The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-09 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OF HERT FORDSHIRE. The election of a Member to serve in Parliament for Lecounty of Herts, in the place of Lord Grimston, who 'called to the Upper House of Parliament by the de calase of his father, Lord Verulam, was held at Hertford yesterday. It being generally understood that there was to be no opposition, there was, of course, none of the excitement that attended a contested election. The only candidate in the field, Mr. T. P. Halsey, was attended to the hust ings by about 150 gentlemen on horseback, and a num ber of flags and banners. The usual proclamation having been made, and the writ read, by Mr. Longmore, the Under-Sheriff, Sir H. MEET% stood forward, and having briefly stated the object for which they were assembled, requested that the electors would give every gentleman who might please to address them a patient hearing. Mr. D. RADCLIFFE then proposed Mr. Thomas Plumer Halsey as a fit and proper person to represent the county of Hertfordshire in Parliament. Eleven years ago he had proposed their late representative, Lord Grimston, and at that period, as at the present, the con dition and the prospects of the agricultural interest were the all-absorbing topics of interest in the public mind. At the period to which he referred a gloom hung over agriculture, not from the acts of any Government, but because it had pleased Providence to afflict them with bad harvests. Almost ever since, however, with the exception of the exaggerated failure of the potato crop, the har vests had been akundant, but yet, at a period of al most unexampled prosperity, when the country eon happy and contented, when there was a grett demand P.t i for labour, and every branch of the nonal industry was in a prosperous condition, they Lad been thrown into a state of almost unparalleled excitement. And what was the cause of all this Why, because a monster, hitherto unknown in this country, a monied monopoly, has been suffered to rear its hideous horn, and make giant strides to invade their hearths and homes.—(Hear, hear.) When he had the honour of addressing the meeting at the agricultural dinner of the county, he told them that ho doubted the sincerity of Sir Robert Peel. He at that time thought he could discover the small black cloud in the distance, which he expected would burst and spread destruction around ; but upon that principle of English justice which considered every man innocent until be was proved to be guilty, he would forbear from branding him with treachery until they knew what he really meant to do ; but, at the Mme time, recent oc currences plainly showed that it was necessary for them to be on their guard. It had been truly said that ingratitude was so hateful a crime, that the man who was guilty of it could not be gai/ity of any other, for all were comprised in it, and he was still willing to believe that Sir Robert Peel would not be a traitor to those who had placed him in power. Upon this vital question of protection to agriculture, however, there should be no temporising ; and he was sorry to see, that at the meeting at Bedford, Lord Al thiarp had likened their position, with Sir Robert Peel at their head, to passengers in a train on the railway who, expecting to , go at the rate of thirty miles an hour, found that the engineer was taking them at the rate of a hun dred ; and when they remonstrated with him upon the danger to whidti he subjected their lives, his only answer was, that there was another train behind him coming at the ante of a hundred and fifty miles an hour, and they, therefore, thought it better to go on with him, than to run the risk of travelling by the still faster train. He must venture to express his opinion that they were fools who would travel with such an engineer at all, and that, the better course, if he persisted, would be to get another engineer to conduct the train, and to pay no at tention to the 150-mile an hour train behind them, but to feel assured that the result would be that it would destroy itself, but would not injure any but those upon it.—(Hear, and a laugh. A voice in the crowd, " But it's nearly at the station.") He need not tell them that by the 150-mile an hour train he referred to that unprinci pled band of conspirators known as the Anti-Corn-law League—(Hear, and interruption)—a set of men who were denounced by the respectable persons of all parties in politics, and whom the great head of the Whig party in that county, Lord Dames, had denounced as a monied oligarchy.—(Cheers.) It was not so mu c h w h a t the Anti-Corn-law League said that he objected, to as to what they did. They might get an audience together in Covent-garden Theatre to hear them spouting, the same as they would go to see a pantomime or any other exhibition, and all their talking there would have no more effect on the laws of England than dancing " Jim Crow."—(Laughter.) But what made them tbrmidable was, that they presumed to interfere with the privileges of Parliament, that they had tampered with the elective franchise, and had endeavoured to separate the manu facturing and the agricultural interest, and to set them in opposition to each other.—(Hear, hear.) They were told that the League had obtained large sums of money ; and with what object ? Was it for patriotic pur poses ? No. Their leaders unblushingly repudiated any patriotic views, and Mr. Heywood, at a meet ing at Manchester, unhesitatingly admitted that these sums of money were intended to be ap plied to furthering the interest and increasing the profits of the manufacturers. A great deal had been said about Lord John Russell joining the League, and de claring his adherence to what was called free trade ; but he must say that, in his opinion, it looked more like carrying out that feeling which prevailed in the mind of Lucifer, that it was better to " reign in hell than serve in heaven."—(Cheers, and interruption.) He could conceive many humiliating positions, such as being a joint of O'Connell's tail ; or the feelings of Mr. Macaulay, when he wrote his humble epistle from Edinburgh, when he expected to be indicting a high-flown document from Windsor Code ; but, in his opinion, nothing could be so humiliating to any person of character as an association with the infernal League.—(Hear, and laughter.) There was not, however, in his opinion, any cause to fear the result. The British lion was moved, and he would shake like dewdrops from his mane the scum of the .Leagie. Let them wait patiently for the meeting of Parliament, and they would then see whether the Minister would dare to propose any measure such as has been threatened, and whether he would league himself with those who declared their object to be to destroy the aristocracy of the land. If he should do so—if he should thereby declare the legality of the exercise of this money monopoly—then, at the eleventh hour, the agricultural interest of England would come forward and beat their opponents with their own weapons.—(Cheers.) There should be 100,000/. subscribed in every county in Eng land.—(Renewed cheering.) He knew a great number of gentlemen now ready to come forward with a thou sand pounds. He, a plain country gentleman, would put down his thousand pounds, aye, and would sacri fice half his fortune, rather than yield to the tyranny of these democratic despots.—(Great cheering.) Men and money were ready ; and if it should come to what he alluded to, he had no doubt they should scatter Bright and Cobden, and the other members of the League, like chaff before the wind. While upon this subject of the proceedings of the League, he begged leave to address a few words to the labourers, and to advise them not to be deluded by the specious argu ments that were made use of by the League, and to look upon every man as their enemy who endeavoured to in duce them to believe that those who were above them were indifferent to any privations they might undergo, or that they were the cause of their suffering them; and when they talked of cheap bread to them, they should ask them to tell them the condition of the peasantry in the countries where bread was cheap. He could tell them this, that in Italy they would see poor wretches scrambling for a piece of orange-peel when a hatful of oranges could be had for a penny.---(Hear, hear.) After some further observations, the Hon. Gentleman con cluded by proposing Mr. Halsey, in the usual form. Mr. JOHN SEGO, of Stanstead, said that, as a tenant farmer in the county, he had great pleasure in seconding the nomination of Mr. Halsey to represent the county in Parliament. He had come forward and boldly and honestly avowed his principles, and he had no doubt he would act up to them ; and he trusted that, when the Parliament met, the Members would do their duty, and fulfil the promises made by them at the last election.— (Hear, hear.) It might be said that no political ques tion was at present actually before the country as Par liament was not sitting ; but he trusted that if, as was Yliwoured would be the case, Sir Robert Peel was to attempt to deprive the agricultural interest of any portion of that small protection which they now en,joyed, that the landed proprietors of the country would join together to resist such an attempt. At the time of the panic caused by the recent changes, when Lord John Russell was called upon to form an Administration; he had sustained a loss of 81 . upon two waggons of corn, and he had no doubt he must have continued to have sold at the same loss if he had succeeded in doing so; but for tunately he was not strong enough for the place. The effect of depriving agriculture of the protection it no w enjoyed must, in his opinion, be most ruinous—it would, at all events, reduce the price of agricultural produce by one-third, and which must necessarily fall upon the labouring population. He farmed five hundred acres of land, and had to fill fifty-seven mouths from the pro duce of his farm ; bat if his receipts were diminished one-third, it would be impossible for him to continue to support his labourers, and he must discharge the greater portion of them ; and although he might be most unwilling t o d o Th so, yet he should have no alternative. other s Rion SHERIFF havin g i nqu i re d w h e th er an y Rion was to be p roposed , and receiving no answer, he declared Mr. Halsey duly eected. Mr. linstass a y d t i teant if f st h ood forward, and was loudly sheered. e was not able to return thanks In an adequate formanne h r im. the high honour and trust that was reposed in not f from any want of gratitude, but solely from'a l w t want of proper language to express his feelings. He felt that it wastt great honour to for him, a young man and untried, be el ected their re presentative, and he co u ld assure theth at he had a by his i strong determination to merit their klincin deeds. He was aware of the great r espo nsibility t Position of a Member of at f all times was attached to the Parliament, but that responsibily was very g reat l y in. creased in times like t he p r esent. Still, howe ver , h e hoped that, by a stead y adhesion to the prin c ipl es he had espoused, he should be able on a future occasion to give an account of his steward ship that would be satisfactory to them. and honourable to him se lf. He believed that his political opinions were pretty well known in the county; but on this occasion he might be excused for making a few observations upon the present state of affairs. The circumstances of the present mo tnent were most peculiar. A month ago they saw a Ministry, apparently strong in itself, and possessing a large majority in Parliament, from any exte rnal su ddenly dissolved — not agency ' but from internal dissensions. They saw L or d John Rus sell sent for . to form an Admi nistration, and althou wh i ch th A Nobleura g w h o ttere were very few things would not attempt, yet there was oni thing that he clearly Ataining any nortion of public succeed in, namely, Ll for a party dim - four ye ars ag o confidence or sympa hurled from power by thonlmost Aoat7as ignominiously pogo; Lord John' Rttssell was, the refore, will of the livered' of a still-born AdMinistration, andr safely de- must sa y that it was $ most happy deliverance for the country. • _-~ -... They now had at the head of affairs the same Minister, and nearly the same Administration, which they had placed in power four years ago, solely upon the prin ciple of protection to native industy.—(Hear, hear.) A few days would show what they intended to do, and although he would not prejudge them, yet he certainly did think that the ought to look at the present Govern ment with some degree of distrust and suspicion. What ever measures might be proposed, however, his course was clear. He should support such only as he consi dered calculated for the benefit of the country at large; and with regard to the all-important question of pro tection to agriculture, without pledging himself to sup port through thick and thin this or that system of corn laws, he would never consent to any proposition that did not secure to the agricultural interest the pro tection they at present enjoyed (Cheers) and he would consent to no change, unless he considered it gave them a protection tantamount to that they at present possessed. A cry of famine, which had been principally raised by the Anti-Corn-law League, and for which he believed there was very little foundation, had be .n set on foot ; but, in point of fact, he believed the country was never more flourishing than at the present mo ment. Manufactures were flourishing, their shipping was occupied, trade and commerce was also flourishing; agriculture was recovering, and the l a bouring p o pul a ti on had not, he was of opinion, been better off at any period since the war ; this being the (MIGe, he must say that it would take a great des-I. to convince him that any change was necessary, and he did not believe, that under the pre.setttaw, the agricultural interest had any greater amount of protection than they were entitled to. There was another, and, in his opinion, an almost equallygrave question to be answered, which was, whether the country was to be governed under the old constitution of Sovereign, Lords, and Commons, or whether it was to be at the 'mercy of our irresponsible and self-elected parliament, holding its meetings in Covent-garden Theatre?— (Interruption.) He had no hesitation in saying, that if the proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law League were not immediately stopped—(A laugh)—it would not only be dangerous to their interests as agriculturists, but also to their individual liberties, and their independ ence as a nation.—(Cheers.) If their vital interests were to be thus attacked and they were to be compelled to submit to the worst of all tyranny—the despotism of money—England would be no longer a free country. If the League gained their present object, did they sup pose they would be satisfied ? Would they not, on the contrary, stimulated by their successful sedition, persevere in their course, and that they would next at tack the Church and the Throne ? But which would be the first to be attacked was, of course, only known to that Providence upon which he placed his confidence for relief from this great oppression. He therefore called upon them, by their love of their country and of inde pendence, to exert themselves to put an end to this in famous oppression ; and, if they did so, he had no doubt , they would succeed. The Hon. Member concluded by again returning his thank s f or th e hi g h h onour they had done him in electing him as their representative. The Hon. W. F. COWPER M.P., begged, as one of the electors of th e county, to be allowed to address a few observations to his brother freeholders, in reference to the very extraordinary language that had been made use of that day by some of the gentlemen who had addressed them, particularly in reference to the League and the Minister, which appeared to have so entirely taken pos session of their minds.—(A laugh.) He must confess that he was somewhat surprised to find his friend Mr. Radcliffe, after ransacking his mind for similes to the League, adopt those from the infernal regions.—(Roars of laughter.) The oratory must have had quite a sul phureous taste ; and when he talked of the British lion, he really almost expected to hear him roar.—(Renewed laughter.) When he said this, he wished it to be un derstood that he had no connexion with the League, and he candidly admitted i that he disapproved of many of the acts of that body.—(Hear, hear.) He disapproved of their levying money for the avowed purpose of in. fluencing elections, and he likewise disapproved of the presumptuous and foolish manner in which Mr. Cobden and some other members of the League spoke of the landed aristocracy of the country. While he entered his protest against those proceedings on the part of the League, he did not think they deserved what was said of them by Mr. Radcliffe. He called them monied mo nopolists, but he could not see why monopoly should appear so odious in the manufacturing interest, and yet be so delightful in the eyes of the proprietors of land. —(lnterruption, and a cry of "Protection to agricul ture is not monopoly.") What did protection mean, if it meant anything at all, but monopoly?---("No, no.") It was said that the League had an intention of attacking the Church and Throne, but he must say he had never heard anything fall from any member of it showing such ten dency, and he merely considered them as a political club, formed for a particular object. Entertaining the opinions which they knew he did, they might expect that he should give them some information as to the reasons which induced the party with whom he acted not to con test the present election.—(" You could not help it," said some one in the crowd.) Well, that might be one reason, but the real fact was, they felt satisfied that Sir Robert Peel would carry the question of free trade, and that as the battle could only be properly fought in the House of Commons, they considered it useless to have a contest upon the point in that county. He, and those with whom he acted, were quite satisfied as to the pernicious effect of what was called " protection," not only upon all classes of the community, but upon the agriculturists themselVes; but so long as it was abolished, they did not care whether this was effected by Sir Robert Peel or Lord John Rus sell. They complained a great deal of Sir Robert Peel, and charged him with deception, but for his part he saw much more to blame in his past that in his present con duct. He remembered when the leader of the Whig Government proposed to give them a fixed duty of Bs. a quarter, the poor farmers were in very great alarm, and rejected the proposal, and now they would see what Sir Robert Peel and their Tory leaders would give them. He believed that many of those who rejected the Bs. duty would now be very glad to get it. Mr. RADCLIFFE begged to say a few words in ex planation. He yielded to no man in a feeling of respect for the Hon. Gentlemen who were the supporters of the Whig party in that county ; but with regard to the League, he certainly felt himself justified in using the expressions he did. Ho was very glad to hear Mr. Cow per repudiate any connexion with the League—parti cularly as a placard, in which his brother, Mr. Spencer Cowper, was requested to stand for the county, was sup posed to have emanated from that body. Mr. COWPER said that neither he nor his brother was aware of this requisition, or anything about it, until after it had been published. Mr. WOODLEY, an elector, next addressed the meeting at some length in favour of the present corn-laws. Mr. FALVEY, one of the Anti-Corn-law League, claimed a right to reply to the observations of the last speaker, as he had been appealed to by him. The Hum SHERIFF said that as he was not an elector he could not legally be heard. Mr. BONTERUS, the agent of the Anti-Corn-law League at Hertford, begged to be permitted to address a few observations to the meeting, and as it appeared that he was qualified as an elector, he was allowed to proceed. After some preliminary observations, he said he regretted to find that Mr. Cowper repudiated the League, for he said he could assure him that without their assistance his party would never be able to carry the county. He declared that the objects of the League were both misunderstood and misrepresented ; and as to their having any seditious or illegal objects, it was clear it was not so, for if they had, they would long ago have been prosecuted ; for those who raked up the infernal regions for metaphors, would do the same in the courts of law for an Act of Parliament for their purpose, if any such existed. As to the interference of the League with the representation of the country, let them look at the state of that county. They had a population of 157,000, and, out of that number, only 4,500 possessed the right of voting, and he would ask whether that could be a proper state of things. All the League desired was to infuse new blood into all the constituencies, and he could tell them that they would never be satisfied until they returned three free traders for the county of Hertfordshire. Sir MINTO FARQUHAR then proposed a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff. C. T. DUNSDELL seconded the motion. The HIGH SHERIFF returned thanks. Sir MINTo FARQUHAR then proposed three cheers for their new Member; and Mr. WOODLEY, three groans for the " accursed " Corn-law League, all of which were duly given; after which the electors separated. RAILWAY ROBBERY. LEICESTER, JAN. 7.—At the Leicester Epiphany ses sions, held before C. W. Packe, Esq., M.P., chairman, at the Castle, at Leicester, this day, Alfred Penavaire, and Josephine Marie Huismans, were charged with steal ing a portmanteau, the property of S. Cooper. .Pri soners describ e d th emse l ves to . be of French extraction, and as tra ve lli ng about the country vending articles of millinery, &c. The prosecutor is a tradesman, residing in Kirby-street, Hatton-garden. On the morning of the sth ult., he left the Euston Station, by the London and Birmingham Railway, by which he proceeded to Rugby, and was conveyed from that place to Leicester by the Midland line. Upon ar riving at the latter town he got o u t o f t h e carriage, and took his portmanteau into the booking o ffi ce , w h ere he gave it in charge of a porter, intending to call for it on his return from the town, where he had to tr ansact some business ; but, on his returning to the office, he found that the portmanteau had been taken away, and, being unable to obtain any tidings of it, he pur sued his journey to Nottingham, where he gave informa tion to the police, after which he continued his progress to Mancheiter. The police o ffi cer at Nottingham having ascertained that the two prisoners had offered various articles of plate to different individuals for sale, suspicion at once fell upon them, and they were consequently sought out, and taken into custody, and the portmanteau in question was found i n th e i r p ossess i on , t oge ther with all the articles of plate that it had contained, none of the tradesmen to whom it was offered for sale liking to pur chase such costly articles of persons who were entire strangers to them. After some further proceedings, The CHAIRMAN said he should pass sentence upon them, which was , that they should severally be confined in t h e House of Correction and kept to hard labour for twelvemonths. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A n accident o ccurre d on the Maidstone branch o f the S onthEastern Railway t o th e 2 o'clock train from Maidstone on Tuesday last. Th e con tractor, who is laying dow n another line occa sion to convey a portion of his materials of rail', had from one of the Medway Company's wharfs across the line by rails. These rails ought to have been clearednawasyoO•isilitdhee approach of any train , which in this instance the work men neglected to do. When the train came up, the tender and luggage-van ran off the line, which interrupted the traffic for some time. Fortunately no injury was done to any of the passengers, who were in a very short time provided with the means to pursue theirj eurney. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY. EVENING, JAN'TTAIVY 9, 1846. CHRISTIAN UNION. MEETING AT EXETER-HALL. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Rev. E. BICKERSTETH, having read the next resolution passed at the conference at Liverpool, which deplored the divisions that had taken place amongst the members of the Christian Church, as well as the angry polemical discussions that had been indulged in, and recommending the discontinuance of any such in future, said that they had already seen the benefits that had resulted from union amongst themselves. The powerful op position given to the grant to Maynooth was the result of union amongst them in opposition to their com mon enemy. It had been contended that they could not unite with the members of the Church. He was justi fied in the articles of that church in recognising those as true ministers of Christ who had been chosen by the people for that office. He himself was contented to be classed among such men as Dodridge and other eminent Dissenters. Their canons, too, had undergone a c h ange, and conta i ne d nothing to the contrary. But even if they did, they were bound only to o b e y w h at was j ust. It had b een said they should not join with schismatics. But what was schism ? He denied that it could be shown that those were schismatics who belonged to the great mysti cal body of Christians. He had, he thought, fully answered any objection against the ministers of the Church of England joining in the union. He was gratified to see that in sevtral of the newspapers of their different bodies' there was a more kindly feeling ex hibit e d, an d h e t rus t e d th a t the time was approaching when they should look less at their points of difference, and more at those in which they agreed. He would, in conclusion, suggest some practical rules to effect the union they so strongly desired. They should not accuse Trac tarians of Popery, nor regard as too powerful the mere mechanism of a society. They should invoke con tinually the Divine assistance, and should not despond, but pursue their views with vigour and perseverance. The second hymn was then sung, after which the third resolution of the conference was spoken to by The Rev. Dr. ALDER (Wesleyan minister). He said that a few years back there was an apathy apparent in religious bodies in the country—in fact, a great indifference to religious matters. But it would appear that the inroads which Popery was making, and other iircumstances, had the effect of dis playing most strongly the necessity of union. He would read the resolution to which he had been called on to speak. (The speaker then read the third resolution of the conference, to the effect that, after the frank avowal of their religious sentiments which had been made by the different speakers, the meeting felt more strongly the desire for union, and that a meeting should be held in the summer of next year to promote that purpose, to which persons should be invited from all countries.) He attributed much of their want of union to the torpidity of their mis sionary spirit, which would also account for the progress of Popery not being more effectually resisted. The time was, in his opinion, fast approaching when religious subjects would be the chief object to which the minds of men should be directed. He was assured by a noble man, who was distinguished on all occasions for his attachment to religion and his benevolence, that in Germany and in Sclavonia their brethren would have to contend with, perhaps, a civil war, or with a fierce discussion on religious themes. He felt satisfied that the time was almost at hand when system would be brought into collision with system. It was on this common basis that they did unite, and which induced the conference to seek for the union of others with them, so as to be prepared - for the coming crisis. The events around justified them in considering that a second Reformation was about to take place, which would surpass the first, great and glorious as it was, and powerful in its effects on humanity.—(Hear, hear.) The Rev. H. BEAMISH having offered up prayers, The Chairman introduced The Honourable and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL, who read the next resolution of the conference, to the effect that all should be invited to the meeting, to be held in the metropolis, who should hold and maintain what are usually understood to be the evangelical views on points on which nearly all members of the Church of Christ were agreed, namely, as to the inspiration of the Scriptures and the unity of the Godhead ; and in making the alliance that was here meant, it was of course to be understood that they were only to unite with those who did really belong to the Church of Christ. It had been objected that their so ciety was in too mutilated a state to work any benefit, and that they could not agree as to who should be members of the same. Now, he would submit to them a statement of what it should be understood that all should believe who were to be invited to the meeting. (The Hon. and Reverend Speaker then read the statement, which contained the cardinal truths which are believed by all members of the Protestant Church.) He conceived that this statement, if agreed to, would obviate the objection that had been made. He could not agree with the Arminian opinions of Richard Baxter, but that was no reason why they shoud not be good friends. He also differed from Mr. Fletcher, but he was ready to unite with him on the present occasion. With the fol lowers of these two great men it would be necessary for the disciples of different doctrines to unite, in conformity with the spirit of Christianity. This basis of doctrine would be sufficient, even if they did not agree on the terms in which they were embodied, because it was founded on generally recognised principles of the Scriptures. He felt satiafie 1 that if there were no practical results from their union, it would be of advantage to them to have the fellowship it would engender promoted, and to have those asperities with persons differing on important doctrinal points rubbed away by the atrition to which they would be exposed.(Loud cheers.) They could have some common objects, therefore; they could co-operate with less difficulty than the chairman, in his strict prudence, had thought. For instance, they could have the protection of persecuted Protestants all over the world, as one object ; and the conversion from Romanism in France, Italy, and other Roman Catholic countries, as another. The CHAIRMAN said that it would be his duty to in form the meeting that a collection would be made at the doors to defray the expenses incurred by the society. The Rev. HOWARD HINTON (Baptist minister) spoke to the next resolution of the conference, which exhorted the members to do all in their power to effect the union. He said union was desirable as an end, as well as a means, for it destroyed disunion, which was a positive evil. The last clause of the resolution proposed that they should, by the press and all other Scriptural means, oppose the progress of Popery and every other form of infidelity. The Rev. J. HAMILTON (minister of the Presbyterian Church), in speaking briefly to the resolution, stated that there would be a meeting of the conference at Liverpool next week. The Rev. Dr. CUMMING next addressed the meeting. He considered they might be united in harmonious con cert though entertaining different views, and he believed that all the differences that had divided the Christian world were only on the surface. The cordial thanks of the meeting were then voted to, and acknowledged by, the Chairman. The meeting then separated. DUTCH SPIRITS.—The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury having had under their consideration a communication from the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, respecting an application from several par ties importers of geneva from Holland, praying relief in regard to the construction put by the officers of the Cus toms department upon the recent Act of the last session of Parliament, chap. 86, as applicable to spirits imported in glass bottles for re-exportation to the colonies, Mr. Cardwell, one of the Secretaries to the Treasury, has been commanded to acquaint the Customs' authorities that their Lordships are pleased to authorise them to give directions to their officers for allowing geneva to be imported in glass bottles, containing not more than three pints or twelve gills each, as recommended by them. It appears that the importation of bottles containing geneva of the size and description alluded to was permitted for the especial and exclusive purpose mentioned previously to the passing of the Act quoted, but that the officers have lately hesitated and declined to permit its continuance until properly and dis tinctly authorised to do so, considering that the Act of Par liament should be so construed as to amount to the prohibi tion of their importation of such a size, even for the purpose of exportation only. This has reduced the appeal to the Treasury necessary, and which has produced an order for its continuance or re-adoption - to be permitted, as an important trade has for some time past existed in reference thereto, and which has been communicated to the revenue officers in London and at every port in the kingdom for their informa tion and future government in the matter. CUSTOMS REVENUE OF THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL. —The customs revenue of this port, for the year ending the sth of January, 1846, as nearly as can at present be made out, has amounted to 3,433,1121., showing a deficiency during the past year of 1,054,5521. This would be a disheartening fact, as leading to the conclusion that the commerce of the port has declined in proportion to the customs revenue, were it not capable of being fully explained. On the Bth of May, 1845, a Bill received the royal assent, repealing the duties upon a variety of raw materials, including the important item of cotton wool, a quantity of dyes and minerals, furniture woods, &c. It came into operation, how ever, by an order in Council, on the 20th of March, and the Act has, therefore, had upwards of nine months' effect upon our customs. The article of cotton wool alone pro duced last year to the customs of this port about 600,0001. From this source, therefore, we may safely set down a loss of nearly 500,0001. during the nine months, or little short of half thedeficiency. The other articles upon which the duties were repealed, about 200 in number, will make up a consi derable portion of the balance, though probably not the whole. For the remaining deficiency, therefore, we look to the alteration in the sugar duties, which, with several others provided for by the Tariff Act of the previous year, only came into full effect during the past twelve months. The loss of the reven ue f rom th ese w ill more t h an ma k e up th e entire deficiency. In addition, however, it is known that the amended corn-law has not this year produced so much as last year. —Liverpool Courier. THE LATE JOHN TAWELL.—The Bucks Epiphany sessions commenced at Aylesbury on Tuesday, and amongst twelve motions which a re t o be brought forward before the full bench of Magistrates to-day, is that of Dr. Lee, of Hart well House, " That the Chaplain be required to lay on the table the confession of John Tawell." This is in continua tion of the resolution which was unanimously adopted at the last sessions, " That the confession of John Tawell be laid upon the table at the next quarter sessions for the county ; and if this be not acceded to, the Chaplain be called upon to deliver it up forthwith." The Magistrates, in demanding the confession, do not consider that the refusal of the clergy man rests on the privileges of his order. The majority of the authorities on the subject are in favour of compelling a clergyman, even a Roman Catholic priest, as a witness, to divulge any confession made to him of a crime. The con fession is not one of privileged communication only, as the Chaplain received it but as an officer of the Magistrates, which might have been just as well made to the gaoler or any other official. In the case of " Rex v. the Bishop of Ely," Mr. Justice Bayley pronounced that " the Bishop swhiothulhdolndot,puitnliocrdertgain documents ;,, a b p u r t iv in at ca e b se en o e f fi t t h , e b r e ef a u l s l a or of theedto Chaplain to deliver up the confession, it will be matter to bring before the Bishop to discharge him from his office. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN and Mr. Justice Mum) Benjamin Freeman, 44, was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding Mary Anne Webb, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Payne conducted the prosecu tion ; and Mr. Doane defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner and the prosecutor had been living together as man and wife for two years, and on the 27th November the prisoner came home somewhat the worse for liquor, and an alter cation took place between them, and in the result the prisoner took up a knife and stabbed the prosecutrix in the side, and inflicted a severe wound. Immediately after he had committed the act the prisoner ran out for a doc tor, and expressed the utmost contrition. The jury found the prisoner Guilty of a common assault, and he was sentenced to five months' imprison. ment and hard labour. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDG E and a Bench of Magistrates.) Yasterday TVm other,Geo. Rawlins, Alex. Munro, and James Hodges, all under thirteen years of age, were indicted for stealing a toy watch, a Jew's harp, pen-knives, and other articles, the property of Charles Porter. From the evidence of William Cooke, a little boy about eight years old, it appears that one of the pri soners entered the prosecutor's shop, in Marchmont street, and took the articles in question. He afterwards joined the other prisoners, and he (witness) afterwards gave information. Mr. Porter identified the property in question as that belonging to his shop stock. The jury found them Guilty. The Court sentenced each to one month's imprison ment, with hard labour, and at the termination of the first fortnight to be severely whipped. Several cases were disposed of during the day, but they were not of any interest. Cross-examined by Mr. Clarkson—Had been indis posed a short time in Scotland, and that prevented him reaching London before. Knew.', Hunt's gaming -house, but he'd no interest, direct or indirect, in it. Had been there, and had met M'Leod there once or twice. Had never taken M'Leod to this or any other gaming-house. Had never become M'Leod's security to the gaming bank. Millingen was never a money-lender. Had lent M'Leod about 6001., and had taken only reasonable interest, not more than 20 or 25 per cent. This was not large, considering the risk. Had received a letter from M'Leod, dated Edinburgh, Dec. 26, 1844. It was to this effect:— "My dear Sir,—l consider myself bound in the honour of a gentleman to repay to you the various sums of money advanced by you during my minority, amounting to nearly 300/. I herewith have the pleasure to inform you that I became of age on Tuesday last, and conse quently, in :accordance with my promise, I inclose a promissory note for 300/., at three days' sight, payable at the National Bank of Scotland, which will be paid on presentation. Allow me to thank you for your kindness to me during my minority.—Yours truly, " FRANCIS APLEOD. " Direct to me at Sir J. Campbell's, Musselburgh." Mr. Clarkson said he was not in a condition to say that the prosecutor's representations were not true, or that the present proceedings were a kind of moral screw, made use of for the purpose of getting something out of the friends of a young gentleman, who was on the eve of going out to India. But as far as the evidence went he contended there was no case, the prima facie proof was wanting, and no false pretences had been proved. The prosecutor might, if he pleased, go before a Middle sex grand jury, and prefer a charge ; but as the evi dence now stood, the magistrate was not warranted in holding the defendant in custody any longer. The pro secutor had had plenty of time to bring his witnesses from Scotland, but having failed. to take the proper steps, the charge was for the present at an end. Mr. Thomas, in reply said, there was quite enough evidence to justify a further remand. The defendant by the aid of a valueless cheque had succeeded in getting 501. from the prosecutor. Mr. HARDWICK said the case had not advanced a single step beyond the position which it assumed on the first examination. The prosecutor ought to have been pre pared with evidence from Scotland of the defendant's false representations. Sufficient time had already been given, and as no steps had been taken to procure proper witnesses, the charge against the prisoner could not be entertained. Mr. Thomas then said, as that was the Magistrate's determination, he should at once proceed with Mr. Golds head's case. Mr. Clarkson—l object to that course. Mr. Thomas—The defendant stated that he would be of age on a particular day, and therefore the bill in ques tion was dated forward. Mr. ITA.upwrcK said he had disposed of the previous charge, and he was prepared to hear any other cases that could be brought forward. Mr. Thomas said the Court would hear the character of the fal,e pretences from Mr. Goldshead himself, and then would have to decide whether the evidence amounted to a committal or a remand. Mr. Goldibead examined—The defendant gave me a bill for 6001. for moneys lent. The defendant, when he gave the bill, said he was entitled, under his father's will, to property amounting, principal and interest, to about 5,0001. The defendant engaged me to go with him to Scotland to receive the money, which he said was lying for him at the National Bank of Scotland. The de fendant told me that he wanted money to pay some small debts in London. I lent him 100/. in money, and a diamond ring worth 201. The defendant invited me to dine with him. I went ; and the defendant, in the course of the evening, said to me, " You have been very kind to me; here is the diamond ring, which I wish you to accept." I was too ill to go to Edinburgh with Mr. M'Leod, and I was then informed that Mr. M'Leod had gone to Edinburgh, and expected me there. I went to Edinburgh, but could hear no tidings of Mr. M'Leod. I went to the National Bank and presented my two bills, but was told by the clerk that the party had no cash there, nor ever had any money in that lank. I was taken ill, and this detained me a day or two. I came to town on Friday last, having previously examined the defendant's father's will. About two days after my arrival in town I saw the defendant at a friend's house, and I asked him how he could send a friend to me to tell me had gone to Scotland, and how he could send me 400 miles to pre sent a cheque at a banking-house where he never had a single farthing of money. The defendant said he was sorry for the trouble he had given. I asked him what he had done with the money which I gave him to go to Scotland with. The defendant only laughed, and an swered that he had spent it. Mr. Clarkson, for the defendant, contended that the present proceedings were only adopted with a view to obtain money from the defendant's respectable friends. Mr. Goldshead said he had proofs of the defendant's false representations. He had letters and documents from Sir J. Gibson Craig. These letters were, however, not allowed to be pro duced in evidence. Mr. Goldshead, in reply to a question from Mr. Clark son, said he had issued a writ against the defendant that day. Mr. Clarkson asked whether the magistrate would treat the case criminally when the prosecutor himself had dealt with it as a debt by taking out a writ against the defendant? Mr. HARDwicK decided on holding the defendant to bail for a week in order to afford time to obtain the proper witnesses from Scotland. MARYLEBONE. Mary Ann Judd was brought up for re-examination. Many children who had had property stolen from them were now in attendance, and no fewer than five of them identified the prisoner as the person by whom they had been plundered. George Henry Chamberlain, a little boy, nine years old, deposed that a few weeks ago, as he was passing along Salisbury-street, Portman-market, with a bundle of linen which he was carrying home to his mother, he was accosted by the prisoner, who, after walking with him for some minutes, asked him to go into a house in the Edgware-road, and inquire if her husband was there, at the same time saying that she would hold the bundle for him, and that on his return she would give him two pence and an India-rubber ball ; he gave up the said bundle to her, not thinking there was anything wrong, and on his leaving the house and looking for the prisoner, he found that she was gone. The prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the rob beries, was remanded. _ _ _ Charles Wood was placed at the bar before Mr. Long for final examination, charged with having obtained goods from Mr. Benham, 19, Wigmore-street, Caven dish-square, by falsely representing that they were for Sir William Baynes, 25, Portland• place, in whose service he had lived as butler, and was discharged from his si tuation a year and a half ago. The case was proved, and the prisoner was sent for trial. William John Robinson, describing himself as a "com mercial agent," was charged with a violent assault upon Richard Wilson, a master-baker, carrying on business in Star-street, Paddington. It appears from the evidence that on the previous night, between ten and eleven o'clock, complainant saw the prisoner assault two females in the New-road ; he (complainant) remonstrated with him upon the miscon duct of which he had been guilty, when the prisoner immediately struck him several times on the head with a stick, which he had with him. Complainant added, that he bled profusely in consequence of the blows in question, and that as soon as he could meet with a con stable he gave the prisoner into custody. The prisoner, who, in answer to the charge said that the complainant gave him the first blow, was fined 40s. The penalty was directly paid. W OR SHIP-STREET. Georgiana Dempsey, the young sempstress who stood charged with cutting and wounding with a table knife a man named George Pitt, by whom she had been dis carded, after living with him for a considerable time as his wife, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Broughton, for final examination. It will be recollected that the prisoner, who is in an advanced state of pregnancy, had been remanded for the production of evidence in support of her statement, that she had inflicted upon the prosecutor the injuries he complained of, which were of a very trivial character, under strong feelings of provocation, occasioned by his having used to her a scandalous epithet. The prosecutor still pressed the magistrate to send the prisoner for trial, on the ground that he should have no protection from her future violence if she were allowed to go at large ; but Mr. BROUGHTON said that, so far from the prisoner having exhibited any premeditated intention to injure du o c n t ly h e all along pursued him, she had exhibited the most affectionate regard for him, unfeelinge couldcon the prosecutor's inveterate animosity to a desire to notwithstanding towa r towards here and b es cape from the responsibility of supporting the child, of which she would so shortly be the mother. Her whole conduct evinced an entire absence of malice, and as the injuries the complainant had sustained were of a very slight nature, be considered she had alrealy undergone, sufficient punishment for hastily giving way to the ex treme provocation she had received, and he should, therefore, order her to be discharged. The prisoner, who was much affected, was then liberated, to the evident satisfaction of every one in Court. The Magistrate announced his receipt of a letter, enclosing the sum of 21. from H. and J. W., for the poor-box. LAMBETH. Susannah Taylor, Mary M'Carthy, Jane Smith, and Ann White were charged before the Hon. G. C. Norton with wilfully breaking two panes of glass, of the value of 65., at Lambeth Workhouse. George Newland, the gate-porter at Lambeth Work house, deposed that, about half-past twelve o'clock on that day, he found the prisoners, who were perfect strangers to him, and who did not belong to the parish, in the small office, and discovered at the same time that two squares of glass, of the value of 3s. each, were broken. He asked who had done it, and all the pri soners replied that they had. ofo workhouse workhouse, use gute , s t who at ed thatets as Williamou P about occasio nal tw e e P l i 'ewo'clock a rtnm er inmate the t ta htee lv prisoners came t o the b u t im mediately afterwards gate, and upon his asking what they wanted , they replied they came for relief. He then told them civilly to go to the assistant-overseer , in another part of the building. They thought, ha erd the forpurpose,that smashing of glass, and on opening the door he saw the prisoner Taylor throw a stone through a pane of glass. He asked her why she did it, and all the prisoners replied, " We all here did it." The prisoners acknowledged they had broken th• windows, but said they had not dune so until they had been refused relief, or even admittance into the work house. In reply to the questions of the Magistrate, they said they were not nhabitants of the prieh of Lambeth, Ain had they any legal claim for relief; but all they wanted was temporary assistance, and had this been given to them they should not have proceeded to the slightest violence. Mr. NORTON told them, that if they were really dis tressed and in a destitute state, as they represented, and relief had been refused to them at the workhouse, their proper course would have been to apply to this Court, and not take the law into their own hands. He then con victed them in the penalty of 65., the value of the glass, or in default of payment, to three days' imprisonment each. Richard Holden, a shopman to an oil and colourman in Piccadilly, was brought before the magistrate by one of the relieving-officers of the parish of Lambeth, for neglecting to support his wife, in consequence of which she became chargeable to the parish. The wife, a well-dressed woman, said that she and her husband hid lived on the most affectionate terms, until they unfortunately took in a female lodger, and soon after she discovered the most positive proof that her husband had formed an improper intimacy with her. She, of course, insisted that the female should at once leave the house, and her husband, instead of breaking off the intimacy, took a lodging for her, and lived with her as her husband. The defendant said, that so violent was the temper of his wife, that he could not continue to live with her, but should allow 20s. a week to the support of herself and three children. Mr. NORTON endeavoured to get them to make up matters, and live together again, but the husband re fused to do so, and the wife accepted his offer of 20s. a week. SOUTHWARK Thomas Emmell, a broker's man, was charged with stealing part of a bankrupt's stock, while employed in making out the goods in lots ready for sale. It appeared that a tradesman, named Davis, a harness maker, in High-street, Southwark, had recently failed in business, the consequence of which was that he became a bankrupt, and his stuck in trade was put up for auction. The prisoner was employed on the premises in placing the different lots ready for sale; and a few days ago he was observed to leave the bankrupt's house, and to pro ceed to a marine-store shop in Union -street. Here he produced a capacious blue bag on the counter, containing a great number of brass articles used in the harness trade, and wanted to dispose of them for a sum infinitely below their value. A policeman, who had narrowly watched the prisoner from the bankrupt's house to the marine store shop, entered the latter place at the moment he was about to conclude a bargain. The prisoner, when ques tioned, equivocated a good deal, but at length acknow ledged that he had brought the articles from No. 100, High street, and that they had been given to him by Mr. Mithell, an officer of the Bankruptcy Court, who had charge of the stock on the premises. The answer, how ever, not satisfying the policeman, upon subsequent inquiries being made on the subject, it was discovered that the articles had been taken from the bankrupt's stock by the prisoner, without the sanction or permission of the individual in charge of the goods, and that he availed himself of the circumstance of his being em ployed there to plunder the different articles from the stock. The MAGISTRATE said that persons in the prisoner's situation had great facilities of plundering from a bank. rupt's stock, and that the charge being one of an aggra vated nature, he should send it before a jury. The prisoner was, therefore, committed. William Minchiner, a master butcher, was charged with furiously driving, and breaking the leg of a youth named Smith, who had been confined in the hospital since the accident. It appeared that the complainant was driving a waggon along High-street, and when near the corner of Thomas street, the prisoner drove his cart from the opposite side of the road, and one of the shafts striking the boy on the shoulder knocked him down, and one of the wheels passing over his leg broke it about the centre. The lad was taken up in an insensible state, and conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he has been confined ever since the accident. Evidence having been adduced that the accident was attributable to the reekiess manner in which he was driving at the time, The MAGISTRATE inflicted a fine of 40s. on the defend ant, besides adjudging him to pay 101. as damages, which sum when paid was directed to be handed over to the lad who sustained the injury. SURREY SESSIONS. (Before Mr. PUCKLE and a full Bench of Magistrates.) Mr. James Thompson, a middle aged man, of respect able appearance, surrendered to his bail to take his trial on an indictment charging him with having embezzled three sums of 101. each, the property of James Hender son and others. Mr. Payne was retained for the prosecution, and Mr. Charnock for the defence. Mr. CuAallocx observed that the case was one of ra• ther a peculiar character, and he had therefore de►oted much attention to it, in order to give the defendant the benefit of his advice and assistance. An offer having been made by his Learned Friend Mr. Payne, who was engaged for the prosecution, that if the prisoner pleaded guilty to the indictment, he should have from him the strongest possible recommendation to the merciful con sideration of the Court, he (Mr. Charnock) was about to recommend a compliance with his offer, feeling, as he did, that though the defendant and his friends felt that, morally, he was not guilty of the charge, and therefore should not plead guilty, yet that legally the offence would be made out against him. He (Mr. Charnock) should briefly state the facts of the case, and after doing so should leave the case to the merciful considera tion of the Court. It appeared that Mr. Thompson had been for many years Secretary to the Silk, Cotton, and Woollen Cloth Printers' Society, held at Merton, in the county, and in that situation enjoyed the most perfect confidence and respect of its numerous members. The Society extended itself over Essex, Kent, and Surrey, and a correspondence respecting its state was regularly kept up, so that the duties of the defendant were consi derable. There was, besides, an additional county added, which gave the defendant additional labours, and at each collections were made from the earnings of each man, and these should, agreeably to the rules of the Society, have been forwarded to the defendant. This, how ever, was not done regularly, and the defendant gave those collectors credit to certain amounts. He (Mr. Charnock) would admit that the defendant had neglected to enter on his books three sums of 101. each ; and though this omission might, in strict law, amount to embezzlement, yet a larger sum was due to him from some of the members of the Society, and therefore he was not so particular as he otherwise should have been. There was another cir cumstance which he wished to mention, and that was that he held in his hand a petition, signed by a ♦ast majority of the members of the society, praying that the prisoner might be discharged from the offence, as it was their impression and conviction that he had not the slightest intention of acting dishonestly. There were also in attendance a number of gentlemen of the highest respectability, who had known the prisoner for a number of years, and who would testify to his high character, and express their belief that the act was an error in judgment, and no intention upon his part to defraud the society. The defendant was also willing to give every facility to the society to obtain possession of the funds lodged in the bank in his name, and put the affairs of the society in proper order ; and, under all the circum stances, he (Mr. Charnoek) hoped the Court would treat the case as favourably as it could consistently with its duty. Mr. PAYNE said it was not his wish or intention to offer any opposition to the case being favourably dealt with; on the contrary, he should be perfectly satisfied with the Court dealing with it in the mildest possible way. The prisoner having pleaded Guilty, The Court merely held him to bail to appear to re• ceive judgment v►hen called on. _ _ Th; defendant having put in the required bail, joined a vast number of friends who were in attendance in front of the Court, and who warmly congratulated him. Wm. Anderson was indicted upon the following charge of highway robbery:— It appeared that the prosecutria on Monday evening last was proceeding along White -street, near St. George's Church, Borough, with a parcel of articles, which she had just purchased, in her arms, when the prisoner came up to her, snatched the bundle from her, and forced her with considerable violence against the wall. He started off with his booty, but fortunately took a turning through which there was no thoroughfare, and was secured. — Tiejury found him Guilty; and The CHAIRMAN, in passing sentence, declared that, had he been known before, he should have transported him, but as it was, the sentence of the Court was, that he stands committed to Brixton House of Correction for nine months, with hard labour POLICE INTELLIGENCE. CLERKEN WELL. Wm. Bennett was charged at the instance of the Ex_ cise with having been concerned in working a private still. The Excise officers, it appeared, received information that a private still was worked in a house, No. 47, Char lotte-street, Islington, to which they repaired on Wed nesday evening, at six o clock. They forced an entrance at the back of the premises, and on entering the kitchen, they found the prisoner at work at a still, which con tained upwards of 40 gallons of wash, nine tubs full of wash, and all the necessary implements used in illicit distillation. The prisoner said he was proprietor of the place, and quietly surrendered himself. The prisoner in his defence said h e had been out of work a long time, and a party engage d him to work the still. The officers said be had been several times convicted for a similar offence. He was convicted in the penalty of 30L, and in default of payment committed to the House of Correction, with hard labour, for three months. The driver of a cab, badge 4,703, was charged with cruelty to a horse. The prisoner was seen in the Pen tonville-road beating his horse in a most cruel manner, until it was cut shockingly, and at length it fell down through pain and exhaustion. The prisoner was drunk at the time. He was fined 145., or seven days' imprisonment. A porter, in the employ of Mr. Haslam, auctioneer, of Bagnigge-wells• road, was summoned fur obstructing the highway, by placing some articles of furniture thereon. A witness named Curtain proved the case, and the defendant was fined 7s. and costs. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Francis 11I'Leod was:brought before Mr. Hardwick on a charge of having obtained money by false pretences from Mr. Van Millingen, jeweller, of Albany-street, Regent's-park. Mr. Clarkson attended for the defendant ; Mr. Thomas for the prosecution. The examination of Mr. Van Millingen on a previous day was read over. Mr. Van Millingen's statement was, that the defendant had been introduced to him by Mr. Goldshead, a money lender, as a young man of very re spectable connexions in Scotland, and entitled, when of age,:to a sum of money amounting to about 5,000/. Prose cutor understanding that the defendant was about to go to India, and wished to take out some presents to his friends, agreed to sell him a gold box and a pin for 1505., and, further, to lend him 50/. to pay his travelling expenses to Scotland. The defendant gave prosecutor a draft on the National Bank of Scotland, where he said he had money, for 2001. Prosecutor had sent the draft to Scot land, and the answer returned to him was, that the drawer had no account, nor ever had an account at the bank. The prosecutor had also ascertained that the defendant had stated falsehoods as to his age. Cross-examined) by Mr. 4 Clarkson—Had no know ledge of . gaming houses. Had lent the defendant the money in the belief that his representations were true. The gold box would fetch in India about 2001. Was not a money lender, and had never discounted bills in his life. Had ascertained that the defendant did not go at all to Scotland. Was not aware of any transactions be tween the defendant and Goldshead. Had known Gold head about twenty years. Re-examined by Mr. Thomas—lf he had known that the defendant never possessed money in the National Bank, he would not have lent him the 50/. Mr. Bernardo Goldshead examined—l have chambers at No. 8, Duke-street, and I live at Hammersmith. I am a money-lender, and I know Francis M'Leod. I have been acquainted with him since 1344. The defendant gave me a bill, dated the 25th December last, for 6501., for money lent. I went to Edinburgh on Thursday last, and on my arrival I presented the bill at the National Bank of Scotland, and was toll that the defendant was not known there. Had introduced the defendant to Millingen, in the belief that the defendant's statement was true, and that he was entitled, when of age, to 5,000/. under his father's will. Heard the defendant tell Millingen that he had money in the National Bank of Scotland, and that any draft he might draw would be honoured. Saw the defendant give Millingen a cheque on the National Bank in payment of the jewellery and the loan. Since his return from Scotland had seen the defendant, and had told him he had ascertained there was neither will nor property. The reply made by M'Leod was that he was sorry for it. Had heard the defendant say he' was of age in 1844, and subsequently contradict Ilia statement. HAM - MERSMITH. TWO lads named Wm. Hawkins and Jacob Silk, were charged with stealing . iron from the works of the West London Railway. _ _ Policeman Ayres, T 215, deposed that about half-past five o'clock on the previous afternoon, whilst on duty in the Uxbridge-road, he stopped the two prisoners, who were in company together, near the West London Rail way-bridge, at Shepherd's Bush. The prisoner Hawkins, was at the time carrying a sack. Witness looked into it and found two pieces of iron now produced. He then asked the prisoners where they had got the iron from ; when they both said, pointing towards the railway, " We got them from near to the road leading to Kensal-green." Witness then took them to the station-house. William Wilson, of No. 2, Pickering-place, Queen's row, Bayswater, deposed that he was foreman over the labourers on the West London Railway. The two pieces of iron, called connecting-chains, or switches, now: pro duced by the police, were the property of the London and Birmingham Railway Company. The prisoners were fully committed for trial. _ THAMES. Robert Clark, a seaman, was charged with damaging a cab. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was paid off on Wednesday. He engaged a cab, and sallied out on a cruise. He was unable to steer, and having neither box nor compass, soon capsized the vehicle. He got off the box, lifted up the cab, and, having taken in an extra passenger, made all the sail he was able for the Commercial-road. On arriving at the Cannon-street gate toll was demanded, but Jack said he paid no further dues, and drove on. He had not gone far before he ran foul of a coffee stall, and made a wreck of it. Having satisfied the owner, he again made all the sail he was able, and was followed by a motley group, who cheered him on. After some further proceedings, Mr. BALLANTINE said, the loss sustained by the cab man is of some consequence to him, and you must pay for the damage. The cabman estimated the expense of repairing the injury at 50s. Mr. BALL tNTINE said, unless the prisoner paid a fine of 505., he must go to gaol for 21 days. THE GREY AND PALMERSTON QUESTION. We have been favoured with the perusal of a letter, addressed by a personal friend of Lord Grey to a gentle man of this town, which throws some light upon the late movement among the leaders of the Whigs, and from which the following is an abstract. The statements may be implicitly relied upon : " I wonder how the late unfortunate break-up of Lord John's staff has affected Liverpool. I don't call it unfor tunate as regards Lord John's probable tenure of office, for I think it likely that the luke-warm support which he would have had from Peel, would have been withdrawn after the settlement of the corn-law question, and he would have found himself too weak to carry on the Go vernment, which then would have been seized, with re morseless triumph, by the Tories ; but, it is very unfor tunate, as regards the future agreement of the Whig party. Lord Grey is blamed and abused—but, I think, very unjustly, for, it is not true, as stated, that Lord Pal merston would have taken any post to preserve unani mity, and that Lord Grey would do nothing that was to include Lord Palmerston in the Council. The fact is, that,Lord Palmerston'declared he would have the Fo reign-office or none—that Lord Grey offered to relin quish that intended for him to Lord Palmerston, and, if it would smooth matters, to place Lord Palmerston in the Lords and give him the Leadership there—that he, Lord Grey, would most willingly follow him and co operate in any way whatever; but, that his opinion (and it is not his opinion only, but a very general one) was, that such was the feeling, with respect to Lord Palmer ston by some foreign powers, with whom it is essential that we should be on terms of amity, and such the want of cordiality between „him and the whole corps diplo matique in this country—that the chances of being in volved in war were too great to warrant his appointment to the Foreign- office. Lord Palmerston would accept of no other ; upon which, Lord Grey declined to take the responsibility of office, on announcing which Lord John immediately broke up the whole thing. Feeling the injustice of the accusations brought against Lord Grey, and depending most implicitly on the statement - of the proceedings, which I had from himself the day after the break up, I place the facts in your hands in order that you may communicate them to the editor of your leading paper." —Liverpool Mercury of this day. THE ARMY. The following are the terms referred to in articles 28, 34, and 43 of the Army Warrant, the substance of which ap • peared in our paper a few days since, by which soldiers are now enabled to obtain free discharges : Cavalry. Infantry. ..£3O ...... £2O Under 5 years' actual service After 5 years' actual service, with one di tinguishing mark ... After 7 years' actual service, with on e dis tinguishing mark After 10 years' actual service, with twco distinguishing marks; or After 12 years' actual service, with one distinguishing mark . After 12 years actual service, with two distinguishing marks; or After years' service, with on e dis tinguishing 14 inguishing mark After 14 years' service, with t wo dis- ' tinguishing marks; or After 16 years' service, with one dis tinguishing mark........ ......... After 15 years' act ua l service, ..with' three distinguishing marks ; or After 16 years' a c t ua l service, with two distinguishing marks, having possessed the second at least twelvemonths _ 25 ...... 18 ~ 15 ...... 10 10 5 Free, with the . right of registry for deferred pen sion of 4d. a day. Free, with the right of registry for deferred pen sion of sixpence a-day. UDDEN DEATHS.--Wednesday .Mr. Bedford held .wo inquests on persons who had died in a sudden manner. The first inquest was held at the Golden Lion, Dean-street, Soho, on the body of Caroline Saunderson, aged 23 years. It appeared by the evidence that, on Wednesday evening last, the deceased had been at a Christmas party; she then ap peared in her usual health and cheerfulness; the next day she complained of pain in the chest. She was attended by Mr. Marshall, a surgeon, but she died on Friday morning. From a post mortem e xamination it was found that there had been an ulcer in the stomach, which bursting, had caused death. It might have been accelerated by dancing or other extertion. Verdict—" Died from natural causes." The second inquest was held at the Plough, Carey-street, on Jonathan s toc k ain Ingram, aged 51, a licensed waterman at the Spotted Dog, Strand, who was found on Saturday morning lying in bed quite dead; a medical gentleman said from an attack of apoplexy. Verdict accordingly. A FATHER'S FEELING.--The Thames has been rising for several days past. We are sure it must be in in dignation against Lord Ellenborougles appointment 113 First LUC], cthe AdlilirilltYo4l4nch, DUTCH PA PERS - , f co to THE HAGUE, JAN. 3.—A nutal:,er of bales o . 001 had been thrown ashore at Schley oningen, 06 0 06 considerable quantity of wrecked titn.ber. In the _ zo o of the 30th of December the sea east- A shore ne t a o r n, f r o 0, voost the hull :of the ship Alberecht andbouOtDair: Hamburgh, which it left on the 15 t 11,, t ' neriffe. It appears from the ship's pap er..5 thaas becoo consisted of 12 men. It is not known witht il o f of them. &ecre i e t 0 sse d ll The Staate Courant publiShes a royal 30th of December, by which his Majesty la Peesobli! grant the request of his son Prince Henry, , t° c ht 01°- a company, to be called the Netherlands .L'a.4.004 His Majesty likewise consents to be the proteo4," Comparr,-, which is to be called the Royal Ne' ~,," Yacht Club. The King has also declared his ari- t1 tion of the statutes of the Company. ~ JP THE HAGUE, JAN. 6.—The Bulletin or the publishes a royal decree of the following tenor;-"vitiii ~ siv e , William 11. &c., seeing!the report of ouch ters of Finance and Foreign Affairs of the lltn ieg isif 1845. Having taken into consideration that the . oil tion of some countries in which differential' datiteoo levied on goods at their importation, according ft countries in sshich they are produced, or the Pl a t iott' l which they come, and in which state the exportS_ of articles of food is prohibited, is prejudicial to 0 1 ' i merce and manufactures of the Netherlands ; t b e ili,r, " Desiring to protect by analogous nleast ires flefr rest of the Netherlands against ,uch a system °,. t ios . , duties on importation, and prohibition of expo"' ir, " Seeing Art. 2 of the law of the 19th of Ju n and the ulterior reports of the above-menti one d ters of the 4th of January, 1846, have decreed la, m e d,T " Art. 1. The goods menzioned in the: subje in oo f imported either directly or passing in transit tbroi foreign territory from a country where goods %tb o from the Netherlands are subject to higher clut; 4 l I when imported from other countries, are sub ; higher duties. (Here follows the list of artielee./ ..$ "Art. 2. The above article is not a cooing from countries with which treaties de'''.3d and navigation have been concluded. of t "Art. 3. The export duties on the export ation and flo;tr are increased." , 41 pplicable 0: The above decree is to be in force thirteen 00.1 its publication in the Bulletin of the Laws. . AUS'iItIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, prc• 2 :lh 5 per Cent. A lletalliques•. • . • ....... ..... • 1 1 ' 7 : 4 per Cent. ditZo • • • • • • ...... ..... ....... 1007§ 3 per Cent. dittO •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • " '• 160 Loan, 1834 .. —• • " ' Ditto, 1839 . • • • ••• • • • • • • •' ' • • ' • ' '• • " .• 112159 Bank Shares ........• • • • • • • • • " • ' • • • ' '• 16 Esterhazy's Loan .... ~ e• --•.••• • • •• •• -- RAILWAIT,S. The Northern, or Ferdinand • • •••• • ••• • • • • 1 1 Gloggnitz ................ ...., ~...... 1, 11 9 ' Vienna—Milan • • • •• • • •• •• • • " •• " ":: • '. i 054 • •• ,090 Leghorn . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Sienna .. Grosetto Oldenburg ••• • • • ..... ....... •• • —Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 2. HAMBURGII BORSENHALLE, JO* 3 iffO et Bills. I Austrian 5 per Cents ................11 3 Bank Shares •.•.•.. • • • • 1620 01 Angio-Russian Loan .• .•• • • • 109% •' Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 1034 i ••' Ditto Ist series Inscription .. 104 4 Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 99 Ditto, in Certit:cate ..... .• New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ...... 91 $ll Ditto Stieglitz • • • • • • •• • • • • 90 Spanish New 5 per Cent.............. 21% SO Ditto 3 per Cent Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • • Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto 3 per Cent. •••••••• • • • • • • • • —,, 81P Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.• • • 82 ,S • Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent .• • National Bank Shares •••••••• • • • • • • • • 6 10 DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAN • , JAN. Money . 41 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.... •••• • • • 61 _, lonic), 3 per Cent 7311 Ditto, 4 per Cent.• . Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent.......... 99% Ditto, 3 per Cent... ... • 1 6 Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • • 163 East India Loan, 4 per Cent.. •••• • • • • -- 15 Exchange on London, at sight •••• • • • • 1 2 1 1 Two months. •.• • • • ...... 12 bl On H 41 amburgh, at sight •• .. 35 . • Two months..... ••••• • • • • • 3 5 On Paris ••.• • • • Two m0nth5........... ears, Jan. 7. .. .. .. --- —Dutch Pap, EXTRAORDINARY DREA ' ;,4 P io DISCOVERY OF A DEAD BODY 1 ` SEQUENCE. An inquest was held before George Hinch, - ,9 % , Coroner, at the Scott's Aries, King's 1-lill-n nee ef, Darlaston, on Saturday, the 13th day of on view of the body of a, young years old, named Phoebe Devey, who was ratil e et h d ° , becile mind, and who had been missing fro ' f of her friends ever since the previous Wedges and no trace of her could be discovered. Fr,, c3° ,0 1 1 denca of John Garvey, a moulder, living at ( 1° ,"1,0 1 , it appeared that about five o'clock of the 1 2 , dr, cember he awoke from a dream, in which !I'd,: that he saw a female named Mary Ann l' ef A iti t lives in the neighbourhood, taken out of COal.rd girl, of King's Hill-fields, which has ceased working,!ingelit the witness Garvey had to pass in a morning 113 4 0,,i" his work. .He told his wile, who was in b ed bed what he had dreamt, and she desired him noise, us it was ill-luck to tell his dres l33 ; c lo 7 Garvey left home to go to work about nine 0_,J.4 same morning, and when he got near the CT O question, saw the sister of Mary Ann Pe rt r, i gbi l i he also told his dream, and she b urs t o ut a 1 3 7 Dr,, him. Garvey soon afterwards passed the Pig f i immediately turned back and looked into it: only sixteen yards deep, he saw something IP P : o f bottom, and on throwing a stone in, it dropt thing soft. Garvey became frightened, n 11 ' 1 1 , 0 04 foundery, where the men were at work, ov r e 11 " yards from the spot, and said he thought theves4 man or woman in the pit, and two of the.W° L r e - f 9 turned with him to the mouth of it. They, t " r eef) stones down, which fell on something soft. Ll ii „," o ed went again to the foundery, for a light and sc'''oft, which on being lowered down the pit,- the bodY son was seen at the bottom. A man natne a r eliP Keeling was let down the pit, when he discof e a r e bottom of it the body of a young female, tl ti ;j 11 ; On being brought to the top, it was discoirerof that of the deceased, Phoebe Levey. The bog veyed to the house of her friends, where it 0 50 particular examination, when it was found oil thigh and leg, and also her knee, were brokefl'of, there was a slight wound on her head, ah t ,ll lB might be occasioned in case she had walked There were no other marks or appearance uf 11 ( 1 her person ; and the jury, after a lengthened,P , A investigation, returned a verdict " That the O h ' found dead at the bottom of a coal pit, but what means she came there no evidence apPe r/ jurors."—Staffordshire Advertiser. 0 IT [ADVERTISEMENT.] —AN EXTRAORDL.,rI4,I si i Or BAD LEO, AT HORNC A STLE , BY Hor.Lovv/isit , Awn OINTMENT.—A few days since, Mr. John o c d i, highly respectabl e b oo k se ll er in that town, states th at fr i ° l l man of his acquainta nce h a d b een su ff er i ng for Ye ar : ( 110 ; of the worst description o f b a d l egs, frequently e" cs re V, most excruciating pai n . H e h a d b een un d er the op , veral medical men witho u t o bt a i n i ng t h e least bePeolly gentleman, however, has just been cured by theme 0 1 ,,i medicines, after every other treatment had failed. 0;Y ment will cure chilblains and chapped hands in i' st tsr i ti Sold at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, e e by all respectable vendors of medicine throughout tb cc eo s i OVERLAND ROUTBS TO INDIA.—The 149 Mr. Waghorn in effecting a passage from AleXaill.o.,lll of Trieste, has, it appears, aroused the jealousy , 0 4./Or i l e) Government, and inflicted a deep wound upon l', 10 , the French people. These effects should o perat' or itif ings to us, showing the imperative necessity of see 4 cley other route for our overland communication ' o s through France. Perpetual peace between that c o o Great Britain is a dream for children, not an OP,of 0, be entertained by sober waki ng men . The / . 0 1 0 4' which has been excit e d i n F rance b y Mr. Wegb°oo,/ a proof of this. We may be assured that the Fo - ,1 ~f i this moment looki ng out very earnest l y to see b(ltlitY) are likely to go in the Punjaub. In the state of c y try they h ave no i nterest, b ut England has 8 ,,,, Te Tifll3 I , a one; and Fr ance wou ld re j o i ce at any turn of e"ifsP(r part of the world, that sho u ld h um bl e her oldLipeV trust she will be diappointed ; but, knowing her ;led, no rational man has any doubt about them), i t - 9/ it would be nothing short of madn( ss to suffer t... 0 e1 0,1: our overland correspondence with India to lie attoos9 France one hour longer than necessary. Mr. M i et e ,„ shortly commence a series of experiments of sufet',. o to allow of a just determination of the questl,_,lfisrf ~...... Trieste and Marseilles. We freely admit that Yi t 7 03 12,7 success, on national grounds, not less than hel l o, and untiring energy deserve success.—Allen'e Is ,1 ° BIRTHS. the 14' 0 1 On the sth i ns t . , at A mpt hill H ouse, B e d e , Petre, of a d aug ht er. On the 6th i ns t., a t Th ames Ditt on , the w i fe Edwards, Esq., of a son. !of On the 6th inst., at Nelsen House, Stoke .4-- NT . eow ..4 , lady of George G a b a i n , E sq ., o f a d aug hter. o gy tr On the 7th inst., at Grafton-street, Fitzroy-scltl' if' ' of Raymond Yates, Esq., of a daughter. ago' On the 7th inst., in Tavistock-square, the ," Bromley, Esq., of twin sons. _MARRIED h lt ei 1 r On the 30th ult., at St. Mary's Church, , - , - -e to 0 W. W. Tyndale, of Lincoln's Inn, barrister- a t-la f t ' fl only daughter of the late Sir Edward Synge9 l3gr ud j jo On the sth inst., at Heriot-hill House, Edie., 4 ,0; , ) Carter, Esq, to Jane Lzetitia, eldest daughter of w Ahrj S. Morson, Esq., M.D. 0 V O f On the 6th inst., at St. Pancras New Church', d e f J. Jay, of St. Petersburgh-place, Bayswater, to I .'" J,O l daughter of the late G. Boggett, Esq. c3PYI On the 6th inst., at St. Michael's, Coventri9 o 9 d Shirreff, of the Be nga l A rmy, to A nn, on ly 64°' eri, late Captain Patt u ll o , o f t h e M a d ras A rmy . fil it ' On the 6th in s t., at Ch r i st Ch urch, M ar ylebe i e joit O James Lundy B rown, M .A., to M i ss H arr iet 1-- Blandford-place, Regent's-park. ,t, ' DID. ,' On the 7th inst., at Bruton E -street, Earl Graul 1110,if y On the Ist i ns t., a t B ac t on , N or f o lk, the neg . do r kinson, Rector of Wacton and Crostwight. , o f P . " ) (I On the 3d inst., Dr. Jo s eph Ad o lphus, laL e Jamaica. ro• ' 0) On the 4th inst., at Exmouth, Maria, wife ° A O' donald, Esq., Commander, R.N. g ' 0 0 / On the sth inst ,at the Vicarage, Braughi n , Rev. Francis Edward Say, ao-ed 3. . 1 . , doll oil On the 6th inst., C. E. Joinso B n, Esq., of , Fitzroy-square. t e °l On the 6th inst., Mr. Willi am C ra ig, aged 8 i i fitrif j i On the 7th inst., at Clifton, B r i s tol, Susann, 3 t ,f, l' jr of the Rev. Richard Tawnev, Vic ar of Willoug u "gr• j On the 7th inst., at Lower Tooting, Surrey' ta9 Chapman, aged 72. Di f s° On the 7th inst., Teresa Mary Elizabeth, t he ter of Mr. and Mrs. Pagliano. 6 11 London : Printed and Published by Mu • No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun, 0 10 ;1 CD' Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, t i e Strand, Friday, Jimmy 9, 1846 Am! th e o v, oftke Iltrij b eb As] T he c . 14 _ on, f or of T h 4 g s trat wits 4 1 1 7 . ii No rm p AR " the 1 3 ‘pid b e'Dv Sett 8 118:1 fo nz, t ea:l37' 414 for del Thr(h. CAI able to e aakl ettle e , , 01 . 122 n( 4 'Vev , le bent tto k p erti i es ev es , :, 'sot Lond( ° th a T t b le e or eL ° Z . 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