The Sun. — London, England, 1837-09-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Already have two branches of the Legislature de dared that education should be encouraged. A reso lution of the Commons, triumphantly carried, in op position to the Ministry of the day, recommended the granting of a charter to a University of large and libe ral character ; and the Sovereign to whom that recom mendation was addressed, announced in the charter which he accordingly gave, " that he deemed it to be the duty of his royal office, for the advancement of religion and morality, and the promotion of useful knowledge, to hold forth to all classes and denomina tions of his subjects, without any distinction whatso ever, an encouragement for pursuing a regular and liberal course of education." The progress of educa tion is irresistible : its friends who think that progress slow are anxious that it should be accelerated, while many of its enemies, who are aware that it cannot be stopped, are willing that it should be regulated. It is indisputably clear, therefore, that however reluctant one Estate of the Realm may be to entertain the subject, it will force itself on the attention of the Legislature. Indeed, by making the annual grant of 20,0001. for the purpose of building school-houses, Parliament has admitted that the in struction of the poor classes is matter of Legislative concern. The principle that education is good for the people being thus settled, we think that those best labour for its practical adoption who devote their skill and industry to the ascertainment of that in which good education consists, and in devising and discuss ing the plans, means, and working details which are calculated most fully and perfectly to realise it. Un der that impression we have read with much pleasure the first publication of the Central Society of Educa tion, and can assure our readers that the whole of its eontents will amply repay the trouble of an attentive perusal. In all, or nearly all, the continental nations the province of education is entrusted to some state officer, council, or board, who have a control, more or less perfect, over all the educational estab lishments, and arc responsible to the Government and the public for the due exercise of their high func tions. flow long it may be before those who lord it over us will be found willing to concur in the creation of a department in this country, as was propoied by Lord Brougham, is mere matter of conjecture ; but the Legislature having already interfered in the instruction of the humbler classes, it is matter not of doubt but certainty that they must follow up what they hive begun, by rendering their interference effective and beneficial. The beneficent intentions of our rulers in aiding individual subscriptions for erecting school hou,es need not be doubted ; and if they had expressed the means by which their good intentions should be executed, and if all the officers—that is to say, some thousand independent and unconnected Committees aunt Secretaries, and some ten thousand teachers, mo nitors, and masters—were able and willing to fulfil them, the country would have received value for the money granted. But the Legislature has not pointed out the means to be pursued—nor has it clone any thin° , to secure the aptitude, or obedience of the officers. 'What it has done it has done more compendiously and simply by dividing the money between sThools under the superintendence of two rival societies, upon the supposition and confidence that the principle of competition between them would cfr.-ct every good that could be desired. The true rivalry of the societies is another matter to which the ducation they promote is confessedly subsidiary : they are rivals in religion, and their object, therefore, is to make proselytes, not to teach them how to act or think. Fine prospects fur education truly ! We ad mire the idea of con - petition working out utility, but in this case we suspect that if the plan works effectu ally, the country would have more bigots than enlight ened citizens, and that the competitive action will be I,.;and rather to neutralize good than produce it. Religi ous instruction is highly proper, and should be ade quately provided for in every scheme of education ; hut it should not he of that character which teaches men to congratulate themselves with pharisaic complacency that they are not as other men—Churchmen—Catholics— Heretics. The societies calling themselves the Na tional and the British and Foreign School Societies are also irresponsible and private associations, and the schools on which the money has been bestowed are mere voluntary foundations. The money has in fact been sunk, and the houses erected on private property, awl no control over the buildings or schools has been retained. It has been a mere finance transaction from beginning to end. No doubt the houses have been built, but has any account been ever rendered about them ? School-houses are primary requisites, but are not education. Abroad normal schools (schools for training masters) are deemed requisite, and the art of pedagogy is cultivated. We are not aware that any por tion of the public money has been diverted to this object. Indeed, the necessity of training teachers may fairly be questioned in a country where, under the pre valent system of education, masters are produced end reared in the schools with unrivalled simplicity and expedition, and neither skill, judgment, nor dis cretion is required ill their composition. Nature does all the work. Immediately that one child is found less ignorant than others, he is ripe for the office of teaching them I To ordinary eyes education re quires some time to develop itself, but there are now thousands who, when children, were instructed on this system. Let some Committee or Commission be ap pointed to examine as to what useful knowledge this class learnt in national and other schools, when " boys taught them." The sooner they are examined, and the more widely they are examined, the better ; for the sooner and the more generally will the public delu sion on this so-called education be dispelled. It would be found that the voluntary and charity school system is a miserable expedient, and Bell's plan of tuition a failure. But wretched as this instruction is, it should be remembered that it is only a portion of the children of the humbler classes that obtain even anything so good, while a much larger portion are destitute of all moral and useful learning whatever. It is an awful and deplorable state of things, and the reflection on it in the minds of those who have the power, ought to excite the inclination and prompt determination to re dress it.—Morning Chronicle. It would seem, from time profound silence of the Ministerial prints on the subject of O'Connell's letter to the " people of Ireland," that their patrons feel that Daniel has divulged a vast deal too much respect ing the compact which the Whigs have entered into with the person who favoured them with the genteel and agreeable epithets, " base, brutal, and bloody." As we have already observed, the humbug of " Jus tice to Ireland" is at an end in England. O'Connell himself has admitted that the measures which lie enu merates as constituting " Justice to Ireland" can very well be dispensed with so long as he is paid for hold ing his tongue—he has confessed that he means to clamour for them only when he is unbribed, and that he will not suffer a Ministry " to be blamed" for not passing them while his mouth is stopped with the hush-money he can realise from the sale of his share of the.patronage of Government. But what a compact is this I—how disgraceful to the unprincipled Whigs, how dangerous to the State ! We never thought Lord Palmerston much of a conjurer, and did we not bear in mind that nature in her vagaries has often inspired fools, we could not have believed, even upon the au thority of Hansard's Debates, that in March, 1813, the ci-devant jeune homme could have made the fol lowing speech : " The great stand has been made upon the admission of Catholics into the two House of Parliament, and the danger apprehended is, that they will influence the deci. cision of the Houses in some vote which might, directly or indirectly, affect the Protestant establishments ofthe empire. Show, how does this stand ? 4 'ln the House of Lords their wunbers must of necessity be too small to have any effect upon the decisions of that body. In the House of Com mons the number would undoubtedly be greater, but would still bear so very small a proportion to the whole, as to render it absolutely impossible for them to carry any such point by themselves. Now, I beg to say that I am in clined to think that Catholics coming into this house would, much in the same way that Protestants do, range thew selves u nder the banners of the different political parties which might exist within its walls, according as they might he influenced by c onsiderations of personal connexion or political feelings ; but, supposing, for the sake of argument, that they move in one compact mass, directly all their ef .l)rts to the attainment of this particular object—by them selves they would be powerless ; they must then bar with some great Protestant par ty , and barter - 'heir aid in the contest fir the concession of their object when the victory should be gained. Now, I know well I that, in a popular Constitution like ours, when con flicting parties are nearly balanced, when all the pas- Biome of the mind are roused, and the prize to be fought for is nothing less than the direction of the affairs of a great and mighty empire, men may be led to make large sacri fices at the shrine of political ambition. The history of the country, unfortunately, is not without such examples. But, whatever may be the errors of individuals, I can never bring myself to believe that there would, at any time, be found in this house a sufficiently powerful and numerous Protestant party, so profligate in principle, and so dead to a sense of everything which would be due to themselves and to their country, as to barter away the religious esta blishment c f any part of the empire for the gratification of political ambition. But supposing, again, this combination of improbabilities to occur, and such a vote to be extorted from that House, I trust that there would still be found, in the other House of Pailiament, in a Protestant Sove reign, and, above all, in the indignant feeling of a betrayed people, barriers amply sufficient to protect the Protestant establishments of the empire from profanation by such sa crilegious hands." • Three years ago we should have been as incredulous as Lord Palmerston was in 1813 as to the existence of a Protestant party in the House of Commons " so profligate in principle, and so dead to a sense of every thing that would be due to themselves and to their country, as to barter away the religious establishment of any part of the empire for the gratification of po litical ambition." But three years have passed away, and we have seen Lord Palmerston—the scrub and errand-boy of former Administrations—holding high rank in the Ministry of a party` which, called Protes tant, has not only leagued itself with a Papist gang, but declared by its chief in the House of Lords, that it desires to give a " heavy blow and a great discou ragement to Protestantism in Ireland"—we have seen Lord Palmerston one of that " great Protestant party" which has been unprincipled enough to accept at Lich field-house the Papists' " barter of their aid" for the concession of Popish supremacy and the Repeal of the Union, to be achieved when the Whigs shall be triumphant over the Conservatives. But, happily, we know what Lord Palmerston only trusted he should find—we know that in the " other House of Parlia ment" and in " a Protestant Sovereign" (though she be of " Hanoverian parentage," and has " sucked Lutheran milk")—we know that, " above all, in the indignant feeling of a betrayed people, barriers amply sufficient to protect the Protestant Establishment of the empire from profanation by such sacrilegious hands" will certainly befound.—Times. The plan of raising a public subscription to defray the expenses of election petitions touching Irish seats in Parliament is, we admit, a departure from the ordi. nary practice ; but the case is a novel one, and extra ordinary evils require extraordinary remedies. When a town is on fire, who but a fool would think of putting it out with a bucket of water ? In such a case use must have recourse to the public reservoir ; no private cistern can be sufficient for the purpose. When the contest is about a seat in Parliament on the ordinary grounds of unqualified persons being admitted to vote, or qualified persons being refused, or the election hav ing been tainted with bribery or vitiated by some tech nical irregularity, the parties should he left to contest the seat upon their own private resources. But very different, indeed, are cases of that sort from the state of things which has originated the public sub scription to support the election petitions of Con servative candidates in Ireland. A general system of intimidation, violence, and fraud, has been or ganized and acted upon in that country by a des perate and reckless faction, which has led to the usur pation of several seats, and which, if not stopped, must extinguish altogether the freedom of election. If the elective franchise be au important public trust, which ought to be exercised for the public benefit, it greatly interests the public that it should be freely ex ercised. But how can it be exercised in Ireland freely, or exercised at all, by Conservative electors, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, if such electors cannot approach the hustings but at the peril of their lives ? To be beaten to a mummy, or torn in pieces by the hands of a ferocious rabble, is a heavy price to pay for the exercise of a political right ; yet it was at these risks that Conservatives approached the hustings at most of the late elections in three out of the four pro vinces of Ireland. The consequence is, that numbers of them have been maimed and crippled for life, and some have been cruelly and deliberately murdered. Witness the horrible case of Allen and 'Kenzie, where the murder was six days in the course of perpe tration—the unfortunate victims of the Popish barba rians having been first disabled, and then starved to death ! Blood cries to heaven against the savages who practised in Ireland " the skull and cross-bones system" of violence and murder. Can the English public view the sufferings of their Protestant brethren with indiffe rence and apathy ? Is not the Constitution itself, in which every Englishman has an interest, deeply wounded in the persons of those Protestants ? The Ministerial journals, seriously alarmed, and with good cause, for the existence of the Popish majority, vehemently decry the subscription—call its promoters barrators, and declare the proceeding to be illegal and unconstitutional. It is no more " barratry" than the common case of a sub scription to prosecute felons by the inhabitants of a particular district associated in self-defence, or a sub scription by the public to prosecute persons violating the provisions of Martin's Act, for the protection of animals from cruelty. Surely the lives and limbs of our Protestant fellow-subjects of Ireland are at least entitled to as much protection as those of the horses, cows, and donkeys which the British public subscribe to protect from the inhuman application of the whips and bludgeons of brutal Smithfield drovers and ruffi anly costermongers. Should the Protestants of Ire land avail themselves of the legal right to defend their lives by going armed to the hustings, and kill any of their cowardly assailants, they will have a hostile Go vernment to struggle with, as well as an infuriated po pulace. But when the savage mobs who exercise such violence, and the priestly and lay agitators who insti gate them, find that their atrocious efforts to crush the freedom of election are unavailing, and that seats thus criminally usurped cannot be retained, they will abstain ' from atrocities that bring them no advantage.—Morn ing Herald. To those who are acquainted with the manner in which the French telegraph is worked, so far as Penin sular news is concerned, no surprise will be occasioned at the monstrous fabrication which we announced and contradicted in Monday's publication. It was cer tainly a bold stretch of imagination to proclaim the Charter at Lisbon, and to deliver the Queen of Por tugal of a son, particularly in the face of accounts which might hourly be expected through the direct channel of England. But so resolute a falsehood shows that the directors of the telegraph are with out fear or shame, and that if they can deceive the public they heed not how unblushingly it may be , done. We have more than once cautioned the British public against been deceived by the flying despatches of the telegraph on Spanish affairs, and we feel that we have done considerable good. No one now gives credit to the first announcement of any great event, and it is only when confirmed from other quarters that its due effect is produced in the Stock Exchange. We have heard some curious par ticulars as to the manner in which these Spanish des ' patches are prepared, but we have abstained until now from repeating them, lest they should not be founded in fact ; but the last fabrication of the tele graph is so barefaced that no imputation on its ma nagement can be deemed a libel. We are told that a well-known police-agent, employed directly by Louis Philippe, who has a perfect acquaintance with Spain, and of the different personages engaged in the civil war, is stationed at Bayonne, for the purpose of ma nufacturing those despatches in the manner best calcu lated to suit the views of the French Court. All the telegraphic announcements, whether dated from Per pignan, Narbonne, Toulouse, or Bordeaux are in vented and prepared by him ; and they are sent on to Paris direct from him, though they are pub , fished by the Government as if they came from the • respective places whence they are dated. Some- I times these despatches agree on a given fact—more frequently they contradict each other—the object at that moment being to distract, and not to inform, the public mind. They are favourable to the Chris . tinos in proportion to the successes of the Carlists, except on the occasion when the truth of any event is finally made known, and the Carlist triumphs are held back until they are made certain through some THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 837. other sources. The telegraphic accounts are generally received at two o'clock in Paris, and are then sent on to London and Antwerp, for operations in the public funds. They are next used at the Bourse, and fre quently sold there for whatever they will bring, and then they are published in the Charte at nine o'clock unless it is deemed prudent to hold them over for the Moniteur next .day.‘ We have known cases where the despatches have been published in London, and suppressed at Paris, much to the astonishment and chagrin of those who received the intelligence out of the due course ; and we have known occasions where the information was suppressed altogether, both in Paris and London. The last announcement, relative to Portugal, puts a seal on the character of the tele graph, and the public will, we have no doubt, make up its mind not to place credit in it any longer. — Morning Post. SURREY SESSIONS-TUESDAY. John Ellington, a youth, and Elizabeth, his mother, were indicted, the former for stealing a quantity of clothes, the property of a labouring man at Kingston, and the latter as the receiver, knowing them to have been stolen. The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty, but recom mended them to mercy, the boy on the ground of his youth, and the mother owing to her previously good character. The CHAIRMAN said that the Court was always anxious and willing to pay every attention to the recommendations of the Jury, but in this instance the mother had exhibited such profligacy of conduct in encouraging her own son in a robbery that it was absolutely necessary for the ends of justice that an example should be made of her ; and for that purpose the sentence of the Court was that the mother be transported for seven years, and that the youth her son be committed for 14 days to Brixton, to remain for that period in solitary confinement, and to be once privately whipped. Mr. GASELEE made application to the Court to grant warrants for the apprehension of seven men, named Coombs, Durden, Aston, Lewis, Barlow, Hamblin, and Connor, charged with keeping a common gambling-house in this district.—The application was granted. Thomas Pearson, a well-dressed young man, was in dicted for stealing a chest of tea, the property of W. Struker, a tea•dealer, in Budge-row. . . The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and be was son tenced to six months' imprisonment in Guildford Gaol. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. The LORD MAYOR said that he had good reason to be lieve that the conversation which took place a few days ago in the Justice-room on the long-established practice of ex torting twopence for the carriage of parcels had produced a very good effect. He had not only received the assurances of commercial men to that effect, but he had been favoured with a letter from one of those who, he had no doubt, had been long deriving a wicked benefit from impositions of the kind ; and observed, that if the gentlemen who were in the habit of extorting the twopences objected to his sentiments and adjudication, it was for them to appeal, and not for thole who complained of being cheated. A warehouieman, who stated that he received parcels occasionally from the country, said that the public were under the greatest obligations to the Lord Mayor for the change which had been caused by the tone in which his Lordship had attacked the system of extortion which had been so long acted upon. He knew that a firm resistance was determined upon on the part of people in trade. The LORD MAYOR—I have already stated the course which I consider it would be most prudent to adopt. Let every case within my jurisdiction be brought before me, and I shall not consider it beneath the dignity of chief magistrate to call the offenders by their right names, as well as to give them the full benefit of the law. The bookkeeper of the White Bear, in Basinghall-strea, was summoned on Monday by Messrs. Currie, the bankers, of Cornhill, before the Lord Mayor. Mr. John Lawford, clerk at Messrs. Currie's, stated that a parcel was brought on Saturday to the banking-house by a man who said he had brought it from the White Bear, in Basinghall-street, aid demanded eightpence perter, , ge. The ticket on which the porterage was charged was from the Bell and Crowe Inn, Holborn. Mr. Gilbert, who appeared for the book-keeper, stated that the parcel arrived by the Dover coach, which put up at the Bell and Crown, and at no other inn, and that of course the regulations of the Act directed that the porterage should be charged from the place at which the coach stopped. The LORD MAYOR—I dismiss the complaint against you on this explanation. Mr. Gilbert—Has your Lordship any power to order us the expences? We have had a great deal of trouble. The LORD MAYOR—I shall not order any thing of the kind. There was probable cause of complaint, and you owe the inconvenience to which you have been put to your own ticket, which made it appear as if the parcel was sent from the White Bear. A pretty little girl, the daughter of a chair-stuffer, was put to the bar charged by her mother, who appeared to be in deep affliction, with having purposed to run away with a Smithfield drover, named Bill Griggers. The mother said that she had a large family of children, all of whom were exceedingly affectionate and obedient, except Susan, who was between sixteen and seventeen years of age, and who degraded herself by associating with the drover. The LORD MAYOR (to the girl)—lt is quite evident that his object is to destroy, and afterwards laugh at you. I hope you will consider the deplorable condition of your poor parents, and shun the fellow. I shall( ord,r his number to be taken, and deal with him in such a man ner as will make him remember what he has been about. I shall certainly look after the fellow. In the meantime the obstinate and mean-spirited girl shall be locked up by herself in the Compter. A young man named Melkinson was charged with having followed Mr. Booker, one of the parish officers of Bishops gate, from place to place for money. The parish officer said that at his request the defendant had been dismissed from the bar on Saturday, when charged with having, as a pauper, behaved in a most annoying manner to the authorities. The LORD MAYOR—Let him be well worked at the mill in Bridewell. I shall go myself to see that he has plenty o, what he does not like. Committed for 21 days to hard labour. BOW- STREET. CHARGE OF FELoxy.---Ilamphrey Taylor was brought up on suspicion of having stolen a quantity of smith's tools, the property of Charles Leabridge, of 129, Great Wilda street. Mr. TWYFORD said as there was no evidence to satisfy him that the prisoner had taken the tools, he must be dis charged for the present. He would, however, be liable to be apprehended again if the charge could be brought home to him. MARLBORO UGH- STREET. Yesterday Alfred Grant, a lad about nineteen years of age, of sullen aspect, was brought before Mr. DYER, charged with having attempted to stab his mother, and also with having stabbed his brother with a carving knife. The mother, a very respectable person, shortly after wards entered the office, and with visible reluctance ad mitted that the prisoner had made a stab at her, and that her life was saved in consequence of the knife coming against the bone of her stays. The mother further added that it was not the first time the prisoner had attempted to stab her. He was, unfortunately, addicted to drink, and when he was under the influence of liquor he was like a madman. The prisoner said he was not in drink on Monday ; he was irritated at some expressions used by his brother rela tive to his not having been at work. Mr. DYER said it was a most fortunate circumstance for him that his matricidal intentions had not taken effect, for had his mother's death ensued he would infallibly have been hanged, amid the execrations of all who were ac quainted with his crime. Mr. DYER then inquired of the mother what punish ment she wished him to inflict. He was ready to hold the prisoner to bail, either for two or twelve months. The mother seemed to wish to have the prisoner re leased, and with what appeared to be foolish lenity merely required the prisoner to promise " to be a good boy," as the price of her complete forgiveness. Mr. DYER, however, would not allow the prisoner to escape so easy, and accordingly held him to bail until the next sessions ; at the same time intimating to the mother that he was satisfied her kindness was entirely thrown away. QUEEN-SQUARE. George Moulder and Sarah his wife, two wretched looking objects, were yesterday placed at the bar, charged with stealing a number of articles of furniture from their ready-furnished apartments. It appeared by the evidence of the prosecutrix that the woman had admitted to her the absence of her furniture, but had said she did not know where the duplicates were. On being called for their defence, the man said his wire had pawned the articles to procure them victuals. lie bad no chance of getting work, although he had walked for hours every day to procure it. The woman shed tears, and observed, " She could not starve." They were remanded until Friday. MARYLEB ONE. STABBlNG.—Yesterday an elderly man, named William Dairs, a gardener, living at No. 54, Praed-street, Padding. ton, was charged with stabbing in several places his wife Jane. A certificate from Mr. Philpot, the surgeon who at tended the poor woman, said she had received two flesh wounds, and although they were not dangerous she was not in a fit state to be removed from her bed. _ The prisoner said he took up a knife to cut the candle in half. The cat put the candle out, and, having a knife in his hand, he was not aware what was done in the dark. The prisoner was then remanded till Saturday. After being a short time in the cell the prisoner went into a fit, and a surgeon was sent for, who bled him, and pronounced him to be in a very ill state of health ; in con sequence of which the sitting magistrate, Mr. Hoskins, accepted his son's bail for his appearance as above stated. W ORSHIP- STREET. Edward Mills, a young man, about 20 years of age, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Broughton, having been found in the act of breaking a gas-lamp, for the purpose of being taken into custody. It appeared from the evidence of police-constable Henry James, G 41, that he was on duty in Castle -street, Bethnal green, about half-past seven o'clock that morning, when he observed the prisoner, who was at a short distance before him, take up a stone which he wilfully flung at a gas lamp. He missed it, when he took up another stone, with which he aimed at the glass and broke it. Witness instantly took him into custody. On his way to the station-house the prisoner said that he had been three days without anything to eat, and that he broke the glass in order that he might be taken into custody, as he could get no employment, and had no place of residence. The prisoner, who was without either shoes or stockings, enlisted about three years ago in the Portuguese service, where he remained about three years. Sometime ago he left the regiment. Since his return to England he had en deavoured to obtain employment, but without success. Mr. BROUGHTON asked him why he did not enter the British army ?—The prisoner - replied that he had offered to enlist in the East India Company's service ; but they refused to take him, in consequence of an injury he had in his foot. Mr. BROUGHTON then told the prisoner that he should send him to the House of Correction for six weeks, where he would receive the best medical attention. The prisoner was ordered to be provided with food ; but he stated that they had given him some victuals at the sta tion-house. On being removed from the bar he burst into tears. THAMES OFFICE. Yesterday Nicholas Le Luchin, a seaman, belonging to a foreign steamer, was brought before Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. BRODERIP, charged on a Custom-house informa tion with smuggling 221bs. of foreign manufactured tobacco. The information having been read the defendant at once said he was guilty. He had the tobacco, and he would not deny it. Mr. BRODERIP—The duty alone is 9/. 18s., and the Commissioners have thought proper to reduce the fine to 405., and this is the way it is supposed to protect the re venue. The prisoner is much better off than he would have been if the Magistrates had had the disposal of the case. I repeat, you are extremely well off. Mr. BALLANTINE—But don't let this encourage you to go on with this contraband business again, or the Commis sioners of Customs may not be so lenient any more. Prisoner—No, Sir, it is my first offence. Mr. 131toourtiP—Y ou all say that it is the first time you have been caught. If you made but one successful trip yesterday the profits must be more than amply sufficient to pay the fine and the loss of the tobacco. The prisoner then paid the fine, and was liberated. Yesterday J. Robinson, a seaman belonging to the Queen Adelaide, Havre steam-ship, was charged with committing a very brutal assault on Mr. Jameson, a Trinity pilot, re siding at Gravesend, on the'2Bth of August. It appeared in evidence that on the day named the Queen Adelaide was coming up the river, and Mr. Jameson went on board of her off Gravesend, to pilot her up the river. The Captain declined his services, and said he was exempt from pilotage. Mr. Jameson, however, seeing an unlicensed pilot on board, demanded his right of going on board to take charge of the steam-ship, and was getting up the gangway ladder when the Captain gave orders for him to be turned out of the vessel. One of tha crew took up a rope, for the purpose of beating him off, and struck him with it ; but this not having the desired effect another man came upon the ladder, and, after striking him, knocked him violently off the ladder into a boat alongside. The pilot was very seriously injured and bruised by the fall, and was in a senseless state when he reached the shore. For se veril slays afterwards he was confined to his bed. The defendant was desired to put on his hat and stand with his face towards the light. Mr. Jameson looked at him. He said he believed he was the man who knocked *him into the boat, but would not swear to him. Thomas Middleton, a Custom-house officer, said he was on board the steamer. A person on the paddle-box said, " Don't let him come on board," and the pilot was imme diately struck and kicked into the boat, in which he laid to all appearance dead. Witness was attending his duty, and could not say who did it. Mr. BALLANTINE said whatever the Bench thought of this gross outrage they could not supply the defect in the evidence. The Magistrates would not adopt that course for this reason, that no punishment in their power was sufficient to meet the case, and he was afraid, whatever his private opinion might be, that the man must be discharged. The pilot appeared to have been exercising a legal right in going on board the steamer, but whether he was or not such a violent proceeding was quite unjustifiable. Mr. BRODERIP agreed with his colleague that the case must fail for want of identity, and he was very sorry for it. Robinson was then liberated. Yesterday morning the body of a fine boy, appa rently about four and a half years old, was found in the River off Cole-stairs, Shadwell, by a waterman, who im mediately conveyed it ashore. The deceased, who appears to have been in the water several days, was dressed in a light blue frock, braided with brown braid ; brown Holland pinafore, purple merino trousers, flannel drawers, grey worsted socks, and black shoes, with straps, and laced in front. The deceased's name is unknown, and there is no thing on his person to lead to a discovery of his parents. The clothes are in the possession of Mr. Deverell, the beadle of Shadwell, and the body is in the churchyard, awaiting the Coroner's inquest. " KINDNESS IN WOMEN," A NOVEL, BY T. HAYNES BAYLY, ESQ.—The pleasure that we have ever derived from the perusal of Mr. Haynes Bayly's charming songs made us hail with more than ordinary gratification the announcement of a prose work from the same pen. The title alone were sufficient to excite our kindliest sym pathies. Mr. Bayly merits canonization from the sex in whose behalf he is at once an eloquent and a gallant cham pion. After lauding their virtues in verse, he has now per petuated them in prose, and that with so much ability as to entitle him to all the fame that belongs to our best novel writers. The tales are two in number ; " Kate Leslie " occupies the first and second volumes ; " David Dumps," the third. The former is our favourite. It is an exquisite sketch of fancy and feeling—full of life and reality, wholly untinctured by high-flown romance or mawkish sentimen tality.—Sunday Times. THE PRECIOUS METALS.—The exportation of gold and silver coin from the port of London to foreign ports during the past week is as under :—Gold coin to Hamburg, 163 ounces ; ditto to Rotterdam, 2,000 ounces; silver to ditto, 5,000 ounces. Yesterday a deputation of the citizens of London waited upon the Bridge Committee with a requisition signed by upwards of 1,800 respectable inhabitants of the City, soliciting permission for the London Gas Company to lay their pipes over Blackfriars-bridge. The deputation was politely received by the Bridge Committee, and referred to the Common Council. The ground upon which the inha bitants, it appears, desire the entrance of a rival Gas Com pany into the City is, that they may derive the benefit of competition. It appears from observations of the deputa tion that the largest size argand burner in Barbican and the adjacent parts is 3/. 12s. per annum, while at the west-end the same lamp is charged 21. 123. 6d. only. A requisition from a large number of the inhabitants of Clerkenwell to the London Company, calling upon the latter to apply for admission, was read to the Bridge Committee. A humorous scene occurred the other day at the entrance of the Cafe Anglais in Paris. A huissier had obtained an execution against the property of a young man of fashion, but was rather at a loss to find out where any part of this property might be found. At last he heard that he was in the habit of walking on the boulevard at a certain hour, displaying to the admiring eyes of the vulgar a gold watch, with chain, s eals, ring, &c., and a superla tively elegant gold headed cane. The man of law placed himself in ambush, and surprised his man and his finery in the act of enterin g the above -named coffee-house. He appr oached him with all imaginable respect, and informed him that he intended to take in execution the sundry ar ticles of jewellery which had been so ostentatiously displayed. W a t c h, chain, seals, rings, shirt-studs, and cane, were se verally declared under execution, and though the dandy at first tried to pass off the affair as a joke, he was soon per suaded that no pleasantry was intended, and by way of compromise it was agreed to deposit the glittering appen dages in the hands of a respectable jeweller until the debt, which amounted only to 300 fr., had been properly discharged. A gas company is at present laying down pipes at St. Petcrsburgh, so that in the course of the present autumn a part of the city will already be lighted with gas. A second company has likewise been formed there, to sup ply the shops with portable gas. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK ST OLCKS.,' ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 12. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 97/. M. sh. 135 1,482 41. Ashby.dede.Zouch . Average 113/. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOOl. sh. 51 1,005 51. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150.. sh. 100 1,000 1-16 sh. 91.65. Birmingham, 1.16 th share 8.11. & 711. 218 4,000 Ditto arid Liverpool Junct...1251 sh. 100 pd 26 600 ~....... Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001. sh. all pd 64 400 41. Chelmer and Blackwater 100/. sh. 102 500 481. Coventry 1001. sh. 700 4,545 Croydon Average 311.23.10 d. sh. 2,0601 41. Os. Dudley lOO/. sh. 89 600 7/. Derby 100/. sh. 133 20,000 3,5751 31. Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331. sh. 791 231 401. Erewash 1001.0 n. 700 1,297 28/. Forth and Clyde Average 4001.1h5. Lb. 610 11,900 121. Grand Junction 1001. sh. 200 2,8491 1/. Grand Union 1( 01. sh. 241 1,500 Grand Surrey ... 10,000/. 41. percent . Ditto (optional) Loan lOW '7O 3,096 Grand Western 1001. sh. all pd 600 131.125. 84. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 230 749 106. Grantham 1501.0 h. 0402 0,238 21. Os. Huddersfield Average 57/. Os. 6d. sh. 37 100 ... .. ... Kensington 100 sh. all p 4. 10 25,328 1 . 1. 51. Kennet ind Avon, Average 39/.188.10d. sh. 241 2,897; 241. Leeds and Liverpool 'OO/. sh. 51i0 545/ 13/. Leicester l4Ol. sh 225 1,897 4/. 10s. Leicester and Northampton... Aver b 3/. Ios. 85 2,400 10/. hi Monmouthsre 100/ sh. 200 .....* 150 10/. Melton Mowbray 100/. eh. 200 500 na. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 570 3,000 117/. Macclesfield 1004 sh. all pd. 54 24/7 Neath 100/. sh. 325 1.786 301. Oxford 2,400 5/. Peak Forest Avet.ge about 78/. sh. 104 1,418 12s. Regent's (er London) Aver. 33/. 16s. 84. sh. 151 5,669 61. per cent. nochdale Average 85/. sh. 1 2 500 8/. Shropshire l'ls/. sh. 138 800 Si. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 148 3,600/. 41 percent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 111 700 401. Stafford and Worcester 1401. sh. 710 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 243 300 91. 3tourbridge 3,647 21. va. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791. 9s. W. sh. 50 533 12/. Swansea 100/. sh. 220 3,762 1/. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...AT 351. sh. II i 2,60 sh. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 100/. sh. 560 6,149 1,0005h.2 lil. Warwick and Birmingham 100/. sh. ns I,ooolsh. 940 11*. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 180 6,000 4/.os. Worcest , r and Birminglum...Av.7B/.81. sh 801 5,000 255. Wilts an.. , Berks. .. Average 671. 106. Bd. sh. 22 500 31, Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 75 126 Wisbeach 905 1/. Wey and Arun llO/. sh. 2'l DOCKS. 8,600& jist c. Commercial .lOOl. sh. 55 1,06515 h. . ' 198,667 f/. 6 per ct. East India Stock 1101 3,`a3,3101/. 50s. p.et. London Stock 53 Ditto Bonds 1,380,000/. 441. p. ct. West India 2,209 2/. 19s. Bristol 64,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1,352,752 44 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 924 500,000 44 per cent. _Ditto Bonds 200,009 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 99 Shoreham flat hour • 2.500 .... .... Deptford Piet 2Ol. sh. 3/. BRIDGES. 1,600 Ira. Haninriersin.ti. 5O/. sh. 221 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631. 2s. fld. sh. 2 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New. of 74 per cent. 5O/. sh. 141 5,000 5,000 18s. Bd, Ditto, Old Annuities of 2/. 6O/. pd 131 5,000 Ifs. 441. Ditto, New I)itto of 71 401. pd 15j 80,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bond. llB __ 5,6411 Vauxha11....... Av"rage 701. 10a. 3d. eh. AS.;URANCe COMPANIES. 2,000 3/ 106 Albion 500/. sh. 501 pd 80 50,000 [ s : n e :i c1e5111.1 Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 10 1. poi 123 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 101/. sh. 5/ pd 5! 24,000 41 per sh. Atlas 1,200 ,sh. 51. Birmingham lire '250/. sh. 55/. pd 105 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire . 250/. sh. 501. pd 41 12,000 6/. per cent. British Commercial 501, sh. W. pd 03 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medi.. al, &c. Life, !COL sh. 12/10s pd 4 4,000 21 lils County 1001. sh. 101. pd 42 20,000 58. Eagle „ n ,, tr ans! pe3o/ cent./ Economic Life lOOOl. sh. 2501. pd 375 '''''' bs 2,271 228. per cent. European Lt , .., '2ol. sh. all pd 22 60,000 Os. Ditto, New .... ‘ , O/. Bh. 2/. pd lt 1,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 1-15 20,000 Si. Guardian ... 100/. oh. 2731 pd 33 40,000 es. rd. Hope 50!. sh. 51. pd 5 1 2,400 5/. 7s. 64. Imoerial Fire 5001 sh. 501. pd 121 7,500 Is. Imperial Lite 100/. sh. 10!. pd 10 13,458 41. per cent. Indemnity ItLirine VOL oh. 01. pd 163 2,020 M 10s Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd 82 3/. Ditto Life 79 10, 0 00 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 101. pd 26 5.000 les. London, Fir. , '2sl. sh. 12/. 10s. pi 153 3,00 10s. London, Ship °SI. sh. ltd. 10s. pd • , 153 30,0'10 Si. per cent. Palladium 141... 5O/. sh. 2/. pd er s i I 50,001 Protet•tor Fite 2O l. sh. 21 . pd 150 Od 0,500 11. Provident Lne lO O/. sh. 10 /. pd - 20 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. 1/, pd fil 6ii9,000/ 51. per cent. Royal Exchinge Sto , k... 205 6,000 b per cent. University Life lOOl. sh. 51. pd 53 50,005 4 per cent. United kingdom Life ___ 21. pd JOINT STOCK RANKS 25,0011 3 per cent. Agric. and Comm. of Ireland 251. eh. 10/. pd 14 5,000 Australasia 4Ol. sh. 401. psi 58 1004 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 5l!. sh. 10/. pd 13 10,000 leper cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 51. pd 14 3" , ,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster -100/ sh. 20/. pd 21 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 171 50,000 71 per front. Manchester and Liverpool} 100/. sh. 151 pd 21 Discount 2 ,- 1,000 7 per cent. Manchester. 1001. sh. 251 pd 27 20,000 Provincial (lank of I reland...loo/. sh. 25/. pd 4PI 20, CO National Bank of Ireland ...5 0 1. sh. 171/. pd 13 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. ...1001. eh. 35/. pd 33 19,000 Gloucestershire 5O/. eh. PM. pd 20 6,001 leper cent. Hampshire 501. sh. 5/. pd 9 *AS LIGHT A N I) COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1151 6d Bath 204 sh, irt. pd 24 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 21 1,000 [5./..rdieir3c,et..l Ditto Provincial `2O/. sh. 19 pi 221 921 5/ lOs Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 91 4,250 '2l Os Bristol 1,500 31 le. Brighton 2Ol. sh. II 750 Si toe Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. Pr/. pd lo 2,471 41 per cent. Brigaton General 201. sh. all pd 17 4,000 4/. Continental Cansolidated lOO/. 6211. pd 85 1,000 10/. City of London lOO/. sh, all pd 183 1,000 6/. Ditto, New 4,000 44. 10s. Equitable 10,000 2j per cent. Imperial 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 9 5/. sh 2Ol. pd 20 2,350 6/. per cont. Independent 3O/. sic all pd 49 9,000 3/. per cent. Phcenix .. 5Ol. sh. 39/. pd 22 1,000 41. per cent. RatclifF 100/. sh. 1101. pd 55 4,000 South Metropolitan s'l. sh. IP/. pd 17 8,200 51. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 461. pi 25 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 50 4011 101. per cent Wakefield 25/. sh. 421 H,OllO 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New . 5ll. eh, 10/. pd 9 MO Yarmouth 201. sh. 18/. pd 9 WATER WORKS. 4,800 Bs. Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/. pd 244 t,434 6/. East London lOOl. sh. 140 5,500 2110 s (hand Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 52 2,000 V. Kent lOU sh. 43 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh.' 3::6 1,500 21 lOs New River London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,486 1/ 15s Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 53 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 83 8,294 3i/. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 9d. sh. 804 1,360 11 14a York Building Co. Lessee Prop ..... lOO/. sh. 35 __ IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 Birmingham and Derby - 151. pd Of 9,500 ......... Birmingham and Gloucester 101 pd 71 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction Of 15,000 Bristol and Exeter lOW. sh. 10 pd Of 660 Calcutta and Saugur 50/. sh. 2/. pd Of 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western...lool. sh. 71/ 5 3,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 100/. pd 40 12,000 - Of 9,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. oh. 21 psi 60,000 ... ...... Eastern Counties 251. sh. 2/ pd a Grand Junction 1001. sh. Mi. pd 165 Great North of England 7l. pd 51 25,C100 ......... Great Western lOOl. sh. 451. pd 54 2,000 ..- ..... Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/. pit 100 0,000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. Si. pd 01 10,000 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 14 2,100 31. per cent. Leeds and Selby lOO sh. 41 1,500 115 s. Leicester and Swannington ....501. sh. all pd '7O 5,109 leper cent. Liverpool and Manchester-10(LO). 1001. pi 202 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 01 36,000 12,000 20,000 31 per cent. London and Greenwich 2O/. Os. 20/. pd 131 25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares Si. pd 101 20,C00 ...... Ditto ditto New 1/. pd 10; 7,000 7,000 Ditto Scrip 14/. sh. 2/. pd 4 12,000 London Grand Junction 51. sh. 51. psi 2 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 50/.sh. 5/. pd 3.1 North Midland_ .... . . ..... ........100/. sh. 15 /. pd 14 Northern and Eastern lOOl. sh. 61. pd 01 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. Si. pd 29,000 South Eastern and Dover 71. pd 3 1,000 la per cent. Stockton and Darlington -100/. sh. 240 9,000 1,400 6,000 York and North Midland 5O . sh. 3 /. pd Of MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5l. ah. 21/. pd 12 4,000 1/. ss. Alien 151. sh. 121. 10s pd 101 10,000 .... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd 1 Ditto Subscription .25/. pa 4 2,001 101. Bolanos , 150/. sh all pi 86 10,000 11. 10s Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm 351. sh. 20/. pd 95 6,000 ... ...... Macaubas Se Cecaes United 2 Ugh. 231/. pd 71 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 91. pd 24 10,000 .... ..... Bolivar Copper Company 2Ol. sh. 201. pd 5 10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip 101. sh. 81. pd 6 20,000 British Iron 50/. ah. 50/ pd 361 8.000 .., ...... British Copper Si. sh. 41/. pd I Cats Branca 61/. pd 61 Candonga 7l/. pd 61 10,000 11 Copiapo VOL sh 12U pd 10; 8,500 ..... Columbian, iss. 51. pm. 2,850 3L English 121 ICs. pd 22 20,000 General Mining Assoclation...2ol. sh. Si.l pd 9 1,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh. 551/. pd 01 3,000 Polberou Consols 10/. sh. 81. pd 2 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered ll I)itte Loan Notes l5Ol. pd 1121 3€005 .„ ...... United Mexican, iss. 2pm ....401. sh. all pd 14 Ditti. Scrip II Ditto New Scrip 5l pd 2 West Cork 501. sh. 50/. pd 38 LITERARY 1 NSTIT UTI 0N S. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 201 1,500 London University 1001. ah. all pd 231 701 __ 25gs_ sh . _9 King' College 1001. pd 48 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural lOOl. sh. Vil. pd 34 6,000 4/. per cent. British American Land Company... 23/. pd 12} 10,000 81. per cent. Canada Company 100/. :h. 24/. pd 22/ 200,000 5/. per cent . Upper Canada Loan 9B City Bonds, 4 per cent 15,000 IL 6s. General Steam Navigation ... 151 1W sh. 131. pd 22 1 . .. . _ ... 101. per coat. Hudson's Bay Steel( 2,008 U. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 751 . sh. 19 6,009 Caoutchouc Company 051 sh. 211. pd 11 New Brunswick Land Company . - ... 43/. pd II 2,754 il. par cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 1001. pd 125 2,6:33 51. per coat. Ditto New 1001. sh. 701. pd 86 4,000 . Thames Tunnel 501. sh. all pd 5 10,000 is. Van Die_ner.'s Land 1001. sh. 1 7 !. pd 10 ---------- LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. AUG. 24, 11137. BANKS. 1.500,005/. 61. p. ct. Tank 05 Scotland ...... 83/. 66. Bd. sh. all pd 19, - r./ 2,000,03(/. 51 p. ct. Royal of Scotland lOO/. sh. all pd 1564 • 500.0*1. Bp. et . British Linen Company lOOl. sh. ..11 pd 2321. 3,000,0001. 6/. p. ct. Commercial ............... .... : 5 . 001. sh. 100/. pa 1781 100/.Bh. 10/. pa 154' s •-14)°,°°°' , oa. %.,..tional ................... . 250/. eh. 50/. al 7 i . 2,000,0001. 61. p. ct. Glasgow Union 4,000,0t01. 4p. ct. Nycst!ri of Scotland 2001. sh 301. pd (141 .,,.; INSURANCEe COMPANIES. .' , li. 25C.0005h. 61 p. ct. Scotesh Union 80/. sh. 1/, pd 26, -,500 61 p. ot. Hercules lOO/. sh. 10/. pi 13/ 15s. 10e,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....101. sh, all pa iv. 50,000 6p. ct. North British . .2001. sh. 10/. pd 15/. 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd 181 Ps 5,000 • 6p. ct. Edinburg h I.ife 1001 . sh. 101. p 141 lOs 100,009 31 p. ct. West 01 Scotland IOI. MISCELLANEOUS Pd 71Ps 4,810 Edin. and Mss Ull• Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 22/ . Ditto Allocated ......... 11 , 81. A. all pd 654 5,400 5 per cont. Edinb.:Joint Stock Water. -a/. sh. all pd 341 Carron Iron Company ',' 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron FounaPearnY ......250/. sh. all pd , 5/. Glass ....2 5° 0 1 /. s a h h. 316.-'l/: pd d pd 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith G Y la 441/.. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 25/ sh. all pa 561 750171 per cent. Leith Coal G as "5/. sh. all pd 61/. t)1 1,206 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Itai2lw:i h y s .. .. so al l l ,s pd h. 4 5 45 1 1: 3 , 000 5 per vent. Equitable Loan Coropany,„26l, sh, w. pd 104 CORONETS' INQUESTS. Yesterday afternoon, a Coroner's Inquest was holden be fore Mr. STIRLING, at the Lord Clive, Duke-street, Man chester-square, to enquire touching the death of Mary Westbrook, aged thirty, who was reported to have died in consequence of injuries inflicted by her brother during a drunken squabble. Mrs. Anne Wyley, of No. 271, Oxford-street, depo sed that she knew the deceased, who for the last six years oc cupied the house No. 15, Henrietta-street, Oxford-street. For some months past she was under the doctor's hands Witness called to see the deceased last Saturday week. in the evening. About nine o'clock, she (the deceased) took a particular bason out of her brother's room. Upon his ascertaining what she had done, he claimed the arti cle. The deceased said that it was her property, and that it was left by her father. A scuffle ensued be tween them, upon her brother trying to take the began by violence. Witness became alarmed, and requested Mrs. Collins, a neighbour, to part them ; but who objected, she observing, " This is nothing ; you are not used to such a noise." On Monday night she took to her bed. On Wednesday she said to witness that she thought she would never get over it. On Thursday night she was seriously ill. About ten o'clock witness went to the Dispensary in Welbeck-street, where she was told that it was not th• proper time to call. On her return back she found a medical gentleman attending her, who stated that the de ceased was dying. She died about twelve o'clock the same night. By the Jury—They both had had something to drink on the Saturday week. The deceased was a very passionate woman. She never made any complaint that her brother had done her any injury. Other witnesses gave similar evidence. 1 Verdict—" Natural death." Yesterday moi n i ng an i nquest was h e ld a t th e King's Arms, Walworth-road, on the body of William Williams , who was killed by being run over by a cab proceeding et a furious rate while the deceased was crossing St. George's road, near the Elephant and Castle. He was conveyed home, and attended carefully by Mr. David Boust. progressively improved for about a week, when mortifica tion supervening in the foot lacerated by the wheel of the cab in passing over it, his life was soon terminated. The deceased was parish clerk of Newington. The Jury, under the direction of the Coroner, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against some person or persons unknown. DREADFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday. morning last, George Crane, a seaman belonging to the Isabella schooner, was aloft in the maintop, furling a sail, while off Woolwich, when, one of the reef points giv.ng way, the unfortunate man was precipitated with great vie" lenec on the deck. A surgeon on board finding his skull was dreadfully fractured, ordered the poor fellow to be in stantly conveyed on board the Dreadnoullht Seamen's 1191- pita' ship, at Greenwich. Every attention was paid bun, but he continued to get worse, and died on Monday. Yes terday afternoon an inquest was held on the body, at the Unicorn Tavern, Greenwich, and a verdict of " Accidental death" returned. Last evening an inquest was held at the Bricklayers Arms public-house, in Union -street, East India-road, Per lar, before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, and a highly respee" table jury, on view of the body of Captain Joseph Jones, late of the Magnet Margate steamer. An impression had gained ground that death had ensued in consequence ef some deleterious ingredient c o n t a i ne d i n a m i x t ur e he had taken at a chemist and druggist's of the name of Hinde, in Fenchurch-street, whither he went in order to obtain relief from a violent pain in his stomach, under which he was suffering. The evidence of several respectable members of the surgical profession completely disproved the idea, and the post mortem examination of the body corroborated the, testimony of the witnesses ; and the Coroner having sunnedup, the jury returned a ver di c t o f " N atura l d ea th," an a exonerated Mr. Ilinde from all blame. The investigation occupied several hours, and the jury -room during the time was considerably crowded. Yesterday an investigation took place before the Coro ner for Surrey, at Walwortb, concerning the death of Mr. Williams, aged 68 years, for many years senior of St. Mary's, N ew i ng t on , w h o di e d i n consequence of the injuries he re ce i ve d by b e i ng k noc k e d d own and run o ver by a cab. parish.,:lerk Evidence was adduced to the jury, who, after a length ened consultation, returned a verdict of " Manslaughte r against some person or persons unknown." The CORONER—If the man can be traced, he may at any time be taken into custody, and the charge may then be substantiated before a Magistrate. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHT" TER RAILWAY.—A Jury met at Kenyon on Monday morning to inquire into the death of a female (name known), who was killed on Saturday night by the Birmiar ham Railway train coming in collision with one of the Liverpool trains near the spot. Neither of the county Coroners was present. The inquest was accordingly adjourned until one o'clock ; and finally, in consequence of Mr. Rutter not being able to attend, until Wednesday. The deceased was a decent countrywoman, between 40 and 50 years of age. At the time the inquest was held, her body had not been claimed by any of her relatives. She is sup" posed to be a native of Yorkshire, and had taken her place i° the railway carriage at Bolton, intending to go to Wigan, is this county. Various accounts of th e m anner in which !Li deceased met her death are in circulation, but the following seem to be the real facts of the case. On Saturday nig ht the six o'clock market train, from Manchester to Liver pool, arrived at the Kenyon and Legh Junction, at few minutes before seven o'clock, after being detained on the way by repeated stoppages later than usual. Th e men at the station were in the act of attaching two car riages from Bolton to the train, when the half-past am o'clock train from Manchester to Birmingham was ob served approaching at the rate of something like thirty miles an hour. The rain, which had just fallen, ren dered the rails unusually slippery. The engineer on the Birmingham train, on receiving the signal to stol! (according to the statement of the policeman), turtle?, off the steam, and applied the full force of the " breaks attached to the tender to the wheels. It is asserted that he succeeded in stopping the motion, but the train con tinued to progress, the wheels sliding along the rails " sledge fashion." It was immediately seen that a collision of the two trains would be the consequence. Some gravel was thrown upon the rails, but the attempt to stop the train was in vain. The next moment the two Bolton carriage s were knocked in pieces —the Birmingham engines shat tered—and, worse than all, the deceased was killed upo n the spot, and two oth ers o f t h e passengers ser i ous l y i n jureu- A medical gentleman present rendered every assistance to the sufferers. The spot at which the accident happened is just two miles from Park-side, where Mr. Huskisson was killed. EIGHT-DAy cLoCK'i" to strike the Hours an d H a lf-h ours, Fi ve G u i neas eac h. They ar e in elegant cases, about 7i inches high, suitable either to stand on a bracket or mantel-pi ece , an d are W arranted, at T. COX SA VORY'S, Working Goldsmith, &c. &c., 47, Cornhill, London. N.B.—A pamphlet containing drawings and a detailed list et Ow prices of Silver Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may b e had gratis, or will be foruarded in answer to a post-paid application- BIRTHS. On the 10th inst., at Home-cottage, Blackheath-park, Mrs. J. Hall, of a daughter. On the 11th inst., in Upper Stamford-street, the wife o the Rev. James Lupton, Rector of St. Michael's, Queenhithe, f o f daughter. On the 9th inst., in Great Coram-street, Russell-square, the lady of J. Stringer, Esq. , o f a son, still-born. MARRIED. On the I`.!th inst., at St. John's, Hackney, by the Rev. S. B. Pigott, Charles Gough, Esq., youngest son of the late R. D. Gough, Esq., of Souldern House, Oxon, to Sarah, widow of the late J. Perry, M.D. On the 12th inst., at St. Mary's, Bryanston-square, John New man Tweedy, Esq., of Port-au-Prince, Hayti, to Dorothea Esther Henrietta, only daughter of Wm. Fellowes, Esq., of Buckingham- On the 7th inst., at Weymou th, John Christie M'Nair, Ewes Madras Horse Artillery, to Margaret Armstrong, only daughter of the late E. Watson, Esq. Bengal Civil Service. On the 7th inst., at Stockport, Lewis Henry, eldest son of H . C. Lacy, Esq., of Kenyon House, Lancashire, to Mary Hannah, the Esq., of Spring Bank , eldest daughter of the late Thos. Robinson, Stockport. On the 9th inst., Henry W. Busk, Esq., of the Middle Temple , barrister-at-law, to _Mary Anne, daughter of the Rev. Philip Le Ne O il n ,E t s h i e ., o l f l N th or in th st :h , a a n t k, S ß L eg A e l n a t cy l A a b k bo t t o t's ll , Breton, of Connaught-square. • nA Kensington, nrrah. oehdneawt dra g trJ a ter o o a f t t h h e e l s a t t h e Phillips , ,at 8 t. o o of wßaeigde,an,t Durham,-r; Regent-street. of New Elvet, solicitor, to Rebecca, r Henry Taylor, of Hollingside Cottage, y Durham. oungest daughter of M • On the 9th inst., Martha, w p if l e E of ij iohn Williams, Esq.* o f West Ham, aged 69. 0:: the 9th inst., at Langley-house, near Colnbrook, Bucks, Charles Thomas Depree, Esq., aged 68. On the 6th inst.,'at Margate, Mr. W. T. Fry, of Furnivals Inf; On the 6th inst., a t St. Austle, Cornwall, aged 39, Isabella, t" wife of the Rev. Ri c h ar d W ra y, Wesleyan Minister of that Ogee' and daughter of the late Mr. R. Field, of London. On the 9th inst., at Vineyard House, Richmond, Surrey, C ar teret Joh Haford, Es On the n 10th l inst., at Eltham-place, Kennington, Katharine, wife of Mr. Richard Ashton, aged 37. On the 10th inst., at Stanwell, Middlesex , a nd formerly of Pie cadilly, Mr. James Swaine, aged 72.bt • On the 9th inst., Mr. Job Smith, who was many years in confidential employment of Messrs. Barron, Harvey, and Co. no On the 3d inst., in Union-crescent, Margate, First Lieute "of John Stewart, R. A.D., aged 80, one of the brave defenders Gibraltar, under General Elliott. _/ % London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , ~n f y 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in th e c ""'"" of Middlesex. —Wednesday, September 13, 11337. ' 4l Oll -,, - , ,