Star. — London, England, 1830-04-02 00:00:00

HOUSE C'r LoßDS—Tins DAN. Divorce Bills are generally obtained, is rather a proof that Parliament too often neglects its duty, than that it has done more than its duty." But whilst the power is vested in Parliament, we can not see how the Members of either House could be jus tified in pronouncing upon the merits of the case without the fullest investigation : labouring as this particular cue does, " under the defectof wanting a trial by jury." The Globe, however, assumes that " no honest man will affirm that if a divorce had come down from the Lords with precisely the same evidence as in this case, but the parties to which were obscure commoners, instead of a Lord and Lady and a Prince, any of the volunteer Judges of the House of Commons would have thought it worth while to ask two questions, unless there was a hope of extracting some piece of indecency." Now, really we never re member to have read a more wanton, or a more un founded attack upon the functions and the obligations of Parliament. We, who do not desire to make this a party matter, and who deny that it has been made so, contend with Sir CHARLES WETIIERELL, that " the House would not discharge its duty if it did not go into its merits, investigate its facts, and examine witnesses at its bare although they were not upon oath. As the trial laboured under the defect of wanting a Trial by Jury, it was the duty of every Member to make himself a Jury man, and to try the questions at issue. It was right to any individual,where addtery v as proved to obtain a sen tence in an Ecclesiastical Court; but he denied that it was his right to obtain a Parliamentary divorce, which was conceded not on a principle of the adultery having been committed, but upon the indispensable ground that there existed an absence of misconduct on the part of the husband." APPEALS--To be heard at Ten o'clock. The Alarquis of Westmeath v. the Marquis of Salisbury. Ap pe.3 to be further heard. S:r. J. Montgomery •. Maxwell. Appeal—to be further heard. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Shakerley's Divorce Bill—to be further considered. East Retford Witnesses' Indemnity Bill—secoad reading. 110 USE OF COMMONS-...T1119 DAY. PRIVATE BILLS. Latle Bolton Improvement Bill—second reading. Derby Roads Bill—ditto. Hungerford Market Bill—ditto. FoleshiU Poor Bill—ditto. Addington (Northampton) Enclosure Bill—ditto. Ihfotd Canal El s'raniforil Bridge Road Bill—ditto. Mansfield and Chesterfield Road Bill—ditto. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Supply—Committee thereon. Remaining Estimates to be moved. Ways and Means—ditto. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 11r. Sykes—to present a petition from shipowners of Kingston. upou.Hull, complaining of distress. Mr. W. Peel—to move Toe Rave to bring in a bill to repeal 56 Geo. HI. c. 49, to procure returns of persons committed, tiled, at il convicted, for criminal offences and misdemeanours. MINORITY of 56, who voted on Mr. Hume's motion for the re committal of the St. Glks and St. George's (Bloomsbury) Vestry Bill. Birch, J. Harvey, I). W. Stewart, Sir M. S. Blandford, Marquis Jephvm, Mr. Smith, J. Calvert, C. Marjoribanks, Mr. Tennyson, Mr. Cave, 0. Martin. Mr. Thomson, P. Chichester, Major Marshall, W. Van Homrigh, P. • (live, Mr. Marshall, J. Villiers, H. Davenport, E. Month, Mr. Warburton, Mr. a Dawson, G. Nugent, Lord Wilbraham, Mr. Dundas, T. Protheroe, Mr. Wilson, Sir R. Dundas, R. A. Ramsden, Ferguson, Sir It. Robinson, Sir G. Fergusson, C. Sandon, Lord Gascoyne, Gen. Stanley, Mr. LLLLL RS. Hume, J. Hobbouse, J C. PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO 0 CLOCK. Bank Stock shut Do. Do. Jul.& Jan. 191 4 per Cent. Red. shut India Bonds 3 per Ct. Cons. 921 1 ; South Sea Stock 36 per Ct. 1818, shut £lOOO Exch.Bills 79 8 31 per Ct. Red. shut £5OO Ditto 79 8 4 per Cent. 1021 2 .6100 and £2OO Do. 79 8 4 per Ct. 1826, shut Bank for Acct. 2201 i.nng Ann. shut India for do 9441 51 Do. SO Years, Cons. for Acc. 921 1 1 FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Brasil Bds, 5 pr Ct. 691 1 Pertly. Ma. 6pr Ct. Do. Acc. 691 Do. Acc. 201 1 Colors. Rd.. 6 per Ct. Port. Bd.. 5 pr Ct. Do. Lids. 1824, Do. Ace, 591 Ditto Acct. 201 Prins. Bonds, 5 p Ct. 1031 Do. 100, 241 Sp.Bds. 5 perCt.l4l 1 Dinkh 11611. 3 p. Ct. 74i * Do &wont 141 1 Greek Bonds, 5 p Co. Do. 510, 141 Do. B. 1825, 401 Sp. 8d5.1823, 5 per Ct. 9b Do. Acc. 391 81 91 40 Fr. R. 3 p Ct. 100 f. 50c. Mex. Elds. 5 per Ct. 29 Exchange, 25f. 70e. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK. 'IMAM" PAID. PIS =AU. Anglo Mexican (Iw. at .€5 pm) 100 100 37i Brazilianlmp. (iss. 45 pm.) 35 23 80i $1 Do. National 25 10 19. Real del Monte 400 400 52 United !Uric, (In. at .11 pm.) 40 39j 110 i Alliance British and Foreign 100 10 10i MAILS ARRIVED AND DUE THIS MORNING. A. D. A. ' D. A. D. 1 Dab1in......... 0 1 France . 0 0 Lisbon ..... .. 0 1 Waterford ..... 0 0 Flanders O Guern. $c Jersey 0 1 Holland 0 0 Sweden 0 O Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburgh .. . 0 0 Malta .. 0 O Brazil THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, APRIL 2. It should more especially be an indispensable ground for the concession of such relief, that no semblance of collusion should taint the proceedings—lest the House might thereby be made a party to the perversion of that power which it possesses only for the protection of mora lity, and the punishment of infidelity—in cases where sub stantial injuries nro proved to have been inflicted. It should be an indispensable ground for such an act that the com plainant " came into court with clean hands ;" and above all, that he should not " profit by his own wrong."_ Now, after a patient perusal, and a deliberate considera tion, of all the circumstances developed in these proceed ings, we must say, that we did never yet meet a case, in which each and all of these pcints seemed to us to require so much sifting. We never did meet a case in which suspicions of collusion were so difficult to be repressed. We never did meet a case in which the complainant could, with so little appearance of truth, be said to come into court with clean hands. We never did meet a case in which, to our poor thinking, the plaintiff so manifestly sought to profit by his own wrong: —for we contend that it was a wrong on the part of the husband to suffer such objectionable persons to approach his wife, as it has been proved that Lord Ent. lc Nso nou m allowed to associate with his Lady. We never did meet a case in which, in every point of view, we are bound to consider the Legislature so little called upon to afford the relief prayed for. And yet this is the very case which the Globe attempts to argue upon, as if an unjust prejudice had been excited against the husband, merely because that husband was " a Minister and an unpopular man ;" and boldly accuses the Peers and Commons of England of making it " a party matter." The question is not whe ther " the divorce from the tie of marriage" should be allowed at all, or " entrusted to any other tribunal." As the law now stands, we must desire to see it adminis tered alike to every man, aye and to every woman too : and although there are cases in which the expence is most seriously to be deprecated, yet we should much more se riously deprecate the introduction of any measure that would enable a vicious and profligate husband to dissolve the sacred bond of wedlock, for the purpose of getting rid of a wife when she had " outlived his liking ;" of grati fying his own sensual passions ;—or of bettering his own fortunes by a wealthier or more powerful connection—in order to do which he need only suborn witnesses, and by a cheaper process of the law accomplish his base purposes at the sacrifice of a woman's reputation. The proceedings to which the ELLEN BOROUG li Di vorce Bill has given rise in its progress through the House of Commons, are calculated, beyond any other means that can be devised or adopted, to effect a most salutary Tetana l in that mode of obtaining release from the inconveniences and the desagrimens of matrimonial engagements. Some of our contemporaries have deemed it their duty to make these proceedings the subject of animadversions and com mentaries, not only upon the actual facts of the case it self—and a more extraordinary or suspicious case never came before Parliament—but also upon the principle of the law under which such dispensations- have been hi therto sought, and, in many instances, too easily ob tained. So little, however, are we disposed to se lect such occasions for the dissemination of our own opinions upon the abuses of our Legislative system ; so repugnant is to us the task of securing public attention to the display of our own disquisitional faculties, by the concomitant exposure of the frailties or the guilt, the en ors or the vices, of our fellow creatures ; that we should have contented ourselves with placing the evidence, and the remarkable manner in which the investigation of that evidence has been conducted, upon record, unaccompanied by one single comment;—had not the observations is which the Globe has thought proper to indulge, and the view which he has taken of the affair, appeared to us so dangerous to the interests of morality and justice, that it would be little less than a dereliction of our own duty were we to pass them by unquestioned or unre probated. That any thing has yet transpired in the course of the proceedings in either House, to warrant the sweeping allegation, that this Bill " seems to have been made in both Houses something like a party mat ter," we cannot for one moment admit. That any other complainant, be his rank or station in society what it might, seeking redress, under such circumstances as LORD ELLEN BOROUG II has sought redress, would have bad to undergo precisely such an ordeal as LOR D ELLEN BOROUGH is even yet undergoing, we firmly be- HALF-PAST ONIL The unfavourable state of the weather causes a past Gain. la lieve. That the Lew itself is obnoxious to severe cen- the City, and but few persons have made their sure, who shall pretend to deny ? That the Law of Di- ttnle. Up to to the present hour we have no att="o. 4lll his majesty's health, therefore his I - p - IL vorce, as it now stands, is unquestionably objectionable, only rests on reports but it has had a little effect on tea and, in its partial operation upon society, at variance with Console are rather better than in the early part of t h e wh e n they were at 921, and may at present be quoted 91111 ham all our notions of right and justice, we willingly concede ; for the Account, and 921 'ellen for Money. and so far are we from disputing the propriety, or even I n t h w e h F ich erei d t v l e t t r er et h 2 l p e ro l l i d truant" doing is la Greek the necessity, of transferring all such proceedings to a tribunal that can be approached at less expense than We understand that a clerk, on ly 18 years of age, in Pediment," that we cordially concur in that opinion a German house in Broad-street, money of his employers to the ; has abscondtvl w ith' mount, it is said, of to its fullest extent. This part of the question has been 5,000/. an d it i s su pp ose d h as escape d on board the ktif,sbown, by the Morning Journal, to be " absurd in Cambrian which sailed from Portsmouth yesterday mom . " sad ," un pat nine o'clock, for New York. He has tak en w ith li c apr,jilll is practice r , whilst the Ciro- ing neck he. anti* dioli m od thonopo u s by referring the him a female, a . child, and a livery serva n t, th e latter basing been stationed at Portsmouth upwards of a week s oacc a c ee of such applicatiool for relief to t he " "Pa sake the necessary arrangements for the flight. Mr. c agy" with which such " ads of grace" haw) Mai Gate, the solicitor, has gone in pursuit of him, but with th e .action of the Legislatars :—" the ease eith which alight hopes of success. CITY, TwsLvE o'CLocit. We are spin without any arrivals of ship letters, and the ex. press from Paris brings no information of importance. had it not been for the report of his majesty being much indisposed our City speculates would have had nothing to do. Consols which left off yesterday at 291 for the Acanutt, opened at 92J 1, owing to the above report, and have receded to 921 1 both for money and time. To the present hour the operations in the Market have not been to any great extent. In the Foreign Market nothing doing. Greek may be quoted a shade better. Accounts from Ccnstantinople of the same date as the last, state that Count Capo d'lstrias was going to issue a Manifesto to the Greek Senate, owing to his having received & communication from the Plenipotentiaries of the Grand Powers. A very animated nom. munication is kept up with Alexandria, and blehemed All is again in favour with the Porte. It is also positively known that the Sultan will not take any part in the French expedition to Aligien, and which is not approved of by the Ports. The Belle Gabrielle, of AO guns, has smiled from Cherbourg for Toulon, and the Melpomene, of SO guns, (friptes,) has sailed for Brest.—the first having 000 men on board-12 men deserted from tbs Gabrielle. An essay has been made at Toulon of a new Invented Cosgrove Rocket, whi ch is thrown to a great distance, and the lire cannot be extinguished. STATE GENIUS. The country groaned in deco distress —'Twas mast appalling ! It called for succour and redress,. mph time for calling ! It sought for some vast genius, still'd In legislation, For Charlatans had almost kUl'd The poor old Nation. To meet one of the right wise stamp, And Atlas shoulders, Where did it look ? Why in the Camp Amongst the Soldiers, And found a Sage there, form'd to rule Aye ! iron.handcd t _ Who own'd himself too much a fool; Was not that candid ? But friends averr'd he was deceiv'd, Dupe of self-slim:dn. And he heard, till himself believed : Lord ! how folks wander ! And thought his head the very thing, Such is our judgment ! To govern Commons, Lords, and King, .1 Just like a regiment ; So took the reins without dismay Folks you know chose it— (To govern Empires is mere play— For one who knows it.) And he by beat of drum—'tis said, — Strange way to win it ! „ Had knock'd state wit into his head— Perchance nought's in it. His foreign policy he fetch'd From Ilindostan, Sirs. And his home government he sketch'd, From views in Spain, Sirs. The first was ruled by this device— Crouch to your Neighbour. The second plied to forms less nice, Will—and the Sabre. He trick'd and trailick'd with our foes, . . Till they despised us; And underhand to friends dealt blows, 'Till they chastised us. With tyrants he conspied to tear All Constitutions, • Allow'd invasions, here and there ' For Contributions; Permitted Commerce to be cross'd, By Coalitions ; And suifey'd, to our fatal cost, Sea Expeditions: 'Till nations rour.d no longer h'ear'd B: haunts s name, Sin, And treating us like rascals, ancer'd At all our shame, Sirs. While to the rogues who pull'd his skirt, Reforming Whip—Sin, He said—" My friends, I love the din, It fattens pigs, Sin; Thus curs'd at home, and scom'd abroad lie still kept tearing Along his way, break-neck, rough-shod, Deaf to our swearing ; And what is stranger still—without Our hearts or money, He )ct contrived to hold it out— , WAS THAT NOT TUNNY? THE KING. We aro extremely sorry to announce that His MA JESTY is so unwell as to render the attendance of more than one of the Royal Physicians necessary. His MA JESTY has been occasionally indisposed in the course of the last twos months, but the late fine weather seemed to have restored him to perfect health, and he continued so until within these last few days, when he again became so unwell that the physicians were summoned; and we understand the indisposition is so serious as to confine his MAJESTY to his bedchamber.—Morning Herald. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Lord Bingham, at the Albany, from a tour ; Joseph Birch, Esq. M.P. in St. James's-place, from his seat in Lancashire; Sir John Lowther, Bart. M.P. In Grosvenot-square, from his seat in York shire;E Geo. Herbert, . at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-sweet, from a tour ; Wm. Co: , . at ditto, from Bath ; General Sir H. Dalrymple, Bart. in Wimpi c-street, from his seat in Hens; Capt. and Mrs. Gregory, in Regent-street, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, in South Audley.street, from their seat in Wilts; Mr. and Mrs. Shuttleworth, at Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, limn Oxford; Rev. Mr. Davaux, at ditto, from N . DEPARTUItge.am Hon. Robert Smith, M.P. from Belgravastreet, to his seat, Gray. burst, Bucks; T. Powell, Esq. from Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Devises i Wm. Marshall, Esq. from ditto. en a tour ; Sir James and Lady Fraser, from Fenton's Hotel, Bt. James's -street, for Brighten ; Hon. Col. Anson, from ditto, to the Duke of Rut land's seat, Belvoir Castle; Edward Hartopp, Esq. from Symmons's Hotel, St. James'oatnet, for Devins ; Mn. Rice, ham the Put. teney Hotel, Albemerle.atreet, for Dever; Capt. Knox, from ditto, for Brighton; B. Gould, Esq. from Batt's Hotel, Dover -street, for Cambridge; T. B. Esteourt, M.P. and family, from ditto, to his house, Hatley.street. The Duke of CLA RES ca attended yesterday morning a meeting of the Corporation of the Trinity House, en Tower-hill. His Royal Highness, as Blaster, presided at the dinner given by the Corporation in the evening. The Duchess of CLAttEaca dined with the Duke and Duchess of Gsouczeritit, at Gloucester House, yesterday evening. Their Royal Highnesses honoured the performance of M. Potkr, in Lee Plaideure,Le Jail, and Le Csdeinier de Beim, at the Hay market Theatre, with their presence In the evening. The Duke of CLaasxcE subsequently joined the party. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the Duke of Wrct.two- TOW. Earls BATHURST, RouLTN ' and ' Aszansix Mr. Secre tary Pin., Sir G. Illonnay and Mr. IIZARECIL The Loan CHANCELLOR arrived at the Council about RR hour after It had as. ambled. The CHANCILLOR of the EXCHROURR wY prevented from attending the meeting, owing to being engaged in a Committee of the Hostas of Cammons.—The Ministers remained near two hours in deliberation. A letter from Frankfort, dated the 25th ult. says-- " His Majesty , the Ki ng . of Naples is said to have solicited the hand of the PTIOCCIS MATILDA. eldest daughter of the King of Bavaria, for the Crown Prince (the Duke of Calabria) his son. It is mid that their Majesties will visit this city on their return home, and that they may be expected before the middle of May, by which time the King will return from his tour in Italy." It is reported, says the Temps, that soon after his ac cession to the throne of Greece, Prince LxoroLD will marry the only daughter of the late Duke of PLacEuxa, who is heiress to a fortune of 30,000,000 francs, and whose hammy is only equalled by her mental accomplishments. Bbe is, at present, at rem with her mother. The public have been apprised of the adventure of the Duke de React with Madame ALwaws, the vocalist, in Spain. It appears that the Erie, having learnt that she spent a day with the Duke at la Cabers before she left Madrid, has just increased to four years the exile of the Doke, which at first was fixed at two. Besides this, the Duke will be obliged to be present at the service and prayers of the monks of the convent of St. Frances, which is to be his plaza of Exile.—Porfe Paper Rumours of a change in the * Ministry continue to pre vail. M. de Peyroesst is mentioned for the Interior ; M. Verdi. nand de Sadder for the Mattes aU. Dodos he the Flames De. ; sad M. Gems Benville, fir Lapse of the awls ; the aI air to t be emended as thisser st Pooh, lastructioa by U. Benier.—Jearisol ths Counnur V Irerkare. We have bees rotors ai_ups authority ea which we easpielbedy rely, Met an last Tlimelay, am isramat se wed lose between the Peas y ' mil pargelmas it the Limped swain pechoosZ set hrtie d zdhumeat of hes - sr *dr wrests betwas %ohs eed• the WNW Webb and broduedmie: !bosom melt% a *edit tie amh venal, sad MOBIL for ma la ass of their being lost.—Dulls Malay A lt r iintrier de Sitypee oesibius the following article : • Lettwirpf a resist its lbus_ ilyeaulatethet Wand has sided to Owes kw of the lonian lsimeb, asas ark to keep Oak, Lease, rid thphoisele. We know net whet dimes. fur to be pieced en Mla beellipees, but it doss apt war heigholdo, If -it he on sidled toe the peemeedoes la quietism, vAdst would add to the torritery Of CMOS, are of little impsitsnes to inland, sad, is fact, are a heavy swum to ble." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The RoeseHe, from Valparaiso to Liverpool, out 94 days, w s . spo k en with on the 21st ult. In lat. 37. long. 31. by the 'Alonarcb, arrived in the Clyde. Mal i Aram I—Wind E.N.R. strong.—Arrived from Lon. doe, the Faith, Jackson, (or St. Kitt's ; Royal George, - India ; and Nautilus, Dunsford, fur Toulon. Posersasouen, Aram I.—Wind E.N.R.—Arrived from [Ando:), the Beddington, Noyes, for Madras, and George, Itattensbarf. for Van Dienten's Land. Sailed the Wm. Beesley, Small, am: Centurion, Burke, for Quebec ; and Columbia, Delano, for New York. PLYMOUTH, blanot 31.—Arrived from London, the Mayflower, Martin, for Coruna*. F.II LMOITTII, Hawn 51.—Wind variable. Livaaroot., Aran. I.—Wind E.S.R.--Arrived the Saracen, Hammond, from New Orleans, and Ceres, Ada, from Ancona. • Goons, Mann 51.—The Cane Grove Hammond, bound to Hamburgh, took the ground outside the D ock, where she remained till next tide, when she bad ten feet water in her hold. Cargo di:- charging, part of it with considerable damage. Mara, Maacti 20.—There has been a strong thaw this week, wh ch has greatly diminished the snow, and begins to have in fluence on the ice, but a free navigation is not expected before the middle of April. There is no water to be seen on the coast. KINGSTON ASSIZES. BY EXPRESS-THIS DAY. "TILE FATAL DULL AT BATTERSEA." Mr. Justice BAYLEY took his seat at a quarter to nine o'clock. and the prisoners, R. W. Lantoreehr, F. Cos, and H. Bigley. were placed at the bar and severally arraigned : Mr. Bigley surrat. dered the preceding evening. They severally pLaded Not Guilty— The jury were then charged with them. The indictment charged, that Richard William Lambrecht did, on the Bth of January, f.. lonionaly assault Oliver Clayton, and with a leaden bullet inflict a wiiund on his right side, of which he died ; and that Frederick Cox and Henry Bigley were present, aiding and assisting in the said fe. lonious act, and that R. W. Limbrecht, F. Cox, and H. Bigley, are guilty of murder. Mr. GURNEY, for the prosecution, stated the facto. of the cast, which, as they are already well known to our readers, and were also detailed in evidence, we shall not dwell upon in this place. The Learned Counsel then celled the following witnesses : Thomas bagel': exarnii.ed—l am a surgeon at Battersea ; on the Bth of January I was sent for to the back of the Red House, and found three per. there ; one of them was lying on the ground wounded, and shortly after he was conveyed to the Red House, and laid on a bed ; I examined him, and found a wound on the right side of his belly; it was a small wound, and was such as might have been produced by a bullet passing through the body ; there was another small wound on the opposite side ; I at once perceived it to be a mortal wound; the wounded gentleman asked my opinion as to the nature of it, and I told hint it must prove mortal ; he then asked me how long I thought it probable he might survive, and I told him I could not speak positively, bat that I was induced to believe he could no: survive lorger than twenty-four hours. I then administered some medicine to alleviate the pain, after which he requested a Clergyman of the Church of England might attend him. The Clergyman came soon afterwards and I left them toee. thee ; when I returned Mr. Clayton made a statement to me to this effect :—He begged there might be no prosecution; he said every thing had been conducted fairly and honourably; that he was to blame in being so obstinate as to refuse the apology which had been offered. By the JUDGE—Did he not mention scm:ebody who had tried to prevent the duel ? Not at that time. He then had no expectation he would survive. I saw him again in the course of a quarter of an hour, when he expressed the greatest possible anxiety about Mr. Byrne, saying that that gentleman had used every exertion to prevent him trom going out. About two hours before he died he desired that certain persona should be written to, and the first cause of the quarrel stst d to them to be that he was called a hypocrite. I asked him by whom ; and he replied, by Lambrceht, the man who shot -ne. When I first went to the Red House Mr. Bigley was one of the persons present atteicling Mr. Clayton. Mr. Clayton died shortly after seven of the saute evening. I have no doubt his death was caused by the wound. Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON.—You said Bigley was at he the Red House; did not exhibit all fie anxiety and wretchedness which a n.an could do for his friend on seeing hint in that blunt. than ?—fie Thome; Skinner examined —I live in Battersea fields, and work for Mr. Swains; about htdf.peet six o'clock on the morning of the Bth of January, on coming across the fields towards the Red lloaee. I heard the report of fire-arms ; I should think 1 was about ant. yards from the spot, and distinctly heard a bullet whiz past my right ear; I then hastened towards the spot from whence the sound proceeded, and I saw four men carrying another on a door • on seeing me they enquired if the Red House was open, and I ;aid it was cot ; after this I went back to the house and knocked at the door ; while I war doing this they brought the wounded man up. have by Mr. ADOLPHUS—The ball I heard must have proceeded from the pistol of the wounded man. There was a ) distinction as to time in the dashes of the istols, but it was very little. I can't say the first flash ap peared from the pistol out of which the ball passed, which whizzed y an m d i or ear. l Richard Swaine examined—l am of the Red Howe. On the morning of the Bth of January I was called up by some persons, and on opening the door a wounded man was brought in. Mr. Wood, the landlord of the house i 1 Panton.street ; Price, the waiter; the Rev. Mr. Webb, of Battersea; Mr. Staples, the 3lagie. trate of Unlon-hali,land the police officer, were examined, and the ease for the prosecution closed. 'T'he prisoners severally read long written statements in their il, . rue, and called several witnesses to character. The learned Judge was summing up when our last express let Kingston ; and up to this hour (three o'clock) we have not receive.' the Verdict. s The Dowager Marchioness art SALISBU R Y entertained a numerous party of the /taut ton yesterday evening, at her house in Arlington-street. The Countess of ESSEX entertained a select party yes terday evening, at her house in Hill-street, Derby-square. A petition from Cirencester has been presented to the House of Commons, in which the petitioners suggest that hone stealing might be checked if the legislature were to provide that the venders of horses shall produce documents under the bands of pro. per persons, certifying that such hones are their property, and that they have the legal right of disposing of them. The National says, " We are of opinion that England will be disposed to throw every kind of obstacle in the way of our expedition, in order to thwart its aim if there should Le any inters. don of forming a colony on the African coast. It is even reported that Lord Stuart de Rothsay has expressed himself cleverly on this subject.' The family of a highly respected baronet in the county of Stafford_ (connected by marriage with the Newdigates, the Lad. fords, the Littleton% and the Wallhouses, the; Bougheys, and o kr ancient families in that and the adjoining counties) have within the last few days been thrown into the greatest consternation by the elopement of one of the worthy baronet's unmarried daughters with apersan who formerly held the situation of coachman in his Web. W3meat. The present head of the family married a daughter or a peer, by whom be had 14 children , and on her decease, a few years ego, having married a second time, the unmarried daughters of the first marriage commenced a separate establishment of their own, and 1 roe some time past have taken up their abode in Leamington. It appears that the lady In question left her sisters' residence between 10 and 11 o'clock on Wednesday night, and having entered a post ; chaise on the Warwick road, the enamoured pair pursued their i journey towards Cheltenham, where it is reported they intend tying the matrimonial noose. The gentleman is about 35 years of siZ , • r and the lady is his senior by several years.—Leassispion Courier. CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, Aran. 2. Trade eo-day is extremely dull ; the inclemency of the weather has prevented many buyas attending the market, and with those who are preeentthere Is very little doing. The fakes of all kinds of Grain may be quoted as es Wednesday last. There is no variation in the price of Flour. IXPOZTATIOWS UNCI MONDAY. Wheat, English (qrs.) . 7,100 Barley, Foreign Foreign . 350 Oats, English . Trish . 41•11=MOD Foreign Barley, EngUsh . 10,900 Irish Irish • . —.. 4 Floor (sacks) 7,:xw► VI, Aram 2 530 8,950 !Alpe Weal etre.m the month, 136—Durinjethe 6d 34. week. 7 6 . Nix ssod Coals 3d Otis,: sorts 2k Od 33s Od Ships at Most, 110* BT. JAMES'S HAY-MA HERZ Amu. 1. Coarse Heart Lowland Meadow Hay, kit s. to Al 11s Useful ditto. AM tos. to IS lOs. Floe Upland Meadow end Rye Grass Hay, IN Os. to it Ss. Clover Hay. is Is.. to is 109. Oat Straw, ZI 41. milli& Meat Straw, 10s. to JO 11s. pe► ka d NI tresses. HI9H.WATZRat LONDON-BRIDGE TO NOR HOW. liandeg ' 41 mistets. alter 9 • Attanisos • $4 stimetes Ow 10 Loam 8 Mad fed Publebsti by Juni Manz, it tbe Out. Omen W.. 1, PlebettlaseerTs•Ph Bu•