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At a Court of Common Council, on Wednesday, Mr. Richard Taylor withdrew a notice which be had given, of presenting a petition by Lord Dudley Stuart and others, for the use of the Guildhall as a ball-room for . a concert in behalf of the Hungarian refugees. It was foreign to the feelings of the Hungarians, while they were losing week after week by legal murders their friends and relatives, to seek relief by means of a ball or any species of entertainment.

At the meeting of the City Commission of Sewers, on Tuesday, Mr. Simon, the Medical Officer, read his first annual report on the sauatory condition of the City of London; a voluminous document, which occupies nine or ten columns of the Tinzes's reporting type. The topics of the report are grouped under the heads of-1. Defective house- drainage; 2. Incomplete and insufficient water-supply; 3. Offensive or injurious trades or occupations; 4. Intramural burials; 5. Houses insusceptible of ventila- tion, and absolutely unfit for habitation • 6. The personal habits of the lowest classes, and the influence of destitution in increasing mortality. The report re- presents the now generally admitted truths of sanatory science, enforcing them by an elaborate but clear array of facts; and gives recommendations for the fu- ture. The recommmdations are—Refusal of all future indulgence for obstructive landlords; the work of completing imperfect drainage to he pushed on with all the power the law gives; the peremptory requirement of a constant high-pressure supply of water to every house, &e., under such conditions as to fulfil all reasonable requirements of the population; measures for the abolition of all slaughtering within the City, and the prohibition and suppression of all esta- blishments which deal with animal matter approaching putrefaction, and sheds and stalls for the continued keeping of cattle; comprehensive measures for abo- lishing at once and for ever all burial within the City of London, the decent re- moval to extramural cemeteries of all coffins already in vaults, or failing this last step, that all coffins already in vaults be walled up in their present resting-places with uniform impermeable masonry; the removal of unnecessary walls which intercept the current of air from place to place; the formation of counter- openings in various blind courts, and in regard of many houses thus situated, the admission of light and air by additional windows; amendment of the law so that all the poorer tenements in the City where the several Boors are let separately at a weekly rent be brought within the powers of the Magistracy as lodginghonses; and the prosecution on a grand scale of the philanthro is plans originated by the societies for improving the dwellings of the poor, eats the and washhouses, &v.—establishments which the working

joalotat eal once they are originated, but the initiation of which moires a power Of on beyond their means. egt”de the development of an organization for the par- tand proposes an elaborate scheme of duties for the T. advocates; the result of which would be a perfect

knowledge of the current sanatory state of every house in the City, as to its area, ventilation, water-supply, drainage, and number of inhabitants.

The report was listened to with deep interest by the members of the Court, and a motion for printing it was carried unanimously.

An aggregate meeting of representatives of Railway Companies, to con-

sider means of securing for shareholders a more efficient system of rail. way audit, was held at the King's Arms Hotel, Westminster, on Thursday, Lord Lonsdale presided; Mr. Henry Carr Glyn, M.P., Mr. M`Gregor' arr. Ellis, M.P., Mr. Chaplin, M.P., Mr. Dennison, M.P., and a great number of other Chairmen and Directors of Railway lines, took part in the proceed- ings. The resolutions passed condemned the Government Audit Bill of last session; recommended a law requiring that the shareholders of each company should appoint two auditors, with a competent salary ; and af. firmed the principle of continuous examination, and also a law empowering a certain proportion of the shareholders to appoint two special auditors with full powers of investigation.

In the Court of Bankruptcy, on Saturday, Mr. Edward Thomas Delafield, for- merly of the great brewing firm, and subsequently lessee of the Royal Italian Operahouse Covent Garden, appeared to undergo a final examination. On behalf of the assignees, Mr. Lawrence requested a further adjournment. The balance- sheet contained such entries as these—"November 7, 1845. By amount credited in the books of Messrs. Comte, Delafield, and Co., 100,000/." At the date of the fiat, which was issued about four months ago, the assets were thus entered—" Property not ascertained, but said to be worthless. Good debts, 31.14s. 6e1." In the balance- sheet were items of " Loss by law expenses in relation to the Royal Italian Opera, 2,0321.; loss by the Royal Italian Opera for the season 1848, 34,756.1; ditto, season 1849, 25,4551.; loss upon the performance of the Brussels Operatic Com- pany at Drury Lane Theatre, 5,3121.; sundry other losses," 3,7461.,1,5131,3,6861, and 21,0121., respectively. There was one very singular entry—" Gift to A. Webster, on the 27th February 1847, 5,0001." The bankrupt had explained this at his private examination, but the explanation had not been publicly mentioned, because it affected third parties: Mr. Webster had been a college friend, and the Willow Bank property at Fulham was bought in his name: it had been urged by lilr. Delafield that there was nothing worse than imprudence in the "gift" trans- action. Mr. Commissioner Fane remarked, that the bankrupt owed 33,0001. to unsecured creditors, 3,0001. to those secured, with liabilities for 3,0001. more; and he produced literally nothing for his creditors. There did not appear to be any reason for attributing worse than simplicity to the bankrupt, but the statements were so singular that every facility ought to be given for having them confirmed, if that could be done. After conversation, the last examination was further ad- journed till the 7th of February.

The point reserved on behalf of Mrs. Manning at her trial—the question whe- ther she was entitled as an alien to be tried by a mixed jury of Englishmen and foreigners—was argued in the Exchequer Chamber on Wednesday, by Mr. Bal- lantine and the Attorney-General, before ChiefJustice Wilde, Chief Baron Pollock, Justices Coleridge and Cresswell, and Barons Rolfe and Platt. The Court deli- berated half an hoar after the arguments were closed, and ChiefJustice Wilde stated that the Judges had also turned much attention to the point since it was raised. They were unanimously of opinion that, by her marriage, the prisoner became a British subject with all the incidents attached to that status, and that the ob- jection raised by the prisoner was unfounded.

On the same day, the Governor of Horsemonger Lane Gaol received the Sheriffs writ ordering the execution of the sentence of death to take place on Tuesday next.

The announcement of the decision of the Judges on the reserved point was received by Mrs. Manning with surprise and anger: it is said that she again ex- claimed against the Judges and Jury, as having foredoomed her, and violently ejaculated that her own counsel had done nothing to save her. She is said to retain a confidence that some of the influential ladies in whose service she has lived will intercede for her and save her life. Manning is in a state of passive depression. He is said to have revealed all he knows of the murder to Mr. Rowe, the Chaplain. He persists in affirming his own innocence of the actual murder, and by letter and message beseeches his wife to confess all and exculpate him; petitions which she receives with contumelious expressions.

It is stated that the Aldermen are very remiss in attending at Guildhall Police office. Every day last week numbers of persons engaged in divers cases were kept waiting for some hours for an Alderman. On Monday last, the bench was unoccupied till twenty minutes to one o'clock: Alderman Moon then chanced to look in, and though he was not on duty this week be staid and disposed of one case. An engagement then called him away; and eventually it was found ne- cessary to send to the Mansionhouse to request the attendance of the sitting Al- derman. Alderman Carden consented to do double duty; and at a late hour the Guildhall business was disposed of.

Hugh Swan, formerly a draper in Hanway Street and Camden Town, has been twice examined, at the Guildhall Police-office, on a charge of having destroyed certain accounts relative to his sales of goods previously to becoming bankrupt. Swan had admitted the fact on his examination at the Bankruptcy Court; and an auctioneer proved sales to a large amount, the produce of which be had handed to the prisoner: the money was not accounted for. Long arguments took place between the lawyers engaged in the case, on an attempt to prove for the prisoner that the new bankruptcy law had not provided for the continuance of criminal proceedings, commenced, as this had been, under the old law. But Alderman Carden said, though he would not attempt to decide the point, the case was of such a nature that he should commit the accused for trial; as the presumption was, that the Legislature did not intend to do anything so mischievous to the in- terests of society as the interpretation urged by the prisoner's counsel would sanction. Bail was permitted; but the sureties were not ready, and Swan was sent to prism.

Mr. Samuel Miller, relieving-officer of the West London Union, Smithfield, was summoned for refusing to give sufficient relief to paupers. There is a stone-yard attached to the union; here men used to be allowed to earn a shilling a daft with a loaf on Saturday; recently, the Guardians have restricted the earnings to ninepence a day; the men paid at this rate applied to Miller for further aid, and he refused it. Alderman Carden said, Miller was bound to relieve the poor: he was the servant of the Poor-law Commissioners, not of the Guardians. Mr. Mil- ler urged that he dared not give more than the sum fixed by tha.Goardians. Al- derman Carden insisted that he must ; and to compel him fined him 20s. in each of two cases; further intimating to divers complainants, that if the relieving-offi- cer did not aid them sufficiently, he world grant summonses against him. Mr. Miller softened, and promised the paupers relief. At Bow Street Police-office, on Saturday, Joseph H. Brown, who was described as a barrister, was charged with forging a promissory note. Mr. Oddie, a bill- broker, received a note from the accused, purporting to be signed by himself and his father-in-law, Dr. Gifford. The latter subsequently informed Mr. Odd* that his signature had been forged; and a few days afterwards the prisoner ad, mined the fact, and made a proposal to pay the amount of the bill by Brown was remanded for a week, that he might obtain legal assistance before the case was fully entered upon. instalments. At worship Street Police-office, on Monday, Mr. Thomas Kimbell, a jeweller in Tottenham Court Road, was examined for the second time on a charge of bigamy. The ease turned out to have originated in a mistake as to identity. Mr. Kimbell was married in 1840; subsequently he separated from his wife; she thought she had discovered that he had married a second time in 1847, and charged him with A. Robert Carter, sexton of St. Mary Nortonfolgate, deposed that he witnessed the marriage of the accused with Sarah Anne Batts, in 1847: he was married as " Thomas James Kimbell"; and, although his voice appeared slightly altered, and his whiskers were not now quite so full as upon that occasion, he felt perfectly sa- tisfied that he was the same person. For the defence, the real "Thomas James Rialbell," an optician in Hatton Garden, was produced, as well as his wife. Carter admitted that he had some recollection of this Mr. Kimbell. The woman mis- taken for "Sarah Anne Batts," alias "Mrs. Kimbell" Number 2, was also pro- duced. She stated that she lived with Mr. Thomas Kimbell, as shopwoman. The sexton had never seen this witness before. The Magistrate ordered the immediate discharge of the accused. At Clerkenwell Police-office, on Saturday, James Knight was charged with stealing four geese, and also with attempting to drown Policeman Hewitt. Hewitt encountered Knight and another on the towing-path of the Regent's Canal at Is- lington; these men had been stealing and killing the geese, which they had in a bundle; the Policeman having seized the unknown thief, Knight set upon him, and made most determined attempts to drown him. The ruffian succeeded once in plunging Hewitt into the water; but the Policeman kept hold of him; and the other robber, to save his comrade, pulled both out. Hewitt retained his grasp of Knight till his cries brought assistance.—Committed.

John Arthur Rawson, a well-dressed young man, has been charged before the Clerkenwell Magistrate with obtaining money on false pretences. He was finally examined on Monday. It appeared that the prisoner was an adept in roguery. He has been raising contributions from the charitable on the pretence that they were for the relief of orphans whose parents had died from cholera; at other times he represented that he was a collector of funds for the erection of a church. Raw- son has been imprisoned at Deal for obtaining 101. from the Duke of Wellington by a false tale. He had been convicted at Croydon for felony, and for fraudulently ob- taining subscriptions. The prisoner denied some of the charges; said he was re- spectably connected, and urged that he had been unfortunate, and had no other mode of living. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed him to prison for three months, with hard Labour.

Henry Bathurst Monkhonse, the young sailor who shot his father at Chiswick, was finally examined, at Hammersmith Police-office, on Tuesday. Mr. Monk- house had sufficiently recovered to attend: other witnesses having retraced their evidence, he described the attack upon him by his son. Two shots were fired: one bullet has not been discovered, the other passed through Mr. Monkhouse's neck. The prisoner offered no defence, and he was committed for trial.

An inquest was held at the end of last week on the body of Mr. Thomas Mor- ton, Surgeon of University College, who had committed suicide by taking prussic acid. The witnesses ascribed the despondency which had preceded his death to excitement about family affairs, or to disappointment at being passed over by the dispensers of patronage in the College ; but one, a servant, had suspected Mr. Morton of drinking more than his head would bear. In a letter to the Times, Mr. Durance George, an intimate friend, repels this "imputation," and insists on the disappointment as the sole cause. Various self-critical memoranda, however, in the handvoiting of Mr. Morton, corroborate the statement of the servant. Here are some passages— "I fail from want of sufficient firmness, and from running into temptation to try my- self; also from an opinion that I can stand a good deal of beer." "Let me not forget my dreadful sufferings in the morning, after taking two or three pints of ale (delirium tremens.)" To pray night and morning to be strong against temptation; avoid going to taverns and oyster-shops for beer." [The following is from an old memorandum.] "It is the system of • Well, one glass more,' which breaks a man down. Regular attention to business will enable a man to get through his work. Let are remember my dreadful sufferings in the morning—lowness—suicidal feelings—despondency—gloomy thoughts—. pulse 100 to 120—limbs tremulous—pains about the heart—flatulence—eructation—in- capacity of duty—irritable temper." " Never take beer or wine in the morning. Let me never exceed my quantum under any circumstances. Never take wine and beer together. Two glasses of wine are quite enough for the twenty-four hours. Rise early from table. Do not be in too great a burry to get rich. Always be doing some good and useful work. Don't dwell on unpleasant affairs. Laugh and be cheerful. When things go wrong, laugh and be cheerful. Remember the happy lightsomeuess of awater- drir,ker."

The Jury found a verdict that the deceased poisoned himself while in an un- sound state of mind.

The inquest on the four persons killed by the firework explosion at Bermondsey has been again adjourned, till the 18th December. When the Jury met, on Tuesday, it was announced that Isle. Barling had recovered, and was in attend- ance; the son and female servant were recovering; but Mrs. Barling was still in danger. The Coroner pointed oat, that if any criminal neglect was proved it would probably attach to the head of the family, and therefore it would be better to examine some other persons who were present at the accident before calling Barling. The Jury consulted, and resolved to adjourn the inquiry.