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GAME LAWS. The following is the report ( just issued by order of the House of Commons, together with the minutes of evidence taken during the present session) of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the operation of the game laws, and to report their observations and opinion thereon to the House, and who were empowered to re port the minutes of evidence taken before them. 1. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that the common law of England has always distinctly recognised a qualified right of property in game and that from a very early period it has been found neces sary, by statutory enactment, to make some special pro vision against the attempt to steal or destroy a species if property peculiarly exposed to depredation, 2. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that the stringency of the game-laws has been from time to time materially qualified and relaxed. 3. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that the recent Act Ist and 2d William IV., c. 32, vested the property in game in the occupier of the soil, and distinctly recognised in game, As the subject of sale, one of the essential qualities of private property. 4. Resolved, that under these circumstances, the tenant has at all times the power to secure the game to himself, or to reject the tenancy, if the proprietor of the land insists on a reservation being made of the game in his (the proprietor's) favour. 5. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that to exclude game from the protection of the law would be inconsistent with a due regard to the security of other property. 6. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that the taking of game by persons who have no right of property in it should continue to be the subject of penal legislation. 7. Resolved, that in reviewing the statues now in force with reference to the pursuit and sale of game, it appears to Committee that alterations may be suggested which, without impairing their efficiency for the re pression of crime, would prevent the unequal or exces sive punishment of persons who violate their provisions. 8. Resolved, that it is expedient to abolish cumulative penalties for poaching. 9. Resolved, that your Committee are not, however, prepared to recommend such an alteration of the law as would exempt from more severe penalties those who, in the illegal pursuit of game commit at the same time a breach of the revenue laws, or those who in the day time, being armed, and in numbers, are guilty of violence. 10. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that the penalty imposed by the statute 52 Geo. c. 43, for sporting without a certificate, appears ex cessive. 11. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that the space of three days allowed by section 44 of 1 and 2 Will. IV., c. 32, for giving notice of appeal against any summary conviction under this Act, should be extended. 12. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that it is expedient that so much of the sth and 6th Will. IV., c. 20, which allows a moiety of the penalty levied under the Ist and 2d Will. IV., c. 52, to go to the informer, should be repealed. 13. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that no person convicted of night poaching, under sec. 1, 9th Geo. IV., c. 69, whose offence is unattended by cir cumstances of aggravation, should be subjected to the punishment of transportation. 14. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that no person convicted of night poaching, under the first section 9th Geo. IV., c. 69, should be required to find sureties for not repeating such offence. 15. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that, apart from consideration of revenue, every owner or occupier of land having the right to kill the game on that land, should have such right without being re quired to take out a game certificate. 16. Resolved, that your Committee further recommend the ab,lition of certificates as regards the pursuit and de struction of hares by means of packs of hounds, or by greyhounds ; and al.mo to recommend the reduction of the duties on greyhounds to those proposed on common clop. 17. Resolved, that your Committee regret to find that great facilities still exist for the disposal of to stolen game. IS. Resolved, that it has been s uggested your Com mittee, that by imposing additional legislative restric tions upon the sale of game, such facilities mighebe di minished if not altogether removed ; but the practical difficulty of enforcing any such regulations appears to your Committee to be almost insurmountable, and the regulations themselves would necessarily be of so strin gent and vexatious a character, that your Committee cannot recommend their adoption. 19. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that the powers of constables should be better defined and enlarged, in regard to the search and detention of persons found under suspicious circumstances with game in their possession; and that power should be given to constables to search public-houses and beer shops (licensed to sell off as well as on the premises) for game, it having been proved before the Committee that they are extensive receptacles for stolen game. 20. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that the present time fixed for the period at which feathered game becomes a marketable article, and sale able by the dealer, should be postponed; and they re commend, that the sale of each species of game should be deferred until one day after the season for shooting it has commenced. 2L Resolved, that your Committee has received evi dence to show that the preservation of large quantities of game has bees the frequent cause of damage to the neighbouring crops. 22. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that in cases where the damage done to the growing crops of the occupier is caused by game belonging to or reserved by the owner of the land, such damage may be made the subject of pecuniary compensation. 23. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that although instances to the contrary have been proved to your Committee, evidence has been adduced before them which warrants the conclusion that, in general, a tenant's just claim for compensation is complied with by his landlord. 24. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that great difficulty must always exist in determining the great amount of damage which has been inflicted by game on growing crops, and that the estimate of such damage, however skilfully made, is rarely satisfactory to both parties. 25. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that where, from the vicinity of the preserves of ad joining proprietors, such damage must be attributed to the game bred and preserved therein, the reparation for such damage cannot generally be made the subject of previous agreement. 26. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee that, under these circumstances, cases of hardship may be expected to recur ; but the extreme difficulty of esta blishing the liability of any particular party for the damage done, or correctly assessing the amount of such damage, have induced your Committee to reject the suggestion that an action on the case would be a fitting or practical remedy for damage done to growing crops by game. 27. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee that this species of damage is to be attributed mainly, if not entirely, to hares and rabbits, and that no appre ciable proportion of such damage can be ascribed to feathered game. 28. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that the law in Scotland with regard to game differs from that in England in many essential particulars, and but little evidence respecting that part of the subject has been adduced before your Committee. The following is a copy of the resolutions proposed in Committee by Mr. Bright:— RESOLUTIONS. 1. That although the law recognises a qualified in terest in game, as resting in the owner of the land, it ap pears to your Committee that, among all classes of the community, a most important distinction is drawn be tween such interest in game and the right by which other property is held. 2. That this distinction is an insuperable obstacle to any general acknowlegment of the propriety . of the stringent legislation by which it has been, and is now, sought to give protection to the qualified property which exists in game. 3. That infringements of the game-laws are not in general regarded by any class as violations of the moral law, and such offences are not considered of themselves to fix criminality upon the characters of those who com mit them. 4. That, except among the class whose sports the game-laws are intended to protect, there appears to pre vail a strong sympathy towards individuals who come under the penalties inflicted by those laws. 5 That the penalties thus inflicted appear wholly ineffectual to prevent infractions of the game-laws, or to reclaim those who offend against them, inasmuch as it is proved that very frequently the same individuals are convicted ten, fifteen, or even twenty times during the course of a few years. 6. That the offenders against whom the game laws are enforced do not admit the justice of their sentences, but rather deny the impartiality of the tribunal by which they are tried, and consider themselves as victims of a harsh and unequal law. 7. That, although game offences are not by public sen timent deemed criminal, yet they lead the labouring classes, in towns as well as in the rural districts, by a course of i rregular habits, to offences of a more serious character. 8. That in a large proportion of cases, in almost every county, the magistrates who administer the game-laws are preservers of game, and very frequently p ass i ona t e ly fond of shooting ; and this circumstance gives rise to a suspicion of bias ; while the magistrates themselves feel that their administration of the law is regarded with ex treme jealousy. 9. That this suspicion of unfairness is increased by the fact that almost invariably the only witness against the poacher is a gamekeeper or his assistant, one of whom generally lays the information, and is a receiver of a portion of the penalty, whilst the other gives the only testimony required to secure a conviction. It ap ears, further, that it is rare that an indifferent or disin erested party gives evidence in game cases, except in aystsof the person charged with the offence. 10. That although by law the game upon a farm held to be the property of the occupier, except when specially reserved to the landlord, yet it is proved that the practice of so res t rving it is all but universal; and that, in reality, the control over the game is in very rareinstances in the har.ds of the occupying tenants. 11. That by au overwhelming mass of evidence it is proved that enormous danger is sustained by the cultivators of the soil where game is preserved, greatly exceeding, according to the evidence of many practical and most respectable farmers, the whole amount of the poor rate, county-rate, church rate, highway-rate, and income•tax, payable upon the farm upon which the game is preserved , or which ma y be in the imme diate neighbourhood of a preserve. 12. That it is proved up on the evidence of most trust worthy tenant-farmers and landowners, that to compen sate the cultivators of a game farm a diminution of rent, varying from 20 to 30 per cent. should be allowed. 13. That it does not appear to be the practice of the proprietors of land to make compensation for the destruc tion of crops caused by game, although some honourable instances to the contrary have been brought before your Committee. 14. That the system of game preserving is proved to be a source of great irritation to the tenantry, and of frequent disputes between them and their landlords, as well from the injury sustained by the tenants from the destruction of their crops, as from the interference and watchings practised upon them by the gamekeepers. 15. That it is proved that the prosperity of agricul ture, throughout very many parts of England and Scot land, is greatly impaired by the preservation of game; that a vast amount of produce is destroyed ; that the fertility , of the soil is diminished; that less capital is ex pended and less labour employed; and that thus, by the same process, the profits of the tenantry and the wages of the labourers are reduced. 116. That, by a return presented to your House in the year 1844, it is shown that, in the year 1843, not less than 4,529 persons were convicted of offences against the game-laws, and suffered fine or imprisonment ; that, from the year 1833 to the year 1844, inquests were held on the bodies of 41 gamekeepers, and that, in not less than 26 cases verdicts of wilful murder were returned. 17. That the extended and careful investigation which your Committee has made into the matters referred to them has forced them to the conclusion, that the very serious and widely-spread evils which are so fully proved to exist, are inseparable from the practice of pre serving game. That it seems clear to your Committee that this practice, now so general, and of late years so much extended, is at variance with the interests of a country where population is rapidly increasing, where agriculture is improving, and where advancing civilisa tion is everywhere apparent. 18. That with respect to remedial measures, and to changes in the law, your Committee would recommend that in all future legislation on the subject of game it should be a primary object to discourage the practice of game preserving, as incompatible with the successful pursult of agriculture, hurtful to the morality of the labouring classes, destructive of that kindly feeling which should exist between the different ranks of society, and generally disadvantageous to the interests of the country. The following is the substance of the report proposed by Mr. Bright, and rejected by the committee:— " Your Committee have instituted a very laborious inquiry into the operation of the game-laws, and for that purpose have examined seventy-two witnesses, all of whom have either been practically acquainted with the operation of the game-laws, the effect of game and game preserves, or the administration or execution of. the cri minal law in preserved districts. Such witnesses have consisted of landowners (including several peers and members of the House of Commons), land agents, tenant farmers, attorneys practising at petty sessions, game salesmen, chief constables, and superintendents of police in rural districts, the governors of county gaols, inspec tors of prisons, gamekeepers, farm labourers, and several persons who have been themselves offenders against the game-laws. Your committee have also examined S. M. Phillips, Esq. Under-Secretary of State for the Home Dept tment. Mr. Grantley Berkeley, a member of your Committee, was also, at his own request, examined. The inquiry occupied the whole of last session, from the time of the appointment of your Committee, and has been continued throughout the session. "In order to arrange and classify the results of the voluminous evidence which has been given before your Committee, they propose to divide their observations into seven branches : " 1. As to the nature of game, the actual state of existing laws for its protection and preservation, and the general sentiments .entertained with reference to game and the game laws, by different classes of the commu nity. 2. The operation of the game laws, and the effects of game preserving upon t he interests and feelings of farmers, and the condition of agriculture. 3. The effect of game and the game laws upon the relations of landlord and tenant. 4. The operation of game preserv ing and the tame laws upon the morality and material condition of the labouring classes, especially those of rural districts. 5. The administration of the game laws, and its influence upon offenders. 6. The influence of game preserving and the game laws upon the general interests of the community. And lastly, the remedies for evils of great magnitude, and widely extended opera tion, which are proved to exist as the consequences of game preserving." Such is in general the character of the evidence ad duced. From the statements made by several large farmers, it appears that damages to crops, to the amount of 2001., 3001, 4001, 5001., 7001., and even 1,0001. have been caused on a sidle farm by these destructive vermin. One extract as an example:—" Mr. Wm. Marris, of Rucklands, near Loath, Lincolnshire, in 1839, occupied a farm of 740 acres, near Briggs, under the Duke of Newcastle, for which he gave the full value of the land, without reference to game, and also had a verbal pro mise that the game should not injure him, soon found himself so seriously damaged' that he embraced the first opportunity of leaving the farm. In 1843, his loss upon a field of twenty. three acres of wheat was estimated by a competent and respectable valuer, at eight bushels to the acre, amounting in value to at least 1501. He received much injury from game on other parts of the farm, but selected that field as the worst, with the expectation of obtaining from his landlord some com pensation: compensation was, however, refused. He es timated the game damage over his whole farm at ss. per acre, or 1851. a. year, whilst his total direct taxation, in cluding the tithe, did not much exceed 1001. a-year." The report jusly lays great stress upon the evidence of Mr. Pusey, the eminent agriculturist:—" Mr. Pusey's evidence is not less conclusive than Lord Hatherton's. as to the damage to farm produce caused by game ; and he is of opinion that the modern system of farming is not consistent with the preservation of wild animals, except by highly artificial means. Mr. Pusey expressed a decided opinion that the preserves of game should be made liable in an action for damages for injury, done to their neigbours' crops by their game, and that there would be no great difficulty in proving, to the satisfac tion of a jury, from what preserves the game complained of had come." With regard to the evidence on the other side, the report says:—" The witnesses examined in support of the game-laws were landowners and preservers of game, magistrates, and chief police constables, and superin tendents and gamekeepers. With few exceptions, none of them had much practical acquaintance with hus bandry. The scope of this class of evidence was to show that poaching might, to a great degree, be pre vented by a sufficient force of gamekeepers and game watchers ; but that unless game is very strictly watched, and by a number of watchers proportioned to the extent of the preserve, the protection of game was difficult, and the cause of much local disorganisation. The tenor of the evidence of these witnesses has convinced your Committee of the accuracy of Mr. Pusey's opinion, that game has in the cultivated districts ceased to exist as wild animals, and that where preserved at all, it is solely maintained by artificial means." After these and many more details of the injury sus tained by agriculture from the maintenance of large quantities of game, the report says :—" Your Committee, therefore, are unable to resist the conclusion, that having regard to the influence of game upon agriculture and the prosperity of farmers, game preserving, in the present state and cultivation of the country, is injurious, and ought not, at all events, to receive any encouragement from the legislature." Under the second branch of the subject, the report says :—" The evidence is uniform that game preserves occasion very extensive destruction of agricultural pro duce, and operate as most serious impediments to good farming." This has been clearly demonstrated by practical farmers, from so many differents parts of the country' and whose experience has been had upon all the varie ties of soil, that it is difficult to select from the mass o f evidence on this point that which most completely proves the operation of game preserves upon the agri culture of the country. Various striking extracts from the evidence are given in support of these positions. Amongst the witnesses were Mr. James Smith, a farmer, near St. Alban's, Lord Hatherton, Mr. Pusey, and other emi nent agriculturists !—" They all agree that the da mage done to the grain crop is very great, and that the full amount of injury is very difficult, if not im possible, to be estimated, while green and root crops, the foundation of all improved husbandry, can only be grown under great disadvantages where game abounds. Indeed, the cultivation of winter tares, the main dependence of many farmers for maturing the strong land, and everywhere a most valuable crop, has in numerous instances mentioned to your Committee, been given up by farmers, whose farms have been much overrun by game. Here, then, we find a large head of game strikes at the very foundation of fertility ; for if the root and green crops are injured, every subsequent crop in the rotation is thereby diminished, indepen dently of the direct damage each of such subsequent crops may receive from the game ; nor is the actual damage the full measure of the injury the farmer suffers from game, for the agricultural witnesses, without exception, speak strongly as to the vexation and irritation of a farmer, who, in spite of all his eff or t s and all his outlay s, sees his crops ravaged by wild ani mals over which he has no kind of control. , After giving extracts fro m Lord Hatherton 's evidence, m t the r e e r p e o d r a t e s t a i o y n s :—" of h L ar o e r s d a H n a d th r e a r b to b n it ' s s st w a i t l e l m p e r n o t ie t c h t at t n h o e crops from damage in all seasons, but that the destruc tion_ of these animals ought to be tota l, is either directly or indirectly confirmed by most of the other witnesses, and perhaps by none more so than by some of the witnesses called by those favourable to the game pre serving." Mr. Gayford, an occupier of about 1,300 acres of land, near Thetford, gave the details 'of an experiment by which he ascertained that the consumption of four tame rabbitts, estimated to b e equa l to f our h ares , i s w ithi n a fraction the same as that of one sheep. The following is an extract from the evidence as to the damage caused by game :—" Assuming that four hares consume as much as one sheep, and also supposing that I was to keep the hares all the year round, I would rather keep one sheep than I would keep two hares ; for this reason, I would rather keep 600 or any number of sheep on my farm to feed, fold, and pasture them where I please, and to provide food for them, than I would keep halt' the quantity of sheep to run over the whole produce, and to have the free range of my farm, over my barley, over my wheat, over my Swede turnips, and everything else. And, therefore, with respect to hares, I should say I would rather keep one sheep than two hares to have the range of the farm. At least, I think that two hares would be quite as destructive to me as one sheep upon that calculation, because the hares would run about where they please, and prevent the growth of the crops." And he afterwards adds, in reply to a ques ti on (8,682) as to the i nfluence of game preservi ng on agriculture as an art or science, " I think, wherever hares or rabbits are extensively preserved, it would be a bar to spirited farming, and to improvements which might otherwise go on. Speaking for myself, if hares were strictly pre served upun my farm, I should not expend so much money in farming as I do now, particularly in artificial manure." Under the first head, after a summary of the principal provisions of the existing laws for the preservation of game, the report goes on to say :—" It will be seen that one offence may be visited with three, possibly, in some cases, with four, cumulative punishments. For instance, killing game on a Sunday or Christmas-day is punish able, on summary conviction before two justices, by a fine not exceeding 51., and the costs of conviction ; and in the event of non-payment, imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, and with or without hard labour, at the discretion of the convicting justices. Then, if the game was killed out of season, the offender may be fined 20s. and costs ; and if the fine be not paid, imprisonment for two months. — Killing game with out a certificate subjects the offender to a penalty of 51. and costs, or three months' imprisonment ; and, whether convicted or not, to be surcharged by the surveyor of taxes for double the certificate duty, which, if charged, cannot be remitted ; and to a penalty of 201., which may be mitigated to 101. These latter penalties are recoverable before the commissioners of assessed taxes. The certificate duty is a crown debt • but in the event . of non-pay ment of the 201. penalty, the offender is imprisoned for six months. Though in name a fiscal tax and penalty, and enforced by the surveyor of taxes, the surcharge and penalty are in practice only enforced at the suggestion of preservers of game, and as a cumu lative penalty. All the above penalties might be enforced against a person killing game on a Sunday or Christmas day, and out of season. When more than five persons trespass in pursuit of game, and any one of them, being armed with a gun, shall offer violence or threats towards the owner of the land, or his servants, another and additional penalty of 51. and costs, or three months' imprisonment, is imposed upon the offender, and on every person aiding and abetting him. Various subsidiary powers, such as right to apprehend trespas sers refusing to give their names and places of abode, a right to seize the game in their possession, and so forth, are given to the preservers of game, and their game keepers, to carry out the provisions of the law." The light in which the game-laws are regarded : " Your Committee find, from the concurrent testimony of all the witnesses examined, whether favourable or unfavourable to game-preserving, that infractions of the game-laws are not regarded by any class, from the landowner, who preserves the game, to the poacher, in the same light as breaches of other laws. A spirit of adventure and fondness for sporting seem to form the inducement, with many of the labouring men, to become poachers, while others are led into it by the occasionally large, though precarious, gain of a successful poaching adventure. And though all classes deplore the effect of poaching upon the characters of the men addicted to it, causing them eventually to commit graver offences, none regard poaching as a moral offence or a sin. Labourers and farmers deem the game-laws harsh and unjust, and, although the magistrates in general consider that they administer that law leniently, the large proportion which game offences hear to other of fences in the rural districts, and the punishment of poachers with extreme severity, occasionally insisted on by game preservers, have created a wry general im- Ipression in the public mind that the game•laws are harshly administered. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, August 15. IN ILE REAY AND REAY. A question of a novel character was brought before the Court in the matter of Reay and Reay, the wine merchants of Mark-lane, in whose estate a dividend has recently been declared of 2s. 6d. in the pound. On the part of a creditor for 5,0001., an attorney applied for the payment of a dividend on bills of exchange to 4,800/., notwithstanding that since the bankruptcy payment had been made by bills to 2,670/. The original debt was 5,0001. money advanced, and bills of exchange were deposited for 7,0001., being drawn and indorsed by the bankrupts. Since the proof of the deb, which was for 5,000/., when the bills were exhibited, 2,670/. of the securities had been paid, and it was insisted that the party who had proved was entitled to a dividend on 4,890/., being the amount of the bills he held, notwithstanding that his actual debt was much under that sum, he having been paid 2,6701. off his original claim of 5,0001. On the part of the assignees, several cases were cited, bearing on the point. His HoNoua said it was a very nice question. He was impressed with the opinion, that under the circumstances, the creditor was entitled to a dividend on the securities he held, but it was a matter for the official assignee, and he would suggest that the point had better be brought before another Learned Commissioner before the matter was taken into the Court of Review. As at present advised, he was in favour of the creditor. SMALL DEBTS ACT. Several summonses, granted under this Act, were heard, and in twa or three, warrants for commitments were issued, the Court authorising the parties to take the defendants. In one case, a defendant asked for costs, on account of the non-attendance of his plaintiff. The COURT said, there was no power to grant costs in the Act. The summons would be dismissed, and no further sum mons would be granted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WES TMINSTER. On Saturday, John Walker, a young man was charged with being found in the house of Mr. W. Spires, the Grosvenor Arms, Ilolywell-street, Milbank, shortly after midnight, and stealing the contents of the till, and a pair of sugar tongs. Mr. Spires, stated that having, as usual, fastened the house up, he retired to bed at ten minutes past twelve on the previous night; he had scarcely been there twenty minutes when his wife thought she heard a noise, and they listened to ascertain whether it would be repeated. Being shortly convinced that there was somebody stirring in the house, complainant struck a light, and having par tially dressed himself, opened the room door, and ran down stairs, when be saw the prisoner rush out of the bar into the tap-room. Complainant laid hold of the fellow, when he muttered something of having a " pal " (companion) at hand; upon which prosecutor told him he did not care how many he had, and gave him a sound shaking, upon which prisoner became very quiet. On an examination of the premises the bar door had been forced open, some copper and silver money, which bad been left for change in the morning, and a pair of sugar tongs, stolen. The back door had been unfastened, and was propped open ready for the escape of the thief. The fellow made no defence, and was remanded until Tuesday. THE LATE MURDEROUS ATTACK AT THE MAIDENHEAD STATION. MAIDENHEAD ' FRIDAY EvEs:LING.—The third adjourned examination of Anthony Thomas Ryves, a police- constable (but since suspended) in the service of the Great Western Railway Company, at the Maidenhead station, charged with having stabbed Mr. Henry Plumb, an articled clerk to Mr. Ward, solicitor, of this town, on the evening of Monday, the 3d instant, took place this afternoon at the Orkney Arms Inn, in the parish of Taplow, Bucks, before the following magistrates of the county :—Caledon George Dupre, Esq., M.P.; Mr. R. R. Clayton, M.P.; and the Rev. T. Carter. The magistrates commenced their sitting in a room below stairs, but in consequence of the number of respectable per sons desirous of obtaining admission to hear the proceedings, which excited the greatest interest throughout the neigh- bourhood, the Bench adjourned to the large room on the first floor, which was crowded during the lengthened Inves tigation. Mr. J. J. Williams, barrister-at-law, and Mr. Ward, solicitor, of Maidenhead, attended on the part of the prosecu tion, and Mr. Bozon, solicitor, of Bucklersbury, London, de fended the prisoner. Mr. Bozon having requested that the deposition of Mr. John Mahon Williams, which was made at the prisoner's examination,might be read, Mr. J. J. Williams said he should offer no objection on the part of the Crown, and assured Mr. Bozon that no impedi ment should be thrown in the way of the solicitor for the prisoner. The prisoner, who was then brought in in custody of Mr. Larkin, the superintendent constable of the Stoke and Iver districts, left his case in the hands of his legal adviser. Mr. Henry Plumb, the gentleman upon whom the attack had been made by the prisoner, was then assisted into the room, and placed in a chair near the magistrates. He looked extremely pale, and appeared to be suffering from great weakness. Upon being sworn, he deposed as follows : —On Monday evening, the 3d - instant, I and Mr. John Mahon Williams walked with Mr. Williams, sen., from Maidenhead to near the railway station, where we left Mr. Williams, sen., and proceeded on our return to Maidenhead. On passing by the Dumb Bell public-house, hearing some music, we looked in at the parlour window to see what was going on. While we were standing there a boy, who I have since ascertained is a son of the prisoner, came up and looked at us with an impudent grin. I said to young Williams, " Here is Buttons." Williams said, " Who do you mean ?" I replied, " Don't you' know the famous Buttons?" When Williams went up to him, and the boy ran a little way towards Maidenhead bridge. He then turned round and said to Wil liams, " You had better come this way and lye will give it to you." The boy then ran off towards the cottage in which the prisoner lives, followed by me and Williams. When we got to the cottage, Williams stopped and I walked on. I told Williams he had better come on with ma. I then heard the boy cry out, "Mother, mother !" and I also heard him mention the words, " Young Ward." We gave him the name of " Buttons" from the page's livery he wore. Atter Williams had stopped there for about half a minute, he came running to me, saying, " There's a man running after us. We raa on together for a little way, when 'Williams disappeared by creeping through the hedge on the railway side of the road. The prisoner then came running up to me, seized hold of me by the c o ll ar i n f ront w i th both hands , shook me violently, and threw me violently on the ground. When I got up, he rushed at me again. At that moment I saw, for the first time, that he had got a knife in his hand. I dodged away as he was in the attitude of striking me. I then felt the knife enter my body, under the shoulder -blade on the left side. I then fell a second time from the force of the stab upon a heap of stones. When the prisoner first seized me, he asked why I had insulted his boy ? I told him I had not touched his boy. After I was stabbed the prisoner stood over me, with his arm lifted up and the knife in his hand. I then said to him, "Don't hit me—don't stab me with that." The prisoner then turned towards his cottage, and I ran on as well as I could to the bridge, where I saw two men who assisted me to the toll-house. I was then taken to the King's Arms, where Mr. Bellis, the surgeon, shortly afterwards arrived. Daniel Sexton, constable of Maidenhead, who produced the clothes worn by the last witness at the time he was at tacked, and which were completely saturated .with blood, was then sworn. He said, I apprehended the prisoner about twelve o'clock on the Monday night. He was in bed when I went to his house. I called his name in front of his house several times. At last he came to his bedroom window, and asked me what I wanted with him? I told him he was charged with stabbing a young man at Mr. Ward's. He replied, " Pooh, pooh, nonsense he is not stabbed, and if he is, I didn't do it." Ile then came down stairs, and gave himself into my custody. When about a hundred and fifty yards from his house, on our road to Maidenhead, he pointed out a spot in the road and said, "That's the place where the struggle was." He then said "As to striking him, I did not strike him at all; and if he is injured as you say, it mast have been done by falling on the stones, for I had - no weapon at a ll w i t h m e." The next morning his wife came to see him while in my , custody. She said to him in my presence, "It is a pity you had the knife." " Yes," he replied, " I had the knife in my hand, certainly, for I had just been cutting the honeysuckle. I should not have pursued them had they not used very bad language towards, and otherwise insulted me." His wife remarked he had brought the knife in in his hand, and laid it down on the table. He replied, "Yes, I know I did." On the same day witness called upon the prisoner's wife, who gave him the knife (produced) as the weapon used by the prisoner. After the examination of a man named Williams, who as sisted Mr. Plumb to the toll-house at Maidenhead Lodge, Mr. Benjamin Bellis, surgeon, who attended Mr. Plumb, was sworn. He stated that the wound was inflicted on the left side of the back, four inches below the inferior angle of the scapula, and three inches and a half from the spine. It was five-eighths of an inch long, extending obliquely from above downwards, and penetrating under the inte gument to the extent of nearly two inches. He could not say positively that he was free from danger at the pre sent time. This being the whole of the evidence, Mr. Bozon said, if the magistrates had made up their minds to commit the prisoner, he should advise him to reserve his defence until the period of his trial. The magistrates said, that from the clear nature of the evidence which had been brought before them, they had come to the conclusion to commit the prisoner to the county gaol to take his trial at the next assizes for Bucks, for stab bing the prosecutor, Henry Plumb, No ith intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The prisoner was then given into the custody of Mr. Lar kin, the superintendent constable, to be conveyed to Ayles bury Gaol, and the witnesses bound over to attend and give evidence on the trial. The proceedings, which excited considerable interest, lasted several hours. BRUTAL MURDER IN HULL. (From the Hull Advertiser.) INQUEST ON THE BODY, AND COMMITTAL OF THE MURDERER. NEW GEOLOGICAL THEORY RE- - SPECTING BASALTIC COLUMNS. Within the last two years, Captain Morton has written and published, in the Jamaica Times, several essays, with the view of proving that in the magnifi cent columns of the Giant's Causeway, and those of Staffa, we behold the splendid relics of the stupendous bamboos of a far distant age ! ! In support of this novel hypothesis, he alludes to the fact of the sepa rate joints, both in bamboos and basaltic columns, being articulated with semispherical tenons, and cor responding sockets or mortises ; the tenon or the mortise being, in both productions, sometimes in the upper and sometimes in the lower end of the joint : as particularly remarkable in the columns of the Giant's Causeway. In reference to the established theory of basaltic columns being crystalised from tor rents of molten lava, he shows that it is opposed to the general laws of crystalisation ; and remarks upon the utter impossibility of the separate joints, blocks, or crys tals, of which the columns are composed, selecting (if thus formed) their fellow-joints of similar diameter, with corresponding sockets or mortises, and arranging themselves so closely and exactly one above another, till stupendous columns were raised . many hundred feet in height, the length of the joints, and diameter of contigu ous columns, exhibiting all the relative variety of dimen sions which marks a field of sugar-canes or a forest of bamboos. Some of the basaltic columns of the Giant's Causeway consist of distinct groups bending towards one another at the tops, so as to resemble gigantic pillars and arches of Gothic architecture, which appearance,. Captain Morton observes, is one of the beautiful charac teristics of the graceful bamboo. He also shows that bamboos, even in the present day, secrete silex or flint, the chief component part of Basaltic Columns; and that the well-known material called vege table ivory, now substituted for animal ivory in many articles of ordinary use, is the production of an existing order of palm trees. Instead of admitting that volcanoes are the generators of Basaltic Columns, he regards them as the destroyers of these vegetable productions of a far anterior period and thus accounts for the fact of volcanoes being some times found in the neighbourhood of Basaltic Columns, and the similarity in chemical composition between lava and basalt. To show that there is nothing more preposte rous in the supposition that trees should have been con verted into stone columns, than that these columns should have beenvomited forth by volcanoes, he alludes to the fact of there being now in the Texas a forest of stony trees ; and to the hard and ponderous nature of many of the massive timbers of the day (containing earths and metals), as also to the fact of their having, like the flinty shell of the cocoa nut, and the stones of our fruit, been secreted from a fluid sap, while the bones of the most gigantic animals, and the ivory tusks of the ele phant, &c., were once equally fluid, being, in like man ner, eliminated from the blood derived from vegetable food ! There is not, says Captain Morton, such disparity in size between the most colossal of the columns of the Giant's Causeway, and the bamboos of the present day, as between the monstrous antedeluvian lizard, the igua nodon, and our diminutive reptiles of similar tribes. The iguanodon was many thousand times a$ big as our lizards ; but bamboos merely five or six times as lofty as some of the present day, would suffice to give us a mountain range equal in height to the most lofty and precipitous basaltic mountain in Scotland. Where the lowest coal bed is now found, there, the above-mentioned writer remarks, the surface of the earth most assuredly once was; that however deep, in what ever stratum, the remains of antediluvian animals are embedded, there too, though no longer evincing a vege table structure, must be the remains of the luxuriant reeds, ferns, and grasses on which they fed, of the mon strous trees forming the primitive forests they inhabited. In the Isle of Arran we find coal overlying Basalt, in one place, and Basalt reposing upon coal in another. In Mount Meissner, in Hess, Basalt is found based upon a substratum of fosssil wood, one hundred feet deep! and this mountain towers over an area of forty miles of surrounding country; the inference is obvious. It is universally admitted that coal and wood were once vegetable productions growing upon the surface of the earth ; consequently the superior strata must, generally speaking, consist of the debris of subsequent animal and vegetable kingdoms, the chemical laboratories employed by the Almighty Architect of the Universe in fixing the vapour of the atmoshere of the ocean, and adding them in solid strata to our expanding globe. Hence, the ex cess of the equatorial over the polar diameter, from the great luxuriance of the animal and vegetable kingdoms within the tropics, and consequent accumulations of matter around the equatorial regions.: while the remains of the elephant and the nalm tree, the crocodile and the bamboo, are still found at the polar surface, where, count less ages past, they perished, the diminished temperature permitting no subsequent vegetation of sufficient luxuri ance to cover their remains with succeeding strata. The Isle of Staffa stands forward as an instructive monument of the prominent part the vegetable kingdom has performed in the structure of our globe, in those re mote ages when Scotia, through the greater obliquity of the ecliptic, glowed beneath the verdure of a tropical sun ! The striking characteristics of the bamboo are too strongly manifested in its numerous small pillars, " bending and diverging in all directions," to admit of further mistake. The mystery which has so long hung over these, and the magnificent columns of the Giant's Causeway must, according to Captain Morton, be thus for ever dispelled. The volcanic theory of their origin, though supported "by all living geologists," must yield to the simple principles of nature, which not only ren ders basaltic columns, but many other apparently mys terious phenorrena, susceptible of easy solution. Those persons may possibly be thunderstruck at the announce ment, that trees have been converted into stone columns, who, in accordance with high authorities, have been ac customed to believe them to have been vomited forth by volcanoes ; but the fact, that the hardest and most brilliant of the mineral productions of the earth, the diamond, consists of carbon, the chief component part of the vegetable kingdom, of wood, coal, and charcoal, is certainly no less extraordinary. Considerable consternation prevailed in the neighbour hood of Blanket-row at an early hour on Wednesday morn ing, in consequence of a rumour that Thomas Green, a mariner, had murdered his wife. Policeman Gordon entered Green's apartment, which is on the second floor of a house in Hatter's-square, Martin's-alley, where be found Green seated in a chair, with a handkerchief before his face, and apparently very melancholy. A short distance from him his wife was laid a corpse on the floor, beingcoveredwith a blanket. Gor don immediately sent for Inspector Dorsey, who was on duty at the Blanket-row station, and, on Green being asked if his wife was dead, he answered in the affirmative, and, without any further interrogatories being put, entered into a statement of the circumstances connected with the dreadful tragedy. It seems that his wife was an habitual drunkard, and on that account they frequently quarrelled. On Tuesday evening his brother called at his house, and invited him to accompany him to Drypool feast, to which he consented, but, previous to leaving home, he placed in the hands of his wife about 50s. He returned home about two o'clock next morning, and, in ascending the staircase, he stumbled over his wife, who was laid drunk, and unable to proceed any further. Perceiving the state she was in he took the door-key from her pocket, and, having obtained admission to the room, he returned to the unfortunate woman, and then commenced a succession of acts of violence which produced death. The first inquiry of the husband was with respect to the money, but his wife was unable to answer him, from the combined effects of the drink she had partaken of, and the injury she had sustained, about two hours before the arrival of Green; by falling heavily down stairs. Her husband became enraged ; he dashed her head several times against the stairs, and then, seizing her by the hair of the head, dragged her into the room, where he searched for his money, but did not succeed in finding it. He then left hold of her, and she fell on the floor. Whilst in that position the husband got into bed alongside his two sons, the eldest of whom is not more than 12 years of age ; but after being there about half an hour, he darted out of bed, and again attacked his unfortunate victim, by jumping upon her body. He likewise struck and kicked her, and eventually knocked her head-foremost down stairs, where she lay moaning for a length of time, when the husband carried her up stairs, laid her on the floor, and then retired to rest. On rising shortly before six o'clock he was horror-struck on finding that his brutality had ended in the death of his wife, and his eldest boy called in a neighbour. He was soon after wards taken into custody. 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About two years ago a rollicking fellow, named Charles Wilkins, came to the town, where for some time he was employed in an ironfoundry. This, however ; was too hard work for him, and he betook himself to that of a " navigator." His gallantry and devotion to the sex was always very conspicuous, and a romp with the servant girls one of his favourite amuse ments. Shortly after he took up his residence in the town, he became acquainted with an illustrious female, named Sarah Deakin, to whom he paid the most assi duous attention. After some time passed in agree able courtship, fortune smiled ou his suit, every prepa ration was made for the happy day, and the ceremony was performed amidst all the usual joyous demonstra, tions. The happy couple took up their residence in the house of Mr. John Badger, near the Swan Inn, and for a year lived in the apparent enjoyment of every felicity. Wilkins got a situation in the packing room of W. Chance, Esq., at the Plate Glass Works, and was with his wife installed as one of the lodge keepers at Spon-lane. Months passed. Rumour, with her hundred tongues, was busy ; even his wife partook of the general suspicion that her husband was not what he ought to be, and poor Wilkins became a marked man. Since his marriage he had become a most exemplary husband, he had ceased to crack his jokes with the girls as they passed, and had even forsaken his accustomed pipe and cup at the Swan of an evening ; but notwith standing all this, he was looked upon with suspicion. Even the hearty good-natured equanimity of Wilkins was not proof against such conduct; his house had become uncomfortable ; no young " olive plants" sur rounded his hearthstone, and his " better-half" be came, from one of the most amiable creatures in the world, one of the greatest shrews. Life was becoming unbearable; so, determined no longer. _ . "In the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune," but to take " arms against a sea of trouble," he became a woman! Charles Wilkins doffed the male attire he had worn for ten long years, and undergoing a meta morphosis not much less extraordinary than that of a caterpillar, became humble, pale-faced Mary Curzon ! The astonishment of the wife may be conceived ; tem pered with regret, because Wilkins had always been a kind, though most eccentric husband. She is by no means unprepossessing in person, although from her short-cut hair and semi-male attire, she presents a rather singular appearance. She is scarcely thirty years of age, about the average height of females, with regular though not very feminine features. In short, she was rather a stout, good-looking fellow ; and, although her voice was shrill for a man, yet her sex was never sus pected. It appears that she had been married about ten years ago to a man in another part of the cDuntry, but he behaved to her in such an improper manner that she was compelled to leave him. It was then she adopted male attire, in which she could travel without exciting attention; and, having once become accustomed to its use. she adopted it altogether. Before coming to Smethwick she had been employed in breaking stones on the road side, and other out-door labour. From her feminine voice, the workmen used to call her "Suke." On a re cent occasion, when seized with illness, for which she was bled" by Mr. Davis, surgeon, who remarked on the sin gular smallness of her arm, not the slightest suspicion of her sex was entertained. In addition to her marriage, her conduct generally favoured the deception, for she could smoke, drink, tell her story, and sing her song with any of the workmen, who looked upon her as a capital boon companion, but regarded with a degree of jealousy her conquests among the " fair sex." The wife appears to feel somewhat ashamed of the whole affair, and Cur zon is not by any means communicative on the subject. H Her motives in the deception are not very clear , and it does not appear that she can give any very satisfactory account of them herself.— Wolverhampton Chron i cle. WATER-WORKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. . per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. ' - - .£ s. d. East London-- • EL 100 0 0 - 204 Grand Junction ••• • • • 3/. 10s. 41 13 4 - 90 Kent ••.••••• • • • • • • • • 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 - 70 Vauxhall - .... ••• . • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 - 57 West Middlesex ••.. . • 51. ss. pr cut. 63 12 9 - 130 LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES'PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. 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The fogs which enveloped and shut out the distant landscapes have been dispelled by the thunder of Saturday, and now the bracing atmosphere invites the young sportsman, inclined for an early shot, to roll himself in his plaid and listen for the first crow of the old cocks, as, on fluttering wings, they rouse the young broods—many of them destined, ere evening, to fall, at the sound of the gun, on their native heather. We have often wondered, on looking at maps which give the lines of railways, that no enterprising publisher ever thought of a sporting map, where, in a similar way, shootings might be outlined and described—noting down deer corries—the bold peaks where ptarmigan are found—the heath -covered up lands, where dwell innumerable broods of grouse—and the fantastic old birch clumps, sloping to mountain streamlets, which are the choice habitations of black game. Our paper goes to press on the eve of the eventful 12th of August, which prevents our giving this week any accounts of the well-filled panniers which, we hope, sportsmen will bring from the hills.—lnverness Courier. THE HArtvEsT.—Reaping has commenced pretty generally in the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland. The quality of the corn is good, and the quantity above an average. Sheavers' wages are unusually hig h, the men re ceiving twenty s hilli ngs a week, with victuals and lodging, and the reapers by the day are getting 4s. ed., without victuals. On Tuesday and Wednesday last great numbers of " navies," especially the Irish, employed on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, left the line and hired to go to the harvest, and on some parts of the line very few men are left. The accounts from the wine countries are Very fa vourable. It is stated that the grapes are.in the finest con dition, and that in quantity as well as quality the harvest will be good. The celebrated Danish painter, Holm, died suddenly at Rome at the commencement of the month. He resided in the Holy City during the last two years. THE INSURRECTION at COLOGNE. ' is but one opinion on the subject in all parts of the The following extract from a private letter, which has country, viz., that the conduct of the military was been kindly handed to us for publication, gives a vivid shameful in the extreme, and that the citizens of Co account of a very serious outbreak at Cologne : logne have behaved most nobly in doing their best to COLOGNE, AUG. 16. preserve the peace of the city, and in having left the My dear —, I received your kind letter on Tuesday laws of the land to punish the offenders. Two or three last, for which many thanks, and reply to it in haste, travelling Englishmen got beaten by the military, being sooner than I intended, fearing you might all be alarmed accidentally in the crowd. I forgot to say there were and anxious by the newspaper reports of the dis- also some disturbances on Thursday, the 3d, which gave turbances in Cologne. We have indeed very narrowly rise to the scenes of Tuesday. We have also had a escaped a serious revolution, and although very great shock of an earthquake here, but very slight. We excitement still exists, still I trust, by the Government did not know it. It seems that this year is to be an not having recourse to violent measures, that all will eventful one. Business is still very bad, and no wonder, end well. I must now give you some account of the af- with the hot weather and this state of confusion. Adieu. fair. It all arose from one of the kirmess's, or Saint's day-feasts, and had no pofitical grounds whatever. Last Sunday was St. Martin's kirmess, which is held in that part of the town, near the Rhine, and where the market place is. On the 3d day of the kirmess (Tuesday), some boys wanted to let off some fireworks, which is not al lowed here. The police interfered, and the people, who were already much displeased by finding that pi quets of soldiers had been placed about the market, began to murmur. The soldiers were ordered to clear the market-place. This was, of course, re sisted, as no cause had been given for such a pro ceeding, and in the fray a gendarme cut down and killed a man, literally hacking him to death. This was the signal for battle. I have heard from an eyewitness that it was something quite awful to witness the dead still ness that prevailed, while the priest administered the last sacrament to the poor dying creature. Hundreds stood silent there, with faces white with passion and clenched fists. The battle then began between the soldiery and the people. The former behaved most shamefully, using their bayonets and swords upon every one they could reach. At last the people began to throw down stones from the tops of the houses. At eleven o'clock the Dragoons came over from Deutz, dashing in amongst the people, and cutting them down without discrimination, shouting out, " Cut the Cologne canaille down," "Down with the dogs," &c. Tbis shameful con duct enraged the townspeople still more, but the military being too strong for them, they dispersed, and the streets were quiet by two in the morning, but not, I am sorry to say, without bloodshed. Six were mortally wounded (four are since dead) and a very great number wounded more or less. Amongst the latter were seve ral of the principal townspeople, who were returning home quietly from the Casino, &c., and knew nothing of the riot until they were attacked and cut down by par ties of soldiery, who came dashing up the streets as if they were mad. Clergymen, bankers, merchants, all shared the same fate. They made 22 prisoners, mostly people who had nothing to do with the affair. You may imagine the excitement that prevailed the next day. The heads of the town called on the Burgomaster to call a meeting. This he did, at which all the first citi zens were present, thus making it no longer an affair of the rabble, to assert their rights as citizens of Cologne. The presence of the commanding general, Von de Lundt, was required (I forgot to say it was by his orders that the troops fell on the people); and a severe remonstrance was made to him and the president of the town. The prisoners were required to be set at liberty, and also a promise demanded that the troops should all be consigned to their barracks, that neither the police nor the soldiery should patrol the town, and that citizens, the heads of the town, should be permitted to form a guard of themselves to patrol the streets, in which case they would ensure the peace of the town. But they told the military authorities in plain terms, that if this was refused and the military or police acted, they would not answer for the conse quences. You have seen enough of Cologne to know that the people must be in a dreadful state of excite ment to dare to ask so much. There was no use in striving with the people, so at three in the afternoon the answer was returned from Benin by telegraph that the terms were to be conceded. - Upon this 600 of the chief citizens formed themselves into companies, and the town remained quiet, although thousands assembled at the market ; yet by means of a few well•titned re marks and gentle persuasion, the peace was not again broken. It is impossible to describe the anxiety that prevailed until the favourable answer was given, and well it was for us all that the Government was wise enough to give way ; had it been otherwise, Heaven knows what might have happened. It has since been ascertained that the working classes had taken their measures secretly, to act in a most de cided manner in case the citizens were not allowed to take charge of the town. All the workmen and boat men at the Rhine had provided themselves with long knives, and intended to cut off the bridge and send it floating down the river, so as to prevent the Dragoons from coming near. The common market people had provided themselves with sithes. Other workmen, armed with their working tools, were to attack and storm the arsenals, so as to provide themselves with arms and ammunition; another party were to attack and burn the barracks, drive the military out, and take possession of the town ; in short, a most fearful revolution was planned, and would have been executed most surely, it' the Government had not given way. The citizen guard were unarmed, and yet they kept the rabble quiet by telling them they must not now commit any excesses, for the honour of the town. So much for Wednesday. On Thursday, the cooper, the man who was first killed, was buried, and the citizens determined to follow him to the grave, not so much on account of the man, as for the purpose of making a demonstration to the Government of the real feelings of the people. I never saw such a sight. Hot as it was (95 deg. in the shade, East Indian heat), everybody was in the streets. Every window on the line of road was filled with women. The procession was more than half an hour passing the house I was in. Generally, the processions here are headed by the police to clear the way, but this time there was nothing of the kind. Not a ghost of a police officer, soldier, or officer was to be seen in the town. The way was cleared by the church vergers, then fol lowed two fine bands of music (not military), then one of the singing societies, then a great number of priests, with candles, crosses, &c., then the hearse, decorated with festoons of evergreens, and wreaths of immortelles, then another cross. The hearse was immediately followed by the friends and fellow workmen. After them came the " Man ner Gesang-verein," singing as they only can sing, and they were followed by at least 5,000 citizens of Cologne, in a triple line, with uncovered heads, and in perfect silence, among whom 3,000 were of the most respectable class of the people, as no great house was unrepresented either by the principal himself or some one for him. Those who formed the citizen guard wore a white riband in the button-hole. You may judge what this guard is, when I tell you that Engel, the first merchant here, is one of them, besides bankers, &c. Not a word was spoken amongst the dense crowds of people while the funeral passed, every head was un covered, and you might have heard a pin drop. After it was over, they all returned quietly to their homes. But in the evening there had very nearly been an uproar again, through the folly of the commandant, who had ordered the guard to be doubled at the chief guard-house. The people found this out and began to assemble in great numbers, threatened-to storm it, and getting stones to gether for that purpose, but the citizen guard came and persuaded them to disperse, which they promised to do if they would let them sing one song. This they were obliged to do, so they sang a sort of revolutionary song and went off. I should tell you that the mayor and citi zens sent to the commandant, and remonstrated with him for having doubled the guard, thereby exciting the peo ple to riot. After much ado he was obliged to withdraw it, and all went off quietly. Friday night everything was quiet. ,Knots of people met here and there, but no thing further. Yesterday (Saturday), the citizens held a meeting (which by the by they had done every day), for the purpose of receiving the reports of all those who were attacked by the military. The Chief Justice, a sort of little Lord Chancellor here, is as eager as any of them in the cause, although he is a Government officer. We were all put in a fright again yesterday, in consequence of a proclamation from the Government having been sent to bo inserted in the paper for to-day, in which the guard of citizens were ordered to dissolve, and the military were to keep the streets clear. It contained also observations on the Tuesday's massacre, tending to rekindle the anger of the people. The editor of the paper laid it before the committee of the citizens, and it was immediately resolved to protest against this proclama tion. A deputation waited on the President and General Van de Lundt, and told them what they thought, advis ing the withdrawal of the obnoxious proclamation, and offering to give up their Sunday's pleasure (a great thing for a Colognois to do), provided they would give them a promise in writing that neither police or military should interfere with the people to-day (Sunday), but leave the citizen guard to keep order and quiet. If they were refused, and the military allowed to act, then they said the Government must be answerable for any excesses com [flitted by the people, as to day there is what they call an after-kirmess in the same parish. After obstinately refusing for some time, the heads of the Government at continuel ast gave t way, heir thef functions neti permission ons vw a s f o r g t r h a e nt g e u d a ,c r i d a 4ci t taen;t o o . p ali s o s n off withdrawn,ciuietiy,ths:ugi t h i s . entertain some still latt o. to-nighwill t lest the lower orders, in their cups, which they always indulge in at these kirmisses, should forget themselves. I shall not close my letter till to-morrow, in case there should be anything to communicate. Monday, August 10.—Thank God, the night has passed over quietly. The streets were of course full of people, excited enough, but more with joy at having for the second time got the mastery than anything else, and I trust now that everything will subside into its usual quiet. We are now all pondering what the King will say and do. At present he is as still as a mouse, possibly waiting till the flame has burned out. The principal citizens are drawing up a protocol which is to be pre sented to the King in person, by a deputation of the first people in the town, giving a fair state ment of the affair, and also it is said they v intend complainin g o f th e excess i ve dearness of ry thing here, beg g i ng f or a di m i nut i on of the with which Cologne is burdened, on account of its being a fortress. I hope and trust that all will end well, for though an absolute monarch, he has certainly shown himself to be a good King, and it is to be hoped that he will show his moderation now. Next Sunday is kirmess in our own parish, and I assure you we look forward to it with some anxiety, as the St. Giles of Cologne is situated in our parish, and if any disturbance was to break out, it would be no joke in such a low neighbourhood ; but there is yet a whole week to that, and in that time the excitement will doubt less have subsided. The officers are in sad disgrace. There is a talk of sending them all to Coventry, and turning them out of the Casino. When I think what might have been the consequences, if the Government had not given way, it makes one shudder. In England such a thing would cause a few broken heads, and be done with, but here every man has been a soldier, and still belong to the militia to a certain age, so that they well know how not only to defend, but to organise themselves, and these Cologne people when their blood is up are perfect furies. There RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, AUGUST 15. STOCK EICHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, &C. , 5-16 dis.—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 34 dis.—Easter n Counties, York Extension, 1 , 4 p.—East Lancashire, B>ly p.—Grea t Grimsby and Sheffield, 13l c. dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester Rail way and Canal, 1% p. —Leeds and Thirsk, 3% dis.—Leeds, Dews' bury, and Manchester, s%—Leicester and Bedford, 34 dis.—Liver pool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 34 p.—Liverpool, Preston, Man chester, and Southport, 17s. 'c. dis.—Manchester and Birming ham, Quarter Shares (B), 10% p.—Ditto, ditto (C), 9% p.—London and York, 96 dis.—Manchester and Southampton, 7-16 dis.—North East" ern, 1% dis.—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—Oldham, Birkenhead, &C.: 1 efs.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, % dis.—Sheffield an. Manchester, Quarters, No. 1, 4 p.—Shropshire Union, %dis South-Eastern and Dover, No.), p.—West Riding Union, 334 - - LEEDS, AniliTST 15. STocit. EXCHANGE.—The purchases of stock in the early part of the account, made under strong apprehensions of continued advancing prices, were very considerable, and most of that having been throes on the market for re-sale, prices receded for the account. This bag been observable in all the markets. In Leeds the settlement is pass" ing over satisfactorily, and prices are improving again with a pro' bability of steadiness, and a more healthy trade. Our London cor respondent writes, that " when the stock which has been bought on speculation has been cleared off, we may expect some further im provement ;" and the same feeling exists in Liverpool and Manches ter, though not quite so strongly in the former as in the latter place. The over-speculation having so speedily proved its own corrective , ought to prevent speculators dealing too largely, and no doubt for a time will have that effect. London and Birrninghams are recovering from the effect of their chairman's speech, and the Great Western meeting having passed off very satisfactorily, those shares have ad' vanced. Eastern Counties are steady, Lancaster and Carlisles lower, as also are Brightons, Dovers, Manchester and Leeds, and Midlands , In Midlands the fall has been excessive within the last few weeks• they having declined since the meeting, to the extent of about flfteen pounds per share ; surely they have seen their worst for the present. In local stocks, Huddersfield and Manchesters, and Dewsbury% el in most demand ; East Lancashires, and Ormskirks, are considere d safe for purchase at quotations. In foreign shares the variations are trifling, and the business passing limited in extent. It is but among a comparative small number of capitalists that other than English shares meet with much attention. The sales are—Blackburn an d Preston, 9 p.—Eastern Counties, York Extension, 395. p. —East Lan cashire, 9% p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 1 dis.—Ditto, Exten sions, 12s. Gd. dis.—Huddersfleld and Manchester, 2% p. Extensions, 10s. p.—Huddersfleld arid Sheffield, 8 p.—Leeds and Bradford, 43 c. p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 5 p.—Ditto, Extension s, Is. p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 3 dis. —Ditto, New, 3—Manchester and Leeds, Extensions, 2/. 18s. p.—North British, Carlisle Branch, 2 ,t s. p.—York and North Midland, East and Wert Riding, 12% P` Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 15s. dis.—Clitheroe Junction , 16s. dis.—Grand Union, 13s. 6d. dis.—Lancashire and North York' shire, 10s. dis.—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North-Eastern, 24 !"‘ dis.— Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 17s. dis.—Leicester and Bea' ford, 10s. dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% p.—Londo n and York, 6s. 6d. dis.—illalton and Driffield Junction, 9s. Gd. Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 21s. s. p.—North Star fordshire, 3% p.—North Western, 7s. p.—Oxford, Witney, and C11 .. .e1 . tenham, 18s. dis. —South Midland, 15s. p.—Welsh Midlands, 335. bn• dis.—West Riding Union,; Si. 2s.—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union' 1 % die. . _ SHEFFIELD, ATICIIIST 15. Sroca EXCLIANGE.—The sales are—Midland, 141—Grimsby an d Sheffield, Extension, I ls. dis.—Ditto, Quarter Shares, Bs. 6d. Ill s ; —Huddersfield and Sheffield, 8% p.—Bostorsy Newark, and Sheffiew , dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 17s. dis.—Manchester, She: field, and Midland Junction, 21.195. dis.—NorthWestern, 7s. —Shelleh' and Lincolnshire, Is. dis.—South Yorkshire Coal Railway, lls. HULL, AUGUST 15. STOCK EICIIANGE.-11C sales are—North British, 39%—D_ _U fa ' Carlisle, 4/. 3s. Gd.—Blackhurn, Darwen, and Bolton, B—East Mo . colnshire, 15s.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 23s.—Leicester and Tamworth, 345. 6d.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 235. p.—North Western,' Bs. 6d.—North Staffordshire, 3 3 4—Grand Union, 15s.—Liyerp 004 Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 p.—South Midlands, 14s. p. YORK, AUGUST 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are--Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 2—Eastern Counties, York Extension, 2%—Grand U ll . l° A (Nottingham and Lynn), .34—Ipswich and Bury 9 —London an d York, 21. 4s. 6d.—Newcastle and Darlington, New, 11% —North B tish, Carlisle Extension, 31. 19s. 6d.—North western, 11. 123....- West Riding Union, 5%. NEWCASTLE-lIPON-TYNE, AUGUST 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Great North of England, 301• Shares, 35% p.--Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction. 61. dis.—London and York, Gs. dis• —Manchester, Buxton, and ga l. lock, 20s. 9d. p.—Newcastlc and Berwick (North Shields), EDINBURGH, AUGUST 14. STocS EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 81. 17s. 6d.-Ab e Z.. deen, Banff, and Elgin, 11.-Airdrie and Bathgat e , 3/. 155.- -o ',i broath and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151. IN.-Armagh ..., 311 1 Pbfttrush, 145.-Ayr and Galloway, 11. N.-Banffshire, 165.-;11: fast and County Down, 12s. 6d.-British and Irish Union, 21 _,• 6d.-Caledonian, 161.-Ditto, New, 11. Bs.-Caledonian Extension, 1/. 13i.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 11. 25.-Caledonian and Nord; ern Direct, 2/. 25.-Clydesdale Junction, 231.- Cornwall and Pel t. Central, 1/. 11 s.-Deeside Railway, 2/. 10s.-Direct Northern , 13s. 6d.-Dublin and Enniskillen, 31. 155.-Dundee and Arbroaf; 371.-Ditto, New, 211. 55.-Dundee and Perth, 24/. 2s. 6e1.-E!',7. Indian Railway, 15s. 6d.-East of Fife, 1/. 35.-Edinburgh and Da , i li f gate, 21. 18s.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 74/. 10s.-Ditto, D Shares, 187. 21. 6d.- Ditto, Quarters, 181. 17s. 6d.- Ditto, al' lON New, 18/. 10s.-Edinburgh, Leit h, and tlra,iton, 17/. 155.- Preference, 21/. IN.-Edinburgh mil Northern, 9/. 95.-Dit to port, 155.-Edinburgh and Perth, 2/. 155.-Forth and CIPle":0. tion, 1/. 165.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 751.-Ditto, New Stook , 17s. &1.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 18/. 10s.-Glasgow and nein, Union, 2/. 75.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 11. 17s. 6cl. -G''' • °l4 gow and Dundee Junction, 1/. 125.-Glasgow and Garnkirk 40/• loh -Glasgow General Terminus, 8/. 10s-Glasgow and Greenock, ,10. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 8/. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 11. 159. -431 , 0 , gow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, I/. 14s.- Glasgow, StrathaV.,_ and Lesmahagow, 2/. 195.-Granton Junction, lOs -Great Counud Down, 1/. 155.-Great North of Scotland, IN ' . 6d.- • Inve, r L ie r and Elgin, 1/. 25.-Lanark and Lothians, 21. 55.-Larne, Ballymena, 95.-London, Bristol, and South Wales, I! - 31idland London and York, 2/. N.-Ditto, Half Shares, 1/. 10 '„cy . -4siortit and Eastern Counties, 155.-Newcastle and Berwick, te , Car- British, 381.-Ditto, Halves, 13/. 17s. Gd. -Ditto, Extrn s l i gs 6d. lisle, 3/. 165.-Ditto, Fifths, 71. 10s.- North Staffordshire' rth d 111" -North Wales Mineral, 161. 155.-Ditto, New, 10 68."' verness, 1/. its. 6d.-Scottish Central, 19/.-Ditto, - 046 ‘" G r and Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 1/. 10x.-Scot tish Junction, 12s.- Scottish Midland, 71.-Scottish •sonthern, U. Shrewsbury and Hereford, 95.-Shrewsbury, OsivestrY. and Ch este 11. 5/. 55.-South Midland, 2/. 15s. 6d.-Stlrling an d Dunfermline Bs. 3d.-Stirling and Midland, 2/. 165.-Strathern Junction* 21. E Wishaw and Coltness, 471. 10s. GLASGOW, AUGUST 15. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Caledonian Extension, 33 4 ' Ga.—Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Extension, 22 5 . 6d.—E as t co• , Fife, 21s. —East Indian Railway, 14s.—Edinburgh and Glasgovg• 181.—Glasgow General Terminus, —Glasgow and Belfast Union, 475. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 751.—Glasgow, Kilmarnocto and Ardrossan, 31s. 6d.—Great North of India, ss. 9d.—lnverne o and Elgin, 22s.—Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, 10s.—ManchesL er and Southampton, 31 s. 6d.—North British, Extension to Carlisle, 71 "" —Scottish Central, —South Midland, 565. INTREPID CONDUCT.—On Thursday evening about half-past seven, as a Mr. Mitchell, a gentleman ln t o committee clerks' office of the House of Commons,yi rowing up to Putney, he saw a boy about eight or Dears of age fall from the towing path in front of.r • ; uke's Head public-house, Putney, into the river, _,,, 1 a s h t; depth of at least 12 feet water. Although the tide nu", running very strong at the time, M r . Mit c hell, without, n ia dressing himself, instantly pl unge d i n an d succeeded e bringing the bey, who sunk the second time, above, water. When they came u p, th e b oy ' s arms were rig n• , clasped round Mr. Mitch e ll's nec k, an d it r equired e n j oi siderable exertion before he could disengage himself' w o relieving himself from the boy's grasp, M r . Mitchell, in is an expert swimmer, succeeded with great difflealtioe bringing the boy to the towing path, whi c h was, i ll ben quence of the high tide, three or four feet under water, bled, he was pulled out by a numbe r o f p ersons w h o h a d aseel l bis at the spot. Mr. Mitchell was all but exhausted frel h 50 0 i exertions, and his watch very much injured. Mr. Wrig7 eU the landlord of the Duke's Head, accomm o d a t e d Mr. lui. e ra with a change of clothes, but he suffered considerab l i t o the effects of his gallant and successful exertions to ea V p e er at life of a fellow creature. The boy's father, a greengr, e L e at- Putney, of the name of Nicholls, on hearing of the "Lire/ stance, waited on the preserver of his son's life, and tlwgr. him for his invaluable services. Thi s i s th e second ti,n,3:oor, Mitchell has risked his own life to save th a t of tber having, about seven months ba c k, s ave d th e lif e of 9 " ° ,ller , a boy under somewhat similar circumstances, off CIO' Pier, Millbank. FATAL ACCIDENT ON CITIZEN " A" STEA: 3I ' /3°, 10e 14 On Saturday morning between seven and eight John Davis, mate on board the Citizen "A," met 'Ni t ' IV death under singular and melancholy circumstances',, in anY boat was lying with others belonging to the same e ° "l. 'Bat" at their moorings off Tarver's (the ship-breaker), , I . l ' d e er, tersea. Deceased, who was assisting in cleaning tu e le d in was rinsing a mop in the river, when it became enta li g pre' the chain which is fixed to the hull of the boat for the servation of life; and in endeavouring to disengag e s w era ceased lost his balance and fell overboard. Lines thrown out to the deceased, but none of the crew of tnis st . the other boats were courageous enough to jump in ° s iht tempt to save the deceased, who is said to have been in _Ai nearly five minutes. It was half an hour before a el le r e a boat was procured, and then all efforts to recover poSSet ir i of the body was useless. The deceased was forty-five P oi' age, and has left a wife and eight children. T. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT ON CITIZEN " D" STEAM"- e io tir, —On Saturday afternoon, between twelve and one e'e- t lta, the following dreadful accid en t , attended w i t h fatal,re"that occurred on board the Citi zen ",D" steam -b o at, wit'i b t r the vessel was holding on to the Nitie Elms Pier, weld % suited, train. Richard Lewis, the engine -driver, had, as i e t e l de d into unknown to those in command of the vessel , o ( i r g , they eari the larboard paddle-box, for the purpose L I , i n the e t ° ings of the wheel ; he had done this, anu " captain gav e the getting out of the paddle-box when the c e P otion by the order to "go on." The engines were set in in .volution, a s, - 00 stoker, and, before the wheels had completed , . 11 an obstruction to the way of the boat was felt 7: 'To board, and several asserted that they heard a shrie _ t hen dreadful fact that the e n g ineer was in the paddle-bo7._,w. flashed upon the crew, and the boat was stopped insttuf t d . Upon looking into the paddle-box a horrible sight prese u , he itself. There was no sign of the engine driver, but b: bt, " had been instantaneously killed there could not be any A all as the top and sides of the paddle-box were s pl a shed a en with his brains. His body had aft erwar d s droppe d betw e ur , the floats into the river, from whence it had not, u p to Sa t day evening, been recovered. they are bCtuhot the `re following,E have sro d N s ri DeEl N oin received e it grher Fo Ts. Assured m a ucunriico NEWSPAPER i s oi class; than batim e which we P- shou ld Like literatin • " Sr,—when I s en d you anythingdid re you to print it nearly th e same and not to do as Y" ders 39 specting the anne vers it y o f the odd fellows Such blun I not approved off."—N ott i ng h am i rt BIRTHS. g On the 9th inst., at B e ll e V ue , Urlin ford, Kilk enr* wife of the Rev. Nesbett L o d ge , of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at South-street-terrace, Rye-lane, ... P e ck. ham, the wife of Charles Rolls, Esq., of a daughter. the w ife On the 11th inst., at Prestbury, near Cheltenh am, of G. R. Stevenson, Esq., of a daughter. On the 12th inst., at Marston Rectory, the Hon. 0* Richard oyle, of a auhr. On the ß 13th inst., d g at the te Bury, Chesham, Bucking/01111- shire, the lady of W. Lowndes, Esq., of a son. k the la the 13th inst., at Cambridge -square, Ilyde-Par lady O of th A. Sal E., of a son. On e 13th o inst., mons, sq at Maize-hill, Greenwich, the lady ° f Kent, Esq., of a son. On the 14th inst., the wife of the Rev. John llorner, of daughter. MARRIED. On the 19th of May, at Hyderabad, Sinde , Cap Catherine' Cat"rine, Horwood, 14th Regiment, Bombay N. 1., to Jane eldest daughter of Captain C. T. Hall, Maida hill. DIED. of On the Ilth inst., •at Calais, Gertrude Hendrika, w ife Geoe e Mottos, aged 55. O rg n th D e 12th inst., at Ipswich, Mr. T. Shorten, a ged V. 4'o, On the 13th inst., in New Basinghall-street , George 14211- staff, Esq. art, On the 13th inst., Anne, second daught er of T. Sol Esq., of Hackney, agd 34. tit On the 14th i ns t , John Taylor, Esq., o f Stratford•gree London: Printed and Published by II.fURDO YOUNG, f --. e juet Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, Strand . in the Pfeumid of the Savoy, la the County of Bilddleoz. M i n t h e 17, 1846.