The Sun. — London, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.I TIMES.—Mr. Charles Cochrane is bent upon thrusting himself into notoriety at all events. He is ' yet struggling in the surf, and waiting for the wave which shall bear him up high and dry upon the de- i sired beach. Whether it be the first, the second, or the third, muddy or clean, impure or pure, is all alike to him, so it be frothy, and rolling, and strong. To represent the tempestuous constituency of West minster is his object. To attain that end all he asks is a grievance ; but then it must be a virgin grievance, —a grievance which half-a-dozen other political car rion crows have not already appropriated to their own use. Such a one is not so easy of discovery as might be at first imagined. Ask any one you meet to name you a good hustings grievance ; he will tell you they are as plenty as blackberries. There are the army, and the navy, and the national debt, and church and state, all national grievances in their way. So they are, but somewhat too wide for the purpose. Then ten to one your spokesman will descend from generals to particulars, and consider his own peculiar case. He will talk to you of burdens upon buttons or Lisbon toothpicks. These, on the other hand, are too narrow. You are turned back upon yourself. Ireland won't do any longer. If you were as ready to gulp down the Repeal bolus as ever Saturn was to swallow his little ones, the time for that is gone by. Nothing less than a solemn undertaking to pistol Lord Clarendon, and dash his howling soul against the blue walls of Pluto's resi dence, would win you a single vote on the other side of St. George's Channel. The six points of the Charter ?—No, Mr. Feargus O'Connor and the dele gates have dealt with that topic. Free trade is dis posed of, saving a small residuum about the Naviga tion Laws, upon which it would be impossible to get up any noticeable agitation on this side of Rotherhithe or Wapping. The Fifty" are to take up fiscal mat ters on scientific principles. What then remains ? Foreign Affairs ? The Schleswig question would not tell in Westminster, although the Eider were to run red with blood. The Church ? Not a mouse stirring. So on of other subjects. Mr. Charles Cochrane has boxed round the compass for a good grievance, and has at last hit upon the poor-law as the only point of possibility. Now, we are as aware as any persons can be of the defects in the administration of the poor-law. Over and over again have we returned to this subject, nor have our efforts to attract public attention to the sufferings of the poor remained altogether uncrowned with success. Much, very/much remains to be done, and this subject will ere long force itself again on the attention of the Legislature. A merciful administration of the poor-law is the condition of the continuance of tranquillity in Great Britain. We should rejoice to see so noble a cause as the poor man's taken up in some respectable quarter—it is too sacred a one for the mere political adventurer. The sufferings of the poor must not be rendered ridiculous by indiscreet or interested advo cacy. With what antecedents does Mr. Cochrane approach this subject ? We are not so far removed from the time when, in a ridiculous costume, and with a cracked guitar strung before him, he twanged his way through the provinces of England as Don Juan de 'Vega. Next we find him coming forward to contest Westminster a s the " lady 's man." Then followed in order the disturbance of the most crowded thoroughfares of the metropolis for the space of three days, of which Air. Charles Coch rane was the cause. He did not, indeed, head in person the rascal mob of pickpockets and idle boys who paraded the streets in search of mischief and plunder. He summoned them together, though, and on the first warning of the police, relieta non. bene parmuld, left his worthy followers to their fate. That time it was not the "poor-law," but the " income tax," on which Mr Cochrane bad staked his political fortunes. That question happened to be up at the moment. The Eaja of Sattara or the Oregon ques tion would have answered his purpose equally well, could either of them have been made the subject of a " row." With such entries as these upon the certi ficates of his political character, Mr. Charles Coch rane now comes forward to see what he can do with the poor-law. The history of this last precious at tempt upon the credulity of the public would appear to be this :—Mr. Cochrane has identified himself with an institution in Leicester square, called the " Poor Man's Guardian Society." Humanity and philan thropy, or at least a good deal of talk upon the subject, are here stored up and ready for delivery on the shortest notice. The society, we find, is given to types and symbols, for at the head of the letter we have received from Mr. Cochrane we find a huge " eye of Providence" engraved, significant of Mr. Cochrane's watchfulness over the fate of his country men. It would now appear that this would-be re . • presentative of West m i nster, not content with having been the first to disturb the peace of the metropolis by the gathering of his mob in Trafalgar -square, is about to favour the inhabitants of Charing- cross and its neighbourhood with a repetition of the nuisance. Mr. Cochrane is to head another rabble of rogues and pickpockets to the Horne-office, under pretext of their being persons who are suffering or who have suffered under the administration of thy , poor-law. But, as would appear from the report of the proceedings of the board of guardians at the Marylebone workhouse, which we printed on Saturday, by way of mixing up a sprinkling of Simon Pures with his questionable myrmidons of Trafalgar-square notoriety, Mr. Coch rane has written circular letters to ; Tom Smiths, Jack Robinsons, Robert Joneses, &c., in the various London unions, on the chance of their containing inmates who may be distinguished by these uncommon patrony mics. That was the statement made on Saturday at the Marylebone board of guardians. Mr. Cochrane has written to us a letter, which we print to-day, in which he states "that he did not wish the inmates of the establishments to take part in his demonstra tion of public opinion, but that they should urge on their friends, more fortunately situated than them selves, out of the workhouse, to devote an hour or two to aid him in his arduous but glorious under taking." We leave the charge and the answer to the judgment of the public. This letter is accompanied with a kind of circular, in which Mr. Cochrane recalls to the recollection of the poor of England the circumstances attendant upon the fault of the ex-King Louis Philippe—" The oppressed and persecuted people have simultaneously risen, and demanded Justice and retribution. The Sovereigns, con science and panic-stricken, have acceded to every just demand, and have become so powerless as to be compelled to appeal to the people for mercy and protection The victories. gained by the people over their despotic Sovereigns are producing a pow e rf u l e ff ec t on th e m i n d s an d feelings of every inhabitant in our own country" &c. , &c. and all thi s farrago of incendiarism and absur dity is addressedto , C h ar les h r nmates of unions and work houses, and signed es Cochrane." Sir G. Grey, we see, on S a t urday a l e informed the House that every due precauti on b ad a procession as that one contem p late d taken to prevent such thefd by Mr Coch rane from proceedin g throughpstreets. The dispose of the regular police will, no doubt, easil y and e if these assemblage. Should it be otherwise, *n l g for an few remarks, unhappily, have effect o e f advertisement to Mr. Cochrane, we trus t,s-th a e 2sod they will serve as a notice to any recipients of staves distributed a fortnight ago who : may o ,f ooo l in the line of this contemplated procession, that the y are authorised to make use of their sticks for a perio d of three months from the date of their taking the oath of office. HERALD.—Yesterday (Sunday), the 23d Ap r il, must ever be considered a memorable day, either for good or for evil, in the annals of France—if indeed France is henceforth to have any annals, which seems to be a matter sufficiently problematical, in the opi nion of a majority of the writers for the English press. But, though we are ourselves not without anxieties and misgivings—not to say fears—we are more inclined to be hopeful, than to be despondent; because we have a saving faith in the progress of mo derate opinions, and because we believe Providence, in its goodness and mercy, will spare a great and a civilised people the horrors of an internecine civil war. On the result of the elections, to be commenced yes terday morning at six o'clock, however, must depend -- we will not conceal it from our readers—the safety or the ruin, the weal or the woe, of France. The maintenance of order at home and of peace abroad, the resuscitation of credit, the return of confidence, the distribution of capital , the offructifica tion4ieettling down to honest industr y , u z ual daily routine of task-work or piece -work, o f . w head, all—all dep en d nr, of th e h an d s or wor k o f th e the elections of yesterday. If the people of Pranee f eel any portion of that fraternity which they teptatiously and so ptio tr e diurnally proclaim—if th ey yvrthoU each other without proscri allow menaces —without cries of vengeance —wi thout constraint, or without violence—they will constraint, liberty of opinion, and permit each citizen freely An d fairly to give his vote for Republicans Republicans of to-day, or Republicans o f to- ay, as may suit his principle or his passion --his mo rrow, his whim. Without perfect freedom in this r espect there there can be no liberty of choice --there ca n b e nt , order ; and if order perishes, liberty must perish along with it. There are many kinds and degrees of tyranny, as Frenchmen of all classes have known and felt for the last sixty years, but the worst of all tyrannies is the tyranny of anarchy. The despetism of a mob is the most unbearable of all despotisms, for it is the capricious fancy of a multitude of cruel and unreasoning tyrants. Of the elec tions in a majority of the provinces of France we have, however, no great fears. We believe that the great body of the electors will return men of sense and substance, and known in their vicinage, who will rally round the Republic,—first, because it already exists ; and secondly, because it is the only form of government at present possible, without a civil war and without the shedding of oceans or blood. Many of these men who will be scrhosen did not desire the Republic—a majority of them, had they been polled on the 24th of February, would have doubtless deprecated with all their might such a form of Government. But finding it now established, they will cling to it because it is established, if for no better reason. Men at all advanced in life have been so wearied with perpetual and violent changes in France—by which neither general liberty nor general prosperity have been much advanced, that they will accept at the present moment the work of a young, an ardent, and a determined minority, more especially as the form of Government can only now be changed by a fresh civil war. But though this will be apparent in a majority of the provinces where the people wish with Lamartine a democratic community—but a community definite and practical, devoted to amelioration, and yet not destructive of social order—still there are restless and turbulent spirits in Paris—the Montagnards of our time, fostered by Ledru Rollin , and banded together by Blanqui and others—who would com mence a re-action against everything savouring of moderation, and who are only for pursuing extreme principles by violent and extreme means. But the events of Thursday the 20th, of Friday, and of Saturday, the 21st and 22d, must awaken these men from their delusions, and ought to convince them that the National Guard and the army now perfectly understand each other, and are prepared to put down any manifestations of the mountain of 1848. That the great body of the line—the soldiers—corporals , sous officiers and captains, have been for the last fifty years more or less republican, we have never entertained any doubt. But though these opinions have been deeply felt for the last eighteen years, they were not demonstrated, because the revolution of 1830 was accepted as a quasi republic, and because also the superior officers did not participate in the opinions of their men. But now that a great change has taken place in the personnel of the army, and that more than 250 officers have been removed from active command, and allowed to retire, the great body o f the line shows itself as democratic as it was in 1799, 1800, 1801, and 180 g. The Provisional Government and the National Guard are well aware of this, and hence the Minister of War, Arago, in presenting the identical colours both to the line and the National Guards, said, " You have the same standard and the same heart." But though the line are democratic in a moderate sense, they are lovers of liberty and order ; and they will not, any more than the National or Mobile Guard, allow communists and clubs to over bear electoral opinions, or to interfere with electoral liberty. That a complete homogeneity of opinion—a complete identity of character and of views exists between both branches of the service is apparent from this--that severa l pe titions fer the recall of the line emanated from the National Guards; and that no t onl y several squa dronsraris o to f the ni ee lattertheir d e b s r i e r t e h d re t n o g b o u o t u a t the l t s o ooff e r envi rons ro ns of to quarter one soldi er i n hi s res i dence in th e capital. Nor did the G ar d e M o bil e, t h ough so lately each e e nrolled, exhibit less ad m i ra bl e sp i r i t. Each compa n y among them expres se d it s w illi ngness to b e first called on in case of need ; " for," said they, " we feel that the National Guard have their business and callings to attend to, and we know that if we are engaged with superior forces, they will hasten to support us." -Un der these circumstances it was no marvel that the men of both corps fraternised, or that the National Guard of Montmartre went out to meet the detaohments of the sth light infantry, and the 74th of the line. Such manifestations, on the eve of the election, are more especially consolatory, and joined to the amazing and well-merited popularity of Lamartine, they are of the very happiest augury. If the Minister of the Interior would but demean himself like the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and choose his instruments among sensible and moderate men, how much more readily would the Republic become consolidated—how much more speedily would it conciliate respect, if not affec tion, amongst foreign nations. Instead of following this course, M. Rollin has preferred what Lord Mans field called the popularity which precedes, and which does not follow, and he will find this pseudo popularity before long, to use the memorable words of the same eloquent man, but "the shadow of folly and the echo of renown." A great and civilised nation, like France, with so m an y g l or i ous t ra di t i ons o f the past —with so many memories that can never die, is not to be governed and overborne by the clubs of Paris, even though these clubs be led on by Ledru Rollin, Louis Blanc, Jules Faeres, and Citizen Raspail. It is satisfactory to know that if these men are disposed to proceed to extremities, the Provisional Govern ment are prepared to put them down. M. Rollin had therefore better be wise in time, and follow the advice which the ever glo:ious Beranger gives to Lise, with a little variation : " Pour to faire adorer sans cesse, Alets a profit ces verit 43 Ledru abjure to sceleratesse, Et respecte nos libert43." To Gander Pages, the Minister of Finance, a laborious and conscientious man, but an economiser, and a theoriser, we would also say a word. We are aware of the very difficult task that is imposed at this moment on a French Minister of Finance, but these difficulties can only be vanquished by respecting private property, and religiously maintaining public faith. Any interference, therefore, with great joint stock companies, such as railroads or banks, or private establishments, unless on a fair and equitable basis, and with the perftct consent of the shareholders and parties interested, is nothing else than spoliation and tyranny, however it may be disguised by an epithet borrowed from the economists at the Bourse. CHRONICLE.—We have no hesitation in pro nouncing our old friend Cochrane the victim of one of the widest and best organized conspiracies of mo dern times. The great families are dead against him. The Smiths, the Browns, the Joneses, and the Ro binsons would seem to have registered a vow to " put down Cocky." These great houses will not give the patriot the smallest lift in any one of his " arduous but glorious undertakings." They will neither help him to make th e l aw , nor t o b rea k th e l aw, nor to mend the law. They bring him in third on the poll. They decline his invitation, a n d v i o l a t e the secrecy of his letters. They mock at his minstresly, keep away from his picture exhibition, won't wear his paper hat bands, bands, and damn his Easter farce. It was but yester day that a gentleman of the name (we believe) of Smith was rude enough, amid an assenting chorus of Browns, Joneses, and Robinsons, to apply to th e blighted philanthropist the shamefully vulgar epithet "consummate ass;'' and a Vandal of a van-driver, belonging to another of the powerful and influential families above named, actually insulted the hero in the public streets, by insisting on prompt payment of a little account for waggon hire, at the very moment that he held " five oil paintings" as collateral security. It is grievous to have to add, that the authorities are zealously at one with the Smiths, Browns, Joneses, and Robinsons, and lend an unmistakeable support to the combined machinations of the eminent Houses. The Home Secretary makes no scruple of affirming the Cochrane "statements" to be "entirely without foundation ;" and the Home Secretary's porter answers the Cochrane double-knock (though the visit was by special appointment) with a gruff " Not at home.' The Chief Commissioner of Police, though not ab solutely declining the honour of the Cochrane ac quaintance, should it be positively forced upon him, thrown a freezing rigidity int o a ll hi s e pi s t o l a ry com munications, which must strongly indispose their reci pient f rom cultivating relations of personal intimacy ; and the Chief Commissioner's subordinates take no other noti ce o f the Cochrane to the word o f command " move on." Can we won ' der at the indignant patriot's reply—" You are a nice set of fellows, you are." Altogether, it was a very melancholy business'r yesterday. Fate, and the 1 , police, and the Smiths, 1 Joneses, and Robin ' sons were all against CochraonwnThe very heavens rained down discouragement on th:friend of humanity. The "No Bastiles' got sadly The umbr e ll as spoiled all the best vi ews of tlivi e et "illustrations," and those highly-coloured pictures of humanity's wro ngs were consequently quite unappreciated The ninety thousand wouldn't muster, except in the pitiful pro portion of 1 per cent. The blue postilion and pair was money thrown away, considering that there of the gentleman s leaving his business with the , clerk, and, his petition on the table, was only too appropriate a wind-up to a spectacle in which official superciliousness vied with popular ingratitude and me t eo rological caprice in damping down the gener ous ambition of a " Poor Man's Guardian." We hardly know how far a serious word or two will strike our readers as befitting an occasion whose incidents are nearly all of the ridiculous sort; and we are still more sceptical as to the possible effect of grave re monstrance on the mind of the chief actor in this most silly exhibition. Yet, as we really should not be justified in taking forgranted that Mr. C. Cochrane has any deliberate wish to do gratuitous mischief, and as he certainly possesses sufficient discretion to know how to keep out of harm's way, we would hope that he may not be totally insensible to the consequences of those proceedings with reference to those whom h e affects to serve. If Mr. Cochrane has a grain of honest sympathy w i th the poor , he will henceforth have done with " demonstrations," which not only disgust and annoy the general public, but are deeply injuri ous to the o industrious classes. Literally, all that he accomplished yesterday (beyond a ludicrous and damaginglittle holidayindulgences personal display) was to abridge the metropolitan workhouses, and of the inmates of certain h and to spoil a day's trade for not a few styruogh,,iien! shopkeeper s and hardwork ing artizans. show in the public streetsnn and get up an " exciting " nd . advertise for a mob„ and make quiet people u ncomfortable, and put the police on taking extra precautions, without docking something off the w ' ee wages of those w h o li ve by industry. Air these " de monstrations" resolve tax on the themselves, at last, int o a poor. They break the continuity of peaceful and ga i n f u l traffic. They diminish production, and interrupt ex- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY _ EVENING, APRIL 25, 1848.2 PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE-BALANCE-SHEET. 1. An Account of the Net Public Income of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the year ended the sth day of April, 1848 (after abating the Expenditure thereout defrayed by the several Revenue Departments), and of the actual Issas or Payments within the sa me Period, exclusive of the sums app li e d t o the Redemption of Funded or paying off Unfunded Debt, and of the Advances and Repayments for Local Works, &c. ....., ..—....-..-.-1.......—.--........................--........--............-..... INCOME OR REIriNVE. Total. EXPENDITURE. • ......---------.._ ...-..........- 4 s. d. .4 s. d. ORDINARY REVENUE AND RECEIPTS. .t: s. d. Funded Debt.—lnterest and Management of the Permanent Debt Customs 19,940,295 10 10 Terminable Annuities Total Charge of the Funded Debt, exclusive of 10,0151. 13s. 10d., the Interest 13,276,879 4 0 — Excise 7,319,053 5 2 Stamps 3,868,207 0 7 on Donations and Bequests. ...................................................................... 4,347,570 15 4 27,827,115 12 1 rt ( 3 l4 - _ ................................................................... 5,452,368 3 10 F T r a o x ; e s 930,200 0 0 Unfunded Debt.—lnterest on Exchequer-bills Post Office (Land and Assessed) Crown Lands ............... ................................. . ............ 61,000 0 0 — 28,427,231 19 1 Is. and 6d. and 4s. in the £on Pensions and Salaries .................................................... 4,839 16 10 Civil List 394,232 10 0 Small Branches of the Hereditary Revenues of the Crow' 4,155 9 2 Annuities and Pensions for Civil, Naval, Military, and Judicial Services, Surplus Fees of Regulated Public Offices ................................................................ Salaries and Allowances 51,451,609 5 5 Diplomatic Salaries and Pensions 169,373 17 0 Courts of Justice OTHER RECEIPTS. Miscellaneous Charges on the Consolidated Fund 317,227 16 6 ' • Repayment of Moneys received into Commissariat Chest at Hong-Kong, out o f the Ind emnity Army paid by the Chinese Government 455,021 1 0 Navy 8,157,286 19 7 Imprest and other Moneys ................................................................................... 116,127 1 7 Ordnance 2,726,698 0 0 Money received from the East India Company 60,000 0 0 Miscellaneous, chargeable on the Annual Grants of Parliament 3,614,329 7 9 Unclaimed Dividends (more th an paid) . ••• • • Relief of Irish Distress 975,000 0 0 Kafir War 52,082,757 8 0 -- 23,931,003 6 11 Excess of Expenditure over Income 3,092,284 13 1 55,083,206 11 2 Unclaimed Dividends more than r ece i ve d 1 55,175,042 1 1 55,175,042 1 1 2• An Account of the Balances of the Public Money remaining in the E ended the sth day of April, 1848 ; the Money applied towards the Works, &c., with the Difference accruing thereon; and the Balances i xchequer on the sth day of April, 1847; the Amount of Money raised by the Additions to the Funded or Unfunded Debt in the Year Redemption of the Funded or paying off Unfunded Debt; the Total Amount of Advances and Repayments on Account of Local in the Exchequer, on the sth day of April, 1848. X 11. du X 5. d. ISSUED. A s. d. .£ S. d. 5,459,835 2 4i To the Commi ss i oners f or th e re d uc ti on o f th e N a ti ona l D e bt, t o b e ..• BALANCES in the EXCHEQUER on the sth day of April, 1847 ...................... ..• applied to the redemption of the Public Debt : By issues, per Act 10 George IV., c. 27 By interest on donations and bequests 1,412,890 9 6 Deduct sum applied not in redempti on o f F un d e d D e bt, b u t o f C on - MONEY RAISED IN THE YEAR ENDED TUE STII DAY OF APRI L, 1848, BY TEE CREATION OF FUNDED OR UNFUNDED DEBT : solidated Fund Deficiency Bills 192,890 9 6 To the Paymasters of Exchequer-bills for payment of Unfunded Debt : FUNDED DEM'. Money out of Con s olid a t e d F un d f or payment o f W est I n di a R e li e f Bills Contribution to Loan of 9, 000 , 0001 ., per A c t 10 Vict., C. 9 ••• •.•7,003,574 10 5 Money o u t of W a y s an d M eans, G rants app li ed.to payment of Sup ply Exchequer-bills Exchequer-bills for payment of Supply Bills 17,802,400 0 0 17,967,100 0 0 • Total Amount of Advances for Local Works, &c., under various UNFUNDED DEBT. Acts of Parliament, including 2,139,0001. to Ireland, under Act 10 Vict., c. 107, &c 3,138,760 3 5 Exchequer-bills, 18,380,2001., per Act 9 Victoria, e. 15, charged on Ditto of Repayments of Advances for Local Works Supplies Excess of Advances over Repayments Excess of Expenditure over Income Balances in the Exchequer on the sth day:of April, 1848 ••• •.• 6,768,336 16 3 30,265,809 12 9, 30,265,309 12 9 Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, April 18, 1848. J. PARKER. change. They make industrious men idle, and tempt sober men to drink. They empty the workshops and fill the public-houses. All the excitement, the alarm, the noise, the fuss of these things is so much, at the week's end, out of poor people's pockets. Mr. Charles Cochrane does not seem to be a man much given to thought ; but possibly he does possess the faculty, in a latent form, of connecting causes and consequences. lie may, at any rate, assure himself that contemp tuous and indignant public reprobation will be the lot of any man who persists in gratifying his own vanity at the expense of the labouring classes, and who ob stinately courts notoriety in the character of disturber of the public streets. persons from Leicester-square to the Home-office, yesterday, for the alleged purpose of presenting a petition to the Home authorities on the subject of pauper grievances. The police, however, acting on instructions, gave notice to Mr. Cochrane that the procession would not be permitted. About 100 or 150 persons assembled in Leicester• square, where there was a carriage said to belong to Mr. Cochrane, and a van covered with pictures containing repre sentations of scenes which were asserted to take place in various union workhouses. The carriage and van were permitted to move off towards the Home-office, but the few who were disposed to form the procession were stopped by the police, and required to disperse. The defendant was very violent—he used coarse language to the police, and ultimately struck a con stable a violent blow on the face. He was imme diately taken into custody and brought to this court. The prisoner's answer was the same which he in the first instance made, viz., that he bought the fowl. Mr. Collard remarked that there had been so many robberies committed by the company's servant 3, that a determination had been come to that all cases which seemed at all clear, so as to afford a chanc e of convic tion after trial, should be followed up, with the view of punishing the delinquents. The prisoner was committed for trial ; but, upon the application of his solicitor, he was permitted to put in bail, himself in 801. and two sureties in 401. each, to answer the charge at the sessions. 71.; and Mr. Hall, doubting whether his reverence had paid over the amount to the proper parties, has since written to make inquiries, and has received the following reply : " Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 76, Pall-mall, London, April 17. • " Sir,—ln reply to your letter of April 13, I have to inform you that no account has been forwarded from Rawmarsh to this office. " I have the honour to be sir, yours respectfully, " J. RUSSELL, Treasurer, S.P.G. CLERICAL DELINQUENCY. The parish of Rawmarsh, near Sheffield, has lately been the scene of very remarkable doings on the part of the officiating clergyman. In November last the rector of Rawmarsh, the Rev. W. R. Mahon, having resolved upon spending the winter months in Ireland, took steps for procuring a gentleman to assume his pastoral duties in his absence, and through the medium of an advertisement in the Ecclesiastical Gazette was brought into communication with an individual who represented himself as the Hon. and Rev. B. C. D. F. Fairfax. Aarangements were speedily completed, and Mr. Mahon departed for Ireland early in Novem ber, not having had an interview with Mr. Fairfax, but the latter gentleman having undertaken to appear in the pulpit on the ensuing Sabbath. True to the compact, Mr. Fairfax arrived at Raw marsh rectory—his future home—on the Saturday evening, preparatory to the assumption of those im portant duties that had been delegated to him. He was a young man—perhaps twenty-five, or he might be a year or two older. In stature he was tall and slender, of dark complexion, with large expressive dark eyes, and jetty hair. The ladies thought him handsome. He soon made confidants of divers of the villagers, and upon the minds of these he most sedu lously imprinted the fact that he was nobly born, and one of the mighty ones of the earth. His private fortune was represented at 20,0001. a year; and the profuse liberality that he began to display seemed to warrant the assertion. The children of the schools were regaled sumptuously during his first week with claret, &c. Like a faithful minister, he was inces santly active in every part of the parish, and was markedly attentive to those who did not form part of his congregation, or who were known to cherish a spirit of hostility to the Established Church. All these were asked why they did not go to church ; and if a want of suitable personal habiliments was named as an impediment—which, during the. existing dull ness of trade, was no doubt in many cases the fact— the obstacle was at once surmounte d by an order upon the village tailor, or hater, or shoemaker, or bonnet maker, according to the necessities of the individual. • " To Mr. George Hall." It is suspected also that a collection for the dis tressed Irish has shared the same fate, but this is not certainly known to be the case. It now turns out, too, that the money which this worthy has received on account of the clothing club, with the exception of the receipts for the first fortnight after his arrival, has not been paid into the bank, as it ought to have been, and there is a deficit to the extent of between 201. and 30/. Mr. 'Fairfax made many allusions to his aristocratic mother, Lady Fairfax , whose residence he said was at Leeds Castle, Maidstone, Kent, and which august personage he pretended was about to pay him a visit at the rectory. We can state as a fact that no such person is known at Leeds Castle. We believe that in days of yore it waa the seat of the Fairfaxes, but the family have been obli terated from the locality centuries ago, having " gone and left no address." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Emma Young, a well-dressed woman, who stated her age to be thirty- one years, was brought before Alderman Gibbs, in the custody of Daniel Forrester, the officer, charged with having attempted to utter a forged note purporting to be of the issue of the Bank of England for 51. A gentlemap attended from the office of Messrs. Freshfield, solicitors to the Bank of England, for the prosecution. William Smith, clerk to Messrs. Ridgway and Co., tea- dealers, King William-street, said Between eleven and twelve o'clock that day, the prisoner came to the shop for a pound and a half of tea, and ten tered the note produced, numbered and dated 30390, Nov. 16, 46, and signed W. Peskin. Upon looking at it I thought it not genuine, and I took it inside and found the same opinion was 'formed. It was then taken to the Bank, where it was pronounced a forgery. Mr. Freeman, inspector of the Bank, said he at once detected the forgery, and went to Messrs. Ridg way's shop, where he saw the person seated. Upon being questioned she said her name was Young, and that she resided at No. 24, East-lane, Walworth, and was a married woman. She said she did not get the note from her husband, but from a gentleman, with whose name or address she was not acquainted. Upon being told she must be detained, she observed that such would be a very arbitrary proceeding. Alderman Glans (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to ask the witness any question ? Prisoner—No. He will not say that I was not willing to come here ? Witness—You were not unwilling. Daniel Forrester said that when be took her into custody she said a young man had given it to her to go into the shop and get it changed. The people at East-lane knew her when witness called upon them on the subject. She did not reside there it appeared, but her relations did ; and they stated that her hus band was a seafaring man, and she had not lived with him for some time. The bank-note was in some respects admirably ex ecuted, but it was extremely defective in other points, which the Bank inspector did not consider it abso lute wisdom to specify, inasmuch, as when officials from the establishment have mentioned on any occa sions were errors lay, they were sure, in the next issue of spurious paper, to find great ingenuity exer cised in the correction. In the present case the figure at the corner of the note was as like as possible to that in the genuine note. The prisoner was remanded. BOW-STREET. A strong-made man, in the service of the Woods and Forests, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hall, charged with brutally assaulting a little boy, under eight years of age. From the tender age of the boy Mr. Hall did not think it proper to have him sworn or examined. Inspector Lun, of the A division, stated that the complainant, with another boy, was endeavouring to press the spring of one of the pumps belonging to the Woods and Forests, in order to get some water to water some flowers which they had. The prisoner, who is in the service of the Woods and Forests, and has charge of several of the pumps, came up and struck the boy several times in a violent and brutal manner on the side and other parts of the body, knocked him down, kicked him, and injured his finger, which bled profusely. The prisoner was then taken into custody. The public had a right to use the pump, which was placed there for public use. The prisoner said that he had only struck the boy on the shoulder with his open hand. He was bound to protect the property, and the spring of the pump in question had been broken several times before by boys who attempted to press the spring. The inspector stated that the prisoner struck the boy several times with all his force with his clenched fist. A Mr. Eason, who represented himself as the son of the engineer of the Woods and Forests waterworks, stepped forward and said that the prisoner had been three years in the service, and had always acted with humanity. Althou g h nothing could justify so brutal an assault, he wished to state that the prisoner bad on two or three occasions taken boys to the station-house for interfering with the spring, but no punishment had been inflicted by the magistrate. Mr. HALL said that the assault was a most brutal one, and could not be justified under any;leircum stances. He was sure the Woods and Forests would be the first to reprehend such conduct. The prisoner might have discharged his duty to his masters by giving a slight slap to the boy, even supposing him to be acting:improperly- With respect to what had been said as to boys who had been given into custody before, and dismissed ;without punishment, the magistrate had only to administer the law, not to make it; and if those boys had int:tinged no law it was not in the power of the magistrate to punish them. It fre quently happened that those who, like the prisoner, were most apt to break the law, were the first to complain most loudly that magistrates did not enforce it. The prisoner was evidently a man of a violent and brutal temper, and it was necessary that he should be punished for committing . so mdeihngte would inflictfierce r.acefulanda fine a n assaul t ,of3l r u p2olndaaymeel imprisonment. REET. A COCEIRANITE. The prisoner was otl?donwuraerGmdllope.eis.ed. lsT, a labouring man, --14 obstructed and as: 3 aulte was placed blubbering at the b a r, b ti a le r, p c o h li a e r e g i e n d hav ingLweiitehester: square. Coe lt hra ap n p e e , ar w e h d o th h a ns t i a t e w q he well-known Trafal quence of his connexiol t with t uaisreidn some e co n n o te to m r p ie la ty tio i n n of Mr. gar-square demonstrp tion, to have a procession of The prisoner cried and whined very penitentially, and attributed his violence to the effect of too much drink. Mr. BINGHAM said, the unmanly exhibition which the prisoner now made satisfied him that there was no sound cause for apprehending that he meditated any very desperate invasion of the public peace. He wished, however, for the defendant's own sake, and the sake of others, that the defendant was at that mo ment in France, and kne , w French sufficiently to en able him to comprehend what was passing there at this moment. Before the revolution, there was one man out of every two who was without work or settled means of subsistence; while in this country the proportion was not more than one man out of every ten, and with this advantage, that here there was a poor-law and a workhouse to resort to, while in France there was nothing of the sort. Since the Revolution things had become much worse, and there was neither employment nor means of subsistence for the working classes in. Trance. About 30,000 men were supported in the Municipal Guard, and when that source failed, he kn ew of nothing that could be resorted to for a supply of funds. As he was inclined to think the defendant was not likely to use a pike or fortmghies impri sonmen t on l y . wheim°tal'entand as sofoo h l e ish t l h y o , u h g e h t should drink had t hpartly other ff deadly cause with d a weapon, It is only just to Mr. Mahon to state, that, to use his own words, " the references and testimonials, &c. (of Mr. Fairfax) appeared quite satisfactory, and I selected him in preference to others who were proposed." We understand that the missing one's creditors, feeling themselves so shamefully duped, have re solved to use every means of redress that civil or ecclesiastical law affords them. No doubt they will communicate with the bishop of the diocese.—Shef field Times. THE TRADE OF CLYDE. THE COMET AND THE NIAGARA. STEAMER. LAMBETH, Yesterday Mrs. Ma , 7 Ann Ellwood, the wife of a gentleman of property, residing at No. 8, Mount ow, s, of stabbi ng h er h us b an d, was placed at the bar„ before Mr. Norton, for final r n Ol d d a gent-road, n -r a oad c Wednesday, es ,hwrgwh o has b een i n cus t o d y s i nce examination. Evidence having been given that the accused, when in a state of intoxication, had frequently threatened and attacked her bushel id with a knife, and that on the present occasion she .had made repreated cuts at him, one of which wou Tided him in the wrist, she w as committed for trial. MARI;'.LEBONE. Thomas Sturdy and Fr ederick Pilbeam were charged with having stolen varic rtes articl es f rom th e h ouse o f Mr. James, landlord of tha Wheatsheaf, Edgeware ha road ; and also with the wilful destruction of property summed up :—On g'e o' c l oc k, t h e h ouse was tl length n Theß. t t he h , evidence,amm may y u nbt be thus o t h f uts whichmorebt rw iTro y gone into at considerable n 150/. t l Satur day night last, a t closed, and soon afterwar d s all therein retired to rest, the premises having be ti properly secured by the locking of doors, &c. . A.. t a quarter before five on Sunday morning the frontt . door was found open, and 1 on a constable of the D division going in he saw brandy, rum, and gin, us also compounds, running from taps, no fewer than twenty-eight of them hav ing been turned on. 'T he inmates were aroused, and on their coming dow n stairs and examining the premises they discovered that the spirits, &c., which had fallen on to the floor of the bar from the casks, had run into the :cellar, where it was nearly ankle deep, and several nen were employed for four or five hours in baling it out with cans and bowls. Two hundred gallons of different kinds were, by the malignant and shameful proceeding of some parties, rendered valueless to the : prosecutor. About 10s. in silver and copper mone, r , as also wearing apparel, a plated candlestick, and a ome other things of no great value, were missed from the house. There was no direct evidence against the prisoners, but circum stances of a strongly suspicious nature regarding both of them were adduced. 'They were in the tap-room on Saturday night, in co tripany with a person called Billy Mann, and all of them quitted the room in upon their being desired question at twelve o•cic (;lc, to do so. Mann was obs erred to leave the house by the front door, but the prisoners were not seen to make their egress. A bout a fortnight ago, Mr. James had occasion to u se violence for the purpose of ejecting from his hou Se the prisoner Sturdy, who had since been heard to a Lake use of lan g ua g e expres sive of his intention to b s revenged. It was/further shown that whil e the prit ioners wer e in the ta p -room on the night all u d e d t o , I ;hey severa l tim3s whis p ered to each other, i n a mo st . mysterious manner. The officers, Sergea n t s Hug! es , .. 13 D' and Bilford, 245, of the same division, were s o f opinion, that the parties by whom• the robbery and I wilful mischief was caused had contrived to secret I tl lemselves in the coal vault below stair s . Th e pr i sm s ers were u l t imatel y taken into custody, neither of them having, when ques tioned, be en a bl e to g i ve an ything like a satisfactory account as to wher e h e was after t he p ublic • house was closed. The office rs ha d not as yet suc ceeded in tra • 111 app arel or other articles tracing a ny o ft e missing. an e p om y The prisoners, who said I that they knew nothin g about th e ro bb ery , ' reman ded till Wednesday (to-morro w ) week ' were Henry Twine, a otter in the emp lo y of the Great Western Railway , gP S ,was placed at the bar for final examination char e d with robbery. It appeared th at on an day morning, the 16th inst., th e pr i soner was obs' .sr ved to pass through the lodge gate at th e P a ddi ngt ~ c,n term in us, with a bundle under his ar m . He was v Talking along without pre senting a " pass " ti c k e t a n d upon his b e in g ques tioned as t o w h at he had wl i t h hi m , he replied, that it was only , a chicken which I re , had bought in the South Wharf -road; lie Collard,. superintendent of • a le company s poli ce, ex amining a truck upon the p latform, he found that a portion of th e right was s i d t e h they 1 a deta i ned, w oode and n , case up onhad beenMr. broken in, an d t h at there • was a vacant space in the said case, from which , ll bey IA nd a doubt, a fowl had been removed. We recollect very well one fine summer day, in the year 1812 or 1813, of taking a walk down to the Broomielaw, to see the shipping, the gabbarts of 50 and 60 tons burthen, and the " fly-boat," with its coarse red painted awning, &c. It was no difficult matter then to walk to the bottom of the quay ; but at the extremity of it, on that day, there lay a sort of toy, a small steam-vessel, named the Comet, which everybody laughed at, which the sailors jeered at ; and the maker, Henry Bell, was talked of as a " half daft, crazy man," for producing such a foolish affair in the face of day. Nothing daunted with this, as the vessel was about to sail, we took a passage to Greenock, in that little craft, the precursor and the germ of all the splendid steam-ships which now move along the waters in every sea. The Comet was the subject of merriment to the sailors and spectators, as we smoked out of the harbour—in fact, she was always so, whenever she smoked; and the indignant saying of the old " fly-boat" captain at the time, namely, that " he had the pleasure to sail with the Almighty's wind and not with the devil's reek," may serve as a sample of the feeling which was entertained at the outset of the new invention. The Comet had an engine of three horse power, with a raised deck, like the canal passage-boats, the company entering by a door before the helm. To have v en t ure d past Greenock at that period, and for a considerable time after, in a steam-boat, would have been accounted a tempting of Providence. On the 20th April, 1848, we again took a walk to the Broomielaw. But such a change 1 The quays upon both sides extended as far as the eye could reach, and the harbour was filled with leviathan ships from every quarter of the globe. The place of the little Comet of three-horse power was supplied by dozens of magnificent Liverpool steamers, and Dublin steamers, and ships of war, and ships from China; and there is the Niagara, just nearly ready for sailing. How we do wish for a sight of the Comet of 1812 alongside of this splendid floating palace, of 1,800 tons burden, and 700-horse power I Having stepped on board, we discovered, through the politeness of our friend Captain Rylie (who is an accomplished and genuine seaman), that the Niagara belonged to the British and North American Royal ;Mail Steam-ship Company ; that she was built by Mr. Steel, of Greenock, and fitted up with en g i nes b y M r. R o b ert Napier, of this city, as a com p an i on to the other splendid new steam-ships the America, the Europa, and the Canada, all of the same class, and belonging to the same company. We had no time to take down any detailed account of the internal fitting up and workings of this wonderful vessel, but we learned that the number of berths was 180, and we saw that the steward's pantry, under the able superintendence of Mr. Emans, was all that could be wished for in a voyage across the Atlantic, or any where else. We then:entered the grand saloon, and we must say that a more noble and chastely decorated apartment we have never seen. It is impossible, in this short notice, to do anything like justice, but as we shall take a look at it again, and report, it may only be necessary here to state that the beautiful paintings (scenes in the Prairies) and elegant deco rations, are the workmanship of Mr. W. B. Simpson, of West Strand, London, under the able and judicious superintendence of his foreman, Mr. Hobbes, a gen tleman possessed of the most exquisite taste and skill in his delightful art. Truly, such a noble vesSel is a proud trophy of the energy and wealth of the proprie tors, as well as of the talents and skill of all concerned in its formation. The Niagara sails on Saturday for the Gareloch to have her compasses adjusted. We hope that Captain Washington (who praises the river trustees the one day for their exertions to improve the river, and condemns them the next) would come to witness the sailing down the Clyde of this mighty vessel, which in alagwConstitu tional. , by the ;way, could beconsvoertedintoa ship of war a couple o f days.- By the time that his Reverence boa been a month or so in his new quarters, and wh. an he found his credit among the tradespeople unlimited—which, by the way, he had pretty well tested, for his own external appearance had undergone a won derful improvement—he began to make some important additions to his household, which hitherte had consisted of only one female dos nestle. There arrived one day at the rectory a youth whom Mr. Fairfax described as his page, a youth about whom there appeared a great deal of mystery. There also arrived another personage, even more mysterious looking than the former, whose sex purported to be masculine—at least the dress so indicated. This Fairfax Johnny e of a li a s t r e l y r y e r F e him , Deer,"s his cousin, or is " Johnny dear ;" but as in either ca se the sound was personation an and fami liarly f o a f m m i y the same, there was no means of deciding, Johnny, for his part, shunned communion wilt& every one ex cept his aristooratic relative ; and thus e who sat near him in church observed that he see trted ignorant of the use of the prayer-book, for he .turned over the leaves quite at random. Connected , sri th the personal appearance of this creature, in she rt, there was a variety of matters of observation mr/nich led to a very general suspicion that he was a. female in dis guise. If this was so, her relation to the occupant of the rectory will be easily inferred, Lad the necessity for the disguise will be apparent. However good Mr. Fairfax's cretlit might be, it soon became evident that he had very little money at command. The few payments that :he made—and they were few—were mostly in four penny pieces, a description of coin which the villagers brought to him in profusion once a fortnight, as mit ributions to a clothing club. From this source he received about 71. a fortnight. He was straitened in :his finances, he said, on account of his father's stew and having ab sconded with a very large :sum of money. When allusion was made to his family cow aexions and ac quaintances, he made the most con tradictory state ments. He laid claim to America as the place of his birth, and said that he had very e:xtensive estates there. He also stated that he was the only surviving son of Lord Fairfax, who was an intimate friend of Earl Fitzwilliam ; but that nobleman, who resides in the neighbourhood, disclaims any kno tvledge of either Lord Fairfax or his reverend son. The time allotted for Mr. Fairfax's: sojourn draw ing to a close, sundry tradesmen's accounts were presented for payment. Mr. Mah.Dti returned to Rawmarsh on Friday, the last day in March, and then odd parties dropped in at the rectory, and begged that they might have a settlement .of their small accounts, but not a farthing could they get— nothing but excuses. Suspicions thon I arose among them that they had been dupe d, and their worst fears were soon strengthened.. Mr. Fairfax left the rectory on the following Mo n.day, under the pretence of spending a few days at IV histon rectory, and saying that he shculd return in a few days ; but it was ascertained that he Lid taken -up his quarters at the Prince of Wales' Hotel, at Mas biro', whence he departed by train in a northwardly d irection, at four o'clock o n th e morning of the fol lowing Fr iday, without having paid one shilling to his creditors. He took a way w i t h h i m an immense quantity of lug gage —property that he got from tradespeople at Sheffield, Rotherham, and elsewhere. The page and "Johnny" had been dispatched by t rain in opposite directions. After Mr. Fairfax's disappearance I om Rawmarsh under such discreditable circumstance: s, it occurred to the mind of one of the churchward e ns, Mr. Hall, that Mr. Fairfax had received the atriount of a col lection made in the church on Sunday, the 12th ult., in favour of the Propagation Society, i n obedience to the Queen's Letter. The sum collecii :d was about - - MIDDLE TEMPLE, APRIL 22.—The undermen. tioned members of this society have been called to the bar, and were sworn in this evening before the benchers: —Benjamin Forbes Mosse, Esq., and Chas. Henry Cook, Esq. A circular has been issued by the leading London discount houses reducing the rate allowed for money et call to 2i per cent. MARRIED. C ap aie On the 28th ult., at St. Peter's Church, Jersey, ‘9- - f t eV -% oCf.pLeuvciads,aßloormgebnayLAloryzy,EtsoqM., a o r f y ll E a l v iz e a r b fo e r t, eldest e l: 1 , 0 ;M; shire. , r etiP B 0 h On the 18th inst., at J ersey, Li eutenant G . G. a" ' t t e h B r e ft e h n e g l a Army, e l te t J o Major-Generalose Josephine Lacoste, youngest OW' On the 21st ult., at Made i ra Jane, the wife °I. '- Wallas, Esq., of that island. Kent On the 18th inst., at Bridge-place, Lewisham, Clayton, Esq., aged 65. %VIP ° On the 20th t., Mary Lavinia, daug hter of - 1 Humfrys, solicit or , H ere f or d . r g On the 20th inst., at Clapham, Surrey, Mrs. Ne n-Jr : t o . On the 20th inst., at Windsor, Sir. Richard Siler n3- f iltrie" On the 20th inst., in Eaton-place, the Lady . 11 ' 4. " J eOny rmn. the 20th inst., at Hackney, Samuel Smith LYeeni b, On the 20th inst.. George Frederick Wessell, Esq'' son's-hill, Woolwich. Eliyabetlto On the 20th inst., at Queen's-row, Walworth , the wife of Mr. C. F. Seyt a ng, a g ed 74. „ 130 00' On the 21st inst., Mary Ann, the wife of Mr. A. v• of Piccadilly, aged 80. A 54. deric k On the 21st inst., at Brixton, Mr. H. Drew, age- - On the 21st inst., at Eaton College, Augustus Ffirerobsel' eldest son of the Rev. F. F. Beadon, Vicar of Somerset, aged 9. ss• At Bute House, Petersham, John J o nes, Esq., ag e i e , 0.- On the 22d inst., in Essex -st r eet, George Gran v " son of Robert Miller, Esq. "" f Oln London : Printed and P u bli s h e d b y MURDO pi .14 No. 112, Strand, P r i n t er , at Th e S u n 01:6 6 e , colgo)ty 12# Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, iA t/24/ Aliddleux, Titeulay, April 25, 141 S, .] 11.011P.TBLT SS, 4 . eP.T. I . ON BOA R THE GENERAL WOOD CONVICT SIIIP. ce The intelligence we announced a few days sin relative to a report of the foundering of the above mentioned convict ship, with all hands, was erroneous It is too true that the vessel was lost, b u t under cir cumstances that have caused the most painful excite n ment. The convicts, of whom there were early 100 and who were on their way to the Penang settlement baying mutinied, horribly murdered most of tke crew and afterwards caused the destruction of the vessel last She sailed from Singapore on the 2d of January without the protection of the usua l military convict guard, and hence arose the fearful catastrophe. The subjoined details are extract ed from a commu• nieation written by Lieutenant Seymour, who was a passenger on board of the unfortunate vessel : • the General O er n al S w un o d o a d y, w t e h ig e h 2 e d d o a f no J ho a r nu a a n ry d , harbour with a fair wind, in company with two other vessels. After rounding the Rabbit and Coney, we . had a stiff breeze against us, and by six o'clock we lost sight of the two vessels I have mentioned. Tke vv n b u t and tide being both against us, we soon brought up, I think, off the Carimous, determined to lie there till daybreak the following morning, and we s a to t ostixo:il'lof the retired to bed, leaving the watch on deck in charge. of the First-Lieutenant, all apparently. quiet. etc about we wer . about half-past one o'clock in the morning startled from our sleep by a loud noise on deck, and the smashing of glass inside the cuddy. I rose and went to the door of our cabin for the P e "; pose of ascertaining the cause of the uproar. I Jr,' scarcely touched the handle, when the door wine!: separates the master's cabin from ours, burst °panto?! the captain rushed in exclaiming, "For God's sneak! shut the door and keep it fast." He was followed.o.9_ Mr. Farquhar and other passengers, who implored .to know what was the matter ; but could get no reply from him for some time, when to our horror be told.n us the convicts had mutinied, and had got pease asl° f of the ship. He appeared to have lost all presence or immediately mind, and kept exclaiming, "0, merciful Fathe what have I done that this should happen. 0, bless th e : Jesus, save us, save us They have got n,,° cuddy and have secured all the fire-arms. --` obtained his own private pistols, them stood on the defensive, expecting every e, e ; ment they would break in upon them. 1 1 .' 1 said nothing, was to be done, for be was fe ar u a his officers had already perished. Soon after be hea r t the cries of Mr. Gill, the third officer, a ppareatil a t , the cabin-door, endeavouring to get in, at the OP time followed by heavy blows—his moans becoul fainter and fainter. The Captain opened whomdege and managed to get hold of the poor fellow, nt dragged in, and discharging his pistols to prey d them following. He was dreadfully mutilated was deluged in blood. Having again secured tr; and loading cabin-door, we consulted as to the best means 0f cog' cealing the female passengers, when it was sugge'ks of placing them down the hold. The deck-Plan_... were torn up, but to our disappointment the twertir by the rudder down was too sma ll to adm it th being lowered. The passengers then implored tt Captain to offer the convicts the boats for them l a " escape from the vessel conditionally, if they w °ll he spare our lives. The poor man appeared distracted;n_A said it will be no use, " we were in their power , . a t, the wretches know no mercy." He said be wal lu v e s tempt their request, and went out of the quarter gs port for that purpose, but we never saw him after, leaving little doubt but that he was instantly murdered. Fin__ ing the captain did not return, the females bid thera;_, selves in the quarter-gallery as the last resouo having previously barricaded the cabin door to, the I utmost extent. I could see through the chink 01 ;ct s door what was going on in the cuddy. Th e oon the seemed busy knocking off their irons, ship. At daybreak they slipped the ship's cable, avoid made . all sail for the south-east, striving t° co urse Singapore harbour. They continued on this co.uthin till sunset, when they tacked, avoiding coming the t he and rifling a nd reach of any other vessel. We were confine d le ac h cabin, unconscious of what was go in g on for door, and armed convicts were placed at the cabi n ,sr On Friday, the 29±, they sighted the Great 10.10, mas, and on the following day, at nine in the Tr o t, ing, the vessel was run on a rock near Palo ' Sa. on the island of Bungaron. It was evidently le re d, tionally, for the convicts had everything ta kingP re P a and leaving the vessel, made for the c oast, sil d with them the passengers. About thirty I ,oeBrB 9 10 a b o ut twenty convicts were left on boa rd to Mot. away with the remainder of the crew, who wer e t he toned down in the fore part of the vessel. horrible design was carried into execution I ant l u l l ; s e to say, or what really was their fate, for within ha" hour after the ship went down in deep water, 0 . 1 " 11 not a vestige of her was to be seen. The impressll, on the minds of my fellow-passengers was, that whole of the unfortunate creatures who were bea t f the wreck went down with the vessel andpenis et for there was no boat to escape by. arrived We the island at sunset, where we were met by a pi ss ' . of Malays, who showed ever They offered to conduct the every symptom of kindneis residence, but the ringleader among ng t r h s e t c o on th vTets il ti a it was their intention to protect us, and they kr, t p r r i e v p e a d re tn thr n e n e m b m o u a n ts in . ateOnnenrof real le Whether ble tended to take us up the coast as soon as they could natives, who at once declared their intention to tall us to the Haja's residence. The convicts resisteu' tfe 3 position nersto coon; but the natives, to our infinite joy and hear satisfaction, mustered, and we were led up t.. 13: country to their houses, where we received aVeL ' i d comfort their means afforded. I am confide nt ha g the natives left us behind, we should have b een murdered. It was admitted by one of the conit' who was afterwards captured, that such was th e lowing ntion of the ringleaders. Before daybreak the O c i morning the greater mass of the convict s °P u t fftG prisonerseoh rwee General s L eoerfa a a, s tl c hl a leel r amhT s voyi. h on d a gt d , Ash aoc r lblr e oeo t tn a wrh tdke orders contrived ffien t notc o rtfeyi rv t st the db e ee eh lt b ißoon o ndo a gje, t a s iswn. , c gah a po n steo d 7 4t eti o e sf::t very y n es p m e u n r a d n e r e the . '' g, arr o iv f al th o e f the above her were On the • the capture +,, ffee authorities adopted every meaglinsP.7ientiedclC, n w ew ho s , a i t t S i i 3 n pres;;;ce, would when remain at sea till a vessel made her apPe e ',„ - ,ked they T would be picked up as shiP'iv r- T - oio mariners. E ast The steamers of the Hon. Company's service have beensent to the Pr"'" l ' t outMOO ports in the above locality, in search of them• d its of the convicts were felons from Singapore an adjacent country. MANCHESTER, APRIL 24. AO' STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead' '''-all4 shire, and Cheshire Jun c ti on 7 1-16 n. dis.—Lancits b ' s od . Yorkshire (West Ridi n g U n i on ), 4 1 / dis. — Loot /l a ter! North-Western (Man c h es t er an d Birninghanl), '6`l,lorlP (A and B), 1 11-16 p.—Ditto, ditto (C), 2sP -(111 tlr Staffordshire, 3 5-16 dis.—Shropshire shire Utlion,3 d is * -- Eastern and Dover, No 4, 3% p dis. Cur e , [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Speedy and Eff- - o,t of a severely bruis e d A n kl e , by H o ll ow ay's Oint'-gge n , a Extract of a letter from M r . H. W a tki n son, of tb e f ins, Free Press, dated February 19, 1848: —" rj ;? fl ocit eci , etisor Holloway. Sir,—A youth in our emPlq ~ ,1 ( 00' his ankle so severely, that the most dangerous srm,,rnable were brought on, thereby rendering him totalli wer e to walk or attend to his duties; many preparatiell- 1 0 applied, but all to no effect; at last he had recou.ogio your invaluable Ointment, when, by the use of 11 ',.. 5 , 1 0 1 / pot his ankle was perfectly cured, and the bei c ue ,. - e the as active in walking and working as he was beAt)-- fO . disaster." Sold by all druggists, and at Professor loway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., the Lady Katharine Jermyriv o f s dote ter, which survived but a fe w h ours . .0 . On the 20th inst., at Highgate, the wife of the R e 4.0 Dyne, Head Master of Highgate School, of a daugh" e ' s j, 0 On the 20th inst., in Warwick -street, Belgrave -ro wife of W. P. Stevens, Esq., of a daughter. r A 0 011. 0 On the 20th inst., at Watford, Mrs. G. Healey, 0 ' - , e A', On the 21st inst., in Guildford-street, Russell-s4ue' no 'otio'' 81 - acher Elwall, relict of the late B. Elwall, Esq., of a r mous son. R" rrettit On the 21st inst., in Mornington-road, Mrs. J. - r • of a son. Oa the 21st inst., i n N or f o lk- s t ree t , the wife o f JOil° . 0 0., Isaacson Esq., of a son, On the 22d inst., at Dulwich, Mrs. Thomas Ito-st°°' .1 of a son. / if of ' On the 22d inst., at Ch ar t er h ouse-square, the lacif iT Penmen, Esq., of a son. go. On the 17th inst., a t Croom's-hill, Greenwie-P Speed, of a daughter. __.-