The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-07 00:00:00

MORNING SUN FRENCH CHAMBER of DEPUTIES. The Members of the Chamber of Deputies assembled on Tuesday in their bureaux for the purpose of elect ing the Committee to draw up the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne. On this occasion there was, as usual in each bureau, a discussion on the foreign and domestic policy of the Government. In the first bureau M. Berville attacked the Ministry for the convention of July, for its policy as 'regards Spain, for the reduction of the navy, and, in fact, all the measures which meet with disfavour from the Opposition. M. H. Passy defended the con duct of the Government on every point assailed by M. Berville, and declared that all that France requires, in order to maintain a proper position in Eu rope is a firm and resolute policy. M. Gaulthier de Remilly took the same line as M. Berville, and was followed ;by M. d'Herambault, who said that the true policy of France was to act chiefly against England as her true rival. On the ballot the numbers were, for M. H. Peggy 24, M. Berville 9, M. Gaulthier de Re milly 1, M. d'Herambault 2. M. Passy was conse quently elected.—ln the second bureau, the Ministry were attacked sharply by M. Delespaul, and in a minor degree by M. Piscatory. M. Isambert followed in nearly the same strain as M. Delespaul, and was re plied to M. Hebert, who supported the Ministry. M. Isambert having, in the course of his speech, alluded to the affair of Dupoty, and attributed the condemnation to the doctrine of moral complicity, M. Hebert de glared in strong terms that the charge of the Hon. Deputy was unfounded. M. Billaut spoke with much energyogainst the Government, and, passing in review all - its acts, bestowed upon them un qualified censure. The only candidates in this bureau were M. Benjamin Delessert and M. Billault. Tee former was elected by a majority of 19 to 16. The third bureau, after an uninteresting discussion, in which M. de Carne, ono of the candidates, expressed his general approbation of the conduct of the Go vernment, and M. Lacave-Laplegne, the other candi date, expressed his dissatisfaction at the policy of the last Cabinet, el acted the latter, who had 19 votes, and M. de Carne 13.—1 n the fourth bureau M. L'Herbette spoke at some length, and with great ani mation, against the whole policy of the Government, particularly the attacks upon the press, and he blamed with much severity the recognition of the right of • maritime search, demanded by the British Govern ment. M. Cunin Gridaine, the Minister of Com merce, replied to M. L'Herbette in a speech of much length and ability, which was, however, chiefly a reproduction of the ar g um e nt s brought forward by the Cabinet on different occasions in support of the foreign policy. It is the less necessary to go into any detailed account of the speech of the Minister of Com merce, as the greater part of it was on the Eastern question, respecting which every thing that could be said has already been said in the two Chambers. With respect to the attacks upon the public press, the Minis ter said all that the Government wished was to repress licentiousness in respecting liberty, and it would suc ceed in its object, for in this attempt it would, he was sure, have the support of the Chamber of Deputies. M. Vivien made a speech, in which he attacked many of the measures of the Cabinet, and was replied to by M. Muret de Bord, who said that, although he did not approve of all the measures of the Cabinet without distinction, he was well satisfied with the general re sults of its policy. M. Charamaule blamed the con duct of the Government, and particularly as regards Spain. M. Jaubert followed in the same strain. He said the Government was weak internally and externally, and must be so with its present policy. The two can didates in this Bureau were M. Muret de Bord and M. Vivien. The former had a majority of 21 to 18.—In the fifth Bureau a speech was made by M. Duvergier de Hauranne against the policy of the Government as regards the question of the East. The Hon. Deputy con tended that the interest of France had been compro• mised, and demanded the production of papers. M. de la Tournelle replied, that if the papers connected with the affairs of the East, and for the production of which M. Duvergier appeared so anxious, were to be pro duced, he would see that the interests of France had been fully appreciated. M. F. Delessert followed M. de la Tournelle, and, like him, contended that the in terests of France had in every case been protected. M. Dupin said a few words on the late census. He expressed his regret that this subject was taken up by the Opposition on political grounds. He should like to see it treated exclusively as a financial question. The candidates were M. Dupin and M. Duvergier de Hauranne. M. Dupin was elected by a majority of 26 to 10.—The most remarkable fact in the discussion of the sixth bureau was the answer given by the Minister of the Interior to M. Desmousseaux de Givre, on the ques:ion of Algeria. M. Desmousseaux de Givre said he supposed the allu sion in the speech from the throne, relative to Algeria, was connected with the appearance of a squadron off Tunis.—The Minister of the Interior replied that the passage of the speech referred exclusively to the pro jects which the Parte was said to have upon Tunis. The French Government had declared that it would not permit the present regime in Tunis to be disturbed, as the overthrow of the authority of the Bey might create embarrassments and difficulties for the French posses sions in Africa which it would be prudent to prevent. The Minister, in reply to a question from M. Lacrosse, as to the words in the Speech, sons afaiblir noire orga nisation mihtaire, said the navy was alluded to as well as the army. The Government, he said, was desirous of having the navy as strong as possible ; but, in order to establish an equilibrium in the finances of the St ate,there must be reduction of expenditure for the navy as for the army. Order in the finances was, said the Minister, an element of national power, as well as the army or the navy. The candidates in this bureau were M. Dumon and M. de Tracy. The former said a few words in de fence of the policy of the Government. M. Dumon was elected by a majority of 22 to 9—The discussion in the seventh bureau was short. M. Jacques Lefebvre called the attention of the bureau to the paragraph relative to the extension of our commercial relations, and alluded to the negociations with Belgium. M. Thiers thought that although a customs union might create apprehensions in some branches of commerce, it would have the advantage of attaching Belgium still more closely to France, and prevent her from yielding to the influence of Germany. This union, however, was, he said, no longer in question, and the matter in consideration was a treaty of commerce. Without ab solutely repelling all the treaties of that nature, it was only requisite that the interests of France should be considered in these negotiations. M. Teste, the Mi. bister of Public Works, observed that the question of extending the commercial relations of the country was one of great importance, and it was the duty of the Government to give all possible development to trade and manufactures, -but in doing this prudence of course was necessary. The election in this bureau fell upon M. Jacques Lefebvre, who had 2.5 votes. His compe titor, M. Moreau (de la Sein), had only 9 votes. There were three candidates in the eighth bureau—M. Fould, M. Leon de Malleville, and M. Amilhau. M. Fould spoke in favour of the Ministry in connection with the quertion of the East. He said France had got out of the difficulty better than could have been expected, and bad resumed her place honourably in the Euro pean compact. M. de Malleville said France had received no reparation for the insult which had been put upon her, and then entered upon a censure of the policy of the Government -relative to the cen sus. On the ballot, out of 33 votes, M. Fould had 18, M. Leon de Malleville 8, and M. Amilhau 7.—ln the ninth bureau, after a diseunion be tween M. Rivet and M. Lanyer, in which the former expressed a wish to know whether the allusion in the Speech from the Throne to the disturbances occa- sinned by factions was to be received as an announce ment that none of the projected reforms were to be adopted ; and the latter immediately replied that in the present state of things there ought not to be any inno vations. M. Oditon Ilarrot observed that in the dis cussion on the Address, nothing could be more impor tant and significant than the words which had just been exchanged: Thanks to the candour of theseexplana tionP, the confusion had reigned in the Chamber, and rendGred its legislature abortive, was about to cease. There was riot, nor in fact cou!d there be, in the political world, more than two serious and sincere parties ; the party of those who conceived that the country was in possession of the full amount of liberty and security which were due to it, and the party of those who, on the contrary, thought that certain institutions, certain guarantees were in want of a more complete de velopment. It was to this last party that the elections of 1839 gave a marked victory. It was with joy he saw, after so many differences which could net be justified, all the elements which had caused a temporary division of this party again formed into one common opinion. Men henceforth would be divided only by their opi nions, and not by personal combinations, which the country could never comprehend. M. Dejean declared that lie would oppose all attempts at innovation. M. Durand de Roniorantin, on the contrary, demanded reform, and complained that the policy of the Govern merit was not sufficiently enlightened and national. M. Bignon defend e d the conduct of the Ministry.—The candidates were M. Bignon and M. Rivet. The for mer had 21 votes, and the latter 19. M. Sancet has taken possession of his official resi dence in the Palais Bourbon, as President of the Cham ber of Deputies. Mr. Sotheby, for upwards of half a century at the head•of the firm of the same name in Wellington street, died on Tuesday mo rn i ng, at his residence, Cleve's Lodge, Chelsea, in the 71st year o f hi s age. This firm, which was the first established in this country for the exclusive sale of litorary property by auction, com menced in the year 17.1-3, and has continued ever since to be the principal channel through which the most noted collections of hooks, prints, and other objects of vertu, both public and private, have been brought into th e market. An old man of 90, named Thomas Chew, died at Leighton Buzzard a few days ago. The deceased was a most eccentric person ; he died with his best clothes on, and particularly requested that he should be so in terred, not forgettin g to put on his great top coat, hat, and handkerchief, and which request has been complied with. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. _ GLOBE.—Everybody must be struck with the complacency with which Sir James Graham talks of his colleagues and himself ; and the contrast between this complacency and the absence of any cause for it known to the public, is equally striking. The most sterile of all Ministries, is, nevertheless, the most self-complacent. With what unction Sir James talks of the Premier, the Duke, and himself 1 Yet, except a barefaced attempt to take the credit of the Anti-slavery Treaty, he does not produce a single good deed done or intended, as a pretext for his unc tuous complaisance. " Look at me and my col leagues—did you eyer see the like of us r Yet not one good thing can he adduce. " Did ye ever," said a happy father, addressing a Scotch hostess, " did ye ever see sic a sight in your house before, as me and my three sons a' placed ministers o' the Kirk o' Scotland ?" " Never, Sir," was the reply of the dame, remembering that none of her guests could preach a good sermon, " but once, when I had a Highland piper and his three sons o' Highland pipers, and deil a tune amang them." Of all the Administrations which have held power of late years, none has equalled the present in sterility of ideas. Their friends, when saying the best they can for them, have merely hinted they still have sense enough to adopt parts or imitations of the measures of the men they have displaced. Ideas of their own they have not, nor pretend to have. Nobody knows what they will do, nor does any one of themselves know. Sir James Graham only seems to think it clever to vapour about how soon and readily they will resign. Search the universe. and you will not find a more con temptible sight than a purposeless Government And the Cabinet of Sir Robert Peel is purposeless. Observers, who have Tory friends, know that they always consist of two kinds—men who wish to retake power which has been conceded to the people, and men who wish to concede still more power to democracy. In Ireland there are men resolute for taking away the grant to Maynooth, and those who are bent on conciliating the priests by increasing the grant and giving endowments to the entire priesthood. Yet these men of opposite purposes both belong to the Govern ment party. Scotland has Conservatives determined to give up their party if a power is not given to the people in the election of their clergymen ; and the strength of Scotch Toryism lies in the patrons from whom this power must be wrung. How long will these men hang together? In England, an active and zealous body of Tories are Ultra-Protestants, who have societies all over the land for agitating against Romanism. Another, and a more powerful body of Tories, are banded together to make the Church of England more like the Church of Rome. Can these persons continue to pursue the same path ?—to form companies of the same army in the same war ? We trow not. Again, in the last general elec. tion the rallying cry of the Tory party was, the preser vation of the Corn-laws untouched. Already the altering of these laws is reckoned a certain thing —per haps prematurely enough. Undoubtedly, however, the Tory party is divided on this very matter, and consists of free-traders, who feel the necessity of coacessions to allay the distresses and the discontents of the manufac turing interests—and of bigots of aristocracy, who menace the Government with destruction the instant a reforming hand is lifted up against their monopoly. STANDARD.—That the public distress has had some influence upon the revenue, if not in producing the whole or any considerable part of the Excise de crease, at least in preventing an increase, which the great increase in the other sources of revenue would seem to promise, we aro not disposed to deny. The sinking of the edifice is first felt by those en the ground floor, and they are unhappily the last to emerge from it. The humbler classes, the great con sumers of exciseable commodities, are always the earliest in suffering by general distress, and the latest to enjoy a recovered prosperity. That the nation is re covering is proved by the signal improvement in the Customs' revenue. Allowing, as we have done, that some of this improvement is borrowed from the Excise, still an improvement in the Customs, at the rate of 1,658,0001. per annum, manifests a wonderful aug mentation of public confidence, and a corresponding revival of foreign trade—the trade upon which so many tell us the happiness and security of the country depends. It will not do to say that this improvement in the Customs is all the produce of corn duties, be cause it is an increase upon a quarter of the same year in which 1,200,0001. was received in corn duties ; and if 414,0001., or any great proportion of it, has been realised upon corn duties,—much of these duties being col lected at the rate of one shilling the quarter,—what is to be said of the practical exclusion of foreign corn, It is idle, however, to pursue the inquiry further, until we shall have before us the particular details. We have now but to congratulate our fellow-subjects upon the first financial fruits of Sir Robert Peel's Government, the enjoyment to which for many years they have been unaccustomed, of a well-grounded prospect of improve ment in the revenue of the country. COURIER.—We do not seek to justify the indis cretion, for it scarcely amounts to more, committed by the Herald in fixing the imputati o n s fa lsely current in public rumour with apparently so much distinctness on one or two noble persons, and two there were equally answering by title and other circumstances to the one de scriptive process employed; but we may be allowed to say that had the existence of such rumours only been referred to, without personal application, the Herald was no more than in the just performance of its duty towards the public, not only without prejudice to individuals, but the reverse, for the notice of such rumours would have lethio more particular inquiry on all sides, and I thus parties injuriously and falsely implicated, but still in ignorance of the privately circulated slander by which their fair fame was hourly being assailed, would come to cognisance of the fact through some friend or other, so as to enable them at once to meet the ca lumny, and vindicate their reputation. What most surprises us, in the otherwise proper retractation of the Herald, is the terms in which it is made, at least se far as the first paragraph, as follow In our piper of the 21st ult. we noticed upon authority, on which we have been accustomed to place implicit reliance, the exist ence of rumours relative to the Exchequer bill fraud, which we were assured had gained an extensive circu lation in the City. The result of inquiries which we subsequently instituted on the subject now leads us to the conviction that we have been im posed upon, and that such rumours had gained no such circulation as our informant confidently stated." We can only say that the Herald, if imposed upon at all, was grossly so, but not certainly by the informant by whom the " existence of the ru mours" gas asserted and their circulation in the City. The " inquiries instituted" must have been conducted i in a strange fashion to lead to the " conviction" that the rumours alluded to "had gained no such circulation" as stated. For in fact they were unfortunately the talk even in taverns of public resort. From the moment that the rumours were first guardedly broached in the Times we ourselves heard them broadly connected with names, not in the City merely, but in the west end of this metropolis. We sincerely rejoice that at length they have been disposed of, as the base fabrications of calumny for which there existed not the slightest foun dation. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—The following notice relative to Exche quer bills has been issued from the Treasury : " Applications having bee❑ made to this office by holders of unstamped Exchequer bills, who have hitherto omitted or been prevented from sending in such bills for examination, notice is hereby given, that on Friday next, the ith inst., all such bills as shall be presented between the hours of ten and three, under the regulations pre viously in force, will be examined, and where found ge nuine, will be stamped and returned to the owners. " MONTE AGLE, Comptroller-General. " Exchequer, Jan. 4, 1842." There is another rumour to-day concerning Exchequer bills, which is supposed to contribute towards their sus taining their present high price. This is to the effect, that by an alteration in the system, Exchequer bills, in stead of being payable for duties at stated periods only, will be continually payable, and bear interest from the day of their date to the date of such payment. As such an arrangement will give an additional facility for making use of the unfunded securities, the rumour in question naturally increases their value. If the altera tion should actually be made, it will be a return to sound principles, from the system of jobbing with Exchequer bills, introduced by Mr. Spring Rice. The partial de cline observable in Exchequer bills to-day is not to be attributed to any change in public opinion, but merely to sales in consequence of their high price. HERALD.—Notwithstanding the approaching pay ment of dividends, and the abundance of money which is usually anticipated to follow the payment and partial dispersion of several millions among the public, which is usually an element in the calculations of speculators and capitalists for a rise in stocks, the home funds have presented but an unsteady appearance for the last two or three days, and the previous improvement has been followed by a gradual decline. The cause of this de pression of prices is variously accounted for. By some it is attributed to the belief that various foreign loans are in preparation, the weight of some of which is likely to fall upon this market, In France, it is well known, that large amounts of money will be wanted, not only to make good the past, the present, and the prospective defi ciency of revenue; as compared with expenditure arising out of the late warlike preparations, but also for the purpose of those vast internal improvements, such as the great lines of railroad, announced to be under taken on account of the State. From Austria there are similar advices ; there also the Government has for mally notified the intention to execute on its own ac count all the preliminary and expensive workings of a general railwa : system, so far as the great lines, after wards to be farmed out to public competition so far as the conveyance of goods and passengers, and the supply of locomotive carriages and machinery. These enter prises for France and Austria alone, independent of what may be intended by other Sovereign Powers in ..Germany and in Prussia, or elsewhere in Europe, will necessarily require the outlay of many millions sterling, which can only be raised by way of loans to be con- tracted, or by the more simple and direct process of an emission and gradual sale of State bonds upon the stock and money markets here and abroad for the account of the different States, and without the intromission of ca pitalists and contractors, as upon the old system. It is understood that the Hebrew party have been the chief operators for the fall. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ADMIRALTY COURT, Jan. 5. THE OCEAN QUEEN. This was a motion to arrest a vessel under the 3d and 4th Victoria, c. 65. The vessel was built and registered at New Brunswick, and was the property of a firm carrying on business at Liverpool, in Nova Scotia. Having arrived in the Mississippi, to obtain goods on freight, the master left the vessel in the river, and went up to New Orleans to see if freight could be procured, and there applied to the house of Lizardi and Co. for advice and assistance. He had goods on board, taken at Panama, and under the American navigation law he had rendered his vessel liable to seizure and condemnation in an American port ; w h ereupon Lizardi and Co. advised him to put to sea again, but he wanted funds to pay for necessaries, and neither he nor his owners had any credit at New Orleans. Lizardi and Co. accordingly advanced the necessary funds, amounting to 2501., for which the master gave bills of exchange payable in London, but they were refused acceptance by the owners at Nova Scotia. The :vessel had now arrived in the port of London, and a warrant of arrest had been applied for on behalf f Lizardi and Co., who had a house in London, which the registrar had refused to issue, on the ground that the 6th section of the Act gave this Court jurisdic • tion in such cases only over " foreign ships or sea-going vessels." It was contended that the word " pr." being disjunctive, placed all " sea-going vessels" within the jurisdiction. - Dr. LUSITINGTON, however, was of a different opinion, and rejected the motion. SHERIFFS' COURT, Jan. 6. BRYDEN V. SYDNEY. In this case the plaintiff was a partner in the firm of Boyle, Bryden, and Co., the publishers of the Court Guide, carrying on business at 290, Regent-street ; and the defendant, Sir William Robert Sydney, wash lawyer, residing at No. 11, New Palace-yard, Westminster. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 151. for work and labour done, and upon an account stated, to which the defendant pleaded that he never was indebted except in the sum of 10/., which he paid into Court. Mr. Bryden had been a Parliamentary and house agent pre vious to his joining the establishment in Regent-street; and in May last Sir W. R. Sydney called at the plain tiff's office, and said he was recommended by a Lady named Boyle to apply to him to dispose of his house in Palace-yard. He said he wanted 400/. for the lease of the house, but if that could not be got, he would accept of 1501., or even 501, as he wanted to be rid of it. Under these circumstances, the plaintiff caused three advertisements to be inserted in the Morning Papers, and the lease was subsequently sold for 50/. to a gentleman named Rickworth, who took the fixtures at a valuation, and upon informing Sir Robert he told the defendant to call the next morning and he would settle the account, which at the rate of 5/. per cent. on the rental of the house and the incidental charges, formed the amount of the present demand. Next morning Sir Robert left town saying he would remit the money to plaintiff. The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF having summed up, the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the full amount claimed. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 6. IN BE THOMAS F. BALLS. The bankrupt was an extensive omnibus proprietor, who ran between Vauxhall and Oxford-street. His lia bilities were considerable, while his available assets will scarcely pay Is. in the pound. A number of omnibus proprietors, horse. dealers, and persons connected with the trade were in attendance to prove claims, and after a long discussion Messrs. Week ley, coach-maker, and Ashland, corn-factor, were chosen assignees. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. THE POST-OFFICE CASES.—H. Warner, aged 18, who yesterday pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing a letter containing a 101. note, was brought up for judgment this morning, and sentenced to trans portation for 15 years. Richard Horton, who was yesterday convicted of stealing a post letter containing a sovereign, received a similar sentence. THE FORGERY CASE.—John Mathews and John Bar bcr, who were yesterday convicted of utt er i ng a f orge d 10i Bank note; were this morning brought up for judg ment, and respectively sentenced . to transportation f or 15 years. - STREET ROBBERY, WITH VIOLENCE.— Thomas Muller, aged 20, was indicted for assaulting William Cannon on the Queen's highway, and stealing from his person a knife, and ls. 6d. in money. On the night of the 17th December the prosecutor was attacked in Wentworth-street, Whiteehapel, by two men, who knocked him down and took from him the property in question. lie believed the prisoner to have been one of them. Sarah Ward witnessed the attack on the prosecutor, and swore distinctly to the prisoner as one of the assail ants; she gave information to a policeman, who took the prisoner into custody. When taken by the policeman the prisoner s sleeve was covered with blood. Mr. PAYNE having addressed the Jury for the pri soner, Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Ho was sen tenced to fifteen years' transportation. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. --Ann Gifford, aged 27, yes terday pleaded guilty to ten indictments, charging her with stealing in a dwelling-house. This morning Alphonso Gifford, aged 25, was placed in the dock, charged with feloniously receiving certain of the goods stolen by Ann, well knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. C. PHILLIPPS stated the case to the Jury, and called Mrs. Watson, who resides in Shoreditch. The pri soner Ann came to her house sometime in December, to offer as a servant. The prisoner gave a reference, and Mrs. Watson went there, but found the reference was a false one. During her absence the female pri soner stole a watch from the drawing-room. The female servant of Mrs. Watson corroborated her mistress's testimony. The shopman of Mr. Hazard, pawnbroker, proved that the male prisoner had pledged the watch at his master's shop, and, at the time of doing so, said he had frequently pledged the same watch before, which had belonged to his father. _ _ Th; police inspector who took the prisoner into cus tody found the duplicate for the watch on his person. lie said the female prisoner was his wife. Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—He said he had been only recently married to her. The prisoner af forded him every facility in making his search. Mr. BALLANTINE having addressed the Jury for the prisoner, and called several witnesses to character, Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up, and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty. In answer to a question from the Jury, Mr. Baron GURNEY stated that the female prisoner had been before transported. When the prisoners were called up for judgment the male prisoner said that he was not aware that his friends had employed Counsel to defend him, or he should have given his Counsel information to conduct his defence. He then entered into a long rambling statement as to his conduct, with a view of showing that he had no guilty knowledge of the acts of his wife. During his address to the Court the female prisoner fainted away. On her recovery, Mr. Baron GURNEY sentenced her to transportation for 15 years, and Alphonso Gifford to transportation for 14 years —They were then removed from the bar, the male prisoner making vehement protestations of his innocence. Antvemahn, a Malay, 30, and Samut, a Japanese, 25 were indicted for cutting and wounding Hassan, a Chinese, with intent to do him some greviously bodily harm. The prosecutor, upon getting into the witness's box, had a saucer handed to him, and he kneeled down im mediately and broke the saucer upon the rail in front of the witness-box. Mr. Harker, the usher, then administered the oath to him, according to the Chinese form, in the following words—" You shall speak the truth, and the whole truth —the saucer is cracked, and if you do not tell the truth your body shall he cracked like the saucer." Baron GURNEY inquired of the interpreter, who te o r a e t p h li ‘ e v stated him se lf t o b e a nat i ve o f M acao, w h et h er t hi s f orm of r (l a was that binding s u p t o h n e na t h o d e e Chinese n ? i s t e T r h ii e i g i t n h t e e r o p a r teh in China. Hassan, the prosecutor, was then examined, and it ap peared that he and the prisoners belonged to the Scales by Castle E4 a st Indianian. A quarrel and fight took place between the Malays and Chinese on board the vessel, and in the course of it the prosecutor received the injury in question. There was no evidence that Samut had assaulted the prosecutor, but it appeared that 1 Antvernahn had struck him with a bamboo. Mr. Phillips, who was instructed on behalf of the pri soners, was about to address the Jury, when the Court intimated that the offence only amounted to an assault. The Jury found Antvemahn guilty of a common as sault, and acquitted Samut. Mr. Justice WIGIITMAN having ascertained that the vessel would sail in about a month, ordered the prisoner to be confined for fourteen days. George Young was indicted for cutting and wounding Jane Griffiths. The prosecutrix being called, mounted the witness box with difficulty, and stammered out, " lam not fit to be examined." Mr. Baron GURNEY—I see you are not. Who has been giving you liquor ? Prosecutrix—l gave it to my self ; I have been up all night, and I am very drunk. The case then proceeded, but there being no evidence to show that the name of the prosecutrix was Jane Grif fiths, the Court directed a verdict of Not Guilty to be re turned. NEW COURT. William Todd, aged 28, a shoemaker, was convicted of stealing at Greenwich, on the 14th December, two spoons, value lOs., the property of William Cox. The prisoner was sentenced by the Court to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. A CHRISTMAS FREAK.—James Low was indicted with stealing, on the 27th of last month, a silver watch, a gold ring, a purse containing money, a pocket-book, and other articles, the property of Mr. Robert Reid. The case came on before Mr. Halls, at Bow-street a few days ago, and the facts have been already given at length. From the evidence, it appeared that ;Ir. Reid, who resided at Hastings, had come up to town to enjoy the amusement of- Christmas. That on the 27th of last 1 month he dined with some friends and d ran k more wine THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1842. than did him good. About seven o'clock in the evening he went to the Lowther-rooms, where he had smylr‘ bottles of porter and glasses of gin and water, which completely finished him, and he was totally unaware what he said or did till the next morning, at six o'clock; when he found himself at the George Inn, in the Bo rough, discovered his loss, and made it• known to the police. The prisoner, who sweeps a cross ing in the neighbourhood of Hanover-square, was at the Lowther-rooms on the night in ques tion, and was seen repeatedly in company with the prosecutor, and drinking with him. Suspicion falling upon him, he was taken into custody, and in his pockets and on his finger were found an empty purse, a watch-key, and a ring, which were identified by the pro secutor. At the prisoner's lodgings were also found two pocket-books, containing three sovereigns, and the du plicate of a watch. 'he watch and one of the pocket books was sworn to by the prosecutor. The prisoner denied the robbery, but The Jury, without calling upon the Learned Judge to sum up, found him Guilty. Mr. Justice MAULS sentenced him to eight months' imprisonment and hard labour. Joseph Adams, a most respectable man, in appearance, and described in the calendar as a merchant, was in dicted for forging and uttering an order for the delivery of goods, with intent to defraud Emma Clapham. Mr. CLARKSON addressed the Jury on behalf of the prosecutor, arid Mr. DOANE defended the prisoner. The following witnesses were called on behalf of the prosecution. Emma Clapham stated that she carried on the busi ness of a milliner, in New Bond -street. On the 7th re ceived a letter by the General Post, purporting to come from Mrs. Colonel Hill, requesting her to send some patterns of• velvet dresses to Newport, in the Isle of Wight. Received another letter, purporting to come from the same party, in consequence of which she forwarded a velvet dress to Mrs. Colonel Hill, at the Royal York Hotel, Southampton. The dress now produced was the one forwarded to Southampton. Re ceived another letter approving of the dress, and order ing another. This caused witness to entertain suspi cions, and her brother went to Southampton. Fifteen guineas was charged for the dress. Cress-examined by Mr. DOANK—The letters all came either from Newport or Southampton. The different letters were then put in and read. William Bettel—ln November last was waiter at the Royal Hotel, Southampton, Received a parcel addressed to Mrs. Colonel Hill, which he delivered to the prisoner at the bar, who had called at the hotel before, and re ceived letters addressed there for Mrs. Colonel Hill. The prisoner represented himself to be Colonel Hill, and supposing him to be so, witness gave him the parcel. Margaret Hill—Was the widow of Colonel Hill. . s residing at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, in No.. vember last. The prisoner at the bar was a stranger to her. Witness did not write, or cause to be written, the letters now produced. Cross-examined by Mr. DOANE—Did not know a lady named Carnegie, residing at Newport. Isabella Scott—Was the widow of General Scott, who was an o ffi cer in America. Witness married him at New York. The prisoner had dined with them at New York. Did not come from America with the prisoner. Witness, on coming here resided in Sackville-street. The prisoner lodged there. Witness had seen the pri • soner write, and had read what he had written after wards. The letters produced witness (after some hesita tion) stated, she thought, were in the hand-writing of the prisoner. rIPI, Cross-examined by Mr. DOANE—Thought the letters were in the prisoner's hand-writing. Ann Hatton—Was a widow. Was residing in South ampton in November last. Made the acquaintance of the prisoner at Cowes. Purchased the dress produced from the prisoner, for sixteen guineas, on the Monday previous to his being taken into custody. The prisoner said a friend of his, a Barrister, had the dress to dispose of ; that he had had it for a lady to whom he was going to be married, but that, from some cause or other, it did not do. Shortly after witness purchased the dress she read the account in the news papers of the prisoner being taken into custody, and sent word to the officers that she had the dress. Derry, a sergeant in the Southampton police, took the prisoner into custody. Found upon him a gold watch, a ring, and 12s. On further searching him, in a small leather bag, hung round his neck, witness found several duplicates, a 51. note, and two sovereigns. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. DOANE addressed the Jury for the prisoner. Mr. Justice MAITLE summed up, and the Jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner Guilty. A former conviction at the Somerset Quarter Sessions was put in, by which it appeared that he was convicted of stealing two watches and sentenced to seven years' transportation in 1834. A free pardon in 1837, which was found in the possession of the prisoner, was then put in. Mr. Justice MACLB sentenced him to fifteen years' transportation. MAGISTERIAL NEGLECT. The following Case IS strongly illustrative of the loose manner in which depo sitions are taken in the Police Courts, and the little reli ance that can be placed on their accuracy. Peter Welch, printer, aged 17, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing 56 yards of bed-ticking, value 31., the property of Charles Thompson. The firstwitness called was the shopman of the bedding warehouse from which the ticking was alleged to have been stolen. lle stated that the name of his master was Rickards, and that he knew nothiag about any person named Charles Thompson. Mr. Baron GURNEY—Why, in your deposition before the Magistrate, you state that you were in the employ of Charles Thompson. Witness—l told the Magisti ate that I believed my master's name to be Rickards, and that I knew nothing abo u t Thompson. I understood that I said the ticking was the property of my master. Mr. Baron GURNEY—Then :you know nothing about any Charles Thompson? Witness--No, my Lord. Mr. Baron GURNEY—CaII the next witness ; and let us see if he knows any thing about Chalk); Thompson. The next witness was the policeman, who appeared to be equally ignorant of the existence of any.C. Thompson. Mr. Baron GURNEY—TeII the Magistrate that there does not appear to be any such person as Charles Thompson connected with this case. The Jury, under the direction of the Learned Judge, immediately acquitted the prisoner. It appears from the calendar that the prisoner was com mitted on the 23d December, by. J. B. Greenwood, Esq. ANOTHER LAPSUS.—Joseph Clarke and Henry Clarke were indicted for stealing certain goods, the property of William Mills and another. On the trial it appeared that Mr. Mills had no partner. Mr. Baron GURNEY—Who gave orders to have the in dictment prepared at Mr. Clarke's office ? A City policeman stepped into the box and said ho had done so. Mr. Baron GrnNEv—What directions did you give? Witness—That they should be indicted for stealing the goods of William Mills. I said nothing about any partner. Mr. Justice WIGHTmAN said that under the circum stances it was the duty of the Jury to acquit the pri soners, which they accordingly did. The Court, how ever, ordered both the prisoners, and also the prisoner Peter Welch, to be remanded until next session, and in the meantime gave directions to have proper indictments preferred against them. TRIAL OF A LASCAR.— Russell, a lascar, was placed at the bar, charged with feloniously cutting and wounding Abraham, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The prisoner, who was attired in a pilot coat, with a large fur collar, which was closely buttoned up to the chin, surveyed the Court with a look of the most intense curiosity and satisfaction, unmingled, however, with any thing like an appearance of appre hension or anxiety ; he seemed, in fact, to regard the whole proceeding as an exhibition got up for his own especial amusement. When brought up to plead in the morning, on which occasion Mr. Sheriff Rogers addressed a few words to him in Hindostanee, he appeared attired in a turban. He now, however, stood at the bar bareheaded. An interpreter having been sworn, The first witness, who was attired in a turban, was sworn on the Koran. He said his name was Abraham, and that he belonged to the ship Fort William. The prisoner was his shipmate. Prisoner had struck him when he was on board ship in the East India Docks. Witness was under the forecastle when Russell gave him five dollars. Russell was en trusted to give out money. Witness gave three of the dollars to one of the topmen, and with two dollars bought some clothes of the Serang. The Serang told witness to give another man two dollars, but he had no more. The prisoner was the'Scrang. Witness said he had no more to give. Prisoner said he must give, and struck him with the hooka produced on the forehead. It bled, and hurt him much. Ile had done nothing to the prisoner to make him do it. The hooka was produced in Court, and appeared rather a formidable instrument. Cross-examined by the Prisoner, through the Inter preter—Witness was clerk to the Serang (the prisoner). Prisoner had given him 90 dollars before. Mr. Baron G cusEy--Interpreter, tell the prisoner the question is not about the dollars, but about striking him with the hooka. The Interpreter (after communicating with the pri soner) Mahomet G reatoo, sworn upon the Koran, and —He says th at h e did no t wish to break his head. exa mined through the medium of the interpreter, deposed that he saw the blow given with the hooka by Russell, and that Abraham had done nothing to Russell pre viously. The constable of the East India Docks deposed to William. Mr. prisoner into custody on board the Fort Mr. Blew, a surgeon, described the nature of the in jury the prosecutor hack received. an with the • The interpreter, after communicating pn 31‘,IthrinBgatroonsa)tRiNdEsYTefilete.er.prete. .ask him if he has sorer, said, he says he has nothing to say. Thel‘ 1 Baron Jti ry found GURNEY him summed guity o f t l a ) and common The Surgeon of the s hip s aidprisoner as that o assault. , Serang was a man whose presence was required on board the ship. He was the chief and manager of the native crew, Mr. Baron GURNEY sentenced him to be imprisoned fur one week. SINGULAR PLEDGE.—Wednesday information was received at a ll th e metropo li tan police stati ons , t h at in the course of the a f ternoon a fine male child, sup• posed to be about one month old, had been found plaeed in one of the pledging boxes on the premises of Mr Reynolds, a pawnbroker, near the Mile End-road. It was wrapped up in two bed gowns, two patched blankets, &c. It has been removed to the workhouse. THE PRUSSIAN EMBASSY.—The personnel of the Prussian legation have removed to his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen's mansion (recently Lord Stuart de Rot hesay's),on Carlton-house-terrace, whereßaron Canitz and Baron Schlenitz have u their residence, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. A man, named juno Thontp,on, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having defrauded Mr. Dubock, the landlord of the Coach and Horses public house in Petticoat-lane, of some silver and a meal of victuals, &c. The prisoner was supposed to be a ship carpenter. It appeared from the statement of the publican, who gave a very droll and animated account of the affair, that the prisoner called at hi s h ouse an d as k e d whether he had kept it thirteen years ago. The answer was that the person who carried on the business at that time was gathered to his fathers, and would no more be seen. " I am sorry for that," said the prisoner, " for I lodged in this house thirteeen years ago, and better treatment I never received any wh ere , so that its recollections make me wish to lodge here again." He then asked witness to board and lodge him, and said that fifteen shillings a week was the sum he used to pay on the former occa sion. Witness, although unused to the entertainment of strangers with bed and board, consented, and the pri soner sat down to his first meal in the house, and then requested that the witness would provide him a trustworthy porter, and accompany him to the India docks, in order that his chest of carpenter's tools, and other property, might be fetched from thence in safety. On their way the prisoner said he had to call upon his captain, in Prescott-street, about his wages, and he and witness, and the porter, went into a public-house in the neighbourhood, to make arrangements. The pri soner in a short time went over to a house in which he said the captain lived, and knocked at the door, being watched by the witness and the porter, who began to suspect that all was not right with him. After making, as was afterwards ascertained, some ineffectual inquiry at the house, he walked on further, and at last disappeared, and witness and the porter began to condole with each other upon being made victims. They, however, deter mined to remain in the public-house for some time, and after a short delay, in walked the prisoner. " It's all right," said he, " I shall receive my wages from the cap tain presently, and I want you t 6 lend me 4s. 6d. to give to the servants." Witness handed him the 4s. 6d. but no longer let him out of sight ; and he soon learned that the fellow had been home to witness's wife, immediately after he was missed, and endeavoured to do her out of Ils. 6d., upon the pretext that her husband wanted to pay the dock fees upon the tools. A po liceman was then employed to take care of the inge nious fellow, who would certainly have succeeded if he had not had rather clever people to deal with. A man named Richardson stated that he was in Mr. Dubock's housein Petticoat-lane when the prisoner ea tered in a hurry, and asked Mrs. Dubock for 11s. 6d. for her husband, who wanted to pay fees at the dock. Witness, upon being called by her, who suspected that the prisoner was not a bit better than a thief, re fused to let him have the money, dogged the prisoner, and came up just after the prosecutor had lent him the 4s. 6d. The.LORD MAYOR—Why, Mr. Thompson, this was well done of you. You have been long practising this work ? Prisoner—No, my Lord. I meant nothing bad, and I am ready to pay the gentleman the money I borrowed from him. The LORD MAYOR—You mean the money you swin dled him out of. Pray who are you? Prisoner—l am a poor Swede, and I came to London five days ago from Valparaiso. The LORD. MAYOR—In what vessel? Prisoner—ln the Nereid. The LORD MAYOR—There is no such ship from Valpa raiso to my knowledge. I happen to have some know ledge of shipping, and I have no doubt you are an impostor. Mr. Dubock said that his object in bringing the pri soner before the Lord Mayor was to render service to the public. The fellow, he said, told his wife when he tried to rob her, that the captain and her husband were enjoy iug themselves at a tavern. The prisoner was remanded. GUILDHALL. Mr. Alderman GIB)387011alWi his seat upon the Bench, said he beged to correct an erroneous statement which appeared in several of the morning newspapers. It had been stated that Mr; Alderman Copeland, when committing some destitute persons to prison, had said that upwards of 6,000 casual paupers had been relieved within the last twelvemonths in the London Union. He (Mr. Alderman Gibbs) regretted to say that the destitution prevailing in the City of London, both amongst the per manent residents and those who came into it, either seek ing work or from other causes, far exceeded that number, for he could state upon authority, that the casual paupers relieved in the London Union within the last QUARTER amounted to no less than 10,000 persons. BOW-STREET. William 'Esworthy was brought up for examination charged with having defrauded Lord Stanley, the Colo nial Secretary. Emma Norman, a servant at the Colonial-office, in Downing-street, deposed that on the evening of the 27th of December, between seven and eight o'clock, the pri soner came to the office with a large parcel covered with matting, which he said was a handsome chandelier, a present to Lord Stanley, and that the servants must be extremely careful in handling it. He said he had brought it from the docks, that there was 3/. ss. 4d. to pay, and that he would write a receipt. He then asked for a pen. which was given him, and witness went away to get the money. He said something about wine, but she did not recollect distinctly what it was. Eliza Maling, also a servant at the Colonial-offic, deposed that on the same evening her fellow-servant (the last witness) came to her in the kitchen, stating that there was a man waiting for the payment of a par cel for Lord Stanley, upon which she aentup and saw the prisoner - standing at the desk in the hall, writing. She told him Dodsworth, the office keeper, was out, but if he would wait, he would be back in a few minutes. He said he would, and she remained with him till Dods worth came in a few minutes afterwards, when she told him, in the prison e r's pr e s e n ce , th a t h e h a d b roug ht a box from Mr. Stewart Mackenzie, Governor of the lonian Islands, for L )rd Stanley, and that it ( ane to 3/. ss. 4d. Dodsworth, finding that he hart not the money, went out to get change, and came back in a few minutes. While Dodsworth was absent she con versed with the prisoner, who wrote on the paper, which he intended for the receipt, 35 cases, 8 bales, and two letters, S. L. He remarked that there were 72 bottles in each case. Dodsworth returned in about five or ten mi nutes, and she went down stairs. There was a light in the hall while she remained with the prisoner. Thomas Dodsworth, officer and store-keeper at the Colonial-office, was next examined. He remembered that on returning home on the evening of the 27th of December, that a man was standing in the hall of the office, who said there was a present for Lord Stanley, and that there was 34 ss. 4d. to pay. Wit ness asked him if it had been opened, and he replied "Yes, it's all right." and showed him a paper with the name Grantside upon it, and also the name of Mr. Stewart Mackenzie, via Malta. From the pro duction of that paper, and another, apparently a printed receipt of the Custom-house, he was led to believe that the box came from the Custom-house. Finding he had not enough money he went out to his butcher's. Hav ing the loan of 2/. he came back and paid the man the 3/. ss. 4d. He would not swear it was the prisoner. He received a receipt. [The receipt was produced.] The witness Dodsworth gave the box the next day to Ed ward Bleaden, by whom it was taken to Lord Stanley's residence, No. 8, St. James's-square, where it was opened by George Willis, his Lordship's butler, and found to contain nothing but stones and straw. The box was produced and identified, both by the witness and Dodsworth, who said that he had paid for some hundreds of things in the same way, and never be fore had any fraud. Gough, a policeman of the A division, deposed to hav ing searched the prisoner's lodgings in Rose-court, Tower -street, City. The prisoner bore but an indiffe rent character in the neighbourhood. Daniel Miller, a clerk in the Receiver General's office in the Custom-house, deposed that the receipt given by the prisoner, and marked Grantside, was one of the printed forms used in the Custom-house in the treasury only, but never given to any person out of the Custom house, nor for sums under 151. The receipt produced was a fictitious document. According to the practice of the Custom-house, on a parcel arriving for Lord Stanley, notice would be sent to his Lordship, and if no Treasury warrant was forwarded for its delivery, as being for the national service, the duties would have to be paid, and all charges before its removal, the same as any other article which came there. The prisoner, in his defence, said he could call seve ral witnesses to prove he was in the City at the hour it was alleged he was in Downing-street, and wrote down their names and addresses; but, on being called, none' f them answered except the prisoner's brother-in-law; who, on being asked if he could identify the prisoner's ?hand writing, said he could write six or seven different hands, but on looking at the receipt given to Dodsworth, he thought it was the writing of the prisoner. The witness was going on to say that the prisoner once sent him with a similar parcel, for which he was tried at the Old Bailey and nearly transported, When he was stopped by the Ma- gist rate. The prisoner then said that he was charged with hav ing received 31. ss. 4d. Dodsworth would not swear that he was the man to whom. he paid it, and the two female witnesses would not say that they saw it paid, and he did not see that, under these circumstances, there was any case against him. Mr. JARDINE said he would leave the decision of that question with another tribunal, and ordered the prisoner to enter into his own recognisance in the sum of 1001., and two sureties in the sum of 501. each, to answer the charge at the next session of the Central Criminal Court and to give forty-eight hours' notice o f b a il. , The prisoner was then fully committed. SURREY SESSIONS. DanielDonaghtte was indicted for stealing a copper, or brewing utensil, value 41, the property of Joseph Rams dale, from the Borough-market, on the 30th Dec. last. Policeman 207, saw the prisoner in Duke-street, London-bridge, at six o'clock in the evening of the 30th December last with the copper on his back. He asked witness if he was in the right direction for Abbot-street, Dcckhead. Witness said yes, but inquired where he was going with the copper ; he said he was carrying it for his master, Mr. Pontifex, to the place he had named. Witness asked why he had come so far round;; he said he did not know the other way. Witness followed him, on seeing which the prisoner asked if he was going to see that it was all right ; he went on to Abbot-street when he stopped at the door of a marine-store-ke.per, where he went in. Witness followed, and the woman who was in the house denied any knowledge of the copper ; he therefore took the prisoner and the copper to the station-house, where it was identified by Mr. Ramsdale as his property. Mr. Ramsdale said the copper was his, and was safe in a loft in the Borough-market, a few days before the one in question. On receiving information of the loss of the copper, he went there and found that the place had been broken open, and the article carried away. He believed he had sometimes employed the prisoner to do little jobs for him, but Diver to carry the copper. Policeman No. 89 said, when taken into eust ,,,i,. the , f)l.P.,red 1:1111. him to Mr. Pontilex's, where the copper was standing on the pavement, and told him to take it and carry it to Dockhead. The prisoner, in his defence, repeated the same story. The man told him to carry it to the shop where he stopped, and he was to be there. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a ver dict of Not Guilty. Solomon, Isaac, and Joshua Fullett, stood indicted for stealing a clock, a bed, a variety of bed-clothes, and a warming -pan, at the pari s h o f N ew di ga t e , on the 31st October, the property of a farmer named Butcher, who resided in the same locality. Mr. Feast, the constable at Horsham, having taken Isaac into custody for the robbery while at work in the fields, his wife and father came up to him weeping, and imploring him to speak the truth. He said nothing until they had walked three miles, when he commenced to confess. Witness did not want to hear him, but he persisted in giving a detail of the circumstances. He said his brother Solomon incited him to the deed, and that all the three brothers assisted in it. He took him before the Magistrate at Croydon, when, having repeated his statement, he was committed; and warrants were granted for the apprehension of the other brothers. They were taken before a Magistrate at Dorking, and committed. None of the property was found upon their premises. All the things were found at the house of Isaac. Mr. Holdfast, the Constable of Riegate, proved another confession on the part of Isaac, made while they were waiting to go before the Magistrate in that town. The prosecutor identified the property. The prisoner Solomon had resided in his house at Newdigate for 12 months previous to Michaelmas last. He (the witness) had two houses, the one in question he generally let out to parties, reserving a part of it for himself. The goods were in the house after Solomon left, at least on the day he did so. The confession was made before the Magistrates b. three prisoners. Mr. Walhnger addressed the Jury for the prisoners Solomon and Joshua, and Mr. Striven for Isaac. The CHAIRMAN shortly summed up, and the Jury, after a short consultation, and not being likely to agree, on the suggestion of the Chairman, retired. After being out for two hours they came in and returned a ver dictof Guilty against all the prisoners, but recommended them to the mercy of the Court, but more especially Joshua and Solomon. whom they believed to have been led into the crime by Isaac. . The Court then sentenced Isaac Fullett to imprison ment for six months and hard labour in Brixton ; the other two to be imprisoned 21 days, solitary confinement. BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS' Oa Wednesday Mr. Charles Butler, the landlord of the George public-house, Isleworth, appeared before the Rev. 1)r. Walmesley, Henry Pownall, B. J. Armstrong, and Thomas Twining, Esqs., to answer an information laid against him, under the Police Act, by Inspector Macquard, of the T division of police, for opening his house before one o'clOelt on the afternoon of Christmas day last. Mr. Butler pleaded not guilty. Sergeant John Poole, 1' 12, deposed that twenty mi nutes before one o'clock on the morning of Christmas clay, while on duty in the parish of Isleworth. and pas- - ing the George public-house, kept by the defendant, his attention was attracted by hearing a numb er o f p ersons , he believed men, singing in the defendant' s h ouse , an d joining in chorus. While listening outside, he saw a woman come out of the defendant's house with a can con taining beer. About a quarter of an hour afterwards he saw a woman enter the defendant's house, and come out with some rum in a measure. John Cussam, T 157, bore similar testimony, and cor roborated the evidence of Sergeant Poole. The defendant, in answer to the charge, contended that the information must be dismissed, inasmuch as although lie admitted that the persons had left the house, as had been represented, yet they were a private party, and not persons who came there for refreshment subse quent to the appointed hour for closing. Although he had kept the above house for 15 years, he had never before been summoned before the Magistrates, and he appealed to the police to bear him out in stating that his house was invariably closed at twelve o'clock, and he de clared that on the night in question, after ten o'clock, but two persons had visited the house, with the exception of the party he had before spoken of, and those two had quitted long before twelve o'clock. Poole was recalled by Mr. POWNALL, and in answer to questions put to hint he stated that when he passed the house, about half-pa s t 12 on th e ni g ht i n quest i on , i t was then hut up, and he admitted that the persons he had seen quitting the house seemed to be private guests. Mr. Butler then stated that, having received instruc tions from Messrs. J. W. and C. Parnell, the brewers of Isleworth, to provide on the night of Christmas-eve a, supper of old English fare for thirty-five of their men, for which they would pay, he considered he was acting as every hotel and tavern keeper would have acted on the occasion, by allowing the party to remain until they broke up. That entertainment was annually given by Messrs. Farnell, but each year at different houses, and having been assured that, when it took place on the pre vious year, at the London ApprentiCe, a policeman, at one o'clock in the morning, came up into the room, and having ascertained that it was a private party, left with out anything further being heard of the matter, he thought he could act in the same manner. The Bench said they did not consider the case proved, as the persons whom the police had seen come out were admitted by the witnesses to have had the appearance of being private guests. The summons must, therefore, be dismissed. LLOYD'S SHIPPING LONDON, JAN. 6.—Wind this day at noon N.N.E. MARGATE, JAN. s.—The Angelina, Carlinus, from Copenhagen to Cadiz, is ashore on argate Sand, with loss of mainmast and rudder unshipped, but expected to be got off. DEAL, JAN. s.—Wind E.—Arrd. from the River and sld. Hy.. Davidson, Bombay ; Anson ;Constantinople. LIVERPOOL, JAN. s.—Wind N.E.— Arrd. Elizabeth, Allen, St. Domingo ; Adrian, New Orleans ; Howard and Ellen Brooks, H awes, Savannah ; Dash, Newfound- • land; Elizabeth, Ancona; Sandbach, 13 ispham, Demerara, sailed Ist ult. Sid. Sovereign, New York. Her Ma jesty's steamer:Aden, from this port to Plymouth, on fire. was failed in with 2d inst., about twenty miles east of Tuskar; the fire was got under by ripping up the decks,. and she then bore away for Milford, by the Jenny Jones, arrived here from London. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. s.—Wind N.—Arrd. her Ma- jesty's ship Conway, sailed, Macao, ; Batavia Sept. 6 ; Cape of Good Hope, Oct. 31 •, St. Helena, Nov. 17, and Ascension, 23d, with two and a half millions dollars, on Government account ; Isabella, London, for Hobart Town. For the intbrmation of rni-rchants and others, her :Majesty's ship Thalia, for China, will not sail till Friday next. SOUTHAMPTON, J AI7. s.—Sailed the City of Glasgow, (steamer) for Barbadoes. SALCOMBE, JAN. 4.—Arrived the Koophandel, Hock sona, for Surinam. PLYMOUTH, JAN. s.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Corsiar, De merara. FALMOUTH, JAN. s.—Wind E.N.E. to N.E.—Sld. Caledonia (steamer), Corunna. Arrived off, Uranus, An_gusteira, for Breman. OFF PENZANCE, JAN. 4.—Stratford, Mauritius. GURNSEY, JAN. 2.—Sld. St. George, Demerara. CORK, JAN. 3.—Arrd. Circassian, Sproute, Bombay. YARMOUTH, JAN. s.—Jane and Margaret, Bridlington to London, came ashore to the southward last night ; cargo discharging. WISBEACH, JAN. s.—Henry yesterday, r a y Davis, e a h a a n m d to this ; is port, struck on Burnham crew saved. HULL, JAN. s.—Wind E. by N.—Sld. Hercules, Phila delphia ; Kingston, Smyrna. LYNN, JAN. s.—Donaldson, of Wisbeach, struck on the Woolpack yesterday, and sank ; crew saved. VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Victoria, Madagascar to Mauritius, 22d Oct., lat, 22 S., lon. 53 E.; Anna, Bata via to Rotterdam, 30, lat. 32, lon. 30 ; Margaret, Bom bay to London, Nov. 12, lat. 32, lon. 15 ; Osprey, Bom bay to Liverpool, 12 ; Portland, Bombay to Liverpool, 14, lat. 14, lon. 10 ; Six, Bombay to London, and barque Laura, same day ; Quinton Leitch, Bombay to Liverpool, 16, lat. 28, lon. 6 ; a ship, from Cadiz, No. 39, rendez vous flag, 3d ult., lat. 1 N., lon. 21 W.; Warner, Clyde to Sierra Leone, Ist inst., by the Circassian, arrived at Cork. Underwood, London to St. Kitt's ; Veracity, London to St. Domingo, 4th ult., lat. 17, lon. 60, by the Sandbach, arrived at Liverpool. Ludlow, bound to An tigua, 24th, lat. 43, lon. 13 ; Champion, 3d inst., of Tus kar, by the Totuess, arrived at Liverpool. Barque Mantle, 2d ult. lat. 11 N., lon. 25 W.; barque Samuel and James, 14th, lat. 32, lon. 31 ; Eliza, of Swansea, for Cuba, • 22d, lat. 41, lon. 16 ; Esperance, Granville to Guadaloupe, Ist inst., lat. 45, lon. 5, by her Majesty's ship Conway, arrived at Portsmouth. Argyle, of and for Greenock, 13th Sept., lat. 16 S., lon. 66 ; Ajax, Bristol to T r i n id a d, I st u l t., l at. 26 N., l on. 37 E. Phi lander, Miramichi to London, 27th, lat. 49, lon. 11 ; Diamond, Scarborough, from Sierra Leone, 28th, lat. 50, lon,11 ; Eli za b et h, Li verpool to Charleston, 28th ;Cleostra tus, from the Clyde, 31st ;Northumberland, toMadras,Sept. 1, lat. 1 S., lon. 78 E. by the Royal Adelaide, arrived in the Clyde. Hunter, London to Jamaica, 25th ult., lat. 41, lon. 13, by the Blomidan, arrived at Plymouth. General Evans, Demerara to Sierra Leone, 26th Nov., lat. 27, lon. 62, by the Greenock, arrived in the Clyde. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Circassian, Sproule, from Bombay, off Cork, and proceeded to Liverpool, sailed Sept. 21, Ascension, Nov. 28 ; Stratford, Haslep, from Mauritius, off Pen zance ; Royal Adelaide, Barbour, from Bombay, in the Clyde, sailed Aug, 16, St. Helena, Nov. 4. Arrivals at Ascension—Argyle, from Bombay, and sailed Nov. 28 ; Baboo, Stewart, 28, from Colombo, and sailed 28, to Liverpool ; her Majesty's steamer Wilber force, from Africa. Departure from St. Helena—Claudine, Brewer, Nov. 8, to London. Arrival at Bombay—lior, Young, Nov. 24, from China. Departures from China—St. Mungo, Lamont, Grey hound, Hutchinson, and Saghalien, Brown, all for En g _ land, previous to the 9th of October. The Neptune, Ferris, under despatch. Lord Ashburton is expected to arrive at Bath House, Piccadilly, on Monday next, from his seat, the Grange, Hants, to make his final arrangements for de parting on his important special mission to the Govern ment of the United States. His Lordship, we under stand, will embark at Portsmouth, on board a Govern ment steam frigate, for New York, about Monday, the 24th instant. Ho will be attended by only a limited suite, as his Lordship's stay at Washington, where the personnel of our embassy already consists of Mr. Fox and Mr. James Hudson (rendered illustrious for his dis patch in bringing Peel from Rome), is expected to be brief. Lady Ashburton and the Hon. Misses Baring do not accompany the Noblelnvoy to America. MORNING SUN TTIE ATROCIOUS MURI)FR OF A IN T. (From the Dublin Evening Post.) We copy the following from the Mail of last night :-- " The Evening Post and other journalists have asked, and very naturally, what is the Government about ? we have asked the same question ourselves, and we ese positively state, that up to Saturday night, no intelli gence had reached the Executive of any such outrage as that stated having been committed. Had such bee° the case, and a refusal to take such steps as were cal' culated to bring the perpetrators of this terrible out° rage to justice, on the part of the Government, they, would have disentitl e d th emse l ves to t h e support an: good opinion of every well-thinking man in the kingdom. And is it in regard to the " firm and impartial Go vernment of Lord De Grey"—that Government whoss vigorous action was to extirpate every vestige of crime in the land—that the admission is made, of its total helplessness and utter incapacity, to arrive even at tiro knowledge of a crime having been committed, as atrocious as any that has ever disgraced the character of man ? Weeks have elapsed since this most fiendish m urder was perpetrated, within forty-seven miles of the seat of Government, and now, when foreigners are expressing their disbelief of the crime, because of its terrible atm' city, the organ of the Government is instructed to de' elate, that "no intelligence had reached the Executive of any such outrage." We arc thus driven to adopt the alternative of the Mail, that " the Government have disentitled themselves to the support and good opinino of every well-thinking man in the Kingdom." Sir James Graham, as the Secretary of the Horn e Department, is entrusted with the supervision of the Executive at Dublin Castle. And Sir James g oes down to Darehester, and lauds the Government of Lord De Grey, as "firm, impartial, and vigorous." Here e I is a specimen of its vigour, exhibited to the world by its own organ ! The Magistrates of the King's County rendered themselves very notorious in assailing Lord Normanby , and they have an especial horror of the StipendiatY Magistrates. No wonder We must aglinst repeat that this fiendish murder of the idiot was committed by " gentlemen." CORN AVERAGES GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, „/ For the Week ended Dec. 31, 1841, made up f rom th e Retnerls A the-taspectors in the different Cities and Towns in F. eglans l4l "' Wales, per Imperial Quarter Wheat......... #'33. Id. 1 Vats Barley 293. 1 Rya AVERAGES OF THE LAST .1X WEEKS. Week ending WHEAT. BARLEY.' OATS. 1 RYE. BEANS. IPg"6_,. ---..: -..- ---- -...-7.1 _.:....- .---• Nov '26 6l 9 32 4 1 22 8 41 7 41 2 40 9 7 Dec. 3 63 6 31 9 22 6 14 5, 39 4 39 10 62 7 39 9 22 2 44 8' 39 0 39 4 17 62 9 3 5 21 2 49 5 37 9 39 1 , ) , 21 31 . 63 1 OJ 9 :20 7 ',3 6' 36 87 a 4. IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE Pl 2 wrist:s Wheat €3i. 31. Oats ..—.... 21s. Bd.l i t i l ' Barley. DOTIIS OW POREIGN CORN. Wheat 239 Bd. Oats Barley 163. 10d. l ltye ss. Otl.l Pease 12, 64 THE MARKETS.---(YESTERDAY.) COLONIAI. MARKET.. Prices were firm, with a fair demand for all the leak ing articles for• home consumption, and several pL chases were made for export. TEA MARKET. The market was dull, and rather lower rates were ear cepted. Company's Congou Is. 9d. per lb. cash. TALLOW MARKET. • The operations were fair, and prices were'firm, 48s. 6°' on the spot, and 49a, for delivery in the next two mon lll3. FRUIT MARKET. The market was firm, with a fair demand. • COTTON MARKET. A fair demand and rather higher rates paid. Th e market looks healthy. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. The supply was good, the demand very fair, and pric e without alteration. , COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market day, 14 d. Buddle's West Hartley l7 Chester Main ••. 17 01 Ord's Redheugh l5 0; Original Windsor's Pontop 17 3' West Hartley ....... Walls End Clark and Co l7 0 Walls End Clennell l7 0 Walls End Hedlcy 20 3 s. Walls End Killingworth ‘22 19 Walls End Hetton Watls End Shinelir V 9 0 Walls End C ara d ec 2:3 IWalls End Adelaide . Walls End ‘arrington Tees j, Walli End Seymour Tees Walls End Tees Hetton 1' COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Wheat. I Harley. I Oats. Beans. pease. Per Quarler. e. to s, e. to w. 5. to s. a. to s. s g Boston . . 55 74. 22 38 18 22 35 3 8 39 ilramtree 52 70 27 34 93 29 33 38 35 40 Brighton 63 73 28 :37 22 `..13 37 44 36 5 Cambridge — 6:3 28 18 4 0 Chichester-- 33 60 66 27 35 21 24 38 40 :8 Ddnmow 5B 62 30 35 20 26 30 41 35 Grantham Grimsby Hailsham 66 72 33 35 22 23 32 37 Hitchin 5O 73 27 35 20 30 34 45 55 Ipswich 6O 6/ 28 1 3 2 21 26 33 34 31 54 Lewes CO 70 32 36 21 22 34 38 33 38 Lynn 5O 66 26 '34 20 211 40 46 34 Maidstone 59 76 36 39 26 32 38 40 -- 40 Norwich Petworth Rom ford 56 70 28 31 21 32 sti 40 30 53 Sandwich 6l 71 23 34 25 30 33 C 9 3 6 41 Toot ford Wisbech 58 64 28 :4 20 23 36 42 34 72 29 35 24 31 31 42 35 40 farmouth 6O 69 30 32 24 30 38 40 30 LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Jan. 4 6j, WHEAT, English. White, per 701 b. 9s 10d. to 101 0 ---- Red 9 4 9 I Scotch, Welch, and Manx 0 0 0 --- Irish, White 7 6 8 " --- Red 6 8 8 6 --- Foreign OATS, English. Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b. 2 9 .2 - Irish Scotch, Welch, al 0•••• 0 0 oii ..—..... Irish, White. ---- Red ~ .••. 6 8 8 g --- Foreign "... 810 1 , 0 6 OATS, English, Welsh, any , .".• 2 9 - 1 Irish •" 0000000000 .••‘ 3 0 q. 0 Foreign 0 u 0 ~ BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 32 0 3i ---. Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. Feeding 3 10 4 - BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 46 0 0 Irish, & c. ° Foreign Pease, English, per Imperial quarter 44 0 46 ° Foreign 0 • FLOUR, English, per 2801 b• 4 8 0 D" 0 ..-- Irish 6 OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401b s ..... .... .. 27 6 28 ;1 0 iNMAN CORM, per 480Ib. U.N. 00000000 •....... 35 0 40 0 gin, per Imperial quarter ....... ............ ..... ...... 33 0 31 MALT, per Imperial quarter .. ......-. 4b 0 64 0 NEWLY INVENTED COMPOSING MACHIN E —The London Phalanx, of Saturday week, thus . eludes its leading article :—" Amongst other intereitL o l movements, we may mention the fact, that the princiP portion of this number of th e Ph a l anx has been co r' posed in type of a newly-invented composing machine and is the first piece of periodical literature which 0 ' ever been typographed in this manner. It is the begi 9 f : ning of a new era i n t h e art o f printing, which, with f very little pr act i ca l exper i ence, will render the art ° F composing type so simple and elegant, that ladies 0 4 0 sit down, as at a piano -forte, and set up in type their ow, t sweet effusions, with as much ease as they can contro l them t o writing. The keys are marked with the letter3,l and, when touched with the finger, the correspondil type falls into its place with the rapidity of spelling• will multiply printing, and reduce its price, without minishing the number of workmen, or lowering theft wages ; for cheap production multiplies demand." GOLD WATCHES, LONDON-MADE T. COX SAVORY, Watchmaker, No. 47, Cernhill, LondlS i l seven doors from Gracechurch-street, submits for se lectioe very large STOCK of GOLD WATCHES , the whole of which are carefully examined by experienced workmen OP premises, and each is warranted for correct performance. SIZE FOR LADIES. Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, in eng ine - turned . gold case., and g o ld di a l s, warranted£lo TO Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with double-backed engine -turned gold eases and gold dials, warranted 12 1 2 Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in four holes with double-backed gold cases and gold dials, 0 warranted ... SIZE FOR GENTLEMEN. Patent detached ' Lever Watches. jewelled in four holes, seconds, and double-backed gold cases, war- 0 ranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in six holes, seconds, double-ba c ked gold - cases and 0 enamel dials, warranted l7 17 Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in six holes, seconds, double-backed gold cases and 0 gold dials, warranted ant i n g Either of the Gentlemen's Watches may be had in gold* cases, for 31. 3s. each extra. • N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased fn exchate BIRTHS. On the 31st ult., at Scavington, Ihninstcr, the lady of ttl• Rev. Alexander Ramsay, of a daughter. On the 3d inst., at Rise, Yorkshire, the l a dy o f Willieo Bethel!, Esq., of a daughter. . - On the sth inst.,at Brompton, Mrs. H. Vickress, of a s on. f On the 4th inst., the wife of R eg i na ld C urte i s , E sq ., ° Eaton-place, of a daughter. MARRIRD. On the 4th inst., at Cheltenham, Charles Monro, Esq., I ° , Elizabeth, daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Lechinere, Steeple-Aston, Oxfordshire, widow of Major Watkins, 9 t' Regiment, of Almaton House, Glouce,ter. Est; On the 4th inst., at Rivenhall Church, S. E. Comyn,_ M.D., of Cheltenham, only surviving son of the late 11 10 .1°7 General W. Comyn, Bengal Establishment, to Emily flarrl,' second daughter of Paul Kneller Smith, Esq., of Rivenh alL place, Essex. On the 4th inst., at Hampton Church, David Bleiikartt Esq., of Rye-terrace, Peckham, to Jane, only daughter of t 1 ;" late W. Berryman, Esq., of Hampton. z . On the 4th inst., at Brighton, Henry Alexander, E't„s Clarendon-place, Hyde-park-gardens, to Sabine Hester, ew— daughter of the late T. Taylor, Esq., and Lady L. Taylor. On the sth inst., at St. Leonard's Church, Percy Dicke son, son, Esq., to Eleanor, eldes t daughter of Lieutenant F. su e r: ' herd, R.N. DIED. On the sth inst., at her house, in Vincent-square, veal minster, after a painful illness, Mary, the Meet daughter the late Anthony Ditcheil, Esq., of Cromer, Norfolk, r b , granddaughter of the late John Ditchell, Esq., of Norw 4 aged 39 years. t On the Ist ult., at Vienna, Sir Samuel Hannay, Bar t., Mockrum and Kirkdale. • On the 31st ult., the wife of Mr. Spicer, Coborn-road , n o lf On the Ist inst., at Earlsgift, Tyrone, Charles, the s e°l " -- son of the Hon. and Rev. Charles Douglas, aged 17. t 1 41 ' On the 2d inst., at his chamb ers i n th e Temple, Bober mi . Casberd, Esq., Queen's Counsel, and one of the l a t e Judges '- the Welch circuits. are, On the 3d inst., at Glouce s t er -pl a ce, Portman-s4 k, Frances, relict of the late R. Fl em i ng , Esq., o f Staholwe e ' county Meath. On the 4th inst. , at the house of Dr. Bowring, M.P., Q ue6ll- square, Westmister, Mrs. Rhel Nunes, igd 74. On the 4th in n st. Henry, the ac only son of Mr. e J. H. irerin ue r of St. Paul's-churchyard,i aged 8. On the 4th in s t, at Camberwell, the Rev. John Dye r, t h ird son of the late Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Swi v e l:r e On the 4th i ns t., W a lt er Henry Watts, Esq., of ' a. court -terrace, Old Brompton London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, No. 112, Str an d, a t The Suit Office, No. 112, StrO d t the County of Middlesex, Friday, January 7, 1642' `. OED The ( 14 ' 1 Y of t hey will 'text ells ONE C°l (lan bnt ain Getlei.et o Vublic at received /ears a-sc c9neu rnpi T ice affor d aYs cool pj r c ornplet e l effect e d b Ye a Louring v risen n L i haw , re ( expe " Witn Mr, Joi doctor s to derfol to travel 1,200 mil To thely Lis last of prep and pro The ab Who had 1 gratitude ham Revi GRAT with Eng Agents. 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