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ExiTAO_RD.TIVARY CASE. (From tZte West Briton of Aug. 27.) MARY TRELEAVEg., WIDOW, V. SIR JOSEPH SAWLE GRATES SAWLE, BART. This .was an action brought by the plaintiff s al widow, at the St. Austell County Court, he on the 19th August, before C. D. Bevan, Esq., a f nd_ s a o jury, against the defendant, for the recoveryt damages for an illegal and excessive dis ole_vie.d by the _defendant on the goods of . the plaintiff in the month of May Bishop, of Fowey, appeared for the plaintiff, and the defendant was represented by Mr. -Stokes, of Truro. From the statement 'made on behalf ofplaintiff it appeared that her. late husband, Thomas t Treleaven, in the and. mills called year 1852, occupied . a h te o n f e St. Austell, under a lease Molingey, in the at the yearly renpt.nor:flBlll2—Sir Joseph being the an d Mrs. Tr j cleaven still continues to landlord Just before and at the gene occupy tile property. ral election in the month of July : 1852, Sir Joseph exe rted himself very strongly m favour of Mr. Robartes, the then candidate, and one of the pre sent members for the eastern division of the county. Thoma s Trelea-ven, and his father, Joseph Tre leaven,.were voters, and Sir Joseph was very de sirous of securing their votes for Mr. Robartes. Thomas Treleaven was disposed to vote for Mr. Kendall,' or stand aloof from the election, which coming. to" Sir Joseph's knowledge, he sent s a farmer named Wm. Thomas, who rented the estate of Towan, under Sir Joseph, to obtain his vote. Thos. Treleaven deeined to pledge himself, unless, as he stated, Sir Joseph would agree to make the same abatement of. £lO per cent. on his rental as Mr. Robartes had made to his tenants in consequence of the badness of the times, and Thomas Treleaven also intimated that his father (Joseph) would vote as he did. Thomas, the witness, tried the Tre leavens hard, but they would not give way ; Thos. Treleaven stated that he should serve his own interest. This determination was con veyed to Sir Joseph by the witness Thomas, and, as Mr. Thomas stated, Sir Joseph on- the evening be fore the polling, authorised him to g o to the Tre leavens, at Molingey, and tell them that the required % abatement of £lO per cent. should be made. This v 3 did, and on the following day the Treleavens p, .filed for Mr. Robartes. Thomas Treleaven died i n the latter part of the year 1852, and at the first rent -paying afterwards Mrs. Treleaven, through her brother, kept back a portion of the rent, at the same ,time telling''Mr. Martin, the cashier at Messrs. Coode s, who received the money, that Sir Joseph wou ld know what the deduction was for. It ap pears tri,at matters went on in this state from the year 18X.4 down to the month of January last, when the plain tiff's brother,.having been summoned at the instance of Sir Joseph for shooting without a license on the tenement occupied by her, and which is but a shoal:. distance from Penrice, she gave evi dence in his favour, at which. Sir Joseph was so annoyed that lie instructed his solicitors to require her to • give up possession of the tenement, and threatened to bring an action of ejectment in case of a refusal. Notwithstanding plaintiff's term would not expire , till Michaelmas, 1859, she, to pre vent legal proceedings, agreed to give up at the coming Michaelmas ; and it was arranged that an agreement in writing should be drawn up and signed, to carry the understanding into effect. Upon the agreement being prepared, Mrs. Treleaven found that she would be bound to pay up certain so-called arrears of rent ; this she objected to, as she said that Sir Joseph knew very well why the £lO per year had been kept back, and the agree ment was not signed in consequence. No further demand of rent was made till the latter end of April, or beginning of May last, when the same answer was given as before. On the 28th May Sir Joseph summoned his tenant, Mr. W. Thomas, for trespass for shooting rabbits on Mrs. Treleaven's farm. Mrs. Treleaven appeared before the magi strates, and gave evidence in his favour that she had invited him there, and the- case was dismissed. The very next day Sir Joseph distrained Mrs. Treleaven for £llB, being £56 for half-a-year's rent due at Lady-day, and the sum of £62 for arrears. Mrs. Treleaven had always - before paid her rent yearly. On the distress being levied, a tender was made of the amount which plaintiff eon csived she owed, which being refused, the full sum of £llB was paid, with the costs of the distress. Previously to bringing the action, the plaintiff's attorney proposed to leave the matter to the deci sion of two magistrates ; which, with other over tures, being rejected, the action was brought to recover £5O, being the utmost limit of the County Court jurisdiction, although the plaintiff considered she had overpaid £6B 18s., with the costs. It should also be stated that she claimed an allowance of £4 per annum for some meadows, which had been destroyed by sand. In support of plaintiff's case,Nt's. Treleaven, the plaintiff, was called, who gave evidence to the effect before stated, and de posed to her being present on the evening before the election, when Mr. Thomas made her husband the promise of the abatement of £lO per cent., which he said he was authorised to do by Sir Joseph. Mr. William Thomas, of Towan, farmer, was next called. He stated that he had been a tenant of Sir Joseph's for 28 years. He gave evidence at great length, and with much clearness, as to his interviews with Sir Joseph previous to the elec• tion. He related the conversation which he had on the evening before, when the promise was made, and stated that on his hinting to Sir Joseph that he had better have the Treleavens up to Penrice, and make the arrangements himself—Sir Joseph said, " Oh, I can't do that, I shall be brought up for bribery ;" and that witness then remarked, "You will stick me into it, Sir Joseph ;" upon which Sir Joseph said, " You can do it ; but few will know it, and the amount can be allowed when the rent is paid at the office." This witness was very severely cross-examined by Mr. Stokes as to his having quarrelled with Sir Joseph Sawle, whether he had made any notes of what had occurred, and whether he had told any one besides the story for the past six. years ; he adhered, however, to his previous state ments, and in answer to Mr. Stokes's question, whether that was the only case in which he had bribed, he said " that it was the only case in which he had gone so far at Sir Joseph's request , although he had made some other promises. Mr. Stokes pressed him to name any other ease, but this he declined to do, and the judge ruled that he was net bound to disclose any more. Mrs. Treleaven was recalled. She corroborated the evidence of the last witness as to the promise made by him to her husband. James Chapman, the brother of the plaintiff, was next called. He deposed to having paid the year rent first after the election, and that he kept back a portion ; at the same time telling Mr. Martyn, to whom it (the rent) was paid, that Sir Joseph would know what it was for. He also proved hav ing on another occasion paid rent when he kept back as before ; and that he paid the rent for the year ending Michaelmas last, when, on Mr. Mar tyn's calling his attention to the arrears, he said there were none ; the £lO a-year was to be allowed, as Sir Joseph knew all about it ; and the £4 a-year for the fields, which would make it right ; that Mr. Martyn's figures and his corresponded ; but that Mr. Martyn said he himself could not make the allowance, it must rest with Sir Joseph. Richard Chapman, another brother of the plain tiff, proved the tender of the rent admitted to be due, and the subsequent payment of the ,XllB and costs. He also proved that the meadows were in jured to the extent of £4 per annum by the sand. Several letters were here put in—one from Messrs. Coode and Co., requiring possession in January last, and threatening an action ofejectmentti in case of refusal. Another from them in comeolith of May (mis-dated), requesting plaintiffietom some understanding, as to th amount of the to owing, and also a letter from plaintiff's attorney,rent dated Ist June, making claim for damages sustained through the distress, and proposing to refer the matter to two magistrates. Mr. Stokes then addressed the jury for the de fendant i n a ver y f o rcible speech. On behalf of Sir Joseph, he totally denied that any such had been made, as‘ promise William Thomas. sworn to by the witness, Mr. He severely criticised Mr. Tho mas's evidence, and denounced the action.as a con spiracy. He endeavoured to impress upon the minds of the jury the impossibility of agentl eman, in Sir Joseph such a . 's position, doingthing as was charged against him , and contrasted Sir Joseph's t position with that of the man Thomas, wh o , h e con tended, was - not to be believed the fact that ilc also called the attention of the jury onto his the plaintiff did not procure an attorney from St. Austell, but went to Foweto get one. The should prove that learned advocate stated that he the abatement of Tent was made in the year 1851, and not after the election of 1852, as sworn to by plaintiff and her witnesses. He co ur ncluded a most .t the 'y that he powerful address by reminding should call Sir . Joseph, and that would be a case of direct perjury on the one side or the other. Mr. Stokes then called witnesses for the defence. Mr. Nicholas Martin, who stated that he was a clerk at Messrs. Coode and Co.'s, and kept Sir Jos. Sawle's rental account for them. He produced the rent ledger, showing the payment of the several rents on account of Molingey, from the year 1852 down to the month of May last ; by these accounts it appeared th a t more thari £lOB, at times, was paid yearly during those years. He showed that the deficiency w as carried on as " arrears." He stated that he had called Sir Joseph's attention to' an abatement claimed-for a depression in the times, and that X2O was deluctedlor:allowed in conse- quence. In cross-exam i nation witness stated that the depression in the times was in the year 1849 and 1850, but on referring to the rental it appeared no allowance was made until the year 1853, after the election. He would not undertake to swear whether it was before or after the election, that Sir Joseph au thorised the abatement. He admitted that plaintiff's brothers had made statements to him from time to. time that Sir Joseph had promised to give u p £lO a year, and Sir Joseph had access to the books, and saw how the accounts stood ; that plain tiff had never been furnished with a statement of the account, and that when he told her, in January, of there being arrears, she said she did not owe any, as the £lO per year promised by Sir Joseph, and the allowance for the meadow would make it up ; that the rent was usually paid yearly. Sir Joseph Sawle, defendant, was then called. In answer to questions put by Mr. Stokes, he stated that all that Mr. Thomas had sworn to is falSe—it is wholly false. I never made any such promise, to allow £lO per year, or authorised Mr. Thomas to make such a promise for me. Thomas never referred to the bargain or promise after the year 1852, nor did the Treleavens. I never heard of their claims for the allowance on such account until just before the distress was put in ; that was the first time—l put in the distress in consequence of that, and not on account of the dispute about the rabbits. I did allow on account of the times a deduction, before the election of 1852, I think—l think I agreed to give up two years—that was the only allowance I ever agreed to. I think so." Cross-examined by Mr. Bishop—What Thomas has sworn to is all false—it is wholly false. It may be true that he was at Penrice the evening before the election. I did see him about a week before the election, as he has sworn, and I did send him to canvas the two Treleavens as well as others. I swear I never received a letter from Thomas Treleaven about his rent. I will not swear that I did not have a conversation with Thomas in this very room about the vote. I will swear that Thomas, the witness, did not make any report to me about the Tre leavens' Notes. I did desire Thomas to invite the Treleavens with the other voters to breakfast at Penrice, the morning of the election. It was before the election I told Mr. Martyn to deduct the rent, but can't say whether it was made after or not. The first time I had a dispute about the rabbits was more than 12 months ago. I did take steps to turn Mrs. Treleaven out •of the farm. I gave directions for the letters (produced) to be written (these , were the letters referred to in Mrs. Tre leavenh; evidence). I have never spoken to Mrs. Treleaven except about a summons—she did not apply to me about the £lO a-year promised, nor. her brothers—very likely I refused to see them, when they called at Penrice. They may have called there and I may have refused to see them. The second rabbit dispute. .was in May.. I sum moned Mr. Thomas—the charge broke down—the summons might have been heard on the 28th, and the distress might' have been on the 29th. I do not know when the distress was made ; I cannot recollect. Sir Joseph was here asked how he re collected so well what took took place six years ago at the election and did. not know the particulars of the distress which took place only three months since ; but he was not further pressed. Mr. Bishop then replied, and in the first place called the attention of the jury to the attack made on the plaintiff and himself by the learned advocate for the defendant, whose zeal for his client's cause had led him to do that which the circumstances would .not warrant. Mr. Bishop directed the jury to the fact that the defendant not being content, or feeling secure, notwithstanding the powerful aid of his own St. Austell attorneys, had thought it necessary. to take a journey to Truro (a distance of some 16 miles) to secure also the services of the "leviathan of the law," Mr. Stokes. (The parties in the . Hall' here made a strong demonstration of applause, which the judge instantly ordered to be suppreSsed, and threatened to commit any one who should. similarly offend again.) Ms. Bishop then proceeded to remark on the utter failure of defendant's proofs, as stated .by Mr. - Stokes, - who had in his opening said that he should prove the allowance to have been made in 1851, whereas it was shown by the testimony of Mr. Martyn, his own witness, that no abatement was made until the year .1853, . being. for the year succeeding the election, and which strongly corro borated the evidence of Mr. Thomas, the " man" so denounced by Mr. Stokes. He pointed out the dif ference of the manner in which Sir Joseph had given his evidence to that of Mr. Thomas—the latter having gone into the most minute particulars, in respect of which his evidence had been altoge ther unshaken, whilst Sir Joseph, after making a wholesale denial of Mr. Thothas's statements, after wards-admitted, in six particulars out of seven, that Mr. Thomas's evidence was correct. The advocate contended that Sir Joseph's evidence and that of Mr. Martyn completely substantiated. plaintiff's case, for though they both admitted that the agri cultural depression was in the years 1849 and.lBso no abatement or •allowance was made from the rent till the year 1853, the next rental after the elec tion, when plaintiff stated that the promise was made. He also called attention to the manner in which Sir Joseph had tried to evict • the widow, though she held under a good and valid lease, and asked them to say which was the most likely to be true—that Sir Joseph had levied the distress in consequence of her claim for the allowance of the £lO per year as she believed was promised, or in consequence of her giving the evidence on the rabbit dispute, seeing that she was distrained the very following day, when, as Sir Joseph stated, he had broken down in his prosecution, and through her evidence. Mr. Bishop expressed his surprise that the advocate for the defendant had paraded his long and. high sounding name, and. his title, as a guarantee that his evidence was to be more valued than that of the witness, Mr. Thomas, a highly respectable farmer, whom Mr. Stokes had. styled throughout " that man," and reminded. the jury that persons who might have the - prefix of a " Sir," and the addition of " Bart." to their names, were not to be credited. more than others whose antecedents were equally good —that birth and title alone would not ensure respect unless it was accompanied by in tegrity of principle and conduct. Mr. Bishop concluded. by calling on the jury, not for an expression of their sympathy for the widow, but that they would do her plain justice, and award her a verdict for the amount claimed. The Judge summed up the case to the jury, and at the same time expressed his doubts as to the probability of a gentleman in Sir Joseph's position, a Baronet, mid. an enlightened, magistrate of the county, making such a promise as had been alleged, or of his putting himself in the power of his tenant omas,however,. i t .e o m n a l r t e e d, s t l i l i c a h t i di t s., ,co a l s s a m q v. The u s estio Judge, nforileln to decide, as to the comparative credit due to the evidence of Sir Joseph and that of Mr. Thomas ; and that possibly, as they lived in the neighbour hood, they knew Sir Joseph better than he did ; that Mr. Thomas had certainly given his evidence more_ clearly than Sir Joseph had done. He was glad to find. it . admitted. on all sides that Mr.. Robartes knew nothing of the transaction in ques tion. .He then read over the whole of the evidence, and left the case to the jury, who retired. about half-an-hour, and then returned with this verdict : " Verdict for plaintiff, damages £5O, and desiring to add their belief that Sir Joseph had made the promise, but that his memory had failed him." The verdict was received with considerable ap plause by an audience of many hundreds of persons. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Sept. 9. as a religious body, thi cy must be protected from annoyance in the exercise of their religion. Mr. Payne said, the law protected all religious bodies peaceably assembled for the purpose of wor ship, and it must be etjually and impartially admin istered to all denominations. The defendants must each enter into his own recognizance in the sum of £5O to come up when called upon, and if they repeated the disturbance they would be brought up and dealt with as the Court might think fit, and if they did not appear . when called upon they would be liable to be imprironed until the amount of the recognizance was aid in each case. Those who professed Mormonism 1, or any other " ism," when peaceably assembled. for the purpose of worship in an authorised place, must not be disturbed ; they were entitled to the protection of the law, which the Court was bound to enforce. The defendants promised not to offend again, and, having entered into recognizances, were dis- charged. - Caroline Dunn, 32, was indicted for stealing the sum of £5 10s., the money of Joseph Petford, from his person. Mr. Ribton was counsel for the prosecutor, Mr. Metcalfe for the prisoner. The prosecutor stated that he lived at No. 5, Ferdinand-place, St. Pancras, and on the night of the 31st of August he met the prisoner in Ferdi nand-street, and they had some ale together. It was between 10 and 11 o'clock, and he went with her to 11, Weedington-street, where she lodged, and he fell asleep on the bed. When he went there he had £5 10s. in his pocket ; when he woke up it was gone, and the prisoner too. From other evi dence it appeared that the prisoner soon after the robbery was seen at publichouses showing money, and with the landlady of one of them she left £2 15s. for safety, which sum was produced in court. The jury found her guilty, and she was sentenced to four months' hard labour. Sarah Winfield was indicted for stealing from Jessie Proctor, a child four years of age, three penny pieces, the property of George Proctor. Mr. Abram was for the prosecution ; Mr. Ribton for the prisoner. A police-constable, 41 B, stated that he was on duty in Victoria-road, Pimlico, on the 26th of August, when helnoticed the prisoner with a little girl, and he watched them. He saw the prisoner take something from the child's hand, and then leave her. He asked the child. a question, when she began to cry, and in consequence of what she told him he went after the prisoner, whom he took to the child's mother, and charged her, upon the child's statement, with having robbed her of 3d. The prisoner took out a shilling, five penny pieces and a farthing, which she said was all her own ; but the mother, the wife of a farrier in the Royal Mews, identified one of the pieces by the letters G. stamped upon it. She had shortly before given it with two others to the child. The prisoner, who is the wife of a builder, re ceived a very excellent character, and her counsel put it to the jury whether they would ruin that good character on the identity of a penny piece, about which there was every probability of a mis take. The jury found her not guilty. A boy named William Johnson was brought up on Wednesday for judgment, having been convicted on Monday of going up to a lady in Barnsbury road, Islington, and snatching a purse -from her hand. He was remanded in order that inquiries might be made about him. The officet said that he had ascertained that a statement made by the prisoner that he had been an errand boy to a jeweller was correct, but he had been there only three weeks, and it was suspected that he obtained . the situation, only for the purpose of robbing the place in concert with others older than himself. His father lived in Gray's-inn-lane, and had five children. The prisoner had been taught to dance on a spade and in clogs, and had performed as a little wonder at public-house con cert rooms, not for his own benefit, but for that of those who took him about. Mr. Creasy said, the best thing that could be done with him would be to pass such a sentence as might lead to his being sent to a reformatory for such a period as would afford a full opportunity for his becoming a good young man. It was quite clear that if after a short imprisonment he went back to those from whose clutches he was now free he would be ruined for ever. He should, there fore, sentence him to four months' imprisonment, and to four years' detention in a reformatory. He was sorry to say that the claims upon the resources of these vahiable institutions were so numerous that many cases could not be brought under their operation. William Smith, 38, was indicted for having stolen six gas-burners, the property of her Majesty's Commissioners of Works and Buildings, from the new bridge from Chelsea to Battersea. Mr. Abram prosecuted ; Mr. M'Donnell was counsel for the prisoner. The indictment charged that the qffenee was committed in the parish of Battersea, in the county of Middlesex, and, upon the application of Mr. Abram, " Surrey" was substituted for " Middlesex." It was then contended, by Mr. M'Donnell, that the Court had no jurisdiction to try the case, as it had no jurisdiction in Surrey, but Mr. Abram cited a case to show that the Court had jurisdiction to try for an offence committed within 500 yards of the boundary of the county, and proved by a witness that the spot where the burners were taken from was less than that distance from the Middlesex side of the bridge. The case then proceeded, and the prisoner (who had been employed on the works) was convicted. He had borne a very good charac ter, and was intoxicated when he committed the offence. Mr. Creasy sentenced him to three months' hard labour. Mr. Abram said, he was only instructed on the part of the Court, and was not aware of the error in the indictment. It was a case in which the commissioners ought to have instructed their own solicitor to prosecute. Benjamin Smith, 62, dock labourer, and Charles Gue, 30, carman, were indicted for stealing a bag of coffee, value £2, the property of the St. Katharine Dock Company, in their dock. It appeared that Gue had been in the habit of going to the dock for his master, and he was charged with having stolen a bag of coffee, which he did not, however, get clear off the premises, and it was alleged that Smith was an accomplice in the transaction. The jury acquitted Smith, and found Gue guilty. He was sentenced to four months' hard labour. Isabella Reid, 52, charwoman, was charged in four counts of an indictment with having obtained linen from houses under the false pretence that she had been sent for it by the laundress. She pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 18 months' hard labour. (Before Mr. Payne, at Clerkenwell.) Henry Ripley and William Barr, drovers, were indicted for " unlawfully, wilfully, and con temptuously disturbing a certain congregation of persons called Latter-day Saints, assembled for the purpose of religious worship." Mr. F. H. Lewis appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Metcalfe for the defendants. The defendants pleaded guilty. Mr. Lewis said, .this prosecution had been insti tuted by the elders of a congregation of persons belonging to the Mormon church, for the purpose of being protected from a system of annoyance and interruption to which they had been for some time subjected while in the performance of their reli gious worship. These defendants had taken part in such annoyance, but there was every reason to believe they were the dupes of another person whose name need not then be mentioned ; and Mr. Metcalfe, their counsel, had with his usual judg ment and discretion, advised them to take the course they had adopted in pleading guilty, and, as the only object of the elders was to obtain the pro tection of the law, they believed that the defend ants, having seen the folly and impropriety of their conduct in interfering with the proceedings of the congregation in question, that object would be attained by their being bound in their own recog nisances to come up for judgment when. called upon. If they repeated their misconduct they would most certainly be called upon to receive sentence ; if they did not, of course they would hear no more of the matter. Mr. .Nretealfe - said, the defendants were w illi ng reeoto any lsanee e s xeroise of dis cretion to appear if rteocieLt.eerdanntod,thweiitr respectwhon for which Mr. Lewis had defendants, him credit, he had only to say tha t the drunken men in a disorderl y crowd, hadt Lne as tai that which they were not legally justified in, doing and which they, would not repeat. Mr. Lewis said, although the doctrines of the Mormons were not what everybody approved, still, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1858. her husband, said she lived in Bell-lane, Spital fields, and that morning early her husband came home intoxicated while she was asleep in bed, and beat her very badly about the face and head. Pri soner was a " translator" of boots and shoes, and earned high wages. For more than two years she had been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, which she attributed to his ill-usage ; and on one occasion the Lord Mayor had sentenced him to six months' im prisonment for assaulting her. Mr. Hammill sent the husband to prison for three months, and directed that 10s. s h ou ld be given to the wife from the poor-box. SOUTHWARK.--Wm. Kelly, a horse dealer, who falsely described himself as a corn merchant and a contractor for watering the streets, was brought before Mr. Combe for final examination, charged with being , concerned, with another not in custody, in administering a narcotic to Jonathan Fisher, a greengrocer, residing at Lewisham, and stealing from him a horse worth £l5. Mr. Downey appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Edwin for the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor that on Friday morning, the 27th, while going to the New Cattle-market to dispose of a horse, he fell in with a man named Fielder, who accompanied him. There Fisher changed his horse for a dun cob, and on returning (still with Fielder in the cart) he came up with the prisoner, who was standing near the road. Fielder pointed out the prisoner as a man who was likely to buy the cob. He said he did not want to sell it—that at all events he should want £l5 for it. Hereupon they all went to the " World Turned Upside Down" public-house, in the Old Kent-road. Prisoner offered him £l3, which he refused. Afterwards they had some stout, and after taking a glass of it prosecutor almost immedi ately lost his senses, and had no recollection of any thing that happened until midnight, when he found himself lying on a sofa at home. He was positive he never sold the horse while in his senses, but in his pocket was found a sovereign and a piece of paper, which purported to be an I 0 V for £l2, signed " William Kelly." He had no recollection of ever seeing that before, neither had he any recollection of seeing the paper produced by the prisoner's soli citor as follows :—" Aug. 27, 1858. Sold a dun cob for £l3, and received as cart payment £l. Jona than Fisher." It was his signature, and had a penny stamp attached to it. William Palmer, 125 L, said he took the prisoner into custody, and when told what he was charged with, he said that he had bought the horse in the usual way, for £l2, but he had not the opportunity of paying all the money at the time. He also told witness that the horse was at grass at Mr. Chand ler's, at Guildford. Witness went there, and the horse was given up to him. Mr. Combe asked whether the man Fielder had been found ? The constable replied in the negative ; but the prisoner and that man were no doubt connected with a well organised gang of sharpers who infested all the high roads•leading to the metropolis, on the look out for victi ms . There were other distinct charges against them. A limeburner named Crow ther, residing in Kent, had just come into' court, who, on the 29th ult., was robbed of a horse by the prisoner under similar circumstances. Mr. Combe said that he should commit the pri soner for trial for hocussing and robbing Mr. Fisher, but to enable the other persons to prefer their charges he should remand him for a week. The prisoner was formally committed for trial. LAMBETH..—Yesterday Henry Arlett, a man about 30 years of age, wearing large jet-black whis kers and moustaches, and in the uniform of an artil leryman, was placed at the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norton on a charge of vagrancy. William Hewett, a mendicity officer, deposed that on the evening before, standing near the railway arch in the Westminster-road, the prisoner was beg ging, and his appearance having attracted a num ber of persons, and more than ordinary sympathy, he in a short time. got as much as half-a-crown m coppers. The officer added that the prisoner was dressed as smartly as if he was going to parade. In reply to the charge the prisoner said he had been 'in the Royal' Artillery about a year and a half, that he had been sent home invalided from Malta, had been some time at the hospital at Wool wich, and was ultimately discharged at Christmas last, with merely a sovereign as a gratuity. Since then he had been living by the exertions of his wife as a laundress, but her work getting slack he was compelled to beg. Mr. Norton—What is the reason you cannot work for your living ? Prisoner—Because I am unable from an affection in the back. Mr. Norton—Then your proper course is to go to your parish ; you cannot be permitted. to beg in this way. 'Where is your parish ? Prisoner—ln the City of London. , • Mr. Norton—Then you must go there. You must be a mean-spirited person to disgrace the uniform of the finest corps in her Majesty's service by begging in it. I shall give you alight sentence of seven days, and on the expiry of your imprison ment you must go to your parish. The Prisoner (insolently)—This uniform suit is mine, and while there is a single shred of it together I shall not cease to beg. Mr. Norton—You seem a worthless fellow, and deserve a much more severe punishment than I have given you. Prisoner—l say what I mean. I'll keep my word, and beg. The prisoner was then removed from the bar. HAMMERSMITH.---Mr. Francis Thompson, a pawnbroker, of No. 38; Norland-road, Shepherd's bush-market, appeared before Mr. Ingham to answer an adjourned summons, at the instance of Mrs. Martha Nasmyth, a lady residing in Norland square, for knowingly taking a quantity of clothes sent to wash as a pledge from a laundress named Caroline Burton. Caroline Burton stated that she lived in James street, Kensington, and formerly took in washing. She was Mrs. Nasmyth's laundress in the month of June last, and she pledged the washing at the defendant's shop to procure her children bread, as her husband was out of employment. The defen dant had known her for three or four years, and she had repeatedly pledged at his shop. He knew that she was a laundress, because she had pledged £1 worth of shirts at a time. She had pledged her customer's clothes a great many times, and when she got money she redeemed them. She had taken a clothes-basket full at a time and pledged some times 20 sheets in a bundle. The defendant had several times said he hoped she would not get into trouble when the bundles had been large, and she had told him that it was in consequence of her hus band being out of work. Mr. Ingham said he had a duplicate before him relative to a quantity of clothes and other articles pledged in July for £1 ss. The witness said, at that time three tickets were made into one for £1 ss. She told the defendant that the lady wanted her things home, and that she could not get them out. She then asked for, the three tickets to be made into one for her to take to the lady. The articles in the ticket consisted of two large tablecloths, five sheets, a pair of drawers, 36 towels and pillowcases. , The defendant said he had no knowledge of the things being " washing" at the time they were in. The things were pledged separately, and for small sums. Mr. Ingham said the defendant must have been aware that the witness was a laundress from her pledging hind t ging gs 2 b o ei s ng heets at a time. Besides , he must have known that a painter's wife was not l ike l y to possess 36 chamber towels. The defendant then called his assistant , William GO - di , who stated that he wa s not co g nizant of " washing" at the time they were taken in. The witness asserted that she told him that the articles were " washing." Mr. Ingham said it was not material to inquire as to whether the defendant knew the things were " washing" when they were first pledged. In July the duplicates were consolidated and made into one. That act was substantially a pledging, and then the question was whether at that time the defendant knew that the woman was a laundress, and that the things were "washing." He thought that the cas e was quite clear, and that the defen dant knew perfectly well when he made out the t t i h e e ke a t rticl tha es t , w th i e th m 4 -o s m . c a o n st :- . as a laundress and that the thi ngs were " washing." He ordered the defendant to forfeit £2 10s., and to deliver up all MR. DOAING OF 'Et.som.—The Mr. Dorling whose death ,was yesterday recorded in several of the me tropolitan newspapers was the father of Mr. Henry Dor ling, the well-known clerk of the course at Epsom. He had nothing whatever to do with the " Grand Stand" and " correct cards." Mr. Henry Dorling, whose name is so familiar to the public, is, we are glad to state, likely to dischirge his duties in connection with Epsom races for many years to come. • • [AnvEirrisEmExii.—Holloway's Pills and Ointment. — These medicines have obtained a celebrity and an amount of sale in all parts of the world, which must be taken as a sufficient proof that their virtues are not exaggerated. They have stood the test of nearly a quarter of a century, and during all that period there has not been a single charge brought publicly against them. No one has com plained that they have done harm instead of good. No invalid, after a fair trial, has found them fail to relieve his pain or cure his disease. In all cutaneous disorders espe cially,-the combined action of the Ointment and the Pills is absolutely irresistible. The cure is not temporary or superficial, but complete and permanent. SO Ult VITY. The following remarks on the sources whence insanity springs, or appears to spring, taken from the report of the Medical Superintendent of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics, near Perth, will repay the trouble of perusal : No year passes without abundant proof of the hereditary, or hereditary transmissibility, of insa nity. Of 69 admissions, horeditary predisposition was proved in 17, 13 females and 4 males—the female sex, therefore, largely predominating in the proportion of more than 3to 1. In one of these cases the mother was insane ; in 2, the father ; in 1, the father and brother ; in 2, a brother ; in 6, sisters ; in 1, the maternal uncle ; in 1, the paternal uncle ; in 1, a half-uncle and aunt ; in 1, a grand father's cousin ; and in 1, the family generally were eccentric or insane, according to the views taken as to what constitutes insanity and eccen tricity respectively. With a view to illustrate the subject of hereditary predisposition more fully and trustworthily, we have examined our statistics for the last 31 years—from the opening of the institu tion in 1827 to the present date—and we find, as the result, that of a total of 1,130 cases admitted, it existed in 26.54 per cent., or rather more than one-fourth ; or, if we deduct the cases in which no cause is stated—which gives us a total of 733 in 40.92 per cent. Of 300 cases, in which hereditary tendency is thus noted, 165 were females and 135 males—the former sex, therefore, greatly predominating. Esquirol estimates here ditary predisposition to occur in nearly , one fourth of the admissions, or 21 per cent. ; Guislain at one-fourth, or even 30 per cent. ; Dr. Webster, from the statistics of Bethlem, at 32 per cent.; the statistics of the York Retreat show nearly one-third of the admissions •, and Professor Holst of Chris tiana states it as high as 69 per cent. in Norway. It may be necessary to explain that our statistics make no distinction between collateral and direct relationships. And it may further be advisable to remind the reader that it does not necessarily fol low, because progenitors have been insane or eccen tric, that the immediate affspring should be equally so. There are well-establishetflaws of transmissi bility which we cannot here stop to explain or enumerate. The form of insanity chiefiytransmitted appears to have been Dementia. The mother was noted to havebeen insane in 20 cases, andthe father in 29. The mother's insanity was transmitted in 13 instances to daughters, and in 7to sons ; while the father's was transmitted in 16 cases to sons, and in 13 to daughters. This bears out the conclusions ar rived at by the majority of British and foreign statists—that the mother's insanity is chiefly trans mitted to daughters, and that of the father to sons. The father, however, according to our tables, was more frequently insane than the mother, in the pro portion of 29 to 20 times. This does not quite accord with the generality of statistics, which show that the mother is more likely to transmit insanity than the father. Intimately connected with this subject is the deli cate and painful one of the inter-marriage of tainted persons, especially of tainted females—of women labouring under, or predisposed to insanity, and whose offspring are more than likely to mani fest insanity, or at least to bear about with them a strong predisposition. We cannot too strongly reprehend the practice in parents of wilfully con cealing from an intending husband or wife the fact of existing or prior insanity in the opposite con tracting party. Such practice is not only cruel, but criminal it is perpetuating and propagating insanity broad-cast ;it is burdening the country with the helpless and diseased ;it is—to use a phrase which, if plain and homely, nevertheless embodies a great and wholesome truth , —" deteriorat ing the stock" of society. One lamentable instance came under our notice during the. year. A woman was brought here for the second time, whose house, on the evening preceding her admission, had pre sented the following scene :—ln one apartment lay a dying husband cursing, with his last breath, the day he had been married, and lamenting bitterly that he had not been made aware that he was ally ing himself with a tainted woman. His simple and pathetic story was this : In his youth he had had an attachment for her as a girl ; he spent some years abroad as a soldier ; on his return, finding her still unmarried, he renewed his former attach ment, and was permitted to propose marriage with out being made aware, either by her or her friends, that durmg his absence she had had one or more attacks of insanity. They were married, and sub-, sequent attacks soon opened his eyes to his wife's morbid tendency ; from that day to the period of his death he never ceased to allude to his alliance as the curse of his life. In an adjoining apartment, a son—an indolent " ne'er-do-weel," who had never exerted himself either for his own support or that of his parents—had just committed suicide, on being told that, in consequence of his father's approach ing death, he would be compelled to work. . A daughter had just come home to this scene of misery to be confined of an illegitimate child, while the mother was rushing from room to room raving mad, and unable to comprehend the scene in which she was So prominent an actor. But, strange to say, similar marriages are sometimes deliberately solem nised among the educated and higher classes of so ciety, when both parties have their eyes open. Such mesalliances are, however, much less seldom mar riages of love than of convenience ; there is probably in general, money to be got on one or other side. The parties entering into such compacts are inex cusable on the plea ofignbrance of the fearful results of such mal-assorted and unnatural unions. It is a delicate and difficult thing to interfere with civil liberty ; but it adinits of a reasonable degree of doubt whether there should not be some legal re striction in regard to such marriages. Their effects are most disastrous to society at large ; and surely society, which bears the burden and pays the pe nalty, has a right to enter some species of protest against proceedings which are contrary to physio logical as well as to moral law. The propagation of insanity by means of fatuous and facile female pau pers is now amenable to civil law. The subject we may safely leave in the hands of the new Lunacy Board. Such females are comparatively seldom married ; their lives are too frequently of the most irregular and dissolute character. More than one deplorable instance has occurred to our notice during the year. We are naturally led from the subject of marriage among the insane to consider celibacy as a predis posing cause of insanity. Of 69 admissions during the past year, 49 patients have been unmarried, 17 married, and 3 widowed ; or, in other words, the single hare been considerably more than double the number of the married. But as the statistics of a single year may exhibit somewhat unusual or falla cious results, we have examined our statistics,bear ing on this subject, for the last 31 years ; and we find, as the result, that of a total of 679 cases, in which —the social condition has been specially quoted, 445 have been single, 196 married, and 38 widowed ; that is, the single have constituted 65.64 per cent., and the married and widowed to ether 34.46 per cent. of the whole admissions ; or, in other words, the former have been nearly twice as numerous as the latter. It is but fair to state that the statistics of a single asylum may be as fal lacious—in relation to society at large—as those of a single year in any given as . ylum. The statistics of other asylums do show different results. Those who are sceptical as to the value of statistics go the length of asserting that they may be made to prove anything. We trust society has a right to expect that this and similar • inquiries and subjects will be elaborated by the new Lu nacy Board for Scotland, one of whose most useful duties we take to be the drawing up of statistic s from the returns which Government compels, the. officers of asylums to furnish. Such is the public' interest attachable to celibacy as a predisposing cause of insanity that we venture to compare our results with those arrived at by some of the first authorities, British and foreign, on the statistics of insanity, and to draw or deduce a few general con clusions therefrom. The statistics of Bethlem Hos pital for the Insane, London, according to Dr. Hood, show that the married are more numerous than the single patients, in the 'proportion of 1,364 to 1,194. This, however, is certainly an exceptional state of matters. Opposite results are given in Buck nill and Tuke's " Manual of Psychological Medi cine," and in the statistics of the majority of British and foreign asylums. In the Saltpetriere • and Bi cetre, during 20 years ending in 1822, according to M. Desportes, of 2,490 patients, 1,472 were single, and 956 married, widowed, or divorced. Jacobi's statistics of insanity in Germany show that, of 2,015 patients, 1,573 were single, and 422 married or widowed. Statistics then, on the whole, indubi tably prove that celibacy predisposes to insanity, and also the converse—that matrimony is, to a cer tain extent, an antidote against insanity, or exer cises a preservative influence. These propositions we commend to the attention of the Times and other journals which have recently, with such discussed the advantages of early marriages, and the disadvantages of prolonged, unnatural, and unhealthy celibacy. Parchappe remarks that celi bacy, as a predisposing cause of insanity , eq uall y affects both sexes ; but that matrimony is a greater preservative against insanity in males than in females. We do not here stop to inquire whether insanity in celibates is producible by, or traceable to, the restraints merely, or the vices of celibacy. The subject is too delicate, difficult, and extensive to dilate upon at present. But its connexion with what has recently been paraded in the Times as the " great social evil" is too evident to warrant us in omitting a mere allusion. Let it not, however, be supposed that we mean to infer or imply, in the 445 cases cited in our statistics, that the insanity was in them necessarily due to the condition of celibaT per se—let riot the reader confound the popt wit the propter hoc. No doubt, in many cues, celibacy POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—Mr. Henry was called upon to deal with a charge of horse-stealing affording a curious instance of mistaken identity of a mare. The defendant in the case, a young man named Collins, was brought to this court in custody on Wednesday, charged with stealing a mare, the property of Mr. Johnson, broker, 8, Dorset-place, Pall-mall. The prosecutor stated that about two months ago he put his mare out to grass at Guildford. That morning, however, he was sitr prised to see her standing in Parliament-street, opposite the Red Lion public -house, in harness, and held by the bridle by a woman. The woman on beingrawasaisaid eo horsedealer public -house orsheu edfis eenlhlddai drinking. en Hkf from eon mtgh.e (the Mr. jr Gould ing, o o u n pl e rdi r who no e,h n l l c e t s h t : prosecu tor) then claimed the mare as his property, but said if the prisoner would take him to the horsedealer and satisfy him that he (prisoner) had honestly " come by" the mare, lie would pay him ss. to recompense him for the loss of time. The prisoner expressed his readiness to do so, and they started together, but on the way the prisoner stopped short and said he would go no further ; if prose cutor suspected him of stealing the horse, he could lock him up. Prosecutor accordingly called a con stable and gave him in charge. Three witnesses, friends of the prosecutor, strongly confirmed his identification of the mare. 's desire a messenger was sent to Lo A ck t ,s. th fi e o p d rso s i f n or er Mr. Goulding, who shortly at tended and deposed that he sold the mare to the prisoner at Aldridge's. He was sure the witnesses were all wrong, as he could, if' necessary, produce the person who had the mare before him. Mr. Henry said the prosecutor had better go down immediately to Guildford, and satisfy him self whether his mare had been stolen. The mare might remain in the greenyard , and the prisoner might be liberated on his own recognisance to appear again. On the following day (yesterday) Mr. Johnson said that he and his friends had been mistaken about the identity of the mare. When he got down to Guildford he found his own animal safe and sound. • • At this announcement Collins declared his inten tion to " have the law" of Mr. Johnson, but ulti mately an arrangement was come to between the parties, and as they wished the magistrate to act as arbitrator, Mr. Henry awarded Collins £5 as compensation for imprisonment, and 30s. greenyard fees and expenses. With this the matter ended. WORSHIP-STREET.—William Phillips, 52, was charged withviolentl7 assaulting and maltreat ing Sarah Phillips, his wife. The complainant, apparently much younger than was a result and not a cause ; an effect of the same physical or mental condition which also caused the development of insanity. But deducting such, there still remains a sufficient number to enable us to assert that the state of " single blessedness" is not the most healthy one either as regards mind or body—nor the most natural one, view it as we may. This year there has been a great preponderance in the admission of female over male patients, the num bers being of females 39, and of males 30. Last year there was an excess of one female. These numbers, taken by themselves, would tend to prove that females are more liable to insanity than males. But of a total of 1,061 admissions during 30 years, from July, 1827, 527 were females and 534 males, showing a slight preponderance in favour of males. Our statistics tend to prove, however, that reco veries have been more frequent and deaths less frequent among women. For of 456 recoveries from 1827 to 1857, 263 were females and 193'males ; while of 197 deaths during the same period 77 were females and 120 males. Taking the general statis tics of British and foreinn asylums as a basis, it is found that males are slightly more predisposed to insanity than females ; and experience, therefore, proves what a priori reasoning would lead us to expect—judging from the greater frequency of the causes of insanity in the one sex than in the other. The age of patients when admitted does not give an accurate idea of the age at the time of attack ; for the interval elapsing between the attack and ad mission varies greatly. Of 69 admissions 20 patients were under 30 years of age, 38 below 40, and 53 below 50, while there were only 16 above 50. This shows, as all statistics tend to show, that the liabi lity to insanity is greatest in mid-age, when the battle of life is fiercest—when the powers of intel lect proper are strained, and the emotions and pas sions excited to the utmost. Out tables will show that the greatest number of admissions occurred between the ages of 30 and 40—viz., 18 ; then be tween 20 and 30, and 40 and 50,15 each ; and lastly between 50 and 60, 12. Of the recoveries, 23 in number, 6 occurred under 30, 13 under 40, and 18 under 50,, while only 4 patients were above the lat ter age—thus showing, that, as in the liability to insanity, so are the chances of recovery greatest in mid-age. The period of admission is not a safe criterion or index to the period of attack ; but the dates of ad mission in the aggregate may afford approxima tive results, nevertheless, of some value. Our sta tistical tables for the last 31 years show that the months in which the greatest number of admissions took place were August, July, June, and March ; while those during which the fewest admissions oc curred were Nov., Dec., and Feb. Hence it may be broadly stated that the liability to in.sanity appears greatest during the hotter months of the year, and least during the colder—greater during hot than cold weather. This is borne out by the expe rience of asylums not only in Britain and on the con tinent, but in India. Esquirol's experience in the Saltpetriere was that the liability was greatest in May, June, July, and August, decreasing from the latter months to September or December. Par chappe comes to a similar conclusion. From this fact 'of the influence of season in predisposing to in sanity, it may naturally be inferred that climate should act in a simikr way ; or, in other words, that insanity should be more prevalent in hot than in cold climates—in. India tbAn in Scandinavia. This, however, explain it as we may, is contrary to fact, for it is notorious that no country or climate is so preg nant of insanity as that of Norway, for instance. Again, in this institution, the greatest number of recoveries occurred in September and August ; next in March, October, and December ; while the fewest occurred in November and February, the next months in order being April, May, and July. Esquirol's experience in the Saltpetriere was that recoveries were more numerous in spring and autumn than during the other seasons or months of the year. Our table of periods of recovery also shows distinctly the preponderance of recoveries among females, in the proportion of 263 to 192 males (the numbers of the sexes admitted during the last 31 years being equal, or nearly so.) This preponderance of females in regard to recoveries holds good from year to year, and as a general rule the disease in women being usually more acute, transient, and curable than in men. In this asylum, intemperance has always figured comparatively low as a cause of insanity. During the past year, of 69 admissions, intemperance was assigned as the cause in only 4 cases ; and in some of these it may have been wrongly so assigned. It apparently figures much higher among the xecoveries, for of 22 cases discharged recovered during the year, intemperance was ascribed as the cause of the original attack in six instances. Taking, our statistics for the last 31 years, we find intem perance or dissipation to have been the assigned cause in about 10 per cent. of the total of 1,130 cases admitted; or, if we deduct the cases in which no cause is stated at all—which will leave a total. of 733—in about 15 per cent. No distinction, how ever, is drawn, nor can it generally be drawn, be tween the influence of intemperance as an exciting, and as a predisposing cause ; for, undoubtedly, in different cases, it may be the one or other. More over, it is almost impossible to ascertain in how many cases it is really the cause, or a cause, and not the effect, or an effect. For instance, intempe rance is frequently associated with disappointments in business, grief and despair, and other depress ing emotions ; and it seems pretty certain that, in many of such cases, at least, intemperance and insanity are produced by the same moral causes — the intemperance exaggerating the insanity, or the insanity the intemperance. We fear that there is a great tendency in certain sections of society to exaggerate the importance of intemper ance as a cause of insanity, in order to illustrate more powerfully their own peculiar views. There is no necessity for this • the relations of intemper ance to insanity are sufficiently apparent, and illus trations of the evils to which it thus leads are suffi ciently numerous, to render exaggeration unneces sary and even mischievous. It may be necessary to enter a caveat against a popular error, viz., that all cases of insanity from drink are cases of dipso mania. This term is liable to be abused and mis understood. Cases of insanity traceable mediately or immediately to drink—to intemperance—are comparatively common in all asylums ; but cases of dipsomania proper are much less so. The term is properly applicable only when the disease takes the form of incessant and uncontrollable appetite for stimulants, an appetite which no consideration, moral or intellectual, personal or public, can enable the infatuated victim to control or keep under. HANDSOME CONDUCT OF A FRENCH CAPTAIN. LIVERPOOL, Sept. B.—The master of the Peter Foulkes writes :—" On the Bth of July, when about 120 miles east of Malta, on her passage home, the schooner Peter .Foulkes, of Liverpool, under my 'command, with a cargo of Indian corn from the Danube for the United Kingdom, suddenly sprung a leak during a heavy gale, and, when in a sinking state, myself and crew, five in all, were taken off the wreck by the French steamer Simois, Lieut. Guillon Penau, commander, exhausted by our ex ertions at the pumps to keep the ship afloat - until assistance could be obtained, and with nothing on us in the shape of clothing but the shirt and trousers each in which we had been working. On getting on board the steamer, Capt. Penau sent us sufficient comfortable clothing for all hands, and for 15 days, while we were on board of his ship, during which time he was beating down under canvas to Mar seilles, the screw having been broken, he treated us in the most kind and hospitable manner, allow ing us to want for nothing. On arrival at Mar seilles he brought. all hands into his own cabin, and insisted on my crew taking 100 f. to supply immediate wants, adding, that while we remained at Marseilles, if we liked, we might make his ship our home, and that our pro visions would be there for us. He then sent one of his officers with me to the British consul. I am sorry to state that we did not receive the assistance from that gentleman th a t we expected,and to which I think British seamen, circumstanced as we were, are entitled. I stated our case to him, and three days afterwards my men were supplied each with a pair of trousers, a shirt, and a cap, and, after a further delay of four days, I was supplied with a shirt and a pair of trousers. To save time waiting for a remittance from m* written, owne r, to whom I told him I had • - I wished him to advance me' as much on a draft on m y owner as would carry me home. This he declined, and suggested that I • might raise as much as I required by going round amongst the English ships in the h ar b our. Th at I declined' to do. In due course of post I • received my owner's remittance, when before leaving I went to the French Captain Penau, to know and g what I was in his debt, t thank him for his great kindness to . • myself and crew. We had pre viously offered him the clothing - we could spare, on receiving the supplies from the consul, which the captain declined to take. He said nothing, and he would accept of nothing ; that he had done no more than he believed an Englishman would do for a Frenchman similarly situated. On shaking hands :with me, he 'looked at my clothing, said I had but -a poor outfit, and offered to supply me with a better from his -wardrobe: This, of course, I declined. Hoping. yon... Will 'excuse the length of this letter, as I have no doubt yeu•will agree with me such noble conduct &mild be known:--I am, sir, your most obedient servant, WM, GRAHAM." ST_ AIR. On Wednesday, a melancholy occurrence kept the inhabitants of a populous part of the town, the Blakemore district, in deep anxiety and suspense, for some hours, and it had a fatal termination. John Griffith, a working collier, of good character, had a daughter, named Emma, aged 15,. in service at a neighbouring beershop, kept by a man named William Trunter. On Sunday forenoon, some men in the house heard the poor girl call for help, and there appears no doubt that he shamefully abused her. The girl, on escaping from him, went home and. told something of what had occurred to her mother and female relatives : but appeared in great dread of the truth being told to her father ; and on a man not of the family appearing, she ran affrighted into another room. On Tuesday, her father went to the magistrate's office, to apply for a warrant against Trunter, desiring his daughter to follow him. Still her fear and shame withheld her, and she did not go. Her father upbraided her for this, and, some additional facts having trans pired, he told her that next morning she must go to a surgery for examination. In the morning, when the time came, it was found that the poor girl had left the house. The father sought her, and learned at her grandmother's that she had been there, and said she would never again return home. On prosecuting his search further, he caught sight of the poor girl, who, on seeing him, ran off down a by-road , in the direction of the coalpits at Blakenhall. Her father followed slowly, till, see ing that she got near an old coal-pit shaft, he called to some men to stop her. The girl then ran into the field, up the bank which surrounded the shaft, and had thrust herself between the apertures of the planks which formed the protection to the shaft. Her father, seeing his worst fears about to be rea lised, shouted with much • feeling, " Don't do that, my wench !" but the girl was too determined, or too panic-struck to heed him. Dragging through the rest of her body, she rolled herself into the pit. By this time her terror-stricken father had got near enough to her to imagine that he could yet arrest the dreadful act. He clutched at her, but she had fallen too far. The shaft was known to be a deep one, and. to have lain unworked for six years. If, therefore, she had escaped being dashed to pieces, there was yet no hope for her life, as the foul air towards the bottom of the pit must be fatal to her. Nevertheless active efforts were at once commenced to recover the body. A brave fellow, an engine driver at a neighbouring pit, volunteered his ser vices. He commenced descending amidst the hearty though stifled cheering of some hundreds of anxious spectators. He had not gone far, however, before he was beaten back by the carbonic acid gas. Other attempts followed, but they were unsuccessful, until some air-troughs were procured from Messrs. Aston and Corns, the proprietors of the colliery. By these the shaft was cleared to within 9 yards of the scaf fold, which ran across the shaft at a distance of 69 yards" from the mouth, and upon which it was known the body of the girl must be lying. Joseph Elwell, however (for that was the engineer's name) thrust himself through that, and hastily groped for the body in the dark. His hand first reached the foot of the corpse, and he speedily drew it up to the safe air. Upon the corpse reaching the bank, it was found that there was a bruise upon the face, upon the left elbow, a cut upon the knee, and blood was , oozing through her clothes from her back. She had then been in the shaft about seven hours, namely, from 10.30 a.m. till about 5.30 p.m.—Manchester Guardian. COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM-SEPT. 9. At this morning's market there was a large supply of wheat, and the damp samples were sold at a considerable decline on the currencies of this day se'nnight, but dry parcels nearly maintained their value. Barley taken in re tail at previous rates. New oats 6d to is per qr. lower, but old were fully as dear, and scarce. Beans less in re quest, and peas unaltered. MANCHESTER—SEPT. 9. Our market this morning was rather slenderly attended/ and a fair amount of business was done at last week's ea treme prices for wheat of good quality. Flour was taken slowly, but sellers held firmly for previous rates. New oats were ld to 2d per 451 b, and oatmeal was is per load cheaper, but old ruled steady. Beans and Indian corn e'd per qr. dearer. GLASGOW-SEPT. 8. There was an average attendance. at our market to -day, and business on the whole presented no character of im portance. We make no alteration in our quotations. The business during the week, although not extensive, was done at fully the previous currency. NEWARK. At to-day's market there wf grain trade, and prices were freely, at late rates. Other ar White wheat, new, 50s to 52s Red do. 46s to 488 Old white 44s to 46s Red do.. 40s to 42s Barley, malting 38s to 40s --SEPT. 8. as but little animation in the unaltered. Fine barley sold rticles were without change. Barley, g►rinding 32s to 348 Oats, old, 12st 33s to 365 New do 30s to 315 Beans 50s to 535 Malt . 6Bs to 725 BRISTOL-SEPT. 9. Our corn exchange to-day was again well attended, with a good supply of all kinds of grain, which met a firm mar ket at late prices. Oats were again rather firm, and there was no sellers of new at the low prices of last week. Beans and peas were unaltered. BO STON —SEPT. 8. We had a large attendance to-day, and a liberal supply of wheat, but the trade was dull, at a decline of fully In per qr. Oats 6d to is cheaper. Beans and peas were held firmly for previous rates. In barley no change. Wheat, white 446 to 478 Beans, Mazagan..—s to red 38s to 45s Middle & small 47s to 526 Barley 32s to 46s White peas 42s to 48 6 Oats 24s to 28s Grey 42s to 480 EDINBURGH GRAIN—SErT. 8. We had a much larger market to-day. Sales brisk for all sorts. Wheat and barley better. Oats and beans Wer e rather lower. Averages per Imperial quarter. Wheat (N) Wheat (0).. -12th Barley. 1 12 2 2-12ths Oats l. 6 8 4-12ths Beans Total Supply and Sales. Wheat .1115 qrs Sold 962 qrs 8ar1ey...... .. 1698 qrs Sold 16.51 qrs Oats .1126 qrs Sold 915 qrs Beans B6 qrs Sold 32 qrs DERBY SMITIIFIELD—SEPT. 7. Beef 6d to 6 1 d. Veal. 7d to — 4l Mutt0n........ 6ld to 7d Pork sd to 51c1 Lamb 7d to 'ad , Rough fat, 4s 6d per stone. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday an inquiry t° ° , place at the Wheatsheaf Inn St. Helen's Junction, bei,e„'",, Mr. Driffield, ooroner, as to the cause of the death of a cu.' named Charles Whitaker, aged 14 years. On Saturn an engine, called the Hero, proceeded from Sutton Sla t t to the points at the Pear-tree House, where the boy g .° on one of the buffers behind the engine, unperceived • I ,Y the engine driver, who proceeded along the Parr BrallAf'": A coal train was seen coming up the same line of rail: drawn by the engine Goliath, and both engine-drii:_ eL '„,, seeing the danger, immediately reversed their enr°,,:` - ' and then, with the stokers, jumped off. A slight c ow ' sion, however, took place, and then the engine 14 , e ,; before the river and stoker could regain t.",;;; places, bounded off at full speed, with the poor w' n 't still on the buffer ; it ran past the points at the junctio n 't the branch, where the pointsman endeavoured to throw It off the line, and rushed at fulls peed to the terminus at the junction, where it broke down the railings, ran across th e road, and knocked down the middle part of the station be' longing to the London and North-Western Railway, where its progress was arrested, and the dead body of the boy was found. The station-master at the junction, his mother, and three children, who were in bed in the hous e at the time, had a miraculous escape, the bedrooms being in front and , at the back part of the house, and the centre only being de molished. ome' blame appeared to be attached to the engine-driver of the Hero, for proceeding down the up line at the branch ; but the jury, after a long consultation, returned a verdict of accidental death. —Manchester Guardian. BIRTHS. AsHBY.—On the Bth inst., at Isleworth, Mrs. Georg° C. Ashby, of a daughter. BLACKETT.—On the Bth inst., at 28, Green-street, Gros venor-square, the wife of Joseph B. Blackett, Esq., o f 6 son. CHICHESTER.—On the 7th inst., at Canterbury, the wit.° of Captain Nugent Chichester, of a son. FISHER.—On the 7th inst., at Chetwynd Lodge, Shror shire, the wife of the Rev. Frederick Fisher, of a sou. • MARRIAGES. DUMERGUE —IIIGHFIELD.— On the Bth inst., at St' George's Church, Everton, by the Rev. Sir Geo. a l ' the Rev. Walter Scott•Dumergue, vicar of Farehato , Maria Lydia, daughter of the late Geo. Highfield, Bf 3l "' of Everton, Liverpool. MrtEy—SimpsoN,—On the Bth inst., at St. Barne ar t ' s , Church, Kensington, Robert Parsons Miley, of 1 00 wick-street, Regent-street, to Adelaide, fourth' dalle.o, of William Henry Simpson, Esq., of Warwick-gam e Kensington. DEATHS. BLYTH.—On the 3d inst., at 13, Nottingham-terrace, 5 1 e li road, Mr. George Lindsey Blyth, analytic chemist, 81° 36. tai COOPER.—On the 13th of July, at Nusseerabad, Herbert Stanley Cooper, of H.M.'s 83d Regt., thir u s of viving son of the late Robert Chester Cooper, ESql Brighton. CRO3IPTON.—On the Bth inst., at the residence o f T. g g e ; larue, Esq., the Hasells, Sandy, Bedfordshire, 'DV ° t o- Bonsor Crompton, Esq., of Farnworth Mills, Heal''— cheater, aged 67. HOUGH.—J. G. Hough, Esq., of 16, Brunswick-s(11191? Foundling Hospital, London, aged 74. to p MEREDITH. — On the 9th inst., at 1, liepple-rowf Newington-green, N. Meredith, Esq., aged 83. K g SPENCE.—On the Bth inst., at 5, Strand, Colonel Chal: Howe Spence, 60th Rifles. TVO L O NDON : Printed and Published by MURDO of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N ° ' of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cou n V Middlesex, Friday , September 10, 1848. G -D £2,000, can be lteceip 3, :L\'( G~ Week P.m. ( p. m . for -33., L°' FIR! TICK] DONC, IVEDIs 15th, `if turning tember Gene L9C dersfiel Liver pc Branch( London Return. station. Pro London Rudder Manche Liverpc Returni Pool ; 11 dersflel4 For p may be Crosby, TIN QuinccuC particiin prerniun Pullet( ticipate division tamed ii Thee lives are and Insi guaranti from the Policy Stre,t, Vil Z Bank- THE Al Estl t: . ..The 4 , t 1031 PAN it* c l o Aß E t ' ee n dTita 8 'trance "ills u To CIF Insurai eldents, together Proposal apply to vompan3 7, Banl INTE' -a- SOLI Establisl Grace.-1 •Society t. Htanclitw of grace, payment tlic office TR] Ilmn9weT k.urtvil ir.4117. 4Nr .t Ar r t. 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