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A deputation from Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Hull, Bel- fast, and Gloucester, waited on Lord Palmerston, on the 3d, to present a memorial, asking exemption for private property in time of war. Lord Palmerston said that he would not flatter the deputation by professing to agree with them. He considered that the very existence of this country depends on its possessing the command of the seas, and that it is neces- sary, for that object, to retain the power of seizing the ships, and especially the seamen navigating the ships of foreign Powers. War is an enormous evil, but still it is sometimes necessary to go to war in self-defence ; and a naval Power like England ought not to surrender any means of weak- ening her enemies at sea. If we do not seize their seamen on board their merchant vessels we should have to fight them on board their ships of war. He denied that private property is spared in war on land any more than in war at sea. On the contrary, armies in an enemy's coun- try take whatever they want or desire without the slightest regard to the rights of property, as we should find to our cost if a hostile army should ever succeed in landing in this country.
The Court of Aldermen have adopted a report from the Gaol Commit- tee, recommending the construction of forty-nine cells on the female side of Newgate ; two punishment cells, nine reception cells, and baths. The estimated expense is 10,0001.
An extraordinary meeting was held on Thursday night, at St. James's Restaurant. The Reverend Baptist Noel and other clergymen invited the " fallen angels" of the Haymarket district to tea; and they came. About 250 unfortunates were present. They came in after midnight, the invitation being for that time. When they had been refreshed with tea and coffee, bread, butter, and toast, the Reverend Baptist Noel, the Reverend William Brock, and others, addressed to them " pathetic and affectionate" appeals, and offered up prayers. The meeting broke up et three o'clock. The women conducted themselves with decorum.
The boy shoeblaeks, 319 in number had a feast at St. Martin's Hal on Monday. Their "bands" were present, and discoursed eloquent music. These boys earned last year 45481.
The proceedings of the mob in the parish church of St. George's-in- the-East were more outrageous than ever on Sunday. The blockgnard boys, who usurp the place of the congregation, revel in impunity. When we say that, during the service, they sang "Rule Britannia" and " We won't go home till morning," in full chorus ; that they howled and yelled in addition ; and shouted opprobrious epithets and fired vol- leys of peas at the priests ; we need say no more. Mr. F. G. Lee, who preached, could not be heard at all. When the service was over, the police came in, as usual, and dared the church.
It should be remarked that the cross and other pieces of furniture of a so-called Popish description had been removed.
The ease of Anthony versus Anthony, has come again before the Divorce Court. Dr. Spinks, for Mrs. Anthony, moved that the alimony allowed to his client, should be 901. a year, the sum fixed pendente lite. This was op- posed by Mr. Anthony's counsel. Mr. Anthony, at the end of his affidavit, stated that his wife was a governess before he married her, and she might now assist in maintaining herself by returning to the same employment. The Judge said he must remark that, if Mrs. Anthony should have the good fortune to obtain a situation in that capacity in a respectable family, she would owe no thanks for it to Mr. Anthony, for he could not forget the manner in which Mr. Anthony had attempted to destroy his wife's character during the progress of the suit. Permanent alimony was accordingly awarded at the rate of 901. a year.
At the Middlesex Sessions, on Monday, the two Guardsmen, Hales and Humphreys, who made an indiscriminate attack upon a crowd, and seriously wounded two policemen on duty, were sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for one year. The Assistant-Judge told them they had thoroughly disgraced the coats they were wearing.
Two other Guardsmen have been sent to prison for two months and one month with hard labour by the Westminster Magistrate. Their offence was a cowardly and indecent assault upon a young woman, and upon her father and mother, close to Buckingham Palace. The sentry, or picket, ought to have prevented it.
The Marylebone Magistrate has also had to send a Guardsman to prison for violent and disgraceful conduct in a publichouse.
Two "photographic artists " have been remanded by the Clerkenwell Magistrate, for receiving gold watches,nowing the same to have been stolen.
Three boys and a woman were brought before Mr. Yardley, on Monday, charged with disturbing the congregration of St. George's-in-the-East. It seems that, if conspiracy or riot could be proved, the prisoners could be very severely punished. In this case, however, the evidence against the pri- soners amounted "literally to nothing," as the magistrate said. If it could have been shown that they, or any others, even began to demolish the church, they could be imprisoned with hard labour, and the males whipped. Mr. Yardley explained the law with emphasis, and as emphati- cally declared that he and his colleague will enforce it against the first person proved to have been guilty. If any wicked persons went to the church to destroy property, the punishment was six months' imprisonment and hard labour ; and they might probably go further, and involve them- selves in a charge of riot, and subject themselves to two years' imprison- menti or be concerned in the partial demolition of the interior of the sacred edifice, and then the punishment would be penal servitude for life. He was afraid things would go on from bad to worse, until persons were brought before him on charges involving a sentence of penal servitude for their natural lives.
The Lord Mayor has committed one Dryden Elstob, alias Thomas Wal- lace, a reporter, for trial, on a charge of obtaining money under false pre- tences. Elstob went about collecting subscriptions for the Brompton and Victoria Park Hospital, but reality for his own use. His thought to shield himself from the law, by pretending that he was obtaining subscriptions for a book he was publishing, the profits of which were to go to the hospital funds.
The Thames Police Magistrate has been called upon to order landlords of premises of Bromley and Poplar, to provide drains and private accommo- dation, and to cleanse and whitewash their tenements. One had the auda- city to contend that his tenants preferred filth and a sickening stench ! The Magistrate made the order.
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