The Sun. — London, England, 1824-08-27 00:00:00

VIE LONDON JUUIt,NALs. • DA IIN • g.tilzacts from 00,,,Norning,Perpers, Aug. 27. ATlrc TIMES.] 'T he intellierce undel._ • the head of South Anierica (sett another column of THE SUN), though not of a very stormy nuts re, possesses a certain degree of interest anti animation. An an niversary dinner has been g i ven at Demme Ayres, where the North American Minister played first foreign personage, and Mr. Parish, our Copse!. General, the second. NOtti,, America has, ttfrough her public Minister, representing the so vereignty of the United States, aCknOwledged• he sovereignty of her sister , republic,--that is to say, she is bold enough to admit a truth which haiulong stared the whole world in the face, and has ceased to be questionable by any rational being; Why Great Britain is behind in this con test of friendly intercourse and of national jus tice, we fain would have Mr. Canning explain to his countrymen; for Mr. Parish has left the matter just where he found it, not even going the length of his associate Consuls, who have dined and made speeches in others of the Inde pendent States, by promising that their existence Rhould be recognized at some time hereafter. — Mr, Parish's dry reserve, however, might not, if considered ht all its bearings, be without a tsetse hens! 'effect. He took care to apprise the authoe ritie3 of La Plata, that a portion of 44 his duty was to Collect information on the actual cop " dition'of affairs in_ their Government.;" which was, in other words, admonishing the Buenos- Ayrearas to behave well, mind their business, and kick up no riots with each other, or he should be compelled to make of them such a report as wonlcl justify his Government in postponing indefinitely the much-desired homage to their independence. We are not sure whether w arising of this kind might not have produced more advantage eitewhere, than the confident and flattering language of some other British functionaries. if the American Patriots be given fully to understand that a rea sortable amount of union amongst themselves is a sine qua non in that body of evidence on which must hinge their speedy admission ,into the com munity of settled states, a powerful medicine may be thereby administered to the prominent disease of countries under process of revolution. We are, at all events, happy to learn, on au thority which there seems no reason to distrust, that the•basis of a commercial treaty has been ac tually laid down between Great Britain and La Plata : and that it is probable the public may see a representative from that commonwealth, form elly accredited and accepted as Minister Pleni potentiaryto the Court of St. James's, so soon as the conditions of that treaty shall have beets in every particular matured. If this be the case, it amounts to 'a recognition at least of this State from which an Ambassador is so ace credited and received ; if not, it should be underitood that mere consular missions do not. imply, of necessity, a positive acknowledgment of the States to which they are accredited — no principle' being better established-, than that a Consul, as such, does not enjoy the immunities of a public 'Minister, .and is not under the pro. tection of the law of nations; although the hove reign employing him may, without the title, Con fer upon bin), by the very nature of the instruc tions which he has to execute, the character and prerogative of an envoy.—The Papal power, it seems, Ws been playing - off some characteristic mantzuvres among the Chilies's, which, neverthe less, not having yet produced the mischiefs anti cipeted from them by the Holy Alliance, may do eventual good, by raising., in the minds of the patriots, a timely and salutary suspicion. CMOILNING CURONICLE:i If, the advices received yesterday from Madrid ire correet, the Constitutionalists who - landed at Tarifa on the 3d, moved forwards to Ximena, that is, towards the mountains. This is as we expiieted ; and though at first, perhaps, they cannot boast of more open protection and sup port:than that of the smugglers (a circumstance at which' some of our contemporaries sneer), it will be found, on inquiry, that they are in no very bad company. These men force a trade, in opposition to the regiments of regulars sent against them. On the roads, they are sometimes met in a party of 5 or 600, mounted on the best horses, armed with a carbine, pistols, and titibtfb, and clothed in such a way, ag to be ProteciPd from the inclemency of the wea ther, as a great part of tire time they are out. isispfint in the open Or. These were the hardy and daring men who, during the late war, formed the nneleus of the 'best guerrilla parties knawn in Spain, anci'many of thern returned to their old profession, when their corps were dis banded. Their numbers have greatly increased slate the French entered' Spain, for the smug gling parties have been joined by the best of the men 'whil formerly belonged to the army of La Isla, and those regiments were disbanded by order of the King, because they could not be trusted. Smuggling has, in fact, become an ho siourahib lucrative occupation to melt who have spent the greatesi . part of their lives in tire army, in which many have attained rank, and who now cannot return to the plough or the pruning knife. The chiefs of these enterprises possess large capitals, and are well known in Gibraltar. To them indeed are the merchant; of the latter place indebted for the little trade they carry on drtgoods; for the . French have filled Spain with s,nch enormous quantities of their own ma nufactures, under the mask of Military Stares, therlt - ssiOuld be impOssible'for ones to compete with them, if they were not equally smuggled I_ll6 . the . country , . A s m uggler in Spain, there fore, is not. a discreditable occupation, since nearly the where- French army is engaged in it. Thw ierranlas of Ronda, and neighbouring coun try can furnish uPwaida'of 2000 of these enter. prisi:lg men, most of wheat cease to be from • th the e momentsmugglers re is a po li t i cal object - in thei‘ country to pursu e. CHEW TI iS.I The Funds yesterday dindined in a slight de gree, in consequence of the arrangement of the ,account; but soon recovered., Consols for,money opened at 93? i, and closed at gni.; and for the new account (after being at 94k) at 934 .—The businesS transtiCted in Foreign Securities was less than for some days past. Reports, continue re. pectiug tke reception of Yturbide; and from the length of time that has elapsed since his departure, expectation almost reacllns impatience to learn something of: his movements. Mexican' Bonds, however, were rather higher yesterday,and closed at 48i. - .Colombian Scrip was at .8 dis. Spanish Bonds were lower, viz. 2l{-. The other Secu rities remained as on the preceding day. The report of M. liurtado's having received an invi. tatiOn from the French Nlinister to visit Paris is now wholly discredited ; his excursion to that capital is understood to have been quite sponta neous ; nor is it thought likely that nay negocia tion of the kind alluded to will be entered upon by the French Government at present. , Private letters from Paris state, that 111. Bermudez has declared that the Spanish Government stilt per sists in its determination not- to recognise the Bonds of ,the Cortes ; this circumstance, it is added, has occasioned a suspension of the nego ciations which were carrying on for a new Loan. [siottsmso mcitAr.o.] The Commission of the Censorship at Paris, which was to have consisted of six Members, Only counts four us yet. The Directeur of Po lice, who ought to be President, is only there for form sake. The real President is M. Mutin, married Priest, forMerly editor of the Journal des NbaLi—attached to the Secret Police of the Minister of the Interior ever since the restora tion, and under every form of Ministry ; and who has been charged in the last place with the revi.; sion of all the political pamphlets. The second Censor is M. Dupont, who performed for the Mi nistry, but in a subordinate capacity, the same functions that M. Mutin did. The other two are M. Laudrieux, a forther Censor, and M. Deliege, who is named Secretary of the Commission, and us such, signs its decisions. The latter has been for a' longtime attached to the Minister, and was employed in the late electiOns. He was noto rious before the tribunals, as having taken a very active part in the purchase of the Jour nals which agreed to sell themselves. M. Deliege had been Advocate at the Court of Cessation, but having neither fortune nor clients, he was obliged to relinquish that title. As to further information respecting the Censorship, we can only say that iris invisible. When it finds in an article of two columns% phrase, or even a word which is displeasing, it suppresses the entire ar ticle, without giving any explanation for so doing. It is said the establishing of this measure has oc casioned a reconciliation between the Minister • • and his colleagues. For a long lime M. Peyron net had been on distant terms with M. Villete, and evei, seemed tottering in his situation; but being aided -by a powerful patronage (Madame du Cayla), he was hiMielf less anxious on this subject than his friends. . [NtoitNiNG Pos•r.l • We published a few days ago the Report of the Select - Committee appointed to empire into the state and salubrity of the Penitentiary at Milbank. In soma respects the Report meets with our entire concurrence; but in others, we confess it has.rathcr encreased than allayed doubts which we previouslyi entertained. The extension of the Royal clemency to many of those unfortunate beings who had endured disease as well as 'imprisonment, was a proceeding equally humane and consonant with the benevolent dispositioo of our Uracious Sovereign, - to whom the tribute of mercy belongs. We also applaud the recommendation for shortening in some cases the confinement of delinquents in the Penitentiary from ten to seven years, though we do not altogether approve of the principle on which the suggestion is founded. 'Too wide or general a discretion in those who administer or execute the law, we admit, should be as much as possible avoided. Still, how ever, some discretion must be permitted, and it is on the whole better that the privilege were occasionally misapplied than that severity, unnecessary and unjust, should be inflicted on individuals. Upon these grounda, we think whatever the term of confinement to which a prisoner was condemned, a certain period (not of course a brief one) of uniform good conduct and evident improvement of principles as well as habits, ought to make a legal justification for remitting, or at least midget.: ing the remainder of the original sentence. Example and re form are the two great objects of penal inflictions; and as soon as the latter can be effected without weakening the former, the intention of the Law and the L e gi s l a t u re i s fulfilled. We shall not, however, ush these points farther ;it present. Another principal topic of the Report demands more imme diate consideration—we mean the healthiness or unhealthiness of the Penitentiary at Milbank, with reference to local causes. Nothing, we must say, in this - last, or the former results of Parliamentary inquiries upon that subject, has completely sa tisfied us, nor, we believe we may add, the Public generally. l.et any man who hai the least regard for his own health, or that of his family, walk down Milbank, and ask himself, would he build or live in a housoerected on the same level and in the saute swamp as the Penitentiary ? We ventureto answer for him—" No." The fundamental error "(we are involuntarily compelled to employ a pun) was not in the situation chosen for the building, but in the manner in which its foundation was erected. Had the morass on which the immense pile of cells is built been first filled up with rubbish to the level of the quay at present dividing it from the river, or had the same' end been gained by mean* of arches, which would have placed the lower story of the prison above the reach of floods or damp; we are convinced none of the melancholy effects which have occasioned so much enquiry and regret would have oc curred. IT individuals had appropriated the ground to private houses, the above would have been the case. But what is the fact even now ? Why, that the penitentiary is surrounded by a wide belt of mere swamp, divided by a broad ditch of stagnant water ; and thus, supposing the inner court-yards superficially dry, an exhalation of mephitic vapour arises from without sufficient to destroy the constitution, should it for a time spare the lives of the unhappy convicts subjected to he influeoce. In short, to imagine a moment that the Penitentiary in its actual state can be wholesome, savours to our mind very strongly of a rank absurdity. We, however, are not unwilling to let another trial of it he made, provided on the first symp toms of any general or contagious illness among the prisoners, measures be taken to save thetti, and prevent the aubsequent re ' currence of' 10 great and disgraceful' a cal a Mity. A t the Same' time we may be allowed to express our fears that the only mode of rendering the building safely habitable, is by shutting up the lower story of it—raising the inner yards proportionably—and filling up the circutnjacent bog which is at once an eyesore and a nuisance. [aavrisu Passs.) By the last - papers from Boinbay, it appears that the ittiolence of the Burmese Government has reached the most intolerable height. In the answer returned by the Viceroy of Pegu, to the remonstrance reSpectigg the outrage at Shaporee, the most insulting pretensions, and the most scandalous calumnies, are advanced against the British. If his Golden Majesty hod been invent ing pretexts for the oppression of the most paltry state that ever tempted his cupidity, he could not 'twit. proceeded in a more shameless manner. One would suppose, from the terms of his message,that lie was treating with a power which existed only by virtue of his forbearance. The Viceroy's reply sets out with ascribing to the British, but without shadow of proof, that they' had abetted the re bellion of the Aracauese subjects of the King of ,the 'White Elephants ; and it then proceeds to lay claim to the districts of Chittagong, Ramoo, and Bengal, as dependent provinces on the four ,great cities of Aracan. " Lord of We Seas and Earth" denounces vengeance against the British Government, unless they immediately crouch beneath his golden feet. Ills Rajahs and Generals, it is added in a menacing tone, will rise like giants to vindicate his rights ; and the Governor-General is advised, if he has any thing to represent, to state his case to the 'Burmese Minister by Petition The Gover nor-General, we expect, will have something to bring home to the knowledge of this Most fortunate King ; but the only logic he , will use on this occasion will be the ultinta ratio regain. The haughty barbarian of Ava, flushed with his triumphs over the petty Princes by whom he was surrounded, mistakes the pacific disposition of the British for conscious weakness ; and when they approach him with the language of rekson and. moderation to claim redress, he directs them to petition his Vizier, like suppliant slaves. :He will find, however, in the sequel, that he has'pro 'yoked a war which will, in all probability, very speedily take from him for ever his favourite title of Most Fortunate. Already it will be seen that our Indian allies had made some successful incursions into the Burmese territories.— The chief reliance of the Burmese is un derstood to be on their dexterity in making stock ades ; but, with the fate of the Nepaulese to warn them—a people equally brave and skilful, who, in spite of the almost insurmountable difficulties of their country ) were completely subdued in the second campaign —we augur but contempo tuously of the wisdom that guides the Councils of the Golden Monarch. Our indinn army is most anxious to meet the enemy in the field ; and we are glad to find that none partake more strongly of this feeling than our native troops. MR. GREEN'S BALLOON. SIiftEIVSUURY, AUG. 24.—0 n Monday last, Mr. Onier: I.: ascended from Shrewsbury, amidst an immense concourse of spectators.—The following 'is an account of his voyage : , Soon after he started, which was twenty minutes to five, his course was directed due East, then rising to a considerable altitude, he experienced different currents of air, from which, however, he soon escaped, and his course was altered to South-east by East. After moving in this direction for a short time, his course was again changed, and took the direc tion of South-east by South. In this course he passed to the left of the SVrekin Hills, taking in with his compass several villages. On leaving the gas-yard, at 29 minutes to five, the barometer stood at 30 inches 2-10ths, and the thetnometer at 72. At his greatest altitude the barometer fell to 20 inches 5-10ths, thus leaving the greatest height to which he rose a little above two miles, and the thermometer fell to 44. At times lie felt it very hot; but by no means so as most would have imagined, from the clearness of the day and the intense heat of the sun on the earth. This is accounted for by there being scarcely any or no clouds to reflect back the rays of the sun, anti thus enable them to act with double force. After an absence of two hours and 20 minutes from terra firma, be landed at Nix o'clock about five miles from Wenlocic, a small town in Shropshire, about 13 miles to the south-east-of Shrewsbury. The descent took place in a clover field in the parish of Alonkhampton, on Symblecot farm' near the village of Western, anti situated on the estate of Lord Darnley. In an adjoining field there were twelve men at work, who seeing the balloon descend, hastened to Mr. Green's assistance, and in a few minutes he was disembarked perfectly safe. Adjoining the spot of descent is the seat of a gentle man of the name of Moore. who bestowed upon the aeronaut the most hospitable attentions. There being no inn in the immediate neighbourhood of his descent, he had to wait for the et return of a chais e late to proceed further that by a man whom. he had dispatch edhe then d o Wenlock. This occupied so much time, that it was half take u past 11 before he reached Wenlock, and ' men, to the number of thizti, drought it too p his night's abode, for the neighbouring gentle - don to rat night. Here he had, every temPta assembled to Meet hirll Wit 1 aaelgrilif of music, h in i t se el d ld l e jv l it rival, or dered a good crisper, his aerial excursion wee aizrecably relreved started at nine o'clock, and arrived here by the social humour of the festive board. 'his morning, he where he was received by all the inhab . 'l4 past ten, li,ants with the most welcome gratulation% tie took up ' purpose of ascertaining the power Of rem P a l it e A n tt o ptgetin with him for the' earth he opened the biesket. sphere. When at an elevation of f re wing in a rare atm . ha lf ' The . our Mo wuttu i f eet the edge of the ear, and there ; from the tempting to catch hold of it, it moved off the . edge, at, down rapidly; but ,it soon recovered the use 0 after moving to the right and left for a.few . 'it.* wines, and tre a tlatai got upon (Ain the direction of Shrewsbury. , thoug h meats, a darted has arrived in the town, it has not yet beet ro l l t i - n iil!i , lr.ely that it LEGAL SLIPPING.-.--.OG Tuesday evening last,. between six and seven o'clock, after the Court had broken up, Mr. Baron Gunn' t and Mr. Justice Bunnouatt, the Judges un the Home Circuit, were observed to walk through Guild ford, in the direction of . the fivers Arum* and Way, in the vicinity of Which are steep chalk hills, named " The Hills of Ambition," which Command a very beautiful prospect. On arriving at the foot of one of the. hills, Mr. Justice 13ur. rough commenced his ascent, followed by his Learned Brother, who, being a *lore nimble man, soon got the start of him, and gained the summit. Mr. Justice' Burrough, by great exertion and la bour, at length got into a steep and slippery path, called 44 The Lady's Patti," close to which is a precipice ; in his attempts t o cl am b er u p thi s path, the Learned Judge slipped down on his 46 breech," both his 'shoes having come off, and rolled down to the base. Two persons, who were spectators of the predicament in which the Judge was placed, ran to his assistance, when Mr. Baron Graham called out from the top of the hill, " Halt, halt ! Brother Burrough, you had better desist ; L think you have already paid dear for your ambition." With the• assistance of the persons above mentioned, the Learned Judge succeeded in arriving at the top of the hill, where he was congrlitulated lifMr. Baron Graham - on tire courage and• perseverance he manifested, by gaining the summit of 64 * Ambition." The two Learned Judges did not feel disposed to' destend the hill, but returned to Guildford by the New Portsmouth Road. A LA RUING Pi t e llOMEN ON.—(llarrach ll luri) —The master of a vesse l t h at arr i ve d here fron t s ea , on 'hurl day last, report e d b ait i ng seen an eactraordinary pheno meno n which he desc r ib e d as a body .offire approaching them from th e westward, and M ov i ng the atmosphere, with a steady pace cleaving the liquid- a i r ; i t gra dually increased in s i te , unt i l suddenly its disappearance in the ocean left him and his crew in total amazement and conjecture as to what it could b e , w hi c h was not a little exaggerate d by the impression of fear; th e wonder WAR soon eluctdated when upon comparing notes as to the time, distan ce , a l t i tu d e , an d di re ction, it tumid out to be a balloon upon lilontgolfier's principle, with which the propri etors of the Reading Room had, with other tire,works, been amusldg tho visitors to the town that evening.— (Bury Cantle.) The land-owners and occupiers of land in many parts of this county, have come to 'the determina lion, in consequence of the backwardness of the season, to defer patridge shooting till the 13th of September.—(Kent Herald.) ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MONMOUTH ASSIZES, AutiusT 23. • MURDER. Richard IVilliams, a decent.latiking countryman,. aged 30, and Mary Morgan, single woman, a person wholly devoid of personal attractions, aged 26, were indicted for the wilful mur der of William Evans._ Mr. Ruessir. stated, that on the night of the.26th of April, Williern'Evans, who was an acquaintance of the prisoner Wil liams, had been drinking with him, but no sort of enmity sub sisted between them ; and at eleven that night the two prisoners, the deceased, ;and a girl named Nixon, were' in company to gether at a place called Kinison ; there was also near them a man in a white frock. The prisoners proceeded forward, and soon after the deceased and Nixon followed. He might now state, that both'Nixon, whom he should call as a witness, and the female prisoner, were women of •the town. After they had proceeded a little way, Nixon and the deceased turned off.the road, and went into a saw-pit, anti in a few moments a large piece of timber was thrown into this saw-pit,' anti fell on the head of-the deceased ;it instantly killed him, and the woman Nixon, who was standing near the d ecease d in the pit and speak ing to him, was also considerably injured. The piece of timber was a very heavy plank, weighing about three hundred weight. He should prove that it could not have fallen into the pit by ac cident, and a witness named Davis, who was in a boat nea r would prove that he heard the timber f a ll , and the cry of a woman. He would also prove, that hesaw a man and another woman itand ing near one end of the pit, and on hearing the cry, that man so standing, instead of going to the end of the pit nearest to where he was, went round the pit and got into it at the other end. He should also prove that the female prisoner was on bad terms with the girl Nixon, and had often expressed herself in a violent way towards her; and after the occurrence, Nixon desiring her to get a light and 'give her assistance, s h e , i nstea d of doing so, went home and smoked her pipe ; and on a girl named Phillips, also a woman of the town, asking her why she did not assist, she said, " Do you mean to take her part? If you tIO, you shall be served the same, for whoever did it they did not mean to hurt the man, it was Rosser (a nickname by which Nixon went) that they wanted." The male prisoner got into the pit to assist the woman Nixon, and he lifted her out of the pit, and though the pit was of so small dimensions that it appeared impossible. he should not have known the presence of the deceased, he did not appear to know of his being there; but the man in the white frock came up and said, " What is become of the man ?" and the prisoner Williams made no reply. He should also put in the statements made by the, prisoners before the' Magistrate, as in such a case it was proper that every thing should be laid . before the Jury. Elizabeth Nixon stated—l live at Newport, and so does the female prisoner, who is called "Cardiff Mary ;" we lodged at the same house. On the evening in question I went out at eleven o'clock; I went to Kimson, that is a public-house, h the canal side, out of the town of Newport. I saw Cardiff Mary and Richard Williams (the two prisoners), and the de ceased and a man in a white frock. The female prisoner said to me, " What the devil do you want here ?" I said, "Are you drunk or mad ?" She said, "Go to h-11." O n th e ni g h t he. fore we quarrelled about her bringing a young man into her lodgings. She said she would be u p to me. The two prisoners went on beyond Kinison, and I stayed with Wm. Evans, the deceased; our lodgings were only a few_yards off; the deceased proposed to go there, but 1 would not take him. He proposed going to the Red Cow. I said, "G o on an d I will follow you ; ' and he did so, and we then met the two prisoners. The female threw her arms round the neck of the deceased, who, however, told her to go away, and the deceased and I went into the saw-pit, which is 3 or 4 yards off; It is a sloping descent that you may walk down into it at one end, by the assistance of sonic steps in the wall of the saw-pit. When we went into the saw-pit we left the prisoners talking near the Red Coiv. It was dark, but the prisoners must have seen us. We were standing in the saw-pit, and the deceased had his hand on my shoulder, when the piece of timber came down. It struck me on the right side of my face and on the side. It struck me down. 1 never heard the deceased cry out. I was senseless, but for what length of time I cannot tell ; but when I came to my senses again I was lying in the pit, with the timber on me . I cou ld not get up.—[Here the female prisoner fainted. As soon as she reco vered the examination was resumed.]-1 cried out for help, and Mary Morgan, the prisoner, came up and said, " What the devil Is the matter with you ?"- and I . asked her to get some help and a light, to see what was the matter. She, however, neither came back nor sent any light; but in a few minutes the male prisoner awe and lifted the timber up, and got me out of the pit, and the man in the white frock he l ped him, and the prisoner Williams took me home. The man in the frock asked me, " Where is the man who was with you in the pit ?" I said I did not know, unless he was gone away, and I believ e d that lie was gone before the timber came down. I heard no .noise of any one near the pit. When I got to my lodgings I was very bloody. I saw the female prisoner, who said nothing; and I said, " Mary, I will never forgive yoti : it would not have been too much for you to bring a light and see what was the matter." She was then smoking. We had lodged together for about a month, but had not been on good terms, because informed against a house for midi* in men. I went before the Mayor of Newport about it, and she was put in prison about It. She often said she would be up, to me. It was here discovered that the male prisoner was a Welsh man, and did not understand English (as is the case with many thousands of the Welsh). An Interpreter was sworn, and the evidence of' Elizabeth Nixon read by the Learned - Judge from his notes, and repeated in Welsh to the prisoner. Examined by the Learned 4nhar,.-I can form no .idea of how long I had been 'insensible. The prisoner 'Williams h e lped me out of the pit, and took m e home. Ha - said, Wiltlt the devil is the matter with you ?" When he got me out near. Eri ofean rhopit he seated me on some othe r ti m b er w hi c h w as Phillips stated—l am not a m arr i e d w o m a n ; I lived use in the same' ho with the, prisoner and Nixon ; I went h ome to my lodgings after having been in the str ee t s on t h e evening ir v i g u r at i o n ; I saw the feMale prisoner, Cardiff M ary; I saw her smoking her pipe ; she asked me, " Are you a l ive ?" I sa id, .a Di4you hear 1 was killed ?" a nd s h e on l y l aughed ; I saw Nixon come in about ten minute s a f ter , very b loody; 1 said, " What's the matter ?" and Nix on s aid ; " O h, Mary, no you have served me pretty well to-night ; I would not have served you so. It was not much to bring a light and eee what was there ;" and the prisoner said, " D!ye think I would bring a light and be killed myself ?" I asked Nixon how it happened, and she said she had gone with a man into the sawp it , and some one had thrown a piece of timb er upon h er. I s aid the pri soner, " Mary, where were you ? and she said, " I was not far (Art" and she said she saw sonic one near the sawpit, and knew them very well; I asked who they were, and she said, " I won't tell you to-night ;,I will tell you to-morrow morning." I went o u t wi t h t h e prisoner on our nightly walks, and asked her why she did not go to the sawpit on hearing Nixon call ? and she said, " If you are going to take her part you shall have the same yourself, for that is nothing to what she shall have ; that is only a beginning," The other prisoner was at the door, and asked me how the girl was. I said, "Do you know something about the girl ?" " Yes," he said, " I went to the pit and helped her home." I was in prison with the female prisoner at Newport Bridewell, and I said,'" We have brought ourselves into a pretty hobble.". She said, " Yee, all through Bets e y Rosser," which is another name fbi' Nixon. I said, " You told me that you . knew those wh o were a b out the sawpit." " I thought sO," said she; "it was hot their in. tont to kill the man, but to kill the girt" Nixon and Cardiff Mary were not friends. Elizabeth Nixon recalled.—The prisoner Williams took me home to the door, but did not offer to go In. I remember the keeper of the house shutting the door, but I don't remember her telling him he must hot come in. David Thomas, a boatman, stated—My boat Was in'the canal near the place in question, and I was on board. I was as near the sawpit AS the length of the Court, but there was a block. maker's shop between me and the pit, but l could see the path leading to the pit, and thuld, from the stern of my boat, where I stood, see the ensi of, the pit, It. was a dark night. ',heard • a noise like two 'planks falling on each other. The sound came from the _pit. I heard afterw ar d s a moan i ng ; i t seemed to be a wom a n's voice, and I saw a man and woman either at the lowerendof the sawpit or on the tramroad near it. I had heard the moans before this. I saw the man, go to the further end of the sawpit, and get into it, and the woman stood at the l i door of the Red Cow. The person in the it cried out " M ary " twice, and the woman called to said, " Why don't yo u g e t out ?" I did not see the man in the white frock. I went to the sawpit next morning, between five and six o'clock, and I saw the deceased lying in it. Many persons were assembled by that time. John Young stated—l am a timber-merchant, and live within fifteen yards of the sawpit. As I was going to bed I heard a woman cry out. I feared she had fallen into the canal, but after, wards beard her cry out, " There is a piece of timber on me." I opened the window and found that the cries came from the .sawpit. I saw a woman near the Red Cow, and I saw a man come front the direction of the canal, and go up to the pit; he had a flannel frock on. The woman in the pit cried out, " For God's sake Mary, bring a light." Thomas Phillips stated—l measured the 'place In question ; blr.,Young's house.is 53 feet from the distance from •Kimson to the sawpit is 77. yards, from the and breadth four feet.' ,t ß h e e d r Go it " , and the t t h ll e e i p te i r t n n of feet Ditis'e boat 72 feet. The length of the and worked at the nit in question. I remember leaving my work at six o'clock on . the . pit T lti ros l . f t s V l a g te f r e s e s t t'a d te el oL th l si :M fe n et S i awyert ,evening in question. Ott one side of the pit was a slab of timber, It was 14 inches from the edge of the pit ; it was laid length. wise at the side.of the. pit t it had been there". week ; it was, of oak; seven, feet lung, and twenty-two inches broad, and about eight inches thick at the thickest part, but it ran taper to about six inches thick, it weighed 324 pounds ; it could not AIR% of itself; I put it for my own safety, as I worked in the pit. At six o'clock the next morning I found a dead person in the pit. with a slab upon him. One person could have shoved it in as it lay " on edge" against two posts; one person aught have turned it over into the pit, it lay so near. As it stood, to hare turned it over into the pit would have taken a strength of about 80 pounds. I have replaced it as it stood, and tried it in that way. Thomas Mercer stated—l am a pilot and live at Newport. I was at the saw-pit at about half-past four the morning after . I saw the dead body, and I saw also the prisoner and a man named Green. I went into the pit, and found the deceas ed lying there on his le ft side, with the plank against hint. I said " this is Jack of Llanmonoth." The prisoner did not say any thing. 1 did not take the timber off the deceased, and the. prisoner did not speak. • David Francis stated--I am a carpenter at Newport.. I saw the both? ; it was the body of Wm. Evans. There were " skahrs ls —that is hatchet marks and splinters—on the end of the timber, which answered the wounds on his head. Mr. James Hawkins, a surgeon, stated—l am a surgeon , AS Newport. I examined ' the body : on the right side of thehesd were wounds to the extent of two inches each way; there were I four or five circular punctures just above the ear. took (Oche. top of the skull, and found several pieces of bane driven in; the skull was fractured to the length of five inches in various direc tions ; a piece of bone had been driven into the brain. I con sider this to have caused his death. Mr. Phillips, the Town Clerk of Newport, put in the exami nation of the prisoners, as it was taken before the Mayor of that. plaCe. The male prisoner was examined in 'Welch; but the answers were translated into English, and written down. The examination of Richard Williams stated nearly the same facts as proved by the witnesses; hut he denied his guilt, and did not explain any of the circumstances. The female prisoner's statement was read : it was very lone,and denied a good deal of the evidence given by the wome n ' but stated no new fact. Neither of the prisoners made any defence. this Mr. Justice PARK, in his summinu observed, was an inquiry of the deepest conseq ue n ce; that the derel' e , came by Ids death by the mode charged seemed clear, bu whether the timber was thrown down by the prisoners, or either of them, was the question the Jury had to try. The law woi. that if a person doing an unlawful act, intending the hurt l `: another, and death ensued, though death was not intended, t ir e , crime would be murder or manslaughter, accorn to th e t cumstances of the ca.se, such as the nature of h e tnstrumeitri with which the injury was indicted. And it had longber held, that if the instrument used was of such a nature as ots t . cause great injury, and it did cause death, the'crin3o was mur . der. It could hardly be supposed that malice could hoe ac ei tuated the parties at the outset ; for he must say, rb at t i:l s ri c h saw a deliberate murder attempted to be committee . h . t means. It was an important question, for he ivoidd sA l , O "i it was a case of the greatest nicety. The two women ail p ot appear, to be on good terms; and, according to the ev)V i i ii , of Elizabeth Nixon, bad vowed revenge.—(His then read over the whole of the 'evidence, and conimen, e that on it as he proceeded.)—llis Lordship then left it to tu m, Jury to say whether either or both the p r isoners had e9 ons mined this act, and, in conclusion, said, that the observati re . in favour of the man were very strong indeed ; and , " h o l e could to the woman, It seemed difficult to suppose that commit the offence alone. It should be observed, too' that the witness Nixon spoke under a feeling o f i r ritation; she, as well as the witness Phillips, were women of such hapr e of life as would not entitle them to particular credit ; but at be, same time he for one would never advise a Jury, moll, cause women had thrown Wall moral and religious obligatau - ii that they were therefore not to be believed under the solmetnet, sanction of an oath. Another question would be, if they thou ~ the prisoners guilty, whether they committed the of ciously, and knowing tbat tbe deceased was in the pit? "1 against the male prisoner there was not the slightest evidence() malice, and as against the woman the expressions of mailt e appeared to be the speeches of a person of most depraved IA; bits, and if they thought it was done foolishly and out 0 , wicked sport, and not intending to kill, the crime would till be manslaughter. But, on the whole of this case, they would' say what was their opinion. The prisoners could not have gone there intending to kill, because they did not .cry th e timber with them; and they could not have known t h at ; ; ; . deceased or the witness Nixon would have gone into t" r— at all. The Jury, after deliberating a quarter of an hour, found the prisoner Richard Williams Not Guilty, and the prisoner Oa :Morgan Guilty o f Manslaughter. Mr. Justice PARK addressed the female prisoner, and ea' pressed himself highly satisfied with the verdict of the Jury' He rejoiced that tune was spared to her to repent of het life 0_ i o n t is t c h on is d m uc an t,. a s l d if ea e t s h pe s n h t e i w n ie dri c t r n l g y , ffu sw i e l a ty ri , ng tilo a u n g d h d i e t b a tich p u tpeat erf f : 4 that. her bad intentions were directed against another. He " bound in justice to the country to prevent a person of such u r :, bridled passion from doing more injury. His Lordship ?,'" sentenced her to be transported for the term of her natunali"" DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-011 the road bet" er. Bridge-end and Llantwit Major, a boy years old, in the employ of a farmer, was latt',.. l / returning, driving a spirite d inure in a cart. v . ° descending a steep craggy hill (the flies tormeel,i ing the animal), she began kicking violently, 91/ A set off at full speed ; the boy lost his seat, 9 .7 the knee part of his breeches became entang le a with the breech-band, and he hung with his hea .. touching the ground, hurried forward by the .alit most speed of the animal, kicking at him with 11 , / the viciousness possible. The poor fellow ";" dragged in that manner for a quarter of a I" e° until the part of his garment by which he wa s 3 , 1 7; tached gave way, and he dropped apPer en ;,:i lifeless. Mr. Thomas, of Wallece, came 01 1 ; a faipt respiration, denoting that life was n° t ,: L .); tinct, induced him to send for surgical aid, in half an hour arrived. The head of the P ° l ; lad exhibited a shocking spectacle—the sc s 'i from the back part to the temples and foreill e ! with the arteries and muscles lacerated and h i s fourteen tached from the skull, hung in one piece ove r Di race, the pericranium completely grouud ne,, 06 the friction o f th e w h ee l, a fissure exte nu ' r e through the right p ar i e t a l b one . The parts w et s , well cleansed, and restor e d t o their natural I ijat ations / as well as circumstances would allow' se, with scarcely a h o p e o f hi s surv i v ing, ja, iiid CO quence of the viol en t concuss i on the WI" a le undergone, combined with external jell' remained four days alternately in a state 0 ,„ and rium and stup or , swa ll ow i ng co ld gr";;ible, water ; on the sth he slept, and became s e % t he and the woun d s di sc h arge d c o p i ou sly o pig Bth he was so far better as to be remo ved 111,1 home with every chance of his doing wel l ' 0 11' recovery may be attributed to incredible ci lla t o ties of blood taken from the head and arm, n iv - or three tim es every twenty- f our hours, up s' the fifth day, so as to produce a temp orary pension of the circelatien. d o r A gentleman residing in the neighboarheuito Care y -street, Linc o l n ' s Inn-fields, re torning I wo a dinner, where he had made rather ton who with•the bottle; was met by . an Of kindly undertook to see him home. 1, 1 "; ° , was as kindly accepted ; and on arriving residence, he could do no less than requit' soi l for his services by asking him to take a ti r 1.1 0 ,.• desired_ his wife to hand out the brandy be t r, Puriag her temporary absence, and wilt roe husband was nodding, the kind friend 0 111 ; 0 0, with his gold watch , wort h thirty 13, 111- ' O LI which was iticautiousti lying on the ta ble ' 4 0 ' decamped. On the Sth. °lvferainst s of hr, 24th inst. tr _ Esq. of a daughter. —..lrtcraaY, Mrs. H. %Villas, of Queetthithe, 3 DTEt. o° ' at n Cht Wednesday:, the firth • ag ed 12 itionthss Du,Bpylpi4atinsTlastinttil.l4.o:::::)Earnri,, al ° f . Hear Printed Pubusheoll fee the knoraxsiOg s4 °FfiCi s No;£l2, Strand, by J. B. CAROmP r •Y.~