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should then have great facility in putting down the slave I trade there.— (Laughter.) He dil not know whether the Noble Lord had made that pie posal seriously; if so, considering the distinguished position the Noble Lord held in that House, speaking not only for himself, but for a large political party; he (Mr. Labeuchere) could not help feeling it is duty to say that such an act on the part of this country would be the most unjustifiable act that could possibly be adopted.—(Hear, hear.) He knew that such a design had been imputed to this Government in the American papers, and the proposal having been made by the Noble Lord, he felt bound to express this opinion respecting it.—(Hear, hear.) He wished to do an act of justice to a gentleman (Mr. Price) who had been alluded to by the Hon. Member for Hunt ingdon. He had in his hand a letter from Mr. Price, stating that great losses had been suffered on a certain estate under his management by defective machinery, which had been wrongly attributed, at first, to his mis management, but now the trustees were aware of the real cause.—(Elear, hear.) He would now only repeat, that, with the must perfect sympathy for the distresses of the West Indians, and the greatest desire to relieve them, the Government would not do their duty if they held out any hope of renewed protection. It was said that if this decision were ratified by the House the doom of the coloaies was scaled; but he hoped for better things, from the natural advantages Government pos sessed by these colonies. They had never prospered under the protective system; but he was sanguine enough to hope that they would do so under the system now in troduced. The Government was convinced that no in terest permanently flourished which was not exposed to competition; and, entertaining these views, they were bound to carry them out. If the Parliament disapproved of these principles, let them place the Government of the country in other hands.—(Hear, hear.) But they were convinced that it was their duty to continue to act on the principles which they had adopted.—(tlear.) Mr. GOULBURN said he sacrificed his feelings as a colonial proprietor, when the late free-trade measures wore passed, to the general benefit of the empire; and the fact of the interests of the colonists having been so subordinated to those of the pnblic at large, gave th( m now the stronger claim on the sympathies of the House. Looking at the state to which many of the colonists were now reduced, it might fairly be said that the considera tion of their case was one to which the House was bound to attend. He denied that this question was to be regu lated by the general principle of protection or free trade. What was the course which Parliament pursued ? It had declared that slavery should be abolished and a system of free labour adopted—thus placing the colonists in a position in which they were obliged to compete with countries where slavery existed. It was for Government to devise means for extricating the colonies from this position. Nothing, however, was attempted. No remedy was devised. The colo nists asked to have their molasses used in distilleries in this country, but Right Hun. Gentlemen opposite, who were such advocates of free trade and opponents to pro tection, said, " Oh, no, we cannot allow you protection ; but we must protect the revenue." The colonists asked for the abolition of the rum duties, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer said, " We cannot protect you, but we must protect the distillers at home." Again, the colo nists asked for immigrants from Africa, but the Govern ment replied, ' We cannot protect you, but we must protect the unhappy African"—while, at the same time, they allowed that produce which was wrung from slave labour to be consumed in this country, thereby stimu lating the slave trade.—(Hear, hear.) It was said that nothing had been done to introduce improvements into the West Indies. He did not think Hon. Gentlemen could have read the last report made by the Government officers with respect to Jamaica, which proved that great improvement had been introduced into agriculture, and that machinery had been applied to the cultivation of the sugar to a great extent. It was, therefore, too much to be told now that they ought to improve the system of agriculture. The West Indian colonists were taught to rely on the promises of Parliament, and on the faith of the promises of Parliament they invested their capital. It was true that they received compensation fur the abo lition of slavery, but, at the same time, it was resolved that sevon years should intervene before its total aboli tion. Well, what took place ? Shortly afterwards Parliament decreed that the abolition should be imme diate. He was aware that Parliament rescinded that resolution of the House, but nevertheless, it had an inju rious effect on the leolonies. They were making every preparation during the interval to meet the cosapetition of slave labour when the apprenticeship system was abo lished. It was not, therefore, their fault that the %Vest Indian colonies were not in a flourishing condition, but the fault of Parliament, which held out to them delusive promises. He was not:going to say that a system of free labour might not prove successful, but every impediment was thrown in the way of their procuring labourers from Sierra Leone and other places. The Right Honour able Gentleman alluded to an introduction of free labourers which had taken place into Cuba. He would inform the House how the facts stood with respect to that. When, in 1845, the law was passed which restricted the admission of slave-grown sugar into the markets of this country, there was a discussion in Cuba es to whether it would not be advisable to place them selves in such a situation by means of the liberation of some slaves, as they could not obtain admission for their sugars into this country. But then commenced the Act of 1846, and immediately their zeal for the introduction of free labourers into Cuba cooled. Not only was the eff'ort to cultivate sugar by means of free labourers in Cubs abandoned, but all those horrors, the recital of which used to harrow the feelings of that House in former years had been renewed.—(bear, hear.) That which Mr. Burke declared almost in the spirit of pro phecy, as likely to take place, had occurred. That Right Honourable Gentleman felt, as every honourable and feeling mind must have felt, all the horrors of the slave trade, but, on a motion for its abolition, he told the House that it was necessary to look beyond the present moment, and to take care that, if they abandoned the slate trade, it would not be taken up by the Spaniards and other foreign nations less scrupulous than themselves, who would be only too willing to follow it for the profits which they had abandoned. lie told them to be on ,their guard lest they should again be forced back into it to the degradation and disgrace of the nation before the whole of Europe.—(Hear, hear.) What Mr. Burke said of the slave trade may be equally applied to slavery-. Were they prepared for the sake of saving a Id. per lb. on sugar, to abandon all their high professions and all their efforts at re storing the degraded class of slaves to their proper station in the scale of human beings ?—(Hear, hear.) Ile had beard with deep regret the determination of her Majesty's Ministers not to adopt any means of affording relief to the West Indian colonies,_ It would be inflicting a deep blow on the negro if they were to proclaim to Europe that the experiment which they had tried in the cause of humanity had failed, that they who had freed the slave had their colonies ruined thereby, and that those who adhered to slavery cad the slave trade continued in a state of prosperity. It had been said that they ought to reside on their estates. But in Guadeloupe, where the proprietors were resident, there was severe suffering, and in Jamaica, the resident proprietors suffered more than those who were not resident, because those who were here had a greater command over labour.—(Hear, hear.) They had been told also that West Ihdians had always been complain ing. The fact was true, but the inference was wrong, for the complaints of West India proprietors had, at different times, arisen from different causes, and not at all times from the same cause as at present. With regard to the remedies proposed, it was impossible for him to give any opinion. What the Government in tended to du with the navigation-laws was still unknown. Until the measure was before them no judicious man could arrive at any decision as to its adaptation to West Indian interests, The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by calling on the Government, in justices to all classes in the colonies, to supply an adequate and satisfactory remedy, and to prevent the West Indies from being monuments of desolation and examples of the broken faith of a British Parliament. Personally he disclaimed allowing himself to be influenced by private considera• time upon this subject, but he expressed his regret that by himself continuing the works on his Jamaica estates he had induced others to follow an example which in many cases had resulted in ruin. Sir E. N. BUXTON declared his opinion that slave emancipation, bad it not been foil the fatal mea sure of 1846, would have proved a triumphant example of humane policy. He believed that even now we had great reason to congratulate ourselves upon that mea sure. for in many respects all must admit that our colonies were far better off than those in which slavery was retained. He thought posterity would be some what ast on i s h e d at finding that the very men—he might almost say the very Government—who brought about the great measure of emancipation were the first too propose th e a d m i ss i on on equal terms of the produce N est Indian countries. He said this—not as a Indian, not as a Prot ec ti on i s t—b u t as one feeling what it w ou ld b e especially ungrateful for him not to feel, eii)a.o trhse vastness of the effort made by the slave eman t of Great Britain. After their exertions — exertions extending over forty years—it was deplorable to think that we should be encouraging to a greater degree the cultivation of sugar by slaves and the prose cution of the s l ave trade than at any antecedent period. Ile felt bound to enter his protest against the system so fatal to our consistency and our honour. Lard G. BENTINIK, in reply, expressed his deter- Z e illat inn to proceed w i t h t h e C omm ittee, in the cou ;'enoe that evidence would be elicited which must slur the opinions of the Government on the subject. Li ridiculed the speculations of mere theorists as to the e i ntroduction of free labour into our West Indian colonies; t, as an illustration of their ignorance of the matter, referred ea to Lord Grey's proposition that kroomen might after!' go over to the sugar harvest, and return home harvest, it, as Irishmen come over to England for the corn and then return, evidently imagining that the the distance was no b roa d er than the Irish Channel, whereas ance between the Kroo coast and the nearest point of our West India islands, was not less than 4,200 miles.—(ll ear, hear, and a laugh.) Ile dwelt at some length upon the propriety of taking possession of Cuba, as a means at once of settling the claims of British bond holders upon Spain, and of practically destroying the Slave trade. The motion was then agreed to. PAROCHIAL SURVEYS. On the motion of Mr. WYLD, a return was ordered of the na mes o f all the parishes within eight miles of St. Paul's (excluding the city of London), which have been surveyed un d er t h e prov i s i ons o f t h e A ct 6th and 7 h William IV., chap. 96; stating the year in which such surveys were made, the scale (inches to the mile) upon which the map of such survey is drawn, and the Sul " of money paid by each parish for such surveys and maps. The House adjourned at Two o'clock. ANCRSTRT.-Sir Thomas Overbury said of a man who boasted of his ancestry that he was like a potatoe --" the best thing belonging to him was underground." —Poyncler's Literary Extracts (New Series). tr SIY N o LOl4OO/49 fitATURDAY REERTIARY LAW INTELLIGENCE:, COURT OF EXCREQUER, Feb. 4. (Sittings before the LORD CHIEF BARON and Special Juries.) CUSTOMS CASES-THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. LUNDY. This was an - information, on the part of the Com missioners of her Majesty's Customs, to recover from the defendant penalties to the amount of 4091., for having in his possession a quantity of tobacco, upon which the duty had not been paid. The case was part heard yesterday. The principal evidence adduced in support of the Crown was that of a person who stated that he had been engaged for several years in contraband dealings in tobacco. That having been unfortunate upon several occasions in land ing the tobacco, he resolved once more to have another "try," and stated that he informed the defen dant, a tobacconist of Hull, of his intention, who told him that he would be happy to take any quantity that he might be able to delivqr him. The tobacco in question was safely landed, and was for some time concealed in a field under some heaps of manure, from which it was conveyed, at various times, in cabs and other vehicles, to the premises of the defendant in hull, who acknowledged the re cuipt of the various bales from time to time, and who paid witness for the same. This witness, it appeared, was convicted upon a previous occasion for the offence, and was undergoing imprisonment for the same at the time he gave the information to the authorisies of the Custom-house with respect to the defendant, and in consequence of this information the remainder of his sentence had been remitted. Mr. Burton, a person in the employ of the de• fendant, and several other witnesses, were called to corroborate the evidence of the' former witness. Mr. Sergeant ALLEN, on the part of the defendant, made a most eloquent and amusing speech on the part of the defendant. He contended that there was no evidence which at all affected the defendant, except that which was given by persons implicated in the transaction, and who were equally liable to an information as the defendant. Their evidence was, upon that account, to be received with the utmost caution. He claimed, therefore, upon the part of the defendant, a most patient investigation into the nature of the evidence deposed to by these witnesses. The peculiar nature of the process on the part of the Crown precluded him from calling any evidence to rebut that which had been brought against the defendant, as he was not aware until he heard it what the nature of the evidence would be upon which the Crown relied in this case. Tt,e long period of two years which had elapsed since the alleged transactions took place, and the commencement of the proceedings, also placed a difficulty in the way of the defendant meeting by counter-evidence the statements of the witnesses on the part of the Crown. He most earnestly trusted that the jury would well weigh the evidence of the various witnesses, and if they had the slightest doubt upon the subject, give their verdict in favour of the defendant. Sir F. THESIGER addressed the jury on behalf of the Crown, and _ _ The LORD CIIIEF BARON having summed up with great minuteness, The jury, after half an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict for the Crown, finding the single value of the tobacco received by the defendant to have been 4001. 10s. BAIL COURT, Feb. 4. (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice DEN MAN, ]lr. Justice PATTNSON, and Mr. Justice ERLE.) The jury, after a :ew minutes consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty, with a strong recommendation to the mercy of the Court on the ground that the pri soner had received deep provocation. Mr. Baron ALDERSON then passed sentence of death upon the prisoner in the usual form, promising that the recommendation of the jury should be transmitted to the proper quarter, but holding out no hope that it would be entertained. The prisoner was removed from the dock in a fainting state. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK and Aldermen SIDNEY and Sir C. MARSHALL.) Two youths, named Elson and Elderkin, were in dicted for stealing ten bagatelle balls, the property of James Willis, landlord of the Nag's Ilead public house, St. John•street, Clerkenwell. It was clearly shown that the prisoners went into Mr. Wiliis's bagatelle room, the halls being on the boar-•' (au odd one being on the mantle shelf), a few minutes previously. They did not remain long, and immediately after they left, the balls were all missed. No other persons had been in the room. The balls had not been traced. The Learned CommtssioNEß left it to the jury to say whether they were satisfied that the prisoners stole the balls. The jury found the prisoners Guilty. It was then proved that _Elderkin bad been before convicted of stealing bagatelle balls in the same man ner, and that Elson had been "out of the way," in consequence of his being charged with stealing a 104 cheque and five sovereigns. Elderkin was sentenced to be transported for seven years, and Elson to be kept to hard labour for twelve months. A female named Westwood was indicted for stealing four sovereigns and two 5/. Bank of England notes, from the person of a merchant seamen named Wil liam Dawson. _ _ The case depended upon a question as to the iden tity of the prisoner. The prosecutor deposed that he met her in Rat cliffe-Ingh,A ay. A few minutes before his money was safe, but he found it gone directly the prisoner had left him. As no one else had any opportunity to rob him, he described her to the police. She was apprehended a week afterwards, when a boy named Sterne recognized her as the woman who was with the prosecutor at the time of the robbery. For the defence Mr. Payne called a man named Singleton, who swore that on the night in question he was with the prisoner at a theatre from half past five till eleven at night, so that she could not have robbed the prosecutor at half• past eight. Mr. Ryland having replied, The jury found the prisoner Guilty. The Learned COMMISSIONER said this was a very bad case. The sentence was, that the prisoner be transported for seven years. they expre7sed similar opinions to those of Dr. South wood Smith. Mr. PARRY concluded the plaintiff's case by calling twenty-four cif the inhabitants of Hattield•street, and other streets contiguous to the defendant's pre mises, who deposed that their health and property had been considerably injured by the existence of the nuisance. Mr. BALLANTINB then addressed the jury for the defence. tie contended at great length that the business of a scavenger was necessary for public accommodation, and that the defendant had carried on his business in a proper manner, and he was prepared to show by conclusive evidence, that the emanations from these yards were not injurious to the health, and that the illness complained of on the other side arose from other causes. The Learned Counsel then quoted from the writings of Dr. Wat son, Mr. Thackory (on the health of different trades and occupations), the French p - ..ysicians Palliseer and Pinard, and Professor Dirngissen, an American author, to show, that in the opinion of these men, these places were not injurious to the health, and that the emana tions from depots of decoinposed vegetable and animal matter were not dangerous. Mr. PRENTICE proceeded to examine witnesses this morning, and called about twenty dust contractors and nightmen, who said that they - had been born in the dust yard, and spent the-whole of their lives in the business. Each of these declared that he never was sick, and some said their wives and families were healthy, and it scarcely cost them more than eighteen pence a year fur medicine. William Augustus Guy, physician of King's Col lege Hospital, deposed in minute detail to the follow ing facts. He said that he had directed his attention to the public health, and to the influence of scaven gers' yards, in consequence of this case. He first went to the place in ()etcher last, and subsequently visited it five times, and examined the premises. lie walked carefully over the yard, and over heaps of ashes, and found no disagreeable smell. He also found liquid matter, and did not take notice of any smell. The only source of disagreeable smell was occasioned by the refuse of breweries, such as hops and grains, which when mixed with other matter for the purpose of rotting them, had a sour smell, but net to that degree to occasion sickness, or mate rially to injure health. Dr. John Ryan, Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Naval and Military College at Portsmouth, had given much of his time and attention to subjects, connected with the sanitary condition of crowded localities, and he examined the contents of tho &Am dant's premises. The smell was not more offensive than the contents of a farm yard. Mr. Parry replied, and the Judge summed up. The jury having retired, remained absent for about half an hour, and then returned into Court with a verdict against the defendant. Mr. PARRY then addressed tl..e Court, and said it was not the desire of the parish to inflict punishment upon the defendant, or even to have him fined ; but merely to have the nuisance abated. The COURT then directed the defendant to enter into his own recognizances in 801., and two sureties in 401. each, to come up for judgment on the 30th of March next. This was to give him time to pro vide another place, and to remove the nuisance com plained of. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. By the last general consolidated order of the com missioners, amongst the defined duties of the re lieving officers is one to the effect that they are to relieve all applicants in urgent distress ; and another, that they are to obey the orders of the guardians ; and the penalty for disobedience to the rules and orders is, by the 98th section, declared to be W. for the first offence, and 20/. for the second. Ann Desmond summoned Mr. Miller for refusing to admit her and her two children into the workhouse according to an order made by the board in her presence. Mr. Miller admitted the clerk had a minute of such an order, but pleaded that subsequently he discovered that she had told a lie to the board by calling herself a widow on some previous occasion, and had stated that a boy already in the house was her nephew, when, in fact, he was her son. It appeared she was a person of good character ge nerally, and was deserted by her husband. Mr. Alderman Gums acquitted Mr. Miller of a wilful disobedience of the order, but required him to admit the applicant, as she was now in distress. Mr. Miller promised to obey. LAMBETH. Mr. ll'illiainßarizett, landlord of the Crooked Billet public-house, in Johnson's-change, Rosemary-lane, was brought up in custody of Inspector Campbell and Sergeant Kendall, of the P division of police, and placed at the bar before Mr. Norton, on a charge of concealing the birth of an infant of which a young woman named Sarah Davey, his barmaid, had been delivered in his house. The prisoner had been taken into custody in con sequence of the complaint of the father of the young woman Davey, and, the unsatisfactory account given by the prisoner and his sister of the disappearance of the infant and the death of its mother. The brief facts of the case are these :—The young woman, Sarah Davey, who had lived in the prisoner's service for three years, was removed from his house on last Wednesday fortnight to the house of his sister, 4, Cork-street, Camberwell. On the following day Mr. Smith, a medical practitioner, was called in, and attended her up to her death, which took place on Sunday last, and he gave a certificate, alleging that her death had been occasioned by erysipelas. Mr. Smith further stated that the deceased had not informed him that she had been recently confined, nor had he the slightest suspicion on the subject. Previous to her death, however, the deceased communicated to her sister the fact of her having been delivered of a seven months' child at the house of her master the day be fore she left, and said ber master had given a man six shillings to take the child away. Yesterday morning Mr. Plower, surgeon, of Camberwell-green, made an examination of the body of the deceased, and from appearances which presented themselves he felt satis fied she had been recently delivered of a child, and he gave a certificate to that effect. The statements of the prisoner and his sister, in reference to the removal of the deceased, and other important portions of the evidence, differed widely. The sister said, that on the morning of Wednesday fortnight the deceased wrote for her, and on her going to her brother's house she found her there. She com plained of being very ill, and said she should accom pany her to her house in Camberwell, upon which a cab was sent for, and both got in at the door and rode , on the contrary, said, that h h n Airs. Chambers, had been sent to thornueg. hisohousehTis sinter,ohe nt r e is m er ornin g of Wednesday week, she had not accompanied his barmaid from there; on the con trary, she left half an hour before. The deceased, he said, had complained for some time before of ague and rheumatism, and insisted on going away on Wednesday fortnight, He endeavoured to persuade her not to leave, but she insisted on going, and sent the potman for a cab, got into ,it at the door, and drove away. He denied in the most positive manner that he had any knowledge that the deceased was in the family way, and said, that if she had been de livered of an infant in his house it was wholly with out his knowledge. His sister in Camberwell, he said, r,as in the habit of washing for him, and on the morning in question she took away with her the clothes, amongst which were the things belonging to the deceased, and which had since been sent home clean. --- Sergeant Kendall said, that on the day before, the t eh h ai a bs t the young woman prisoner distinct ly enrei denied letdhtaohtoikni to a who had since died had walked from his house to aknndoldylreodvgeeoff. the The Tower-hill, o prisonerwer-h Ili! en w de ceased had been delivered in his house, but on ex amining her bedroom he observed such appearances been cautioned,NOßTON, as to leave no doubt o n his mind that some person had been delivered there. After prisoner, in reply said, his family ago, of his wife, the de ceased, and a potman . His wife, however, was only at his house occasio nall y' , as she held a situation in Guy's llospital. H e a g ain de clared his perfect igno rance of the pregnan c y of the deceased, or of her consisted,to thequestions having up of :A a fortnight having been delivered of a seven months' child. He could not account for the desire of the deceased to question, excepting l it eav me,a hsis and ther e was no arrangement made about her retu rnin g to h is service ; on the con trary, it was his imp ression tha t she had left his ser vicehheor use on illness; the morning i n altogether. Mr. NORTON observ ed that t here were considerable discrepancies between the state ments of the prisoner and his sister,whichtheinterim rendered teri m he onethecawseoulddirect of a y the sc toha pracutter, and he mu s t t h erefore call on prisoner in good bail for hi s appearance on highly g Mr. hl acafmutpubreelldatoy.forr,ard to the co roner the particulars that had transpired, and also the certificate of Mr. Flower respecting the recent delivery. It being late the prisoner was permitted to go at large on his own bail, promising, however, to produce two sureties on the following (this) day. c? , the name of " Dryden E lslob, calle d upon Mr. Tucker,exion, an d w h o use d CAUTION TO STABLEK EEPER S. -- A tall young man, and hired a h orse an d with dark hair and sa llow complexion , last, stating that he wanted to go to Richmond. Mr. 'tucker's servant accompa ni e d the man, who drove do wn the Essex -mad inst ea d o f th e phaeton a f e i t a o r n Hart-street, u t r . e w e t e , den esday C o vent - g arden, direction mentioned, and on eaching Upton-lane, Rom ford, sent the latter across the road to some house urn a trumped-up message,. and then made off with the horse and phaeton at all possible speed, and has not since been hoard of. Mr. Tucker states that th e p h aeton was painted dark brown, had a driving b ox i n f ront , cane panels, and a sheep's skin mat With hie own name upon the inside of it. MURDER OF A SOLDIER IN ST. JAMES'S PAI.K. The greatest excitement was occasioned last even ing at the West•end of the metropolis, owing to a widely circulated report that a soldier had been shot dead by a young woman in St. James's Park. We regret to say, that the fact of a most determined murder having been committed proves to he too true. From careful inquiries instituted by our re porter, we are enabled to lay before our readers the following authentic particulars in reference to the dreadful event:— y dempa private s al taotatufseltai appears a efe n art r d hbsee w l c• belonging gi s d e i hsnt n agrN a e, The deceased, w h o was a young man, scarce l y 21 on nu ln sa l t e orhdn sr,yi companytlni ' dm uc af k toe e r Tucker, was esfortinnh i ßorne e m t a o m e b t the sth 2a ti with the wretched woman who has caused his death. The deceased, with his company, was quartered at the Wellington Barracks, in Birdcage-walk, and so late as half-past four o'clock yesterday after noon was on parade with his comrades. A few moments subsequently he left the barracl.:s and proceeded along Birdcage-walk in the direction of Storey's-gate. On his arrival within a few yards of the entrance to Queen's-square, the attention of several persons near the spot was attracted by the loud report of a pistol. At the seine moment the deceased was observed to fall heavily to the ground, while a young woman of very respectable appearance, who shortly before had been observed by his aide, was seen walking away in an opposite direction. The report of the pistol was heard by several persons, and among others by police-constables Paul and Richards, both officers of the A division, who were on duty near the spot. One of these officers having observed the woman throw down a pistol, ran towards her, and, touching her arm, inquired whether she had not fired off a pistol just before. She at once admitted the fact, and resigned herself into the custody of the officer, who conveyed her to the new police-station of the A division in King-street, Westminster, whither she was followed by a large crowd of persons. When Tucker was raised up be breathed heavily once or twice, and then expired. A large horse pistol, which had evidently just been discharged, was foiled lying on the pavement, close by the side of the de ceased, and on examining his body, a small orifice, through which a bullet had entered, was discovered in the lower part of the back of the neck, a corre sponding wound being visible on the face, immediately under the left orbit. A stretcher having been pro cured, the remains of the unfortunate man were im mediately conveyed to the Coldstream Hoopital in Vincent-square. On the arrival of the murderess at the police station the charge was taken by Mr. Inspector Beckerson. She gave her name as Annette Mayers, adding that she was a native of France, and that she resided (in service) at 40, Albion-street, Hyde-park-gardens. On the charge being read over to her, to the effect that she had fired a pistol loaded with powder and ball, and thereby caused the death of Henry Tucker, she coolly admitted its correctness. On her person being searched, a packet of letters, chiefly written by deceased, were found upon her, as well as fourpence in money, a bunch of keys, and other small articles. The following are the names of the persons who presented themselves as competent to give evidence in relation to the affair :—Sarah Sexton, of 29, West street, Pimlico; Henry Killington, of Earl-street, Kensington ; and John Gamrood, a private in the 6th company of the 2d battalion of Coldstream Guards. On being placed in a cell the wretched woman in quired whether Tucker was dead. She was informed that he was, whereupon she expressed her satisfaction, adding that she did not care how soon she was dead herself. Immediately after the charge was taken, an officer was sent to Albion•street to acquaint the lady who occupies the house with the dreadful affair. The wretched woman is of very respectable out ward appearance. She is below the middle height, and has rather pleasing features, with somewhat of a foreign expression. While the charge was being entered, she appeared to be labouring under intense mental excitement. On her removal to the cell, in which she is constantly watched by an officer, she became mare composed, and spoke occasionally to him. The deceased was a young man of very good cha racter in the regiment, and was much respected by his comrades. his familiarity with Annette Mayers had been of some continuance, and it was only on the previous evening that she was seen in the company of the deceased at the canteen. In the absence of any positive knowledge of the causes which hare led to the perpetration of this dreadful crime, it is surmised that jealousy has been the moving principle ; and this supposition, it is understood, is strengthened by the letters found on her person. One of the witnesses states that directly after Mayers fired off the pistol she was observed to throw it down violently on the prostrate body of her victim. The determination of the wretched woman's character Tilly be gathered from the fact, that in order to have inflicted the wound shown in the deceased's head she must have placed the muzzle of the pistol close to his throat. „. • . r sea, Feh. 15, at one, and March 14, at twelve, at the I Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Ab church-lane, Lombard-street; Lane, Falcon square. Charles Bertram and William Parkinson, merchants, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Feb. 15, at half past one, and March 21, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. WTakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Philipson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Meggison, Pringle, Stevenson, and Shum, King's-road, Bedtord-row, London. William Wilcox Baker, engraver, Birmingham, Feb. 12 and March 11. at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. Vulpy, official assignee, Birmingham; France, Godliman- street, London; Tyndall and Sons, Birmingham. William Frederick Lockwood, stockbroker, branches ter, Feb. 16 sad March 8, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee. Manchester; Abbott, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London; E. and R. W. Bennett, Manchester. John Hughes, plasterer and builder, Birkenhead, Feb 15 and March 7, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Vincent, Temple; Atkinson, Liverpool . Edward Courtney and William Robertson, coal mer chants, Liverpool, Feb. 15, and March li, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, ollicial assignee, Liverpool; Keightley and Cu., Chancery-lane, Loudon; Wood, Liverpool. Charles James Mason, earthenware manufacturer, Fent-m, Staffordshire Potteries, Feb. 19, and March 14, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ;Clarke, Longton, rd shire; Motteraw and Knowles, Birmingham. Joseph 'Walker, shawl manufacturer, HuddersNeld, Feb. 19 and March 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Stansfeld, official assignee; Leeds; Jaques arm? Co., Ely-place, London; Battye and Clay, Huddersfield. David Ross, builder, Birkenhead, Feb. 18 and March 9, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; C ot t er ill, Th rogmorton - street, London; Fletcher and Co., Liverpool. George Shardlow and James Bradshaw, shoe manu facturers, Stone, Staffordshire, Feb. 12 and March 16, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whit more, official assignee, Birmingham ; Robinson, Eccles hall ; Smith, Birmingham. James Lockett, INilliara Baker, and John Nicholson, railway contractors, Stone, Cheshire, Feb. 19, and March 21, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Robinson, Eccleshall; Smith, Birmingham. Charles Warren, NA ine and spirit merchant, Exeter, Feb. 15, at eleven, and March 9, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Stcgdon, Exeter; Keddell, Baker, and Grant, Lime street, City. William Walford, tailor, Bridgewater, Feb. 17 and March 9, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, 0fn0i.1.,...,igae0, Exeter ; Trevor and Sons, Bridgewater; Stogdon, Exeter; llolme and Co., New-inn, London. Enoch Godwin and George Lowman, boot and shoe makers, Bath, Feb. 17 and March 16, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Jones and Co., Crosby-square, London; Hellings, Bath. Robert Blackford, butcher, Swindon, Wiltshire, Feb. 15, and March 14, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Crowdy, Swindon. Charles Broad, timber merchant, Bristol, Feb. 18, and March 17, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Hinton and Son, Bristol. Robert Dickenson, grocer, Wolstanton, Staffordshire, Feb. 12, and March 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Harding, Bursleto, Staffordshire; Spencer and Rullings, irmingha DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall:street. J. Robison, Ipswich, draper, Feb. 25, at half-past eleven—J. J. Craske, Lowestoft, Suffolk, linendraper, Feb. 28, at one—G. Rougemont, Broad-street-buildings, City, merchant, Feb. 28, at twelve—E. Beckwith, Ips wich, doctor of medicine, Feb. 28, at half-past one—F. Adamson, Bond-court, Wa'brook, City, merchant, Feb. 24, at twelve—J. Gates, J. Coates, R. T. Bartlett, and G. Beck, Watling-street, City, warehouseman, Feb. 26, at one—D. Blske, Norwich, mohair manufacturer, Feb. 25, at half-past one—J. Hyams, Jewry-street, Aldgate, City, watch manufacturer, Feb. 25, at twelve—F. Hatch, St. John's-square, Clerkenwell, iron plate worker, Feb. 25, at one—W. A. Mearns, Acre-lane, Clapham, ale and porter brewer, Feb. 25, at twelve—J. Stein, T. Smith, R. Stein, J. Stein, and R. Smith, Fedchurch street, merchants, Feb. 25, at one. In the Country. T. Higginson, Liverpool, pawnbroker, at the Court, Liverpool, March 1, at eleven—J. Garsed, sen., and J. Garsed, jun., Leeds, flax manufacturers, at the Court, Leeds„Feb. 29, at eleven. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. R. Coleman and E. R. Hall, Colchester, ironfounders, Is. 6d., on Wednesday, Feb. 2, and two following Wed nesdays, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, City. J. P. Bateman, Earl's-court-terrace, Old Brompton, book keeper, ss. 64d., on Monday, Feb. 7, and two fAl lowing Mondays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin-lane, City G. T. Day, Commercial-road, Pimlico, civil engineer, Is. 5d., on Monday, Feb. 7, and two following Mondays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin-lane, City. T. W. Homo, Pelham-terrace, Brompton, hotel keeper and perfumer, 2s. Gd., on Monday, Feb. 7, and two following Mondays, ,between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin lane, City. J. Bishop, Little Russell-sireet, Gilbert-street, and Bury-street, 13loomsbury, wheelwright, 55., on Monday, Feb. 7, and two following Mondays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Canaan, Birchin lane, City. F. Rolfe. Great Marlborough-street, tailor, I Id., on Monday, Feb. 7, and two following Mondays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of --Mr. Can nan, Birel:in lane, City. W. and J. Hammer, Whitechapel-road, coach makers, Is., on ..londay, Feb. 7, and two following Mondays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Canaan, Birchin-lane, City. T. Denman, Quadrant, Regent-street, and Bucking ham-street, Fitzroy-square, stone mason, la., on Friday, Feb. 4, or any subsequent Friday, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sam brook-court, Basiughall-street. S. Yorke, Cambridge, upholsterer, 5d., on Friday, Feb. 4, or any subsequent Friday, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook court, Basinghall• street. F. Snowden, Ahem, Hampshire, painter and plumber, 6d., on Friday, Feb. 4, or any subsequent Friday, be tween the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street. J. Parrish, High-street, Newington, draper, Bs. 6d., on :Friday, Feb. 4, or any subsequent Friday, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, 13asingliall-street. J. G. Ufford, Highbury Brewery, Islington, brewer, Is. 6d., on Friday, Feb. 4, or any subsequent Friday, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street. J. T. Townsend, High-street, Islington, carpet dealer, Is. Bd., on Friday, Feb. 4, or any subsequent Friday, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook -court, Basinghall-street. W. Craft, Spring• street, Paddington, fishmonger, Is. 3d., on Friday, Feb. 4, or any subsequent Friday, between the •hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street. W. Barker, Nottingham, hosier and lace dealer, Is. 2d., on Saturday, Feb. 5, and every alternate Satur day, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Bittleston, Nottingham. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court., Basinghall-street. S. Lanford; Luton, Bedfordshire, straw plait dealer, Feb. 25, at eleven—W. Silcock, jun., Crawley-street, Oakley-street, St. Pancras, victualler, Feb. 25, at twelve —R. Flatman, Saxmundham, Suffolk, draper, Feb. 25, at two—J. Robison, Ipswich, draper, Fob. 25, at half past eleven—J. Hills, Billericay, Essex, auctioneer, Feb. 25, at eleven—T. Pope, Kidbrooke, near Blackheath, Kent, cowkeeper, Feb. 26, at eleven—G. Tattersall, Davies-street, Berkeley-square, saddler, Feb. 24, at one —H. E. Field, Mark-lane, eating house keeper, Feb. 25, at one —E. Rose, Deanshanger. Northamptonshire, licensed victualler, Feb. 25, at half-past twelve—W. H. Hitchcock, W. Connor, and J. E. Hitchcock, Broadwall, Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road, saw mill proprietors, Feb. 28, at twelve—H. Smith, East Mailing, Kent, paper manufacturer, Feb. 25, at eleven—J. Hill. jun., South ampton, builder, Feb. 25, at half-past one—J. Hyams, Jewry-street, Aldgate, watch manufacturer, Feb. 25, at twelve. In the Country. T. W. Crowhurst, Bristol, grocer, Feb. 29, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—W. Ho n dg a s t on t „ i j ie un c ., o l u J r e t e . d L s, e l e i d ce s_ nse c d . H. Fere victualler, Fob. yT e 2 t B ten a li t al e l, leve Stafionhhire, coal dealer, Feb. 29, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—E. Walling ton, Stockport, Cheshire, carpenter, Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—W. Smith, Colne and Traw den, Lancashire, cotton manufacturer, Feb. 28, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—D. Greenwood and J. Bate man' Bury, Lancashire, joiners, Feb. 26, a t t we l ve , u t the Court, Manchester. At the Court of Review, Feb. 25. T. Ryland, Birmingham, britannia metal worker—W. L. Ryland, Birmingham, britannia metal worker—W. H. Hill, Walsall, Staffordshire, merchant—T. Sampson, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, grocer—J F. Kemp, Ux bridge, grocer--I. Williams, Merthyr Tydvil, Glamor ganshire, grocer—W. C. Wells, Claremont-terrace, Pen tonvilla and Poultry, merchant—J. Barnett, Sunderland, hosier—W. Wayte, Basford, Nottinghamshire, iron and brassfounder—J. Nicholls, Bristol, mason—J. Baker, Bristol, grocer—J. Lawton, Hey wood, Lancashire, grocer —E. Winscom, Southampton, pastryeook. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Covell and J. C. Covell, Lewisham, Kent, butchers —II. Lamplough and H. J. M•Dougall, Snowhill, che mists and druggists—J. Bretherton and P. Mawdsley , Liverpool, coal merchants—lL Bubb and IL Revell, Ash next Sandwich, Kent, tailors and drapers—'l'. Roberts and T. Houghton, Manchester, ironmongers—ll. A) ltner, W. Stewart, and J. Parker, Manchester, calico printers —W. Parkinson and W. J. Frodsham, Change-alley, City, chronometer and watchmakers—T. M. Gladstone and R. Bramwell, Birehin- lane, City, commission agents and merchants—W. M‘Millan and J. M‘Millan, Jer'nyn street, Westminster, boot and shoemakers —J. Kemp and W. S. Kemp, Bristol, coach builders—S. Gibbon and J. Muddiman, Coventry, ribbon manufacturers — Anne Lloyd and J. Lloyd, Shrewsbury, mercers—H, Roberts and C. Pease.Kingstonpon-Hull, commission merchants—L. Jones, J. Miller, and J. Cairns, Oxford stieet, tailors and vv oollendrapers—H. bolt and J. Pickup, Liverpool, iron founders and engineers —L. Weatherburn, jun., and W. Jenniugs, Leeds, stock and sharebrokers—J. Gray and T. W. Gray, Levenshulme, Lancashire, cotton sppinners—J. Jen nings, sen., Mary Anne Jennings, and Eliza- ~~, .. ~ I'' s beth Jennings,. and Grace Jennings Cumberland, maltsters and brewers-:;K:lta_ Lloyd, Fleet -street, chemists and drui,s;gtili--4,cplyry.l.2_ and J. Blurton High street, Bow, woollendrageft-rgA Cleminson and ' W.Cleminson, Shildon, Durham, quarry- , men—T. Higgins and R. Ward, Exeter, hide and gene ral commission ae•ents—J. S. Steele and A. Sisson, Rei gate, Surrey, medical practitioners—D. Tonge a nd I: Tonge, Liverpool, ship sellers—M. Sayce and W. Sayce, Kington, Herefordshire, land agents—J. Robinson and J. H. Cuff, Gresham-street, City, warehousemen- --- J• Haworth and H. Hall, Clitheroe, Lancashsre, brewers-- W. R. llawkes, F. J. Nash, W. Bird, W. .I,llmstone, J. G. Nash, and T. Bird, Bishops Stortford, H e ctfordshire, brewers (so far as regards T. Bird)—Emily Day a nd Mary Ann Bromly, Lower Eaton•street, Pimlico, milli ners—W. Yeats and J. Alderson, Kirkby Lon.‘dale , Westmoreland, grocers and tea dealers—J. Knott .tlnd G. F. Knott, Leicester, boot and shoe manufacturers T. W. Simkin and .T. Anstey, Coventry, drapers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Richard Smith, Keighlf , y, Yorkshire, grocer. Ewmott Sunderland, Bingley, Yorkshire, boot and shoe- maker. Thomas Laveridge, son, Bab r, Gloile2stcrsbin, beer _ . retai!er. Richard Breeze, Kidderminster, victualler. Edward Williams, sell., Jsckficld, Shropshire, ba.'ge owner. Edward Herbert Dunn, Totnes, Devonshire, policeman. Witham Hoy, Bridgetown, Devonshire, foreman to the South Devon Rajway. Winun Witts , 4l, Bryncethin, Glamorganshire„ draper. John Bishop, Castle Froome, Herefordshire, farrier. Joseph Scott, Cambridge, pigjobber. Robert Burbush, Fen Dittun, Cambridgeshire, selzpol master to the National School. Nariabella Berry, Cambridge. Jumes Holbrook, Ipswich, lieutenant in the royal navy, Johtr Arch, Loughborough, Leicestershire. William Bairsto, Selby, Yorkshire painter. John N'esvton, Ashford, Kent, mail cart driver. John Platt, Wigan, shopkeeper. James Horrccks, Wigan, baker. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. B. Martin, Meikle Kilcattan, Kingarth, farmer and cattle dealer, to meet, Feb. 9 and March 1, at eleven, within the Bate Arms Inn, Rothsay. A. D. Campbell, Glasgow, merchant, to meet Feb, 10 and March 9, at twelve, within the Crow Hotel, Glasgow. P. Grassick, Glenlogie, Aberdeenshire, farmer and banker, to meet Feb. 8 and 29, at two, within the Hall belonging to the Society of Advocates, Aberdeen. M. Inglis, Edinburgh, stockbroker, to meet Feb. 9 and March 2, at two, within the Royal Exchange Coffee House, Edinburgh. J. M`Gill, Glasgow, provision merchant, to meet Feb, 10 and March 2, at twelve, within the Globe Hotel, Glasgow. J. Reid, Glasgow, bricklayer, to meet Feb. 10 and March 2, at one, within the Black Bull Hotel, Glasgow - • ----__- Ultftwissme Uigh Lortolli Slawby and 11.- :13.-r-,'l',Bturtort ALFRED BUNN V. JENNY LIND. At the sitting of the Court this morning the Learned Judges were informed by one of the Masters that Mr. Hoggins, Counsel for the defendant, had no instructions to appear in support of the demurrer. It was, therefore, overruled, and judgment is, conse quently, in favour of the Plaintiff. The trial of this case, which has caused so much excitement, will now come on in its regular course, at the sittings of the Court of Queen's Bench, at Guild hall, after term. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 4. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, after Term, before Mr. Justice COLTMAN and Common Juries.) MIGOTTI V. WATIIERSTONE. This was an action of trespass for the false im prisonment of the plaintiff's wife. The defendant pleaded the general issue. Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Henderson were Counsel for the plaintiff. It appeared from the evidence of the plain tiff's witne'ses that on the 9th of May last the daughter of the plaintiff, a child twelve years of age, on leaving St. Paul's Church, Covent- garden, picked up a gold chain in the churchyard, and took it home to her father, a goldsmith, living in Maiden•lane. The chain was handed round, and admired by the several members of the family, and was taken next day to the plaintiff's workshop, in Wigmore-street, for the purpose of being tested to ascertain whether it was gold. On Wednesday morning the defendant, the owner of the chain, who is a goldsmith, residing in Henrietta street, called at the plaintiff's house, in company with a friend named Gay, and asked for the chain. Mrs. Migotti said she did not know where it was at the time, that her husband was ill in bed ; but that if Mr. Watherstone would leave his ad dress the chain should be sent to him, or he might call for it at three o'clock. The defendant then departed with his friend, but returning in a few minutes, said he had changed his mind and must have his chain at once. She again told; him she did not know where it was at that moment. He threatened to procure a search warrant, and ultimately sent Gay for a policeman, to whom he gave the woman in charge. She was taken to the Bow-street station, and charged by the defendant with stealing the chain. She then stated that it was at her husband's work shop, in Wigmore-street, upon which the inspector sent a constable with the defendant to that place. Upon applying there for the chain, the mother of Mrs. Migotti, who appeared to keep the shop for her son-in• law during his illness, admitted that the chain was in the shop, and gave it up to them. They the❑ returned to the station-house after the absence of an hour, during which time Mrs. Migotti had been locked up, and Mr. \Vatherstone declined pressing the charge against her. The present action was brought to recover compensation for that imprisonment. On the part of the defendant evidence was adduced to show that he had caused printed handbills, offering a reward for the chain, to be stuck in the windows of several shops in Maiden-lane and the neighbourhood, and that Mrs. Migotti was seen reading one of them on Tuesday evening; that she had at first denied all knowledge of the chain ; that it had only been sent to the shop in Wigmore-street after application had been made for it in Maiden-lane; and it was contended that all the circumstances of the case had warranted the suspicions of the defendant, and the conduct which he had accordingly pursued. The cause lasted the whole day, although the facts lie, as will be seen, in a very narrow compass ; and the jury, having retired for about ten minutes, after hearing the summing up of the Learned Judge, found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 301. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Lush appeared for the defendant. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. DIURDER OF TWO CHILDREN IN ST. LUKE'S. The trial of Harriet Parker (continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterdtty). Mr. Thomas Mallet, the chief clerk at the Cler kenwell Police-court, proved that when the depositions were read over to the prisoner, on the Bth of January, she made a statement to the magisttrate which was afterwards reduced to writing. The statement was then read. It; was simply a detailed account of what occurred :from the time Blake came to tea till she missed hi= from the Duke of Bedford public-house. George Maddox, a police-constible, stated that after she made this statement she told him that she watched the children on the night of the murder for a long time, and fancied they would. never go to sleep. At length, however, they did close their eyes, and putting out the candle, she sprang; upon the bed and seized the female child by the throat, when she felt that if there had been a thousand. children she could have murdered them ; but she sho wed them na mercy, and she did not want any mercy shown to her. Mr. Frederick Wright, a surgc.on, deposed to being called in on the morning of the 1. at of January, about four o'clock, to examine the bodies of the two chil dren. He found marks of violence on their faces, and, upon a post mortem examination, he discovered that death had been caused by forcibly holding the nose and mouth, so as to prevent breathing. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. CLARUSON then addressed the jury for the defence, entreating them, before they returned their verdict, to take into their serious consi deration the frenzy and madness which the cruel conduct of the witness Blake had produced upon the mind of the prisoner on the night of the murder. It was extremely doubtful whether the prisoner was in her right senses when she committed the dreadful act, and although it was beyond the scope of human evidence to prove putative insanity in a case like this, the jury, he was sure, would not disregard the tantalising brutality she had been sub jected to by her paramour Blake. Na evi dence, however, could more strongly prove an unsound state of intellect, could more strongly illus trate an instance of momentary insanity, than that they had already heard, and as they were just as com petent to decide whether the prisoner was of sound mind when she murdered the children as the most experienced medical men, the ends of justice would not be a ccomp li s h e d if t h ey over l oo k e d t h e proo f s o f insanity with which the case for the prosecution so much abounded. Mr. Baron ALDERSON having summed up at great length, THIRD COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT and Aldermen MOON and HUNTER.) John Sullivan and James Currie, two young Las cars, were indicted for stealing a quadrant, value 21., and a variety of other articles, the property of Thomas Frane, in a vessel in the port of London. From the evidence of the chief officer of the vessel from which the articles were stolen, it appeared that the prisoners, who were in a very destitute condition, craved his permission to allow them to remain on board the brig one night, as they had no home, and the weather was very severe. The officer gave them leave to sleep in the round .house, but told them they were not to repeat the application. During the night the captain's cabin was broken open and the quadrant and the other articles were stolen. The jury found the prisoners Guilty. The COMMON SERGEANT made inquiries, which satisfied him that it was real distress and starvat;on that had prompted the commission of the offence. His Lordship sentenced them to be imprisoned in New gate for three months, and by which time he hoped that arrangements could be made to get them a ship. The prisoners earnestly thanked the Common Ser geant for his kindness, and were removed. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before the ASSISTANT JUDGE.) THE PARISH OF ST. LUKE, OLD STREET, AT THE PRO SECUTION OF GORE, FOR A NUISANCE. This case (a brief account of which appeared in The Seen of yesterday) was adjourned from Thursday, and resumed yesterday morning. Mr. PARRY, in stating the case for the prosecution, said that the parishioners of St. Luke's were not actuated by any feeling of hostility against Mr. Gore, but solely from a sense of public duty, and in consequence of the great injury to life and property which was suffered in this parish from the nuisance which they sought now by this prosecution to sup press. They wished the case to be fully and impar tially investigated; and he hoped the inquiry would be conducted in an amicable spirit on both sides, as the only object was to ascertain whc..ther the nuisance was really of the pestilential nature as the prosecu tors believed it to be ; or, on the other hand, was it so innoxious as it was understood the defendant would endeavour to establish. He would lay before the jury a body of evidence of a most decided character to show that the scavenge yard in question was a most pernicious nuisance. He would produce the evidence of some of the most eminent scientific men of the day, who had devoted their time and talent to the study of subjects con nected with the health of towns and other populous localities, and from these gentlemen they would hear, that the exhalations emanating from the defendant's yard in Hatfield-street, were of the most pestilential nature. And he would also show, by the evidence of a numerous body of the inhabitants of the immediate neighbourhood, that not only was the property dete riorated, but that the health of the inhabitants was destroyed, and life was endangered by the proximity or this accumulation of decomposed animal and vege table matter, and other offensive materials. The neighbourhood was crowded with a poor population, and the efforts of the parish authorities to pieserve the health and comfort of the inhabitants, by improved paving, cleansing, and draining, were rendered almost unavailing, in consequence of the prevalence of fever and other diseases, occasioned by this depot of dust and " muck." To abate the nuisance was the only desire of the prosecutors, and they had no desire to injure or inconvenience the defendant more than what was necessary to maintain the health of the people; and he was not instructed to deny that Mr. (ore had not carried on his business in a proper manner, and as a respectable scavenger. Mr. John Gylea, the surveyor of the parish of St. Luke, was first examined. Ile proved a plan of the defendant's premises, and described their situation. It consisted of two large enclosed areas, one on each side of Hatfield-street. In one of these the day dust was deposited, and the other, which was called the slop-yard, was the receptacle of filth of the most of fensive description, collected from the streets and markets of the metropolis. This heap of dust was described as of a prodigious height, occasionally reaching up to the roofs of the adjoining houses. 'When the wind was high or when the dust was moved about or being sifted, the inhabitants were annoyed to a great extent. There was a very bad smell emit ted, from decaytal animal and vegetable matter from the slop-yard, and the effluvium was a cause of gene rating fever and other diseases. There was constantly disease in the lanes and courts adjoining—in Mid dlesex-row, Dean's-court, and Golden-lane. The parish had recently put down new paving and improved the sewerage. The paint of the several houses was dis coloured by the gases emitted from Mr. Gore's place. In warm weather, and after rain, the surrounding space was crowded with vapour of the most offensive nature. The smell was worst when it was moved about, and the witness was of opinion that the place was a great public nuisance. William Hettnan Harris, of the City- road, one of the surgeons of the parish, examined the yard, and found decomposed animal and vegetable matter, and scavengers refuse, and he had also seen dead animals in a putrid state. The vapours from the yard were very prejudicial to the health of the neighbour , hood. Dr. Southwood Smith stated that he was one of the Sanitary Commissioners, and for the last ten years had applied himself more particularly to mat ters connected with the health of the public than to any other inquiry. He had examined the place in question in May last, and reported the result of his inquiries to the parish authorities of St. Luke's. His opinion was, that when the atmospheric conditions were favourable to the development of the poison, every inmate, young and old, in the immediate neighbourhood of the nuisance was in di.nger of fever. There was there a larger accumulation of decayed animal and vegetable matter then he had ever seen anywhere. The height of the dust-heaps was equal to that of the sleeping apart ments of the adjoining houses. He confirmed the evidence of the preceding witnesses as to the kind of gas given out from the heaps of dust, and as to the deleterious effect on the health of the inhabitants. Witness had been twenty years connected with the Fever Hospital, and had written on and given great attention to the subject. In cross-examination, the witness said that he con sidered all such places in crowded neighbourhoods a nuisance, and he considered Smithfield-market a nuisance. The ASSISTANT-JUDGE said every one thought that a nuisance but the Corporation of London. Witness then stated that there were too many dust-yards or lay-stalls in London, and that nothing could be more clumsy than the arrangements for con ducting the business of a scavenger in the whole country. Dr. Thompson, Dr. J. Close, Dr. Douglas Chisnell, Mr. J. F. Cooper, chemist, and several other profes sional gentlemen, were examined at great length, and FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 3, 1848. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Adolph Brandt, as Consul-General in London fur his Majesty the King of Bavaria. WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 4. Scots Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant the Hon. Edward Keppel Wentworth Coko to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet Major the Hon. David Henry Murray, who retires; the Hon. Augustus Henry Vernon to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Coke, Feb. 4. 20th Regiment of Foot—Ensign John Everard Deane to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice the Hon. Robert I)aly, who retires ; Charles Lutyens, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Deane, Feb. 4 ; George Shuldham Peard, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Kelly, who retires, Feb. 5. 26th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Atli: ustus Heise, from the 35th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Johnston, who resigns, Feb. 4. 35th Foot William Henry Short, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Heise, promoted in the 26th Foot, Feb. 4. 37th Foot—Captain Thomas William Geils, from the 93d Foot, to be Captain, vice Macdonald, who exchanges, Feb. 4. 93d Foot—Captain William Macdonald, from the 37th Foot, to be Captain, vice Geils, who exchanges, Feb. 4. UNATTACHED. - Lieutenant William Robert Lyon Bennett, from the 16th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, Feb. 4. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEB. 2. Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners—Sergeant Major Jenkins Jones to be Quartermaster, vice Hilton, retired on full-pay, Jun. 14. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 30. The following promotions have this day taken place, consequent upon the death of Rear Admiral Pringle Stoddart Rear Admiral of the Blue Cuthbert Featherstone Daly, C.B. to be Rear Admiral of the White. Captai❑ the Honourable George Alfred Crofton to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. WHITEHALL, JAN. 29. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Thomas Duncelfe, of Walsall, in the county of Stafford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed John Brun ton Falconar, of the town and county of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the' High Court of Chancery. BANKRUTPCY SUPERSEDED. John Belling, watchmaker, Bodmin. BANKRUPTS. John Garrett and Francis Holmes Phillips, saw mill proprietors, Cambridge-street, Old St. Pancras-road, to surrender Feb. 11, at two, and March 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official as signee, Basinghall-street; Chilcote, George street, Man sion-house. George Freeman, dealer in Colonial produce, South ampton-street, Camberwell, Feb. 11, at half-past twelve, and March 17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Shaw, Fish street hill. Thomas Borkwood, ship chandler, Shadwell-dock street, Middlesex, Feb. 11, at two, and March 17, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Nixon, Clifford's Inn, Fleet-street. Charles Street, builder, Veutnor, Isle of Wight, Feb. 11, and March 21, at half past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall chambers; Adams, George street, Mansion-house. James Moses Bridgland, piano forte manufacturer , Wardour- street, Soho, Feb. 18, at twelve, and March 24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.. Green, official assignee, Aaldermanbury ; Howard, Great Marl borough-street. William Samuel Gray, auctioneer, High- s treet, ,Cam den- town, Feb. 12, at half past one, an d March 25, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Cox, Pinner ' s Hall, Old Broad-street John Aubrey Morse, currier, Bluster, Oxfordshire, Feb. 18 and March 22, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Chambers, Copthall-buildings. Henry John Elmes, bricklayer and builder, Queen street, Cheapside, Feb. 10, at half-past two, and March 15, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street -buildings ; Williams, Buck le Willi William Bennett, confectioner, Camberwell-green, Surrey, Feb. 11, at half-past two, and March 14, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchu'rch• lane, City; Hine and Robinson, Charterhouse square, City. George Ilickes, commission merchant, Huddersfield, Feb. 13, at two, and March 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy . . Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's place, Old Jewry; Thomas, Ely-place, Ilolborn. J o h n Taylor, licensed victualler, Blackfriars road, Feb. 15, at half past two, and March 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane; Selby and Mackeson, Lincoln's Inn fields. - William Dunman Collard, slater, College-street, Chel PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed, from the returns made in the week ending February 1 1848, is 245. 11; i d. per cwt. " YOU ARE AT TVARr DUKE OF WELLINGTON. TO THE EDITO - 1? OF THE SUN. SlR,—The last Edinburgh Review commended the gentlemen of the press, and in two distinct articles sung them a song of placebo, such as is usual to monarchs. It may be expected of us now to point out the inevit able consequences of invasion —Guards in full retreat, Lord Mayor signing billets, and other hypothetical indignities. The first consequence will be in Ire land—organized refusal to enlist. Then, as a " re medial measure," England—long choosing, and be ginning late—must grant a repeal, if not the repeal, of the Union ; every other medicament for Irish maladies being, however strange it may sound in England, a chimera in the opinion of disinterested, not uninterested, persons. Another consequence will be, " the fortuitous discovery of a box of 11. notes, to save the credit of the country." In 1797, the pay of army and navy were doubled, without which none of your " Up Guards, and at them," would have roused that gallant corps to obey orders, dress to their colours, and fire low: Faceza a terra would have been the order of the day. Sweet are the uses of adversity. Abbe Petrarch says once,: " Idleness and pleasures bring secret hate and open tyranny. Peace must be used modestly. Proud and negligent manners offend her gentle na ture; she wings her flight, and will not stay to behold the overthrow of humanity. Sylla in war was like Scipio, but in peace a very Hannibal." Mutiny of fleets at Fore and Spithead, exploiter'd the industry of this country. In raising the price of blood and coats of scarlet, Government unwittingly took counsel from Napoleon. " Draw from the repositories of wealth sufficient to supply all who want employment; this creates a sort of market or sinking fund for LABOUR, by which its PRICE MAY BE KEPT UP." Parker, leader of the mutiny, made the discovery of a box of 1/. notes on H.M.S. which transpired for tuitously to the pequins around. Without 11. notes, pay of fleets and army could not have been doubled ; without Parker's entreaties the men would have de serted in mass. He saved us the awful spectacle of fleets towed over to Blefescu by Philargyria gigant of Britain ; in fact, by scarcity and penury of prac tical national cash, for even then Ministers wanted money to pay dividends (and salaries). For all that, Parker was * * * * * d ; " one Milton, a blind man," as Doctor Sprat calls him, having narrowly escaped the same reward. " Sic vos riF,n vobis mellificatis apes." It will be a singular coincidence if this invasion, started as a fresh fox to puzzle the scent, should halloo us on to the box of one pound, why not half pound (?) notes ; and all be mine about Threadneedle street, as Hannibal would say, but in a Pickwickian sense. Parker's last words show a malheureuse facilili de se payer de paroles. He complains of being de ceived, and warns every one against triisting the multitude. His plans were vast, but no honest plan is too much for any one if he has patience and keeps his own counsel. If he waits for others he is lost, and this is the misfortune of your organizing minds. O'Connell, M., failed so, but Father Mathew, a simple monk, though of ancient family, relied on his capacinades, and succeeded. " Sir Peel" has suc ceeded. 11. C. ARGENT. IRELAND. THE SOU THERN CONVICTS. DUBLIN, FEB. 3.—The following is from the Limerick Chronicle of Wednesday : " On inquiry at the county gaol this day we learn that William Ryan, Puck,' for the murder of John Kelly, at Knocksentry, and Andrew Dea, for the murder of Edward Murphy, at Duntryleague, ho are both to be executed on the drop of that prison on Monday next, at half-past two o'clock, are sincerely penitent, and quite reconciled to meet the ignomi nious fate which awaits them. The Roman Catholic clergy of this city, the ladies of the Sisters of Mercy, and the members of the Christian Brothers are daily engaged in administering spiritual consolation to the wretched men ; and to their praiseworthy attention is attributable, under God, the fortitude and resignation with which those felons are prepared to meet death on the scaffold. John Renehan, to be hanged on the 11th instant for the murder of John M'lnerny, of Adamstown, evinces a similar firm disposition, and is reconciled to die. Michael Howard, convicted of the murder of Johanna and Cornelius Hourigan, per sists in proclaiming his innocence, at the same time that he is resigned to undergoing the extreme penalty of the law, as it has been the will of God that he shall suffer for crime of which he knows nothing. James Skeahan and James Quane, for the murder of Mr. Ralph Hill, and who are to be executed on the 22d instant, are constantly engaged in prayer, and also resigned to their fate. A memorial having been forwarded to the Lord• Lieutenant praying for a com mutation of the sentence of death on Andrew Des, who is to be executed on Monday, an answer was received this morning, stated that the law must take its course. Yesterday the High Sheriff of Clare re ceived at Ennis, from Dublin Castle, a reprieve for Matthew Hourigan, who, with Michael Butler, was convicted of the murder of Patrick Cleary, near Broadford, and was to have been exe cuted on the 17th instant. Hourigan is to be trans ported for life." CARRYING OUT THE COERCION ACT. The following statement, copied from the Limerick Chronicle, is, we believe, quite correct : "It is the intention of Government forthwith to send an additional reinforcement of constabularyof every townland in Ireland where an. trivial, tticeto. be e T o h n e v d i i 1 y r arrested aigse - In W i t h t i e t d e oy unless character, t be perpetrators r areho w e p t e r farmers the m ers o f inhabitants eve maintaining the of the alert, as the entire expense ry proclaimed and broduigs district e t to o i g u i s i e la x n t d ra a p lo o n li e c . will have to be borne by occupiers of HIGH AND Low CIIURCH.—A country rector, in arguing at a public institution in London, against some proceedings which he considered irregular, observed that they were of " the Low Church." An alderman who h a ppened to be present said he considered that phrase as highly objectionable, and that he believed it was not to be found either in the Bible or the Liturgy of the Church of England, to which he added, that he was no more aware of there being a High and a Low Church than of there being a high and a low heaven; and he concluded by appealing to the Bishop of London, who also happened to be present, whether such a phrase ought to have been used. The bishop rose, and sub mitted to the chair that the gentleman who had em ployed it had dose so inadvertently, and was certainly out of order ; upon which the chairman, having ex pressed himself of the same opinion, the clerical speaker, to his great credit, at once apologized for having used it. Presuming the bishop, the alderman, the chairman (and, indeed, finally the rector himself), to have taken the common sense view of the subject, it may be as well that some modern Churchmen, who would be unwilling to ex pose themselves in public or private, should consider this anecdote, for the truth of which the narrator pledges himself.—Poynder's Literary Extracts (New Series). I I C ~~