The Sun. — London, England, 1852-03-25 00:00:00

gift Makin. SUN OFFICA:Seven o' Clock. NORTHAMPTON RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) (Continued from our Third Edition.) The Innkeepers' Plate. Ballot Girl Milk Boy The Cup• Brother to Willinham Proctor ... Pancake ... 1 ••• 2 ... 1 TATTERSALL'S. - THIS EVENING. Six O'CLOCX. Nothing doing. FRANCE. A descent of the officers of justice was effected on Monday evening, about eight o'clock, at the Cafe du Danemarcic, in the Rue St. Honore, and led to the arrest of about 50 German refugees of Communist opinions. This establishment was long noted for being a place of rendezvous for the demagogical party. Eighty-four persons of the department of the Meuse, ordered for transportation to Cayenne or Lambesse, arrived in Paris on Tuesday. Amongst them are an ex-sub-prefect, three advocates, and two schoolmasters. Most of the prisoners belong to Tou!, Metz, and Nancy. It is stated that the measure determined on by the Government to re-establish prison labour is already producing good results. Everywhere labour in the prisons is being most successfully organized. The Tribunal of Correctional Police has con demned a man named Campion to two months' im prisonment, for having, on the 2,1 of December last, been ons of a group who cried cn the Boule vard des Italians " Down with Napoleon ! down with the President ! " and for havin g declared that a captain of the staff, who happened to pass, ought to be assassinated. A man named Chollet was sentenced to forty days' imprisonment, for having cried, on the 31 December, in the Quarter Bour donnais, "Viva la Republique democratique et so ciale 1" " Down with the President !" The tribunal also coedemned a man named Lamarle to four months' imprisonment and 100 francs fine for having, on beines arrested for some offence, on the 4tl inst , said to the soldiers, who were conveying him to the guardhouse, that " They were canailles and the butchers of the President," that "the President was a canaiqe," and that " the army degraded itself in obeying him." A. letter from Toulon states that more than 500 of the political prisoners who were in fort Lamalgue have been set at liberty. The decree which regulates the internal organiza tion of the Council of State, the Senate, and Corps Legislatif, and their relations with the Prince Presi dent, published in the Moniteur does not elicit much obeervation. There is, however, a question raised by , the Constitutionnel of a very serious character with respect to the powers attributed to the Senate. This body may quash . soy act of the Corps Legislatif which shall appear to exceed the rights conferred upon it by the Constitution. Thu; is undoubted, but tha Constitutionnel inclines to the opinion that it may equally overrule a decision of the highest legal court of appeal—that of Cessation. " The Senate (it says in the way of explanation) is the guardian and interpreter of the Constitution. It is to tho Senate, then, that utconstitutional acts are to be referred. The Senate may be seized of a question by a decree of the President. But are there any acts which may not be set aside by admininistrative moans without the intervention of the Senate? We can only imagine two kinds, those of the Corps Legislatif and of tha judicial power. If the Corps Legislatif should exceed its atnibuticna then its acts wou'd be referred to the Senate to be set aside as unconati . titional; but are we to think that judicial decisions may be equally raferred to the Senate, and that the Court of Cessation will cease to be supreme arbitrator in questions of law? We raise the question without being able to solve ir." This would be a serious innovation indeed, for it would make a body, the mere creature of the State, the lest court cf appeal with respect to differenses between the State and offending individuals. GERMANY. A letter from Dirschan (Prussia), of the 17th inst. says-- "A susver.sion bridge over the Viitula is about to be commenced close to this town, and will b 2 certainly the most remarkable work of tho kind in Europe. This bridge, on which the eastern railway will run, is to be 2,500 feet in length and 63 feet is breadth, and will be placed on six pillars, 500 feet apart, bur of which will be placed in the heal of the river. Each pillar will be provided with a defence against the floa!kig ic?, and as in the Vistula the breaking up of the Le is attended with considerable danger, anal would carry away any works which were noi; terithiated, only one pillax be c.netructed a year. The cAt of the bridge will be 7,600,000 f., and a further sum of 11,400,000 i. will he required for the works at each side, in all 19 millions." ITALY. Negotiations have been opened between the Cham bers of Commerce of Vienne, Milan, Turin, and Lienoa, for the prompt transmission of telegraphic dis patches of- the public funds of Paris. A courier will carry the dispatches from Milan to Novi, whence they wilt be 3imultaneously transmitted by telegraph to Turn and Genoa. The Count D'AQUILA, brother of the King of NAPLTS, is expected to arrive shortly in France. Corriere Illereanfile of Gii.noa votes a letter froth Itzmne o the 15th, stating that the French Go vernment has again represented to the Papal See, that it 13 urgent to adopt reforms which may render the further prt , .seuce of French troops useless at Rome. I. CHARLES BONAFATITF, Prince of Canino, ar rived at Civita Vecchia on the 21st, on board the Teltmac;), from itarseiliu, RANGOON. We have been favoured with the following. particulate from a private letter to a friend from an officer of her a.iesty'a ship For, 42 guns, Commodore Lambert, be 0. Rangoon, dated the Ist nit., which will b© found h i ghly interesting, es showing the duplicity practised in , ZrZgotiations with the Commodore and the Governer tnitie, e' which was succeeded by a renewal of hoe- The - - Commodore cf Rangoon, having obtained from the ra thirty clays' respite for negotiations after the B rat part of the display of a vigorous intention on the figgrtssions co- ritish to demand satisfaction for b e y ° ma d e ,TlLlitfed by the Burmesi-, seems to Bri tish cquad roe ."R" fr ssions for surprising the new Governor having, durinc , the thirty days' grace, he sent off, wi a ti r l rived from the King of . Ava, all imaginable Eastern pomp, two emblazoned tatter s borne on superb gold and velv4.s cushions, carried in with state it barges, rowed by a bril lisntly dressed crew, Governor-General of In d ia, erido ., a e rs—one letter for the spa sn ed ct_her for Commodore Lambert. Proclamations wer e afterwards . issued forbidding any of the natives interchanging civilities or communicating with the Fox, or even to look st her. One native, gifted with more to the beach or may be curiosity, than his fellows, Wen o t re an te d m h eri ( ly, peep at the British, for which he wets immediatelyhad a de capitated. Four hundred of the 98th (Citt„,l,,,, ~,.m mt and some artillery have been dispatch e d f rt ' lni '" Cal cutta, and other troops have been ordered to hold the selves in r ea di ness . The 80th R eg iment has bee n ra or- dered down from Dinapore to Moulmein. "Yesterday morning (Ist Febtuary) arrived the Hon. Company's steam•vessel Fire Queen from C al _ cutta, with fresh dispatvhes and instructions for Com. moduro Lambert, and I regret to say, somewhat condemnatory of the prompt and energeKie. line of proceeding which has be en hitherto pur sued by the gallant officer. It will be remembcrz.d that a few weeks back the insolent and audseiuns con duct of the Governer of Rangoon caused the Commodore to break off communications, and to proeloim a nleckad,-.., and that the forts firing on the fri g ate compelled him to inflict a severe punishment on theta, by the loss of ' a large number of men from the shells of the Fox. The Gover nor-General's policy is peace at any price; but if he wishes to purchase it with indignity, he ,%honld Lot have ant Commodore Lambert as a negotiator. We now learn that mere mild proceedings would have answered bet t.ir; that the Commodore bhould have gone personally to conirr with the Governor cf Rangoon; and, finally, htT Majesty's ship Fox was t 3 go again off Rangoon and ofier the same terms as before. At one o'clock P.., January 31, ace.ordingly the frigate proceeded P tno river, on the amiable mission, in the tow of the Fire Queen, and on passing the Silva strxkacle battery vats zat . uted with a shower of round shot. That the same was Paid with —.4 - majest..., Fox S. I mei not say, as long as her firer : t ,hip Fox eras within rang-. Again they fired • g and agtiin have ft:ey felt the power of a fa , zs _id: which it woad seem they had forgotten, rajt hnsi r._,t v oy Eetv:lo policy of the Indian Govern oar aiaueo ZZ_:cd , their insoLs unhf.rilcd, and ,l'ierred 13 *IT brutality, to English aubjects to t say a fine 'a r l a l'rg yea 7. I re ;st, his leg °;r * l ' l l Y c ' un g , 141 ' the knee by a r,lerte • I,itoi. c i ruco ha 've • I.4rmrd 11,.:L.tzsie•'s la s t att Ea 4 just stuirted with with V'eto. ratd i..atch up a short ;:catte rio - 7 starting, tio i ., ; _ e . r ." 8 1-e.cp l ; 2 ; . but. os the hr.;?. MajPsty'd brig intc_troa• ten is to be Luard, is biockaLlin Cape lco gr 4. nt, 16 CommanderLuard, ► and the squadron is . healthy." T HE Boilop OF OXFORD AND STONE ALTARS.— WO learn that the Bishop of Oxford has directed the removal of the stone altars erected in the several cemetery chapels in that city, and that in consequence o y have been converted into communion tables, by being separated from th e wa ll s t o 'Which they were attached, so as to beco me moveable tables according to the rubrics of tha Protestant Ch urch.— Oxford 17ilibersity Paper. DARTMOUTU, MARCH 24.--Wi.nd E_. - -Arrd. Apro -2 P orts kl%ta, for Harnburfita• vi' Port, Adler groom THE SUN, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS: The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. On the motion of the Earl of LONSDALE, the Commons Enclosure Bill was road a second time and ordered to be committed to-morrow. COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Dol gelly and other places in Wales, in favour of County Courts Extension Bill. EXTENSION OF COUNTY COURTS JURISDIC TION TO BANKRUPTCY CASES. Lord BROUGHAM said he had a Bill to lay on the table, to which he besought their Lordships' attention. They must remember that the County Courts Acts. im proved as they had been by successive legislative enactments, and received with such favour by the public, applied as yet only to solvent claims, and that there was, in cases of insolvency, the same denial of justice which there had been before in all other eases.—(Hear, hear.) The consequence was, that in all the districts there were two distinct and independent local jurisdictions, that of the County Court and the Bankruptcy Court. How far it was possible to amalgamate the two jurisdictions, their Lordships had had an opportunity of consider ing last session, when he had brought before them a Bill to effect this purpose—a Bill which !nide considerable progress last session, but, owing to the state of the public business, was not then passed into law. Tee Bill to which he had now to call their atten tion, end for which he had to ask a first reading, was of the same nature, and had for its purpose to extend the jurisdiction of County Court judges to bankruptcy cases. —The Bill was then read a first time. Lord BROUGHAM mentioned, in reference to the Bill which he had laid on the table the other night with regard to the shortening the time between the dissolu tion and the assembling of a new Parliament, he had heard some discontent expressed as to his having named thirty-five days as the minimum space to elapse between the two events. It appeared to him that this was the shortest space in which a new Parliament could be got together after a dissolution. DISTRESS IN IRELAND. The Earl of GLENGALL presented a petition from the South of Tipperary praying that the ELuse would take means to relieve the present state of distress exist- ing in Ireland. The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from a place in the NorthTHE of Ireland toAVA. the same effect. WAR IN The Earl of DERBY rose to ask the Noble Earl op posite (Ellenborough) to postpone a question of which he had given notice with respect to the war in Ave. It appeared to him that this question was, to say the least of it, premature, and es it appeared to him incorrect in its terms, as relating to what the Noble Earl ca'led the war in Ave. Undoubtedly hostile collisions had taken place between her Majesty's forces and the Governor of Rangenn, but no actual war had broken cut, and he was no; without hope that such a misfortune might be averted. The first account of what had taken place had only reached this country by the last mail, and though accounts of a second colli sion had reached this country it had been by the medium of the Admiralty, and no account had yet reached the Board of Directors from the Governor-General, conse quently the information which the Government possessed was very imperfect, and they were not iu a state to give writhing but a very imperfect account of these transactions. Under these circumstances he should prepeee that his Noble Friend would postpone his question until the arrival of the next mail, which would probably put them in possession of what the state of affairs was at present, and what opinion the Governor-General had formed upon them. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said it was impoa sible for him to refuse to postpone his question; but he hoped that ho should be allowed to bring it on before the departure of the next mail. While he was upon the subject of this war he would call the attention of the Noble Duke at the head of the Admi ralty to the relations existing between the Governor- General of India and the Commodore cf the blockading squadron. The commodore was in the position of the commando of an allied squadron, and though he might receive a suggestion from the Gcvernor-General, he was bound to act according to his instructions. In fact, the Governor-General might advise,but could given° orders to the Commodore. This was an anomalous position, and he hoped that orders would be issued from the Admiralty to remedy it. The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND said that Com modore Lambert had received instructions from the Go vernor-General in Council, and had acted upon them strictly and carefully. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said ;hat might be, but it was in the Commodore's option to have neglected and disobeyed these orders altogether if he had chosen. That was a position of responsibility in which the Com modore ought not to be left. Lord MINTO said that he apprehended that the corn• mender on this station was placed in exactly the same position as all other commanders on foreign station:: he was obliged to act according to the iostructiuus of the Admiralty. Lord BROUGHTON confirmed the statement of the Noble Earl behind him (Ellenborough). Shortly before ho had lsft office he had received a letter from the Go vernor-General cemplaining of this anomalous position, and hoping that when the East India Company's Char ter again came under the censideration of Parliament some provision would bn introduced to remedy it. The Earl of DERBY s±.l(l with reference to this sub ject ho had to give notice that on Fric!ay, the 2d of April, he should move for a Committee to inquire into the operations of the Act under which the Eat India Company held their Charter. AMENDMENT OF LAW OF WILLS BILL. This Bill passed through Committee. MR 'ISADVANCES, _ _ _ Lord MONTE AGLE rose to move tor a Select Com mittee to which should he referred the Treasury minutes providing for the dcbta due from counties and unions in Ireland by the impositien of a consolidated annuity for a period not exceeding forty years. (LEFT SPBAKLNG HOUSE OF COMMONS The SPEAKER took the Chair et five minutes to Four o'clock. REDUCTION OF FEES FOR PRINTED DOCU- lIENTS. Mr. W. PATTEN moved to reduce the fees payable at the House of C Inittons for copies of papers and docu ments, from five shillings and one shilling to two shillings and sixpence and sixpence respec!ivtly.—Agrced to. METROPOLIS WATER BILL. Lord J. MANNERS moved that it be an instruction to the Committee of Selection, that they have power to fix the Committee on the Metropolis Water Bill for Thursday, the Ist day of April next. Mr. B. COCHRANE said the House was taken by surprise when this Bill was read the other day a second time. Re considered the Bill was very objectionable, and if he had been in the House at the time, ho should have opposed the second reading. It would not remedy a single defect in the present bad sup ply of water to the metropolis. The system of taking supplies of water from the Thames would still be per petuated, though the Board of Health had reported that such a source was very objectionable. He hoped tho Government would see the necessity of introducing a more comprehensive tce2sure on the subject. Lord J. MANNERS said he had merely taken up the Bill which was proposed by his predecessor in office. If the House agreed to refer it to a Committee, he hoped they would be able to devise a practical remedy for very grave and serious evils in regard to the supply of water to the inhabitants of London. Lard EBRLNGTON protested against a public mea sure of this kind being referred to a Select Committee until the House had expressed an opinion upon the prin ciple involved in it. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE did not think this question would be settled as the House was now going on.— (Hear.) If the Bill were referred to a Committee, before whom the old companies might appear as opponents, no man of common sense could suppose it would come out of the Committee this session —(Hear, hear)—it was utterly impossible. Therefore it was illusory to hold out any hope that the metropolis could this year get a better supply of water. He moved to add to the resolution an amendment to the effect that the Com mittee should confine their inquiry to this Bill only. Sir J. JOHNSTON treated the Bill as an absolute confiscation of the property of the London water coin vValea- They only paid now 4 per cent. upon their ea- Pnal, and if the Bill came into operation, the sharehold era we not get a dividend of a farthing. The t "-- Co Manure Patent Approaches.rn beEARER informed Mr. Duncombe that his am erns me ne motions could only be proposed as a substantive Mr. DUNcom ßE—Then I give notice that I will move it to - morrow. • The motion was the n ca • PRlNrea " led ' E BUSINESS. read a third time : Ea T s p ra t, ofneldloornrivnigaßteirli:owtkerz Mansfield Gag. hd Marketo w a g e and SPRING WATER F F .:lr e h n o t r S on ol g i Wolverhampton GlEr• (WATFO RD ) LONDONCOMPANY. the . sec ond reading of this Bill, said its object ;vas to Mr. HOPE, in movi n g giVO those part s of the metro polis now inadequately . su pplied with waters goad and perfect supply or that important element by rendering available the water now concentrated around Watford, and which, they were asmred by comp etent authorities, perforated by a kind of under-ground drainage into the sir, and was c4pable of yieldingi an enormous quantity. Mr. HALSEY moved that the Bill be read a second time this day six months, on the ground t hat it heel already been rejected by the House; 2d, t h at it was opposed by every individual and landowner in the neighbourhood of Waif ; anti, lastly, bteense he was opp osed to its prinefc te. That the supply of water to the metropolis was defective and ought to be improved, he admitted; but it surely could not be said that the desired object was to be accomplished by infringing upon the rights of private iedividuala.—(Hear.) He thought the House was called upon to reject a Bill when, as in this case, it committed an injury to property for which no kind of compensation could be given. Air. B. COCHRANE said this Bill would to some extent supply the people with water, and he should sup port it. Mr. ROBERT STEPHENSON said he had been em ployed to report upon the subject of the Bill, and with out pledging himself to all the allegations of the promoters, he thought the scheme which the Bill em braced was a good one. Sir R. H. INGLIS wished to have three questions answered; first, was it proposed to obtain this supply LONDON, of water not from the source of a river, but by digging a well 600 feet deep which would injure the district where it was sank; secondly, had not the experiments which had been made failed; and thirdly, whether this very Bill was not thrown out last year? Mr. B. HOPE replied in the affirmative to the first question, bat the well would not be so deep as 600 feet. In reply to the second question he denied that the ex periment had failed; while with regard to the last ques tion the Bill was not referred to a Committee last year, because the Government took the subject into their own Viscount EBRINGTON opposed the Bill, and called upon the House to lay down some settled principle for the regulation of the water question. Ile denied that the supply of water in the metropolis was deficient; the fact was more than half the supply was wasted, and on the south side of the Thames the land was completely deluged with water. —(Hear, hear.) He blamed the late Government for not being governed in this matter by the report which Lord Carlisle prepared on the subject, and called upon the House to negative the motion for the second reading. Mr. BAILEY also opposed the Bill, on the ground that ft would inflict great injury on the locality where the water was to be drawn from. Sir R. PRICE and Mr. MACGREGOR supported the BUJ. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said the Bill was only opposed by the old water companies, and as there were 68 Members of the House who had a pecuniary interest in them, they ought at least to abstain from voting on this occasion. —(Hear, hear.) After a few words frcm Mr. HUME, the House di vided, when there appeared— For the second reading ••• Against it . . Majority ... The Bill was then read a second time. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE FOR E ASTER. Mr. HUME wished to ask the Chancellor of the Ex chequer whether it was his intention to propose the ad journment of the Huse on the 7th or the Bth of Apri next? He also wished to know, in the event of the House adjourning on the 7th, what would become of the motions fixed fcr the Bth? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, I find that last year—and I wish, of course, to follow the precedent of last year, if the House has no ob jection—that the House adjorurned on Tuesday. But I find that on Wednesday a motion is to be brought on by the Right Hon. Gentleman, the member for Devon port (Mr. Tuffnell), for the second reading of the Pro perty Qualification Bill. I should be sorry to interfere, of course, with any , vested interest which the Right Hon. Gentleman has in the notice book—(A laugh)—but if he has no objection I will follow exactly the precedent of last year. Should he, however, insist on maintaining his position, I will not move the adjournment until Wednesday; otherwise I will move the adjournment of the House from Tuesday, the 6,1), until Monday, the 19th of April. Mr. HUME said the Right Hon. Gentleman had not mentioned what would become of the notices down for the Bth. He asked this question because ho had a notico on the paper for that day.—(A laugh,) Mr. TUFNpLL said if it were the wish of the House he would not press his motion for that day.—(Cheers.) Ho hoped, however, that he would be put in the same position on the first Wednesday after the House re assembled. Mr. DEEDES said he was in the same predicament as the Right Hon. Gentleman, and if he got an early day for his motion, ho hoped the same would not be refused to him. INTERNATIONAL PATENT LAW. In reply to Sir DE LACY EVANS, Mr. HENLEY stated that the subject cf International Patent Law would not be lost sight of by the Govern ment, and a short Bill would be introduced shortly to continue the existing law for a period beyond the 25th of April, when it would otherwiso expire. ROMAN CATHOLIC PRISONERS. 196 65 -131 Mr. REYNOLDS wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provision had been made for the religious instruction of the Roman Catholic prisoners in the several prisons of Scotland, and if he was aware that the General Bard of Directors of Prisons in Scotland had refused permission to the Roman Catholic clergymen of Perth to assemble the Roman Catholic prisoners confined in the prison of that town, at stated times, in the prison chapel, to receive spiritual instruction from a Roman Catholic clergyman, and whether the Roman Catholic prisoners were compelled or required to attend the prison chapel during the celebration of Protestant worship. Mr. WALPOLE said no provision was legally made fer religious instruction of Roman Catholic prisoners in Scotland, but ministers of their persuasion were allowed to see them in their cells. A refusal hail been given to all religious denominations, excepting those belong• ing to the Established Church of Scotland. Roman Catholics were neither compelled nor required to attend the prison chapel. THE POST•OFFICE. Mr. COWAN wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if there is any intention of instituting a revi sion of the scale of salaries in the inland department of the General Post-office, Edinburgh, or in any of the money-order offices in the kingdom; and in either case, if by a Commission to be appointed by the Treasury 0.1 otherwise? Mr. HAMILTON said no such inquiry bad been made, nor was it intended to appoint such a Coommission. THE MAYNOOTH GRANT. Mr. KEOGH said—Sir, I rise to put a question to the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer relating to the Maynooth grant, of which I have given him notice. It will be in the recollection of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that in the year 1845 a Bill was introduced into this House by the late Sir Robert Peel, con ferring upon the Royal College of May nooth an annual grant of 30,00C1.—(11ear, hear.) It was carried through this House after it had received great opposi tion, conducted by his wonted ability by the Right Honourable Gentleman himself, and it was sub sequently carried through the other House of Parliament, and after it had been opposed by the Noble Lord now at the head of the Government it became law.—(Hear, hear.) Now, some Members of the pre sent Administration had lately declared upon the hustings that they were favourable to the repeal of the law, and it must be known, that through out that country there is a strong opposition to that Act.—(Order, order.) Well, then, in order that some thing certain should be known of the intention of Government on the subjcet ho begged to put his eyes tion, hoping to receive as candid an answer as that which was given the other night by the Right Honour able Secretary of S:ate for the Home Department. on the subject of Ministers' Money in Ireland. He wished to ask whether it is the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce, either in this or the next ses sion of Parliament any measure to repeal the Act con ferrieg the Grant upon the Royal College of Maynooth? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Sir, in answer to the question which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman has put to me, I have no hesitation in saying that it is not the intention of tbo Government in the present Parliament to propose any 13111 to repeal the grant to the Royal College of Maynootb. to which he has referred.—(Opposition cheers.) Gene rally speaking, I beg to observe that it appears to me that specific measures to be brought forward, for any subjec; whatever, in a Parliament, which bad not yet been elected are not matters upon which any Govern ment ought to be quiatiored.—(\tinieterial cheers.) CHUR, ( 2II ESTATE COMMISSIONERS. Mr. PORTAL asked the Right Hon. Member for the University of Cambridge, whether be' had any objection to lay upon the table of the House, the particulars of all the entranchisements which had been effected by the Church Estate Commissioners under the Act passed during the last session "to facilitate the management and improvement of Episcopal and Capitular Estates in England," and the terms upon which each enfranchise ments had been effected. Also whether he would lay upon the tibia of the House, the particulars of all the cases in which any ecclesiastical corporation, whether episcopal or capitulee, had reported to the Church Estate Commissioners thut proposals or applications enfranchisement have been made to them by the lessee, and the number of the cases in which such proposals or applications have not been entertained. Mr. GOULBURN said the annual report of the Com missioners to the Secretary of State for the Home De partment had been laid on the table, and was now, he believed, in the hands of the printers. It did not con tain accounts of transactions already concluded, as the short time which bad elapsed since the Bill passed bad not given the Commissioners an opportunity of bring ing any to a termination. The report concluded by stat ing that proposals had been submitted by the Archbishop of Canterbury and tne Bishops of London and Norwich and that there was reason to believe that similar appli cations would shortly come before the Commons from several other ecclesiastical CEYLO corpor N. ations. Lord HOTHAM inquired whether the Secretary of State for the Colonies would have any objection to lay on the table tho report of the proceedings of the Finance Committee of the Executive Council of Ceylon ? Sir J. PAKINGTON said the report was now in the Colonial-office, and he had no objection to its being laid before the House. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Mr. W. WILLIAMS presented a petition from Lam beth, signed by 1,641 persons, in favour of Mr. Hume's motion for Parliamentary Reform. Mr. HUME then rose to ask for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the national representation, by extend ing the elective franchise in England and Wales, so that every man of full age, and not sub ject to any mental or legal disability, who shall have been the resident occupier of a house, or p ivi a .c : tal t ege o n f eth a sas h lhl ou e as a ledger, for 12 months, and shall have Leon duly rated to the pour of that parish for that time for be registered as an elector, and be entitled to vote tor . representative in Parliament; also by enacting that teen of repr i e; c s; ablel nottak e e n xc b e y d b t a h l r l e o e t, ye th a a rs t , t a h n e d d t u h r a a t t t i h on p o r t o P p e o r r - - a n i t a a t t i i o v u es a b n e d made mere consistent with Memberthe said it his intention to divide up . on the motion, for be considered it was useless having discussions on Par liamentary reform if the sense of the House was not taken on the subject. (LEFT HERA KING.) The Duchess Dowager of Cl eve l an d i s enter taining a select circle at Newton House, near Boroughbridge. Her Grace comes to her new mansion, late the Earl of Derby's, in Grosvenor -square, early in the .ensuing month, for the season. PLYMOUTH, Mitgii 24.'"'"WiLd Eu . photo, Calcutta. THURSDAY EVENING, THE MAURITIUS. A dispatch from the Governor of Mauritius, with a re port en the state of the rural districts in that colony, has recently been printed, and gives a very sanguine picture of its condition and prospects. The quantity of luxuriant canes on lands redeemed within only a few years from the forest or the rock, the increase of steam machinery, and the general improvement in the processes of manufac ture, coupled with symptoms of activity, self-reliance, and industry on the part of all classes of the popula lation, are strongly dwelt upon. The habits of the imported Coolies having become better understood, their relations with their employers are now, it is said, highly satisfactory, and complaints on either side, which were once so numerous, are comparatively rare. The means of furnishing them with educator, even in the most elemen tary shape, appear however to be " beset with such formi dable difficulties" as to admit at present of little hope of progress. The great disparity between the sexes which resulted from cupidity and want of foresight at the commencement of the Indian immigration stilt con tinues, but is in course of being mitigated. With re gard to the emancipated negro population, it is re marked that they still abstain almost totally from plantation labour, and thus continue to exemplify the curse which follows slavery, of causing all field work to be looked upon as degrading. They re main either in the towns or in straggling hamlet?, where they derive an easy subsistence by rearing poultry and other stock, or by a traffic in fire. wood and charcoal. Intermarriages between Indians and Creoles are very rare, but more frequent than formerly. A conviction of the great resources► of the island is, it is said, universally entertained, and it is unquestionable that the present large production of sugar falls far short of what may ultimately be anticipated. PRICES of WHEAT, FLOUR, and BREAD. Annexed is a comparison of the present prices of wheat, flour, and bread in London and Paris:— " The 13ightest price of wheat of the first quality in Paris is 30f, per 1 hectolitres, which is equal to 455. 10d. per quarter; and the highest price of white wheat of the first quality in London being 495. per quarter, it follows that wheat is nearly 7 percent. dearer in London thsn in Paris. " The highest quotation of flour of the first quality in Paris is 37f. the 100 kilogrammes, which is equal to 375. per sack of 2801 b. English; and the highest quot!t tion of !bur in the London market being 40s. per sack, it follows that flour is about 8 per cent. dearer in Lon don than in Paris. The highest quotation of the second quality of white flour in Paris is 34f. 40c., which is equivalent to 34 , . sd. per sack of 2801 b., and which, as compared with the quotation in London of 31s. for household flour, shows that this description of flour is about 11 per coot. dearer in Faris than in London. " The price of bread of the first quality in Paris is 31c. per kilogramme, which is equal to about 54d. the 4!b. loaf English weight; and the price of bread in London at the inn-priced &hops being 7d. per 41b., it follows that bread is about 33k pr cent. dearer in London than in Paris. The second quality of bread is quoted at 24::. per kilogramme in Paris, which is equivalent to nearly 40. per 411,. loaf." CHEVALIER CLAUSSEN'S FLAX COTTON. The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magagine of Art, in an article descriptive of Chevalier Clau.sen's flex-works at Stepney, gives the following account of how tke dis covery of flax-cotton was made by M. Clausen, and of its valuable properties. We may add that a specimen of the raw material and of the flax-cotton, prepared by the Chevalier's process, may be seen at the office of Messrs. Rennie and Gordon, here. A greater contrast than the two substances present can scarcely be imagined; and the beautiful quality of the cotton at once conveys an impression of the very great value which it will be found to possess as a raw material for the manufacturer:— " The Chevalier was wandsrieg along the luxuriant banks of one of the Breelien rivers, when his attention was attracted to a white down-like substance adhering to the branches of trees overhanging and touching the stream. On obtaining a quantity of it, he was so pleased with its character, that thinking ho had dis covered some vegetable product hitherto unkovrn he determined to trace it, if possible, to its source, and to ascertain the plant which produced it. Pur suing his task with great ardour, he eventually found that the substance had bean washed from a bed of flax straw, the produce of some of his own land, and which, long before, he had caused to be thrown, as useless, near the banks of the river. As swollen waters had occa sional access to this heap, fermentation and the decom position of a portion of the plant had taken place; and in time the influence of natural chemistry had so saturated the filaments of the flax-fibre as to give the mass a cotton-like appearance; and some of it having been washed by the river, had been arrested by the over hanging branches. On the facts thus brought before him, M. Claussen proceeded carefully to reason, and the processes now to be described are, therefore, the re sult, not of mere accident, but of inductive research. The flax, brought from the breaker,' is boiled for four hours in hot caustic soda, or steeped in a cold solution of it for twenty-four hours. It is afterwards washed in water containing one per cent. of sulphuric acid, and then in pure water, when it is dried, and subsequently treated by scutching, heckling, &c., according to the universal practice in the linen manufactures. Here, then, we have au immense improvement, by the long and difficult process of fermentation, which occupied six weeks, being entirely avoided. Y et the process is most effective and profitable, as twenty per cent. of long flax may be obtained instead of seventeen, while the cub stance is far more silky and soft. It is a popular error that Claussen's process is merely to turn flax into cotton, which people say is like ' turning gold into lead;' whereas he obtains by it a much larger proportion of the long and valuable flax, and renders the refuse — ordinarily considered comparatively worthless—by a process now to be explained, capable of being worked into cotton, wool, or silk fabrics. According to the mode long adopted in the linen manufacture, and immense quantity of tow is made, which can only be used for twine and similar coarse purposes. But the chemical process emp l oye d by M. Claussen effects a change which is highly important. A series of vats are put in requisition. The first vat holds a solution of carbonate of coda; and in this the fibres, previously boiled and washed, are saturated for a quarter of an hour. It is then removed to the next vat, in which there is five per cent. of sulphuric acid, the effervescence causing the carbonic acid gas to separate and divide the fibres, thus rendering them more flocculent, and completely altering their spe cific gravity, as they rise now to the top of the vat, while before they sa nk to the bottom. Th e nex t p rocess i s t o place them in another vat of soda, to neutralise any re being effected, they are trans seater of the fourth vat, composed of a i lime and sulphate of mag fmneerasri trans ferred s ot g tieuh atut eduforming this ieachloride h s ,p of e r chlorite of magnesia. In this preparation they remain for two hours, during which they aro perfectly bleached, requiring only to diluted sulphuric acid, and fibres, on beirg withdrawn atmospheric or steam-heat, ft b rb e oemn transferred t tohe pure vats. water. are t o a d b ath rieTdhoe byf or hot air, They are then taken to a machine similar to that used in chaff cutting, where they are cut thsallatdbaraeddvafnotr spinning or cotton machinery. ages secured by these processes i r n e t o specify lcng would far exceed our limits. It must, therefore, suffice to observe that the following arc a few out of many:— Any cloth made from flax cotton-yarn may be readily pr i nte d, dyed, and bleached by the erdinary cotton pro cesses. The flax - fibre, from i ts m illi ng propert i es , i s capable of being made into common felt hats with or wit'iout an admixture of wool. Cloth in which fins is mixed with wool is reduced in price from twente-five to thirty per cent. may be any use l ess e w l eiste flax h sill;ex can be on the existing ichnr machinery; i t l an d u article for the paper-maker. Frsltax a ted are opened to our view at a critical period. thus presented Our supplies of cotton fr o m Anse reached their ma x im um , and crTo ev eve ad s i i l t k nat goesativl fi a appear adtn to hav e a conse quently an efficient substitute is required; while our im portations of flax from Russia have suffered a decrease of about twenty per cent. And why, it may be asked, should we thus continue dependent on continental Europe for the flax which the United Kingdom is per ' fectly capable of producing? Why should not the sums we spend annually for oil-cake and flax-seed go into the pockets of the employers and the employed of our agri cultural districts?" or EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER IN A WRECK. The principal and superintendent harbour-master hating received directions trom the Lord Mayor to blow up the wreck of the Itpsolution, lying at the bottom of the Thames, in Northfleet Hope, that officer and his men have been making small explosions, within the last few days, in the wreck, and a preparation for its complete destruction with gunpowdor is appointed to take place to-morrow (Friday) morning, at half. past ten o'clock. The boats of the harbour-master are daily surroanded by wherries and skiffs, and the curiosity is very great to see the ingenious system of diving, and the effect of the galvanic battery in the explosion of the gun. powder. It has been found necessary to publish placards, con taining the following notice to master, pilots, and others, in charge of steam-vessels navigating up and down the River Thames:— " The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor has given direc tions for the removal of two wrecks in Gravesend Reach; and to prevent accidents and loss of life, persons in charge of steam vessels are required to slacken the speed to the lowest possible amount during the time of passing the wrecks. The working hours will be notified by the display of a large green flag, with the word • wreck' iu tha centre. " CHARLES ROWLAND, " Principal and Superintendent Harbour-master, Port of London." The spectators of the interesting experiments to morrow will, it is expected, be very numcreus. The grand explosion will take place certainly before) eleven o'clock. THE GAME-Laws.—The amount of crime, misery, and cost, resulting from superabundant game-preserving and game-laws, which is shown during the present assize cir cuits, calls forth grave refl_ction. That noblemen and squires, by their infatuation for suparabundarice of game (which amounts to a sort of mania or madness), should bring upon the community all the ills and evils which they do, is truely disgraceful, and it is impossible that it can be much longer endured. Nu reasonable person would begrudge tern of rational sport and diversion, but the contrary at the ; yet their game preserving has grown to s uch a bight hat country justly condemns it, and because.it beget injuries and consequences most serious. It is, also. t a b g arthing for a t d he t y ha o t ug t h li t e public should have to pay, in any shape, one f p ros ecutions arising out of the :g ame -laws. The time is litoasteningt n have, e ; and they ought to be at the expense of maintainin g entire wh en cost soi of preservest hose h pro secutions av to defray them selves e he the prisoners, and exonerating the ratepayers from charg es of the convicts' wives and families. Tnis being ac e ", i ._, P Isned, " My Lords and Gentlemen" would then act difi vle . 1 what t bey uoT cl 9.—( Irvin Ccriespoident,) yto ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. ROME ClRCUlT.—hingston, March 23. The commipsion for the county of Surrey wat.. ()Flied at this place on Monday, and to-day business was pro ceeded with in both courts, Mr. Baron Park:: presiding on the Civil Side, and Mr. Justice Coleridge in the Crown Court. There are 33 prisoners for trial on the Crown Side, and 44 causes are entered at Nisi Prins, six of which are special jury cases. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron PARSE and a Com mon Jury.) JENNINGS v. caocKER. This was an action to recover damages for a breach of promise of marriare. Mr. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Bovill appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. James, Q.C., and Mr. Wordsworth, were counsel for the defendant. The plaintiff in this action, it appeared, was a cook, and in the years 1848 and 1849 she filled a situation in that cepacity in the family of a gentleman named Clark, residing at Peckham. The defendant, who was at that time not more than 18, was in the service of a butcher in the neighbourhood, and the parties it appeared he came smitten with each other, and by the consent of the mistress of the plaintiff the defendant was allowed to visit her in the kitchen, and was received by her and her fellow-servants as a suitor, and on several occasions he intimated his intention to marry her, and said he should set up in business for himself ; and one of the other servants in the establishment was to be taken into their service when they were married. During the courtship the defendant tent several valen tines and other poetical epistles to the plaintiff, but as she unfortunately was unable to read, a good deal of their intended effect was doubtless destroyed. Tile par ties, however, continued a correspondence together until the month of August in 1851, when the defendant wrote a letter to the plaintiff, in which he addressed her as " Madam," and went on to say that he was surprised she should have said that he had left Peckham la cause he was ashamed to stay there any longer; and that he had done nothing ho was ashamed of, and he intended to return very shortly. He also said that he had heard she had been to his uncle's to complain about him, and advised her to be very careful what she said in future. The letter went on to state that he did not care what she or any one else said about him. He was fond of having "a flirt," and he would have one as long as he lived; and the letter concluded by stating, that if she behaved well, when he went to Peckham he would go and see her. The letter was signed, " Yours, &c., J. 13. C.;" and it appeared that two months afterwards the defendant got married. Evidence was given to prove these facts, and it ap peared that the defendant had stated to one of the wit nesses that an uncle had died and left him 1,0001.; and after this a coolness was observed on his part towards the plaintiff. It appeared that the latter was five or six years older than the defendant. Mr. JAMES made a most humorous speech to the jury on behalf of the defendant. He said he was quite sure this action would never have been heard of, if it had not been for the silly boast of the defendant, that his uncle had left him a thousand pounds, for which there was not the least foundation; and the fact would, no doubt, have been proved, if it had been capable of proof. The case, he submitted, was of a most trumpery character. What were the facts? A butcher's boy, for he really was nothing else, in the course of his business falls in love with a lively cook. Which was to blame it was not for him to say, but cooks were proverbially susceptible.— (Laughter.) Whether it was owing to the heat of the kitchen, or to the peculiar nature of their profession, he could not say, but certainly they did continually hear of the affections of cooks for policemen, anal persons of that stamp, and Life Guardsmen.—(A laugh.) In the pre sent instance it appeared to be a butcher's boy. He con tended that there had been nothing but a little familiar flirtation, and all that the plaintiff had lost was her butcher's boy.—(Renewed laughter.) He then referred to the poetical epistles sent by the defendant, and ob served, that inasmuch as the plaintiff could not read, she could not have been very much affected by them, and the Learned Counsel caused a roar of laughter in court by referring to some of the letters. In one of them the defendant, atter talking about " foaming seas" and loving hearts," and such matters, concluded by stat ing, as a postscript, "In haste, as lam going to kill." In another letter he gave an account of his old mare having " slipped up" as he was riding very fast down a hill, and he said that if he had not "stuck" to her, he must have been seriously injured, but as it was, they both got up together, and he found nothing was the matter with either, so that he went off again as fast as aver. The Learned Counsel eonclnded by calling upon the jury, if they gave a verdict at all for the plaintiff, only to award moderate damages, as any others must inevitably cause the utter ruin of the defendant. Mr. Baron PARXE summed up, and the jury, after a very brief deliberation, returned a verdict for the plain tiff—Damages 501. WESTERN CIRCUIT.--Exeter, March 20. CROWN COURT.—(B: fore Mr. Justice TALFOURD.) William Gildon was indicted for the wilful murder of John Finch, on the sth March, at Marychurcb. Mr. Collier and Mr. Carter were counsel for the prose cution, and Mr. Cox for the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner was a wheelwright, living near Torquay, occupying one of a row of houses. In the course of last summer he married a young woman of the name of Ann Finch, who, before her marriage, had an illegitimate child by a person of the name of Thomas. It was part of the arrangement that this child should live with them after their marriage. On the sth of March a Mrs. Stier, the former mistress of the wife, came to see her old servant, and shortly be fore she left the prisoner came in, and at that time the child was well and ceeerful; it was undressed and put to bed. The prisoner's wife went out with Mrs. Stier, to see her a little way on the rJad. They left at seven o'clock. The wife returned at eight o'clock, and during her absence the child had met with an injury, from which it died at five o'clock the next morning. On the sur geon, who had been called, making a more particular observation, he found on the back part of the head, just behind the ear, a mark showing that the child must have received a most violent blow, and he was of opi nion that that blow must have caused the death. The prisoner accounted for this appearance by stating that the child had fallen out of bed. , The surgeon, however, did not believe that the injury could have been so re ceived. Blood was seen upon the prisoner's hand and trousers. The prisoner had since said that, had it not been for the long tongue of his wife, the neighbours would have known nothing about it. . .... _ __ Mr. Cox urged that there was no motive shown for the prisoner taking the life of the child, and that it was possible it might have died in convulsions by knocking itself about in those convulsions. _ Mr. Justice TALFOURD summed up the case to the j ury. Mr. CARTER suggested that his Lordship bad not stated to the jury that if they did not think the pri soner guilty of murder, they might convict him of man slaughter. Mr. Justice TALFOURD said he did not know how he could suggeit such a thing. The jury, however, appeared to have heard this re mark, for they returned a verdict of Manslaughter. Mr. Justice TALFOURD, in paaing sentence, observed that the jury had come to a decision upon a mere case of possibility. It was, indeed, a mere possibility that this could have been manslaughter and not murder. In his opinion all the circumstances tended to the conclu bleu that the more serious crime had been committed. He should pass upon him the most severe sentence the law allowed—that he should bo transported for life to a penal settlement. BUSINESS OF THE ClRCUlT. — Notwithstanding the judges are sitting till a very late hour every night, the business is so very heavy that they have been compelled t 3 postpone the commission day at Bodmin from Wed nesday till Thursday. MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Warwick, March 24. (Before the Lord Chief Justice JERVIS and Specia Juries.) POSTER V. PARKES. This was an issue directed by the Court of Chancery to ascertain whether the plaintiff was the heir at law of Isaac Parkes, who formerly lived at Birmingham. The property was of considerable value, said to he nearly 60,0001., and the present question arose upon the death of a granddaughter of Isaac Parkes, the plaintiff claiming as grandson in another line. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C. (specially retained), Mr. Mellor, Q C., and Mr. Hayes, appeAred for the plaintiff; Mr. Humfrey, Q C., Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., and Mr. Field, for the defendant. The court was crowded from an early hour, in expec tation of a case of much interest, but certain mysterious whisperings amongst the legal gentlemen gave rise to some misgivings ; and Mr. James was shortly stating the facts of the case, when he was interrupted by Mr. Humfrey, and after a brief discussion an arrangement was come to between the parties, by which the defendant, as we understood, was to have 10,0001., and her costs, conveying any interest she might have in the property to the plaintiff 83 heir-at-law. Subject to that arratefaG. ment a verdict was taken for the plaintiff; and the trial , which it was fully expected would lait two if not thr ee days, thus pleasantly terminated. London, Messrs. Bevan and Goodeve, of Old Jew r y , were the plaintiff's solicitors; Mr. Ludlow, of Birming ham, for the defendant. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. —L iv erpoo l , _ r. March 24. I 'ALDERSON.) — m Li Bvearprrn "CROWN COURT.—f_Botf° was charged with the man- Thomas Bradley, aged ', at Manchester, on the 10th slaughter of Jane Roberts of Mr January 'wt.' n M r . Assheton Crosse appeared for the Monk ad mr. Cobbett for the prisoner. prosecut ion; and i t • appeared, resided at Manchester, The decease d , h. i January last was proceeding between and on the lot k in the morning down Pollard ';''ellompanied by her daughter, and, while 10 and 11 Manchester, "-, riven at a rapid they were crossin g , t a cab was d • rate down the stree theT !tyre "were two men on the box, one lof w h om was at dale ,violently fl)gging the horse. The dec , 9,sed was knocked down and run over by the ca b, Which Wa3 driven on without stopping, but was fol lowed by three men who got hold of and clung to it for some distance, until compelled to lot go from the ra pidity with which it was driven. One of them, however, succeeded in ascertaining the number of the cab to be 111, which was driven by the prisoner. The prisoner was not identiSed in any other way, but he had been BOSH with that cab that morning at the stand and to drive a fare. The prosecution relied on these facts as sufficient identification of the prisoner. The Learned Counsel for the defence relied on the identification of the prisoner not being sufficiently esta blished, and called witnesses to prove au alibi. Mr. MONK having replied, Ills LORDSHIP summed up, leaving it to the jury to determine whether or no the prisoner was the man who drove the cab, and whether or no the accident that oc: cured was the fault of the driver or of the deceased ; his lorclohill o hoerdeS Pat be lig fteciumay re- MARCH 25, 1852. of markpd, when women w,lre in a positron or (11nuer that k,..n tb of tur9varb o l; retorr, th y Buil in the very place where ine owl ger ryes greAttat. The jury ri tired, and after a short a' , Eeneo returned with a verdict of Gutiv.—Sen:lnce was de,orrei. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, March 24. (Before Mr. WITIIAM and a Bench of Magistratea, at the Guildhall Westminster.) James Phineas Davis and David John Davis were jointly indicted for having committed an asisult upon Ur. John O'Brien, a person whose name has been for some time past before the public in connexion with turf transactions, on the afternoon of the 18th inst. Mr. Sleigh conducted the prosecution; Mr. Ballantine appeared for James Phineas Davis, and :Hr. Parry for David John Davis. The defendants both pleaded not guilty. Mr. SLEIGH, in a brief address to the jury, stated the facts of the case, as detailed in the following evidence. The prosecutor was examined by Mr. SLEIGH. He said—l am of no business or profession whatever. I was educated for the leeal profession in Dublin, but I never took up my degrees, although I am entitled to them fur having passed the respired number of terms. I know the defendants, who were engaged against me profeb sionally as solicitors, in an action at law and in a suit in Chancery. I reside at the Talbot Hotel, Richmond. I have been extensively engaged in sporting transactions ; and I may say that, ti( xt to Lord George Bentinck, I have been sue eestful, and have some of the best hems oo the turf. On the afternoon of the 18th cf this month I was in James•s:reet, Haymarket, where I raw the two defendants. They were coming in the direction of the Hay market, and I was going away from it. They were then arm-in-arm, but as soon as I got close to them they unclosed their arms, and stood about half a yard apart. James Davis then, putting himself in a menacing attitude, said to me, " What do you want with us?" I said I did not want anythin to do with people of their class, as I under, teed they had been to m) hotel at Richmond for the purpose of vilifying my character. Upon this, :limes Phineas Davis seiz. d the stink I held in my right baud, and David Davis immediately struck me with a larger stick that he held in his hand. The stick he had in his hand was large enough, I should say, to fell an ox. He struck me on my neck, but the blow was evidently aimed at my head. Seeing the formidable nature of the stick, I endeavoured to get the stick from him. David Davis then seized me by the collar, while I with my left hand held the stick in his hand. My right hand was engaged in trying to preserve my own stick from Phineas Davis, but lie almost immediately wrested it from my hand. I was then engaged in holding the other stick with David Davis, and my hat falling off, James Phineas Davis then, with my own stick, struck me violent blows, and on various parts of my body. A crowd collected, and a police-constable came up. I never attempted to insult, or offered any gesture of defiance to the defendants. Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—Mr. Davis's stick was much thicker than mine. The two men both attacked me, and on endeavouring to preserve my stick I was placed in an unfavourable position, and heir] , off my guard David Davis seized me by my neckelog. I will swear my hand was not raised against the defen dants first. This I believe arose out of an affair re specting a Mr. Clifton, and I was charged with fraudu lently obtaining a number of bills which are at present the subject of a suit in Chancery. Mr. SLEIGIZ objected to thin line of inquiry on a sub ject which was in the course of investigation in a supe rior court. Mr. BALLANTINE said he wished to test the credit of the prosecutor by his previous transactions. The prosecutor was cross-examined at great length, and questioned in reference to assumed previous trans actions, with a view to impeach his credibility. Mr. John Gubert was the next witness. He said that he was a baker in the employment cf Mr. Barker, P:ar son-street, Kiegeland. On Thursday afternoon, the 18th instant, he was in James-street. Ho saw Mr. Da vid Davis try to throw Mr. O'Brien. He caught hula of him by the throat, when the other gentleman struck him with a stick. He never saw either of the persons before. The first thing he saw was the seizing him by the collar. A person who was by called out " sham? upon which Phincas Davis said, " That is the noted O'Brien, the extortioner." Henry Hockley said be was passing:through James street ou the afternoon in question. His attention was attracted to something going on. A desperate struggle took place between the prosecutor and David Davis. The witness then went on to give corroborative evi dente of the assault upon the prosecutor. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Ballantine then addressed the jury for the defen dant James Davis. Mr. Parry addressed the jury for the other defendant. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after an absence of half an hour returned into court with a ver dict of Guilty against both prisoners. Mr. WITHAM said the sentence of the Court was thet each of the defendants pay a fine of 501. to t h e and be imprisoned until such fine w as paid. Queen, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WESTMINSTEII. Mr. James Pugh, tailor and ou' fitter, of 117, Jermyne street, St. James's, underwent a very lengthened re-exa mination before Mr. Arnold, charged with having, by the agency of boys, uttered two forged cheques. H-cry Hankers stated that on the 24th of November the prisoner met him in Sr. James's-park, and asked him if he cooed go as for as King-street for him. lie then took him into New-street, Spring-gardens, arid told him to wait a minute, and immediately afterwards joined him without a hat, and having told him that he belonged to the house 17 in that street, gave him a letter addressed to Mrs. Faulkener, and told him he must be careful, as he would have to bring money back, adding that be (prisoner) ought to go himself, but that his master had a dinner party and be could not spare time. Witness took the letter, got 204 103. from Mrs. Faulkener, and was met upon his return, near No. 17, by the prisoner, to whom ho gave the cash,l and prisoner then gave him a shilling for his trouble. In reply to questions from Mr. Arnold, witness said he next saw the prisoner at the House •of Detention, Clerkenwell, whither he was taken by a police officer, who told him that it was to see for the man who had given him the cheque. He was shown into about a dczen cells where there were prisoners before he came to the one where he recognised the accused. Nothing was said by the officer to point out the prisoner. The officer was not in the cells with witness. Ia cross-examination by Mr. Payne, the witness said that while in the waiting-room at the prison, before vi siting the cells, there was somebody walked by the door in the passage, accompanied by another gentleman, and the officer said that was the man. Witness was looking oat of window at the moment the officer said so, but turned round and saw two persons, and merely caught sight of their forms, as they passed along the passage by the door so quickly. Mr. ARNOLD put some further questions to the wit ness, and elicited that, although he bad in his visit to the cells seen a dozen or more prisoners before he identi fied the accused, some of these were boys, others appa rently navigators, and that the prisoner was the only well-dressed person he saw. The officer was called, who said he told witness that the object of his visit to the prison was to see whether he could point out the man who gave him the cheque; but ho positively denied that, when the prisoner passed the waiting-room door, he had said to Hankers, `• That is the man." Witness did not hear any observation made at the time prisoner passed the door. Did not hear the words, " That is the officer who took me into custody." The boy was sitting at the window with his back towards the door, and did not move, although be might have looked towards the door, in the opening of which witness was standing. Mrs. Fauikener and Mr. Partridge were then exa mined—the former to show that she gave the 201. 10e. to a boy who brought the letter purporting t o be writes 5 by Mr. Partridge; and the latter to show t hat it was forgery. This being the whole of the evidence for the p tion in Mrs. Faulkener's case, rosecu g The boy White was put into the ppect to the charge of uttering i a to-ebe sen t by Dr. Kirby, at Brampton , purpo rtin g e were detailed Bawdier. The particulars of this feltscharg d cheque to M r. with re ouly a few days ago. he was taken from custodyby the day after his discharge from Mr. Payne he said that, on street, where acme in quiry In cross-examination by the police to the however,Sunday fortnight, sh out pm e a u h , a l I whilef-p a s t he went into Jermytnstreet to • the evening, seven in person whom ho believed c om e, au meet the officer, near 117 Ras mode. On be s t aw he a did now feel a little doubt prisoner —but ma n—enter No 117. It did whether be was rho nut occur to him, although he thought ho had seen him bet some where, that he was the ore man who gave him the ' q ue if un til he saw him go into that house, and elr he had not entered it ho should not have thought n exion with the tr an l saction. of him. in curl him the note. e believed prison e r gave Mr • Kirby and the R show that a ev, Dr. Bowdlnr were called to former. forged cheque had been tendered to the Mr. Payne addressed the magistrates at great lengthc tent. Ann Pannell was then called, and proved that the prisoner and his family moved from Storey's-gate on the day he was alleged to have met White and given him the cheque in the evening; that she accompanied the accused and his wife to their now apartments at Notting-hill, and that he never left the house that evening. Mrs. Harling, the landlady of the new apartments, not only confirmed the alibi, but declared that the ac cused was in bed at seven o'clock on the night of Sun day fortnight, in which she was corroborated by ac. cnsed's wife's nurse, and two witnesses from 117, Jilt mynestreet, were called to show that he did not go there en the evening in question. Mr. Cresswell, a solicitor, who is the accused's father in-law, said ho visited him at the orison on Thursday, and after a conference with him observed the officer and a lad with him. The accused sad, " I find the officer who arrested me is lisle," end , added, poi;., to the officer, " That is the man. The boy (Hankers) aed the officer were at that time standing with the room door open, looking at them. Witness and the accused, after going towards the officer, rearmed again along the passage to the waiting-room door, when the accused re peated, in allusion to the officer, " That is he,'' but said it was riot the same boy (White being the only boy who appeared against him on the prey 10119 . • examination). Mr. ARNOLD said—ln the present state o. f the case the evidence is not euffieient to sendthe • prisoner fur trial, and he is discharged. LAMBETH. Daniel Frazer, Eliza Frazer, big wife, and John krager, bie brothers were brought up for Aug Qz4Luiug- ti , m on a Charge of plo!,dtring Mr. J. ho rioter o; Satitetield. From the evidence of Mr. Tanis it appeared that for two 'ears past the prisoner Daniel Fraz!r had ben to his emp;o:, moat in the parcel-peckirg department , 9n His premises in St. John-street, and that latterly the other male prisoner h..d &so been envged on the pry mires in the map-colouring dioartment. Up to Thurs day last he did not distrust their honesty; 00 t he cow trery, he had a high opinion of their characters, Pr ii i cuiarly of Daniel; but on that day, in consequence 0 what had been told him, he went to the shop of a pawn' broker in Holborn, and there found some books belong. log to him. Oa returning home Mr. Talks any the prisoner Daniel Fr. - !z-,r that he wished him to accompasi him to a shop in Holborn, when the latter ride. som e (io,Usi., for a few minutes' absence, and immcdtatuly ab et:andel, His wife and brw her w€ro given i nto custodh and he himself in a few days gave himself up na offi:ier, to whom he had declared that he alone PAWto the guilty part hopm y. The s en of four different pawnbrokers wore ; It elega the attendance with a number of expeniive a nd honed volumes, which had be ,, ti pledged by eso e prisoners, ad all of which wee sworn to by Mr. Tani s as his proprtr. • Mr. Talks made a serious com p laint of several pawn broker=, wh,,, aPPIkd to on it ' subject of the pro - : party belonging to him whiAt liad been stolen and pawned, threw every impediment in his way; only on his threatening to apply fur a VOCII-WBSrane that they gave him any -14tormation or pro d uc ci i a th [rope: ty'• 'Mr. ELLIOTT severely censured the conduct of the pawnbrokers in taking property of such a description. !! that prcduceei from persons in the position o f the 1 0 . 18 . u 0s and it was ners, without making the ti:!.cesary inquiries long which must have led to a detection of theirdishoneglY ago. He (Mr. Elliott) perceived that even the lea ve n si r i o . some of the costly•bound and expensive wor ks 1 , r , - na a had been advanced, were ::not cut; duced, and on which not more than a shilling a ---- d th,s.t the act of taking such property in pledge witheel irking the necessary inquiries was saslacly reties ley row that of receiving stolen property with a gil l ' knowledge. Mr. Tanis remarked, that from the testimony of the pawnbrokers, the books had been &aged w• - him on the Ist of March, 1851, so that the sygte ca , l , o g: robbery must have been carried on for tvralve al° ll , and many of the books produced belonged to a Tallis's Illustrated London for yet 1851—which was Ify published to the trade. The prisoner Daniel Frazer said was guillY' and be cosiderea_ and that neither hie wife nor brother t... he by the books. ea Mr. ELLIVTT considnred thn ease a very.bad one; e was guilty of the stealing, and he committed all thre ° for trial. HAES. Daniel Billington, a li as Price, alias Lewis. who 130 been frequently in custody for assaults and out raKes, was brought before Mr. Yardley charged with stabbing a woman named Ell , m Sweeny, with int ent to dm l lv der her. The prisoner, who bad been recently Eml )l °Y ed City Soup Kttcheu, Shoemaker-row, wag was apprehendeed yesterday by Police-Sergeant. Kelly, 2 K, who der,r 0 that the prisoner had stabeed the same woman beta: and that he was best known bof Daniel Goo' y the name set 0 Mr YAPDLE • • Y—lle is entered on the police-sh Daniel Bitlington. Good• Sergeant Kelly—He is always called Daniel ea from his ruffianly character, and his real or OPP ° resemblance to the murderer of that name. Mr. YARDLEY remanded the prisoner for a We ll ' in the THE COUiVrit il MARKETS. hToh L lie, tv de p. m itp a o nd oL ior Al lth n e c a n t 2 a 3 n .d— -flour rs was market no w t was t t v i v e l e l , althoug; leis were willing to take lower prices. Oats and T he re ei w were s dull, and cheaper; barley and malt unchanged. 0 Ireland pe an r d el c r Oastw ofa 6da large supply of Egyptian beans, and offered at a clecliti. oats, 2,122; beaus, 105 qrs.; s lndian w h c e o a r t n , 1 6 5 d per l e q y r. lower. v3. in a A i t r: 3 7, 1 3 2: 9,457 ; barley, 2,544; oats, 38:); beans, 431 qrs.; i l°4 ' 5,177 sacks. Notyvit i r NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, MARCH 23. standina the supplies were m derate, trade ruled exceeding tit dull, and to transact business a further decline must have b i flour, 99 i;cks. Foreign wheat? acceded to, which factors were unwilling to allow. 13 a rie ''' a attended,. heavy sale, and the turn lower. in other articles no chaeg e i l NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, MARCH 23. The ' ti P a r e s of beasts being large, trade was slu gg ish, at a decline in 1 ~10 on last week of from 3 d to td per stone, and a considera,,i portion remained unsold. All b reeds of shee p moved off 51° ': e a r yet former terms were fully supported, and a eleatance to effee'vei Beasts. 1,100; sheep, 3,35'). Prices—Oxen, 4s Sd i 5,1 to per stone; heifers. 5s 3 d per stone; sheep, in Iven‘ 514 ' . 6d per lb ; ditto, shorn, bd to Od. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, MARCH 23.'"—There Were 01 the meal market to-day 7 sac k s oatme al, each sveig i d 28011)4 imperial, whereof 5 sold thus :.---.1 at 33s Od, -AU. _. at 32s ; average price of the whole 1/ 12s d 4-12.tha 2 sacks pot-barley which sold thus; _1 at 28s, an d 1 EDINBURGH HAT AND STRAW Manicirr, MaitcH 23. ; 16 stones tsrooad. Oat straw, from 7s 6d to 9s Od per kemple of 7 s 6d to 8 wheat ditto, 9s Od to lus Od ; barley ditto, Hay, from 9d to 1 Id per stone. e were DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, 31.aucu 22---Tber rket ; 48 bags of oatmeal and 2of pot. barley at this day'!' ni a es t sales dull. Oatmeal up on the top 63 per hag, second and nearer; prices from 9d to ~d per bag up ; pot-barley 6d per bag there was no barleymeal in market. id* at 2, s. Thud. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Seen na ' imperial .. ... . . 31s 01 303 03 290 Od airleymeal, per ditto • --,, o,i •-••• 3 a --3 oa Peasemeal . .. ... e - Od .....s Od ---9 o d Flour ... „•,' ~,, 17. ...7 s od --a Oti ---5 od Pot barley ••• _.. 28 6,1 --s Od - --8 ..• COAL NlAliti • Y psTX ItDAT. e close of the mar .... 153 l Hatton ........... • v, 15 3 31 ' Haswell ..... ......... 14 9 9d L a mbton ............. • 91 IPlummer ........ Russell's Hatton ...... leg Od Stewart', ••••Od Fowler's Hartlepool... 125 Heugh Hall ......... Rd Kelloe .............. '9 d North 1 -f. 9d South. Hartlepool ....• 1r ad South lielloe ............ ‘ l ' 503 hTigon's Merthyr sad 211: 21 123 " Sidney's Hartley ..... ,74 Sold. 52. Prices of Coal per ton at t Bate's West Hartley.. 12s Od Buddle's W. Hartley.. 12s Od Carr's Hartley ..... 123 Od Howard's W. H. Neth. 12s 6d Longridge'sW.Hartley 12s 6d North Percy Hartley.. 12s Od Ravensworth'sW. Hart 12s Od' rantield Moor Bute.s... 12s 3d Wall's End, &c. Gosforth Harton Lawson l2s Od. Walker l2s 6d Eden Main Lambton Primrose Bell Braddyll Ships at market, RAILWA Y SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, MARCH 24. STOCK ExcAANGE.—The market was very inactive to -dal; good to and prices had a downward tendency. The transaction were as follow : Aberdeen, 13% Great Western, 88%"" Midland Stock, 63%. a— 'LIVERPOOL, MARCH 21. STOCK EXCHANGE. - The share market was not quite so The transactions were as follow : —Caledonian , 183/4--Lanca dlY, but prices remain without material alteration. shire and Yorkshire, 73% c.—London and North-Western, 121: - !, - , Ditto New Quarters, 5 p. Manchester, Sheffield, and Linco l nshire, Preference, 12 9-16 Midland, 6374 — and North British, 734 Shrewsbury an d Chester (Oswestry Chester), 11—South-Eastern and Dover, 21%. te , s, 81h_ pitto,B_ifthDs MANCH ESTE Is. MARCH 24. bslins.Dar r loug ca h s e h d i a r , e r and Yorkshire, STocqc ExcrlifiCar..—The business to-day was rather li mited, and prices had a downward tendency. The transac tions were as folloi,v : - East Anglian ' p 3 . — S — hil as el t d er , ll ßo C :h u e n r : Coun ties, 9%—East Lsncashire, 171,4—Ditto, Preference, Quar 7214—Nlanchester, ;Sheffield, l and L colnshire, Preference , hair',l2 t i , — ar D ,d it G to o ,Dever , 21 11-16- - aa l t - Ar i n 6 n a:nd Do Midand, 64 1 ,4 ".Caledonian, (8•?4 London and Nort' Western. 124—Dtto, New Quartei's, 5t4 p . — London and rhirdq, 12/ - : o New e , e w 2l S Preference,o 21—South-Eastern t 11 Manchester and Birmingham (CN , , i Quarters , 2 ~ Norta British, Preferenteiellizr tlioirth Staffordshire 8% dia. South-Western, N AM, MARCH 21. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The business to-day was very limite d only sales reported were—Bi r Y Were well sustained. The Stour Valley, 91. 185. 9d.—_ Birmingham, Wolverhampton , in i , London and North-Western, 121" r derivedH o 1 l ow b a i v , . . . my wife has . [ADVER ter from 11 Remedy to Cure Drepsy.—Extract of Holloway's rills the b B s t and most efficientefficient T.] To Professor P. WilLiams, dated " Milford, March I, 2 ' 1851 1 the S u ir i duty to • inform 011 • Soon last &ia y 01 it. after the birth of her her factand w hole ancles began to swell and afterwards her body, of strongly indicative of dropsy, this occurring at the tu . T use of e y e o li u n r g .p g i r i T s t , e f l u lefoonrstidh:rb , i ,: ro e .. yi life. I obtained the best medical advice, but her heal' continued to d ec li ne . I th en t r i e d our Pills, wh ich I am happy to say have restored her to sound and perfect heaElth."b. ---told by a ll D rugg i sts, an d at P ro f essor H o lloway ata lishment, 244, Strand, London. I , k nown HUNTING ACCiDENT.—Mr. Brown, better ._0 as " llarbro' Brown," was following the staghound3 ja 91,,, Vale of Aylesbury, on Thursday week, when be c li t l ,, u n e li r contact with a bidi bank, the top of which was bawlvcr r-oad. row, and about four feet perpendicular drop into a i t ick The bank gave way with the hore's hind feet when he iG s r r orn it, and caused him to alight upon hie head. Mr. 'Pnobis partly picked the horse up, when he slipped, fel l il P% o ras side, and Mr. Brown escaped without the least injury w i t h person, however, who was gallopping down the roaddoo, the others, rode against Mr. Brown and knocked him a lly when he was ridden over by another horseman, who actucal stopped his horse when upon him. After a careful surog,ivi, examination it was found that his thigh, though not br_xe ~ was seriously injured. Wo are happy to learn that 10,t . Z progressing satisfactorily, though there is little chant No's. •i ti ',. proceeding with his occupation for months to cotrie. -1 " r anzpton Herald. ____:-...... BIBTBS. OF A BON. t • 0 On the 21st inst, at Picton-villa, Norfolk-road, St. Jo hn Wood, Mrs. James P. Davies. um am, tot On the 21st inst., at the Porsonage,Little Hadham, -- the wife of the Rev. E. Randolph, curate of Little liadbb OF A DAUGUTEN. On the 21st inst„ at Upper Grosvenor-street, the lady of Sir Edward N Bart., M.P. On the 21st . in ß st., uxton at , Hcavitree, Exeter, the lady of the Hon. W. Addington. MARRIED. 13 On the 2th of January , at Bellary, Lieutenant la ug h" Birar. 1 t Madras Light Infantry, to Matilda Emma , ter of the late Colonel John Hunter. DIED. On the 22d inst., at Wellington-grove, Blackheath, Samue l CoEingwoad, Esq., aged 66 On th 3 22d inst., at Charles-street, Westbourne-terrace, Hyde•park, Mrs. Mary Phelps, aged 8 On Os , 22d inst., V - ,e Rev. I'. S. Dodd, rector of For hurst, Kent, and Aldrington, Sussex, aged 77. of On the 22d inst . at Scvnoaks ' Mary Jane, the Ida liz Gibrook, Esq., of Box rove, Sussex. At College-place, Camden-town, on the 22d inst. , 211* Esse, aged 7 mood, On the 22d inst., Thomas Parker, eldest son of Dr. Peckham, Surrey. London: Printed and Published by MUKDO YOpjA.PI (.4 12, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun CfficaF Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, hi the twwww Middleoex, Thursday, aarch 25. 15h2. tbtrßi c( 'nth, 6 j before I Wore dos it hi, off 1 ,.. 1141 are 0 . .tore the * n ,erapt ,, r! 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