The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-13 00:00:00

~]VENIN G EDITION ORB DENMAN'S DEFENCE his has find do ha Ins of ant TI WE Mr Chambers, the counsel for the prosecution, had said that if the Chief Justice permitted of a private ar -angement he had no power to object to that course, Lord Denman was reported to have given his permission accordingly, and advised a substantial compensation. Upon this representation was grounded the charge, not of arbitrarily stopping the proceedings and compelling compensation, but of giving permission for a compro mise, which the counsel for the prosecution had declared he could not object to if so sanctioned. Such was the report and the charge founded upon it ; but Lord Denman's account of what he said varies from the report in the Chronicle, and of course we are bound to take his version, which is also that of the `Times.* Upon the plea of guilty, and the expression of the wish to make atonement, his Lordship states that— " At least they act right now ; let their plea be with drawn and a plea of guilty be recorded. I hope the case is ofsuch a nature as to admit of its being settled by pri vate reparation." Now really there appears to us to be no very material difference between the effect of these words and that of the expressions in the other report. There is, indeed, wonderful simplicity in the remark " at least they act right now," as if prisoners at the bar with a clear case against them were not usually in a very penitent mood, and ready to do anything to escape punishment. As to the character of the case Lord Denman de clares complete ignorance of it. That he never read, and never heard, of an outrage which was the subject of comment in every newspaper, and of conversation in every company, is extraordinary, but we must believe it, of course, as Lord Denman says it. Lord Denman's justification, then, ;amounts to this, that he knew nothing whatever of the case, and that he allowed of a private arrangement in the hope that the case was of a nature to admit of it. Why, he may enter tain the same hope in every case of indictment for assault of which he knows nothing, and with this speech for a for mula, permission for private arrangements may pass as matter of course. Surely it was the duty of the Chief Justice to have ascertained that the case was of a nature to allow of compromise before he gave permis sion for such an arrangement. Lord Denman explains that in cases removed by certiorari the depositions are not in the bands of the Judge ; but without the depositions the Chief Justice might surely have seen enough, prima facie, in the in dictment to show that the case was not of a nature for _ compensation, it being for an assault committed on an officer in the execution of his duty. Now the same considerations which, for the preservation of the disci pline and conduct of the Police-office, cause the Police Commissioners and the Secretary for the Home De partment to discountenance compensation to maltreated officers should surely have occurred to the Lord Chief Justice, and it should surely have appeared to him at the first glance at the indictment, that inasmuch as it was for an assault on an officer it was not a case for compromise. In justification of the compromise he would have permitted, Lord Denman argues that in cases or private injury it is better that compensation should be made to the sufferer than that a fine should be paid to the public treasury. It may be so ; but what does the law, which the Chief Justice is ap• pointed to .administer, direct ? The law makes the wrong proceeded against by indictment penal ; the Chief Juetice, whose duty it is to administer the law things limper to bring about the evasion of it by an ar ray gement between the parties, in which the injured as se, ;sea his own damages. The proceeding is thus by it dictment, but virtually the result is the civil remedy e extorted by the fear of punishment, The prosecutor has chosen his form of procedesre, the law has pre , scribed the nature of the redress, but the Judge de e 'eats the intentiou of OA law. But here we may be t )141 that the Chief Justice was aware that the injured is an had not been allowed any option in the mode of ocedure, and that the Commissioners of Police „ cried on the prosecution ; but if Lord Denman kn ew this, he wilfully attempted to thwart the ends of l us tice sought by the Commissioners. Che law is imperfect, we agree : the law should alto .v of both the criminal and civil remedy concur rent 'y —the criminal proceeding for the public example civil for the reparation for the injury to the in dividt "d• And feeling the defect of the law, why does wit 'rd Denman, in his place in the House of Lot ds, p opesk , .e desirable improvement in it ? Would it o et be ne ire becoming on his part to amend the law in ti se :Isetieslature, than to set the example of evading in, hi 3 nigh seat of judicature ? A s it is, magistrates are too much disposed to favour the l orivatc., arrangement of matters of criminal prosecu tion, and it is to be observed, that in this practice the first . regard must be to the wealth of the parties. if t an p rosecutor be rich and the prisoner poor, no pri vate ...Irrangeincut can he thought of. The det'endant inusl -.; be in, a condition to prefer paying to suffering in pers. on, or the expedient will never be suggested. ord Denman, evidently alluding to the comparison i n t h is journal bctween the sentence of fifteen years' trans oortation nn Stephen Hodge, and the proposed prive t c arrangement of the more savage and violent outta k - o at Hampton Wick, treats Mr. Justice Erskine as atta eked, and is good enough to undertake his de fence. There bas been no attack on Mr. Justice Ers kine, ne' itopugnment of the fitness of the sentence al luded Li ; it appears, undoubtedly, a heavy punishment, but fur - the protection of the police against such out rages t I.le severity may be thoroughly necessary. Lord .Denman Thos; TAt it. indeed, most extraordinary that ore man could Iti, ovi that one. case, more which the evidence had not been gi, en, was muck).b heinous than another, the ev;dence on. which Was ull, c r i. , , ,h a,—(licar, hear.) He wa® at a li ~.,s to conceive whati ignorance aonncee hvaid theto fmikets such a star cntent when ho was in of the case The facts of Lord Waldegrave's known to a'3 the world exc e p t L or a dasnee ninhave been facts in evil :nee before a Magistrate thataan police the officer in t: to esJcution of his duty was wantonly assaulted, be at 'to a state of insensibility, and that his life was in danger for some days. To the indict ment for this outrage Lord Waldegrave and Capt. Duff have plea ided guilty ; it is therefore idle to pre tend that the' ~e is any question or uncertainty about the offence, c : the character of it. We believe that . . any new it Ahrmation that can be produced, not as to the act•, but as to the melancholy results, will make the case appear graver than it has yet been sup posed i it its consequences, for the sufferer, as we lately menti'Jned, is reported to be reduced to a state of hope less But Lord Denman does not only deny the data for .our comparison, he goes farther ; he scouts the idea of c omparing the sentences for the same offences, and re quiring anything approaching to equality in the mea su res of justice. "What a notion it was that persons could take a sentence i n one place and a sentence in another, and apply to them a kind of foot rule.( Hear, bear)—to say here are the circumstances of one case, and there are the circumstances of another, and that therefore there was a gross disparity, and theft to cast imputations upon a Judge who could nut re ply in an ordinary way, like other men." Now we will promise Lord Denman to make this pas sage the standing motto of tho comparisons which, es the occasions arise, we shall continue to institute bet ween the measures of justice dealt out to rich and poor. 'The Chronicle excellently remarks on the Chief Jus tice's contempt for those who have a notion that for simiiar offences there should not be very dissimilar sen tence►; We are at a loss to understand what the Noble and Learned Lord means by objecting to the taking a sentence in one place and a sentence in another, and saying here are the circumstances of one case and there are the cir cumstances of another, and under the same circumstances t there is a great di s p ar i ty i n t h e sen t e nces. This 13 say ing, in so many words, that there shall be no criminal law. judge should L or d D enman mean to contend that a cr i mina l should be governed altogether by discretion—that the public should pay no more attention to the sentences than if they were determined by the throwing of dice ? Why write commentaries on our criminal law, and note the cases The report of the Times is much more meagre tnd less intelligible th an t h at of the Chronicle: and at the ?lose of it tkdiTimes' reporter complains that he could not distinctly hear what passed between the Judge and the Coosa (From the Examiner.) he Lord Chief Justice 's long speech in defence of conduct upon the case of Lord Waldegrave, would e been reducei to a very few words if he had con. d himself strictly to what he had to state in explana a of tl:e 11 - latter. A dozen words conveys all that he to offer in self-justification or palliation ; the rest of a. -speech was given up to the expression of soreness, something worse. Lord Denman began by overstating the charge against n, a common contrivance for making the most of an perfect defence. He said that he had been accused having stopped the proceedings against Captain Duff I Lord Waldegrave, and compelled a compromise. ,is is not the true representation of the charge, whieh : s, that Lord Denman had recommended a compro !se, and that his recommendation would have pre and what was due to public justice would have eu evaded, if the Commissioners of Police and the linister for the Home Department had not refused to °lament to the Chief Justice's recommendation of a com romise. We reprint the extract from the Chronicle's aw report, open which our remarks were founded : The jury having been thus completed, Sir F. Pollock, ho appeared for a defendant named Duff, said that his c lient and (he believed he spoke as well for his learned riend Mr. Thesiger as for himself) Mr. Thesiget's client were willing to make the first reparation, by withdrawing th a plea of not guilty and pleading guilty.—Mr. Thesiger sr4id that they had, after full consideration, determined to , 'Adopt this course.—Mr. Chambers said that he had no power to object to this course, if his Lordship, in his dis cretion, permitted it to be adopted.—Lord Denman said he should permit it, and his Lordship added a suggestion of a substantial compensation to the party injured. —Sir F. Pollock said that the defendants were deeply indebted to the Lord Chief Justice for baring thrown out this sugges tion. decided in our courts, if the sentence in one case is not to be looked to in another? If A commit murder, and is exe cuted, may not the public assume that if B commit murder, he will also be executed ? Law is the science of analogies. If a sentence of a particular kind has been pro nounced for a particular offence, we do not see why it should not be expected that, on a commission of the same offence, the same punishment should follow. We do not know what his Lordship means by a kind of foot rule, except that he thinks judges should have no rule whatever to govern them. Sir Samuel Romilly mentioned a curious instance of the disposition of English judges to act capri ciously. In a case of horse stealing, the principal was tried before Lord Loughborough, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. An accessory, who had kept out of the way, on learning this result surrendered, and was tried by Mr. Justice Butler, and he was sentenced to be hanged. It was quite clear that these two judges had very different rules to measure by. We are far from contend ing that Lord Chief Justice Denman should be implicitly bound to tread in the footsteps of Mr. Justice Erskine, though, if the latter judge merit all the culogiums be stowed on him by Lord Denman, we do no see why the latter should be so eager to anticipate the possibility of dif fering from the former." Trite is the truism that the wisest are liable to occa sional error, and if Lord Denman had frankly avowed that he had been inconsiderate in permitting of a pri vate arrangement in the case of Lord Waldegrave, it would have derogated nothing from his reputation as a Judge ; but we see him now drawn by the foolish defence of an error into the denial of the first principle of justice. If Lord Denman had confessed a lapse in the incautious sanction of a compromise in a case not allowing it, we should have had no fear of his repeatin g the error ; but when the Chief Justice treats with supreme contempt the idea of objecting to the grossest inequality in punishments for the same offences, the public may become reasonably alarmed for the adminis tration of justice. The Chief Justice, in ridiculing the application of the foot rule of one kind, implies a preference for the foot rule of another sort—the foot rule which, in Sel den's illustration, is the law of equity—varying as much as the size of the Judges' feet. Lord Denman is very lofty in his contempt for news paper strictures, which ho assures the Lords he would not have condescended to notice if some great authority in the other House had not repeated the same argu ments. Who the great authority is no one can tell ; we know as little of him as Lord Denman knew of Lord Waldegrave's offence, and we are almost disposed to think that he is conjured up as a legal fiction for the acetianz notice of the newspaper c e n sures ; b u t certa i n iit s that, notwithstanding Lord Denman's high and mighty contempt for the opinions of the press, the at tempt to answer them was the laboured object of his speech from beginning to end. Expressions of scorn are level to all capacities but the high, and are the ready weapons of all causes but the strong. It is easy for Lord Den man to speak contemptuously of the press, it is easy for him to profess a superiority to its cen sures ; but he confesses most unequivocally, in ac tion, the power which he affects to despise when he, the Chief Justice, appears dragged to the bar of public opinion by it to account for his conduct. Lord Denman is vehemently indignant at the suspi cion that he can have had regard to persons in any judi cial suggestions. We believe him incapable of allowing himself to be biassed, consciously, by class sympa thies ; but we also believe the class sympathies (and especially in the case of those newly risen to aristocra tic class) to be of wondrous subtlety, and that many and good men are influenced by them unconsciously. Cer tain we are that, if instead of the Queen against the Earl of Waldegrave, the prosecution had been one of the Queen against Snooks, the Chief Justice would not have thought of a private arrangement. The aspect of the Waldegrave affair was, it is to be remembered, strongly corroborated by the beha viour of Lord Denman on Lord Cardigan's trial. It was felt that both Noblemen were under great obligations to the Chief Justice, and the counsel for one of them, Sir F. Pollock, avowed in Court how much his client was indebted to his Judge ; as for the other, Lord Cardigan, it is reported that he testified his sense of the extraordinary kindness shown him by leaving his card at Lord Denman's door, and it is also said the Chief Justice was not greatly pleased with the mark of acknowledgment. LAW INTELLIGENCE. PRIVY CO UNCIL, APRIL 12. WOOD AND OTHERS C. GOOHLAKE AND HITCHINS, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in continuation from our Evening Edition of yesterday, said—With respect to the witnesses who spoke to the codicil by comparison of handwriting, every Judge treated such evidence very lightly, and he should not therefore trouble their Lordships by any comments on this class of evidence. He should rest his case upon the evidence of those wit nesses who were well acquainted with the testator's hand writing. One of those witnesses, produced by the oppo site party, had given evidence directly against them. He trusted, upon further consideration, therefore, that their Lordships would think this codicil to he the handwriting of the testator. As to the legacies. Was there any improbability in those to the corporation oi* Gloucester? Notwithstanding the objections advanced by his Learned Friend as to the differences between them, it was nevertheless proved, that up to the time of his death the testator kept up his intimecy and connexion with them. It appeared from his own entries in a book in which he entered such things, that he was passed over as Mayor at his own request, and the ether allegations of the disgusts he had taken to the corporation were equally unfounded. It was, moreover, not uncommon for penurious persons, who refuse I to con tribute charities in their lives, to leave large sums for such purposes after their death. &yorel witnesses bore testimony to the expression of his intentions at different times to build almshouses, and in other ways to do some thing for the benefit of " old Gloucester:" These ex pressions did not apply to any trivial benefits, but such as would be conferred by the bequest in the codicil. With respect to Mr. Phillpotts, that gentleman bad been an old friend of the testator's. Their Lord ships would observe the interest the testator took in him and in the success of his elections, by the numerous entries respecting him in his books, and when their Lord ships considered that by this legacy to Mr. Phillpotts the testator left no relatives unprovided for, or expectations unfulfilled, they would not think there was any improbability in the bequest to him in the codicil. In addition to these entries, and the probabilities of the case, several witnesses spoke to the testator's expression of his intention to benefit Mr. Phillpotts. There was also similar probability and evidence with respect to the legacy to Mr. Counsel, and with respect to the error in the way in which that gentleman's name was spelt in the codicil, it was extremely improbable that any per son would have forged such a document with out acquainting himself with the names of the per sons be was about to forge. So long as it was not improbable that men of wealth should remember in their wills the friends of their youth, and the companions of their ago, there was nothing improb,ble in these bequests to Mr. Phillpot's and Mr. Counsel. Unless Mr. Helps were the forger for his own benefit, how difficult it was to surmise any person who could have any benefit in giving that gentleman by the codicil a sum of 30,0001. ? The situation of that gentleman in life put such a supposi tion oat of question ; and no one but Mr. Wood himself could have been interested in benefiting him by his property. To Mri.Goodlake there was a bequest of 20,0001., which was an important circumstance against the genuineness of paper A, for while it was not very probable that he would have left so large a sum to that lady, if by the former do cument he had left so large a sum to her son ; so, if he was not aware of the existence of that document, it was very probable be would have left that sum to her. He (the Solicitor-General) therefore contended that no circumstances could be adduced from the body of the codicil to impeach it if it was established to be the hand writing of the testator. He submitted to their Lordships that the handwriting was established, and that the codicil was genuine. What then was the ground of the decision rejecting this codicil? He should submit there was no rule of law to prevent its being established upon proof of handwriting. So far from this Court being more strict than others with respect to hand writing, it was more lax,—it admitted comparison of hands. And what would be the effect if the Court refused this rule ? Would it not be to refuse any will, out of the custody of the testator, written under any circumstances, and communicated to those most interested ? Might not a testator, to avoid the importunities of those about him, send a will in the manner of this codicil to some party whom he intended to benefit, or might not a person in danger at sea make a will and have it attested by respectable witnesses, and inclosed in a bottle and cast into the sea, and were the wills in either of these cases to be rejected because there was no other evidence than that of handwriting? They had shown conclusively that there was another testamentary paper, and when this codicil was introduced, referring to another paper, with which, by the acts of the appellants ho was prevented from connecting it, he contended that his clients were entitled to the benefit o e f o ilthene doubt connected. which The Darnedmu s t exist Gentle.wh ther or not it was so man then quoted the decisions in several cases i n su n and h ad assertedbee been established that est a b t l h i s e li r d w t p a o s p n n o r e t aosfe iin iaerht the satisfaction of the Judge, and y et the p a p er re t o h f e hhiasndcwar7ti jected for want of other evidence. The Learned! Gentleman was proceeding, when Lord Lyndhurst inquired if he had nearly concluded, upon which the Solicitor-General informed their Lordships that he feared he should not be able to conclude his argu ment that evening, and their Lordships accordingly ad journed until to-morrow. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The Times extends equal solicitude to the interests of the Church and its churchyards; and is not more indignant at the desecrating practices of the ex-Dean of York, than at the want of consecrating efficacy in the enclosures of the Abney Park Cemetery. Christian burial is indeed the best that the Times can afford to one of its proteges after another, in matters ecclesiastic a l. It has followe,l so many silently to the tomb, that no wonder it is anxious to be sure of conse crated ground for their successive accommodation. It is . but yeste r d ay that the Times was exulting in the mighty revival whi c h t h e pretensions of the Puseyites had achieved i n the frame of the Church. Where is its Oxford protege now ? It is dead and gone ; or at least fail le inert; and the Times is exalting the " direct and summary corrective jurisdiction" of Whig-made bishops. The sort of non-juring contumacy which springs forth every now and then in the Church, and of which Dr. Hook has again appeared as a sturdy provincial ringleader, is no longer to be encouraged in its sallies by Tory journalism. We are glad that common sense is so far restored to the organs of Opposition. That gun is spiked which was to do such execution on Whiggery ! They hay.e more than one Sachcvercl ; but unluckily no Swift ; and more than one Church champion " to the death "—consistently with keeping their living. The Times therefore is driven back to its Meditations amongst the Tombs ; and has discovered a new source of cede ' siastical dangers in the cemetery companies. What is endangered by these companies, so far as we understand, are simply the fees which are secured to clerical functionaries by the present dis graceful and fatal system of interments in and around churches. And those fees are the only things secured by that horrible system ; for to talk of security to the dead in our populous church-yards, is an insult to common-sense, and a gross speculation on public credulity. Every metropolitan sexton could ex pose the nature of that security ; to say nothing of the wholesale removals which the omnipotence of those public authorities, invoked by the Times to perpetuate the present destination of cemeteries, can at any time decree, for the purpose of public improvements. We have no care, or concern, for any particular ce metery speculation ; but we are sure that no' imper fection.in the security which they may offer the dead can be so great an evil (though, of course, it is one which ought to be remedied) as the present accumu lation of centres of infection and mortality to the living. That these sources of disgust and disease are kept open throughout the metropolis, in spite of de monstration, ad nauseam, of their inadequateness for their professed purpose, and their inevitably pernicious effects on the health of a vast population, the Times may consider, if it pleases, as a proof of religious prin ciple, and belief in the doctrine of a resurrection. We, for our part, consider it the grossest remnant of su perstition extant, mixed up with even grosser motives (in the shape of fees) for maintaining the practice. (From the Courier.) We would not be alarmists, but it is impossible to shut our eyes to the crisis which seems impending in Irish affairs. The Tipperary tumults may be, and not improbably are, the precursor only of risings and in surrection elsewhere on a more extensive scale and in a more disciplined state of preparation. It is only neces sary to mark the bard duty imposed upon the military, to be satisfied that circumstances in Tipperary alone are really of a more formidable and unfavourable character than what upon a first and cursory glance would appear. " The orders of the military are to scour the disturbed districts day and night in bodies of twenty-five and thirty, and to be in constant readiness for active duty at five mi nutes' warning. In the meantime, the work of blood shed and outrage progresses with fearful rapidity. Two more murders were committed in the broad day light yesterday on the lands of Curraghmore, in the pa rish of Kilbarron. The names of these unhappy victims to Ribanism were Tierney and Gleeson. Major-General Sir Parker Carrole, the commanding officer of the dis trict, has been served with a Rockite notice, warning him to be prepared for the fate which momentarily im pends over him, in consequence of ejecting a woman from some land, the same being in direct contravention of the Riband code. Assuredly the county would not be filled and overrun with soldiery, unless upon the dis covery of some conspiracy and combined plan of insurgent operations, with ramifications more widely extending, than could be traced in a few examples, which, horrible as they are, may be the fruits ofprivate revenge consummated in the most appalling form of Irish murder. Unless the most rigorously repressive measures are ap plied, and that without delay, the Tipperary flames may swiftly catch in a country so deeply impregnated with the inflammable spirit of O'Counellite disloyalty and disaffection. THE SUN, LONDON, TITESDIY, APRIL 13. 1841 REVIVALS IN SCOTLAND. (From the Aberdeen Herald.) An anonymous friend of revivals has sent us the fol lowing letter, which we hesitate not to insert : " Sia,—As you are to treat largely on revivals in your Monthly Sheet, might I beg you to include an an swer to the following queries in it : " Whether a man may not, on being suddenly awak ened to a sense of his sin and danger of damnation, be led to cry out audibly for mercy, without being deemed extravagant or weak-minded ? " Whether there is not sufficient cause for every man, not reconciled to God, to cry out " men and brethren, what shall we do to be saved ?" " And let me implore you, Sir, to pause and not throw obloquy and ridicule on a work of so serious a na ture, and which may be productive of incalculable benefit to many. You are not called upon—it does not come within your province as a journalist, to judge of God's means in bringing a sinner to himself. You cannot, you dare not, say that a man may not feel his sins so intolerable as to cry out, and that with a loud voice—" Lord, have mercy upon me a sinner." Was the publican weak-minded or an enthusiast, when he not only cried out, but smote upon his breast, and dared not once lift up his eyes towards heaven ?—and pray, Sir, what change has taken place in our world of refinement, that we should feel pained and annoyed at the outpourings of a distressed soul; should we not rather rejoice, and, by mingling our prayers with his, seek the glory of God in the salvation of sinners ?" Our Correspondent's queries, which he, doubt less, thinks a poser, might, with great propriety, be answered in Scottish fashion, by asking him whether a nervous girl may not be found making a noise, without having any very definite motions either of salvation or damnation, or being impressed with any feeling, beyond that which can be fully ac counted for by natural causes ? The Friend to Revivals will not contend that the ministrations of our dozen or fourteen Evangelical clergymen, for the last four or five years, have been altogether inefficacious. Surely they must have awakened some of their hearers to a sense of sin and danger ; and yet, so far as we are aware, the thousands of sermons that have been preached during that period have not produced a single scene like those exhibited in Mr. Parker's church. It is not denied that women, and men too, may cry out under a sermon ; but it is contended that there is no reason to believe that the instances, consequent on Mr. Burns' preaching, are the effect of anything be yond mere animal excitement, such as Ranters, Jumpers, and fanatical preachers, in all ages and all places, have been able to produce. Moreover, it is conceived to be 1 the short of blasphemy to call the unearthly and un pleasant howling of the revival meetings a work of the Spirit. At all events the subject is one that is fairly open to inquiry ; for, there can be no doubt, as the his tory of Stephen and other reviving scoundrels prove, that many of the pretended religious awakenings were, both in their progress and results, more nearly allied to the works of the devil than the works of the Spirit. We have never said that a revival of religion is not required ; but it must be a real revival—a revival that will make our clergy more honest—their hearers less hypocritical—and men in general more virtuous. A revival that throws a few silly girls into hysterics, and causes others to communicate their experience to as many Holy Willies as they can get to listen to them, is of very little consequence to the world, and bears no mark of divine origin. We can easily understand how a clique of " godly gossips," male and female, should rejoice in a move ment that supplies them, from day to day, with fresh food for scandal. It must be highly edifying to the half dozen of male teachers of female clal , ses to bear the particulars of one factory girl's :inning —how another walked in Broad-street for " chances," and got them —how a third kept company with such a young man—how a fourth frequented a brothel—and so on. The excitement produced by this exposure of the back parts of real society may afford a very good substitute for the excitement of balls, cards, and play going, from which the rigidly righteous are excluded by their puritanic pretensions ; but we questi on muc h whether th e w or ld b e on t h e "whole benefited by this revelation of experiences, however grateful it may be to the pious confessor. RESPITE OF THE SENTENCE OF DEATH...—. On Saturday last the Governor of York Castle received a respite from her Majesty's Secretary of State of the sen tence of death which was passed by Mr. Baron Rolfe, at the last Yorkshire Assizes, on John Mitchell, the youth who was tried for the murder of Mr. Blackburn, near Barnsley. Mitchell will, consequently, be transported for life. Mr. David Bell, of Glasgow, has addressed the electors of the Kilmarnock district of burghs, announcing his intention to oppose the present Member, Mr. Colqu ; houn, whenever an election takes place. In his address to the electors, Mr. Bell thus declares his principles : —" I am friendly to an extension of the suffrage, to the ballot, and to shortening the duration of Parliaments to three years. lam also in favour of free trade in grain, of the t only h e beingp prosperity p i e m r p i t o y s e o d f o e n o all m til a e r r t e i e c , l e e s e odf to o t h import, e principl es o f f ree trade generally, and of a moderate duty well being of E th N e T c A om ß m t u u nit o y g c a ne r e a s l s ent ial community." most dis tressing case of suicide occurred in Dundee on Tuesday night last, arising out of the following circumstance A young man, belonging to Forfarshire, who had been for several years labouring under con sumpt i on, had been per suaded to come to E d inburgh for medical a d v i ce, which he did. A consulting p h y sicia n heard and exa m i ne d hi s case, and, we are informed, h th inl e to young un derstand that man wrote to it was hopeless. Of his friends, and r equested a brother to come ; for and conduct him home but, without for his arrival, took the c oach for waiting gave him Dundee on Tuesday, and on the evening of the same day, in an hotel of that town , seemingly unable to bear the sentence h ang _ ing over him, shot himself through the head, a n d di ed in unfortunate stonily. So determined had the than been to effect his purpose, that he had put no fewer three came to Edinb urg h bullets into the pistol. His brother . him, unknowingly, on the as requested, but had passed , made acquainted, made road; and on Wednesd3y forenoon was. by a mutual friend, ru of the chncholy and fatal catas trophe..—Edinburgh Paper. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron GURNEY.) Charles Knight, 22, and John Taylor, 18, were ,in. dieted for stealing a gelding, value 61., the property o William Pryor. _ Mr. CLARKSON appeared for the prisoners. It appeared that the prosecutor lives at Battersea, and on the sth of March he turned out the horse in question upon Battersea-marsh, and it was missed the next morning. On the day after the horse was stolen the prisoner Knight took the stolen horse with another to a horse slaughterer's, and sold them for 505., and at the same time said that he was directed by his master to see them both killed, and he said he would call again in a short time for that purpose ; but he did n o t do so. The prisoner Taylor was in charge of the horses while Knight was bargaining for their sale. The Jury acquitted Taylor, and found the prisoner Knight Guilty. The prisoner Knight was then indicted for stealing the second horse referred to ha the former indictment, and which, it appeared, had been stolen from the same neighbourhood, at the time the other horse was stolen. The Jury found theprisoner G u ilt y . There was a third indictment against the same pri- soner, for stealing another horse, but it was not pfo ceeded with. The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for 15 years. In the course of the day an application was made to the Common Sergeant, who succeeded Mr. Baron Gurney upon the Bench, by Mr. Payne, for the dis charge of the recognizances of a gentleman named Clarke, who had been charged with a capital offence upon a female named Hall. The application was grounded upon an affidavit, which stated that the Grand Jury had ignored the bill, but that the defendant, if the case had gone to trial, would have been able to establish the groundlessness of the charge made against him. The affidavit also de tailed various facts reflecting upon the character of the prosecutrix. The COMMON SERGEANT ordered the recognizances to be discharged. Emma Hailing, who was convicted on Thursday of feloniously attempting to suffocate her child, and upon whom judgment was respited, was brought up to receive the sentence of the Court, and Mr. Baron GURNEY said that the law compelled him to pass a sentence of fifteen years' transportation upon her, but he said he should make a recommendation in the proper quarter, that the period should be reduced to ten years. NEW COURT. William Killick, aged 3i, and John Hurst, agel 78 were indicted for stealing 241bs. weight of soap, the property of Benjamin Hawes, Esq., M.P. It appeared that as James Brook, a police officer, in company with another officer, both in plain clothes, were walking down Stamford-street they saw the pri soners together. On arriving in Sutton-street, in the York-road, Hart handed a bundle, which he held under his arm, to Killick, upon which Brook, the officer, stopped him, and Hart ran away, and the other con stable pursued him and took him into castody. The parcel was then opened, and found to contain six bars of soap, and four half-bars were found in the pockets of Killick. The prisoners were in the service of Mr. Hawes, as carmen. Hart succeeded his father, who had been in the same service for a period of thirty years, and the prisoner had himself held the situation seven or eight years. Killiek had been in the employ three weeks only. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty, and they were sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Edward Ricketts, aged 23, and Ann elifibrd, aged 21, were indicted, the former for stealing twenty-one pairs of boots and other articles, value 41. and upwards, the property of his master, Charles Thomas Marshall, and the latter with receiving a part of the same, know ing them to be stolen. The prosecutor is a boot and shoe-maker in Oxford street, and the prisoner Ricketts was in his employ as far back as September last. He had missed boots and shoes, and a few weeks ago, from information that he received, he proceeded to a pawnbroker's shop in Mary. lebone, where he saw several pairs of boots and shoes, which he identified as his property. A short time afterwards the female prisoner was brought to his shop, in consequence of several pairs of boots and shoes and a great quantity of pawnbrokers' duplicates having been foulid in her possession by the officer who brought her. From a conversation he had with the prisoner Ricketts he gave them both into custody. The prosecutor being corroborated by the evidence of the officer, and the property having been traced to the possession of the male prisoner, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against the prisoner Ricketts and acquitted the female. The prosecutor and Jury recommended the con victed prisoner to mercy, in consequence of the respect ability of his parents, and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. CROYDON PETTY SESSIONS (Before J. REED, Esq., J. W. SUTHERLAND, Esq., and D. R. WARRINGTON, Esq.) Mr. George Penfold, the Vestry Clerk of the parish of Croydon, aceompaniei by Mr. Farley, one of the overseers, attended before the Bench to show cause why a distress warrant for the sum of 8001. should not issue against the parish officers in consequence of their non-compliance with an order for the payment of a sum of money made upon them by the Board of Guardians, and the above amount being the balance of that sum, which they had neglected to pay over. Mr. Andrews, the Clerk to the Board of Guardians, stated that an order had been made upon the overseers by the Board for the sum of 1,097/., and the parish officers promised to pay it within a certain time, which was allowed them, but they had broken their engage ment, and had paid but a very small portion of the amount, and there was a balance of 800/. now due. The Board had been put to very gre it inconvenience in consequence of the neglect of the parish officers, and they had no money to pay the bills with. He must, therefore, although he was very unwilling to adopt so harsh a proceeding, press toe Bench to grant a distress warrant. The CHAIRMAN asked Mr. Pet - 11'01d what he had to say upon the subject of the application ? Mr. Penfolcl replied that the parish officers had done all they could to get in the money, and they had paid it over as fast as they obtained it. He denied that there was so large a balance due, as was represented by Mr. Andrews, and said that it would be at his peril if he took a distress warrant for that amount. Mr. Andrews said that all this inconvenience was oc casioned by the negligence of the overseers in not mak ing a rate in proper time. Instead of making a rate in proper time to provide for the demands which they knew would be made upon them, they neglected to do so tiil the end of January ; and it was not put into the collector's hands until the beginning of February, and consequently he had not time to collect the money. The union business was greatly retarded by such pro ceedings, and at present the Board had no money to go on with ; and it was, therefore felt absolutely neces sary to resort to the present proceedings, and he must press the Bench to grant a distress warrant. Mr. Pentold said, that before any distress warrant was granted it would be better to ascertain what money had been paid, because the parish officers denied that there was any such amount as 800/. due from them. They had paid various sums into the banker's during the past week, and there was not more than 800/. re maining due from them. Mr. Andrews said he was not aware that any further sums had been paid into the bank, but as that was the case he should not press for a warant if the parish officers would undertake to pay over the remainder of the money in a few days. The Vestry Clerk having consented to this arrange. meat, the application for a distress warrant was aban. Boned. STATE Or TRADE.—The market both for cot ton vci goods t h a e n d w y e • a e r k n has . sA slighte e n f eedecidedlyng of hope flatter during wa s created on Wednesday, b y t h e report t h at t h e Indian m a il h a d ar rived. The report proved fallacious, and the relapse left sellers more desirous to do business than before. In both hand and power-loom cloths a slight reduction in price has been submitted to by those who have effected sales ; and in yarns also a reduction of about per lb. has taken place. The worst feature in the market is the want of orders for export—all shippers being unable to purchase largely even at a very low price, in conse quence of the absence of demnnd from abroad. Spin ners and manufacturers are daily i nc reasing their stocks, and as their means b ecome d a ily more and more circum scribed their ability to keep off the market will decrease, and the result must be a number of sacrificing sales, in order to meet more urgent demands. More orders, or less production, is the continual cry. The news from China did not reach this in time to affect the Thursday's market. We have seen a letter from St. Petersburgh dated 13th March ( o ld s t y l e ), which states that trade is very bad there, and that there have been failures, prin cipally in Moscow, to the amount of several millions sterl ing. —Manchester Times, Ebenezer Elliott is not known as a defender of the Corn-law ; but he says, " that law is worth the many millions which it costs us, if it do no more than demon. strate to the firm above-named (Messrs. Protection, Clod, and Co.), that they must beware in future how they play a t the game of war." It is thus the wise man extracts " good from every thing ;" and let us comfort ourselves with th e hope that our declinin g reve nue may convince our legisla tors of the necessity of a more liberal system of comnier_ cial policy. —Leeds Times. The Marquis of Waterford proceeded last we e k to England, where he perchased twenty-five couple of the finest and best bred fox hounds in that country, and re turned to Rockwell, his sporting residence in this county, on Tuesday morning last. This truly liberal and high. spirited nobleman has now in his possession three as fine packs of fox hounds as there arc in the kingdom ; and the sporti ng gentry of T i pperary ant i c ipate rare sport du r i ng t he next s eason .. .Tipperary Constitution. STATE OF TIPPERARY. Accounts have reached town to•day which represent tiro northern parts of the county of Tipperary to be in a state bordering, on actual insurrection. The town o Nenagh has the appearance of a place preparing for a siege, the streets being crowded with troops despatched thither from the garrison of Limerick, comprising a troop of the 17th Lancers, and two companies of the 20th Foot, and two or three pieces of ordnance were expected to arrive there in the course of Friday even ing. The orders of the military are to scour the dis turbed districts day and night in bodies of twenty-five and thirty, and to be in constant readiness for active duty at five minutes' warning. In the mean time the work of bloodshed and outrage progresses with fearful rapidity. Two more murders were com• mitted in the broad daylight yesterday on the lands of Curraghmore, in the parish of Kilbarron. The names of these unhappy victims to Ribbonism were Tierney and Glecson. Major-General Sir Parker Carroll, the commanding-officer of the district, has been served with a Rockite notice, warning him to be prepared for the fate which momentarily impends over him, in conse quence of ejecting a woman from some land, the same being in direct contravention of the Ribbon Code. The list of outrages, in the shape of similar notices, together with assaults on the person, &c., would occupy too mach of your space. I shall, therefore, merely abridge some of the particulars elicited at the inquest on the body of the wretched Hayes. This barbarous deed was com mitted within about six miles of Nenagh, on the borders of the mighty Shannon, and in one of the wildest dis tricts of Ireland. Contiguous to the house of the un happy man are half-a-dozen lonely dwellings, which are chiefly occupied by fishermen, and are situated between mountains, which command a picturesque view of that magnificent river. There is no direct passage to the place, and the Coroner and his party were obliged, after leaving the high road, to traverse for upwards of a mile an almost inaccessible tract of country ere they reached the fatal spot. The first witness examined was Bridget Hayes (widow of deceased). Her husband was a carpenter. He was employed on the sth inst. in re pairing a boat for the Rev. Dean Holmes. He left off work between the hours of seven and eight o'clock on that evening. When he came home he ate his supper, took a smoke, and said his prayers. After that he went to the door, and saw a man pass by. Witness asked him who the man was, and be replied that he did not know. He then went to the fire and kindled his pipe, and remained standing on the floor till the strange man (whose name witness did not know) came in. The man was armed with a two-handed wattle. He came over to the fire and lit his pipe. He did not sit down ; he stood at the fire. Deceased desired the strange man to sit down ;he said he would not. During this time the stick remained on the ground. The deceased then said, " Perhaps you're a man that wants to cross the Shannon ?" to which he replied, that be did not. Deceased then asked him to remain for the night, and desired witness to put down his supper. The man said he had already eaten it. Deceased got up, and walked towards the dresser. Witness observed a change come over his countenance, as if he were afraid. Witness kept her eye on deceased. Did not look round until she heard a blow and saw him fall. Witness then ran between the man and deceased, lest he might strike him again. The man caught her by the head, tore her cap and handkerchief, and dragged her out into the yard :he then said, "Go in now, or give you the same treatment I gave him ; give up the land now." He afterwards went off in an opposite direction to that in which he came. This happened about nine o'clock in the evening. When witness went into the house she found deceased lying on his back. He was kicking and struggling dreadfully at the time. He spoke in a faltering tone. Witness, assisted by a man named Martin Darmody, put the deceased on a bed. All he said was, that he wished to be taken to his brother. He died about one o'clock on the following day. The Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown."—Tinzes. HAWKHURST GANG. The neighbcurhood of Chichester, about a cen- tury ago, was much the resort of smugglers, but more especially of the celebrated Hawkhurst which was broken up in 1749, by the execution of the following desperadoes :—Benjamin Tapner of West Stoke, William Carter of Hants, Richard Mills of Trotton, Richard Mills the younger of Stedham, John Cobby of Sidlesham, John Hammond of Bersted, and William Jackson died two hours after the sentence was announced. These with others were implicated in several murders, which they deemed it expedient to perpetrate for their protection in their outlawry, but the one for which they suffered was the murder of Chater, a shoemaker of Fordingbridge, and Galley an exciseman, who were seized upon by the smug glers on their way to Major Battine, at East Marden, for the purpose of giving information against Dimer, a smuggler, who, with others, had been engaged in breaking open the custom house at Poole. Chater was murdered by being hung in a well at Lady Holt Park, and Galley died three days previously from wounds received from the smug glers. The whole of the prisoners were hanged at a spot about a mile from this city, and the body of Ben jamin Tapner was hung in chains on Rook's hill. The bodies of Mills and Jackson were thrown into a hole near the place of execution , and near to it is erected a stone, having the following inscription : " Near this place was buried the body of William Jackson, a proscribed snipler, who, upon a Special • Commission of Oyer and Terminer, held at Chichester on the 16th of January, 1748.9, was, with William . C ater, attainted for the murder of William Galley, a Custom-house officer, and who likewise was, together with Benjamin Tapner, John Cobby, John Hammond, Richard Mills the elder, and Richard Mills the younger, his son (attainted for the murder of Daniel Chater), but dying a few hours after sentence of death was pro nounced upon him, he thereby escaped the punishment which the heinousness of his complicated crimes de served, and which was the next day most justly inflicted upon his accomplices. "As a memorial to posterity, and a warning to this and succeeding generations— " This stone is erected, " A.D. 1749." It is evident from the details given that the whole of the north-western parts of Sussex and the eastern parts of Hants, were a century ago much frequented by smugglers. Here they had their rendezvous, and at different times in woods and various places—pits, and other secret recesses, for the depositing their contraband goods, have been discovered. A short time ago an other of these places was brought to light on the Old Broyle Common, by some labourers, who, while en gaged in digging a gravel-pit, suddenly broke into a subterrancous cavern. In this place there appears to be a regularly formed arch, branching out in several di rntions, but owing to its being filled with rubbish, it is difficult to recognise its form, but this will not be long a matter of conjecture, for workmen are now employed in clearing it out. In one direction a man on his hands and knees has penetrated as far as 100 yards ur.der ground, and in other places there is five feet standing room. From the remains of old-fashioned wine and Geneva bottles found therein, there can be no doubt of its having been used by smugglers as a place of resort and a depositary for their goods.—Sussex Express. WEAVERS WAGES.—In the North of England the lowest paid class of weavers—that is, those engaged on work requiring little strength or skill, seldom earn more than ss. or 6s. a-week. A family of six persons, two of them employed, average about 7s. 6d. weekly. Where three of a family are employed their united weekly wages is only about 125., the father, perhaps, earning one-half, and his wife and son or daughter the remainder. But inst inees are given of families of four or five depending on the labours of one person, and where the whole in- come is not more than 3s. or 4s, a-week ! At Ashton , under-Lyne 483 families were visited, whose average f weekly earnings amounted only to 4s. 110. 1 This is sufficiently deplorable. In Scotland families are repre sented as earning, according to their number, Is., 165., or, where there are four or five at work, 20s. ' a-week. The linen weavers in Yorkshire earn about 7s. 6d. a-week each. Weavers employed on fabrics requiring moderate skill are paid at a somewhat higher rate. Their wages in some instances amount to 125., 135., or even 165., a.week, while women earn about a third less ; but, from this sum, the expense of candles, dressing, and perhaps loom-rent, have to be deducted. Where strength is required, some further im provement in the rate of remuneration is observable. At a bolting-cloth factory at Wandsworth the men earn 255. a-week, but out of this they have to pay for candles &c., and also for the assistance of a boy in some parts of the work. At Diss and North Lopham, in Norfolk, the net average wage, after deducting expenses, amounts only to 10s. At a sacking and tarpaultng factory at Bris tol, the average wage of sixteen weavers f'Jr two years was 121. 7d. per man. The average wage of sail-cloth weavers at Dundee, Arbroath; Aber deen, Montrose, and Kirkcaldy, is Bs. 6d., or, with steadiness and skill, 10s. The Spitalfields wea vers employed on Waistcoat velvets average 20s. a week ; weavers of broad and rich-flowered shawls at Norwich earn about 255. a week; those employed on the finest cloths at Leeds make from 245. to 285., and in all similar cases, where superior skill as well as strength is required, the rate of remuneration is equally high. But this class of weavers are liable to be thrown frequently out of em ployment, so that their annual income is sometimes less than that of the inferior operatives. Almost all descrip tions of weavers, however, complain of the irregularity of work. Their wages are at once low and uncertain. Mr. Austin, the Assistant Commissioner for the south western parts of England, states that the inference from all his evidence is, " that the weavers, taken as a body, are out of work one.third of their time I"—Abstract of the Report of the Hand-loom Weavers' Commissioners. A SINGULAR FACT.—A minister of the Pres byterian Church, lately visiting one of his parishioners, was thus accosted by him :—" Sir," said he, " I am per haps able t tell you of myself what not another of your flock could. I hare lived seventy-two years in the same house, out of which I have decently buried fifteen corpses, have had twelve children baptised, and have married four wives." What added to the zest of the narrative was, that his fourth wife, who was sitting by, immediately said, And I think, from the delicate state of my health, you have a good chance for a fth " CHANNEL ISLANDS MAILS. EXTRACTS from the REPORT ut tilC CONIMITTEE appointed by the Lords of the Admiralty to inquire as to the com parative Advantages afforded by different Ports in the Channel as Ports for the Arrival and Departure of the CHANNEL ISLANDS MAILS. From the position of the Channel Islands, the selection of a port for the most efficie.it performance of this service is comprised within such narrow limits as to confine the choice between Weymouth and Southampton ; and the comparative merits of these arc not of a nature to call for many remarks. There can be no doubt but that the port of Southampton is eligible for the reception of these packets, and will be more so at a future period. At Weymouth the depth of water at low spring tides was, at the period of our visit, insufficient; but arrange ments had been made for deepening and improving the harbour; and the authorities then pledged themselves to obtain, within the period of eight months, an uniform depth of twelve feet at low water spring -tides, through out all parts navigated and occupied by her Majesty's packets. It is not our province to express an opinion upon the mode in which these alterations may be best effected ; but as they are to be conducted under the direction of Mr. Cubist, an eminent civil engineer, we conclude they will be properly executed. It may be urged, that the approach to each port is equally defined and easy of access ; and though we may not be disposed to dispute this point, navigators generally will do so, and in this respect decide in favour of Wey mouth. The comparison is thus, in a degree, reduced, and will appear as follows : Southampton may be reached from London in three hours and a half ; whilst Weymouth can not be attained ia less than ten hours, showing a difference of time of six hours and a half, land-carriage, favourable to Southampton. But Southampton, in the most di rec t line, is about 32 miles further fr o m Guernsey than Wey mouth is, which, at the average rate of steam packet speed, eight miles per hour, exhibits a difference of four hours, sea passage, in favour of Weymouth, thereby giving Southampton a balance, in general time, of only two hours and h slf. Having thus detailed the principal arguments that bear upon this portion of our inquiry, it only remains for us to report, after deliberate consideration, our belief that Wey mouth will be found the best port for her Majesty's packets conveying the mails between England and the Channel Islands. From an official return of the time occupied by the packets in their various passages, we learn that during a period of twelve consecutive months, their averaged run from Weymouth to Jersey, landing the mail at Guernsey, was 13 hours 12 minutes, and from Jersey to Weymouth, receiving the mails at Guernsey, was 12 hours 55 minutes. The failures in the performance of this service have been but few ; and when we recollect the small size and power of the packets, the occasional turbulent seas, the rapid tides and races to which they are subjected, it must be ad mitted that the passages thus exhibited, are sttong testi. monials of the zeal and abilities of the commanders of these vessels. A further official return was made to us of the number of passengers who embarked in these packets in 1839, the total was 5.212; of these, 2,347 were cabin, and 2,865 deck-passengers, including amongst the latter 193 paupers. The passage-money received annually must therefore be considerable, and would seem to warrant the conclusion that a larger class of steamers, and an acceleration of the land conveyance would be productive of a commensursee pecuniary return, as probably to defray the expenses attend ir',- a larger establishment. The passages made by us in the Dasher, to and from the Islands, confirmed the opinion we bad previously formed at Weymouth, that the vessels now employed are deficient in size and power to contend with the stron t ., e winds and heavy seas they so frequently encounter . We therefore pro pose, that vessels of larger tonnage and superior steam power be substituted for them ; and recommend that thero be three steam-vessels built for this service, each of 400 tons burthen, old register measurement, and each fitted with engines of 180 collective horse power. In closing this report, we beg to introduce some re marks and recommendations relative to the transmission of the mails by land. At present the London and western mail-coaches reach Weymouth respectively at 8 b. 15 m. a.m. and 7 b. 48 m. P. M,, and they leave in like order at 6b.50 m. and 6h.15m. A. M. A day-coach from London also arrives at Weymouth between the hours of eight and nine r. M., whose island passengers are in time to embark with the western mails. We have already noticed that the packets leave Wey mouth at 9 P. M., from which it appears that the London correspondence is detained upwards of 12 hours ; and this defect, we conceive, might be remedied by the despatch of a day or an alternate daily mail, conveyed by the South western railroad to Southampton, and from thence for warded 64;1- miles by coach to Weymouth. The distance by railroad could be performed in 3 hours, and that by coach in 6i hours, making, as before stated, 10 hours for the entire journey. This mail might leave London at 2 P.M., or somewhat earlier if required, as we propose that the packets should start from Weymouth at midnight; and the superior qua lities of these vessels would always insure their return from the islands in time to forward their respective mails at 8 P.M., thus enabling them to reach the metropolis at six o'clock on the following morning. On referring to the Southampton Railway Bill, we perceive that the de partures, of the mail and " fast trains" do not exactly accord with our proposition. but We are of opinion that the Directors of the railroad would, in this respect, accede to any change, if officially represented to them as beneficial to the public ; and we imagine that a contract for a mail-coach to run between Southampton and Wey_ mouth would be readily undertaken, from the persuasion that such a conveyance, in conjunction with a line of effi• dent packets, would be preferred by the majority of par scegers going to and from the islands. By the establishment of a day, or an alternate daily mail, the Government, and those parties residing in London connected with trade, would be enabled to reply to communications made to them by return of post, as we appt ebead the time would be snfficient for such pur poses between the hours of the early delivery and the closing of the mail-bags. Moreover, by this arrangement, letters posted in London on the packet-days, would, under ordinary circumstances, reach Jersey, the most remote island, in 24 hours, having been conveyed about 230 miles by land and sea, at the rate of nearly the best mail-coach travelling in the king. dom ; and, with respect to the receipt of correspondence three times a week, the Channel Islands would be then placed on an equality e ith our distant towns, into whose neighbourhood the advantages of railroad communication have hitherto not extended. We have, &c. (Signed) JAMES A. GORDON, Rear-Admiral, Chairman. RICHARD DREW, Elder Brother of Trinity House M. DIXON, Commander, R. N., Secretary, ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. The following details are as strange as they are true. In the neighbourhood of Gloucester, a young lady, of highly respectable connections, has experienced a series of reverses in tee cause of the heart's best affection sel dom equalled. A gentleman, of some station in society, became by accident acquainted with the maiden to whom we allude, and their affection becoming reciprocal, the day was fixed for their union, which was to have taken place in the city of Gloucester. Agreeably with this arrangement, and as the match was a desirable one, her parent parted with a lucrative business in the country, on which she and her mother lived in respect ability and comfort, and went to Gloucester, intending to settle. The day for the celebration of the wedding arrived ; but, alas! the bridegroom came not : his pa rents had peremptorily forbidden the match, and he was already, by their contrivance, on the seas, bound for Jamaica. A letter reached the poor girl, but to con firm her fears ; his parents' consent had been with held, and he had suddenly left the seaport town in the West of England, where he resided,not a faithless,. but an unhappy lover. Time passed, and industry on the part of the hapless girl but ill suppled the loss of the comparative independence herself and family had left when they came to the city of Gloucester, with the views, and indulging the hopes to which we have alluded, and though blighted in heart, she cheerfully succeeded in helping to support her decrepit mother and aunt in comfort. Time, the gentle softener of affliction, had many a long day cast its dimning shadow over the great event of her life, and nothing more had been heard of her absent lover, till a week or two ago, when to her astonishment and delight, she received a letter from him, breathing the devotedness of constant attachment and vows of unaltered affection, not the less welcome, though wafted across the seas. Another and another fol lowed, begging forgiveness for the former apparent ne glect—and still another, the last accompanied by the consent of the parents of the absent one. The poor girl's hopes were at the highest point of anxiety, when she received a still more welcome epistle, assuring her that her lover had landed at Falmouth, and was hasten ing to pet form hie neglected promise. The day was looked forward to with delight ; it came—and with it the dark tidings of the grave—her lover had been sud denly seized with illness the night before his departure for the city of Gloucester ;—he was a corpse before the morning ! As a melancholy satisfaction to the poor disappointed girl, the mother of the intended bridegroom visited her immediately, when his mother confessed that her son had been a voluntary exile, and would have re mained so, had not his parents, whom he loved and re spected, given their consent to his union ; after frequent communications his parents assented, and he instantly quitted Jamaica to claim the hand of his first love ; hastening to meet her, death ruthlessly arrested his pro gress before he had been many hours on his native shore. As a proof of the sincerity of his attachment, the lover, in the hour of dissolution, bequeathed to his bride elect 2,oool.—HerefOrd Times. There is a report in Edinburgh that the Earl of Stair will be her Majesty's High Commissioner to the en suing General Assembly. EDUCATION UNDER THE JESUlTS.—Break fast at a quarter past eight—milk and water with bread ; dinner at half-past eleven—meat, except on meagre days, and some days in the week pastry in addition ; a _venter of bread and beer at four o'clock ; supper at six, consisting of bread and cheese, or potatoes, with, occasionally, meat again. Ono hour and a-half's recreation is allowed after dinner, one hour again after supper, and half an hour for night prayer, and then to bed. To it the boys proceed in regular order and in silence. At the several landing places on the great staircase, as well as in the dormitories, they arc received by one of the sub-prefects, who sit up is turn during the night, to watch over the safety and con duct of the pupils.—.Ciranville's Spas of England. EVENING EDITION't COMmUNICATION WITH IND i'ne East 'Ladle papers last received contain cu: - ious facts and calculations relative to the e produced by the improved communication with I by steam and otherwise. From these it appears five years ago the total of letters despatched bet 6 o India and Engla n d was est i mate d at 3 09,011, l ot last year the correspondence between the same e ° , i , tries by steam, excl us i ve o f t h at b y s hi ps round '; Cape, amounted to 680,000 letters and covers; ii that on deducting 178 ; 300 as the probable nuat er itt , newspapers, and adding 100,000 as t h e amo unt La o ters sent by the Cape, th e correspon d en ce het 0 1 England and India will be found to have doubry within five years, Wind that notwithstanding the 11 % a it inland rate to whi c h muc h o f t hi s corre spoodenl-eft subject. In the case of Calcutta, for instance, e l re , the postage amount s near ly to 2 s . a cover , the el , spondence is estim a t e d a t 150,000 l etters. If we - pare the number 178,000 est i mate d a b ove a s m ,ro' e r bable amount of news p apers an d magazines trap' mitted to and from India and England, with the s t : merit made by Dr. Lardner five years ago, a m er , e , i 0 threefold increase will b e f oun d to h ave ta k e n place important item. It has been a matter of surprise that, by the 1014 4; turns, there appears to have been an increase 0f.,300 per cent. in the despatch from Bombay, while that o r al Calcutta has fallen off 33 per cent. This is aee °u „ P t iii for by the fact, that, previously to the establisho e "i steam communication, many letters were sent thll4o, Calcutta, from the reason that the circulation of P ot , bay newspapers being limited to its own Govereito the departure of its ships was only known w ithin ° do limits, whereas now the date of departure for the ? e a li mail being gener a lly k nown , l etters are d esp eteu .ae r Bombay by the m os t di rect route , an d w h en gel' t is sets shall start fr om C a l cutta, touc hi ng at Madrag' b o amount of letters apparently despatched from 13°°3 will experience a proportionate diminution. Ito te The amount re ce i ve d f rom postage i s found 'he teed that obtained from passengers, the foriner; e o 462,000 rupees, and th e l a tt er on l y 388 , 000 ; "e the in the calculations of Dr. Lardner, the reveree i l e s a le case, the receipt f rom passengers b e i ng estimen'ooo; 196,000 rupe es , an d th a t f rom l etters, &c., at 17'fer but in these cal cu l a ti ons th e passengers ' fares Ocr e , ni e" to rated, as well as the probable number of pt7gb6 who would prefer s t eam to canvass. It is I,' 00 3 however, highly pr o b a bl e , t h at w h en a spec ial communication is established from Calcutta. tc l o s llo, enabling passengers f rom C a l cutta , M a d ras, -o.oa m iff to embark from their o wn d oors , t h e num b er crtJe l ji , on five years ago, which was 2,400, w ill b e f u lly r' - ' The Bombay Papers contain accounts from 0 ‘v ,!, to the Bth of December, an d th ese , compare d iof itiel dates received di r e c t t o -d ay , are a b out t h ree w eeks ' 0 The Portland-bay land sa l e h a d ta k en place, emiir:4o were remarkably high. A s an i nstance, i t i s s tata.s " 20 acres of land, i n a p ro j ec t e d town w h er e th° r not a house, fetched 11,0001." Trade continuo:l dull. Rains had been plentiful and seasonable , e ll A kinds of provisions were a b un d ant at low Pric eli es iit new feature in colonial commerce h a d sprung into 0 r ot ence, that of exporting Mauritius and Indian sugi dego the London mark e t. O ne vesse l was a l re ady' . ' a t op and others were to follow for the same dest i l rr Fine flour was 21s. pe r 100113. ; seconds, 18s.; a li pr tions, 15s. ; bread 6d. the 21b. loaf. From New bsi, land the latest accounts state t h at s i x w hit e m e t been killed by the natives at Cloudy-bay. l'' v e f of had been despat c h e d thi t h er, un d er t h e com°lB-6e` , Lieutenant Br e st, t o i nqu i re i nto t h e c i rcu mstalle e p ti the case. Rice was selling at 3d. per lb. for goo d, flour 251. to 281. per ton. ~ THE MARKETS.-YESTERO OF BREA D. The highest eri e of PRICE ihe :t-ophs is 930 for tbe 41° Leaf Guid Bresd may be had at 7%,1. PRIL,'ES OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. Sew English Reo C10ver...563 90s St. Fcin ~,.0 so: Old Dar, Ditto —s —s —s Rye Grass. ................. --". 0 ,0-,',', New Foreign Ditto —s 5Gs SOs Pacey Grass .................. 01 Old Di.to Di to —s —s —o,inseed, for feeding ~.....! ioo 7.' Is ew White Clover 35s 608 6'sDit , o, for sowing ....,.......; 4(4 :i s Old Ditto Ditto —s 42s 46s Ditto, for crushing .... 4Es A New Trefoil —s 30s 4',s Hem e'''' 900' —.O Old Ditto —s I9 s 36 s C anary .................. .... ~r, Jr. folium s 4Ss "ios] Per Bushel. 19".0 ~, o d to 7 00. English Carraway —s 50s sis White Mustard .... I— ' tot fli Foreign Ditto —s 46s 52s'Brown Ditto 14s it* 6, Cd IC Coriander —s I4s 'Ss:Pares PRICE OF OIL Rape Oil, brown, per ton., Ditto, refined Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mil; Rape t ake, per too PRICE OF TALLOW Town Tallow £2 "9 6 Yellow Russia 0 White o 0 0 Soap Ditto 0 0 0 0 ...... 1 (per 1000) ............... 13 1 0 7 0 1, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. 1- ,4 Melting Stuff ............ I , X Ditto Sough .................. „ 14 , Graves ......................... Good Dregs .................. " 'AT, per stone of 131bs Fallow Meltcrs) ............... EMMET. last market , day, 150. PRICE OF RAW F Price of Tallow (as stated by the '1 COAL M Ships arrived since 1 • s. d. Adair's Bell, Robson & Co. Hartley 15 6 Buddle's West Hartley l7 0 Chester Carr's Hartley Hebburn Main 1 6 Holywell Man l7 6 Smith's Pontop l5 6 South Hartley l5 l; wytain Walls E; d hewic eiand :10 0 Walls End Brown's -17 t' Walls End Clennell Walls End .;osforth Walls End Heaton l9 6 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth IS 0 Walls End Newmarch lB 0 FI N , : oora ll ,esi s .c .p sp pnrs End Helton it 5, 5 W.E. Braddyll'sHetton 0 Heal Walls End wart ......... 6 Walls End Stewart's ......... Walls End Wnitweli ......... 6 Wails End Caradoc ... 24 Wails End Hartlepool ....... k_92 HlieedttolenY: .. ... ............... Walls End:Hayden ............ Walls End Evenvrood ....... Vs. ad: , End Seymour Tans . 19 5 Wal s End 'lees ............... / Cow Pen .......................... I N int e .. ...... r . t . ... I .................... • ;it walls End Devon shire...... ' u Walls End Erskin e .........• IRISH AD OUBLIN MARKET NOTE f LRKETS. r ,he WEE rF~ r ending From To 405 Wheat,perbarrePet sione..... ')9 0 34 6 0 Bere ...,.. l6 strrle o 0 ° 421 Barley l6 stow. l5 0 17 0 519 Oats '4 stonz ll 6 14 0 0 Flour, per cwt.., 8 stone — 0 0 3zy2 Oatmeal 8 stone l2 0 14 0 Sold to Bakers only. 10,238 Cwt. Flour lO 0 24 0 • Average price of NN heat and Flour 51, 8(1 per sac l 'os 04 _, t Oa Receipts of Flour, 0,150 1 rif' ,, ' ...... from 2;:s. Oc e l t ° o Os • 1 0 sewn is ........ from Iss. C Sales of Do. 10,238 " Of ° ' Tmr(D ......... from 10s. Od• ver se Al e 55 0 15 s 19 0 1.9 0 6 .Pll, ICE Or 1111.1C1113. 0 Quartern Loa , 9d. i H a lt Quarter') ".... 4 0 ,1 COIL), MARKETS—ApriI 10 gd. 10 I * 0 Wheat (per llOst.:3ls 01... E. 35, Odd <hits , per 1 ibt.....1 1 -ii 14 Barley (per 165t.)10 0 .4 0 if.10 ,, r (per cwt : 11,, Oatmeal (per cwt.).— ...... ..1%),. Od to 16s ti , . 6d Beef, 4d. to 7il.—Muttnn ° sd. to 6d.—Veal, 44 1 t° l IN r , Pork, 41d. to sd.—Fresh Butte), 10d. IV Ild P e " PRICE OF BUTTER. s, C To the Merchants. To t he First Quality ) 04. . ......... ...a.....••••••••'" . Second 4.'' 10:3 . ....... ....."' Third 94 ••••Ise•••11..111.10 .'11...'. Fourth •• 9 3 —••••••••••••••••,.. ' ' 00000 •o • 87 ...... Sixth 79 CLON 51EL L MA It KETS....ApriI 10 Per t wt. d. 9 1 o S. d. e. d. s • dt4 3 4, New Rutter 95 0 te 100 e Hides (raw).........."° C ~.. Oatmea' 12 0 14 3 BaconPlgs ..... ..... " 9 ,e Rendered Lard 0 52 0 Heads .................• 2 gl, A .• _. V *lour, Second 0 Ss ;) I P tour, Third5.....,..- - "„ 0 0 —Household C 36 0 „ 15 a • tatrel. v ,or , Rapeseed 20 n Per 0 I Barley lg 0 _., 04 8ere...... 0000000 .......• 0 10 01 C. , a,13 .•••••••.•1•411.0 11 KILKENNY I.IA ILKETS. „ 0. 0 04 Wheat s per barrel)2Bs. Od.to 355. Od. Beef ';/er If', Barley 12 0 15 0 Alvaro . ..... ...«. 0 4 0 I (fats. 14 0 /5 0 ['ork Flour (per hag) ....2.: 0 bS 0 Vea1........_ . n o 01D Butter(percwt.)...9o 0 10'. 0 Fresh Butter ...., ' f ', 6 0 9 Bacon Pigs 38 0 42 6 Salt Ditto ........ I .' , 9 Coals I 0 1 '2 Potatoes per Ist) i) FLAT GOLD WATCHES, TG, GC*, Ten Guineas each. Highly-finished HORIZONId dal; WATCHES, with engraved or engine-turned a o r e r jewelled in four holes, and either engine-turne nese!, graved cases are offered, ' price Ten Guineas each. ' l cor ree'k gant little 'Watches will be found to perform yerLhieh ti t and a printed w arran t y i s g i ven w i t h fi xe d terms, e n will always receive any attention required. T. COX SAVORY, rg• ft° Watchmaker, Jeweller, &c., 47, Cornhill (Seven D9° Gracechurch:streei LendOn STEEL FIRE-IRONS, with Bronze:, o f tss. per Set, Bronze Fenders raei e , l l r ice terns and prices, from tho above , to 305., at wbieu,r ee ritr fenders are particularly handsome, with splendid ser,' tha, • 0 1; - richly intermixed with steel, the ends are steel, al: a fire -O P porters for the fire-irons bronzed. Polished steel from 4s. per set. cie° Catalogues gratis, containing the prices of ever- Furn lFPO ishing N and BURTON, Wells-street, ado'.Or CO° A R Established 1820. BIRTHS% , r . nu ntess On the 10th inst., in Connaught-place, the Y oc" , ~.t oA-6 6 nard, of a daughter. l ° On the 10th inst., at Bocking, the lady of SW°e of ; t l i e Day, Esq., of Braintree, of a daughter. ladi • On the 10th inst., in Bloomsbury- square, th e 1 ,, g r" Rev. W. oyn i der, of a son. s r,- On the 1 P l th nst., at Hanover-terrace, Regent's - P tioftt Edwin Gower, of a son. SO' On the 11th inst., at Stroud-green, HighburY, ~, iCeili' Pof a son. of ' On the 12th inst., at Cleveland-row, the la d y Esq., of a son. _ _ PRi...oooN:n.o,sttthahneoedflBogtthtih.haeniincndsdsottam.. granddaughter of Elizabeth Gleen, of Stamford -mill, Southill, $e s• ~g M, ti eldest daughter of Captain Sir H. E. Atkinson, P(101 On Saturday ty s Mint, to Lieutenant T. A. Butler, N R. N. 0 1 DIED. Sir R. C. Ferguson, G. C.B , 111. P. for Nottinghani• 0 . 00 ,10:: On the 15th of November . last, at Rock Flat, Moneroe i sT io ' New South Wales, Bishop, fourth son of the I ' l . o f Edenborough, Esq., of Le yon, Essex, aged 28. , des t, sdl i i ,, at his house in Bolton -root e v e n i n,tr , rt .AojoAffaßini;ReryoesisWEl:aNeeptrgeest Honiin, golltvfeo:BA::::::::: _orale?: On the 7th inst., at Paris, A. Sampayo, Esq , e' v u 111 2 ., the late A. Sampayo, Esq., of Peterborough House , a ' 0 00: 14 On the Bth inst ,at Margate, Elizabeth Ifenriett daughter o f th e l a te Mr. E. Heintz. of Stainford-91:uisa, ib e On the 9th inst., at Cross-street , Islin g ton, i'y daughter of Mr. W. Fulford, aged 18. On the 10th inst., in Fore-street, Lambeth, •.• a 4, lict of the late W. Howard, Esq., aged 80. a oed ' o f On the 10th inst., at Finchley, J. W. PouncY,Es,ll;Ztet On the 11th inst., at Deptford, Rosa, the infant " 6 of. Mr. F. Keddell, aged 4 months. the R el. . At the Rectory, Coulsdon, upon Easter -day, ~...1 10 0 0 . leo Wood, Prebendary of Canterbury, and Rector of -.,!,,, 0 1 1 ,2 1. On the 11th inst., in Fitzroy-square, the Rev. Uu t, sa e 'd ~ , ..5, Orme, youngest :on of the late Major A. Orme , 2 7 11, Esq:,,,, On the 11th inst., in Wilton-crescent, W. Alan' e . ,„ LW On the 11th inst., at Stansted-Mountfichet,. Dirc• eldest daughter of S. Hulme Day, Esq., of Braint u _. • - 'lisabetb, 14' Of vnT INO s London: Printed and Pub lished by 11IIIIIDO A""' ( I t 112, Strand, at 2 744 Sun Oiliee, No. 1127 sue it the county of Middle:ex.—Tuesday, Aril 13, 101' T he pub of the hgton, 14iles norih de-upon. on and Bi Le • Itaih va ' L aving tne 6 h.: --ang the of tr Fast coac arriv °ll..Allitr :vAtTheolz Gir LIN G re and thi 4ilway Tra Ilat in th 4°' in 14 ' g DI4 STt A l 4 ' 4 NI B 1 V ires P nERS 4, 411 4 11 124 1.:1 e i Co e S ° l i lumb cht ttrtber ' p Ni , R. uPor l ehlY res oionable 11 11 ollartieular ‘' Hatt 'U if tr Ns 39, AI THE R o , CON 'AMON LNIILY, 3 Frhich the 11 7, is th e s i l l' ea vity of *PIA ving e!Japer a t a k h ie etivo Cuted SI • 1 before 1 4 :le light, t rninnte w hich h o tl The Mess: . 0 n with 1;4 specta c l 4 g now v % li e of it, I 1,4 ward " 11 ° le which t i t lle of amt i te l2r Spect expl . 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