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It is reported in the City that Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey:is to be the new High Bailiff of Southwark. Several candidates for the com- mission of Police are named—Captain Kineaide, the Governor of the Bridewell, Colonel Campbell, Colonel Angelo, Colonel Grant, and Major-General Sir B. Connor.

Yesterday, the birthday of Prince Albert, was selected as the appro- priate occasion for laying the keel of the Royal Albert, 120-gun ship, at Woolwich. The ceremony was begun by Miss Collier, the daughter of Sir Francis Collier, the Superintendent of the Dockyard; the lady striking the keel with a hammer as the shipwrights had placed it in position. The length of the Trafalgar's gun-deck was 205 feet 51 inches ; that of the Royal Albert's gun-deck will be 220 feet.

A meeting of Finsbury electors was held at White Conduit House on Tuesday evening, to consider the depressed state of the country. At six o'clock, the large room was crowded to overflowing ; and hundreds, unable to obtain admission, walked about the grounds. At half-past six, the managing committee entered the :room, with Mr. Duncombe, their Member, and Mr. Feargus O'Connor. Mr. George Rogers was called to the chair. He exhorted the meeting to abide by the inscrip- tion on a banner over the chair—" Peace, law, and order "; and stated that he had addressed a note to Sir James Graham' transmitting a list of the electors by whom the meeting was convened, in order, said the note, " that there might be no pretence for a repetition of the police follies, not to say outrages, which had taken place." A letter was read from Mr. Wakley, excusing his absence on account of continued and severe indisposition. After the first resolution had been proposed, in accordance with the general demand, the Chairman adjourned the meeting to the outside of the house ; the speakers taking their station in a balcony. The following resolutions were carried unanimously- " That this meeting learn with sorrow and dismay, that nearly the whole of the manufacturing population have foregone their usual industrial occupations; that the discontent of the people has in some places broken out into open vio- lence ; that encounters have taken place, accompanied with loss of life ; and that in fact servile war is raging over so large a part of Great Britain as threatens effectually to destroy the security of property in every part of the kingdom. "That without pretending to judge accurately ot the immediate causes of this sudden outbreak, this meeting find no difficulty in deciding, that the re- mote, all-powerful, and all-producing cause, has been class-legislation, which by promoting class-interest, has at length, at the expense of the general interest, produced such extreme exhaustion of the resources of the whole body, that ge- neral pressure has produced general distress; class is set against class and man against man, by the sectional and individual endeavour to escape from the ge- neral distress.

"That this meeting have no hope of remedy in the measures hitherto pur- sued. We see no hope of peace in the poor destroying factories or the resi- dences of the rich, because the owners give no greater wages than the demands of class-legislation leave them the power of doing; nor do we see any hope of peace in the rich coercing the poor because they endeavour to avoid starvation. .L'hese are the means of aggravating evils which, in the opinion of this meeting, can only be remedied by the removal of class-legislation : and therefore we are of opinion, that a petition founded on these resolutions be presented to the Queen, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased immediately to convene the Parliament, and take measures for securing to the people'such a representation as will be in conformity with the prayers of the petitions pre- sented to the House of Commons last session, and which petitions were signed by millions of her Majesty's loyal subjects. " That the petition be signed by the Chairman on behalf of this meeting, and that the Members for the borough be requested to forward the same to her Majesty."

Thanks were voted to Mr. Thomas Duncombe, "for his undeviating perseverance in upholding the cause of popular liberty, and for his readiness at all times to respond to the call of his constituents to sup- port their interests both in and out of Parliament." Hereupon Mr. Duncombe addressed the meeting. If Government, be said, were judged according to a sound rule, by the condition of the people, was not that condition a disgrace to them ? Of all Queen's Speeches, that at the close of the session was unparalleled in the annals of the country for falsehood and hypocrisy-

" Now, what was it that her Majesty was made to say by these Ministers ? The very first sentence of that Speech, as far as I recollect it, was this—that the state of the public business enabled her Majesty 'to release us from our duties '—(Laugliter)—and that we had discharged our duties in a manner that reflected the greatest credit upon ourselves.' (Cheers and laughter.) Her Majesty certainly did not say that it gave satisfaction to you. But what I wish to ask is, did we discharge our duty in a way that could by any possibility reflect credit upon us as a House of Commons or a representative assembly? Why, every species I may say of oppression—every species of that which has been so properly termed class-legislation—that, and that alone, occupied that assembly ; and thence it is said that we ably and satisfactorily discharged our arduous duties ! What is the state of the country? Time after time, how often were the Ministers and the House of Commons warned of what is now actually taking place. Can any one of those Ministers lay his hand upon his heart and say that he was not told by myself, and by many others, that the whole social system of this country, if the Ministers persevered in their iniquitous and nefarious course, was on the eve of dissolution, and that the peace of the nation was not worth eight-and-forty hours' purchase? Why, I told them so within ten days of their separation ; and I said to them, that, in- stead of thinking of proroguing Parliament, they ought to be thinking of en- forcing a call of the House, and of making those who bad quitted their seats return back to them, and see whether they could not effect some measures for the relief of the people. (Cheers.) No. They turned a deaf ear to all this warning. Some said= We have grouse to shoot, and pheasants to look after'; and I recollect saying to them, 'and I suppose you have some tenants to belly who may be becoming refractory.' Well, what now is the state of the coun- try ? Hardly had the Speech been delivered—almost before the soft accents which proceeded from the Royal lips had died away from the ears that heard them—scarcely had the ink become dry by which that Speech was written, when a proclamation was issued to tell the public, to the shame of England, that the manufacturing-districts of this country were in a state of insurrec- tion. Why, then, I say that that Minister who could put such a Speech in the Queen's lips was one who, if Parliament were sitting, would deserve im- peachment." (Great cheering.) The expressed discontent of the people nittht be subdued by the bludgeon or the bayonet ; but the distress of be people could not be relieved by the bludgeon or the bayonet. The petitapa,lowever, signed by three millions and a half, which he had had the IL r to present to Parliament, jeered and scoffed at as it was, con 4 remedy for the

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s' The concluding sentence of that petition proposes to give to every working man of mature age the elective franchise. I have seen a great deal of the working of the Parliamentary franchise both in and out of the House of Commons, and I have come to thisconclusion—and I shall avow it and contend for it to the last hour of my life—that there is not, nor ever can be, any protection for the in- terests of the people, that there never can be a Legislature that can give secu- rity to property or contentment to the people of this country, until those who are the producers of wealth have a voice in that Legislature. By that alone ean the present evils which afflict the country be cured, and a guarantee be afforded against their recurrence in future." (Loud cheers.) Mr. Feargus O'Connor declared that "these were the times to try men's soul's ' : he said that "it did indeed refresh him to hear the sen- timents that had been expressed by their noble, brave, and indomitable representative "; and he proceeded to deliver some stock sentiments— Free discussion was the spring of intellect, and the fair expression of the public mind is the safety-valve of the country. He implored them to baulk their enemies of their prey, and not present themselves defence- lessly before an armed soldiery. Let them not quit the list of the 3,500,000 who were found upon the muster-roll of the Moral Force principle. Their ene- mies might stop them for a while, but they could not stop them long. He had beard all the resolutions with peculiar pleasure, but the last was the gem of the whole, because it recognized all the principles of the Charter. Although dan- gers now beset him—although he knew they were now looking out for him— yet he would ever remain firmly at his post; nor would he sacrifice his party, who were the People, for the purpose of serving any class or party, till they had all obtained their just rights.

He advised the people to be peaceable, and not to place themselves in jeopardy ; for their enemies were eager to catch them : they would gladly throw them into their dungeons, get another Jefferies for their Judge, and twelve butchers for the Jury.

The meeting then broke up, in perfect order, although at the close not fewer (it is estimated) than 10,000 were present.

There were three Chartist gatherings on Monday evening—on Ken- nington Common, Clerkenwell Green, and at Paddington. The meet- ing at Kennington was called for six. In the mean time, Mr. Mayne, the Commissioner of Police, issued a notice ordering the Police to pre- vent the assemblage of crowds on the Common after six, or the stoppage of any van or other vehicle. In the afternoon the place was crowded by gaily-dressed persons, half of them women ; but there was no platform, nor any appearance of Chartist leaders. At half-past six the Police proceeded to clear the Common ; which they occupied them- selves in a force of about 1,300 or 1,400. It was more difficult to clear the very numerous avenues; but ultimately the crowd dispersed, gene- rally with a good-humour or even gayety that gave to the scene the appearance of a fair breaking up. The meeting at Clerkenwell was at eight o'clock. The Police act- ing under similar orders as in the previous case, would not allow the

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semblage of people or the stopping of vans. The mob harrassed them for some hours, by forming in small knots, which were dispersed, and formed again as fast. A man who insisted on addressing the crowd from his own door was arrested ; and then the Police were assailed with stones. The manceuvres of the crowd continued till a late hour, but without further disturbance.

Six was the hour named for the Paddington meeting; which began on the bridge over the railway at the terminus. Half-an-hour after- wards, the Police cleared the bridge ; and, brickbats and stones being thrown, they charged the mob several times. At seven, a young man began to speak : on seeing the Police approach, he desisted, and at- tempted to escape ; but he was pursued and secured. One Menden, a shoemaker, moved the " adjournment " of the meeting to Kennington Common : he was seized. Altogether, seventeen persons were taken into custody ; one man for stabbing a Policeman. The Police occupied the ground till an early hour yesterday morning.

A Chartist meeting was held at the National Association Hall on Thursday night, about 1,500 persons being present; Mr. Hetherington in the chair. Resolutions were carried denouncing class-legislation ; justifying the course adopted by the starving population of the manu- facturing-districts, but recommending conciliation rather than provoca- tion of the troops ; thanking "the fifty brave soldiers, now prisoners in the Tower, who refused to violate the law of God by firing upon the people " ; and declaring that the Charter was "the only remedy."

The Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association held a meeting on Monday, at their office in West Strand, to issue an address to the People, and adopt a "representation to Sir Robert Peel," in reply (says the Morning Chronicle) to his insinuations of a connexion between the Anti-Corn-law League and the disturbances in the manufacturing-dis- tricts. Mr. P. A. Taylor was called to the chair, and read the address and "representation " ; which elicited frequent bursts of applause. It began thus- " At a time when tenants are driven to the poll as oxen are to market—when threats coerce submission, or ruin seizes the independent—when Parliament is steeped in bribery to the lips—when electors prize freedom only for its price, representatives value their country only for what it can be sold [foil, and new writs and fresh bribes form the only punishment of corruption, nothing is left to the people but the command of a free press, and the exercise of free speech. For the use of these you insinuate we are the authors of the anarchy we de- plore, and threaten that we may have 'cause for repentance at the course we have taken.' There is no mystery, nor shall you be suffered to fabricate any, in the elementary causes of the existing social disorder. Want of wages, work, and bread, could terminate only in death or violence. The rapacious avarice which feudal tyranny maintained by force, the more civilized oppression of a sordid aristocracy continued by fraud ; and when cunning is found out, and will no longer serve the purpose, the modern oligarchy returns to the military rule of then- barbaric ancestors, and both they and you will find that neither force nor fraud can put hunger down. The eruption may probably be subdued With ease, but the cause would not be removed. Ours is the only prescription that can eradicate the disease from the body politic. We offer to give the people bread ; you will not let us. We ask you to feed them, and you refuse. They seek wages and work ; with free trade we can give them both. You do not even pretend that any thing you can propose will speedily afford them either; and when your adherence to the Bread-tax, by rendering food scarce, employment impossible, a id wages inadequate to the cost of bare subsistence, has left the labourer no al ernative but to perish, you charge upon those who have pitied and tried to remedy his wrongs, the instigation of the wild justice of his blind revenge."

The Association remind the Minister that office was not thrust upon hum; and admonish him, if he cannot enforce his own principles, to take the advice he gives to others and resign. After reproaching Sir Robert with sneering at the pretensions of England to be the workshop of the world, and with remarks in the same sense by Tory newspapers and periodicals, they return to the charge against themselves-

" At a time when insurrection seems to be organized, progressive, almost na- tional, it is the duty of a Prime Minister rather to bend the undivided energies of his mind to discover the deep seat of this vital disease, and to apply a radical remedy, than miserably to cast about to detect the proximate instrument 17 which general discontent has found its natural development. Even were it true, as it is scandalously false, that the Anti-Corn-law League has raised, in place of having done its utmost to avert the bursting of the storm, if you were a statesman and not merely a politician, the belief that a vast body of capi- talists, manufacturers, merchants, tradesmen, and industrious citizens, influen- tial in wealth, in numbers, and in character, were placed by your laws in direct hostility to civil authority, would be the very strongest reason for the instant removal of the grievance they denounced. But, although the eulogies of your colleagues had informed us of your skill in dressing up a case,' we were not prepared for the consummate effrontery of the attempt to lay at our door the blame of the consequences of your own misgovernment."

They allude to their efforts to bring the subject of the Corn-laws be- fore the Government and Parliament-

" When at last we found expostulation to be in vain, we served upon the Commons our solemn final protest, that, for the terrible consequences which we too clearly foresaw, the Legislature, and not the people, should be respon- sible. We sought your individual presence to tell you our conviction that social order was preserved only by the faint prospect the sitting of our Con- ference afforded of the possible success of its importunity, and that the hour which sent us empty away to our constituents might witness the termination of public respect for constituted authority. Whatever might be the apparent and mere proximate cause which should embody discontent in action, or the outward form in which violence might shape itself, we knew that while law made bread dear, depressed wages below the minimum means of subsistence, and by restricting trade circumscribed the field of employment, death by famine or blind insurrection were the dreadful alternatives to be apprehended. Ere we reached our homes, your cruel and sordid policy had done its work. The pressure of want, patiently, peaceably, heroically borne, had exhausted the power of human endurance; and under the exasperation of intolerable wrong, civil commotion commenced its awful work. In your hands is the remedy, and on your head be the responsibility of refusing its application."

They keep on repeating that the Minister refuses to adopt "the only remedy "—

" What is the result ? An industrial movement threatens to terminate in a political one ; and the cry for wages and bread in a demand for the Charter. And this too is your handywork. You have admitted the depth of the popu- lar distress, and even praised the famishing for their patience. But you have taught them to expect no relief from mere economical changes." They "would return good for evil "; and they do so in the shape of some advice—with the intimation that they shall persevere untimidatect in the pursuit of their object

Mr. Palmer had listened to the documents with interest; but he feared they were rather lengthy : they entered too much into detail. Mr. Wells objected, that "they were making too much of Peel in that.. address." Both documents, however, were formally put and carried.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday, John William Bean was tried for a misdemeanour in assaulting the Queen, with a pistol ; the charge being variously expressed in four different counts. Although seventeen years of age, he was so short and deformed that his head scarcely reached above the bar. The counsel for the Crown were, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Wadding- ton, and Mr. B.. Gurney ; for the prisoner, Mr. lorry.

The Attorney-General very briefly sketched the facts of the case,. and explained the law, by which any menacing action, within a short distance of the person threatened, constitutes an assault. Witnesses were then called. As their evidence differed in no important particular from the accounts that were given at the time, a recapitulation of the chief points will suffice. Mr. Charles Edward Dassett deposed how on Sunday the 3d of July he saw three Royal carriages going towards the Chapel RoyaL Just as the last carriage passed the watering-house, he saw the prisoner come from the crowd, draw a pistol from his breast, and present it towards the carriage, at arm's length and breast high ; and then he heard the sound of the chick of a pistol-hammer upon the pan ; but there was no explosion. He seized the prisoner, and, assisted by his brother, took him across the Mall, and "offered" him to Police- constable Hearn ; but Hearn said that "it did not amount to a charge." Police-constable Flaxman likewise refused to take the prisoner. The prisoner only asked the witness to give him back the pistol. At length the pressure of the crowd was so great, that he was obliged to let Bean. go ; and afterwards the people said that witness himself had been shoot- ing at the Queen, and a Policeman took the pistol away from him. In his cross-examination, Mr. Dassett said that the Royal carriages were not going very fast. Some person in the crowd laughed, and others called out that the pistol was not loaded. Mr. Frederick Augustus Dassett, the younger brother of the previous witness, corroborated his evidence. The hammer of the pistol, he said, had gone down, and the pan was in a state as if it had been fired off. John James, a builder, the uncle of the two Dassetts, and William Jones, a wood-turner, saw Charles Dassett seize Bean. James Torrington Purbride, a constable of the A division, said that he took the pistol from Charles Dassett, and gave it to Inspector Martin. George Martin, Inspector of the A division, re- ceived the pistol from the last witness, and unloaded it. The charge was not large : the contents consisted of coarse gunpowder, some short pieces of tobacco-pipe, and four small pieces of gravel, rammed down with wadding : there were a few grains of powder in the pan. Wil- liam John Byrne, a general salesman, described his selling the pistol to Bean—he thought that it was on the Thursday or Friday before the 3d of July ; and Bean's afterwards coming for a flint to it. The pistol was very old, but capable of being fired if properly loaded. George John Whitmore, who cleaned the pistol for Bean before it had the flint put to it, said in his cross-examination, that he tried the pistol : the lock was not strong enough to fire it. Benjamin James was in attend- ance with the third of the Royal carriages on the 3d of July : the Queen was in the carriage, with the Prince and a lady. The last witness for the prosecution was Henry Webb, Policeman of the A division, who

apprehended Bean at his father's house in Somers Town : he said that he had been on Sunday in Barnsbury Park, Islington, and the Regent s Park. Mr. lorry took some legal objections to the form of the indictment. If the tobacco-pipe in the pistol was capable of injuring the Queen, Beau ought to have been indicted for high treason. On the other hand, the Queen was not aware of the attack, and could not be alarmed ; and there- fore the charge of common assault could not be sustained. Lord Abinger, Mr. Justice Williams, and Mr. Baron Rolfe, successively de- livered opinions against the objections ; and Mr. 'lorry proceeded to contend that the evidence did not bear out the charge that the prisoner contemplated any assault, he being one of the mildest of the Queen's subjects. He then called evidence Henry EIawkes said that he was about six feet from Bean and Dassett when Bean was seized, and he did not see him present a pistol at the Queen ; although he thought he must have seen it if it had been done. Bean could easily have got away. After Dassett seized the pistol, he was playing with it, trying the lock, and laughing. The witness had his back to them ; but he looked round very often to see what was passing. Thomas Vosport, a painter out of work, living at the Running Horses in Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, swore that the prisoner did not present a pistol at the carriage. Cross- examined by the Solicitor-General and Lord Abinger, he said that he saw the prisoner with the pistol in his hand some time before he was apprehended. It did strike him as remarkable that the boy should have a pistol in his hand on Sunday morning. Lord Abinger—" Why then did not you interfere and give information ? " Witness—" I waited to see the result of it." No questioning could get any other reason from this witness for his passiveness : when asked repeatedly what result he expected, he only replied that of course he did not know that an attack was going to be made. David Hatton, a newsvender, and several other 'witnesses, gave Bean a character for mildness : among them was the prisoner's father, who wept bitterly.

The Attorney-General reexplained the law, so as to dissipate the effect of Mr. Hurry's objections and arguments : and then he touched upon the evidence, remarking that Vosport criminated himself; for if his story were true, he admitted to having been guilty of what amounted to misprision of treason, in seeing a man standing there with a pistol and wishing "to see the result."

Lord Abinger having summed up, the Jury returned a verdict of " Guilty " upon the second count in the indictment ; convicting the prisoner of presenting a pistol loaded with powder and wadding, in contempt of the Queen, and to the terror of divers liege subjects. In passing sentence, Lord Abinger observed, that he wished the law in ex- istence at the time the prisoner committed the offence had authorized an adequate punishment : but if any person should imitate the prisoner's example, he would now obtain an infamous notoriety by being whipped at the cart's-tail. The sentence of the Court was, that he be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for eighteen calendar months.

Nicholas Suisse, the valet of the late Marquis of Hertford, was tried on Wednesday, on an indictment for robbing his late master of coupons for stock in the French Funds to the amount of 100,000 francs. In defence, it was shown that the Marquis reposed unbounded confi- dence in Suisse; and that in the last codicil of his will, dated Novem- ber 1839, he bequeathed to him 8,0001.; at the same time calling him "an excellent man." Thomas Foote, an assistant valet, who had been in the Marquis's service for seventeen years, described Suisse's attention to his infirm master as most devoted. For the last twelvemonth the Marquis could not go about without assistance, and he required almost as much attendance as a child : in some most painful respects he was, said a medical witness, in a state of semi-paralysis : nevertheless, he was visited by loose females up to the time of his death. Whether as nurse or as agent in these "delicate matters," Suisse was indefatigable in his attendance, day and night ; and he made payments "of all kinds." Once he helped Foote to lift the Marquis into a boat at Ramsgate, under circumstances of some danger ; and the boatmen told them to let go,tbut the two valets kept their hold. After that, the Marquis seemed more pleased with Suisse than ever, "and he rang for him much more frequently in the night." Just before the Marquis's death, Suisse was confined to his bed by illness. Angeline Borel, a Frenchwomen, twenty-four years of age, said that she became acquainted with the Marquis when she was sixteen : he provided apartments for her ; and she had dined at Dorchester House, with Mr. Croker : Suisse used to come and fetch her. She generally spent 7,000/. or 8,000/. a year : sometimes Suisse gave her the money, sometimes the Marquis, in sums of 2001. or 300/. She had now an annuity of 15,000 francs left to her by the Marquis. He once offered her coupons for 100,000 francs ; which she, not knowing their value, refused, and he gave them to Suisse : on the same day, he gave her 211,000 francs. She continued to visit the Marquis till December ; when she found another woman them, named Henriette, and then she refused to be his mistress any longer. Clare Josephine Dubois said, he heard the Marquis tell Borel that he had given Suisse the 100,000 francs in coupons. Dr. H. P. Fuller said that Lord Hertford died of bronchitis ; but his mind was quite com- petent to the management of his own affairs. Here Lord Abinger stopped the case. The Jury remarked, that an assertion which Suisse had made, that he was a poor man, was the most suspicious thing against him : to which Lord Abinger agreed ; and after the Jury had returned a verdict of " Not Guilty, " the Judge remarked to the prisoner, that he hoped the consequences of that assertion would he a warning to him in future, and to all men, how dangerous it is to deviate from truth.

Suisse was again brought forward yesterday-, on an indictment for stealing from his master foreign securities worth 90,000/., part of some securities that were missing among the Marquis's effects. Mr. Kelly, the; counsel for the prosecution, dwelt chiefly on the disappearance of the securities, and on Suisse's affectation of poverty while giving orders for expensive articles to carry abroad. At the conclusion of his ad- dress, Mr. Justice Williams stopped the case ; saying that if the counsel proved all that he had assumed, which it was clear from the absence of witnesses he could not do, there would not be sufficient to support the indictment. The Jury then returned a verdict of "Not Guilty." The prisoner was charged upon two other indictments with defrauding the late Marquis of Hertford ; but they were withdrawn.

Frederick Howe, aged twenty-four, pleaded guilty, on Monday, to a charge of stealing 236 printed books, the property of the Queen, value 40/., and a quantity of printed papers. He was the son of a person employed in the office of the Board of Trade, whence the property was taken. The papers consisted of various returns which had been printed by Messrs. Hansard for the use of the office, and were valuable. The sentence was, imprisonment for a year, with hard labour.

A number of persons were brought up at Bow Street on Saturday, charged with riotous conduct on Friday night, in different parts of London. Thomas Buckley, Sykes Ping, Walter Willey, John Peter Bryan, and Richard Stainsby, were charged with inciting the mob, and assaulting the Police in the execution of their duty. Ping wounded Sweeney, a Policeman who had him in custody, by throwing a large stone or brick at him ; and Willey struck him several times, and attempted to rescue his prisoner. Ping was remanded. Buckley was bound to keep the peace in recognizances, his own of 40/. with two sure- ties, and to answer the charge at the Sessions. Bryan, Willey, Stainsby, and Smith, were sentenced to one month's imprisonment.

George Hall, a shoemaker, was charged with disorderly conduct, and with carrying a banner in order to excite the mob. He came out of a coffeehouse in St. John Street, Clerkenwell, accompanied by another man who escaped, also hearing a flag. One of the flags was a large Union jack : the other had on it the words " Reform in Church and State " ; and on the top of the staff was a crimson " cap of liberty which a Policeman interpreted to signify " blood at once!" A very sharp-pointed knife was found upon Hall. He said he carried the flag for the sake of earning a shilling, and the knife he was taking to be ground. He was committed for trial.

William Drake, a beer-shop-keeper, appeared upon a summons charging him with publishing and exposing an inflammatory placard in his window. He was ordered to enter into recognizances in the sum of 301. to keep the peace for three months. Several others, who were summoned upon a similar charge, were discharged upon a promise not to repeat the offence.

More rioters occupied the Magistrate at Bow Street on Tuesday ; sixteen prisoners being brought up from the meeting at Kennington, and fourteen from Paddington. The case of Munden, a shoemaker, who was conspicuous at the Paddington meeting, possessed some interest. It was alleged that he used violent and seditious language, and declared himself to be "a Chartist to the backbone." Witnesses gave him a good character for respectability and peaceable behaviour. Munden justified his opinions-

" I don't deny that I have a principle: we all imbibe one principle or an- other. I have as much right to enjoy my principles as any noble in the land. I admit I am a Chartist, and I have a right to be one. I did not say, ' We will have liberty or death.' I am too wary to say any such thing. But I did say to a person who was passing at the time, ' If I had a dog, he should have liberty or death.'"

Mr. Jardine said that the case was too serious for him to decide upon it summarily ; and Munden was held to bail to answer the charge at the Sessions. Chicketts, who attempted to stab a Policeman as they rolled struggling together on the ground, was bound over to appear at the Central Criminal Court. One Taylor was committed to Newgate for beating a Policeman ; and the others were bound over to keep the peace, or discharged with an admonition.

At Clerkenwell, on Tuesday, Baker, a shoemaker, was charged with creating a disturbance, and raising a mob in the Green on Monday evening. He took the opportunity to deliver a sort of address, in which he explained that he had merely been talking to a friend on the Green, when the Police came to take him up ; and they knocked off his hat,

which he told his wife to pick up. He complained that his wife, who was with him, was struck and ill-treated by them ; and the wife ap- peared to confirm his statement. When the examination was concluded, Mr. Combe said, according to the report- " You have too much talk for one in your condition of life, and are just the sort of man to inflame the minds of the ignorant. You go out of your own district, and talk upon every subject with consummate assurance in a way which is calculated to be productive of much mischief; and when inclined to promote a riot, you hand your hat to your wife to hold whilst you engage in a fray. Seeing that you are one of those who are capable of exciting much mischief, I shall send you for fourteen days to the House of Correction."

A very nefarious conspiracy has been brought to light by some recent proceedings in Marlborough Street Police-office. Mr. Churchill was lately: charged by one Fitzgerald with indecent behaviour with another man in Hyde Park, on the night of the 11th. Fitzgerald gave him into the custody of the Police, and said that he had only been able to seize one of the delinquents, the other having escaped. Mr. Churchill denied the charge ; but, although there was some inconsistency in Fitzgerald's statements, the Magistrate felt bound to hold the accused party to bail.

He at once employed himself, with the assistance of his friends, in searching out the conspiracy against him ; and he succeeded in placing at the Police-office bar, on Monday, William Newstead, the person who was said to be his accomplice, together with Fitzgerald, who is now known to have borne also the several names of Stringer, Skinner, and Kales Bill. Newstead was a good-looking young man, of genteel ap- pearance. Mr. Clarkson who acted for the prosecution, said that he should be able to prove that Newstead was intimate with Fitzgerald, and that he had joined Mr. Churchill and accosted him in order to trump up the revolting charge, for the purpose of extorting money ; that Fitzgerald was a returned transport ; and that Newstead was con- nected with a number of persons concerned in similar conspiracies. Fitz- gerald here declared that he did not now wish to press the charge against Mr. Churchill; but he said that Newstead was not the man whom he saw in the Park—it was a bigger man. Mr. Churchill identified Newstead as the person who accosted him before he was seized by Fitzgerald. When he saw Fitzgerald at the second examination, the latter said, "You shall have Newstead against you in the morning.' Ellen Thomas deposed that Fitzgerald (whom she knew as Stringer) lodged at her mother's, near Clare Market ; another Fitzgerald sharing his room with him : they passed for brothers. Newstead called on Stringer very often. Eliza Fitzgerald, the mother of the other of that name, said that she gave Stringer a character when he was tried at Horsemonger Lane four years ago, for stealing a watch, and sentenced

to seven years' transportation. Frederick Clark admitted that be was frequently in company with the "gang" : they were together at six o'clock on the evening of the 11th: the prisoners bore various names,

and among others Fitzgerald was called Kales Bill. Newstead said that Clark was "as bad as they were" ; and he had stolen a watch and ring.

Mr. Clarkson then charged Newstead and Fitzgerald with conspiracy— with going into the Park, the one to plant himiseltopon any gentleman whom he might meet, and the other on seeing Jtiftiaa together to make the foul charge for the purpose of extorting ;Willey. He applied to have them remanded till Thursday, when he should produce a copy of Fitzgerald's former conviction ; the depositions could be taken, and the commitment of the prisoners made out. The formal proceedings, how- ever, were not completed till yesterday.

At Worship Street Police-office, on Wednesday, Mr. G. Johnstone, of Finsbury Square, was convicted of pirating a carpet pattern the copy- right of Messrs. Kipling and Co., carpet-manufacturers; and he was fined 5/. This is the first conviction under the new Copyright of Designs Act.

The Reverend Stephen Aldhouse was finally examined at Wands- worth, on Tuesday, on a charge of intermarrying with Hephzibah Ro- berts, his first wife, Caroline Morse, being still alive. Miss Morse was the natural daughter of a Colonel Morse, whose brother now appeared to give evidence. He said that he had had letters from the prisoner, before his second marriage, demanding to know his wife's residence; but he had not answered them. An advertisement was also produced, in which a reward of 20/. was offered to any person who would discover the re- treat of Mrs. Aldhouse, or her place of burial if dead ; but adding, that she was believed to be living under a feigned name and in adultery. Mr. Morse explained, that Mrs. Morse had used a feigned name and con- cealed her residence, lest her husband should take her dividends on 5,000/. in the Three-and-a-half per Cents, the interest whereof was left to her by her father. Mr. Aldhouse was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court; averring his innocence, and his power to prove it before the Jury.

An inquest was held on Saturday, before Mr. Payne and a Jury of fifteen, on the body of Jane Cooper, the girl who jumped from the Monument on Friday. The evidence of the manner of Cooper's death did not differ from the account already given. Thomas Jenkins, the man who had gone up to the top with her, said that since the former suicides there had been an arrangement that no person should go up alone : two men had been appointed to relieve each other in attendance upon visiters. If there is only one visiter, the guide remains with him ; if more, he walks round the place while they remain. His attention was drawn from Cooper by hearing the door slam : he turned to see what it was, and the woman was gone. He supposed that she had gone down stairs, and he went after her. There was no direct evidence that Cooper had any lover, though her mistress said she had confessed being "fond of a man at Vauxhall." Sarah Trimmings said that she had known Cooper in service, and she had urged her to come and live with her: Trimmings had once been in service, but since that she had been "kept by gentlemen." The medical witnesses did not think that Cooper was pregnant, "but there could be no doubt that she had deviated from the path of virtue." She left her master's house early on Thursday morning, professedly to visit her friends, with leave to remain out till half-past eleven ; Mrs. Robottom giving her a shilling before she went. On that day she called on her friend Trimmings, and remained an hour and a half. Mrs. Poole, a widow, and Cooper's stepmother, and two of the girl's sisters, described her as being wilful and disposed to be " gay " ; but they knew of no incorrectness. She had been used to read religious books; but lately, said Mrs. Poole, she had read novels. She had been heard to express a desire to see the Monument, and also a great horror of suicide. She was only seventeen years of age, though she appeared at least five years older. Mr. Charles Bleaden, lessee of the tolls for viewing the Monument, said that the rails had not been raised, because it would interfere with the architectural design of the building ; and the two men had been appointed instead. The Jury, having consulted for a few moments, returned the following verdict- " That deceased destroyed herself while labouring under temporary insanity, produced by indiscretion in having remained absent from home all night." There were three dissentients, on the ground of there being no sufficient proof of insanity • but twelve of the Jury having agreed, the Coroner received their verdict.

Cooper is the sixth person who has committed suicide in the same manner. On the 26th July 1750, a young man, who was supposed to be a weaver but who was never identified, threw himself from the gal- lery, and was killed on the spot ; on the 7th July 1788, John Craddock, a journeyman baker ; on the 18th June 1810, Mr. Lyon Levi, a dia- mond-merchant, residing in Haydon Square; in September 1839, Mar- garet Moyes, daughter of a baker in Hemming's Row • and a few weeks after, a lad, one of the pupils of St. Ann's Society's Schools.

The City Lands Committee have at length taken measures to break off the fashion of suicide at the Monument, by placing iron bars over the gallery ; and until that is done the Monument will remain closed.

An inquest was held on Saturday, at the Red Cow, Charterhouse Lane, on the body of Mr. James Tooth, a stockbroker. On the even- ing of the 14th instant, Mr. Tooth was returning from Richmond in the Dart steamer. In passing through the second arch of Blackfriars Bridge, the stay-chain of the funnel got entangled in a rope hanging from the middle of the arch, to which was attached a wisp of straw, put up by way of caution to the masters of vessels, to prevent their passing through the arch during some repairs which were in progress. The force with which the vessel went broke down a portion of some iron .0ping, which fell upon the back of Mr. Tooth, and broke his spine. He died from the injury on Friday. The master of the Dart said that he had forgotten that the straw was there ; and as it hung in the shade he had not observed it. The inquest was interrupted by Mr. Wakley, the Coroner, who found that the accident had happened in the City, while the death took place in the parish of St. Sepulchre ; and there- fore the present inquest was out of the jurisdiction of the Coroner, and no legal steps could be taken in consequence of any verdict which might be given, unless the body were removed back into the City. The following special verdict, however, was returned—" That the deceased died from mortal injuries inflicted upon him by a certain piece of iron, belonging to the gas-pipe of a certain bridge, which was thrown down upon him by means of a certain apparatus belonging to the vessel called tke Dart."

A very destructive fire broke out on Sunday morning on the pre- mises of Mr. Morgan, a soap-boiler and tallow-melter, in Tudor Place, Tottenham CourtRoad. The fire was first seen in a room containing tallow, and unmelted fat ; and the whole of the warehouses were in flames before any means could be taken to stop their progress. The Are extended to twelve different houses in the immediate vicinity ; and it was a long time before it could be subdued. The greater part of Mr. Morgan's establishment is burnt to the ground ; but, though an enormous amount of property has been destroyed, no lives were lost. The cause of the fire has not been ascertained.

The coal-whippers of London struck work on Wednesday, in order to relieve themselves from a large percentage which reduces their pay from seven farthings per ton to one penny, and which is exacted by certain middlemen called "coal-undertakers," at Shadwell and other places below London ; and to throw off their thraldom to agents who are also publicans, and who oblige the men whom they employ to con- sume certain quantities of beer.

Messrs. Grissell and Peto, the great building-contractors, have written a letter to the papers to contradict a false report that their men had struck work in consequence of an intended reduction of their wages.

A new pier was opened on Monday, at Erith ; where passengers have hitherto been obliged to land in open boats.