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

of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—Mr. Charles Cochrane is bent upon :rusting himself into notoriety at all events. He is t struggling in. the surf, and waiting for the wave • 'nich shall bear "him up high and dry upon the de ;red beach. Whether it be the first, the second, or the third, mud'iy or clean, impure or pure, is all , - like to him, so it he frothy, and rolling, and strong.. "fo represent he tempestuous constituency of West ioinster is his object. To attain that end all he asks ; 3 a grievance ; but then it must be a virgin grievance, — a grievance which half-a•dozen other political car -ion crows have not already appropriated to their own use. Such a one is not so easy of discovery as might be at first imagined. Ask any one you meet to name you a good hustings grievance; he will tell you they are as plenty as blackberries. There are the army, and the navy, and the national debt, and church and state, all National grievances in their way. So they are, but esmewhat too wide for the purpose. Then ten to I )ne your spokesman will descend from generals to particulars, and consider his own peculiar case. He will talk to you of burdens anon 'buttons or Lisbon toothpicks. These, on the then hand, are too narrow. You are turned back epon. yourself. Ireland eon% do any longer. If oil were as ready to gulp down the Repeal bolus as Ter Saturn was to swallow his little ones, the time a. that is gone by. Nothing less than a solemn endertaking to pistol Lord Clarendon, and dash his howling soul against the blue walls of Pluto's resi dence, would win you a single vote on the other side ui St. George's Channel. The six points of the Charter ?—No, Mr. Feargus O'Connor and the dele gates hare dealt with that topic. Free trade is dis posed of, saving a small residuum about the Naviga tion Laws, upon which it would be impossible to get up any noticeable agitation on this side of Rotherhiche pr Wapping. The " Fifty" are to take up fiscal mat ters on scientific principles. What then remains ? Foreign Affairs ? The Schleswig euestion would not tell in Westminster, although the Eider were to run red with blood. The Church? Not a mouse stirring. So on of other subjects. Mr. Charles Cuchrane has boxed round the compass for a good grievance, and has at last hit upon the poor-law as the only point of possibility. Now, we are as aware as any persons can be of the defects in the administration of the poor-law. Over and over again have we returned to this subject, nor have our efforts to attract public attention to the sufferings of the poor remained aitogeth sr uncrowned with success. Much, very much remains to be done,, and this subject will ere long force itself again on the attention of the Legislature. A merciful administration of the poor-law is the condition of the continuance of tranquillity in Great Britain. We should rejoice to see so noble a cause as :the poor man's taken up in some respectable quarter—it is too sacred a one for the mere political adventurer. The sufferings of the poor must nut be rendered ridiculous by indiscreet or interested advo cacy. With what antecedents does Mr. Cochrane approach this subject? We are not so far removed "nom the time s% hen, in a ridiculous costume, and with a cracked guitar strung before him, he twanged his way through the provinces of England as Don -Juan de Vega. Next we find him coming forward to contest Westminster as the " lady's man." Then followed in order the disturbance of the most crowded thoroughfares of the metropolis for foe space of three days, of which Air. Charles Coch rane was the cause. He did nut, indeed, head in rerson. 'the rascal mob of pickpockets and idle boys - who 'paraded the streets in search of mischief and plunder. He summoned them together, though, and on the first warning of the police, relieta non. bene parmuld, left his worthy followers to their fate. That time it was not the " poor-law," but the "income tax," on which Mr. Cochrane had staked his political fortunes. That question happened to be up at the moment. The Itaja of Sattara or the Oregon ques tion would have answered his purpose equally well, could either of them have been made the subject of a " row." With such entries as these upon the certi ficates of his political character, Mr. Charles Coch rane now comes forward to see what he can do with the poor-law. The history of this last precious at tempt upon the credulity of the public would appear to be this :—Mr. Cochrane has identified himself with an institution in Leicester square, called the " Poor Ilari's Guardian Society." Humanity and philan thropy, or at least a good deal of talk upon the subject, are here stored up and ready for delivery on the shortest notice. The society, we find, is given to types and symbols, for at the head of the letter we have received from Air. Cochrane we find a huge eye of Providence" engraved, significant of Mr. Cochrane's watchfulness over the fate of his country men. It would now appear that this would-be re presentative of Westminster, not content with having been the first to disturb the peace of the metropolis by the gathering of his mob in Trafalgar-square, is about to favour the inhabitants of Charing • cross and its:neighbortrhood with a repetition of th nuisance. Mr. Cochrane is to head another rabble of rogues and pickpockets to the Home-office, under pretext of their being persons who are suffering or who have suffered under the administration of the poor-law. But, as would appear from the report of the proceedings of the board of guardians at the Marylebone workhouse, which we printed on Saturday, by way of mixing up a sprinkling of Simon Pures with his questionable myrmidons of Trafalgar-square notoriety, Mr. Coch rane has written circular letters to ,Tom Smiths, Jack Robinsons, Robert Joneses, &c., in the various London unions, on the chance of their containing inmates who may be distinguished by these uncommon patrony mics. That was the statement made on Saturday at the Marylebone board of guardians. Mr. Cochrane has written to us a letter, which we print to-day, in which he states "that he did not wish the inmates of the establishments to take part in his demonstra Lion of public opinion, but that they should urge on i their friends, more fortunately situated than them. selves, out of the workhouse, to devote an hour or two to aid him in his arduous but glorious under taking." We leave the charge and the answer to the judgment of the public. This letter is accompanied 1 with a kind of circular, in which Mr. Cochrane recalls to the recollection of the poor of England the circumstances attendant upon the fault of the ex-King Louis Philippe—" The oppressed and persecuted people have simultaneously risen, and demanded Justice and retribution. The Sovereigns, con science and panic-stricken, have acceded to every .ist demand, and have become so powerless to be compelled to appeal to the people IT mercy and protection The victories. ained by the people over their despotic Sovereigns producing a powerful effect on the minds and ••elings of every inhabitant in o and all this tarn own country" &c. go of inc u e r ndiarism and absur: is addressed to th„e c tm r a lp t s es c o , fcini ons and work ~ousel, and signed Grey, we see, on Satur,—sy informed'rathe:HousSeirthGat. every due precaution had been taken to prevent such procession as that one contemplat e d by Mr Ch rune from proceeding through the streets. The police will , no do ubt , easily dispose. le_ ofr7- the assembhige. Should it be otherwise, and if these few remarks, unhappily, have effect of serving for they will adver ti se ment to Mr. Cochrane, we trust, also, will serve as a notice to any recipients of the 900,06 0 staves distributed a fortnight ago who may dwell' , the line of this contemplated procession, that they • are authorised to make use of their sticks for a period of three months from the date of their taking the oath of office. HElZALD.—Yesterday (Sunday), the 23d April, must ever be considere d a mtiniirnble day, good sdth . er d fo d r or for evil, in the anni4e'of France—if indeed France is henceforth to have an y annals, whichseems 'to be a matter sufficiently problematical, in the opi nion of a majority of' th e writers for th English press. But, though we are ourseltes not without anxieties and misgivings —nut to say fears —we are more inclined to be hopeful, than to he despondent; because we have a saving faith in the progress of mo derate opinions, and because we believe Provi ence, in its goodness and mercy, will spar e a g reat and a civilised people the horrors of an interne cine civil war. On th e result of the elections, to be commenced y eF terday morning at six o'clock, however, must depend --we will not conceal it from our readers—the safety or ve the ruin, the weal or the woe of France The maintenanc e of orde f r at home and of peace . abroad, the resuscitatio n of the return of confidence, the distribution labour, the fixation and fructifica tion of capital, the settling al down l to honest industry, or piece -work, of work of the e h i ands or work of the head, all—all depend on yesterday. eol : t e ea c nn tir tp s or o t f ioiofthat If the people of France fraternity which they ao and so ‘ l v t:o t t : o l a 7 ct towards diurnally proclaim—it they desire a each other without proscriptiorb— ut menaces —without cries of vengeance—witho u t train or without violence — they will allow to every man liberty of opinion, and permit each citizen freely and fairly to give his vote for Re p ublic ans of yesterday, R e publicans Republicans of to-day, or Republicans of to-morr ow , ae may suit his p rinci p le or his p assio n — his fancy or his whim. Without perfect freedom in this respect there can be no liberty of choice—there can be no rder ; and if order perishes, liberty must perish 'mg with it. There are many kinds and degrees tyranny - , as Frenchmen of all classes have known i felt for the last sixty years, hut the worst of all ,annies is the tyranny of anarchy. T he desp , tism a mob is the most unbearable of all despotisms, it is the capricious fancy of a multitude . of cruel and unreasoning tyrants. Of the elec eions in a majority of the provinces of F rance we have, however, no great fears. lVe believe that the great body of the electors will return men of sense and - substance, and known in their vicinage, -who will rally round the Republic,—first, because it ciready exists; and secondly, because it is the only form of government at present possible, without a civil war ansi without the shedding of oceans of blood. Many of these men who will be so chosen did not desire the Republic—a majority of them, had they been polled on the 24th of February, would have doubtless deprecated with all their might such a form of Government. But finding it now established, they will cling to it because it is established, if for no better reason. Men at all advanced in life have been so wearied with perpetual and violent changes in France—by which neither general liberty nor general prosperity have been much advanced, that they will accept at the present moment the work of a young, an ardent, and a determined minority, more especially as the form of Government can only now be changed by a fresh civil war. But though this will be apparent in a majority of the provinces where the people wish with Lamartine a democratic community—but a community definite and practical, devoted to amelioration, and yet not destructive of social order—still there are restless and turbulent spirits in Paris—the Montagnards of our time, fostered by Ledru Rollin, and banded together by Blanqui and others—who would com mence a re-action against everything savouring of moderation, and who are only for pursuing extreme principles by violent and extreme means. But the events of Thursday the 20 th, of Friday, and of Saturday, the 21st and 22d, must awaken these men from their delusions, and ought to convince them that the National Guard and the army now perfectly understand each other, and are prepared to put down any manifestations of the mountain o f 1848. That the great body of the line—the soldiers—corporals, sous officiers and captains, have been for the last fifty years more or less republican, we have never entertained any doubt. But thoug h these opinions have been deeply felt for the last eighteen years, they were not demonstrated, because the rev b olution of 1830 was accepted as a quas i republic, and ecause also the superior officers did not participate in the opinions of their men. But now that a great change has taken place in the personnel of the army, and that more than '250 officers have been removed from active command, and allowed to retire, the great body of the line shows itself as democratic as it was in 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802. The Provisional Government and the National Guard are well aware of this, and hence the Minister of War, Arago, in presenting the identical colours both to the line and the National Guards, said, " You have the same standard and the same heart." But though the line are democratic in a moderate sense, they are lovers of liberty and order ; and they will not, any more than the National or Mobile Guard, allow communists and clubs to over bear electoral opinions, or to interfere with electoral liberty. That a complete homogeneity of opinion—a complete identity of character and of views exists between both branches of the service is apparent from this—that several pe titions for the recall of the line emanated from the National Guards; and that not only several squa drons of the latter desired to go out to the environs of Paris to meet their brethren, but also offered each to quarter one soldier in his residence in the capital. Nor did the Garde Mobile, though so lately enrolled, exhibit less admirable spirit. Each company among them expressed its willingness to be first called on in case of need; " for," said they, " we feel that the National Guard have their business and callings to attend to, and we know that if we are engaged with superior forces, they will hasten to s u pp ort us. Un der these circumstances it was no marvel that the men of both corps fraternised, or that the National Guard of Montmartre went out to meet the detachments of the sth light infantry, and the 74th of the line. Such manifestations, on the eve of the election, are more especially consolatory, and joined to the amazing and well-merited popularity of Lamartine, they are of the very happiest augury. If the Minister of the Interior would but demean himself like the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and choose his instruments among sensible and moderate men, how much more readily would the Republic become consolidated—how much more speedily would it conciliate respect, if not affec tion, amongst foreign nations. Instead of following this course, M. Rollin has preferred what Lord Mans field called the popularity which precedes, and which does not follow, and he will find this pseudo popularity before long, to use the memorable words of the same eloquent man, but "the shadow of folly and the echo of renown." A great and civilised nation, like France, with so many glorious traditions of the past —with so many memories that can never die, is not to be governed and overborne by the clubs of Paris, even though these clubs be led on by Ledru Rollin, Louis Blanc, Jules Faeres, and Citizen Raspail. It is satisfactory to know that if these men are disposed to proceed to extremities, the Provisional Govern ment are prepared to put them down. M. Rollin had therefore better be wise in time, and follow the advice which the ever glorious Beranger gives to Lise, with a little variation : " Pour to faire adorer sans cesse, Mets a profit ces Ledru abjure to sceleratesse, Et respecte nos liberti.3." To Gamier Pages, the Minister of Finance, a laborious and conscientious man, but an economiser, and a theoriser, we would also say a word. 'We are aware of the very difficult task that is imposed at this moment on a French Minister of Finance, but these difficulties can only be vanquished by respecting private property, and religiously maintaining public faith. Any interference, therefore, with great joint stock companies, such as railroads or banks, or private establishments, unless on a fair and equitable basis, and with the perfect consent of the shareholders and parties interested, is nothing else than spoliation and tyranny, however it may be disguised by an epithet borrowed from the economists at the Bourse. CHRONICLE.—We have no hesitation in pro nouncing our old friend Cochrane the victim of one of the widest and best organized conspiracies of mo dern times. The great families are dead against him. "The Smiths, the Browns, the Joneses, and the Ro binsons would seem to have registered a vow to "put down Cocky." These great houses will not give the patriot the smallest lift in any one of his " arduous but glorious undertakings." They will neither help him to make the law, nor to break the law, nor to mend the law. They bring him in third on the poll. They decline his invitation, and violate the secrecy of his letters. They mock at his minstresly, keep away from his picture exhibition, won't wear his paper hat bands, and damn his Easter farce. It was but yester day that a gentleman of the name (we believe) of Smith was rude enough, amid an assenting chorus of Browns, Joneses, and Robinsons, to apply to the blighted philanthropist the shamefully vulgar epithet " consummate ass;'' and a Vandal of a van-driver, belonging to another of the powerful and influential families above named, actually insulted the hero in the public streets, by insisting on prompt payment of a little account for waggon hire, at the very moment that he held "five oil paintings" as collateral security. It is grievous to have to add, that the authorities are zealously at one with the Smiths, Browns, Joneses, and Robinsons, and lend an unmistakeable support to the combined machinations of the eminent Houses. The Home Secretary makes no scruple of affirming the Cochrane "statements" to be "entirely without , oundation ;" and the Home Secretary's porter answers the Cochrane double-knock (though the visit was by , special appointment) with a gruff " Not at home.' The Chief Commissioner of Police, though not eh ' solut e ly d ec li n i ng t h e h onour o f the Cochrane ac quaintance, should it be positively forced upon him, throws a freezing rigidity into all his epistolary com munications, which must strongly indispose their reci pient from cultivating relations of personal intimacy ; is and the Chi e f Comm sioner subordinates take no other notice of the Cochrane presence than by giving the word o f command to "move are ,, on." Can we won der at th e indignant patriot's reply—" You are a nice set of fello ws , you very melancholy b us i ness yesterday. Altogether, it was a jee F he, at a e a , d a n nd ob t i h n e . police, and the Smiths, Browns sons were all against C o ch rane . The verye m a a ven .t s rained down discouragement on th e f r i en d of ha "No Bastiles' got sadly we t. The humanity as The -poiled all the best views of the " illust ra ti ons, " and those highly-coloured pictures of humanity's wrongs were consequently quite unappreciated. The ninety thousand wouldn't muster, except in th e p i t if u l pro portion of 1 per cent. The blue postilion and pair was money thrown away, considering that there was a cabstand close to the scene of action. The fi na l e ,. of the gentleman's leaving, his business with he clerk, and, his petition on the table, was only t oo appropriate a wind-up to a spectacle in which official superciliousn ess vied with popular ingratitude and meteorological ,c Poor in damping down the gener,us Man's Guardian." We hardly am bition of a know how far a .serious word or two will strike pur readers as befitting. an occasion whose incidents are nearly all of the ridtihculous sort ; and we are spill ssible effect of grave re more sceptical as to . monstrance on the minedpoof the chief actor in this most silly exhibition. Yet, a d s we really should not:be justified in taking forgrante .that Mr. C. Cochrane as any d e lib e rate wish to do gratuitous mischief, and as he certainly possesses sufficient discretion to know how to keep o u t of harm's way, we would hope that ,he may not be totally insensible to the consequences of those proceedings with refere nce to those wilpin he affects to serve. If Mr. Cochrane has a grain; of honest sympathy with the poor, he will henceforth have done with " demonstrations," which not only .disgust and annoy the general public, but are deeply injurious to the industrious classes. Literally, ;all that he accompli s h e d and damaging r e , • yesterday (beyond a ludicrous little holiday indulgences personal display) was to abridge he t u n s c e es of the inmates of cer in metropolitan work for not a few s ' and to spoil a day's tr de You struggling eana s e h t opkeepers and hardwo k ing- artizans. get ad u y p erv a e n e ‘ f ‘ e exciti b show in the public streets and and make quiet people uncomfortable,' and r put he police on taking extra precautions, without clock g something off the week's w ages of those who ve by indnstry. T AM these 4' demonstrations" resolve' themselves, at last, into a tax on the poor. They break the continuity of peaceful and gainful traffic. They diminish production, and interrupt ex- E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1848:1 fi t f 4 PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.---13ALANCE-SHEET. An Account of the Net Public Income of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the year ended thg sth day of Aprll, 1848 (after abating the Expenditure thereout defrayed by the several Revenue Departments), and of the actual Issues or Payments within the same Period, exclusive of the Sums applied to the Redemption of Funded or paying off Unfunded Debt, and of the Advances and Repayments for Local. Works, &c. ----------- INCOME OR RETENUE. Total. EXPENDITURE. --------- _ ____ - - .£ s. d. £ s. d. O RDINA RY REVENUE AND RECEIPTS. £ s. d. Funded Debt .—lnterest and Management of the Permanent Debt 23,958,908 11 6 Customs 19,940,295 10 10 Ter minable Annuities 3,868,207 0 7 Excise 113,276,879 4 0 Stamps 7,319,053 5 2 Total Charge of the Funded Debt, exclusive of 10,015/. 13s. la, the Interest Taxes (Land and Assessed)._ ...... .. Property - tax 5,452,368 3 10 Post Office 930,200 0 0 Unfunded Debt.—lnterest on Exchequer-bills Civil List Crown Lands ...................................................................................... 61,000 0 0 ls. and 6d. and 4s. in the Xon Pensions and Salaries .................................................... 4,839 16 10 28,427,231 19 1 Small Branches of the Hereditary Revenues of the Crown ...................................... ... ...... 4,155 9 2 Annuities and Pensions for Civil, Naval, Military, and Judicial Services,. Surplus Fees of Regulated Public Offices 106,447 0 3 &c., charged by various Acts of Parliament on the Consolidated Fund.... 526,788 7 3 Salaries and Allowances 51,451,609 5 5 Diplomatic Salaries and Pensions 169,373 17 0 Courts of Justice OTHER RECEIPTS. 111iscellaneous Charg es on the Consolidated Fund 317,227 16 6 2,724,971 5 9 Repayment of Moneys received into Commissariat Chest at Hong-Kong, out of the Indemnity Army paid by the Chinese Government .......................................................... 455,021 1 0 Navy Imprest and other Moneys .... .............................................................................. 116,1 9 7 1 7 Ordnance 2,726,698 0 0 Money received from the East India Company ... ......................................................... 60,000 0 0 Miscellaneous, chargeable on the Annual Grants of Parliament 3,614,329 7 9 Unclaimed Dividends (more than paid) ..• ..• 975,000 0 0 . Kafir War . 52,082,757 8 0 23,931,003 6 11 Excess of Expenditure over Income .............................................................. 3,092,234 13 1 55,083,206 11 2 Unclaimed Dividends more than received 53,175,042 1 1 ••• ••• 91,835 911 1 55,175,042 1 1 _ — 2. An Account of the Balances of the Public Money remaining in the Exchequer on the sth day of April, 1847 ; the Amount of Money raised b y the Additions to the Funded or Unfunded Debt in the Year ended the sth day of April , 1848 ; the Mone y a pp lied towards the Redemption of the Funded or paying off Unfunded Debt; the Total A m ou nt of Advances and Re p a y ments on Account of Local Works, &c., w ith the Difference accruing thereon; and the Balances In the Exchequer, on the sth day of April, 1848. VT .1 /la, tAl...i \.=v. w•• - •• - - '-- --,-"-- , £ Se d. X s. d. ISSUED. £ s. d. £ s. d. BALANCES in the EXCHEQUER on the sth da y of April, 1847 ••• 5,459,835 2 4.i To the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt, to be applied to the redemption of the Public Debt : By issues, per Act 10 George IV., c. 27 By interest on donations and bequests . 1,412,890 9 6 MONEY RAISED IN THE YEAR END ED THE STH DAN O P APRIL, 1848, BY Deduct sum applied not in redemption of Funded Debt, but of Con- TUN CREATION OF FUNDED OP. UNFUNDED DEBT . solidated Fund Deficiency Bills . . 192,890 9 6 To the Paymasters of Exchequer-bills for payment of Unfunded Debt : FUNDND Days. Money out of Consolidated Fund for payment of West India Relief Bills Contribution to Loan of 8,000,0001., per Act 10 Vitt., c. 9 . >3:f ~:= 1 ,, , .i; , . - -- , .>_ , ,- - ply Exchequer-bills ' .9hins.` - i hitli,) Exchequer-bills for payment of Supply Bills "3 fisiltruk(r4l. , sktelf Air.o fir , c).3 totiw. (t.::1! Ii r"`,:11 f} i) :1:. UNFUNDED DEBT. charged on Supplies ... 17,802,400 0 0 Total Amount of Advances for Local Works , &c. , under various Acts of Parliament, including 2,139, 0001 . to Irela nd, under Act 10 Viet., C. 107, Sc Ditto of Repayments of Advances for Local Works Excess of Advances over Repay ments Excess of Expenditure over Inc o m e Balances in the Exchequer on the sth da y; of A p ril, 1848 • Exchequer-bills, 18 , 380 , 2001 ., per Act 9 Victoria, c. 15, 893,562 9 6 ••• ... ••• 2,245,197 13 11 3,092,284 13 1 ••• 6,768,336 16 31 30,265,809 12 9 : 1 30,265,809 12 91- persons from •Leicester -square to the Home•office, yesterday, for the alleged purpose of presenting a petition to the Home authorities on the subject of pauper grievances. The police, however, acting on instructions, •gave notice to Mr. Cochrane that the procession would not be permitted. About 100 or 150 persons assembled in Leicester square, where there was a carriage said to belong to Mr. Cochrane, and a van covered with pictures containing repre sentations of scenes which were asserted to take place in various union workhouses. The carriage and van were permitted to move off towards the Home-office, but the few who were di• posed to form the procession were stopped by the police, and required to disperse. The defendant was very violent—he used coarse language to the police, and ultimately struck a con stable a violent blow on the face. He was imme diately taken into custody and brought to this court. The prisoner cried and whined very penitentially, and attributed his violence to the effect of too much drink. Mr. BINGHAM said, the unmanly exhibition which the prisoner now made satisfied him that there was no sound cause for apprehending that he meditated any very desperate invasion of the public peace, He wished, however, for the defendant's own sake, and the sake of others, that the defendant was at that mo ment in France, and knew French sufficiently to en able him to comprehend what was passing there at this moment. Before the revolution, there was one man out of every two who was without work or settled means of subsistence ; while in this country the proportion was not more than one man out of every ten, and with this advantage, that here there was a poor-law and a workhouse to resort to, while in France there was nothing of the sort. Since the Revolution things had become much worse, and there was neither employment nor means of subsistence for the working classes in France. About 30,000 men were supported in the Municipal Guard, and when that source failed, he knew of nothing that could be resorted to for a supply of funds. As he was inclined to think the defendant was not likely to use a pike or other deadly weapon, and as he thought drink had partly caused him to act so foolishly, he should let him off with a fortnight's imprisonment only. The prisoner's answer was the same which he in the first instance made, viz., that he bought the fowl. PARKER. 71.; and Mr. Hall, „doubting whether his reverence had paid over th• amount to the proper parties, has since written to make inquiries, and has received the following reply : " Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 76, Pall-mall, London, April 17. " Sir,—ln reply to your letter of April 13, I have to inform you that no account has been for warded from Rawmarsh to this office. " I have the honour to be sir, yours respectfully, " J. RUSSELL, Treasurer, S.P.G. Mr. Collard remarked that there had been so many robberies committed by the company's servants, that a determination had been conic to that all cases which seemed at all clear, so as to afford a chance of convic tion after trial, should be followed up, with the view of punishing the delinquents. The prisoner was committed for trial ; but, upon the application of his solicitor, he was permitted to put in bail, himself in 801. and two sureties in 401. each, to answer the charge at the sessions. " To Mr. George Hall." It is suspected also that a collection for the dis tressed Irish has shared the same fate, but this is not certainly known to be the case. It now turns out, too, that the money which this worthy has received on account of the clothing club, with the exception of the receipts for the first fortnight after his arrival, has not been paid into the bank, as it ought to have been, and there is a deficit to the extent of between 201. and 30/. Mr. Fairfax made many allusions to his aristocratic mother, Lady Fairfax, whose residence he said was at Leeds Castle, Maidstone, Kent, and which august personage he pretended was about to pay him a visit at the rectory. We can state as a fact that no such person is known at Leeds Castle. We believe that in days of yore it was the seat of the Fairfaxes, but the family have been obli terated from the locality centuries ago, having " gone and left no address." It is only just to Mr. Mahon to state, that, to use his own words, " the references and testimonials, &c. (of Mr. Fairfax) appeared quite satisfactory, and I selected him in preference to others who were proposed." We understand that the missing one's creditors, feeling themselves so shamefully duped, have re solved to use every means of redress that civil or ecclesiastical law affords them. No doubt they will communicate with the bishop of the diocese.—Shefi field Times. CLERICAL DELINQUENCY. The parish of Rawmarsh, near Sheffield, has lately been the scene of very remarkable doings on the part of the officiating clergyman. In November last the rector of Rawmarsh, the Rev. W. R. Mahon, having resolved upon spending the winter months in Ireland, took steps for procuring a gentleman to assume his pastoral duties in his absence, and through the medium of an advertisement in the Ecclesiastical Gazette was brought into communication with an individual who represented himself as the Hon. and Rev. B. C. D. F. Fairfax. Aarangements were speedily completed, and Mr. Mahon departed for Ireland early in Novem ber, not having had an interview with Mr. Fairfax, but the latter gentleman having undertaken to appear in the pulpit on the ensuing Sabbath. True to the compact, Mr. Fairfax arrived at Raw marsh rectory—his future home—on the Saturday evening, preparatory to the assumption of those im portant duties that had been delegated to him. He was a young man—perhaps twenty-five, or he might be a year or two older. In stature he was tall and slender, of dark complexion, with large expressive dark eyes, and jetty hair. The ladies thought him handsome. Ile soon made confidants of divers of the villagers, and upon the minds of these he most sedu lously imprinted the fact that he was nobly born, and one of the mighty ones of the earth. His private fortune was represented at 20,000/. a year; and the profuse liberality that he began to display seemed to warrant the assertion. The children of the schools were regaled sumptuously during his first week with claret, &c. Like a faithful minister, he was inces santly active in every part of the parish, and was markedly attentive to those who did not form part of his congregation, or who were known to cherish a spirit of hostility to the Established Church. All these were asked why they did not go to church ; and if a want of suitable personal habiliments was named as an impediment—which, during the existing dull ness of trade, was no doubt in many cases the fact— the obstacle was at once surmounted by an order upon the village tailor, or hatter, or shoemaker, or bonnet maker, according to the necessities of the individual. By the time that his Reverence had been a month or so in his new quarters, and when he found his credit among the tradespeople unlimited—which, by the way, he had pretty well tested, for his own external appearance had undergone a:a estatesnosdftahtei :3 won derful improvement—he began to ma ke some important additions to his household , w hich hitherte had consisted of only one female domestic. There arrived one day at the rectory a y outh whom Mr. Fairfax described as his page , a y outh about whom there appeared a great deal of myste r y . There also arrived another personage , e ven more m y sterious looking than the former, who se sex p ur p orted to be masculine—at least the dress so indicate d . This personation of mystery Mr. Fairfa x s p oke of as his cousin, and familiarly called him " Johnn y Deer," or " Johnny dear ;" but as in eit her case the sound was the same, there was no means of decidin g , Johnn y , for his part, shunned commun ion with ever y one ex cept his aristocratic relative ; and tho s e who sat near him in church observed that he seemed ignorant of the use of the prayer - book , for he turned over the leaves quite at random. Connected with the personal appearance of this creature, in short, there was a variety of matters of observation which led to a very general suspicion that he was a female in dis guise. If this was so, her relation to the occupant of the rectory will be easily inferred, and the necessity for the disguise will be apparent. ' However good Mr. Fairfax's credit might be, it soon became evident that he had very little money at command. The few payments that he made—and they were few—were mostly in fourpenny pieces, a description of coin which the villagers brought to him in profusion once a fortnight, as contributions to a clothing club. From this source he received about said thatlaa sum ry 71. a fortnight. He was straitened in his finances, he said, on account of his father's steward having ab sconded with ac quaintances,abinliwaslerutnhstso.nanndes laid a made claim veryatoim large histo America family ily very m he d inde he the had mostv there. He al-o stated that he was the only surviving son of Lord Fairfax, who was an intimate friend of Earl Fitzwilliam ; but that nobleman, who resides in the neighbourhood, disclaims any knowledge of ei t h er Lord Fairfax or his reverend son. of fs contradictorymoney.the connexions place extensive a When c LAMB Yesterday Mrs. Mary Ann Ellwood, the wife of a gentleman of property, residing at No. 8, Mount row, Old Kent-road, who has been in custody since Wednesday, on a charge of stabbing her husband, was placed at t he b ar , before Mr. N orton, for final e x amination. Evidenceof having been given that th e accused, when in a state intoxication, had frequently threatened and attacked her husband with a knife, and that on the present occasion she had made repreated cuts at him, one of which wounded him in the wrist, she was comtnitted for trial. MA I?Y LEB 0 NE. Thomas Sturdy and Frederick Pilbeam were charged with having stolen various articles from the house of Mr. James, landlord of the Wheatsheaf,. Edgeware road ; and als o with the a ilf ul destruction of property to the amount of more t h an 150 /. The evidence , which was gone into at considerable length, may be thus briefly su mme d up : —O n Satur day night last, at twelve o'clock, the house was closed, and soon afterwards all therein retired to rest, the premises haying been properly secured by the locking of doors, &c. At a quarter before five on Sunday morning the front door was found open, and on a constable of the D division going in he saw brandy, rum, and gin, as also compounds, running frcm taps, no fewer than twenty-eight of them hav ing been turned on. The inmates were aroused, and on their coming down stairs and examining the premises they discovered that the spirits, &c., which had fallen on to the floor of the bar from the casks, had run into the cellar, where it was nearly ankle deep, and several men were employed for four or five hours in baling it out with cans and bowls. T wo hundred gallons of different kinds were, by hg malignant and shameful proceeding of some parties, rendered valueless to the prosecutor. About 10s. in silver and copper money, as also wearing apparel, a plated candlestick, and some other things of no great value, were missed from the house. There was no direct evidence against the prisoners, but circum ' stances of a strongly suspicious nature regarding both of them were adduced. They were in the tap-room on Saturday night, in company with a d person called Billy Mann, and all o f them quitte the room in question at twelve o'c lock, upon their being desired to do so. Mann was o bserved to leave the house by the front door, but th e p risoners were not seen to make their egress. About fortnight ago, Mr. James had occasion to use violence for the purpose of ejecting from his hou se the prisoner Sturdy, who had since been heard to make use of language expres sive of his intention to be revenged. It was further shown that while the prisoners were in the tap-room on the night alluded to, they several times whispered to each other, in a most mysterious manner. The o fficers , Sergeants H u g hes, 13 D, and Bilford, 245, of the same division, were of opinion, that the parties by whom the robbery and wilful mischief was caused had contrived to secret themselves in the coal vault below stairs The prisoners were ultimately taken into custody, neither of them having, when ques tioned, been able to give anything like a satisfactory account as to where he was after the public. house was closed. The officers had not as yet suc ceeded in tracing any of the apparel or other articles missing. The prisoners, who said tha t the y knew nothin g y about the robbery, were rem anded till Wednesda y (to-mor row) wee k . Henry Twine, a porter in t he em p lo y of the Great Western R a il wa Company, was placed at the bar for final e xam i nat i on, charged with r obber y . It app eare d th a t on Sunday morning , th e 16 th inst., th e pr i soner was o b s erved to pass through the lodg e gate at the Paddington terminus, with a bundle under his arm. He was walking along without pre senting a Pass ~ ticket, and upo n his bein g ques tioned as t o w h at h e h a d w ith him, he replied, that it \ was only a c hi c k en w hi c h he had bought in the South Vharf-road. H e was th e n detained, and upon Mr. Collard, superintendent of the company's police, ex amining a truck upon the platform, he found that a portion o f th e r i g h t s id e o f a wooden case had been broken in, and that there was a vacant space in the said case, from which, beyond all doubt, a fowl had been removed. The time allotted for Mr. Fairfax's sojourn draw. ing to a close, sundry tradesmen's accounts were presented for payment. Mr. Mahon returned to Rawmarsh on Friday, the last day in March, and then odd parties dropped in at the rectory, and begged that they might have a settlement of their small accounts, but not a farthing could they get — nothing but excuses. Suspicions then arose among them that they had • been duped, and their worst fears were soon strengthened. Mr. Fairfax left the rectory on the following Monday, under the Pretence of spending a few days at Whiston rectory, and saying that he should return in a few days ; but it was ascertained that he had taken up his quarters at the Prince of Wales' Hotel, at Masbro', whence he departed by train in a northwardly direction, at four o'clock on the morning of the following Friday, without having paid one shilling to his creditors. He took away with him an immense quantity of lug gage—property that he got from tradespeople at Sheffield, Rotherham, and elsewhere., The page and "Johnny" had been dispatched by train in opposite directions. After Mr. Fairfax's disappearance from Rawmarsh under such discreditable circumstances, it occurred to the mind of one of the churchwardens, Mr. Hall, that Mr. Fairfax had received the amount of a col lection made in the church on Sunday, the 12th ult., in favour of the Propagation Society, in obedience to the Queen's Letter, The stun collected was about --------......----A---- .--------' , II ORRIBLE MASSACRE ON THE GENERAL WOOD CONVICT SHIP. The intelligence we announce d a fee/ a ay s since J 3 OA RJ : relative to a report of the foundering of was . erroneous-,, mentioned convict ship, with all hands, It is too true that the vessel was lost, but tuader cir. excite_ cunistances that have caused the most painful, the above. ment. The convicts, of whom there were near' 10 " and who were on their way to the Penang settlement,, having mutinied, horribly murdered most of the crew: and afterwards caused tne destruct ion of the vesaei She sailed from Singapore on the 2d of January 1a.4 wiV out the protection of the usual military guard, and hence arose the fearful. catastrophe. The subjoined details are extracted from st commu• nieation written by Lieutenant Seymour, who Was a passenger on board of the unfortunate vessel :-- convict', the "On Sunday, the 2d of January, at six A.m. ; the General Wood weighed anchor a nd stood out 0 hr harbour with a fair wind, in co m p an y with two other vessels. After rounding the Rabbit and of here had a stiff breeze against us, and by six o'clock we in _ sight of the two vessels I have mentioned. The w li ci t and tide being both against us, we soon broug.e up, I think, off the Carimous, determined to II • and Ny e there till daybreak the following morning! retired to bed, leaving the watch on deck in charge , of the First-Lieutenant, all apparently, about half-past one o'clock in the morning we w a e !,?, startled from our sleep by a loud noise on deck, 1 . 11- - _ntraediateriy. the smashing of glass inside the c uddy. T i rose and went to the door of our cabin for the ,P L. n_, pose of ascertaining the cause of the uproar. 1,9!,"" scarcely touched the handle, when the door Woluff, quiet. At separates the master's cabin from ours, burst open,re the captain rushed in exclaiming, "For God e s , a „ shut the door ani keep it fast." He was followea_ '-',7 Mr. Farquhar and other passengers, who imored to know what was the matter; but could get foe from him for some time, when to our horror btoldon us the convicts had mutinied, and had got possesslo, of the ship. He appeared to have lost all presence r: mind, and kept exclaiming, " 0, merciful Fathe e , what have I done that this should happen. 0, bless.bao Jesus, save us, save us I They have got ln,,° the cuddy and have secured all i",he fire -arms. . obtained his own private pis tlps, and loadiaK them stood on the defensive, expecting every It ) ; ment they would break in itpon them. I ,l i said nothing, was to be done, I . ( ix he was fearful his officers had already perished. Sr ion after he heardat the cries of Mr. Gill, the third offie er, apPor eatil a the cabin-door, endeavouring to get in, at the snot° time followed by heavy blows—his moans bete the n e h u e and managed to get hold of the poor fellow, nt dragged in, and discharging his pi: Aols to red' them following. He was dreadfull2i mutilated 11,P_ was deluged in blood. Having ag On secured tp_.: cabin-door, we consulted as to the besit means a cos' cealing the female passengers, when ti was Bugg ° ks of placing them down the hold. The deck-Ptntire were torn up, but to our disappointmeiat the oPel hem by the rudder down was too small to adroit I , the being lowered. The passengers then Captain to offer the convicts the boats for W ou ldth escape from the vessel conditionally, ,if they d; he spare our lives. The poor man appeared clistracte ...A said it will be no use, " we were in their power!. gl i t u t `: imploreu _ the wretches know no mercy." He said lie wall a ga lley tempt their request, and went out of the port for that purpose, but we never sawhina after, Fin d' little doubt but that he was instantly murdered. •th'eum, ing the captain did not return, the females bi d t.,„,, .qt latter ~, selves in the quarter-gallery as the last res.", e r having previously barricaded the cabin d oor I l the utmost extent. I could see through the chink of door what was going on in the cuddy. Tlie,, a ; e4 ; the seemed busy knocking off their irons, and ru',... l i e f and s ip. At daybreak they slipped the ship's na"l ye id made all sail for the south-east, striving to ; o se till i ngapore harbour. They continued on this with in sunset, when they tacked, avoiding corning, „ 1 the reach of any other vessel. We were coarl,'„; rd, cabin, unconscious of what was going on Vl'a il o or. On armed convicts were placed at the cabin„„7 ta . ma Friday, the 29th, they sighted the Great 13a 0 , s, and on the following day, at nine ill on taawinboi dotn t ha h : l e tiehya i e s ,v l in a i fn n ogt t rh i eottfhh passengers.oeß uligthe 'n or ti ing, the vessel was run on a rock near Pulo Salsa° vessel,convictsa ro n in. had et About w feov a re s trhi rtehtyii37ogLa evidentlyspt,t e t sipnaktreienouiga: twenty convicts were left on board to gis t . away u with the remainder of the crew, who peterbelie tonedh t down in the fore part of the vessel. W horrible le to say, design was carried into execution I amp l l,, or what really was their fate, for within s" i d afterhour the ship went down in deep water, an hour the vestige of her was to be seen. The impression minds of my fellow-passengersthat the whole of the unfortunate creatures was, moors and the wreck went down with the who were left on for there was no boat to escape b W e a P rr e i r v is e n n ci r c t a i l the island at sunset, where we were of Malays, who showed every symptom olki a nd P ness• They offered to conduct the passengers to the Raja's residence, but the ringleader among the convicts said it was their intention to protect us, and they in. tended to take us up the coast as soon as they could prepare three boats. One of the passengers con' trived to communicate our real position to the natives, who at once declared their intention t o take us to the Itaja's residence. The convicts resisted, but the natives, to our infinite joy and h eartfell satisfaction, mustered, and we were led u p the country to their houses where we received eve r i comfort their means afforded. I am confident ils,'; the natives left us behind, we should ha ve been e'' murdered. It was admitted by one of the convicts+ who was afterwards captured, that such was the ia i . tention of the ringleaders. Before dayb reak the Pi lowing morning the greater mass of the convicts an t the Lascars had retaken to the boat s, a nd stood for sea, leaving about twenty behind , who were taloa prisoners by the orders of the Raja. S ome of tb: General Wood's crew contrived to escape, but le r) ,, few of them. All the officers belonging to her W et murdered. " On the arrival of the above news at Singapore seat Penang, the authorities adopted ev er y means to effe the capture of the convicts, who, it is presage"' would remain at sea till a vessel made her appeal-0 0 e 1 lw when they would be picked up as sh' lo l - eck i r, mariners. The steamers of the Hon. East - r -lin Company's service have been sent out to the princip a l in the above locality, in search of then! ) . 1 ‘, 1 7 t6 t of the convicts were felons from Singapore an d adjacent country. s THE TRADE OF CLYDE. THE COMET AND THE NIAGARA STEAMER. We recollect very well one fine summer day, in the year 1812 or 1813, of taking a walk down to the Broomielaw, to see the shipping, the gabbarts of 50 and 60 tons burthen, and the " fly-boat," with its coarse red painted awning, &c. It was no difficult matter then to walk to the bottom of the quay ; but at the extremity of it, on that day, there lay a sort of toy, a small steam-vessel, named the Comet, which everybody everybody laughed at, which the sailors jeered,,hatf.; and the maker, Henry Be ll, was talked of as a"half daft, al daft, crazy man," for produc in g such a fooli sh affair in the face of day. Not hin g daunted with this, as the vessel was about to sail, we took a passage to Greenock, in that little craft, the precursor and the germ of all the splendid steam-ships which now move along the waters in every sea. The Comet was the subject of merriment to the sailors and spectators, as we smoked out of the harbour—in fact, she waf always so, whenever she smoked; and the indignant saying of the old " fly-boat" captain at the time, namely, that "he had the pleasure to sail with the Almighty's wind and not with the devil's reek," may serve as a sample of the feeling which was entertained at the outset of the new invention. The Comet had an engine of three•horse power, with a raised deck, like the canal passage-boats, the company entering by a door before the helm. To have ventured past 'Greenock at that period, and for a considerable time after, in a steam-boat, would have been accounted a tempting of Providence. On the 20th April, 1848, we again took a walk to the Broomielaw. But such a change ! The quays upon both sides extended as far as the eye could reach, and the harbour was filled with leviathan ships from every quarter of the globe. The place of the little Comet of three• horse power was supplied by dozens of magnificent Liverpool steamers, and Dublin steamers, and ships of war,- and ships from China; and there is the Niagara, just nearly ready for sailing. How we do wish for a sight of the Comet of 1812 alongside of this splendid floating palace, of 1,800 tons burden, and 700-horse power I Having stepped on board, we discovered, through the politeness of our friend Captain Rylie (who is an accomplished and genuine seaman), that the Niagara belonged to the British and North American Royal :Mail Steam-ship Company ; that she was built by Mr. Steel, of Greenock, and fitted up with engines by Mr. Robert Napier,• of this city, as a companion to the other splendid new steam-ships the America, the Europa, and the Canada, all of the same class, and belonging to the same company. We had no time to take down• any detailed account of the internal fitting up and workings of this wonderful vessel, but we learned that the number of berths was 180, and we saw that the steward's pantry, under the able superintendence of Mr. Emans, was all that could be wished for in a voyage across the Atlantic, or any where else. We then entered the grand saloon, and we must say , that a more noble and chastely decorated apartment we have never seen. It is impossible, in this short notice, to do anything like justice, but as we shall take a look at it again, and report, it may only be necessary here to state that the beautiful paintings (scenes in the Prairies) and elegant deco rations, are the workmanship of Mr. W. B. Simpson, of West Strand, London, under the able and judicious superintendence of his foreman, Mr. Hobbes, a gen tleman possessed of the most exquisite taste and skill in'his delightful art. Truly, such a noble vessel is a proud trophy of the energy and wealth of the proprie tors, as well as of the talents and skill of all concerned in its formation. The Niagara sails on Saturday for the Gareloch to have her compasses adjusted. We hope that Captain Washington (who praises the river trustees the one day for their exertions to improve the river, and condemns them the next) would come to witness the sailing down the Clyde of this mig ht y vessel, which, by the ,way, c ou ld b e converted into a ship of war in a couple of days. —Glasgow Constitu -1 tional. MIDDLE TEMPLE, APRIL 22.—The undermen tioned members of this society have been called to the bar, and were sworn in this evening before the benchers : —Benjamin Forbes Mosse, Esq., and Chas. Henry Cook, Esq. A circular-has<been,jasued,by the leading London discount houses reducing the rate allowed for money at call to 2i per cent. MAN, APL 24. &rock EXCHANGE. C —The HESTER sales are— RI Bi r k e nhead, elj o n e d shire, and Cheshire Junction, 7 1-16 n. di s .—Lancash' re at ia Yorkshire (West Riding Union), 44 dis.—Lond ° __ P ar terS North-Western (Manchester and Birmingham), Q u s o rth (A and B), 1 11-16 p.—Ditto, ditto (C), P .— sou th' Staffordshire, 3 5-16 dis.—Shr o p s hi re U n i o n, 3 dis• Eastern and Dover, No 4, 3 3 4 dis. ' „ ---- MARRIED. r a ptai n tC . On the 28th ult., at St. Peter's Church, Jersey, -- h -er A.ug .. C. Lucas, Bombay Army, to Mary Elizabeth, eldest ""broP of David Morgan Lloyd, Esq., of Haverfordwestf Fell' of shire. ~,,,r r isg' h. Ou the 18th inst., at J ersey , Li eu t enan t G. G. J'''''" dog' the Bengal Army, t o J osep hi ne L acos t e , young"' ter of the late Major-General J. W. Graves. -----7 - ber l DIED On Wallast,hEe 3 2 q 1 .: t o u f l t t h ., at a i t sli B in Ia d d . eira; Jane, the wife a ilo , end On the 18th inst., at Bridge-place, Lewisham, K en ' Ø Claytn, Eq., aged 65 of A illi ll ' . On o s the 20th inst... Mary Lavinia, daughter 1 Humfrys, solicitor, Hereford. On the 28th inst., at Clapham, Surrey, Mrs. Mer inlii . i g n . , On the 20th inst., at Windsor, Mr. Richard Shari,..n3Th‘Ari" On the 20th inst., in Eaton-place, the Lady - 13 ''''" J ermyn. h. Pg On the 20th inst., at Hackney, Samuel Smith Till ic " - „i rer On the 20th inst., George Frederick Wessell, 1;5 ( 1'0 - son's-hill, Woolwich. , „betlb On the 20th inst., at Queen's-row, Walworth, El'i- the wife of Mr. C. F. Seytang, aged 7. ' o • Dal le' On the 21st inst„,Mary Ann, the wife of Mr. A. - • of Piccadilly, aged 80. On the 21st inst., at Brixton, Mr. H. Drew, ag e— cleri c " On the 21st inst., at Eaton College, Augus tus Fre rab s° eldest son of the Rev. F. F. Beadon, Vicar of 13° Somerset, aged 9. wed 58 403 At Bute House, Petersham, John Jones, Esq ., 11 '' le, ° On the 22d inst., in Essex-street, George Orgill son of Robert Miller, Escl 1 i London: Printed and Published by MURDOpiIjoS.II, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office , „al Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the c o al Middleux ) Tinalay, April 25, DO& i Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, April li, 1846 change. They make industrious men idle, and tempt sober men to drink. They empty the workshops and fill the public-houses. All the excitement, the alarm, the noise, the fuss of these things is so much, at the week's end, out of poor people's pockets. Mr. Charles Cochrane does not seem to be a man much given to thought ; but possibly he does possess the faculty, in , a latent form, of connecting causes and consequences. He may, at any rate, assure himself that contemp tuous and indignant public reprobation will be the lot of any man who persist.; in gratifying his own 'vanity at the expense of the labouring classes, and who ob stinately courts notoriety in the character of disturber of the public streets. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Emma loans., a well-dressed wcman, who stated her age to be thirty- one years, was brought before Alderman Gibbs, in the custody of Daniel Forrester, the officer, charged with having attempted to utter a forged note purporting to be of the issue of the Bank of England for 51. gentleman attended from the office of Messrs. Freshtield, solicitors to the Bank of England, for the prosecution. William Smith, clerk to Messrs. Ridgway and Co., tea-dealers, King W illiam- street, said Between eleven and twelve o'clock that day, the prisoner came to the shop for a pound and a half of tea, and ten tered the note produced, numbered and dated 30390, Nov. 16, 46, and signed IV. Paskin. Upon looking at it I thought it not genuine, and I took it inside and found the same opinion was formed. It was then taken to the Bank, where it was pronounced a forgery. Mr. Freeman, inspector of the Bank, said he at once detected the forgery, and went to Messrs. Bldg way's shop, where he saw the person seated. Upon being questioned she said her name was Young, and that she resided at No. 24, East-lane, Walworth, and AN as a married woman. She said she did not get the note from her husband, but from a gentleman, with whose name or address she was not acquainted. Upon being told she must be detained, she observed that such would be a very arbitrary proceeding. Alderman GIBBS (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to ask the witness any question ? Prisoner—No. He will not say that I was not willing to come here ? Witness—You were not unwilling. Daniel Forrester said that when he took her into custody she said a young man had given it to her to go into the shop and get it changed. The people at East-lane knew her when witnes3 called upon them on the subject. She did not reside there it appeared, but her relations did ; and they stated that her hus band was a seafaring man, and she had not lived with him for some time. The bank-note was in some respects admirably ex ecuted, but it was extremely defective in other points, which the Bank inspector did not consider it abso lute wisdom to specify, inasmuch, as when officials from the establishment have mentioned on any occa sions were errors lay, they were sure, in the next issue of spurious paper, to find great ingenuity exer cised in the correction. In the present case the figure at the corner of the note was as like as possible to that in the genuine note. The prisoner was remanded. BO W-S 7REET. A strong-made man, in the service of the Woods and Forests, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hall, charged with brutally assaulting a little boy, under eight years of age. From the tender age of the boy Mr. Hall did not think it proper to have him sworn or examined. Inspector bun, of the A division, stated that the complainant, with another boy, was endeavouring to press the spring of one of the pumps belonging to the Woods and Forests, in order to get some water to water some flowers which they had. The prisoner, who is in the service of the Woods and Forests, and has charge of several of the pumps, came up and struck the boy several times in a violent and brutal manner on the side and other parts of the body, knocked him down, kicked him, and injured his finger, which bled profusely. The prisoner was then taken into custody. The public had a right to use the pump, which was placed there for public use. The prisoner said that he had only struck the boy on the shoulder with his open hand. He was bound to protect the property, and the spring of the pump in question had been broken several times before by boys who attempted to press the spring. The inspector stated that the prisoner struck the boy several times with all his force with his clenched fist. A Mr. Eason, who represented himself as the son of the engineer of the Woods and Forests waterworks, stepped forward and said that the prisoner had been three years in the service, and had always acted with humanity. Alth oug h nothing could justify so brutal an assault, he wished to state that the prisoner had on two or three occasions taken boys to the station-house for interfering with the spring, but no punishment had been inflicted by the magistrate. Mr. HAIL said that the assault was a most brutal one, and could not be justified under any circum stances. He was sure the 'Woods and Forests would be the first to reprehend such conduct. The prisoner might have discharged his duty to his matters by giving a slight slap to the boy, even supposing him to be acting improperly. With respect to what had been said as to boys who had been given into custody before, and dismi'sed without punishment, the magistrate had only to administer the law, not to make it; and if those boys had infringed no law it was not in the power of the magistrate to punish them. It fre quently happened that those who, like the prisoner, were most apt to break the law, were the first to complain most loudly that magistrates did not enforce it. The prisoner was evidently a man of a violent and brutal temper, and it was necessary that he should be punished upon a mereforconnit d co mmitting di n 3g e rac w e o fu u l ld and infl fi it e c rce assaultan a fine of 31, or 21 days' imprisonment. MARLBOROUG —Edward Pitts a labouring man 'PEET h d 'th h was placed blubbering at the bar, c arg _vi . a y_ AThceopernisßoAnNerawßa.s then removed. MARLBORO isnqguar obstructede d that it was in the contemplation of Mr. It appeared and assaulted the police Letcester- Cochrane, who has acquired some notoriety in conse quence of his connexion with the well-known Trafal gar-square demonstration, to have a procession of , tn CO ° [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Speedy and tale— al an t.-• of a severely bruised Ankle, by Holloway's Oilltrac- • Extract of a letter from Mr. H. Watkinson, of the' - '/ I rro• ing Free Press, dated February 19, 1848 ,„„oelcg a fessor Holloway. Sir,—A youth in our empleY t ote° his ankle so severely, that the most dangerous P,Y7 00 131° were brought on, thereby rendering him totall w ore to walk or attend to his duties; many preparation 9 se to applied, but all to no effect; at last he had ke°°ur,iogle your invaluable Ointment, when, by the use 9f 9 ,,: c ore° pot his ankle was perfectly cured, and the boy " . " 0 th ° as active in walking and working as he was bd . ° ijo l ! disaster." Sold by all druggists, and at Profess or loway'a Establishment, 244, Strand, London. 811:7718• i•S lr• On the 17th inst., the Lady liatharineJermye , ) ter, which survived but a few hours. 13. 0 n the 20th inst., at Highgate; the wife of theSs-* , Dyne, Head Master of Highgate School, of a daug htes' ed, tio On the 20th inst., in Warwick-street, Belgtec,.4 .ll) wife of W. P. Stevens, Esq., of a daughter. 00,0*,,, On the 20th inst., at Watford, Mrs. G. Healefi v ',, , , . Dr: On the 2lst inst., in Guildford-street, Russell - s4 ua ' n — ostb" Blucher Elwell, relict of the late B. Elwell, Esq., of a r ' MOUS SOD. F og On the 21st inst., in Mornington-road, Mrs. of a son. f Joh° On the 21st inst., in Norfolk- s t r e e t, the wile ° • Isaacson Esq o son. IP On the 22d inst., at Dulwich, Mrs. Thomas Rel to lifP I of a son. ouse-square, e f.L" On the 22d inst., at Charterh th 1 11 - , ° Purnell, Esq., of a son. On the 17th inst., at Croo m ' s -hill, Greenwich' wr . Speed, of a daughter.