The Sun. — London, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

ALGERIA. MASSACRE OF THREE HUNDRED FRENCH PRISONERS BY THE ARABS. MARSEILLES, MAY 27.—The France Algerienne, in date of 23d May, has the following : " The master of a small sailing vessel, which left Djemmail-Ghazaeuat on the 9th inst., has announced to us a horrible event—the massacre in the Deira of Abd el-Hader of all the French prisoners I General de La moriciire immediately ordered the G4geois steamer to repair forthwith to Djemmia-Ghazaouat with Colonel Martimprey on board, to examine the merits of this alarming report, to establish its authenticity, or other wise, and to collect all the particulars of this odious act of barbarity, of the fact of which we would fain doubt, but, alas! we fear it is but too true. The state of the sea prevented for three days the execution of M. de Martim prey's mission; the Gri,;eois, however, arrived at length this night. From the report of M. de Martimprey, as well as from all the reports collected relative to this fatal event, it is clear that Abd-el-Kader ordered the mas sacre of our prisoners, and that this order has been executed. We hasten to state that up to the present time this order has nut extended to the officers, who have escaped this horrible butchery. I will now sum marily relate the reasons which induced the Emir to adopt so merciless a resolution. " In the course of March last, Ab-el-Hader ordered Bou Hamedi to transfer to Mustapha Ben Thami the charge of the Deira, and to join him immediately wit h the Beni Amers. Although noised about in th e _south , as if it had been executed, the order neve r was, for the Beni Amers and Boil Hamedi refused to depart. The tribe, by the confession of . the Kalifs himself, on the contrary, began with Bourtanne Oulid Chaoui, negotia tions with a view to securing his assistance, in order to separate themselves from the Deira. It was agreed b e t wee n them that the Beni Angers should not go beyond Tasa, that Bou Hamedi should act as mediator between the tribe and the Emir, and that he should retur n t o th e Deira as commander-in-chief of the same. Bou Hamedi kept his word ; but the Beni Amer's breaking faith, departed for the westward, heedless of the Kalifa, who, dreading the consequences of his abo r ti ve i n t r i gue , pro ceeded to rejoin Bousianne Oulid Chaoui. " It ensued from from these events, which occurred in the latter end of April, that Mustapha Ben Thami, who had remained alone amongst the Hackems, and some emigrants from various tribes, and could not execute the Emir's order, received from his brother-in-law instruc tions to transport to the southward all the people that remained with him; whereupon he wrote to Abd-el- Kader, that reduced as the Deira was to one-fourth of its numbers, he would be unable to resist any attempt on the part of the Moors to seize possession of the French prisoners, the custody and maintenance of whom was becoming daily more difficult. " Abd-el-Kader returned for answer the barbarous order to put the prisoners to death, and that the exe cution of this order might be facilitated, the report was spread in the Deira that the Mussulman prisoners had been similarly treated in France. It is by such means as these that the agitators stimulate the ignorant and cruel hatred of the Arabs. " There is not the least room to doubt the execution of our unfortunate brothers in arms. We have seen the corpses of several. A few, who escaped death, fled, although pursued, and contrived to win the protection of the Beni-Massem. This tribe has saved the life of one of them, and promises to restore others to us, who are already in safety. i shall probably soon be able to send you the particulars, alas! deplorable to read, of this ter rible massacre, executed by order of the Emir. in whom our examples of philanthropy have as yet taken no TOOL After the catastrophe the Dc.ira was completely dis banded. Many of the tents have gone over to the Beni- Masson and to the westward. Mustapha Ben Thami, with eight or nice I)ouars, turned his steps towards the south, and has encamped on the Oued Kseuh, whence he will proceed to join the Emir, rid Aiounsidi-Melouck, where he (the Emir) has been seen. " All inaiounts agree in stating that all the remains of the Deir including the aunt of Abd-el-Kader, has pro ceeded to the westward, and is by this time far away from our frontier. The Beni-Amers have pitched their tents between Fez and Mequinez. An old Spahis met, at three days' march from the latter town, El Berkem. This change of r,ute has been induced by the fear with which General Cavaignac's column, at Lalla-Maghrina must have inspired the Emir, as well as the danger to which the Deira was exposed from the Moorish tribes. " This di,p2rsion of the Deira, its state of weakness and poverty, and the difficult task to which the Emir will have to restore it, if be ever should do so, form so much excellent news, over which we might be permitted to rejoice, if they were not connected with that of the tragical end of unheard-of sufferings of our brave fel lows who had fallen into the hands of the Erair. This disaster will throw the army into mourning, and the whole African population." The followine , is from the Courier de Marseille " I have bad news to give you. The steamer from Oran reports the massacre of our prisoners in the power of Abd-el-Kader, three hundred in number, among whom are comprised Sl5l. Cognard, Larages, Thonas, officers sure - iurs ; Doctor Cabasse ; all of whom supported their misfortunes with the greatest fortitude, and enabled and encouraged by the force of their example the re mainder of our unfortunate soldiers, captured in our various encounters with the Arabs, to do the same. It would appear that the tribes who were encharged with the custody of our prisoners were divided in sentiments : one party was in favour of preserving their lives, and the other not. Unhappily the latter party were in the majority, and the poor soldiers were butchered. After this let the Paris papers praise the clemency of the Emir." SWINDLING AT WINDSOR, had been made the victims. Other persons, similarly victimised in the neighbourhood, are expected to come forward to-morrow. Upon the different cheques being presented at Neville, Reid, and Co.'s there were " no effects;" " J. H. Tyndham" being unknown to the persons in London upon whom his draught was drawn, and deposited at the Windsor Bank. Mr. Dotesio, when he presented his two cheques, and was informed that they were not worth the value of the paper they were written upon, very naturally inquired if the bank had any re ference as to the respectability of Mr. " Wyndham" be fore the clerks intrusted him with a cheque-book. The reply was that all they knew about him was that he paid in a cheque drawn upon a London banker, and that they had just received advice that it had been disho noured. It is to be hoped that the circumstances we have related will act as a caution for the future to country bankers, who, it is to be desired, for the sake of the trading community, will not intrust a perfect stranger with a blank cheque-book, without any reference or guarantee as to his respectability, and who, at the same time, may chance not to have (as in this instance) one single penny in their hands to his credit. This Mr. " Wyndham " is described to be about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches in height, wearing glasses, and also an eyeglass suspended by a stout silken cord, apparently not more than 30 or 32 years of age, and of dark com plexion, with dark whiskers com b e d b ac k . H e wore a dark which olive h e when he left. tookfrock w- at, with nd fromwith him e aocyaarretHboatgel, WINDSOR. SUNDAY EVENING.—A deep-laid scheme of swindling, by evidently a practised hand, has just been successfully played off by a well-dressed gentlemanly looking man, upon some of the most respectable inn keepers and tradesmen of Windsor, Eton, and Slough ; the facts having been brought to light after the arrival of the post yesterday morning. It appears that, on Tuesday morning last, a person of highly respectable appearance and gentlemanly manners arrived at Slough by an early train, from London, and took up his abode at Mr. Dotesio's the Royal Hotel, close to the railway station. He remained there during that and the following day. On Thursday he told Mr. Dotosio he was going to town to be present at the close of the debate on the Corn Bill in the House of Lords, having got a ticket of admission from his "friend" the Duke of Beaufort, and that he should not return till the following morning. It appears, however, that on that day, previously to proceeding to London, he went to Messrs. Neville, Reid, and Co.'s bank, at Windsor, and paid in a cheque for a large amount, drawn upon a London banker, stating that he was staying at the Royal Hotel, and that as he should have some payments to make, when the bankers received advice of the cheque being honoured, it would be extremely convenient to him to be furnished with a blank cheque-book. This was, as it has since Rrovt:d, most incautiously given to him, and has been fte aenns of enabling him to practise his art, with the ap pearance, at least, of a respectable man, having a banker's account open at Windsor. He perfectly well knew that as his cheque was not paid into the Windsor bank until Thursday, Messrs. Reid and Co. would not be advised of its reception in London before Saturday morning. On Friday morning, when he returned to the Royal Hotel by the first train from London, he sent for Mr. Dotesio into the coffee-room to inform him of the result of the division, observing that "he was of the same opinion as his friend, a Noble Duke, that it was doubtful whether a scrutiny of the proxies would not still cause considerable embarrassment to the Government." He also spoke familiarly of several Noble Lords, his " friend:," as he represented them, and acquaintances. lie then said he had an account at the Windsor Bank, producing his cheque-book, and asking Mr. Dotesio to c ash a c h eque f or 101 . T he appearance of the cheque ek would h ave so comp l ete l y di sarmed suspic i on, even i 1 any bad b een prev i ously entertained, that the amount Ras irranediately handed over to him, and he went out after breakfast, as h e said, for ' '' a st roll." It should be the th inf erence signed th e c h eque "J . H . Wynd eoatn from his gentlemanly man iicraund address, and circ umstances, that he was a member of th e Egremont fam ily . From the Royal li ntel, it appears, he proceeded o Eton, where he called upon Mr. Yarrow, the well-known tailor at the College, and ordered a suit of clothes ; st a ting, that as he was going to a wedding the following (Saturday) morning, and as his own dress clothes were Upwards of 200 miles off, he must have the m made, and sent to the Royal }keel at Slough, by seven o 'clock that (Friday) evening. Although it was then nearly twelve o'clock, the order was taken, and promised to be executed. lie then said to Mr. Yarrow, "As lam a stranger to you, although I have received high recom mendations of your excellent cut and fit, I ' ll pay yout.a,t, once; just make out your bill, and give me a receip The bill w as p a id by a c heque upon the Windsor Bank. Mr. Yarrow, however, having some suspicion about th s e , matter, paid Mr." Wyndham' s " cheque,with other monies , into the bank that afternoon, calling the particular at-. teation of the clerk to the cheque in question, and ask ing him if it was " all right." The clerk having answered in the affirmative, and given credit for it, the suit of clothes, consisting of a dress coat, white waistcoat, and trousers, was completed and sent to the Royal Hotel punctually at the time agreed upon. Mr. Wyndham then paid a visit to Windsor, calling upon Mr. Hanson, watchmaker and jeweller of the High street, whom he especially patronised by purchasing a gold watch and chain, a breast-pin, and other articles of jewellery, to the amount of between 11/. and 12/. The production of his cheque-book from the Windsor Bank, as in the case of Mr. Dotesio, induced Mr. Hanson to imagine it was "a voucher of respectability," and he had no hesitation in parting with his property, which was paid for by draught on Neville, Reid, and Co. He intimated to Mr. Dotesio that, as he intended to make a lengthened stay at the Royal Hotel after " a cer tain event" had taken place (which was construed to refer to his marriage), he would like to look over the hotell to select a large and airy bed room and one of the best sitting-rooms. On Fnday evening he proceeded with the proprietor over such portions of the hotel as were then unoccupied, and arranged for theloccupaney of ,1 two apartments, to commence 00 M onday for a l lengthened period. Shortly after the arrival of his new suit of clothes from Mr. Yarrow he ordered his bill, Which was brought to him, amounting to 31. 3s. 3d. stating that h e was going to London by the l ast train ,. and that he should return on Today to take possession of his sitting anti bed-room. He also stated that a large 9,uantity of luggage would arrive for him by the train from town on Saturday, and requested that the carriage might be paid by the proprietor of the hotel. He then drew a cheque for 5/., with which he paid his bill, receiv ing from Mr. Dotesio the difference. Ile left Slough by the last up-train for London, and has not been seen or heard of since. The next morning, (Saturday ), soon a f ter th e Wi n d sor Bank had (paned, the bubble urst, and hi s un f ortunate dupes were ma d e aware of the dece ption of which they THE StIN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1846. THE STEAM-BOAT A SPANISH INVENTION. Although the honour of the invention of steamers is claimed by other nations, it belongs, in reality, to Spain alone, as can be proved by historical facts as far back as the middle of the sixteenth century, during the reign of Charles the Fifth. The erudite and intelligent Don Martin Fernandez de Navarette, says, in one of his works, that Don Blasco de Garey, Captain in the Spanish navy, submitted to the examination of the Emperor in 1543 a machine, by means of which vessels, ro matter how large, could be navigated when not a breath of wind was stirring, and without the aid of sail, or sweeps. Soon afterwards the Emperor ordered a trial to be made of it, which took place on the 17th of June, 1543, in Barce lona-roads, with the most complete success. The ex periment was made upon a ship of 200 tons called the Santissima Trinidad, commanded by Captain Pedro de Scarsa, who had arrived at Barcelona, with a cargo of wheat. The persons present at the essay, by order of Charles V. and his son Philip 11., were lion Enrique de Toledo, the Governor ; Pedro de Cardona ; the Grand Treasurer Ravigo ; the Vice-Chancellor Francisca Gralla, and a number of distingui , hed individuals from Castile and Catalonia, besides several naval officers, some of whom were on board the Santissima Trinidad and others on shore. This experiment, which astonished all a ho beheld it by the facility and rapidity of the vessel's movements, caused a general vote in favour of the invention of Don Blasco de Garey, with the exception of the treasurer, Ravago, who objected to it principally on account of the great cost of the machines, and the danger of the boiler bursting. Thus the stupid opposition of Ravago re tarded, nearly two hundred years, the realisation of the invention of steam boats. Nevertheless, the Emperor promoted Garey, at the same time presenting him with 200 000 maravides, and defraying all the expenses he had been at in bringing his invention to fruition, Despite the trouble Garey took to hide the mechanism of his invention, we sce it consisted of a boiler filled with water, agitated by heat for the generation of steam, and two moveable wheels attached to the sides of the vessels. A song which was sung at Barcelona, 1543, in honour of Blasco de Garey, and the invention of the steam-boat, is still extant A FRIGHTFUL ILLUSTRATION OF SLAVERY. The following is the leading editorial article in the last Essex Transcript (American paper) : " Many of our readers have irofiably seen a para graph stating that a young slave-girl was recently hanged at New Orleans, for the crime of striking and abusing her mistress. The religious press of the North has not, so far as we are aware, made any comments upon this execution. It is too busy pulling the mote out of the eye of the Heathen, to notice the beam in our nominal Christianity at home. Yet this case, viewed in all its aspects, is an atrocity which has, God be thanked, no parallel in heathen lands. It is a hideous offshoot of American Republicanism and Ame rican. Christianity. It seems that Pauline—a young and beautiful girl—attracted the admiration of her master, and being, to use the words of the law, his "chattel personal to all intents and purposes whatso ever," became the victim of his lust. So wretched is the condition of the slave-woman that even the brutal and licentious regard of her master is looked upon as the highest exaltation of which her lot is susceptible. The slave-girl in this instance evidently so regarded it ; and, as a natural consequence, in her new condition triumphed over and insulted her new mistress—in other words, repaid in some degree the scorn and abuse with which her mistress had made her painfully familiar. The laws of the Christian State of Mississippi inflict the punishment of death upon the slave who lifts his or her hand against a white person. Pauline was accused of beating her mistress, tried, and found guilty, and con demned to die. But it was discovered on the trial that she was in a condition to become a mother, and her exe cution was delayed until the birth of her child. She was returned to her prison-cell. There for many weary months, uncheered by the voice of kindness, alone, hopeless, desolate. she waited for the advent of the new and quickening life within her, which was to be the signal of her own miserable death. And the bells there called to mass and prayer -meeting, and Methodists sang, and Baptists immersed, and Presbyterians sprin kled—and young mothers smiled through tears upon their new-horn children ; and maidens and matrons or that great city sat in their cool verandahs and tahsed of love and household, ays, and domestic happiness—while all that dreary time the poor slave-girl lay on the scanty straw of her dungeon, waiting with what agony the dear and pitying God of the white and the Mack only knows, for the birth of the child of her adulterous master. Horrible !—Was ever what George Sand justly terms 'the great martyrdom of maternity "—that fearful trial which love alone converts into joy unspeak able—endured under such conditions !—What was her substitute for the kind voices and gentle soothings of affection ? The harsh grating of her prison lock—the mockings and taunts of unfeeling and brutal keepers ! What with the poor Pauline took the place of the hopes and joyful anticipations which support and solace the white mother, and make her conch of torture, happy with sweet dreams ? The prospect of seeing the child of her sorrow, of feeling its lips upon her bosom. of hearing its feeble cry—alone, unvisited of its unnatural father ; and then in a few days, just when the mother's affections are strongest, and the first smile of her infant compensates for the pangs of the past—the scaffold and the hangman!! Think of that last terrible scene—the tearing of the infant from her arms. the death-march to the gallows, the rope round her delicate neck, and her long and dread ful struggles (for attenuated and worn by physical suf fering and mental sorrow, her slight frame had not sufficient weight left to produce the dislocation of her neck, on the falling of the drop), swinging there alive for nearly half an hour—a spectacle for fiends, in the shape of humanity. Mothers of New England I such are the fruits of slavery. 0, in the name of the blessed God, teach your children to hate it and to pity its vic tims. Petty politicians and empty-headed Congress debaters are vastly concerned lest the " honour of the country" should be compromised in the matter of the Oregon boundary. Fools !—one such horrible atrocity as this murder of poor Pauline, "compromises" us too deeply to warrant any further display of their patriotism. It would "compromise Paradise itself. An intelligent and philanthropic European gentleman who was in New Orleans at the time of the execution, in a letter to a friend in this vicinity, after detailing the circumstances of the revolting affair, exclaims, " God of goodness ! God of justice l—there must be a Future State to redress the wrongs of this. lam almost tempted to say, there must be a future state, or no God !" NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MALTA, MAY 24. The return of Sir W. Parker to Malta on the evening of the 22d in the Virago steam-frigate, from Athens, has caused new life here, and the appearance of the Hibernia off port yesterday morning, the bustling move ment of the steamers carrying out provisions, and the anxiety of friends and relations on shore to see their friends and relations on board, prior to their leaving for the westward, are indescribable. The Virago follows to-day. Sir William, during his absence from Malta, has rallied the squadron dispersed in the different ports of the Mediterranean at Athens ; and inspections, trials of sailing, &c., have been made. The following is an extract from a letter from her Majesty's ship Tyne, dated at sea on the 15th inst.:— " The Admiral, accompanied by the Inconstant, 36, Tyne, 26 ; Amazon, 19 ; Orestes, 18 ; and Virago steamer, quitted Athens yesterday morning, and on this day the Commander-in-Chief inspected the Inconstant and the Tyne. " The squadron being at sea, it is quite impossible to say more than what happens to your own vessel, as no communication with other ships is allowed. The inspec tion of the Tyne commenced at half-past 10 A.m., and finished at about 1 P.M. ; and the Admiral on leaving paid a high compliment to Captain Glascock, his officers, and crew, upon the efficiency of their ship." A court-martial was held recently on the carpenter of the flag-ship, the Hibernia, on charges of drunkenness, and they having been proved, he has been disrated and dismissed the ship. Another court-martial was held on the master of her Majesty's ship Amazon, on similar charges ; and he has been placed at the bottom of the list. His name is Cotter. This second court vas held at sea, and the pri soner, within thirty hours after the offence was com mitted, was tried and sentenced. Last night the Hibernia was not in sight from the telegraph. She had her provisions supplied by the Flamer and Virago steamers. The Virago goes out to-day to Gibraltar, in order, if need be, to tow the Admiral with the Meteor through the gut. In Malta Harbour—The Ceylon, 12, receiving-ship. bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, Bart., second in command and superintendent of Malta dock yard ; the Harlequin, Commander Curry; the Locust steamer, Lieutenant-Commander Eden ; and Wee Pet steam-tug. On Surveying Duty—The Bonetta, Commander T. S. Brock, and the R-seareh cutter, Lieutenant Spratt. At Gibraltar —The Faritome, 16, Commander Sir F. W. E. Nicholson, Bart. ; the Meteor, Lieutenant-Com mander Buttler ; and the Phoenix steam-vessel, Com mander Dennis. At Corfu.—The Orestes, 18, Commander E. St. L. Cannon ; and the Jackall steamer, Lieutenant-Comman der W. M. J. G. Pasco. At the Piraeus of Athens.—The Tyne, 28, Captain W. N. Glascock ; the Bloodhound steamer, Lieutenant R. Phillips ; the Inconstant, 36, Captain C. H. Fremantle ; the Amazon, 19, Captai❑ J. J. Stopford ; and the Siren, 16, Commander H. E. Edgell. En route to Gibraltar.—The Hibernia, 120, Captain P. Richards, C. 8., bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart., G.C.8., the Commander-in- Chief ; and the Virago war steamer, Commander G. G. Otway. At Constantinople.—The Hecht war-steamer, Com mander I. MAU. MAIL STEAM-PACKETS. At Malta.—The Volcano, Lieutenant Crang, and the Flamer, Lieutenant Lavie. En route from Malta to Marseilles.—The Acheron, Lieutenant B. Aplin. En route from Malta to the lonian Islands.—The Spit fire, Lieutenant J. A. M'Donald. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 31. Lieutenant Need, whose removal from the Terrible to the St. Vincent, to make way for an " honourable," who was thrust into the place to qualify for yacht service and promotion, we noticed at the time, was restored to the Terrible on the day the fleet left Spithead, but the Hon. Lieutenant Spencer also remained. To cover this glaring job each of the first-class frigates has had an extra lieu tenant appointed. Dr. Inman, formerly Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Naval College ; Mr. John Fincham, Master Ship wright of this dockyard ; and Mr. R. Abethell, Master Shipwright of Pembroke dockyard, are, we believe, con stituted a board to resolve upon which are the best models to construct ships of war upon for the future. The Porcupine steam-vessel, Captain Bullock, and the Myrmidon steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Jenkin, were at the Cove of Cork on the 29th inst. ; the former arrived here this morning, and will take back dispatches for the squadron of evolution. The squadron of evolution is reported by the Cork pilots to have been seen on Wednesday last off Galley Head, wind N.W., light, with fine weather. The Ferret, 6, Commander Sprigg, arrived at Madeira from Sheerness on the 3d ult., and sailed on the sth for the coast of Africa. The President, 50, Captain Stanley, flag of Rear- Admiral nacres, Commander-in-Chief, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for Algoa Bay on the 2d ult. The Sappho, 19, Commander Gambier, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope from the Mozambique channel on the 23d of March, and the Mutine, 16, Commander Crawford, on the following day, also from a cruise in the Mozambique._ The Cornwall, freight-ship, Captain Canney, sailed this morning for Cork, the Cape, and the Mauritius, with detachments of the 45th and 12th regiments for service at the latter places. The Echo tug again tried the effect of the shot holes in her funnel, upon the draught yesterday, in the passage to Cowes, for the troops from Parkhurst. The result was highly satisfactory. The Minerva, Indianian, Captain Geere, sailed last evening for Madras a,,d Calcutta. PROMOTIONS. Commander—Sir G. G. Otway, Bart., to the rank of Captain. Lieutenant—J. M'D. Smith, to the rank of Com• mander. Mate—T. C. Bruce, to the rack of Lieutenant. Acting Master—T. Hart, late of the Penelope, con. firmed to the rank of Master. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants—W. C. Marshall and B. B. Beale, to the Dido ; J. Wainwright and H. Muller, of the Norwegian navy, to the Constance ; G. Marriott, additional to the Trafalgar, his presence being required in England to give evidence on Captain Denman's barracoon destruc tion affair ; J. Corbett, to the Excellent. Chaplains—G. Bellamy, late of the Tortoise, to the Rodney, vice Halsted, retired from the service ; A. Brown (and Naval Instructor), to the Dido. Surgeon—T. Gibson, to the Eurydice. Second -Masters—G. M. Stent, to the Dido • M. Richards and M. R. Artery, to Terrible ; 'N. S. Seabrook, oStrgeEontaLdlir Crocker, to the Ocean, vice Emslie ; S. Clif t , to the Sampson. J. G. Campbell, to Plymouth Hospital ; C. Ed e , to the Constance Lawrence, to the Shearw a t er ; R. King, a tot e he ; Eu . ry P - . dice ; Dr. J. Barclay, to the Canopus. Midshipmen —R. B. Oldfield and P. Chase, to the Excellent ; E. C. Hewson, to the Raleigh. Master Assistants —J. M. Hockley, to the Canopus ; J.' S. Smith, to the Griffin ; R. Cleaveland, to the Aven ger; W. Moorman and J. Parsons, to the Dee. T S Neill, from the Crocodil e to the Dido. ; T. S. Clerks—E. A. Amphlett and W. Warburton, to the Dido ; W. F. Wentworth (A ss i stant), to the Crocodile. Naval Cadets — P. E. Lucas, J. B. Wil l i ams, and E. IL 'Murray, to the Constance ; B. Shiffner, to the Ra leigh N. B Phillimore, to the St. Vince . Kidd, to the Dido; Vincent J. J. M'Evoy and T. 0. H. A. Godfrey, to the Agincourt. COAST GUARD. R. Chambers, R.N., to Robin Hood's Bay Station, vib e to Mothercomb station, v i ce Lieutenant W. Bailey (b), Appointments — Mr. n tments—Mr.. e Lieutenant Warren, removed; Warren. app packet to Pembroke dock ; vice Gri ffith, Removals—Lieutenant C. B. Warren, from 3 . f t o e t d he t r o - packet service. oite Knights of Windsor : —Lieutenants W. The following officers have been app in ce n. Fitam d auri Naval cession to the late R. Carter. (1802), vice Carter, deceased; R. Jewens (1809), sus The Lively, Hartfield, master, s a C i HA , led T o ts 3 t the stores for Woolwich and Deptford yards. The Duck, Savage, master, arrived on the 27th inst. il 2 l.A Bt T h 3 with 0 with stores from Woolwich. A leading man and eight ropemakers have been sent from this yard to Deptford-yard to try experiments on the rope-machine at that yard. Mr. Catsell, foreman of smiths at the Devunport-yard, has been sent by the Ad miralty to this yard to explain further improvements made by him for the employment of waste heat in air furnaces at the smithy. The Fantome, 16 guns, Commander Sir Frederick W. Nicholson, Bart., is in the Mediterranean. A letter of much interest from this ship was received yesterday by one of the officers on board her Majesty's ship Poictiers, of which the following is an extract:— " The brig Ruth, of Scarborough, Captain W. Newn ham, manned with eleven hands, last from Messina, bound to St. Peteraburgh, was becalmed about twenty miles westward of Melilah, a Spanish convict settlement on the Barbary coast, when some boats, six or seven in number, manned and armed by Moors, or inhabitants of the seacoast, put off to the brig, in approaching which they fired upon the crew, at the same time uttering the mo s t • discordant yells. The crew , seeing no chance of combat ing them, having no arms, were obliged to leav e th e s hip from the forecastle as the pirates boarded by the gangway and stern, and were extremely fortunate in escaping un hurt, as they were fired upon by the pirates as they were rowing away from the ship. Mr. Newnham came on board our ship w ith f our h an d s on th e morning of the Bth i ns t an t, an d , h av i ng rece i ve d our sailing orders, parted from the buoy, and made sail with a fine breeze after the pirates, passing Ceuta and Tetuan, and keeping in shore as close as possible, so as t o over h au l the beach well, and, after sailing about 200 miles, we came to a spot where we fancied we saw the wreck, but, being dusk, we could not make it out, and therefore we stood off, and intended to tack and stand in again at midnight ; but in the morn ing we found that we had drifted with the current 12 miles to leeward. A boat with a fisherman came on board, and gave us some information. He said the bay was full of pirates, aad that the brig was near where we had supposed her, and a complete wreck ; that most of the men who had boarded her had been driven on shore in their boats, and several drowned. We then made sail for Melilah, the settlement, and were visited by the governor, who told us where the spot was, and also that they would be sure to fire upon us if we went up the bay. We then got under sail, and, after passing round a point, and being close in shore, we saw some boats and some of the natives, who raised a shout, and fired ; we in return fired a 32-pounder, but were out of range, and we went two miles lower down, the people shouting all along the coast, and firing. We shortened sail, and let go our anchor, and got out the boats, and ran down the coast, the people fol lowing and shouting for about a mile, when they stood in shore. One of the chiefs beckoned to them, at the same time waving a white flag. On our rowing ashore, the chief gave his musket to one of his followers, and came downinto the water, and shook hands with the captain, at the same time waving his men back ; and, after talking with the captain as well as he could, the boats returned, and we impatiently waited for the morrow. At daylight next morning we got out the cutter and gigs, and being manned and armed pulled down and saw the wreck, and, on returning, the First Lieutenant in the cutter was shot at and wounded in the thigh. The bands on board very soon got the ship under weigh, and at seven o'clock ran down to meet the boats, and about twelve o'clock came in sight of a small bay where we saw the wreck lying. We shortened sail, let go the anchor, got a kedge with a spring aft to bring our broadside on, and the boats out, pinnace, cutter, and gigs ; the pirates firing at us all the time. We now fired a 32-pounder over them, to see if they would return it. They con tinued firing. We then began to fire in right good earnest, and sent 32-pounders among them in prime style, upon which they soon began to retire. A landing party, consisting of nineteen marines and fifteen blue jackets, with a working party, was then sent to collect things from the wreck, or what was left of it. The men • rowed cheering from the ship for the shore, but as they neared it they were fired upon by the natives, who were lying hid among the rocks. Our men soon drove them away by a constant firing, which was kept up for four hours ; thus they kept the fellows at bay. They were very daring, and some who had expended their ammunition came down with stones, which they threw with astonishing force. They kept increasing, coming from the mountains in all direc tions, and, as nothing more could be done, and the work ing party had secured everything which was serviceable, our men were ordered to retire, which they did gra dually, down to the beach. As they were retiring the • pirates came out of their hiding-places with a yell and made a run at us, but as they came on we fired volleys at them, which threw them into confusion, and we re treated to our boats. It was now our loss was the greatest, as the pirates thronged the beach and kept tiring at us as we pulled from the shore, and, as we were stowed so thick, they killed one and wounded two in the boats. We made sail, but were obliged to put in at Almeira, on the Spanish coast. Our killed and wounded are as follows :—Mr. Boys, midshipman, killed ; First Lieutenant, Mr. Sanderson, wounded ; Sergeant Gillon, Royal Marines, shot through the arm ; . James Cottle, leg amputated since ; John Davis, George ▪ Thompson, J. M.Braith, George Perkins, and William Lovel, Royal Marines, wounded. Our captain had a very narrow e ,- cape. He was in the midst of the lire, encouraging and cheering the men, when two bullets went through his hat, and one caught the heel of his , boot, while a stone grazed his lip. Many others had , similar escapes. One marine's cap was completely riddled with bullets. The loss of the pirates is esti mated at 50 killed and as many or more wounded. The barrels of their guns measure six feet, and carry an im , mense distance. We captured one of them and also a . dagger that measured 18 inches in length, and is a most . formidable weapon." CORN IMPORTATION BILL. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 28. MAJORITY PRESENT, 138. Lord Chancellor EAELS. Oxford DUXES. Besborough Tuam Norfolk Mornington LOADS. St. Albans Courtoun Dacre Buccleuch Charlemont Camoys Roxburgh Clay willhun Byron Leinster Clare Rollo Wellington Leitrim Kinnairel MAJIMSES. Bandon Montfort Winchester Rosslyn Foley Huntley Craven Carteret Lansdowne Romney Suffield Abercorn Chichester Thurlow Sligo Gesford Lyttelton Camden Grey Calthorpe Cholmondeley Minto Blayney Londonderry Verulam Gardner Conyngham St. German's Rivers Ormonde Morley Sandys Clanricarde Howe Crewe Breadalbane Burlington Churchill Westminster Ripon Prudhoe Normanby Granville Bowden LAMA. Effingham Glenlyen Devon Lovelace Delamere Suffolk Zetland Forester Denbigh Auckland Wharneliffe Westmorland EUenborough Brougham Essex Uxbridge Dinerben Shaftesbury Bruce Denman Scarborough VISCOUNT/. Carew Jersey Strathailan Glenelg Erroll Torrington Hatherton Home Sydney Strafford lladdington Clifton Cotttnham Galloway llawardeu Langdale Dalhousie Canning Lovat Aberdeen wagon. Portman Rosebery Durham De Manley Glasgow Lincoln Wrottesley Cowper Chester Sudeley Radnor Ripon Leigh spencer Salisbury Lurgan Bathurst Norwich Dunfermline Clarendon Hereford Monteagle Talbot St. David's Keane Fortescue Worcester Campbell Liverpool Lichfield Vivian Meath PROXIES, 73. ARCHBISHOP. EARLS . Canterbury Buckingham LORDS. Stourton DUICES. Fitzwilliam Petre Somerset Cornwallis Saye and Selo Leeds Mount Edgcumbe Dormer Bedford Cork Ward Devonshire Fingall Monson Hamilton Kingston Wodehoase Argyll Sefton Cloncurry Northumberland Caledon Dunally Sutherland Keumare Abercromby ma/Kansas. Bosse Erskine Tweeddale De Grey Manners Hertford Dunraven Castlemaine Bute Amherst Downes Donegall Camperdown Bexley Ilead fort Lichfield De Tabley Northampton Dude Plunket Anglesey VISCOUNTS. Heytesbury Bristol Melbourne Talbot of Malahlds Ailsa Melville Poltimore EARLS. RISUOPS. Mostyn Pembroke London Godolphin Lindsey Carlisle Methuen Carlisle P .terborough Stuart de Decieti Albemarle Ely Colborne Stair Limerick Seaton MINORITY PRESENT, 126. DUXES, Egmont Bangor Richmond Longford Rochester Grafton Enniskillen Llandaff Beaufort Wicklow Gloucester Marlborough Lucan Exeter Rutland Wilton Chichester Montrose Limerick LORDS. Manchester Clancarty Stanley Newcastle Fowls De ROS B uckin gh am Nelson Hastings Cleveland Charleville Clinton MARQUISES. Manvers Beaumont Salisbury Oxford Willoughby de Broke Downshlre Lonsdale St. John Ely Harewood Saltoun Exeter Brownlow Polwarth Westmeath Bradford Sondes EARLS, Sheffield Boston Huntingdon Eldon Hawke Winchilsea Chesterfield Falmouth Walsingham CarringtonS GAcl c o ribo u i ai :int, Rayleigh obg i tu a r oleeg m ryck pt o ti Sandwich Somers Cardigan Stradbroke Abingdon Cawdor Eglington Munster Kianoull Ranfurly Kenyan Airlie VISCOV NTS. Braybrooke Hereford Selkirk Maynard Orkney Strangford Oxford sDHGR Exmouth daouo Roden Middletonee eo r nu a t i I . l h e ti i . Dartmouth Aylesford Lifrord Stanhope St. Vincent Pomfret Ashburnham Redesdale Lorton 881 3 T l4l A FCC e °are sb n ioYirvr tetftw t u enY n e h u ri nie r w le r ns d Sherburnehgk t t e ho ae I l : Ink y S b k e e I F m r e:cl e a I e Warwick Guilford Lake Hardwick* Delawarr Beresford Mansfield Combermere Beverley Canterbury Wyaford Carnarvon Ponsonby Cadogan Templemore Limu'ad'Eresby Malmesbury BISHOPS, Winchester PROXIES, 38,. DUEL Portland EARLS. Mount Cashell Shrewsbury Mayo Vaux Poulett Erne Sinclair -Moray Donoughmore Reay 1 'Balcarres Onslow Dynevor Scofield Beauchamp Begot ;Ferrero Glengall Farnham ITankerv ill a Yarborough Alvanley Ravensworth 'Macclesfiel d Gatnsborough WaidegTave VISCOUNTS. De Saumarez Arbuthnott Button. Ilches ter De Vesci St. Asaph Di ;by O'Neill. Bath and Wells 3t lumen with the Earl of L auderdale calEaairnlstßietTaren paired (for the Bill) - - - CARLOTTA GRIBL—The pet par excellence of the ba.Jilet, Carlotta Grisi, makes her first appearance on w e d_ nes les-, at Drury-lane, in the ballett of Paquita. The Fr. 'nch papers give the most flattering accounts of the ap pearance of the fair Carlotta in this ballet, at the Grand Op era on Monday night. It was the last time of its per for ,nance previous to the departure of Carlotta Grisi for En gland, and nothing could exceed the enthusiasm which sht, excited among the audience. The ballet itsaif is superb. 'll,ere is a ball• scene, the magnificence of which, we under stand, transcends even the glories of Gustavus or Lestocq. It is got up in even more magnificent style at Drury-lane than at the Grand Opera in Paris, and it will no doubt prove QM of tlt e greatest hits that Burns has yet ludo. BREAKING UP OF THE MORMON SETTLEMENT. The Mormon community at Nauvoo have left their temple and what they believed to be their " promised land," having vainly endeavoured to resist the hostility cf their neighbours, and have commenced a long and difficult march in search of a quieter home in California. The New York Courier and Enquirer contains the fol lowing particulars of their movements:— " The Mormons are fairly en route for California. They have all left their old residence, and at the last accounts were just crossing the head waters of the Chariton river, about 150 miles west of Nauvoo. A Locofoco paper has been established at Nauvoo since their departure, and contains some very interesting items of intelligence concerning the progress of the expedi tion, and the general prospects of the country. It states, on the authority of a letter from a gen tleman travelling with the company, that everything has gone on well, that the party is in good health, and the grand caravan moved slowly, but peacefully. Their progress has been materially retarded by the want of fodder for their live stock; the grass not having fairly started, reduced them to the necessity of labouring for the farmers on the route, to supply the deficiency. They travel in detached companies, from five to ten miles apart, 'and, in point of order, resemble a military expedition. The editor of the Hancock Eagle, the paper referred to, says that he visited the camp before it broke up. It was in the rigo rous weather of February, and the tents were blockaded by snow-drifts ; yet the scene seemed cheer ful and animated. From appearances he thought it certain that they would suffer most severely before reaching their destination. It was the intention of at least some of the companies to halt in the valley of the Sweetwater river, and put in a crop for the sub sistence of themselves and others who may follow. Numbers were on their way from the Eastern states to join the expedition. The same paper says, that in the whole town of Nauvoo it would be impossible to purchase a drop of ardent spirits I No drinking, gambling, or any similar vice, had ever been intro duced there, though, as a new class of emigrants was pouring in to take the place of the Mormons, it seemed altogether probable that they would bring with them the accompaniments of 'civilisation.' The Temple was for sale, and a wealthy bachelor gentleman from the south had arrived, with the intention of purchasing it. His object, it is said, is to convert the Temple into an asylum for destitute widows and orphans, and to purchase lands and town lots, and endow it out of the rents of the same. The Eagle contains the following paragraph concerning a prospective improve ment in Nauvoo:—' The agent of an eastern company has arrived here for the purpose of selecting a s it e for the erection of manufactories. By throw ing out a wing dam into the Mississippi, and cutting a short canal, water power can be obtained here sufficient to drive all the machinery in the state. A fall of two and a half to three feet can be had, with a tteoh hh n xfaiead sfym,farms inexhaustiblerbihtmnehaeesrddnouintnaghol through ehlatbeo hdeceyvea been saciutiil ocality, supply subscribed, molested that at I :eat of water water at all seasons. by yofu fund f a ct The Mormons had a project ou foot to accomplish ,dhEwewinrnhgoe which shdsrhi notd v.hgcompany, bridging gaet os:cspot emat vni3loaeineni been sete hees if nde resiiexpended operations peperin. dtehda t We tnwhaofo r i l e s s o , op the oo/. purchase sterling the will el sbipenrafiinformed r g m . erection d A f a a ra n ble engi co n m ee p Nauvoo, in • voo, point of eligibility for the establishing of a great manufacturing interest. The idea is not chimeri cal,rariswohno with that this city will, in time, become the Lowell of the West'' ST. DU NSTAN IN THE EAST.—It h av i ng been re solved by several influential par i s hi on ers that some testimo nial of th e i r respect T homas Bannin g , f or hi s unrem itting exertions in the affairs of that parish, and more part i cu l ar ly during the years 1822 and 1845, w h en he served the office of churchwarden ac and esteem should be presented to Mr . countant, their resolution was carried into effect on the 29th inst., when a handsome piece of plate, with a suitable in scrition, was presented to him by a deputation of parish ioners, acconapan' i rector. es by the Rev. Thomas B. Murray , their POTATDES FROM NORWAY.—A cargo of forty tons of potatoes from Norway is announced for sale in the present week, in Monument - yard, as applicable either for seed or for consumption. LO WELL —ITS ASPECTS—MANU FACTURES CONDITIONS OF LABOUR— REFORM. (From the New York Tribune.) We spent a few hours in the " City of Spindles" last week, looking with interest on its thrift, its enterprise, its busy population. We looked thoughtfully into its rattling, whirring factories, and anxiously into the faces of its labourers. Lowell was never more active, more " growing," or apparently more prosperous than now. New factories, new works of all kinds, new dwellings are being con structed; and the company, which is now running some fifty carpet. looms, is about to tear all down, and cover an acre with mills, in which some two hundred lawns will weave carpets, with a spinning -mill, dying rooms, and everything complete for making the car petings directly from the fleeces. The new ma nufacturing city going up a few miles lower on the Merrimac seems to have abstracted little of capital, enterprise, or business from the " Man chester of America." The rep, al of the tariff is re garded there with general incredulity and partial da fiance. We were shown several descriptions of goods (heavy checks, brown drills, Ste.), which the makers assured us caul l not be made in England or any where else cheaper than they are now made and sold at Lowell, while some, they were confident, could be sold in Eng land at a profit if all tariffs were abolished on both sides. In carpets the English have greatly the advantage in the cost of stock (working in a great proportion of ground rags, while ours are made entirely of unworri wool), but they are woven cheaper in Lowell than anywhere in Great Britain, owing to a great Yankee improvement of machinery, though the girls who tend the carpet looms of Lowell (hard and difficult work) earn their dollar a day, which no carpet weaver in Great Britain can do. The cost of a good ingrain carpet at Lowell is SO cents per yard against 67 in Leeds for what passes for a similar British article, though the British is vastly inferior in strength and durability. No tariff that will pay Polk's war expenses can be low enough to swamp the bulk of the Lowell manufac turers. In fact, they rather seem to doubt the Govern. ment's ability to get along with as low duties as they can. Certain descriptions of fabrics, of which the mar ket price depends rather on style, fashion, or novelty, than on actual cost, would suffer from a reduction of the tariff ; but Lowell could stand this far better than the younger and feebler manufactures of other sections: in fact, she would receive an incidental benefit from the check necessarily given to the extension and diffusion of manufactures through the country. If any body ima • gines that the West is to be benefited at the expense of the East, or labour achieve a triumph over capital by reducing the tariff, then that body will find himself mis taken in the event. Visitors to Lowell generally see but one side of the picture—the bright or the darker ; we endeavoured to look fairly on both. With one class, we saw and were delighted with the general activity, the ready employ ment for labour of almost every description, the won drous inventions and combinations of machinery whereby such stupend am results are produced that ten thousand workers produce more and better fabrics than one hun dred thousand could have done a bare century ago. We do not believe there is on the face of the earth a com munity of thirty thousandpeople who add so much every year to the amount and value of articles necessary to human subsistence and comfort as do those of Lowell. He who views Lowell in this light only, may well go away admiring and delighted. Yet there is another and, as we have intimated, a darker side of the picture, which is not the less real be cause it has usually been grossly exaggerated by those who have presented it to the public. He who tells you that the working men and women of Lowell are slaves to the capitalists—that the men must vote as their em ployers direct—that the women are so crowded, over worked, badly fed, &c., that they are dying of consump tion and other chronic diseases, do grossly vary from the truth. We believe it is a fact that a majority of the workmen usually vote against what is supposed to be the interest and the wish of their employers; at all events, we know that they vote as they please, and that it would be impossible to make them vote otherwise. Manufacturing labour is not such a heaven that able bodied, strong-limbed, two-handed men are eater to sell their souls for the privileae of doing it ; and our manu facturing labourers are quite as intelligent and as independent as any other class of labourers for wages. He who employs a few men and is constantly with them, may possibly influence their votes ; but a great company, employing its hundreds, can never even know what sort of ballots its workmen see fit to deposit. Even though it were to attempt to exert an undue influence, and go to the length of pro viding a peculiar ballot, it could eff ct nothing. The inside of a vote need not correspond with its exte rior ; and the workman generally knew how to get a living before any company hired him. We believe the cry of political tyranny raised against the corporations, by those who justify the national executive in exercising this very same power over the nation's servants which they justly stigmatise when exerted by a private com pany, is unfounded and unjust. There may have been instances of undue influence, but not one by corporations where there are a hundred, openly, notoriously, by the Federal Government by whose partisans this clamour is raised. On another point, we obtained the unanimous testi mony of all parties in Lowell that the Corporations have been unjustly assailed. We have heard it asserted as a notorious fact by intelligent demagogues here, who have made it a current belief among tke ignorant here, that the workmen in factories are paid half in barter, goods, store-orders, &c. Nothing like this is true. The workers, whether male or female, for the Corporations have uni formly been paid every two weeks, and paid wholly in cash—none of your shinplaster trash, borrowed or bought at a discount of a broker, but par money, such as will pay rent, a note in bank, or any thing else. Honour to the Boston Banks for their noble stand years ago in behalf of a Uniform Currency throughout all the country, whereof Boston was the commercial centre 1 That much abused policy known as the Suffolk system' has shielded the labourers of New England from heavy aggregate losses and infinite vexations. As to the regulation which requires the " operatives " (we cordially detest the term), who are in the employ of any manufacturing Corporation in Lowell, to board at some one of the boarding-houses on the grounds of that Corporation, we believe it was intended for the good of labourers, and has done good. These houses are rented at low rates ; the prise of board in them is moderate (1 dol. 25 c. to 1 dol. 37 c. per week); and it is not pre tended that the Companies have any interest in the mat ter, except to have board cheap and the labourers handy to their work. In fact, many workmen board elsewhere than in Corporation boarding-houses, as all have the right to do who have relatives to board with. No inquiry is trrt i de by the companies unless some of the boarding house keepers complain of being so slenderly patronised that they cannot live and pay rent. This produces a requisition that the labourers shall board on the premises according to the regulations. There is no complaint that board is too dear, rather the contrary; but many of the boarding-houses are too crowded, and lack accommoda tions essential to health and cleanliness. We believe these are equal to those enjoyed by labourers in cities gene rally, but they ought to be improved. We should think the girls especially, who are mainly farmers' daughters and have been accustomed to ample sleeping room, op portunities for washing, &c., would remedy the matter themselves by just uniting to pay 25 or 37i cents more per week, on condition of having ample and comfort able accommodations. There is no regulation in the way of this—nobody would wish to prevent it—and they would still earn more, beside their board, than is earned by working women almost anywhere else than in American factories. Will they not think of this ? We fear there is not care enough taken to provide for the ventilation of the factories. We know that ig norance and indifference in this respect is all but uni versal, but this is no excuse. The owners of factories are usually men of decided intelligence ; they under stand the laws of life and health ; they are aware that the mills are often required to be kept at as high a temperature as is consistent with health ; that a hundred human beings being employed for day after day in one room must have large and constant supplies of fresh air, or their health will suffer. We entreat them to give earnest heed to this matter, not only in building new factories, but with reference to those now existing. They should at least consider that ventilation is cheaper than hospital treatment, which we believe in Lowell is afforded to those who need it gratuitously. The great master evil in operation atLowell, however, and too generally in American factories, is that of ex cessive hours of labour. At Lowell, all hands are ex pected to begin work at five A.M., and to labour, with but half an hour's intermission for breakfast, and as much more for dinner, till seven P.M , making thirteen hours steady employment daily. The working day is a little longer at some seasons and a little shorter at others, but this is about the average, and it is entirely too much. It is a severer tax on human energies than formerly, because, with the progress of maehinery, the attention required is more constant and the work more exacting. Many of the girls tend three looms on plain weaving where one was formerly thought enough, two certainly so ; in some cases a chain is to be lifted at intervals, requiring a very considerable muscular effort ; and though this may be more healthful than merely mending threads and supplying spools all day, it not the less contributes to increase the fatigue created by thirteen hours of scarcely remitted toil. Most of the women employed in the fac tories are still Young ; a large proportion mere girls of fifteen to twenty ; and when it is considered that they are hereafter to become wives and mothers, it will be seen that the preservation of their constitution is of the highest public importance. And it is not enough that they should continue healthful and vigorous. They should have time for and be encouraged to form habits of daily reading and study. Yet what can be expected of girls of slender forms and immature strength, who , find k them .m selves first at leisure a little before . eight after having been on their feet Cwainthbaroelcyotill3!) for. they be expected hasty meals since five, m now to apply themselves a w.. ith ? alacrity and perseverance to any means of mental . improvement ? to Surely not f . Hence must grow habits of i ndifferencebooks and o mental f r i vo lity, very mournful to thin k o f as character ising the mothers of those who will rule the destinies of our country in the next generation. Now we know very well that women are more un healthfully employed, confined more hours, and far worse paid in many other branches of industry, than in manu facturing. We know that those engaged hi sewing in our cities, are a special instance of this—that th ere are thousands on thousands of household servants, for whom even "Sunday shines no holi t l a y , " and who ' would be deemed upstart and affected, if they should even indicate a wish for mental improvement. It is_ not a questi on whether manufacturin g i s worse than other employment for women—we have often enough expressed our conviction that it is not—that the introduction of this branch of industry into New England has largely con tributed to emancipate woman there from pecuniary de pendence, and to increase the reward of her honest toil. There is no question with us as to the utility and ad vantage of sustaining and cherishing manufactures—we inquire only whether more good may not be done, more evil prevented, while we cherish them—and we insist that there may be. Let our manufacturers spare no pains or expense to make the situation of those they em ploy just what it should be—let the hours of their labour be reduced, and everything essential to their health pro vided, without reducing their wages--and then let the country be appealed to to sustain our own truly free labour against the cheaper vassal service of the Old World. Rely on it, though a tariff of one hundred per cent. were demonstrably necessary, the country would cheerfully impose and unflinchingly maintain it Who would not eheerlully pay a beggarly rent a yard is ore on cotton fabrics to secure such a result? NV ho would earn how many agents of BirmioghAtn and Leeds went showing and rubbing their trumpery specimens through the committe rooms oc Congress, while our labourers were p'osperous. healthful, contented, and Kapp) ? The Great National Fair at Washington next week will naturally draw together a great number of persons engaged in manufactures from all parts of the country. Wh• will they not come together there and consider whether soul, thing cannot be done, may not be done, to limit and render uniform the hours of labour in future throughout the country? A voluntary resolution thus framed and acted on would exert the force of law over the whole Union. It would do more to establish and secure the protective policy than reams of undeniable statistics and cart-loans of convincing speeches. — Friends of Home Industry ! will you not think on this subject and speak out ? Speak now. LAW INTELLIGENCE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, June 1. (Sittings in Banco.) TURNER V. DARLINGTON. Tbis was an application by Mr. Bodkin for a rule calling upon the defendant to show cause why the plain tiff should not be discharged from prison, to which he was committed by a magistrate for an alleged breach of a contract entered into between him and his employer. It appeared that plaintiff is a working miner, and had, with many other workmen, entered into a contract with the defendant to work in the mines of the latter for a term of eleven months, under certain regulations. The plaintiff and the other workmen absented themselves from the works for reasons which they assigned to be good and sufficient, and for this the defendant laid a complaint against them before a magistrate in Lanca shire. where the mines are situated, and they were by this functionary committed to prison, upon the ground that they had violated their contract. The case now came on to he arguei. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Fluddleston appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Cowling, Mr. James, and Mr. Fry for the defendant. The COURT, having: heard the Rrguments on the one side and the other, decided that there was not sufficient in the information to warrant the committal in this case, for that various just reasons might arise to warrant a man in absenting himself from his work without any breach of contract—such, for instance, as the act of God. On the whole, in this case it did not appear to the Court that there was any violation of the contract by the plaintiff. Mr. BODKIN, counsel for plaintiff, here remarked that there were five others in the same position, and that the decision in this case would govern the whole. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Louis Pontowsky, a foreigner, who pretended that he could not speak a word of English, was brought before Alderman Gibbs for final examination charged with having stolen a clock, the property of the Directors of the Marine Assurance Company in Cornhill, and a watch, the property of Mr. Johnson, perfumer, of Cornhill. John Baker, a City policeman, stated in, answer to questions put by Alderman Gibbs, that the prisoner spoke the English language perfectly well as they came along the streets from the Compter to the Mansion House, and understood the nature of tl e charges against him. Witness &so said that, upon apprehending the prisoner for stealing the clock, he found in his waistcoat pocket a watch which Mr. Johnson identified. Mr. Robert Johnson, of No. 68, Cornhill, stated that some days before the prisoners apprehension, he had deposited his gold watch in the drawer of a looking ulass in one of the upper rooms in the house. The thief must have walked into the house in the broad day, and had taken away several trinkets of value which had been deposited in the same place. The prisoner said, "Me no speak a word of English. Me not steal any ting. " Alderman GlBns.—l shall commit you for trial, for robbery. I dare say you'll understood that ? The prisoner.—No ; me not understand one word you say.—(A laugh.) The prisoner was then committed for trial. Frederick Chapman , a millwright just arrived from Bedfordshire, was charged by Mr. Gale, solicitor, of Basinghall-street, with having assaulted several females walking that morning from St. Paul's to the Poultry. The defendant was quite lively and indifferent for a while. Mr. Gale said that as he walked along St. Paul's, he saw the defendant with a bag half across his shoulder apparently filled with implements of work, which he swung about in such a 'winner, that many females were struck by it, and no deubt hurt. The fellow cared nothing about expostulation, but laughed at the mischief he was doing and jogged on, thrusting his bag of tools against the women whom he seemed to have marked out for that sort of sport. There was no policeman visible until witness reached the Poultry, when he instantly gave the defendant into custody. . . - A gentleman, who had been in Cheapside at the time, said that he received the first notice of the de fendant's ruffianism by a blow from the bag of tools him self. He heard several ladies complain. The defendant, in fact, walked as if there was no person in the street except himself, although the crowds were great. Alderman GIBBS—Was he drunk?—The witness said there was no appearance of intoxication about the man. The defendant—l couldn't be drunk, for all I drinked was one point of beer, and that wouldn't make I drunk. Alderman GIBBS—And what have you to say? The defendant—Why, oy was going along quoiek enough, and the people pushed, and oy warn't to blame. (Here he looked round and laughed.) Alderman Glens—You have just come from the country? The defendant—Oy; just corned by railway, and I'm going to another part of the country to work . . Alderman GlBBB—Then you must pay twenty shillings for this conduct, or go to prison for fourteen days. The defendant—What, poy twenty shillings! I ha'n't got no twenty shillings to poy. Alderman GIBBS—Then you must go to gaol. We must not have people knocked about in this way. The coutryman retired from the bar in amazement, and upon getting close to the " lock-up," appealed to some of the policemen, and supplicated their influence with the alderman to induce him to reverse the sentence. Finding, however, that his intentions were thrown away, he said, " Well, I'll pay the money, but moind, I I think it's very cruel." Ann Wood, a well-known imposter, was charged with having shammed fits in the street. The prisoner played her old character to such per fection, that several persons supposed she was in the agonies of death, and medical aid was procured, but the surgeon who saw her, knew the nature of her disease, and caused her to be taken to the police-station, whore she speedily recovered, and begged to be allowed to go home unassisted. Alderman Gins said, that upon one occasion, the prisoner had been sent to her parish in the country, but she arrived in town some time before the officer who was ordered to accompany her. She was committed to Bridewell for two months. SCROOBY GIBBET POST.—Most of our readers are aware, that for several years past a gibbet-post has been exhibited near the Scroobv toll-bar, on the north road, about two miles to the south of Bawtry. On the 3d of July, 1779, William Yeadon, and his mother, Mary Yeadon, the keepers of the Scrooby toll-gate, were cruelly murdered, and the house plundered by a person of the name of John Spencer, a native of North Liverton, who was shortly after wards taken, and on his trial, for the horrible tragedy at Nottingham, a few days afterwards, he was found guilty, and sentenced to be executed, and afterwards his body to be hung in chains in accordance with the express words of his sen tence, After the lapse of a few weeks, a party of soldiers con veying a deserter passing by the place, the sergeant fired his carbine, loaded with ball, at the corpse, and hit it, which caused a stench, almost unbearable for several days after wards. The circumstance becoming known, the party was followed, and the sergeant taken, and on being subsequently tried by a court• martial he was found guilty and degraded into the ranks. Years rolled on, and the body gradually became less and less, until nothing was left but the chains which originally shackled it, and these in course of time fell and were secretly conveyed away. For several late years the post, with its withered and weather-beaten arm, was the only vestige left of that deed of blood which sixty-seven years ago filled the minds of the inhabitants of the surround ing districts with horror. But time, which levels all past er b r e e e s n tial objects with its corroding breath, had for yearsco re and on gradually gnawing this once loathed stump to its a fell the to ostrt rise no 0 April o re last, a on ct e tl e y , a c c h c r o o m n p i.c l el i ee s . h n edh represented to FRENCH SHAWLS .— It havingtask, and it Foreenocfh duty, go a goods the Board of Customs that an importer of f free had recently imported into this a fringe, the Commissioners ry, quantity of woollen shawl s, sewos ith e u v t several s and departmentsphtces throughoutat th e por the kingdom, t o h f av have Londonm ade an t h d e aotffi thecer s acquaintedvarious w ith the same, with directions t o them and the o fficers under their control and su p ervis ion to take care that aofriotub articles of this description be charged with the duty legally due thereon, viz., ten per cent. a d valorem, under the resolu tions of the House of Commons, trans mitted to them in an order issued by theßo r a es r o d lu i i n Anlsarrceh last, directing the same to be immedi a t e l y carried into effect. Woollen manufactures are, by the ferred to, now free ; the fringe, therefore, which was at tached to these woollen shawls, destroyed the privilege a n d rendered them liable to th e d uty named. This decision is of importance to the trade and the importers of French and other foreign manufactures of this _description. THE LONDON M AILS FROM MANCHESTEE.—On and after Monday next, the Ist of June, a mixed mail-train will be dispatched from the station of the Manchester and Bir mingham Railway, London -road, Manchester, for Birming ham and London, at a quarte r p as t s i x o ' c l oc k i n t h e morn ing, arri v i ng in London about one o'clock, which is about the same time that the morning mail train now reaches London, starting from the Victoria station at four in the morning, and going round by Newton and Warrington. There will be a similar train from Liverpool, starting at six in the morning, and joing that from Manchester at Crewe, whence they will form a joint mail train southward. There are numerous and important alterations contemplated at the Post-office, and which are also intended to commence on Monday next, if the requisite preparations can be completed in time. We believe that the London mails will arrive here • a Hale earlier than at present. —Mane. ester Guardian of Saturday. _ _ A singular suicide took pl-ice a few days ago at Ligueil (Indre et Loire). A man named Alatburier, over come by some domestic troubles, went into a vine-ground, and having made a pile of faggots set it on fire, and laying himself upon it was consumed. His body, which was not discoyerad till the morning, had become a calcined meas. MARKET NEWS. —(YESTERDAY). CORN EXCHANGE. The past week's arrivals of English Wheat have been mo derate, but those of all other kinds of Grain of home produce have been limited. From Ireland and Scotland very little Grain has come to hand, while from abroad the receipts have been by no means extensive. Fresh up, the arrivals of Wheat of home produce were small• but of fair average quality. The stands being scantily filled with samples, the demand for all kinds of Er glish Wheat was steady, at fully the prices obtained on Monday last, and at which a fair clearance was effected by the Factors. The accounts which have come to band by this morning's post respecting the appearance of the wheat crops are very favourable, Notwilistliating the show of free foreign Wl.eat was again small, that descrii , tion of produce, if we except the very finest parcels, which sold in every instance at full prices, moved off slowly, at barely late rates. Bonded Wheats, the supply of which was somewhat on the increase, commanded very little attention, yet a few thousand quarters changed hands on certificates, at lOs to Ils per quarter. The stock in bond is now extremely large. We had only a moderate quantity of Barley on offer. Fine qualities nmved I f at very full currencies ; but all other kinds were a mere drug, though we cannot call them cheaper. The show of Malt was moderately good. The demand was wholly of a retail character at late rates.. Although the show of Oats was trifling, that article met a very inactive inquiry. Fine dry parcels sold at last week's prices, but the middling and inferior kinds were 6d. per quarter lower. Both Beans and Peas ruled excessively dull, at barely late rates. In Flour next to nothing was doing, and some good marks of town-made sold at 475. per 280Ibs. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE Wheat—Essex & Kent, M alt—Chevaller • • • • 63. tO 650 Red, New.... 44s to 588 Oats—Yorkshire and Ditto,Whitc, Old.. 49s 63s Lincolnsh., Feed. 23s 245 Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe ...... •• • • 305 331 coin, Red..... 44s 50. Yougln.l and Cork, Ditto, White •• • • 49s 595 Black . 23s 2 41 Irish, Red •••• • • • • —s —s Cork, White..... 225 27 1 Ditto, White ••• • • • —s —s Scotch, Feed. .... 26s 290 itye—Old •••••• • • • • • . 325 33s Beans—Tick ......... 301. 2 61 New. .••••• • • • • • • 31. 33s Pigeons 425 4 81 Barley—Grinding .•• • • 25s 27. Pease—Grey . ........ 315 3 10 Malting . • • 29s 32s Map1e........... 335 3 61 Chevalier •• • • 335 345 White ........... 375 2 80 slalt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers .........39s 410 folk 55s 59s Flour—Town-made .• . 505 535 8r0wn........... 51s 52s Suffolk ..... 39s 410 Kingston and Ware 62s 63s Stocktn & Nortblk 415 421 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. Wheat—Dant.ic...... 538 to 563 Beans • llamburgh ..... 48. 50s Pease •••• • . • • 303 33s Barley . ..... ....... 203 24. Flour—American .• .• • 26s 271 Oats--New 24s 25. Baltic 27s - 295 Feed ...... • 19s 205 SMITHFIELD. The imports of live stock from abroad, since this day se'nnight, into London, have consisted of 68 Oxen. 25 Cows, 260 Sheep, and 26 Lambs, from Rotterdam ; together with 15 Oxen, 45 Cows, and 3 Sheep, from Harlingen, in, com paratively speaking, excellent condition. At Hull abbut 300 head of Beasts and Sheep have come to hand from Hol lan4. We had on sale 50 Oxen from Prussia (shipped at Rotterdam, and included in the above), and 30 ditto from Holland, which moved off slowly, at barely stationary prices. Annexed is a statement of the arrivals of stock from abroad, in the three months of the last three years, ending on the sth of April : _ _ _ 1844 1845 1846 Oxen Cows Calves Sheep Lambs Pigs The arrivals of beasts fresh up this morning, though con siderably less than those on this day se'nnight, was, owing to the warm weather, more than equal to the wants of the butchers ; hence the Beef trade was in a very inactive state, at bareli, but at nothing quotable beneath last week's prices. From IN orfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we re' ceived about 1,500 Scots, Homebreds, and Short Horns; from the western and midland counties, 400 Hereford's, runts, Devons, &c. ; from other parts of England 300 of various kinds ; and from Scotland, 295 horned and polled sorts. The numbers of Sheep were seasonabll, large; yet, on the whole, the M u tt o n t ra d e was s t ea dy, and previous rates were well supported in every instance. The supply of Lambs was moderately extensive; yet the sale for that description of stock was firm, at very full prices. I° Calves, very little was doing, at Friday's depressed figure!: The Pork trade was unusually dull, and the quotations lieu • downward tendency. The general quality of the stock Wi ti very good. Y, d to 1 1 . d Second quality ditto 3 6 Coarse-woolledditte 3 10 4 " Southdown Wethers 4 t 4 4 Ditto out of the wool S 4 Large Hogs 3 Small Porkers .... 4 8 419 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 1 6 9 g Lambs .......... 5 0 w Per 811 gs. to sink the offal. s. d. e. d Inferior Beasts .. •• 2 6 2 8 Second quality ditto. 210 3 4 Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots ...... 310 4 0 Large coarse Calves 3 8 310 Prime small ditto .. 4 0 4 suckling Calves ..18 0 29 0 Inferior Sheep .. . 3 2 3 6 1 piss. 2130 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. 2,644 24,290 I 114 NEWGATE AND LZIATIENITAX.X. Notwithstanding the prevailing warm weather, the arr iv " of country-killed meat up to these markets since Mcnday last have been on the increase, and of full average The supplies of meat slaughtered in the metropolis havi n g been somewhat extensive, the general demand bag been in a very inactive state, and the q uo t a ti ons h ave had a down; ward tendency. About 50 carcases o f f ore i g n Beasts, an 100 ditto of Sheep, have appear e d on sa l e. quality. At per atone, by the Carcase. a. d. to a. d. 8. d. to S. t Beef, inferior...... 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior .. 3 4 3 0 - middling ••.. 2 . 6 2 8 --- middling.. 310 4 _ _ prime large ••2 10 3 2 prlme7:.; 4 - 6 prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, large.... •..• 3 4 4 yeah—. .... •• • . . 3 8 4 8 small ........ 4 4 410 Lamb. 5s Od to 6s 2d. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs. 25 260 180 Yorkshire •• .• .• •• •. 30 300 Lincolnshire Norfolk • •• • . 30 120 Suffolk .• • ....... •• .. •.•• • . 30 200 Cambridgeshire 240 120 80 100 80 Essex ........................., 20 Surrey ................ Devonshire ................... Wiltshire ...... ••• • .• •• • •• •• . sii 60 100 18 120 i 0 150 - 60 40 100 90 80 50 200 100 100 Total ...... ........ 298 1,640 3110 1, 30 1 Previous week's arrival...... 220 1,160 200 970 , 130 Diference since oar last .. .. 78 480 BOROUGH AND OPITAL... --- Notwithstanding the supplies of Potatoes on offer ar e small, the demand for all kinds is in a very inactive stat e. The following are the prices of the sound qualities, but t h e inferior kinds are offering at unusually low figures:—York _y o r Reds, 140 s to 180 s; ditto Regents, 90s to 120 ; Perth Ba d* 110 s to 1200; Montrose Buffs, 90s to 1100 per ton. BOROUGE BOP IWLELIRXET. The accounts from the plantations not being to say fav'eti r s , able, the fly being still on the increase, the demand here firm, and prices are well supported. WOOL. The last imports of wool have been again moderately e%' tensive, viz., 557 bales from Hobart Town, 1,103 do. frai l , Sydney, 354 do. from Bombay, an d 400 d o. from var i o ur other quarters. The public sales were brought to a conch': sion on Saturday. Although near l y th e w h ole of the pace , ' offered have found buyers, prices have receded ld to 3d per lb; Privately, next to nothing is doing, and the quotations mu ° be considered almost nominal. TALLOW. The market may be considered firm at full prices. V W° Tallow is 40s 6d to 41s net cash. SHIPS' STORES.—The Customs authorities having ti _ s.r .h a under their consideration the regulations allowing spare e ) and other articles of wood goods, as specified in the pr , n instructions furnished to the tide-surveyors for their info d r 19.0 tion and guidance, to be left on board f ore i gn vessels l'lP‘ t ien cleared inwards for ships' stores, and deeming it exPe,„o that the same should be extended to British vessels , ,Th i s ordered that the officers at the port of London, and a. 6, several outports and places along the coasts of the kinirlif do govern themselves in future accordingly, observing t e ast such British vessels are from any port in the Baltic, the r h i r d of Norway, or any port to the eastward of Brest, one . '" less than the enumerated quantities should be allowed , e! de . the case of foreign vessels returning to the Baltic, the ti for surveyor taking care to record all articles left by 061 :4, ship's use in the tide-waiter's book and the clearing P tl— , and also in the certificate left with the master of the Ves gw oo . THE STATUE AT HYDE PARK CORNER.—The qe sition has not a single redeeming point ; public ePillw unanimously against it; and we do h o p e , th at either tbrobufiro Government interference, or the good sense of some Ins in t ive of the testimonial committee, the contempl a ted destru c oe act may be prevented even at this the last moment:" _____ - - t h s a sy_ f it i ll iiiii P irceb n o ll Builder. A lhentla rle. [ ADVERTISEMENT.] —THE EYES. -39, 4. "'" - at 01 1 street, Piccadilly. 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S. and ; On of the same name their immediate n pe meted with a in any part of the country. To i take' , A le c s o co u p s e ti s c , i O n p s e t r ni s m G e l n iL t lrsi oronr prevent m 9 piece' bourhood, no r -- only to be had at a observe, 3 9, Albemarle-stcelt , . oP ',ma° CADVEATISMENT.]—THE EARL OF A LDB- -- w_ m g ° AND HOLLOWAY ' S .] ] An THE cure by this IniV i e - f Ds' me di c ine, after every other means had failed. See extract 4, :!. lordship's uyticiu letter, dated Villa 3iessina po an otte the York Hotel. "To Professor Holloway,—Sir, I beg to acquaint You 1101 '...,ecri' pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and file Carlsbad or Marienbad. —(Signed) which all the most eminent of the faculty, at home and all .....teri_ A l , Leghorn, Feb. 21, I you Continent, had not been able to effect—na not even the "' m ien—, Pills will cure any disease Sold O'''' - 944, of the liver or stomach, mit, .A loway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establis . ..__ A km — w orw - Strand, and of all medicine venders throughout the c 111 0 7.. .../ Aldborough." y Thee' lit - ft pUe BIRTHS g 9i On the 23d ult., at Balham-hill, the wife of Thomas ro- ., , a son. t, r °24' On the 23d ult., th e l a d y o f M a j or Ri c h ar d son, Tork-St". inan-square, of a son. . On the 29th ult., in Charles-street, Berkeley-Ka—r -. ' 01 the i' Louvaine, of a son and heir. n o itl, 04' On the 7th ult., on board the Agincou r t, the lady of D. -- tb• superintending surgeon, of the Mysore Division, of a son- la dy of On the 27th ult , at the Rectory, Wouldham, Kent, th . 0 Rev. A. H. Barker, of a daughter. y. of O" Ph On the 28th ult., at Bell-wharf, Dowgate, the w -- Hunt, of a daughter. On the 28th ult., at Liverpool, Mrs. Rodney Boyce, a a r j tiq jj. tit er. On the 29th tilt., at Greenwich, Mrs. J. /Mach, ofa "" On the 29th ult., the wife of C. Woolley, Esq. of a ~ ,Op i r. Grew" — On the 29th ult., in Chester-square, the lady of C. of Esq., of a daughter. Dr rig' On tile 29th nit., at Bath, the lady of A. P. 31a,riv— 1 ~t er , a son. f a - il r, On the 30th ult., at Hanover-terrace, Mrs. Longro an , 01 .. da ysvo On the 30th ult., the wife of John Burder, Dal ., °`, square, of a son. MARRIED. soot icar On the 20th ult., at Byfleet Surrey Joseph Lewis, E5c1,„ , ....,, d , n of t" to Eliza Vincent, eldest daughter 01 , the late Captain .-"--' Hon. East India Company's Service. voiclo,- On the 27th ult., at St. Mary's, Stoke Newington, Ed°l7, ~.4 j an , IL , son, Esq., of Rugby, to Mary, daughter of tl_2! h_1t.151P2:...!'w------. , DIED. age d 74 te . On the 28th ult., Thomas Evitt, Esq , of Hayden-grain co— On the 28th tilt., at Brighton, John Campbell, Captain AO Gr Onyas. the 29th ult., Laurence Rowe, Esq., of Brentford, age i tne of her o Majesty the 29th ult., at Newington th lace, Emanuel Silva, rAm;gedVii, 's Justices of e P eace p for the county of 6 u rre li ga d. 3 01 ' On the 30th ult., at Grosvenor-street , Camberwell. Eleanor Russell, erred 71. London: Printed and Published by IV.T.TRDO 1-01.13141. Strand, Printer, at The ,Sun Office, N 0.112, Strand. of the Saw, tia the Oevatir a h 011410014 2, 1.40,