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111 E LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from Me Morning Papers, Dec. 30, 1,845. [NEW TIMES.] As confidence in our Banks and Bankers is re viving,efforts will be made to prevent confidence among our merchants and manufacturers. "At the existing rate of wages," said a Journal yes terday, 44 there can be no adequate foreign vent for our commodities ; and from the spirit of over trading upon small or fictitious capital manifest: lug itself in the efforts of desperate men to carry en a losing traffic, the failure to sell what has been bought upon trust recoils upon those who have granted credit indiscreetly." The object of this language cannot be mistaken : it is to dissuade men of .all ranks in the commercial world from giving that fair and liberal credit which has always hitherto characterised British commerce, it is to blast confidence, and to spread on all sides a cold, narrow-minded selfishness, which would eventually defeat its own object, by creating difficulties, embarrassments, and losses, throughout the whole trading community. But we ask, where is the reason for all this? Nation ally speaking, we are abundantly rich and wealthy —our finances are thriving, our industry prospers, our towns are enlarged, our roads, canals, and rail roads are daily improving in construction or ex tending in length. Individual fortunes may in some few instances have been injured by over- 1 trading and over-speculating ; but, generally speaking, there have been few respectable and well-established houses that have deviated in any great degree from their usual course of trade, or violated the maxims of an enlightened prudence. Why, then, should confidence be withdrawn from such persons ? Why should the man who, six months age, could buy 20 hogs heads of sugar, or 20 pipes of wine, on credit, be forced to-day to pay ready money for all his pur chases ? • If he be a known gambler in the Alley, or large speculator in the Share Market—if he be a , great holder of Spanish Bonds or of Greek Scrip, it may be reasonable that his credit should proportionably suffer in the estimation of steady solid traders. But such characters are rare in the trading community—they are the exceptions and not the rule: we speak not of them—we speak of the great majority of British merchants and traders. It would betray a gross ignorance of trade to argue that it would be universally car ried on without credit, and that all transactions should be for ready money. As well might it be said that we ought to revert to the ancient and barbarous mode of barter. In truth, the richest men in the present day, if they are actuated by a spirit of enterprise, give and take credit on the most liberal scale. The panic in the monied world has probably re-acted to a certain degree on trade, and checked for a moment that libe rality of mutual accommodation which had pre viously existed between merchant and merchant, merchant and manufacturer, or manufacturer and trader ; but as the cause ceases, the effect must also cease ; and whatever may be said by insidious writers, we feel persuaded that a gene rous confidence will continue to characterise the dealings of our countrymen. Lamentable indeed would be the consequences if those who spread a panic through the monied world could do the same through the world of commerce ! If the great merchant would not trust the wholesale dealer, the latter could not trust the retail dealer, nor he the consumer. Obstacles would arise at every step, and the public inconvenience and injury would be so inuett greater than they were daring the late panic, tic the sphere of alarm would be wider ; while a diMinished consump tion would produce a falling off in the revenue, and necessitate an increase of taxation. Most earnestly, therefore, do we exhort individuals of veight and influence in the commercial part of the community to let it be seen that their confi dence in the general stability of those with whom they deal is undiminished. Let them give the•same credits as formerly ; let them act with the same liberality : their example will be sure to he followed ; and the attempts of the malevo lent to propagate new alarms will be rendered impotent and ineffectual. [THE TI M ES.] There are persons who imagine, that because we have deplored the excess to which the coun try banks carried their paper, and have stre nuously urged the adoption of measures for pre venting such an evil hereafter, our object is to produce an evil of an opposite kind—viz. an ex cessive contraction of the currency to a point which might impede the spirit and freedom of commerce. The specific mischief which we un derstand to be, that by an extreme diminution of the currency, and proportionate reduction of prkct.s, it would become more difficult to pay the taxes, and thus to provide for the interest of the debt, &c. Now we do not know that any pub lic writer in this country has advised the Legis lature to cure the overflow of bad money, by creating t& want of better—we at least never dreamed of such an absurdity, and we had a right to be more fairly construed.—Our position has been this :—There is no sufficient guarantee now existing for the opulence of country bankers. Any man who pleases may set up a bank ; an attorney, or shopkeeper, or half-pay officer, without 1,0001. in the world, may take a house in a country town, furnish one or both par lours as a room for business, with desks, counters, a set of large rough-bound hooks. having. " Day-book," " Ledger," &c. lettesed upon them in gold, relieved by crimson—add the monosyllabic abbreviation " CO." to his name—and issue as many one-pound notes as he can beg or borrow money to get handsomely en graved in London,and regularly passed at three pence a piece through the Stamp-office. WS, we say, may be, under the present law, the outfit of a country banker. Who will assert that such has not frequently been the sum total of his bag and baggage ? Do not a large proportion of the failures which have spread such consternation and ruin over whole districts, prove that ttie bankers, who, by the very nature of their call ing, ought to have been the wealthiest members of the community, whose funds they professed to keep in safety, had been absolute insolvents for arlosig series of years, and lived upon the con version of their neighbour's goods to their own `personal uses? 'We affirm that the present law attnws all this, and that experience proves abundantly the freedom with which the system Of country banking has taken advantage of the law. A banker has no right to Murmur if a pecu liar 'degree of watchfulness is exercised over him by the State - a lie is not like other traders, each with hisJiMited set of correspondents, who have means of •jiidging how be is qualified to transact the'particular Hite of business which he follows, and are therefore, in some degree, armed against I • injury at his hands: The banker is one who I meditates to live by the. extent of the public I confidence reposed in hint, and who flotfrishes in proportion to the numbers of men whose move able funds he succeeds in getting hold of. 'lle proposes himself to the King's subjects in the character of a General Trustee. is therefore, we maintain, the bounden duty of fhe Legisla ture to secure the country agahist the abuse of a trust so general and momentous. Indeed, the temptations to become a country banker are in- 1 verse!) , as the pecuniary qualifications for the office; because the men who have (he least to lose entertain the least fear of the responsibility incidental to it, and can be little effected by their ultimate failure and defeat.—But if the se curities he called for, where do they exist ?. In London they are (generally speaking), pro vided, by the practice which renders it impe rative on a town banker to pay only in specie or Bank of England notes. A similar guarantee for the public is found in Lancashire, where no thing is seen but the coin of the realm, or notes of the Bank of England. No man murmurs at the principles on which bank ing is conducted here or there, because the bulk of those who carry on the business must be men of considerable capital. This circumstance, then, brings us to a reconsideration of the argu ment which was glanced at in a former part of the present article—viz. that a certain contraction of the currency would obstruct the payment of the taxes, and so forth. We have never at any moment lost sight of the fact that inconvenience might for a short time result from a want of cir culating medium ; but with regard to the sort of contraction we have recommended, it is described in one short sentence, by stating, that we would cut away the medium which represents poverty rather than property, and thereby raise to its na tural value the paper which has its foundation in legitimate credit. If it be said that necessary payments and useful transactions would be im peded by a fusion of the whole currency of England into Bank of England paper and the King's coin, we ask plainly what other currency circulates in London ? and in London is business at a stand, or is there au extraordinary nrrear of taxes ? So in Lanca shirel is there any outcry raised for a local paper superadded to that of the Bank of Eng land ? Yet we suspect that if two spots were to he named where more property is both trans ferred and concentrated, where commerce is more bustling, and enterprise more resolute and alive than in any other given portions of the empire, London and Lancashire would occur at mice to the mind of all the world.— The fact is,. and we deem it a disgraceful one to an enlightened people, that the mere act of issuing paper is often identified amongst us with the creation of wealth. It is mischievous to confound them. Where real wealth, the real produce of useful industry, abounds, there will be seen its circulating representative, and in the requisite proportions. If there be a want of money, attested by an inordinate fall of prices, what will be the policy of the mer chant ? Why, lie will see a state of the ex changes favourable to England in an unusual de gree ; he will therefore import gold in preference to any other merchandise ; and from specie com manding an extraordinary value in comparison with all other commodities, he will coin his bars as fast as he imports them, until the course of operation terminates in an adjustment of the shaken balance, and prices return to their na• tural, and therefore desirable, standard. [MORNING HERALD.] The journals of all Europe, wherever there is the least semblance of the freedom of the Press, have recently teemed with speculations of the pro bable conseq uencesofthedeath ofthe Emperor Ale xander. All seem to agree that some great changes must happen, though their premises and conclu sions widely differ. But in one point they agree —that the change in Russian policy, whatever it may be, will have a tendency hostile to the ascendancy and interests of this country. Two grand strokes of the new Russian policy are con templated with an equal degree of credulity and complacency—the acquisition of Greece and of European Turkey by the new Emperor ; and after that, Isis making a gigantic bound to India, and seizing himself of the vast extent of British possessions in that quarter. Leaving aside these somewhat doubtful questions as to the policy and projects of the Emperor Constantine, the next, and the more reasonable matter of consideration •is, what are his means? There are two ways by which the resources of Russia may be judged, the accounts of those who profess to have personally observed them, and the history of Russia for the last half century ; and. from both, upon' a close examination and comparison, it will be ap parent, that Russian power has been . of late ex travagantly over-rated, 'just as Russian civiliza tion was in the days of Peter and Catherine. It was not till the latter sovereign reigned that Russia became ranked as an integral part of civi lized Europe. Of the ambition of this able but most odious sovereign to meddle and lead among the European nations there can he no doubt ; but she .knew too well the weakness of her own re sources in the great field of European contention ; and she avoided contending it with any serious designs, or any serious hazard, except against Poles and Turki.. When the eccentric sa vage, her offspring, who succeeded her, de parted from her policy, the ephemeral suc cesses of the Russian arms against France only proved the inefficiency of Russian resources, and the sagacity and prudence of Cathe rine. The campaign of the Russian troops against Buonaparte, at a later period, under the Em peror Alexander, tends clearly to the same con clusion ; that is, the inability of Russia to main tain an ascendancy permanently and indepen dently in Europe. At last the power of France, was disorganized by the memorable campaign of Moscow—it would be idle to call it a contest be tween Russia and France ; as well might the heedless and unhappy expedition of the Emperor Julian be regarded as a criterion of the compara tive strength and resources of Persia and the Ro man Empire. But even after this, when Russia affected victory and a leading part, she was but a member of a great confederacy of Europe against France, and the deference yielded to the Ein peror Alexander after the fall of Buonaparte, was evident ly a deference of circumstances, yield ed through etiquette, or from an absolute want of general peace, not a superior position gained by the force of arms. The sort or supremacy yielded atCon gresses and in negociations was in a great mea sure little beyond parade. Russia is, it is true, a vast empire, containing between fifty-six and sixty millions of people. But mere population is any thing but strength, when left to itself without wealth, industry, or the arts of civilised life. The sources of power - in a nation are es sentially moral or intellectual, not numerical or physical. Europe called in the hordes of Russia to put down the common enemy, Buonaparte. But that is one of those combinations of inte rests and circumstances Nvhich happen but once [in several centuries. [MORNING POST.] French Papers to the 28th instant, and the ;toile of Wednesday, arrived last night by ex press. They contain some intelligence from Greece which, we sincerely hope, will prove correct. It is said that, on the 13th of Novem ber, the gallant Karaiskaki surprised the Turkish army at its head-quarters near Mksolonghi.— The attack took place at noon, at a time 'when the Turks slept in the greatest security. Great numbers are stated to have been killed, and the military chest to have been taken. The plunder and the prisoners were carried to l'aiissolonglii, and Karaiskaki returned the same night to his quarters in Acarnania, where he attack ed another division of Turks at Carvassara (the ancient Austracia), took all their provi sions, and forced the enemy to emblrk with SO much precipitation that numbers perished in the water. A third action ensued in the vicinity of Carvassara, in which a whole de tachment of Turkish Cavalry and a convoy of provisions and treasure were carried off by the Greeks. About the same period Gonrras, the brave commander of the Army in Eastern Greece, having !earned that a Turkish corps was coining from Thessaly with a convoy of provisions and ammunition, took a portion of the force with which he besieged the Ottomans shot up in Sa s lona, and after several forced marches overtook the enemy, defeated them, and carried off the convoy. On his way back he fell in with 700 Albanians, who were returning to their coun try with 'the accumulated plunder of the campaign, of which he soon gained possession, and after disarming the Albanians, who had quitted Reds chid's army without orders, he allowed them to continue their way home. The letters which con tain these details confidently anticipate the des truction of the Seraskier's army if he persists in wintering near Missolonghi, and the atzticipation is certainly likely to be realized if the operations of the Greek Partisans are faithfully described, and their activity continues to increase with the difficulties of the enemy and the hardships of the season. One thing is evident, and the fact is of no small importance ; the losses of Redschid Paella have been such, since he began the siege of Missolonghi, that if all the troops brought from Egypt and landed at Navarino were united with his army, they would not restore its original strength. When we reflect on the diminution which Ibraharres force has also experienced, by illness, fatigue, want of provisions, and repeated conflicts with the guerillas of the Morea, it will ap pear that notwithstanding the boasted numbers of the reinforcements from Alexandria, they will not place the Ottoman Commanders in a !.)otter or even in so good a situation as they occupied at the beginning of the campaign. There is, therefore, no cause to despair of the salvation of the Greeks, even should the recent events iu Russia not bring kmighty champion of their sa cred cause into the field. A just view of their means of carrying on the contest, compared with those of their enemies, will be found in a letter from Mr. Blaquiere. It contains much valuable information respecting the real state of things in Greece, and as it conies from one who has had personal opportunities of ascertaining the truth of what he describes, it is gratifying to find that he betrays no despondency as to its issue. We agree with him, however, that without aid the struggle must be long and difficult, and that a little assistance at this moment might hasten its ter mination, and render it a happy and triumphant one. That this aid will be withholden, we can not believe, even were there not !lighter motives than those of interest to suggest its propriety.-- At the same time we regret to find it stated in these Papers that Lord Cochrane, who had been reported on his way to Greece, is at present at Brussels, and we both hope and trust from the silence of the Fiends!! Journals respecting his sojourn in that city, that the statement in the eur is unfounded, and that his Lordship is not now far distant from the foes whom his.name alone would conquer. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] We have received several sets of German Pa pers, anti amongst them sets of The AMStriall Observer and Vienna Court Gazette • to the 18th inst. it is rather strange, that the two last make no mention of the death of the Emperor Alex ander, though the event must have been offic.ially notified before then to the Austrian Court. This silence speaks volumes, in our opinion, as to the impression which it has made in that capital ; and no where, probably, has it occasioned more sincere regret—perhaps stupefaction. In all the views of Austria for the repression of new doc. trines, or, in other words, for resistance to those great principles, upon which ,the true glory of States, and the happiness of social. man, have depended in all ages, the late Emperor had, for several years, concurred, with a zeal which it was difficult to reconcile with the strength of his character, and a certain elevation of mind, which never desefted him wholly in any situation.— Therefore, an unavoidable suspicion had arisen, that his ardour in making war on the spirit of the age, was merely a cloak for some mighty scheme of ambition, which he could not find the favour able moment to execute, particularly in conse quence of the sleepless vigilance of England, but which he probably hoped to accomplish as soon as the other members of the Holy Alliance should have got inextricably entangled in the meshes of their infatuated policy. If this surmise be correct, Alexander must not be considered so much in the light of a pacific Prince, as of a wary politician, who was rather indifferent too with respect to his means, as his conduct with respect to Finland, and several other proceedings of a similar tendency, seem , trongly to indicate. But whatever may have been his real motives for his opposition to doctrines, which once he had as openly patronized, as he had, at a later period, rancorously persecuted, yet the opposition itself was\ so agreeable to his august allies, that they were never over anxious to discover the main spring of his co-operation. They found it for the time convenient ; and though they ne ver attached implicit faith to his protestations, yet they were too much flattered by them to sift them too nicely. The vast army he constantly kept on foot, amounting, as he boasted himself, to 800,000 disposable troops ; and, above all, his system of military colonization, are rather difficult to reconcile with his frequent assurances, that the object nearest to his heart was to maintain the tranquillity of Europe undisturbed. This discrepancy, however, was blinked at by the other members of the Holy Alliance, for the reasons we have stated ; and too grateful for present aid, they tried to close their eyes to the dangers of the future. Tba t aid is now withdrawn; and instead of it, they see the colossal power of Russia wielded by an arm, which may turn it against them and their system. These considerations may account for the silence which the Ministerial Jnornals of Vienna have hitherto guarded on the subject of the Emperor Alexander's death. [stt PItESS.] Nothing is yet known, nor can be for several days with certainty, as to the course of policy .which the new Emperor of Russia will adopt. His temper is impetuous and warlike, and there fore it is by many apprehended that his regard for the political policy of his late brother would by no means be a sufficient inducement to him to refrain from breaking the peace of Europe in pursuit of the magnificent design which has been the favourite dream of his ambition since his very childhood. We are fully aware that the position in which Constantine will feel himself placed on ascending- the throne must materially affect his former views. What, as the Grand Duke, he fan cied easy of accomplishment and proper to be at tempted, he may, as Emperor, find to be surrounded with more serious difficulties than he could previ ously suspect,and unworthy of the risk of suffering he must incur in so perilous an enterprise. We admit, therefore, that the mere character of Con stantine will not enable us to predict any change in the forei;n policy of Russia. But when we consider the arbitrary nature of the Government and the entire Lbsence of all those checks which, in a more civilized and enlightened nation, would, under a monarchy equally absolute, con trod and regulate the conduct of the Sovereign, and when we bear in mind that the prejudices of his subjects in general, and of the army in parti cular, are enthusiastically enlisted in support of the project for his aggrandisement, we confess we do not feel at ease respecting the evehts that may shortly occur in the East. Con stantine probably cares little about the state of public opinion beyond the boundaries of his own dominions, and with his subjects universally, and the soldiery at his back, he has nothiog to fear from any quarter. An Evening Paper remarks, that " the Statesmen of Itussia would ill-deserve to be so called if they could recognise so frivolous a pretext for counnitting their country to a portentous struggle as the name of their Sovereign." In such a country as Russia there are few "Statesmen" who would dare even to hint resistance to the wishes of the reigning Prince. Nor are the sinister auguries founded on his name so slight and ridiculous Rs this Journal seems to consider. The case of the Emperor Con stantine is in that respect peculiar : there is nothing similar to it in history. With hint, and with a su perstitious people like the Itussianl, his tame will do much. We cannot therefore disguise from our readers that we view the accession of the new Emperor with deep anxiety. We earnestly hope that tl►e existing relations between the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh and those of the other Powers of Europe, may not in the slightest degree be disturbed ; but our duty requires that we should unhesitatingly express our apprehensions that there is great danger lest the present ruler of that vast and unwieldy empire should prove to be al most as difficult and impracticable to be treated with as his extravagant and unfortunate father. :MORNING CIittONICLV.: The Consol Market yesterday was very dull. Consols for Account opened at 82, but, .subse quently, declined to 811 ; and, although they again rallied and got up to 823, they left of at 81-1- ; for these fluctuations, no ostensible reason could be assigned ; and, until some cer tain intelligence Arrives of the state of things un der the new Emperor of Russia, similar varia tions must be expected. Money Stack was, in general, scarce ; and several sums, especially in Reduced, were borrowed to meet the exigences of the market—a circumstance not a little favour able when compared With the late cry out among •the seilers.—Three per Cents. Reduced was done 811, to 4 80i, and left off at WI ; 3,1 7 per cents. 89L-; and 31 per cents. Reduced 89a d 88i and 891 ; Bank stock reached 21/11;' and Long An nuities 20. India Bonds were at par, and at a smAll prem.; and the Large Exchequer Bills wer e , sold at 3 dis., 1 prem., and again 1 dis.; the small Bills were at a prem. of 2 and 5 ; Souk, Se4 Annuities 80i ? Lottery Tickets 191. 19s. SP e ' culations on the future prices of Stock of all sot s are on foot, and there is an evident effort t° bring the market lower, but how this will sue' ceed remains to be proved ; at present these at i tempts have been successfully resisted, and the wild rumours which have been circulate" have produced no serious effect. In the Bank of England every thing go e s on as usual, but It has become necessary, from the press of business; to increase the number of Cl e rks in the Con s° Office, who remain on duty till six o'clock. T he Discount of Town Bills yesterday, we under stand, was very considerable, and discounts I!' private circles were effected with increased f a°. lity at 5 per cent. This is Settling Day in t i f i le Foreign Market, and yesterday was princip al employed in making up accounts. The price s ° that securities did not vary materially. CHARGE OF MURDER. The following Investigation took place at t he Hatton Garden Police-office, on Tuesday, before Mr. Serjeant SF.LLON and Mr. LAING A w ith Jeremiah Cain and Mary Cain, his wife, were charge" , b having murdered a man named Maurice Fitzgerald, ay bing him through the heart with a knife. , „ fl oa t Bridget Reily, of Horn's-alley, Liquorpond-street, u e r - w hoge that she lodged in the same house with the two prisoner s ' bi de room wait immediately under that of the witness. Son. , ceased was an acquaintance of the witn es s, a nd came 0 t . 0 13 Ce day evening to visit her. After he had been in witnessdag some time, they heard the prisoners quarrelling and r a ce. below stairs, and the female prisoner calling,out for ass' n ' ffi - o re ' Deceased ran down stairs to interfere, and witness saw n v— of him, until he was found lying in the yard outside the bleeding ; he was not then qu ite d ea d, b u t b rea thed his Iss w er aifew minutes after. Witness did not see the female P ris° do any thing to the deceased. trgs o °'- 9( Stephen Skinner, an assistant to slr. Diamond, sure., lie Gray's Inn-lane, was called upon to attend the deceased' t he had a large wound that had penetrated to the region oi tbit t heart. lie had also a bruise on the back of the head, bl e abt Might have been occasioned by a fall. Witness had f the whatever that the wound in th e h ear t c au s e d the death a. deceased. 0* AV. Wainwright, one of the offi cer s of Hatton Gardentto duced three knives which he found in . the room inhab ite the prisoners, and the last witness stated, that either olo v a knives produced would have inflicted a similar wound to which had caused the death of the deceased, that knew mal; prisoner here expressed a fleQire to state al l knew of the affair, and after having been admonished by Serjeant Sellon that all that he said would be taken down'a il y related the following story :—After leaving work oa . 31°11 t he evening, he went with several of his fellow-workmen te t ot Windmill public-house, l.eather-lane. His wife learning the he was there, came for him, and she a b u sed him bef ore pa' company. He, however, went home with her, and the n c o at menced beating her. This caused a sort of fight, and lie hie outside the door, where he met the deceased with a knifei ß acf. hand ; he afterwards heard an !,.darni that a man was kill e "',o4l' immediately went to hint ; he found hint bleeding, an d n 'y die dead. This the prisoner declared was all he knell' tit The r. th e jacket of the male prisoner was here produced, a nd were a number of marks of blood found upon it. et br The male prisoner accounted for the blood on his jac k ;ia saying, that he picked up the deceased whilst he was b a l Oat fast.—Patrick Reilly, the son of the fir s t witness, Stat e d '. 00f his mother fetched hint from the public-house in conseVg,„ o the deceased having been killed. On his arrival he stor t,, t A prisoners and a number of others. Witness's mother 5 01 " - : - the female prisoner, " this man has been killed, and, su pe rre' you have been killing him ;" to which the female pris, ° , o fiaa plied, " then why did he not stop at home, instead of 111 ` n ee' with other people ?" Upon the witness being further 4e tinned, he reluctantly admitted that the language nu de al gal by his mother to the female prisoner, regarding the deg,.. 0 , 0 0 was stronger than he at first stated, for that upon th ! ,- e prisoner being accused of having caused the death of th f ? ceased, she dal not deny it, but said it served him righ t ' had no business there; he ought to have staid at home . IrisU Several other witnesses were now called, all of thern_,of people. They all persisted in stating that they of the matter, although it was evident that sante of then' "" have known it. Last evening an Inquest was held on the body, sc- e h n e a SO knew n°',, i st get Reilly was again examined, and she stated, that v i went down stairs and found the deceased bleed it fLith th e daughter was holding his head up with one hard, and Ws suing i other, she endeavoured to stop the blood which wa s from the wound under his left breast. opP°' Johannah Mac Loughton resided in the house direc t ‘Y re Dig site Cain's ; was standing at the window when the qunthat sibs commenced. Time was a gas lamp in the court, so t ore could see every thing distinctly. Cain and the decessetwoli, to the door ; the former was standing whir his thee °u id e ; the latter seemed to be expostulating with some peton s ; fa an" Two women came out soon aftee ; they were Cain's a - 0 OW daughter ; the wife, in an angry manner, said, " ,}panne l,oof geral, go out of my house, you vagabond, , or let )10 not that you have no business in my pl a ce." Decease ( ' Lo a 14 move away, but the two women caught hold of high, ac" fell. Cain was then some distance off. hi ad he stru es • p pel ceased, witness must have seen it. When Fitzgerald ( 1 , V, th vat down, one of the women called out, " the man is kille ° 3 ass iie not see any blows given ; Cain took down a shutter, and of ed in carrying the deceased to a surgeon's. atouse Margaret Cain (the daughter), who is now in the SO Correction, was brought up in custody of an officer, ;'_ ees alci stated, that on coming into the court she saw the of.' lying at the door, and site endeavoured to stop time blOO O , l 05 Some other witnesses were examined, but their eviderl`eraict oft` of an important nature and the Jury returned reuaah Wilful Murder against , slary Cain, the wife of J e Cain." HowrAsa at FUNERAL,S.-The pract ice r ° t l s howling at funerals, so common in some P i a of Ireland, seems to have been both anci entld o general, and was in use amongst several n° ti f e „l of old ; and it is known to every ci as A sj a, reader, that the Romans had their Pr e r - o f whose business it was to superintend the riw ue . ao s lamentations at funerals. Dr. Clarke men this custom of howling to be very general the Arabs ; and in a N arra ti v e of the C °l t Te Expedition, it is stated to exist among st ' t iro Africans at Embomma, on the batiks o Congo or Zaire. BIRTHS. , Do O afora' On the 2;4th inst. the Lady of J. S. Gregoy, Estl.°' , row, of a son. SO n the 19th inst. Mrs. Lewis, of Green Lana-rod' Newington, of a son. j 6 On Mon Clay, the 26th inst. in Earl-street, Bl ac kfriars , t wife of Air. J. R. Houghton, surgeon, of a SOll. __________/" .i MARRIED. eshi re ' On Wednesday, the 28th instant, at Middlewich, Ch sorh Thomas Kenneriey, jun. Esq. of the firm of Kennerlep.,,htet and Stanton, of Covent-garden, to Margaret, youngest at" of William Hitchin, Esq. of the above place. On Thursday, the 29th instant, at St. George's, ft. L ove' square, by the Rev. Mr. Glen, Mr. Thomas Brown, o.l, oftbs Belgrave.street, Pimlico, to Theresa, only surviving chit" _‘ late Mr. John Painter, of Ernswortli, Hants. DIED. to 1 7 /1 0 5 On Wednesday, the 28 inst., 213th Mary, relict of th e William Curling, of Chatham-place, Mialworth, in ' t .1 01111 year. Recently, at St. Omer, in the kingdom of Franreehona Harcourt, Esq., late of Well-hall, in the county of 1 1 ovirY ,formerly Member of Parliament for the Borough of ster, Herefordshire. ibt 3 s' On Wednesday, the 27th inst., at Dr. Williams 11 0 Red Cross-street, in the 75th year of his age, William Esq., of King's-road, Gray's-inn-lane. lie had been a quarterly meeting of the Trustees of that institutio n fell had just seated himself at the dinner-table, when he in his chair, and instantly expired. • 1.••••• ,h e SU" Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS , at " - t. Che'flct, No. 112, Strand, by J. IL CAItSTAIA.-