The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-28 00:00:00

MORNING SUN THE QUENISSET AFFAIR. We published in Saturday's columns the judgment given on -Thursday by the Court of Peers, - but the im portance attached to the sentence, and the controversy as tits legality as applied to the case of Dupoty, render it hecessary to publish here the preamble of the decree, of whlch the following is a faithful abstract : After reciting summarily the act of accusation, and that the witnesses had been examined and confronted with the prisoners, and then reciting textually the requi sitory of the Procureur-General, and reciting that alI the prisoners and their Counsel had been heard in their defence, and that the Court had deliberated upon the proceedings in seven successive sittings from the 16th to the 22d inst., both inclusive, it goes on to pronounce concerning the attentat that— " Considering that it resulted from the previous exa minations and the trial, that on.l3th of September last there was committed an attempt against the lives of their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Orleans, Nemours, and Aumale, members of the Royal family; considering that Quenisset, alias Papart, had been convicted of ; making the above-mentioned attempt; considering that Colom bier, Brazier (alias Just), Petit (alias Auguste), Jarrasse (alias Jean Marie), Dufour, Boggio (alias Martin), Mal let, and Boucheron are convicted of having been accom plic.,s in the said attempt, either by exciting it with me naces or culpable machinations or artifices, by giving in structions for its committal, by knowingly and wilfully procuring arms or other means for its execution, or by knoain;7ly aiding and abetting the person who made the attempt in the acts which prepared and facilitated or consummated it: considering that there does not result from the trial sufficient proofs against Launois, that he participated in the said attempt either as principal or ac complice : " In so far as concerns the conspiracy, considering that it results from the previous examinations and the trial that a plot was formed for destroying the Govern ment, and exciting the citizens or inhabitants to arm themselves against the Royal authority, or against each other ;—considering that the plot was conceived and agreed upon in secret associations, the members of which were bound by mutual oaths to take up arms upon the orders of their chiefs with the intention of changing the Government ;—considering that according to the terms of Article 69 of the penal code there is complicity of crime or offence on the part of all those who by intimi dations or artifices excited their committal, or gave in structions to that effect, or who aided and assisted the principal in his attempt in the acts which prepared, facilitated, or consummated it ;—consider ing that Article 1 of the law of the 17th of May, 1819, has ranked among the ordinary acts which constitute complicity, every excitement followed by crime or offence by written or printed papers, sold or distri buted, put to sale ur exposed in public places or meet ings, whether there be or not any personal connection between the author of the excitement and those who commit the crime; that this provision forms part of the penal code according to the terms of article 26 of the law of May 17, 1819, which, in abolishing articles 102, 217, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 374:375, 377, of the code, orders that they shall be replaced by the provisions of the said law;—considering that the law of the Bth o f O c t o b er has not exacted any thing relative to excitement to crime, followed by results; committed by one of the means of publica tion provided for by article 1 of the law of May 17, 1819 ; that if the law of the 9th of September, 1835, has characterised as attempts against the safety of the State the publications containing excitement to the crimes provided for by articles 86 and 87 of the penal code, and has classed them amongst the attempts which may be brought under the jurisdiction of the Court of Peers, even when the excitement has not been attended with results, this provision has simply brought within the co:npetence of the Coart this kind of attempt, and has not modified the application of the general principle, in virtue of which every Court of justice which has taken cognizance of a crime is competent to try the accomplices in that crime;—considering that the crimes of attentat and punt of which the Court has taken cognizance by its deci sion; of the 18th Nov. last, presents the character of eon .noxity provided for by article 227 of the criminal code ; considering that Quenisset, alias Papart, Colombier, Bra zier, alias Juste, Petit, alias Auguste, Jarrasse, Dufour, 11.ggio, Mallet, and Boucheron, already convicted of the att,:ntat. and Launois, alias Chasseur, Dupoty, Ba sin. arras Napoleon, are convicted of having been con reated in the above plot, in knowingly aiding and assist ing the authors of the crime in the facts which prepared, facilitatc-al, or consummated it, or with having excited it by machinations or criminal artifice, either by writings, printed papers, sold or distributed, or exposed in public places, and especially Dupoty, by the 'publication of an article inserted in the number of the Journal du Potpie •of the 12th of September last, beginning with the words, " M. le Marechal Gerard," and ending with the words, " This is what we wish to recal to their minds," the said excitement having been followed by results : " As regards Prioul, Martin, Fougeray, Bouzer, and Considere, considering that there do not result from the trial sufficient proofs against theta to show that they are guilty. either as authors or accomplices of the crimes above named ; " Declares Prim], Martin, Fougeray, Bouzer, and Con sidere acquitted of the charge brought against them, and orders that they shall be immediately set at liberty, if not detained for Ay other cause. " Declares Quensisset, alias Papart, guilty of the crime of attempting the lives of their Royal Highnesses the Dukes d'Orleans, de Nemours, and d'Aumale, mem bers of the Royal Family. " Declares • Columbier, brazier, alias Just Petit, alias Auguste, Jarrasse, Dutbur, Boggio, Mallet, and Bou cheron, guilty of e rnplicity in the said crime, provided for by articles se,, 88, 59; And 60, of the Penal Code. " Declares Quenisset, Colombier, Brazier, Petit, Jar rasse, Dufour, Boggio, Mallet, Boucheron, Launois, Dupoty, and Bazin, of the crime of plotting against the safety of the Stato; which crime is provided far by articles 87, 'B9, 91; 59, and 60, of the Penal Code, and article I of the law of May 17, 1819. Considering that the penalties are to be apportioned according to the nature and gravity of the participation .of each of the criminals, and considering articles 7, 12, 17, 20, 28, 29, 36, and 47, of the Penal Code :-- " Condemns Quenisset, Colombier, and Brazier to death ; Petit, Jarrasse, and Dufour to transportation ; Bo,ggio and Mallet each to fifteen years' confinement, with labour ; Boucheron and Launois each to ten years' confinement, with labour ; Dupoty and Bazin each to five years' imprisonment, with labour. "Orders, conformably to Article 47 of the Penal 'code, that the said Boggio; Mallet, Boucheron, Launois, Dupoty, and Bezin shall be, after the expiration of their sentences, subject to the surveillance of the police for life. ' " Condemns Quenisset, Colombier, Brazier, Petit, Jar rasse, Dufour, Boggio, Mallet, Boucheron, Launois, Du poty, and Bazin. jointly and severally, to the expenses of the trial, which shall be fixed according to law, as well fur the part to be borne by the condemned persons as for that which is to be borne by the State. " Orders that the present judgment shall, by the direc tihns of the Procureur-General, be printed, published, and 'stuck up wherever it may be necessary, and that it Shall be read and notified to the accused by the Chief Registrar of the Court." _ _ [Here follow the signatures of the Peers.] OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE VERDICT. (From the Presse, Mole organ.) —- If the condemnation against Dupoty has only Leen caused by motives exclusively denied from th e f ac ts of the c ause , an d th e p ro found conviction of his guilt, we have only to record it with respect ; but if, on the contrary-, it has been the result of considerations ra ther political than judicial, by reasons of . State de duced e i t h er f rom t h e excesses o f the Radical press or the danger to which our institutions are exposed by the organisation of secret societies, or by the ne cessity of striking a blow which shall have a deep effect upon the public mind, then, however great may be the respect co mman d ed by the eminent names of M. Pasquier th e Duke de Broglie, Count Mole, M.M. Bantle, ?,tehilhou, and Persil, Count Portalis, Count de Bas tard, Baron de Zangiacomi, Baron Seguier, &c. ; what ever grief we may feel at separating ourselves on this occasion from the Chamber of Peers, which has always found us the first to defend it against unjust attacks:, we will not betray the great principles which we have constantly professed. We will even, against the Peers, have the courage of our own convictions, and persist, as . w e have si immutable done, i n assert i ng that i f there be a sacred and truth on earth, it is that politics should never interf e re with the decisions of jus tice. Society has other means of d e f ending itself ; when it thinks it has not, it is lost. organ.) (From the Constitationnel? Thiers' Peers formed into a Court " We will for the present restrict ourselves to one ob servation. The Chamber of of Justice is a political tribunal, inasmuch its decisions. reasons of State must have a powerful influence uponha racter we el"ons ' We do not offer any opinion on this c. and as' merely notice it. In a political point of . view, just , terminated re reasons of State, the trial which has promised immense results. The disclosures. made . b . y Quenisset, and those subsequently made, is said, by Colombier and Dufour, were ne cessarily . calcu lated to put an end to those conspiracies of the etage which, for some years past, have disturbed peace and menaced the life of Royal personages._ it, e press, which, notwith s tandin g th e ill th a t is said of 1_ ? ,s after all, a powerful lever for the Go vernm ent, and the great majority of which sincer e ly d es i res the mainte nanee of order and of the existing institutions—the press, we say, would naturally have dilated on the happy con sequences of these disclosures, and have laboured to dis courage for ever all attempts to follow the example of the conspirators of the Rue Traversiere. Instead of leaving to the press this useful and patriotic task, the Peers have, by the condemnation of M. Dupoty, and the questions to which it gives rise, opened a new and sad arena for discussion, which will be profitable to none. On the occasion of a trial, which might have put an end to plots, a new era has been inaugurated, full of menace of the rights which were rendered sacred by the Revolution of July. We are profoundly afflicted at such a course. (From the Courrier Francais, Thiers' organ.) The Co urt of Peers has pronouced its judgment. It i.- - , such as public rep o rt sa id it wou ld b e , b ut w hi c h we wer e unwilling to believe. The complicity imputed to M. Dupoty can only be a moral complicity—a connec tion between the doctrines emitted by the .Inurnal du People and the events of the 13th of September. If the judgment lied been based upon such motives we could not protest against it with sufficient energy, for it would be the destruction of all the guarantees which society has throvv, around human judgment. This is a secret, however, in the conscience of the Judges ; we will' not endeavou r to probe it. But the Ministry which brought M. D upoty b efore the Court of Peers, and'which excited the Court to conde mn hi m , t h oug h t much less of the punishment o f a p reten d e d consp i rator than of intimidating the entire press, by showing that upon the first pretext the writer, the mos t d evo t e d to constitutional order,might be torn from his family and his pursuits, andimplicated in an accusation of plot against the State. But the press will resist this attempt, the most violent and bold that was ever ma d e, as i t had resisted so many other trials. It will fulfil its mission without being depressed or exasperated by events ; it will remain within the law, but will oppose it. The sa cred interests which are entrusted to its guardianship do not permit it to give way. (From the Siecle, Odilon Barrot.) The Siecle devotes nearly its first page to a review of the proceedings which led to the conemnation of M. Dupoty, and refutes the doctrine upon which the judg ment is founded. In conclusion, the Siecle says :—" The universal stupefaction caused by the judgment prove; that the public are fully aware of the tendency which so dreadful a principle as that which has just been laid down might have in a time of reaction. May the wis dom of the country prevent the calamities towards which a despairing Ministry is driving us." (From the Temps.) " Whatever may have been the convictions of the Court of Peers with regard to M. Dupoty, they appear to have been influenced by motives respecting which it is a duty for us to explain ourselves. The press, like the public, must be impressed by a condemnation of this kind, but in our opinion it has no cause for uneasiness. It has never yielded to intimidation—the ordonnances of July did not stifle its voice. It will make no menace, but it will be terrified by none." (From the National, Repnblican.) Although the public were prepared by vague rumours for the condemnation of M. Dupoty, we may say, with out exaggeration, that it has produced an universa impression of astonishment and stupor. Even the partisans of the Government do not disguise the alarm and grief which they feel at this sentence. Since 1830 no event has excited such general emotion, and we may add, that if there be alarm, it is less strong amongst the enemies of the Government than amongst its friends. The law commands us to respect the judgment of the Court of Peers, and we will not violate the law. The sanctuary of the conscience exists for everybody ; if that of the Judges be tranquil, we will not attempt to instil remorse. But there is something above the acts of human justice and the conscience of individuals, viz., the universal feeling, and truth coin pels us to say that this has been painfully, cruelly shocked. As for ourselves, we reserve for a more calm moment the reflections created by this judgment. Our readers must permit us to distrust ourselves, and to con trol for a day the emotions by which we are agitated. The event which has given rise to them is one of great portent. The entire Press feels this, and so will France, (From the Commerce, Bonapartist.) The Commerce examines the charges against M. Du poty, and the arguments by which they were supported before the Court of Peers, and adds : "If such theories are to prevail there will be no more liberty for the Press than such as may please a Ministry to allow. The Press has now the most dangerous menace held out against it that has been used for a long time. It remains to be seen whether the country and the Chamber of Deputies really desire the liberty of dis cussion, consecrated by the Charter, and upon which was founded the dynasty of July." (From the Journal des Debuts, Court organ, of Saturday.) It appears to us that the journals, whose language, however, is very moderate and proper,_ have taken an erroneous view Of the tendency of this judgment as re gards the Press. We have perused and re-perused it several times, and if we comprehend it rightly, the Court has decided two things-Ist, that, by the article publish ed in the number of the 12th of September, the, chief editor of the Journal du Peuple was guilty of exciting to a determined act, viz., the conspiracy of the Society of Traveilleurs Egalitaires; 2dly, that independently even of the excitement by means of the Journal, which excitement of itself constitutes complicity, accor ding to the terms of the law, it results from the trial that M. Dupoty knew it. On these two points has the Court decided correctly? Has there been sufficient proof offered of direct complicity between the society in question and the chief editor of the Journal du Peuple ? This is not what we have to inquire into. We were not judges be fore the sentence, and we will not be judges after it. The essential point in the interest of the Press is, that M. Dupoty Las not been condemned for moral complicity re sulting from the spirit of the journal which he published. No, the Court of Peers has not committed this abuse of power, and the text of its judgment shows that it has not. Two questions were put to it, as they might have been to a jury—one as to complicity by excitement to a determined act ; the other as to direct com plicity, and it has replied to these two ques tions affirmatively. To think and say that the Cham ber of Peers had made a mistake in seeing excite ment where there was none, and in taking mere pre sumptions as proofs of complicity, is the right of all the world. However intelligent or elevated a tribunal may be, it is permitted to differ from it in opinion as to its judgment. In all human judgments error is possible. But whatever may be the opinion as to the sentence of the Court of Peers, people must not reason upon what it does not contain. The press, in our opinion, has taken alarm without cause. There is no such thing as moral complicity. A man can only be the accomplice of a de termined act, whether he has taken a direct part in the offence, or excited others to commit it. This is the law, and it is what the Court of Peers intended to apply. We will only add one word—we know well in what times we live, and how terrible are the changes of fortune. This is a reason for everybody to be just and moderate, even if the love of moderation and justice be not in the heart. If, therefore, we thought that the sentence of the Court of Peers menaced the liberty of the press, and suspended a new code over the heads of public writers, viz., an undefinable crime that of moral com plicity with every attentat or conspiracy which may arise, we should, even for our own interest, be the first to protest against this judgment of the Court of Peers. (From the Royalist Quotidienne.) The sentence of the Court of Peers has created an intense sensation in all Paris. The men who call for a terrible and formidable repression must now see how the public feeling replies to such a call. Let them remove from the atmosphere of flattery by which power is sur rounded, and they will see what remains there are of liberty and equity in men's minds. They have no parti cular opinion to consult in order to enlighten themselves, for in this affair there is but one opinion. Everybody asks what M. Guizot pretends to make of France with his system of implacable sectarianism and puritannical oppression. The Ministers are engaged in a course which leads to ruin ; they cannot stop without perishing, and they must perish if they go on. This is the double fatality of all false regimes. They all resort to force in the hope of salvation ; force becomes violence, and violence becomes frenzy, then there remain only coups de hasard, or, as they are called, coups d'etat, the last expedient of regimes, which are condemned to death. (From the Royalist Gazette de France.) Two important events have occurred ; the condemna tion of M. Dupoty and the meeting of all the conductors of the independent press. Behold what the Ministry of intimidation has produced ; every step that it takes tends to the union of all elevated minds and generous hearts. Differences of opinion are effaced by the efforts which are made to promote them ; and a great party is forming, which is founded upon the principles of liberty, the rights of all, and the interests which stand in need of the guarantees of legal order. This time there is no question of armed protest or violence of any kind. Thanks to heaven ! the press no longer seeks to excite passions for the purpose of protecting itself. It seeks the means of preservation and safety in the union of all Frenchmen, and the amelioration of our institutions. M. Guizot, when he admitted his system of internal war, in order to prevent foreign war, doubtlessly hoped that violence would reply to violence. The reply to facts which menace the press is given on the evidence of wisdom and of that union which constitute force. The Journals show an excellent spirit in forgetting more and more the differences of opinion which have so long divided them, and in demanding freedom of discussion for all. Free dom of discussion and Parliamentary and electoral re form will suffice for the salvation of France, and the sal vation of France will henceforward be the sole object of the independent press. (From the Ministerial Univers.) The charter, in constituting the high and sovereign political jurisdiction of the Court of Peers, intended to maintain the principle of equality in the eye of the law, with impunity for no man. The Court of Peers then has as great a right to condemn a journalist to five years' imprisonment as to condemn three persons of the working class to death. What are the pretensions of the self-styled independent press ? It contests the right of the Court of Peers to judge M. Dupoty. Why should there be this privilege of Impunity in favour of a single man ? From the moment when the charter created a political tribunal every body, without exception, fell within its jurisdiction. (From the Ministerial Globe.) The Globe has a very long article in defence of the judgment ; but it is in a very different spirit from that of the Debats. The article commences by stating that th e virtuous and patriotic press " has commented on the sentence with a moderation which has a near re semblance to fear, and then proceeds to remark on the necessity of applying justice with a firm hand. The Gtobe, replying to the arguments of the Opposition press, against the decision of the Court of Peers, as being contrary to law, says ;—" Let us despise all this so. to cry out PlustrY• Let us prevent crime, and we shall not to have terrible judg m ent against justice. What e ff ect has the most upon the mind of a man who is re solved not to commit the act, which has boon so punished? Nothing. Honest men, therefore, have no interest in exclaiming aginst t h e severity of the laws. There is a meat mummery in p retending that the sentence of the Court of Peers menace s the liberty of the press. 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Their Invisible Operative Voice Conductor Sound Magnifiers for deaf persons, is not the least perceptible nor uncomfortable ; they give immediate relief to old standing extreme cises of deafness, and the faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard with exact distinctness.-39, Albemarle-street, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, Mpg Willianustreet, City.—No connection with persons of the same name. TIM MTN, LONDON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1641. WEST INDIES. Her Majesty's packet Pandora, Lieut. Innis, arrived on Friday evening at. Falmouth from the West Indies. The following• are her sailing dates:—From Barbadoes, Nov. 1 ; St. Lucie and Martinique, 2d ;. Dominica, 3d; Guadaloupe, 4th ; Antigua and Montserrat, sth; Nei and St. Christ o ph er ' s , 6 t h ; T or t o l a , 7th,; and St. Tho - - mas's, on the 27th, where the steamer Blazer brought up the Jamaica mails of N0v.19, and the Spitfire the Islands' bags. Passengers—Capt. St. John, R.A., and lady, Messrs. Leake, Lewis, Guppy, St. Martin, and Seghens. She had on freight 120,000 dollars. The proceedings of the House of Assembly at Jamaica do not afford much interest. The committee on his Ex cellency. the Governor's message of Oct. 29th reported that a ilstinction is made in the pay of the officers of the West India and European regiments, and recommending that such distinction should be done away with, which was ordered to lie on the table. A petition from W. Lemonius, praying, to be paid bounty on immigrants imported in 1838, was rejected. • An investigation was being made as to the election and return for the parish of St. Mary's. The barque Sandwich, from London, last Portsmouth, 17 days, for St. Lucie, has put into Falmouth, having been struck by a sea, which damaged her stern, injured her rudder, and is supposed to have spoiled a part of her mug°. The Express packet, Lieut. Herrick, is under• sailing orders to proceed to Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, shculd there not be a Peninsular steamer here to take the mails on Monday. If there be a steam. vessel provided, the Express will take hence the Madeira and Brazils mail in January. By this packet we have received Bogoto papers to the 10th of November, from which the following official do cuments are translated : " British Legation, Bogota, Sept. 23, 1841. " The undersigned, her -Britannic Majesty's Charge d'Affaires. has the honour to inform his Excellency Senor Mariano Ospina, Granadian Minister for Foreign Affairs. that be has received authority from her Majesty's Govern ment to offer the mediation of said Government betwixt the contending par ties in New Granada; and although such mediation is now neither requisite nor convenient, by rea son of the happy results attendant upon the various mili tary operations which have taken place within the last eight months, he is nevertheless inclined to believe the benevo lent intentions of her Majesty's Government may yet be fulfilled, and contribute to the re-establishment of tran quillity, and to the cause of humanity . in general, in his offering to forward the most positive instructions under the responsibility of the undersigned, and in virtue of the powers wherewith he is invested by her Majesty's Government, to the British Consuls of the coast, and to the commanders of her Majesty's vessels, in the ports of Santa Martha and Carthagena, to resist, in the most de cided manner, by force, any attempts of the rebel au thorities of the coast to inflict death on any of the friends or defenders of the Government who may chance to be in their power, or who during the present conflict may happen to fall into their hands; with the express condi tion, however, that the chief officer of the troops of the coast, Senor Ramon Acevedo, who is actually under sen tence of death, be exempted from the execution thereof. " Relying that the Granadian Government will find it advantageous for itself to accede to the foregoing propo sition, the undersigned is quite disposed and anxious to send a messenger to the coast with the strictest orders, authorising the commanders of her Majesty's vessels to prevent by force any proceedings which, in the light of political reprisals, may be attempted there. " The Granadian Government will understand that the undersigned, in making such suggestion, is aware of acting only in conformity with the instructions he has received from her Majesty's Government, whose sincerest sympathy is attracted towards the welfare and tranquil lity of this Republic. "The undersigned seizes the present opportunity of assuring his Excellency Senor Ospina of his deepest and most distinguished consideration. (Signed) " WILLIAM PITT ADAMS. " To his Excellency Senor Mariano Ospina." (REPLY.) " REPUBLIC OF NEW GRANADA. " Bogota, Sept. 24, 1841. "The undersigned has received and submitted for the in formation of his Government the esteemed despatch of the Hon. William Pitt Adams. her Britannic Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, dated 23d inst., in which he communicates the undersigned of his having been authorised to offer the mediation of her Britannic:Majesty's Government between the conflicting parties in New Granada, and that al though he neither jupges requisite or convenient such mediation, still, in order to comply with the benevolent intentions of her Majesty, as also to contribute to the restoration of tranquillity, and to the cause of humanity in general, he offers to remit positive instructions to the British Consuls of the coast, and to the commanders of her Majesty's vessels in the ports of Santa Martha and Carthagena, to resist by force, and in the most decisive manner, any attempt on the part of the insurgent autho rities to punish with death any of the friends or defenders of the Government who may be actually in their power, or may hereafter fall into it ; with the express condition that Ramon Acevedo, chief officer of the rebel troops, and at pvesent condemned to death, be exempted from the execution of his sentence. " Although the nature of the war which has afflicted the Republic, and which happily approaches to an end, would not have allowed to the Government of the un dersigned the acceptance of the respectable mediation her Majesty's Government proposes, and which the Hon. Mr. Adams justly estimates as neither necessary nor convenient ; nevertheless, this act of her Majesty has been received by the Government of the undersigned with the profoundest esteem, as a testimonial of the benevolent intentions of her Majesty as regards New Granada, and the interest she manifests in the peace and tranquillity of this country. " The offer the Hon. Mr. Adams has been pleased to maker to the'Granadian Government, to forward in structions to the British Consuls, and to the comman ders of her Majesty's vessels in the ports of Santa Martha-and Carthagena, with the view of their hinder ing the rebels from inflicting death on the friends and defenders of the Government, has been gratefully re ceived • and consequently the executive power has granted the decree of commutation in favour of Ramon Acevedo, an authentic copy of which the undersignedhas the honour to address to her Britannic Majesty's Charge d'Affaires. " The undersigned informs the Hon. Mr. Adams he is at liberty to dispose of the corresponding passports, so that the messenger carrying the above-mentioned in structions may be enabled to proceed to the provinces of the coast by the route he judges most agreeable.—With sentiments of the sincerest respect, &c. (Signed) " MARIANO OSPINA. " To the lion. W. P. Adams, Her Britannic Majesty's Charge d'Affaires." Here follows the decree relative to the commutation of the sentence pronounced on Ramon Acevedo. He has been expelled the Republic for ever. The tardiness of the disclosure of the opinion of the British Government towards New Granada (the blame of which must rest on the late Secretary of State) was much reprobated. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOU EINALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. HERALD.—The frightful accident which oc curred on the Great Western Railroad, between Twyford and Reading, on Friday last, the early details of which appeared in Saturday's, and every particular as tar as they have transpired .appears in to-day's Herald, has produced as great sensation of horror as any public calamity we can remember. Thirty-eight human beings, chiefly, it le said, of the humbler classes, who were travelling by the early luggage-train to indulge in family communion on Christmas tide, were, in the midst of darkness, literally overwhelmed and crushed by the trucks be hind the conveyances in which they were, and by-masses of earth falling from a slip in the passing through Sonning-hill Cutting. Eight of these unfortunate persons were instanta neously %jammed to death ; their legs, arms, ribs, pelves, chests, collar-bones, and skulls being fractured in the most shocking manner; twelve others, all seriously injured, sonic wound ed beyond the probability of recovery, were conveyed to the Reading hospital, where they now lie ; five with slight hurts were enabled to proceed to their respective places of destination.; and the remaining thirteen have to thank God for a providential escape unblemished. This fatal event occurred about seven o'clock on Friday morning; within ten hours afterwards the Coroner for Berkshire,--with what certainly ap pears to be a somewhat hasty zeal,—proceeded to hold an inquest on the mangled remains of the eight persons who were thus prematurely thrown into the presence of their Maker. The first day's proceedings. of that inquest will be found elsewhere in to-day's paper; we await its close before we offer one word of comment on the evidence which has already been taken, or on the cause of the accident; but we would suggest that the presence of some gentle man from the Railway Department of the Board of Trade—if of combined legal and scientific attainments so much the better— at the inquiry is most desirable. That inquiry must be of the most careful and searching de scription. Were the carriages containing the passengers placed in that division of the train most likely to secure their safety in case of any ,unforeseen accident? Did any officer or servant of the Railroad Company observe any indications, however minute, of a tendency in the earth to slip in Sonning-hill Cutting ? What was the prevailing opinion as to the condition, in re ference to such an occurrence, of the cutting ? Was it an object of due solicitude and obser vation on the part of the Company at all times, and more particularly during and after the late heavy rains? Were watchmen continually. kept in the cutting to give notice and warning of any possible accident? In short, has the Great Western Railroad Company per formed those most responsible duties—in re ference to this portion of its line—to the pub lic which necessarily evolve from the posses sion of the enormous powers and privileges con ferred on it by the Legislature ? These are in quiries, the fulfilment of Which to their utmost limit can alone render the Coroner's inquest sa tisfactory to the nation. If Railroad Companies will not learn experience, except when it is taught at the cost of human life, then are they, instead of public improvements, public nuisances as at present conducted. There is a very strong and general impression abroad that every ar rangement for the accommodation, safety, and conveyance of all persons who cannot afford, or do not choose to travel by first-class carriages, is inconvenient and incommodious, and in many particulars most unnecessarily increases the risk of human life when accidents occur. Second and third class carriages seem in too many cases to be built on the principle that all who have suf. ficient money in their purses are to be driven into the . first class, and that those who have not are entitled to no consideration or com fort. Passengers in the former are not in any manner protected from smoke, smell, hot and flying cinders, cold, or rain. These carriages appear to he rarely cleaned, and may be fitly denominated conveyances for the propagation of colds, sore throats, stiff necks, and head-aches. The . liveried attendants on them treat any man or woman whose apparel is not of the best or newest description, stepping into them, as if they were of the brute creation, and think that once they have got them inside these filthy dens, every obligation to attend to their comfort has ceased. The security of the attendants is the knowledge that the poor do not and will not com plain to their superiors. We ourselves once witnessed a railroad servant break open a small box carried by a passenger, on his own bare suspicion that it might contain a puppy do , r; when he had forced the lock, he found inside the ill-used traveller's work ing tools ! Similar instances of gross in-treatment are of hourly occurrence. It is quite clear that something must be done for the greater accommodation, safety, and con venience of ALL classes of railroad travellers. The question is, can the voluntary exertions of the Companies be relied on ? or ought Govern tnent to undertake the duty—hitherto neglected by those who have the high merit of accomplish ing, great public works—of public protection ? Inquiries into railroad accidents have hitherto terminated in the general but most unsatisfactory statement —"nobody is to blame." We utterly .reject this conclusion; somebody is to blame in almost every accident that does occur; and until public inquiries as to the cause of such fatal occurrences as that of Friday last are conducted with a view to inculpation and not to exculpation, they are what we denominated a late Coroner's inquest on a railroad accident—solemn mockeries. GLOBE.—In the case which has just occurred in Paris, there has been a most disgraceful perversion of every recognised rule of law, and every principle of equity, for the purpose of punishing M. Dupoty, not so much on account of any enormity in his alleged offence, but almost avowedly with the design of warning the Edi tors of other Papers against the consequences of express ing their sentiments with what those who are the subjects of censure may consider au unpalatable degree of lati tude. In order to effect this object, Dupoty is accused of writing certain articles with the view of bringing about a certain event, which never was accomplished ; but some other circumstances of an unlawful nature having occurred at another time, the intentions of the writer are dovetailed to the illegal acts of others, which it is confessed be did not in any way prompt ; but he is nevertheless condemned, because he is said to have, some' time back, penned seditious articles, and because seditious doings afterwards occurred, though the latter were in no way connected with the for. mer, and did not arise out of them. The case o f Dupoty may be illustrated thus ; and its enormity is not less than would attach to one we are about to compare it to t—A man tells a party of well disposed persons to do an illegal act ; they refuse to proceed on his advice, and the deed is not performed—but some individuals, without instigation, go and commit a crime of totally a different kind to that wh:eh the others bad been advised to perpetrate, and the man who gave his counsel, tvbich was not followed in either instance, is declared to have prompted the second offence, and is punished accordingly. We are not surprised that the French Press should have takeo up a determined position against a principle so dan gerous to its freedom, and to the personal liberty of its members, as that involved in the sentence we have alluded to. Articles written long since may be brought against them whenever a political offence is perpetrated, no matter bow remote the writer may have been, either in fact or intention, from having prompted it, or desired to instigate its commission. If Dupoty's writings were amenable to law, they should have been prosecuted, at least if the' Government thought fit to take measures for punishment ; but it is a disgrace to the Court of Peers to have pronounced a man guilty of an alleged offence long gone by, and whol'y without re sult, under a prosecution for another crime, of which he is avowedly entirely innocent. STANDARD.—We understand is document has received the sanction of some few influential names, by which it is proposed to th e two C omm itt ees of Mr. Garbett, and Mr. Williams that these two gentlemen should be withdrawn, with a view to the substitution of some third candidate, who might be elected without op position. The reason assigned is, a desire to avoid un seemly contests in the University, and an apparent difference of opinion in the Church. This is all very specious and fair-spoken, and is likely to meet the wishes of many very excellent men, who possess in a high degree "That drivelling virtue of this moral age, Candour, that softens party's headlong rage ;" and it will be very convenient besides to those who may have private reasons of their own for not wish ing to displease either party in Convocation, and who know that to abstain from voting, if it go to a poll, wou ld be to displease both. But surely those gentlemen. if they reflect a little, must see that such a course is exceedingly unjust towards the stronger can didate ; and since his Committee cannot, as men of sense, listen for a moment to any such pro position, the only effect of it must be to embar rass him and them, and expose Coen), in the opinion of those who have more candour than acuteness and discrimination, to the reflection, which they have not deserved, of protrectiag a religious controversy. This may be a very good reasou why the proposal should meet with favour from friends of the weaker candidate, who would thus conveit into a drawn battle what is now a certain defeat ; it is of course an equally good reason why the staunch friends of the good cause should very carefully avoid all contact with it. Party feeling has had no doubt a good deal to do with this question on both sides. But' Mr. Garbett's Committee have very properly disclaimed its first in troduction, and we call upon them now to say whether they are prepared to withdraw their candidate in cool- i . 'e,' _ ~~ deration that his opponent shall also be withdrawn ? If they arc, they falsify all their professions, and show the world plainly that they fought not at all for their can didate—but altogether for or against a party. They will betray their candidate and stultify themselves. The President and Fellows of Trinity had the game in their own hands. The only name which would be at all likely to succeed is that of Mr. Claughton. Why did n ot they put forward Mr. Claughton at first ? He is a member, the most distinguished member, of their own Col:cp. By whose instigation, and to serve what purely academical purpose they were induced to bring forward Mr. Williams, let them now answer. They hare only themselves to blame ; the consequences they must take. COURIER.—We, on Friday, in reference to Mr. Christopher's speech at Lincoln, adverted to the grati fying proof it afforded of the readiness of British land owners to meet the wishes of those who' have assumed an attitude of hostility and antagonism towards them, hoping, rather than expecting, that the manifestation of such a feeling on their parts would have allayed some what of the bitterness that had4been exhibited towards them ; but it seems only to have inflamed it the more, augmenting its intensity by the insolence of anticipated triumph. Mr. Christopher's well-meant and generous offer, for peace-sake, has been treated as " a signaltof dis tress " by the organs of that party which affects so much anxiety for a settlement of the Corn-law question. Surely it may be permitted to us to doubt the sincerity of advocates, who bewaiiingly adniit the superiority of the agricultural interest in both branches of the Legislature, and then pretend to deride and strive to misrepresent the liberal and extensive concessions which the guar dians of that interest are willing to make, in order to se cure an equitable adjustment of the much-vexed ques tion. This is surely neither politic nor just ;it evinces more of hostility against opponents than of anxiety for the successful issue of the cause' of which it has as sumed the advocacy, and aims rather at the prostra tion of one great interest in the State, than at the maintenance and salvation of all. It may serve the purpose of those who live upon dis sension and glory in party strife to vituperate and menace " the squires "—to misrepresent their actions, and malign their motives —to excite feel ings of hatred against them and then boast of the deed ; but sure we are that no beneficial result can follow either to the capitalist or the operative, and that whatever effect such a line of advocacy may be attended with, it tends to she obstruction rather than the advancement of the so earnestly-desired settlement. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. FIVE .PERSONS KILLED, AND TEN SERI- OUSLY HURT. On Friday evening the site of the late fire at Man ehester was rendered the scene of a most appalling acci dent, by the fall of one of the walls of the building in which the late fire occurred upon some workmen em ployed to take it down. The building alluded to was a warehouse, in Piccadilly, Manchester, in the occupation of the Union Carrying Company, being used by them as a depot for goods consigned to their care, for carriage by the Rochdale and Bridgewater canals, and had re cently become the property of Lord Francis Egerton, who is said to have purchased it for 11,0001. The fire occurred on Monday last, when two thousand bags of cot ton were destroyed, worth about 16,0001., and a quantity of corn, flour, groceries, and tallow. The whole damage was estimated at upwards of 30,0001. The building was situated in Piccadilly, and the ruins, which have re mained nearly undisturbed since the fire, were about to be removed on Friday evening, when the accident occurred. Though the warehouse had been completely gutted by the fire, two of the entire walls were left standing ; and that at the back of the building, to the south of Piccadilly, about ninety feet high, by one hun dred feet in length, was carried, by means of two stone arches. over the Rochdale canal. This wall was about to be removed, at four o'clock, on Friday afternoon, by some men in the employ of Mr. Paulding, a railway contractor, who were erecting some scaffolding against it, when the stone of one of the arches, which had be come rotten, and nearly pulverised by the heat of the fire, giving way, the arch collapsed, and the wall, divid ing into two portions, fell, a heap of ruins, upon the men who were below. The whole accident was the work of but a moment. The men had no chance of escape ; they had barely time to perceive their awful situation, and raise one loud shriek of terror ere they were silenced and hid den from view beneath the falling mass. A more painful scene can scarcely be conceived, and the excitement created in the neighbourhood by the accident cannot be described. The great thoroughfares leading to the spot, and of which Piccadilly itself is one of the principal, were almost immediately choked with people, to the number of some thousands, and there was reason to fear, from the eagerness with which they pres sed forward upon the ruins, that a still more frightful accident might be the result, by the giving way of the western wall of the building. Their presence, too, had the effect of seriously retarding the necessary operations for affording the most prompt relief to the unfortunate men buried in the ruins. Fortunately, Sir Charles Shaw, the Chief Commissioner of Police, having heard 'of the accident within a few minutes of its occurrence, had'anti cipated this evil, and having given orders bodY of police to be called to the spot, Seperktendent ,Lawley and Inspector Irwin arrived in front of th e building with a body of about forty men, who were iintriViately order ed to clear the street. Sir Charles himself quyerintended the execution of this ordei, and liarrtqfp_ u wero then thrown across Piccadilly to prevent the access of the public ; and the evening being now far advanced, watch fires were lighted in the streets and upon the ruins to guide the operations of - the men employed to search fur the sufferers. The number of men employed at the building when the accident I oc curred was 103, and had the w a ll c ome d own i n an unbroken mass, instead of falling as described above, the probability is, that the whole of them would have been sacrificed. There was, of course, a difficulty of ascertaining with any certainty for a length of time, out of so many hands, most of whom had escaped injury, the real number of the sufferers. hulling, the con tractor, had a list of the men employed, and, on a muster being called, the following did not, answer to their names, and were concluded to be in the ruins :—Jas. Perkins, 'Thos. Finnigan, Patrick Conlan, George Proudman, Peter Radical, Michael. Mahon, Thos. Garland, John Donally, Patrick rinnigan, Harrison, Michael Dolan, Patrick Tully, Win. Hurly, J. Roche, and Thos. Silcox, in all fifteen persons. Besides these, however, a great number had received injuries from falling bricks and other materials, but were not seriously hurt. The poor men whose names are placed first in the list were rescued from the ruins almost directly the search began and though so much hurt that it was deemed necessary to take them to the Infirmary, it is not supposed that their lives are endangered by their wounds. The search for the remainder of the sufferers was a work of greater time, and they have suffered much more severely. Peter Radical was discovered about six o'clock with his skull fractured, and suffering from internal injuries ; he was conveyed to the Infirmary, but there is slight hope of his recovery. Michael Mahon was also taken out of the ruins about the same time, and although not much bruised ex ternally, he had evidently received such internal injuries as leave but faint hopes of his recovery. About half past six Thomas Garland, another of the sufferers, was found, and though still alive, his body was fright. fully mangled and crushed, whilst his head was com pletely scalped. Patrick Finnigan and William Har rison were taken from the ruins about this time, and taken to the Infirmary. Both of them were much hurt, the former having one shoulder dislocated and being otherwise injured, and the other having two of his ribs broken. Hurly was found with several of his ribs broken. The left leg of one of the sufferers, sup posed to be Silcox's, was found about this time. John Donally was next taken out, dead ; and two hours after wards Dolan, also dead. Near him, also dead, were found the remains of Tully. The latter was found stand ing upright amongst a heap of bricks, in which his body was so firmly itnbedded, that nearly an hour elapsed after his head and shouldm had been bared, before it could be extricated. A more painful and heart-rending scene than was presented at the Infirmary about ni ne o ' c l oc k last evening, was never witnessed. Upwards of 100 men were employed in the building at the time of the accident ; and the most exaggerated reports as to the extent of the fatality got abroad. The wives, chit. dren, and friends of many of these men had been at work during the day in the different factories, and on returning home, and hearing the prevailing reports, they naturally rushed to the scene of the accident, to learn the fate of those near and dear to them. On reach ing Piccadilly, however, the police turned them back at the barriers ; and, after a vain struggle to elude the vigi lance of the officers, or to obtain from them or the sur rounding crowd, information which it was not in their power to give, the tide of inquiries gradually turned, as the fact became known where the sufferers had been sent towards the Infirmary. The poor creatures, ren dered more anxious and terrified by the difficulties they had met with, arrived in a state of excitement little short of distraction. Many arrived, alas ! to find their worst fears verified ; but these were by no means the most importunate to gain access to the sick and dead rooms. Some of the inquirers, from the doubt ex pressed by the porters, as to the real names of several of the sufferers, were unwilling to retire until they had satisfied themselves by personal inspection, that their fears were groundles.u. To th e a d m i ss i on o f those per sons into the dead room there was, of course, no objec tion ; but the impropriety of admitting. them to the pre sence of the wounded will be readily seen, and their im portunate entreaties were properly disregarded. Here another difficulty arose. Some who had been refused ad mittance to the sick rooms, having obtained from the por ter the supposed name of some one of those as to whose identity ho was in doubt, after retiring a short time, re turned, representing themselves us relatives to a man of that name ; and more than one instance occurred in which two or three fathers and Mothers claimed the same patient as theie.l4* ''Thik ibete, extraordinary as it may seem, is not`diaH6lsterand it lasted a consider able time. " tr . Though the bodies of two of the men above-named, Silcox and Roche, have not yet been found, there is now no doubt as to their being amongst the killed. The former was some years ago a master builder at Leeds ; but had been reduced in circumstances, but of late em ployed on the works of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway. Though the ruins of the warehouse had been played upon all the week by the fire-engines, they still smould ered, and during the time occupied in searching for the bodies last night they again broke out into flames, a great quantity of unconsumed •cotton being amongst the ruins, and considerable exertions had to be used during the night by the firemen to subdue them. A strict watch has been kept upon the western wall of the building, which is yet standing, since the accident, to see if it gave any indications of danger, and as soon as the bodies of cagrim,A; &a 34 UA ri0:447 31W the two remaining sufferers have been Exhumed, it will be immediately- taken down. Its situation affords ground for believing that it may be accomplished without farther accident. ATROCIOUS MURDER NEAR WEM, SHROPSHIRE. (From the Second Edition of the Shrewsbury .News.) Another murder has been perpetrated in this county, during the present week, under circumstances of greater atrocity even than the one at Bronygarth, near Oswes try. A wife, with the assistance of her husband, has administered poison to both her parents, and the mother has fallen a victim to the diabolical deed, the father escaping by a miracle ; and an innocent person (accord ing to the last report) has since died in extreme agony, from the effect of the deadly food. The name of the old man is Arthur Williams, who resides at Whixall, within three miles of Wem, in this county, and the perpetrators of the horrid crime, Thomas Harries and his wife Mary, lived in the same cottage with the father and his deceased wife Eliza Williams. The prisoner, Thomas Harries, had been previously married, his former wife having died four years ago, leaving two children, who resided in the same cottage with the pri soners. It appeared that the deceased victim had been in the habit of correcting these children, and Harries had said that he would remember her for it; and this is the only motive that can at present be assigned for the deed. On Monday last the deceased partook of an apple dumpling at dinner, and was instantly taken ill, the symptoms increasing in virulence so rapidly, that by nine o'clock the same evening she was a corpse. Her husband did not eat any of the dumpling, being too ill, from having taken a small portion of the poisonous mi neral on the previous night : and the third party was the son of a neighbour, to whom the female prisoner had given the remainder of the poisoned food. An inquest was held on the body of the deceased Eliza Williams on Friday last, before Mr. Joseph Dickens, Coroner (who had only returned home on Wed nesday from holding an inquest on the murdered woman near Oswestry), when the following evidence was ad duced Arthur Williams, husband of the deceased—Lives in a cottage at Whixall, and the prisoners Thomas and Mary Harries, with two children of the former, resided with him. On Saturday last witness had a pig's fry for his supper, which was cooked by the accused, who took some flour from a bag hanging in the kitchen, to thicken the gravy. Witness ate heartily, and felt very sick afterwards, going to bed ill, and remaining so all night. He got up the next morning very unwell, and sat in the house till eleven o'clock, when he went out, leaving the deceased, the prisoners, the children, and a neighbour, named John Edwards, there. Witness returned to dinner, but was too unwell to eat. The first dish was an apple dumpling, of which the deceased ate heartily, but witness was too poorly to taste it. Within five minutes after eating the dumpling the de ceased ran towards the door, and, throwing it open, said, "Oh dear, how ill lam I " and retched violently. The deceased then went into the garden, supported by the female prisoner, and, being a long time away; witness went out, and finding her too ill to walk, carried her into the house, and placed her in a chair. She continued getting worse, till 5 o'clock, when witness carried her up to bed, and went to bed himself, feeling very unwell. He got up about 9 o'clock, as his wife became much worse, and she died shortly after. Witness had occasion to go into the garden afterwards, leaving the prisoners together in the kitchen, and on returning heard Harries say to his wife, " There's something in that flour." The two prisoners lived in the same house with the witness, but ate at a separate table, and found their own victuals. They had their dinner at the same time as the deceased, but not at the same table. The female prisoner made a dumpling at the same -time as the deceased, but did not take the flour from the same bag. The de ceased did not eat all the dumpling, and on the follow ing morning witness said to the female prisoner, "There's some dumpling; give it to the children ; " and she an swered " No, I may not do that." He again requested her to give it them, and she replied, " No, no, I munna give it them." A neighbour, named Betty Minshall, had been washing at the house on Monday morning, and went on an errand the same day. On Wednesday wit ness asked the female prisoner where the remainder of the dumpling was, and she replied, " I have given it to the children, and they have eaten it. The male prisoner had frequently words about the children with the de ceased, but nothing of any consequence. When the female prisoner was taken into custody she said, " I am innocent, and I believe I can swear for him." Witness knew there was poison kept in the house, having some sugar of lead in a paper, which he used for dressing cows, but it was not kept near the bag which contained the flour. The male prisoner had some powdered arsenic in a bottle, which he used for poisoning rats, and kept it in the pantry. The flour was bought from Mr. Povey, of Whixall, in a large bag, and a small quantity was put in another bag, and hung up in the kitchen ready to use for trifling purposes ; but the bread was always made from the large bag. After deceased was dead, witness saw the male prisoner go into the pantry, and while he was there his wife said, " What are you plundering there at : is there anything I can reach you ?" to which he answered, " No ; you know nothing about it." John Edwards was at the house of Arthur Williams - on Sunday last, and saw the deceased take some flour out of a striped bag and make an apple-dumpling. The female prisoner likewise made a dumpling, but took the flour from another bag and made it at the same time and at the same table as the deceased. The female pri soner put the dumpling she made into the pot first, and they were both tied up in cloths. Thomas Norway Arthur, surgeon, residing at Whit church, was in the neighbourhood of Whixall on Wednesday last, and met with Arthur Williams. Wit ness asked him if it was true that his wife died suddenly The old man said " Yes, and I fear there has been foul play," and requested witness to go into the house, which he did, and saw the female prisoner and another woman. Witness asked the old man if, he suspected any one of committing the foul play, and he said he was afraid that it was his son-in-law, for he had been frequei. tly cross with the old woman. Witness then went up stairs with Mary Jones to look at the deceased, and at the same time to ask Mary Jones some questions. The female prisoner endeavoured to follow them up stairs, which witness pre vented. He examined the deceased, but found no out ward marks of violence. He had also made a post mortem examination of the body in company with Mr. Groom, surgeon, of Whitchurch. The internal, or villous coat of the stomach was entirely destroyed, and it was the positive opinion of witness that the deceased's death was occasioned by some corrosive poison. Wit ness thought arsenic would produce the exact effect in which he found deceased's stomach. 'Witness likewise took some flour from the bag, and examined it with Mr. Groom and a chemist, and was positive it contained arsenic. Mr. Thomas Groom, surgeon, of Whitchurch, corro borated the testimony of Mr. Arthur, and was positive that arsenic was the poison which occasioned deceased's death. Mary Jones, a neighbour, saw the deceased when she was ill, and was with her when she died. Witness had frequently heard the male prisoner say he would knock the deceased's brains out if she interfered with his chil dren ; and about three weeks ago, on a Friday, there was snow, and the deceased had walked to Whitchurch. Witness said to him, " The poor old woman will be lust in the snow," and he said " B—t her, I should like to hear of her being found in the road stiff." Elizabeth Minshall was washing at the house of Arthur Williams on Monday, and afterwards went to Whitchurch, to a sister of the deceased, to tell her of her death and invite her to the funeral. When she came back and delivered her message the female prisoner gave her a piece of dumpling, which she took home. Witness's son, John Haycock (by a former husband), was in the house, and she gave it him for his supper. He ate it, and went to his boat on the canal, and she saw no more of him. Thomas Minshall, captain of a canal boat, was in his boat on the canal, near Whixall, and saw John Hay cock in another boat, very ill, and vomiting. Witness accompanied the boat some distance, and Haycock told him to tell his mother that the dumpling had nearly killed him, and that she would never see him again. Richard Jones, constable, searched the house, and, when searching for the arsenic in the pantry, was told by the female ' prisoner that she had thrown it away three months'before. She afterwards said that she had emptied the poison out, and washed the bottle clean. Witness, however, found a bottle which had contained arsenic in a basket among other bottles. He likewise found the sugar of lead on a beam in the kitchen. This concluded the evidence. The male prisoner asked the Coroner if the examina tion would conclude that evening, and, being answered ,in the affirmative, said he might as well tell all. He then made a statement to the effect that he had told his wife on Saturday night that something was the matter with the meat to make the old man so ill. He said he had purchased the poison some months ago from Mr. Gough , ,.chemist, of Wem, for th e p urpose of destroying rats, and hinted that his wife must have administered the arsenic if the deceased really was poisoned. The female prisoner said, if any one knew about it it was her husband. The Jtiry returned a verdict, " That the deceased's death was occasioned by poison administered by Thomas Harries, and that he was assisted by his wife ;" and they were both fully committed for the next assizes. The male prisoner is a briekmaker by trade, and has borne but au indifferent character. The female is very far advanced in pregnancy, and on Thursday feigned that she was in labour ; but upon examination by a surgeon, the attempt to postpone the investigation failed. John Haycock was, taken into Cheshire by the boat, and a report has reached town that he has expired—making the second victim of this unparalleled atrocity. NEWTON MARKET, DEC. 22.—The show of beef at this Christmas market was very fine, in fact, surpassed anything we have seen for years. Poultry was never known so plentiful, consisting of geese, turkeys, ducks, and fowls. Geese, 3s. 6d. to 55. each ; Turkeys, ss. to 7s. 6d. each ; Ducks 3s. to 4s. per couple ; Fowls, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 3d. per couple ; and all tine and well fed.— Western Times. .... TRUE TORYISM.—The Tory "guardian" of the poor of a village near Wakefield (who can write i his own name, if he keeps going, but , s hould h e break off, is unable to finish it, and cannot w rite or read any other word), considers sixteen pence a day to a certain poor man, within the li mits of his guardian ship, with a family of seven child ren, and com plained of that extravagant sum having been p aid b y a brother Tory, who, to the deep regre t of the poor, is tyrannising much fur f n or over them as surveyor of the highways. These village tyrants, after laying their heads together, came to the determination of reducing the wages of the poor men to one shilling a day, in c onsequence of their fearing they would have all the able bodied men in the township ap plying for work.—This surely shows the state of trade.— Leeds Times. i TEXAS. Later advices from Texas confirm some very curious particulars previously rumoured in the new Republic. 4mong these is the terror inspired at Austin, the new seat of government, by the approach of about 400 sa vages, an event which broke up the sessions in a mo ment, immediately after the President had delivered a message of a flattering character as to the present con dition and future prospects of Texas. except only as to the non-recognition, as yet, of the Republic by Mexico, and the non-completion of the commercial treaty with England. Every man, both in the Congress and the town, was under arms, and kept strict watch for two days and nearly two nights. Hardly had they sought repose, on hearing that the Indians had left their position and retired, before new and astounding intelligence was brought, to the effect that the savages had assembled on the opposite side of the town. Thus matters stood when the last letters left Galveston. A bandit chief had been killed, and deservedly so, by Lynch law, near Houston, charged with the murder of many way-worn travellers, who had sought rest and shelter in his forest home, which was seated near a road. This blood-stained criminal was otherwise a wealthy planter, and had many confederates, some of whom had been taken; and the sculls, bones, and remains of numerous vic tims were found in pits and a well on his estate. Accounts differ as to the probable effect of the recent revolution in Mexico on the destinies of Texas. Some contend that Santa Anna will invade Texas, regardless of his en gagement when a prisoner in the hands of the Texans— " That he would, if liberated, obtain an acknowledge ment of Texan independence ;" while others deem an amicable arrangement certain. But the truth is, nothing whatever is known as to the intentions of Mexico or her new ruler on the subject. The cotton crop of Texas is reported as unusually productive. The executive of Texas advises active hostilities by a naval force against Mexico, until Texan independence is acknowledged ; and a squadron is consequently about to sail from the ports of Galveston and Matagorda with warlike intent. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD. DEC. 25.—Hilary or Lent Term will com mence on the 14th of January, on which day a congre gation will be holden for granting degrees, &c., and on the following days during that term :—Thursday, Jan. 27 ; Thursday, Feb. 3 ; Thursday, Feb. 17 ; Thursday, March 3 ; Thursday, March 10 ; Saturday, March 19. Persons desirous of being ordained at the next general ordination to be holden by the Lord Bishop of this diocese at Christ Church on Trinity Sunda), are re• ouired to give immediate notice to the Archdeacon at Christ Church. A congregation will be holden on Tuesday, Feb. 8, for intermitting the forms and exercises of determination solely for the purpose of receiving from the Deans or other officers of their respective Colleges or Halls or the names of such Bachelors of Arts who have not yet determined ; and their names having . been so signified to the house, and inserted on the register of congrega tion, they may at any time in the same or in any future term be admitted to all the rights and privileges to which they would have been entitled by the intermitted forms and exercises. Bachelors o f A r t s are desired to take notice, that un less they shall have taken that degree on or before Thurs !la.'', the 3d of February next, their names cannot be inserted in the register of congregation during the en suing y6ar. 1 "e Rev. E. M. Stanley, of Worcester College, has been aPPointed Curate of Newbold-on-Avon, Warwickshire. to T he he Lord Ch ancellor has presented the Rev. H. Howes trectory of Barton St. Andrew, in the county of Norfolk. THE LORD N - i - LSol.7.—This vessel still lies on Billsbank, and we understand that, should the weather continue calm, there are hopes entertained of getting her off. The bodies of the captain, mate, and one of the seamen were found in the beginning of the week, close to the vessel. from which in all probability they had been washed during the fatal night. That of Macarnochan is still missing.—Carlisle Journal, MORNING SU THE MARKETS —YESTEROP • CORY-EXCHANGE. a ll The supply of Wheat last week w,.., small, but ce , other Grain considerable, and there was not milchs of any kind fresh up. Wheat at last week's telnsOwoa very fine, which was rather dearer. Barley dul,;,_‘er middling qualities scar c ely ma intained their I°T.l,:ess value. Beans sold slowly a t l as t week's terms . Is. per quarter cheaper. Oats very dull in sale, P" hardly supported last terms. Flour unaltered. , t o. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DUBOW LAST ' Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Ig u isall 4,510 qrs. 17,885 qrs. I 14,007 gra. Se-- - 5 , 377 450 btb English Irish Foreign !RICE!! Ott BO Wheat,Red (old) s. —.. White —s. RedaB4l) 525. 555. Fine 54 63s Superfine 665. 675. .---- White (1841) 51s. 595. Fine 6ns. 625. Superfine "Os. 735. --Foreignfree......s6a. 7fis. Rye 38s. 40s. Barley 265. 32s Grinding 32s. Malting 235. 365. Malt .565. 60s, 645. 665. P,—....—.---ease,FGireeyliNwew32s. 395, Maple n e New . 30*. 355. White .345. 365. Boilers. 36s. 38s. , AILD OF sPir. 04, 4Ji. Beans, Small (new) ,.., 4ra •"'"'"" ‘2 , 1. Tick (new ......... (old) ..... . Barrow (new) .. . ...tr 4 ), Brank Oats, Feed New • .••••••••"• - Poland. New ...... a 2 6, Egh mew 191,, t 4, - Scotch ••• 00000 .?... - - Irish 16s. Flour Town (per sack).... - Seconds. ............. North Country.... Iran SMITHFIELD. half The supply of Cattle, Sheep, an d Calves w" „br the demand dull, and prices rather lower. The of Pigs was good, the demand brisk, and the prese ilt u t o , tations w ere fully realized. B eas t s , 1,809 ; ° 1 7 .; 16,910 ; Pigs, 219 ; C a l ves , 49. B ee f , 3s. Bd. to 45.8 , Mutton, 4s. to ss. 2d. ; Ve a l, 4 s . 6d. to ss. 2d. pont. 4s. Bd. to ss. 6d. COLONIAL MARKET. There was little busines s t ransacte d in the tna rket3 4 in fact, they are nearly a ll c l ose d, an d w ill remain so to " s . Tuesday week. Th e i m p or t s were f a i r f ro m most P a : 4 o, The total deliveries of goods have exceeded those of 1" TEA MARKET. Prices were steady, b u t th e operat i ons were Is. 81d. was the value of C om p any ' s C ong ou cash . TALLOW MARKET. 1 A fair demand, and price s fi rm at 48s. 31; for parcels on the spot, a nd for delivery up to the close of the year. trivia • PROVISION MARKET. Fine D utch, Butter met with a fair sal e a t fi rm rates . F'n e - -R a eoa 112 s. to 1145., and the best Irish 100 s. to 103 5 . firm ; prime, 555. to 565. per cwt. COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market•day, 29. , . Adair's huddle's West Hartley l7 0 Chester Main Wylam Walls End Heaton 2O 1; Walls End Hedlcy 2O l Walls End Hilda .. 19 3 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth Walls End Newmarch lB L Walls End Hetton ......... 03 Walls End Lambton ..... 0.• 0 6 Walls End Stewart's ....... 1 5 0 Victoria Hartlepool ~••••••" ' ...I vy " 20 Walls End Brown's IP Wills End Gordon ............ 21 Walls End South D 1 4 1 '"" -- s Wal s d Tees •••••••••.'" .17 Walls End Tee. Hetton ..... S BlYthe. .... . ....... COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Pea I Wheat. Barley. Oats. BeanL to s. Per Quarter. s. to s. a . t o s . a. to s. a .to L 4 7 i Carlisle Elexham 69 70 36 38 •.3 28 .... Morpeth 54 (6 30 32 19 ut 40 "; Penrith 64 33 Sheffield — 66 27 23 a ! t Winchester 60 68 23 32 20 26 4 0 d. Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s .d . a. d. s.d. s. d. oI - 6 0 Carmarthen '1 0 80 0 0 40 0 0 2 5 0 , 0 A 0 Co bridge, 76 80 00 4 00 3 3 50 •: t 6 - Swanse Baoll. 7 6 80 4 0 44 2 6 30 5 6 - 4 Per 9 0 10 Barnardcastl 16 ocoo 8 9 90 4 0 7496 it -1 ; ) i9 it o Durham 'l3O 16 6ti 6 90 59 69 00 1 ", Q L.," Richmond l2 6 IM 10 0 11 06 0 7410 0 I' , n - Stockton l5 0 19 6 9 0 9 0 n /a 90 11 bi Jurham 'I3I 16 686 90 59 69 ii ii I` Richmond 12 6 IS tlO 0 11 0 6 0 7410 0 li.' Stockton l5 0196, 9 0 90i 6 0 79 9 0 11 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKEr• ~ ro ta" Wneat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk ..... - 033. to 64.• 63.. .... 8. ri,•fin e .---.--• Lin. and Cain. .3.--- Yorkshire ...... •••••••••••• ..-. White ... ...... . .......... .....• -8. lA.. to 5516 fine 68 5 .• .----- Foreign, fled ...... ••••••••••••••••••• ...1 . 1. t;4 5 • CO 6 " n ne l4l ' White -s, 65i. to 701. fine 32% ... ...... ...... 10.. to 3 . 25 , ( In : 3 1; Barley, Norfolk and Suffblk .. .. .... `2S3. to Sir. , n _.... .••-•-- Lincolnshire Yorkshire Wold ............. . .. 239. to -". fi ne 325• •--- Foreign . ........ „.„..... . .". •263. to 3,-4- tine 390. ...... ••••••••••• ..... Beans, New ----- Old finee VA Oats, Potato ....5. to 2 c B . fin 235. • -...--- Poland . . 4.... . 3, to 26 1 . 0.. -. Friesland and Small ........... -s -5. 40 2L41. , Stone' •••••••• • .... It& ealing ... ... 12.1. to 12kel; P e r , Lose Shelling ................... ... si9a. to 22 4 • ".!'.-Pra. - r 1. 05 d Malt. ~ .. ..... ........... ..... ..._. fine T _ Ls Rapeseed ...... ...... ... .. es. 3 7 1 : 0, 7 381. p e , per r•••• NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. e whit • Red. Wheat, Northumberland --• Norfolk and 5uff01k........ 655. 685 .0 ... c 8 oo• --- Berwick and Scotch 508.64 5..• -• a m i * Vs. -- Foreign .. 665. 70 5 .....“ '-' ...s. , Rye, Norfolk and Su ff olk 428. 44s ....... - 44 ..,,, I .. - Foreign Mb. 428 ....... .: s --' • ",` Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 3 l B. 35 5 ••••••• ... - 1 - - Grinding and Feeding ..... - Malt, Norfolk and Sutrolk.. ..... .6 3 60:•.••••• _ B . .....s. r. Beans, Small 4os. 418••••••• ....s. -3. 2• - - Tick •• ..... .. ..... ..... ....... Pease, White - 541. Ms. ...... ebss,s. (7,60:..1 - Gray , . 32 5 . 343 .......„ ...... 3 .. . Oats, Northumberland, P0tat0e......... 241..! 268 ........ .••••,• ..... 4. ------- Feed .....«..... 22 5 . - • 4 ...... ....8. -' ••• .-- Foreign - .. this. 11•28. ...... ..., .... B. Flour (per sack) • 48s. 518.....•• SCOTCH MARKETS. oat s'''. Beans' .....----",„ . Wheat. Barley. Oat , * .........-"'". 32 to j. 7 ...................... .........-..--- ................... ....—.........." to ..... „, 30 iberdeen 60 to 70 28 to 39 15 tO 21 ,tn 3 5 '''' 3•2 Berwick 35 45 15 23 15 21 .'".. :1 0 ‘..;13 .... Coldstream $ -- so Cupar (Fife' 1 43 65 26 31 1d 22 I, :f, S s % Dunbar.., Elgin Inverness CO 70 Yq SI 22 95 32 3 3 ... Kelso , - - - IS 30 22 .' .... Kirk:tidy 154 80 28 93 20 Y 5 45 48 43 Perm .., Pet ... ... - Up. Thu size of the measure varies throughout the country HADDINOTON CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bemis felfi first 6PS Od 35s Od '6s 8d 40s Od - -4 0 4 Second sBi Od ::0i I d 22s Od 311 Od i Ode third sos Od 27s Od 20s Od , :308 Od - -4 Average 0 1. 17s. 11.1.9.1.2th5. • GLASGOW CORN Mt RKET. ' a. g. 4 ' Wheat, per 2401 h. s. d. s. cl. 0 a 1 ; Per 2641 b. I+ to 216 3ritish, old 34 0t037 6 I' - '.b . ........... .......... 10 0 20 0 new ..... " — 0 -- C British•... .......... . Xi b • ° Canada, free —o 0 Be a ns, Per 2 , 2 0 2 Irish Barley, per 3201 b 1:.6 0 31 0 English .."..". ..... Scottish sco "..r t i ...••••••• • a 1;6 11. 0 4 )2 t 6 0 English 26 0 28 0 Scottish - .. 4 4 ° Irish DALKEITH CO 1 1 Wheat. Batley. eirst. 6Sb Od 34s o,i Second " s9§ Od 30s Od Third 4ds Od 201 ed 'RN MARKET. fl ale 4 s 0 I 22s Od 4( sOd 13s 4d 34; 01 ;TS. ushel.) Bean& 41+ 03 ' 441 i . ..Of 34; D° CORNWALL MARKI (Calculated at 24 gallons to the b (Calculated at 24 gallons to the buS o e l :2__-.--- -- " . 030_...... 1 Wheat. Barley. ........... t d I • d. o to s i d. 5 71 .... . 0 . to s 3. d e ..... 4 . "g i s 1 0 Truro fielstone St. Austell 0 SO —0 38""'; 3,, 2 Bodmin 0 8 8— 0 4 4 " 3 v :Askeard -_0 76 0 3 0 """ " 2 0 Launceston - l; Camel lord 6 6 7 8 3 d 34 - 3 " 2 . Penzance 7 8 8 4 0 4 0 "" " [ADVERTISEMENT.] gje A merry Christmas and a happy new Y ear ' a nd generally the congratulations at this festive seaon'iiiih every auxiliary is eagerly sought after for the emb e a pre ment of the person. Th e d ecora ti ve b eau ty and e e cing of the tresses of f e m a l e l ove li ness espec i a ll y , en"„v h r annet as they so greatly do th e c h arms o f person al ale - the occupy by no means a sm a ll s h are o f attenton - c the toilet.' It is more p a rti cu l ar ly a t suc h p e riods °ll i' that enlivening and wonderfully revivifying properti, es dis most delightful article, Rowla n d' s M acassa r Oai:deb'eatiti played, and whi c h pl ace it as an invigorator for of the hair, beyond all precedent. Indeed , ,K as the chief virtues incident to the use of Rowland s 1-- A its, sar Oil (in reference to ladies hair) may b e reclon, e- t i ne enduring properties in preserving the ringlets in P 1. 5" or decorative beauty through the heat of the ball•roora, locomotion of the promenade. .1 GOLD WATCHES.—E. J. DENT, by sPe c;a ,.. t', appointment, Cluvnometer and Wat c h ma k er to the Q ll 7 .- vir and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, offers an ex tensl _.: a'sortment of 1,10 RIZONTAL WATCHES at 101 lOg• From their great advantages over those of the vertical desert?: tion in performance, typearance, and flatness, he recommenT s , them for Ladies' and Gentl emen ' s wear . Th e y have eleg an a engraved or plain gold dials and cases, and the moveme nts jewelled in four holes, and the performance gmtimuteed• abstract from Mr. Dent's Lectures on the Construction al', Management of Chronometer Wat c hes and Clocks may be ha,". gratuitously by customers, or to th e public price Is.-82. PLATE.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS,Ma°S - Silversmiths, N.. 14,903Fa1ri11, London (g'f'-iter Bank of-England).—The best wrought Fiddle-Patted Sl th Spoons and Forks, at 7s. 2d. per ounce. The f0110w... weights recommended, but, the articles may be haL , ',' t heavier at the same price per ounce • . a. x ' .l oz. s. 2 10 lb 0 12 Fiddle Pattern Silver Table Sp oons 7 - ''' 30 at .)• 3 4 12 ditto Dessert ditto 20 at 7.. ••• s (t ' 12 ditto Table Forks 30 at 7 2 ••• 10 1 4 7 3 .0 12 ditto Dessert ditto 20 at 7 2 ••• 3.11 8 2 ditto Gravy Spoons 10 at 7 2... :i g 1 ditto Soup Ladle... ::, 4 ditto follow ing e a r Sauce ditto... 10 at 7 8 ... 3 `‘," p 4 ditto Salt Spoons(gilt strong) I- o 1 ditto . Fish Slice 2lO $ 12 ditto Tea Spoons... 10 at, 7 8 ••• 3 I d 6 1 ditto Pair Sugar Tongs (strong) 0 l 0 N.B. A price current, stamped as a newspaper, illustrated by , drawings, and containing every information relative to the pur- ~,,,,/e, chase of silver or Sheffield plate, may be had on applicat ion, or ?A will be sent into the country, free of t answe r to a . Jo , paid age, I 'n• J o. . paid letter. , 0 --......! _ail ! BIRTHS. f et•Of On the 25th inst., at the York- roa d, Lambeth * 311, P of a son. On the 23d inst., the wife of Christopher WWI, Esq.' of Ludgate-street, of a daughter. On the 23d inst., at Walworth, Mrs. IL. Groom, of a son;,. On the 23d in s t., at W est-hill, Wandswort h, th e lady of D. Longstaffe, Esq., M.D., of a son. _ wo od, the On the of .1 the 24 oh th n i F n e s n t. t „ on at , EGsgro„ of a son.ve-end-lace, St. Johns On the Ist of July, 1841, at the Indep en d en t Chapel, MARRIRD. Sydney, New S out h Wales, Mr. Ueorge Alfred Lloyd, eldest son of the late Mr. Joseph Lloyd, of Norwood,. Surrey, to Mary , th ird daughter of the Rev. L. E. Threlkeld, of Ebenezer, Lake Maequaire. ---- DIED. On the 21st inst., Mr. H. Morten, of the Savoy Farm, Denham, Bucks. On the 18th inst., at Blackford, Miss Margaret Trotter daughter of the late T. Trotter, Esq., of Mortonhall, aged 90. On the 23d inst.. at Church-row, Islington, Mrs. Harrison eldest daughter of the late Mr. Richard Barwick. On tho 23d inst., at Brighton, John French, Esq., aged 72. On the 23d inst., at Dalby-terrace , Islington, Saroue Knight. Esq., aged 68. On the 23(1 inst., Mr. William Procter, grocer, Whitecross street, aged 67. --•••••••••••• London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, 0 No. 112, Strand, at The Suit Office, No. 112, Strand, the County of Middlesex, Tusk , December 28, 1841. RO. , COAIPA a FLIRT Capital S. requestec fore the Robarts, On pa Share air Reeeipts, 3, Win, BACKE' TAY, Ca She will I. Falmouth of the Ma On the Parts of tt and Honda Pany's Ste All the Ca ►ernment, Be 3, Wint THE TI( STEAM House or ' HAMB Wednesda. 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