The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-17 00:00:00

PRICE OF CORN AND PRICE OF WAGES. At the second great Liverpool meeting a working man of the name of Jones gave the evidence of his own eNperienet: as to the pretended rise of wages with the rCe of corn : " A Member of Parliament came down on purpose to make a speech to them. He told them the Bill was passe , ' solely for their good.—(Laughter.) He said it was passed on purpose to raise their wages. It was in - waft works where he and his. father worked, and they had is. pei ton for making the salt. He remembered the first time ttieir wages were raised under the opera tion of the Corn-laws ; they were raised from Is. Sd. to Is. Gd. per On.—(Laughter.) The next time they %ere raised from 1 , !. Gd. to Is. 4d. This rise took place about 1830. In 1831 corn was 705., and work was very scarce, and their wages were again raised from Is. 4d. to is. 3d., all under the operation cf the Corn ,- laws.—( Laughter and applause.) This was not the mint part of the matter ; when they had ls. Bd. a ton, they had a set of men for the day and a set for the but afterwards they allowed one man to do the work of two ; and he had himself worked twenty hours per day for a length of time, and when he went to get his four hours' sleep, his wife had to watch for him dur ing that time. Was there anything like slavery in this ? He was at the present time working for one of the framers of the beautiful Corn-laws, and at last he was obliged to leave the employ of the man, because of their atearvation. And at this moment there were, within a few miles of this town, hundreds of men who were simi larly worked and similarly starved.—(Shame, shame.)" Let the Chartists profit by the experience of this mem ber of their class, but not sharer in their folly. CORN TRADE-UNITED STATES. From statements contained in a late number of the Cleveland Herald, it appears that the amount of wheat. which arrived at Cleveland, in 1840, by the canal and by waggons, for export, and exclusive of home con sumption, was equal to 4,755,950 bushels. Several ether places on the lake in Ohio sxported large quanti ties. At Huron, for instance, the amount was equita lent to 472,878 bushels. The whole amount of Ohio wheat eaportel last year, by way of Lake Erie, may be estimated at From five and a half to six million bushels. By the statement of the custom-house at Buffalo, there were entered at Buffalo and Black Rock, wheat and flour equivalent to 4,931,063 bushels of wheat. There entered the Welland canal, wheat and flour equi valent to 2,878,845 bushels of wheat. The harvest of wheat last summer, in one county on Lake Michigan, was diminished by blight, below what was expected, as calculated by a Committee, 500,000 bushels. By the statement of the canal collector at Buffalo, 689,635 bb's. of flour, equivalent to 3,448,175 bushels of wheat, at five bushels to the barrel, was cleared for the East. Of the quantity passing the Welland canal there arrived at Oswego 707,137 bushels of wheat, and 8,465 bbls. of flour, and of this, 83,849 bushels of wheat and 116;300 bbls. of flour (much of the wheat being ground there) were shipped East on the canal from Oswego, and 33,579 bbls. of flour to Canada. Governor Seward, in his Message to the Legislature in January last, stated that there was delivered in 1840 at the Eastern termination of the Erie canal, wheat and flour equivalent to 10,420,84'0 bushels of wheat. Deduct shipments from Buffalo and Oswego, 4,691,402, and there remains of said total, 4,729,463 bushels of wheat, which must have been grown in New York. The annual export of wheat and flour from the whole United States to foreign countries, has not on an average equalled that of Cleveland the last year. Tho quantity sent to Canada was equal to 2,309,443 bushels. ASiut one-third of the Western wheat went to twenty different points above Montreal ; and so com pletely did this quantity fill these ports, that the farm ers, waking up to the threatened destruction of their interests, immediately petitioned the Home Govern- Sent to lay duties on the importation from the United tates, virtually shutting out the unwelcome flood. At Kingston the accumulation had increased to a complete gut, choking up the St. Lawrence, and occupying not only all the facilities of transport OR a line of navigation traversed for nearly two centuries, but had so takn up all the means of storage, that large quantities for some time ley out of doors. The quantity sent to Canada, as above stated, was The exports from Quebec and Montreal 1,658,195 The deficiency is £6214.0 Thus it would seem that Canada, did not raise her own bread. THE INJURED RE-DRESSED. A few days ago, a young and handsome lady, whose •simple and almost wretched attire formed a wide con trast to her distingue deportment, requested an interview With M. L-, a Parisian attorney. " Sir," said she, " I have come to implore your as siVance ; if you withhold it, death will be my only prospect. About two years ago I was made to marry M. de R-, and brought him a dowry of 300,000 f. ; from that time since, I have been the most miserable tieing in the world. My husband, who is jealous, bru loil, passionate, miserly, makes me endure every imagin able torment ; for six months he has kept me confined in a room of which he had the key, and where he alone •ilaci admittance, in or, - ler to bring me coarse and insuf fieient food. Yesterday evening I contrived to effect ray escape ; I have spent the night in wandering wherever chance might guide me, and have now come to you ; with -Nur assistance I slat!l certainly obtain a separation." " All this is exceedingly serious," said M. L., " and if your statement is correct, I make no doubt of success ; 4143 separation will certainly be pronounced." "Ah 1 Sir, I shall 01.i r e you more than my life ; I must • confide to you all my immediate troubles ; - I have no re inlions in Paris, rail fled without taking anything with . fie. Thanks to you, I shall certainly obtain a suitable pvovision from the tribunal, and permission to retire into some religious establishnit,nt until the proceedings are terminated ; but till then ?" "Until then, Madame," replied M. L., "you may re.: e in my house ; my wife will, I am sure, immediately . *co at your disposal any articles of dress you may re quire. Take confidence, and all will go well." The attorney found himself overwhelmed with a tor rent of thankS. On the same day, the innocent, unfor tunate lady, took up her abode in his house. She was furnished in abundance with all that was necessary to complete her toilet ; linen, shawls, gowns, and even iewellery. The following day, the young lady had de ;niped with all the paraphernalia. Meanwhile the at torney, who having drawn up his declaration, was desi- Tou3 of obtaining further information, made inquiries with respect to 11.1.. de who, to his great surprise he learnt, was exceedingly rich, and had a young and hand some wife, but the latter, happy in the love and kind bohaviour of her husband, had never dreamed of com plaining of him. THE CHARTIST PRISONERS.—On Saturday -n 'deputation from the Convention, consisting of Messra. Williams, Pitkeithly, and Cullum, accompanied by Mr. P.awes, M.P., and Mr. Buller, M.P., had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby, with a view of ascertain ing if they could have an audience with her Majesty in order that they might present-memorials for the restora tion of Prost, Williams, and Jones, and the release of all Chartist prisoners. The Secretary of State said that he Was of opinion that the interview could not be granted, Imt that if the memorials were confided to his care, they )ilrould receive every attention. He informed the depu talon that he could not receive the memorials from a c4iemtation, as the memorials had reference to criminals. Ttio deputation then withdrew. The Chartists met in Sire evening, and partly resolved that in the event of their net being adiuitted to an audience with the'Queen, they shauld lay the memorials before Lord Melbourne and all her Maety's Ministers. It is said that no less than ; 1.,y Tory candidates have solicited the suffran'es of the -Ch a rtists, with a view of Nottinghamising the counties ;mo n which they, hope to thrust themselves. In case of a Clissoluttion the Chartists have pledged themselves to wevor i; Messrs. llawes and Buller.—Sunday Times. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE IN A CHAPEL.— On Sunday e vening last-. when theZinister of the Wes liati Methodist Association Chal, Hill-street, ( Mr. 13e6wick) had proceeded in the middle of his discourse, : was mak.-Ing a l very powerful appeal to his auditory 0 ovt . ' the tuireasonab. e ness and inconsistency of an irre- Moms life, and po intin g out the conse q uences that t -w ` ould resAit f r om it, in mn after state of being ; just at fhat moment, it large black cat made its appearance in the chapel, and ran up , and down, sometimes leaping over the pews, and then into the windows, throwing the ,:hole congregation into a state taken excitement and con sternation, two of whom were out of the place, Lazing fainted away wit h fri g ht. It i s supposed that the cat must have e•of into the chapel during the after noon, when there was no service except a class meeting, and had concealed itself under an elevated pew, next to the pulpit, which has been erected for the accommoda biota of deaf persons ; and. being tired of its situation, brae© from its concealment, to terrify the audience as friech as it was terrified itself.—Leicester Journal. Independently of apoplexy, we have cases of eitruordinariiy long sleep. A woman in Hainault slept seventeen or eighteen hours a day for fifteen years. Another is recorded to have slept once for forty days. A man named Samuel Chilton, twenty-five years of age, t Tinsbury, near Bath, once s l ep i ; for a month : in two -years he slept amain for seventeen d ays , a t the beginning of which period he took food, and had evacuations, but at length his jaws fixed : when he fell asleep the barley wa s sowing, and when he awoke he would hardly believe 3m saw it reaping : at the end of a year, he fell into sn;:sh another sleep : his farther history is not given. Vary Tiyall fell asleep in the morning ot the 21st of !line ' and did not awake till the evening of the 30th, vz-xt day till the Bth of August, remaining motionless, aud without food from the first till seven days had e lapsed, when she moved her left hand and pointed to Tier mouth, in consequence of which food was given her, lviiich she took, during the rest of her sleep : she heard ; and, though she instantly drew back her left Mthi' when touched with the point of a pin, the right might Le scratched till it bled, without pain : s h e was bled, blist: - .^recl, and plunged intiT eOl4 water witho u t sett sation : her imilse for the first two wee_''' ,was generally during the ad and 4th about 60 ; and the before idle awoke 70 or 72 • her breathing4vas almost impercep stAble, but in th e night oceasionall)trong as in a pe rson I asleep : she gav e siptis of hearing about four days he. fore she awoke' ; and afterwards recollected nothing that had occurred in her attack,—neither the blistering, bathing, nor eut.ng ; and had the idea only of having passed a long night in sleep.—Eliotson's Human l'hy - -• mot% ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PU NISHMENTS. (From the New York Journal of Commerce.) Mr. O'Sullivan, from the Select Committee to which was referred so much of the Governor's Message as r(.. lutes to the subj ct of capital punishment, and also pc titions from sundry citizens, praying for the repeal of all laws :Inrhorizing the infliction of such punishment in this State, has broeght in a long report favourable to the views of the petitioners. It proposes as a substi tute, Imprisonmeot for life, in solitude and at labour, and also to take away from the Governor the power to grant a pardon for treason, murder, or arson in the first do roe. After conviction for. either of these crimes, the Governor may, on the discovery of any new or ma evidence in favour of the accused, grant a new trial. No law shall be passel in any of the said cases, to pardon or mitigate the sentence of any prisoner con. victed of the crimes just mentioned, within twenty years from the date of such conviction ; and then such a law must have the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members of each branch of the Legislature. For these purposes, a Bill and a concurrent resolution to amend the Coestitution are annexed to the report. Among the reasons used in the report for the aboli tion of capital punishment, is the uncertainty of convic tion. Every criminal lawyer in the State, of any ex tended practice, will regard this remark as a truism. It is vain to talk of jurors' oaths—they will violate them, by what their consciences regard as only pious perjuries, under a thousand pleas of technical deficiencies or im perfections of evidence. The axiom is familiar to all, that it is the certainty, not the increased severity of the punishment, that deters from crime. It is no untried experiment that is here proposed, says the report. Other communities, with far inferior general moral culture, have abolished the punishment of death, and with such success as amply to justify us in the great reform. Throughout all the better age of the Roman republic, for a period of about two centuries and a half, the infliction of the punishment of death upon a Roman citizen for any cause whatever, was ex pressly forbidden by the famous Porcian law—a demo. erotic law, passed in 454th year of Rome, by the tri bune Porcius Locca. "In this period," writes Black stone, " the republic flourished. Under the Emperors, severe punishments were revived, and then the empire fell." In ancient Egypt, under Sabaco, for 'a period of fifty years, as Herodotue and Diodorus Siculus inform us, these penalties were changed with much success into stated kinds of labour, and Grotius recommends this example to other nations. The Empress Elizabeth, of Russia, on ascending the throne., pledged herself never to inflict the punishment of death ; and throughout her reign of twenty years she kept the noble pledge. The great Catharine adopted it, with the exception of very rare offences against the State. " If," said she, " I can show that in the ordinary state of society the death of a citizen is neither useful nor neces sary, I shall have pleaded the cause of humanity with suc cess." From that day to the present, there have been but two occasions on which the punishment of death has been inflicted in Russia. The Count de Segur, on his return from his embassy at St. Petersburgb, declared that Russia, under the operation of this law, was one of the countries in which the least number of murders was committed ; and added that Catharine often said to him, " We must punish crime without imitating it ; the punishment of death is rarely anything but a useless barbarity." During the seven years of the Recordership of the celebrated Sir James Mackintosh, at Bombay, in India, the punishment of death was never once inflicted in the Court over which he presided. Of which, he says, " Considering all the circumstances, it will appear that the capital crimes committed during the last seven years, with no capital execution, have, in proportion to the population, not been much more than a third of those committed in the first seven years, notwithstand ing the infliction of death on forty-seven persons." In Tuscany the most satisfactory experiment has been made. The Grand Duke Leopold, in 1765, abo lished the torture and the punishment of death. After an experiment of twenty-one years, he issued a solemn edict in which he declared that, instead of increasing, smaller crimes bad considerably diminished, and atro cious ones had become very rare. And he proceeds to say," We have resolved to abolish, and by the present law do abolish, for ever, the punishment of death." A report to the French Chamber of Deputies in 1830 states that " The mildness of the penal legislation in Tuscany had so improved the character of the people there, that there was a time when the prisons of the Grand Duchy were found entirely empty. Behold enough to prove sufficiently that the abolition of the punishment of death is capable of producing the most salutary effects." This report will be found highly interesting by all who take an interest in the subject. It is also highly creditable to the author, J. L. O'Sullivan, Esq., one o the members from this city. It makes, including the ap pendix, a pamphlet or volume of 164 pages, large Bvo. We are inclined to regard the doctrine urged in this report, as founded in reason and the nature of man. Perhaps we might hesitate to go the whole figure at once, but when we see how the most horrid crimes stalk abroad in the land, increasing both in number and (if possible) in enormity, in spite of laws decree ing an ignominious death as the penalty for their perpetration, we a. e dri‘ en to the alternative either of admitting that all punishment is ineffectual for the pre vention of crime, or that the kind of punishment awarded to the most flagrant crimes, is not well adapted to se cure its object. The latter supposition is daily gaining strength in this country, and is beginning to affect the legislation of some of the States. The laws of Alabama, as revised at the last Session of the Le gislature, says the Louisville Advertiser, makes but one kind of crime punishable by death, while forty-two kinds are held punishable by confinement in the Peni tentiary, from periods varying from two up to fifty years. Murder, in the first degree, is the crime which the law makes punishable by death, but even this the Court can at its option punish, by sentence of imprison ment, in the Penitentiary for life. Death in a duel is held to be murder in a second degree, and made punish able by confi..ement in the Penitentiary for a period of ten years. To give, accept, or carry a challenge, disqualifies for holding office in the Stat.-, and is fur ther punishable by confinement in the Penitentiary for two yei.rs. Rape is punishable by confinement there for life ; bribery of executive, legislative, ministerial, or judicial offic rs., from two to seven years ; steam-boat racing, by which life is endangered, for two years ; and loss of lite, or injury to the person by negligence or wart of sk.ll in officers of boats, from two to ten years. THE GHOST OF JUVENAL-STREET.—For some time past, more especially for the last ten days, much annoyance has been occasioned to the inhabitant's of Juvenal-street, and the neighbourhood, owing to the immense crowds of persons who nightly assemble there in consequence of a rumour that " some phantom of the other world" is in the habit of paying his or her (for the sex is doubtful) nocturnal visits to the house of a re spectable gentleman residing at No. 2, Juvenal-street. Several respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood have assured us that most unusual noises are frequently heard in the house alluded to, although they smile at the idea of these noises being occasioned by supernatural agencies. A lady residing near, a person of education, and not likely to have her fancy led astray by a belief in supernatural beings, told us that the nuisance occasioned by the ringing of bells in the house, without apparently anything to account for seuting them in motion, became so great, not only to the inhabitants of the house, but to the neighbours, that it was deemed necessary to take them all down, and they remain unhung at the present time. This unusual occurrence commenced about three months ago. After the bells were taken down, a greater nuisance occurred, owing t) an unusal and unaccount able noise being heard at intervals in the house, occa sioned by the sudden and simultaneous bursting open and bang Lug to of the doors of the different rooms. No later than yesterday at noon, so great was the noise thus occasioned, that it might have been heard a hun Bred yards oil, and the vibration was such as to cause the house to shake to such a degree as to attract the at tention of the police-officers (who have for some time been appointed to parade before the house), and persons in the street. These statements we had confirmed by several of the neighbours, and they urrphoen police facts,and otherse t what investigated the e the_ effects m tt matter, but ed no clue has yet been obtain e d t o account for the unusual occurrence.—L iverpool Journal. The survey Of the western provinces of India seems to have been nearly completed, and the definition of agricultural rights and boundaries, which b whieh was in eluded in the work, has proved of greataswellenefit in re moving a fruitful source of litigation,vaollueenceet landed property. The extension of thi s , and has, in consequence, greatlyenhanced . survey to tha ' the value Benares district appears to have been v. recent enlarge ment of the original plan. After the portion of the Azinghur district, which is beyond Benares, had been surveyed, and the revenue had been settled, the collec tor proposed to the Government that they sh ou ld con tinue the survey to Pergunnah of Secunderp ore , not to make a new settlement of the revenue, but to obtain a clear definition of rights and boundaries. The desired survey was effected, and the benefits that resulted were so obvious, that the western provinces solicited an ex tension of the plan to the whole of Benares. Lord Auckland readily sanctioned the scheme, which, after a few interruptions, arising from the disapproval of partie s at home, and t h e loss of some money, has been allowed to proceed, and is expected shortly to be completed. We are informed that several valuable veins of coal of the finest quality have just been won under the direction of Mr. Nixon at the colliery of Languiun,near Nantes, belonging to the Languiun Iron and Coal Com pany, which was formed last year by Mr. Leunie Murray, of London. The coal is said to be admirably suited for making cast iron of superior quality, to which. use it is to be exclusively devoted by the proprietors, abundance of the richest ore being fonnd in the immediate neigh bourhood. The small quantity or coke-made iron pro duced in. France, and its very hig h p r i ce as com p ared with ... -u n of nation a l ;in 4611 free, renders the success of t h e undertakin g 1-- -- , lrtagce to this country. —Galignani's Messenger. The Day Mail from So ut hampt on will - in future be despatched from Southampton, a quarter befOr e ten, a.m., instead of eleven._s ou thampton Inde pendent. Lsindon THE ARMY. A Return of the number of English, Scotch, and Irish Non- Commissioned Officers and Privates in the whole of the British Army, in each of the Years on the Ist day of Ja nuary, 1830 and 1840, distinguishing the Household Troops, the Cavalry, the Artillery, and Sappers and 'Miners, from Regiments of the Line. ( Abstracted fi rom a Pai -liamentary Return.) English. Scotch. Irish. Total. On Jan. 25, 1830. Life Guards 709 66 15 790 Horse Guards Cavalry 5,031 750 3,025 *9,155 Foot Guards 4,368 437 192 5,017 Infantry Royal Artillery Sappers and Miners 651 407 262 1,320 44,329 13,800 42,897 101,544 On Jan. 1, 1810. Life Guards 724 67 19 810 Horse Guards Cavalry 6,174 781 2,569 $9,634 Foot Guards 4,344 472 64 4,880 Infantry Royal Artillery Sappers and Miners 667 329 147 1,143 51,559 15,239 41,218 110,918 Country not stated. Country not stated. *lncluding 349 slncluding l3O tlneluding ..... 169 §lncluding Country not *lncluding Including ..... I 15,239 tinelutlinl §lncludiN SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROX THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY. STANDARD.—Contrary to all expectation, the de bate on Lord Sandon's resolution was, once more, even for the sixth time, adjourned last night. The Conser vatives attended in overwhelming force, and the ad journment was effected by putting forward all the third and fourth rate men of the Ministerial party, all, in short, who could manage to articulate a few sentences, whatever they might be, and finally, by an awfully long speech from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a speech so long that, after giving many columns of an abridged report of it, the reporters are compelled to apologise for omitting " the peroration" on the ground that it was inaudible, the Right Honourable Gentleman, doubtless, having worn out his voice. The policy of this procrastination is obvious ; the Ministers are, as a last chance, trying the effect of the " enormous lying" to which they owe so much, in getting up an agitation ; but even this last hope is failing them. Previously to the commencement of the resumed debate, Mr. W. Gladstone, seeing Lord Howick in his place, proceeded to remonstrate against the liberties which that Noble Lord had taken with the name and character of his (Mr. Gladstone's) father, that gentle man not being a Member of the House, and no intima tion of the meditated attack having been given to any of those who might naturally be expected to render justice to its object. Mr. Gladstone reminded the Noble Lord that, eight years ago he, the same Noble Lord, had ut tered precisely the same calumnies—that they were then one and all refuted and retracted by the Noble Lord himself, and that a pledge was given by him never to bring forward any similar charges without apprising those who ought to be able to answer them, a pledge which it was plain he had forgotten, as he had forgotten what was due " to the feelings of those against whom his attack was directed." Mr. Gladstone then triumphantly exposed the groundlessness of the imputations of which his ab sent father had been the object, and pointed to the ab surdity of his allusion to the merits of the late Mr. Ma caulay, in contrast to the conduct of his son, which allusion was all praise, being made the pretext for slander upon an absent man. GLOBE.—The " plain tale" of the Chancellor of the Exchequer last night put down effectually all the self contradictory sophistry of the Opposition. The Right Hon. Gentleman remarked, with much quiet effect, that "if by any possibility Mr. Huskisson could now look down upon those who called themselves his pupils, he would not feel very proud of them !" About as proud, we venture to suggest, as Mr. Pitt might have felt could he have heard the " glorious and immortal memory" of intolerance towards the Roman Catholics toasted along with his own tolerant memory by !soi-disant Pitt clubs. That Minister, who, by the testimony of his most confidential colleague, left office in 1801, because George 111. would not hear of Irish emancipation, or of " Scotch metaphysics," may be supposed to have felt not much prouder of his Anti- Emancipation adorers, than Mr. Huskisson of the daws who would now trick themselves out in his politico-economical plumage—Mr. Huskisson, whom the military chief of the present Opposition forced out of office for an insubordinate vote in favour of a partial reform ! There is no mistake,—there can be no mis take about these pupils of Huskisson ! They have caught his mantle of liberal economy, as the Pittites that of Pitt's tolerance ! We recommend them straightway to institute a Huskisson Club, for the sup port of the Duke of Buckingham's doctrines on corn, and Lord Sandon's on sugar. The principle of Mr. Hus kisson, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer justly stated, was, that "if you wished to improve trade, you must ad mit some principle of competition ; and that the worst possible thing that you could do, and that which would in flict the greatest possible injury on commerce, was to bols ter and cocker it up in order to prevent any other party from competing." Mr. Huskisson, it may be said, did not abandon the principle of protection. Neither does the present Go vernment ; but with him, as with them, freedom was the general rule, protection the practical limitation of that rule, in particular cases. With his pseudo-pupils, restriction is the rule, relaxation the exception—the for mer to be maintained as much, the latter allowed as little as possible. They accuse Ministers of attacking at once all the great interests of the country. This means that Ministers would remove those great interests from the footing of monopoly, and subject them to that competi tion which Mr. Huskisson deemed vital to improvement, and which the experience of his measures has proved to have been so, even in partial application. COURIER—The Ministerial Press is in happy and heroic mood by turns. Whilst the Morning Advertiser loftily counsels its patrons to act the part of " Curtius," and cast themselves into the gulf (of dissolution) to " save" their country, the Morning Chronicle is deriving sweet solace from small sayings at certain hole and cor ner meetings recorded under a heading of the most con spicuous dimensions, to swell the apparent numbers and columns of which the reports of the meetings themselves are ingeniously published by instalments from day to day, or, as in the case of Bolton this morning, given in duplicate. In vain, however, all this paltry trickery in behalf of a drowning faction which by trickery has alone existed so long ; the conscientious Journals may as soon hope to whip a storm in a teapot into a tornado, or set fire to an iceberg, as to coax the people of England again into a political convulsion, which may longer keep their unworthy employers where they are. Among other sources from which consolation is affected to be drawn, the Ministerial prints refer to the meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society held yesterday at Exeter-Hall. After carefully perusing the reports of proceedings, we can discover no ground on which to build so convenient a conclusion in their own favour. It is true that a few of the most furious partisans of the Government were present, and did not fail to vent, by fits and starts, a portion of their factious spleen, although reminded by their worthy Chairman that "the meeting had been convened for no political object whatever ; but their reception was any thing but flattering, and they could only obtain a fur ther hearing on condition of forbearance, or by the tole ration of a portion of the audience, against whom, when in turn they wished to be heard ; these very liberal tools of a Liberal Ministry called in the police to put them out of Court. APPALLING MURDER—The Kilkenny Pa pars, received in town, contain accounts of a murder committed at Garyduff, near Kilkenny,ria Sunday morning last, provoked by disappointed love. The criminal and his victim were fellow servants to Mr. Hely, and were both paying their addresses to a young woman resid ing in their neighbourhood. On Saturday night they both retired to rest in the same bed, after having exchanged some angry words on the subject of their attachment to the fair one ; and it is stated that about four o'clock on Sunday morning Daniel M'Cabe aroie and struck his more fortunate rival, James Comiran, while sleeping, several blows with a stick or spade handle on the head, which deprived him of life. On Monday an inquest was held on the body of the de ceased, when a verdict of " Wilful murder" was re turned against M'Cabe, who was arrested and brought into the gaol of Kilkenny-, to abide his trial. The Bristol and Exeter Railway will be oven to Bridgewater, a distance of 36 miles, May 31st. It i s on the same plan as the Great Western, but, if possible, more smooth and easy. The Great Western Railway will be open to Chippenham next Monday fortnight ; there will be then only 13 miles to travel by coach, and that over an excellent road. Your Paper may then be had at Bath at 8 in the evening, and at half-past 8 in Bristol. It is expected the journey from Bridgewater to London on Whit-Monday will be performed by the two railways in less than seven hours. The distance is 156 miles. From a Correspondent. ATTEMPT OF A MOTHER TO DROWN FOUR CHILDREN. —During last week a woman, living at Sau verny, near Gex, on the frontier of Switzerland, who was then mother of five children, and, as believed, enciente with a sixth, left one of them with a neighbour, and took the rest with her to the banks of the river Versoix, and threw them all in. They were carried down by the current to a mill, but fortunately, 'the flood-gates being shut, they were stopped from being drawn by the fall under the wheel. A young man, with admirable cou rage and humanity, plunged in, and brought three of the victim s to land, while some women, who were washing in the river, succeeded in saving the fourth. Proper means were promptly taken, and they were all happily restored. Meantime the mother disappeared, and no intelligence of her could be learnt. Some apprehension of further disaster was entertained, as the eldest of the children, who is only eleven years old, has declared that she had uttered threats of burning down the houses of her enemies. Little doubt was entertained of her insanity. MAIL BETWEEN SOUTHAMPTON AND CIIEL. TENHAM.—We understand that the Secretary to the Post-office is instituting inquiries with a view of esta blishing a new mail between this town and Cheltenham. —Southampton _lndependent. • The Lords of the Treasury have consented to allow Gulignanz's Messenger to pass through the Post office, the same as French Papers printed in the French language.—Southampt on Independent. We have learned from an official source, that in consequence of the extensive preparations required for the grand ball in behoof of the Spitalfields weavers not being in sufficient forwardness, her -Majesty has been graciously pleased to authorise its postponement until the 23(1 ofJune,—British Queen. ANOTHER SHOCEING STEAM- BOAT ACCIDENT. A little past six o'clock last evening, as the st , ,am tow-boat Henry Eckford, Captai❑ Tice, was leaNing the dock at the foot of Cedar-street, North River, and just as the escape of staam through the chimney had been rtopped, her boil2r burst with a tremendous ex tearing her machinery and upper works to fragments, and killing or wounding nearly every one on board, as follows : Captain Tice, blown sixty fret across the slip, over the like boat in tow, into the water ; one leg broker, and otherwise severely injured —not scalded. His re covery is doubtful. _ --, engineer, terribly injured ; both legs broken ; not scalded ; can hardly recover. -- Welsh, of the lake-boat in tow, was killed out right—struck by a piece of the cylinder, and terribly mangled. One fireman killed outright. Another fireman nearly killed ; limbs broken. One passenger in a state-room on deck, llmbs broken. One deck hand had his head badly cut and bruised by flying fragments of the boiler. A son of Captain Tice had his wrist dislocated. The Captain of an Eastern schooner alongside was knocked over by the water from the toiler, and one side of his face slightly scalded. The Captain's wife (in the cabin) was immersed in water from the feeding cylinder, but not scalded. The engine, piston, smoke-pipe, shafts, and upper work, wheel, pilot-house, deck-cabin, &c., were blown completely away—most of them into the river, so that they cannot be found. One half the boiler is pushed forward, and remains on the boat, the other half was blown into the river. The steam and contents of the boiler were blown out aft, so that very little injury by scalding was experienced. The wreck was taken in tow by the Citizen for the foot of Seventeenth -street, East River ; but she was sinking so fast that it was by no means probable that she would reach her destination. The Henry Eckford was probably the oldest steam boat running in the vicinity of New York. She was built some seventeen years ago by Eckford, and has been used as a tow-boat on the river and in the harbour. The customary stereotype phrase on such occasions imports that " No blame can be attached to any one." We cannot use it here. It seems to us that there was gross recklessness of life evinced in the running of so old and worn-out a boat—that her engineer must have been unqualified for his station—and that the United States Inspector, who examines and licenses boats, has been grossly unfaithful to his duty. We will not pur sue this subject now, but await further developments. A man who was on the wharf at the time, remarked to us that he was looking at the Eckford as she started, and heard her squeal when the escaping steam was shut off. He instantly observed—" There is too much steam on—we had better get away from here." The next instant a roar as of cannon was heard, and a cloud of steam, pierced by flying fragments of boiler, engixe, works, &c., proclaimed thAt the boat was a ruin. We understand that three or four persons are miss ing in addition to those abovementioned possibly escaped, but more probably blown into the river dead.— New York Tribune. BIOGRAPHY OF M. SAY. (Abridged from the French of M. Blanqui,) M. Say was born at Lyons on the sth of January, 1767 ; he belonged to a family of Protestant refugees, and was the eldest of three boys. His father, a re spectable merchant, gave him a substantial education, and sent him to England in order to learn the English language, and to get acquainted with commercial matters, &c. It was then that a circumstance, apparently trifling, produced a deep impression upon his mind, and deter mined his taste for the study of political economy. At the period when he was at a boarding school in a village near London, the door and window tax, which is known to be extremely severe in England, had just been voted. Young Say occupied a small room lighted by two windows, and his master found it a very easy matter to ged rid of one of tbem, in order to escape the tax. " Here, then, am I, deprived of a window without the Treasury being any the richer. What, then, will be the use of this tax ?" exclaimed the young economist to himself ; and thirty years afterwards he published, in his " Complete Course of Political Eco nomy," the curious chapter "On Taxes which bring ❑othing to the Revenue." The events of the Revolution turned aside Say from the career of commerce. He published several po litical and literary works. He established, in con junction with Chamfort, Ginguene, Amaury, Duval, and Andrieux, the " Decade Philosophique," and he continued for six years to hold the chief editor ship of that collection of writings. In 1789 he was appointed a member of the Tribunes' office. The First Consul, who had divined the tendency of his mind, en deavoured to seduce him, but could not conquer his natural repugnance to taxes on articles of consumption. The Tribune rdused the lucrative appointment of Director of the Droits Reunis, and was soon ejected from the tribunate. It became necessary for him to seek, in works of industry, the independence which public offices denied him, and he established a manufactory for the spinning of cotton. He settled in the department of the Oise, and subsequently, upon a larger scale, in that of the Pas de Calais, being by turns engineer, archi tect, mechanist, and potter ; by this rude exercise of all trades he learned to know and to analyse the pro cess of the various arts. It was in 1803 that the first edition of the " Treatise on Political Economy" appeared, an im mense work, which was completed su ccess i ve ly i n five editions, which h perfected th e d octr i nes o f Ad am sminsure an i mmor t a l f ame to M . ith. and What w will Say are the demonstrations by which he supported his theory of Means. This theory, founded upon a scru pulous observation of facts, proved that nations only paid for products with products, and that every law which forbids them to buy, also forbids them to sill. Say extolled the liberty of commerce in the teeth of the continental blockade ; and also the alleviation of taxes, in consideration of the increasing exaggeration of the droits rennis. The spectacle of the Imperial regime caused him unconquerable aversion. He could only behold in the Emperor a wholesale dissipator of capital, and an inflexible destroyer of men. Say profited by the peace to revisit England, with a commission to ascertain the industrial condition of that country. He was received with great distinction by the great economists of that period—Ricardo, Malthus, and Jeremy Bentham. He was made to sit down at Glasgow in the chair of Adam Smith, a signal and deli cate honour, with which he was deeply touched. Tne brochure which he published on his ret Ira, entitled "England and the English," displayed his strong anti pathy to extravagance on the pact of Govern ments. This was followed by the " Catechism of Political Economy." He also published under the title of " Little Volume," a collection of ideas written in the style of Franklin, aid stamped with an artless ingenuity, in which the caustic satire of his mind is quite predominant. This little book pourtrays him better than his other works, and describes him as he existed in private life—sceptical, bantering, an enemy to all prejudices, rigid in his morals, independent, in dustrious, and economical. The satirical powers of his mind ever delighted in exercising themselves at the expense of men without fixed principles, the number of whom is always great in periods of trouble and political changes. He speaks thus--" A man without princi ples meets another who possesses principles ; they talk together, and they both despise each other. Which of them most despises the other? Do you think that it is the man who has principles ? You are mistaken ; it is he who possesses none !" The incrrasing success of his doctrines drew public attention towards him more and more every day. His works were devoured with ardour ; people desired to hear him ; he gave his first lectures at the Royal Athenaeum of Paris during two successive winters, with great success. Say had then to defend his doctrines against cer tain. opponents; the iniist formidable of whom were Malthus, Ricardo, and M. Sismondi. The first had just published his " Essay on the Principle of Population," and a hazardous theory concerning some of the phenomena of production. SA) , addressed five remarkable letters to him, which have been printed in the collection of his posthumous works. He ought to have attacked the terrible book of " Malthus on Population," but be fully adopted all its conclusions, so severely commented upon and unravelled by Ricardo in his work upon the " Principles of Taxation." Mal. thus condemned to celibacy two-thirds of the human race. He scolded the children who thought proper to be born without fortune, and announced starvation to them in a paternal voice, whilst the eloquent M. de Sismondi implored mercy for them from machines, and for their parents from bankers. Ricardo coldly calculated the number of victims necessary to be sacrificed upon the alters of competition, as a General calculates the loss of men indispensable for the blowing up of a redoubt. Say died on the 15th of Nov. 1832, aged sixty.six )ears. H e l e f t four children, two sons an d t wo daugh ters. O ne o f the latter was the w if e o f t h e H on . Ch . Comte, wh ose d eath the Aca d emy w ill soon h ave to deplor e . S ay did not belong France, b ut h e was a member of the principal academies of Europ e . to any learned body in CHURCH-RA TES .— Preparations are making amongst th e Di ssenters of St. p George's, St. Mary's, St. Michael's of Coslany, and many other parishes of this city, to re s i s t the .proceedings of the Archdeacon by all lawful means. Ilre may safely assert that no Church rats will, hereafter, be made in these, and many other parishes of this city. To the end that they may be suc cessfully resisted, an Anti-Church -rate Association has been formed, and every possible resistance will be made to these demands. For this the Church-people have to thank themselves ; the Dissenters having offered to enter into a voluntary subscription for the expenses of the Church services only to be insulted by the Church people, who will not give way one iota while they have the law on their side.—Norwich Mercury. The municipal council of Nantes has just voted the guaranteeing of a minimum interest of 4 per cent. on a capital of 1,500,000 f. for the Nantes and Orleans Railroad, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, May 15. JACOBS V. DETTMAN. Mr. noggins conducted the case for the plaintiff, and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the defendant. This was an action brought by the plaintiffagainst the defendant for an assault and false imprisonment. On the 11th December the plaintiff was standing on one of 'the bridges viewing the exploits of Scott, the American diver, who lost his life some time since on Waterloo bridge. The defendant was also on the bridge, and, as it would appear, close to the plaintiff. A sudden rush took place, and in an instant some person collared the plaintiff, and the defendant, who is a most respectable person in the employ of Messrs. Rothschild, charged the plaintiff with having attempted to tile a gold pin from his neckerchief, and gave him into the custody of a policeman. He was taken to the Compter, and the next morning was produced before Sir Peter Laurie, who, after hearing the case, was of opinion that the evidence was not sufficient to show that the plaintiff had actually taken the pin, dismissed the case, and set the plaintiff at liberty. The defendant's counsel contended that the defendant had acted with the most perfect bona fides ; he felt some one attempting to take his pin, and he found the plaintiff's hand on his shoulder, and he had therefore been led to believe that the plaintiff was the person, and accordingly had given him in charge ; he had no malice against the The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da mages, 51. WALTERS V. WALTER. Mr. James conducted the case for the plaintiff, and Mr. Thesiger that of the defendant. From the statement of counsel, and from the evidence produced on the part of the plaintiff, it would seem that the action was brought to recover a sum of 19/. ss. 10d. for money paid out and expended and work and labour done for the defendant when he was a candidate to represent the Borough of Southwark in Parliament. The plaintiff was a painter, and had been introduced by a person of the name of Appleton, who was steward of a Gravesend steam-vessel, to an attorney of the name of Rodgers, who, it was stated, had acted as the agent of the defendant in the conduct of the election. Mr. Rodgers, after some com munication with the plaintiff, said he should be happy to have his services as a chairman of two of the commit tees—one at the Three Tuns and the other at the George, both situate in the Borough. The plaintiff claimed 61. 155., being at the rate of 15s. a day for nine days, and the residue of the demand was claimed for money dis bursed, some to cabmen, and about 21. to persons called " Ruffs," who, it would appear, are persons in a profes sion of ancient and well-known standing in this large Borough, and whose duty one of those gentlemen (a most formidable looking personage) stated was to protect the candidate from being torn by the mob of the other party, and to attend before the hustings and hold up both hands in favour of the candidate whose political senti ments agreed with their own, or, in more understandable language, whose money they took for their performances. Another sum was for regaling these gentlemen with porter and gin. The captain stated that his regiment consisted of from 30 to 50 strong, and that from long experience he knew them all, and manfully well they did their duty. Mr. THESIGErt, on behalf of the defendant, felt it necessary to explain to them the situation in which the defendant was placed ; he had no doubt they well knew that at contested elections there were very exorbitant and very unjust demands made upon the different candi dates. If they knew the character of Mr. Walter, and if they adverted to the amount of the present claim, they would be perfectly satisfied that Mr. Walter would not have resisted it 'unless he felt it was an attempt to impose upon him, and he was determined to resist such an at tempt, although at the heavy expense which he (Mr. Thesiger) must now admit must fall upon him. This was the first time he had ever heard of a chairman of a Committee being paid for his services. No one ever thought that a person taking upon himself so responsi ble a position would expect to be paid, or would think of making any claim. He had heard with astonishment of the different charges made by the plaintiff, but after the evidence- of one of the witnesses he would not resist the claim to something, and it would be for the Jury to say how much the plaintiff ought to have paid to him. Lord DENMAN having briefly summed up, the Jury said—" We find a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount." Mr. THESIGER, with some warmth—How much is that —what has been proved ? Lord DENMAN—There are some of the items upon which there is no evidence ; we must tax this bill. Mr. JAMES—I don't wish to give trouble—what does my friend seek to take off ? Mr. THESIGER—I seek only to be charged with that upon which there is evidence, and the Jury have fixed me with that upon which there is no evidence. Lord DENMAN having taxed off several items, the ver dict was taken for 131. 18s., allowing for 31. paid into Court. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 15. MARTINEZ AND ANOTHER V. GERBER. _ This was an action to recover compensation for in jury done to a person named Goss, who was the plain tiff's traveller, through the alleged negligence of the de fendant. Mr. Sergeant Bompas and Mr. Butt appeared for the plaintiffs ; Sir F. Pollock and another Learned Gentle man for the defendant. It appeared that Mr. Goss was travelling near the town of Leeds, when the defendant came driving up, also in a gig, at a violent rate ; the vehicles came into colli• sion ; Mr. Goss was thrown out, his ar.cle was dislo cated, and other severe injuries were inflicted upon him by the fall. The main charge against the defendant was, that ke was driving a horse which lie knew to be vicious ; and evidence was given by Mr. Goss of con versations in which the defendant had stated to him that his horse had run away with him on several occasions. The consequence of the accident was that the defendant was prevented from following his ordinary pursuits for some time, and the plaintiff in the meantime engaged some one else. Sir F. POLLOCK, on the part of the defendant, sub mitted that the action ought to have been brought by Goss himself, and that these plaintiffs had no right f action at all The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE thought that they had a right to recover for the loss of the defendant's services, as a master might for the seduction of his servant. The Learned' Counsel then addressed the Jury, who in the end found a verdict for the plaintiffs—Damages, 631. DEXTER V. GIBSON. This was an action for overworking three horses, which the plaintiff let out to the defendant for hire. Mr. Thesiger and Mr. James appeared for the plain tiff ; Mr. Sergeant Bompas and Mr. Cleasby for the de fendant. It appeared that the plaintiff was a large livery-stable keeper in Whitechapel, and the defendant a timber-mer chant at Stratford, in Essex. The plaintiff's business consisted principally in letting out cart-horses to hire ; and the defendant in February last hired three cart horses of him for an indefinite period. In a short time, however, one of them was sent home very ill, and died the next morning ; a few days after that the plaintiff re ceived information that another was ill, and before he got to the defendant's premises that horse also died. The third was subsequently sent home ill, but he did not die. There were post mortern examinations of the two former, and symptoms appeared of their having been considerably strained. The evidence was very conflicting. The plain tiff's case was that they must have been cruelly over worked and ill-fed ; the defendant's case being that every possible attention was shown to them ; that dur ing the time they were with the defendant they had several days' rest, and before that time they had been put to very severe work by the plaintiff himself. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE Summed up, and the Jury found a verdict for the defendant. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 15. BURDETT V. JOHNSON. Mr. Platt and Mr. Ogle appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. J. Jervis and ➢Zr. Martin for the defendant. This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover the sum of V. odd, for necessaries furnished to the wife of the defendant. The defendant pleaded that he was not liable, inasmuch as his wife, from whom he had long been separated, had been living in adultery. It appeared in the course of the trial, which lasted several hours, that Mrs. Locke, a widow, who had for some years carried on a somewhat flourishing trade as a staymaker, in Brook-street and 13°nd-street, had married the defendant, who was a coal-meter, or coal-weigher; but that shortly after, in consequence of his habits of life, and of his cruelty to her, they lived apart. This was in 1834. By and bye the stay business proved to be extremely unprofitable, and she became greatly distressed in her circumstances; during which period a correspond ence, which had occasionally existed between her and husband, was continued. Subsequently to this, Mrs. Johnson, having lived at other places, took lodgings in the Waterloo-road, where for upwards of nine months she supported herself by keeping a school. It was at this residence that the adultery was more particularly alleged to have been carried on, with a man of the name of Hoo man. The evidence on the part of the defendant to sup port this allegation, however, failed in satisfying the Jury upon the point, and they therefore returned a ver diet for the plaintiff for the amount sought to be recovered. It appears that the total number of new cases which have been entered during and after the Term just ended, is as follows :—Queen's Bench 255, Common Pleas 115, Exchequer 247. CENTRAL CRIMENAL COURT. OLD COURT. Thomas Hattersbury was indicted for feloniously breaking into the house of Charles Spencer March I'hillips, and stealing two co a ts, two waistcoats, one pen cil-case, and other articles his property, valued at 41. ; and he was also further indicted for stealing two coats, valued at 12s. the property of Edmund Beals. The prisoner, having pleaded guilty, was sentenced to be transported for ten years, with an intimation that he would be imprisoned in the Penitentiary, for a shorter term of years, the prosecutors having expressed a desire that such might be the case. Several other cases were tried during the day, but they possessed no features of public interest. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET, John Stephen Pardy, a person living in Whetstone park, Lincoln's-inn-fields, appeared to a summons, charg ing him with detaining a valuable Newfoundland dog, the property of Messrs. Williams and Co., of Friday street, Cheapside. A clerk to the complainants stated that the dog in question was lost about a fortnight ago, and that a day or two since, in consequence of some information he re ceived, he went to the house of the defendant, of whom he made some inquiries respecting it. The defendant at once gave him a most correct descrip tion of the animal, and admitted that he knew where it was, but refused to produce it until he was paid his fee of one guinea. When the dog was lost it had a collar on, with the name and address of its owners upon it. The defendaut, when questioned as to the collar, said he knew nothing about it ; and that if his fee was not paid be fore two o'clock, the dog would be sold. Witness, not choosing to pay the defendant's demand,. applied to this office, and obtained a summons against him for detaining the dog. An attorney, who attended on the part of the de fendant, said his client, since he saw the witness, disco vered that he had not got the complainant's dog, but another Newfoundland dog, that was very much like it. Even if he had got it, he would not part with it until he was paid his fee. Mr. JARDINE inquired on what pretence the defen dant demanded a fee of one guinea ? The attorney said his client was at great expense in advertising dogs that had been lost, and afterwards came into his posses4ion. Mr.lifilliam Best—But my dog has not been adver• tised at all. The attorney said he would admit that particular dog had never been advertised, but his client had inserted a general advertisement in several of. the . newspapers, stating that persons having lost dogs, might probably hear - of them on applying at his depot. A few days since he was the means of restoring a dog that had been lost by Lord Palmerston, and his Lordship paid the fee immediately, and without any hesitation. Mr. JARDINE said he did not think the complainant was bound to pay the expense of a general advertise ment _like that mentioned, but he would certainly be liable for the expense of the dog's keep ; and the de fendant (supposing he had the complainant's dog) would be justified in detaining it until th a t ex p ense was pa id . The attorney said the defendant had not got the com plainant's dog. He was willing to show the complainant the dog supposed to be his ; and if he (complainant) could prove it was his, he might have it on paying the expense of its keep. Witness said the defendant told him distinctly that he knew very well where the dog was, and could produce it in five minute s , b ut insisted on his fee of one guinea being paid first. As to going to see a dog that was like it, he had no doubt that defendant could produce one like it, or the dog itself, if he chose. The attorney repeated that his client knew nothing of complainant's dog. After some discussion, it was arranged that complain ant should see the dog the defendant had, and if he identified it as his, it should be given up to him on pay ing the expenses of his keep. In about an hour after the above case had been dis posed of, the witness came to the office in a state of great excitement, and stated that in pursuance of the above arrangement, he went to the defendant's house for the purpose of seeing the dog. The defendant immediately said to him, " I've been civil to you before, but I shall act very differently now," and immediately struck him a violent blow on the ribs, and afterwards laid hold of him, and a scuffle ensued, in which witness's coat was torn in several places. He at length ran into a sawyer's yard adjoining, and applied to the workmen for protec tion, and a policeman came up and prevented further vio lence on the part of the defendant. Mr. JARDINE immediately granted a warrant, and the, defendant was brought in custody to the office, when complainant repeated the above statement. Defendant, in answer to the charge, said the witness had irritated him by calling him a dog-stealer, and col lecting a mob about his house. He refused to let him see the dog, and on his insisting, quietly put him out of his house. Mr. JARDINE said it was expressly arranged that complainant should see the dog. The defendant called two witnesses, who roundly swore that the defendant did not assault complainant. Mr. JARDINE said the assault had been clearly proved, and the conduct of the defendant had been most digraceful • he would say nothing more about the dog case, but for the assault he should fine him forty shil lings, and in default of payment commit him for eight days to the House of Correction. The defendant paid the fine. LAMBETH-STREET. A BRUTE OF A HUSBAND.—On Saturday David Rees, an itinerant musician, was charged before Mr. Norton with brutally ill-treating and frequently attempting to take way the life of his wife. The wife, a decent, but apparently broken-hearted woman, stated that between three and four o'clock on that morning the prisoner came home, and without the slightest provocation on her part, commenced beating her with the case of one of his musical instruments, and had it not been for the interference of the police she be lieved he would have murdered her. The complainant then entered into a lengthened history of the sufferings she endurid by the brutal treatment of her husband, and conclud' i!by saying, that if he only kept from ill-using her sh , .would keep him like a gentleman, and without doing anything, as she had an excellent business which she carried on on her own account. The husband, in reply to the charge, said he strongly suspected, nay,. he could, if necessary, prove it, that his wife had been inconstant to him, and he would not deny striking her occasionally. The wife, whose eyes were black and much swollen, denied the accusation, and said she was the mother of ten children to the prisoner, six of whom had been still-born owing to his brutal usage. Mr. NORTON observed, that even if what the prisoner stated were true, it only proved him to be a most unmanly fellow to live with a wife after being satisfied, as he stated, he was of her guilt. He then, after some further com ments on his conduct, convicted the prisoner in the highest penalty the law permitted, of 51., or two months' imprisonment, and also ordered him to find bail to be of good behaviour for six months. HATTON-GARDEN. TIONNSEY WOOD TAVERN.-Mr. Bradbrook, pro prietor of this tavern and gardens, appeared to answer the police, for having kept his house open on the Sun day afternoon during divine service. The evidence proved that there were near 200 persons on and about the premises, who were chiefly respectable tradesman and their families from the City, who went for air and recreation ; and that all were perfectly sober and or derly. The defendant said he had 'applied to the commissioners of police and the rector of the parish, who stated that they would not interfere whilst the place was conducted respectably. Mr. GREENWOOD said that the defendant was bound by law to keep his house closed during the hours of divine service ; but as it sppaared everything had been done with :propriety, he would only convict him in the mitigated penalty of 20s. and costs. Mr. Bradbrook paid the penalty, and promised to attend to the Magistrate's advice and shut his house in future during divine service. - HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The first of the three fruit and flower shows for the present season, held in the gardens of this Society at Turnham-green, took ylace on Saturday. The fineness of the weather, the great number of fashionable people who are at this time of the year in town, and the high reputation of the Society, attracted altogether a more than usual number of visitor s . It ma y b said that the whole phalanx of rank and fashion now in the metropo lis was assembled. Amongst the number was his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who appeared to feel great interest in the exhibition of the fruits and flowers. By five o'clock the road from Hammersmith to the en trance of the grounds in the lane at Turnham-green was almost impassable ; and had it not been for the excellent arrangements to keep order, many accidents must haVe occurred. The issue of the tickets amounted to nearly eight thousand. The gardens are in the most beautiful order—indeed the turf is finer than it has been since first laid down, and the shrubs and flowers in the beds and borders are in equally healthy and splendid order. The company promenaded for some hours ; and were, in ad dition to the pleasure produced by surveying the flowers of the competitors for the medals, entertained by some excellently selected music, overtures and quadrilles, by the bands of the Life Guards, Blues, and Coldstream Guards. The flowers and fruits were, as usual, zu ranged under the immense tents manufactured by Mr. B. Edgington, of the Borough. Indeed, these tents were of infinite ser vince in shading the company from the great heat of the sun, which at one period of the day was intense. The conservatory, which is now completely finished and stocked with some of the finest specimens of floriculture, became an object of great interest to the patrons of flori culture. It is built on the most improved principles of modern science, and is a light and elegant structure. The most beautiful flowers exhibited were the varieties of azalias and geraniums ; the heartseases were also very fine. Indeed, nothing could surpass the brilliancy of colours, and the true shape and proportions of some of the classes. A great number of gold and silver medals were awarded by the judges to the successful candidates ; both Banksian and other medals. Mr. Lawrence was, as usual, amongst the winners of the gold medals. It was not until seven o'clock that the bulk of the company began to depart; and it was dark before the last visitor left the gardens. Taking this show altogether, both as to its splendour in horticultural produce, its elegance from the rank and beauty of the female nobility and gentry, and its aggregate of numbers, we do not remem ber ever to have seen it surpassed. HAMBURGH AND DUTCH MAILS. BRUSSELS, MAY 13.—The average price of wheat last week was 1,808 francs, and that of rye 1,073 francs. Count and the Countess of Van de Weyer have arrived at Brussels. A letter from Francfort says— We learn that the persons who were arrested at the end of last year in the Grand Duchy of Hesse for politi c .1 offences presented a petition to the Grand Duke on the day before the marriage of the Princess Matia to the Grand Duke Alexander, praying that the proceed. ings instituted against them may be quashed." BRUSSELS, MAY 14.—Captain Neygeen, of the Swedish ship Neptune, bought five tons of salt beef of Pierre Jean Verstreten, a butcher. After eating some of it be and his crew were taken ill ; a legal inquiry having been instituted, it was discovered that there was an agreement between some butchers and knackers to supply the captain of ships with horse flesh instead of beef, by which they fraudulently made a considerable profit. Verstreten, Leys, and Cleereus have been con demned for this fraud to a year's imprisonment Count Gerofski and the Princess Isabella, daughter of the Infant Don Francis de Paulo, who eloped from Paris, were arrested yesterday at Namur, by the Bel gian police. They had arrived there on Monday ; their carriage having broken down on their way, they were detained twenty-four hours to repair it, otherwise they would have passed through Belgium without being dis covered. On their arrival at the hotel two chambers, communicating w i t h eac h ot h er , were assigned to th em, but they chose t wo ot h ers , whi c hwere completely sepa rate, when the p o li ce as k e d for their passports, Count Gerofski produced one with a false name, and having been rcques:ed to sign this name, he was not able to spell it. H e was d eta i ne d pr i soner with the Infanta et the Hotel, an d a not i ce was i mme di ate l y sent to the Government of their arrest. Orders were directly sent from Brusstls to take the Princess back to. Paris. Count Gerofski will probably be brought before the tribunal° for having used a false passport. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 21.—1 n consequence of the insurrection in Candia, the Porte has resolved to subject the coast of that island to a strict blockade, ex" cept the ports Canea, Suds, Rettimo, and Candies which blockade is to begin on the Ilith of May. A squadron of 10 men-of-war is preparing to enforce tbie blockade. The day before yesterday a note from the Minister of Foreign Affairs was addressed to the Mi nisters of the Powers parties to the treaties of July. informing them that the Porte had accepted the prop** sal' made by those Powers respecting Egypt ; they are as have been already mentioned. It appears that s ome delay will take place in the official notification of these concessions to Mehemet Ali, because the Ottoman Ministry feel considerable hesitation about the system now observed with respect to Egypt, namely, to know the provisions of the Allied Powers, in case Mehemet Ali should refuse the new concession, not, indeed; ja words, but in fact, by continuing to act without regard to the orders of the Sultan. The two soncee 4 slow, they say, are not to be understood as made to _ . the Paella, but rather as a sacrifice on the part of the Sultan to the wishes of his allies ; this bed to a second note of the same date to the following -Ministers, is which the Porte puts the question—What the Power , think to do, in case Mehemet Ali should not submit In the other conditions of the firman of investiture ; and whether the Powers, supposing them to intend t, tinue their assistance to tae Porte, mean to make a dir' &twee in the measures to be taken by them, between those conditions whi c h are con t a i ne d i n t h e trea ty el , July, and those which are not mentioned in that treat"? The Minister for Foreign Affairs likewise communicated with M. du Pontois, to learn what course France would take, since the Porte had granted to the Pacha the lief& ditary sovereignty of Egypt, and the choice of his officers. It appears that M. du Pontois had not soli' cleat instructions to give a decisive answer on this point-, DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTISCOAM, MAY H. s. actual Debt, 2% Money, hill per Cent 51% 52 IA 3itto, ditto 5 per cent. Arnett Syndic, 4% per cent...... ............ 9 0% 914 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cenL ..... 74% 75% Commercial Company, 4% per cent 164% 165% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent lOl% 102 Loan 1837, 5 percent. 9;, 97% Exchange on .Londe a, One month l2 02% Two months 11 92% Dutch Papers, May lb. itELOIAN U NM—Juneau, MAY 14. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent IOO% Loan ot Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 9 per CenL ..... Thirty even ...•••••• 704 i (124 4 ))••••• • ....... •••• 100% Loan of City, 1832,4 per Cent. SI% Society of Commerce, 4 % per Cent............ 100 Bank of Belgium, 5 per 78% National Society . . Exchange on London (short) ll 95 Brussels Papers, May 14. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—viantsa, MAY 5. Five per Cents. Metalliques k Form per Cents. ..... ............. 9t0% Three per Cents, •••••••••••••••••••••• ...... •••••••••••••••••• 77 Bank Shares •••••••• • ..... . •••••. •.• .. ••••• ••••• 1 1 0 1 1 ••••••••• 1652 Zett .. ung. May 11 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, MAY 11. Bil St. Schuld. Sch., 4% per cent. ...........104 ls. Money. Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 102 10 10 1% Exchange on London, three months ... 6 19% —Prussian Slate Gazette, May 11 . SUDDEN CLOSING OF THE LYCEUM. We regret to state that this pretty little theatre JO% suddenly closed on Saturday night. Some little dela); having occurred after the performance of the Hwidse ° Penny, the audience manifested its impatience in the usual way, which brought Mr. Balfe forward, who ad' dressed the house to the following effect : Ladies and Gentlemen—Above two hours 24 0 1 received a note from Mr. John Barnett, whose Par Miss Gould ip, stating that he could not allow ber to appear at this theatre any longer. She being the. thir d who has thus left the establishment, I am really u nable at this moment to substitute anything for II Pad"! Whack, as Marcelline cannot be played, neither Sr' Harris nor Mr. Selby b e i ng i n t h e h ouse. H a d known of this sooner, I would have put sawed:ail over the bills to p revent your cittning ; 1'0" if you will wait five or ben minutes, perliel# Mr. Harris will arrive. This is the last night ora l English Opera House, or at least of it under my 'reigt of" No.") The fact is th ere are no t suffieje. l3 ' funds - e ruse, an d I am a l rea d y burthened 01) fiv dre d , pounds debt th roug h it. I hav e ; do , , power for the establishment ; I brough t m, ?olanthe gratis, for which Madams Vo: trukt. -- three hundred guineas, if I would have it brotiga: .at ber theatre. I had another opera Mr. Madill ready cast and studied, but I was no able to produc'e it. in consequence of the secession of Mr. H. Phillips.—(Cries of " Shame !") lam exceedingly sorry that I ever was such a fool as to become a Wang . ger to an English theatre—in that capacity I will never appear again before you, but in future only as a conic' poser." Mr. Balfe's address, the substance of which we have given above, was frequently interrupted by expression s of regret, cr i es o f " Shame," & c . & c ., an d at its con• elusion he wa s greete d w i t h l ou d and cont i n uous ap plause, which last e d f or severa l m i nutes a fter be 10. 4 retired. Such a t erm i na ti on t o t h e specu lation deeply to be deplor e d, no t on ly f rom t h e pecun iary los' sustained by Mr. Balfe, but from the serious injury which will accrue t o th e p ro f ess i on . The menlber, thereof will have reaso n t o regre t th e i r not h av ing i supported the manager of the English Opera House' A DELICATE APPETITE.—The Lady Beitr! s ' says the legend, was a great gourmette in her wilf: She was, as people often profess themselves to 7 1 " fond of c hild ren ." Sh e lik e d them newly born, 4111, dressed simply — on th e gr idi ron.; and she had a cfv whose broiled bab es were c h e f d' oeuvres of the then inl4- art of cookery. But new-born infants are, fortunatey not so plentiful as new-laid eggs ; and the lady of mont's daily dinner acted as a strong c h ee k on P ° ; pulation." Upon one occasion when there was no t child to be h a d f or l ove or money , i t so happened 7.,5„ the cook's wife became the m o th er o f a f i ne bey. It o nly wanted half an hour to dinner. His credit, his place, perhaps, his character was at stake ! Andthe strug(" e " his bosom, between the father and the cook, wa: mendous. He looked dangerously at the child, as 0 3"„ ein f s its limbs pro&ssionally, he stood feeling the edge of long knife with his thumb, and casting a side gla ll , - : from time to time, at the gridiron. But at length .0, - tvra triumphed over art, and the cook yielded to the ther. Dashing his white cap from 'his brow, he rasll to into the presence of his hungry mistress, and spoke her so eloqu en tly o f th e impropr i ety of indulging, 0 she did, in the pleasures of the table, that she not 01' with noble self-deni a l, renounce d f or the future the rs vourite lu xur y t o w hi c h s h e was so partial, but deter mined to expiate her past dinners by walking barefoot or thorns from Talmont to Fontenelle.—Trollope's Siam° in Western France. • GOLD WATCHES, LONDON.MADB. II A. B. 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