The Sun. — London, England, 1852-08-12 00:00:00

tgourtib pyttton COVENTRY RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Peeping Torn Handicap. Drawn ... The Greek Flora Melvor The City Stakes. Velocipede cob .. John Bull ••• The Ahbegs ... ... 1 ... 2 ... 1 The Godiva Handicap. Humphry Ibis ... ... Knight of the Thistle TA TTERSALL'S.—THIS .EVENING. Sra o'cLocs. ST. LEGEB. 3 to 1 agst Stockwell 4 to 1 agst Songstress 4 to 1 agst Daniel O'Rourke FRANCE- We have received the iari; journals of yesterday, which owing to the stormy state of the weather were delayed. They contain no news of importance. The Prince President of the Republic has addressed a letter to the Duchess de Gramont, full of the most affectionate sentiments, in which he says that, in formed too late of the time at which the funeral of Count d'Orsay, her brother, was to take place, he much regretted that he could not send his household to attend, as a feeble mark of the grief he felt at the loss of one of his best friends. The Mon iteur of this day says—" The Ministerial crisis, which has lasted for upwards of a fortnight in Belgium, has prevented the Belgian PlenipotentiarWs from concluding a definitive commercial treaty __ in be tween France and Belgium. Th e conven ti on baying expired on the 10th i ns t., commerc ial a_ thette have de jure been replaced un d er th e empire of 18 4 4 Nevertheless the common tariffs of the t wo countr i es . the negotiations conti nue , and it may they will terminat e f avoura bl y ." be lted that The Sicle, alluding to the comme rc ial w _ relations e we between Fra nce an d B e l g i um , s ay!'" Commissioners can positively a ffi rm t h at th e Belgian Cf6ocmem, think and that assembled y es t er d a y a t the For!ign o consequently the hopes of a provisional arrangement have not yet vanished." The Courrier de Lyon s t a tes that the President of the R e p u blic is exe ea at that place on the 25th inst., and that he wiicebet present at the inaugurati on of the equestrian Statue of the Emperor, which, aft er having been exhibited to the public on th e 15 t h , i n the Champs Elys ees ' will be immediately remove d to Lyons. l e tter in the Emancip a ti on o f B russels saysA Pa,,ris A ve ry energetic meas ure h as b een taken . against the correspondent of a Hungarian journal. This correspondent has been expelled from the French territory. He came to Paris in 1848 with M. Teleki, delegate of the Hungarian insurrection. GERMAN Y. On the sth inst. the King of Prussia was present at the inauguration of the portion of the Eastern Rail road which is between Bromberg and Dantzic. The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia arrived at Berlin on the 6q), and the next day left with the Grcnj Duchess for Russia. At a review of the Imperial Guard, given by the Emperor of Ru.sia, at Krasnr:e Self., on the 31st ult., in honour of Prince Frederick William of Prussia, Lieutenant-General Baron de Schreck , nstein, who was is the suite of the Prince, accidentally rode With great violence against a Russian officer, was knocked dewn, and had three ribs broken. ITALY. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa quotes letters from Rome of the 4th, stating that Austria and France have it in contemplation to withdraw their troops from the Roman states, leaving only about 2,000 French at Civita Vecchia, and a small Austrian garrison at Ancona. This is to be done as soon as the Papal troops shall have been organised. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. We have Hobart Town papers to the Ist April, by the Tasmania, and Launceston to the 28th March, by the T. and 1. Crisp, arrived at Weymouth. The principal information furnished in them is ample de tails as to the gold dascoveries:— " All doubts (says the Hobart Town Guardian) are now at an end; the sparkling gems of Tasmania are not inferior in quantity or quality. According to latest ac counts the latter prospect is such as to warrant and en courage extensive mining operations. We are the last, and may nut be the least, in respect to gold discoveries in the Australian hemisphere. Wo have seen a beautiful sample of the gold found at Tulloclegoram, sent to town yesterday; and a Scotch shepherd, who had been to Mount Alexander, and a little experienced in washing, got an ounce of gold last Wednesday, a few pieces of which were as large as cherry stones, at our new dig gings. There are now at least two hundred men at work, and we have little doubt we shall be enabled in our next issue to lay some cheering news before our readers respecting our new discoveries. Parties who re turned on Saturday evening trom the Fingal diggings bring no favourable report. There is, however, a con viction in the minds of some that gold will be got in safticiant quantities to make mining operations for gold a regular business, this climate not being subject to the vicissitudes of Port Philip. It is admitted there are indications of the precious metal from Fingal to Avoca, and, under proper and judicious management, gold in large proportions would soon be discovered. Some con tend teat the best plan would be to raise a fund of some two cr three hundred pounds in Launceston, and send out four working parties properly equipped for every emergency, and let them work with a combined concen tration of purpose. This plan would succeed; but those who on tiore." wrk and go a prosp ect i ng at their own expense so CHEAP AND IT N IF 0 li, q sy 8 - r , -- -- - .----=" AND INTERNATIONIL. POSTAGE. ..1.1 OF COLONIAL An assosiation to promote daring the Exhibition of the Works ohiect was formed of Industry of all Nations, ineluding among its ks rn m e etabers many of the Foreign Commissionnra. At a Tuesd e a ting held at the house of the SThoicty of Arts, on August loth, the adopted:— f o llowing resolutions were unanimouslyy cuiaintiornavthat all the argu " That it 4ppears lo this association ny..nts used by Mr. Rawland of an unif,;rin rate of . poAtige a ppl y eer ° t : k i . r 2r the justice of lett R —r d . and pronatq to fore;gn correspondence. l'ul to "I°aial 6, D int t he east of coareyance, as watt proved by m Rowleid Hill, depends noon the number not upon the distance; and' that therefore th e jucts..-1 and uniform rate is evident. - 10 a of " 11.-it the I.loCCiAtion welcomes the recognitio n o f this principle in the recent adonticioof unilorm rates for printed papers to BOCC, cf our cni:n7s. " That the simplicity end coDvonionce of prepaym ent also appear to apply to colonial and foreign corre spondence." Tho Right Hon. the Earl Gr inville has consented to become president of the association. SCOTTISH CIOITHAL RAILWAY.--TraffiC for the ending Aar, 8, 1852 _ . Passengers (19,727), parcels, horses, and carriages 16 2. 4 Goods, cattle, &c. 749 1:3 Total .. 2.538 9 Corresponding week in last year... 2,0.i6 2 0 Perth, Aug. 11, 1852. I" ' - ( aTb2.IOUTH RAILWAY AND DOCJ ACCONLUODATION. (FArtomth:hte, Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette.) by two moment the town of Portsmouth is sambas,)._.•!vo_lines of railway, the South-Western . stat a l , eoast; rhe former leaving Waterloo britißema Wiehester anal taking a circuitous western route 95 miles ; the latterßishop's Stoke to Portsmouth, in takinglt leaving the London-bridge sta tion not. Brig Both I . l l l re eluidistant eastern route via s e approach Portsmouth by a common route fro m diverge, the one to p: ) ,: "iii, at which point they the other to Hiving. As far as Havant, c lit , no tt .;. au l a Portsmouth and London line. the South Coast is making the by means of a we and the South-W es t er _ 'ee• On the London side bbereiziaentothGatodtoalwaininagn,amLoitndgonthe distance 34 miles projectedmore between that no Portsmouth and London would Railw;:y to Havant Or Bedbanapton, and t?nnthsCoast Weqern frAn Goda!ming to London. " The distance:l)ntli between Havant and Godalming, following the /east expensive route to most practicable and east of PeterAeld, is 31 miles over an easy tr act 1 of country, eingularly free from objection s ar i s i ng from resident proprietors. Tile line would accom mo d a t e p,t„,r3licid, Midnurst, HaFlenacre, and Petvvorth,d to eitherbe place a t a small cost-. A branch to Alton would meet the wishes of the Great Western, in exten.io of th , 3;r lint' from Basingstoke, and would at the same 'n time g o' lar to devolop the pro. ject a the North-We from Fenny Stratford4e•rri7orderinei'avoid the carriage of goods through Lontio i n n . r to dPrstood that an arrangement, or rather a tacitt 19 un - q iescence, exists between the South-Western nd South aca C(.iast Com pani?s to the effect that neithera v shall origi nate aline of railway, over th e e h empari l h , ermediate country; but the interests of the South-Westernetitra i. ~...., so immediately concerned in the n_a21.121: t4nance- of a proj - ct which woulddop a tion and m . I a large amount of traffic over 34 raili.sef their tonce bring to the permanent exclusion of the South Coast trunk line, though bey may ": persona ll y ,_ uoast, that al "'° disposed to take TAB SUN, the initiative in the matter, they would never, it is conceived, be so blind to their own advan tage, as to reject a proposition emanating from other, and it may be added, wholly disin terested, parties. There is not the slightest doubt but that the line must be made, the necessities of Portsmouth require it; and even were it a specu latien in which the result was one of doubtful gain, it would yet be desirable that the people of Portsmouth should carry it out to secure to themselves protection from constant and still increasing loss, and to redeem some, however small a portion, of that trade and traffic which has so materially ministered to the rapid aggrandisement of Southampton and other ports. If ' the South-Western Company decline co-operation (which is all that is asked at their hands), _other pare ties must of necessity be sought; and the exigencies of the case point to the South-Western Company as the natural allies of such a project, but there are other lines stretching into Surrey, the directors of which would welcome such an accession of traffic as that which must unavoidably be carried over a more di rect line, and it is therefore a most important ele ment in the consideration and bearing of the subject, that there are various modes of effecting the ob ject in view, not all perhaps possessing the same facilities of execution, but enough, at all events, to satisfy the requirements of the case. Upon the presumption that such a line would carry all the through traffic from Portsmouth to London, and that half a loaf would be preferable to none at all, it is clearly to the interest of the South Coast Company to accept terms for the use of their present terminus at Landport, and of their stloei South e t h Coasts obviousfa r a a t as o competingßn Bedhampton, a mp l t in on e , the fallacy of calling the for through traffic being refuta tion. Should, how ever, the South Coast be dis p osed to withhold the acc ommodation desired the alternative a f the South Co as t i of carrying p line ton p i a e r tapel point np l t t e o or ftsje that aun c o t on, but diverging Island over Ports bridge at the pres ent from Bedharn to the west, across the turnpike road, and by Flat at o r ci a , i t s e r o m p e i n n minus a t t lie the p r n o o m r t o h t e e r r a s e a x n tr d e m w i e t y are o f h in h p o o u e s k e y , o formed there would be no objection in principle on the part of the Government to the construction of such a line outline inu of dir ec ti on an d scope, we w ill proceed to t tt o heri c sm onsider the existing status of the project, and the position of those by whom it is advanced. All former schemes (and we allude to the direct Portsmouth as an espec i a l example ) have been com menced by laying down in the first place, a line suffi ciently practicable it may be in an engineering light, but wholly without reference to the feelings, property, or interests of the resident landowners. In many cases the persons employed have provoked hostility by wanton mischief in conducting the preliminary surveys, and the result has been that opposition has been engendered where none need ever have existed, and that the promoters have in consequence been hampered with liabilities and expenses which in the end have swamped the concern to the discredit of those employed and to the irreparable damage of the undertaking. It has been a cardinal point to avoid this evil in the present instance. We are not yet at liberty to mention the names of those gen tlemen who have come forward on this occasion, but they are well known to many of our leading towns men, and we are satisfied that the matter is perfectly safe in their bands. All that they ask of the people of Portsmouth is a constant and earnest assistance, in money if they will, but certainly in undivided perso nal energy, without which nothing can prosper. They have had personal interviews with the great landowners upon the line between Bedhampton and Godalming • they have ascertained their views gene• rally upon the subject, both with regard to direction and alliance with existing companies, and upon an underatandirg purely of an honourable nature, but which is defined and recognised between the parties themselves; a consent in general terms has been given to the adoption of the project, and a strong desire has been manifested to see it launched and car ' ried out at the earliest possible period. There is reason, further, to believe that more substantial eupport than mere consent and co-operation will be afforded by some of the landowners, but as the question is now under consideration, it would be premature to do more than allude to it. They have obtained accurate information both on the subject of the traffic over the existing lines and of the expense of constructing the projected line, and after making the requisite deductions for working, cost, and for the amount payable for the use of the seven miles of the South Coast, and the thirty-four of the South Western Railway, it is evident, beyond a shadow of doubt, that the undertaking would be most profitable, even without taking into account the intermediate and necessarily increased traffic which must on its completion be called into exist ence. We say, necessarily increased traffic, because (irrespective of docks, to which our attention is at the present time most paticularly directed) if the distance from London to Portsmouth be reduced from 95 to 72 miles, travelling must be cheaper, two hours more time will be available under a day ticket, and the Isle of Wight passengers, who alternate be tween Southampton and Portsmouth, would as a matter of certainty, adopt the Portsmouth in pre ference to the Southampton route. They have ob tained the assistance of a gentleman of consider able influence, thoroughly versed in railway business, who has undertaken the negotiation between them and the companies with whom arrangements may have been formed, and other steps of a private nature which could not now without possible prejudice, be disclosed, have been taken in furtherance of the object, leaving no reason to doubt but that with ordinary care, success is certain of attainment. The leading principle has been to fix upon a line, so direct as to avoid the possibility of future opposition, and to ob tain the utmost advance that could be secured by per sonal exertions without incurring any legal obligation to parties interested, or professional liability for heavy preliminary expenses so that whenever the pr o j ec t comes before the public it will come unshackled, u n . pledged, and with every intention on the part of the promoters to act with the utmost sincerity. The promoters have no private interest at stake, they are under no pressure beyond that of a firm con viction that the time is come when better railway accommodation should be secured for Portsmouth, or matftaeeril o i f tie tradi tion. her history, like that of Porchester, the portus magnus of the Romans, will become Money is abundant , labour cheap, in creased, experience gained , the necessity p aramount. What, then, is the obstacle ? BRIBER Icy CASE. _Thelegal gentlemen engaged DERBY, MONDAY ! THE BEIIESFORD preliminarily the charge o f b r ib ery et the late election in l tn borough have, it is said, obtained a great ea investigatingis of important evidence —among other things a d number of letters fro m th e Secre te one already b e f ore the him with the r ecent tary at War, in addluento h public, intimately connecting of which will be the manner corruptions, and evidencing a very close i n ti macy be tween himself and Frail of Shrewsbury. The evidence commission of inqui r y w ill to be add uce d b e fore in which the d o i ngs in z unfold many i nteres ting a facts, not the least interest the "knavi s h that no e ff orts ca l cu l ate d to of the corrupt i onists were b roug ht , to light. To sh ow London,b o - tricks" of their opponents were spared by the Libe rate' w e may observe that detectives from tained at their instization, were in the town, both duriug the election trA fur a week previous, disguised as comme rc i a l travellers, and were located at the hotels selected as head-quarters by the Tory party. Most of the men employed in bribing :the electors were strangers from Nottingham and Liverpool, but chiefly from the town last named, where it is believed they had been practising their nefarious arts for some days pre viously in favour of Messrs. Turner and Mackenzie. Mr. Foreshow, t Mr. norsfall' s so li citor, has for some & I s been at he King' s Read Rotel in Derby, en deavouring to get up a counter caqo, but without having throughout etea diiy abstained fromshaTirllaegkal thmethods of obtainin9: success, the Liberal party vo tes. As soon as bribed iil,ierawhocapeached a f s or havig' bri the Tory h :d ge fi n nished giving h e is evidence,huh two trove: was served reiV B ,_* T wi c e required before recovering the penalty w i t h tn e e by ~„,, notice recent Act upon parties receiving b •1 LI aes, impose A.. _ed this fo,, P g ilu,ly to be -lish roceedin is i d it is baiter ( ii ;s of the fact that the plaintiffs in the "' regar • °- carried on, , inac y of their own friends to the cer tainty are exP ell3 ° to c ontend with similar actions in re taliation. tainty of bavicg t e h c e t , which o i . --__=--------- EMIGRATION. circumstances o in the existing was delivered last Saturday excites such extensive interest, b his address Mr. Ridgway London. At the commencement of. in the Town-hall, at Pembroke. —A discou rfsteheocnoutnhtriys saunbdj created in the mere an . 7 Mr. A. F. Ridgway, of adverted to the number of vacancies and aa gs ► " and pointed out tile establishments of the metropolis quest on tho emigration to the " di—ll2- 'their positions by how many young persons might improve their He then referred to occupying the places thus vacated.. other places cones emigration to Au3tralia, observing that acre, and re farms of their own, free from rent, for 20s. all voluntary rate commended that funds should be raised by a and by subscriptions, to aid the deserving poor to emigrate, not to the gold diggings, but to those places in our colonies farmers might obtain to which their inclination might lead them. At the conch' sion of the add ; ess a co m m itt ee o f l a di es an d gent l e men w_a 3 formed, to procure and circul a t e i n f ormat i on respec ti n g the colonies, and to protect intending emigrants. FATHF GAVAZZI IN NORTH WALES.—This cele brated Italian orator has, during the week, been engaged in lecturing to highly-respec able and overflowing auditories in Denbigh and Holywell. Oa Friday last a meeting was held 111 the Town-hail, Denbi gh—Dr. Cumtnitio• in the chair—. and on Tuesday at St. NVinifred's Chapel', Llolywell. The subj , :ct on both occasions was" The Inquisition—Ancient and Modern." The horrors of the Inquisition were fully exposed ; claimed most Powerful and the Weaker, first in Italian, and then in English, de the Romish s manner , against the corruptions of ystem. The Rev. Agitator was enthusiastically applauded throughout. The regattas of bad state of the Nve of ath er, Havre ha ve , on account of th e , been postponed to the 15th. 111. Fonid, a Mini r State, has just placed at the disposal of the Mayor of Havre, Sevres porcelain to the value of 500 f. to form one of the prizes for the boat race for amateurs at the regatta. s l jlk,Ds.—Sld. Lady Knight, N,w York. IL,N.E.—A rrc l . O s p re y, :'- TOCILTON, duce. 1 1.—Wind Wiramichi. , ... 2 ... 3 ••• 1 ••• 2 ••• 3 LONDON, THURSDAY ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. IVORT-JERN ClRCUlT.—Lancaster, Aug. 10. NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.) This morning, an action of trespass of no interest having been disposed of, and another cause referred, the civil business of the assize was concluded. His Lordship then disposed of several criminal cases. 2 howls Marsden, aged 20, and Robert Ainscough, aged 29, were indicted for night poaching at Bre therton, on the 6th of August instant. Mr. John Cross conducted the prosecution; the prisoners were undefended. It appeared that on the night in question a game• keeper to Mr. Leigh Keck, named John Ainsworth, was out watching his master's preserves at Brether ton, along with another watcher, named Moss, when be suddenly put his foot into a gin. This induced him and the watcher to conceal themselves near, ex pecting those who had set the gin to come for it. They watched about an hour, when they saw three men c ome up , two of whom were the prisoners at t h e b ar. O ne o f t h ese men went straight to the gin and took it up, when the witness and his companion rushed out of their biding-place to seize him, He, however, imme diately took to fli g h t, and j umped i nto t h e r i ver Douglas, across whi c h he swam, and escape d . Th e witness Ainsworth and Moss then seized the two pri soners. Marsden told them to stand off, and, raising a gun with w hi c h h e was arme d, swore about striking hi m with it, when the w i tness M oss he ee would d l of cut Ainsworth in two with it ; he was caught hold of it behind him as he raised it, and twisted it out of his hands. Marsden was seen shortly before to pull out of his pocket and throw away twenty s nares, which were afterwards f oun d. The prisoners, and duck shooti ng . in defence, said they were out fishing His LORDSHIP having summed up, The jury found both prisoners Guilty. His LORDSHIP sentenced the prisoner Marsden to be imprisoned twelve calendar months, and Ains cough nine calendar months, with hard labour. CROWN COURT —(Before Lord Chief Justice CAMPBELL.) Mark Warburton, aged 27, and Aaron Neville, aged 2 6, were indicted for the wilful murder of Betty Croston, at Livesey, on the 10th of April last. Mr. Whigham and Mr. MacOubrey appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Blair defended the prisoner Ne ville, and Mr. Monk the other prisoner. The deceased, it appeared, was the wife of a la bourer, who lived about two miles from Blackburn, and was fifty-two years of age. She waa returning from Blackburn market in the evening of the 10th of April, when she went into a public-house, called the Weaver's Arms, at Darwen, and, after remaining there some time, she and four women, neighbours, and a man named Cowgill t proceeded towards Far mers'-row, where she lived, and in going there had to cross a brid ge , ca l led Nova S cot i a -b r i dge, over t h e Leeds a n d Li verpool Canal. The d eceased went over the bridge, a n d a l ong t h e tow i ng pat h, t h e res t o f th e party goin g by the turnpike-road. The women told Cowgill to go with the deceased as she was the worse for drink, and he accordingly followed her. After walking some way with her, the two prisoners came up, and proceeded to take liberties with the deceased, and to pull her about indecently, Cowgill begging them to let her alone as she was his old mother. The prisoners then attacked and struck him, and drove him away, running after him for some distance. Shortly after the women on the turnpike-read heard the deceased cry out," John, John I'll warm you for this; I'll mark you for this." Cowgill went home, and, the deceased being missing, the canal was searched and drags were obtained, and about a quarter of a mile from the place where the prisoners had scuffiscl with Cowgill, the body of the deceased was found drowned. The prisoners were identified by a witness named Lawen, who met them following Cowgill and the old woman, and the witness stated that they said to him, " The old man could not do the job, and they would de it for him." Another witness also identified them, who met them going after Cowgill. A man named Howarth stated that he heard a cry from the canal of "Help me out, pelf me out 1" but it was dark, and he could see nothing. He saw two men run across a field 30 or 40 yards off, and he called to them to come and help, but they made no answer. Another witness spoke to hearing the noise in the canal, and on seeing the prisoner Neville walk up along the towing-path and ask, " What's up?" Witness replied that there was a woman drowning in the canal. They then heard the woman cry, 44 John, John !" and heard a then b e u l o b bu ame up i n the water, and witness said, "If L's her she's drown e d now ." The prisoner Warburton and said, "It's John Croston's wife drowning." When searching for the body one of the prisoners said to a watchman named Booth that they had leathered the chap who was with John Creston's wife, thinking he was going to do some thing wrong to her. Both prisoners, on being taken into custody, protested their innocence of the charge, but Warburton's hands and face were scratched as if by finger nails. The body of the deceased, when found, had several slight braises and scratches upon it. At the close of the case for the prosecution his LORDSHIP thought the evidence insufficient to sub stantiate the charge, and the jury Acquitted the pri soner". Bis LORDSHIP expressed a strong feeling of abhor rence at the drunkenness, coarseness, and brutality, exhibited by the lower class of the population of this who had been b roug h t b e f ore h i m i n t h e cases bad tried. cwohuinehtyhe and found G u il ty. T hey were sentence d rafterwards months. h t : onT T beeh h o e icim p gp r ci i ria s ils, o s eon imprisoned n w ifso e hr r e e de Their Lordships proceed t o - morrow to open t h e com mission at Liverpool. fromk n ow tnh e that gaol Sparrow years snlg and th e Bird ao t t h n t e c h ere additionalbri eut 10 CIRCUIT.—Wells, Aug. 10. WESTERN CIR . _'there was great con sternationmorning upon its being had made their escape Taunton night. It may be recollected Escort OF PRISON ER ,. Tunton last spring for the in this city th i s n a d h convicted at the quarter sessions assizes fur this c•t then acquitted. H while he Wa d e. s h e a n d ten u c k e e d ii to pa l r : . y ln ea a r n s .. ' that Sparrow was triedwaats afterwards apprebendnecleeta,hat Frome m urder. He gaol under t — hi e s sen tence, gether 2 5 years' transportation. Bird was tried and convicted crwegnahitsrdyi,scfhorvewrehdieh he sessions for mime offence, and sentenced to an t ransportation, ly thus making to- Bi t r o d be w atrsaindsspoorctoend-. transportation ; Dionday all the pri sonersegs, and 14 of them con victed of a burglary and sentenced n• on which the pri- In the course of the evening Somerset te e n hu o' nct l yoc k s had irons put on thereilto iSleep. P w . a s Theren eithe r was bed entrance were put into one room sacking suspended as hammo c k s, that all guard h to see whether all soners slept in their clothes, a at night the governor other accommodation hvi n t ? a r rd c tsh oie n r d i s e s, g )arnw . at night the governor sent a corner of this parti cularwas quiet, and he reported The right. gaol went w i e n u t . o the tthuarnnkaeyfosrarandin gauapradss2lgheadinnoo different wards opened. At the which e the doors of th e leading into a long passage at thece door, was a door, end of which w as a watercloset for the use of d ie . room, opposite the About four o'clock this morn in prisoners in that room. in that room knocked at th e deg one of the prisoners turn keys that Sparrow and Bird werer' ff and told the course instantly went into the r00m,13 . Tne officer s of hole had been made through the wall, and found that a ovr the seat of the watercloset, andwall, immediately about part of a pair of tongs, about upon searching 2 foot in len g th, and which had b een chained to a fi replace which was in the room, was discovered to have been brok en from the chain, an d evidentl y was the instrument with which the h ole had been made . ument were both heavily ironed on both . The prisoners man must have got out legs first, and then The firs t about nine or ten feet into a shallow Stream then dropped He could then easily have helped his fellowram of water. out. Having got out of the water, th prisoner yard of an inn which was shut up byey were in the and there were the traces of the irons on high gates, on the paint, made as the men w ere g etting over the were then in the ope n country with thicfates. They standing corn and beans. The governor"oda and . of the county prison (Mr. Oakley) was immediately in formed of these facts, and he took suciT . circumstances permitted. He sent out themeasures a s lice, all the javelin men who remained in city the P°. and had several special constables sworn, and city, all had instructions to make the m ost diligent search through out the woods and fields, but it is known that par row hi s on a former occa sion remained concealed S - in a wood for a month. Th e greatest difficulty th e will have will be th e removal of their ire°n s' as con. they are steel hardened ; at the same time, with su c h a man as Sparrow, it m a y well be supposed that he had some friends ready to assist him. He h a d f or some time been cohabi tin g with the daughte r of MagtT 2 , who was tried with him for the From murder, and Miss Maggs has a considerable SUM of money in her possession. Mr. Oakley states that from the weight of the irons it would . be impossible for them to g o faster than two e m i l s an hour. It fortunately hsppens that, is the course r of the week Mr. o.:.kley had written to the jury, and had spoken to the judge upon the insecuregand and inefficient state cf this gnol, and the judge h sent to the town clerlt, and, as was understood, hadd suggested to him that something should be done, the after this escape the judge and the high sheriff visitedand spot ' and, as we have been told, completely the officerof the prison from all blame. exo nerateds and over a • ver ing of gain have observations appeared compl - a , the abominable arr n etnen's of this al-. Wells prison. At the d• 8 g . different receiving gaols in the the county separate system is strictly atteuded to, and the are no means b ut re of communication or when brought contamination, 1 for trial to Wells the prisoners - axe a ll 1 PRICES OF SHARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVEIMIG. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10. FOINT.ZTOCIC as zs. _-__-____ Dividend Amount I m mo of mpany• Annum. Share. r 01 Paid. Price. •-•------...-- ---- -- Australasia •......• • • 51. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 . 58 BritshNorth.Amcrican N. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - Colonial.. . - Gloucestershire ...... 151 per cent. - - - E LT i nd an on .a.n.d. .C.01.t37"..... 6 6 4 / . p p e r r c c e g n n t t .. 5 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 - N d e W w e 8 . . .t r . :ins . ..t . r 61 , per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 3234 L l :o roD n u vi d d :o ta n oc 7 a o l in of t- Ir S e to lan ck ti .... 8 6 1 1 : ppeerr cent. 100 50 0 0 00 25 10 0 0 0 0 _ l9 s tr:t etn . h P taiA ro usß vncial of Eng National of Ireland ... 6 8 1 / . . p p e e r r cceenntt.. 10010 0 0 00 3510 0 0 0 0 Ditto, New. ....... 41. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 1934 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - t an ra k ii C a o . rpo r . a . . 6 8 1 1 : p p: c e t. t. /be bs. . 2 2 5 5 0 0 0 0 25 25 0 0 0 0 - DittoAustralia„ cr i :l n nl io o n no o f fmadrid .z. .. 61. . per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 4 7 .............. 2 10 0 - 61. per cent. - Union of London .. 71 per cent. 60 0 0 10 0 0 15 40 0 0 40 0 0 . - • • .--------• ZNEIMICANCS CORICPANIZEL end Name of Company. Dividend per A of mou at Paid. Price Annum. Share. £ e. d. X s. d. Albion .............. EL 109. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86 Alliance Brit. and For. 71. 143. 6d.bs. 100 0 0 11 0 0 22% Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 61. p.c.& bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 41% Anchor ...... -• • .... 6 per cent. 5 0 0 1 0 0 - Atlas • • Argus Life •• ••• • • • • 41. per cent. 100 8 0 16 0 0 & 102 -_- British Commercial .. Is. 6d. 50 0 0 50 0 : 7 96 Cloricl,Med. Gen. Life spr ct.&bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1 41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14s. 10 0 0 5 0 0 164 Basle .•.... Eqity and Law .....• 4 34 0 5% per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 European Life ••... 109. 20 0 0 All paid. 1534 General - - 5 0 0 ~ 145 Globe 0 0 56Z Guardian ...... .• •• • • 51. per cent 100 0 0 45„,,, Imperiai Fire .. .. .• • • 121. per ce nt. 500 0 0 50 0 0 ,"..?,., Imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 !rli Indemnity Marine.... 11. sh. & be. 100 0 0 20 0 0 4 : Law Fire ••• • • •..• • • 25.& 2 s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 Law Life..........., - :1 Legal and General Life - London Ship .... 10 s . & bs. 25 0 0 12 10 0 ~., Marine ••-•-•• • • • • .. 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 1 2 , ; t 25 0 50 0 00 0 0 00 1 12 0 2 1 0 00 0: 5, 42 - London Fire -..... 10 s . & bs. 1 Med.lnvlid&Gen.Life 4341. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 219.0 d Monarch •••••• • • .... - 5o o 1 0 - n 2% National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 46 Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 45 Pelican • • . . • • • • - - - 170 Pacenix •• - - P pr r o of vi es d s e i n on t al Life.. Life.....•...... 1i1..5s per . hcebnet.. 1006 5 0 0 0 1 0 00 1 1g0 o go l 5 4Td Rock Life ...... .. .. ss. 5 0 0 91 230 Royal Exchange 6l. p.ct. & bs. Stock. 213 inn Fire - 91 55 Ditto Kingdom . 4B 0 4% United .... 41. p. et. &bs. 20 0 0 0 0 41 • Tniversal Life........ 21.5 e. per :h.: 100 0 0 10 _ o 4 12 Victoria Life ; ........ 51. per cent. - n 5 0 - Waterlco ........ - - - 5 0 0 0 DOC3E9S. Dividend Amount paid. Prim Name of Company. per of Annum. Share. -......----• --• , -- -- ----_- X O. d• £ 0. d. 105 Commercial .......... 41. pr cent. Stock. - 169 East and West India... 6341. pr cent. Stock. - - Cast Country ..... •• . 20s. per s k. 100 0 0 _ 13234 London .• •••. - - - 51. pr cent. Stock. - - Ditto Bonds.. •. • • • • 41. per cent. - 94 -• St. Katharine .... •• • • 4 per cent. Stock. - - Ditto 80nd5."... •• 4%1. pr cent. - n 0 0 0 ali Southampton ........ , ii . per cent. 50 0 w - ------- BIZIDGES Dividend Amount Paid. Price, Name of Company. per Of Annum. Sha re ' ----- ---- x. ------$. d, X. 5. d. - _ _ ' Uungerford.• • • • • • • • • - 0 - - iouthwrk .. - •• •• • • - 100 0 - 16 Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 70s. plO o 0 oor cent. 50 0 0 :Vaterloo .. - • • .. - • • - - 3 60 0 0 24 % u DM_ " Old Ann. ofBl. 21. Bs. ed. 40 0 0 22 34 - Ditto Nw ditto 0f,71. 21. 29. Od. - , , rauxhall .... • • • Av. 21. _ 70 10 3 Name of Company. Paid. Price. per Annum. Sha re. ----- - X 9. d. £ e. d. East London .. •• I 81. per cnt. 100 0 0 17j1LIviEde7ic;WA7ofiKun: • - 155 - Grand Janction •• •• • • 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 6634 - 83 ECent•......... ••- •• •41. per cat. 100 0 0 Lambeth ............ - 100 0 0 - - New River Company.. 21.105. - - 60 Southwark & Vauxhall 51. per cut. 100 0 0 - - West Middlesex .....• '61.01. pr cut. - - 101% Names of "L.) I Dividend Names of e, Dividend r Companies. per Price. Companies. 2, An num. price. m Annum. --• A Abbtnlc Oldb 98 71. p. ct. 140 Macclesfield . . 100 21.105. 50 Barnaley.• • • 160 Neath •••• •• 100 1 81 . larkuk&Abrg 150 51. 85 Oxford.. •• ioo 131. 135 Birmingham 401 41. 101 Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. 70 Coventry.... 100 251. 200 Regent's •• • • 83 11. Os. 1134 Derby ••• • • 100, 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85 , 21. 42 Ellsmre&Chs 69 2% p. ct. 33% Semrset Coal 1501— GrandJunctn 100 3/. pr.ct. 50 Do.Lk Fd St 12 Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 6/. pr. ct. 11 w Stffrd &Wore 140 I 281 . 405 Grand Surrey 100 21. 10s. Shrewsbury.. 25 (.4rand Union 100 11. 10s. 24 Stonrbridge.. 145 201. 290 Kennt& Avn 39 40. Od. 6% Severn andl Lancaster . 100, Wye Rail. 26 2 " 4 * 24 Leeds&Livrp 100 201. 455 Warwick& j Leicester 1001 51. 66 Idirming. .5 100 41. 40 Lemstr&Nth 831 41. 44% Warwick& 100 31. 28 Loughborogh 142, 701. 510 Napton.. Monmonthsh 100 1 Worcstr Birming. j 7B 31 . 33 I Vintgemryah 1001 MeltnMwbry 100 Wilts & Brks —10 s. 01 714 GAS-MIGHT .ND COIF}' 00BIPANXES. - --- - Dividend Amount Name of COMP 811 Y• per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. --._ _______ -... IX. 8. d. X. 8. d. British • • •• •• • • ...• •• - - _ - Ditto Provincial•• •• 11. 88. 20 0 0 20 0 0 19 Brighton •••••• • • • • •. 51. 20 0 0 - 16 City of London .. •• - 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 126 Continental Consolidat. 50s. 75 0 0 42 15 0 453( Equitable -• ••••• • •• •• 50s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 27 Great Central:.• ••• • • 5/. 10 0 0 10 0 0 144 imperial ••..••• • ,• •• 3/, & bonus. 50 0 0 50 0 0 724 independent ... ••• • • • 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46 London• ••••••• • • • • •• _ 50 0 0 50 0 0 - Do., Parl. Preference 61. 125 0 0 25 0 0 26 ehcanix .••••• • • • • • - 311. per cent. 50 0 0 49 9 0 26 38 11-tt•iliff ••••.• • • • • • • 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 - United General ••• • - 11. ,50 0 0 50 0 0 2034 Westminster Chartered 51. per cent, )50 0 0 - 37% Ditto, New •• •• - -5/. per cent. ,50 0 0 10 0 0 - latST , " Or SCOTTIZE COMPADZIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. .- --- -- -- . _ X 8. d. X s. d Bank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. per cent. 160 0 0 100 0 0 208 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Lank Ca. per cent. 10 0 01 10 0 0 1036 Clydesdale Bank -••- 636 per cent. 20 0 0 ' 10 0 0 ;2'los Commercial Bank •• - 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 160 Eastern Bank.. •• •• •• 61. percent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 10 Edinb.&Glasgow Bank 3/. per cent. , 50 0 50 0 434 Ezehangeßnk of Scot.. - 100 0 0 38 0 0 9 s. Id national Bank 634 percent. 1 50 0 0 10 0 0 i 6 STorthof Scotland Bank 51. percent. 20 0 0 210 0 3 Boyalßank of Scotland 5/. per colt. ;00 0 0 100 0 0 1344 Urilonßank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 50 0 0 91 Westera Bank •••• • • • • 7/. per cent. 50 0 50 0 0 704 Alliance Fire and Life 836 /.pr cent. 10 0 10 0 0 21% British Guarantee Caledonian Fire Insur. 101:per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 City of Glasgow Life 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 41. 158 Colonial Life •••• Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 224 , r,ng. & Scot, Law Life 5/.percent. 50 0 0 217 6 3% Life A seoc. of Scotland 6/.percent. 10 0 0 110 0 31.17 s National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 303.0 d North British Insur. - 61. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 1 3436 Scottish Union Insrnce. 741. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 323.0 d Standard Life United Dep•Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 19s 3d lITISCELZA.NEOUS. Dividend Amount Nam.% of Company. per of Paid. Price. ----- Annum. Share. -- __ ___,.... X. s. d. -.S. s. d. Assam Tea ••..•• . . • • 50 0 0 20 0 0 snctien Mart •••. • • • • V. 53. 50 0 0 516 Australian Azriculturl 11. 100 0 0 35 0 0 20 Australian Trust .• .. 61. per cent. 85 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 4% British American Land 15s. 38 10 0 Canada ... •••••• •• .. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0 50 . & i icr k i u rDr. s xni l ei. r ,ot.,}:te a .. ous l em i iv a Do. 5 per cent Bonds —.— Ditto, 6pr et. Bonds 61. per"cent. 115% City Navigation Bonds 3/ per cent. 97 Electric Telegraph (A) 25 () 0 20 0 0 Ditto .. .. • • .... (B) 25 0 0 710 0 Equitable Reversienry Si pr. cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 119 50 0 0 10 0 0 _ 5p.c.g. - bs,2 l 100 0 0 100 0 8 100 ( 1, 1 , i e u ne n t dv . gro 9 ,: t p: : ifpoc n rci e l ya a ni v ia Institution a g a a . t n i ! oi p 2 . 10 p. ct . 15 0 0 14 0 0 291,4 Iludson's 8ay...• • • Stock. itoYal Ilan 215 L on ••••• • • • • V. 59. 100 0 0 100 0 0 47 78 15 0 5 i t rjci , ll B (l° _ ll Reversionary . Si. per cent. ,15 0 0 15 0 0 15 _ gleam.. oe. 4141. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 106 Co. 10/. percent. 20 0 0 17 12 10 i 0 0 2434 • , nth. Au atralir .• • • 41 . P. share. 1100 0 0 60 0 0 80$ Trust and Lo an - ','• 5 1. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 22) .... 20 0 0 3 0 0 °art.terßl ni c . totas Gu y ' e n t a - taio.ln . Mint..v. 1...ie..a3..ti..l . 11. 103. 10 0 0 10 0 0 22 An of 25 . 19 _. est price of 3/. 17s. 100 i; f011t 4 7 1 r,2',„AR„,.,"•--The quotation of gold at Paris at the English mi l) n rem • (according to the new tariff ), which, n w ce hi f n o b r ' st a ta t nd ar h standard gold, pe n at short being 25.27*, it follows 25.1 ' 4 ; change at Pa on Ta t ta r, burgh the price of gold ex that gold is about 0.32 per an d ounce the fo r Paris an e dearer in London than in Paris. By advices fromr the bold, Mint price of i 3 , 11. 4 1 24 . 1 10 p1 t r i. m pe a r rk ou , of 13.5,1 ; and the exchange at lenhi' gives an exchange s!lort being 13.7 i, it follows that g(ll .,ur g ia on London at dearer in London than in Ilarnburghl...B about 0.98 per cent. of gold is merely nominal. The course Tli f e above price New York on London for bills at 60 nd exchange at 110 i per cent., and the par of exchange between sight is and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows England exc h a nge is nominal l y 0.920 f per cent, in f avour that the for char England And, after ma kin g allowance charges of thetransport,importationof gold from he United States. TuaNriKe TRUSTS. —The fourth number of th e county reports of the Secretary of State, under the 3d and 4th William IV., c. 80, relative to the coanty of Hampshire, has been printed. After tracing the formation of the roads in the county from the earliest p eriods, the report points o ut the alterations made in the expenditure, and other particu lars, since the pawing of the Turnpike Trusts Act in 1833, and the General Highway Act of 1835. The total inco me i r Ll . 183 4 was 28,0351. Os. 9cl. ; in IS SO it was 19,5041 16s. 84. Ihe total expenditure in 1834 was 26,6651 9s. 5d.; in 1850 it was 18,3911, 2s. sd. The bonded d ebts in 1850 were 436/ 108 ; ~ and the unpaid interest 48,711/. Bs. 7cl. 1I EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1852, huddled together, the guilty and innocent, and it will hardly be credited that during the week thelr are at Wells neither the turnkeys nor the prisoners can take off their clothes. We visited the room in which these 14 prisoners had been confined, anda more disgust ing place could not be imagined—a dirty stable would hare been far preferable. BRISTOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. A letter has just been received from the governor, stating that Sparrow and Bird have been captured, and safely lodged in Shepton Mallet gaol, but we have not yet been furnished with any particu'ars, The Commission for holding the assizes for the city of Bristol was opened here yesterdty afternoon by Mr. Baron Platt. For the first time the clerk of assize and associate, regularly belonging to the Western Circuit, have taken their proper seats in this court, the local associates having been removed. This augurs well, and we may hope yet to see Bristol placed in its proper position, having the assizes twice a year, and a gaol delivery before the judges of assize on the Western Circuit. There are 19 causes for trial, four of which are marked for special juries. The bad ventilation and inconvenience of the court still continue. GOODMAN V. HEMMETT. Mr, Butt and Mr. Barstow were counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr. Sergeant Kinglake and Mr. Smith for the defendant. This was an action for the recovery of 901. under the following circumstances :—The plaintiff had been a straw plait manufacturer at Dunstable in Bedford shire, and the defendant was a shipowner in this city. The defendant had advertised the ship Deborah to sail for Australia, to proceed to the gold diggings. The plaintiff was desirous of trying his fortune in those regions, and he went to Mr. Dobbins, the ship's agent, and secured two of the best berths in the ves sel for himself and wife, at the sum of 001., which sum he paid ; but as the plaintiff was anx i ous th a t imper tinent inquiries should not be made by his creditors, he transacted this part of the business in the name of Buckingham and he had determined, in order to ensure his future success, to procure as many pack ages as he could. The creditors, however, became suspicions, and understanding goods had been sent to Mr. Dobbins, they telegraphed that gentleman, who, knowing nothing of Mr. Goodman, telegraphed back that he had not received any such goods. However, it was subsequently discovered that the goods had really been sent by the plaintiff, and a writ of espies was issued, and it was believed by the creditors that the plaintiff's travelling name was Goodwin. The vessel had gone out to Kingroad, and the officers to whom the writ was given proceeded to Lamplighter's-hall and inn, near Kingroad, with the view of going on board the De borah at daylight, believing the plaintiff to be in the ship. The officers got into conversation with the landlord, and asked him if he had any one in the house of the name of Goodwin who was about to pro ceed to Australia. The landlord replied that he had no one in the house of that name, but there were Mr. and Mrs. Buckingham. It would seem that, al though this was in the middle of the night, the plain tiff heard some inquiries, and thinking that, as the best way to pay his creditors would be to proceed to the gold diggings, and that if he went on board at once there might be a sudden chance of wind, t o th e " ultimate" benefit of the creditors, he called out to the landlord that he desired to leave the house di rectly. A person was in company with the officer who perfectly well knew, not only the person, but the voice of the plaintiff, and he directly said, " That is our bird come into our net." They proceeded up.. stairs and took possession of their prim. Mr. Dob bins, finding the plaintiff could not go on board, let the berths to a second class pa4senger, who was on board, and the ship sailed. The creditors then claimed a return of the 901., and the defendant, who was the owner of the ship, refusing to pay it, the present ae.- tion was brought for the benefit of the creditors. The legal pr oo f i n the case, according to the opi nion of the Learned Baron, failing as to the contract. Mr. Sergeant KINGLAICH ad iressed the jury upon the breach of it by the defendant, contending that there was no proof of the berths having been let to any one else, or that the plaintiff ever claimed them. The Learned BARON, in summing up, observed that that plaintiff had never presented himself at any time to take possession of his berths, and, there fore, until he did so, there could be no breach, and there was no evidence of the berths having been let to any one else. The verdict was therefore entered for the defendant. A bill of exceptions to the ruling of the Learned Judge was tendered. CHESTER, Wednesday. Aug. 11. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CROMPTON.) Elle* Roberts, aged 24, was charged with the wil ful murder of her illegitimate child on the 7th of May last. The prisoner pleaded "Not Guilty." Mr. Davison appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. M'lntyre defended the prisoner. From the statement of the case by the Learned Counsel for the prosecution it appeared that on the 26th of April last, the prisoner, who was then residing as a domestic servant in the house of Mr. Hughes, at Liverpool, was delivered of a male child, and that on the Bth of May she took the child away from lodgings in which it had been placed, and, under the pretence of taking it out to nurse, conveyed it from Liver pool across the Mersey, to Bidston-marsh, where she left it. The child was found the same afternoon, about 5 o'clock. It was taken to the house of the overseer of Bidston, where it died at 6 o'clock the following morning. The Learned Counsel hav ing detailed all the facts of the case, called several witnesses. The principal evidence was that of Rose Ann Smith, who stated that she was a char woman in the house of Mr. Hughes, builder, of Park street, Liverpool. After deposing to the birth of the child on the 26th of April, she said that on that day, in the course of a conversation between Mrs. Hughes, the prisoner, and witness, the prisoner said, speaking of the child, " I will never give it suck or pull my self down by it. I will soon get something to banish suck from me." Mrs. Hughes then said to witness, " Well, Mrs. Smith, if she will not take to the child, you take it home and take particular care of it." Witness then took the child to her house, and it re mained there 12 days. On the 7th of May, wit ness went to the lodgings of the prisoner, who had in the mean time left the service of Mr. Hughes. Pri soner asked witness to let her have the child, as she wanted to take it out to Bootle to nurse for 3s. a week. On the following day witness met the pri soner by appointment and gave her the child. The next morning witness again saw the prisoner, who told her that she had left the child very comfortable with a good nurse at Bootle, and paid her for a quarter in hand, at the rate of 33. a week. On the Saturday week following, seeing an account in the Liverpool Courier of an inquest which had been held upon a child found on Bidston-marsh on the same day on which witness gave the deceased child to the prisoner, with a description of the clothes worn by the child so found on Bidston-marsh, curiosity led her to go to the authorities, who were in possession of the clothes, when she identified the clothes as the same which the prisoner's child had on when witness gave the child to her. Upon this, witness gave in formation, and the prisoner was taken into custody at her lodgings in Liverpool. In the presence of the policeman who took her into custody, witness asked the prisoner what she had done with the child, when she replied, " I never had a child." In cross-examination the witness said she under stood that Mr. Hughes's son was the father of the child. Several other witnesses were called, one of whom was a labourer employed on Bidston•marsh on the Bth of May. He said he saw the prisoner on Bid ston-marsh on the Bth, with something in her arms which he thought was a child. Ocher witnesses de posed to seeing her on Bidston-marsh and in the neighbourhood on the afternoon of that day. The surgeon, in his evidence, stated that the child found on the marsh died from exposure and want of nourish ment. Mr. M'INTYEE then addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner in an eloquent and ingenious speech, contending that the capital charge could not be sus tained. He admitted that the prisoner had at least been guilty of great negligence to her offspring, but be thought the jury must stop there, and decline to find her guilty of a murder. His LORDSHIP summed up, and pointed out to the jury the law as it applied to the case before them, showing the distincti on dr awn b e t we en what consti tuted murder and what formed manslaughter. The jury found the prisoner Guilty of , man slaughter, and she was sentenced to seven years transportation. William Thomas, aged 23, was placed at the bar, charged with the w ilf u l m u rder of his mother , Eliza beth Thomas, at Prenton, near Birkenhead, on the 31st of July last. The prisoner pleaded "Not guilty," and o n being placed at the bar hi s countenance did not indicate a i any of those s y mp t oms o f i nsa nity which have been im puted to hi m . H e ma i n tained a stoical indifference to his situation as the trial proceeded, but occasionally looked f rown i ng l y on th e different witnesses, and several times cast expressive glances at the Le arne d Counsel an d th e w it ne sses when particular question s were asked, as if taking especial interest in them. Mr. DAVISON stated the case on behalf of the pro secution, the court being unusually crowded at the tune. He said that the prisoner at the ba r was in dicted for th e wilful murder of Elizabeth Thomas and it was his painful duty t o tell the j ury t h at the deceased Elizabeth Thomas was his own mother. It was right, however, to relieve their naiads f rom th e painful feeling which the bare mention of suc h a crime was calculated to excite by tellin g th em that neither himself (the L earned Counsel) nor those who instructed him had any other object in view than to lay the case for the prosecution fairly before them. There was goo d reason to doubt whether at the time that he took the life of his mother he was not of unsound mind, and sn not criminally rest) I I of mind, as perhaps, they all knew, was ground for a defence in crime such as this, but at the same time it was his duty to tell them that it was a defence which should not be lightly entertained nor lightly yielded to, for every man was supposed to be of sound mind until the contrary was proved, and for the repre&sion of crime, and fur the satisfaction of all, it was neces sary that when such a defence as this was set up or arose in the evidence, it should be tested by a full and fair public inquiry. The jury would have evidence laid before them showing them what was his state of mind belore this sad event. The prisoner's brothers and two medics' witnesses would be called before them, and from them it would be proved that the de ceased came to her death by the hand of the prisoner; and that being so, it would be for the jury to say whether the prisoner at •hat time was of unsound mind or not. The Learned Counsel then detailed the facts of the distressing event, which have already ap peared in the public prints. Toe deceased, Elizabeth Thomas, was a poor widow women, residing in a cottage at Prenton, near Birkenhead. There resided with her in that cottage the prisoner and his two brothers, Samuel and Joseph—one (Joseph) grown up, and the other (Samuel) a little boy, aged nine years. About eight o'clock on the evening of Saturday, the 31st of July, the prisoner and his brother Joseph had gone out. About nine o'clock the prisoner returned home, and at that time his mother was sitting up in the house. The prisoner asked his mother what she was sitting up for, when she replied that she was sitting up for Joseph. The prisoner on this said that he would sit up for Joseph, and told his mother to go to bed. She then went to bed, taking the little boy Samuel with her, and they slept in the same bed. Some time after this the mother and the little boy being asleep, the bier was aroused by something press ing against him. This awoke the boy, when he eaw the prisoner in the bed, with a candle in one hand and a razor iu the other. The prisoner got upon his mother, pressed his knees against her, and cut her throat. He then took the little boy to another room, and afterwards, as they would hear in evidence, carried the body of the deceased out of the house, and buried her in the garden. About twenty minutes to eleven o'clock the prisoner's brother Joseph re turned home, when the prisoner, who was upstairs, shouted out, "doe, is that you ?" The brother re plied, " Yes." The prisoner then said, " Joe, I've killed my mother, and buried her in the garden i've made her comfortable, and she will be better off now. Don't you say anything about it." The Learned Counsel then related the circumstances connected with the alarm raised by the brother of the prisoner, the finding of the body of the deceased buried with the bed clothes in the garden, her throat being dread fully cut. _ _ Several witnesses were called who deposed to all the facts, and the surgeon's evidence having been heard, the jury intimated that they were satisfied of the prisoner's insanity, upon which the Judge (per fs,ctly agreeing with them) directed an Acquittal on that ground. The Stockport oases are fixed for to morrow morning. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH STREET. Captain Aohrley was summoned before Mr. Bingham to show cause why he detained certain papers belonging to Pierre Banquet, an Indian chief. The complainant, on p rev i ous a ppli ca ti on a t this court, explained to the magistrate that be had certain claim, upon, or representations to make to, the Colo nial-office on behalf of himself and tribe, relative to certain lands of which they had been dispossessed; that he had come to England about thirteen months ago to prosecute those claims; that, unluckily, he was seen in the street on hi s way to t h e Colonial office by Captain Ackerley; that he was induced to place himself and p pere in the hands of Captain Ackerley, who undertook to use his influence with Government to get justice done to himself and people ; that he had discovered, after some months' delay, he had made a mistake in allowing Captain Ackerley to have anything to do with his business; and that, being now desirous of returning home, he had applied, but in vain, for the restoration of his papers, some of which were official. Captain Ackerley came to the court at an early hour, and obtained summonses against several gentle men connected with the Colonial and Government offices. The only summons which Police-constable Roberts could serve was a summons addressed to a gentleman named Elliott. At three o'clock, Captain Ackerley having made his appearance with a considerable number of papers, Mr. BINGHAM requested he would tell him shortly why he detained the papers?—Captain Ackerley proceeded to say that in Issl he met the man Pierre Basquet in the street, and bearing in mind that in 1820 he had been sworn in sponsor for the Indians ; that on the occasion of taking an Indian to the Bay of Exploits he had been told to pull off his uniform, and to perform service as a clergyman, that he had so performed service for some time, but in consequence of the Indian being turned out into the open air, death ensued ; and having sent a report to Lord Dal- housie, and afterwards received his commission as lieutenant, he came to England, and was put into the rules of the peace for Middlesex and Worcester. At this point o f t h e story Mr. V aughan i nterposed, and reminded the Captain it would be advisable to come to the case of Pierre Basquet without further delay. Captain Ackerley said, he saw Pierre Basquet in the street, and, being of opinion his duties as Indian sponsor came into r equ i s iti on , h e too k c h arge o f t h e applicant's busines s . H e correspon d e d w i t h t h e Co lonial-office, and asc er t a i ne d t h at E ar l G rey b a d re cognised the position of the applicant, giving him the medal he then wore, and a union-jack to hold as his emblem of auth or i ty , connecte d w i th the fisheries. Being desirous that the correspondence should be con ducted in a regular way he had taken charge of it. Some of th e correspondence was regular, and some irregular. In some of the letters the applicant was described as " Bosquet," and in others as " Basquet." The consequence of this was that the American Go vernment would not recognise him at all, and refused to defr a y a b out 20 0 1. expenses , t o which he (Captain Ackerley) had been put for the maintenance of the applicant, and for the proper prosecution of his claims. He was, ho w ev e r, d e sir o us of carrying out conscienti ously the trust c o n fid e d t o him, and only waited for the magistrate's orders to give up the papers, as he was anxious to prevent an impression from going abroad that he had thrown the man off, and had acted unfairly towards him. Mr. BINGHAM—YOH do not approach the point I have to decide. You detain the papers of Pierre Banquet, and you must show me some reason why you do so. I presumed the reason you would offer would be that you had done some meritorious services, and that you detained the papers until you were paid. Captain Ackerley—That is the real meaning of the thing. Mr. BINGHAM—WeiI, then, as I have correctly surmised the truth, there is an end of the matter. No person has a right to detain papers for expenses in curred except an attorney for expense in a suit of law, and you are not an attorney. Captain Ackerley—Oh, but I am an attorney. Mr. BINGHAM—Not an attorney such as the law contemplates. If you have any claim for expensesyou must proceed in a civil court. You cannot de tain the papers on that ground. Captain Ackerley—l have no claim against this man. My claim is against Government for mil eage . Mr. BINGHAM — Then my decision is, that you give up the papers. You have shown no right to them, and it is not disputed they belong to th e app li cant. Captain Ackerley immediately restored the papers and then asked if he was still bound to maintain the applicant ? Mr. BINGHAM said the applicant bad no claim upon Captain Ackerley for maintenance. The course for Captain Ackerley to take was to deliver the applicant to the relieving-officer, who would no doubt do his duty. The chief having expr esse d no reluctance to accede to this proposition, Captain Ackerley left the court with him. A well-dressed y oung man, MA RYLEBONE. a foreigner, who gave his name Ferdinand Joussen, and said that he was a Swede, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with having stolen a valuable gold watch, the property of M r . C ornelius Heseltine, residing at No. 12, Nutford-place, Edgeware-road ; and it will be seen from what transpired in the course of the in quiry, that a more serious charge with regard to for gery will, in all probability, be brought against the .prisoner on a future day. The prosecutor, on being sworn, said—The pri soner came to my house last Thursday, and I agreed for hi m to b oard and lodge with me. I keep a lodg ing-hause. He brought no luggage with him, and alleged th at h e had lett it a l l at a pr i va t e h o t e l at Black wall, where he had for some time been staying, and that it was there locked up. He told me that he had been a merchant's clerk, and was looking out for another situation ; and, from his gentlemanly and plausible manner, I believed his representation to be correct. Yesterday morning he came down to m e i n the kitchen, and asked me what the time was and it was • on taking my gold watch from a drawer and looking returned it to the drawer,. and prisoner, after at it, I informed him that half - past nine. taus. He soon afrerwards thanking me, and, taking, up a ne came down again,wspspar, seated went upstairs. himself in a chair near the drawer I have spoken of. He commenced reading. He was thus employed for somew here about half an hour, duri ng Which period I did not remain all the while in the room, being otherwise engaged. He (Prisoner) at length got up, and, shaking hands with me, bade Me g oo d b y , say ing that at one o'clock he should be back to dinner. I n a n hour after his departure I opened the drawer, and found that my watch was gone. Mr. BROUGHTON—Did the primaries. re t i re ? Pre sectitar—Lie dot not, s our Woeship. Mr. BROU6IITOIN—What value do you put upon your watch ? Prosecutor-20/ It cost me 241. George Rich, a young man who had also lived at prosecutor's house, said—At a late hour last night I saw the prisoner go i n t o sn oyster-shop in the Her market, and, havin g called a polio: man, I gav e him in charge. He then said that he knew nothing about the watch which he at th e tim e was accused of hav in g stolen. Mr. BROUGHTON inquired if the watch had been found, snd he was replied to in the affirmative. George Joseph Norton, manager to Mr. Thurle, jeweller, &c, Yeet-strset, produced a gold watch, which was ide aified by Mr. Heseltine as being the one stolen from his kitchen. Mr. BRoUGHTON (tO witness)--1-16 w did yo u be ceme possessed of this watch ? Witness —Yest erclai evening, about five o'clock, the prisoner came int° our shop and offered it for sale for 91. Mr. Dar'? refused to give him that sum, and offered him 61. 103., which he took He said he was from the enn!", try, and bad spent all his money, but be expeeteu„ more soon, and requested to know whether be could have the article back again, calling with the cash he had received, and point; I 5. more for the accommodation. t hat ? Mr. BROUGHTON—What answer was given to .. Witness—We observed to him, ~ yes, if we a bou h ln e happen to have it by us." The price we gsY e f l o ,: c i t watch is the value of the cases, which we weig — a , in the event of his shortoly Smith, 340 A—l took the prisoner into custoelss froja information which I received from the vlitli aat Rich. He denied all knowledge of the ro bbery: his the station-house I searc h e d hi m , and found 113ale° a possession nearly U. in gold and silver, as printed bill, the The bill was here hand e d to the magistrate; following is a copy :____ --A foreigner who has called himself A. . Cautton—To Bankers, Merchants, and othe r°. •-s recently uttered several forged letters of credit Pur,,P°o - to be signed by a respectable mercantile &m ill feet Din, about 8 s mark. He is about 24 years of age, height 7 inches, stout built, fair complexion, t plausible 1135_,Ilveror. and fi address. lie has the appearance of a clerk, 50 1 s e ?83iits to be in the employ ofrespectable foreig n ^ ll a d Dr by whom the letters of credit purport to be issil e aa ' at ir forir tt ' A tam concerning any person answering the dal a. tine, is requested to be given to Messrs. Bush an ---11 lens, 7, Mildred's-court, Poultry." A A v ery (The appearance of the prisoner corresponded tee closely to the description given in the bill as to - person " wanted" for the forgery.) 11. Schroder, has bee n to Mr. -BROUGHTON (to witness)—Have you _,. the office of Messrs. Bush and Mullens ? W itness to I have, your worship, and have communicated are them all the facts that I am in possession of; they re, desirous of writing to persons on the continent in ot 5 ference to the affair, and if your worship w ill g r ew , remand, one of the firm will attend on the nest " urination. a a usual The prisoner, after being cautioned in tu i : l „ in manner, was asked if he wished to say any be answer to the charge of stealing the watch/ ,se replied, "I did take it, and got Of 105. for i t: n ot. The prisoner stands remanded till Wednesday bad The constable has ascertained that the prison er . go e for some time been staying at the Hotel d'All eip lee, et du Commerce, Leicester-street, Leicester.o4llloo where he said he was an offioer in the Spanis b er w bo and gave his name Wessenberg. A was with him at the hotel alluded to, and vib e r e lice, sensed himself to be an ( fficer in the Russian s e `' to had paid a bill which they had run up asountlgtio 11 /. odd ; the bill was, with the printed descriaPer's one previou.ly tpsken of, taken from the prin 3 P ote i pocket at the station. The proprietor of th e bed said that the prisoner, while staying w ith bin] , bee p pulled down one of the printed bills which 1 12 " gentlest:On re_ put up in a conspicuous place on the premiso• .-- THE COUN TR 1 itlAkaa j m a rket LIVERPOOL, AUG. 10.—The attendance at the' ,itla tt:-dakwas fair, and the weather t)eing still unsettlee, s pa the advance at Kirk lane, causal holders of wbet e el fl •ur to ask an advance of 3d per 7 01 ba , and Is P e , r H ero r ap, ctively. Buyers acted with caution , an d sale' - tbe sp ot ac slowly eff,oted at this advance. Indian co rn oe 'Nita neglected; !Lus t ing cargoes were still inquired foe the extreme rates of Friday. lied LEEDS, AUG. 10.—We were moderately saPP he with a heat. The reports of blight and milde, vi a „ in „ t ia southern counties were fully confirmed. TOO eul— The Mark-lane did not cause any g r ea t aa rivitf b for weather during the past week has been &vows a d. the crops. Holders were, however, fi rn " and d an estahlisbe 0 Vance of nearly 2a. per quarter Was Beans steady. pate business done. Barley nominal. and other articles unaltered. to There werehia EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, ALTO. I °*" . " the meal market to-day 4 sacks oatmeal, each Weig E 0 8 Od to t 7 o s at 1 1 2801bs. imperial, which sold thus —1 at 1/ Qs, i Oat strilaßuß.l/ 7s 9d 0..12t1b09:..... H HAT AND STRAW M A RKET, Ag il. 00 ant n 2 i at 117 s ; average price of the whole here. ie wheat ditto , drti o, ro 6 m s od 7 Hy, from 9d to lld per stone ; new ditto, 6id to 84. ~. ill DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, AUG. 9. There W— se the market to-day 56 bags of oatmeal 15 of barley.irtea/e t. 8 0 s d 0 ; cl bpaerrlekyemdipttleo,ofssl66adtetoneso 6d. 2of potbarley. There was no peasemeal or flour in marks Oatmeal down 6d per bag on the top, is on the second Pr i n and 4s €d on the lowest price. Sales dull for oatmeal ; 9 "" P barleymeal unsold; the 6 bags sold was of inferior quality. Or d Oatmeal, per s a ck, of 280 lbs. First 6econci O imperial 28s Od 27s 05 233 6a Barley-meal, per ditto .—sOd—s Od 19 3 od Peasemeal ... --s Od —s Od -- 0 Flour ... ....: ... ...—a Od ...-0 Od Potbarley ... ..... ::. —s Od —s Od .....5 a...--YESTERDAY . he close of the market!. Haswell ..... .. ........... 1 48 93 s 3d Lambton ......•• . 14s 9 d ..... . 1 Russell's Hetton ..... Stewart's •• ••. 15s Od Shotton (unscrewed). 13s oa Hartlepool ............ 14s 6d South Hartlepool ..... 14s 3d South Kelloe .......... 14 OS Thorniey ................. 149 01 !4?.l.lwentwaterHartley 14s Od "`°n'a Merthyr and A 4 Cardiff - ;t, 62 ...Sold, 53 .... COAL MARKS' Prices of Coal per ton at ti Bate's West Hartley 13s 6d Chester 'Main l2s 6d Earsdrn Hartley —, New Tantield Tyne Main lls 9d Redheugh Main Enfield Moor Bates l2s Od West, Wylam Wylam Wall's End, Northumberland Eden Main .... Ships at market RAILWAY SRARE MARKEV' BRISTOL, AUG. 11. veil STOCK EMMA/MR.— The share market has beau,01.... dull and inactive. Bristol and Exsters were done at South Devon, 20. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 11. M ill STOCK EXCHANGE.—O ur sh are mar k et to-day `" flat, and only a limited business doing; quotations ar e bo th lower, and the buying orders in the brokers' hands are few and closely restricted. The transactions were as followir, Caledonian, 19 l A—Eastern Counties, 10%—East Lan Fifes' Lancashire and Yorkshire, 771/ Ditto, 2 20 4 9-16 dis.—Liverpool, Crosby and Southport, . r ot* London and North- Western, 124—Ditto, New Q,,I7i0e11: 1 ; 30 1 / 2 —Ditto, Quarters (C), 134 p.—Manchester , s ad and Lincolnshire, 30—Midland, 71%, South-Bas te ' Dover, 203. MANCHESTER, AUG. 11. A well tb STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share ma rket opened, c lose' morning, but declined in a slight d eg ree towards its o w---• The transactions reported were—Blackburn (No , 1 ) , pre' Eastern Counties. 101 / 2 —East Lancashire, 17%---Dittefoittor ference, Fifths, 4 D.—Lancashirk, , and Yorkshire, 7rotte, Fifths, 4:)i i dis. - London an d N ort h - W es t e rn, 1 2 /; e 010' New Quarters, 31—Manchester, Sheffields, and mire, 31—Ditto, N ew Preference, 7/ p.—Dittoi („' 7 / B —Midland, 72—South-Eastern and Dover, .° .71. AuG. 11. e 1 fa ll in STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was another gen;„„ rti k at - I , d the prices of almost every description of railWaY s`v - B ` . close of our railway share market this evening. The ° d J3o' solute transaction we beard of was in Shrewsbury totion mingham (Class B), which were sold at a trifling from yesterday's quotations. pia [ADVERTISEMENT. - j—ilolloway's Pilis -Oo "Aver< and effectual remedy for Indigestion and Disordere d Mr. Bostock, druggist, of Ashton-under-Lyne, sta t ed 0 , 1 ° : 4 , person with whom he i s well acquainted has rear; pietn astonishing cure by the use of Holloway's Pills. °lot, a n " he was afflicted with s evere p a i ns i n t h e stom ach, liyer, which entirely prevented him from following his he tried most of the medical men in the neighboutdielO w : out deriving any benefit from their treatment. P, fl ootoP" . termined on giving Holloway's Pills a trial, and this I d - • a te rable medicine had the effect of affording him A A '''. lief, and finally restoring him to perfect health- -o 't 2 3- ' 0 Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishw e" Strand, London. % 1611 r. M DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF A ILL 01 11 LEY.— On Monday evening a fire b ro k e ou t at the c ° of Messrs. W. and J. Bairatow, k nown as est maut rile ra„ k of a ji. which ended, after a few hours, in th e entire d the building. The loss is estim a t e d at near 10, 0°4.-- fax Guardian. t 11. A t The emigration movem en t i s b eg i nn ing to h ired.; a fair held recently in Wiltshi re w h ere l a bourers er e ,bas there was a great scarcity of the latter, in fact, 1 : 1 ° L °II equal to the demand. BIRTHS. , OF A SON. On the 7th inst., th e wife of Robert M ai n, J u n '' s 4•• Oakendean-house, Cowfold, Sussex, t- c g rtb• # l l 6 On the 9th inst., at Beverle - Mrs. Harold Bar --° ),ire, '— On the 9th inst., at Tythegs3;On-court, Glamorgans— lady of the Rev. William Somerset. • OF A DAUGHTER- park, the fife of On the 9th inst., at North-villa, Regent's - Colon.' M i l es. F e llolit On th e 9th i nst., at Cheltenham, the w if e o f Jaraes Esq., barrister- a t-l aw . ______--------- On the 7th inst., at Clifton ßßlED Church, Thomas MA. Liam Henry— Peel, Esq., of Aylesmore-huuse, Gloucestersplyes, On the 9th inst., at the Protestant Church, E ' c l" of Wallsworth-hall to Barbara, only daughter 0 . !.. e . V v er t a s i t to George Davis Heatley, Esq. of Waltharnstow, -r''''ner Julia Eliza, second daughter Of the late Henry Tens!' •' vers, Esq., of Braintree, d e I,lTAinwtoiOh, DIED. On the 4th inst., at Sharrow - lodge , Jam es SorbY' 115c1 " solicitor, Sheffield, aged 59. lave On te th of t. at Btlmont, Innisbnnon, Anne " nn t, Margaret h 8 , r e lict the late William Beami a ah, of Be atlsl— Ccrli, aged 84. the Bth inst., at the Pavilions, Hampton - c ourt o a o ° r r k e : Cecilia. widow of the late Li eutenant - G eneral James Wi lli On the 10 th i nst., at Kensi ngton , the Right lion. Lord Kensington, aged 76. af bondon: Printed and Published by lIIIIEDO So. 112, Strand, Printer. at The Sun Otßet of Strand, in rhc Precinct of the Sar.v. iA the C enl"* Thureday, August 12, 102,