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

~,~,v-~ IRELAND. DUBLIN, THURSDAY EVENING.—The Marquis of Lansdowne is to arrive in this city next week. After a brief stay with the Lord-Lieutenant at the Vice regal Lodge, the Noble Marquis is to visit his exten sive and well circumstanced estates in the Queen's county, Meath, and Kerry. Lord Lansdowne is one of the best and most judicious landlords in Ireland. Even in the present time of difficulty, his rents in Meath and Queen's county are well paid, because the land islet for the value, and the tenantry are thriving and industrious. In some parts of his estates in Kerry, since the famine, the Noble Mar quis has expended a large portion of the rents re ceived its the midland counties in sustaining the un fortunate people in the over-populated district of Tuosist, in Kerry; but even in that place, where a tenant-right has been recognised by Lord Lansdowne, there have been recently some instances where tenants, on emigrating, have received as high a rate as fifteen years' purchasing, as compensation for the interest in their holdings. DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING.—The Cork Reporter of yesterday morning, thus announces the arrest of a Mr. Pennington, charged with aiding M'Manus to, escape to America. A person named Corcoran had been previously arrested with M'Manus on a similar! charge :-- "On Thursday morning, Head -constable Roe and Constable Daniel Cudmore proceeded to the residence of Mr. Fouhy, ship agent, of White -street, and arrested Mr. William Pennington, under a warrant issued out of the police-office, charging him with having aided and as sisted Mr. T. B. M'Manus in his endeavours to escape. When arrested, Mr. Pennington- was in bed, and on dressing himself was conveyed to the Bridewell, from whence he was brought before the magistrates at the police-office, this morning, by whom he was forwarded to PaSsage for examination." - THE FUGITIVE LEADERS. The Cork Reporter has the following further de tails of the chase after O'Gorman and Doheny:— " OnSanday last- Shiel, at Dunmanway, and a large party of constabulary, made a close search at tife cottage Of Dennis O'Leary, Esq., Cool-mountain, Iveleary,•for, - it is supposed, - Mr. Richard O'Gorman. "On the- night of Monday; several parties of police were_seenon the look out at Dunmanway, Bantry, and in the districts between Skibbereen and the former towns. '" On Tiresday night, the - residence of Mr. John Atte parieh of Castlehaven, near Castletownsend, was searched; an , the same night the , houses of Mr. Thomas Doheny, Gurteenasouny, near Dunmanway, and the house of Mr. John Dobeny, Keelnacher, parish of Kil michael, andertveht a close examination. " ARREST OF MR. DOH.ENY.—ANOTHER 3001. Vie_guiA and orderly little _town of Baltimore, which has enjoyed a profound peace since the period when it was an Irish. borough, was on Monday last throWn into a state'of the utmost excitement and confusion, in con sequence of a rumour to-the effect that Mr. Michael Doheny ha'd been, arrested on board a hooker from Cork, belonging to a rather celebrated filher man -Of - Midletori; named Ronan. • Crowds flocked on ireardAlse , vessel to behold the rebel general,' whom the police-constables guarded. with that vigilance which miglit have been expected from 3001. reward and badges of n*rit, and promotions innumerable in prospectu. The prisoner in-vain protested that he was not Mr. Do henyz-the constable produced a Hue and Cry, in which his po,rtrait appeared, and every one who heard the de scription read bore lestiniony to its accuracy in repre senting a 'Character drawn to life,' not; perhaps, too flatteringly, but too trelly to be - mistaken. Luckily, however, amopg the visitors was a notorious character, &emus Lilian, commonly called Bluebeard, who recog nise& ln'the prisBner none other than the son of his land lordi eo lo s e a' personage than a J. P. of the county of Cork, well knows in the neighbourhood. Bluebeard im medistely proceeded before a magistrate, and having de pose'd that Mr. was not Mr. Doheny, s uccee d e d, a f ter some'difficulty, in persuading the man of law of that fact, 'extraordinary obtained -the release of the young masther,' whose extraordinary resemblance to the individual with, se the But and Cry elegantly expresses it, the coarse, red face —like's man given to drink,' bad led to his unpleasant detention . ," - TH L B, SLATE Parsomts BELFAST.--A sudden order reached Belfast on Monday, evening for the re moval of Mr. Thomas Halpin, one of the state pri soners'in the Rouse of Correction there, to Dublin. Mr. Halpin, who had been secret iry to the Irish Ccinfederates all through, has arrived in this city. , THE--lARREST -OF. DR., M'CARRON. The Freeman's Journal contains the following curious letter : "21. Clarence-street, Liverpool, 6th Sept, 1848. have been credibly infornied that some person representing himself at one time as the brother of Charles G. Duffy. and at other times as the brother of my hus band, Dr. M'Carron, has been going about this town railihg'itibsciiptions for their defence. Charles Gavan Duffy- has ho 'brother ; and the only brother in the British dominions of my husband is the Rev. Mr. M'Carron, Archdeacon of Derry. While on this subject may I be permitted to allude to the cruel and heartless course adopted and persevered in by the Government to wards thyself. I have neither father, mother, sister, nor brother, save Charles G. Duffy, who is now incarcerated in Newgate. My husband, Dr. M'Carron, who held a situation in one of the American steamers, on his last arrival from New York, finding that my brother was im prisoned, proceeded to Dublin a few days before the sail ing of his ship, to pay a visit of sympathy to him. With out cause or reason of any kind, that we can understand, he was taken from his bed in the hotel, cast into a filthy room in Chancery-lane, with a straw bed in one corner, and two policemen with loaded pistols a nd d rawn sabres for his companions. After being detained there for many hours, he was sent to Newgate, and such was the state of fever that supervened that, with the excep tion of a dose of medicine, for three days, as his fellow- prisoners can testify, he neither ate nor drank. " lie wrote, requesting to be confronted with his ac cusers, and tOcnow the nature of the charge brought against him. The Rev. Mr. M`Carron arrived in Dub lin, and made a similar application, stating that he was not a member of any confederate club, and that in the year '44 he had tendered his resignation as a member of the Repeal Association. His application met with a si milar tate. , The first intimation I had of the imprison meni of my husband was a visit from two detectives, who searched over and examined everything belonging to me, and took away a large number of his books, and all my private letters, not one of which contained anything po litical. My only brother is now in prison, my husband deprived of his situation, and of the means of supporting me, is also the inhabitant of a dungeon, while I, in a de licate state of health, am driven houseless and homeless on the world. " I shrill not injure my own soul by calling for impre cations on , the heads of my cruel and heartless persecu tors, but leave them in the hands of a merciful, just, but avenging God.—l am, Sir, yours, &c , ' "ANNA MARIA APCARRON." DEATH BY DROWNING or A' CLERGYMAN• —The Clare Journal contains the_following:—" The Rev. Mar cus Clark, of Shronell, county Tipperary, and brother to the late Mr. Clark who was barbarously murdered about two years ago in that county, was drowned on Wednesthy-morning about •eight o'clock while in the act of bathing at Burns's Hole, Kilkee. His body was subsequently picked up by canoes. The distress of his unfortunate lady is indescribabl,." THE 'PROSECI7rIr'.7:S FOR HIGH TREASON. 'CLOiMEL, SEPT. 7.—The Crown Solicitor has nearly completed his - arrangements for the trials at Special Commissions in this town. The parties cer tainly. to. he tried at this minnission are Smith O'Brien, Meagher, and Al`Manus, besides a number of the peasants who had been engaged in the out break. The Chain of evidence is considered complete against all 'the parties to be tried ; but there is a want of proof to connect Mr. Meagher directly with the pr6ceedings at Ballingarry. Reffarding,Mr. Smith O'Bri en , w h o never i n t h e least ' degree resorted to concealment, it is stated there is abundant testimony;: and as to Al'Manus, the evidence of various witnesses . implicate him in the movement of Tipperary in all its ramifications. But reenacting Mr. Meagher, none of the, witnesses for the. Crown have identified him as having been present at the _scene of the insurrection, and the general impression is that he was not at Ballingarry at all. The evidence against Mr. Meagher applies to other places, - and to overt acts - before the outbreak actually"; took place. M'Manus, it is said, led the party who attacked the police barrack at Mullinithorre. When the attack was proposed Smith O'Brien deci dedly objected, iecomrnending that they should wait to be attwked, and erect barricades for defence in the mean time.; but .M`Manus harangued the insurgent pea sants, who followed him to the barrack, where a few constalAes wee stationed. ..Smith O'Brien finding his remoniirfinces unavailing, followed the crowd, and succeeded - in preventing any actual -violence. He summoned the polled' to surrender, and gave the men ars Imiir - ror consideration, hitt, in the interval, aided some respectable inhabitants of - Mullinahone, they Ive..e . n.alaled to proCeed in safety to head-quartets in the, j„ , 414 teci4-' After Smith O'Brien had left the p - I -441.4 ( 4 , he, proceeded, followed by the insur gents, to th e Cornpan'Y's offices at Slievar dagh. A at g Pr that :occasion. has correct version of what cccurred on newspapers, alth already been published in the a d dressed ' to .thoosigh the l e tt er o f M r . . O'B r i en, ening the con fi sontio pectors of the co mp an y, threat tinOnciei, has not been accurately given in the AU those transaction's will be duly described in the evidence at the corn vg4iy feature inta thesi"'n• that proceedings of But there is one 07Brien - at Ballingarr Smith noticed. When he made Y the foray has not yet been the mining company,' on the same into the works of party had been withd rawn to th aana e chiefday the polic e district,' itii . accordan ce w i t h a statio n of the froth the Constabulary -office general order issued Smith O'Brien applied to Mr. Cullen, Dublin Castle, chid superintendents, requiring the keOat o f f the police-station: • Mr. Cullen admitted that the i key the was in. his . possession, but he refused to giveit up, as he . wakapting under responsibility as an officer oCthe company, Air. Smith O'Brien then requi re d two hones,ferhis scouts, to be forthwith furnish e d. M r. Cullen,: the . superintendent, peremptorily refused to furnish - the horses ;_ whereupon Mr. O'BrienObierved, 1,11+41r; Cullen, you are the servant of the Mining u o ,l),7 l :anti-I shall not require you to do anything caMirery.la- you-duty your employers. Mr. .... .::iu;,.~: i. O'Brien then. left the collieries, with his insurgent followers. AFFRAY BETWEEN TilE MILI TARY AND THE POLICE. The High-street and Lawumarket presented, about 7 o'clock on Saturday evening, a scene of great confusion and excitement, from the occurrence of an affray between some soldiers of the 21st Scotch Fusiliers, at present stationed in the Castle, and the police, which soon at tracted a large crowd. The origin of the affair seems to have been the determined opposition offered by a small party of soldiers at the foot of the Castlehill to the efforts of two policemen, who endeavoured to induce theni to move away from the door of a shop around which they had assembled, to the obstruction of the thoroughfare. The policeman having insisted on their removal, a soldier struck one of the constables a severe blow, when they seized him, and endeavoured to convey him to the police-office. The rest of the party inter fered, and a struggle took place, in which the police were severely beaten, but a small reinforcement of constables, under Sergeant-Major Kelly, having reached the spot, three of the principal ringleaders among the soldiers were apprehended, along with two workmen who bad joined them in resisting the police. The crowd, which had assembled in large numbers, hooted and jostled the police, who had literally to fight their way to the police-office with the prisoners; and as many soldiers were on their way to the Castie at the time, efforts were made to induce them to attempt a rescue, which, we are glad to say, they declined. The whole of the prisoners were ultimately lodged in the police-office; but the excitement on the street being still very great, and as a number of soldiers seemed determined upon a rescue, the police patrolled the Lawnmarket and the Castlehill to prevent further disturbance. Mr. Moxey, the superintendent of police, immediately proceeded to the Castle, and, after an interview with the commanding officer of the regiment, a strong picket was drawn up on the Esplanade, and several of the officers displayed great activity in collecting the stragglers on the street, and sending them to the Castle. The bugles were also sounded on the Castlehill to call in the soldiers, and in a short time all apprehension of further disturbance was removed. On Sunday the Sergeant-Major, accompanied by Urquhart and Chisholm, the two police-officers who were assaulted, proceeded to the Castle, where, on the troops being called forth, they were enabled to identify four of the principal rioters. In the afternoon Colonel Deer caused the regiment to be drawn up in the Barrack square, where he addressed them in appropriate terms on the unseemly outrage which had been occasioned the evening previous by those whose duty it was to pre serve the peace of the community, and threatened that on any soldier being found guilty of a like offence, he would be dealt with according to martiallaw. On Mon day seven privates of the Fusiliers were brought before Bailie Tait, charged with being participators in the dis turbance. Two of them were sentenced to 60, and one to 40 days' imprisonment, and the other four were fined in two guineas, or 30 days in prison. The two work men alluded to, named Menelaus and Campbell, were convicted of assisting the soldiers and attempting to de force the police, and were each sentenced to 60 days' im prisonment. Two other soldiers of the above regiment were sent to prison for 40 days, for committing a disturb ance in one of the closes in the High-street on Saturday, and striking the police. —Edinburgh Witness. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 8. (Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.) IN RE STEPHEN KEEN. The certificate of the bankrupt, a brick-maker, of Hillingdon, was opposed by Mr. COOKE, on behalf of the assignees, on the ground that he had traded in ac commodation bills, and shown an undue preference. The bankrupt's debts and liabilities were about 7,0001., and his assets are small. The capital with which he com menced was 2,3741. One or two of the peasants engaged in ;the insur rection have become approvers, and their depositions are in tb.a hands of the Crown solicitor. The Sub-Sheriff, Mr. Going, is now preparing the summonses for the grand jury, which will be served to-morrow. The Sheriff is to summon the members of the,grand pannel, to serve on the petit juries at this commission. The Freeman of this morning contains the following letter from Mr. John O'Connell:— " TO THE REPEALERS OF IRELAND. His HONOUR suspended the certificate twelve months, without protection, chiefly on the ground that the bank rupt had shown an undue preference to Messrs. Poyn der and Co. lime merchant s , in assisting them in obtain ing nearly the whole of his property. IN RE CHARLES HUMFREY, JUN. The bankrupt, who carried on business at Cambridge as a banker, and also at Camberwell, as a merchant, came up for his last examination. Subjoined is an ab stract of his balance-sheet, from the 9th of November, 1844, to the 31st of July, 1848: " London, Sept., 1848. " Fellow -countrymen,—What other hope is there for Ireland but in the Repeal? What other chance is there for staying, and at length turningback, the rushing cur rent of our ruin? " What else can save the empire? For Ireland's ruin must drag down with it the mighty fabric which in times of peril has so often found in her its stoutest bulwark. " Poor laws cannot save us! They are eating into the vitality of our last resources, and yet are not saving the people. For one family which they have rescued from death to a state, as it were, of life in death, five, six, aye more, have sunk under the tortures of starva tion and utterly perished. " And meantime the owner of land, the holder of land, and the rate-payer in towns, are all alike being crushed down by the burden of these poor- laws and the ever increasing misery of the country to the same common level of impoverishment and distress. " We are told, indeed, that 'industry' and 'energy,' and the total and final 'relinquishment of all political agita tion' will prove our great and savine. remedies. Energy' on the part of' the employers of l abour,' industry' on that of the employed, and the abandonment of ' agita tion' on the part of all. " But we are not told by what magic the landowners, crippled in their means by the reaction of their tenantry's repeated losses upon them, can so enlarge their expendi ture as to furnish employment even to one-half of the multitudes in need of it. " Neither are we told how the farmers are to be in duced to spend what little store they may yet have by theni in essaying 'improvements' in order to give in creased employment, when the value and fruit of those improvements must be even' more precarious than ever, inasmuch as the necessity of the times is sharpening that grasping avidity of the landlord class, so rife and so desolating in Ireland, and so little checked or heeded by Parliament. - " Nor yet are we told how the problem of sustaining and employing the entire peopleof a populous country merely by and in agriculture alone (a problem found, of course, impossible of solution, even before the' late calamities betel us) can be solved now, when so large a portion of our agricultural prodtice is endangered, and not a little already gone and utterly lost. " The abandonment of agitation' will scarce make up for the deficiency of the other means' of becoming prosperous, to which we are advised by our English counsellors and their miserable copyists in Ireland. In truth it would be fruitful but in evils of its own. " The loss of the poor- privilege of- complaint—the closing up of the long accustomed vent for our accumu lated and accumulating griefs—would make our suffer ings tenfold harder to be borne, and entail-upon the state the inevitable-peril that embittered feelings and passions too closely pant up and repressed Might explode in wild convulsion and social ruin. -"The horrible system of eitermination would receive a new impulse when its atrocities were no longer dragged to light by the agency of a popular association. A similar impunity would encourage the petty tyrannies : and stinging vexations of the people by the little local despots of the police and magistracy; and the base devices now at work to enslave our church—to corrupt the edu cation of our youth-- , and to detach—(Blessed Heaven! how hopeless the attempt!)—to-detach from the people the priesthood, whom they revere and love, will also be newly stimulated to a more nefarious activity than ever. " There is but one thing that could ever make as even for a time accept this otherwise most base, most ruinous council of political silence and submissiveness,—if we thought---if we_ could think—if a hope, or the shadow. of a hope, were held out that our quiescence would insure a merciful dealing to the men (victims of their own mad ness certainly, but far more the victims of the long and cruel misgovernment of their country by England) who now lie nominally at the mercy of the Government, but really subject to whatever the ferociotis promptings of the felon' Times may make that Government consider advisable to propitiate the alarmed cowardice of inter national prejudice and conscious oppression. " Yes, we could thus be won to silence for a time— thus be bribed to choke down into the throat the cry of oar distress, and the loud demand for our rights. " We could be content to suffer for a time in silence, if that silence won for those now in prison that calm, and full, and rightly-merciful consideration which ought to be given to the case of men whose country's cruel wrongs so fatally stung them into madness I " It is for the people of Ireland to determine whether thiroTiportunity for most politic, most blessed mercy, shall be given to our English masters. If the decision be for agitation, immediate or more remote, I claim, whenever the renewed attempt is to be made, that I may be permitted to brave among the first what are supposed to be its perils. " The imbecile malice of my Lord Glengall, and the threatenings of the absentee Lord Lansdowne, are to us, Repealers, but as the idle wind! The great body of the Irish Repealers—the great body of the Irish people, have been steady in using no other means to obtain their rights than those which, if the constitution did not recog nise and protect, it would itself be a mockery and a nullity. "And we will not lightly surrender what yet remains to us of the constitution in Ireland. " Let me now, brother Repealers, pray your attention to the pressing consideration connected with our move men t. Dr. To creditors unsecured Ditto holding security Liabilities on bills .•• ••• To sundry creditors of the late firm of Charles Humfrey and Son, bankers, of Cambridge .. 12,865 1 8 To Messrs. Grote, Prescott, and Co., who hold mortgages on the real estate of the late C. Humfrey, sen. To capital ... To profits of trade s. d. 7,840 17 0 6,360 13 6 840 4 6 6,583 6 4 693 1 11 8,623 0 10 £43,770 5 9 Cr. By debtors, estimated to p ro d uce By bad debts By property in patents By property in estates mortgaged By losses ... Trade expenses ... Domestic expenses By liabilities £l2O 0 0 1,494 9 11 5 0 0 4,500 0 0 6,430 16 8 ... 8,050 11 0 ... 1,916 15 8 ... 20,252 12 6 ... 243,770 5 9 Among the unsecured creditors i to the amount of 18,2651 Is. Bd., are J. and B. Barsham, Cainbridge, 150/.; executors of Mr. - Cambridge, 5201; Sarah Cliff, 3 HE 5 3e 8 1 .n t ers ; ; Wil l iam ap;mjoCollin,hn H u dson, A .7 5 0 1 1 ,8 5 1 4 e : r Henry Collin, 1831.; Chas. Wm. Hall, 5591 .; Lambert Hotokin, Kensington, 690/.; 2154 ; Carner, 4531.; Surnton, 3854 ; Wm. Talbot, 1,206/. ; F. Thackeray, Robert Peters, 2031. ; Arch. 2041. • Charles Thurnall, 394/ ; Robert Wiles, 8451. ; John ' Whitehead, 2001; Thos. Worsley, 534/. No opposition was offered, and the bankrupt passed his last examination, with an intimation f rom t h e Com missioner th a t he should review the circumstances at tendant upon the banktuptcy, when the bankrupt came up for his certificate., IN RE TREVERS AND TREVERS. The bankrupts, who'had carried on business at Wal worth, as builders ' , applied for their certificates. His HONOUR postponed . the certificates, and said he would not allow the bankrupts to apply again until cer tain property was given up, whieh they had assigned to their relatives by bills of sale: CE IN THE HOT ASHES or MOUNT ETNA.—The main crater is about 500 feet deep at this time (so say the guides); but I think this must be measured down the slope of the funnel. I could not, however, see to the bottom, owing to volleys of sulphureous smoke, whirling up ever and anon, accompanied by a rumbling noise, and occasionally by a slight vibration of the ground under foot. Here I found, amid warm ashes, on the slope of the crater within, heavy crystals of ice set all at one angle, and curved like sharks' teeth. I picked up one bit as big as a walnut, and asked the guide if he could account for its Presence. Far be it from him to give a rationale of anything of the sort; it would derogate from the dignity of Etna. It reminded me of a chemical ex -periment played off by a French savant at one of the late " Scienziati" meetings. He.made water freeze in a red hot cup. The silver platina being brought to a red heat, a few drops of water are thrown in, which do not evapo rate, but jump about. Sulphuric acid is now _poured in, which in the act of boiling produces so intense a cold by the disengagement of its latent heat, that the_ drop of water - at once turns to ice. I opine the chemical process here to be the same, only on nature's grand scale. The morning mists supply the moisture, and within the crater there is no lack of sulphureous mixture boiling as if in a retort; hence as hot fumes ascend, the crystals of ice are precipitated. If any one rejects this solution of mine, let them find a better, remembering that they are to ac count for pieces of ice forming on a bed of warm ashes. This principle of " disengagement of latent heat" may also help to account for the severity of the cold felt on Etna, which is far greater than is due to its elevation.-- Francis's Notes on Italy and Sicily. THE REWARD OF MERIT.—"A Lochaber-man in London" sends us the following:—" Some years ago Duncan Macnaughten left Fort William, his native Highland home," in the humble but honourable capacity of a private soldier of the Ist or_ Grenadier regiment of Foot Guards, in which aristocratic corps, with no patronage or other aid save his own good conduct and other soldierly qualities, with a sufficient quantum of Highland pride to spur him on, he gradually attained to the highest grade under a commission. A short time since, in presence of the whole regiment, drawn out on parade for the purpose, his colonel, after a flattering eulogy upon his uniformly good behaviour, decorated his breast with a handsome silver medal, bearing on one side the likeness of his Sovereign, and on the other the inscription " for long and meritorious services." To crown these marks of Royal favour, this day (15th August) his name appears in the Gazette as ' Quartermaster of the 13th;' that regiment which bore so conspicuous and distinguished a part in the recent operations on the banks of the Sutlej. This proves that, even in these piping times of peace,' merit will ensure promotion in the British army."—lnverness Courier. THE LATE SUSPICIOUS FIRE IN FETTER-LA.NR.— Last night, Mr. Payne held a third and last inquiry at the White Hart, Fetter-lane, into the circumstances at tending a fire which occurred on the morning of Wed nesday week last, on the premises of Mr. Thompson, machine ruler, of No. 17, King's Head -court. It will be remembered that, at the last meeting, Mr. Thompson stated that he entertained strong suspicions against a certain person, and that the inquiry was then adjourned at his request. Mr. Thompson was again in attendance, and so also was Mr. Elliott, to whom Mr. Thompson had alluded. The first witness of importance called was Robert Gloag, of No. 15, Blackmoor-street, Drury-lane, stationer. He said—l met Mr. Elliott about a week before the fire. Mr. Elliott was Mr. Thompson's landlord. I knew there was some animosity be tween them. I said to Mr. Elliott, " I understand Mr. Thompson is going to leave your premises;" and he replied, that he would follow him wherever he went, and make him pay fur it. Understood that the disappointment arose in consequence of Mr. Thompson having made some irregularity in his notice to quit. Mr. Elliott, of George-yard, Drury-lane, ex plained that the disagreement between Mr. Thompson and himself was such as constantly occurred between landlords and tenants. He had merely expressed his determination of following Mr. Thompson if he left without proper notice. Several of the jurors said they were perfectly satisfied with the explanation, and they were sorry that Mr. Thompson should have brought so frivolous a charge. After some further evidence the Coroner summed up, informing the jury that they were not called upon to inveatighte any charges. It was merely a court of inquiry to ascertain how the fire ori ginated. The jury, after a lengthened deliberation, re turned the following special verdict----" That the house, No. 17, King's Head-court, was burnt on the morning of August 30, by fire; but there is not sufficient evidence before the jury to enable them to say how that fire oc curred; and the jury cannot separate without expressing their censure that Mr. Thompson should have brought so many shavings from his last place of residence, and have lett them in a loose state in the room in which the fire occurred." ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLUM.---A quarterly ge neral Court of the Governors of this institution, Saok place on Thursday at the rooms in Crane -court, Fleet street, when the chair was occupied by Mr. Simpson, the treasurer. The minutes of the recent meetings of the committee were read by Mr. Burney, secretary, the chief feature in which was the appointment of himself as se- cretary arid superintendent. Mr. W. Hamilton moved the confirmation of the minutes, with the exception of that portion relative to Mr. Burney, with whose appoint menthe_telt much dissatisfied. He considered it impolitic on the part of the directors to have appointed an in dividual, who had encouraged and fostered all kinds of unpleasantness amongst the officers. The speaker then proceeded to make a series of charges against Mr. Bur "The hall in which of late we met—the adjoining pre mises which are hallowed by the recollections of the Catholic Association—these must speedily be disposed of, if you are unable to supply funds for their longer maintenance. "It is true that our agitation is not of necessity bound down to one special locality. It is true that we can easily move elsewhere if Conciliation-hall and the Corn•Ex- change-rooms must be abandoned. The agitation that defeated Peel and Wellington, and_wrung emancipation from a hostile monarch and Parliament, had its begin nings in a petty back room, hired but for each meeting; and there is far too much of our old organization re maining to think that we shall fall back again so low. " But, although repeal shall not be found hopelessly bound up with the fate of Conciliation-hall and the - Corn-Exchange-rooms, yet it were well, if possible, to preserve them to the people. It is for you, Repealers of Ireland, to say if this shall be done; we of the com mittee have done our part. Of private efforts Ido not wish to speak; but this much it is well that you should know, that in what regards the maintenance of the hall and the adjoining house we, whether in public or in pri vate, can, without you, henceforward do no more! " If within the course of the present month you can not come to the rescue, it will become inevitably neces sary to advertise and to dispose of, as best can be done, the scenes of our former labours. Whatever be the pro duce of the sale, the yet remaining liabilities of the asso ciation shall be first discharged; and then, if any plus shall remain, it shall be vested in such members of committee ai may choose .to undertake the trust, for the use and benefit of the association when the latter resumes its sittings. ".I make this announcement with deep grief; but it is a duty to let you, the Repealers of Iceland, know the condition to which matters have come by reason of the political paralysis with which the results of the madness of a very small portion of the community has afflicted the whole body politic. _ _ " You can prevent the necessity I announce if you be so minded. A small, if regular and constant, effort would be sufficient. But, if division, depression, and distress indispose your minds to any exertion at this time, the course of things must be as I say; and when again we meet in the Repeal Association it must be in a new home. " Two subjects yet press on me, brother Repealer; ere I conclude. A worthy descendant of the Duke of Leinster of '79 and 'B2—a true Geraldine—is in the field for Ireland ! He does not, indeed, as yet declare for that full measure of Ireland's rights which his illus trious ancestor so,nobly asserted ; but his heart is for Ireland, his high feelings , his generous s) mpathies, his sound reason, all engaged in her cause; and we can as suredly wish well to him and his,high-spirited associates, although we cannot forego—can never compromise nor surrender, the great object of our hopes and labours— the total repeal of the accursed union! ". The other matter I can dispatch in still fewer words. It is the speech which Ministers have this day put into the mouth of her Most Gracious Majesty. How con sistent is it not with the whole sad history of English mismanagement of Ireland! Distraction, severity, and distress—distress, severity, and distraction; these are its Irish topics, as these have been of royal speeches about Ireland for many a melancholy year! " And thus it will be to the'end of the chapter, if the terrible winter before us do not complete our ruin, and blot out the Irish people from among the nations! " I am, brother Repealers, with great respect, your faithful, and to the death devoted tellow-labourer, " JOHN O'CONNELL." ney, such as irregularity, and grosi extravagance in the payment of accounts. Dr. Stuart seconded the motion, expressing his deep regret at the want of harmony in the institution. The Rev. Dr. Cumming defended Mr. Burney, whilst he admitted that there had been a want of prudence arid discretion on his part. Mr. Burney endeavoured to explain, but was advised not to perse vere. 4t length the motion was carried by a majority of seven to three. The next business was the selling out of stock. There was at present only 100/. in hand, and it was likely that the quarter bills would amount to nearly 1,000/. The chairman. moved that the direc tors be empowered to sell out 7501. stock. The motion was carried. Mr. Lindsey said the female children should b& retained in the school until they were 15 years,old, instead of 14. The matter was referred to a COrn mittee. A RAILWAY UNDER WATER.— On- the express train, which left Carlisle at twenty-seven minutes past one, o'clock on Thursday afternoon,arriving at Garstang about four o'clock, the passengers were greatly surprised and alarmed at finding the red signals up, and all the passengers of the penny a mile train, which had pre ceded them, out of their carriages, and standing on the line. On cautiously coming up they found that the rails in the Barnacro cutting were nearly two feet' deep in the water fir the space of about a mile, by which no less than five trains were prevented from pursuing their re spective journeys; and it was several hours before this extraordinary flood subsided sufficiently to let them pass, in doing which the greatest caution had to be used. The water is supposed to have comp from the Bleasdale Fell, over which a violent thunder -storm, accompanied by torrents of rain, had burst but a short time previous to the line being immersed in the water. [ADVERTISEMENT.]-A Bad Leg Cured by Hollo way's Ointment and Pills after Twenty Years Suffering. —Extract of a letter from Mr. Andrew Brack, black smith, Byeinotith; dated Aug. 10, 1848. " To Professor H o.!v'faySii, I have th e pl easure to i n f orm y ou t h at Ihave obtained a most extraordinary cure, by the use of your' celebrated Ointment and Pills-. For upwards of ,etkty years I t suff,ere with a dreadfd bid leg, and dur ing-that' time perfect their P t " iti thd ll ti lea consulted several eminent surgeons, but 0' do any god 4 a. I 'then had recourse . and Pills whiCh, with the blessing of sotri'd'ittal at •lirdfestor- 110114 f, pletelt healed my leg, and made it as ever. —Sold by all Druggists, and' 40116 n" • "Ws Establishment, 244, Strand, & BURNING A HORSE.— SOHAM, CAMBRIDGESHIRE. —On Wednesday last Mr. Thonaas, the secretary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, visited this town to obtain evidence against, and prose cute a person residing here for perpetrating the follow ing act of cruelty. It appears that the person in question was carting wheat, and employed a horse to assist in drawing a waggon heavily laden, when the animal being what is termed a " jib.' refused' to pull. The driver coaxed, flogged, and kicked the horse but all to no pur pose. Determined, however, not to be foiled, ho at length caused a fire to be lighted underneath the animal, , which made desperate efforts to escape from the flames; but, being unable to do so, was shockingly burned. These circumstances, it is stated, could have been proved, but the time within which proceedings could be taken under the Act for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals had elapsed a few days, and a prosecution could not be sustained. WHOLESALE ESCAPE OF CONVICTS.—On Thursday night, after or during prayers, six convicts in the York hulk, moored off Gosport, effected'their escape in a boat belonging to that ship, and got away, steering up the harbour, where the boat was found yesterday morning near Portchester Castle, about three miles from the dockyard. Four of them are said to have belonged to the ship's gig, used in conveying to and from-she shore the convict keepers, chaplain, and other officers con nected with the establishment, and one of them a eon! vict who has" been twice before sentenced to•tran;porta tion. Up to last night none of the convicts had been re captured. tai •- - - 11- .t) , H.E. SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EV.ESTING, S PTEMBRR green silk purse, containing a half-Forereign and Ss. 6d. in silver. Complainant stated that on the previous evening she and three other ladies went out for a walk as far as Hampstead, and on the Heath they hired four donkeys of the prisoners. After riding about for some time they alighted, and sent into the garden of a tavern in order to obtain some refreshment; she almost imme diately afterwards missed her purse and money, she therefore gave the prisoners into custody. In answer to the magistrate, complainant said—While riding upon my donkey I pulled up to give sixpence to a poor woman, but she did not come close enough to me to rob me. I know that after I had relieved her I re turned my purse to my pocket. The donkeys remained outside the gate at the tavern, and so did the prisoners, who were waiting for us to come out. Police-constable 75 S said that the prisoners were searched at the station, but that neither the purse nor cash was found. Mr. BROUGHTON (to Brown)—What is your answer to this charge ? Mr. Brown—l'll tell you all about it, your worship. The ladies got on the donkeys, and I and my mate drove them as nicely as possible for a long while ; they were all smoking cigars while they were mounted, and we had cigars too ; they also paid for four or five pots of strong ale, which we drank among the lot of us, and besides that they were kind enough to pay for a lot of biscuits for the animals. On the way one or two of the ladies tumbled right-off into the road, and he had the trouble of picking 'em up and clapping 'em on the saddle again. I know nothing about the "pus " nor the money. Mr. BROUGHTON—This seems to be a very curious story altogether. (To the officer)—Did the ladies appear to have been drinking ? Offictr—Yes, sir ; they were certainly rather elevated. Madame, on being questioned by the magistrate, said she was not in the habit of smoking cigars when in Lon don, but she thought there was no harm in indulging in that way when out for a little recreation in the country. She further said, that, in regard to what had been said respecting the ale, that the donkey-drivers drank the greater portion of it. Brown said it was no such thing, and that the ladies took quite as much as their share of the " lot." Jones, the usher of the Court, said that Madame's face was grazed, and it was evident that she had had a fall, as had been described. Mr. BROUGHTON waS of opinion that the ease was not strong enough against the prisoners, and ordered their discharge. THAMES. Two notorious smashers ; named William Grciinger and George Fuller, who have Jately•transferred their busi ness to the vicinity of Stratford, were brought up by Police-constable Benton, 381 K, charged with having passed a counterfeit half-crown on a publican at Bow. The constable, who was in plain clothes, observed them going into several houses, and, being aware of their cha racter, watched their proceedings. When 'they left the house of the complainant, Benton went in and asked whether they had tendered him any money, and he re plied that he had changed a half-crovin for them. He then found that it was bad one, and the prisoners were taken into custody. Mr. BALLANTINE—Where is the half-crown? Ben ton—l beg your Worship's pardon, but it is not to be had. I marked it on one side and gave, it to the ser geant, but somehbw or it cannot be-found. POLICE I NTELLIGENCE. Sergeant-Waters, who took the charge, said the coun terfeit half-crown had been placed on-the table in the BOW-STREET. charge-room. He had occasion to leave the room f o r a John. D o ls he practical cmist, carrying on business short time, another constable being in charge of the pri at 289, Strand, appeared before Mr. Jardine to answer loners, and on his return the half-crown was gone in a a cmPlabst!preferred against him by Mr. Ebenezer Wild, most mysterious manner. One of the prisoners had been a wood engraver, residing in, the same house, for having observed to approach the table, when he no doubt con exposed a chemical preparation close to his room, at the trived to swallow the half-crown, for fie immediately top of the honse, by which the health of his wife and afterwards asked for a draught of water. children were 'dangerously affected. Paa,l7 H, said the prisoners were well known, having The further, hearing of the case was adjourned on been before in custody for similar offences, and Grainger's Thursday evening, for the purpose of having this corn- capacity of swallowing half-crowns bad been frequently pound (which 'emitted a most offensive effluvia) analysed tested. On one occasion he snatched one out of the by some competent persori, and 'the defendant was or- hands of an officer and bolted it. dered to enter into his recognisance in the sum - of 1001. The prisoners, who made no defence, were remanded to attend again. •: for the attendance of the solicitor to the Mint. The complainant stated . that on Wednesday morning WORSHIP-STREET. he left home on business, at Which time the family were Richard Bailey and Thomas Sawl were finally ex in the enjoyment of excellent health, and in the course amined before Mr. Arnold, charged with having stolen of the afternoon he was met by his son in .the Strand, thirteen dozen of prepared skins, the property of Mr. J. who informed him that the. infant, only nine weeks H. Heckman, an extensive furrier in John-street, and old, and its mother, were suddenly taken seriously Chicksand-street, Spitalfields. ill, in consequence of the shocking ealuvia caused by It appeared that the skins in question had been depo the. defendant s upon which he hurried hom e , an d s i te d b y some of the posecutor's workmen in a large discovered a white saucer on the landing-place near store-room in Thrawl-street, near his warehouse, on to his bed-room, the contents of which appeared to be Saturday, the 2d inst., and fa the course of the same ignited, and the smoke and smell were most intolerable, evening it was discovered that the place had been forci- His wife was at the street door, to which she had gone bly entered, and the property in question, together with to recover her breath, having the infant in her arms in a a large quantity of other peltry, carried off. Suspecting dying state from exhaustion. The other children were that the plunder would be promptly conveyed to Petti not able to stand, and each of them was gasping for coat-lane, to be disposed of, the prosecutor • dispatched breath. He took possession of the saucer, and having his foreman on the following - morning to make inquiries wrapped it in paper, took it to Dr. Walker, 101, Drury- there, when he was informed by the wife of a small lane, but not bei ng a t home, his assistant examined the furrier, named Isaacs, that a sample of such skins had contents, and said that the greater part was assafetida, been offered to her husband that morning by two men, at the same time directing him to keep the children in who promised to call with the bulk in the course of an the open air to prevent them from being suffocated. The hour. While the foreman was in conversation with Mrs. defendant's servant informed him that his master di- Isaacs, the prisoners made their appearance, carrying a rected him to place the saucer close to the bed-room large package, which was dropped as soon as they caught door, for the purpose of sufl'ocatiug the family, or cons- sight of them, and darted away in different directions. pelting them to give up the apartments. Witness im- Upon opening the package, it was found to contain thir mediately demanded of the defendant why he had teen dozen of the 'skins, which he conveyed back to his acted in such a manner, and he admitted that he master's premises, and gave information to the police, had conducted himself in a very proper manner which ended in the apprehension of the prisoner Sawl since he became his lodger, and, making a laugh on the same afternoon. The capture of the other pri of the matter, said that his wife had called Mrs. sonar was effected under rather curious circumstances Dolby one of the "seum of the earth," for which by . Police-constable Gifford, who had taken him into he was determined to get them out of the house. custody with another notorious thief about three weeks The defendant said he had no such article as assafos- previously, for attempting to pick pockets at White tide on his premises, and the reason why he used the chapel. On that occasion the prisoner contrived to chloride of lime, which was in a concentrated form, was effect his escape from the officers, but the handcuffs to purify the foul air coming from the rooms occupied with which his wrists were secured were returned to by the complainant ; besides he wanted to get rid of the the station-house by a little boy, who told the inspec family ; and as the fumes of : his laboratory were not tor, with great apparent artlessness, that he had offensive to him or his wife, he could see no reason why picked them up in the street, and as he was wholly the lodgers, to whom he had given notice to quit, ob- unacquainted with the n a t ure o f suc h i mp l ements, he jetted to them. thought it best to hand them over to 'the police; but Mr. JARDINE said he could see no justification for the supposed innocent had only been a short time dis placing noxious ingredients on the landing-place for the missed, with a compliment upon his honesty, when he sole purpose of annoying the family of a hardworking was brought back upon a cha rge o f pi c ki ng poc k ets , a n d and industrious man. having been identified as, an accomplished young thief, Mr. Hooper, chemist and druggist, of Great Russell- he was subsequently committed for three months to the street, Covent-garden, who had been sent for by the ma- House of Correction. The officer Gifford had been since gistrate, said that the matter produced gave out a gas, engaged in constant efforts to effect Bailey's apprehen but not of s uch a character as to prove fatal, unless per- sion, but without success until Sunday evening, when he sons were confined for a considerable time in the same was accidentally met and secured after a long chase; apartment. He considered that it was not chloride of and on being conveyed to the station he was recognized lime, as it had ignited. b y t h e prosecutor ' s foreman as the man who had endeas r. William • Miller, professor of chemistry, in the voured to dispose of the skins in conjunction with the King's College Hospital, said that, at the request of the other prisoner. , • court, he had examined the articl e sent to him, and it con- In defence, the prisoner Bailey denied all cognizance tamed phosphorate of lime and phosphate of cusium, and of the robbery, in which he was confirmed by the other he considered that if it was placed on a staircase next to prisoner, who declared that he had employed him to an inhabited room, it would be not only extremely dis- carry skins, without telling him how they came into his agreeable, but also injurious to health, although there possession. were other g ases more destruCtive. It was not used for They were both fully committed for trial. the purposes of health or cleanliness, but was rather a Mr. ARNOLD announced his receipt of a donation of chemical curiosity than anything else. In the course of 15s. for Sarah Ladd; from " F.W.L.' againstCwLa s E R y occupied oEu N ng W t a hEi thieves whoide r a w b l e e r e time app r i e n . half an hour such stuff might m a k e a c hild very s i c k. lf • The defendant said that in the manner h e h a d use d it oT charges yrwhit t he would not mind taking two ga ll ons o f i t . hea M ri r n . Mr. Henry Davies, 14S Clarendon-square, Somers- hended at New Bartholomew Fair, New North-road, Is town, surgeon, proved that he attended Mrs. Wild in her lington, for attempting to pick pockets. last confinement, and left her and her family in perfect Mr. TYRWIIITT inquired of the officers who it was health about a week back. Yesterday morning 'he was that got up the fair?--s-An inspector of police replied again sent for, and 'he found her in a weak state, from that two men, named Crawford and Lowe, engaged the excessive flurrying, and it would be some time before she land upon which it was held, and paid 401. for the use would be restored to health. The eldest boy was also of it. They afterwards let it out in allotments to persons very ill, complaining of his head, and appearing very who paid so much per foot -for the parts they occupied, heavy. The entire of the Children, who were kept in a and were allowed to erect theatrical and other booths. very clean and neat condition, were more or less indis- The land belonged to a respectable builder in Islington, posed, with the exception' of the infant, which appeared and ever since Monday last, on which day the fair corn not to suffer much. All the children were evidently tnenced, it was the greatest nuisance to the neighbour affected by a tainted atmosphere, which might have been hood. caused by noxious vapours such as might be caused by Mr. TYRWEITT said he was surprised that something chloride of lime disengaged. was not done to prevent the nuisance. The fair was Mr. JARDINE, having ascertained that the complainant perfectly illegal, and must be a great annoyance to the wished the case-to be sent to the sessions, said he would public, if he might judge from the numerous thieves and at a future day commit the 'defendant for the misde- ruffians that had been brought before him, charged with meanour; and, as it would be only just for him to procure offences there since Monday last. the opini o n o f some practical person to explain what the Mr. Mould, the clerk, . said that these fairs were held stuff was com posed of, he should allow him to enter into all over the country. The persons who got them up his own recognizance in the sum of 100/. to appear again were clearly liable to indictment for the nuisance. in a week. Mr. TYRWMITT concurred, and said that the authori- MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ties of Islington ought, fdr- the peace and respecta- Louis -Pree o s, who described himself as an interpreter, bility of their parish, to use efforts to put down such a preferred the folloWingeharge ' against M. Aimable De- nuisance. • -• 'atoll°, the proprietor of the Boulogne Hotel in Leicester- No less than twenty young thieves were committed to place. the House of Correction; with hard labour, for various The complainant said be was standing near the Hotel terms; and numerous vagabonds and roulette tables, and de l'Europe, in Leicester-square, when a cabman, with a other -gambling implements, were brought up by the fare inside, asked him where abe Prince of Wales Hotel police, and committed, some for six weeks, and others was situated. Being in the position of commissionare for two months each,_ to the House of Correction, with to that hotel, he volunteered to show tile way. Whil e hard labour. thus piloting the cab, he had occasion to pass the de- LAMBETH. fendant's hotel, which was next door' to the Prince of Adolphus Von Zwahl, alias the Rev.-William Liebrech, Wales. The defendant was at the door, and seeing the a German, who has been in. custody for some days on a business he'was upon, he rushed out and pitched into charge of obtaining goods from Mr. Simpson, a chemist, him in Old English fashion. in the Kennington-road, atiel' Mr. Macken, a tailor, in From the defence of Aimable Delafolie, it ap- Ryder-street, St. James's, was - brought up for further peared that the two hotels, were patronized by foreign examination. visitors, and, in order to prevent mistakes which occur- Attley, an active plain-clothes constable, belonging to red from a too great similarity of names, the one being the L division, had in the meantime searched his lodg the. Prince of Wales Hotel, . and the, other the Prince ings, and found duplicates .and other documents which Albert Hotel, the latter hotel chan g ed its title to that of are likely to lead to the disclosure of other frauds. the Hotel de B ou l ogne. T o prevent t h e consequences of Mr. Philip Chafer, a saddler, , of 44, Br ewer - street, rivalry, an arrangement had been entered into between Golden-square, deposed that en' the Ist o f J u l y last the the respective proprietors, by which neith er was t o i n - prisoner came to his shop • and purchased a portmanteau, terfere with t h e other ' s -b us i ness. The complainant, which he directed to be sent to London-str eet , Feuchurch however, in d e fi ance of tbe entente cordi a le that had street,' and said it would be paid f or on d el i very. The - thus been established, was in the habit of touting about p risoner ly said at the time that he was m arr i e d to a la Leicester-squar e for fresh arrivals, and had succeeded by of large fortune, residing at- Sh oo t er ' s - hill, and asked this means in diverting visitors from the Hotel de him to go there to shoot.—(Laughter.) Boulogne to the. Prince of. Wales. It was because the In his cross-examination, the witness said that he had known the prisoner from his being secretes exercise thought that the complainant was in the previously cretary a German society, and ad " y, gutted that he had trusted exercise of this unfair vocation that he went out to re- 1 3 ? with monstrate. • Hnadmitted he did strike the complainant, Iwl the portmanteau upon his own responsibility. but then he had been, as he said, "vary terrible provoki." . Worthington Strange Lodge, foreman to Mr. Macken, The cabman proved , that , he , bad applied to the come tail or, sone in Rid er-street, St. James's, deposed that the pri- Wales. r gave an order for trousers plainant to direct bins to the Prince of and waistcoat, and on Mr. BARDwIC x said, even if the complaina nt had subsequent visits gave further orders for trousers and been guilty of the con d uc t attr ibuted to ng t him, the de- waistcoats, and also one f or a court dress, stating that at he fendant would not have been justified in making an was going to Osborne-house to be presented to the attack on him. But the evidence showed that this was . ?ueen and Prince Albert. --(Laughter.) The court not the case, and therefore the offence was aggravated. ress:was suppli e d, an d from the time of its being so He should fine th e d e fendant 40s.—The money was supp l ied he (w i t ness ) h a d neither seen nor heard of him h paid. until e saw him in florsemonger-lane Gaol on the pre- Thomas Cotterill was charged with having a quart- sent charge. city of dress e d a n d un dressed meat in his possession, Soli citor—On what terms was t h e cour t d ress sup the property o f M r. Mivart , the proprietor of Mivart's p li ed , . Witness —On hire ; and three guineas was to Hotel, Brook street. be the charge for its use. , The prisoner, it appeared, was husband to one of Solicitor —The usual round-breasted coat and bag Mr. Mivart's servants, whO had been in his establish- wig, I suppose ? Witness--Yes. . went many years, and on this account Mr. Mivart was Solicitor—Pray, did you supply the dress sword? reluctant-to press the charge with severity. Witness —Allow me, sir, to tell you that it is not eti- The defendant was convicted of the unlawful pos- quette for clergymen to wear swords.—(Loud laughter.) session, and was se nt 'son for ten days. to lon- Solicitor—Well, I suppose you supplied the silk MARy,LItiBONE. stockings ? Witness—Well, I offered to supply them, . James Brown and Edward Lamb, both of them don- but the prisoner told me he had half a dozen, pair him key-drivers, were placed before Mr. Broughton, charged. himself, and this threw me off my guard._ The shoes, with having robbed Madame Casenova, a dashi ng ly. t he said, he should get froM Burlington Arcade. attired French lady, r es iding iii.Leiceater-square, of llv Mr. Gunn, the clerk—You_ luw_t_paid the court-dress , 0 f,2 tbB _ allPitets 9, 1048. Two women of the town, named Gorman and Sullivan, were also placed at the bar for re-examination on a charge of highway robbery. It appeared that on Tuesday night last a Mr. Turner was walking along High•street, when he was accosted by the prisoners, who finding that he was not inclined to accompany them, knocked him down, and emptied his pockets of their contents. Gorman was pursued and taken into custody, but the other prisoner got away, and was not apprehended until the succeeding night. The prisoners were committed. 'ROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 4th day of September, 1848, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. This day the Most Honourable John Marquis of Breadalbane was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board accord ingly. CROWN-OFFICE, SEPT. 5. XEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN TIIIII PRESENT PAR• LIAMENT. Borough of Derby—Lawrence Heyworth, of Yewtree, near Liverpool, Esq.; Michael Thomas Bass, of Holly bank, in the county of Stafford, Esq.; the last election for the said borough having been declared void. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire. Lancashire Hussars—Sir John Gerard, Bart., to be Major Commandant ; William Charles Yates, Esq., to be Captain, Sept. 5. ADMIRALTY, AUG. 28. Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant Henry Hewett to be First Lieutenant, rice Grieve, resigned. ADMIRALTY, Ago. 31. First Lieutenant and Quartermaster Edward Thorn borough Parker Shewen to be Captain, vice Smith, re tired on full pay; Second Lieutenant Edward M'Arthur to be First Lieutenant, vice Showen, promoted. WHITEHALL, AUG. 29. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Arthur Harward, of Wirksworth, in the county of Derby, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. riANKRUP — rS. James Emmins, builder, Princes-road, Notting-hill, to surrender Sept. 15, at one, and Oct. 22, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee; Fallows, Piccadilly. Joseph Robinson Towers, innkeeper, High Holborn, Sept. 20, at half-past twelve, and Oct. 24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Stanley, Milford-street, Bedford-row. Abraham Nash, scythe plater, Netherton, Worcester shire, Sept. 16, and Oct. 14, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Motteram, Knight, and Emmett, Bir mingham. William Couch and John Davies Couch, sailmakers, Swansea, Glamorganshire, Sept. 21, and Oct. 19, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Jones, Blaxlaad, and Jones, or Tripp, Swansea. Roger Elliott, builder, Plymouth, Sept. 20, and Oct, 25, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter ; Lavers, Plymouth; Stogdon, Exeter; Pontifex and Moginie, Holborn, London. Joseph Bannister, thread manufacturer, Lockwood, Yorkshire, Sept. 18, and Oct. 23, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Clarke, Chancery-lane, London ; Hird, Huddersfield ; Caries, Leeds. Thomas Carter and George Wharton, engineers and millwrights, Gainsborough, Sept. 20, and Oct. 25, at half-past ten, at the Leed s Di s t r i c t C our t. Carrick, official assignee, H u ll ; S co tt an d C o ., Lincoln's-inn fields; Plaskett, Gainsborough. Absalom Humphreys, boot and shoemaker, Liverpool, Sept. 20, and Oct. 12, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Oli ver, Old Jewry-chambers, London; Evans and Son, Li verpool; Humphreys, St. Asaph. George Lowe, woollen draper, Chesterfield, Sept. 21 and Oct. 12, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester. Palmer, France, and Palmer, Bedford-row, London ; Busby, Chesterfield; Binney, Manchester. Margaret Hassell, milliner, Manchester, Sept. 20, and Oct. 11, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Putt, official assignee; W. and H. P. Sharp, V eru l ani . buildings, Grays-inn; Rowley and Taylor, Manchester, Peter Feeney, Manchester, clothes dealer, Sept. 22 at twelve, at the Mancheste r Di str i ct Court. official assignee, Manchester ; Milne, P arry, Hobson,and Oct. 12 Milne, and Morris, Temple; Sutton, Manchester. William Wallace and George Dormond, butchers, Sun derland, Sept. 13, at twelve, and Oct. 13, at two, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Nixon, Cliff or d' s l an; Brunton, Sunderland; Cooper, Sunderland. DIVIDENDS. In the Country. J. Matthews and C. D. Matthews, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, and Chip p i ng Campden, Gloucestershire, ' bankers, Oct. 5, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham— J. Wood and H. Wood, lluddersfield, woollen manufac turers, Oct. 10, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—J. Burt, and J. Burt, jun., Manchester, and W. T. Watson, Leeds, commissio n agents, Oct. 4, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester —T. Stother and W. Richards, Man chester, joiners, Oct. 5, at twelve, at the Court, Man chester. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. A. Warrant], Skinner-street, Snow-hill, money scrivener, Oct. 2, at twelve. In the Country. W. Townley, jun., Manchester, stock broker, Sept. 29, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Forth, Not tingham, hatter, Oct. 6, at eleven, at the Court Notting ham—J. Walker and W. Walker, Birkenhead, joiners, Oct. 3, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool —I?, D. Paw son, Leeds, apothecary, Sept. 29, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds. At the Court of Review, Sept. 29. Z. Bowden, Werrington-street, Oakley-square, St. Pancras, builder —G. Murphy, Camberwell, plumber— H. Stock, Portmadoc, Carnarronshire, manufacturers of slate goods—H. C. Robinson, Backnock-crescent, Cam den-town, and King's-cross, surgeon—R. Tottington, Higher-end, Lancashire, cotton spinner—R. Hughes, Liverpool, laceman—W. Sandilands, South Lambeth, and Walnut•tree-walk, pianoforte keymaker—J. R. Duncan, Liverpool, woolle❑ draper— G. Cradock, Dar lington, Durham, ropemaker—T. Swift, Monmouth and Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Brockwear, Gloucestershire, and Bristol, timber merchant—H. Jakeways, Pontypool, Monmouthshire, licensed victualler—V. H. Hallpike, Cromer -street, Gray's Inn-road, pianoforte maker—T. Cooper, York, share broker—M. Merritt, Pensford, Somersetshire, farmer—J. Shepherd and B. Shepherd, Exeter, wine merchants. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T R. Porter and lTes.mTe.nC—oujp.erivCatuetrtson'asn-wdhear.f, Waters,street, potato sa Su Duke-street, S outhwark, s at v id e , t f. Eastbourne j uen and and Seaford , j. ra ssex, farmer s an d graziers rko r , apothecaries— rn W. ceCras_stl mercers—J, a T nd riv N et . t m il a a n rdy, Nottingfrn, silk merc e r s an d li nendrapers—J, surgeons Oxford, and drapers a P ot h e c Wood and W. Brown, Coleman-street, City, and Heath street, Cambridge-heath, hat-band manufacturers—T, Hallam, W. 'Webberley, and S. Wood (so far as regards T. Hallum), Longton, Staffordshir e , manufacturers of earthenware—J. T. Pink and J. F. Bottom, Not tingham, lace manufacturers —J. F. Bottom, J. T. Pink, and G. W. Wilson, Nottingham, cotton doublers —W. Benson and J. Boyes, Liverpool, ironmongers —C. Baker and IL Gibbs, Taunton, s ilk - mercers --W. Hard man and C. Nuttall, jun., Great Bulton, Lancashire, brokers—H. Wright and I'. Johnson, Wigan, Lanca shire, ironfounders—J. Lanigan and J. A. Hobson, Hug gin-lane, Wood -street, Cheapside, shirt-front and collar manufacturers—J. A. Tomalin and P. Hart, Upper Stamford street, Christchurch, Surrey, tea and coffee - dealers —W. A. Macfarlane, J. Flament, and J. Macfar lane, Trinidad, Spain—M. Berry and J. Riley, Felley- _ . ... was merely lent on hire ; and this being the eve, how was the prisoner to return it ? Witness—By a Queen's messenger, on the day after that upon which he said he was to be presented.—(Renewed laughter.) Mr. Gunn—Well, and was it returned by a Queen's Messenger ? Witness—Certainly not, sir ; nor by any other messenger. We have nut seen it since, nor can we find out where it is. Mr. Simpson next deposed to the prisoner's ordering from him a galvanic battery and an electrifying machine; representing himself at the time to be in business at Hatnburgh, and his wanting them for shipment to the Cape. The prisoner introduced himself as the acquain tance of Mr. Nesbitt, who kept a highly respectable school in hennington•lane, and by whom he had been previously employed as a teacher of the Germa❑ hap+ guage. The representation proved to be untrue. Edward Butt, apprentice to the last witness, said that on taking the goods he saw the prisoner, who told him that he had not money by hire to pay for them, but that he had a foreign bill, and should take additional goods from Mr. Simpson to its amount. The prisoner told him he night take away the goods if he thought proper. Mr. George Webb, pawnbroker, 207, High Holborn, produced an electrifjing machine, pledged with him by the prisoner for 355. on the very evening on which it had been delivered by Simpson's apprentice. Attley, the officer, gave evidence as to the duplicatesj and other articles found at the prisoner's lodgings. After which, the prisoner's attorney addressed the magistrate at some length, contending that the trans.' action with the latter amounted merely to one of credit. That the second charge of the portmanteau fell to the ground; and that the prisoner, in having offered Mr. ) Simpson's apprentice to take away the goods, had re- 1 lieved the case of all legal criminality. Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that there could be no doubt that the first case was decidedly one of fraud; and asi regarded the case of Mr. Simpson, it would be a ques tion for a jury. He should again remand the prisoner. SOUTHWARK. Henry Good, a well-dressed man, was brought before Mr. Cottingham for re-examination, charged with being concerned with four other men (not in custody), in as - nulling and robbing a Mr. Palmer, in Blackfriars-road. It appeared that on the morning of the 26th ult., be tween two and three o'clock, the complainant was walk, ing along Blaakfriars-road, near Little Surrey-street,l when he was attacked, knocked down, and while on the ground robbed of all the money he had about him, to gether with his watch, by four men. They all escaped at the time, but on the following night the prisoner was taken into custody in the Borough-road from the de scription given of him by the complainant. Witnesses were examined on behalf of the accused, one of whom, his landlord, swore that he was at home at eleven o'clock on the night in question, and did not go out again until nine the next morning; and this state ment was confirmed by a little boy with whom the pri soner slept the same night. The prisoner was committed, but the magistrate con sented to take bail for his appearance, himself in 1001., and two sureties in 50/. each. PRICE OF SUGAR. fl uted The average price of Brown or M uscova d o Sugar, corn.- , from the returns made in th e wee k en di ng Septembe r 1848, is 235. VA d. per cwt. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. with PORTSMOUTH, F RIDAY .—Th e report c i rcu lated WI O regard to the deck o f th e C o lli ngwoo d s i n ki ng has be e found to be cor rec t, not , h owever, f rom the dropping o f the beams, nor any o th er d e f ect, e i t h er i n t h e design or execution of th e s hip, b ut f rom t h e wor ki ng of th e holy stones, by which one deck at least has been en t ; tirely ruined, th e na il s s t an di ng up i n suc h a wa y 0 5 render it unsaf e f or wa ki ng on . T he s hip i s perfeCtl., sound. The Cyclops steam-frigate is ordered to be kePt readiness for immediate service. to The Growler steam-sloop was taken out to-dsf, r try her engin es , un d er the inspection of Comm P. Grenfell and Mr. A. Murray, chief engineer. i s The Kingfi s h er , 12, i s rea d y f or commission, 1"„ d expected she w ill h o i s t t h e pen d ant on Monday, 6"t,e fit for the coast of Africa, as she is intended to to the next mail to that station. the In Port and Fi t ti ng —Th e Vi ctory, 22, flag-ship Illustrious, 12; the Ordinary, guard-ship; the 1 313 ", , hulk, tempor ar y guar d- s hi p o f steamers; the E xc ellen t for gunnery practice; the Rolla, exercise brig for ri f . r n v apprenti ces; th e H ecate steam-sh i p; the Cuckoo, 'go dine, Fire Queen, Fairy, Li g h tn i ng , Ad e l a id e , an d Bc,. ts , steamers; the Fanny and P or t smou th, Ad m i ra l s ' Ye' At Spithead--The Powerful, 84. or In the Steam Basin—The Retribution and Ccii steam- frigates ; th e S a l aman d er steam - s l oop; t h e Cuck°— , Fire Queen, Jackal, Sprightly, and Otter steamers. , 0 In the Ship B as i n —Th e Aj ax, steam guard-ship; t"., Malabar, coal d e po t; th e Ki ng fi s h er, 12; the Encoun°'' steam-sloop ; the Lightning, steamer. 2; In Dock—Th e C o lli ngwoo d , 80; t h e P em b ro k e , ' the Cormorant, steam-sloop; the Dwarf, steamer; t w floating fi re eng i nes; an d the i ron ca i sson of the s te'— m basin. Wind, S.W., fresh breezes, and cloudy weather. ~ PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 7.—Th roug h t h e suspens i on o f , ns tilities in the North, the following vessels, which ht v for some time taken shelter in this port, have this ' I Z sailed for their several destinations, viz., the ?rese l l, brig Kron Prinz von Preussin, Captain Moller, ~fiv r , China, for Hamburgh; the Oldenburgh schooner - 011 _, gretha, Captain Schaffer, from Cephalonia, for Bremet.l the Danish schooner Commune, Captain Rauslen, frt:l7: Rio Grande, for Hamburgh; the Prussian barque p. c . Bence, C a pt a i n Elb recht, from Plymouth, for Denizli,: and the Han over i an ga lli ot Anna Petronella, CePz.e Arends, from Ali cante, for Hamburgh. The followt are ready, and w ill pro b a b ly sail to- morrow, viz-, Hamburgh galliot Conatus, Captain Klemer, from L i ' bon, for St. P e t ers b urg h ; the Danish brig Courier, Cap' lain Thompson, f rom M onte V ideo, for Ham b urg h t Prussian brig Fanny, Captain Laurens, from Bordesii': for Stettin; and th e P russ i an b r i g F reder i c Wilhelreine , Captain Mann ows ky, f rom T orrevecc hi a, f or Konig% burgh. The Pr uss i an b r i g B e l o h nung, C apta i n Linto . e e r r from Liverpool, for S te t t i n , h as b een d eta i ne d under average, but will sa il i n a f ew d ays . Th e E ng lish brig Empress, Captain Hodgson, sailed yesterday for Hair burgh with part of the cargo the Hamburgh barqu e Flora, Captain Tiedeman, from Singapore, transhippe d previous to the conclusion of the armistice ; and the schooner Gideon, of Plymouth, Captain Barrett, sails to morrow with the remainder of the brig's cargo. The Flora is now about to load an outward cargo for Singa pore, brought here for her, from Hamburgh, by the English brig Hamburgh, Captain Wood. The above includes all the Northern merchantmen in the port when the late intelligence arrived ; a considerable number of vessels have, however, during the disturbances , touched here, and then proceeded to their destina tion. It is stated that only ono of that number has been taken. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 7.—ln consequence of the arrival at this port of the intelligence that the armistice be' tween Denmark and the German Confederates had been ratified, the residue of the fleet of foreign vessels se lung detained here, and amounting to 40 sail have de' parted for their original destinations last night and ibi s morning. About 60 oth er s hi ps b y arrang e ment with their consignees either got clear of their cargo's, pro ' ceeded to other port s , or h ave run the gauntlet, a;dif ferent periods during the time of active hostility. Wooewress, SEPT. B.—The Adder steam-vessel, re' cently paid off at this port, on the discontinuance of th e packet service at the Pembroke station, is ordered te, take on board a su p p l y of coals to-day, and will procee d on Monday next t o G ravesend with the Lords Commie . sioners of the Admiralty, who will land there, and Pre" ceed by railway on an official visit to Chatham. The Plumper steam-vessel, when she started yesterday under the charge of Mr. Bellamy, Master-Attendant al, Woolwich Dockyard, had not reached opposite the rois i arsenal when one of the fans of her screw-propeller broke off, which was lost in the river. The other 1113 also broke off in a few minutes after, and she had to be towed back to the harbour at Woolwich by the Doe r steam-vessel. The Dover steam-vessel, Second Master Commande r Bolton, worked very creditably yesterday during h er trial down the river, and the Lords of the Admiralty re turned to Woolwich in her. She has been fitted wit h three masts, but their Lordships consider that two wi ll be suffi c i ent , an d h ave ordered the mainmast to be taken out and placed in store. Their Lordships' official visits are of great benefit, as any deficiencies or imperfection s at once attract their attention, and a few words of Per" sonal instruction to the heads of the departments ere - more to the purpose than volumes of correspondence. The Mynx steam-vessel, under the charge of Mr. Ge e. man, Master of the Fisgard frigate, made an average speed of about nine knots per hour yesterday. The Niger steam-sloop has a number of hands gm: ployed upon her to get her ready for sea. A g reat sa* vantage possessed by her engines is owing to their being wholly with their boilers under the water line, and safe from liability to injury by shot. The ponderous begin; of the former perpendicular stroke are entirely dispense d with, and a short horizontal stroke of about 1 foot 10 inches substituted, which occupies a comparatively small space in the vessel, and by its direct action gives a greater 'lumber of revolutions of the screw-propeller than can be obtained by any other means yet adopted, without the continuous drumming noise which took place when cog-wheels or leather -bands were used; and they are now far less liable to get out of order. BIRTHS. On the 4th inst., at Dublin, the lady of Captain T. Fraser Grove, of the Inniskilling Dragoons, of a daughter. On the 6th inst., in Eaton-place, the lady of Sir Joseph Hawley, Bart., of a daughter. On the 6th inst., at Norland-square, Notting-bill, the wife of C. R. Berkeley, Esq., of a daughter. On the 6th inst., Mrs. Smith, the wife of Mr. C. Smith, of Beaumont-street, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at Tube-bill, Mrs. Charles D. Finch, of daughter. MARRIED. o n the 2d inst.,at Athleague Church, Francis Barry Draw, Esq., Adjutant of her Majesty's 30th Regiment, to Anne Charlotte, youngest daughter of J o h n Cator, Esq., of Becken ham-place, ent. On the 6th inst„ at Kingston -on-Thames, William Henry , eldest son of the late W. Dickinson Esq., Comptroller - General of her Majesty's Cust o m s , to ' Charlotte Jane Eliza Walton, of Surbiton-hill, daughter of the late IV. Walton, Esq., Kingston, Surrey. On the 6th inst., at St. Mary's, Bryanston-square, Thomas George, eldest son of the Right Hon. Sir Francis Baring, Bart., to Elizabeth Harriet, third daughter of Henry c' Sturt, Esq. On the 6th inst., at St. James's Church, Paddington, 11, Sweet, Esq., o f Ch ancery -lane, to Mary, eldest daughter of W. 11. Kelly, Esq. .of Porchester-terrace, Bayswater. ID. On the 20 t h u l t., at Yarm D ou E th, Isle of Wight, aged 72 F. Macminn, Esq., of Donaghadee, Ireland. On the 27th ult., Sarah, the wife of Samuel Rawlins, Esq. , of Rotten-park, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, aged 80. On the Ist. inst., at Caerleon, Monmouthshire, J. Butler, Esq., aged 52. On the 3d inst., aged '23, Lionel Granville Eliot, only son of L. D. Eliot, Esq., of Shenstone-villa, St. J o h n ' s-woo d. On the 4th i ns t., R S. Wadeson, Esq., late of Austin-friars. On the 3d inst., in Portman-street, London, Charles Perdon Coote, Esq., of Ballyclough Castle, Cork, aged '24. On the sth inst., at Brighton, aged 57, Mary Ann, the wife of Mr. R. L. Schofield. On the sth inst., at Purley-hall, Ann, fourth daughter of the late A. E. M. Atkins, Esq,, of Kingston Lisle, Berks. On the 6th inst., at Alderley, Mary, w if e o f J . N. Tyleet Esq., of Baby Lawn, Bathwick, Bath. On the 6th inst., at Worship-street, Finsbury, Mr. Jail Watson. On the 6th inst., at Woburn-place, Russelliquare, Thomas John, youngest son of the Lite C. M'Callum, Esq., Q.F.M. London: Printed and Published by_ MIIRDO LING! & t N. 112, Strand, Printe r , at The Su n Offile;-.No. 1 12 , Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in tial4olllll 01 alidcilese; Saturday, September 9 : 1848. - - r , hall, near Huddersgeld, woollen scribblers and spin'', .e ri I —T. Cole and R. S m i t h, p a i nters an d glaziers—F. Cu,°o , and M. Lio n , U n i on - street , Bi s h o p sga t e -street, tiP shoe manufact urers —W. C u l p h an d B. Cook, Kirkfloile' Lancashire, blacksmiths Eliza Coker and Farill Coker, Liverpool, milliners and dress makers—J. Bridge and J. Knight, Man c h es t er , feat anii job dealers - ' Hutton and W. C. Connell, Liverpool, provision 11 r• chants—J. Horne and G. F ow l e , Barnsbury-row, d road, Islington, plumbers and painters—T. Baugh a n , J. Heath, Birmingham, lin en an d w oollen drapers--,?; Anstey and J. Baker, Bread•street, Cheapaide, silk an' shawl warehousemen—W. Newton and R. Gent, need ' curriers and leather sellers—lV. Mountain and S . Fee ' , Leeds, whitesmiths and mac hi ne -makers—C. Sim kins and J. Haigh, Clifford's-row, Pimlico, general smiths--: H. Nesmyth and J. Nesmyth, Chobha.m, Surrey, fanner' —R. O. Clarke and F. Timmins, Birmingham, brass' founders—T. M‘Alpin, J. Stead, J. Bean, T. Jackso n ' J. Benn, Eliz tbeth Nicholson, J. Smith, And J. Caddi Bolton, coal miners. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Albany Cradock, Portsea, chemist. 1," illiani Lowe, Southsea, Hampshire, saddler John Banyard, jun., Ipswich, saddler. William Canham, Ipswich, lodging-house-keepes Thomas Davis, Swansea, commission agent. John Pearson Ellenden, Margate, coach maker. John Rowley. Chirk, Denbighshire, underground bailk Henry Woollven, Ashton-under Lyne, lime dealer. Samuel Newell, Birmingham. Henry Halferd, Birmingham, currier. James Lewis, jun., Ashford, Kent, draper's assistant. Mark Oakey, Birmingham, baker. James Crowder, Birmingham, cooper. John Laurence, Birmingham, brass founder. Joseph Titley, Birmingham, commission agent. William Edwards, Nantwich, Cheshire, farm bailiff. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. D. Anderson, Edinburgh, chemist and druggist , _„ d Du meet within Dowell' s R ooms , Edi n bur g h, Sept. 1 3 Oct. 4, at two. D. Crow, Glasgow, wright and builder, to meet WIWI the Wellington Hotel, Gl asgow , S e pt. 14 and Oct. 5, 11 twelve. C TIoN aaPat Ptrtn Bttwee BitNr, e ketw ee Xetwes Xetwes tir ti u n , twerp, a taitel t , ? restoi _trriv . 4 inbu ,2 140 1t0l erth 'Lunde' "'beoit London ' 441 . • Pr Corn, trosa, a _tease teichin ..zpre4 ,_ dinl3R( to c) LOs s Train s Loador 1 1 4 . 0,ti 51 ) 3 4 13i h0 ,, Th e ', li 4,x. Ilish ....____ le. II 'heir 14 lc 13 ' ) tt fr bat, 44 th by 11 1.1 ..t m 14 'cl t Il k ' al fierki 1 7 1 IL 4 1 41 Istu; triti Aim Lt%ei 4 Sti Iltt