The statue of the Duke of Wellington was conveyed to

the place of its destination, the triumphal arch, Hyde Park Corner, on Tuesday. It was withdrawn at ten o'clock that morning from Mr. Wyat's studio in the Harrow Road; it was then slung within a dray or carriage drawn by twenty-nine brewer's horses, harnessed three abreast. They were driven by ten draymen dressed in the costume of their craft; one of whom bore a Waterloo medal on his breast; the beasts were all crowned with laureL The procession was attended by a large body of military—Life Guards and men of the Household Foot Regiments. It reached. Apsley House at half- past one. From that time till four, preparations were made for the eleva- tion of the statue; but it being then too late to commence operations, they were deferred till the following day. The whole of Wednesday was oc- cupied in raising the statue by means of powerful windlasses to within twenty feet of its site; and then the darkness again precluded farther progress. The remainder of the ascent was achieved on Thursday. A numerous crowd of spectators witnessed each day's proceedings. On Tuesday, Apsley House was thronged with visitors; amongst whom were the Queen Dowager, the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge, the Princess of Prussia, Princess Mary, Prince George, Earl Howe, the Countess of Westmoreland, Lord Charles Wellesley, and others.

The planting of trees and shrubs in the Victoria Park has been recom- menced; and it is expected that the operation will be completed next spring. There are great numbers of visitors to the park; during the Sun- days, ten thousand or more.

A special Court of Proprietors was held on Wednesday at the New Zealand Company's house in Broad Street Buildings; Mr. Aglionby, M.P., in the chair. The secretary read the report, authorizing the directors to to take up 100,000/. from the Consolidated Fund, with a series of resolu- tions adopting it; which were agreed to by the proprietors. At the Comitia Majora held in the Royal College of Physicians, on Wednesday, the following gentlemen were admitted as members, and re- neived the customary lioence to practise in London—Riohard Quoin, M.D. (London), Gower Street; Willoughby Marshall Burslem, M.D. (Edin- burgh), Chester Place, West Chester Square; Protheroe Smith, M.D. (Aberdeen), John Street, Bedford Square; and William Francis Chorley, M.B. (Cambridge), Leeds.

At the Vestry-meeting of St. Pancras parish, on Saturday last, the report agreed to by the Committee of Directors of the Poor at the close of their recent investigation on the case of Mary Anne Jones, was considered. The adoption of the report, which was of an exculpatory character, was moved by Mr. Howarth. Mr. Mann proposed an amendment, for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the whole management of the workhouse•' and a discussion followed. Mr. Smith referred to abuses connected with the oakum-room which demanded investigation, and to the deception which had been practised regarding the dietary. He also alluded to the case of Witt, who had been dismissed from his work in the carpenter's shop on account of the evidence he had given before the Committee; he condemned the bad state of the bath-room, and the defective management of the infirmary. A. vote was then taken on the amendment, which was negatived by twenty-three to five. The original resolution was then put, and affirmed by twenty-five votes. Mr. Smith observed that he doubted whether there were not a majority of Vestrymen, who were not Directors in favour of the amendment, for seventeen or eighteen Directors had voted. Mr. Wakley has communicated to the Times two statements, one from John Buckenham, a young man now confined in the "oakum-room" of St. Pancras Workhouse; and the other from John Witt, the man referred to at the Vestry-meeting. We give the substance of Buckenham's narrative. In 1835, he lost his father, being then twelve years old. In several humble situations, however, saved during the next eight years the sum of 201. 5s. He with then went to live an uncle; but being ill-treated he made an attempt at self- destruction, which failed: the chemist having sold him cream of tartar for arsenic. On returning for his box and money, his uncle, instead of giving them up, procur- ed an order for his admission to Whiteehapel Workhouse, whither he was taken; and his earnings were paid over to the parochial authorities. In a week, he was removed to St. Pancras by means of a " friendly pass"; here he was placed in the men's hall; but desirous of freedom, he applied for his discharge and his money. In six months he obtained the former, and 10s. out of his own cash. Not meeting with employment, he was obliged to return to the workhouse. He got his die- -charge a second time, and another 10s. On a third and similar occasion in 1844, he was refused any money. This time, however, he got employment; hut an ill- ness drove him to the hospital, whence he returited to the workhouse. In 1845, finding that he could not obtain his property, he applied to the Magistrate at Clerkenwell; but could gain no redress. On his return to the workhouse, he was put into the " oakum-room " as a punishment. He made his escape, however, procured his discharge, and made a second complaint at the Police-office. "How- ever, in spite of the Magistrate's remonstrance, I was, on my return to the work- house, again locked up in the oakum-room." "But, at the end of a week, the affair having been made public, the committee thought fit to give instructions to Mr. Lee, the Master, to pay me the balance of an account they brought against me for maintenance, &c. Accordingly, on Monday, the 7th of April 1845 Mr. Lee gave me a bill, charging 151.16s. 6d. for ninety weeks and three days' board, at 38. 6d. per week; 9s. for other items; and 21. cash paid,—leaving a balance in my favour of 11. 17s. 6d, which I received with my discharge. Here I should also state, that during the whole time of my being in the workhouse I had to work and make myself useful, at the command of the Master, the same as others who paid nothing for their support." The ba- lance being expended, he was again driven back to the workhouse, and again made a prisoner in the "oakum-room." Attacked with typhus fever, he was removed to the London Fever Hospital; and on his recovery was sent back to the parish. For a time he was allowed to re- -main in the men's hall, but not suffered to go out. He once more strove to get work, but was threatened that if he came back again he would be confined as before. However, he discharged himself; but meeting with no success during four days, he was compelled to return, and was consigned to the oakum-room; where he now remains. Buckenhaut says that he has at times a kind of "forget- fulness," which would unfit him for many employments; and which he attributes to the treatment that he received in the oakuni-room.

He thus concludes his tale. " P. S. The number confined here varies from twelve even to as many as forty, according to season and circumstances; who are all kept locked up day and night, can never attend any place of worship, or even be seen by their friends, unless by the special indulgence of the Master; they are led from their prison into the Master's office, and then, after a few moments' con- versation with the visiter, conducted back again; but that is a favour seldom granted."

John Witt is an inmate of the men's hall. His narrative is partly given in a letter to Mr. Wakley, and partly in a statement taken down from his lips, apparently by Mr. Wakley.

"I have lived in this parish," he says in his letter, "for more than forty years, as carpenter; have brought up a large family; am now seventy-three years old; and have been a pauper in the workhouse about fouryears. The parishioners, aince the death of Mary Anne Jones, have been looking into the diet. I hap- pened to be one of them that was called to the board-room on Tuesday last, to be interrogated, and taste the samples of gruel, broth, meat, potatoes, bread, and cheese, and I found all of them more than twofold better than what was served to tis And I believe I spoke plain truth, and so lost the confidence of Mr. Lee and

• Chadboro ; and on Wednesday evening I was called by Mr. Chadborn and Mr. Lee, and discharged from my work for speaking the truth. I have been at work as carpenter generally since I have been in the workhouse."

In his oral narrative, after relating the particulars of his dismissal from the carpenter's shop, in consequence of the evidence he had given on the dietary, Witt thus describes one of the variations of employment which have been invented for the occupation of the paupers. "The feather places are most terrible shores, (sewers,) low, damp, and not ventilated. I'm asthmatically inclined, and they play the deuce with me. Most men who go there stay till they're cripples, and then they can't go on any longer. I've a good many tunes, when I've seen Mr. Wakley come to the dead-house, wished to ask him to step down there to see what *diabolical place it is to work in. About eighty men, altogether, pick feathers in the two rooms, forty in each. 'Tis a nasty, stinking, underground, wet sort of place, only fit to give cramp and rheumatism. You mast be a good workman at picking feathers to get three-farthings a week. 'Tis worse than the-cry about farthing shirts. Some few men may earn three-halfpence a week, butothers won't make above a farthing,. I couldn't pick above a pound in a week myself; that would be a halfpenny; but the half of them can't earn that. If you pick only a quarter of a pound in the week you have nothing. If you pick half a pound that gives you a halfpenny. You are not obliged to pick them, but you can't have the halfpenny without; and in winter, while men are about the yard, or the hall, or anywhere like that, doing nothing, they are perished with cold, and are glad of a place which is made warm by 80 many .people; though it is altogether a very unhealthy place, whether in summer or winter. You mustn't hang about doing nothing long at a time. You would soon give dissatisfaction; and you avoid

that by going into the feather-room. The young people pick feathers as well as the old; there is nothing else hardly for them to do. There is nothing for the

girls to learn but corruption—all manner of vice; for young le can't learn any good of one another when they are idling about, and have. ing use- ful to do, no right occupatioa, under good management There are a great many young people in the workhouse, and some as fine girls in the school, as they call it, as ever you saw. The times have got very bad for such a number of young people to be in a workhouse." He concludes with this reference to his forlorn condition. " I have six chil- dren living, but being poor, and having families, they cannot maintain me, though kind enough to keep their mother out of the house. I am too old to obtain work— seventy-three years old—though I would gladly live with my wife if I could_ Indeed, last Thursday I offered the Board, if they would allow me is. 3d. a week for myself, and Is. 3d. for my wife, that I would manage to live without any other help from the parish. I would sooner have that, and die under a hedge, when it pleases God to take me, than stay in the workhouse."

Mr. Wakley has been obliged to go into the country for his health: he promises that on his return he will interpose further in Buckeialiam's behalf.

A numerous meeting of the rate-payers of St. Pancras was held on Mon- day evening, at the Exmouth Arms, Exmouth Street, Hampstead Road, to consider the foregoing report. The chair was taken by Mr. Morris. Mr. Douglas moved the adoption of the report, and Mr. Howarth defended the conduct of the Directors and Guardians. An amendment was then brought forward for the appointment of a committee of Vestrymen to in- vestigate the conduct of the officers in St. l'ancras Workhouse. It was supported by Mr. E. F. Smith; who animadverted strongly on the conduct of Mr. Lee, the Master, and other persons. The general feeling seemed to be that the report did not go far enough. The amendment was, however, lost by a majority of five. In the course of his speech, Mr. Smith read a letter from one of the prisoners in the oakum-room, named Henry James, Thestatements created a great sensation. We subjoin some extracts from James's letter, which in the main substantiates the particulars of Hucken- ham's narrative.

"The yard which we have for airing or exercise, as it is termed, measures only twenty feet in length, and eight in width. Forty persons are confined here, and go to the same yard for exercise." "The Sabbath here is spent the same as a week-day." "About five weeks ago, six of us were confined in a miserable dun- geon called the 'refractory 'room, or black hole,' to undergo a sentence of forty- eight hours close confinement—and close enough it was; for this 'black hole' had no window or fire-place. The door was cased or lined with iron, and locked and bolted without-aide. The weather then being so excessively hot and close, we also being so many, we complained of the close confinement and heat. A4 a punishment for complaining, a large board was nailed up over the small air-hole that previously existed, and thus the draft and air was entirely stopped. There was no ventilation whatever, and we were alniast suffocated. There were also several holes knocked and made in the opposite wall of the cell to admit the foul air and the stench from the burying-ground which adjoins the cell, the wall of the burying-ground forming a portion of the cell. The abominable stench that came in upon us turned us all quite sickly, there not being an escape for it. I myself was also kept confined therein-thirty-six hours; and all the food that was given me was four ounces of bread only during that time. The only reason that we were confined there was for applying for relief, there being no other reason whatever.. There is no bed, nor even straw in the place to lie upon; only the hard boards, which are infested with fleas. Upwards of thirty of us have been there together confined, and half of us have been compelled to lie on the floor. Mrs. Jones, the- mother of the late unfortunate Mary Ann,Jones, who committed suicide, was con- fined there for some days and nights together without her clothes, they being taken from her by the authorities; and also beaten about the body with great vie- lence, there being black marks and bruises about her arms, which she showed to me and others who were with me. This cruelty is almost enough to drive arm, person to acts of suicide or even anything."

It is but fair to state that Mr. Howarth characterized these allegations as entirely false.

On Tuesday, the Board of Directors and Guardians met again to recon- sider the charges made against them. Mr. Wright presided. The immediate subject of inquiry was the dismissal of Witt; which was defended by Mr. Howarth, who figured rather as the partisan of the workhouse Master. Mr_ Lee was interrogated at considerable length. As a reason for dismissing Witt, he said that the man had complained to the Board of his ina- bility to eat the food; and he feared that it might be considered cruel to put one to work whose health was so bad that he could not eat the food there. Moreover, Witt had scandalized not only the witness but the es- tablishment also. Mr. Crouch—" Then you do admit that you deprived Witt of his employment in consequence of the evidence he gave here?' Mr. Lee replied in the affirmative. He denied that any deception had been practised in reference to the sample rations produced at the previous in- quiry. Several other witnesses were examined, whose evidence went to de- ny that any alteration had been made in the dietary since the commence- ment of the inquiry. The meeting then entered upon an investigation into the conduct of Mr. Cooper, the parish-surgeon, in regard to the case of George Abrahams, upon whom an inquest had been held. It was alleged that Abrahams had died in consequence of the misapplication of medicine,. through an improper labelling of bottles. The following resolution was. agreed to—" That the Board of Directors cannot help expressing their sur- prise and regret at the lax and inefficient mode of administering medicines to the poor of that workhouse, adopted by Mr. Cooper, and request that, na future all medicines administered should be properly labelled."

At the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday, John Hillard WRS indicted for the wilful murder of Thomas Parker, by administering to him a large quantity of poi- son, in the form of belladonna berries, he well knowing them to be poisonous and dangerous to human life. In stating the case for the prosecution, Mr. Bodkin re- marked that the charge of murder could not be supported, though the mince offence of manslaughter would be brought home to the prisoner. Upon this, Mr.. Clarkson, who appeared for Hillard, said he would save the time of the Court by advising his client to plead guilty to the charge of manslaughter. This the pa- sonar did. He was sentenced to six months' hnprisonment, with hard labour.

Private Mathewson, one of the witnesses at the late inquest on White at Houns- low, was tried at that place, on Tuesday, by a district court-martial, for insubor- dination, and for noisy, threatening, disgraceful, and disgusting language to Lanes- Sergeant O'Donnell, his superior officer, while on sentry. The evidence went bard against the accused; and all he could oppose to it was his own repeated assevera- tion of innocence: he pretended that soldiers who could have spoken in his favour had gone with the regiment to Ireland; and when asked why he did not have those men detained, he replied, 'I did not apply to the commanding-officer to have the men who might have been witnesses for me detained, because I supposed Sergeant O'Donnell would have told the truth when he came here." The prisoner received a very bad character. The finding of the Court and the sentence will not be known till approved by the Commander-in-chief. The annual fire-work explosions have begun. On Tuesday morning, Mr. Deal, a fire-work-maker living at Poplar, was preparing his wares, when a quantity of composition exploded; the shop was set on fire, the windows were blown out, and Deal was dreadfully beret all over his body, so that his life was considered to be in danger.