The Sun. — London, England, 1841-10-19 00:00:00

M ORNIN G SUN THE ALLEGED MURDER OF A SEAMAN AT SHEERNESS. On Friday Mr. Hind, one of the Coronersfor the East ern Division of Kent, and a Jury assembled at the Foun tain Hotel to investigate the circumstances of the death of James Maxwell, aged 56 years, seaman of her Ma jesty's ship Wellington. Ward, a warrant-officer, of the Wellington, who has been in cus t o dy s i nce th e death of Maxwell on board of the Ocean, was brought in under an escort of a party of the Royal Marines. He appeared to be between 30 and 40 years of age, and was much agitated. — James Sheppard, a seaman, and belonging to the Wel lington, stated that the boat, in which Ward and Max well were, got ashore and stuck fast on the sands. Wit ness jumped ashore and endeavoured to get the boat off, and Ward got out and tried also. Deceased came for ward, apparently to assist, when Ward began to abuse him for getting the boat ashore. The deceased made some observations which witness could not recollect. Ward then struck him several times in the face with his fist. Soon afterwards he missed deceased, but whether he fell overboard or was knocked over he could not state. He saw no weapon used. There might have been one, but the night was so very dark he could not see well. Coroner—Are you aware if there was any ill-feeling existing between the prisoner Ward and the deceased Maxwell before the occurrence ? Witness—l never knew of any ; they always appeared on the most friendly terms. _ _ Nathaniel Kingdon underwent a lengthened cross-exa mination by the Jury, from whieh it appeared he knew little of the affair, being intoxicated at the time. He, however, said Ward's treatment towards the deceased was brutal in the extreme. He beat him about the face shockingly, and he thought the blows almost stupified the deceased, so that when he got out of the boat he knew not where he went to. James Reed, the ship's boy, 14 years of age, stated that he was in the boat with the deceased at the time of the occurrence. Ward and the rest of them were greatly in toxicated. The deceased had been drinking, but he knew what he was about. On the boat getting ashore on the Isle of Grain, nearly opposite the pier at Sheerness, an altercation took place between Ward and the deceased, Ward saying had it not been for deceased's in terference in taking possession of the yoke lines they would not have been rowed aground. Deceased replied it was not his fault. Ward then became enraged, strik ing deceased in the face, and afterwards took a knife out of his pocket. Deceased, on perceiving the knife ap peared frightened, and instantly got over the boat side into the water, apparently to get out of the way of Ward, who was in the uther part of the boat, and imme diately afterwards disappeared. CORONER—When Ward brought the knife out did you see him strike the deceased with it ? • Witness— .No, Sir, I did not. CoatetEn—lf he had done so must you have seen him ? Witness—Yes, Sir, I should. Several witnesses were then examined, who proved the findieg of the body. It was discovered by the crew of a fishing smack on Thursday morning lying on the sand in the Swale near Queenborough. The face was much disfigured. Mr. Keddell, a surgeon, residing at Sheerness, and Mr. C. Inches, surgeon, belonging to her Majesty's ship Ocean, deposed to have examined the body of the deceased. There were injuries, but none to account for the cause of death. They were of opinion that it re sulted from drowning. At half-past six o'clock the Jury, after a lengthened deliberation, returned the following verdict :—" We find that the deceased, James Maxwell, was accidentally drowned, but it is our opinion that it occurred through the ill-treatment of William Ward, carpenter of her Ma jesty's ship Wellington." The prisoner Ward was then conveyed back to the Ocean, when; it is expected he will be confined until tried by a court-martial for drunkenness and disobedi ence of orders. DESTRUCTION OF THE LANCE- FIELD COTTON WORKS. (From the Glasgow Journal.) A period of more than twenty - years has elapsed since we were called upon to record a conflagration in Glasgow more extensive and more destructive than that which occurred last night at the Lancefield cotton, spinning, and weaving works, the prop er ty o f M essrs . Willi am an d Alexander Graham and Ca., of this city. A very large portion of these works, known to be the most extensive of the kind in Scotland, have, by a sudden and awful calamity, been laid in ruins, the valuable machinery which they contained entirely de destroyed, and several hundreds of poor and industrious people thrown out of employment, to add to the sad amount of destitution and misery which are already too widely prevalent in our city and its neighbourhood. The spinning and weaving works of Lancefield are divided into four portions, each a factory in itself, and composed of immense masses of building, five and six stories in height. First in order, there is a large work looking west, fronting Lancefield-street, five stories in height, and about 180 feet in length, occupied, on the ground floor as a mechanics' shop, and above partly as a spinning factory, some portions of the building being used as store-rooms, ware-rooms, a counting-house, &c. Attached to the south end of this erection, and running eastward from it, there is another large building; called the South or Old Mill, also five stories high, and 180 feet in length, the lower flat being used for the weaving of power-loom cloth, and the others for spinning and carding, and carrying on the ordinary opera tions connected with these branches. Still farther to the east there is a spinning and weaving factory of equal dimensions, which stretches onwards to Hyde Park, and known as the Hyde Park Mill. To the north of all these buildings is what is called the New Factory, also running east and west, six stories in height, and forming an immense range of building, occupied entirely by . power-looms. At the eastern eetremity, and lying be tween these great buildings on the north and south, there are some smaller erections of little consequence in this description, the whole inclosing a court of very con siderable extent. The above gives but a faint idea of the magnitude of the works, but the con ception formed of th em ma y p er h aps be strengthened by a knowledge of the fact, that they gave employment to upwards of 1,100 persons within the walls. How it caught fire no one can tell; but the supposition is, that a spark, struck out by the collision of a piece of iron with some part of the machinery, may have fallen among the cotton and set it in flames. From the cotton on the floor it soon seized upon the wooden furniture of the room and the building, and spread with a celerity which defied all attempts to stay its progress. In spite of every exertion, it soon spread through every ramification of the south mill, and the whole of the interior of that large building, with all its machinery, lay a mass of burning ruins, while a large portion of the back and front walls tumbled to the ground. The flames speedily communicated with the front building, and the whole- of the roof and the greater part of its interior were also destroyed. It is impossible to estimate, as yet, aright, the loss which has been sustained by the partial destruction of these works. We believe, however, we are not below the mark when we st7to that it cannot be less than 30,0001.; and we are happy to hear that the loss will be more than covered by the insurance. From 300 to 400 people will, however, be thrown out of employment; and it is here that the greatest misery connected with the catastrophe lies. In the present state of trade there is little or no hope of them obtainiug employment elsewhere; and in the face of winter these poor people have a very discou raging p rospect before them. A great proportion are females, all of them having dependents, more or less, upon their labours; and what is to become of them we confess we are unable to telL RIGHTON, OCT some time past has been very 18.— The weather for night the wind was boisterous, and last damage has taken placehigh. as during the washed ashore. Her spars, deals, &e., have been steamer Comet, bound for Portsmouth, was compelled jesty's to run into Newhaven harbour last week, 'eh. remained several days. The Lord Melville now -:-ere n men g between Dieppe and arriving weather during Brighton, experienced very ae offßrighton, was up last voyage home, and on her beforet , she could get wards of ten hours beating abott en with Irish pro- " into Shoreham harbour. A vessel I visions, belonging to Mr. Bass of this town, named "The Brighton," had a narrow escane yesterday in running into Shoreham, the sea bre akingcompletely over her, in safely. The but fortunately succeeded i n great gettingstlffer consequence poor fishermen have been o f not being able to put to sea, and for the fish week or th from the ten days Brighton has been supplied withe :whole stack London markets. In the town chi mney e-street, fort flyine. about in all directions. On Saturday have been fortunately no . of chimneys was blown down in Geer," no one was passing at the time. Great damage by the floods from the heavy rains. In the western done of Sussex the rivers Adur and Arun have in many ppart overflown their banks, and the fields in the neighbour hood of Arundel, Petworth, Boding, Steyning, &c.,_ are one sheet of water. In the eastern p art the riv er Ouse has overflown its banks in the low parts, covering the meadows with water. The Lord Melville, Capt a i n Cheeseman, for Dieppe, was lying in Shoreham harbour yesterday with her passengers on board, amongst whom were Lady Seymour and family, but up to 12 o'clock last night Captain Cheeseman was unable to nut to sea. KEEN SATIRE.—A facetious Abbe, having a box at the Opera-house in Paris, was turned out of his possession by a Mareschal --, as remarkable for his ungentlemanlike behaviour, as for his cowardice and meanness. The Abbe, for this unjustifiable breach of good manners, brought his action in a court of honour, and solicited permission to be his own advocate, which las granted. He then ple a d e d to the foAowing effect : , v , 'Tis not of Monsieur Souffein, who acted so ncbly in the East Indies, that I complain ; it is not of the Due de Crebillon, who took Minorca, that I complain ; it is notof the Comt e d e G rasse , w h o so b rave ly fought Lord Rodney, that I complain ;—but it is of 31areschal too . a , who t oo k my box at the Op era -h ouse , a nd never e • '' ''Y thing else " This piece of sati re so sens ibly con -1117+:1 t_ii: n Court * that the complainant had a l rea dy in him "" a N l , i erd i i sh et. ment sufficient, that they refused to grant The W est which the _ c ern T i mes says that the total dividend fuurpe n „ i l: n routh Bank will pay will be at least I the creditors thin /rind /—some of the more sanguine of I BUDE Lion that it will reach sixpence. Christ illuminate ( d a d h u ir i .o Church, St. Pancras, was Divine Service on Sunday night with this light laso,uarnaof which we apprised our readers 1 ' on Saturday the advantages of this improved system were manihti the light of two lustres suspended from the ceilin g isre :g more effect than that of the 72 ' Argand-burners same time, Perfei:t ee: °, l llY used ; and producing, at the ' ' air vitiated atioa, by means of flues which carried off the foul com bustion, so prejudicialsuitecoby respiration and cora- t aith in close and crowded apartments. This APPToPriate manner by th e was adverted to in a very the pulpit. Rector, Kr. Dodsivorth, f • rom .... . . . .. • • _„ .. . . . n. ~. ' ~ .. THE 4‘ THIMBLE-RIG." SotutmrroN, SATU:III3TAV. — The sessions for this town commenced yesterday morning, before Mr. Cock burn, Queen's Counsel, the Recorder for the borough. The business was more than usually heavy, there being very many prisoners for trial, and among them were four persons charged with a conspiracy to defraud an indivi dual by means of the " thimble rig." This morning the following persons were placed at the bar :—Benjamin Parrot, of Sheffield, file-grinder; John Purcell, of Dudley, glass -cutter ; Francis Verrier, of Burford, Oxon, cook ; Joseph Kemp, of Stafford, haw ker ; and James Curran, of Southampton, labourer. The prisoners were indicted for conspiring together to cheat and defraud the subjects of the Queen of their money by procuring them to play at an unlawful game called " thimble-rigging," and thereby obtaining divers large sums of money to the amount of 2001. In one count the prisoners were charged with defrauding Thomas Spencer Edwards by the said game. Mr. C. Saunders conducted - the case for the prosecu tion, and Mr. Miller, of the Midland Circuit, came from London specially to def End the prisoners. Mr. SAuxnEus having stated the facts of the case pro ceeded to call his witnesses. Thomas Spencer Edwards—l am a planter of the Island of Antigua, educated at Norwich. I left England at eighteen years of age, in the year 1804. I returned on the 3d of July last. I went to Southampton races both days. On the second day I left my carriage and walked - on the course. I saw several persons standing in a ring round a table. Parrott, Purcell, and Verrier were there. Roem was made for me to get close to the table. On the table were three thimbles and a pea. A man asked persons to play, and I saw several so vereigns lost and won. I was solicited by a by stander to try my luck. After considering a moment I took out my purse, in which were ono sovereign and a SC/. note. I put down aesevereign and turned up a thimble, under which I thought the pea was, but I found I had lost. The parties around saw the 501. note. The prisoners were dressed as gentlemen. Other persons played. Parrott said to me, you had better try your luck again, Sir. I replied I had nothing but a SC/. note, which I did not like to change. Many stakes were laid of IN. 20/., and 3eL, and lost and won. A man be hind the player frequently took up the thimble and ex posed the pea, crying Now is the time to win, the man at the table pretending at the instant to look another way. At length the man at the table laid down 50 sovereigns, and challenged any man to bet the same sum. I put down my Sc!. note, and almost instantly lost it. The man behind had at that moment exposed the pea. I chose that thimble, but the pea had vanished. I turned away, disgusted with myself for - being so foolish, with an inten tion of joining my family on the course. Parrott came to me, and said he was truly sorry for my loss ; that I was very unfortunate, but that I should not have lost if I hail not been so much agitated. He thrust his arm into mine, and walked a short distance with me, and asked me to take a glass of sherry with him, which I declined. The table suddenly appeared immediately before us. having been removed from its former position. Parrott then said, " Let us go and look on, and see if we can't find out the game; two eyes arc better than one." We went to the table, round which were Purcell and Verriers. Several large sums were again lost and won. Parrott touched me once or twice, and asked me under which thimble I thought the pea was ? I told him, and he coincided with me. After that he advised me to try my luck again. I said I had no money. lie said that he had none himself, but that his friend Verrier would lend me some. I replied, I did not like to her row money of strangers. These words were scarcely out of my mouth before a handful of sovereigns was put into my hand, and drawn upon the table. They said there were twenty sovereigns. I lost them. The same loan was repeated, in the same man ner, three times, Parrott each time saying-, " Try your luck again, and you will win back your money." I never asked any loan, but Verrier salt?, " Take this, Sir, and try and win back your money." Verrier then told me I owed him 70/, and asked me for my card. I gave him a card. He then said, it was usual among gentlemen to give some security ; and we walked to the back of the tents, the three accompanying me. Verrier asked a fourth person if he had his book and pencil, which n - ere produced, and I wrote in it a promise payable at two days after date, for 70/. Soon after the fourth man pro duced two blank stamps, and said to Verrier, " You had better let the gentleman give two notes, one for 20/. and the other for 40L, as the stamps will not cost a large sum." I said, I would not give two, but I would give the 70f. on one. Verrier said, very well, and lie would destroy the one in the book. I wrote the note on the table, Parrott saying, this fellow will lend his table to write on. Verrier apparently walked away. The fourth man produced the ink from his pocket. The play commenced again, and one man lost ten sovereigns, upon which he said - he would stake his watch to win back his money ; he put it on the table. Purcell took it up, and said he would lend him ten sovereigns upon it ; it was a silver watch. The man won, and then took up ten sove-- reigns, and Purcell returned the watch to him. They then again exposed the pea, and Purcell said, " NOW's your time, Sir ; I will lend you some money," and lie took out twenty sovereigns from his pocket, and said, "As it was usual to give security, just give me your watch." I drew my watch out, and he took it from me and put it in his fob, sayieg it would be quite saf e . I put the twenty sovereigns on the table, and instantly lost them. I then thought I saw the man sweep the pea off the table, and I said, " There is foul Vey." Parrott said, " No, Sir, I assure you it is quite fair." I had alwa . ) s selected the thimble under which the pea had been exposed. I had another twenty sovereigns of Purcell. He asked me if I knew how much I had had of him, and I said 40/. ; but Parrott said he would assure me it was . 501, and asked me to go on one side and give him a " good" for 501. We retired a short distance, and the same book was produced by Purcell, and I wrote in it a promissory note for 501. Parrot had never left me. We then walked again on the course, Parrot deploring my loss. Purcell and the o th er man followed behind. One of them asked me whether they should call at my residence for payment ? I said no, it might discomfort my family ; but if they would name any place, I would attend and pay them. They named the Nelson, to meet two days afterwards. I lamented parting with my watch so much, that I said I would meet them that evening. Parrot told me that Verrier was a traveller fur an eminent house ; that Purcell was a man of immense fortune, which he had lately acquired by the death of an uncle, and could buy half South ampton ; that he himself was the principal man in a banking house. I wished to get away from them, but they stuck fast to me. Parrott said he would advise me strongly not to mention the circumstance to a single person, as I should only be laughed at. I walked away, and they watched me off the course. I did not keep my appointment that evening. I took advice th e nex t morn ing, and in the evening I went to the Nelson with my solicitor ; and Parrott, Purcell, and Verrier walked in. In a short time a police-officer came in and took them into custody. Purcell had my watch at that time, and Verrier had one note and Purcell another. They were taken from them by the policeman. The memorandum book was taken from Purcell, I think. Cross•examined—l am now living at Ryde. There were several similar tables on the course. I did not bet at any of the races. Before the officer came into the Nelson, my solicitor asked Purcell to give up my watch, but he refused to do so unless his demand was saisfied. There is horse-racing at Antigua, but no gambling is allowed. He-examined—•l had never seen or heard of the game of thimble-rig, and it was curiosity that first led me to the table. Other witnesses were called, who proved that they had seen these parties " waiting upon" Mr. Edwards. Upon being searched the officers found upon Purcell Cl. 75. 7 sd., a gold watch and chain, and a pocket-book. Upon Verrier, two bill-stamps (one of them filled up by Mr. Edwards for 701), and Is. 7d., and a knife ; and upon Parrott 13/. 18s. 8-A-d., and a watch. In the pocket book was this memorandum--" I am indebted to Francis Verrier, Esq., 701. J. S. Edwards."—The prisoners lodged at the Nag's Head tap, in Southampton, and upon searching their rooms a large quantity of clothes and flash notes were found. The prisoners Kemp and Curran were spoken to as having been regular assistants at the tables, either playing themselves or endeavouring to induce others to play. One policeman stated that he was on the course in plain clothes, and observed Parrott with Mr. Edwards. The other prisoners walked behind them, and he heard one of theca say, "Leave Ben alone ; he'll draw him, if any one can." He further stated that a toll of 3d. was demanded on each table by the steward ap pointed at the Court Leet. (The Recorder expressed himself in strong terms at this latter statement.) A list of the clothes found at the Nag's Head, and claimed by the prisoners, was produced, and their wardrobes were such as perhaps not many gentlemen can boast of. Mr. MILLER then addressed the Jury on behalf of the prisoners, contending that this was not a game of chance, but a game of skill, of quickness, of wit, and understand tn ; that the party made a wager that he could tell un derunf which thimble the pea was, and that there was no aimless, except that - Mr. Edwards, having seen that the table, the pea I:2,,estaunder a particular thimble, thought to take fraud, it wasunfair advantage of the party who presided at part T h o e f the zeelorinetß and therefor; if there was any attempt at h eir e asiw.a part of Mr. Edwards, and not on the game the nature a e t u f r chance o f bona fide :summing up, stated to the Jury regarded this offence. Was it a played, or was i t the i ntention means of the priso ners , b y i a f rau d u l ent practice, t o cheat and def rau d the narties with whom they played ? It was net because a practice contrary to law had b een as to be considered as a d ea d l t e o t l t e e r r at a efi h , eo th h a n t y th m e ah l al w had v the bmoral courage to come for fo r ward to crave the ruleridi which might be ca s t upon h i m l e h e e p J o o i r n y g f h o is h hcdup all d u t } the pri soners Guilty, and one of the Jurors then said, that the Juryatcould not abstain pptricosnsihngadthbeeierndLeiperia•etgedrcitilthth e practicesneighbourhood of such eighbourhood and morality v p e u d t a n t far h ed i c s 3cs t c o el- ,: i n ; they hoped that on all future occasions the Magistrates would exercise their authority end to practices which were alike injuriouys t as they were a disgrace to the age in which w o e The RECORDER said, he perfectly coincided with the feeling of the Jury, and they might be assured that the ,]Magistrates were determined to put an end to all such practices in future. The Jury trusted they would do so. The Learned RECORDER then proceeded to pass sen tence upon the prisoners. Their offence was one which appeared to him to derive no circumstance of extenua tion from the fact of such practices having been exten sively tolerated; that fact only called for a more rigo rous application of the penalties of the law, when any one came forward to demand that the law should be put in force. He should not be discharging his duty if he did not take the opportunity of making an example of them for the benefit of others. It happened that poor persons who took only a small amount of property were compelled to atone for their offence, for o!iences .which were white indeed as compared with their conduct. Ito regrettul that it was not in his power to transport them, for if he had had such power, he most unquestion ably would have exercised it. He hoped the punishment he should ::ow inflict would have the effect of keeping such persons at all events from coming within this juris diction, if it did not altogether put an end to such frau dulent practices. There was a distinction in their casea, and therefore the sentence would be that Parrott, Purcell, and Verrier, should be imprisoned for two years, and pay a fine to the Queen of 50/. each, and that Kemp and Cur ran should be imprisoned for one year, and pay a fine of 25/. each, and that they should be further imprisoned till the fines were paid. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Elizabeth Coke, a young woman, apparently about three or four-and-twenty, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hall, charged with stealing'four printed books from a stall under the Piazza in Covent-garden. Frances Walker, a woman who is in the habit of selling play-books under the Piazza, stated that she saw the prisoner loitering about near to a book-stall in Covent garden, and shortly afterwards go up to it, and take something away. The witness followed her, and asked her what she had taken, when the prisoner let fall the books in question, and she was niven into custody. The prisoner, weeping, said that she was driven to the commission of the offence by distress and hunger. She was fully committed for trial. _ _ The worthy .lagistrate (Mr. Hall) was occupied nearly the whole of the morning in bearing charges of drunk enness against women. There could not have been less than 30 or 40 cases. Mary Fan!liner, an interesting young lady of abort 55, and who said that she was not yet married, but that he-r profession was "a spinster," was brought up amongst the rest. The charge (drunk and incapable of taking care of herself) having been gone through, she was asked what she had to say for herself, and she told the worthy Magistrate that which was certainly quite unnecessary, inasmuch as she had a most " illigant brogue," that she came from the Sister Isle. Mr. HALL—But what have you to say to the charge of being drunk ? Prisoner—Och, sure, yer Honor, but hadn't I a bit of a pain in my back, and didn't I take a drap to cure it, faith ! - Alr. HALL—WeII, if you are brought here again, you will surely be punished. Prisoner—Cich, faith, and sure you may say that with parfect good wilcome, yer Honor ; and fail I shouldn't have been here at all, iv it had not beck for the pain in the small iv me back, yer Honor. The innocent young maiden, bowing very politely to the Magistrate, then left the office, amidst the laughter of all present. THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19. is4l. QUEEN-SQUARE. James Bergeman, an elderly man, was charged with stealing three branches of trees. During the hurricane of Sunday night several of the small branches of the trees in Hyde Park were torn off by the violence of the gale. Yesterday morning the pri soner, with others, passing through the Park, picked up three branches, and being met with them by a police man was taken into custody. llenbury, a kind of Deputy-Ranger of the Park, said the boughs were the property of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and the public had no right to them. Mr. GREGORIE said the offence was clearly of a pu nishable nature, whatever the defendant might think to the contrary, and he should fine him 103., or in default commit him for seven days. The defendant said he had no money and must go to prison. He was then removed. CROYDON POLICE. ENCROACII3IENTS BY RAILWAYS ON PUBLIC HIGH WAYS.-ofie of the Superintendents of the London and Brighton Railway attended before Messrs. Sutherland, Warrington, and Adams, the presiding Magistrates, for the purpose of making an application, on behalf of the Directors of that Company, to stop up one of the public footpaths in the parish of Croydon. The Superintendent stated that he was instructed to apply to the Magistrates for their sanction to stop up al together what had heretofore been a public footpath of the parish of Croydon. but which was at prese n t crosse d by the railway. Persons who used the footpath were now obliged to go across the rails, and the Directors feeling that this might lead to some accident, were de sirous that the footpath, which was of very little con venience to the public, should be altogether stopped. Mr. ADAMS expressed his opinion that the application was of rather an extraordinary character. lie did not know what right the Railway Company had to lay their roils across an acknowledged public footpath, and when they found the inconvenience of the proceeding, that they were to apply to the Magistrates to shut out the public from the use of the footpath altogether. If they had acted legally, and in accordance with their own Act of Parliament, they should have built an arch over the footpath, and carried their railway across it. The Superintendent said that there were two arch ways within a very short distance of the footpath in ques tion, under which the public might pass without having occasion to go over the railway. The only object of the Directors was to prevent accidents. Mr. ADAMS said, that if they wished to avoid acci dents, they should have done in the first instance what their own Act of Parliament directed, which was, to make an archway for the free passage of the public, under their railway. He did not see what right any set of speculators for their own interest, for in such a light railroad proprietors must be looked upon, had to carry on their line, just where they pleased, without caring at all for the rights of the public, and when they found that accidents were likely to ensue, that they were to exclude the public from their rights. The Superintendent said there were archways at a very short distance, under which the public might pass. Mr. WARRINGTON said he did not consider that this at ail altered the question. Why were railway proprietors to act in this arbitrary manner ? The fact was, how ever, that they presumed upon their power and their wealth, and did really just what they pleased, because they well knew that no individual could attempt to go to law with a powerful body. In this case the Com pany had thought proper, without any notice, to carry their railway across a public footpath, and having done this, when the public found the inconvenience, they now sought to shut them out from the use of it altogether. The other Magistrates concurred in the view taken of the matter by Mr. Warrington, and the application was unanimously refused. THE WEATHER AND CHOPS. The continued and heavy rains of last week flooded some of the waters in this district to an extent greater than has been experienced for several 3ears, and the damage done to the property on the banks has in some cases been very serious. The greatest damage seems to have been done by the Till, which rose to a very great hsight, and oterflowed nearly all the low lands in the neighbourhood of Wooler, and in the lower part of its course. On one farm alone nearly 300 acres of arable land were lying under water, of an average depth of two feet. A considerable quantity of the corn standing in stooks was carried away, and the turnips suffered still more severely. Wooler, Ewart, and Ooddington Laughs were one complete sheet of water. The Glen was very large, be;ng fed by the Col lege and the Beaumont, which came down from the hills very much swollen. The damage that the Glen has done in its course, to dykes, caulds, bridges, and corn in stooks, between Newton and its junction with the Till, is ♦ery serious. Wooler W4ter was also very large, and must have done much injury to turnip fields in its course, for the turnips floated down in greet numbers. All these waters running into the Till, caused it far to overflow its banks, and the corn and other articles seen hurried down by the torrent gave ample evidence of the ravages that had been com mitted. On Thursday, the communica'iln with Wooler was cut off, the bridge over the Till to the north of that place, and the linds in its neighbourhood, being submerged to such a depth as to render passage impossible. The Eye also came down very large on the same day, and caused considerable damage through out its course.—Berwick Advertiser. A let tor from the neighbourhood of Wooler says : We have had a most tremendous deluge ! Embank mews demolished, and corn and turnips carried down t the sea. Such was the overflow of the waters that the communication with the North was for some time cut off; and some idea may be formed of the general state of the country when I mention that on my farm there were nearly 300 acres of arable land under water, two fret deep on an average. No lives, so far as I have heard, have been lost. —Edinburgh Evening Courant. Unfavourable as were the earlier and middle parts of the harvest, they are far surpassed in disaster as it ap proaches towards a termination. Rain, rain, nothing but rain, every day ; and no ordinary rain either, for it falls in even-down torrents. The land is com completely soaked, the strennlets have swollen into rivers, and the rivers are everywhere in high flood. But the worst of all is, that in the high and late districts, a large portion of the crop is still in the fields ; the great bulk of this consists of oats, and a part of beans and peas. The former is already greatly da maged, and with a week more of the present weather will be almost entirely lost ; the pods of the latter bare begun to open, and a great loss must be sustained even if the wea'he , . should immediately settle.—Scotsman. The past four or five days have been marked by squally, cheerless weather, the rain, with little ces sation, coming down in torrents—to the utter destruc tion, we regret to learn, of extensive breadths of the sill unhoused and unstacked corn crops, aid the conse quent ruin and destitution of hundr,ds of the small tied struggling farmers with whom the Western and Northern (3istricts of this and the surrounding counties abound. The late potatee crops, in the flats, are re ported as, in many cases, sour and unsuited for human U3C. A dismal look-nut this for the dependent poor of the community, and they, it is too true, form a large portion of it.—Cork Softhern Reporter. RESULTS OF THE HAIIVEST.—Ar.Tording to the accounts that reach us from all quarters, the late crops have been greatly injured—in many instances nearly destroyed —by the continued severity of the weather and the great quantity of rain that has constantly saturated the earth and put a stop to all harvest operations. A a considerable br ea dth o f gra in, especially oats, is still out upon hill y an d b ac k war d so il s. Th e d amage t h us suffered must, o f courte , h ave reneered the harvest much in go._nii more deficient r nt than had i Post.been calculated upon a month _ • TIIE WEATHEII.—NooN, OCTOBER 18. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer 29.90 Thermometer.. 52.1 Highest 52 I Lowest Wiad N.--Freezing Point O 2 Deg. I CURIOUS CHARGE of IMPOSTURE. (Abridged from. the Cheltenham chronicle.) At the public office. Cheltenham, on SaturJay, the 9th instant, Mr. Wiliams said he had a else of great importance. to bring before the ncf,ce of the Magi.t rates. There was a man in this town, under the name of Rem brand, who called himself a chiropodist, and professed to kill corns. He extracted from those corns what he called roots, and charged 55. for each of those roots. It appeared, in point of fact, that instead of extracting any thing like a " root," he put a pair of pincers to the corn, and apparently took out something, but, instead of taking out something, he took out nothing, and showed to the person upon whom the operation was performed something like a fibre, which, he pretended, was the root of the corn, but which was in reality nothing but a piece of bristle. A gentleman who was present had ac tually paid him 8/. 155., at the rate of ss. per brisee. A lady, who had a -similsr operation performed upon he, had a number of these bristles in her possession, and a gentleman in Court had ant ttler. Mr. Williams then proceeded to call the attention of Vac Magistratei to the following clause in the Vagrant Act, which he thought would reach a vagabond of this description ; " Every person pretending to or professing to tell for tunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose upon any of her Maj .sty's subjects." Ile (Mr. Wiiliams) would suggest that ore of the gentlemen who had been im posed upon should go with a policeman and bring Mr. Rembrand before the Bench. Mr. Henney said he was decidedly of opinion that be ought to be brought up. A policeman was sent, and returned in a few minutes with a foreigner, dressed in the pink of fashioo, who gave his name as Lee Rernbrand. He was followed shot tly after by another gaily-dressed young man, whose face was adorned with a pair of bushy whiskers and fine black moustachios. He said his name was Nieman. Mr. Rembrand—l vant to know vy I come here ? Mr. Wdliams— You are brought here for imposing on these gentlemen. Mr.. lierribrand—Who is the gentleman who vill stern' the conseconce for taking avay my ciaractere, by sending policemen to my residongs? The Rev. Charles Parker, of Sarsden, Oxfordshire. stated—l came to Cheltenham on Monday last. Being very much pained with corns I called at Mr. Beavan's, chemist, High-street, to ask him if he could recommend me to any chiropodist. He showed me an advertise ment in one of the papers, which directed me to 138, Hieh-street. Tire terms of the advertisement v.:ere— fee, 55. rer corn. I went accordingly, and called upon Mr. Rembrand, who was engaged at the time. I saw the taller one (Nieman) and went into his room and took cif my boots. He cated a young man (Rem brand), who came in to operate on my foot. He began to touch my toe, and after he had got my foot in his hand he said, "you will fled there is more than one corn in this toe, and my charge is ss. for every corn ; but I shall perform a perfect cure, so that you will not know that you ever had a corn, and your feet will be as complete as though you had never been tormented with one." Rcmbrand then began to operate, and with a pair of pincers Le pinched my ei . ro, and seemed an draw a point from it, vvi.h which he pricked my hand, and said, " There, sir, that is one corn." He put it in my hand, and it op. peered like. a piece of bristle. I took very little notice of it, taking for granted what he said, and blew it off. It is the same sort of thing as that produced by Mr. Clarke. I spoke once or twice while he was operating, and the other person (Nieman) observed that ho (meaning Rcmbrand) did not speak English ; for though he had been in England soma time he had mede no use of his time, and had not learrie.! , the lan guage. He went on, appearing to take out several of these thingr, and showed each of them to me. lii called each a corn. I forget the number he pulled out of the first corr. He then took a great many from a soft corn, between the toes. I think he appeared to take twelve from that. When he bad finished the ope ration Nieman said he thought he must look at them to see how it was done. lie said, "This is thoroughly done; new, Sir, you will never be troubled again." When it was finished he said, " The charge is Si. 155., being after the rate of ss. for each of these roots." There were 35 of these extracted from the three corns. I said " I have net so much as 81. with me, but I will give you 5/. new, and if I find myself perfectly cured I will gve you .5/. more." He took the note, and desired me to write my name upon it. There was some conversation be tween them, and an apparent reluctance to receive the 51., but they subsequently took the money. After this they preserved me with a book, in which there were a number of statements of cures performed by them, and in which they wanted lee to write my name. I said I could not do so, as I did not know that I was yet cured. They put a little plaster upon each of them, which they said :could smooth the skin, but on gaming out I found exactly the same pa'n as I felt before. I then went to the Montpaer Baths, and mentioned the circumstance to the man who attends the baths, and who is a corn cutter. He looked at my corns, and said that they had not been cut at all, aid, to con vince me, pinched up a piece of the corn. He said they were impostors, and had taken in a lady Vie day beforesin a similar manner. Mr. Richard William Clarke, chemist, Cheltenham— I neat to Mr. Rembrand this morning, at the desire of Mr. Parker, to have some corns extracted. He had a sort of sharp instrument like a penknife, with which he cut some small particles on the surface of the corn. After he had cut it, he put some liquid on the corn. He then took a pair of tweezers, and appeared to be squeezing very hard, as if using great force, but I felt nothing on my foot more than the pressure of his hand. After using this force he took the tweezers from the corn. The tweezers had something between them with which he pricked my hand. He then told me " I wish you to understand that this is a corn." I told him I had no intention of paying him for every such corn. He then endeavoured to persuade me to have more taken out. He then went through the same pro cess, and I observed that there was nothing on the corn. He showed me another larger. I asked him for i#, and he then pulled it out of the pincers. It is the same as I uow produce. He wanted four pounds for the cure of both feet. I agreed to gave him one pound for the cure of one foot. After this one pound was agreed upon no more fibres were produced. He merely scraped and cut the corns. I produce the corn so called, which I took from the tweezers. It appears to me to be a bristle. It seemed to me very improbable that it was ever in my flesh. He said he would show me the orifice where it came out of. After the operation was over I asked him to show me the orifice, upon which he said, " I have cut it out."—(Laughter.) I paid him the 1/. Mr. Clarke cross-examined—When I went to these eltlenlen I was not fully convinced that they we.e imposters. If I found out that they were impostors I certainly went there for the purpose of bringing the case before the Magistrates. When I took the piece out of the pincers I imagined that it was not taken out of my corn. I agreed with him to cure my corns, and they called the small thing that I produce a corn. The Magistrates committed thorn to Nortblcach for 14 days. MENTAL DERANGEMENT FROM INTOXICATION. The drunkard injures and enfeebles his own nervous system, and entails mental disease upon his family. His daughters are nervous and hysterical ; his sons are weak, wayward, eccentric, and sink insane under the pressure of excitement, of some unforeseen exigency, or of the ordinary calls of duty. This heritage may be the result of a ruined and diseased constitution, but is much more likely to pro,:eed horn that long-continued nervous cz c.lement, in which pleasure was sought in the alternate exaltation of sentiment and oblivion, which exhausted and wore out the mental powers, and ultimately pro. duced imlecility and paralysis, both attributable to dis. ease of the substance of the brain. How far the mono. mania of inebriety is itself a disease, nod may be more Vie development, the consummation, than the corn rnenetnent 'of a hereditary tendency to derangement, this is' not the place to point out ; but there i. every reason to believe that it not only acts upon, and renders thetn deleterious. : . whatever latent t lint may exist, but vitiates or impairs the sources of health for several gene rations. That the effects of drunkenness are highly iaimie.al to a permanent Beal. by state of the brain, is often proved at a great distance of time from the course of intemperance, and long after the adoption of regular habits. Some time since, I was called upon to treat a remarkably fine boy about sixtem years old, among whosn relations no case of deraogenaent could be pointed nut v and for whose sudden malady no cause could be as signed except puberty and a single glass of spirits. His father, however, had been a confirmed drunkard, was subjett to the delirium and depression following inebriety, and died of delirium tremerie. The bey recovered. His case presented many points of interest. His head increased rapidly, and the two hemispheres ware of unequal size. The disease W , :,s intermittent ; the f ieat passing a week iii furious incoherent madness, and the succeeding week in perfect tran . quiltity and consciousness. These states were und s sl e e p e a p ra o t r elletohargry, connected by a short and pro i differing altogether from the p:tient's ordinary sleep, and recognised by him as the Culminating point of his disorder. At present I have two patients who appear to inherit a tendency to un he l!hy action of the brain from mothers addicted to chinking; and ano th e r, an idiot, Whose father was a druukard.—Dr. Brown on Insallity. o s f een ß e eg o e f n dcs s : park with hooting and On a dSjauctelndtaytlftinoi)oitolratmhea was s in t i i ti e graceful riot and tumult, in consequence of a field preacher hayi ng i n d u lged in the expression of senti ments a l:, t a e t r ta e a k t u fi p r o s a t' hcontented a t I few e m ~ not conoillial to the feelings.of his auditory. The ' r e e i t l a .e i s ners of his who hissing the speaker, but as he persevered in his line of argument his hearers lost all patience and commenced sur rounded his rostium. The preacher in turn healed his supporters, and stick in hand turned upon his assailants, A general skirmish ensued, in the course of which many heavy blows were exchanged. The fight assumed a serious appearance, when the police eauie in view and dr: two belligerent parties fled. • • STEAM ENGINES IN FRANCE. (From thtz Monileur In If intelligence be, as it is asserted, the distinguish iag characteristic of our population, we must confess that good sense is a quality tor which we are less re markable. By the term "good sense," we mean a just appreciation of that which is gsod and uajul ; which stops not at the present, but seeks to penetrate into the future ; it is, in our opinion, the quality most desirable for a nation to possess, for it is the source of ninny- others, and the surest guarantee of prosperity and strength. Good sense is a slfeguard against the influence of prejudice, which has done, and still con tinues to do, so much mischief in France. _ _ It has been the work of many years, and of great efforts on the part of our most distinguished manu!a2- turers, to make the French people believe that it is to construct steam engines in the French manufactoriet. Ttie government and public administrations, who in general e;cape, with difficulty from being affected by the common prejudices, have hitherto ordered from England the engines which they required for their steam vessels ; and up to a very recent period our lar,;e establishments, slthough prepared to contend with the foreigner, solicited in vain a share in their construction. Our readers will recollect with whit energy and con stancy we have sustained this national cause. At length we have reason to believe we ha►e gained our point. In ordering engines from England we are obliged to submit to onerous condition•, and to delays without end. The English manufacturers, profiting by, or rather Awing, the infatuation which exists amongst us on this subject, but which, it must be confessed, has sonic grounds in the superiority of their work, impose their own laws upon the purchasers ; so much so, that the orders which are addressed to them partake more of the character of requests. The orders given to our own manufacturers, and given as an act of grace, have been, on the contrary, surrounded with the most rigorous conditions. The fillowing are our remarks on this subject on the 2 , 1 of Feb., 1840 : " Toe English manufacturer on the day on whieh the order is given, receives a third of the price agreed on. The French manufacturer receives nothing and has t give security. The signature of the former to the con tract is dewed sufficieet, whilst the latter, if he wishes to be accepted, must be provided with the signature or security of a respectable banking-house." It is but just to acknowledge that matters are al tered. Notwithstanding the many grounds which they hid for discouragement and disgust, our principal manu facturers, having a knowledge of their powers and con fidence in the future, have at length succeeded in van quishing these absurd prejudices, as far, at least, as be ing admitted to the honour of a joint execution of the work with the English contractors. Our readers may have seen in our Journal of the 26th of last month the announcement of the receipt of the engines furnished by Messrs. Schneider, Brothers, of Creuxot, for the steam-boat Piuton. A Commis sion, composed of Navy officers and engineers, and named by the Vice-Admiral, Maritime Prefect of Brest, devoted thrce sittings to the examination and proof of these engines, and came to the following conclusions : " Ist. That all the conditions of the agreement. had been faithfully fulfilled, and that all the forge-work and castings had been executed with remarkable care. " 2d. That the power of the engine was superior to that of the English engine in the Veloce, the model prescribed. " 31 That in testing its full power outside the road stead of Brest, the resu:ts of the experiment had been most satisfactory, the engines having constantly worked with the greatest reguiaritj - , and with an ease of move ment which proved the perfect adjustreeet of its diffe reet parts." It has been pretended for a long time, with that want of reflection and obstinacy of prejudice which show the absence of good sense, that we should never attain this perfection of adjustment which distinguishes the works of the hest English minufacturcrs. Here is a recent and wcll•authenticeted answer. We could c;te several others, less important it is tree. But what a difference :7;13 there then in the tools of our estehlishments I Our principal engine manufacturers are now provide] ts.th all the tools which arc used in the most important of the EogUsit workshops. But in addition to this, they have improved upon them and invented other instru ments. Tce foremen and workmen of our manufac tories me on the road to improvement. The courageous sacrifices of the master manufacturcra theniselves,io the midst of so many difficulties and obst ides, have at length naturalized in France this powerful and magnifi cent branch of industry, so little appreciated, so mis takingly judged of during the first years of its introduc tion. The success already obtained will be the source of new successes ; and s.ve are happy to think that Go vernment will no longer hesitate to afford the manufac ture that protection and encouragement which events may render neces ary. We hope, also, that the spirit of association better enlightened, sod recovered from the injuries caused by a false industry, will bring new energy to the manufacture of large engines for steam boats. If we have not spoken of locomotives it is not that we do net attach to them also a very greet importance. But the proverb is well known, qui peat le Alas peut le mains (who can do more can do less). Tne perfection in the workmanslip of copper and of wrought and cast iron, obtained by our principal establishments, can leave no reasonable doubts respecting the power to construct excellent locomotives. The great line of railroad from Strasbourg to Basle is very well served by French locomotives. The Ang'omania, which we know influences the engineers and English stokers employed on our rail roads, has assured, up to this, a p:eference for English locomotives ; when the least accident is heard of it is immediately conjectured that the fault must lie in a French locomotive, whereas, it is more frequently to be attributed to one of English construction. We ourselves, can hear testimony to this. The prejudices to which we have alluded were con tracted at an early period, and the grounds for them cc ise to exist. Soon, perhaps, we shall hare occasion to judge them more severe!y, and to those who will confidently assert that the French locomotives cannot sustain a comparison with the English, it must be per•• 'rated to us to say that this opinion is neither just nor national. POLICE CORRECTIONNELLE DE VALOGNES. (From L'Audienee, Paris Journal.) Esther Lelandais, Paul Leboulanger (her husband), residing at Bricquenec, and Anne Flambard, of Barne villa, were all placed on the bane des prevenus, on a charge of practising sorcery. Esther Lelandais is.a woman of great knowledge and science ; she consults the cards, and she is acquainted both with the future and the past. To those who con sult her she predicts, first a few reverses of fort une, which are generally to ba followed by great happiness and good fortune. But her power does not stop here. Does a poor mother fear that the chances of the drawing of the recruitement will go against her son, she goes to Esther Lelandais, who will secure to him a "lucky number." Has another an absent child, whore return she is anxiously awaiting, Esther Lelandais will give her consolation. A young maiden has been deceived, and is a mother; she is poor, and consults Esther Lelandais, who puts her en train to bring the faithless lover to book. An old maid wants a husband, Esther Lelandais finds her one ; or has another been seluced, Esther Lelandais will bring the delinquent to book, and make hint marry the mother of his child. Has this girl quarrelled with her lover, or that desponding one been vanquished by a rival, Esther Lelandais will restore the lovers to etch other's arms in the one case, and make the rival an object of hatred in the °Vier. Elms a woman complain of a bad husband—Esther Lelandais will change the man's character, and render him the most attentive of devoted husbands; and should there be a hidden treasure in an old house, this " cunning woman" will convert it itt a a " treasure trove." In short there is 'lathing tao difficult for the clever ness of E&titer Lelindais I But all her power depends upon this Pimple fact—that her patients give her their looney or their valuables. The public prosecutor had, however, looked with jealous . eyes upon her talents, which he was illiberal enough to regard as a system of ' . eseroquerie," and she and her husband had accordingly been apprehended. The other prisoner, Ann Flambard, was not accused of being an accomplice, but had been detected in sending a fee of five francs to the renowned Esther Lelandais. No less than thirty-four witnesses were forthcoming on finding that the " witch" was trapped. Some had, it appeared, become undeceived since they had paid for their experience ; but the faith of others was un shaken. An unhappy mother whose son, in spite of the sage's prescience, had found himself a sailor on board the ship Friedland, drew btick with horror from the bench on which sat the redoubtable prisoner, and seemed to fear that she might be bewitched by the very contact. On the ether hand, a young man spoke up for the old beldame, and said that he had through her interposition drawn a lucky nnmber and escaped the conscriptier. A woman, whose son had been drawn in 1839, de posed, " I had heard of the boasted powers of Esther Lilindais, and went to Bricquenec to consult her. Havizz dealt the cards, she drew the nino of spade; and said,' Your son will be drawn ; however, if you will give me five francs 80 centimes, I will get you out of the difficulty.' I gave her the sum she required, and she then addressed these word:: to her husband. ' Put your shoes ou, Paul, and go cff to Velognes with this letter to my Monsieur d'Affaires.' On the next day I went t•a her, when she told me her Monsieur d'Affaires re qui:ed two francs more. I complied with the demand, and she then produced a paper, upon which was a number, and told me to kneel down and say five paters and five ayes for the souls in purgatory, adding that she would be by that means enabled to change the number. Other narrat:ves of a similar character were made to the Court, who seamed Esther Lelandais to five years, imprisonment for her sorcillages, and her hush Ind to three months' imprisonint.nt for participating in her fraululent praetics. SYNOD OF GLASGOW AND AYR. The half-yearly meeting of the Syno,i of Glasgow and Ayr was held in the Tron Church on Tuesday la,t. Mr. - Stewart of Erskine brought forward a memo rial, to the effect that, whereas the state of farm ser vants, male and female, as to education, religious habits, and morality, is very deplorable, and is fast deterio rating in country parishes—and whereas, from the migratory habits of this class, the institution of re medies likely to cure the evil does not lie with Kirk Sessions and Presbyteries, whose jurisdiction is limited to small localities, but with the Synod, whose jurisdic tion extends over a whole province—this Synod should adopt such measures as they, in their wisdom, shall see fit, to remedy the evils, and recommend the subject to other Synods. Mr. Stewart supported the overture, and moved that it be adopted. Mr. M . Farlan, of Renfrew, seconded the motion, which was agreed to ; and, after some discussion, it was also agreed, that a Committee be appointed to in qtyre into the nature and extent of the evils referred to, and the best remedy which can be provided therefor, and to report to next meeting of Synod. Mr. Fleming brought forward an overture, to the effect that, while it is gratifying to observe the progress of Church extension, and in providing for the means of promoting a knowledge of the truths of the Gospel, there is re ison to fear that personal and family relig'on is not making progress with the means of grace—the Synod should inquire how far this was attended to throu g hout their bounds, and appoint a sermon to be preached on the subject on any Sabbath convenient in the month of Noveinher nest. After the Rev. Gentleman had stated his reasons for bringing forward the overture, a lengthened discussion ensued as to whether the overture was not too indefi nite, personal and family religion being the subjects of ministrations at all times. In the course of the dis cussion, Mr. Brewster inquired whether the overture referred to family worship, to the mere form and pro fession of Christianity, without its power and spirit.— (Interruption.) He heard some " chickiog" in the body of the meeting. So far as his observations went, he found that the Pharisees of our Lord's Day had their counterpart in our own day.—(Cries of " 0), oh.") He proceeded to inquire whether by personal religion they implied that they were to use their utmost endeavours to procure bread to every human creature, and to obtain a repeal of unrighteous lam!. The speaker was here interrupted by numerous calls 'of " question." Alter a good deal of confusion, the Chairman interpose.' his authority, and order was restored. It was agreed that the Synod should recom mend to ministers to be especially diligent and faithful in promoting not only personal, but also family religion and worship, and iu enjoining on heads of families the important duty of taking all care that their servants and children shall be duly instructed in the Shorter Cate chism, and other etaldards of the Church. On Wednesday the Synod met at eleven o'clock, when a report was presented by Mr. M‘Farian of Ren frew, Convener of the Committee on Sabbath Desecra tion, against the running of the mail by railway on Sabbath, or the use of railway trains on the Lord's Day for any purpose whatever. After some discussion, it was ultimately agreed to petition Parliament and memorialise the Postmaster-General on the subject. Mr. Stow then introduced a memorial in favour of the Glasgow Normal School. He supported the claims of that institution upon the Synad at considerable length, and it was ultimately agreed to recommend that collections be made within its bounds for the benefit of the schocl. Mr. Brewster entered his dissent against the pro. posed recommendation, on account of the distress which at present prevails in Paisley. He thought the mem bers of that Court should appropriate any funds at their disposal to the relief of the starving operatives of the country, before they implied them to any other pur pcsl whatever. Ile papers were read in the cage of Mr. Brewster, as to preaching in the Chartist church on a Sabbath in May last, and Mr. Brewster was heard on a preli minary objection, and was answered by a member of the Paisley Presbytery. 03 the motion of the Rev. Dr. Buchanan the whole case was remitted to the Presbytery of Paid, y. The Synod adjourned till seven o'clock evening, when they took up another case from Paisley, in re ference to a quarrel between Mr. Brewster and one of the Superintendents of the Poor within his parish. Parties were heard, Mr. Brewster speakini: upwards of three hours on the point. After which the decision of the Presbytery of Paisley in the case was isfErmitl. The Court then adjourned till the next half-yearly meeting, in April. CORN-LAWS AND THE CHARTER. (From the Manchester Times of Saturday.) A meeting of the Young Men's Anti-Monopoly As , sedation took place at the Corn Exchange, Hanging Ditch, last night, when Colonel Thompson was to be present to address them, and the public were invited to attend. 13y half-past seven o'clock, the time announced for the proceedings to commence, there could not be less than 2,000 persons present, aid the Colonel, on his entrance, was greeted with loud cheers. Mr. Hol lend, surgeon, wag called to the chair. Colonel Thompson was received with loud cheers, and listened to throughout, with a few interruptions only from the Chartists, who on this occasion had aesetnbled again to play their old game of interruption. Speaking of the agitation for the Charter, and that for the re peal of the Corn-laws, Le said much difference of opinion existed as to which ought to be sought for first. He said, boldly, that he wanted to obtain the Charter, and therefore he came here to advocate the repeal of the Corn-laws. He quarrelled with no man for holding a different opinion on that subject, but he said the way to carry an important fortress was to advance upon the weak point first,and not upon the strong one. He knew there were those who said, "carry the Charter, and then we should be able to carry every thing else." Now hear his feelings on the subject. He had already said that the policy of a skilful general was not to attack the strongest point of the enemy's fortification, but the weakest. Now he had some doubt for that reason whether they ought to seek the Charter first. The story that if they got the Charter first they should be able to secure the repeal of the Corn-laws afterwards, reminded h m of a story he used often to bear when a youth—about the way to catch birds. The way wes by getting near enough to put a little salt on their tails —(Laughter.) Nlw he stood not there to deny that fact, but simply to ask how they were to place the salt on the birds' tails?—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He proceeded to argue that the Corn-laws were the weakest point of attack, by a comparison of the strength of the two patties (the Chartist and anti-Corn law) in the House of Commons ; and observed that while the Chartists had only about 39 supporters in the House of Commons, the repeelers mustered 200, or more than five times as many. At the conclusion of his speech Mr. Birch, a mem ber of the Association, addressed the meeting in an able speech, and moved—" That this meeting views wish disgust the conduct of Sir Robert Peel aid his associate monopolists, in advising her Majesty to pro rogue Parliament, without considering the destitute condition of the labouring classes; but that fully con vinced of the necessity for the total, immediate, and unconditional repeal of the corn and provision mono polies, we pledge ourselves never to cease our efforts till we have attained that object, and the obnoxious laws are swept from the statute book. Mr. CULVERWELL seconded the resolution, and read some statistics taken at Coventr3, showing the eff tag of high price of food in increasing reortelity—the in crease being at the rate of from 77 in 10,000 in the years of plenty (1833-4-5) to 121 in 10,000 in the years which had succeded 1836. At the conclusion of this address, when the Chair man was about to put the motion, the Chartist, Chris topher Do3le, accompanied by Leech (the 'two men who disturbed the meetings at the Town Hall), ad vanced to the platform, and Doyle insisted upon stating his sentiments, and proposing an amendment. The CHAIRMAN assented to his proposition, and ex pressed his willingness to allow full scope to free dis cussion. A great part of the meeting, however, expressed their disapprobation, and Doyle stood a considerable time amidst a storm of invectives, vainly striving to get a hearing. VINCENT, of Bath, and LEECH, both came forward in turn to request the meeting to listen ; hut the answer was, they would hear them or anybody but Doyle! Doyle, however, persevered, and at length succeeded in uttering a few sentences and read ing his amendment, which was in favour of the Charter. LEECH seconded the amendment, and asked if the middle class and working class interests were the same, as had been stated, why did not the former come forward and give the working classes a just particication in the fruits of their labour? If there were so many more Members in the Commons for repeal than for the Charter his remedy 1 I:as to sweep the House away altogether.—(A. voice— H ow would you do it ?" and laughter.) He admitted that was a hard question, and the way to do it and the applica tion of the means must be put in force at the same time. He then proceeded to argue that the cause of the pee ple's distress was machinery, and denied *at Colonel Thompson's advice to operate upon the Legis. leture by agitation at the elections would have a bene.- ficial result. Mr. FINNIGAN came forward to answer him amidst great cheering, and said that he thought, when an amendment was put to a meeting, it h h a ve been based upon something like argument s upporti n heard of it, e t b h u i n t g ho had heardnone. They o machineryhad and the stringent rules of the factories, where a man, when he should be at work, was not allowed to read ; but admitting it to be true—was that a reason why the aristocracy, for their own benefit, should tax the food of the hungry and starving operative ?—( Loud cheers.) But Mr. Leech bad said the House of Commons, with 200. =ohm for it, would not give Repeal; thou from MORNING SUN :0' what rule of common sen3n did he draw the it fae'c tilat with only 39 advocates in the House the Y we more I,k(ly to get a Charter ?—( Loud clietrs.,l Com• said the people were in misery, but he denied the Conn laws were the cause of it. Did he bring anyt like facts to prov e that they were not ? He adali "74 the Corn-law was a great evil, and a bad l aw ; ha,a he said a word to shew that a repeal of it w 0 place the people in a worse position ?--(Loud chew 's.) If, as Leech had said, the factory system was th e cat tsis of all the evil, how was it that the agricultural labotsl ers of Ireland, where there was no factory syste:* were so badly off, even worse than our operativos r (Great applause.) After speeches from Mr. Acland, Mr. Yincemto ana some others, The amendment was put and negatived, the CI- 011 " MAN declaring the original motion carded by a I Ir g e majority, to tLe no small chagrin of the intruders. t. The meeting separated a little before twelve o'cic'c 101 N" TREATMENT OF AN ABOLIT IST ON THE WHO. (From a Correspondent of the New York _Herald-) It having been my lot to witness, during 11 1 Y P, af ' a ass3g et e down the Ohio river from Pittsburg to this Put incident of some interest, I beg leave to conellAwes the same for the amusement of your readers. boar fel In company with three others I embarked on at 0 1 two.oared skiff on the sth instant, this, on stec the extremely low state of the river, being tt e . a practicable means of getting down the Ohio to (31,einci nati. And here let me remark, for the bene fit ' of persons coming West, avoid the Pittsburg r" lt t: l o 3 i less you are willing to be caught in a traP as e 'w..."bid access and difficult of escape as an eel-pot. W e Pr at ed- , our way down the river, sometimes sticking one a to bar, and again whirling through a " shoot ; " t ee our middles in water hauling her off, then with tre sling hands clinging to the sides of our frail bark, tbe erg Lo pee-Ling every moment to be served up for a meal thlies of the Ohio. The first day we made eightita 1 l stopping for the night in Olin townsbiP, Pe aus Y' v e - I where we were finauciered by the lancilord, and aease` by his Dutchman. Next day fetched Industry'. thirti• five miles from the town of Pittsburg , tb :i • roughly tired, and heartily sick of skiffieg ir. ; ItAWP tf at a miserable tavern, and regaled ourstlves veith rr. bacon aid musty bread. Third day came to SW e ti vine, 75 miles from Pittsburg ; found a good ho as c h a r attentive ltndlord. It needed no one to inform . 10 /4 . ter we had got cut of Pennsylvania and into Ohio- ' J P we encountered an individual for whose especial parents this letter is written. He was sitting in as we entered, and was quite ready to make n u r age quaintance. After a little he signified a desire t. 706, company us on oar voyage ; we consented, and it • the arranged that he should take passage with us t ei) .; is ed morrow. Oa'retiring to my room the landlord W e ' . t ie me Olt the individual whom we had selecte' h as igis elf travelling companion, or reel:et. who had pusbea' t ee upon us, was an itinerant abolition lecturer, wh, 4 .,;see the bar *- to . the place to promulgate his doctrines, but hals"' o s• cowed sundry intimations of equestrian exercisef c/o, rail, of a coat impervious to water, composed of tra il - 0 feathers, and having been favoured with a sig ai • to p ot nod from Judge Lynch, he thought it expedient age out for other diggings. This was quite enough to sba tide our course ; the fate of poor Tray s tared us 1 , 13 the face, and on the following morning we na tifi L e t en aforesaid individual that he couldn't go in ou r u e f - its how. We pushed on, leaving him on the °h er ' is looking after us with wistful eyes. 1 4P During the day a small steamer, called the T 1 t un lies, passed us, and who should we see standing u/. 5 1 1 wheel-house but our abolition acquaintance. I 1,, 1 4 had time and space to describe the Two Pollic! , "Paulo rnajora canareus." abl Suffice it to. say, she was all that is uncorofort egio destitute of sleeping, eating, or other convecie,ef built for running in six inches of water, cbarggeisg exorbitant price, anti crowded with passengers' „ Sole quite used up for all practical boating we took wee son's choice,' and got on her, towing our Skiff as ter We soon discovered that the ab o litionist bad beg' evise in promulgating his doctrines, and that a ° Tr: brewing. At length he f e ll f ou l of a Kentua**:::.. OS tha la declared to him that he considered him no h aft se o , '• a negro and avowed him se lf an a bolieionis t. ,, e a Owe tuck's blood was up. " Y o u an abolitionist! P T — ier 4 ' 7 look at you. You are the fir s t o f the varmin t laid eyes on ! You can't go further on this ha ti d t e ' t et' how." The rest of the passengers joined in t i l L e ..jtia mination. Wo had now arrived at Wheen":berc..* , ad voices were clamorously raised to set higa 85 00 . Tue rnett.!r was noise:: about on tho shore that o d a ti su rena so fol an aniaral was on the boat. Judge Lynch , with his ready officials, stood on the honk, i n tl hogt v.. majesty. Tee poor devil begged like a dog- --- 1: Ad tlerneta don't ; I won't say another seor.d "“;,, e whole pass ige ; I'll stay anywhere—l'd sit ia —do let_ roe stay." " Ne, by G—d," etrYa ashore you must go. " Pitch him here, cricu s) u lter'_,, Lynch, " I'll aljucicate upon him." The C e ,PL e e' very clever ft llow, although commanding a Pa el ,,; : e l to: a boat, hesitated what to do, when ,a v : 7 04% above decided the matter. It was that of ton, the pilot standing et the wheel, a reguierrwhest4ri who can wh;„2 his weight in wild cats and eat i;. breakfast. Witt extended arm, and flashiegloeneri7 roared forth—" l'ee taken a solemn oath n eve! a l o e a wheel an inch on a boat that carries an ab c ' ll ;paa Cl and by h—ll and scissors I'll stick to it." T h wretches jaws fell— • ee steeeepiiii' " Obstupuit, steteruntque comm, et vox face' .-heosvi).o4 the sweat started in big drops from his ash° ' e ed felt his doom had come. !Jo But a voice of mercy from sweet woman 6 . 00 Lip forth for his salvation, and instead of landing la' do etP' Virginia shore, he and his plunder were dePO lte ,, c olfr. ie i Ohio bank, and as the boat proceeded ou : he ; oe Mr. Weller (for that is his name) stood gar e Ur,/ track, a striking example that " the wa f t -11 f gressor is hard." lam pushing my yo • • west, and should this And favour in your ey es hear from me again. way or t he tto ------- -0/' ' _.--- DIS° Coe SILVER•PLATED CORNER AT 4 70 00 . , p e• T. 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I, , SeP tell 0 1 ,4 " Sir—The annual tr i a l 0 , tb; o s to 0 1 0 , - 4A o d f ra ch ir r a e i n ty o , in tg ete th r, Majesty's Government having now terminate"' 4 1119 - th 0 " 1/ mended by my Lords Commissioners of the Aci° ° ; ( i.:s o !" you that their Lordships have directed me to P: e d i lowing chronometers at the various ' sperm ' : prices respectively, viz.:- its Dent, No. 1,571 65 0. 0 i lie ne ' Dent, No. 1,606 . 4O g u a l o eo o o4l/ Dent, No. i,62.1 ( pocket ) 3O f i ler t ° fte ... , " Their Lordshipsh • superior performance of 1,571, to assign t• '' - ' '-''' increased price to that usually given. 01 41# " I am, Sir, your most obedient cou nt, i f VFORTl.,.. P ir l a ne- ve l e " To Mr. Dent, Chronometer Maker, 8 2 . , 1_,.. - a. o ":o°`'s/ b ., Out of 80 Chronometers, by various 1 " 8 ';41 e 3 :01 1 ; ir tb o the lat: trial by order of their Lordships, xte above three, with two selected for the ne t t ; y et.it e r ir lti others, enables ;!Ir. 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