The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-27 00:00:00

:SPIRIT :SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS • TlMES.—Twelve months have elapsed since we introduced to our readers the last remarks of a most able and intelligent correspondent on the prospects of our Indian empire. T he actual experience of a busy a nd eventful year may now be applied to decide be • tween our deduction s and his own, and we are .per fectly assures that " Civis " will be the first to rejo ice o ver the practical refutation which his conclusions will thus receive. The development of our policy in • the Punjaub has been more uniformly and extensively • successful than even we then ventured to anticipate. We have no prospect of any difficulties arising from • our increased proximity to Affghanistan. Our ad vanced posts have rather conciliated the respect than excited the jealousy of the Courtof Caubul, and as far as the bias t of that capricious and unstable Durbar can be credibly ascertained, there appears even an indefinite desire to bring their relations with us to such a pass as may secure them some of the advan tages which they are witnessing on the other side of the Indus. We have unquestionably got a better frontier than we ever had before. We have not been led along by any fatality of impulse from the Sutlej to the Oxus. On the contrary, the consum mation of our work was even more timely than was predicted, and the victorious army had been quietly put upon a peace establisinent before its commanders could have read the apprehensions entertained at home of endless and accumulative wars. The reader will be as well pleased as ourselves to see the com munications of " Civis" diverted from gloomy mis zivings of the future to lively comments on the past, and though we may regret that it should be so seldoin our good fortune to be enabled to concur in his remarks, yet we are not sorry to meet him again on ground where our differences will be less serious and our controversy may be more amus ing. As regards the character and source of the Seikh power, we take issue with him at once. By no kind of means c an we admit either that the French have made better Sepoy officers than the Eng , 'sh, or that if they had, the strength of the Seikh state was owing in any considerable degree to the impress of their excellence. On the latter point it will be sufficient to observe, that the superiority of the Seikhs was undeniably shown before either - Frenchman or Englishman set foot in Hindostan. Hindoos, it is true, they may be called, though Mahometans were not excluded by the conditiens of brotherhood under which their military and religious commonwealth was founded. But they had that beyond other Hindoos which Cromweli's Ironsides or Balfour's Conventiclers had beyond other Englishmen er Scotchmen. Persecution elicited and strengthened that martial spirit which the hardy air of the Upper Punjanb had contributed to form. Animated by convictions far deeper and more energetic than those of the dominant or tolerated creeds, they added the gloomy fanaticism of sectarians to the warlike temper of mountaineers. Tyranny and perse cution consoli dated their force, and drove them to mutual defence and despairing courage as their only hopes. They became what men will always become who fight daily for their lives and their faith. They made head against the Great Mogul and his Viceroys of Lahore. They st urdil y resisted and finally sur vived even the rapid conquests of Ahmed Shah. • Before the great Runjeet Singh had been even heard , of, this oppressed sect had established a firm dominion in the seat of their original abode ; and before the first Governor-General left Calcutta, it was apprehended that the degraded Emperor might be persuaded to convey his pha u t om inheritance to the Seikh federation, and thus warrant a formidable power in pretending to our territories of Bengal. It was not till the battle of W a t er l oo h a d di sengage d the services of a military p o p u l a ti on th a t R un j ee t Singh introduced European discipline into his army, axid though we do not deny the value of the sug gestions thus received, and especially the true mei'• lery penchant of the Napoleon school, we cannot allow General Mouton or his predecessors all the credit of a character which the traditions and dis cipline of generations had combined to form. Still less can we pass without answer the supe riority claimed by " Civis " for French over English In disciplining Sepoys. We should deduce the very contrary conclusion from the remarkable facts which supply the means of judgment. The French got the start of us in every chance, and invariably lost it. Two discoveries combined to bring about the conquest of . India; the helplessness of the native armies against European discipline, and the capacity of native troops for receiving this discipline at European hands. The French have the credit of both. Dupleix first broke the spell of invincibility which hung over the armies of th e " M oors ," b y defeating an immense host with a single battalion, and -the same, commander led half a dozen companies of well-trained Sepoys against Lawrence-before ever a swarthy face had been seen in an English line. Yet, unless we had improved upon their own sugges tions, and shown ourselves superior on this very ground, how could we po,eibly have taken their own weapons from their hands, beaten them at every step, and finally remained in undisputed possession of the gigantic prize ? We admit that very palpable evi dence was occasionally left in native troops of their having been subjected to French discipline, and sur correspondent might have quoted the loss -.which the disciplined battalions of Sindiah cost us at Las warree, though it is believed that not an officer was present with them. But though this proves the goodness of French discipline, it does not prove the inferiority of English, which has never been subjected 'to a similar trial. Nor was the result either confined tl3 the efforts of the French or uniformly so successful in their particular case. Troops trained by Germans or Italians, or any other Europeans, gave us similar tysouble, and as an example of French failure, we need only recal to the recollection of " Civis " the circum stances attending the battalions of the very officer to whom he has alluded. What became of this force of 16,000 men at M. Raymond's death ? After open mutiny against the orders of the native Government, they laid down their arms to six battalions of our Sepoys, having first offered violence to their own French officers, who were only saved by our intervention. But can " Civis " really mean to ask, "Where is the English name or monument remembered like those of Raymond or Bussy ? " We are very sure he will be able to recollect the tomb of a greater man than either, to which a sor rowing Hindoo will retire from an unsuccessful suit, and rnut!ly appeal to the memory of the dead for j thatjustice which he conceives is denied him by the living. Did not our correspondent read the other day how a veteran of Madras who might have seen Tippoo's cavalry on St. Thomas's Mount, was fol lowed to his grave by the whole native population ? Does he not know that " Sahib Warren Hosteris" is the hero of the ballad minstrelsy of Bengal ? Did be never hear stories of Coote ? "It is but a short time since an old white-bearded sepoy came to present a memorial to an English officer who holds one of the highest employments in India. A print of Coote being in the room, the veteran recognised at once that face and figure which had not been seen for more than half a century, and, forgetting his salaam to the living, halted, drew himself up, lifted his hand, and with solemn reverence paid his military obeisance to the dead." CHRONICLE.—At a time when the welfare of Italy is menaced from within and without by such a variety of hostile influences, it is pleasing to observe the sagacity and resolution with which Pius IX. proceeds in his noble task of re-organizing the Roman State. The establishment of the national guard was the first significant step in this direction. That imeasure not only added immensely to the confidence reposed in the Pope by his subjects, but abolished for ever one of the main sources both of the iinpolicy and the unpopularity of his predecessors. Nothing had contributed so much to sustain and shield them in their career of misgovernment as the constant presence of a foreign mercenary force, and no other reform could be relied on es permanent until the ex tinction of that force was provided for. The settle ment of this knotty question gave rise to a general belief that measures of a grander and more com prehensive character were in preparation. Nor did the hopes thus kindled long. remain unful ;Wed. The formal reconstruction of the con- Commenced by the publication, on ft onstitution was the decrees ' n the lat and 15th October last, of for the A ssemblage of a . j ou a n u i t l y of State, and for the regula tionof the metropolis ; and the of the may be regarded as corn. outline of the m establishment of a Council of Ministers, nuenwic municipality leted by the . of the 29th of Decem _ I) tu propr i o Jil decreed in the mo publishin detail in another part of our t er, which we ; 1 feature of this most important paper. The princ.pa. which has marked the measureeasure is the same with that Pius IX. The mono (ether reforms initiqted by so long enjoyed of all poly which the clergy had the hi g h offices .of administration is put an end to. Th e ir influence and authority, which must of course a l ways b e a t Rome more considerable than in a n y ot h er country, i s confined within rea sonable li m it s . T he Secretary o f S ta t e , who 'with that office the f unc ti ons o f Minister of Foreign ASairs and of the President of the Council, must be a carkinal. All the other Ministries, viz. :—those of the luterior—of ?'abbe Instruction—of Justice—of Ylnance- 7 -of Industry and Agriculture—of Public I .Viorks—of War —and of Police —may be laymen. So at least we interpret the terms of the motu proprio, which, possibly from an unwillingness to give too rude a shock to clerical prejulices, leaves this point to be inferred from the absence of any provision to the contrary. except in the case of the Secretary of State, or Prime Minister, who, as discharging the functions of principal adviser to the Pope, on the in -,\twat% Gr • is spiritual as well as hi s temporal so ' 'a, 4 r,;,eiVel not possibly be a layman. The . 77;: - --ef i t* r i ,st : sit‘ad,er . will . remark that no separate , ,_ le a f .... a ., 4. Alai a n has heen constituted. T he ' .u.unts.. k yko. -- $ l l,lO !:=.?''' - a leirWrZatip:flakiveuld appertain to such an office are - ' 4al • " 71 he perhaps rather too numerous ' ' ;lii 1 ect.AmPut•A lv • „,„_, , ......„: , , _,....... -. IC responsibilities of the Secretary of State. Possibly at a future period it may be deemed conducive both to the secular interests of the Roman States and to the efficient exercise of the spiritual jurisdiction of the Pope, that the ecclesiastical functions which the Prime Minister will discharge under the present arrangement, should be separated from the secular duties, and consigned to a different minister. The spiritual interests of the Popedom, and the superin tendence which it exercises over a large portion of the Christian world, are certainly sufficient in themselves to occupy the whole time and thoughts of the ablest and most indefatigable of ministers. And i t is easy to conceive that the abilities most requisite for the se cular government of the State may not always be found united with those peculiar qualifications which will be indispensable in the head of the spiritual adminis tration. We think it likely , t herefore, that in the course of time the o ffi ces of secular and of spiritual Prime Minister will be separated and made inde pendent of each other. I n our op i n ion, the more the principle of responsibility is introduced into the work ing of the new constitution, the more clearly the ne cessity of this step will be perceived. The secular Prime Minister will require for the satisfactory dis charge of his duties the full confidence of the Council of State, or deliberative assembly. He will likewise have strong motives to select his colleagues from among those most acceptable to the representatives of th e people. Jf the spiritual Prime Minister have anything of the like responsibility, it will be to the college of Cardinals. With ou t p ronounc in g on the policy of declaring that no layman, of whatever ability, shall ever rise to the office of P rime Minister in th e R oman d o minions, com prising as it does a very large proportion of the secular authority of the Government, we may remark that the Cardinal most acceptable to the Consults, ar,d most gifted with abilities for secular administra tion, may not always be able to act in harmony with the college of Cardinals. Even though the exclusion of laymen from the functions of Prime Minister were continued, the separation of the two offices might be found expedient. At the same time we acknowledge there are arguments of considerable force upon the otht r side. The spiritual administration of the Popedom will so materially influence the state of its foreign relations that it is not easy to discover an arrangement by which the interests of one department of the Pope's authority shall never clash with, or be sacrificed to, the necessities of the other. The settle ment of these discrepancies will require much time and thought, much patience, good temper, and mutual forbearance, satisfactorily and harmoniously to adjust. Meantime, the completion, so far, of the fabric of the Roman constitution is a great work; and will do immortal honour to the great and enligthened Sove reign who has bestowed so precious a boon upon his people, and set such a noble example to the other sovereigns of Italy, which we wish most heartily that all of them, without exception, had the good sense and the resolution to profit by. At Rome the nre judices to be overcome and the obstacles to be sur mounted were tenfold more perplexing and formidable than in any of the mere secular states. Pius IX. has a host of enemies to contend with, of an obstinacy and malignancy to which his royal colleagues in the regeneration of Italy are not exposed at all. He has a powerful body of his own clergy opposed to him ; and the multitude at Rome, whose sole livelihood was derived from the corruptions of the Government and the judicature, are of course much exasperated by the sweeping reforms that have taken place. The depth and extent of these corruptions it is difficult for any one who has not resided at Rome to comprehend or give credit to. THE CENTRAL GAOL OF POISSY BROKEN INTO AND ROBBED Poissy, near Paris, has lately been the scene of three carious adventures. In the month of No reinber last a young man, wearing the costume of a priest, took up his residence in a chateau near the town. He made a display of the most fervent piety, anti so godly was he that he actually turned the side board of the dining-room into an altar, and every day celebrated mass before it, clothed in the most splendid robes of the Catholic church. He made frequent visits to Paris, and on each occasion returned with valuable articles used in the celebration of wor ship. It turned out that he bought those things on credit, and that he then sold them for whatever they would fetch. The duped tradesmen, on finding that they were swindled, got a warrant against him. On going to the chateau to execute it, the officers of jus tice were told by the concierge that the abbe had gone to Paris, and taken all his keys with him. But the officers forced their way in, and broke open all the doors that were fastened. At length they arrived at a room which was supplied with a formidable lock, bat after some difficulty they contrived to ef=fect an entrance. They then found a table covered with the remains of an excellent breakfast, and several bottles of excellent wine. The pretended abbe, who is only about twenty-five years of age, was crouched in the corner of the room. He gave himself up to the officers, and in reply to the questions put to him pretended that he should be able to con found his accusers. The next adventure is still more remarkable—the gaol broken into and robbed! The money chest of the prison generally contains a considerable sum, together with the jewels, watches, and other objects of value taken from the prisoners, A few nights ago, a man, taking advantage of the weather being dark and rainy, placed a ladder against the outer wall, and ascended to the top of -he wall. He then let his ladder down on the other side, and quietly descended. The audacity of this exploit will be conceived, when it is stated that the wall is watched by sentinels placed only a few yards from each other. Once within the yard, the fellow made his way to the offices, which he opened by means of skeleton keys. He then broke open the money chest, took out 800 f., re-ascended the wall by means of his ladder, attached a rope to the ladder, and let himself down on the other side, getting clear off with his booty. The third adventure consisted in an escape from the prison. A prisoner Duval was, about a week ago, occupied, with some nineteen other prisoners, in washing linen. The place in which the washing is carried on is surrounded by high walls. It is entered from a court-yard, and the entry is secured by a solid folding-door, which is fastened by an immense lock, and further protected by an enor mous iron bar. Whilst the turnkey to whom the superintendence of the prisoners was committed was engaged in making an entry in a book, Duval slipped to the door, pushed up the iron bar, and by a sudden jerk forced the lock. He then ran towards the outer wall, and on reaching it, leaped with extraordinary agility the top of a railing two yards high, which was fastened to it. From the railing he, in the twinkling of an eye, got to the top of the wall, from which he dropped into a by street, and before he could be pursued was clear off. A sentinel was placed within half a dozen yards of that part of the wall over which he escaped. MPORTANT TO RAILWAY TRAYELLERS.—An ac tion was brought on Friday against the North British Rail way Company, before the Sheriff's Small Debt Court in Edinburgh, for damages, in consequence of the railway train, advertised to start from Portobello to Edinburgh at five minutes past eight o'clock p.m., passing the sta tion at Portobello on the evening of the 6th inst., with out stopping to take up the passengers who had paid for their tickets, and were waiting in order to proceed by said train to Edinburgh, in consequence of which the pursuer in said action, along with other two gentlemen, had to walk on foot to Edinburgh. The agent who ap peared for the railway company denied the fact of the train not having stopped, and maintained that the pur suer ought to have remained at the station at Portobello until the next train arrived. The fact of the train not having stopped was, however, clearly established by the evidence of four witnesses. Mr. Campbell, advocate, who at present is acting as an interim sheriff substitute, found the company liable to the pursuer in two guineas of damages (the pursuer having stated that he did' not wish vindictive damages), and one guinea and a penny of expenses; and remarked that the pursuer, or any other passenger, was not bound to remain until other trains arrived, but was entitled to proceed to his destination by the best conveyance he could otherwise obtain, and that at the expense of the railway company, on account of breach of contract. The Sheriff commended the pursuer for having brought said action against the company, as the interests of the public were deeply involved in the matter.—Caledonian Mercury. THE PIG SECRET.—SO pigs are cannibals ; they eat one another ! Half a pound of bacon and fat is Mr, Huxtable's daily allowance for a fattening pig. We have long known the use of greaves, but we confess we can notaum eat pork so f a tt e d. It i s very extensively used in pshire, and h as i ncrease d every year i n pr i ce; an d at ____ethis moment greaves canno t b e h a d f or 201. a ton. W used to feed our yard dog upon them, and the leanest animal would l oo k fat and sleek in a fortnight. Is the use of greaves known as a manure for turnips ? It has e been used at B eauli a from guano, b one dufor years; and the Swedes raised from this manure surpasss, in size and bulk those raised m an an d c p i ts , o r i n s o te u h n u c thee re d h th turnip and superphosphate. A Dorset e best in t h e south of England.— culture around Lymington Agricultural Gazette. CURLING MATCIT.—On the 22d inst., a friendly watch was played between the Dalkeith Curling Club, and the Whitehill Club. The m a t c h e Whitehill Pond with four rinks ea c h sidea.meT`hl iceor. the keen on the whole , particularly towards th e end of w fthe as game, but it was slightly biassed. The play w as ( xcel hnt on both sides, and during the whole time fortune seemed much inclined to waver, end for end being almost alternately lost and won in all the rinks. It was decided that the match should terminate at three o'clock, and the hopes and fears of both parties were excited till the very close, when on investigating the score, the Dalkeith Clut proved to be victorious by two shots; the numbers bfin; 75 to 73. This re,ult proves these two clubs to be at present well match( d, the score in their match Drllieith Pond last season, being 1 in favour of the Whitehill Club, viz., 57 to 56. The game throughout the day was contested in a most amicable, though spirited manner. —Edinburgh Advertiser. ~ThP price of nig iron become more firm has in the '"?'..ana , market . with some indications of an adv ance, owing to the number of furnaces that have been thrown out of blast. THE SUN, LONDON, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT 'OF COMMON PLEAS, Jan. 26. (Sittings in Banco.) The only matters before the Court to•day were demurrers, and the points raised were of no public interest. (Sittings at Nisi Prius t. at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice UOLTMAN.) HARRIS V. PORTER.—DREACII OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Hawkins were for the plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Wilkins conducted the de fence. 111 r. EDWIN JAMES, on opening the plaintiff's case, said the present was an action brought by a person, though in a low sphere of lifedyet he trusted the jury would hear the facts of the case, and which he was instructed that he would prove in evidence. It was one of the most cruel and heartless cases ever sub mitted to the consideration of any jury. The plaintiff was the daughter of humble persons in Roydon, in Essex. She and her sister, not wishing to be a burden to their family, came to London, and went as servants, the plaintiff to a lady in Holborn, and her sister to a family in North Audley-street. The defen dant resides in Clerkenwell. On the 28th Nov., 1844, the plaintiff's sister obtained from her master two tickets for Astley's Amphitheatre, where they went to the pit of the theatre. They met the defendant with two other friends. He invited them to have some refreshment. They at first declined, but subsequently took some poker and brandy and water. ito accompanied them over Westminster-bridge. The plaintiff's sister proceeded on her way to South Audley-street, and defendant accompanied the plain tiff home to Holborn, when he left her. He subse quently called on her, and they went to her sister's, when he promised to marry her, and made the most honourable proposals to her. The defendant not finding it convenient to call on plaintiff, at Holborn, made her leave her place and take a situation near him, so as to give him more frequent opportunities of seeing her. He then made her return to her parents, where he went frequently to see her. He there re newed his vows of attachment, and declared his intention of marrying her. He would call on his Learned Friend to point out one act of indiscretion on her part; though in an humble sphere of life she might not have the sympathy which the conventional order of the higher classes of society afforded, yet he was sure the jury would by their verdict give that compensation which her outraged feelings demanded. He would not trespass on them at any further length but to state one fact, though the defendant had violated his solemn promises. Defendant got married on the 13th of September last, and what was the effect on hts unfortunate client would be best described by the witnesses he would call before them. He would not trespass further on them. He felt confident that the jury would give such damages as the justice of the case demanded. Sarah Harris, sister of the plaintiff, recollects ac companying her sister to Astley's Amphitheatre. In the pit they met the defendant with two others. On their leaving the house, defendant touched witness on the shoulder, and invited them to have some refresh ment. They at first declined, but subsequently agreed, and they bad some porter and brandy and water. Witness went home to South Audley-street, and defendant went home with her sister, where she lived with Mrs. Barker, a milliner, in Holborn. Her father kept a public-house at Roydon, in Essex. In about a week after defendant and her sister called on her, and he then acted towards her as if she was to be his v‘ife. He subsequently took them- on a Sunday to Woodford, in Essex, when he invited her to be present at his and her sister's wedding, and said he would not permit her to be in service any longer. Plaintiff then left her place in Holborn, aryl went to reside in the Minerva-road, Hackney, at her aunt's. Subsequently he recommended her to go home to Roydon, to .her father and mother. She did so, and while there he frequently went to see her. After an absence of two months she returned to town, and went to lodge with a Mrs. Thompson, Goswell-ereet, Goswell-road. About the beginning of September he advised her to go down again to Roydon, which she did, and to return on the 12th. When she returned, hearing of his marriage, she became deranged, and was reduced to a most pitiable state. Mrs. Sarah Thompson resides in Goswell-street. The plaintiff lodged with her for eighteen months. The defendant used constantly to visit her, and drive her out on a Sunday. She occupied a front parlour, pith a sofa-bed. On one occasion, when defendant was going to drive her out, plaintiff expressed her apprehension about the horse not being quiet, and some accident might happen to him. Defendant told her nut to mind, as if anything happened to him she was provided for. On another occasion she was ill, and said that she thought she should die. The de• fendant replied, " Oh, no, dear Eliza, you wont die until we go to church together." When she heard the account of his marriage she fell into hysterics, and it took two men and herself to hold her, and her mind became affected ; previous to which, from the state of her health, she was obliged to consult a surgeon. Mrs. Jane Turner knows plaintiff's family fourteen years. After defendant's marriage she called cn him, and inquired what he meant to do for the poor girl ? He said he would' alloAr )ler as he (1,21. before. On her calling subsequently, to effect an arrangement , he said he would do nothitig foi her, as some person had written to his wife, and informed her of the whole transaction. There was nothing elicited by the cross-examination of this witness. Airs. Jane Harris, mother of the plaintiff, stated that her daughter had been eight years in service in London. Her husband was a small farmer, kept a beer-shop, and occasionally worked as a labourer, at los. a week. The defendant, when he used to come after her daughter, promised her marriage in her presence. Mr. Sergeant Witax.nis addressed the jury for the defendant, and begged of them to look at really what the case was. Here were two girls, who went by themselves to Astley's without a protector; meet the defendant and two friends, utter strangers to them ; accompany them to a gin palace, take brandy and water, and the plaintiff permits a strange man to see her home; continues an intimacy with him, goes to theatres, lives for 18 months in Mrs. Thompson's house without business • visited constantly not only by the defendant, but also by his friends; goes and sleeps at his house, and also sleeps out several nights. How she supported herself it was not for him to say, but he appealed to the experience and common sense of the jury, and he was sure that, being guided by them, they would give the plaintiff compensation for any injury she sustained, if any, by the conduct of the defendant. The Learned JUDGE told the jury that they must be satisfied of a breach of promise, and the question of damages was solely in their province. His Lord ship having read over the evidence, said he would leave the case in their hands, and he had no doubt but that they would come to a just conclusion. The jury retired for two hours, when eleven entered the Court, and said, that they had all agreed but one. His LORDSHIP said that he regretted he could not assis'. them ; they then retired again to see and prevail on their fellow-juryman to agree with them, and after five and a half hours' consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages, 401. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Several young females were brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having, some of them, smashed windows, of considerable value, in the neigh bourhood of the Mansion-house; and others, with having threatened and violently attacked officers of the unions. Three of the women, Catherine Sullivan, Mary Sullivan, and Catherine Walshe, who appeared to be very dangerous customers, were watched by a man whom it has been found necessary to appoint to keep an eye to the conduct of the refractory vagrants and paupers who congregate about the Mansion-house. lle judged that they had a mischievous intention, and he apprehended the three with a basket of large paving -stones, which must have been brought from some distance, and which, they acknowledged, were intended for the windows of some of the extensive buildings in the vicinity, as the manner in which it had been found necessary to wire the windows of the Mansion-house, protected the glass of that structure from their attacks. ' The women said they came from the county of Cork, and that being out of work and out of pocket, they were resolved to get locked up, during the cold weather, in prison, where they would be much more comfortable than they could be in Peckham Union. The case of the other females charged before his Lordship were of the ordinary kind. They had thrown stones at and beaten and.threateßed to dispatch the union officers, and they gave no small evidence of their power over the English language in the com pliments which they thoUght it becoming to pay to the chief magistrate of London. It has been seldom that even at the Mansion-house the furious abuse used in the course of yesterday has been equalled. All the women charged vowed vengeance against the plate-glass windows, the union officers, the police officers, and the Lord Mayor and his brother Aldermen. 111%,••• The Lord MAYOR said it was with great pain he observed that the conduct of numbers of the old de pendents upon parochial bounty was become quite intolerable. Within the last twelve months the win dows of the Mansion-house had been broken over and over again, and when at last some protection was afford e d, the offenders began to throw large paving stones through the windows of the counting-houses and banks close to the building. In one day 16/. worth of plate -glass bad been broken in the windows of Messrs. Smith, P ayne, an d S m i t h , i mme di a t e ly o pp o site! 1 - ; door at wllich priulitrs ,! charity entered. On one occasion a gentleman in that house was struck in the breast with a stone flung in by one of the old retainers at the union. Indeed, ' he had reason to think that, within the last two months, the loss sustained in glass by the banking-house alluded to amounted to upwards of 701. No doubt the window-breakers resorted to that favourite occupation from the preference they gave to a felon's gaol over an union workhouse, upon the ground of more gentle treatment. That was a dreadful state of things, when the poor deliberately committed offences in order to be better treated than they could expect to be in their simple character of paupers. It was quite impossible that such a state of things could be suffered to exist, and he hoped Ihe Legislature would at once interfere to prevent the continuance of such desperate mischief as was daily occurring. His Lordship then sentenced each of the offenders brought before him to the full extent of the Act, and ordered that the Irishwomen should, when their imprisonment shall have termi nated, be instantly shipped for Ireland. The LORD MAYOR begged to acknowledge the receipt of 1/. is. from D. W. and D.; 51. ss. from J. 8., and the second half of the Si. note from the Hon. i►lis -, for the poor-box. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, IB4S. TRIPLE MURDER AT BRUSSELS.:4 BRA.BANT Coiner or ASSIZES.—The Triple assas- ) sination and robbery, committed at 13, Place St. I Gery, Brussels, at the residence of' M. and Mdlle. Evenepoel, on the evening of September 2, 1847. The Procureur-General, attached to the Brussels Court of Appeal, set forth that the Court, by its de cree of January 12, 1848, has sent before the Court of Assizes of the province of Brabant the two follow ing persons :—Francis Rosseel, aged tvrentyrnine years, cabinet-maker, born at Zedelghem (a little village of Western Flanders, two leagues south-west from Bruges) and domiciled of late in Bruges ; and William Vandenplas, aged twenty-seven, without any profession, formerly a baker, born at Vessem (a little village in Brabant, about two leagues from Louvain), and domiciled of late in Brussels. Both are accused of crimes enumerated in articles 295, 296, 297, 302, 304, 381, 382, 384, 59, 60, and 62 of the penal code. In consequence, the undersigned Procureur- General has drawn up the present act of accusation, in which the following facts and details appear : Mademoiselle Evenepoel, her brother, and two female ,servants, Marie Desain and Anne Smeets, inhabited the house No. 13, Place Saint Gery, Brus sels. The holfse was separated from the street by a court-yard, in which a small laundry and one of the kitchen, entrances were situated. Mr. Evenepoel's coachman, Cornelius Morens, took his meals in his master's house, and slept in the stables in the Rue de la Digue, where his employer's horses were kept. On the 2,1 September last, Morens came as usual to the house, to take his supper, between half-past nine and ten P.M. Having rang three times at the street en trance, without having received any answer, he observed that the door was on the latch. He then entered into the court-yard and saw the servants' lamp burning in the kitchen. He took up a small lamp and went towards the laundry, in order to saw some wood for the use of the house next morning. On entering, he perceived the dead body of one of the servants on the ground. Terrified at the sight, he ran out out of the house and alarmed the neigh bours, who soon called the police. It was then dis covered that a triple as'assination had been committed. The mangled bodies of the two servants were found in the little laundry, and that of Mdlle Evenepoel in the dining-room. At the bottom of the court-yard and near the house door their were pools of blood, fragments of skulls, and portions of brains. From these places to the laundry two parallel tracks of blood were clearly visible. Mdlle. Evenepoel's body was als , ) covered with blood. According to the report of the medical men, the two servants had their skulls beaten in by strokes of a hammer, and those strokes were so violent and numerous that the brains of Anne Sweets were reduced to a species of clammy sub stance. They had also received several wounds by means of a sharp pointed instrument, and principally in the jugular veins and vertebral canal. Mdlle. Evenepoel perished in the same manner. She had her skull broken and a very large wound which divided the jugular vein and carotid artery, and which appeared to have been made by a long poniard with a broad sharp blade. The marks of footsteps in the house indicated the presence of two persons who had forced open various pieces of furniture in several rooms, and who by means of a carpenter's chisel had endeavoured to open the lower part of M. Evenepoel's secretary. the authors of the crime carried eff nume;ous gold and silver articles ; amongst others, six watches, 945 Dutch florins, in gold pieces of the respective value of five and ten florins; and seventeen Dutch pieces of three silver florins each. The latter were taken from M. Evenepoel's secretary. Neither in the front court-yard, nor in the garden behind the house, were any traces discernible of scaling the walls, housebreaking, or false keys; that it was clear so the murderers had introduced themselves by the gate of the court-yard. The crime must have taken place between half-past seven and nine P.M., as the widow Drabbe, who had been sent to Mdlle. E.'s with an errand from the sister of the latter, Madame Key tnolen, had executed it at half-past seven, and conversed with the cook, who opened the door for her. A quarter of an hour later, the postman came to the house and rang three times,:without receiving any answer, and about half-past eight the sweetheart of the cook, a young man, named Dauckaerts, knocked four times on the wall corresponding with the little laundry. To this summons, which, it was under stood should always announce his arrival, no reply was made ; and he then went away, after observing that there was a light in M. E.'s room. Finally, about 9 .as., or a little later, the servant of Madame Renard who lives at No. 14, next door, observed, in passing before M. E.'s house, a person open the exterior entrance, put his head outside and immedi ately withdraw it ; but owing to the darkness which prevailed, she could give no description of the person and the authors of the crime had not left behind any marks which might serve to identify them. The examination of the wells, the cisterns, the water closets, and the river Senne, which surrounds the Place of St. Gery, produced no result ; and the arrest of all persons who had been convicted of crimes during the foregoing two months and a half was equally in vain. At last, an observation which escaped the lips of a person named Silvestre, an inmate of a prison in Brussels, set the authorities on the track of the guilty parties. During the month of August, Sylvestre encoun tered Vandenplas, with whom he had become ac quainted in prison. The latter complained of his miserable condition, observing that " he did not know from what wood h. could make an arrow," (in other words, that he was totally without any pecuniary re sources). He and Vandenplas took a turn about the town, and met Rosseel, to whom Vandenplas made a statement similar to the one above given. Rosseel replied that he knew a good piece of business; that there was a barrow full of money in the house, but that there would be a risk'of losing one's life. He added that he had already procured a passport. Ros seel and Vandenplas then agreed to meet at a certain place on the next day. It was afterwards ascertained that Rosseel had, in fact, obtained a passport for a foreign country, on the 20th of August, 1847, and that he had formerly inhabited a house belonging to Evenepoel. The information thus elicited led to the arrest of Rosseel and Vandenplas, on the 16th of November last. At the house of the former at 13ruges, the police found five watch glasses, corresponding in form and dimensions with the glasses of the watches stolen on the evening of the 2d of September Other circum stances soon arose to increase the suspicions enter tained with respect to Rosseel, who confessed his crime a few days after his arrest, and designated Vandenplas as his associate. Rosseel was conveyed to Bruges on the 22d of November, and pointed out the place in his house where the works of the five gold watches were secreted. Before that time the police had discovered three silver coffee spoons, a pair of diamond earrings, a diamond ring, a gold bracelet clasp, two gold watch chains, five gold pins, and other valuable articles, all of which were carefully concealed in his house, and were recognised by M. Evenepoel, and by Madame Kermoylen, as well as a little brooch which Rosseel had given to his servant, a girl named Berckmans. The other stolen articles were sold by Rosseel at l'Ecluse (a Dutch hamlet near the Belgian frontier, three or four leagues from Bruges), to a woman named Leenhouts, and to a Jew named Abraham Levy. The produce of the first sale was 89f. 24e., fifty of which he sent on the following day to Vandenplas. In the letter which the former sent to the latter, he stated that he had only received 50f. on account, but that he would lend him those 501., and promised to send 501. more on the following week. He added, that he could not force people (ik kan de menschen niet forcereen). Although Ros seel declared that the money came from the woman Leenhouts, on the 27th of September, and that on the following day he had forwarded the 501. to Van denplas, the latter continued to assert that Rosseel owed him that sum for bread, which he had furnished to him whilst residing in the Rue des Cailles, in the beginning of the year 1847. It was proved, how ever, that Rosseel's baker, at that time, was a man named Wettering, who supplied him with three or four loaves every day. The boy who carried out bread for Vandenplas, had never served Rosseel, although he had another customer in the same street, and Rosseel's name was not found in the book in which Vandenplas inserted the names of those who took bread on credit. On the Bth of October, the articles sold to the Jew Levy realised 740 francs. Vandenplas had arrived in Bruges on the sth and 6th of that month, and had left on the 7th for Landeghem and Somerghem (be tween Ghent and Bruges), in company with a cuiras sier and a young girl. On the morning of the 9th he returned to Bruges, accompanied by the female, after expending all the money he possessed, and after having pawned his umbrella for 3f. He had previously told a woman who kept a public house that he was going to Bruges to receive the sum of 6501. It was 'on the Monday that Rosseel had gone to l'Ecluse, and it was on the following day that Vandenplas pawned the umbrella. Yet on the very same evening he had about him between 400 f. and 500 f. Before going to bed he drank. two bottles of wine, and, on the next (lay, he had five more at Landeghem, where he redeemed his umbrella, and then returned by railway to Brussels. He had pre viously accounted for the possession of the money in different ways to different persons to whom he had spoken on the subject. It is clear, however, that Van denplas had shared with Ro , seel the produce of the sale of the stolen articles, as well as the money taken from M. Evenepoel's house. His extreme poverty before the commission of the crime, and his subse quent extravagant expenditure, leave no doubt on that subject. On the sth of September he went to the kermesse ore of Vie faubour,:, - s of Brii,sek, with j ,,atu.; and in tiitir eu,npu. - ,y drank threeth ree bottles of wine. On the 12th he proceeded in a vigi lante, to the kermesse of Vilvorde, invited the garde- t MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Charles Everard, assistant to Mr. Daniel I3ax, tailor, Regent street, was charged with having plun dered his employer of a large quantity of property, consisting of coats, silks, velvets, &c., and Thomas Everard, his brother, was also charged with having received part of the property, well knowing it to have been stolen. Police-sergeant Wells stated that on Thursday afternoon he received information that a person had left a parcel in a shop in Wardour-street, under sus picious circumstances. He proceeded to the shop and examined the bundle, and finding that it contained three new coats, he determined to ascertain if the man who left the bundle again made his appearance, whether they were his property. About ten o'clock the prisoner came into the shop and demanded the bundle he had left there in the morning. The bundle was given to him, and he was about to leave the shop, when he (witness) came forward and requested to be informed of the contents of the bundle. The prisoner ansvvercd, clothes ; and when further pressed, he said they were coats, and that he was a tailor. The prisoner afterwards said he had obtained the coats from his father's house, but without his father's knowledge. Witness said he must take him to the station-house, as he was not satisfied with the account he had given of the property. On their way to Vine -street, the prisoner said it was no use concealing the truth any longer. The fact was, he was in the employ of Mr. Bax, and that he had taken the coats from Mr. Bax's warehouse. Witness afterwards went to the pri soner's lodgings, 16, George-street, Hampstead-road, and found a number of duplicates relating to coats and other property. In the prisoner's room witness found a kind of ticket with Mr. Bax's name on it, which had been cut from the back of one of the coats. The tickets on the backs of the coats found in the bundle had been removed. Elizabeth Garratt said she lived with her mother. who kept a chandler'si, shop, 7, Wardour-street. On Thursday morning the prisoner came into the shop, and made some trifling purchases, and paid for them. He asked permission to leave a bundle there for a short time, and permission was granted. As the prisoner had not called during the day, information of the occurrence was given to the police, and the result was as the last witness had stated. Mr. Bax said the prisoner had been in his service as assistant for about four years. The prisoner was entrusted with the keys of the shop, and had access to the stock. The eight coats now produced, worth 15/., were his property, also the silks, velvets, and serge now produced. The prisoner Charles Everard made no defence, and was fully committed. The evidence against Thomas Everard was to the effect, that one coat had been left at the Yorkshire Grey, in Piccadilly, and another found in the pri soner's house, both of which were sworn to be the property of Mr. Bax. The prisoner was fully committed on the charge of receiving the coats, knowing them to have been stolen. WORSHIP-STREET. A well-dressed middle.aged woman, named Sarah Lee, was charged before Mr. Arnold with having committed the following artful and systematic fraud upon Mr. John Hagan, a nurseryman, at Upper Clapton. It appeared from the evidence, that about six months ago the prisoner introduced herself to the wife of the prosecutor, to whom she told such a plausible tale of her respectability and expectations, amongst which she mentioned that she was upon the point of coming into possession of 7,0001. from an uncle at Kensington, that the latter was induced to receive her into her house, and treat her in every respect as a member of the family. The prisoner continued to reside there upon these terms, without having paid anything the whole time, until about the 8d of Sep tember last, when she expressed her wish to Mrs. Hagan to send for her father and mother, who resided at Dover, and establish them in a house which she represented as her own property, and at the same time handed her a sovereign to defray their expenses to town. Witness gladly accepted her offer, but shortly before the arrival of her parents the prisoner left home, under the pretence of receiving some divi dends at the Bank, and never afterwards re turned, and upon subsequent inquiries in the neighbourhood, it was found that she had obtained the sovereign alluded to from a tradesman in the neighbourhood, and also a second one, in the name of the witness and her husband, who, she as serted, had sent her to borrow them. They had since instituted inquiries at Kensington, and having ascer trined that she had no relative residing there, and that her entire statement was a pUre fabrication, ob tained the assistance of the police, who ultimately succeeded in tracing her to another lodging, Where they took her into custody, and received from the landlady the duplicate relating to a shawl, which the prisoner had borrowed from the witness on the morn ing of her departure. Police-constable B7 N stated that, upon capturing the prisoner, she made an acknowledgment to him of the correctness of the charge, and, from information he had since received, he had no doubt, if she were remanded, that he should be able to establish several other cases of a similar description against her. When called upon for her defence, the prisoner de clared that she had obtained the money by the authority of Mrs. Hagan, to whom she afterwards handed it, but the latter positively denied the allegation, and the prisoner was ordered to be remanded for the produc tion of other cases. The Magistrate announced his receipt of the fol lowing additional subscriptions for the relief of Mrs. Charlotte Thomson, which were requested to be noticed in the public papers :—From "R. H," one half of a Si. note; " E. S. V., one half of a 51. note; "P. 8.," 51.; " M. C.," 1/. ; and from Lieut. Oakes, a cheque upon Messrs. Coutts, the bankers, for 2/. The magistrate has also received Si. for the poor box from "R. P.; and 1/. from "R.P.N. ;" 2/. 2s. from Mr. Pigott, of the Travellers' Club ; and 105. from " N. L.," for a poor widow named Margaret Ives, the particulars of whose distressing case we have before noticed. THAMES. James 21PCabe was charged with stealing a large quantity of type, and other materials used in a print ing -office, from the premises of Messrs. Teape and Son, printers, Little George-street, Tower-hill. Mr. G. T. Woodward, overseer in the prosecutor's establishment, said that the prisoner came into their service on Tuesday afternoon, the 18th instant. His wages were 335. per week: His earnings last week were 21s. 6d. only, which was paid to him on Satur day night. The prisoner was suspected of robbing the firm and taking away type on the first night he was employed in the printing-office. On Monday night the other compositors missed type, and went after the prisoner when he left the premises, but he contrived to elude their vigilance. On Tuesday night he accosted the prisoner when he left the printing-office, and told him he wanted to speak with him, and that he had a strong suspicion he had been stealing letter (the technical word for type). The prisoner hesitated, and said, "Do you ?" He was taken back to a warehouse on the premises, and at the time his hands were covered over with a handkerchief, and there was a bag in his hand which contained brass rules and leads of various lengths. 'Witness told him he was afraid it was not his first offence, and the prisoner begged that he might be taken into another room away from the officer. His request was complied with, and he then admitted he had before taken away letter and materials, and begged that his employers would be lenient with him, on account of his wife and family. The officer, Childs, was then called in, and the prisoner was searched, and 301bs. of letter of different founts, leads, rule, reglets, and other ma terials, was taken out of his pockets. Amongst it was a page of long primer set up and forming part of an auctioneer's catalogue, a page of brevier, and a quantity of " pie" (loose type). He afterwards accompanied Childs to the prisoner's lodgings, in the neighbourhood of the Caledonian-road, Holloway, where a circular piece of type metal, weighing 201bs. which had been recently melted down, was found in a cupboard. Some letter half melted was imbedded on the top of it. The prisoner admitted that it was the produce of what he had stolen on Monday. The prisoner made no defence, and was forthwith, committed for trial. PROFESSIONAL BREVITY.—Whew Mason was pre paring the case of E. K. Avery, and had examined about two hundred witnesses, somebody called to see him. The legal gentleman sent word that he was occu pied and could not be interrupted. " But the man is a itness—a Methodist minister." " Call him up," said Mason. " Well, sir, what can you testify ?" " I have ; two :.ngels have apvtared to me 11%,! me tli brother Avery is innuLent." Let titen t tie summoned !" said Mason, as he resumed his work.— Boston Atheneum. champetre to dine with him, and paid for twelve bottles of wine. The next morning he called for nine more, and passed the night at a place of ill fame in the Rue des Cailles, where he and three com panions (to quote the words of one of the witnesses) " drank a quantity of litres of faro." Vandenplas had encountered at the public-house, called A la Grenade, in the Rue des Cailles, a young woman named Barbe Amour, with whom he had been lung acquainted. He conducted her, during the week after his first ergies at Vilvorde, to the kermesse at Molenbeck, and to Vilvorde, where in two days he spent thirty-two francs, and changed a fourth gold piece of ten florins (known as a Guillaume). On his return to Brussels, he stopped a day and a night at the Grenade, and expended seventy francs more. His extravagance at Vilvorde attracted attention, and some individuals even requested the Commissary of Police to arrest him on suspicion of being concerned in the murders in the place St. Gery. Until the end of October, it has been proved that Vandenplas, in company with Barbe Amour, had expended thirty one gold pieces of ten florins each, and that, accord• ing to Rosseel, he had his share, thirty-five pieces altogether. About the end of October he had endea voured to open a house of ill fame, in conjunction with his mistress, in the Petite rue des Cinq Etoiles, Brussels. IRISH SPECIAL COMMISSION. CLONMEL, JAN. 24.—The judges arrived here at three o'clock this afternoon, and came down to the Court-house, at four to open the commission for the county Tipperary. . _ There are up - wards of 400 prisoners in the gaol, but only the principal cases will be tried under the commission, the others being postponed until the assizes. There was a large attendance of grand jurors, but all who were called did not answer to their names as in the counties of Limerick and Clare. The following gentlemen were swore as a grand jury under the commission :—The lion. Osborn Prittie (foreman), the Hon. 11. Hutchinson, Sir T. B. Dancer, Mr. P. Barker, Mr. E Waller, Mr. N. Mahon, Mr. S. Moore, Mr. J. 'frant,'Mr. R. Pennefather, Mr.G.Ryan, Mr. J. Bayley, Mr. Butler, Mr. W. Quin, Mr. J. Cooke, Sir J. Carden, Mr. J. Carden, Mr. J. Lonergan, Mr. S. Burton, Mr. C. Going, Mr. E. C. Moore, Mr. C. Clarke', Mr. Gason, and Mr. T. Lloyd. The grand jury were sworn, and the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE addressed them in a most able and impressive manner; but as he concluded only just before the post left, we are uqable to give a report of his charge until to-morrow. We may, however, observe that his Lordship recommended the formation in every parish of associations for the preservation of the public peace. _ A bill against John Lonergan, for the murder of ,1;r. William Roe, at Boytonrath, on the 2d of October last, was sent up to the grand jury, but their decision upon it was not stated when our dispatch left. Last night a barbarous murder was committed upon the person of a young girl, near Thu' les. Three miscreants seized her, violated her person, and then murdered her. We have heard only the fact: the full particulars have not been ascertained here. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNEsDAY.--The Powerful, 84, advance ship, is ordered to be commissioned as the sea service guariship at this port. Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas, C B. (1824), who was Captain of the Melville, 72, on the coast of China, including the capture of the forts of the Bocca Tigris and the operations against Canton in 1841, is appointed to conitni,.sion her. She is ordered a complement of 350 men. The Government are gradually getting a large naval force into commission. Orders have arrived this day for her Majesty's ship Powerful, 84, to be brought forward for sea service, and Captain the Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas, C. 8., is to command her. She is to have a crew, at present, of only 380 officers and men. She will, in the first instance, be fitted for the conveyance of troops, like the Bellerophon, and go to sea without her lower-deck guns, and after being out eight or nine months, return to the port to be completed as a ship of the line in officers, men, and guns. Her Majesty's ships Vanguard, Superb, and Canopus, have been in commission nearly three years, but are not expected to be relieved for some months. Her Majesty's ship Illustrious, 72, is to be the depot ship of the Ordinary at Portsmouth, and Cap tain Yates and the officers and part of the crew of the Blenheim are to be transferred to her. The Illus trious is to have a complement of 386 officers and men, and will be armed and equipped as a line-of batlte ship, and, consequently, kept ready for service. Her Majesty's steam block-ship Blenheim is to carry the pendant of the captain who is to have the charge of all the steamers at Portsmouth not in com mission. She is to have a complement of 240 officers and men. It is expected that Captain H. T. Austin, C. 8., will be transferred from the Fisgard at Wool wich, and be appointed to the Blenheim, and have the superintendence and arrangement of that class of men-of-mar, under the orders of Rear-Admiral Pres cott, C.B. Great exertions are making to get ready the new steam-basin and the workshops attached to it early this spring, that the greater portion of those steamers coming from Woolwich, &c., may be placed there. Mr. Spencer St. John is appointed secretary to Governor Brooke, and ordered a passage in the Mmander. We have received information from an authentic source of the body of a man having been picked up on the coast of Africa lashed to a chest, believed to be that of one of the unfortunate Avenger's crew. A. gun-carriage has also been washed ashore and iden tified as one belonging to that ship. The body of the man on the chest was not identified. Captain Alexander Milne, junior naval Lord of the Admiralty, arrived here this evening. Four other members of the board are expected by the first express train on the South-Western Railway to-morrow morning, on an official visit. Mr. W. P. Browne, Paymaster and Purser, of 1808, late of the Canopus, 84, died at midnight on Monday, in the Royal Hospital at Hasler. The Fairy royal yacht,. Captain Lord Adolphus Fitaclarence, G.C.H., in dock, requires new boilers, to obtain which she is to be sent to Woolwich, we are informed. She is also having an alteration made in her stern-post, &c. We have seen to-day an excellent specimen of coal brought home by the Cormorant from Van Louver's Island. It is considered by competent judges to be of good and serviceable quality, and equal to any that can be obtained in the British mines. It abounds, we are told, in immense quantities on the surface of the above island. Coal has been supposed to abound in the above neighbourhood; but we are not aware of the fact ever having been proved before. A speci men has been sent to the Admiralty. The Cormorant called at Vancouver's Island on her passage home, and paid only four shillings per ton for tee article, which was brought alongside the steamer in canoes, eight hundred in number; at the same time Government were paying sixteen pounds per ton at Valparaiso for the same article. So extraordinary a fact is sufficient to induce (we should think) the taking up of merchant tonnage by the Govern ment for the shipment of this coal, and its conveyance to Panama, or some other depot where our cruisers need,it, when it is believed it would cost the Crown no more than ls. per ton. The mills are much in creased all down the coast, rendering this mineral indispensable. The straits (Puget's), between Van couver's Island and the main are only three miles in width, and the shipment and transport is easy. The population alongshore, however, is a mixture of Indians of all classes, and great caution is rendered necessary in treating with them, or the white man will be worsted in the bargain in more ways than one. Three vessels and their crews have already , dis appeared unaccountably in these waters. The Hud son s Bay Company's steam-vessel, in navigating the Columbia, is generally obliged to have her boarding nettings up. Lieutenant Hosken, late of the Great Western and Great Britain steam-ships, is appointed by Lord Auckland Captain of the port of Labuan, and will go out in the Meander, 44, in the suite of Mr. Brooke, the Raja of Sarawak, to enter upon his ap pointment. The • Confiance Devonport steam-tug, Mr. Jago Master Commanding, left last night, on her return with supernumeraries. Wind, E.N.E., fresh gales ; weather hazy, intensely cold, with an inclination to sleet or snow.—Five o'clock r. M. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 25.—The barque Victory, Captain Allan, which left Table Bay on the 27th of Novem ber, reports that the inhabitants of Cape Town were then preparing to illuminate on the apprutich of the new governor, Sir Harry Smith. The schooner Saldanha Bay Packet was upset in Three Anchor Bay, and the schooner Ghika was driven ashore in Buffalo Bay, about the middle of November; both crews drowned. One of her Majesty's steam-frigates, from Simon's Bay, arrived at the Cape two days before the Victory left, and, having coaled, came out with the barque, shaping a course to the eastward. A brig-of-war, anchored at St. Helena, was joined on the 10th of December by her prize, a brigantine, with a full cargo of slaves, taken on the let of December. The damage to the barque Passenger, reported in The Sun of Wednesday, was done by a French mer chant ship. A WRITE DRELL—The somewhat marvellous an nouncement that a white deer had been seen at Ardish lake some time ago reached the ears of the sporting Qcntleal<!r, Applecros , , who shortly afterwards started in pursuit of the pr,Aigy. It was captured, after u laborious search, and proved to be an albino —it hind almost purely white.—lnverness Courier. EXPERIMENTS AT PLYMOUTH CITADEL. On Monday, the 24th instant, several experiments were made for the purpose of testing the strength of some of the seaward embrasures of Plymouth citadel. There were present, Major-General Sir John Murray, the Commander of the Forces in the western district, attended by his aide-de-camp, Captain Nelson, Colonel Oldfield and Captain Nelson, nova Engi neers ; Lieutenant-Colonel Rowland, Major AskVvitill Major Garston, Captain Swinton, Captain arayddiri) Adjutant and Lieutenant A. Peters ; Lieutetitht Boothby and Lieutenant Host, Royal Artillery Mr. Norwood, foreman, and Mr. Sherrie, clerk of the works. Several of the officers, and nearly all the none commissioned officers of the citadel, with abottt ten, or twelve civilians were present. The guns were worked by Sergeant-Major Wllll l '4l King, and the artillery-men barracked in the citadel; aided by a few from Devonport and a detachment of the 14th regiment were on the ramparts, but their services were not required. The first experiment was made shortly after mini o'clock, at the second embrasure, at the west etiti the Cumberland 6-gun battery, on the citadel ran= parts, facing the eastern entrance to the Sound. Here a 32-pound gun was loaded and fired at dif ferent angles and depressions, six times, with a ser vice charge of 101 b. of powder. After this experi. meet it was found that the embrasure, which 10 constructed of rubble masonry, had been considerabl) shattered, and heavy fragments of stone thrown illy the concussion 100 feet off the ramparts, fell on the platform of the upper Ligonier battery, which is about fifty feet below the gun. _ The second experiment was made at a new asphalts embrasure, constructed at the north end of the old saluting battery, which has two embrasures facing north, two facing south, and an open rampart for eight guns. The calibre of the gun and the charge were the same as before, and it was also fired six times. No effect was observable on the new work of this embrasure, but at two or three feet in, where the new work joined the old, the masonry, by the concussion, was deranged in a small degree. The durability of this embrasure appearod to excite the admiration of the Commander-in-Chief, of Colonel Oldfield, Lieutenant-Colonel Rowland, and other officers present. _ _ _ The third experiment took place under the flag staff, at the end of the old saluting battery, where there is an ancient embrasure constructed of rubble limestone, with base, quoins, and facing of wrought limestone, the masonry of which was slightly shaken by the firing. This gun was once loaded with a shot, and directed towards Staddon Heights, but the shot pitched in Batten Bay. On this occasion the gun recoiled fifteen feet altogether, or nine feet eight inches in the clear. Had that part of the Sound which comes within the range of the first and third experimental guns been clear of ships and boats, it was intended to fire shot from them, and forty rounds of 321 b. shot are placed on the ramparts ready for the first opportunity. The range of the second experimental gun is chiefly on the land, over the southern slopes, towards the Hoe, and therefore not afe for shot practice. It is necessary to observe that shot have never before been fired from these embrasures. The morning and evening gun, for some time past, has been a 6 pounder, and the quantity of powder used 21b. Thi, gun has been moulded at the new asphalt. embrasure and fired right and left in every possible position that would test its firmness. These experi ments have well blackened the face of the work, but not injured its stability. The asphalte brick work of the north embrasure of the old saluting battery has been performed by the Seyssel Asphalte Company, and is the first of the kind ever built. It took twelve men four weeks to construct it, and was finished about three months since. The men worked under cover of tarpaulins, and had a furnace constantly lighted near them. Twelve tons scale weight of asphalte bricks and of liquid asphalte were consumed in its construction. Between the new work and the old this useful mate rial was poured in boiling hot. The lower and upper parts of the embrasure are made of bricks about nine inches thick ; those in the middle are three inches thick by nine inches long, but the bricks of both sizes seem now to be all completely welded together as if cast in a mould, and the experiment in every respect appears to be completely successful. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JAx. 26. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 163 —Ditto, 221. Shares, 74 dis.—Chester and Holyhead, 184 di&—East Lancashire, New, 3% dis.—Great Southern and Western, 13% dis.—Huddersfield Railway and Canal, I:Y 4 dis.—Lan. caster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 9 p.—London and North-Western, New Quarters, 6 p.—M anchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 2, 18—Ditto, Preference, p.—Midland, 1154—Ditto, 401. Shares, 444—North Staf fordshire, % p.—Preston and Wyre, 344—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 5% dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester, New, % di..—South- Eastern and Dover, No. 4,1% dia.— York and North Midland, Preference, 71p.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (original), 32—Cork and Bandon, 24% dis. MANCHESTER, JAIL 26. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lau. cashire, and .Cheshire Junction, 5 13-16 dia.—Eastern Coun ties, 16—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, par—Ditto (West Riding Union), 2 13-16 dis.—London and North-Western (Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters (B), 4 1-16 p.— Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 21 c. dis.—Blanchester, Sheffield. and Lincolnshire, Preference, 1-16 p.—North Staa fordshire, p.—Oldham Alliance, 1 1 / 4 dia.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 1 11-16—South Yorkshire, Scrip, 11-16. HULL, JAN. 26. STOCK EXCHANGE —The sales are—North British, Quar ters, 33. di3.—Ditto, Halves, 12A—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 9 dis.—Ditto, Preference, Eh die.—New Berwick., 23/4 P. BIRMINGHAM, Jax. 26. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting-. ham, and Boston, 2 1 4 dis.—Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 1/ 4 die. BRISTOL, JAN. 26. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market remained very firm, although prices have not advanced since yesterday. The principal business today has been in Great Westerns. The sales are—Great Western, Quarters, 2 1 ,4, p.—Dittos, Fifths, 4 p. YORK, Luc. 25. _ _ STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are— Great Northern, 4 7 4, ex int.—North British, Thirds, 2%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (original), 31%—Ditto, N 0.2 (late New Ber wicks), 12 . / B —Ditto (G. N. E. Purch.), 10 ex int. EDINBURGH, Jas. 25. STOCK EXCISANO E.—The sales are—Dundee and Perth, 30—Edinburgh and Northern (Newport), B—Edinburgh and Perth, its. 6d.—Great Northern, 97s.—North British, 26/. 17s. 6d.—Ditto, Quarters, N. 9s. 6d.—Ditto, New Quar terN 1 is. 3d.—Ditto, Thirds, 435. GLASGOW, JAN. 25. STOCK EXCit A NOK.—The sales are—East Indian, 15s.— North British, 26/. 53.—Ditto, Halves, 12/. 65.—Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), Si. 10s. 2d.—Y or k, N ewcast l e , and Ber wick, Extensions, No. 2, 12:%. TILE WEATHER.--The past week has been quite winter like, frost having prevailed with more ,or less intensity without interruption, freezing the ponds and lochs, and animating as with new life the lovers of winter pastimes. The ice has generally been remark ably good, and as only a few flakes of snow has yet fallen, the healthful and exhilarating exercises at the rink, or on skates, can be enjoyed at the best advantage. The lochs in the neighbourhood were thickly thronged towards the latter part of the week, and Saturday parti cularly was a great day at Duddingaton, the Skating Club having held a competition, which always proves attractive. Other contes:s have taken place, and more have been announced, and as the weather indicates a continuance of frost, both curler and skater will be amply gratified.—Edinburgh Advertiser. GRAY'S INN, JAN. 26.—Thomas Norton, Esq., was this day called to the degree of barrister-at-law by the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn. • ADVEIRTISEMENr.]—AN AFFECTION OF THE SPINE AND LIMBS CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—Mrs. Reynolds, landlady of the William the Fourth Inn, St. Ives, Hunts, had been ill for fourteen months with an affection of the spine, her feet and legs were dreadfully swoollen, and she became perfectly helpless. Several eminent surgeons and physicians at tended her, under whose care she derived no benefit, but by the recommendation of Mr. Prior, druggist, Bed ford, she tried Holloway's Pills and Ointment. These fine medicines, in about nine weeks, so completely re stored her to health and str e n g th, ' t hat she is now able to resume the duties of her household with ease and comfort.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Hol loway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. 1111NOrd. On the 23d inst., at Lor7liirenTock's, in Berkeley-square, the Lady Elizabeth Lawley, of a daughter. On the 9th of November, at sea, on board the East India Company's steam-frigate Ajdaha, the lady of Lieutenant H. W. Grounds, Indian Navy, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at Malaga, Mrs. Clemens, of a son. On'the 22d inst., at Stansted Rectory, Lent, the wife of the Rev. S. G. B. White, of a son. On the 23d inst., at Wandsworth, Surrey, Mrs. Alfred J. Hiscocks, of a son. On the 23d inst., in Manchester-square, the wife of Arthur H. Champagne, Esq., of a daughter. On the 23d inst., at Fawley Rectory, Hants, the wife of the Rev. William Gibson, of a son. On the 25th inst., 'in Connaught•equare, the lady of H. Bruxner, Eeq.,of a son. On the 25th inst., in Percy-street, Bedford-square, Mrs. G. Crawfurd Harrison, of a daughter. On the 25th inst., at St. Germain's-place, Blackheath, the wife of Hull Terrell, Esq., of a son. On the 24th inst., at Upper Tulse-hill, Mrs. Henry Butler, jun., of a daughter. MARIMM. On the 30th of November, 1347, at the Cathedral, Madras, Charles F. Kirby, Esq., of Bangalore, Captain of the 14th Regiment Madras Army, to Caroline, second daughter of H. Headley, Esq.. of Gloncester-place, Portman •square. ott,b On the 21st inst., at Ibslock, Leicestershire, Charles God dard, D. D., Sub-Dean of Linceln, and Rector of Ibstock. On the 21st inst., at Highgate, Mr. Thomas Tounshend. • On the 21st inst., at Weymouth, Elizabeth Lucretia, wife of Sir W. L. George Thomas, Bart. On the 23d inst., in Bryanston•squarey H. Waymouth, Esq., aged 73. London: Printed and Published by MU DO No. 11d., Str,.:.:;d, Printer, at. The Sun Office, ♦ 4 .'u. 111, Strand, in the Precinct of tke havoy_ in th e outla w of Middlesex, Thunder:, J'anuany 27,1