The Sun. — London, England, 1848-08-14 00:00:00

tbtrilf Xbition SUN OFFICE, Seven d Clock. FRANCE. From the latest accounts received from the French capital it would appear that two good signs are already visible—signs which augur well far the stability of the Republican Government. First, the revival of trade from the stagnation into which it had been thrown by the revolution of February ; and second, the increasing number of foreigners resorting to this once gay and animated city. The harvest promises admirably throughout France. The Paris and Strasburg Railway directors have given notice that, in consequence of their hav ing 15,071,447 francs of the funds of the com pany in Bons du Tresor, which the Govern ment offers to pay off in Three per Cent. Rentes, at the rate of fifty-five per cent., while the market price is 43, a sacrifice which they do not con sider it prudent to make, the Council of Administra tion has come to the resolution of making a call upon the shareholders of 50f. per share, of which one-half will be payable on the 20th October next, and the other halt on the 20th February, 1 ii 49. From the second payment four francs per share are to be de ducted as interest for the last half-year of lii4B, and the definitive titles will then be delivered. The Moniteur announces that subscriptions have been received for 13,095,250 francs Rentes towards the loan of 13,131,500 francs:Rentes, five per cent.,:autho rized to be contracted by a Decree of the National Assembly of the 24th July, 1841. The Reforme states that the distress amongst the operative classes at Paris is every day becoming more intense. Crowds of famished women, children, and old men are constantly to be seen waiting at the gate of the Luxembourg for the hour of the soldiers meal, in expectation of receiving a portion of it. Serious apprehensions are entertained for the ap proaching winter. A sentence pronounced by court-martial was, for the first time since the revolution of February, car ried into effect in Paris on Saturday last. A soldier condemned for forgery was degraded from his mili tary rank previous to being placed in solitary con finement. SPAIN. The Madrid papers of the Bth instant had nal arrived in Paris on Sunday. POLAND. The Breslau Gazette gives the following accounts, dated Warsaw, 4th inst:— " The first detachment of the Russian army is only two miles distant from the Prussian frontier. The soldiers are divided between the town and villages. The ♦anguard is formed of the light cavalry. Forty thousand men are encamped round Warsaw. In the whole of the kingdom of Poland there are two corps of army 50,000 strong. A third was expected, but a part only arrived; the other portion repaired to Luck, because the cholera had broken out among the troops. There is also another corps of army near Radziwill." On the 4th instant the Emperor of RUSSIA had been expected at Warsaw, but his MAJESTY'S arrival was postponed on account of the ravages of the cholera at St. Petersburgh. WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA The Borsenhalle gives the following accounts, dated Bucharest, 28th July : " The Russian force in Wallachia has completely ceased to advance. The Porte claims a right to inter vene alone, and has acknowledged the revolution of Bucharest." Letters from Jassy announce that General Du• 11 Abl L is preparing to quit Moldavia. AUS'T'RIA. The Breslau Gazette, of the 9th iNstant, states that the victory gained by the Austrian army was celebrated at Vienna, on the 7th, by the garrison and the National Guard. Advices from Milan to the 7th have arrived. The pillaging of the city by the Austrians had somewhat abated. The Prince of SCLIWARTZENBURG had been formally appointed Governor. Cannon were pointed against the city, which was declared in a state of siege. Among the minor occurrences worthy of mention, we may observe that a reduction of the duty on salt had been conceded. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships assembled to-day shortly after Five o'clock. ROYAL ASSENT. The Royal Assent was given to-day by Commission to the following 73 public and private Bills : Rum Duties. Assignment of Ecclesiastical Districts. Land-Tax Commissioners' Names. West India Islands Relief. - Ad.ninistration of Justice (No. 1). Administration of Justice (No. 2). Protection of Justices from Vexatious Actions. Administration of Criminal Justice. Canada Union Act Amendment. Joint Stock Companies. Salmon Breed Preservation. Paymasters' Offices Consolidation. Prisons Bill. Sale of Beer Regulation. Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society. Windsor Castle and Town Approaches Improvement. Regent's Quadrant Colonnade. Exchange of Advowsens in the Counties of Warwick and Stafford. Exchange of Ecclesiastical Patronage between her Ma jesty and the Earl of Leicester. Public Works (Ireland) No. 2. Evicted Destitute Poor (Ireland). Ecclesiastical Unions and Divisions of Parishes (Ireland). Incumbered Estates (Ireland). Juvenile Offenders (Ireland). Law of Entail (Scotland). II ighland Roads and Bridges (Scotland). Caledonian Canal. London and South-Western Railway Company's Acts Amendment, Deviation, and New Works. Great Northern Railway (Isle of Azholme Branch). Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Amendment of Acts and Regulation of Capital). Furness Railway. Stirling and Dunfermline Railway (Amendment and Deviation). Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway (Extension and De viation). Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway (Extension or Deviation from Silecroft to Foxfield). Londonderry and Coleraine Railway (Deviation of Line and Amendment of Act). Wishaw and Coltness Railway (Deviation, Connecting Branch, and Improvement). Dundee and Arbroath Railway (Dundee Junction). Edinburgh and Glasgow, Paisley and Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Railway (Amendment of Acts). London and North-Western Railway (Branches and Ex tension from Leamington). Royston and Hitchin Railway Extension. Midland Railway (Gloucester and Stonehouso Junction). Newry and Enniskillen Railway (Amendment of Acts, and to authorise arrangements with other companies). Oxford,Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (N 0.2). Monkland and Kirkintilloch, Ballochney and Slamannan Railways (Amalgamation or Sale or Lease, and Amendment or Repeal of Acts). Great Western Railway (Branch from Slough to Windsor). London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (London bridge and New Cross Stations). Newport and Pontypool Railway Act Amendment. Caledonian Railway (Branch across the Clyde and Glasgow Station). Payne's Patents (Improvement in Preserving Vegetable Matter). Dunbar Customs, Water and Harbour Dues Amendment. Worcester Turnpike Trust. Aberavon Market. Lieth Municipality and Police Trusts, Markets, Paving, and Sanitary Improvements. New Grand Canal Company (Ireland) No. 2. New Ross Port and Harbour. Huddersfield Improvement, No. 2. Londonderry Improvement. Thorne Moor Drainage and . Improvement. West of England and South Wales Land Draining Com pany Incorporation. Edinburgh Police (Amendment, Consolidation of Acts, and Police and Sanitary Improvement). River Nene Improvement and Drainage. Birkenhead Dock Commissioners (Transfer of Powers to new Commissioners, effecting arrangements with the Crown, and Amendments of Acts) No. 2. Hulme and Eccles Road. Crosaford Bridge and Manchester Road. Richmond and It eeth Road. Marlborough College Chapel Newton's Estate. Fullerton's Estate. Lister or Hudson's Estate. Miller's Estate. Waterhouse's Charities' Estate, and Nichol's Divorce. The Lords Commissioners were th e Lord Chancell o r, Lord Campbell, and the E ar l of Shaf tesbury. The LORD Cist.iNcELLoa having taken hi, seat on t h e Woolsack, The Earl of LUCAN presented petitions from several parts of Ireland complaining of th e operation of the Poor-laws. (LEFT SITTINO3 HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the C ha i r a t Twelve, but there was not a sufficient number of b fembers to const i tute a House until Ilalf-past Twelve o 'clock. REPORT. The report on Fawcett's (or Alderson's) Estate Bill was agreed to. - SECOND READINGS. Tho following Bills were read • second time : London (City) Sewers. Viriiia Mary Hospital (Newcastle-upon 4 Tyao) Esfittc. THIRD READING. The Sandbach Charity Estate Bill was read a third time. THE ENGINE-DRIVERS OF THE NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. Mr. THORNELY, as soon as the House had been constituted, rose, ,he said, to take a course which was rather unusual during the early sitting of the House —he wished to put a question to the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Kendal (Mr. Glyn), the chairman of the North Western Railway Company, on a matter of the utmost public importance, as it had reference to the working of that line—he alluded to the dispute between the engine-drivers and the directors. As the Hon. Gen tleman was not in his place on Friday when the question was put to the President of the Board of Trade, he wished to ask him whether such arrangements had been made by the company as would secure the proper work ing of the line and the safety of the public? Mr. GLYN said, I am extremely obliged to my Hon. Friend that he has given me an opportunity of answering the question. I regret I was absent en Friday, when the question was put to the President of the Board of Trade. 1 have much satisfaction in being enabled to inform my Hon. Friend and the House that provision has been made by the company for the efficient working of the trains on the London and North-Western Railway, as a very considerable proportion of the old en gine-drivers and their assistants had returned to their duty by whom, and with the aid of the experienced men whom we have been enabled to secure from other lines of railway, our trains from this morning and henceforth will be worked as efficiently as they were by those who have left the service. I mention this with the greater satisfaction because many Hon. Gentlemen present must be anxious to know that no surrender was intended to take place on the part of the company to the men who have taken this rash step.—(Hear, hear.) I ought to mention perhaps that the whole of the proceedings that have taken place have been dictated by a club, which, yesterday morning, transmitted orders to the other lines in the north for all the engineers em ployed by the North Western, who subscribed to the club, to leave the service. This morning, lam happy to say, that, through the measures taken by the Superin tendent, this attempt has been frustrated, and all the men in the north remain in their employment. If I did not wish to trespass further upon the time of the House, I might tell the House of tricks played by the men who have left the service, but having got rid of them I have no doubt file public service will be conducted with the usual regularity and punctuality. The matter then dropped. TURNPIKE ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL. This Bill was read a third time and paused. MILITIA PAY BILL. This Bill went through Committee. POOR-LAW UNION DISTRICT-SCHOOLS BILL This Bill was read a third time and passed. MONEY-ORDER DEPARTMENT BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. ASSESSIONABLE MANORS COILMISSIONERS BILL. The report upon the Assessionsble Manors Commis sioners (Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster) Bill, was read;and agreed to. BOROUGHS INCORPORATION BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. PAROCHIAL DEBT AND AUDIT BILL. This Bill went through Committee, and the report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. OUT-PENSIONERS BILL. This Bill went through Committee, and the report was ordered to be brought up to morrow. PROVIDENT ASSOCIATIONS FRkUD PRE VENTION BILL. This Bill was postponed. STEAM NAVIGATION BILL. The report upon this Bill was brought up and agreed to. - Sir G. GREY, in reply to Mr. Thorneley, stated that this Bill was intended to apply to all navigable rivers. DUBLIN POLICE BILL. Upon the suggestion of Mr. T. O'BRIEN, this Bi] was postponed. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. A message from the Lords brought down several Bills which were read s first time and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. Tho house then adjourned at a quarter past one o'clock until five. . The House resumed at Five o'clock. PETITIONS. Mr. PATTISON i;resetiie - d - aietition from the three denominations, praying for the abolition of the Regiura Donitlli. - - Mr. LUSEIINGTON prosented a petition from the Health of Towns Association in favour of sanitary reform. _ Mr. WOOD presented a petition from five different orders of Odd Fellows, praying that their societies might be legalised. ROYAL COMMISSION. The Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the table to summon the House to attend at the Bar of the house of Lords to hear the Royal Assent given to several public and private Bills. The SPEAKER, on his return, informed the House the royal assent had been given by commission to several Bills (for which see Lords' report). COPPER DUTIES. Lord G. BENTINCK presented a petition from ship owners, engineers, and others connected with copper, lead, and tin mines, stating that the copper trade was never in a more depressed state than at present, and praying that the Bill for altering the coffee duties might not be passed into law. Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition from Liver pool, complaining of the impoverished condition of the working classes, of the reported intention of the House to adjourn on an early day—(Laughter)--and praying that leave of absence might be given to those Members who preferred attendingjto their field sports in preference to attending to their duties in the House of Commons, and also praying that some remedial measures might be passed for Ireland. POOR-LAWS. Lord MORPETH presented a petition from poor• law officers praying for superannuation allowance. Colonel DUNNE presented a petition against tho present poor-laws in Ireland, and praying that a Com mittee might be appointed to inquire into the state of Ireland. Mr. IlUbiE presented a petition numerously signed from Edinburgh, complaining of the Ministers tax, and praying for its abolition. LETTERS PATENT. Mr. BOUVERIE moved an address for returns of the number of Letters Patent for Inventions sealed in each year at Westminster respectively, for the last ten years ending the 31st day of December, 1847. Of the number of Letters Patent for the Colonies only, during the same period. Of the number of disclaimers and memoranda of alterations enrolled since the passing of the Act 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 83, to the 31st day of December, 1847. Of the Fees paid at the different offices, and on the dif ferent stages of passing such letters patent ; specifying, 1. the amount ; 2. at what office or stage paid ; 3, the duties performed or services rendered therefor ; 4, the application and appropriation of the fees ; 5, the increased and additional or extra fees in case of opposition and otherwise; also of the fees paid on the enrolment of specifications, and on application for and on the enrollment of disclaimers and memoranda of alterations, specifying particulars under the previous head ; similar returns fur Scotland ; and similar returns for Ireland, agreed to. (LEFT BITTING.) TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING Six. o'CLocic. EBOR HANDICAP. 4 to 1 agst Meaux 6 to 1 agat Ellerdale 15 to 1 apt Sir Martin T. LEGER. 5 to 2 agst Springy Jack 4 to 1 agst Flatcatchor 4 to 1 agst Justico to Ireland ELECTION COMMITTEES, (THIS DAY.) CHELTENHAM. The case for the petitioners was resumed this morning with evidence of agency. Mr. C. J. Ches. shyre, solicitor,'of Cheltenham, proved that he canvassed for Mr. Berkeley, and acted as the agent of that gentle man. He made his reports and communica• tions to a Mr. Williams. The committee-rooms were at a private house in the Colonnade, but there was no regular committee or chairman. Mr. William, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Glyde, and Mr. Pilkington, however, occasionally acted as chairmen. Ho and his clerks directed and distributed to the voters a number of cards. on which were printed the names of the Star, the St. Alban's,;the Crown and Cushion, and the Garrick's Head, hotels, but no such word as" breakfast" was written on them. Several breakfasts, however, were given at the Star on the polling day, and a bill had been sent into him from the Crown and Cushion, but he had declined to have anything to do with it. Mr. William Hesell, sen., another solicitor, proved that ho acted as a district agent for Mr. Berkeley, and distributed cards for breakfast at the King's Arms and Exmouth Arms Hotels, but he could not tell who paid for the breakfasts. He told an elector that there would be refreshments on the polling day for those who voted for Mr. Berkeley, but=on his men. tioning the circumstance to Mr. Williams that gentlemen directed him to retract what he had pro mised, and the electors voted against Mr. Berkeley. James Smith, shoemaker, of Cheltenham, proved that at the electiongof 1847 he was engaged as a messenger for Mr. Berkeley's party, on condition that he voted for that gentleman. He did vote for Mr. Berkeley and he received 1/. a-week or his services. The Committee.then adjourned. HORSHAM. Mr. Sergeant KINGLARY opened the case for the pe titioners as one of bribery and treating ; after which the polling books and the return were put in. It was then proved that a Mr. Padwick acted as the agent of the sit ting Member, Mr. Fitzgerald. Two country farmers were then called to prove that before the election of 1847 Mr. Fitsgerald invited them and other voters to go with him to the Richmond Arms to have a treat. They, however, refused to go, and subsequently they voted for Mr. Jervis. Both witnesses were severely cross-examined, with the view of showing that they were bribed to vote for Mr. Jervis, but the first stoutly protested that he was not, while the other stated that ho was induced to vote for Mr. Jervis by a vision ho had the night before the election. It was insinuated that this vision was the result of- a carousal at one of Jervis's open houses, but the witness could not tell what it was the rFehis votetui of a eorhrae llt ; dr reduced d. ll : that jeeee trdy i he thso:i i7A knew nb writing, oetrho 00 w ra n a wa s ti , hwt th neh at he e h e inducedhad a vision, him to es e s le p e r t o io v n ed othfatlr4r7.., and said he intended to have bought him, but he had been put up too high. The witness, on cross-examina tion, explained that it was a mill he had which Mr. Fitzgerald intended to buy, and not himself. Other witnesses gave similar evidence, and the Committee ad journed. THE CURRENCY. We have already adverted to the strong opinion ex- ! pressed by the Committee of the House of Lords on the affairs of the currency in favour of the " convertibi lity" of bank-notes. The Committee—if its collective opinion be rightly expressed in the report—have no doubt at all that, at all times, and under all circum stances, Bank of England notes should be exchange able for a fixed amount of gold, and that the law should be so framed as to support this principle. We can never mention this principle—no matter how high the authority may be which supports it—with out, on our part, expressing our utter disbelief in its soundness. Our conviction is, that the monetary and mercantile circumstances and transactions of this country must either be contracted within a very narrow limit, or must be subject to most disastrous fluctuations and vicissitudes, so long as we attempt to go on with a bank-note currency, convertible at all times and under all circumstances, into a fixed amount of gold. Our present purpose is not, however, to carry on that controversy, but to impress upon the minds of our readers that, be the policy of convertibility good or bad, the danger to which the country has for many years been subject, in consequence of the existing monetary laws, has been greatly aggravated by the law of 1844. To the danger which always existed from promises to pay in gold far beyond the amount hell by those who issued those promises —to the danger which always existed from the currency of the country being liable to be exported as merchandise, is 'added the very great danger of rendering the bank ing department of the Bank of England, at critical and difficult times, unable to meet its engagements. " If," say the Lords, " if the Committee considered that the Act of 1844, which they desire to see amended, so far as its restrictive clauses are concerned, was essential to the practical convertibility of the bank note, they would hesitate in recommending any change." But, say they, in addition, "it should never be forgotten that the liability of the Bank consists in its deposits as well as in its pro missory notes. The legal obligation to discharge both is the same; the failure• of either would be equally fatal. The protection given by the Act of 1844 is mainly given to the bank-notes, and in some degree at the risk of the - deposits. This appears undeniableou comparing the reserve in the, third week of October with the amount of private deposits. Had any unfortunate circumstance interfered with the power of meeting the latter engagements, or . had not the Treasury letter (of the 25th October) been written, there seems little doubt of the fatal consequences which must have ensued. Had it been impossible to pay the deposits, a dis credit of the bank-note must have been the con sequence. Nor can it be rationally questioned but that a misfortune might haVe exposed to risk the con vertibility of the bank-notes." Thus, then, we find the Committee of the Lords, who have examined evidence, and who have judged after the event, come to just the same conclusion which we and some others came to when reasoning upon the probable tendency of the law, before the Treasury letter was issued. We then pointed out the probability that, owing to the pressure of the law of 1844, the Bank of England might break at one end (namely, the Banking Department) while at the other end (the Issue Department) it was loaded with millions in gold, for which, at the time, there was no particular demand. What the public wanted was, not gold fur their bank-notes, but bank-notes for their bills, bonds, and all the sundry inventions whereby the great credit system is carried on. A party in this country, of which Sir J. Peel is the chief, have a very great interest in supporting the high exchangeable value of money. That party had so great an interest in limit ing the quantity of money, and making paper money con vertible into a fixed amount of gold, that, in procuring such arrangements of the Legislature as seem most favourable to these ends, all other interests are either overlooked or deliberately abandoned. Thus it happened that the men, by whose influence the law of 1844 was made, gave protection to the convertibility of bank notes at the risk of all the individuals, all the companies, and all the institutions of this country who have deposits in the Bank of England. The Lords' Committee de clare, as we have seen, that if the law of 1844 had not been broken through, and the violation of it authorised by the Government in the Treasury letter of the 25th of October, 1847, there seems little doubt but that the Bank of England would have had to declare itself unable to pay its deposits. And yet that law continues unrepealed, unamended, and, were the circumstances of October, 1847, to recur in October, 1848, the Government would again have to authorise oa violation of the law in order to save the banking department of the Batik of England from in• solvency, and the country from all the discredit and the ruin which such an event would inevitably occasion. What, then, is the real state of the case as laid before the public by the House of Lords ? It is this, ' that upon occasions of monetary pressure, such as hap pened last autumn, either the law must give way or the Bank must give way. If the law does not break, the Bank must break. If the law bo not violated by the Government, the Bank must violate its en gagements with the public. This is the view which the Committee of the Lords give us of the state of things brought about by the monetary policy of Sir It. Peel. This is the state of things which the Committee of the House of Commons would have condemned, as well as the Committee of the House of Lords, but that Sir H. Peel and his colleagues presumed to act as judges upon the trial of the working of their own measure. The Commons would have joined with the Lords in the condemnation of the law had not its authors possessed the unparalleled effrontery to vote as judges in the cause to which they were parties, and the country been the victim of such unparalleled fatuity as to submit quietly to the gross in justice of that proceeding. —Post. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON. CASTIMLAMARE, NAPLIKEi, AUG. 3. On Saturday, the 29th ult., the squadron, consisting of the Hibernia, 104, flag ship of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, Commander•-in=Chief; the Howe, 120; Queen, 110; Rodney, 92; Superb, 80; Vanguard, 80; Ven geance, $4; Thetis, 36; and the Bulldog and Hecate steamers, anchored off Naples between 5.30 and 8.30 P.M., much to the astonishment of the inhabitants, and particularly goof the King. Prior to the fleet anchoring the Thetis and Bulldog had communicated with the Ad miral from Naples. The squadron left Palermo, on Sunday, the 23d of July, at daylight, in company with the French line-of battle ships Jupiter and Jena. At two P.m. the Howe, 120, joined company, eight days from Malta; had a trial of sailing, close hauled, for a few hours, wind very light. The French ships forereached considerably, but the Queen, Superb, and Artingerd clawed to windward very perceptibly. The French ships were light, having very little provisions on board. Ou the 26th, after saluting Sir W. Parker with fifteen guns each, they stood back to Palermo, whence report sent them to Sardinia for a supply of provisions. On Monday, the 31st, - being the birthday of the Queen of Naples, the squadron dressed ship and fired 21 guns each. A court was held at the palace, which the admiral and captains attended. The Neapolitan steamers, in number about 19, anchored outside the mole, as also did two French war-steamers and the Dutch steamer-of-war Porcupine. On Tuesday, at eleven a.m., the squadron, with the exception of the Bulldog, weighed with the sea-breeze, and proceeded to the anchorage off Castellamare, where by four P.m. the whole were anchored in line, north and south nearly of each other. Yesterday there was a double-banked 60-gun frigate launched from the Royal Dockyard here.. She appeared to be of about 1,300 tons. Admiral Parker and suite and several other officers were pre sen t. • Th e squadron corning in at this time is quite a fortune to the Neapo litans, the seamen having just been paid advance and the officers having just got their bills cashed, so that some thousands of pounds will be in circulation ashore. It is said there are upwards of 100 bullocks killed daily to supply the squadron. To-day a court martial assembled on board the Queen to try Lieutenants Bedingfiold and Hamilton, of the Hecate steam sloop on charges preferred by the Com mander (Moorman) of that vessel. The court assembled at the usual hour (9 A.m.), and adjourned at 6 P.M. A French war-steamer arrived this morning from Palermo, which the French squadron had left for Cag lionea Bay; prior to the steamer leaving Palermo a false report had got abroad:of 20,000:Neapolitan troops making good their landing at Syracuse, where the Sicilians in the neighbourhood rose en masse, and every ono that had a musket marched to meet the supposed enemy. News arrived this morning that the Austrians had defeated the Italians at Rivoli. The Admiral and squadron remain here until after the court-martial, after which he, with two or three other ships will go to Naples, leaving the other portion of the squadron here. Further movements are at present un known, but it is not expected the fleet will return to Malta before October. The court-martial on the officers of the Hecate ap pears likely to last five or six days. The French Ad miral Baudin is at present at Jachia ' taking the benefit of the baths ; ho had been l a id up for some time with disease of the knee. Everything appears quiet and peaceable here ; there are numbers of English families here and at Serrante. The Sidon steamer frigate is ex pected hourly from Malta with dispatches. There ap pears no likelihood of the Rodney or Superb leaving the squadron for England for some time. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 13.—We have much pleasure in announcing the promotion of Commander William Radcliffe, late of the Apollo troop ship, to the rank of captain. This is a most just set of the First Lord's. No promotion ho has made since in offico has reflected More credit upon him. Commander Radcliffe entered the service in June. 1809. served all the war, was pro moted lieutenant in 1816, for his services in Algiers e was promoted to commander in 1830 ; since which time, until his obtaining . the command of the Apollo, he was unemployed. His meritorious services were given fully about twelve months since, when Commander Clifford was promoted. Commander Francis Scott, 1841, is also promoted to the rank of captain. He shows no services in the New .Navy List. Lieutenants C. J. F. Ewart (1841) and J. A. St. Leger (1841) are promoted to the r list ankofgeivoemsmnaonder The latter was mate of t he Blenhei m in 1841 , at the ser vicestaki of th e ngof Amoy forthe a r. nd Chinghae. The ♦PPOINTMENTS. Commander—J. B. West (1846) to the Southampton. Acting Master—Alfred BalliGton, late of the Kite and Gleaner, to command the Myrtle steam tender. Assistant-Surgeons—E. D'Anvergno to the Hibernia; J. E. Johnson (acting) to Hasler Hospital; Joseph Slop (acting) to the Bramble. Clerks—J. W. English and T. Bradbridgo to the Southampton. Naval Cadets—Gerald B. Vivian and Fuliar G. Craven to tho Southampton. ROYAL MARINES. Andrew'Millar, surgeon, to the Plymouth The followin g acting lieutenant s , ma t es , an d midship men passed the College last week for the rank of Lieu tenant:—lfessrs. G. M. F. Molesworth, A. B. Hodg kinson, P. Johnson, G. A. Pidcock, George Gray, Row ley Lambert, Maxwell Fox, W. L. Staniforth, and H. W. Dawson. Mr. T. Baker, chief engineer of the Victoria and Al. bert Royal yacht, is promoted to the rank of Inspector of Steam Machinery in the Navy. The Cyclops steam frigate, Captain the lion. G. F. Hastings, arrived last evening from Dublin. The Sharpshooter iron steam schooner (screw), Lieu tenant-Commander Bailey, after undergoing a refit, consequent upon the damage she sustained by being run into on the sailing of the Squadron of Exercise, was undocked yesterday, and the Phoenix screw steam sloop taken in to be overhauled. Wind S. W. Nloderate breezes and thick hazy weather, with small rain. MURDER, OF A WOMAN. COLLINGDURN, SATURDAY AYTERNOON.—A great sensation has been creased in this pelt of the collo) , of Wilts, by a tragical occurrenca, not unmingled with mys tery, which has taken place in the neighbourhood of this village. On Wednesday afternoon a woman, about 31 years of age, well known in the country, was found lying on Straw-hill Common, insensible and covered with bruises. Her face was black from the violence to which she had been subjected, and on examination it was found that she had bees stabbed with some sharp weapon in the neck. The unfortunate female, who was a single woman, was found by a gentleman who had been p ass ing the place, and with the assistance of some of the peasantry not far distant, she was conveyed to this village, where she remained till yesterday, when she died, without ever having opened her eyes or spoken a word since she was found on the common. No con jecture was in the first instance formed as to how or by whom the unfortunate woman had come by the mal treatment to which she had been subjected, until it was recollected by a neighbouring farmer that a young man with a fustian coat and trousers had been speak ing to her an hour or two before she was found, but the farmer, knowing nothing of the young man, could give no information which could afford a clue to him. It three or four hours after the woman was found, a young man, seemingly about twenty years of age, called without a coat at the rectory of the Rev. Mr. Haddo, of Everleigh, some few miles distant from Shawhill-common. Ile represented him self as being, in want, and asked relief. The Rev. Gentleman refused to give him anything, observing that he was a young athletic man, and ought to earn a liveli hood by working instead of begging. No sooner had Mr. Haddo made this remark than the ruffian, putting his hands into his pockets, pulled out several stones, and with one of them hit the Rev. Gentleman on the arm. The Rev. Gentleman, with great presence of mind, slammed the door in his face, just as he was in the act of throwing another large stone at him, and which had it struck him might have been attended with serious consequences. Eventually the assailant of Mr. Haddo was taken into custody by some persons who wit nessed the assault, and on being brought before the magistrate, so far from denying the fe rocious attack, he expressed his regret that he had not succeeded in murdering the rev. gentleman, ad ding, that he had already murdered one person that day, of which they would afterwards hear. Ile was committed to prison for the assault on the rev, gentleman, and soon afterwards the idea occurred to the magistrate that he might be the person who bad committed the attack on the dying woman. The coat which was found near the body of the woman was ascertained to belong to the prisoner. It was made of the same material as the trousers. It it right to add, that, without saying whether it was his or not, he at once put it on, and has since worn it. The prisoner give his name as James Smith, and represents himself as a moulder by trade, but his statement is not credited. Ile is a perfect stranger in the neighbourhood, uo one ever having seen him before. Nothing has transpired which would lead to a eo iti i m ije u c r t d u e r r e in a g s t t o he th u e n m fo o r t t i u ve n s at b w e y fem hich he female. Some influenced orucaposed that one of the objects he had in view was to rob her, but this is very improbable, as, in the first instance, her appearance would not have led him to suppose that she had any considerable sum of money about her person ; and, in the second place, had that been the prompting motive, a young man of his athletic propor tions and determined appearance could easily have taken the money of a helpless female, iu so secluded a place, without resorting to an attempt on her life. Five shil lings and some pdd pence were found in his pocket, a cir cumstance which renders his application to the Rev. Mr. Haddo for relief more remarkable He was this day sent securely chained, to Devises, with the intention of his being tried before Mr. Justice Coleridge at the present assizes for assaulting Mr. Haddo, but on consultation with the proper authorities it was deemed better to defer the trial until it shall be seen whether the coroner's jury, who are to sit on Monday on the body of the unfortu nate woman, return a verdict of wilful murder against him, in which case ho will be tried on the capital charge. Ile maintains a sullen silence, and refuses to answer any questions put to him; but in reply to an incidental observation from one of the police-constables, that he would in all probability suffer for his crime, he re marked that he did not care, for that he was quite tired of life. A serious accident occurred on Saturday afternoon, about four o'clock, on the London and North-Western Railway, to Janes Littlemore, one of the stokers em• ployed for some time on the line. It appears that as the train, which leaves Birmingham at 12 A.M., arrived near Watford station, the attention of the engine driver was suddenly called by the cries of the stoker, who, as ho was standing on the side of the engine a tt en di ng to some part of the machinery, accidentally got his foot ent ang l e d inah moulaeine in contact tlmsplash • with -hoard (the trai n b e i ng i n mot i on ) , which the flywheel of the engine. By this means he sustained a severe compound commi nuted fracture of the bones of the leg and foot. As soon as the engine was stopped he was extricated from this perilous situation by the driver, and conveyed to London by the same train, when he was taken to University Col lege Hospital, where the limb was amputated by Mr. Morton, under the influence of chloroform. MURDER AT THU BRITANNIA RAILWAY-BRIDGE. —BANGOR, AUG. 11.—John Pritchard, the watchman, who deposed on the inquest that ho witnessed the murder, has been arrested on the charge of murder, owing to the discovery of several suspicious facts. After a short examination the prisoner was remanded until to-morrow (Saturday), when he will undergo a more lengthened examination. The railway authori ties are adopting every possible means to bring to light the perpetrator of the atrocious set. RELEASI OF LIHUTENANT MONRO.—The period for which Lieutenant Monro, late of the Royal horse Guards (Blue) was sentenced for causing the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett, in the fatal duel with that tehweg authoritiesst e , car ry ga llant officer, will expire t o - morrow (th i s day), when he w with him the highest op i I n i ing who have come in contact with him during his imprisonm en t. It i s b e li eve d h e will at once proceed to join his family at Baden.— opinions quit o f Observer. Commissiobt or Lurriar.— On Saturday a com mission de lunatico znguirendo was opened at the Guild hall, High Wycombe, Bucks, before Mr. Commissioner Wieslow•and sixteen special j J urors, relative to the state of mind of John Brand, Esq., a resident of that town. The commission was taken out by a sister of Mr. Brand. In its support appeared Mr. A. W. Hoggins as counsel, and Mr. J. S. Hubbard, of Queen-street-place, as so licitor; and from the evidence adduced, it appeared that the unfortunate gentleman bad, for several years, been affected in his mind, but ever since the period of Mr. B. Disraeli's u nsuccessful contest for the representation of High Wycombe, had become embued with peculiar de lusions relatiive to that gentleman, from whom he imagined all go6aiiid evil was to come, and also that he lived in that gentleman's house, and was supported by him. He also believed that his attendant was Mr. Disraeli; in fact, the name of Mr. Disraeli was con stantly i n hi s mouth, while from the time of the election alluded to, ho had occasionally indulged in a propensity for smashing his own windows, as well as those of several tradesmen in the town. Tho unfortunate gen tleman, at the conclusion of the evidence, was introduced and examined. He appeared remarkably cheerful, fre • quentiy indulging in immoderate laughter, but Lis're plies tally bore out the evidence, and a verdict was ac cordingly returned, dating the unsoundness of mind from October 1, 1842. ADMIRALTY HOLYMEAD STEM[ -PACKETS.—The Admiralty issued orders on the 11th instant that the new packets Banshee, Llewellyn, St. Columba, and Ca radoc shall in future leave Kingston, Dublin, for Holy. head, at eleven o'clock each morning. TIIR ROTAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.—The follow ing has been definitively settled as the augmentation which the corps of Roy al Sappers and Miners is to re. ceive. Four companies will be added to the existing strength of the corps, making 23 companies in all. The strength of each company is 100 rank and file, and is thus made up:—One colour-sergeant, four sergeants, five corporals, five second corporals, two buglers, and 83 privates. The whole strength of the corps will, there fore, be 2,500 rank and file, with only one commissioned officer—a quartermaster—the regiment being officered by the corps of Royal Engineers, which consists exclu sively of officers. There is no present intention of augmenting the Royal Engineers. The nineteen com panies of the Royal Sappers and Miners now formed are distributed as follows: Four at Woolwich, two at Chatham, one at Liverpool, ono at Wakefield, t wo at Dublin, one at Southampton, one at Halifax, tth e N orth America, one at Bermuda, one at C orfu, one a t at the Cape of Mauritius, two at Gibraltar, and two d on forti- Good Hope. Detachments are also e mp o l u oy h e Australia, fications and surveys at Sheerness, S Falkland Islands, Hong-Kong, Hudson t B a ay, and Canada. The last accounts fvom th e island of St. Thomas mention, that the newly e mancipated negro population have continued to behave in the most peaceable man nor. During the out b re ak at the sister island of St. Croix serious apprehensions of some violent ebuli tion were entertained in St. Thoma s, b ut all dan g er w as now considered at an end. Great satislaction was felt by the British residents at the condu ct of Captain Edward Barnett, of her Majesty's sn i p p Thu n d er, who delayed his departuie from th long for the purpose o f e island there existed the affording them protection so as slightest cause of apprehension. MONIES IN THE ExclisQUEE.—lt is shown by a Parliamentary p a per yesterday printed, that there was no money in the Exchequer on the 22d ult., but that to complete the aids granted by Parliament for the ser vice of the years 184 G and 1847, the SIMI of 1,010,980/. 6s. fKI, was to be raised. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 12. (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.) IN RE J. E. JONES. The bankrupt, s an engineer, sculptor, and patent lamp manufacturer, of Upper Charlotte-street, came up to pass ;his adjourned lust examination, the case having been previously adjourned sine die, on the ground that the accounts were not satisfactory, and their truth not sufficiently vouched. He came up at his own expense. It appeared by the official assignee's report, that the balance-sheet commenced in 1838, when the bankrupt was insolvent, and he now owed 5,952/., to meet which the assets were :—Cash at the bankers, 71.; a debt due by the executers of Dwarkanauth Tagore, Calcutta, said to be good,' 200/.; a debt due by the King of Holland, 1501.; a debt due by Sir J. S. Lithe, for the Bode light, considered doubtful, 8711.; and other doubtful debts. The property in the hands of creditors, con sists of plate and the King of the French's medal. The profits were 4,9521., including a small profit on the purchase and sale of railway shares, be sides which, he had been presented with a gold medal by the King of the French, and plate by friends in Dublin. The expenses were 5,944/., exclusive of losses, to the extent of 3,012/., including the loss on the publication of the O'Connell medal anti the O'Connell bust. Amongst the creditors wero the Britannia Insurance Company and the National Loan Society. The bankrupt disputed his liability of 2051. on account of the Belfast and County Down Railway Company, and included, amongst his debtors, Brown's Patent Pavement Company, and the Highgate Inclined Plane Company. He had also mo delled the busts of several distinguished personages. Mr. Lawrence appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Depree for certain creditors, who prayed that the case be further adjourned, on the ground that the accounts were still unsatisfuctory and unvouched. His HONOUR thought no good could result from au adjournment, and allowed the bankrupt to pass. IN RZ W. CLUNES. The bankrupt, a pawnbroker, of Brydges-street, Co vent-garden, came up to pass his last examination. His debts amount to 19,0001., and the assets are stated to be to the extent of 10,0001. His profits were 14,7441., the expenses being—trade expenses, 6,5734 ; personal, 5,455/. ; and interest and discount, 7,3751. The balance sheet showed a total of 34,0001. No opposition was offered, and the bankrupt was de. dared to hare passed his last examination. IN RV. JAMES lIUDSON. The bankrupt was a boarding-house-keeper, at Lark• hall-lane, Clupham, and came up to pass his last exa , urination. His HoNoun said that the bankrupt commenced with a deficiency, and having incurred debts to the extent of LOON. in eighteen months, came to this court with no thing for his creditors. No books had been kept, nor a trade assignee chosen, and therefore the case must be adjourned sine die, with leave to apply again. Protection was granted. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. C. E. Collo, of High-street, Poplar, draper, was granted without opposition; as also those of C. L Ed wards, Great Sutton•street, Clerkenwell, currier,'• and Henry Shaw, Southampton-row, Russell-square, and Chelsea, china and glass dealer. The other cases laid before his Honour were of no public importance, and the Court rose shortly before four o'clock. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRCUlT.—Guildford, Aug. 11. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Common Jury.) ALLCOCX V. BUTT. Mr. Chambers and Mr. Pearson were for the and Mr. Sergeant C. Jones for the defendant. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, as one of the sureties to a loan society, call the West Marylebone Loan Society, to recover from the defendant, as his co surety, a sum of 231. 175., being the balance of a sum which he alleged he had been improperly called upon to pay, and was entitled to be reimbursed by the defendant. The circumstances of the case appeared to be of rather a peculiar character. It seemed that William Butt, the brother of the defendant, was desirous of borrowing a sum of 501. from the loan society in question, and the plaintiff consented to sign a promissory note for the amount, in conjunction with the present defendant, Edward Butt, the understanding being, according to the case for the plaintiff, that he was to be held perfectly harmless in the transaction, and that the defendant and his brother were to be the really responsible parties for the repayment of the money. The ken was paid off pretty regularly, but at length it appeared that there was an arrear of 101. due upon it, with 21 for fines and about this time William Buttdestroyed himself. Very soon after wards it appeared that the note was handed to a person named Israel, but under what circumstances did not precisely appear, except that it was suggested it was the intention of the parties to place it in the hands of an attorney, who was a friend, in order that he might sue in a superior Court, and obtain the extra costs, and very shortly afterwards au application was made to Mr. All. cock by an attorney named Humphries, in Feather stone-buildings, who represented th a t th e promissory note was in the possession of a person named Elizabeth Shaw, who had given consideration for it, and who had instructed him to sue for the whole amount. Mr. All cock consulted his attorney, Mr. Wellborn, upon this application, and he made inquiries; but finding that it would be very difficult to obtain evidence of fraud, he advised the plaintiff to come to terms with the parties, and he agreed to pay twenty•one pounds for the debt, and 71. 17s. 6d. for the costs, it appearing perfectly clear that at this time no more than 101. was actually due upon the note. It was alleged on behalf of the plaintiff that the whole of the 28!. 17s. 6d. was paid by him according to the arrangement, and upon application being made to the defendant to repay the money, it was stated that he at once, in the presence of Mr. Wellborn, ad mitted that the plaintiff had only put his name to the note at his request, to accommodate his brother, and that he ought not to be a loser, and he promised to pay the money on the sth of June. and it was stated that he did pay 5/. on account, thus reducing the claim to the amount now soeght to be recovered. The case on the part of the defendant was that Allcock being himself in needy circumstances, bad several times :been concerned with William Butt in loan transactions, and that this was one of a similar character, and that he was perfectly well aware that only 101. were due upon the note, and that, consequently, it was not likely he should have paid 281. 17s. It was also .positively sworn that when the plaintiff's attorney was making application to the de fendant, that Allcock admitted only 10/. were due, and it was arranged that the.defendant should pay Si., and that Adcock should also pay 51., and so settle the matter, and it was alleged that the 51. paid by the defendant was in pursuance of that agreement, and that he also told All cock that if he allowed any legal proceedings to take place, he must pay the costs himself: The CHM BAROU, in the course of the case, ex pressed an opinion that the plaintiff could not recover in this action the amount that ho had paid over the sum actually duo upon the note; but that was a question between him and the loan society, and the defendant would only be liable upon the sum actually duo upon the promissory note. Mr. Cularneas, in replying upon the whole case, urged that all the circumstances of the case showed the version of the transaction given on the part of the plaintiff was a correct one, and that he was entitled to a verdict. The CHIEF BARON, in summing up, said it was quite clear that there was deliberate falsehood either upon one side or the other, and he was very glad it was for the jury to decide the question upon which side the truth lay. It was suite clear that there had been some very gross fraud practised with regard to the note in ques ' tion, and that the secretary to the Loan Society had ' enabled that fraud to ho committed by passing the note. ' Tho Learned Judge then went through the evidence, and said, after explaining why, in law, in his opinion, the ' larger amount could not be recovered, that if they be lieved the defendant's witnesses they must return first a verdict for the plaintiff for 11., because that amount, ac cording to their own showing, would still be due; but if they thought the plaintiff had made out his case they would then find a verdict for 6/. The jury immediately returned a verdict for the plain tiff, damages 61. Mr. CHAMBERS then applied to his Lordship for a cer tificate that the cause was a proper one to be tried in a superior Court. The CHIEF BARON said he did not think ho ought to grant a certificate. The costs of actions in the supe rior Courts were so enormous, and the County Courts were so beneficial, that he was always inclined to let the law take its course where less than 20/. was in. volved, unless some question of right was involved in the inquiry. The costs of this action would probably bo 1001, or 120/., and it might just as well have been tried in the County Court, where the costs would not have been more than 101. or 15/. ' - Mr. CHAMBERS reminded the Court that there was a question of law involved in the inquiry. The CHIEF BARON said at present he was not inclined to grant the certificate, but ho would consider the matter during the assizes. CROWN COURT.—AUGUST 12. (Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) lVillivm Harris, aged 27 years, was indicted for the wilful murder of his mother, Jane Harris, by beating her and casting her upon the ground. Mr. P. Taylor prosecuted; Mr. Robinson was for the defence. This case occupied the Court the greater part of the day, but the principal facts of the charge lay in a very small compass. It appeared that the deceased was a dissolute old woman, who got her living by begging, and her son, the prisoner, also led an idle vagabond life, and that they frequently quarrelled and exchanged blows with each other. On the night of the 25th March they wore at Guildford, and it seemed that they made their way to a lime-kiln in the neighbourhood, where they in tended to pass the night. The next morning the de ceased was found in a shed close to the lime-kiln, very much beaten and braised, and covered with blood, and it appeared that the injuries she received were of such a nature as to cause her death very shortly afterwards. llollington, the inspector of police at Guildford, imme diately instituted the necessary inquiries, and ho ascer tained that the prisoner and three other men, named Bignall, Wood, and Stevens, had passed the night in question in the lime-kiln along with the deceased, and he caused them all to be taken into custody. At first they denied having seen any violence made use of towards the deceased, but ultimately they ex pressed a desire to tell the truth, and they then stated that the prisoner had knocked his mother down by a violent blow with his fist, and that he then dragged her several times round the kiln, and afterwards lifted her up two or three times, and threw her with great force upon the ground, and that she was insensible from that time until daybreak, when they carried her out and placed her in the shed, where she was found in the state above de scribed. When the prisoner was first apprehended, and told the charge that was made against him, he denied having struck his mother, and declared that she had re ceived the injury by falling down a chalk pit, but while !, he was in custody, he was heard to call Out to the other men, who were in a separate cell, and ask them not to say anything about ►hat they saw in the lime-kiln, and promised them half-a-crown if they did what he desired. The prisoner subsequently expressed great contrition for what he had done, and said that now his mother was dead, he would destroy himself the first opportunity that presented itself. _ Mr. ROZINSON addressed the jury at considerable length for the prisoner, and urged that the act had been committed in a moment of excitement, and that the of fence did not amount, at all events, to the crime of murder. The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the jury, after a very short deliberation, found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter.—Sentence was deferred. WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Devizes, August 12. The commission for the assizes in this place was opened this day by Mr. Justice Coleridge, who addressed the jury at some length. The calendar is more than usually heavy. Among the cases to be tried is that of the policeman of the Great Western Rail Way Company, who was on duty at the time of the late accident at Shrivenham. The policeman is indicted on the charge of manslaughter, it being al leged that to his negligence was to be ascribed the acci dent which terminated in the death of a number of indi viduals. Two of the other servants of the company were, it will be remembered, tried on a similar charge at Abingdon, but acquitted. They are also to be tried again. The trials have been fixed to take place in this term, as one of the sufferers from the accident died in Wilts, while the others died in Berkshire. Another case is that of a medical practitioner in a village in Wilts, who is charged with manslaughter in consequence of having, is is alleged, administered medicines impro perly to a woman, and which medicines, it is said, caused her death. There is a third charge of manslaughter against three young men, of the respective ages of 18, 19, and 20, in connexion with the death of a man some what advanced in years. Another case which excites interest in the district, is that of a wan charged with stealing 128 sheep. None of the important cases have come on to-day, the Court preferring to take the least important cases set down for trial first. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloueester, Aug. 12. Henry Desbury, s foreigner, and described as a pro. fessor of languages, was indicted for 'violently and felo• niously assaulting his wife, Maria Margaret Desbury, at Cheltenham. In another count he was charged with intent to murder and do grievous bodily harm. Mr. Pigott and Mr. Skinner prosecuted. The prisoner undertook Ms own defence The case crested more than ordinary interest, probably owing to the many interesting facts connected with prisoner's life. He said that he was originally a lieutenant in the Dutch Royal Navy, but being in Paris on leave in 1830, he took a part in the attack on the Tuilleries, had his left arm shot off, and received various other injuries. He left the Dutch service in conse quence, and soon after•had equal rank conferred upon him by Louis Philippe, besides the cross of the Legion of Honour. The facts adduced in support of the prosecu tion were briefly these:— In the month of last Jtine he left London for Cheltenham, and in the latter place established him self as a teacher of languages. His wife, to whom he was married in -January, was left in the metro polis, and she believing that he was cohabiting with another woman, proceeded to Cheltenham. She went to a house in St.- Phillip's-terrace, and demanded to see her husband (Desbury) of the woman who opened the door. The•wotaan refused, but at length gave way, and the wife rushed up stairs. When she had got within three steps of the top, the prisoner ran out of a bed room and struck her_ on the head with great violence with an earibenware vessel. She fell to the ground in sensible, blond flowing from the wounds. A medical gentleman described the fearful character of her injuries, and it was only after the lapse of several weeks, that she was deemed out of danger. On his way to the station house, the prisoner said she was not his wife, but on the marriage certificate` - being exhibited, he admitted such was the fact. The prisoner on being asked fur his de . - fence, proceeded to address the Court in rather , an ener getic style. He said, in broken English, " I have been told that it is my privilege, as a foreigner, to b• tried by a jury composed of half Anglois and half foreigners. But, gentlemen, were the choice offered to me, I would contemn—l would despise it, and would choose a jury composed entirely of true Britons." He then alluded to the jealousy of his wife. He had no evil intention. He loved her dearly, and would rather 'die, than endanger her life. -- The jury found him guilty of an assault, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Mr. Baron PLATT then sentenced him to twelve months' imprisonment. • POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION -HOUSE. Thomas Smith was charged with having represented himself to be the -keeper of a lunatic asylum, under rather curious circumstances. A Mr. Booth stated, that as he was walking along the street he saw a person, who bad a situation in the Custom-house, at the door of a public-house, and stopped to ask him how be did. They had scarcely inter changed civilities, when the defendant started forward, and seizing the Custom-house officer, said to the wit ness, "I' am his keeper," Knowing that the Custom house officer was not mad, and believing him not to be a thief, Mr. Booth -asked why he was in custody ? " Because," replied the defendant, "he is a lunatic ; and I, as the keeper of a lunatic asylum, have him under my protection, and I shall and will take care of him." It happened that Mr. Booth knew very well that the defendant, who looked more like a coalheaver than one of the class to which he pretended to belong, was not a mad-house keeper, and also that the day on which., he came in collision with that individual was pay-day at the Custom-house, when certain moneys, which ought to be applied to the support of a family, were likely to be in danger. Under these cir cumstances, and suspecting that the defendant was en deavouring to make a victim, it was considered necessary to ask for proof of -his alleged occupation, and no satis factory answer having been given, the interference of the police was required, and the matter submitted to the Lord Mayor. _ _ The defendant—My reply is, my Lord, that I am the keeper of this gentleman. The LORD MAYOR—Upon what authority? The defendant—Upon his own. He engaged me re gularly to take care of him, and I think it was necessary, to protect him from some people I could name. The complainant—He said he was the keeper of a lu natic asylum, and in that - character he had the care of my acquaintance. I wish him to produce his proof that he is in that capacity. The defendant—My patient is present, and he can tell you fast enough that he engaged me to look after him. Here the patient walked up to the witness-box, and said, with a melancholy countenance, "It is true, I did engage him, and I shall pay him for the job." Defendant—l am an engineer, and I was going off to my work when he stopped me, and told me he'd pay me to look well after him. I am often employed by men to watch them, and prevent them from doing what they like; and I can tell your Lordship that a man as em• ploys himself that way has his work to do.—(Laughter.) The patient—You're right, Bill; and I say, old fellow, do you take proper care of me, and you shan't want for nothing. The LORD MAYOR—I shall take care of you until you are able to take care of yourself; and I'll take care of your keeper, too, until I hear a little more about his qualifications. The patient and his keeper were then deposited in dif ferent cells in the asylum under the care of the gaoler for two or three hours, when a favourable account hav ing arrived of the character of each, they were dis charged. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. John Heley, butler in the service of Count d'Avigdor, diplomatic agent to the King of Sardinia, No. 11, Here ford-street, was charged with using insulting language to his master. H e was also charged on suspicion of being concerned i n a recent robbery of plate and jewellery, valued at between 2,0001. and 3,0001., the pro perty of the Count. From the ev id ence, wh i ch was principally conducted in French, it appeared that on the lath July the Count d'Avigdor deposited in an iron box a quantity of plate and jewellery, worth upwards of 2,000/. At half-past four the same afternoon the Count had oocasion to go to the box in question, when he discovered that it had been broken open and the plate and jewellery stolen. The prisoner was immediately suspected, and a watch was placed on his movements. Smith, a detective con stable, was employed to investigate the case, but he had been able to find nothing suspicious against the pri soner until Friday last. Charles Grellier, linguist, No. 21, Broad-street, Golden-square, was employed by the Count to trace out the thief. From information he received, he went to a tavern in Oxford-street, and found the prisoner standing at the bar with several convicted thieves. Witness watched them, and heard prisoner 'call for a pot of ale. Witness also heard the prisoner say to his com panions, " It's all right, I'v e j us t g i ven th e police the slip, and I'll now have a drink out of theproduce of the robbery." A woman came up to the pr iso ner and said something to him. He told her to " cut, " and as soon as he got clear he would follow. The woman left the house, and the prisoner went after her shortly after wards. Witness followed, but the prisoner finding he watched, ran down a court and witness lost sight of him. Witness afterwards found the prisoner at his master's house in custody. The Count d'Avigdor told him that, on the previous night, about seven o'clock, he required the attendance of the prisoner ! but the prisoner could nowhere be found. On going into his bedroom the pri soner was found lying on the bed in a compl e t e state of intoxication. Witness wok e him up, when the pri soner ap plied several insulting epithets to . him, and mad e use of equivocal expressions, that he immediately suspected the prisoner had been conc e rned in robbing him of the plate and jewellery, and lie immediately gave the prisoner into custody. The prisoner strongly denied the charge of robbery. Since the robbery had happened he had led a very mi serable life from the knowledge that he was watched by L the police. Mr. IlAnnwica said the evidence in support of the charge of robbery was not suf fi ciently strun g t o warrant him in detaining the prisoner in custody. no should, therefore, order him to be discharged. He should in dict a fine of ss. The money was paid. POOR-LAW DISTRICT SClloOL.—Yesterday was issued, as amended by the Committee, the Bill to amend the law for the formation of districts for the education of infant poor. 13y the Bill, as it now stands, the limi tation in the area of the school district, and of the ex pense of the building in certain cases, as well as to the amount of the expense, to one•fifth of the average ex penditure, are removed. . NATIONAL -LAND COMPANY. . Last night (Sunday) at seven o'clock, a special Meg ing of the shareholders of this company was held at the South London Chartist Hall, Webber-street, -Blaelc friars -road, for the purpose of taking into consideratiop the proposition or 111;. Feargus O'Connor, re:- ference to the recommendation of the: Select. Committee of the House of Commo ns , appointed to'invesligare the affairs and the legality. of 'the National Land Ceinfany. The chair was takein by Mr. Roberts,'who having,ita.43l minutely the objects of the meeting, it was atatid that the National Land Company had been in existenels three years and three months, and it was show4 t by calculations, th a t th e amount to " b e pa i d. upon,. tlys number of shares taken was 273,000/, while not mote , than 90,0001. had been paid. The committee had dist approved of their plan upon the ground of illegality. Mr. Feargus: O'Connor's. proposition .Was, to .. _bring the land plan within the protection et the law, and to secure a safer and more speedy working ; firstly, by substituting location .by bonus instead of by .ballo4 and that the occupant so located is to purchase the land and house, hut that he is to pay, according to his will, a certain amount for being located withont ballot. Secondly; the raising of the price of Shares from Li. 12s. 4d., to 5/.; and from 31. 18s. to 71. Ios.; and from 51 4s. to 10/. Thirdly, the requiring of payment of the aid money in half-yearly instalments for threi years' occupation.. Fourthly, substituting an aid land for the expense, one at the rate of 2d. per week, for two acre allotments, and so, in proportion, he. Some discussion arose upon the propositions, in which Messrs. Snell, Jonas, and Brown took part, but no spe• cific decision was come to. It was contended .by Air. Snell, that by saving the working one might in time have the same chance of raining the necessary mini for the bonus, as those who were already prepared with the capital—(Hear, hear)—although, it was the prevailing opinion that the poor labourer would be precluded these advantages. . The accounts of the company during the last three months were audited and stated to be correct. , The CHAIRMAN then read a l e tt er , d ate d t h e 31st altsp from an allottee at Snigs-end, Gloucestershire, 'speaking satisfactorily of hii speculation. A discussion then arose as to the propriety of con. tinning or dissolving the company, and at length it Was agreed 'to adjourn the meeting for further consideratiOn of the subject. Adjourne&aceordingly. BRAZILIAN FRIGATE ALFONZO. This fine war-ship, whisk some months ago was launched from the building-yard of Mr. Thomas Royal's, was (as stated at the time) constructed. for the - Emperor of the Brazils, and is intended for his Majesty's awn use, to navigate the coasts, creeks, and rivers .of that country, as well as for the purpose of defence is simeof need. She is built of the choicest timber, and is cer tainly one of the strongest vessels ever turned out of this or any other port. She is about 900 tons burden, and though calculated to carry heavy metal and munition of war upon a light draught of water, and is therefore full below, she has a fine appearance as she now lies in the Coburg-dock. She was 'constructed under the superin tendence of Admiral Grenfell, of the Brazilian service, who will, we presume, take the command. The vessel has Rush decks of great strength, and on the upper or gun-deek carries two long 64 pounders, on carriages working on eirCles---one forward and the other aft; also, four 62-pounders in the waist, working through side ports. These are . ponderous yet elegant pieces of artillery. • There are _also a number of small arms of various kindii. There is a large armoury and gun-room between dicks;• and the- ship is fitted up in every way as an' efficie,nt vessel of war, On Saturday, r ihrotigh the kindness of Mr, Bawden, who had superidtendo the etectioh of the. engines, we were favoured witfi'a View' of theie fine - pieces of me chanism. 'T.hejiivere built by-Messrs: Benjamin Hicks and Son, of Bolton; and are, together ; of 350-horse power, but will work-More with, perfect safety. They are on a new principhi;_and with direct action. All the beams and all the frame-work are of wrought iron, and the appearance of the whole (including the brass, kc.) is like a hu ge an d b eautiful specimen of the "'finest polished clock-work. Cast iron would be double the weight, and not so - secure. The same builders con structed the engines of the Fury ; but they have here introduced many improvements. A variety of brass• work is introduced, includfng motion -wheels to speed or to reverse the engine with great ease and alacrity. The diameter-of eaeh cylinder is sixty-eight inches, and the stroke of piston five feet. The immense cranks are also of wrought 'iron, and weigh each lg 'cwt. They were bored, turned, and planed. A great deal of the usual cast-iron work is substituted by copper and brass, and the whole is exceedingly - compact, highly finished, and beautifully bright. The condensing appa ratus is. novel in principle. The air-pumps and the mode of admitting the injection water are also quite new. The same may be said of-the gearing., especially the eccen trics, which are curious and beautiful. Compared with another vessel- of 350-horse power, an the usual principle (where cast iron is employed), the saving will be at least one-third in weight; and' the security will be one-half more. This, with general compactness, will more than compensate for the additional cost, which is considerable. The boilers are on the flue principle, with fires at both ends. , In , the lower after engine -room there is ts "donkey," of one-horse power, for pimping, Arc. ' There is-also. in another part a tank for the distilled water from the tubes or steam pipes. - On the whole these are the finest and moat compact engines of the Fie.) we have yet seem—Liverpool Standard. - --- - RAILWAY. SCARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL. 2. STOCK EXCHA.VGB.--There has been la dull share market this morning, and the business done has been small, at gene rally lower rates. The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 271. 10s. Shares, 14%--. Lancashire and Yorkshire (late M. and B.), 14 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 1/. 68. 3d. dis.—Ditto, 101. Preference, 13s. 9d. London and North-Western, 119—Ditto, New Quarters. 18s. 9d. p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, lit& Preference, 10 c.— Midland Stock, 99—Ditto, New IWO. , 61. 163. 3d. dis.—!SouthtEastern and Dover, No. 4, Havel, dis.—Tork, Newcastle, and Berwick (Extension), No. It MANCHESTER, Arst. 12. STOCK EXCILANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashiri, New, 7 1 ,4 dis.—Ditto, Preference, 5-16 P.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Preference, % IL—Manchester and Birminghaut NA and B Quarters), 1% p.—Ditto, Quartars (C), 2 orth Staffordshire, 3 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 3 1 ,4 1 dis.—Whitehaven and Furness, 10 1.16 dis. NEWCASTLE- UPON-T YNE, Aug. 12. STOCK Excifaxox.—The sales are—Newcastle and Car' lisle, 1071—North Liritish, Thirds, 455. dii. Sir Henry Sston having been compelled by severe illness to quit India, has resigned his appointment as Puisno Judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta; and James William Colville, Esq., at present holding the office of the East India Company's Advocate-General at that Presidency, has been recommended to her Majestl for the seat on the beach vacated by Sir Henry swop- The appointment of Arthur Buller, Esq., then Advocats - General at Ceylon, to a seat on the bench at Calcutta, was in the place of Sir John Peter Grant, who had thee resigned, and who has since died on his route to Eng' land.—Observer. FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.—Some forge! Bank of England notes have been put in circulation Its this county at the fairs which have been held during the past month. One passed upon the landlord of the BO and Ball Inn, Chiddingly, was numbered " M. L. 05205 4 Manchester, F e bru ar y, 184 6. Si gned, H. Hogbon. The water mark, although very good, is produced bf pressure, but the paper is defective in the feather edge. —Sussex Express. [AnyEstrisEstEzsT.]—A NEVER-FAILING RIMIDt FOR DROPSY ARE HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Mr. Wellington Leake, chemist, St. Vincent's, who has sold an immense quantity of Holloway's Pills, certifies from his oval knowledge of a most extraordinary cure of Dropsy that has been effected on a person residing in that island by their use. The patient was so dreadfully afflicted that though he obtained the best medical advice of the place, yet he deriv e d no b enef i t —nothing seemed to reach the seat of his complaint—until he took these celebrated Pills, which so effectually eradicated it from his system, that he is now as well as ever he was in hie life. Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's' establishment, 244, Strand, London. On the 11th inst., in Curzon-street, May-fair, the Lad/ Beaumont, of a son and hair. On the 11th inst., at Essex-house, Putney, near Londoth the lady of John Rose Cormack, Esq., 11. D., of a son. On the 10th inst., at O c kh am - par k , Surrey, the lady ul _l Captain Robert Russell, R.N., of a son. On the 9th inst., at Ch ase - s id e -h ouse, E nf i eld, the wif e Ellis Everett, Esq., of a daughter, stillborn. On the 10th inst., at Finsbury-square, Mrs. J. Parson, d I son. On the 10th inst., in Mornington-road, R egen t' s-par k, tho wife of Paul King, Esq., of a daughter. On' the 10th inst., the wife of W. G. Carpenter, F.R.C.S.P of \Vest-street, Finsbury-circus, of a daughter. At Elm-bank, near Blanchester, on the 10th inst., Mrs. 04 Wildes, of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Mt Thomas, of a son. On the 11th inst., at Highgate-hill, the wife of John L. Tatham, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, of a daughter. MAILICLZ. On the ith in s t. a t Edinburgh, D A. Macdonald Galbraitlit Esq.. son of David Stewart Galbraith, Esq., of Machrihanfih and Drumore, Argyleshire, to Anna Maria, eldest daughte r of the Rev. A. Scott, of Pulteney-street, Bath. On the 10th inst., at Croydon, William A. Purnell, Esq. , Physiciaa•General, Bombay army, to Emily, d aug h ter of the late Li eu t e nant-Colonel Kelly, P.S.A., Ist Regiment of Lff• Guards. At Great Beddow, on the 10th inst., Mr. John Barnard, fiereford-terrace, King's-road, Chelsea, to Margaret Louisa' daughter of the late Mr. W. Grove, of the former place. On the 10th inst., at Kenn Church, near Exeter, Satan.' W. Gardiner, Esq., of Coonsbe-lodge, Whitchurch, Oxon , I° Isabella Mallet, second daughter of Sir Laurence Vaught Palk, Bert., of Haldon-house, near Exeter. DIED. On the 11th inst., at Pimlico, aged 84, William Cole, EA.' many years Page of the Pr esence an d S tate Musician to 111/ Majesty George IV. On the 12th in s t.; at hi s h ouse, i n S t. John ' iswood, a ged 80, Sir Robert Chester. At Kingston; Jamaica, on the 20th of June, W. Arnold' Esq., M.D., F.A.S., &c., aged 58. On the 7th inst., at Kendal, Margaret, relict of the lat• Mr. J. Somervell, aged 66. On the 7th inst., at Loughry, county of Tyrone, Ireland, J. Lindesay, Esq., J.P. and D.L. of the said county. „ On the 10thinst., at B e df or d, t h e i n f ant of the Revs rd. Godfrey, curate of Biddenhani, Bedfordshire. On the 10th inst., Miss Anne Bacot, of Horsham, Sussat On the 10th inst., Eliz a b et h M. Ri c h ardson, age d youngest daughter of Mr. G. Ri c h ar d son, Wyndham-stre°t ' frlarylebone. On the 10th inst., at Newhaven, Sussei, on board bi ° yacht Heroine, General Lewis Bayly Wallis,,aged ------ London: Printed and P u bli s h e d b y MURDO YO UNG, at , No. 112, Strand, Print er , a t Th e S un Of f i ce, No. 11 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is the coeilti ° Ltiddloaei, Monday, Any* 14, 1848. 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