The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-12 00:00:00

MORNIN G EDITION SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS• FROM TRH DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY. _ __ ( From the Times. ) Although, if t h e ostensible and constructive ad vantages of Captain Elliot's heads of agreement with the Chinese do not turn out to have been seriously com promised in the subsequent arrangement of detzilc, some of those advantages are undoubtedly entitled to our fa vourable consideration, we are very tar indeed from attach ing the importance to them which seems to be so absurdly magnified by the Ministerial journals. According to the incontinent boastings of the Downing-street press, the Chinese dispute has been brought to a triumphant, ho nourable, and satisfactory adjustment. For their own gloomy and discouraging anticipations, warranted by former advices, they have now the acuteness to discover that there was no oundation whatever. The whole course of Captain Elliott's management has been characterized, it seems, by progressive prosperity, issuing in final success. Now, whether the impudence or the stu pidity of these pretensions be the more conspicuous, it may be somewhat difficult to say. Certain it is that the reflecting portion of the community, being thereby led to examine the precise nature and amount of the al leged success of this Celestial ente-prise, cannot fail te be struck with the practical insignificance and indefi niteness which appear, more or leas, to mark the entire upshot. Before proceeding, however, to offer a Lew ob servations upon this subject, we cannot refrain Iron no ticing the burlesque magniloquence indulged in by Captain Elliot. From the style of the circulars issued by that self complacent personage, who occupies a sort of hybrid posi tion between a mercantile and a political Consul, it is plain that his experience in Oriental diplomacy has imparted to his proclamations a considerable smack of celestielism. As specimens of pompous bathos, they almost trans cend the renowned compositions of the sublime Ke- S►ren, or the ill-appreciated Lin. Laying aside the humble title of " the Br'tish Superintendent at Canton," the gallant functionary has suddenly sprung to the alteude of ‘• her M,jeaty'e Plenile ten tiary ;" and, as well beseema so high an officer, he largely magnifies his calling, by an inflatA phraseology which even the courtiers of Pekin must ever despair to emulate. But what, after all, has the worthy Plenipotentiary achieved for us? To understand the fuil value of the sti pulations with which he has contented him-el on behalf of Great Bri ain, it is necessary to keep in mind the precise grievances he was called upon to redress. N,,t to mention the loss of Mr. Moss's ears, and the infringement of Mr. Stanton's liberty ( in reference to which the Globe tells us that "the cause of the war was the violent spoliation and coer cion of British subjects"), we must not forget that our countrymen hod been arbitrarily defrauded to the tune of about $10,000,000; that many of them had been ion pritoned for six weeks, and threa'ened with starvation; that the Plenipotentiary himself had also been pot into limbo, and menaced with "the last degree of sew-it) , ;" that the coeficated property was surrendered by Cap tain Eliiot on a solemn pledge that the sufferers should be indemnified, with intertst, by the English Go . vernment ; that British voisels had incurred a heavy demurrage at Whampoa ; that at Macao, whither the British traders ha l retired, the water springs had been poiaoned ; aid, finally, that the crew and pis . aengers of an unarmed passageaboat had been attacked by certain Mandarins and inhumanly butchered. To effect a salutary reparation for these enormities, an expensive exp. dition was despatched and plaead at the gallant plenipo's disposal. During seven entire months did that expedition attend his }recut beck. At length, having reason to sus pect that the force of re flaction and seleinterest, combined with a small expenditure of powder and shot, might bring his refractory opponents to a sound mind, a warlike ,demonstration ass seriously set about, and the redoubtable Ke- Shen forthwith proclaimed, in the Captain's own st yle, that " the Engiish barbarians were now obe dient re' order=," and teat he should therefore " so li c i t for them the lalpeeal favour." On the occur. ranee of this fateical solemnity. her Majesty's Plenipoten tary prescribed cis terms cf peace—the terms, mind. which profess to redfess all the foregoing catalogue of wrongs and with which the Whig prints are now in ab solute ecatacy. Of those terms generally, we have al ready given an epe i on, which we ace no occasion to rnodif; ; but that they fail, in various respects, to rreet the exigencies of the ease, must be admitted, we thiek, by every impartial person competent to understand teem. Fer example, the nominal cession of the island of Hong. Kong to the British Crown, though apparently premising considerable advantages to our mercanti'e interests, bas been clogged with con ditiens which la practice may substantially defeat there. As the saute imposts are to be exacted by the Clerics° et that island, as have bere'ofore been imposed at Creates, ilia disadvanele of British traders leaving a large city whee a p e afiiable traffic has been carried on for cen- Wrier, to ;few u p their residence in an insulated and un frequented locality, ai ecears to be counterealanced by no thing but the protection anticipated from a military sta tion, which, if any faith can .4e put in the efficiency of Captain Eilict's treaties, might be equally available, whe ther our cotritrymen should prefer to I 'side in theone place or in the other. Not more satisfactory, as 7ve stated yester day, are the terms cf the pecuniary indemeification, for the payment of which, to the full value of the property confiscated, the precipitate Plenipotentiary had long ago put in pawn the credit of her Majesty's Government. 'The sum which Captain Elliot has compounded for, is, as we showed in a former article, wholly disproportionate to the lasses sustained. But, apart altogether from this un justifiable inadequacy, the question as to the mode in which the Chinese may think fit to raise the so/atium, still remains to be solved. For any thing that Captain Elliot rims done, his wily circumventors may levy the stipulated instalments in the shape of an augmented tariff upon bar barian commerce. " A tact or two on tea (says the Canton Press) will soon raise the required sum." And in that case the whole burden will devolve upon English car sumers. On the other hand, if an extra import duty be imposed, the smart will fall upon ourselves in the de creased consumption and profits of the articles which we send to their markets. In any event, the probability is, .that the whole amount of this miserable com:,romise will Foe dragged in some form or another from British purses. Cs the guarantees exacted from the Chinese for their future good conduct, and even fur the fulfilment of their extorted engagements• Captain Elliot maintains a prudent diplomatic reserve. To say that no better terms could be obtained under the circumstances, is just to say that the crafty Orientals have beat us. In addition to all this, the plausible recourse which our defrauded country men wilt have upon our impoverished Home Exchequer, will perhaps give the Government more annoyance than they choose at present to anticipate. For our own part, we think we can discern certain lingering elements of die earbance in this Chinese bushes!, which it may require some time and treuble to extinguish. The Morning Post of Saturday contains a leading article on the subject of Free Trade, in the course of which our Contemporary says :—" All we want is such amount of protection as may secure a decided preference to our borne industry, it is not our wish both to exclude practical com petition on the part of fareigners, and the possibility of all such competition, no matter how dear or how inferior the products of our own country may be. We should ra ther have the possibility of competition under certain cir cumstances, as to form a check upon extortion, and a spur to improvement." The Morning Chronicle, alluding to our late military operations in Canada and the East, remarks as follows : •" It must tad manifest to the nations that while England lass the :strongest interest in preseering the peace of the world, the Immense resources which she can command must make hee a formidable enemy. This consideration must check in the bud many ambitious designs. It is not always by determiniree obstinately on preserving peace at whatever cost, that peace, for a continuance, can be mast effectually secured. In this respect our late operations have been peaceful in their tendency." The Morning Advertiser thus refers to the recent in telligence from - China The possession of Hong Korg is in itself an object of great importance : but yet greater will be the establishment of ' direct official relations be tween the countries on an equal f twing e " The latter, however, is a p o i nt w hi c h the Chinese, with their wonted duplicity, may endeavour to evade. Wi h all these earl tingcncies, hewever. the arrangement is such as to afford much satisfaction ; far, after what has taken place after elle experience that the negotiators have had of each other, it, it scarcely to be expeced that the Chinese said again incur the chastisement r f Britism arms, by endeavouring to evade the stipulations or to baffle them in details, or that the British representatives will accede to any condi tions which will possibly admit of misconstruction or mis take. To this expectancy, however, the Tories cling as ..the last 'tape of justifying their disastrous forebodings." (From the Globe.) We cannot feel disappointment that more than a moderate us e I, as not been made of our superiority to the Chinese in the arts of war. We conceive that our character in Europe would jirtly have suffered, if we had not shown the spirit of for bearance we have shown ; and it is more than doubtful ( what ever be the impatience of local commercial intere ts) whether the policy of striking ter ror b y force may not go greiitly too far. We say this much with reference to the complaints of some Eastern Contemporaries, which our readers wi I find ex tracied in this day's publication. It was apprehended by par ties well acquainted with China, that the only consequence of overwhelming warlike demonstrations on their coasts wonld be a system of passive resistance and retreat to the in terior ; and that to leave the Chinese and their Government no policy but that of despair, would be to throw ourselves .further than ever from the scope of our efforts. There is, 'beside=, something repugnant to the right fee l ing s of civi lized men in avenging a l'outrance provocations on a people so completely unwarlike ; and the general wish decidedly has been in this country, thit the dispute should be tenni niatesd wiih as frugal a resort as possible to fore ble method:. 'hee considerati ons ought to moderate the impatience of such parties as may imagine the Chinese ought to have been more trightened, or more extorted from their fears. We have obtained a very valuable real security for their future good ',behaviour ; and it will depend upon ourselves to keep them in ay.incl of the lesson we have taught them ; and to make the best Ilse of our newly-acquired position in behalf of our com merce. (From the Courier.) With the ample details before them of late occurrences in China, in to-days Courier, as at length received with the over land mail, our readers %sill be well enabled to decide for them selves how far we were warranted in those animad versions on the conduct of Superintendent Elliot, and his convention for postponing the final adjustment .of our differences with China—to the Greek Kalends. anv other less definite period which the reader's imagination may suggest—for neither more nor less than a postponement is it, which, on the necesarily brief enumera tion I4f the articles of this famous document, communicated by the French telegraph, we were not slow, and were indeed the first to pronounce. A document, which we publish below, emanating, from the first commercial establishments of Canton, may be accepted unhesitatingly as the unanimous expression of the sentiments of all those British residents •,-• Nho:are best qualified by actual position for the most correct 4':ireciation of passing events, with their bearing on British in tere.,,ts, serving also peculiarly to enlighten whatever may appear tsialae zsinbigttous, and to illustrate what is practically preju fro.:iffacts consummated and positive, in this extraordi nary tre4y ) :•oduct of th e Elliot school of diplomacy. As was expecjea, the mercantile community felt justly out by. notorious inadequacy of the six millions s ' stipulat...d under the title of indemnity for .0-mlg Chinese spolb.tions on British property to the ..4teut.",ef twice that amount, and this sacrifice of the eom- mercial community is the more unpardonable, since Captain ' Elliot should have known, even if. as l•eretofore en all other subjects, left uninformed and uninstructed from superior author ity, that the home Treat-ury was not only unequal to sustain any additional burden in the shape of satisfaction for the large balance accruing on opium account, but was positively in default of means to provide for the current expenditure of the country, ordinary and extraordinary, independent of such supplementary charge. We repeat that he could not be unaware of this deplorable condition of fiscal affairs at home, unless we are to presume him so unread in the occurrences of the day and the proceedings of Parliament, as to be unfit for the discharge even of the mere clerical functions of his agency. We observe, indeed, that he is so complacently un conscious of his own ignorance, and so self-satisfied of his own power to wield, if not to create, the re.ources of the Trea sury, that, in a circular to the merchants at Macao, issued doubtless under the influence of some compunctious misgivings for hasty and improvident action, and by way of conciliatory propitiation of discontent openly manifested, he " considers it incumbent upon himself to lose no time in assuring the com mercial community that he will use his best efforts with her Majesty's Government to secure an early and entire advance of their claims for the indemnity." (From the Standard.) The news from China brought by the Overland Mail from India, which arrived in town yesterday, is certainly not of a character to warrant the exuberant exult at io • of our Ministerial Contemporaries. It announces, to be sure, the basis of an immediate settlement of our dispute with China, but alloys the gratification with which this announcement would otherwise have been received, by an intimation that " the details still remain matter of negotiation ! It is of course impossible for us to know the precise nature of the instructions under which Admiral Elliot has acted; but it is perfectly clear that either he or his employers are greatly to blame that the terms which his successor has ob tained from the Chinese have not been much more favourable thin they seem likely to be, even should those points which remain for future discussion be decided in exact ac cordance with the sanguine anticipations of the British " Plenipotentiary." The indecision and feebleness of pur pose of Captain Plenipo Elliot, as the India papers entitle him, appear to have been contagious. Admiral Elliot caught the inf ction, and although backed by one of the most powerful expeditions that have ever been despatched on such an errand. was unable to make up his mind to any de cisive step until the military force in the occupation of Chusan was decimated, to speak moderately, by d•sease, and his own health so shattered as to make it im perative on him to give up his command to the next officer in rank to himself—not, however, until he had in dulged in a bombastic speech about his deep anxiety to " perish in battle with the enemy !" There had, to be sure. been some "palaver" about 3,000,000 i. sterling of indemnity, and the reinstatement of the trade on an equal footing. hut as no substantial authority appears to have existed for such a proposal, rod the gallant Admiral's disorder increased in violence, he was fain to yield his command to other hands before the nego• ciations could be brought to bear. No sooner had Commodore •it J. Gordon Bremer assumed the direction of the expedi'ion, than he determined to bring the Chinese to the point; and, having satisfied himself of the insincere and shuffling conduct of the Imperial Commissioner, commenced an attack upon the Bogue Forts, which produced the al mo-t immediate surrender of the enemy, a surrender, in fact, almost at discretion. It was, of course, no part of the object of a generous power like England to take advantage of the miserable weakness of such an opponent, but her re presentatives in the matter were bound to see that the terms they secured were not inferior to those which had been proposed before any offensive measures were adopted. After exhibiting their power, however, and receiving the submission of the Chinese authorities, they were con tented to accept a promise of , the cession of the island and (harbour of Hong Kong to the British Crown, the removal thither of the trade from Whampoa, and an in demnity to the British Government of about a million and a quarter sterling, to be paid in instalments covering a period of six years. These are the chief advantages obtained by our great expenditure of life and treasure in this dtspute— concessions which, with the most ordinary energy and management. ought to have been secured before the British ex poclition had been a single month at its destination. We have, to be sure, the proclamation of the great Keshen that as the " English barbarians had become more obedient to or ders, he should solicit for them the imperial favour ;" but look ing at the matter throughout, it is clear that her Majesty's agents have been outwitted, and that the Chinese have for once, at least, got the better of the " English barbarians." CONSTANTINOPLE, _MARcti 17. Intelligence has just reached us from Persia, dated Tabreez, Feb. 8, by which it appears that Hussein Khan has been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to Englind, and would probably leave in the course of six weeks, unless Mr. Ri.tek, whose arrival at Teheran we have just learned, induces the Persian Gov , rntnent to change the appointment, and send some more respect able person in his stead. This same Hussein Khan has barely recovered from a severe bastinadoing he got from the Shah about a month ago. It is said he received about 500 blows of the stick, and had his toe-nails nearly knocked off. The Persians, however, do not appear to think it a disgrace to get a licking from the Shah ; and it is a thing that almost all the nobles about the court expect to receive once or twice in the course of their lives, and therefore always keep on friendly terms with the execu tioners, by giving then] presents, &c.; so that when they have the ill luck to be tied up, t'ae executioner is indaced to dell mercifully with them, and contrives to hit the wooden bar to which their legs are tied, instead of their feet ! In one of my former letters I mentioned a certain Ady-Giuzel, a famous robber chief in the karadagh district, and who had latterly assumed the ftle of Shah. It is quite astonishing the power and influence this man obtained in a very short time. His followers amounted, they say, to nearly 300 ; besides which, all the villages in Karadagh were in his interest. He of fered all persons who would join him with a horse and a gun, 60 tomauns (301.) a year, besides a share of the plunder. His wife used to accompany him in all his expeditions, and was represented as quite an Amazon in strength and stature. He was wont to annoy the Russians very much, and, being close to their frontier, made frequent expeditions into their territory, to plunder their v lieges. He once stopped one of their Government couriers, who was carrying, be sides despatches, a large sum of money, to Tab reez. Owing to the wooded and difficult nature of the country he resided in, the Persian Govern ment could not attack him openly, but finally suc ceeded in taking him by surprise. Cold weather having come on, he disbanded his troop for the winter, and settled down in a village with only five of his fol lowers. News of this was secretly brought to Mehty- Cooly-Meerza, the governor of the district, who in stantly, under pretext of going on a hunting excursion, ordered his horse and people to get ready to foll nv him. The village in which Ady-Giuzel had taken up his quarters was about one hundred miles off, but which Mehty-Cooly-Meerza reached in an incredibly short time, and surprised and caught the robber chie with his five followers, all of whom were forthwith marched to Tabreez. Ady-Giuzel being a Russian subj't t, it was first intended to send him to T flis : but in consequence of there oot being a sufficient number of troops in the place to escort him, and fearing his being rescued on the road, the Russians had him executed at Tabreez. He was a fine, bold, dashing fellow, and on the day of his death walked with a firm and intrepid step to the pl tee of execution, on reaching which he threw himself full length oa the ground, and, calling to the executioner, said to him, " Kess, keupekoglu, kess" (strike, thou son of a dog, strike), and who forthwith as if he had to deal with sheep, cut his throat, and left him to bleed to death. The execution of this man =Fed a great deal of ex citement and disturbance in the place ; so much so, that the Government people have been afraid of put ting his five followers to death, they a:so having been ordered for execution. The people say he did nothing worthy of death, having (throughout his shore career) only robbed the infidels, which it was lawful for him to do ; besides which, according to them, he always as sisted the poor end needy of his own (Mussulman) faith. His executioner was the same afternoon murdered by some of the sol fiery; and of this the Government has taken no notice. M. du Hamel, the Russian Minister at the Court of Teheran, will, it is said, shortly return to Russia ; as does also Baron Bodi, his first Secretary. It is not yet known who will replace them. Trade had been very brisk, but, owing to the near approach of the se cred month of Mobarrem, is dull again. Grain, which has been very dear, is becoming cheaper, in consequence of those who had large stocks of it being afraid of keeping it any longer in re;erve. My informant adds in a prescript—" I have just heard that the followers of Ady Giuzel were secretly sent off to 'Mlle last night. Little Ali Effendi, the Turkish Consul at Tabreez, has been trying to roast one of his servants for having sim ply stolen a little soap He tied him to a beam and lit a fire under him, but the man being a Russian de• serter, and the Consul (Russian) hearing of what was going forward, sent and had him taken away, just " n time to save his life ; however, the poor fellow, they say, has lost the use of his limbs." 1841.—The following is the house list of the Grvernors and Directors of the Bank of England, for the year ensuing:— FOR GOVERNORS. Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart., Governor. William Co:ton, Esq., Deputy-Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. James Morris, 'Es q . Shetfi , ..ld N .svo. E=q. Gco. Warde Norman, E. l John Horsley Pa'mer, Esq. i James Rittiion, Christopher Pearce, Heart/ James Prescott, Esq. Charley Po'e, Esq, Sir John Rae Won, R. Robinson, Eiq. Wm. Thompson, Esq., and Alderman Robert BryclaY, Esq. Edw. Henry Chapman, Esq. Henry Davidson, Esq. J T AC o b b b h o ca n l m s . PoLsoleniawyseflecr°'ae Grenfell. i n G i k a o e n w y s , o e j r n uln John Benj. Heath, Esq. Kirkman D. Hodgson. Esq. Charles Fred. Huth, Esq. Alfred Latham, Esq. James Malcolmson, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. The election for Governor and Deputy-Governor he held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 13th of A sod for Directors on Wednesday. the 14th rf April, from ten o'clock in the forenoon till four in the afternoon. DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT WESTERN, This splendid vessel departed on her first voyage for the season, on Thursday, at half.past one; she carries forty three passengers and a valuable cargo. Mr. Bates, of the house of Baring Brothers, is a passenger in the Great Western. The utmost anxiety was manifested for the ar rival of the second north mail, in the hope that some ac count of the arrival of the President at Liverpool would be received ; but no intelligence had reached Liverpool up to the hour of post, nine P.M., on Wednesday. A spi ied d at o t w em n pctonwtaaiuing s made to express the London morning papers the important intelligence from China by the overland mail, but it tailed. This is the second time sailed em a a il t e t dh p al t r a h n as ho b ti e r en be m fo a r d e e ; he i r n ap t p he oi f n o t r e m d e t r im c e a . se the %svulcshela THE SUN, LONDON, MOnDAY, APRIL. 1 2. IQ4C STEA. ri NAVIGAT 0 P So much bas been done of late in the L, vAi t steam. that everybody is now alive !o its a.eiti an element either of war or peace, and is ready to ask, What will it, du next ?" lb aiiim Patina oat) only at count for his loss of the coast of Syria in a week, I) ! , confessing that the " steam-boats conveyed the enemy here, there, and everywhere, so suddenly, that it would nave required wind to keep up with them I One might as well think of fighting with gen'i I" Commodore N Tier, on the other hand, seems to think that steam is only in its cradle ou the ocean, and is still swathed an(' bandaged down in many ways by the old-fashioned mid wifery of our " naval architects." It is many years since he advocated the systematic introduction of war steamers as a branch of the service, to forte, as it were, " the cavalry of the navy ;" but they have never yet launched the kind of vessel he re commended ; capacious, to hold a months' fuel, instead of a mere ten days' supply, as at present ; shalleu and broad•bottomed, to skim over the water (instea . of ploughing through it) with the least expense of fuel ; and furnished with cast iron tanks or' reservoirs for coal so that as it was expended water might be pumped into them, and the best bailing line be preserved or re-esta blished at pleasure. These broad bottoms, he con fesses, might roll about more than the Cyclops and Stromboli, but what would that signify ? There could be no danger where the centre of gravity was properly arranged ; and they would be thrice as effective in a blockade, as transports, or in any long voyage, or lengthy service. Toe Commodore has lost money enough, and won renown enough, in the employment of steamers, to entitle him to give a good practical opinion in the matter ; and it is to be hoped, for the sake o' all concerned, that it will not be further postponed. . . The Commodore declares that he has never seen a river better adapted to steam navigation than the Nile, nor one worse furnished. Tile Pacha lent him his bee and newest on the trip to Cairo lately, and the deck took fire on the way. The Pacha will not pay for the boat, and has, I bear, returned it on the hands of the builders. He is very anxious to have some good steam boats on the river, a d gave an order for one recently on the principle of the screw propeller ; but withdrew ii on hearing that this construction required a greater depth of wilier than the river coul I maintain ; sinking, as it does in the dry season, to li feet in some parts. He has granted the Peninsular and Oriental Company per. mission to place one steamer thereupon for the conveni ence of their passengers, and the boat destined for that purpose is now making the best of its way out, coasting carefully along the shores of the Peninsula and the Me:ii terianean—a dangerous trip for a river-boat drawing only 24 inches. This Company has also undertaken to bring out to Alexandria, in one of .ts monthly steamers a double bottomed iron track-boat, ta be drawn by ' horses at a rapid pace, on the Mahmoudieh Canal, whereby travellers mty be expedited to and from the Nile and Alexandria. But there is much yet to be done to fulfil the wants and wishes of travellers be tween England and India, and to render Egypt a de s'rable place of residence, even en passant, for the Hon. Company's officers on furlough. As fair as the Penin sular and Oriental Company are concerned, I am as surd that no ' exertion will be spared to accomplish everything that can be desired. Tneir managing Direc tor, Mr. Anilereon, was lately here, and took a trip to Cairo and Suez, inspecting everything connected with the transit of travellers, and noting what might be re quired for their better accommodation. In going over the Desert, be found a few miles of it rendered rugged and unpleasant for ea-riages by loose stone: diet en cumber the surface ; and naturally began to inquire how many men and how many dollars would suffice to have them thrown aside. The Pacha, who is now par ticularly inquisitive about English sayings and doing, beard of the passing inquiry. and jumping to the con clusion that the English were going to reform his De sert as they conquered Syria, sans phrase—sent word there to say that whatever was wanting should be done by himself—that is, as soon as political affairs were settled, and he had leisure to attend to it; so that, in short, his ways are as far from being metaled as ever. As soon as our treaty of " freedom of commerce and navigation" is worked out, and the Nile is thrown open, I understand that it is the intention of the Peninsular and Oriental Company to place a second steam-boat on it, so as to enable passengers to ascend as well as descend the river at the same time, and thus accommodate both travellers to England and India, who now, very inconveniently, cross each other en route between Suez and Alexandria. A little five-horse power steamer, employed by Mr. Hill, has hitherto been the only available steam-boot for passengers on the Nile. This is now refitting with a 10-horse power engine, and will probably be the first in the flood ; but it only holds 14 persons. The Pacha long since promised the Bombay Fund Committee to build a station, or reception-house, at Kennett or Luxor, and another at Kosseir, so as to enable travel lers arriving from India to enter Egypt at the latter port if they pleased, and (by an easy journey of four days across a country well supplied with water) pro ceed direct to visit Thebes and the most interest i ng ruins in Upper Egypt. Pass ngers proceeding to India also might, if this route were available, enjoy a trip up the Nile, imlulge their curiosity with a sight of those far-famed antiquities, and finally emb trk at Kosseir on board the Victoria, B •reuice, or Cleopatra. But, alas, there i • much yet to be done eretliis can be counted on. Tne station-bons , s have yet to be built and the second st •am boat pl iced on the river ; but the Pacha shows no inclination to permit either to be done until his own affairs arc settled favourably at Constaetinople (a great mistake on his part) ; then the three steamers on the Red Sea must he repl iced by larger ones, ere passengers who stop at Kosseir can expect to find ac commodation. Last month the B-renige sailed away,l I.•aving four at Suez, having all her berths am' sofas full, filled b 20 passengers, and 20 more besides stowed on the open deck, hopeless of any better accommodation in the a ay of couch or canopy ! But. above all, and before all, voyagers from England to India went an extension of accommodation in the time allotted to perform their voyage through Egypt. It is killing work to hurry through the desert night and day to keep up with the mails in their transit from Alexandria to Suez. Each passenger takes e ght ' horses at present to perform the 90 miles between Cairo and the Red Sea. Ladies complain bitterly, and with justice, of the continuous driviig, hurrying, loss of rest, Sze. But the ma l: must go through at the quickest rate. The public service cennot stop for the comfort, the health, I or even the lives of ladies and gentlemen ; and the steamer at Seez must sail as soon as the mails are on board ! The fact is, that travellers require some days in advance to cross the Isthmus safely and properly, without leaving their baggage behind, or wotrying themselves into a fever. This will require an interme diate steamer from England, properly a passengers' steatite-. The present boats (Oriental and Great Liverpool) are ma•l steamers, and the bags and boxes they bring must go a-head, whoever may be left be hind. General Sir Colin Campbell looked very much surprised, the other day in Cairo, when he saw a lot of forty-fine camels provided to carry the baggage of his party, seized on tout-a-coup by the Governor of Cairo to expedite the British mail ! However, the Governor subsequently seized as many more from somebody else to oblige Sir Colin, other wise he and his friends would have been left be hind and been too late at Suez, notwithstanding the Pacha had lent him his own steamer to ascend tl.e Nile with expedition. Travelers in Egypt are always liable to these things, and the only way to avoid the ill consequences (such as being left to stay a month at Suez, as Mrs. Turton lately wee, with her nine children and servants) is to enter Egypt some days in advance. The British and Indian public ought at once to put their shoulders to the wheel, and help the Peninsular and Oriental Company to do this, otherwise the French will do it. They have been beaten out of the Neapolitan line, and will, they know, be soon beaten out of the Grecian and Turkish tne (for both Austrians and English are setting te work in competition with them—the former to resume its lucrative occupation of carrying pilgrims, the latter by the mere extension of its already successful efforts in the Mediterranean), and shortly nothing will remain for them to do its their own " French . Lake" but to carry despatches to and from Algiers :and Alexandria. They cannot continue to flounder on in 1 the wretched state we see them at present, throwing ' water on the axles of their 160 horse-engines, to pre vent the friction setting the vessels on fire. They must eiteer retire or improve. They say that they are building steam-vessels in Toulon, to be furnished with 200 horse-engines, and then that they will run direct between Marseilles and Alexandria, bringing hither passengers from England fi r India 48 hours before the arrival of our monthly steamers, and hastening back to the Toulon telegraph with whatever fait accompli may be wafted on the wings of steam from India o China. This undertaking would certainly be very desirable for voyagers to India, who will, therefore, doubtless en courage if the British public do not step forward in time to remedy t he deficiency for their own pro!'t, and as their own affair.—Letter from Alexandria, of March 16th. i n towndining the week A D UTIFULSb ek N.— A letter h as b een rece i ve d ini f i r a , m )m ed C G he i.o sa ra n, e m v e a n k ti n o t n ii i:l e g , the _ death of a soldier there, named s c) o 6 l t d h i e r about n.nr,. and a nativ.• of Paisley. s .n . h hi .a' eti he has spent to years, fourteen or d in ey o in t r i t r h very i‘ li . t n e. gi ln i a l gs of which , L, 'lndia. During that at various tim,ss to the time h e has edd transmitted cwe7o, p: m end o i u b p 1 a o y / a . mi , onei w i.ne '- t h ff ile f e h t , l i 1 i b n v i a i: t h h ° banks On leaving India order.o /. l o O n s e . , article for consideration, he made over phlaerentolt:ehterjasrhd? inf his abed g o , f the savings' to his mo ther before sailing on the Chinese expyediwtioll The sale .2dl death-hed forbade being sold, and that was his Bible °n his theof his letter effects contains produced d a u n c Bible which is to be sent home by first opportunity to hi s n " ever. as a token of affee.ionatc remembrance. p aisl e y Advertiser. It is said that a dividend of 10s. in the pound will shortly be paid from the estate of the late firm of HammwAley and Co. LN i E PR/1/ Y C(I C/L. tlPttll. 1(1 Th Jii , t et! e • wh-n The SOLICIT , It GENE AL rv,uil to t c case of WOOD AND OTHERS V. GOODLAKE AND HITCHINGs. After roading the conimunicathn which had r ken plac , netween the executors and his client respectirg codiet', !se contended tha', from their perfect knowledge of the hand-writing of Mr. Wood, and the probable disposition (-f his property, and from their conduct when they in -pected the document at that time they had no doubt w es authenticity. When they in.peeted it they expres , e , •to surprise. It was unfortunate that almost evert , ste taken by the executors was open to suspicion. Mr. Help. •tesired to be present at the search among the documents of the deceased, but an application being made by him fpr that purpose, it was refine 1. The Mayor of Gloucester, who was interested in the property merely as a member !he c wporati.,n, was to be present, but Mr. Helps, a re lation of the deceased, and one deeply inter,• red in th, search, was refused. It was not. therefore, a f,ir and otse , search. The parties were well aware of the inference which a uld natural , y he driwn fro m their conduc , , for ci Ir r ea , d to the burning of papers they had concealed Etet.s; sad they burned them believing bona fide that they Nete useless and of no consequence, wh-n it nue .re.l that they were of the utmost importance, they would lave come forward at once and told what they had done. Instead of acting in that open and candid m inner :he evidence showed that Mr. Chadborn actually denied th a t any testamentary papers had been burned at all. The Learned Gentleman read riveYi&nce given upon this point in the Court below, from which it appeared that alts ugh Mr. Chadborn had deposed that no papers had be - -n burned, the fact was proved by the servants of the do oessed, and that the respondents had afterwards ado itte'l that they had burned papers, one of which was an inAtruc rion fora disposition of the property, and was not that a .estamerta , y paper? Lord LYNDHURST—What led them to m>lte such an ad mission—to admit that they had burned a paper of a te.t mentary nature? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL--In answer to the generil allegation, they disclosed the whole truth upon their oaths. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL denied that they bad do,e so. The question was not woether the nape,* destroyed were itselesa or not; in sue:) a case it was requisite that every tiaper„ if it was in any form, or in any way could he non. :trued to be, at all a testate ntary pater, sllllcl have teen ~reserved. Trio admissions of Mr. Ch idhorn had no: een brought out by any regard to truth—they were made in the first place in the fiar that some oti er person had given some ierirmation, and he would put it to their Lordships whetbe- Mr. Chadborn, who had been in the profession fot 27 years in Woucester, had male the admissions in such a manner, and at such time.; as t I show that they were the prompting; of an PX , rr me desire that truth shonld be known. He confilentls stated that the whole evidence showed an anxious dt sire to conceal the f set of burning any papers ; and when that could no longer be kept in darkness, the admissions were made in such a manner as to show that much was kept back. The case which these parties put forward, was that they were entitid to proiba e of these three papers, as bsiog th last will and testament of the testa', r. They alleged that r, he papers marked A and B were duly attested by three witnesses. Their Lordships would observe that the par ties who made that ,tat ment were deeply intereved in the matt •r. The attesting witnesses positively denied that :he paper was net produce s in the presence of the par t:es, On the contrari, the testator was repre.ented to have taken it into his hand,. and in the pretence of the attesting witnesses, to have stated, ' I publish this as my last will and testament." It wa: said that he then gave the paper ti Chadborn, and sail Take care of this," and that it was put Into a cash h ,x in t•ie room where the t stator was in the nabit i,f keepi-g gold and notes, and that with the sanction of the testator it was afterwards removed up stairs to his private bank ing -room. Now, their Lordships would observe that the Safi' ants who had in the fir-t instance, before ten or twelve re4eetible parties, dcnii>d that any papers were destroyed or burned, afterwards on their attic; mate I that they were, and the only object apteared t , be to endeavour to throw discredit ution the testimony of these persons. The Learned Counsel then proceeded at some length to comment upon the evidence of the subscrioi .g witnes s es. Now, the evidence of Mr. Hyatt. as to the handwriting must re received with censiderable caution. He received front Chadborn a statement of the manner in which he had been nest far to receive instructions about the preparation oft e will—that h was desired to come the following day fur further instructions, but having frit. (Featly rem iced similar directions which had come to nothing, he neglected to go; that, having been suddenly tent for, he left a party, dressed as he was, and drew up the will on the moment; and, in short, there was so m ch of detail given to lull suspicion that it was clear a very con sider.ble Impression was intended to be produced upon the witness. It appeared that Mr. Hyatt had some rea son to believe that Mr. Wood would remember him i i his Hill, but his name not having been mentioned in the codicil, it was natural that he should view a codicil so drawn up with very great jealousy and suspicion, and state that " he hardly knew what to say, and could not tell whether it was his handwri - iag or not, and that it looked so badly he could not think it was his." The next witness to the handwriting, Hieks, sa'd tha' he did net believe the staature of Mr. Wood to the codicil was in his handwriting. Both these witnesses gave ih it evidence in such a way as showed that they were net form ing an opinion merely upon the character of the hand writing, but that they took it in connexion with ce.t.in other circumstances as to the probability of the to t tor having acted in a particular way. Such testimony mist certainly be rece , v.id with considerable cauti ,n; and then they had the t vidence of the engraver, who stated that fac-similes of the signature were made t• for the purpose of discovering the author of the forgery." It woul I appear from that what the animus of the witness was. It was clear that he bell. ved that a forgery had been c mitted, and the facsimiles were taken for the purpose of having it generally understood and believed that a forgery had been committed. The Learned Judge had commented very strongly upon the impropriety of allowing fee similes to be made of such a document ; it was calculated to create a prejudice in the rinds of the witnesses and might have led to the destruc tion of the document itsel'. He (the Solicitor-General) challenged his Learned Friend to show any precedent for resorting to such a peewee ling, and he thought it looked somewhat like a deception upon the Court, because it com menced by a direct tampering with the witnesses. One witness disbelieved the handwriting, because the word " council " was written for " counsel " another because a sum was written in figures instead of at length, and iii short, it was front corresponding circumstances, and not fr m any consideration of ihe character of the writing, that the evidence of most of the witless, s was deduced. Alt the witnesses, as the Learned Jit,lge had observed, had come to the considers i in of the handwr;ti g of the codicil impre-sill with the conviction that it w,s, as Mr. Chadborn had desisnated it, "an atrocious forgery." The Court could, then f ire, place no reliance upon testimony so given Again, a class of witnesses had deni , d the bandwiting, on the ground that, the letters were not firmed in the manner in which Mr. Wood usually wrote them. They relied upon the inspection and examination of other hooks and documents written by the testator, but wleol these documents wee reluctantly produced io Cowl they established the utter fallacy of the statements ~f the witnesses. Was he not, therefore, just fi'd in asserting that the case had been got up by fraud, misrepresentation, and in breach of good faith, and that the difficulties of the case, as it at present stoetl, had been produced by the attempt to deprive parties of -he property to which they were justly entitled. If their Lordships were insensible to the mode in which the case had been brought before them—.if they omitted to look at the quarter from whence the witnesses were produced, and the boas that had evidently been given to their minds, they would forget all tho'e points wnich could guide them to a proper consideration of the case. The words in paper B were exclusive of any other document, and not inclusiie No man could have conceived B to refer to another pre vious paper without some words which specifically attached t ) it. The paper from beginning to end was prospective. It referred to legacies to be pivi.n, and to executors to be appointed; and, therefore, there vial nothing to excite suspicion that any other paper could be brought into opera. lion by it. There was nothing to show that the paper re ferred to another, and the question was not whether it might, but whether it did. When his friends had shown the existence of such a paper they might proceed to ex ercise their great powers to prove that it was ih ,t respect. ing which they were contending To say that A con tained instructions that were carried out by B was not the fact. The ral estate was not disposed of by indorse ment, the personal estate was not disposed of by joint tenantcy, but by tenantcy in common. When attic Lord ships looked at the person who was instructing Mr. Wood, and considered that be was one who was bound to protect aim, they would never allow the words employed in it to prove the existence of another document. There was ether mode by which it was supposed this paper was ene proved, that was by recognition, but that which was ca led recognition applied to so malty papers that it trossht be used with equal force in support of any one of them. The Learned Gentleman was commentirg upon the evi dence in support of this part of his case, when, it being four o'clock their Lnrdships adjourned. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he should conclude his address on Monday. 49 -I 1 er , t - • b• g to “ir •e i At that ig in ca 'e f on tier d said h. o,iugh she should oo arre her hisband. fur :he thought him long away; and then, turning abruptly 'Lind she added '' toe shod is dead " S!ie went on ti, ay she did it, and c•i d excee tingly. Her sister-in. tw eat into her house, a•,d there saw the bed% f •he babe nicely covered up and lying in the cradle; othirg was visible but its face bu' by that she saw it , as di a]. She fled in great alarm, arid called a neigh tour to her ai t, arid they uncovered the chill and Ruud it dead and quite cold. It appeared , hat i pd oner's yard there was a p ind of fi:thy water, shallow and nuddy, and cover , cl with a green slime; and at th gate ceding from the street into this yard the prisoner wan seen standing by a man named Carter, at seven in the morning which the &slid mi t ci h its death She had the Aild in her arms, dressed in its bed-clothes, and ap peared to be " hu , bifig" it. The dew], of the unfor_ unate infant having been noised abroad, its mother, %lvy K•Trison, came to the prisoner's house before noon, and the prisoner no sooner saw her than she threw nFr arms round her neck turd cried bitterly, observing to her Oh, Mary I I did i , , I did it ; but your poor ehild is happy now." The mother asked her why she did it, and she said " She would till her by and by," add ing, that " the child was weil at seven, and dead at a quarter past." Upon her house being searched on the fol loeilg day, the night-clothes of the poor babe were found concealed under the prisoner's bed. They were rolled up together, and were even then thoroughly wet in every part. They had, however, ben wetted with perfectly clean w4.2r, and could not possiAy have been im mersed in the dirty pond in her yard which has ben already mentioned. Indeed, to this very hour the place where the poor child was drowned is quite unknown, except to her who perpetrate.] the crime ; but the probability is, that she must have immersed i! in a pail of water. She told the constable sl e did nit fear to die, she was so unhappy; and she did i to get rid of her own life ; but she would not say where she did it till the hour of h r death. These were the leading tea tires of this mel , richoly and mysterious case. No motive, except possibly that which she assigned to the constable, could be suggested for the commission of this murder Dislike to the ehild did not appear to have infheaced her, as she was invariaoly fond of and kind to it ; and she had even Muted her husband to allow a shillii.g a week to its mother out of his own scanty earnings for its support. Th Jury dr'i , eratJd half air hour, aid thee tound a verdict of G. The prisoner, who during the trial bad been in tears and in great di.tress, appeared to be utterly subdue. and pros tra,ed by this awful announcement. After a pause of intense interest, Ttie LEARNED JUDGE said, under all the ri”cumstancei of her case, he iihould order the sentence of deith t r be recorded, and should recommend to her Majesty to spare her life, but it would be an condition of ter being trans ported for life from her naive country. The ri ioner was then removed, crying, from the bar, CENTRAL Cal VIINAW COURT. OLD COURT. Bef,re Mr. 13-tron GURNEY and Mr. Je.tlce PATTIS , N.) MURDER.—Harriet Longlea la. Harris, ~.vms indict d for ;h , vilful murder of her female child, on the 19th of M.rch last, by throwing it int, t%),) New Riy , r. N Counsel aipeared for the prosecution. Cl trkson defended the pri..oner, A numuer of witne-ses were examined. bu' the deta.'l3 are fresh in the recollection of the public, therefore it is one. cessary to repeat them. Aft;r Mr. CLirkson had addressed the Jury to th.. def..neP, M. -iron GURNEY said that the ' , imp! , goestion for e Jlry to conti r, was, did Oita woman KtlfullF throw child into the water, and thus occasion her death. He was afraid Viat tie could hardly point out any lence to support the assumption t-ken by the Learned Counsel, Lila- at the tim of throwing the child i Ito the water she was not in a sta'e to be morally and Legally accountable. Thee were yumtnnit, however, for then t i determine, and he shoull leave them to their con sideration. Tho Jury, after deliberating a short time, returned the following verdlot :—" We find the prisoner Guilty, but we strongly recommend her to meres, in c nsequence of the d , stressirg circumstances which have appeared in evi dence b fIT us.' Tnc COURT ordered sentence of death to be recorded against the prisoner, and Mr. Baron GURNEY, who seemed much affected, address ed h-t• as follows :—" Harriet Langley, the Jury have re turned the only verdict they could return ; but taking all the facts of h • ca c into their consideration, they have earnestly recommended you to mercy, and my Learned Brother and I, from a very anxious consideration of your casa, trust we shall nut be failing in our duty to the public in recommending )ou to her Majesty ai; an object for her merciful i:onsider-ition. Oh that young women would take warning by sour fate when they first listen to the voice of seduction—they little know to what dreadful consequences a first false step may lead." The prisoner, who had been in tears during almost the whole trial, was then removed from the bar. William Buchanan, 17, was indicted for having stolen five B ink of England note; value 451,, the property of George Buchanan, his father. Mrs. Buchanan, the mtd.h,.r t f the prisoner, :tet.•d that oti toe day tie robbery aa, committed. her Roll was in the bons,. She perc•'tved that her husband's box was open, and called the prisoner up stairs, and asked Idol what he had be .n doing, he made answer, and said •• nothing ;" then asked him if he had taken any thing out of the box and if he Iry to put it bark again , he said he had not taken anything, and Rent down stairs again ; the prisoner tett the house, and the witness did not see him rga, n for three a eAs. The Learned Jut.. was about to pit some questions to the wt ness, but she became so much affected that he di rectld her t withdraw. George Hochanan, the proiveutor, and father of the prisoner, said that on the day in question he had seen lis mosey safe in the chest, and he went out, and returned about six o'clock in the evening, and his wife commu nicated to him the state of his chest, and on proceeding to it be discovered that the money was gone. He did not hear of the prisoner for thre we •ks, and from information he received, he proceeded to a house in the Commerc!a - road, and there apprehended the prisoner. Jtitts Porch, the officer who took the prisoner to the staiion-house, said that on his way thither, he asked the prisecer if he had spent the money by himself. .rid he said he had not, but he did not know schl h,vi companion wa.:, or where he lived, and that they had spent the money at differ..nt wateriag-places. The LEARNED J17133E having summed up , he ev;denee the Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty, a d be fore passing sentence the Learned Judge rcqueqed that the parents should leave tee Cour-, which they accord ingly did, and he then, in a very impresaiva manner, ad dressed the prisoner, and c .nelorle I by .entei , cing him to be t , aasparted f the term of his natural life. It appeared that the prisoner had been prey ously con victed of a felony. ''•te , !it solo as the r.,ltii•tte, hU • no per son ilv. 1 at rill]. T. of t Ow Pri'oo'r's lots;; logs Oxlord-4reet, t •ti dupl cate. found for property of (Afferent description. way to the st ttion-house she said the spoon came front St. James's Palace, that it was given to her by one of the servants whom she could not. now find, as he had lett his stuation. She afterwa-ds stated that Site used tl serve milk t.e Palace, and a little boy connect d with the establishment gave it to her, but she could give no informatwa respecting him, as he was gone away. To the Magistrate the prisoner related a def t .vet stary. Sue said that at one pe.iod she use! to work ar. the of l Palace and that a youog man em ployed there, but since dead, eav:r her the spoon in stmd of some money he owed her. L had been in her box a-year, and she did n , ,t know it. was of any great Tne spoon was evidenily Royal property. Two crowns were eograven on it—beneath tt.e upper (tee were the initials " C. R.," and under the lower one " A. S." The MAGISTRATE directed inquiries to be instituted, and rcniaru'e I the prisoner. Mr. 13.-ekei, Chairman of the Marylebone Loan Discount Society, in Great Portland -street, attended, with his solicitor, to explain the circumstances under which 20/. expenses had been incurred to recover a loan of 11/. from Mr. Perot. It Appeared that the loan was granted in June, that ten weekly. - payments be came in arrear, and that ten lett,q.s were sent to the borrower, and two to the surety, af.er which more strin gent measures were adopted. It was also shown that as the Society was not enrolled, the Loan Societies Act bad no control over P. The MAGISTRATE acknowledged such to be the case, but said it ought to be known to the borrowers, who %ere supposed to b nec*•ssitous persons, that in the event of arrears of payment accruing, they would he liable to arrest and considerable expense on their stamped notes. ASSIZE INTELi , 1 GEN CE. NORFOLK ClRCUlT—No.:oriel', APRIL 8. ( Before Mr. Justice BOSANQVET. Charlotte Yazley was indived for the wilful murder of Lavinia Kerrison by drowning, on the 23J of Match, at Great Yarmouth. The prisoner, who is a young woman of 22, was married , n August I , st to John Yasley, a fish , rman living at Yarmouth ; the deceased was an illegitimate child of John Y.ixley, and at the time of its violent death had just reached its tenth month of existence. The child livid with its mother, Mary Kerrison, until about the lit f March, when at the joint request of the prisore and her husband it was taken to live wholly with 0 -e.ri. The prisoner had heel unif .rrnly kind to it un •il the day which termina,ed its e xistence; had been used to have it sect to see her and its father ; and male it •uch little presents as her poor means enabl d and its smal wants required. It hid just begun to totter alone from chair to chair, and so lately as the Saturday previous to its death the prisoner had boug':it it a pair of new shoes. On Monday the 22d of March, th e prisoner's husband left home for the purpose of attending a fair at some distance, and was not expected home until late on the following day ; and at six o'clock or , that evening, the prisoner put the child, who was then quite well, to bed, and hushed it to sleep with an as siduity and tenderness almost maternal. Great th.refore, was the wonder of her neighbours, on the following m orn . ins, to hear that the inf,nt was dead. At eight o'clock on Tuesday, the 23d, the prisoner called on her sister-in.. I '7, who lived next door to her, with a cup of t ea , in Which sbo said bad some brandy i t, and which she NEW COURT. Thomas Anderson was couv•ctad of having s►olen, from the House of Lords, one coat, the property of Mr B. S. R. Adams, one if ih-• clerks in the Parliament try Offices. SentoncA to three months' imprisonment. POLICE INTELLIGESCE. GUILDHALL. Francis Gibbs, a carman, a middle-aged man, was charged with a capital assiult upon Elizabeth West, a girl aged fourteen years. The child was engaged to look to the children at the house where the prisoner lodg. , d, in George-yard, Milton-street. The landlord and his wife were out when the prisoner committed the act complained of. The girl's evidence went to esta'o lish the capital offence. The prisoner cross-examined the girl, and endeavoured to elicit that she had induced him to act as he had done. _ The ALDERMAN said that if the prisoner's defence were true he was equally culpable in taking advantage of a girl of such tender age ; he should commit him for trial on the charge of au assault with intent to commit a capital felony. BOW-STREE7'. William Henry, a we:l-dressed youth, who was some time since sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment under the name of "Jack Sheppard," was charged with shoplifting. On Thursday the.prisoner went into the shop No. 13, Strand, and asked to look at some costly scarfs. Whilst examining them he threw five or six on the ground, and in the act of picking them up slipped a couple into his ponket. On being charged with the theft he darted off, but was seiz-d and locked up. The prisoner, who made no defence, was tull3, committed for trial. HATTON-GARDEN. Elizabeth Brown, a pretty young woman, 17 years of age, was charged by Miss S. amber, an elderly lady of fortune, living at Penton-street, Pentonville, with robbing her to a very large amount, under circumstan ces of extreme ingratitude. _ The prosecutrix, who was so infirm as to be obliged to be lifted into a chair from the carriage, stated tha' the prisoner had been taken by her on the death of her mother, seven years since, and she had brought her up as if she had been her own chili ; she had, however, formed connexions with some females of bad character. who had induced her to commit a series of robberies upon the witness for a long time past. A few days since the prisoner went out, as she stated, for a short time, and during her absence she found her drawers and cupboards had been opened and all the silver forks, spoons, cruet-frame, Sze., of silver, and a large quantity of jewellery and wearing apparel, bad been taken away. Prosecutrix sent for her friends, whom she informed of the theft, and they gave the information to the police, who found the prisoner in a house of ill-fame. The stolen articles had beer► pawned at several pawnbrokers' shops, and a large portion of it was produced. Two woolen of bad eharactt.r st itf d that they had pawned jewellery and plate for the prisoner. The MAGISTRATE said that this was a case of tae greatest ingratitude be had ever known ; be should bird over the pawnbrokers to appear at the next examine tion, and remand the prisoner. MARYLEBONE. An Irishwoman, named Ellen Roach, with an infant in her arms about three months old, was charged on suspicion of ha-;nz stolen a massive silver t..ble sp , on from St. James's Palace, It appeared that the prisoner had juAt been given into custody by Mr. Neate, pawnbroker, of Duke street, Oxford -street, for offering the spoon in pledge, saying she was sent by Miss Perry, of Woodstock-street, LAMBETH-STREET. William Foster, a servant its the erniiLty of Mr. Scarie, timber merchant, of Somerser-si tee!, White chapel, was charged with robbing his mister. On the pre vious night a pul ceman stopped the prts+i• er with t. quatttii y of t ur.s r in a truck, and on asci•rtautiog where i.e came ftorn he gave: inturu►aton to Mr. Ss-,01 , who, on searching tic prisoner's premises found 500/. worib of his property there. Mr. Sessile said he ba.f been robbed to an immense extent, and the prisoner was re mands d for a further examination. THE WHALER PILOT, of LONDON. ( From the Pen,ny Gazette. Jan 16 ) We have been most k airy fasouied by an efficar of 11:.r Majesty's slow Cru:zar, with tha following particulars of tha cueiog off of this batve by the native, of " H., Ho," x bay or h.rbou. to Comar a, one ef ttp. N'eobar on the 231, and of her rec , .very by the Crriz r on the 31,t ut On th.. 2941 of December, at er, in Ist. 838 N. long. 89 54 E., the Cruizer fell in wi a whale boat and picked up toe followmg fen persons tonal: g part of the crew of the Pilot. o!' Laudon, Gearge Wheeler, newer. and Thomaa Ward, of London, owner:—viz., J ores Clark, third mate ; J. W. Blackwell, surgeon ; W. Burt, Alexander Morrison, and James Morgan, boat-,taerers ; John Penley, seaman ; Adam Sutherland, carpenter ; Wm. Hardy, carpenter's mate; and John Martin and Win. Saxton, 'boys. The Pilot left London in Janmirv, 1840. with a crew of 33 persons, and ea, armed with four pm, re4ideir mu'- kets, cutlasses, &C , in additi. n te which she ha: sev, ral - muskets for sale to the mantes at the dill rent ports she intended to visi'. She sailed from Coupaug, en the island of Timor, in July last, and anchored in Nankowry har bour ( Nicobar 1-lands) on the 22 t Do ember, about a cable's length off shore, for the purp.ee 4f refit big and obtaining refreshments, the crew ha,i ig the scurvy. Shortly after anchoring, the third mate, Mr. Cl rk, landed in company wi h the second mate at a village near the ship, and remained on shore about an hour, when they were received on the most friendly terms by the natives. Several canoes visited the ship during the evening, and many naives went on board and left 41 their own accord. The following day the crew were employe.' in refitting and watering the ship. The' Captain left her with two I),.ys, and traded for a few eatables. Numerous canoes came off to the vessel throughout the day ; some occasionally leaving her, but returned tt:th a greater num ber of me o, bringing fowls, &e., but not arms ; and from Horeburgh's account of the friendly disposition of these people, nothing hostile was entertained. A large portion of the t atives was observed to he painted rei. which was not the ease the evening before ; and many of them spike b-oken Eneli.di. Nu measures were adop ed to prevent t coining on board, from the impression that they vver, friendly disposed. In the course of the steriewn Mr. Clark, with the second mate ( Soowslen), the surecor, and nine of the crew went on shore with the captain's permis sion, on the understanding that they were all to re , urn by six o'clock. Shortly before landing they observed ate.t,er of the boats leave the ship, for a (tiff rent vil'age, but it was un certain sah.V.er the caotain or chief nave arts in her ttlh them. When Mr Cl irke and h s pity If: the ship. :,bout forty to fif y natives 'were on boaid. Hsi( an hour after landing they t bought the flikW%e, shout the in ap peared In an unsettled state, and were arming t evselves, while neje party .had .no weapons whatever. Through a man 'win- st Robinson belonging to the ship, who spoke the Mala Nan language, the natives wore a.-44.d what .11.. y 'weft about, or were going to do? when they' r. they did not know. Almost immediately ale wards a tell was heard issuing from the ship. are the natives irirantly at tacked Mr. Clarke's party on a 1 aides, from trees, &c. The second mate was killed at tre very first ors t, by a spear through the both, and, as he fell, a hative pinre h:m t .theground with another. Robinson ea:expostulating wi!h them, when he was speared and killed io the sane mate er. Mr. Clark at this time received a spear through his body, and a man named Burt was wounded by a similar weapon. Mr. Clark, [weever, with the rest of the crew, succee led in regaining their boat. and shoved off fur the ship, arortoed on all side by spears ; but when they got pretty close to her they discovered her in possession of the natives, who appeared in all directions armed with ships' whale spears, lances, cutting spades, &e. All this had taken place within an hour from their leaving the ship. Fin ling that the natives assembled in great numbers with ev ry war like intention, and that, totally unarmed as they were all attempts to regain possession of the ship must oreve fruitless, Mr. Clark. at the earnest entreaties of the '..rew then with him, pulled out of the harbour to sea t I Sett e visit lives; and although pursued until da k by three or Lour canoes (one or two of them pulling 1(i peddles of a side), they succeeded in setting away ; and, on the full 'wing morning, 24'h, pulled into an island ahout thirty mil s (off (Cbowry), the one they left the night previous, for some cocoa -nuts, but did not land, although the na Ives encou raged them to do so. They obtained eb.rut t venty- rex cocoa-nuts for a few knives ; but observing tso came s pulling towards them, they immediately put to set -gen. After pulling about, Huff ring sever'ly from hueg r :Led thirst (having existed upon three cot ‘a-nuts (Jail, with a tea-spoonful or two of water, which they occasionally sate during the night, and the milk of the nuts), they disco vered a sail about half an hour after daylignt of Vie 29th of December, for which they immediately stee ed, and at half-past eight o'clock were received on board of nor Ma jesty's ship Cruizer. It appears from the statement of Mr. BI 'Atwell, the surgeon, who accompanied the cap'ain on shore on th- 231, that no act of off:nce whatever was given to the nati.e: for the atrocities they subsequently committed ; or, he contrary, what was procured from them, which was very trifling, was settled for in the most honourable and amicable manner. The Cruizer arrived on the 31st December in what was suppsed to be Nancowry harbour, but which, upon get ting inside, was found to be the Bay of H fin, about a mile from it to the northward. Prei noly to anchoring the pinnace and cutter were despa the t armed to ,track village, but the natives had all find into th' jungl • be'ori.- they reached it. The Pilot was found at ancOr.r wi - h her masts an.' yards and standing rigging only. A 1 the sails were unbent, and the whole of the rJuning rigging unrove and taken away. Every particle of iron and iron-work that could be got at had been remoei.d and cut out, and all the co,i per on the taffrail, capstan head and other parts in the -hip and that outside from stern to stern, and al-o from the rudder to the depth of four sheets of a side, dieing as deep as they could get down, was stripped and carried off. Tue main deck exhibitor' a heterogeneous rows kno;•king about here and there of various articles of Foal:ions, empty casks, broken bottles, pieces of rope, broken staves, St,. In her hold she was completely turned topsy te, vy ; 36 beef and pork tierces wee found emptied by a squire h le being cut in the bilge large enough to take out the con. tents. There were also several vinegar, oil, be . r, flow, and other ca Lis cut into, to ascertain what they contained. Indeed a more wanton destruction of property in so short a apace of time by a set of savages never, it might be sail, occurred before. On clearirg away the shirr during the day, marks of blood were discovered on the upper de CK on the starboard side, prints of the head and li ga of some in dividual who had met his fati• there, were Ilea ly risible, and the blood from the seams, on pressing, oozed out p: t. fectly clear. There was also blood before the titt ton the larboard side f award. and on the main deck close to where the Captain's state-room door had stood. On the night aft •r the Cruizier anchored, her hots rowed guard around the lago in, but there wtt.i nothing stirring and all was perfectly qui t. On the 1.; January the boats proceeded to different v Dag, s or clasters of huts, all of which were desert .d. but eery one tilled mot , or less with plunder from this ill-fated ship, and there wa not a singki house but what con wined sonic portion 'if her cargo, boat loa is of which were recrivered and brought off ; coi sof new ropes, pie...is of e.c srdl-, and three of her guns were frund ; as weds three of her wirnl..-b.o , s, including the one which q Otiel the ship on the ning of the 23rd, shortly after the survivors, leaving no doubt as to their having been all massacred . wher, they got ashore. Immense quantiti a of iron hoops. harpoons, lances, whale-lance, woarirrg apparel, crinipasees, casks of spirits, and indkied stores of every rieseil d tion too numerous to mention, we e also f and in ever. place. The vill.ges attire ards were all burnA to t.! wound, and this day four i,f them were 5..• on fire. the 4th of January the b a's of the Criozer were daily despatched on similar expeditions to other villages in the vicinity, and destroyed them, after bringing away what was found belonging to the Pilot. In the meantime , a stron g working party o f e v e ry artificer the Cruizer could muster was employed getting the ship ready with such of her materials as had been collected together, and on the s t h the Cruizer l e f t the Nicobar with her in company for the straits. While at Ho Ho bay, the Cruizer desfr of oyed,tat;iiliv,.eliew,e f the .r villages there and its vieici y , the whale found deserted without a human being to be seen, 11 h a y. seen pulling in that ing fled far into the jungles , or to the adjacent island of Katchall, as many canoes were direc tion oa the first arrival of the Cruiser. In some of the MORNING EDITION. -• 1 d.:‘);t t at thi• ,a Lot tiie fi•)t, v , SS O tb ' t n cu: off io ti.fs rhri Ciu:z - r's wa‘, cut from ow rlt : ; rd i bo.t, vi it:A t h e pro pe r N•mkowry hs but : very Vilikve aa> c am:deftly des , rted and the h,,,s emptier', so that t h e IrtipreSsion WV. that the tiAtIVCS."OI must hav:: been a ike imprcited It was fortu nate io then i•id• ei that the Cru Zr, asi employ: d unon the gent ervict, h • is now et:LT:teed in, having the er'' Nary Commando(G,. n , ra t Sir Mgt , 6° l; K. C. B ) .1 the China e x pe diti on on board; ot bcf ii Cap aiu Giff.,rd w: , uld in all prob,bilitv bay:: telid some time at the Meob.rs and most like! , tAle r e e , d 0 (1 recovering mar): .he Flirt's stores, and getting hold— few of the natives. We and:nu:rid that the Pi!ot has passed this her stay t ) Singa,qore, in charge of the second biota;' e and a vary of men from the Cruizor, Vtat the ' l d of her hurl appurtenalce;, and cargo, have h• 053 " 6°41 at Letwr en five and six thhusand pounds sterling. • MORTALITY in the AI ET ROPOL'ISI Nfortali l l The following arc the resu l ts o f " A Table 0. • in the Metropolis, show in g the Number of D"to frog .tbe all Causes Registered, in the week ending Satur tioooo 3d April, 1841." The Table is issued from th e of the Wgistrar- General : w e eltlf CAUSES OF DEATH. Epidemic, Endemic. and Contagious Diseases.Toltas6l:lll6.9.4°.l2ls:l Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 137 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of 0 Respiration Diseases of the Hea-t and Bloodvessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other 6 0 Organs of Digestion... Diseases of the Kidn..ls, &c. Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Dtseases of the Joints ' Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c Diseases of Uncertain Seat Old Age, or Natural Decay 6B 0 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 2 8 $ Causes not specified ....." Deaths from all causes BB4 0 Average Weekly Deaths vi etlf Deaths in the Aversgea,4o. W 1 Deaths, i. 16 e 3 e. 21 k 19 0 164 2lt 192 22 3 235 Total BB4 '°re CON' It is stated that under t h e t erm Metropolissl,oolf prised the 32 districts r ercin mentioned, which in,i' t ool City a London within and without the walls, the ra, tbs Liberties of Westminster, the out parishes oti t iss . i bills of re"rtality—and the parishes of St. Ms l lY ~01 Ph St. Pancras ; Kensing'on ; F u lham ; (Chapelry) ; St. Luke, Chelsea; Paddington; ;joi' Stoke Newington ; St. Le on a r d, ti rom lo% ; St , 0. 4 bow ; Camberwell ; Greenwich ; at. Nicholas 0...00' P-nl. Deptford; and Woolwich. The population voefof rat din 1831 was 1,594,890. Th e wee kly av efg bs 1838. 1839, 1840, was obtained by dividing the d ea f the three years by 156. Western Districts North Districts , Central , Districts East Districts South Districts TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING,i March 27. Ar 6o r . l 'o 64 ° 4.3 38 49 52 it 8. 1841 . Highrst Lo vest Daily Mean . General Register-office. Apr THE MARKETS.-SATURD• NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. There was large sup p ly a Meat at market, trade c! '6d.; and prise: incland to g o lower. Beef 3s. 4d. to "'• 8 ,1 to Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; Lamb ss. to 7s. • Ve ni n ' e 3 0 , 3 j. st ?i, ss. Bd. ; Pork 4 3 . to s s . 4d. p er s t one o f ;lbs. "" btty" Poultry in large supply ; prices were sit lower, thou' was dull. Eggs dull of sale at pi evious prices. TEA MARKET. • f ere The mark. t was in a very dull state, and so limits sta° the transactions that prices could not be quoted; 11 * the nearest quotation for Company's Congou, cash. TALLOW AtARKET. t ad_,A W The demand was good for Russian both on the ap ° arrival, and prices were firm at 45 , . 6d. for the fortne 411 s. 9d. for the latter purpose. WHITECHAPEL MARKET. Altittl Veal and Pork sold well ; Beef was no dearer, an d 3..4°' sold decidedly worse. Beef, 3s. to 4s. 6d. ; Aluttons,. to 4s. tad. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 55. Bd. ; Pork, 4s. t° , w Lamb, os. to 7s. Clov tr , 4/. 15 s . t o 61. ; Meadow , 3 '• 41. 155.; Straw, 11. 17s. to 21. COUN ETS dvall4. to s 4. to s. s. s• V. 4 22 30 ;3; 42 • , 8 31 21 27 -- 17 32 23 28 1-- 36 2.: :8 40 4 ,1 27 3) - 94 38 r 4 38 44 • ?.4 34 : 30 ::0 3; 25 19 40 gi A A 7 25 53 40 22 33 48 25 34 1 40 •..4 27 , 7 - 40 26 :12 3 0 29 :18 -- - 41 2U'— 3 c 2.3 s. d. 1 5 d o ;II :3 6 4 0 K ET. EDINBURGH CORN 81A o at. t 1444r1e ) . fiat.' 44 4 ti • (k 4 346 F4l :04 SA• • icau4d29 ° ° 6 31 0 ' Average p. el price i,si . 0 i o. Wheat 8 PR OVISIONS 60 0 I 0 0 6 8 .7 ,8 1 . 7 2 1 :::11 1 :1 - 1 i N0 t u t Ill._ ... er,: 1 1 , 10 5 . I, A d " 1, 1 ,8 1 ' " 1( 1 :Ditto, per est.. , 0 1 , ) , I 0 5 0 7 Eggs, per 4101... t Limo, per -- 511 8 0 Oat.Straw;kp:.!.. 6 ", 6 0 cwt 0 41 0 , Wheal Ditto... 1; 6 2a.atern L0af...,. U 0 i Barley 13itte 5 0 :',,tatoes,l4ll. ) . 0 3 0 4 Hay, I 7 ED1141:U111:11 NIL:AL NIAItKEI" lm ?e , sack or '.64W.11. V er Stole .11 11 ' 0 1 0 Outtlival I I I. B 'l ( 1 3 , S i t t a .e , 7 e n , ,.1 . ,1 e , .. ... ‘ O l • I 8 0 . I'eit,rneat ................. Pot Barley from 28s. to 455. per sacic Wheat. Barley. oat, .• 1 38 Per Qua ter. 'ling on &ndover nantulry Basi gstoke Cirenc'ster Coventry slaveotry De. , •by Howden s. to S. 5 66 5(3 64 s 0 72 54 6$ 64 72 t 6 70 ...- Hoogerford . Mallon . M,o • enhead otti , ghnrn Wantage Warwick W:nchester Y0rk..........., 50 70 (i 4 5! 75 e 0 64 61, 32 - 37 : , 5 32 88 20 85 3 4 40 :3i 40 . 71 , - 65 ..- 40 39 •-• 45 40 , Per Bushel Birmingham s. 41. s. d 70 S 6 s. (1. s. d, 39 4 9 .0. - 40 .... ..• CORNWALL NihRKETS, ;.;.7L0. - ,4lateti at 24 gallons to the bushel.) d • ,; 6 6 6 ge:1116. °') _Wheat. I Harley. _-...---71. A I ----. d. I•' . d. to R. d. s d. t.. s. d. t• 0 s v 6 1 . 17(0._ ...,,, ~ -- . 710 1 _ 0 .. S' 0 / 0 Hel,t.t.we ...., ...... - sBl- 0 43-- „ g d St. Aubteli u 3 • I) 7 IT- 0 3 4 "*. 0 4 9 Hodintil - 0 4 4: ."-.- a :,:," b Askeard - 0 76- 0 3 !°- 0 ' i i Latinceston _ 0 7 f . 0 3 6 -; 6 ... CAM t: I for, i 7 0 7 8 3 8 4 ,-: ' a Pcozance. l7 4 861- 0 40 , ' _. 00 MINING INTEL . IGEV . 7E. 63 10 Qdantity of Comer , res cold at Itedruth !al week... , A v.a4; 4C Produce l* ............ 6 u`" :24..moydimio,omer ...... ••••, 19.2 1 . Am , ilot of sale. 1.4 - 2 5 is. -• Av :rue k .amfaro „ I II E STAG —The t tag's age Is Pat''',:r . r;" i i t by the horn-, which begins to sk;rd abut F bruary, a iti the new horns .:re complete sad 1) ,, -- pt July • r August. At six years tie antlers Or” n or or s , vn on each ,i ; their number is unecri s t o . o l4 ,.. t .,e the y..ars be precise'y aset r ained beyond III" r ye the new horns come ilk,. thnse last shed Il e _,' - n p d o t e g t ' r f ;; stag is pecul.atly beautiful—st ft and s parkli"g" these attributes. frequently alluded to in Es 4te h r i gl eill P i k he hears qui, kly, and his sense of smelling i$ "I,,eXe',"A feet ; his powers of leaping brkt often astoniab i4 "teb rst ` - during the disco ; and in the New Forest a e n e ee 944 ' 4 spit eal'ed the Doer's Leap, where a stag Wag gov e a aril in the agony of de, colle.cei his stre n g l, it is eitme b which so surprised those that sax it , tbst of mismorat.'d by two posts fixed at the extittnig yitru S ' leap ; the spare bet c , ri them is something li ke —The Sportsman hr April, North °I id ,0011_ The annual tea meeting of the City an' London Society for t , e Stipp ‘• of ter" er ft luv a place on Friday at Widte Con dui t House. Bet— .c d ta b. and 800 persons of both sexei sat dosn t o teia. nt lin O ti— hf larve concert room not affording sufficient ace°P:::ne'r,', ani tier room was 6pe. e. l , and in a short "" f o r crowded. A public mei ting was held afiers,ard6perso" inculcation and diff 'skin of ,hr princip!cs o l "T r which aia , presided met by J S. Buckingliarn. 'li e 0 The Roman Cathol,c pru!ates will asseli.nat M Npaynoott: itnm,diately ale- Easter, to co' U-ilquhoun's 8.11 is to affect that Seminary . ' Chronicle. v p. _ SILVER WATCHES LONDON - `„ 11 ',.. B. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, No. of don (opposite the Bank of England), submit for se who ie very large STOCK of SILVER WATCHES, thetion ltd e which are made and finished under the ea, dui iosPe t f o rr perienced workmen on their own premises, and es" for correct performance. F► e n n e g V i n e e r ! ic tu al rn( ,d Watches, cases, w j jewelled, with .. ............... ........ ........... 4 ranted Fine Verti c al W a t c h es , jewelled, hard enamelled . dial, with seconds' hand and double-backed case. ' b warranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled In, four holes, hard enamelled dial, .with second s 0 hand and double-backed engine-turned eas e. ' 8 tr°' warrai,ted Either of the above in silver hunting-eves, O S ' bieb b e l b, A large variety of Second - hand Silver Watches, sf been carefully examined , and can be warranted, at 2h hog , N. - 1,. Second-hand Watches purchased in ex(' ---1 PAPIER MACHE TEA I'RA . ys------7. 600 t L. 50 of FULL ,IZED GOTHIC SHAPE ciT,:aitilit,,,lsie:Ki, jen‘sitvg, Knives, gratis, ieth ntiavjoi Curtains,ri ;4 Ih;ni d.cl,teis 4. i atm! superior 005' 3 inches, Is Sid per foot ; bronzed tenders, 4 feet 10, Or's, ore' iriins, kitchen utensils, ' - the • • furnishing s, and every article in, rtioi.tzery. t. RIPI'ON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford.stree 40. ...-., Established 18- B 1 R 7 1-1 .. CAM(' price' of stoves fenne iron. se.terp,eris.d.,..Asze.npe;r9foop,,o On the 7th inst., at ffackhemh-hill, Mrs. \Vila's° of a son. MARRIED of On: h e 2d inst., at the Eng ish Arnb,sssdor's resideoncieee ii , Thun: Switzer sat', (tali h lit; hard,on, Esq , 3D., of _ s e field Ha 1, Flints, to Mary Louisa, second daughter of tb` G. T. Seymour, of Tyntesfield Wraxi,ll, t-omersetsie. DIED. oat° n e 9th inst., at Bath, Edward Bradley, the r 40 0 0 son O of the 9th inst, at Bath, Edo ard Bradley, t he son of Thomas Burch Western, Esq., of Tattingstese-r Suffolk, aged 16. A i,. VW On the 6th it;st., in Wa'ton-te7race, Ayle‘burr. ,•••-• nee, relit of th . late Jiihn Turner, rsq., of Will. ~, - 4 1 , inst., at i,eciford, Thom ;s Gwyn Eiger , r•s4' On the 8 o f London: Printed PuLlishod hy AIVRDO No. 112, Strand , at The Sun Office, No. it 12 112, Strand, the county of sliddleaex. - 31 un day, Apr, 1841. ~' J EVI CONTRACT DEpAin 'kHE THE C( IN G (.1! UNITED WAND do her p : e / "It, at Person s a Ih iestrs Doel %intact far Tr Nilition of 1 Mice. Treaty, nor Agent for him Mice. I . 4:r I :3 11 1 f artettaTrwy7: llsTdscereana: NW accompi and the ] klia ' engaging G R The SAIL to WAY a STEAM it - Oat,. a and Blot ' 4 l, Pare 441- Past Fivi URAV] D 4l New Fi ti a:TTIso N, I ,Y, at H a i re o'cl ock L a `,%,WiTrAI 44flys o'cl "PaSt 1 / 4 4 R a u kir a BL) T.. u past to. ; . 411 sstati be 11 u sliw yt,w; 1 t b..lll4ll,•e'sastrriee. 44 •4, te J P' let ttial e: 1 /41 Ita llOl, tut ati ! P ahl] -4 1 , 1 ,41 4 7 In