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Latin intelligence. THE REV. R. WIIISTON r. THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF ROCHESTER. TRIKD DAT. Ife,brday Mr. Aillist;nl agat --: n resumed his are ▪ bef..re the Bishop of Itochester, with whom Mr. Baron Parke and Dr. Legiington, the chancellor of the diocese. act r araires. The dean and chapter were represented by Dr. Addams and Mr. Cowling. Mr. Whiston observed that yesterday he had conclusively proved that the gravies delactuut of statute 3.5, under which he had been dismissed, meant a very aggravated case of ina• morality, or, as Mr. Cowling, in the case which had sent his (Mr. Whiston) hither, had translated it, "•erinse of a blacker dye." Ile now submitted that, even if the publication of his pamphlet were a graviur delicturn, he was not one of the alii rainistri contemplated by the founder. The onus prohandi in both eases rested entirely with the dean and chapter. but the rev. gentleman entered upon an elaborate examination of the statute*, from which he con tended that the word mini.tri referred more particularly to the dean, minor canons, and clerks ; and that wherever the statutes meant to include the other often, the words ceteri or outer et singuli were added. Ni;, more, when it waa to refer to the schoolmaster, he was even in serted name. Surely the founder would never have aced such a roundabout mode of expression as ministri in clitoris, puerorum iuformatorm, at inferiores soinistro," if such a compendious phrase as "alit manistri " would have included all. The fact was them alit nunistri were the menial.; and to confound alii with eeteri would he just as if, when t h ey intended to pay a compli ment to a gentleman, they added to his name and title, in stead of the " etc., etc., - the " Newstate Calendar " phrase of " alias, slim." (A laugh.) Again, by the statutes, them slit asinistri were ordered to be dismissed by the dean by whom they were appointed, and not by the d-an and chap ter by whom the higher members of the establishment were elected. Mr. Whist on then quoted a gteat number of cor responding phrases from the University statutes. Besides all this. there was an eapre.. provision fur the removal of the schoolmaster in statute _'6—" Ue pueris grammaticis et cornea informatoribus," and the court were aware of the legal maxim, '• expres.io union, ezclusio alterius." That statute prosodist tine his removal for negligence, or for unfit mem for hi. 0111,e, t t which a gravies dictum would evv taint; amount. Mor:over, the bead-master took recce dance of the minor cations. Ile walked before them in the procession; and, by statute 3d, he was ordered to sit in the neat seat above them in the choir, and the noel...master in that below them. B. side, the statutable allowance of the heasl-master was larger than that of the minor canons. Ile was to have Id'. 13.. Id.. the minor canons 101. each, and the lay clerks W. There was another circumstance which he might mention. Ile (Mr. Whiaton) still retained his place in the choir, and the chapter had given the new master whom they had appointed one of their own stalls, thus placing him on equality with themselves. Ile (Mr. Whim ton) contended that the statute spoke of the officers in • descending scale, commencing with the minor canons, and that, therefore. it was not meant to apply to him. Mr. Baron Parke asked what power ot punishment there was with respect to the head schoolmaster. Mr. Whiston +aid th it by the statute de visitations the bishop, every three year., waa to hold a sisitation, at which all the members of the establishment were sworn to disclose everything touching the state, solvantare, and honour of the church, and then the bishop had the power of punish ing all delioquents. Mr. Baron Parke said that this construction of the sta tutes would allow the head master, whatever might have bin his ulrenets, to hold his office until the next triennial yisitatiou. " That no pence was by the law of the land dismissible from an office not holden at discretion for words spoken or wiitten, excepting they were of a criminal character, unless by the special ordinance of the creator of the office." The first case the hon. gentleman quoted is support of this pronoeition was the well-known amusing one of Bagge, re corded in Coke, Part VI., in which the plaintiff hal been removed front his office by the Mayor of Pl> mouth, in 1610. Bagge seemed to have beeu a very turbulent fellow, and to have abused the mayor very grossly, notwithstanding_ his oath " reverentiam prestare " towards his worship. Thus on one occasion, before the said mayor and many other in ' habitants, Beggs " contemptuose et scurriliter, tam tics ' tank quasi verbis se emit ergs prosfalum?dajorens, et one ' aliquil rationabili causil, palam et publice dizit et props titbit prelate Msjori—' You are some Prince, are you ?' " ' On other occasions it was stated, with the sane gravity of ' circumstance, that he called the mayor " • cozening heave," and " an insolent fellow." Bagge was thereupon admonished by the said mayor " mitlasimis verbia " to de sist, but he nevertheless continued to behave in the same " more inhuman* et incivili." It was after a great num ber of warnings Bagge was removed, and he (Mr. Whiston) could not foebear remarking, that the mayor and burgesses of Plymodth, in 1610, showed much more extra forbearance and gouil sense, and much less of anger and unchristian vindictiveness, than the very rev. the dean, sad the revs. the canons of Rochester in 1849. This by the way. What he quoted the case for was, to show by it what was the common law of the land its such matters, and that was briefly declared in the first clause of the judg ment of the upper court in this cue—" super tots maters et es cassia pnrilictie "—it was resolved by the Court that there was no just CALM' to remove him. That judgment had been overruled—it was still the law, and the law, too, of more arbitrary times than ours—and would the court, is the face of it, say that there was "no just cause " for removing Bagge, but that there was a jive cause for removing him (Mr. Whiston) ? lie could not believe it—for another part of the judgment declared that " words of contempt, or contra bonus mores, although they he against the chief officer or his brother, sre good causes to punish a man, or to commit him until he has found good sureties fur his good behaviour, but not to disfranchise him." This was, in free the same doctrine as that taught by the collegiate statutes, " that contempt was to be punished by a temporary withdrawal of comment" The rev. gentlemen also quoted the cases of " Rex v. the City of London " (Ler. 2, p. 200), and the " Queen v. Rogers (Salkeld, 424), and that of " Bentley" (1 Strange, p. 567, and Lord Raymond. 10314 The last case was as academical one, and therefore morn relevant than the others. In it the same charges of applying opprobriums terms against cul kgiste dignitaries and his brethren in the m inistry, and superiors in age and station, as made against him, was urged against Bentley ; and that the punishment was a de privation of dignitit s originally conferred upon him by the depriving power. Bentley was sued also for the return of moneys which he had illegally exacted, and there was no provocation for the opprobrious language he applied to the summoning officer. But nevertheless Bentley was restored ; the law (or which he (Nlr.Whiston) contended was affirmed ; and the remark' of the judges proved so fully the truth of his proposition, that he would quote them at length : " Chief Justice l'ratt said—' As to Bentley's behaviour, I must say it was very indecent, and if he bad said as much of our process we would have laid him by the heels fur it —(a laugh)—when he said the Vice-Chancellor smite egit (played the fool), it was what be might have been bound over to his good behaviour for; but I believe it is also es tablished that such a behaviour will not warrant a suspen sion or deprivation. The Viec-Chancellor's authority ought to be supported for the sake of keeping peace within the University, but then he must act according to law, which I do not think he has done." " Justice Eyre said—' Every court has a power to punish contempt to itself, but merely for a contempt they cannot deprive—we punish our officers, we do not turn them out. Though the Vice-Chancellor had authority in this matter, must take care he does not abuse his authority.' " He had now, he thought, estab lished all the propositions which he had undertaken to prove, and demonstrated the truth of his assertion that the Dean and Chapter hail unlawfully and un justly dismissed him in contravention of their sta tutes, and contrary to the law of the land. Before he concluded, however, he mast say a word or two about the done—of which they heard so much and seen so li tle. (A laugh.) It was one of the charges against him that he had made assertions without sutficieut inquiry, in asserting that the canons had increased their dividends by the suppressions that had been so lung practised. No such charge, he believed, however, was made against him in the citation. They had not maintained their boys &cooed lag to the statutes; but it they had maintained the 20 boys and the four students, each at a cost of 401. a year, there must have been nearly 1,0001. 5 year more fur them to pay, and surely their dividends must have been diminished by such a payment. The Lord Bishop had said that the Eccle siastical Commissioners had an interest in this question as a reason why he did not interfere. Now, all their interest lay in a vacant stall, which hail been turned over to them. It, then, they had any interest in this question, it must be that the income from that stall would be diminished if a larger sum were paid on account of the maintenance of the boys. The Bishop of Rochester said that the &mous fund would be diminished, but not the income of the stall. Mr. Whiston—lf the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had any interest, it must be because their income from the vacant stall would be diminished, and if that were so, then of course the income from all the other stalls would be dimi nished. If, however, any satisfactory explanation could be given no one would rejoice more than he, and he should be ready to apologise. But until they produced their accounts, it was not competent to them to say that he was calumnious in saying that money left for certain objects was not appro priated to these objects. lithe places of the bedesmen, and the grimmer boys, and the other visitors were not filled up, and there were any reason for that, they had no right to put the money in donna, or anywhere else, but they ought to go to the Court of Chancery for a scheme to apply the money in some other way. lle did not believe that in his book he had said positively that they had taken the mammy to increase these dividends, but till they showed their accounts he was justified in saying that suspicion attached to the matter. Let them show their accounts to his lordship, and then his lordship could judge truly whether he (Mr. Whis ton) ought to have been dismthed from his office. If they did not, ought they to have dismimed him hem his office without ilisproviag a single feet that he had alleged ? He would, however, repeat that he bad not said that they had suppressed their offices to add to their dividend, and that was net charged in citation, Dr. Lealtimben—l think the following rage it sup plied, in the shades. to allude to that rah eet In fact, mstibieg bat the amerance of such eyespot 7, and the con sciousness of a righteous cause, with faith in the power of it, could ham semened the persevering and single-handed efforts which I ham mode to prevail upon the Dean and Chapter 'any set the intention of their foamier,' via rimy peeled et justice and equity, whisk they ease malaieisi mist seseessiblly and advantageously, to keep their :=:r and which they now abandon to keep up sheir Mr. Whetee admitted the passage bore that construction but contended that the facts he had proved warranted it. The Vice-Chancellor (Turner), in IslB, said that the dean and chapter had a scheme before them with regard to the d y. llboys, but it had 1 another occasion, Sir George Turner had said that 401. or ha a-year was not too much for a grammar boy's maintenance; and if his scheme was constructed on that scale, it would involve an additional expenditure of 1,0001. He could nut, therefore, see what other motives they could have but to add to their dividends. The rev. gentleman then continued as follows :—lt is now mere than four years since I first applied to the chapter, nearly three and a half since I applied to the visitor, and nearly three since I was dismissed. My first application was made to vindicate what I felt to be the just and indisputable claims of the school over which I was presiding, with no feeling or expression of disrespect to the chapter, but with a determination not to desist till either those olma had been proved to he unfounded, or some disposition was shown to concede them. My lords, I ask you, upon a review of all the facts and correspondence, whether, before I appealed to the visitor, I did not use every effort in the patient endeavour to obtain justice in the gentlest manner, and get redraw by the most peaceful means. No ono can, I am sure, deny this: and not till I had found all else vain, did I appeal to the visitor. From him I obtained the most distinct promise that he would cause the appeal to be heard, and I again, painful as it is for me to do so, remind your lordship that, had that promise been kept—had your toed ship acted as the Archbishop of Canterbury did in the Del. with cue, and as the Bishop of Chester has recently done, without any appeal, my pamphlet would never have been published —most certain)/ ! never should have been dismissed for it—most assuredly I never should have been charged with a very scandalous libel against the bishop of the dio cese. But unhappily, most unhappily on all accounts, your lordship failed to do that which you had promised— The Bishop of Rochester—That which I found 1 could not do, as I told you. I promised in the first instance to do that which I then supposed I could, but which I after t wards toned I could not, and then I referred you to the , Court ef Chancery ; but you must not ammo me of breaking ii irt aL bMsa—Allow me, without any disrespect to your =to spa of the impression that the state of things use ay mind. After your lordship bad promised le her am sad Thad written several letters, to several of which I remdemil no gnawers, it was natural that an impree. dm should be made upon my mind, certainly not of any traimelllising character. But your lordship took no notice of my are to withdraw my appeal, if the chapter would male ells anything like a reasonable answer to my VIM. Yes, losehip kept me in suspense fur more than four mentka, am/ then referred me to a place where nobody would Mks es p—Ste Chancery—(a laugh)—thus imposing on me the empeasibUity of a duty to which the visitor is bound by ths meat mired obligations, and which has iu other playa been dissiarged by that authority. My lords, can any one weeder that,after thus exhausting all the resources open to me, I hit Mat it would be in vain to hope for redress in my ether way than by an appeal to the public ? Could it be seppead that, without public aid and sympathy, I should Use 41111111MONii Chancery suit against the Dean and Chapin , d seshaster,_ your lordship, and the F.eelesiestieal 0111M1111161111111111 6 d whkb, es year lordship said, I might ham Men kept twenty yeses i Barely, I was under no eimrsit an eel el melt folly, and therefore I lw the penwhist leaked. Still, it was done in the permit of • kilthmes eleset, and In the spirit of that ordi msgs a di* Mahe wide expressly orders the grammar masker nell r seedy hM MS OM but the public advantage —" ogee Mee see steam emmedo, aut sun indulgere ode, gram amen pralbsiol, et panes utilitati promics." It was net Mae it male or le s t oat vindictive ness—sot with IMAM se Mw vin—theagit, I WWI, with that mem* end missy which a W pos ur s : I .= smd• Mg lonsiimes whit that • stand bp syMeMilie *Mice • in reply, said it had been ruled that the bishop hail die power to hold a special visitation whenever he pleased. The rev, gentleman then proceeded to argue his point It., namely, that the publication of his pamphlet ma., it not coviduande,l, encouraged by the eattite de visita tione. By that statute he was protected in making any statement he providing that he spoke es anima and what he sincerely believed. Dr. Addscas—Gut that only applies to a piesentment at the visitation. Mr. Whidon replied that the triennial visitations had not been held, and the bidiop had declined to hold • special our, otherwise lie should have made his complaint before him at such a visitation, and he should have had no occa sion to publish the pamphlet, nor would he have been subjected to the cons. quences which had followed. The rev. gentleman's neat point was, that it the offence was committed the sentence was invalid, because paned with. out the accused being uttered • fair and proper hearing. It was true that they had offered him a trial after the first deed pill was cancelled; but how could he expect a fair trial when the chapter in that document had solemnly declared that be an guilty ; • hen the chapter clerk had communicated with his (Mr. Whitton's) bmther-in-law, and recommended him to apply for the office, and when Mr. Roundel Palmer, their advocate before the Court of Chancery, had simply contended that if he had lied a trial the result would have been all the same. All, then, that he could have expected, if he had accepted the offer of men so committed, as the dean and chapter were, was • mere perfunctory compliance with the statute. Who would expect that a man who had obtained • rule for a new trial should submit to be tried again by the same jury, even if they were not interested parties ? In the case of " r. Child" (the Ludlow charity ease), in which the plaintiff was also a schoolmaster, who had wri•ten a pamphlet, the trustees had passed • resolu tion for Mr. N &Ills a removal, but afterward* they did bear hire, and then they confirmed their previous resohnica. Lord Langdale, ie givingjudgment (the last be had ever given), decided that Mr. ti illis had not tad proper means of defence allowed him, and granted an injunction to restrain the trustees from enforcing their resolution. The principle of this decision applied with infinitely greater force to the Rochester case ; and it rested, not upon the refinements of legal technicalities, but upon the leges legum, the very foundatinn of natural law. The chapter had refused to furnish him with the accounts fur which he had applied, to permit him to appear before them by counsel, or even to allow a friend to be present as a witness. Acting then upon the advice of Mr. W. D. Lewis, the eminent chancery barrister, he attended and read a protest against theirjuris dation ; and the rev. gentleman proceeded to give ha ver sion of the interview that ensued. In doing this he came into direct Mine with Mr. Essell, as to a question of fact, and this, Mr. Wheaton observed, proved that he should not have been safe to have attended alone. On the 6th of the following October, he (Mr. Whiston) wag served with • notice, signed by Mr. Email, MO* that the protest had been over-ruled, and suninereed IV to attend the chapter on the following Wednesday ly the advice, however, of Mr. Lewis, he declined to amply with their rte meat and he now submitted that the senlitnen was invalid, because, in the words of Lord Langdale, he bad had no fair and proper hearing, or any opportunity of having one. Mr. Whiston then proceeded to the neat four proposi tions, namely. " ) That the alleged offence was condoned by the re storation, and nu fresh offence having been committed be tween the time of the restoration and the second dismissal. " (0.) That the chapter could not cancel a deed binding themselves and their successors, in which I was • party in terested, without my consent. (II.) That all their proceedings were invalid, on the ground that they scud as judges in their own cause. •'(I ) That all their proceedings after the first dismiasel were invalid, on the principle, • Nemo debet his velari oh smarm canines, et nano debet his puniri pro one delicto.' " Mr. Baron Parke said that those propositions were un tenable. Mr. Whinon complained of the hardship to which he had bees objected. Ile had certainly been punished twice, and the very sharp practice of the chapter in cancelling their lint dismissal had deprived him of his remedy either at law car In equity. Mr. Baron Parke said that, however hard the rev. gentle- MIN case nti:ht be, the propositions could not be main tained. The rat instrument of dismissal was altogether null and veil, tad must be treated as if it bad never been. Mr. Whitton, therefore, passed es to discuss proposition 1., whisk was • purely technical one, nam e ly, " that the Jew gime was net empowered hi the founder to dimaim the schoolmaster, sad that the dela and chapter together had se power to dismiss the schoolmaster, except what was given by the express ordinance of the founder." The rev. teat point was, "that the dean and chapter had not, as they alleged in answer to his appeal, acted conformably with their duty in dismissing him, or been actuated by a regard to the interest of their school la so doing." la preen* this, it would sake to remind their {antelope that, seta public attention was called to the sub ject, the dem and chapter showed so little regard for their school, that they paid their boys only Ma, instead of 21. 1 i. 441., and the second madder only W. • year ,• that they dialled him (Mr. Whitten) after be had reined their school from nothing to nearly 90 boys, and after he bad laid out very an in purchaidsig sad adapting premises for the of the boys whom the f oun d er ev id ent l y intended •• reselvesi, " flocking in from all qua.ten," as said the sedentein until it might have bees like another Ely school, which emaralead, in the time of Queen Elisa beth, sot fewer than AN scholars; and It surely was an additional hardship upon him, that he should have been discharged after baring, with • view to se desirable • melt, purchased and adopted buildings foe the Iwo moulting of neck " 'flock •' of boys, which nisei be, is a rest measure, review to him hereafter; that we an boil ever been made against Wen for tegiect, Inerfli=r . Malnlity—that, within ten deg after hie mood they enetiver, leeeter, whitest adveetkeemet • mejwity of the pram el *MB very • thwedeliss bur, wheat the chapter said be wee utterly malt Mese* would not, although diroolod and shwas. deli/, Mai their tow to the new stalsr, = s the Cheftwf sad, they had Wetted es MOW lit dna me. eel of theca* who did mad their buys he We maw, ender Id. (Mr. Whim) ea abirrertag :rat • maw he we • Melded eweridat wee ands be the Chepter by a pima of ewe ef Mese ben the who Aso isrrostkis Mut, onsioloi Ibis soder, • hompleisrly to Ina woo Os puma of —hot he Clopow, ahoy SW e V: d i= as • moss hr Pain' as I nvossissio Oh bat sow he hot of tbisesophirt boos mob ass polibbod is a Met sownpaiwo—thot. soosgs W hindells• bon chic motor has only Most is osier Noy sad sof wore than two of thong hoe the leollye that if ha were drolly &mimed, bar MI My boys would at once be tabs away km the etbeed. Unless the chapter disproved Ono bele end allegeftwe—and they bed net yet diwoveil ma. of diest--he thengite the Genet would Wee IVA him. wed ousinde Wit Me sire net, se easited,l mod stelbosislay Tit& Wl*. .#O, Ms. Der • boos by s am its INV kly,: a r i not Womb of holt easel, la e Y s Ikk. 1I I I poplin ea— THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1852. end accumulated wrong, where one expels integrigy to be most unsullied, because arrayed in the garb of rag.. and jastice—to be most sell.denying, while enresdno the pria ciples of the gospel. if ever, under mob helinv, with no hope of redress, and " judgment may 1110011 Wi th delays," I used expressions, or even one word, while nal:illy be called Intemperate, must deeply do I regret it; but if I did, do 1 deserve clegrauatiun, persecution, and ruin ? I say degrade tWo, because although, thank God, l hold a position in end from which no one but ore', can degrade me, yet, neverthe less, the Chapter have acted , ' if they meant it. Imy ruin, because, but for the help, and strength, and friends, fur which I hive so math cause to be thankful, I might have been, if not ruined. at least beggared ; and the Chapter have acted as if they averst that toss. .4a fur their persecution— " debit Deus his arm ;" and far rather would 1 have to bear eves t, alma sedan the burden of their self reproach—for what is am heavy to bear than evil fame deserved ; or who can see worse day. than he who, yet liv ing, follows at the funeral of his own reputation ? As I have said elsewhere, I have been supported by the consciousness, and cheered by the happiness, of doing good. Already the poor bete :senor Rochester, some of whom have fought and bled for their country, till &place which has been empty for almost a century, and receive a stipend, which domes has received for nearly 86 years. The poor choristers of Canterbury no longer hand over their first half year's pit tenet to the organist, while the lay clerks have 40/. a year more than they used to hue. The grammar boys at Wor cester receive, not 3s. 10d., but V. 13.. 4d. ; the 16 boys at Durham have newel. a year more than ever they had before; the 24 at Chester have had their 31. 6.. Bd, each restored; and the visitor has declared that the four exhibitors are beaceforth to be maintained at the Universities. The old Cathedral school at Carlisle, which dates from the seventh century, displays new buildings, and boasts of its 70 boys; and Ely itself, as if ashamed of its bad pre. eminence, is, as it appears from the public prints, to be reformed and mu le, I hope, not unworthy of its dean. Nay, my lords, Ido not even despair of the chapter clerk of Rochester him self yielding to the force of public opinion, and giving up his 10s. "admission fee" to the pour boys and the bodes men, when I find that a Canon of Rochester, with 2,000/. • year, no longer thinks it right to take 1001. • year more for duties not performed by himself but by the minor canons. Whatever then may result to myself —come what, ensue may, " Laudabur lumen coining. nets!" But, my lords, seriously and earn stly, is all this to count for nothing ? Arc past services, and present usefulness, and unvarying character to be disregarded at the bidding of capitular vindictiveness and sacrificed to the anger of a corporation, merely be cause I have exposed dents which will not bear the light ? If so, why then the Master* of Eton, Winchester, and Westminster may, as well as myself, he dismissed at any moment fur writing a faithful book, if it should not please the taste er suit tha interests of their respective governors. But is such a principle to be en. dined ? Nay, my lords. In the pneeut outcry for educa tion, while every one professes it to be the greatest of acquired blessings, and the choicest of man's gifts, and pro claims its universal diffusion as the worthiest object of a nation's solicitude, is the culling of a teacher—laborious, anxious, ill-requited, and unhonoured as it is—to be made withal so uncertain and dependent, that no man of spirit, or who can get a living in any other way, would deliberately enter upon it ? Surely, my lords, you will not lead your selves to this ? In the name of substantial justice, and sitting as the representatives of a king wbo founded churches cathedral and collegiate, " in order that youth might be liberally trained, old ago fostered with things necessary for living, and that liberal largesse. of alms to the pour in Christ, offices of piety teeming over from them might thence flow abroad tar and wide, to the glory of Almighty God, and the common welfare and happiness of the subjects of the realm "—my lords, I make bold to say that my dismissal cannot be ratified unless thee* intentions of Henry VIII. arc set at nought ; and forgive me if I con clude with the words of the great minister of Henry Vll.'s address to the visitors of his foundation : " We also charge before the Most High, as grievously as we may, the con sciences of the reverend fathers, the Bishops of Winchester, and their ooramismuies whomsoever, and do exhort and im plore them, in the bowels of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, in performing and executing the above office, they seek, not their own, according to the apostle's teaching, but the things of Jesus Christ ; and having God alone before the eye of their minds,and setting aside all favour, fear, hatred, prayer, or fee, colours and occasions whatsoever, do earnestly exer cise the (office of inquiry, correction, and reformation, and do perform it faithfully in all things, as they would render account in this case before God at his last judgment." The Bishop of Rochester said that, with regard to the delay of which Mr. Whiston complained, he would quote the opinion given by his own counsel:—" Should the dean and chapter or the treasurer refuse to provide for the pur poses above specified, application should, in the first in stance, be made to the Bishop of Rochester, as visitor, to correct the evil ; but probably the visitor, in the exercise of his discretion, would think it proper that the matter should go to the Court of Chancery, to be adjusted there, and would so act as to effect that object." Mr. Whistai-1 consider that opinion to mean that if, as a visitor, the Bishop did not correct the evil himself, he should so act as that it should go to the Court of Chancery ; in other words, that your lordship should initiate pro ceedings in that court. The Lord Bishop—What ! I go to the Court of Chan cery ! (A laugh.) Mr. Whiston.—l know your lordship has lived too long to wish to go there. Dr. Lushington thought it desirable, sa sslmuch had been said on the subject„to state what had occurred with respect to referring Mr. Whiston to the Court of Chancery. His lordship having been appealed to, had advised with him (Dr. Lushington), and as soon as he was muter of the facts it occurred to him that it would be impossible that the whole of that investigation could be prosecuted before the visitor. He, however, availed himself of the advice of his late lamented friend, Lord Langdale, who had distinctly concurred in that opinion. Mr. Whitton was glad that he had alluded to the subject, since it had elicited these explanations. Reference having, however, been made to Lord Langdale, he might say that his lordship's words, in reference to the claim of the gram , mar boys, were, " Mr. Whiston is right." The cue for the appellant having terminated, and it being half-put three o'clock, the court adjourned, with the intimation that it would not sit again until after Easter Term. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—TArivrox, Ann 6. TAR FHOMS MITILDBII. William Sparrow., 30, II insane Maggs, 44, and Mg. Hurd, alias home Bob, 37, were indicted for the wilful murder of Sarah Watts, at Woodlands, Fromm, on the 24th of September last. Mr. Moody and Mr. Everett prosecuted, Mr. Edwards defended Maggs and Sparrow, and at the request of the learned judge, on the application of the prisoner, he con ✓ated to defend Hurd also. The very complicated circumstances of this case, to which no fewer than 43 witnesses deposed, will more clearly ap pear if given in a narrative form. The unfortunate de ceased, Sarah Watts, was a child of 14, the daughter of a small farmer at Woodlands, near Frome. On the 24th of September, her father and mother left home to attend Frome market, as they were in the habit of doing, leaving the child alone in the house. On their return about 4 o'clock, the father noticed blood on the door of the kitchen, and herd his dog lapping In the milkhouse. On going into the milkhouse, he discovered his unfortunate child lying dead, with her clothes torn, and her person bruised and bloody. At first he had no suspicion of foul play, and after acquainting his wifo that the child was dead he rem quietly went into the fields to drive in some cattle. The eltild war removed up-stairs, and the mother and some of the neighbours were preparing for tea when it was dis covered that the bread and butter was miming, and that the cheese ha 1 been cut. This first excited suspicion and on • surgeon being sent for it was found that the unfortunate child had been ravished as well as murdered, and that death had been produced by strangulation arising from pressure on the windpipe. Upon the wall there were marks of the girl's shoes, which indicated that she had been taken up by the heels sad forced headforemost into • whey tub, the milk in which was afterwards found to be discoloured, apparently by blood. Upon the wall near the door was found the impress of • left hand, and from the thumb bad trickled down some drops of blood. An inquest was held on the body, and the magistrates discoveries that a brutal outrage had been committed, solicited the Secretary of State, and on the Sunday Sergeant Smith, an active Aker of the de tective force, was sent to Frome. Shortly after his arrival his suspicions rested upon the prisoners, and he inquired of them separately where they were on the day of the murder. They all answered with willingness, but gave what turned out to be false accounts of their doings on • that day. Hurd stated that he left home at 9 o'clock, went Into the town about 10 or 11, and was about by himself all day. The other two prisoners made statements in which a little truth was mixed up with falsehood. It was shown by a large body of testimony that on the day of the murder the prisoners and a man who is unknown were waiting on the road until old Watts and his wife passed by to market. They were then traced in various directions, apparently " dodging," until at length Maggs and Sparrow had approached to within a half mile of the house, going across the fields in its direction shortly before the time when the murder must have been com mitted. Their course was again taken up an hoer or two after, when they were coming away from the hones in • different direction from that which they followed la going towards Woodlands, and it world appear that one of these had substituted a " Jim Crow" for his usual black hat, and that the other had put a short kettle frock over his clothes. They were then traced again into the company of Hard, and on to Frame market, where they stood in the market-plate, apparently to attract public attention, and they were again seen in the evening at a public house. Whilst talking together in the market, a per son who was passing citiobt the words, " Watch, but no tin." These circumstances and the prior reputation of the primary, led to their apprehtmsion, when it wee found that Sparrow had a bad thumb, apparently produced by a bite, which he said had been produced by a chap in a fight on Bradley fair day, but persons who saw his hand two days alter, and the surgeon who examined it, !posi tively, staled that it was such a wound as could not have been done so recently as three days, for that matter had formed beneath it. In addition to this, • handkerchief— the only article left behind by the murderers—was spoken to, but sot very poaitively, by three witnesses as having been in Sparrow's possession. Against Maggsthe evidence, in addition to the connexion with the other prisoners in the movements of the 24th, a conversation was ;deposed to be tween Maggs and an unknown man In • has to the follow ing effect : "Haat heard any news ?" " Yea, I've herd that that London police officers has been to Bill Sparrow, end Mid to he, " Ah, my good fellow, I'm glad 'won't you conunittod this murder, fat you'll get the tees pardon sad 501." To this Megge replied, " He'll neither have the pardon nor the 501., for he's the man that killed her." It wee, however shown that the witness who spoke to this conversation hod been in prison for a trifling offence. This witness bad been much maltreated since he had given evi dence. Ills windows had been broken in, and ho had been obliged to leave the neighbourhood. Indeed, a system of terrorism appeared to have prevailed—the witnesses spoke for the most part as ilia great fear of the prisoners, whose attempts at hal:olden= obliged his lordship more than once to interfere, and to order the gaoler to see that they kept their places. '(ho court was occupied for eleven hours in hearing the case for the crown, and the jury were then locked up. Aram 7. The prisoners were placed at the bar at nine o'clock, and Mr. Edwards proceeded to address the jury on their behalf, contending that the evidence was not such as would justify them in liangiag a dog. He contended that the con• duct of all the prisoners was directly opposed to the idea that they were the guilty parties. Se veral witnesses were then called to account for the prisoners on the day of the murder, and their testimony was to the effect that they were in Frame at the time when other witnesses had deposed to their being on the Woodlands road. Another witness stated that on the evening on which the convention in the lane between Maggs and another was spoken to, Maggs lomat home; and a respectable baker and a young woman stated they saw Sparrow's hands between the murder and the fair, and did not observe any wound en them. Mr. Moody having replied, the judge summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of Not Gritty. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. - • OLD COURT.—YIESTERDAT. 1111701tft Ma. !MICR TALPOVID. Ma. Resat Marna, AND Kr. JCSTICI Cnourrea. THII BANKRUPT Laws. Mr. Clarkson made an application to the court in refer ence to a case in which a prosecution had been directed by Mr. Commissioner Holroyd against a bankrupt under the recent statute, for having fraudulently obtained goods three months before his bankru-tey. He said that since the learned Commissioner had directed this step to be taken come similar eases had been tried in this court, and, upon the ruling of the learned judges who tried them as to the law upon the subject, Mr. Commissioner Holroyd had re viewed his former decision, and had come to the conclusion that it would not be advisable to proceed with the prosecu tion under the statute, but had dealt with the party under the Bankrupt Law in his own court ; and, under these cir cumstances he had to apply to the court to order the recog nisances of the witnesses who were bound over to prosecute to be discharged. The Court granted the application. THE POLICE COURTS. WORSHIP-STREET. ' A young woman named tWiroA White was charged on suspicion of having stolen the sum of 2291 in gold and silver money, the property of her master,Patrick Cavanagh, a general postman living in Bristow-street, Hoxton. It appeared from the evidence that the amount in ques tion was kept by the prosecutor in a deal box in his bed room, which was constantly locked, and that the prisoner, who had lived with his family for six months as a domestic ' servant, was well aware of the fact that a considerable sum of money was deposited in the apartment. At an early hour that morning the prosecutor left home to attend to the duties of his situation, and was shortly afterwards fol lowed out by his wife, who secured the door of the bed room and placed the key in charge of the prisoner, but in cautiously left upon her bed the key of the box containing the money, which she had counted over and locked up on the preceding evening. The prosecutor returned home between ten and eleven o'clock, and finding, on proceeding upstairs, that the bedroom-door wu wide open, ho immediately examined the box, and ob served that the lid waa raised up, and the whole of the money abstracted. As neither of the locks presented the slightest indications of external violence, and had evidently been opened in the usual manner, the prisoner was closely interrogated on the subject, but she positively denied that any one had visited the house during their absence, and de clared that the key of the bedroom door had never been out of her possession since she received it from her mistress. It having been 'ascertained, however, from subsequent inqui ries, that shortly after the departure of the prosecutor and his wife, a man had been seen in an enclosed garden at the back of the house, whose description exactly answered the appearance of a person who had been in the frequent habit of calling upon the prisoner, a policeman was at once sent for, and she was given into custody. The prisoner, who disclaimed all knowledge of the rob buy, was remanded fur a week. LAMBETH. Joseph Kiwi, a confidential servant in the employment of Mr. Thomas Modes Green, an ironmonger, in Braed-street, Lambeth, was charged with plundering his muter to a con siderable extent, and II Simpson, marine store dealer, in the New-cut, was char with receiving the property with a guilty knowledge. It was stated that information received from a private source had induced Mr. Green to take out a search warrant, and on searching Simpson's premises two large casks full of nails of different descriptions, and of the value of nearly 401., were found. These nails, as well es a quantity of screws, and valuable locks, &c.. also found there, Mr. Green believed to be his property, and to have been stolen from his premises by the prisoner King, who had been in his service for six or seven years. On this discovery having been made Simpson absconded, end kept out of the way until that morning, when he gave himself up to Sergeant Goff. Cocking, the former shopman of Simpson, gave a length ened statement, to the effect that the prisoner King had been in the habit of almost daily bringing to the shop of Simpson, or sending, various packages of nails, screws, locks, and other things, and getting paid for them. The area's were at once removed from the paper parcels in ! which they were received, and the papers ordered by Simp son to be destroyed ; but, notwithstanding this order, the witness preserved a quantity of them, and these were spoken to by the prosecutor. The prisoners were remanded ; but Simpson, on the ap plication of his attorneT, was admitted to bail, himself an 4001., and two sureties an 2001. each. THAMES, Timothy Lucy, a registered coal-w hipper,was charged en informations taken out by Mr. John Ba rber, the regis trar, under the act that being the basket man of a gang of cost.whippen, and having signed a contract on the part of himself and eight others, to deliver 410 tons of coals from the Neptune, refused to do iv when required. At one of their recent meetings the registered coal whippers, being disgusted with the failure of their attempt to coerce employers into giving their prices, rewired to take the price offered by the masters ; but, in return, to unship no more than 49 toils per diem; whereas the bye laws mentioa 98 tons as a bye work, and gangs have been known to discharge 200 tons in that time. The fact that only 49 tons had been discharged on the day now in question, was admitted. Mr. Furnivall, a arrister, urged that the commissioners bad no right to make the bye-law, which, therefore, formed no part of the contract. This objection having been overruled, the learned gentle man said the men were weak with hunger, and could per form no more work than they had done. Mr. Yardley said that the men had deliberately entered into a contract, which it was shown they had refused to fulfil. _ . . . . Mr. Furnivall—l hope, sir, you will never be placed in the position of these poor men, and be compelled to work hungry. Mr. Yardley—That observatioa is very improper, and I am astonished it should come from a gentleman who calls himself a barrister ; but whilst I am on this bench I shall not permit anything offensive. Mr. Furnivall—lf you view the observation in that light tat once retract it, Mr. Yardley—lt is evident that these men entered deli berately into a contract, which they refused to falfil. lam sorry they have adopted so ill-advised • course; and for their own sakes, as well as that of tho public, I must im pose, by way of example, a heavy penalty, more especially as defendant was the leader of the gang. As it is the first case, I shall not inflict the full amount (51.), but it shall be little short of the maximum. Lucy—l am like a man who u hung to-day and heard to =mow. The a..l•owncrs at Billingsgate think more of their coals than of human labour and human wants. Mr. Yardley—l have heard all that your counsel could urge, and you must pay a fine of 31. or be imprisoned for 21 days. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. TZURIDAT, Antic 8, 1852. The State of the Weather at sack of the following plasm at Nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations an arranged in order of ladtade. 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Medi Ovirre ChadWs Clesdkri -,,,i i - i t alseed, Mglly CUM, OTIIIIMIt ralibk CIOS4 HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. The official report nays :—Tho total number of deaths registered in the metropolis in the week that ended last Saturday was 1,324. This number exhibits a further increase on the high rate of mortality in previous weeks, but to a considerable extent it is augmented by mos on which inquests have been held, and which are now tittered in the registers in undue proportion. The following are the weekly numbers returned since the end of February, after • deduction Is made of "sudden deaths," and those caused by drowning, fractures, and other violent means, which constitute nearly the whole of the cases returned by coroners :-1,093, 1,146, 1,182, 1,146, and 1,181. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1812.51 the average number of deaths was 974, which, if raised in pro portion to the increase of population during that period and up to the present time, becomes 1,071. The present return therefore exhibits an excess above the average of 253. Last week the deaths of 561 children under 15 years, of 471 persons of 15 years and under 60, and of 291 persons aged 60 and upwards, were registered. Of the last-men tioned class 126 were men and 165 were women. Of the men only one was a nonagenarian, but no fewer than 10 of the women had reached 90 years, and two of these kad , nearly attained 100. The mortality produced by diseases of the respiratory organs is still of unusual amount ; the deaths which were in the previous week 243 haviug been 249 in the last, while the corrected average of corresponding weeks is only 193. In each of the last two weeks bronchitis was fatal to 128 persons, being much in excess of the average, while pneu monia was fatal at the same time to 72 and fill, which is about the usual number. Last week phthisis (or consunip lion) carried off 15 children under. 15 years, 139 persons of 15 years and under 60, and 7of 60 years and upwards, altogether 161 persons, whilst in corresponding weeks of 1842-51 the lowest number was 115 and the greatest 149, and the average 129. Amongst epidemics small-pox continues to prevail as much as it has done for a lung period, and scarlatina shows • disposition to increase. Last week the former was fatal in 27 cans (in 5 of which it is stated that vaccina tion bad been previously performed), and the latter in 38. The following death was also registered : the daughter of a to snemsson, aged two years, on 30th March, at 9, ug Eccleston place, Delgrave subdistrict, from "cholera (38 hours)." In London the births of 838 boys and 892 girls, in all 1,730 children, were registered in the week. The average number in seven corresponding weeks of the years 1845.61 is 1,365. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean daily reading of the barometer was above 30 in. on the last two days of the week ; the mean of the week was 29.686 in. The mean temperature of the week was 43.5 deg., which is ' I slightly below the average of the same week in ten years. The mean daily temperature rose from 39.8 deg. on Sun day, which is 3.6 deg. below the average of corresponding days, to 46.9 deg. and 450 1 deg. on Monday and luewlay, , which are respectively 3.3 deg. and 6.3 deg. above the ave rages. It then continued falling till Friday, when it was again 39.9 deg., or 4.4 deg. below the average. The wind blew chiefly from the north-east. Rain fell en Monday evening and on the morning of Tuesday. MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 7. The sales to-day are :—Sugar: GO hlls. Demerara, 28*. 9cl. to 308.9.1.; 1,700 bags Senates, 325. W. to 31.. ; 800 bags brown Pernams, 1.18. 94. (ex quay). Saltpetre: 200 hags, 280. 6d. to 325. (6/ to 2 per cent.) Catch . 1,900 pekages, 21s. 64 . to Its. 6 / to : 30 cases, 675. Gd. to 68s. Myrabolama, 600 bags, Bs. 34. to 10s. 64. COTTON.-•-LIVIRPOOL, APRIL 7.—The sales to day are estimated at 4,030 bales,of which 500 arc taken for export. The remainder include 120 Pernam and Maranham, at Sid. to 60.; 10 Bahia, nt 6i0.; 600 Eizyptian, at did. to 10d.; 400 Surat, at 3d. to 40. The imports since Thursday are 40,000 bales. The market closes heavily. Prices of' all kinds hare a downward tendency, but can hardly be quoted lower. Good stapled American continuer to be bud to buy. CORN.—Bosvort, April 7.—We have been but mode rately supplied with Wheat to-day, and millers being cau tious buyers the market was dull at Is. per qr. less money. A small supply of both Beans and Oats, which commands previous rates. Wheat, red, 365. to 381.; white, 41s. to 435. Oats, 19s. to 21s. Beans, 295. to 3ls. STOCKTON. on-Taie, April 7.—The supply of Wheat to this day's market was pretty good, for which the demand proved slow at a decline of Is. per qr. on last week's cur rency. Beans met a steady sale at late prices. Oats were the turn cheaper with a moderate demand. In other arti cles no change to note. DUBLIN, Aran. 6.—We had again a very dull and de pressed market at our Corn Exchange to-day, and we note no alteration in currencies of Friday. White wheat, 235. to 26e. • red ditto, 22e. to 235. 64.1.; barley, 122. 6d. to 16e. ; Oats, 10s. to lls. 6d. • rapeseed, 14s. to 17s. 6d. ; oat meal, Ils. Bd. to 12a. • bakers' flour, 12s. 6d. to 15s. per cwt.; Indian corn, 265. to 31s. per 480 lbs. _ _ _ _ GLASGOW, April 7.—The Clyde imports for the past week comprised 4,900 qrs. Wheat, together with 3,400 qrs. Beans from Alexandra, and 690 qrs. Wheat, along with 1,429 barrels Flour from New York, the arrivals from Ire land consisting of 1,604 sacks Flour, 1,880 loads Oatmeal, and 4,170 qrs. Oats, l'ia Grangemouth, 469 qrs. Wheat, and 768 qrs. Beans were the chief supplies coastwise ' and 920 qrs. Wheat, 300 qrs. Beans, and 65 qn. Peat were received from Denmark. The weather continues very fine although vegetation is kept in check by the pre- valence Of easterly winds. With the exception of sour and partially sour Flour, for which there has been a good de. mend, the trade during the week has remained in a very lifeless state, buyers of all articles merely purchasing fur the supply of present wants. At this day's market buyers still remained on the reserve, and the little business which was done in Wheat was ;at a reduction of about 6d. per boll on the rates previously current. Sour Flour was in request, but the demand for sweet, sacks as well u barrels, was slow, although holders were not unwil ling to have made some concession on previous rates. Oats were offering at a decline of about 3d. per boll, and Oat meal might have been bought relatively cheaper, but met little attention. Little Barley offering, and no change to note in ita value. Beans could only be sold in retail at something usage previous prices. CATTLE.—Roueono, April 7.—Our stock market to day was well supplied, with a slow sale, at about the same prises as hat week. Beef, 2s. 10d. to 3s. W. Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Lamb, 4s. to bs. Veal, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Pork, 3s ;to 3s. Bd. FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION.--Yesterday, at a meeting of the yedry of St. Pancras, held in the great ball adjoining the workhouse, T. Eld Baker, Esq., senior churchwarden in the chair; the following resolution, moved by Mr. Brettingham, and seconded by Mr. W. D. Cooper, was carried unanimously :—" That in the opinion of this vestry any return to a tax on the food of the people will be one of the most fatal courses for any government to take. That the chief object of the present ministry appears to be to maintain the high rents of the aristocracy, and to con tinue that profligate expenditure of the nation's means, which unless timely arrested by a reform of the people's own house,' the 'Commons House of Parliament,' will inevitably end, as it has done in other states, in a financial revolution." JOSEPH ADY AT LARGE.—On Tuesday Joseph Ady, the well known letter-writer, was discharged from the Giltspur-street Compter, in which he had been for some months confined for a large amount of money due to her Majesty for the postage of letters directed to persons all over the countrf, giving information of "something to their advantage." Ady bad not paid one halfpenny of ,the debt, as we were given to understand, hut he has been in a de clining state of health, and it is believed that the visiting magistrates of the prisons of the City represented the fact to the Poet-office authorities. On Tuesday a note, of which the following is a copy, was received at the Mansion-house : "General Post-office, April 8,185 I—Sir, —The Lords of the Treasury have authorised the Post master-General to release Joseph Ady from prison. I am, therefore, com manded by his lordship to request that he be set at liberty without delay.—l am, sir, R. obedient servant, W. PIACOCIL, solicitor.—To J. R. Goodman ' Esq., &c. &e."— The Lord Mayor, in signing the warrant for the discharge of the aged prisoner, expressed a very anxious hope that Mr. Ady would commit no further breach of promise to the government by transmitting any more unpaid letters by STATE STATE OP PUBLIC OPINION ON THE MILITIA BILL—The proposed embodiment of the militia appears, by the accounts which reach us from various parts of the country, to be the less liked as it becomes better under stood. Many meetings have lately been held to oppose the measure, and preparations have alieadt been made for the holding of a still larger number. A few days since • large and enthuslsstic meeting was held in Cowper-street School rooms, Finsbury, Dr. Fletcher in the chair. The speakers were the Revs J. C. Galloway, R. Hamilton, Mr. W. H. Black, and Mr. Green.—On Thursday last a de monstration of public opinion in the Tower Ham lets was held in the Beaumont Institution, John ficoble, Esq., in the chair. Addresses were delivered by Mears. Fishbourne, Brockway, and Cheron.— A crowded meeting has been held in the Town-hall of Southampton ; Mr Richard Laishley presided in place of the mayor, who was prevented from doing so by indispo sition. The principal speakers were Messrs. Clark, Stare, and I.snkester, whose remarks were received with great applause—A large meeting has been held at Worcester; the mayor in the chair. Speeches were delivered by Samuel Bowly and John hiker, It s.—An important gathering took place in the Brighton Town-hall, on Fri day evening last, to consider the character of Mr. Wal pole's bill. The chair was taken by Isaac Baas, Esq., and among the speakers were the Heir. John Ooulty and Mr. Wallis.—Two good meetings have been held at Scar borough, at which the feeling of opposition to the ministerial proposal was unanimous.—At • meeting held in Hereford, the speakers being Joseph Mor gan, Esq., and the Rev. John Davey, a petition against the Militia Bill was unanimously adopted. —At Skipton and Clitheroe good demonstrations have taken place.—Two meetings have been held at Hull, and great activity is displayed against the bill.—Wales is speaking out earnestly, both by petitions and in public meetings. At Neath Abbey, a large demonstration of the agents, proprietors, and workmen of the ironworks in this populous neighbourhood lhas been held, at which an anti militia petition has been unanimously agreed to.—An en thusiastic and crowded meeting has been held at Merthyr. The speakers were the Revs. John Jones, John Roberts, J. Lloyd - , 3. Down, B. Owen, and Mr. Joh n. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. hum ow ecereeyerbatil. the .111.1ey1ms Waal e and CASUALTIES. Barlow, of Sunderland, was lust on the coast of I'orto Rico about the 13th March. Caroline, of London, Andersen, from Sierra Leone to this port, was abandoned, March 18, in lot. 46 N., lon. 26 W., with 9 feet water in her hold ; crew saved.—Falmouth; April 6. Diadem, Keay, of and from Newcastle for Montreal grounded on the Ness of Duncan's Bay, in the Frith,w here she remains full of water, and likely to become a wreck materials, stores, &c. being saved.— Huns, Pentl an d Frith, April 4. Hercules, of Sunderland, from Penang to London, was abandoned in a sinking state, Feb. 9, having encountered a heavy gale, Jan. 6, in let. 29 S., lon. 38 K, and been struck by a sea ; crew saved. Hilton Grove, from Newcastle to Aden, took lire by the spontaneous combustion of her cargo, Jan. 15, was aban doned ow the 18th, and sank ; crew and passengers picked up in the boats, 22nd, in Ist. 29 S., lon, 63 E., and landed here.—C. G. Hope, March 3. SEABORNE MAILS. (N dinlftee that the matte are mot from the Geocre' Poe-uNke ► the Mobt.--eed M by the stnailey—deepetrh. bay idiss made up Prom opal . ----. COUNTKIEN. la Lisoscal hart- Port I Whoa Oacie Lcadou. despatehtd. dos. ---- America , Mßrit.pechtt N April 9 yeast) N. April 20 a murky by l.' .Staty OM 'April 14 atria ( Wut Casa, ...14114th of the &math, Plyinontn ... May 3 aleisadria• N 101211110th ef u05...1.)0ur .April II *eighty NI ;rally Dover ' Duly BrasilAl9tli of the moan. Somitham.Y.n April 16 durum Ayros ._ .—. . Al Mk a the taunt), aoutbais..ton 'April 16 Altforniinvia ChegrosiM 2nd&l/thcdmosth 'fountain:num:April $0 ',hips++ Goal !tope '4 tither the swath 'Plymouth_ May 3 Lhootantinople • 1.4 7 1 61711127tbatinee Fiov Central America II iladotllthoftn•sth'Aoutliaispton. April 20 Gimbel Woo .14 nlas.,Wed..arn.). Aouthasn otos. , Tu Thrit Chill PI haticlUliol month •kiuthanitiloa. April 20 Prance 11& N Time daily ,i!llfer 'rem. 1+ IthlTtb27thof don , Dover .., April 10 ilarbuti NTusiday a Frt.!, 11,ind.m llollaral AI Wedzaa. * Sant . • London , Nor.T2a Honduras /4 17111 el the mend. I -southainpton. April) 20 Ireland M& 14 Tyke daily I ilolyhe 1 'Torieselea dad& (via Sontitationt.)2l pooh of the month ;•siothasiptou April 21 India (via Myosins+) 14 othltrithel mon:1. Dover ....April 16 Iteditavuirdas(via nest+ Lupton) Al 20th of the isontel4didasmpton. April II inita(vinMantilisi) ...N Ilthliti.th el multtalbover 0 Mexico II and of the month Mouthan.pto,. May i Madeira II Mk of the moat), nouthaimploa. April 14 , 1 /01,17th,11,61,27th 1 Malta. " anutholtheireath Dover .... ..... 'April 10 Napless N 6tlolsth23tlial ass Dover April II Papal iltalse• N 51h15th25tiof mom Doerr .... ... April 12 Pesineula Peru... M Indlilthof nioi.th 'southato )4•41.' April 20 Tuesser I+ 3tblothlStnet moo Iluvkr West Jodie, M 17th .1 the tuut•-u iouthan., L.Y. Apra IP West Indies (except Ile youte.tind Na..oas) N it of the ennat),Aouthamptnn. Nay s • Me mai to Maw oomitilas mu. nlarkeni t*, ~ ow :eyed by veva& palm vim liamilka. ARRIVED. ARMAC4-at Gravesend, April 6, from Cob, AMNR liAllill-at Gravamen, April 6, from Patna BARON 110L1.110-st tineimm4, April 7, from. Norway 110•DterA--iit Gravesend, April 7, from morns Coals;1.1 Mama forma-at OTRYTSTII6I, April 7, from 'coney PARA-at Plymouth, April ii, from Rio Grande del Norte EOORRY-441 Falmouth, April 5, from Alouritioe VANS. PALMIT.I-1t heal, April 6, from !althorn Cilsoaorass-at Deal, April 6, from.. - Aleiandre liatiinau.-at Gravesend, April 7, from .11launuai ilearrara -at Gravesend, April 7, from N 0.., 1114-off the rtart, April 5, from liembay Juno CALVIN-at QUTCOM.OI.), April 5, foam- ....... . .Callao Swat -at Gravesend, April 7, from Leathern JURNITA -at Gravesend, April 7, from Milli LONSON-at Gravenend, April 7, from Learn-at Gravesend, April 7, from Alexandre illamat.a - atlealmoutlt, April 6, from Pmzti, Rite Pi [caul:a-at Cowes, April 6, from - Para Nasoor-ut Gravesend, April 7, from Ruskin NICVO Rosvt.a-at Oravreend, April 7, from Cade Otesa-at Gravesend, April 7, from. PROTON?. at Plymouth, April 6, from Palace., -at Dent, April 6, from . - ...Aleamelria PAVLINR hot 0.1.0.-it Gravesend, April f, Rem Stauntaa. Quash-at Fatlmauth, April 6, Irma ' Kano -at Gravesend, April 7, fruen ...... ..... ......... Stralsund Nam at Grave-rod, April 7, from - Aleariadria 81101 VIDU-at Gravesend, April 7, from `c wway llasma-at Grevesend, April 6, from .........................oparto VIM/NA-at Queenstown, April S ViIIAIID -at Gravesend, April 7, bon ....-.-..64. Michael's SAILED. Aim—from Crammed, April 7, to ... DownKoos um Amu-c—from Gravesen4 April 7, to Tub's* ARON e —from Gras-emend, April 6, to Trieste Amin—from Liverpool, 'April 7, to Portland, A.S. Annus—from Liverpool, April 7, to New York Barns. Quass—from Bristol, April 7, to Qorbs Banaroaa—from Liverpool, April 7, t0....„,...-- New York CUIDLYAIII—from Grameend, April 8, se .. ... ilalkOdoll CALtUONIA—Qom Gravamens, April 8 t 0... .... . .... BIM. Claimant—from Liverpool, - April 7, to . .... Socks CALIDONIA—from Liverpool, April 7, to EVIRONI. —from Bristol, April 7, to Quebec &roar—from Gravesend, April 6, to Quebec FALCON—AVM CiT' livened. April 7. to F. E. Wad Imam linuesao—from Plymouth, April 8, to Leadou Jas. Tows—from Gravesend, April 7, to . ..... ... New Tort boyar Ittcmuso —from Lirertsol, April 7, to Mlboa Jonas—from Liverpool, April 7, to Amends LOMD D*LllollPlX—from Gravesend, April 7, t 0....... NIITIONAL—from Portsmouth, April 6, to Rio Janeiro Maur —from Liverpool, April 7, to New %Tonto—from Liverpool, April 7, t 0.........— ...New at' Neam—from Limpid, April 7 to M. Illehaelts OIIINTAL—(root Plymouth, April 8, to ........ timber Banos—from Liverpool, April 7, to .Drostheun SC , MA—From Liverpool, April 7, to theriericlotadt Os/As—from Portsmouth, April 8, to Terceira ' Talt:MPHAII1=01111 Liverpool, April 7, to ilt. Mbchsers ' View—from Gravesend, April 7, to %YANA WAVE—MaI LlTtlrpoo4 Art 7, to None VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Barham,llle, from Calcutta foe London, March 3. 30 mks N.W. 01 Cape Town. Davonahlre (ship), Hovey, horn London (or New York, March 9, lat. 19 03, lon. 33.13. Dublin, from &Woe for London, March 22, lat. 50 N., 101.19 W. Dauntlem, from Colombo toe London, Jan. 29, lat. 310., lot. 44 P. Oateabead.park trent the Mauritiaa toe Queenstown, Yeb. 19,1 U. 20 8. lon:2. liolyrood, from Colombo toe leaden. Feb. 0, off the Cape. Kent, from Calcutta for Leedom, Fob. I, lat. a., los. 29F. Lady Manley. from Colombo for Feb. 7, let. St 2., lon. In L Owen Glendower Part, from Bombay Load" Feb. 23, flunks N.W. of Cape Town. litotert Hoop. r, like, from Calcutta La London, Feb. 8, tat. 30 30 0., lon. 10.511 E. [Advertisement.)--Hor.LowAy's OINTMENT AND Pius' A CEATAIN Ores row Limbos asu at.l. Divmsys or TSB Sitl/I.—Fstrittt of a letter from Mr. J. tltrd, draper, ['ready, (LW Feb. 14, 1852 To Profewor Holloway. —Sir, —My eluld, when them months old. wee afflicted with a severe eruption all over ha body. I sought every aid, and the savior .4 surgeons and phyrocurrs, by all of whom the no was considered hopeless. I then trio! Tom oiatment and pills, and, without exaggeration, the effect was nun. colons for In a ,host time she was restored w perfect health, sodas remains. Mr. Bowden, bookseller, 04Instorougb, or myself, would be happy to satisfy any Inquiries as to the truth of this statement. sold by all druggists, and at Professor llolloway's establishment, 244, Stran4 London. BIRTHS, MARRIAGI?,S, AND DEATHS. BIItTHS. 2, at Cobtupatreet, Glasgow', Mn. J. flay, • see. COMffrANCE.—April 1, at • daughter. COOL( B.—April 5, at Mounthill, ftpringlield, the wife of tb.: Rev C. 0. Coombe, of Ilansbury.truk, of • eon. DENDEILSON.—ApriI 4, at Durham, the wife of W. 'tender. , " EN., of a daughter. J•oo•lli.—April 4, at Upper Clayton, the wife of C. 'womb, Em., of • daughter. MOW BRAT.—April 5, at Ambridge-aquare, Ilyile-park, the wife of J. R. Mowbray, Faq., of • wan. PACK.—April 4, Frederica, the wife of Capt. A. J. Pack. daaletaut Adjutant-General, of a daughter. WESSMACOTT.—ArriI 5, at 81. Marra-terrace, Itaid•-hill, the alto of 8. J. We etmatott, VA., of • daughter. Mrs. E. Caumtance, • MARRIAGES. LlE—ArumEa.—April 3, at St. Alphage, Greenwich. by the Rey. T. [minden, W. R. Lee, of &Milton, to Adelaide Eliza, youngest daughter of the late W. Archer, of Inewich, Suffolk. PRICE —LEWIS.—At St. °eerie'', lianneer.square, by the Hvo. A. Alston. Mr, P. L. Won of Pimlico, to Shm, Fanny, eldest daughter of Mr. J. V. Lewis, Stroud, Glouceetcrehoe. SHRLDOR —HAI/ELEV.—April 8, et Chingunford Church, shrills Wm, by the Rev. T. 0. Roche, 11. J. Sheldon, Pe9., of &thee Home, Waririckehire, to Alia& Mary ()Arley, widow of W. Otheley, Eaq., of Hawley, Shropshire. WILKINSON —PRLW.—ApriI 2, at Tort Dundas, Gtsrgow, he the Re.. Or. Perim, Mr. J. W,lkineen, tilarynm, to Markin, third daughter of the late Mr. A. Frew, Pert Minden. WINTER— IVE e.—April 4, by the Rev. J. Letts, Rector of thanes, Ilart-xtreet, J. T. Winter, eeeond son it J. D. Winter, of Townhepe, Herefordshire, to Maria, second daughter of IL S. Imo, of Crutchrdfriars, City. DEATHS. —April 4, at Dion-street, Gla.gow, NI:. J. Can I all, enegeoe, R.N. COOPER. April 4, 11. Cooper, Fp., of t h e Fro al Mantic-41k* eldest eon of the late 1L Cooper, Fiq , Rod 41. DOWNEA.—ApriI 3, at H. Dowse., R.N., aged 62. DlM—April 4, at St. Joiner-rills, Daimon-rise, and formiCr o Ortle-6rors House, Chatters , . Surf r 2. 2 . tile, Eeq., ejal 7 ';. FITZ ROY.—Apell 5, at Norland.rquare, Mary liennetta, woe cl Capt. tits Roy, R.N. RAY.—Aptil 3, at Whiterigg, Rozburghshlre, Eliza, wife of C. W. Hay, RN., of Whiterigg. LFA'KIR.- Mow mut, In August, 1631, In attempting to CTO.. the Rim %lemma, Australia. George Lawson, olabth sand t" ,:..fu Ree.llsomm feeble, Peebles, N.H., aged 37. RlOO.—A aril 3, Mary Darling wife of J. Rigg, Ern., of pima, Hyde-park-square, NW '33. aircuiv..- April 4, at Hadcirs.place, North Leith, Mtn' Christina Marshall, wife of Capt. A. Ritchie, Manager of the on boa and Edinburgh • hipping C miany, Leith. RODICK.—March 16, at Bishop Wearmouth, William Rodick, fit Matt 8 4. WRAVRR.—ApriI 6, at Albert-place, Chapel Ash, Woirerhaniploo. Jane. relict of the labile. P. Wearer, ol Litard.grange. r: Cotnawndlr Printed and published by Wasaate lino thLre. of lfo. a, Lombard. street, in the Cty of London, Prlntee, at the Office, In Lembel• elm, In the pretend of iThlistriare.-71weanae, APS= St PSL lki