The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-21 00:00:00

send you the detnib as won as I can have them from a comet wuzcv. The Welland Canal is open, and American vessels ps.. through as usual. It WUb telkirted it had been shut to thvin. BOSTON, A rum 4. You will observe in the Boston papers of to-day an set oun: of the arrest of another fugitive slave, his examination this forenoon, and his being remanded over till toonorrow, to give his counsel time for eosi n:talon, and to prepare for his d. fence. Shortly after the arrest of this negro last night there was an alarm of the, and the watchmen, as uoial, tolled the various church hells. &e. While in the performance of this duty one of them was at tacked by Mr. Fletcher Vs elroter, it is presumed under the idea that the watchman was ringing an alarm for the rescue of the poor negro, which re tu!ted in the watchman's being knocked down, and the arrest and commitment of Mr. Webster to smol, where he was kept till this morning, when he was brought bel'ore the police - court , and gave bail for - his appearance on a future due. Mr. Fletcher ‘‘ chster is the only son a Daniel Webster, the secretary of state, and besides being a member of the bur. is Surveyor of the Port, a hurative office in connexion with the Cus tom-house. The pipers say he was drunk when the tumuli was committed. You will likewise find a report of an address by Mr. Rantoul last evening at Lynn. in this neighbour hood, in which he takes high &maimd against the fugitive slave law. Mr. Itantoul is a man of high standing in the democratic ranks, and was Attorney- General for this district under Mr. Pull - 's adminis tration. A meeting of citizens is ailled for this afternoon in trout of the State House, to take into considera tion what ought to he dune in relation to the negro unikr arrest. They are requested to assemble "with out aims: . The military are ordered to be in readi ness this escning in ease of any attempt at rescue. FATHER OAVAZZFS SIXTEENTH ORA 110 N, YESTERDAY, LN THE PRINCEas s CON CERT HALL " EASTER THOUGHTS." The great Christian solemnity found an able and effective exponent of its consolatory reminiscences, and we question whether from any of our metropoli tan pulpits were put forth more forcible appeals to the deep einivictions and warm feelings of a sympa thising auditory. All the time-hallowed and myste- Thais assueiuti )))) s commits' with the great festival of , the lielirtw Passover were conjured up to illustrate' our hopes of deliverance from every' degrading yoke of moral us well us social mid political oppression. From the rescue °fan enslaved andsuffering tnla: out of the thraldom of the Pharaohs to the bright enjoyment of independent nationality he derived encouraging inferences of Providential interposition on behalf of similar victims to alien cruelty and bondage, in every utter age ; dwelling with suggestive emphasis on the denewrativ diameter of the Mosaic liberator, his hauglity worn and defiance of the Egyptian court, and his assertion of Isriers right to tin• long arrears of retribution for accumulated wrongs. When the liabyl 111 l ion captivity lid in chains the chosen peo ple, a people meant us a type and nmdel tier every roweetsling rave of nutitkinel placed in analogous cir cumstance* of coutpuisory serfdom, he pointed out the uneompromising anti stubborn nationality of Daniel, its well as the pious piitriotisin of Estrus ; and when Ant iiichas tyrannewil over the land, he traced out with fi:rvid and vigorous elo cution the struggles and self-sacrificing devo tion of the spirited and illustrious Muctabees. Coming down to the advent of the universal Re deemer, whose hficssed presence on this earth was a divine effort to raise the fallen, to comfort the afflicted. to redress the grievances of gemming and grovelling humanity, he showed how antagonistic were all the precepts of his divine teaching to the vicious and vile pretensions of worldly and profane misrule; bite fearfully he denounced the violation of the poor HUM. and the weak man's claim to full brotherhood with the rich and the strong; how he went so far as to identify himself in no especial declaration with the lowly and the outcast, making personal to himself the outrages of pampered pride, perpetrated against the least of his representatives. The great and salutary remembrances of his suffer ings and death at the hands and at the instigation of the constituted authorities, urged on to the deieidal deed by a corrupt, a pompous, and overbearing prirs.thinsil, were (Invalid with wholesome truths right upplieatile to emitemporary occurrences, and calculated to impress kindred (Minders (if nut callous to all but tangible and temporal influences) with the dismal consciousness of their flagrant hostility to the gospel ; while the victims of their disregard for that Christianity sun which they thrives! and trafficked found mime and soothing sticeintr in the tae nom Ws this awful anniversary firings round. The sp aker proceeded to demonstrate the importance of Christ*. nsuirreetion am the groundwork of our belii 1. and us the must astounding of all the miracles attendant at the inals-god's career on the earth he et 111“. to regent:nit.: and reform. The evidences of the fact itself wen: sifted and set forth with power ful cites-Land the various cavils of the Sadducte, of the sceptic, and the rationalist. grappled with and discontlitisL This portion of the discourse, how ever terse and to the PuT'' was not perhapa dis tinguishable from the sup argument held through out the thousand pulpits of London during the day, but the I n shay and promptitude of his reference* to scriptural propiney, as well as scientific illustration and philosophic itulueti ~,, . gave testimony to the amount of studious inquiry he had brought to bear on the subj. et. He established the connexion be (retell that great doctrinal truth and our own hopes of it glorious uprising in the immortality of body and soul, which was the ennobling aspiration as well as the cornetive and stimulating belief, the safegnatd as well us comfort of humanity. It taught lessons of endurance , to the downtrudden, commended a hem virily antidote to the lip's of despair, infused a balm' into tlw cup of sorrow. whik , it mingled a wholes' sonic wormwood in the draught of the thoughtless and hearties* voluptuary. Th ol e wAS abundant w arrant in the vision of Ezekiel to extonil the prom's-els of resurreetion, and from the 1:11Cre in die idual contemplation of the just man's palingeuesis to OM. It a atimparotaggrepte and national resuscitation. A field covered with dry Wills.. where the vulture and the obscene 'anion dog had d ' thi it work, was spread out before the gaze ut the prophet; when, with rustling and rattling sound, at the suite ut Omnipotence, the oseuary expanse became animate with motion, muscles and integuments were resumed, and a mighty array of reconstructed manhood stood erect at the bidding of the Must High. a consummation it required not the gill of prophecy to anticipate, in the deigns of a just Providence, fur our lung-sufferiag country. The cry of centuries has reached the ear of mercy, and the hour of redress and revival is ut hand. The fragmentary . articulations and disjected mem bers of Italian nationality have shown an unmistakeable tendency w coslesce and combine into a living body, and rtvatne once inure an attitude of vigorous vitality. A lie ing Italy burst of late on the siew ui startled Europe', auif, however briet the apparition,:it sufficed to belie the Saddu man theory of a non-existent tile beyond the political grave. it is true that by the combined agency of foreign potentates and a wilier priesthood, the sell-same hideous instrumen tality by which the divine Redeemer was put to death, our nationhood ILLS beta forcibly immolated and reconsigned to a temporary tomb: hut we scout the silly and fastidious imputation ui profanity, when we profess our sure and certain hope 114 well as fond reliance on the justice of heaven, our sticulfast belief in the ultimate renewal of that vitality. Was the innocence of the Just One or his life long carver of benefkamee any bar to his death as a crimi nal ? None. Then let not Italy murmur at such requital fur the lesson* of civilisation. A Pope and his cardinals could not be expected to wet otherwise than the high priest and tine Sanednin. nor the Jesuits than their predecessors the Pharisees. A leading agent in the dread business of Calvary was Pilate, the nrocousul. Tradition had handed down his origin : he was a Frenchman. (Shouts of adhe sion.) They show en the bunks of the Rhone the place' of his birth dud of his retributive suicide, ou returning to the fitting land of his nativity. A book published years ago in Hoar, from the pen of a Do minican friar, labours to prove the cohort of soldiers which did duty on that occasion to have consisted of recruits front UAW, and that the crowing of the rink merely indicated the sound of the Oallic trumpet. (Cheers.) To conciliate ; the emperor was Pilate's apology for this official murder— to propitiate , the Czar was u sufficient incentive for the pre indent of republican France. (Cheers.) Was there no / modern impersonation of Herod the Tetrarch, an in tro ive potentate, claiming kingly authority within the very precincts of Judasa, with his hands deeply imbrued in the blood of her children ? Is not the usurper of Lombardy that man? (Cheers.) And need we indicate the Vatican as the locality of Caiphro, or identify as the de liberate betrayer of Italy the Iscariot Neapolitan. (Pro longed cheers.) Foul confederacy of ignoble plotters, look well to your handiwork! strengthen your army of occupa tion! double the guard ut the Sepulchre! A year is but a day in the history of nations 1549 was that of Italy's im molation. She may yet sleep in earlshe tomb over which you keep sentinel—but the third y advancing, the merit able 111d2. (Continued cheers.) be Court. WINDSOR, SUNDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning in the Slopes. The Royal nunily took walking exercise. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, his Roval highness the Nutted' \Vale., the Princess lineal, the fsdies and gentle men of the court, and the doniestic household, attended divine service this morning in the Private Chapel of the Castle. The lion and Rev. Gerald Welh , ley officiated. The Duchess of Kent also amuded the sers ice. SATURDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning in the Slopes and Wind.), Park. The royal family took their accustomed airings. The royal dinner party this evening included the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny llow.tril, Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Couper. Despatches were sent off on Saturday from the Colonial office, to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and to the Governor of Malta. Despatches were also sent off to the Governors of Ceylon and Hung Kong. The Bishop of Oxford preached the sermon yesterday at the Chap,l Royal, St James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, the lessons by the Key. Mr. Helmore, and the communion service by the Bishop of London. bir George Smart pr sided at the organ. The Bishop of Lon don administered the sacrament. OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—John Scott, Esq., is appointed Lieutenant-Onvernor of the island of Latium. J. llamblen and Algernon Montague, Este., are appointed members of the Executive Council of the Falkland Islands. Mr. henry Thornton is appointed Officer at Arms for the L Order of St. Michael and St. Cleurge.-06serrer. DEATH OF LORD LANGDALE. Henry Biekersteth, Lord Langdale, late Master of the !tolls„ died on Good Friday, at Tunbridge Wells, to which place he had lately repaired for the benefit of his health—impaired by long-continued mental labour, resulting in a paralytic stroke, which took place shortly before his death. The deceased nobleman was born on the ISth June, tlst3, in the county of Westmoreland, where his father was pos sessed of a small property. Originally destined for the medical profession (of which his father was a member), in which he had completed his studies, he visited the Continent with the family of the late Earl of Orford, by whose advice he was induced to embark on the career of the bar. lie entered Caius College, Cambridge, where he took his degrees as senior wrangler in I POS. Three years afterwards he was called to 1 1 the bar by the Society of the Imicr Temple, and engaged at once in the duties of his profession. Mr.llickersteth rapidly rose to great eminence in the Equity Courts, to which he confined his practice. On the 19th of January, 1539, he was appointed to succeed Lord Cottenham as Master of the Rolls, and was at the same time called tothe House of Peers. But a few months had elapsed after his accession to the musterohip of the Rails when Lord Langdale delivered in the House of Lords his remarkable spe-ch on the administration of justice in the Court of Chancery, and on the appellate jurisdiction of their lordships' house, and to the opinions 'expressed in that speMh, and in favour of the division of the duties of the Great Seal, Lord Langdale constantly adhered. Upon the resignation of Lord Cuttenham, last year, the Great Seal was more them calm ten dereil to Lord Langdale by the head of the present administration; but though he consented to art as First Commissioner, and sat for a short time in the BOSTON ELECTION.-RETIRI ALDERMAN WIRE. On Saturday last. Mr. Wire suddenly retired from the contest, leaving Mr. Freshfield, the tory candidate, in unopposed possession of the field. Mr. %%Ire's resignation created much regret amongst a large number of the elm- tors, who immediately called a meeting of the constituency, fur the purpose of taking the circumstance into considera• tion. Mr. W. !LOWDEN, Jun., civil engineer, was in the chair. Mr. Wire addressed the meeting upon the questions of free trade, agricultural protection, and other t01d.... lie coincided with the idea that this election was by no means to be considered as a test of the feelings of the m.os pie of England in general on the great question of free trade, and he believed too that an attempt to return to pro tection would endanger the peace of the country. A resolution was unanimously adopted expressive of regret at the loss of Mr. Wire's services, and of hope that although die " True Blues of Boston'' have been thrice de feated, the time is not far distant when the freemen and electors will act firmly, unitedly, and in defiance of all trickery and inconsistency in professed liberals, and thus secure the triumph of genuine liberty and reform. Mr. Wire's committee intend sitting during the election, and it is expected he will be proposed at the nomination. Mr. Wire left the town per train late on Saturday night. Previous to his departure he published a farewell address to the electors, in which he Ores the fol lowing summary of the causes which led to his retirement: —" Although time has not permitted me to canvass the whole of the electors, yet I have seen a sufficient number to ascertain that two causes would prevent my success, unless I resorted to those corrupt mean+ which I cannot and will not adopt. The causes to which I allude arc, firstly, the cry fur ' protection' ; and, secondly, the apathy and opposition of some of the professeiny liberal party, who, sooner than see a man of the people returned to serve you, sacrifice their p iples and desert the cause they have formerly and with P4l much zeal espoused." The nomination takes place this day. REPREsF.NTATION or ROCHDALE.—Since the letter from Mr. Bright, M.P., which we published last week, of mune the requisition to him has been suspended. We are informed that it received a larger number of signatures than the whole of the conservative party in the borough, although no systematic canvass was made. On Thursday evening, a meeting of the reform committee was held; and, after considerable discussion, but with much unanimity of" feeling, it was agreed to request Edward Mizell, Esq., of London, to meet the elector, and to address them in explana tion of his political views. The day of the meeting will he fixed to suit Mr. Miall's engagements. We believe no other name was mentioned at the meeting of the conitnittce that was thought at all likely to meet the opinions of the consti tuency of Itechibile.—Maiteliester Examiner. ItErlttaaBNTaaloN OF OXFoittislilltr..—A meeting of county gentlemen was held ut the Star Hotel, on Tues day last, to concert Ittea.Urt, for securing, at the next 01.C tion, the return to parliament of a member or members in conjunction with Mr. Henley. Seseral speeches were made, expressive of regret at the change which had taken place in Lonl Norte ys'a political opinions, which hail obliged his lOrmer adherents to withdraw from him their confidence and support, and to seek another representative in his place. The Marquis of Illandford was mentioned as having. by his steady adherence to the agricultural interest, and his uni• berm support of protestant principles, entitled himself to their support ; hut it was intimated that his lordship was not disposed to encounter the expense of a contested elec tion. In consequence of this intimation, Col. North was solicited to stand ; but he declined, and Colonel DAWkili% was then pressed, but he also declined. Other names will: ONO mentioned with no better suceess ; but, eventually, Colonel North acceded to the wishes of the meeting, and COIONAltell to go to the poll and contest the county. With respect to Mr. Ilareourt, his parliamentary conduct ap peared to have given almost as much dissatisfaction as Lord Surreys'; melon consequence', the gentlemen present con tented themsele es with an expression of their unqualified approbation of the conduct of Mr. Henley, their determina tion to support him at the next election, and to use their exertions to secure the return of Colonel North, in the room of Lord Surreys. TILE Ito Fat. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENG LANI).—WCCOSOIt, Amos 17.—A numerous and highly respertahle meeting was held this evening at seven o'clock in the Town-hall, the mayor in the chair, to receive the ; report of the local committee appointed at a previous meet ing for the purpose of inducing the Moral Agricultural Society of England to hold their great annual show of stock, Ac., in the home Park at Windsor. The report, which : elicited genera! satisfaction, went to show the complete NUC C 0,4 which had attended the labours of the committee. I POSS.:S.4On of the grounds will he given on 12th May, when the necessary buildings will be commenced under the direc tion of the society's architect, Mr. Manning. PROPOSED 'ENTERTAINMENT IN THE MIDDLE ' Tea ea E. —The follow i nits the programme of the entertain ments to be given by this ancient society to the judges and ' the liar of France who may . honour this country with a visit to the great exhibition. I_ pon the announcement of their arrival they will be invited to breaking, at half-past 11, to , be given in the magnificent ball, ut which the bur, in costume, will attend and receive them in state. After 1 which they will be tonducteel over the beautiful church, and shown the other curitaitica of the Temple. On a subs , ailment day they will lw invited to a grand dinner I to the hall, at which the barristers of the Middle ' Temple will be present in full bar costume. No 1 , students can be admitted on this occasion, on ac- I count of the large number of the bar of the Inn. I The only toasts allowed to he proposed will be " The 1 Queen," and "The Judge* and the Bar of France who this day honour us by their presence." A full hand will I be stationed in the gallery. On a subsequent day to be I named, to suit the convenience of the French bar, a grand ' hall will he Mien in the Middle Temple Hall, to which no ' English ladies will be invited but the relations and per- ' sonal friends of the bar of the inn, each member to lie I limited in numbers. This will be the Mg ball given iu 1 the hall of this inn since the days of Queen Elizabeth, who 1 honoured it with her presence, and who danced there. Upon the whole, the arrangements will be such as we trust ' may gig; satisfaction to our French neighbours, and con- vino. , them that a more intimate relation of the two bars is I among the most earnest of our desires. I ROYAL MANCHESTER INSTITUTION.—The subject ', of their annual exhibition of pictures, ite., has recently , engaged the attention of the council, and they have , determined by every means in their power to improve its , character and quality. One great cause of the mediocre exhibitions of late years has been that they were fixed dur ing that of the Royal Academy, and necessarily excluded all the great pictures sent thither. In future, the Manchester exhibition will not open till after the closing of that of the asodeins, and it is therefore possible to have some of the I gaga pictures of the season at our local exhibition. But some further inducement is wanting ; and the council have accordingly determined this year to give an additional prise of 100 guineas to the best oil painting, not previously cxhi , fated, save at the academy, which shall have been painted ; idnee 1849. The exhibition this year is to Ise opened early in September, and works of art must be delivered to the agent in London or Edinburgh, on iir before the 9th Au gust, or otherwise' must reach Manchester not later than that day.—Manchester Guardian. ROT.tL BANK OF AUSTRALIA.—OR Saturday, an application was made to his honour, Master Richards, to reconsider an order made by him, calling on the executors of the late Mr. J. P. Robinson, who was one of the direc tors, of the company, to pay over to the official manager 2,400/. balance hull to 114: due in respect of unpaid calls. Mr. Jarman, of the firm of Messrs. Bevan and Co., based the application on the power given the master in the act to " discharge, vary, or enlarge the time of payment" on an order made, and further contended that under the 66th section the master had no power to make such order except upon original entries in the books of the company, and not upon entries since made therein by the official manager. The third call was not made in conformity with the 49th clause of the company's deed, there being only four directors present when there should have been five, and the fourth call was made after the death of the testator, out of whose estate there now only remained 800/. in hand. Mr. Daniel, who with Mr. H. Harris, ap peared for the official manager, explained that it was the duty of the official manager to complete the books on the footing of all the facts and original entries, there being scarcely a case of one of these companies under the ope ration of the act where the books were perfect, and he was then to declare the balances found to be due from share holders. In the present case, though there were only four directors present, the third call.was subsequently con fi rmed by a general meeting, as prescribed by the deed, and even if the fourth call were deducted it would leave 1,9001. due from the estate of the testator, who went out to Sydney as one of the managing directors, and who owed 23,0001. to . the estate irrespective of the above sum due upon shares. His Honour declined to discharge, alter, or vary the ori- ' &sal order, which it is understood will be appealed against. MATING THE COLLEGES.—The question of rating the colleges and halls at Oxford to the poor is again likely to occupy the courts of law. Some tint,' since we stated Nat the parish officers of St. Peter-le-Bailey had made a saiture of plate, the property of Dr. Wellesley, Principal of New Inn Hall, under a distress warrant, issued by the Mayor and Alderman Sadler, for the nonpayment of a rate armed upon New Inn H all. The rev. gentleman re dososed the plate by paying the poor rate and expenses, sail nothing having been beard of the matter for some =it woe hoped that the authorities of the hall were of the justice of calling upon them to pay towards the rabsf of the poor, This anticipation has, however, not less realised. At the board of guardians, held on Thurs day, a notice served upon the clerk was mud to the board from Dr. Wellesley, stating his intention of bringing an ac tion against the magis trates who signed the warrant, and the parish o ffi cers w ho made the seizure. The trial which took place some years since between the guardians and i Exeter College cost the inhabitants upwards of 2,0001. A ; public meeting of the ratepayers will, it is expected, be held to decide upon what further steps shall be taken in the matter. FOR PROMOTING FEMALE EMIGRATION. —On Saturday a body of female emigrants,-36 in number , —under the patronage of the Hon. Sidney Herbert, and the members of this association, sailed for South Australia in the ship Malacca, commanded by Captain John Adams. The enugrants embarked at Gravesend, and were anomie& on theirdepartute by the Rev. W. Quckett, and other gas Semen, who hare taken an active part in furthering the objects of the society. The Malacca is a line vessel, of 700 'tom burden, belong to Messrs. Green, of Blackwell, sail the arrangements on board appeared to be of a diongansg peculiar' lj adapted to meet the comfort and ccamesissaes se Um emigrants. Lord Chaney Hues Court and in the !Labe of Lords in that capacity, the intense application to which the state of the Court of Chaucer• had condemned him forbade any further stretch of his powers. his lordship married Lady Jane Harley, eldest daughter of the late Lord Orford, by whom he leaves one daughter ; his peerage, therefore, becomes extinct. Lott!) Ileot'llll.lAl AND THE CoUNTY CoURTS.— Lord Brougham has titer bill in the House of Lords on the County Court:, which has just been printed. It is en titled, " An act for extending the jurisdiction of the County Courts to certain nutters cognisable in the Court of Chan cery." It it proposed to effect some " Chancery reforms," by giving equitable jurisdiction to the County Courts and to the Court of Bankruptcy. in London. It is well known to be useless to go into Chancery in a matter of 2ielf. or 30W., but by this bill persons may enter claims in the cases of creditor, of a pecuniary legatee, of a residuary legatee, of an intestacy, of an executor or administrator seeking to have the estate administersi, of the administration of a partnership estate, of a person seeking to use the name of a trustee for the administrat' of an estate, and for the appointment of a trustee. In all these matters the County Courts are to have jurisdiction hy summons, as well as the commissioner, of bankrupt in London. The Lord Chan cellor, and Master of the (tolls, or a Vice-Chancellor, ure to make rules as to practice, and the amount of fees out emits to be charged. The hill is to lie read a second time alter Easter. CoUNTI ConosEnsiiir.--A smart contest has just taken place for the curonership of one of the divisions of Warwickshire. At the outset there were three candi dates, but some time prior to the election one of them, Mr. l i Field, of Leamington, retired ; thereafter the struggle was between Mr. 0. S. Poole, of Kenilworth, and Mr. Smith, lof Warwick, partner of the late coroner. At the close of the poll, Mr. Poole was tho victor; the numbers being fur Poole, LDS; fur Smith, till. LIVERI•O4 It. DOCK COM mirrEE—The usual meet ing was held on Thursday. Mr. Littlislide in the chair. A Communicatiou was read from the Liverwil Chamber of Comment, requesting the support of the Dock Committee SO the memorial of the chamber in favour of the appoint meat of Liverpool us an additional government emigration dep....t. A cop, of the memorial was read. Some little discussion resulted as to the propriety of the Dock Com mittee taking any steps in the matter. A resolution was repassed to the effect that the chairman of the Dock Com mittee transmit a memorial to goveruint lit on behalf of the committee, showing the advantages from this town having a depi'd fur emigration, to be erected and conducted at government expense. This was adopted. SrEct.u. ALLOWANCE OF lOU/. BEIt ANNUM.—CoI. Turner. unattached, has lately been placed on the list of the AO brevet colonels receiving the special allowance of lout. a year, such officers having served on full pay for at least 30 years. ENtaNEEWs . CoMM.INO AT PORTsMOUTIL—This command, vacated by the appointment of Colonel Lewis, ('li., to the Lieutenant-Governorship of Woolwich Aca demy, has been given to Colonel Sir Frederick Smith, K. 11., who fur a long time held the appoiutment of Director of Field Instruction at Chatham. ABDUCIION AND SUICIDE.—On Saturday Mr. 11. M. Wakley held an inquest in the Royal Free Hospital on Martin N% Alden, a married woman, aged l&—Henry Philpot, of 13, Boston-street, King's.cross, where deceased also lived, said that on Wednesday last he heard deceased's shrieks, and, going into the hall, saw her running down stain, while she exclaimed, " I have done it—l have done it." She foamed at the mouth, and tell inscusible in the passage. With the least possible delay he conveyed her in a cal, to the hospital, and on the way she muttered, " I have taken oxalic acid.”—David Thomas Walden (humpbacked and dwarfish) said that he hod been mar ried to deceased eleven mouths. On Monday he beat her, gave her a black eye, and caused her nose to bleed, be cause he suspected that she had been drinking rather freely. During the live last weeks she was very dejected, and repeatedly exclaimed, " 1 cannot live--I must die." He asked her to explain what she meant, and, upon being preseed to tell the cause of her grief, she said, " I will tell all. About five weeks ago, while I was going down Brewer street, I was furred by a gentleman into a cab, which drove off with me. Soon after I was put in the cab I lost my senses• and when I recovered them 1 found myself lying in Oxford-street. The gentleman who drugged me into the cub is an artist, living in Portland-plate. He dishonoured me. I must die. I don't know where he lives." Witness promised to forgive her, and endeavoured to quirt her, but in vain. She had twice before attempted suicide, but prompt remedies saved her life. Dr. Itobertsou said the deceased had been an out-patient of the hospital for some weeks. Ile had treated her for sore throat. On mak ing a post mortem examination of the body he found that deceased had died from the effects of oxalic arid, of which she hail taken a large quantity. The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased had destroyed herself, but what was her state of mind when she committed the act there was no evidence to prove." SUICIDE OF AN ENDINEER.—On Saturday an in quest was held by Mr. Bedford, at the Feathers, Pimlico, on the body of (s. S. Dainty, Esq., aged 3d, who resided in Belgravc-road, Pimlico, where he committed suicide by dis charging a pistol through hie head. Evidence was gives by a servant that, on Thursday morning last, about nine o clock, he heard a loud report in deceased's room, when, on going there, he found him lying on his bed bleeding from his head, while there was a smell of gunpowder in the room. Mr. IL Prendergast, Lincoln's-inn, Meister, said that he had known deceased many years He was for some years at Malta and Gibraltar, employed by the government as a eivilangiueer. He had relinquished that profession some months. About 12 months since he was married. In Sept. last, witness had a communication with deceased and his family, in reference to his pecuniary affairs, as he was in a state of considerable embarrassmeat. He had raised some money on reversionary interest, which was nearly ex pended. These difficulties, witness was of opinion, weighed upon his mind, and he had latterly appeared to be labour ing under gnat despondency. The winess knew that de ceased thought he could not recover from his difficulties, Mr. G. Johnson, surgeon, said, that on Thursday morning I last he was sent for to see the deceased. There was a pistol, which had been recently discharged, on the bed. Deceased died in three minutes. Witness examined the body, and observed an °rifles', on both sides of the mouth. The lower jaw was blown away, and the whole of the upper jaw was shattered. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1851. THE " GUILD OF LITERATURE .11s7D ART." Some weeks ago it became publicly knows: that Sir E. llulwer Lytton and Mr. Charles Dickens, with some of their literary friends, had resolved upon trying to esta blish an institution for the benefit of tho-e who followed literature as a profe.sion ; that Sir E. Bulwer Lytton had agreed to give the requisite land on which a building might be raised, and moreover, to write a new drama, which Charles Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, and other amateurs were to play in public ; and that the proceeds of such per formances were to go towards a fund for the projected in• stitution. Much attention was drawn towards the project, but nothing more was made known on the subject except that the first performance was to take place at Devon• shire House, and that the Queen and Prince Albert were to be present. We are now able, however, to give full par ticulars of the affair. The new society is, it appears, to be called " The Guild of Literature and Art ;" and the pro gramme of the inaugural performance is as follows : DEVONSHIRE nousE. On Fridiy Evening, 16th of Div,. ISM, The Am-dour Cowpony of (be Guild of Literiture and Art mill hart , be honour of performing, in preornee of MAILALY AND It, , ROYAL HitiliALAl van Panics ALLAY, A New ( (wordy in Five Actor By S,r Edward Bulwer Lytton. Dart., called NOT 80 BAD AS 'WE SEEM; or, Many sides to a Character. Driaatis Person*. The Duke of Middkent Mr. F ank Stone. 'llin Earl nt Loftus LOO Wiaet Mr. attadowly tleftheed Mr. Hardman .. ...„. ...... „. ...... „ Mr Junn Furrier. Str Geogrey Tiniest , * .. • ..... Mr. tismarnough fry Mr. F. W. T„ (.hum. Lord Le litaiws— ....—.— Mr. Parr Cunningham. the 'Fhouwa Vold "„ Mr. Westland Marston. Col. Hod „. Mr. It. 11. Hon*. Mr. Joe* Asses ..... Mr. Charlie Knight Smart .... . Mr. WWI* l'ulitna. Hodge .................. Mr. John fenniel. Paddy 4 /Monti, to Mr. Robert neg. Mr. David Vallee Mr. Augurtua Egg, A.B.A. Illiewiees, WatehMCll, 3114 i Drama,. Lucy 'Thr=_ .. ra. . ......... ... ... Tie Illisat Lady of Ileadman's Lane. Barbara Easy. Date of the Play—The Reign of George T. Reene—London. Time support d to be omuniM, from the noon of the drat day to the afternoon of the recontL The TLeatre will be opened ut Eight o'cluelt : the Performance will Mein at Nine precisely. - - • •• - It appears that the spectators of this first performance are to pay five guineas each for admission ; but subsequent re presentations at other places will doubtless be given at much smaller rates of admission. The institution which is to be raised with the money so obtaiued is thus described " Prospectus of a New Endowment in connection with an Insurance Company, for the Benefit of Artists and Men of Letters. Office, 10, Lancaster-place, Strand. Honorary Secretary, Mr. William henry Wills. " lOth April, ISM.—It is proposed to open, at a life office of acknowledged respectability and capital, a branch in surance and provident society, solely fur the professors of literature and of art. " Within the former term are understood to be compre hended all writers, of either sea, of original works or dramas, or of not less than twenty original papers in perio dim's.* Within the latter, all painters and sculptors who make the tine arts their profession, mid all students of the Royal Academy of England, Scotland, or Ireland. " This society will embrace the several objects which the members Or a prolesdon may be most disposed to secure— such as life insurances, at rates of premium calculated as payable either for the whole term of life, or as altogether ceasime to be payable at a certain age ; annuities, to com mence at a certain age; pensions to widows; payments destined to the education or provision of children, die. '• In connexion with this society, by which it is intended to roinniend and enbirce the duties of prudence and fore sight, especially incumbent on thOW whose income is wholly or mainly derived front the precarious profit of a profession, it is proposed to establish and endow an institute having at its disposal certain salaries, to w hich certain duties will lit attached; together with a limited number of free residences, which, though sufficiently small to be adapted to a very moderate income, will be completed with due regard to the ordinary habits and necessary comforts of gentlemen. The offices of midowinent will consist : "let.—Of a Warden, with a house and a salary of 2001. a year. " 2nd.—Of Members, with a house and 1701., or, without a house, 2001. a year. 'tiled.—Of Associates, with a salary of 100/. a year. " For these offices all who are insurers in the society above mentioned are qualified to offer themselves as candi dates. Such insurance is to be considered an indispensable qualification, saving in exceptional cows (should any such arise) where an individual can prove that he has made every effort to insure his life, but cannot find acceptance at any life office, by reason of impaired health, or of advauced age, at the date of this prospectus. " Each member will be required to give, either personally or by a proxy selected front the associates, with the air Loprowl of the warden,t three lectures in each year—one in ndon, the others at the Mechanics' Institutes, or some public bonding suited for the purpose, in the principal pro vincial towns. Considering the many duties exacting time and attention that will devolve on the warden, he will out be required to give more than one lecture annually (which, if delivered by a proxy, he will, health permitting, be ex pected to compose hinisell), and that in the metropolis. " These lectures will be subject to the direction and con trol of the managing body of the endowment. They will usually relate to letters or art, and will invariably avoid all debateable ground of politics or theology. It will be the endeavour of the committee to address them to points on which the public may be presumed to be interested, and to require dispassionate and reliable information—to make them, in short, un educational and improving feature of the time. "The duties of associates will be defined and fixed by a council (consisting of the warden, the members, and a cer tain number of the associates themselves), :tecording to the previous studies and peculiar talent of each—whether in gratuitous assistance to any learned bodies, societies for the dittbsion of knowledge, &e., or, as funds increase, and the ' utilities of the institution develop themselves, in co-mo ting towards works of national interest and importance, but on subjects of a nature more popular, arid at a price more accessible, than those which usually emanate from professed academies. It is well to add, that while, on every account, It is deemed desirable to annex to the receipt of a salary the performance of a duty, it is not intended that such duty should make so great a demand upon the time and labour, either of member or associate, as to deprive the public of their services in those departments in which they have gained distinction, or to divert their own efforts for indeptudeuce from their accustomed professional pursuits. " The design of the institution proposed, is, to select teethe appointment of members (who will be elected for life) those writers and artists of established reputatiou, and generally of mature years (or, if young, in failing health), to whom the income attached to the appoint ment may be an object of honourable desire ' • while the office of associate is intended partly Cot those whose toils or merits are less known to the general public than their pro fessional brethren, and partly for those in earlier life, who give promise of future eminence, and to whom a temporary Income of 1001. a year may be of essential and permanent service. There are few men professionally engaged in art or letters, even though their labours may have raised them Into comparative wealth, who cannot look back to some period of struggle in which an income so humble would have saved them from many a pang, and, perhaps, from the necessity of stooping their ambition to occupations at variance with the higher aims of their career. " An Associate, may, therefore, be chosen for life, or for one UT more years, according to the nature of his claims and the discretion of the electors. " It is further proposed that the Members and Associates of the Institute should elect a certain number of Honorary Members, not exceeding fifty, among persons the most eminent of their time for letters and art, or the most known for their attachment to either, combined with other claims to social distinction. The presidents of the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Literature, and of the Lite rary Fund, will, by virtue of their office, be entitled, if they so please, to become honorary members. " The body thus formed of actual and honorary members, will comprise the electoral constituent hotly, and determine Iby vote upon the claims of all candidates fir the office of Member or Life Associate.: It is obvious that the consti tution of any similar society should be centered in itself, and comprise all the necessary checks; free from the control of any purely extrinsic body. It is presumed that the con stitution here proposed will be the one most calculated to secure the objects designed by its founders. The actual members and associates will represent the class to which they belong, viz., authors and artists by profession ; while the majority of the honorary members will be likely, from their circumstances of wealth, or social pceition, to be free from the jealousies and partialities incident to all professional competition, and only interested in the gene ral cause and dignity of letters and art, to regard without personal rivalry and prejudice the claims of the several candidates. The originators and promoters of the scheme thus briefly detailed are themselves either artists or authors, fa miliarly acquainted with the wants and feelings of the great mass of their fellow-labourers, anxiously &slums to • This limitation is inbmilid to Wilds incidental contributors to periodicals, who may not he attsched tellbrature aa • proleision. • The mnalasion to leatime by yew entire those coat in which a termini as lorapacitated int pildirming that duty by age, infirmity, or the skew of micitgealimilsms as WO meenery be public sped/. tai t be the lastniteatioseil mom Ohm done, nasiogom to bin cinno• niarc a per ..e s y nits, will be Mini be lie gab nand emitted..a will diminish the clef at Warn which the members = etiessias et tbe intimates nibs band coilectively to 'donde tor the pn& 2 Wine a andidete be=l meetelate any mateade be a tee t = " watet le the mil la a el ge = Ili sis e ntseessil • is Wig limb/ et inemieteet bean inn en many the menee et eliik .u &elbeinel edleme nd artists - are Mob M i tt ben et** nubs et en candidate , or Winne of nen= the en=zelenent mg node, w his career. OM, le pan wine In embelenemt Monti in au ease be emmisit WithealllSSlO sift etbreb It would be alma de martie tint the 1010611 almeit Mabeeei bees along the member., re gaimhste mig imuldes lbentebee; mai die beellen. 22 be Is le nein at bib nip a pen mew stab par, 60d le embell the Mend ilabilbe int menempemene; as It will be listen te andisee we dawns OM my umbel emit be will be bonstet Is wend cement ebb nes et 11.01.8. MA rt. emba—n kls widen thee. Wile Me blellienti e he 110061 . Woo 69122 2 2• 01 211121nama atinerament et don by .." Irma 26222108 Warar . la tititabley. mei nem mine ow Wis ir li iniiiieh Mid NI. le brie a waft ilipiN at . • aid those distinguished in pursuits similar to their owe; whose youth they have seen prematurely broken by noble ' struggles fur independence, or whose age they have wit nessed a suppliant fur bounty, so administered as to embit ter every memory of service, and humiliate every honest sentiment. _ . of pride. But they desire to extend whatever aid they may have the power to proffer or suggest, in the mode which seems to them most respectful to the members of those pro fessions that give to all nations hi which they Nourish the least disputable title to respect. They desire that the aid should necessitate no degrading plea of poverty —no pain ful exposition of calamity and want; but that it should hear the churactor of a tribute to merit, nut of an alms to desti tution. " It is obvious that no fund would suffice to support all those who have unsuccessfully applied themselves to litera ture and art; nor, did such funds exist, could so indiscrimi nate an application of them be contemplated by the pro posers of this plan. A large proportion of artists and authors fail simply because their abilities are not suited to the profession they have embraced ; and a fund applied to the relief of these, though it might serve as a charity, could nut pretend to be a tribute to merit. Although, therefore, every insurer to the company which is connected with the endowment proposed will have the right to offer himself as candidate for the place of member or associate, it is hoped that the election will always bill upon the worthiest candi date, without subjecting him to any inquisition as to his private affairs or resources. The application fur the office should be held a sufficient presumption that the candidate dues not disdain the modest salary attached to it. lu fine, the object of the promoters of this plan for the benefit of their brethren compatibly with the cignity of their calling, would be greatly misunderstood unless the plan were regarded, first, as a means to support those fitted by industry ur talent to render sees ice to mankind in the curlier and ruder steps of their carter; and, secondly, and more especially, as an uttering of gratitude to those who hare made their order illustrious, maintained the renown of their country in literature and art, or, even in humbler depart ments, contributed to the enjoyment and instruction of man kind. The fuunders of this endowment bold out to all whom their society embraces the best saleguardsagainst the future which it is in the nature of insurance societies to provide, while exacting front each the reasonable guarantee, that as far as his means may permit, he has exercised that ordinary prudence to the want of which the distresses of a class have been popularly ascribed.. To those writers enrolled in their society whom sudden vicissitude may befall, and to whom they cannot offer the posts at their disposal, they leave the appeal to that occasional relief to which the laws of the Literary Fund confine the uses of that noble institu tion. But the especial n:sources they desire to create are those that would enable them to smooth the earlier path of a future Southey—to sustain from despair the youth of a future Chattertou—or, should a new Burns arise, to offer, at the hands of men ennobled by the honours and degraded by the humiliation of one of their brethren, something more suited to the vocation of genius, something more worthy the ornament of an age, than the place of an exciseman. " It is with these views, :end to express inure emphatically the nature of an association which neither arrogates the disputable aims of Ulm academy, nor professes to bestow the humiliating charity of an asylum, that it is intended, in • accordance with Rae name given by old Saxon custom to societies in which the members of a class contributed to the benefit of each other, to call the institution proposed 'The Guild of Literature and Art.' The residences attached to the association will be simply designated lodges. " The Life Insurance °fibs: with which it is proposed to co-operate is the National Provident Institution, 4tl, Grace church-street, London. Selections from the tables of that establishment are now reprinted for the purposes id this Society, and will be by this Society circulated with all needful explanation, and through every possible channel, among the Professors of Literature and Art. But, on all Insurances and deferred Annuities effected in that Office in connexion with this Society, it is already in the power of this Society to guarantee to return to the insurers five per cent. ou the calculated premiums. " lu the hope to bring the plan they thus define into general notice, and to form the connuentement of the ne cessary fund, its originators have agreed to exhibit certain Dramatic Representations in London, during this year DOI, sous to place before the public, at a time when the other pro ducers of the country will receive a memorable attention, the claims of a class whose productions form not the least honour to England in the eyes of a foreigner. " Expressly fur these dramatic representations, which will be under the management of Mr. Charles Dickens, a new comedy in five acts has been written by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, and by him presented to his fellow lotion rers in the origination of the present scheme. It will he acted by Mr. Robert Bell, Mr. Wilkie Collins, Mr. Dudley Costello, Mr. Peter Cunningham, Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr. Augustus Egg, A.lt.A., Mr. John Forster, Mr. R. IL Horne, Mr. Douglas Jerrold, Mr. Charles Knight, Mr. Mark Lenten, Mr. J. Westland Marston, Mr. Frank Stone, Mr. John Tenniel, Mr. F. W. Toplemi, and others. Por tions of the scenery have been presented by Mr. Absolun, Mr. Thomas Grieve, Mr. Louis Hanky, and Mr. TOM'. Mr. Maclise, ILA., has offered to paint a picture (the sub ject arising out of these performatees) and to place it ut the disposal of the Guild. Sir Edwin Landwer, ILA., has also earnestly expressed his wishes to aid the design. Valu able assistance has been rendered by Mr. Benjamin Webster of the Royal Haymarket Theatre. " The first performance will take place at Devonshire House, which his Grace the Duke of Devonshire has most generously and kindly devoted to tin, purpose, on Friday, the 16th of May, when her Majesty' the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prime Albert will graciously honour the performunee with their presence. Other representa ': tions of the comedy and an original farce will after wards take place at the Hanover-square Rooms, where the moveable theatre, constructed for the purpose, and opened at Devonshire House, will be erected for those occa sions. "Should the dramatic representations be tolerably' success ful, it is expected that their profits (which will in due course be announced) will suffice nor the erection of such buildings as are ut present required—the ground being already obtained as a free gift from Sir Edward lialwer Lytton. For farther support to the endowment by sub wription, and especially by annual subscription, it is in ! tended to appeal to the mildie, with the confident assurance that it will he found worthy of support by all who would generously desire to assist authors and artists themselves, in one resolute effort to lilt the chiefs of their class front the • chances of famine, or the relief that is bestowed upon a pauper. The day, at least, has come when eivilisition should no longer forget the eivilisers ; and when some earnest attempt should be made to free our age and nation front the charge of callous and ungrateful inditterence through life to those who, after death, are revered as the luminaries of time, and ranked amongst the loftiest nubility of a land. " In conclusion, the originators of the Guild of Litera ture and Art (into the more minute details of which it is not now possible to enter) most earnestly iivite the co-ope ration of their brethren of all degree's, and &sure them that the invitation is prothred in a paternal spirit, and with a single desire to serve and raise the common cause. There are few who cannot render some aid towards tide end. As the originators have resolved to allow no slight consideru tions of personal inclination or convenience to stand between them and the solid and enduring help they hope to give, before the year is out, to the proposed endowment, so they look for the true support of all their brethren, confident in the worthy nature of their own motives, iu the justice of the case, the comprehensive spirit of the project, and the strength of union. " And they assure their brethren that in all future pro ceedings, as in this initiative step, these will be their claims on the confidence of their order. ' • It is father intended to appropriates portion of the firods ob tained, to nerve us tempura! WOOS toto>uch iwurers as an unusual prca-ure of ,ideer-e aroma-lances may, in any one year, disable from paying their customary insurances out of their own raluurces. TIIE NIAGARA, Captain Leitch, left the Mersey o, Saturday for Halifax and Boston, having on board the mails for New York, Quebec, Montreal, Newfoundland, Re. She carried out about 50 passengers, being a smaller number than has of late left Liverpool for America by this line of steamers ; but nearly all were parties engaged in trade and commerce, many of those who have arrived by recent res. eels remaining in this country fur the Great Exhibition. The Niagara took out, also, a good general freight, chiefly, we understand, for the spring markets. The weather was remarkably fine, and a favourable wired for her outward passage. fhe Canada, from Boston, is the next inward bound steamer, and is hourly expected. OMNIIIUS IMPROVEMENTS. —ln consequence of several proprietors of monibuscs basing been sununoned on the charge that their respective 01111.111)11 , 1,11 did nut afford to the passengers the space required by low, :a:vend of these vehicles were brought to the Guildhall:yard on Saturday for the inspection of the aldermen,befurc whom theinformations had been laid. Amongst these were a Paragon and a Fa vourite omnibus, the former running between Brix- , ton and Rio Bank, and the latter between Wing tun and Westminster. Mr. Iranklinski, the proprie tor of the new patent omnibus now running between Bayswater and Charing-cross, also exhibited his vehicle. i The old omnibuses were measured, and it was stated that they ought to allow sixteen inches to each inside passenger, and the question was, whether they did so for the three end passengers ? In the Paragon, the end seat was detached, a decidedly improved arrangement, the end seat holding three, and the two side seats fire each. The patent omnibus has seats fur ten inside and ten out, allow mg from 24 to 28 inches for each inside passenger. This vehi cle presents some advantages which omnibuses have not, each inside passenger being boxed off so as to be corn. pletely isolated from his fellow passengers ; but there is a window between each box which can be let down, so that two adjoining passengers may converse; but the window cannot be let dawn without the consent of the passenger on each side of it. Another convenience is that the conductor is communicated with by drawing a string, which strikes a bell. The seats or boxes are up prow:lied by a platform, and the top is reached by steps at tho back, so that the passenger can mount much more conveniently than he can upon the other omnibuses. The division as to the old omnibuses will be found in another column. DEATH OF A MILITARY KNIGITT OF WINDSOR.— The l'aited tierrice Gazette mentions the death of Major Cnedock, one of the Military Knights. The late Major Crsdock served formerly in the 73rd, and had received the war medal for his services in the Peninsula, at Busaco, Albuhera, Badajor, and Salamanca, lie also served at the campaign of 1815, and was present at the battle of Waterloo. WINDWARD AND LEEWARD biLANDsIGOMMAND.— Major-General Wood,C.B. (local rank of lieutenant-general) lately appointed to this command, accompanied by his two aides-de-eamp, Capt. Deshon, 48th Regiment, and Capt. Ramsay, 66th, left England for Harbadoes last week. APPREHENSION AND COMMITTAL 01 TILE REMAINDER OF THE FRIMLEY GANG. HORSHAM, SATI . HHAY NIGHT. The announcement that the remainder of the burglars implicated in the recent Frimley tragedy and the outrage at Lckfield House would be examined to-day at the Town hall before Mr. Aldridge and a full bench, on a i charge of having committed ;mother daring burglary, KA to the Court-hoese 'WHIZ densely crowded, gypsies forming a large portion of the auditory. At 12 o'clock the prisoners were placed at the bar, viz., John I, , iILIC , ••the captain tel the gang," Samuel larwood (brother of Levi Harwood, who was executed at Horse monger-lane Gaol, for the murder of the Rev. Mr. Holiest), and James Hamilton, the approver in the case of the Uck field burglary (six of whom were at the late Sussex Amizes transported for life). Harwood, it will be remembered, was implicated m the murder of the nufortunate clergyman, but it being shown that he was not in the room wheu the shot was tired, he was acquitted, but was again apprehundexl on a charge of burglary. Gams was the ring leader of the gang who broke into Lektield-house, but eon trived to etfeet his escape until a few days since, when he was captured at Frame and lotlg..d Lewes gaol, on Lund Campbell's warrant. it being necessary to produce him at the magistrates' examination of the charge in which Har wood and Hamilton were concerned, a writ of MAT" corpus ' was übtaiued, and this morning he was brought by train from Lewes gaol, heavily ironed. On being placed in the dock with Harwood, it was evident that they had been ac quaiuted with each other. Harwood, who was cognisant of his brother having been executed, appeared exceeningly downcast. Hamilton, the approver, attracted considerable notice. !laving been under the peculiar guardianship of the police, he has been enabled to assume a garb of re spectability, widely contrasting with his former tattered, and apparently destitute condition. The prisoners liming been charged with breaking into the dwelling of li;irriet Stoner, at Kirdfonl-common, and stealing moneys and other properly, the following evidence was gone into : Mm. Harriet Stoner was the first witness called, and she proceeded to state, at some length, the facts attending a burglary which was committed at her residence on Kird thrd-commun, mar l'etwurth, on the month* of the 4th of last June. She keeps a small grocer's shop; suet between 3 and 4 o'clock she was aroused by the crashing ice of a door on the staircase. (It may be stated that the burglar, oh taimd au entrance by removing the glass and iron bars of a back window.) On hearing the noise she got tout of bed, and went into the back passage to rail her servant, when she was seized by two men, each of whom had a pistol in his right band and wore a black mask. 'They threw her down in the thissage, and demanded her money. Each men heid a pistol by the side of her head, and the other man stood in front a ith a eilkd in his hand, which he flourished over her head and throat. she am not able to speak, in consequence of the violent manner they held her down. One 111;111 pressed on lier tom, and ; hergrasped her throat. The Ono, used most violent language, mai threaten. d to blow her brains out if she did not give up her money. Otte whu held a pistol said, " Tell us where your money is." One of tho others said, " Blow her brains out if she dm" not telt" She Was much alarmed. The mask of the man who held the chisel tell front his face, and he drew it back to put it 011 again. The soul said, " Don't hurt her, don't kill tor." Two Mull came from her bed-room with her keys, und desired her to lied them her money. She to ggeel of them to spare her lite. The man who held the chisel kept behind her, and the other two men still k. pt the pistol pointed to her head. She gut to her bed roma and gave them her pocket, containing about 10/. in money; they took other articles. lit all there cure live men ; they went out by the back dour; one passed her a few moments after ward', and pointed a pistol to lit r Lead ,aying, .• Silence." Afterwards examined the 11011bC, and found the drawers and parts ransacked ; discovered that the back sliolea autism had Men cut epee, (0111111 the passage, and a man's cap in the bed-room. Outside saw some pieces 01 candle wrapped in mar, at the window which had been taken out. Chairman—Can you state whether you eau identify the prisoners as being the seine men you saw in your house ?" Witness— •• I have heard the voice of Samuel Harwood, and I be lieve him to be our of the men who had hold of me, and held a pistul at my head." "Can you eve the person in court who resembles the man who stood before you with the chisel?" Witatess—"l have no doubt the prbanicr, John ',macs, is the mail." . . lsa.ies and Harwood here denied all knowledge of the robbery. Henry Ekiniiml, in the employ of Mrs. Stoner, spoke of the eure state a the house Nhvit theyretire . d to . rtet on the evening of the ith of June. lle identified letue being the wan who stAiod before the priwecutrix with the chisel, uud Ilurwood as one of the men who held the pistol to his mistress's head. . . . . Air. Henry Ilmare, timlwr merchant, mid, that on tho evening of the robbery, while walking on the high road to Guildford, he SilW several men, and identified Harwood as one of them. June Itethrington alm deposed that on the evening previous to the rubbery, llamiltou came to her cot tage to light a pipe. There were six men in the road, and Harwood was one of them. The Clerk to the Bench then rend neer a statAnu at which the primmer Hamilton bad made. It wag to the Maiming 'the voluntary csnif•.'. of Jame. Hamilton, who faith that Mgt gpriog was the hind time 1 wet with Isaacs at Farnham-et. ttttt nom. lie has no regular rviddenee, but lives in a travelling waggon. Ile came to me there. 1 wag making bechit,. He had two donkeys. 1 bought one ; he told me it wa. a stolen out. I gold it. He planned it out to make a robbery at Kirillord, near l'etworth. lie went to Guildf.rd for two 111111 to help, and brought !rick three men ; two of them were lw•ri Harwood and Samuel Harwood, and the other J. •s Jones. John Jones, alias Smith, went with Isaacs to Huildhird. Issues told me to meet them at a plate called lliding's-hall, in Godahning, and bring their old clothes and a dark lan tern ; the lantern 1 carried. They all live came and met me there, making six of us. We agreed to go two at it time, and meet in a wood between Kirdford and Hall's Cross. We all six met them. When night came two of us went forward to watch the place we intended to rob. The other four, of whom I was one, remained until the other two mut back to us, at the lone barn by the side of tho road. We all stripped and disguiwil ourselves, mid put on masks. We all went to the him.. on Kirdford-c ~,,, mon. 'the name of the woman is Harriet Stoner. The Guildf o rd men broke through the shotti•rs and took out the whole pane of glass; one went in and let the others in. We all looked about the shop to find the money, but we did not find any. They went into the kitchen and the stairs-loot door was fastened. The woman heard them and said," Who is here ?" Several of them bunt open the door, and we all ran up-stairs. The woman screamed and ran into another adidning room. Isaacs took hold ot her to stop her noise. flu mask of Isaacs slipped oll'. The WOMOtt gave one of the men I. pocket. It was reported we took 10/., but 1 did not se any of it. We only shared 3s. lid. each. Ni, one was taken up fur this robbery. We parted, and I did not see the Huildfiird Melt any noire. This was the first time 1 WAS led into it. 1 think this was the last week in May." The Chairmur then asked him if he would have any objection to sign it. Hamilton replied that he had 11111 l e, and accordingly made his .4 mark," nut knowing hues to • write. The Chairman then informed the prisoners, Isaacs and Harwood, that the case for the prosecution had closed, and that the bench hail decided on committing them for trial fur the burglary at the next assizes. • The prisoners were then committed for trial at the next assixes—Hur wood to Petwurth gold, and llamiltun and Isaacs to Lewes gaol. We understand the police have other charges to bring against these men. Mt:MIMI AT JlinsET.—On Friday afternoon, at about b o'clock, the inhabitants of Upper Ilalkett-platewero alarmed by a report of fire-arms, which proceeded from tho house of Mr. M . Haw tins, known as the lied lion Inn. On inquiry it was found that M. Fouquet, dentist. who oc cupies the first floor of the said house, had discharged a pistol at a man named Derbyshire, by trade a shoemaker. Dr. Hooper was uoriordingly hint for, and on examining the wound pronounced it to be mortal, and ordered Der byshire to Is, conveyed to the hospital. From the report in circulation it seemed that Derbyshire and his wife, not having lived on very amicable terms, a short time since separated, when the wife loctook herself to the °aro of Fouquet, to whom she acted as housekeeper. 'three months since lk-rbyshiro went to the lodging of 'nu quet, and after wane words of rather tut minions:eat na ture the dentist mode nn attempt Olt Derbyshire' , life by firing at him through the door ; the hall, howevio., missed bin. On Friday Derbyshire 'repeated his visit and demanded some article , which his wife had taken with Icr. Fou quet was at that moment absent, but on his return remota strated with him fur entering hi, apartments, mad seizing loaded pistol, which he kept by him, diseharged it at Derbyshire, the bull passing through the unfeetunato 1111111's body. By this time Ceutenier Pixley had arrived, to which officer Fouquet delivered himself up. The unfortunate mum expired on Saturday, at half-past I o'clock in the after noon. Being fully seienble, and retaining all his pre-hence of mind, Derbyshire has been able to make a full statement of the facts, which lie signed before his death. An inquest was held on Sunday morning, at 9 o'clock. After haviim visited the apartments in which the murder was committed, the jury returned to the hospital, where the Ludy of Derby shire was identified and examined. Several witnesses were heard ; and, after a sitting which lasted five hours, the jury returned the following—atardieth— " That the death of Derbyshire has been caused by a rifle shot, which was fired at him deliberately and with premeditation by Fouquet." —The victim of this murder was 37 years of age. The ball entered at the left side ; and, after having gone through his body, came out at the right side, and went right through his hand. FORTUNE-TELLING AND IfORBERY.—On Saturday ; an old man, named George l'atfield, was brought before the magistrates at Bristol, charged with having obtained mo ney under false pretences. 'the eomplaimints, Mary lirpint and Anne flutings, two very respectably *amid ladies, stated that they turd been induced to go to the house of the prisoner, in Gravel-street, to have their fortunes told ; that ; : agak n soh d edhith sti ste l e.fiem be wgroto t n i es : dl t h etal a i t ead' t h mvhe e y t h • e oonul himself.ada have great trouble, and almost immediately afterwards that m use pon they would be very prosperous, and have everything their h e i tea-cup,atviint plated andma n tan d d u ee t nt theirho e l m i s omea d t oi doing hearts could desire. Not being satisfied they took up the money which they had placed oa the table for his reward, and were leaving the room, when he seised them, and com pelled them b, give bins the money. Ile then followed them into the street abusing them, and wan taken into eus tsocleby a passing policeman. One of the ladies in the e lost a gold, brooch valued at 41. The magistrates committed him for three months with hard labour. ,1 i 1 . z