The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

I EVENING SUN. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YISTERDAY. GLOBE.—The sudden change in the tone and lan guage of the Times toward the Irish Catholic clergy and their flocks, joined to the severe reproofs it has admi nistered to the Protestant Association for applying to them the self-same epithet, and accusing them of the self-same crimes, which had copiously filled the Times' columns, have naturally excited mingled surprise and dis gust in the Association, thus deserted, betrayed, and de nounced by its former friend and advocate. The other Tory Journals, less facile in the art of pirouetting, employ considerable severity of remark on this portentous omen to the cause of intolerance ; and charge the " Leading Journal" with dishonesty in heaping upon the Protest turt Association " unmeasured and unwarrantable in sectire"—having shortly before praised its objects, its efforts, its agents. We alluded yesterday to the. appeal which the Standard deemed it right to make in behalf of the Association, which, notwithstanding the denunciations of the Times, was affirmed to " deserve the support of the country." This morning the Herald devotes a considerable space to the same object. A letter from " A member of the Protestant Association is publishedin its columns, and a long leading article gives effect to the epistle. The letter complains that "a journal well known for its sudden and unexpected changes of opinion on im portant subjects (witness those of late on Puseyism and Corn-laws), has within these three or four days de nounced the Protestant Association,' as 'incendiaries " ' end the Editor follows up the impeachment by remark ing, that the writer of the letter " complains with great earnestness, of the decree of condemnation which it has pleased a Morning Contemporary to pass upon that body, after its most imperial fashion of deposition and degra dation." The " leviathan of the press" is too much ac customed to have the charge of " apostacy" hurled at its columns to be greatly disquieted by this fresh discovery of its baseness. The hide of a rhinoceros is not more impervious to the tickling of a straw than is the moral feeling of the Times to anything like a sensibility of shame. It is vain, therefore, for the Herald to at tempt to produce any such feeling in that journal by a quotation from its own columns ; and to add, that " our Contemporary himself, a few days before, anathe matised, as ' surpliced ruffians,'" the Catholic priesthood of helmet; and, we may add, employed the degrading; appellation of "savagery," as the characteristic portrai ture of the Irish people. For Popery or Protestantism, except as party words, and as supplying weapons for political controversy, on the principle which actuates mercenaries in a campaign, the Times cares nothing. The object for which the Irish Catholics were anathe matised is answered. STANDARD.—The immediate effect of the New Poor-law, in diminishing home consumption, cannot be treated lightly by those who listen to the apology of the.! "deficit Ministers," for the defalcation to which they owe their names—the apology, that the success of the Rev. Mr. Mathew's mission has seriously affected the expenditure of the lower classes of the Irish. In So merset House there are three missionaries—we will not affront the excellent teacher of temperance by calling them three Mr. Mathews—whose ascetic lessons have a far wider range of population to act upon, and embrace a much greater number of articles of ex penditure than Mr. Mathew's pledge ; and there is this difference between them, that whereas Mr. Mathew leaves his followers to expend at their pleasure the money which they save by his salutary instructions, the stern disciplinarians of So merset House make the unhappy beings submitted to their mercy still poorer by starvation. To look, how ever, no further than the immediate effect of the Poor law as a cause of the depression of the home market, would be to take a very inadequate view of the mischie vous operation of a measure as unwise as it is inhuman. The fear of the union workhouse compels men to make sacrifices r.nd exertions no less injurious to the commu nity than to theni;elvcs. They abridge their diet, not for their own profit, but for the gain of others ; they overiask their powers, not to gain more, but to pro care any wages; and thus; in a market already more than overstocked with labour, render miserable, and shorten, their own lives, in order to force others out of employment. And what is the general effect of this ? To enable the money capitalist to. gamble with the most r;omplete indifference in the lives and happiness of his fellow-creatures, and in the safety of his country. It would be perfectly easy to trace the opera tion of the New Poor-law in producing, by the. encou ragenr.,nt of speculation, the distress now afflicting .the inanufacturing. districts. The money capitalist has always had labour at his command at whatever wage., he might please to pay ; and if wages de not seem to have much diminished, it is because more toil has been taken out of the slave for the same money, and he has been iuiid fir a less number of months or weeks. Has any gee ever heard of a manufactory silent for want of hands since 1834, or of many manufactorieS where work has been constant for the • last seven years? No, the New Poor-law has changed all that. The money capitalist can now take the market at his pleasure. and leave the earners of his additioeal wealth to starve whenever the market does not invite him. COURIER—We took occasion a few weeks ago to expose the groundlessness and fallacy of the supposition, that a Conservative Government would find any peculiar ' difficulty in dealing with Ireland and Irish interests in the new Parliament ; and notwithstanding' the more than usual acrimonious virulence of Mr. - O'Connell and his re g iment of ragged partisans, notwithstanding his turgid threats, and his tone of insolent defiance, we have 60CH no reason since to alter or modify the decisive opinion we then expressed. - With Ireland, we again emphatically repeat, Sir Robert Peel will experience no greater difficulty in dealing than with the other por tions of the empire, and for this cogent reason, that his measures, and the whole course of his policy, legislative . and admirristrative, towards that country, will be charac terised by the same rigorous adherence to constitutional prineiples, and the same regard to the real wants and wishes of the people, as will be his measures with regard to England or Scotland. Those who pretend or fancy they gee in the state of Ireland obstacles in Sir R. Peel's path, reason about it as if it were a separate and distinct nation, and nut en integral portion of the British em pire. They forget, or seem to forget, that all distinc tions on account of religion have been abolished, as well as that all those questions that were wont to constitute the battle-field of parties in the Commons, have been finally disposed of. The subject of corporate reform has been luckily set at rest. The tithe question—that fruit fid source of bitterness, heart-burnings, and crime—has been adjusted on precisely the same terms as were pro posed by Sir R. Peel, during his brief but brilliant pre miership in 1835 ; in fine, as regards the business of le,gislation there is no one leading principle—no one pro- Minent or ialportant point of policy relating exclusively to that part of the empire, from the handling of which there is the remotest chance of embarrassment or per plexity arising to his administration. In this respect the time of his accession to power is peculiarly propi tious. The Lambeth Reform Festival is to take place on Wednesday next, the 18th inst. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER SEA-HORSE AT Hong ;T TowN.—The following is an extract from i private letter:—" Hobart Town, April 11, 1841. Yesterday much interest was excited by seeing a magnificient steamer, under canvass, standing up the Derceent, which proved to be the Sea-Horse, from LOndon. This splendid vessel of 300-horse power is, we understand, the first of the four powerful steamers which are coming out to navigate our seas, and call into existence the vast resources of these important colonies. By our last advices from home we learn that -the Juno, of similar power, was upon the eve of sail ing ; and we can only add that if she and the others are • equal to the Sea-Horse, no such vessels have ever ap peared on our side of the globe. The Erebus and Ter ror, southern discovery ships, are in the harbour. They have been further to the southward than any f ormer ex • sailing o ver the continent recently di scovered pedition by the Americans. AFFECTING INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH. w heN o rt l had ---A respectable young ma n of the name of Robinson, Ne who resided at No. 4, Devonshire. street, North road, Hoxton, returning from the city, whither been to deliver some work (his employment being th at of a working jeweller), between the hours of eight an d nine o'clock on Tuesday evening knocked at the door of o se, and up his residence, but before it could be opened he was speechless. At eleven o'clock he was a c to then, from the timehe several . entered, he had not been able to utter a sentence, although he had made . ineffec tual endeavours to do so. He has left a young wife and four small children to deplore his loss. ' INUNDATION AT LANGLEY, NEAR SLOUGH. —Upon the estate of R Harvey, Esq. who resides at Blackpark, Langley, about two miles from Slough, there was a large piece of water, in many pl aces u p wa rds of 15 feet in depth, and covering an extent of 20 acres. Some saw-mills have lately been erected near this spot; and it having been discovered that a considerable leakage had taken place, It was resolved that the culvert, several feet below the surface of the earth, should be bored down to, to ascertain if the flood.,gettes were faulty. While this work was in progress, and nearly completed (but fortunately while the workmen were absent), the force and weight of the water blew up the culvert, scattering the bricks and earth in various directions, . and, in the course of a very short time, the whole of this immense sheet of water was dispersed, inun dating the neighbourhood of George-green and Langley to the depth of several feet, for a considerable distance. The lake is now nearly dry, and can be walked across at any part. The fish, of which it contained an im mense quantity, are dispersed amongst the various ditches, and a considerable portion have been left dead (high and dry) in those places over which the current passed. ' DISAPPEARANCE OF A STUDENT OF Ha • atzaToN COLA ece.—Yesterday information was reeeiveil at all the metropolitan police stations of the mysterious " disappearance of Mr. Thomas Hinds, a student at Ho - maleon College. It appears that the gentleman in queztion, who is about twenty-three years of age, left Gravesend for London on the morning of Saturday I 'kat, where he arrived in safety, h av i ng called at the College about six o'clock the same evening ; since which • time he has not been seen nor heard of. He is described as being about five feet eight inches in height, with a full face, and hair light and curly ; no wiskers, light blue • eyes, and in person full b o di e d. Was d resse d in a suit a eat black clothes, a satin stock with long ends, fastened With a Peruvian diamond pin ; linen marked, eT. Hinds." Had in his waistcoat pocket a gold chronome tor watch, made by Frodesham, eec., London, with the !; . initials "T. H." on the cases, worn with a gold guard chain. In his pocket he had also U. and a Russia leather packet• book containing_memorandums. W the eduesda policemen's old great coats were dios;it.ranilnuted.fo_r the use of the poor to the different metro .tt parishes by order_ of the Commissioners of. olice. Many of them me ii i i r l e \N"vCh•roy dareecent,andwtioll be of great service to the poor exposed the inclemency of 1 1 the weatiLT. „ TO NON-ELECTORS. HOW TO GAIN A VOTE, AND USE IT WITH OUT INTIMIDATION. Every Reformer who is excluded from the list of voters, and does not possess the necessary qualifications to get his name on the register, may as effectually contri bute to the return of a Reform Candidate as if he lad a vote for himself, and that vote was protected from inti midation by the ballot, if he will examine the list of voters, which may be seen at the house of any overseer at all reasonable hours, any day before the 15th of August, and make a note of the name and address of any Tory that appears on the register and is not in every way qualified. He should immediately forward the information, with ground of objection, to some active Reformer or Registration Committee, who will object to him ; and if he is unable to prove himself qualified, will be excluded from the register, the onus of proof lying entirely with the person objected to. Thus the Tory vote struck off will be one gained to the cause of Reform, and given as secretly, if not mot.) so, than a vote given by the informant under the protec tion of the ballot Surely the thousands in the metropolis excluded from the franchise, and those who have been compelled to sacrifice their consciences, and submit to the most shame ful as well as shameless intimidation, will avenge them selves upon their intimidators, and thus regain the vote their private interest compelled them to give against their own honest conviction. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. SEIZURE OF A. FRENCH VESSEL AT HOLD- FAST RAY. (From the Adelaide Chronicle, Feb. 17.) A circumstance which may lead to very serious conse quences has just occurred. The French ship Ville de Bordeaux arrived at Holdfast Bay, from Swan River or King George's Sound, on her way to Circular Head. She called here to ascertain if stock could be purchased in the colony. Advantageous arrangements for the ship ment of a large quantity of sheep were understood to be made, and the ship was about to take her cargo on board, when, on Saturday last, she was seized, by order, we understand. of the Collector of the Customs, and on the following day she went to sea with two Custom-house officers on board. The facts of the case, so near as we can learn, are as follow :—The Collector of Customs having received in formation that she was to carry the stock to King George's Sound, which, being a French bottom, she had no right to do, and also on suspicion of her having false papers, went on board on Saturday night, and seized her in the name of her Majesty's Customs, and made the crew sign articles to work under the orders of the Custom house officers in taking her up to the port. The Captain was not , at this time on board. At daylight next morn ing Mr. Anthony and a person named Lockyer went on board to take charge of her, when they found the Captain preparing to proceed to sea. The vessel was accordingly got under weigh, and the Captain requested Mr. Anthony to go ashore in a boat which was alongside. This he re fused to do, having had orders to take charge of the ship. The vessel then stood out to sea, with Mr. Anthony and the other man on board, and she has not since been heard of. Reports, however, were afloat yesterday, that she was lying off the mouth of the harbour, but this, we be lieve, is incorrect. On Sunday evening the Courier steamer, having the Collector of Customs, the Harbour Master, and a body of armed police on board,l started in pursuit of the ship. She returned to Holdfast Bay yesterday, having seen nothing of the ship. She took a quantity of fuel and provisions, and sailed again last night. _ _ We have been informed that the Frenchman was seen on Monday by a fishing-boat, somewhere down the gulf, cracking along under a press of sail. With a good breeze the steamer will never sight her, as she is a very fast vessel, having been built for a ship of war. The strangest feature of the case is—a large flock of fine sheep, the property, we believe, of E. Rowlands, Esq., of the firm of August, Cooke, and Co. ' which were depasturing at Glenelg, and intended to be ,pur chased and shipped on board the Ville do Bordeaux, were seized by the police or custom-house functionaries, and branded with the broad arrow. We say' distinctly - , that a more daring and unwarranted violation of the rights of private property than this never before oc curred in a British province. It will be a disgrace to the English feeling of the colonist., of South Australia if they do not insist upon a strict enquiry into circum stances so directly violating every mercantile rule, and all legal safeguards of property. The following is an extract from the log-book of the Ville de Bordeaux : " Thursday, Feb. 18, 1841.—Commences with light breezes and fine clear weather. At 3.30 p.m., the twelve men off duty came aft on the quarter-deck, and asked Mr. Symers and Captain Biron to take the ship into Holdfast Bay. and let them have justice on shore, if he would not give it them on board ; if not, they must take her there themselves. Captain Biron and Mr. Symers then told them that they would take her into the bay when they thought proper ; when they commenced swearing and using the most abusive language possible. They then began to walk aft, when Mr. Symers took hold of the helm. The men immediately took hold of him and dragged him away, William Cummins and John Pearce taking charge of the wheel while they surrounded him, Mr. Symers remarking, he did not wish for bloodshed. The Captain and Mr. Symers asked Mr. Anthony to as sist in the name of the Queen, when he answered, he did not know the captain or Mr. Symers, and he would not assist either side ; saying, they made him a prisoner as well as the people. They then squared the yards, set the foresail and main-top-gallant sail, and took the command of the ship from Captain Biron, Mr. Symers, myself, and the other officers, and run her into Holdfast Bay, and anchored in 33-fathoms." PROTEST. —We, the captain, officers, and parties con cerned in the ship Ville de Bourdeax, do hereby protest and note against the barratry conduct of Mr. Torrens and the other two gentlemen with him ; and also against such part of the crew as were to aid and abet:them in the carrying off the ship Ville de Bourdeaux ; and we now deem it prudent to take the ship to a port where she may be safe from such conduct and example, until the legal authorities shall decide whether a French ship can not come to South Australia and purchase a cargo of cattle for a French colony. Henri Biron, captain.. • John William Charlton, second officer. Charles Gear, third officer. John Brown, ship carpenter. William John Penton, boatswain. George Jefferies, } passengers. H. D. Jefferies, John Derby, shepherd. H Symers, part charterer of the Ville de Bor deaux. Ce proves verbal est ecrit en Anglais enfin de ne pas avoir a reclamer un interprete. H. BIRON, Captain. Iturus's STONE.—We found upon a recent pilgrimage to this historical monument that the Right Hon. Sturges Bourne, the Warden• of the New Forest, has enclosed "Rufus's Stone," as it is called, in an iron casing of the same triangular shape as the original, with bars at the top, so that the visiters may still see the re mains of the stone, though they cannot chip off any more of it, a practice which had reduced the monument to a third of its original size, and defaced all the inscrip tions. The stone was put up by the Earl Delawarr, near a century ago, to mark the spot whereon grew the oak against and from which the arrow glanced (aimed by Sir Walter Tyrrell at a stag) and shot the king. The Earl, when a boy, had seen the oak, which tradition pointed out as the fatal tree, growing on the spot, and when the storm laid low the monarch of the forest, in whose time so many kings had reigned and died since the red-haired Norman fell before him, the Earl erected the stone to commemorate the event. So many pieces, however, had been taken away by the cockney vandals, that unless the Right Hon. Warden had encased the re mains, not a relic would have been left to gratify the visi tor. On the three sides of the iron casing the inscrip tions on the stone are repeated, with a few lines recording the present addition in 1841. We may as well mention to parties visiting the place for the first time, that " mine host" of the Compton Arms, at Stoney Cross, about a quarter of a mile from the spot, is very attentive to v isitors, and sends down people to carry refreshments, seats c , e &c., if required. At the bottom of the hollow, 40:0 , e,auwezi l aixes q u u t a wo r f te t r he o .p f u a r i k n i i s le wh fu o r e th on er v , ey i e s d th ß e u e f o u t s ta in g e h his the cart , peakmofasitYuasle A. vlieol of ti r ;e when he was deserted by all his courtiers. cottage, but vas s ca b rt used to be shown in the yard of the as a Christ urnt, as we have stated in a former paper, l go- I ni as d a e- g bo if o t k f s ors a ab re o c r e e nt a ev c e e n n t. tury T ag he o c . ou T ag h e e the service rend e r e d by Purkis. The de scendants, to the u sal of them now in nb their r of above a hundred (and seve woodmen), contemplated ancestor's avocation, that of putting up a new stone by a found by e the as subscription of a shilling Warden unne but the good taste of the 0 - that the iron should be painter ly sa i r i ? . ; * We looking to suggest opking . better, and therefore more easily d ib e r sce s nti n g from the high-road, is the -explore the Forest without a guide. visitor whomay the view half-way We may add, as gent, that sire and magnificent in the south of England. :another d o wn th e m b e i ni ll: 3114)3t AmongeXten the fashions prevailing just now in Paris is that of wearing ten breadths in the skirts of the dress. Int one of Jauy's papers he makes an old lad declare that the brocade of her weddin g suit was afterwards made into covers fo r a sofa and a dozen arin-chi, and K a seems likely that so curious an epoch of fashion w ill - be now renewed. The of Turk e y i s Augsb Gazette P U s L ta A te T s i t ° ll l4 at ° th r e o -twenty-three millions, of Tutwhom a sixteen are Muss e l mans, :and seven Christians or Jews. In some q uarters of Con stantinoplepopulation the population has been tripled since the commencement of the last reign. A few days since a fisherman named Masey, re siding at New Romney, discovered in a poll at low water, and about mid sands, a curious old measure resembling -copper, and holding about a pint, having a bell-metal :handle with the figure of a lion or some other beast :thereon. On minutely examining the bottom of it, the slate 1412 was deciphered. Some time ago two metal -spoons were found on the same spot, marked IY B. It -will be in the recollection of some of our readers that - about 20 years since the keel of a wreck VMS dug out :from this place, and brought up to the town, but the name and date of the vessel could not be ascertained. — _Kentish Gazette. BAGPIPES IN INDIA.—A letter from the Pun aub, a country in the north-west of Hindostan Proper, sated " Peshawar, 27th May, 1841," and written by one 'of Captain Broaclfoot's party, mentions that " the moun tains near the Attoek are famous for a race of a wild military kind of robbers, which the Seikh Government - can't put down. They are a fierce and more warlike race - than the rest, and what is very strange, they use the I . . t lighland bagpipe, exactly in sound and shape like our wn, out play no ►scotch airs." LONDON COURT OF CONSER- VANCY. OBSTRUCTIONS TO THE NAVIGATION OF THE THAMES. —Yesterday, according to appointment, a Court of Con servancy for the County and City of London was held at the Guildhall, for the purpose of selecting a Jury to examine into the condition of the river Thames, within the exact civic limits, in consequence of the serious complaints made by the gentlemen of the last Middlesex and Surrey Conservancy Juries, that several encroach ments and nuisances had been-made in the parts of the river to which their supervision did not extend. The Court was attended by the Lord Mayor, the Re corder, Aldermen Lucas, Sir Peter Laurie, Wilson, Farn comb (who was warmly congratulated on his recovery from his serious accident), the City Solicitor, Mr. Secon dary Potter, the Comptroller, and other officers of the corporation. The following gentlemen were sworn in on the Jury : Mr. John Brown, Foreman Mr. T. C. Newman Mr. Robert Aylwin Mr. Ralph Harris Mr. Richard Brain Mr. J. G. Smith Mr. J. Q. Finnis Mr. George Landman Mr. Henry Drew i Mr. Charles Phillips Mr. Arthur Ryder Mr. James Hunt Mr. A. C. Johnson Mr. Edward Keeling Mr. Richard Buck Mr. Robert Hutchinson Mr. G. E. Brown Mr. William Curling Mr. Robert Wrench Mr. A. C. Johnson Mr. Benjamin Bower Mr. G. B. Harrison Mr. George Childe Mr. G. D. Trimby. The RECORDER charged the Jury. His. Lordship stated that the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London had, as Conservators of the river Thames and waters of the Medway, considered it to be their duty, after, he believed, an interval of about twenty years, to convene a Court of Conservancy, to inquire into the state of the banks of the river Thames, and the nature and extent of the obstructions which might exist in it, within the boundaries of the City. The Lord Mayor and Corporation were desirous to be assisted by the Jury, in an investigation calculated to promote the public ser vice, the object of which was to keep the river in a free and unobstructed condition. They had been given to understand that several encroachments did exist. Some of them, perhaps, were such as to present advantages of a public nature, exceeding the amount of inconveni ence of which they might be productive ; others might be attended with no inconvenience at all ; while others might be so objectionable as to endanger the lives of the public. The alterations which it had been thought ne cessary to make in one part of the river for the enclosure of the Houses of Parliament, had drawn the attention of the Lord Mayor and the Corporation to that particular place ; and the numerous other changes which had been made, arising from a variety of causes and circumstances, were deeply interesting to the commercial part of the community ; and the Corporation considered that they would not properly discharge their duty to their fellow citizens, or to the community in general, if they did not call in the aid of two men of high professional eminence to assist in ascertaining the real state of the river, and the probable state to which it might ultimately be brought by the alterations which were taking place. It was his duty to point the attention of the Jury more immediately to the erection of the temporary land iug-place at Blackfriars'-bridge, where it was stated loss of life had taken place, and which formed an ob struction of no ordinary kind in the river at the point at which it was placed. The Lord Mayor and Corpora tion requested the Jury to look to that part of the Thames with particular care, and to examine and ascer tain how far the erection was an obstruction and a nui sance as it had been represented to be. He had already stated, that with respect to the public service, it was con sidered necessary by the Court to have the assistarce of two persons fully competent to advise upon the subject of the navigation of the river, in which important changes were contemplated ; but, preparatory to the completion of these changes, it was necessary to receive all the information which the gentlemen of the Jury could collect in their examination. It was the intention of the Court to perform in the most complete manner the obligations they considered themselves under, to make the improvements in the river adapted to the existing circumstances. The alterations referred as well to the nuisances, and destruction occasioned to the fisheries by gas and unlawful nets, as to the other causes of com plaint ; and the authorities were fully competent to carry into effect any necessary change for the benefit and se curity of the public. His Lordship concluded by stating that lie was happy to see that the Jury were commercial men, chosen from the immediate neighbourhood of the river, and probably well acquainted with it, most par ticularly in the places to which their attention was pe culiarly directed. The Jury then proceeded from Court to the river, where they embarked in the City boat, attended by the Water Bailiff, for the purpose of examining the various parts in which obstructions and nuisances were said to exist. Upon their return to Court at three o'clock, Mc. BaowN, the foreman, handed in the following presentment : " London :—Wes;,whose names are hereunto sub scribed, being the persons duly summoned and sworn at a Court of Conservancy of the River Thames and Waters of Medway, holden before the Right Hon. Thomas Johnson, Lord Mayor of the City of London, and Con servausr of the said River of Thames and Waters of Med way, 2,1. the Guildhall in and for the said City of London, on - Thur3day, the 12th day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1841, to inquire of certain transgressions, con tempts, and offences, committed on the said River of Thames, within the said City of London, do hereby make our presentment in manner following,—this is to say,— " We present that certain parsons, being occupiers of the wharves on the banks of the said river between Lon don-bridge and the Temple, cause their barges to be placed outside the piles in front of their wharves. " In making this presentment against the said persons we beg to express our opinion that much inconvenience would be obviated by piles being driven, under the direc tion of the Corporation of London, in front of the said wharves so as to define the boundary for mooring craft in the cans eway at Paul's-wharf, as to occasion no ob struction to the public landing place at the said wharf. " We her. aby also present that several persons have caused a floating pier or landing place, formed of barges, at the north-east side of Blackfriars-bridge, and which projects a consiierable distance into the said river, and that such floating pier or landing place is an encroach ment on the said river, and also an obstruction to the na vigation. And we further present the said pier and floating barges as being in a dangerous state, and not sufficiently stable for the intended purpose. " We present that a pier or landing place, principally formed of barges, hath been erected at the western side of Southwark Bridge, and which projects from one of the piers of the said bridge into the said river. We make this presentment, considering such pier or landing place to be an encroachment upon the said river; but at the, same time we state that little, if any, obstruction is caused thoreby to the navigation of the said river, and we also consider that-such pier or landing place, as at present constructed, is the best adapted for the accom modation and safety of the public in embarking and balding from steam-boats navigating in that part of the sail river. ~ We also present that several persons have caused floatin t e; piers, or landing-places, ,formed of barges, to be erected ‘-m. the banks of that part of the said river which is situate within the City of Lon don, at Dyer's Hall Wharf, at Old Shades Wharf, and a 1 sicholson'sWharf, and which project into the said river. .We consider such piers or kat:ling-places to be encroach molts upon the said river. "We present that several persons have caissec2 a lighter, with a barge affixed thereto, to be placed in . from: of Cus tom-house Quay, in that part of the said rive." which is situate within the City of London ; and also a lighter in front of Adelaide Wharf within the said City ; a mid that such lighters are encroachments on the said river." The presentment was signed by all the Jury. Alr. BROWN, the foreman of the Jury, said that in making this presentment of the encroachments particu larized, he was directed by his brother Jurymen to state that all which were mentioned as merely encroachments were, if properly managed and regulated, necessary for the accommodation of the public. He was expressly de sired to mention that fact. The RECORDER—YOU mean that their uses to the pub lic more than counterbalance the disadvantages arising from the encroachments ? Mr. BROWN—Most decidedly. The REcoRDER—Then the objection as an encroach ment and a nuisance is directed against the pier at Black friars-bridge ? Mr. BizowN—Certainly. We present that as a most decided encroachment and nuisance. ..... • Sir P. rAn.unau said that he had received a lettm from the Blackfriars-bridge Pier Company, denying the truth of the statement made to him by the gentleman who- was near losing his life at the pier, and declaring that nothing could be more safe.—(A laugh.) Mr. BROWN—We had before us the man who was sa id to have saved the gentleman's life, and he mentioned to us that the gentleman jumped before the steamer had reached the barge. Sir P. LAURIE—And that the gentleman totally denied to me. I knew that the Jury would ascertain whether the place was as safe as possible or not. The RECORDER then returned the thanks of the Court to the Jury for the manner in which they had discharged their duty, and stated to them that his Lordship and the Corporation would take immediate measures to re move effectually such encroachments and nuisan• e. 3 as they had pointed out, and as were calculated to came danger and prejudice to the public. • The Court was then dissolved. A model of a very elegant pier, proposed to be erect ed on the north-west side of Blackfriar's-bridge, and whil will cause no more obstruction than the admirable one at Southwark-bridge, was exhibited at the Guildhall. It 's by Mr. Walker the engineer. We shall in a day or twt,` give a description of it. THE MIGHT 0, MYSTERY.--TO MCCOLL nd anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of my story, is to invest it with a secret charm and pm ter of attraction, which to the crowd is irresistible. Fa !se priests, false prophets, false doctors, false patriots, fi lse prodigi es o f every kind, veiling their proceedings in n 2,1 ps tery, have always addressed themselves at an imnam se advantagea to th e popu l ar credulity, and have been, IX r haps, more indebt e d t o that resource in gaining and k co. P ing, for a time the upper hand of truth and common SC than to any half dozen items in the whole catalog( to c imposture. Curiosity is, and has been from the creu I of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gr. iffy it by slight degrees, and yet leave something always suspense, is to establish the surest hold that can be hail, in wrong, on the . unthinking portion of mankind.— Dickens. , METEOR.-A very beautiful meteor was cib served from Careluie-hill, on Wednesday evening, ab at .t a quarter past eight o'clock. It appeared in the fern ► "of two balls of fire, and passed slowly in a straight ' kne f ro m north-west to south-east. It had no tail, as n gsst meteors have, and was visible for the space of ne: half a minute.—Correspondent of the Ayr Observer. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT, Aug. 12. FOWLER V. SIR MATTHEW WOOD, BART. Mr. KELLY (with whom were Mr. Turner and Mr. Walker) on the part of Sir Matthew Wood and Jacob Osborne, stated that the object of the present application was to obtain from the Court an order that the issues directed to be tried by the Court at the late assizes for Gloucester might be tried at the ensuing assizes to be held at Bristol, in and for the county of the said city of Bristol. By an order of this Court, made on the 23d July last, certain issues of devisavit vel non were directed by this Court to be tried at the then ensuing, but now late assizes for Gloucester, and that order directed that the trial should take place before a Special Jury, to be composed of persons not living within twelve miles of Gloucester, and an order to that effect was made by Mr. Justice Patteson. The parties went down to trial, and in so doing his clients had expended $,OOO/., but eight only of the jurors summoned appeared. He accordingly prayed a tales, but that was objected to, and he then submitted to the Court that the 6th George IV., cap. 50, imperatively required that a tales should be taken, but Mr. Justice Coleridge considered that with a tales the trial would be a nullity. It was then asked that the trial should be postponed one day. That also was refused. The postponement was then asked for one hour that the Bristol coach, which was supposed to contain some of the jurymen, might come in, but this was refused. It was then offered to try the issues with eight jurymen. This also was de clined, so that there was no trial, and the Court sepa rated. These were the facts as regarded the direction of the Court. It was now asked that the issue might be tried at the assizes to be held at the city of Bristol. In refusing to complete the Jury at Gloucester from the common panel, he conceived that the Jury Act had been% misconceived. The course with respect to issues di rected by this Court was to carry them into effect sub stantially ; they were, however, subject to the same' rules as any ordinary action at law, and were controlled only by the special directions of this Court, which were engrafted upon the proceedings at law, in all other re spects they were to be tried in the usual manner. This Court might direct the trial to be had without a tales. It might also direct a trial to be had in Middlesex, before a Jury drawn from another county, or in any other way, so that the proceedings were according to law. Lord LANGDALE observed that the object of the trial was to satisfy the conscience of the Judge who had to decide, either according .to the facts, or to follow them so far as would be proper for working out the point re quired. Mr. KELLY—It was argued that there was no power to try the case except before a Special Jury, but that was not according to the Jury Act.- By that statute a Judge in Equity had no power to direct that a trial should be had before a Special Jury. Lord LANGDALE was disposed to accede to that argu ment; an order of this Court was only an intimation to the Judge at law that the Judge of this Court would not feel satisfied with any other Jury than that specified in the order of Court. Mr. KELLY submitted, that after the case was brought before a Court of Law no choice was left, and,that a tales must of necessity be impannelled at the request of party. This application was made by way of appeal, and the questions were, whether the issues ought not to have been tried, or whether there was to - be a failure of justice, either by error or accident, or whether some other order ought not to be made to harry it into effect, and whether the jurymen should not have been called from the com mon jury panel. The Learned Gentleman then mentioned two cases, but without any references, and said that the trial might, by the direction of this Court, be had at Bristol, before the Jury summoned at Gloucester. Lord LANGDALE observed, that an objection to have the trial at Bristol had previously been made. . Sir F. POLLOCE, on behalf of the heirs-at-law of the late James Woed, deceased, said that the Jury could only decide who were the executors of a testator by the pro bate of the will. He could well understand why the heirs-at-law did not prosecute the useless ejectments they had brought in ; there they were certain of success. From February, 1839, when Sir Herbert Jenner gave his judgment in the Ecclesiastical Court, to the present year, the alleged executors had been willing parties in the passive proceedings of the heirs-at-law ; that decision was fatal to their right as devisees. From that time the tenants had refused to pay their rents to them, and it was not till June, 1840, that the devisees sought to en force their claim. The tenants then filed their bill of inteepleader, and brought their rents into Court in order that they might pay them to such of the parties as should be ultimately found entitled. With respect to Special Jury cases, even a Court of Law was in the habit of granting a new trial when but a few Special Jurymen attended ; but it was not a statutable right to pray a tales when the trial to be had was founded on special authority ; and such an application as the present could not be granted whether the trial failed by error or accident. Lord LANGDALE could only consider that the trial had failed by accident. Sir R Ponnocx said that, entrusted as he was with the interests of infants and married women, he could consent to nothing ; besides, if a tales had been taken by consent, he much doubted if there would be any indict ment for perjury. Mrs. Goodlake was one of the wit nesses sought to be examined ; she had already been ex amined upon depositions in the Ecclesiastical Court, and that evidence was on record. Mr. Phillpott was another of those witnesses. Respecting him he should not say a word ; he was not about to quit the country, neither was there any probability that he would die before the the spring assizes. The trial at the late assizes had failed by accident, and had been made a remanct, and must be tried before the Jury already summoned, if that Jury was not discharged ; and it was so stated in all the books of practice . . If this application were granted ' not a farthing of the expense incurred would be of any use, since there must be a new record, fresh Coat expenses, and even the subpoenas for the wit nesses at Gloucester would not be good by consent; there must, therefore, be a new jury panel and fresh jurors. The same Counsel also did not go that circuit; the heirs at-law, therefore, would have to retain Counsel wham they would have to instruct over again, and they would have to begin to learn all the facts of the case. But was the fund in Court (9001.) the reason for these fresh pro.; ceedings ?. " Not so," said Mr. Walker, " this trial is to decide other points." Were the heirs-at-law, then, in such a case as this, upon the supposition that this appli cation could be granted, to go and retain and instruct Counsel ; and even when they had done so, what secu rity was there that the trial would take place ? The wit nesses might be gone abroad, and other difficulties might arise, so that he submitted the Court could not see its way.. He denied also that jurymen were bound to leave their county except in obedience to the Court of Queen's, Bench ; and if they went by consent they were not liable' to punishment. Did Sir Matthew Wood want the 9001. in Court ? If so, he might have it upon giving proper security to return it if the case ultimately should lie" decided against him ; but if the case was to be tried, let' that trial be had in a manner and at a place where. it would be satisfactory. His clients were in bumble cir cumstances, they had already expended 1,0001. in pre paring for this trial ; 37 witnesses had been summoned. 33 of whom lived near Bristol ; Counsel had been long retained, and others not so well acquainted with the case would have to be instructed, and even notice of this ap plication had been sent to Gloucester on Tuesday night, by a special messenger, requiring the instant attendance of his clients. He did, therefore, trust that this unusual, unprecedented, and anomalous application would be re fused, with costs. Mr. SHARPE (with whom was Mr. Barber) followed on the same side. Mr. KELLY replied, in the course of whiCh he, on the part of his clients, offered Co Pay the extra expense which the heirs-at-law would be put to by having the trial taken to Bristol, and to submit to a rule for that purpose. Lord LANGDALE said that John Fowler, the plaintiff in this case, was one of the tenants of the lands of the kite James Wood; these lands were claimed by Sir Mat thew Wood and others, as devisees, and also by the heirs-at-law, who insisted that they took by descent, on the ground that there was an intestacy. The plaintiff had filed this bill to protect himself from these conflict ing claims, and an injunction had been granted upon payment of the rent into the Court. An application had' been made to the Court in this suit, which contained two results—the one was to order the money to be paid out of Court to Sir Matthew Wood and others, or to put the case in a proper course of investigation. When this was discussed, both parties said they were ready to try the question by an issue; and after some discussion certain issues were ultimately settled, both parties proceeded to trial, but as the order made contained directions to sum mon a special jury of persons not residing within 12 miles I of Gloucester, it was considered that the case could only be tried by a Jury so summoned. The trial was directed to satisfy the wind of the Judge in equity, and the order imposed upon the narties the necessity of bringing the case forward according to the rules of law. The direc tions were imperative upon the parties, but not upon the Judge at law ; to him they considered expedient. were nothing more than an intimation of what course was tales should be a and considered had. The Jud.ge t h ou ght not, Upon the trial being called on, the jurymen were not there, And a question arose whether that the trial in that case would not be valid. When the issue was directed this difficulty did not occur to on l t y h e parties e r ; but tha t as accident. Was it on thisground to be tried at another s h to ad od f h ai e led cbu t l h d ro n n e g l i v l place ? It was his duty to divest his mind aeverything the ee trial e ial that had taken place elsewhere, and simply to regard the queStions between the parties in this suit. There might be reasons for delay, of which he knew nothing, but as the case stood, he had heard no sufficient reason for changing the venue ; put the suggestions of expense The 9001. in Court might be of cons_ e d e e l n f id ul e ly on pr t e h p e a ft r i e c d ta . t a h n edyt might t inability attach t instructo great im p c o r o t u: ee l q o ut o u e nt it, and a toni the o (th the ot question. pwara stenao , s r m h a e l C l onrt, hardshipho however, etvoe must r e i n v d e e d a o v o f ti c r ou t before it. The examination of the two witnesses might be important ; but he was afraid, if he admitted that as it reason, he might be called on to interfere in every case similarly situated. The case, as it was brought be fore him, wae curious, and showed that other objects beside the trial were in view ; for one party said he was willing to allow the money to be taken out of Court on secure-, and the other 'slid would ra ther p a y the ex penses of the heirs-at-l a w than t s i , at ; the trial should not ~ take place. As the case stood, sier efore, before the Court, he thought it ri g ht to refuse the application. Mr. SHARP asked for the costs. • . Lord LANGDALE said he should res erve the question of costs till after the trial of the issue. • Last week a young gir!, from the West High lands, came to visit a sister she had in Glasgow. At the outskirts of the town she stopped at a toll-bar, and began to rap smartly with her knuckles on the gate. The keeper, amused at the girl's action, and curious to know what she wanted, cams• out, when she very demurely in terrogated him as follows :—" N this Clasco ?" 4 . Yes." —" Is Peggy to ?" ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—Croydon, August 11. CROWN COURT. John Watkins, 25, and Henry Seton, 22, were ca pitally indicted for assaulting and wounding George Collier, with intent to murder him. In other counts the intent was said to be to do the pro secutor some grievous bodily harm. Mr. CLARKSON conducted the prosecution, and stated the facts of the case to the jury. It will, perhaps, be better to lay a narrative of the cir cumstances before our readers, than to enter into a detail of the evidence given by the respective witnesses. It ap peared from the evidence that the prosecutor Col lier was formerly a constable in the Metropoli tan Police, but he was dismissed about a year ago. While employed in the police, he had given great offence to the prisoners, who are noto rious members of the swell mob, and some of their com panions, and, on the 28th of May, the prosecutor being in a booth at Epsom races, the prisoner,Watkins, accused him of being a " pipe" (a cant expression among thieves, meaning he was looking out for robberies). The prosecutor told him he was no such thing, and anticipat ing some violence from the conduct of the prisoner, and a number of persons who were with him, he told them to remember that he knew them, and that if they ill used him, he should certainly mark them. Immediately ' upon his saying this, Watkins struck him with his left hand on the mouth, and with his right struck him with a life-preserver a violent blow on the head, which knocked him to the ground, and he was then kicked and beaten by both the prisoners and several other men, and when he was ultimately secured by the police, it was found that he had received most severe injury ; and Mr. Jones, the surgeon who exa mined him, was at first fearful that it would prove fatal, but the prosecutor ultimately recovered. The prisoners absconded immediately after the outrage, but true bills having been found against them, warrants were placed in the hands of the police for their appre hension, and Tidmarsh, a constable of the L division, met with Watkins in Kent-street, and attempted to take him into custody, but he made a most desperate resist ance, and it required the aid of several policemen to se cure him ; and he then said he supposed he should be " lagged" (transported) for that Collier's job. The prisoner Seton was afterwards apprehended, and both were identified by several witnesses as having been con cerned in the assault upon the prosecutor. Matthew Richards, a waiter in the booth in which the occurrence took place,. corroborated the evidence of Col lier as to the brutality of the prisoner and his compa nions towards him. He also said that while Collier was upon the ground he was kicked about" like a football," and one of the assailants said " his (Collier's) eye was out ;" and another answered, " Yes, and his brains shall be out, before we have done with him." And shortly afterwards a cry was raised " to finish" him, and a tall man, in a smock frock, slipped off the frock, and drew a table knife from his sleeve, and made a rush at the prosecuor as he lay upon the ground, as though he would have ripped his bowels open, but he was fortu nately prevented from carrying the attempt into execution. Mr. BODKIN, addressed the Jury on behalf of the pri soners, and said that he could not attempt to shicld them from a conviction for an assault of a most brutal and ag gravated description, but he submitted that there was no proof that the prisoners intended to murder the prosecu tor, and that the evidence only substantiated the charge of assault. Mr. Sergeant TADDY having summed up, the Jury re tired to consider their verdict, and during their absence the Learned Sergeant ordered Collier to get into the wit ness's box, and he told him that he perceived from testi monials that had been laid before him, that his conduct since he had left the police had been most creditable ; and he also said that the manner in which he had given his evidence, and his conduct in reference to the present transaction, did him credit; and his Lordship added, that he appeared to have acted in a manly and straightforward manner. The Jury soon afterwards returned their verdict, find ing the prisoners Guilty of assaulting the prosecutor, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The prisoner Watkins then addressed the Court, and said that he admitted he had assaulted Collier ; but he had no intention to kill him, or to do him any serious injury. He then proceeded to charge Collier with being the associate of thieves, and with receiving the plunder, and he said that the reason why Collier bore an ill-feeling towards him was because he picked a man's locket of twenty-five sovereigns at Barnet Fair, and he gave him his share, and in consequence of it being reported that he had taken a hundred and twenty-five sovereigns, in stead of twenty-five, Collier said he had got a " cen tury" the better of him, and he would " lag" him for it the .very first opportunity that offered. Ile concluded by begging the Court to have mercy on him. The Learned Judge told - the prisoners the Jury had taken a merciful view of. the case, for if they had been found guilty of the whole charge their lives might have been 'forfeited. He was bound to pass upon them a sen tence of transportation for fifteen years. The moment the sentence was pronounced a scene en sued that almost defies description. The prisoners, who are most powerful men, rushed to the front of the dock, and, with dreadful oaths, declared that they' had been " sold like bullocks ;" and they uttered horrid impreca tions upon the Judge. Mr. Keene and one of his assist ants laid hold of thern,i and attempted to remove them from the dock, but their exertions were of no avail against the frantic power of the two prisoners. Inspector. Collier, of the P division, and several of his men, jumped into the dock, and a desperate struggle then took place, durinc , which some of the constables were kicked and severely injured by the convicts. The Court was in a state of the utmost confusion. The women shrieked, and business was Completely suspended. A number of bad characters who came into the town in the morning were about the Court, and the intention of the prisoners was evidently to excite them to attempt a rescue, but they were awed at the firm demeanour of the police, and did not attempt any violence, and the prisoners were at length removed to a strong room, where they were put inirons. CIVIL SIDE.--(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.) THE SUN, LONI)ON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1841. BURREE V. MAILER. This was an action against the defendant to recover damages for the seduction of the plaintiff's niece. Mr. Platt, with whom was Mr. Houldstone, ap peared on behalf of the plaintiff. The defendant was not represented by Counsel. Mr. PLATT said the plaintiff was a market gardener, residing at Barnes-green, and the defendant was the son of another market gardener, residing in the same neighbourhood. The action was brought to recover com pensation for one of the greatest injuries that could be inflicted on a female. Mary Gowan, the young woman who is the subject of the present inquiry, was the niece of the plaintiff, and was adopted in the 'family in order to take care of his children, and super 'intend his domestic establishment. She was treated as e of his own children, and the family lived in the en- Nrment of the greatest happiness, till the defendant was introduced to the house. In June last year the de fendant's father went to reside in the neighbourhood of the plaintiff, when the defendant at once commenced a system of attacks upon the affections of the niece, which eventually ended in her ruin. Previous to that period her character was unblemished, and she enjoyed the re spect of her friends and neighbours. Soon after the de fendant became acquainted with the family, his visits to the house were sanctioned, and it was anticipated he would in due time become her husband. UnfOrtunately,however, the young woman gave birth to a child in June last. As soon at this took place, the defendant was spoken to on the subject by a mutual friend, who expressed a hope that he would treat her with kindness and support the child, which he then promised to do. He had not kept his promise, and it had therefore become necessary for his victim to undergo the exposure in a court of justice in order to compel him to make some compensation. - Mary Gowan stated that she was the niece of the plaintiff, with whom she had resided about four years, She had the charge of the children, and had also to at tend to the domestic affairs. Knew the defendant, with whom she became acquainted when he first went to re side in the neighbourhood. He continued to visit her for eleven months, and was always treated by the family as her intended husband. She frequently walked out with the defendant with the sanction of her uncle and aunt. In the early part of September she went to Barnes to visit her cousin ; the defendant accompanied her, and returned with her in the evening. Previous to that day the defendant had on one occasion attempted to take ha. proper liberties with her, which she refused to permit. Witness then related some other particulars, which the preceding evidence would lead the reader to anticipate, and which it is needless to give. By the Learned JUDGE—The defendant did not offer her marriage, but he paid such attentions to her in the presence of her family, as to induce a belief that he in tended to make her his wife. Mrs. M. A. Powall was acquainted with the plaintiff's family ; was in the habit of visiting them ; had fre quently seen the defendant there ; he always appeared to pay the attentions of a suitor to Miss Gowan ; had seen the defendant since the birth of the child ; she asked him whether he had been to see the baby ; he re plied that he had not. By the JUDGE—The defendant's father was in an ex tensive way of business. Mrs. Wire, a fruiterer in Covent-garden, stated that she was acquainted with the plaintiff and the defendant. Heard of Miss Gowan's having a child, and spoke to the defendant upon the subject. She told him she hoped he would behave kind to the girl and .her child, and he pro mised that he would do so. By the Learned JUDGE.—The defendant was not in business for himself, but officiated as salesman for his father. Was not aware that he had any property of his own. The defendant's father had extensive grounds, and kept a number of carts and horses. Mr. Phillips, a surgeon, residing at Barnes, proved that Miss Gowan was delivered of a child on th e 6th of June ; her family were very much distressed at the circumstance. James Williams, a lad in the employ of the plaintiff, stated that, after the birth of the child, he was sent by Mrs. Burree to see the defendant. He went to his fa ther's for that purpose, several times, but was always informed that the defendant was not at home. On one occasion, when he was told that he was not at home, he (witness) went down the garden to satisfy himself of the fact, and 'he there found him ; the defendant told him that Mrs. Burree wanted to see him, but he said he could not go, as he was very unwell ; he however looked very well. Never saw the defend ant at the plaintiff's after that time. The Learned JUDGE said the action was brought by the plaintiff to recover compensation for the loss of the services of his niece, and in assessing the damages the law did not allow, under the circumstances, a larger amount of damages than the actual injury committed. The jury must look at the general circumstances of the cc.se, the situation in life of the parties, and the particu lar circumstances under which the seduction took Place. There could be no doubt of the plaintiff's right to recover, and the only question was the amount of damages lie was entitled to. The Jury almost instantly returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 501. OXFORD ClRCUlT—Gloucester, August 11. John Wait, the younger, was indicted for a n assau lt upon Robert Harrison, on the 24th of February last. The prosecutor conducted his own case, being unable, as he observed, to " purchase" counsel. Mr. Alexander appeared for the defendant. The defendant, who moves in very good society, re sides at Blakeney, in this county, and is high constable of the district ; and the prosecutor, who is an old sol dier, or, as he termed himself, "an old warrior," lives near him. On the evening of the 24th of February, be tween six and seven o'clock, the prosecutor having finished his day's work was proceeding homewards, with a pipe in his mouth, accompanied by his sons, two little boys, when he came up with the defendant, who was sitting in his gig, close by the entrance to his own re sidence, and talking to a person in his employ, named Hyatt. Hyatt was standing so near to the gig that if he had put out his arm he could have touched Mr. Wait, but the prosecutor, although there was plenty of room for him to pass on the other side of the gig, or even behind Hyatt, thought proper to go be tween the defendant and Hyatt, smoking as he went. Irritated at what was doubtless an act of im pertinence, the defendant made some observation about his being an insulting rascal, and declared he had a good - mind to give him a good horse-whipping, and, jumping out of the gig, he ran after the prosecutor for twenty yards, and stopping before him shook his whip, which was doubled in his right hand, over the prose cutor's shoulders several times, calling him at the same time an insulting rascal, and declaring that for half a farthing he would knock his head off. While using this language he raised his left hand and knocked the pipe out of the prosecutor's mouth, knocking out at the same time, or, to employ what seemed to be a pet word with the prosecutor, " extricating" one of the prosecutor's teeth, which, to make the loss more cutting, happened to be an "eye 'tooth." The defendant also pushed his fist up to the prosecutor's nose, who told him that he had done quite enough, and that he would " take the law on him.' Upon this the defendant Rent back to his gig, calling Hyatt to witness that he had not struck the pro secutor. The prosecutor's story was repeated almost verbatim ;by his son, a little fellow twelve years old, whose examination and cross-examination occasioned much amusement, but all surprise about the coincidence of the two statements vanished when it appeared from the boy's own account that almost every eveninc , since the 24th of February he had told the story to his father on their return from work, and that his father had told him that his tooth was "extricated," and had desired him to stick to his story, and to mind what he did say, and not to tell a lie. It appeared that there was some pre vious ill feeling between the parties, arising out of alleged acts of trespass. The Jury found the defendant guilty, and His LORDSHIP said he quite agreed with the verdict, and regretted that a gentleman in the defendant's position should so far forget himself as to assault an old man in the prosecutor's situation in life. The sentence of the Court was that he should pay a fine of 101. to the Queen, and be imprisoned till the fine was paid. The money was immediately paid, and the defendant was discharged. With this case ended the business contained in the county calendar. His Lordship then proceeded to try the city prisoners, among whom is one charged with the crime of murder. Philip Inkin, Richard Goodman, Charles Harper, Frederick Davis, Thomas Trickey, William Davis, Charles Chesterton, and John Protheroe, were indicted for the manslaughter of William Brown, on Whit Mon day, the 31st of May last. Mr. Francillon (with whom was Mr. W. H. Cooke) conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Godson appeared for Chesterton and William Davis ; Mr. Greaves for Inkin. Goodman, and Trickey ; Mr. Alexander for Harper ; Mr. Keating for Protheroe ; and Mr. A. M. Skinner for Frederick Davis. It appeared that the deceased had challenged Inkin to fight, and that the battle was to have come off at the Ham, within the limits of the city.of Gloucester, but bein g interrupted there by a city poli ceman , th e p ar ti es moved off to Sandhurst-green, about two miles and a half from Gloucester, when they stripped and set to. Good man seconded the deceased, and Trickey was his bottle holder, and Harper and Frederick Davis acted in the same capacity for Inkin. William Davis kept the ring, and Chesterton was a timekeeper. They had not fought inure than three or four rounds when two of the county police made their appearance on the ground, and endea voured, but at first ineffectually, to stop the fight, which proceeded for a good many rounds more, when the two policemen made their way into the ring, and, producing their staves, declared they would break the arm of either of the combatants who struck another blow. The ring was broken, the fight was stopped, and the seconds were about to take their men away, when Chesterton, who was on horseback, rode into the ring. and told the policemen that he would report them for not doing their duty before, and that as they had been watching the fight for their own pleasure, the combatants should fight on for his. Protheroe also came and. said the fight should not be stopped, and Chesterton made a fresh ring by riding round with his horse, and the fight was re newed. About 35 rounds were fought afterwards, and in the 75th or 76th round Brown stood up, but his legs faltered ; he fell, was never heard to speak more, and died in about three hours afterwards. The cause of death was the effusion of blood from one of the blood-vessels of the brain, but there was no external bruise correspond ing with the internal seat of the injury. The medical witnesses differed in opinion ; one of the surgeons said, that the effusion of blood did not necessarily produce im mediate death, and thought that the deceased must have died from the blows or falls which he had received in the course of the fight, while the other thought that could not be the case. The Jury, after considerable time spent in deliberation, acquitted all the prisoners. The verdict, which was not delivered till past nine o'clock at night, was received with manifestations of applause, which were with difficulty suppressed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. William Harnett, an elderly man of respectable ap pearance, was brought up before Mr. Alderman Wilson, charged by Mr. Herbert, of the firm of Herbert, Mor riss, and Co., the extensive carriers between London and Coventry, and elsewhere, with being deficient in his ac counts upwards of 2,0001. Mr. Herbert, who resides at Coventry, stated that the prisoner at the bar was their town agent, living in Moor lane, Cheapside, and conducted the whole of their establishment at that place. It was his duty to receive and pay all monies on account of the concern, and to for ward every month his account to him at Coventry. On receiving the account of June last, he was surprised at it, when he wrote to the prisoner concerning the affair, and having received an answer not to his satisfaction, he cane up to Lo-idon and called on the prisoner for an ex planation of his accounts, which he subsequently made up, when he found there was a deficiency of 2,087/. odd shillings, whiei the prisoner said had been expended on the general account. He further added that the prisoner had been in their service for the last six, years, and it was his duty to render his account monthly. Mr. Alderman WILSON asked the prisoner what l ie had done with the money that he was deficient in? The prisoner, in answer, said it had been e7,pended on the general account of the firm. The Alderman asked if there was any specific sum received, which he had not accounted for. The Solicitor said—Yes; that if the Magistrate would remand him, he could prove two or three, but one in particular, 3651., received last o.,ctober. After some further conversation with the Alderman, it was arranged that the FAsoner should stand remanded till Thursday next, to give time for further investigation. BOW-STREET. Alfred Cole was charged before Mr. Jardine with be ing fouud in possession of the cabriolet, No. 1,917, the property of Mr. Isaacs, a cab proprietor, of Little War ner-street, Clerkenwell, not being the driver of the same. The priioner was one of a class of persons called " bucks," who are depaty cab-men, to whom the regular drivers are in the habit of entrusting their vehicles, to the injury of the proprietors themselves, as well as to the public, who frequently get imposed upon by men who, from the fact of their not being the licensed dri vers, are not to in found w h en p rocee d e d aga i nst. dr. Isaacs, the proprietor, stated that the practice of " bucking" was one from which he, in common with other cab proprietors, had extensively suffered, and he was de termined to put a stop to it as far as it was in his power. Having yesterday found his cab, 1,917, in the possession of the prisoner, he went up and questioned him as to his right of driving it. He replied that the driver had en trusted it to him for a short time, while he attended to his own affairs, and that he would find him (the driver) in Farringdon-street. He went as directed, and found the man, who at first said that he had left the cab in the care of the prisoner only for a few minutes, and that he had driven away with it. He, however, afterwards acknow ledged that he had entrusted it to him for several hours. The Magistrates said the public would never have any security against the misdeeds of these men, as long as the system complained of was allowed to exist, and asked the prisoner what he had to say to the charge? The prisoner said that he was not what was called a "buck," but that the prisoner having said to him, "I don't feel altogether so well, Hal; and I wish you would take my cab for a few hours"—he took it to oblige him. The MAGISTRATE said the practice must be put a stop to, and he should therefore call upon the prisoner to find bail, himself in 101:, and two securities of 'lO/. each, to answer the charge at the Sessions. Bail not being at once forthcoming, the prisoner was locked up. UNION-HALL. On Wednesday Ellen Barlow, a girl of 17 years of age, in the service of Mrs. Hannah Hubert, of No. 14, Clarendon-place, Vassal-road, Brixton, was brought be fore Mr. Traill, charged with robbing her mistress, and , afterwards attempting to poison the family. .• The complainant stated that the prisoner had been in her service about 14 months, and that, during that pe riod, she had ex hibited great vio i lence of temper of many occasions, and for which she ~ad term discharging her. The prisoner had warning, and she• was to have left her situation , on the preceding day, • when the complainantmissed a silver-spoon, an d clues. tioned the g i r l on the subjezt, who at f i r s t d en i e d that she knew anything about it, but aftrwards conf esse d' that she had hidden it behind the sink in the w as h' house, to carry it away tm quitting. Her boxes then underwent a search, and a great quantity of her mis tress's property, consist 7 .ng principally of wearing appa rel, was discovered. At first the complainant's inten tion was to have retaken possesSion of her property, and not have proceeded against her. Soon after her depar ture, tea was . prepared by Airs. Hubert f or h erse lf an d fam i ly . Wh!le, however, two of the children were in the act of eating some bread and butter, they were ob served to loathe the food, and co plain via, nasty hot taste it had ; and, when the butter came to be examined, it was ascertained that a quainity or vitriol had been mixed with it ; and, as the prisoner had every facility of committing such an act, it was strongly suspected that she. and no other ner.inn, was the offender. Mr. TRAILL said that the charge of finding stoic* property in the prisoner's boxes was clear enough, bt t with regard to the more serious accusation, that of mix ing vitriol in the butter, there must be stronger evidence produced before it could boentertained. Mr. TRAILL asked the prisoner if she wished to say anything relative to the vitriol found mixed up with the butter in the kitchen cupboard ? The prisoner said she knew nothing about that, but remembered having re cently used Vitriol'in cleaning some copper saucepans. The MAGISTRATE said that he ihould remand the pri soner for further examination ; and in the meantime di rections were given to collect the whole of the evidence relating to so seriong a ehormp. . EVENING SUN. SHiPPiNG INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYDS. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.--A_brig in ballast, private signal three blue and two white perpendicular stripes, 21it ult., lat. 47, lon. 29 ; Anna Liffey, of Dundee, for Que bec, Ist, lat. 48, lon. 17, by the Pollock, arrived at Hall. Woodville Castle. of and from Cork, lat. 26, lon. 44, by the Dyks, arrived at Kinsale. Alexander, bound to Con stantinople, 30th May, off Malta ; Eliza Sanders, for Constantinople, 13th ult., lat. 37, lon. 13, by the Speck, arrived at Cork. Iris, Clyde to Bay Chaleur, 7th, 51, long. 15 ; Abigail, St. John's New Brunswick, 30th ult., lat. 47, lon. 42 ; Emerald, of Kinsale, 18th, off Cape Sable, by the Louisa, arrived at do. A barque, with red ensign, and castle on it, and a white flag witil " No. 94," in black letters, on it, was passed on-the 4tll ult. in lat. 42, lon. 56, by the Louisa, arrived at do. Thomas Hunter, America to Liverpool, 9th ult. ; Wr it Exchange, 19th ult., lat. 40 W., lon. 12 ; Brighton, 260, lat. 43, lon. 12, by the Rubicon, arrived at Liverpool , Whitby, London to New Zealand, 6th May, lat. 45 IC lon. 11 W. ; Clarendon, London to Singapore, 27th, 18t -13, lon. 25 ; Dora, Newcastle to Rio Janeiro, 30th lat. 6, lon. 22 ; Sybil, Liverpool to Bombay, 31st, lat. 5, lon. 2 1 ; Waverley, Limerick to Hobart Town, Ist June, lat. 4, lon. 22 ; Seahorse, Flushing to Batavia, 9th, la t. 4 S., lon. 29, by the Australia, arrived at Batavia- Drake, of St. John's. Newfoundland, from Viana, 1 i til ult., lat. 42, lon. 35, by the Beau Ideal, arrived at Nov foundland. Gardiner, Liverpool to Calcutta, 6th, lat. 51, lon. 6. by the John Carling, arrived at Bristc d ' Eliza, Hamburgh for Bahia, 10th ult., lat. 3 N., ion. 5 0 by the Maryborough, arrived at ditto. Brothers, Que .- bee to Clyde, Ist, lat. 48, lon. 32, by the Neptune, ar rived at ditto. Lavinia, Clyde to Newfoundland, 6th, lon. 16, by the Hannah, arrived at Pwelheli. Princes; Royal, of Quebec, bound east, ion. 55 ; William She 7; herd, Quebec to Yarmouth, 30th, lon. 34, which ha, spoke the Leo, Holdforth, from Quebec, off the Grtuw - Banks ; barque Kangaroo, of Cork, 2d, lon. 27, by th e ' Marwood, arrived at Dublin. John Waller, Scotland to' Cape Breton, 25th ult, lat. 46, lon. 42, by the Unlit clitfe, arrived in the River.. Anna Maria, of Sunderland" timber laden, with bowsprit end broken, 4th, lat. 49, I°l/. ? 22, by the St. ' Vincent, arrived at Bristol. Isabella , °' Irvine, 15th ult., in the River St. Lawrence ; Brig it 9" mona, of Dublin, 16th, and Sir Walter Scott, of 1 1111 ' 17th, both going up the River St. Lawrence ; barq ue Victory, Hull to Quebec, 18th, off Bee, by the Soph ia ' Wells, arrived at Milford.; Agnes, Gilmore, of Glaa; gow, 21st ult., lat. 45, lon. 52, by the Isabella, arri ved at ditto. THE. MARKETS. COUNTRY MARKET:s. Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. eteum. t'er Quarter. a. to s. s. to a. s. to a. 3ath glandflird 52 72 31 32 23 26 iiridport 68 'hard 56 72 18 32 22 26 Exe'cr 7Eoucester 6O 76 26 32 21 18 duildford 62 77 30 35 24 30 vewbury 5S 79 :0 35 21 31 Reading 54 t. 3 26 36 20 30 Salisbury 52 (3.2 27 34 20 26 Sherborne 72 74 28 31 i 26 33 SneptonMallet 60 :0 25 34 i 22 27 • Uxbridge :37 43 23 older 52 76 30 34 25 28 4 1 48 Winchester 45 66 teovil '56 70 21 32 22 28 40 44 LEEDS CORN MARKET. Wheat, Norfolk and Sutflilk, 601 h. • ..... 653. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suliblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 63lb. • flats, Potatoe 21 5. _ . S. to s. 40 t;0 3.1.5 42 40 42 40 45 42 46 40 45 40 50 44 48 :38 45 ---I‘lcaling, F'or. —d. to—d Clic]ling to • , A 40 •""_ DEVIZES CO Per Sack. s. d. e. d. .qrst W heat.. . 34 0 to 40 ( second 15 0 :7 C third c 3 a ley 30 U 35 0 ...--- .. - 40 " 4 40 tI 2 8 38 4° 40 ~, .... ... -- - ..., -.. t, iss.l L . I to 33 to 99 ;41 to 4 1 ! . to s 6 ,,fgo ' ***** ••••Ent".,. WO. :0 13 4 . Per le , 30i. to 315. pet itN MART 1 I" , _:r QuatKEte;. 2,. d. 1 _l_ 4 24 - Oat- 0 tG 3u : Be.ans (per sack)... J 0 .2! r' Flour (per °''' 0 r3read (per g allon). A 5 --- CHELTENHA Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d.! Wheat Barley ........... 3 0 3 9 Mutton .................... Oats 3 0 3 9 Veal Beans cease 5 0 8 0 Lamb .................. - Hay 41.53. to 41. 10, ... Per ten. CHELMSFORD 114...nAKET. Wheat, White 7O to 18 Oats «....«. -.... "" ...... Red barley Chevalier 15 36 Beans, Tick....... ......... Grinding 2O 32 Mangan CANTERBURY MARKET. . Wheat, %Onto,. 79e. to 79,..... Old red 60i. to '79s. t0 ...t. Barley, Malting —31 s. to 345. Ornding.. co Oats 2ss. to Old —s. Bean. 364 to Oa. —s. to a.. Pease 355. tu Grey 00.1.1.4 39a.t0 M MARKETS. Per W. d IL d• 6 S 7 9 23 to 2 0 39 4•l 40 42 36 43. 33' [ADVERTISEMENT.] Ladies travelling, or temporarily subjected to any deviation of equable temperature, will find in Row land's Kalydor a renovating, and refreshing auxiliary, dispelling the cloud of langour from the complel-ion, and immediately affording the liming sensation attent ing restored elasticity of the skin. The distressing a,7_, unsightly varieties of cu t aneous erupt i ons are al"' promptly eradicated by the KalydOr. Spots, PilaW l( ! s ; freckles, discolourations, and S a ll owness , yield to i d specific qualities, an d are succeeded by a smoothness " 1 1,, transparency o f th e s ki n , g i v i ng rise to the most pie surable sensations. Patrebized by thei r M a a na jesties the King 4 p Queen of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses the Princ e ss es, Augusta and Sophia, her Serene Highness the Princess Esternsa: the Princesses Mary and. Rosa, her Grace the Dowager Doeb o c u , o of Bedford, and their Graces the Archbishop of Canterbury, the , d i t iors of Norfolk, Devonshire, and Manchester, Lord Hill, &c. tr , ass Ss to the above distingui s h ed patronage to the newly-invente d = Pact. s, Lenses and Invisible Op erat i ve Voice Conductor, the Messrs re st B. Solomons, opti c i ans and aurists, 39, Albemar l e stree!,_ res , cadilly, and 76, King William-street, Bank of England , reti e : the pleasure to state that their valuable inventions hare also gas was sanction and unqualified appro b at i on of above four hundr wa s principal members of the m e di ca l profess i on ; as a lso of au ti l ed by individuals of high distinction, who have heen greatly oc ue o err their use. Immedi a t e ly th ese improved Spectac le De n bs oc td placed before extreme i m p er f ect v i s i on, i t i s at *nee broognr a its natural and origin a l s t a t e, every o bj ect b ecome s clear ° ; , nc ui,, tinct, and the most minute particle is seen, either by dal ° r too bY light, with ease and distinctness. Their Voice Colg t, not which thousands of deaf persons have b e en greatly benet; pie] ce the least perceptible, not more uncomfortable, than having „W n_ A/ pe of wool in its place, and the faintest whisper at a p u blic O „ is heard with exact distinctness.--36, Albemarle-streets.-so on. the York Hotel, and 76. King William-street, Baal". nexion with persons of the same name. 110 PLATE.—A. B. 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On the 10th inst., at Cambridge, Maria Elizabeth, 0,, A"' lit*t_ daughter of F. Gouldsbury, Esq., of the Hon. East India I pang's Bengal Civil Service, aged 10 years and 7 montbs..._,a, On the 10th inst., at the Rectory, Shepton Mallet, Do" Sarah, the infant daughter of the Rev. A. M. London : Prit ted and Published by MURD — OY No. 112, Strand, at 71n, Sun Office., No. 112, Otr iv " the county of Middlesex, Friday, August 0, TA ,8 StOlscri 2 3, Bo' Ong the Pro ROBE] The 1 lotions Oa • the That bution,l On the That that, in unexperi the flirt) On the That Hyde, F appoint, thank --- s --- ( Gardner Thep that clan guard tc vides, th Meeting agaregat power tc tions the dissolTed provision. txpedien It is ti curnstan Lament Looki] general, of this d not desir toent fal e..mvietic and wish the Shar of the C be po t tric Tall tsar the undo the Shar incurred the Pany', fu B L, The The And " FRO Aitern Run fro li.ao from India a Tenninu: the men , tlndayi N. B. 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