The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-17 00:00:00

Les of the 'quote to icreosing Vet per ited with y a belief Lly lasting eone lOwment, .i •eionen the genie ng an In. t d front then ex ; r results parishes .der 2001. ..,..tured to be sup .ual deed . medying %dditional SUCCeed. the num- Majesty's ,•i express it means, to which, teemed it a con emoval of the mi. onfirming :et bevies at which to whoa lids, with fording to of their to 0 , 411.11 e church. ratted the Jrn owners ne a readi ittee, and, ake a con hese (acts, operations ring to as• oe denomi- Church d by a baud by a maw A' England " Conn priation aI c made by '. E. Glad ;hichester, tees of the SOUTH- we We r• een coned tional dir r ------ THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1848. the train were much shaken. A gentleman who was seated pthe co hrou upe' o gh thef a first-clam carriage had his he ad forced com plete glass windew, by which his lace etely t was much cut and lac. rated. The passenger train was due at Woking at 8 o'clock, and not having arrived at a quarter to 9, Mr. Miller. the tom avay.s agent at that station, cent • pilot dawn the litre to vet the cause of the delay. In about half an hour ..fter, a plate le) ar, who had been despatched from the scene of the accident, strived at the Woking station with intelligence of the disaster. Mr. Miller immediately sent to W. tiring, about I a mile and • half distant, fur medical aid, and pro ceeded with • second engine and several carriages towards the spot where the accident had taken place. Be- I fore Mr. Millet had gone very far down the line he met the pilot engine returning with such of the carriages as co uld ba remosed, and all the wounded pas. ogee.. On their arrival at Woking, Mr. Flet her and Mr. Waters, two medical gentlemen resident in the village, were in attend ante, and, the passengers having alighted, such assistance as their several cases required was immediately rendered to them. Mr. Miller, Oil the part of the company, offered to all those who bad suffered injury the option of remaining at the neighbouring hotel, or proceeding to London. Without / single exception all the passengers elected to proceed to town, and the train having been re-made up, and all the broken carriages detached, left fur Nine Elms about half past 10 o'clock. Mr. Flat:wet kindly undertook the charge of Fortescue, who was in a raving state,*and Calvert also Came to town under this gentleman's charge. The body of htarkland was left at Woking. Upon the arrival of the train at Nine Elena, Foricscue and Calvert were immediately sent off to St. 'I homas's Hospital, where amputation of a t uttion of the hand of the latter was at once performed. This poor fellow has also had his jaw fractured. The state in which Forteseue was, precluded the possibility of attempting to operate upon him, and as he hes not yet rallied, no hopes are entertained of his recovery. Many of the passengers who wr re not very seriously hurt, preferred • p r oceeding to their own homes, but three gentlemen and two ladies, all members of one family, who had together oc cupied a compartment of the second class &smart car riage, were so much injured as to render it necessary to convey them to the hotel opposite the station, where Mr. Statham and another medical gentlem in were summoned to attend them. Tire names of these parties are: the Rev. Mr. Ridings, of Atherfitune, Warwickshire, severe injury of the arm, and contusions in various parts of the body; Mrs. Ridings, a severe shock to the system; the Rev. Mr. Hutchins, leg broken; Miss Hutchins, contused wound on the forehead, and other injuries ; Mr. Hutchins, brother of the rev. gentleman of the same name. The latter gentle man has recovered sufficiently to leave the hotel, and Mr. Ridings' fractured leg was successfully reduced this after noon by Sir. Statham and assistants. At an early hour this morning Mr. Gooch, the superintendent of the locomotive department, Mr. Stov:n, the manager of the traffic, and Mr. Beattie, of the carriage department, came down to Woking to view the scene of the accident. After inspecting the spot, and instituting various ingeines, they returned to tows for the purpose of further investigating the matter. In the course of the morning a formal inquiry was set on hot by Mr. Snubs, but the evidence which that gentleman was enabled to obtain still leaves the met ice: manner in which the Resident occurred a matter of don The line was very little Injured by the collision, only a few chairs being broken. None of the rails were displaced, and the traffic was scarcely at all interrupted. Information of the melancholy event his been forwarded to Mr. C. Woods, o Oodalming, coroner for this division of Surrey, and it is sup reed ,the inquest on poor Merltland will be held to day. The statement which has gone forth to the effect that the train containi .g the wounded passengers was detained a long time while the tickets were being collected, is untrue. The only delay which took place was at Kingston, where Mr. Fletcher, the medical man, in charge of Fortescue, com pelled the driver to stop while he obtains-I a little brandy for his patient, who was in a fainting state. On inquiry at St. Thomas's hospital last evening, it was ascertained that Fortescue, the guard of the goods train, who, as stated above, was picked up ins( nsible after the ac cident, bad rallied a little during the afternoon, and that some hopes were entertained of his recovery. His amis so much injured as to render amputation absolutely nee, seary, but untihis system has snore perfectly recovered the shock it has received, no operation can be attempted. The injuries which he has received about the head are very serious, and it is feared his brain is affected. Calvert, the stoker of the passenger train, witness hand has been amputated, is pre grafting favourably. The Rev. Mr. Hutchins, whose broken leg was act on Saturday by Mr. Statham, of Nine Elms, is in a fair way of recevery, as are also the Rev. Mr. Ridings, and the two ladies, Mrs. Riding's end Mira Hutchins, the wife of the latter, and the sister of the former. All these parties remain at the Railway Hotel. It will be seen by our Lambeth police report that the offending parties were brought before the magistrate and remanded. INgrEsT , I, S.MitDAY.— SUICIDE.—By Mr. Payne, at No. 8, Watling-street, on the body of Charles Treacy, , aged 17 sears, a young man in the employ of Messrs. West- Iron, Dignam, and Co., who had blown out his brains with a pistol. It appeared that the deceased, who had been in the servile of the firm about five years, wss one of the best ens. ducted persons that had ever been in their employ. On the previous evening he hsd leave to go out until ten o'clock, but he ought not to have sopped oat all night, which he I did. About helf-past eight o'clock that morning deceased came into the warehouse, and it being evident from his ap pearance that he had been out as night, William Ellis, a fellow-servant, joked him on the circumstance, and said he might have told him he was going to do so, and not let t.im leave the lamp burning all night. Deceased made some an swer,_which Ellis did not distinct' , hear, and went up stairs. Shortly afterwards Ellis heard an exploei , n, sod ran up stairs, when, on entering the store department, he found the deceased bleeding from the head. A surgeon was instantly sent for, who found that deceased's head was shattered by a pistol shut, and that life was quite extinct. Mr. Janus Dig nam said he could not at all account for the commission of the act, unless some 'verses found since his death would throw some light on the matter.—The jury returned a ver dict of "Temporary insanity."—SUlClDE OF AN ARTIST. —By Mr. Wakley, at the Queen's Head, Kiag'f-road, Chel sea, on the body of Mr. Joseph William Brett, aged 34, who committed suicide. The deceased, who was an artist, was the son of the Rev. Joseph Brett, a clergyman of the &lurch of England, and heel with his aged parents in a ore tage, Ne. 4, Keppel-street South. The deceased was ene of the large numb. r of artists who competed for the prizes offered for cartoons to embellish the new Houses of meet, and, like the majority of his compe, re, was an unsuc cessful one. Deceased chose for his theme the historical sub ct of " King Richard pardoning the soldier who had shot him," which it will be recollected was exhibited with the others in Westminster Hall in the summer of 1843. De. ceased, although he never complained of his disappointment, was never afterwards in such good health, end since April last had gradually been getting weaker. On Tuesday last be was last seen alive by his parents about hale-past 10 o clock at night, when he was in bed, and wished them good night. The next morning (Wednesday), about 9 o'clock, his father, on going into decenyet's bedroom (a front parlour), found him still its bed, and saw what he thought was a red hand kerchief round his neck. Being near-sighted he examined closer, and then found that it was blood, and that his son was dead. He, however, made no alarm beyond telling his wife, up to one o'clock, when he informed a neighbour, who advised him to tell the police, which he slid, and Mr. Smith, a surgeon, was fetched, who pronounced deceased to have been dead some hours, and found th..t he mat his throat lift-handed, with a razor found in the bed. The coroner at d jury, on viewing the body, were struck ' with its attenuated condition and the wretched state of the room and house, and appeared to commiserate greatly with the impuverish.d state to which the family were reduced, which was unknown to them before; and, after a lengthened inquiry, a verdict was returned—" That the demised was found dead, w i h his thrust cut, supposed by his own act, bnt that there was not sufficient evidence before the jury to show them what was the data of his mind at the time he did it." IRELAND. Dvinter, JAN. 14. of the great seal opened their commission yesterday in the Court of Chancery. They formed an imposing array, consisting of five judges and two masters in chancery—Baror.s Penne father, Richards, and Lefroy ; Judges Jackson and Moore; and Masters Henn and Brooke. Baron Pen nefather, as senior judge, addressed the bar briefly. Alluding to the Chancellor, the baron observed : " That able judge who has discharged the duties of his high office with so much satisfaction to suitors, so much benefit to the public, and urbanity to the bar, will soon, I trust, be restored to health and the re sumption of his duties." The business in the Exche quer being heavy, only one judge, in the absence of the Chief Baron, can be spared from that court. The temporary tribunal to-day consisted of Baron Richards and Justices Jackson and Moore. They heard long causes, and afforded general satisfaction. The Dublin Herald states that the convicts from the Limerick commission will be immediately re moved to the Belfast House of Correction, previous to transportation to Norfolk Island. The Belfast is on the principle of the Pentonville Model Prison—the cells arc separate, and the inmates arc not suffered to hold communication with each other, or see any human beings except the officers of gaol. Some incidents are related of the special com mission in Limerick which are not without their significance. For the first time in Ireland the courts have been made accessible to the people. Hitherto, the sheriffs posse, or the police, have stood at the portals of justice, and withstood all at tempts of those not of "the better class" to gain an entrance, unless their admission was indispensable to the proceedings. Now, the humblest as well as the highest individual was enabled to make his way near the bench. He heard (says the local journal) the ad dresses of counsel, the evidence of the witnesses, the patient attention of the jurors he witnessed—heard the impartial charges, and the advice and remon strances of the judges. They saw that the danger ous but usual defence, an alibi, was scarcely once re sorted to—and they saw that only in two in stances were the accused able to produce a Ingle witness as to previous good character. Renee (adds the journal) neither a sigh nor a throb, nor a tear of commiseration was heard lir the guilty victims. The public has been taken by surprise in the an-1 nouncement of the Earl of Clarendon, at the Mansion house dinner, that the British Association were now feeding over 70,000 poor children, and that the num ber was likely to extend to 100,000. This silent progress of the association in the work of charity, maintaining the most helpless and innocent portion of society, and in such via numbers, has excited general surprise and admiration. One barony in Fermanagh is to be subjected to the disarming provisions of the late act. A deptit has been fixed for the universal surrender within a given day. Threatening notices and appearing in arms is the cause of the licensing intrusion. Fermanagh abounds in the instruments of Orange turbulence, which escaped notice in the disarming times of Earl Grey's administration. Friendly lieutenants connived at the retention. THE LORD MAYOR'S DINNER AT THE MAN- SION•ROUSE. The annual dinner of tie Lard Mayor was celebrated last evening, in the Mansion-house. The company was nume rous, comprising his Excellency and household, the Chief and Under Secretaries, the Master of the Molls, and several of the Judges, the Commander of the Forces in Ireland, with a large number of the most distinguished of our so ciety. After the formal toasts, the Lord Mayor proposed the " Health of the Earl of Clarendon," and eulogised, among other qualities, the zeal he has shown for the agri cultural interests of the country, and his energy in the pre servation of peace, order, and quiet throughout the country. After enthusiastic cheering for several minutes, his Excel lency raid : I feel that the manner in which yon have received the tout which has been proposed by the Lord Mayor, imposes upon me an additional obligation to employ all the zeal and energy which I can com mand in the performance of my duty; and my only regret is, that my ability must fell so very far short of my desire to be useful to this country ; for I well know how hard a task it is even to mitigate the evils with which this country is afflicted—evils, many of which have been the growth of ages and the o ff spring of unrighteoua legislation (loud and protracted applause)—and which new that the cause happily no longer exists, may still be tedious and difficult to remove, (Hear, hear.) The creation of evils may not require much labour or ingenuity, but their reparation and abatement are invariably long and diffi cult. To bring together ties that have been unhappily loosened—to harmonise interests which arc in reality iden tical though they are in appearance divergent—to oblite rate the memory of the past by creating well-founded hope for the future—these, indeed, require all the talent and the wisdom that the ablest statesman can bring to bear upon them; but I conscientiously believe that her Majesty never called to her councils men more earnest, more devoted to the interests of Ireland than the present government; and I sty not this in disparagement of other men holding different political views, because my conviction is, that by men of all parties and all clan-es in England, the welfare of Ireland is now regarded as an imperial interest of the first and the most momentous importance. (Hear, and cheers.) But knowing, as I do, the views and intentions of my noble friend at the head of the government—knowing that the po licy which I should have to pursue here was not one of piety nor exclusiveness, nor aiming at an ephemeral popularity ; but that it was essentially an Irish policy, having for it. objects to do equal justice to al. classes whether the highest or the lowest in the community, and to promote by every practical means, legislative or administrative, the s..cial prosperity of Ireland, I felt that in coming here I might confidently rely oo the support of every honest Irishman and well-wisher of his country. And in so relying upon Iriettmen 1 have not been disappointed. (Cheers.) I believe that that policy has been rightly understood, for I have received an amount of support--and I rejoice in this opportunity of pub licly and gietefully acknowledging it-1 have received an amount of support which, did I not fear that I might speak pr sumptuously, I might almost venture to call general ; be cause it has proceeded not alone from political friends, but it has been given in a manner the moat cordial and disinterested by those whom the government cannot rank amongst the number of their political supporters. (Cries of hear, hear.) My lord, this has been to me a circumstance most cheering at a moment of unexampled difficulty and danger; for when no chute in the community can escape the severest pressure men do not always reason with justice, and a government is sometimes blamed for evils which it cannot avert, sail for not resorting to measures which are heyonsl their power to apply. But of no such injustice however can 1 complain. I hate met not only with that generous co-operation whirls is essentially national, but with demonstrations of conti deuce far beyond what I consider 'nye& entitled to. I cannot disguise from myself, however, that we are in diffi cult and perilous times, and that those difficulties may for some time continue to be even still more Appalling then those through which the country so painfully struggled last year, for I regret to say that the mums of alleviatin.r them are diminishing. Ireland is thrown more upon her own resources—England is less able to assist her ; and that this is the case is unfortunately no matter of doubtful opinion, for we know it but too well from documents that have been laid on the tables of the houses of parliament, by which we learn that in order to supply deficiencies occasioned by the visitation of Providence we imported grain at the cost to the importers alone (without counting that of the consumers) of 33,000,0001. sterling; that at the same time, as a nt usury consequence of this great but unavoidable expenditure, our revenue has fallen to the extent of 2,400,0001., whilst our expenditure has been greater than usual ; that this occurred at a time when the cotton crop failed in Ana rice, which to Lancashire, the industrial centre of England, was almost as severe as the destruction of the potato crop to Ireland ; that this occurred at a time when famine converted our continental neighbours into our rivals in the corn market; and also that this occurred at a moment of exhaustion at home, which was owing to ourown imprudence in having expended in railway., not our savings out our capital, which capital was thereby diterted from its ordi nary and more profitable employment. (Hear, hear.) I will ask, therefore, an 'practical and candid man conversant with the condition of Ireland to consider the amount of almost universal preiaure which such a state of things must necessarily cause—the destitution—the stagnation of trade and manufactures which it entails, and the hundreds of thousands of hands willing to emit employment, but un fortunately unable to find it ; and I will ask any such man whether it would be possible for the imperial parliament to take largely from the distress of England to give to the distress of Ireland without, at least, eiffusing the whole of such relief generally over the community. We are all of us suffering at this moment under a common calamity, and I fear that it would be neither just nor wise, nor even use ful, to apply the national resources to the relief of that distress until all local and individual resources were ex hausted. With respect to the resources upon which we must rely, I am aware that the poor law ta not popular —(hear, hear); but it must be remembered that under this law the duties of property have for the first time been ren dered intelligible, and under this law the poor man in Ire land has for the first time acquired the right not to starve—(hear, hear); and although I fear that, in many instances, this law may prove insufficient to meet the exist ing distress, yet I can assure you that every instance of neglect is promptly inquired into, and, as far as possible, repaired; and I believe that under a system of inspection which will become more vigilant every day, we may hope that this law will work far more efficiently than was expected. I can assure you, however, gentlemen, that the government is not iounsible of its duty, and that whatever can be done shall be done to mitigate this distress. (Cheering.) The govern ment have placed at our disposal some of the best steamers in her Majesty's service to assist in the work of relief, and in order to carry food to the depots which have .sees esta blished in the moat destitute districts; and I am sure you will learn with pleasure that the most anxious care and attention is now being bestowed on the mist suffering, be cause the most helpless, portion of the community-1 mean the children of the poor. (Hear, hear.) There are at this moment seventy thousand children, for the most part, clothed and daily fed from the funds subscribed by the British public, and under the superintending care of nay friend, Count Streletcki, to whose active benevolence Ireland is not a little indebted. It is almost impossible to overestimate the usefulness of this measure—nut only to these poor suffering children themselves, but to their parent+, who when they know that the wants of their children are satia fled, have more courage to provide for themselves, and more time and means to seek employment. I have every reason to believe that the number of children so cared for will shortly amount to at least one hundred and twenty thousand. I can assure you, also, gentlemen, that there is nothing which depends on the government—and I need hardly esy on myself—which shall be neglected, in order to relieve the distress which unfortunately exists. (Cheery.) But I am sure I need not say to this company that there is no relief which the government can afford which will suffi:e without the greatest individual exertion i and my only rea son for alluding to this is in order that I may have an op portunity of saying how much I rejoice at the exertions which have been made, and are still making—exertions greater, perhaps, than any one could have thought erosible some months ago—and also of expressing my confident hope that Ireland will yet be able to demonstrate to the legisla ture that she has not been untrue to herself. (Cheering.) The awful crisis which we have now endured so long will, I hope, be speedily drawing to a close, and I trust that it will he borne as heretofore with that exemrlary resigna tion which characterises the Irish people, and with that manly resolution which a sense of duty alone can inspire. There is not one individual in the couateT on whom some duty does not devolve—who has not within his reach the power to do some good ; and if the collective result of these exertions be that the people depend on a higher class of food for subsistence—that the attention of the whole country be really and earnestly devoted to developing the resources of this most fertile soil—if all classes recognise the great truth that he who labours is a better man, and a more useful citizen, than he who is idle, and that industry is not only indizpensible, but honourable ; above all, if the rights of property are on the one hand scrupulously re spected, and are on the other hand exercised with kindness and forbearance, then, indeed , we ma y look for ha pp ier days for Ireland ; because her social regeneration will spring from the social improvement of the people—that basis of national prosperity which has hitherto been wanting, but without which neither progress nor improvement having lord (Cheers.) for M and gentlemen, I believe I ought to apologise can permanently be relied up on. at fint intended, and probably I have adv erted - trespassed so much longer on your tofl°me had topics perhaps somewhat inappropriate to the p resent sively as they did my own. (Hear, hear.) I on l y ill ear, sioa ; but I am sure they occu p ied your attention asexclu• h a ve manifested towards me this evening is not and good-will winhcoichncyhumion, that the feeling of •kindness but I think that it has a far wider only most ratifying tome , tun any which attache j and more important bearing myself, because it proves that any max who labours with anxiety of purpose faithfullly to perform the duties of his station (end to more than that I Lane no manner of pretc n sion) may with confidence rely en the highest of all rewards, the approbation of his fellow.countrymen. (Loud and enthu siastic cheering amid which his excellency resumed his seat.) His excellency, in compliance with an ancient silage, rose shortly after and proposed in turn the Lord Mayor. On the health of the Countess of Clarendon having been pro poaed, with a special allusion to the fact that " her ladyship is the parent of one Irish son," his excellency replied in an amusing speech, in which hie lordship adroitly proposed the " Health of the Lady Mayoress." Though hie Excellency retired before eleven, the merriment was kept up to a late hour. REWARDS FOR 000 D CONDUCT.—The house of a family named Kenna, at Aracrony, Tipperary, having been attacked by an armed party, they beat them off, followed them, arrested some, and handed them over to the police. The two attracted the attention of Sir William Fraser, of the Life Guards: he wrote upon the subject to the catholic clergyman of ihe pariah, and having received his reply, sent the following communication Let Life Guards Barrack, London, Jan. 7.—Ree. Sir,—Absence from London has prevented me from replying to your obliging note, which 1 received some lime ago. 1 emigre a Pl. Bank of England note, No. 09,387, which 1 request you will have the goodness to for ward to Kenna. I regret that he has recv.ived no official reward for his resolute conduct. A few such acts would do more towards sup preening outrage than any increase in the police force. May I trouble you to acknowk dge the receipt of this.-1 he,ve the honour to remain, faithfully yours, Wawa's Atacama Fumax.—Rev. Michael Scanlan, P.P. Ballygibbon, Newish. SPECIAL COMMISSION. COUNTY CLARK (PROW OUR OWN REPORTER.) ENNIS. THURSDAY, JAN. 13. MURDER OF MR. WATSON.—J limes Hayes and Patrick Ryan were placed at the bar, charged with the wilful mur der of Mr. James Watson, at Ballycorney, oa the 17th of May last. The indictment also charged that John Crow and others feloniously conspired and incited the prisoners to commit the molder. Denis Flynn examined by the Solicitor-General : I knew the late Mr. Watsidi, and lived near him, en the townland of R 046. I was standing outside my father's door on the day of the murder, when I heard • shot fired on tke road. I looked, and saw three men on the road, one of them lying down. I saw one man standing over him with a gun in his hand. I was not mire than twenty yards from them at the time. I ran towards Willycarny mills and met my brothnr, with whom I returned. We biund DO person then at the place where I jaw the three men, but the one that was lying on the ground. That was Mr. Wutso•, who was swimming in his blood. His hat was off, and his horse was grazing by the ditch side a short way up from him. James Lacy came up first, and he and I put a hand each on Mr. Watson's arms, and raised him off the ground. Several others then came up and took him from us. He was taken into the house of a man named Walsh, while I went to inform his servants of what occurred. I knew Mr. Weson well before that. Mr. John L. Worrell was examined to prove the accuracy of a map he made of the scene of the murder. Nathaniel Barton, a boy about eleven sr twelve years of age, examined by Mr. Bennet, Q C.: I remember the day on which Mr. Watson was attacked. I was in the national school house, near the place, when I was called out by an other boy, and saw two men on the road. I know a man of the name of Hayes.—Mr. Bennet: Is either of the pd. toners the man you allude to ? The witness looked at the prisoners, and said they were Plot the men he saw on the road Out day. Examination continued : I met a man of the name of Hayes that day on the road when I left the school house. Some time alter I went before Mr. Browne, the magistrate, and pointed out the man I met on the road. None of the boys left the school, on hearing of the Terry's, hut myself. I pointed out to Mr. Worrell, the surveyor, the place where I was standing, and where Mr. Watson lay. The two men I met saw me. The man who had the gun wore a cap, and a light coloured coat and trousers.—To the court : I can't tell the height of the ditch between me and the men, hut I could see over it. James Lacy, examined by the lion. Mr. Plunkett I re• collect the day on which Mr. Watson was killed; I lived near the place. I was going from my breakfast to work when I saw two men coming towards me from the place where Mr. Watson was kill d. One of the men bad the barrel of a gun in his hand without &stock. That was after Mr. Watson had been murdered. They paused into the field opposite the lodge where I lived. They went two or three perches, and then were joined by another man, wl,o walked across the field to them. 0.. e of those men was Ryan (Small). I did not know the other at the time. (The wit ness here identified the prisoner 14 an, and stated that it was he who had the barrel of the gun.) The other of the two men was Win. Ryan (Puck), end the man who came to meet them was the prisoner Hayes. After I saw them I was called by the witness Flynn, and went down the road. where I saw Mr. Watson, killed, and the stock of a gun, I broken, under him. Cross-examined by Mr. O'llea : I don't know of there being a bit of a charge against mysi lf, nor was I ever obliged to keep out of the way. They did not suspect me for this murder. I was taken by the police for it in some time after. It was after I was taken I declared what I state here to-day. I can't say how anon after, as I kept no account of the time. I disclosed it to Mr. Brown. 1 was released from custody at the time. When the police asked me on the day of the murder if I saw any persons at or near the place, I said not. It was the second time I saw Mr. Browne that I disclosed what I know. I met Mr. Brown in Limerick, hut he did not speak to me about this, my father had a spot of land on Mr. Arthur's estate, and I asked it from Mr. Browne, after I told what I knew of this. My father was put out of the land, but I didn't get it. [Mr. O'llea here read a portion of the witness's information, in which he swore that the two men who came towards bias from the place of the murder were Hayes and Ryan (Small), and it was the latter who had the barrel of the sun in his hand.] If that be in the informa tion I did not swear it. It must hove been the magistrate made the mistake.—To a Juror: I did not tell what I knew on the day of the murder, because I did not think well of it. _ _ James Crow examined by the Attorney-General I knew Ryan (Small) and Ryan (Puck) a month or two before the murder. I saw them at the house of my uncle (John Crow), a fortnight or three weeks before Mr. Watson was killed. I was oa the road the morning Mr. Watson was killed. I saw the prisoner. at the bar on that day, together with William Ryan (l'uck). I saw them coining from Knockaderecn (where the witness's uncle lived), by the road that ran by the school house. I was standing at the minister's (Mr Stowers) gate when I saw the three men. I saw them first on the hill above Thady Keogh's house, but not near enough to know them. I lost sight of them in the hollow, and law Mr. Wat son riding up the road before I them again; he was walking his horse at the time, and Ryan (Puck) jumped out on the road before him, and cocked a gun at him. He was then about the length of the table from Mr. Watson, who rode back quickly until he came to Walsh's wheaten field, out of which Pat Ryan (Small) jumped, with a pistol in his hand. He took the horse by the bridle ; the horse made a couple of springs, and brought Ryan with him, and Mr. Watson fell; he fired a shot at Ryan (Puck), who struck him on the head with a gun, and Ryan (Small), the pri soner, struck him with a pistol. Mr. Watson asked for mercy. Ryan (Puck) next struck him on the head a second time with the gun, and broke it they then ran away to wards Keogh's bog. From the time I saw the three men first, I d d not see Hayes, the other prismer, till I saw him standing at the ditch at Keogh's bog. He was standing there while the others were killing Mr. WaVon. After the murder the Rpm ran off towards klellynialony bog. Hayes did not WO far with them. He had a gunor blunderbuss in his hand. He could not see Mr. Watson murdered from where he stood at Keogh's bag. He could not see any part of the road on which the murder took place from that. It was about half a quarter of a mile from the place of the murder. I pointed out to the surveyor where Hayes was standing. Beside the ditch he was standing, not on it. To the Chief Justice : He was not standing in such a way as to conceal himself. Cron-examined by Mr. O'Hea: I didn't tell this at once to the police. I did not tell it till near Christmas. I walked out that morning to amuse myself. I was at no particular amusement. I did not go to school for a good while before. While the board of works was going on I was labouring. I did not see the boy Barton there. I saw the three men away down the boreeu that led from my uncle's house. I handled a pistol that morning. It was not loaded. I often loaded a pistol, and fired at my cap when I bad nothing else, but I never fired at a cap with a head in it. I was not charged with killing a goat or stealing wheat from my uncle. I was never turned away by my uncle. There in a dispute about land between my aunt, with whom I live, and my uncle. I don't expect to get the lend when my aunt dies, if she is able to retain it. My uncle is endeavouring to take the land from her. That is the uncle mentioned in the indictment. He gave me a dragging and a couple of clout about a cow of my aunt's. I don't care about him, for he don't care about me— that's the truth of it. (A laugh.)—To • juror lam sure Hayes had either a gun or a blunderbuss. John Browne, Esq., examined by the Solicitor-General: I am now agent to Mr. Arthur, and a magistrate of the county. I took the itformations of the witness, Barton. A number of persons, seven or eight, were brought before him in the police barrack, Limerick, in order to see whether he could identify the persons whom he said he saw on the day of the moister. That was the day I took his informations. The boy was in a room of the police barrack. Mr. O'Hea said that, as he knew the locality, he wished to ask the wit ness a question or two, when perhaps it might appear that his evidence was not admissible. In reply to Mr. O'Hea, the witness said the boy was in a room, and the persons brought before him were outoide in the yard, ranged opposite the window, where the boy could see them without being seen. Mr. O'Hea submitted what the boy said then, when the prisoners could not hear him, was not evidence against them.—The court derided that the evidence might be given. —The witness then stated that the boy identified Hayes among knumber of persons, and that he was afterwards brought alone, and in custody, into the room where the boy was. To Mr. O'Hea : I did not bring that boy into court to-day, but I brought another one of the Crows, for the pur pose of identification. Dr. Parker I attended Wm. Ryan (Puck) in Limerick gaol when he was in fever. I examined his body and found an abrasion on his shoulder. It was healed, and seemed to have been inflicted by some blunt instrument. A bullet would inflict such a wound. To Mr. O'Hea. It was in December I attended him. A stone would inflict such a wound. Dr. George Purdon deposed that he attended Mr. Watson from the day of the attack, on Monday, till his death on the following Friday. He was unconscious all the time. There were several woonds on his head. They were inflicted by some angular ponderous instrument. The butt of a gun would inflict them. They were the cause of death. Mr. Worrell, the surveyor who made a map of the scene of the murder, deposed that the spot where the witness Crow stated that he was standing, wee about 1130 yard.• from where the murder was committed. The witness Barton stood farther off. There was a hill betwe. n where Hayes was said to have stood and the place of the murder. It was the witness Crow who pointed out those places to him. A policeman swore that be arrested Hayes at Tarbert, on board a steamer, and that he heard the steward and tiptain tell him to go to the vessel, in which he was about to proceed to America.—To Mr. O'Hea: All the prisoner's family were going to America in that vessel.—The case for the prosecu. tion closed bare, and Mr. O'Hea addressed the jury for the defence. _ . Spaight, a magistrate, and to whose father the pri son. r Hayes had been a tenant, gave him a good character. Up to the time of the present charge, he never heard any thing against him. The Solicitor-General having replied, the Chief Justice charged the jury, who retired for about ten minutes, and found both prisoners Guilty. They heard the announce ment of t►e verdict without any apparent emotion. They were then ordered beck to prison. A DANGEROUS MISTAKE.—A number of other prisoners were arraigned on various charges. Among them were live persons accused of the murder of Martin MacMahon, and ene of them, when asked the usual question by the clerk of the crown, pleaded guilty. Mr. O'Hea said the prisoner was under a mi-conception as to the nature of the offence charged, and asked liberty for him to withdraw the plea of guilty.—Mr. Bennett Let him be asked the question again, and let him be told that if he is found guilty, or pleads guilty, he will be hanged. The prisoner was again naked if he were guilty, and he replied that he was—Chief Justice : Do you know that _you must be hanged if you plead guilty to the murder?—Mr.Fros ,an attontey,whowasconcerned for others of the party, explained to the prisoner the nature of the charge on which he was arraigned, and desired him to consider well what he said before he pleaded guilty. The prisoner again said he was guilty, himself and five more, but not the pri soners at the bar; hut, on the matter being further explained to him, he pleaded not guilty. It seemed that the pri soner conceived he was pleading to an indictment for man slaughter,:he having been present when the deceased received a blow of a stick, from the etficts of which he died. The court adjourned shortly after this till nine o'clock next morning. The Chief Justice took his seat on the bench on Friday morning at ten o'clock. The Chief Baron had not taken his seat up to one o'clock. APPEARING IN ARILS AND INJURING PROPERTY.— Patrick Cusack was indicted for having, on the 16th of October, appeared in arms and injured the property of Wil liam Molony, at Crannagher. Mr. O'llea said he would not he jusuned in occupying lite publie limo ie this case ; and he would therefore ask permission for the prisoner to withdraw his plea of not guilty, and plead guilty.—The Attorney-Ge teral said that as the prisoner had been given in charge, the trial should he proceeded with. William Minogue was examined by the Attorney-Genera, and deposed . that, on the day in question, as he was proceed ing to Ennis, he saw two ten-loads of corn on the road, and shortly alter saw the prisoner, who was mewling in a field on the road-side, fire a shot and run away ; a police man ran after and arrested him. Witness heard that one of the horses th the carts was shot —A policeman named Willis ' deposed that he saw the prisoner with a double barrelled gun conceal himself behind a house, and when the carte which witness was escorting came up he discharged both barrels at the horses. Witness pursued and arrested bias. The gun, and also a pistol, which the prisoner had on the occasion, were produced.—The prisoner was convicted and sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour. rhe Chief Justice said the prisoner might have been trans port. d fur the otfeuce. ATTACKING A DWELLING-ROUPE, AND ROBBERY ARMS.—John Liddy, Patrick Conry, Michael Hickey, and 3ltchael Skeane were indicted fur leaving, with others, on the Ist of August last, attacked the house of William Walsh, at Prugh, and stolen a gun and pistol.—The Attorney-General stated the facts of the case. Mrs. Walsh, a respectahly dressed lady, deposes' that on Sunday, the lat of August, after her husband went to church to Limerick, a number of armed men came to her house, and demanded fire-arms, threatening her life if she did not give them. She retreated into her bedroom, where they followed her, and one of them unlocked her wardrobe, and searched it. 'They got no fire-arms there, and when they demanded them a second time, she said "she would go and look for them, but solemnly declared that she did not kaow where they where." (The witness identified Liddy, Skeane, and Hickey, as hay ng been of the party). They broke open my' ral desks and boxes, until they found a double barrelled gun, pistol, and powder-horn which they took away; they took nothing else. —To Mr. powder-horn, I was greatly alarmed at first, particularly for my cnild, a year and • half old, which I had in my arms; but I soon reco vered my presence of mind, as I knew that all depended upon me. —To Mr. Bennet Prugh, where we lived, is four miles from Limerick.—Pat Connell also deposed to the fact that the house bad been attacked; and identified Skeane.—A man, named Drury, Mr. Walslt's steward, swore that as he was returning from mass, to his master's house, he saw the party in a field. When he came near the house he heard • great noise inside, and shortly afterwards saw the party come out. On being told by Mrs. Walsh what happened 1 he pursued the party, notwithstanding that one of them presented a gun at him, and threatened to shoot him. Ile followed and kept them in view until they separated, and one of them, Liddy, took refuge in the house of • man named O'Halloran, where he was taken. The prisoner also identified Conry.—Pat O'Brien, • tenant to Mr. Waleh, and who joined in the pursuit of the prisenere, also deposed to the arrest of Liddy under a bed.—Constable 'Taylor, who pursued the party, produced the gun found with Liddy on his arrest.—Evidence having been given of the arrest of the other prisoners in different places, the case for the prosetu tion closed.—Mr. 011ie& addressed the jury for the defence, After • short charge from the Chief Justice, the jury, without leaving the box, found all the prisoners GUilfy, and they were sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. His lordship addressed the prisoners in language somewhat eimilar to that he used in Limerick, when sentencing the prisoners to transportation. Advice or admonition, he slid, was useless as regarded the prisoners; but it might—is ought to be—of benefit to others--to the untried, unappre hended criminals, to call their attention to the fate of the primmers, and to warn those criminals that if they pereistad is violating the law, or in the perpretation of outrages that disgraced the character of the country, they would assuredly he subjected to similar punishment, or worse. He felt bound to pass that sentence in mercy to the well-disposed portion of the community, as well as to operate as a warning to others who might be 'disposed to engage in outrage and violation of the law. Friday, 2 o'clock.—Sentence will not be passed today upon the prisoners convicted last Light of the murder of Mr. Watson. I understand the Chief Baron will not sit to-day. SATIIHDAY JAN 15. SENTENCE. Os' DIATH ON RYAN AND HATES.—At the sitting of the court this morning the convicts Ryan and Hayes (for the murder of Mr. Watson) were brought up for sentence. The clerk of the crown, after reading the record of conviction, put the usual question, if the prisoners had any thing to say why sentence of death and execution should not be passed upon them according to law ? The convict Hayes replied: I have nothing to Bay, my lord, but that we are innocent of the charge. I was not near the place at all. I never saw Billy Ryan (Puck) since the day I was born. I am as innocent es the child unborn. The convict Ryan also protested his innocence, saying that he was fifteen miles away at the time of the murder. The judges having assumed their black caps, the Lord Chief Baron passed sentence as follows : Patrick Ryan and James Hayes, you have been found guilty of the crime of aiding and abetting in the crime of wilful murder. The circumstances under which that murder was committed it is my duty to refer to, not for the purpose of increasing the ini•ery of the situation in which you now stand, but because it forme a part of the obligations which we discharge here, to present the facts of the crime in connexion with the punish ment: awarded, for the instruction and example, and the Corning of others. [His lordship recapitulated the facts of the case as they appeared in evidence.] Were Ito consult my own feelings I would not go further in commenting on this atrocity, but I am bound for the interests of others— for those who may learn what is passing here, to suggest some reflections upon the nature and character of this crime and upon the results which—if its progress be not ar rested by the strong arm of the law, and, what is essential to give the law its due power, the co-operation of all classes —must attend society by a continuation of such crimes. Of all the various forms that the dreadful crime of murder as sume., there is perhaps none in itself so hateful—so loathsome, as that of assassination—none so base in its cowardice—none so deep sad dark and cold in its malignity ; and, what for the interests of society is more unfortunate, none so effectual for the perpettation of its terrible purpose. Against the arm of an assassin no man can be safe—no caution or foresight CAA effectually guard against it—no strength of frame—no bravery of spirit can sufficiently protect against the foe who comes upon the party unawares. The assassin may trace his victim for days—for weeks—for months—he can select his own time, and place, and opportunity; he can choose the spot of hie ambuscade,and when the victim is without defence,and without suspicion of danger, the assassin, unseen and unthought of, may inflict death without the possibility of resistance. No wonder that, in all ages and nations, this crime should be an object of honor mid execration ; and is it not lamentable to • think that now, when it is nearly banished from every country on the earth that boasts of civisilatioa, it should be found prevailing and inducing daily its dreadful results within the sphere of the society in which we live. What are its results to society? To make the entire sphere in which it operates one wide circle of suspicion, distrust, and terror. In the present instance it was levelled against a landlord—it was applied for the purpose of connoting the owner of property in the exercise of the rights given him by law. The effect of this crime applied to that class must be to leave i the owner of property only the alternative of becoming an absentee from his country—of abandoning the enjoyment of his rights, and the discharge of his duties on the one hand, or of remaining at home at the peril of his life en the other. But, as I have said before from this place, this dreadful evil in its effects does not stay here—the landlord or the agent may be the first victim ; but the next will be the farmer or the peasant. His lordship proceeded to enforce the duty of all classes to aid in the vindication of the law ; and after a feeling and impresaive address to the prisoners, passed sentence of death in the usual form. Tuesday the 15th February was fixed as the day of execution. The prisoners heard their sentence with much calnmess and apparent resignation. Ryan, on leaving the dock ex claimed, " Thanks be to God, I am innocent." CHARGE or MTRDER.—Michael Butler and Matthew Honigan were indicted for the wilful murder of John Cleary, at Broadford, in the month of November last. The long panel having been called over, and a jury sworn, the prisoners were given in charge. From the Attorney-General's statement, it would appear that the case rests mainly on the dying declaration of the deceased Cleary, with soma circumstantial stridence corrc• borative of it to some extent. The case was proceeding at poat-hour. PROVINCIAL. THE OLDHAM LYCEUM'S ANNUAL SOIREE took place on Thursday evening, in the Town-hall,Oldham, when a large party amembled to tea, after which the president called upon r number of gentlemen, who favoured the com pany wi•h addresses on the topics of which such institutions are suggestive. It was stated that the institution was flourishing, having now 260 members with a library of 1,600 volumes. "RAIRIIREADTE 'SCAPES" BY RAIL AND STEAM.— As the 5.45 p.m. train of the East Lanaubire Railway was on its way to Manchester on Wednesday, in passing over the embankment opposite Nuttul Hall, at Itanisbottum, the en gine came in contact with a cow that had strayed from an atjoining field. The engineer attempted to stop the engine to avoid it, and did succeed in materially checking the speed of the train, but the engine knocked down the cow and passed over its body, in doing which the train went off the line and the engine and tender went down an embankment of some 13 feet, and were upset. Fortunately the train of carriages got detach, :d before the engine went down the em bankment, and no injury was sustained by the passengers. The engine driver, John Wild, and the stoker also, by good f.irtune, though thrown off, were not hurt. Wild has had several dangerous collisions on the line of this kind, having before run his engine over • sheep, and on another occasion over a dog. He wu formerly a driver on the Manchester and Leeds line, when his engine went off the rails down • lofty embankment without upsetting and without his sus taining the least injury. ----- TILE 'CONTEMPLATED DINNER to Lord Morpeth and Mr. * Cobden, members for the West Riding, has been postponed until the Easter recess. THE LICENCE OF COUNSEL—At the Hull Sessions last week, some extraordinary proceedings interrupted the proper progress of business. The Eastern Counties Herald thus refers to the affair " The proceedings in one of the courts of justice in this town have, during the present week, been interrupted in a meet unseemly manner by a fracas which arose, and burst out repeatedly between one of the learned counsel, who was defending a prisoner, and the re corder who was sitting as judge in the case. The rupture was such as, at one time, threatened to suspend entirely the business of the court. The spectators in the gallery, con sisting chiefly of the working climes, made such unequivocal demonstrations of their feeling being altogether and very strongly on the side of the prisonei'e counsel, that on one of soar eacoosion• it WWI not until the recorder had threatened to clear the whole court that order was restored. On another occasion the learned counsel alluded to did not desist front offering intenpersory remarks during the summing up of the recorder, until that dignitary had intimated that unless that interference ceased, he would be under the necessity of exercising the power and authority with which he was invested, to compel the silence of the barrister. A female, named Ann Thompson, had been indicted for stealing some jars, the property of another woman, named Sarah Ann Tuxfurd ; and Mr. Dearsley, in the course of an appeal to the jury, in behalf of the prisoner, had stigmatised the prosecute - ix as a person who kept a brothel, and had at tempted to sedum the prisoner—that she had done so mare than once—that she had failed in all her attempts to draw the party at the bar from the paths of innocence, and that she had got up this prosecution—not for any just cause, but purely out of spite. These were the assertions of the counsel, strongly made, but which from their nature did not admit of witnesses being called to substantiate. They were, of course, made on the solemn assertion of the prisoner. To test their worth, the recorder recalled one of the wit news in the case, and experienced an active police. man named Bentley, and asked him what had been the general character of the prisoner prior to this charge. Bentley replied that he knew the prisoner to be kept by a man residing in the country, and that she was living under an assumed name. Thompson was not her real name, but that of the man who supported her.—Mr. Deareley declared this to he unparalleled ! He never knew en instance of a judge having called a witness before the verdict, to damn the character of a prisoner.—A burst of approbation arose from almost every part of the court, but especially from the gallery.—The recorder threat ened to have the court cleared.—On order being re.tored, Bentley was again recalled, and, in reply to Mr. Dearsley, said, he did not know that the man in whose name the prisoner went was a man to whom she bed been married, and had separated from him on amount of its being discovered that his former wife was living.—The recorder, on addressing the jury upon this evidence, and upon the interruption that had occurred, said, he never would interfere with the rights of counsel. If the learned counsel had not introduced an assertion into this case, he would not have interfered. The only error which he bad committed was in not stopping Mr. Dearsley sooner. He did not interrupt that gentleman until he traduced the char racier of the prosecutnx. Reference had been made to the late recorder (Mr. Baines), and to the exemplary manner in which that gentleman had discharged his judicial duties upon that bench. He (the present recorder) had not long occupied the office of judge, bat he would never sit in a court of justice, and hear any counsel for the defence, in defending his own client, casting imputations upon the I prorecutor or prosecutrix. But, where such an imputation had, perhaps hastily, and warmly, fallen from the lips of counsel, he would feel it due to the prcsecutor to allow him an opportunity of removing the aspersions. In this ease, if the interruption had not occurred, he should have allowed the counsel rot the prosecution not only to reply to the de fence, but also to call evidence, both that the prosecutrix, Mn. Telford, dial not keep a brothel, and also that the pri soner had fallen from the rothsof morality.—ln asubrequent trial Mr. Dearsley interrupted the recorder while summing up. The recorder ordered the learned gentleman to sit down three successive times, and ultimately threatened to have him turned out of court.—Mr. Dearsley: If you would nay I am out of order, I would sit down.—Recorder : You ' are out of order, sir.—Mr. Dear:sky then sat down.—On the following day, similar interruptions having occurred, the recorder, on putting into exercise his authority, became ' deeply affected—it is said, by some, even to tears—and de clared that he nad never witnessed such conduct on the part of the bar to any judge, in the whole course of his experi ence, and told Mr. Dearsley that he could never more speak to him, excepting purely upon matters of business."—The flail Packet of Friday contains an address to the recorder, Mr. Granger, from the mayor and magistrates present on the bench during the sessions, who express their regret that " Mr. Dearsley should, without the slightest cams', have in suited him;" their admiration of the "mild and gentlemanly manner" in which he rebuked Mr. Dearsley for his " wanton and unprovoked attack;" and their satisfaction with the manner is which he has conducted the business at the quarter sessions. A number of solicitors have also forwarded to Mr. Granger an address, expressive of their sympathy towards him in reference to the "painful and trying situa tion in which he was placed," during the sessions, sad of their approval of his "temperate and forbearing conduct." • • PARDON OP AN INNOCENT CONVICT.—The Hull Packet says " Thomas Drerery is pardoned! On Saturday last Mr. Sidebottom, of this town, the solicitor to whose humane and disinterested ex.rtiona this result is almost en tirely owing, received the following letter from the Home office : To Edward Sidebottom, Esq., solicitor, }loll.—WhitebaU, Jan. S.— Sir,—Secretary Sir George Grey baring carefully considered your application on behalf of Thomas Merely, 1 hare the aatisfactsin to acquamt. you that under all the circumstances of the case he has felt warranted in advising her Majesty to grant the prisoner a free par don.—l am, Itc., S. M. nimbler& Drewery was tried and convicted of bone-stealing two years ago, and is now in Van Diemen's Land. His innocence was e.tablished by a prisoner named Webster confessing himself malty of the robbery for which Drewery was suffering the penalty. Since the announcement of the free pardon to Drewery several letters have been received on the subject The following is an extract from one addressed by Mr . Baines to Mr. Sidebottom, on the Bth inst. ' Most sin cerely do I congratulate the friends of this poor mar; upon the result of your very able, zealous, and disinterested efforts in his behalf. I think you will do well to have the letters inserted in the Hull papers, from which it will probably go the round of the press. This seems a mere act of justice to Drewery's character.' Mr. Baines also writes to Mr. Side bottom on the 12th, stating that he had made inquiry at the Home-office, and there learnt that the pardon was already prepared, and would be sent that day to the Colonial-office, whence it would be despatched to Van Diemen's Land by the first vessel, and recommending Mrs. brewery, if she wished to go out along with her children, to send up a me. morial to Sir George Grey, praying the government would enable her to do so free of expense." PETERBOROUGl3:=Rucllsurprise has been occa sioned here by the apprehension of Mr. Thomas Crane, the postmaster, on a charge of stealing a Bank of England note for 101., from a letter passing through his office. After two examinations before the magistrates he has been fully com mitted for trial. KENT. MEETING OF THE HOP PLANTERS OF KENT.— On Thursday, at a meeting of the hop planters of East and West Kent, held at the Star Hotel, Maidstone, to consider the propriety of petitioning parliament for the repeal of the excise duty on home-grown hops, a resolution was peeled to the effect that the duty on British hops affecting, as it did, one particular clam of agriculturists, was partial in its opera tion and oppressive in principle, and ought to be repealed. It was likewise resolved that a memorial be presented to the Lords of the Treasury by the members of the county, and that the members for the several boroughs in the county be requested to give it their 'support. ANOTHER FIRE AT GRAVESEND.—A PRISONER BUItNED TO DEATR.—A serious fire broke out yesterday (Sunday) in the Market-place, at the back of the Town hall, Gravesend, which resulted in the " Lock-up " being destroyed, and a prisoner burned to death. About half put four o'clock a constable was returning from duty to the police-stains., which is adjacent to the lock-up house, when he observed an intense light in the building. Learning from the officer that there was a waterman named Rugby confined in it on a charge of drunkenness, he, with several ethers, attempted to rescue the unfortunate man ; hut, on the door being opened, it was found impos sible, for the interior presented a complete furnace, the flames subsequently breaking forth from the roof with great violence. l'he corporation engines were got out, and brought into immediate operation, and a plentilul supply of water being obtained the fire was speedily got under. Soon afterwards the remains of Bugby were discovered in the ruins burned to a blackened cinder. The building stood by itself, at the foot of the steps of the market place; it formerly was us. d as the fire-station, or engine-home. How the Ste was caused it is difficult to say ; it is supposed, however, that in the course of the night Bugby had been smoking, and had dropped some lighted tobacco us his straw bed, and aiit it on fire. Information of the oecarresum was name diately fotwarcled to Mr. Carttar, the oorooer, who is en pettad to kAd an inquett on the body this day. umersuiße. COMMPiSIOS BY THE LOIII7LIEUTENANT.-11. P. Coke, EN., ALP., to be deputy-lieutenant. GLOCCESTEUSIIIRE. EXTRAOSDINARVTAiiWI3DIAMV.—At the Chel tenham paliceeourt, on Saturday, a person who bad lately hai troduced herself into fashionable circles as the Lady Ada Alice Wyattville, was shamed with bigamy. It was roved that prisoner was married on Nov. 8, 108, at Kensington, Church, under the name of °curia Sarah Moore de Belle Vue, daughter of Lucius Moore de Belle Vue, Marshal of France, to Mr. Henry Wyatt, architect, the son of Mr. M. C. Wyatt, the celebrated sculptor, of Dudley-trove House, Harrow-road, London ; that after this mamege she went with her husband to Boulogne-our-Mer, who soon after left her, but &correspondence was still kept up between the parties' It was also proved that in May last the prisoner was charged at the Marlborough police office, London, with bigamy, by marrying a person named Koller ; and on the 17th of De cember last the ceremony of matrimony was performed at Cheltenham pariah church, between herself, under the name of the Lady Ada Alice Wyattville, and Mr. Thomas Hinckley, civil engineer, son of Mr. Arthur Hinckley, a gentleman tesident in Cheltenham, her first husband being alive at the time. At the marriage at Kensington the only witnesses were a Mrs Hannah Murray, of Brampton (then Mile Cully), and the parish clerk ; at the Cheltenham mar riage the only witnesses were a man named Edwin Potter, and a daughter of an ostler at one of the principal hotels in the town. The prisoner woo fully committed to take heir trial at the next Gloucester assizes._ ISLE OF ILAN. CONFESSION OF MURDER.—Within the lest few days rumours have been rife that a mason residing in Doug las, and who was not expected to live, had scut for one of the !Makers of the town for the purpose of making a con fession of murder, as he felt that he could not die without revealing the secret. The murder was said to have takes place some eleven years ago, and was perpetrated by three partite, one of whom struck the unfortunate men with • mason's hammer, and afterwards threw him into Douglas harbour, where he was found the next morning with his skull fractur, d, but which was supposed to have been occa sioned by a blow against a vessel at the time of his fall. The man said to Be murdered was Robert Cannon, of the parish of klarown, w►o was very well known throughout the island. CLERICAL PREFERMENTA.—Rev. W. Abbey, to Salton V.. CO. and archdio. York ; 001.: pat., E. Woodall, Esq.—Rev. H. Beanie, to be vice principal of the Westminster Training School.—Rev. T. J. Clark, to Mareham-on-the. Hill P.C., co. and dio. Lincoln; $01.: pat., the Bishop of Carlisle.— Rev. P. A. Dodson, to Haugh P.C., ce. and dl). Lincoln 721.; pat., Misses Horeefall.—Rev. F. F. Edwardes, to Giles: t n R., Glamerganshire, dio. Llandaff ; 801.: pat., Rev. J. Edwardes.—Rev. F. Fleming, to be chaplain of Weedon Garrison.—Rev. 0. Hamilton, to be chaplain of the County Gaol, Durham ; 2201.—Rev. C. B. Harris, to Winster P.C., Westmoreland; dio. Chester; 611., with residence pat., the Vicar of Kendal.—Rey. T. G. P. Hough, to Hem P.C., Surrey, dio. Winchester; 1011.: pat., the Vicar of King awn-upon-Thames.—Rev. T. W. Johnee, to Pennington LancAshire, dio. Manchester; 1411.: pat., the 1/oehy of Lancaster.—ltey. W. Kermode, P.C. of St. Paul, Ramsey, Isle of Man, to be a surrogate for the dio. of Soder end Man. —Rev. T. Langley, P.C. of Landogo, Monmouthshire, to the deanery rural of Chepnow.—Rev. H. ?decree, to the chap laincy of the Bucks County Gaul.—Rev. D. P. O'Connor, to Fotherby V., eat. and dio. Lincoln; 1221.: pat , the Lord Chan cellor.—Rey. E. It. H. G. Palmer, to Gnetham R., co. and dio Lincoln; 275!.: put., the Bishop of Lincoln.—Rev. S. J. Phillips, to be master of the Grammar School, and assist. C. of the Holy Trinity, Brompton.—Rev. J. T. Pigot, to be precentor of the Cathedral Church of Rochester.—Rev. T. Snake, to Framlield C. and Chaplaincy of Ueletield Union, Sussex.—Rev. S. Shepherd, to a minor canonry in the Ca thedral Church of Rochester.—Rev. C. Vansittart to Shutteslirook V., with White Waltham V., Becks; dio., Ox ford ; 6131., with residence: pat., A. Vansittart, Esq.—Rev. W. Randall, to uew district of All Saints, Leeds ; duo. Rip.: pat., the Crown.—Rev. \V. A. Newman, to be Government Chaplain at the Cape. VACANCIBEI.--Forest-hill P. C., no. end dio. Oxford; 8.51., with residence: pate., Lincoln Coll., Oxford Rev. J. Mayor, deprived.—Llanvair Depryn, Clwyd, T., Denby shire; dio. Bangor; 2611., with raids-nee: pat., the Bishop of Bangor.—Market-street P. C., Herbs; dio. Ely; 2271., with residenTe : pat., D. G. Ady, E-q.: Rev. C. Vansittart, prom—Weston V., Yorkshire; dio. Ripon; 511.: pat., W. Vavasoar. Esq.: Rev. W. Carter dee NAVAL Movestsees.—LisnoN, JAN. 4.—The Alert, after a refit., Failed for the roast of Africa. Lift at Lisbon on the 9th : H.M.S. St. Vincent, Rear-Adm. Sir C. Napier; Howe, Queen, Canopus, Amphion, Dragon, Scourge, and Comet. The Scourge arrived at 9 a.m. on the 9th, from Medina, which place she left on the night of the sth. At Oporto en the 10th Jan.. H.M.S. Jackal. No vessel' of war either at Gibraltar or Vigo. POWNYOUTH.—A plan of applying the wheels of steam. vessels, by which, it is said, great advantages will be gained, has been made public. A model, about three feet in length, has been sent to England, in the Modeate, and landed at Portsmouth, for the inspection of the Admiralty. Capt. Henderson ' of the steam-ship Sampson, is stated to be the inventor. The novelty is thus described " The form of the wheels is to be oblique, which will lessen their weight one fourth without reducing the float surface, and the uplift at backwater will not be no great as with perpendicular wheels. and the whole will be more covsred and protected from shot, and the machinery will be much reduced in weight and quantity, and may be placed very low in the bottom. The figure or form of the vessel may be of the finest description ,• iustcad of the hollow or indented side which steam-vessel / generally have a curve may be given. .which would facili tate its being rendered bomb-proof, in way of the machinery at hest. By a slight contrivance for heaving up the outer end of the paddle-shaft, the wheels may be lilted at pleasure from six to eighteen inches, to accommodate them to the difference of the draught oiwater consequent on the evpen. diture of cosi, from day to day in a steam-ship. The "heels being placed ob'iquely will render the ship less liable to the rolling motion complained of in steamship. generally. and much space will be gained for the stowage of coals and stores." Letters from her Majesty's sh artier Sty: have been re ceived up to Bth Nov. Com. Chaste had on that day sent to St. Helena the thirteenth slave-vessel which be had captured, thus proving that the trade was in full activity. The officers and crew of the Sty' were in excellent health and spirit*. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 15.—APPOINTMENT,. puty In spector of Hospitals: J. W. Johnston, to Weliesley.—Lieut, and Commander: R. H. Risk, to Lucifer.—Lieut. W. 8. Miller, to Wellesley.—Surgeens : J. R. S. Duff, to Ocean; W. McCrea, to Vindictive.—Mate: W. E. Stone, is Strom ' boli.—Assist. Surgeons: G. Gordon and L. J. Montei.h, confirmed, to Sampson ; J. P. Lawrence, to Ganges ; R. P. ' Chapman, to Torch ; J. Henderson, to Hasler Hospital.— ' Chief Engineer: G. K. Keeton, to Firefly.—Clerk is Charge: G. B. Elle., to Bonetta —Clerk : 'T. Mellery, to ' Victory.—Masters' Assistants: R. H. Rusden, to Wellesley; F. Nixon, to Havana.—Midshipman; W. C. F. Wilson, sod F. N. Primrose, to Wellesley.—Naval Cadets: J. Coles, to Sealark ;J. C. Wells, to Wellesley ; lion. H. C. Eliot, to Prince Regent.—Clerk's Assistants: W. B. Hutchison, to Penelope; Exsto, to Ganges.—Assist. Reenters: W. Furley and J. Fookes, to Firefly.—Boatswain: W. Rawson, to Acheron. MEDICAL. COLLEGE OF 81:110E0Nb —The following gentlemen passed the examination and receivid diplomas on lath test.: —Messrs. B. Nlallam, Hammersmith; H. H. Brown, Brielington, near Brisol ; G. Kerr. Parham, Suffolk ; P. S. Warren, Kinsale, co. Cork ; C. Johnson, London . J. Ro binson, Bolton-le Moore; D. Wfiliams, Swansea; F. King, Wootton, Abingdon; H. Davis, Birmingham; C. Morgan, Hewn, Suffola ; A. Adams. Royal Navy. At the same meeting of the examiner'''. Nevis passed fur naval surgeon, and G Pardon passe i u naval assist Ant. -• ^ • THE HEETZEIAN ORATION.—The council of the Royal College of Sur.teons have just appointed Mr. It. D. Grainger to deliver the annual oration in memory of the founder of the Hunterian Museum, on Monday, the 14th of February, teat day being tne anniversary of the birth of John Hunter. APOTHECAKIEs . HALL—Names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practire,.on Thursday, Jan. 13, 1848 :—T. C. Jackson, Clitheroe ; W. H. Aland, Bideford, Devoe ; It. Rayner, Birstal, Yorkshire. SPORTING. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—Fatnay. The only beta laid were upon the Liverpool Steeple Chess at 20 to 1 each mot St. Leger, Jerry. Pioneer, and Wol. verhampton, tied 25 to 1 each apt the Nigger and Latitat. CHESTER Cur.—Only one offer of 1,000 to 15 eget Jos 0' Sot. DERBY.—Springy Jack inquired after, ►ut nothing done. LEAMINGTON AND SOUTHAM STEEPLE CEASES. GRAND OPEN HANDICAP of 20 son. each, 10 ft, and 6 only if declared on or before the 19th instant. St. Lope, Chandler, Proceed, Jerry, Sir Arthur, The Nipper, Caven dish, Discount, Salute, Profligate, Tansworth, Chronometer, Culverthorpe, Spectator, Bozkeeper, Gazeley, Matchless, Repealer, St. Ruth, Chatham. Alesander, Gaylad, Edward the First, Naworth, Esale, Gayhuret, Evergreen, Miss Fop. Law inttiltanltt. EQUITY COURTS. Before the Lord Chancellor. MAITLAYD V. BACALIOUSR.—PROMIABORT N 07111.-- 0 VAILDIAN AND WAUD.—IN/UNCTION. — The Lord Chan cellor gave jadgment on Saturday upon the motion heads cue, which occupied parts of the four preceding days in ar gument, by Mr. Rolt and Mr. Cairns, fur the motion ; and Mr. Bethell and Mr. Biuudgette contra. The motion was to dissolve an injuncti,n granted by the Vti.o.Cbancellor of togland on the 18th of November last, to restrain the de fendants, who are bankers at Bishop Auckland, In the north of England, from proceeding in an action at law to enforce from Miss Maitland the payment of a promissory note for 6,0001., drawn in Ma , ch, 1848, by Mr. Donald Maclean, for merly M.P. for Ozford, made payable to Miss Maitland, and rndorved by her. The note moss given by Mr. Maclean to Messrs. Pakelon and Vaughan, iron masters, near Bishop Auckland, and pared by them to the Messrs. Backhouse, in liquidation of their account at the Bank. Mr. Maclean was declared a bankrupt in July, 1846, and the Messrs. Backhonae brought an action against Miss Maitland to recover the .6,000/. dee on the note, whereupon this bill was filed in her behalf In ____ ___ _ ______. 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