My husband was an officer in the army as well , but he was in the foreign service . He has been dead fivo years . He left me penniless , with three children . My son is in the West Indies . He is doing well there : he is but younghe is only seventeen . He has £ 30 a year and his board . He assisted me last year . I was in hopes to have some assistance this year . They only pay them now once a year , according to the last letter I had from him . I do feel it vorv hard that I—

      whose father and grandfather have- served the country—should be Toft to suffer as I do . Thank God , I ' m not in debt—that is a great consolation to me . I don't owe any person a penny . " She was afterwards kind enough—for the sake of others situated like herself—to let me see the duplicates of the different articles that her poverty had compelled her to make a meal upon . They told so awful a tale of want that I begged permission to copy them . The articles pledged , and the sums lent upon them , were as follows : —Gown , Is . ; bed , Is . ; petticoat and night gown , Is . ; gown , Is . ; gown skirt , Is . ; two books and apron , Is . ; shawl . Is . ; gown , Is . ; umbrella , Is . ; petticoat and shawl , Is . ; bolster , Is . ; petticoat and shift , Is . ;

      ditto , 6 d . ; counterpane , 2 s . ; cloak , 3 s . ; a whittle , 3 s . ; gown , 3 s . ; sheet and drawers , Is . ; gown , Is . ; petticoat , la . ; petticoat and p iece of flannel Od . ; wedding-ring , 2 a . Cd . Tho ladj also took me into tho garden to show me tho window by which the thieves had sought to enter the house at midnight . On the flagstones immediately beneath it , and which were green with damp and desolation , were the marks of men ' s hobnailed boots . It is but right , for the poor gentlewoman ' s sake , that I should add that her statement has been fully investigated and corroborated . She seems a lady in every way worthy of our deepest commiseration . As I had an introduction to another needlewoman , a maiden lady , who had been reduced from a

      position of great affluence and comfort to one of absolute want , I thought it would be better to see her , so that the public might have a further insight into the . distress of a class of persons who perhaps suiter not only more privations , but foel more acutely the pain of them , than any who depend upon their needle for their daily bread . At first sight the distress of the second gentlewoman was not so appa rent as that of the first—indeed , you would hardly have -believed , from the neatness of tho room in which she lived , and the dress of the lady herself , that you were in the presence of one absolutely in want of bread . And yet from the bedding on the

      floor that was rolled up and covered over with a cloth in one corner of the room , the handful of fire , about tho size of that in a smith ' s forge , that wbb smouldering in the grate , and the thin faeo and pinched features of the gentlewoman herself , it « 'as not very difficult to infer the distress that she wns ill , Moreover , it wns plain , from the general spareness and chilliness of tho frame , that she was Buttering , .-from insufficient nutriment . Indeed , there seemed to be little or no animal warmtnm the uoay . Over her shoulders was thrown an imitation bnetiand shawl , evidently more for uso than ornament . Her narrative was even more pathetic , for her comforts had once been greater , and her transition from

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      extreme wealth to extreme poverty had been . more sudden j ' than the lady I had visited but a day ortwo before . '"' ¦ , . / » , - " I live entirely by my needle , " she said . . <• I do any plain work 1 can get . I make chemises , children ' s drawers , nightcaps , shirts , petticoat bodies , &c . I am a good needlewoman , and nothing comes amiss to me . I get for the chemises Is . 3 d . if thoy re plain ; and if there ' s much stitching , Is . 8 d . For children ' s drawers I have about 6 d . or 8 d . per pair ; nightcaps , full trimmed , about lOd . ; petticoat bodies , about Is . There's a great deal of-work in a petticoat body . If they ' re trimmed , I 'get Is . Gd . ' for them . For ¦ hemming pocket handkerchiefs I get U . a side , and Id . a side for towels

      I got about a twelvemonth back some habit-shirts ; they were full trimmed down the front , and laceround the collar . I had to cut them out entirely , and the people only gave me 2 s . 6 d . for . a "dozen .-Well , I begau them about ten ono day , and I had to sit up to till two m the morning , and then I couldn't finish them till four the next day—there was so much work in them . I have now been five or six years engaged in needle-work , doing it whenever I could obtain it . Yes , I ' m very anxious ; I never let anything pass me if I can get it . For the last-year the outsidethat I have made in any one week is 5 s . For many weeks I have done nothing—I could not "et anything to do . I went round and almost Weed for work—entreated of tho shops—hut'they

      said they hadn t it . Taking one week with another , I may have made through the whole year from 2 s . to 2 s . Cd . a week ; but not moro , I am certain . I know I have not made enough to pay my rent . I have been living , till the tost few months , on a little money I miide from keeping a school in the country . Tno trade is over-stocked . There are more hands than they have work to give to them . The charity schools do a great ( ie . il of injury to us . They get almost all tho work to do , and do it at such a price that we can ' t live by it . My father was an East Indian , He was a n . -ifci vo of Calcutta , but I was born in England . I was brought up in every comfort anu luxury . My father was a . man of large property . Ho had £ 140 , 000 in Ferguson ' s bank when it i ' nilod in India . He died tho week before ' the bank broke , and we heard of it for the first time when he was

      lying dead m tho house . "Will this he published ? What ! in the papers ? Well , if there will )) 0 no name attached to it , I do not mind , because I should not like any name to appear . My , father was an officer in the Queen's service . My mother was an Englishwoman , and living at the time of my father ' s death . M y father died in England . We lost every sixpence we had in the world by the failure of the bank . After that , I went alone into the country , and opened a day school . Tor four years I kept on very well with it , until my health forsook me , and I was compelled to leave , unless , as the doctor told me , I wished to be buried in the town . My mother is still Jiving . She reside : " with my brother abroad . He is an artist ; but then he gets very little lor his painting , and is-wholly unable to assist me . ' I have often been four or five days together with a piece of dry bread and a little water to drink . " ' ¦ ( To be Continued . )

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      MEDALS OF JAMES MOBISON THE HYGEIST , AND GREAT MEDICAL REFORMER , May be bad of all the Agents for the sale of Moriaou' s 1 'ills . PRICE ONE SHILLING EACH . In Bronze , 10 s . 6 d . ; in Silver , 21 . ; in Cold , 181 . JAMES MOMSOK , the Djgcist proclaimed—THE IMMORTAL lstly .-That the rite ! prin . ciple ifi in the bloo . i . HARVEY 2 ndlv . —That all di . t ? nse « arise from hnpuritv oi the PROCLAIMED THE blood . Srdly . — That uuc& im-CIRCULATION OF THE purity can only lie eradicate * by a purgative such a * BLOOD . MoriEon ' g Vegetable Universal Medicine of the British College of Health , Newroad , London . 4 thly . — That the deadly poisons used as medicines by the doctors are tr-tallyunnecessary in the curs of diseases .

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      Tub National . Debt . —The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty ' s Treasury having certified j- ;> the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt , in pursuance of the act 10 th George- IT . c . 27 , sec . 1 , that the actual surplus revenue of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and L-clraiu " , beyond the actual expenditure thereof for the year ending the 5 th day of January , 1850 , amounted to the sum of £ 2 . 098426 2 s . Id . The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice , tbat the sum of £ 524 , 53110 s . 6 d . ( beiuu- onefourth part of the said surplus of £ 2 , 098 , 126 2 s . Id . ) will bo applied under the provisions of . the said act , between the 7 th day of April , 1850 , and the -iti : day of Jnlv . 1850 , viz .: —To be applied to the puvo ' nase

      of stock , - £ 524 , 63110 s . Cd . ; add interest receivable on account of donations and bequests , to be . ipplied to the purchase of stock , £ 1 , 045 5 s . lid . —Total , £ 526 , 476 ICs . dd . —J . IUiguam , assistant conn-oiler , ' National Debt Office , April 4 th , 1850 . Highway Robbery in France . —In the ui hi of the 3 rd instant a most audacious robbery was ; committed on the van of the JMessctgeries Natimtnh , on . the road from Lyons to Avignon . The v « u : contained specie to ' the amount of 100 , 000 f . b . had scarcely passed Picrrelate when the postilion waa called upon to halt by a number of persons placed in nmbush on the branch road to St . Esprit . Five armed men and three women rushed upon tbo carriage , and ransacked it for the money , which no

      doubt they were informed was part of its contents , and eventually gained possession of several parcels , forming a sum of 36 , 0001 ., with "' ¦ which thoy decamped , As soon as the event was reported te oh © authorities of Pierrelate , measures were imint .-diatuly taken for the capture of the culprits , who , in all probability , belonged to the locality . Tho Gendarmerie prosecuted the search with so mno }; zeal that in a short time six of the robbers we : •? arrested , three men and three women , and thoy ^ ero on the track of the other two men , who o . wnot fail falling into their hands before long . Thanks to a " garde champtire , who saw two of tho ivninen digging in their garden , and was struck vid , the norion of searching in the newly-turned up eafth , 23 , 000 t ., which ho found buried there , have bc- «;

      recovered . —Conshtutionnd . Strikes . —The strike among the woollen vri > : »\ era at Langholm is now gradually giving w ; , ; -. the union formed at its commencement having virtually terminated by the voluntary return of a con .-:: Arable majority of the members to their . iccu ^ omed work . The ship carpenters of IVhjtehave ; :, :.: ' cer standing out hopelessl y for some time for ; a advance of wages , have turned in again at U ' = -jld rate . " Never " says a Protectionist contemporary , " never was a strike for wages so ijl-timeii iimi uncalled for—ill-timed inasmuch as it is notorious t ; iat ship-building is unprofitable and uncalled for because the present wages are greater—taking tito account the unprecedentedly low price of pro v > : ¦ : . < ma - than for manj years past . " The ship carnoi : ers of Workington have turned out for an adxau- ¦ : of

      wages . The Ami-state Chuuch Conference are ca . ing upon their . supporters to send delegates to ihe ip _ - proaching second triennial conference of the . ' itisuite-church Association . This association > •¦ g inated at a conference of upwards of 700 deU'f ¦ tea from all parts of the country in 184 . 4 , and . ti :. its constitution provides for Bimilnr assembly rvery three years , at which its plans of action iuv subjected to a general revision , with a view tr- ^ uifc them to the varying circumstances of tho in es . The Anti-state-church Association disavow all

      the theological or sectarian preferences , wliil- tho committee " wish it to be distinctly understood viab all persons—whether previously connected wul tho society or not—who concur in the society ' s fundamental principle , arid in the propriety of organised efforts for giving it effect , are eligible both to appoint and become delegates . " Regimental Fracas . —It appears that the ap « pointinent of an old captain , who lately joined iVora half-pay a regiment stationed at Portsmouth , has given much umbrage to the junior officers o ; ' the corps . They have , in consequence , been in tha

      habit of annoying him in every possible way and occasion . A few days ago tho regiment ga \ e a dinner , and some of the juveniles , being elevated with wine , took it into their heads to break open tho door of the captain ' s room , who , on appearing to inquire ' what they wanted , was saluted with the > contents of a tub of water in his face , and otherwise insulted . Two of the ringleaders were plaw-o ia arrest , and tLe whole afiair fully investigated . The captain , however , not wishing to press the niiiiter further , the officers were released from arrest with a severe reprimand . —United Service Gazette .

      The Sword of Charlks I . — Mr . Planehe inquires ( No . 12 , p . 183 ) , " When did the real snord of Charles the First ' s time , which , but a few yuars back , hung at the side of that . Monarch ' s equestrian figure at Charing-cross , disappear ? It disappeared about the time of the coronation of iier present Majesty , when some scaffolding was erected about the statue , which afforded great facilities for removing the rapier ( for such it was ); and I always understood it found its way , by soino means cr other , to the Museum , so called , of ch «

      notoriously frolicsome Captain D —— , wherp , in company with tho wand of tho Great Wizard of che North , and other well-known articles , it was esirefully labelled and numbered , and a little account appended of the circumstances of its acquisition and removal . —John Street . [ Surely then Burke was right , and the " age of chivalry is past !" —Otherwise , the idea of disarming a statue would never have entered -the head of any man of arms , oven in his most frolicsome of moods . ]—Note * and Queries .

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      What makes treason reason , and causes distress in Ireland ? Answer— The jibsen ( t ; ee .

      TnE Ensuino Eastkk Term . —On Monday next , the commencement of the Easter Term , tho several law and equity courts will resume their sittings . Tbe arrears in the three common law courts amount to 204 , consisting of 130 in the Court of Queen s Bench , 31 in the Common Pleas , and 43 in the Court of Exchequer . In the Queen ' s Bench there are of special cases and demurrers 1 for judgment and 50 for argumeut . In the new trial paper there are 1 for judgment and 78 for argument . In the Common Pleas there are three enlarged rules in the remanet paper , 9 for new trial , 3 for judgment , and 16 demurrers entered . In the Court ofExchequer there are four matters in the peremptory paper , 8 causes and motions for judgment , 1 demurrer for judgment , 9 special cases for argument , and 21 rules nisi for new trials . Lord Campbell will take his seat for the first time on Monday in the Court of Queen ' s Bench as Chief Justice of England .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 13, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1569/page/7/