The Sun. — London, England, 1860-04-19 00:00:00

L !ELAND. DUBLIN", WEDNESDAY MORNING. Dr. Cullen's organ :(the Morning News) contains the following announcement. It was really high time for Government interposition towards checking a species of gambling which had become nearly as contagious as the epidemic which raged when the old lottery system bloomed in full vigour, aided by the sanction and encouragement of the State:— " Au announcement in our advertisement columns informs the public that the committee of St. Sa viour's Church, having received a:warning from the Crown solicitor, have given up the idea of holding the lottery, and those who have purchased tickets will have the money returned. We 'regret that Government should have thought it right to inter fere in the matter, especially as their doing . so in the presentinstance, after allowing so many similar ones to pass, must we fear be injurious to the fun ds of St. Saviour's. We trust, however, that publi c liberality will make up for any loss that may be sustained from this sudden resolution of the autho rities to stand upon the letter of the law. We will not suppose that the zeal of the powers that be' has been stimulated by the attack on St. Saviour's Church which have appeared in the Evening Mail and other Protestant organs, but it is not a little remarkable that St. Saviour's appears to have created great jealousy among the enemies of Catho licism. Our readers will recollect the pert letter of Lord Palmerston, refusing to subscribe to the building of the church, on the ground that he was ' too good a friend of religious liberty' to support any of the religious orders." LANDLORD AND TENANT. The Limerick. Reporter of yesterday has a piteous tale of the eviction of a tenant by a heartless land lord. The victim in this instance is no frieze-coated occupier of a cabin and patch, but a gentleman named Synan, who was a candidate for the repre sentation of the county at the last general election. The lord of the soil is the newly-created Lord Leconfield, better known in the south of Ireland as Colonel Wyndham, a most indulgent and liberal landlord to his tenants. Here is the Reporter's narrative : " The cruel evictions with which Irish tenantry have been so long painfully familiar have just been followed by the eviction of Mr. E. J. Synan, late can didate for the county o f Li mer i c k, f rom his beautiful farm at Fedamore, on which he had expended vast sums of money, and built a residence fully equal to the requirements of a country gentleman ; the residence is one of the best in the county, and the offices are first class. Mr. Synan, being a tenant without lease, incurred the displeasure of Lord Leconfield, the newly-created Tory peer, not because he did not pay up his rent to the last farthing, but for some other cause, of which the public, as connected with the late election, can form an opinion • and yesterday Mr. Syna n re moved from Fe damore-house. Whether he has got compensation to any extent we have not heard." SADLEIRISM. Although eight years have elapsed since the ter rible tragedy on Hampstead-heath, the name of the hero of it is still fresh in the daily records of the Irish law court. Yesterday some fresh complica tions turned up in the Landed Estate Court, before Judge Hargreave, in the matter of the late Lord Glengall, relative to conflicting claims to a sum of £lB,OOO, the amount due for principal and interest on the foot of a mortgage bearing date Sept. 29, 1849, on the estates of the Earl of Glengall sold in the court above named. The facts are these : " On©' claim was Made by Mr. Norris, in whose name the mortgage was executed originally, and the case set np on his behalf was, that he had been engaged in making advances upon securities in Ireland, and that the late John Sadleir was his agent ; that there had been considerable money dealings between them, and that at the time of Baclleir's death he was indebted to the claimant to a large amount. The mortgage recited a judgment for £6,000, which was obtained by Mr. Norris against Lord Glengall, and an advance to his lord ship of £4,500, being altogether £10,500. Mr. • Norris relied, in support of his claim, on a docu ment by which John Sadleir allowed him to hold the mortgage as security. The document in ques tion was executed the day before the death of John Sadleir. The official manager of the Tipperary Bank made the case, that the advances made to Lord Glen gall were the moneys of that bank ; that Mr. Norris had only allowed his name to be used in the deed of mortgage as a trustee for the bank, and was not en titled to make use of the deed as a security for him self. Previous to the death of John Sadleir there had been legal proceedings between the parties on the subject of these securities. In a final schedule made out subsequent to the sale of the estate Mr. Norris was returned as a creditor on foot of the mortgage in question for the amount mentioned, and it was on an objection to that claim, filed by the official manager, that the case now came be fore the court." Several witnesses were examined yesterday ; among them a person named Hickey, who had been in the employment of John Sadleir. The cross examination of this person was quite a curiosity:— " Mr. Sullivan —Mere you not concerned with the late John Sadleir in forging the bank deed of the Tipperary Bank P—l was an innocent party in the matter. " Did you with your own hand forge the deed ? —I did not. I made some alterations by his direc tions. " After that bank deed was executedP l be lieve so. " Yours was the hand that altered it P—l en grossed it first. " After it was executed as a deed did you forge a passage in it ?—I altered a passage in it by the direction of John Sadleir; under the circumstances I did not look upon it as an improper transaction. I altered the deed increasin the salary of J Sadleir p r i or to his marriage. John Sadleir directed me to meet him in Kilkenny, and there, in the Court-house, or in the house of a ntlema, the alteratio ns were made. John Sadleir had a printed document, w hi ch he said was a form_ of a new d ee d, and th a t t h e first deed was tobe cancelled alto gether. He directed me to make the alteration with the view of putt t ing it in the new deed. lie said, are , g a o n in t g t o get a new deed according to this, and. I the alterations made.' I was perfectly satisfieodtgweith this explanation or I wouta not have madnem?e. alteration. " Mr. Sullivan— m the letter of the 7th of November, 1855, fro r othhuS referencea dl e Sadleir, requiring an explanation .fromlckheiYmtowli to this transaction. " Mr. Sullivan read the letter, in which Rickey stated that J o h n Sadleir couldnotfol tr i that he (Hickey) had b een made the innocent fa,rlirei cator, for the purpose of making a bank std long after it had been executed by the she.reholdera, and without their knowledge or consort ; and asked the witn'ess if it was true. " Witness—Yes, it is true in substance. "The learned counsel read the remainder of the letter, which stated that the writer might take an erroneous view of the transactions, but that in case Sadleir fai.led to giv e a satisfactory explanation he should explain to the shareholders and the public the part he was induced innocently to take in what appeared to him to be a gross fraud perpetrated upon them. (To witness)—Did you ever tell the shareholders of the fraud you perpetrated ? " Witness—l did not. " Mr. Sullivan - read the words of the letter :—' In case I do net hear from you in a week, I will send a andpy qf this letter to each o f th e shareholders,' ;diked the witness did h e h ear f rom Sadleir 'Within the week ? " Witness—l did not. "Did you send a copy of the letter to each of the shareholders ?—I did not; I was advised by counsel that in such a transaction I ought not to volunteer. " To Sergeant Fitzgibbon—When I altered that deed, under the direction of John Sadleir, I believed that he was about to get a new deed, to which the shareholders were to be parties, and that the altera tions were merely to su b s tit ute t h e new deed for the old. I did n o t k now at that time that Sadleir was acting so for fraudulent purposes • if I did I would not h av e made the a lt erat i on. I do not know tion i n the whether Morrogh and K enne d y k new of the altera the alteration eud.l did no t k now of the effect of after it wa s executed. I should "Judge H say I kn ew it ventil as ' for the b enef i t of James Sadleir. fraudulent ? a.rgreave--You did not know it was " Witness—l did not, re?roLl7.rd, particularly as I knew that the deed w as substitutedt by the new one. They told me thaet ashareholders had consented to the) increase of the s e e a , l a r n y d of James . Sadleir; that was afterwards eluded in the new deed which was prepared " Mr. Sullivan—Do you swear that ? " Witness—l do.. " Where is the I ICIV deed ?—I saw the two iu th e official manager's possession. " You thought t here was no harm in doing what you did ? I thought there was no harm, I became uneasy afterwards. "Were you pros sing John Sadleir in November, 1855, for a settlers lent of account, when you wrote that letter ?—I be lieve so. "Did you thie L k it was a fraud when you wrote that letter to him .?•—Yes, in the meantime I began o suspect it. " Did you fin(', out the true Ague of it in No• vember, 1855, when you were quarrelling with John Sadleir ?—I supposed. "Did mortal know that you altered that deed except John Sadleir ?—James must have known it. I will not swear that he was present at the altera tion ; he accepted it. I will not swear that there was any man present except John Swileir. " Mr. Norris was then examined and cross examined at considerable length, after which the case for the bank closed. " Mr. Sullivan stated that there never was a second deed. He wished to ask the - official manager a question. "Mr. M'Dowell, in reply to Mr. Sullivan, de posed that there had never been but one bank deed in his possession, and that was the deed referred to by Mr. Hickey as the one in which the alteration was made ; and he never heard of any subsequent deed, but there was a deed executed before it. "The further hearing of the case was adjourned to this (Wednesday) morning." SOCIETY,"" MISSION," AND "ASYLUM LIFE." A writer in a contemporary says :—I doubt whether anyone living besides myself has given the time I have to the study of that species of literature, the subject -matter of which is the Re ports of Religious and Philanthropic Societies-- dry reading, but very instructive. I speak within bounds when I say that the working capital of these societies and institutions, having their head quarters in London, and other large towns, is not less, year by year, than two millions of money. A very large portion of this capital is annually obtained by " voluntary sub scriptions." There is also a large portion which has accrued from legacies, and to this there is a large annual addition. I cannot trace the existence of any one institu tion or society, which according to the opinions of the founders and supporters has not a truly good object. Too much cannot be said in praise of English liberality as shown in these re p or t s ; th ere is scarcely one spiritual or temporal evil towards the eradication or alleviation of which there is not some effort being made by this species of moral ma chinery. We are a busy mercantile people very ad hesive to shop business, but not careless to forget the claims of Christianity and humanity. Very regardful of the health of the " till," we may grudge the time, or be ill able to spare it, to do our own alms, but we are ready to take liberally from that " till" to do good deeds by the agency of others. The machinery by which the money is raised admits of a very wide, penetrating, and elastic aps plication :—Meetings with speeches made by volunteers who have either rank, or elo quence, or notoriety to attract auditors, aided by trained and salaried advocates ; ser mons by preachers whose names or known talent are likely to fill the church, and procure a good " collection ;" tavern dinners, got up with great pains, by persons skilled at the work, long pre viously advertised, the list of stewards framed upon a system, the object being to convey to the public the idea that a Royal or noble chairman will have the support of a great number of men of rank, with others eminent for piety, philanthropy, &c. In addition to these three methods of " appeal," there are many other means and appliances en listed for the same end—bazaars, concerts, balls, and the use of cleverly-written circulars sent by post to all classes of persons likely to respond; then, there are prettily-contrived boxes for " collecting" in private houses; there is the " card" system for getting in small sums. A society or institution once started, the yearly report, of course, is framed, not only to relate its past work, but to elicit help from fresh sources by its relation of the " openings" for future increased usefulness. It is clear there must be great rivalry in the bone• volent race ; it has become, therefore, a branch of social science how best to push an " interest." No mercantile houses take more pains to solicit orders than do the " societies.' ' They have their highly salaried travellers to go through the land to stir up the minds of the almsgiving classes; organising secretaries to establish tributary provincial asso ciations. There can be no doubt of the fact that the various " interests " are kept alive by sheer hard work ; no stone is left unturned beneath which a halfpenny subscription may appear to wait a call. Deputations, practised tongues, know the hits to make ; they do more than justice to their briefs ; they address themselves to the soverLigus of country Lady Bountifuls, the half-sovereigns of the clergy and professionals, tradespeople's crown-pieces, the sixpences from schools, the copper of the villager. The result is that parent societies deal with gigantic incomes ; of course, there is the expense of collection to be deducted • still the great fact remain s —th ere i s a large annualcapital. John Bull is a very liberal fellow, but he is somewhat whimsical. 'Voluntary subscriptions depend upon sustained interest in the particular society. Dead men and women not only tell no tales, but legacies are realised, expressions of goodwill which cannot be alienated. It is of great importance, therefore, to get post mortem goodwill to draw from executors. To this end I find almost every " report" carefully gives the form of a bequest, that testators may see clearly how legally to bequeath money to the so ciety. I will not trust myself to state the total of money so left by will during the last 10 years, even to the some 30 or 40 societies and institutions to whose reports I have had access. It is a 'very large I sum—a very large portion of ii, is in the hands of trustees for purposes fisa which there is in reality no other security than the existence of a society or institution whi c h m a y any day alter all its rules, change its character, or be dissolved. I regret to - add my conviction, founded on good grounds, that the system of touting for legacies is one much abused. There are members of the legal profession who could tell strange tales on this head. Of course, under the high pressure of great rivalry much that is morally wrong is perpetrated in raising the money for many societies. The speeches of the " travellers," the " reports ) " the " tracts" are highly seasoned. " They will have it so," lam told by a retired proficient. A few days' stney of what "repo r t s " say that clergy do abroad, the attendance at a few meetings where the over whelming success of the society's agents is told by some eloquent deputation, puzzles one's philosophy to account for the fact that the same means do so little at home. Anecdotes form the great staple of a good deputation's talk; they are well tel are what ladies call " pretty ;" sonic of us grown gray in the world wonder how it is that for home, domestic ends these lovely traits of piety and benevolence so seldom appear. Who ever heard of a little boy selling his dessert to his mother for 2d. a night during the holidays that he might put the m oney i n t o t h e County Hospital Fund ? I will, however, at present say no more upon the quality of the reports. Let me :now speak of the nature of the " management." Of course, this varies a goo d deal; in all cases it is a great object to parade great names before the eyes of the sub scribers. Whether as patrons, presidents, or vice presidents, noble names are considered indispen sable. Th ese t i tled and Royal s su epa ppo a r s te i r f s t r e e N d .e o r n y e all type h onour to. It would vitality of the institution depended h ' upon the am o u n t en of nobilit y i t can parad e .there are certain snaoe m n e of p p r i o o f u e s ssio na l, some and philanthropic mercantile til:; s o t m h e e s n o b a l r e e , worked in as committee-raen oratreasurers. There committee msuipttpeoe,sedoftocoduortshe,e ati k osalaried s t ° it i'll u t e i e o r n s ; th there esae are auditors, who are Cuppsosed to audit. The hon. secretary is often one of the well-k own . ishi secretary is a ~l'salarised lanthropie city men, connected, however) With We t end society. The working many most Carelessly. official, who really does the work. Some " rules" of the ma chine.is my belief, not lightly taken up, that are carefully drawn ; very Now, let us look at the real workin g It on the average the business is really done by a very limited number of the committee, who sometimes are wholly under the thumb of the secretary. In very many cases this officer really has it almost all his own way. The leviathian societies have 1 great patronage ; there are, of course, in their c ases more members of the committee who really work ; still, so far as the financial system is concerned, the secretary has often even in these cases held it all in his own hand. He has the monthly accounts prepared, gives the data for the yearly reports ; doing the drud ger y, h e i s a ll owe d grea t f ree d om o f action. On his acti v ity d epen d s th e k eep i ng up the list of great names, the putting out of appeals, the dunning for back payments, the securing all that is necessary for a " telling " anniversary, be it f!, " meeting" or a dinner. " Societies"parade known of business as mCom mitteemen; many of th ( 27. t PLesame names are soparaded for very many di f ferent societies; they have their own firm's h'.lsiness to attend to; it is known, too, that they are for ever here and there at " meetings " &c. ', it is utt er ly i mposs ib le they can really attend to the regular business of any one of the societies. - From some amusing confessions in my possession. I gather that, in salaried official opinion, it is for tunate that these highly puffed gentlemen do not attesa;,, for they are said " to be sery bad men of ousiness;" " either crotchetty or so prejudiced that being they are always finding fault." It requires great tact to make a good Secretary; highly paid, he has every interest to keep the thing goine• • he The iro ~. soon finds this to be no easy task. n of philanthropy may be for once forced to a white heat, The launching• • is one thing —to kee p of a new institution drew its breath is another up the warmth by which it the hands of scheming Secretaries thing. Weak Peers in in anticipation will work hard to launch the institution which, born 0 tla cm, ging 01912 A teillPQrArY eclat. When lublie bej ins to cool down and the money to keep the bantling alive is wanted they find the real pinch of the matter. Other Peers have had their weakness preyed on, other secretaries have used their obstetric talent, new institutions undermine older ones ; yet there is "'the Mission," " the Asylum," " the Institution," there is its office, there are its officers ; expenditure is certain, receipts seem problematical, as equal to meet it. Now comes the resort to the forcing system; "individuals are said to be ready with 100 if ten others will find the same sum," &c. &c. I can quite understand all this as natural to the circumstances under which many institutions have sprung into life, and the purposes for which they exist ; it is lamentable, it is worse when large religious societies have resort to equivocal means to keep up their position. To me it is most deplorable to see the shifts made to sustain a particular reli gious interest ; whether it aims at the conversion of heathen Jews, Catholics, at home or abroad, Bible-dealing; tract-dealing, every truly good end of religious economy, is in my eyes degraded b y being puffed and pushed by puffing as if it was th e cause of an antibilious pill or a hair-dye. When I know, too, the large staff of well-paid officers whose existence depends upon the success of this system, I view it with the greater abhorrence. It is well here to say, that some of the leviathan religious societies draw large revenues from the public by contributions which are scarcely to be considered voluntary. Episcopal invitations and the pressure of religious party feeling act as a powerful system of something like exaction. There are cer tain societies which carry a well defined party flag. Few clergymen have the courage to hold aloof from " party ;' the bias of the human mind tends towards it, religion has its Brooke's and Carlton and Reform interest. The parish clergyman soon finds he must collect for the episcopal Conservative, or the more liberal and less purely ecclesiastical societies ; he may find it difficult to avoid the importunity of the very liberal mixed societies. One or more of them have attained a position in the majority of parishes which gives them a sort of income-tax authority. I received from all parts of the country, from men of all shades of opinion, proof how this burden is now felt, how it for ever taxes their pockets, and compels them to struggle with their own parochical necessities that they may yield to the claims of these four or five sturdy men dicants. I have known an organist's salary carried off from a country parish to help the establishment of a colonial bishopric, with a name half the parish had never heard of. There are many poor clergy who are reduced to use a painful system of begging from their parishioners to find even a portion of their school's expense, who are yet under a kind of compulsion to have repeated " collections" for so cieties, the claims of which they are considered quite unequal to advocate, and thercfore the expense of a " deputation" must be met out of the funds. As to the way the business of societies and insti tutions is but too often conducted I can scarcely speak too strongly. The balance-sheets are most unsatisfactory; they are very often intentionally delusive. Items are " clubbed" under "Miscella neous Expenses," or " Sundries." I have traced in several the existence of a system of deliberate fraud. These items, in fact, very often are used to conceal " irregularity," to cover fraud ; to square a total auditing is a matter not of inquisition, to see that all is right, but to make all appear right. I have some curious details as to the time really given to " auditing" the annual accounts in some of the large societies. This is, however, a matter which some little time hence I hope to see made very clear to the public. It must be reformed. Some of the societies are simply large trading firms, with utterly irresponsible partners dealing with the money of others. They print, bind, ware house, export, sell wholesale and retail. They do this on a most extensive scale ; their " life" seems to depend upon showing how great a stock they can each year dispose of. The keenest mercantile in telligence fails, I find, to discover from their pub lished statements their real loss or profit, the real value of the stock they possess at any one moment., and yet they profess to give a yearly account of their stewardship I Bear in mind, a railway ac count may be, very often is—" cooked" to prove the value of the concern—how it flourishes. Societies and institutions always want to show need, need of more capital ; they flourish with trumpets over the past, they look with foreboding to the future, say ing —Give—give. We have purchased fields, we want labourers to dig, tools to dig with ; we have created an appetite for our wares, which craves in too great a proportion even to our present noble supply, &c. The root of the evil is,—that charity, piety is clique ridden. A few men by industry have monopolized the working of these matters. The long parade of great names, lay and clerical, has become a mere outward visible sign of no real inward, working con trolling power. It only needs that patrons, pre sidents, vice-presidents, noble and right rev, com mitteemen should be vigilant to require truth in the reports, honesty in the accounts, and a revolu tion would be worked. Charity and piety would then go their way less stained by the fraud of their agents, less degraded in the bombast of their " Re ports." - The objects, I repeat, are excellent as the rule. It is a thing for a nation to be proud of, to see her nobility so directly proclaimed as the supporters, originators, advocates of such vast, noble under takings. There is no reason why the financial sys tem of these great and good institutions should not be so revised as to make expenditure clear, fraud difficult. There is every reason why that which should be a centre of piety should not be a scene of desperate temptation. I am coolly told in print that good causes cannot be worked at a less expenditure than 25 per cent. on income. I admit it if the pre sent extravagance in salaries, &c., is to continue. I speak the experience of men who have been in the thick of the battle as secretaries and " deputations." "Let the public demand the reform, the societies will give it ; more will be done at less cost, and more will be freely given to do it." S. G. 0. TILE LATE FIGHT FOR THE MAX: HONSHU'. In the account which appeared in our columns of :his contest we omitted to mention that the fight asted two hours and 20 minutes, it having com menced at 25 minutes past 7 and being concluded at a quarter to 10. As some of the supporters of lieenan have spread a rumour that the English champion would have been defeated had the fight been allowed to go on, we may mention on the authority of the referee, that he clo , ed the con flict only in compliance with the wishes of the American's friends. When the ring was broken the referee was forced away, and was outside the crowd round thu combatants while the last three or four rounds were fought. The friends of Heenan insisted on his return to stop the fight, claiming, in accordance with the rules of the ring, that when the enclosure was broken into the com bat should cease. They therefore made a passage for him to return to the men and stop them, which he accordingly did, in spite of the wishes of Sayers's supporters, who were confident of his winning in a few minutes more. Yesterday Sayers went to the office of the referee, at Bell's Life office, in the Strand. He was recognised on entering, and an im mense erettd assembled to witness his departure, by whom he was most vociferously cheered. Beyond his nose and month being swollen and his lips cht, he showed scarcely any marks of the desperate en counter he had passed through. tlis arm was bound up and in a sling, ,for though it turns out that none of the bonus were fractured, yet some of the tendons wore broken and the muscles so mulch contused and injured that he it still unable to move his hand, or use the limb at ail. This injury he sustained in the fourth round, in stopping one of the American's tre mendous blows, and an attemrt *Mai he made to ctiv rab u ahhdi s asoe e imtsewaf i his t steooi in one of the subsequent struggles gate him such pain it toio t ochkfl h hhiant a tvhoan t hecei seasoned ehfibiaragnees distressed him more than the blows he received from his antagotiit. the knock-down tegho c nin e ttd i et V codho e wefi d trynl ad, at mdfhoi edart dreadful).hvt si e eht hietsc American's memi teoeac e r.ryd n ieti c aurh e ustmi littleiri bra e et n ghrtn a t rahieni sah h t ndse e_ wnuust hour the contest was st w ep aa pe i d tl a a s he considers a ,. that he Was certain ug h he e o says he felt so tleas t dliOstrmeiaaneudteisthmatorilea; have continued the fight littlefor another hour. It couldtho would certaihly appear, from the sliehts punishment which he marks 9f _ sh9a yesterday, and the genP:ai vigou r o f his appearance that he did not over-estimate his power s itt this respect. To the proposal that the battle should be considered as drawn, Sayers ) we believe, strehgly objects, and expresses an ardent wish to meet his adversary again, who he maintains shall never put forward a claim for the English champion's belt while he has the ability to defend it. Heenan's left hand was very bad yesterday and much swollen' He was also too much punished about the face to make any appearance at the office of the referee. No other hostile meeting will ever take place be tween the two men, as the supporters of both con sider that the courage and endurance of each have been sufficiently proved, and they will therefore consent to the late contest being considered as a drawn battle.— Times. AN AMERICAN ACCOUNT, (From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper.) Round 37—The cries of police now became per fectly deafening from Sayers' side ; but Heenan still looked neither right nor left, hut only at his man. He hit him once on the back as he was run ning to his corner , and as Sayers struck back and rajwied, he wind hiui with ?area m1;4;11411.4 neck, and held him for a minute in the air. Sayers, how ever, got up his hand and seized Heenan by the cheek, and pulled at its sore and flabby folds most painfully. This forced Heenan to lose his hold, and Sayers slipped down. Round 38—It was now plain from the *noise around Sayers' corner, that it was the determina tion of his party to bring the fight to such a close as would save Sayers the belt ; but still Heenan kept to his work, and Macdonald.kept steering him with judicious steadiness. He determined to fight and to do nothing else so long as he could get Sayers to fight with him, and though the ring was now on the point of being broken in, he went up to his man and fought as manfully and desperately as at first. He hit Sayers as he pleased, and, finally seizing him by the neck, he bent his head under his arm and held him there against the ropes com pletely at his mercy. Left to himself, Sayers must have sunk helpless to the earth, incapable to re spond again to time, whereupon finding a desperate crisis had arrived the adherents of the Champion ship actually took hold of Heenan's arms and while they kicked and struck him, dragged the beaten Champion from his hold. Round 39—The confusion was now so great that no appeals could possibly oe heard, and the ring being broken in by the friends of Sayers, at the same moment the referee very improperly got up and re tired. Heenan, however, apprehending some new artifice to prevent him from obtaining the belt he had so fairly won, remained in the ring, and when time was called went after Sayers again, through the centre of the crowd, that now swarmed within the inner ropes of the arena. Sayers w as p us h e d up to wards him, but he easily hit him down or pursued him to the corner among his seconds, as a man would drive a boy. In the 40th and 41st rounds this dishonourable treatment was repeated, Sayers neither time being brought up until Heenan presented himself before him and demanded he should come out and fight. Finally, when he went up the last time for Round 42, finding that though Sayers could not, or would not, rise from his seat in his corner, and his seconds refused to award him the victory that be longed to him, by throwing up the spon ge , h e ad vanced upon him in the midst of his seconds and struck him where he sat. Being struck in return by some one else in that corner he turned up on th a t other party, and, in his just indignation at the out rageous manner in which the object of his ambition had been dishonourably wrested from him, he opened a free fight against them all. Hi s f r i en d s, h owever, interfered, and carried him back t o hi s corner, f rom whence, after declaring himself to be the winner of the fight, and the true owner of the belt and title of the Champion of England, he left the ring. Fair minded and honourable En g li s h men w ill d ec id e whether these rights, so dearly and bravely won, shall not be given to hi m b ecause he i s a stranger to their soil. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING' 4APRIL 19, 1860.' SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MARKET HARBOROUGII RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Grand National Hunt Steeplechase, a sweepstakes of 10 sous each, 5 ft, with £5OO added ; the second horse to receive £5O out of the stakes ; for horses that have never won before the day of starting, 12st each. Four miles. Mr. T. B. Angell's Bridegroom, aged (Mr. Barton) 1 Mr. C. Scymour's Th e F res h man (Mr. Linton) 2 Mr. Garden's Liberator, aged (Mr. Goodman) 3 The following also ran :—The Nigger, Golden Branch, Ringleader, Jack Tar, llarborough, Rebellion, Jim, Um pire, Erin-go-Bragh, Quickstep, Charley, The Milkman, Southwold, Knight Templar, The Tailor, Fleur-de-lis, Bannockburn, Gay Lass, Forester, The Deacon, Selby, Brulow, Chatterbox, Medora, Tho Monmouthshire Volun teer, Punch, and Brington. Betting-5 to 1 agst Bridegroom, 6to 1 agst The Nigger, 10 to 1 each agst The Freshman and The Monmouthshire, 12 to 1 agst Medora, 14 to 1 agst The Milkman, 25 to 1 agst Brington, Won by 20 lengths. The Farmers' Steeplechase, a sweepstakes of 2 sows each, with 100 added; the second horse to receive £lO out of the stakes. About 4 miles. Mr. J. Stokes' Bro. to Lad Sos Maid, 4 yrs, lOst 71b(llarris) 1 Mr. J. Bennett's Limner, 6 yrs, 12st .... (Mr. Wright) 2 Mr. J. T. Smith's Peru, 6 yrs, 12st (Dickens) 4 The following also ran :—Whaley, Nimrod, Tom Clink, Selim, Blemish, Volunteer, Prizefighter, Dragoon, and Black Tommy. Butting-4 to 1 agst Blemish, sto 1 agst Sethi), 6to 1 agst Black Tommy, 8 to 1 agst any other offered. Won by a head, bad third. The Market Harborough Open Steeplecase (Handicap) of 10 sous each, 2 ft, with 75 added. About 4 miles. Mr. C. Lewis's The Tartar, 9 s t 61b .... (T . Oli ver, j un. ) 1 Mr. M. Adams's Joe Maley, aged, list 31b(Waddington) 2 Mr. Iladley's llarry, 9st 71b The following also ran :—Huntsman, Omar Pacha, Lob ster, Marmion, Wee Willie, The Unknown, Tainworth. Betting-5 to 2 agst Joe Maley, 4to 1 agat Huntsman, 6 to 1 agat Harry, 8 to 1 agst The Tartar, 10 to 1 each agst Wee Willie and Tainworth. Won by four lengths, a very bad third, and the others beaten off. The Scurry Steeplechase, a sweepstakes of 2 sous each, with 50 added. Two miles; catch weights. Mr. A. N'innie's Chieftain (Mr. Goodman) 1 Mr. Angell's Borderer, aged (Mr. Baccus) 2 Captain llunt's The Zouave, aged (Mr. Loton) 3 The following also ran :—Whaley, Cheshunt, Chance, Gipsy King. Betting-3 to 1 each agst Young Ragman and Chief tain, sto 1 agst any other. Won by two lengths ; a bad third. Mr. Blake weighed for Young Ragman, but did not got to the post in time to stmt. LATEST CITY BETTING-LAST NIGHT. CITY AND SUBURBAN. 4 to 1 agst Confectioner sto 1 agst Chere Amie 12 to 1 agst Yoicks 100 to 8 agst Danae 100 to 6 agst Homeward Bound 20 to 1 agst Hetman 25 to 1 agst Theodora 25 to 1 agst Odo 25 to 1 agst Remunerator 30 to 1 agst Apollyon 33 to 1 agst The Andover colt 40 to 1 agst The Nun 50 to 1 agst llarraton METROPOLITAN. 6to 1 agst Danae 7to 1 agst I►louravieff 9to 1 agst Bribery colt 9to 1 agst Simple Simon TWO TIIOI.7SA.ND. sto 1 agst Lupulus (take 6to 1) 7to 1 agst Traducer 7to 1 agst Brother to Rainbow 10 to 1 agst Tom Bowline 20 to 1 agst The Wizard (offered) 25 to 1 apt Aurora (taken) 2 IIE GAOIEKEEPER. However, game or vermin as they may be classi fied, the rabbits naturally bring me on to their sworn friend and protector, the Game-keeper. One loathes the very name of such an office. You must all know the authority he exercises—a power so much above his proper position in life ; and that, as a rule, he proportionately abuses. To him the commonest aet of husbandry is one of suspicion and distrust. He unites the invincible curiosity of our English Paul Pry with the malicious intent of a spy for the Inquisition. The farmer and his men are continually under his supervision. There is nothing they can do, but it is his "duty" to over look them. He stands by the mowers to see they do no harm to his nests. He struts into the reap ing field to make sure they don't hurt his birds. The boy with his scare-crow, the shepherd with his dog, and the little lass with her kitten, are all alike the objects of his hatred and his tyranny. He has been known to wrench a gun frotn the hand of a far mer's MI for shooting at a rat ! He has told the farmer himself he should prefer his not firing at the birds on the Corn, as it was "such a trouble to be always corning to tee *hat he *as after." He has informed against a tenant, whom of emirse he was watchipm when his victim got off and picked up a hare wnich his horse killed in her form ; and a bench of Magistrates at Newark positively followed this up with a eonVictiot. To the disgust, however, of these Solons, the Commissioners of Taxes promptly reversed the decision. He lay traps for the labourers, as ,has been proved over and over again : and rejoices like another Jonathan Wild, or some other scoundrel, only in the downfall of his fellow-men. He is the very essence of etil-doing. He whispers characters away in the ear of his etti ployer. lie swears them away more openly in court. He is incessantly making ill-blood between iiiail mud than, and he is the one great blot on our Air English landscape. I have the experience of an old keeper himself to say that such men are rarely to be believed or trusted ; and they are the greatest enemies to true . I !nort that I know of. The rabbits are the k eeper ' s perquis i tes. That is to say, the vermin which do the farmer the greatest i;jury are the animals above all others that the keeper I has a direct interest in maintaining a stock of. The vermin which the law declares the tenant has a right to destroy as vermin, the landlord transfers as a right to his servant. There is, lam happy to say, a growing feeling against the fashion of perquisites, or of paying a servant by any other means than by that of his fair wages. If a gentleman pays his servant fair wages the man has no claim to perquisites ; and if the employer does not give him hi s due hire; he ' can certainly with but little justice look to the farmer to make it up to him. But we hear still of head keepers clearing their two or three hundreds a year by the rabbits ; so much gain to them being as a rule, so much loss to the tenants.-04r .Preservation of Game. -BY IL 0404 SHOCKING MURDER IN BIRMINGILAX At nine o'clock yesterday morning a most brutal murder was committed in cold blood by a young man named Price, who took the life of his sweet heart, the servant at a small inn in Deritend, kept by a Mr. Jackson. The Birmingham Post, in a second edition, thus describes the catastrophe About twenty minutes before nine this (Wed nesday) morning one of the most deliberate and cold-blooded murders which has ever stained the annals of crime was committed by a young man, a shoemaker, 24 years of age, named Francis Price. It appears, from inquiries made on the spot, that a young woman of some personal attractions, named Sarah Pratt, also 24 years of age, had for some time lived as general servant with Mr. and Mrs. Jack son, of the Swan Inn, Deritend. For three months past the murderer has been paying his addresses to her; but it is clear that his attentions were not acceptable to the girl. However, he persevered, and at an early hour on Monday last he went to Mr. Jackson's before the master and mistress were up, and seeing Sarah Pratt cleaning in the bar he endea voured to lift her over the counter, no one else being there at the time. However, she eluded his grasp, and he left the house. Soon after eight o'clock this morning he was met by police-constable Evans, nearly opposite the place where the murder was committed. The officer had known the prisoner for some months past, but although they conversed together for a few minutes, neither in speech nor behaviour did Price give any indication of the dreadful act he evidently had in contemplation. A few minutes after the murderer went to the house of an old washerwoman named Holmes, who lives in a court a short distance from the Swan Inn. Telling her that he wculd give her 55., he sent 'her to Mr. Jackson's to say that her sister wanted to see Sarah Pratt. This had the effect of bringing the unsuspecting victim to Mrs. Holmes'. Of coarse what passed between the parties cannot at present be known, but just as the mistress of the house had reached her door she met the murderer Price rushing out. Looking in, great was her horror at seeing the young woman she had just fetched lying literally in a pool of blood on the floor. Calling out ' Murder,' Sergeant Millard, who was not far distant at the time, came up, and seeing the horrible spectacle, ran off to Alcester street station. Inspector Hobbs instantly sent for Dr. Jordan, of Bradford-street, wh o immedi ately attended, but life was extinct. A young baker (Mr. Thomas Powell), .whose bakehouse is near the court, hearing the cry of ' Murder,' ran up to the spot, and saw the murderer rushing from the scene of death. With praiseworthy alacrity Mr. Powell at once pursued and overtook Price in Brad ford-street. and though naturally nervous lest the murderer should have any weapon with him he took him into custody, and conveyed him to the station. Here, on being searched by the officers, a nearly new and extremely sharp shoemaker's knife, smeared with blood, was found upon him. The prisoner, considering his age, possessed the greatest possible amount of coolness and self-possession, voluntarily admitting that it was jealousy which prompted him to act as h i had done. Deceased, he said, had that morning positively refused his addresses. When searched, he had about him photographs of himself and of the deceased in morocco cases. Just before leaving Alcester-street for Moor-street station, re ferring to the dreadful deed, he said, I did it, and know I shall be hanged for it. I did not think of it five minutes before.' The unfortunate young woman's head was nearly severed from the body." Price was taken before the magistrates yesterday, and remanded until Friday. THE DOUBLE lIIUBDER NEAR NANCEESTER. Mr. Rutter, county coroner, continued the inquest upon the bodies of William and William Edward Scholes, at the Packhorse-inn, Irlams-o'-th'-Height, on Tuesday. Mr. James Ashburner, surgeon, of Pendlebury, said that, with the assistance of Mr. Birks ' another surgeon, he had made an inspecti on o f th e bodies of William Seholes and William Edward Seholes. He found them laid on their backs in a bedroom upstairs, and life appeared to have been extinct not less than eight hours. On the neck and face of each there were marks of violence. He first proceeded with the examination of William Edward Scholes, and he found some indeLtations on the back of the left hand, breaking the skin, as if done by the firm grasp of a person with the nails ; and islere were similar marks on the chin and kft side of the face. Under the left angle of the jaw there was a punc tured wound, apparently made with a penknife, about an inch in depth. It had not injured any main artery, but had wounded a vein. _He also found a similar stab wound in the right eye ball, and a clot of blood at the back of it, as large as the eyeball itself; and between the scalp and the skull, on the back part of the head, there was a slight extrava§ation of blood, about the size of a shilling, caused most likely by a blow or a fall. The brain was somewhat congested, and the veins contained air, which was the immediate cause of death. The lungs were congested. There was no other internal disease. The wound in the neck was the cause of death. He next examined the body of William Scholes, the father, and found that there were marks of violence upon the throat. The face was livid, and blood oozed from the ears. The brain and lungs were congested. The cause of death was strangulation, producing suffocation. When he first went in the morning he found Sarah Eliza Scholes in bed in the same room in which the bodies lay. She was struggling a great deal, and two men were holding her down. By his directions she was removed from the room to the workhouse. Mr. E. B. Birks, surgeon, Pendleton, corroborated the evidence of Mr. Ashburner, and said that for upwards of 20 years he had frequently attended Sarah Eliza Scholes for epilepsy, which had so weakened her mental faculties as to render her of unsound mind. He had seen her in many of those attacks, and sometimes she was very violent. She was sometimes very difficult to manage after a fit. Mr. Scholes was a very infirm old man—asthmati cal and dropsical —and a very little in the way of suffocation would destroy life in him. He had generally to stop on going up stairs to take breath. The son was a very delicate man, with a large tumour on his throat, and incapable of much resistance. County Police-sergeant Lee, of Pendlebury, gave evidence of facts which have already been published. He said the knife which he found on the mantel , piece had three small blades and one large one. The larger and one of the smaller ones appeared to have blood on them. He also found on the bed a nightcap belonging to Sarah Ann Scholes, the strings of which had been broken, and there was blood about the cap. He examined the bedroom door, in consequenee of Joseph Scholes's statement, and found that it had been broken open, and that there were marks of violence on the inside. The key of the bedroom was missing, and he was searching for it when Mr. Birks found it in an old pie-dish on a chest of drawers. On Sarah Scholes'a dress there were several spots of blood. Police-constable Dixon said he took Sarah Eliza Scholes to the Stafford workhouse in a cab in com pany with one of the Stafford police: It was as much as they could do to keep her from hurting herself or them. He remained with her till ten o'clock the same night, when he was relieved by another officer. About three o'clock in the after noon she appeared very sensible, and, recognising him, said " You are the policeman from Peadle bury. I have seen you pass our window many times." Ile replied "I was by your house last night between eleven and twelve, and I neither saw nor heard anything ;" and she answered "Yes, it was done about twelve o'clock. They came home about eight o'clock and caused a disturbance, and I went up stairs into my bedroom. After a while they came up and they got on to my bed; then I got up, and they thrashed me with a stick. I seized my brother by the throat, and he fell down ; then I seized my father, and he fell on him, and then I fainted, and fell on the top of them both." She seemed quite collected whilst making her statement. Mr. Charles Smethurst, of Ellor-street, Salford, said that he saw Joseph Scholes being taken along Chapel -street to the Salford Town-hall on the even ing of Wednesday last, and knowing him, he fol lowed. It was about 7 o'clock. He had a cut on the head, He (the witness) promised Mr. Superin tendent Taylor that he would call at old Scholes's. It was 20 minutes to nine o'clock when he arrived at irlams-o'-th'-Height. He knocked at the back door, and no one answered, and he then opened the door and stepped inside. He called out Sarah Scboles three or four ' times and the;:.answered, " Who's there?" from up stall:: He asked to see William Edward, and in a very excL+edll,..° voice she said , ds , of voice he saw her atc she he was not in: Shortly afterw_ William e the back door, and in the same kina asked what he wanted, and said again that award was not in. She seemed excited, but v,:2: 10 1:1 she saw who he was she became milder. He had known the family fr om a child, and William Ed ward had told ni2. l - • he had been obliged to be sev ere i f with his sister because 9 her stupidity, and that he had to thump her. The Coroner, in summing up, told the jury that if they believed the story of the woman, that she acted in self-defence, then it seemed to be a case of manslaughter, though he could not advise them to say that she acted in self-defenee ; but t o h, a of murder it required that there should be delibera tion, and it did not appear that there was any de liberation in the case. It mattered little, however, which verdict the jury returned, because in either case the woman would be put upon her trial. There would be ouffiGiOnt eTidence, he thought, to convince a jury of her insanity, and then she would be kept in custody during her Majesty's pleasure. After some deliberation the jury considered there might have been provocation, and returned a verdict of manslaughter against Sarah Eliza Scholes. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 18. MANSION-HOUSE.--John Nagle, recently a clerk in the service of Messrs. Perrin and Bremner, of Rood-lane, colonial agents and sugar brokers, was charged, on remand, with embezzling the sum of £2O Os., belonging to his employer. On the previous examination a witness proved the payment to the prisoner of the sum referred to, on account of the prosecutors, and Mr. Bremner proved that the money had not been accounted for by the prisoner, who afterwards absconded, and a warrant was obtained for his apprehension. He, however, remained at large some weeks, until Mr. Bremner received the following letter : " Sir,—Being at last left without resource -4, and having no means of obtaining employment, I have no alternative but to surrender myself. I ask only that as little exposure as possible may be made, and to further that end, I shall feel obliged by your ad dressing a note containing the necessary instruc tions to Henry Clarence, 76, Strand, which will reach me in due course. I am, &c., " D. Bremner, Esq. " JOHN NAGLE." This note was given to detective Jarvis, who re paired to 76, Strand (a public news-room), and there apprehended the prisoner, when he called for IN I r Bremner's answer. The warrant was read over to the prisoner, who said he supposed it was all right, only the amount was more likely to be £520 Os. than £2O Os. Mr. R. Newall, a grocer in Fetter-lane, now de posed that on the 24th December last he paid the prisoner on account of the prosecutors, £29 ; on the 31st December, £2l 10s. 3d. ; on the 7th January £l2 10s. 9d.; and on the 21st January, £l7 98.11 d. Mr. Rainsbeck, grocer, proved the payment to the prisoner in the same way of a sum of £l5 9s. 9d., and produced three receipts for other sums given by the prisoner paid on his behalf to the pri soner on account of the prosecutors. Mr. Elliott proved that on the 10th September last be paid to the prisoner a cheque for .£ls Is. on account of Messrs. Perrin and Bremner, and that the cheque had since been returned as paid by his bankers. Mr. Dugald Bremner was again examined, and deposed that prisoner had accounted for none of the sums referred to by previous witnesses. lie added that the total amount of the prisoner's deficiencies was £432 16s. 2d. Jarvis, detective, said the prisoner himself gave the exact amount as being £5lO 18s. sd. The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was fully committed for trial. GUILDHALL.—SamueI Hookey, an elderly man, apparently in a very bad state of health, was placed at the bar before Alderman Humphrey, charged with embezzling £6O and other sums, the total of which has not yet been ascertained, the moneys of his master. Mr. Humphreys, jun., of the firm of Humphreys, Son, and Morgan, appeared for the prosecution, and stated that the evidence in support of the charge against the prisoner would be somewhat of a com plicated character, in consequence of the system of falsification of the accounts which had been resorted to by the prisoner to cover his defalcations. At pre sent they were only prepared with evidence for a remand, but upon a future occasion every informa tion would be forthcoming. Mr. James Weston, cement manufacturer, Earl street, Blackfriars, said—The prisoner has been in my employ as confidential cashier about five or six years, and it was his duty to receive from the col- lectors all money paid to them during the day, and having entered the amounts in a rough cashbook, to pay the amounts into the bank, and afterwards to carry out the entries in the rough book to the ordinary cash-book. He ought to have paid the money in daily, or whenever he had a sufficient suni in his possession for that purpose. Alderman Humphrey—What would you have considered a sufficient sum to pay in ? Was the minimum £2O ? Mr. Weston—No, sir; for he was entitled to hold a certain amount to meet payments on the petty cash account. I find that an entry has been made in the rough cagh•book, under the date of the 20th July last, of £2O received from Mr. Bell, and that amount is carried out on both sides of the cash-book of that day. I have seen Mr. Bell, and ascertained that the amount he paid on that day was £3O Bs. lOci. Alderman Humphrey—Vas that amount paid in cash, or by cheque ?—because if he received a cheque it would be necessary to find out he got it cashed. Mr. 'Weston—l am not prepared to state in what manner it was paid. Mr. Humphreys said he should be able to prove that on entering the sums received the amounts in the first instance had been represented as consider ably less, and after the totals had been made up, the difference between the sums received and those entered had been entered by the addition or altera tion of a figure, generally in the pounds column, but the totals were left sadly at variance with the addition of the amended entries. John. Mark Bull, detective officer, sai l—l appre hended the prisoner this morning in the prosecutor's counting-house, and told him the charge was for embezzling £6O during the month of August last, which had been received from Air. Palmer, Mr. Powell, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Hale. He said it w as quite correct, and he must throw himself upon his master's mercy, as his health was very bad. He said he had had a deal of trouble, and did not think he should live long. He gave up a balance of about £BO which he had recently received for his master, and I found on him besides about £lO more. The prisoner was then remanded for a week. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE ASSAULT ON THE POLICE ARISING OUT OF A DOUBTFUL CHARGE.—Mr. James Darcy, licensed victualler, of 18 George-street, Grosvenov-square, charged with being drunk and creating a disturbance in Davies street on the morning of the 17th ; and Mr. Henry Govier, of No. 1, Clifton-street, Finsbury, lour ance agent, with assaulting C 122 (Stevenson) in the execution of his duty, attempting to rescue the other defendant from custody, and subsequently assaulting other constables at the station-house, were again brought before Mr. Beadon, in discharge of their bail and for decision in the case. Mr. Beard, of Basinghall-street, as before, ap peared for the defence. On the last examination it was alleged, not alone by the defendants but by witnesses called on their behalf, that the policeman, Stevenson, 122 C, had directly perjured himself in denying that he was at Weipperts's Rooms, were the defendants were, or had accepted any description of drink or refreshments preceding the defendants' arrest, either from them or others; the witnesses for the defence swearing, and the defendants asserting, that he was in the rooms more than once during the night, and had partaken with another constable of spirits, and in the way of eating a portion of a pork-pie. It was in consequence of this conflicting evidence that the magistrate granted a remand, and it is due to the police to state that Inspector Webb, of the C division, expressed himself anxious for this course. On the case being called on, Mr. Inspector Webb said he wished to stat 3 at once that Stevenson, the constable, was not in court. He made strict inquiries after the last examination, and ascer tained beyond any question of doubt that the con stable, notwithstanding his repeated and delibe ra t e denial on oath that he was in the rooms at the time the ball and entertainment was going on, that he was there, and had partaken of refreshment, and this while on duty, and the place off his beat. In consequence of this discovery, and clear confirma tion of evidence in this court, the constable was taken before the Commissioners of Police the next morning, who immediately dismissed him. Mr. 'Beadon said he 'felt sure a fair inquiry would be instituted by the police authorities, and that dismissal would be the result. Mr. Webb—As far as the assault on the police by the defendant Govier is concerned, I now, on the part of the police, with the permission of the court, wish to withdraw the charge. Mr. Beadon said the assault was certainly brought about by very aggravated circumstances, and he felt sympathy for the position in which the defendant Govier was placed. He had been greatly ill-treated. Anything more disgraceful than the conduct of the now dismissed constable, could hardly be conce i ve d . I t was a truly cruel thing to the force and the public that a man should so per jure himself in the character of a policeman as Stevenson had done. He would take the oppor tunity of saying that it was the duty of conductors of rooms taken for public entertainments as well as that of the public, to refrain from giving drink to constables in uniform while on duty. Giving the m f drink at such times was doing considerable misch i ef to the force, besides rendering them liable to dis missal.nget n h t en t. eod the re marksAlr. on t ßeard , he in defendant'sthe c case, observed that he had tobtandanbke been i h i e mpeotl.tcoHfoirs the way in which this case a s c ourse f behalf som p e pertine n t n man of w a y e 1 1 • ch k t e n , o didewx client , Mr. Govier, who ` 4 717 several g , 'lltleinen pre scut, il' ueee~sai Sr, to („pirnovethethwe ceedingly regretted actin ° in the cell, but he was at the time suffer ing acutely from his naturally ex cited feelings, his dear children, who, having been dragged from .. reeentlY liot their mother, he might . reme,rk, heA. to a police station, a prisoner —those children while tkis was being done awaiting his return in a cab to be taken home. Mr. Govier had gone to the ball room as secretary to a charitable institution, on whose behalf the entertainment had been got UP, and had merely left the cab door at the request of a friend, to learn the cause of the disturbance, when he was pounced upon and locked up. He should have been well prepared with a defence to the charge if needful. Mr. Beadon said the defendants were discharge& and they left the court with their friends. WESTMINSTER.—BRUTAL ASSAULT UPON A BOY.—Patrick Shannon, a rough-looking fellow, was charged with the following brutal assault upon John Dakin, a little fellow 11 years of age, whose mouth was very much cut. Complainant said that on Tuesday night he was playing in the waste ground in Victoria-street, Westminster, when the prisoner came down into the ground and "clouted" his ears several times, without his having done anything to provoke him, and he then kicked him in the mouth, inflicting the wound which he exhibited. Sarah Bicker, a respectable-looking woman, said she happened to be passing down Victoria-street, when she saw the prisoner striking the boy, first on one side of his head and then on the other, till he knocked him down. The boy presently got up and asked one of his companions to give him a stone, whenthe prisoner rushed at him again, knocked him down, and then kicked him in a most brutal man ner while he lay on the ground. She remonstrated with the prisoner on his conduct, when he made blow at her. He was drunk. Defendant said that the boy threw stones at hint when he certainly struck him, but did not kick him. He cut his mouth in falling. Complainant denied that he had done anything to annoy the defendant, and the boy' s m o ther said she had never heard any complaint made against him. Prisoner's wife stepped forward and begged the magistrate to be lenient with her husband, as she hail four small children wholly dependent upon his support. Mr. Paynter thought his conduct the more re prehensible. Had the boy provoked him he should have rememb ere d he was very little, instead of knocking him about in this brutal way, and then kicking him while he lay on the ground. One would hardly imagine a man with a family doing such a thing. He should send him to prison for three months, and require him to find sureties. On the wife making a subsequent appeal, Paynter said he should remand the case until the evening, and if her husband bore a good charac ter he might lessen the sentence, but should cer tainly send him to prison. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWARK-Ar Et L 18. At this corn market the attendance of buyers and sellers was tolerable, and wheat, which was in moderate supply, sold fairly at 2s to 3s per qr advance on late rates. Barley was in middling show, and at full value. Peas as before. Beans in request. White wheat, new, 54s to 598 Barley, grinding.. Red do. sos to 558 Oats, old, .. Old white 528 to 56s New do Red do. 46s to 48s I Beans.. Barley, malting.... 40s to 46s Beans, new . 31s to 32s , 28s to 36s 25s to 278 424 to 48s 42s to 45s BOSTON-APRIL 18. We had a limited supply of wheat from the growers to-day, the demand for which was brisk, at an advance of 2s to 3s on late prices. Barley a small show, and demand firm. Beans a short show and the prices tending upwards. Oats sold freely. Wheat, red .47s to 52s Oats.... lBs to 25s White do .50s to 56s Beans 40s to 45s Barley .27s to 40s Peas 3Bs to 42s HULL-APRIL 17. A thin show of farmers' wheat, at 2s to 3s advance on. last week. In foreign little passing. Barley scarce, and rather dearer. Oath, beans, and peas sold at improved rates. A very good attendance. Wheat.... Ofd white.... per qr ... 54s Od to 57a Od Old red New white .. „ New red .... „ ' 51s Od to 53s odl Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 46. Od to 55s Od: Dutch, Belgian, and French 46s Od to 56s Od' Baltic and Hamburg, red 44s Od to 48■ Od. St. Petersburg and Riga, old 39. Od to 44. Oct Barley.... English malting 4os Od to 44s Od Grinding 3os Od to 31s 6d. Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish. 34s Od to RN Od Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per at Os 100 to lld Friesland and Dutch Oslld to 0,1 lid Swedish and Danish Oslld to Os'Lld Beans ....English, old, per qr 46s Od to 48 s Od New pigeon 4os Od to 49s Od New tick. 39s Od to 4Os Od Egyptian 37s Od to 38. Od Peas .. Foreign breakers Grinding Tares ....Winter —s Od to —s 4ld Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £lo 10 0 to £lO 15 0 Foreign 715 oto 8 5 0 Rape cakes 415 oto 6 0 0 Bones MELTON MOWBRAY-APRIL 17. There was a fair supply of wheat to-day, with a healthy business at the annexed prices :—Whito wheat, new, 48s Od to 54s Od ; red, 44s Od to 48s per 36 atone ; barley in small supply, at 38s to 45s for malting, and 31s to 34a per qr. for grinding; oats, 25s to 36s Od per 24 stone ; beans, 44s to 53s for old; new, 52s per 38 st. COAL MARK (Prices of Coal per Ton at e. d. .ET—APRIL 18. the close of the market.) f Walla End. Howard's West Hart- ley 16 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 12 9 Wylam l6 0 H. d! Walls End. Framwellgate 2O 3 Heugh Hall 20 3 Belmont l9 0 Thorpe Ships at mark, /leo/D. Close 20 6 Eden 20 6 Hetton.... Haswell .... Hunwick l6 0 Kelloe 2O 9 Hartlepool....•• 21 0 Carway and .Duffryn Malting ...,,23 0 ;t, 21—Sold, 20. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. En the I °Rowing table E signifies that letters are despatched' by evening mails from London, and M by morning mails. lissc DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port of Mail of Mails. Despatch. due. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton May 12, 31 , Southamp. May 101 Ditto, via Marseilles April—, E May 4 Bahamas and Havana via New York May 12, E Liverpool.. May 10 Canada, &c. (by Canadn. pckt ) April—, E Liverpool., April 15 Cape of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena May 5, E ) Devonport May 3 China, Penang, and Singa pore, lola Southampton jApril 20, 3l,Southamp. April 1 6 Ditto, via Marseilles E L April 26 Gibraltar, via Southampton.. April2o ,11Southamp. ApriliS Honduras and Blewfields .... April—, 31 Southamp. April --- India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, via Southampton April2o, M Southamp. April 18 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South ampton Ditto, via Marseill es Lisbon, Brazils, B uenos Ay res, and F. Islands April—, M E Southamp. May 9, M Southamp. May 5 April 10 10 i Lisbon, Vigo, and 00rt0.... April 27 , M Seuthamp, April 21. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton April2C ,M Southamp. 41Pri ll 9 Ditto. via Marseilles Mexico and Havana Newfoundland April2l, E Liverpool.. "- United States and British N America (by British packet) April2l, E Liverpool.. April 26. Ditto (by U. S. packet) April —,E Southamp. West Coast of Africa, Ma deira, and Teneriffe April 23 E Liverpool.. MO 10 West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey town. New Granada. dtc. /May 2, 11 Southamp. J..a , ..... RETIREMENT OF MR. BROUGHTON, THE FoLIC-5 MAGISTRATE.—Yesterday Mr. Broughton, who eat for the last time at the Maryleb one P o li ce cour t, re ceived xesPa g :. ful and affectionate addresses from the legal gentler aen., ow . tors and others connected with the court, which he ; tolvior ledged with much feeling. BIRTHS. CAMPBELL.—On the 17th inst., at Ingsdon, Dent ush ire° Mrs. Campbell, of Balliveolan, of a son and heir. HINDS.—On the 17th inst., the wife of William JII 11 " 4 Esq., of a son. THYNNE.—On the 14th inst. at 39, Princes-gate, the Li v : ll Ulrica Thynne, of a son. WILDEY.—On the 17th inst., at Cosham, near Portsraoutho the wife of Dr. W. Wildey, R.N., of a son. MARRIAGES. MATHESON—PERCEVAL.—On the 17th inst., at St. Mat thias' Church, Richmond, Surrey, Alexander Math exalt Esq., M.P., to Eleanor Irving, the daughter of thi 3 late Spencer Perceval, of 21, Portman-square. Wonms—DE SAMUEL —On the 18th inst., Geo. N' onus, Esq., of Park-crescent, Portland-place, to Louis; 1, the o nly daughter of Baron De Samuel, of Sussex •plaue , Re gent's-park. DEATHS. Coon.—On the 17th inst., George W. Cook, Esq., of I :Ibis wick, aged 75. FOWKE.—On the 13th inst., at Lowesby Hall, Lek( ,ster shire, Mary Elizabeth Aud - cy, eldest child of Sir Fred. and Lady Fowke. HAmmoND.—On the 17th inst., at 3, Th e Terrace), Ken nington-park, Lucy Margaret, wife of Munden. Ham mond, Esq. Hones.—On the 17th inst., John Hobbs, Esq., F.H.C.S., of Southampton-row, Russell•square, aged 55. RowsELL.--On the 16th inst., Nicholas H. Howson , Esq ., of Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn, and Foxley-road, Kennington, aged 43. STOCKLEY.—On the 16th inst., 'William Stockley, E8(1.9 Tleath COt ,:tge. Old Chatlt..ll 2 Kent, and late of Royal At Oilery, aged SI. 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