The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-08 00:00:00

Chit* iallittion THE FUNDS-(C BRITISH Bank Stock 1721 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons 95 3i per Cent. Red 100 i New 3i per Cent — New 5 per Cen' Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan. Is6o USING PRICES.) FUNDS. !India Stock — pm Ditto Bonds ....... 42 pm Ditto Old Annuities -- Ditto New Annuities Ea. Bills, 1,000/....2d 49 pm Ditto 5001 47 pm Ditto Small 47 pm Bank Stock for Acct. India Stock for °pg... 260 Consols for Opg 94 • •••.•• FUNDS. Portuguese 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Rusaian, 5 pei cent Ditto, Metallic . FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent 3razilian Bonds... 7O Buenos Ayres6 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1624 2l} Cuba Bonds, 8 per cent Boh Danish, 3 per :ent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 er cent 3o i 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ...... 46 Eastern Counties (23 paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 48 Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) 5 Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) . London and Brighton (50 paid) 35 London and Birmingham (90) ........ 190 Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 5O Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid)... ......... ..• 34 London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4d ,d) London and South Western (411 65 10d pd) 61} Northern and Eastern (45 paid) • Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) lO North Midland Railway (100) Paris and Rouen (20 paid)__ _ 2.5 i Spanish, 5 per cent...... 18i Ditto, Deferred .. French, 5 per cent —f. —c. Exchange —f —c French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, per cent. 53 Ditto, 5 per cent. 101 i South Eastern and Doirer (50 paid) Ditto Scrip (20 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) ... i Ditto New Shares (20 paid) ... ........ • MARYLEBONE—(THIS DAY). Thomas Hunt, an elderly cabman, No. 5,131, was charged with robbing Mr. Henry Harris, of No. 14, Adenham-street, Somers-town, of three sovereigns. The complainant stated that he hired the prisoner's cab last night, after twelve, from the corner of Sid mouth-street, and ordered him to drive to Aldenham street. On the way, witness changed his mind, and ordered the prisoner to drive to Muskett's Coffee house, in Ossuiston-street, which was done, and the cab discharged Witness said, however, that the pri soner might have a cup of coffee at his expense, and he (the prisoner) accepted the same with thanks. After waiting about ten minutes, prisoner informed him that he would charge for time spent there, and demanded eightpence more than he had previously paid him. Witness having no change, held out three sovereigns in his hand, saying, "Take your charge out of that ;" and the prisoner took them, walked out of the room, and drove off. Witness was quite asto nished for a time, but finding that he did not come back, he gave intelligence to the police, who took him into custody. Police-constable 114 S said he found the prisoner on the stand in Holborn, and when he charged him with the robbery, he replied " that the money was a free gift, and he would give it up to no one." Mr. LONG said he did not know which was the more extraordinary conduct, that of the prosecutor for giving, or the cabman for taking, money in such a manner. As it was he would commit him for trial. Alfred Ingall, a stout young man of eighteen, was charged with a criminal assault upon Helen Amelia Cranstoun, a girl of eight years of age, and fully committed for trial. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET_(COURSING)CHAMPION MEET. - ING, WEDNESDAY.--(CONTINUED.) First Ties for the All-Aged Stakes.—Minerva beat Selina •, Railroad beat Willy-go-faster ; The Miller's Only Daughter beat Victorina ; Margaret beat Admiral ; Westwind beat Knab ; Banner beat Jewess ; Busy Body beat Agrippa ; Ajax beat Lapwing. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. - - - PORTSMOUTH. — The Thunderer, 84, Captain Pring, is ordered to proceed f;om the Downs to Plymouth , and, according to report, there to be equipped, to re inforce the squadron on the South American station. The Pique, 36, Captain the Hon. M. Stopford, is ready for sea at Spithead, waiting final orders. She is to proceed again to the North American and West India station. The new steam-ship Thunderbolt, built at the dock-yard, is commissioned by Commander G. N. Broke, 1840, reported for the Mediterranean. She is equipping in the basin. The new steamer Fire brand is to proceed to the river, iu order to receive her engines and machinery, preparatory to being com missioned with the Cormorant.and Acheron steamers. The Racehorse, 18, recently paid off at Plymouth, is being surveyed for re-commissioning. The Lily, 18, Commander Allen, according to letters of the 12th September from the Cape of Good Hope, is expected to be in England by:Christmas, to be paid off. The Salamander steam-frigate, Commander A. S. Hammond, put into Funchal Roads, Madeira, on the llth October, bound to Rio de Janeiro, having on board the Special Minister to the Cov!t of Brazil, the Right lion. Henry Ellis. The brig Wasp, 18, Commander Drew, remains at Spithead for final orders. She takes out dispatches for Sir Charles Adam, in the West Indies, also several assistant-surgeons to join the flag-ship Illustrious, 72. The _Dutch corvette, Boras, 24, still remains at the Motherbank, wind bound. The Cambridge, 78, Captain Barnard, and War spite, 59, Captain Lord John Hay, have not yet ar rived from Gibraltar. The former will go to Chat ham to be paid off, and the latter, it is said, to the Mediterranean. The ships fitting out in this harbour are the Sama rang, 26, Captain Belcher, for surveying the coast of China ; Frolic, 16, Commander Willis, and Thunder bolt, steamship, Captain G. Broke. The Southampton, 52, Captain Hillyar (late flag ship of Vi ce -Ad m i ra l Sir Edward King, K.C.8.), was, paid off on Saturday, at Chatham. TUESDAY, DEC. 6.—The Warspite, 50, Capt. Lord John Hay, C. 8., returned to-day from Gibraltar, to which plac e s h e had conveyed his Excellency-General Sir Robt. Wilson, G.C.8., appointed Governor of that fortress, vice Alex.lWoodford. The Rodney, 92, was the only ship of war left in the Bay at the departure of the Warspite, the Cambridge, 78, having left .for England, and may hourly be expected. The wind having veered to northward, the Pique, 36, Capt. the Hon. M. Stopford, sailed early this morning for her destination, the West Indies. The Wasp, 18, Com mander Drew (distinguished for his gallantry during the Canadian outbreak), still remains at Spithead, destined for the West Indies.—Brighton Gazette. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—We must really come to the rescue of Messrs. Acland and Dickinson from the ruthless Post, ere it utterly make an end of these twin pillars of the Ministry of its own party. "We have again, says the Post, " looked through the speeches of the Conservative Members for Somerset, upon which we commented yesterday. The object of our search was to find some avowal of some high principle of duty—some . patriotic sentiment — some generous sympathy—some affectionate re mark. Our search has been in vain. We find nothing that a heartless Whig might not have spoken." We shall not contest the Post's remark, ,that the Peel Conformers are heartless Whigs. Heartless men generally appear when they address uncongenial audiences with unwelcome truths, which truths they had previously suppressed, to gain votes from those audiences. Heartless men generally appear in enforcing views not the product of their own minds—and views the hearty enforcement of which displaced others, to make room for them. Heartless men genera ll y appear w he n confronted with those other, who—their hearts tell them— have a right to feel 'their s swe ll w ith an honest pride in hearing their conviction s ec h oe d b y th ose w h o had decried, their views adopted by those who had de nounced them. All this i s h eart l ess wor k enoug h for the party in power doubtless : they are naturally enough heartless Whigs ; but we, the Outs, have ac quired ample right, by the new tendencies of our for mer opponents, to take heart, and exclaim Sursum corda !—as Sir Robert Peel (after Burke) one day admonished the Glasgow students. It is good for us to be here ! The Ins who drove us out, now carry us out. Far from the fact being, as has been somewhere asserted, that Whigs have grown ashamed of the name, you may know a Whi& s now by his loftier port, and his air of rectitude vindicated. Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took, • Friends to congratulate their friends would haste, • And old inveterate foes saluted as the paes'd. But we return to our apology for 'Messrs. Acland and Dickin son —" Things," exclaims the Post, " have ,changed so as to enable Mr. Acland to throw aside ell delicacy in alluding to the Whig gentle man, Mr. S an f or d, an d . to b e ver y glad to meet him upon a public occasio n . 'We wish Mr. Acland would speak out, and tell the inu blic what he means." Now thi s i s very h ar d on *r. Acland's " delicacy." On the occasion of the rape of the Sa hines, we don't suppose the ladies spoke out, yet it appeared afterwards they were no t sorry to be trans ferred to the opposite camp. Here has evidently been a rape of the Tories ; these delicate " deserters ," as the Post calls them, have been borne off in triur,ail in the nervous l ical grasp of Lords John R uss ell an d ogPal merston. Mr. Sanford sits with his blushing conquests beside him, who " throw aside all delicacy:" We wish him joy of his brace of bowies fortunes, pet haps unex pected in their frankness. STANDARD.—And now one word to the discon- s, tented Conservatives and to the Leaguers. Let these persons answer the one the other. The discontented Conservatives say that they have not sufficient pro tection ; the Leaguers, on the other hand, assert that any protection is too much. The sayings of those in cendiaries are, indeed, worthless; but their doings are, at least evidence in the matter of fact. Why are there Leaguers ? Why is there a League ? Thieves do nct force a house which they know to be empty; and, generally, where there is nothing to plunder there will be no thieves. The existence and activity of the League is, therefore, proof that agriculture is pro tected under the present law, and protected to an extent which stimulates the cupidity of the Leaguers. How, then, are the majority of Conservatives, who never demanded more than a reasonable protection to industry and enterprise, inconsistent in avowing themselves contented ? But the farmers are suf fering : we know it and lament it ; but if they want to know the real • cause of their suffering let them look beyond the Corn-law of last session, let them look to the PoOr•law of 1834 ; that is the law which has universally diminished con sumption. If they who have realised their twenties and thirties of thousands of pounds per an num out of the reduced wages of labour, could, like Mrs. Quickly's tyrant, " put all the substance .of the poor into that fat belly of theirs," the farmers might suffer less by the accumulation; but unfortu nately though the A.'s, and B.'s and C.'s of the League starve by thousands—they eat but as units; and the farmer loses in demand all that the money getters gain by starvation of the poor. The adop tion of the scheme to reduce the people "of a coarser kind of food" was the severest blow ever inflicted upon the agriculture of the country Ireland does not grow in proportion to its extent and population one-fourth as much wheat as Eng land; but wheat is nevertheless grown—and it bears a much lower price in Ireland than in Eng ' land. Why ? Because the mass of the Irish people do not eat wheat. Let the condition of English labourers be permanently brought down, as the New Poor-law will bring it down, to the condition of the Irish labourer, and three-fourths of the wheat now grown in England would want a market. In the same way it is the degrada tion and poverty of the labouring classes in Poland and other countries on the Continent which enables, or rather compels, the farmers and landowners in those countries to send wheat to England to over whelm our markets, if there were no Corn-laws to regulate its admission. " Live and let live," is an excellent rule between landlord and tenant ; but is it not just as good a rule between employer and la bourer ? The farmer who, according to the phrase, screws his labourer with that instrument of torture with which the New Poor-law furnishes him, affords to the landlord a hint and a justification for screwing him in turn. A MARRIAGE FORBIDDEN. Yesterday forenoon Trinity Church, New-road, Marylebene, was the scene of a most extraordinary occurrence, and which will in all probability result in criminal proceedings. It appears that a retired publican, named Pearse, residing at the eastern part of the metropolis, some time since separated from his wife, who, as he alleges, eloped from him with a green-grocer living in the neighbourhood, and went off to America. Since that period Mr. Pearse has paid his addresses to the daughter of a highly respectable tradesman at the east-end, and Tuesday morning was fixed for the marriage ceremony at Whitechapel church. The bride and bridegroom, with one or two other friends, were in attendance, and the marriage ceremony is said to have been pro ceeding, when an elderly man and woman rushed breathless into the church, and called on the clergyman to stop. These parties turned out to be the father and mother of Mr. Pearse's first wife, who are also said to be in respectable circumstances. They forbade the marriage, and having explained the circumstances under which they did so, the officiating clergyman refused to proceed, and the parties greatly disappointed, left the church. Determined not to be disappointed, Mr. Pearse, with the consent of his in tended, lost no time in procuring a license, and yes terday morning the " happy couple" drove up in a post-chaise to Trinity Church, New-road, and having presented the license to the Rev. Mr. Baker, the officiating curate, the marriage was solemnized by that Rev. gentleman, the clerk accommodating the parties by becoming " father" to the young lady. The ceremony had scarcely been completed, and the post-chaise containing the new married couple was yet in sight, when a sene of the most indescribable uproar ensued at the church porch, in consequence of the arrival of the parents of the bridegroom's first wife, who found to their dismay that they were "just five minutes too late." The riot made by them was such, that a crowd of persons assembled. A vestryman, named Glasier, who happened to pop in at the moment and hear the tale, directed Blaby, one of the beadles, immediately to'run for a policeman, and take the bride groom into custody on a charge of bigamy; to which he received the laconic reply of "La, Sir, the lady and gentleman are by this time a mile or two on their road to Somersetshire," to which county it appeared Mr. Pearse had mentioned in the Vestry-room he in tended to convey his bride for the purpose of spend ing the honeymoon. The parents of the first and still living wife continued to storm most lustily, and her father declared he would immediately pursue the fugitives, and spend every farthing he possessed in bringing "the villian" to justice." THE Fots.—The fog, which was " bad enough" yesterday, deepened in intensity during the latter part of the night, and had so completely enveloped the Strand and all other parts adjacent to the Thames this morning in its dusky and impenetrable mantle, as to have literally converted day into night. The gas has been turned on in all the shops, and candles were obliged to be used to carry on the necessary business of the day. 'We find that it was the same on Tuesday in Paris. We fear that many accidents must necessarily have taken place from unavoidable collisions on the river (especially), as well as in the streets and roads of and about the metropolis. About twelve o'clock, however, the atmosphere cleared up, so that the use of candles in most instances might be dis pensed with. GERMAN RIDING.—As is the general practice on the Continent, they seem to ride rather for parade than pleasure. Their horsemanship is, in fact, the most uncomfortable thing in the -world, and makes one's back ache to see it. They sit as erect as posts, and jolt along without springing in the saddle, in a way that must make every joint of their back-bones, as well of as their limbs, undergo the most cruel of martyr doms. They tell you that the English are the worst riders in the world, because in a sharp trot they lean forward and rise in the stirrups. But knowledge of anatomy and the common principles of mechanical a s th e y philosophy might show them, that to sit perpendi cularly,do, converts all the bones in their bodies into pestles to pound each other to pieces, and makes mgloissthpmaainn,ll on y a t n h d e their wh o l e we i g ht come b ump, b ump on t h e i r h orses ' detr contrary,rn ral throwingl yt them t • backs, k E s, n pillar of his bones out of the perpendicular, brings his mus cles and tendons to act as s • prings ; and by that gentle, and, in a good rider, almost imperceptible risin • •g in the s tirrups, he accords his motion h • armomously to that of his horse, and bothgo together at any speed with a delightful smoothness and elasticity, which give a spur to the animal spirits, and make rapid riding one of the most genuine luxuries of life.—Howitt's Rural and Domestic Life of Germany. CANTON AND VENlCE.—Captain B. Hall has no ticed a remarkable resemblance in many respects be tween the cities of Canton and Venice. There is an exact similitude between one of the canal bridges in the latter city and one in Canton. The streets in both places are paved, he says, in the same style ' they are of the same width ; have the same degree of light; the shops are just of the same dimensions and forms ; the houses are equal in height. The only difference seems to be in the signs. In China each shop has a large, finely japanned board, six feet long, with gilt letters, hanging, not horizontally, like ours in Europe, but perpendicularly, and left loose to flap about with the wind on one side of the door. Neither in Venice nor in Canton are there any wheeled car riages or horses ; the same method of carrying loads at the end of poles across the shoulders being prac tised in both places, a circumstance that tends greatly to heighten the unexpected resemblance between two places so remote from each other, and so differently circumstanced. FATAL ACCIDENT DURING THE FOG ON MON DAY NIGHT.—Mr. Baker held an inquest yesterday, at the town of Ramsgate, Wapping, on the body of Joseph Butler, aged 34, a Custom-house officer, em ployed in the London Docks. From the evidence of John Blyth it appeared that on Monday night he was on duty with the deceased in the London Docks. At nine o'clock he was in his hammock, on board the Thomas Hold. when the deceased bade him good night. He, answered him, and, as deceased left the vessel, ad vised him to be very cautious in stepping ashore, as it was a foggy night. At that moment he heard a splash in the water, but thou g h he immediately ran on deck, h e cou ld not see , th e fog was so dense, who had fallen in. The drags were, without loss of time, procured, and, after a search of half an hour, the body of the deceased was found.—Verdict — " ACei dental Death." POISONING GANtx.—We regret to say that some evil disposed person or persons have been poisoning the pheasants in the preserves at Stow, and that a large quantity have been found dead by the keepers. We sincerely hope . the parti es w ill b e f o und out.— Cambridge Advert i ser. A rec ently-publish ed census o f V an Di emen 's Land to the Ist January gives the following totals :—males, 34,504 ; females, 15,712. " The disproportion of the sexes," remarks the Australasiatie Review, "is a grievous calamity. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1842. BOW-STREET. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MAN SION-HO USE. A young man, named Richard Mahony, one of the cutters to Mr. Benjamin Prew, an extensive tailor in Aldgate, was charged with having robbed his master of coats, trowsers, waistcoats, &c. &c. Mr. Prew said, that having had reason to suspect that the prisoner was robbing him, he searched him, and in his coat, which he had left above stairs, found in a secret pocket, which opened in the back in the inside, all the cloth and trimming neces sary for completing a coat. The secret pocket was so constructed round the coat that a large peice of cloth could be concealed in it without at all showing bulk or interfering with the shape ; and the prisoner having at all times cloth at his command, to the va lue of upwards of 1,000/.; might have committed most destructive plunder. Witness believing that he should find more of his property in the prisoner's lodgings, caused them to be searched,and,accordingly, a ready-made coat, and other articles of dress, were found in them. A cutter, into whose place the pri soner had been chosen, was tried and convicted at the Central Criminal Court for a similar offence, and sen tenced to imprisonment for twelve, months with hard labour. Mr. Prew here exhibited the coat-pocket to the Lord Mayor, who declared that it was most ingeni ously contrived for the concealment of property. The LORD MAYOR—Pray what do you give this man per week ? Mr. Prew—l give him 30s. a week and his keep. The LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, do you wish to say anything to this terrible accusation ? Prisoner—l cannot deny the gailt of my conduct, but it was only within a day or two that I had commenced the plunder. The LORD MAYOR—Although you have such ex cellent wages, where other tradesmen are starving with large families, ye':. you plunder in the most outrageous manner, and you deliberately make a pocket into which you can stow away an immense quantity of stolen goods. The prisoner declared that his coat was merely ripped in the back by accident. The LORD MAYOR—And I suppose the cloth and trimmings of the coat fell accidentally into it.—(A. laugh.) You must make a better excuse to the jury before whom I shall send you. The prisoner was then committed for trial, and the LORD MAYOR desired the prosecutor to exhibit the coat in which the plunder had been secreted to the Court, and no doubt the delinquent would be more severely punished'than his predecessor had been. A poor destitute creature named Emma Briggs was charged with having annoyed a Mr. Samuel Knotley. The circumstances excited no small degree of in terest. Mr. Knotley said that the defendant abused him, and prevented him from attending to his business. The LORD MAYOR said it was probable the woman had some motive for such conduct, and asked whether there had been any intimacy between her and the complainant in her more prosperous days ? Mr. Knotley said that, some years ago he knew her very well ; but she was now an infamous woman, and a complete outcast. The LORD MAYOR—Perhaps you have made her the poor creature she appears to be, Mr. Knotley ? The defendant—My Lord, he is married to my sister ; and all I wanted of him was that he would, for God's sake, let me have a few shillings to take me down to Canterbury workhouse, where, on accpunt of my father's respectability, and my own claim upon the parish, the authorities will willingly receive me. The LORD MAYOR—Why, Mr. Knotley, you might, I think, have accommodated so near a relation going on such an errand with a trifle. Mr. Knotley—lt is doubtful whether she is my wife's sister. The defendant—Doubtful! Oh, good God, how can you speak such words ? You well know my re lationship to your wife. The LORD MAYOR—I suppose her mother knew whether they were sisters or not ? Mr. Knotley— My wife's mother was so exceedingly ill upon the birth of my wife's sister, that the new-born child was at once handed over to a wet nurse, who, it is sus pected, changed her for this person, and this woman is so depraved that we believe there is every reason for persevering in that opinion. The defendant declared that there was not the least foundation for such a cruel statement. Her mother had left her the sum of 2801., all she died worth in the world, and Mr. Knotley, who never denied the near ness of the relationship when she had the money, had induced her to lend it to him in order to enable him to set up a Mexican chocolate manufactory. In that speculation he failed, and then he tried to bring her in as a partner, and her father destroyed himself in consequence the very bankruptcy by which she lost all her property. That was all the depravity of which she had been guilty. Mr. Knotley—She was my partner, my Lord, and of course was obliged to incur the same responsibility which I incurred myself. As for her father he was as infamous as herself. The LORD MAYOR—Why do you call the pri soner infamous—she seems to owe a great portion of her calamities to you ? Mr. Knotley—She was se duced by a Scotch clergyman, and she is a most in famous person, Irepeat, and she has ruined my family. The LORD MAYOR—You got hold of her money, did you not ? Mr. Knotley—She embarked in the business with me, and of course the money she brought into it was lost. But all this has nothing to do with my complaint against her. The LORD MAYOR—It is most unmanly in you to speak in such a manner of the unhappy woman. It is evident that while she had the means of benefiting you she was neither accused by you of being infa mous, or of being a changed child, but now that she is pennyless, you malign her. You had better send her to Canterbury, where she will, it seems, be re cognised. The defendant—My Lord, there are many there who knew my father's respectability, and I have no doubt of obtaining an asylum there. Mr. Knotley—l shall not give her anything to take her to Canterbury. The LORD MAYOR—Then I shall. Defendant, you must not go to this gentleman any more. I shall take care of you, and send you off comfortably to the place you are desirous of going to. An immense crowd of persons attended to witness the final examination of Thacker, the tailor, of Cle ment's-lane, and Feltham, and Sutton, his journeymen, and Mrs. Sutton, the wife of Sutton, who were charged on Monday with having taken away goods upon which a seizure had been made upon a wr-rant of distress for rent. It will be recollected that a broker had put in his man with a warrant of distress, and that evidence was brought forward to show that Billing, the person put in possession, had been induced by two of the pri soners to leave the premises and the goods, and to go and enjoy a " slap up" song at a public-house called the Grapes, in Compton-street, and that in the interim another of the prisoners went to the house in Cle ment's-lane, and removed the cloth and other property to a house in Clerkenwell. Mrs. Neill, of No. 25, Margaret-street, Wilming ton-square, stated that she lodged in the front par -I..ur on the ground floor, and that when she was in bed on Saturday night a knock came to the door, and upon looking out at the windows she saw Mrs. Sutton, who said she had some things belonging to Mr. Thacker ; that she let her and Feltham, who was in her company, into the house ; and that the latter de posited the pieces of cloth and other property in her room. Witness had not the least suspicion that any- i Mr.awsr yolghhaehaek apprehended d er b , e whom she i engoingifis premisesovrsard, and supposed knew vl ,waonudl would had e seized 07 0 r o 1 l rent d id? robbed, sent th e goo d s t o l ipr f or secur i ty. The n A o i t rs h . e Nl_ ar ei t l hat the er- Justins (from Mr. Fl ower ' s o ffi ce) conten d e d , whether the e part giving of the prisoners, of the k e t hyast wasthea questionv oluntary a compulsory act, and that from all th at h a d b een goodstainilry. n ja L ou o s. A hd t bReDe Al R— stated it was evident no compulsion whatever had been used. It was plain, too, that if an offence had been committed by the removal of the goods, Mr. Thacker had nothing to answer for in that respect, for nobody had seen him in the transaction at all. Be sides if he had authorised Feltham to take away the property, it amounted to nothing but the impossibility that a man could rob himself. The LORD MAYOR said it was quite undeniable, from the evidence of Mrs. Neill, that P.lrs. Sutton and Feltham were concerned in robbing the house of which the poor foolish fellow Billing had been put in posses sion ; that Sutton had enticed Billing away, and that Thacker was privy to the whole proceeding. If the business had not been detec:ed and properly followed up by Inspector Walton, Mr. Thacker would, no doubt, not only have appropriated the goods, but would have come down upon the broker for the 801., which i.e said the goods were worth, although they were not worth half the money. Mr. Justins then proceeded to show that Billing was wholly negligent of his duty, and he also disputed the validity of the warrant. It appeared, from the statement made by a woman of the town, that she and Billing, and Sutton and Feltham, had, on the Thursday night before the re moval of the goods, sat up drinking beer, and playing " All Fours," on Mr. Thacker's premises ; and in the course of the examination Mr. Justins very se verely shook the testimony of the broker's man, whose weakness it was very easy to see, but of whose in tegrity no question seeme d to be entertained by any body. The LORD MAYOR—I hold Thacker to bail in the sum of 501., Sutton and: Mrs. Sutton in the sum of 1001. each, and Feltham in the sum of 2001., to answer any charge which may be brought against them upon the subject. The defendants were then removed. John Garner, described as a porter, aged nineteen years, but well known to the police as a thief, was yesterday brought before Mr. Twyford, charged with indecently assaulting Mr. Benjamin Colls, a draper, residing at No. 2, Gray's Inn-lane, robbing him of threepence in the public-street, and attempting to extort money from him under the following circum stances : The prosecutor stated that shortl y after three o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday last he was passing along the Strand, and happened to stop at the window of a print shop for a minute or two, between Southampton street and Exeter-street, when the prisoner came up and stood by him. He then felt the prisoner press against him, which he thought, as there were other persons looking at the prints, was purely accidental, and he took no notice of the circumstance. In a short time the prisoner placed his hand, in an indecent man ner, upon witness's person, which caused him to leave the spot, and as he was proceeding up Southampton street prisoner followed him, and asked for a half-pint of beer or a few halfpence to procure it, to which witness at first made no reply ; but on the dem and being repeated frequently witness crossed the street to avoid him. The prisoner still followed, frequently urging witness to give him beer, and seeing he, was not likely to de sist without using determined language, witness said, "I shall give you nothing, you, may go about your business.' The prisoner then said, "I'll not leave you, unless you give me a glass of ale ;" and thinking the fellow would go away after receiving a trifle, witness gave him a_penny-piece and two halfpence to get rid of him. The moment the prisoner got the money, he held it in his open hand, and said, " There, now, I shall give this to the first policeman I meet with, unless you give me some more." Wit ness said.he had no more. "Then," said the prisoner, "what have you more? Unless you give me more, I shall hand you over to the policeman." Witness then said, " I have only a few halfpence more," which he handed to him, thinking the prisoner would go away. Witness did so through fear, recollecting the conduct of the prisoner at the shop window ; upon which the prisoner again said, " If you give me ac rown, I shall go away ; but if not, I shall hand you over to the police." 'Witness declared he had 'no more, and requested the prisoner would leave him ; but the prisoner, in a menacing manner, replied, "You have something you can make money of; you have got a watch." Witness said, yes he had, and then the prisoner insisted he should pledge it for a crown, to give him, which upon his refusing to com ply with, said, " I shall not wait a minute longer, but call out police directly, and give you in charge, unless you give me a crown." Witness by this time ecame very much terrified, and said, " Then where is a pawnbroker's shop." " Oh," replied the prisoner, " I shall take you to one," at the same time leading him through several courts into Long-acre, and on the way he said, "I must have more than a crown." " Then, how much do want ?" said witness ; to which the prisoner replied, " Well, you must give me 21." On arriving at a pawnbroker's shop, the prisoner said he would wait outside while witness went in to pledge his watch, and on relating the circumstance to Mr. Priest, the pawnbroker, he procured the assistance of a friend, with whom-he went out, and took the prisoner into custody. On being brought into the sbop, and told he was about to be charged with attempting to extort money from the prosecutor, he declared he had never seen the gentleman before. Previous to entering the pawnbroker's, the prisoner told witness that from his appearance his character was worth more than 21., and a constable being sent for the prisoner was con veyed to the station-house. Mr. Priest said that about four o'clock in the after ' noon the prosecutor entered his shop, and said he wished to have a private conversation with him. He was very much excited, and, after detailing the cir cumstances just spoken of, he gave a description of the prisoner, who was waiting outside. Witness instantly went out, and, having asked the prisoner if he was Waiting for any person, he replied he was not. The prosecutor was then called out, and, pointing to the prisoner, he said, " That's the man." The prisoner was then brought in, and being told the nature of the charge, said he never saw the prosecutor before.: The constable who received the charge, on search ing the prisoner, found the sum of 3d. and two dupli cates upon him. t In answer to the charge, the prisoner declared he never saw the prosecutor before, and he was totally innocent. Mr. TWYFORD ordered him to be fully committed to Newgate for trial. TH-STREET. LAMBS Applications were made by two persons to Mr. Henry for his advice and assistance under the follow ing and somewhat novel circumstances : The applicants s tated that on Monday night last they went with three friends to the Pavilion Theatre in the Whitechapel-road, and paid for seats in the boxes, for the purpose of witnessing the performances, but as the curtain was about to be raised a broker en tered the house with an execution for arrears of rent, as they (the ap plicants) understood, a n d s e i ze d u p on all the properties, so that the performances could not be proceeded with, and they (the applicants) as well as the whole of the audence were obliged to leave the th ea tr e without having their money restored to them. ithe T h he e y r he werei anxious to a scer t a i n f rom hi s W ors hi p v could assist them in getting back their admission money, or inform them how they could best recover it. Af r . H EN RY told them he had no jurisdiction what ever in the case, and could not therefore assist the applicants. In a short time after an application was made on behalf of an omnibus proprietor, who had eight horses in the theatre at the time the execution was levied, and the animals were taken possession of by the broker with the other property, though the proprie tom had merely hired them by the night to be used in the performance of the piece of Mazeppa. Mr. HENRY, as in the former application, told the parties he had no power to interfere in the matter, as the broker was justified in law in seizing such property. MONEY MARKET and Gil Nk,WS CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. SUN.—The Stock market closed rather heavily this afternoon, but principally as regards the Consolidated Three per Cents. for the opening, the bargains being made at 93i to 94. Exchequer Bills did not rally from 465. to 48s. premium ; East India Bonds were 455. premium; Bank Stock touched 1721 to 173 ; Re duced Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 to 101, and Long Annuities at 12i to 12 9-16. The Foreign Market exhibited some increase of ac tiviti. Active Spanish Bonds were 18 to 181, and the three per Cents. 23 to 231. The Mexican Secu rities did not rule so steady, being depressed to 301 and 30i for the Five per Cents., and to 8i for the De ferred. Portuguese New Five per Cents. were marked 38 ; Chilian improved to 90; Colombian to 211 ; and Brazilian rose to 69i and 70. The Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. fluctuated from 521 to 53, and the Five per Cents. were firm at 101 f. The market for Railway Shares, in which a mode rate business is doing, was very firm again to-day, notwithstanding the heaviness of our own stocks. All the lines dealt in early in the day maintained their price, while transfers were effected also in the follow ing :—Eastern Counties, New, w ere 28 ; Birmingham, 101 ; ditto Quarters, 25 ; Manchester and Leeds, New, 1; and South Western, 19i premium. Edin burgh and - Glasgow were 2, and Blackwall 11 dis. There was a small public sale of teas this afternoon, which went off heavily, the lots that found buyers being taken at lower rates. Common Congou is Is. sd. per lb. REFORM DEMONSTRATION TO JOAN URE, ESQ., or CEoY.—The citi zen s of Glasgow, and the Liberal majority of the Town Council, favourable to the prin ciples of reform, free trade, and equitable representa tion, having resolved to give the venerable Mr. Ure of Cry a public dinner, on the occasion of his re tiring from the City Council, at the age of 83 years, the occasion -w as celebrated in the Town - hall on Thursday night at five o'clock , w ith more than wonted asirit and hil ar i t Nearly 200 of our most respect bled citizen s , i nc luding the Liberal Bailies and a great proporti on o f t h e Reform majority of the Coun cil, sat dow n to dinner , a nd the speeches and general proceeding s were suc h as reflected the highest credit on the leading Reformers and the principles they profess. Bailie Hastie occupied the chair, and was supported right and left by Messrs. Wallace, of Kelly, M•r-) Councillors Small, Lumsden, Cross, and the .Rev. Mr. Harvey, of Calton, along w ith Mr. Ure, the guest of th e evening. The croupiers were Bailie Anderson and Councillor John Hamilton, supported by Councillors Brodie, Whitehead, Orr, Stewart, Tur ner, Bell, and others of our reform councilors.—Glas gow Argu s . - - • - - - - Woomvicu, Dec. 6. _The Sultana, Arab ship-of war, whose NalGador, or Captain, recently rendered himself so conspicuous at the Guildhall, London, by appearing there with the view of gutting married to an Englishwoman, sailed on Saturday from Woolwich, and was towed down the river by a hired steamer. The Ambassador of the Imam of Muscat interfered, and by his influence prevented the captain from mar rying, and he has now left the country without being permitted to take any female with him. It was for tunate the vessel sailed before frost or snow set in, as had such been the case the crew would have been under the necessity of wintering here, owing to their total incapacity to work during the severe weather to which our northern climate is subject. GUNPOWDE R TEA.—On the occasion of the 30th depot firing a feu de joie in commemoration of the success of our arms in China, a gentleman accosted another in the street to inquire the object of the firing. " Dont you know," he replied, " that our old friend, Sir Hugh Gough, has compelled the Chinese to give - us their Congou and Bohea teas in exchange for our gunpowder ? and the 30th depot is just discharging their samples."--Galway Vindicator. GOVERNMENT AND THE SCOT TISH POOR-LAW. (From the Glasgow Courier.) The following correspondence is of importance, as it possesses more than a local interest : " COPY OF A LETTER FROM MR. WALLACE TO SIR R. PEEL, DART., DATED KELLY, NOV 17, 1842. " Mr. 'Wallace presents his compliments to Sir Robert Peel, and begs to request his early and par ticular attention to a memorial sent herewith from the unemployed in the Own of Greenock to Sir R. Peel ; also a letter from Provost Baine, the Chief Magistrate of Greenock, to Mr. 'Wallace, on the matters set forth in the memorial; and by the same post by which these will be sent, Mr. Wallace sends a copy of the Greenock Advertiser, in which Sir Robert Peel will find an account of the pr6ceedings which took place at a public meeting of this county on the 10th of this month ' • in which Sir Robert Peel will see the resolutions which were come to respect ing an assessment for the relief of the unemployed, and also for an application to the Executive Govern ment for a grant of public money, and an issue of clothing for them and their families. " Mr. 'Wallace would farther request Sir Robert Peel's special attention to the application of the un employed in Greenock for work instead of money, by causing to be built and furnished, in the excellent dockyard and foundries which abound in that town, steam-ships with steam-engines for the navy or for any other Government purpose. Mr. Wallace takes leave to say that, were this suggestion to be gone into, it would be the immediate happy means of getting all the trades, and many of the unemployed labourers, in the town of Greenock to work ; and, therefore, he most earnestly implores Sir Robert Peel to submit this proposal to her Majesty's Ministers, as one means, if not the only means, of giving employment, which eventually would not be attended with any perma nent outlay or loss to the country. " Mr. 'Wallace takes this opportunity of thanking Sir IL Peel for the reply he made so promptly to a late communication, and begs earnestly an answer to this and the enclosed memorial, at his earliest con venience." The following letter from Sir Robert Peel, in reply to a Memorial from the Unemployed of Greenock, soliciting aid from Government, .has been received by Mr. Wallace, of Kelly, N.P. : 3 COPY OF A LETTER FROM SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART TO MR. WALLACE, DATED DRAYTON MANOR, FAZE LEY, Nov. 22. " I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th of November, transmitting to me a letter from Provost Baine, the Chief Magistrate of Greenock, and a Memorial addressed to me by the unemployed in the town of Greenock. " As this memorial has been forwarded by you, I request that you will have the goodness to inforni i the memorialists that it has been duly received by me. " That the state of the law in Scotland in respect to the relief of the destitute has attracted the serious at tention of her Majesty's Government, and that mea sures are now in progress for instituting a full and comprehensive inquiry into that important subject, with a view to the amendment of the existing law. " That I deeply regret to hear of the distress and privations under which the memorialists and their families are suffering ; but that I have not authority, and do not consider that it would be consistent with my duty, to adsiance money from the public funds for the relief of that distress. " That I feel a strong confidence that there is an alternative, in reference to the state of distress, other than that which the memorialists contemplate ; namely, that the sympathy and kind feelings of those who are possessed of property will, by voluntary con tributions, supply any defect which there may be in the existing law in respect to the assessment of pro perty, and will provide relief in cases wherein it may be absolutely necessary to afford it. " This confidence, which I should feel on general grounds, from my respect for the character of the peo ple of Scotland, is strengthened by the resolutions of a public meeting to which you call my attention, in re ference to a voluntary assessment of property for the relief of the destitute. " That I will transmit to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that part of the memorial which prays for the transfer to the port of Greenock of a portion of the work which may be required for the public service, in the building and equipping of steam vessels, or any other description of shipping. "This is a question which must be in a great mea sure decided by, considerations of public economy, and of the comparative cost to the public of executing the works referred to at Greenock, or other places. " I have the honour to be, &c., " ROBERT PEEL." Major Uniacke, of the Royal Marines, who was killed at Ching-Kiang-foo, whilst gallantly leading the Marines of the Cornwallis against the walls of the city, formerly resided at Stonehouse. Major Uniacke was a gallant and distinguished officer. He was in the general action with the combined fleets of France and Spain, July 23d, 1805. The Spanish ship of the line, El Firme, having struck, he boarded and took possession of her with forty Marines, having charge of several hundred prisoners. He was pre sent at the siege of Cadiz, and the expedition to Ma laga, and was in the Sea Horse when she captured a French frigate. He was at the capture of Alex andria, and in all the affairs on the Potomac, as well as at Baltimore and New Orleans, where he was se verely wounded in the knee-joint ; at the capture of the flotilla with Captain Lockyer, in the barge of the Sea Horse, when every individual on board was killed or wounded. He was rewarded by a sword from the Patriotic Fund. He had been repeatedly engaged in the Chinese expedition, and led his men to the walls with undaunted courage. He has left an amiable and accomplished widow, and a young and talented daughter, to lament their loss.— Devonport Telegraph. GHUZNEE PRIZE IDOLS.—Some of the papers men tion the bringing away the celebrated gates of Ghuznee by General Nott, as if it were the General's own idea carried into effect; but we are informed that it was one of Lord Ellenborough's instructions to him to bring them back to India, whence, as many of our readers know, they were taken upwards of eight hundred years since, by Mahmood the First, on his return from his twelfth and last invasion of the Hindoo land. All our home " Overland " readers may not be aware that they were taken from the famous Brahmin temple of Sumnat, in Guzerat, of which Mahmood having broken up a huge Idol, notwithstanding that its priests offered him several crores of rupees (or millions sterling) to forego his iconoclastic design, discovered in its belly such store of diamonds, pearls, rubies, and other pre cious stones, that the sum offered as ransom was a mere nothing in the comparison—a regular Belly-God that! What the particular purpose of the Governor- General is, in having the gates brought back, we do not yet well know, but it is probably to send them to England as curiosities and mementos, for he cannot design to bestow them on any Hindoo temple of the present day (he would raise a loud religious outcry if he did), but it may be intended as a political mark of our late triumph in Central Asia, and one which will exalt the British name in Hindoo estimation, for depriving the Mussulmans of such a trophy of their conquest over the followers of Brahma. Mahmood's mace also, with which he struck off the Idol's nose, is being brought away from its place in the mosque at Ghuznee at which the gates were fixed. Englishman, Oct. 13. QUALIFICATIONS OF A MISSIONARY TO THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS.—The object of missionary exertion in Polynesia is unquestionably important, and no means, separated from religion, seem adequate to the accomplishment of it. Simple instruction in letters and the arts will not suffice. The mind must be roused and alarmed by revelations which respect the eternal state of man; the savage must be made to feel that the eye of heaven is upon him; and that there is a powerful hand ever stretched out to punish or to protect. To effect these ends, the learned and refined are not the best qualified, for there is a delicacy of feeling induced by literary habits, which shrinks from the familiar description and bold remonstrances indispensable to the success of the missionary. An illiterate artisan, if animated with zeal, and not igno rant of the first truths of his religion, is, for breaking up the ground of pagan superstition, an instrument better suited than the brightest ornament of a univer sity, or the most eloquent expounder of doctrine in the city pulpit. Such men as went forth in the Duff act as pioneers; they prepare the way for the advance of a more regular force ; they cut out a path in the wild thicket or morass by which their successors may proceed to complete the work begun with so much labour; they sow the seed, with an unskilful hand perhaps, and on ground little cultivated, but whence, at no distant day, a crop will spring to enrich and beautify the whole land. The missionary in due time is followed by the churchman, who systematizes the elements which the other has created. Like a wise master-builder, the latter polishes the materials, al ready in some degree prepared to his hand, and erects with them an orderly edifice, complete in all its parts, and having for its foundation the lively stones of an apostolical priesthood, qualified to offer the oblation of a spiritual sacrifice. We must look to the next ge neration for the full effects of the exertions made in the present. The warmest advocates of South Sea missions are most ready to acknowledge that the work is still imperfect ; that much evil is yet to be cor rected, and all that is good still needs improvement. But it must not thence be denied, that a great benefit has been conferred, in which the Christian and phi lanthropist may rejoice. The leaven of the gospel, indeed, has not hitherto leavened the whole population, so that many are still found who profess not to believe in it, and amongst those who do, numbers are Christians only in name, and by their conduct fre quently dishonour their calling. Who that is at all acquainted with the progress of our holy faith in past ' ages, could expect it to be otherwise ? The directors of missions are not such enthusiasts as to look for miracles.—Edinburgh Cabinet Library, No. xxxill. Polynesia. CORONERS' INQUESTS. An inquiry took place before Mr. W. Carter, the Coroner for East Surrey, in the last four days, at a place called the Badger's-hole, in the parish of Addington, on the body of a young woman named Charlotte Steer, the wife of a labouring man, named Robert Steer, at whose cottage the inquest was held, her death, it was alleged, having taken place from vio lence. The inquest was held at the instance ofthe Magis trates of the district, who thought it right, from the rumours that were abroad upon the subject, that a public inquiry should take place. Inspector Collier of the P division, was present to watch the proceed ings, which it will be seen from the evidence exhibited the most disgusting depravity. Clara Steer deposed that she was the deceased's daughter, and that the cottage was occupied by her father and her grand mother. Her mother her been ill for several weeks, and on the day she died she had got up for a short time and then went to bed again. Her grandmother was drunk, and was swearing and making a noise, and the deceased told her to be quiet, and then laid down as if to go to sleep. In the morning her mother appeared very ill, and her grandmother took some food in a cup and put it into her . mother's mouth with a teaspoon, but she was unable to swallow, and it came out of her mouth again. Upon this the grandmother said it was only her sulky temper, and she lifted her up and shook her, and then forced some of the food down her throat with the spoon. After this the deceased moaned a good deal, and the next morning whin she got up she found that her mother was dead. A neighbour of the de ceased gave similar testimony, and said that she saw the grandmother forcing some food down the de ceased's throat while she appeared in a dying state, remarking at the same time that if she did not give her something the people would say she had starved her. Robert Steer, the husband of the deceased, said that on the day in question he went out to work, and did not return home until near twelve o'clock at night, and he immediately went to his wife, and found her in bed, very ill, and the grandmother was lying by her side, very drunk. He asked the deceased how she was, and she shook her head, but made no answer. The next morning he discovered that his wife had died in the night. The surgeon who examined the deceased said that he had opened her throat, but he did not discover any appearance of violence or injury having been inflicted upon it, and upon opening the head he found the brain to be in such a diseased state as to account satisfactorily for her death. He did not discover any marks of vio lence upon her person, and had no reason to believe that she came by her death from any other than na tural causes. The Jury accordingly, after a strict inquiry, returned a verdict to that effect. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Payne held an inquest in the Queen's Prison upon view of the body of Edward Esmy Hall, aged 46, one of the inmates. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased had been ad mitted to the prison in March, 1841, and had not since made any effort to pass the Insolvent Court. He had been coachman to a gentleman, whose daughter he married, and since his imprisonment had been sup ported wholly by her from an annuity of above 3001., which was allowed her. Deceased drank a great deal, and, having been suffering from some chronic disease, he was attacked on Thursday last with delirium tre mens, which merged into fever, and he died on Monday. The Jury, after briefly consulting, returned a verdict of " Natural death.' Yesterday afternoon Mr. Baker held an inquest at The Town of Ramsgate, High-street, Wapping, on the body of Joseph Butler, aged 34, a tide-waiter at the London Docks. The deceased, on Wednesday night, about nine o'clock,. while leaving a vessel at the quay in the above docks, slipped and fell over board. Assistance was immediately upon the spot, and every means used to find him, but, owing to the darkness, it was more than half an hour before he was brought to the surface, when life was extinct. Verdict—Accidental death. An inquest was taken the same evening, before the same Coroner, at the Shakspeare's Head, ghakspeare's walk, Shadwell, on the body of John Levy, aged 19. It was proved in evidence that the deceased, who was cook of the City of Limerick, Dublin steam-vessel, went ashore a month ago to see a friend, with whom he got rather intoxicated. On his return, and while endeavouring to climb up the side of the Royal Ade laide steamer, which lay close to the wharf, he missed his hold and fell into the river; the tide, which was running very strong at the time, bore him away, and the body was not discovered till Sunday last. Ver dict—" Accidentally drowned." SUICIDE.—An adjourned inquest upon the body of William Blythe was resumed before Mr. Higgs, at the Blue Posts, Bennet-street, St. James's. The de ceased had been porter in the employment of Messrs. More and Illingworth, surgeons, Arlington-street, and had been found dead in his bed-room, adjoining the laboratory, upon Sunday morning last. A phial, which had contained corrosive sublimate, having been discovered in the same place, it was thought necessary to have a post mortem examination made, when the surgeon's report fully certified that deceased had taken poison, a considerable quantity , of it, in an undecom posed state, having been found iu his stomach. Ver dict—" Died by taking poison, he being at the time in a state of temporary insanity." TUE BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR NEWCASTLE.—Miss Robinson has fully identified one of the parties, who has been apprehended. The pri soner Bell, ho is a tall man, held the candle while the blow was inflicted on Miss Robinson by his com panion, whose face was partly concealed behind the bed-curtain. Miss Robinson has no doubt whatever of Bell being one of the men. She knows him by his eyes, and by his' mouth, and by his whiskers, which were not, it seems, so much blackened as the rest of his face. Miss Robinson was much agitated on being introduced to the prisoners, who were re manded (as we have already stated), and there seems no doubt but they will be fully committed for trial. In regard to the pocket-handkerchiefs found on Miss Robinson's stairhead, there seems every probability of the police being able to show that they were in the possession of the prisoners on the Saturday night preceding the burglary. Miss Robinson states that the lesser man, supposed to be Riddle, but to whose identity Miss Robinson cannot speak positively, from her not having had so complete a view of his race, had a knife or dagger in one hand, and the iron pinch, with which the blow was inflicted, in the other; so that it is quite clear that the parties were prepared to commit murder, if necessary, to secure their object, and that Miss Robinson's life was saved entirely through the fortunate circumstance of the servant girl having been aroused. The greatest credit is due to Mr. Rudd, the Superintendent of the Gateshead police, for thejudicious manner in which he has con • ducted the case, which at one time appeared almost hopeless. WANT OF ROADS IN CHlNA.—Compared with the grand system of water-communication, land-carriage is little regarded ; and Mr. Barrow believes, that in the whole extent of the empire there is hardly a road that can he considered better than a footpath. Tae value of the ground, the scarcity of cattle for waggons, the almost exclusive use of chairs and litters for the convenience of travellers, and of coolies or porters for the transfer of goods, render any greater breadth unnecessary. They contrive, indeed, to employ in these narrow tracks a very peculiar species of conveyance. To loaded wheelbarrows they attach a sail, which, when the wind is favourable, materially aids their pro gress ; and whole fleets of these vehicles may be seen moving along. Milton even alludes to the plains— Of Sericana, where Chineses driva With sails and wind their cany wagons light. After all, where a road does become actually neces sary to connect any of their points of inter course, the inhabitants spare neither cost nor la bour in making it complete. For example, the avenue leading from the capital to its port is at once magnifi cent and commodious. The surface is perfectly level ; and the middle part, for the breadth of twenty feet, is paved with flags of granite. Again, the road over the mountains of Tche-kiang, though it be narrow, is covered with fine gravel from the neighbouring hills, and kept quite smooth. In the lofty barrier of Quang tung, as has already been observed, a great part of the summit of the Mei-ling mountain has been exca vated in order to facilitate the passage.—Liverpool Courier. IMPORTANT LEGACY.—We copy the following in telligence from the Birmingham Journtil:—The Rev. Dr. - Wiseman, on his return from Rome, was made the bearer of a handsome crucifix, blessed by the Pope, and sent as a mark of special regard to John Hardman, Esq., sen., of Handsworth. This present was accompanied with a document, of which the fol lowing is given as a translation—we have not seen the original:—" The undersigned, Secretary of the Holy Council for the propagation of the Christian name, having, in an audience granted Aug. 28, 1842, laid be fore his Holiness Pope Gregory XVI., the numerous and splendid benefactions with which J. Hardman, Esq., has enriched the Catholic Church in the central district of England, the Holy Father has graciously imparted to him and his relations and connexions, to the third and fourth degree inclusively, a plenary in dulgence at the hour of death, to be gained by de voutly invoking the most holy name of Jesus men tally, if he cannot orally. To Mr. Hardman also is imparted a plenary indulgence, as often as he shall piously and devoutly receive the sacrament ofpenance and the holy eucharist. his Holiness has also directed that this formal document of these privileges be stowed on Mr. Hardman should be transmitted to England as a public testimonial of the peculiar good will and gratitude of the holy see towards an indivi dual of distinguished merit.—J. A. EDESSON. Given at Rome from the office of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda." DESTRUCTION OF Fisn.—The slaughter of salmon fish in the Teviot and its tributaries, has been. and is, still carried on to a disgraceful extent, hundreds of fish being taken daily, and that without the smallest hindrance being offered.—Kelso SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET (CHAMPION) COURSING MEETING.—WEDNESDAY. Mr. Gurney's Agrippa beat Mr. Gillett's Ganymede Mr. Gurney's Ajax beat Mr. Gillett's Gossip. First Ties.—(Not commenced when our account left.) First Ties for the Puppy Stakes.—Thorn beat Sylph Sweetbriar beat Spanker ; England's Queen ran a bye Fly drawn ; Mango beat Jet ; Ernest the First bee t Khan ; Duncan beat Sniff; BUrnwell, junior, beat Tartar ; Win-if-you-can beat Mariner. PUGILISM. THE AMERICAN GIANT AND THE LIVERPOOL CHAMPION.—The long-pending matc h between Charles Freeman, the " American Giant," and Wil liam Perry, the " Tipton Slasher," came off on Tues day, near Sawbridgeworth, Herts, and to t he g reat mortification of the "Fancy," terminated in a drawn battle, after a gallant struggle of an hour and aware f ere in the course of which seventy - five rounds w fought, the darkness of the evening only preventing the continuance of the contest, one of the most extra ordinary in the annals of pugilism. This a ff a ir, for some time past, has been one of the principal topics of conversation in the sporting world, more particu larly among the patrons of the art of self-defence, and it was regarded by many, in a national point of view, as involving the honour of British boxers. Neither of the combatants are known to fame, and it was onl Y their gigantic proportions and herculean powers th at brought them into notice, and not from any particulr triumphs achieved in the prize ring. The Ainerier was first met by Caunt, the " Champion of Engla"'" while on a " professional" tour in the United States s , who, it is presumed, thinking it a profita ble specul tion, brought him to this country, introduced him at the, . sparring soirees, and thus he b eca me one of the g rea t sporting "lions" of the day. In appearance be is certainly a giant, standing within an inch of sev . eo feet, and .weighing upwards of eighteen stone, less five than when he first arrived in the metropolis. it may be supposed he is possessed of great mascr o power, and it is reported that he has, w he n power, his enormous strength, been we ig ht. After a successful tour in the quently known to raise fifteen -hundred we'ahi, Mentor, Caunt, where they astonished the e with the science they displayed in setting to wituhrnh re turned gloves, and in other athletic exercises, theY re!_ they to town, when the cognoscenti thought that if.sty e ,a could find a pugilist at all near his weigh t and -re good fight might be the result, and in this they while it not disappointed, for the battle on TuesdaY, wh i l d be lasted,, was one of the most severe that cou ish_ imagined, both men receiving considerable h ad t he ment, and it would be di ffi cult to say W hich ha._ r Provinces with natives to best of the rou?ds. Perry, though much in ferw a se, the Giant in size and weight, is a fine, wel/Prascleffbing in height about six feet one or two, and We i a something like thirteen stone and 111314 u nity, A detailed account of the rounds would be - teresting to the general reader, and we thereferei th e tent 'ourselves with giving merely this sketchi ng so affair. The reason that the men entere d the • late in the afternoon, was in consequen ce of Inaglind; terial interference, the pugilists and their -tele, being disturbed by the appearance of a local dosd who cautioned them against the comolisaicijaged; breach of the peace in the cou nty for whic h he —ime and after the assemblage had dispersed, sontelectea elapsed before another suitable spot could be h a d for a ring, and the consequence was that tho us lne " the to fight above an hour in the dark. Previ t% 00 commencement of the contest long odds werel al v the Giant, but as the struggle for suprenn tbe vanced he lost many supporters, the odds fell, Sli b o issue of the fight was considered to be very den the and when the umpires and referee put a s top . t° en in match, not more than a single point was g, 1% , t f e e' favour of the Giant. The betting during the I n a s are days has been very brisk, and some thoos sa .., rill pending the result. The renewed fight, it is saw' take place this day. LLOYD'S S HIPPING- , LOSS OF THE HENRY DAVIDSO.O,O.,IO, Extract of a letter inserted in the Bornbag 11 a from ,s t ir h , e — C l ap ta ta k i e n, th d e at l e ib d erty of ''Singapo SePt;r:ll;c• forwarding yOll - Low , count of the loss of the Henry Davidson, c ' f ha to don, 600 tons burden, with cotton, from 1 3 ° 93- o ro. China. After leaving Singapore Roads, we the ceeded, with :light winds, to the east v vard. t ae night of September 2 Battam Point was ni adei d to weather very hazy. Pedra Branca was surrseload be about twenty miles distant. At tw o a.g.v. il h ' e an- rippling noise was heard at N.E., close to. „, ~ head chor was cleared, the lead hove, and the 51 " Pd i n 00 turned S.W. It suddenly became calm, IT un der instant the ship drove on a shelf of roe'''f ee t of w w a a t t e er r. in T t e h n e m h i e n l u d tr inafthearifthanerehowuars ttbhierteo was Anoth erwer . I ,i v n a c s i l l i o i r n gwoayselretthgeo,guinnsthoon hopethe - u o p f p i e ,e r e d po e i ri c: eg. ' r heron the the rr e g ; reef. At four A.m., the sea washing ways, we took to the boats, and made for the de D u o anchored near us, with another vessel, bound throe the Straits of Rhio, all of which had drifted tw dog miles out of their supposed position, arid thus Pr ° u . suil l our misfortune to have been caused by all un re ek, current. At daylight we returned to the . o i e and were saving some sails and materials, when.o4 swung off the reef, and, giving a heavy down headforemost, and carried with her 3 ...,., to cutter filled with sails, and two seamen belongwe London." A sterdiall t° punge, itirge u VESSELS SPOKEN wmt.--Catharina, ---,,r n , , ria frotn Batavia, sth ult., lat. 5 N., lon. 22 Ntr• ; I ' ic .' l3 e d at Amsterdam, Li' Amsterdam, 6th, by the John Christian, aril*/ zesi ol, verpool. Duchess of Argyll, Clyde to Ne w ber Lon' July 22, lat. 1 N., lon. 23 W. ; Lord Lo",' t " L v 0 0 don to China, Aug. 23, lat. 35 S., lon. 3 5 1 4".., 'front Essex, macao, alartr.iymedNa.,tloCna.ll79ttaE..; Robert FultoP!... sin. Macao, Macao t ' b u e . gapore, Sept. 8, lat. 19 N., lon. 114 8 . 1 b Y Ton'l l Lawrence, arrived at Macao. 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