The Express. — London, England, 1851-02-26 00:00:00

SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 20th state that the committee for the regulation of the debt assembled on the previous day. It examined the documents produced on its demand by the government. Several deputies of different parties attended the sitting. M. Garcia Luna declared himself in favour of the government bill, and said that he considered it calculated to conciliate the interests of the creditors, of justice, and of the finances. M. Llorente said that he agreed with the cabinet on the oppor tuneness and necessity of regulating the debt; but he would reserve for future examination the question uhellier it was possible to perform what was offend by the bill to the creditors. Ile demanded that the government should give an exact account of the different species of debt proposed to be converted, and especially the amount of interest which the con version would require to be paid. The .Epoca says:- 0 According to positive figures, the amount of the interest of the new consolidated debt will be, in the next four years, about 47,000,000 teals, and in the twenty years 141,000,000 reuh,without counting about 2;t1,0110,000 reaLs in round figures, arising from the existing interest of the debt, the sum set apart for the sinking fund, the sale of prvrina, and the payment of Exchequer Bills." The (u e 1 publishes a decree directing that five squadrons of light dragoons shall be formed, but, in order not to increase the expense or the war budget, they are to be taken from different regiments of cavalry. The visit of M. Aram& to France continued to cult': meat curiosity, and among the rumours cur rent respecting it, wan one that he was charged with a mis-ion from the Clomp to General Naavatx. 'llw Supreme Military and 'Naval 'fributial ordered the prosecution of General Armen), for having sent a challenge: to General Karnes. GERMANY. Gnat uncertainty dill hangs over the proceedings et Itrc.4k it, :mil the n•purts thatopun art• contradic tory in the hilt t degree. The reduction of vote+ in the projte ted urw Dirt, which hitherto Rented to b 1 sequtewed now regarded as the queAtion of the inout iinikwtaine of ntl. A corn Inuident, writing to the (Woync Gazette, of y.stvrtloy, say, : BERLIN, Ern. 23. The rcport , (min Dresden are .0 contradictory that it is barvirdlite to 'rather even so, ,aro 00 k e.,.. too, out of Bum. Many yi tin r f o r the last week here announced that the much-ta Ike 1.,.t r.• 41 uetion of votes i. !our de 41. But now !vest trona eoßb•ial quarter., the , lame...Mr:ireio alßrmed. Many think that tin •eh• predd. n 4 y of .144-triy, mid the estrum eyes of the• Italian state into the fund, are of km importance than Bd. reduction of twos. I em informed that not, a. it ha, horn generally reported, to pent. •t ut iireient against Au4tria' , propicitiosiv, but on nly w e lo .1.41. dilly. Of the .14-ealled lenidative power ill which Prussia vhould have the pruddeney, people *peak wish 3 good d.•al of mistrust. WEST INDIA MAIL diture, of this year will be regulated by under our present rotten system, and it is useless to attempt to disguise it from ourselves, the executive under existing circumstances can carry anything they like in the combined court—for we have not yet recongszered a sufficient number of the abandoned seats to give an effectual check to jobbery and extravagance. The government know well the importunes of retaining as long as they can the temporary majority which " the fit of august" of the reform member' gave them the opportunity of seizing, and hence they set all rules and precedents at defiance to prevent its being lessened. The Court of Police had held several sittings, and various proposed ordinances have been advanced a stage or two. The Court of Policy stood adjourned ' to e 10th February, when it would re-assemble for the purpose of preparing the annual estimate, to be submitted to the combined court, summoned to meet on the 20th February. An useful accession had been received to the " labour force," by the arrival, on the 14th, of 432 captured Africans, from Sierra Leone. Thee were brought by the Brandon, Captain Lawson, the first of the large class of vessels furnished by Messrs. Hyde, Hodge, and Co„ of London, under the new contract for the conveyance of captured Africans to the West Indies. The run over occupied but 19 days, and they were all landed in good health, without a single casualty during the voyage. It is satisfactory also to record the rescinding, by Earl Grey, of that obnoxious prohibition of Portu guese immigration from May toNovember, which he s.me time ago established, on the erroneous supposi tion of that being " a sickly arason." 'rite ravages of cholera in Jamaica and of yellow fever in Cayenne had caused, not altogether a panic, but a little wholesome alarm in the community. A central board of health had been established, and other precautions taken to improve the sanitary con dition of the colony. In Georgetown the town council, aided by district COMM6SiOlieril appointed under a recent ordinance, had actively exerted them selves to cleanse, and purify, and get rid of the abomi nation nod filth which had hitherto been suffered to exist, to the disgrace of the city, and the endangering the health of the inhabitants. Throwing out trenches, cleaning and whitewashing art-ofilecs, and killing or banishing pigs. had been the order of the day. Happily the health of the colony continued in a very satisractory condition. The weather had been rather too dry for the young canes, but, otherwise, was rigreenhie enough, and favourable for those estates which were in a condi tion for going on with grinding. TIIINII)AI). From Port of Spain we kern that a vacancy in the marshalship of the colony had taken place' by the death of Mr. Clogstoun. The Trinkbul gold mines are not successful; the Gozeit• says of them: The accounts given of the progress of the gold digger. ut Upat I by one or two of the ackciaturer. from this colony, who have recently returned hen., are by no mean• of au encouraging ii cure. Although gold is found almost every where and by i -very person, it is in such excessively small particles, that but a very trifling 11U .ntity can be collected in a day, by means of the rude machinery at present avail able Here—fifty cents' worth, we understand, is con sider...l an average day's return. Whatever improve ment better machinery may he able to effect for those who pornsas the capital, and have the energy a411.+- vary for it. application, the mere diggers stand no ettance at all, mils.. they em discover the mine front which the small particles of gold they are now collecting is brought down by the Yuruary, or some one of its tributary streams; anal even then it is by no means improbable that the gold may be so blended with the quartz neck, to fragments of which lunch ot the former is Mond adhering, that machinery will he still more necessary than in this other ca.c to flirt a separation of the two articles. The weather hod been generally good very slight showers had refreshed the vegetation of the islantl. An unusual briskness in the sales of the island bad been observed in the item of cocoa, which sold at a fair price, as high as 8 dollars per fanega ; otherwise commerce preserves its dull and uninteresting up ,ps tinier. Several estates have already commenced crop, and the others are hastening their prepara tions. The royal West India trail Fula Medway, ('apt. W. Hymnals., arrived at Southampton yesterday, mid IjaJod Inc mails under charge of Lieut. Brim', ILN., Admiralty agent. The 'lutes of mails are: Valparaiso, lbs. 2.1; Guayaquil, 18th; Grey Town, 17th ; l'attama. 21st ; thalamus, 211th Ihrvannah. 2:lrdi (imams. 25th; Jamaica, Garth:yew, and Laguayrn, 27th; 11enterttra, Granada, and Trinidad, 80th • Mar pre and Porto lilt°, 3lst ;of January. Ilarbcrdoes. Ist ; Antigua, 3rd; St. Thomas. 4th; and Fuyal, loth; of Felintary. Most of these dotes have lxvn anticipated, us fur us news goes, by adviees re ceived ten days since., rut New York. The frentlit on board the Midway comprises 116,669 dots. from South America, on account of merchants, 350,158 dots. of gold duet, and 1621. of Litish coin. JAMAICA. In witlition to tlw account of the riot nt St. David's already given. there is little that is interesting. The island rows nearly free front elmlera, alter having lost nearly 15,1840 souls by the disease. Fears for the crops were entertained. The Assembly had tul journed till the 11th of February, and would then he occupied with dismissing thionwans for filling up the deficit in the ineome of the island. It appears that tlw liabilities of Jamaica have been annually in. creaktiog since 1847. And although the expenditure during the four years up to this time has been re duced to the extent of 86,0n0/., or from 1:81,6581. in 1817 to 218,6481. is Min, still it has been in excess of revenue, and has left tx deficit of 163,531/. And this is modem' likely to continue from the fact that rt venue has been graduallyon the devnuse since 1847, and the total diminution up to 1850 has been from 210,0041/. to 180,000/. The liabilities of the island amounted on the 110th of October to 6411,000/., and the House of Assembly had been forced to borrow money MI exchequer bills and island notes to the ex tent or .58.000/.. and to appropriate to the public ase thaneery and other deposits to a large extent. It was supposed that additional taxation would be re commemled, but whether in the shape of increased direct taxation or otherwise is uncertuin. The asps on thi% :inbjert : The r. lion presented to the House of An.. .misty by Mr. William :smith treats upon two . ü bj s . e ta—the d c fki,...y in the re' or the excess of expenditure over trysvitiw dating et.• lad four years ; and lb.. island .I.ld. 'this latter has, of course, been increased by the deficiencies in questi.m, awl is put down in round numbers at GSO,IOOO/. With this anuniut of debt taw Axemdsly will have to deal, It is pro posed to disi.k it into three parts, vix...—Amount due to the British govennu. ut lu string interest at 4 iser rent., 1 4 1M 1 .0 1 t.: boo to he raised in the island, :010,1010/. ; ditto, to be raised in England, 22.1,11.101.-685,000/. It may be neecona7 to remark, that the deist of the island is alreaik iii,idcd tii this way—that is to say, a portion of it is :Anil owing to parties in England, a portion to parties I charities in the island, and Rooth. r portion to the iffirl,,4l gorcniment. Swoe part of the debt which is p.syable CagiAnd is due, and ought to have been paid, and uth. r Invonsing due. 'the 'Arne may be sad of tin portion payable in the island. Tin- present pro pw.tion will enable thus: holders of Islam( Certitivates hen% as well as in England, who do not require their rosary. to renew the loan ..f it to the colony, and P.'11,4 to obtain tor the latter an extension of time, or twenty-live years, for the liquidation of its debt. According to this fellulile, the legislature will have to raise such a sum of money . very year as will he sudirient to meet the expendi ture for the year, and the further sum of 4.4.174/. for interest on the loans, and to (ono as sinking food for the altiniata paynient of then. It differs fr .aii that of the last sessions in this u'pse't—that it enawlidate. the whole of the island debt, the charities in clad, d. and equalises the interest which varies at present (ram ti'.- to ten per tent. If agreed to, the rate of interest ns and except on the loon due to the imperial stoserif.a, at. will he equalised—and, as a matter of course, tinsw.h.stities which arc now resenting more than six per eent. satere-t will suffer reduction to the extent of the slitterenve between that rate and the rate now payable to thew Them is this further difference between thepn-sent and th- last wiserne, that whereas the latter involved the witioirasal of the island notes from circulation, the former proposes to tontinue as issue of those notes to the extent of the interest on that amount will be waved. The rep., t i• silent upon the subject of the convertibilit) of eh.... but it is intended, we believe, that they should lie t its rtible on demand into specie. • GUIA.NA. The present mail contains, according to the Colo rr sr, the most important and most numerously signed docwnclits that were ever scent from the colony.being petitions fur constitutional reform. agreed to at a great public meeting, and which had received over 11.34 m signatures. The first of thew is addressed to the Quit is. which Lord Stanley is requested to pre vent the second is to the 'louse of Lords, which is .... also intrusted to the same noble lord for presentation ; and the third is to the House of Commons. and it is rutru,t,d to Mr. Joseph flume for presentation. Ile- Seeding on petitions, the CW.mast says: Thus, then. the appeal of the inhabitants of British Guiana to tlw sympathies And justice of their 'sovereign, 1 and of their fellow-ettizens resident at the scat of the ten- 1 tral imp vial stuthurity, is now fairly gone forth to the orLI. (Jut claim to a domestic responsible legislature is naturall) and constitutionally; just all pleat and pretests fc• she expediency of withholding from us such right have ea lona since outlined and removed; ourearnest desire to is•-se.. it ha. been proved by continued exertions fur several maim hat lc to attain it: audour graces for usefully enjoying it is holi.putably shown by the judiriotiv, tenaperme, and ord.. to in which this constitutional agitation has t Litherta proceeded with. Under these circumstances '• it would bt• treastm to doubt" that the good feelings, the hues of liberty, and the strong sense of equity which smooth. the inglisla character, will Induce our sovereign and countrymen to do ua j ustice: and we have as strung a ...ntiet of the speckle concession to us of the Elec t... Council and House ut Amenably we have prayed for, as is,. have of the riving of the sun to-morrow morning. But aa a vieectinpr so extensive a change as remodelling the entice legislative institutions of the colony, some little time must necessarily elapse, it behoves the people not to relax in th, it exertions • nor to consider that everything has been done became ultimate victory may be regarded as certain. Far instince, the taxation, mad, what is worse, the expert- THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1851. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. THIS DAY. It has now become uncertain whether Lord Stan ley will succeed in forming a ministry. This morning his lordship again waited upon the Queen, with whom he remained in audience for some time. THE BUDGET. Mr. Gladstone arrived - in town at 11 o'clock this morning. Lord John Russell having given up the task of forming a ministry, Lord Stanley (as was stated in yesterday's Express) was summoned to the Palace, and showed no hesitation in accepting her Majesty's offer to undertake the government. Nothing further iS certain at present, but the following are said to be the chief appointments of— THE RUMOURED ADMINISTRATION: First Lord of the Treasury Lord Stanley Chancellor of the Excheque r.... Mr. Herrics Lord Chancellor ( Lord Truro, or Sir E. Sugdeu Foreign Secretary Mr. Disraeli Home Secretary Colonial Secretary (Mr. Gladstone k refuses) President of the Board of Trade .. Mr. Newdeptc India Board Duke of Richmond THE HOUSE TAX AND WINDOW DUTIES. GREAT MEETING IN ST. PANCRAS. Last evening a large meeting of the ratepayers of the extensive parish °fat. Pancras took place in the spacious Vestry-hall, King's-road, Camden-town, for the purpose of considering the financial statement and budget of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, mere especially in reference to the imposition of a house tax in lieu of the window duties; as also to consider the present ministerial crisis. The spacious hall in which the meeting was held is calculated to hold at least 2,000 persona, and hundreds were unable to obtain admission. The spacious galleries, and even the lobbies of the building, were literally crowded. DONALD FILLSEIt, Esq., the senior churchwarden, presided, and was supported on the platform by Viscount Duncan, Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., Sir B. Hall, Bart., 31. P., Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., Mr. Jacob Bell, M.l'., and a large num ber of members of the vestry and delegates from the various metropolitan parishes. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business, said, having so recently presided over a great meeting in that room, he did not expect he should have so soon been called upon again to preside over that immense assembly, to protest against the imposition of the window tax wider another name. (Hear.) The proposal of what was called a house tax was a fraud upon the great body of the people. (Hear, hear.) The chairman went into several statistics to show the unjust and partial operation of the tax, and said, whatever govern ment might now be in power, or to come into power, they were determined to resist this impost. (Cheers.) Mr. DRETTINCiIIAM proposed the first resolution : - That the late attempt of the whip ministry to fasten upon the people of England a house tax, unequal in its operation, in lieu of the odious window tax, is an outrage on the en during patience of au overburdened and long-sullering people, and this meeting urges upon their representatives in the Commons House strenuously to oppose soy ministry who will not repeal unconditionally and forever a tax which has so long disgraced the statute-book, and that a petition founded upon this revolution be presented to parliament." (Loud cheers.) It had been said there was a power behind the crown greater than the crown itself. (Hear, hear.) That power had been severely tested within the tut week. The whites were now no longer the advisers of her Majesty. (Cheers.) The film had at last fallen from the eyes of the people, and it was the knowledge of that fact that had driven the whips from office. Mr. lIILLETT seconded the resolution. Lord DUNCAN, on presenting himself, was greatly ap plauded. His object in coming there was to hear what the feelings of the people really were upon this important', question, and he could assure them that when he went to the 'louse of Commons he would not fail to take advantage of it. (Cheers.) They had heard that day that there was another government in power, (Hear, hear.) Whatever government might be in power now, or hereafter, he (Lord Duncan) still intended year after year to bring forward his motion on the window duties until they were repealed with out a substitute. (Cheers.) He knew that in (Mina so he was supported out of doors, and when a proposal was hacked by the voice of the people it mud ultimately prevail. (Hear, hear.) lie eared not Mr government, it was their support he wonted. (Cheers, and cries of " You shall have it.") Tile people, if they were so minded, could enforce economy and retrenchment, which they had a right to demand. (Cheers.) Ile found in all the meetings he had attended but one universal sentiment on this matter, and he there pledged himself never to desist from urging this question un the legislature, but he would bring it forward again and again until it was repealed. (Great cheering, and loud cries for " Sir B. Hall.") Sir B. HALL, was also greatly applauded. Ile was delighted to see such an iinmense assembly of his con stituents uu this truly important occasion and at such a crisis. it was peculiarly gratifying to him personally, be ' cause he felt that it was backing him up in the declanition he made when Sir Charles Wood proposed his budget, that whenever that budget was brought forward he would take the sense of the house as to whether a house tax should be' inflicted on the people or not. (Cheers.) Ile was happy to find that his views were supported not only by his ens n constituents, but in every parish. Upon the first blush of the thing, the budget was full of absurdities as well as in justices. To illustrate the iniquity of the tax, the house of a peer in Belgrave-square, at a rent of 700/. per year, paid 141. Os. lid., or 21 per cent., .whilst the same sized house in Russell-square, ut n rent of 1.10/., paid 94 per cent. A house in Grtavenor-strect, rent 430/., laud 2; per cent., whilst the acme sired house in Gower-street, at tlOl., paid II per cent.; and the houses of the pour in Wild-street, at Id/. rent, paid 6/. 3,.. ad., or 33 per cent. (Shame.) But as to the house tax, they had heard the story of Aladdin, in the " Arabian Nights," where the magician mad new lamps for old ones. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Now the late Chancellor in his budget had reeened that story, and had made old houses worth more than new smiles. (Laughter, and Hear, hear.) It seas the absurd financial measures of the late government that turned them out and nothing else (hear, hear)—and Lord Stanley was ut that moment the prime minister of this country. ('freane °glows hisses, groans, real uproar, with cries of "We won't have him.") All he (Sir B. could say was, that tio far as his vote went, he would nut have him. (Cheers.) Ile would do all he could by his vote to turn him out—(cheers)—because if Lord Stanley in the one house, and his representative, Mr. Disraeli, in the other, must, if they act honestly, attempt again to inflict a heavy duty on the food of the leople. (Groan., and " Let them try it.") The lion. baronet at further length showed that no ministry could stand at the present day who did not carry out these principha, and resumed his seat amidst immense applause. Mr. JACOB BELL, M.P., expressed his conviction that now the public feeling was roused, it would be impassible to either continue the window duties or impose a house tax by any government. Messrs. SM trot, BAYER, GEES I N, NICILOLAY, and Cooran having spuken, Lord DUDLEY STUART, in an to lona calls for him, next addressed the meeting, amidst enthusiastic plau dits. lie said a new government had assumed the reins of ogles, but it was quite impossible they could go on long, because their principles were not these of the house of Commons. (Hear, hear.) lie did not know whether Lord Stanley would venture an appeal to the country ; all he (Lord D. Stuart) could say was the sonnet the better. (Cheers.) If they could not look up to the late Whig go vernment for the rights of the people, what had they to ex pect from a government professing protectionist principles ? (Hear, hear.) They had expressed their displeasure with the government of yesterday, but would they be be pleased with the government of to-day ? (Loud cries of " No, us.") The noble lord de nounced the family compact of the late govern ment, but he could not understand for one moment that the country would consent to be governed by those whose prin ciples were not only to make light dear, but bread dear also. et Hear, hear," and eries of " We won't have them.") Mr. 'terries was pointed at as the new Chancellor of the Ex ehequer—(groans)—the ruan who prop ad that all the sur plus should be appropriated to reduce the income tux, nod not to the window tax. (Shame.) Ile could ask them would they stand that? (Loud cries of " No.") 'f he noble lord declared that a revision of taxation must be insisted on by the people. (Loud cheers.) Mr. It. FE `TON moved, and Mr. MANNING seconded, an address to the Queen, praying her Majesty only to take such ',cremes to her councils as would carry out reform and retrenchment; which was also adopted unanimously. Mr. C. FREETH, Mr. 11 A LION, Mr. CONUANEN, and other gentlemen, addressed the meeting ; and, on the mo tion of Lord DUNCAN, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and the proceedings terminated. On tearing the palace yesterday Lord Stanley proceeded to Grosvenor-gate, and had an interview with Mr. Disraeli. Lord Stanley t•ubs,quently visited Viscount Canning at his residence in Grosvenor-square. The Earl of Aberdeen had an interview with Lord Stan ley yesterday. Viscount Canning visited Lord Stanley in the course of the afternoon, and had a long interview with hit lordship. Her Majesty the Queen addressed a second communica tion to Lord Stanley last evening, to which the noble lord immediately replied. Sir ,lamer Graham had an interview:with the Earl of Aberdeen yesttrday. TaWie of the Sta,l3l • • Total value with, coinage Sit.sfe,aaa la It The following Is the aemunt of silver monies coined and delivered at her blajeAy's Mint, by the Right lion. Richard Later Shill, Master and Worker, from July 14, 1846, to Dee. 1:4 1840; the said monies being coined (pursuant to Mint Indenture, Feb. 6, 1817) after the rate of 66 shillings to the pound weight troy, of the standard of floss. 2 duets. fine silver, and 18 dwts. of alloy : ST. LUCIA. The weather continual highly favourable to the work of sugar making, and crop had commeueed pretty generally throughout the island. ANTIGUA. The weather had been laraMruble to the growing crop, and tended to enhance the pro petty or the planters. Rain had been general. The atmosphere had been very cool and agreeable. MARTINIQUE. Letter, from St. Pierre of the 1t ingt. announce the death, from cholera, of Captain 11aiain, gover nor of Freneh Guiana. M. Vidal de LingendeA, attorney-general, was appointed interim governor. THE RIOT AT TiAnitAat Horer.—The weekly meeting of the Board of Guardians of the Bonnere and Cl:ldeal Union, was held at the Badman Ilouse on Friday, the Her. F. Steward in the chair. Sir John Waldman, Hart., inspector of this district, W 24 in attendance. The Ithjvct of Sir John'* ri-it was limited to an inquiry into the dietary of the union, and the remainder of the time was occupied with the transaction of the ordinary business of attending to application: for relief. Sir John AValsham, it 6 stated, expressed himself to the elliet that the dietary was equal to that of any other union in the kingdom, but with the view to prevent future complaint it is in content plation, we understand, to increase the allowance of bread to some little extent. I pon this question, the sufficiency of diet, the master I the other officials aver that the dietary is both ample enough and of excellent quality, and in priest of the assertion, they state that many of the in mates, particularly the children, after having been in the house a few weeks, nut only exhibit a decided improve ment iu personal appearance, but are in the habit of leaving a portion of their meal. unconsumed. A detachment of six pelicemen still continues in peow..sion of the premises, and the further precaution has been taken of swearing in about 50 special ennstables.—Serbik Chronicle. MATH JO.t.NNA IhiLLtE,—We hare to an nounce the decease of Joanna Beattie, whose name will be fiunitiar to the large minority of our readers. She was horn in 1702. in the manse of Bothwell, near Glasgow, of which place her father was minister. Tlis works of Joanna Baillie, whieh appeared anonymously at the end of the last century, when a brilliant phalanx of names had begun to excite general attention, created as great a sensation us any pro duction of the period, and the impression which was the re sult of their first appearance was much heightened when, contrary to all expeetation, they were found to be the writ ings of a woman. This impression was still further in creased when it was discovered that the authoress was still young, and had always led a secluded life. Several of her dramas have hem a acted, John Kemble and his sister MlR taink.cl the chief characters of " De Montfort " upon several °erasion., and the elder titan selected the same tragedy for one of his benefit night.. The "Family Legend" obtained a considerable run in Edinburgh, where Sir Widter Scott, the warm friend and gnat admirer of Joanna Millie, wrote • prologue to this tragedy, while the author of the " Man of Feeling contributed the epilogue. The " Separation " and Ilenriqueg" have in more modern times been acted, hut the writings of Joanna &utile are rather adapted fur read ing than the stage. Though her fame tended greatly to draw her into society, her life was passed in retirement. It was pure and moral in the highest degree, and was character ised be the most consummate integrity, kindness, and ac tive benevolence. Gentle and unassuming to all, with an unchangeable simplicity of manner and of character, she counted many of the men most celebrated for talent and genius among her friends, our were those who resorted to her mo dest home confined to the natives of this country, hut many from various parts of Europe, and especially from America, ' sought introductions to her. THE MCADER AT DATIL—RATH, TUESDAT.—Tho coroner's inquest upon the body of the woman Maria Clark.... adjourned from yesterday as ryported in the Er ens, resumed at two o'clocCto-day. W. Sutcliffe. the committing magistrate, bad previously proceeded tot e Bath gaol, and formally remanded the prisoner till Wednesday, in order that the coroner', inquiry might be concluded before he was brought before the magistrates again. There were several witnesses examined, whose evidence mainly went to show that there had been a quarrel and a seed& between the prisoner and deceased on the day of her death. W. Ilaneuck, 12, Claremont-buildings, labourer, who was called into Clarke's house by Mrs. Todd, on thi; evening of the murder, deposed to finding Mrs. Clarke sitting on the floor, and Clarke leaning over her, smoothing her cheeks. Witness, on feeling the woman, said " Clarke, ' I think your wife is dead." Ile replied, " For God's sake, go for a 'doctor." Mr. Langley went after a surgeon, and , witness, at Clarke's request, assisted him to remove the body into the centre of the room. The three children were , in the room, and Clarke said to witness, " Lord help us ; , what will become of them dear children ?" A man i named Gain, who was iu the room, asked Clarke if he had been beating her, and he replied " No." Gain then asked , him how the blond came there, and Clerke replied, " I i don't know." There was a stick on the floor, and a cap thrust into the fire grate. l'olio-constable Armstrong. who , was called in and took the husband of deceased into cm ; Wily upon the charge of murder, produced the cap found in the tire grate, a large quantity of hair, and the broken L pieces of sticks found upon the Moor. Mr. Hunt, surgeon, i did not conceive that the wound inflicted upon the deceased was caused by the sticks produced, although it was possible it might have been. He believed from the nature of the wound that there had been two plunges. The inquiry , was again adjourned. _ Taictuuvr ILLUMINATION.—" Papa," said a Fe ted.= boy to his literal papa, " why do the Pusuyites burn candles?' " Why, Tom," replied the matter-of-fact governor, " I suppose because they are in the dark."— Pustek. MACIIDAT AND COLOVIAL I I 47. I—. 74 2417 - 1 - 24. - - Id._l I 4 I I 19 24 Value of the rye Tots value at the direr einage ./11211.8119 • • The account. of both the gold and silver monies were Biped by 11. 1). llarnesd, Capt., R.E., Dep. Master and 1 he accounts were ales eertificd by W. 11. Barton, Comp troller; Cieurge Forbes, Queeu's Clerk. The Right Ron. Tennyson D'Eyneourt had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official rusistence, in Downing-street. Sir Thomas ltedington and the Lord Mayor of Dublin had an interview with Sir George Grey yeiderduy, at the Home-office. . . _ • The American Minister had an interview with Earl Grey, at the Colonial-Whet, yesterday. Colonel Anson had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday. Lady John Russell's party has been unavoidably post poned from Wednesday, 26th February, to Monday, 3rd March. pros but sight's Casette.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 25.—The Queen bun been graciously pleased to appoint William nougat Christie, Esq., now• her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at 31usquito, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation to the Swiss Con fclleration ; also been graciouslT pleased to appoint George Aikin, Esq., to be her Majesty s Consul iu the State of California. JsmEs'i-PALACE.—The Duke of Cembridge has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-Colonel Lord William nutlet to be one of his Royal Highness's Equerries. CROWN-oFFICE.—MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN SKIS I•REsENT PAIILIANENT.—Feb. 2t: For the County of Stafford, Northern Division, Smith Child, Esq., of lturrnall-hall, in the county of Stafford, in the room of George Granville Francis Egerton, commonly called Viscount Brinkley, who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.—Feb. 21: For the County of Beiltord, Richard Thomas Gilpin, Esq., of Hock litfe-grange, in the county of Bedford. in the room of John Hume Egerton, commonly called Viscount Alford, de ' erased. COMMISsION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT or SOGTHAXIPION.—Thuma. Best, Gent., to be Ensign in the North Hants Militia. COMMISSION SIGNED BY TILE LEAD LIEUTENANT Or NORTH4MISZILLANI).—Sir Edward llaggerstou, to be Deputy Lieutenant. COMMIiaION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT or NOTTINOHAMSIIII:E.—Georgo Gordon, Gent., to be Cornet in the Sherwood Rangers. SIR W. OWEN BARLOW, flirt., Wall seized with sudden Mims at the Reform Club, on Monday eleninF, after dinner, and wet conveyed home to hi, chambers in the Temple, when he died early yesterday raernin• He yes in his 79th year, and has left a large fortune, which is entailed. His executer ia Mr. Justice Williams. AmEste I BREAD.—In a recent lecture on mu riatic acid at the Glasgow Mechanics' Institution, Dr. Penny stated that nearly all the miriade acid sold in Glasgow is contaminated with arsenic. The doctor said he had examines very carefully numerous samples obtained from different makers and retail shops, in all of which, with one exception, he had discovered, by Reinsche's test, the presence of an appreciable propottio i of this poisiraoua sub stance. Now it is well known Mitt muriatic acid, with other chemical articles, is used very frequently as a substi• tute for yeast in the making of bread. It therefore really becomes a very serious question whether the employment of an impure acid like that mentioned for making such an essential article of food as bread may not be attended with I highly injurious consequences. 'CO Court. The Earl of Aberdeen and Sir James Graham arrived at Buckingham Palace at a quarter-past 9 o'clock on Monday evening, and had audio/nee of the Queen. Lord Stanley had an audience of her Majesty yesterday morning. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prince Albert, and partook of luncheon with her Majesty and his royal highness. the Queen and Prince Albert, nerompanied by the Princess Royal and the Prineess Alice, took a drive yester day afternoon in an open carriage and four. The equerries in waiting, lord Charles litany and Lieut.-Colund the lion. Alexander Gordon, attended on horseback. Prince Albert rode out on hor,chaek yesterday, attended by Lisut.-Colonel lion. A. Gordon. The royal family took their usual exerci,e yesterday. The I)ucheits of Kent :Arrived at herre.idenee, Clarence }louse, St. Jrunes's, yesterday from Frocnnore. On her way to town her royal highness visited the Duchess of Gloucester. In the afternoon the Duchess of Kent re turned to Frugourre, attended by Lady Fanny !toward and Sir George Cooper. The Lords of Iler Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council held a meeting ve4terday morning at the office of the Comptroller General of the Exchequer fur the trial of the specimens of gold and silver coinage deposited in the Pyx of the Itoval Mint. A jury of goldsmiths were in attendance. Lords of the Privy council present were the bird Chancellor, Earl Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Earl of Carlisle, Sir rrallei, Baring, Earl Granville, and Lord' Montragle. Sir John F. W. Benda:ll, hart., Master of the Mint, Mr. ♦ - incent, the Queen's Itemembrancer, and Mr. Brown, the Deputy Itemembraneer, were present. The Lord Chancellor charged the jury, whir retired with the pys, in order to test 11 assay the fineness and weight of tire different coinages in coitiorinity with the rate and stan dard. The following is the account of gold monks coined by the Right lion. It. L. Stull, Master and Worker of Iler Majesty's Mint, and delivered into the office of receipt of the said mint, from the 11th day of July, 1816, to the 11th day of De•ember, 1/119, the said monies bring ruined (pur suant to Mint indenture, dated 6th February, 1817), alter the rate of 46 sovereigns to the pound weight troy of the standard of 22 carats of fine gold and 2 carats of alloy. WEIOOT OF DELIVERTEA. 'maks of 14dis. j L.s. j us. 1.)w9 13 Is 1G,314, sad 71b. Sam. 13 del. 1441.1 243 N 7 Spans or NOXIZ. POT ism las Pr:. Dm reigns. 11,671 WEIGHT OF DELICFRIEM. Joareas. of 61166. e•O9. I Pure& 3,1.9 ;39,930 !mils or Norm my iaz roc. Crane. I " ' It Maim /30illtagr.1 WWI Omits. ISO I nes see 9;9 3T9 161 ST. ANDREW'S HOLBORN. Last nighiaiult;llCmcc.tinioiTEeraabitants and occupiers of premises within the united parishes of St. An d Lew, Holborn, and St. George the Martyr was held in the hall of the workhouse, in Gray's-inn-Lute, " to consider the propriety of petitioning parliament against the imposition of a house tax and to reduce the general expenditure of the country, so as to allow of the remission of many taxes which injuriously press upon the industry of the country." Mr. J 4 q Iforwoon was unanimously called to the chair, and resolutions in accordance with the objects of the meet ing were unanimously adopted. ANoTUER ANTI-WINDOW TAX MEETING.—A pub lic and influential meeting of the ratepayers and other in habitants of the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John the Evangeli,t, Westminster, was held last night at the Lec ture-rooms. Vauxhall-bridge-road, at which a series of re solutions condemnatory of the obnoxious window tat, and the proposed scheme of the late Chancellor of the Exche quer, were unanimously passed. The meeting, which was numerous, was presided over by Mr. D. Mallock, and was addressed by Mr. Ucesin, churchwarden of St. James's, Mr. Saunden, Mr. Wright, and other leading reformers of both parishes. A resolution was adopted recommending district petitions against any substitution in lieu of the win dow tax. The suggestion was received with great enthu siasm by the meeting, and will be immediately acted upon. BOOKS &C., TO CERTAIN COLONIES.—GENERAL POST-UTFICI, FIB.—On and after the Ist of March, printed books, magazines, reviews, and pamphlets (whether British, colonial, or foreign) may be transmitted by the post between the United Kingdom and the British 'West Indies, Ber muda, Newfoundland, Hong Kong rig Southampton, Malta, do., Gibraltar, do., at the following reduced rates of post age, viz:—For each packet not exceeding ilb. in weight, Gd. ; do., exceeding Ob., and not exceeding Ilb., Is. ; do., r exceeding 11b., and not exceeding 21bs., 2a.; do., i ef t eding so 21bs., and not exceeding 3lb s ., 3 5 . ; an d on inc Is ' for every addition '/ p o u n d or f rac ti on o f a p oun ro vided, howcser, that the following conditions be carefully observed:-1. Every such packet must be sent without a cover, or in a cover open at the ends or sides. 2. It must contain a single volume only (whether printed book, maga zine, review, or pamphlet), the several sheets or parts thcreof, where there are more than one, being sewed or bound together. 3. It must not exceed two feet in length, breadth, width, or depth. 4. It must have no writing or marks upon the cower or its contents, except the name and address of the person to whom it may be sent. 6. The postage must be paid in full, by affixing outside the packet or Its cover the proper number cif stamps. If any one of the above conditions be violated, the packet must be charged as a letter, and treated as such in all respects. To prevent any obstacles to the regular tmnsmission of letters, any otheer of the Poet-office may delay the transmission of any such packet far &Buie not exceeding 24 hours from the time at which the same would otherwise have been forwarded by him. These instouctiona are not to extend to or interfere with the transmission of printed votes and proceedings of parliament, or of printed papers allowed to paw by the post under the newapoper privilege, all of which will continue subject to the existing regulations. LAW INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. LORD MAYOR'S COURT. Iltllollll TOO H 2 ollt Hon. J. S. WORTIAT. Ratner's& WADSWOILTII V. THE QUEEN OF SPAIN.—STONE AND MANTIS, GARNISHEES.—THE SPANISH BOND CASE. This case, which wan an attachment issued by a holder of Spanish funds against the sum of 10,000!., which was in the hands of Messrs. Stone and Martin, the bankers, as agents on behalf of the Spanish government, was in the list fur hearing at the sitting of the court this morning, having, it may be remembered been brought wider the notice of the court on the 29th ultimo, when an application was made on the part of the defendant to dissolve the attachment on common bail being filed, on the ground that the affidavit of debt made by the plaintiff, and upon which the attach ment was issued, was insuffieicut. A bill of proof was now put iu ou the part of the defendant, and an adjournment asked for, but this was opposed on the part of the plaintiff, who was ready toproceed with the cause forthwith, and an affidavit was put in, in which it was stated that the only object of the defendant's advisers was delay, and that the plaintiff had experienced great difficulty in subprenaing the witnesses necessary for the support of his ease. the Recorder said that, under the practice of the court, he could not now proceed to try the cure, but he would di rect subprenas to be issued forthwith, so that the plaintiff might not again Sad difficulty in aerring the witnesses. After some conservation between the learned counsel and the court, the case was postponed, it bring an understand ing that it was nut to come on for trial before the second week in April. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. BOW STREET. CRUELTY TO A iioßAlt.Ji.ii;;;/, a carman in the em: ploy of Mr. Tanquicr, coal tucrchaut, was charged with ill treating a horse. Yesterday afternoon the prisoner had charge of a waggon, laden with coals, and three horses. He was to discharge the cowls in Southamptou-street, in which Is an extremely steep descent. The prisoner while in that street at tempted ti place the waggon close to the kerb, but the shaft horse was unable to move the load, in cox:sequence of the declivity of the street, which caused the weight to increase un the back of the horse. The prisoner, finding that the horse could not more the waggon. com menced beating it across the head and shoulders with the lash end of the whip in a most brutal manner. His conduct attracted the asention of some ladies residing in the street, and the prisoner continued Lolling the horse across the head Mr several minutes. The animal, in his struingim to move the waggon, fell upan his knees, and the pri soner stnick the horse while in that position. Ultimately the horse fell udder the shafts, mid lay is that position for nearly three quarters of an hour. When it was raised the horses car was bleeding profusely. The constable said the prisoner, in endeavouring to move the horse, failed to lock the wheels while on the declivity, and the horse was dragged down by the waggon running back. If the waggon had run buck into the Strand, there is no doubt it would have caused considerable damage. Mr. Tanquier said the primmer was alwAya hind to his horses, and the horse in question was very stubborn. 31r.Joirdine commented very strongly on the conduct of the prisoner, and he tined Lim lUs., or 11 (Lip' imprison ment. The lino was paid. C %mutat or Two DESERTERq.— W. rOildi and IV. Dumbarton, in-irides in the Grenatliz.r t.t uards, were charged as deserters. Sergeant Thompson, of the F division, Paid from infor mation he received, he went last evening to No. IN, Great Earl-street, Seven Dials, nod (rum what he heard he was induced to go on to the roof of the honse. Ile there dis covered foot-marks, which he traced over the roofs of sereral houses, to u public-house in the NUM: street. Ile cutered window and descended into the yard, where he climbed over a wall into another van', which led to a coffee house in White Lion-street.' entered the cotfre-room, where he found the two defendants. Collett was dreascsl in his uniform, and the other was attired in private clothes. Collett said he did not consider himself u deserter until the expiration or 21 days. He had only been absent 1•i days. Dumbarton admitted that he was a deserter. . . . Mr. Jardineiiiree;t4 in7p;rgoner4i;i;;;Wovea to head quart.rs, in the 'lower, where they will be tried by a court martial. ANOTHER 3IEETLNO OF LONDON SEAMEN IN OPPOSITION TO TUE MERCANTILE MARINE ACT. Another huge meeting of the sailors now lying in the port of Loudon was held last night at the Temperance hall, Princes-square, ltateliff-highway, for the purpose of adopting the best means to secure the abolition of the New Mercantile Marine Act and other ;fries:owes of the English seaman. Mr. LACNCELOT BUSBY, a master mariner, was called to the chair. Ho said that he had always heen ready to do his duty to the seamen, mid, while he commended them fur looking after and obtaining their rights, he trusted that they would not be so foolish and ha,ty its the men in the north, but proceed in • spirit of moderation. They had much to complain of in the New Marine Act, and he would ask what COUlli the seven mem bers of the local board know about merchant Peamen ? Ile was ever ready in supporting men in seeking their just rights, and he wouhl tell them that, if they only kept them selves in bounds, they must prosper. (Cheer.) Mr. O. MODEL then moved the first re.olution, to the effect that a memorial, duly signed, be presented to the Board of Trade, soliciting the suspension of certain points of the act. It conferred nut the least benefit upon the boil)- !of seamen, and he might ask who had sought it ? Nut the shipowners, with some few exceptions, perhaps, and surely the Lew were not to govern the many. The masters did not require it, and he was certain that the men did not. (Hear.) lie sincerely belies eel that it would prove as serious an injury to the owner and muster all it had already beam to the sailor. Surely there could be whetter tribunal with re fertnee to deciding whether a num had done right or wrong than going kilos, a magistrate in a public court, but for the future they were to Ike trapped within closed doors at the shipping Mile:. And then, upon what principle were they to pay one shilling fur being engaged, and two shil lings for using paid off? lie did nut care if they made a shipping office at every house, as lung as they did not com pel him to go to it. Just let them look at the ease of a nun who shipped to go to the East Indies at 21. a mmith,which would give him about Is.4d. for twenty-four hours' labour, and taking the shipping office charges from his first month's pay, viz., Is. for engaging, Is. for the muster-roll, and 2s. for paying off he would have about hi. Old. for the day'. work, or rather more than a halfpenny nn hour. (Hear, hear.) And then with reference to the Sailors' Home—did it give them a fair chance of getting a ship ? (Cries of " No, no.") lie was a married man, and he would ask what chance he would have while the house was full of its boarders? (Cheers.) Ile might put his name down, but' as long as he lived out of the house, and living married and having a home of his own he could not well go into it, his chance of being employed was very small. Then they had an office on Tower-hill, and another at Green's Home : but he contended that they were not proper place's; and if they were intended to be of any service to the seamen, they ought to he at the docks—there there might he a chance for them. It was strange they could not keep the men from visiting those shipping offices ; while they did, and shipped themselves according to the arrangements impoeed upon them, they might depend upon it that the government would not listen to them. What he mostly objected to in the bill was the shipping o ffi ces, the artificial log, and the system of fine he wished to sae them all abolished. Mr. CAVANAGH supported the resolution, which was unanimously adopted. Other speakers leaving addressed the meeting, and a de putation to wait on the Board of Trade being arranged, the meeting, after the usual compliment to the chairman, sepa rated. The two war steamers sent down to the northern coast arc said to have taken at hoard strong detaeluneuts of marines, in order to art in every possible ease of emergency. THE RIOT AT YARMOUTH. On Monday, the persons (17 in number) who had been captured during the late riot were brought up for examination before a full bench of magistrates. The court was crowded with spectators and hundreds of persons assembled round the Town-hail during the inquiry. The Seamen's Committee engaged Mr. Carlos Cooper, barrister, of Norwich, to defend those of the prisoners who were seamen. Twelve of the men were charged with the minor offense of obstructing, assaulting, and resisting the police in the execution of their duty, whilst they were engaged its conveying the man on board the steam-tug to join his vessel. Of these, three were discharged, and the remainder were fined in various sums, from 10s. to SL, including all costs ; and, in default of payment, they were sentenced to terms of imprisonment varyiug from one month to two months. Five of the ringleaders were charged with riot, and, after n lengthened investigation, were fully commited for trial at the next quarter sessions. The evidence did not bring to light any new facts, but fully bore out in (Trey substantial particular the former account of the riot. At the close of the inquiry, in consequence of the excite ment prevailing outside the hall, the police, special con stables, and cutter's men, together with a troop of the 11th hussar's, accompanied the vehicle in which the rioters were conveyed to the gaol. The assemblage of people was very great, and they loudly cheered the prisoners, and assailed the police and military with hooting*, but no titbit* mani festation of feeling took place. The prisoners being lodg e d safely in gaol, the military and civil force dispersed, and the crowd speedily followed their example. During the day the mayor issued a bill announcing " That no public pro cessions or out-door meetings of seamen or others would be allowed to take place within the borough during the present excited state of the town," At night a guard of the military was set within the gaol, and patrols of the cutter's men were placed in the streets, &e., leading to the gaol. In consequence of the arrival of the war-steamers, Black Eagle and Lightning, with a strong body of the marines, the troops have had orders to return to Norwich. COUNTY Coat ELIA ASSOCIATION.—The Earl of Bandon has accepted the office of president of the society, and the Eui at Cork, Lord Listowell, Colonel Chattuton, M.H., M.P. (High Sheriff of the county), Mr. Fagan, M.P., and Sir D. J. Norreys, But., M.P., the pace of vice presidents. ALLEGED MURDER OF A WIFE BY POISON. A painful degree of excitement and alarm has been occasioned in the usually quiet market town of Chip ping Sadhury, Gloucestershire, in consequence of the arrest of Mr. I). liathway, the landlord of the Fos beer-house, and a young woman with whom he has been upon terms of improper intimacy, named Carey. upon a chirge of having caused the death of Mrs. Jane Ilathway, the wife of the former, by the admir.istration of arsenic to her. The male prisoner is about 30 years and the female about 20 ; and the deceased was a tine young woman, some years the junior of her husband, and very respectably connected. It is understood that at the time of their marriage Ilathway had with his wife a fortune of several hundred pounds. nearly the whole of which he has spent ; a corunderabla portion of which it is alieged he his spent in irregularities with the girl Carey, who once lived in his service, and with other females. An adjourned inquest on the body was held on Monday, at the Grapes Inn, before W. J. Ellis, Esq., and a respect able jury , . The prisoners were brought from the police sta tion to the inquest room in a carnage, and were followed by a large crowd much incensed against them, and by whom but for the precautions taken by Superintendent Gordon and the police, they, in all probability, would have bees roughly handled. The i:iquest-room and its upproaches were crowded throughout the inquiry. The following is an outline of the evidence adduced: Sarah Turner deposed that, on Friday evening deceased called at her father's house. She was sick and ill, and complained of being very cold. Witness went home with her to the Fox, where she was again sick several times. Witness called later the same evening, and saw her, and she was still very ill ; she was sick after everything she took, and went to the water-closet repeatedly. She com plained of her stomach, and otten said when the pain was greater, " t.) dear, 1 shall die." When she was sick the discharges were very watery. Witness sold •he ought to call in n doctor, but she said she could not afford it. Saw her husband at the house, and he said she had a bad cold, that was all. y a jun) • did not seem very anxious about her. Does not know of his ill using her, or of any jealousy between them. Mary Phipp lived next door to deceawd, and saw her on Friday attenmon. She said she had been '.cry sick, and that she had bought some " humbugs" (a Lind of lozenge), she had such a natty taste in her mouth. She said she had been taken sick after having onion broth for dinner. She complained of pain in her stomach. At about 7 o'clock on Saturday morn ing Mr. Rahway lumeked at witne.es's limete, and .asked her to come in as hi* wife• was very bad. Witness went in, and site said s h e felt so bait and sick that she did not know what to do. She said her hudiand had made her u cap of te.a. Mr. nathway asked witness to write a note to his ife's mutt. Advised hiut to call in a surgeon, as some one should be rolled in. Some time atter witness was again CAlled in to her, as in her pain the had got out of bed and tiny could not get her in again. Mr. Leman, surgeon, was then sent for, but before he could conic she was dead. Mary Ann . Cireciaing deposed that she was uerasitiaally at itathway's housi., as she used to work ahuut for hiut, (1121, lag and the like. Saw the deecawd on Saturday morning; ghu wag very bad, and willow; asked Inc she should Wtelk the doctor. She replied ;" and bald blw could not utll.nl it. The master came in while nittu-s there " piping his eye." Had frequently lward deceased com plain ut pain in her bowels and of being n•lated. Had never known her take auytking for it. The pain W., some tin., so bad that she could nut walk about. On Saturday morning Mr. Ilathway directed witness to empty a night stool, in which there were CI acuatitorts, and she had bled sick in it. The evacuations were sin en and yellow., and with a rather lightish sediment. Wien witness left thu house the poor woman was near dying, and, alter she got home, she heard that she was dead. by a juror --Caroline Can, is my sister. She had lived as servant at Ibithway's, worst: luck. She was bactiwarda and forwards at the house. Never heard de c.. a say she was unhappy about the child Caroline laud. Dun t know that Mr. Ilathway gave her a they, Jemima Vicki was passing the house about three months ago, when de:cased called her in. She cos.:pi:tined of a pain in her stomach. Witness said she ought to take some thing for it, and she said she was taking some pilly, which her hu►band made fur her. Witness asked if they did any good ? and she replied " no, they make my stomach heat and burn so." Witness said to her, " sure 1 would not take anything of his making up, and he gling on as ho does." She replied, " lie do make me." She then said. " Now don't say anything about it ; tin I'm afraid the set he's connected with will murder ow." She seemed very miserable, and sometimes complaints' to wit:nem of a girl whom her husband kept. She had also told her that her husband alien alone sometimes beat and, kicked her. By a juror —Have heard her nay that she sometimes went to bed before 8 o'clock, as she was humid to do so. Mita Turner, a dressmaker, deposed that about throe mouths ago she made three green silk bonnets ; une for Caroline Carey, one for her sister, and the third for a fe male named Neale. The siils they gust her to to he them front was part of a dress. Some' time afterward. Mrs. liathway asked her if she had a bit of the silk left to let her see it; she did so, and she then mid it A% 1.4 just like a dress she had missed, but she could not say wheth, r her hushand gate it to Carty, or she had taken it. She seemed much vexed. Mr. Thus. fire:sine Atkinson, surgeon, deposed that aboat titres. months Itefere her death the deer aced bad had a good deal of medicine from him, but :1.4 it was for a spe cific complaint, haviug nothing to do with her do atil, he would rather not mention it. Was not called in on thu present occasion till after her death. Ilad made a post morient examination of the body, end everything app-arid healthy. The external surface of the stomach appeared healthy. Bid not ciainitte the internal, as witness Is ft the contents for analysis. Could not form the slightest opinion as to the cause of death. Mr. Ilerapath, analytical chemist, of Bristol, oleisosed that he had received from the surgeon, Mr. Atkinson, the stmuuch and intestinal canal of nn adult huntan hieing. Upon looking at the external surface of the stomach he found it only slightly inflamed. Upon mo,n ing it he found it to contain a quantity of fluid of a dark brown colour, and on subjecting this fluid ton series of experiments he discovered arsenic. Clan decanting, the contents of the stomach he found u brown coloun.4 substance weighing four grains, which, ul on examining, he found to be white arsenic. Ile afterwards up:rutcd upon it, and restored it to its original state- the state in which it was at the time when it was administered. (The witness here exhibited to the jury a number of small tubes in which were the products of the sesera) experiments employosl by hint to doted the presence of arsenic, :and to assure himself beyond doubt of the identity of that poison. Ile showed the arsenic in - its metallic form, the metal sublimed and oxydized, the yellow sulphion.t of arsenic, Sches•le's green, eke., and continued.) Thus • spe cimens proved to him beyond any doubt that arsenic AS as contained in the stomas:h. Ile also found the stune potisoft in the substance of the stomach, showing that it had darn alisorbed into the system ; and he also timed it in the contents of the intestines. Witness examined the internal surface of the stomach and large intestines ; that of thu stomach was considerably inflamed in ridges, and so was the surface of the duodenum and that of the upper intestine. The internal tiunice of the rectum xhibiteol spots of extravasated blood. Judging from all the circumstances he had named, he had no doubt %Na ves r that the person to whom those intestines had lot longed had died from the effects of arsenic. Could discloser no re mains of food either in the stomach or intestines. There was a brownish-yellow fluid caused most likely by the pre sence of rhubarb. Witness had analysed some boxes of pills, and the contents of a bottle . gisen to him by Mr. Atkinson, but could find no arsenic in either of these. Mr. Burden, the superintendant of police, by whom thus prisoners were apprehended, said hr had received informa tion that morning for which he deemed it necessary to ask for an adjournment of the inquiry, as he should hate to make inquiries at a distance. The Coroner said if the officer deemed an adjuurnment . . essential to the ends of justice it shonld he taken, beenuso in an inquiry of that importance, alfecting, it might be, tho lives of portico, he should wish the inquiry to be prosecuted with proper calmness and deliberation; he would therefore adjourn over, if it was deemed advisable, Cur a Iv or two. A somewhat lengthened consultation un this pond ensued between the Jury, and it was at length resulted to adjourn the inquest tin Wednesday. The prisoners were then re-conveyed bark to the lusk-up, and were followed by a large concourse of the inhabitants. Tut GUNPOWDER MAGAZINF.S.—The returns moved for by Mr. William Brown, in reference to the =marines, have pet been published. They comprise, with little that is new, all the correspondence which has taken place be tween our local authorities and Sir George Grey. The following arc the last propositions which were made by tho trustees "That should the suggestion of magazines up the river be approved of by the government and the town coun cil, the lessees would propose the following as the lauds of the arrangement: That the corporation should obtain, at their expense, the requisite powers by act of parliament, or otherwi,e, for the erection of the store 1:11401311101 and thu land which should be purchased by them. ned the less..es should have leases granted to them, at a nominal rent, of the Cites of their store magaziues, fp r n term of not h'a't than 7 years. That the lemma should bear, by arrange ment amongst themselves ' all the expenses of constr u ct in g the magaxines, walls roads, piers, &e. That with respect to the magazines at Wallasey, the lessees would consmt to limit the quantity stored tVere for issue to a maximum of 5,000 barrels at one time, entertaining at the same time the hope that, smith a store magazine up the river, this qoantity would be in practice much diminished. That the le , •ces would consent to adopt such improvements in the manage meat of the magazines at Wallasey as way be considered requisite."—Lire pool Ntamlard. Tfui DIRECT WESTERN RATLWAY.—Yeatetdoy, Messrs. Johnson, Son, and Weathersll, solicitors for ',(r. Thompson, of Sheffield, Mr. F. Appleby:, of Derby, and Mr. logdon, of Sheffiel brought in a statement of facts before a his Honour Sir Ge d, org° Raw, to show cause why it was expedit nt that the company should he wound up under the act of parliament. The statement of facts set forth that the oompany was projected in 184.3 to construct a railway (ruin London to th•Landsend, with diverging lines to Bath and Bridgewater; proposed capital, 3,000,000/. no 120,000 shares of 2.5/. each, depot 21. 12s. per chase. It appeared taut a large number of persons mall scribed their names to tlte subscription contract, but did not pay the deposit, and it II stated that in this respect a sum of ' 35,4571. is due. Messrs. Harting appeared on behalf of Mr. Alderman Challis and other members of the provisional committee, and asked leave to bring in a muster-staternent of facts, which his Honour allowed to lto lodged with him by this day week. 1