The Sun. — London, England, 1849-04-09 00:00:00

74•' - litrU Wbition 1-NrEWMA.RK-ET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY FCTRIC TELEGRAPH.) (C0n7,,0il from our Afternoon Edition.) Sweepstakes. Cambridgeshire Course. Sobraon ... 0.6 ..• 06 ... Van colt Match—Diplomatist beat Queen Mary. ITALY. TTi supplement to the Piedmontese Gazette, of the 4th inst,, publishes the following report made to the ring by the Minister of the Interior, at an audience greeted to him on the preceding day : " Sire,—Scarcely had the i e vs of the unfortunate issue of the battle of Novara reached Genoa than the party which had created disturbances in that city during several months commenced the propagation of the falsest reports, and, amongst others, that in consequence of the armistice the fortifications of Genoa were to be occupied by Austrian troops. A handful of men, seconded by some companies of the National Guards, forgetful of their duty, endeavoured to establish a committee of public s afety, in which the names of the principal agitators figured. The municipality having defeated this scheme by their firmness, the agitators persuaded the p e ople' to demand arms. The portion of the National Guard which supported the agitators were assembled at the Turzi Palace. The Intendant-General pro ceeded there to endeavour to persuade the National Guards to maintain order. The- latter replied by insults and menaces, and detained the Intendant as an hostage, and they subsequently obtained the surrender of the two forts, Dello Sperone and Del-Begatto, as the price of the release of their hostage. General Feretti, the commander of the citadel, was himself confined in the Tnrzi Palace. The Lieutenant General, in order not to compromise the few troops Which occupied the Ducal Palace retrenched himself in the position of the arsenal of Santo Spirito. Some foreigners had been introduced into the town and armed by the populace, who proclaimed a Provisional Government, composed of General Avezzona, Com mender of the National Guards, the advocate David Morchio, and Constantine Reta. Numerous masses of troops having been joined by some artillerymen, attacked the arsenal, and thus commenced a civil war. General Azarta determined to quit the city, taking with him the garrison of the forts. His Ma jesty's Government reserve to themselves the right of judging the conduct of those superior officers when they shall be better informed of the details of those unfortunate events. It is essentially necessary, under the present serious circumstances in which .the country is placed, that the first attempt at sedition be suppressed, and that this generous city be rescued from the traitors who have excited an internal revolt in the presence of the enemy; thus rendering the conclusion of an honourable peace more difficult. For those reasons, believing that extreme evils require extreme remedies, the Council of Ministers, through my organ, proposed the following decree :- 1" Victor flaxnanuel the Second, &c.—Having heard the proposition submitted to the Council of Ministers by our Minister of the Interior, we have decreed and do decree as follows : " ' Art. 1. The city of Genoa is declared to be in a state of siege. Art. 2. All the civil and military , authorities are placed under the immediate depend ence of Lieut.-General della Marmora, named by our decree of the Ist of April, our Extraordinary Com- Te is,linner, with the most ample provisions. (Signed) ' VICTOR EMMANUEL and PINELLI.' " Turin, April 3, 1849." The Council of Ministers have published the fol lowing proclamation :—" Citizens, the misfortunes of the country are at present increased by intestine disturbances. Some rash men have not feared to light the flames of civil war at this critical moment. The accumulation of difficulties shall not paralyse our courage. If you will not suffer yourselves to be led astray by the allusions of parties you will find in accord with the Ministry the true line of your conduct and you will soon show Europe and our enemies that, although we have been oppressed by misfortune, we have not been degraded, and that with greatness of soul you preserved intact the honour of the country. For those reasons the Ministers request you to co-operate with them, in order that under the present difficult circumstances the palladium of our liberty may not be endan gered by perverting the object of its must sacred in• stitutions—the liberty of the press—the right of as sembling—the right of electing your representatives and the National Guard. The Ministers on their part promise you that under their responsibility to God and in your presence they will spare nothing i❑ order that no parties may violate your guarantees or aggravate the condition to which we are reduced by a painful defeat. Let your hearts remain faithful to the King and to his Government—become bound in one single will, and our country shall not be endangered. (Signed) • " DELAUNAY, INIOROZZO DELLA ROCCA, PINELLI, NIGRA, DEMARGLIERITA, GALVAGNO.'' S IVEDE N. STOCKHOLM AND CHRISTIANA.—M 3 Majesty has ordered the equipment of a training squadro3 (Uebungsgeschwader). The frigate Josephine Eu genia, and the corvette Jarrames are to be ready for a trial expedition of three months on the Ist of June. These, with some others, appear to . constitute the whole of the reported marine equipment of Stockholm. —Hamburgh Borsenhalle, April 6. STANFIELD-HALL MURDERS. The Norfolk Chronicle of Saturday says—" This wretched culprit appears, as far as we can learn, to con tinue to assume the same indifference to his impending fate which he has; hitherto manifested. As he came from the dock, and passed through the room, the same leer that he bad so often put on during the trial passed over his features; and he said in a blunt tone, Where's my bat ?' As soon as he had entered the condemned cell, his first wordis were, Where's my supper? I want my supper after a hard day's work. I shall now live at the country's expense.' No refreshment being immediately ready, he threw himself on the bed. We hear, and sin• cerely regret it, that he has declined the attendance of the worthy chaplain. He has admitted that the jury had no alternative but to lied him guilty as the case was put before them.' The leading gentlemen of Norfolk have opened a subscription for Eliza Chestney. The fallow ing subscriptions have already been received :—Earl of Lecester, Wt.; Hon. Edward Coke, 51.; William Bagge, Esq., M.P., 51.; Lord Huntingfield, 2/ ; Bishop of Norwich, 101.; Dean of Norwich, 3/.; Used Hastings, 51.; Sergeant Bytes, 5/.; Berney Petro, E , q., 51.; Sir W. Beau champ Proctor, Bart., 2/. ; W. Norris, Esq., 21.; F. Ostley, Esq., 21.; Hon. J. Ashley, 2/.; Earl of Oxford, 5/.; Earl of„Cadogan, 51.; W. Burroughs, Esq, M.P., 21.; Sir Henry Darrant, 5/.; Colonel 11. Fitzroy, 2/ ; Sir John Boileau, 51.; Sir Jacob Preston, 31.; Mayor of Norwich, 5/ ; Rev. Canon Wodehouse, 2/. Her Majesty has intimated her intention of lending her assistance, to the unfortunate girl, and has directed a communication to be forwarded tJ the county magistrates, requesting to be informed bow her Majesty's pleasure may be most effectually carried into operation. Amongst the numerous letters written by Rush to the Recorder, there is one which is supposed to indicate that he had entertained the idea of murdering Mr. Jermy as long ago us April 26, 1848. He is soliciting from Mr. Jermy an answer as to the terms on which he would let the Fehningbam property to his mother for eight years. From the context the threat would only seem to refer to helping the claimants to the Stanfield , estates ; but the words are, hare nine children. You have_ completely ruined me, so far as my own property goes. IF you think I shall not take steps to ruin you and your family, you never were more de ceived in your life, You do not know me yet. Hitherto I have done nothing but what I have told you of ; but unless you answer this letter satisfactorily, nothing on earth shall-prevent me from treading in your steps, and Raying yonnff in the same most villanous and base ccess that you have me.' " An application has been made (according to the Ob. server correspondent) for the prisoner's execution to take place on any dew but Saturday, which is market day. It is said it will entirely destroy the busini as of the market. This arplicatirin has been refused, and the exe cution will take place;on the Castle Bridge on next Satur day week. The Castle Bridge fronts the principal eu trance, and extends over the old moat and gardens by which this venerable edifice is surrounded. The bridge can be seen from a vast distance, the country round forming a kind of amphitheatre. Norwich fair was on Saturday held immediately contiguous to the Castle, the prison in which the murderer (Rush) is confined. Drums, trumpets, and other instruments have been in full play all day, whilst the most boisterous sounds of revelry proceed from the degracted people who are its principal supporters. One itinerant showman, who has deter stotasod ac mined to turn the melancholy catastrophe g count, has got up a representation of the murders, with living characters, representin senior; Mr. Jermy, junior; Mrs. Jermy,Eli za C he:t r a il : 3 Y: Watson, the butler, and one or two female servants, with Rush, the murderer; Emily Sanford, and other persona who figure among the dramatis persons. The exhibition is one of the most revolting character, but, at the same time, the most remunerative in the fair, the succession of visitors during the day having been enormous, although no one is allowed to remain more than three successive minutes. An application was made, it is stated, to its magistrates, to put down this disgraceful exhibition, but, after some consideration, they declined to interfere. In the next show is a pantomime, in which Mr. J. B. Rush figures as Pantaloon. Indeed, throughout the fair the name of the unfortunate man is turned to all sorts of pur p o ses, many of t hem no less revoltin g than those ju s t d es cribed. All the noise proceeding from the f a i r can who lies in a cell immediately coeti. be heard by Rus h, gnaw to the road. Another account states that Rush, on leaving the dock after the sentence was declared, said to the offi cials who had him in charge, "I am thirsty, give me some porter." He was informed that the prison regula tions would not allow him to be so accommodated, but that he could htlYo 1101110 tea, au alternative which he somewhat reluctantly accepted. Shortly afterwards he said with composure, " This is a troublesome world." On the Rev. Edward Postle, one of the county magis trates who committed Rush in the first intance, passing, the murderer recognised the reverend gentleman through the bars of the cell. He exclaimed, "Is that you, Postle? I have a clearer conscience than you have now. He was asked whether he would avail himself of the spi ritual service of the Rev. Mr. Brown, the chaplain of the Castle. Ho replied "Oh no, not at all. I can do without him while lam here." He remains in the cell in which he was placed immediately after his committal, and he will remain there until the day appointed for his execution. He is very reserved—a portion al ways of his character—and will enter into no communication with the officers of the Castle, except so far as is necessary to convey to them his wants. The only person who has visited him since his conviction is his solicitor; no member of his family has made an ap plication. A rumour was circulated to-day that Rush's el, lest daughter was dying in consequence of the shock. Inquiry was made by our reporters amongst those farmers and others who had come from Wymordham to the market, and they fully confirmed the statement. His daughter is represented to be a fine young woman about twenty years of age. There appears to be no reason to doubt the truth of the statement. The mur derer empbys himself by walking , up and down a small yard attached to his cell, and when be does speak, he makes some jocular remark about his wish to get out of the world, and that he would not be the only one who had to complain of the troubles of this world. At times he whistles, and at others remarks upon the discordant noises proceeding from the fair outside. One of the county magistrates made the following re mark t) oar reporter this morning:—" Rush says he has bilked Sir George Grey, the Commissioners of Bank ruptcy, the judges in civil actions' in which he was con cerned, and everybody else with whom he has had com munication; whether he will bilk Mr. Calcraft, the executioner, remains to be seen." It is an undeniable tact that he has squandered away the whole of his chil dren's property which was left to them by their mother. He was left one of the trustees in the mother's will, but finding that he had not sufficient command of the money, forged a codicil, in which unlimited powers were given him to employ the money as he pleased, and containing this singular provision, that no questions as to the rea sons of this codicil being executed should be asked. All the money has been spent, and the future condition of the family must be truly lamentable, an ejectment from the farms having been served. Yesterday he attended the chapel, and conducted himself decently during the performance of Divine service. Indeed he always observed the outward characteristics of a reli gious man. When Lerner and Jermy attended his house at Felmingham, all joined in family devotion, even at the time he was making his arrangements for the perpetra tion of a series of the most revoking crimes, and for fix ing them upon the men who were kneeling with him in united devotion. In his house aas a box designed for the collection of money for a society in London, called " The Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews," and to this he invariably called upon his friends to contribute. Notwithstanding the remark of the Learned Judge, that "neither morbid sensibility, nor the idle curiosity of the world will be allowed to pry into the secrets of the murderer's cell," hundreds of per sons unconnected with the culprit are stated to have made application to have but a moment's view of bim, so much interest does the murderer excite. This applica tion has been in all cases very properly refused, and the prison regulations have been carried out to the fullest extent. Every precaution is taken to prevent him making an attempt on his life. EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF THE CONVICTED FORGER, W. H. GIBSON. Perhaps the annals of forgery furnish few such in stances of an entire and systematic abandonment to a life of infamy as that of William Henry Gibson, who created such a sensation in Scarborough last season as Captain Gordon, and was sentenced by Mr. Baron Alderson, at the late Durham assizes, to be transported for ten years, on his own confession, for having forged a cheque for 301., on Messrs. Kirkland and Co., London. The prisoner, whose real name is William Henry Gibson, is thirty-five years of age, and was born in Essex. He was most respectably connected. His maternal grandfather was rector of Cricksey and Athorn, and at his death left property to the amount of above 8,500/. to his daughter, the prisoner's mother. The subject of our sketch was apprenticed to Mr. Byles, surgeon, Spitalfields. At the early age of eigh teen he married the daughter of a respectable stationer in the City, b v whom he had five children. His appren ticeship finished, Gibson seemed to have abandoned himself to the most unprincipled and reckless courses. Forgery and seduction became familiar to his hands —the latter in its most revolting form, because prac tised upon those to whom very tender ties, both by blood and by marriage, gave peculiar claim to his protection from anything that could sully their honour or destroy their peace. Suffice it to say, that among his victims, subsequent to his marriage, may be numbered first a very near relative to his wife ; second, his own cousin, a young girl of eighteen—she was enceinte when he was apprehended ; besides a Miss B—, the daughter of a gentleman in affluent circumstance a. In thinking of these astonish ment is blended with pity. He forged his father's tame to a large amount. He next introduced himself as Captain W. 11. Gib 01 to Mr. Will Boucher, solicitor, whom he induced to discount a bill to which he forged the name of his father-in law. He like wise forged a letter showing him to be entitled to 2,0001. In January, 1847, he was committed to prison for debt, and after an incarceration of two or thr e months he feigned madness, and so successfully as to obtain his release. In March, 1848, we still find him wearing her Majesty's uniform, and he was now dashing about in high life as Colonel St. George. Under this cognomen he en gaged apartments in a boarding-house near St. James's-place, London. He speedily effected an in troduction to a lady ; the acquaintance ripened into a warmer feeling. He at length proposed, and was accepted ; he paid her the most flattering and-assiduous attentions, and every where accompanied her as her future husband. She drove her own carriage. On one occasion, just after he had gallantly handed her to her seat, and was himself about to follow, a fellow tapped him on the shoulder, and said, " Colonel St. George you are my prisoner for 7501. of debt, and 541. costs." " Indeed," replied the colonel, looking just as little disconcerted as possible, " that's a bad job, particu larly as I have but 4501. in my desk. However, I suppose I must go to prison, as my pay will not be due for a fortnight." His betrothed, who had not been an uninterested listener, now interposed, and offered to assist him in his difficulty. He expressed his thanks, and the lady gave him 3751., which was handed to the officer. The whole transaction was nothing but a well conducted plan to obtain money. " The Colonel' shortly afterwards attempted to swindle 1,000/. from his unsuspecting and kind-hearted inamorata. He pretended that he had undertaken to lend 2,0001. to a friend. Ile actually persuaded her ;o give 1,000/, whilst he himself was to furnish the other 1,0001. This lady repaired to her solicitor, to instruct him to sell out so much stock for her; but he, after conversing with his client, became suspicious of our gentleman, who made his exit. This is be lieved to have been his last adventure previous to his appearance at Scarborough as the dashing Lieut. W. H. Gordon. There he embarked on a similar adven ture, in which he displayed equal finesse, but which, fortunately for society, has at last, it is to be hoped, interposed an effectual check to his unprincipled career. Thi sentence of ten years transportation was passed upon him.—Lincolnshire Chronicle. THE CHURCH MOUSE'S PETITION. (From Punch.) Oh! hear a reverend captive's prayer, In durance vile that lies, Nor let a Bishop's heart be shut Against a Debtor's cries. • For here, my Lord, immured I sit, Behind this•prison grate, Cast at thy suit in costs, whose sum Exceeds my small estate, If e'er thy breast has horror felt Of bigot's stake or chain, Let not thy persecuting ire Seceding SHORZ detain. Oh! do not yet more deeply stain Thy somewhat dingy lawn, Nor triumph that so poor a prize Within thy toils is drawn. The free donations of my flock My scanty means supply, And why should thine intolerant heart My pulpit's use deny? The cushioned desk and sounding board Were made for all and each; Let every clergyman enjoy The common right to preach, The well-taught theologian's mind Man's conscience wilt respect; Regard all creeds with liberal eye; And hope for every sect. Should e'er the times, as some forebode, Of faggot and of flame Return, and Smithfield, as of yore, Its mitred Tictims claim; Thou feel the zealot's rage; Beware, my Bishop, lest, in turn, And, being roasted, call to mind SHORE in his dungeon-cage! Or, though thou too the martyr's fate May'st not be doom'd to share For once let pity bid thy heart A prostrate victim spare. So, in thine ever stormy See, May peace at length be found ; And harmony and concord dwell' Where strife and wrath abound. So may'st thou never go to law, Thyself the coat to bear; Thus in thine own hot water boiled, And csuzht in thine o.‘ , n snare. The Right Hon. Sidney and Alm Herbert have gone to Wilton House, near Salisbury, for the holidays, to stay with th e Countess Dowager of Pembroke and the family circle located there. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1849 CONVICT DISCIPLINE TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,-It gives me more concern than I can ex press, that, though you recur again and again to the difficulty now experienced in disposing of our convicts, you yet abstain from giving prominence to my suggestions regarding them. You say that these show more benevolence than shrewdness ; and it ap- pears to me that they show more common sense than either. The colonies reject our convicts at present because we systematically make them worthless as colonial ser vants. The common expression of colonists regard ing them is, "We would rather have the article neat, as we used to get it, than as you now deliver it." "We do not like your present whitewash." And they are quite right in sa3 ing so. We do not deny that our present forms of secondary punishment deteriorate. We admit that men are the worse for passing through our gaols and other penal establishments ; and yet contend for our right to distribute them afterwards over our colonies. Surely, not much shrewdness is required to object to this ; nor is any unreasonable spirit evinced in re sisting it. England, in her comprehensive dominion, has an undoubted right to overrule mere scruples in order to gain a general good; but she can have no right to keep up a great manufactory of vice and use lessness, and distribute its products afterwards among her colonial children. Nor will she find it by any means possible much longer to maintain such a system. In preparing our criminals for becoming eventually good colonial servants, we commit at present almost every error of which the subject is susceptible. We systematically enervate both their bodies and minds. We seek only to make them good prisoners —we do not advert to the far higher object of preparing them to become good free men. We thus impose upon them sentences measured by time, which give an in terest in merely whiling away and cheating that time, instead of sentences measured by labour, which would give an interest in employing it. We also impose mouths of separate imprisonment, crushing the very life out of men, and giving them habits of the idlest supineness, instead of days, which would subdue but not enfeeble, and prepare for exertion, instead of unfitting for it. We give fixed gratuitous rations, irrespective of exertion made to earn them, which take from a man all charge of his own main tenance, instead of requiring extra labour for all supplies issued to him, thereby making him feel the cost of his support, and thus reconcile him to the coarse because cheap fare. We exhaust our invention in protecting prisoners from variations of temperature and exposure, instead of systematically subjecting them to both, like ordinary free labourers. . We thus show our humanity to them where it both is, and creates, weakness ; and we withhold it where it would both be, and create, strength. We subject our men to a strict military discipline which, taking from them every occasion of self-guidance, necessarily enfeebles its powers ; instead of giving them a direct interest in their own good conduct, thereby obtaining the same punctuality by other means, and strengthening the powers of self-guidance by habitually exercising them. No wit or wisdom could have devised more effectual means of , utterly destroy ing and enfeebling our men than we have thus stum • bled on while seeking, conveniently to ourselves, to punish them; and till we recognise this truth, and act on the conclusions to which it conducts, it is quite hopeless to expect that we shall ever be otherwise than embarrassed for means of advantageously dis posing of the human refuse that we so create. I conclude, theta, Sir, as in my former letter. If we want to vend our article we must begin by im proving its value. We can no more force a market for convicts than for anything else; , and the more attentively we consider the subject in all its bearings, the more impressed shall we otherwise become with the conviction, that it is the first interest of society, as well as its duty, to endeavour to reform its crimi nals not less than to punish them—to improve their capacities not less than to gain their wills ; to make in every sense men of them, and not merely to keep them obedient well-conditioned slaves for a temporary purpose.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, A. MACONOCRIE. If at any time the streets of a populous town should be free from the nuisance of stalls, that time is the period of holding a great fair, when the streets are crowded with people assembled from all parts of the coun try. Ordinary market days present no scenes of bustle and jostle comparable with those of fairs, when a great sea of human being is sweeping about. Yet the Lighting and Paving Commissioners have determined that stalls shall not occupy the streets on market days, and with a rare consistency have granted permission that the streets shall be occupied by stalls during the approaching fair week. The plea of the persons who have sought this privilege is the bad state of trade, and the pressure of taxes. How stalls set before their doors will give them relief, they did not undertake to demonstrate, but they seemed comfortably to take it for granted that the poverty so paraded must be relieved by selling goods trom stalls, and that it would not be mitigated if the same goods were sold from ships. People generally think that a good shop is more attractive to customers than a stall buried in the midst of a mass of crowded human beings; but the petitioners seem to think the most enticing object is that which hides their shops, yet scarcely can be be seen itself. If there were no stalls, the shops would be visible to entice whoever wanted to buy, and those who had wants would supply them; but to think of creating customers by impeding the free use of the public streets with stalls, is quite as ridi culous as the content to permit stalls to be erected is illegal, and unjust to Of- public. Other people besides the High -street tradesmen who signed the petition have to feel the_ depressioa of the times, and to pay rent and taxes; and if each set up a privilege of being more prominent than his neighbours, there would soon be a mad competition which would produce disorder and outrage. With people of foresight, the affAir is deemed a pretext upon which to hinge the getting back the stalls into the streets altogether. The policy now adopted in Lincoln is, not to provoke an tagonism by distinctly claiming t he whole of what is covetted, but to get it by bits, seizing hold of every op portunity which seems to favour the movement. What the visit of Prince Albert is to corporate lovers of scarlet gowns, the fair is looked upon as being to the nuisance loving tradesmen, who would not be so fond of talking about their poverty if they were really poor! it is a con venient point for originating a stealthy movement.— Stamford Mercury. RAILWAY ECOl4OllY.—Some very useful experi ments with a new passenger-carriage axle-box have just been completed upon the London and North-Western Railway, under the superintendence of the company's officers. The objection to the ordinary axle-boxes of railway carriages is, that while the grease finds an easy escape from them, and is wasted to a very expen sive extent, the dust, of which an abundance is ge nerally raised by the speed of the train, insinuates itself between the axles and the journals, and acts as a grind ing medium upon the surface of both metals. The conse. quence is, a very considerable wear of the materials and frequent " hot axles." To this objection must be added the wages of the men employed at the stations to re plenish such of the axle-boxes as have lost an undue quantity of grease. The men are allowed very little time to do this, and in their haste they seldom stop .to examine whether in scraping off and putting into the axle-box the grease that may have been pressed over the side, they gather up with it a quan tity of the fine pointed grit which is usually adhering to the outside of axle-boxes. It is without gor s fe o a m osne e e. o o f fT t ht h he e e n a x l oeffiw e c xs o T oe e i s b to h r x e ee q se u , n i w r g i hi n ni g ec ch a r very seldom that a passenger train runs fifty miles are p u fr g e d s the h e p s in ventionaur-- p ly ment of the London and North-Western Company, Mr. Normanville, prevent the admission of grit, by the use of a screw opening, through which the grease is sup plied, and the waste of the latter, as well as the insinua tion of dust between the axles and the journals, are avoided by the application of a valve acted upon by vul canised India-rubber' springs, fitted to the axle at the hitherto open end of the box. The experiments were made with two four-wheeled first-class carriages, Nos. 1011 and 169, taken indiscriminately from the rolling stock of carriages fitted with this description of box, of which there is a considerable number at work. These carriages were worked in the express and ordinary trains between London and Liverpool and Manchester. One of them ran upwards of four thousand miles, and the other upwards of three thousand eight hundred miles, without the axle-boxes having had any additional grease supplied, and without the axles having once got " hot." At the conclusion of the experiment, the axles and jour nals were inspected by the company's officers and found to be in perfect order. It is stated that the application of these axle-boxes to the company's stock will effect a saving of several thousand pounds sterling per annum. A most providential escape occurred at Recca slate quarry, on Tuesday. One of the men in the pit espied a sliding in the side of the rock, and immediately gave an alarm. The men ran into the tunnel just soon enough to escape with their lives, as some hundreds of tons of slate fell down on the spot where they had been standing. Western Times. CHICORY IN COFFEE.—Buy your coffee in the bean, and grind it fresh every morning. You will procure a small coffee mill for half-a-crown. We recommend you to buy chicory, and mix one spoonful with five spoonfuls of coffee; it is an improvement. Chicory will cost you 4d. to 6d. per pound; but especially avoid buying ground coffee, for the article is far superior when ground fresh as required. The Earl and Countess of Enniskillen have left town to juin the circle partaking of the hospitalities of the Marquis of Northampton, at Castle Ashby. APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following gentlemen passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practice on Thurs day last:—George King, Caine; Juhn Ronnie, Ply mouth; John Wilcocks, Wakem, Truro; Edward John Vivian; Joseph Powell Swanwick, Trestbury. Cheshire; John Buncombe, Taunton; John Dix, Smallburgh, Norfolk • Theobald Ringer, Laugharn e, Carmarthen shire; Norfolk; Anthony Floyer, Floone, Northampton shire; Richard Edmonds Price, Marlborough; William Kitchen Parker, Peterborough ; Samuel Atkinson Ed ward c ke a l I r , I b or Chichester;o ugh ; Ge o r Edwardge S mit LeopardA xbri d ge ; Neville, Esher, Surrey ; John Weekes, Tavistock, Devon ; Franklen George Evans, Cardiff; Richard Pope lrston, Henley-on-Thames. lelLenvetex, liteacH 22.—Sid. Union, Greenland; 26th, I St. Andrew, Davis's Straits) Lord Gambier, Ditto. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTH WALES CI RC UlT.—Chester, April 7. The business of this circuit was brought to a close about one o'clock this afternoon. The following are some of the last cases tried : CROWN COURT—(Before Mr. Justice ERLE). CHARGE OF CHILD MURDER. Bridget. Stanton, 25, was charged with the wilful murder of Thomas Stanton, and pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. Trafford and Mr. Brandt prosecuted. The former stated the case, to the effect that the prisoner, who is the wife of a match-seller, came to lodge at North Rode, near Macclesfield, in October last. In the middle of November last her husband joined her, and they continued lodging there till Sunday the 17th of December, the day of the alleged murder, having with them the deceased child, Thomas Stanton, which she suckled. On the morning of that day, the husband being in bed, he and the prisoner quarrelled because she had not washed his shirt :cn the Saturday night. They subsequently quarrelled at dinner time, when the husband hit her a tap on the side of her head, she having the child in her arms. She fetched the con stable, and told him her husband had beaten the child and knocked two teeth out, and had hit it a blow on the her s a h n e showed h dthe nn child m the t n child. Macclesfield Th e w con stable nr k house ; and when on her way there she was seen by several persons, and the child appeared to be quite well. The lest place she called at no child was seen , b u t she had something under her cloak that appeared like a bundle. She arrived at the police station, Maccles field, about four o'clock, and produced the child which was dead, and she stated that her husband had killed it by abusing it, and knocking its head and its teeth out. The husband was apprehended on her state ment, and a surgeon made a post mortem examination and he found some severe bruises on the side of the head, a mark on the cheek, and a bruise on the thigh. The surgeon was of opinion that the blows on the side of the head were the cause of death. The examination on the inquest resulted in the discharge of the hus band and the committal of the prisoner. Several witnesses were called to prove the occur rences at North Rode, and on the way to Maccles field. One of the witnesses said, that when at the lodging-house the child had two teeth . knocked out, and looked sickly and delicate, and she said that her husband had done it, and that she would send her husband- where he was before, for her child would die. Cox, the constable, in his evidence, stated that when the prisoner fetched him she said her husband had abused her and the child, and that the latter would die before night. 'Williamson, a constable of Macclesfield, proved that the prisoner brought her dead child to the police-office, and she said her hus band had inflicted the injuries on the child in bed that morning, and that the child had died when she had got. a small distance on the way from North Rode. Mr. Newbold, surgeon, stated that he examined the child, and found bruises on the forehead, left temple, left cheek, and left thigh ; it had but about eight teeth, and the two lower middle teeth were missing, having been violently extracted. A quantity of ex travasated blood was found on the brain and on the base of the skull. The bruises on the skull were the cause of death. Five or six hours might have elapsed between the blows and death. The Learned JUDGE went minutely through the evidence, and said, that if the cause of death admitted of reasonable doubt, then, in a serious case like this, their verdict must be on the side of mercy. In this case the cause of death was involved in great mystery, and there was no direct. testimony implicating the ' prisoner, or even whether, supposing she inflicted the injuries, that they had been inflicted wilfully; but there was some evidence that those injuries had been inflicted before she left North Rode. It was an ex tremely improbable motive to assign that the prisoner did this act in order to charge it on her husband, and get him sent to gaol. Verdict—Not Guilty. A verdict of Not Guiltyl was also taken on the co roner's inquisition. CIVIL SlDE—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.) LIBEL—COPPOCK V. LOMAX. Mr. Evans, Q.C., Mr. Welsby and Mr. Townshend, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins (who was brought by special retainer from the Northern Circuit), Mr. Egerton and Mr. M'lntyre, appeared for the defendant. Mr. TOWNSLIEND opened the pleadings. The plaintiff was Henry Coppock, and the defendant James Lomax, and the action was to obtain compen pensation in damages for a false and malicious libel published in the . Stockport Advertiser, on the Ist of December last, concerning the plaintiff, in his profes sion as an attorney, by imputing to him selfish, dis honest, and corrupt practices, and that when town clerk of Stockport he gave corrupt and dishonest advice to the corporation in certain transactions between the corporation of Stockport and Lord Vernon, with the dishonest motive of benefiting himself at the expense of the borough, and in order to obtain the situation of clerk of the county court. The defendant pleaded not guilty, whereupon issue was joined. Air. Sergeant WmuNS—Does: your Lordship think that is a libel ?• The JUDGE —lt sounds rather like it, but we have that to try. Mr. EVANS opened the case. He had to appear for Mr. Coppock, the plaintiff in this action, who was the town clerk of Stockport, the clerk of the county court, and also the clerk of the board of guardians, who came into that court for the purpose of recover ing a compensation in damages for a most serious libel on his character. The libel was published in the Stockport Advertiser—a paper of very extensive circulation, of which the defendant was editor, and in which he wrote with considerable ability. He (the Learned Counsel) had always been a humble sup porter of the liberty of the press, always concurring in the sentiment, " The liberty of the press ; it is like the air we breathe, without it we die,' believing that unnumbered advantages had resulted to this country from that liberty, and believing that the advantages hereafter to be derived were as great as those already resulting from it ; nevertheless, he was most anxious that this glorious institution should not be grossly converted into an engine fbr the corruption of private character, and he thought that those who used it for such purposes were justly exposed to its consequences. He charged the defendant with having inflicted a grievous wrong upon his client in the publication of a certain false and malicious libel respecting him as a public officer—an accusation which, could it be substantiatel, would not only disqualify him from dis charging the offices which he held, but would also disqualify him from acting as the professional adviser of any man. Now, the defendant had done this not on his own account, but as the agent of a party, and he should prove from his own statements that he styled himself the representative of a party politi cally opposed to Mr. Coppock. No doubt he was amply indemnified from any consequences of an ad verse verdict, for it was evident no expense had been spared in bringing to his aid in that court the services of the distinguished advocate to whom he was so I unequally opposed that day. But of that he did not had met this action. They in m h c n a o , ad m y p ic l nah which n r , g but ed e e r m. didLomax m , and bitterly, of the th the libel, and challenged them to justify it or prove the truth of the allega tions, but instead of doing so they had made a most cowardly retreat, to avoid an investigation into their given his clients truth or falsehood. to town -clerk, N a V n a d s gleat professional Alr. C o p pock being the adviser of the corporation, had advice which, in his conscie nce, he knew to be twhraotnghoaphdaddidsitoinve this antag engaged to . give him an office of emolument. The Learned Counsel read the article containing disadvantageous becauseto theirLo r l d nt V er e e r a n t o ; n had the libellous matter," and commented thereon as he proceeded. It was of great length. He asked, could there he a more gross imputation upon a professional man than was contained in the former part of that article ? It was to that he more particularly called their attention. The charge did not affect Mr. Coppock" in his public capacity alone, but was a le length individual. on Theth e L re e fl a e rn ct e io dn n co up n o s n el nature of the libel, and concluded by calling upon the jury to dispossess th e i r m i n ds of anything they might have heard or r ea d i n t h e n e ws papers, and he c a ll e d h d i rlate a d s a a t c p o r n iv s a id te erab for such damages as would mark their sense of the wrong inflicted on Me.,Coppock by his libeller, in his feelings- and in his reputation. Mr. William Rawson, clerk to the plaintiff's at torneys, produced a copy of an affidavit sworn by the defendant, proving that he was the registered pro prietor of the Stockport Advertiser. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WILXINS.—The attorneys to whom witness is clerk, have never acted as London agents to Mr. Coppock ; certainly not during the last seven years. Mr. W. Calvert, clerk to Mr. Coppock, produced a copy of the paper containing the libel, which he purchased at the shop of the defendant on the Ist of December. Mr. Forlonger, managing clerk to Mr. Coppoek_._ On the 4th of December last called on the defendant, saw him, and produced the copy of the newspaper containing the libel, and pointed it out to him. Asked him if it was an editorial paragraph. He said, " Not all of it." Witness then said, "Ifit is not, Mr. Cop pock wishes you t o g i ve hi m th e name o f th e aut h or of it." He replied, " Luckily fur me I represent a certain party, and they wish me to represent them." Witness said he merely wished to know whether it was an editorial paragraph or not. He said, " I can not say." 'Witness said, " You can say if you like." He:replied, " Yes, but I must take time to con: der -I'll tell you after the court is over." Went after the court was over, and he then said he declined to answer the question. Mr. EVANS—Do you wish the libel read ? Mr. Sergeant WILKINS—I shall read the produc tion you call a libel by and bye. Mr. E. White called—l live in Great Marlborough street, and am attorney to Lord Vernon. Have read the libel. Had a correspondence with Lord Vernon in 1843, about the sale by Lord Vernon of certain lands to the corporation, and the purchase of other lands. (➢lr. Sergeant Wilkins admitted the article referred to by Mr. Coppock.) Cross-examined—The negotiations began in August, 1843, and ended at Christmas, 1844. That did not refer to the manorial rights, but to Stringer's fields, which it was considered desirable the corpora tion should have for public walks. The other sub ject was the site of the court-house and some adjacent buildings, which were to be granted for 999 years on chief rent. Prior to that there was a dispute respect ing the right of Lord Vernon to build in the market place. He understood his lordship's steward sent several persons to build, but they were resisted by the corporation. Soon after the negotiations commenced respecting the purchase by Lord Vernon of a piece of land and the old workhouse. His lordship gave 1,000/. for it. Does not know that the building alone cost the rate-payers 4,000/. . Re examined-As far as lam able to judge the price was a fair one. By the JUDGE—The main line of railway comes close to the land, and it is now turned into a coal depot. _ . _ Mr. Thomas Ashworth, local agent to Lord Vernon in Cheshire—Had had the negotiation respecting the sale by the corporation and the parish to Lord Vernon. The article in question refers to the transaction. Cross-examined—Am a valuer of buildings.. The workhouse must have cost a considerable sum. There is more than an acre of land adjoining. It is now valuable to Lord Vernon. Stringer's fields remain as they were. In the first instance, the agreement was that the corporation should pay 21,000/. for their pur• chase from Lord Vernon ; but the contract had not been completed. An Act of Parliament has been passed to complete the contract, and the purchase money is to be 22,5001. Two of the buildings are very old. Re-examined—ln my opinion Lord Vernon gave a fair price for the land and workhouse. Stringer's fields were to be given, if the corporation turned them into public gardens, and kept them up. I valued the tolls at 24,5001. This closed the case for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant WILKINS then proceeded to address the jury on behalf of the defendant. He confessed that never since he had been called on to address a jury, had he been so perplexed for lack of topic and for lack of argument as in the present case. He certainly had taken the liberty of asking his Lordship, after hearing the opening of the pleadings by his LParned Friend, whether the statement which he read was a libel, and certainly if they took that view of the case, that it was a libel, then they must come to the conclu sion that every public manwho had ever existed in this country, and whose conduct had been commented on, had been libelled. After some other eloquent obser vations, the Learned Gentleman went through the whole of the alleged libel and commented upon it, contending that it was merely a comment upon Mr. Coppock in his public character, and not calculated either to injure him in private, or to bring him into contempt. He contended that the smallest damages would satisfy. The Learned JUDGE then proceeded to sum up to the jury. After explaining the law of libel, he said the question to be considered was, whether the article in question imputed corruption to the plaintiff, or was calculated to injure him in his character; if so, their verdict must be for the plaintiff, with such damages as they might think him fairly entitled to; but if they should be of opinion that it was, in truth, merely a discussion of matter which had been going on in the borough, and did not attribute corrupt motives, or was not injurious to the character of the plaintiff; then their verdict must be for the defendant. The jury retired, and, after ten minutes' consulta- tion, found a verdict for the defendant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. William Mansell and Edward Hardy, the one 18 the other 22 years of age, were brought before Al derman Hooper under thefollowing circumstances : James Ellicomb, police-officer of Exeter, said, on Tuesday last I was at the coffee-house near the turn pike -gate, at the railroad station in Exeter, looking after a young man who was charged with having set fire to a house. I saw the prisoners in the coffee room, and as one of them answered the description I had received of the person who had fired the house, and they had a chest which appeared to be well stocked in their possession, I asked if the chest was their property, and Hardy said it was, and that they were brothers. I expressed a wish to see what was in the chest, and at their desire had it taken up stairs. The chest was then placed upon a box, and Mansell immediately put a pistol in his mouth, and bidding his friend good bye, snapped it. The pistol, how ' ever, missed fire, for although it was loaded it had no percussion cap upon it. I at once jumped up and secured Mansell, and he then dropped another pistol, which I se cured, and which was also loaded with powder and hall. I then procured assistance, and I found in a canvas bag which he had in his pocket 140 sove reigns and other money. The chest was filled with all manner of things, and as I suspected they had stolen the property, I conveyed them to the station hotke. I have since learned that the money was stolen from Mr. Pulling, a stockbroker, at 2, Capel court, Bartholomew-lane. At the police office the prisoner Mansell stated that the money was taken by the younger prisoner, Hardy, from a Mr. Pulling, and that they were going away with it. Mr. Joseph Pulling stated that Hardy had been a clerk in his employment, and had left without notice a fortnight ago. He had given him a cheque to get cashed, which he was to fill up for 10/. ; instead of this, however, it was filled up for 1051., and the money was paid at his banker's. The witness ex pressed his unwillingness to prosecute the prisoners. Alderman HOOPER said he could not permit such a case to pass without investigation. The prisoners were then committed for trial. GUILDHALL. Thomas Peach, a porter, in the service of Mr. Thomas Rawlinson, Skinner-street, Snow-hill, whole sale tea-dealer, was placed at the bar before Sir Peter Laurie, on a charge of carrying on a series of rob beries, under the following circumstances : Mr. Rawlinson stated that the prisoner had been in his service for upwards of 24 years, and the greatest confidence was placed in his integrity, but in conse quence of finding that he was being robbed to an alarming extent, his suspicions were aroused, and he directed an officer to watch the prisoner when he left the warehouse. Accordingly, about a quarter to two o'clock on Good Friday, the officer stopped the pri soner in Skinner-street, and brought him back to the ' warehouse, when it was found that he had concealed in his trousers and coat pockets 211 b. of loaf-sugar. The prisoner's house, in the Crescent, Church-street, Kennington, was searched, and it was there found out that he had issued cards in the neighbourhood with his name on them as a " tea and coffee dealer," and a large amount of witness's goods, to the extent of from 8/. to 101. worth, were discovered. Sir PETER LAURIE asked Mr. Rawlinson if he was at all aware that Peach was carrying on business on his own account ?—Mr. Rawlinson said he was not. The prisoner had been constantly plundering him to supply his own customers. Bohle Harms, 288, deposed to taking the prisoner back to the warehouse, and finding the sugar in his possession, as also a small key. He then went to the prisoner's house, and found in two cupboards a quan tity of grocery, consisting of 43 parcels of tea, weigh ing 231bs. ; 18 parcels of loaf sugar, weighing 241b5.; 14 parcels of rawisugar, weighing 171b5.; 7 packages of coffee, half a pound of blue, 6 parcels of currants, 9 packages, containg candy, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, ground ginger, sago, soda, and isinglass, a new brass tap, 2 balls of twine, 7 bundles of paper, and 27 canvass coffee hags. That morning, while on his way to the court, the prisoner admitted the goods to be the property of his master, which he had been a long time collecting, and that he must have been mad to have so committed himself. Mr. Rawlinson said, from the general appearance of the goods, he believed them to be his property. Sir PETER LAURIE asked the prosecutor what wages he gave the prisoner ? Mr. Rawlinson said he had 17s. per week. Sir PETER LAURIE said it was lamentable to see a man who had held a situation so long, and in whom such great confidence had been placed, in the pri Boner's position. However, the system of robberies by servants had latterly become so prevalent, that it was necessary a check should be given to it, and ex amples made; and, therefore, he should commit him for trial. The depositions being made out, he was conveyed to Newgate. FOREIGN BITTERS.-011 a recent importation of a parcel of bitters, being the extract of wormwood, the same being for an eminent metropolitan firm, was en tered for the duty, as goods manufactured at the ad valorem duty of 10 per cent.; bet the revenue officers considering the article to be liable to the wine duty, ap plication was made to the authorities for the delivery of the bitters at the duty proffered by the parties, and it appearing, on examination by the proper officers of the department, that the quantity of spirit contained in the article wes but a very trifling per tentage on the whole of the liquid, directions were given by the authorities for the delivery of the bitters at the ad valorem duty of 10 per cent. as requested. THE RAILWAY AT DONCASTER.—Two locomotive engines arc to be brought to Doncaster next Week to ballast the lino between Doncaster, Rossington, and Bawtry. The t unne l-b r i dge for the Balbrread will be completed in about a fortnight, and it will then be de cided by the company whether they will throw a bridge ; over the line at Littlemoor-lane, or divert the road. The traffic on the line north of Doncaster is increasing very satisfactorily, M any h orses have th i s wee k b ee n brought a/ from Manchester for o ur f a i r .—Nottingham Journ . NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVAL OF REAR• ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES NA PIER AT SPITHEAD.—The St. Vince nt, 120, Captain Nacres, with the Mag. of Rear• Admiral Sir Charles Na pier, k C. 13., anchored at Spithe,ad at nine o'clock on Saturday morning, having left Plymouth on Thursday evening. The gallant Admiral 1 ende-d soon af(er she had anchored, and paid his respects to Admiral Sir B. Capel. We understand telegraphic orders arrived for her to go into harbour the same day, but the tide did not suit; co her coming into harbour was postponed until Monday; but she took out her powder and live shells on Saturday, and the Myrtle steamer went out to bring some of the Roar-Admiral's trap on shore. It was said his fllg would be struck on Saturday at sunset, but it was flying yesterday afternoon. The St. Vincent is to be in readiness for paying off on Saturday next; and, to expedite her return of store 3, she scrubbed hammocks yesterday morning, and they are up drying through the day. The St. Vincent, like the Plumper and Heyman], experienced some hard northerly breezes, but she lost no spar excepting the jib boom : she has strained a good deal, and her wear and tear of cordage and canvas have been considerable. She unfortunately lost a man overboard—John Goodman—who fell from the foretop sail-yard, anal striking his head against a spar in his fall, was never seen again, though every exertion was made to save him. THE COAST OF AFRICA. The Penelope steam-frigate, Captain L. T. Jones, with the broad pendant of Sir Charles Hotharn,K.C.B., First Class Commodore, arrived from the west coast of Africa on Sunday morning. She sailed from Ascension De cember 18th; Prince's Is!arid, January 2d; Sierra Lome, February, 22d; Cape Verde, March 17th; and Teneriffe, March 28th. The Centaur, bearing the broad pendant of Commo dore Fanshawe, C. 8., arrived at Porto Praya on the Ist of March, on which day Sir Charles llothsin re linquished the command of the station to that officer. The ships then were employed as follows, viz.:— Sierra Leone division—The Sealark, Kingfisher, We ter witch, Spy, and Pluto. Bights of l3enin and Biafra—The Cyclops, Firefly, Pantaloon, and Tenzer. Southern Division—The Philomel, Alert, Cygnet, Contest, Britoinart, Star, Grappler (ordered home), Blazer, Bonetta, Dart, and Dolphin. At Ascension—The Tortoise. On the evening of the 2d Of February, Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, with a squadron compo,ed of her Majesty's ships Penelope, Favourite, Sealark, Water witch, Dart, Bonetta, and Pluto, anchored off that notorious slave depot, the Gallinas ; and at day light the following morning, with .the commanders of the above-named ships and a force of 300 men, lauded and destroyed the whole of the barra coons and slave factories at Domb icorro, Solyman, and other places in the neighbourhood. The expedition re turned on the 3.1, without the lois of a man ; although exposed to a night's lorlgiog on shore in one of the sickliest parts of the %Vest Coast of Africa, they escaped without a case of fever. The value of the pro perty destroyed is not estimated, but the fear of a repe tition of such a punishment, and the subsequent mea sure adopted of blockading the territory, will, it is ex pected, drive the slave dealers from this their favourite haunt. The squadron was quite free from sickness. Much benefit appears to have arisen from the Commodore's ar rangements of sending the officers and men navigating slave-vessels direct to the Adelaide tender, instead of landing them, as heretofore, at Sierra Leone. Commodore Bonet Willaumez, with the Penelope, the Espadon, the Caiman, and the Serpent, was at Sierra Leone on the 10th of February. Every friendly inter course was kept up on the part of the authorities at Sierra Leone and the British naval officers with the effic. , rs of the French ships, who appeared much pleased with their visit to and reception at the pert. Commodore Beuet sailed on the 20th of February with his squadron for the Bights, on a tour of inspection. The Serpent is a small steam-vessel of thirty-horse power and light draught of water, intended for the exploration of the Gaboon and Assinee. On the 20th of February last a very II tl ot choly accident occurred at Sierra Leone. It appears that a party of men belonging to the detachment of the West India Regiment stationed there were employed in shaking out the composition from a number of rockets which had been condemned as unserviceable. One of the men, to facilitate the operation, struck two rockets together ; they exploded, and ignited a heap of the com position which was lying on the ground, and the whole party were blown up and frightfully burnt ; they were taken at once to the Military Hospital —some died almost immediately, and out of the fifteen who were en gaged in the laboratory, only one survived. Sir Charles Hotham has been continuously employed on active service for six years and five months, and has commanded the African squadron upwards of two years and a half. Ile was relieved at his own request in con sequence of ill-health. On saluting the Commander-in- Chief, Sir Charles immediately struck his broad pen dant, in accordance with the old rule on that subject, but which has fallen into disuse for many years, the last who followed it being Lord John Hay, on his return from the north coast of Spain, in the North Star. ARRIVAL OF COMMODORE SIR C. HOTHAM AT SPITHEAD. ANOTELER ACCOUNT. The Penelope steam-frigate, Captain L. T. Jones, with the broad pen dant of first-class, Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, arrived and anchored at Spithead on Sunday morning, at nine, o'clock. She came in through the Needles, and when off the Kicker Point, saluted the flag of Admiral Sir R. Capel. After receiving the return salute from the Victory, Commodore Hot ham being in the presence ef a captain of higher seniority (viz., Captain Purcell, oF the Superb), hauled down his broad pendant. The Commo dore, with Captain Jones and Flag-Lieutenant Purvis, landed at noon, and the two former paid their respects to the Port Admiral. The Penelope brings no news from the coast, having sailed from Sierra Leone about three days after the Wanderer and Ranger. She put into the Cape Verdes, and remained 17 days at St. Jago, await ing the arrival of Commodore Fanshawe in the Centaur, and cobbling up and repairing her boilers. Ahem the 23d of February the Centaur arrived, and Comm°. dare Fanshewe having taken the command, soil-d on the Ist of March for Sierra Leone. The Penelope left St. Jago, the 4th, and put into Teneriffe, where she remained three days putting her boilers in order. She left the 28th of March, and has had a tolerable passage home, under steam and canvas, occasionally using two boilers, and repairing the other two, and so on alter nately; her boilers and funnel are all to pieces, and have thousands of patches on them. During the two years and three months which the Penelope has passed on the coast, she has been comparatively healthy, particularly for the last twelve months. The ships on the coast have generally been also very healthy. See has taken eight slave vessels, two only having slaves on board; in her last exploit, when she went up, the river Gallinas for twelve miles, and destroyed a dozen barracoons, she also captured a few slaves, but the greater part cscaped into the woods. She found a large store of slave shtickles, and a large magazine of powder, which were all destroy* d. Mr. Ferguson, the secretary of the Governor of Sierra Leone, has come home passenger in the Penelope, and al,o a Captain Bennett, late in command of a vessel wrecked at 'ft neriffe. The Penelope will be paid off at Portsmouth, erd will probably be itisw eted,' and go into harbour to-morrow, when the Commodore will probably.leave the ship. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY. —The Faviurite, 14, Com mand( r Murray, sailed from the coast for England to be paid off on the 21st of February, on which day she left Sierra Leone. She would have arrived ere this, but had some service to perform in the northern rivers. She may be looked for on a change of wind. During 1847.8 the captures of vessels and slave car goes exceeded these of any former years on the African station, even including the remotest waters—the coast of Cuba, Brazils, Cape of Good Hope, &c. The Leander, 50 gun frigate, built by Blake, was undocked yesterday. This is the ship to which Captain C. Eden has been appointed, but has not hoisted the pen dant as yet. She has had her copper stripped, and is to have new copper to replace it. The Collingwood, 80, and Defence, convict-ship, were removed from the basin at noon yesterday, and warped to moorings in the harbour. The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord A. Beauclerk, disembarked the volunteers of the 16th and 54th Regiments by means of her own boats yester day. The paddlebox boats did the principal part of this essential duty in an expert manner„which proved how useful those essential adjuncts to steamers are in such work. Wind south; light breezes and fine weather. - Through the liberality of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Company, the persons employed upon the public press were favoured with the opportunity of passing over nearly every part of the Lincolnshire por tions of their lines on Monday last, when the part from Barnetby station to Gainsborough was opened. The fa , cilities afforded furnished the opportunity of traversing the line from Lincoln to New Holland, to witness the stupendous pier and the works in course of progress there; and thence after a brief interval a return train ran back to the Barnetby station, and on to Gainsborough. After ample time for seeing the sights of Gainsborough and ob taining refreshment, a return train gave the opportunity of sweeping across Lindsey to Grimsby, and those Ishii availed themselves of the chance had nearly half an hour to inspect the preparations for the docks. Burnetby was c oln reachedat eight,ag ain shortly the w h o l a e tt i e i a r v a n g b half-past een aee o six, li a s E h ' d e L i n i period short of thirteen hours. After leaving Lincoln, much picturesque scenery i t not presented to the eye till arriving in the neighbourhood of Caistor. Much of the land on b o th s id es of the line appears of * very poor quality, and seems very unprofitably cultivated, par ticularly the North Lincolnshire property of the Lord- Lieutenant of the county. Many of the churches are mean looking. Generally the stations are very com modious. Thornton College is pa.t.ed at a short die tattoo: it was founded by the third Earl of Albemarle, and was richly endowed: the ruins are still interesting. It was here that the ecclesiastics carried into effect a sentence which consigned an offender to the tomb while yet alive. Tradition says the delinquent upon whom the awful punishmentfonrte fourteenth Greethain, the Abbot, was inflictedwho d T u h n e g r e u o i n i ,b bet i w t h e n a taabc t a u r b y r , a s s i s n c c e a , n i d n l e a s ti s c m k , a a l I n d w a a l b l e o d o k c . p Barnetby and Gainsborough, particularly during the summer months, will afford many beautiful and pleasin4 points of view. The Kirton tunnel, which is about three - quarters of a mile long, fills almost with a feeling of dread the person who for the first time in his life sees a great road sweeping through the bowels of the earth. The end next Kirton is castellated. All along the line, the inhabitants of the villages and towns cr o wd e d the stations and points from w hich the pa sing trains could be seen, Gainsborough kept hnli :ay, and seemed to have sent its whole population to the hill upon which the station is placed, and which is not far distant from the spot where Cromwell first signalised himself in the civil wars. —.Stamford Mercury. THE COUNTRY 3/ARKETS. LIVE aPool., APR IL 7.—The market on Thursday, being held out of the usual course, was slenderly attended by buyers, and the general business was on a limited scale. Tuesday's prices were obtained for wheat and flour. Oats and oatmeal were both dull, and easier to purchase. Barley, beans, and peas were without alteration in value. There was very little doing in Indian corn, and prices stand unchanged the best yellow corn is worth sOs 6d per -IBolb, down to 28s for white. Very full prices are paid to-day, with a good demand for In dian corn. s. d. s. d. Wheat, per 7011) Barley, Feeding • • 3 3 to 3 6 English, white • • 7 0 to 7 4 Rye, per 4501 b .. 0 0— 0 0 Do. d .. 66—6 9; I ;eans, Enghsh, pr Irish, new .. • • 5 10 6 0, imperial quartr 34 0— 36 it Do., old .. .. 6 0— 6 3, Irish and Scoteh, Dantsio.. .. 7 0 - 7 4 per 4801 b.. • • 30 0— 31 0 Do., good mixed 6 'OO 7 0 Foreign, duty pd. 23 6 24 6 Lowerßaltic,whit.: 6 10 7 0 European, per im -1)o. reel,. 6 6—6 10 perial quarter.. 32 0— 33 0 American . • • 5 9 7 0 Pcas, English, per Canadian .. 5 9 6 8 imperial quartr 30 0— 33 0 Spanish, red and Foreign .. 20 0 33 0 white.. .. • • G 6 7 0 Malt, English, per Tuscan and Bar- imperial quartr 53 0 61 0 letta, red .. • • 6 2 6 4 Do., Irish •• 55 0— 56 0 Marianopoli ••58 5 10 Do., brown ••540 57 0 Odessa, Polish .• 5 9 -- Flour, English, pr Do., hard.. • • 5 o—s 1C 2801 b •• 34 0— 35 0 Egyptian .. 4 0— 4 ( extra fine— 35 0 36 0 Oats, per 4511) : United States, per English and Scotch 2 B—2 11 barrel .. 23 0— 25 0 Welsh • .. 2 5 2 t Canadian • • .. 23 0— 24 6 Irish, new .. •• 2 6 2 7 )atmeal, English, Do., old • • 2 6 2 t & Scotch,pr24oll) 24 0 26 0 Barley, English, pr Irish, new .. 22 6—23 tl imperial quarter 30 0 —32 ( Do., old .. •22 0-- 23 6 Irish, Scotch, and Indian corn, per arx, per 601 b.. 3 3 3 C 48011) 28 0— 31 0 MANCHESTER, APRIL 7.—No material change has occurred in the state of the trade during the week, a limited demand having been experienced for flour at barely previous rates. Oatmeal has, however, moved off rather more freely without alteration in prices. Of English malt and Irish oats the ar rival at Liverpool and Runcorn are to a tolerably fair amount; but the arrivals of other articles of British produce are exceed ingly scanty. From abroad the imports of wheat, beans, Indian corn, and flour are large. Our market this morning was of a very quiet character, and but little business was transacted in either wheat or flour, for which it was necessary to submit to rather lower prices than those current on this day se'nnigbt. Oats and oatmeal were in very moderate request, but cannot be noted cheaper. WINCHESTER CORN MARKET, APRIL 7.—Corn—The wea ther being all that could be wished for agricultural operations, and the spring sowing nearly finished, many attended the market this day. The samples of home-grown wheats :were less by at least half than the average quantity of this period of the year, after a harvest of plenty. On the stands were shown many samples of flu:e Canadian, Hamburgh, Russian, and other foreign• grown wheats, the weights of from 61Ibs to 631bs pr imperial bushel. A considerable quantity of the finest quality found buyers at the prices of last week, yet to tempt buyers of any other sorts a reduction of 5s per load had to be acceded to. Barley of fine quality fit for malting found ready buyers at rather more money ; best chevalier for late sowing also in good demand ; grinding and distilling of slow sale, at last quoted prices. Oats—a very large show of samples. Eng lish-grown Polands, potato, and best black declined Is per qr ; Scotch, Irish,'and west of England feed declined is 6d per ditto less; while foreign were scarcely saleable at those falls in price. Peas were offered lower by 2s per quarter ; best boilers making but 32s per quarter. The corn markets in other towns in this county during the week were exceedingly flat ; sales slow at reduced prices, with but very poor shows of home—groan corn. READING, APRIL 7.—Wheat, per quarter, 34s to 55s ; bar ley, 25s to 355; oats, 16s to 22s ; beans, 30s to 40s; peas, 30s to 40s. Fat hogs, 9s to Os Od ; porkers, 9s 6d to Os per score. Poultry—Fowls, per couple, 4s Od to 4s 6d ; ducks, per couple, Os Od to Os Od; geese, each, Os Od to Os; butter, per Ib, Is ld to Is 2d; eggs, 18 to 20 for Is. ABERDEEN, APRIL 6.—Grain—Oats 14s to 14s 6d, 401 b per bushel ; barley, 23s to 245, 52Ibs per bushel ; bear, 23s to 245, 52 lbs per bushel ; wheat, 50s to 53s ; oatmeal, 11 s6d to 123 6d per boll ; flour, 38s to Os per sack. Provisions—Beef, 44 to 7d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 7d ; veal, ditto, 4d to 7d ; pork, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; lamb, per qr., 6s to 7s 6d; tallow, pe- stone, 4s to 4s Gel ; potatoes, per peck, lOd to is; hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each Od to Os ; hares, each, Os to Os ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per Ib, 8d to 10d ; eggs, per doz, 6d to 8d ; cheese, per stone, Os to Os ; hens, per pair, 3s 6,1 to 4s ; chickens, ditto, 2s 9,1 to 3s Od ; ducks, ditto, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; ducklings, ditto, 2s to 2s 6d ; turkeys, each, 3s to 4s Od ; geese, ditto, t)s to Os; butter for exportation (present cure), per cat, 50s to Os ; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, sid to Od ; 41b loaf, 84 ; 211 s boat, 4d ; pork, per stone of 14 lbs Os Od to 3s 6d ; pork fine, small, Os Od to 5s 6d ; pork large, 3s 64 to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os to 100 s. Meal—Oatmeal, Is 3d to Os Od; bearmeal, is 3d to Os Od peasemeal, Is 10d to 2s; F ids, 6d to 7d ' - barley flou r , i s 44 t o Is 5d ; barley dust, 7d t o 8d ; fl our, is lOd to 2s; barley, per lb s lid to 2od. s. d. s. d DALKEITH, APRIL 5 —The relative weight per four bushels of the three prices of wheat were 18st 101 b, 18st 51b, and 17st 81b. Oats, 13st 2,b, 12st 61b, and Ilst 71b. Barley, 16st 10Ib, 16st 31b, and 14st 12:b. Peas and beans, 19st lib, 18st 31b, and list 61bs. Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior. 226 Wheat .......,£2 10 0 £2 3 0 £2 0 0 663 Oats 245 Barley 103 Pease and Beans 1 10 6 1 8 0 1 6 0 Average of w h ea t 44s 104 d. BELFAST, Aran. s.—This week the supplies of grain at market have been lather better than for some time past, and the quality and condition is generally good. Wheat sells at former prices, and is in fair demand. Foreign rather more in quired for, and the usual qualities of Baltic sell at 101 to 101 10s, and fair Odessa, 91 to 915 s per ton. Flour is in better demand, at a trifling reduction in value. American barrels are a free sale at 24s 6d to 25s each. Barley sells pretty freely at former rates. Oats are about Id to 2d lower than last week, but sell well at the decline. Oatmeal sells at an advance of 2d to 3d per cwt. Indian corn is in good demand at 7. to 71 7s 6d per ton for yellow, and 53 less for white. CORK, Aram 6.—The general aspect of trade is still dull, for although the arrivals of foreign grain to this port have dwindled away, yet to some of the English ports they are still large, and tend naturally to cause a continuance of that de pression which has teen so long felt. The supplies of hone grown grain to the English markets, as well as to our own, have fallen off very materially, indeed to such an extent as to warrant the belief that farmers must be well nigh drained, and the stocks in their hands reduced to a very narrow compass. The receipts of grain at our own market are wretchedly small, those of wheat having again this week fallen short of 100 bar rels! Tile prices of every description of produce remain much the same. In prepared (Irish) wheat we have had nothing passing, but in foreign a few transactions have taken place at late prices, 25s per barrel being the current value of Marian ople. In barley we have nothing doing. Of oats the same may be said, no quotable alteration in price having taken place since our last. The trade in flour is excessively dull, bakers still confining themselves to the supply only of their more press ing necessities. Indian corn in the early part of the week was in demand at prices which exhibited an upward tendency, but an attempt to establish an advance has had the effect of checking business. Indian meal remains without change. Flour—Firsts 14s ()d to 14s 6d; extra 15; Od; seconds, 133 Od to 13s 6d; households lOs to 12s ; thirds 8s to 1 is per cwt. Oatmeal lls to lls 64; Indian .real 7s 94 to 8s ; wneat meal, lOs 6d tolls per cwt. Indian earn 7/ 53 Od to 7/10s ton. Bran 41 to 4/ 5s per ton. Hay Farmers 753 to 40s; average 365; dealersl2s to 48s ; average Oos Od per ton. Straw—Farmers 22s Od to 31s Od ; average 273; dealers COs Od to 00s Od; average 00s 04 per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 61d; household loaf 5d to sid per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to 10d per lb. Coals —Newport 16s; Lydney 17s ; Landore 16s ; Best Neath Culm 14s per ton. Tallow 43s 6d to 44s per cwt. Whiskey, 25 o. p., 6s Od per imperial gal lon. Meat—Beef 4d to 7d; Mutton 5d to 64c1; veal LIA to 7d ; pork 4d to sid ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 6d per lb. Hops 61 10s per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2i 6d to 3/ 5s per ton. Bark—Barbary 7/ to 81; Valonia 141 to 00/ ; French 71; English 71 per ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per stone. Hemp 35/ per ton. Fish Scotch herrings IBs to 193; red ditto 26s to 28s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ 103 to 12/ per ton. Timber —New Memel 4/ lOs ; old scarce; red pine 31 15s ; yellow pine 31 per ton ; deals, first quality, 201; second quality 171 per 120. Hides Market las to 16s ; salted lls to 16, per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 21 3 d ; market 2d to 2-id per lb. Potatoes, white 10d to 12€1 ; Minions 18d to 20d; Guano— Peruvian, 10/10s; Ichaboe 9/ per ton; Tar—Archangel, 183 per barrel. Eggs, 4s to 4s 2d per hundred. SilAl?r, MARK& ASGOW, APRIL 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following are to-day's transactions:— Clydesdale Junction, 60% -- Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr kirk Halves 39 (No. 1), 61. 168.-1/ilia (No. 2), 67,i t - Glasgow and G arn• , %—North British, Preference, 24 8.—SciAtish Central, 24. 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No good of any kind is gained by the plan, but much evil may be its result, in the formation of as sociations which may ripen into a closer intimacy when the )oung leave the house to make their way in the world. Many of the keen-judging anticipate immoral consequences; and there can be little doubt of the im propriety of herding females with big lewd-tongued lads, whose improper observations cannot be restrained, as they cannot be detect ed. Stainford Mercury. THE STAT E PRISONS AT THE TOWER. —The cele brated Beauchamp Tower, which has for a long period b. en used as a me s s-house for the officers of tke garrison, will shortly be thrown open to the public. The Beau champ s o o t n E - h s s o e u x s prison-house s o i r f h.e Wallace, unfortunateth the L ch s a d l y " J Ter an o e w Grey, the tier) of Scotland, and at one period cont a i ned two Sove reigns as prisoners, viz., James of :Scotland and the Ki ng of France. — United Service the theE Gazette. On the 4th inst., at Windlestove, Durham, Lady Eden, of a son. On the 31st ult., at Eastbury, Herts, the wife of Captain R. H. Crofton, Royal Artillery, of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at the Triangle, Hackney, Mrs. John Bullock, ( f a daughter. On the 4th inst., in Park-qreet, the lady of Captain Lyon, of Dangstein, of a daughter On the -ith inst, at Guildford-street, the wife of J. G. Maitland, Esq., of a daughter. On the tth iLst, at Bernard-street, Russell-square, the lady of W. Macnaughten, lisq , of a son. On the 4th inst , at All SaAits' Church, Godshill, second son of Mr. Ellk, of R::chniond, Surrey, to Kate, eldest ydaughter Wigh cf ror. Frank Mew, o f R ookl,y cottage, okl- Isle of D 1 On tne :.;oth ult., Captain Edward Bowen, late ot the 26th R,Time n t kombay Native Infu,try, age d 35. On the 3d ins ~ at Kinlet-hall, Shropthire, aged 63, liar. rict, the wife of William L. Childe, Esq. On the 4th inst., at h.rightor, Margaret Schaw, wife of J. S. Broadw od, of Lynn, near Horsham, aged 71. On the 4th inst , at Hart -street Bloomsbury, Ann Kent Jones. ot Litt'e Chishill, Essex, aged 76. On the sth i ns t., at Bromley, Kent. aged 85, Frances Eat court, relict of the Rev. William Hal , , D.[)., formerly of 1:c:on, Middlesex. • London Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, St ran d , P rinter, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of bliddlosegr, Alo)ltlfty, April 9,1549.