The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-29 00:00:00

PAYRTIN G INTELLIGENCE. EWMARKET— THURSDAY NIGHT. 25 to l DERBY. ntst Murat—t. 140 to 1 agst Aristides---t 40 4 ) . , -! , •ugst Oxygen c —t. 50 to 1 agst Languish c.—t .1000 to 15 agst Cotherstone—t. - OAKS. 15 to 1 agst Testy—t. First Class Nursery Stakes. 9 to 2 agst Bizarre filly—t 5 to 1 agst Bessy Bedlam fillet'—t. Second Class Nursery. • • -3to 1 agst Sister to Combat—t 5 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's f.—t 5 to 1 agst Queen of the Gipsies. 6 to 1 agst Fidelity. • ENTRIES FOR FRIDAY. Atur.ey End (acceptances), Tamburine, G yrs, Bst 71b, U na, 4 yrs, Bst 71b, Rhodanthe, 5 yrs, Bit 61b, \raked, 3 yrs. 7st 91b. 4. Handicap, T. Y. C.—Dr. Camas, 5 yrs, Bst 61b, Palla .."'• 3 yrs, Bst, Cab rera , 3 y rs , 7 s t 121 b, V a k ee l, 3 y rs , s t alb. Equation, 3 yrs, 6st 61b. Three declared. MALTON OCTOBER RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Hunters' Stakes of 3 soya. each, aad 10 added, one L tnil e. and a half, gent l emen r id ers, were won i n f our h eats t r Hopwood's Bi r thd a y, age d (L amp l ug h), b eat i ng -"ltzw illiani and Donn a M ar i a , a f ter a d ea d h eat b e t ween tho first two. a.rTlTh Easthorpe St a k es o f 2 sous . eac h were won b y 41 • itnpson's Aggravator (Marson) beating two others. The Thek Race was won by Mr. J. Benson's Mister- (RECEIVED THIS MORNING.) ,briEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING, FRIDAY. 'the; ikudley-End Stakes of 30 sot's. each, for three yrs 1 old, 1:c. A.E.C. (4 Subs.) A-421'd Chesterfield's Rhodanthe, 5 yrs, Bst 41b (Nat.) 0 1 Ilr• Gregory's Una, 4 yrs, Bst 71b . Sir J. Day's Tamburini, 6 yrs, Bst 71b 3 - ` r ,,W. Statile .'s Vakeel, 3 yrs, 7st 91b 4 isetting 7 to 4 agst Vakeel, 7to 2 agst Tamburini, 3 1 0.1 agst Rhodantlie, and 3to 1 agst Una. n iTiothurini inade all the running to the Duke s Sta d i aa '"ere Valceel and Una, who had followed him, went _n e --va Tioe, and ' ran together into the cords ; Rhodanth lthen-challenged, and, after a middling race, won by i a .e ". 1 1. A length separated the others from each ot i f er r . l'i-s * C lass The Nursery Stakes of 25 sous. each, ts k r, l i' , two , yrs old. D.M. (8 Subs.) (F. Butler) 0 m • awes Cotnerstone. Bst 41b I% Payne' s b f by Muley Moloch, out of Betsy t di rp e , - . aril , 7st 131 b (Rogers) 0 ,e fi)llowing also ran :—Mr. Sadler's Testy, Bst 81b --- b c. moel Peel's Rook's Nest, 7st 131b—Lord Exeter's e a ,,. 1 3 ? Veloeiped out of Galata, 7st 111b—Duke of Rut- I Sr - ,,",, 's fby Bizarre, out of Minx's dam, 7st 101b—Lord ti; -a" Nylghau, 7st 71b—and Mr. Goodman's 80-hem, -hem, 7st Glb. 4setting-3 to 1 agst Cotberstone ; 4 to 1 agst Bi c; 'zilirre filly ;.. 9 to 2 agst Mr. Payne's filly ; 5 to 1 ag, ' 4 3' ; and 5 to I.agst Rook's Nest. atone r- made the running at a bad pace, Cothte_re ne and Bess Bedlam filly following him into C h o. eotd s h Y thersi:Lere the pace mended, and he died away. and Bessy Bedlam filly then singled themselves : )11 t, and ran head and head to the chair, the result being I;dead heat. The Bizarre filly was a goo d thi r d, an d divide of the oth ers we ll up. M r. B owes and Mr. Payne id Seep the stake, and Coth e r s t one wa lk e d over. _ Class. —The Nursery Stakes of 25 sous. each, k.. Iv &c. D. M. (7 Subs.) k • Sadler's sister to Combat, Bst 41b...(R?ger i s b ) 2 1 Irr• 13radford's fby Partisan, out of Fidelity, 7st 5 3 " . I " l oti gn l _eY'sQueen of Gipsies,_ Bst 101 b L ord Je,tuilowing also started but were not placed :- 7 t Lxeter's f Beiram or Sultan, out of Fanny Davis, 1 ,8,111b —Mr Bird's c b Redshank, out of Amadis, Il s • --- • "t r t i l i s l a b Mr . Osbaldeston's fby The Saddler, dam by fi t ,.n 7st 6 1b—and Col. Anson's Marquise, 7st. Itp,, ‘ ,„"lg--7 to 2 asst Queen of the Gipsies-4 to 1 5.,,,-. 'marquise -5 to 1 agst Sister to Combat-5 to 1 101 Pidelity f-5 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's f—and 5 I„,:),__o•gst Amadis c. The Fidelity filly cut out all the 8,4(1.K, Ilarquise waiting on her for a quarter of a mile, b, after that the Queen of the Gipsies, the others lying iti k i ; 4 f "V strides from home Sister to Combat went off lonaw,_on easy by a length, the Queen of the Gipsies a • , . l , 4nird, and Lord Exeter's filly fourth. 11-!'eaP Sweepstakes of 20 soya, each, for three yrs, L0rd..,,,r B ce• T. Y. C. (8 subs.) Three paid. kr. ~;('-•glinton's Dr. Caius, 5 yrs, Bst 61b (Lye) 1 1,._ . t tivall's Palladium, 3 yrs, Bst 2 .'.• Tiornhill's Equation, 3 yrs, 6st 61b 11.61 V. Stanley's Vakeel, 3 yrs, 7st 31b f4ll to 4 ag,st Palladium. Equation made the running, th: ) ,,, w ed by Vakeel and Palladium into the dip, where a fiti.u°etOr went up, left them in the ropes, and won easy, e ra ce for second. Q 4 ,, u rd Exeter's C e li a , 7 st 71b (M ann), b eat Col. Peel ' s r •Y Ovven, Bst 121 b. T.Y.C. 200, hft. _ vt ,6 to 4 o n C e li a, who won cleverly by alength. sew' Rowes' th e L a d ye o f Sil ver k e ld NI , ell, Bst. 81b., son 40 sovs, forfeit from the Duke of Bedford's Ma li Ist 11b. T.M.M. 100, 11 ft. oeip u " or Bedford's John a' Gaunt, 4 371 . .5, Bst. 12 , 1b., 8 r s e t - . I.4d,thfsorfeit. from , Captain Prices Retriever, 6 3 rs, lc. fee miles of B.C. 200, h ft. Th,-,w,inateli for Saturday (last race).—Mr. Goodma . n s ' i s . Ati - .lr, q udaw, - Bst 41b, agst Mr. Ramsay's Cabrera, Tilt „.; 2 00 11 ft. ,ty 'zii(,ll-LOWING BLOOD STOCK WAS SOLD 'elsrlj - : . ' S SILS. TATTERSALL IN THE MORNING. e(b l . , r e ,'s yearling fby Slane, out of sister to ca. 165 Lord j '.' ....................... Lord Prr,.'Y's ell mby Langer, out of Cobweb, 3 yrs 50 I CI ir't,::„,4,41',,,5f1i,?, Binilius, out of Ophelia,. 2 yrs l7 Duke ~t rd ' c *.'Y aerry.' out of Petuaria, 3 yrs 0f ..„ 5 trial, 13.' Bay Middleton, 3 yrs Ta g l ionl e l unTh t's c by j Ishmael, or Achmet, out of IVIN T A Yrs ... _- -. ....... ..... . 'lllaloi-I ......... MEETING Th e I N ten s, `_uP Iv s MONDAY. s rk - .al{ }, a- Won by Mr. Simpson's Emma, the Pat -takes bvusitil Mr. Thom son's Cerberus, the Puppy r , CAL t y ,, - ' l ** Wel Iy' P Dar t 11 13 : val) ,s --. ‘, 13. 0 11 4 I t G y t m e r rn o s t i r , e 2iSI S NG . B/IE'ETING, OCT. 21.—The re's Aboukir. ne sd , r lajesty ...)', Littleton. • 's s tai:; a u n nds, Tuesday, Salt-hill ; Wed t,', id y Iver-heath-11. . Tiekharniii,UN-LING APPOINTMENTS. litit, Rub-._s., ,Tues., Norton Court . ; • Fri., Key-street.___ park ling am n Son s lids., Mon., at Lilburn ;. Tues., El i i - --10i . °lls e Thurs., Howick ; Fri., Swarland l'eg to r h ig a ,„ htun bars., Mon. at Thunder's Barrow ; Wed., tr ` 4 ; P d., D k 'T i °° kgid e h 37 e • e seen% ars., Mon., at Newmarket Hill ; Thurs., East , e Tye p l 'indo 6 n us , s(l _, l hds., Mon., at Little Horsted-111. n 't • 8 "us, Tues., at Erringham ; Thurs., Deal D r: liar', par Park. kver' s A r e's lids,, M on., e, , . rm s. at Carleton Village ; Thurs., jeklvothuoriodgeshire hds., Mon., at Caxton Gibbet ; W ed ' , Sir vi i r s : l i tl ea ; Fri., Downing Arms-10i. b Chsil Stanley's hds., Mon., Houton ; Sat, Upton. 'arto ; i i re hds,, Mon., Sandiway Head ; Tues., Otlei wr4r A lurs•Duddon Heath ; Fri., Highway Side-10 . . -stt s , , L , , hi11' 4 ,1°1.4 11(15., raps,, Bettisfield; Sat., Carden-10 . t lv eneral Wyndam's hds. Mon., Cripplecrouch t t,,lte' s T__.,llll Rounchibouts ; Fri., 'he Compasses ; Sat., io lieref•-o""uge--101, ‘s T it rdshire lids., Tues., Perrystone ; Fri., Worme kt, 111 1)---10 . Th "Iquth 1 • tlrs, lire lids. Mon Llanvihangel Crucorney ; Ld Grabs p in , ~ p ttlt, low hds., ger-post-10. Shr lnes., Mocktree Hayes ; Fri., The Ser kil ( 1 )5 114 I „. e 'st on „, , e Ws., Mon., Acton Reynold • Wed., sth Vll I t,,eliaca., SCh urch-road ; Fri., Chetwynd-101. pt 11.14;„,, 1, Sat., at Walcot-8. ' 4 3. '`,,!` in %Mt, Mon at New Inn, Budge Heath ; I Mr lA,"ehon (Ai a 1 " 4 a;' - -Last , ' e ); Sat., Wheel atWortield—loi. vi, oh hall era lids., lion. at Greenfield House; Tues., at \t i g e ......l i. ; Thurs., dceby village ; Fri., Legbourn ri ot till 441 prteel's lids., Tues•, at Bullet's Arms Inn, Dean I:,:lierw 1., Rennet -10. ' '4- '117 41 liars'' 0 11 % 11• , Tues:, at Berry Hill ; Fri., White Wu.l,bor„c,eYnell's lids., Tues., at Kedleston Inn ; Thurs., „ tk rqui: Sat, Swarkstone Bridge-101. i.e.:1'',1,,---,,°r Rusting's lids. Mon., at Lockington Hall: '4 :('' Pi t se , ;Fri,,rlen •'' Florsh Inn, by Dale-104 . 1 t he clit X T ---- - .% , week R ADE.—Reference to the corn . returns 11,,:s th e , Will show our readers how miserably t n easti ' ra de. The markets in Lincoln, Boston, , I ?titit e, S 1 , ' ‘ll 4t 0 ar e l?' spy, and the other towns of . the theseiiveh, ,clulte dull, affairs no longer presenting their wel,,i'ustle which was wont to characterise (; (1 1 r bowiy meetings of our farmers previously to of k P r i n .lg' their necks to the yoke of Peel and % r ed la e, Wheat of excellent quality has been t g c ii wi tho -noston durin g the last week at 455. to 14Ves 4 'i' I . l h it Many baveis, and at Wisbeach at 40s. ( flittle ierldquantity brought into marker has been t ) ll‘ k ,.. l'ail l e ed, and the merchants are holding 41 "re 4 , Purch as i ng, clei i , 43 8 although good wheat has been thre ant . wh 'to 445. We have heard of one corn (‘4. 114,rith:s business has declined during the last Nv ks tht 16 s - t 400 Per tent. Good malting barley NI " f)ll ht Ivii ir l tie i at °I le) has been shown, 100 qrs. of which ,Lynn for 28s. Unless the markets foreeelly dise_nius!ness of buying and selling must be whea a 41 ruti!tlnue-1, u or done in cases where necessity \yin t fu r th In°lls sacrifices. The average price of of q a Ppr oxi ! Present week throughout Lincolnshire ,S,e2leq nu _Tae to nearly 475., and yet the 41b. loaf, kgl:,'.'foT., ll t.',', is in most places 73-d. to Bcl. , iEw A7,77'ettry, r ' l ln,, eri,„' I \sta L „, .--, TO CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE BY yd r 'ents 0f."..-----flie results of some chemical ex bcivutod pro . 4. Mialhe have informed him that the teoftv_topsi()rist„,ie,sB..sei..sostuillephvanirtelathioef iron, a perfectly inert property of instantly de_ iron Q ,;nrrosi,e s br St an t ,,. an, b . • u 'mate, forming protochloride 'lllsod iklfectl I,ulphuret of mercury, two sub aulpin hi ll , . Y harrnless—a property which has th is t itret (4.L? )ounce an that the hydrated proto • (I lea el.r ible 1,,, 1 !" , Par excellence, the antidote to 7 , -rr ee ' ss.aso n ; 41 in s „ "lye sobi . • "'hen the most minute portion nist ari ‘,l)Po rt „ to 'mate is introduced into the mouth, th e „_ , 137. 13 „" .'e and c haracteristic metallic taste is it " t°l 4l ‘ cel ved • t is simply necessary to rinse i, . f or , i h.o‘wilet the a few seconds with the sulphuret of ~fierit. ,g,tnereurial taste disappears as if by en loll ee ned bee, hydrated protosul phuret of iron may ;111 4 , 1 4 Vitri J ol t tdlng to a solution of sulphate of iron 1,..„ oni s ; u ), a solution of b'h do ul buret of ~.etin,,. „ LAI' i lotil t .. s Lce precinujurther precipitate is s for P med, col li,nt(7oe!,s of P i late . on a filter, and washing to free (loco tad ainee bP,reeipitant. It should be prepared as ir0z1.41......P.d01iti0n ensetxiepso,s\u:•,eto.othe atmosphere gradual of cheinis i t t r n y t- rmation of peroxide of "nut t and Practical Pharmacy. , 1 EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of this Railway was held yesterday at I their offices at Shoreditch, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Engineer of the Company on the state of the railway. The meeting was extremely well attended, and at the Directors' table we noticed T. W. Rathbone, Esq. ; David Hodgson, Esq. ; and John Nather, Esq., three of the Directors from Liverpool. H. BOSANQUET, Esq., took the Chair, and stated that he felt it incumbent on him to address a few observations to them on the circumstances under which they met that day. On the 31st of August they received a Report from the Engineer stating that the line would be ready on the 16th of the following month. Circumstances, however, occurred, which rendered it necessary that the meeting called for the 16th of September should be adjourned to this day. He begged to return them, for his own part and his brother Directors, sincere thanks for the confidence reposed in them when they were disappointed in viewing their property, which ran through fertile and populous districts. He was extremely happy in meeting them that day, as it enabled the n to give the Shareholders the reasons for the delays which had occurred. Ha could not help observing, that, in all enterprises like this one, the Shareholders and Directors could only be moved by one common interest. What could bring so many of his Hon. Friends all the way from Liverpool, if they had not the interest of the Company at heart ? Their great stimulus, of course, was the hope of future remune ration in the success of the Company. It had got abroad that the Directors of Railway Companies pos sessed great patronage; he could only say, that he had never exercised one pennyworth, and he never would.—(Cheers.) When the Directors appointed any person to a situation in the Company, the first and only consideration was qualification. The next circumstance to which he would allude, was that of their expectations with respect to the line. He held in his hand a statement, showing the progressive state of the seventeen miles of railway now com pleted. He found that, in the year 1840, dur ing fifteen weeks, the receipts were 10,4511. ; in 1841, the receipts were, during the same period, 14,9901. Included in this were the receipts from the Northern and Eastern Company which were not received during the corresponding period of 1840. In the year 1842 the receipts from the Northern and Eastern Company were smaller, as the tolls to them had been reduced ; yet in the fifteen weeks of 1842, the receipts were 17,4551. When he considered the places of communication between the two extremities of the line, Colchester, Chelmsford, and other places, and the traffic that would take place independent of that between Colchester and London, he could not but congratulate the Share holders. The first document that would be read to them would be the Engineer's Report of the 31st of August. The Report, which has already been before the public, was then read, which stated that the line would be completed and open for traffic by the Ist of October. The Engineer's Report was then read, stating that the reason the line had not been completed by this time was owing to the badness of the weather, the want of iron, caused by the strike of all the colliers, slips, and other causes, over which the Engineer had no control. The Report went on to state that large sums of money had been expended in work caused by the slips on the line. The CHAIRMAN said that Mr. Braithwaite, the Engineer, was ready to answer any questions any Pro prietor wished to put to him. A SHAREHOLDER wished to know when it was likely the whole line would be opened ? Mr. BRAITH WAITE said that he was convinced, that if they had anything like good weath er , th e line would be completed in three or four weeks. Mr. DANKS said, that as the representative of a considerable interest in the line, he had walked over the lint between Brenton and Colchester, in order to judge for himself when it was probable the line would be opened, and lie felt convinced that it could not be done in six weeks. He knew that the Engineer had had great difficulties to contend with, over which he had no possible control. He (Mr. Banks) would re commend, that for the first three months after the line wasopened, nothing but goods should beconveyed. This would give confidence to the public. Mr. T. W. RATHEONE said the Directors thanked the Hon. Proprietor for his suggestion, which should receive their earnest consideration. A SHAREHOLDER said he wanted to put a few ques tions to Mr. Braithwaite. He had spoken of large outlays of money, but he had said nothing as to what could be saved by selling what was called the spoiled land. He wished to know if a large saving might not have been made in purchasing the iron for the whole line at once ? The Bristol and Gloucester Railway had saved from five to ten pounds a ton by this course. In the statement of the accounts there appeared for the solicitor's bill 18,000/. he wished to know in what way this had been incurred. Mr. BRAITHWAITE said that considerable saving would be made by the sale of the spoiled land. The iron could not be purchased all at the same time as there was not money to do it. The CHAIRMAN said that the large amount of the solicitor's bill had been caused by troublesome parties who were continually preferring complaints before the Magistrates, which were very harassinc , and expen sive. The Act of Parliament provided that all ex penses relating to title-deeds should be paid by the Company. Mr. Ems wished to know whether there would be any more money required for the completion of the line. Mr. BRAITHWAITE said that probably 10,000/. more would be required, or less than that. Mr. LEMONS wished to know what was the amount of the surplus property of the Company. The CHAIRMAN said it was 80,000/. A SHAREHOLDER wished to know if General Pas ley, the Inspector of Railways, would require two lines before traffic. Mr. BRAITHWAITE said that probably he would re quire two lines to be completed before there was pas senger traffic, but for goods, he thought he would only require one. After a short conversation the Report was put to the meeting, and was received and adopted. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman and Directors, and the meeting separated. TERRIFIC COMBAT WITH POACHERS, MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER. (From the Chester Chronicle of yesterday.) We regret to have to record a most sanguinary combat which took place on Saturday evening last, between the keepers of John Tollemache, Esq., of Ti'ston Lodge, M.P., and Edwin Corbett, Esq., of Darnhall, and a party of poachers, and which resulted in , the cefeat of the former, one of whom, named _ Richard Chesters, died in a few hours afterwards, from the injuries he received in the conflict. The following are the facts as near as we have heen able to collect them : It appeared, that from some information that had been obtained by Robert Bostock, keeper to Mr. Cor bett, he had reason to apprehend that a poaching party would be out on the night in question. He called that morning upon Daniel Bebbington, who was engaged by Mr.,Tollemache to look after the game at Wettenhali, and told him that he expected there would be some poachers in Wettenhall Woo 1 that night ; and they arranged to meet at the Wettenhall side of the wood at eleven o'clock. About nine o'clock on that evening, Bostock called upon John Noden, waggoner to Mr. Corbett, and John Bebbington, under-keeper to the same gentleman. They went to Wettenhall Wood to watch, and found Daniel Bebbington and Thomas Bebbington, his grandson, a young boy, who had heard the report of fire-arms a f ew m i nutes prev i ous, an d were awaiting the arrival of the remainder of the keep ers and their party. It was a moonlight night. They went some distance by the side of that part of the wood called Boffey's-pipe, an d crosse d a fi e l d of John Boffey's, which adjoined the Pipe, where they saw four or five men, who, as soon as they saw them (the keep ers) called on them to stand off. Three of the men had guns, one of them was identified by Bostock as Joseph Baker, and one of them had a bludgeon. Those who had guns pointed them towards the keepers. As the keepers advanced the poachers retreated slowly back wards, and Baker cried out, " D— their eyes, don'tlet us go back, let us stand!" Daniel Bebbington said, "My lads, we are five as well as ye," counting his grandson as one. When they came to close quarters, John Bebbington seized hold of one of the men, and seized his gun by the muzzle, and threw him down. In the struggle the gun went off, as the poacher had . hold of the lock. This man was dressed dark clothing. Daniel Bebbington came up during the struggle, and threw himself upon the man, and John Bebbington left him in order to pursue the other poachers, and immediately another of the gang came up dressed in a short darkish coloured slop, and struck Daniel Bebbington over the head and arms, and en abled the other man to escape. Robert Bostock seized the man who had the bludgeon, and was beaten severely by him ; the second blow knocked him down, and stunned hi m , an d hi s gun was t a k en f ro m him and discharged. Wh en John Bebbington l e f t D an i e l Beb bington in charge of the poacher he had prostrated, 11 , 2 pursued John Baker who had run alongside of the wood for a short distance, and had during the pursuit got over the h e d ge i nto the wood, John Bebb i ngton being close to him, and in fact was with him as he got over the hedge, Baker's gun being under him. They had a struggle, when RichareChesters, an other of the keep ers ( and who afterwards died o f the injuries he received), came up, and the two se cured Baker. John Bebbington said to his prisoner " I know thee." He called him Duke Baker; and he answered " Well, thou knows me, let me go." THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1842. to publish and enforce his wish, and I have merely done the same, where is the difference of ourguilt?" Mr. Muir adduced stronger instances still. He struck at the early politics of Mr. Pitt and of the Duke of Richmond, and asked if what was patriotism in them, as Ministers of State, in 1782, ought to be critne and sedition in 1793 ? The following circumstance we introduce here by way of episode, which, though it formed part of the trial, does not bear on the main features of the case. As an interesting portion, we have not omitted it : Mr. Muir's own servant, a young woman, had been brought up in evidence against him. as to words which had passed in his awn private house. Solemnly he cautioned the Court not to allow the dangerous pre cedent of giving credibility to witnesses of this kind, under accusations of this nature. " The crime of sedition," continued he, " can neve;,,4 oammitted in a private house. It supposes the highest publicity, the convocation of many. But if power shall say that words spoken in an unguarded moment within the sacred walls of a family amount to this crime, what will follow ? The meanest of your domestics, who could hardly approach your presence even in their menial duties—who (if the expression may be used) to the members of a family are almost unknown— these, these—the meanest and the lowest—will be brought forward to swear away your reputation and your life. And such is this witness, who is adduced against me with such parad e . 0, beware how you sanctify the shameful proceeding. It is not me you wound alone, but you destroy the confidence which subsisted between man and man ; you lead, by your own handq, to the firesides of your children and your dearest relations, the fiends of suspicion and danger ; and ye for ever put an end to that reciprocity of com munication which enlivens and endears domestic society." Mr. Muir, to fortify the arguments which he openly avowed as having advanced, recommending the pay ment of Members as in former times—Members of Parliament to have thirty or forty shillings a day for their attendance—to be honest men and keep the Constitution clear—continued as follows : " Who does not know, that until a very late period indeed, when corruption glided in, and tainted and poisoned the whole, Members of Parliament received their wages from the hands of the people alone ? 0 ! how I speak it with joy when I view the past ; with sorrow, when I contemplate the present: they would have scorned to have received the price of their at tendance from any other hands than the hands of the people. Then the Constitution possessed all its ener gies. Then towered the Constitution in the strength of age, but also with the bloom of youth. The people delegated none but men whose virtues they knew, and none but men who possessed public virtues could be found to undertake the important mission. Look back, I intreat you, to the great and good men whom English history records. Turn your eyes to the Hampdens, to the Sydneys, to the Marvilles of former times : to those men whom—but I stop : they received their wages directly from the people. I de clare to you—if it be sedition I declare it—that we never can expect a virtuous House of Commons, a Constitutional House of Commons, a House of Com mons, such as it once was, connected with no other interest than the interest of the people—until such time as its Members shall receive a compensation for their attendance from the people, and from no other quarter—be entitled to no other reward than the ap probation fellow-citizens, 110 w o e t i h t i e z i e r n o s, w of minds,wnhoro theya nd, willt the e h a a l p e p l b a e u e s n e s the f undaunted, uncorrupted defenders." This splendid defence, however, was unavailing. Judges and Jury were alike afraid of these new doc trines ; a verdict of guilty was returned, and the vic tims were sentenced to transportation. Muir, by some strange incident, ,escaped the sentence, the vessel in which be was embarked as a convict having been captured by the French, and, after various ad ventures, we believe he spent his last days in France. Most of the others died in exile, only one surviving the period of banishment, and returning to his native country. Can the Liberal vestry of Marylebone besitate'in coming to a decisive resolution, which shall do honour to these primitive Reformers, and show their gratitude for the Constitutional privileges which they now enjoy ? In about five minutes, whilst still in the wood, the keepers heard some men who were coming up the side of the wood, calling out—" Now my lads, how are you coining on ?" and John Bebbington who supposed they were the remainder of the keepers, said "We are here." They then came up, there being three' of them, and stood on the hedge top, when Bebhington saw that they were the companions of his prisoner Baker. He said to Chesters, " Shoot the first that comes over." Chesters then took up his (Bebbington's) gun, lying by his side, but held it in his hand, and did not pre sent it. The men then came over the hedge, when Bebbington let Baker go. One. of the poachers, the man in the slop, struck Bebbington on the head and stunned him, and he received several other blows, which induced him to keep calling upon Chesters to shoot. The men then left Bebbington, and attacked Chesters. What took place then Beb bington is unable to say, as he Was stunned by the blows he had received ; and when he came to himself he was in the brook close by. Bostock, after the con. flict he had been engaged in was ended, and he had'ke - - covered from the blows he had received, went towards the place where Bebhington liad had the struggle with Baker, but he did not find him, as he had gone away ; but he saw the body of Chesters lying there. He saw four men just out of the wood, and one of them looking through the hedge, but he could not recognise any of them. , He went across the wood towards Wettenhall, and in the field next to the wood he met Bebbington, who was at that time bleeding very much from a bad cut across his head. They went to the public house at Wettenhall for assistance, and haring ob tained it they went for Chesters, whom they found lying on the ground, where Bebbington had last seen him, before he was attacked by the poachers ; and they carried him to the Boot and Slipper public-house. Whilst the above conflicts were going on, John Noden had a struggle with the poacher armed with the bludgeon ; and managed to fight him for a con siderable period with his stick. and ultimately wrenched the bludgeon from him. They then got into the hedge, and had a severe struggle, when the poacher got uppermost, and jumped with his feet upon Noden's belly, and then set off into the wood. Noden was so much injured as not to be able to get up for some time; and when he did get up the men had all gone away. When Richard Chesters was tr ken to the Boot and Slipper public-house, he was in a state of insensi bility; and he died about half-past twelve o'clock on that day. On Wednesday an inquest was held at the Boot and Slipper public-house, Wettenhall, before Henry Churton, Esq., Coroner, on the body of Chesters. Mr. Churton had the assistance, in pursuing the in quiry, of Mr. Tollemache, Mr. Corbett, and Mr. France, Magistrates of the county. Mr. Dumvile, Solicitor of Tarporley, attended on the part of the prosecution. The evidence was chiefly corroborative of the state ment we have just narrated. The prisoners, Charles Hitchen, William Warburton, Richard Evans, and Samuel Cousins, were severally identified without difficulty by a variety of circumstances. At the conclusion of the evidence, the prisoners were cautioned that any statement they might make would be used against them, when each of them swore they had been at home the whole of the night in question. After a patient investigation, and a lucid summing up by the Coroner, the Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Charles Hitchen, William Warburton, Samuel Cousins, Jos.Baker, and Richard Evans ;" and the four prisoners in custody were im mediately committed on his warrant to Chester Castle to take their trial at the assizes for that offence ; and were conveyed there the next morning by Mr. Baker and his assistants. It is expected that Baker will not be able long to evade the search making for him. THE SCOTTISH REFORMERS OF 1793-4. The contemplated erection of a monumental column to the memory of the Scottish Reformers of 1793-4, Muir, Palmer, Skirving, Gerald, and Margarot— men who in the advancement of the early reform mea sures, associated their names with those of Fox, Grey, and Mackintosh—is one of those measures which marks:well the strong and independent sense of the day. These five strenuous Reformers are well known in the early history of that great Parliamentary , mea sure, which has worked out beneficial changes in our Government policy, but which, nevertheless, is still too contracted in its limits, and two narrowed in its present action. Bolder advances must still be made before the full benefit, or true spirit of its operation, will be thoroughly seen in our Constitution, and we cannot, upon the occasion, now that the question of erecting a monument in' an appropriate site is be fire the Marylebone Vestry, do better than adduce that which occurred upon the trial, not of the whole of these Reformers, for that would occupy more space than is at our disposal, but at that of the leader and principal of the noble-minded men in question, who, far from holding the principles of Jaeobinism, as by some attributed to them, gloried only in the ascrip tion of being patriotically engaged for the furtherance of their country's welfare. The trial of Muir alone will serve as a fair sample and picture of the parts acted by his four co-associates. The trial of Thomas Muir, Esq., younger, of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, took place on the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, on the charge of seditious practices. The indictments charged him with making sedi tions speeches at Kirkintilloch and Campsie, vilifying the Constitution and King by his advocacy of reform principles, and inflaming the minds of the people to rebellion. They also charged him with distributing seditious books, and among them Paine, Volney, the " Paisley Declaration of Rights," and of having read in the Convention the address from the Society of United Irishmen in Dublin. The Lord Advocate, in stating the case after the examination of witnesses, appears to have been par ticularly offensive and unjustified , in his remarks. He designated him as "tainted from head to foot, and as unworthy to live under the protection of the law as the meanest felon." Speaking of the shop in which he used to read Paine, "it was there," said the agent of the Crown, " in that cathedral of sedition, he sat like a spider, weaving his filthy web to catch the unwary." He was " a wretched outcast," " marked with insanity," one " with all the insignia of sedition around him s '—" the pest of Scotland." Mr. Muir defended himself. He addressed the Jury in a solemn and importunate manner on their duties. He reviewed the evidence of the witnesses against him, and pointed out the malignity of various statements, while he boldly confronted others with the truth. The invective of the Lord Advocate he put down in the most strenuous manner, and attacked him also in the following passage, which finely sets forth the principles of which he was the unflinching apostle : " I smile at the charge of sedition. I know for what I am brought to this bar : it is for having strenuously and actively engaged in the cause of Parliamentary Reform; for having exerted every effort, by constitutional measures, to procure an equal representation of the people, in the House of the People. Let nat the prosecutor skulk in darkness. Let him come manfully forward, and avow the cause which has impelled him to bring me here. I will give you little trouble. I will save you, the Jury, from the wretched mockery of a trial, the sad neces sity of condemning a man, when the cause of his condemnation must be concealed, and cannot be ex- i pained. Yes, I plead guilty ; I openly, actively, and sincerely embarked in the cause of a Parliamentary Reform, in the vindication and in the restoration of the rights of the people. Nor will I blush to unfold to you my motives : they are supported by their own intrinsic strength, but they are likewise held up by the great and venerable names of the living and the dead. I contended for an equal representation of the people, in what I shall ever call the House of the People, because I considered it as a measure essen tially necessary to the salvation of the State, and to the stability of your boasted Constitution. Wherein, then, consists the excellency of that time-tried fabric, cemented by the blood of your fathers, flowing from the field and from the scaffold ? It consists in that due balance of its three impelling powers, King, Lords, and Commons : if one of these powers loses its vigour, if one of these powers loses a shadow of what it ought to be, if it becomes merged and absorbed into any of the other two, your Constitution then also becomes a shadow , and is anni hilated. And do you not know, and does all the world not k now , that if anywhere the proud struc ture of the Constitution has suffered the ravages of time or corruption, it is in its popular branch? Is it not a fact indisputable, that the representation of the people is not such as it once was, and is not such as, I trust in God, one day it shall be? The man, then, who sounds the alarm when he discovers the approach of danger, who summons all who may be concerned in its reparation, is surely no enemy to the country, no foe to the Constitution, because he labours in its preservation and protection. " Such were the motives of my conduct. If lam guilty, I have in my guilt many associates —me n who now enjoy the repose of eternity, whom your fathers admired while living, and to whom you, their chil dren, have erected statues. I have no time to run over the venerable catalogue, but—" Mr. Muir here recited the names of Locke and Blackstone, in support of his principles. The words of the latter were not without effect, even in those days of political bigotry. " This is the spirit of our Constitution ; not that I assert it is in fact quite so perfect as I have here endeavoured to describe it, for, if any alteration might be wished or suggested in the present frame of Parliament, it should be in favour of a more complete representation of the • people. If Blackstone, then," continued Mr. Muir, ' wished for a more equal representation of the people, if he dared LITERATURE FRIENDSHIP'S OFFERING. Smith and Elder, London, 1842. The " Friendship's Offering " is one of the oldest, as it is one of the best, of the glittering fraternity of Annuals. It has outlived at least one-half of its brethren, many of whom came forth into the literary world with far greater pretensions; and if it-be continued with the same skill and spirit with which it has hitherto been conducted, we see no reason why it should not attain a patriarchal age, and, like Godwin's St. Leon, " shut up the tomb over its contemporaries," and become the last of its race. The volume fur the present year is more than usually interest ing, from the circumstance of its containing, by way of frontispiece, a picture entitled " The Royal . Family," in which we have full-length portraits of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the young Prince and Princess, beautifully engraved by Fox, from an original painting by Stephanoff. The likenesses of her Majesty and her illus trious Consort may be discovered at the very first glace, so happily has the artist caught, not the were lineaments, but their prevailing expression of dignified serenity. The picture is an exceedingly pleasing one, and the editor ex pressly states in his preface, that " it is the only complete groupe existing of portraits of the Royal Family." " Norah" is a sketch of a young Irish peasant girl who is standing, with a milk pail beside her, near a gate, absorbed, apparently, in contemplation. From the cheeaul expres sion of her round, ruddy countenance, it is mani fest that her reflections are far from unsatisfactory ; whence we may infer—without any great viola tion of probability—that her wedding-day is fixed, and that in a week or so she will be a happy bride, and half-proprietor of a cottage, a pig, and a potatoc field. The " Anxious Wife" is a picture of quite a different character. A mo ther, whose child is resting on her lap, is seated just outside her door, waiting with evident uneasiness the return of her husband. She may well be anxious, fur twilight is sad dening over the landscape; the distant moun tains wear a sombre frown on their brows; the halfseen river flows in deep shadow through the valley—yet still the truant returns not! NVhat can have kept him so long from home? Has he gone to a Chartist meeting, or an Anti-Corn-law lecture? Has he lost his way, and been beguiled by an ignis fatuus into a thick, muddy, chick weed-co vered ditch, where he may get board, lodging, and washing, for nothing; or is he playing at cribbage for pots of beer, in the sanded parlour of the village ale-house? Alas! we fear that this is the most probable solution of the mystery, and that he will come back towards morning, as drunk as any freeborn Britoil could reasonably desire to be ; and justify his wife's anxiety by calling for just one more glass, and threatening her, in case of re fusal, with the discipline of the knout! "Ship ping at the Nore" is a truly graceful and pic turesque sketch, whose distances are defined with Much nicety and correctness. The vessels —majestic emblems of repose—are resting in per fect stillness on their shadows, for there is scarcely wind enough to stir the flags that hang drooping from their masts. " Amboise" is a striking representation of a fine old castle, perched upon the summit of a lofty, precipitous hill, at whose base flows a broad, deep stream. The back-ground, with the bridge spanning the river, and the distant village •on its bank, seen by the dim light of the moon, which is half con cealed by heavy clouds, has a very impressive effect. Of the literary contents of the volume we may speak in terms of deserved praise. There is the usual allowance of prose and verse, of serious tales, and humourous tales, ofsonnets, lyrics, and descriptive poems, and each is good of its kind. Of the prose stories, the best, per haps, is that entitled the " Novice," which is from the pen of Mrs. Erskine Norton. THE VOICE OF AN OCTOGENARIAN. Sherwood, London, 1842. The author of the work befbre us, which is a rambling, rhapsodical dissertation on the New Poor-law, and is dedicated to Sir Robert Peel, is furious in his reprobation of this law, observing that " in its origin, its object, its execution, and its effects, it is opposed insultingly to all God's direct and unalterable ordainments." The mur der of the " Babes in the Wood," says the au thor, was bad enough; but it was nothing, he adds, " to the thousands of infant murders per petrated and now perpetrating in Bastiles, for want of fresh air and food, by hired ruffians, under the sanction of the British Legislature." He then proceeds to describe a vision which he had in the House of Commons some few months since, when Sir J. Graham rose to propose the continuance of the New Poor-law fur five years. The whole ceiling of the House, he tells us, appeared to be hidden by " celestial beings with lovely countenances," and in the chair sate —not the Speaker, but "the Recording Angel!" How such a Being could think of paying a flying visit to St. Stephen's, we cannotpi iibly conceive; for of all places in the world,it the one least likely to suit an angelic nature. But perhaps the author mistook the Speaker for a herub, just as the Ettrick Shepherd, when in town, mistook him for an elderly lady of his acquaintance; but we can hardly imagine this could have been the case, for Mr. Shaw Lefevre looks as little like an angel as any gentleman we ever saw. The rest of the work is penned in this strange incoherent spirit, and is embellished with a full-length por trait of the author, who is represented standing on a bleak moor at midnight, in black shorts and silks! GUILLEREZ'S LECTURES ILISTORIQUES, Simphin, Marshall, and Co. The method of these grammatical and his torical readings is the most useful and instructive that could have been devised for students of the French tongue. They consist of selections from the ablest writers and rhetoricians of France, re lating to scenes, topics, and persons, purely English, by which means the tyro, while pro ceeding in the acquisition of the language, makes, at the same time, mastery of much valu able knowledge relating to his own country. An astute scholar, also, will observe with critical pleasure the peculiar and often original phases in which either an elegant or talented foreigner views the habits and institutions under which he lives, and agreeably divert himself by contrast ing them with his own national form of opinion. NEW FRENCH GRAMMAR. By A. F. Guillerez. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. . _ This Grammar professes to be framed upon that of Noel and Chapsal, which has been long adopted with advantage in the schools of Belgium. Material improvements have, how ever, been made upon the Continental edition, and the exigencies of the English tongue care fully supplied. The various parts of speech are ably classified, and the tabular form given to the verbs, arranges them lucidly for the learner. Its adoption in schools should be general. Sir James Graham returns to town from Drayton Manor on Monday next. ITALIAN OPERA.—Mr. Lumley has secured Grisi and Madame Viardot Garcia for next season. Offers have also been made to Mario, hut the difference as to the last season is not yet settled. It is expected that, by the advice of friends, both Lupley and him self will give way, so that the public *ill not be de prived of this celebrated tenon—Dramatic and Musical Review. THE SWELL Mon.—At the Newport Quarter Ses sions true bills were found against the two gentlemen who picked Mr. Farnell's pocket, at the Royal Yacht Squadron Ball, at Cowes, in August last. The young gentleman was brought up, in custody, found guilty, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. The elder (Mr. Charles Hawkins), our readers may re member, was liberated on bail, himself in 500/., and four sureties in 150/. each ; they applied, through counsel (Mr. Poulden), to put off his trial till next Sessions, as he had not surrendered to his bail ; they were most anxious he should do so, and would do all in their power to place him in custody.—Ap plication granted. The quantity of eggs used annually in France ex ceeds, says one of the journals, 7,250,000,000, of which enormous number Paris absorbs 120,000,000. The French Minister of the Interior, understand ing that the wife and daughter of the late eminent violinist Baillot were left in very distressed circum stances, has granted to the former a pension of 1,200 f. a-year. • EJECTMENT Or TENANTRY.--The HOD. Mr. Clive, of Berkshire. has an estate of about 2,500/. a-year in the county Tipperary, between Nenagh and Roscrea. We are sorry to learn that his bailiff has gone over with thirty-five notices to quit, for his signature. Mr. Clive grants no leases except to tenants holding up wards of fifty acres, and he has not more than two tenants holding that quantity of land. Until we have free trade and steady priees we can have neither peace nor prosperity in the country.—Waterford Chronicle. STRANGE PRESENT TO lIER MAJESTY.--A splendid hind-quarter of wild cattle beef arrived at the Castle yesterday, as a present to her Majesty from Mr. Legh, of Lyme-park, Cheshire. This extraordinary breed of cattle is peculiar to the estate of Mr. Legh, and is considered a great luxury from the extreme richness and delicate flavour of the meat. The car cases are very small, with a large proportion of fat, and are very similar to Christmas prize meat, without its coarseness. The hind-quarter presented to her Majesty weighed LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, OCT. 28.—Wind, this day at noon,Westerly —light breeze, fine, clear weather. DEAL, OCT. 27.—Wind W.N.W. to W. 'fresh.— And. Nautilus, St. Lucia ; Eggardon Castle, Ifam burgh for Newfoundland ; Flora, Bremen fur Cuba. Sid. Anna Robertson, Sydney. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 27.—Wind W.N.W., fresh breeze.—Arrd. Chapman, Quebec. COWES, OCT. 27.—Arrd. Ca tharina, Diescher, Rio ; Brankenmoor, London for Australia. PLYMOUTH, OC T. 27.—Wind W.X.W., squally.— Arrd. Cato, Quebec. BRISTOL, OcT. 27.—Arrd. Leander, Quebec. OFF MARGATE, OCT. 27.—Alexander Edmond, St. John's, Teignmouth. Arrd. Speculator, Miramiehi. CLYDE, OcT. 26.—S1d. Commerce, Boston. DUBLIN, OCT. 25.—Arrd. Rachel, Bay of Fundy. KINGSTOWN, OcT. 26.—Arrd. Planet, Boston, St. John's ; Marquis Wellesley ; Laing, Quebec. SHIELDS, OCT. 26.—Sid. Lady Scott, Bermuda. WAIN/MEET OCT. 26.—Th e F re d er i c k, P un k e , o f Amsterdam, for Shields, was driven on Wainfleet Sands this morning, and expected to become a wreck —crew saved. MiL7onD, OCT. 23.--Arrd. Gipsey, Malaga for BO fast, with loss of fore-topsail, &c., having been on her beam-ends during a gale on the 23d inst. The Chieftain, Deane, arrived here from Quebec, bound to Liverpool, has five feet water in her hold. The Sir Charles Napier, arrived here from St. Andrews, New Brunswick, to Liverpool, has about seven feet water in her hold, and continues very_ leaky. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 27.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Lightning, Melhuish, Monte Video; Brigand. Har rison, Truxello ; Madison, Wood, Virginia ; Susan, Whiteway, and England, John s t on , Quebec. Off port, Nimrod, China ; Phoenix, Antigua; Symmetry, St. John's. The Thomas, Thomas, from Dundalk, Liberty, from Poole, and the Queen of Trumps, from South port, and a vessel, apparently a sloop, dismasted, are on shore near Crasley Point : crews saved. The Chance,Wilson, from Dublin, put into Douglas harbour yesterday, leaky. The Phaeton, Tobaset, to New York, dismasted, and with four feet water in the hold, was spoken, 6th ult., in about lat. 23, lon. 83, and the Rival, Xagna to Halifax, under jury -foremast and topmasts, 11th, in arrived here. lat. R 3 E l,.. l‘, lo iE n. A 7 s 9, u b it y E th A e lE ß N rign o d, p MEXICO. VESSELS AT The following has been received at Lloyd's : " Office of Committee of Privy " Council for Trade, - Whitehall, Oct. 24. " Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Com mittee of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you, for the information of the Committee at Lloyd's, the enclosed translation of a Decree lately issued by the Mexican Government, introducing a new method of ascertaining the tonnage of vessels for payment of duty. " I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, (Signed) "J. MACGREGOR. " To Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary of Lloyd's." [T R ANSLATION.] " His Excellency the Provisional President of the Republic has been pleased to issue the following de cree " Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, General of Divi sion, Yeremerito de la Patria, and Provisional Prpsi.. dent of the Mexican Republic, to all its inhabitants. Know ye, " That having observed the inaccuracy of the me thod established by the circular of the 21st October, 1826, for the admeasurement of merchant vessels, whereby the result of the calculation of tonnage gave a smaller number of tons than the vessels actually measured, the national exchequer thus failing to re ceive the dues legitimately belonging to it, in conse quenceelilbtlii by article of of the excess of the divisor assigned in that o f circular , the powersvirtue the basis agreed upon at Tacubaga, and sworn to by in order grantedt o remedy In e this the err, o s o r ; the Representatives of the Departments, " I have thought fit to decree as follows : " Art. 1. From the date of the publication of this decree the captains of all the ports of the two seas of the Republic, shall observe in the admeasurement of merchant vessels the following rules, having reference to the Measures of Burgos : " Take half the sum of the length upon the deck and the keel, multiplied by three-fourths the beam, and half the floor, multiply this product by half the depth of hold, divide the result by 41,078, and the quotient will give the number of tons on which duty is to be taken, on the hypothesis that the linear pro portion of the Paris foot to that of Burgos is as seven to six, and of the English foot to that of Burgos as 12 to 10.97. " Art. 2. The measurement of the vessels if to be taken from inside to inside of the timbers. " Art. 3. The captains of the ports shall be respon sible for the due execution of this decree. " A. LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA. " JOSE MARIA TORNEL, " Ministro de Guerra y Marina. a Mexico, July 1, 1842." VESSELS SPOKEN WlTll.—Trident, bound to Ha vannah, September 3. lat. 23 N., ion. 64 W. ; Earl Bathurst, Oporto to Hamhurgh, Oct. 18, h i t. 46, i on. 10, by the A rgus , arr i ve d i n the Gironde. Actif, Rio to Havre, lat. 30 N., l on . 38, W.; lieniemo, Batavia to Australia, sam e ti me , by the Catharina, arrived at Cowes. Mincarto, Smyrna to Liverpool. 19th inst.; Stanhope, of Jersey, out 24 days, from Liverpool, 22d, in the Channel of Malta, bound to the Black Sea, by the Saucy Lass, arrived at Dartmouth. Larch, Li verpool t o B a y Chaleur, 29th ult.. lat. 47. lon. 42, b y the Chieftain, arrived at Milford. England, Quebec, to Liverpool, 6th inst., lat. 51, lon. 17, by the Sir Charles Napier, arrived at Milford. Talbot, Liver pool to New York, Ist inst., lat. 42, ion. 40, by the Brigand, arrived at Liverpool. (Signed) SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. ritozvr THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES. —The public 'gill be well satisfied with the finding of the Jury in the Northleach case. The verdict is a reasonable and judicious one. Whatever substantial truth there might have been in a return of " Manslaughter," the practical effect of such a verdict would have been below the result which may be expected to follow from the present finding. A criminal trial must have then taken place : the special pleadings of an advocate would have perplexed the Jury: the Judge would hate thrown his doubts into the prisoner's scale, and a verdict of Not Guilty might have dismissed the criminals, who would thenceforward have been regarded as persecuted men ; so unsafe is it in England (and long may it continue to be so) to press an ac cused person with the least degree of passion or personal hostility. The present verdict, however, avoiding this error, calmly declares a fact which is apparent to the whole world (al ways excepting the Gloucestershire Jus tices)—that Charles Beale owes his death to the treatment received by him in Northleach House of Correction. This finding, we take for granted, dismisses all the parties concerned in that lengthened cruelty. Their punishment is a mild and lenient one, and we trust that it will be quietly submitted to. It is but a few weeks since a special inquiry was instituted by the Home office touching the hair-cropping regulations of Dover gaol —an inquiry which at once produced the resignation of the curl-destroying keeper of that prison. But the matter now in hand is of a graver description. It cannot be that one gaoler shall lose his appointment for meddling with the love-locks of a strolling player, and another pass unnoticed who has "lifted " the victims of his fearful discipline on the tread-wheel, which their failing strength did not enable them to ascend; and who has heard, and passed unnoticed, the re port of his surgeon, that " he could do nothing more for them—better living was what they wanted." Enough, however, of the minor crimi nals: 'the value of this verdict is, that it deals a heavy blow to the system. The Gloucestershire Jus tices, when next they meet, must occupy them selves to better purpose than in railing at the Times, or in arguing that the prison " cannot be so bad a place as it has been represented, or so many prisoners would not visit it a second time." Comtbrtable as they seem to have imagined it— with from 12,000 to 14,000 feet of ascent per day, in the nine or ten hours' labour at the wheel, and two-pennyworth of bread for the whole subsist ence of the prisoner —it will now be their duty to augment this comfort into positive luxury, by providing some better resting-place for the mi serable creature, reeking with his ten hours' mill-work, than a cold and damp cell, open to the wind and rain, with a stone for the only seat. Nay, more, the labour must be dimi nished, or the food augmented, and that in no trifling degree. One of the witnesses examined on Monday last deposed, that when sent with Beale into the potato-store, they both fell upon the raw potatoes. He adds, " I dare say I ate half' a peck. I had a good bellyful that day. and I don't think I had another all the time I was there." " Beale was, like mc, pretty nearly fainished." Now, we are not aware that there exists, in the whole accumulated mass of our criminal enactments, any such punishment as that of being " pretty nearly famished," whether with or without the accompani ment of ten hours' mill-work per diem. We must, therefore, either have the punishment legalised, or we must have it discon tinued. About this there must be "no mis take." The next gaoler that is found inflicting this sort of torture (except, indeed, our law makers shall meantime adopt " famishing," as "a good secondary punishment") must not expect to escape so lightly as will the governor of North leach. From the whole Press of England, con ve) ing, not too strongly, the feelings of the en tire people of England, the corporation ofgaolers have now received fair warning. The system will be tolerated no longer ; " reform it altoge ther." Oil a minor topic we shall only add one word. In alluding to the still existing doubt and uncertainty as to the character of the Co roners' Court, we had not forgotten the legal arguments and judicial decisions which, grew out of the Oldham inquest. We spoke merely of the confusion and want of sys tem visible in the present case. Here was a Coroner admitting four reporters, as such, and then peremptorily excluding, without any reason assigned, a fifth. Of course he might, with equal ease, have admitted the one, and excluded the four. The only rule laid down was his own so vereign pleasure. Now, if this were carried oat into general practice, we might have Mr. Wak ley, or Mr. Baker, excluding from all the metro politan inquests all reporters but one, or perhaps two, of their own selection. Of course, these favoured individuals would be the sole purveyors for the whole London Press, aril the two Coro ners would thus gain the patronage of two very valuable appointments. But does any man mean to say that this is the law ; or that such a prac tice would be tolerated by the people of Eng land ? Nevertheless, it is essentially contained in the privilege asserted by the functionary who presided over the Northleach inquiry. HERALD.—We are informed, on respectable authority, that the King of the French has dis cussed with persons in his confidence the pro priety of abdicating the throne in favour of the Duke of Nemours. The advantages of such a step are manifest, and many persons in the French capital are of opinion that it is the only way of consolidating the Orleans dynasty. Louis Philippe, however, they add, is so fond of power, that it is not likely he will voluntarily give up the reins; and the report has been spread more for the purpose of ascertaining public opinion upon it, than with the idea of carrying such a resolution into effect. The Duke of Nemours is not generally liked, though he is far from being absolutely unpopu lar, and it is more than doubtful how far he could manage a nation so difficult to govern as France, in case of the sudden death of his father. Let the first year of his reign be conducted by the able management of Louis Philippe, and the others will follow in the same satisfactory man ner. Custom is as influential with the French as with any other people, and they will, without di fficulty, submit to an authority under which they have lived for a certain period. Without expressing an opinion on the authority of the ru mours which have reached us, we give them for the purpose of preparing the public for an event which is not improbable to happen in the course of the ensuing Session of the French Chambers. CHRONICLE.—The inquest at Northleach has terminated in a verdict "That Charles Beale died of disease of the lungs, brought on and ag gravated by the punishment and mode of treat ment he received whilst a prisoner in s Northleach House of Correction, and the Jury express their unanimous disapprobation of the conduct of the Governor Townsend, the Surgeon Bidwell, and the under-turnkey Harding." All the Jurors at the same time signed a memorial to the Secre tary of State for the Home Department, praying for an inquiry into the treatment of prisoners and discipline of Northleach and the other pri sons and houses of correction in the county. The extension of the inquiry to all the prisons is quite necessary. In another column our readers will find a communication from a gentleman, in timately acquainted with the prison system of Gloucestershire, who has communicated to us his name and address, from a wish to decline no re sponsibility. From that communication it will be seen that Beale is but one of many vic tims to the murderous system enforced at Northleach. Our Correspondent states cases that came within his own knowledge when his avocations led shim to become - ac quainted with the subject—and that the other prisons in Gloucestershire are all mo re or less chargeable with the rigours, the exp o s u re of which, in the case of Northleach, has deservedly excited in the public mind the strongest feelings of indignation. It is now evident that the public l • have but a slender guarantee, in the official vigilance of a Secretary of' State, that only suit able regulations will be enforced in our prisonsofthe; and from what has transpired in the . course tsat Glatt_ late inquest, and at the Quartern.Seasstio dependencei cester, it would appear that . n n o 36 r a e o. is to he placed on the prisoners dare not tell th , e_ yisit t i r n u , cl i wz i e s n tr g at u e e s s . tio l n i l e i d e visits of the Magis trates r between, and, see been f ew and e y ,e , f - a of the gaolers, they y treatment. a t r s a t t o e s ti l l i e tt i v r e nth ti e me s j y u s t t . e Q L t ought to be. i i: a ig l . ,e on fo ly andevery through the everything as the: But, Jury thougho e pursue death odf atß have only named Townsend and Bidwell, e N al o e rt is hl l e a a id el b i, y Harding, the public will look higher than these instruments. Lord Erskine leaped into professional eminence in one day by dragging, in the Greenwich Hospital case, the higher cul prits before the Court, in spite of the threats of the Judge. Powerful men are implicated in this revolting system. Throughout the length and breadth of the land, the mdighant voice of the country has been raised against the horrible sys tem of Northleach. After the medical evidence obtained in the Parliamentary inquiry, to which the enormous mortality in the Penitentiary, from insufficiency of food, led, there is no longer an excuse for the adoption of a dietary in prisons on which men cannot be maintained in health. The law may be over severe or over lenient; but whatever punishment the law orders should alone be inflicted- When the law says death, let the criminal die. But when the law says, punish this man for seeking to obtain that work else where which he -cannot obtain in his own vil lage, with three months' imprisonment, he ought not to be starved to death, or sent from the dungeon with a broken constitution from in sufficiency of fbod. The torture of famine is not a punishment which the law contemplates. If Magistrates will take it upon them to give effect to a system by which an offence of a venial cha racter is punished with more severity than the law contemplates for the most heinous crimes, on their heads be the responsibility. We are far from wishing to contend for any improper indulgence to prisoners. Nay, we are doubtful whether the endeavour to make prisons anything but places of punishment be not productive of more evil than good. We wish to see the reform which keeps men from gaols, and not the reform which would break down the distinction between poverty and crime. It has always appeared to us that little dependence is to be placed on the reform wrought under the constraint of a gaoler. We wish to see prisons remain really prisons— places not to be desired but dreaded by offenders. A DVERTISER.—The Herald was at consi derable trouble yesterday morning to cry up the demeanour of the ag - ricultural interest, in ccn trast with the proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law League—the manufacturing- body, and the mass of the people generally. The agricultural classes never, in support of their own interests, did this naughty thing, or that; never attempted to rouse one portion of the community against an other; never sent nominees into Parliament to maintain there the question of privileges against rights; never struggled to buy every man's opinion with gold; never convened meetings, ap pointed dinners, speechified at associations, all for the purpose exclusively of their rents ; above all, they never interposed against mauulacturing protection, no, not they; they were superior to such proceedings—they only knew that the land " was the source of their country's greatness," and, consequently, were only to be disturbed from their calm and dignified course of action, when the claims of the land were endan gered—the Corn-laws too rudely assailed ! Even at length in the gigantic changes effected against them through Sir Robert's modified sliding-scale, only just think how magnanimously they have conducted themselves ; still high in their majestic serenity; not giving tongue; carefully refraining from abuse; so meek, in short, as literally to be brought to admit, that perhaps, the modified sliding-scale and the new tariff, are fbr their own as well as the country's benefit. Admira ble, indeed ! The Conservatives are truly a prodigiously fine fraternity, and the very Herald itself dare not gainsay it. But suppose the Conservatives were in a different position from what they are; suppose they were in the comparatively depressed and oppressed, hampered, straitened condition of the manufac turers ; suppose, not that they enjoyed a mono poly of all the advantages of the State, but that they were prevented, by a monopoly of the ma nufacturers, from enjoying, not only not the luxuries, but were denied the mere means of gaining a subsistence ; suppo s e that prohibition met them hero, restriction there, monopoly— an engrossing of all the good things of man's industry, everywhere; —would the Conserva tives remain passive ? Would they not fight a breathless conflict, not for their rights, but for extravagant privileges —not for independence dear to all, but for selfish aggrandisement, for absurd pomp, for just those kinds of patri cian splendour which mean the enervation of the Wily and the corruption of the soul ? What part of the kingdom would be free from Couser vative intrigues, from Tory conspiracies, from even oligarchic swords and bayonets, if the landed interest were the wronged, oppressed, suffering victims the manufacturers and the whole manufacturing population are ? But, on the other hand, when was it that the plunderers rebelled against the plundered ? What neces sity would there be for it? Are they to fight against what is under subjugation? Will men in the possession of all play time Quixotic feat of rushing to contend with shadows—ofeon tending where nothing more is to be obtained ? How silly the Herald is! What have the rent holders to agitate about? Have they not more than any other body in the State—not excepting even the Church—possess, or, relatively, have any hope of possessing ? Why, commo n sense says, instead of agitating, their policy is to re main quiet as mice—not to make a squeak, lest any one should know they are there. Th e wisest of them, of course, know this, and act upon it; it is the fools among them only that, like the Herald, make a shout to tell the world how beneficent they are. But, then, have not the Conservatives got up agitation, sowed dissen sion a: long classes, perverted the minds of thou sands with their gold, all for the sake of their monopolies, their Corn-laws, their accursed feu dal claims? How was it at Aylesbury last year? They met under the colours of therenowned Chan dos, for entering a loud and terrific protest against the slightest diminution of their protec tion. How is it their Stanhopes and Richmond', as well as Backinghams, raved in the last ses sion as they did about starvation—of the masses being nothing to the consideration of preserving rents at their fictitious standard ? The Conser vatives never stoop to what is undignified or in correct. No, never ! the Conservatives are your class for keeping permanent the stability o f t h e nation ! Pretty statesmanship, that of the Herald the laud, to be sure, the basis of Eng land's greatness; the culture of time soil, forsooth, because it leaves her people, so "simple" and so humble," the foundation of England's glory and grandeur! What asinine preaching is this! How worthy of the . Herald, and in consonance with its habitual prating! So the Standard would make us believe that it were happy for Britain if the manufacturing powers were at the bottom of the sea, and the Herald would tell us that agriculture is the principle of her prosperity. What answer could be given to such self-ex posed lunacies—what answer but contempt—or, if not, let us burn our ships, and work our ploughs, and see in what predicament we shall find ourselves in one year after the experiment. GLOBE.—The Post, the other day, chuckled in time discovery that the amount of wages paid in the Manufacturing districts had decreased in the fifteen years succeeding the year 1815. We have not at present verified the Post's figures; and we do not exactly remember them ; but the argument from a decreased remuneration of labour in our manufactures in the fifteen years succeeding the enactment of anti-commercial Corn-laws—the argument from such a phe nomenon against the removal of its cause—is well worthy the Post. Why, what did the late Sir Robert Peel predict from the enactment of the Corn-laws ? Precisely such effects as the Post fancies it can somehow charge on free trade, or turn into matter of abuse against masters, and against machinery. When th e landed interest of thi s co un try enacted Corn-laws, se it did, in effect, this. It constituted itself th e sol e of and constant employer of labour. For labour is co-extensive with the po Tr e o r m of that time as we have said before, the power of it. It; therefore, the landlords, to this, had continued able to , - ee( all on/ a employingecrig continued able to em bourers, they would ploy could buy u ay la_t h i a o:i e , foreign luxuries all, so long as they have h re employed them them all; and in exchange for been the effective pay- The landlords would have the products of their labour. I 1' • ofcourse, t ion sshare of and would have taken, leaving master manufacturers and t i e me la l n v do le rd P s ° its products; masters of time r -I • to induce a sufficient 'arc them to go on working. fills is labour .,%vha o t f ti t the effect of the Corn-laws. A. mo nopolyexpected as of food operatives of the supp ly —a monopoly there fore of the effective demand for labour —the land lords, in Or ect, the great exporters of manzffac tures, and consumers of the imported luxuries. Now this might have gone on prosperously, but for one little disturbing cause. The landlords might have continued the main effective em ployers of labour; they might have kept in em ploy all the labour of the country, and had the lion's share of its returns. But that this should go on quietly and prosperously, i t was indispensa ble that the landed interest should continue able to feed fully allthelabourers. We have their own con fession that they cannot do this. Then what is the meaning of their Corn-laws? This is their meaning. (We do not charge the landed inte rest, as a body, with perceiving it. We do not believe diem capable of perceiving anything very clearly, and we hope they are not ; for the less their stupidity, the greater their guilt.) This is the meaning of Corn-laws passed by a landed class, which can't feed all the people. We will extort by scarcity prices which a market well stocked would not give us. We will feed at hisit prices those who can pay them. Th ose who - can't pay them may remnant unfed. Yes, this is the meaning, and time only meaning, of laws to keep corn out, passed by a class which does not grow enough to feed us at home. STAN D RD.—An article appears in this day's Morning Chronicle under the title " The Great League Fund," a designation which we presume to mean th e fund H of "The Great League," fbr, as the party confess themselves at present somewhat out of pocket, they can scarcely speak of their pecuniary, resources as the "Great Fund of the League." The League talks of closing the markets of the world against us; of an axe l a id to the root o f our n ational ry &c., all prosperity; of embarrassments, imse ,