The Sun. — London, England, 1848-07-14 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT SENTENCES. The following is a correct list of the sentences passed 41-tring the last session: — .Death, and left for execution —George John Howson, for the murder in Coldbath,fields House of Correction. Sentence oi death recorded —Wm. Swain, Mary Tobin. TRANSPORTATION. Twenty Yoars —John Clarke, James Henry Bradbury. Fifteen Years—James Love. Ten Tears—Charles Buck, Richard Welch, William Ohells, Richard Brown, Charles Chapman. 0 — Seven Years—Charles. Hicks, Joseph Gobbett, Fre &rickHoward, Robert Roberts, Edwin Smith, George Wright, William Gay, alias Henry Phillips, Henry Benham, Henry Caswell, George White, William Nor ton, Castries Soloman, Thomas Scott, Bridget M y ahone Johny, • il l: a m Jackson, alia s Smith, alias Cook, Henry ▪ a lias William Jones, Thomas Leather, Joseph White,Benjamin Rawlings, Bevan Labon, John Dean, George Lee, Henry Nicholls, James Stuart, Thomas John Turner, Thomas William Parrington, Charles Willi am Roberts, William Fisher, Th omas Johnson, Peacock. IMPRISONMENT. Two Years—Charles Swan, William Girdleston, John gelly, Joseph Francis Fussell, and three months, to enter into his own recognizances in 1001, and find two suetieseach to keep the peace tor five years J roseph Williams, and one week, ow n recognizances in 1001., and two sureties in 501. to keep the peace for three years ; Charles Ernest Jones, and one week, bail him self in 3001., and two sureties in 150/. to keep the peace for five years ; Alexander Sharp, and two months, with bwil himself in 100/., and two in 501., and keep the peace for three years ; William John Vernon, and bail himself in 100/, and two in 50/., to keep the peace for three years ; Francis Looney, and two months, with bail him self in 100/, and two in 501., to keep the peace for three years. Eighteen Months —Daniel Keefe. Twelve Months —John Smart, Richard Aldrige, Luke Keefe, Joseph Saville, John Smith, Joseph Collis, john Mortimer, John B rown alias Benjamin Locker, Jaoes Heath, John West, John Harris, Jonathan Case, Chat•les Bear& William Davis, George Burgess, James Cannon. • Nine Months—John Atkins, John Smith, Caroline Smith, Thomas William Jones, Robert Smedly, John Daley. Six Months—Thomas Franklin, Mary Niles 'N Philip Clog, Sarah J ohnson, Mary Ann Brown, —anah, J a m es Richard Taylor, William Hartley, Daniel Daley, Frederick Allen, William Lovel, William Reeve, Sarah Withal -as, Thomas Cannon, Thomas Jenkins, John San derson, John Mack. Four Itonths—Sophia Harley Webb, R i c hard , Willi a m Robe, George Holt, Cathe rine Ganey, Elizabeth ',Tanner, Elizabeth Rabinson. Th re e Months — Ri chard Edwards, James Branton, J n oeph Wilkinson, William M'Kew, William Dixon, and to be whipped, John Atkinson, Oliver Chapman, Will; am Aldis, Robert Downing, Richard Frith, Samuel ralmor. Daniel Two Months —John Oliver, John Falkner, Bush, Diehard Reeder. One Month —Thomas Wooding, Wm, Tait. 'To be Imprisoned in Newgate for Terms varying from Thriee Days to One Month—Sarah Rice, Emma Hart, ilenry Nixon, Thomas Skinner, William Moss, and to be whipped, Elizabeth Caps, George Whitehead, Robert Slaughter, Edward Scarborough, Eliza Cawood, George James, and to be whipped. Remanded until next Session —Georg e Day (bailed), Samuel Watchman. Judgment Respited—Alfred Bishop, Ann FueL Acquittals—Abraham Simmonds, John Saunders, Charles Perkins, John James (ordered to be detained), Ellen Baynes, Jane Pearson, Joseph Brian, James Brian, William Mann, Daniel Oliver, Sarah Poole. Eliza West, William Matthew Aston, James Hinton, John Welch, Senn, Johnson, Charles Dag, Mary Ann Wood, Henry Clarke, Peter Williams, Edward Worby, John Walker, Ellen Merritt, Patrick Collins, John Jones, Thomas Stevenson, Ann Grey. Bills not Fond—PrisonersDischarged by Proclama tion—Thomasu Reynolds, Charles Fry, Maria Todd, Francis Godfrey. The Court sits again on the 25th of August. - - POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. George Jones, a person dressed like a porter, was brought up , charged with having presented a forged order for quicksilver at the warehouse of Messrs. Drew. Hayward, and Barrow,: of Bush-lane, wholesale drug gists. The prisoner called at the warehouse on the 7th inst., and presented the order to one of the servants of the establishment. It purported to be the order of Messrs. Browning, of St. John-street, with whom the house had done business. The forgery was suspected, and the pri soner was desired to call again at three o'clock, when the quicksilver should be ready. Tho prisoner then went off to Messrs. Browning and mentioned that be bad been einplayed by one of their men to apply for the quicksilver, and had been promised by him sixpence for calling; but a Messrs. Drew and Co. had refused to let him have the article, he would be obliged by the trifle of money for which he had performed the message. One of the firm gave the prisoner into (las tody instead of giving him the money. The prisoner was remanded till this day. BOW-STREET. A woman named Mary Filer was placed at the bar be fore Mobbery,r. Hall charged with being concerned in a Post- office r of 391.75. ld., uuder t he following circum stances:— On the Ist of July Mr. Grainger, a merchant, in rwiling•lane, transmitted through the Yost-office a cheque for 391. 7s. ld., payable to Mr. Ponsonby, of Souttisvick-road, Paddington. On the Bth it was found that the letter never reached its destination, but on ap plication at the bank it appeared that the cheque had been presented by the firm of Moses and Son, and duly cashed. Messrs. Moses were next applied to, and they stated tat on the 4th instant two men, who gave the names o Marshall and Spring, ordered some clothing of them, and tendeved the cheque in payment of the re quired deposit, upon which, atter sending to ascertain the genuineness of the cheque, they paid the dif feeence in the amount. It was arranged that the goods shossid be called for on the following Thursday. Accordingly, on that day a boy, named Cremer, came to the shop for the goods, w hi c h were delivered to him; but, by previous arrange ment, he was follewed and taken into custody. The boy then explained that his aunt, the prisoner at the bar, requested him to go with her to show her the Duke of York's Monument, in St. James's Park, that morning ; that she there met and conversed with a postman, and a f ter wards sent him to Moses and Sons, to inquire for a parcel, giving him a shilling for his trouble. The aunt was -then apprehended, but she declined stating what sho knew upon the subject. Meanwhile, it having been ascertained that her nephew was a postman, and that he had absconded, a reward of 201. is offered for his a pprehension. The prisoner was remanded for further examination. John Thomas Witchell, a letter-carrier in the Post office, was' charged with stealing a letter, containing a shilling, two duplicates, and two penny stamps. He was detected while concealing the letter in a me morandura book. and was accordingly watched. Re was also remanded. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. James Grieves, alias Penson, alias Barenger, was brought before Mr. Bingham for final examination, charged with having obtained goods from various parties by false and fraudulent pretences. William Tytherleigh said—l live at Stalbridge, Der setshire. I deal in butter and other goods. On the 26th of May last I received through the post a letter, s igned George Penson, and containing a request for m y term s for goods. I looke d into the London Di rector y, an d finding th e name of George Penson, cheesemon ger , 88, Berwick - stre et, I su pp osed the letter came from the sense party. I wrote an offer of contract to supply him with butter. On the 25th May I received an order for butter, and on the following day I sent 3501b5. of butter, worth 16/. ls. directed, as requested , to th e Boar and Castle, Oxford-street. The next day I sent to the place 601bs. more butter, but as I did not receive a re mittance, as promised, I made inquiries, and was in formed that no such person lived at Berwick -street. William Archer, a stationer, of No. 88, Berwick street, said about six weeks ago, the prisoner, who was a stranger, came into my shop and asked if I had an y objection to take in his letters, as the person next door, who had done so, had left. nsent ed, and the pri soner wrote on a piece of paper G co eorge Peuson, c h eese _ monger, High-street, Woolwich. I was to have a s hit. , ling a week for taking in his letters. I received six let ters, five of which were given to the prisoner. Th e three letters received by last witness, I believe to be in the prisoner's hand-writing. Hugh Lavington, carrier , 69, Old Bailey, proved that a woman brought several orders. Some g oods sent from , Mr. Tytherleigh, were delivered in consequence o ner t t was orders. Witness was not sure that the priso the man who was seen with the woman after the order for delivery was brought. Edward Stone, a commercial traveller, proved that he bad been twice to Woolwich, and could find no such ,person as George Penson, of High-street, Woolwich, there. George Ham, p o lic e .constable, proved that be found two tickets on the prisoner which had come on the pack . eges in which the butter had been sent. Mr. Brickwell, Overthorpe,magistrate, a proved that he received letters a n d orders for butter fro the pri soner. He sent four or fi ve p arce l s of butter before he found out the fraud. A gentleman from Messrs. Makinson and Sanders, , Temple, attended for the prosecution, and produced numerous letters which the prisoner had sent to the parties who had been defrauded, and from Others who ' The , did not come forward to prosecute letters were wr itten in such a plausible; business-like way as to dis arm suspicion. There was a case of forgery, • but it was not gone into, Mr. Bingham suggesting that it would be competent for , • the parties to bring forward evidence at another time if they chose to proceed against the prisoner. The prisoner, who is a respectable, elderly man of quiet, grave app earance, admitted that he had received goods in several instances; but he said there were some , parts of the evidence not correct. He was fully co SOU THWARK • George Pearson, a very powerful young man, and re turned transport, was brought before Mr. Seeker, charged with attempting to stab a policeman. Serieant Dorrig, M division, stated that, having re ceived information that the prisoner was at large, after having_ been-sentenced to twenty years' transportation, two years ago, for highway robbery, he (the Serjeant) ,proceeded with a policeman to a fair held on some ruins in the Mint, where he was likely to be found. They, bowetet," did'not succeed in their search, and at a later P e riod of the evening they entered a house, it receptacle fo r thieves in the Mint, and there found. the man they w& re in search of dancing with some Iv( )men in one of tht rooms upstairs. The moment the p risoner saw the pol ice were after him, he made a bolt oat of the room dos vn stairs followed by the policeman, but instead of t wining out of the house, he stopped short, and concealed himsolf in a dark corner on the staircase. The police man, aware that the prisoner was still on the premises, begi.in to search about for his man, and when he ap proached the spot where he was concealed, the prisoner made a stab at him with a knife, which fortunately he avoided by falling back, and having his truncheon out, he struck his assailant a blow on the arm, which disabled it, and made him drop the weapon. T'ae prisoners was then secured and taken to the station-house. The prisoner said that the police were mistaken in his identity, and that he had not returned from transporta tion before the expiration of his sentence. Sergeant Watkins, however, was called, and he proved that the prisoner was tried and convicted of highway robbery at the Old Bailey in 1846, and sentenced to twenty years transportation. The prisoner then said that he should decline saying anything further on the subject of the charge until a more fitting opportunity. The MAGISTRA.TE said that ho should commit the pri soner for trial. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. LORD SHAFTESBURY'S COMMITTEE—WHITE HAVEN AND FURNESS JUNCTION RAILWAY (Exten sions).—Preamble proved and clauses agreed to. GROUP No. 4.— LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY (Power to Purchase Steam-boats). — Case for the promoters further considered. CESAREAN OPERATION. A Caesarean operation, as it has been called, from being the mode by which Julius Caesar made his en trance into the world, was skilfully performed by Mr. Strafford a few days ago, in this town, on a poor woman named Abbott. She was a native of Chid dingly, a village in this county. In person she was almost a dwarf, and her lower limbs so curved as to strike with astonishment many medical men who saw her that a person so deformed should have entered into the matrimonial state at all, or that any man should have wedded her. Though so dwarfish and deformed she possessed a good and clear intellect, and displayed the utmost courage, patience, and submission through out her long and severe trials. We understand that the deformity is hereditary, for the legs of her father are useless, and only a few inches in length. As it was known it would be a difficult case the friends of the woman had her removed to Brighton, where there is much greater amount of scientific skill than could of course be found in a small country village. She accordingly took up her residence at her mother's, in this town, and Mr. Battcock attended during the first three days and nights of labour, when, being ex hausted, his partners, Messrs. Paine and Strafford, took his post by the bed-side of his patient. The time was now come when it was necessary to decide on sur gical operations. The chloroform was administered, and, though the patient retained perfect possession of her intellects throughout the trying period, she de clared that she was quite insensible to pain. The operation is of a nature which precludes any further allusion to it in a publication of this kind, though it will probably be explained at length in medical works, as it was attended with some circumstances of deep in terest to the profession. We can only add, therefore, that the poor woman was delivered of twins—one alive; the other had died previous to the operation. The medical gentlemen present were Drs. Plumer and Allen, Mr. Parsons, house-surgeon at the County Hospital, Mr. Paine, and Mr. Strafford, who, as in other extremely difficult cases in which he has ope rated, was perfectly successfull. It was performed, we understand, in the most scientific and skilful manner, to the entire satisfaction of all present. The shock to the constitution in a case of this kind is, medical men assure us, tremendous, and against which no skill, medical or surgical, is available ; and it is with regret we add that the poor woman ultimately sank under it. Her constitution was not strong enough to rally and recover ; otherwise, in a stronger constitution, it is possible for a patient, even in an operation of this kind, to rally. It is, we understand, one of the most difficult operations in the whole science, and its skilful performance reflects the highest honour on the profes sion, as on this occasion. The other child died a few hours after delivery.—Brighton Herald. IMPER I HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP No. I.—EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAIL WAY AND EDINBURGH AND BATLIGATE AMALGAMATION. —Clauses further considered. EXETER AND EXMOUTH RAlLWAY.—Preamblo passed and clauses considered. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY (Amend ment of Acts and Regulation of Capital).—Preamble passed and clauses considered. ELECTION COMMITTEE. DUBLIN. The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds' majo rity was resumed yesterday, but the petitioners failed to strike off any additional votes. A lengthened argument arose upon the allegation of the Counsel for the sitting Member that the grand cess was not a legal municipal rate within the meaning of the Reform Act; but the Committee adjourned without coming to any decision upon the point. THAMES. Reuben Avery, police-constable of the K division, 216, appeared in his uniform, before Mr. Ballantine, by order of the Commissioners of Police, to answer a charge of assaulting Henry Watson. The complainant, a man of respectable appearance and address, is a shipwright, residing in Bow-lane, Poplar. He came into the Court upon crutches, and the Magis trate directed him to a chair, and he was seated while giving his evidence. It appeared from his testimony that he had been ac quainted with the defendant for three years, and that a tealale, whom Avery has since married, formerly lodged in his House, and contracted a debt. He had made more than one application to Avery for the money, and he refused to pay it, on the ground that the debt was con tracted before his marriage. On the night of Saturday, the 15th of April, about a quarter past nine o'clock, Watson met the policeman on his beat, in Robin Hood lane, near the East India Dock entrance, and asked him if he intended to pay the debt of 103., which had been so long owing. Avery said he had nothing to do with it, and desired the complainant not to trouble him while he was on duty. Watson, however, repeated his de mand, walked alongside the police-constable, and touched his cape. He had no sooner done so than he received a violent blow on the right leg, which felled him to the ground. He endeavoured to rise again, but could not, and found his leg was broken. Mr. Pelham made a defence for the defendant, and said he was instructed that the complainant had been con tinually annoying the police-constable, and on the par ticular night in question followed him up and down his beat and pulled his cape, and on pushing him away Wat son fell and injured his leg. Mr. BALLANTINE said it was clearly made out the man's leg was broken by the policeman, and the provoca tion was so very slight as not to justify the use of the truncheon at all. He was asked to dispose of the case summarily, and should do so. He did not know what effect his decision might have, but if the defendant was a violent man, using his truncheon in such an unlawful manner, ho ought not to be in the force one moment longer. He should treat this as a very serious case, and inflict the full penalty of Si. for the assault or two months' imprisonment. Watson appealed to the magistrate for some compen sation, and said he could never work at his trade again, and his family were helpless. The costs of his witnesses amounted to 15s. Mr. BALLANTING said if the fiae was paid the com plainant should have his costs, and that was all he could do for him, Ile then altered his sentence, inflicting a fine of 41. ss. and 15s. costs. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—We have now arrived at a very critical time of the year, and have therefore been at some pains to ascertain the actual state of the crops in this county. On former occasions we have observed that there is a great breadth of land under wheats ; generally speaking, the plant looks healthy, but it is not stout, and the heavy rains it experienced during the time of its blossoming, will be detrimental to the "cast ;" such a yield therefore as that of last year may not be ex pected in the present, though a fine genial harvest would unquestionably give an average crop. The Lent grains wear a most promising appearance, the barleys in particular. Last year, it may be re collected, the failure of beans was general; this year, the stalk is short, but there is every prospect that of both beans and peas the crop will be good. From the hop plantations our reports, on the whole, are favourable; the cold nights of the early part of the week were beginning to tell, but the return of more genial weather has effected great improve ment. The hay harvest has been much retarded by heavy rains; considerable damage has, without doubt, been done, especially as the swathe is heavy. The return of fine sunny weather on Wednesday last has enabled large breadths of hay land to be cleared, and the late mown grass is being harvested very favourably. On all hands we hear most encouraging reports of the potato plant ; we have ourselves looked over a large number of acres in various parts of the county, and never saw the potato crop look more promisingly than it does at pre sent ; the haulm is very healthy—not the least appear ance of disease.—Bereford Times. SCOTLAND.—During the last week (says the In verness Courier) the weather has been somewhat chill, and not just what is required in July. Occasionally, slight serviceable showers have fallen, but the cry is for more sunshine. Still the crops progress well. Having made a short excursion in the early part of the week, it gave us great pleasure to observe the luxuriance of the fields. In the Aird the wheat and barley crops promise to be abundant, and they are generally in ear. From Beauly to Ding wall, and up Strathpeffer the same remark applies; and at Highfield we observed a thick though uneven braird on land newly taken in, and which a few months ago, from the quantity and size of the stones , and othe r difficulties, seemed hardly worth the expense of reclaim ing. At Island Bank, Culcabock, and other places in this neighbourhood, the oats are in ear ; but we suspect a portion of this crop will be short in the straw. Potatoes generally are most luxuriant ; but in several parts of the Aird, and our own immediate neighbourhood, we have observed the crumpled leaves and sickly stems usually indicatitive of the curl. We hope we are mistaken ; but, at all events, this appearance is limited. Turnips have now all been got in, and in good order. In the hay-fields the scythes are at work, but this operation might now be much more general. It is a complaint against. our intel ligent farmers that they are always too long in cutting their g rass. They allow it to ripen too much, and cut it wh en dry and wiry, instead of when sweet and succulent. A gentleman who has recently traversed great part of the west coast in Innverness-shire and Bose-shire, the Long Island, Skye, and the district s of A r d na murchan and-Stontian, in Argyllshire, informs us that appearances are highly promising. There has never before been so great a breadth of corn sown in these localities; the potato crop is scarcely a fourth of what it used to be in former years, before the blight was known; but wherever potatoes are met with the plants are vigorous and healthy. The people express themselves gratified with the prospect before them, and only desire that the herrings would be a little plentiful. SUICIDE AT THE CAVALRY BARRACKS, WIND• SOR.—An inquest was held at the Cavalry Hospital, Windsor, on Tuesday afternoon, before W. Marlin, Esq., the coroner for the borough, on the body of a private in the 2d regiment of Life Guards, named George Baxter, 19 years of age, who had blown out his brains with his carbine, loaded with ball, the day before. The unfor tunate man, it appeared, had been about seven months in the Life Guards, and had since been for some time in the hospital with a bad leg, which seemed, however, to have no effect upon his general health. The dread of the hospital seemed to prey upon his mind. The de ceased, as a recruit had been drilled, but had never done duty. Alexander Hopper, a witness, was with him in his room ten minutes before he shot himself. There were four or five carbines in the room, and also cartridges, which had been served out to the men. He sat on the bed at the time he committed the act, the butt-end of the carbine resting on the ground. William Jenkins, another private in the regiment, stated that he heard no complaints made by the deceased of the low ness of the diet at the hospital. James Nisbet Connel, the regimental surgeon, said—l attended the deceased at Knightsbridge Barracks, who had an ulcerated leg, from May 9to June 2, when he was discharged as well. I at first, when he enlisted, rejected him, on account of his being so very slight and young, but the Colonel agreed to take him, as he said ho might improve. He came from Dundee. The jury returned a verdict of " Feb° de se, under the dread of again going into the hospital." FELINE SAGACITY.--A boy herding cattle in the vicinity of this village, a short time ago found a young squirrel, and brought it home to his father's house, which he placed beside a cat having young. Puss im mediately took it under her protection, and suckled it as she did her own kittens. An instance still more sur prising happened lately at Lochtayside. A cat there having three kittens, two of which had been drowned, baudrons quietly went out to a rabbit burrow, and took in two young rabbits, which she is still rearing with maternal fondness along with her own surviving kitten. —Perthshire Advertiser. EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTER WITH A DOG.—A few days since an extraordinary encounter tool place at Hurst. A professional gen tleman at that place had given instructions to his servant to destroy a dog of the setter and bloodhound species, on account of its ferocity; but the man instead gave the dog to Mr. Richard Mer chant, who proceeded with it about eleven at night to his home at Edgerley House, leading it by a chain. On the way the dog made a spring at Mr. Merchant, who was enabled to keep him at bay for some time, and being an active runner thought the best plan to adopt for safety would be, if possible, to reach his dwelling by a gate in the garden hedge, the night being dark; he missd the gate, however, and the dog came up and sprang at him in the ditch. The only chance left him then was to seize the dog as he came at him, which he fortunately did with both his hands. A struggle took place, in which Mr. Merchant obtained the mastery, and throwing the dog on his side knelt on him and held him with one hand for an instant while he drew his penknife from his pocket with the other, and opening it with his teeth, cut the dog's throat, but not effectually, as the blade of the knife broke in two. Mr. M. made two gashes in his left hand as well. The dog was now losing power by the loss of blood, and Mr. Merchant left him to proceed to the surgeon as speedily as possible to get his wounds dressed. The dog again endeavoured to follow him, but was lost sight of till Mr. M.'s return, when he found him a short distance from the spot, having bled to death. —Brighton Guardian. TILE SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.—The telegraph upon the line has been completed during the week to Lairs, and is now, we believe, in full operation. The di rectors having agreeed with Mr. Rendle, during the past week, will forthwith take possession of a portion of the nursery in his occupation, between Devonshire-terrace and King-street, and the works will be recommenced aarere without ibnei an delay . being rbeautitbTh e state y o f Daintonß ol to n db en g ine eswt s a t t st h , o the r e s e e n g a o n fn d e sm e , n g e i nn wh i chse es size, and are constructed differently from those at the other stations ; they will work horizontally, instead of perpendicularly, the exhausting cylinders are 7 feet 8 inches in diameter. About five miles of pipe are laid between Newton and Totnes. The Totnes engines are not so forward; in fact, it is said, the engines at that sta tion will not be required for the opening to Totnes, as the powerful Dainton engines would create a vacuum sufficient before the train passed Dainton, to take it down to Totnes, and vice versa. We are sorry to find that the Torquay branch is not being pushed. We had hoped that this capital feeder for the trunk line would have been finished ere this.— Western Llaninary, The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday, at their o ffi ce in Whitehall- Owe. WINDOW GLASS A FEN:WENT CAUSE OF FIRE. A farmer in the neighbourhood of Ayr had his farm steading improved and additions made to it lately. In an attic apartment, containing a bed for the servants, the light was admitted by three or four single panes of glass in the roof. One of these panes, for greater strength, was selected from the centre of a sheet of glass, having what is commonly called a knot in it; and this knot was found, from its convexity, to act as a powerful burning lens when the sun was shining on it. The bed was directly opposite to this pane, and acci dentally placed at such a distance from it that the rays of the sun passing through it were collected into a focus sufficiently strong to burn the woollen covering of the bed. The smell of burning wooden attracted the family one day to the bed, when they found a large portion of the covering consumed. It was at once conjectured that some of the servants might have accidentally set fire to the covering in lighting their pipes. Unfortunately ,for this conjec• ture there were no smokers among the servants, 'nor had there been any lights or fire in the room, so that some other cause had to be sought after. The farmer, at length, thinking that the pane of glass might have something to do in the affair, tested its power as a burn ing lens upon a piece of cotton cloth, which was very quickly consumed. He immediately placedfa screen be tween the bed and the pane, so as to prevent the collec tion of the rays of the sun into a focus, and this acted as a safeguard. Lately the screen was accidently displaced, and the burning-glass was again allowed its full power. On this occasion a large portion of the covering and blankets was destroyed. Had the textures been of cot ton instead of woollen, there can be little doubt that the destruction of the steading might have taken place on either of these occasions, and if they had upon the first occasion, the real origin of the fire would, in all proba bility, have remained for ever a mystery. MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT GLASGOW.—About six o'clock on Sunday morning two of the carters in the employment of Mr. M'llwham, contractor for the General Harbour Terminus Railway, proceeded to the stable in Bolton-street, near Kinning House, and were surprised to find that the private watchman did not answer to their summons for admission. One of the men effected an entrance from the back part of the building, and found the watchman, whose name is John M'Lachlan, lying at the foot of one of the stalls, quite dead, with a large lacerated wound on the upper part of his head. At the other end of the stable, for it is a large one, and accommodated 19 horses, the two carters found a man, named M‘Ginty, and his wife, with tbeir little boy, lying in a stall asleep, or ap parently so; but on being aroused they denied all know ledge of the manner in which MlLachlan met his death. From subsequent inquiry, it appears that M`Ginty and MiLachlan were acquainted, and had been together on the Saturday night, when a good deal of drink was going; but at twelve at night - , when they were last seen, M‘Lachlan was quite well, and not drunk, though hearty. M`Ginty and his wife were in the same state. It is said that the noise of quarrelling was afterwards heard in the stable or near it, by a person who lives in the neighbourhood. A good deal of doubt, therefore, exists as to the cause of the man's death, though the probability is that having lain dewn io the stable he was killed by a stroke from a horse. If the watchman met his heath unfairly plunder could not have been the object of the assailants, for when dis covered there were 13 , . sd. in his pockets. At all events, Captain Wilson, who has been making an in vestigation into the case, has considered his duty to take M-Ginty and his wife into custody. The locality being in Renfrewshire, a full report of the circumstances was by nim transmitted early yesterday morning to the Procurator Fiscal of Paisley (Mr. Rodger), and that gentleman, accompanied by Dr. Macinlay, arrived in Glasgow in the course of the forenoon, with the view of carrying out the investigation. The locality was minutely examined, but nothing further was elucidated than what has been above stated. The fiscal immediately ordered a post mortem examination of the body, which was per formed by Dr. Stewart, of Portland-street, and Dr. Mac inlay. The opinion of the surgeons we understand to be, that the man's death was occasioned by a fracture of the skull, produced from a_ blunt instrument; so that the case remains involved in as much mystery as ever. In the meantime M‘Ginty and his wife are still in custody. —North British Daily Mail. CLASSES EXPOSED TO INSANITY.—" It has been affirmed that the classes from which asylums are peopled, especially with cases of excitement and per version, can readily be pointed out in society, and that, with a moderate degree of penetration, the ultimate mental condition—the fate of particular individuals and families may be foreseen and foretold. These aro tendencies, and habits, which pursuits lead directly to mental disturbance and unsoundness; but there are likewise qualities and dispositions which, of themselves innocuous, are gradually developed and exalted, and matured into extravagance, eccentricity, and disease: there is an education provided in many of our social arrangements which promotes and by precipitates the pro cess: th e r e is a moral atmosphere cre atedthe prevailing which may tone i religion,n act p favourably those or mercialenterprise, strong s fatal and to stern thefragile temperament, and or u s c may ept i i n ) l o o t . actTh The tal all, t but pv Her cules r in frame and i n t e lli g e nce mays fall beneath the blows of misfortune, or the crash of a panic; but imaginative and the r excitable minds are affe c t e d an d wrec k e d b y the i n fluencverye of courted. ot rspecific they have been subjected, the course which th e y pursued, his tory o s t cai t a o n r and the of the destiny insane , whe the disease has been or can be assigned, there will be g enerally found some peculiarity of thought or conduct which has issued i n eccentricit y; some a cute suseeptibi nilfg hus to whil e of ordinary circumstances, by susceptibi lity of feeling which by indulgence and cultivation, ter minates in melancholy; somt infirmity of purpose, which becomes incapacity; some irritability of temper, which expands into violence; some vain, but cherished opinion, which eventually menopolises the whole mind; some se cret, some bidden spring of hope, or ambition, or fear, which may be a foible in youth, but is regarded as folly in manhood—which may be compatible with prosperity, but is laid bare, and exposed as visionary and preposterous under misfortune. If imbecility is often indicated by such minute irregularities as absence of mind, reverie, abstraction, forgetfulness of facts or persons, so are other forms of alienation preceded by mere gentleness and feebleness of character, by slight in consistencies, or contrarieties of disposition, or even oddity in dress. While it may be held as certain that physical disease is the cause or contemporaneous condi lion in every case of aberration, there are a number of patients whose previous history presents little for obser vation, except some pre-existing or premonishi n g pecu liarity or perversity."—From No. 111. of Dr. Forbes IT inslow's Journal of Psychological Medicine. We have just now glorious weather for the harvest, and everything looks well and full of promise. Fine new potatoes have been sold in the market to-day at is. per score.—Western Luminary . The Antwerp Company's steam-ship Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, arrived at the St. Katharine's Wharf, Tower, yesterday morning, at a very early hour. The passage was made in nineteen hours, and the passengers were numerous. THE SUN, _LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING-, JULY 14, NIB copies of the correspondence between the Colonial-office he had lent his money with a very ditterent eye. The and the Hudson's Bay Company on this subject, and of I eventual danger of a deficient fund was ever present to the charter, if any, granted to the company. his mind. If he were enabled to do so, he would in- Mr. HAWES said the inceeiry was proceeding, and stitute proceedings for a sale before it was too whilst so it would not be well to lay the papers on the late. By doing so he would do a real service table. The charter, we understood, would be granted to the improvident owner, and an inestimable bene• in the usual way. The Hon. Gentleman was scarcely fit to the tenantry of the portion which might audible in the gallery. be sold. The amendment which he had the honour BOROUGH ELECTIONS BILL. to move would clothe the minor incumbrancer with this On the motion for the House resolving itself into a power ; and it w ou ld, h e b e li eve d, go f ar t owar d s t h e Committee on the Borough Elections Bill, gradual encouragement of what was so desirable, but Lord J. RUSSELL said that he would take that op- what, at. present, did not practically exist in Ireland—a portunity of stating that it was his intention to move to market for land. People talked of bringing land into discharge the order for going into Committee on the Bill the market. Into what market ? If they meant by a for the purpose of introducing a measure for the conside- ma rket the competition of small capitals for moderate ration of-the House, the outline of e hioe he would shortly - portions of land, he could understand it ; but if they state. The House was aware that an Act of Parliament meant a forcing of large estates unbroken and in great had:been introduced, in 1842, for the better discovery of numbers suddenly to sale, then he would tell them that bribery and treating. By that Act it was provided that the only practical effect would be to depreciate most in cases where bribery had been abandoned the Com- ruinously the present value of land, and to hand over a mittee should have the power to report to the I louse vast portion of the soil of Ireland to a class of mere land whether or not further investigation was needed, and upon jobbers.—(Cheers.) Be was sure that such was in n that report the House should proceed to appoint another respect the purpose or aim which the framers of the Bi I Committee to consider the grounds of the abandonment had in view. But he very much feared that such would to of such Bill. Now, in the Bill he intended to introduce, some extent be its unintentional tendency, if some means he proposed to extend the provisions of the measure to were not found of permitting portions of estates rather which he had just alluded, and to propose that in all than entire estates to be sold in liquidation of minor in cases where charges of bribery and corrupt practices cumbrances. lie had heard with the deepest interest were made, whether made et the original petition the speech delivered on a former day by the Right Hon. or by way of recrimination, the E'ection Committee Baronet (Sir J. Graham) ; and by nothing was he more should proceed to investigate such charges, and if they struck than by the caution with which he guarded his found the parties did not bring before them evidence of strenuous support of the principle of the Bit from any such bribery and corruption, he should propose that approval .of recklessly throwing more land upon the they should then have the power to proceed, and to re- market than the capital of Ireland could appropriate, port to the House, that in their opinion further investi- and thus incurring the incalculable evil of general de gation was needed in respect of such practices, and to preciation. The amendment would restore the second ascertainwhether such practices had extensively prevailed. clause to the condition in which it stood when the Bill He intended also to propose that the Committee should was originally introduced into the other House last have power to report further whether such inquiry year ; and he earnestly hoped, therefore, that her Ma should be made by the same Committee or by commis- jesty's Government would not refuse to adopt it. sioners on the spot, If the Committee reported that the Sir J. GRAHAM, being most anxious to forward the inquiry should take plaCe before the same Committee Bill before the House, was not desirous of instituting then he proposed that that Committee should assemble any discussion which would consume time ; but he felt within fourteen days, and that the Speaker should bound to state his concurrence in the views of the Hon. appoint an agent to conduct the investigation. But, Gentleman who had last addressed them respecting the supposing the Committee should recommend an inquiry sale of estates in large masse'. By the Stamp Act as it by commissioners on the spot, then he :proposed that existed there was a saving effected by selling large por the Speaker should notify to the judge of assize tions, while the small sales were obstructed by its ope where the offence had been committed, that the ration. He thought that the object of the Act would House of Commons. had determined that the inquiry be considerably promoted if an alteration were effected should be made into the subject, and the senior in this state of things. judge should then proceed to nominate barristers, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was sorry that he not Members of Parliament, on the commission. could not accede to the amendment, and he thought the lie proposed that the commission should investigate all House would see that the retention of the words pro the circumstances attending such bribery and corrupt posed to be omitted, instead of interfering with the ope practices, and that they should report their views upon ration of the Bill, would be beneficial. each case to the House. lie proposed to make it a The amendment was then negatived, and the clause, general rule to apply this Bill to all boroughs whose with some verbal amendments, was adopted. Members had already been unseated, while the future Clauses 3,4, 5, and 6 were adopted without discussion. application of its provisions should depend upon the re- On the motion that clause 7 stand part of the Bill, port of the Select Committee appointed to sit on Mr. NAPIER said that he was strongly of opinion election petitions, as to whether a further investigation that powers of a more extensive nature should be given were required or not, and whether it should be made by to the Lord Chancellor to frame proper orders and rules the commission, or by a Select Committee. These were respecting the petitions to be presented to the Court the general provisions of the Bill, but before he sat down under the Act. he must state that he proposed to introduce a clause to The SOLICITOR-GENERAL thought it right to indemnify the parties who were examined before the leave technical details as much as possible to the Lord commissioners from the penalties of the ex- Chancellor; but he was at the same time opposed to de isting bribery law. He would now proceed legating to others the powers of right belonging to that to move that the orders relating to the House. It was provided by the fifth section of the Act Borough Election Committee and the Horsham Borough that every petition brought before the Court should set Bill be discharged, with the view of asking leave to in- forth the estate of the petitioner, his interest in the troduce a Bill to inquire into the origin of bribery and land or lease, and the uses and limitations or trusts to corrupt practices at elections. which the land stood limited; also all incumbrances by On the question being put, which it was affected. Now he was sure the House Colonel SIBTHORP rose to protest against the Bill would see that it was necessary to make this compulsory being introduced at this late period of the session. by a section of the Act, in order to economise the time Unless the Noble Lord gave more cogent reasons for the of the Court by making it impossible for persona to introduction of the Bill than he had done, he should feel come before it with fictitious cases. it his duty at the next stage of the Bill to move that it Mr. B. OSBORNE believed that unless the Bill were be proceeded with that day six months. carried out by Commissioners appointed for the purpose Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in reply to a question of it would be a failure, on account of the complexity of Lord Lincoln, said the first clause of the Bill which he its provisions. proposed to introduce directed that a General Election The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that such an ar- Committee should appoint a Select Committee in rangement would be attended with great expense, and regard to those boroughs which had been made the subject the strongest desire of the framers of this Bill had been of inquiry, and in respect to which petitions had been to avoid throwing additional expenses on these incum. already investigated, and those boroughs mentioned in the bared estates. schedule (Derby and Leicester) would be all the boroughs After a protracted conversation, in which Mr. R. to which that clause should apply, and a Select Palmer, Colonel Dunne, Mr. Napier, the Solicitor-Ge- Committee might be appointed in the first place neral, and Mr. Monsell took part, the Committee di by the general Committee of Elections, who should vided, when there appeared— report whether a further investigation should be entered For the clause 64 into by a Select Committee or a commission. In reply Against it to another question of the Noble Lord, whether, if Majority for the clause —s6 a case of bribery had been sufficiently made out, The clause, after some verbal amendments, was then but was not bronght home to the Member him- ordered to stand part of the Bill. self or his agents, the borough would be affected Clauses Bto 28 inclusive were then agreed to. by it, he (Lord John Russell) thought that the case in On clause 29, point was already met in the Bill; but, if the words were Mr. OSBORNE called attention to the charge of riot stiffsufficiently comprehensive he would take care to " usher's poundage," which he said was g i ven by th e render them so. late Lord Clare to his son, when in the cradle, and pro- After some observations from Mr. MULLINGS and Mr. duced to him 150,0001. before he came of age. He HUME, the motion for the committal of the Bill was wished to know how the Hon. and Learned Gentleman • withdrawn, and the Noble Lord obtained leave to bring proposed to deal with that charge of 2e per cent? in his Bill. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated there was a BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. proviso exempting from that charge all sums paid to In answer to a question from Mr. NEWDEGATE, the credit of the Accountant-General of the Court of Lord J. RUSSELL said that he meant to go on with Chancery under this Bill. the Incumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill, and if not finished The clause was then agreed to. that evening, would proceed with it to-morrow (this On clause 30, day). After that, it was his intention to take the Lords' Colonel DUNNE said it was the first of a very im amendments to the Evicted Tenants (Ireland) Bill. portant series of clauses, which he thought ought not to PRIVILEGES. be discussed in so thin a House. He would, therefore, Mr. OSBORNE complained that on a former evening move that the Chairman do report progress. the Hon. Baronet the Member .for Marylebone had ae- Sir G. GREY thought a small house was the most cused the lion. Member for Mayo of having wilfully proper for such a discussion. abandoned his intention of bringing the Irish Church Mr. NAPIER suggested that the discussion might temporalities under the notice of the House. Now the take place on the bringing up of the report, when he in fact was that the Hon. Member for Mayo was seriously tended to move the omission of this and the following indisposed, and had been so for three weeks. thirteen clauses. INCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. GROGAN recommended that these clauses, re. The order of the day for the Committee on the above hating to sales by the Court of Chancery should be post- Bill was read. poned.—(" No, no.") Sir GEORGE GREY expressed his hope that pre- Mr. OSBORNE said the postponement of these clauses lirninary discussion would be avoided, so as that the would be in effect to give up the Bill. clauses and their amendment might be disposed of. After a conversation, Mr. HENLEY doubted very much whether the Bill Colonel DUNNE withdrew his motion. would effect the object in view. The object was to keep Clauses 30 to 33 were then agreed to. clear of the Court of Chancery; and lie feared that the On clause 34, Bill would throw the estates more helplessly into that The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he was most court than ever. anxious to secure a bond fide sale when one took place, The House went into Committee. and at the same time to avoid unnecessary expense. To On clause I—the interpretation clause— secure due notice of the sale being given he would pro- Colonel DUNNE proposed an amendment to pre- pose an amendment, entitling every person who had en vent the sale of the fee simple to pay off incumbrances tered a caveat to personal notice at his abode, thereby on the lico interest, which, after some discussion, was enabling him to take steps to restrain the sale if he negatived ; the Honourable and Gallant Member inti- thought proper, and giving him the right to know the mating that he would raise the question and take a divi - price at which it was proposed to sell. sion upon it at a more fitting opportunity, which the Sir J. GRAHAM thought this clause one which re- Solicitor -General said would present itself on the 30th quired the utmost attention. It was most desirable that, clause. in cases of sale, the full value should be obtained, and The clause was then agreed to. all collusion prevented. For this purpose it had been On clause 2, suggested that a public sale by auction would be the The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved to omit the best.—(Hear, hear.) The suggestion that the sale words which limited the sale of the property under a should be in the master's office, with a right to the office decree of the Court of Chancery, unless it sold for a to open the bidding, he did not approve; but to bale by sum which should be sufficient to pay off all incumbrances auction there appeared no objection. on the estate. No such li mit existed as to sales by The SOLICITOR-GENERAL d ou bt e d w h et h er a private arrangement. public auction would be a security against fraud. He The amendment was agreed to. thought frauds might be perpetrated under a sale by Mr. M'CULLAGH pro ceeded to state the object of auction as well as under one by p r i vate contract To the amendment of which he had given notice. The place the power of sale on the best footing, the parties Bill, as at present framed, limited the ri g ht of petitionin g ought to have the option o f se lli ng e i t h er b y auct i on or for a sale to the owner of the estate, to the first incum- by private contract, as was done in all cases in this brancer, and the mortgagee who might hold the title- country where trustees had the power of sale. To bind deeds in his possessi on. He was desirous of removin g up the parties either to one mode or the oth er was in jurious. By making it the interest of the ♦ven d ors to se ll such limitation, and perm i tt in g an y incumbrancer to institute proceedings in a court of equity for a save. The for the largest possible amount the best security against parties on whom the clause exclusively conferred the fraud was supplied. Besides, the cases in which traud power were precisely those who in general were least could arise were comparatively few ; for the instances disposed to sell.—( Hear, hear.) The owner of an estate would be very rare where it 'was the interest of the party heavily incumbered has ceased too fr equen tly t o retain selling to do so at a reduced price. As additional secu any direct interest in its possession, excepting that rity he proposed to introduce a clause making all the which he valued very naturally, and not undeservedly, parties to the sale liable in the case of fraud; and the consideration and position which had come to him by thus the buyer in such a case would acquire no title, and inheritance, and which, with th e i n h er it ance , h e i s con - b ot h h e and t h e se ll er, as well as the solicitor, would b e scious that he must lose.—(Hear, hear.) To expect such liable for the amount by which the full value exceeded a man to initiate proceedings in equity for a sale would the sale prices. Probably a desirable course would be, be idle. Were the highest price realised and all his cre- after all the incumbrancers had received notice of the divers paid off, the balance in moneys numbered that sale, that the estate should be offered by auction, with would remain could not enable him to maintain what is liberty to the seller, if no sale were effected, to offer it familiarly termed his position in the county ; end if he by private contract. But even this might be produc happened to be but tenant for life, the interest annually five of inconvenience; and upon the whole he thought payable to him out of court upon this residuum would be it would be best to leave the manner of the sale entirely wholly inadequate to maintain him in that social sphere open. in which he had hitherto moved.—(Hear, hear.) If you Sir J. GRAHAM was not quite satisfied that it would waited until the insolvent, or nearly insolvent, owner pe- always be to the interest of the vendor to obtain the best titioned for a sale, you might wait for ever. Then as to possible price. —(Hear, hear.) Where a mortgagee the first incumbrancer, he believed it would be found that effected a sale he might have very little regard for the the first incumbrancer was, generally speaking, interest of the heir in remainder. The uniform view of a person holding a charge under family set- the law was, that a public auction was the best means of tlement, or an old judgment on a bond. In Ire- securing a fair sale. He would not now press his sur land these early charges and old judgments were looked gestion, but hoped it would receive the consideration of ' upon as about the best investment that could be had. the Learned Solicitor-General. They were transferable, and always brought their full The SOLICITOR-GENERAL promised to endea price whenever they were sold. They were valued like your to frame a clause which should meet the views of old pictures, which the possessor was always the less the Right Hon. Baronet. disposed to part with, because he knew that they would Mr. MULLINGS said that no prudent trustees would always bring him his own money. If, therefore, lands now effect a sale by private contract, until after they had were never brought to sale until persons so circum- offered the property by auction. stanced filed petitions in equity to raise the amount of Mr. SADLEIR thought it should be left quite open 0 these charges, sales to any considerable extent there to w h e th er th e public or private sale should be first tried would never be.—(Cheers.) As for the principal wort- At present scarce any mortgagee in Ireland had • gagees, who had the title-deeds in their possession, power of sale by private contract ; and all judgmen t those parties had 'usually taken very good care either creditors must necessarily resort to an auction under the to buy up prior incumbrances before they lent any powers of the court. This incurred great expense, per_ considerable sum to the o wner, or to leave a. .te sufficientc r ient titularly where the property wa s sma ll ; an d d ur i n g the margin of rent to secure t he p a y ment of their est. last two years there had been a growing disposition to Sometimes these parties were wealthy individuals avoid those sales. who had lent their money in this way as a per- Colonel DUNNE did not believe that many sales is manent, safe, and profitable investment. l Sometimes fee simple would be operated under this Bill ; it wool; they were joint • stock companies or money end . er ; but, principally affect the smaller gentry, few of whom were almost invariably, they felt themselves to be in exactly holders in fee. Mr. OSBORNE was certain that great frauds wet l ! cl _ the position where there was seldom an • object or mo tive to institute proceedings for a sale. ) -- . (Loud cries of be committed, unless the utmost publicity was given to .. Hear, hear.") The estate might deteriorate, as most the sale. heavily incumbered properties are apt to do; but they Mr. MONSELL feared that a public sale would Wu were distant from the scene; indifferent to the slow riously affect small properties. decay; safe, by their possession of the title-deeds, from The clause, as amended, was then agreed to, as *e re the practical consequences of the evil. To wait till such clauses up to 50 inclusive. parties filed petitions of sale would be to wait for ever. On clause 51 being put, In the course of the discussions that had tak en place The SOLICITOR - GENERAL proposed to make see upon this Bill , on a previous Flay, lie regretted t o o b- addit i on to t h e c l ause , t h e object of which was to tn Bl o serve a tone of argument indicative in some sort o f a part i es w h o h a d by themselves or their agents te B . : o feeling that after all this w as a mere wrangle between fraudulent or collusive purchases of property, liable t landlords and lawyers. But there was another and a make full compensation. far wider interest concerned which he trusted The clause, as amended, was agreed tee the House would protect and guard—he meant Clause 52 was agreed to. that of the tenantry on incumbered estates in Ireland. Clauses 53 to 62 inclusive were agreed to. blase Their position was most lamentable. Improvement was On the question being put from the Chair that e unknown, and escape from evil impossible. Year after 63, as amended, do stand part of the Bill, year the condition of the embarrassed property grew Colonel DUNNE moved that the clause be omitted. worse, until, in the sad progress of deterioration, the The Committee divided, when there appeared- - time came when, every other duty of proprietorship For the clause having ceased to be discharged, the collection of the Against it rents devolved upon a receiver; and w h a t misery and Majority --135 demoralisation was comprehended in that fatal phrase The clause was then agreed to. it would hardly be necessary to explain. Now what Clauses 64, 65, 66, were agreed to. was the condition of the puisne incumbrancer? He On clause 67, ,watched the gradual deterioration of the estate on which Mr. F. O'CONNOR tendered his thanks to the )I°ll' HOP INTELLIGENCE. -- MAIDSTONE.—The weather on the whole these last 1 few days has not been kindly for the hops; they do not want any more rain at present, and the wind is too much for them. The greater part, of the College ground is very short of bine, and the ground anything but kindly —whilst at one little spot the bine is strong and they have put up helpers and poled with 12 feet poles. The duty stands at 195,000/. to 200,0001., but we must have better weather than the present or they will not do it. A correspondent says:—" The want of manure on the hop ground begins to be felt, as no one thinks hops worth it. Your remedy, the mattock, is the only wise one. Planters have themselves to blame. They have planted too many hops. In 1839 corn fetched a fair price, which induced planters to grub. Now the pros pect is bad, still let them recollect that on a low price of corn not a tenth part of the loss occurs which occurs in hops." OTHAM, LEEDS, AND HommicnounNE.—The bine is platty, and takes too short turns round the poles to pro duce much fruit. From all appearance the duty must be overset. ROLVENDEN.—Bine very growing, and every appear ance of a full crop. YALDING, FARLEIGH, AND CHART.—The bine has grown since the still warm weather, but is not so good or so strong as it was in these parishes last year, nor do we think so many hops will be grown. Should the weather prove unkind, we shall not grow anything like the crop. . _ STAPLEHTJRST.—Growing fast. WROTHAM, IGTHAM, AND SHIPBORNE.—Rine healthy and vigorous. The winds and the rain of the last few days have done some injury, but the general appearance is very good in some, platty and uneven in most. TUDELEY.—Going on well; the bine stronger than last year. SEVENOAKS (and adjoining Parishes).—The hop bine has made more progress this last week, and there is scarcely any fly. GOUDUURST.—Growing fast, and the bine looking healthy; we hear of no increase of vermin. TICEHIIRST.—Not going on so well the last fortnight, the wind having bruised the heads in exposed situa- tions. EDENBRIDGE.—Not looking so well as they did a week ago; the high winds these last few days have whipped them severely in many places. CANTERBURY.—The hops continue to improve; and though the earlier shoots were devastated by vermin, their present state promises a fair crop. Many growers grubbed up their old plantations last year, which will cause a falling off in the usual growth in this district. The duty ranges from 190,0001. to 200,0001. SUSSEX. — The accounts from this district are generally favourable, though in some places there is slackness of bine arising from neglected cultivation.—Maidstone Journal. THE SLAVE TRADE. Her Majesty's ship Kingfisher, 12 guns, Commander F. W. Horton, arrived off the Isle of Wight on Wednes day, from the coast of Africa. She left Ascension on the 21st of May, calling at Cape Coast, where freight was expected. A considerable quantity of gold dust had, however, been previously shipped in the Governor M'Lean, brig, to sail in a day or two after the above date. Captain and Mrs. Bingham, with Dr. Dolce, of the West India Regiment serving on the Gold Coast, and some others, came passengers in the M'Lean. She was spoken by the Kingfisher on the 3d of June, and kept company until the sth. Her Majesty's ships Penelope, Tortoise, and Adelaide, were the only men-of-war at Ascension. The Adelaide, a slaver lately purchased into the service, is fitting as a tender to be stationed be tween Sierra Leone and the Galinas. Lieut. Joliffe was appointed to command her. A number of invalids and supernumeraries have come home in the Kingfishers—Lieutenant E. Glynn, late commander of the Dart; Dr. O'Hagan, late surgeon of the Britomart, &c. We are indebted for the following interesting particu lars to a correspondent:—" The slave trade goes en ' briskly, and very little affected by our cruisers. The new slave treaties and palavers seem to afford a complete protection to ships of varied flags, which approach the coast without the slightest fear or molestation, and watch a❑ opportunity to ship their slaves, haul down their assumed flags, and be off. Even the very negro declares that we are worse than useless, and through us come all the torments and sufferings of the middle passage, which horrors are even increased after we capture them, as the returns of the deaths occurring between the capture and de livery into court will fearfully show. We are even accused of mercenary motives, and dealing in human traffic by expatriating our liberated captives' to our West India islands. The only effectual way to put an end to the trade is to withdraw our squadron; large and commodious vessels would then be employed, when the human cargo would enjoy comparative comfort in room and air, instead of being as now packed like herrings in a barrel in old, ricketty, and impure vessels. The sudden opening of the trade would throw a sudden inundation into the Brazilian markets and other slaving countries. and these being overstocked, the demand must cease, and thus render the trade profitless. ss Now, the question is—is it worth expending a mil lion a year on this signal failure?—or how long will our Government remain obstinately deaf to the real facts which every day's experience on the coast of Africa elicits? As to the distribution of prize-money, it is a flagrant injustice to the officers of the service, more especially to surgeons and pursers, whose shares have been cut down to five, whilst the warrant officers are, just by way of distinction, within a half share of them; the commander, however, getting nearly one -third of the whole prize. " The check money formerly paid to officers and men doing extra duty at Ascension has been stopped. This is a very severe loss and privation to men whose only inducement to volunteer for service in such an unpro ductive island was the contemplation of being enabled to save from their hard earnings wherewithal to recom pense them on returning to a land where comfort could be procured for money. " It is rumoured that Ascension is to be made a penal settlement, and that convicts are about to be employed where the marines and sailors of the Tortoise formerly were. Guns have been placed on eminences and com manding positions around the buildings, and large par ties are daily employed in putting this huge cinder into a state of defence." RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JULY 13. Srocx EXCHANGIL—It will be seen from the following list of business transacted, that rates are improved, and the extent of business done greater than yesterday. The sales are—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 1 dis.—London and North-Western, 126—Ditto, New Quarters, 1% c. p.—Ditto, paid up, 224 —London, Brighton, and South Coast, New 51. Shares, p.—Midland Stock, 106—North Staffordshire, dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 25—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1% p. ax int. cent.,MANCHESTER, JULY 13. m Bro E xcH ANGE.—The sales are — East Lancashire , Preference Quarters, 3-16 p . —Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union), 3 13-16 dis.—Ditto, Preference, 6 p er % p.—Leeds and Thirsk, Preferential, 2% dis.— London and North-Western, Quarters (C), 2 3 4 p.—Ditto (Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal), 23 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 10 1 — Ditto (Grimsby), 201. Shares, 8 13-16 dis.—Ditto ditto, 12/. 10s. Shares, 5 1 4 dis. —North Staffordshire, 2% dis.— Northern Counties Union , 3 9-16 dis.—SouthEastern and Dover, 25—Ditto, No. 4, 2 3 % Llis• BIRMINGHAM, JULY 13. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market to-day was rather dull, and the business limited to few sales, of which the following are quotations :—North Staffordshire. 48s. 9d. dis.—Shrews bury and Birmingham (A), s—Ditto (B), 31. 3s. 9d. — Stour, 31A. MARKED SALMON.—On Wednesday morning, sth July, a salmon was brought up at Orchardnook ice house, near Perth, in one of the gathering boats, a fine well-grown fish of 121bs. 20a. weight, with a bit of small copper wire attached to the root of the tail, on the back of the fish, below the dead fin, where the skin had been bored through with an awl, the wire, about two inches in length, inserted, then twisted double, and, thus marked, the fish bad been turned adrift to seek its way to the sea, from which it has now returned. We hope every publicity will be given to this, so that the river, time, and place where the fish was marked may be as curately ascertained, and another fact added to the in vestigation into the natural history of the salmon.-- Dundee Courier. ST. SWITEIN'S DAY. —Saturday next will be St. Swithin's Day, remarkable on account of a well-known popular notion, that if it rain on this day there will be rain for forty days to come. St. Swithin was an emi nent and learned Bishop of Winchester, and priest to King Egbert. The story runs, that being buried at his own request in the churchyard of the Cathedral, the priests, a hundred years after, felt desirous of doing him greater honour, and commenced the work of traslating his remains into the interior. This was on the n 15th of July. They were stopped in their work by a heavy fall of rain ; neither could they resume their duty next day, for the heavy rain still continued. In short, this rain lasted forty days, by which time the priests became convinced that it was to stop them in a work which, though well meant on their part, was ill taken on that of the saint, and they gave up the point. Ever since then it has been held as a maxim that if there be rain on St. Swithin's Day, there will be rain forty days ensuing. AMENT HOUSE OF LORDS, July 13. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. PROTECTION OF FEMALES BILL. Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table a Bill for the prevention of seduction, which was not exposed to the objections which had been brought against the Bill of the Right Rev. Prelate the Bishop of Oxford. Lord CAMPBELL thought it was impossible the Bill could pass this session, and would suggest its post ponement. After a few words from Lord DENMAN, the Bill was read a first time, and the second reading was fixed for Tuesday next. INDEPENDENCE OF PARLIAMENT BILL. Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading of the Independence of Parliament Bill. The object of this measure was to exclude insolvent debtors from Parlia ment, in the same manner as bankrupts were ex cluded. As the law now stood, law-makers were law-breakers, and brought scandal on the House to which they belonged. He would, however, if he could get an assurance from the Government that they would take up the question next session, withdraw his motion. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was understood to approve of the principle of the Bill, but to recommend its postponement. Lord BROUGHAM considered it better the measure should originate in the House of Commons, and would not therefore press his motion. The Bill was then withdrawn. CRIMINAL LAW ADMINISTRATION BILL. Lord CAMPBELL moved that the House do resolve itself into Committee on the Criminal Law Administra tion Bill. The Bill had been referred to a Select Com mittee, and the question had been mooted as to whether it would be advisable, in all criminal cases, to give the party convicted a right to demand a new trial, and the judges had unanimously decided that it would not be advisable. Lord DENMAN likewise bore testimony to the unanimous opinion of the judges on the subject. He also objected to giving a right of appeal from the judg ments of courts of quarter-sessions on points of law, as was proposed by this Bill. It would be attended with _ great inconvenience, and would amount to a practical defeat of the adminis tration of justice. The judges were generally of opi nion that no practical good could arise from this appeal to the judges on circuit, but that, on the other hand, it would be attended with great disadvantage. Lord BROUGHAM said it was a great mistake to suppose that the same course could be pursued with reference to appeals from courts of criminal judicature as from civil courts. They must double the number of judges, and make them sit in July as well as in Novem ber, if such a proposition were carried into effect; and anything more wild, altogether, could not possibly have been proposed. He thought nothing was more unsatis factory than the manner in which points were now re served by judges and finally adjudicated upon. He con sidered that their judgments should be given in open court; but still he could not approve of the present measure as an effectual remedy for the existing evils in the administration of the criminal law. Lord CAMPBELL said that many difficult and im portant questions came before the courts of quarter-ses sions, and it was quite as important that appeals should be allowed in such cases as in those tried before the su perior courts. It had generally been considered one of the defects of the courts of q uarter -sessions that there was no appeal. A judge could consult his learned brethren upon adifficult point, but a chairman of quarter sessions had not that advan ta g e. He did not think there was any danger of the privilege of appeal from quarter sessions being abused. The amendment was then agreed to, and the two clauses accordingly struck out. Their Lordships resumed, and the Bill as amended was reported. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 13. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. FARMERS' ESTATE SOCIETY (IRELAND' BILL. A lengthened discussion aTose upon bringing up the special report of the Chairman of Committees upon this Bill, to whom it had been referred, as to whether the special nature of its provisions did not demand that it should be referred to the consideration of a Select Committee. Mr. MONSELL said the Bill was a most important one for Ireland. It had received the sanction of the Lord-Lieutenant and the Law Officers of the Crown, and he hoped the Bill would not be delayed. Sir H. FERGUSON said the Bill contained most extraordinary provisions, and he though it ought to be referred to the consideration of a Select Committee, with the view of ascertaining whether the promoters had raised the capital for carrying it into effect. Itir. BAGOT suggested that the debate upon the Bill had better be adjourned. Mr. BRIGHT opposed the suggestion. He thought the House knew nothing of the provisions of the Bill, and it ought, he thought, to bo referred to a Select Committee. The report was then ordered to lie upon the table. LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were considered and agreed to: — Bristol and Exeter (Branch from Bleadon to Wells, Glastonbury, and Street) Bill. Bristol and Exeter Railway (Taunton and Castlecary Branch) Bill. Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Amendment and Branches, &c.) Bill. Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway (Relinquishment of Line between Omagh and Enniskillen) Bill. North Staffordshire Railway (Ashbourne Branch and Approach to Congleton Station) Bill. Wbitehaven Junction Railway (Extension, Alteration, and Branches, &c.) Bill. York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Great North of England, Clarence, and Hartlepool Junction) Bill. Mr. HUME presented eight petitions in favour of Parliamentary reform. Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition against the Lunatic Asylums (Scotland) Bill. Mr. HUME presented petitions from the Cape of Good Hope praying that the principle of self-govern ment might be extended to that colony. He gctve notice that when the petition was printed he should call attention to its contents. The Honourable Member also presented a petition from Chiswick, Kensington, and Fulham, signed by 18,000 persons, praying that they might be allowed to return a Member to the House to supply the place of Sudbury. The Hon. Gentleman gave notice that he should on an early day move that this petition be printed with the view of founding a motion upon it. INCREASE OF BISHOPS. Lord C. MANNERS presented a petition from certain ratepayers is Leicestershire, praying the House to adopt measures for augmenting the number of bishops. DISEASE AMONG SHEEP. In reply to a question from an HON. MEMBER, Mr. LIBOUCHERE stated that the attention of the Government had been called to the prevalence of a disease called small-pox among sheep ; and he would state to the House exactly how the case stood as far as they were acquainted with it. At the end of the month of September last they received information that several cases of disease among sheep had occurred of a very fatal and contagious nature. The Board of Trade and the Customs having heard that these sheep arrived from Germany, instituted a strict in spection of all sheep imported from that country, and every other measure that they thought necessary, and very shortly afterwards cases of diseased sheep imported into this country had altogether ceased. He had, however, seen the accounts to which the Honourable Gentleman had referred of a disease of a very extensive magnitude among sheep in the eastern counties. A strict investigation had again been established, and only one case of a dis eased animal had been discovered whieh took place as late as last Saturday, upon a Hamburgh ves sel. He could assure the Honourable Gentleman that the officers of Customs, p a rticularly of the eastern ports had been directed to have all animals affected with the disease immediately slaughtered on their arrival. The most stringent measures would be adopted by the Gover nment to prevent their impor- tation. In reply to another question, Mr. LABOUCHER,E stated that all cargoes arriving from Germany were inspected by a veterinary surgeon, and that the Government had received some valuable information from Germany respecting the disease, and that he was quite willing to have it laid on the table o 2 the House. SUGAR DUTIES. Mr. HUME gave notice that he would bring the peti tion which he had presented from Jamaica, respecting the proposed sugar duties, before the House on the first opportunity. NEW BOROUGHS. The Hox. MElanEa also gave notice that on an early dal he would move for leave to bring in a Bill to have transferred the two:Members taken from Sudbury to Ful. h a m, Kensington, and Chelsea. RUM. Lord J. RUSSELL, in answer to a question from Mr. Berkeley, whether it was the intention of the Govern ment to propose any resolution as to the reduction of the duty on rum, stated that the Chancellor of the Exche quer would give the information required by the Hon. Gentleman. Colonel SIBTHORP was glad to find that the miscel laneous estimates would be laid on the table in the course of a week: he trusted that the return he had moved for with respect to commissions would be laid on the table at the same time. EMIGRATION CLUBS. 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