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An active movement is going on in Lambeth to exhibit by means of some public testimonial the respect of the inhabitants for Mr. Hawes, their late Member. Meetings have been held without previous concert in various parts of the district; these held an aggregate meeting on Monday evening, which resulted in the appointment of a numerous committee to receive sub- scriptions.

Mr. George Thompson was entertained at a public banquet on Wed- nesday, by about three hundred of his admiring constituents. The dinner Was eaten under a large pavilion erected in the grounds of the Globe Ta- vern, at Mile End. Mr. Thomas IL Fry presided. Among the speakers were, Mr. Charles Pearson, M.P., Mr. David Williams Wire, Dr. Epps, Mr. Edward Miall, and Mr. Henry Vincent. Mr. George Thompson re- ferred with exultation to the immense majority by which he had been re- turned, as "a great Democratic triumph." He had been elected by no particular interest, but by a cordial union of Nonconformists, Complete Suffragists, Chartists, Free-traders, Liberal Churchmen, and he hoped also a Vow repentant Whigs. Lord John Russell must be blind indeed if he did not see in the course the elections had taken anything but "finality." In the course of his speech, Mr. Pearson said that his principal object in en- tering Parliament was to work out the improvement of the criminal law SAUL the treatment of juvenile offenders.

The model lodging-house in George Street St. Giles's, erected by the Society- for the Improvement of the Labouring Classes, for the accom- modation-of single men, was opened on Monday. The building has cost 5;000/ ; and is thus described— "The premises cover an area of about 2,000 square feet, and are six stories from the basement; the ground-floor is partly occupied by the manager, and the re- mainder fitted as a living-room for the use of the lodgers, having tables and settees similar to a coffeehouse, with crockery and cooking utensils. The upper floors are divided into eight dormitories, each separated by wainscot seven feet high into thirteen separate berths, each berth furnished with decent furniture. The entire building is thoroughly ventilated, and lighted throughout with gas; the common staircase being fire-proof. The total number of men that can be accommodated is 101; each paying 4d. per night, or 28. per week. It is intended to fit the basement with baths, and provide a library for the use of the inmates."

The Thames beat the Tyne on Wednesday. Henry and Robert Clas- per, two crack Northern watermen, had accepted the challenge of Robert and Thomas Coombes—like their opponents brothers, Robert being the champion of the river, and Thomas an excellent hand with the sculls—to row a match for 1001. The distance was the spate from Putney Bridge to Mortlake, four miles and a quarter. The boats were to have a steerer —a novelty in such matches on the Thames; they were likewise "out- riggers," a kind of boat introduced to the Thames by the Tyne men. The oars of the Claspers were shorter than usual, but with blades of an extra- ordinary width. On starting, the Combeses shot ahead, kept the lead, and increased the distance in advance as they neared the winning-place: they won by forty-six seconds; the distance being done in twenty-eight minutes and a halt There was "a want of alacrity in the stroke" of the Northern men; "the ponderous blades being too long out of the water before they again were dipped, and their opponents taking at least four strokes to their three."

At the Croydon Assizes, on Tuesday, a somewhat curious action for slander was tried. The action was brought by Miss Sarah Mary Hoare, against Com- islander Dickson of the Royal Navy, Secretary to the Royal Naval Benevolent fibtliety. Miss Hoare is the daughter of a deceased Lieutenant in the Navy; at whose death she took to literature for her support; but not succeeding, she was sompelled, in 1888, to apply for aid to the Society of which the defendant is Secretary. The subject of the action by the plaintiff arose out of this application; sad the precise nature of the slander was expounded in the evidence for the miaintiff. At meetings of the Society, the defendant had stated that the plaintiff was an impostor," a woman of vitiated character," "an abandoned woman "; that she had been deserted on this account by her friends; that she lived in an improper house at Woolwich ; and that, although living in a house elegantly fur- nished, she used, when wanting money, to hire a garret and apply to the Society. it was admitted by the plaintiff, that a Committee of the Society, specially ap- pointed to investigate the plaintiff's claim, had reported that she was not a fit object to receive the funds of the Society. For the defence it was contended, that, 1111 Secretary, Captain Dickson had no option in the matter; that his duty required him to make an investigation which brought to light facts justifying his state- ments to the Society: and letters were allowed to be read for the purpose of at- testing Captain Dickson's bona fides. Among these were letters from bliss Hoare's brothers, stating that she had been abandoned by her family on account of her rnisconduot. Various other letters were put in, in some of which the plaintiff was described as an adventurer and "a complete female Jeremy Diddler." Upon one occasion it was stated that she had courted a sect of Methodists, and had in- duced a leader of the sect to visit her and confer with her upon religious subjects, mid that after the interview he gave her 51. The Jury interposed before the con- elusion of the evidence; and, under the direction of Mr. Baron Parke, who said that the defendant had only done his duty, the plaintiff was nonsuited.

Joseph Ady perseveres; and so does Sir Peter Laurie. At the Mansionbouse on Monday, Sir Peter read a letter from the Reverend Charles H. Archer, Leal wanick Vicarage' Cornwall, stating that Mrs. Archer, a lady in delicate health, .had received one of Ady's missives, declaring that her husband was engaged in an Illegal undertaking; and Mrs. Archer had felt much uneasiness in consequence.

• Trom other letters which were read, it appears that Joseph is sending news of fortunes to people in Ireland. John Bull, a bill-discounter, has been committed for trial by the Lord Mayor, on a charge of obtaining by fa/se pretences the acceptance of John Alexander to *dell for 2001. Alexander is a draper at Kelso; he was in want of money, and applied to the accused to discount a bill; Bull got possession of the acceptance, and negotiated it; but Alexander never heard more of the matter.

A sequel to the police romance of last week was performed at Marlborough Street on Wednesday. Jules Check, apparently a Frenchman the friend of the noble " Ellam," summoned Mademoiselle Esther de Vinare, the sister of Ellam's love for detaining a volume which he had lent her. The complainant read a atatZment—a manuscript "which would have made a respectable volume "—Of his

"whole course of love," recounting the manner in which the lady had dupee-him of money and chattels, and deceived him as to her character. Mademoiselle Esther retorted, that Jules had equally deceived her. The Magistrate regarded the matter in the same light: there had been mutual deception, and he dismissed the summons.

At Bow Street Police-office, on Wednesday, two morecharges were made against William Gates, the late chief clerk to the Commissioners for Special Purposes at Somerset House. He obtained 781. 19s. from the Receiver-General's office on ac- count of the Salford Stanley Barn Charity, in September last: the charity bad made no claim for this; the signature to the document was forged, and the body of it was in the prisoner's handwriting. On the 26th July this year, the prisoner obtained 931. 58. on an order purporting to be in favour of the Christian Faith Society; it was signed "Benjamin Hirst." The Society had made no claim since 1843; and no "Benjamin Hirst" was connected with it, though a Mr. William Hind has recently been appointed agent for some landed estates belonging to the Society. When Gates received the money, he said Hirst was waiting for it in his office; a clerk followed him, and found no person waiting; Gates said Hirst would call next day. Subsequently, on pretence that the account had been overdrawn, the clerk regained possession of the money. The prisoner was committed for trial on the three charges.

At Bow Street Police-office, on Thursday, John King, an assistant in the Library at the British Museum, was charged with writing and delivering a threat- ening letter to Miss Eliza Lynn, authoress of Azeth the Egyptian. As bliss Lynn was entering the Museum on Wednesday, the prisoner presented her with a letter; it threatened exposures unless Si. were left with King for "a poor fa- mily." The implied charges were of coarse fabrications tramped up for the tour- pose of extortion. Miss Lynn immediately placed the letter in the hands of the principal officers of the Library, and by their order King was taken into custody. The officers proved to the Magistrate that the letter was in the handwriting of the accused. King denied that he was the writer; averring that "a gentleman" had left the letter with him to be delivered to Miss Lynn. He was committed for trial.

An ingenious attempt at smuggling has been detected at the Customhouse this week. Six casks of arsenic were consigned by a Hamburg steamer to "Henry Brent." An officer examined the casks. One was filled with the mineral; but each of the others was fitted with an outer tin case containing arsenic, while the centre was filled with tobacco, packed round with pigs of lead to give the re- quisite weight. The value of the tobacco, with the duty added, was 5451. 'Hen Brent is in custody.

William H. G. Baugh, the young man who was committed on a charge of forgery, has died in Newgate. At the inquest, on Monday, Mr. McMurdo, the Surgeon of the prison, deposed that the prisoner had died from disease of the lungs: his mental state had affected his bodily health, but there was no probability that he would have recovered under other circumstances—he might have lived days, or weeks, or months. Mr. Coroner Payne remarked, that when the condition of the prisoner was discovered, means ought to have been taken for his liberation on bail. Mr. McMurdo said he did not know that the offence was bailable. MY. Payne informed him that it was: country air would have been better for the de- ceased than the atmosphere of a prison. The Surgeon assented. In summing up, the Coroner said there had been a great want of consideration on the part of the Surgeon and the other prison authorities. The Jury also took this view, and returned a verdict that the deceased had "died of consumption, accelerated by confinement."

Last week, a man named George Grosse was suffocated by an escape of fonl air from a privy belonging to a low lodging-house in Langley Court, Long Acre.- no sooner entered the place than he fell forward into the yard. Edward Hayen, who attempted to assist Grosse, also became insensible. At the inquest, Mr. Berry, a surgeon, deposed that when he was called in, the deceased was-past recovery. Tiara was no doubt of his having died from foul air. He was then lying

in a yard about eight feet square, where the stench was so horrible that Mr. Berry could not remain. The odour was not confined to the house but contaminated the neighbourhood; it could be smelt at a distance of sixty yards: the neighbours were all complaining of the nuisance. The whole of that part of the pariah wis in a dreadful state for want of proper drainage. The inquest has been adjourned for a week, in order to an examination of the place.

A fatal accident happened while some young men were shooting birds in Bat- tersea Fields, on Sunday evening. David Day, in getting over a ditch, placed his gun on the bank, the muzzle towards him: the gun went off, the contents lodged in his neck, and he died on the spot. A rowing-match at Chelsea, on Tuesday, terminated fatally. The competitore were two young men, Clayfield and Archer; in Chelsea Reach, the raw-lock of Clayfield's boat got unfastened, the swell filled the vessel, audit sank. The young man's feet had been secured to the stretcher by a strap, and it is supposed that.he could not extricate himself for some time: when the boat rose, one of the shoes was found attached by the strap, but the body was not seen.

About noon on Sunday, a rick of hay in the farm-yard of Mr. Joseph Meld, M.P., in the Harrow Road, burst into flames; eventually the fire extended tolls other ricks, and nearly the whole were destroyed. Some think that the hay- had been stacked too green; others surmise that lightning fired it.

The burning at Darby's firewotk factory, that we mentioned last Saturday., ori- ginated in a workman's having overheated a pan containing a combustible flidd. This was the sixth fire on the premises since they have been used- as a firework factory.