The Sun. — London, England, 1846-07-16 00:00:00

ELECT s ION MOVEMENTS. RETURN OF M EDINBURGH R. W. GIBSON CRAIG. MoNna.v.—The nomination of a candidate to fill up the vacancy created by the appointment of Mr. William Gibson Craittow a Lord of the 1 reasury), took place here to - day. Mr. p was solicited by the complete suffragists and a ll sma section of the Di ssen t ers t o come f o rward in opposition, but laving refused to be put in nomination at this time, Mr. Cra* was allowed to walk the course. Rumours existed, ha'sever, that Mr. Ayton, advocate, would take the place of PA.. Dunlop, even up to the hour of nomination. From 2,000 to 3,000 persons were present. Dr. MACLAGAN proposed Mr. Gibson Craig, and eulogised bis excellent business talents, his unswerving integrity and independence, the purity of his public and private life, the readiness of access he afforded to men of all parties and per suasions, and his earnest endeavours to promote the public good on all occasions. In office he felt assured they would find both in him and Mr. Macaulay the same devotion of their duty to their constituents, and the same earnest endea vour to promote the general welfare of the country, which they had always so well shown as their representatives.— (The worthy doctor was repeatedly cheered in the course of his address.) Mr. M. TMAN seconded the nomination. The SIit:RIFF (no other candidate having been put in Do mination) declared Mr. William Gibson Craig duly elected. Mr. GIBSON CRAIG returned thanks at some length, and after stating that he regarded his re-election as a vote of confidence in the present Government, referred to his vote on the Mayneoth grant. This subject, lie was aware, created much interest amongst the electors at the present moment. This question (said the lion. Gentleman) is the only one on which, during the eight or nine years I have been in Par liament, I have had a difference with my constituents. Though I did regret that difference, I do not regret the vote which I gave, and I have nothing to retract.—(Applause). When you had elected me, I had always voted for that grant to lilaynooth ; and I stated to you that I should be guided in every case by the principles of civil and religious toleration, and with equal justice to all classes of her Majesty's subjects. That grant looked upon then, and I regard still, simply as a grant for education; and I do solemnly declare, that I never have seen, and am not vet able to see, that there is one atom, that there is one iota of principle involved in it. I see around me, on this hustings, men of all religious persuasions —men who are leaders of the different sects of religion to which they belong. I find many of the most distinguished members of the Free Church of Scotland—l find many leading members of the Established Church—l find the Lord Provost and other leading Dissenters—all coming here to declare that they hold there is no principle in this vote, several of whom have said that if they had had a vote to give, they would have given it for this grant themselves. —(Cheers.) When you have such a unanimous opinion from men of all classes, men of the highest moral and religious cha racter, men of the most acuteness of mind, and some of them the ablest lawyers in this city—l ask you whether this point of principle does not resolve itself into a mere point of casu istry?—(Cheers.) I use that expression, f trust, without ()fiance ' seeing it is impossible for me t o l oo k upon i t other wise. Sic C. E. Smith has declared that he will not rescind the vote to 3lavnooth, because he holds Maynooth to be one of the establishments of the country.—( Hear, and a laugh.) My Right Hon. Colleague and myself are not prepared to rescind that vote either; but we ate also prepared not to go farther. We are prepared to say that we will never vote for the endowment of the Catholic priests, either out of the funds of the State, or out of any appropriation from the eccle aiastical revenues of the Irish establishment. The Hon. Gen tleman then referred to the importance of promoting sana tory measures for the city of Edinburgh, and especially of securing an abundant supply of water. To the annuity tax be objected, but could not promise to sweep it away, unless some feasible substitution were proposed. The Hon. Gentle man concluded by an earr est appeal to the electors to return Mr. Macaulay as his colleague. Mr. MACAULAY having been loudly called for, addressed the electors. After dwelling on the merits of the Hon. Gen tleman whom they had just returned, he said, I have never as you well know, been in the habit of resorting to claptrap or vote traps.--(Laughter.) But this I do say, that if any mitigation, any salutary change of the system under which the clergy of Edinburgh are now paid, can be effected, I am confident that it is by the advice of such men as those I now see around me that there is the best chance of obtaining it. Perhaps you will permit me, having discharged the duty of congratulating you, to say a few words respecting myself. If the opposition to me bad been raised on any other grounds than that on which it has been raised, I should not, on this occasion, have come forward ; for if a large party had chosen to oppose me, and yet if they supported my Hon. Friend on the ground that his qualifications for his business, and his local knowledse, were so greatly superior to mine--on the ground that he, as your townsman, and as the son of one of your most eminent townsmen, bad peculiar claims upon your favour, I would not have contested the correctness of such an opinion. Most readily shall I admit that on every ground but one my Hen. Friend's claims are superior to mine; but on the particular ground en which I am opposed, I affirm that we stand exactly on the same footing.—(Cheers.) I would not have said this till my Hon. Friend was elected. I would not have said so, while by pointing to this argu ment I would seem to be endangering his return ; but as that is past all danger, I will ask you to observe what is the relation betweea him whom you have unanimously re turned, and him for whom a poll is to be taken to-morrow. Both of us voted for the Maynooth grant. Both of us voted for it through every stage.—( Hear, hear.) That paper of which so much has been said—that resolution, in which cer tain of the electors of Edinburgh said that they would never again return a man who voted for the grant to Maynooth, was sent to my Hon. Friend as well as myself. That reso lution was answered in the same manner. Both of us de clared that we could not change our opinions —that we thought we were right, and that we thought the memo rialista were wrong, and that we would continue to vote as we had done ; and we continued to vote as we had done before. And now, I ask, is it principle that my Honourable Friend should be returned unanimously, and that an y o f t h e persons who acquiesced in returning him can consistently oppose me ?—( Hear.) And observe particularly how absurd Una is, front the very nature of the opposition, because if it were put on the ground of mere expediency everybody could understand the principle of saying that we will drive the nail as far as it would go, that we will keep out the weaker candidate. That is all fair on the ground of expediency; but it is different when put on the ground of Christian duty. Now, I put the point of Christian duty. Both candi dates have voted for the Maynooth grant. If it be upon Christian duty that you are rejecting nee, would not Christian duty call upon you to oppose my Hon. Friend whom you have allowed to be unanimously returned ? This is mere paltering with Christian duty.—(Cheers.) We stand before you on the same footing in reference to the question. We stand before you in respect to the Catholic priesthood exactly on the same footing. Every word that I spoke in the Drusic-hall my Honourable Friend afterwards adopted. Every word that he has spoken to-day I now adopt.— (Cheera.) The poll, which comes on to-morrow, I regard as one of no common importance. It will be, I believe, the single poll which will be taken on the occasion of the forma tion of the new Administration. If this great city, the capital of Scotland, shall pronounce that she has confidence in her Majesty's Government—if she shall pronounce that she approves of a conciliatory spirit being followed towards Ireland--if she shall pronounce that she is determined not to insult and to oppress one-third part of the population of the United Kingdom, she will render a great service to the cause of good government and of civil and religious freedom.— (Cheers.) The contrary result I will not permit myself to anticipate. I believe that our victory iscertain ; but it must be your care to snake it decisive. Let me entreat you to remember that every vote is of consequence, nut so much because the event is doubtful, as because the majority will produce an effect which will be felt all of over England and Ireland.—( Cheers.) I have two requests to make—first, that you will be early at the poll; and, secondly, that if you should see, as I hope you will see, that early in the day the contest is not matter of doubt, you will not, on that account, think you are dispensed from doing your duty. On Wed nesday, victorious or vanquished, I wil( meet you here again ; for, be the result what it may, I will look you in the face without shame.—(Cheers.) I trust, however. that I shall come here to congratulate you on another triumph, and to return you thanks similar to those which have been with se much propriety, manliness, and eloquence, addressed to you by my Hon. Friend.—:(Cheers.) Mr. Fox Metices in obedience to the loud calls of the assemblage, addressed the electors. Had I the honour to possess the franchise of the city of Edinburgh, there is no man who would go to the poll to-morrow with a more thorough conviction that he was doing that which was for the benefit of this city, and of the country at large, than I would have in voting for my Right Hon. Friend Mr. Macau lay.—(Cheers.) I cannot understand the nature of the oppo sition which has been given to my Right Hon. Friend. Had it been on the subject of Maynooth, I might have been sup posed to have some sympathy with it; but it is not upon the subject of Maynooth, otherwise that opposition would have ex tended to the Hon. Gentleman whom you have just returned as your representative. And I cannot but believe and avow that Maynoeth on this occasion has been made the stalking horse of some paltry, miserable, mean feeling of a personal nature towards my Right Hon. Friend.—(Great cheering.) Why, if it had really been the case that Maynooth was the subject of their s po position, e would his opponents have brought forward Sir C. E. Smith, who p nly declares that, though the endowment o f Maynooth in the grant involved a vicious principle, still he would continue to maintain it on the sta tute-book.---(Cheers.) I t t shat the feoings ,txtirrrow the citizens of Edinburgh will show regard such conduct by putting my Right lionour w at h P e y bead of the poll. The honour of your city is iivvolvatdtit this question— the honour of Scotland is involved in this question, and I stand here speaking in the character of one belonging to the Free Church, and declare that the gratitude and the honour of the Free Church is also involved in this question. I tell those belonging to that Church that in all matters concerning that body in which I have been engaged, and with no little prominence, in Parliament, upon every occasion my Right Hon. Friend has voted with me, given me cordial support, and, in that last question which I had the honour to bring forward in which their interest was concerned had the debate on that occasion resulted in a rote, my Right Hon. Frie n d would have been found standing by my side. I will not believe it till I see it .recorded, that any Free Churchman will be guilty of such ingratitude, as for private consideration and personal views l ne to desert him in this moment of trial.—(Hear hear.) e °Gentleman, my Right Hon. Friend has stated t hat this is the single solitary instance of a contested election upon the return of Members who have taken office under the present Government. I regret that it should have occurred in this grea t and intel lectual city, but th e on l y way to wipe out that stai n is place Mr. Mac au l ay i n an enormous inajority--(Cheers)_ttoe proclaim in his f avour t h e general opinion of a vast number of this constituency, in order to prevent in future the recur rence of a similar event._( Loud cheers.) Mr. RUTIIERFORD, M.P., was next called for. He said, I have never witnessed in the course of any election,agardeaetoerf abuse than the use which o n t hi s occasion has been the rinciples and feelin gs o f the Free Church.—(g r, hear., Members of that Chu rc h h ave come forward, and in respect, as they say, of the Maynooth grant, have excited your feelings in the strongest degree to oppose the re-election of both my Honourable Friends. Thou g they have relinquished that opp os iti on as to one, they still _persevere in it as regards my o th er H onourable Friend. Though I do not belong to the Free Church, it enables me to reflect with great satisfaction upon all I have been able to do in its service to find my Right Hon. Friend cslr. Maule) come forward in his own person and disclaim, in the name of that body—of which I venture to say he is one of its greatest ornaments--the scandalous proceedings which have in their name been brought forward. —(Cheers.) The principles and feelings of that Church, Which is based upon religious freedom, have been made the ground of one of the most intolerant and oppressive proceed ings which I ever witnessed.—(Cheers.) My Right Flom Fnend (Mr. Mauls) voted differently from me on the May_ nooth grant, bat our difference of opinion and difference of vote on that question did not, and I am sure never will, for a moment interrupt not otily that private friendship, nor that feeling with which, in matters of public interest, we have ever regarded each other.—(Loud cheers.) Ile has told you that if he had been one of the constituency of Edinburgh be would have voted for Mr. Macaulay. I thank him for having said so, and I 3 . 'iould like to see any layman or any reverend man wl , o shall dare to come forward and say that they represent better Una be dOOO 011 (fusion of ttit Ito ClAiwa, of THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 1846. tended a lecture on astronomy. He left Steeple Aston at eleven o'clock the same evening to return home with Mr. Goodman, a maltster, of North Aston, and they rode toge ther as far as a public-house, called the Fox Inn, which is situate on the turnpike-road, where the road from Dunstan to North Aston crosses it. Here Mr. Goodman's road lay to the right, and that of the deceased straight on. Mr. Whetton, a butcher, of Feddington, had paid the deceased Cl. the day before, and had walked with him to his house that night be tween twelve and one. Whetton, in returning from Dunstan, where he had been visiting, going towards the Fox Inn, came to a hollow, when his pony shied, and looking round him he saw a man lying on a heap of stones, and he also saw a grey horse without a rider on the road. At five the next morning, Josepa Butler, a labourer, discovered the body of the deceased on the heap of stones mentioned by Whetton. He was quite dead. There was blood on his hands and face. Butler not knowing who he was, went to the Fox, called up Mr. Rogers, the landlord, and they went together to where the body lay. A surgeon was immediately sent for, who examined the body. A coroner's inquest wax held on the same day, and a verdict, " Found dead," re turned. No suspicion of having caused the death of George Mobbs attached to any one. indeed it seems to have been supposed that it was accidental. On the 9th of March, in the present year, a man named Jacob Skerry, a travelling tinker, having been advertised in the Police Gazette, was ap prehended by George Morgan, a constable of Kingston. on a charge of robbing a farm-yard. lie said iturnediatela on being apprehended that he would tell the constable some thing about a murder. He was taken to Banbury gaol, and while there he showed great uneasiness, and told the gaoler he had something to say to him. The gaoler, atter caution ing him, heard his statement, which was taken down in writing. Skerrry was taken before the magistrates, where he repeated the-statement. He was made to repeat it on dif fereut occasions, and although he varied it, yet he adhered to the main points. In consequence of what he said, the pri soners, who are also travelling tinkers, leading a predatory life, were apprehended; but they denied it, and on a future occasion they made statements inculpating themselves, and charging Skerry as a principal party. The first statement made by Skerry, on the 18th March, was substantially as follows :—I came to Deddington barn that night to sleep and roam the 3-ant There was James Biddle and Sheriff with their camps. They said, will you go with us to South Newington and fetch some meat? I said I do not like such meat as that. They went and I followed them. I kept sight of them. There was a gentleman who came along the lane from the Fox on horseback ; he said, " Oh, I see who you are." Biddle said, "Ah I d—n you, I see who you are." Sheriff said to Biddle, "D— his eves, kill the —." The gentleman was off his horse, and I saw Biddle strike him with something which he held in his hand. I heard the blow and saw the gentleman fall. Before the blow Biddle said, "1) your eyes, you shall never dawn another day light." Biddle and Sheriff both heard me coining up; they ran away, and I followed them. When I came up to the stile or rails, about a mile from Deddington, I f - eand them sitting on it ; when I came up, Biddle sai 1, "Oa, it's you, you —is it? If ever you splits on rue, and says anything about me, I'll be the death of you." He then struck and stunned me. I saw them the next clay at Deddington burge, but I never saw either of them from that time for nearly twelvemonths. I did not say anything about it. I did not for a month know the man was dead. I saw Biddle about a year afterwards, near Oxford. He sail, " You re member that night against the Fox." I said, "Yes, I re member." He said, " Well, I finished him, and served him right." On the 27th of March Skerry was again brought before the magistrates, and there sworn to his statement, as the magistrates had determined to make him a witness against the prisoners. Sherry then made very much the same state ment, varying, however, in those particulars about what took place the morning after the murder. The prisoners Biddle and Sheriff on this occasion positively denied their guilt, and they were remanded until the 11th of April, when Sherry made a third statement, which, however, was principally a more detailed account of what he had pre viously said. The prisoners were fully committed for trial, and as' Mr. Morgan and Mr. Walker were taking Sherry and the pti soners to the county gaol, a conversation occurred which bore strongly on the case, in fact, firmed the most conclusive por tion of the evidence against the prisoners. They, together with the constables, were proceeding in art open carriage with two seats; on the front seat were Skerry and Sheriff, with Mr. Walker, and Mr. Morgan was sitting on the back seat with Biddle. As they passed through Deddington they came opposite the farm where the deceased lived ; previous to this, the prisoners had been talking about the copper which had been stolen, and Biddle had be.'n taxing Sherry with telling lies, but when they came in sight of the house of the deceased, Biddle said, " Now we be coming to the place where truth should come out ; Mr. Morgan, you please tell the gentlemen, if I should be brought before them again, this is truth. Us are all three alike, and it was us as killed Mr. Mobbs, and no one else, and I will show the limekiln where we were warm ing ourselves; when he came on to the gate we were sitting on the kiln and warming ourselves, and he said,' What are you scamps after?' Jacob (Skerry) made use of a gross ex pression, whereon Mr Mobbs flew into a passion and told us to be off. We went into the turnpike road; he followed us to the Fox. Jacob said he would go no further; they had words, but Isaac (Sheriff) could not hear, as he went down Dunstan lane. When we got to the hollow Mobbs overtook us, and said, Do you thilik I am afraid of such scamps as you?' Jacob came up and .truck him on the head; I struck him. Mobbs said," So help me. Lard, for I know all three of them ;" and he cried out" murder" three times. He fought for lite with a whip which he had in his hand. He cut this hole in my face (pointing to a mark he had in his left cheek), and loosed one of my teeth, which I pulled out in Painter's hovel the next day, and hid in the wall. He also hit Jacob with his whip on the head. -Us should net have killed him if he had not followed us and been in such a passion. Isaac had got hold of his coat on the right side. Jacob hit the horse behind, to make him ki c k up , b e f ore I caught hold of the man's collar to kill him on the ground Jaeob struck him, and I struck him, and fell on him, 1 don't know which. I have been many times on my knees to pray to be forgiven since that day. Biddle then said, " This is truth, ,if I be hanged for it, and I dare say I shall, and I'll tell the gentle men so at Oxford." Sheriff said, " I hope I shall not be hanged, I don't mind being transported." Mr. J. J. IVILLEAMS addressed the jury for the prisoners. The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the jury retired; in about half an hour they re-entered the Court, and returned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners. The prisoners entered into rambling statements, asserting their innocence, aid denying all they had said before the magistrates, and Biddle asserting he did not know what he was saying when he made the confession to Morgan in the presence of the other prisoner and Sherry. The Learned JUDGE then passed sentence of death in the usual form. Jacob Skerry, of whom so much mention is made, is him self a prisoner at Oxford, and will take his trial at the present assizes on a charge of shecp-stealing. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, the Assistant-Judge, and a Bench:,f . Al4gistrates,) The July adjourned Middle Sex Sessions commenced on Tuesday, at Hicks's Hall, Clerkenwell-green. The calendar contained the names of only thirty-nine prisoners, of whom thirty-six were committed charged with felony. Thomas Gaines was indicted for stealing a bayonet and scabbard, value 7s. 6d., the property of our Sovereign Lady the Queen. The prisoner, who was evidently Insane. upon being placed at the bar, loooked up to the Learned Judge, and exclaimed, with great familiarity, " How do you do, Mr. Sergeant Adams ?"—(Laughter.) The Learned JUDGE asked him whether he had not been at Hanwell. The prisoner replied that he and the Learned Judge were both there together, soon after Sir William Ellis; and assuming an air of considerable consequence, he added, he (the Judge) must recollect that well. The Learned JUDGE observed, with much good humour, that he had not forgotten it. He had been for many years a visitiag justice of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, and during that time many persons thought him as mad a s th e patients themselves, because he so strenuously advoca' ed the introduction of a mild and humane system of treat ment into the asylum for the insane poor at Hanwell, in the place of the barbarous system that had prevailed for ages. His labours and the anxiety which he then expe rienced from the attacks made upon the friends of humanity, and the incessant prognostications of failure, had nearly cost him his health and his life; but he rejoiced to live to see the day when their efforts were successful, and the principle was recogniled and adopted in every asylum throughout Eng land. The evidence against the prisoner was that of a Chelsea pensioner, who deposed that he had come into his place at the hospital and asked whether he kept firearms. upon which he took down a belt and pouch. and bayonet and scabbard, and showed them to the prisoner, who, after looking at them, went away. Upon searching for the bayonet he found it was gone. The jury, under the direction of the Court, returned a ver dict of Not Guilty, upon the ground of insanity. The Court directed him to be taken care of, and that ap plication should be made in the proper quarter for his admis sion to a proper asylum. The prisoner's history is somewhat curious. Ha was an old Bow-street officer, and accompanied the late Sir Richard Birnie, with a body of constables, upon the evening of the 23d of February, 1820, to seize the Cato-street conspirators, who, with the notorious Arthur Thistletrod at their head, were making preparations to assassinate the Cabinet Mi nisters, who were dining with Lord Harrowby, at Grosvenor square. Tile conspirators were assembled in a loft in Cato street, discussing the intended plan of operations, when the premises were suddenly surrounded by the constabulary, and upon endeavouring to mount the loft by a lalder, the lights were extinguished, and Smithers, one of the officers, was run through the body by Thistlewood, and poor Gains, who was near him, received a sword's thrust through the upper part of his skull, since which time he has had occasional attacks of insanity, and has been more than once in custody for assaults or other offmces. In those fits he still fancies him self a Bow-street officer, an ,, was, we believe, before the Court some time ago, for striking a man a terrible blow over the head for refusing to recognise the authority of this pseudo Bow-street officer. The other trials presented no features of general interest. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THAN? ES. that they are doing that which is more acceptable to the Free Church—or that they are acting more in accord ance with the principles of the Free Church, than those who follow the example which my Right Hon. Friend would have set, and will give their votes with the number who shall form a cloud of witnesses that shall better establish the Free Church than anything else could do, and shall prevent a great severance of that most respectable and valuable party, who testify that they will not let a slight difference of opinion, even touching religious matters, trench upon that great principle to which they owe their origin, and for which they have borne so many privations and so many sacrifices, namely, the great principles of civil and religious liberty and freedom of opinion.—(Cheers.) I have had the very good fortune to be returned by a constituency of whom I am an unworthy representative—(Cries of "No, no")—without a contest, and almost without any trouble. I therefore rejoice with my Hon. Friend whom you have to-day returned, but I only sympathise the more deeply with my Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Macaulay), who has been put upon trial, and I only long the more ardently to see, since bis opponents have sub jected him to a contest, how heavy their fall shall be.— '(Hear.) I fully believe that to-morrow and Wednesday will put at once and for ever an end to this attempted tyranny—the more intolerable from being maintained by an abuse and prostitution of the name of the principles of free dom and religious liberty. RICHMOND. MONDAY EVF.MNG.—The election for the borough of Richmond, Yorkshire, took place this morning, when Henry Rich, Esq., the late Member, who had vacated his s ea t, b y accepting the office of on e f the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, was re-elected without opposition. The Hon. Gentleman briefly addressed the electors, and urged the necessity of adopting a milder course of policy towards Ireland than had hitherto been pursue:l. Alluding also to the policy of the new Ministry with regard to timber, sugar, and many other articles of consumption, he observed, that protection in reference to them would share the same fate as it had with respect to corn. The question of the revision of the duties on these articles would receive the sedulous attest- Lien of the present Government. The Hon. Gentleman then referred to the address of Lord John Russell to the electors of London, as indicative of the course which the Whig Mi nistry were about to pursue, and concluded by thanking the assembled electors, assuring them, at the same time, that he would do his utmost to promote a liberal policy in the administration of affairs in this country. Thanks were then given to the Mayor, and the meeting separated. Mr. Rich left immediately to return to London. PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE COPYRIGHT ACT. At Bow-street on Tuesday, Mr. James Wyld, map engraver and publisher, of Charing-cross, appeared before Mr. Jar dine, upon an information made by Sir Henry Ellis, princi pal librarian of the British Museum, under the newly amended Copyright Act, for having wilfully neglected to send, within a month after the publication of certain maps, a correct copy of each, whereby, in case of conviction, he rendered himself liable to a penalty amounting to the value of each publication, in addition to a further penalty of not more than 61. Mr. Baldwin appeared as Counsel to prefer the complaint, and Mr. Serjeant attended on the part of the defendant. Mr. Baldwin said that the information upon which the present proceedings were instituted consisted of four counts, the first of which was, that on the 9th of April, in the present year, the defendant published a map of the United States, relative to the Oregon and Texas, and a post map of Europe, and on the 13th of January. three maps of the route through the Punjaub and the adjoining territory, and on the 31st of March the position of the British army on the banks of the Sutlej, none of which were in any form celivered to the trustees of the British Museum. A. circular, in the usual way, had been forwarded to the defend- . ant, calling his attenti on t o th e p rov i s i ons o f th e l a t e A c t, o f which he, however, took no notice, although on former occa sions maps had been delivered by him without any such notice. He was bound to admit that the trustees had con sidered it preferable to institute proceedings against such a distinguished publisher as the defendant, instead of per sons of less repute, and from the evidence he was about to produce he had no hesitation in concluding that the Court would admit the justice of the claim. Mr. William Ching, clerk to Messrs. Bray, Warren, and Harding, solicitors to the British Museum, stated that on the 13th of April last he went to the defendant's shop, where he purchased the map produced relative to the United States, and the Oregon end Texas, the name and address of the de fendant, with the date, being at the bottom. He also pur chased for 135., on the 14th of May, the post-map of Europe, the date being January 13. The routes through the Punjaub he purchased on the 30th of April for 45., which was pub lished by the defendant on the 4th of March last. The sketch of the British armies on the banks of the Sutlej he bought for Is. 6d. on the 31st of March last, and he served a notice on the defendant to attend in case it was deemed necessary. In answer to the defendant, witness said that he asked if they were the last editions. Mr. Merver Cowter said that it was his duty to receive for the trustees of the British Museum all the works they were entitled to under the Amendment Copyright Act. The four maps specified in the information had not been delivered to him by the defendant. There was no other officer autho rised to receive such works, and particular hours were set apart for that purpose. Since the mouth of June, 1845, only five maps had been delivered by him, and two others in the month of October last. Witness recollected having sent by post a circular calling his attention to the provisions of the Act. In cross• examination by the defendant, witness said that every map or book usually passed through his hands, and in case he was absent from his room, per sons were in attendance who would give receipts, which were prepared by him. He might be absent from his duties one month in every year, and it frequently happened that books and other works were left without receipts been given for them, but in the present instance there were no enteries in the books that the maps produced had been re ceived. He had received the " Dispatches of Gen. Hardinge from India" produced, which contained a map, but could not say that he had received " Putman's American Facts," also containing a map relative to the position of the United States, and the Oregon and the Texas, nor the " Memorandums and Voyages in Asia," which also contained a map. Mr. G. Harding produced, under seal from the Trustees of the British Museum, AM authority to lay the information. Cross-examined—When he called at the shop, the defend ant told him that he would be most happy to furnish the Museum NI ith a copy of every map he published, if a list was brought to him. Mr. Baldwin said that was the case on the part of the com plainants. The defendant called the attention of the Court to the Bth clause of the Act, and said that he was called upon to defend a great principle, not only involving the i n t eres t s o f persons in the same trade, but also the public at large. It was pre posterous to suppose that when the Copyright Bill was brought in by Sergeant Talfourd, that every work indiscrimi nately should in future be deposited in the public archives, as alterations and additions apparently trifling were obliged to be introduced almost daily into works which he publishes and if by the provisions of such an Act he was called upon to supply a copy of each, the Museum, large as it was, would not be sufficient to contain them. The map respecting the Oregon and Texas had been originally published at Wash ington, and republished by him, and as to the post-map of Europe, it was published in the year 1840, but underwent great alteration, not however a new edition, in consequence of the late increase of railroads. As to the map of the Punjaub, it was compiled for his own use, and he supplied it to Baron Hugel for his book. The same might be observed respecting the dispatches of General Hardinge, which was published by 011ivier, of Pall-mall ; and as regarded the other, he considered it unreasonable on the part of the trustees to attempt to contend that they were entitled to a copy of simply a map, upon which some alterations or ad ditions were absolutely necessary, which was not the case with a book ; and anxious as he was to show every courtesy to the trustees, if they compelled him to comply with the pro visions of the Act, he would be compelled to remove his establishment to Paris, in case he was obliged to furnish the Museum with every copy of every work he was called upon to publish. Mr. Baldwin, in reply, observed that the maps in question bad been sold singly over the counter, as appeared in proof, independently of which the defendant had disposed of others to certain publishers. There were no alterations in them, and had they been sent to the Museum, it was the fault of the person leaving them if he neglected to obtain the re ceipts in the usual way. He maintained that the Act had a retrospective meaning; nor was it contended, setting altera tions and additions out of the question, that eny maps had been sent which disentitled him to a judgment in favour of the complainants. Mr. Serjeant drew the attentio n o f th e mag i strate to the fact that the maps had not been entered at Stationers' Hall, and, consequently, there could be no copyright, which pre vented the trustees from recovering. Mr. JARDINE replied that the provisions of the Act were quite explicit upon the subject, and the defendant might have secured himself in that manner if he thought proper, and the only doubt he entertained upon the subject was con cerning the post-map of Europe, which was published an terior to the passing of the Act. After considerable discussion, Mr. JARDINE said there could be no doubt that the defen dant was obliged by the Act to deliver copies of his works, whatever they might be, to certain bodies, and although the defendant had contended that the maps were separate pub , It( , a pu tn itons4 azwa lt w w in as k clear h they had b een pu bli shed as such after beenbe termed pubhsh ep ed s .The te, bposutt r" nots w d he a n w th a l another which cou ld lefendant called it so , h e put himself out of court. The same remark related to the map of the Punjaub, and also t o the work on the war i n I ndia, which was the same map that had been published in the book, and as the maps had been published in the shop, it was a matter of regret that the trustees had not brought an action as for a debt, instead of coming before a magistrate on such an important question. He was bound under the evidence that had been adduced, to convict the defendant in the full value of each copy, namely, 35., 135., 45., 145., and also the sum of 20s. upon each of the maps. sure, lost. but it was wo r th in qu3irilrn.g.Ltinntno Mr. Wyld inquired if there was no appeal. i Mr. Bald w i n app li e d for costs. , N a E nd re n p o l t e i d m h e e s h w o as u 1 d no b t e Mr. JAIDINE hoped there was no occasion to make an order respecting costs with such a body as the trustees of the British Museum. Mr. Wyld complained that as the tr us t ees o f th e B r i t i s h Museum had made an unexpected claim, he ought, in fair ness, to be furnished with a list of the maps claimed ; and having given a cheque for the amount of the several penal ties, the parties left the Court. EXTRAORD' 'INARY GALE. —AL Brighton on Tuesday morning, shortly after the flow of the tide, the wind, which had been blowing for three hours from the south-weet, in creased to a gale, to the manifest danger of a fleet of meek erel boats which were at anchor in the roads. The masters and crews were seen running to the shore, and small boats were manned on the sand, and attempted to be sent off to the vessels, all of which were without a hand. One of these was capsized, and it was at once seen that any attempt to put men on board in this way would be ineffectual. Meanwhile, three of the fishing vessels were swamped, and two of them having broken from their moorings, came ashore; one near the Chain Pier, the ether opposite the Gun Hotel, where the breakers comtnenced their work of destruction. The water, however, having as yet barely covered the sand, the crews from the shore rushed into the sea, and soon hauled the damaged boats ashore. All this time the perils of those which still held to their anchors was increasing; and, at length the Royal Humane Society's life-boats, manned by the coast guard, under Lieutenant Pratt, took out crews and,put them on board at great danger, owing to the violence of the wind and waves. The crews once on board, ran the boats imme diately on the sand, whence, by means of the ordinary ap pliances, capstans, &c., they were hauled high and dry. The gale abated almost as suddenly as it rose; but we regret to state that an accident, which had a fatal termination, oc curred before it had quite subsided : a man named Price was knocked overboard by the barge of the Caroline, belonging to Mr. Henry Pocock, and although his son gallantly jumped overboard twice to his rescue, he w 120 t taken 013 Of the irstmtil vra catioct. AMERICXN AFFAIRS. NEW YORK, JUNE 30.—Since the date of my last letter, the aspect of foreign affairs has undergone a most important and happy change ; but especially as it relates to the recent difficulties netween the Governments of Great Britain and the United States. You will readily imagine the sincere pleasure the Oregon arrangement has afforded me. For many years, at home and abroad, I have been the untiring and zealous advocate of peace with all the world, but in particular with Great Britain, because a war with that country, ft om her great power and immense resources, would prove of a most terrific and destructive character to the United States, and be cause the two nations speak the same language : their people, in many instances, are connected by the ties of blood, and almost universally by commercial transac tions. Awful, indeed, would be that war which would produce such results as those to which I refer. It is true there are two sides to this question. The Americans, in the event of a war, could and would in flict deep and lasting wounds upon their enemy—wounds that never, no, never, could be healed--wounds upon their commerce, upon their manufactures, upon their provinces. But why pursue this subject? It would be, after all, in the ltnguaee of Mr. Jefferson, " only trying which could do the other the most harm." I am mortified to say, and yet truth requires that i should be said, that to the manly and frank policy o the British Ministry are we indebted for an honourable adjustment of pending difficulties. It would be worse than ridiculous to attempt evasion on the present occa sion. Let it then be distinctly understood, that Presi dent Polk and his advisers, the " Fifty-four forty" men, were for war. They were for the " whole, or none of Oregon," reckless of consequences. The question naturally arises, what was their object ? I answer, self-aggrandisement ; to perpetuate their political ascendancy. A war, Mr. Polk hoped, would re-elect him. By means of the millions to be expended in carrying on that war the corrupt tools of power would be increased in number and subserviency. The welfare and the honour of the country never entered into the calculation. The only questions that were mooted in dark divan were—will the proposed measures promote the party ? —and can we succeed ? For a time these half deluded men imagined that they held the game in their own hands. They were insolent and overbearing. At length, however, their attempt at dictation aroused some of the members of that elevated and truly noble body, the Senate of the United States. These Senators spoke (and their voices were heard from the sallies to the hill-tops) with the calm dignity and firmness of American statesmen. The " Fifty-four forty" men, for a moment, were astounded and para lysed ; and now commenced their contortions and twist ings, which were continued until their extinction. While these movements were progressing in the Senate, the people read with great avidil and increased marks of approbation the debates in that honourable body. It was soon discovered that a very large majority of the intelligent an d res p ecta bl e portion o the com munity were decidedly opposed to a war with Great Britain, and to all and every measure calculated to produce such a state of things. They no longer doubted that the British had an equitable claim to a portion of Oregon, and therefore they were for an adjustment by honourable compromise. It was now that Mr. Polk discovered, perhaps sooner than his advisers, that the brawling and turbulent " Fifty-four forty" men were rapidly sinking into insig• nificance, and would soon find themselves deserted even by those who had professed to be their followers. Mr. Polk then found himself and his colleagues in error, bound hand and foot by the Senate. Ho well knew that no declaration of' war could pass that body; that no lite authorising the President to take possession of Oregon or to establish a government over that territory could be adopted. In short, that nothing remained fur him but to negotiate. Thus circumstanced, what was he to do ? He was pledged, in the most solemn manner, to the Baltimore Convention, for all or none of Oregon." The " Fifty four forty" men had demanded of him fealty, and he had sworn it. His western advocates were becoming clamorous for a redemptiou of his pledges. In short, whichever way he cast his eyes, he saw nothing but in creased and increasing difficulties before him. What next ? He determined, in the hope of escap• ing uninjured, to abandon, on the question, the Balti more Convention, the " Fifty-four forty" men, and his western champions—all, all, at one fell swoop. But how was this to be effected with the least personal political injury ? By diplomacy he ascertained what the British were willing to do, and resolved on acceding to their terms. This would have been well enough, if there had been in it no treachery to friends. But the farce does not end here. Lest I should prove tedious, I pass over many amus ing, and some interesting incidents that occurred in the progress of this negotiation. No sooner, however, had Mr. Polk discovered what would satisfy the British Go vernment, than he determined to accede to their views. But, in the meantime, he kept many of his friends, and those who imagined they possessed his confidence, in a state of ignorance as to his ulterior views. In casual, loose conversations, he uttered, or caused to be uttered, the declaration, that he should make no further proposi- , tions to the British ; and if they proposed any thing short of " Fifty-four forty" he should decline acting, and sub mit the question to the Senate. At length the proposi tion from Great Britain came. It was submitted to the Senate, and they advised the negotiation of a treaty upon the basis proposed, which treaty was promptly ra tified. And now let us inquire, what object had the Presi dent in view when he asked the advice of the Senate ? Was it to obtain their opinion as to the proposed treaty? Certainly not; for Mr. Polk knew, and everybody knew, that more than two-thirds of the whole Senate were in favour of such a treaty as that proposed. What then was the object ? It was to cast from his own shoulders all responsibility, and to leave it with the Senate. It was to seek a shelter under the wine of that honourable body from the slow moving finger of scorn. Butenough ; the work is done, and well done. One word more as to the President. It is his duty to negotiate treaties. From the performance of that duty he has shrunk. In so doing he has violated the consti tution. He has surrendered the tights and the duty of the Executive to a co-ordinate branch of the Govern ment—the Senate. The surrender, although made to a noble and glorious band of statesmen and patriots, yet the act itself humbles in the dust the Executive that made the sacrifice. Will you allow me to make a short extract from my letter of the 11th of December, 1845, written a few days after Mr. Polk's war message to Congress, at the opening of the session ? My object is to show you that at that early day I understood the P res id ent and his adherents, and that in my speculative opinions on the subject of peace or war I have neither led you nor your readers into error. In that letter, speaking of the President's message and public opinion thereon, I say— " The great difference between the Administration party and the Whig party is, that the former, with out regard to the morality of the question, are for a war, unless the whole of the Oregon is surren dered to the United States, believing that the terri tory is within their grasp. The Whigs, on the other hand, admit that there is some right in the British Government to claim a portion of the ter ritory ; and that portion, be it more or less, they wish amicably settled between the parties on the prin ciples of morality and justice. . • . They (the Whigs) will d o a ll t h at a patriotic and honest class of citizens can, and ought to do, to avert the threatened calamity; but it must bo recollected that the control of this question is not in their hands. The British Govern ment ought not, therefore, to permit a false pride to lead them astray from the path to which both wisdom and policy point as the path to peace and prosperity. And now, influenced by a most sincere desire for the peace of the two countries, and their mutual welfare and prosperity, I do respectfully recommend that Great Britain, offer the proposition made by Mr. Galleatin ; or, " That the Ministry offer to the United States the 49th parallel to the sea, Great Britain to retain the de• tached territory, Vancouver's Island, &c., together with a free navigation of the Columbia River for merchant vessels. 1 "My opinion is, that this Government would accept the offer. lam sure their acceptance of it, as a proven live of war, would receive the approbation of the Ameri can people. I trust the suggestion from so humble a source will be no objection to the consideration of it. I will not enlarge, and will only add, it has not been made without due reflection and advice." ' If these suggestions, made nearly seven months since, are closely examined and compared with the treaty re cently ratified, it will be seen that in writing the letter above quoted, I neither mistook nor represented the cha racter and policy of the dominant party in this country, nor the feelings and wishes of its people. Having extended this letter to a greater length than usual, and the feeble state of my health pressing heavily upon me, I am warned that I must bring it to a hasty conolnsion. Major-Generals Scott and Gaines are in trouble with the President. They are both in Washington. The difficulty of the fox mer arises out of his entertaining and expressing suspicion that leading men in power wer e intriguing against hi m . Th e charge against General Gaines is, that he assumed, illegally, responsibilities which he had no right to assume. The Administration will probably carry on the war against th ese m ili tary men with great asperity. Mr. Polk never forgives an injury, real or imaginary. The climate and the roads will probably prevent any great movement by General Taylor until late in Sep- tember or early in October. Besides, it is absoltitely necessary, before moving, that he should have large depots of provisions, to effect which eXtensive means of transportation are required, which have not yet been provided. Ey the latest accounts from Mexico, it appears, that the Mexican Government are not yet prepared to seek a peace, but are arranging to defend their country.— Times. A GENEVESE TRAVELLER. ....-- EXT- .fRAOItbINARY PLIGHT OF BUTTERFLIES, --Ono of the largest Bight of butterflies ever seen in this country crossed the Channel from France to England, on Sunday last. Such was the density and extent of the cloud forrned by the living mass, that it completely obscured the sun from the people on board our continental steamers, on their pas sage, for many hundreds of yards, while the insects strewed the decks in all directions. The flight reached England about 12 o'clock at noon, and dispersed themselves inland and along shore, darkening t h e a i r as they went Daring the sea passage ot the butterflies the weather was calm w.d sunny, with scarce a puff of wind stirring; but an hour or so after they reached terr,7 firm a , it cams on to blow great guns from the S.W., the direczion whence the insects came. —Canterbury Journal. week FAN refused to ATICISM—A. woman at the F erry Side, last give her son, who had fever, medicine, on the plea, " If it pleased God he would recover; and if not, he would die," The finale showei that he was to die. It is hardly credible, but nevertheless too true, that in the present dayrnal, persons are to 14 r)und so g ross l y ignorant.—Cannarthen Jou ASSIZE IN TELLIGENCE. HOMS ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, July 15. The Commission for the county of Essex was opened on Monday, but owing to the pressure of business at Hertford, it was postponed from the usual hour, and as neither of the Learned Judges were abl e t o l eave Hertford until very late in the day, the ceremony of opening the Commission was performed by Mr. Sergeant Dowling. Both Courts commenced busines s on T ues d ay morning; and Mr. Justice Coltman, who sat on the civil side, was occupied the whole of that day, a n d t h e greater part of yesterday, in disposing of a case which was made a remnant from the last assizes, and in which the only question involved was the title to a small piece of green sward by the road side at Brentwood. Mr. Baron Parke was engaged nearly the whole of yesterday in trying charges of criminal assaults upon females, the details of which are of course unfit for publication, NORTHERN CIRCUI T.—Yolk, July 13. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.) KING V. GREW. This was an action of assumpsit, brought to recover the sum of 1981. 7s. 6d., alleged to be due to the plaintiff from the defendant in respect of a sale of railway shares. Mr. Knowles and Mr. Hall were counsel for the p'aintiff, and Mr. Martin for the defendant. The plaintiff, Mr. Edward King, is a sharebroker, of Leeds, and the defendant, Mr. William GRig, a butcher, living at the same place. During the last summer plaintiff had been employed as broker to act for the defendant in a number of share transactions to the amount of about 9001. The former had purchased far the latter in various railways, viz., the Grand Union, the Leicester and Bedford, the Wakefield and Brad ford, and the South Midland. Many of these shares were sold by the plaintiff as on the defendant's account ; but after their sale by the plaintiff the shares had considerably risen in vrlue, and the defendant, when called on to deliver them declined doing so. The consequence was, that the plaintiff, to make good his engagements with others, was obliged to buy in at the advanced price, and to charge the defendant with the difference. The transactions between the plaintiff and the defendant were proved by two clerks of the former, whose . testimony agreed with the particulars of demand delivered by the plaintiff, containing a debtor and creditor account between the parties. Two other witnesses, who had called.on the defendant for the plaintiff, to obtain payment of the balance of 1931. 7s. 6d., stated admissions of the debt made to them by the defendant, and to one of these he bad allowed that he owed Mr. King somewhere about 2001. 4 the month of March last he had said that he intended, in the course of the summer, when things should brighten up, to pay some money on account, but that he could not do it at present. kr. MARTIN, for the defendant, submitted to the jury that the plaintiff's case was deficient in proof, because his claim ' , was for the difference in value of shares which he al leged to have sold to other persons, and there was no evi dence given that there were actually any shares sold to such persons. The plaintiff had the means of adducing evidence, if it existed, to that effect. Some one of the buyers at least might have been called; but the plaintiff had produced no such party, and no documents to verity that part of his ilellint=s with the shares. liisloansinp, in summing up, remarked that a hardship to the dcfendant had been complained of, in the manner in which the plaintiff proved his case. But if the plaintiff pro duced none of those to whom he had 5,t1,1, it was to be ob served that a broker did not usually disclose the names of the persons for whom he was acting, whether as buyer or seller. On the other hand the plaintiff relied upon the de fendant's own admission that he owed a balance which ad mission was made in the month of March, and to two per sons who bad no interest in th e mat t er in dispute, and who at different times had heard him say that the balance was due. Verdict for the plaintiff for the fail amount claimed. WESTERN ClRctil T.— Wirichester, July 14. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron Paserv.) George Thomas ilostrick was indicted for having feloniously stolen two post letters containing one sovereign acid one half sovereign, the prop er ty o f t h e P os t mas t er . General, he be ing at such time a person in the employ of the Post-office. Mr. Rogers, Q.C., and Mr. Pouldon conducted the prose cution ; Mr. Messing and Mr. C. Saunders defended the prisoner. Mr. ROGERS, having stated the facts of the case to the jury, called John Romsey—l am the superintendent of the missing letter department. I went to Portsea in April last by direc. tion of the Postmaster-General. On the 22d of that month I directed two letters —one, " Mrs. Somerville, T. Parker's, Esq., the Green, C am b erwe ll ;" t h e ot h er , " Miss Donalson, Woodbine Cottage, L eam i ng t on ." I n the one directed to Miss Donalson I put a sovereign, which I marked. That letter was sealed w ith wax; th other was sealed with a gum stamp. Portsea is a receiving house only. It is kept by Mr. T. L. Rostrick, who is a druggist. I dropped the letter directed to Mrs. Somerville into the box. The other took into the shop, and put it down on the counter, with a penny. This was taken by a man named Hughes, Mr. Ros trick's assistant. This was about half-past six, and the post bag should leave Portsea at a quarter past seven, and be taken to Portsmouth, whore the letters are always sorted. After posting the letters I went to the house of one Monk, a letter-carrier, and gave him certain directions. He is the person who takes the letter-bag from Portsea to Portsmouth. He brought the bags to me. I was waiting at his house. The bag was tied and sealed. I opened it. Neither of the letters I had posted were in it. The next day I got a search warrant, and the prisoner was taken into custcdy. He took a pocket-book from his pocket, which the officer took away from him. In it was some gold coin. Amongst it I found the sovereign which I had marked, and put in the letter directed to Miss Donalson. I then directed Hughes, who is the assistant in the shop, to look for the half-sovereign. I saw him find a packet of money wrapped up in a piece of paper. Amongst the money was a half-sovereign, which bore the mark 1 had put on the one I had put in the letter directed to Mrs. Somerville. The mark was partly erased. Joseph Linnington Rostrick was then called. He stated that he was a druggist, living at Southsea, but also had a shop at Portsea, which was managed as to the drug depart ment by Hughes. The shop was also a receiving-house for letters, which his brother attended to for him. The case for the prosecution being closed, Mr. IllissaNci addressed the jury for the prisoner at some length. Mr. Baron PLATT having minutely summed up the evi dence, The jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner Guilty, and he was thereupon sentenced to be transported for seven years William. Godly was then placed at the bar, charged with having feloniously stolen a post-letter, containing one half sovereign, the property of the Postmaster-General. Mr. Rogers, Q.C., and Mr. Pouldon, appeared for the prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. C. Saunders. Mr. Rooarts stated the facts of the can to the jury, and from the statement of the Learned Gentleman and the wit nesses it appeared that the prisoner, William Godly, had formerly been in the employ of the Post -office at Southamp ton, but had been discharged on account of his drunken habits. His brother, however, John Godly, obtained his situation, and, as he was a new hand, he used to get his brother, the prisoner, to assist him in the morning before he went his rounds, in "setting up" his letters, that is, arranging them in parcels for the different streets. On the 24th of March a Mr. Cave posted, at Winchester, a letter to his wife at Southampton, and placed in it a half-sovereign. This in due course should have been delivered at the place where it was directed, 13, Grove-street, Southampton, on.the morning of Air. tiin R e ' d m a se search 3' warrant went down the 25th by the prisoner's brother, as it came w i thin his de livery. This was not done, and it so happ ene d t h at the in t s o Pee Southampton t°rofthems to search the prisoner's house on another m a tt er . O n going i t . h s a in t g d - a l y et , ter and offihcaed, o to the prisoner's house on the morning of the 25th he was found at home, and taken into custody and searched, when the letter directed to Mrs. Cave was found in his pocket. On being charged with the robbery, he stated that the letter had been given him by his brother. with several others, to de liver, as he was late in his delivery. He also salt! that he supposed he must have forgotten to deliver it. The seal was unbroken, and the money still in the letter. The brother stated, that he never gave any letter to the prisoner on the morning of the 25th to deliver for him • but, on being subjected to a severe cross-exami nat i on b y the pri soner's counsel, admitted that he sometimes did so. The case for the prosecution having been closed, Mr. C. SAUNDERS addressed the jury for the defence, and contended that it was clear that the account given by the prisoner was a true one, and that it was absurd to suppose that if the prisoner had meant to steal the letter he would have kept it in his possession for the whole day with the seal unbroken. He also called several witnesses, who gave the prisoner an excellent character. Mr. Baron PLATT summed np the case with great care, and the jury immediately Acquitted the prisoner. The trial of Lieutenant Hawkey is fixed (on the applica tion of Mr. Cnckburn, Q.C.) far Thursday next. NISI PRILTS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ERLE.) The court has been occupied nearly the whole day in the trial of a case, the only question in which was, whether a certain alleged sal. of a boat was bond fide or fraudulent. It is now engaged in trying the first of the special juries; and here, also, nothing of public interest is involved, as the only question is the right to a certain ditch. MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Northampton, July 14. HIGHWAY ROBBERY xxAn WEEDosr.--David Hides was charged with assaulting Robert Bramstone, and robbing him of a watch and s i x sovereigns. Mr. Adams cond uc t e d the prosecu ti on ; the prisoner was undefended. Robert Brim s t one sa i d he lives at Staver t on . O n th e 26 t h of June, 1845, he c ame to Northampton to sell his pony. Sold him f or 41.105. Af ter he so ld him he went on to iroughton-green, and afterwards returne d to 2.4)ttinghntn, intending to go h ome to 8 taverton b y a th for co Upton n 101 sat e carrier. Being too late fogy a d aff i er; he walk il on towards Weedon. Near Hastened to mpany. twe, doldiefs and a tiVillA d. the two soldiers remained h Idill The prosecutor' and the thiri nip *Auk 6n t d .tvi'e axon; aria went into the 4, doell' head,a little beyond the barracks. Stated thereabout nvF, minutes and left a hul a a figf tight o'dlock. It was another) f , :t.t , / conversation. Pritoper soo T ute l'gh! , At th toll_ ate ' t out of Weedon, the gate kCePer said, " blaster Bra heard thes you have sold your Walked with theni to Floore, where e t , jus I et, pony." Prosecutor mid llB :7'es, t ..t , ith I ltd Bought Pc:lsener aia scarcely able toT walk bOTe 4 ". ,T n i t,‘? go .a !snorter *ay tti.: e ilu t th e field to raverki. ETesecuteV t;tiected on acc - onnt of the approaching darkriess. T . lley then proceeded on the higli,orky t 6 Litiventrp., A sbcirt 4f i tetwaro,,?fanted distance further on pritteatt loosed his stick from his bundle, ai!d suddealy.comibg i oa front e tke nrosectitor, held, up his stick, and said, a New, old ,9, 1414 - ti •aii , gife nit till 3 1 -' l i t. ' l l "*' °l' '''' ill are a dead g a e - 4 ' ghten me, I'm an old ma T i n' , (,nto Daventry and have another half pint." n r ,. et salsego , d "Ito, I'll haVe it" Prosecutor shouted 4 Mutt/ ' d one instantly struck Prisoner him, and he fell sensel er,' an pr When he came to W 3,5 he missed • ess to the ground. his watch and his money , and the prisoner was gone. # 4 ,1 lieve r seen th,. prisoner since, until his ap rehenston In Lender, 1 --, out had no doubt he was the man. Prosecutor was sober. John Gabriel, a gunner in the Royal Artillery, and MS comrade, identified the prisoner as being' the person who was wip he them on the evening in question b t jury found the prisoner G e ransported for fifteen lt an . dhe was sentented tO tu y, Years. ROBBING THE MlNT.—Frederick Weise, Mary Ann Weise, and Eliza Burke, her daughter by a former marriage, were charged, the male prisoner with stealing and the two females with receiving ° Quantity of silver and some gold f rom the Rdyal Mint, on Tower.:::!!.!!!. It dOpOars that the male prisoner, who is a German, about t the Mint. lahoijrer; at 308. per week, in the melting-house !I from a fifty years of age, Vas employed for the !a On Tuescia?, id eOnsequente of information received t person named Francois LeVelle, the Male prisoner was se. „ist four years ts a fat 13) 4 Mr, Robert Mushet, who holds the oflhc© of master's second clerk, 99 Well as that of assistant 'miter in the . Mint. i When he came to the door of the g o l d melting-house, Fran. cols pet his hand into the prisoner's breast, saying " Fred. Cut the two pieces of silver produced. Mr. Mushet said lie the effect that he intendeu !`) was sorry to see ttitt, o • * `, and the prisoner made some reply, to you have got some silver there," and, at the same time, drew ktajesty's Mint, stated that Mr. JAn Field, inspector of her_ id int i o i;,.. t . h: vi m g.: o h u iso ld ;;;ev, ii N l y g h . F in re _ he was sent for that day to tl P ie lit g i o t he found the male prisoner in custody. Wit,. '' s him Who he was, laid the basineas was a ve,:' uu ,'" - Unlit() one; and added, that he must ask the prison'," "` lne 4tiestiti whi.l ho might answer or slot in his optu,: th He then asked the 0 4,1 tlet' where he resided, and the Littrz OXFORD ..CRO CROW COURTa/tTaDEn.—.ms B. 40, were indicted to ' --...........••••••••• (Before Mr. Justice MAULk.) 'heri sited t doge, aged 33. and Isaac •S ; jr, e., oVe his address; No. 20, Prinees-squai4, fit, . Geo,rge's gist. 14.,. It he Must search his place; to which the prisoner reptied that Iy6 Wat wP!eomo to do. so' ,ash tied nothing of toe kind at home, and that was the ' flelt tit:4e he had Over ! the parish of North r the wilful murder of George .loObs, in t ommi. tea an act of the tort. I'Vttrieil , h,ti A9Ard , lti'l rht I This case has A , °o, on the 28th of Sept, 1842. procine eI.itCUIT.-.-Otfotd, Jtely 14, i• ,fil at the Mint where the prisoner was in tne habit of de ! from the fact of more ed a great sensation in the county, positing his cl.ith,s, but nothing was found there. WLness the discovery of the godly three years having elapsed d after I then, having taken the prisoner into custody, proceeded with the murderers . 1)°1 .1' of the deceased before any tidings of 1 him, were neard Mr. Musket, and one of the messengers of the Mint, , Mr. Carrington and • to the house in Princes-square. On coming within a few tion. The prisoner s for the pro Mr. Pigott appeared . semi- , were defended by Mr. JJ. Williams. , doors of it, witness, leaving the prisoner with Mr. Musket The deceased • and the rn..4.:e.ie•-•r. ' entPr , • , l t' , -1100 , ". wh. • lone farm housel,"csalal very respeetatile I.rnier residing at a .to - ~, 1. ,, •'.. e!!1 , .1. female prison:3., wh, a,i,u,i ted that dile w.. Ne,,e'. ~..a;; i Aston, in this county. called Dean -hill, iu the Wednesday, of North Witness took her into the front; parlour, and asked her if her - 28th of September, 1842, On the afternoon of the i Pili 89 60014 er, 842, he le ft his Lome on horseback, and 9 A PI P ; 4 M 91 . 084 aikh Whin 111 it` husband worked in the Mint, to which she replied in the fruagiYe , Wicion WO he wit4tog to wail, ewe iaquilie4 _ e her, on which. she exhibited some alarm, and asked if any accident had occurred to her husband. Witness replied that he was well, and close at hand. lie then asked her how many children she had, to which she replied, "Two, a son and a daughter." After that she became still more fidgety; and when witness told her who and what he was, she said, "You shall see my (laughter." She then went as if to call her daughter from the yard, though witness endeavoured to prevent her. She. however, rushed rapidly by him towards the back parlour, into which the younger temae hal previously gone, and locked the door. Witne , s then called to those who had charge of the male prisoner, and after several threats the young girl, Burke, opened the back parlour and came out. She at tempted to make her way down stairs, but witness seized and brought her back. Perceiving that she hal her hands under her apron, he caught at them, and seized a black refl• cule containing a quantify of Chinese silver and a few pieces of unwro'aght gold. He had not weighed the bullion, and therefore he coulp not swear to the quantity, but he had no doubt it had been taken from the Mint, and it corresponded with that found in the prisoner's possession. The male prisoner made no defence. The elder female said that her husband had brought her the pieces of ore, and teld her he found them amongst the cinders, about four or five days previously, and when she left the parlour she was going to tell the child to bring them. The girl Burke, who is only twelve years of age, had nothing to say. Mr. BRODERIP—What are tee mole prisoner's weekly waetee? Mr. Field—Thirty shillings, sir. Mr. Linc , DEntr—You were in his house, how was it fur nished? Mr. Field—Quite as well as that of any respectable London tradesman. It had handsome pictures and other ap purtenanceS much above the prisoner's position in life. Mrs. Weise (quickly)—l had that furniture, and all those things, I Ong before I married my present husband. Mr. BRODERIF remanded the case for a week to afford an opportunity of perfecting the evidence. The case excited intense interest, being the first from the Mint since another labourer, whe was employed there many years ago, moat mysteriously disapp'ared, after having, as it then appeared, abstracted a hundred pounds' worth of un stamped bullion. WORSIIIP-STREET. Tuesday a determined-looking young man, named nomns Smith, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with having forcibly entered the premises of Mr. Nichols, the landlord of the Bricklayers' Arms, in Charles-street, Hackney road, for the purpose of committing felony. Mrs. Mary Nichols, the wife of the prosecutor, stated that , at a late hour on the preceding night, her husband being ou t of town, she caused the premises to be closed, and was about to retire to rest, . when she was surprised to find that an inner door, communicating with the upper part of the house, and which was constantly kept locked, was wide open, it having evidently been opened - with a picklock key. On pro ceeding up stairs to ascertain if slv had been robbed, she was encountered on the landing by the prisoner, who bad a heavy life preserver in his hand, and had just emerged from one of the bed-rooms. He advanced towards her in a threatening attitude, but she raised a great outcry, and re treated precipitately down the stairs, sharply followed by the prisoner, who made a rush towards the street-door and attempted to escape; she, however, resolutely seized him by the neck, and notwithstanding his violent efforts to dis engage himself, succeeded in holding him until some of the servants, who had been alarmed by her cries, came to her as sistance, and handed him over to the police. The prisoner had been drinking during the evening in the tap-room, and must have taken an opportunity to secrete himself while the customers were leaving. Policeman Mulcahy, 436 N, stated that on conveying the accused to the station and searching him, he found in his pockets, besides the life-preserver Wore mentioned, four ekeleton keys, a quantity of lucifer matchei, and a powerful g , jemmy." or crowbar, to one end of which a heavy hammer head had been attached. The prisoner said nothing in refu tation of the charge, and on witness going back to the pro:se cutor's, and trying the skeleton keys that had been taken from him, they were found to be capable of opening every door in Mr. Nichols's house. , Kemp, another policeman, identified the accused as a noto. tious offender, and the constant associate of the worst charac• tern in the district. On being called upon for his defence, the prisoner declined offering any; and Mr. Disciiiam told him it was a fortunate circumstance for him that he had been detected in sufficient time to pre vent his taking any portion of the prosecutor's property, in which event he had in hesitation in saying that he would have been transported; as it was, there could be no doubt he had entered the prosecutor's house with a felonious inten tion, and he should therefore protect the public against him for the next three months, by sentencing him to that term of confinement in the House of Correction, with hard labour, as a rogue and vagabond. The prisoner. who appeared to have anticipated an ac quittal, was removed to the cells. FATAL ACCIDENT. TUESDAY.—Yesterday afternoon a fatal accident occurred upon the Bristol and Birmingham Rail way, about six miles from this town. The following facts are obtained from official sources, and may be relied upon in the main as correct :—Between Bronasgrove and the Barnt green Station, the guard of the passenger train (named William Stock), which arrives in Birmingham at half-past three o'clock, r. 51., left his seat at the break on the carriage, immediately behind the tender, to enter into conversation with a person—a contractor for work on the line—who was seated on the roof of the succeeding carriage. For this pur pose Stock walked across the root of his own carfiage, and sat upon the roof of the one upon an outside seat of which his friend was seated. Upon arriving near the Dana-green station, the engineer or stoker,.whose duty it may be, gave the usual signal by 'whiAtle, when the untortunate man Stock, whoe back was t..wards the station, jumped up from his seat, with a view to return to the break, when his head alm , st instantly came in contact with the arch of the bridge, and his body was thrown between two of the carriages. The train paged over. him, and it was nut until the train stopped at the station that the body of the de ceased was taken up. It was then ascertained that the skull was dreadfully fractured ; otnerwise he had suffered little injury. The deceased, who, although insensible, was still living, was immediately conveyed ia a compartment of one of the carriages to the Birmingham station, and thence to the Queen's Hospital, at 11. illoway-head. He arrived there about four o'clock, and died atnut half-past five. It will be recollected that a year and a half ago an acci dent somewhat similar happened on this line, at the Kings norton-bridge, only two or three miles distant from the spot where the present one occurred. In that instance the corn pany were blamed fur the erection of pillars on each side, for the support of the arch of the bridge. A guard of one of the trains, at the time referred to, met with his death in conse quence of his head coming in c•mtact with one of those pil lars. In the present case it does not appear that blame is to be attributed to any improper construction of the bridge. It is one of the highest on the whole line between Bristol and. Birmingham. So far as can be ascertained frmn present evi dence, the accident, lamentable as it is, would appear to be the result of the deceased's own indiscretion. He was a man nearly six feet high; and when it is considered that his head was struck by the centre of the arch, it does not seem probable that the height of the bridge could be deemed dangerous. The body of the deceased having been removed out of Worcestershire into Birmingham, the case is now within the jurisdiction of Dr. Birt Davies, the borough coroner, who has appointed to take the inquest to-morrow. The deceased was a remarkably steady, sober man, and much respected by the superior officers of the company. He has left behind him a wile and five children. A CITY CREATED BY A DOG. The Duke of Lucca's villa at Stiava is beautifully situ ted, but very small. To avoid anticipating dinner by the olfactory nerves, which is inevitabie in a diminutive mansion, and to insure a more ample refectory, the Duke banished his batterie de cuisine to Conca, a lodge a mile up in the mountain, and regularly earned an appetite, in those d Is, by scrambling up there to breakfast and dinner. It was fine discipline for health, and to en courage the practice, the amiable Duchess, during his absence at Vienna, had his rural dining hall, at Cauca beautifully painted and furnished, to give hint a pl,asant surprise on his return. His Royal Highness's next birth-day was accordingly kept at the lodge in the mountains. A lit le castellated town, a few miles off, Camajore, which had played its part gallantly in the civil wars, and had still strong walls to boast, had long been memorializio: and supnlicating the sovereign to be advanced to the dignity and privileges of Et city. "Viareggio, without walls or ancient re nown, had civic honours to dispense, why ssould not Camajore?" The place is so small, and so insignifi cant, that the Duke had always smiled at their preten sions, and waived their claims, reluctant to impo.e un necessary expenditure on the state. However, there 1 were too many persons interested in sharing the muni • cipal emoluments to let the subject drop. One wanted to be governor. another chancellor, and another gen falanier, or mayor, belitles some twenty more expect ing subordinate ofricei, The Duke was inexorable —the Duchess was assailed—and, above all days in the year, on her consort's birthday! Her Royal Highness never interferes in Government decrees, bat how could she refuse so small a boon on such a day ? Dinner commenced—the feast was joyous. When persons are happy and merry themselves, they naturally wish to dispense happiness and mirth to others. An old courtier gave a hint, that Camajore alone, l o ak f . n, all the country round, was sad; " ho p e deferred,long n the heart sick." The Duke was deaf— at length th , Duche.s spoke—his heart h.is always ears tor her, and he was in buoyant spirits. By his side stood his tavourite dog, a splendtd animal. Brill tnte, he knew, had just been gorged by a large plateful,from the royal hoard,and Brilliante was notorious for never eating bread, so, in a moment of frolic, thinking he was sure to win, his Royal Highness eras resolved to set the fate of Camajore on a cast, and throwing the dog a large roll, he said—" If Brillante devours this, Camajore shall be a city." The capicious and capacious jaws opened—the teeth did their work—the bread went down—absolutely down, and Camajore was a ciry ! I believ- the Duke was sorry, but his word was passed. The Duchess and Princess Charlotte soon twined the ornamental flowers of the table into a garland, crowned Brillante, and led him to his roy a l ma s ter, amid s t ch e ers an d v i vas T he propitious dog was nex t mo r n in g t a k en to Camajore and paraded about the new city, amidst a rejoicing po pulation, who were.ready to worship hire, and proinLed to introduce a dog and a loaf of bread into tie city arms, over the gate, that Brill ante's fame might descend to pos:erity.—Byc Ways of Italy. ACCIDENT TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.---We regret to learn that the absence of Sir Robert Nei from the House of Commons on Monday night arose from the Right Hon. Baronet's being confined to his residence by the effects of an accident which might have been far more serious than it has turned out. We hear that while dressing in the morning he incautiously rested hi s f oot on a china basin, and by the weight of his person the bottom broke, end severely lacerated his foot. Sir Benjamin Brodie was instantly sent fir, and was as promptly in attendance on the Right Hon. Baronet. A ' hoagie the bl oo d was profase from the wounds indicted, " 1 " -- • happy to hear that Sir Benjamin Brodie, after a vim are -nitiation of the injared par:s, cronounced that minute ex,. as tiot any iinportant s to be an•web.'n'l d , no cioatv; ~A , anew. roe ea..ualty will iik.c.--satily veisel had Fiisr:iii, ...,. B m • o ri e t sorne days to the house. confine the Right Ho. vOF JEWELLERY, &a.—On Toe;- ExTENSIVE RoBREM- 'ed to the various metroptditan day information was forwar.. Is, that ou the evening of the and city police-offices and static_ t 'eupp'sed with a diamond) • • Jac,•ilNon j,,,, 9th instant a pane of glass was cii ,b k,. , f • M .. . . , . Out of the show ease out Aide the ,: OP 1! y.. -,.?? , -1 . . , . . . “1,,,r ,i,;.,; it i ,, ~;; „:„;,,,, i. , r, i , ‘" 1 " , I silver pen ..r,,,,, e.,114/.111: , gold seals keys, an variety of go ..d brooches; sever,. 14 Alid Other cil cases; two silver i rekle forks, and 100 o q bread Ai 9t Great T li e ' . . _. . . LLOYD'S SHIPPING. - - - LONDON, JULY 15.—Wind this day at noon S.W., moderge breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, JULY 14.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Sumatra, and sailed for Antwerp ; 'o illi,am Hannington , Cuba ; Phoenix. Cuba, and sailed for liamburgh ; Lucina, Albrecht, New York, and sailed for Stettin; a three-masted steam schooner, red burgee, white ball, frOm the west ward, and sailed northward. Sld. Erasmus, Van Dycke, Batavia ; Antigua packet, For6yth, Quebec. Put back, Bilton, Major, Montreal. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 14.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. Mary Jane , Williams, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, JULY 14.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Nesse)°, Bombay ; 'Unicorn, Nichols, Mauritius; Malibran, Bockee, Africa; Enterprise, Bullcraig, Patagonia; Favourite, Mit chell, Barbadoes ; Manchester, Tyler, New Orleans; St irling Barstow, Savannah ; Antelope, Jones, Prince Edward Island. Sid. Beethoven, Taylor, Calcutta; Salopi : Rotnbav ; Mary Connell, Valparaiso ; William Peill. Sprc Monte Video; Wyoming Meirckf-n, Philadelphia; Alverto tt Clark, New York; lanthe, Robins, St. Stephen, New Bruns wick. Off port. Swiftsure, Africa. The Mary Lloyd, and Aristocrat, were wrecked at Patagonia previous to the 27th of April. The Huguen; 4, from New Orleans to 'Liverpool. which put into Savannah in distress, sailed hence on the 24th ult., after discharging about 180 bales of cotton da maged. ST. Ana, NEW BRUNSWICK, Julia 20.—The Margaret , I-Dnwood, arrived here, fell in on the 4th inst., with part of 'he wreck of a vessel of about 200 tons, painted ports, counted painted blue, copper-bottomed, iron tiller on after part of the rudder, cabin trunk about three fret above the deck, cabin thy)r appeared to be painted red, vessel twall !p -p:am:lce about seven years old, and thought to. be New Brunswick built. The Huron, arrived.off Boston from Liverpool, passed on the 2d inst., off Sable fsland, the wreck of a large ship , partly broken op. apparently a British lumberman. HALIFAX, JULY 3.—The ...4.ckbrook, Lawson, and Evening Star, Hannah. while lying at anch or in Richebncto Roads, were driven on shore and became total wrecks, and bays been condemned—four of the crew of the latter drowned. A brig front St. John's, New Brunswick, to Ireland, went on shore on Cape Sable 27th ult. A barque, with masts and bulwarks gone, bowsprit standing, and anchors and chains on deck, and with " Quebec" on her stern, was passed in lat. 38 lon. 69. by the Rapid, arrived at Yarmouth, N. S. QUEBEC, • Juxis 12.—The Providence Reed, from Plr mouth, which w as on s h ore on a sandtlik off Port Neu' 29th ult.., has been assisted off and towed up to tills P° ll * The Adeline, Downing, arrived here this morning *on; New . castle, very leaky, and with loss of jibboom, foreyard, having been in contact with a brig otf Maniconagan Shoal' , 19. The William, fr om P.i nce E dward ' s Island, which lit on shore at Port Escuminal 13th December last, has been got off and brought up to this port. 22 The Cleop.strut Thompson, of Lontionf fell over on her beamends on the ball :st- ground 19th inst.; she has since been towed on sht 'au above Hallow Cove, and abandoned by the crew. The Jane, of Hartlepool, bound to Quebec, under jury top- - masts and rudder, was passed, on the 17th inst., near the. Seven Islands, by the Leander, Macpherson, arrived here. The Albion, of Cork, bound to Quebec, is reported to be on shore in the river. A brig was seen on shors near Shallop. Creek, sth instant, apparently bound up the river St. Law rence, by the Xanthus, arrived at Quebec. The Jane Morrison, Pentreath, hence to the Clyde. which was on shore on the Maniconagan Shoals, Ist Dec., 1845, b been got off and brought up to this port. NOTICE TO MARINERS. PORT OF LANCASTER. The following has been pasted at Lloyd's Tonnage Office, Lancaster, June 4, 1846. The Commissioners of St. George's Quay, Lancaster, de hereby give notice, that on and after 10th day of September , 1846, the light on the island of Walney, will revolve in four minutes, showing a bright light every minute in place of- 55 heretofore —one every four and twelve minutes. They al sl ' give notice that a s t at i onary t i dal light (red) will be place d on the south point on the said island of Walney. TitOe alterations are sanctioned by the Board of the Trinity House' By order of the Commissioners of St. George's. JOHN WALKER, Quay Master. MARKET NEWS-(YESTERDAY) CORN ExclattivGr... We had again a limited sup.ly of Wheat of home pit duce on sale. Still, however, as the millers purchased orur to meet their present w an t s , th e t ra d e was i n a very i nac tive state, at about Monday's quotations. The show of Foreign W:.eat being large, that article ruled very dull, and prey is rates were with difficulty supp or t e d. The - best grindll Barley moved off steadily , a t l ate rates. I n ocher k i n d s n est to nothing was doing. M a lt move d o ff stead il y, at l ow ra te, but Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour, commanded scarcely la attention. Wheat. English •••• •• I 1,110 qrs. Irish . ..... Foreign ARRIVALS. Barley. 86 0 qrs. 1,570 3,530 Malt, '2,050 ara. WZIXTECIIIIPML. Oat, 1 Flour -500 qrs. i 1,070 AS' .. _ 4,440 13,340 The supplies of each kind of Meat On offer were bill means extensive, yet the general deniand ruled heavy ort following terms :—Beef, from 2s 4d to 31 6d ; 'Mutton, 10d to 4s; Lamb, 4s 10d to 6s ; Veal, 3s 8d to 44 64 A U Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 10d per 81bs by the carcase. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER., TUESDAY, JULY 14.—The yarn mai continues very quiet; and prices of some descriptiot particularly warps and the qualities of mu l e yarn 0 01 10 able for th e I n di an uurket, are again rath lower. demand for cloth cont i nues much the sameer as last lar and prices remain steady. ROCTIDALE, MonDAY, JULY 13.—There has ' 7 42 . 6 some little improvement in demand for pieces tor,,i's hut nO change in pric..s. The wona market con" / ., or e lf inactive, and the blisiness transacted has bean_ •`" - 4/ limited, at f.rmer prices. HUDDERSFIELD, JULY 14.---Again we hare to re . an improvement in our m a rk e t. S evera l b uyers Al! , 0 Istended to-day, and some h ea vy p urc h ases h av e made in dark-coloured goods. The manufacturers, IV " . th .ver, complain most of the sacrifice they are obliged make to effect sales. LEEDS, TUESDAY, JULY 14.—There is little altc tion to notice in our market. The lower description: l : 4 goods, which have been in request for some time, 0 taken off as brought in, and a to ne o f couf i dence se e t r gradually gaining ground with b oth merchants and in g nutacturers.—Manchester Guardian. SINGULAR MODE OF CATCHING` ALLIGATORS. The intrepid fisherman killed a sucking-pig, a nd rang moderately thick stick through the entire length of 61. body, which h e cut open. To the middle of this stick 11° attached an iron chain, eight or ten feet lonr, by meek' of a cramp, and then further elongated the chain fastening a curd to it. Armed with two strong barbed iron lances, he went on board his light canoe, and rut' nut a short distance from the shore, while we remained ill the hut watchi ng hi s proceedings with great interest en' curiosity. At a venture he threw the pig into the river , ' and scarcely a minute had elapsed ere a pair of enorruot l. widely-extended jaws rose above the surface and quickly disappeared with the treacherous prize. The fisherme n took advantage of this moment to fasten the end of the rope to his canoe, and also to a tt ac h hi s two lances by long ropes to the boat. The voracious animal soon de voured his booty and drew the boat, w hi c h o f cours e foi_ lowed his every movement, fir s t t o one s id e o f t h e river and then to the other, alway s see ki ng f or t h e d e epest water. The rope being continually drawn tighter an d tighter, the alligator darted w ith grea t v i o l ence a bove _ th surface, whereupon the ne gro v i gorous l y t h rus t 0 . 10 lance at his he a d, an d th e monster again dived. Certai n of approaching victory, he stood calmly, with uplifted lance, watching fir an opportunity of throwing it again whenever his adversary might rise above the sal': face. We were much astonished at the man's patient assiduity, for there was once a pause of half an hour during which the animal did not appear, but as he gradually became weaker ho rose more frequently, and at last always with his jaws wide open' The numerous w.nunds lathered by th e lance, en", consequent loss or' blood, so completely ezdausted the pour alligator that he had great diffieulty in drawing th e boat after him; but suddenly collecting all his remain ing strength, h e p u l e d the bob on one side with such violence tlat the fi,herman fell into the water. In en instant he dexterously flung himself into the boat, en' continued to striae his antagonist with his harpoon' The comic: last( d n( arty an hour and a half, when the alligator yielded w,thout resistance to the superior forte of the negro, who gradually brought his boat alongside of us, and then suddenly leaping on shore fastened the rope to a cocoa-palm in front of his hut. He then fear! leosly approached the animal, which was n, arty covered with water, and deprived him of all possibility of escape by inflicting several deep uiids.L t i o fe when the alligator was abandoned his f n a o te. ex T tin li c i: animal was above 20 feet lonz.—From a Correspondent. [ADvERTISEMENIO.]—A BAD LEG OF THIRTY-FIVE YEARS' STANDING CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND MIA , " The particulars of this extraordinary case are as follows :—/Ir. Jas' Macdonald, native of I' elansl, now re s idi ng at No. 7, George-arA: Whitechapel, wu discharged from the navy in 1813, in conseque" c " of his leg then having b een b ad for two ,„ ears, and pronounced ,„ Plymouth Hospital as i ncurable. During the former long period '- had had the advice of th e most skilful surgeons in London, Publini and other places. N o t w i thstanding the dri-adful state of the leg ai' five - and-thirty years of s u ff er i ng, the limb is now soundly heale d by the use ol H o ll oway ' s Ointment and gds, which are sold by .l dealers in medicines, and at the Proprietor's Establishment, 24 Strand, Loinion. BIRTHS. On the 11th inst., at Carlton-terrace, the Countess of Caledon, of a son. On the 3d in,t., at Courland-grove, Clapham, Mrs. Walter Bentley, of a son. On the 8 , 11 inst., in the Victoria-park, near Manchester , the lady of Joseph St. John Yates, Esq., of a son. On the 10th inst., at Heysham, Lancaster, the lady of T. Tomlinson, Esq., of a son. On the 11th inst., at John's-place, Albany road, Camber.. well, Mrs. Robert Cox, of a son. On the 11th inst., at Regency-square, Brighton, the lady of Jacob Montefiore, Esq., of a son. On the 11th inst., at Wiggin ton Re c t or y, near B an bury, the wife of the Rev. John 'Williams, of a son. MARRIED. On the 14th inst., at Ospringe, Kent, by the Rev. J. Yee,' Hamilton, Edward Jarman, Esq., of Brenley House, Kent, t ° Lucy Sarah Manners Sutton, wid ow o f the late Rev. Man ners Sutton, Subdean of Lincoln, and only child of the late Rey. H. S. Mortimer, Vicar of Throwlev, 'Kent. On the t It h inst., at St. Pancras Church, London, Freeman willilm Coe, Esq., of Upper Clapton, Middlesex, to Catbe" ririe Jane, the eldest daughter of St. John Chiverton Charlton, Esq., of Apley Cast Shropshire. DIED. On the 7th inst., in Scotland, Mr. W. Ramage, of Little Poqland• st reet, Regent -;.trees. 0 , 1 the 10.11 inst., J.lmes, the fourth sen of John Rolfe E•q, of Herisill, Hawkhurst. Kant. Oa the 1101 init., at Lower Tooting, Lydia Harriet, wife of John Button, Esq., aged 74. On the 11th inst., Isabella, third daughter of Mr. Robert Smith, dßelitha-villas, Ihrnsbury-park. aged 21. On the lath inst., in Norfolk-str,et, Strand, John Pate r ' foster, Esq.. age'l 84. Lo:Flon: Printed .nu 11,L;ICDO ut+isiu, of No. 119 s s Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, Strand, f n the Preci l 2;', of the 6aTeh 111 Cow* Of Middlesex, Varodsh gl w " 16, 16441 C tow ( Esq. On til Thi Ostabl fellow fiir c e , „ ' Ge org 71 10 ,7`: A J o h n J ames The Messrs. I feSSrs. SA I s ZOrrn ar : 41 . Le ',Woe ~ourtha and G Thos. RI James Moff, ". Abel CH piS 4 VTI t," r l ;:ra en o: i c h n d whic 1 ) 0 Itose anC enables y friction, tion is en the purpc th by a dal( p ropriety FR lot T Do seis l hes, c°lll t er oilowiag