The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-08 00:00:00

entitled. Th l Id officer mar e country , d after the !ntrance of !II was not I ° the coutte fact relative ientlenian iv be s evening, ternent. to : 120,6. 0 ° 1 ' he p oTitteoo: a nd Kdrualo of the nature b Is formerly with the large most deserrigr )re, the brothe reside abrescloi xi a pensiosi 0/. be grL uted ice for the rr against any person. The Gallant Captain had informed him that when Mr. Elton was under his command he could base distuisBe d him (entirely from the service, and 30 far disgraced but he beli eve d t h e on l y cause he would have for doing so was that he exceeded his leave of absence ten or twelve days, and he must say that if the Gallant Captain through kindness of heart did not follow it up, Mr. Elton was under deep obli gation to him. But still it did not appear to him that the charge was of muc h i mportance. He believed in what he had !gated that he had not saida single tittle which was not borne out z . a _,faet; and if h e were dece i ved, no person could feel more m n i ignant than he (Mr. Curteis). In conclusion, he would Y s ay, as he had begun, that he entirely approved of the c onduct of the Admiralty in remitting Mr. Elton s punishment. • s ti e c sn a Ptain BERKELEY said that the Honourable Gen • ei asi 4l who had just sat down having at the con to ar of his sp eec h p ra i se d hi m f or hi s c l emenc y, t ss „. r• Elton, he could only say that he rejected the praise, o:ttne if he had done his duty the House would never have 7' 14 of the subj ect w hi c h was now b efore them, and t h e l!pu b- Hwould never have been troubled w i th M r . Elton, had he issed him from her Majesty's service.—( Hear, hear.) ills said this th e more rea dil y as M r . Elt on and Z s friends were not unknown to him as they were t he Honourable Gentl eman , an d n either was Captain (Hear, hear. unkn own to hi m as h e was to t h e H on . M em b er .— hear.) Mr. Elton's friends happened to be supporters ora relatio n o f his who had a sea' in that House, so that if he badr a leaning at all, it would be towards Mr. Elton. ehn.s Elton joined the Hercules as a volunteer of the first when when Captain Williams was Lieutenant, whom ;:n promotions took place at the Coronation, he recom ehnetadktede to Lord Mint° for his good temper as an officer who 'served advancement, and he had received the common cer ]tr,,.rkeleyw'sh)ich, as the Gallant Officer knew, was merely given ""e Purpose of carrying their time. On his (Captain joining the Thunderer, he wrote to Mr. i ft;_on. father, to say that he had a vacancy in his vessel ' 415 boy were unemployed, and Captain Williams was then pointed Commander of that vessel. He could not say whether plain Williams was in the ship at the time or not, but, at all nta he was acquainted with every thing that was going for tlaey left Plymouth, and,consequently, he was aware of _thing of which Mr. Elton had bee n gu ilty. H e th 7„• n .ered the answer he had received a few ev e n i ngs ago f rom • , G a llant Officer opposite, to the question he had put, was y satisfactory, and that the question had been set at rest, that there would not have been another word on the sub after the court-martial. But that was not allowed to be the s z a ricl the Hon. Gentleman was not satisfied with the answer s ?" .. had been given by the hsed of the Naval Administration g country*, an y which was satisfactory to him (Capt. B.) b l h . l . l sPed Mr. Elton from going on shore as often as he ' tnd Mr. Elton then dese r ted. H e (C a pt a i n B.) put ehto the House, if a man under his command did th e same , eth er he could maintain the discipline of t he navy an d th e skaracter of a Briti s h man o f war w i t h ou t g i v i ng t hi s man ee dozen at the gangway 2—( Hear, hear.) This young Z 4 n had not the excuse of his first ship, had deserted not for heWeek or ten days, but for so long a p er i o d th a t if the had not returned within a very few days of . time he did—and that return was not volun z7, for he was brought back by an elder brother— Pbbooks,in of deserter would have been set against him in the and it would not have been in his (Capt. B.'s) Power to save him. But on this occasion the young man's • cider brother implored him so earnestly to look over the young es„fault - , that, being pressed so urgently by the brother, Tse feelings did him cre dit, and knowing his family, hwishing to e xcuse hi m , h e sa id it wou ld b e im p oss ibl e f or to remain in the ship as an example to the ot hoter young men, but that he would allow him to join any bi er ship in the navy, if the Captain should be willing to take When he (Capt. Berkeley) had made him acquainted with • • : facts connected with his leaving the Th un d erer . C a pt a i n Be rnard, of the Hercules, having succeeded him, expressed nnielf willing to take him, and he (Captain Berkeley) said t . iat he would give Elton a certificate, which was a mere official 14,teument, to enable him to carry the time he had spent in the h `nonderer, not to Elton himself, but to the Captain, who might tg l ie it to him at the end of twelve montls, if he ould have well conducted himself within that time. ~..cos it appeared that if he (Captain Berkeley) had t shown clemency, the case would not be be ore the H ouse n •w , an d t h e Ad m i ra l ty m i g h t b e Visited for its clemency, as he was no w . N ow , h e came t o • Wia statem en t of Elton in respect of Captain Williams. Capt. lli ams i was then on board the Cambridge, in a wide road ' Stea d. Captain Williams was at dinner, and Elton, whose Th t°ll dnet was known to Captain Williams, did what all nava l "' e n would see t o b e an act o f t h e greatest i mpert i nence. H e • a s ked th e Captain for the loan of his boat. Why a Captain's t v : a t was to h im w h a t hi s c h arger was to t h e D u k e o f Welling ?; and when the charger was ready saddled at the door, a Duke in the army would have a s muc h r i g ht t o as k th e 1 , 11 4 for the loan of his c ha rger f or a r id e o f fi ve mi l es , as a 'midshipman would have to ask a Captain for the loan of his boat. Hear, and oh.) The Hon. Gentleman might not know the etiquette of the service, but Mr. Elton did.—( Hear, hear.) `E Must well know th a t no C omman d er or Lieutenant would Captain Williams for a passage in his boat. The Hon. Wiv'entle man might not know that the five or six men in the boat ght have been from daylight till dark in attendance on the Should hare a ull of five miles to the shore and five miles wash that Please a subaltern( Hear, hear ) _that he might not wish these should go after dark into a town where liquor was Plentiful without the presence of an officer. These things pt not be kno wn t o c i v ili ans , b ut t h ey were we ll k nown to h lvl men, and every officer in the Navy would agree w ith 0 1 . in taking th e p ar t o f C ap t a i n Willi ams.. I t s h ou ld farther recollected that if the boat were down in the water, ateh must remain up to hoist her up. Captain " li ains, therefore, was not wrong in saying there is no an .,„ '- cs e r to the s i ngu l ar app li ca ti on Of M r . Elt on ; an d if h e e'' a Ptain Berk e l e y) h a d b een applied to under similar circum tances, he would have sent for Mr. Elton to the quarter-deck A t i d have reprima n d e d him for his impertinence.—( Hear, L aughter. ) The H on . Gentleman had been somewhat C,,t , r k e upon hi m (C apta i n B er k e l ey ), b u t he thanked God he ren brought up i n the sc hool of strict naval discipline, • tr ess L ise had never yet left a ship without hearing cheers and t e n es from every man and officer with whom he had sailed. etttelt he Hon. Ge n tl eman w h o th oug ht he was gu ilty o f . ,t.O Mr. Elt on , as k w h a t scene oc c urre d w h en h e t ,'; ' 3 .) gave up the command of the Thunderer, with which sas.,;: i n ied him. H e th o u g ht now he had proved that Elton Ilase;,,.." an gerous character in the Navy, and that Capt. Wil ' grant4 . Perfectly right in refusing that which he might have t e h o e ur „ t.in ar — tia r officer of a different character, and that the was justified in its sentence. He would tell eierntlenourable Gentleman that no Court was more just or , tc ; eh ent t h an a naval court-martial, and that nowhere had , • ara etee more weight. c aPtain ROUS • wished to explain the difference that tllexistd e Honourable Member for Ryo s, 'and hi mse lf n and when the Honourable Gentleman aillt7.had commanded a ship as long as he had, he had no doubt he 44 sij r `; Would be a wiser and a better man.—( Hear.) It should be sD 6.l l) orne in mind that when Mr. Elton and Captain Williams met, is:„ . „ : the Captain knew that the former had deserted from the Thun ta'oer, er, and, therefore, the request of Mr. Elton was a piece of impertinence. An apology was dictated to Elton by •sseVeral gentlemanlike officers, but he refused to sign it—when • 'he did, it was too late. The court-martial took place, and sentenced him to six months' imprisonment. If this took place its the French or American Navy, he would have been charged °kith a felony, for challenging his superior officer, the greatest (offence a man could commit.—(Hear.) But the very eircurnstance that he was about to be discharged was made the cause of an ovation or triumph, and a great festival was prepared for him. If he (Captain R.) were en the court_martial, he would have prevented such an act of Mutiny by sentencing him to s'x months in England. How ever, orders came from the Admiralty to discharge the young loan on his arrival at Portsmouth.—( Hear, and ,‘ No.") Well, least the First Lord of the Admiralty gave a promise, and re sentence was set aside. When the young man came on I.o.oard th e H ast i ngs he was i n plain clothes instead of being in lse charge of a sentry. This showed that the service was jo i ng to the dogs.—(Laughter.) He talked with the Mate Sinoilthe quarter-deck in fam i l i ar conversation. Perhaps the "n• Gentl eman did no t know th a t th e quarter- d ec k was not 1 place for familiar conversation.—(Hear an d l aug h ter. ) Captain Lawrence was quite right. A youngster of eighteen to faY to a man of sixty, " You're a liar, and you k now you ' re a ' e r 1 " If he (Captain Rous) were in his place, he would teed him i n i rons an d gagge d his mouth.—(Laughter, and ar, hear.) He hoped he might never see the Hon. Member it' aye Fi rs t L or d o f t h e Ad m i ra l ty .—( H ear , an d l aughter. ) n e Hon. and Gallant Admiral said he had no fault to find Wskith the court-martial or the sentence, yet this young man, ?° on his passage home called the Captain a liar, was for civets five months of his sentence. Why, if a man did this he la uld be hanged.—(Laughter.) Hon. Gentlemen might . t trh, bt this was no laughing atter or he country. But t lion. o and Gallant Admiral stu m ltified f the court-martial and he Admiralty. He was told that Mr. Elton was Hth m an of family and education. Why, this made e ease ten times worse.—(Laughter and hear.) If Elton were Ills nearest relative, he (Capt. B.) would sooner Lave lost his ea i l lt hand than have gone to the Admiralty to ask for a day's have behaved he were his only child he would say—" You nave behaved youself like a mad-man, like a fool. If you are I,4be imprisoned for six months, thank God it's no worse. 1-aughter.) 1 trust you will moderate your mind in future, (L a t hat you will come out a wiser and a better marl. v 4 ghter ' ) Let this finish your education, and remember,— la:uror brevis est qua nisi punt imperet.' "—( Hear, hear. ) c • CURTEIS explained. Cotah h a „Ptain PECHELL, after the discussion which had just en Place, could hardly hope to gain the attention of the s. o ie' s e , while he asked for some information relating to the s„, so tea t .hen before the Committee. He wished for ss I nformation as to the working of the Act for the F e gistrati on of Merchant Seamen. He had been in • urr °44 i ed that some short time since, when a merchant ship had -vet ', in Torbay, it had been thought desirable to have ,of Lnformation as to the number and description ,n the crew, but on inquiry it was discovered that opl e i ° „ ° ,. ° of these men had been regjstered. The general • sequence was that the Register-office was of no importance, or • c_equence whatever. He should be glad of some information The- the condition and progress of the Registersoffice. again, with regard to the apprentices. Great neat of n t had recently been made by the misplaced „.. officers commanding naval rendezvous in differ '' d eu rta, who seemed anxious to disover flaws in the in tof aprentices on board merchant vessels, for the pur akingo advantage of them, and getting the apprentices e i l _ e n n ter the Navy, thereby seriously inconveniencing the mer 1. t service. He alluded more particularly to a case which ft rece ntly occurred at Shi e ld s , an d w hi c h had been brought IMr' S YDNEY HERBERT denied that there was any • Skeen th e part of the Admiralty to distress the merchant a,, and orders had been issued that in every instance an C h en tiee dese i ti ng a merchant ship and seek i ng to enter t h e :left' should be sent back is the merchant ship which he had With regard to the case which had been alluded by the h as ' and Gallant Member for Brighton. A youth of 20 entered at the rendezvous at Shields, and the officer had a 'n e ePted himaspprentiee, T an h d e master of a merchant ship claimed him as produced certain indentures which he yeturelf acknowledged to be invalid. The youth was desired to and to the merchant ship, he refused to do so, • 1 0 'las not until he had expressed his determination to g,, had inn and enter, if he were refused at Shields, that he the permitted to enter. With respect to the working of she nusumas.ore for registration, he had to state that since 1835 15,0 00, b n er of seamen registered in the naval service was of 45,000 nd in the merchant service 30,000, making a total that of het the a p t r w ec a e s d e in x:lusive of the last year, and it was an t ' it t e t. ol!tel m t e h n ; t the increase in the last year was equal 'trucere h ad , n which was , about 10,000 ; so 1 835 eee upwards of 50,000 seamen registered a,heaene aenpprlveast ; s a notwithstanding this increase, the demand for jam' Se that oeerrevveat., that their wages had risen 20 per cent. g a i s st a er st a e l a so amounted to about 5,000 annu regularly served their time annual supply of 5,000 men o . vho It time and learned their profession. iu • was calculat d that the number of seamen employed 6s hing vessels e Inlets more. It had and other unlicensed craft amounted to 180,000 steanlNl4, joithad been supposed that the introduction of 9f milin`gve'ganutii would tend materially to decrease the number -e s. Such, however, had not been the case since d year in which steam navigation had been first intro uatin;:er I : ssactiiini ili gt er of steamers had increased to 934, but ;;"''g the ecrease of 4,5 v essels, amounting to 3,610, making a ter e f seamen in 18314 v essels since 1814. The French regis. Zutufroasntabthleatsenanmeen. ( as We understood) showed 56,000 e total at present was 98,000 men, -seventh 'must be deducted on account of tt THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING-, i o d men and boys under age, and 8,000 seamen, who had de - f SPRIIT o f t h e PUBLIC JOURN A LS. serted, principally in the United States, that would reduce ! the total to 70,000 men, and the total amount of French sea • I FRoE TEE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—We are glad that Lord John Russell men was now less by b,OOO men than it had been in 1795, and it was with the greatest difficulty th a t t h ey means to perform what we deem the duty of again could man their ships. —( Hear, hear.) He believed taking the sense of the House of Commons on ,the that equal difficulty existed in the United States, principle of the Peel Corn Bill. z of theof Tradeand I l d Ve t d° in manning their Navy, while we had without much difficulty duty deem it the n us ry.to place on fitted out fifty-four ships since the Ist of September. He men- . ~ .' party men record their solemn protest against this poor palliative boned these circumstances for the purpoi.e of showing that we had ample resources to fall back upon for manning our Navy, of their evils. We give Sir R. Peel all due credit for should we find it necessary to do so on an emergency. the degree of discipline he has contrived to introduce Mr. C. WOOD wished to know the gross amount of the amongst his three hundred and fifty myrmidons. The registered seamen in France, including all classes. Mr. SYDNEY HERBERT—lncluding all classes, the to- bulk of them ma y i n d ee d b e regar d e d as sc hi av i ogni frementi beneath his yoke. Rage, however, as they tal number is 98,706. Sir C. NAPIEIt approved of the Registration Bill applied may, they are compelled to devour their wrath in to the Navy; but he thought that measure might be carried out silence, or to give it vent in other channels than arti still further than at present. A seaman registered at one port culate speech. The Yahoo-like utterances, and in must now be registered again at another to which he removed ; human noises which have latel and he thought a register might be g i ven t o hi m b y , y been heard in the which that inconvenience might be avoided. With re- House, may be ascribed to the stifled spirit of the gard to employment in dock-bards, it appeared to him that Tory malcontents; and here and there one of this a great advantage would be gain_ dby conferring situations of Yahoo section of Ministerialists has been suffered that kind upon deserving seamen. They wou ld, by this means, to get up, and state "the . thing that is not"— obtain the parties best fitted for the various offices in dock- 111, but at the Anti-Corn-law League. Neither provided he levelled his statements, not at the Corn yards, while they would, at the same time, hold out an induce ment to men of good character to enter the service. Employ -3 ment in the dock-yards was now a matter of private influenc, I ahoo, nor Yorkshire Hussar, has been allowed any and the Navy was forgotten altogether. He remembered farther liberty. " The Premier's threat," says the having asked an old seaman whether he had applied Weekly Ch ron icle, " th a t h e wou ld l e a v e them to . . . . for a situation in a yard in which there was a vacancy ; upon which the man replied that any application upon his part would be useless, as the situation would of course be given to the second butler of Lord Dalmeny, who had been keeping company with Lady Minto's maid.—(Laughter.) He would take that opportunity of making a statement in confirmation of an observation which had fallen from bi:n the other evening, as to the very advanced age of many of the superior officers in our Navy.—( Hear. ) He found that out of the first two hundred Captains on the list seven were upwards of 70 years of age; forty nine were from 65 to 70 years old ; sixty-nine were from 60 to 65 years old; sixty-six were from 55 to 60 years old ; and there were only nine under 55 years of age. He believed thal this evil might be remedied by an additional grant of a few thousands a year, which would enable the Government to pen sion off officers arrived at an age at which it might be sup posed they could not sufficiently discharge their duties. The vote was then agreed to. The next vote having been put for the sum of 34,982/. for the salaries of officers, and the several expenses connected with the scientific department of the Navy, Mr. COOPER said he wished to ask the Hon. Gen fight their own battles, unless they not merely pledged themselves to give a consistent support to his plans in Parliament, but give up the practice of talking against them at their Clubs, has had its effect A Tory of the old school told us the other day that he was perfectly disgusted with the tergiversations of the Carlton Club, where one stripling after another came in to say, satisfied—and Tin satisfied—and the average price of wheat will be so and so, under Sir Robert Peel's Bill'—when I'll be hanged if there's one of them (said our informant) who knows what an ave rage is !" Sir R. Peel may be satisfied with this very intelligent unanimity; and we are satisfied that the whole responsibility of the measure should rest on his Govern ment; and that he should have full force to carry exactly what he proposes. It rests, however, with those who regard his proposals as founded on a false principle—as calculated to evade, not answer, the tleman whether it was the intention of the present. Board of Admiralty, and of the Government Inspectors of Schools, to adopt the recommendations of a Commission which had been appointed some years ago to inquire into the state of instruc tion at the Greenwich Hospital School. Mr. SYDNEY HERBERT said that the subject was one to which the present Administration, as well as the last, had paid the utme:t attention. The system recommended for the instruction of the boys was being carried out at present ; but the system of discipline had not succeeded so well, and the fullest powers were given to the masters of the school for that purpose. Captain FITZROY said that although he might meet with the reprobation of the Hon. Member for Coventry, he could not help saying that he wished the proposed vote was a larger one. The officers employed in the hydrographical department at home, for instance, were very ill paid, although the officers abroad were rather well remunerated. He might refer to the case of Captain Beaufort, a man whose reputation it would be needless for him to enlarge upon, and who had only an allowance of 5001. a year, with ahouse, for his services, at the head of the Hydrographical department. Capt. PECHELL asked whether Capt. Beaufort did not also receive his half-pay ? Capt. FITZROY said that he did ; but so did the Lords of the Admiralty. The Hon. Member for Halifax had taken great credit to himself, tile other evening, for the improve ments which the Administration to which he had belonged had introduced into the service; and he had endeavoured to de preciate the exertions of the " Flag Officer." But to that officer in his (Captain Fitzroy's) opinion the improvements in question were mainly owing. He wished to say a few words about the West India Packets. He thought that was a subject which required the further consideration of the Admiralty ; and it had been found that the vessels now upon that station were very inconveniently built for the purposes for which they were intended. They were too large for run ning among the Islands, and they were too weakly built to run between the Islands and this country. Mr. C. WOOD said that he could not attribute the improve ments effected in the service to the " Flag Officer," as the Hon. and Gallant Member who preceded him had done. That officer had made his suggestions in the year 1838, and the improvements had been commenced in 1837. The statement of the " Flag Officer" was incorrect—was totally without foundation. Anything so incorrect as the statement of the " Flag Officer" he had never seen in his life, and it was the less to be excused as he had all the papers before him. The vote was then agreed to. On the question being put that 124,44.5/. be granted to her Majesty to defray the expenses of naval establishments at home. Mr. C. WOOD took the opportunity of suggesting that Captain Elliot, late Plenipotentiary of her Majesty in China, was deserving of some employment at home, in consequence of his zeal and personal sacrifices in the employment which he lately held. Sir GEORGE COCK - BURN said whenever an opportu nity offered, the merits of Captain Elliot should not be over looked.—( Hear. ) The vote was then agreed to. The sum of 23,176/. for the salaries of officers of naval esta blishments abroad was next voted. urgent demands of the most momentous commercial crisis that ever arrived to a nation—it rests with every assertor of regular commerce in the first neces saries of life—by his voice or by his vote to attest his con victions of true policy. The time may not be distant when the importance of firmly planting the standard of sound principles will be seen more cle ar y than it is now. STANDARD.—The high reputation of British Honesty it is well known has done more to promote our commercial greatness than any other cause. It is not necsssary to assume, and we are sure it would be unjust to assume, that all our manufacturers, or even a majority of them, are guilty of the dishonest practices exposed by Mr. Ferrand ; but it is obvious that some of them must be guilty, even without Mr. Ferrand's evidence ; and Messrs. Cobden and Brotherton acknowledge as much. If, however, some, and even but a few, are guilty of such practices, that is quite enough to soil S the BritiSh character in foreign markets--quite enough to suggest foreign rivaiship—quite enough to explain the anxiety of the members of the League for opening new markets, seeing that British goods have lost all character in the old ones. A cry is raised against Mr. Ferrand, because he has told the truth in this particular, and he is charged with wishing to injure the export trade. This is, however, most unjust. The trade can be injured only by itself—by the employment of worse paid and therefore less skilful workmen, and of inferior materials, thus producing a bad article, which, however disguised by fraud, will soon be detected by the purchaser. We did not understand Mr. Ferrand to charge all manufac turers—indeed, he cautiously guarded himself from being thought to do so. We did not understand him as charging even all the members of the League ; though, by associating with those guilty of the • frauds, they show that they do not think very hardly of them. What we understood Mr. Ferrand to say was, that the foreign market for British goods had been injured by such frauds. Messrs. Brotherton and Cobden, however, confess that such frauds have been committed ; and every one can judge whether great disgrace to British goods must not have arisen from them. We feel, as every one must feel, great difficulty in dealing with the ques tion generally, because we know that many ex cellent men are .engaged in manufactures, and that some of them are even compelled, by the tyranny of competition, to do otherwise what they would not do ; but the interests of hundreds of thousands are at stake, and we may not be silent. The character of A vote of 567,0271. for the wages of artificers and others in naval establishments at home, was agreed to. The sum of 38,530/. for the wages of artificers in her Ma jesty's naval establishments abroad was then voted. 'I he question being put that the sum of 1,238,90;1. be granted for Naval Stores, Dr. BOWRING said that he could not allow this enormous vote to be passed at so late an hour. He should, therefore, move that the Chairman report progress. There was no regular ac count whatever kept of the stores in this country, nor was Par liament informed what was the quantity at any time on hand. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that the Hon. Member was under a very erroneous impression The fact was, that a very exact account of the stores on hand, was alwa s kept, but when it was recollected the contracts were always made by tender, it must be obvious that it would be highly injudicious to make it known from time to time what was the exact amount of stores on band. Dr. BOWRING wished to know when an absolute survey of the stores was last made ? Sir JAMES GRAHAM—In 1841.—( A laugh.) Mr. WILLIAMS moved that the Chairman report progress. It had been an estzblished rule for the last three years net to vote any public money after twelve o'clock.—(A laugh. ) Mr. S. HERBERT said that he did not intend to go fur ther than the present vote that night. Mr. WILLIAMS—You had better take all the votes to gether. British trade, too, through all its departments, is se riously menaced, for the character of the British mer chant will not long survive the character of the goods which he exports. The time, indeed, seems to have arrived when the state of manufactures ought to un dergo a strict investigation by the Legislature. COti RIE .—Certain printed documents have just been laid before Parliament in the form of " Papers relating to the moneys received from the Chinese authorities in the city of Canton, under an agreement entered into with her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, on the 27th May, 1841, presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of her Majesty, 1842." From this singular batch of papers we learn officially that for the t rl)i trary levy of the six millions of dollars the Superin tendent had no warrant from home, or what could, from any forced construction of gen era l instruc tions, be even interpreted into a warrant, excepting under the special circumstances of the definitive conclusion of a treaty of peace for the settlement of all differences with China. That the levy was grounded on the condition of the conclusion of a definitive treaty is now denied by Captain Elliot himself, although by the Chinese negotiators it was clearly regarded in that light, as we learn upon the indisputable authority of Captain Senhouse, Naval Commander-in-Chief of the operations against Canton, who fell a sacrifice to the chagrin and irritation caused by Captain Elliot's in capacity and unaccountable blunders acting upon a frame already perhaps enfeebled by the hardships of service and the rigours of an unhealthy season. Nor in the copy of the Convention arranged with the Can ton functionaries does the money payment stipulated appear to be at all expressed as, or limited to the sense of, a ransom for the city. Upon the copy transmitted by the Superintendent to him the Gallant Senhouse thus observes—" In perusing very attentively the document your Excellency has been pleased to transmit, I cannot avoid considering that the terms of the arrangement must appear to an unpre judiced person, ignorant of local circumstances, more as a settlement for a general peace, rather than conditions proposed, discussed, and agreed to, for the sole purpose of delivering the city of Canton from the penalties of actual occupation." In the authority given to the Kwang-Choo-Foo by the Commissioners, they clearly state that the English Plenipotentiary, being willing to observe a truce and make arrangements for peace, they, therefore, appoint the Kwang-Choo-Foo to conduct the details of the pacific arrangement and settlement. - The vote was then agreed to. The House then resumed, and the Chairman reported pro gress, and obtained leave to sit again. The Rivers (Ireland) Bill was read a second time, and or dered to be committed on Monday. Sir GEORGE CLERK moved that the House, on Wed nesday, resolve itself into a Committee of Ways and Means. Ordered. SALMON FISHERIES (SCOTLAND). Mr. H. DRUMMOND brought in this Bill, which was read a first time. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House Adjourned at One o'Clock. SECESSION FROM THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As a reader of your able Journal, I would make a suggestion in the present critical position of our country, and the utter disregard on the part of the Legislature to the welfare of the industrial portion of the community, and their con temptuous denial of justice to the famishing population of the manufacturing districts. I would suggest, that during the passing of the " Pinch-belly" measure of the monopolists ; that these patriotic men who, in the House ,nis.called the Pevle's, have stood forward as the advocates of unrestricted commerce, that they should absent themselves, either in a body or individually, previously protesting before the House their determination, that they should return to their respective constituencies ; that meetings should be convened, at which meetings the representation of the people in their own House may be discussed. and same understanding come to as to the course to be pursued. The public generally are sick of the talk of Parliament. Need we wonder at this? Let those who represent the mil lions leave the trimmers to assist in the childish play of dividing to no purpose; and let them enter on the noble and righteous course that is before them—the attainment for the whole people of a share in the Government, as laid down in the simple pro position adopted by Joseph Sturge and his coadjutors. That this object may soon be realised, and men recognise the Scrip ture maxim of doing unto others as they would be done by, and wishing your Journal success in the advocacy of these views, I subscribe myself (with regret), AN UNREPRESENTED ENGLISHMAN. London, March 7, 1842. " MUCH WILL GET MORE."—Mr. Leigh, the Mayor of Liverpool, who is already reported to be the richest commoner in England, has, during the last month, received an accession of fortune under the will of some old lady, who lived somewhere at the south end of this town.— Liverpool Chronicle. We believe naileinsst-stree Bannister's who b d r died every was a r ecen solicitort l y. — i nL extensivei verp o o/ S p r t a a c n t d i c e a r d in. the lady here alluded to is Mi ss B ann i s t er , o f U pper Parlia ment-street, and held the office of Clerk of the West Derby Court. The grandfather of Mr. Leigh was a farmer, and held a farm somewhere in the neighbourhood. His son John, father ,to the present Mayor of Liverpool, was a fine youth, and at tracted the notice of Mr. Bannister, who, finding that his father intended to bring him up to trade, suggested tbat he had better send him to his office, and he would make a lawyer of him. The suggestion was gladly adopted. Mr. John soon acquired the confidence of his master, on whose death he succeeded to the business, including the Derby connexion, and became a leading solicitor. By extensive speculations in land at the north end of the town, a large district of which belonged to him, he amassed a very large fortune, the bulk of which his worship now pos sesses. Miss Bannister continued the connexion with the Leigh family commenced by her brother, and, dying at the advanced Age of nearly 90, " without kith or kin," left the whole of her accumulated property to the present head of the house. We trust that the Mayer will long live to enjoy and to spend his r.iches. —Albion. SIR WILLIAM WRAXALL.--This Baronet having been mistaken for his ancestor, the following account of the latter, taken from the second volume of Madame D'Arblay's "'Diary," just published, may not be unacceptable : " Wroxall,- Nathaniel William—This gentleman (who was createo a Baronet in 1813) was a voluminous writer of travels, historic II works, memoirs, &c. He was the son of a Bristol merchant, and oassed the early part of his life in India, in the civil service of the Company. He was afterwards ap pointed Judge-Advocate of the Forces of the Presidency of Bombay. His lats st work, and that which attracted the most attention, was entitl. ¶d ' Historical Memoirs of my own Times, &c.' It was publish( 'd in 1515. Sir Nathaniel Wraxall died at Dover, 1831, on his way to Naples." THE NEW'AVERAGES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Having a perfect knowledge of Dover Corn-market, and of those to be added by the slippery Ministers for aver ages for the new Sliding Scale, allow me to present to you a few facts upon this selection, and to request of gentlemen re siding in the localities of the several markets to be added for future averages, to forward to you such hints as to the quality of the wheat sold at those places as may occur to them. Dover Corn-market begins at three o'clock r. In., or rather later ; the number of persons attending very few • sometimes not exceeding twenty; the quantity of business done inconsi derable. The land being very interior about Dover, the qua lity of the wheat is at all times inferior, and, in unfavourable harvests like the last, much of it unfit for human food. The Corn-market at Sandwich, about the second in the country, which makes no return, where nearly all the fine wheat for Dover is purchased, is supplied with wheat of an average full ss. per quarter superior to the wheat sold at Dover ; is well attended ; and where ten times the business is done. This market is omitted in the present and new selection of markets for futnre averages. So that the Dover market is selected to make returns of wheat which, unmixed, the inhabitants cannot eat, and no re turn of the fine wheat they do eat, is, or is not, intended to be made at all. Such will be the Dover averages. Is this selec tion made from ignorance? If so, it is a poor plea for a Mi nister of State ; and, if by design, it is downright dishonesty, and is done to unfairly keep down the averages, like the pre sent system, whi c h requires factors to return all wheat sold, whether for human food, or for making starch for ladies' caps ; whilst, by the new addition, a better sort of pigmeat will help the sliding scale to keep out of the country wholesome food for its sustenance. - • DEATH OF KIRRIN_‘.AN FINLAY, ESQ.—We regret to state that Mr. Kirkman Finlay expired this morning (Fri day) at his residence, Towar, i Castle, Argyleshire. Mr. Finlay during a long life, has been frequently before the public, in various capacities, and of cours( his public principles and con duct have been variously regal tied hy different persons. As an authority on commercial qui vtions no man held a higher position in Parliament than Mi *. Finlay, and his services in helping to break up the East monopoly will long be gratefully remembered by many of his 1:110w-eitizens. Glas gow Chronicle. The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel the Columbine, Norwood, from Ra tterdam, arrived off the Custom-house on Sunday with the Mitch Mail. I do hope these facts will induce others to expose the tricks of the Sliding Scale Ministers in their several localities. Dover, March 4, 1842. F A IRPL A Y . The following is an extract from a factor's letter, dated Mark lane, March 5, 1842 The sprouted wheat from Scotland, which has lately come upon our market, has been sold at all prices, from 30s. to 501. per quarter." Now, the same letter quotes fine Essex and Kent wheat in Mark-lane at 68s. Here is a fine specimen of Ministerial and Parliamentary legislation and human wisdom, one of the beau ties of the sliding—l had almost said the scamping scale—here is agricultural protection, where pig's meat is blendid with human food to enhance the price of sound wheat, and to keep out foreign grain, to the destruction of human existence by the body politic, for the protection, not of health, or existence, but for the protection of the agriculturists, and this to be made worse by the introduction of more pig's meat into the averages. PROJECTED PURCHASE, OF TE 1E NORTH SHORE.— We have heard, as a rumour, th at. the Corporation are now negotiating with thee Earl of Derby, for the pur chase of his Lordship's righe to the strand of the North Shore, from the limits of the borough to the landmarks at Bootle. The sum mentioned as .the price of the strand is 15,000,1. The Corporation contemplate the proba bility of the strand being wanted for the formation of docks to the northward ; and they are., therefore, desirous of securing the right to the strand as far a 3 the landmarks. As the tide runs with great velocity along the Bootle shore, a breakwater will, it is supposed, have to E e built to weaken its f ore ,. The building of it will cost a h rge sum of money; but it is, in the opinion of competent judg, es, quite indispens able, if docks are to be fow3ded on the strand. —Limerick Chronicle. FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE AT BOULOGNE.—A fire broke out at half past two o'clock, on the Ist inst., at the house of an oil and colourman, named H. Postel, when he fell a v i c tim, as well as his son, twenty-one years of age, and daughter, eighteen years of age, leaving the widow and mother in such a distracted state that no hopes are entertained of her recovery. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 7. The House sat to-day to hear Scotch appeals; the Peers present were Lord Cottenham, Lord Brougham, Lord Camp bell, and Lord Middleton. ROYAL RUROUS OF SCOTLAND V. CUNNINGHAME. This was an appeal from the decision of the Court of Ses sion. The only question in the ease was, whether the Con vention for the regulation of Scotch burghs was a corporation; and every member elected for life, or whether the appointment was only annual. Th e Court ofSession decided that the ap pointment was for life, and from that decision the present appeal was brought. Mr. GORDON addressed their Lordships for the appellant Mr. STUART followed on the same side. The ATTORNEY-G ENERAL and Mr. MACONOCHIE appeared for the respondests. Their L.ORDSHIFS postponed their judgment. LAWRENCE v. BLAKE—JUDGMENT. Lord COTTEN/IAM gave judgment in this ease, affirming all the orders appealed f rom except one, which h i s Lordship ordered to be reversed. ALLAN V. BRANDER. Lord COTTENIIA3I also gave judgment in this case, affirming the interlocuters appealed from, with costs. COURT OF CHANCERY Murat 7. The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's-inn Hall to-day. IN THE MATTER OF THE BIRMINGHAM FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. This case same before the Court upon a petition presented by the Governors of King Edward's Free Grammar school in Birmingham, praying for a reference to the Master. In the year 18:14 an information was filed for the purpose of ascertaining what was the property belonging to the Charity, and also for a scheme for its future regulation. Under that information, a reference was directed to the Master, to inquire whether it would be for the benefit of the charity, that the school should be rebuilt, and that application should be made to Parliament to enable them to rare money for the purpose. The Master reported in favour of the rebuilding of the school, and applying to Parliament, and he also approved of a scheme for the future regulation of the school under which the head master was to be al owed to receive boarders. Since the new building hid been erected, it had been found that the sum rained under the Act was not sufficient for the purpose by 6,1)001., and the object of the present petition was for a re ference to the Master, to inquire whether it would be for the benefit of the Charity to apply to Parliament for another Act to raise a further WWI, and for the alteration of the scheme relative to the head master receiving boarders, the Governors proposing, instead of allowing him to receive boarders, to pay him a certain sum for each scholar. Mr. Finnelly appeared for the Bishop of Worcester, and Mr. Bacon for the Head Master, and consented to the application. The Loan CHANCELLOR. made the order as prayed. ROLLS' COURT, March 7. His LORDSHIP heard motions to-day. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, March 7. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) Motions of no interest occupied his Honour all the morning. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIG RAM.) COLE V. STUTELY. His HONOUR gave judgment in this cause, which came before the Court on exceptions and further directions. Under the will of Martin Cole, the husband of Elizabeth Cole, the latter became entitled fur her life to certain household property, with a general power to appoint. The property was subject to two mortgages created by the testator, one for 500/. and the other for 1,000/. The bill was filed by the appointees, and the question in the cause was whether the monies origi nally secured by those mortgages, constituted part of the resi duary estate, or whether the appointment had been made in such a manner as that the appointees took the estate subject to the charges open it. After citing several cases in point, his Honour decided that the mortgages must be considered as part of the general estate. RAIKES V• WARD. In this case, the question being as to the construction of a will, his Honour said that in the present state of the case it was not open to him to decide the point raised at the bar. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, March 7. IN RE CHARLES VALENTINE AUSTIN. The insolvent in this case, who described himself as a water-gilder, carrying on business in partnership with his mother, was opposed by Mr. Cooke, on behalf of a creditor named Osborn. His petition was supported by Mr. Woodroffe. It appeared that he had been in the habit of accepting bills of exchange, drawn by a person named Hea land, and some four years ago the opposing creditor, who was clerk to Mr. Pemberton, the Chancery barrister, discounted two of those bills for 504 each, payable in three months, for which a rate of interest was charged equal to 12!. per annum for 501. Not being able to meet them when they became due, they were renewed upon similar terms, and now formed the grounds of opposition to the insolvent's discharge. Headland passed through this Court in last January, and th e i nso l vent ' s mot h er had likewise taken the benefit of the Act about twelve months ago, since which time she died, and by her will left him a por. lion of her share in the trade, but only one attesting witness being to the will it was invalid. Mr. WOODROFFE said his client's case required the attend ance of Osborn to give evidence touching the circumstances under which the bills were discounted, as he (Osborn) had so very frequently appeared in this Court to oppose insolvents under circumstances similar to the present, it was desirable to have as close a scrutiny as possible. Mr. Cool: said it would be utterly impossible for him to be present, as he was obliged to be in attendance upon Mr. Pem berton at the House of Lords, who was engaged in several cases of appeal. Mr. WOODROFFE was about addressing the Court for the insolvent, when _ Mr. Conimissioner REYNOLDS said the• facts of the case, as they appeared at present, rendered such acourse quite unneces sary on the part of the Learned Gentleman, as nothing tran spired to induce an adverse judgment. The insolvent was then ordered to be discharged. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. A NEST OF THIEVES.— Samuel Haslem, aged 21, waiter, James Fernley, aged 24, painter, if idiom Henry Fernley, aged 14, labourer, George Fernley, aged 59, porter, Eliza beth Ann Fernley, aged 23, spinster, and Abigail de Soiza, aged 23, spinster, were indicted, and the indictment charged Samuel Haslem, James Fernley, and W. H. Fernley, with breaking John Oliver, lihviesr,and property,stealinga od George and Elizabeth Ann Fernley and Abigail de S o i za w ith oc k o in at g , into two the boo dwelling-house of t 4o , o feloniously receiving the same, well knowing them t o h ave been stolen. Another indictment charged the prisoners with stealing and receiving one hat, two boots, three rings, one pencil-case, and a great variety of other articles, the property of Joseph Rawlings. The prisoners were also detained upon two other charges of burglary, and no less than eighteen charges of larceny. The charge of burglary in the dwelling-house of John Oliver was taken first, and from the evidence adduced, it appeared that on the 29th of January the wife of the prosecutor heard a noise up stairs, and on proceeding to the parlour she found the win dew open and a ladder placed against the outside of the house. She immediately looked round the house and missed the arti cles named in the indictment. The prisoner resided in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, and subsequently to the robbery it was discovered that the property had been pledged in that neighbourhood. From information received from the pawn brokers, the prisoners were taken into custody. A quantity of the property was found in the house of the elder prisoner. A small house had been taken by the prisoner Haslem, and the prisoner, Elizabeth Ann Fernley, cohabited with him. A great number of articles were brought to the cottage by the prisoner Haslem. The pawnbrokers with whom the articles were pledged were put into the witness-box, but they cou.cl not swear to the prisoner Elizabeth Ann Fernley. The articles were pledged in the name of Bennet. The prisoner De Soiza lived as companion to the prisoner Elizabeth Ann Fernley. The prisoners were all taken in the same house, and the boots named in the indictment were found on the feet of the younger prisoner. Several witnesses were called who gave the elder prisoner an excellent character. The REcoanze having summed up the evidence, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against the prisoners Haslem, Eli zabeth Ann Fernley, and William Henry Fernley, and acquitted the other prisoners on the ground that there was not sufficient evidence against them. The other charges were then gone into against the prisoners, and the same verdicts taken. The prisoner Haslem was then sentenced to be transported for life, and the prisoner Elizabeth Fernley to be transported for the term of fourteen years. The sentence on the other prisoner was deferred. James Gissing and Jamei Laidler were indicted for break ing into a warehouse, and stealing therefrom a quantity of sacks, the property of Messrs. Richardson, hop merchants, in the borough. On the 24th of February last the warehouse of the prosecutors was left secure at five o'clock in the afternoon. At about nine o'clock one of the men had occasion to go back to the warehouse, and he then found the warehouse broken open, and the prisoners with the sacks in their possession. The prisoners were found guilty. Mr. CLARKSON, who appeared for the prosecution, said that the prisoner Gissing had twice been summarily convicted, and, singular to relate, only a month previous to the present transaction the prosecutor discovered the prisoner Gissing in the act of picking his pocket. The prisoners were then sentenced to be transported for the term of ten years. • Frederick Jones, a young man, who was:said to be miss re spectably connected pleaded Guilty to an indictment charging him with the manslaughter of Richard Simmons a fishmonger in Cnapel-street, Pentonville. Mr. CLARKSON, on belief of the prisoner, said the unfortu nate occurrence which gave rise to the present inquiry, hap pened some months since, in a struggle which took place be tween the prisoner and the deceased, during which the latter, not supposing at the time that who was a very heavy man, was thrown down and several of his ribs were broken. He was at that time in a delicate state of health, and there could be no doubt that the accident accele rated his death. The prisoner's friends had given the deceased The RECORDER, upon looking ever the depositions, said it 251. after old aft d er te th rm e i a n c a c t i e de i n n t was a case which could not be passed over without some pu nishment,the property of William Salmon, as great viO hia l " e:c due e r: a te p h lared to have been used by the was, that he be imprisoned, House f but without hard labour, in the g. Correction, for three months, and pay a fine of 25 1 . The Learned Judge, at the same time, said he would give a certificate recommending the fine to be given to the deceased's family. John Oliviere Martin, a genteel . youth, 17 prisoner. The sentence, therefore, years of age, was the evidence that the ' It appeared from for prisoner had been ' to the prosecutor about three a n d an apprentice years, on 1 h ult. he absconded the morning of the 10th . with another ap prenticehinisditactaesdtefro! stealing 300 1 ., shopprosecutors had been broken open, and the sum of iOOl. carrie d at away: two days afterwar.is the apprehended P ortsmouth, with a prisoner was great portion 'on. Jones and of the moneyi phis ma°, the In his cross-examination prosecutor admitted that he of the name of J and that the kept a " tally-shoe,". prisoner was in the habit of collecting money, for w hic h occa sion to go to brothels, the keepers of such places being very good customers of his : the prisoner had b een in the habit of collecting from them before he was fifteen years of age : it was net a general practice to send the prisoner to such houses. " The Jury found the prisoner . Guilty," but strongly recom mended him to mercy on aecount of the very improper employ ment assigned to him by the prosecutor. . for • The prisoner was again in dicted stealing a quantity of linen of the value of 401., the property o f the same prosecutor, and the Jury a second time returned a verdict of " Guilty," but still adhered to their former reco mmendation and obser vations. The Recorder deferred passing sentence. NEW COURT: were i n dicted for f e l oniously receiving 150 George Worthington, age d 46, and /vary Bird, a married woman aged 40, yards o 6 f l. of curled horse-hair, value i the property of Susannah P ur ki s, web knowing the same to have been stolen. Mr. Burton conducted the case for the pr osecut i on, an d M r . tu l9s., horse-hair seating and 1 33 lbs. Phillips and Mr. Charnock appeared for the prisoners. Mrs. Purkis, the prosecutrix , was the first witness examined. She stated that she was a horse-hair in antlfacturer, in Crown- MARCH 8, 1842.' street, Shoreditch. On the 14th of February last, witness suspecting that a woman in her service, named Mary Williams, was fraudulently removing property from her premises, had the woman searched, and slbs. of horse-hair were found on her person. The woman then admitted that she was taking it for sale to the house of the prisoners, to whom she had previously disposed of various quantities of the same description of pro perty, which she had stolen from time to time. liary Williams admitted the theft. She was in the habit of stealing the property in small quantities and selling it to the prisoners, who kept a marine store shop, at 57, London-street, Finsbury. The prisoners paid her 4d. a pound for the horse hair. Mrs. Purkis was re-called, and stated that the value of the stolen goods was Is. per pound. James Brammen, a police constable, stated that he had gone to the house of the prisoners, and asked them if they had any horse-hair in their possession. They at first denied that they had any ; and when he afterwards found a quantity on the pre mises, the female prisoner sa id t o t h e other, ‘'l knew that it would come to this at last." The Jury returned a verdict of " Guilty" against the pri soners, and they were each sentenced to one year's imprison ment in the House of Correction, with hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-110 USE. THE ROBBERY OF THE BLACKBURN COACH, PERSEVER ANCE.—Two men, named James King and William Mooby, were brought up before the Lord Mayor by Superintendent Beswick, of the Manchester police, upon suspicion of having boen concerned in stealing from the front boot of the Black burn Perseverance coach, a leathern box containing 1,5001. i n gold, and 5001. in Bank of England notes. The notes, which were marked N. H., and numbered from 66,101 to 66,200 in clusive, and dated Manchester, 26th February, 1841, and signed " W. Taylor," were said so have been stopped at the Bank, and a reward of 100/. has been offered for the apprehen sion of the thieves. Superintedent Beswick stated that the box had upon it a brass plate, upon which was engraved the names " Cunliff, Brook, and Co," and was stolen at a place called Bury, about six miles from Manchester. The two prisoners, it would be proved, had been on the coach on the night of Friday, the 18th of February, and one of them (James King) was seen when when the coach arrived at Bury to take the box or postman teats out of the boot. Here King said, in a tone of surprise, " What ! me ? No such thing." Superintendent Beswick said he could prove that Mooby,whom he believed to be the brother of King, had been also on the coach. He knew Mooby to have been a porter at Manchester, and to have lived there for many years. King was a hawker, and resided at Leeds. King--Not at all ?—I reside at Nottingham, and we are not brothers. Superintendent Beswick stated that he and his men had traced the prisoners through various parts of the country since the robbery had been committed. At length they traced King to the house of a man of the name of Cousins, who resided in Baden-place, Crosby-toad, Borough, where it appeared he and Mouby, had lodged for a few days, and were or ap peared to be in possession of considerable sums of money. Wit ness arranged with Cousins, whose house they had quitted with the intention as they stated to return to go in search of the two prisoners, and Cousins remained in the neighbourhood of the Mansion House, while witness went to the station in Euston-square, to make some necessary inquiries. Cousins, while at the Mansion House suddenly saw the prisoners pass by together, and having called a policeman gave them into custody. The Lott') MAYOR asked whether any of the notes had been traced ? Superintendent Beswick replied that one of them could, he had every reason to believe, be traced to one of the prisoners. There was another charge against one of the prisoners (Mooby). That person bad at a pre•sious time been accused of having broken into a' silversmith's shop at Manchester, and stolen 1,0001. worth of plate. The case was upon that occasion discharged, but he believed there was addi tional evidence ready to be adduced. George Cousins, of Baden-place, Crosby-road, plumber, stated, that the prisoners, one of whom he knew, called at his house and took a room. He thought they were brothers. They called each other William and James. One of them brought with him a leathern trunk. There was nothing in the first in stance in their behaviour calculated to excite suspicion. When they were in the house a few days, they said they had been robbed by another person who had just left the house with his wife, for, as it was understood, the purpose of going to France, of a sum of money amounting to 1751., all in 5/. notes, with the exception of one, which was a note for 101. Witness was annoyed and agitated at hearing that a robbery h a d b een comm i tte d i n his house, and immedi ately proposed to the prisoners to go to the station-house, and inform the police of the particulars, and describe the person of the man they suspected. They, however, said no, it was better to keep it quiet, as they knew the man, and where to get him. When one of the prisoners said he had been robbed of 1751., the other observed that it was well he had about his person his property, amounting to 7001. King was the man who made the last observation. King—l never said any thing of the kind. I never was mas ter of 200/. in my life. One of the Superintendant's men stated that he found upon King 17/., and upon Mooby 22/. 15s. 10d. in gold and silver, but no notes. The Loin MAYOR asked the prisoners whether they were desirous to say anything on the subject of the serious accusation against them? King—Why, my Lord, I really have to say that I am not guilty of the robbery. Mooby—l never lost any money at Cousins's, and I never said that I lost any. All 1 had was 22/. 15s. 10d. I have been a porter, and came to town to look for a situation. The Loan Maron—Where did you look for a situation ? Mooby—Everywhere. I tried a great many places. The Loan MAYOR — Mention one place at which you tried to get employment. Mooby—l can't tell any of them. lam no scholar. I always got work in Manchester, and I thought I could as easily get it here. The LORD MAYOR—Why did you say you were robbed of 175/., as Cousins states you said; and how (lid it happen that one of you said you had 700/. in sovereigns about you ?—King, it is no such thing. The Loan MAYOR (to Cousins)—Did they return after they declined to go and make the complaint at the station house ? Cousins—Thev did not. My suspicion was excited by that circumstance, and confirmed by their absence. King--We did not like to stay in the house, for, on our return front the theatre, Cousins told us that the lodger and his wife had decamped, taking with them some goods which did not belong to them, and he asked us whether we had lost any thing, as they were dishonest people. We never said we had lost anything, but we did not like to remain in a place of the kind. The Superintendent requested that the Lord Mayor would remand the prisoners till Thursday next, in order that other witnesses might be produced. The Loan .MAYOR—By all means. Let the case stand over till Thursday. King (smiling)—There is no charge against us at all. Remanded till Thursday. 130 W- S T I?EE T. Two genteely dressed men, who gave the names of Wells and Garland, were charged with assaulting a person named Bush under the following circumstances. As the complainant was unable to attend in consequence of the injuries he had re ceived, Mrs. Bush stated the case. She said that on Sunday she was walking along Whitehall, in company with another lady, on the way to her residence in Regent-street, Westminster. Her husband and her friend's husband were also proceeding along 'Whitehall, a few yards in advance of the ladies. The prisoners at the bar went up to the witness and her friend, put their hands on their shoulders, and otherwise behaved in a manner not at all becoming the respect which is due to a virtuous woman. Witness and her friend felt highly insulted at this treatment, and told the prisoners to go away, mentioning as a further inducement to make them quit, thw. their husbands were just before them, and would soon make them go. The prisoners, however, in their excess of valour and gallantry, refused to comply with the fair dame's request, and added, " Oh, d--n the husbands, we don't care for them." Witness's husband then came up, but the pri soners, instead of sheering off at his approach, only became the more attentive to the ladies, and when remonstrated with by the husband, the prisoner Garland laid hold of him, whilst his companion Wills struck him over the face, so hard that his jaw was dislocated. Mr. Bush was now under the hands of Mr. M'Cann, the surgeon, of Parliament -street, who said that he would be laid up probably for a month or two. Mr. HALL remarked that the evidence was quite strong enough to warrant him to remand the prisoners until the hus band should be able to attend. lie would, however, take bail —themselves in 401., and two sureties in 20/. each for their appearance this day week. UNION-HALL. Anthony Gorman was charged with assaulting and wounding James Millist, a policeman of the M division, in the execution of his duty. The policeman stated that being on duty at Bermondsey-wall, at seven o'clock on the preceding night, he stopped a boy with a bundle, suspecting it contained stolen property. The prisoner came up at the moment, interfered, and said that he had better look after the " swell mob," than stopping honest people. The policeman desired the prisoner to go on, but he refused, and struck at him several times, and a scuffle having taken place, the prisoner got possession of the policeman's staff, and struck him on the head with it, inflicting a severe wound—The prisoner was remanded until to-morrow. THAAIP.,S POLICE. Yesterday Captain Scott, belonging to the ship " Earl of Clam.," from China to London, waited on Mr. Ballantine, on the subject of a complaint that had been made at that Court a few days since, by a number of Chinese sailors and Lascars, that they could not get the money that was due to them. Mr. BALLANTINE said, that such a complaint had been made, and he found it was a matter in which he could not interfere. The Chinamen were understood to say that they had engaged at 6 dollars per month, the value of which was 4s. 6d., and on arriving here they had been offered Spanish dollars, which were worth but 4s. 2d. Captain Scott said that as the case had been before the public, he wished to explain the real differences. The owner of the ship was a Parsee merchant, residing at Bombay, and their agents here were Sir Charles Forbes and Co. The ship had sailed from Bombay to China, where the 25 Chinamen were shipped , they were then paid two months in advance, in Spanish dollars; subsequently they were paid another two months, and on their arrival at Gravesend some time ago money to the amount of 751. was sent down from London to pay them with, when by some extraordinary means they con trived to steal the whole of the above amount intended for their pay (and which could not be traced) and then demanded pay in English crowns, worth 55., instead of Spanish dollars, with which they had been previously paid, worth 4s. 2d. This demand was of course resisted. There was money due to them, and if they insisted they might have it, but it had been thought prudent to withhold the money while in ,this country, for if they had it in their posse ss i on a t th e present time, they would not have one farthing of it left in fifteen days hence, when the ship would sail. The owners and agents he (Capt. Scott) was sure would not allow any advantage to be taken of these men, and for his own part he would do all he could to pacify them; they were provided for by the agents, but they could not be got to do any work, and were continually annoying him. Mr. BALLANTINE said that from the respectability of the parties he was satisfied that every thing that was proper would he done. If they persisted in their annoyance the police must be applied to. Captain Scott then thanked the Magistrate, and withdrew. WOR SHIP- S TREE T. A young man of respectable exterior, named John. Evans, who stated himself to be a clerk out of a situation, was c h arge d with having wilfully broken a window in the house of hi s land lord, Mr. Livingstone, No. 20, Woodland-street, Dalston ; he was further charged with having threatened the life of his wife, and resisted Mr. Pritchard, a police inspector, in the execution of his duty. Mrs. Livingstone stated that the prisoner and his wife had occupied apartments in her husband's house for upwards of three months, but he had only paid a fortnight's rent during that period. His wife was in a deep decline, and it was not expected that she would survive many days. At a late hour on the preceding night the prisoner, who was very irregular in his h a bits, returned home in a state of intoxication, and repaired to the chamber in which his wife was lying, where a violent dis turbance soon afterwards commenced, and the prisoner's mo ther-in-law came out and begged of witness to interfere, stating that the prisoner had taken up a knife and threater,ed to murder his wife. On her entering the room the prisoner ran down stairs and !eft the house, but he came back in a few minutes. Wheat. s. d. to a. d. s. d. to _______. ....... ' 0 7 5 0 Helitone St. Austell — 0 6 0 0 Rodmln 0 8 8 '-- 0 Truro Barley. j Oath. s. d. a. d. to s. d 3 9 0 210 39 0 9 38— 0 3 2 44 0 3 0 36 0 3 9 3 8 - 0 2 t 3 4 - 2 f 2 4 4 0_ 0 2 0 Liskeard — ii 7 Launceston Camelford 6 6 7 Penzance 7 8 8 6 - - 45 5 • 0 d 9 0 4 0 The Globe states that the Oceana of llavre, 700 tons, having on board 300 emigrants, men, women, and chil dren, bound for New Orleans, was, in December, wrecked on a bank off Jamaica. Immediately the unfortunate sufferers reached the shore they were stripped perfectly naked by the negroes, who plundered the ship, not leaving even a single rape of the rigging. GLAIstORGANSIIIRE SPRING ASSlZES.—Catherine Thomas, the wife of David Thomas, charged with the wilful murder of her step-daughter, Mary Thomas, of Eglwysilan, was found guilty of manslaughter last week at these assizes, but has not yet been sentenced. The evidence showed the child to have been visited with the most cruel treatment for a continued period of time. SINGULAR DEATH.—A few days since a labourer, named Styles, living at an ancient fa rm house called Hole, near Boarshead, Rotherfield, partook of some plaice. In attemp ing to swallow a bone with a piece of flesh, the former stuck in his throat. He immediately put in a crust of bread, with the in tention of driving the bone from its lodgment by swallowing the bread. He succeeded in doing this ; but in forcing away the bone from the place it had occupied, a hole was torn in the passage of sufficient size to admit a part of his food. The con sequence was, that he lingered till Monday last, when he e x _ pired.— Sussex Express. A Vienna letter mentions that two members of the Central Railroad Commission, M. Ghigo, head engineer of the Ern. peror Ferdinand's railroad, and the Baron de Lehr, chief architect of the Vienna and Raah line, have been ordered by the Emperor to proceed without delay to the United States to inspect the prin cipal lines of railroads, and to report on their meri.s. They are to be a c companied by four pupils of the Imperial Polytechnic School, and are to go via Liverpool. and on being refused admission, he threw a quantity of stones and mud at the bed-room window, and broke two panes of glass. Mr. Broker, a gentlem,n residing next door, came out on hearing the uproar and gave the prisoner into custody. Upon being asked if he wished to make any answer to the charge, the prisoner said that his feelings had been worked up to a pitch of frenzy in consequence 01 the incessant reproaches he was in the habit of receiving from his wife's mother because he was without money. He was unable to procure any employ ment, and he had no means of getting money unless he went out and robbed on the highway. Mr BROUGHTON said that the deplorable condition of his unfortunate wife on her death-bed, and surrounded with want and wretchedness, was, he should have thought, sufficient to have melted the heart of a savage. No legal proof, however, having been given that he had threatened her life, he was unable to deal with that charge, but he should convict the pri soner of having resisted the Inspector, and he ordered him to pay a fine of 20s. or to be imprisoned for a month in the House of Correction. The prisoner was locked tip in default of payment. ----- THE MARKETS..-(YESTERDAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of English Grain during the past week were mo derate, and good of Irish Oats. Thu fresh supply middling. Wheat sold heavily at Is. per quarter decline from last cur rency. Barley extremely dull, and Is. per quarter lower again. Beans and Peas hardly maintained last quotations. Oats Is. per quarter cheaper. The Flour trade dull at last prices. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN 1N LONDON MUNI; I.AS'I WEEK Wheat. I Parley. oats. Flour English Irih Foreign 16.322 . rlucas ON 8.- Wheat,Red (old) - s. -s. Beans, Small (new) 378.885. ---- White (old) ..---- Ited'lB4 , ) s2s. 555. ----- Tick (new) ...... ... 27. 295, % - - Fine 56s 635. ---- (old) 38..40s --- Superfine 641; . 655. -- Harrow (new)......314.33s ----White (1841) 545. 58s. ----- Fine 60s 625. Brank ........3..--16 -._ Superfine ...... 68s. 70e. O a t s , F ee d --Foreign free 565. 765. ----- New 14,.195. Rye 3SL 40s. - Poland Barley 9 65. 325. New 18a.23r. Grinding "ss. 28s, - Potatoe ...-. Malting 30a. 355. Malt .561. 60s, - Scotch 255.265. -- Fine New 62s 64s -. Irish.,. 14s. ...17i.202. Pease, Grey, New ...... 3os. 32a. Fl our T own ( per 5ac k)....1)68.605. - Maple New . 3ls. 335, - 5ec0nd5..„.,..„..... 525. 545. - White . 34, . 365. - North C0untry...504.545, - Boilers 36s ..365. Bran 75 81. SMITHFIELD. The sup r ply of Cattle was goo d ; o f Sh eep, C a l ves , an d Pi gs limited. The market was well attended by the trade, yet the demand was heavy for everything hut Mutton at the present price. Beasts, 2,975, Sheep, 23,390; Pigs, 318; Calves, 62. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 44. ; Mutton, 4s. to ss. ; Veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. Bd.; Pork, 4s. to ss. 2d. TEA MARKET. The market for Free Trade was dull, but holders were firm, and obtained full rates. Sound Congou, Is. lOLd., cash, and Company's, Is. II id. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. The demand steady, and prices firm, at 48s. 3d. on the spot, ana 495. fo_ delivery in the last three months of the year. HOP MARKET. Prices look up, and the demand good. A further rise in price is expected. 2,0505r1s PROVISION MARKET. Butter secured a fair sale, and fine Dutch, which is scarce, old at 118 s. to 120 s. per cwt. Bacon steady at 48s. to 525. for common to prime. PRICE OF BREAD. Ine Inghest I rite of !Stead 1., the Metroolikis 91d for the 41b Loaf, Got d Bread may be had at 7id PRICES OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. Per Quarter Sew English Red C10v0r...65s SOs'St. Fein —s If 50s Old i :itto Ditto —s s—s Rye Grail ..-5 t-t - O Os New Foreign Ditto......—s 75s 92a Pacey Grass —s —s —a Old Ditto Ditto —a —s —s Linseed, for feeding ...—s 526 56s New White ("aver 54s fl:s 61s Ditto, for sowing —s s°s 641 Old Ditto Ditto —a s—s Ditto, for crushiog ....—s 47$ 1,2 s New 'Pre, oil ... —s 20s 40s Hem,, s Vis 52s Old Ditto a 20s 38s Canary —s S4sl2lis Jr' colium - 9 —s —s Per Bushel, Eaglisla Carraway —s 50s 52a White Multard....,Os Od to 13s I d Foreign Ditto --. 4's 50s Brown Ditto ...... ...12s Od to 14s' d Coriander . —s —s —s Tares PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Down Tallow £o ;0 G'Melting Stuff £1 11 C Yellow Russia White ti 0 (1 Graves Soap Ditto 0 0 0 Good Drugs 0 5 0 PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of albs. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters)„ ....... ...'s. *id. PitICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton £49 10 Ditto, refined Linseed Oil "4 10 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill (per I0o0) 1? 0 Rai,e take, per ton 7 0 COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market.day, 212. . d. Carr's Hartley Hebburn Main Holyweil Main l9 0 Nelson's West Hartley l7 0 Old 'lantield Tanfleld Moor • 0 0 Tanfield Moor Bute's l5 6 Went Hartley ........ . Walls End Bell and Brown 11l 0 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Ramsey Walls End S. Killingworth 14 6 W. E. Bradttyll'sHetton Walls End Haswell. ... 20 9 Walla End Hetton OO 6 Walls End Laznbton ...... . •s. d Walls End Russell's Hetton 6 Walls End Stewart's Walls End Whitwell l9 6 Walls End Cassop ' 0 9 %Valls End Hartlepool Walls End Brown's Deanery 19 3 Walls End Coundon "IS 6 Walls Et d Evenwood 6 Walls End Ilicharilson'sTectslti 0 Walls End South Willington 15 0 Walls:End South Durham 19 3 1117 the l5 3 Cowpen Hartley: floward't Neshertun Slain 17 0 VVbeat ) s. to s. 57 72 58 65 MS 66 54 68 5'3 'lO 64 72 5S 68 46 73 t,2 76 52 75 58 74 GS 78 - 76 58 64 r. d. a. d. 70 $6 _ . NEWCASTLE COHN EXCHANGE. fled, White. Wheat, Northumberland 546. 625. sss. CSI. Norfolk and Suffolk Berwick and Scotch sos. 56s . 541. COs. Foreign 60‘. 64........ 645. 664 Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk - Foreign los 3 s —a. —s. I ..: Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk— 315. 34, —a. —s, ' .I'2 Grinding and Feeding 6.. 31s. Shalt, Norfolk and Suffolk •. N 51. s ?- il l3eana, , mall 'iFs. 40...... —s. —a. sz --- Tick 3Bs. 4's —4. —a. I i. - Pease, White Gray 325, 34s —s. —s. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ... ..... 245. 255 —s. —s. Feed 2os. 2.2 s —a. —s. --Foreign Ws 22s —4.—s. Flour (per sack) Vs. 50s —s. —s. HULL. CORN MARKET. Wheat, White (per Quarter) 6os. 625. 665. Red Foreign Barley, Malting 3os 325. Rs. GriEding `zBs 295. 30s. Oats, British - Foreign (in bond) lBs 201. 225, 32s 3 s. 40s. 345, iris 31s. 365. 38s. 4Cs. 545. 565. 62s —s. 46.. 525. —l. 371. WS/. Beans Pease, Grey Blue and White Linseed... Flour per sack Rapeseed (per 10 quarters) .. SCOTCH MARKETS. Oats. Beans. Wheat. 1 Barley. Y CORN MAR. Barley. Oats. Per Quarter Abingdon A ndover Hantuiry Basingstoke Cirenc-ster ;:uventry tlaventry Derby Howden Hungerford Halton enhead ,lottitigham Wantage Warwick Winchester Yor k... ...... Per Bushel Birmingham s. to s. 25 36 L 6 30 3,2 40 32 37 25 35 24 32 38 44 `;'s 9.9 29 37 26 32 32 35 23 99 :14) 31 9,4 30 36 s. d. s. (1, 36 46 e. to a. 20 31 j 26 28 I 2ti 33 •A 1 22 31 '2l i 9 ...1"4 34 '..14 '4 I 1 25 30 22 34 25 31 19 27 30 32 26 30 4. to 4. 35 44 36 40 42 48 43 44 30 44 32 42 - 4t) 40 45 17 22 36 44 37 40 36 46 s. s. d.I 3 fi 4 0 - 43 30 46 s. d, s. d. 50 70 li can v. S. S. 38 4 44 4: 44 34 - 40 - 31 - 38 42 40 43 - 4. s d. s.d 00 0 0 kbcrdeen 60 to 70 28 to 30 15 to 21 —to Berwick 25 43 15 22 14 17 21 24 .1 - .7oldstream Cupar (Fife) 48 65 126 31 161 22 22 26 Dunbar to ii 4 2J ao 19 24 27 330 Elgin 7O 72 39 31 22 25 3P 50 Inverness 60 70 29 31 2'2 '23 42 33 Kelso no 47 17 23 16 18 36 30 Kirkaldy Perth 6O 67 30 40 25 35 41 4t The sire of the measure varies thoughout the c HADDINGrON CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beat.s First '7os Od 35s Od 30s nil 45. 1i Second 6o► Od 2.8 s 1 d 244 Od Od I'hird 503 Od '261 Od 23s Od 2es Od Average 2l. 18s. 8d 9 1210 s. GLASGOW CORN Me EKET. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d, Oats, per 2C4lb. British, old 260 to 33 0 new C %nada, free........... 0 0 Beans, per 2011 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish English 26 0 27 0 Pease,Scottish Scottish. 2.2 0 26 0 Oatmeal, per 110Ib. Irish DALKEITH CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. i }lrk 67. Oa ass bd 309 8d 46s Od Second Ms Od 31s Ed 22.1 01 39s Od Third _____ EDINBURGH CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Moans. Pease. First figs, Od 33.. at. 375. 44. 425. Osl. 42 Second 6O 0 30 0 3 2 0 38 0 33 41 Third 5O 0 I fti 0 20 0134 0 32 0 Average lyrics of Wheat PRICKS OP PROVISIONS, &C. Beaf, per its. Us. sd. to Os.Rcl. Freshßutter, to Mutton_ , 0 5 0 7 Salt 0 10 011 Veal. _ 0 7 010 Ditto, per 0 10 0 Pnrg 0 5 0 7 Eggs, per doz. n Q 1 0 Lamu, per qr. 3 0 4 0 OatStraw(kpl.)— 7 C 10 0 fallow, 0 42 0 Wheat Ditto.... 3 0 11 Vattern U 91 010 Barley Ditto 7 0 9 0 V0tatee5,141b....... 0 0 0 5 Hay, 0 10 1 0 EDINIIIURUH MEAL MARKET Per Sack of 2801 b. lmp. Per Stone of 141 b. lmp . First Oatmeal gecond ditto._ 11Ar1eymea1.......—..—.... 1 10 0 Barleymeal ......... ...._.... 0 I 10 P•asenteal 1 8 0 Peasemeal 0 1 8 Pot Barley from 30s. to 4. , 5. per sack CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) IARD OF %FIT s t; 4;ieT t i - Si,_r For _ m. , sy years past TO THE EDITOR OF THE -1:::;414:f13 and western counties of ih heard complaint s from tradesmen England,oatravelledfveth and l have through frequently n t t h l y e sna) eastern -- ing accounts settled. Did' this aris fr e o y m e p poverty, ycreditwhich the h c h e give long creddit themselves,hve farmers take, and the great difficulty th t o there get might a t n hde atpvoendeonepawyemllefnts ; but as it is ac farmers having to some knosc ierdegasoedn thatfo ftahremirerismhs good circourmssotamnece considerablethe time past, and are generally in first supposition cannot be correct. As respects the credit farmer give, it seldom exceeds two or th roe market days. Nowthss being the case, to what can the evil complained of be attri butable to? In my opinion it is partly owing to the erroneous impression (from want of due consideration) that the trades man is not in want of his money ; and also, in the second place, from the circumstance that farmers employ all they can command in some profitable investment. With respect to the first named, it is obvious that many tradesmen must be pre vented from discounting their goods in consequecce of th e i r not receiving the amount o their bills, which must be a heavy loss to them, besides the disadvantage of not heing placed upon a first-rate footing as buyers. In reference to the cause last mentioned—viz., the employment of all the money that they can command in any profitable investment, I beg to observe that no man ought to employ any money for his own benefit to which his creditor is justly entitled ; and however trite this may appear, yet I regret to say that there are many persons whose conduct does not accord with this just view of the matter. This brings to my recollection the answer made by an acute and intelligent principal of a London house to a country cus tomer, who endeavaured to excuse himself from paying his over-due account, by observing that he had availed himself of the opportunity of making an advantageous purchase, which had left him without cash, but that shortly be hoped to be en abled to settle his account—to which the Quaker replied, Friend, thou halt a right to do what thou likes with thy sun money, but no business to lay out ours." I, in common with many others, would be glad if the attention of patties to whom these remarks apply were directed to this subject, and if their conduct would not be influenced by an appeal to their ho nesty and justice, perhaps it may be as well to observe that their interests would be materially benefited by prompt payments for goods which they purchase, which would be very evident in the prices and qualities of the articles supplied. Apologizing for trespassing upon your columns for the in sertion of these remarks, I remain, Sir, yours respectfully, Ely, March 3. ACOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. _ TO THE EDITOR 0.1 , ' THE SUN. SIR,-Our petitions to the House of Commons have been rendered of little value by the declaration of Mr. Ferrand, that the signaturers have been forged, or the signers bribed. Would you, Sir, take the trouble to ascertain whether it is wished by the House that we should attend in person, and give evidence that our signatures are genuine and unbought ? If it is wished we shall soon make our apt earace. AN ENGLISH MECHANIC. P.S. I wish you would advocate every Monday being a day for meetings in all our large manufacturing towns. CO URT-MARTIAL. CHATHAM, I%lnitcx 3.—A General Court-martial was held this day in the General Court-martial Room, Chatham Bar racks, for the purpose of trying the Hon. Edward Sidney Plun kett, holding the rank of Lieutenant in the 95th Regiment. The Hon. J. C. Talbot attended as counsel for the de fendant. The Judge Advocate read the following charges:— " 1. For conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman, in having, at a late hour of the night, on Friday, the 21st of January, 1842, together with other officers, made a great noise and disturbance in the barracks at Chatham, in the course of which di s t ur b ance , t h e d oor of the room of 'Ensign Bridges, of the 95th R eg i men t, w h o was t h en in such room, and in bed, was violently broken in by one of the officers, and being the senior officer present while such disturbance and acts of violence were taking place, in not having endeavoured to prevent and repress them, but in having given encouragement to and joining in them. " 2. For conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman, in having, on the night and about the time mentioned in the fit-4 charge, proceeded with the said officers and with other officers, his juniors, to the room of iF sign Carew, of the 95th Regiment, i n th e sa id b arrac k s, then drinking to excess with su : h offi cers , an d i n h av i n itreh occasion introduced into the s a id room , and to the Company of such officers, a woman of lo ose and abandoned character, with whom he, the said Lieutenant Plunkett, was at the time cohabiting, such conduct being subversive of good ' order and 'military discipline. "3. Fo r t having, after he had on the occasion beforemen. boned, and as senior officer present, placed Ensign Carew in arrest for striking Ensign Bains, another of the officers pre sent, and afterwards continuing in his company, and at last overturning the tables with the bottles, glasses, and other articles thereon, at the same time throwing down the said EtiOgn Carew, such ecauluct being, &c. '4. For neglecting mi the said night of the 21st of January, or on the follow ir, ,, morning, to rep or t t o hi s comman di ng officer, Lieutenant-Colonel ' ' Trevor, the conduct of Ensign Carew beforeinentioned, or that he the said Lieutenant Plan ket had placed the said Ensign Carew under arrest, such con duct being, &c. " 5. For having at Sheerness, on the 20th of flecember, 1'441, entered the house of William Cole, botcher and confec tioner, and causing wine to be sent for by William C.,le, and in not having then or since p.iid for the same ; and for then and there violently assaulting the said William Cole, and damaging and destroying certain articles of I urniture, the pr o perty of the said William Cole, such conduct, &c." The defendant pleaded net The Commanding (Meer of the depot, Lieut.-Col. Trevor, ;ben addressed the Court at some length. The first witness examined was Major Halifax, of the 95th Regiment, whose evidence was inconclusive : he did not con sider the disturbance such as to warrant him in reporting it to his general officer. Ensign William Bridges sworn, said—l remember Friday night, the 21st of Januayy last. Some persons came to my door that night. One of the persons was, I believe, Mr. Baines. I cannot speak of a certainty to any other. At the time they came to my door I was in bed, and from what oc curred 1 got up, aid I found the panel of my door was broken in. I understood Mr. Baines Croke it in. I did not see Mr. Plunkett present at. the disturbance. I did not see Mr. Plunkett until I vent into Mr. Carew's room. When I went there the others I allude,l to in the party were Ensign Dicks, Ensign Ardistrong, of the 41st, and Lieut. Plunkett. 1 went into Ensign Carew's loom by myself. The party there were taking supper, and after supper they continued drinking wine. When Mr. Carew knocked Mr. Baines down, I saw no provocation given for such conduct. Mr. Carew picked Mr. Baines up. Mr. Baines caul to Mr. Plunkett, "1)o you s-e that, Lieutenant Plunkett." Mr. Plunkett said to Mr. Carew, " Consider yourself under an arrest." Mr. Carew begged Mr. Baines's pardon, and he was told it was too late. I saw the table fall, and Mr. ('arew under it. Mr. Baines fell like wise, but how it happened I cannot say. Previous to my leav ing 1 did not hear Lieutenant Plunkett release Ensign Carew from arrest. There was a female introduced into the room. I cannot say by o horn. I did not know her. Lieutenant Plunkett remained drinking in the room after he had placed Ensign Carew under arrest. Lieutenant Plunkett was sober. Lieutenant Plunkett remained during the whole time that 1 way there. The party broke up about two o'clock in the morning. It being four o'clock, the Court adjourned. UN I VERS IT Y INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Maitcir s.—On Thursday, the 17th instant, there will be an election at Lincoln College to fill three open Scho larships, and two exhibitions on Lord Crewe's foundation. The exhibitions are limited to natives of the diocese of Durham, and, in delault of such, to those of Northallertonshire or How denshire, in the county of York, or of the counties of Oxford, Leicester, or Northampton. Lord Rivers has presented the Rev. C. J. Quartley, of St. Edmund Hall, to the Rectory of Meleombe Horsey, Dorsetshire. Earl Bathurst has presented the Rev. W. Houghton to th Vicarage of Potterspury, Northamptonshire. Earl Spencer has presented the Rev. E. Q. Ashby, of Christ Church, to the Rectory of Dunton, Bucks. C. W. G. Wynne, Esq., has presented the Rev. H. W, Lloyd, of Jesus College to the perpetual Curacy of Pentre Voelas, Denbighshire. The Lord Bishop of London has presented the Rev. T. W. Allies, late Fellow of Wadham College, to the Rectory of Launton, Oxon. _ The Duke of Cleveland has appointed the Rev. A. J. Howell, late of Magdalen Hall, one of his Grace's domestic Chaplains. CAMBRIDGE, MA nen s.—On Thursday last, John Gibson, 8.A., Scholar of Jesus College, was elected a Foundation Fellow of that Society. An election of a Scholar will be held on Friday, the 2241 of April next, for Corpus Christi College. The Scholarship is open to natives of Lancashire, Hampshire, Surrey, Lincoln shire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Kent, Bedfordshire, Oxford shire, and of the dioceses of Bath and Wells, Exeter, and Durham. :la)! TILE CIIURCII. The following appointments have taken place : The Rev. John Hancock Hall, LL.B., Fellow of Trinity Hall, to the Rectory of Keyworth, Nottinghamshire. Value, 4341. The Rev. George Shaw, 8.A., of Christ's College, to the curacy of Fen Drayton, vacant by the cessien of the Rev. H. F. Bacon. The Rev. William Crawley Leach, M.A., formerly of Trinity College, to the rectory of Stonham-Parva, Suffolk, on the presentation of William Hay don, Esq , of Guildford, Surrey. Value, .360/. The Rev. Thomas Bradley Paget, M.A., of Trinity Col lege, to the vicarage of Evington, Leicestershire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Jemson Davies ; on the presentation of the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, the patron. Value, 41/. The Rev. James Jenkyns, of St. Alban's, Hefts, to the vicarage of Wootton, near Bedford, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. John Jenkyns. The Rev. W. S. Parish, M.A., of St. Peter's College, to be Caplain on board of her Majesty's ship Agincourt. The Rev. A. Wilkin, Al. A., of Christ's College, to be Chaplain to the Right lion. Lord Lowther. The vicarage of Reepham, Norfolk, in the gift of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, is now vacant, by the death of the Rev. J. Matthew, appointed 16.41. GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP COMPANY.—The general meeting of the Shareholders of the above Company was held on Thursday last, at the Company's offices, Prince's street. In the first place a dividend of 15s. per share was de clared, and it was announced that the great iron steamer, Great Britain, would be ready to be launched in March, 1543. A lengthened discussion ensued respecting the alternate sail lugs of the Great Western from Bristol and Liverpool, and the financial condition of the Company. Mr. Maze strongly con demned the former proceeding ; the Great Western was designed for the benefit of Bristol, and if any one would second his proposition he would, rather than the ship should be " bastardized," be removed to that port, propose that the affairs of the Company should be wound up, and closed altogether. The explanation offered of the removal was, that owing to the difference in the port charges, and other expenses, the G reat W estern cou l d b e cleared out at Liverpool for 2001. less than at Bristol. An examination of her freightage also showed that only a com paratively small portion was derived from and consigned to Bristol. The original prospectus and the inducements therein held out to subscribers, were broughe on the tapir and con trasted with the present state of the Company's affairs. Mr. R. Bright, by whom the chair was taken, urged the Share holders to go on for another year, taking advantage of the markets of Bristol and Liverpool ; by that time their new vessel would be completed, and they would then be better enabled to judge as to the course which it would be advisable to pursue. A resolution in accordance with these views, was, we believe, ultimately agreed to.—Bristol Mercury. visit On Saturday the. _Duke of Cambridge paid a . 1 , It . to the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum. His Roy The Duke at eleven o'clock, and remained until half-past one. expressed himself highly delighted with all arrangements,th! ntn i the and particularly with the abstinence fromre he considered to be treat ment of the patients—a principle which to the malady with reference the only sound one to be acted upon in al Highness armed Sir Alexander 'We regret to state that d. murdered by a party of the natives, who ob- India. , He was ob tained admission under the a rretence of being a to Isis house. that ~ Burnes is confirmed by the latest official despatches from the death of fonly three weeks, Wm . It! had pr o v isions -or ir th t a r n ibe th . ree W da e y i s e , ani when naghten were sent off. dsaepleutatiofnarfrno:m t he ir Oatmeal 33 to 35 S 3 36 28 )22 37 36 43 - -6 td s. d. s. d. 16 0 te 16 6 16 0 17 0 190 200 ( 190 200 210 15 6 19 0 45 0 52 0 Bean, 46i Od 3O; 01 30. o,i ,~ Pease. >untry. Pease. —s ld