The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-31 00:00:00

E/birtif 92tittton THE FUNDS—(CLOSING PRICES) BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock - 'lndia 5t0ck,.............. 8 per Cent Red. Ditto Bonds ..: ..... ....... 11 pm e per Cent Cons 894 \ Ditto Old Annuities ... 34 per`Cent Red.. — Ditte New Annuities... New 34 per Cent New 5 per. Cent. — Ditto 5001.... 3O pis Long Annuities toexpire • Ditto Small 29 pin Jan. 1860 ..... ..... Bank Stock for 0pen...169 3 / 4 Oct 1859. .., ..... India Stock for Acct.... 241 Jan. 1860. .. .. :.. . 124 Consols for Acct......... 90 FO REIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... IPortuguese ' 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pei cent — Ditto, t New Ditt0......... 354 Brazilian 80nd5.... — (Prussian, 5 per cent.... Buenos Ayres 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent...... Chilian, 6 per cent — 'Ditto, Meta11ic........... — Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 244 Ditto, 1824.......... ..... 27 Ditto, Deferred.... Danish, 3 per cent — French, sps cent. —I. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange f ...e. \ Mexican, 5 per cent.... 421 French, 3 per cent. —..'. ...., c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 114 Dutch, 2i per cent. .. . 52 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .., . 1024 SHARES. Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92 • London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham ( 90 ) .. . . .. 175 London and South Western London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l3 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... .. Ditto New Shares (30 paid) 35 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 44 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (40 paid) North Midland Railway (100) Ditto New Shares (40 paid 344 York and North Midland (50 paid) ... . ..... 9 44 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The position of Sir Robert Peel, as head of the Government, is at the present mo ment the most humiliating that can be predicated of a Prime Minister. The grand panacea which he engaged to furnish for the . financial embar rassments of the Exchequer and the deep com mercial distress of the country, and which he took several months to concoct—so pressing was the danger, and so imperative the necessity for consideration and skill in the practitioner—has been received with chagrin by his own party, and with decided opposition by the country. Day after day arrives; but, instead of bringing any inti mation of subdued feelings of dislike on the part of the opponents of Government, or any newly-kindled sentiments of approval from those who profess to be ifavourable to its continuance in office, each new day opens with the horizon of public opinion still clouded. Every token of an approaching storm with which the sunset marks the sun's arise. The Times refuses to utter a single sentence in approbation of the obnoxious tax. The Herald makes no sign of coming to the rescue of the Premier from the threatened demolition of his projected impost. The Post alone evinces any sympathy with the Minister in this the season of his difficulty. But the support derived from this quarter is rather damaging than beneficial to the measure. The only consolation to the Right Hon. Baronet, which breathes through the columns of the sympathizing organ, is derived from the " majority" in the Commons, wh ch the landlords have supplied to him for their own purposes. In other words, let not the Premier be perplexed and dispirited by the coldness of friends and the opposition of the enemies—let him.- not suffer his courage to cool, nor his purpose to fail—there is a ma jority in the House sufficiently devoted to his pleasure to enable him to pass whatever he thinks proper to propose : he may therefore safely enjoin silence on his colleagues, lest they expose themselves by manifesting their ignorance ; and, leaving the debate in the hands of the Opposition, calmly wait for the division. This may be pru dent, but it is insolent, and will at no distant pe riod provoke retaliation, against which the pha lanx provided by the landowners will be unable to protect the Minister. Even the journal which ad ministers the cordial, infuses ingredients into the cup of most bitter qualities, which do not merely neutralise the sweetness of the flattering sugges tions, but absolutely overpower their effect. The Post admits that the Bill cannot pass in the form announced by the Premier in the elaborate :•.eech by which he introduced the resolutions : It must be altered—modified, improved. This is faint praise —questionable support, considering the quarter whence it emanates, and that, of the entire morning press in the interest of Govern ment, the Post is the only journal which has uttered a single sentence in aid of the Premier's scheme: - STANDARD.—We have already shown that the pretence of rude intrusion by public officers is perfectly false, and now we add, .equally false is it to say, as the Globe says, that " the officers appointed under the law will have authority to inspect any man's ledger." Every man's ledger, and every man's house, will be sacred from in spection or intrusion, and the only case in which the privacy of the ledger can be violated is that in which the owner himself shall produce it in a defence against the charge of the surveyor, be fore a private tribunal sworn to secresy. But such cases were very rare under the old income tax, and they will be'still more rare under that which is proposed. To make a false return for the saving of 3 per cent. is much less proba ble than the making a false return for the Saving of 10 per cent. If a man acknowledged any income, he could scarcely venture to re duce it more than 1001. per annum below the truth under any circumstances; but as this would save him no more than 3/., he would hardly incur the inconvenience and eclat . of a surcharge for that sum, though he might to save 101.; but what can seldom happen, will be even less frequently suspected, and except . in ex tremely'flagrant cases no surcharge will be heard of. We do not say that the millowners of 1842 may not act as Mr. Charles Buller says the mil!owners of 1816 acted, but are we to have them brought forward as objects of public sympathy. These gentlemen boast to have realised more than the whole landed capital of the United Kingdom in about 25 years—that is, according to Mr. Macqueen's c al cu l at i on, 1,900,000,000, or, in round numbers, two thousand millions, being at the rate of eighty millions a year. This, questionless, looks like exaggeration; but mark, if it be exaggeration, it is not ours, but the exaggeration of the millowners them selves, and whatever it is there must be some foundation for it. Whether the millowners realise eighty millions, or eight millions, or the tenth part of the latter sum in each year, surely they ought to contribute some part of it to the public service; and we can imagine no means of reaching ''any part of it but an income tax—no means of ensuring an income tax which must not involve the necessity of bringing per verse and dishonest men occasionally to book. Such men only, however, will give occasion for surcharges or inquiry. We repeat it, that the incomes of 999 out of every thousand men—indeed, we may say, of all honest men—are as well known within a few pounds to their neighbours as to themselves. They will give no trouble and will be subjected to none. ALARMING STEAM-BOAT COLLISION. On Tuesday evening, about eight o'clock, there was a eollision of two steam-vessels, and the screams and shouts of the passengers were distinctly heard on all is of the river near Greenwich, and a number of •is were rowed towards the spot, when it was ascer twined that the Nymph, belonging to the old Woolwich Company, bad run into the Aurora, a Richmond steam - boat, employed during the holidays in carrying passengers between Greenwich and London. The Aurora had just left Greenwich with 200 passengers on board for London, and was proceeding across the stream, when the Nymph, which was on her way to Greenwich, and was coming clown at full speed, with a strong ebb tide running at the time, went stem on into her, and carried away the law board paddle-box, which was knocked to pieces, and the wheel smashed. The steam-pipe was also broken and the engines soon crippled, besides other damage done to the hull of the vessel. The excitement and alarm which took place among the passengers was frightful, and many were about to jump overboard but were restrained by the master and crew. The first boat which came alongide was a police galley, rowed by Gco. Webb, a Thames police in spector and his boat's crew, who found the steamers locked together ; the Aurora appeared a complete wreck. The bowsprit of the Nymph was locked in the Aurora's fun nel, and Webb directed the master of the former vessel to back his engines astern, which was done, and they were soon released from each other. The passengers at this time were calling out for boats, and declared the vessel was sinking, and a number of females here faint s hem on the deck s , and others screaming loudly.. Many of t attempted to jump into the police galley, and if Webb_ had . Uut ordered his men to shove off, the boat would have been swamped in an instant. Some skill -ryas then necessary to prevent the Aurora from getting aground in the dark on an ebb tide, and Inspector Webb assisted in getting her close in to the north shore, just below the lsle of Dogs, where she dropped her anchor, and brought up. Another steamer had been previously sent for to take the passengers out, and the call was an swered most promptly by the Waterman steame r No. 3, about to leave the Watermen's Pier f or Woolwich. A communication was opened'by a platform from boat to boat, and the affrighted passengers, men, women, and - children, were relieved from the perils that awaited them, taken over to Greet with, and transferred to W aterman No. 5, John - Hawkes master, and conveyed to Loudon. TUE ROYAL. BUtKIJOUNDS, WEDNESDAY.—There Was a large and brilliant assemblage of sportimen at the Salt-hill meet this morning, including his Royal Ilighness Prince Albert, General Sir E. Bowater, Viscount Can talupe, General Wemyss, and Mr. Geoyge Edward An son (who were in attendance on the Prince), the Noble Master of the Buckhounds, Earl Sheffield, Colonel Wyse, Colonel Seymour, Sir Robert Gill, Captains Bates, Arch dale, and Hawkins, and most of the officers of the Royal Blues ; Messrs. Albert and Sampson Ricardo, Mr. G. Wombwell, Mr. J. Aldridge, &c. The turn-out took place soon after the Prince arrived, in a field on the north side of the Great Western Railway. The favourite hind, Snowdrop, on being set at liberty, made in a direct line towards Burnham, and ran into a wood near the Beeches ; on the hounds coming , up, she .doubled back and ran by the mill-pond of Lord Boston's to within a short distance of the place she was uncarted ; at this time the weather, which in the fore part of the morning had been hazy, cleared up, and the sight was extremely imposing. The field were, well together--the hounds and the deer a little in ad vance, and the numerous red coats gave the appearance of a regiment of Life Guards in their uniform crossing the country at full speed. The Prince was mounted on his spirited chestnut hunter, which he sat close and well, and appeared to have a good command of him. The deer, with the hounds close at his heels, crossed the rail way ju s t as t h e tra i n had passed, and made for Salt-hill; she then crossed the road, and made for the Thames, which she crossed by Surby Hall, and then ran to Bray wick, on the Maidenhead-road, where she was taken after an hour and a quarter's good running. The next meet, it is expected, will be at Brick-bridge on Saturday next. ELECTION OF GUARDIANS.—As .we predicted, the ratepayers and holders of property in this borough have expressed themselves quite satisfied with the conduct of the late Board of Guardians, by electing the gen tlemen proposed by the Liberal Association. The "trial" of those gentlemen who had the temerity to "be come candidates for the'office" has resulted in a most favourable verdict ; Mr. J. Boodle, against whom Tory spleen was more especially directed, heading the poll by not less than 1,089 votes above the highest of the Tory list, and the lowest Liberal being over the highest Tory 852. When we compare the above majorities with the numbers at the last election, where the victory was by no means so decided, we .are induced to ask what becomes of the boasted reaction in favour of Toryism, of which we hear so much ? The average number of votes for the Liberals is 2,136, and for the Tories 1,019; giving us a majority of 1,817, or a. difference in the ma jority on the two •ears of no less than 2,492 votes ! ! ! So much for reaction.—Cheltenham Examiner. DISTRESS IN STOCKPORT.—It iS with genuine sorrow we observe that the distress in this borough among the -unemployed operatives, continues unabated. The Queen Dowager has surely only to be apprized o' the fulness and depth of its extent, to extend that cha ritable hand which she so perpetually holds forth. The relief fund has now been on full operation 13 weeks, during which time upwards of 4,0001. have been ex pended ; and the last weekly report shows a return of 13,463 individuals, subsisting on an average weekly in come of 94-d. per head. The Committee prepared, as they supposed, themselves to meet the present press ing exigencies, have been unexpectedly overcome by the intensity and increase of suffering. Num bers of recipients have, they believe, no othe r means of subsistence than the relief afforded by this charity, and now that its continuance is hazarded, owing to insufficiency of resources, they must, without help, become dependent on the parishes to which they seve rally belong. This will remedilessly increase the poors' rates to an enormous burden, in places where at present the taxation is almost insufferable. Urgency of appeal cannot be too closely pressed upon all charitable and philanthropic individuals to come forward and help with ail their power! We observe that the London bankers, Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co., Smith, Payne, and Co.. and Denison and Co. have books open for this demand - 45f existence and humanity. PARISEI OF CLERKENWELL.—Yesterday evening, at, six o'clock, an adjourned meeting took place at the School-room, in Amwell-street, of rate-payers of the above parish, for the purpose of appointing beadles for the ensuing year. The matter in dispute was whether there should be one or two ; and as one rejoiced in the very romantic name of Mount-Stevens , while the other held the less euphonious sobriquet of Bug, it was de cided that such important matters should stand over for one month ; and meantime a committee of eleven rate payers were appointsd to inquire into the character of a Bug, and the qualifications of a Mount-Stevens. As there is now virtually no " beadle of the parish," the boys of " lesser and of larger growth " can play at dumps and chuck-farthing with some degree of safety. The rental of this parish exceeds 200,0001.! The Prefect of the Seine has posted up placards in Paris giving notice that he will, on Saturday next, decide upon tenders for the temporary buildings on the occa sion of the King's Fete on the Ist May. They are to be divided into two parts ; one for the theatres in the Champs -Elysees, and at the Barriere du Trone, the ex pense of which is limited to 32,622 f. ; and the other for the illuminations, may-poles, and orchestras, the maxi mum of which is fixed at 13,194 f. This is the first time, we believe, that these works have been put up to public competition. They have hitherto been taken by private contract. MORTALITY OF TILE METROPOLIS.—The number of deaths during the week ending March 19 has been un usually small, being 120 less than the average for the last four years, and 318 less than in the week ending January 22, 1842. The decrease in the number of deaths caused by old age and diseases of the lungs is most re markable. In the latter week the numbers were—from old age 109, diseases of the lungs 374 ; whilst in the former they amounted respectively only to 51 and 269. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—There is a new square now being planted at the foot of Vauxhall-bridge, on the Crown estate, which is to be called Lincoln square, in honour of the Earl of Lincoln, the First Com missioner of Woods and Land Revenue. This square will have houses only on three sides, which will enable each house to have a command of the bridge and river Thames. An Armenian peasant died lately at the village of Bugukdere, in Turkey, at the advanced age of 108 years. His death was caused by a severe fall • for up to the period of his accid en t h e h a d never been ;filleted by any malady. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRCUlT.—Kingston, March 30. CROWN COURT.—(Before Baron GURNEY.) Sarah Robinson, aged '2l, was indicted upon the Co roner's inquisition for the wilful murder of her new-born illegitimate child. Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence, that shortly before Christmas last, the prisoner, who resided with her grandmother at Dorking, presented an appearance which induced a belief that she was enceinte. On the sth of January she was observed in the. water closet, by a person who resided in the house, and she then appeared very unwell. On the same day she placed herself under the care of Mr. Curtis,' a surgeon at Dorking, and continued under him till the time she was taken into custody. On the night of the 27th January the water-closet was emptied, and the soil placed on a dunghill on the premises of a neighbour ; on the following morning the body of the child was found amongst the soil, and it was evident that it had been there for some time. Soon after Christmas the prisoner was observed to have decreased in size, but no particular notice was taken of the circumstance. Mr. Curtis proved that the prisoner applied to him for advice on the sth Jan. and remained under his care till the day the inquest was held on the body of the child. She appeared very ill, but he saw nothing' which led him to suppose that she had been de livered of a child, or that she was in the family way. On the morning of the 28th of January he was called to see the body of the child ; the umbilical cord was ruptured, but there were no marks of violence; the child had been born alive and had breathed. Mr. Baron GURNEY told the Jury that the case against the prisoner had entirely failed ; there was no proof whatever that she had given birth to a child, further than a slight alteration in her appearance. He re v2r before knew of a case of that description in which t'ia• supposed mother had not been subjected to an examina tion by a medical man in order to prove whether she had or had not recently been delivered ; and the fact of the prisoner having been for three weeks under the care of Mr. Curtis prior to the finding the body o: the child, and his not having any reason to suppose that she was or had been in such a state, was much in her favour. The Jury instantly acquitted the prisoner. Sarah Bead, aged 19, was indicted for the wilful mur der of her illegitimate male child, at the parish o' Lambeth. Mr. C. JONES defended the prisoner. Mr. CLARK SON stated the case on behalf of the prosecution, and called the following witnesses : Mr. James Francis Wool, of Bowhill Terrace, Brix ton, stated that on the evening of the 11th inst., on his return from the City, a communication was made to him by Mrs. Wool, which induced him to go to the water closet, when he observed what he considered to be the body of a child lying on the soil. He immediately sent for Mr. Christie, a surgeon, and also for a policemen. The prisoner was at that time in her bed-roc - _n ; she had been in his sert , :ce about 12 months. Wm. Blenhame, 182 P, stated that on the night of the 11th inst. he was called to the house of the last witness ; he examined the water-closet, and after considerable dif ficulty succeeded in taking the body of a child frona the soil he fished it up by means of a sweep's scraper, which be placed under the neck, and part of a clothes' prop. After washing the body he discovered an incision upon the left side of the neck, which e::tended about three inches. On the following morning he went to take the prisoner into custody; he then searched for the baby linen but could not find any. Inspector Campbell stated that the day after the body of the child was f, eind, he went to Mr. Wool's with the last witness. He found the prisoner in her bed-room, when the prisoner said, " There is no knife there, the mark on the child's throat was made by the clothe's prop in forcing it down the water closet." At that time he had not said anything to the prisoner about a knife. He subsequently examined all the props, but could not cover any marked with soil ; in fact, there was not one of them, on account of their length, wl'ch could be put down the closet. Sergeant Kendall, 1 P, examined the prisoner's room, the night the child was found. He asked her whether she had any knife in the loom? to which she replied she had not. He was then about to search a bureau, when she said, " There is nothing there, the doctor has searched all those drawers." He afterwards found a penknife with a broken blade in her work-box ; she then said she had brought that up afterwards. Mr. Christie, a surgJoi, stated that he was called in on the night in question, and sew the child taken from the'water-closet. He observed a wound, about half an inch in depth, on the left side of the neck, extending ' from the ear, about three inch es . Th e main ves se l s were not divided, but a quantity of blood had flowed CIVIL SIDE. (Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and a Common Jury. TEMPLE V. HORLOCK. This was an action to recover from the defendant the sum of 5061., the amount of a bond entered into by him under rather singular circumstances. The declaration alleged that one George Lionel Massey being indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of 2881. he was taken in execution, and, with view to his release from custody, the defendant, who was his friend, arranged that other sums to which Massey was indebted to the plaintiff should be added to the above amount, and that a cognovit should be given for the whole sum, which was 5061., and the defendant undertook that if the money was not paid on the 2d of December, 1840, that he would on the Bth surrender Massey at the plaintiff's chambers, at two o'clock in the afternoon, to be there token in execution ; and failing to do so, he undertook to pay the amount of the debt, and signed a deed to that effect. The plaintiff alleged that the condition of the bond had been broken by Massey not having surrendered, and the action was therefore brought to recover the amount of the bond from the de fendant. The defendant put several pleas rpon the re cord, but the principal one was that, on the Bth of De cember, Massey hxd surrendered himself to be taken in execution,and the plaintiff gave him permission to absent himself, and that he was therefore absent with the leave and license of the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant Channell and Mr. Pearson were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Thesiger and Mr. Bullock appeared for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL briefly addressed the Jury and detailed the facts as above stated, and called the fol lowing witnesses Charles Parry, clerk to the plaintiff, who is an attorney in Furmval's-inn, produced the bond, and proved the signature to it to be that of the defendant. " Frederick Wellbank, officer to the Sheriff of London, proved that, on the 7th December, 1840, a warrant was put in his hands for the arrest of Mr. Massey. He went to the chambers of the plaintiff on the Bth, before two o'clock, and remained until three, but Massey never made his appearance. Cross-examined—He saw the plaintiff, but ho did not tell him that Massey had been to his office that same morning. This was the plaintiff's case. Mr: MERGER then addressed the Jury, and said there could be no doubt that Mr. Horlock had most incauti ously incurred a liability in behalf of his friend, but the substantial question the Jury would have to decide was whether, in point of fact, the condition of the bond had not been fulfilled by the surrender of Mr. Massey, and whether the plaintiff had not given him leave to depart, a- d if this was proved it would be a complete answer to the present action. He said that it was very probable that the plaintiff, finding that he had got a respectable person as security for the payment of his debt, did not. trouble himself about taking the body of his original debtor, but he suffered him to go at large, knowinF," or believing, that he should get his money, which was much more desirablo from the person who had rendered him self responsible,. and who he thought was in a better condition to pay it than the other. The Learned Coun sel then produced some letters that had passed between the parties in which Massey expressed his determination to surrender on the appointed day, and so relieve his friend from liability. The Counsel then said he should ahew that Massey did surrender himself at Mr. Temple's office, and that upon his representing that he could get a bill of exchange as a security for the debt, Temple allowed him to go away and did not, as he ought to have done, in fairness to. Mr. Horlock, insist upon his remain ing until the officer came to capture him—and that carries out the strict letter of the under taking which had been entered into by Mr. Horlock, This, however, he supposed did no t su i t t h e purpose of the plaintiff, who did not desire to have the body of his debtor, but the money of the friend who had become his security. _.. The Hon. George Lionel Massey was then examined. He deposed that in 1840, he was indebted to the plain tiff, and the undertaking upon which the present action was brought, was signed by his friend Mr. Horlock as security for the payment of the amount. He had ap plied several times before December in that year, to know the previous character of Mr. Horlock's engagement, but the plaintiff refused to inform him, or to let him have a copy of it. He wrote to Mr. Temple, and expressed his readiness to do every act requisite to relieve his friend Horlock from liability, and that ho was willing to surrender at any time, and having ascertained, at length, from Mr. Temple t/titt two o'clock on the Bth December was the period fixed for that purpose, at twenty-five minutes past one he went to the plaintiff's office and saw him there, and he told him that ho was come to surrender himself in discharge of Horlock's undertaking. The plaintiff said he was sorry, and wished to know whether he could not make some arrangement ; and witness told him he thought he could get a bill for 3001., at nine or twelve months—and plaintiff said he should be satisfied with that. Witness said, he should have to go to Mount street, Grosvenor-square to get the bill, and Mr. Templer consented that he , should do so, and he went away for that purpose about twenty minutes to two o'clock. He was not successful in getting the bill, and he wrote to Mr. Temple to that effect, and begged him to act leniently, and at the same time expressed his willingness to surrender himself at any time, when he should be called upOn to do so. On being cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant CRANNELL, the witness said that he was in pecuniary difficulties at the time, and had many pressing demands upon him. He had known Horlock about twelve months, and there had been several pecuniary transactions between them, but not to any considerable amount. He said he was sure that neither Perry or any other person was present when he had the conversation with the plaintiff on the Bth of December. The plaintiff's partner, Mr. Bonner, was not present, at least he did not see him. He did not recollect that the plaintiff told him that he might go to Mount-street, but that if he wished to save his friend he must be back by two o'clock, but he know that plaintiff did say an officer would be there to take him. lie never returned to the plaintiff, neither did he let him know where he could be found. The witness also said, that in the following month of February he was outlawed, and he admitted that although the present cause was set down for trial at the last summer assizes, that he took no steps a - offer himself as a witness. To contradict the testimony of this witness, Mr. Ser geant Channell recalled Perry, and he swore that he was present during part of the conversation, and that he heard Mr. Temple say that he had been deceived - so often by Mr. Massey that he would not take his word any more, and that when be went away he'told him that if THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. MARCH 31, 1842. from the wound. On the following morning he made a post mortem examination of the body, and found a con tused wound on the left side of the forehead, under which, and on the dura mater, was a quantity of extra vasated blood, which would increase the cause of death. When he first saw the prisoner, she at once admitted to him that she had been delivered of a child. He then asked her whero it was, when she said that it was dead— that she had put it into a pail of water, and had afterwards thrown it down the water-closet ; ;he admitted that the child was born alive, but said that it was net full-grown. She also stated that she was standing at the time it was born, and that it fell upon the hearthstone. The wound upon the neck could not have been caused by the scraper with which it was taken from the soil. The knife produced was a more likely instrument to have caused such a wound. It was a clean cut. Should say, from the appearance of the wound, that it had been inflicted whilst the child was alive. Had it been inflicted after death it would have had a very different appearance. The child was full grown.. • . - Mr. Baron GURNEY* Might not the contused wound you have described have been caused by the child falling upon its head, as stated by the prisoner ? Witness— Certainly. Mr. Baron GURNEY—Supposing the child had died from the effects of the injury on the head, and if the wound in the neck had been inflicted immediately after wards, might it not present the same appearance as if it had been inflicted during life ? Witness—Yes, if in flicted immediately after death. Mr. JONES addressed the Jury on behalf of the pri soner, and contended that the charge of murder had not been established by the evidence adduced. There was another charge upon which they might find her guilty, viz., that of concealing the birth of the child ; but upon that subject he would not trouble them with any obser vations. Mr. Baron GURNEY having very minutely summed up the case, The Jury acquitted the prisoner of the murder, but found her Guilty of concealing the birth of the child. The LEARNED JUDGE immediately sentenced her to two years' hard labour in the House of Correction. Thomas Courtney, aged 19, was indicted for wilfully inciting and counselling the last named prisoner to murder her child. Mr. CL.inxsow said, as the Jury had acquitted the female of the charge of murder, the prisoner could not be convicted as an accessory, and, therefore, he should not trouble them with any further evidence. •The Jury, therefore, under his Lordship's directions, acquitted the prisoner. Samuel Cooper, aged 19, and George Boseley, aged 19, were inflicted for feloniously wounding Robert Branford, police constable, No. 101, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Charnock defended the prisoners. It appeared that on the night of the 11th of February, the prosecutor, who was on duty in Mint-street, Bo rough, was called to_the assistance of a gentleman, who was beset by two,. females of loose character. Upon the prosecutor's interfering, Cooper seized him by the neck, andstruck him several times over the head with his fist. Bosely then ran up and struck him a violent blow across the head with a life preserver, which felled him to the ground, and inflicted such a severe wound as to render him unable to attend to his duties for some time. Cooper was taken into custody on the spot, but Bosely was not apprehended for some days. The Jury found Bosely Guilty, and acquitted Cooper. The latter was then indicted for the coran3on assault, to which he pleaded Guilty. Boseley, with a female of the name of Sarah Pearce who had before been convicted of felony, was then in dicted for stealing two waistcoats and other articles, the property of Charles Padden. The case was clearly proved against the prisoners, and the Jury instantly found them Guiliy.2 Mr. Baron GURNEY sentenced the prisoners to be severally transported for 15 years ; and Cooper to be kept to hard labour, in the House of Correction, for two years. _ _ _ Cooper, on hearing his sentence, became extremely violent ; and it required the assistance of several con stables to remove him from the bar. Mr. Baron GURNEY told the prosecutor that he had conducted himself in a very praiseworthy manner, and had risked his life in apprehending some very suspicious characters. He should, therefore, order him to receive a reward of 10/. beyond the usual expenses. he wished to save his friend he must be back by two o'clock. This statement was also confirmed in some par ticulars by another witness, the partner of the plaintiff. Sergeant CHANNELL then replied upon the whole case, and commented upon all the circumstances that had been adduced, contending that the present defence had been got up to deprive the plaintiff from obtaining the debt which it was admitted was j 'stly due to him. Baron ALDERSON was about to sum up when the Jury intimated that it was unnecessary, and they retu •neu a verdict for the plaintiff, the Foreman at the same time stating that the Jury considered the defendant had failed to make out to their satisfaction that Massey had been duly surrendered in accordance with the terms of the bond. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, March 21% CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice PA2TESON.) Benjamin James was indicted for the manslaughter of Sarah Sophia Fleming, at Chepstow, on the sth of Sep tember last. Mr. W. H. Cooke and Mr. Hanmer conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Keating defended the prisoner. The prisoner was originally indicted for murder—that verdict having been found upon the Coroner's inquisi tion ; but the Grand Jury threw out the bill as regarded the heavier charge, and it was, therefore, abandoned by the prosecution. It appeared from the statement of Mr. COOKE, as it .was supported by the evidence, that the deceased, a young girl, aged nineteen, a native of Bristol, bad, for more than twelve months before her death, been coha biting with the prisoner at Chepstow. On the evening of Sunday, the 29th of August, they walked together over Chepstow-bridge to Tidenharn, in the county of Gloucester, where they met some young men of their acquaintance, with one of whom, named Edward Jones, the deceased left the party for some minutes. Her absence roused the jealousy and anger of the prisoner, who was — slightly intoxicated, and on their rejoining the party he attempted to strike her. He was held back by Jones, and the deceased ran away in company with the other girl. Upon her coming back again, a few minutes aftewards, the prisoner ;,ran at her and struck her with his fist on the right side a violent blow, which made her stagger. The prisoner, who was much excited, swore he would murder her, but the de ceased kissed him, and succeeded in pacifying him, and they went away together apparently good friends. It was shown that they slept together on that and the fol lowing night in the fields. The deceased complained of great pain in her side from the time she received the blow, and though the prisoner, who seemed very sorry for the effects of his violence, showed her emry kindness in his power, she gradually got worse, and entered the work house at Chepstow on Wednesday, the Ist of Septem ber, where she died on the following Friday. Upon a post mortem examination of the body, it was found that the immediate cause of death was acute inflammation of the liver and lungs, and the surgeons gave it as their opinion that that inflammation.was caused by th e bl ow which the deceas e d h a d received from the prisoner. It 'lilts shown that when the prisoner was told of the danger of the deceased, and that the constables were after him, he replied that they might take him, and that he was willing to suffer anything which Sarah (the deceased) wished him to suffer. Mr. KEATING, for the prisoner, endeavoured to elicit from the witnesses for the prosecution, that the deceased about a month before her death, had had a severe fall in the ruins of Chepstow Castle ; and he argued that the injury then received, aggravated by her dissolute life, and exposure to cold, had been the cause of her death, rather than the blow given by the prisoner. The Jury, however, returned a verdict of Guilty, and Mr. Justice PATTESON, after an appropriate address, sentenced him to 12 months' imprisonment. POLICE IN TEL lIIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A young man named Robert Fairfax, was charged with having committed a robbery in the house of a gen tleman named Osborne, and with havi ng s t ruc k a l a d, who detected and pursued him, with a hammer on the forehead. The nephew of Mr. Osborne having heard a noise on the landing place, went to see what was the matter, and observed the prisoner endeavouring to hide himself. The prisoner, who was a stranger to every one in the house, upon being asked what business he had there, muttered something about a lady, and was secured by the witness (a lad sevent,en years of age), who suspected that the fellow had property about him belonging to the house. The prisoner, finding that his departure was likely to be impeded, struck the young gentleman with a large hammer on the forehead, and covered him with blood, but as the latter was extremely resolute and spirited, the chase was' followed up, and the prisoner was caught by a policeman, who found several silk handkerchiefs and other property, which were owned by the prosecutor. upon his person. The prisoner, upon being charged with having used so murderoes a weapon as the large hammer produced, solemnly protested that he had no notion of doing the witness any serious injury with it, All he wished was to get away, as he knew that, as appearances were so much against him, he should stand no chance, at the Old Bailey. The policeman' produced a chisel, which had been found in one of the rooms of the house into which the prisoner had entered, and from which the property had been stolen by him. The door of one rcorn had, he said, been evidently opened with the chisel. The prisoner —Not at all ; I never used the chisel. There was no occasion. The Loan M.Kiroa—What do you mean by saying there was no occasion ? I suppose you job on without using it ? Prisoner—Certainly, my Lord, I did. I opined the door of the work-room with a key which I found in the other. I used no violence at all. The LORD MAyon—Well, you make a very candid ad mission, at any rate ? Prisoner—l don't like people to tell lies. Now here ia a regular lie. I never used the, chisel, but I certainly went in and took the thing, and as for theyoung gentleman, I never meant to hurt, though he happened in tl.e scraltnage to gee an unlucky knock. The LORD MAYOR—We shall, I trust, get rid of you for ever.—Committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. Henry Stokes, a yoreg man, in the worki ng d ress o f a mechanic just having left off work, was charged with uttering a counterfeit shilling to a boy named William Bryant, aged between seven and eight years. It appeared that on Tuesday the scoundrel went up to the child, who was standing with some onions to sell in Odoi-J-market, rid asked him if he could give change for a sh;llirg if a pennyworth of onions were bought of him. The poor little fellow, who was anxious f or an d proud of a customer, joyously answered in the affirma tive, and directly held out sixpence in silver and five peace in copper, wfiich the prisoner snatched from him, at the same time piling the shilling in his hand, and set off running, without waiting to take the onions with him. The boy instantly put the, shilling into his mouth, and, finding he could bend it easily, wAs con vinced it was a counterfeit one and ran after the pri soner, crying out " Stop thief I" The latter was stopped, but the sixpence in silver was:not found on him. Mr. MALTBY o•Alered a good shilling to be given to the boy, r - d remolded the prisoner until the Solicitor to the Mint could att nd. W 0 R SHIP- STREET. Richard Botto.nley, a young man with a pale and hag gard countenance, and of very dissipated aspect, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Broughton, upon a charge of having attempted to murder his wife and to commit self-destruction. The wife was prevented by illness from attending, but from the statement of the father, a respectable looki ng old man, and the evidence of other witnesses, it appeared that she had been married about eighteen months to the prisoner, and had lived in constant misery during that period, in .sequence of the drunken and dissipated habits to which he was addicted. The prisoner had on two occasions sold off every thing they possessed, leaving his wife in a state of utter destitution, and the last time he did so she sought protection under the roof of her father,- where she had since remained. On the pre ceding evening the prisoner called at her father's house in Ramsay-street, Spitalfields, and knocked vio lently at the street door, which was opened by his wife; on seeing whom, the prisoner drew a shoemaker's knife from under his coat, and made a rush towards her, but she slammed the door against him, and succeeded in fas tening him out. A few minutes afterwards, police con stable Metcalfe, H 123, was passing the house, when he saw the prisoner standing on the step brandishing the knife, and declaring, with dreadful imprecations, that he was resolved on murdering his wife, and afterwards cutting his own throat. The policeman seized hold of his arm, and, after wresting the weapon from him, con veyed the prisoner to the station-house. After being locked up, the prisoner made a desperate attempt to strangle himself with his handkerchief ; and he after wards dashed his head against the wall, and broke out into such frantic excesses, that it was found necessary to handcuff him, and to strap him down at full length upon a stretcher. The knife, a sharp-pointed and most deadly instru ment, which had been recently ground, was produced by a policeman. Sergeant Coleman stated that the prisoner was in cus tody some time ago for, threatening the life of his wife, and the term for which he was held to bail had not yet expired. Upon being asked if he wished to say anythi ng, the prisoner ma d e a l ong an d rambling statement, to th e effect that the father and friends of his wife had fomented discOrd between them, and been the chief cause of their unhappiness. He admitted being a drunkard, but said that his wife had no right to complain of his infirmity, as she was aware of it before she married him. The MAGISTRATE admonished the prisoner in forcible language, and said that he should remand him until Sa turday next, to consider what would be the best mode of dealing with hitn. PITCHING the droppers in at Nisi, on the Western Circuit, know that Mr. Erle, the eminent Counsel, is not less renowned for his peculiarly happy command of good mother English, and close and forcible reasoning, than for shrewd and quaint humour, as racy as it is overpowering, when the spirit is on him, and he flows out i' the vein." He re• lieved the Court the other evening, in the midst of a hard dry historical case, with a joke that fell like dew in the desert. A. learned brother had risen to ad dress the jury. Some momentary interruption pre vented him from proceeding—at the very instant that he was to roll forth the opening period of his exordium a calf bellowed out a most extraordinary note, from a spot immediately, contiguous to the court, which re-echoed the sound. Mr. Erie, in his dry way, exclaimed, "it is the key note, my lord,'my friend may go off !" Taking all the circumstan ces of • the time i and ncident-into account, it was a most happy saying, and the court roared stain. So general was the mein nation that we • fancied we saw gentle clouds of povqer floating round the judicial wig.— Western limes. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (C•ntinued from our A.fte noon Edition of yesterday.) WIGAN. It appeared that the voter (John Bart) had originally registered out of two houses, one of which he had sub sequently given up the possession of. The Committee, after the case had been before them during the whole of the day, unanimously decided that the vote was a bad one. Mr. Crosse, ono of th e sitting . Members, and Mr. Standish have been placed on an equality by this decision. GREAT MARLO T. The Committee decided that the vote of James Curtis was a good one. The vote of William Hall was next objected to by the Counsel for the sitting Member, on the grounds of non occupation and insufficiency of value. It was proved in evidence that the voter had let a part of the premises out of which he registered, and that the part let was kept locked, and remained entirely distinct from the house which he inhabited. The Committee decided that the vote was a good one. The sitting Member still continues in a minority of one. WHAT THE MIDDLE CLASSES HAVE DONE. The Reform Bill put it into the power of the middle classes to elect represe tatives fo tl em in the House of Commons. What use did they make of this power at the last election ? They ele:ted a house, the great majority of wnich consists of members of the aristo cracy, who have a direct interest in the perpetuation of the present system of misgovernment. The House of Commons, as elected by the middle classes a few months ago, contains 3 marquisses, 9 earls, 23 vis counts, 27 lorc:s, 32 right honcer-ables, 6? honor c ables, 58 baronets, 10 knights, 2 admirals, 8 lord lieu tenants, 74 deputy and vice-lieutenants, 1 general, 1 lieutenant-gEneral, 7 major-generals, 22 .colonels, 32 lieutenant-colonels, 7 majors, 67 captains in array and navy, 12 lieutenants, 2 cornets, 53 magistrates, 63 placemen, and 108 patrons of Church livings, having the patronage of 247 livings between them. There are, in fact, little more than 200, out of the 658 Members of the House of Commons, who have not either titles, office, place, pension, or Church pa tronage. When the middle classes, therefore, elect such a body of representatives, they at least can have no just reason to complain of their legislation. If they will have aristocracy, they must pay for it ; if they will lend themselves to prop up the fabric of corruption, they have no reason to complain, if they find the burden to be a heavy one. When such men as the electors of Leeds, Bradford, and the - West Riding, consisting chiefly of merchants, manufacturers, trades men, shopkeepers, and farmers, determine on return ing Tory and aristocratic representatives to Parlia ment, surely it is foolish in them to growl, if they find that their representatives have resolved to maintain the Corn-laws, and to saddle them with a cruel and inquisitorial income tax ! They who have chosen a Tory Government, must be contented to reap its fruits. " They cannot expect to gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles." • The income tax will fall with extreme pressure upon the middle classes, already suffering severely from the hardness of the times, while the great landed aristocracy of the community will scarcely feel it. Their Corn-tax will afford them the means of pay ing it a hundred times over. The want of discrimi nation between income arising from industry, and income arising from property will also operate greatly in favour of the propertied classes. But all this is only the legitimate result of aristocratic legislation. The middle classes now stand in a most humili ating position. Their apathy and indifference to the political emancipation of the working-classes as well as the mislegislation of the middle-class Parlia ments of the last ten years, have in a great memure alienated from them the sympathy of the great mass of the people ; while the aristocratic class, into waose arms they have thrown themselves, have repaid their slavish subserviency by imposing on them a swingeing income tax !—Leeds Times. HEARN'S EFFECTS of MONOPOLY Mr. Hearn, whose statistical labours on the subjec of the Bread-tax have already justly received the apt probation of the Anti-Bread-tax Journals, has jus published a broadside, entitled, " What does the Bread-tax do for London ?" in which he states the expenditure of several families, and shows in detail the amount they pay to the State and to monopoly. The following is a specimen of one family : _ For the Tax. Six 41b loaves at fd.=4s. rd. being 2s. rd. for the bread, and Is. Gd. 1 %lb. butter led.= t 0,4 0 8% butter 0 31i 11b. sugar 7d.=o 7 0 1 32 sugar G 534 2oz. tea 54. t d.= I 73 0 4 % tea 0 3% Glb. meat Bd.=4 0 2 0 meat 2 A 7 pints beer 21=1 2 0 1034 beer 0 334 11 5 4 10 This small family, consisting of a mother and two boys (under ten years of age), pays on the weekly expenditure of 1 Is. 5d., 4s. 10d. in taxes. This for the , year is 121. I Is. 4d. out of 29/. 13s. ad. Of this, the Government gets 11. 65., and the monopolists 11/. ss. 4d. ' Thus the monopolists wring from the consumer nearly nine times the amount the Government does. Is not this oppressing the widow and the fatherless ? Here is another : The taxes paid by this family, are considerably more than a third of their expenditure, 13s. Oid. per week out of 345. 3d., that is, 33/. 17s. ld. per annnm out of 891. Is. Of which the Government receives 4/. 18s. 7d , and the monopolists 28/. 18s. 6d., nearly sit-fold. For the Tax. Nine 4 , b. loaves at 80. =fls. 4 being 4s 1 for the bread, and 25. vd. 201 b. meat njd.=ls 10 9 2 meat ti 8 41b. butter 14d.=4 8 3 8 butter 1 0 31b. cheese 106.=.2 6 2 0 cheese 0 6 11b tea 58. rd._s 6 3 3' tea t 21,4 11b. raw sugar 7d.=o 7 0 1g raw sugar 0 : lb. loaf ditto 101.=2 6 1 Iyi loaf ditto 1 4 14 pots beer 4d.=4 8 3 6 beer 1 2 42 7% 27 O 15 714 The expenditure of this family presents the largest outlay we have yet examined, amounting to 1101. 16s. 6d. for the year. The exactions thereupon by taxes, are to the amount of 401. I Is. 54., that is above one-third ; the sum the Government gets is Sl. Is. 5d., not quite a fifth of the whole. The mono polists grasp all the rest, viz. 32/. 10s. We perceive, that as the outlay increases, the ratio of taxation diminishes, thus con firming the oft asse. ted truth, that the poor pay threefold in proportion to the rich. After giving a number of instances, assuming that the population of the metropolis is 1,878,000, he comes to the cone!usion that the annual taxation levied on the metropolis by the moncyolists is not less than 7,108,394/. ; that a family of six persons pays them 22/. 14s. ; and an individual 3/. 15s. Per week this amounts to Is. 54d. per head, and six persons pay Bs. 9e.. per week to maintain such persons as Sir Ed ward Knatchhull in their "station in society." Sub sequently Mr. Hearn enters into a number of calcula tions to show how much employment would be multi plied for all were this unjust appropriation of the pro perty of individuals now ordained by the selfish land lords to be done away. We quote the first example : See the " effects of monopoly." The whole family might be well clothed—)ea, much better than the majority are—by the taxes which the landed interest wrings from them. This 221. 14s. 3d. would provide them with all the above articles every year. The weekly expenditure of each individual, at the prices paid for his food, as exhibited in the Family Tables, amounts to 3s. 9d., and he is taxed to the amount of ls. 51d. out of it, very nearly two-fifthsl I ! Let us now take another view of these " effects," and see how =any hands of various crafts the taxation to which the in habitants or the metropolis are subjected thereby, would give employment to. The male population amounts in round numbers to 876,060. The female to 1,002,000. Let us suppose two-thirds of the males to be youths and adults, and one-third children. This will give 584,000 for the former, and 292,000 for the latter. Allowing two hats in the year to each man and boy, the num ber will be 1,168,000, or 97,3331 dozen. Each dozen of hats will employ one pair of hands for a week ; consequently these would give employment to - 1,870 hatters for the year. Finer goods will employ double the number. Theeffects of these monopoliei on wages is thus briefly depicted : A master shoe-manufacturer who has employed from one to two hundred hands per week, tells me, that in 1812 (before the Corn-law), he paid men from 21. 10s. to 3/. per week ; and women from 17s. 6d. to 235. per week, for the came work he now pays the above 12s. 10d. and 3 a . 9d. Hi s att es t a ti on follows. Talk of machinery reeucing the rate of wages indeed ! What machinery is employed in making shirts and shoes ? Or where is steam power applied to the manufacturing of trousers and waistcoats? Has wages fallen in any of the manufacturing districts equal to this? Wages, then, where no machinery is employed, have fallen to one-fifth of what they were. The toil of both sexes, and their scanty rewards, may be known from the following : Women me making men's trousers for shops at 6d. per pair; waistcoats at 4d. each ; and shirts at lid. a piece. We would gladly quote some more of these facts, but our space fo!bids, and we earnestly recommend Mr. Hearn's broadside, which costs next to nothing, to the ser'!oty s consideration of all the working classes of the metropolis and of the empire. ABDUCTION. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL—The Venture, from Calcutta, Jan. 13, lat. 35 S., lon. 19 E. ; John Woodall, Calcutta to London, 28th, lat. 25, lon. 4 ; Grecian, Clyde to Bom bay, and Emily, Guernsey to Pernambuco, 11th ult., by the Margaret, arrived at Liverpool ; Corsair, Liverpool to New Orleans, 20th inst., lat. 43, lon. 27 ; James Stewart, (whaler) 46 barrels, 11th ult., lat. 18 S., lon. 32 W., by the Black Prince, arrived at Liverpool ; Juno, Clyde to Newfoundland, 25th inst., lat. 51, lon.. 12 ; Post boy, from Bristol, 24th inst., lat. 48, lon. 12 ; Celia, Large, Jamaica to Liverpool, 14th ult., off Cape Fibroon, Eagle, Liverpool to Savannah, sth inst., lat. 32, lon. 52 ; Braganza, (steamer) 24th inst., in Vigo Bay, and a steam ship bound S. private signal, red, white, and red, hori zontally, by the. Liverpool, (steamer) arrived at South ampton ; Newburgh, London to New Zealand, Bth ult., lat. 85, lon. 25 W. ; Pasha, Monte Video to Falmouth, 10th inst., lat. 30, lon. 37 ; Phillips, Java to Liverpool, 22d, lat. 45, lon. 21, by the Amelia, arrived at Falmouth; Helen Maria, from London, 19th inst., lat. 44, lon. 22, by the Visitor, arrived at Falmouth. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Ann, Griffiths, from China, in the Downs, sailed 17th November, St. Helena, 29th January ; Mary Gray, M'Kenzie, from Moulmein, in .4he Downs ; Margaret, Roache, from Bombay, at Liverp o ol, sa il e d, 14th Nov.., St. Helena, 27th Jan. ; Penang, Cumming, from China, off Liverpool, sailed, 23rd Oct., St. Helena, 31st Jan. ' • Nile, Anderson, from Manilla, o ff Li ver p oo l, sailed, 23rd Oct.;• Thalia, Murray, from Bombay, off Liverpool, sailed 24th Oct., St. Helena, 25th jan. Woodstock, Austin, from Mauritius, off Liverpool, sailed, 11th Dec., St. Helena, 25th Jan. ; Adriana, Dodds, from Mauritius, off Liverpool, sailed, 6th Dec. ; Akbar, Arkley, from Mauritius, in the Clyde, sailed 19th Dec., St. Helena, 30th Jan. ; Robert Matthews, Jolly, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed, 7th Nov., St. Helena, 29th Jan. ; Ulverstone, Smith, from Bombay, at Liverpool, sailed 22d November ; LATE FATAL DUEL AT MALTA. TRIAL OF THE SURVIVORS. On Thursday, the 10th of March, Mr. John Levick, of Malta, merchant, and Lieut. Antonio Mattei, of the Royal Malta Fencibles Regiment, the parties com mitted by the sitting Magistrate—the former as the principal, the latter as his second, in this unfortunate affair—were placed at the bar of the Criminal Court of Special Commission for the island of Malta and its dependencies, to answer the indictment preferred against them by Giacomo Pantaleone Bruno, Esq., LL.D., the Crown Advocat e an d public prosecutor, of which Court Sir Ignatius Gavino Bonavia LL.D., K. St. M. St. Geo rge , Pre sident of the Tribunals of Malta, and Giovanni Bat tista Satariano, Esq., LL.D., and Francesco Chapelle, Esq., LL.D., two of her Majesty's Judges sat as Commissioners ; the s ub s t ance o f which indictment was as follows :- Ist count. That on the 9th of February last, in a place at the back of Fort Ricasoli, known by the name of Wiet Ghammieck, a duel took place with pistols between the said Levick and the deceased Sep timus Adams, a Lieutenant of the 88th Regiment. 2d count. That Levick, in said duel, discharged at Adams a pistol loaded with ball. 3d count. That the ball striking Adams occasioned three lacerated and contused wounds, the first in the middle part of the fore arm, accompanied by a frac ture of the radius undern ea th ; the second in the in ternal part of the upper third of, the same arm ; and the third in the lower part of the left side of the chest, fracturing the ninth rib, perforating transversely the whole length of the liver, and lacerating the arteries and principal blood vessels, with a great hcemorrage and flow of blood. 4th count. That Adams in the space of 32 hours died of such wounds. sth count. That Levick, in duelling with Adams and in firing at him acted of his own free will (volontariamente), an d wilfully (dolosamente) against the public peace. 6th count. That in the duel which took place be tween Levick and Adams, Lieutenant Mattei was present, and aiding, with other individuals. 7th count. That Mattei, in assisting at said duel, acted in the capacity of second. Bth count. That Mattei in the duel which took place, acted of his own free will and wilfully against the public peace. Upon which grounds the Crown Advocate de manded that such facts be tried before a Jury, and that if the same declare them by their verdict proved, that they the prisoners be condemned to the punish ment of death under the provisions contained in the 21st and 22d section of the 4th Chapter, of the sth Book of the Municipal Code, or in any other sta tutory law. The words of the law referred to are as follows : " Sec. 21. In duels, both the challenger and the challenged, and their auxiliaries and seconds shall be punished with condemnation to the gallies for ten years, if death doth not ensue, and which punishment can be increased to a longer term than the ten years, in proportion to the excess committed. " Sec. 22. But if death ensue, then the duelling parties, as well as their auxiliaries, seconds, and ac complices, shall suffer the punishment of death." The prisoners being asked by the Court if they ob jected to any of the proceedings of the trial, referred to their counsel, Messrs. Griffiths and Moriani. The Counsel then objected to there being more wit nesses produced by the prosecution than had been ex amined before the Magistrate. Dr. Bruno, the Crown Advocate, replied, that although examining witnesses before a Magistrate might facilitate the trial, yet he could if he chose hold back any witness, and was not bound to produce every witness examined before a Magistrate. However, the Court consented to an adjournment, which was demanded. On Monday, the 14th inst., the Court re-assembled, whereon the prisoners pleaded "Not guilty " to their indictment. Out of a list of two English and thirty-four Maltese, a Jury of seven was ballotted for by the Registrar. Dr. Bruno then opened the prosecution, charging the Jury upon the importance of the subject, explain ing to them the nature of duelling, and enforcing the necessity of checking this remnant of barbarous times. He then produced the evidence, consisting of thirty four witnesses, which examination lasted two days, that is, till the afternoon of the 16th. The Court having been adjourned till eight o'clock yesterday morning, Mr. Griffiths opened the defence with a strong appeal to the jury. Then he endeavoured to destroy the credibility of the Queen!s evidence, Dr. Cross, of the 88th Regiment, stating that he was a party im plicated, and therefore his evidence could not be re ceived. Afterwards he maintained that the laws in Malta affecting duelling had fallen into disuse, citing many examples of duels having had place, and no notice being taken of them. Dr. Mariani followed up precisely the same, line of argument. After Dr. Mariani finished they examined their evidence, consisting of seven persons. The President of the Court then summed up, stating that they were to consider whether the facts of the duel were proved or not, without regard to any con sequences ; end particularly to bear in mind that the evidence of Dr. Cross was that of a party implicated. The jury retired at half-past 4 o'clock p.m., and consulted together for three .quarters of an hour, when they returned and declared unanimously the eight counts in the indictment - Not Proven, wherein the Court liberated the prisoners. The announcement of the liberation of the prisoners was received with immense applause. On a dispassionate view of the case we regret this verdict, because it may be attended with pernicious 'consequences to the public peace, although we never could believe that the rigour of the Maltese law would be acted on. SINGULAR OccuRRENCE.—In a certain town lives a lady, somewhere about forty years of age, and pos sessed of nearly twenty thousand pounds. She is of what the ladies call an " easyful temper," and not remarkable for possessing shrewdness in proportion to her wealth. A yoang Hibernian, having heard, doubt less, of her riches, laid siege to her; heart. Whetherhe succeeded in making any impression on it, we have not been able to ascertain. One report respecting the affair affirms, that rot only did he succeed, but that it ac tually surrendered to the impetuosity of his attack ; that the lady actually accompanied him to church ; but that, ruing before the ceremony was performed, she gave him the slip, and returned home, resolved still to lead a life of " single blessedness." Be this true, or be it false, the young gentleman was not to be thus summarily dismissed. He renewed his suit, with an increased determination to gain the hand of his adored by " hook or by crook." All his ad vances were, however, repulsed, and despair, for a moment, took possession cf hig soul. But love laughs not only at locks - riths, but at difficulties the most appal ing. The Lothario, after a consultation with certain of his friends, prepared to obtain by strafage_n what he had failed to achieve by open assault,—possession, to wit, of the fair lady's puree— Ne beg pa - . &a, person, we meant to write. In pursuance of the plot concocted with his friends, and in the execution of which they were to as sist, she was invited, under the pretext that she was to At the Court of Assizes at Nantes, on the 19th receive some money which was owing to her, to a certain nst., five boys, from 14 to 16 years of age, were ar- house. In an evil hour, she fell into the trap. She was reigned for the following audacious attempt at a street- surrounded by her lover and his friends, who, when in' robbery in Nantes, between seven and eight in the ever- I the house, invited her to take some refreshment. A glass ing of Shrove Tuesday :—As a man was coming from a of brandy was given to her; she drank it, and shortly af tavern in the rue de la Perouse, he was surrounded by terwards, from . the effect of som e thi ng w hi c h h a d , i t i s the juvenile band, and assa il e d w i t h ki c k s an d bl ows , suppose d, been put into the liquor,. became insensible. while one of them forced from him a silver watch, sus- Next morning early, before she had recovered, she v‘ as pended round his neck by a string, and placed in hie hurried off, accompanied by the woman of the house, by waistcoat pocket. Though bleeding copiously from the the Railway, to Lancast'r, and thence to Gretna' Green. treatment he-received, the intended victim defended him- Here, on the following she was, as the parties selfAntil .assistance arrived, and enabled him to secl;re alledge, married to her persevering and determined suitor one of his assailants, the rest escaping with the watch. The lady herself declares, that she has no recollection of Two days after information was given that the watch was I what took place at Gre;ma Green, the effects of the mix offered for sale. This, and the acquaintance which the ture supposed to hi ve been administered to her, the police already' had with these young rogues, led to the first night, having all the time, been pciter;; in stu arrest of the other four. On being interrogated, one of pifying her and impaii:ng her memory. When she re them confessed the robbery, and impeached his confede- covered the full possession of her senses, she insisted on rates, against all of whom, except one, there was ample immediately returning home, and home she ,retured. evidence for their conviction. Consequently the Jury This is the story current respecting the most extraordi pronounced four of the pi . ;soners guilty, but acquitted nary affair. Doubtless, her husband and his friends are the fifth, who was discharged, Three were sentenced to ready to prove that every step which was taken was imprisonment for 18, 15, am.: 13 months, but the fourth, taken with the lady' s f u ll consen t ; that, in short, the being under the age of discernment, was sent to the ardent woer won her by the legitimate arts of love, and House of Correction,. there to remain. mitil arrives; at not, as Othello was charged with having won Desde years of discretion. mona , "by sp e ll s and medicines.; The affair is, we hear, „. AL $4„ t , /Nes O I Barley 13 0 C-'412 Rapeseed 20 0 Sere I O 1 0 0 1 0 C MARKETS. AIN. .41 9 Barley, Mecklenburg h 0, jo m ag deburgb'' 19 to -- Holstein ........ , 6 5 - Odeibruc k ..... ! ,6 Oats, Eider ............... -- M ec klenburg e" If -- Holstein .......• "'' -- Upland ............ Pease, M ec kl e nburg." Beans .. ............. ..... 5 31 Buck W heat ........... 0.• 60d Rapeseed, Hanover 165 . , Malt .............. Tares ........... :ON. • 6 • glarrnham ........ .... Madra5............ ' 4„ Surat ........ ••••••. .. Domingo ... FEE. Domingo ..... Ls Guayra.....•••••• ..... Porto 4 Ilavannab ..... tol 18% Discount.) .. 9 as Batna White. ....... ... 'B ro wn .... .... VI '"*.l 4 Pernambuco, White BrOln 11 0 i t ile On Wednesday last a fishing-boat enter; ‘ ,„11 bour with the bodies of nine fishermen, Hyde, belonging to the boat No. 52, ,which 1":„ 0 the,-e ; one man only escaping by swimm i le It is pleasing to state the fishermen speak in ao terms of the humanity, and attention, and sYl e st ceived from the English, who paid every Cie dead, and closed their remains in deceit it Amo:ag them were a father and his two son s ' o fttlg melancholy sight to see the remains, followe d ,;01t; rowing families, who are left in misery 01(t° theft deprived of their sole aid for support, going / esting-placv.—Boulogne Gazette of Monday- 116 0 ; 1 0 SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, Eivro,orice This Society is again in k the field ; a nother v eso iol l i announced for Friday, pril 1, on which oc public will have an opportunity of Ilel' i r, in h g oia ua ti lij Dettingen Te Deum, now just a century a" - 0 fP" composed in 1743, and Mozart's Mass, or call it, " Service No. 12." KILKENNY MARKET& pL Wileat,perbarrel)2Bs.od.to 335. N. Beef 'per ..... - 5 Barley 12 0 19 0 Mutten 0 4 Wits . 14 0 15 0 Pork ...............• 6 Flour (per bag) 25 0 :39 0 V's , 0 Butter(per cwt.) 0 0 98 0 Crest! Butter 6 Bacon Figs 45 0 46 0 halt g Coals 1 0 1 2 Potatoes per st.) v HAMBURgi it Wheat, Macke 360 to 4(2 Magdeburg Anhalt, white 813 to 468, red 390 to 061 -- Brunswick 360 to 462 j - Mecklenburg.. 330 to .156 --- Polish 05 to 480 - Holstein Rye, Mecklenburg -- Marko 246 to 270 Elbing and Ko nigsburg 224 to 286 --- Pomeranian 240 to 270 240 to £7O carl Carolina and Tennessee 7 1 4t0 9% Georgia, let so' t 7N 2d g 34 g 3d and 4th ....5q 6 COF Haas.: 13 to 13% Batavia 4)i 55e Sumatra Rio 5 1 4 534 Bahia 34 53r. SUGAR.—(Wit Hayannah, 3 to 3% 'Brown 2% 2%( Rio, White 2ji 4 Brown . l% I% Manila. Brow] in. 2% to 2% --- ----- BIRTHS. f the On the 25th inst., at Leigh Rectory, the WI ° o f', Robert Eden, of a daughter. he IP I , O Y of i ' At Athens, on the 16th (28th) of February' the fhr i Strong, Esq., Consul at that capital for Bayari , 1.- o, y c ' of a son. , 1 , the , On the 26th inst., at Swiss Cottage, IPsw lc. " o t tfr 4 Captain T. Scoott, Royal Marines, of a daughter. 4,,,,, On the 29th inst., at Trinity-square, Newill1;" flr Mrs. Robert Meggy, of a daughter. ~,,, so 0 - i , On the 29th inst , at Bath, the lady of G e or b - rt Esq., of the Bombay Civil Service, of a daughte r * re' ,t, ) 1 000 3 On the 30th inst., in Hans-place, Slo ane-A Rose, of a daughter. A . - of" On the 30th inst., in Welbeck-street , the la') Pole, Esq.. of a son. f li MRRIED. ,b e F e ' On the 30th inst., at St. A Martin's Church, by ' G o f' d d j Ramsay, Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. 5."? Sipping, to Dr. Alexander M'Kechnie, R.N. , e d. 0 On tke 29th inst. at Gloucester, William " t lev t i o f r ot son of T. Wiggin, Esq.,of Harley-street, Londooihe Ve ‘ Emma Rice, daughter f die Hon. and Very Rev' 0, Gloucester. , ut ior io r' On the 29th inst., at St. Manlebone, Richard L' o iss P c v , son, Esq., of Calgarth-park, Westmoreland, to L.° JP only daughter of the Rev. F. H. Cole, Peterly L I4 S I.e ' l ' ' Elizabeth DIE D. IV° oi, li p On the 11th inst., , the wife of Josep h of Carlton-terrace , Br i xton. , Co ld" ; Gn the 24th inst. , William Carden Seto!), '-' s(l ' .1; the Army, and Companion of the Bath, aged 67. 11 i ,tor'l On the 28th inst., to the Vassall.road, No rth j ' r '•I Gill Marsham, Esq. - - P' r° ' l / yO ° ts---- 9 Ol London : Printed and Published by MURDO str No. 112, Strand, at The Suat.Office, No . 1!. , 18.4 f, Lthe County of Middlesex, Thursday,,l 4 irch..3" N tik.„ pay the entire 2s. 6d.. she . received from the P w cidl e week for the room. The deceased would not go 1 bad 0 . • . t • 1 workhouse of the West London Union, as 511° . 1%) ' . sit, great aversion to it. dec e°scd: ; Mr. Carhill, the house-surgeon, deposed to op, 4' ll t admission to the hospital on Wednesday afie rw) h .bon ey " 4, - was labouring under fracture of ore of the thig h e de A t ' ',it.r, but very slight. Her appearance indicated ex tr e i l l t go.: 1)'" , t i, ~. titution, and she seemed in a dying condition. 0. re d to' fi, l 41, r It ' her wine and other nourishment, but she I in9 e . d . IP Ad 6 Saturday afternoon at three o'clock, when she ''' e a the ...:txti Sr , death was mainly attributable to destitutio n, bo ~r - k k "` want of the common necessaries of life, but I ,l ° doll ( ' I : 1 celerated by the fall. Di • ii, , 10 04.,, ) t th e The CORONER said it ought to be generallY:c o no„; ri. d as f defiance of any mandate from the Poor La"' n or sl `,, l' 'Nt ' ;',.' sioisers, that aged and infirm poor who had as "4 ewe '4ld •''' - Do 0 1 b L . sm, to entering a union workhouse, could, by oht , ' 4l'l. ni . nu rdii i o fit or signatures of two Magistrates, compel the gut 0 , th e , vh , the parish or union in which they resided to, a" ° o oe)'''' 4 * 4. 10 a suf f icient amount of out-door relief, either In in food, for their weekly maintenance. ,Irce o' The Jury returned a verdict " That the -,,tibiae' ' it Elizabeth Gwilym, died from fracture of the th i ,s4 Iri th caused by a fall, from extreme debility and 011 0 . 3' 0 ' . iii, 4, produced from the want of the common ne e° et be life." Coo' ge 4 '-tp be , r ' The deepest sympathy manifested itself in t A c onir , Vt , at the wretched situation of the deceased's age" for e ' tic. nion, Ann Gloster ; and, at the suggestion of tb s. e , 0,1 i;:, man, the Jury subscribed 125., the Coroner. . 5 ;4 11 , 4 0,,, , d Mr. ' Mills, his Secretary, 2s. 6d., towards rell e- i i, k .. . h.\ poor creature's immediate necessities. t 't or t x , . - vt 4 ll', THE MARKETS Nit,''t . - COAL MARKET. k O. Ships arrived since last market.day, 8 6 . of r N' S tray, 1 trtti o . s. d. Adair's is V Walls End Whitwell.. . ~„ , t , I t ~ , ,.!1E Can's Hartley tiall , ... g i '9lq Lewes's Main l3 6 Walls End Hausa --- . .. , 1 , West Wylam ... • I Wylam Walls End Gibson l7 0 Wal a Fa, ci Tees ... ..... '...* 6 j !it t i k i W. E. BraddylPsHetton Walls End Hetton 'AI u Ctiwpen ................. .., .„ I. , IL h Walls End Lambton '..". .. o' . ' ' 1, 11 4 ' ,,T, Walls End Stewart's "20 V Walls End Elgin..... .... Z un i , to 't4.' COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. _A a A 4,; , l'i 4 4 , Wheat. Barley. Oats . Beans . . 1..... , 0 Pteh.• 1- • ..... 1 ,11 ii, Oh' Per Quarter. s, to s. a. to a. a. to s. s. to ll' 46 p a , sti Carlisle 6B SI 23 46 , ',. a. ' 'ne Hexham 43 72 36 38 •.3 28 '7 : r,i - ` 4l e r ,, Morpeth 54 (0 26 34 15 21 40 4 ° - .. '' '' Penrith es 33 25 4 , 4 6 •-• 1 'lli' - ', Sheffield — 64 32 23 -- r A u ty L ' Winchester 60 66 26 30 20. '2B 40 n 0; .6 t , 1' Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s. d. I A - 0 0 11 1 , 1 1110., Carmarthen 6 9 C. 0 0 0 4ii 0 0 1 9 5 6 l' O u A ° t5 4 4,,; 11 1 r:owbridge 7 6 8 0 0 0 4 C 0 0 3( 5 0 r i 5 3 " d \;o' , lti• Swansea 7O 80 38 44 20 3a 56 v - ) 4 ' fo tt Z b Per 8011. „09 „ U ; Barnardcastl 14 0 17 0 8 9 9 0 4 0 7 4 9 6 ..„' i 0 v 1:1 r h 71. t1 Durham l2 0150 76 90 50 60 00 LI ' r , 9 011 , , i ,4%, Richmond l2 0 15 610 0 11 06 0 7410 0 ; 8 v t 1 & on tt fitt Stockton l5 0190 90 9t• 60 70 90 1 16 (' 't , 11/ 1. ' 4 IRISH MARKETS. Af ~ItC- r , 00. DUBLIN MARKET NOTE for the Week ending ,-' -- - er , " '! --- . A t iZ t l F rom To 4 . 1 ' I ' Iti .5'6 Whcat,perbarrel ' at stogie.... 2i 0 3 6 °, 1! 9 3 t 3a7 Ilere ~...,.. ltlstone...... 14 0 11 l, I 4 s T ..• 356 Barley l6 stmts..... 14 0 17 0 10 ~ kl :/ Lt 475 Oats l4 stone 9 0 1 3 g -,, ) \; ; 114 " 4 , 0 .Flour, per awl... 8 atone - 0 " ,- ~..' t e \'" 387 Oatmeal ~..,,«,.,,... 8 stone ll 6 14 0 t" , Sold to Bakers only. 5 0 1, .ki - j 9,326 Cwt. Fi0ur..........._-. 8 0 2 3 0 0 e1,',, 0 1 , gAI 4 Average price of ;11;hea't and lour 55s 06 Pe u ,‘" to , ',,P'. -4 ,k,' 0 1 ,- , Receipts of Flour, B.2iii g e 'r,,,t--- 1 , —•••• r ni m rr ' ls ; od. 0 1 1 ,34 °' N. r 't Doles or no. 13,138 Thirdo .......-..• from 6s. 0 6 . 0 6 . t° 'ttie. ~% 4 1 PRICE of BREAD. Athd. , ihh.,_ 1 .1 , , Quarter!, Loat .........ad. 1 half Quartern .. •••• f" 'A ' 11 CORK MARKETS,- Marsh 26. ,„ 1 0 '4 tal r ' ll 4,,A 5. ol.'' 4 tam ql, Wheat (per 20st.)18s 01. to 395 . (MI Oats (per lift... ~• 0 ' t "A - Al, Barley (per 165t.)12 012 8 11.1orr (per cwt )... ~ ter,4 Oatmeal (per ewt.).....“.....43.. Oct to 13s. br„, 0 ~' Arii . Beef, 6d. to 6id.—Mutton, bd. to 6d.-.Veal, 4i" .. ID. cent Pork, 4d. to sd.—Fresh Buttes, lid. to 12d p c. 01 Ct 'ht f. I PRICE 011 , UUTTICR. , CC "' .., re, g 'pi; To the Merchants. To t he 1 0 First Quality... ..... ............. 801...................-•••'' .. .. . 1 i\...... ,, Second 74 .....................-. .. . Third ... 4 I 4 ' .1 Fourth 49 ................... •-,„'.. ?) th,. , Fifth ••••Il •••••••• 41 ......,„,„„..........,'' ... t„'r T. it ',-• Sixth llOll 26 ••••••./...'•••••...... .. t A 'll l ' I b t d' ' + 'F4 CLONMELL MARKETS...March 66 1 I 41 1 t 'ol j t cw, Per 4. wt. ti. 0 1 d. 4! p e t ent a. d. a. d. ' C u" 0 3 / .7 , -4 1 , 't, New Butter 98 oto 99 0 Hider (raw).....44.'r, C / iltk"nse, Oatmeal..... . . — 0 14 6 8ac0nng5.....,.....11 9 4 ;ty °N I Rendered Irar ' d 0 52 3 Heac1e......i.......00'' 01 N ' ' of VI s Per Bag. 0 / 4 e, Fleur, Second .... 0 40 0 iFlour s Thirds...•••r o if i t Mei • —Household 0 38 0 1.-- Fourths.... ." I, A trill l t,, t l Per Barrel. iis 0 , k.h 4 4 , Rapeseed 20 0 —Ol Barley ............. , • -1- .' r ),I•,'.h.' likely to give some occupation to the gentlemen of the long rob Me. fot The agistrates of Livespool were etigllge j ; many hours on Tuesday in the investigation cif ° transaction which has given rise to much gossip in L 8 o f cashire, namely, the abductio of a lady of forty Y ear ! age, whom certain part'es, by meansof wire and vatt ()l , devices, carried off to Gretna-glee], and Lad he 1 9 61 1 vied to one of them, according to her evidence, ege n ' n ,,' her consent. The names of the parties are John ‘"" M‘Gill, John Osborne Quick, Thomas Worrnand son, Richard Jones, Margaret Jones, and Jan e Cloyte : The above prisoners wer e placed at the bar. The ell% was, that the parties bad taken Miss Ann Cretin , a ttl„,, who was repuZed to possess a very large property (110 cording to rumours which have been rife, not less t 40,0001., 50,0001., or 60,0001.), away to Gretna-greto where she had, against her consent, and while undo influence of some potion which had been administer, I; her, been married to the prisoner, John Orr M` Gin• he appeared, however, from the lady's own account , that sr, had Rot 5,0001. After a lengthened inquiry the p rise° were remanded till next day. CORONERS' INQUEST. , gr. On Tuesday a long investigation took place he" 4. l os Wakley, M.P., in the University College nospittl'iing% the body of Elizabeth Gwilym, aged 80, lately resit at No. 3, Fleur-de-lis-court, Fetter-lane. a a 0; Ann Gloster said that she was 82 yea rs or or,• lived in the same room as deceased. 'llre only me deb support the deceased had was 2s. fit 3. per wees ; nl o: loaf of bread from St. Dunstan's penal, a nd w earned a little now and then by nursing. On 157tiirci'll day afternoon last the deCeased and she went to r'-utrl, together, and on coming out deceased said if she *tweeo. go with her she would try and walk. as far as her sis i o orl, The deceased was exceedingly feeble from wa nt t he and on arriving at the corner of Guildford-stree'oilk wind was so powerful that it blew deceased downboo great violence. She e::elaimed, " Oh, Ann, r t . n e a 60' my leg." A policeman came and picked her up a ried her to that hospital. By the CORONER—For three days beferei% tiro; scarcely anything to eat, and all that we bau. r di Wednesday between us was the half of a penTlY ' ), - d tea and the half of a penny loaf. The decease" per c, tt b kl 4 1 , itp 4 t 4 4 ' I N * 4 11 4 4 4 i,it: • 4:tt'q 1, q t , k „„t,,.. t r,, ''''hod' , N T , Z ate r 4 4'4 t j %.1! Qtil