The Sun. — London, England, 1848-05-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY IRELAND. 1 Mr. Hodges, the Government reporter •, left for Lime- Doi - -," Aria 29.—A large majority of the rick by the mail of last night. magistrates of the county and city of Dublin has de- Messrs. O'Brien and Meagher are to appear in the -clared in favour of coercion. Nothing less than th e Queen's Bench on Monday morning, at ten o'clock, proclamation of both will satisfy " the great unpaid" to be charged with the information at the suit of the (If the county of Dublin, for it is a remarkable fact, Queen, the Attorney-General having entered a nolle tihat of the city magistra tes p resent when this sa g e. Prose q ui on the indictments, and .tiled ex officios determination was arrived at, nine-tenths were me - instead. f avourable to the proposition, and, whit is still mor e SHARP SHOOTING IN CARLOW. remarkable, very many of these gentlemen heretofor e The Carlow Sentinel, a Tory paper, contains the pro fessing high Conservative politics. The meetin g following very gratifying statement, proving at once was convened by Lord Brabazon, the county Sherif ft the powerful influence of the Catholic clergy, and the and was called on requisition to him, in his capacit, y salutary manner in which it is exercised, as in the of Vice-Lieutenant. present instance, by that most admirable priest and His Lordship having taken the chair, right-minded citizen, the Rev. James Maher : The Hon. Mr. PRESTON, a county magistrate, pro- "We omitted to notice the rifle practice which took posed the following address to the Lord Lieutenant - place a few days since in Carlow Graigue, believing " We, the undersigned magistrates and Deputy- that the misguided youths who assum ed a warlike air, Lieutenants of the county and city of Dublin, having would, on reflection, consider it prudent to evade the witnessed with horror and disgust the traitorous penalties of the law. We refer to the matter merely advice lately given at certain public meetings by evil to express our satisfaction at the course pursued by designing men, with ir tent to excite the ignorant and the Rev. James Maher, P.P., who, on Sunday last, mors necessitous of the poorer classes to acts of in - denounced those persons engaged in the practice of subordination and rebellion, are anxious to approac'n J rifle shooting on the Sabbath, and warned them of your Excellency with the strongest expression of ou r the consequences of a repetition of such conduct. detestation of such proceeding, and of our determines We learn that the Rev. Gentleman's observations tion, under the blessing of God, to use every exertion were attended with effect. The rifle corps is dis within our power to assist your Excellency in the banded, and the neighbourhood will be no longer dis maintenance of order. turbed by the disciples of Mr. Mitch ell, who appear "We deeply deplere that an insignificant and tur- to be fewer in number than Falstaff's battalion of bulent party should have been able, by their seditious ragged recruits, and could only be formidable in the exhortations and the sanguinary violence that has event of a sudden descent upon the ben - roo sts of the characterised their harangues, to create so much alarm neighbourhood." amongst the great body of the community, as ma- THE PROSECUTED PATRI OTS. terially to paralyse the operations of trade and com osted through the city of Cork,. calling la on the Large placards of variously googeous colours are merce, and consequently to entail such calamitous P results on the industrious classes; and though we are People to assemble on Monday, at Sydney-p?e,in trades to march from their rooms In c pro d cession, aware that your Excellency has succeeded, by the opros a e ve ute patriots." judicious and vigorous exercise of the powers en- order to sympathise with the trusted to you, to suppress all insane attempts at out- The placards conclude with " God .ns s on a the People." n extensive break, we conceive it to be of the utmost importance We have heard that preparations that the loyal and well-disposed portion of the people scale are being , made to render rtn o n the demonstration ured that some of should stand forward to assist your Excellency in sufficiently effective. It is u maintaining peace and restoring confidence. the magistrates have already got a little nervous on " We therefore feel it incumbent, under the sir- the matter, conceiv in g there is no necessit y fo r an cumstances, to give assurance to your Excellency of open air meeting, a nd will p rohibit the assembl age in eur affection and loyalty to the Crown, and of our 9 Sidney-place. The magistra tes met y esterda y , but the y did not firm determination to exert our influence, and, if consider it necessary to come to any resolution to put necessary, to place our rersonal service at your dis down the meeting or procession. They strongly ob posal for the preservation of peace, the support of the the ject to banners ; and trust . that the rural population throne, and the maintenance in its integrity of e its separate meeting. Cork will not come into the city, as, if necessary, each constitution of the United Kingdom. " We would respectfully but earnestly submit to al ca li n Ho h a a-l a . rd is returned for the county of Examiner. her Majesty's Government the absolute necessitf of lm ' sa i i i rt3 rß following is the account of the last taking the most prompt and vigorous measures to i N 4:: i ckly ~ .s. . p . The . prohibit the organization of clubs, and put down all i d of the election : seditious proceedings, whether by meetings, speeches, y OCRTH AND LAST DAY'S POLLING. or pubiications, and to restore confidence to the well- At hal l c . - disposed by enforcing obedience to the laws--by 1 'B ab past six o'clock the High-Sheriff, Lord preventing the manufacture, sale, and indiscriminate r azo . n . , declared the poll this day :-- possession of arms, and by repressing, with a strong Sir R. Howa r d ... . nand, those traitorous and seditious efforts which are Mr. Monck now being openly made to excite a people, suffering Majority -4 under severe privations, to s anguinary rebellion, and GROSS POLL. to subvert all law, or der, and ~g overnment in this portion of the United Kingdom. Colonel CONNOLLY seconded the motion, to which the following amendment was moved by C. Firzsi- MON, Esq.:— " That while we are prepared to assist her Majes ty-3 Executive in maintaining peace and order, we ' feel we should be wanting in our duty to the Crown, if we did not inform Government of our conviction that distress and discontent pervade society in Ireland ; that large and generous measures are necessary to restore this country to permanent tranquillity." ity - 9 - . " Mr. REYNOLDS, M.P., seconded the amendment, which was supported by Lord Cloncurry, the Hon. • South well, Sout;i well, Mr. George Roe, Mr. Wallace, Mr. 'l'. Hutton, Alderman O'Brien, M.P., Cantaiu Lindsay, Mr. George Pini, Sir John Power, Bart., Alderman Keshan, &c., &c., all of whom testified to the good disposition of - their respective localities, and protested against the injustice of subjecting a well disposed city like Dublin to the operation of an arbi trary and unconstitutional law. On a division, the amendment was negatived by a majority of twenty-six, twenty-two being in favour of it, and forty-eight against it. On the division being taken, Sir JOHN POWER said Before your Lordship leaves the chair, I beg to protest against the whole proceedings of this meeting. On the motion of Mr. HAMILTON, it was then re solved that the address should be presented to his Excellency by their chairman, the Vice-Lieutenant of the county. Mr. Rey :comes en t ere d hi s so l emn protest aga i nst the county magistrates recording their votes upon any subject affecting the city. Alderman KrfPIATI, on the part of the city magis trates, also protested against the proceedings. He was one of the humblest magistrates present.—(Cries of " Question," and interruption.) He had not troubled the meeting before, but he would not be deterred lay clamour ° from giving expression to his opinions. Sir ROBERT SHAW—Order, order. There is no question before the chair. Alderman KESEIAN—The Lord-Lieutenant has been humbugged by designing persons, who were concoct ing reports detrimental to the character of the people. There was no more danger of an outbreak in the city. of Dublin than there was of one amongst the magis trates themselves. As a proof that he for one enter tained no apprehensions on the subject, he might mention, that the preceding day he offered twenty five years' purchase for a limited estate. Sir ROBERT SHAW (interrupting)—There is no question before the chair.---(Order, order.) Alderman KJ:OMAN—No matter ; you shall not libel the people of Dublin with impunity. I deny emphatically that the people are on the eve of rebel lion ; and I am sure there is not a Roman Catholic in Dublin who is not ready, if necessary, to shed his life's blood in defence of the throne. I, for one, am prepared to do so.—(Cheers.) I regret to say that I perceive a disposition oa the part of the magistrates to coerce the city and keep the county free.—(No.) Mr. FITZSIMON then moved that the Lord Mayor should take the second chair; but his' Lordship de clined to do so, as he would thereby commit the City of Dublin to an approval of the addresses which had been adopted, and from which he totally dis sented. The Hon. Mr. Preston was then called to the chair, and a vote of thanks having been passed to Lord Bra bazon, the meeting separated. Whether L or d Cl aren d on w ill a d opt t h e sugges tions of the rural Dogber r ie s , an d p roc l a i m th e city, remains to b e seen . I t i s more t h an pro bable,..t however, that hi s Excellency, aftersuch an 'unequivocal expres s i on of opinion on the part of the city magistracy, long _ will hesitate resorts to such a measure, and the more especially when he must be convinced that the great majority of the citizens have no sympathy the few hot-headed and recklessvit.b the ravin gs o f have found prating and printing seditionr individuals w h o al)le employment during the last few montshuseh profit- Sir R. Howard 368 Moncic Majority -13 The High-Sheriff then declared Sir R. Howard duly elected. Both gentlemen returned thanks. LAW IN TELLIGELN CE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, April 29. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord Chie; Justice WILDE and a Common Jury.) "MALEY 7/. WAKLEY. This action was brought to recover damages for the publication of a series of alleged libels in the Lancet, of which the defendant, Mr. Waklev, ALP., is the proprie tor, reflecting upon the character of the defendant, Mr. Thomas Pease Healey, who is a barrister, and the pro prietor and editor of a rival publication called the Medical Times. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Talfourd for the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff was appointed secretary to a Convention of Poor-law Medicai Officers, which was formed in 1847, for the purpose of agitating some reform in the law as affecting them ; soid the libels complained of consisted of articles published in five num bers of the Lancet, commenting upon the move ment, and deprecating in general terms the con nexion of the plaintiff with it. Oa the 9th of 1 October, 1847, the following passage appeared in the publicatioe, which was spoken to by several witnesses as referring to the plaintiff, and a medical gentleman named Ross:—" When we wrote last there was only cne party of a suspicious character attempting to obtain the management of the Poor-law Medical Officers' Con vention for selfish purposes. Now there are two quacks in the field, one offering gratuitously the vacant rooms of the institute for its meetings; and the other, attempt ing to levy contributions upon the poor-law medical officers. If the medical officers suffer these parties to have the management of their affairs, their cause will be inevitably injured." On the 15th of October the plain- tiff was alluded to as a person not belonging to the , pro fession, and likely to bring the Convention into ridicule I and contempt, and as a " quack lawyer, a mountebank, and an impostor." The other libels contained assertions of a similar nature, and the counsel for the plaintiff stated that they were calculated to damage his reputa tion, and as he was but a young man in his profession, might greatly retard his success in life. Proof was given of the publication and proprietorship of the papers, and the application of the libel to the plaintiff. For the defence it was contended that the character of the plaintiff was not in the smallest degree affected by the articles, and that the plaintiff was the last person in the world who ought to have brought such an action, having been himself, at the suit of Mr. Wakley, found guilty on two previous occasions of libelling. The action had no doubt been instituted for the purpose of giving an opportunity to the plaintiff's counsel of puffing the Medical Times. The jury retired, and soon after returned into court with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 40s. COURT OF 13ANKRUPTCY, April 29. (Before Mr. Commissioner PANE.) IN RE CARROLL. The bankrupt, Alexander Carroll, jun., was de scribed as of the Strand, newspaper proprietor. He came up to pass his last examination. The bankrupt had been proprietor of the Satirist newspaper. His balance-sheet, commencing 9th of November, 1846, and ending 12th of August, 1847, shows debts to creditors 1,638/. ss. 6d ; ditto holding security, 200/.; liabilities, 951/. 195.; profits of trade, 631/. Bd.; gratuities from his mother, 631/. ; gift of creditors under former insolvency, 5001. ; credit debtors, good, 421. 7s. 4d., doubtful, 90/. 135.; pro duce of gift of creditors, &c., 6.50/. 19s. 4d. ; pro perty, 800/. His HONOUR asked how a gift from the creditors came to be put down as due to the bankrupt ? Mr. Maynard, the accountant, said that the money had never been received. . _ The bankrupt said he was insolvent in 1844 for about 10,0001. In 1846 became possessed of some property on the death of his father ; but some part was entailed. The creditors then met and proposed to make bankrupt an allowance of 5001. if he would join in cutting off the entail, which he did, and the property was sold LI- 9,400/. and 1,0001. deposit had been paid, but he had not received the 5001. The Satirist newspaper, which cost bankrupt 8001. in October, 1846, had been mortgaged for 2001., but the trade assignee had allowed it to lapse. His LioNoua said it W 23 possible the 5001. might be recovered for the present creditors, but it ought not to be put down as property ; the losses were, consequently, 1,036/. Mr. DUNCiat addressed the Court on behalf of the bankrupt, who wag allowed to pass. THE JACOBIN YREss. " The Gagging Act" has had a most salutary effe c t upon the venders of sedition. The Nation 8 and stale United Irishman of this day are as insipid water. The Nation has published a new confession soda of political faith, which many e ven of t h e Conserva tive party will regard as orthodox enough, seeing that Mr. Duffy most religiously eschews Communism, Socialism, and various other isms, including Ribbon ism and Republicanism. The United Irishman laving an antipathy to Norfolk Island and the hulks, has become so wonderfully discreet, that he has em ployed a " counsel learned in the law " to revise his Ii roofs. To he sure, this new feature in journ alism bas been adopted to quiet " the coward fears" of the tradesman who does the presswork of the papers ; but it is such an evident improvement on the ancient practice, that Mr. Mitchell might persevere in the course with great advantage to himself. He says— " All we shall say to-day is—First, Every man, in all countries, ought to possess arms, and understand Hie use of them, and not part with them upon any consideration. INTELLIGENCE. ,Tones an G d U E I Ll. calledz a H ac A la L r L it . POLICE Amelia were charged, the and at various shops with in tento the latter with being in: formerto cwomitehmihtaavifneglony possession of a quantity ' appeared that could not account. t black lace for which she From the evidence of a policeman, it he had seen the prisoners go in n to , several draper's shops, and from their conducthe suspected linen. the nature of their occupation. He therefore took them into custody , and at the station-house sixty three yards of black lace, an&containing a purse - 7s. 6d. were found in a basket carried by Cl ar k. IVlr:Vaughan, of Aldgate, draper, identified three pieces of the lace as his p ro p ert y , which he had missed. Another witness said that the prisoners had pur chased at her master's shop a quantity of narrow lace, and that she had shown them some broad lace which they did not purchase. She believed that two of the cl on the prisoners w ere p art of thos e pieces found which she had shown them. The prisoners wer e remanded for further evidence. CL ERKEIV WELL . Leverson, aged 18 years, Mr. Montague Richard N 18, Queen son of M. W. Leverson, Esq., of i o. b square, Bloomsbury, was charged placed at the ar, ~ with having discharged a pistol at Priscilla Fitz patrick, and so seriously wounding her that her life is despaired of. It appeared that between seven and eight o'clock that morn ing Fitzpatrick, who is a servant in the house, was Cleaning the front parlour windows when her younglonc , in to ' master was playing with a rifle pistol be . his brother, Not knowing it was loaded, he accidentally l * off, the contentspu led the trigger, and the pistol went and she fell lie , a bullet, entered Fitzpatrick's breast, finding what he e nseles s to the floor. Mr. Leverson, 1 agitation for Mr. had done, ran off in a state of Ormond- street, w - ho liugh , ma n , surgeon, of Great him, and finding theinstantly returned with wound, sent for the polic.e serious nature of the was conveyed to the 1 _Tnnd stretcher, on which she where every attention Waiversity College Hospital, certificate was produced fro P 416 to her. A medical __ ln th in"' ° , the unfortunate w oman t e hospit a l pnonounc and without hope of r ecovery . be It was quite insensibl e , that the accused did not k now • further proved It was loaded, and that .., na " Second, Constitutional agitation, voting at elec sa • g, petitioning 'Parliament' or addressing ' the Queen,' i s utter delus i on in Ireland ; and we repsat ta¢r entreaty, that any of our readers who have been so foolish as to register their ' franchises,' should burn el ei r registry "We have farthercattoesin. Gr.gging Bill has already inform our readers that the i n an unexpectod manner. ieu This n newspaper s operate i is printed t e u d s by the proprietor, at No. , Trinity-street, and the wess-work is done at a evening last, the Bachelor's-walk. On stea m - press Wednes printing•office, proprietors of the press sent : lay eminenotrd to our office that kishcounsel that they they were advised by could not allow the United and as it wasout incurring to their establishment any longer nwltni to b e pressed the risk of an indictment; to make any other arrangement for the present then too late present week we have been obliged to submit to th e degradation of :flaying our proofs revised by a law in yer, order t satisfy the parties before this number could appear. o I'Ve have most heartily to apologise to our readers fo • this, and can only promise them that no lawyer's pi a shall touch our writings a second time." WHOLESALE EXTERMINATION IN CONNAUGHT. Dr. Brown, the Catholic Bishop of E!phin, has actiressed a letter to Lord Shrewsbury, in defence of the Rev. Mr. Nl'Dermott, accused of instigating the murder of the late Major Mahon, in which he 3,yes a list of 60.5 families, including upwards o f 000 human beings, ejected by the deceased from his property at StrOkestown. • MORE PROSECUTIONS.—It is rumoured to-day, that almild any of "the persecuted patriots" put them selv.•:., within the meshes of the law this evening, or car oxcited over their cups at the soiree to be given in [..luierick to Mr. Smith O'Brien and the other patriots, they will be indicted anew under the Gagging Act. it .mss half cocked. The injured woman is about fifty years of age. The prisoner who appeard deeply to deplore the dreadful occurrence, by the advice of his father, de clined to say anything at present. Mr. TIEWHITT said the affair had all the appear ance of an accident, but still be must remand the prisoner until the fate of the woman could be known. He would accept bail, himself in 500/., and two sureties in 2501. each, to appear on Thursday next. The sureties were immediately entered into, and the accused was liberated. DERBY SWEEPS.—A licensed victualler applied for advice, saying that he held a Derby Club at his house, the Bull and Anchor,lHolborn, and that a lawyer had served him with a notice of action if he did not advance 1001. Mr. TYRwHITT said he believed such clubs were illegal, and he could give no advice. MARYLEBONE. EXTENSIVE RAILWAY DEPREDA.TION3.—On Satur day, Charles Abbott, a middle-aged man, who was stated to be a butler out of place, was brought before the magistrate, in the custody of Mr. Collard, the superintendent of the Great Western Railway, charged with having on the preceding evening stolen a portmanteau from the Paddington station of that company. On the arrival of the Exeter mail, at half past eight o clock on that evening, the prisoner was seen by Lindley, one of the porters of the establish ment, to take up a portmanteau from the barrier, or luggage-place, give it to the driver of an omnibus, and drive off with it. From the coolness with which the thing was done, Lindley very naturally concluded that the portmanteau was the prisoner's property ; in a few minutes after, he heard a gentleman say some one had taken away his portmanteau. He and the gentleman followed the omnibus. E. Debenham, as omnibus driver, stated that the prisoner brought a portmanteau to him ; he put it on the top and the prisoner got inside, after desiring him to drop him in Praed-street, or somewhere near the Edgware-road. He had scarcely done speaking to him when Lindley and a gentleman came up to him, and asked him did he know anything of a port manteau ? The gentleman looking upon the top, cried out, " That's mine." The prisoner, on hearing this, got out of the omnibus and walked away through the cloak-room. When he turned the corner he ran away as fast as he could, but witnessed fol lowed and caught him. On being asked where he got the portmanteau, he coolly denied that he ever saw it, and positively said he never gave it to witness. The MAGISTRATE here enquired if the portmanteau was in court ?—Mr. Collard said it was not : that in the hurry and confusion, the portmanteau, as well as the owner, that it N,n had disappeared the propertyppeared o ;but he f hadthe Rev. reason to believe Mr. Marsh, of Bristol, and begged that the case might be postponed until he made further inquiry. The case was postponed until next Thursday. At a later period of the day Mr. Collard again pre sented himself in court, and informed the magistrate that he had ascertained the prisoner's private lodging to be at 20, Richmond-place, Lisson-grove, but that he had a depot for stolen goods at another house in Salisbury-place, Lisson-grove; that he had there found an immense quantity of articles of every de scription, and no doubt they had been stolen. Several railway labels were lying about the place. He had laden no less than three cabs with a portion of them, which he had brought to the Great Western Station, where they then were. DESPERATE ASSAULT.—Elizabeth Arnold, a fitting co-mate for the Spanish giant, was charged with having committed a very violent assault upon a man called (nomen rarissimum !) John Smith, residing in King-street, Covent garden. Mr. Smith, it ap peared, encountered the fair Amazonian somewhere in the neighbourhood of Paddington, and after having most generously treated her to something "short," he followed up his gallantry by seeing her home to her lodgings. He had not been long in the lady's cham ber when he found his money had been abstracted from his pocket. On his having the temerity to ac cuse her of committing the act she showed symptoms of pugnacity, and immediately struck him a most ter rific blow on the head with a brick. The surgeon said the wound was of a very dange rous character. The MAGISTRATE, after enlarging on the brutality of the assault, fined the prisoner 51., or to pass the next two months in the House of Correction. SOUTHWARK. ELOPEMENT AND ALLEGED ROBBERY.—John Currier, late of the Dover police force, was brought up for re-examination, charged with eloping with Mrs. Elizabeth Silk, the wife of the landlord of the tap of the Ship hotel, at Dover, and stealing 231. in sovereigns and half-sovereigns, together with a watch, some silver spoons, and other articles. The court was thronged with persons during the exami nation. Mr. Solomona attended for the prosecution, and Mr. James on behalf of the prisoner. The case was remanded on Thursday for the at tendance of Mr. Silk, who reached town on Saturday, and on being sworn he stated that he is landlord of the tap attached to the Ship hotel at Dover, and that he knew the prisoner, who was formerly in the police at that place, and had been in the _ _ habit of frequenting his house. That he never ob served any improper familiarities between the pri soner and his wife, and had no conception that there was anything of a criminal nature between them until about three weeks ago, when she ab sconded, and he then discovered that she had run away with the prisoner, taking with her the money and other property already enumerated. He lost no time in making the necessary inquiries to trace the parties, and ascertained that they had left Dover by the express train for London with a quantity of lug gage. He then came to town himself, and traced them to the Maze, which they suddenly quitted, on finding that he was in pursuit of them, and he then returned to Dover, after a fruitless search, and after having given information to the police of the robbery, and a description of the parties concerned in it. He added that in the course of last month he received a letter from his wife, together with a parcel containing two necklaces belonging to his children, which she had taken away during her flight with the prisoner, and which she expressed a wish to have re stored to them. The complainant added that his wife and he lived on the most affectionate terms up to the period of her elopement with the prisoner, and that he could assign no reason for her having quitted her home with the prisoner and abandoning her children ; that now, however, he bad reas on t o , suspec t t h at t h e prisoner and hi s wife had for a length of time been on the most familiar terms, as he was so much at the house. Mr. S E CIL Ea inquired if the prisoner was observed with any of the complainant's property in his pos session ?—Mr. Solomons replied that a female who was present in court that morning, hut who had since disappeared, could prove that she saw him with the property. 'qrs. Silk, the complainant's wife, here pressed forward through the crowd, and said she would exo nerate the prisoner from all blame in the transaction. That when she left Dover she only brought away her own things, and the watch her husband well knew belonged to herself, and that she always wore it round her neck. Mr. Solomons begged the magistrate to remand the prisoner, in order to compel the attendance of the fe male alluded to. Mr.SECILER said the complainant had been vic. timised to a great extent ; but whether the prisoner was guilty of robbery or no at present remained a mystery. He should feel it his duty to remand the prisoner. He, however, had no objection to accept of bail for his appearance. The prisoner said it was a hard case to be sent on a charge of felony of which he was innocent. 411 The prisoner was then remanded. EMBEZZLEMENT. The final examination of Mr. R. R. Dix, upon a charge of stealing the books of the,firm of Christopher Georg," and Co., in which he had been a partner, too' place on Friday, before the magistrates of Bristol. The case seemed to excite the utmost degree of in terest, and the court, and all the approaches to it, were densely crowded. Mr. Christopher George, patent shot and lead ma nufacturer, upon being examined, deposed that, for seven years prior to January, 1846, the prisoner was regular Januaryform, an d ; w a n as d a s ci i n v e e e r t t i h s advertised t i i n m t e h e the G a partn er i n hi s firm. A dissolution took place in the a z a e e e t / n e s on dn hadthe been employed as chief clerk and book-keeper, at a salary of 2.50/. a year. The books, which had been entrusted to M r . Fl etcher to examine, were witness's property, and those carried off by the prisoner had been purchased by him since the dissolution. Never authorised him or any one else, except Mr. Fletcher, to remove the books from the room in which they were kept, for the purpose of examination. The witness, in reply to further questions, denied that he told the Prisoner, when he engaged him as clerk, that he should have a share of the profits of the business. Mr. George Clements proved that on the 22d of March he was helping to make up the books, when Mr. Dix came in and sent him to the shot house for book. Upon his return he found Diz a part icular in . . and the books question missing. go ne, ___ Riordon, the sergeant of the Woolwich p olice, deposedgiven • - . s' having had the accused into h i s custody to custody at Greenwich; to subsequently findi ng th e books at Clifford ' s Inn Coffee-house, Fleet-street, and from him at the Paddin g t on to the prisoner's esc a p e station. be spoke to his recapture at Mr. Austin Cham Radstock, Somerset. ff The prisoner begged to be let _. pay anything to let o, s and said his father wou ld him go. This closed the evidence as t o the robbery of the books, and the prisoner was then charged with several acts of embezzlement. The Learned Counsel A number of wbo prooecuted said th ere were EVENING, charges, but three or four instances only would be proceeded upon. Evidence was then called to show that on the 3d of September the prisoner had received 501. 7s. from Messrs. King, merchants; on the .sth of November, 201. 10s. from Mr. Reynolds ; and om the 23d of February, 1441. 9s. from Messrs. C. Tothill and Co. It was his duty to have entered the payments in a book on the day they were received, and to hand over the money to Mr. George, who acted as cashier of the firm ; but he had neither entered them nor paid the money. The magistrate committed him upon all the charges, and be was removed in custody. DREAMING AND DOING. " Cecil had a profound contempt for rjecha;ical fel lows, who sat down to their wcrk whether under inspi ration,' or under the mere impulse to finish what they have begun. He was really eloquent in his scorn of the 'drudges 'Genius,in his eyes, was adivine caprice. It came and went in moments of excitement ; a sort of intermittent phrenzy. Being a scholar, he entirely approved of Plato's theory to that effect, as developed iu the dialogue of lon. The business of an artist was consequently to await those moments, and then t., set himself to work, when his soul was stung to ecstasy by overpowering visions of beauty. " There is, in the present day, an overplus of raving about genius, and its prescriptiv e rights of vagabondage, its irresponsibility, and its insubordination to all the laws of cominen sense. Common sense is so prosaic ! Yet it appears from the history of art that the real men of genius did not rave about anything of the kind. They were resolute workers, not idle dreamers. They knew but simply the colossal pr o p or ti ons o f facul t that their genius wa s not a phrenzy, not a supernatural thing a lesser degree, the meanest o f man ki n d shared with them. The y knew that whatever it was, it e which, h a . 1 n would not enable them to accomplish with success the things they undertook, unless they devoted their whole energies to the task. " Would Michael Angelo have built St. Peter's, sculp tured the Moses, and made the walls of the Vatican sacred with the presence of his gigantic pencil, had he awaited inspiration while his works were in progress? Would Rubens have dazzled all the galleries cf Europe, had he allowed his brush to hesitate? 'would Beethoven and Mozart have poured out their souls into such abundant melodies? would Goal° have written the sixty volumes of his works —had they not often, very often, sat down like drudges to an unwilling task, and found themselves speedily en grossed with that to which they were so averse? Use the pen,' says a thoughtful and subtle author, re staggering no but it keeps the mind from This ; is an aphorism which should 'the be printed i n letters of gold over the studio door of every artist. Use the pen or the brush ; do not pause; about.'magic in i do not trifle, have no misgivings ; but keep your mind from staggering about by fixing it resolutely on the matter before you, and then all that you can do you will do: inspiration will not enable you to do more. Write or paint: act, do not hesitate. If what you have written or painted should turn out imper fect, you can correct it, and the correction will be more efficient than that correction which takes place in the shifting thoughts of hesitation. You will learn from your failures infinitely more than from the vague wandering reflections of a mind loosened from its moorings; because the failure is absolute, it is precise, it stands bodily before you, your eyes and judgment can not be juggled with, you know whether a certain verse is harmonious, whether the rhyme is there or not there ; but in the other chse you not only can juggle with Yourself j but do so, the very indeterminateness of your thoughts makes you do so; as long as the idea is not positively j clothed in its form, it is impossible accurately to say what it will be. The magic of the pen lies in the col:centre- tion of your thoughts upon one object. Let your pen fall, begin to trifle with blotting-paper, look at the ceiling, bite your nails, and otherwise daily with your purpose, and you waste your time, scatter your thoughts, and repress the nervous energy necessary for your task. S ome men dally and daily, hesitate and trifle, until the last possible mdMent, and when the printer's buy is knocking at the door, they begin: necessity goading them, they write with singular rapidity, and with singular success; they are astnitiehed at themselves. What is the secret? Simply this; they have had no time to hesitate. Con centrating their powers upon the one object before them, they have done what they could do."—Rose, Blanche,and Violet. THE FRENCH NAVY. The National contains the following observations on the neglected state of the French navy:— " France has always been a naval power of the first order whenever a man of strong determination, ani mated with national sentiments, has been placed at the bead of the Marine Department. Such are still the inexhaustible resources of our country, and the wonderful aptitude of the population of our coasts, that if the Ministers of Marine of the late Government had taken advantage of the eighteen years of peace enjoyed since 1830, the good feeling of our nation, and the 1,700,000,0001. which were apportioned in the annual budgets, we cannot doubt but that France would have rapidly resumed the rank on the sea which our maritime reverses during cur great continental wars caused us to lose. But insurmountable obstacles were opposed by the fatal policy of the House of Orleans, which did not wish to create a navy, fearing to displease Eng. land. What has been the result ? At present we have an insufficient fleet, and our arsenals are empty. We can no longer delay to direct the attention of the Provisional Government to our alarming situation, particularly at a moment when England has increased her armaments so considerably. Everything is to be created in the administration of the marine, aid we have not seen since the revolution of February any new measure adopted to raise our navy. We have certainly remarked some modifications of detail, of which we do not wish to depreciate the merit, and we are ready to do honour to the sympathies of the Minister of Marine for the condition of our seamen. But, we say it with regret, we find the same men, the same regulations, the same habits, which cannot fail to perpetuate the same abuses, and to lead to similar results. We call, therefore, upon the Pro visional Government . to appoint a comm i ss i on f or t h e navy, as it has done for the army, i nveste d w i t h t h e most ample powers to investigate the causes of our maritime de cay, and to propose such reforms as the preservation of our naval power demands. But, in order that the commis sion shall attain this object, we must introduce into it new men, whose firmness is equal to their experience, and wbo are determined to seund all the wounds, to point out all abuses, to reveal all frauds, and to stop short at no innovation." H MEETINGS. The followingTE 3Y anniversarylA meetings are announced to be held during the present month : MONDAY, MAY l.—Wesleyan blissionary Society, Exeter Hall, at eleven o'clock; ch a i rman , J. H ea ld, E sq ., M.P.—Home and Colonial Schools Society, Literary In stitution, Gray's Inn-road, at eleven o'clock; chairman, Earl of Chichester. TUESDAY, MAY 2 . — Church Missionary Society, Exeter Hall, at ten o'clock; chairman, Earl o f Chi c h es t er . —Churchchairman, Missio Bary Society, E xeter H a ll, at s i x o'clock; Marquis of Cholmondeloy.—Christian Instruction Society, Finsbury Chapel, at six o'clock ; chairman, S. M. Peto, Esq., m . p . _ _ WEDNESDAY, MAY 3 . -1 -British and Foreign Bible So ciety, Exeter Hall, at eleven ; chairman (not fixed). — British Anti-State Church Association, Finsbury Chapel, at half-past six o'clock; chairman, Dr. F. Price.—Free Church of Scotland Foreign Missions, Exeter Hall, at six o'clock; chairman, Right Honourable Fox Maule, M.P.—St. Ann's Schools, the Asylum, Streatham, at two o'clock; chairman, Lord Bishop of Manchester. — Book Society, Exeter Hall, at six o'clock; chairman, Alderman Challis.—Town Missions and Scriptur. Readers' Society, Freemasons' Tavern, at half-past six o'clock; chairman, J. D. Paul, E sq . THURSDAY, MAY 3 .—Lyndon City Mission, Exeter hall, at eleven o'clock ; chairman, Lord Kinnaird —Sun day School Union, Exeter-hall, at six o'clock ; chair man, Sir E. N. Buxton, Bert., M.P.—London City Mission, Crosby-hall, at half past six o'clock ; chairman, R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. FRIDAY, MAY s.—London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, Exeter-hall, at eleven o'clock ; chairman, Lord Ashley, M.P.—Religious Tract Society, Exeter-hall, at six o'clock ; chairman, Thomas Farmer, Esq.—Colonial Church Society, Freemasons Tavern, at half-past six o'clock ; chairman, J. P. Plumptre, Esq., M.P. SATURDAY, MAY 6.—Sailors' Home and Asylum, Hanover-square Rooms, at two o'clock ; chairman, Admiral Bowles, M.P. MONDAY, MAY S.—British and Foreign School So ciety, Exeter Hall, at twelve o'clock ; chairman, Right Honourable Viscount Morpeth, ALP.—Prayer Book and Homily Society, Exeter Hall, at t welve o'clock ; chair raan (not fixed).—British and F orei g n S ailors' Societ y , London T avern , a t half-past six o' clock ; chairman, the Right Honourable the Lord M a y or. TUESDAY, MAY 9.--Church Pastoral Aid Society, Exeter Hall, at eleven o'clock ; chairman, Lord Ashley, M.P.—British Missionary Soci ety, Exeter Hall, at six o'clock ; chairman Alderman Challis. WEDNESDAY, M AY 10.—Protestant Association, Exeter Hall, at twelve o'clock; chairman (not fixed). — Ragged School Union (District Meeting), A rnwe n. street, Pentonville, at six o'clock; chairman, Lord Bishop of St. David's. T gu " D AYI MAY le.—London Missionary Society, Exeter Hall, at ten o'clock; chairman, J. Kershaw, Esq. , M.P.—British Reformation Society, Hanover square-rooms, at twelve o'clock; chairman (not fixed). — London Missionary Society, Finsbury Chapel, at six o'clock; chairman, Alderman Challis. Pruner, MAY 12.—London Hibernian Society, Hanover-square Rooms, a t twelve o'clock; chairman, Marquis of Cholmondeley.—Operative J ewish Conv e r ts' Society, L on d on Tavern, at half past six o'clock; chair man, Right H on . Si r G eorge Rose, Bart. TUESDAY, MAY 16. squar e R ooms, at one o ' clock; c h a irman, Marquis . of Cholmondele —Foreign Aid Society , Hanover - Y.—Ragged School Union (General Meet ing), Exeter Hall, at six o'clock; chairman, Lord Ash ley, M.P.—Primitive Methodists' Missi onar y Society , Ellin Chapel, F etter -l ane, at s i x o 'clock; chairman (not fixed). WEDNESDAY, MAY 17.—Royal Society for the Pre vention of C rue l ty to An i ma l s, - H an over-square Rooms, ' at one o'clock; chairman, Lord Bishop of Norwich. -- -- ---- rri_ Bill AUDIT Or R AILWAY ACCOUNTS. — Th e to provide for a more effectual Audit of Railway Accounts in certain cases, which has passed the House of Lords, is awaiting the second reading in the House of Commons. It is pr o p ose d to empower shareholders to ca ll on direc tors to sub m i t the balance-sheet prepare d f or t h e exami nation and report of an auditor. 'file Act, if passed, is to take eff ect on the Ist July. A PUZZ LING ADDRESS.—We fi'id in a retort of the Angles ea Assizes, a person mentioned 18 "Owen ,Jones, late of Llangfairywilgwygpil." • M A Y 1, 1848. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. l'oßTsmouTH, ArnlL 30. —Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, the Commander-in-Chief at this port, inspected the Gorgon steam sloop, Commander Paynter, at Spithead yesterday, and mustered her crew, lie was accompanied by Flag-Lieutenant Cochrane, and went out in the Lightning steam-tender. The Mercury tender sailed with supernumeraries for the eastward yesterday. Te Fanny tender returned from Dover yesterday, where she had been with a supply of provisions for the Undine steam-packet. The Waterwitch, 8, Commander B. B. Quin, passed the Fanny off Dover on Friday morning from Chatham. She was bound for Plymouth to be paid advance, and take on board the next African mail. The Acasta freight ship sailed yesterday for London, having disembarked the troops the previous day. The Howe, 120, Captain Sir James Stirling, is to be brought into the harbour to-morrow forEnoon if she is rt-ady. Tile Lightning steam-tender embarked Major-General Lord FrQderick Filzclare , -3-, the Lieutenant-Governor and Staff, this. morning, at the Sallyport stairs, and con veyed them to Otborne to visit her Msjet,ty. Bear- Admiral Dundas, C. 8., M.P., has arrived at Holyhead from his visit to Sir C. Napier's squadron, at Cork, and is expected to return to the Aurniralty to morrow. Rear Admiral Bowles, C. 8., has been visiting Devon port Dockyard during the past week; and has been inspecting the works of the new basin there. Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, C.B. (1837) has been officially appointed to the San Josef; as flag captain (vice Sir Henry Leek) to Sir William Gage, G.C.H., Com mander-in-Chief at Devonport. Commander Western's appointment to study at the steam-factory, Woolwich, has been cancelled. Naval Cadets—Alfred A. Hanson, and J. W. L. Oakes have been appointed to the San Josef, flag-ship at Devonport; and Robert Livesay, to the St. Vincent, flag-ship at Cork. The Torch, 1, Lieutenant Commander G. Morris, having been run into by a merchant steam-vessel in the Cl)de, her defects are ordered to be made good at Glasgow. On Friday the ward-room officers of the flag ship San Josef, in the Sound, gave their late Flag Captain, Sir Henry Leeke, a parting dinner as a testimonial of their respect. On Saturday Sir Henry Leeke gave the naval appren tices (200 iu number) of the port a substantial dinner, under a tent erected for that purpose, near the Obelisk opposite the moorings of the San Josef ; the b an d o f th e ship attended. A illiant phalanx of beauty and gal lantry assembled to witness the interesting festivities. LIEUTENANT ‘A , INNE, R.M.—The friends of this gen tleman, who was recently dismissed from her Majesty's service on the 19th ult. on proofs of charges of drunken ness, preferred by Captain Ratcliffe of the Apollo troop ship, intend to petition the Admiralty with a view to get him restored. The Riugdove ' 12, Commander Inglefleld, was at Sin gapore March the 7th, but on the point of sailing for the Ananbas in search of the Chinese convicts that had escaped from the General Wood, the sad fate of which vessel and the barbarous murder of the officers the public are already acquainted with. The Hon. Com pany's steamer, Hoogly, sailed from Singapore the day before the North Natunas, on the same search as the Ringdove. TIER MAJESTY'S LATE STEAMER AVENGER.—The committee intend tneeting on Saturday the 6th of May, at the Naval College, to pay money to such persona residing in the neighbourhood as they consider objects fur continuing to participate in the fund subscribed, and also to vote the remittance of sums to others living in different parts of Ireland, Scotland, &c. The com• mittee have obtained the full particulars of the cases of 161 of those who are supposed to have perished in the Avenger. The whole number is officially stated to be 234.--Loyal Naval College, April 29, 1848. lINOMOTIONS. Mate—John Eglintoun Montgomerie, to the rank o: lieutenant. ♦PPOINTMENTS. Second Master—A. J. Inner, to the Spartan, 26, in the Mediterranean. Master's Assistant—G. W. Ackherson, to the Belle rophon, 78, fitting at Portsmouth. Carpenter—Charles Kingston, to the Investigator dis covery ship at Woolwich. COAST-GUARD APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants—Charles Goldsmith, from a station, to command the Royal George revenue cruiser; R. W. Charleston, to Ardmore station; F. P. Conti, to com mand Portland station; Mr. Montgomery Campbell, late Midshipman, R.N.), to comt.aand Larne station; Mr. James K. White (late East India Naval Service), to command Frazerburgh station; Mr. William Henry Pawll (late Mate, R.N.), to command a station; Mr. Thomas Lapernotiere, from Buckie to Muchuls; Lieut. A. J. Moleswortb, R.M., from Winchelsea to Camber station. Woommx, APRIL 29.—The General Palmer tran sport-ship arrived off the Royal Arsenal yesterday evening, at six o'clock, P.M., having ou board the 7th company of the Royal Sappers and Miners, Captain Chapman, R.E., commanding, from Corfu, the company having been relieved from that station by Captain Ogle's company of the same corps, brought out in the General Palmer. Captain Chapman's company went to Corfu in January, 1842, and were brought home in charge of Lieut. Hassard, R.E. The passage from Corfu to Wool wich occupied 65 'days. The General Palmer also brought some detachments of the Royal Artillery, and of infantry regiments from Mediterranean stations. The Myrmidon steam vessel recently put out of coea mission in consequence of having been declared unfit for further service, was brought to Woolwich and under went some repairs, which have answered remarkably well, as on trial down the river yesterday, in charge of Lieut. Robertson, she made a speed of 91 knots per hour. The Dover, formerly a mail steam packet on the Dover station, and now refitted for service on the coast of Africa, was tried down the river this morning and made a speed of 8i knots per hour. The Vivid, Dover mail steam-packet, Capt. Smithett, has turned out to exceed the most sanguine expectations as to speed, and yesterday made the quickest passage he has yet done, having crossed from Boulogne to Dover in ninety-five minutes. The number of labourers in this dockyard is to be reduced by eighteen from this date. The Tory, hired convict ship, left her moorings oppo site the Royal Arsenal, this morning, with 180 female convicts on board, for Van Diemen'. Land. The Plumper steam-vessel, recently launched from Portsmouth, is daily expected round to the river to have her engines put on board. DOCKYARD INTELLIGENCE.—Foreigners have been permitted to view several of our dockyards, this week, by Admiralty orders. There is a vac anc y for a clerk in Chatham Dockyard, in consequence of the decease, on Wednesday last, of Mr. John Bliss, a third-class clerk in the captain superintendent's office. Mr. Francis Martin and Mr. John Brown have lately been appointed inspectors of shipwrights at Portsmouth Dockyard. These intelligent young men were selected by the Ad miralty on account of their being at the head of a list of 11 candidates for these situations, after a severe exami nation, embracing laying off ships, practical shipbuilding, arithmetic, and algebra. The Admiralty, in giving the 4ppointments to the above gentlemen, stated, through the admiral superintendent, how pleased they were with the result of the examinations of all, which convinced their Lordships that in future talented persons might always be obtained from Portsmouth yard for similar situations when vacancies occurred. How much better this than political influence, giving deserving men some thing to look up to as vacancies occur, and induce them ro improve themselves in their profession. Two men at Chatham, belonging to the brigade, having lost their uniform, the Admiralty have ordered them to pay the cost. —United Service Gazette. MALTA DOCKYARD.--Mr. Ilenwood, late foreman at Portsmouth, and appointed master shipwright at Malta Dockyard, is not very much impressed in favour of the advantages of his promotion; on the contrary, Malta Dockyard to him, as to most Englishmen proceeding there on appointment from the home dockyards, pre sents anything but an agrecablo change. Mr. Tucker has arrived at Malta, to enter upon his duties of addi. tional clerk of works, to which post he has been ap pointed for two years, at a salary of 350/. per annum. THE MEDITERRANBAN SQUADRON. With the overland India mail, which arrived at Mar seilles by the Ardent, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com mander Mowell, we have letters from Malta to the 24th of April. Our correspondent says— " Little in our naval circles since my last dispatch has occurred. Continental affairs, yet unsettled, have neces sitated the dispatch of some of our squadron to protect the British interests. The Terrible, steam frigate, Captain Ramsay, left port on the 17th April for a cruise. proceeding to Sicily, thence to Athens, or rather the Bay of Salamis, to dispatch respectively the Harlequin, 12, Commander Moore, and the Spartan, 26, Captain Sy monds. to Trieste, whither the steam-frigate herself would precede them. The Spitfire, steam-vessel, Com mander Macdonald, had also been ordered from Corfu to Venice disturbances there requiring a vessel to protect commercial interests. "I am sorry to announce that great deal of fever, contracted, it is thought, by drinking the mineral waters of Baja, exists at present in the fleet. Several men and officers have been sent to the hospital, and some cases have terminated fatally. The hospital wards, and the sick-bays on board two-thirds of the vessels of war in port, are tenanted. The first indications of attack are known by severe diarrhea, and the disease afterwards assumes the appearance of typhus. " It seems now settled that the Trafalgar will leave port on Tuesday next, the 27th, for England. She will be very deep, as old stores from the dockyard, and •all the heavy baggage of the late Admiral Super intendent, Sir Lucius Curtis, are being pat on board. Admiral Harvey's flag flies on board her at pre sent, but will bo shifted to the Ceylon as soon as Sir Lucius is ready. I l ave heard, on very good authority, that Sir Lucius does not make over his late charge till the last of the month. Yet how to recon cile the two accounts ? My own fixed opinion is that although the 27th is said to be fixed for the Trafalgar's departure, it will be found that the latter information will prove to be the most correct." We have already stated that the orders for Sir Lucius Curtis were to hoist his flag on board the first man of war ordered to England, and proceed to Spithead. Our correspondent has furnished us with particulars of some little notice, by Sir Wm. Parker, of certain little dif ferences on points of duty between Commander Wilmot and Lieut. May, of the Superb, 80, Captain Corry. They relate, however, more to the internal discipline of the ship, and are not of sufficient importance to interest the service.—Herald. Tyr Rig! - 1 , !T , ).). the Spe . lker of the House Commons and family arrived iu Eaton-square ou Satur day, froro PARLIAMENTARY BL r4INESS. HOUSE OF COMMON S. NOTICES OF MOTIONS AND ORDERS OF 7 riHE DAY WHICH NOW STAND IN TEE ORDER BOOK OF 'ZEE HOUSE OF COMMONS. _ MONDAY, MAY 1. ORDERS OF THE DAY'. 1. Tobago Relief, &c.—Committee thieri !upon. 2. Public Works (Ireland) —Committee thereupon. 3. li,moval of Aliens Bill—secot d ref ti ling. 4. Itnprisrliment for Debt (Ireland) Bi ll—Committee. 5. Diplomatic Relations with the Court .; of Rome Bill— second reading. 6. Game Certificates for Killing Mkt es Bill—further consideration of report. 7. Supply—Committee. 8. Ways end Means—Committee. 9. Horsham Borough Bill—second rt siding. 10. Collectors of Cuss (Ireland) Bill— .e.econd reading. 11. Insolvent Debtors' Jndia) Bill—r e port. 12. Distilling from Sugar Bill—furan consideration of report. 13. Indemnity Bill—third reading. 14. Evicted Destitute Poor (Irela 3d) Bill—second r ading. 15. Election Recognizances Bill— consi d eration of Lords' amendments. NOTICES OF MOTIONSI. 1. Sir W. Somerville—Bill to Reg a late the Elective Franchise, and for the Registration of Parliamentary Electors in Ireland. 2. Sir W. Somerville—Bill for the Establishment of Additional Polling Places for the Purposes of Parlia mentary Elections in Ireland. 3. The Chancellor of the Exchequ•s'r—Bill to Amend certain Acts for Granting Relief to. the West India Islands. 4. Mr. Richard Maxwell Fox— In Committee on Impri , onmont for Debt (Ireland) I 101, to propose an addition to the first clause. 5. Mr. Fagan—ln Committee on Imprisonment for Debt (Ireland) Bill, to move, after chaise 8, the insertion of clauses. 6. Mr. Grogan—ln Committee on% Imprisonment for Debt (Ireland) Bill, to move clauses. 7. Mr. Chisholm Anstey—On the second reading of the Diplomatic Relations with the Court of Rome Bill, to move that it be read a second time this day six months. 8. Mr. Grantley Berkeley—On further consideration of report of Game Certificates for Ki: 4 ling Hares Bill, to move amendments. 9. Mr. Barkly—On further consideration of the report on Distilling from Sugar Bill, to mwve that the Bill be recommitted, for the purpose of proposing amendments, authorising the mixing of sugar and grain and sugar and molasses in distillation, and reducing the number of gallons of spirit on which the drawback is to be calcu lated from 11 to 10i gallons per hundocdweight of sugar. TCESDAY, MAY 2. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1. Mr. M'Gregor— Select Committee to inquire into the appointments, regulations, and management of the Customs. 2. Mr. Wood—Select Committee to inquire into the allegations contained in the petition of curtain electors and inhabitants of the borough of Stamford (presented the 14th of March), complaining of thte interference of the Marquis of Exeter, a Poer of the realm, and Lord- Lieutenant of the county of Northampton, at the late and former elections of Members to serve for the said b. .rough. 3. Mr. Frewen —Address for return stating, in miles and furlongs, the length of road in each turnpike trust in England and Wales. 4. Mr. Frewca--To bring under the notice of the House the general state of the borough gaols throughout England and Wales. 5: Sir De Lacy Evans—To move that the following words be added to the instructions given to the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the laws and char ters of practitioners in medicine and surgery, viz.:— "And also to inquire into the defective state of the law respecting pharmacy anti the education of chymists and druggists, and to report the evidence, with their opinion thereupon, to the louse." 6. Mr. Barkiy—Address for copy of the protest of elective members of the Court of Policy of British Guiana, against the passing of the rural hospital ord nance, No. 4, of the year 1848. Also, extract from the minutes of the proceedings of the Court of Policy, at its adjourned assembly held at the Guiana Public-buildings, Georgetown, Demerara, on Friday, the 14th day of January, 1848. 1 ,1 ; EDNESDAY, MAT 3. ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Poor Removal Bill—Committee. 2. Exemption of Small Tenements from Rating Bill— second reading. 3. Small Debts Bill—second reading. 4. Great Yarmouth Freemen Disfranchisement Bill— Committee. 5. Joint-stock Companies Bill—Committee. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1. Sir de Lacy Evans—To move (with reference to a petition presented to this house from 102 engineer workpeople suddenly expelled from France) an address tq her Majesty, praying she will be graciously pleased to direct that a representation be made by her Majesty's Government to the Government of France, with a view to obtaining a just indemnity for the heavy losses sus tained respectively by those petitioners through the violence to which they have been exposed. 2. Mr. Stafford—On the motion that the House do resolve itself into Committee on the Great Yarmouth Freemen Disfranchisement Bill, to move, as an amend ment, that the House do resolve itself into the said Committee that day six months. . _ 3. Mr. Osborn- 2 ln Committee on Joint-stock Com• panies Bill, to move, clause 1, that the time should be extended to six months instead of from Ist of March. 4. Mr. Headlam—ln Committee on Joint-stock Com panies Bill, to move amendments. THURSDAY, MAY 4. ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Jewish Disabilities Bill—third reading. 2. Petty Bag-office Bill—Committee. 3. lour-houses (Ireland) Bill—Committee. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1. Mr. Baines—Bill fur the further removal of defects in the administration of criminal justice. 2. Viscount Duncan—Return of all expired contracts for British oak and African teak timber supplied for the use of her Majesty's dockyards (in continuation of and with like particulars as Parliamentary Return No. 611, dated the 9th of May, 1844.) 3. Mr. Reynolds—on third reading of the Jewish Disabilities Bill, to move the omission of the words " or Ireland," in clause 6 of said Bill. 4. Sir F. Thesiger—on motion for the third reading of the Jewish Disabilities Bill, to move that the Bill be read a third time this day six months. 5. Sir Denham Norreys—in Committee on Poor houses (Ireland) Bill, to move the following amend- ments:- 1. To omit so much of the Bill as requires reference to the rate payers of the union. 2. To insert a proviso, that no land shall be taken by boards of guardians under this Bill, unless by a lease which shall contain a clause of surrender. FRIDAY, MAY 5. ODERS OF TEE DAY. 1. Public health Bill—Committee. 2. Rajah of Sattara—adjourned debate. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1. Mr. Urquhart—on mution that Mr. Speaker do leave the chair to go into Committee on the Public Health Bill, to move that, in the opinion of this Rouse, the existing law does provide protection against, and remedies for, the nuisances which affect the health of man. au Committee on Public Health Bill.) 2. Sir B. Hall—to move a clause. 3. Mr. Fuller—to move an addition at the end of clause 30. 4. Viscount Duncan—to move amendments. S. Mr. H. Berkeley—after clause 11 to move a clause. 6. Mr. Wood—to move an amendment. 7. Mr. Hutt—to move an amendment. 8. Mr. Wyld—afttr clause 79 to add the following:— And be it enacted that the excise duty on post horses let to hire, and the assessed tax on carriages kept for funeral purposes, be from the passing of this Act re pealed. 9. Sir Willoughby Jones—to move, in clause 16, line 5, after the word " thereof," to insert the words, " and shall have been so resident for the space of three years next preceding such election." 10: Mr. Foley—to move the following amendment:— Clause 51, line 47, after the word " any," to add the words " mines, iron•works." 11. Mr. Divett—to move amendments. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—His Royal High ness tho Duke of Saxe Weimar, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, and their Serene Highnesses the Princes Herman and Edward of Saxe Weimar, and attended by Major Oerlich, honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday evening, with his presence. There were also present — The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Cleveland, the Duchess of Leeds, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl of Aboyne the Prince Louis Na poleon, P r i nce Lowenstein, his the the Russian Minister, the Baroness do Brunnow and Mdlle. Olger de Lechner, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, his Ex cellency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, the Countess of Wilton, the Count de Burke, M. de Berg, M. C. de Koudriaffsky, M. de Cottu, Viscount Clifden,Viscount Somerton, Viscountess Dillon, Viscount and Viscountess Ingestre, Viscount Exmouth, Countess of Sandwich, Lord and Lady Rendlesham and the Misses Duff, Lady de Bathe, Lord Lady Foulis, Lady Palmer, Lady Warnetord, the Ladies e Hon. Bath e it , B. Curzon,art . 5i J H o o h n n . H. Cavendish, Sir Geo. BA G ir a ios r ws d nns,eorcm, Count t d t l ar p dt h hy i u n Ar s t l o ide n ee e lc, L oo a eu d i :yeyk Ladyi Fitzroy raoryonSoHm Augusta u e g r p s eo e l a es n tit d r, ley, Sir Arthur and Lady Carroll, raaerri s. t,laßVßnaelarebrt)b.::, Generalsa ßart., nird T. S aud i t r yehn N e V H m o ro . dnd,. Carroll,H Croft, Sir Christopher Barnard, Bart., Major Buckley, Captaia Seymour Sadler, Captain Reynolds, Captain Munro, Colonel Thornton, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Brere ton Trelawny, Miss S. Lane Fox, Mrs. Dennistoun, Mr. Grote, M.P., and Mrs. Grote, Mrs. Aseue, Miss W. • Williams, Mr. J. Drummond, M r. G . Cornwall, Mr. and. Mrs. Tudor, Mr. Hubert de Burgh, Mr. and Mrs. Hob son, Mr. Singleton. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, APRIL 28.—The cargo of Mauritius sugar per Campbell has been disposed of this week at full prices, and some sales in Parnares are also reported; but in other kinds no transactions of con equence have been effected. llbtfined goods are dearer. —Bristol Mercury, The British ani North American Royal mail :htee':ft.esrhnpoutCi,atawkhirniag, heer,:naiine:tyla,srrinisaoinls, and d ft fr L o i m ve 6 rp :: ; 70 vastertgere. THE NEW LIBERAL" PARTY. During the Easter holidays the Liberal Members of the House of Commons connected with Manchester have not been unoccupied. Mr. Cobden, Mr. J. Bright, and several others, with Mr. G. Wilson, held a private m ee ti ng a f e w evenings ago at the League'. rooms, in Market- street, at which it was res olved that the following c i rcu lar should be addressed to most of the parties who had given their support to the g reat free-trade movement : " . 5 , Newall's- buildings, Mancheste r, April 27. "Dear sir,—A number of gentlemen have met here to-day to consider what steps should be takeil to promote a cordial union of all classes of Reformer, in favour of an improvement in our system of Parlia mentary representation. They feel that increasing public expenditure and increasing taxation are c auses of the deepest anxiety, and they doubt the possibility of any permanent remedy being applied whilst the tax-payers are for the most part excluded from direct influence in Parliament. 1 have been request.!d to address this circular to you to ascertain how far all you think the extension of the franchise to householders, with the protection of the ballot, po c . ver the more equal distribution of the electoral by means of electoral districts, and the shortening of the duration of Parliaments to a period not ex ceeding three years, would afford a system of repre sentation such as the middle classes, now part's enfranchised,. would generally acquiesce in, and which the unenfranchised classes would accept the substantial admission to their legitimate place 1 0 t he censtitution. I shall be glad also to know whethey you think that at the present time a movement 1.3 desirable In favour of the changes I have indicated, and if you are disposed to co-operate with an so' ciation founded for the purpose of promoting thera: I shall be glad also to know what, so far as you 1 311 .7 . ascertained, is the prevailing feeling of the inlob, l `, ants of your town or district on the subjects to !bi n ': I have referred. The replies to this circular will 0 0 ! be . published ; and I will thank you to favour me with an answer at your earliest convenience. " I am, dear Sir, faithfully yours " GEORGE WILSON." the It is also intended th a t district meeting s on e , same subjects shall be i mme di a tely held in Manc",e'n ter, in order that publi c o pi n ion in that town tir be clearly ascertained. Li ver p oo l, Leeds, and °iv', follow populous towns in th e nor th are expected to fo" the example thus set by Manchester. RAIL WAY SHARE MARK LIVERFOOL, Arrar. 29. fent- STOCK EXCHANGE.— The sales to-day are to fair, The market has an improving appearance. N le " s l - ng Illidlands are in good demand. The following are the clo prices :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Juncti:d (late.C. and B.), 27/. 10s. Shares, 115,—Lancashire 7a, Yorkshire, Fifths, c. dis.—London and North-W! ge 0 , 127 c.—Ditto, Fifths, 516 itto, New Quarters, Ic. —North Staffordshire, 3 , 4 dis. —Shrewsbury and Chas d (fats N. W. M.), 101 Preference 2 p —Soutb-Eastern Thir e d 3 Dover, 22%—Ditto, No. 1, 9 3 / 4 / Ditto, No. 4, dis. MANCHESTER, Arm 29. STOCK ExcumeGE.—The sales are—Great Norther Th. _ i f ° , dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Huddersfield and 6 Spdeig. field), 127.4 dis.—Ditto (West Biding Union) , 4 1- n° • 1 —North Staffordshire, 3 1 ,,i dis.—South-Eastern and Ai No 4, 3:) , 4 dis. BIRMINGA, APRIL 29. STOCK ExcHAN GE.—T he H sales are—Nort h StatlOru 655. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 635 ' 9d. BRISTOL, ArruL 29. be STOCK t EXCHANGE.— The market remains 1/1. same state The sales have been—Great Western , '-p - if t bs Shares, 11/ 2 dis.—llitto, Quarters, 2 1 A dis.—Dit to ' n3er' dis —Midland Stock, 97 York, Newcastle, 1111" wick, N EWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ArslL 29 ' d csr- STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Newcastle an t i s i i , lisle, 104—Ditto, Alston Branch, Pi' p.—No rth Br i Thirds, 40s. dis. —North Staffordshire, 3% dis. s oli( RUNAWAY ENGINE ON THE SOUTH: . as the RAILWAY.—SALISBURY, APRIL 29.--Last night to Londobo mail train was on its way from Salisbury to when it which starts at half-past ten o'clock aabtountigthree had reached the Alderbury cutting,.n c , ,_ gave wag' from its place of starting, the coubpelciage Dam separated fret's on which the engine and tender was driviogt the mail and passengers' carriagefs, whO not being observed by the engineer , alone, _eachig its journey at an increased rate 0 ei ) e ll e ede • nglinheegsoccinis:lll: nor yet by the stoker, they proceeded on miles ere the/ the Romney station, a distance of twelve __ A, w its discovered their loss. Fortunately the malt gury v _ the great presence of mind, proceeded on the lice c tt i r iace d runaway engine, and for a considerable distanoe_, hiv e the detonating signals, in case the engineer sh ra ll i u e n t e u x r p n e e c d te a d n ly d . ra T n ha in g t u o ar t d he ra c n a g rr t i h a e ge be s his power to make the engineer hear directly o rs 1 8 1 s t 11 . 73 a d n i 11 1 t a s separation, but was not heard. Fortunately ther e be en but few passengers, or their alarm would have lie great. The mail bags w ere sen t ou t o Bishops' be station as quick as possible, reaching in time t° dispatched on to London; but the down bags for Do i . cheater, &c., had to remain un til the day mail arriv e° , although dispatched on to South am pt on with all possib le speed. Fortunately no further accident occurred. BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.—SOUTI I ' BEA, RANTS —On Friday a burglary was committed id this town. It appears that about two o'clock in the morning four men entered the residence of a Mrs. Lis' nington, an aged lady, residing at No. 2, Brougham' street, when they ransacked the lower rooms, broke 13 1 / several valuable articles of plate, and destroyed everY; thing in the pantry having silver attached to it, whi e nt they placed in a bag, ready to take off. They then w oo to Mrs. Linnington's bed-room, and to prevent her fr ii ci et . raising an alarm, they gave her a violent blow ov er bi d forehead, which laid her bead open. After thef tbe y emptied the various drawers of all they contained: in t he decamped by climbing over the garden wan., 00 01 garden were left an old hat, two odd boots, a t T pre' pieces of plate. The unfortunate lady is lying le carious state. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—THIRTY LIVES - t he Letters from Petterhead, dated April 28, a nnonne t l s oo recovery of the wreck of the Hannibal, a ship of tons burden, from Quebec, found ashore near Prerej fiord, on the coast of Norway. The vessel encounwi ile the dreadful storm on the 24th of February 155/ 'f r iglit' on her passage to Hull, in th e course o f which a i f her ful sea struck the ship, sweeping everything ° I (eV decks —masts, bulwarks, and b oa t s ; an d every 1 1 0 0 0 cept one man) belonging to her overboard, all 'N I A 01 1 met with a watery grave. The solitary seame n , „wen board endured the greatest privations. After "' rat of days' suffering, the vessel was carried by the.curr e i e , re• the ocean on to the spot above-mentioned, wh ere mained six or seven days before the wreck /lei a nd s C o o m ve e re m d, il t e h s at out portion,of the track of of Norway Tap restoredenodo, state,er, d b f n e et nd : Pgo w i et fl Peterhead, e, Et ahl. s j sde awi Subsequentlyndwi s . insensible t s htTh i e b teri og e , hus hm, tt e:a d satrhtsr ei a tdv p aeiw p kffid a er ce r nou e cnl n ki tn t ty l v b y tw e eto s ha i i t l a ; hod d e cw a i ri bbri a ff g e :: 28th• to thirty sufferers drowned, we understand, bel°l4 HuII.ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The annual genel li tTrs t :f fug of the members of the above society, Proprie;ol the Gardens in the Regent's Park, wa, held en SI% pr ep in the Council-room, Hanover- sua e ; the Eal 01 , m h ",; the President, in the chair. The accounts r raider" 81. auditors staled the assets of the society to be 5 1 5 0; and the liabilities 1,022/. From the report O ry , it Council, read by D. W. Mitchell, Esq.. s ecrets s, a t appeared th a t t h e num b er of members an d fell j o in the present ti me , was 1 , 81 9. As an inducement I°o4o the society, new members were now presented t heir twenty free admissions to the Gardens, upon PaX i lieerl year's subscription. The receipts at the gates, l e 7 v are amounted to 2,239/., s h ow i ng a di m i nut i on , as "aao. the with the pr ev i ous y ear , t h e decrease being due—,,,oes" unfavourable state of the weather and the de' tart' pressure of the period. After mat ure o ion liberation, the C ounc il had come to the determim op• of reducing the price of admission to the garde°, t biS day in the wee k to s i xpence, an d they h a d nod oou've , measure would bring a large increase of visitors• rp to i number of visitor s of a ll c l asses s i nce the last anni! e _ was 93,556. During the year the seenager,,, museum had been enriched by the addition 0 I' o o. living and dead s p e cim ens f rom a ll p a rts of the NO The collection in the gardens now numbered 00' animals. In conclusion, the council stated they t for pated much success from the new arrangeme nt ' s of though the weather of the fir s t th re e months r , year had been unfavourable, th e n um ber of visit(' „tire compared with the correspondi ng p er i o d last yeelSor seated an increase of 997. Aft er t h e un aniesoP ' o re don of the report, the officers for the ensuing yea r 0 11 0 elected. The following were e l ecte d i nto the ro", t i l she the room of the retiring m em b ers: —P ro f e ssor Earl of Burlington, J. S. Bowerbank, Esq.. S ir the° Murchison, and Profe ssor O wen. Th e m eeting n ro• voted thanks to the N o bl e E ar l i u t h e c h a i r , a nd the ceedings terminated. DRURY...LANE THEATRE.—The interest Of note, Jullien in this establi s h ment h as cease d ; an d liir ri •L' ot ert , " the well-known m us i c p u bli s h er, of the firm of irro 7 0 , Beale, and Co., i s now t h e l essee. —Mirror Maga° BIICTHB. 13° f ber t On the 28th' ult., i n Wi mpo l e-street, t h e Wife (/ ' Walter Carden, Eeq., of a daughter. o , O E " On the 24th ult., a t P ar k shot, Ri chmon d,: Sufr- Sidney Smith, of twin daughters. f COP" - On the 25th u lt., at W oo l w i c h , t h e l a dy Congdon, R. M. of a son. 1) 01144 On the 27t1; ult.:, at Allandale House, VirinibT rla ii e l i ter, the lady of Captain Douglas Currey, R.N., of a "1 " ae , t " - On the 27th alt., at Green-street, Cireavenor - so u lady of Robert Aldridge, late Captain 60th Rifles, of sit': WO lion.On L th o e rd 2 7 A th ru u n l d t. e , n, a o t f \ a Va d r a d u o g u h r t C er a . stle, the lady of the On the 28th ult., at Brighton, Mrs. W. Per of a son. AfARRIBD. sha O ls u e, th n e o3 2 ,a 7 l th Eu U g it i . n , ee a r t s, St t . o P G a ris nc e ra id s a , Captain Culouel Harding, R.E. ______ DIEB. ....I •, t taftt On the 22d ult., at Eglinton Castle, Henry Irau°"" Esq., aged 64. ,btoth E ()n the ot t t h h6 e w 2 2a 4 si t tk h r ult., i‘i S il o or p .u h ,sr i e a h , oNi r no e ar l st i c ci ki i. o v f o t , h of e late L ari ::: t l3 h r . : ii i tory On the 27th tilt., at• Nir.artvick Lodge, Maida-bill, 1-1 Kent, EN., aged.s4. . • nn ditto Mho On the 27th ult., Chailotte Ilitailtat-Ilay , sec ---d ter of Major J. Adair, aged 14. - -,.' ` ' I I ,- ___----- ----- iTS II, • , ^ndoll: Print Pil my! P1ik1i.1 , ..1 1 , 1 Mr] 010 Ti ) 11* „:,,,,,. lilth of .Au. ill., 6Llisilti, filta:,el ....e. i 'ad Otig 0.... -- ' 0 011 Strand, in the Precinct Of the Savvy, ill tbe Middlesex, Monday, May 1, 1848. 41