The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-07 00:00:00

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The sen tence of the Court now was, that he be transported be yond the seas for the term f ten years. 19 1 4 S trgeant. Sydney, New South Wales ; Sandwich, Mann, St. Lucia. Put back, Blundell, Dawell, Calcutta. BRISTOL, JAN. 6.—Arrived a vessel from Prince Edward's Island. Sid. Gambia, Lovell, Africa ; Congo, Parker, Africa. CAERNARVON, JAN. I.—Arrd. Hindoo, St. John's, N.B. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6.—Arrd. Litherland, Freeman, China; Fatin - a, Wilson, Calcutta; Hermes, Donough, Buenos Ayres, sld. Oct. 29 ; Rival, Burnet, Maranham ; Tay, Bonny ; Shakespeare, Rose, New Orleans; South Carolina, Owens, ditto; Amherst, Robinson, Pugwash ; Andromeda, Rio de la Bache. Ski. 6, Tam O'Shanter, Marienburg, Singapore; Fanny, Wheeler, Cape of Good Hope; Isabel, Atkinson, Arica; Theresa Jane, Disney, Maranham ; Warree, Cure ming,Africa ; United Kingdom, Foster, Demerara; Isabella, Rabbs, Trinidad; Coronet, Bute, Mobile; Abigail, Daly! Charleston; British King, Houghton, ditto. Off port / Fatima, Calcutta; Hermes, Buenos Ayres. A head-board. marked "Caroline le Sure," and some pieces of wreck, with particles of cotton sticking to them, have been washed on shore at Southport. CLYDE, JAN:4.—Arrd. Yeoman, King, St. John's, New Brunswick. Jan. 5. Five Sisters, Ritchie, Demerara. Sid. Argaum, Tait, Calcutta; Lady of the Lake, Savannah. CORK.—Arrd. John Hullett, Christopher, Mauritius. STRANItAER, JAN. 6.—The bark Norman and the schooner Severn, both of Belfast, have put into Dromore (the former in a sinking state, and both with much damage), having been in contact. A schooner, name unknown, from Ireland to Islay, is on shore in the Bay of Luce. SHEERNESS, JAN. 6.—The Clarendon, Tyall, for London to Bombay, was towed into the harbour yesterday, to repair damage, having been in contact with the Kelso, in the Downs. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 6 —The Black Nymph, Rogers, fron London to Constantinople, has come into harbour to lighten makes water above water line. FALMOUTH, JAN. 6.—The Calypso has been surveyed, and is discharging. SCILLY, JAN. s.—The Le on i e , D amo i ng, f rom Ch arente to Liverpool, missed stays in St. Mary's Sound yesterday, and went on the rocks; assisted off on the flood, after cutting away her masts, leaky. MILFORD, JAN. 3.—A piece of Baltic oak, of about 30 feet in length, was picked un on Newgate Beach, in St. Bride's Bay, on the Ist inst. Two pieces of bulwark, about 3 feet long and 1 inch thick, with a union-jack, an ensign, a blue peter, and a burgee, with the No. 399 in the latter painted on it, and some short pieces of deck plank, were picked up under St. Anne's Light yesterday. A boat, about 26 feet long, clinch built, fitted for two masts and mizen, with a large travella aft, and seven thwart , was picked up at New ton Weir on the 21st ult. ; the word " Milford," nearly obli terated, painted on the stern. CARRICKFERGUS, JAN. 4.—The Elizabeth, from White haven to Londonderry, was on shore at Knee Island, near Lame, 2d inst., but expected off next tide. BAY OF LUCE, JAN. 4.—The Stewarts, Stewart, from Drogheda to Islay, was driven on shore in the Bay yesterday. STRANGFORD, JAN. 3.—The Jane Gunning went on shore during a heavy gale at Portaferry, 30th ult., but got off the following day, after partly discharging, without damage. SHIELDS, JAN. 6.—The Velocity steamer, hence to Aber deer, grounded on the Scaf, 3d inst., got off this morning ap parently without damage. COWES, JAN. s.—Sld. Caledonia, Batavia. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 6.—Arrd. Tweed steamer, West Indies. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Departuresfrom Sydney—Bussorah Merchant, Beale, Aug. 17, to Calcutta ; Castlereagh, Clarke, to Nelson ; Heroine, M'Kenzie, to Port Essington and Singapore ; John and Charlotte, Paterson, to Port Albert; Comet, Cork, 18th, to Twofold Bay and Nelson; William, Thom, 20th, to Laun ceston ; Jane, Steele, to Moreton Bay ; Frolic, Pitford, to Sin gapore ; 1-don't-know, Thompson, 25th, to Fejees ; Ed ward, .Jarnesun, to whaling ; Marian, Watson, 27th, to Port Philip ; Guide, Adams, to Auckland ; Victor, Morgan, 30th, to Bonarista. The Royal Tar to sail Sept. 7 for London. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHAN GE-WEDNESDAY. Since Monday the arrivals of English Wheat, coastwise as well as by land carriage and sample, have been again limited, and of very middling quality; yet the demand for that article to-day was by no means active, at about previous quotations. There was rather more inquiry for the finest qualities of free Foreign Wheat, but at no more money. In Corn under lock, scarcely a speculative sale took place. The best Malting Barley was again scarce, and quite as dear. Grinding and distilling sorts, which formed the bulk of the receipts, hung heavily on hand. The Malt trade rated tolerably steady, and prices were well supported. In Oats a full average business was doing, at late rates. Beans, Peas, and Flour commanded very little attention. WECITECHAPEX. For each kind of prime meat we had a very steady demand, at full rates of currency. In other qualities, comparatively little was doing. Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; and Pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per Sibs. by the carcase. SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) There were only three causes set down for trial, one of which was Richards v. Hargraves. A new jury was sworn for the ensuing six weeks, and several excuses were made of temporary and occasional illness. The SECONDARY said that he did not consider such excuses sufficient, and the parties would be called on to attend at the Criminal Court, and make their excuses there. WILLIAMS V. SYS.E. The plaintiff in this action is a wine-merchant at Edmonton. The defendant is a carman at Whitechapel. The action was on a bill of exchange for 15L 10s., and interest 21. 10s., the bill having been drawn so long ago as November, 1842. The defendant pleaded that he did not accept the bill. A witness was ealled, who deposed to the defendant's h and-writing. He was cross-examined, and said that he had known the defendant since May, 1842. The last time he saw defendant write was in August of that year, when he accepted a bill for witness, which he produced. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. Before Mr. Justice POLLOCK, and Mr. Justice EARLE THE ALLEGED MURDERS ON BOARD THE TORY. As soon as the Learned Judges took their seats this morning on the bench, Mr. BODKIN said, that a person of the name of John stone, who was charged with a series of murders on the high seas, was in the calendar to be tried the present sessions. His Learned Friend, Mr. Jervis, had been re tained on behalf of tho prisoner; but he (Mr. Bodkin) had been informed by that Learned Gentleman, that the case for the defence had not yet been fully prepared, and, considering the serious and important nature of the charges preferred—some of them of a very complicated nature—it was the desire of the prisoner that the trial should be postponed until the next session. To this arrangement, the Attorney-General whom he (Mr. Bod kin) had consulted had no objection. 'The LORD CHIEF BARON—Does any one appear for the prisoner? Mr. BODKIN replied, that Mr. Jervis was retained for the prisoner, but he (Mr. Bodkin) had received a letter from the Learned Gentleman, saying that he could not be present to-day. The LORD CHIEF BARON said that he understood Mr. Jervis's absence was only confined to that day, and that the application for a postponement of the trial had nothing whatever to do with it. _ Mr. BODKIN observed that such was the fact. The LORD CHIEF BARON said that that should clearly appear, as it was important. Mr. Jervis, but for his absence, would have made the application himself. Mr. BoDias remarked that he would have done so. The application bad been sanctioned by the Attorney- RD Cams. Eisnox—Theapplication is made Attorney- General. t o on the ground that the prisoner is not ready with his defence. Mr. BODKIN—That is the only ground. The LORD CHIEF BARON—AS the Attorney-General has considered fit to sanction this application, I will, therefore, remand the prisoner until the next sessions, to be kept in custody until then. The recognizances of the witnesses to be also respited till that time. THREATENING LETTERS.--Henry Joseph Kitterley, a youth, aged 15, was placed at the bar on various indict ments, charged with sending threatening letters to several persons in Southwark, threatening to murder them and set fire to their houses. The letters in ques tion created great alarm at the time, the particulars of which appeared in the daily papers. Great exertions were made by the parish authorities to discover the offender, and they succeeded in tracing the prisoner to be the party. Mr. Bodkin with Mr. Clarke appeared for the prosecu tion. The first case taken was that indicting the prisoner for sending a threatening letter to Mr. Humble, hop factor, 82, High-street, Borough, threatening him, that unless he (the prosecutor) took back into his service John Kitterley, a brother of the prisoner, he should be murdered, and have his premises burned. Mr. Humble was examined, and deposed as to receiv ing the letter in question, which at the time he received it, he put into the letter-box for preservation. Witness had a person in his employment in May last, named John Kitterley, whom he discharged. Edward John Tyler, printer; Finch-lane, deposed that the prisoner was an apprentice with himself and sons. He knew the hand-writing of the prisoner. The letter produced, he had no doubt, was written by the prisoner. This was all the evidence offered in support of this case, on which the Lord Chief Baron remarked, that a charge so important ought not to be disposed of on such slender evidence. More might have been expected, or certainly he should require more to satisfy his mind. His Lordship then addressed the jury to the effect, that such a grave offence, proceeding either from a de sire to extort certain conditions from the prosecutor, or from a wanton wickedness, ought to have been better supported; such a charge, involving such consequences, ought to have been proved in a satisfactory manlier. The jury immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner was then remanded until next sessions on the other charges. NEW COURT. 'Before the RECORDER.) Philip Wetzner, a German, aged 33, was indicted for stealing an oil painting and frame, value 31., the pro perty of J. Annis, a pawnbroker residing in the City. An interpreter was employed to explain the evidence to the prisoner. The shopman of the prosecutor stated that in the early part of November last, the prisoner came into his mas ter's shop to pledge something. The picture was quite safe before he entered, but after he had left a short time it was missed. A pawnbroker, residing at No. 105, High-street, Whitechapel, proved that the prisoner had pledged the picture for 10s. He afterwards came and offered to sell the ticket, but in consequence of some information that had been received he was given into custody. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. It was then proved that on the Sth of April 1844, the prisoner had been tried and convicted for a burglary, BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.) Two boys of 15 to 16 years of age, named O'Leary and Donovan, were charged with stealing a " sleeved waistcoat," the proFerty of Charles Sairen, a navigator, employed upon the sewerage repairs now going on in Charlotte-street, Bedford-square. It appeared that the prisoners were observed dodging about by one of the navigators who was at work at the sewers, and that, having suspicions of their object, he watched them, and saw O'Leary take up the waistcoat (which had been left with some other waistcoats, coats, &c., belonging to the workmen), and run away with it. He ran after him, and saw him pass it to Donovan. He caught them both, and gave them into custody. • Charles Sairen, the owner of the waistcoat, identified it as his property. The prisoners being asked if they bad anything to sa, iswered sullenly that they had m•t. They were committed for trial. MA RLBRO'-STREET.-(THIS DA V.) Edward James Dell, a young man of shabby genteel appearance, who was described on the police charge sheet as having "as place of abode," was charged with stealing two shawls from the shop of Mr. William Stunt, of No. 261, Oxford-street, hosier, under the following circumstances:— The prosecutor stated that between nine and ten o'clock last night the prisoner ran into his shop, and snatching up from off the c.unter the property in qut.s don, rushed into the street and ran off. He was pur sued by one of the shopmen, and on his (the prosecu tor's) going out directly afterwards he found the shawls the prisoner had taken lying on the footway pavement opposite to the next house. The prosecutor's shopman stated, that on seeing the prisoner run out of the shop with the shawls in his hand he pursued him, culling, Stop thief." He threw threw down the shawls as he run. He (witness), after following him through several streets, came up with him in Regent-street, and gave him into the custody of the police. On the way to the station-house, he said he hoped the owner of the shawls would not prosecute him. Mr. MALTBY (to the prisoner)—You have - heard the charge against you, do you wish to say anything in answer to it ? Prisoner (despondingly)—No, Sir, its all true that is said against me.—He was committed for trial. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY. DERBY.-6 to 1 agst Sting (offered)-15 to 1 agst Bro cardo, 30 to 1 agst Malcolm, 30 to 1 agst lago, 5 to 1 agst Scott's lot. CHESTER Cup.-40 to 1 agst Warrior, 40 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn. Offers to back the field agst 20. THE T N HOURS BILL. The death of Lord Wharncliffe, and the consequent elevation of the Hon. John Stuart Wortley, M.P., to the House of Peers, having created a vacancy in the repre sentation of the West Riding, the Central Short Time Committees of Yorkshire resolved that the ten hours question should be promptly brought before such candi date or candidates as. might offer themselves, and that the secretary sould solicit an interview for a deputation from each of the Short Time Committees of the manu facturing districts of Yorkshire. On Saturday, Dec. 27, the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Morpeth, having, in compliance with a numerously signed requisition of the electors, offered himself as a candidate, intimatinc , at the same time his intention of declining to visit the e several large towns, as on former occasions, the secretary of the Central Short Time Com mittee immediately proceeded to Castle Howard, whence his Lordship's address to the electors was dated the day previous, for the purpose of soliciting an interview for a deputation from all the Short Time Cemmittees of the West Riding on this important subject, He arrived at Castle Howard on Saturday evening, and was most courteously received by the Noble Lord, who, in reply to his request on behalf of the Short Time Committees, that Lord Morpeth would fix a day upon which he might be pleased to meet the deputation from those b.dies, expressed hi. readiness to meet them at York. His Lordship at the same time stated, that if the delegates thought proper to send him a written com munication, he would give it the same attention, and save the deputies and himself the trouble of a long journey. After some conversation on the factory question, in which the Noble Lord showed considerable interest for the improvement of the condition of the working classes, the secretary returned, and on Monday summoned a meeting of the delegates at the New Inn, at Bradford, for Tuesda. , the 30th ult., which was presided over by the Rev. W. - Morgan, 8.D., incumbent of Christ Church. After considerable discussion it was decided that Lord Morpeth's suggestion should be acted upon, and the following memorial was unanimously adopted, to which his Lordship's answer was received on Monday : TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD VISCOUNT 31ORPETH. " Lord,—We. the delegates of the Short Time Committees deputed from all the large manufacturing towns of the West Riding, beg leave moat respectfully to state to your Lordship that the existing Act of Parlia ment allows the working of young persons in factories for 12 hours a day on five days of the week, and nine hours on Saturdays. " That these hours of labour it factories are most op pressive, arid that the shortening thereof is absolntely essential to the well-being of the crowded population in the factory districts. " That the large proportion of females and young persons employed in factories renders it the more neces sary to lessen this unreasonable length of toil, and that the bout s of working should be from six o'clock in the morning to six o'clock in the evening, allowing proper intervals for meals. " That a majority of the House of Commons, includ ing most of the leading members of all parties, did in the session before last give their support to Lord Ashley's measure of ten hours working per day, but in consequence of the oppositiJn of the Government to this just and necessary limitation their decision was subse quently reversed. That the factory system requires this term of daily labour to be enacted for the purpose of giving to the working classes and their families the means of obtaining social comfort, with moral and reli gious improvement. Teat this great question can never be settled until the claims of justice and humanity are conceded by a legislative prohibition of the destructive toil which many hundreds of persons are now doomed to suffer in factories, inflicting upon these unoffending individuals two hours longer labour per day than is re quired from adults who perform their daily labour at other trades out of factories. " Your memorialists, therefore, most earnestly en treat your Lordship's sympathy for their oppressed con dition, and in the event of your Lordship king again called to take your seat in the House of Commons as the representative of the West Riding, that you will gratify the expectations entertained from your Lord ship's benevolent character, by giving your influence and support to the Bill which will be introduced by Lord Ashley, for the restriction of factory labour to ten hours a day for five days, and eight hours on Saturdays." LORD MORPETH'S REPLY. " Castle Howard, Jan. 3, 1846. " Gentlemen,—l have been favoured with the memo rial of the Delegates of the Short Time Committees of the West Riding of Yorkshire. " I willingly promise to them the sympathy they condition on in in life. rva l o f lf re quest with so muc h pro p r i e ty an d f or b earance o f lan guage, for th e w h o l e b o d y w hi c h t h ey represent, and for a j bse n n o ce ": from m -en it t s de erP li a b r e l r ia a m tio e n n s t : after their the lgte and without having had the many important questions connected with factory labour specially brought under my notice, I must reserve to myself entire freedom to deal with the propositions which may be submitted for adoption ; but I shall b rin g to their consid eration a keen feeling for the wants and wishes of the working-classes, and a resolute determination to do my whole duty towards them. " I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, " Your most faithful servant, " MORPETH. The Delegates of the Short Time Committees of the West Riding." MELANCHOLY CASE OF SELF DESTRUCTION.— YEoVIL, MONDAY, JAN. s.—Last night Yeovil was a scene of great excitement, in consequence of the self-destruction of a respectable female, named Hook, of Belmont-street, who destroyed herself in a well. The deceased had recently lost her husband, but had resided with a daughter, who kept a school. On Sunday night she left her bed , and shortly afterwards moaning was heard in the well. A young man, named Vagg, a neighbour, proceeded thither, and succeeded in dragging the body to within a few feet of the surface, when the rope unfortunately broke, and before another could be procured life was extinct. The deceased was very much re spected in the neighbourhood, where she had been many years a resident. SOUTH SEA HOUSE.—Yesterday a Quarterly Court of the proprietors of South Sea Stock was held at the Com pany's House, in Threadneedle-street, to consider of a divi dend. Mr. harles Franks, the sub-governor, in the chair. The minutes of the last court were read and confirmed. The Chairman acquainted the Court that the present was a general meeting, for the purpose of declaring a half-yearly dividend on the Company's stock. The accounts which had been pre pared pursuant to the Act of Parliament, would now be read. The secretary having read the accounts, the Chairman, after alluding to some of the princ;pal items, moved that a divi dend of one-and-three-quarters per cent. be declared on the Company's stock, and that the warrants be payable on -the sa.fie day as the Government annuities, viz., Thursday, the Bth instant. The motion was put and carried, and there being no other business before it, the Court adjourned. CALCRAFT THE EXECUTIONER, MOBBED.— hi e- diately after the completion of the execution of the woman, Browning, at the Old Bailey, on Monday last, a cab was ob served to draw up to a door of the prison, from which it was known the executioner, Calcraft, would quickly emerge for the purpose of going to perform a similar office at the gaol of Horsemonger-lane. when a simultaneous rush was made by the mob towards the spot, and in an instant the wheels and roof, and every part of the cab that was available, was taken possession of by the rabble, so eager were they to obtain a glance of the functionary of the law. Calcraft soon made his appearance, when the uproar of the assembled throng became deafening. A posse of the police, however, who were at hand, soon dislodged the intruders from the cab, which now quickly passed off towards its destination, followed by hundreds whose course were diricted to the same spot. . -..— PUGILISM.—In the course of the past year there were no less than 147 prize fights, the stakes varying in amount from 10/. to 2001. a side. The Duke of Buccleuch, the Lord President elect of the Council, is understood to have obtained an accession of 25,0001. per annum to his Grace's large rent-roll, by the recent demise of his uncle, Lord Montagu. THE ARMY. PROMOTION FROM TIIE RANKS AND REWARDS FOR GOOD SERVICES. A warrant was promulgated yesterday, by command of her Majesty, for the purpose of affording "a greater en couragement to the non- conmissioned officers and soldiers of the army who may have distinguished themselves, or who ma 3 have given good, faithful, and efficient service." It is dated Windsor December 19, and is comprised in forty four articles; by the first of which, " Whenever her Majesty shah sanction the grant of a cominission without purchase to a nou- commissioned-officer, selected and recommended for this distinction by the Commander-in-Chief, there shall be granted to such officer in aid of an outfit as a commissioned officer, a tom of 1501. if appointed to a cavalry regiment, and 100/.4f to an infantry regiment." 2. That a sum not exceeding 2,000/. a yeaxbe distributed for the purpose of granting annuities, as rewards for dis tinguished or meritorious service, to sergeants who are now, or may be hereafter in the service, either while serving or after discharged with or without pension, in sums not ex ceeding 201., which may be held during service and with pension. 3. Sergeants selected for this honorary distinction en titled to receive and wear a silver medal. 4. Commander-in-Chief to select individuals for this mark of approbation. 5. With the view of further rewarding meritorious sol diers when discharged, and encouraging good conduct in others, warrants of 1829 and 1833 altered, and a gratuity in addition to ordinary pensions may be granted upon discharge, to men who shall have served twenty-one years in the in fantry, or twenty -four in the cavalry. Gratuity to sergeants who shall have served ten years as such, 15/. ; corporal seven years as such, 10/. ; private, 5/. 6. Commanding officer of every regiment may annually recommend such individuals while serving as he shall consider best entitled to gratuity, provided amount recommended in any one year does not exceed 30'. for regiment of establish ment of 700 rank and file and upwards, and 20/. for regiment of lower establishment than 700 rank and file. 7. Men recommended must have completed twenty-one years actual service in infantry, and twenty-four in cavalry, and have borne irreproachable character, or, if not strictly within latter conditions, must have particularly distinguished themselves in the service. 8. Soldiers recommended to receive gratuity for good con duct shall, by approval of Commander-in-Chief, be entitled to wear silver medal. Articles 9, 10, and 11 further refer to medal gratuities, &c. 12. Directs that all corporals, trumpeters, drummers, fifers, buglers, and private soldiers, enlisted or re-enlisted after the Ist of September, 1836, shall have no claim to additional pay after any pei iod of service, but that a reward of addi tional pay for good conduct be granted under rules in articles 1g,14, 15,16, 17, and 18, by which a prog r e ss i ve in crease of ld. a day up to 6d , and certain distinguishing marks under regulations specified to soldiers who shall have completed ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, or thirty years' service. 19. Soldiers who shall have completed eighteen years' ser vice without having names entered in regimental defaulters' book for last sixteen years shall be allowed good conduct reward after twenty, twenty-five, and thirty years of actual service, two years earlier. 20. Service to entitle soldiers to rewards granted after each period of five years must be service in the ranks. 21. Soldiers who accept employments will receive good conduct pay, by special sanction only, in consideration of circumstances - mentioned in this article. Articles 22,'23, and 24. Regulations as to good-conduct pay, distinguishing marks, &c. 25. Service requisite to entitle men to distinction and re wards granted may include former service in all ranks after age of eighteen. 26. Regulations as to men discharged on reduction or for disability. 27. Forfeiture of service attaching to individuals in re spect of additional pay, in consequence of sentence of Court martial, or of conviction for desertion, will equally attach to them in respect of good pay. 28. Soldiels of good conduct, who may be permitted to purchase or obtain free discharges at their own request, shall be allowed discharges upon terms in this article specified. 29. Soldiers enlisting since March 1833, who are in enjoy ment of two or more distinguishing marks, and of good con duct pay, may obtain permanent pension as an indulgence, at rate fixed in warrant of Feb. 1833, two years earlier than men who have not earned this distinction, and receive same amount of good-conduct pay which would have been added to their ordinary pension, under rules laid down in this war rant if they had been discharged as unfit for further service or by reduction. 30. States that as it is her Majesty's pleasure that this reward shall be strictly an honourable distinction, to be con-• ferred only upon the well-conducted soldier, commanding officers of regiments are strictly enjoined to enter in defaulters' book the name of every soldier who in consequence of misconduct shall have been subjected to any punish ment beyond six da) s' drill or seven days' confinement to barracks, and the commission of every offence which shall impose upon commanding officer the necessity of recording the soldier's name in the regimental defaulters' book, shall render the man ineligible for this reward for two years from that date ' • and, if he be already in posses s i on o f t hi s distinc tion, shall deprive him of his distinguishing mark and good conduct pay for one year ; and a second recorded offence within twelve months shall render two years of uninter rupted good conduct necessary to obtain a restoration of such reward. 31. Refers to forfeiture and restoration of good conduct pay and distinguishing marks. - 32. Any soldier whO', by having been recorded in the re gimental defaulters' book, shall have been adjudged to have been guilty of an offence by which he is to forfeit the whole or a part of his reward for previous good conduct shall. if he denies the commission of such offence, have the right of appeal to emu t-martial. 33. A soldier may, for first offence of serious nature, be ad • judged, by court-martial, to forfeit all or any part of the ad vantage he had derived from previous good conduct, abso lutely, or for period not less than eighteen months. 34. The distinction and rewards for good conduct do not extend to sergeants and other non-commissioned officers above the rank of corporal, and they will not be allowed, while serving, any addition to established pay; but if per mitted to purchase, or obtain free discharges at their own request, they will be admitted to benefits of article. 28, and if discharged to pension they may for peculiarly good conduct be allowed ld., 2d., 3d., 4d., 5d., or 6d. a day to pensions, provided aggregate pension shall in no case exceed for a ser geant ls. 10d., quartermaster-sergeant 2s. ld., and sergeant major 2s. 4d. a day. _ 65. Soldiers in her Majesty's service who enlisted before September, 1836, shall hav e th e op ti on o f relinquishing addi tional pay of 2d. a day, to which they are now entitled after completion of fourteen years' infantry or seventeen cavalry service, and shall then be entitled by good conduct to advan tages of good conduct pay while serving, of pension on dis charge, and deferred pension, granted to soldiers enlisted after September, 1836. 36. Soldiers now serving who enlisted on or before the Ist of March, 1833, by relinquishing right to additional pay for length of service, be entitled to claim advantages of good conduct pay while serving, hereby granted; but as warrants which were in force at the time of their original enlistment give them a right to higher rates of pension on discharge than those to be granted to men enlisted after March, 1833, not entitled to good conduct pay added to pensions on dis charge. 37' In special cases of men enlisted on or before March, 1833, who have obtained one or more mark or marks, and who after short service may be discharged for disabilities or reduction, either without pension or with temporary, condi tional, or permanent pensions, the good conduct pay may, by consent of the Secretary at War, be added to pensions; and such men, if not placed upon permanent pensions, be re gistered at Chelsea for deferred pension. 38. Soldiers serving who enlisted on or before September, 1836, and who have completed twenty, twenty-five, or thirty years' service may, on relinguishing right to additional pay, receive 4d., 5d., or 6d. a day good conduct ' pay provided name shall not have be en en t ere d i n defaulters book im mediately preceding exchange for periods prescribed by this warrant. 39. Soldiers who have completed fifteen years' service may, on relinquishing right to additional pay, receive 3d. per diem good conduct pay, provided names shall not have been entered iu regimental defaulters' book six years preceding exchange. 40. Soldiers of less than fifteen years' service, already in receipt of additional pay at 2d. a day for length of service, may, on relinquishing right to additional pay, receive same amount as good conduct pay, provided names shall not have been entered in defaulters' book two years preceding ex change. _ _ 41:Soldiers already in receipt of additional pay of ld. a day for length of service may, on relinquishing right to ad ditional pay, continue to receive same amount as good con duct pay, provided names shall not have been entered in defaulters' book at least two years immediately preceding exchange. 42. Soldiers not yet in receipt of additional p a y f or l eng th of service may, by relinquishing right to same, receive good conduct pay on completing periods cf five, ten, fifteen, twenty, and thirty years, if names not entered in defaulters' book two, four, six, eight, ten, or twelve years immediately preceding. 43. In establishing claims to good conduct pay, soldiers who were present at the battle of Waterloo shall be allowed to reckon two years in addition to actual service, and those enlisted before December, 1829, shall be allowed to reckon three years for two of actual service after the age of eighteen in East and West Indies (in other than West India Regi ments), but in claiming discharge under 28th article actual service only shall be reckoned. 44. Soldiers enlisted before September, 1836, shall be en titled to distinguishing marks whether they accept or not the option of relinquishing additional pay for good conduct pay, and be entitled to same addition to pensions as number of distinguishing marks they may severally possess at the period of discharge as is allowed to men in the receipt of good conduct pay. By her Majesty's command, (Signed) SIDNEY HERBERT. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 6, 1846. —Her Majesty's steamer Janus, the projection of Lord Dundonald, arrived at S p i thead in the course of the night, and went in the harbour early this morning. She carried the broad pendant of Captain -Super intendent Sherriff until coming under the command of a senior officer. It appears the Janus left Chatham in the forenoon of Saturday, and by aid of steam and sails got to Margate Roads the same night, where she anchored. On Sunday morang she put to sea again, and contrived to reach Dungeness on Sunday night. During Monday she managed to work up to Spithead, and anchored during the night. At no time could more than seven knots be got out of her, anti it is therefore very evident that, although Lord Dun donald's rotatory engine may be a good one, it is not a powerful one in this vessel. The Janus is an ugly looking steamer, of about 800 tons; her head and stern are unlike others, but that may arise from the plan of her projector. She has two funnels. It is, how ever, satisfactory to know that before any further expense is to be entered into about her, a committee of scientific men are to be sent to Portsmouth to try her engines, an d ma k e a full report to the Admiralty if it is desirable to introduce them into her Majesty's navy, or let the J anus be the first and last expense. Prof e ssor A treY, and M r . Ll oy d , c hi e f engineer and inspector of machinery at Woolwich, will form two of the committee. Lord Dundonald, of course, came round in the Janus. She was made fast to a b uo y o ff the Dockyard. The people who came in her say she is a good and safe sea-boat under sail. The foregoing is an account of the Janus's trip to Portsmouth, and her appearance in the harbour. Soon after one the steam was got up, and Lord Dundonald, Capt. Sherriff, Capt. D eni son , R.E., Di r ect or o f works in the dockyard, Mr.Taplin, chief - enginee r , and some per sons connected with the metal mills, wenton board, intending to try the Janus's engines by an excursion to Spithead. The necessary preparations were made as much . as if she had be e n going over to France, the boats being hoisted up, and men with lead lines put in the chains. Captain Sherriff's broad pendant was displayed, and the pilot went on the paddle box ; the signal was given to cast off front the buoy, and after about six revolutions of her wheels the Janus stopped, and to prevent her getting foul of the dockyard wall her anchor was let go, and the steam commenced blowing off. She was then hauled back to the buoy, it being evident to the spectators that something had gone wrong. So much for the trial. The Janus's engines and boilers generate a great JANtTARY quantity of steam, for she was several times enveloped in steam, which found its way o u t o f a variety of places, and if it is always to be so, must render every person and thing in her miserably damp and uncomfortable. The people's clothes and bedding must be constantly moist: possibly it was the cause of her stopping, or it might be by accident, but the rotatory engine, while at work, resembled the noise of a person sawing stone. It is understood that Professor Airey is in the port, and the committee doubtless will assemble in a (lay or two, to inspect her and make their re port, after one or two more trials. The Admiralty have given notice to the superintendents of the different dockyards, that they have appointed a com mittee of officers to revise the rigging warrants of all her Majesty's ships ; so many alterations have been made in the masts and yards of ships, and the ships differently classed, that such a measure is absolutely requisite; with the assist ance of the masters' attendant, master riggers, and a few ex perienced masters and boatswains, the business at each dock yard will soon be concluded. The Fairy yacht has tried her new screw, and found it answer exceedingly well. The great vibration caused throughout the vessel by the former one has ceased. The Barretto, jun., transport, with convicts for Bermuda, is still detained at Spitlirad. The Carysfort, 26, is fitting alongside her hulk, and has made considerable progress in her equipment. Shipwrights are at task-work on the Wanderer and Childers brigs, and they will be ready to be moved into the basin on the Bth or 10th of February, and fit for of and men by the end of the month. On Thursday we gave a list of the ships and vessels of war paid off, commissioned, launched, and broken up during the past year; and also the number of all classes in commission at the present time. We now proceed to give an analysis of those out of commission at the several ordinaries of Ports mouth, Plymouth, Sheerness, and Chatham, and notice at the same time the number of the several classes buildiug. The number and condition of those in ordinary we find to be as follows, viz.:— Line of battle ships of from 70 to 120 guns—" advanced ships," and, therefore, in excellent condition 32 Ditto, in good condition, and fit for any service on under going a slight repair • Ditto, defective, and, perhaps, not worth repair 9 Ditto, in various stages of building Frigates of from 26 to 50 guns, in good condition, and fit for any service on undergoing a slight repair 5B Ditto defective, and scarcely worth repair Ditto in various stages of building Corvettes, brigs, and schooners, in good condition, of which number eleven are now refitting for commission at the several ports .. Ditto defective, and scarcely worth repair Ditto in various stages of building Steam frigates, steam sloops, and ordinary steamers, in good condition Ditto defective, and scarcely worth repair Ditto in various stages of building 2B Total effective, 59 line-of-battle ships, 58 frigates, 82 cor vettes, &c., and 16 steamers. Total detective, 9 line-of-battle ships, 12 frigates, 6 cor vettes, and 3 steamers. Total building, 22 line-of-battle ships, 14 frigates, 22 cor vettes, and 28 steamers. In this summary the convict ships, store ships, coal depots, &c., are excluded, the most of which being sound ships, could be available on an emergency. As a contrast to the above we may annex the number of vessels composing the United States navy, which we take from the last number of the United &nice Gazette. Line-of-battle ships, 10; frigates, 14; corvettes, brigs, and schooners, 39; steamers, 8; store ships and brigs, 4; total, 75. Of these between forty and fifty are in commission, but they are principally small vessels ; the line-of-battle ships are not all launched, and of the others several are unfit for sea. At no one period of her history, as a contemporary ob serves, " did England ever possess so many beautiful; large, and efficient men-of-war, as those now lying at the different principal ports, denominated advanced ships,' which are ready at a moment's notice for the reception of their crews." They have their lower masts and bowsprits in, and have their water .tanks, gun-carriages, anchors, cables, and someportion of their heavy stores on board, while on shore their other masts, yards, sails, gun-tackle, and all their other necessary stores are arranged in such a manner as to be instantly available. In accordance with an Admiralty order of August last, two main and fore and one mizen topmast and a jibboom were put on board each ship, but by a recent order these are now in course of being returned on shore for better preservation. The following are the advanced ships : AT PORTSMOUTH. Bombay Britannia l2O Foudroyant 7B *Neptune *Nelson Camperdown Powerful *Vengeance Bellerophon Carnatic Pembroke Hastings AT PLYMOUTH. Ganges *St. George l2O Achille. *Hoy-al William *Royal Adelaide ... 104 Russell *Nile... 92 Hercules .. Clarence Calcutta Those marked with an asterisk are new ships, and have never been at sea. 76 The following are the sloops of war refitting for immediate commission at the several ports :—At Portsmouth, Harle quin 16, Childers 16, and Wanderer 16. At Plymouth, Tweed 20, and Favourite 18. At Sheerness, Dido 20, Elec tra 18, Snake 16, and Ferret 10. At Chatham, Scout 18, and Columbine 16. SHEERNESS, JAN. s.—The Janus steam-sloop, with her constructor, the Earl of Dundonald on board, passed eut from Chatham, en route to Portsmouth, on Friday afternoon, about three o'clock. His Lordship feels most sanguine that he will yet accomplish the objects he proposed to the Admiralty to realise when he induced them to grant him permission to build the Janus. The following is the progress she made in her last trial to reach Portsmouth :—Started from Chatham at 1 P.M. of the 16th ultimo, with a fine breeze aft, her wheelsrevolving about at 13i turns per minute; arrived here at 3h. 15m. P.M., anchored off the Mouse, at 4 P.M., and at half-past eight A.M., of the 17th, proceeded for Portsmouth, in fine smooth water, and with . . light breezes aft, her wheels revolving 13 turns per minute. At 2 P.M. her speed became reduced, and kept gradually slackening in consequence of a slight swell of the sea, and at 9 P.M. she could only make nine turns per minute. On the 18th, at 3 A.M., only seven turns per minute; and in consequence of a head wind springing up, it was found that she could not make head way against it; she was therefore compelled to retraee her steps to the Downs. On the morning of the 19th, she started with a light breeze aft, engines revolving about thirteen turns per minute, but ultimately lay to for the night. On the 20th, the engines were ordered to be started, but it was found that something was broken, and on the 21st, at 10 30, A.m., she started for this port, but owing to a strong wind sire could not go ahead, and it was found necessary to come to an anchor about two miles from Margate. Early on the 22d she started again for Sheerness, and attempted to beat up, not being able to stand against the wind, but at eleven, A.m., she got aground, and after some difficulty was got off again, and anchored for the night. On the '23d, the wind blowing strongly, she remained at anchor. On the 24th, the weather being fine again, she continued her course to this port, where she arrived about two, r.m., and was then taken in tow by the Fearless steamer for Chatham. The Fury steam-frigate was undocked to-day, and con tinues in the basin completing some light jobs connected with her hammock nettings and boat devits, prior to being towed up the river to receive her engines. The Tartarus steam surveying vessel, Commander James Wolfe, was hauled into dock to-day to refit for further ser vice on the coast of Ireland. The African steamer, Second Master J. Barker, towed the ill-fated Eclair steam-sloop to Woolwich on Friday, and re turned here yesterday. The Calypso, 20, Captain Henry J. Worth, progr e s ses ra pidly with her fittings at Chatham. Lieut. C. M. Shipley is appointed to her, vice Lieut. H. B. Everest, to the Phoenix. She has a few hands on board, but seamen cc .me forward very slowly for her. _ _ The Columbine, 16, sloop, of the Surveyor's earliest con struction, is ordered to be refitted fur commission with all dis patch. . _ _ - The Eurotas, 44, has been taken into dock, and the hired workmen, recently employed on the Fortitude, are pro gressing with her conversion into a steam guard-ship. These ships (block ships) are to be fitted with the galvanised wire rigging, which is now being adopted in all our steam vessels. The Scout, 18, was undocked at Chatham on Wednesday and masted and will, with the Snake, 16, fitting here, be ready for commission in the course of a week. The Cumberland, 70, and Raleigh, 50, fitting as advanced ships at Chatham, will be completed as such in the course of a few days. HORRIBLE DESTITUTION.—A WOMAN EATEN BY RATS.—Yesterday week, Mr. Jewison, coroner, held an in quest at the Hand and Shuttle, Tong, on view of the body of Sarah Holdsworth, a woman 84 years of age, who was found dead in her house on Thursday morning. The old woman, it appeared, resided in a hovel somewhere in the neighbourhood of Dudley-hill, and though so far advanced in life, resided alone. For two days previous to her death she had been confined to bed, having no one to attend on her but a step .son, nearly as old as herself. On Wednesday night, at eight o'clock, he left her in bed, and retired for the night. Next morning he found her laid upon the floor dead, and presenting a most horrible spectacle. Her right eye was nearly eaten out ; her left eye was also eaten ; her forehead and nose, and the edges of a sore on one arm had been gnawed. It appeared from the evitlenee that the residence of the deceased was infested by rats, Wish had become so bold that they had on former occasions actually eaten th e old woman's chemise as she lay in bed, likewise her other cloth ing and the bed clothes into holes. To keep them from at tacking her person she had been accustomed, as was the case on Wednesday night, to have a stick laid on the bed. Nothing had been heard in the night in her cottage. It is believed that thevermin, more ravenous than usual, had attacked her in bed, and that, to free herself from their ferocity she had made an effort too great for her feeble state. A fit ensued in which she died, but it is supposed the rats made their horrid feast before life was extinct, The unfortunate old woman was in the receipt of 3s. a week relief from the union, and but a short time ago it was sought to take her to the workhouse, but her opposition was so great that the relieving officer was obliged to desist. She paid 6d. 7s a . week u, 1 1 ( 1 ) e r r h r e e r nt h . ov I e n l, c a o u n d n w ex h i e o n n f N o v u it n h d t h h a is d l s i a tt v l e e d h u oa li rd a simple but affecting inci dent was related. On Wednesday her step-son, who appears to have been a tender, affectionate nurse, gave her some tea without sugar or milk, and a piece of dry coarse bread. The poor old woman said she could like something nice, the ad dition of milk and sugar to hot tea, and of butter to her bread, would probably be quite a luxury ; but though so ill, not a word was said of dipping into the rent funds.—Brad ford Observer. POSTAGE ON NEWSPAPFRS TO AND FROM THE BRAZILS.—The following notice was issued yesterday at the Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, and branch offices : " General Post-office, January, 1846. Her Majesty's Govern merit having ascertained that a charge for postage has been re-imposed by the Brazilian office upon newspapers from the United Kingdom delivered by the post in Brazil, British newspapers addressed to that country will hereafter be liable to a charge of 2J. each, which must be paid in advance. Newspapers received from Brazil will be also chargeable with a rate of 2d. on their delivery in the United Kingdom. Her Majesty's brig Penguin, for the Brazil mail of the 6th inst. Letters and newspapers in time on Wednesday evening, the 7th inst." DEATHS FROM DRINKING.—On Saturday evening, the wife of a shoemaker, living in the High. street, was found in Brodie's Close, apparently in a state of intoxication. When discovered, she was able to speak, but on her removal to the police-office, Dr. Tait, the surgeon, found, on exami nation, that she was dead. Yesterday morryng a woman living at the south back of Canongate was found dead in bed. The proximate cause was suffocation arising from excessive drinking.—Caledonian Mercury. 1848. PUBLIC EXECUTIONS. (From the Adve, tiserot Tuesday.) Yesterday was a sad and sorrowful day in the me tropolis. A double tragedy of the most dreadful kind was performed early in the morning. The public mind received a terrible shock by the execution of two indi viduals—one at eight o'clock, at the Old Bailey, and the other two hours afterwards at Horsemonger-lane gaol. The first victim of our sanguinary criminal code—san guinary to far as the crime of murder is concerned— was a female. What added to the dreadful character of her death under such circumstances, was the fact of her extreme youth, being only in her twenty-second year. There was, too, something in her person and manner which gave a peculiarly touching interest to her execu tion. She was no hardened criminal—in fact, in the proper acceptation of the word, she had previously been no criminal at all. It is appalling to think of such an exit from the world in the case of any fellow-being, but to think of a young female, unacquainted with the ways of crime as re gards society, dying by the hands of the public execu tioner, is a doubly dreadful idea. Efforts were made by humane persons to obtain a commutation of the sentences of the two wretched creatures, now in another world, ..A pat t from the abstract abhorrence, which every rightly constituted mind must feel at the judicial murder—for it can be called by no other na'ne—of any fellow-creature, there were peculiar circumstances in the case of each which would not only have warranted, but which ought to have insured a departure from the extreme penalty. We need not recapitulate those mitigating circum stances, as we adverted in deta:l to some of them a few days ago. But though the Home Secretary lent a deaf ear to the reasonings and entreaties of those who sought a com mutation of the sentences passed on the unhappy beings who were 3 esterday suddenly sent by our laws into the presence of their Maker, it is some consolation to know that the public mind is not in this instance faithfully re presented at the Home office. Among the better and more intelligent classes of the community, there was, all yesterday, but one feeling of horror and regret at the tragedies performed at the Old Bailey and Horsemonger lane goal. Not one solitary approving voice was to be heard among those whose opinions or feelings are wor thy of respect. The hostility to capital punishments has increased with wonderful rapidity within the last few years. It is still extending at a corresponding rapid rate. Its progress is irresistible ; it must eventually triumph. Nor can the day of its victory be much longer deferred. Even if the convictions of the public on this subject should not be shared in Downing-street, it will be impos sible fur the functionaries in that locality to act in defi ance of public opinion. What they will not do from the sense of right and justice, they must do from considera tions of policy. In this reflection there is ground for joy. It would doubtless be more grateful and gratifying, were Ministers to sympathise with the feelings, and con cur with the views, of the better portion of the commu nity, on this question ; but since this may not be so, it is no small satisfaction to know that Ministers will eventually be forced to prevent the exaction of death punishments. We refer our readers to the reports of what took place at the execution of the two unhappy creatures who were yesterday hurried by the hangman into the pre sence of their Maker. What was seen and heard on the occasion was only what are seen and heard on all such occasions. The most revolting absence of all right feeling, was displayed by the immense concourse of persons who assembled to witness the frightful spectacles. The crowd, we are told, who were drawn together to witness the execution of the female, extended to Smith field-market. Then the number of spectators could not have been less than 20,000. We blush while we write it. Fearfully morbid must be the state of feeling which could prompt human beings to witness such a scene. • It need not, therefore, to surprise our readers to be told, that, instead of conducting themselves with solemnity and decorum, the most revolting ribaldry were ever and anon indulged in. Nor was the imps oper conduct of the spectators con fined to words. It was still more strikingly exhibited in actions. At the very moment, we are told by the reporters, when the miserable creature was in the act of being strangled, and during the violent struggles which followed the falling of the drop, " several transfers were effected of pocket handkerchiefs, purses, &c." And a correspondent, it will be seen, records some repulsive circumstances that marked the manner in which the ex- ecutioner performed his duty. And yet we are told that capital punishments and public executions are necessary as examples to deter from the commission of murder. This, indeed, is the only plea now urged in defence of our Draconian pu nishments. The answer to the plea is furnished in the fact of what occurred yesterday at the foot of the gallows, and what invariably does occur at public exe cutions. No man, we boldly affirm, ever yet learnt, or ever will learn, humanity or morality by witnessing the legal butchery of fellow beings. Such revolting spectacles, on the contrary, have a necessary tendency to debase and brutalise the mind. Thousands have dated their initiatory step in crime to their attendance at public executions. The gallows is the most effective school master which could be employed for bringing to the gallows. Many a young man who was yesterday a spectator of the horrible tragedies at the Old Bailey and Horsemonger-lane gaol, is now much more prepared for the commission of atrocious crimes than he was when he arose from his bed in the morning. Thn.e is one fact connected with the executions of yes terday, to which we ought not to omit referring. We allude to the statements of the reporters, that such was the haste of many who had witnessed the one execution, to be present at the other, that several accidents occurred in consequence. Who can read this statement without being struck with horror ? Not feeling their revolting curiosity satisft. d with one such spectacle, they must needs hurry away with breathless eagerness to gloat over another ! But comment on such a fact would only weaken its effect. The naked statement is enough. There are volumes of meaning in it. Though we were to fill every column of our paper with proofs of the hardening and brutalising effects of public executions, we could not accomplish our object half so effectually, as it is done by the simple fact we have just recorded. ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. (From the Times.) We publish to-day reports of two meetings, at each of which strongly-worded resolutions against the corn-laws were unanimously adopted ; the one held at Newcastle in a splendid building erected for the purpose, and thronged by all the wealth and intelligence of that thriving town and port, and graced by the fervent eloquence of the two best speakers the League has pro duced ; the other held by a party of half-starved agri cultural labourers on a winter's night, in the open air, at a cross-road, by the light of a clouded moon and a few fl firing candles, in a remote village of North Wilts. It is to this latter meeting that we wish to call especial atten tion. Messrs. Cobden and Bright, and the closely packed four thousand whom they addressed, are well able to plead their own cause, and to en force their own views upon a reluctant Legisla ture. They represent wealth and commercial activity, and do not fear to embark both as their stake in the adventure of free trade. But what say the labourers of Goatacre, the representatives of a class for which we are told that protection must be maintained ? Do they meet to protest against a measure which is to involve them and their masters in one common ruin—to reduce corn fields to commons, and assimilate their conditi on t o th a t o f t h e Polish serf ? No. They point to their wan figures and wretched apparel ; they recount their sad attempts to support existence upon the pittance that a " protected" agriculture doles out to them ; they compare notes in their misery ; and,confident in the value of their own free hands, and persuaded that nothing can add to their pre sent destitution, they unite with the merchants and pitmen of Newcastle in a demand that what is called " protected" shall ceas e , an d th a t th e y, th e " protected shall be freed from " p ro t ec ti on ," and have the work. opportu nity of earning a fair day's wage for a fairday 's It is no light emergency that has brought together these poor men to confer upon the ir grievances, and to petition for relief. They come of a long-suffering race, and belong to a class which has always been content to exchange the labour of their hands for little more than the means of feeding themselves and their children. They have struggled long to learn the difficult task of making six shillings a week do this for them; they have stinted themselves of clothing and of food ; they have anxiously practised all the hard economy of their little households, and weak with in anition, and broken-hearted with despair, they proclaim that they can bear this no longer, and that they, too, are ready to throw up the ideal benefits of protection, and to try another system in lieu of that which, for them at least, has brought only famine or the workhouse. Their prayer deserves attention. If protection has pro duced nothing but mortgaged landlords, bankrupt tenants, and starving labourers—and we can adduce the evidence of landlords, tenants, and labourers to prove this fact —then we say, with the poor men of Goatacre, as well as with the merchants of Newcastle, the manu facturers of Manchester, and the citizens of London— Let us try free trade. CLASS LAWS.—Until within the last few years none kit the landed gentry were returned to Parliament, so that they had a good opportunity (and embraced it too) of legislating for themselves. Hence their stubbornness against the Reform Bill, ant: their present alarm (for it is evident they are alarmed) on account of the Anti-Corn-law League " manufacturing" votes, as the lords of the soil choose to call it. They have.no liking, it is evident already, of the 72,0001. raised in furtherance of the just principle of free bade. It is high time that class law-making was, like theiniquitous corn laws, totally abolished. FOOT RACE.—Tuesday the running match between Allen and Ben Caunt's novice was decided. The pedestrians were matched for 101. aside, to run 120 yards of road, and the contest was fixed to come off at Jem Burn's, the Grey hound, Fulham-fields. The novice had an advantage at the start, but Allen strenuously exerted himself, and succeeded in coming up with his opponent. The struggle was then made for the goal, and Allen gave evidence of his superiority in speed by running in the winner by a yard and a half. HORRIFYING OCCURRENCE.—OR Tuesday, a pri vate in the 60th Rifles, stationed in Dumbarton Castle, on being relieved from sentry at five in the morning, attempted to kill himself, by piecing the muzzle of his gun to his head, under the chin, and then discharging it. The poor fellow was so far successful—he discharged his gun, but did not kill himself. The ball entered at the lower part of the face, but in place of going up through the head as he in tended, it came out above the nose, leaving the brain un touched. The victim of the rash act was therefore left in o life, but desperately woun d e d. Th e j aw, t h e greater part !' the tongue, the nose, a n d i n d ee d th e w h o le face nearly, aN e been destroyed. The po or su ff erer has been taken to tI barracks in Paisley, whe r e the main part of the depot is stationed.—Glasgow Argus. FARMERS' FRIENDS.—At none of the " protection" meetings just holden has any one of the landholders told the farmers that they would protect them from game destruction, by breaking up their preserves. \o; not one syllable about that! If the landholders really were the "farmers' friends," they would have shown it before now in the destruction of their destructive preserving system. S -~ .. ~~ ~` SS.f ~y"~~w. ..~+.~ TT 3 ~ HA VIVIARKET THRA., The legitimate drama the lnair: lyrical drama—the burlesque drama,-- 10r.:" up gradually. Like Minerva fromqffia Jupiter, full-grown and ariwt; at all points, bath the entomological drama sprung from the brain of Slr. Charles Dickens. Every theatre in London has its own Cricket Chirping on.its own Hearth, and gives us its own Fairy Tale of Home Last evening was the first appearance of The Cricket on the Hearth at the Haymarket, and the following was the cast • John Peerybingle Tackleton Mr. Tilbury Caleb Plummer • Mr. W. Farren Stranger - Dot's Father Dot Bertha Mrs. Fielding May Fielding Tilly Slowboy Mr. Backstene The Presence Mrs. L. S. Buckingham Dot's Mother • Miss Wonlds. Webster is by far the best John Peerybingle who has et appeared. There is more heart and less violence about his John Peerybingle than about that of any other actor whe has yet attempted the part. He ap pears to act so completely from the impute of the moment—to so completely identify himself with the character— in other words, he is so accomplished an artist, and understands so thoroughly the ars crlare art-m, which is the very perfection of art, that he is the very carrier that Dickens drew. M 135 Fortescue's Dot was exquisite ; the transitions from " gay to grave" were beautiful, and nothing could exceed the touching pathos of her bye-play in the third act, when htr husband is explaining his intentions as to her future fate to Tackleton. Farren's Caleb Plutinutr was a finished performance, as everything that Farren does must be; it struck us, however, that it was some. what too thin in every sense of the word. Mrs. Seymour has never yet done anything that can at all compare with her Bertha; there was a quiet intensity of feeling, a depth of pathos about it that went at once to the heart, and the tears and the enthusiastic applause of her audience were her just reward. Mrs. W. Clifford's Mrs. Fielding was the ne plus ultra of majestic dignity; and Mr. Clark, in Dot's father, as usual, made a great part of a little one by his admirable acting. Nothing could exceed his hearty greeting of Mrs. Fielding in the last scene—the only scene in which he appears. His " How are you, Ma'am—glad to see , you, Ma'am" i was quite equal to his " Waiter—the snuff- b ox ," n Money. Buckstone's Tilly Slowboy was an imita tion of Wright's, but it did not come up to the great original. Ile was not so well made up, and neither in voice nor gesticulation does he so completely un sex himself as Wright. Buckstone bath an honest throat, and in whatsoever character he may apear he cannot but be Buckstone. This piece, which is very well mounted, was announced by Farren for re petition amidst the unanimous applause of a well filled house. VICTORIA THEATRE. The Victoria has its Cricket on the Hearth. This fa voured insect has migrated into Surrey, and has been welcomed to the hearths of the humble artisans of this side Old Father Thames with as much cordiality and feeling as it has met with on the more aristocratic shores of Middlesex. Osbaldeston, the spirited lessee of this establishment, on Monday last introduced his Crickctox the Hearth to a Surrey audience. The piece has been dramatised from Boz's celebrated fairy domestic tale by Mr. Thomas Archer, the dialogue and the manner in which the piece has been got up, reflects alike great cre dit upon the lessee and the adapter, and the piece bids fair to become a favourite with the frequenters of this theatre. The character of Dot, the innocent, affectionate, and artless little wife of honest John Peerybingle, was sustained to the life by Miss Vincent, who evidently understands well the character intended to be pourtrayed by Buz. Saville, was the holiest carrier, and the character lost nothing in his hands. The Tilly Slow boy, of Miss Eliza Terry, was an excellent piece of acting, her awkward manner and constant mishaps kept the house in a continual roar. Mr. W. Searle's Tackleton exhibited in its true colours that most odious of all characters, but one that is so frequently met with in society, the being envious of the happiness of others, and feeling delight in marring it. The other characters in the piece were well sustained, and the scenery reflects great credit on the artist. We had anticipated last night a great treat in witnessing the extraordinary perform ance of Professor Hemming and his two infant sons, but we were doomed to disappointment, the stage manager announcing at the con c l us i on o f the Cri cket on the Hearth, that Mr. Hemming was seriously indisposed with erysipelas in the head and totally unable -to leave his bed. In consequence of this the interlude of Her cules, King of Clubs , was substituted, a n d th e even i ng ' s entertainment concluded with the pantomime of Tippity wicket, or, Harlequin Tim Bobbin and the Comical W lobes of Lancashire, the excellent tricks in which must be seen to be appreciated. This pantomime presents the unusual appearance of two clowns and two pantaloons, whose grotesque positions and comic acting kept the house in a roar of laughter. The Gods were in extacy with the songs of " Tippitywichet" by E. Blanchard, and " Hot Codlii,s" by Macdonald. We observe that Professor Hemming tales_ his benefit on Friday next, before which day, we sincerely trust, that he will have recovered his wonted health. On that occasion, in addition to the wonderful performances of his infant sons, he will introduce his astonishing dog Hector, called the Canine Wonder, who, we are told by the bills, will sing, dance, die, obey the word of com mand, ascend'and descend ladders, and take surprising leaps. We trust that his master and his infant prodigies will receive a bumper at the hands of a Surrey audience on the last night of their appearance. IRELAND. CROWN PROSECUTION. DUBLIN, JAN. s.—lnformations were this afternoon sworn before the Hon. Mr. Justice Burton, at his resi dence, in Stephen's-green, against Charles Gavan Duffy, Esq., proprietor of the Nation, at the suit of the Queen, for the printing and publication of an alleged wicked and seditious libel. The article on which the informa tions are founded is that in reference to railroads being an incapable mode for the transportation of troops. The affidavit of proprietorship was, at the same time, sworn by Charles Vernon, Esq., the Register of News papers in the Stamp-office ; and all the documents were subsequently lodged with the Clerk of the Crown. It lies with the Attorney-General to decide in what way he will proceed, whether by ex-07cio information or indictment ; and it is probable that this decision will be announced at the opening of the Court on Monday, the 12th inst., being the first day of term. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The weekly meeting of the Association was held this day, Mr. Edmund Burke in the chair. Mr. O'CoNNELL wished, before commencing the busi ness of the day, to make an observation with regard to the " gutter commissioners" of the Times, and he did so the more readily as it was the last time he intended that to notice these individuals. H e wished itwittoh e b r r gard un derstood that, in making , the reflections c capacity c t „ felt 3of , it his duty ies duty to make on the last day of meetin g, didt the n o t conduc t attack that a thet gentleman e reporter n tean 1 of hist e Times, mes i re porter,but merely as an historian. To sh ow t h e as imus by which these gentlemen were actuated, he h a d only to state a simple fac t . , In Mr. Russell's description o f his (Mr. 0 Connell s) property, he drew a contrast between the cottages and mode of cultivating the land on his estate, and that of a neighbouring m property, s supposed cottages to belong a s being o clean ' S c u o ll m i va n od 0 He us described th e and well kept,'' and the land s " in a better' state of cul tivation," than on the O'Connell property. Now, the fact was, that those cottages and lands were his. 1t was unnecessary for him to make any comment on the fact: it spoke more forcibly than any terms he could make use of. The Honourable Gentleman then handed in a large number of remittances, including 411, the renewed subscriptions of the members of his own immediate family; likewise 1621. 10s., the January dividend on the repeal fund invested in the Three and-a-Half per Cent. Stock. In reference to a letter from Drogheda, enclosing rent, he observed that no thing could possibly give him greater pain than to see Sir William Somerville removed nom the representation of that town, but they should work out the principle they had solemnly adopted, not to return, at the next election, any but Conciliation Hall repealers. If Sir William Somerville would join the cause of nationality his acces sion would be received by the universal people of Ire land with the utmost delight. In the anticipation that that high-minded Irishman would see the necessity of adopting that course, he would keep Drogheda open longer than any other place in Ireland, in the ardent hope and expectation that be would in the meantime come over to the opinion of his constituents, and become a Nationalist. Mr. O'CortNELL again rose and said—Now we begin a new year.—(Cheers.) Hamel Monday, and hurrah for the repeal.—(Cheers.) He trusted in Providence that - the present year would be the last of their struggle, hnd the first of complete success, and that it would not draw to a close till they witnessed a Parliament in College-green, and Ireland under the fostering care of a domestic Legis lature. They would look to the past only for instruction s a and to guide them in their future proceedings. It w necessary to furnish the people of England t had done what loyal and constitutional menshouldt with history they of their struggle, and to show them that t do, and if the The Honourable y did not succeed the fault was not theirs. give a_history of_ the repeal year, and concluded his ad dress Gentleman then proceeded to struggle during the of resolutions, pledging the sepcserin by moving modus operandi for carrying on the Irish people to renewed eig tionsthe cause of repeal, and . de . than ever. The Honour agitation w able Gentleman also moved that the Secretary be detailing gth the e eater vigour directed to write to the Repeal Members of Parliament, urging upon them the necess i ty of an immediate con fen c for the purp ose o f deliberating what course they ought to pur sue on the opening of the session. re e , For his (Mr. O'Connell's) part, he was determined to go over to Parliament, and use his best exertions in en deavouring to procure for the people of England the abolition of all restrictions on food, and then, he would call upon them to unite with him in endeavouring to procure measures of amelioration for the people of Ireland. After the transaction of some unimportant business, the rent of the week was announced CO be 477/. 14s. The meeting then adjourned. SIGNS OF THE TlMES.—Potatoes were 'sold in Ap pleby market, on Saturday last, at sevenpence a stone. What will be their price before next dune ?--Carlisle Journal. ,7 II