The Sun. — London, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

MR- COBDEN AND UNIVERSAL PEACE. : , T.be following letter has been addressed by Mr. Cobden to Mr. Sturge in reply to an invitation to take part in the proceedings of the Peace Congress it Brussels:— " Hayling Island, Rants, Sept. 16. "My dear Sturge,--I regret my inability to ac cept the invitation to the. Congress at Brussels, but I beg you to be the bearer .of my best wishes for the success of your peaceful demonstration. "My opinion is asked upon three propositions which are to be submitted to the Congress : " 1. The expediency of recommending the inser tion of an arbitration clause in all international trea ties, by which questions of dispute shall be settled by mediation.' " I cordially approve of this proposition ; but may I be allowed to suggest, that it will be better to re commend that treaties be entered into for the express purpose of binding the contracting nations to submit their future quarrels to the decision of arbitrators ? I do not think that it would be easy to find an object more worthy of a separate treaty than that which is contemplated in this clause. " 2. The propriety of establishing a congress of nations to form an international code.' " Until I hear the arzuments upon which it is founded I shall bc in dJubt as to the policy of this recommendation. " 3. To recommend as a matter of primary im portance, ueneral disarmament to the several Govern ments of Christendom.' " I hope the Congress will try to open the eyes of all the nations of Europe to the enormous expense and waste occasioned by their standing armaments. " To accomplish this object you need only to pub lish in the different continental languages a few simple facts. 'When I was last year travelling over the continent, I took some pains to be correct in the ifflovving statistical details : " Behr in mind that no revolutionary symptoms had then appeared, and that the armaments have been everywhere increased during the present year. I estimated the total effective force of the regular armies of Europe in 1847, including that of Great Britain, to amount to upwards of 2,200,000 men ; and the number employed on ships of war to exceed 150,000 ; making together 2,350,000 re gular soldiers and sailors. The National Guards of France and Switzerland, the Landwehr of Ger many, and other bodies liable to temporary military service, I put down at a very moderate estimate—at 1,000,000. Add to these the armed police, civic guards, gensd'armerie, and Custom-house officers, and you will have a total of nearly 4,000,000 of men with arms in their hands. But, confine our attention for a moment to the 2,350,000 regular soldiers and sailors. This is called the peace establishment; but doubt whether in the most active period of Napo leon's wars there was so large an effective armed force in Earope. There might have been a greater number on paper, but a far larger proportion was in hospital, or rendered non-effective from other causes. It is not ea.sy to compute the precise cost of these ar maments. If the total expense on the continent bore the same proportion per head as in England (but this would be an exaggerated estimate) the direct charge for the regular forces alone would amount to 250,000,000/. sterling per annum. There is, however, a very large expense in curred for maintaining and repairing fortified places on the continent from which England is in a great measure exempt. Then we must bear in mind that the men who are thus wholly withdrawn from productive labour are all in the vigour and prime of life ; and assuming that they would be capable of producing, in agriculture or manufactures, wealth to the amount of 501. a year each—a very moderate estimate—it amounts to an additional loss of icto,croo,oool. per annum. I have put down nothing ibr the cost of the arms and accoutrements of the National Guards and Land cvehr; or for the value of the labour which they withdraw from private pur suits and devote to occasional military services. Without attempting any exactness in my estimate, I will obviate all objections by understating the case, and therefore shall content myself by asserting that the cost of the standing armaments of Europe, exclu sive of police, amounts to more than 200,000,0001. sterling a year. This enormous burden must have greatly aggravated the sufferings of the industrious populations during the late bad seasons, and may have partly caused that discontent which has so often ended in revolution. Kit may be objected that I appeal to low motives in thus dwelling upon the pecuniary view of the question. True. But if the New Testament has failed to inspire Christian nations with faith in the principles of peace, I may surely be excused if I demonstrate how costly is their reliance for defence upon the spirit of war. Where Jenner found all his appeals to the humanity of certain parochial authori ties fail, he at last succeeded in persuading them to adopt his discovery by proving that it would cost less to vaccinate the poor than to pay for coffins for those who died of the smallpox. But there is no danger of the Congress losing sight of the moral aspect of the question. The modern system (for it is of modern growth) of maintaining huge standing ar maments in time of peace, is a scandal to the boasted cwiliration of the age. It proclaims to the world a total want of confidence on the part of each European state in the peaceful professions of the others—thus carrying us back to that state of society when barba rous tribes were constantly armed, expecting every moment to be attacked by their savage neighbours. You will probably be treated with ridicule on the continent, as I have been in England, for advocating such a Utopian scheme as a general disarmament. The larger portion of mankind are, perhaps, at present opposed to, or indifferent to, our views. But we know that in contending for a principle based upon truth and sanctioned by the law of God, we have only to persevere to convert our minority into a majority. Your Congress will be the protest of this minority against a system repugnant alike to humanity and common sense ; and I can only repeat the regret I feel in not being able to take a part personally in your proceedings ; and believe me, "My dear Sturge, faithfully yours, " RICHARD COBDEN. " Mr. Joseph Sturge, Birmingham." BRISTOL FREE PORT Assocurtotc—The annual meeting of this association was held in the Guildhall of the City of Bristol yesterday, and was most respectably attended. The Mayor presided. The principal speakers on this occasion were Messrs. Bright, Habenfield, Aiken, Wells, Ford, Dr. Green, Soc. Resolutions congratulatory of the success which had attended the formation and pro gress of the rocioty were passed, as were vot.ts of thanks to those gentlemen who had contributed to that success by their effirts. The large room of the Guildhall, in which the -proceedings were conducted, was crowded with people. It appeared from the report that the pros pects of the association were favourable, and that every thing w.s in a satisfactory state. It was shown that during the great commercial crisis which affected mer chants of the highest eminence in London, Liverpool, and elsewhere, the Bristol merchants have stood arm, and in consequence the increase in her shipping had been 25 per cent. The business was terminated by a Cote of thanks to the Mayor, which was carried by ac clamation. WELCH EDUCATION.—t - Ter Majesty and his Royal • Highness Prince Albert have been gracif.u.ly pleased to ' contribute 1001., On the part of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, to the Weida - Educational Institution at Llandovery, recently endowed by the venerable and be nevolent Cambrian, Thomas Phillips, who has given 5,000/. for the purpose of enabling the inhabitants of the principality to obtain as good an education as is to be found in the best public schools of England or Scotland, combined with a thorough knowledge of their own lan guage, the culture of which, besides its intrinsic value to the antiquarian and philologist, is the only true key to the affecrions of the people and the best means of pro moting the interesta of religion. Had former Sovereigns thus judiciously encouraged the best objects of life by assisting the education of their Celtic subjects by means in unison with the natural genius of the people, the influ ence of dissent would never have predominated as it does , at present. FALL OP the ENCLOSURE WALL AT THE STANLEY Docit,—At an early hour yesterday (Wednesday) InorninK about 45 yards of the walls which surrounds and encloses the Stanley Dock fell with a tremendous crash. It will be remembered that the Stanley Dock is one-of the new north (internal) docks, which runs be tween Waterloo-road and Great Howard-street. The wall in queoion,which was 19 inches in thickness, 14 feet in height, and entirely built of brick, faced Great Howard- Street, and it is suppo , nd thttt its fall was occasioned by an immense number ~f square sets for paving having been placed outside of it ready for use. They pressed agitinst it, and, as, there were no buttresses erected inside for its support, they forced it from its foundation, and carried, as we hav e sa id, 45 yar d : o f it d own . Th e whole of the 45 yards fell inside upon the dock quay, where there was a porter at the time keeping watch over the steamers and vessels lying alongside ; but We are happy, .will probably, to say he escap e d un i n j ure d. Th e dama ge probabli be abo u t 100/., in addition to the cost of erecting buttresses round the whole of the enclosure walls of the new north docks to prevent th e occurrence of similar c Times. emulates in future.—Li ver p oo l HumAtir LIP' ESTIMILT ingenious anchor asserts, that7heleirn g r th uL o s f a a Tl m ON an . 7s PULSATION.— An may be estimated by the number t of pulsations he has stsength to perform. the common a Thus, allowing seventy years for ge of man, and sixty pulses in a mi nu t e atemperate ' for the common measure of p u l ses in person, the number of pulsations in hi s whole life would amount E to 2,207,520,00 0 ; but if by intemperancehef °" his • blood into a more rapid motion, so a s t o give r Seventy.five pulses in a minute, the same number of pulses would be completed in fifty-six years, consequently his life would be reduced fourteen years. DEVONPORT, SATURDAY. — The Hon. General and I:'_ar.,..;( Mrs. Murray received the Lords of the Admiralty and a select circle at dinner, on Friday, at the Government •House,• including the Duke and Duchess of Marl borough, the Earl and Countess of Morley, the Earl of f;•::: , Auckland, Lord John hay, Sir John and Lady Jones, Admiral Dundas (the Commander-in-Chief), Sir W. Gage, Sir Baldwin Walker, Captain Lden, Mr. Ward, &c, • SPAIN. [The following appeared in our Third Edition of Saturday]:— A letter from Perpignan, dated 19th instant, con tains the following :—" An important encounter has just taken place on the Spanish frontier, ne tr Figue ras, between General Euna, who, being oined by several columns of troops, was at the hea t of 2,300 infantry and 500 cavalry, and Cabrera, who had under his orders 1,500 infantry and 300 cavalry. The action lasted eight hours, and the losses were considerable on both sides. Cabrera was obliged to abandon his position, some say because he wanted ammunition, others because he was beaten. Thirty Carlists, cut off from the main body, sought refuge in France, where they were disarmed." The Three per Cents. were done at 19 15-16 for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 101 for paper ; the Debt without Interest at 31; and the Coupons at 6 for cash. AUSTRIA. Accounts from Vienna down to the 19th again re present the state of anarchy in Pesth to be very great. According to these accounts the town of Comoru, in Hungary, had been almost entirely de stroyed by fire. Jellachich had advanced as far as Wessprim. The Hungarian troops showed every in clination to desert. Letters from Vienna of the 19th instant announce the arrival in that capital on the 18th of a depu tation from the Hungarian Diet. It was charged with a mission, not for the Emperor, but for the people, that is the National Assembly. On the 19th the President of the Assembly read a letter from the President of the Hungarian Diet, accrediting the deputation to the Austian Assembly. Several deputies proposed that the deputation should be received ; but M. Rieger contended that the measure was contrary to the rules of the House. The Tschech deputies also opposed the motion in terms extremely offensive to the Hungarians. The President attempted several times to put the question to the vote, but so violent a tumult arose that he was obliged to suspend the sitting during half an hour. When it was resumed, M. de Wessemberg thus ad dressed the Assembly : " The desire of the Ministry has ever been to main tain pence. In the months of May and July useless efforts were made to that effect. The Emperor had authorised us to present to the Hungarian Ministry a manifesto expressive of his views towards Hungary. We have not yet communicated the document to the Assembly. I now deposit it on the table." M. Bach continued:—" The Hungarian Ministry had asked the Austrian Cabinet if it was dis posed to admit the Pragmatic Sanction as the basis of the national relations, and if, in the Croation question, it would follow the Pragmatic Sanction. The reply to the first question was in the affirmative, but the Ministry, being desirous that nationalities should be respected, re turned no answer to the second." The Emperor had accepted the resignation of the Hungarian Cabinet, and Count Batthyani had been again charged with the construction of a new Admr-' nistration, which Messrs. Kossuth and Madarass had promised to support. PIEDMONT. The National Savoisien of the 21st inst. states that the King of Sardinia was expected at Chawbery, where General Oudinot, General-in-Chief of the Army of the Alps, had arrived on the 19th. NEWMARKET RAILWAY. The half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of the Newmarket Railway Company, adjourned from the 31st of last month, took place yesterday at the London Tavern. Lord George Manners took the chair shortly after one o'clock, and the usual preliminary proceedings having been gone through, The SECRETARY read the following report:— " Since the special meeting of the company, held on the 27th March last, the committee appointed at that meeting, consisting of three directors and three pro prietors, have used every exertion to carry out the amal gamation which the proprietors at that meeting desired should, if possible, be effected with the Eastern Counties Railway Company. " The negotiation with the directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company not having been concluded at the usual period for holding the half-yearly meeting of this company in August, your directors deemed it advisable to adjourn such meeting until the conclusion of the negotiation. " The agreements under the seals of the two coya panics were exchanged on the 7th instant, and will be submitted to the proprietors of this company for confir mation and adoption at the meeting specially convened this day for that purpose, the main provisions of the agreement are as follow: _ "First—The shareholders of the Newmarket Rail way Company, to receive from the Eastern Counties Railway Company, a preferential dividend or guaranteed stock of 31. per cent. per annum for the first two years, commencing from the Ist October, 1849, (when posses sion of the line will be taken by the latter company), and 31. los. per cent. per annum in perpetuity afterwards. " Second—The same dividend to be paid on the de posit monies received on the extension scrip. " Third—No further call to be made beyond 20/. per share, and the Eastern Counties Railway Company to provide all other funds which shall be required for com pleting the branch line to Cambridge, and liquidating the liabilities of the Newmarket Railway Company, which have been ascertained, and (exclusive of the de posit on the extension scrip) are limited to a sum not exceeding 530,0001. " Your directors think it unnecessary to lengthen their report by entering into the minor details of this agree ment, which they recommend for the adoption of the shareholders. " Your directors have hitherto exercised considerable forbearance in not pressing for the amount outstanding on account of calls, but they cannot conclude this report without pointing out to those shareholders who are in arrear the penalties to which they are subjected for non payment, and impressing upon them the necessity of an immediate liquidation, which otherwise it will be the obvious duty of the directors to enforce, or to declare the shares forteited." It appeared from the capital account that the total amount received was 378,6111. 13s. 5d., and that the ex penditure was 371,6441. Os. 7d., leaving a balance in favour of the company on account of capital of 6,9671. 12s. 10d. From the revenue account it ap peared that the traffic for the three months ending the 30th of June last, had produced 3,085/. 7s. 7d..; that the expenses in carrying on that traffic were 1,8791. 2s. Bd., leaving a balance in favour of the company of 1,2061. 4s. I Id. The Cuaremax said, that since the directors had last met the proprietors, two circumstances of importance had occurred—the opening of the line generally between Chesterford and Newmarket, and the conclusion of the negotiations between the directors of the Newmarket Company and the Eastern Counties proprietors. The result of the three months working of the line was be fore the proprietors ; it was considered by the directors satisfactory. and he trusted it would be equally so to the proprietors. lie could assure the shareholders that the directors, in their negotiations with the Eastern Counties directors, fv.id spared no pains, in conjunction with the committee, to carry out an amalgamation on fair terms, and he felt happy in stating that they had been able to do so. The Noble Chairman concluded by moving that the report now read, with the statement of the accounts, be printed and circulated among the proprietors. Mr. FRITH, the Deputy-Chairman, seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. The meeting was then declared special, for the pur posesubmitting of for the approval of the shareholders, and also for their adoption, the conditional agreement which had been entered into by the directors with the directors of the Eastern Counties Company tor the leas in.. of the Newmarket Railway and branch to them. 'The agreement was read at length by the secretary, and, after asbort discussion,. was adopted. Thank - 8 were then voted to the Chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. REAL DEL MONTE MINING COM- MANY DISSOLUTION. A special meeting of this company was held yes terday at the offices of the company in Duke-street, Adelphii Sir Thomas Price, Bart., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said he regretted to inform the meet ing that, after much consideration, the directors had come to the conclusion that it was imperatively neces sary for the safety of all concerned in the undertaking that the company shuuld be immediately dissolved. They were unanimously of opinion that, under present circumstances, no other course could be adopted, unless, indeed, the shareholders wished to lead the company into further difficulties. He concluded by moviug the dissolution. of the company. A. long discussion ensued, and ultimately the resolu tion, dissolving the company, was carried, and another meeting appointed to be held this day four weeks, to confirm the resolution, and the meeting separated. The companywas established as long ego as twenty four years, for the purpose of working the silver mines of Real Del Monte, in Mexico, and although the shares, which were originally 400/. each, were at one time sold fur 1,5001., the undertaking was never a profitable one. SUPPOSED MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND, AND SUICIDE OF THE LATTER. Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, the inhabitants of Chester-street, Toxteth- park, were alarme I by the rumour that a murder had been committed by a man named Robert Howarth, residing in that street, 1,1110, it was stated, had first killed his wife, and afterwards com mitted suicide. The circumstances of this dreadful event are as fol low :—The supposed murderer, who is about forty-seven years of age, was a dealer in cattle, and was, until re cently, a wholesale confectioner, occupying a shop in St. James's -street, Toxteth-park. For some time back neither his wife nor family have resided with him, in consequence of some family differences. Since the se paration Howarth had made his wife a certain allowance, and on Friday evening she went to the house for the purpose of receiving the usual monthly stipend from him. As she did not return, her friends became alarmed as the I evening advanced, and some of them remained about the house until between one and two in the morning, ex pecting her every minute to make her appearance. She, daymorning, ft s o a however,did not do s o , an d, no t h av i ng re t urne d o n theyoth her, but became did sall not more succeed in alarmed,a findingnd again went in search her anywhere. The day passed over without any tidings h l firing been heud of the cleoetteed i pud tier fricllc 4 be- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY came more and more alarmed. The intelligence of her absence was, yesterday morning, communicated to a servant in the employ of her husband, and, about seven o'clock, this person, having the key of the back door of Howarth's residence, proceeded there along with three other persons, and, after making a search for a few minutes, they went up stairs into one of the bedrooms, where the most horrifying spectacle was presented. The unfortunate woman was found lying stretched on the floor of the bedroom quite dead, her head and face being surrounded by a large pool of blood. Her dress was also torn open, and the disordered state of her hair, and other general appear ances of the body gave evident indications of violence having been used upon her. The body was lying straight out, with the head from the bed and the legs under it. They then drew the clothes from off the bed, where they discovered the body of her hus band. They at first thought that ho was asleep, but on a closer inspection they ascertained that be, also, was dead. The body of the husband did not exhibit the slightest marks of violence; neither was there any ap pearance about the face to indicate death, the deceased looking as if in a sound sleep. On searching the bed room no deadly weapon of any description was found: but, on again going down stairs into the kitchen, a cup was discovered, containing a mixture supposed to be ar senic, and this opinion was strengthened by there being a considerable number of dead flies upon the table, lying in drops of what is supposed to be a portion of the same mixture. It appears, from information which we last evening received from the relatives of the deceased woman, that, on Friday evening, her husband was dreadfully agitated in consequence of having lost a considerable sum of money in a purchase of cattle ; and he repeatedly said to his wife's sister, that evening, that he was almost in clined to deprive himself of his life, at the same moment drawing his hand across his throat and exclaiming, ; • Oh, I could do that just now!" It is supposed that the murder must have been: com mitted, at the latest, on Saturday morning, twenty-four hours before the discovery took place, for the unfortu nate man, who, at that time, had no one with him in the house but his wife, his housekeeper having gone from home a few days previous, went to a neighbouring house about eleven o'clock on Suturday morning, and com plained that he was very sick and ill. He then went into the house again, and was not seen afterwards until he was discovered as already described. During several hours, early yesterday morning, the relatives frequently knocked at the house door, but re ceiving no answer, and, on looking through the key-hole, seeing his hat, coat, &c., they felt satisfied something was wrong, which led to the search by which the dread ful deed was discovered. Whether the murder was effected by poison or by some other means is not yet known ; but it appears from the state of the deceased woman's body that towards her great violence had been committed.—Liverpool Mercury of yesterday. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants—John Powell Branch (1841), from the Caledonia, 120 guns, at Plymouth, to the Cyclops steam frigate, on her way to Portsmouth from Ireland, to equip for service on the Coast of Africa; Horace Bullock (1843), to the Caledonia ; He nr y d e Lisle (1844), to the Cyclops; Hugh;A. Reilly ,1348), to the Driver steam sloop, on the coast of Ireland; Edward Scott (1847), late of the Collingwood, to the Excellent gunnery ship, at Portsmouth. Assistant Surgeon—H. Johnson, to the Driver. Midshipman—H. M. M. Jones, to the St. Vincent, 120 guns, Sir Charles Napier's flag ship, at Cork. Naval Cadet—Maurice Hallion Trevelian, to the Powerful, 14 guns, at Spithead. TILE SQUADRON or EXERCISE. — Rear Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., with the following ships and vessels under his command, remained in the Cove of Cork, on the 22d instant:—The St. Vincent,'l2o guns, Captain S. C. Dacres, bearing the flag; the Prince Re gent, 92, Captain W. F. Martin; the Bellerophon, 78, Captain R. L. Baynes; the Blenheim, 55, Captain Chads; the Amphion, 34, Captain W. J. Williams; the Reynard, 16, Commander Craycroft; the Stromboli steam-sloop, ;6, Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk; and the Rifleman schooner, Lieutenant Croften, R.N., commanding. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 23.—The Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Admiral Dundas, accom panied by Captain Eden, private secretary of the First Lord, Colonel Irvine, R. E., director of works, and Mr. Walker, Admiralty engineer, arrived in the Undine steamer, after inspecting the public works at the island of Alderney, and landed on Thursday at the Eddystone at three P.M., where they inspected the building through out, remaining there fifty minutes. As the Undine proached the Sound, her Majesty's ship Caledonia, Cap tain Carter, sot all sail and saluted their Lordships with nineteen guns. Their Lordships landed at the north stairs at the dockyard, and were received by Sir William Hall Gage, G.C.H., the Commander-in-Chief at this port, Admiral-Superintendent Sir John Louis, Bart., and the principal officers of the dockyard. Their Lord ships were shortly afterwards joined by the Hon. Cap tain M. F. Berkeley, Captain the Right Honourable Lord John Hay, W. Ward, Secretary, Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, Surveyor of the Navy, Captain Ellice, superintendent of steam machinery; Mr. Wooley, chief clerk. Mr. Lloyd, &c., who had arrived by the South Devon express train from town. In the even ing their Lordships dined at Admiralty House, Mount- Wise. Among the guests of the gallant Port-Admiral were Lord Auckland and other members of the Board of Admiralty, and the officials accompanying them $ Rear-Admiral Sir John Louis, Bart., Major-General the Hon. H. Murray, Colonel Oldtield, RE., Colonel M'Cullum, R.M., Capt. Superintendent Toup Nicholas, C. 8., Royal Naval Hospital ; Captain Carter, H.M.S. Caledonia ; Captain Mends, Agincourt ; Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, San Josef ; Commissary General Hewetson, Captain Mann, Captain Burgmann, RE., Mr. Irving, secretary, Flag-Lieutenant Brownrigg, Mr. Berkeley, &c., &c. Their Lordships proceeded on Friday to the Dockyard at half-past ten, where they were received by the Admiral. Superintendent and the principal officers of the establishment, accompanied by whom they pro ceeded to the Niobe and Phoebe, which are now in coarse of building, and thence to the Sans Pareil, the Algiers, and the Exmouth. After viewing these ships their Lordships went on board the Hotspur and inspected the Coast Guardmen at drill, having been joined by the Commander-in-Chief and his Flag-captain, Sir Thomas Maitland and his Flag-lieutenant. Lord Auckland ex pressed the satisfaction of the Board of Admiralty with the performances of the Coast Guardsmen. Their Lord ships next visited the new basin, and were occupied a considerable time in the inspection of it. They next proceeded to the new frigate Indefatigable, recently launched, which was designed by William Edyer, Esq., the master shipwright at this port ; after which they lunched with Sir John Louis, and next proceeded to visit the millwrights' shop and engine-houses, and, aecomr panied by Captain Brugmaun, embarked in the Com mander-in-Chief's barge for the works at Keyham. At five o'clock the Admiralty returned from Keyham, and proceeded to the Royal Hotel. . _ GERMAN MUSIC GIRLS.—On Saturday last a rather sharp looking girl, about 16 years of age, who gave her name as Clara Muller, and whose vocation is that of a street accordion player, came to the police-office, ac companied by an interpreter, to ask advice and assistance under the following circumstances:—She says, that before leaving her native place, which is Holsheim, in Hesse Darmstadt, her friends, on her part, entered into an agreement with a man named Jacob Reiter, that she should travel with him in England for eighteen months as one of a party of street musicians—that she was to pay him all her earnings, and receive in return food and l o dging, 71. 105. in cash, and a free passage to her native country. The original agreement is retained by the girl's friends, and the specula'or carries the other along with him. Now, the girl says that her engagement ter minated in July last, but that Reiter will not pay her the salary nor permit her to depart. This man was found out, and in defence states that the engagement is not out till October ; but that he has lost the copy of agreement necessary to prove this fact. From the in terference of the authorities, however, the man found it expedient to leave 91. 10s. in the hands of the chief su perintendent of police (71. 10s. as salary, and 2/. for travelling expenses?, until the real state of the case can be obtained from Germany; and as the girl positively refuses to go back to Reiter's house she has meantime been decently lodged under the charge of the police. The bureomaster at_aelsheim has been written to; and the concluding clause of the letter very properly says:— " As the class to which this girl belongs are very nume rous in Glasgow, the authorities are very desirous to know the terms and circumstance under which they are induced to leave their country for Great. Britain." Clara Muller is an intelligent girl, and writes a good letter. She says that her earnings run from 4s to 10s. per day, collected on the streets in small doles as a reward for her performance on the accordion. Now, we have every , feeling of kindness for these poor girls; but it is ques tionable how far they should be encouraged, when their exertions are devoted, night and day, to making a dealer in musical slaves rich. This man, we are informed, sends upon the streets daily some five or six begging minstrels, including his own wife, but principally boys and girls.—Glasgow Herald. Discovvtr 'or ho z.; Ong Tx BOZINEO.—" Very rich iron ore has been discovered recently in the so called Laut lands, forming the south-east corner of Bor neo. Those lands which belonged formerly to the ex tensive empire of Banjermassing were, at a very distant period; abandoned to the complete sovereignty of the "Port Royal, August 22. " The Hounel brig, 10 guns, Commander G. ff. Wood Dutch. They constitute the district of Tanah Laut or , arrived here on the 20th from Bermuda, and will sail on Lawut, whose eapital,Tabettio or Taboeniauw, is situated the 29th for Vera Cruz. at the mouth of the river of that name, and protected by a fort. It is the residence of a Dutch officer, a depen " The flag-ship Wellesley', 72 guns, Vice-Admiral the dent of the Resident of Banjormassing. The discovered Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., is at Fialx, mi ry the iron grounds are situated south-east from Fort Tabenio, Vixen steam sloop, and the Scourge. near the formerly il eirishing, now deserted, Kampong " The Trincomalee, 26 guns, Captain Warren, is at Tambaga, and at en or eight English miles (two or Antigua, laying up for (.the hurricane months. two-and. a-half hours) distance from Katnpong Plearie (also called Playhary or Palaihari). inhabited by Chinese " The Electra, 16, Commander Bouverie, is at Vera Cruz. and Malays, engaged in the collection of gold dust. " Tho Bermuda, 6, Lieutenant Jully, R.N., command- The above mentione'd grounds are chiefly to be found in ing, is at the disposal of Consul-General Christie, on her the western declivity of a hill of gentle rise, covered all passage to the Mosquito shore. „ , over with stupendous blocks of ore, some of them men " The Alarm, 26 guns, Captain Granville Loch, is suring 500 or 600 cubic feet. Their appearance vouches for the supposition that they were projected by natural N or o d v e e r m ed be h r o . me, and will he there about the latter end of revolutions, and m akes 'it probable with regard t o th e " Thera is no sickness here ashore, or in the squadron, circum stance of ore being found at a depth of one-and-a and the threaten e d emeu t e , heard of when I last wrote, half feet on both the summit and at the bottom of the has passed quietly. hill, that the whole of it is to be considered as one mass " The Earl of Dundonald's h ea lth i s b e tt e r than when of ore. Whatever be the truth of this, it remains as a I last wrote, an d h e will (proceed s h ort l y t o Quebec, in fact, that the quantity of ore found on the surface is ade the Scourge or Vixen steamer." quate for an exploitation on a large scale, carried on ;7, [The Admiral was at H a lifax on the sth inst.] during a long series of years. The local situation affords CAPE or Goon Hops S TATION ,—.. C a pe T ow n, Jaly ample means for such an exploitation. At a distance of 17. The Arab, 12, Commander ,W. Morris, sailed lea about 500 feet from the hill, a level of about 50 or 60 the sth for M ozam bi que , to cru i ze a f ter s l ave r s . It is acres is found, which would answer very well for an es not probable that the Nimrod, 20, Commander Belgrave, tablishnaent, an d b y i ts e l evat i on i s p ro tected against a will return' here, b u t w ill cont i nue on t h e S t. H e l ena r i se of the waters during the west monsoons. Along the part of the coast until th e Ad m i ra l ca ll s t h ere on his way plain runs a rivulet or little stream, which, according to home. Admiral Dacres is on hi s wa y now fr o m Tawa- the information given by the natives, is never left dry, tave, and daily looked for, e s p ec i a ll y as no l etters h ave not even during the cast monsoon, and which might, been received from him since th o s e d a t e d th e 4th of June perhaps, be very easily converted into a valuable ague from Mauritius. The squadron is atati one d near l y as i n m y duct, or used as a motive power. Plenty of wood, fit for last, viz.: President, 50, flag-ship; Brillia n t, 26 , C a pt a in fuel, charcoal, or timber, is to be found in the neighbour- Watson , ELDIN G I GB.; Geyser (steam), 6, Commander, Browne; hood. The hill itself, the surface of which consists of Rosamond (steam), 6, Commander Foote, in the Mau- red clay intermixed with humus, deteriorated ore parts ritius. and iron oxide, bears all over a kind of wood, which may " In Simon'e Bay—The Eurydice, 26, Captain Anson, pour them and the store-ship Seringapatam. James Russell, Esq., be burnt into excellent charcoal.”—New Rotterdam e — bt : a l Tn ' ed a glassy matter, m m a a s s t t e e r r, o li f t . F N ie ., fla c g om -s m hi n p nd p ii r i e g sid t e h n e t, la w t a te a r m s a h r i r p i , ed fo o r n me t r h ly e 3 , 1 ult. to the widow of the late Lieutenant F. G. Tidy, tmhee's'el?inograrxecip ingredients add e p tc r ) e i l t ,er l l ;O f t a h se o d f a s n a d l- aril mixed,m ona p c 0 . of her Majesty's 12th Foot. RON AND STEEL.—In . an earthen . vessel_ out upon an iron plate, and let them cool. There is thus to which is to be added an equal i n s d the i b n a g y G o e n org e quantity of quick lime. The iron and steel which are to be 7 hA 3 lfia t v l si r nte e gr gi el m oof e mt n m t tha for this place). soldered are first heated to redness; then this compound, first F 1 1 , i ; 713:2 e ahrhneed isi :l a : t e e embarking re sEastt u e l a e powder is laid upon them—the composition melts Robert Fulton, RN_ sa il e d f rom . Simons Bay fo r Mall- and runs like sealing-wax ; the pieces are then replaced in m s r; t ne i d ai sost b enhi e : r-ship, blaster commanding reduced to j and usually a perfectly employed in welding; faes they ivt are then wt. h b d :t a la w u n s a m n e d i no Oriental n n t t h a e l s B t t e h a ; ni a . n sn d ip on C th o e m s p a a m ny e ,s d a v y ess t e h l e A P ch e i n l i l n es s , u3a r r . t te t fire, taki ng care to heat them at a temperature tn far t below rived here on her way to India. She has shippe ß. supply of coals, (&c., and is under orders to leave the Bay t e ho su r r asserts that this process, which sheet-iron tubes, never fails,— Rec. de luS P 1 t I OC. . 0-y.CC.I. meats slaw the 4th, of any interest.' for Ceylon, two days hence. These ttre the only mole - - i Ina y be applied to llde welding author Yesterday their Lordships inspected the men belong ing to the dockyard, in their military dress, and ex pressed their high satisfaction at their cleanly and solderlike appearance, and the skill and ability with which they went through their exercises. At twelve o'clock the First Lord held his Levee, which was ♦ery numerously attended by the various officers about the port, and by several clertrymen and gentlemen. After this their Lordships partook of luncheon at the residence of the admiral superintendent, and remained in the yard until four o'clock. Tney then returned to the hotel, and soon after proceeded to Saltram, the seat of the Earl of Morley, where they will remain till to-morrow. Mr. Joseph Begley, son of Mr. Besley, of the store keeper's•office, in this dockyard, has been appointed clerk in the office of the superintendent of the Break. water, vice Jorey, appointed to the dockyard. ROYAL MARINES.—Lieut. Charles Louis, son of Rear- Admiral Sir John Louis, Bart., admiral superintendent, has been appointed Quartermaster, vice Sheaner, pro moted to a captaincy. THE WEST INDIA SQUADRON.—The Daring sloop, 12 guns, Commander William Peel, sailed from Port Royal, Jamaica, on the 23d ult. for England, to be put out of commission. She arrived at Portsmouth last even. ing. By her we have received a letter from our naval correspondent:— ....~+ l :._. ..a t... EVENING,_.PSEPTEMBER 26, 1848. WooLmcs, SEPT. 25.—The Mynx steam-vessel was recently tried down the river with thirteen different modifications of the screw popeller, and out of these four of the best were selected for further trial, one by Mr. F. P. Smith, of the steam screw propeller depart ment at the Admiralty; one by Mr. Woodcroft, and two screw propellers modified by Mr. Atherton, chief en gineer at Woolwich dockyard. The Mynx left Wool wich on Friday last, under the charge of Lieutenant Robertson, assistant to Captain Austin, C. 8., with the four screws, and made three trials down and three trials up with one of the screws, and two trials down and two trials up with each of the other screws, making eighteen runs over the measured mile in Long Reach during the day. The result was very satisfactory, the average speed being in no instance less than 9 knots per hour, and some cases reaching nearly Of knots per hour. The shipping and unshipping the screws occupied from 25 to 30 minutes, and the Mynx returned to Woolwich shortly after five o'clock P. 31. The Monkey steam-vessel towed the Princess Royal to her moorings opposite the Royal Arsenal to-day, and will leave at an early hour to morrow, with two compa nies of Royal Artillery and one company of Royal Sap pent and Miners for Gibraltar. The following officers proceed with the companies: —Captain John Adye, com manding; Captain G. C. Baillie, Royal Engineers; Lieutenant B. K. Freeth, Lieutenant J. Speerway, and Lieutenant Harding, Royal Artillery; Lieutenant Ewart, Royal Engineers; and Assistant-Surgeon Allinson, of the Ordnance Medical Department. The Athol troopship, Master Commander Pearn, has arrived in the river from Canada, and is hourly expected at Woolwich, with two companies of the Royal Artillery from Quebec. The Vesuvius has had her moorings changed to-day to make room for the Athol alongside the receiving-ship. The Sharpshooter, Lieutenant Commander Bailey, was taken out of dock on Saturday, and is expected to go down the river on. trial on Wednesday. The Janus steam-vessel was taken into dock on Sa turday to be prepared for the reception of the engines formerly used in the Sydenham, instead of the rotatory engines previously tried in the Janus by Rear-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald. The Royal squadron, under the command of Captain Lord Adolphus Fitaclarence, G.C.11., will leave Aber deen to-day on the return of her Majesty from Scotland, and the royal yacht is expected to arrive at Cowes, where the squadron will proceed direct, on Thursday, the 28th inst. PLYMOUTH, SErr. 2 3,—Tier Majesty's steam-vessel Sprightly, Master Commander James P. Moon, sailed yesterday for the Cove of Cork. The merchant barque Majestic, from Bombay, for London, was off the port yesterday. The barque Phantom, of London, from Jamaica, which passed up Channel yesterday and lauded a pas senger from Fayal, reports that on the 2d of August, during the passage home, she saw a water-logged brig, apparently ti m b er -l a d en, both masts gone, bowsprit standing, totally abandoned. The audden death of Lord George Bentinck has created a painful sensation in the minds of the shipowners of the port of Plymouth, who held the deceased noble man in high esteem for his untiring attention to their interests. CUSTOMS' REFORMS. During the recent session, Mr. Macgregor, the Member for Glasgow, gave the following notice of motion for next session :- 1. That, considering the magnitude of the mari time commerce of the British empire, and that no vessel or ship, with a cargo, in ballast, or with pas sengers, can, when engaged either in the coasting, colonial, or foreign trade, arrive at, discharge, or take in a lading, or passengers, or depart from any port in the United Kingdom, without the interference of the officers and submitting to the regulations and laws of the Customs, it has become necessary for Parliament to take into consideration the whole subject of the administration, organization, management, and regu lations of that department. 2. That the friendly and peaceable relations, and reciprocal social benefits, and commercial advantages, between the United Kingdom and all foreign coun tries, can be most harmoniously and durably main• tained by the maritime and trading intercourse being rendered as free as the security of the revenue may , allow from all vexatious, ignorant, and,useless restric tions, delays, and expenses. $. That, with a view to facilitate maritime inter course between British and all foreign ports, and to effect a direct responsibility of duties and efficiency of services in regard to the security of the revenue, and the quick dispatch of the commercial and shipping business of the United Kingdom, it appears the fol lowing changes are absolutely necessary :—First---- A complete reform of the system of regulations, or ders, and management of the Customs. Second—An abolition of the present administrative organization of appointments, and especially that of the Board of Commissioners. Third—That, for the purposes of responsibility of duties, the security of the revenue, and the quick and efficient dispatch of ships and their cargoes, am efficient re-arrangement of the personal organization of the Customs department appears ne cessary. _ _ _ 4. that, considering the effect which the commerce and financial legislation of the United Kingdom have, at all times, upon the employment of the people, the prosperity of the empire, and the public revenue and credit, it appears necessary to inquire into the pro gress of the trade and navigation between the United Kingdom and foreign countries, and also between the United Kingdom and the British possessions abroad, including India, from the sth day of January, 1827, to the sth day of January, 1849. THE CHARTIST TRIALS. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. TRIAL OF CUFFEY, LACY, FAY, AND MULLINS. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. BALLANTINE said ho understood 200 new jurors had been summoned, whose names had not been called over. He proposed to show, without disrespect to the jurymen, that he was not unindifferent as between the Crown and the prisoner. This he proposed to show out of his own mouth. Mr. Baron PLATT thought the jury could not be ob jected to until they were in the box. Mr. PARRY applied to have his application with re spect to the reading of the panel placed upon the record. otherwise the prisoner could not take advantage of it if their Lordships' decision was wrong. Mr. Baron PLATT refused the application. The jury having been called and taken their places in the box, Mr. HUDDLESTONE applied, on behalf of Coffey, to have the panel read over in the words stated by Chitty, p. 546. Mr. Baron PLATT inquired if the Attorney-General opposed the application? The ATTORNEY GENERAL said ho did not. Mr. KENEALY called the attention of the Court to the fact that he cited the same authority before Mr. Justice Erle and Mr. Justice Williams, and that they refused it. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS reminded the Learned Counsel that he merely applied for a copy. The panel was then read over. Mr. BALLANTINE intimated that the prisoners intended to separate their challenges? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, if sixty gentlemen were objected to, a sufficient margin would not be left for the evidence of all parties; he should therefore take the case of Cuffey first. You say you shall separate your challenges. I shall, therefore, proceed upon my undoubted right, and try Cuffey alone. Mr. STREIGIIT then proceeded, at the request of the Court, we understood, to read the names of the 200, the whole of whom were called out of the New Court and filled this court to overflowing, the prisoners being ac commodated with seats whilst the list was read. When the list was completed the 200 were filed off. In reply to Mr. Ballantine Mr. Baron PLATT stated that counsel had no right to examine the jurymen as to their position, political feeling, &c. One or two of the jury having been challenged, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected, and pleaded that the juryman (Mr. Pickwell) was indifferent. Two triers having been sworn, one a juryman and the other an independent person, the juryman objected to was sworn. Mr. BALLANTINE proposed to ask him if he was a special constable. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected. The question was foreign to the matter at issue. The COURT was of the same opinion. The juryman, in reply to another question, said he had expressed no opinion with respect to the issue of this case. The " triers" found that Mr. Pickwell was indifferent, as also did two of the jurymen subsequently appointed to discharge the same duty with respect to several others who were challenged. , One juryman, a Mr. Pembroke, on being asked the question, said be had expressed a wish that all the parties might be hung.—(Roars of laughter, in which the prisoner heartily joined.) Mr. Baron PLATT asked him to repeat the answer, as he had not heard it, from the noise in the Court. On repeating it some hisses burst from that portion of the gallery in which Mrs. Cuffey and some of the prisoner's friends were situated. Mr. Pembroke was objected to by Mr, Ballantine, and he left the box amidst renewed hisses. some few of which came from the body of the court. A jury having been at length empannelled, Mr. PARRY said, on behalf of Fay and Lacy, that they had no objection to be tried by this jury ; he should not, therefore, challenge the array, the only object of himself and his Learned Friends being to obtain an impartial jury. He believed they had now obtained one. The ATTORNEZ-GLNERAL acceded to this course, and Fay and Lacy were called up, when the jury were sworn. Cuffey said the only objection he had to the jury was that they were not his equals ; he was a journeyman mechanic. The jurymen not sworn were then dismissed until to morrow (this) morning, at nine o'clock. Mr. Baron PLATT intimated that he should sit till eight o'clock. After an adjournment of about half an hour, Cuffey, Fay, and Lacy were placed at the bar. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL addressed the jury, and he regretted very much that the exigencies of justice re quired the attendance of so large a number of gentlemen in their position, no doubt to their great inconvenience; and he at the same time trusted that the proceedings which they had just witnessed with regard to the choice of the jury would not have the effect of prejudicing the prisoners, because it was a course perfectly in accord ance with the law, and which the prisoners were entitled to adopt. He then proceeded to state the circumstances under which the charge was preferred against the pri soners, but as the facts were precisely the same as in the former case, it will be unnecessary to repeat them. The evidence was then gone into. William Cross, a police-constable, proved that he ap prehended the prisoner Fay on the 18th of August, and that, as they were going to the police-office, the prisoner told him that he had been secretary to one of the Chartist associations. Sergeant Thompson deposed that he went to a garret occupied by Cuffey on the 18th of August, and took him into custody. He told him that he was charged with felony, in conspiring against the Queen, and he replied, "It is quite sufficient. I understand what lam charged with." He then went to a drawer in the room, and fumbled about for some time, and then took out a pistol, which he endeavoured to pass to his wife, but witness laid hold of him, and, after a struggle, got the pistol from him. It was loaded with powder and ball, and primed. Ho also found a flag and banner, which were produced, and in which were inserted the words" West minster District." Sergeant West proved that on the following day he searched a cockloft in Cuffey's house, and found a pike staff, which he produced. Charles Tilden deposed that he became a member of the Chartist Association on the 2,th of last May, and Cuffey was his class leader. He belonged to the Dean street locality. In June he had a conversation with Cuffey about making cartridges, and Cuffey wished him to make some. He told him he had got no gun, and the prisoner answered that when the time came they should get plenty of arms from the gun makers' shops. They likewise had a conversation about ginger-beer bottles filled with gunpowder and pieces of iron, and Cuffey said they would be very good things for the Chartists' wives to throw out of the windows while their husbands were engaged with the police. Cuffey likewise showed him a pikehead and staff, which he said was made after the Mitchel fashion. He also told hint that there was a rebellion in Ireland, and the soldiers would all soon be sent away, and London would be in their hands, and he said he hoped that witness would not flinch when the day came. Cross-examined—He was very anxious to be placed under such a redoubtable leader as Cuffey, and he ex pected if he obeyed his orders he should become a general, and, perhaps, eventually president of the commonwealth. --(A laugh.) He had been charged with being drunk, and about seven years ago, while engaged in looking at the statue of King James, a policeman interfered with him, and he was obstinate, and stood by the statue from nine o'clock in the morning till five, and then he was locked up for looking at KingJames.—(Laughter.) The magistrate ordered him to find bail on this occasion, and he was in prison for three weeks. He joined the Chartists as a moral-force man, and he purchased gun powder at Cuffey's request, in order to see if he could not find out something to stop their proceedings. He considered the ginger beer bottle business physical force and not moral force. He mentioned the ginger-beer bottles to lead him to think that he was sincere. He offered to sharpen the; pikehead from the same motive, and he always determined to betray the physical-force movement. He was in communication with the Govern ment before he said anything about sharpening the pike, and he communicated from time to time what was going on. He knew nothing of Powell, and never saw him. He did not expected to be paid for what he did, and he became a spy and informer for the good of the public. He went to Cuffey's house a quarter of an hour after he was apprehended. Knew there was a cockloft to his garret, but had never noticed it particularly, and, of course, he did nut put the pike-handle into that loft. He was in regular employment with a a respectable tradesman at the time of these proceedings, and was earning 28s. per week. Did not expect to be paid for anything except his loss of time; but he should not be ashamed to take any thing the Government might give him. On one occasion he saw Cuffey casting bullets in his garret. He was using a tobacco-pipe and a pair of pliers for the purpose. Neither Mrs. Cuffey or any of the little Cuffeys were in the room.—(A laugh.) Re-examined—He was apprehended for loitering about Whitehall-gardens, and not giving a satisfactory account of himself. At the close of the examination of this witness, the jury in the former case came into court, and handed in a written paper to the Bench, in which they expressed a wish for the Court to read over those portions of the evidence which confirmed the statement of the ac complice. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said that his Learned Brother Erlo who tried the case, and who had more particularly directed his attention t o i t , h a d l eft the court, but he would endeavour, as well as he could, to do what the jury required. The ATTOUNEY-GENERAL suggested that it was now past seven o'clock, and, as it would not be advisable to break into the evidence of the next witness, it would be better at once to adjourn the case of Cuffey and the other prisoners. Mr:Baron PIA-TT said that as there did not appear to be any probability of getting through the case that night, perhaps that would be the better course. The further proceedings in the trial of Cuffey were accordingly adjourned, the jury being taken, as in the former case, to the London Coffee-house in the charge of an officer. Mr. Justice WILLIAms then proceeded to address the jury in the case of Dowling, and read from his notes those portions of the evidence which were relied upon by the Crown as confirming the testimony of the ac complice. Mr. KENEALY, at the close of the Learned Judge'i address, complained that he had not been allowed to adopt a similar course in challenging the jury that bad been permitted to Mr. Ballantine in the case before the Court that day. He had made the same application, but it was refused. Mr. Justice Wu.LlA.ms said that the Learned Counsel had applied for a list of the jury, and that was the appli cation which bad been refused. Mr. KENEALY asserted that he bad asked permission to take precisely the same course that had bee❑ adopted by Mr. Ballantine; and he now requested that the Court would direct the fact to be placed upon the record. The COURT refused to accede to the request. The jury then again retired, at half-past eight o'clock, and returned into court at half-past nine, when they gave a verdict of Guilty against the prisoner upon the second count of the indictment. ZV IV COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) Soloman Cowan surrendered to take his trial on an indictment charging him with having received a large quantity of cards, the property of Messrs. Dickenson, well knowing them to have been stolen. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Ballantine stated the case to the jury. The facts of the case have already been amply de tailed in the police reports, and under the head of this court last session. For some long time past the prose cutors, the well-known card makers, had been plundered to a great extent by their servants, one of whom and also some receivers were convicted last session; the goods were traced to several persons, and amongst others the prisoner, who keeps a general-dealer's in Goswell-street, and the point urged most strongly against the prisoner was the fact of his having sold a quantity of the stolen cards at very considerably below the wholesale price. The RECORDER, having heard some of the witnesses, expressed an opinion that he did not think there was any case to go to the jury. After some discussion, Mr. BALLANTINE said, that if that was the opinion of the Court, his clients did not wish to press the case any farther. They admitted the prisoner had dealt openly with the stolen articles, and although they had watched their servants they had not traced any of them in com munication with him or at his premises. The RECORDER, haviug directed an acquittal, cau tioned the prisoner to be more careful in his dealings for the future. Frederick William Soutlicombe, aged 22, a cabinet maker, was indicted for forgery and conspiracy. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner (who had for some years past swindled a number of trades people under a variety of aliases) opened a baker's shop in the Caledonian-road, Islington, under the name of Cocking, and by means of a forged bill of exchange, the subject-matter of the first indictment, obtained goods to the amount of 71 10s. from Messrs. Hens, ironmongers, of High-street, Islington. The evidence was very conclusive of the prisoner's guilt, and the jury at once convicted him. There were eight other indictments against the pri soner—four for forgery, and four for obtaining goods under false pretences. The RECORDER, having looked over some of the other charges, sentenced the prisoner to seven years' trans portation. No other ease worthy of mention transpired in this court during the day. THIRD COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.) John Rickman, aged 49, a plumber, was indicted for attempting to murder his wife by cutting her throat. Mr. PLATT prosecuted, and the prisoner was unde fended. The Learncod Counsel, having briefly detailed the facts, called Caroline Rickman, who deposed that the prisoner was her husband, and that they had been married for several years, but that a month ago, in consequence of some dis agreement, they separated and lived apart. on the 10th of September she met the prisoner in the East India road, when be came up and spoke to her, and, expressing his contrition for what had occurred, he parted with her upon the best of terms, and begged of her to meet him in the evening at the house of his sister in Church-lane, Limehouse. She accordingly went, and having been there for a short time, he came in, and haring shook her by the hand took her to a seat and embraced her, saying he never meant to part fro m h er again. Whilst so seated he placed his hand around her neck and again kissed her, forcing her head back; and at that moment she felt something sharp pass across her neck, and, upon putting her hands up, found he had wounded her throat. She cried out, " The knife! He has a knife!" and some of her relations forced her from him, and he ran from the house. She was taken to the station-house, where a surgeon was sent for, who dressed the wound, which was still bad. ~„ Several witnesses who were in th e room deposed - to seeing the prisoner, after he had forced her head back, take a knife from his pocket and try to cut her throat. When he ran from the house some of them followed him, and, having given the alarm, he was overtaken by a police-constable, to whom he admitted he had done it, and said that he had thrown the knife away; that he was very sorry, but he did not know what he was about. The prisoner, in his defence, said he did not know what he was about, and begged for mercy. The jury acquitted him on the count of the intent to murder, but found him Guilty of cutting and wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Mr. BULLOCK then sentenced him to be transported for fifteen years. _ _ _ John Golding, an elderly man, was convicted of bigamy. He had been separated many years from his first wife before he married again. Ho was ordered to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one month. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Dubois, dentist, summoned George Duallle before Mr. Painter for having used abusive and insulting lan guage towards him in the public streets, on Thursday last, Mr. Dubois said he was on his way to England from the Boulogne fetes last Thursday, when he noticed a great number of officers of the Garde Nationale on board the steam-vessel, who were about to pay a visit to the English metropolis. As the party of visitors were totally unacquainted with the metropolis, he volunteered to direct them to an hotel where they could get accom modation. On arriving in London he proceeded to show the party to the Hotel de l'Europe, in Leicester-square, when he was suddenly pounced upon by the defendant, who, in the capacity of commissionaire of the Hotel de Boulogne, endeavoured to induce the French visitors to transfer their patronage from the Hotel de l'Europe to the Hotel de Boulogne. Complainant, who had no in terest in recommending one hotel more than another, refused to alter his first determination, and the conse quence was that the defendant proceeded to apply abu sive epithets to him. First he called him a " tooth drawer;" this he would have passed over, but when other more insulting appellations were added, be thought he was justified in appealing to the law. The defendant's connexion with the Hotel de Boulogne would be proved by the fact of his having been summoned us " George, the waiter." The defendant denied that he had any connexion with the Hotel de Boulogne. All he did was to offer his ser vices to the GArde Nationale to show them the Hotel de Boulogne, where they had been recommended to locate themselves. One of the French visitors came forward, and denied that any of the party intended to put up at the lintel de Boulogne. Mr. PAINTER said, it was evident the defendant was a sort of touter to the Hotel de Boulogne. lie had used offensive language to the complainant, for which he must pay a fine of 20s.—The money was paid. Thomas Howe, a licensed victualler, residing in King. street, Long-acre, was brought before Mr. Paynter (who sat in the absence of Mr. Bingham), charged with being drunk, and representing himself to be a police-con stable. Police•constable 69 A, said, last night, about ten o'clock, he and another constable were on duty near the Cumberland-gate, Hyde -park, watching some persons who were on the grass. The prisoner passed them and looked them very hard in the face. Ile then ran some little di btance and jumped over an enclosure and watched witness and the other constable. The prisoner shoNVy after came up to them and said, " I am a constable--I have seen quite sufficient, and have got two officers close by." He then ran off, and called out, " Bill, Jack, where are you, d— you; you are never here when you are wanted." Witness and the other constable then went round the enclosure, and met the prisoner coming towards them. The prisoner, directly he saw them, said "D— you, who are you." Witness replied "We are two officers, where are the two that you (prisoner) have got." The prisoner made no reply, but struck witness on the breast. Witness immediately collared him, and told him that as he would not produce the two constables he had talked about, it was the duty of wit ness to take him to the station. The prisoner made great resistance, and struck witness and his brother con stable several times. Police-constable, 85 A, corroborated the evidence of last witness. Defendant said he attributed his present disgraceful position to having indulged too freely in strong liquor. He was now extremely sorry for what he had done. Mr. Hayling, landlord of the Itodney's Head, Comp ton-street, having spoken highly as to the defendant's character, 10/. for every Mr. PAYNTEa said the penalty was d acted in the had been proved that tho defendant had s hould have he person assuming the character of a peace officer. If it foolish manner he had done when sober, he penalty. He should, therefore, remit the fine to 4 felt himself bound to inflict the highest immediately paid. rover in Monument -yard, Mr. William Bevan, .--'rhe ' Money was frail sisterhood, re- Mary Ann Clarendon, one I . aid last ni circumstances: — about nine o'cicck City, was charged under tahegnfo_lltokwegihntg siding at 56, Quadrant, when she met the she was walking in e distance, talking glass of wine, which to her. He wanted. her ik 1 as far as St. Martin's-lane but after wa mg 1 et she consented to she refused; Clio Ilayinar c defendant, who followed Wes t e t h n r e l her fur O v P e r i : t s a c o e m ' and back again to . subsequently wished to he declined, on the grounds that he see her home, but she .1 to enter the house. He then took would not be allowe'and they walked up the Haymarket. take a glass with him. He hold of her wrist, once felt defendant unfasten the clasp of her replaced it. Defendant then undid it ; and all at once s . he missed it from her wrist. She again, had lost her bracelet, but did not like to told him she that he had taken it. She therefore asked him b S r h a e ce a l l e l t a . t She tell e h e irr i : er home; and on reaching as far as Windmill street she she saw a constable, snd gave him in charge. meni al , 80 C, who took defendant into custody, said eomplainant toll him the bracelet was not of much value, but at the station-house she told the inspector it was worth 4/. There not being the least evidence to lead Mr. Paynter to suspect that defendant had stolen the bracelet, he was discharged. CLERKEN WELL. John O'Donnell, a street-grinder, was placed at the bar before Mr. Combe, charged by Rachael Wilson, a mar nod woman, residing in Lower-road, Islington, with having cut and wounded her under the following cumstances The proseeutrix, whose fingers on the right ba n were nearly cut off, deposed that yesterday morn ou t about half-past ten o'clock, the prisoner was calling ° of " knives and scissors to grind." She took out a P ir ip scissors and handed them to the prisoner to grind. e 0 ground them and brought them back to witness, wh. h she paid him a penny, but he demanded twopence, she at first refused to pay and requested hiss to cep when her husband was at home, and he should hail Ib - other penny. He abused her, and while she held I, scissors in her right hand, standing with her book to: wards the prisoner, he seized the handles of the scissor!: and drew them from her hand, and her fingers we 7 nearly cut through by the back part of the scissolrot which were very sharp, and she went to a surgeon, 1 1, dressed the wounds, and she fainted away throug h t loss of blood, lo Mrs. Ball, a neighbour, confirmed the evidence , to answer to Mr. Cornbe, both witnesses concurred t bi d penny was the usual charge for grinding scissors, and the prisoner's conduct was wilful and malicious. d, The prisoner did not deny the charge, saying tha t " was the usual charge for grinding scissors. ni a Mr. COMBE suggested that he (the prisoner) Bil ° " 13 , make some compensation to complainant, which a however, declined doing, and he tined him 3 1 . , °` commensurate term of imprisonment in default of 1 )51. went. RECREATIONS IN NATURA HISTORY. (From Punch.) bos Really Lord John has had a narrow escape. fle :`—Ap j been to the Zoological Gardens, Dublin, ands o c r the trap that was laid for him. A c ag e was Alre y, prepared. The Premier was to be c a u g ht, and bited behind some iron bars. However, the consp r %d was betrayed, as Irish cons pi rac i es i nvar i a bly are, his Lordship escap e d b e i ng s h own a t s i x p enc e a•hel l ' i ," The partrides are said, this year, to be very 04 1 ; Now, really, sportsmen should r eco ll ec t that whi t game to us is death to them. We can hardly exPe;, the partridges to come and be shot, as if it was A Piet, sure fur which they were dying. If thi s w are the cash they would not fail, as well-bred bi r d s , to bring t' own bread-sauce with them. tbSt Talking of birds, we know of one at Boulogne 0 is so extremely shy, that nothing will induce btd is come across the water, unless he sees that the 0 115 ' perfectly clear. The shy ness o f thi s bi r d is attribu t ; to a deal of shot which, it i s sa id, h e h as l e ft behind bid in the hands of several p e r so n s , w h o wou ld be too hoP 1) 0 1 to get a discharge, if they could catch an opportunity firing into him. BANK OF FRANCE. ctso l The following is a return of the situation of tuF J of France on Thursday, Sept. 21, 1848: ASSETS. Cash in coin and ingots .. f. 130,01 Ditto in branch banks ..• • • 95,34; 9 Bills over due ••• ••• 1,t0819 04 Bills becoming due in Paris ... 72,79 4 , 830 40 Bills in the branch banks 118,220,69' 00 Advances on coins and ingots... 14,314, 590 , 6 5 Ditto on French public se c uriti es 34,007, 796 0 0 Ditto by branch banks... ... 1,309, 404 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 Op Advance to the State on the lean of 0 00 150,000,000 f. ••• ••• ••• 25,000, 00 Stock forming reserve 10 000,000 vvo Rentes, disposable funds 33,902,4 13 Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds ... 12,806, 741 5 0 9 0 Hotel and furniture of the Bank 4,000,000 00 Real property and branch banks 2,624, 093 0 0 Loan of 10,000,000 f. to the city of Paris 1,000,000 Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 u. Interest in old Departmental Banks in National Banks of Towns ... Bills protested in the Bank Ditto in the branches ... Expenses of administration of the Bank Ditto of the branches ... ••• Miscellaneous ••• Consolidation of Treasury Bonds 230,000 00 -• 16,543,461 10 9,198,643 00 253,751 01 209,120 00 360,539 30 621)7 2 22 0 ..„ 20 f. 643,961,691 17 LIABILITIES. Capital ... Ditto of the new Branch Banks Reserve fund ... Ditto of the branch banks Reserve-immobiliere Notes to bearer, in circulation ... Ditto of the branch banks ... Ditto to order (post-bills) ... Account-current with Treasury Various accounts current ... Ditto in branches Receipts payable at sight ... Ditto at branches ••• ••• f. 67,000,000 00 23,350,000 00 10,000,000 00 -• 2,980,750 14 4,000,000 II 318,271,600 #1 50,636,300 00 1,178,075 85 ••• 56,125,301 51 • 67,596,247 02 23,046,872 00 • 2,886,300 00 ••• 2,366,019 00 Bills of the branch banks payable by 4 950 23 the Bank .** ' B2 "^ ° " 00 Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 2,1 94 . 244 Dividends payable . , 835,737 2J Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 808,359 04 Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 1,219,7 35 27 Ditto branch bank ... 1,536,213 00 Re discounts of the last six months ... 422,932 27 Ditto in branch banks 641,21 6 0 0 Miscellaneous „. 162,730 f. 643,961,621 17 Certificate confirmed, The Governor of the Bank, D'ARGOUT. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, SEPT. 25. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was improved to. &I}' , and there ware several transactions. Great Western, Quarter Shares, were dons at 41 , 2 die.—Ditte, 171. Shares, 3 "'- Taff Vale, 1241. LIVERPOOL, &PT. 25. STOCK Excluaros.—The demand for shares at this da9? market has been dull, and the business transacted was S' a lower figure generally than quoted on Saturday. sales are—Great Northern, 11 dis.—Lancashire an d shire (late Manchester and Birmingham), Fifth,...s ,34 N;f ex div.—London and North. W e st er n, 10914—v""" sof Quarters, 16s. 3d.— Midland Stock, 83 1 ,4—Ditt°',.,31.... Halves, 101. Is. 3d. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 4'14 Belfast and Ballymena, 29 % dis. - - MANCHESTER, SErr. 25. North - SrocK EXCHANGE.—The sa l es ar e—London and Feld, -- Western, 109—Ditto, N ew Q uarters , X dis.Hadders Thirds, 3 dis.—Lincoln Union, 625. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,6 X dis.—North Staffordshire, i 7-16 dis. BIRMINGHAM, Sam 25. & s him STOCK EXCHANGE.— Th e sa l es are — N or th Stafrol u 5/. Bs. 9d. dis.—Shr ews b ury an d B i rm i ng ham (B), Great Northerns, 11 14. ,- YORK, SErr. 23. as follows: Great Northern, 51. 175..--N • STOCK EXCHANGE. —The business transacted t.•daY .• , Thirds, 51. 10s. Bd.—York, Newcastle,and Berwick, Exten d North Mid' l ion, No. 2 (late - and, Preference, 2/. 18s. 9d. ' orth Briton CADTERTISEMENT.]—An Affection of the L iver and Kidneys cured by Holloway's Pills, at Sy dney, N ew South Wales.—Extrac t of a letter from Mr. J. It. den, of Sydney, dated Sept. 30, 1847: — " To Professor m s olloway.—Si r , I h ave the pleasure to inform you the. Stuart A. Donaldson, Esq., an eminent merchant au agriculturist, also a magistrate of this town, purchase d of me fourteen pounds' worth of yo ur medicines to for. ward to his sheep . stations in Now England, in conse quence of the extraordinary cure performed in ten days on one of his overseers of an affection of the liver and kidneys, after the best medical advice.:tried for months , had failed. (Signed) J. K. lIETDEN."—SoId by all Druggists, and. a t Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. ADTENTISE MENT.3—Another List has just been puEiished, containing Three Hundred Cases of cures effected by W orsdell's Ve g etable Restorative Pills, Pr°. pared by John Kaye, Esq., of Dalton-hall, near ,nto dersfield. The office of this remarkable medicine fa purify . the blood, to clear away all obstructions, to sid digestion, to remove acrimonious bile , to restore bealtby action to the liver, and to invigorate the whole sysWo3l' No family ought to be without this medicine; it has been introduced it is pronounced invaluable. Ob serve that the arms ofJohn Kaye, together with a fac simile of his signature, are on the directions for 1 19° , wrapped roundeach box.—Price Is. lid., 2s.an" 4s. 6(1. per box; to be bad of all Chemists sand respec table Medicine Venders. wherever - -7 . • . BIRTIM. Li c hfield, the wife of A. lady On o t f h e d. On the 16th inst. , i n the a 4Ltehwiihs,stE.,;qa.t, ofG r a e e e n o m n o . e s s e i , do w , G lamor Griffith, Esq., of a daughter. firs. Mrs. J. Drake, of a son. On the 21st inst., Br ighton, a son. 22d inst. at Collins, near Princes Risborougb, On the , On the 22d inst., altdMrl.boroufh-place, St. John's-wood, On the 22d inst., at Lonsdale-square, Islington, ilrs. E. 3:Thofomitpseoßne,N,Er.s\q;.o J r . Burgess, of a son. the Bucks,wiftehoef l a S d . Margetts, of a daughter. On the 22d inst., at Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, the wif e o ° f f — o 3 D i n a r. j . t o h G r e ° , "l:3 l : l g d e :in j ' s o ( i f ii , es a at , so l 17 Princeo.rt o n- hal Albert'sl, near H Hussars, s3 I s a l r e s 7o o r f t b a , the lady On the 25th inst., at Brunswick -terrace, Brighton, lu ll ' Neil, of a son. ____ MARRIED. On the 19th inst., at Ilf racom b e , C apta i n F ranc i s Gre s , l T H. E. I. C. S., t o M ar y, w id ow o f t h e l ate R usse ll Benda Esq., and daughter of the late Rev. T. Thorp, rector of Bur ton Overy, Leicestershire. ; land , On the 19th in s t., at W a l co t Ch urc h , G eorge R. Nfil•ti., E,q., brother or Sir Alexander G. Maitland, Bart., of t hall, Edinburgh, to Alice Anne, eldest daughter of the Josiah Es. Madras Civil Service. j o n On the Nisbet 21st , ins q t., ,at Westerham Church, Thomas ‘." t he Esq., of O x f or d-l o d ge , C roy d on, to El len, on l y c hild of late Joseph Were, Esq,, of Norwood, Surrey. DIED. On the 17th i ns t., a t Ch e l ten h am, age d 61, Lieutenant - Colonel 11. B. Everest, late of the 6th , Bovals. gad 0 6 f , On the 18th inst., at Eastertyre in - Perthshire , Margaret Eliza, eld es t • daughter of A. Walker, ESP, bite the Ceylon Civil Service. gale, On the 21st inst., at An g l ese y, near Gosport, Esq., of Ely-place and Counaught-terrace, aged 68. : „ n ne, On the 22d inst., at Layer Breton-lodge, Essex, wife of G. Birkett, Esq., aged 52. On the 22d inst.. at Staines, John Winstone, M. R.O S.L., late of Charter-house-square, aged 70. 00 . C On the 23d inst., at Gloucester-square, Hyde-park, rap. Adlington, widow of the late T. Adlington, Esq of ham-common, Surrey. giant On the 2341 inst., at Notting-hill, Mr. Joseph Boar d sen., late of the Bank of England, aged 75. c c o od- On the 24th inst., at Hoxton-square, Elizabeth c,. house, the wife of the Rev. W. H. Jones,_incutnbant of James, Curtain-road. t London: Printed and Published by MIIRDO YOUN LY, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office , N O. 11 i Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the oointki ° Dilddleaez, Tuesday, September 26, 1848. ,rs 76 - oo 1 ` AU o'cic by r Pro;. kit)