The Sun. — London, England, 1849-10-27 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY,) " STOP TIIIEF "—A lad naim)ii George tVe.ll6r wag charged with stealing 54 yards of canvass towelling from the shop-door of Mr. Smith, Tottenham Court read. _ _ _ _ The towelling was made up in a roll and placed, in a perpe:idicular position, at the prosecutor's shop-door. On Friday evening, about seven o'clock, the prisoner was se n to take up the roil and dcc imp; but the patty who observed the act raised an alarm of " Stop thief !" and he was ultimately captured in Store-street. Before turning out of Tottenham Court-road he dropped the property, which was picked up by the prosecutor him:elf, and, with the prisoner, handed over to the custody of a police officer. Mr. HENRY asked if the towelling was exposed out side the shop-door? The prosecutor eaid it was not. It was placed mid-way between the door. Mr. HENRY suggested that such things should not be too temptingly exposed,, or juries might have some scruples at convicting. If ho was not mistaken, a woman was committed about a week ago for stealing some blankets from the same shop. The prosecutor admitted that it was, adding that the Woman had been convicted and sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment. Mr. HENRY asked the prisoner if ho had anything to say in answer to the charge? The prisoner—An that I have to say is this here. IFee' d that piece of stuff lying outside the doorway. I did not know what it was, and I picked it up. Ile was fully committed for trial. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The Belvoir Stdkts. The Plying Dutchman... ... Vatican Sweepstakes ;cr. three old> . and . n . pward . s . . Telegraph Radulphus ••• , • ••• ••• Handicap for thrco yrs old. Juggler ... Ferule ... Rochester ... ... The Houghton Handicap. Itathmines O►er•fork•over ... Matches. Collingwoal received from Surplice. Canada filly beat Quasimodo. The Probe beat Tisiphone. LITERAL' U RE. TOIL AND TRIAL; a Story of London Life, and other Tales. By Mrs. Newton Crosland (late Camilla Toulmin). Mrs. i Crosland's gra ce f u l pen i s cont i nually exer cised n the diffusion of loving principles. We recently had occa s i on to notice some o f h er beauti▪ ful children's tales, and now we have before us a work of more pr e t ens i on, i m b ued thoughout w i t h those kindly feeli ngs an d di ctated b y t h at philan thropi▪ c spirit which characterises all its author's per formances. " Toil and Trial" is an interesting, and in some parts a deeply pathetic picture of one of the . many toilsom e an d t rou bl ous phases :of London Life. ( It is an en d eavour, " says the authoress, " to awaken sympathy fur a class of persons, numbered in the metropolis alone by tens of thousands, who appear to have been singularly neg l ec t e d by wr it ers o f fi c ti on , in thi▪ s age when fiction is the favourite vehicle for embodying and illustrating truth." The class whose weary toil and ma n y t r i a l s h ave e li c it e d M rs . Cros land's kindly sympathy and valuable assistance are the linen-drapers' assistants—a class whose services are f am ili ar to all, b ut whose in dividual circumstances are considered by very few. " I have striven," say Mrs. Crosland, to put prominently forward the great truth of social life, that the real and permanent interest of employers and employed is identical, ani though, for the pur poses of my story, I have found it necessary to depict oppressors, my readers will acknowledge that I have been careful to display the reverse of the medal." Employers and employed of different dispositions are contrasted in this tale. The powerful influence for good or evil vested in the hands of the employer is very forcibly depicted. In some establishments late hours and unkind treatment embitter the lives and affect the character of the inmates. The chief inci dents of the tale which illustrates these sufferings are founded upon the fact that the employer in these esta blishments will not tolerate a married assistant. It appears, that of the 40,000 drapers' assistants of London, not 400 are married men. The hero and heroine of this tale consequently conceal the fact of their marriage for fear of losing their situation, and bitter are the humiliations to which poor Lizzy is thus condemned to submit. All this is narrated by Mrs. Crosland with a beautiful simplicity and depth of feeling which renders it peculiarly interesting. Other individuals and other incidents are interwoven in the tale which is well worthy of perusal. " A Story of the ,Vest End" is of somewhat similar character, its heroines being of the hardworked and 'unfortunate class of dress-makers. The denouement of this . tale is of u nex p ec t e d a nd s t a rtlin g i n t eres t. V er y different is "The Iron Rule" the other story contained in this little volume. It is an interesting narrative of the different fortunes of two families, the one of which was governed with a firm but tender hand, and the other with an iron rule. In the one case the children and parents mutually confide in each other. When sorrow falls upon them, it is lightened by their sympathy and co-operation; and when the daughters quit the p a t erna l roo f it i s no t so much a separation "which takes place as a new bond of union— " Connecting all the heart's sweet ties Into one knot of happiness.' Not so with the other family. The young members are chill e d b y t h e stern severity of the elders. Those outpourings of youthful confidence, so salutary for the undisciplined heart, are checked by a mistaken system. The arents, although really anxious for their children's welfare, appear in the light of tyrants. One dau g ht er su b m i ts h ear t-b ro ken to the iron rule, and the other elopes from her home to seek for hap- Pthess elsewhere. The story is skilfully arranged, and detailed in a very i n t eres ting manner. The three tale s contained in this collection are equal to tne best of Camilla Toulmin's compositions—they will be read With pleasure, and that of " Toil and Trial" will, we sincerely trust, tend to mitigate in acme degree the toil and the trials of those for whom it pleads. THE IRISHMAN AT HOME. This. unpretending but interesting little book con sists of half- a -d o3en s t or i es , w hi c h are hi g hly charac teristic sketches of the Irish peasantry. The writer is evidently one who knows that singular people well, and 1 .his delineations are graphic, faithful, and un lral.ned. Scenes of harrowing tragedy and of rol licking fun are both described in that plain and natural language which stamps a vivid impression 11 1 30 n the reader's mind, and makes him anxious to give . at least a second perusal to the narrative. The principal of the tales is " The Rockite," and a right i nteresting tale it is, told in the form of an autobio .raphy, and stuffed with hair-breadth escapes, abduc tfions, Rockite meetings, battle, love, and murder, from the slaying of Shemus, the tinker's jack-ass, to the fearful fate of the outlaw captain's wife and her seducer, and the final rescue of the fair Aileen by the hero of the tale. It is one of the best Irish tales we have ever read, and we feel assured the author must be a right-hearted fellow, from his evident sympathies With the brewers of " poteen." " The Whiteboys," " The Wrestlers," and " The Mowin' Match," are likewise excellent in their way ; and " The Guager Outwitted," sketched true to life, by the author of " Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry," with which the volume concludes, is absolutely glorious. It records one of the noblest sells in the annals of man. To all who take an interest in exploring that extraordinary and amusing puzzle, the Irish Cha racter, we can safely recommend the passing of a profitable and pleasurable hour with " The Irishman at Home." THEATRE ROYAL CHEsTER.—On Monday evening last the Theatre was opened for one night only, by Mr. George Owen, jun., and his corps draniatique from - Wrexham. The play selected for the, occasion was Shakspere's sublime tragedy of Hamlet, and if we may judge from the hearty and enthusiastic applause with which this promising young tragedian was greeted by the lov ers o f th e d ra m a , they seemed highly to estimate his histrionic talent. Mr. Ovven's personation of Hamlet ia well conceived; his voice is good, his enunciation perfect, his figure graceful, and his energy free from vulgarity. His performance of the character was highly successful, and at the close of the piece he was called before the curtain. Miss Ridyard as Ophelia, and Mr.talented manner ; as Polonini, performed their parts in a manner ; al toge th er th e pi ec e was well brought out. The evening's entertainment con cluded with the laughable farce of " Turning the Tables," andthe company retired highly delighted with the amusements afforded. We have ob served with much regret an article in the Sh ro pshire Con servative, prefessing t o be critique on Mr. Oven's per formance of Romeo, at Wrexham on - Monday evening week. The article, however, is really no critique, but a piece of wanton and undeserved abuse, and no person can rise from its perusal without Pitying of re viewing could publish such spleen under the false pretence a public performance. The un warranted attack On the father of the young tragedian, at the comtnene c ntent of the article, sufficiently indicates tho males animus with which the ‘vriter intended to " review " the son's personation of Romeo, and to some extent, at least, setl79 - 6 to expl tin it.—Chester Courant. DEATH OF COLONEL ALDERSON.—LieIit.-C o l one i Alderson, Royal Engineers, died su d d e nly at Chelsea Hospital, early yesterday morning. He served on full Ply thirty-eight years, and was in Spain during the Cellist and Christina war; also in ;he Syrian campaign of 1840 and 1841, for which he Lad a medal, including the advance against Gaza and the affair near Askelon. A vacancy occurs in the secretaryship of Chelsea Hos pital by this death; it is not a military appointment, but was given to Colonel Alderson on the reduction of his c ommissionership at the railway board. The Colonel rasa par relative 9f DAM 41(191.5911' A see irned well at he He ma- Aeven even- ra did dying ate all aning? tn the He pain, urable i to be at I did rith the ir after finding I to see er with im he r very id any ith re spoke eopathic could he en tried, system it would because .otession, I con ould not homceo- g in his was not , on the niversity from his 3f course whether If course• al a man; who had Mainly the de. for him r reaction e the de day. Witness ftervvard s ' •aw th e what, In From t he condition li e d to see on him t° tamed on what state I not quite lie. he on the i Tuesday was on the. 'rally CO n',_ treatment, sed god • e i s 5 0 1, 0 to rec e '' 1. f5 OO i f A peA WitneSer beefsteak? &lil t de, en 0 nd he 1/ n see'' to , 1 " to ald, A O- 0 ,6 ughte l l o vo co uld upon 8° ipp R - w ho w i a nd, t o Ong. h eraP v ot vorno ll , woo 00 .w 0 curt. blac k nthe t he ev ict J.n c o Dg s ent el ! BOIP had Thole of bad bat be nee. rous ts t iia /It dg e ref' of 01 , e re, 3aol, "- is D utb, Nv ii° t 0 04 05 ... 1 ... 2 ... 1 ... 2 . . 3 ... 1 ... 2 THE THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY. The most extensive preparations are in progress for giving her Majesty a truly loyal reception on Tuesday next, when she visi . (e the City to opan the New Coal- Exchange. Yesterday a special Court of Aldermen was held, for tile purpose of receiving the report of the Corn tnittee appointed to consider what steps ought to be taken on the occaion. The report, which was agreed ;o unanimously, Was as follows : ' TO IIIE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR AND COURT OF ALDIIR3IEN. " In obedience to an order of this Hon. Court, of the 16th of October inst, to consider the necessary arrange ments in respect of the eereinouilil to be o)xerved on her Majesty's visit to this City on the opening of the Coal- Echange, we, whose names are hereunto subscribed, your committee of the whole Court, do certify that her Majesty having been 'ph..ased to appoint Tuesday, the 30th day of October inst., for the purpose, and to signify her intention of proceeding from Whitehall down ill( river to the Custom-house, precepts were issued to the several livery companies of this City to attend in their barges in the stations to be allotted them, to witness her Majesty's progress to the Custom-house, and on her return therefrom, of which stations they would receive due notice. "And to insure due arrangements for her Majesty's procession by water, and to preserve a free and uninter rupted passage on the riser, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, as conservator of the River Thames, issued a deputation to Commodore Eden, of the Royal Navy, under the seal of the mayoralty, to preset ve due order on the occasion, and instructed the water bailiff and Mr. Charles Rowland, the principal harbour master, to be aiding and assisting therein, reporting from time to time to his Lordship, as need may require; in ail these respects following the precedent in the year IS3I, upon the upen• ing of .London-bridge, when the then Lord Mayor (Sir John Key) issued a 'similar deputation to Admiral Sir T. B. Martin. " That we directed the Commissioner of Police to pre pare a statement of all requisite regulations for prevent. ing the obstructions in the public streets cornmunicatieg with the Coal Exchange, and for preserving a free pas sage to and from the same, and instructed the City archi tect to make provision for duly stopping up such streets and avenues for that purpose as the Commissioner might, think necessary, and having considered of the regula tions as proposed by the Commissioners, .we approved the same, and recommend this Hen. Court to pass the proper order for that purpose in the usual and accestomed mode, and direct the same to be published and issued, and we recommend this Ilon. Court to direct that no market for the sale of fish be held at Billingsgate on Tuesday, the 30th inst. ; end we also recommend the in habitants on the banks of the river and 'otherwise to abstain from the firing of guns upon her Majesty's visit. " In order to render all suitable honour to her Ma jesty upon her visit, we requested the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor to provide himself with a crimson velvet robe, according to eastern; and it bjug the usual time for supplying the sword bearer and common crier with new damask gowns, we directed them to procure the same; and we also dirt ceed the water-bailiff to provide a like gown, it being 12 years since he had a new one. " That the aldermen and sheriffs attend in their scar let gowns; those who have passed the chair in their chains, and all in Court dresses. That we are of opinion, for tha duo and proper reception of her Majesty, she should be received, upon her landing at the Custom house, by the Lord Mayor, Lord Mayor elect, eleven aldermen, and the sheriffs, by the chairman and twelve members of the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committees, under whose superintendence the Coll Exchange bas been erected, and to whom the fitting up of the same for her Majesty's reception has been cc:rift:led by the Court of Common Council, and that her Majesty should be conducted by them into the edifice, and having had a communication with the chairman of that Committee, he concurred therein; and we are of opinion that the alder men, according to seniority, should be selected for the reception of her Majesty on landing, and the remainder of the aldermen be in attendance at the area of the Exchange. "We requested the Lord Mayor to present the sheriffe, the chairman of the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee, the mover and seconder of the address, and the architect, to her Majesty." The Court of Common Council also met yester day specially to receive report on the reference rela tive to her Majesty's visit. The report which was at once adopted by the Court was as follows : To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commoners of the City of London, in Common Coun cil assembled. " We whose names are hereunto subscribed, of your Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee, to whom, on the 16th dsy of October instant, it was referred to carry into execution the recommendations in our report then pre sented, for taking the necessary steps for the due recep tion and accommodation of . her Majesty and suite upon the occasion of opening Use new Coal Exchange, and to report thereon, do certify that we immediately proceeded therein, and requested the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and John Wood, Esq., the chairman of your committee, attended by the Remembrancer, to take measures to obtain the necessary information respecting her Majesty's visit, and on the 19th instant they re ported that they had been honoured with an interview ‘vith hisßoyal liighnessPrince Albert atWindsor Castle, and they had the gratification to communicate the fol lowing as the result:— " That his Royal Highness Prince Albert will accom pany her Majesty; that, with her Majesty's approbation, the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal will also be present. " That the other members of the Royal Family should be invited to attend the ceremony " That her Majesty will attend in state. '• That her Majesty will come to the Coal Exchange by water, and return in the same manner. " That her Majesty will embark at Whitehall at half past twelve o'clock, and arrive at the Custom-houEe Quay at one o'clock. " That the committee should erect a covered way from the landing-place to the entrance of the Coal Exchange. " That her Majesty will return at two o'clock, or es soon after as convenient. _ _ 4" That her Majesty will receive an address from the Corporation at the Coal Exchange. " His Royal Highness Prince Albert suggested that the arrangements generally should, so far as circum stances will permit, be in accordance with those at the opening of the Royal Exchange. " That we your Committee, anxious to carry out the instructions of your Hon. Court with the best possible effect, have met from day to day, and devoted our un ceasing attention to the subject, and we have made arrangements for the reception and entertainment within the Coal Exchange of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince. Albert, who, we feel great satisfaction in stating, will probably be accom panied by the Prince of Wales and Princess Royal, to gether with their Royal Highnesses the Luke and Duchess of . Cambridge, her Majesty's Ministers, the Al foreign uusters, the greet officers of State, and other distinguished guests; as also for the reception and en• tertamment of the memb , , , is of the Court or Aldermen and of this lion. Court and their ladies,—(Cheering.) "That your committee, anticipating that a suitable address would be agreed upon by your Hun. Court to be presented to ht r Majesty upon this auspicious occasion, recommend that in addition to the members of the Court of Aldermen and the members of your committee, a deputation of your Hon. Court should be appointed to unite ia the presentation of the address. "Wo beg further to certify that we shall be enabled to secure extensive accommodation, by the erection of raised seats on the Custom-house quay, and in the line of her Majesty's procession, upon landing from which large numbers of persons may witness her Majesty's ar rival and departure; and your Committee have given directions for the immediate issue of tickets to the seve ral members of your lion. Court with the tickets of ad mission to the Coal Exchange."—(Cheers.) Before separating, the Court, amidst loud cheering, adopted the form of a dutiful and loyal address to be presented to her Majesty on Tuesday. The following will be the order of the procession down the river : PROGRAMME. . s ., The Gig of the Commodore at Woolwich .:. ca To conduct Commodore Henry Eden. Fi' .z 2 Barge of Admiral at the Nore. c Vice-Admiral the Hon. George Elliot, C.B. -. Barge of the Lord Mayor. .j., .o The Queen's State Shallop. C 5 d Her Majesty the Queen. q. ) . His Royal Highness Prince Albert. ... 2 His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. ;-... Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal. To be steered by Capt. Right Hon. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H. The Queen's Shallop. . 5 , -4-., 6 State Officers of the Household. .._ 2.7 _' P 9 The Admiralty Barge. E;5 g g* .SA) a --- el The Lords Commissioners of the cn t, i:. -,. ;,. <CA P 'f.,' Admiralty. The Admiralty Barge. Principal Officers at Somerset-house. The Barge of the Trinity-house. Corporation of the Trinity. • • a r ° l r7i c - • t 7,1 X . 1 •2- P cn --.: ci Ee. t ow • p Other barges. Permission has been given for stationing the fol lowing vessels along the north shore :—Between Whitehall-stairs and klungerford-bridge, three of the Woolwich Steam-boat Company's vessels; five of the London and 'Westminster, and four of the Ant and Bee's Company's vessels betwixt Hungerford- bridge and Waterloo-bridge, and part of the latter below the bridge if room is required. Betwixt 'Waterloo and Blackfriars-bridge the Laurel and Richmond, the Era and Echo, the Vivid and Eclipse, one Waterman, and four Woolwich Steam-boat Company's vessels will be stationed. Betwixt Blackfriurs-bridge and Southwark-bridge, twenty-four of the Citizen and Iron Steani Company's vessels will be stationed, and betwixt Southwark and London-bridge four of the Waterman's Company's vessels. Below London bridge, and opposite the Custom-house, will be stationed the Government lighters in a line across the river, and from that point up to London-bridge, on the south side, will be the City Companies' barges. Lighters are to be moored along the whole line of the river from London-bridge on the south side, and from each vi ill be extended chains to the other to form a cordon extending to a point above Whitehall stairs, and guarded by the Thames police and other boats, that her Majesty's progress may not sufft.r the least interruption. The Fairy and the Elfin steam-vessels, tenders to the royal yacht, are to proceed up the river to morrow to make th e officers and men acquainted with the navigation above the bridges. SU N LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING-, OCTOBER 27, 1849, The Monkey team- ve sel , Master Commander Bryant, towed up the Fly lighter and the Beaver steam-vessel to lrengate-stairs this mornirg to be stationed a: moorings in the river. The Ja=per steam-vessel is to be under the charge of Mr. Follit, and the Advice under Mr. Fogden, and will be stationed below London-bridge. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FILIDAY. His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the younger branches of the Royal Family took their wual early walk this morning. His Royal Highness afterwards went out hunting, attended by General Wemyss and Colonel Seymour. There will be no addition to the royal dinner party this day. Sir James Clark arrived at Windsor Castle this morning. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governors of New Zealand, New South Wales, South Australia, Van Diemen's Land, the Cope of Good Hope, Sierra Leone, and Gibraltar. HEALTH of the QUEEN DOIVAGER. (From the Court Circular.) In the early part of Thursday night her Majesty had some refreshing sleep, but towards morning was greatly exhausted by the violence of her cough, and remains rather more feeble than en Thursday. C: a:i P' made no defence, and the court sentenced Lim to be dis inis,ed from her Majesty's service. Ale has been a gunner for the last twenty 3 - cars, and of late he has been re peatedly found drunk, and warned of the consequences. CHOLERA AND DIARRH(EA ENGLAND AND WALES. The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of Health October 26, 1849 : SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT. Deaths. Cholera. Diarrh, 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 4 1 12 0 2 0 Basford (Bu1well) ••• ••• Bedford... ..• ••• ••• Birmingham ••• Bosmere (Needham Market) Bradford (Cleekheaton) Bridgwater ••• ••• Cheiter-le-Strcet Chorhon (ilulme district) • Outten (Midsummor Norton) Cockrrmouth (Maryport dis ) Dewsbury (Batley) Dudley (Sedgley and Rowley - 2 0 O 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 O 1 O 1 O 1 O 1 1 1 Regis) ... Glantord Brigg (Barrow) ... Glendall (Ford district) ... flundet (llalton and Seacroft) Knaresborough Liverpool ... Mailing (Etta Peckham) Medway (Gillingham) Newbury ... Newcastle-on-Tyne ••• Newton Abbott (Torquay and Chudleigb) Oldham ••• Peterborough ... • • • "'""" ••• ." ••• "-. Itichdale St. Thomas (Alphington) Salford (Pendleton) South Shields (Westee) Stourbridge (Kingavvinford) Tadeaster (Aberford) Tynemouth (larsdon) alsall (Borough) Watford (Bushey) Wigan ... Witney (Fulbrook) • • • ...... • • • ''' ••• ..... ••• ........ Total ... SCOTLAND. Lillislicaf, Selkirk ••• Fanbride Of. Boness ••• ••• Q leensberry (from Oct. 4) Dalmeny (from Sept. 25) ... Cu mbvrnauld- by-Glasgow ... Dundee ••• ••• ••• • • • --. • • • ...... • • . "'". Hawick Pcebles •• • ."....' •1 • ..... Total GENERAL TOTAL. Eny,land and Wales ••• Scotland ••• Total ••• ...." NOTE.--The deaths are returned according to the inish every place separately. superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im• practicable to diAgu The house-to-house visitation of the metropolis having almost ceased, no further returns will be published. CHURCH PATRONAGE. The Whigs are fortunate fellows. Noted since the Revolution of 1688 for the number of their relatives courting promotion in the Church, they are rarely six months in office before some pious prelate, " full of years and good works," is sum moned to exchange a mitre for a celestial crown, leaving behind him sundry crumbs of patronage for the solacing of the nepotistic yearnings of the members of this happy family. Hardly is the Epis copal see of Norwich filled up when a vacancy is created in that of Llandaff, the next fortunate Bishop of which is to have his income quadrupled, upon the understanding that he leave the Deanery of St. Paul's as a delicious morsel for some other hungry son of the Church not yet exalted to the dignity of the lawn, the crozier, and the mitre. The Whigs have not been a very long time in office, and yet they have had the ap pointment of the two Primates—the promotion of Bishops to the sees of Hereford, Chester, Manches ter, Norwich, and we know not how many Sees in Ireland and the Colonies ! Now they have another mitre to dispose of. Is it not time, there fore, that an official announcement were made of the dignity to be conferred upon the Rev. James A.spinall, Rector of Althorpe, in Lincolnshire ? He has rendered the State some service, and his promotion ought not to assume the tardy character which it now appears to wear. Three weeks ago it was reported that he was to be appointed to succeed Dr. Hind, the new Bishop of Norwich, as Dean of Carlisle, but as yet we are I without any well-a u th en ticated information upon the subject. Why not now confer upon him the Bishopric of Carlisle ? He would be just the man to aid the Committee of Privy Council on Education in effectually resisting the unreasonable claims of the Church, and to co•operate with Dr. Kay Shuttleworth in carrying out his plans of National Education. Few Churchmen have done so much for the cause of National Education as ti.c, _Limes Asiainan. His labour Las not been confined to one parish or one locality. Wherever there was ground ready for the recep tion of good seed, he was prepared to sow it, and by so doing to render the Church more popular with the people. The excellent Dean of Ripon is , his only competitor in the north of England, and the Dean's competition is of a comparatively recent date. But while the Dean's position is such as to reflect credit upon those who placed him in it, Mr. Aspinall is all but buried alive in a remote country parish in Lincolnshire. He is a candle placed under a bushel or a bed, instead of an episcopal candlestick, giving light to a nation. The interest of the Church requires the exaltation of such men. There is a sad want of a few really popular bishops— of prelates actually conversant with the real con dition, and capable of manfully sympathising with the sufferings and the wants of the great body of the people. We want practical business men, like the excellent Archbishop of Dublin, for instance, and not mere theologians, or College pedants, more conversant with the niceties of Greek prosody than with the management of industrial schools, the want of baths and washhouses and the duty of providing better dwellings for the labouring classes. Dr. Whately, Arch bishop of Dublin, has done more to reconcile Catholics and Protestants, and to produce una nimity of action in the advancement of popular education, since his appointment to the metropo litan see of Dublin, than all the Irish prelates have done since the days of Dean Swift. The Government may depend upon it that it is pre lates of this stamp that are now required in the Church—men of great popular experience and large popular sympathies. Unless the clergy prove themselves to have feelings in common with the people they will soon begin to lose all hold upon their aflections. And this they cannot do unless they be selected from a different class of persons than those who have hitherto been most fortunate in obtaining preferments in the Church. There is the I Rev. Mr. Paton, in Kent, author of the pamphlet " Education, What it Is, and What it Is Not ;" he would be a most proper clergyman for promotion in the Church. He would make an excellent bishop. But as he is still comparatively a young man, he can gracefully give way to the Rector of Althorpe. Among the great number of honorary cathedral dignities which are daily becoming vacant, we are sorry that none has yet been conferred upon the venerable vicar of Hull, the Rev. J. H. Bromby. We consider that at the hands of the Whigs we have some reason to complain of this. Mr. Bromby has been now for upwards of fifty years the respcctable and the respected vicar of Holy and during all that time he has been faithful to the principles of the great party of Fox, Grey, and Russell. The good vicar has taken too deep root among us to allow us to demand for him any promotion in the Church which would remove him from the old vicarage. All we ask—all we look to Lord Carlisle and A Ir. Baines to obtain for him—is some cathedral dignity which may serve as an official and ecclesiastical recognition of the esti mation in which our rulers hold conduct so consist ent, principles so sound, and a long life so unostenta tiously useful as that of the vicar of Hull. The honours which are conferred upon virtuous old age can lead to no abuse, and, therefore, must reflect credit upon those who bestow them. Though apt now and then to speak hardly of th e Whigs, we are always anxious that they should so distribute the patronage of the Church as to do justice to the claims of virtue, learning, and true religious toleration.—Hull Advertiser. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 25.—TAE ROYAL MARINES.—At the Plymouth division of the Royal Marine; on 'Tues day last, five of the veteran sergeants were presented by the second officer in command, Colonel Ballingale, with the modals which were awarded to them for their meritorious conduct. The Colonel more especially ex patiated on the services of Sergeant Archer, which ex tended over a period of upwards of fifty- one years , th e first six of which were passed in fighting the battles of his country in various parts of the globe, Let more especially on the sands of Egypt, where, w ith t h e b rave Abercrombie, ho well sustained the honour of England. The evening was passed by the veterans in entertaining their fellow-sergeants. The names of th e ve t erans w h o received this substantial mark , of their count r y' s ap proval of their services , were Sergeant-Major Morgan, Sergeants Archer, Yeomans, Wilhes, and Adhins, who nnmber among them upwards of 186 years' service, 155 as non-commissionta officers. E ac h me d a l car ries with it an annuity for lite, ranging from 101. to 201. per annum. ROTTERDAM, OCT. 25.—Prince Lucien Bonaparte arrived here this morning, by the mail steam-ship Ocean, from Lobo. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR S The passage in which the Apostle of the Gentiles has prohibited Sabbath-keeping, may use fully be made the subject of more remarks. How ever an Anglican bishop by his proprio mote may set his foot on the Apostle's claim to know anything about the matter, the pagan Longinus will be found right in his opinion, that Paul of Tarsus, (though like the bishop he abnegated his authority), was a master of his weapons in any cause he undertook. The words of the Apostolic direction, after more accurately rendering one or two not very happily given in the common translation but about which it is apprehended there will be no dispute, are these: " Let no man therefore judge you, in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."—Coloss. ii. 16. Holyday as the common translation has it, gives little or no idea. The Apostle's word is " feast," being the term constantly used in the New Testa ment for Jewish celebrations. And "judging you in respect of a feast," clearly means, "setting up to be judge over you, to decide that such or such is a feast you ought to keep." What then were the Jewish celebrations which came under the title of "feasts" ? . And now to see the clearness of the great Hebrew, who was as much at home in his native religious law, as an Anglican bishop knows little of his own. is there a peasant well-read in the Bible, who does not see that the Apostle had in view the passage in Leviticus,— " The feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. " Six days shall work be done : but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy conkiocation ; ye shall do no work therein : it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. " These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy con vocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. [The others, mark, were things of constant occurrence, and therefore did not want " proclaiming in their seasons."] " In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's passover. " And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread" [and so goes on to enumerate other feasts and their regulations.]—Lev. xxiii. 2 to 6. It is difficult to know what an Apostle, or a Council, or an Article in a Creed, could do to say more dis tinctly, that sabbath-keeping, along with the observa tion of meats and of new moons, was struck out of the roll of Christian observances. It is undeniable that the Apostles, in some way or other, found themselves' possessed of great power in the way of countermanding Jewish observances. With this it is not our business to cavil • for, but for this, we should have been suh'ected at this hour to the most onerous of Jewish rites. The presumption must be that they were ordered for particular families or parti cular races. Circumcision is three times over declared to be " an everlasting covenant ;" (Gen. xvii. 7, 13, 19) and yet, principally or entirely through the inter ference of the despised Apostle, we are not circum cised. The Passover, the feast of Unleavened Bread, the sprinkling the door-posts with blood, the offering of first fruits, the feast of Pentecost, the day of Atone ment, the feast of Tabernacles, are each severally declared to be statutes for ever. And yet we keep none of them, simply upon the strength of the dis pensing power of St. Paul. These we are to be al lowed to dispense with on the Apostle's authority; but the other we shall not; and it shall be put back into the oiderly-book because it suits the purposes of priestly domination which St. Paul repudiated, and we shall be abused and black-guarded (I purposely use the gross term, as the only one that is descriptive) if we presume to resist the sacerdotal falsehood of our own day, as our fathers did in theirs. Fancy now, that at the period when some bold and good man took to pieces at St. Paul's-Cross the image which goggled with its eyes, and showed the multi tude how the whole was a sacerdotal fraud, dependent on springs and wheels which he handed about among the crowd,—fancy that a morning paper of that day, if there had only been such a thing in existence, had published a letter to the Lord John Russell of the hour, beginning "My Lord,—Are you a Christian or an infidel ? Do you or do you not believe that the Church has power to make images which can goggle with their eyes ?" Or suppose it had taken this other form, "My Lord,—Are you a Christian or an infidel ? Do you or do you not believe that the Bible gives authority to the Pope to depose kings ?" Or suppose it had been this third—" My Lord,—Are you a Christian or an infidel ? Do you or do you not believe that the Bible authorises the Church to sell the forgiveness of sins for money ?" Had any of these half insolent and half insane addresses been directed to the Premier of our bluff Elizabeth, I leave it to admirers of ancestral virtues, to paint as their imaginations may suggest, the cool concentrated scorn with which the fling of the feeble animal would have been received, and retorted only by more vigorous action agailist the clumsy fraud. But the Lord John Russells of all times must take care of themselves; and whether they do or not, the matter cannot stop where it is. Every grown man in the country has been insulted, who feels himself capable of resisting an impostor who presents himself with a falsehood in his hand and claims obeisance to it. If lords and gentlemen cannot be roused to face the ecclesiastical hobgoblin, the uppcal must be to the peasantry who have the Bible in their hands, and to those working classes universally whom one object of the falsehood is to mislead and keep in sub- jection. Point, then, to the powerful religious establishments in England and in Scotland,—Church, Dissenters, Methodists, and all,—and cry aloud to all those millions who have got one eye open to the necessity of political and religious improvement, and say to them, " See what these establishments are for, and what they do. Weigh them, as your fathers did, by the honesty with which they can quote to you what they maintain to be the written rule. Have not you tha Bible, as your fathers had not at the time of the Reformation ? If they tell you the truth, give them credit for it. If they are found lying pro phets, then see what the machinery is for." If in this there is anything too severe, the leaders of the Church, the Dissenters, and the Methodists, have the power to turn it into good, by coming forward like honest men and of a good courage, to avow and support the truth. Why does not the calm and dignified Primate it was my good hap to listen to only a few weeks ago, summon his wandering younger brother and the schismatic priests and dea cons who have had the hardihood to present them selves to Lord John Russell with a heresy, to answer for it to the Canons and printed Ordinances of the Church of England ? Is the Church of England a mouse-trap, that allows free passage one way, and only snaps up those who would go the other ? Why do not the honest men among the Dissenters and Methodists, of whom there are many, avow the truth as Watts and Wesley would have done if the book of Scripture had been laid before them and they had been charged to tell us what was there and what was not ? And how long will the Scotch people, so ready to take to the hills again if any attempt were made to make them acknowledge that the Pope's right to depose kings was proved by Scripture, allow themselves to be made the active tools of a grosser and more palpable falsehood than ever their fathers contended against, because enforced in the face of positive words in the Scriptures appealed to, whereas in the other case it was nowhere written in precise words that the Pope had no such right. So, however, the case stands. On which, in con clusion, it remains only to say, that however the Nebuchadnezzar of a false religion may rage and frown, and whether political leaders may think it worth while to stand by them or not, there are still those who have no answer to make to the mendacious tyranny, but " Be it known to thee, 0 king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou halt set up." ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL OBSERV ANCE PROHIBITED TO CHRISTIANS. POEMS BY JOHNSON BARKER.-11U11 : J. Nicholson, 48, Lowgate.—There is a peculiar fitness in the youthful writer of these poems dedicating his elegant little work to Eliza Cook. Intensely admiring the spirit, and not incapable of appreciating the genius of her heart-thrilling lays, he lays at her feet, as the most precious offering within his reach, the first-fruits of his own ardent thoughts. We are not disposed to criticise Mr. Barker's productions. It is no slight praise to so young a man to say that they have few prominent faults. Let him cul tivate his acquaintance with the muses, which, indeed, if his nature is that of a true poet, he must do by inevitable necessity, and he may yet distinguish himself in the classic region on which he has now not inauspiciously entered.—Hull Advertiser. LAYING OF THE FIRST STONE OF THE NEW BIL LINGSGATE MARKET. The first stone of the new Billingsgate Market was yesterday laid in the presence of a great multitude, by Mr. Peed, chairman of the Mar kets' Committe, and very popular member of the Court of Common Council, with the usual ceremonies. The stone bore upon it two steel plates, upon one of which were engraven the date and occasion of laying the stone, and upon the other the names of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, of the committee, of Mr. Bunning, the architect, and of Mr. Jay, the builder. The chairman used a splendid silver trowel; an appropriate prayer was delivered -by the Rev. Mr. Crosthwaite, rector of St. Mary's-at-Hill, a speech was delivered by the chairman, and the National Anthem was sung by the ward school children. Three cheers were then, at the suggestion of the comptroller, given for the Queen, three cheers for the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London, and three cheers for the success of the new market, immediately after which the ceremony concluded. NINEVITE ANTIQUITIES.—ne recent arrival of several packages of marbles, by the vessel La Belle Al -1 ance from Bombay, consisting of specimens illustrative of history, which originally formed part o f the ruins of Nineveh, were not ou this occasion brought for the pur. pose of deposit in the national receptacle for such articles, but were imported for Sir J. Guest, being the private property of that gentleman, and intended to form part of his private collection. BERMONDSEY MURDER. TRIAL OF THE MANNINGS. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. BALLANTINE, at a few minutes before two, rose to address the jury on behalf of Mrs. Manning. He asked them to dismiss from their minds the many reports they bad heard with respect to the charge against the female. In the course of this case, they must have been sur prised that many of the statements that had appeared in the newspapers were not brought before them. They must be, therefore, of opinion that many of those statements were far from realities. He asked them to dismiss from their minds all the calumnies they had heard uttered with respect to his client—calumnies fostered, too, and published by one who was bound to protect her. The course pursued by his Learned Friend was unparalleled in the annals of proceedings of this kind. He had, in the presence of his unfortunate client, denounced her, and accused her of the crime with which she was charged. The terms he had used were far too coarse and strong. He, however, put this construction upon the course lie had pursued —that the course, his judgment told him, was necessary, and that that course was opposed to his o wn better feelings. He believed he had erred in his judgment. He would rather never appear in that court again, and seek some other but more honourable and honest toil, than have uttered such calumnies against a person who stood there on a tried fur her life, and who also might shortly be led to the scaffold and ushered into the presence of her Maker. The course of his Learned Friend contrasted much with the temperate opening of the Learned Attorney- General, who had most creditably come for ward to prosecute on behalf of the Crown. And he trusted the Learned Attorney-General, when he sat down, would not think it necessary to offer, as was his right, any further observations, and that he would agree with him that the unfortunate woman at the bar had had enough of counsel's re marks. He would not appeal to their passions, but state such facts as he believed wculd snatch the female from the fate which seemed now to threaten her. It was difficult to determine what were accessorial acts between a man and his wife, as their relations differed much from ordinary cases. Unless they were of opinion that the woman was present at the murder they could not find her guilty. The prosecution had led the jury into a dilemma as to the exact period of the murder. Her connexion with O'Connor, her fall from virtue to vice, should not prejudice her, as that might have arisen from other motives than that which would lead to the commission of murder. O'Connor was a man past the middle age, and likely to have yielded much to the wishes of the woman, whatever they were, as it was but natural to suppose that he was very fond of her. She was constantly with Mr. O'Connor, and much away from her husband. A bedroom, some months ago, was fitted up in the house of the Misses Armes, showing that the house was not let out for any improper purpose. This showed that she was on intimate terms with O'Connor, and that she had no motive to the murder. Indeed, if she required money, she would have gone into a wealthy keeping, to use a common and well-understood expression. She must either be a most abandoned and wicked woman, or else one of the most kindly feelings. Then there was the fact that O'Connor was seen twice on London-bridge, the first time about five, and again at half-past five, as if waver ing whether he should go or not to Minver-place. The dinner hour of the Mannings was about five, and most likely it was before half-past five ; and. the female prisoner finding that O'Connor did not come, was it not very probable that she left the house with the intention of going to the residence of O'Connor? The Misses Armes were not likely to speak very favourably of a lady coming to their house under the circumstances. She used to visit O'Connor. Now they stated she reached his lodgings at a quarter before six, and left at a quarter to seven. The distance had not been measured, but it,jiad been proved that it was three miles. Both cabs and omnibuses, in consequence of the obstruction in the thoroughfare, would take a good deal of time to go. It was, therefore, probable that she walked, and to do so she must have left Minver- place at five, so that if the murder was com mitted at half-past five Mrs. Manning could not have been present at its commission. This was an im portant matter for the jury to consider, for upon it hung • the life or death of the accused. He was prepared to contend that the mur der was committed at half-past five. Then arose out of this these questions :—Was O'Connor murdered when she was absent, or after she came back ? or was it probable that the murder was com mitted at a quarter-past seven o'clock, at the time Meaning was seen smoking on the wall ? His conduct, however, was inconsistent, with O'Connor being alone in the house as his guest at the time. The presumption was, that he was in the house long before. Before she went out she might have been a guilty accessory to a murder which was to be com mitted. Was she really an accessory before the fact ? He suggested to &L.m oongdontly that .ha was not. The shattered head of the murdered man, and indeed the whole violence connected with the murder, were more the acts of a man than of a woman. He asked them if the story of Manning, when taken into custody, was true. It Ras, to his mind, most improbable. Even if it were true, the act of shooting was proved not to have caused the death of O'Connor. A man who was at home when the intended victim called, when he must have been murdered, and who was there for a long time after, was doubtless the murderer. There were three points upon which he felt it necessary to remark relied upon by the Crown, as showing that the woman was an accessory before the fact namely, the evidence with respect to the crowbar, the lime, and the shovel. The shovel was an ordinary dust or coal shovel, and it was absurd to suppose that a hole could be dug with it. Therefore, he believed the purchase of the shovel rather favourable to the accused than otherwise. Why, if she required to dig a hole, which could have been better done in :the garden than in the back kitchen, it would have been as easy to have purchased a spade. Being about her usual household affairs in the , purchase of a shovel on the day before the murder was inconsistent with the fact that she was then con templating the murder. It would be for them to say whether the lime was purchased for the destruction of the slugs in the garden, or for aiding in the murder. The boy who took the lime, and called the next day for some halfpence for doing so, would not swear positively that the money was paid by the female prsoner. It might have been given to him by the charwoman. Then, with respect to the crow bar, which was falsely called, as it was in reality a chisel, commonly known as a ripping -chisel, why; it was a common thing for persons to say, when about to make a purchase, " I shall send so and so home;" and he might have said "I shall send a chisel home for some work I have to do." Then Manning stopped the man who was carrying it, and had it wrapped in paper, and being wrapped in paper Mrs. Manning might be utterly ignorant of what the parcel contained; and the most innocent person might say that the charge was too high. How often did a person, when he went out in the morning, say to his wife or to his servant, "I shall send a parcel home—will you pay half-a-crown, or some definite sum for it ?" A husband had no right to shield his wife from the consequences of a murder which she had committed, but in this case the husband had thrown all the blame upon the wife. And when taken into custody, after he had had time to consider the course he should take, the first thing he did, like a low poltroon, was to accuse his wife in order to save himself. Then the spots of blood upon the dress were proved to be ironmolds and not marks of blood. It was true there were marks of blood on the toilet cover, but there were a hundred ways of accounting for blood upon such an article which they could account for. The stains of blood they would find were inside and not outside the dress, which doubtless arose from natural causes. He felt no delicacy in stating this, notwithstanding the fe male listeners, who were mere spectators, and had no further interest in the case, the important nature of which compelled him to be thus explicit. Indeed, wherever a murder was committed, if toilet covers and linen were carefully examined blood might easily be discovered. Before the murder took place there were the conversations as to the influence of laudanum and chloroform, and the most tender part of the skull, and the purchase of the crowbar and lime by Manning, for he threw the shovel overboard altogether ; and then theyfound Mrs. Manning writing a letter to O'Connor on the day before the murder, inviting him to owner. Now was it not possible that Manning, d esirous to impli cate his wife in the murder, got her to write the letter of invitation , s o that no handwriting of his s h o uld be found on the body, and !night he not al so h av e placed her in a position to take in the crowbar for the same end? Her statement to Walsh when he ca ll e d, that she had invited O'Connor to dinner the day before and that he had not come, and her cool ness and absence from all gu il e, s h owe d gu il t l essnes ; and when Connor became faint, and she bathed his head with eau de Cologne, did it not show that she was the most unlieely person to have committed the murder ? by she would have recoiled from the man whose murder she had determined upon. The most abandoned and callous woman—the woman who was the common prostitute of several men—nay, the most abandoned woman that obtained a wretched subsistence in the streets, could not act in this way if she had contemplated a foul and awful murder. When Mrs. Manning called at the deceased's house on the evening of the murder she was observed to look pale. Suppose she knew the murder was about its commission, and that she should find the friend of her youth, the friend who had assisted her in her business affairs, a corpse when she went back, it was natural that she should look pale ; but they ought not to convict her upon such testimony. The next evening, when she came again, and might have known of the murder, she was said to have trembled. If so it only tended to show that she was an accessory after the tact. During the absence of the wife the husband might have committed the murder in consequence of a quarrel with the de ceased about his wife; and she, on her return, learn ing from her husband the dead that had been com mitted, and knowing the nature of her connexion with O'Connor, and that disgrace would attach to her, fled in fear. Mrs. Manning had lived in the service of Lady Blantyre and other familie s o f dis- tinction, and lad no doubt saved some money, and hence the conversation with O'Connor about invest ing a small sum of money in Sambre and Meuse shares, which she wished to possess without the knowledge of her husband. Shortly before the murder they found O'Connor purchasing Sambre and Meuse and Amiens and Boulogne ; and it was not unreasonable to suppose that the shares were purchased with her money ; also, that other shares had been purchased with her money by O'Connor, depending on him, and not being able to depend upon her husband; and that, in fact, the shares she took were her property. That a person, when told of the murder, as he suggested Mrs. Manning was told, would rush into the streets and at once betray her husband, or do her best to screen him, depended upon the tempera ment of the person placed in such a position. Was it not natural that a woman like her would leave her husband as soon as she could, and it was but natural that she should at once proceed to O'Connor's lodgings and obtain her property? And it was shown that she had taken nothing but shares - or she might have gone to see if there was the will of which they had heard something, and that O'Cononor in tended to leave her his property. The money re ceived by Manning might have been banded to her by him, in order that she might leave town and meet him elsewhere, and return it to him. Then they found her changing her name and seeking to sink into obscurity. Admitting that there were some facts, not, however, clear, that she knew of the intent to murder, yet the balance of facts tended the other way. The Learned Counsel concluded an elo quent speech, at four o'clock, by imploring the jury to weigh all the facts, and to give the prisoner the benefit of any circumstance or doubt that might suggest themselves to them. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL rose to reply. Mr. BALLANTINE rose and objected to the Attorney- General replying. Mr. PARItY said Mr. Bodkin, who often represented the Crown, did not reply in such cases. The CHIEF Baaori said the Attorney General at tended in his public capacity, and had the right of reply. Did Mr. Parry object to the right of the Attorney General? Mr. PARRY said he did. The CHIEF BARON said he could not let him raise the point, it was too late. Mr. PARRY appealed to the Attorney-General not to avail himself of his right in this case, where the lives of two persons were concerned. His Learned Friend and himself had to compete against the great odds of two of the ablest Counsel at the bar. The ATTORNEY. GENERAL then replied, and said his great and paramount object was to evenly hold the scales in order that the two prisoners at the bar might have the fullest justice accorded to them. He called upon them to dismiss from their minds all pre judice, and particularly some of the erroneous statements which the two advocates of the prisoners had thought, proper to introduce in their laudable zeal to their clients. It was admitted by both that the murder was committed on the 9th of August, and it was committed and carried out under such circumstances that it was altogether im possible that one person could have done the whole. It was evident that more than one must have been engaged in its perpetration, It was argued on the other side that the male pri soner had known nothing of the murder, but on arriving at a conclusion upon that point the jury must couple the statements of the prisoners with the evidence itself. The woman had stated that finding that O'Connor had not come to dinner, the went to Greenwood-street to see for him, Now it had been proved that Manning was seen somking on the garden wall till seven, when he jumped down. Was it not reasonable to suppose then that the female had returned from her search vt ith the deceased, and that some signal was given to Manning when he left the wall to go and dress. Besides it had been proved that Manning was in negotiation with Bainbridge for the sale of his furniture some days before the murder, so that it was not unreasonable to suppose that he was even then contemplating a flight. He presumed, therefore, that the mur der had not been committed when the woman went to Greenwood-street on the Thursday, but there was a very important piece of evidence which had not been touched upon by the defence. The jury would remember that when Keating called upon Mrs. Manning on the 12th, she said it was very strange O'Connor had not been there, as he was to have dined there on Thursday. Keating said he had been aeon on London-bridge that evening by two friends, but mentioned no names. On the 13th, when Flynn called, she said it was very strange, for O'Connor had been seen on London-bridge by Keating and a friend. Now who told her that it was Keating? Certainly not Keating himself. Why, then, was it not natural to suppose that O'Connor himself had told her. He insisted that the evidence was conclusive against both prisoners, and he should sit down in full confidence that the jury would think so to. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then summed up, re marking that the Attorney-General, in his opening address, had properly and rightly explained the law. That definition of the law was also acquiesced in by both the Learned Counsel who appeared for the de fence, and he therefore need not trouble the jury upon that point. The questions they had to decide was, first, whether the deceased came by his death from violence, and secondly, whether either or both priso ners inflicted it. Whether both committed the act, or only one of them, did not much matter, if the jury thought there had been any previous connivance between them. If they did, then the two prisoners were both equally guilty although only one of them inflicted the violence on the deceased ; but if they thought the act was committed by one, without the knowledge or concurrence of the other, then their verdict must only be against that one. There could hardly be a doubt that the death of the deceased resulted from violence ; but if the jury thought that neither of the prisoners had anything to do with it, he need hardly say that they must acquit them both. In deciding who it was that inflicted the violence, the jury must not be guided by minute circumstances, they must look rather at the direct evidence which bore upon the case ; they must, therefore, not place too much stress on the evidence of the medical student, as there were some circumstances of a more im portant character, and it would better become them to consider. He would not go through the evidence in detail, as that had been done by the Learned Counsel who had defended the prisoners; but he should content himself by directing their attention to some of the chief circumstances which it disclosed. The male prisoner had admitted that he was present when the woman fired a pistol against the deceased, and as against him that was conclusive. There could be no doubt, after that, he was present. The next point then for them to consider was, whether , or not he was aware beforehand that the woman in tended to commit the act, and to enable them to arrive at a correct conclusion they must look at the evidence of Massey and Bainbridge relative to the intention of the prisoner to leave his house and sell his furniture. If they thought those circumstances indicated that the murder was contemplated, then it would be their duty to convict him. With regard to the act itself, there was only direct evidence that the deceased was found dead in the prisoner's house; the other evidence was purely of a circumstantial cha racter. The deceased was last seen alive on Thursday afternoon, the 9;1 of August, and the evidence which they had to consider related chieily to pro ceedings occurring subsequently to that event, such as the female prisoner's entering the deceased's lodgings, and his box, though locked, being afterwards found empty of anything valuable, the sale of shares which were known belonged to the deceased, and the flight and confessions of the prisoners. It would be their duty to well weigh all the evidence as men of the world, and if, after looking at it in a common-sense point of view, it established the conclusion that the prisoners concocted and carried out, either singly with the connivance of the other, or together, a scheme to commit this murder, then they must find them guilty accordingly. It was their province, as men of sense and solid justice, to consider all the cir cumstances which the evidence disclosed, and to de cide whether it was within the scope of human events that this murder could have been committed by one prisoner without the knowledge of the other. Should they think that were possible, then they must acquit the one and convict the other; but if, on the other hand, they did not believe it was, then they must find them both guilty. With these observations be dismissed them to consider their verdict, with the hope, and in the full conviction, whatever it might be, it would be founded in justice and truth. The jury then retired. Upon their return, the prisoners, who in the mean time had bcn removed, were again placed in the dock, when the roar and buzz of conversation which bad previously prevailed at once ceased, and the court became hushed and still. The Jury having answered to their names, The Clerk of the Arraigns said—Gentlemen of the NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MALTA, OCT. 20. DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON. In Malta Harbour—The Ceylon, receiving ship, bear leg the flag of Rear-Admiral Edward Harvey; the Thetis, 36, Captain H. Codrington; and the Spitfire steamer, in ordinary. On a Cruise—The Caledonia, 120, Captain T. W. Carter, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, Bart., G.C.8., the Commander-in• Chief; the Howe, 120, Captain Sir J. Stirling, Knt.; the Queen, 110, Captain C. Wise; the Powerful, 84, Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas; the Vengeance, 84, Captain the Right Hon. the Earl of Hardwicke; the Prince Regent, 92, Captain Martin; the Racer, Captain C. W. Beddoes; the Frolic, Captain N. Vansittart. Steamers—The Odin, Captain the Hon. F. T. Pelham; the Porcupine, Lieutenant E. F. Roberts; the Bulldog, Commander Ivey; the Rosamond, Commander Foote; the Sharpshooter, Lieutenant-Com mander Bailey ; the Dragon, Captain W. H. Hall; the Oberon, Lieutenant Gardiner; and the Locust, tender to the Antelope, Lieutenant F. Sinyth. On Surveying Duty—The Volage, 6, surveying-ship, Captain Thomas Graves; the Auxiliary cutter, Lieu tenant G. W. Geary; and the Research cutter, Lieutenant Lord John Browne, both tenders to the Volage. At Gibraltar—The Jitnus steamer, Lieut. Powell. At Constantinople—The Tartarus, Commander Sir G. Webster. At Venice—The Ardent, Lieutengnt Nowell. E❑ route from Malta to Alexandria, thence to cruise, ;he Growler, Commander Stedlart. MAIL STEAX PACKETS. At Malta—Tl:3l4ina, Lieutenant A. Darby; the Antelope, Lieutenant F. Smyth. En route to Marseilles from Malta, the Merlin, Lieu tenant J. IL Turner. En r, , ute from Malta to the lonian Islands and Greece, the Triton, Lieutenant C. J. P. Glinn. En route to Malta from Alexandria, the Medusa, Lieutenant Bathurst. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM- PAN Y ' S FLOTILLA. At Southampton—The Paella, Ripon ; Indus, Queen, and Euxine. En route from Southampton to Malta, the Erin, En route from Constantinople and Black Sea to Malta, ;he Sultan. At Constantinople—The Tagus. At Malta—ThO Ilindostan. 'UNITED STATES SQUADRON. On a Cruise—The United States steam-frigate, Mis sissippi, bearing the flag of Commodore Charles W. Morgan; the Constitution frigate, Lieutenant J. S. Rowan (acting); the Jamestown corvette, Commander Mercer; the Independence and Cumberland. FOREIGN SHIPS OF WAR AND PACKETS IN PORT• The yachts Peterel, Nautilus, Firaiy, and Sapphire; .he lonian Government steamer Eptanisos. THE COAST OF AFRICA. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 26 —The Dolphin brigantine, Lieutenant the Hon. B. F. Boyle, commander, arrived in the night from the above station. Having experienced calms, light airs, and other drawbacks, she has not made a quick passage. She left Ascension on the 3d ult., and Sierra Leone on the 15th. Both places were remarkably healthy. The Commodore was between Loando and St. Helena, in the Centaur steam-!rigate. The slave trade was us brisk as ever. The Dolphin has made five prizes during the time she has been on the station, mostly well freighted with slaves, of whom she has liberated 1,500 in about 18 months. The trade appears very active in the Por tuguese dominions between Benguela and Loando, off wltch place the Cygnet had captured two vessels in July last. The Spy brigantine had taken a small felucca, which had made two successful runs lately. Tho Dolphin's boats chased a large three-masted steam slaver, on the 20th of August, between Loando and Benguela, on the south coast, but unsuccessfully. The Britomart captured a fine fore-and-aft schooner off Mayumba, in July. The trade appears rather slack in the Bights of Benin, no captures having been made there lately. The chiefs at the Geniuses were going to give up 3,000 slaves to Commander Dunlop, of the Alert sloop. The Pluto steamer, and Waterwitch brig, had gone rrow the au ! . to the south coast—the latter taking Mr. Duncan, Vice. Consul, to Whydah. She had driven ashore a fine slaver in July last off the Gellinas. The Britomart was at Loando on the 20th of September, superintending the repairs of the Snap tender. The Firefly steamer was also there at the same date. The Britomart will be the next ship home from the station. The Sealark had taken an empty schooner in July, close to the place where the Cygnet made her prizes. The Phosnix screw schooner, on her passage from England to the station, had made prize of a Portuguese schooner off the Cape Verds, bound from Trieste to Pernambuco, on suspicion of being intended for, or engaged in, the slave trade, which has made a great stir, and is expected to lead to troublesome consequences. Commander Wodehouse sent her to the Cape of Good Hope for adjudication. The Cyclops steam , frigate was going to the south coast as senior officer's ship. The piratical slaver which beat off the boats of the Ale: and killed their officer and some of the crew, some time since, had not been cap tured by the Commodore, as has been reported from the coast by previous ad vices. There was not a single slave in the slave-yard at Sierra Leone, where emigrants were very much wished for. The Dolphin is ordered to the enstA rad, to be paid off. She is in admirable order, and has proved herself of the best class of sailing-vessels for the slave-cruhing service. Wind—W., fresh breezes, with showers. The accounts yesterday of the health of the Admiral of the Fleet are still unfavourable, and little hopes are entertained of the venerable and gallant officer's recovery. The LeLnder, 50, Captain Dacres, received a portion of her heavy armament at Portsmouth this morning, namely, her main deck guns; their weight, exclusive of their carriages, is about 85 tons; it only brought this lice ship down three inches deeper in the water. She has a magnificent main deck, and her guns appear to occupy a very small space on it, although of such heavy calibre. The following will be her armament:— Main deck... 8 guns 68 pounders or 8 inch. 9 ft. 65 cwt. /2 20 guns 32 pounders 9 ft. 6 inch. 56 cwt. Quarterdeck 4 guns 68 pounders 8 ft. 6 inch. 65 cwt. 12 guns 32 pounders 8 ft. 45 cwt. 22 Forecastle ... 6 guns 32 pounders 8 ft. 45 cwt. Total 5O guns 12 68 pounders. 91 38 32 pounders. Exclusive of boats' howitzers. With these guns she has still plenty of spare room for a heavy pivot abaft, though the four 68-pounder guns on the quarter-deck can be shifted if required, two to the stern and two to the bow, and fired in a line with the keel. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 25.—Her Majesty's brig Wolverine arrived from Portsmonth on Monday. She will require to be caulked before sailing with the November mails for the coast of Africa. Her Majesty's steam-frigate Stromboli came in on Tuesday, from Portsmouth. The Devon lighter is ordered to take in stores for Portsmouth. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Spiteful went on Tuesday from Hanioaze into Barnpool, to have her compasses adjusted. The jurymasts of the Octavio frigate have been taken out, and she is now alongside the jetty for the purpose of being fitted as an advance ship. The masts of the St. George, 120, are ordered to be taken out and sent into the yard. Orders have been received from the Admiralty that all seamen riggers employed not inore than eighteen months in the Deveaport yard are to be discharged on Saturday. The Constance, 50, Captain G. W. C, Courtenay, from the Pacific station, which is to be paid off hero on her aarival, is to have none of her fitments removed. The Sccut, 14, is to be taken into dock, to have her defects made good. The Octavia, 50, is to be.put into ordinary. The Salamander, 6, sloop, is to be a first-class steamer. The Ganges, 84, Capt. Smith, C. 8., and the Conflict, 8, steam-sloop, now refitting, will be complete by the 27th inst. The Spiteful ; 6, Commander Carmichael, has com pleted her fitment, and so has the Seagull, 6, steamer, Lieut. J. Srnail. CHATHAM, OCT. 26.—The Magicienne steam-sloop, ordered for this port to be fitted for commission, is to have a complement of 200 officers and men, including marines. The Tiger steam-vessel, building, and the Horatio, fitting for a screw guard-ship of 350-horse power, are both being basted, in order that when finished they may be undocked and taken to the engineers to have their machinery fitted. The Tiger is to have . a complement of 200 men including officers. The Pigmy stem vessel, which has been for some time doing harbour duty at this port, is ordered to be sent to Woolwich, and the Adder steamer at that port is to be transferred to Chatham for harbour duty. A general court-martial was held at Sheerness, on board the Ocean, en the 24th instant, of which Captain D. Price, of the Wellington, was president; and Captain P. Richards, Poictiers; Captain Elliot, Ocean; Commander Gordon, Wellington; and Commander Cammiiieri, of the Poiciers, were members, for the trial of Daniel Donovan, a gunner, from the ship Latona, 42, lying at Chatham. The charge, which was for being drunk on board on the sth inst., was preferred by Lieutenant James Carter. There were twe witnesses exiimiried , The pris9uer Lure, le of watt was eased there the