The Sun. — London, England, 1846-04-08 00:00:00

PRIVATE Mr. HUME called attention to the number of private Bills before the House, with the view of having model Pill; for the several classes. As an instance of this ne would adduce the class of Bills for water-works. of which there were more this year than ever there were before. With respect to them, be would require that no Bill for water-works should be brought before the House till a public inspector had investigated the case, and reported that it was one of public necessity. This would be a much preferable mode .of proceeding to that usually practised, of examining evidence by a Committee of that House, which was generally given by parties interested in the case. The public interests were not considered at all. This was the case with a great many private Bills, and the change which he was desirous to effect was one by which the public interests would be always kept in view. There was no reason why one Bill should not lie passed, by which any community could carry out their intentions in these respects without being obliged to come before Parliament.— ( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Northampton had brought in a Bill in the year 1833, founded on the same princi ples. It was one to enable large communities, who should agree that their town ought to be lighted, to do so without coming before Parliament. If such a measure was brought in, it would be of vast importance and would do credit to the Gavernment. Those were the objects he had in view, and he might have en larged upon them, had it not been for the length of time al ready taken up. He should be glad to hear the opinion of one of her Majesty's Ministei s, and to know whether they were prepared to consider the question. He would conclude by moving that a Select Committee be appointed to consider the subject. Sir J. GRAHAM said that he agreed with the Hon. Mem ber for Montrose that a great public interest was involved in this question. Last year the Legislature adopted a principle with reference to enclosure Bills, which was found to be very advantageous. It passed a general Bill giving great facilities to local enclosares, and reserving to the Government the right of deciding on the more important ones. So far from differing from the motion which the Hon. Member was disposed to make after Easter, he entirely concurred in it. The Hon. Member for Devon had called his attention tcl a measure for promoting the health of large towns, supplying them with water, and cleansing their drains. The effect of that measure was to sti mulate speculation, and to cause great numbers of Bills to be brought forward in this session to include numbers of large springs under a general Act, and it would be necessary to take steps to these Bills. He was induced, on the part of the Go vernment, to propose that the power of companies over such springs should be contingent on some general measure, for he certainly thought that the attention of Parliament should be directed to the subject, and he should, therefore, be happy to give the Hon. Member his hearty support in the course which be proposed to take. Lord EBRINGTON said that he was very much rejoiced to find that this subject was brought under the notice of Par liament, and he did hope that the course taken by Government would be a decisive one. The Legislature had, all along laboured under an erroneous principle with respect to the application of free trade to matters of commerce, and not to these monopolies. The public, in his opinion, could not be protected against these monopolies without some stringent re gulations were applied to each company, both with regard to the price and the supply of the gas or water, or whatever it might be. Mr. GREENE suggested that the same system that the House adoped last year in respect to railways should be ap plied to all description of police improvement and water works Bills. Last year they passed a lands' clauses consolida tion and a railway clauses consolidation Bill, and they could apply similar measures to other descriptions of private Bills. The motion was then agreed to, but the nomination of the Committee was deferred till after Easter. Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that he would move for the production of certain correspondence that had passed be tween Lord Stanley, when he was Colonial Secretary, and the Government of New South Wales. Mir. JOHN O'CONNELL gave notice that he would move for the production of minutes of proceedings that had taken place before the poor-law gardians of the Mullingar Union. Mr. CHRISTIE gave notice that he would move for cer tain returns relative to cemeteries. Dr. BOWRIWG gave notice that he would call the atten tion of the House to certain passages in the report made by the Tidal Harbours' Commission relative to the Isle of Man. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that he would call the attention of the House on that day fortnight to the administra tion of affairs at the Post-office. Mr. M. MILNES moved for a copy of the abstracts of the diocesan returns made to her Majesty in Council, for the year 1644, by the Archbishops and Bishnps of England and Wales; showing the number of resident and non-resident incumbents ; the net value of the benefices on which the incumbents are non resident; the number and stipend of curates to non-resident in cumbents ; the number and stipend of curates assisting resident incumbents.—Agreed to. Sir DE LACY EVANS moved for a return of the number of persons in the united parishes of St. John and St. Margaret, in the city of Westminster, who have claimed to be rated to the relief of the poor, and whose claims have not been complied with ; such return to include the last three years separately, and to show whether the omission of any such claimants was made from the rate for the time being, or the it equent rate or rates; and also to show the number of sue • aimants who have been excluded from the lists of voters for Members of Par liament since such claims were made.—Agreed to. Mr. EVELYN DENISON wished to — ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it was the intention of the Governmeht to take any steps, in order to restrain the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland from expending the capital sums, derived from the sale of church lands, in defray ing the annual current charges of the Commission. It might be in the recollection of many gentlemen, that he had brought this question under the notice of the House last session. Lands had been sold by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the value of 452,0001.; these, therefore, had been lost to the church, and lost to the state, the guardians, and trustees of that fund. —(Hear, hear.) Sir J. GRAHAM said he would refer to the correspondence which he had the honour of laying on the table of the House last session, and from it would appear what the opinions of the Government were or, the subject. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in reply to the Hon. Gentleman, said that in the course of the present year the expenses had been strictly confined to the interest of the revenue, and not a portion of the capital would have been expended. The sur plus on the present year amounted to 10,000!. Sir CHARLES NAPIER wished to know whether the list which was promulgated some time since for the retirement of 300 officers had yet been filled up ? Mr. CORRY said that the Government had not yet been able to fill up the list. Mr. COCHRANE said that the affairs of Greece were in a state of bankruptcy. This was corroborated by the Minister of Finance for Greece. He (Mr. Cochrane) wished to know whether the interest of the loan was likely to be paid, and when? Sir ROBERT PEEL said he could not entertain very great hopes that the interest of the debt that had been incurred by the Greek Government would yet be paid. He was prepared to lay before the House the statement with respect to the financial affairs of the Greek Government. A demand for the interest of the loan had been made by the Government, which ►ad been refused on the ground of inability to meet the demand. Lord WO RSLEY wished to a•k the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the public general Bill for the inclosure of 'those waste lands, which the Inclosure Commis sioners for England and Wales have certiiled, in their annual report, to be expedient, but which may nut be further pie ceeded with without the authority of Parliament, will be pre sented to the House? Whether the said Commissioners will be instructed to report specially, at a later period of this session, upon such applications for inelosure as had been received by them since the date of their annual report ; and if so, whether a second public general Bill would then be presented to the House, with a view to avoid delay ? What restrictions, if any, are contemplated to the introduction of private inclosure Bills, with a view to an efficient and inexpensive protection of the interests of those commoners who, by petitions to this House, allege that there are not any circu mstances so special in them selves as to render the provisio ns of the general Inclosure Act inapplicable in whole or in port to such inclosur es ? Sir J. GRAHAM said he h a d intended to present to the llouse, if the report fine t Commissioners was inadequate, h a mew Bill, which would ude in it a sa tisfacto .f ry lis retily to . t e question of the Noble Lord. Under the Act ne u i p o o a n ur t e h . e t i o r the Commission had been d f e ee n l at i i t led . to make a separate sreespEoorne p d p u lic y at t i:n r° fo u r nd i and if necessa p r r y e h se e n s t h l o e u a l r, of the application report of the the Bill, a second it Bill. question of With respect to t h e last the Noble Lord, certainly was not the intention of the Go_ wernment to give any general control to the patronage of any Trivate Bill that m i g ht be introduced. I %luch facility had - been given time opponents had an opportunity of protecting them selves or their privileg:s..The opportunity had been passed for a startling order regulating the the Inclosure Bills during the present session ; he was , decidedly of opinion, during ho the next session of Parliament, it would be decidedly desir able to introduce a standing order, under the consideration 'of the House , for the reg u l ation of private Bills. Sir ROBERT PEEL presented coanser the state of thatpetition from the county est Clare, praying the House to consider country, and to devise some mode for the apprehension and bringing to justice the persons concerned in the late murders in that county. The petitioners stated that in consequence of the assassinations that had taken place in that county, and the neighbouring life counties, they were of opinion that it would be very desirable that the Bill for the protection of should be allowed to pass into a law. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Sir ROBERT PEEL said that it would perhaps be for the convenience of many Hon. Members present, if he were now to state the course which the Government had propsed to adopt with respect to the adjournment. He did not consider it would be his duty, in the present aspect of public affairs and the important business which pressed upon the House, to Tropose any longer adjournment than was absolutely 'necessary. It had been usually the practice on accasions similar to the present for the House to adjourn till the Monday week following the day of adjournment. That was the shortest period which it was customary for the House to adopt. When, however, he considered the amount and importance of public business which remained to be transacted, the loss even of a day was of consi derable importance. He should, therefore, consider it his duty to propose that the House should adjourn from the Thursday ;next ensuing until the next Friday ; and in that case he should propose that the House should resume the consideration of the debate on the Irish question. If, however, it should be the 'wish of the House that the adjnurnir ent of the House should take effect to-morrow instead of Thursday, he should make no 'objection to such proceeding. Several Hon. Members had 'motions on the papers for that day, and if they made no objec tion to waive their motions, he should recommend that the House do adjourn. He should, therefore, propose that the adjournment should be carried to Friday of the following week, when the consideration of the Irish question would be re sumed. On the following Monday he should be in a position .to proceed with the Corn Bill, and the regulation of the tariff. After a few words from Mr. O'Brien, Lord G. Somerville, and Lord G. Bentincks Itlr. DUNCONI BE moved that the second reading of the Lace Factories Bill be postponed from Monday, April 20, to Wednesday, the 29. d. LEGAL EDUCATION (IRELAND). Mr. WYSE, in bringing Inward his motion for the ap pointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the present state of Legal Education in Ireland, and the means for its lerther improvement and extension, wished to impress the importance of the subject on the consideration of the House. In a former Committee, the question as to the importance and - necessity for a law school was considered and admitted ; and subsequently, in the year Iti4o, the subject was again mooted, and a suggestion was made to the effect that a school for legal education should be established in Ireland. In the session of 1 543 he laid a petition upon that table, praying for a charter of incorporation for this purpose, and at the same time he made a motion for a Committee to inquire into the state of legal education in Ireland. Of the importance of this branch of "salutation he would not speak, for who was there wbo would :st ad m it t h e great influence of the lawyer upon society, not _ . t . tty at p resent, but the influence which he might be the means vut pexpetuating to future ages. The testimonyof history it "if •euuld be brought forward to illustr4te the great mic fo Ir io isae , .of the defective state of the s y s t em o f l ega l l eg i s l at i on ei _ ll4 , times. It might be t rue t h at i n E ng l and and i n lsit?sis there were men at the bar of the very ih hest literary attainments ' • but how was it th a t was the o n ly learned profession in which it . was not ti „ Nmpulsori to pass through a cerain ordeal to cut th e the cand i date for that professi t on. In calling the attention of the House to what was desirable in this re spect in Ireland, he would ask that House to lock at what had been done in the rest of Europe. In all the universities of Spain, Italy, Austria, and other European States, there was attached to each a department for the studies of candidates for the legal profession, which were secured to none of the other departments. In France, also, the most extensive provisions had been made, in order to secure to the,legal student a most perfect system, by which to enable him to acquire a knowledge of the law. The Right Hon. Gentleman then read long ex tracts from a work he held in his hand, to show the extent MANCHESTER, SOUTHAMPTON, AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY. A Special General Meeting of this Company was helsi yesterday at the King's Arms Hotel, Bridge-street, West minster, at four o'clock, G. F. Muntz, Esq., M.P., in the chair, for the purpose of considering the propriety of dissolving the Company, and returning one half of the deposits to the subscribers. After the advertisement convening the meeting had been read, Mr. Heald, the solicitor, on the requisition of the Chairman, read a report to the meeting, which was very lengthy, but the substance of which appears in the course of the explanations which ensued in the course of the meeting. Before going into the report, it was suggested by Mr. Cradock that the state of the several actions, both at law and its equity, should be laid before the meeting. Several gentlemen complained of not having received the reports. Colonel JentesoN said that he was little of an ac countant, and knew little further than to understand his half-pay list. He thought it would be unfair to load the Chairman and the members of the Committee with the expenses arising out of the dirty actions brought against them on the part of the Committee. After some altercation, it was decided that the ques• tion respecting the several actions should be answered. In this reply it appeared that only six of the Committee had been made parties to Mr. Parsons' suit in equity. These six had put in their answers; but it was the duty of the plaintiff to serve all the Committee, and until these services had been made, and the answers put in, the suit could not proceed. 1,0001. had been proffered to the Court of Chancery, to meet Mr. Parsons' claim. With respect to Mr. Doyle's suit, both the charge and the replies were very lengthy, and the Master had allowed a certain time for the purpose, which would expire about the 21st of the present month. Some further conversation ensued, in which several gentlemen appeared desirous that Mr. Parsons' claim should be settled as a preliminary measure, when The CHAIRMAN explained that the Committee had refused to settle this claim because in their corporate capacity they would not do that which they would hesitate to do individually. They were quite ready to meet this claim in a fair way, and submit to reference before the Court of Chancery. This, it appeared from that gentleman's conduct, was not what he desired. Mr. Parsons had brought an action against him individually; that he was prepared to defend, out of his own resources, and as the company were not to be responsible, they of course could not interfere. Cer tainly he felt assured that he would rather have given a cheque for 5001. than have had anything to do with the concern. The object of the action, commenced by Mr. Parsons, was to recover the loss which Mr. Parsons had sustained upon the 2,000 shares allotted to him, al though the letter of allotment itself had been destroyed by consent. Mr. CRADOCK complained that the Committee had taken such a small interest in the concern. Among others, the Chairman had agreed to take a hundred shares, but had only signed for and paid upon 25. Some of the Committee had proposed for 400, and others of them for 100 each, but these gentlemen had taken a much smaller number. The CHAIRMAN explained that he had paid upon '25 shares and was quite ready to take arid pay on the 100 shares, but the fact was that Mr. Parsons bad filed a bill in the Court of Chancery to compel him to take up 300 shares. To this he should demur, but he was quite ready to pay on his 100 shares as soon as Mr. Parsons paid upon Mr. CRADOCK Well, then, pass by the Chair man's case and go to that of the other directors, and read a letter requiring the production of the letters of allot ment to the directors. After some conversation the Chairman, who had fre quently expressed his readiness to give the minutes, produced the minute-book, and read a statement of the allotments to the directors, and the payments made by the parties, by which it appeared that the reserves and payments had been made on behalf of six of the directors. By the rest of the provisional committee no application had been made. On the 17th of December it was decided that twenty shares should be the qualifi cation for a directorship, and that a reserve of 300 shares was made for each of the directorships. Much confusion and angry altercation ensued, in which it was alleged that the directors ought to have taken up their 300 shares, but this was met by a declaration on their part that they would take up their shares so soon as the Bill in Chancery was removed. A SHAREHOLDER alleged that he had lost 3s. Id. per share on 200 shares in consequence of the directors not having taken up their shares. Mr. TURNER explained that out of 27,400 shares as many as 23,443 bad been allotted to the public, and that the capital had been reduced from 900,000/. to 600,0001., and that the failure of the company was owing to the change of public opinion and net to the deficiency of the provisional committee. Mr. CRADOCK wished to know why the amalgamation had not been made ? The CHAIRMAN explained, to the effect that it was Mr. Parsons' own objection which had prevented the allotment of shares in the first instance, and it was only ()wing to his own determination that any allotment had been made whatever. After the arrangement had been made with Mr. Bethel!, it was discovered that his en gineering was so deficient that there was a fall of thir teen feet in one place, and a rise of two feet in another; so that there was no moral possibility of getting through the House. He had himself taken the plans to Mr. Bethel!, and had desired him to explain. Then the arrangement with the Andover line was made ; but here there was a deficiency again ; and he believed ,hat if the three companies had been amalgamated, this would have been one of the best lines in the kingdom, and that it would yet be so. But it would have been clearly madness to have gono into Parliament under the circumstances, for the probability was, if they had done so, instead of 30,000 to return to the shareholders, they would have had nothing. Mr. CHANCE and Mr. PAYNE, both of them directors, declared that as soon as Mr. Parsons removed the Chancery suit, they would pay on the remaining 75 shares. Mr. Pococx, in answer to a question, stated that on receiving the letter of allotment, he immediately re turned the letter to the secretary, and distinctly stated lhat he would take no more than 25 shares. A SHAREHOLDER—Then you are justified Mr. PococK—l think so. A SHAREHOLDER wished to know whether the pay ments by the Committee had been made at the same time with those of the other allottees ? Before however this was decided upon, the secretary was requested to read the several letters of the directors, excepting the allotments, by which it appeared that Mr. Chance had agreed to take 400 shares, Mr. Oliviera 400, Colonel Ellington 400, Mr. Payne 400, Mr. Williams 425, and Lord Rossmore 425 shares; but of those only 25 shares had been paid upon. Mr. HEALD explained, that by the reduction of the capital to 600,0001., the shares had been reduced to 28,570 in number. Of these, it appeared that 23,560 had been allotted, and 23,443 had been paid upon, leaving only 5,010, and 10 shares reserved, and dividing these by 17, the number of directors, it left 178 shares for each of the directors, and thus set aside practically the original allotment of 400 shares. On further inquiries, it appeared that four of the pro visional committee, Mr. Coape, Mr. Fitzgerald, the Hon. R. Gore, and Mr. Spicer, had each accepted 100 shares, hut had paid nothing. It was afterwards shown that the time of payment by the allottees had been the 9th of October, and the suit commenced by Mr. Parsons began on the 17th of De cember; but it 'was explained that the money paid by the directors was advanced, not as a payment, but for the purpose of meeting the daily expenses. Mr. CHANCE here stated that he wished he had paid upon the 100 shares, and that he was now ready to du so. Another Director stated the same thing. A SHAREHOLDER wished to know whether Mr. Tur ner had paid upon his 100 shares, to which that gentle man replied that he had never agreed to take more than twenty-five shares. It was then suggested by Mr. H. BLAKE that, with a view to winding up the concern, a committee of the shareholders should be appointed to investigate the af fair, with power to call for all the documents in the pos session of the officials of the Company. This was the more necessary, as it appeared that the chief difficulty arose from the ill-feeling existing between the late soli tor of the Company and the present officials, and he thought that the business would be better settled in that way, for he believed that if Mr. Parsons had been paid the whole of his claim he would have suffered infinitely more in his c h arac t er th an h e wou ld ga i n b y any present u suchi Cn i n u aa h A fscßao3pl course present suit. el e iN gnwhtatsb stated teh Thecfe probability thator h e he t is e only o reason for refus ing urtofofhcavhiauoe having been ; and he thought th at t h e shareholders ought not to leave the directors in suc h a pos i tion. Colonel JOHNSON e x p resse d the same opinion. Mr. BLAKE still persi s t e d i n hi s suggestion, and con ceived that h e from was the takingo onus se tow veryhiwhich best tcourse were to liable,relieve the Committee and he would, therefore, frame a motion to th a t e ff ect. This being seconded , The CHAIRMAN explai ned t h at the motion before the that the report be received and adopted. s placedce s s Mr. gwas, HEALD said that this motion could not be enter tained, been advertised. After some conversation , only the original shareholders m n t e i d, for no subject could be mooted which had not n Mr. HEALD stated that but this the the assentors and dissentients might sign ; 'refused, and the adoption was ultimately meeting could be allowed to vote, and a paper was prepared which car ried unanimously. A resolution was then passed to t he effect that a guinea per share should be returned to the shareholders on the production of scrip, but considerable d ifference ensued as to whether a release should on this payment be granted to the directors for all their past acts, and it was ultimately decided that as the fund to be distributed was 30,0001., and the amount to be distributed was only 20 0001., that such a release would be improper , and M r. Chance thought that on this point, the solicitor wou ld yield. Mr. R. SPOONER, M.P., was quite ready to meet the shareholders, and act as candidly by them as t he dire c tors had acted. If there was any charge to make against the directors alter the money was paid, he trusted that it would be brought forward now.—(llear.) The business mode of doing the thing was to give a receipt on the payment of the money. Further conversation then ensued respecting stamping the scrip, as had been done in the case of the Rugby , Derby, and Manchester Company, and at last it wa s settled that a receipt should be given on the payment of the dividend, and that the payment should commence within fourteen days from the present day. Mr. BLAKE desired to press his motion that a Com mittee of shareholders should - be' - fotinecl, but it was decided that the business of the Meeting was concluded, and thanks were voted to the ClmitMan, an d the meet- to which the Governments of America and other countries have gone, in order to secure to the lawsagent a most com prehensive education ; and instanced the number of colleges and institutions in those countries to which a faculty for law study was attached. He also read extracts from the opinions of Judge Storey, and other learned lawyers, to the effect that it was mist desirable and important that every public college should have a law faculty attached to it. He next instanced the opinion of Car dinal Wolsey upon this subject, who complained of the gross ignorance of the lawyers of his day, and in consequence attempted the establishment of a Law College, which could still be pointed at as illustrative of the great conceptions of his mind. He then referred to more recent dates, and called the attention of the House to the report of the Committee of the Middle Temple upon the defective state of legal education, some extracts from which he read. He did not mention these circumstances with reference to the motion he was about to submit to the House, as that motion related to Ireland alone, but as a preliminary observation on the motion he was about to submit. He would now turn to the case of Ireland. In the year 1839, an institution was established in Ireland, called the Law Institution, and f o u n d e d b y a gent l eman o f great public spirit, and well known at the bar of Ireland. The person to whom he referred was Mr. Kennedy, the principal of the insti tution. In 1840, the lords justices of Ireland wished that it should receive an endowment, and the benchers of King's Inn, granted it an income of 4001. per annum. That grant was in the year following withdrawn. Very large revenues had been received by the benchers of King's Inn, and he (Mr. Wyse) thought that those funds should be applied to the endowment of law institutes. Such institution would be eminently useful in forwarding* systematic course of legal education, and would be of very considerable service to the bar and to the country. He felt he had trespassed too much on the time of the House in reference to this matter, but he felt so much that he was sure he should be pardoned for saying a few words more. As schools of theology and medicine had been established in Dublin, why should not a school of law? That would make lawyers con versant with the theory and practice of their profession, and would render them as able jurists as those of other countries. Let them by such a system put men upon the bench who would show by their administration of justice that these was not one law for the rich and another for the poor. Such a system, and such unprejudiced judges, would be of permanent advantage to the country.—( Hear, hear.) On the motion of an Hors, MEURER, the House was"counted, and there not being forty Members present, the House ad journed until Twelve o'clock to-morrow (this dal ). THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS WERE PRESENT WHEN THE HOUSE WAS COUNTED OUT LAST NIGHT, ON THE MO TION OF THE HON. W. E. LAW:— Graham, Sir James Scrope, G. P. Duke, Sir James Peel, Sir Robert Moffatt, George Trelawny, J. S. The Lord Advocate O'Brien, Smith Warburton, Henry Goulburn, Henry O'Brien, John Sibthorn, Colonel Salidon, 'Viscount Kelly, James Powell, Caleb Hume, Joseph Fitzgerald, Mr. Borthwick, P. Douglas, Sir C. Somerville, Sir W. M`Donnell, J. M. Bentinck, Lord G. Cobden, It. O'Brien, T. Rawdon, Colonel Maher, Mr. Clayton, It. H. Thornely, Thomas ROYAL ARTILLERY. Deputy Adjutant-General's-office, Woolwich, April 4, 1846. GENERAL ORDER. Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.8., and G.C.H. having resigned the command at Woolwich, the blaster• General has appointed Major-General Sir Thomas Downman C.B. and K.C.H., to succeed his Lordship; the appointment commencing April 1, 1846. (Signed) H. D. ROSS, Deputy Adjutant-General. GARRISON ORDER BY LIEUTENANT• GENERAL LORD BLOOM FIELD, G.C.B. AND G.C.H. Woomvtctr, APEIL 4, 1846.—The Master-General of the Ordnance has been pleased to accept his Lordship's resigna tion of the command of the garrison, and the Lieutenant- General cannot close his active duties with the corps in which he has had the honour and happiness of serving for sixty-five years, without expressing his grateful thanks to his comrades of all ranks, and to the garrison staff in parti cular, for the unwearied zeal and good feeling with which they have supported him and enabled him to carry on the duties of this important garrison during the eight years be has had the command of the head-quarters of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. The Lieutenant-General is also much indebted to the officer commanding the Royal Engineers and the Royal Ma rines, and to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of these corps for their steady assistance and soldier-like conduct, and he begs to assure them he will ever feel the high opinion of these services that it has so often ben his duty to report. ON DRAINING. (From the Glasgow National) The objet of all arts is the imitation of nature. To ex ceed, or even reach in every case the perfection of the pattern, is impossible, but the more closely it is kept in view, and the more nearly it is attained, the more per fect the performance will be, and the more exactly will our own ends be answered. Any departure from the principles suggested in the examples set before us by nature, through a hasty desire to arrive at the object by a nearer road, defeats the intended purpose. Shallow drainage offers many evidences of this. The gravitating tendency of water is per pendicular, and the more it is made to deviate from this course, the weaker the effort of escape becomes, and the slower the motion of the fluid ; consequently a deep drain will fill quicker than a shallow one, provided the superstratuna of soil be sufficiently porous to yield a passage to the moisture. But this it will do more and more readily every year, after the drain is once laid, let the clay have been ever so obstinate at first. The diffi culty- of making drainers believe this occasions such a perpetual conflict between them and their employer, such a perpetual tendency on their part to lay their drains shallower, that unless their employer be very strongly convinced of the truth of the principles he wishes to carry out, the wearing and " experienced" opposition of his " practical" man, backed by the tempting cheapness of a shallower cutting, will prevail. It is important to be on our guard against this. Every substance capable of ab sorbing water is capable of transmitting it. If, on dig ging up clay, we find it damp, we may be quite sure that if undermined, and pressed upon by moisture from above, the capillary sustension being overborne, it will begin to weep from below, and every drop that falls wears a wider passage for the next, so that time only would be wanting to increase the porosity, even were it not more rapidly hastened by the cracking produced towards the close of summer, when even capillary at traction has lost its last supply, and the contraction of bulk occasions separation into parts. However long we may have to wait for the completion of these processes, of this we may be sure, that we have nature on our side from the moment the drain has been effectively laid. The effect may be slow, but the cause is in cer tain and perpetual operation. But we merely allude here to this physical law, as giving effect to the other hydrostatic principle of perpendicular descent, which would, of course, be inoperative without it. The ten dency of a fluid to descend is of course equally strong in a basin as in a filter, though the one holds it and the other transmits it. Our object is to explain that a clay subsoil, which before acted like the first, is, when under mined by deep drains, likened to the second. The whole principle of deep drainage, in its mere mechanical relation to the soil, depends upon the downward pres sure of water, a power so strong, that it has been put into use, in the hydraulic press for instance, as one of the most irresistible of natural forces ; small tube in serted of this and sealrechteinga ofvirtumoderate height, charged with fluid, will, in power, burst the stoutest cask, if is l;secured pressure aperture rtu ; .and so equable continuous actitin already beers applied fluid weight, that it has to the arts, wherever great force, oy desired, rels, the testingerL cast-iron beams and other purposes, and perfect equability in its appliess as in the proving of gun bar is Particularly security against the weakness of material affords no where the weakness of it e wea k est parts. Now, anyb o d y who h amined the character ofah s carefully and p ersona ll y ex fail to have observed that, e very s tiff est c l ays, will not like ourse l ves, they have their weak point s : here there is a natural crack, there a " sand pot ;" here again a bit of imbedded gravel, pethioaars;etetrl,att, juffilfeaed fact, lighter soil of there a vein or cleavage perfect co:n s t t in h u e ity of texture however obdurate it s never to be met with. i some ge d n e e s r e a r l i So long so to call them, have no vent underneath , ' escapements, comparatively inactive; but once undermineeythreemfiaeildu by deep drains, and their valuable Gffice begins to show it se lf. The subsoil, which before held up the service water like a basin, now begins to transmit it like a filter ; every succeeding summer increases the number of cracks, as the drying clay gives way to the contracting tendency, and surrenders that contin uit y of texture which depended t of its moisture. Whore one drop upon the imprisonment of water descends and escapes , another the last be gone, drawing the air after it. From the moment the system of regeneration commences—to use the formidable words of the chemist—the protex id cr e be gins to be converted into the peroxide; that is , slightly oxygenated earth, which repels vege t a tion, changes gra dually by contact with atmospheric air into the highly oxygene • tsd earth, which favours vegetation ; anti the rats of plants, which formerly turned up like fish-hooks on coming in contact with the subsoil, now plunge boldly into it, and add, by their eventual decay, to its vegetable character. The student in hydrostatic science is astonished at the surprise with which a writer in the " Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society" tells u; that his four-feet drains drew off water in half the time that his three-feet drains used to do. It would be a marvel to him, contradictory to every known ' principle in the laws of fluids, if it were other ' wise. The deeper the drain, the more irresistible the pressure of water towards it, and the more rapid the escape. A simple experiment will illustrate this. Let a gun-barrel he, filled with water and held vertically, allowing the fluid to escape at the nipple The column of water will drive the fluid out with a farce increasing rapidly with the distance from the point of escape to the mouth of the barrel ; as the force decreases in depth, the force and rapidity of the stream will diminish also ; till at last the fluid, instead of being projected several yards, merely escapes in drops, It is upon the same principle that a deep drain acts with more energy than a shallow one, exemplifying one of the soundest maxims of agricultural science—that if you drain the subsoil, the soil will drain itself. ing separated ; the several members of it appearing re solved to carry Mr. Blake's intention into effect. Cer tainly this was the most stormy affair of the kind it has ever been our lot to witness, and was only brought to a CC°l conclusion by the tact, coolness, and uninterrupted good humour of the Chairman. TOO MODEST BY HALF. The great fault of Young Ireland is that he is too modest. lie wants self-reliance. His dependencies for his dearest vindictive objects are never on his own powers. He dues not play the braggart on his own account, he brags of foreigners. He is like a woman who threatens you with what this man or that man will do to you. One time Prince Joh - nine was to make minced meat of us. Thirty thousand Frenchmen thrown on the Irish coast were to expel the Irish invaders. Now how ex cessively modest it is in an oppressed nation of eight brave millions to hold thirty thousand foreigners essen tial, indispensable to her liberation ! Next B:other Jonathan was looked to as the avenger, and Ireland's battle was to be fought in Oregon. Again this is modest to the males puler, for if any other third of the kingdom really felt that it had a just cause and a battle to fight, it would full surely fight its battle nearer home, and fight it with its own hands, and trusting only to its own hands, and trusting only to its own right and might. Hampden and Cromwell did not look to foreigners to champion their cause. The Seikhs have been the last hope of too modest Young Ireland. The N o ti on sees them sweeping us out of India with 200 ,000 b lazing scymitars; b ut, un f ortu • nate!), for this che er i ng and encourag i ng v i ew , it was hardly published before the arrival of the news of the complete overthrow of the enemy, whose blazing scymi tars are pawned for the expenses of the war— " From the whole facts we arrive at the conclusion that the hopes of the invading army are now very low, and are wearing lower every day—that Sir H. Hardinge and Sir C. Napier will probably never meet—and that if the people of Lahore and the' protected ' states on the Ilindoo side of the river make good use of their time, and have ordinary sagacity to see the value of union and co-operation at such a crisis, the game is in their hands —that the whole Moslem population of Northern India, who are only waiting for the first averse that betels the British arms to raise the cry of Deen ! Been !—the Faith ! the Faith !'—and fall upon their oppressors with all the fury of vengeance hoarded well for thirty years, will clear the way to Bengal with 200,000 blazing scymitars • that ere twelve months sh a ll ha ve gone round, not the Sutlej only, but the Jumna, and possibly the very Ganges shall be no longer overshadowed by the robber standard of the tyrants of Southern Asia; and that the blood-stained Company—the plagues of the East—the plun derers of Ilyderabad—the scourge of the Carnatic—and the poisoners of China, may begin to set their house in order at Calcutta. Allah Bismallah I God is great—Amen and Amen." How really poor in spirit Is all this vicarious von geance. It was a song of a certain Jacobin worthy, that He fled full soon On the Ist of June But he bade the rest keep fighting. Young Ireland bids the rest keep fighting, not having fled, indeed, for he has not taken the field. He is mar vellously strong, nothing can resist him, and yet he un accounntably submits to what he represents as the most intolerable tyranny, and contents himself with calling on foreigners to go to war for him, or on Indians to revolt, "if they have the ordinary sagacity to see the value of union and co-operation at such a crisis." Young Ireland is quite right in not playing the rebel, but Young Ireland should not talk the rebel which it does not play. The dialogue without the action has the most abasing effect. It is too obtrusively " making the dare not' wait upon 'I would,' like the poor cat in the adage." Ireland has many grievances, but none worth blood shed ; she has many claims, but none to be advanced by bloodshed, or the diabolical desire for it without daring to share in the peril. The redress of Old Ireland's wrongs will come in due course if the malus pudor of Young Ireland do not unfortunately excite feelings calculated to retard it. Young Ireland only wants a little manly pride. He must not be always exaggerating and enlarging on his sores. He must not make out his case worse than it is, so as to make its recreancy to bear it while he is bragging of his potency. He must not count, too, upon the alms of foreign valour for his deliverance. There is no case, no occasion whatever for valour, foreign or indigenous. Nothing is wanted and wanting but a little good sense and right spirit. You have nothing to do with blazing scymitara— no, nor with blazing shilelaghs either, things much apter for combustion and broil. Let there be an end of the foreign look-out for mischief to England, and let your hopes live on your own means, not on the loup-de-mer Joinville one day, and a lion of Lahore another who turns out to be pared of his claws by the neat advices. As the homely old proverb says, " Let eVtry herring hang by its own head, every tub stands on its own botton," and let Young Ireland pluck up a little of the honest pride of independence—independence of foreign aid and self-reliance on righteous means righteously di rected.—Examiner. [ADVERTISEM ENT ]—A NOBLE DUKE AND Ma. - LOWAT'S Pmts.—Professor Hollo cay has lately been honoured by the personal thanks of one of the most renowned dukes of the realm, who (like tke Earl of Aldborough) has been cured of a liver and stomach complaint of some years' standing, attended with great weakness and debility, by the means of Holloway's celebrated Pills, and this after phy,ician's skill was tried is vain. Dropsy, paralysis, asthma, and diseas es of the lungs, have near l y a ll their origin in disordered livers and stomachs, which a few timely doses of Holloway's l'hls will cure.—Sold by all dealers in medicines, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening, from the Co fnr th• (Invornnra of ilaninn and IL,ncr-Krinct_ THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1846. LAW INTELLIGENCE. PRIVY COUNCIL, April 7. The Judicial Committee sat to-day in the Council Cham ber, Whitehall. The Lords present were the Lord Presi dent, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cottenhana, the Master of the Rolls, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and the Chan cellor of the Duchy of Cornwall. IN TIE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF TILE INHABITANTS OF CAPE BRETON. Mr. BLISS resumed and concluded his reply on behalf of the petitioners in this case. Their LORDSHIPS, at the conclusion of the arguments, stated that they should report to her Majesty their opinions en the case. • ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Taunton, April 6. Caleb Emery, who.svas convicted on Saturday of mall charged clously wounding John Townsend West, was this morning sentenced to 15 years' transportation. with aiding and abetting Thomas Bull. Thoma s Bull was indicted for ravishing garah Corner, on aj M las r ici . u C ia o ary l e t , is s lei s iep 1.1 ) ivb l l e s :: : 0 1 au s r . public-house - s e l 1 3, b (:) e s r e , the 31st ofJanuary ; and James Bull and James Emery were Mr. Fitzlierbert was counsel for the prosecution ; and left er. defended waibtujto itiotnhoe,lcpslcoeicsl o'clock, Sarah Corner stated, that on the evening of the 31st of who had been keeping company with her. The prisoners were as it rained, they stood f o r s h e l ter under a doorway. The prisoners and four other men were standing near ; it was in a village. After it had ceased raining she took John Well's arm, and proceeded on their way home. When they had got about a quarter of a mile beyond the houses, the seven men who had been following them came up, and Thomas Bull then laid hold of her ; and the other men assisted in drag. ging her away ; and then all seven of them effected their pur pose, one of them holding a knife to her. She then went home ; but her family having gone to bed, she went into a n outhouse, and there remained till the following night, till she was nearly starved with the cold. She did not come out of the outhouse before because she was ashamed. John Wells tried to help her, but the parties were too many for him, and he stood . by and saw the whole transaction. The jury found the prisoners Guilty. Mr. Baron Bons's:, in passing sentence, observed that this was such a case that almost made one doubt the policy of the law in abolishing capital punishment for such an offence. They would all be transported for their lives. Sarah Hughes was indicted for administering poison to her infant child, with intent to murder it. Mr. Phinn was counsel for the prosecution. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner, a young woman only 18 years of age, was an inmate of the Shepton Monett Union Workhouse, and was delivered of an illegiti• mate child. Another woman was also in the union, and she had a bottle containing blue vitriol, which she kept in a cup board in the ward. She had shown it to the prisoner, and told her it was poison. On the 3d of November, the child being then a month old, the prisoner had an interview with the board of guardians, but what took place did not appear. On her return from the board-room she was seen to give something to the child from a bottle. The child then be• came very ill, which led to an inquiry, and the bottle con• taining the poison was found under the pillow in her bed. In a conversation that took place between the prisoner and another woman, the prisoner said if the baby had died, her friends could not blame her fur it, because they had frowned on her. Mien before the magistrates, the prisoner said she was very sorry for what she had done ; and if the child lived, she would take care of it, and never do it again. The prisoner was found Guilty, but the jury recommended her to mercy. The guardians also joined in that recommendation, as the prisoner had always borne a good character. Mr. Baron Roux said, he had no discretion, but he would forward the recommendations to the proper quarter. Judgment of death recorded. Benjamin Leslie was indicted for setting fire to a barn, the property of the Rev. John Stuart Hippisley Homer, but in the occupation of Richard Singer. Mr. Hodges and Mr. Fitzheibert were counsel for the pro secution, and Mr. Prideaux for the prisoner. The facts of this case were these :—The Rev. Mr. Homer is the proprietor of considerable property at Wells, in this county. On the 2d of March, 1845, a barn and other out buildings were destroyed by fire, and some ricks were burnt about three weeks before this. Although it was considered that these fires were the act of an incendiary, still no one was suspected, but it appeared that on the night of the 25th of February, before the second fire, the prisoner and a csusin of his, of the name of James Smith, were walking into Wells together, when the prisoner said he was going to sleep at a lime-kiln, as he had done for three or four nights, because he had been turned out of his house. He blamed Mr. Homer and a policeman of the name of Biggs for it, and he said he would be —if he would not have his re venge before he was many days older ; there would be a good flare-up in the village before he was many days older, a sight bigger than that at Twaddle-alley (the place where the first fire had happened). A sum of money had been deposited with Biggs, the policeman, to divide be• tween those parties who had assisted in putting out the first fire, and about three weeks before the second fire the pri soner called upon Biggs and asked for some of the money. He was told his name was not in the list, upon which he said there would be another good flare-up in the parish before long, and he would not help to put it out. Biggs was at the second fire, and he saw the prisoner and another man together in a field, about thirty yards from the barn, laughing, and, as be considered, " glorying" in the fire. The parties to whom these observations were made did not, however, say anything on the subject until after the prisoner was taken into custody ; but on the 14th of June the prisoner and a man named Tudgay were together at a public-house, when the prisoner said to bins that he had been to Frome with Adam Ruddock on the day of the fire ; that they had made a lot of tinder and matches ; that they well daubed the matches with brim stone, and rolled the tinder round the matches, and then lolled them all up in rags ; that they came from Frome to Mr. Singer's barn, and then set fire to the tinder, and threw it into one of the lights of the barn in amongst some straw ; that he had afterwards gone honie to his lodgings to bed. The prisoner was taken into custody on the Ist of September, and he then said it was true be had told Tudgay the tale which he had told before the magistrates; but Tudgay had told him tales that were quite as bad, and that they used to get together and see which could tell the biggest lies. On the part of the prisoner, Adam Ruddock was called, and he swore that he had not had anything to do with the fire, and that what the prisoner had said was false. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Sentence, transports. tion for life. Henry Yerintry was indicted for shooting at James Biggs with intent to murder him on the 12th of December ; and John Watts, Charles liolton, Thomas Olding, George Yung, James Middleton, Job Whit , , and John Rabbits, were indicted with being present aiding and abetting henry Yerbury. Mr. Hodges and Mr. Fitzherbert were counsel for the pro secution, and Mr. Phinn defendod all the prisoners, but Yer bury, Middleton, and ltabbits. It would seem that although large property at Wells be longs to the Rev. Mr. Horner, yet that he does not preserve the game; that, however, is done by his uncle, Sir John Hippisley, who in the season visits his nephew and sports over his property. On the night of the 12th of December, about twelve o'clock, the keepers were out near a wood called Melcombe-wood, when they heard fifteen reports of guns. They obtained further assistance, and on going into a field they saw fourteen men. Four of them had guns, and the rest were armed with sticks. The keepers followed them across three or four fields, and then came up with them. They then said to them that it was a shame to shoot pheasants in that manner. One of the poachers said, " Stand," and they all fell into rank and pointed their guns at the keepers, and said if they came nearer they would shoot them. They said they had had some birds, and they would have more. The poachers then went on, followed by the keepers, and constantly saying that if they did not keep back they would blow their brains out. At length one of them turned round, levelled his gun at Biggs, who was one of the keepers, and fired. Biggs instantly fell. Several shots had entered his head, and the cap he wore was nearly blown to atoms. Biggs was picked up and taken to Frome, and attended by a surgeon, and he recovered. The prisoners were all persons living in Frome. It was a fine moonlight night. Several of the keepers swore to the fact of the prisoners being the parties who were out that night, and they were most of them ap prehended before daylight that morning. Two of the keepers' party swore that Yerbury was the man who fired the gun. On behalf of Yerbury his mother was called, who swore that en that night her son went to bed about eight o'clock, when she dressed his foot, which had been injured. Ile did not go out that night. A man of the name of French lodged with her; he did not sleep with her that night (her husband had been transported twenty years ago). French was then called, and he stated that Yerbury was at home all that night ; but he contradicted Mrs. Yerbury, by stating that he had slept with her on that occasion. The jury found all the prisoners Guilty.—Sentence de ferred. TUESDAY Mcmxnea.—All the prisoners convicted of shoot ing at Biggs last night were this morning put to the bar, and were arraigned on an indictment charging them with being out at night, armed in pursuit of game. All the prisoners, with the exception of Yerbury, pleaded "Guilty" to this indictmeut, and, with the exception of Mid dleton, were sentenced to be transported for seven years. Middleton, on account of his youth, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. Yerbury pleaded "Not guilty ;" no evidence was offered against him, and judgment, on the charge of which he had been convicted, was respited on the ground, we understand, of there being great reason to doubt whether the two men who swore to Yerbury are not mis taken as to the identity. NORTHERN CI RC U IT.—Liverpool, April 6. Mr. Justice Patteson took 11:.s seat at nine o'clock, and re sumed the hearing of civil causes. One or two unimportant cases having been decided, the Court was occupied with the following case of BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE—MARR LAND V. SINGLETON. The plaintiff in this case was Miss Sarah Markland, and the defendant George Singleton. The declaration stated that the defendant promised plaintiff to marry, and afterwards broke that promise. The defendant pleaded that he did not make any promise. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, and Mr. Seger conducted the case for the plaintiff, and Mr. Atherton appeared for the defendant. Mr. WlLictsra opened the case, He stated he was there to ask the jury to give compensation in form of damages for what was generally considered one of the most serious injuries that could be inflicted by one person on another—it was an action for breach of promise of marriage. Under ordinary circum stances he thought they would be of opinion that it was no slight grievance inflicted on the suffering party; but when they had heard all the facts he should lay before them, the fullest amount of damages would hardly compensate the young person for the injury she had sustained. The father of the plaintiff; till within eight or nine years ago, carried on the business at Burnley. At that period he, having saved a little money, came over to Fishwick, near Preston, where he took the Hunt A rms . Sh ort l y a f terwards the defendant in the action became acquainted with the plaintiff, and paid her considerable attention. The family were anxious to know his intentions, and after some time the mother ques tioned him, and he stated that lie intended to marry the plaintiff, and lie also went to look after a public-house, in which he said they would begin business after being united. The defendant, however, did not make good his promise ; and the mother becoming distressed about her child, and desirous of breaking off the intimacy which had sprung up between the defendant and the plaintiff, sent her from home to an aunt's, at a place called Standish. In about twelve months she returned, the mother feeling satisfied the inti macy was at an end. The defendant, however, on finding that she had returned, repeated his visits. Shortly afterwards the plaintiff was sent away to an aunt who resided in the neighbourhood, at a place called Salmesbury, to assist in the public-house during the busy time ; and on the de fendant learning where she had gone, he drove over in a gig to see her, arid they returned together. On their way home the gig was upset, and at that time, no doubt, the defendant contrived to effect the destruction of the young woman ; for, in a short time afterwards, she became pregnant, leaving no doubt of the vile conduct he had been guilty of. The mother remonstrated with him, and reminded him of the proiniss of marriage he had made, but the defendant did not appear desirous of coming to any arrangement, and the plaintiff was then sent to Liverpool, where she had remained ever since. What he had stated as regar d ed the promise o f marriage would be fully made out, leaving no doubt as to the damage inflicted by the defendant on the plaintiff. The defendant afterwards went to reside with a person at Wal ton-le-Dale, and at his death married the widow, a person about 60 years of age; this he had done from the most sel fish of motives, as the female alluded to had become pos sessed of some property on the dekth of her husband, which had no doubt operated as an inducement to the marriage. He concluded by observing that, under all the circumstances he considered his client would be entitled to ample damages at the hands of the jury. The following witnesses were then called : Jane Markland, the mother of the plaintiff, stated that she had kept the Hunt Arms, Walton-le-Dale. The plain tiff; i her daughter, was generally employed to attend n the bar.. Defendant eften came and sat at the house, and paid attention to her daughter, and in consequence of that she spoke to him frequently on the subject, and he stated it to be his intention to marry her, and would not deceive them. The marriage was on one occasion fixed for the following Christmas, but defendant put it off. It was again fixed for the following March, and defendant bought some china and other articles preparatory to its taking place. He again, however, broke his promises. In consequence of his conduct witness sent her daughter away to a re lation at Standish, where she remained about twelve months. Defendant did not, during her absence, come to the house so often. On her return home defendant re peated his acquaintance, and plaintiff was then sent to an aunt at Salmesbury, to assist her in a public-house. Shortly after that he took a gig, and went over to see her. They were both returning home in the gig, when it was upset on the road. Soon after that her daughter became pregnant, and on defendant being spoken to on the subject, he re peated his promise to marry her, adding that he was glad it had h a pp ene d. Pl a i nt i ff continued at home long after the child was born, perhaps about two years, and defendant still continued to make promises and was received in the family as her intended husband. On one occasion preparations ware made for taking a public-house, called the Hoop and Crown, at Preston, as he said he had some money, but did not say how much. As the defendant did not seem likely to perform his promise witness sent her daughter to Liverpool; that was about three years ago, and she had remained there ever since. Plaintiff was at home last Easter, and defendant said then he would be married, as there was a situation he could obtain; but he, as ho had previously done, did not perform his promise, and shortly afterwards he got married to a widow, named Jefferson, at whose ho use h e h ad lodged. The widow's husband died about nine months ago, and was a man pretty well off in the world: The marriage took place about six weeks after Mr. Jefferson's death ; Mrs. Jefferson was an old lady, nearly sixty years of age, and defendant was thirty-two. Cross-examined by Mr. ATIIERTON—My daughter is 26. When we carried on business at Fishwick, and defendant used to come and take his beer with other young fellows. My daughter is at present acting as bar maid with Mrs. Fowles, in Marybone ; she keeps a spirit vault. The defendant is a journeyman miller, working for Mr. Kent, at Walton, and he used to say he got 225. per week. He lately got the situation formerly held by the widow's husband at the same mill, and would get 255. per week. Catherine Markland, the plaintiff's sister, deposed that she had frequently heard the defendant make promises of mar riage to her—that was about eight years ago. Cross-examined by Mr. ATRERTON—The defendant had stayed at her house as late as twelve o'clock at night on various occasions, and frequently insisted to take plaintiff away, but she refused. Elizabeth Lees said she knew the plaintiff and defendant very well. Recollected the plaintiff being confined, and Singleton coming after the child was born, and saying he would marry her as soon as she got up. He used to bring things for the baby, and talk as if he was engaged to plaintiff. By Mr. AlatErrost—lt was not a very fine baby. Mr. ATIIERTON addressed the jury for the defendant, ob serving that his only object was to bring down the damages, and he would not give them a long speech. The promise had been proved, and the usual evidence produced to the effect that the unhappy defendant seemed to have been going about the country saying nothing but that he would marry the plaintiff. They had heard the promise, to marry, and had only to say what damages the plaintiff was entitled to. She was a barmaid, and defendant was a journeyman miller, able, with sunshine and varying gales, to earn 235. per week, and even able to earn 10s. or 15s. under circumstances not so promising, and it was for them to say how much the young woman should receive on account of losing the de fendant, who had suffered by falling into the arms of the antique widow. If they gave large damages the defendant would be ruined, and it would be of no advantage to the young woman. He could not conceive it possible that the defendant had obtained any great advantage by his con nexion with the widow, as she was an exception to that class if she had not had her property tightly secured for her own benefit. He concluded by observing that all the jury would have to do would be to afford the plaintiff reasonable com pensation. His LORDSHIP said the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict, and it was merely for the jury to say the amount of damages. The jury, after a few moments' consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 751. The Court rose at_six o'clock. CIVIL SIDE. _ His Lordship took his seat on the bench at a few minutes after nine o'clock. LIVERPOOL AND BOLTON RAILWAY-ACTION AGAINST A PRO., VISIONAL DIRECTOR-MINSHULL V. SOUTHERN. This was an action brought by a tradesman of Liverpool against a provisional director, for goods sold and delivered, and work done for the railway, to which defendant pleaded he was not liable. Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Cowling for the plaintiff, and Mr. Baines for the defendant. Mr. WILKINS stated the case. This was an action brought by Mr. Samuel Minshull, an engraver and printer in Liver pool, against Mr. Southern, for a large quantity of engraving, scrip books, plans, sections, and maps, furnished to the directors of the Liverpool and Bolton Direct Railway; and:the sum sought was 401/. lls. 11d. The defendant is a gentleman of considerable wealth and the proprietor of extensive coal mines, and a member of the provisional committee and executive committee of the railway. It would turn out that this gentleman embarked in this speculation with great zeal, as the line was to pass by his coal works, and he anticipated that it would put a great deal of money into his pocket, and was then one of the most active promoters of the railroad; but when the day of adversity came he sought to avoid the consequences, and disputed claims as undeniable as any case laid before a jury. The first prospectus of the company was issued on the 13th of September, last year; it was to have 500,000 L capital in 25,000 shares of 20/. each : and the deposit was 21. per share, and the prospectus set forth the shares of the provisional directors. The first meeting was on the 23d of September, and almost immediately after the defendant became an applicant for 100 shares, which were allotted to him ; and he was asked to allow his name to appear as one of the provisional committee. Defendant wrote a letter in reply, stating it, would give him great pleasure in promoting the success of the line, and consenting to be on the provisional committee; and when 100 shares each were allotted to the board of directors, defendant received his quota with the rest. He showed an active disposition for pro moting the interests of the line, and waited on the agent of Sir William Massey Stanley, W. Jackson, Esq., and John Laird, Esq., of Birkenhead, directors of the Leeds and Liver pool Railway, to induce them to take up the Liverpool and Bolton, and make it an auxiliary line to theirs. He also went to Mr. Poole, the superintendent of the goods depart.. ment at the Grand Junction, to induce him to use every means in his power to obtain for the Liverpool and Bolton the support of that company. In December the share mar ket began to decline, and as the winter approached the'de fendant's ardour began to freeze in reference to the line. The company eventually had to wind up their affairs, and the defendant was a defaulter, having never paid anything on his shares. This was not a case like most of those generally tried, one shareholder trying to cut another, but a claim for work and labour done. Mr. W. A. Barrow, solicitor for the company, was exa mined at considerable length, when Mr. BAINES said that he would not trouble the Court any longer, a verdict for the plaintiff having been agreed to be taken on certain conditions. The jury accordingly returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, 4011. lls. KEENE V. THOMPSON. This was an undefended action, arising out of share trans actions between the parties. Mr. Cowling, for the plaintiff, stated that Mr. Keene was a sharebroker in Liverpool, and that he was largely employed during the past year by the defendant, who was agent for the Coleraine Steam-packet Company. The ordinary way of their doing business was that Mr. Thompson was in the habit of giving orders to buy and sell shares in different railways to Mr. Keene. The plaintiff, not being a member of the Stock Exchange, made his purchases through Messrs. Sudlow, Brothers, and the advice notes were afterwards copied into Mr. Keene's name, and sent to Mr. Thompson. The usual commission was divided between the plaintiff an d his broker. On these tramactions there remained a balance against the defendant of 1,0921. 10s. Various orders and documents were put in, and the debt proved. Verdict for the plaintiff for that SIM CAUSE EXTRAORDINARY. A poor old woman, who has long been an attendant of the assize courts, and who is a monomaniac as to a certain law suit on which her early happiness was wrecked, addressed his Lordship at some length, requesting him to see justice done to her. His Lordship listened with the greatest patience, and with a soothing monosyllable or two the poor woman went away quite satisfied that the case would come on again in due time. The Court rose at half-past five o'clock. Nine causes only now remain, and it is anticipated that all will be disposed of this day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. George Gibbs, City policeman, No. 438, was charged before Alderman Gibbl, by Mr. Lewis Cheesewright, of No. 8, York-place, Commercial New-road. Mr. Cheesewright stated, that he was in the counting house of his father, a West India m er c hant, in L ower Thames street ; that, on the 28th of March, he went to Princes-street, to get upon a Hampstead omnibus, and spoke to the conductor, who was then standing on the kerb stone beside the horses ; that the defendant came up, told the conductor and driver to move off the pavement, and then said to witness, " Move on ;" that witness said he was going to ride by the omnibus, upon which the defendant shoved him against the horses ; that witness said he should report the defendant, who forthwith seized him by the collar, pushed him right across the street to Charlotte-row, and said how he had served other pople ; that witness expressed his readi ness to go to the station•hous, end that before going thither, the charge was dismissed by the insp ec t or . The witness declared, that although treated with such gross indignity, and in the presence of a vast number of per sons, he had behaved with the greatest forbearance, and bad not usad a word .of provoking language, although he could not but confess that he f e lt mus h diffi cu lty in refraining from punishing a person who had acted so grossly upon the spot. The appearance of the complainant strongly indicad that ho could have retaliated in a very effective manner. ittt at John Thornton, the driver of the omnibus, stated to about twenty minutes to six o'clock he was pr s t ar t for Hampstead, and was standing ordered them with the conductor, when the defendant charge was put off; that the gentleman who made t..) when the de. on the omnibus, ting on his gloves to ride nt oli the footway are horse, and when he attemptedevery n , to p h us e h x e tp d os h tt i n m late aga c i o n l s i t the d and T wdroangtgneedrlii,iemrsvoinoslexcintinyfiarrnereods_s int foregoing statements. Mr. Cheesewright said there were other witnesses whose evidence was precisely similar to what had been already stated. The defendant, upon being called upon to account for his conduct, said that it was his duty to keep the corner of Princes-street clear, in consequence of its vicinity to the Bank and banking-houses, and that persons con IRISH PRODUCE. It will be seen from the subjoined list of provisions which have arrived from Ireland at the ports of London, Liverpool, and Bristol during the past week, and since our last notice on the subject, that the im portations from that quarter continue of an extensive and important character. On the 25th the arrivals in the river Thames from the Irish ports consisted of 364 quarters of oats, 808 hampers of bacon, 231 packages of butter, 604 of lard, 40 of hams, 64G of pork, a quantity of tongues, and various other articles. On the following day the importations comp r i se d 32 pac k ages o f h ams , 344 pack ages - of bacon, 220 of malt, 124 of butter, 87 of eggs, 129 of la an r i(d ( i l d , vi provisions ae 2 s,r 7 io o u6 f s2ootfhrer inppros(i produce, pin different iewkiangdeins kinds, 20 of pork, 37 of other merchandise. On the same da g Y fli s np , : 7 nr 24 erra q 'g rt s,4 ar o t po e a r f s p'eY o ri f :i o sak a ny t d : were imported into Runcorn from the port of Ballina. On the next day, 1,550 barrels and 1,340 quarters of oats arrived in the river Thames; and the imports into the port of Bris tol from the sister country at the same period consisted of 40 barrels of pork, 187 firkins and 10 kegs of butter, several packages of hams, 282 of lard, 41 sacks of pollard, 180 of bacon. 674 barrels of oats, 55 of general provisions, 34 pack ages of whisky, several packages of flour, hams, and various other articles of mi nor i mportance, the pro d uce oithat country. On the 28th ult. 2,202 quarters and 867 barrels of oats were imported into the port of London. The following is the list of articles of consumption imported into the port of Liver pool from the Irish ports during the last week, being from the 20th to the 26th ult. inclusive :-2,853 firkins, 144 half. firkins, 502 baskets, and 131 boxes of butter ; 98 bags, 70 tons weight, and 2,323 bushels of wheat ; 5,485 sacks and 75 tons weight of flour; 48 tons weight, 130 bags, and 233 barrels of oats; 20 bags, 150 other packages, and 75 tons weight of oatmeal; 532 sacks and 100 quarters of malt; 15 6ab4anrdkree4lgsbsoaafrrnbedelesfso;r7 hamsbttelBrlr) a rl barrels e o2 l f s op a o n r d k l ; 4 kegs of general provisions; packages 49 ohfhdtosn.,g9oetsie;rc4oes,3Bbbararleeiss, of bacon ; 715 boxes a n d ti erc es, 59 bales, and 15 other packages of linens and cottons ; 98 puncheons, 13 hhds., and 2 other packages of whisky ; 38 casks, 70 firkins, and 358 kegs of lard ; 60 sacks of farina, and other articles of minor importance. Several vessels arrived in the River Thames on Monday, having on board col lectively, 2 0 ,0 f ob3ntpackagester,7 of farina 1 62 8 of tongues,of ba con , flour,s 31 of lard, 318 of 849 ad2is6of e, packages 72 mid dles,foof eggs, 63 of malt, 687 sac k s of oats, 4 4 pac k ages o f h ams , 6 8 opfapgeern2o general provisions, shoulders, 81 p ac k ages pork,o6f9smoefrch n linen, in addition to numerous packages of porter, whisky, skins, leather, hides, feathers, yarn, and indeed every other description of food and merchandise of Irish production, of too numerous a nature to be further particularised. Finally, the arrivals at this port from Ireland on Tuesday, the 31st ult., comprised 149 barrels and 20 tierces of pork, 34 pack ages of lard, 465 packages of bacon, 446 firkins and 14 kegs of butter, 28 packages of general provisions, 479 packages of eggs, 40 hhds and 118 kilderkins of porter, 135 pigs loose, and 9 crates of the same description of animals, besides numerous packages of linens, whisky, and other articles. It will be seen that there is evidently no falling off in the variety or extent of the different description of provisions furnished to us by the sister island, notwithstanding the distress and want of such articles which exist in many parts of the country where they are produced. We do not mention these importations with any view of a political nature at the present time, when the Legislature have the country to which they refer under their especial deliberation, and when the attention of the people of this country is so particularly and forcibly drawn to the distress existing among the numerous poor of that fruitful island, but simply to give a correct and authentic list of them, as affording a subject of peculiar interest and im- Fa ci e ' k t a onfe paatthity is n p t e h r e i osdo, n il of o t r h d e e r p to t o o w p t r h o a d t u c t e h e re food,is lams the extensive exports from all parts of Ireland to this coun trypofart paramount nu t nn a tt h ti u onr n t d e rf a oe n rs t t l s oa r tt p ii direorism-pe importance. l or e tr a ite v asn T et g eo. t w h h e o f na u r t t h h e o r considerationf LIGITTERMEN, &c.—The Revenue authorities having had under their consideratio n a re p rese ntation from the thesec committee of licensed Lightermen, at the p or t ofet sec retary t o London, s t a ting the difficulties experie nce d b y t h em i n r complying with that portio n of the orders issued by th ose authorities, dated June, 1841, and November last, which re quire d referred reco rd rants in the them to endorse on their licenses the names of the ser vants respectively authorised to act for them, and also the re st e in n g t t e l f ia t t he un n d a er tne t s he e c f ir t c h e e m sse t nas recommendation of their principal officrwenrlsllionwft,itthhe certificate, ttn licenses of lightermen may be in future dispensed with, and that certain specified forms be used, the former showing the t t o h , e the sam e en s d u o g r g s endorsement manner in which the searchers, or officers on the part of the or second approved form, by the lighterm on , o C n ro t w h n e , s r ip p p O i l n li g tett ll o t s h u e p p e r r e in d t u e e n t d ie t n li t e e s t hi i a servants, at the time of the delivery of the goods into their • custody; it has been resolved that the .proposition of the officers alluded to is approved, and orders have been issued to the partments for the officers to govern therne o l ve , in s9veral de accordingly, The following is the form of certificateservant sin. au to : I hereby authorise and appoint (mentioning the alluded of the party) to receive bounty drawback, and name goods, duly cleared for exportation, as ships' stores, warehouseandto sign the usual receipts for such goods, when receivedinto the lighter. on shipping bills for me,,as lighter man, licensed by the Commissioners of her Majesty s Cu s t oms _ Sig Licensed ned on be le t halt of the Committee of e Lightermen, Sce. ,rlie s i gna ture of the secretary Committe e i s to be affixed to this certificate , with the date of the emu e . This new re• of considerable importance to the numerous • gelation is nerous parties trading as licensed lightermen, and conn e cted w • ith the shp -otrade of the port of London, and will effect the removal pin , , 8 complained of.— • 1 of the inconvenierce Nautecat Standard. Ad l ' We paid a visit to the e aide Gallery on Monday evening, to witness the performance of the Bell Ilarmonists, and we really had no id ee that s_uli beautiful harmony could be produced on hand bells. _ Most of our readers will re member a set of ringers whoplayed at the Adelphi Theatre, some three years back, while oftluien?r an engagement with Mr. Anderson, the Wizard bell in North ; but those parties one only performed with mentioned hand, whereas the party at the Gallery above have four bells each, or two in each hand, and followingby__ the different notes in succession produce the most delightful harmony. It is very evident they have had a vast deal of practice. IVe under stand they are only engaged for a fortnight, as they have to appear in a few days on the continent, where we have no doubt they will be well received by our musical neighbours. ECLIPSE.—There will be an annular eclipse of the sun on Saturday, the 25th instant, partially visible at Greenwich. It will commence at 51i. 32m. afternoon; middle, 611. 14m. afternoon ; and end 611, 4m. afternoon. netted with omnibuses very much increased the difficul ties of such a situation. He assured the Alderman that the violence attributed to him was very much exagge rated by all the rarties, and he was perfectly justified, in consequence of the refusal of the complainant when or dered to move on, to proceed exactly in the course he had adopted. Alderman Ginns—Have you any witnesses? Tho defendant—No. Alderman Ginns—l am at all times anxious to pro tect the police in the performance of their duties, but I also owe a duty to the public. It is evident that in this affair you used a great deal of needless violence. You ought not to have collared and dragged the gentleman in the way desoribed. I shall deal with you under the Police Act, and fine you 20s. and costs, or fourteen days' imprisonment. The defendant very soon produced the money, end paid the fine. James Roberts, porter at Toms' coffeehouse, was charged with having assaulted his master. From the account given by Mr. Curtis, the prosecutor, it appesred that the def'enchnt, having got leave to go out on the preceding thy, retur ne d h ome at e l even o'clock at night drunk,- ran down to .the kitchen where his master and mistress were, stripped to fight, and struck his master, who returned the blow in such a manner as to disfigure his assailant. That blow, how ever, only made the defendant more desperate, and a policeman was obliged to be sent for to take him into special protection. The defendant was fined 10s. IMPORTANT PAWNBROKING CASE. CAUTION TO PARTIES ILLEGALLY PLEDGING. Two young woman, named Mary Ann Richards and Ann Attersly, were charged at the Warwickshire Assizes with having been found in possession of certain articles, xnowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Miller, instructed by Mr. T. Harding, appeared on behalf of the prosecution. The pri soners were undefended. Mr. Miller, in stating the case, said that the prosecrticel had been instituted by the Pawnbrokers' Society of Birming ham, for the protection of the trade from parties pledging articles feloniously obtained. The reason why the present prosecution had been commenced was because, according to law, if stolen property is pledged with a pawnbroker, and that property was afterwards discovered to have been stolen and found in the pawnbroker's possession, he was bound to deliver it up to the right owner without receiving the amount of money he had advanced upon it. It could easily be seen that, by artful representations, the most respectable men in the above -named trade could be plundered to a great ex tent. Indeed, the practice of pledging stolen articles had been carried to such a height in Birmingham, that the trade were now determined by all the means .in their power to put a stop to it. With respect to the case against the prisoners at the bar, should the jury return a verdict of guilty, it was not the intention of the prosecutors to press for any severe punishment, the present being the first case of the kind that had been brought before the Court, and that principally for the showing parties acting, as he should show the prisoners had acted, the punishment to which they were liable for the offence. After some other observations, Mrs. Atkins of Worcester, deposed, that her house had been broken open on the night of the sth of January last, and a variety of articles stolen therefrom, among which were two shawls and two scarfs, which were found to have been pledged by the prisoners at the shops of Mr. T. Hadley and s Mr. Haywood Vernon. Mr. Hadley and Mr. Vernon, jun., were then examined, and proved that on the eve n i ng o f the 6th instant the two pri soners brought the articles in question to the respective shops of the witnesses, and pledged them ; in one instance for 10s., and in the other 12s. ; at each place representing the property as their own, and mentioning the amount they had given for the goods. Police -constable Edmunds and a woman named Langford, proved that the prisoners were in company with the two men who had committed the burglary on the evening that the articles were pledged, and that the prisoners had since given evidence on the trial of the men who were convicted at the last Worcester assizes and stated that they had pledged the articles at the request of the two men. The Learned Judge having summed up,.the jury returned a verdict of Guilty against the prisoners for being in possession of the property, knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Justice Coltman, in passing sentence upon the pri soners, said,—The prosecutors in this case, through the Learned Gentleman who conducted it, have interceded somewhat in your favour, in consequence of this being the first prosecution of the kind. I must say that the prosecu tion is a very proper one; and it was perfectly right on the part of the pawnbrokers to carry out these cases, which are occurring every day. I only wonder that they have not before carried out these cases ; but this being the first case of the kind that has been brought before the Court, I shall not sentence von to so severe a punishment as otherwise I should have felt it my duty to have passed upon you. I. wish you to understand, that for the offence of which you have been found guilty, you are liable to be transported for fourteen years, but, for the reasons I have named in this case, I shall only sentence you to be imprisoned for two calendar months, with hard labour.—Birmingham Pilot. CAPTAIN GROVER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. DEAR Sin,—You have been kind enough to insert my letter to the friends of Captain Conolly ; I am sure that you will also not object to insert the following appeal TO ALL THE OFFICERS OF HER MAJESTY'S ARMY. Most gallant of warriors. and at the same time the most generous of warriors the world ever has seen I—You very frequently extricated me from difficulty and distress, and only lately I was enabled through the gallant, generous, and noble-minded conduct of one of your comrades—the ardent lover of the British army, Captain Grover—and with his assistance to undertake the journey to Bokhara. You have already read in the newspaper that I disclaim all right to a compensation from Government, for, as Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly had been killed twelve months at least previous to my arrival at Bokhara, I was not suc cessful in my enterprise; but I consider it very hard indeed that the noble-minded Captain Grover should have suffered in his purse, and not only in his purse, but that lie actually should have lost his promotion in the army, on account of his zeal in his attempt to liberate the prisoners. I, therefore, take the liberty to attempt to excite your interest and sym pathy in behalf of your noble-minded fellow officer, Captaiet Grover, who at different periods has displayed the highest enthusiasm in the service of our Queen and country. When there was a likelihood that war would break out with America, he offered to outfit a whole regiment at his ow* expense. He spent 500/. on my account, and offered 3504 for every English soldier I should be able to ransom. Gallant and noble-minded officers, in case that it should not be inconsistent with your military duty, I beseech you to petition on behalf of my noble-minded friend, Captain Grover, who actually has suffered, even in his health, on account of the death of Captain Conolly, Colonel Stoddart, and Captain Wyburd, in order that he may obtain his promotion in the army, and that the five hundred pounds may be repaid to him ; and in case that you should be inclined to repay Min the said five hundred pounds which he spent on my account, I solemnly promise that I shall reimburse you the sum as soon as the third edition of the narrative of my expedition to Bokhara, which shall be published in a few days, will be sold off ; for I am determined not to allow that my beloved and zealous friend, Captain Grover, should suffer on my ac count. I beseech you, therefore, do not disregard my appeal to you. When I was robbed of everything in Mesopotamia, Major Keppel, at Bagdad, assisted me. When I was ill at Bus sorah, Colonel and Captain Taylor assisted me. When I was plundered by pirates near Salonica, Captain Adolph Slade assisted me. After my liberation from slavery in Khoras saun, Captain Shee and five English sergeants assisted me. When robbed of everything in Affghanistan, Sir Alexander Burns assisted me. At Busheer I was assisted by Colonel Stannes ; upon the Mount Caucasus by General Russell; at Teheraun by Sir Henry Willock and Sir John Campbell. Having thus always received l benefits by British officers, I do not deserve any compensation for my late expedition. But noble Captain Grover is deserving at least not to be a loser by his attempt, which he hitherto has been. Noble and generous officers, grant my request on behalf of Captain Grover !_ Your most affectionate servant, JOSEPH WOLFF, Vicar of Isle Brewers, near Langport, in Somersetabiri. Bolton-le-Moore, April 7, 1846. COURT CIRCULAR. TheQueenan d in tPriinecgoaArdnlebasrtotro Buckingham m i g r h a a ccu p st a o l m ac ed e. early walk yesterday,Their Royal lfiglinesses the Prince of 'Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken their usual walks and rides yesterday in the royal pleasure. grounds. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Liverpool, and Captain the Hon. James C. P.Murray. The Marchioness of Douro has succeeded the Viscountess Jocelyn as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. Viscount Sydney has succeeded Lord Rivers as the Lord in Waiting to her Majesty, and Colonel Berkeley Drummond has suc ceeded Mr. R. Ormsby Gore as the Gi;:iem in Waiting to her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of• Kent visited her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. Prince CaAelcicr.la, the Neapolitan Minister, transacted business at the Foreign-office yesterday. His Excellency attended the debate in the House of Commons last evening. The Bishop of London had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Lady Peel and family left town yesterday for Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. THE HISTORY OF MARGARET CATCHPOLE...-Bir THE Ey. R. COBBOLD.—THIRD EDITION.—NOt only is truth often more wonderful than fiction, but it is always more interesting. The conviction that the facts of a strange eventful history have really happened, and are not the mere creation of the narrator's fancy, adds a tenfold zest to the story; and this very great advantage the history of 111flr . garet Catchpole has, for its truthful character wins the faith of the reader. The chief incidents are of so extraordinary a nature as abundantly to gratify the most craving appet it e d the moral of such as to satisfy the most critical taste; s a g n e , ere of poetic the story ought to content the sternest a a . rt for the wonderful and exciting; the literary execution is be derived front jastice. Much valuable instruction ma} 1 i t i he y narrative renders the perusal, which the lively s tyle i, , has gone through _i a g.. pa Tp e eprevious editions high and the work in very general have already established happens that we have the oppor ai we do the e e v m h i i n cl e i n t t h ly e p h l i e s a to sa rv nt estimation; and it rarely t , the notice of our readers any tucity of TOCOMMentri . n., ° h c 1 , . . aariilidiarignaterreetsu te.h 1 with Co me. con A cnct . of this extraordinary female.—Leeds Inteliisencer. story scoylm _ y or ANCIENT RustAiNs.—At the Temple farm on the banks of the Medway, a short distance above work of this kind Vochestor-bridge, formerly possessed by the Knights Tem plar, who in the reign of Henry :I. had a noble mansion. there, Mr. Everist has recently commenced extensive works, in brick-making, and on Wednesday week the workmen, at, the depth of about seven feet, came to a human skeleto' n, lying on its back, with the hands folded on the chest ; a spear-head was lying on the lower part of the chest, ar id a, weapon, which appeared to have been a dagger, on Ova left. hand side of the skeleton. The spear head is 0 inch es me length, and has a socket, in which to insert the handle, but.; no trace of this, or of the handle of the dagger, was found ; the dagger is 8 1 . inches long, and composed of tw o separate* pieces, viz., a blade and a narrow flat piece of iron for a hilt, which appear to have been imperfectly welded, or bound together with some perishable material. Portions of Roman flue and common tiles had been used to fill up the grave, from which it may be inferred that the interments took place during the latter period of the occupation of this island by the Romans. On Saturday another skeleton was discovered, which appeared to have been carelessly thrown into its grave, as it was lying on its side, with one arm on its back, and the knees bent almost at right angles. Wlth