The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-22 00:00:00

VENING DITI ON CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN. TO THE CHARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND MORE PARTICULARLY TO MR. HILL, THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAR, AND MR. WILLIAM LOVETT. FRIENDS,—We, the undersigned, residing at Trow bridge, Councillors of the National Charter Association, desire to address you ; believing that the circumstances urging us will, with all fair and candid minds, be a suffi cient jnstification for our doing so. The last month has developed an apparent schism amongst our best friends, accompanied with language so coarse, violent, and, to our minds, utterly uncalled for, as to give some ground for the triumphant assertion of our opponents, that Chartism, instead of being a bond of union and brotherly love, is really an apple of discord, a watchword of strife and scurrility. Men whom all of us have delighted to honour, whom we received with accla mations on their release from prison, have been designated in our only newspaper organ, as thieves, traitors, and liars ; and that, not only without editorial censure, but even with implied approbation. Can this be right? Does it not imply either a premature recklessness of praise nearly allied to folly, or a wantonness of reproach that savours little of consistency or charity. Again—we read that a fierce war of opinion, disfigured by bitter sarcasm, challenges to discus sion, &c., is waging in Birmingham and other places as to the connexion of Chartism and Christianity or some thing of that sort; engendering feelings of hatred that are far from being akin to the sacredness of our cause or the purity of our objects. Is not all this melancholy work? Holding up a man in triumph on a Tuesday and knocking him down on a Wednesday ; calling him "god" one day and " devil " the next. Christianity and Chart ism vet fighting against each other ; the strength, the men, the principles, that ought to be banded together in holy union against the common foe, wasting their vigour, lent to them for the benefit of mankind, in childish quar rels and disgusting abuse ? Let us examine into the circumstances on which all this bitterness and inconsistency is based, and see whether they are necessary and proper. First, wo begin with the circular Address of Mr. Lovett and others, " To the Political and Social Reformers of the United Kingdom." With the spirit and purport of that Address—except in one particular—we fully agree. We concur with that Address in the belief that we must become our own social and political regenerators, or that we shall never enjoy freedom. More especially do we agree with Mr. Lovett in " making the Charter the Polar Star of our agitation ;" and we cordially unite in the senti ments, that " having truth for its basis, and the happi ness of all for its end, it needs not the violence of passion, the bitterness of party spirit, nor the arms of aggressive warfare for its support; its principles need only to be un folded to be appreciated, and, being appreciated by the majority, will be established in peace." Nor de we altogether deny that " we have wasted glorious means of usefulness in foolish displays and gaudy trappings. Our concurrence with this sentiment must be a qualified one. We incline to the belief that these dis plays and trappings, and even the " passionate invective party spirit and personal idolatry," however unsuited to ear present advanced position, have often, under -Pro vidence, been the means of encouraging a social and inquiring spirit, and waking up honest ignorance from its hereditary torpor. Many, we believe, that are designed to play a high and glorious part is our emancipation from slavery, first heard the truths of Universal BaOTLIERHOOD —were first aroused to a sense of their degradation their rights and their strength—in conjunction with bands, banners, music, and processions, and tt. e other gewga.v puerilities so cun ningly designed for our abasement. The toys have be come objects of our contempt, but the lesson they helped to teach—let us speak of them gently then—is destined to conquer the system of ages and the prejudices of the world ! Nor do we find fault with the plan proposed by the ad dress. District halls, circulating libraries, missionaries, tracts, and so forth, all stern to us well calculated to en courage and ensure an enlightened public opinion; to for tify and consolidate tire strength of eur friends ; and to mitigate the fears of those who oppose us from not under standing our objects, But then—and hero we come to the point to which we alluded at the outset, and on which we a:t )gether differ from Mr. Lovett and the four other gentlemen acting will !atm in the address. They propose to e:tablish an Association to carry out their plan. In this A e think them altogether wrong. We do not call them—our injustice woula be greater than their deficiency of judgment if we were to call them—" Thieves, liars, and traitors," but we think thst they have committed a great error, and the sooner they acknowledge it the better we shall think of their sincerity and consistency. We have an Association—the National Charter A ago cietion—chosen in the most fair and public manner, and all but universally, recognised as the Representatives of the Chartists of Great Britain. Already has this body met and meted in its representative capacity; and we may refer to the zeal with which one of their laws has been carried cut—that of enforeirg on every public meeting the Charter and its principles, as a proof, and a strong ore, ( f our faith in its wisdom. To these our Repre sentatives—the National Charter Association—Messrs. Lovett, &c., ought in our opinion first to have s.uhnented their plan ; it would have ben received and discussed with all the respect and c 3nsideratior, it so well merited ; and, if there adopted, would thus have been girded with a nio ral strength that would have ;one far to ensure its success. Of the National Charter Association, we, the writers of this letter, are councillors ; and we cannot retrain from an opinion that all good Chartists will soon be numbered in our lists. We sincerely regret to learn that :Jr. Lovett is net a member; more particularly as his well curved reputation gives force to his example. The cry of it Illegality " does not appear to us to be of any force. _Every Association to carry the Charter is illegal. For the Slav• to seek fur freedom is contrary to law. Recent experience has proved that with an Aiietocrat Judge and and a middle class Jury laws cell ensiiy be found sited to their purposes. Still we believe, for we have noticed a change ie the political atrnosehere, that if we pursue our ( bjects without violence, or the threat of it, we shall be able to overcome and neutralize all opposition. Most cordially do we oppose the forming another As ecciation as proposed by Mr. Lovett ; and we earnestly trust that he will pause before going farther in his pro ject : it is calculated to engender a spirit of " party" in our ranks, and to encourage the idea that we are divined in opinion as to the means to be ernpliyed to obtain our common object—that there arc moral force Chartists and physical force Chartists. The fact is, arid no one knows this better than Mr. Lovett, that upon the moral force and ph> steal force question, whatever differences there may formerly have boon, we are now all agreed. The trials, the fact that Joltf, Frost is an exile, and many of our best friends in prison, has taught us wis dom. All of us agree with Mr. Lovett in looking to too ! ral force alone for the accomplishment of our objects ; and Mr. Lovett agrees nigh us in tee abstract right, not only of a nation but even of an individual, to use physical force or any other force to obtain emancipation from slavery. It is wrong, therefcre, to encourage or sanction the idea that we are two bodies.—Lovett Chartism, and O'Connor Chartism—that there is a difference of opinion where none in r. ality exists. The praise of Daniel O'Connell is in deed a heavy stigma—a disgrace, however, which we admit Mr. Lovett is not entitled to ; but it will be well for him to learn caution from it. Virtue of a high order can alone survive the infliction 1 Of Mr. Lovett'3 plan itself we have before expressed our favourable opinion—iudeed the very means th.rt it contemplates were contemplated by our Rcieesentatives; but we desire most emphatically to record our opposition to the adoption of any plan what eyed however good, that is not first recognised by the National Charter Association. We now turn to a subject which has occasions 1 us much pain. We allude to the intemperate language with which the Address of Mr. Lovett has been treated by Mr. Hill, the editor of the Northern Star. That paper is the only generally recognised organ of the Chartist body, and, to some extent, all are involved in its erro7s who do not pre test against them. We desire, therefore, to state the re . gret will which wo have lsteiy observed in that paper whit we cannot but consider a spirit of intolerance towards every opinion but that of its editor. The day of dictation is gone by, the great " we " no longe r blinds us to the fact that it is but a fallible mortal that guides the editorial pen, and though we freely acknowledge ti c services rendered to the i'eople'a Cause by the Northern Star, and we do this the more freely inasmuch as those services have been liberally and generously responded to, we think it right to recommend to Mr. Hill the adoption of a lest bitter style towards those with whom he may conscientiously differ. In the Northern Star of the lith inst., there is an edi torial article abounding from first to last, and in every variety of low phraseology, with charges and imputations of fraud, falsehood, and trickery against Messrs. Lovett and Collins. We believe these charges and imputations to be utterly unfounded. We desire to record our con viction, that not a shadow of proof has been produced that Messrs. Lovett and Collins ever sanctioned any movement for any suffrage short of that comprised in the Charter. All their declarations are opposed to any suffrage less than the Charter Suffrage; and wo believe, and we as sert, that the veracity of these gentlemen is as unimpeach able as that of Mr. Hill. Besides the injustice in the particular instance to which we are now referring, we believe that the spirit of invective and dogrnatiem which has lately sullied the pages of the .Northern Star, and damaged its purity, is in a general sense unwise. For tho purpose of obtaining permanent unity it is desirable rather to encourage and court from those who have proved that they value our principles by • their sufferings in our cause, those differences of thought which, by forcing inquiry and investigation, are the surest and soundest preludes to unanimity and success. We have ever been among the foremost to oppose any union with the middle classes, compromising, or appearing t o compromise, the principle of the Charter. The Anti- Corn-law lecturer has indeed appeared in our county, but and d i , him 1 t m i n y o tt the j s u o s r t t i i c n e g a n t d o idle clamour, but arguing fairly we have met him and conquered propriety of the working classes restraining their effsrta, in the first instance, to their own political eominagneiopvaetrionto. But, however strongly we deprecate any g the middle classes, we are equally strong in our o pi n i on of the folly of preventing their coming over to us. Many of them have long been favourable to our principles, though restrained by various circumstances from being for ward in the struggle : many of them are suffering, keenly though secretly, under the thousand ills comprised in the phrase " commercial distress ;" and thousands that never thought before, have been compelled to the wholesome but painful process by the increased burthen of taxation. The conviction—n(3lolou HONOUR TO THOSE THAT witoroun IT I—that Chartism will never raise its hand for • any change short of the Charter, has done its work : in all there is uneasiness and a desire for change; a _growing fancy th at t h ere i s someth i ng wrong ; a N - E l li . 'd . ' liekriqoiti, shadowy and indistinct though it be, that 1 isosee-" , thrown on their own resources," they, like p4upp,. Rl= ie their latter days be separated ~,7----1 the Rives and children, be coffined by contra ct, and e?. - '' eate e levS)autitiled . together in the union grave. Their mntal P v).•.: 1 7 - .• , t . 4 , 1 - ,:-L :;;Tovahaeicles are falling off. T allow -chandler and cheese- ( e- 1 -W - - mon ger—a subject for a ict l' d Veerr7l - 1 - • • t la ( rnaclp4es! . ..... , W e hail the se rP u e--are discussing"firet - ligAs With satisfaction., , 11 S they are the result of political light, the work of our own hands, aided by the circumstances which, having first ground us to destitution, are now by their retributive operation 'alleging them to thcir senses. We hail with gladness their approach to reason, and it is because we de sire their further advancement in political knowledge that we deprecate all language that is merely abusive or vio lent. They are apt to think, and we confess a leaning in this instance towards their opinion, that hard and harsh expresssons are seldom resorted to except where there is lack of argument. Besides the subject into which w© have gone at length we had intended to speak of " Christian Chartism," and other phrases by which our objects arc mystified ; but our letter is already too long and we forbear. To us all these distinctions seem very nonsensical. THE CHARTER — neither more nor less—as a means of universal happiness, is what we seek for ; and convinced that our claim is founded in justice and truth wo know that it wi l ultimately prevail. Every person should be at liberty to advocate the Charter or any peculiar views that he considers calculated to ad vance its progress; but he ought not to make those pecu liar views a ground of distrust or hostility towards others who have arrived at their conviction by a different road. " Christianism," " Teetotalism," and the other " isms" (we forget them just now), what are they but the various paths tending to and terminating in the same glorious Temple of Liberty, CHARTISNI? Why then quarrel with each other— what can it possibly matter how we get there, so that we get there ? Our own opinion is that Chartism and Christianity not only support each other but are identically the same ; but seeing that wherever the holy name of religion enters, discord. by some unfortunate necessity, is sure to follow, we would rather recommend its avoidance in general discussion. Let us learn from the harmoni ous conduct of the " Clergy of all Denominations," when temporalities are attacked, to act in the spirit of unity and the bond of peace. In " spiritualities," indeed, they tolerate every grade and shade of difference; but in temporalities—tithes, dues, pew fees, and so forth —they are, as one man—firm as rocks—immutable and im movable. There they arc all true to the Catholic faith. Chartism is our temporality—to save us from want and the workhouse—our Easter dues, our voluntary offering, our tithe commutation. Let us first get that, and then we can quarrel ourselves to peace. We very much doubt the policy of confounding Chartism with maters to which it does not necessarily or properly belong. We conclude then in the earnest hope that the origina tors of the Address signed by Messrs. Lovett and others, will feel it right to postpone their project till it has re ceived the sanction of our Representatives—the National Charter Association; and that in the mean time they will do all in their power to discourage by their writings and conduct the supposition that there is any division in our ranks. To Mr. Hill we tender our thanks for his services, and hope that he will receive our advice in the spirit which actuates us in giving it—the sincere desire to pare off from our advocacy all that is wrong or unseemly. Our polemical friends at Birmingham will, we have no doubt, understand us ; the thing, indeed, is too pla'n for a mistake, we cannot afford to go into ecclesiastical matters just at present. To all our friends in the cause of Universal Freedom we conscientiously tender our advice to encourage to wards each other a spirit of forbearance, and to suppress every tendency to division. Events arc working fur us more rapidly, or rather more extensively, than the wildest speculation has reached. We must keep our men together —helping the weak, urging the slack, restraining the free, and quarrelling with none. A great portion of our battle is being fought by the power of public opinion act ing on all. The Stock Exchange—but enough—all is going on well. In the earnest hope that we may soon be able to con gratulate each other on the consummation of our wishes, we beg to subscribe ourselves, Your sincere Friends and Fellow-labourers in the cause of Democracy, EDWARD PAYNE, JAMES WATTS, JOSEPH BIGGEN, JAMES HULBERT, WILLIAM HARFORD, ISAAC LESTER, JAMES HASWELL, Vice-President, Joiri 11loottE, Sub-Treasurer, HENRY ADAMS, Sub- Secretary, (Councillors of the National Cliarter Association Trowbridge, kril, 1841. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER. —The market, yesterday, was, if possi ble, worse than those of the throe preceding Tuesdays ; the demand which existed last week for 40-inch shirtings had subsided ; and goods and yarns of all descriptions were exceedingly difficult to sell, even at declining prices. In consequence of this very discouraging state of the market, many of the spinners and manufacturers are talking of short time, and several isolated firms, in dif ferent parts of the country, have already adopted it. Hitherto, however, no general agreement for that purpose has been made, except at Stockport. ROCIIDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, Aran, 19 There has been a good attendance of buyers in the market to-day, and somewhat more business done than on the preceding Monday, at somewhat lower prices. The wool market has been heavy, and prices rather giving way, which has had its influence on the piece market. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, APRIL 20.—Last week we reported a dull market, but this was more unfavourable, there being f..w important sales effected in any description of goods. Probably this wises from its being too late freely to purchase light goods, and too early to buy for the fall and winter trade. However, prices are firm in suitable fa'ffics; and business in the warehouses, if not bri,k, is net discouraging, Nor is there any great scarcity of employ ment, most of the mills working full time.—Blanchester Guardian. A HEROINE. The following is a copy of the memorial of Elizabeth Hopkins, wife of Jeremiah Hopkins, sergeant of the 104 . 11 Foot, addressed to the Secretary at War : " Most humbly showetb, that she was born of British parents at Philadelphia, in 1741,; has her husband, six sons, and her son-in-law, as per margin, serving his Ma jesty in the 104th ; and during the course of her life, from tier zeal and av ttehment to her King and country, she has encountered more hardships than commonly fall to the lot of her sex. That in the year 1776, being with her first husband (John Jasper), a sergeant of Marines on board the brig Stanly, tender to the Roebuck, she was wounded in her left leg, in an engagement with the French vessels, when she was actually working at the guns. That the Marines having been landed at Cape May, in America, her husband was taken prisoner by a Captain Plunket, of the rebel army, near Mud Ford Need, and sentenced to suffer death ; that by her meana he was enabled to escape, with twenty-two American deserters, to whom she served arms and aiainunHon; and on their way to join the army their party was attacked by the enemy's light horse—she was fired at, and wounded in her left arm ; but, undismayed, took a loaded firelock, shot the rebel, and brought h is horse to Philadelphia (the head-quarters of the army), which sbe was permitted to sell to one of General Sir W. llowe'a Aide.-de-Camp. That after many fatigues and campaigns, her first husband died, and she married Samuel Woodward, a soldier in Colonel Chambers' corps; was with the troops under the command of General Camp bell, taken at Pensacola, having, however, during the siege served at the guns, and tore her very clothes far wadding. That havingTheen exchanged at the peace of 1783, from an attachment to the Royal cause, she em barked on board a transport with part of Delaney's and Chamfers' corps, was shipwrecked on Seal Island, in the Bay of Fundy, when near three hundred men, and num bers of women and children, perished—that she suffered unparalleled distress, being pregnant, with a child in her arms ; remained three days on the wreck—was taken up, with her husband and child, by fishermen of Marble Head ; and, shortly afterwards, being landed, delivered of three sons, two of whom are in the 104th, the other dead ; and, lastly, that she had the honour of being mother of twenty_ two children, viz., eighteen sons and four daughters, seven of the former being alive, and three of the latter. That memorialist humbly prays that you may consider her as a fit object for some allowance from the compassionate fund, towards her maintenance in her old age, having lost all her property, and as a reward for her long and faithful service to her King; and as in duty bound, shall ever pray. " E. HOPKINS. " Fredericton, New Brunswick, 12th April, 1313." In consequence of her memorial she obtained a pension of 1001. a year. The following is another instance of her strength of m i n d. At F or t E r i e , th e p r id e o f h er h eart , her twins f e ll, a l so Nl 4 Donough, her son-in-law. On heari ng t h e news, she called her husband and her children round her, made them a most animated speech, charging them to be reve nge d on t h e Y an k ees f or t h e i r l oss ; an d next time they West into action, they were cheered and encouraged by Mammy Hopkins, the name she went by in the regiment. JUSTICE DE PRIX, PARIS. man. Neverand ( From L'Audience—Paris Journal.) RRCIPR FOR GRTTINO MONEY FROM A UsTiRRR, M. Creteemoroprse isrdaaivnillylanboeuars-ltohonkinstag m o p ld o m f could his have been seen to grea , te a r ga d in is- st did , a , usury an advantage, for he was now excited by anger, which rarely adds to beauty. fa d ce seldom t ted M. be C fo r r e e te t c hl r s P! Court? of 200 francs, which he J ud d eg e cina W ge h , at w i h s o y m ou y r o c u or la p v l e a . i e n i hasersewtienedolrepds—meFoorutthoef.restitution handsome and well-dressed you N n t g dmoani,insmagiledwhowas a disdainfully. only Ju injuredge ( t o y ocuormplai cause; nan cont)— fi D n e o y n o o n t be r sel f simply insolent, oa state ment will meat of facts. Cretccorps—You should know that I have several times obliged M. de Linage, by getting a friend of mine to lend him money, for I have no money of my own. M. de Linage (laughing)—.oh, the old story. Cretecorps—This friend of mine has generously ad vanced him from 3,000 to 6,000 francs upon my recom mendation. M. de Linage--Generously ! Yes, at an interest of 25 per cent.—( Laughter.) Cretecorps—That is your affair, not mine. lam only the agent for a capitalist. M. de Linage—Who, doubtless, would be anonymous in this matter. Cretecorps—Be VIM as it may, M. de Linage never having repaid his loans, ha refuses to lend him any more. Not that he is afraid of losing his money. No. For M. de Linage will inherit a large fortune from his uncle, and there is no doubt of his paying ultimately; but it is a te dious thing to wait for a dead man's shoes. But to pro ceed. The other day I received a note from M. de Lin age, begging the loan of 200 francs. I refused. But on the following day, what think you I saw in the newspapers ? Why, the following paragraph We learn with regret that M. the Count de Linage, the head of a noble family, is so ill that no hopes are en tertained of his recovery. He is indeed at the last ex tremity,hands of his and yesterday received the last offices of religion at thc priest. The count, we l earn , h as ma d © , THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1841. a will, by which he leaves the whole of his immense for ture to his nephew, M. de Linage."—( Laughter. ) Judge—You read that in the newspaper, do you say? Cretecorps—Oui, llionsieur, in a little paper which was sent me by a person who also owes me money. I had no sooner read the paragraph than I dressed myself and went to M. de Linage. I said to him, " I yesterday refused to lend you the 200 francs you wanted to borrow, but on re .flection I am now willing to accommodate you."—( Laur,h ter.) " Hold your tongue," said he, putting one hand on my mouth and the other on the money.—( Much laughter.) " Let us not trouble his last mornents—Adieu, non anti— leave me. lam much affected." Judge—Very naturally. Cretecorps—Natural, indeed ; and I was fool enough to go away without ever taking a receipt for the money. In accompanying me to the door the servant said to me, The poor Count cannot last out the day." " Good," said I; " we shall get reimbursed for all our arrears."— ( Much laughter). Well, I went down stairs, and in pass ing along the boulevard, whom should I meet-711071 Dieu 1 —why, the old Count himself, whom I supposed almost in the agonies of death, but who was, on the contrary, com placently smoking his cigar, and cocking his glass at the girls like a young fellow of 201"—(Tremendous laughter, in which the voice of M. de Linage was heard above all the rest.) JUDGE—How is this? Cretecrops—Why, Monsieur, it was a trick of the nephew, M. de Linage, who had got the paragraph in serted in the paper for the express purpose of getting my money.—( Renewed laughter.) After questioning M. de Linage, who said it was only a joke to outwit his money-lender, the Judge ordered the repayment of the 200 francs by instalments of 50 francs per month. Cretecorps (on taking his departure)—l wil never again believe the death of your uncle till I hear his mass celebrated at the end of the year.—(Laughter.) JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES. £372,173,100 5,963,220 Among which will be found Anglo-Chilian, Anglo- Mexican, Anglo• Peruvian, Brazilian, Imperial Brazi lian, Boianos, Bolivar, Chilian, Colombian, Chilian and Peruvian, Castello, Famatina, Guanaxuato, General South American, Gold Coast, Elaytian, Mexican, Paso Peruvian, Potosi la Pas, Peruvian, Real del Monte, Rio de la Plata, Royal Waldeck, Tlalpuxahua, United Mexican, United Pacific, United Provinces, United Chilian, Vigo Bay, Brazilian Jewel, Al lerney Dairy, Tobacco and Snuff, Ale, Metropolitan Fish, Drug, Car pet, General Dying, Egyptian Trading, Anglo-Russian, Bengal Sugar, Borneo Loo Loo, Isthmus of Darien, African, Cornwall and Devon, Manganese, Royal Irish, English Gwenappe, Tywarnhale, and others too nume rous to mention. From the year 1824 up to the present time compa nies have been brought before the public requiring a no. minal capital of nearly 800,000,0001., out of which not more than 80,000,000/. have been bone fide laid out, which may be roughly stated—viz., 60,000,000/. in rail roads, and the other 20,000,0001.. in docks, bridges, and canals, leaving about 700,000,000/. for fictitious and gambling speculations. In the greater number of instances it will be found that the projector was either an at! orney or Par liamentary agent, who by the concoction of a scheme availed himself of the advantage which it afforded by a bill of costs ; or some unprincipled person actuated solely with a view to pecuniary pro fit, and to obtain which the measures adopted were in such cases neither justifiable nor honourable ; the deceptive practices resorted to to obtain a price far ex ceeding the real value of the property can only be ex plained by the guilty participation of the parties in the spoil ; while in ether instances, by imposing on the pro prietors of the Company by nominating a false sum as the purchase•money, and by withholding the greater part of the shares, and disposing of them at consider- able premiums, the parties secured to themselves a for tune at the public expense. These premiums were obtained by an artificial value being created by mancea vres, and by the aid of individuals who, for the sake of a commission, lent themselves to the fraud so committed. To acts of a similar nature to those referred to, is to be attached not only the loss of property, but the sacrifice of character, which has, in too many instances of late, been the result of the proceedings of joint-stock companies, where, by the connexion of men of title with designing projector s , th e i nnocen t h ave b een implicated with the guilty. It is, however, to be hoped that the lesson thus tat :ght the public will be the means of pre venting a recurrence of these events, and that the proprietor i,f a base scheme will be shunned and stigma tized, while the patron and promoter of objects condu cive to national wealth and the public good will be held in that high estimation of the public which it is their duty to bestow, and of the possession of which it is his pride to boast. It may be said, how is this"to be prevented ? Why, very easily. Compel the Directors of Companies to have a certificate from the Board of Trade certifying as to the respectability of the pnrties, and the practi cability of the plan, and a list of their names and resi dences registered at the Stamp•otfice as responsible to the public us well as the shareholders, before they are allowed to bring the scheme forward for public support. You will then hear very seldom of fraudulent Companies. I am, &c., T. G. POST-OFFICE DELINQUENCIES.—Under this head the Dublin Monitor of Saturday evening contains some most extraordinary detail of circumstances in respect of robbery of newspapers by country postmasters, and the extreme and culpable leniency ith which such " irregula reties "arc treated by the beads of the establishment. In ad dition to the case of Mr. Moore and the postmaster of Comber, we arc ourselves aware of another in which a nobleman re cently appealed to the authorities in Dublin, and showed that his newspapers had not only been opened,read, and detained, but the stamp-date on the cover falsified to account for the delay; and yet we have not heard of the dismissal of the party so accused, nor even of his having been reprimanded for " i rregu l ar i ty. " It is no won d er that our table, in common with th o s e o f our contem p orar i es , i s d a il y l oa d e d with complai n t s f rom su b scr ib ers o f the non-arrival of their p apers, if the Postmaster-General and his underlings not only connive at, but a l most encourage, suc h monstrous frauds up on proprietors and the public.—Dublin Evening Mail. Accounts from the Mauritius to January have been received, and among otthheer 23d a tte o rs f mentioned is the irregular of the labouring po pulation,aln to return to the plantations, , hthe e d long expired. In the pre tioalysarmin&,eaondlnotwithstanding emi efaeneleinbeihngadvwberteryesnfommruwa•cadhredd,wtihase: who were although the usual holidays thatn y remedy for the evil, the ple attempt asa n t oalatest accrosunts cooledreceived out w as still sugudgbne but t te t d h c se o n n t se s , ta u t e e n o c f eg th w e e i r )l e an m t o a a t emi gration Government and feeling that has existed be ctuwun present ses sueecticicteihni r es e ft s uhF u ler. l e t s ins cplatir Thenovde, there from either quarter had considerably spirit which existed between the people of the two the party two coun tries. Th 2 smallpox had again broken out and was spread ing rapidly. DEATH OF THE EARL OF BELMoRE.--The Earl of Bolmore died on Sunday at Leamington Spa. H is Lordship, who was in his 67th year, was an Irish Peer, and one of the Representatives of the Irish Peerage in the House of Lorda. He was also Custos Rotulorum of the County Tyrone, for which place his second son, the Hon. H. Corry, sits in Parliament. The late Earl mar ried in 1800 the Lady Juliana Butler, daughter of the second Earl of Carrick, and is succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest son, Lord Corry, now 'Earl of Bel more, who is in his 40th year, and married. The eldest son of the present Earl was born in April, 1835. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE DAILY JOURNALS OF YESTERDAY. STANDARD.—Mr. Hume, not very frequently the protector of the interests of religion, complained of a corporal punishment lately inflicted upon a soldier of the 11th Hussars at Hounslow, immediately after Di vine Service on a Sunday. Mr. Macaulay defended the conduct of the Noble Colonel of the 11th Hussars, Lord Cardigan, as far as cruelty could form an ingredient in the charge against him, by stating, as the result of mi nute inquiries, that the punishment referred to was the first of the kind inflicted in the regiment for some years ; and the charge of irreverence he tried to palliate, by explaining that the punishment was not inflicted immediately after Divine Service, but after the interval of a long inspection succeeding the public worship. He, however, gave a promise that means shall be adopted to render impossible hereafter a similar profanation of the Sabbath. To defend Lord Cardigan from the accusation of cruelty was perhaps unnecessary ; we believe that there is no officer in her Majesty's service mure distinguished for kindness to the private soldier under his command, or one more ardently beloved in turn by the soldiers of that rank. And even the charge of irreverence is in same degree mitigated by what appears to have been hitherto more generally than it ought to be the practice of the army. The very fact that the proper public duties of the Sabbath had been imme diately followed up by what, though without any exe cution, must seriously obstruct its private duties and innocent relaxations, is a confession that some reform of our military system is called for. Why should a Sunday be chosen as the time for a long inspection ? Why leave for the Sabbath a service which might surely be as well executed upon any other day ? Under particular circumstances it may be necessary for a regiment to prosecute its march upon a Sunday ; and war leaves no choice as to the time when an enemy is to be encountered : but in all such cases the necessity is manifest, and justifies the departure from what otherwise is a duty binding upon all Christians. If, however, we aro to have a Christian army—and woe awaits us when we shall have any other—the same rule of Christian conduct must be observed by soldiers as by citizens. The case before us indeed seems to point to the dangerous consequences of deviating from this rule in even a slight degree ; the assembling of the men for inspection was probably, according to military usage, chosen as a fitting occasion to inflict a just pun ishment, without consideration of the offence that such an exhibition must offer to the religious feelings of the public, and the shock that it must give to the religious sense of the soldiers. COURIER.—One of our Morning Ministerial Con temporaries, some days ago, noticed a report, commu nicated by a correspondent from Edinburgh, that Lord Belhaven was not again to be appointed her Majesty's I High Commissioner to the General Assembly. This report the Whig Evening Paper of the next day stated, by authority, to be incorrect ; and here the matter rests. We had heard the rumour some time before it was noticed by the Morning Paper, and, though inclined to believe it, we abstained from giving it to our readers, contenting ourselves with expressing our belief' that whoever may be Commissioner, instructions will be given to him not to countenance the punishment of any of her Majesty's subjects for the offence of obeying the law of the land. In this belief we are more and more confirmed from all we have heard from Scotland, where, of course, the matter is attracting great interest. No doubt appears to be entertained that, in some way or other, her Majesty's representative will commuuicate the Royal mind on the unfortunate colli sion that has taken place between the Civil and Eccle siastical Courts in Scotland ; and, looking to the pre cedents applicable to the case, we should think this communication will be made in her Majesty's letter to the Assembly, or in the Speech from the Throne by the Commissioner, and that it will amount to an advice or a command not to inflict further ecclesiastical censures on the clergymen who have obeyed the decrees of the Civil Courts, but to restore them to the exercise of all the judicial and pastoral functions from which the last Assembly suspended them. O❑ the answer given by the Assombly to this communication will depend the course to be pursued by the Crown. If the next Assembly persist in the course pursued by the last, and determine to proceed to the deposition of the Ministers of Strathbogie, the withdrawal of the Royal countenance, and the dissolving of the venerable body may be antici pated ; and the Constitutional party in the Assembly, who have all along vindicated the Strathbogie Ministers. will of course withdraw along with the Commissioner. Whether the majority will after this continue their sit ting, as the Assembly of 1638 did, remains to be seen. We are inclined to think, that with all the noise they have made about their " spiritual independence" the dominant factio❑ will not venture on so bold a step. But it is hazardous to speculate, and we shall wait the issue of events with no little curiosity. GLOBE.—The Times gives a story of a highly re spectable, worthy, and well-principled man,7, who refused to continue his subscription to the Conservative Associa tion, because its object was " to turn out the Ministry—to get rid of one set of scoundrels and have another set in their room." Our Contemporary does not justify this feeling, but declares that it is " spreading among warm and zealous Conservatives, with whom disgust and despair are taking the place of ardent expectation." We shall not dispute with these gentlemen on their know ledge of their own party, though, much as we should regret the accession of the Tories to office, it never oc curred to us that Sir Robert Peel would select a Cabi net of " scoundrels ;" nor do we think that the Conser vative leaders deserve the blame which is heaped upon them for allowing the Whigs to remain in office. We are not aware of their having thrown away a chance, or that anything has kept them out except inability to get in, and hopelessness of staying in. The Times says, the Downing-street Journals may make the most of this admission, but that they must `• take with it a declaration which they cannot gainsay, that the mo ment a Conservative party in Parliament, whether con sisting of the present or any other, shall heartily and sin cerely throw itself upon the people, making the faith and spirit of Christianity its I tile," there will be a change. We certainly do not apprehend any immediate danger to the present Government ; but its warmest friends would not desire to subject it to the temptations of that perpetuity of office which would result from their hold ing it till the conversio❑ of the " set of scoundrels" to Christianity, or till the Tories throw themselves upon the people. We did not guess the cause of this des pondency till we came to the end of the article, where it appear s to spring from the Nottingham election. A statement of progress there is made, in which the Whigs are blamed for swearing in special constables when " no outbreak of popular violence is expected," though " there are rumours which every body is men tioning in the town, and which may probably lead to their own realization, of tarring and feathering and throwing into the Trent." These are pleasantries to which nobody should object. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL 21. There being only 34 Members present at Four o'Clock, the House stood adjourned till to-morrow. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. TUESDAY.—The attendance was highly respectable and nu merous this forenoon. The prices, as near as we could ob tain them, left off thus : THE 2,000 GUINEAS' STAKES.-3 to 1 offered on the field. Parties open to take 7 to 2 on Eringo, or 9to 2 on Ralph ; 5 to 4 was offered on three against the field. THE CHESTER. Cur.—There is scarcely a chance left to the most minute observer to glean the absolute odds, inasmuch as they vary hourly, and no two houses have the same. We subjoin those at noon, upon the breaking up of the room, at the Post-office Hotel :- 101 to 1 agst Colonel Cradock's Gallipot-11 to 1 taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. Collet's Tubalcain—offered 12 to 1 agst Mr. Flintoff's The Plover 13 to 1 agst Mr. Orde's Queen Bee 15 to I agst Lord Miltown's Cruiskeen 15 to 1 agst Mr. Goodman's Bedford 18 to 1 agst Mr. Price's Tuly—take 20 to 1 18 to 1 agst Mr. Hornby's Champaigne—take 20 to 1 18 to 1 agst Mr. Painter's Ernest the First—take 22 to 1 20 to 1 agst Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy 22 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Calypso—take 25 to 1 25 to 1 agst Major Hay's Retriever—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Whittle's Humming Bird 33 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Rhodanthe—take 40 1 33 to 1 agst Rough Robin—take 40 to 1. The field v. seven, was offered at the close. THE DERBY.—There was nothing said about the crack at noon. We imagine Bto 1 would have been willingly taken on Coronation ;11 1 was taken on Van Amburgh, backed to a considerable sum, last night, as well as the Knight of the Whis - tle, and heavy sums were laid between the two at evens. No thing was done on the outsiders ; 20 to 1 was taken on Marshal Soult. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, APRIL 21. The Lord Chancellor did not sit to-day. ROLLS COURT, APRIL 21. ELLIS V. MAXWELL. The Court was occupied all day in hearing this cause, which was part-heard yesterday, and arose out of the con struction of the will of the Rev. Win. Maxwell. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, APRIL 21 SMITH V. CLEASBY. This was an application to the Court to dissolve an in ;unction against proceedings in the Court of Bankruptcy. The application; was part-heard yesterday. It appeared that the; plaintiff, Smith, on the lath September, 1840, made an assignment of his property in trust to the defend ant, Cleasby, and others for the payment of his debts, but the defendant afterwards discovering that the plaintiff had a friend, who, it was supposed, would advance money to relieve him from his difficulties, instead of acting upon the assignment issued a fiat of bankruptcy against him. An injunction had been obtained to stay pro ceedings under the fiat, and application was now made to dissolve the injunction. The VICE-CnANCELLOR said, the defendant having en tered into an agreement with the plaintiff, by the assign ment, could not be released from it, because he had sub sequently discovered some fact which had not been fraud ulently or improperly withheld from him. At the same time the contradictions to the plaintiff's affidavit and alle gations were so strong, that he thought the injunction could not be dissolved at present, but must be centinued. The qucation of costs mast also be reserved. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, APRIL 21. ADDISON V. SIR HEDWORTH WILLIAMSON. Mr. GRANGER, on the part of the plaintiff, appeared to move for a rule nisi for a new trial in this case. It was an action of trespass and seizing goods by the Sheriff, which was tried before Mr. Baron Wolfe at the late Durham Assizes. He now moved on affidavits, which dis. closed that the bailiff whose conduct was impugned was the officer who summoned the Jury in this case, and that one of the Jurors who actually tried it was one of the bail to the Sheriff for the Bailiff—they further showed that the verdict was entirely contrary to the evidence, indeed so much so as to be accounted fur only by some luterested party being on the jury. The COURT granted the rule upon payment of costs. BAIL COURT, APRIL 21. THE QUEEN V. THE MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY. Sir F. Pou,ocx moved for a writ of certiorari to bring up the inquisitions held on the bodies of Thomas Taylor and John Livesay, who were killed on the Midland Coun ties Railway, in order that they might be quashed. The Learned Counsel said ho had several objections to the finding of the Coroner's jury in both cases, but he would first infirm his Lordship of the nature of the accident. It occurred during the time of an intense frost, which pre vented one of the trains moving along in consequence of the plugs being so frozen that they could not get a supply of water. Whilst the train in which the deceased were was standing still, another train came up, and a collision took place, by which Taylor and Livesay, who were attending the engine, were thrown off and killed. It was not denied but that the cause of death was purely accidental; no blame was attached to any individual ; but the Jury levied a deodand of 3001. in each case on the engine of the second train. He (Sir F.) had several objections to urge against the validity of the inquisition. In the first place, it was held at Derby before the Coroner for that borough, when it was proved that the deceased met with their deaths within the jurisdiction of the county Coroner ; therefore the borough Coroner had no legal jurisdiction to bold an inquest on the bodies. His next objection was to the I informality in the wording of the inquisition ; it was posi tively nonsense, and many other words must be introduced to motto it readable, or anything like sense. The Jury in both cases found that the same carriage or engine caused the death of both the parties, and they valued the engine at 300/. and yet they gave a deodand of 300/. in each case, and proceedings ware now going forward to recover the amount. His Lordship no doubt was aware that for merly there was great difficulty in knowing what to do with deodards after they had been recovered ; but by a recent statute they were ordered to be paid into the Court of Exchequer, and no difficulty in their appropriation now existed. The Learned Counsel then contended that as both the men were killed by one and the same concussion, only one deodand could be levied. If the accident had beer. more extensive and appalling, and instead of two, twenty or thirty individuals had lost their lives, could it be supposed for an instant that a deodand of 3001. on every case might be levied ? Consequently, it was clear one or the other of these inquisitions could net stand. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN—The Jury find the value of the engine to be 300/., and they gave that sum in both cases, consequently a levy may be made against the Com pany for 600/. Sir F. Poi-Locic— Exactly so, my Lord ; and if that principle is once admitted, parties may be utterly ruined, as accidents might take place in which 20 or 30 persons may lose their lives. Suppose, for instance, a horse were to cause the death of an individual, and the Jury levied a deodand on the animal greater than its value, the owner might give up the animal, and insist upon its being taken in discharge of payment. No deodand could be levied to a greater amount than the value of the machine causing the death. Another objection to the inquisition was that it was not signed by all the Jurymen. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN—It is signed by 14 out of 15, and 12 is a sufficient number. Have you any other ob jection, Sir Frederick ? Sir F. PoLLocx—Yes, my Lord. The inquisition does not state, in a legal form, at what time it was held, or in what year the death was occasioned. It says, "In the fourth year of our Sovereign Lady the Queen," but does not aid the name of her Majesty " Victoria." He (Sir F. Pollock( trusted her Majesty might live when those who now hoard him had done with earthly records; but if, in some future ages, reference was made to the docu ment, it would not be possible to tell in what Queen's reign it occurred, which was clearly an informality. The Court of Exchequer held that a document dated the 6th of April, 1841, as it did not contain the words " In the year of Our Lord," was not a legal iustru ment. No doubt but the document intended the year 1841 of the Christian era ; but, as there had been several eras it was held necessary to insert the words "the year of our Lord." Another objection was, that the in quisition did not allege that the bodies were found within the jurisdiction of the borough Coroner, but, on the con trary, proved that the accident occurred out of his juris diction. His other objection was to the positive nonsense of the wording of the inquisition itself, and the Railway Company in whose behalf he made the present applica tion, were anxious to relieve themselves from the payment of 300/. twice over. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN granted the certiorari, and said the case could be fully argued when the inquisitions were returned to the Court on a motion to quash them. Certiorari granted. SHERIFFS COURT.-w ~ EDNESDA ie. GOMM} V. TRELAWNEY. CRIM. CON.—This was an action brought by Harry Dent Goring, Esq., against Edward Trelawney, Esq., sued as Edward Trelawney, to recover compensation, in damages fur criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. The plaintiff laid his damages in the declaration at 4,0001. ; and the defendant having suffered judgment to go by default, the Jury, of whom Sir Henry Ellis was fore man, were now called upon to assess the damages under a writ of inquiry. Mr. Thesiger, Q. C., with Mr. Tyndal, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Austin and another Learned Counsel for the defendant. Mr. TIIESIGICII having made the usual introductory speech about the heinousness of the offence, said that ho t-,ok upon himself the responsibility of coming to an ar rangement with his learned friend Mr. Austin. With this view they had consulted together, and he was happy to inform the Jury that the result was that they would be saved the difficulty of assessing the damages, and would be prevented from hearing the particulars of the most dis tressing and painful circumstances connected with this ett:e. He had agreed to accept a verdict for the plaintiff for 1001. The Learned UNDER- SIIRRIFF—Do you, Mr. Austin, appear for the defendant and consent to a verdict being en tered for that sum ? Mr. AUSTIN—Yes, Sir, I think that is the best course that can be pursued. The Jury, under the direction of the Learned Under- Sheriff, then found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 100/. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, APRIL 21. IN TIIE MATTER OF PRTER HARRIS ABBOTT. This day the adjourned argument as to whether a fiat could be opened against Mr. Abbott, as a retired official assignee of this Court was resumed, the question in issue being, whether Mr. Abbott, although engaged ih a variety of speculations and bill transactions, was, or was not, a " trader" within the meaning of the Bankrupt Act. A discussion which lasted until half-past two o'clock en sued, but, according to the usual practice, it was private. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—APRIL 21. IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM JOHN HAMMOND. In this case an application was made on the part of Mr. Hammond, the comediar, and late of Drury-lane and the Strand Theatres, to reduce the amount of bail required to enable him to obtain his discharge before the hearMg in June next. It will be recollected that he was made a bankrupt, but the fiat was superseded by the Court of Review, with costs, on the ground of the absence of the legal requisites, and hence the application to this Court by Mr. Hammond to be discharged from debts incurred in his theatrical speculations. His affidavit set forth that he had filed his petition, and had been informed that the Cour, would want bail to nearly 4,0001, double the amount of the judgment debts, and that he could not obtain two per sons who would give bail in that sum. It would be. from that circumstance, utterly impossible for him to obtain bail unless the Court was pleased to reduce the amount, or to accept four housekeepers. Mr. Hammond further stated in his affidavit that he had a wife and seven children de pending for their support on his professional exertions, and that they were now suffering from privations in con sequence of his incarceration. If the application was re fused he should be deprived of an engagement for the present season. Mr. COOKE remarked that Mr. Fisher had taken th, Strand Theatre in execution, and a theatre at Liverpool, which property together was worth 2,5001, and had been sold for 500/. The Learned Commissioner BOWEN, after examining Mr. Hammond's schedule, said bail in the sum of 2,0001. would be accepted. The question raised by Mr. Fisher, an attorney at Don caster, was, that the fiat was invalid on several grounds, and, having succeeded in his application, his executions against the property of Mr. Hammond prevailed, and the other debts still existed by virtue of the supersedeas, which debts were now inserted in the schedule filed in this Court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A waiter out of place, named Thomas Williams, was brought before Alderman Wilson, charged with having gone into the New England Coffee-House, for the pur pose of committing a robbery. Mr. Davis, one of the proprietors, stated that great coats and other articles of dress having bean stolen at dif ferent times in the house, the plan of hanging clothes upon hooks to which bells were attached was adopted, so that the moment any person endeavoured to take a coat, the bell which it covered gave notice to those below. A bell in the upper part of the house having that morning given alarm, the waiter of the subscription-room ran up stairs and found the prisoner, who was wholly unknown there, in a state of confusion, and who no doubt had rung the bell, in the endeavour to commit a felony. The coat was not removed. The waiter said that the prisoner, upon being asked what he wanted in the house, stated that he called to meet a tall man, named Mr. Johnson. Alderman WILSON—You could not expect that Mr. Johnson was to be found at the top of the house ? Prisoner—l thought he might be found in any part o the house. Alderman WILSON said that the mode of prevention was an extremely good one, and he dared say it would be gene rally adopted. The prisoner said that he was in the habit of going all over houses, for he was a brokers' man, and was frequently in possession. _ _ _ The police stated that they knew the fellow to be a waiter out of place, and he was remanded till Saturday. A diminutive Jew, named Henry Smidt, of particularly unprepossessing features, was brought up. He had ap peared in the streets with a hat and large plume, and de corated in the most fantastic manner, on Monday night, at 12 o'clock, and attracted a crowd, amongst whom he did a great many preposterous things, which at length in duced a gentleman to lodge him in the station-house. A gentleman of the name of Brown stated, that as he was walking down Aldgate he saw the prisoner, who ap peared to be dressed for the character of Romeo, flourish ing a pistol about in a crowd ; and beli , ,ving that he might do some mischief, seized him by the collar, and bore him off to the station-house. The prisoner said, that when he was done with his day's work he went to sing at Mr. Abraham's public. house, in the Whitechapel-road ; and, in order to give greater effect to the music, be dressed himself like Prince Orlando. Alderman WILSON— How are you en - ployed in the day-time ? The prisoner said he went his rounds with his clothes bag, and was a tailor by day. The gentleman was quite mistaken in supposing that he was doing any harm, for the pistol was one that would not go off for anybody. Alderman WILSON said that the prisoner had by his folly got into confinement for two nights and a day, and that, if be should again be found gathering together a crowd at an unreasonable hour, he should have a little practice at the tread-mi:l. The little tailor was struck with consternation at this notice, and most humbly begged to be forgiven. He de clared that he should never again appear in such habili ments, and called a female, who said that be was a most industrious creature, and bad engaged to sing in order to put a few shillings in his pocket. The prisoner was then permitted to depart. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Mr. Labouchere having moved for, and a se lect committee having been appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the abuses and law relat ing to Joint-stock Companies, I beg to call your atten tion to the fact, that previous to the year 1824 there were 156 companies projected, all of which have been carried into execution, and are now in existence, and that the profits arising from the undertakings yield, in most instances, a rate of interest greatly exceeding that obtained by any other mode of investment, and may be classed thus : Companies. Capital. No. of Shares. 63 Canal 7 Docks s. d. 12,202,096 0 0 6,164,590 12 0 20,488,948 0 0 2,973,170 0 0 2,452,017 2 8 1,630,700 0 0 175,374 57,582 k 329,841 39,760 31,731 35,194 7,472 17,580 25 Insurance 16 Waterworks 4 Bridges 27 Gas 7 Roads 7 Miscellaneous', 494,964 18 10 1,530,000 0 0 X 47,936,486 13 6 764,5314 But how different the circumstances attending the companies of 1824 and 182.5. A majority of them were of a nature adapted only to individual enterprise, as by the formation of a company many useless offices were made and expenses entered into which prevented the possibility of any return to the unfortunate shareholder. The capital required was of such a trivial nature i❑ many instances as to render the formation of a Com pany, a measure only to be attributed to some sinister motive of the projector, and that, coupled with the fact that out of 624 companies, requiring capital of 372,173,100/., formed in London in the years 1824 and 1825, not twenty of them are in existence at the pre sent time, and it would have been well for the poor dupes in those undertakings had they never existed, or that the lives of the mad-brain schemes had been of shorter duration. The bubbles brought forward in those years con sisted of— Cotripanis. Capital. No. of Shares. 74 Mining. 29 Gas 20 Insurance 28 Investment 38,370,000 12,077,000 35,820,000 52,600,000 44,051,000 8,555 500 10,450,000 13,781,000 8,360,000 148,109,600 537,200 20Q 940 651,000 686.500 542,210 125,220 85.000 54 Canalßailroad 67 Steam I 1 Trading 26 Building 23 Provision 292 Miscellaneous 164,900 674,000 2,294,350 AN ODDITY. In a town no less signalised for its enterprise than re markable for the number of " eccentricities" who are at all times to be seen perambulating its streets, the follow ing curious incident occurred last week :—A well known character, who goes by the soubriquet of " Smash," happening to fall heir to some money due to an elder brother—who, while serving in the British Le glop, had fallen a victim on the bloody field—got himself rigged out, from top to toe, in a suit that once was new. This outlay, no doubt, made a heavy inroad on his lately acquired finances, but still a surplus remained suf ficient in amount to puzzle " Smash . ' how to get it ex pended. The thought at length struck him, that, for one day in his life, he woul I act the" gentleman ;" and decked as he was in " bran new and span new," he imagined he would cut no mean figure in " gintale society." Musing how this could be best accomplished, he espied a gentleman dressed in the first style of fashion, and sporting a huge moustache, enter one of the principal hotels. Determining not to bo out done, " Smash" brushed in after the gentleman, and ordering the waiter, whom he met in the passage, with the greatest sang froid, to show him a room, he was ushered into the apartment generally allotted for travellers. After an ang ing his hair before the mirror—rather a novel proceed ing on his part—he rang the bell with rather more vehe mence than " Toby Tosspet," and ordered dinner and a gill of brandy. Having done ample justice to the stook ing viands,he next told the waiter—who was all the while ignorant of the important personage to whom he was so obsequious —to bring a long pipe and some shag tobacco. In a trice the order was fulfilled ; and just as the water was retiring, he gave directions that the Kilnzarnocic Journal should be brought him, and a boy got to read it. The waiter smiled, as well he might ; but seeing the gravity of the gentleman, and trusting to be rewarded for his extra trouble, he ran to fulfil his commission. A boy in the stable-yard, whose face was newly washed at the well, and carefully dried with his bonnet, was soon enlisted by the waiter ; who, after making him aware of the purpose for which he was wanted, gave him sundry instructions in etiquette, He then, with much deference, introduced the reading boy to the Tittlebat Titmouse of a day, who was sit ting with both his legs on the grate, literally enveloped in the smoke which issued from his Cockney pipe. The stable-boy, more acute in observation than the waiter, dis covered at once in the person of the polite gentleman the face and figureof "Smash ;" and the mutual glances of recognition which succeeded soon put an end to the mystery, The waiter, boiling with rage—piqued that he had shown so much politeness to a common vagrant —and afraid lest he should become liable for the havoc made by the voracious appet . te of Smash, threatened that he would send for the police. " Stop a bit," says Smash ; " don't be so quick in your threats—how much is your bill ?" He was soon told the amount, when Smash, darting his hand into his pocket with all the assurance of a person accustomed to the payment of similar accounts, pulled out a handful of silver, and counted down the amount required with the greatest glee- Then modestly holding out a shilling to the waster— w hi ch was not acceptcd—he took his depar ture, highly gratified with what bad occurred.—Ayri Observer. BOW-STREET. William Stacey, a van driver in the service of the Me tropolitan Parcels' Delivery Company, was brought up, charged with having wilfully driven over William Reece, an officer on board of the Marine Society's ship at Dept ford, by which his leg was broken. It appeared that Mr. Reece, in company with three other officers and thirty boys, had been to the Aimiralty, and were crossing from Whitehall, when the prisoner drove up, and Mr. Reece, fearful that the van might run over some of the boys, who were crossing in a line, seized bold of the reins to stop the horse, having previously put up his hand for the prisoner to stop, but to which be paid no attention. Immediately upon Mr. Reeve's seizing the horse, the prisoner commenced whipping the horse, and also attempted to strike Mr. Reece ; the horse reared up, and knocking him down passed over him. He was imme diately conveyed to the Hospital at Charing-cross, when it was discovered he had received a compound fracture of the thigh. The prisoner on being asked for his defence, said that it was Mr. Reece's own fault, as he attempted to climb up the shaft of the van that he might have an opportunity of striking him.—He was remanded, in order further to as certain the extent of the injuries sustained by Mr. Reece. _Henry Price, a boy about 14 or 15 years of age, and James Steevens, were charged, the former with having stolen two parcels, containing 14Ibs. of vermicelli and six bottles of pickles, the property of Mr. Stringer, of 84, Thames-street, and the latter with having received the same, knowing. it to have been stolen. Mr. Stringer deposed that the prisoner Price had been in his service nearly twelve months, with a view to his being apprenticed. The prisoner Steevens is a jobbing porter, and had been employed by the witness at different times. On the 13th April last the prisoner Price said that a gentleman had ordered six bottles of pickles, which he had paid for, and wished to be sent home at once. In the warehouse of the witness, when articles are sold, it is customary to put the amount on a slip of paper, and put it in the till, and the prisoner had done so on the present occasion, The prisoner was sent with the six bottles, and he was a long time away. The other parcels pro duced were the property of the witness, no part of which he had even sold. He had frequently missed articles to a considerable amount, but never suspected the prisoner. Mary Ann Young deposed that she lived in Queen street, Tower•hill, and the prisoner Steevens lodged in her house. He had frequently brought parcels for her to take care of, and she remembered him bringing the par cels produced. About a week after he brought the last mentioned parcels he left her house without any notice, and the day after he left the younger prisoner called and inquired for him. ' She told him she did not know where he had gone, but wished to know, as he had left her house without paying his last week's lodging. The younger prisoner asked how much it was? She told him 3F., and he said he would pay the amount for him, as he knew him to be a very re spectable man. The witness said she should not deliver the parcels to anv person but Steevens, and he not calling for them she had retained them till the officer took them into his possession. Susan Tyson, a servant to .Mr. Baker, who keeps an eating house, stated that the prisoners were in the habit of coming t r her master's house of an evening to their supper, and on the 13th of April the younger prisoner brought six bottles of pickles and requested her master to allow him to leave them there until the next day, and he consented. The prisoner then went away, but returned shortly after wards and had his supper, and be asked fur one of the bottles and a corkscrew, and took part of the contents of the bottle with his supper and gave the rest to the witness. In a few days afterwards the officer called at her master's house and took possession of the remaining bottles. The officer who took the prisoner into custody confirmed the latter part of this evidence, and the prisoners were fully committed for trial. QUEEN- SQUARE. Robert Marshall, a powerful looking man, described as lamplighter to the Equitable Gas Company, was charged with assaulting Henry Prior Farr, a respectable looking mechanic about 60 years of age. The complainant stated that on the previous evening about six o'clock he was passing throughthe Willow-walk, Pimlico, when observing defendant lying in the road way in an apparently senseless state he went towards him, and finding his face much cut and covered with blood he wiped it with his handkerchief, and fetching defendant's hat, which was lying at some dis tance, put it upon his head, and then raised him up to a sitting posture. He had no sooner done this than the de fendant caught him by the skirts of his coat, and swore he had robbed him of fourteen shillings. Complainant told defendant he did not know what he was say ing, and left him. He had reached the Mon ster public - house, which is at the extremity of the walk, when defendant ran up to him, and struck him two severe blows in the face, the second of which knocked him down, and defendant threw himself upon him. With much difficulty he escaped into a house, whether defendant was following him %shell a policeman took him into custody. The defendant said he was so drunk at the time, that he did not know what he did, but he was certain he had been robbed. Mr. Barefoot, an Inspector of the B division said, that the complainant was searched at the station-house by his own desire, and only one sixpence was found upon him. Mr. BurcaELL —I never for a moment supposed the complainant would have committed a dishonest action, but he has done a foolish one in interfering, though it was a humane motive that prompted him to do so, with such a fellow as the defendant, who has so shamefully trumped up a charge of felony against him, and afterwardsso brutally assaulted him. I shall fine him 40F., or, in default, commit him for a month and hard labour. The defendant was locked up. CIRCCIT COURT. INVERNESS, AFRIL 15.—The Circuit Court of Jus ticiary was opened here this day by Lords Mackenzie and Medwyn. TRIAL FOR MURDER. Peter Cameron, Ballintomb of Knockando, was placed at the bar, charged with the murder of his { :EVENING EDITION. L a her-in-law, Alexander ulloch, farmer, Crofthcad 0, Ballintomb of Knockando, on the 17th day of Octeb e l last. The circumstances attending this bo7rid dee i are already well known to our readers. The Pa ge pled guilty of killing Tulloch, but not with intelt if;l murder. The Court refused to accept the the case went to proof. Isabella Tulloch, Crofthead—Alexander 'Tulloch s ol g witness's father, and she lived with him at Crofthea o , Besides witness and father, her sister and Camero n 200, his wife lived in the house. Mrs. Cameron is.. her sister. Knew Mrs. Beaton, who lived at the mansion! house of Knockando ; that her father intended to married to her That matter had been commun. ;eete to Cameron and his wife as well as to witness , A l" Au was disagreeable to Cameron, who was not to reta n4 at the farm after the marriage. Cameron spoke to witness about it, and was displeased, because 5 g thought her father was marrying too soon after be mother's death. Cameron was to leave at the terle• Remembers her father's body was brought home 01 ! ' Saturday, the 17th of October. Mrs. Beaton lives at the house of Knockando; Knew Mr. Tulloch, Crofthead. There were proposal' of marriage between them. Mr. Tulloch visited Ili!' about nine o'clock on Saturday morning. Saw him e out of the door. The road from her house to Ball° tomb passed over a burn, where there is a foot bridge' Tulloch was in perfect health when he left her. Nee eg saw him alive after. He told her that he had c omat' nieated his intended marriage. Told her about Cane', ron wanting a share of his farm, which he rt.fused, et! he appeared sulky after the refusal. Camer on was leave at the term of Martinmas, whether Tulloch vied or not. Alexander Beaton lives at Millhaugh of Bel lintomb, a short distance from the ford of the burn. Passed nee t the ford about seven o'clock on Saturday morning. G i r bert was with him. Observed something on the road lee' ing from Knockando House to Crofthead, on the Knock' ando side. There had been a good deal of rain that night and previous day. The burn was pretty mush swollen that night, but had fallen a little before the/ came up. Observed footmarks on the road, and calle jj George Gilbert's attention to them, who said there be' been drunk people there ; but witness said that be rather thought there had been fighting. There wets great many marks on the road. Observed nothing et ; but went down to his father's to help to thatch 10 1' stacks, and before he got on his stockings, the li r , girl, Mary Ruff, came crying that there was a man Ijr in the burn. Both Gilbert and witness went Oos l and saw the body lying in the burn. 13 / 1 1 , body was fixed by some large stones, whieh .r, vented it from going down the burn. There we a l', hat ; did not know whose body it was. Did not It the body out of the burn till he got more people• was then lifted out and laid on the bank. Recog ols ,, it to be the body of Tulloch. Saw seveaal lake": about the head, a good deal of blood about the no set " cut above the brow, and one on tile top of the head" John Bell, mason, Clune, went to Church on Se ri : day 18th October, and heard what had happened' Crofthead. Wife told him Cameron was in the bal v, ; went to see him. Witness said to him that the las t time he saw him he did not expect to see him in !A l ; way. Prisoner said he did not expect that himself. said he had done it. Witness had before heard tlO4 Cameron had killed Tulloch. The prisoner said 00 he had done what he never intended. Witness sai d t° prisoner that he wondered when he was waiting under the bushes that seine reflection did not come over WI mind to prevent him. Prisoner said he did not in teo r to kill him, but to gird him a thrashing. Pris eeg a said as much as led witness to believe that be sveli t , e , to prevent him from going to visit Mrs. Beaton---4% supposed to prevent the marriage. Prisoner said that Tulloch had told him that he was to. leave,,,,, tl l ° • farm. Prisoner told him that he rushed upon loch from behind ; and that Mr. Tulloch had got hold 0 a him by the neckloth, and almost choked him and ba d prisoner down on his knees—that Mr. Tulloch ut tere some hurried words which so irritated him, tha t . e be took the stick out of Tulloch's hand and strute k. - ho „ across the head. Prisoner said that he never sp but Tulloch discovered him and uttered those war and the prisoner then struck him. Witness does °, recollect, but be thinks that he spoke about the hod_ being in the burn. Remained in his house three or foil days. Was not there during the day, but came back° night. Witness's wife is a relation of prisoner. b i g Cross-examined—Prisoner's family resided i 0 „ neighbourhood. Knew him well before he went ,7,1 Crofthead. Witness has seen many a thing that .7, him to believe that he had not the common judgm e ._ of other men. Does not recollect: any particular nr stance. Prisoner was of a religious disposition. - t h Dr. Cruickshank, Elgio, went to Crofthead,Tpc. the Sheriff and Procurator-Fiscal on the 17th of T h e tober, and examined the body of Mr. Tullocb. Doctor then read two medical reports drown up by e d self and Dr. Stephen, Aberlour, from which it are° that there were seven or eight different wounds o boe' the head and neck. That those on the head had been inflicted with a blunt instrument. The marks on t he neok might have been made by the hand or a soft ligr Lure. No such appearance would have existed if be had merely been knocked down and drowned. The ADVOCATE-DEPUTE addressed the Jury, concluded by calling on them to return a verdict lb the panel guilty of murder as libelled. reiin Mr. E. GORDON, advocate, addressed the J- Pi behalf of the panel, and hoped the result o f thei.r c i beration would be a verdict of culpable hoelie l g verdict which would leave it optional for the p res ; Judges to inflict the most severe punishment excel ) " capital punishment of death. wept Lord MACKENZIE then charged the Jury, and bat over the evidence at very great length, and stated 'to it was not necessary to prove intention to m urder , ' he r, that if a person committed a serious assault on an° t ` lg e which ended in death, he was guilty of the capital ttr i he of murder. The present case appeared to him t acid very clear, and he thought it possessed all the /l u l l features of a most barbarous murder ; but if the 'f - it had any doubt, they should give the prisoner the bei of that doubt. 0 4 The Jury retired at about nine o'clock r•li" after remaining in consultation for half an hour 1 . , 1f returned into Court, and returned a verdict unani oo " . finding the prisoner guilty of Culpable Homicide. t iv Lord MEDWYN stated th a t he had no doub t Jury had returned a verdict according to their cfbe science ; but he thought th a t if the crime wLi eh '. e r st panel had committed was not murder it was the ne ili bis to it he Lad ever heard of. After a few remark', ),1 Lordship proposed that the panel be transported bey° seas during the term of his natural life. .0 0° Lord MACKENZIE then addressed the panel e t '„, e d length, and concluded by passing sentence, as pr o p!,ied by Lord Medwyn—that the panel be tratoPY beyond seas during the term of his natural life. og PATENT LEVER WATCHES, with s t ' „ o o engine-turned double-backed gold cases, Fourteen s— el each, with silver engine-turned cases, seconds, hard en dial, Six Guineas each. lte en crbich This celebrated construction (the most accura. , p ee' a watch can be made) is now offered, with the latest imps ments, i. e., the detached escapement, jewelled ix four n 0 capped, hand to mark the seconds, maintaining poser to c° n going while winding up, at the above price. • e ll A printed warranty is given, with fixed terms, en Which Watches will always receive any attention required. T. 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