The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

The . COUNCIL—(THIS DAY.) to. , Judicial Committee of the Privy C( until snt 13.uaY in the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The herds ,4_esent were Lord Brougham, the 11b,s:er of the Rolls, 't Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Jude of the Admiralty Court, Sir E. Ryan. and Sir E. H. East. CRAWFORD V. SPOONER. MMee arguments in this al,peal, unich wa9 part-heard ths last sitting of their Lordships on . Friday last, e ths Soresumed and conc l u d e d. Th e case came before tr Lord s hi ps upon an appeal from a j u d gment o f th e thePrerne Court of Bombay, in an action in which defe aPPellant was p l a i nt iff an d th e res p on dent di et M ara, in which the Court directed a ver 4. to be entered for the defendant on the only •e join e d i n the cause, and afterwards gave judg ;e7t for the defendant. The only question in this ap wh.leh t he 'whether a vesse l ca ll e d th e General Wood, of fourth applicant is owner to the extent of eight sixty %as: Parts, wa s en ti t l e d to b e reg i s t ere d, and to have tt..ee r tificate of registry granted to her at Bombay, under 07,,Pr9visiuns of an Act passed by the Governor-General in council, and entitled "An Act for prescrib 1 01 1`' e rules to b e o b serve d, i n or d er that vessel-, be i lle teg to port s w i t hi n t h e terr i tor i es un d er the govern pri nt of the East India Company, or belonging to native p rii lea or th e i r su bj ects, may b ecome ent i t l e d t o th e (1 0 , e ge of British s hip s un d er a proclamation of the ern or - General in council, made in pursuance of the 07aand 4th Victoria, cap. 56." The respondent is the eat e eel., under that act, to register and grant certiti nr ato vessels at the port of Bombay. From the 4:lent of the Learned Counsel, it appeared that the tl moral Wood was built at Damaun, a Portuguese set to.. 1817 in India, for a Portuguese subject. From the to .. 1817 to 1841 the ship was variously owned—at fiZe Periods by Portuguese subjects, sailing unde the k il in ef that nation; at other periods by British subjects,j b b k; s under the British flag; and at other periods y 4 14 Z 1 subjects, sailing under the flag of Denmark.ln .Iska t i, 1844, the vessel was sold to Sir Jamesetjeo illi t4 -- "°Y, Sons, and Co., British subjects, and mer tir is residing at Bombay, who afterwards sold eight i 1-fo %at. unh parts or shares in the said ship to the appe - to b ;;;"eu and still being a British subject, resident at tice — t rY , who, on the 11th of September, 1844, gave no- Itist e ; t e k r euf to the respondent, and required him to re certifi-„“r Ship at the port of Bombay, and to grant a to d of such registry, which the respondent refused 134:, whereupon the appellant brought his action in the this Court, but the Court found against him. Hence ►e eal. R OUGHAM, at the conclusion of the arguments, below Judgment, reversing the decision of the Couit ' tuld giving judgment for the plaintiff. ,N_RANCERY—(THIS DAY.) Inn il- ,r ,td Chan ce ll or sa t i n th e Old Hall, Lincoln's r h ° o l ' appeal motions to-day. His Lordship was e Part.h Whole morning with the further arguments sieard appeal motion of Toulmin v. Copeland Viet. - (p,,,`,rIANCERY—(THIS DAY). Tut — ore the VICE•CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) ELEC TRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY V. GAMBLE AND kr. w NOTT. resume asTER, at th e s itting of the Court, was about his argum en t s on the part of the defendants e n ,: a se, which o ur rea d ers w ill r ecollect came before . yeti art Yesterd ay f or t h e purpose o f o btaining an in hibt. °Tl t o restrai n th e d e f en d an t s f ro m making use of ltent they had obtained for making electric tee . Pit; tt' a n the ground of its being an infringement of the 1 4 1 1 1-. b" the plaintiffs, when he was interrupted byAble d done ks'aTRELL, who stated that that had been o 4 alt r ,•" ° eXPected ; namely, an affidavit had beenfiled . NC I :At by the defendants, which he submitted, ac , 11 0t h „gto the practice of the Court, his Honour could 40 4 - ' ll : Ly e. He wished, therefore, to know from his teei,r,,`,, he under the circumstances, he would or n ot. teiaetbiea-CiLiaieELLon said he should certainly re at affidavit, because sometimes justice required 1 % 0 7 e. ' 417 4s should be made even during the hearing k r t ,_ °l4 4l oe E ,, T IiaLL observed, that such being his Honour's te to " 40 case could not proceed, as there were sta til eti lti nt t iff h s at affidavit which called for an answer from Y lea- CReiceELLon had no objection to . the case krtorlo°Yer, Part he would, in order to facilitat . e -40 111 ( e ts - ` the ies chose, direct that the plamti Mt; ling such action as they might be advised. no ° ll b ise .. ZEtorrzn on the part of the defendants, had t 4) the adoption ' of such a course ; that was all bir oall teti. ) traltr, wh o h a d j us t com e into Court, and who 4r. Webster on behalf he defendants, sai 'es h ad felt all along that suchmust be the end of ea s e l i deret . it was a purely legal question, and he con- Zia dine Course that had been pursued . . yest . erday by th e _ i ng counsel, on behalf of the plaintiffs, in forcing fort ,:motion, for the injunction was one of the mosthe had ~er e,• et ,eises of the power of counsel that Ni ks .44le ssed in that or any other Court. H . e should Th e -1 consider it inexcus f able and most unjustifiable. the °4l 3' redeemingtellent and instructing part speech of Mr. Webster, and d oabl e ex planations e xplanations he had given with respect to so tt tera. -- 411 invention. His clients had been charged d L'''Y with fraud and falsehood, and the Couyt ha c lear a'„ uPied the whole d with a case which, it was "ke -1 the beginning, must end as it had done, b 3 h it t s ent to law.)3'rstuu.., with som e warm th, observed that they I lese n ew pro cee d to some other portions of the bust teedel the Court, whi c h h e truste d wou ld not b e at theso „with such loud and unca ll e d-f or d ec l ara ti ons as Tb that had been made that morning by Mr. hSetuitrit ?notion was then orderedh a t t iVa o s7e r 's t inm i ld be itcl v i.. l l ? at liberty t o brimy_ u suc- T i? to try his legal " seal .Court then proceeded to hear motions, the third be ing continued. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. WIGRAM.) DAWES V. BETTS. tt...Ulla bill as filed for the specific performance of an reetnent made by Mr. James Betts, on the part of he othe r , mr. Wm. Betts ' • bury , the defendant. It appeared ?lat the plaintiff was proprietor of a house in High _ ace, Islington, which Mr. James Betts agreed to take from • him for the use of his brother, who was the continent. It •,401 purchased defendant then on appeared further, that the _ a in January, 1843, the interest of iticelntleman named Salamons in the house in question, to g e ther with the lease of a field and other ground at the s t e l _ it r, of the house, which he now alleged should be in , was in th e lease granted by the plaintiff to him. C I , as_ 'however, a d m i tted in the answer that this field, & • m g . _ at that time let to different persons. Messrs. Robi h n; i; and Hype were the solicitors employed by t of "ant, whom he had consulted as to the best method the rlil s ta ining a removal of the lease of the house. On e q‘.. Oth o f May, 1843, the solicitors of the plaintiff .re sisjeci back a proposal from the defendant's solicitor thep,ting the premises, with an agreement signed bj ale,uefendant's brother on his behalf. The agreement ha v i, s te the effect that Thomas Betts, the plaintiff. jilPurehased the interest of Mr. Salamons in the house 4 1101 ury-pl ace , I sl i ngton, and the letter containing hae c i ° e ffe r of the plaintiff to give a renewal, having been to ti,, e (l to the defendant, who had signified his consent Sttr terms of the plaintiff's proposal through his bro. T he receipt o f t hi s l e tt er was ac k now l e d ge d , an d ti er an swer a nswer it was distinctly stated that th e field, &c , d eft not included in the agreement. It was denied b) So in his answer, that Mr. James Betts was au. to act for him in this case. Mr. James Betts, 18 ,,, r :T1y to this last communication, stated that returnil .7"er was then on the Continent, but would 1 7411 ) ,;uortly; he returned in the latter part of De 44obishi,- a rid took the draft of this agreement to Messrs. "We t 1 and Hyam, so that it was evident he was 1843 e of this agreement. On the 29th of September, !t4ol,,,,e.cletter was sent by the defendant,. requiring . to le it he ts 1 W as secure from the erection of any build -I_l4lB e 3 l to annoy him in the neighbourhood ofthe a le tter th H ighbury-place. Shortly afterwards kaki was received from the defendant's solicitors the solue inquiri es as to t h e fi e ld at the rear e_ should have d ex pressing a w i s h th a t their client thell .at, together w i t h some ot h er gr ound; whichtoin liolietstieall,tlwffat he hrieepi as llie w dthat he could not give the land at time t hat let to other pers ons. ldeahave another field near the land t int°, ret the urn en stated that he heard no more ee 6th of October, when M h es ie s h rs. b ß a o d bi h n e s e o i n i f l e i rased b y the defendant %draft of the lease w ree ti mes. tt the l 'is i- 2401 1dant and his solicitor te no less than plaintiff No vember, 1843, that he had at note was received Nt hi ll ea lr i -ettn g a denied M ot !.. e . H rig Y r a o r :s ' m s ent from Mr. Betts, e oe ' e r „ la Yed the - proceedings. Defendant was all thit followin the house in uestion. In the April Wet Cg the house requiring some repairs, plaintiff W 4, 118 surveyor to inspect the premises, betweene Piece, a rid the defendant some altercation dton„, oi l tit l3ut up to this period there was no de nisi of h ; _ e , part of the efendant for the authority th e brother to act for d him, or of his being bound by 8o agreement that had been executed in his behalf. tie /I %er, in seven months after he entered into posses- pi4l,l°.the houses, he called on the solicitors for the afte i ,,", l %, and stated, for the first time, that Mr. 447 ,kietts had no authority to sign the agree ; • comp, out he did not even then state that he would no t ~hi eh Y with the agreement, or sign the lease; the rent , plai nt ' had becom e due, was offered to Mr. Jenkins, cot t '"Ls solicitor, provided that it should be considered kite: Prejudice the l position of Mr. Betts, by being Viith the a recog on on his part of a right to ant aithand, _e agreement. This was refused and defend ant his then solicitor called on Mr. Jenk in s , kitta ne lease was examined, and it was ad apt bY Mr. Robi nson , th a t th e defendant was It ohl fotitled to th e fi e ld at t h e rear o f t h e h ouse . mr bad tis eo then h an d e d t h e p l a i nt iff t h e amoun t o f the bef„ Ye ar's rent, w hi c h h e state d was d ue by M r . Betts. pro;l ad ant Contend e d t h a t t hi s mone y was p a id under sen,et, which was denied by the plaintiff, and the pre ' was filed. 1 ' 4 11161 DISLIKE OF THE OFFERTORY. On a -4 Y laht, there was a collection )evonport, in aid of the funds of some char;,..et -- .1115titution connected with the chapel, and on the *atop the Rey. Samuel Rundle, the officiating minister, n.r 11 0 — , tn elleed the reading of the offertory. No sodo the se t had the reverend gentleman commence attend than many of the officers of the regiment, who 1: 1 1111 114 that chapel, stood up and adjusted their arms. th e Z i k lln their gloves, and giving a signal to the soldn re he ev - " 6l e Party began to march from the chapel. Thr . 33a fte el tread of t h e sold i ers ma tie the reverend gentiw keli v °ice perfectly inaudible. and it was not until rare that t e se Wherearvi arranged in r an k an d fil e outs i de the d o: . rs Po rt ~ce was abl e t o b e p rocee d ed with.—Devon __9_ra _ , Nt. a s to r ‘‘ EATHER.—Fahrenheit's th ermometer fe l l 4, " as 16i, or 151 degrees b e l ow f reez i ng poiut - Ile Yesterday, is the j3lackfrisra-road. ok . THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1846.- CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. Henry Eteen guilty to a Inirghiry in the house of John Sari, and nas sentenged to ten years' transpor tation. John Slayter pleaded guilty to forging an order for the payment of 31., with intent to defraud James Corss, and was sentenced to twylve months' imprisonment. Tim° Hedey, who had been out on bail, surrendered to take his trial for a violent assault on his wife, on the 22d of October. . . Ann Heeley stated that since 1833 she had kept the Red Lion, in Flt et•lane, and that in March last she married the defendant, being then a widow, and possessed of 1,3001. or 1,4001., but had ever since been treated with great brutality, and was in fear of her life. On the day in question her husband had been out with a person named Kendall, then in his employment, and on his re turn dashed her to the ground with great force, turned her out of the bar, and installed the woman who came hack with him in her place. The witness was subjected to a long cross-examina• tion by Mr. CLARKSON. Thomas Fuller, a brother of the prosecutrix, stated, that as he has getting into bed on the night of the 21st of October, he hard his sister's voice crying out for assistance. On going down stairs, he found her lying helpless in the passage, where she had been thrown by a blow on the face. Having taken her up, and while about carrying her up stairs, she was again struck, and knocked out of his arms with so much violence as to render her insensible. Mr. CLARKSON, for the defendant, contended that the cause of the mischief was Mrs. Heele3's intemperate habits. The following evidence was offered for the defence:— Joseph Goodby, waiter of the Red Lion, proved that the separation had taken place, and that oa the day in question the prosecutrix had returned to get her clothes, being at the time in a state of intoxication, and while in the house she was guilty of such outrageous conduct, that he was obliged to send for his master, who, at the time, was living away from the place. Several other witnesses stated that the prosecutrix was intoxicated at the time of the commission of the alleged assault, and the prisoner had merely endeavoured to get her to bed quietly. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner was then sentenced to two months' im prisonment in Giltspur-street Compter, and to enter into his own recognizance for 5001., and to find two sureties for 501. each, to keep the peace for three years. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, DEC 14.—The Vengeance, 84, Cap tain Lushiegton, will be reported out of the dockyard hands to-morrow, and will go out of harbour on Tnurs day, according to present arrangements. She bent sails on Friday ;in furling them to-day, after dinner, an acci dent happened to an able seamen named Charles Holder, who, while engaged in the above duty on the maintop sail yard, lost his balance and fell in to the water, striking, in his descent, the maintop-rim, whence his body bounded off the loner rigging and struck the spare topsail-yard. He was promptly picked up by the seamen of the ship, who plunged through the lower-deck ports and held him while a boat's crew got him into a barge. He was taken on board the Vengeance in a very ex hausted and apparently hopeless state, but the judicious and prompt attention of Dr. Wallace and the other assist ant-surgeon of the ship soon restored animation, and the sufferer was put to bed, where he soon recovered his senses and had his wounds dressed, which, although very serious, are not expected to terminate fatally. 'The Vengeance has at length nearly got her complement, which is made up thus :—Captain and ward-room officers, 17 ; subordinate officers, 17 ; warrant and petty officers, 44, eight of whom are " idlers ;" able seamen, 118, 24 of whom are "idlers ;" ordinary seamen, 76 : landsmen, 31; marines, 70; first-class boys, 95 ; sceonl class boys, 21 ; total, 489 ; wanted 11. The Netley tender sailed for Plymouth this morning. The Cyclops steam-frigate, Captain W. Lapidge, came into the harbour this afternoon to coal and make good defects. The Resistance troop-ship, Commander G. Lowe, was undocked on Saturday, and is completing her refitment in the basin. MALTA, DEC. 4.—The French Government steamer Tanerede, with mails from the Levant, arrived late yes terday. Mails for Italy, Sicily, and Marseilles will be closed to-morrow per Leonidas. The French steamer Caire from Beyrout and Alexan dria arrived to-day. She will continue her route to Marseilles direct without loss of time. Her Majesty's steamer Flamer, with the London mails of the 24th ult., arrived here last night from Marseilles, and will proceed to the lonian islands and Greece to-day with the mails. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, with mails and passengers for India, bringing London dates of the 20th ult., arrived here last night, and will proceed this evening to Alexandria. By a letter from Corfu, of the 23d ult., we learn that her Majesty's ship Fantome was to sail on the following day tor Athens, to relieve the Amazon, ordered to join the Admiral. Her Majesty's steamer Meteor had been cruising for pirates, but had, of course, been unsuccessful. She re cently enjoyed a pleasant trip with his Royal Highness the Prince Albert of Prussia round the islands, thence to Corinth. His Royal Highness was much pleased with the vessel, and left a remembrance to the crew, and a handsome gold snuff-box, with the cipher of his Royal Highness engraved on it, was presented by him to her commander, Lieutenant G. Butler. The French steamer Oronte, from Marseilles and Leg horn, arrived on the 28th ult., and continued her voyage to the Levant on the same day. The French Government steamer Osiris left port on the afternoon of her arrival here (27th ult.), fur Alex andria and Beyrout. The French Government steamer Pericles left port on the evening of the 27th ult., for Athens, Smyrna, and Constantinople. Both these vessels carried mails. The barque l'riscilla, Captain Purdy, twenty-one days from Odessa and twelve days from Constantinople, passed off this port on the 27th ult., all well, bound to England. The schooner Firefly, Captain Holland, which arrived here on the :30th ult. from Odessa, spoke on the 22d, in lat. 36, lon. 20.30, the English brig La Bella, in ballast, bound to Constantinople. The Rus.ian brigantine Themistocles, from the Piraeus, arrived here on the 30th ult. _ Her Majesty's ship Amazon arrived here on the 30th ult. from the Piraeus. She will sail, we hear, in a few days to join the squadron under Sir W. Parker, Vice- Admiral in command of the fleet in the Tagus, when a court will assemble to inquire into the corporal and other punishments lately inflicted on board. The Neapolitan steamer Maria Christina arrived here from Marseilles and ports of Italy and Sicily on the 2d inst., and left last night on her return voyage. The French steamer Hellespont, expected here on the 30th ult. from the Levant, arrived here on the 2d inst., and proceeded on the same day to Leghorn and Mar seilles. Tier Majesty's steamer Jackal, whose commander, Lieutenant Pasco, has been recently promoted, is ordered home, and may be shortly expected here from the Her Majesty's steamer Trident is still in port, and nothing definitive is yet decided as to the period of her getting under way to relieve the Ardent, Commander G. Spong. We understand that her Majesty's ship Beela will shortly proceed to Constantinople to relieve the Blood hound in those waters. _ . ----- is, it Her Majesty's brig Siren is reported, about to relieve her Majesty ' s ship Inconstant at Beyrout, and will probably convey his Lordship the Bishop of Jerusalem to Jaffa, a short distance trom his see. ADMIRALTY. APPOINTMENT.—Commander—J. W. Finch, to study at the Steam Factory, Woolwich. ALLEGED HIGHWAY ROBBERY. We last week recorded a somewhat romantic story, as told by a travelling stationer at the City police station on Saturday night week, that story being that the said hawker of Bath post, whilst travelling to Gloucester, was joined by a youth of about 15 or 16, who entered into conversation with him about buying shoes, and on being told that the stationer had a few shillings about him which he intended to invest in second-hand shoes, the youth fell upon him with murderous violence, and knocked him about the head with a bludgeon, nut that in the struggle which ensued the man of paper got the boy's nasal organ between his teeth, and actually bit it off, leaving the juvenile highwayman to make his way home to his friends minus his nose. We had our sus picions that the whole story was a fabrication; but it appears to have had some foundation in truth, with this trifling discrepancy, that the fellow who made his com plaint at the police-station was in all probability the first assailant, and no doubt with felonious intent, and that the poor boy whose nose was so unpleasantly gripped was really the aggrieved and the innocent party. It was unfortunate that no information was given of the circumstance to the superintendent of the county police or to any of the officers of that force, so that the first intimation given to the county station reached there through the newspaper on Saturday last, since which time, we understand, Mr. Superintendent Griffin has been indefatigably engaged in investigating the matter, with the following results:—He discovered the boy, whose name is John Wells, who resides at Elmore, and who is about seventeen years of age, and who states that about six o'clock on Saturday evening, the 28th ult., he was met by a travelling man on the side of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal, and walked with him for some distance until they arrived at the second , mile post; that as they walked along the man asked him what he gave for his boots, to which he replied eleven shillings. The man said he wanted a pair himself, but could not afford to give so much mot ey for them. He also remarked that if the boy had been at Gloucester fair that day he could have earned some money, to which the lad replied that he had been there, and had received two shillings for driving some sheep to Charlton Kings. The ruffian then knocked him down with a blow from his fist in his face, knelt on him when he was on the ground, and began feeling for his pockets. The boy cried " Murder," and the man seized him by the throat, threatened to throw him into the canal, and in the scuffling did get the poor boy's nose in his mouth and bit it, but only left the marks of his teeth in it; he did not bite it off. The boy begged for mercy, and the fellow ultimately let him go, giving him back a knife which he had taken out of his pocket; but the boy missed his 25., and supposes that the man appropriated them to himself, or that they were lost in the struggle. The boy Wells states his willingness to come forward at any time, and his story is, to a certain extent, confirmed by his mint st u a t t e e s h a e f e w r a t s h e i n r;e n a c n o d n t rto e whom he related the attack b h y a v a i ng neighbour,bee him. With regar d to the p edlar, thath w ad ho te w n e m t a b d i e nh up w o : n met waohtomsaawaythe adventure, all trace of him has make 1 • t fear the boy should cemp must now regard as th e realllick be T en ur l p n i s n t, m an th d is i c t u s r ee lo m us s tables d to turn the upon to the police,te first to have his story heard, pre• him and be appear in the character of a prosecutor ferring to for r e determine stand at the bar as a criminal charged that in that part of the story which reason also torobbery and violence. There is good related to the dreadful d, he was clever enough to deceive ceived about the hes believe dful injuries be pretended to have re experienced eyes of Mr. Superintendent p r r a o th b e a r bi t e h t a h n att his story. It has been ascer wttWahimeti with vleidial3gmitiglhsal:n"ttt'oataYhwnedh ofellowm iie told . ed at Parry's lodging-house in evening in question ; t Leatherbottle .lane on the xcept on his head ; tha t he did not appear to be hurt h e handkerchief, went to that he tied up his head with sleeping at Parry's that uninjured appearance, and, after The activity Of night, went away the next morning. this affair the poliee.station, and on his reaturn retained the same arrived Superintendent Griffin in so far unravelling is creditable to him as an officer ; but it is right et we the whole st or y d oes not o b ta i n i m plicit cred circumstances of this singular nar rative. —Gloucester Journal. INCREASE OF FEVER.—We Understand that this . ti artul malady is gr ea tl y on the i ncrease i n Gl asgow and suburbs, so much so, that at the Police Board the Lord Provost has been waited upon by a deputation from the Fever Hospital, with the view of having additional ac commodation afforded for patients, the state of the hospital being such that the very floors of the institution are fully occupied. His Lordship brought the matter before the Police Board on Monday, when it was re mitted to the committee.—Scotch Reformers' Gazelle. VORACITY OF THE CoD.—A very plentiful and seasonable supply of fish reached Swansea on Friday and Saturday last indeed, taking into consideration the present high price of provisions of all kinds, it may be considered a very seasonable relief to the poor. A s a proof of the extraordinary low price of this va l ua bl e commodity, we can state that an individual purchased a cod fish, weighing between eight and nine pounds, on Saturday for 4iti , and on its being opened for the pur pose of cleansing its inside, there were . found twenty two herrings therein, some of them remarkably large, and exhibitii.g signs of animation.— Cambrian. The indictment found at the last session of the Central Criminal Court against several individuals for having illegally trafficked in the sale of cadetships, has been removed by certiorari from that court to the Court of QUeell'd Bench, i3OURT CIRCULAR• , The Queen and P r i r , ce Albert walked early yester day in the plantations of Osborne House. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, walked and rode on ponies yesterday, in the pleasure grounds of Osborne House. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay left Osborne House yesterday. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Charles Warner had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial office, from the Governor of Gibraltar. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood left Bowood P ar k, Wilts, the seat of the Marquis of Lansdowne, yesterday morning, for town. Mr. Charles Greville also left yesterday for London. The Earl of Clarendon will leave liowood Park to-day, for his seat, Grove Park, Herts. The Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford, Earls Stanhope, Cadogan, Stradbroke, Lords de Lisle, Somer ton, Walsinghatn, Rendlesham, and Cranley, Mr. and Mrs. H. Seymour, and Captain Broke, have been visit ing General Sir Edward and Lady Kerrison, at Oakley Park, Suffolk. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—MONDAY. The business transacted yesterday failed to produce any effect on the odds ; none in fact can be looked for so long, as as w t e h r e e E h p o i r r s o e t„, sarrelait, Glentilt,c l :nfined to straw beds. After stating, therefore, th at the animals most currently in favour current with a list o f t h e pr i ncipal transact i ons : -8 to 1 to about 501. agst V an T romp, 15 to 1 to 651. ags t Epi ra We ouranota u,suaanld price Red Bart, it will be suff ic i ent if we pefc rote (16 to 1 laid once), 1,000 to 50 two or three times agst Planet, 2,000 to 80 twice agst Glentilt, 2,000 to 60 agst Allertonian, 2,000 to 50 agst Tantivy, a similar bet, and 2,500 to 50 agst Red H ar t, 2,000 to 40 each agst The Liberator, Projectil e , and the Miss Martin oolt, (plenty of layers agst The Liberator), 45 to 1 in fifties agst Cossack, 1,000 to 15 three or four times, and after wards 3,000 to 30 agst War Eagle, 1,000 to 15 each agst the Monimia colt and Galvanic Ring, and 10.000 to 100 agst Clarendon. Offers to take 6to 1 about Scott's lot, and 40 to 1 about Wanota. The Oaks bets were 3,000 to 300 agst Slender, and 300 to 25 and 500 to 100 agst her and Clementina jointly. Offers to take 20 to 1 each about Miami and The Farmer's Daughter. The frost having put an end to steeple-chasing for the present, no thing was done on the events that were to have come off this day in the neighbourhood of Leamington. We subjoin the latest averages. CHESTER cup, 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Coape's Rufus —taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Whaley's Burgundy—taken. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STARES. sto 1 on the field. 6to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt—ta. to a small sum. DERBY. 11 to 9 agst John Scott's lot—take 6 to 1 6to 1 agst John Day's lot—taken to 251. Bto 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp —taken 15 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Planet —taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt 28 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Sis. to Cobweb colt—no frnas. 30 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Lunedale—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Allertonian—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Worley's Old Port 33 to 1 agst Lord Caledon's Wanota—take 40 to 1 40 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Tantivy—taken and aft. offd. 40 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Marpessa colt 45 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack —taken 50 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Hart—ta. freely. 50 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Miss M ar ti n co l t—ta k en 50 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Projectile —taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. W. O'Brien's Liberator—ta. and at off. 100 to 1 agst Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle —taken 100 to 1 agst Mr. Ford ns Clarendon —taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Wreford's Monimia colt—t and aft of. 1000 to 15 agst Lord Strathmore's Galvanic Ring—taken and afterwards offered. °AIL 10 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Slander—taken. 16 some ttoo agstg misconception M Sir r. j J. iDaawyl exists on 's Miami. 16Farmer's Daughter. As the subject, we may as well mention that the horse backed for the Derby under the name of the " Miss Martin colt," is the same that has occasionally figured as the Miss Iris colt ; he was originally entered as " by Lanercost, dam by Vol taire, out of Miss Iris," but the dam has since been named Miss Martin. Sir G. Heathcote has christened his three Derby colts as follows :—Tlse Miss Wilfred colt " Bellerophon, the Caroline colt " Atlantic," and the Samarcand colt " Ti mour." Mr. Drinkald's Oaks filly by lon, out of Ran villette, bought of Mr. Ellis, has received the name of lonia." Lord Gardiner's hunters were put up for sale yester day, and about five or six knocked down ' • the principal lots sold were Dot, 91 guineas ; and Snuffbox, 85 guineas. SHIPMENTS OF BRITISH WOOLLENS TO CHINA. (From the Leeds Mercury.) We have been favoured, just before going to press, with the following Return of Shipments of British Woollens to China during the present year, with the comparative exports of former years. Want of time forbids our making the remarks we should have wished to offer on this important document, which is from the highest authority; but we cannot refrain from noticing the striking confirmation it gives to the arguments/ately urged in favour of an immediate as well as serious re duction in the duty on tea. The falling off in the trade of this district with China is now proved to be most serious; and we have no doubt that the cotton districts present a result equally indicative of the darkened pros pects of all, capitalists and labourers alike, who have hitherto been engaged in supplying the Chinese markets. Statement of the Estimated Exports of Woollen Goods Shipped to China from London and Liverpool, from the Ist of January to the 23d of November, 184 G. ci ,A f' at g A.9*, ,E . . , 9 ti;74 .72: .;.:. - ...z . 2 . t 0 U. .w".a., 20:3 c .,1 `' bo c eal e) - ...V. ..t TC. = .' -) r. al P. .t * . 411 r. p.. JJ 4 0 -"-----.-.—• =, ._..._..---................- ...---.- . Shipped to this date during the present year .. ••••• • • • . 66,600 7,959 45,932 5,498 8,812 Shipped to same date last year ... .... 87,900 14 793 56,363 7 , 525 10,294 Do. do., 1644.. 106,134 20,533 46,462 4,643 11,855 Total shipped during the year 1845 .... 93,510 15,253 58,515 7, 525 10,294 Had arrived in China when the last ac counts left of the present year's 5hip ment5.........,.. 23,090 2,190 3,216 3,341 4,005 The ship Queen, from London, takes out 9,000 included in the above retur n , pieces long ells, not One of those cool acts of injustice which Govern ment boards alone can perform with impunity has just been laid before the public in a printed statement by Messrs. Travers and Son. It appears that at the close of last year this firm imported a considerable quantity of French plums in the ornamented paper boxes made purposely for that description of fruit, part of which were allowed to pass at the Custom-house in the usual manner, while 45 cases were stopped for duty upon the boxes. The article being a perishable one, Messrs. Travers lost no time in memorializing the Commissioners of Customs, w hi c h memorial, after two subsequent applicati ons and a delay of a fortnight, was at length attended to, and the goods were ordered to be released. This delay, however, involved a loss of 9(1. (the fruit having been sold immediately on its ar rival to buyers, who afterwards cancelled their bargains), and a claim for compensation was ac cordingly preferred. This claim was met by a direct refusal, and an appeal to the Commissioners of the Treasury produced a similar result. Compelled thus to put up with a loss arising from an avowed error on the part of the Custom-house, the sufferers, with a view to pretest themselves and the trade for the future, peti tioned that some definite order might be made, by which they might be guided in their operations, and which would prevent a repetition of such occurrences. To this petition no answer was returned, and it is now alleged by Messrs. Travers that some packages of French fruit have this year again been stopped under precisely similar circumstances. In the absence of explanations, the statement places the conduct of the Commissioners in a very unfavourable light ; but, discreditable as it is, there is reason to fear that many analogous instances daily occur in the various minor departments of public business, which, in like manner, are carried off with high-handed indifference, in the belief that the details are too insignificant for the sufferers to succeed in bring ing them into notice. — Times. ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS.—The last meeting for the season was held yesterday evening at the rooms in Grosvenor-street, when the chair was taken by Mr. Angell, V.P. Numerous donations were announced, amongst which were several drawings illus trative of the architecture of Scotland from the earliest period of the employment of decorative art; and a bust of Mr. Sanders, the architect of the Townley Gallery, at the British Museum, which was yesterday di s p ose d o f by public auction. A communication, illustrated by drawings, was read, from Mr. Gardner, on the mode of heating the Portuguese Synagogue in Bevis Marks, that places. of affording affording a n adopted by him in 1815, and where heated air was in troducedwa s giveafraofmaanneuwndseyrsntee,eimaltuheaalvflayuhleta;tinagn and hot houses, in which the heated air is made to traverse over raeadaeartscrdiptiona long and open shallow cistern of water before it is per mitted to enter into the building, and which plan it applicable to churches heated air, of which all previous ones deficient. Mr. Mocatta gave some lengthened chief principle in the ar rangementadequate supply of details on the recent erection of • • a distillery, in which the requirements of the process subserved to the archi awmhnsaodvsi set t other u reee u n gh tow t largea mights archi tectural construction, after which the meeting adjourned to January 11, 1847. A RASH STATEMENT.—Last Sunday a Perth mi nister, during his discourse to his flock, made an attack on our national poet Burns, by saying that he did not hesitate to name him, and assert th at he had sent more been able to send to heaven since his death.' This souls to hell during his life than all the ministers have the more liberal and intelligent of his congregation--one of whom, on ar h o me, took Burns' Poems, and read to his wife riving at and family, "The Cottars' Saturday Night."—Edinburgh Ea press. PLATE. -'-LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—AC counts to the close of September from Monte Video, re ceived via America, state that an attempt had been made by a partisan of Oribe to assassinate Rivera. The at tempt was unsuccessful. The assassin was secured, and was being tried. IRELAND. MR. O'CONNELL AND THE REPEAL SECESSION. DUBLIN, DEC. 13.—The following important letter has been addressed to the Freeman's Journal by Mr. O'Connell. It would now appear that there is no pros pect of a reconciliation between the Repeal Association and the seceders:— "Merrion-square, Dec. 12, 1846. " Sir,—l return you the resolutions which you sent me unsought for on my part. I return them, lest by retaining them I should be supposed to acquiesce in the gross inaccuracy they exhibit of the real state of the question touching the conference proposed by me. "In one of these resolutions you talk, as of a matter of doubt, whether any legal question would arise at the conference. "It is, perhaps, my duty—at all events it is my incli nation—to inform you that the primary, if not the ex clusive object of the proposed conference, is to ascertain and define matters of law. "In truth the affair stands thus:— "First—The Repeal Association is, beyorld any sha dow of doubt, a lawful assembly, not impeachab:e for any breach of the law. "My proof is this. The Repeal Association has stood the ordeal of the state trial—not only without any prosecution, but without any officer of the crown, or any one of the court, intimating against it the slightest charge of illegality. "The Repeal Association is a legal body, because it disclaims any use of force and arms to achieve the repeal of the union statute. Because it disclaims the use of physical force to achieve the repeal of the union statute, every member of the Repeal Association is at present perfectly safe from any prosecution. " Would the members be equally safe if it were to admit any intermixture of the physical force principle as part of the means for obtaining such repeal? " I am decidedly of opinion that the members would not, in such a case, be safe from a well•founded prose cution. " I take these propositions to be clear in law:-- "First—That any asssembly admitting any species of physical force as part of its means of obtaining a repeal of an Act of Parliament is an unlawful assembly, liable to be dispersed by any magistrate, and its members to be punished by indictment. " Secondly—That any such assembly is not only un lawful, but that any acts done by it in furtherance of its object constitute a treasonable fact, rendering the mem bers liable to conviction and execution for treason. " This opinion, in point of law, I have at repeated public meetings proclaimed. " On one occasion, in the Association, I brought down the legal authorities, and quoted them chapter and page. " It is observable, that often as I have repeated this legal doctrine, no one has had the hardihood to deny its accuracy. " It follows, if I be right, that the seceders cannot safely be admitted into the Repeal Association, unless upon the fullest and most explicit disclaimer of resorting to any physical force means to achieve the repeal of the union. "In order to be enabled to receive the seceders into the Repeal Association again n it should be ascertained beyond a doubt whether I am right in point of law or not. " At former periods in my struggles for advancing the popular cause my judgment in the matter of law was found eminently useful, and my opinion of the state of the law was trusted to with implicit confidence. And I have the comfort to know that such confidence was never regretted nor shown by any fact to be misplaced. " Now my most anxious desire is to lay the founda tion of perfect conciliation ; or, if that be refused, to have the universal people understand who it is to whom the continuance of the dissension is justly attributable. " I stand altogether upon the law. My solo difficulty rests upon the legal objection to the admission of the seceders. " What, then, is to be done ? _ _ • 7 "Is it not the wise course to ascertain beyond a doubt what the law is upon the subject ? If the law will admit of any relaxation I am quite ready, of course I aai, to give the seceders the full benefit of that re laxation. " I repeat the question. " What is to be done ? My answer is ready, and I propose to do the thing—that is, to hold an amicable conference, to ascertain, in the first instance, the state of the law. " This should be a preliminary inquiry. It would be idle to talk upon the terms upon which the seceders should be re-admitted, if we are prevented by the law from re-admitting them, except at the peril of our lives. " Let us, then, ascertain most amicably the state of the law, and leave every other question (if other ques tions there be) undiscussed until the state of the law is ascertained. " It was with a - view to ascertain thus amicably the law of the case that I proposed the conference. I se lected the most unexceptionable persons to be members of that conference, including even myself, for I named before Mr. Smith O'Brien. I also named four barristers —three of them more eminently successful in their pro fession than any gentlemen of their standing in the British dominions; the fourth possessed of talents equally entitling him to a success in his profession, which I believe ought not to be far distant. " The four are— Sir COLEMAN OIOGHLIN, Mr. O'HEA, Mr. O'HAGAN, and Mr. DILLON. " It is not likely that any man will be found who will dispute the accuracy of their conjoint legal opinion. If that opinion be identical with mine, there are many of the seceders who will acquiesce and submit to the law, and join the Association once again in its struggles for Irish nationality. If the law be declared otherwise than I think it is, I shall acquiesce at once and admit my error. But in either case, no question of terms can arise until the law is ascertained, and fully and unequi vocally submitted to. " There can be no paltering in a double sense. The law, when once ascertained, must be the rule of all our actions ; nothing else would be just—nothing else would be wise—nothing else would be safe. " The conference cannot do any harm ; it may, and I think must, do good. It will show that I am ready to carry out conciliation to the full extent of law. " It will also show who they are who would prevent conciliation ; or, at all events, not avail themselves of its influence. _ " I am bound to say that I have not been met with a spirit corresponding to my own, in the desire to put an end to dissension, " A most respectable clergyman, of the mildest con ciliatory demeanour, and a high order of intellect - " Such men as he Give grace to holy ministry," took the trouble of going down to the county Limerick to Mr. Smith O'Brien, with my message of peace. " He, alas! had his journey in vain. I have his au thority for se) ing that Mr. Smith O'Brien decidedly re jected the conference. " I regret extremely ; but it makes it only the more imperative duty upon me to redouble my exertions for the sole remaining object of my political life—the repeal of the union. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " DANIEL O'CONNELL. " T. Devin Reilly, Esq." STATE OF THE COUNTRY. There is no part of Ireland exempt from the terrible calamity by which we are now afflicted. The northern districts, heretofore comparatively free from destitution, are now suffering deep distress; and even in the manu facturing towns, Drogheda, Belfast, and Lisburn, there is a vast. amount of destitution. In Drogheda, on Tuesday last, a meeting attended by all the leading inhabitants, was held at the Fholsel, to adopt measures for affording relief and employment, untilie Board of Works should be enabled to extend operations in the district. The Roman Catholic Primate, Most Rev. Dr. Crolly, addressed the meeting on the necessity of prompt exer tion. " We must," said that excellent prelate, " call on the inhabitants to subscribe liberally, although it is not very long since we called on them before. But we could not, no one could, foresee the greater calamity which has since befallen the country. That calamity is far more deep, and more extensively spread over the country, and we must appeal to all for aid " Arrangements were made for a general subscription. DEATH OF THE SON OF CAPTAIN KENNEDY who held communication with the invisible world, and gave her IZ., on c ndition that she would inform them of the particulars respecting the death of the deceased. Having taken two clear days to consu!t her invisible friends, the fairies,' she announced that she had seen deceased himself, and that he was murdered by two men, one of whom had deceived a fair haired girl in the neigh bourhood, but the fairies threw no light on the locality of the murder. The body was accidently found on the 7th instant. The coroner and the jury, we presume, did not placed implicit reliance on the " fairy" woman's superhuman knowledge ; for, as the body presented the ordinary appearance of death by drowning, the jury found a verdict accordingly.—Carlow Sentinel. THE WEATHER.—The frost has become so intense that the Liffey is frozen even where the tide runs. This has not occurred for several years. The canals are also frozen. The weather is extremely severe, and must greatly aggravate the sufferings of the poor. LIMERICK, DEC. 12.—After a most intense hard frost yesterday mornin.z, there was a copious fall of snow, succeeded by very severe frost, with an intense cold at mosphere the entire of yesterday. THE WEATHER and the PARKS. The skating season in the several parks commenced yesterday,-although the ice was far from being safe, and loss of life unfortunately resulted. HYDE PARK.—In this park . the number of persons surrounding the Serpentine was very considerable, but. the skaters, the ice not being above one inch in thickness, were very limited. • Upon the long water the ice is about one inch and a half thick, and the number of persons who ventured on during the day, including; a few mem- bers of the Skating Club, were not more than 200. During the day, five persons broke through near the edge, but were speedily rescued by the lookers on. The round pond in Kensington•garlens had about 150 per sons on it, no accident occurr►ng. The thermometer at the receiving-house in Hyde-park at eight A.M.. showed the mercury to be as low as 18; at twelve o'clock, it had risen to 28, but at six, P.M., the mercury was at 21, with wind in the north-east. ST. JAMES'S-PARK.—In this park the number of Per sons venturing on the ice were about 2§o, but they were mostly confined to the west end, opposite Buckingham Palace. At the east end the ice was considered to be so unsafe that Superintendent Godfrey caused the edges to be broken by the icemen. About half-past two o'clock an accident happened by which a man named Wright, potman at the King's Arms, Brewer street, Pimlico, lost his life. It appears that a young man named George Pilley, a paper-hanger, of 169, Goswell-street, broke through the ice, near the fountain, into seven feet water. Thomas Thomas, of 5, Grove, Mile-end, went to his assistance, but the ice also broke with him, and they both became immersed. The unfortunate deceased went to their assistance, but before getting near them the ice broke with him also, and he disappeared. Iceman Pavey succeeded, by means of a "breaker ladder" in rescuing Thomas, and Winnett, another man belonging to the Royal Humane Society, rescued Pilley. The drags were then put in requisition, and in about four minutes Wright was brought up. The whole of the men, much exhausted, were conveyed to the marquee, where they were attended by Mr. M`Cann, surgeon, and Thomas and Pilley reco vered, but all efforts to restore Wright were unavailing. The body was removed to St. Martin's workhouse to await the coroner's inquiry. REGENT'S-PARK.—The ornamental ice in this park was visited by about 600 skaters and sliders during the day. The only accident worthy of notice happened about two o'clock, when W. Bennett, 27, Guildford street, Russell-square, and W. Vincent, 15, New-street, Dorset-square, broke through the ice near Clarence gate. They were speedily rescued by the icemen. ACCIDENTS IN THE FROST.—Yesterday the metropo Titan streets and suburbs were to a great extent covered with ice, occasioning many serious and fatal accidents. In the Waterloo-bridge-road, a horse attached to a cart heavily laden with hay, proceeding up the hill towards the bridge, in consequence of the slippery condition of the ground, fell down, and the cart being overturned, a boy named Farley, who was seated at the top, was dashed upon the ground, and sustained a deep fracture on the head. On the same spot, shortly afterwards, a boy accidentally slipped down, and before he could recover himself, the wheels of a cab had passed over his chest. Two other accidents of nearly a similar nature occurred during the day on London bridge, and in Fleet-street. opposite Fetter-lane, result • ing in the serious maiming of two females named Clara Lloyd and Emma Morgan. On Holborn-hill, a power ful horse, attached to a brick cart, was thrown down opposite Shoe-lane, and several persons who assisted in detaching the animal were severely kicked and injured by the horse, which the owner was compelled to kill. Very numerous accidents occurred on nearly every bridge, owing to the horses of omnibuses, &c., being unable to ascend - the slippery roadway. An unloaded coal barge, belonging to a merchant of Southwark, was found drifting down the river, and it was ascertained that the barge had left Chelsea in the charge of a lighter man named David Smith, and from marks on the barge it is supposed that that individual was walking along the gunwale, which was covered with frozen snow, when he had slipped overboard. NEW COURT. Thomas Johnson, a carter in the employ of Messrs. Chaplin and Horn•, the railway carriers, was indicted with stealing, on the 12th of last month, a bale of silk, the property of his masters, of the value of 1261. From the statements of counsel, and the evii.enee adduced, it appeared that on the day in question the prisoner, accompanied by a lad named Fry, fetched the silk in question from the S iuth-Western Railway ter minus. The bale was directed to a house in Bunhill.row, and the prisoner, on his way there, as it was alleged, purposely left his parcel-book at a chemist's, where he had to call, in order that he might get rid of Fry, by sending him for it. This was done, and in the interim the bale was missed from the cart. According to the evidence of a man named West, the cart of the prosecutors had been fol lowed by a van and three MCI' from the railway station up to the time when the boy Fry was sent for the parcel book, and that immediately upon his having, the silk was put into the van and the men drove oft with it. Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prosecution. Mr. HUDDLESTONE was counsel for the prisoner, and contended that he ought to be acquitted on the ground that West was a witness unworthy of credit. The jury acquitted the prisoner. GUILD HALL.—(T HIS DAY.) The two brothers Frost (not Ross, as was stated in a former report by mistake), who stood remanded to this day, the one for stealing, and the other for unlawfully receiving a coat, the property of a gentleman named Robinson, from the stables of Mr. Guy, of Earl-street, [3lackfriars, where the elder brother, James Frost, was occasionally employed as helper, were fully committed for trial by Alderman Moon and Alderman Gibbs. James Gandy, and Mary Gandy, his daughter, were charged before Mr. Alderman Moon, the first with steal• ing, and the other with receiving a valuable ring and three sovereigns, the property of her master, Mr. Taylor, of the Britannia public house, Golden-lane. It appeared that the master's suspicions, upon missing a quantity of property, were drawn upon the female prisoner, by hearing from a friend that her father, who was out of employment, had been seen with a number of sovereigns in his possession. The girl confessed to stealing the ring and three sovereigns, but the whole amount of Mr. Taylor's loss, in sovereigns only, is forty pounds. They were remanded to Thursday, for the purpose of diving the officers time to procure the attendance of an important witness. 4ARLBRO I -STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Richard Hawkins was charged with throwing a boy over the gallery of the Queen's Theatre, Tottenham street, Tottenham Court-road. William English said he was sitting in the font seat of the gallery last night, and behind him the prisoner and two girls. In the course of the night a quarrel arose between him and the prisoner, because he had been leaning back on the seat behind him, and about a quarter past twelve o'clock, as complainant was rising to leave the house, while his back was towards the pit, the prisoner struck at him and knocked him over the Front of the gallery into the pit, a height of twenty-five ,yr thirty feet.• William Webber, who was with the complainant in the theatre, corroborated the evidence which he had gi von The prisoner said the girls that sat on the t same seat with him, and also the complainant were all - 'dm, but as the complainant persisted in s lyl nger b s ac t l: igainst the girls' knees, and thereby annoying them, g he nterered, and requested him to desist, when the om plainant would not desist he went out and brought up the officer, who, after cautioning him, felt it necessary to re move the complainant and his companion into the back seats. He returned and swore he would wait for him (the prisoner) that night. At the conclusion of the per formance the complainant got up, and, planting his back against the front rails, struck him several blows. p r i s oner was aided by his friends. He (the prisoner) had not struck the other at all. The only way in which the fall could be accounted for was, that the rails, w hi c h were high on each side , were very low in the centre of the gallery, and that the complainant, slipping his back along the rails following him, had lost his balance, when he came upon the descent of the rails, where they were not more than six inches high. He had not struck the complainant at all, and interfered only at the request of the girls to protect them. Myers, the officer of the theatre, said he had been compelled by the conduct of the complainant to his com pinions to remo ve them to different seats. He saw them tnuoying the girls behind them, and also the prisoner, who r uu ( Oct all the night, but because he had h (the officer) the complainant swore that brought up v very ( Oct he would mark the pris oner before the night ended. Mr. LONG said the evidence of the complainant was entirely contradict ed b y that given on the part of the prisoner, and the complainant was certainly e proved not culd to have been the aggressor. On that acco h e believe that the priso ner had intended unt h to throw the complainant into the pi t, or even that he had done any thing to cause it ; and therefore he must dismiss the case. SOUTHWARK. — ( THIS DAY.) m a N n :il w lia ns m c F ha r rli agnecd withconveying d is, n elderlype i ncu rred a penalty gallons, with ou t a permit, whereby respectablerits exceedingl o o k t i w n g o of 1001. fovein a a n an ß d a e y igh r t d, o,c a i n Excise ~ckthn offic er, sthatee metd th that twhbeedeieeenn seven and n defendant Free -school-street, H orse lydogwn, carrying a bag. Re stopped him, an d, on examining the bag, found iuidtoioticcothne tattled a large bl a dd er o f illi c i t s pirits. defendant into custody, he having no permit. The defendant said, as he was proceeding into town that morning, h e met a person with w h om he was ac quainted, and he asked him to carry the bag and its con tents to Whitecross street, and promised to reward him for his trouble. He added that he was not aware that he was acting contrary to law at the time. Mr. SECKER said, the full penalty was 100/., but he should exercise the power given to him, and mitigate it to 25/., and in default of payment the defendant must be committed for three months to Kingston Gaol. Geoige E R I'Kl.—(TliiSDlt severall7.) ii E lpi N ott, W i , w hroL had L been reman ded times on the attempt to murder Susannah Hain es , at a CL cottage in Paradi:e-terrace, Liverpool-road, Islington was again brought up this morning for final examina tion. Mrs. Haines being now fortunately out of danger, although in such a state of debility as to be scarcely able to leave her room. The evidence of the injured woman's husband, and of the police and others, was again taken at length, and severa l n ew points elicited; the most important were, that for the purpose of fixing the identity of the prisoner as being on the premises, the constable produced a hat which had been found near Mrs. Haines s cottage, and that the prisoner had frequently exclaimed, when asked what his motives could be for making such a murderous attack upon a woman with whom he had been always on the most friendly terms—" She knows the reason herself, I did it for to have revenge and satisfaction;" and also that he said to the husband, " I intended doing this the night before, and would have done so most assuredly had you not come twine so soon." The evi dence of the surgeon who attended her was taken at considerable length, and it appeared from it that Mrs. Haines had received no less than five incised wounds, as well as several wounds on the head, and further that for a considerable time after the injuries had been in flicted he entertained serious apprehensions of ber death. The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, said lie should reserve it for the present, , and complained that he was unable to procure professional assistance, and that it' sent for trial at the present sessions at the Old,Builey. he would labour under the same disadvan tage. He maintained the utmost apparent indifference during; the whole of the investigation, and showed con siderable tact in cross-examining the witnesses. Afftr depositions had been completed, the pri s, tier , e as neaili hrought up, anti fully committed to take liis tri,i at tit- .*XI, al Gritninal Court Sessions, en the ct:::r ; ,e ~t leii;oiti„r; ) assaulting Susannah Haines iAith au li. tit t- A u Irishman going to be hanged, begged that the rope 1111,, ,, 1it Ok , tied unOt.r hi arm insteA ut round his neck ; tor, $6:l .Pct, I bni so remarkably ticklish in the throat, that 11 tied there, I will certaluly kill ulyseif 74011413g11ipp" FROM HYDROPHOBIA. The Limerick Chronicle says—" Sad gloom prevails over the neighbourhood of Newcastle, in consequence of the death, from hydrophobia, of a fine boy, seven years old, son of Capt Kennedy, agent to the Devon estates, who was bitten five weeks ago by a stray cur dog." Lady Blessington (Miss Power), the authoress, and friend of Moore, the poet, is at Besborough, the seat of the Lord-Lieutenant. LIMERICK, DEC. 12.—Three vessels arrived in our port from Odessa, Vigo, and New York, with cargoes 01 Indian corn, since Wednesday, besides four vessels from London, Glasgow, and Waterford, with flour an 3 grain. We are shipping corn and provisions every day for Lon don and Glasgow! The Isabella, from New York, with Indian corn, arrived here yesterday, and was purchased at 151. per ton. J. N. Russell and Sons, of this city, have entered notice of application to the grand jury for 2,3001., amount of loss sustained by them in consequence of the plunder of their ship, the Sea Lark, and her cargo, at Ballybunnion, last month. DARING OUTRAGE.—Thomas Gabbett, Esq., of Cor belly House, and his friend, Mr. Bindon, returning from a shooting excursion near Castle Lake, on Monday last, were intercepted at Truogh by three men, one of whom ordered Mr. Gabbett to deliver his gun, while the other two rushed upon Mr. Bindon and struggled to disarm him. Mr. Gabbett, who had a valuable double-barrelled piece, kept his adversary at a few paces' distance by an earnest expression of his resolve to shoot the man if he dare approach him nearer. This fellow immediately gave a loud whistle, and in less than five minutes fifty country fellows ran across the fields to the spot with spades and shovels, the above fellow calling out, " Take the gun from the ruffian." Mr. Gabbett then repeated his former determination not to surrender, warning them of the consequence, and telling them who he was. Two of the crowd who knew Mr. Gabbett then interfered, and prevailed upon the leader and his gang to let Mr. Gabbett and his friend pass on, which they did, and both gentlemen brought home their arms safe, to the evident discomfiture of the principals in this daring attack. Limerick Chronicle. THE " FAIRY WOMAN. "—OR the Bth instant the county coroner held an inquest on the body of a man named Denis Roche, of Knockrow, barony of St. Mul lins, under the following circumstances :—" It appeared that the deceased, who was employed on the public works, had suddenly disappeared, and was not heard of by his family during the last fortnight. After being paid his wages on the day he was last seen, he went into a public-house at Bahana, to drink with some of the workmen, and as his body was found last week in a turf bog at Cranagh, it is supposed he lost his way, had fallen into a turf bog, and was drowned. His family having searched the district in vain for the body, pro- I ceeded to Enniseorthy to a fairy womau,' that is, one DESTITUTION AND DEATH Last night an inquest was held by Mr. Bedford, at the Two Chairmen, Dartmouth• street, Westminster, as to the death of Elizabeth Doddemeade. Mr. Lavies, of Great George-street, surgeon, who had opened the body, said he found it very much attenuated, but there were no external marks of violence. From the state of the viscera, and also finding no organic disease, he could come to no other opinion than that destitution was the cause of death. Mr. Barber, the landlord of the White Hart, Little St. Andrew-street, Seven Dials, said he was the brother of the deceased, who bad been well off when she married, but her husband had been extravagant. He had himself done what he could for them, and had made them an allowance until lately. They had an allowance from Marylebone, but in consequence of their state becoming known, it was stopped at the beginning of the year, and they were requested to go into the house, but she said she would starve first. They had been in great want for some time, and had not common necessaries. She was subject to fits, and was very violent and obstinate.'' James Doddemeade, the husband, said he was now a jobbing carpenter. They had been in great distress for seven years. When the allowance was stopped in Mary lebone, he never applied there or in Westminster, for he world not let her go into the workhouse. CORONER—Did you give her anything before she died? Doddemeade—l gave her a little coffee I had, and a piece of bread, but she could not swallow the bread ; she soon after died in my arms. ' Mr. Thomas, the receiving officer of Westminster, stated, that the last time he saw them was in February, when he wished them to go into the house ; but they would not, and no other application had been made to him. The jury returned a verdict, that " the death of the deceased was caused by the want of the common neces saries of life." . _ ENGLISH WILLS IN FRANCE.—By the will of Mr tress's house open, and, on his going in, discovered that William Stacpoole, which has already given rise to she and the servant girl were lying in their beds bathed much litigation, he left to each of two daughters a sum in blood, the skulls of both being fractured. The gen of 3,0001. sterling, but ordered that if either should darmerie being informed of what had taken place, a marry without the consent of Mr. James Stacpoole, she minute examination of the premises ensued, and th e was not to receive her legacy, and it was to go to her prints of a shoe being plainly perceived on the floor, and sister. Miss Eleanora Stacpoole, wishing to contract a something inLussac's manner being remarked as sus marriage with M. Caillet, an officer of infantry in garri- picious, his shoe was applied to the mark on the floor, son at Strasbourg, applied frequently to Mr. James and found to fit exactly. Lussac was arrested, and as Stacpoole for his consent in writing, but could receive Sudreau was known to be intimate with him, h e was a l so no answer. She therefor e resolved to summon him taken up. Being pressed hard with questions, he at last before the Civil Tribunal, in order that he might be confessed his participation in the crime, declari ng L ussao compelled to give his consent, or that the court might to have been the principal. It was afterwards di scovere d order the clause in the will to be set aside. M. Caillet that it was with the coulter of a plough that the two un also appeared as an intervening party. The cause fortunate women were struck. They still survived, and was heard on Thursday, when, after hearing coun- the servant was expected to recover.— Paris paper. self for the plaintiff and defendant, the court d ec l a r e d PEDESTRIANISM. SEWARD AND WEsTBALL S itself incompetent to interfere, the parties being both RACE.—The race for 50 sovs. a side , between Charles English. We extract the following from the decision of Westball (of London) and George e S h e n w ur ard fi , x e e n d d fdeeryteis the Tribunal, as pronounced by the President :—" It the terday in a disappoint a ni t t. en which time Westhall had not French tribunals take cognizance, as between foreigners, of certain urgent and provisional affairs, yet as this is shown k a start was two h o'clock , ad at the appointed spot (Frank Key's, , only a faculty which they are at liberty to use or not, Gannic -cor e ner, near Barnet.) At a few minutes after, onlyground without Seward paced over the and as in the present cause the plaintiff and the defend and claimed. The articles were scanned, but there was ant are both English, and the question is, besides, the no provision for a forfeit as to time, and they merely appreciation of a will governed by the laws of England, stated that the 1001. deposited was only to be given up it is not a case in which the tribunal can enter upon the affair. That as Caillet, who has come forward with the when fairly won or lost by a race. At half pa s t t wo plaintiff, without having an y quality to authorise his Westhall arrived, pleading icy roads as his cause of de. doing so, cannot plead in his favour article 14 of the civil tention. Seward had retired, and was, it was stated, in bed. He also went over the 'ground withoutleaandinogsp-, code, inasmuch as he is unable to show that any con- bed. and eventually, after sundry special vention existed between him and the defendant, the P the referee decided that the men should p l eadings, tribunal declares itself incompetent, and condemns the run for the plaintiff and Caillet to pay the costs."—Galignani. stakes on Tuesday (this day) week, All bets are, con- THE CONDE DE MONTEMOLIN.—IIiS Royal High- sequently, off, unless otherwise declared. ness was occupied for the greater part of yesterday in DEATH OF THE ABBE MACPHERSON. This gen tleman died at Rome lately, aged eighty.eight. He was receiving and returning visits. Amongst the nobility and gentry who called upon his Royal Highness we re for many years rect or o f the Scotch College on the the Earl of Carnarvon, Mr. Sheriff Kennard, Mr. Under- Quirinall-hill. The most remarkable passage in his Sheriff Tilleard, Mr. Beresford, M.P., Mr. Si nc l a i r t h e varied career was when ho was selected by the British younger, of Ulbster, Mr. Challis, Sir Augustus Foster, Government, in 1797, as their agent in one of the &c. His Royal Highness paid visits to Lady Petre l boldest moves on the European chess-board ever Captain Ryder Barton' R.N., M ' M ackinnon, M.P. Mr. imagined, and yet scarcely known to the historian of the Laurie, &c. His Royal Highness honoured Mr. E dwin . D. Smith with a sitting for his portrait,in and the even- suggest ion as period. In that year the British Cabinet received a ing visited St. James's Theatre, land the person of Pope Pius V h ., e t then a prisoner in the ANDOVER UNION.—At the weekly meeting of the gripe of France and placin g . under I the h protection of . Eng. Guardians of this union, held in the board-ro om of the workhouse on Saturday, there were more than fifty En lisp Abbe r i g a a s t e se w n maritime town of Sa r v d o e n r a, ed on to t eroi G se n o o f r t e he co la as n t d . , a An as t from o London with ample funds n to ct fresh applicants for admittance into the house, or to have the accomplish the object. It would have been soccessful in out-door allowance granted them, being the greatest number ever known to apply on one day since the for- l'eeeymarrangemenehad not a communication been made matron of the union. In the union, this year, the every y er parties in the pay of the Directory from the neigh.. annual Christmas di n n e r is to be discontinued ; there - b ou rhood of Downing-street, disclosing the plan to our fore, instead of the poor inmates having good roast beef friend in Paris. Macpherson was arrested and plundered en the frontier, and Pius died in the inter ior o f France, and beer, as in former years, on that day, this ) car they whither he was instanly removed. Up to his death th e will have a cheerless meal of bread and cheese. The Abbe had a liberal pension from the papal treasury..., plea against it is, that the number being so great, a slit- Edinburgh Express. ficient sum for that purpose cannot be raised b) voluntary CRACOW.—The Jews of Cracow, says a letter contributions. Mts. SIDDONS.—A statue of t his eminent tragedian from that place, of the Ist instant, were not, before th e incorporation, burdened with taxes so heavily as the is to be placed in Westminster Abbey. T he e xecutio n has been intrusted to Mr. Thomas Campbell , the Jews of Galicia, but now they have imposed upon them a upon liht, for made sculptor, who has just finished the model, which may be tax duty upon ev e ry cand the le y light are ed on Frid to pa ay y a s, ru s e l erable ebra,- se en in the studio of the artist. The original intention was a half length figure, in bas relief, which may also lion of their Sabbath; they are also to pay three times be seen in the artist's studio. The half.length bas relief, the amount of the tax upon meat paid by Christian s . The rabbi of Cracow has had an audience of the however, was abandoned for a full length figure, in ideal Aus drapery, with a scroll in the right hand and nothing in trian Commissioner, and petitioned that the I srae li tes might be released from these charges; but th e Commis teiozn.c,epatsioCnrsaaenowd p n r o i w vil e fo g r e m s s e a p b a n r e t t b o e f ae G e a e li r c d ia e , d. and OMNIBUS ACClDENT.—Yesterday evening, between A few d the left. The design was originally set on foot by Mr. snorter replied, that it would be diffi cu lt to rant his Macready, who placed his name at the head of the cata logue of persons who contributed to the expense of the monument.—Musical World. partial aPplica days ago were discovered, at Audenge, in four and five o'clock, as Mrs. Gardner, the wife of a the Gironde, seve ral Roman cases, in a broken state, and the bust of a statue i n w hi te mar b le, of exquis i te work wood cutter residing in Deptford, was mounting an 1 omnibus in Wellington-street, Strand, she slipped from manship, and some p ar t s o f w hi c h are i n a goo d state o f the steps, which w e re slippery from the frost, and pitch- preservation.—Rris p a p er . ing on her head, she sustained a concussion of the brain. I A BOUNCER : — A. writer at Carmago, Mexico,_ says She was removed to the house of Mr. Williams, in , he saw a half an acre of corn at that place, the shortest Exeter-street, where she lies without hope of recovery, stalk of which, w ith corn upon it, was not less thaw eighteen feet high I ~e- C THE LATE MYSTERIOU = MURDER IN FRANCE. We mentioned a few days back the murderWWo young girls at Albi, under very mysterious eirp t tgiite': :: ::";./. ; . - ! - :.,. stances. The perpetrator of this crime has since discovered by a curious chain of circumstantial It appears that in the chamber of one of the found a shirt stained with blood. It was by znea this slight indication that the law-officers of the Crovi'zif--- have succeeded incoming toaknowledge of the murderer. The Proeureur du Roi and the Juge d'lnstruction, ou seeing this article, conceived it very likely that the mur derer had slept with one of the girls, and getting up in the night had cut her throat whilst asleep. The depth of the wound in the neck of one of them seemed to war rant this supposition. He then, they supposed, entered the room of the sister, and, after a struggle, succeeded in cutting her throat also. The murderer then, finding his shirt stained with blood, came to the determination to take it off, and in his agitation probably left it behind him. The shirt, the Proeureur do Roi remarked, was new, never having been washed. It was not, therefore. unlikely that it had been lately purchase'., cnl in all pi-obihility in the town. H. itutned;ale!) - suilitz;..tard to his office :.:11 the persons at ADA that soil read mitting the article in cpwsti , ,n quired if they rent' Lady, Lind to WIIOW. One V., place for her probity and re , l she had some recollection of ii '3, rub I that of abo whoapr. Ai to have recolliTel the (ircumstanc having -been etliploycA it a soldi aaing tie rtea sdo out, and,' n (•fie of the .vristOandi with the wre:.,, addition, had forg•tten to place n second buttonhole in front. The soldier had perceived this last-named fault, and had pot a second one made, which, being worked by another person, was bitter done than the other one. If the shirt submitted to her, the woman said, was that of which she spoke, the tokens just alluded to would be easily perceptible. On examination, the marks alluded to were all found to be exact, and there could be no doubt that she had sold the shirt to the murderer of the two girls. The woman added that she recollected also that the man had said that he bad been a drummer, and had spoken of lodging at the aaberge of a man named Gesse. The latter being brought forward, deposed that - a man had - for some short time lodged in his house, but he did not know his name. He also declared that the man in question had returned home ex ceedingly late on the night of the 27th of November, which was the date of the murder. The question next to be solved was, who was this man ? A workman came forward, and stated that he had known him for some time ; that his name was Carcasses ; that he had been a drummer in the army, and he generally re sided at Puylaurens, in the department of the Tarn. A corroborative proof of the identity of the man spoken of with the murderer was afforded by the deposition of a trumpeter of the 21st Light Infantry, who declared that he had contrived to get out of barracks at half-past one, on the night of the 27th, and had gone to the lodging of the two girls. When he knocked, one of them told him that he could not enter, as the drummer, whom he had seen a few days before with them, was inside, and they could not admit any one that night. The trumpeter then withdrew. The chain of evidence appearing com plete, measures were then taken to arrest Carcasses, and he was taken prisoner at Puylaurens. One of his boots was found to be stained with blood. He had in his possession a sum of 345 f., for which he could not satisfactorily account, and had also in his room some handkerchiefs bearing the initials of the girls. He was interrogated at great length by the Procureur du Roi, and, being unable to account for the manner in which he spent the night of November 27, refused to answer any other questions. He was then delivered over to the cus tody of the gendarmes, who locked him carefully up. They, however, were so imprudent as to leave him by himself, in place of keeping him constantly in view. The consequence was that, when they entered his room in the morning, they found he had hanged himself with a handkerchiel.—Galignanes Messenger. SANDWICH ISLANDS.—HONOLULU, JUNE 20.—A fleet of 210 - whale ships has been in at Lahaina this spring, and about 70 at other ports. They have all gone to seek cargoes on the north-west of Japan. Two, the Albion and Midas, have already returned ; the one leaking 2,000 strokes per hour, and the other with the loss of her topmasts. The Meteor, Captain Lester, arrived the same day in a state of mutiny, the crew having confined the captain and officers below, undcrplea of ill-treatment. The mutineers were taken out of the ship, at the instance of the Consul, and confined in the fort. The United States ship Shark has just been re paired here, at an expense of about 14,000 dollars, and sails shortly for the Oregon. Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Cormorant, 1,000 tons, 3 guns, arrived here a few weeks since, and after a stay of a few days departed, fir no one knows where. It is generally believed, how ever, that she left for Puget's Sound, expecting to meet Admiral Seymour there, in the Collingwood. Reports of fortifications and military stores have reached us here, as connected with the Admiral's visit to the north. The utmost mystery is now made by English officers of the movements of their vessels this way. The steamer being the first that had ever visited these islands, created a great sensation among the native population. Just previous to the high duties upon wines and spirits, enough of both were imported under the present scale to have produced 50,000 dollars duties. Since then, 10,000 dollars on spirits alone have been received in bond at the Custom-house. The influx of goods ,here from all quarters continues to increase, but not the means of paying for them. Retail prices, on many descriptions of goods, are becoming less than in America. Hawaian registers are in great request for vessels in California, to prevent accidents in case of war between Mexico and the United States, or in the event of England's making a sudden swoop upon our marine. One Mexican, one American, and one English have al ready been put under this flag, by changing owners at this port. The Mexicans treat it with much respect. Commander Stockton, United States ship Congress, arrived on the 9th instant, thirty-one days from Callao. He immediately landed his prssengers, the new Com missioner and Consul, with their families, who were re ceived with much pleasure by all parties. Commander Stockton placed himself at once above the contemptible local squabbles of the place, treated the Government with the utmost courtesy, and speedily arranged matters on an amicable footing for the new officials.—Boston (United States) Atlas. Jean Lussac, living as out-servant with Mme. Laroze, at St. Andri-da-Bois, near Toulouse, under standing that his mistress had received 600 f. for some wine which she had sold, persuaded a man, named Jean Sudreau, to become his accomplice in robbing the house of that sum. On an appointed night they met, and Lussac undertook to enter the house whilst the other kept watch outside. A few moments after Lussac went in Sudreau heard pier c i ng ' cries and then all was silent. Lussac so on came out, bringing with him the money, which Sudreau and he divided equally. The next morning Lussac went to theneighbours, and declared that having, as usual, gone to his work, he found the door of his mis- 7s* i r ) toi Pt •'4..1 ~~~