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A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday. A report was pre- sented from a committee on the Lord Mayor's recent survey of the Upper Thames. It approved of the survey, as practically useful in keeping up the inland navigation; and sanctioned the payment of the expenses, 6931.; but stated that the City Chamberlain had been unable to pay the amount without authority from the Court of Common Council, in consequence of a standing order to that effect. The requisite authority was given.

The Lord Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen, sat as a Court of Record on Saturday, to investigate a complaint made by Mr. J. F. Rose, of Stamford Street, Blackfliars, against Messrs. Roches and Son, of Bank Chambers, sworn brokers. The inquiry had reference to some transactions in the purchase of shares; and the immediate application was to compel the Messrs. Roches to produce their books; which they had refused to do, or to give up the names of the parties from whom certain shares had been bought. Mr. Rose wished to ascertain that the broker had fairly purchased the shares, having simply acted as an agent, according to his oath, and had not been the holder and seller on his own behalf In the course of the pro- ceedings, Mr. Roches junior admitted that he was not a sworn broker. The Court decided to instruct the City Solicitor to put the bond of Mr. Roches in suit, as he had employed another, not a broker, to act in his name; and also to proceed against Mr. Rochas junior, for having acted as a sworn broker without admission. Further proceedings were delayed until the elder Mr. Roches, now in Switzerland, should have had an opportunity of appearing in person before the Court.

A company has been established to supply Londols with pure wheaten bread, at a profit of five per cent on the actual cost of the material, ex- pellees of making, &c. The, company, it is said, will commence opera- tions in the,hietropolis early in the ensuing month. They profess to be able to sell the four-pound loaf at one-third less price than that charged at present by the bakers.

The long pending dbirinte between the directors of the Charing Cross Bridge and Hungerford Market Companies is at length brought to a termi- nation; and the public will, after Monday next, be permitted to land and embark from steam-boats by the medium of the suspension-bridge, instead of clambering over ricketty barges.

At a fair Vestry meeting of the parish of Shoreditch, held on Monday afternoon, a proposal was brought forward for the establishment of baths and wash-houses by means of a parish-rate. An amendment in the nega- tive was carried, by a majority of 28 to 20. This result is decisive; the act of Parliament requiring that the resolution for the establishment of baths and wash-houses shall be supported by two-thirds of an open Vestry be- fore it is submitted to the Secretary of State.

A Vestry meeting of St. Pancras parish was held on Monday; over which the Reverend T. Dale presided. It was proposed that a Committee be formed, consisting of twenty-five Vestrymen, not Directors of the Poor, to inquire into the management of the workhouse. This resolution was carried, despite the strenuous opposition of Mr. Churchwarden Howarth.

The Directors and Guardians of the Poor of St. Pancras met on Tues- day, in the Board-room of the Workhouse,—Mr. Churchwarden Howarth in the chair,—to receive the official report of the Poor-law Commissioners on the recent investigations as to the treatment of the inmates. The re- port is dated the 24th instant, and it enters very fully into the whole question.

The Conimissioners entirely approve of a proper classification of the inmates; but consider that great care must be taken not to confound classification with punishment. The authorities of St. Pancras have neglected this. The Com- missioners consider that, while general bad character out of the workhouse forms a proper ground for classification, it furnishes none for punishment; and any attempt to scrutinize the previous conduct of an applicant for relief would be invidious, and of questionable advantage. In regard to diet, the food of the able-bodied may properly differ from that of the aged or infirm; but it should be the same for all classes in similar physical condition. And though the inmates may be separated as regards the rooms they occupy, no degradation should be inflicted upon any class by a difference of dress or food, except in the case of actual misbehaviour. Punishment ought only to he la- fficted for offences committed in the workhouse. It should be definite in cha- racter and duration; which it is not if it consists in the transfer of an offender for an unlimited time to a ward of a different description, comprising many persons not placed there for punishment. It may be necessary to plate a particular in- mate in one ward rather than another, to prevent contamination. Punishment ought invariably to be recorded. As a check upon the Master, paupers who have been punished should be brought before the Board at the next meeting, that they may have an opportunity of complaining of any undue punishment. No punishment ought to last long. For grave offences, recourse should be had to a Magistrate, under the 55th George III. "The Commissioners are of opinion that the prin- ciples above adverted to have not been sufficiently attended to in the St. Pancras Workhouse; and they propose to issue regulations with reference to the manage- ment of the Workhouse, which may contain such directions on this subject as appear to the Commissioners to be necessary." "The Master of the Workhouse

has detained paupers after they have applied to be discha • ho such power legally exists, except where an offence has been comnutt The wards afford insufficient accommodation for the numbers placed in the they are damp, and deficient in ventilation. The Commissioners desire to be onned of the means

taken for remedying these defects. They express their pproval of the treat- ment of White on account of the evidence he gave, an request to be informed whether the act of the Master in this man's case has been confirmed by the Directors, or what has been done with reference to it.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, James Ca manslaughter of William Norman. The two were boa Canal; having quarrelled, a fight ensued; Norman fell do and died soon after. The cause of death was not clearly foul in the fighting of the accused was shown. Carpenter On Wednesday, James Newberg, a groom, who had been the service of Mr. Edward Davis Protheroe, M.P. for Halifax, was indicted fo sending a letter to that gentleman demanding money under a threat of making a intolerable charge. The man also sent a letter containing the accusation to thenfembers of the Tra--.' veller's Club, to which Mr. Protheroe belonged. Newbery web found gull ntl sentenced to be transported for twenty years.

On Thursday, Anne Sinner, the woman who stabbed Crawley with a

carving-knife in her own shop, was indicted for wilful m It appeared that the man had behaved insultingly to the prisoner, and it probable had laid hands upon her: she declared that she struck him to sent this, not being conscious that she had a knife in her hand. She was found guilty of man- slaughter.

At Bow Street Police-office, on Tuesday, Villiers Pearce, the man accused of forging a check in the name of the Marchioness of Queensbury, was committed for trial. Proof was given that the woman charged with uttering the check was really married to Pearce in June last. [Both prisoners were convicted at the Central Criminal Court yesterday.] At the Worship Street Police-office, on Saturday, Police-Inspector Julian was charged with attempting to ride over George Blake, on the 10th instant. Wit- nesses proved, that as Blake and others were leaving a beer-shop at night, Julian rode up, addressed Blake, galloped after him, and attempted to ride over him. For the Inspector it was alleged, that the occurrence was caused by his horse's having become unmanageable: there could be no motive for the act. Testimony was given to the very high character the accused had hitherto borne. The Ma- gistrate, Mr. Broughton, although he acquitted the defendant of any malicious intention against Mr. Blake, could not view the affair in any other light than as most extraordinary and unwarrantable behaviour; and he fined Jaen in the full penalty of 51. and costs. Watson, a lunatic boy of thirteen, has been killed in attempting to escape from Hanwell Asylum. He got out of the window of his cell at night, and attempted to slide down a water-pipe; but lost his hold, and fell some forty feet. The origin of the boy's insanity is ascribed to a habit he had of standing on his head in the streets, singing " Jim Crow." Two men have been killed at Heaton, by a quantity of earth falling upon them while making an excavation under a street, to form cellars.

The first accident from the use of gun-cotton is reported. Mr. Lancaster, son of a gunmaker in Bond Street, was experimenting with the explosive material; he loaded a gun with eighty-three grains of the cotton and an ounce of shot; on firing, it exploded, and the experimenter was slightly wounded in the arm. The gun

ter.was tried for the en on the Regent's during the conflict, e out, and nothing acquitted. used had been previously proved with an ounce of powder and a ball fitting the bore.

A very extensive cooperage, the property of Mr. Gordon, situated at Limehouse, was utterly destroyed by fire on 'Thursday evening. The loss is estimated at several thousands.

The weather has been foggy this week; and on Wednesday the atmosphere was so thick that much inconvenience was occasioned, and many disasters occurred. Some of the steam-boats were obliged to cease running on the Thames. A coal- barge ran against London Bridge, and the jerk threw a man overboard: he was drowned. An apprentice fell from a vessel off Dock Gate Stairs, and perished. The trains on the railways were considerably delayed. In Cheapside, a young woman was knocked down by an omnibus; both her legs were broken, and she is not expected to recover. A boy's arm and collar-bone were broken, a butcher's cart running over him in the City Road. Two children were seriously hurt in the same neighbourhood. Two omnibuses came in contact in Oxford Street; and a gentleman was thrown off one of them, and dangerously injured. Other acci- dents are reported.