The Sun. — London, England, 1837-09-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Standard knows that the meeting at which the " Battle of the Diamond" was drank as a toast, was bot a private o ne . R e p or t ers were i nv it e d, an d it was anticipated by Colonel Verner and the other spokes men that an account of the proceedings would fill a large space in the Orange journals. .We are told by the same authority, that Colonel Verner could not have been dismissed, as he had already ceased to be a ma gistrate, having dismissed himself when Col. Blacker was struck out of the commission. On this we have only to remark, that as there does not seem to be a superabundance of civility in the composition of Co lonel Verner, if we may judge from the offensive tone of his answer to Mr. Drummond's official communica tion, if he had not considered himself a magis trate, he would at once have dermnded of the Se cretary of the Lord Lieutenant on what authority he presumed to demand from him an account of his conduct. It appears that' he was a :magistrate of both Tyrone and Armagh. We did not expect to find the Standard satisfied with this dismissal. Our con temporary assumes that in all the feuds of the north of Ireland the Catholics were rebels and the Orange men loyal, and then arrives at the conclusion that " few who are not rebels and traitors in their hearts will think there - was any impropriety in commemora ting the first decisive check given to rebellion and trea son." The system pursued in Ireland in the days when the battle of the Diamond was fought was at least as likely to make rebels as to check them. But we have no wish to enter into an inquiry whether Catho lics or Protestants were most to blame. There can he no good reason now for magistrates identifying themselves with one of the parties. The effect of such partisanship is to stimulate Orangemen to commit the most wanton outrages against the Catho lics—witness the proceedings of the Killinen boys, which Colonel Verner, if he did not encourage, at least did not repress, and--to impress the Catholic sufferers with the notion that it is hopeless to think of obtaining justice. The dismissal of Colonel Verner will raise the spirit of the Catholics, affording them, as it does, a proof that the Government has an eye on the Magistracy, and it will infuse a little more mode ration into the Orange brethren of the Colonel. A few such examples, and faction will be less eager to thrust itsclf before the public. The stipendiary Magistrates are, indeed, the great supports of order in Ireland. The people confide in their impartiality, and their presence serves as a check on the Orange Magis trates.—Morning Chronicle. The threatened removal of Colonel Verner from the commission of the peace, and his dismissal from the Deputy-Lieutenancy of his county, are acts which can fairly he described no otherwise than as an arbitrary ap plication of the executive power, for the indulgence of vindictive feelings, and for the furtherance of factious ends. That such transactions should find ready apo logists in any portion of the press is natural, in so far as it is unprincipled—the whole system of Irish po licy, and the views and arguments by which it is up held, being at this moment one calculated to fill with shame and mortification even those unwise observers of public affairs who do not see that baseness m a Go vernment leads, by direct consequence, to all that is most calamitous and frightful. This stretch of tyranny, how ever, in the Mulgrave Cabinet, exhibits something more than those characteristics which are common to most low-minded politicians, and wherein it might be regarded as a purely superfluous development of unworthy mo tive. It operates more usefully, by throwing some ad ditional light upon the true aim and genius of the Government, as administered by Lords Mulgrave and Alorpeth. It is a multifarious blow, directed at once against the resident aristocracy and the Protestant people of Ireland—against the predominant, that is, the loyal spirit of the North, where England has ever been strongest, and Popery weakest—against the manly readiness of Protestants to protect themselves from the organized and sanguinary schemes of traitors, and against that sacred right of British subjects, the freedom of opinion, speech, and action, where it is not prohibited by /are. What law was violated by Colonel Verner when he drank, or permitted his rucsts to drink, the memory of " the battle of the Diamond ?" We say nothing now about the pri vate character of the occasion on which the toast was drunk. We put aside for the moment the obvious facts, that the :corn which he had hired was his own room ; that the table, covered with eatables and wine, which he himself paid for, was his own table ; that the parties who dined with Colonel Verner, by invitation, were his private company ; that whatever passed within those walls was uttered among friends, and under the usual safeguards of private society ; that, if repeated out of doors, it dif fered in nothine , on that account from any other repe tition of what might occur in social intercourse, and that any cfficer of the Government, not being one of the company, who dared to question the giver of the feast upon matters which it was never pretended were of a treasonable or criminal nature, but with regard to which such officer assumed a right to have his curiosity respected, deserved to be treated as an offensive inquisitor, and as a most impertinent intruder upon the free agency of his independent fellow-sub jects. We set all that aside, and limit ourselves to the inquiry, what crime did Colonel Verner commit against the King's peace, the law of the land, the liberty or property of the su!,ject, by giving as a toast, had the rnectii , been a public one of Conservative electors, who all paid for their tickets—" Here's a memory for you—the exploit of your forefathers—the Battle of the DiFimond ?' What was the battle of the " Diamond " ? A conflict wherein loyal Protes tants, attacked by Popish enemies to the Crown of England, were forced to defend their own lives, and to shed the blood of rebels. Was that a guilty act ? Was the spirit by which those Protestants were ani mated one which any but a traitor to the House of Brunswick would discountenance, or any public func tionary, not himself steeped in sympathy with rebel lion, would pl a y t h e P op i s h tyrant to put down ? Did Lord Morpeth or Lord Mulgrave so far insult the truth of history as to assert that the Protestants who fought the battle of " the Diamond" ought to have been prosecuted for assassins ?—Times. Before anything approaching to a fair representa tion of public opinion be obtained in the House of Commons, it a truth but too obvious that there must be extensive emendations in the Reform Act. The ne cessity of further improvement in the Representative system is already so acutely felt by the great bulk of the community, that, whatever be the fate of the Minis terial measures in the next Session of Parliament, the nation will never be satisfied until it has effected for itself a more fair and correct expression of its sen timents in the Legislature than at present exists there. The time is gone by for partial, tardy, or reluctant con cessions from either or both branches of the Senate to stay or divert thelpursuit of those structural ame liorations without which there never can be harmony between the people and their lawgivers. Until these improvements be accomplished in the structure and constitution of the Senate, there will not be a single reform effected in the other institutions of the State— not a single abuse removed, without an effort which will convulse society to its very depths. There will be neither security for what we hare obtained, nor a safe nor sure mo d e o f pursu i ng w h at we see k . G ent l e agitation is ever and will ever be necessary to the healthy action of all political bodies ; but it is neither safe nor politic to have a country remain in that condi tion, wherein the might of numbers must be perpetu ally appealed to, wherein society must be kept in continual commotion, and wherein the ves sel of the State cannot be propelled in the slight est degree in the course of good Government, without invoking the winds of popular excite ment, and tempting th e sp i r i t o f t h e storm. Such, however,is at prese n t t h e con di t i on of Great Britain and Ireland. It was hoped that the Reform Act would have afforded means of accomplishing other ameliorations, without a repetition of such convulsive efforts as were necessary to its own accomplishment. But this hope has unfortunately proved deceptive. Since the first Parliament con voked under its operation until the last, the popu lar spirit has been on the wane in the House of Com mons ; and should Tory machinations go on and pros per, as hitherto, in checking the free :exercise of the franchise, the Representation will become as defective and rotten $3 ever. By the votes of the tenants-at will the English counties will be made completely sub servient to the dictation of the landlords, and become mere effigies and caricatures of the elective principle ; and by the decision of the Judges in respect to the 101. qualification in Ireland, even the Irish Representa tion will be scarcely in a better position. But even if the Reform Act had not failed of its purpose, if the House of Commons represented the people as per fectly and truly as it is possible to conceive, still reform would be brought to a full stop by the barrier of here ditary legislation. By the extension of the suffrage, short Parliaments, and the Ballot, the Commons may be brought to act in unison with the people ; but the same barrier resists the attainment of all and each of these measures : and if by any extraordinary effort these measures were forced across this barrier while the barrier itself is suffered to stand in the same position, it will offer a perpetual obstacle to all national improve ments. That any misunderstanding should exist be tween the two Houses of Parliament is a subject of general regret, but the great embarrassment is that the more the House of Representatives be purified from the Members fraudulently intruded there, the greater will be the breach between it and the here ditary senate. If the House of Lords cannot agree with an imperfectly reformed House of Commons, wherein aristocratic influence still retains an undue share of the representation, what possible result can be expected from a further reform of the House of Commons but an aggravation of the existing dissen sions ? It is sheer waste of time to seek further re form in the Commons without also demanding a reform in the Lords. Hereditary legislation is the plague spot of the Constitution, and until it be extirpated no healthy nor harmonious action need be expected in the body politic. We wish it were otherwise, but we fear that in the next session the Peers will afford far, far too many illustrations of the truth of these obscr yations.—Morning Advertiser. This week the revising barristers commence their annual duties under the Reform Act, of freeing the existing registers of all names which, by death or dis qualification, have no longer any right to be there, and by adding those of persons who by various causes, in cluding that copious one of previous indifference or neglect, had not been placed there, though all of them possessing their franchise at the period of the late ge neral election. We do not deceive ourselves or our readers when we say that the accession of conservative voters will in every place greatly preponderate, and will be more than sufficient to turn the scale on another election in most of the few counties, and many of the towns not being, like Caine, Tavistock, &c., mere no mination boroughs, where a Whig member has, after a contest, been returned. This the Whigs well knew would be the case when they selected the period which they did for the dissolution, thereby vir tually disfranchising a large body of electors, the vast majority of whose votes would have been fatal to them. In this there was a degree of stratagem and trickery but too apparent, and wholly unworthy of statesmen ; but at the same time such as persons reduced to their forlorn and desperate condition might naturally enough be expected to resort to. We have now to deal with things as they are, not as they might have been ; and it is the especial duty of all persons, and especially those who have hitherto been shut out from the register, either by their own act or that of others, to repair the past error or omission, in whatever quarter it has originated, b) taking care that their names are properly inserted upon the lists, and are not after wards struck out by means of any of the nume rous subtleties and quibbles which are too often allowed to prevail in the revising courts. In this respect it is impossible not to be amused, and, to a certain degree, edified. by a letter which Mr. Hume, the rejected of Middlesex, and the now Honour able Member for Kilkenny, has addressed to a Morning paper upon the subject. Mr. Hume's vote, which we have no doubt is as good as that of any man's in the kinedom, has, it seems, been objected to ; and why —Because the Radical Marylebone vestry, of whom Mr. Hume is one, have thought proper to withhold the rate-books from inspection,so that those who wish to purify the register from the many spurious votes which appear there (and many of which were admitted to poll at the lste elections), arc not permitted to see that which, by law, is open to every man who is inte rested in inspecting it. Well, the result is, that the objectors do that by guess which they would he rightly informed upon, were it not for this unjte,ei fiable act of Mr. Hume and his brother vestrymen. The consequence is, that Mr. Hume's vote is, among others, objected to, at which he is, as might be ex pected, exceedingly angry and indignant. But he should have spared his anger for the real perpetra tors of the mischief, of which he himself is virtually one. We have said that this out-burst of the ex- Middlesex Member is at once amusing and edifying— amusing, as exhibiting a man caught in a trap of his own constructing ; and edifying, as it strikingly exhibits the facilities which the Reform Bill, in the various pro cesses and machinery which it gives rise to, afford s for lembarrassing and disfranchising bona fide electors. We agree with Mr. Horne abstractedly, that his case is a grievance, and that the franchise ought to be better protected, and less easily assailable. With the expe rience that he too often mars whatever lie undertakes, we are scarcely willing to entrust Mr. Hume with the cure ; but there is a chance of his instance being to use, and that it may have its effect, in preventing, among other things, the trumpery guardians of pee ins, lighting, and street-sweeping having it in their power to endanger the rights of a large constituency. The House of Commons will not consult its own dignity anti usefulness if it suffers this flagrant instance of interfe rence with the highest privileges of the people to go un inquired into and unpunished.—Morning Herald. The Irish are a tolerant people, or they would have retorted ere this the cry of No Popery with that of No Protestantism. Yell for yell would be fair play. If noise is to supersede argument, and the tympanum is to be the seat of reason, why should there not be shout for shout and clamour for clamour ? The next writer on logic must add a chapter on the argumentum ad tympanum, or the art of beating the drum of the ear with a goose's drum-stick. This is an instrument on which the Papists might play as well as the Orange men. No Protestantism would look as well on the green flag, as No Popery on the Orange banner. No Protestantism would make a capital roar about a bon fire, on the anniversary of ltathcormack, or the butchery of the Catholic children at Castle Blaney. No Protestantism in Ireland would have a good deal of reason, while No Popery in England is the merest senseless clatter. Of what single advantage does Po pery deprive the English people ? Protestantism is the avowed ground for denying the poorest petitions of the Irish. It Popery had stood between England and Parliamentary Reform ; if Popery had intercepted the benefit of free 'Municipal institutions ; if Popery sup ported every abuse in our Government ; if it prevented every salutary amendment in our laws ; if it was the prop and main-stay o f e very grievance that pinch es u? ; if, whenever a measure was proposed to the Le gislature promising quiet, or improvement, or relief from any burden or oppression, we were encountered with the objection of Popery, and forced, after tedious struggles, to forego objects dearest to us, lest their accomplishment should damage the Popish interest— then would the cry of No Popery have reason—then should not our's be the remonstrance against so just a plaint ; instead of thrusting, as we do now, our fingers into our ears, we should join the shout to the top of our lungs, and hill and valley should ring again. Let us suppose the 'state of England be analogous to that of Ireland—our population Protestant and the Church Catholic—the tenth of our rural affluence going down into the inscrutable pockets of a Popish established priesthood--every spire that points to Heaven indicating the place of an altar where the people of the land never bow the knee ; suppose further, that the Popish pulpit, instead of modestly and decently confining itself to the enforce ment of Popish doctrines, was nothing but a rostrum for the ful m i na ti on o f fi e ry invectives against everything national and Protestant--a pack of full-fed Romish rec tors in every diocese, hounded on by a itomish Prelate, in full cry after everything dear or venerable in the eyes of Englishmen, their national liberties, their na tional character, their national religion; imagine, more over, the Popish power ascendant in one estate of the realm, and the British Protestant millions, in the pos ture and style of mendicants, craving, session after see- Ron, and Parliament after Parliament, not the full amount THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1837. of their rights and franchises, but only certain pittances, or broken scraps of redress and justice—a Church reform like the Appropriation Clause—such elementary liberties as the right to choose their own Mayors, and pave their own streets and alleys : then conceive the contemptu ous rejection of petitions so meek and requests so beggarly—the rejection of them by a Polish oligarchy of a few hundred families, and the avowed ground and principle of maintaining Popery, and with ex press declarations of the irreconcileable enmity be tween Protestant liberties and the Popish interest. Conceive all this, and here indeed is a case to justify the cry that is now so senseless and so brutal. In the circumstances we have feigned every true-born Briton would wish for Stentor's lungs to shout " No Po pery," and the welkin would thunder with all pro priety from the Pentland to the Land's End. Now the case we have fancied is actually the case of our Irish neighbours. "No Protestantism" would be a wild cry from Ireland, but it would have a meaning and an equity. " Since Protestantism," might the Irish people well say, " is against us, we shall be against Protestantism. Since Protestantism precludes us from good laws and institutions, away with it. Since we may not have Protestantism and peace together, No Protestantism' be our watch-word. What is Protestantism to us, that we should be serfs and vil lains for its security and advancement ? What is it to us, that we should stoop like the emblem of Isaachar between the double burthen of a Church in which we do not worship, and a State in which we are denied full participation ? Why should the religion of England hinder the freedom of Ireland ? Has the religion of Ireland hindered the freedom of England ? Reserve that old fanatic bray of No Popery' until Popery shall be to you the mortal foe that Protestantism is to us. We cry ' No Protestantism' with reason, for you yourselves assure us that Protestantism forbids our peace, and interdicts us from the very benefits of a free Government." No Popery is an odd war-cry for a party whose policy has been as favourable to the growth of Popery as if it had been framed in the Ca binets of the Vatican, or bad its origin in the Jesuits' Colleges. No Popery ! No Popery !—while theirs are the arts, and theirs the practices and measures, which have made the Irish people Papists ; which have actually dragooned them into Popery. To whom is the triple Crown indebted for the vast extent of its spiritual dominion at this day in Ireland ? To what does the lady in scarlet owe all her conquests ? To her native charms? To the transcendent moral beauty of her system ? To the resistless loveliness of scriptural truth and fidelity to evangelic princi ples ? Not so ;we are taught to believe that Popery beside Protestantism is the foul Duessa beside the pure and heavenly Una. How then has Popery won the Irish heart ? Whose is the cestus that has gird led her with false attractions ? Toryism, Toryism, Toryism. * * * *. The opponents of the Tories, the sad spectators of the havoc which To ryism has made in matters of religion, as well as in the wealth and peace of Ireland, might indeed cry No Popery with justice. As a cry against Sir Robert Peel, as a cry against the Lords, No Popery would have not a little reason and propriety. When schemes of policy that have filled Ireland with Papists are broached as intrepidly as if they had Protestantised it from shore to shore, let us cry No Popery in the ears of their infatuated advocates. When measures are advanced which serve the Catholic religion by dis gracing the Protestants, let us oppose them with the silent of No Popery. When Lord Statile) , advo cates tithes and applauds the heroes of Gurtroe and Inniscarra, bawl No Popery in his Lord ship's ears. When Sir Robert Peel declares that the safety of the Established Church and the Protestant interest in Ireland indispensably requires the exclusion of the Catholics from every municipal office, and from all share in the management of the minutest local con cerns ; roar, bawl, shout in his ear, No Popery., Sir Robert ! No Popery. When the Protestant Oligarchy of Carlow hunt their Catholic tenants from their an cient settlements, cry No Popery, for to such deeds as these Popery is under immense obligations. Ring No Popery in the ear of the Orange magistrate of Ar megh, draining the midnight goblet to the memory of the bloody brawl and the factious triumph. When the parson foams against the education of the people, let every man gifted with sense enough to know that igno r thee is the nurse of error, and knowledge its mortal enemy, raise his voice and cry No Papery.—Eraininer. GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, (From the Gardener's Gazette.) CANIRLIA JAPONlCA.—Propagate by single buds, by taking a small portion of the ‘sood into that of a li'mlthy stock, cut down to the proper height, giving moderato moist heat until a sufficient growth is made, when they may be ripened in the greenhouse. AURICULAS.—CompIete the re-potting, protect them from sun, wind, and rain, for a few days, in common cold frames. ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 15. Number Dividend Price ...____. ... - .......... 0f ... per CANALS. per 3kares. Annum. Paid. Share 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 97/. ISs. sh. 135 1,482 41. Ashby.de.le.Zoueh Average 113/. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOOl sh. 54 1,005 54 Brecknock and Abergavenny 150'. sh. 100 3,000 1-16 sh. 91. 6s. Birmingham, 1.16 th share 8:1. & 711. 218 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...1251 sh. 100 pd 26 600 Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd 64 400 4/. Cheliner and Blackwater IGO/. sh. 102 500 481. Coventry 11, 91. sh. 700 4,515 Croydon Average 311.25.10 d. sh. S 2,0601 4!. Os. Dudley lOOl. sh. St 600 71. Derby 100/. sh. 133 20,000 Danube and Mayne 34/.38.4d 294 1, pd 28% 3,575 31. Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331. sh. 794 231 401. Erewash lOW. sti. '7OO 1,297 1.'.8/. Forth and Clyde Average 4.001.10 t. eh. 6.'0 11,900 124 Grand Junc --- . lOOl. sh. 200 2,'i'494 1/. Grand Union IOC!. sh. 244 1,500 Grand Surrey 20,0004 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan 100!. '7O 3,696 Grand Western 600 131. 13s. 6d. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1721. 13s. 4d. 230 749 10t. Grantham 150/. sh. 802 6,238 2/. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. Os. 6d. sh. 37 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 25,328 1/. ss. Kennet ind Avon, Average 39/. 18a.10d. sh 244 2,897.1 241. Leeds and Liverpool 1001. sh. 590 5454 131. Leicester l4O/. sh. 225 1 , 8 37 4/. 10s. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 831. I fs. 85 2,400 101. Monmouthshire 100/ .sh. 200 150 101. Melton Mowbray 1004 e h. 200 50*) nt. Mersey and Irwell 1001. sh. 570 3,000 1/. 10s. Macclesfield 100!. sh all pd. 54 247 171. Neath 100/. sh. 325 1,786 301. Oxford 100/. oh. 528 2,400 5/. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 104 1,418 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331. I6s. Pd. sh. Iti 5,060 61. per cent. nochdale Average 85/. sh. 112 500 81. Shropshire 12.51. sh. 138 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 148 3,6001. 44 percent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2!. 10s. sh. 114 700 401. .Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 710 500 91. Shrewsbury 125!. sh. 213 300 9!. Stourbridge 3,647 21.65. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791. 9s. W. sh. 50 533 121. Swansea lOW. sh. 220 3,762 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...AT, 35/. sh. 214 2,60045 n. 321. 10s. Treist ani Mersey, 4 share 100/. sh. 560 8,119 Thames xi 4 51edway... Aver. 191. ss. Bd. sh. 2 I' • 000 sh. } 151- I,oooish. Warwick and Birminghamloo/. sh 253 980 llt. Warwick and Napton 100!. sh. 180 6,000 4/.oa. Worcest .n and Birmingham-. Av. 784 Bs. sh. N) 5,000 255. Wilts an... Berks .. Average 671. 103. Bd. sh. 22 800 3/. Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 75 126 Wisbeach . 1051. sh. 45 905 11, Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 91" i DOCKS. 2,600& 1,06545 h. 13p. c. Commercial • lOO/. sh. 55 498,867 4 4 /. 6 per ct. East India Stock 1104 3,238,31011. 506. p.ct. London Stock 134 Ditto Bonds 1,380,0001. 441. p. ct. West India Stock 94 2,`209 2/. 19s. Bristol 68,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1,352,752 44 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 924 500,000 44 per rent. Ditto Bonds lOO 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 99 Shoreham Hai bour 2.500 ........ Deptford Piet BRUMES. CARNATIONS, PICCOTEES, PINK 3, &C.—Take off and pot layers, and transplant pipings. We shall give our readers a few hints about wintering Carnations and Picco tees from a successful cultivator, in our next. 1,600 Ifs. Hammersm 0- 5Ol. sh. 224 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631. t2s. Sd. sh. 2 1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5Ol. sh. 114 5,000 5,000 las. Rd, Ditto, Old Annuities of V/. ... ...... 60/. pd ISI 5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 151 60,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bond; llB 5,1348 14s Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 17 Continue industriously the arrangement of TULIPS, and preparing the soil for beds. The Kitchen Garden requires hut little beyond carrying into effect the instructions of the past three weeks. Continue to propagate •aluab'.e DAHLIAS, especially pro mising Seedlings, by cuttings, with a very gentle heat, but little air, and no sun, in frames properly sheltered. China kinds of RosEs may be propagated by cuttings of tht, young wood, under hand glasses, in the shade. Provide temporary coverings for Greenhouse Plants nut of doors, in case of frost occurring before the period for housing, as slight frosts and too much wet may be expected. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.-Sept. 16, the Hindoo, M'Gill, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed May 23, and St. Helena July 31; the Per mei, Bentall, from Ceylon, off Hastings, sailed April 23, the Cape June 23, and St. Helena July 18 ; the Eliza, Harris, from the Mauritius, off Dover, sailed May 31, and St. Helena July 17. • Arrivals at the Mauritius.-The Princess, Mayer, May 27, from Calcutta; his Majesty's ship Pylades, May 27, from the Cape ; the Egbert, Peullin, from Calcutta ; the Henry Tan ner, Fergusson, May 28, from Calcutta ; the Val d'Or, Quere, May 29, from Sumatra; the Jeunc Mathilde, May 30, from Nantes; the Emma, King, May 30, from Algoa Bay; the Johanna, Gerard, May 30, from Bombay. Departures from the Mauritius.--The Charles Dumerque, Wilson, May 26, for Hobart Town ; the Finlater, Reid, May 26, for Moulmein; the Hooghly, Bayley, May 30, for Cal cutta ; the Hon. Company's steamer Berenice, Grant, May 30, for Bombay. Arrivals at Calcutta.-The Olympus, Cowl, May 17, from London ; Mary, Hartley, Priestman, May 18, from Madras ; Highland Chief, Paddon, April 25, from Moulmein ; Lord Auckland, Vylie, Aptil 25, from China, Singapore, Penang, and Rangoon ; Sultana, April 25, from Madras and Telli cherry ; Janet, Holmes, April 26, from Madras; Cowisjee, Family, April 30, from China ; Eugene, May 1, from Boston ; Salamanca, May 1, from Moulmein. Departures from Saugur (Bengal.)-The Jeune Lange, April 17, for Bourbon ; Sylph, April 17, and Antonia Pereira, April 20, for Liverpool and China; her Majesty's'ship Andro mache, April 21, for Rangoon ; Mary Anne, April 24, for the Mauritius • Brenda, April 25, f or B os t on; M ar i es , A pr il 25, China; Earl of Clare, April 25, for Bombay; Eudora, April 26, for Hobart Town ; and Comala, April 27, and Thalia, 29, for Liverpool; Earl Grey, May 7, for the Mauritius; Bengal Packet, Steward, May 23, for China. NAVAL OFFICERS.—it is with great satisfaction that we have heard the following officers confidently named as those to whom pensions for service have been assigned, out of the fund which has accrued by the abolition of the Colonelcies of Marines, which were sinecure appointments heretofore held by a few individuals :—Admirals Sir L. W. Halsted, G.C.8., G.C.H., Sir H. W. Bayntun, K.C.8., Sir Charles Rowley, Bart., K.C.8., G.C.H. ; Vice Admi rals Sir Willoughby T. Lake, K.C.8., Sir James Hillyar, C. 8., K.C.H., Sir James Alexander Gordon, K.C.B. ; Captains James R. Dacres, J. S. Carden, Honourable D. H. Mackay, Thos. Brown, John Ayscough, W. F. Wyse, C. 8., Honourable Josceline Percy, S. A. log Weld, Sir E. Chctham, C. 8., K.C.H., Sir John Phillimore, C. 8., Charles Napier, C.B. ; Royal Marines Major-General G. E. Vinnicombe, and Major-General Robert M'Cleverty, C. 8., K.C.H. In the above list our readers will recog nise the names of distinguished officers, many of whom have commanded ships against the enemy. We rejoice to find in the list the name of that ill-used officer, Captain Ays cough.—Naval and Military Gazette. Extract from a letter from Edinburgh :—I open this letter to tell you that I was witness to a catastrophe, on my way to the Post-office, which has made me quite unwell. I witnessed a young man shivered to pieces by throwing himself over the North Bridge. The yells of his brother and a young woman, the latter of whom he left on the middle of the bridge when he took the awful leap, are still ringing in nly ears. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3/ lOs Xiii)ioi ---. 50,000 { s ln c :i c i e s n .l Alliance,British & Foreign 100/. sh. 1011. pd 123 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. Si. pd 51 24,000 ft per sh. Atlas 501. sh. 51. pd 133 1,200 Ish. 51. Birmingham lire 2501. sh. 551. pd 1( 1 5 20,000 41 per cent_ British Fire 2501. oh. 50/. pd 41 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 50/. &k. Si. pd 63 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, liedkal,&c. Life, Kash. 12/10s pd 4 4,000 21 les County 20,00tand 301 bs. 1001. sh. 10/. pd 42 0 ss. Eagle 2005 per cent} Economic Lilt; lOOO/. sk. 2501. pi 375 2,271 225. percent. European Lit.' 0 0/. sh. all pd 22 60,000 2s. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 2/. pi If 1,000,006/. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 115 20,000 51. Guardian lOOl. sh. 2731 pd 33 10,000 6s. ficl. Hope 501. oh. 51. pd 5; 2,400 Si. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fife 5OO/. sh. 501. pd 1213 7,500 ns. Imperial Lite 1001. sh. 10/. pd 10 13,453 41. percent. Indemnity 111Arine 11111. sh. 8/. pi 163 2,020 3/ lOs Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd 82 31. Ditto Life. 79 in,floo 16s. Law Life 5,000 /N. London, Fir.., 25/. sh. 127. 10s. pd 153 3,900 10s. London, Ship 251. sh. 121. IN. pd 151 30,0 it Si. per cent. Palladium Lit• 50/ oh. 2/ pd f. , ./ es Ocl , 50,001 Fratet•tor Fire 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd :15,0d 2,500 11. Provident Lite 100,000 ss. Rock Life 201. sh. 1/. pd 6: 550,220/ 5/. per cant. Royal Ex ch..l:ge 'to , k... 225 6,000 5 per cent. University Life 'oo/. sh. hi'. pd .5i 50,000 4 per cent. United King iom Life "1. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS _ 25,000 8 per cent. AgiiciidCuminTofireland 251. sh. 10/. pd 14 5,000 Australasia 4Ol. sh. 401. pd 52 10,000 10 percent. Ban', of Be mingham 5l/. sh. 101. pd 13 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank . . 5O/. sh. Si. pd 14 30,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster...loo/ eh. 201. pd 21; .',OOO 4 per cent. Lancaster 100/. sh. 20/. pd :01 23, 0 00 Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. pd 17; 50,000 7f per cont. Manchester and Liverpool} 100/. sh. 15/ pd 20 Discount 21,000 7 percent. 'Manchester. 100/. eh. '25/ pd 2'7 2 0 ,000 Provincial hank of lreland...lool. sh. 25/. IA 4'; 20, , C0 National Bank of Ireland ...5"l. sh. 1741. pd 13 10,000 S per cent. National Pr,vincial Eng. —lOOl. sh. 351. pd 33 :0,000 Gloucestershire 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 20 0,000 10 per cent. Hampshire. 50/. eh. 5/. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1/ Se 64 Bath 2Ol. sh. 101. pd 24 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 21 5/.percent. 5,000 [ and Bs. 5,3 1 Ditto Provincial "01. sh. 19 pi 2'.. , . 908 51 108 Birmingham 4,250 2/ Os Bristol 2O . sh. 36 1,500 nr 106 Brighton 2Ol. sh. 11 750 31 les Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. mt. pd l. 2,471 4i per cent. Brighton Geoeral 20/. sh. all pd 17 4,('.00 41. Continental Consolidated lOO/. 6211. pd 85 1,000 10/. City of London 'OOl. sh. all pd 184 1,1.00 6/. Ditto, Ncw 4,000 41.105. Equitable .... 4741. pi 26 100;00 24 per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 41, SOO 51. per cent. Isle ot Thatiet '251. sh. 201. pd 20 2,350 6/. per cant. I ndependent IN. sh. all pd 4) 9,000 31. per cent. Phcenit .. 5O/. sh. 39/. rd 22 1,000. 41. per cent. Rateliff 1001. sh. 80/. pd 55 4,0u0 South notropolitan 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 17 8,•.N10 51. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 46/. pd 25 210 5/. per ccnt. Warwick '',ol. sh. 50 400 101. per cent WaKefield 12,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,001 12s. Ditto New Ni. sh. 10/. pd 9 BCO Yarmouth. ___ _ _ ___ 20/. sh. 18/, pd 9 WATER warms. I,soo 9s. Biripingham 251. sh. 251. pd 21 ; 1,434 6!. East London lOO/, sh. 140 5,500 2/ 106 Or inn Junction ....Avera;;;e 411 13s. 44. sh. 52 2,000 2/. Kent lOOl. sh. 43 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 3.6 1,500 21 106 New River London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,48'd I/ 156 Manchester and Salford 1,011 4 per cent. South Lonacii lOOl. sh. 8 i 8,204 34/. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. Pd. sh. N.) 1.360 11145 York Building Co. Lesser Prop ..... —lOO/. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 Eirn;ingliam and Derby 9,3 9 0 ... ...... Birmingham and Gloucester 101 pd 11 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 04 13, , :110 'Bristol an 4 Exeter 100/. sh. 10 pd 61 660 Calcutta and Sauaur 5O/. sh. 2/. pd 01 7,5 , 0 ........ Cheltenham and G. Western...!oo/. sh. 711 5 3,009 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001. pd 40 12,000 Commercial Blackwall 501. sh. 21 pd Of 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 21 pd OZ 6'1,000 Eastern Counties 251 ,h. 21 pi 01 ...... .., ((rand Junction 1001. oh. 55/. pit 11)3 Great North of England 7l. pd 5.1 25,‘.103 Great Western low sh. 557. pd 651 2,0 0 0 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001 pd 100 11,e00 Hull and 'eke/ 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 01 10,000 Leeds and Alaticheaer 1001. sh. 5/. pd 14 2,100 2/ per cent. Leeds and 5e1by........ 100 sh. 41 1,500 11.55. Leicester And Swannington -.501. sh. all pd 10 5,109 10 per cent. Livnrpaol and Manchester...lo( /,sh. 1001. pd 202 10 per Gent. Ditto Quarter Shares ............ .......25/. pd 61 36,000 London and ilrighten Sel oh. 51 pi 11 12,000 London and Elackwall 50/. sh. 31 pd 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich .......201. sly. 20/. pd 14 25,000 ...... ... London and Birmingham -1001. sh. 904 pd 144 Ditto Quarter Shares 51. pd 20 20,000 .... ..... London and Southampton ....50/. sh. 431. pd 30 Ditto ditto New ' 11. pd 11 7,000 London and Croydon Trunk el. sh. 2'!. pd. 15 7,000 Ditto Scrip 141. sh. 2/. pd 4f 12,000 London Grand Junction-- . : 5 /. sh. 51. pd 2 10,0(4 Msnchester and Birmingham 50/.sh. 5/.' pd :31 North Midland 100/. sh. ..15/.14 • 134 Northern and Eastern lOOl . -slf. t;/.`pd 04 2,600 ...... ... Preston and Wyre . . ....50/. sh, 41. pd 98,000 ...... .. South Eastern and Dover '. 71. pd 3 1. 0 00 M. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 240 9,000 ........, Thames Haven 50/. sh. 21. 10s. pd 01 1,400 6,009 5 5 0 0/ . ..5 h h . . 3 2 1 /.. pd pd 0 0 1 Westminster York and N wr rlatNVEMs.idlan Greenwichd __ . _ . _ _ __ 8,000 Albion Copper 5l. sh. 3jl. pd 12 4,000 ii. 56. Alien 151. sh. 121. lOs ?d 1° 10,000 „, ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. 51. pra....100/. sh. all pd 31 Ditto Subscription .95/. p. 4 2,006 lot Bolanos 1501. sh all pd 86 10,000 11. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm 35/. sh. 201. pd 25 6,0 i 0 Macaubas & Cocaes United 2 5/.sh. 231/. pd 6 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 201. sh. 0/. pd 21 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 20/. sh. 201. pd 5 Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. FL pd 6 20,000 ......... British Iron 50/. sh. NI/ pd 301 6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 411. pd 1 Cata Branca 61/. pd 61 Candonga 7l/. pd tii 10,000 11 Copiapo 2Ol. sh 121/ pd 101 8,500 .. ". Columbian, iss. 51 . pm. 2,850 . 31. English 121 li.s. pd 22 20,000 6,155 .... 3,000 Polberou Consols 10/. sh. 81. pd 2 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered l2 Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 1124 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm..... 40!. sh. all pd 11 Ditu, Scrip ll Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 2 West Cork _ _ _______ 5O/. sh. 50/. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 201 1,500 700 King' College 16 . 0/. pd 28 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural 160/. sh. 261/. pd 54 6,000 41. per cent. British American Land Company ... 231. pd 121 10,000 6/ per cent. Canada Company 1001. oh. 24/. pd 321 200,000 51 per cent. Upper Canada Loan 9B City Bonds, 4 per cent 1(11 ' 15 000 1/. Os. General Steam Navigation ...151. "Z. 13/. pd 221 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,009 IL London Corn. Sale Rooms Ay. 751. oh. . 19 8,009 Caoutchouc Company .251. oh. 21/. pd Ii New Brunswick Land Company 43/. pd 11 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. oh. 1001. pd 125 2,633 il. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 701. pd 66 4,0f)0 Thames Tunnel 50/. sh. all pd 5 10,000 65. Van Die ner.'s Land 1001. oh. 17/. pd 10 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. AUG. 24, 1837. BANKS. 1 ,5 00"10. 6/. p. ct. Bank of Seitlina — 831. Gs. Bd. sh. all pd 19 , 1/. 2,000,01(1. 51 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/.Bh. all pd J 56/. 500,0901. Bp. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. .•.,11 pd 232/. 2 000,00 0 1. 6 /. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 1711. 5 1 000,0005. .!, o. et. National .lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 1511. 2'000,0001. 111 p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 501. pet 1244 4 0 00 , 0 04 4p. ck Western et Scotland _ 2OOl. sh 30/. pd 371/. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250.00000. 81P. ct. Scottish Union 201. sh. 1/. pd 26s - ,500 61 p. a. Hercules 100/. sh. 101. pd 131 15s. prof sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland —.lOl. sh. all pd %I. 5 0 , 000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 101. pd .11. 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 101. pd 181 (.'s 5 , 000 6p. ct. Edinburgh I.ife 1001. sh. 101. poi 141108 100, 000 Si p. ct. West of Scotland lOl. pd 710 s MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 Edit'. and Was. Un. Cana1...501. sh. all pd 221 . Ditto Allocated ...9431. sla. all pd 65!. 5,400 5 per oent. Edinb.:Joirit Stock Water... .25/. sh. all pd 041 Carron Iron Company 250/. sh. all pd 45/. 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 50/. sh 381. pd 4411, 10,000 3 per ctnt. Edinburgh & lAith Glass `2o/. sh. 1131. pal 8/, 4,5(0 10 par cent. Edilibuigh Coal Gas ~/ sh. all pit 5 3, / 4,!',0 10 NI- r^ut Yq,-•,. • -, A• 14 , .:,i: ! ~r . . , ry.L r o 71 per ceht. Lett!a (..;oa, (..., , ~i s,,. .o ) i i si 4 bi i i. . 1,206 Edinburgh cod Dalkeith Railway...so • 3,000 5 Per cent. Equitable I.43aa'eompany...Bsl. ib. Pir , pd W. LONDON SESSIONS.-SATURDA.Y. SIR PHILIP SYDNEY V. THE TRUSTEES OF THE METROPOLI TAN SUSPENION BRIDGE COMPANY. Mr. RYLAND moved in this case for an attachment against certain funds belonging to the Metropolitan Suspen sion Bridge Company, with a view to recover the sum of 1,3611. 12s. 10d., which that Company were indebted to his client. It was ascertained, and was not denied by the party on the opposite side, that a considerable sum of money belonging to the Company was in the hands of the London and Westminster Bank, and the object of Sir Philip's ap plication to the Court was to obtain an order of attachment against the funds of the Company in the keeping of that establishment, in order that he might by that means be enabled to enforce payment of his claim. The trustees of the Company were five in number, all of whom, with the exception of a Mr. Anderson, were in the office at the time the debt was contracted. The order of attachment could consequently be issued as against them individually, Mr. GURNER, for the defendants, contended that the Court had not the power to issue an order of attachment against the property of any Corporation such as that forming the Metropolitan Suspension Bridge Company. There were no precedents to show that such a thing had ever been done by a Lord Mayor's Court. But, besides, there was an informality in the present application, inas much as the name of Mr. Anderson, who was a trustee at the time at which . the debt was said to have been contracted, had not been included in the list of responsible parties. The RECORDER said the case was one of difficulty as well as one of importance. He thought the name of Mr. An derson ought to have been included as one of the parties against whom the application was made. He could hardly undertake to give a final decision on the subject at that time. The few precedents which he knew as bearing on the arise were adverse to the motion ; for in no instance could ha find the right of attaching the property of a Cor poration recognised. That was his opinion as a Judge, presiding in that Court ; but, as a private individual, he should say, that the property of a Corporation, as well as of individuals, ought to be attachable ; otherwise, indivi duals might at any time be deprived of their just and lawful claims. He felt the difficulty of the case, and would, therefore, in the meantime give a verdict for the plaintiff, subject to the question being made a special case, and the verdict not to take effect until the -case was finally decided. His LORDtHIP ordered the officers to afford facility to the Counsel on either side to search fir precedents in the records of the Court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. On Saturday Edward Bate:, a painter, was charged with feloniously delivering a threatening letter to Mr. Bag shaw, the Deputy Chairman of the Northern and Eastern Railway Company. Mr. BODKIN stated the case, commencing with the pri soner having threatened the lives of Mr. Rowcroft, the Secretary, and others, for which he was conveyed to the Mansion House, and sent to prison for two months, for the want of sureties to keep the peace. It now appeared that the irritation of his mind had not subsided during his im prisonment, and indeed be had written thence, demanding 1501. as the price of his forlbearance—the prisoner having purchased a number of shares which had since considerably fallen in value, and which, when sold by Mr. Rowcroft, left the prisoner that gentleman's debtor. The Company had not exhibited articles of the peace against the prisoner, who, on his discharge, wrote the threatening letter in question, for which he was again given into custody. The prisoner said if he were not out on bail he would shoot Mr. Rowcroft ; but he would keep his word if he pledged his honour to his sureties to be quiet. They might have safely admitted him to bail ; but the Directors admitted he had a claim on them by sending him 20/. by the Under- Secretary. Mr. Bagshaw said that transaction was a pri vate act of Mr. Masterman on learning the distress of the prisoner. _ _ . After some conversation the prisoner said that to pro- secute him would be a cold-blooded and deliberate murder. Mr. Alderman VENABLES said that if the prisoner had received the provocation he believed he had he had no right to take the law into his own hands. If the Directors of any Company were to behave dishonestly they would soon be corrected by the public reprobation, and in one way or other by the law. He felt pity for a man who had lost all his property, and perhaps destroyed his future pros pects, by an unfortunate adventure ; but it was not to he borne that every unlucky speculator should turn upon the Directors, and say, " I'll shoot you through the head if you do not pay the money I have lost." This sort of treatment must be repressed. The case then proceeded. Mr. Bagshaw proved the delivery of the letter, and that it was intended for him and the other Directors. A clerk identified the prisoner's hand-writing, and Forrester produced the pistol found on the prisoner. This completed the evidence, and the prisoner was com mitted for trill. He laboured under great excitement. He stated he had paid 365/. for his shares. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Two young men, who gave the names of _Mown and Penny, were charged with having picked a gentleman's pocket. A person stated that he saw the prisoners behind a gen tleman in Regent-street, who suddenly exclaimed that he had been robbed, and immediately set off in the direction he thought the thieves had taken. Witness afterwards met the prisoners ; and a police sergeant, recognising them as notorious characters, took them into custody. The sergeant told the Bench that Brown had been in custody several times. Brown—Yell, vot on it ? It's vonce a prig and alvays a prig vith you, I s'pose. But I gets my living now in a livery honest vay, by jobbing about in the vitevashing line, and I an't done nuffin in my old line for up'ards of a year. The Magistrate—Well, Penny, what have you done ? Penny (wiping his eyes)—Vy, I'm much more hinnocenter than a hunborn babby. I drives a cab—that is, I " bucks" for the reg'lar drivers, when they goes to take a snooze for a hour or so. The policeman stated that Penny was a noted utterer o base coin. Penny—Vot's that you say—me a noted smasher and a 'puted thief? Vy, you only had me once for passing a qveer half-crown ; and then could't make not no case on it. Mr. CHAMBERS observed that there did not appear suf ficient evidence to convict. The policeman said he had no doubt that they were out thieving. Penny—There, the police will avear anything. Me commit felony ! If anybody says as how I thieved I'll bring a legal haction agin—Here the prisoner suddenly dropped his voice on fixing his eyes on a gentleman who had just entered the office, who, on looking at the innocent Mr. Penny, exclaimed, " Why, you are the very man who stole my glass sugar basins." The gentleman, whose name is Sturgess, a china and glasi-dealer in Park-lane, then stated that Penny, under the pretence of applying for a situation, contrived, every time be made his appearance, to carry off some articles in the shop. His confederate was taken into custody, but Penny escaped. Brown was discharged, and Penny and another man, named Messenter, his companion in the robbery of th e g l ass basins (who was remanded until Saturday, and Mr. Stur gess attended to prosecute), were then sent to Newgate for trial. MARYLEBONE. An elderly man, named Davis, a gardener, residing in Praed-street, Paddington, was re-examined on the charge of causing the death of his wife. It appeared that, on Monday night, the prisoner had a violent altercation with his wife, who struck him se ;oral times with the handle of a broom, which so exasperated the prisoner that he armed himself with a pruning -knife, and thrust it with such force into his wife's arm, that it penetrated to the bone. She was conveyed to the infir mary, but mortification taking place, she died on Friday. The prisoner, after committing the act, became so much affected, that he fell down in a swoon, and was so ill from grief, that he could scarcely stand when before the Magis trates. He was allowed to depart, on his son again be coming answerable for his appearance at the inquest, which will be held on Monday. It is said that Davis is reduced to such a state by the lamentable occurrence, that he is not likely to survive his wife many days. QUEEN-SQUARE. Mr. Stapleton, a wharfinger, residing at Paddington, appeared before Messrs. GREGOILIE and WHITE to answer the complaint of Henry Wilson, for passing through the Westbourne Green Toll-gate without paying the toll. A number of informations depended upon the decision - of the magistrates in this case. It appeared by the evidence of Boulton, one of the col lectors of the Westbourne Green gate, that in consequence of the works carrying on for the Great Western Railway it became requisite for the trustees of the road to remove the tollgate from the entrance to Lord Hill's residence, where it formerly stood, to the Canal-bridge at Paddington, and that the defendant, upon passing through the gate in ques tion, refused to pay the toll. Mr. HTJMPHIIEB for the defendant submitted that there was no case against his client, it not having been proved that the gate had been legally erected, nor that the ne cesFary forms prescribed by the Act had been complied with. Mr. GIiEGORIE thought the right to erect gates could not be decided there, and upon an understanding that the other summonses should be withdrawn, convicted the defendant in the penalty of 40s. and costs. fr , vl() Ar Ir 4 r T SIDUCrION.—A yuuud sc,uuie 01 excecuiuo►y pl'epuz.be:.S in; _appearance attended before the Magietratee for the purpose of stating that she had been seduced froni.l.ler home in Norfolk by a Bedouin Arab, who, after cohabiting with her in London for a short time, heartlessly left h.er.- She said that she was now completely destitute, not hay.ing a farthing, and that her only object was to got back into the country, but that she had not the means. Mr. TRAILL, the Magistrate, directed Be llam y , the offi cer to accompany the unfortunate girl to the relieving ovr_. seer, and to describe to him the circumstanc es under which S he had been brought away from home. The overseer promised to send the applicant borne im mecli4tely. LAMBETH-STREET. alias Kiny, was charged with , Jas. Aldr:ct. , ;:' , alf-sovereigns. Passing two gilt sixpences for . 1 :' The prisoner, who is a notorious smasher, made a The prate resistance to the p..."`lice, and it was with considerable difficulty that he was captui lrid. , Two distinct utt erances were proved against the prisone.:: and the sixpences Pre duced were so ingeniously metamorpi..osed and deeplY that scarcely anything but the test of. wC i g ht could detect them. when it The prisoner was remanded until Tuesd a y next, is supposed several similar cases will be preferred. gilt,. CORONERS' INQUESTS• Saturday an inquest was held at the Mansfield Aril Kentish-town, on view of the body of a fine yout h, name' : Charles Pritchard, aged 14, Woo terminated his existenee by throwing himself from a two-pair of stairs window I . O L e . the street. - The greatest excii?nient prevailed in the weigh' bourhood, in consequence of a A reP ellY ,I,een treated cru 0 that deceased had, for a series o;'years',. o f business by his father, a master tailor in a good ' the New-road. town , de' oenerally circulated r John Elliot, of No. 1, Spring-place, Kentistb• et posed that on Monday, the 4tla instant, as he was LOl- me breakfast, he saw deceased, who was staying at the P',_ house, fall with tremendous force from above, on to 10 door-way steps. Witness lifted him up and conveyed hie l indoors, when he was put to bed and attended by a sur geon, but - the injury which was inflicted on him, partial" larly about the head, terminated fatally. The height from' which he precipitated himself was 4.5 feet. Sarah Fenn, the landlady, stated that deceased was the son of Mr. Pritchard by a former wife, and that he O h° father) had married a second time. About a fortnight lig° deceased (whom she had nursed in his infancy) came to her and begged that she would favour him with a lodglegt:Bs he was so ill-treated at home. She accordingly gave shelter and food. On questioning him as to the na tur ed e the treatment he had experienced, he said that h e been put into the cellar and ci uelly beaten with think rope ! . by his father, who, during the period of the infliction 01 torture,tl a placed deceased's face against a pillow in an cier that his cries might not be heard. - Some further evidence was givtn both for and aga inst the father. The Coroner then summed up the evidence, an d the Jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased died from th e injuries he received by throwing himself out of wie d l,' being at the time in a state of temporary derangenacn t, duced by excessive fear arising from the ill treatment of bid father." The investigation lasted some hours ; and on the fat leaving the Mansfield Arms, on his return home, be loudly hooted and abused by a crowd which had . lected in the street. On Saturday an unusual degree of excitement was fested along the shores of the river near to Shadwell , Ra t ' cliffe, and Limehouse, by the report that the body of a Mt: without either head or legs, had been picked up in„,tp,,; river. Upon inquiry we found this to be the fact. trunk was in such a state of decomposition as to afford 1 1 evidence whatever as to whether the injuries the ma ° sustained were caused by violence or accident. At tif c ; o'clock an inquest was held at the Marlborough's Fox-lane, when the only evidence adduced was, as to il; finding of the body, which lay in the bone-house of Sh' well burial-ground, and exhibited such a horrible mutilaties and decomposition to which mortality is subject, that the Jury were able to take but a casual glance. The Jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased elatel/8 found drowned, but from the extremely decomp os ed 5 of the body, it was impossible to ascertain by what mese he came by his death, or whether he had suffered fo ul violence." On Saturday an inquest was held a t th e Adam an d El : Inn, High-street, Kensin g t on , on v i ew o f the body of gar•r ` e Smith, aged thirty-five, w h o comm itt e d s uicide by 13 ° 4113 " herse Some bad of the poor woman's relatives said that 0 " e f e ff been very unhappy since the de a th of her mother, months back. Verdiet—" Temporary mental deragement." THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF `4. WIFE AND HER PARAMOUR. Of BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, 14.—Two examinatto ,a . - witnesses on the part of M. Volant have just taken pla e with closed doors, when the only parties permitted to b 6 present (with the exception of the witnesses and the par' ties deeply interested in the result) were the Procureur Roi, the counsel, and the Greffier, who took down the Jet positions. The clothes which M. De Cottigny left behind him, in his precipitate retreat through the window' ° a Madame's bed-room, after the second pistol of the inju re ,. husband had flashed in the pan, were produced and Wane; fed by the police-sergeant as those he discovered in tu room of Madame Volant, after she was wounded b y bet husband. Another witness proved the inexpressible,' t° have belonged to the seducer. Several others were 00 called, who proved having repeatedly seen M. De Cottign: go to M. Volant's house, and remain there for some tim during his absence—a fact which was telegraphed by 8 .. ` frail partner by putting back the white drawing-room cw; tains, which were always closed when the husband was .110, home. The depositions on the part of M. Volant's 01 nesscs, at both the examinations, have been forwarded t 0 the High Court of Donai, for the Court to decide „ be lie ; the CaEC should be tried before the Correctional Court ° (1 St. Omer or Boulogne ; but as the offence was c ommit te d within the jurisdiction of the latter tribunal, it is esPe ete s . p that the trial will take pl ace h ere i n a b ou t three w eek e There w ill be two pr ocee di ngs — t h e fi rst w ill b e against Cottigny, for an i n f rac ti on o f d om i c il e , or unlawfully eO, tering the premises of M. Volant at night, and being dt vered in bed with hi s w if e . Thi s o ff ence will sill°% the party to at l eas t t wo y ears ' i mpr i sonmen t, and 3" ha according to th e di scre ti on o f hi s j u d ges . Fot t he second offence (that o f cr i m . con .) proceedings must red taken before ano th er t r ib una l ; b ut i t i s rumn ti " r that the families of the respective parties *ill entleanud to prevent such a further exposure as a se-he trial will inevitably hazard, by effectinc , a divorce - 0 , tween M. Volant and his wife without the publicity of Pr_ b ceeding in a Court of Law. A deed of separation, in stl e 'd an event, between M. and Madame Volant, will be 04% 0 by the Mayor, and in the presence of two Avocets, a n d then affix their signatures to th e s t am ped documen t ' l i et e this, according to the French laws, amounts to a comp the divorce. M. de Cottigny, it will be re membered , to partner of M. Volant. An application has been mad e the Chamber of Commerce, on the part of the latter , fe,,, dissolution of partnership, which will take p l ace bel . e'e e s trial. As soon as it has been decided by the ba t ill e Dana', where the case is to be tried, M. Volant jab to surrender himself, pro forma, to the police authordn.s. on the charge of firing at and wounding his wife i t % the De Cottigny will also have to surrender hirusell , ," e . h is charge of infraction de domicile. At the trial, le - a moon looked forward to with the greatest interest, B° T , lne t; lig"' secrets and intrigues are expected to be broug - : too , the The parties being twe of the leading men in th e scandalmongers are all on the tip-toe of e Madame Volant has nearly recovered from the eff t A the wound ; and she has, it is rumoured, twice at _ the to commit suicide. 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