The Statesman. — London, England, 1824-02-12 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. -40.-- DeAL, February 11.--Wind N.W.--The Dominica. with the rest of the outward bound, sailed this forenoon.—Arrived and remain the Voyager, Richardson, from the Cape of Good Hope, sailed 2311 Nov.—The transport brig B. passed this morning to the Westward. Pearsnoutn, February 10.—Wind Westerly.—No arrivals or senior. Pi.vuouTta,Febreary 10.—Wind W.—Arrived the Mercator, Jacobson, from Drontlielso for Trieste, 30 days out, with loss of bulwarks, Corkhouse, with every thing moveable washed overboard, sails split, vessel leaky, also one man washed over board.—Also arrived the Hibernia, Richards, from Boston, in 23 days. FstwouTp, February 10.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed about 20 coasters,bound round the Land'sEud. vitarrioa., February 10.—The Panthea, for New York. got on shore this tanning in the River in proceeding to sea, and ,111 have to return to Doek to be r*paired.—Arrived the Chris• flan, Smith. from Malaca.—Siited the Alexander, Baldwin, M Philadelphia; Herald, Howson ; and M'Veraon, Howe s , for Beaton ; Plato, lOckett, Jot Baltimore; Mary, Cairns, for Barbadoes; and Rocket, Aysford, for Jamaica. Cowes, February 11.—Wind W.S.W.—Pat in by contrary winds the James and Ellen, Payne, from Antwerp for Jersey. GRAIMIEFID, February 11.—Arrived the Minerva, Efebards, from Messina; Tamerlane, Bristow. for Leghorn, and Sir Henry Stanhope, Eamon, from St. Michaels.—Sailed theistic, Richards, for Vaiparaiso; sad Lion, Dillon, for Jamotea. We understand it is the intention of the Spanish Com mittee to present the illustrious General Mina with a splendid sword, which is now preparing. It is to he ac• roinpanied by an address, in English and Spanish,t esti fyi ng the high admiration which the Spanish Committee have long entertained for the hero, and expressing an earnest hope that be will yet he restored to his country, and that his country will be again free and ihdepentlent.—(dlore iv Paper.) Bourn Annenteme-Pitopvcs.—We are happy to Bad, by the arrivals from Cartbagena.thet the Colombians are beginning to turn to account the advantages of the soil, end to displa I an industry which was unknown under the despotic Government of the spenierAs. Tile last vessel which arrived from Carthagena. end which was consigned to Mr. J. Lowe. brought several samples of productions hitherto unknown in this country.— Among them are the following :—The Molaroba bark, which is used by the Colorobians at the Peruvian bark is used in Peru, end which,ln addition to the aetrinitent properties of the laltur, possesses a fine aromatic gitter, a kind of almond, called in the con; try wild nutmeg, which is chewed by the natives and in stantly removes colic and fiatulenciee, and a wood for the use of cabinet makers, which is of greater solidity and spac,fic gravity than mahogany, aid in appearance much resembles rose wood. There is also a sample of *anther article, which it iv said is likely to prevent out being any longer tributary •to While for one of theinost easential articles In the British navy. Yesterday his Majesty had a numerous party to dinner, at his palace at Brighton, previous to his leaving that place. On the evening of this day, the King is expected to arrive at Ida Castle at Windsor. . Yesterday Lord Viscount Granville bad a long interview with Mr. Secretary Canning. The Attorney and Solicitor Generals transacted business rosterday at the Secretary of State's office for the Co'Waal' department. where Earl Bathurst was busily eugeged for 'the whole of the day. Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with the Earl of Wrstanorefand at his house in Orostenor-square, for the first time this season. !tie, we understand, determined, that the lonian Islands and Malta, which are me tonl y / widely distant from gash most the Zfs'tZlrErwi t s count ry yes the former being an Independent Stat., placed under the pro tection of (treat Britain, the latter, a dependency of the Empire, shall hereafter be separately administered. Sir Frederick Adam, we hear, is to have the command of the lonian • Islands, and Malta is to he offered to the Mar quess of Hastings, with Si: Thousand Pounds a-year. The lion relative to the state of the Duke of Bed f ri. wean authorised and requested to say, is totally un founded. His Grace, we are happy to be assured, has been progressively recovering for the last two months. (Morning Chronicle) The Lord Chamberlain has appointed George Colman, l'q. Licenser and Reader of Plays, in the room of the late Mr. Laepent. This appointment is a mark of honour dne to ti e talents and genius of Mr. Colman.—(lbid) The Marchioness of Worcester has recently been deli vered of a 'on and heir to the honse of Beaufort, at Paris. S ome of our readers may know that the present marriage of the Marquess of Worcester is deemed tincsnot:ical. al thong)) we helieveol it oletained the consent of his Noble Relatives, who, in order finally to put its legitimacy I , e. 'end doubt, commenced a friendly slit in Doctors' Com mons, to prevent others from doing so, which is never likely to come to a decision.—(lbid.) On Monday the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland held his . second Leery for the Season. Yciterilay a Court of Directors was held at the East Imila-home, when the following Commanders took leave of the Court, previous to departing for their respective desti b4tions, viz.—Captain Head, Canning, Bengal and rhint ; Captain John Barnet Sotheby, London, St. Helena. Humbly. and China •, Captain Montgotnerie, Hamilton, lhinira; and Captain Thomas Larkins, Marquess Camden, Bombay and China. Ins sqnadron of the Sth llussars arrived yester' day et Ipswich from Norwich. One troop of the 18th Hussars marched yesterday from Ips• arid, from Canterbury. The Grenadier Company of the 72d rect. of Font. now on duty in Guernsey, is ordered to he relieved by a battalion COOS' patty from the head quarters at Jersey. Tile Deputy inspector General of the Ordnance Department (General Rowley) has had a narrow escape from an attack of tpolexy, he is now considered out of danger. By the recent decease of theLieut.Govenor of Gravesend and Tilbury Fort (the Hon Lieut. J. de Courcy), a distinguished 'Seer of the Artillery. lieut. Colonel Hawker. has received the appointment. Lieut. de Courcy held the appointment from the in k k _ , RY I Circular f rom th e Secretary at War, addressed to Go• iriiihrneors of Garrisons,it appears the privilege enjoyed by them rla, of tilling up vacancies that may happen by death, of eum.rs attached to the place under their command is to cease, `al in future the candidate Is to be selected and appointed by G overnment. COLONIAL SLIIIIIIIM.—Petitions to both houses of Parlia lieut. Praying for so ameliorstion in the clndition of the slave Inpsiation in his Majesty's colonies, have been prepared, and will this week be banded about for signatures in this city.— (Glowester Journal.) . r ,:rhe ea se o f S m i t h , t h e Mi ss i onary, h as b een la id before the ivY Council by the Ministers, who wish to relieve them selves from individual responsibility, and to give the decision liken on it (whatever It may be) a judicial and solemn eha ttetrr. Elliott, the Missionary, who was ordered home from De /tram, Is expected by the next vessel. carious coincidenee occurred in Doctors' Commons on itewlay last. Probate (of a will) was actually graatlid to two ileestors, named J. Thurtell and .1. Hunt, individeets not at 111 connected with the parties concerned in the late infamous murder of Mr. Weare. A small cpsantify4 eserlet been., irlth a plane of young no -I.‘o,ta, two plates of amoifinemms , said a cucumber, were yr. J . T aly exposed for side at eh* iu Cotest garden, at five 0111- 'B l l let THE STATESMAN COURT OF KING'S BENCII.—Tuts MORNING. was there n• effort made to take him into custody. When Mr. Knox got what he would call the reprimand of Govern , TUC KING V. VIE PRINTER AND PUBLISHER or TIM went, for Mr, Goulhurn's letter was a reprimand, was it British Press." Mr. SCARLETT moved that the ride for a crininal infer- not time thee to have him secured? Ought he not to Elation against tile print e r and p u bli s h e r of the British have at least pet the business in train, so that he might Press, for a libel on -- Chetwynd, M. P. obtained have a man who was charged with murder, forthcoming ? a few days since, should be enlarged till next term, to But no, Mr. Knox was really too impartial. If give further time to answer the affidavits made on the the Court would not interfere in such a else, a similar other side. one might occur, and Mr. Knox might have to boast of it. There being no opposition, the application was granted. There was no feeling of hostility between 'Protestants THE KING V STOICS. and Catholics, but there was between Catholics and Orange- Mr. BROUGHAM said there was al-o a role nisi for a ai- men. If hi,. Knox was not capable of drawing a dis soloist information obtained against this defendant for a tinction between Protestants and those who, in the spirit similar libel to that in the last case, published in the Bri- of diabolical mischief, illegally associated under the abo lish Traveller newspaper. He moved to have it enlarged minable name of Orangemen, be was incompetent to act till next term, for the same reason as that on which the in the Magistracy of the country. Hb (sir. O'Connell con preceding rule was enlarged.—Kale refused, tended that Mr. Knox was incompetent to act as a Ma- FRIENDLY BROTHERS. gistrate. a ffi davit states. thoweitness did not Tut RING V. AARON SOLOMONS• convince him that Kennedy was guilty; but they had, in C The defendant appeared to receive the j u dgment of th e reply, his own motives. His partisan feelings were break ourt. under an Indictment to which he had pleaded ing out in sr page of his a ffi davit, the tinge and taint guilty. It appeared that a Benefit Society called by the above of party w as exhibited in every line. name, met to, dine and to dance, on the 6th of An- Mr. 0 Doherty followed, at considerable length, and Mr. O'Connel. gust last, at White Conduit House. The def e nd a nt with much ability, on the same side a s was one of the Stewards, and appointed to keep the The ChierAstice said, that the Court must admit the door of the Ball-room, to prevent the iotresioe of strangers, cane shown on the ground that, although . the defendant who, it bad been agreed should be excluded. Th e pr osecu t or , had acted illegally - as a !Magistrate, it did not appear to a Member of lice Society. observing some interlop ers , as k e d th e the Co urt th a t h e did so from corrupt motives. It appeared defendant why be admitted them, and threatened to complain that be Lad acted from ignorance, taking it for granted. aids. me defendant said he should do as he liked, and gave that the ti o rg t. Jmy having ignored the bills of i ndist have the prosecutor • elolent blow ou the eye. lie would ha se mi p re i against Kennedy. he was thereby placed in repeated the assault, bet was forcibly restrained by a different situation from that of any other person. It was the emeepagy. This sat the attack of which he had con leased himself guilty. Mr. Archibald said that the defer. quite clear that it was a foolish step to consult Govern ment on the solsject, and he was very properly told to use dant bad now pot in an allidavit,in which he had attempt- I his own discretion, bnt it was so far important, that it ed to make it appear that the prosecutor was the aggressor, showed-he had doubts as to how he should act unde r th e and therefore he submitte d that a slight punishment I circnmstasees, and was anxions to make use of advice from might be serviceable to check the violence of his disposi- another „ ter. tion,and by the example, tend to make the society more de serving of the name by whirA it was miscalled. The Court then ruled, that the cause *hewn shoold be The Coen? sentenced tke defendant to pay s i x s i i iiis„, p . allowed wkbeot costs. and eight-p. nee to the King. and to give secuiities. him- MAGIST .TE4 ATTENDING SPECIAT. SESSIONS, self 10201. and another irtfffel. to keep the peace for & year. E X EMPT FROM ARREST FOIL DEBT. 44. • At the last Sessions under the luserrection Act, an applicatioe. t ras made on behalf of a Magistrate of the county of Merrick, to be discharged from the custody of the Lily Sheriffs. The application was opposed by the pliintiff in the writ, and by Counsel on the part of the Sheriffs. The hearing occupied part of two days, when Mr. Illacklowne pronounced the judgment of the Court. He said, that this was an application, by a Magistrate of the County of Limerick, to be discharged from the custody of the Sheriffs by whom he had been ar e.ted under writgof Capias ad satisfaciendant, on Tuesday last, at the hoar of three o'clock, upon his return home from the Court at Special Seesions,where he bad been attending as a Magistrate. The arrest was mails immediately after the Court bad risen, and before he had proce•lleil more than one hundred yards from the Coon Howie. There orno no controversy respecting these facts, midi the only question raised by the plaintiff in the exec/410a of the Sheriffs has been, as to the juriadietioa ef the Court to discharge the defend •nt. The defendant rests his right to he &setter:el, neon his privilege from arrest, contending, that this case falls within the principle, on *tilt, in a vat [erg of cases, such a pri vilege has been inn* and acted on. That principle is, that all persons hoist f ide engaged in the administration otjhe justice of the country, are exempted in their per sons from the execution of civil process, in attending at, and in going to and returning from the Cond. The order of the Cott* therefore, was, that the defendant should 'orthwills hi discharged from the custody of the Sheriffs COURT OF RING'S BENCH, Mawr, February?, 182 4 —.....-- CRTNINAL ItirOltlekTlON. THE ZINO, AT THE PROSECUTION Or J. IeMASTER, V. THE REV. J. SPENCER KNOX. Mr. O'Coerrar.t. moved to have the further ersrument in this wise postponed until next term, on the ground that the defend• ant had introduced much new and irrevalent matter into his af• fidavit, which required time to answer. The Court dwarfed that the argument should proceed. Mr. G. B [l O 4 NETT thee proceeded to she* cause why the con. ditional order for a criminal information should not be made air solute. The prosecutor's eflidavit stated teat a riot had occurred at Maghera,in which a man named M'Master was killed ; that a Mr. D. Kennedy was indicted for the murder, and that thebilts were ignored by the Urand Jury ; and that the bills against Kennedy were ignored, J. M'Master, the brother of the de. ceased, diseovered that there were several witnesses who could give evidence against K. but who were afraid to come forward, fearing son • hodily harm, and being convinced that K. was the !prima who fired the sit of by which the deceased lost his life, and tbat a person of the name of John Conhery, a man of unimpeachable character, could testify to the tact; be applied to the Rev. Mr. Spencer Knox, a Alagistrate, and required him to take new infounations against Ken nedy; that Mr. Knox desired him to attend when there would be a full Bench of Magistrates, and he would con aids, whether he should t:tke those informations; that lie did accordingly, betore the Reverend Mr. Knox, the Reverend Mr. Mullevera, the Reverend Mr. ColdittChts and other Magistrates; that Connery was then t: lib' and that during the examination he (John M'Master) Jwas snails to lave the town: that subsequently David Ken nedy was seen in the rreets publicly, and that hearing he was about tkjeave_iiii Aaatitri , Jaw. applioiliereowellyi Tree ifevtgrennf W. Knox to grant him - a - e arrant to haver Kennedy arrested, and that Mr. Knox refused to give him the warrant until there was a foil Bench of Magistrates, when he would tell hint whether he would grant the war rant or not ; that during all this time David Kennedy was pubiicly in the streets, amt that he (John antlaster) was unable to procure the warrant for his apprehension; that the Reverend Mr. Knox was in the habit of being fee crently in the house of the Reverend Mr. Kennedy, the lather of David Kennedy, alio was charged with the of fence, and that ultimately David Kennedy left the country. Mr. Bennett submitted to the Court that the affidavit did not impute, in direct terms, any corrupt motives to Mr. Knox, but from the manner in which it was worded it left them to be interred. It indirectly imputed corruption and connivance, and on this indirect imputation, it calls on a Clergyman of the Established Church to answer why a cri miral informa , ion should not be tiled against hint. Even, if, as a Magistrate he hail acted illegally, there were not I grounds fur granting a criminal information against him, I except he use also charged with having acted corruptly. He did not wean to that his client had acted illegally, but to state what would constlate his defence ►f he had. Mr. Ktiox's affidavit stated boat there was a riot at hlaghera, between a number of Roman Catholics, and several persons of the Protestant religion, in which a man of the name of WM aster lust his life. An inquest was held on the body of the II ceased, on the 11th ofJune, and a great number of Catholics attended the in -1 quest. Two meetings of magistrates were held on the sub. yea, and many Roman Catholics came forward and gave evidence. Mr. Knox wen. to the house of a Catholic who was wounded, and took his depositions, and solicited the aid of the Catholic clergymen. The hills against Ken. nedy were thrown out at the Assizes of Landon terry. The Magistrates doubted their right to apprehend Kennedy after the bills had been thrown out by the tiraud Jury. They acted, perhaps, erroneously, but naturally, for they stated tuey would determine on a future day, 'whether they would grant the warrant or not. The Magistrates deliberated on the course of proceeding they should adopt, and ultimately directed Mr. Knox to inclose the informations to tioveratnent. Those gentlemen certainly adopted what they couceived to be the most pett alab(coarse. Mr. Cionlburn acknowledged the receipt of ties litter, and in reply, told Mr. Knox, that on reference to Law Officers of the Crown, they directed the Magistrates to exercise their own discretion. Mr. Knox considered it would be unprecedented to put into the hands of M•Master a warrant for the apprehension of Kennedy. he con ceived that if lie did so he would probably be an accessary to his murder. He acted impartially, and with the co-operation of other Magistrates. —Mr. BINNETT concluded by submitting, that as corrupt motives were not distinctly charged against Mr. Knox, the Court would not conceive there were grounds for making the conditional order for a criminal information absolute. ' H DUTY ON COALS. • • . , Yesterday a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the City of London took pl4re at the City of ',onion Tavern, for the porpobe of petitioning Parliament to take off the Duty on Coals. Sir Charles Price in the Chair. The Cuatnin AN stated to the fleeting that the Committe • had communicated, sport former occasions, with Vie Mi ois° ter upon thesnhject of the repeal of the existing oppre:- sive tax upon Coal and Culm, anti had received admissions that the City of London had, in particular, great cause t complain ; lint the condition of the coo ntry, in consequence of the long war, furnished an excuse for continuing an im post which every one was ready to condemn. It could no longer be contended that the country required that a par tial tax should lie taken from the pockets of toe peoule, as the revenue was in a most prosperous state. The abolition of the tax was most important to the manufacturing and agricultural interests; and the City of London paid, be sides 6s. a chaldron coast duty, an exclusive duty of 3s. 4d. a clialdron, originally levied for the building of Cliurclie. , . The London Committee had corresponded anti united with the Committees of all the other parts of the country in which the tax operated, anti the success of an applica tion to Patlieut.:tit was looked forward to with the utmost confidence. Mr. Swint said, that the reason the tax had not been re pealed was, perhaps, because the House of Commons wish ed previously to ascertain the general opinion of the pens ple on the subject. He then represented the nnfairness, as well as the impoliey of taxing one part ofa great population, to the exclusion of the rest ; and he read the Resolutions passed last year, as a foundation for the Pcition he con• I templated. The tax was, be said, a direct tax upon in dustrv. The Scotch had persuaded Parliament to relieve them from the Coast Duty, and to impose a general duty upon the country; but so injurious and unnecessary was this taxi that he loped and believed it would be abolished, without leaving behind it a substitute.—(Hear, hear.) — There was, in face, nothing that could more effectually in ;crease the general revenue of the country than the repeal of the Coal Duties. He then moved Resolutions declaratory of the unfairness of the tax, &c. &c.; and that it was hoped that Parliament would abolish the duties, without a com mutation for e.ny other tax. _ Alderman BUSGIIII seconded the motion. Mr. SMITH, after some desultory conversation between Mr. Hunt, Mr. Perkins. and Mr. Blanchard, read the Peti tion to Parliament, praying for the repeal. Alderman *onto, in reply to several observations by Mr. Hunt, said that the thinness of the Meeting aas attribut able, perhaps, in part to a mistake in the placards, and in part to the fact that the injustice of the tax was so notori ous. that no opposition was expected to it. The Petition, however, would be signed by thousands, although there were but a few hundreds in the room ; and the Wards bad already petitioned oe the subject. The Petition was agreed to unanimously; and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the Meeting separated. Mr. O'Cormati. replied.—The investigation was cer tainly conducted with great caution and respect towards a person accused of the horrible crime of murder. When the brother of the deceased applied to Mr. Knox fora war• rant to apprehend Kennedy,it was refused until Mr. Knox should consult two tither Magistrates, and when the three Magistrates got together, it was deferred to another day.— When they set about consulting Government, was it not necessary that they should take the precaution of securing the person against whom the informations were enorn ? Mr. Knox got such an answer from Mr. Gonlburn, as the Chief Justice might have given, had his Lordship been applied to in a similar case . He was t o ld t o do as was a s u a l in such cases. Kennedy was in the habit of walking in the public sheets. Mr. Knox could have • had hitn'arrested. I He bad a capital charge against him. He was constantly in the streets, indecently braving publio opinion, and in salting the survivors of the deceased by his pretence. Ye- We regret to learn, by letters from Switzerland, that the de• vastation occasioned this year by the avalanches from the Alps has been particularly great. The valleys of Haiti Gadpaen Outtanen have suffered severely. It is supposed that from the sensual mildness of the winter, there has been a want of soli l dity in the snow, which may have•ceasioned enormous masses to separate from the main body on the mountain sides.—in many places the course of streams issuing from the Alps had beep blocked up by avalanches, until the wale"; dammed so a gnat heignt, suddenly forcing a passage, carried away grist numbers of cattle, and in soma instances•whole hamlets. Already this year there here been nearly double the number of bags of Cotton imported into Liverperel that there were at this ties last year. ~, r ' t I y, THOMAS SPRING RICE ANI) WALLER 0 GRADY, ESQRS. (mom THE DUBLIN I#4OIISING P.IST OF TUESDAY.) Every exertion is uiod by the Police to arrest the gen. demon ablve named ; b u t to a l ate hour l ast n i g h t w i thout .access. d We regret exceedingly that the principals in this affiir hid not been arre<ted w:th the seconds, to prevent nether consNuenres ; there is no lr;ili member whosilifu'is more valu•abie than that of .Ir. Sprint! Rice, No member, since the short per;ml of his being returned to Pa-liatnent, rendered more essential services. It is dreadful that a man; for honestly and discharging, a piblic duty, should he expos-d to this slit of hazard. There is not any where to be met with a gentleman more amiable and conciliating in his manners than hlr. s ltice. Should he fall a victim in a rensontre of this description, the country would sustain a loss, perhaps at this time irrepara ble. We understand that this affair was caused by some offensive expressions applied to the Earl of Limerick by Mr. Wady, in the bearing of Mr. Rice. SUSPECTED INFANTICIDE. Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, a Coroner's jury was empannelled at the Swan-with-two•Netks, Lad-lane, before Thomas Shelton, Esq. coroner, on the body.of an intact child, supposed to here been murdered under cir cutnstances of great atrocity. Elizabeth Morris, servant tit the Swan-with-two-Necks, deposed,that on Sunday morning last she was ill in bed, in a room where a sister of aro , her servant had slept that night; the carpet which lay by the aide of her bed was im brued with blood, and the bed was also discoloured. She came on Friday night, only as a rnest ; hnt witness believes her mistress was about to employ her in the capacity .of servant. The chambermaid came to bed about two on Friday morning, and witness heard the stranger (Elisabeth Alert) say, " Pray bring me a candle." The candle was brought, and other words passed, when Elisabeth Alert seemed anxious for her to go down stair., which she did. On Sunday night she went to Bristol by the Regent, hi side; on the following morning (Monday) witness, Sarah. Nurse, and another marl-servant, went to clan the bed on which the woman Elizabeth Alert had slept; Sirah. Nurse then said, " Feel, there is s tmething in the bed ;" and witness took a pair of scissors and cut the ticking, put her hand among the f-athers, and to her utter astonishment took out tile child, after which she laid it in a cloth, anti pot it where toe jurors now perceive it; witness teas too much frightened to loolc if there were any utatks of trio lance on the child at tit zt time. Strap Stiles, anotr•er servant nt th• Swan- tith-two- Necks, deposed that she slept in the same bed with Eliza beth Alert on Satu•thv night, and went to hed about 12 o'clock. Alert was th e n sitting np in the bed, and said she had the held-ache. Witness then went to bed; Alert asked her to leave a lighted cindle, which witness did. Alert wts restless in the night, and once awoke witness, who risked if she could do any to for her,and was answered in the negative. Witness knows Alert went out of bed once in the night, hut nutbin: struck witness in particular. Witness got up the nest morning, and left Alert in bed. The following night witness slept in the bed alone, and said to her fdlow.servaot, there WAS something she could not bear to touch nor cool I st The het licitness cot open the ticking, and tool which so flurried witi;tss, thst she ran dawn Mr. Francis :ienry Rannbotham, 37, B-oildings, surgeon, deposed, he had dissect, the deceased child, which is that of a female. the face and the lips were livid, but oqt /raid happen in child, at times; evident merits as if the child heti respired ; the tongue on the right side, there was laceration from the gullet, corresponding wi and mark before described, which extended as the hrcist bone ; which might have [tern the finger, or any substsuce briny thrust the Qnllrt. Witness's dee; fed opinion was, pearances, that the child had been stinoeat strument which had bun thrust into its mow chill was born alive, and suffocated. Mr. James Luke, surgeon, corroborated last witness's testimony, except that he beli. vas the coagulated blood on the child's lips must have origin it( .1 from the wounds. The female witnesses were all called back, and deposed, that they never beard the cry f a child, and that Eliza beth Alert is above 30 years of t Another medical gentleman cur ...' , orated the aforesaid testimony. Tue Jury, after a very long discussion, returned a vet'• diet that—" The child was still-born." After this verdict the Conotactt said he did not feel him— self instilled in 'lying before what he should noir relate— that if this woman had been sent for trial, she wouLl have been acquitted, he thought, of the capital offense, and punished fur the minor crime; but now the law wee evaded. There was an evident concealment of the birth, which the law could not now ;mist), and therefore this woman had totally escaped punishment. BORERS —THE FIGHT TOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.—The fol lowing Iv a elpy r f the agreement entered into by ■ sporting Gentleman In favour of Spring : " Mr. 'greet to back Thomas Sprig against John Langan. to fight In a twenty-four feet boarded stage, six feet ;et height from the ground, for AWL • side. One hundred a side o be made good on Monday the 10th of Febreary, at hlr.e Thos. Belcher's." Monday next, being the time appointed to make good th one hundred a side, both the candidates for the championship will pay their respects to their friends. Langan, immediately atter the conclusion of his engagement at the Surrey Theatre, on Saturday, will leave toil(' to go Into training. A Float •T Movt.sirr iftrlvr.—A fight tonic place yester day at the above place between Maurice Delay and White headed Bob. It lasted only 49 minutes, during which time 97 rounds were fought. Delay then gave in, to the great joy of Bob, who had himself also become se much exhausted as to be incapable of much further 'action. Pawssfraimaisw.—Mr. Thomas Lloyd, the eelebrated pedes trian, started on Thursday at one o'clock, torsos Foot fro4n the George, Wolverhampton, to London, a distance of MS miles in 30 successive hours. This is a greater match thaw was ever before performed in En gland, and eclipses the most cele brated pedestrians of the day. He arrived at the Black Horse. Aldersgate Street, tee minutes before seven, winning by ten minutes. It was for 900 sovereigns. Jaws' Fast Scuooc.—Yesterday a dinner took place at the London Tavern, to celebrate the anniversary of the foundation of the school for the education of poor children of the Jewish persuasion, in Bell's Lane, Spi tat:kids. Hav ing stated the object of the Institution, it is necessary to say that it is deserving of support ; but we may be snow ed to add, that it appears io be as well conducted as any society of a similar nature in the metropolis. After (lim ner, several children of both sexes were introduced to the company, each of them bore a specimen of bis or her pro ficiency in penman hip or needlework, and an interesting little boy, shout 11 yer rs old, recited some Hebrew yawl!, expressing the gratitude of himself and his companions to their benevolent patrons. In the course of the eveniog, Mr. Joseph, whu presided, Mi. Van Oven, Mr. Joseph Cohen, and other geotlemen l4l , addressed the assembly to behalf of the institution; and we are happy to say, that upwards of 5901. were collected.-111r. Brabant was pre sent. and delight, the company by the exertion of his Cl? itaordinary posers. - ng in the bed ; the lie near it. • lok out a C'hild a I stake. Broad Street ted the body of le, full grown; mtOre la-A . , ... Ole lenge ‘• ' '-' - at the root o a considerable , .iLli the scratch I nearly as low I occasioned by violently into t, from the ap- iteil by the in- loath ; that the r."' ') 1