Star. — London, England, 1830-04-20 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. s iu ,—When a private individual avails himself of the liberty of the press to introduce into his correspondence the names of distinguished, or other persons, of whose character and opinions he has little knowledge, it is a moral obligation in him to avoid compromising in any way the reputation of such persons. I am fearful ~judging, Mr. Editor, from the impression which my second letter appears to have made upon you) that my individual sentiments may be construed to be the senti ments of all, or some one of the distinguished persons whose names appear in my letter ; let me at once say, :f it be so, it is unknown to me: I write as a British übject, feeling myself at liberty to avail myself of the hest information which my own judgment may suggest 0 me. • And now a few words as to your comments upon my letter :-1 think it perfectly competent for intelligent and qua men to combine to defeat the projects of ig..o - and wicked men; nay, more; it is the solemn duty of every man, who deserves the name of NAN, to do so ; if he would avoid those individual, social, and national Aufferings, which result from the cold-hearted indifference of knavery in power: but, Mr. Editor, it is not the duty of such intelligent and good men " to excite the people to tumult and disorder throughout the land, in order to impede the progress of injudicious and impolitic" Mi nisters ; on the contrary, it is their duty to further every measure of amelioration or improvement which such Ministers may suggest :—but, Sir, intelligent and good men know (above all men) how to distinguish between those proceedings which result from self-seeking cunning, or trained ignorance ; and those which result front sub mission to great principles of right and truth. There would be no difficulty, I think, in proving that ‘,) much of the splendid outspread of British aristocratical greatness, as existed prior to the Reformation, was the birth of Ecclesiastical cunning—(pray, Mr. Editor, do not confound this word with religion, " which, according to the divine oracles and experience, is proved to be, first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy")—and violence, and that so much of it as has sprung into being since the Reformation, is the offspring of ancient cunning and violence, invigorated by , commercial cupidity and stock jobbing extortion. What would the mighty military man at the head of the Mi nis:L:l.s say, if he could behold the title to his own great ness written upon the back of a (possibly) dishonoured bill of accommodation. I do not know, Mr. Editor, whether this illustration of the way in which dignity, in ::Inmost all its forms, has been acquired, is sufficiently clear to be understood; but of this I feel assured, that unless those who possess title and greatness acknow ledge the truth of this single fact, that their very political :wing is the offspring of the national debt ; they will ,lumber on in some fatal delusion of hereditary right, salting themselves on the ruins of their fellow-country men, until they shall awake to the severest woe. Sir, it appeared manifest to me, during the years 1825 and 1526, that Government were afraid of the credit com binations of the people. There was, indeed, nothing to which the people would not ultimately have aspired. But it would be the most fatal of all delusions for Govern meat to believe that they can permanently suppress such combinations. The people behold the entire credit of the country applied to debase and delude them : they have acquired too much knowledge as to the legitimate pur poses of credit, to be held bondsmen to misapplied con fidence. The Government is at this moment in the hands of those who possess Bank notes. Why do not our rulers then place all the interests of the State beneath sumac law to which all intelligent and good men will gladly yield allegiance, and then apply the credit of the nation to purposes rational, just, peaceful, paternal ? Aro the ARISTOCRACY in debt ?—deliver them into the full possession of the inheritance of their fathers. Are :lie PEOPLE worn down with exaction, labour, and igno :Nee ?—boldly apply the national credit to redeem them from past misrule into the comforts of CHRISTIAN FREEMEN. The application of the national credit, under 'lt; guidance of the Div IN E ORACLES, would calm the alarms of the virtuous part of the aristocracy, and *moth dte irritated feelings of those (who may, perhaps, have wasted their substance in riotous living, but who, never !lielcss, have been subjects of extortion and want of itulgment,) whose present expectations are sadly shadowed iy past remembrances. It is not bustle in useless detail v hich we want, but GOD-LIKE principle ; and without application of it to the concerns of the nation, no arm ::an save us from confusion : every hour that our sub niiaion to the principles of REVELATION (not Pro .es,4l:l;sni) is delayed, our difficulties thicken upon us. The e.tablisliment of a new British colony in GREECR 41 not divert or serve us. It may serve, indeed, as the platform ou'which to fight the last great battle for fleshly 4 seentlancies, monarchical and republican ; but it is im possible for England, or for Europe, to escape out of its difficulties but by installing the Divine Oracles as the ARBITRATOR of contending interests and passions. GOD lIILL BE HEARD, speaking repose and joy to the world, whether kings and rulers and people will hear, or whether they will forbear. " Keep silence before me, 0 Islands ; and let the people renew their strength." isa. xli. I. "Be silent, 0 all flesh, before the Loan : for he is raised up out of his holy habi tation." Zech. ii. .13.—1 am ashamed to have written at such length : I am, however, assured that I have written with great t ru th% and remain Your's with respect, AN OCCASIONAL, CORRESPONDENT. April 19, 1830. ERRATUM. In the letter of " AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT," which 4Peartil in TILE STAR of Saturday last, the following passage bhould read thus :—" But from some cause of causes Mr. Mows siEsot. has acquired a moral influence out of the doors of Puha. nient which must make him quite sick of the twaddle within it : he cannot be expected therefore to risk the popularity, which he has Acquired against all forms of opposition, in idle declamation and •:ifort to Parliament as at present constituted. He has a larger num. s cr." ale. &c. k appears that the son of Mr. Wellesley has done more :Ilan his father's money and zeal, and all the big wigs at '4 Chancery bar, could accomplish : he has defeated the unnatural judgment of the Ex-Chancellor, confirmed by 14 Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, by which the father was separated from his children. This has been effected sim ply by little Wellesley's running away from his guardian's to his fathr:r's house, which he found open to receive him. Ile was taken before the Chancellor, and ordered into the ''are of Mr. Courtenay, whom, however, he shortly after ;are the slip, and again returned to his father's. It is now settled he is to remain there during the holydays that is to say, the long arguments, consumption of public ` l aw , and elaborate judgments, are all to go for nought. The power of Chancery is as a broken reed when opposed to the wilfulness of a schoolboy ! Who did not feel, long ago, that the principle it was endeavouring to establish was a rotten one ? It was opposed to Nature, and could not stand the test of time. Verily this young gentleman gives promise of making a very efficient Muter in Chan ..fry.--Bucks Gazette. THE ARMY. :heltenhain Detschtnents of the Third Dra7on Guards ihdted in CI on Wednesday and Thursday, on their route to Tiowbridge, where a spirit of disaffection has broken out among the weavers. The re giment has been stationed in Coventry for some time, but will be replaced by the Fifth Dragoon Guards. Letters received from Jamaica and Darbadoes, dated 24th Feb. left the 84th and 35th Regiments in excellent health. Three companies of the 19th Regiment, under Major Raper, have arrived from asrbadoes at St. Vincent's. The left wing of the 27th Regiment, under Captain Maclean, left St. Vincent's for Barbadoes, to join the right wing there on arriving from Grenada. Major Hamilton, 19th Regiment, succeeds Major Raper in com mand of the remaining companies ar Grenada. The 90th Regiment is expected from Corfu in summer, to be re placed by the Ist battalion 60th Rifles from Limerick n. The Reserve Companies of the 14th Regiment wit e mbark at Cork in the Amphitrite transport for Portsmouth. Lieut. Herbert, 66th Regiment, and his lady, have sailed from Limerick in the Thetis for Quebec, to join the Service Companies. Thursday last, a General Court Martial assembled in Dublin, for the trial of Captain Parker, 64th Regiment, on a charge of intoxi cation whilst on guard at Dublin Castle. The Assistant Commissaries General in Ireland who were reduced on the 24th ult. retire on a pension of Os. 6d. a.day. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PROMOTlONS.—Lieutenant Charles Burlton (1795) to the rank of retired Commander, vice Tait, deceased ; Mr. Augustus Lavie, of the Asia, and Mr. J. V. Sullivan, of the Undaunted, to the rank of Lieutenant. The Mary Ann, of Aberdeen, from Gibraltar to Newfoundland, was detained on the 25th ult. off the island of St. George, by a Portuguese brig of war, and carried into St. Michael's on the st)th. It was supposed she would be sent to Lisbon. The Janet Dunlop, Laren', from Honduras, and Eliza, Laroche, from Charleston, have arrived in the Clyde. DIAL, Aram 19.—Wind Y.N.W.—Arrived the Curler, Ry land, front Mauritius ; Jane, Hudson, from Demerara ; Persian, Plunkett, from New South Wales ; and St. Vincent's Planter, , from Jamaica. Arrived from London, the New York Packet, Crosbie, for Jamaica. Sailed the Hon. Company's ships Sir David Scott, Lord Lowther, and Earl of Balcarras, with the rest of the outward-bound. PLTMOUTII, Alan 18.—Wind W. and N.W.—Arrived the Hibernia, M'Culcheau, from Sierra Leone ; Prudentia, Ribello, from Fayal ; Cygnet, —, from St. Michael's ; and Clarence, Cocker, from lieguesada. FALMOUTH. Aran. 18.—Wind B.S.E.—Arrived off the port, the Joseph Hume, Rakray, from Port-au-Prince. HOLTHIAD, Aram 16.—Off the port, the Coßingwood, Guisse, from Bengal, and Turner, —, front Bombay. Leraitroot., APRIL 18.—Arrived the Harriet, APFarlane, and Dorothy, Garnock, from Bombay; Horatio, Gotham, from Per nambuco; Midas, Watson, front 'Maranham ; Euphemia, Find later, front Nassau; Logan, Atkins, and Shenandoah, Rose, from New Orleans. The Spanish Minister had a long conference with the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday, at the Treasury. There are now three ships bound front Bristol to New York, in which we understand between 400 and 500 passengers, emigrants from this neighbourhood, will em bark as settlers in America. About 100 persons have also sailed from Bristol and Newport within the last three weeks, to seek their fortunes in Quebec.— Cheltenham Journal. Extract of a private letter from an Officer of the ship Lord Castlereagh, dated Singapore, Nov. 7 :—" We sailed from China on the 26th Oct. at which time the whole of the Company's ships for the season had arrived. The Hon. Company's ship Inglis, Capt. Dudman, was the last, and arrived on the 24th of Oct. Mr. Plow•den, the head of the Factory in China, has stopped all the Company's ships from going to Whampoa, and they are all lying at Urmston's Bay, except the Bridgewater, and there they are to remain until some settlement can be made with the Chinese authorities about reducing the duties.— Some of the ships have been in nearly three months.— There are a number of reports about the stopping of the ships—the Company keep it quite a secret, but the general belief is that it is on account of the reduction of the duties. The stoppage of the ships is very annoying to the Com manders, as they cannot sell their private trade. On the 9th Aug. we had one of the most severe tyfoons ever known in China; the Bridgewater and Herefordshire were lying between Macao and Lintin, and had only arrived two or three days before. These, with most of the other ships, suffered much from the storm." A late legal decision in France is of importance to foreigners. A Frenchman, after having been five years in prison for debt, is *Aided to his discharge, and is afterwards exonerated from all debts contracted previ ously to his arrest. But foreigners had not hitherto been deemed entitled to this relief. An English clergyman of the name of Sheppard, having served out his five years at Ste. Pelagie, lately applied for his discharge, and, after some litigation, his application was admitted to be well founded. This decree will be likely to set at liberty several foreigners who havebeen for years past tenanting the dreary cells of the holy convent. Very lately, Mr Swan, an American gentleman, was still at Ste. Pelagie, of which place he had been an inmate for 23 years ! A set of Omnibus carriages are about to be established at St. Petersburg, to run, during the summer, between that capital and the neighbouring villages.—Hamturgh Reporter. VICE-Ctinwcu.t.on's Cot; RT.—Re Harris exparte Tipton.—Under this title, the STAR of April 7th, con tained a report of certain proceedings which took place be fore the Vice Chancellor, upon a rule obtained by an attor ney, named Tipton, residing in Gloucester, calling upon another attorney, Mr. Smallridge, of that city, to deposit in that Court, for the purpose of their being used as evi dence on the trial of an indictment preferred by Tipton against Smallridge, the proceedings under a commission of bankruptcy issued against a person named Harris, which commission had subsequently been superseded. In applying to alter the order which had been granted by the Court, our report stated that Knight, as Coun sel for Tipton, " disclaimed any imputation on Mr. Smallridge, with respect to the indictment not being tried at the present assizes." This report, it seems, as a matter of local interest,has beencopied into the Gloucester Journal, the leading paper of that county, and appears to have given great umbrage to some person, who, under the signature of " W. C. Ward,"--but without explaining in the slightest degree who he is, or what ho is, or how he became interested in the matter, or by what right he interferes,—has addressed a long, bombastical, and non sensical letter to the Editors of the Gloucester Journal, endeavouring to impugn the accuracy of the report, (without denying one allegation in it,) and, consequently, the integrity of the paper in which it originally appeared. It becomes us, therefore, to say that we have satisfied our selves of the correctness of our reporter's statement ; and that if " W. C. Ward,"--whoever he may be,—knows any thing at all about the business, he must know that he has attempted to palm a wilful misrepre sentation upon tho public : for lie must be very well aware that Mr. Knight, as Tipton's Counsel, volun tarily acquitted Mr. Smallridge of any imputation what ever with respect to the delay in proceeding to trial; and that Mr. Knight could not, or did not, deny the alle gation of Mr. Smallridge's Counsel, that " be had used every exertion to induce Tipton to go to trial at the pre sent Assizes, but could not." We should like to know if this " W.C. Ward" is the same " W.C. Ward" against whom a bill of indictment was preferred, and found true by the Gloucester City Grand Jury, at the present A mixes, for obtaining money on a watch alleged to be gold, which was in fact base metal, under the circumstances detailed in the STA a of Saturday last ? PARMA MENTA BUSINESS. According tothe Parlimentare hooka, ino:o is left to be done than usually citaracterises the period a!'crr the Easter Recess ; and certainly quite as much as can be gone through Wit is all to be dole se as to allow the prorogation to take place My the threatened day—the anniversary of the conflict of Waterloo, June 18.—In the Lords, as to the judicial business, little kis been done except hearing some Scotch appeals, and evidence in four or five colt of the Divorce Bills brought in duripg the present Session the Peerage claims, some of theist partly heard last, end postponed till this Session, having not yet been even commenced. The Berkeley (RaitcoNv by tenure). Annandale, and various other Peerage claims, remain to be heard. With respect to such public business as originates in the Upper House, with the exception of the Divorce Bills—(they always taking their rise there)—that part of the business temains to be done. The " Suits in Chancery" Bill has been brought in—and that s all of what was promised. About 30 Bills, chiefly sent from the other House, are, and have been, " waiting" for the second reading, &e. so that all the business on hand, with the additions that must be forwarded front the Commons—saying nothing of several important notices of motions already on the books from Lords Goderich, Teyniuun, Napier, &c.—may afford tolerable enter. tamment and occupation to their Lordships for May and June.— If in the Lords " bad begins," in the Commons " worse remains behind." Already arc the books full of notices and orders of the day down to June 8, besides ten most important notices of motions for which " no day could be fixed," as there was " no open day" till the day just mentioned ! There ate notices for forty-five motions, and almost all on popular and interesting, as well as important na tional, subjects, already fixed for days between April 26 and June 8, besides the notices for ten motions, for which days have not been fixed, making in all fifty.five motions on public sub jects ! Then there are orders of the day, on account of Bills already before the House :—there arc thirty-six for the first three or four days. In addition, there arc some hundred private Bills, many private committees and some public ones which may he said to have little more than commenced their inquiries, amongst which may be named that most important one on Earl India at. fairs ; and saying nothing of the threatened one on the Rank affairs, preparatory to any renewal of the charter. Mr. Iluskisson (May 4) moves " fin a Select Cmninittee to inquire into the banking system of the country, with reference to the renewal of the Chatter of the Bank of England." Thus it will be seen that, it' not one subject arise after the recess, there is already tolerable work for both houses before "June 18." Whether they will, once more, realise the:ob servation of the celebrated Mr. Dunning, on being asked how he got through so much work, remains to be seen. He replied, " Some I do, some does itself, and some goes undone." Tae ASII 'mu RACES.—We have been informed that Lord HOWTII has given the amount of the stakes he won, in the second race on Monday, for the purpose of completing the long-neglected Catholic Chapel at Ashbourne, and that he induced the winner of the 101. P.P. stakes to follow his example ; which, together with the field money, which he, as one of the Stewards, ob tained the sanction of applying to the same purpose, it is expected will be sufficient to finish the building. laisit \Tao RANTS.—On Saturday afternoon, several Irishmen applied at the Guildhall, in Bath, for relief, stating that they were destitute of the means of pur chasing food, or of procuring a night's lodging: but on being closely questioned by one of the officers, they some what prevaricated in their replies, which induced him to search one of them, on whom he found two sovereigns land sonic silver, &c. They were accordingly dismissed. It appears that Irish poor come over to this country in such numbers, merely to make a harvest for parish relief, by obtaining which at every place they pass through, they gradually accumulate a large sum of mo ney ; when one of the party is entrusted with the whole, to convey to their friends in Ireland, and the remaider then take another route towards Ireland, getting and hoarding all they can ; so that, by the time they return home, the adventurers can generally congratulate them selves on a profitable excursion.—lbid. Count Cape distrias is said to have laid the last Lon don Protocols before the Legislative Assembly of Greece, adding that he considered the choice of Prince Leopold, as that best calculated to promote the welfare of Greece. The Elders of a dissenting congregation, not 200 miles from Birmingham, have recently determined to discon tinue the administration of the Sacrament, wine being declared too expensive. The explosion which took place on the 24th of Febra ary, on board the Helen MacGregor steam-boat, at Memphis, on the Mississippi, in the State of Tennessee, appears to have caused the death of from 60 to 80 pas sengers, instead of 16, if we are to credit the Philadel phia Gazette of the 16th of March. But, as a horrible story never loses by being repeated, the New York Morning Courier and Inquirer of the 18th of March estimates the number of lives lost on that occasion at 120. The American papers likewise make mention of a cumber of other fatal accidents on board of steamers, such as persons being scalded to death, the burning of steam-boats, &c. _ _ The sect called " the Quietests" professed an entire re nouncement of self, tie silence of the soul, the annihila tion of all its powers, interior worship, and that pure and disinterested love of Go D which is neither degraded by the fear of punishment, nor animated by the hope of reward. In the course of Thursday night a fire broke out in the servants' offices of the elegant mansion of Miles Stringer, Esq. at Effingham Hill, surrey, which, before it could be subdued, destroyed a great part of the house. The in mates all happily, though very narrowly, escaped. The learned Orientalist Neumann, Professor at the University of Munich, and author of the " Lives of the Armenian Philosophers," is on the point of setting out for London, to embark for Chinn, where he is going to study the Chinese language and literature. It is re markable that this gentleman is the first European who has gone to China with views exclusively literary. The Munich Royal Academy has granted the learned Pro fessor 1500 dollars, for the purchase of Chinese books.— French Paper. On calling the cause of the soi-disant Baron de St. Clair, which was resumed by the Correctional Court of Paris on Saturday, the King's Advocate showed that the pretended Baron was a Scotchman, who had dese...ted from the armies of his Britannic Majesty. The deposi tions of Count de Not , and of several English officers, together with the spuriousness of the documents which the accused had produced in vindication of his name, birth, and title, left no doubt on this head. The defama tion of which the prisoner stood accused was incontro vertible, and nothing could be urged in extenuation of his guilt. After half an hour's deliberation, the Court sentenced the pretended Baron to one year's imprison ment, to the payment of a fine of 500 francs, and a fur ther sum of 1,000 francs to each of the prosecutors, in asmuch as the facts contained in the pamphlet, entitled, " Revelations respecting the Assassination of the Duke de Berri," were false and defamatory towards the Duke Decazes, the Duke d'Earcars, the Duke de Maile, Count Clermont-Lodeve, and Count Lepaultre de Lamotte. The charge against Barbier, the printer of the pamphlet, was dismissed, it not having been proved that he had acted with a full knowledge of the nature of the contents of the publication. MR. JUSTICE GOULBURN. Tlizt following Address was voted and presented on Siturd tv to Mr. Justice Goulburn by one of the mo.t in spectable Grand Juries that has ever been enipannAled in the County of Carmarthen :-- (COPY.) To the Honourable Edward Groulburn, Sergeant a Law, Ws Majesty% Justice of the Great Sessions of the several Counties of Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan. " tlv Loan—Looking learned to the probability which now exists of an early change in the Judicature of Wales, the Gran Jury of Carrnarthenshire think it right to express the very high sense they entertain of the services you have rendered this County. during the period in which you hate presi4cd L. Judge of the Great Sessions, on this Circuit, and they beg to °tree you nn behalf of the county of Carmarthen, their niost sincere cc knowledgments for the very able and impartial manner to which the laws of their country have been administered by you : bur the whole.onte regulations you have introduced into the prretim of the Court.; for the indefatigable and patient attention you have shewn to the dispatch of the business of the Circuit ; an.l also far the considerate attention and urbanity of manners which on every occaidon, and under every circumstance, you hare evinced in the execution of the duties of your high Mho!. " Various as is the opinion of the county upon the proposed changes in the Judicature of the Principaqty, we can ast.ure you there is but one feeling, and that a sentiment of extreme regret, that these irica• sures may possibly have the eftici of depriving this County of your important services ; and the Grand Jury owe it to their country, equally as to yourself, thus to put upon record this testin-my of their unfeigned admiration and esteem. " Signed in the name and on behalf of the Grand Jury, " GEORGE RICE TREVOR, FOr2:llii, " Cat:n arthen, 26th April." - - TILE LATE FATAL DUEL.-1I is said that courts martial are shortly to be held, for the purpose of trying Captain Smith, Captain Markham, and Lieutenant Alai namara, on a charge of having been absent, without leave, front their respective regiments.—These military in quiries will not, of course, have any direct connexion with the result of the late fatal dad, because the law is the proper tribunal for six') :!n investigation ; the courts-martial %via be held for the purpose merely of pla'..ing the above-named dicer. on trial for a ot military discipline. Lieutenant Macnamara I.a, coturtit,:i to his regiment, and is, at present, in itichnual 11 racks. Csptvins Smith and Markham arc sti 1 a!)sc.it We have learned that the latter gentleman was Captain of the Guard on the morning of the unfortunate tneetiu 4 in which Mr. Grady lost his life. EXTRAORDIN A iIY RECO% MIS OF STOLEN Pito reavv.—ln the month of Augist last, the concern o: . Mr. Bernier:, a pawnbroker, in Stophen-street, was en tered by a party of robbers, who took with them seve.al articl.s of value, which were estimated to In; worth about 3001. No trace of the property could be iiisde out from that time until Wednesday last, when a number of boys who were playing in the field at Portobello, discovered in a ditch 20 tea spool's, a sugar tongs, a fish trowel!, and a desert spoon, all silver, whicu the boys inimediatelv brought to the police office. An inquiry into this cu rious circumstance having been made, Mr. Berniers at tended at the polic:-office, and identified the different ar ticles that were found as part of his stolen property. Sonic little time ago, a gentleman naned Batson, re siding at Limehouse, was passing along the Milc- and road, about ten o'clock at night, when he observed two coaches coming along at a tremendous rate. One of the coaches, driven by a man named David Pinatas, was overturned. The other coachman drove away at the same furious rate, but not before Mr. Batson, with the assist ance of some standers-by, had taken the numbers of the coaches. Mr. Batson the next day applied for a sum mons at Lambeth-street police-office against Finneas, to which lie did not pay the least attention. A second summons was then issued, and again Mr. Batson had to attend, when the coachman came, and a clear case being made out, he was fined five pounds. A summons was then issued against the other coachman, to which he paid no attention. A second summons was then issued, and Hawkins [(the coachman) attended, accompanied by a solicitor's clerk. The offence was clearly proved, and the magistrates thought the case such a bad one, that he was fined 101. the highest penalty. Notice of appeal was given ; and accordingly on Thursday Mr. B. came to town, and after waiting at Hicks'-hall,Clerkenwell, the whole of Thursday, he addressed the Chairman in the evening, and told him that, having particular business to attend to, lie could not possibly conic the next day. However, the next day the case was called on, and in the absence of the complainant, the conviction was quashed. It would appear from a series of trials which took place at Perth, in Scotland, last week, that matrimony, which is a merely civil contract in that country, sometimes turns out a very uncivil agreement between the parties. No less than three cases of extreme violence from husband to wife, and wife to husband, were tried in one day. In the first, J. Shcldock was accused of murdering his wife Helen, by dragging her to the banks of the river Earn, and throwing her in to drown her, or otherwise suffocating her, and then carrying the dead body to the river, where it was found. It appeared in evidence that both husband and wife were drunk one night in March last, and that the husband threatened to knock his wife's brains out unless she went for whisky, while he took son►c liberties with another woman who was then in the house. It was proved that his wife did go for whisky, of which she tasted rather p:eisi fully. The husband accounted for her disappeamm o the next morning, by saying she wold be '• A and in the water." As it was not proved by tte medical witness, however, that death was occasioned by violence, and no person saw him beat her, or throw her into the river, the husband was acquitted.- -The next case was that of Janet Naughten orM'K rchar, accused cfan aggravated as sault on her husband while he lay in bed, by which she broke his arm, and having been twice before convicted of similar offences. This dame, 63 years old, was con victed and sentenced to nine months imprisonment, to be deprived of ardent spirits or fermented liquor during the time—a mitigated punishment, as the .fudge said, in stead of transportation, in consideration 4f har age.— The last csse was that of than( 5 Malcolm, a flax-dresser, accureel of striking his wife, to the effusisn of blood, with a stick, and with an axe. It appeared dint, though this was an aggravat d case, the panel Lad not the entire battle to himself, as the lady w;,: , the Srst to use the axe. The lady, who was a reluctant wit ness, described the throwing of the ase with great spirit on both sides, with, ut admitting that she had come off s-cond best in the affray.— Other witnesses, however, proved that she was so severely injated that her life was for some time in danger ; and panel, having been three times before convicted of ill-treatment towards her, was se ntenccd to 1.1 years' transpoitation. SMITHFIELD HAY-MARKET, APRIL 20. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, £2 ss. to L 2 ids. Useful Meadow Hay, Al Ni. to X 3 154. Fine Uplaud \leadow and Rye Grass Hay, st 4 Os to its Os. Clove' Hay, generally, AI Oa. to sts 10s. Estrantelloaty hoe ditto, Os. Ost Straw, XS lb. to 22 61. Wheat Straw, XII is. to 42 91. per load of 36 trusses. ST. JAMES'S H AY. hi A BRET, A PIUL 20. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, it 6s. to 12 15a. Lbeful ditto, 42 lbs. to 43 13s. Hoe Oohed Meadow and Rye Grass Hay, 44 Os. to is Os. Clover Hay, .53 10s. to 155 51. Oat Straw, 42 es. to 4265. Wheat &taw, it 116. to 42 10a. per load of 36 trusses. NEW FAREINODON MARKET Ana SO. Mere was a good pc* of Mot u tW whoa Sudsy I We pins rennin dot Wu as oo aslsnisp l'