The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-01 00:00:00

TEE WEST INDIA, MEXICAN, AND PACIFIC MAILS. The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship l'as maniEtn, Captain C. G. Weller, arrived at Southamp ton early on Saturday morning, with these mails. She left St. Thomas's on the 17th ultimo, and expe rienced fresh westerly winds during the greater part of the voyage, and for the last four days strong winds from the north. The Tasmanian brought 123 passengers (viz., 66 'first-class, 5 children, 21 second class, 4 servants, 4 naval invalids, 1 private 21st Regiment, and 22 distressed British subjects), among whom were Col. ISI I Gee, Lieutenant Kerr, 21st Regiment; and Dr. Parr, lst West India Regiment, from Barbadoes ; Lieutenant Dent, R.N., from Vera Cruz, &c. The general news by this arrival is very scanty and unimportant, it appearing from our despatches that the inhabitants of the various colonies have their attention absorbed, to the almost entire ex clusion of all other topics, by the visit of Prince Alfred to the West Indies. His Royal Highness arrived at Barbadoes, as announced by last mail, on the 21st of February, and landed from the St. George on the 23d. After participating in a constant round of enjoyments, comprising levees, balls, official banquets, &c., and meeting with a splendid reception from all classes of the community, the Prince re-embarked on the afternoon of the Ist of March, under a royal salute, and the St. George sailed for St. Vincent. The frigate arrived in Kingston Harbour at 9,30 a.m. on the 2d, and, after the ceremonies of the day, his Royal Highness was entertained at a ball at Go vernment House in the evening. He left on the 4th, at 5 a.m., for the Soufriere, a volcano in the north of the island, which he visited, and sailed thence the same evening for St. Lucia. On the sth, a little after 12 o'clock, the St. George arrived' at Port Castries, St. Lucia, and the Prince landed between 2 and 3 o'clock the same afternoon, amid the most enthusiastic demonstrations on the part of the populace, and the firing of a royal salute by a detachment of the Royal Artillery. A levee at the Council Room was followed by a grand banquet at the residence of Mr. Breen, the Administrator of the Government, to which about 100 guests were invited to meet the Prince. In proposing the health of his Royal Highness the Administrator said : " It is with no ordinary feelings of gratification and pride that I rise to propose the health of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, who has conde scended to honour our island by his presence and to became our guest. The Royal family, I may say, has pecaliar claims on the gratitude and loyalty of the inhabitants of St. Lucia. You are aware that, at the taking of this island in 1794, his Royal High ness the Duke of Kent, then an officer in the service of his country, led the storming party on Morne Fortune, and was the first to plant the British colours on its fortress. I venture to express the hope that his Royal Highness Prince Alfred will be pleased to make known to her Majesty that the inhabitants of St. Lucia cherish with becoming sentiments the traditions of the gallantry displayed on that occasion by the Duke of Kent and of the distinguished part which he took in restoring the colony to British rule. Gentlemen, I have the, honour to propose the health of his Royal High ness Prince Aifred.' May his Royal Highness become one day the glory as well as the ornament, of the noble service in which he is enrolled." The toast was received with the most enthusiastic applause, and was taken up by the people in the streets, whose cheering became so continuous that the Prince was induced to appear at one of the windows to gratify the public. At six o'clock his Royal Highness and suite retired, and returned to the St. George. The town was brilliantly illuminated in the evening, and a display of fireworks took place. On the afternoon of the 6th the Prince again landed, and, after partaking of luncheon at the Administrator's 'house, rode to Morne Fortune, where the Prince had an opportunity of admiring the scenery of St. Lucia, as viewed from Fort Char lotte, the very spot which has been rendered illus trious by the gallantry of his grandfather, the late Duke of Kent. In the evening a grand ball was given in the Government Buildings, the band of the Bt. George being in attendance, and at 9 o'clock a display of fireworks took place under the windows of the ballroom. The royal party left soon after 12 o'clock, and re-embarked on board the St. George amid the cheers of the people, and their fervent prayers for his future health and happiness. On the 7th the St. George sailed for Martinique, Antigua, and Jamaica, where his Royal Highness would again meet Admiral Alexander Milne, in the Nile. A letter from the British Consul at Port-au-Prince states that official notice had been given to the authorities at Hayti of the intention of his Royal Highness to visit Port-au-Prince on his way to Jamaica. Extensive preparations were being made to give the Prince a reception worthy of his exalted rank and of the high regard of the Haytian Govern ment for the British nation. . The St. George's Chronicle of the 9th ult. says : —" Grenada is not to be favoured, at least this year, with a visit from his Royal Highness Prince Alfred—neither is Demerara, Trinidad, Tobago, nor, perhaps, Dominica, and St. Kitts. This disap pointment will be greatly felt in all those islands, as it but too certainly is felt in this." At Jamaica the Legislature was still in session, and on the Bth ult. his Excellency the Governor gave his assent to several bills, including among them an act to regulate controverted elections, another to make further provision for the introduc tion of immigrants into the island, and another authorising the importation of foreign molasses. It appears that the Governor and the legislativ‘!.bodies could by no means agree on various points, and wide differences continued between them. In the Legislative Council, on the Sth, a resolution was pro posed by the Hon.-Mr. Moncrieff,to the effect that the Council, having passed under peculiar circumstances a bill to enable the Governor to appoint to a judge ship a barrister disqualified by the 19th of Victoria, chap. 10, an Act assented to by her Majesty, they record their inflexible resolution not in future to accede to appointments which in their inception abrogate the statute laws of Ow. country. The re solution was carried, and the Ron. Baron von Xettelhodt gave notice of a protest against it, but a Message was agreed to that'a copy of the resolu tion should be sent to the Governor, requesting hi m to transmit the same to her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies. Again, in the Assembly, the following Message from the Governor was pre sented by Mr. Smith : "The Governor acknowledges the Message f rom the Assembly, requesting copies of certain reports addressed to him by the principal officers of Cus toms, and the Governor begs that the Assembly. with a view to the maintenance of the discipline of the pubic service, and the discovery of an apparent violation of official confidences, will acquaint him with the source from which the Assembly have derived the information that letters from the prin cipal officers, numbered 30 and 33, have been ad- I dressed to him." remainder for a higher figure, and had refused seve- ral offers accordingly. The report gave great satis faction to the shareholders. The exports, from Jamaica during the months of January and Feb ruary amounted to 6 trs. 686 bags of coffee; 682 hogsheads, 121 . tierces, and 108 barrels of sugar ; 318 puncheons and 1 cask of rum, 297 bags of pimento ; 92'5 tons of dyewoods, 220 lancewood spars, 290,000 oranges, 200 bunches of bananas ; 3,500 cocoanuts, 13 barrels of copper ore, 1 barrel of beeswax, 1 box of tortoiseshell. Sales of coffee had been effected at 41s. per 1001 b.; pimento, 10. to 2d. per lb., very little at market; alewives, 225. per . barrel ; codfish, tierces, at 16s. per 1001 b.; butter—Halifax ls., Cork ls. 3d., American 10d.; mess pork, 106 s. The Council of Government at Trinidad met on the Ist of March, when the correspondence between the Governor and Major Cowell relative to Prince Alfred was read, and his Excellency stated that he had received a private communication assuring him that the Prince would visit the colony towards the end of the year. A resolution was moved by Mr, Spiers, that the Governor be requested to order for the coming year 3,000 immigrants from India, and to bring under the notice of the home authorities that the proprietary body of the colony was desirous to receive immigrants from China; that if possible 500 might be obtained next season, the same to be deducted from the 3,000 coolies. An ordinanee was passed, constituting Mayaro a port for the lading of goods. Her Majesty's ships Nile and Barracouta arrived on the 3d, and the succeeding week was devoted to festivities of various kinds, the climax of which was a grand ball at Government-house, in honour of Admiral Milne. The Sydenham arrived on the 6th from Calcutta, with coolies. The weather continued wet and unsettled. Sugar making was pursued under difficulties, and the ruling rates for the staple were anything but calculated to make up for the troubles in manu facturing it. At Barbadoes over 2,000 hhds. of sugar had been shipped and several vessels were loading. Exchange, 490 for 30 days' sight bills. The Demerara Court of Policy sat on the 28th of February, to conclude the framing of the annual estimates. The Court had agreed to a proposition made by Messrs. Sproston and Watson, to run a steamer once a month between Georgetown and the penal settlement, carrying free of passage money all persons visiting the settlement on public business, all prisoners, and the supplies for the establishment. Great disappointment was felt that Prince Alfred would not visit the colony. The ship Victoria from Calcutta, with 355 coolie immigrants, arrived at Demerara on the 23d of February, after a passage of 100 days, and landed 320 souls. 35 deaths occurred on the passage, including infants. She was followed on the 28th by the Moresfort with 366 coolies from Calcutta, after a passage of 80 days, during which five adults and two infants died. The weather had been very variable, in general showery, but with a few bright days intervening. From Hayti there is no news of importance. Last year's coffee crop fell:very short of the estimate, and the prospects for the coming crop are not less unpromising. President Geffrard, in a circular of the 19th of February, and the Secretary of State for the Interior, in a similar one of the 16th, ad dressed to the Commanding Generals of Districts, enjoins them again and again to stimulate the peo ple, by word and assistance, to devote all their ener gies to agriculture, especially to the cultivation of cotton and ground provisions. The political saga city of the President foresees the eventual short comings of the supplies of cotton at the European markets, and also the decrease in the shipments of American provisions for home consumption by the ultimate disruption of the United States of America; and coming up to the simple notions of those he wishes to impress, he warns them, in patriarchal language, of the consequences for good and evil. He says, in relation to cotton :—" This commodity ought, by the facilities it offers for conveyance to foreign markets, and to produce it in the interior, to be specially recommended to the attention of a country that needs an augmentation of its means of exchange, and has not as yet all the indispensable resources for the development of its prosperity. On the one side, cotton, eagerly looked for by foreign industry, affords a precious article of exportation, while there is no fear for its abundance, as its con sumption, experience teaches us, increases with its production. On the other hand, you know that the culture of this plant requires by no means the same care as the other staples of our exportation. It needs no irrigation, thrives in secondary qualities even in dry soils, can be produced on the smallest scale, prevents not the simultaneous cultivation of other commodities and vegetables, of which the harvest is earlier. Besides these inestimable advan tages, cotton requires, save and except the mill, no peculiar tools nor factories, and conseqttently can be managed with relatively small means. I remind you here of the incentives held out by Government for the furtherance of this particular branch of industry, which will be increased if the results cor respond with its expectations. They consist in rewards of which the scale is laid down in the de cree of the 27th February, 1860, and the gift of a defined number of mills for such localities where the culture of cotton assumes an adequate develop ment—a privilege already imparted to several com munities. Add to this the advertisement of the Secretary of State for the Finances of the 30th of January last, inserted in the Moniteur of the 2d February, by which the Government offers to be security to a foreign company for any utensils pur chased from them for agricultural purposes." EXTRAORDINARY MURDER OF TWO CIiriLDRZY: SUDBURY, SATURDAY. A painful sensation has been created in Suffolk by the murder of two children by their mother, at Edwardstone, near Sudbury. The name of the wretched murderess is Harriet Salmon, and she is the wife of a coal carter residing in the village. The victims are Elizabeth Salmon, a child of five years, and Susannah Humphrey, an illegitimate child of the woman's, three years older. The chil dren were taken by her, together with an infant, a distance of half a mile, to a thick wood where there is a large pond 10 feet or 12 feet deep ; and here the two eldest appear to have been forcibly held under water till they were drowned. The infant was destined for the same fate, but some bows stretching into the water below its little person, supported it, and it was not sufficiently submerged to have its existence terminated. The woman herself then walked into the w a t er up to her neck, and taking the children :out laid them on their faces on the grass by the side of the pond. She then went home and told a neighbour that her three children were drowned, but that she believed one was still alive. At first it was supposed that the children had met their deaths accidentally ; but the woman herself subsequently made the following statement The Message was taken into consideration on the I ancesecling day, and, after a very lengthy and ani- to the police constable who was called in :—",I took mated debate, the following resolutions were car- I the little girl (the youngest and surviving child) tied by 16 votes to 9 : and threw ,her into the pond, but she could not "Resolved,—That the House of Assembly ex sink because she hung on the boughs; and as presses its profound surprise and regret that his soon as I had done that I saw the other two - axlllency the Governor has considered it becoming other little dears in the pond, and I rushed in after in communication transmit to this House, in answer to its t h em . A s soon as I had got into the pond the cold of the 6th inst., aMessage of so water struck and me, I came to my senses and unprecedented a character. That the House of Assembly having the reard to maintenance it s '• - ' dragged the two children now lying dead out. The of the erb . own dignity, and to the pre- little one I took out last. When I got it out I saw nervation of communicate th : erties of the people, incline to it breathe." She also said she did not know which informationcalls upon demanded by that way she went to the pond, or which way she came :Message, and former his Excellency for such a to theirhome, adding :—" If I did do it, I don't know any replyreqliest• it has a right to ve of her Majesty to this thing ex- ti • ex pect from the representative about it." It will be seen from this that the colony" poor creature's language and demeanour is incohe- The 47th half -yearly nxetin e ,.. of the shareholders rent, and she has been, it seems, in a high state of o f the Bank of Jamaica was held on the Ist ult., .nervous excitement for the last six months, imagin hen the directors' report w stated that nothing had ing herself, without any definite reason, to be occurred during the half year req u - • labouring under various diseases. The youngest of inng special men • lion. The ne t profit, atter making pro,ision for all the two dead children had a contusion on the fore bad and doubtf ul debts, amounted to £5,09 3 3s. 6d, head, and the arms appeared to have bee n squeeze d ; directors to rec ommend which ena bled the an in- there were no contusions on the other on e , but simi of 4 per cent., leaving L 1,733 3 8. the lar marks were observable on the arms a s if creased dividend had been pres s ed or nipped. The facts stated abovey let to be added tothe reserve fund, which would . have been investigated by Mr. a A. Partridge, the :hen amount to £20,999 193. 10d. The forfeited _local coroner,:and a verdict of " wilful murder" has shared had been reduced in the six months by l-. -een returned against the woman. A warrant for January of h 4 /' 53,4124:. A further sale was made in 1 -e„_committalmade to the county gaol at Ipswich has 250 shares, at £6. , The directors Were ho.ding the "4 . _,‘ out, and she now awaits her trial at the %ILe uramer.assizes. . THE BRITANNIA TRAINING SKIP. The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Times : • Sir,—On Friday week a question by Mr. Butler Johnstone respecting the Britannia training ship at Portsmouth elicited an answer from the Secretary to the Admiralty and a few words from myself. The subject, however, is much too important for a casual notice, and I shall therefore be obliged if you will permit me to address a few observations to your readers. About the year 1820 a naval College was esta blished at Portsmouth, which produced some of the most eminent men in the service, and promised the best results. After a few years it was abolished, and young officers were left to pick up their duties as they best might, till about ten . years ago, when Admiral Berkeley tried the experiment of placing some naval cadets on board the Illustrious, a ship stationed at Portsmouth for the training of boys ; and, as the trial answered, in 1858 the Britannia, 120 gunship, was devoted to the purpose, and she has now 200 young gentlemen on board training for the Royal Navy. Having visited the Britannia since allusion was made to her in the House of Com mons, I can state her condition correctly. She is a large roomy three-decker, well known in the ser vice as having been flagship in the Mediterranean, and as far as a ship is fit for such a purpose no better could be found; her decks are lofty, ventila tion good, and her arrangements in every way most judicious and comfortable. The position; in which she lies admits of some doubt, as she is in the close vicinity of a large mud-bank which is dry at two-thirds ebb. This proximity in a hot summer cannot be wholesome, though for nine months of the year it may be innocuous, and its effects on the sick list hardly apparent. It must be kept in view, howevrr, that the boys are a picked body, each of them having been passed into the service by medical inspection. The educational and other arrangements for diet, berthing, &c., are exceedingly g oo d. Th e s hi p i s commanded y Captain Harris, an officer who has turned his whole attention to the subject of naval education, and whose anxious and careful prose cution of a system which he has originated and matured have raised him to a most eminent and valuable position; in him and Mr. Nares, the Ist Lieutenant, the service hold the most perfect guarantee for the efficiency in the early training of the young officers who from time to time recruit the ranks of the profession. The educational branches are ably presided over by Mr. Inskip, assisted by men of great ability, and the results are most satisfactory ; the lads who are now introduced into the service are more perfectly grounded in professional knowledge than they have ever been before, and join their ships with the elements of efficiency which only require to be ke'pt up. So far all is well, but the question arises, is the Bri tannia more than a temporary expedient ? And, admitting what cannot be questioned, that as far as the objects can be attained in a ship, she is in every way perfect—is it right, in this great maritime country, where there are various great and im portant military seminaries, that the education of boys destined for the sea should be conducted in a hulk instead of having a College, situated in a healthy position, where a small training ship could be anchored in the 'vicinity, where a daily class could be exercised, and a vessel or two attached to the establishment for summer cruising ? Such a situation can be found on Hayling Island or at Portland, though the former offers the greatest facilities and advantages. Boys are sent to sea too early at present; no lad ought to be entered to the College before 14, or join a ship till he is 16, and a certain proficiency in classics ought to be exacted ; the two years from 14 to 16 are most important, and they are thrown away under the present system. If entry to College was so re stricted, boys would learn their duties more rapidly, their muscular powers would be better developed, and the country would save by the change. For there is no doubt—whether it is the confinement of a ship or the want of milk diet, so necessary to growing boys, they are not the size they ought to be. My object, therefore, is to call public attention to the necessity for a good naval College, which would not only educate the aspirants to the Royal Navy, but would also be available for the education of young men destined for the superior class of mer chant ships. In the present staff of the Britannia, we have the whole machinery for such an establish ment in perfection. The purchase of a site and the erection of a building in a healthy situation would not be a matter of much difficulty. Such an esta blishment ought to be self-supporting in a great measure ; it seems to be an anomaly to call on the State to contribute to the primary education of officers of the naval service ; it acts injuriously in various ways ; it introduces too many young men into the service, who have not the means of main taining themselves without difficulty, and it fur nishes a pretext for the system of underpaying the service on the plea that some part of the necessary education is afforded at the public expense. It would also introduce some irregularity into the education of officers; at present great injustice is done by young men who have never had the advantages the Britannia affords ; who entered the service from school, and have since spent their time on foreign stations, where they could not obtain instruction in the necessary branches, but are, nevertheless, sub jected to the same tests as those whose advantages are so much superior. By an alteration in the age of entry, and the consequent extension of time for education, the boys will retain more of the influence of home ties, which are completely severed under the present harsh and unfeeling system. Those who found the service uncongenial to their tastes would have an education which would enable them to enter other professions with some prospect of success ; the office of naval instructor, instead of being elementary, as at pre sent, would be of a higher and more important character ; and if the same privileges of leave were extended to officers in the navy that:are accorded to the army, and every other branch of her Ma jesty's service, the effect on the young men in the service would be most beneficial, This important subject has so many bearings that it is difficult to do more than to touch upon its most salient points ; but it forms no inconsiderable - part of a reform of naval affairs which is certainly impending, and which will, I trust, result in sweeping away many of the anomalies and abuses of the present system. I remain, Sir, yours truly, March 30. J. D. H. ELPIIINSTONE. THE REV C. 71. SPURGEON'S LAST SER• VICE IN EXETER HALL. Yesterday morning being the last appearance of his gentleman at Exeter Hall, previous to the regular Sabbath services in the New Tabernacle, though the weather was very unfavourable, the hall was densely crowded. Before naming the text, Mr. Spurgeon said, that was the last occasion of worshipping there. They were about entering regularly their new place at Newington, and he blessed God they did so quite free of debt ; they owed no man anything, but God much, for his goodness; every farthing was paid, even for the furniture, and the greater portion of the seats was already let. The Rev. Gentleman then proceeded with all his accustomed fervency to dilate on the following ap propriate words, " And it came to pass, when the ark was set forward, that Moses said, rise up Lord, let Thine enemies be scattered ; anti let them that hate Thee flee before Thee."—Numbers x, ver. 35. This prayer was alike befitting our own age as it was to Luther when he attached his Theses to the church door at Wittenberg, as to John Knox in Scotland, to Whitfield and Wesley, to a solitary missionary in China, and Livingstone contending with the dense ignorance in Africa. He (Mr. Spurgeon) did ,not know when the. Lord would come ; Dr. Cumming might, it might be in 1866. The Scriptures said the Lord would come; he would rather it should be in 1861 that the Lord should make himself known. Ignorance and iniquity were rite in the world ; one country boasted of its liberty, in which the lash was still covered with gore; another was priest-ridden ; the words might well be repeated, "Rise up Lord." The text was particularly refer able to their own case. They, as a Church, had to wander from place to place; when they went to the Surrey Music-hall, Satan went too, but he fled before them ; the dreadful calamity there would never be effaced from their memory ; but under the blessing of God, other halls, theatres, and cathedrals had since been opened which had never been opened before for the people to worship in. They were now about to go to the house God had given them. His desire was to stand before the people as Moses did before the Israelites, and say, "Let them that hate Thee flee before Thee." They should have enemies to battle against. Close by where they were going, scarlet Rome had built her batteries, with the so styled archbishop. There was also a special place for the display of infidelity. In Rome these was something to lay hold of the mind of man, hut infidelity was bald and puny. There, too, was to he seen close by the edifice, sin in the worst f)rms ; but they did not intend to com bat these evils with some social system or political economy, but by preaching Christ the Saviour of sinners. In the evening Mr. Spnrgeon preached in his new tabernacle to an immense congregation. The doors were thrown open at six o'clock to ticket holders, but long before that time a vast number assembled. At a quarter past six the doors were opened to the public, when some excitement arose, simply from the fact that all wanted to be in first. The spacious building was quickly filled, not Et standing space was left unoccupied, and the gates were obliged to be closed, and numbers left outside. Previou.s to the commencement of the service a general buzz prevailed, but when Mr. Spurgeon made his appearance solemn silence at once reigned. It was an imposing sight as the large body rose, and as with one voice sang, " Arise, 0 King of grace, arise.'' The rev, gentleman selected for his text the sth chap. second book of Chronicles, the last verse, and the 7th chap. of the same book, the first verse. In referring to the position he then occupied, he said he felt, if his church prayed for him and God blessed him, he was the happiest man in the world ; but if not, he was of all men the most miserable. Men said he was uneducated, said he was unpolished, said he was a fool. Be it so ; make him anything. If the Lord blessed and saved souls by his ministra tions he was content to be less and less. At the conclusion of his discourse he gave a brief account of his own history in the ways of God, which was listened to with great attention. THE SUN, - LONDON, MONDAY "'EVENING ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LivERPooL, March 30, CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Hill.) ALLEGED FROGERY AT SALFORD. Henry Blore, 27, and Ann Pimblott, 24, were indicted on a charge of having forged a promissory note and put off the same, with intent to defraud. Mr. Higgins prosecuted ; Mr. Scott appeared for Pimblott. The prisoner Pimblott had gone to the office of one Beech, a money lender in Salford, to ask for a loan of £6 to a person named John Heald, whose address she professed to give. The person calling to make the usual inquiry at this address found Pimblott there, and she represented herself as Mrs. Heald. Beech agreed to lend the money, and the parties professing to be sureties (amongst whom was to be one James Wright) attended at his office, May 15, 1860. The prisoner Blore was there, and signed his " mark" as James Wright, saying that the money 'was to be paid over to his " wife, ' pointing to the real Mrs. Wright, who was present, and received the money. Heald was never seen in the transaction by Beech, and had no knowledge of it. After some of the repayments had been made, Heald died, end Beech hearing of this, inquired about the sureties, and learnt from the real James Wright that some person had falsely represented him. The prisoners were apprehended in September, Mrs. Wright being also taken into custody, but after wards released in order to establish the case against the other prisoners. His Lordship ruled that there was no proof of forgery against Pimblott, and she was discharged. On behalf of Blore it was elicited that Mrs. Wright had told him her husband knew what he was doing before he represented himself as James Wright, and that all he received was ls. The ddtective officer in the case also gave him a good character, and The jury acquitted him. STABBING IN A PUBLIC - HOUSE. Peter Robertson, 20, was charged with having stabbed another youth, named Joseph Howard, at midnight, on the sth of March, after they had been quarrelling at a public-house in Knotty Ash, near Liverpool. Mr. Conway prosecuted ; Mr. Little appeared for the prisoner. Verdict—Not guilty. Sentences.—The following were sentenced to day:—Mary Heenan, manslaughter of Mary Asplin at Liverpool, three months with hard labour. Catherine Molloy, several times convicted of bur glary, three years' penal servitude. Albert Latham, pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, four years' penal servitude. Mary Burns, several times con victed of uttering base coin at Liverpool, four years' penal servitude. Margaret Roberts and Elizabeth Wood, concealment of birth, three months, with hard labour. John Malone, convicted of burglary, three months, Charles Franklin Barlow, uttering forged Bank of England notes at Manchester, eight years' penal servitude. William Bent, convicted of burglary at a Liverpool bullion office, seven years' penal servitude. William Halli well, indecent assault, three months' hard labour. John M•Farlane, burglary and houseb rea ki ng , 12 months with hard labour. James Sirniron, who had pleaded guilty to uttering a forged bank cheque at Manchester, pleaded that it was hi 3 first offence, and that he was bordering on desperation when he committed the crime, at the sufferings of his wife and children, whom he was totally unable to pro vide for, having been out of a situation for upwards of seven months. His lordship said he had reason to believe the prisoner's statement, and passed the comparatively light sentence of nine months' imprisonment. GAROTTING AT OLDHAM. Henry Thompson, 27, and Richard Chisnall, 30, were indicted on a charge of having, at Oldham, on the 12th day of March, 1861, assaulted William Elliot, putting him to bodily fear and danger of his life, and with violence stealing 30s. of his monies. Mr. Cottingham prosecuted, and Mr. Scott defended the prisoner. On the night in question, the prosecutor and prisoners had been drinking at a public-house, and Elliot left somewhat bewildered. lie went into an entry close by for the purposes of nature, and while there had his money in his hand. He was dragged out by two men whom he believed to be the prisoners, and being throttled he soon became insensible. The prisoners were seen in the neigh bourhood by various parties, and when apprehended a purse, a pock e t-h an d erc hi e f , an d p i eces of money similar to those stolen from Elliot were found upon them. The prisoners were found guilty, and Chisnall was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude and Thompson to three years. FORGERY BY SEAMEN. James M'Kee, 27, and George Dickson, 17, both sailors, were charged with uttering a forged ship ping note at Liverpool. They induced Mr. James, keeper of a spirit vaults in Norfolk street, near the docks, to advance £2 on a document in the form of a wages-advance note, purporting to be signed by Thomas Williams, master of the Imogene, lying in the Prince's dock. The signature was discovered to be forged, and the prisoners taken into custody. They were found guilty, and sentenced, M'Kee to fifteen months, and Dickson to twelve months' hard labour. RECEIVING STOLEN NOTES. Ellen Elkinson, a good-looking, well dressed . young woman, of 23, was indicted on a c h arge o f feloniously received three Bank of England notes knowing them to have been stolen. In the latter part of February, a cash-box containing about £4O or £5O was stolen from a public-house in Old. ham, and oil the Ist March the prisoner offered three Bank of England notes said to be part of the'property stolen, at a tea-dealer and money-changer's, at Old ham, who hesitated to receive them. She asked if they were bad, but he replied that he found by his notice books that they were part of stolen property, and expressed a hope that she had received them from some respectable person. She said she had received them from Mr. Geo, Woolley, waste dealer, Staley bridge. The only person to whom such a descrip tion would apply was Mr. John Woolley, of Staley bridge, but on being confronted with that person the prisoner said he was not the man she meant, but "Mr. Woolley, the chief backer of the Staley bridge Infant." It so happens, however, that Mr. Woolley of whom she disclaimed all knowledge, is the person who enjoys the distinction in the sport ing world, Prisoner said she had been living with a person who represented himself as Mr. Woolley. She came from London with him. Mr. Higgins prosecuted, and Mr. Samuel Pope, who defended the prisoner, urged that if the pri• soner had known the notes were stolen, a money changer would have been the last person whom she would have asked to change them. Verdict—Not Guilty. There was some applause on the delivery of the verdict. SECOND COURT.' (Before Mr. Bliss, Q C., and Attorney-General.) RADCLIFFE V. BENTLEY.-BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. The plaintiff sought to recover damages for the breach of an alleged promise of marriage. The defendant simply denied the promise. Mr. Pope was for the plaintiff; Mr. Monk, Q.C., for the defendant. In opening thecase Mr. Pope said that the plain tiff, Elizabeth Radcliffe, was a young woman of humble parentage, her father having been for some time a skilled mechanic, in the employ of Messrs. Musgrave, keepers of a foundry at Bolton. When the plaintiff was about 16 years of age she went into domestic service at the Globe Inn, Farn worth, near Bolton. The defendant, Isaac BeLtley, is a keeper of the Cross Guns public-house at the same place, and it v7ould be proved that he was a man of considerable substance, he being the owner of some realised property. Some time ago there was a vacancy in the defendant's public-house, and the plaintiff, accompanied by her mother, applied for the situation. She had been known to the defendant while she was at the Globe, and an arrangement was made by which she entered into his service. Although considerable difficulty arose in these cases in proving the promise to marry, he believed he w ou ld be enabled to show that not only were there circumstances from which they might infer such a was made, b ut t h at t h ere were circum stanceswhich had a r i sen to s h ow, on the de f en d ant ' s. w mission, that h e h ad entered into a d i stinct p op r r o on m niia ise of marriage, and under that promise bad effected the girl's ruin, she being now a mother by him. When she discovered her state she did the most natural thing for a girl in her position to do —she explained to her mother the whole matter. The mother then went to Bentley and asked what he was going to do.' She said he had effected her ruin under a promise of marriage, and although he did not deny the statement, he made an excuse for its performance by saying she was too young, and tbrkt he c 0 1, 14 re,t rnF:r t ry her. The defendant had also made ineseots to the girl in contemplati n of marriage; but he had since been married to another woman ; and the question for the jury would be, he thought, simply the amount of compensation to which she was entitled. James Radcliffe, plaintiff's father, said he worked at Messrs. Musgrave's foundry, at Bolton, and de fendant kept the Cross Guns public-house at Farn worth. When she 16 years of age she went into service at the Globe, and after being there about 6 months she went to the defendant's place. About two years ago witness was about to leave Bolton for Liverpool, and told defendant his daughter would have to go with them. Defendant said it would put him very much about :f she left, and witness replied that he could easily get another servant. He said she was a very good servant, that he liked her very well, and that he could trust her with anything. They did not go co Liverpool, and his daughter con tinued in defendant's service. When he went to the place he saw that he always treated her very well. In cross-examination by Mr. Monk the witness said that when his daughter wasl3 years of age she was a servant in Pease's liquor vaults in Liverpool ; then she went to Leed's beerhonse at Birkenhead, afterwards to the British Queen at Bolton, then to the Globe at Farn worth, and last to the defendant's house. The Cross Guns is a roadside public-house, and much frequented by carters during the night as well as day. Elizabeth Radcliffe, plaintiff's mother, said that after her daughter told her the condition she was in she went to him, and asked what he was going to do about the matter, to which he replied that he did not know. The plaintiff had told her that the de fendant had bought her a silk dress as a wedding dress, and the defendant said as to the dress it cost a good deal of money. This being the whole of the evidence, Mr. Monk submitted that there was no promise proved, and that even if he did make the promise there was nothing to show that the plaintiff agreed, as the contract must be mutual. His Lordship thought there was sufficCent evidence upon which to allow the case to go to the jury. Mr. Monk then addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant, urging the most proper way to in vestigate the case would have been to affiliate the child, in which both parties might be examined upon oath, whereas in this inquiry neither could be called. He pointed out the very uncertain nature of the evidence adduced, contending that there was no proof that the defendant had ever promised to marry the girl, and dwelling upon the probably conduct of a girl who had been engaged in such occupations as those in which the plaintiff had beef employed. The learned Judge, in summing up the case. observed that the question for their consideration was whether the defendant had made a promise to marry the plaintiff; and explained that whatever might be their decision it did not affect the right of the plaintiff to affiliate the child, if the de fendant were liable to support it. After a prolonged consultation out of court the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. APRIL 1, 1861. THE MURDER A T KINGSTON. This dreadful occurrence still continues to be the general topic of conversation and interest in the town and neighbourhood, and, notwithstanding the strict inquiries that have been made by the police, nb motive has been discovered to account for the commission of the dreadful crime. So far from the unhappy woman having been actuated by a feeling of jealousy, it would appear, from all that has transpired, that she was very much attached to the deceased, and that, hearing she was out of place, having been employed for about eighteen months in a gentleman's family as nurse maid, and her services being no longer required. the prisoner sent for her to come to Kingston, and asked her to remain with her and her husband until she could procure her another place. Shy had only been in the barracks with the prisoner about a fortnight when the dreadful occurrence took place, and during that period not the slightest familiarity was observed to have taken place be tween the deceased and the prisoner's husband, but on the contrary, the former was always considered a remarkably modest, well-behaved young woman. and the prisoner never seems to have uttered a word that would create a belief that she was con ducting herself improperly. The result of all the inquiries that have been made up to the present time is that the frightful deed was committed under a sudden uncontrollable impulse of mania, and that the wretched woman was at the time quite unconscious of the nature of the act she was committing. It would seem that for several weeks the prisoner has suffered most agonising pains in her head, but it was considered that this arose from natural causes incidental to women at her period of life, and no medical advice was sought for fur ther than as she could not obtain any rest at night, some medicine was obtained with the view of pro curing sleep. This, however, did not have the desired effect, and it appears that the prisoner had herself purchased small quantities of laudanum which she took with the same object, but it was of no avail, and there is no doubt that the laudanum still further acted upon the brain of the unhappy woman and aggravated her con dition. The result appears to have been that for a short time before the dreadful occurrence she was in such a condition that she was actually afraid to go to bed, as she could not sleep, and if perchance shr did so for a short time the sleep was accompanied by such horrible dreams and visions, as she de scribed them, that it was equally dreadful to her. For some time before her sister came to the bar racks to live with hershe had been in the habit of going to the quarters of the other sergeants, and sitting up with the wives as late as she could at night, and she repeatedly, in the course of conver sation with them, made reference to her condition, and stated that she dreaded to go to bed, and would rather sit up all night than do so. On Monday, the day previous to the dreadful occurrence, the prisoner and her sister were on the most friendly terms, and they had gone out for a walk in the afternoon, and the prisoner had placed the name of the deceased in the book of a registrar office for servants, and as they were going back the prisoner ordered a small cask of ale for the family. She and her husband and the deceased all had tea together, and they sat up during the evening read ing, and the prisoner parted with her sister on the most ,friendly terms, and nothing at all unusual was observed in her appearance. The paroxysm that seized her in the morning must have been almost momentary, for immediately after commi.ting the dreadful act, she appeared to be seized with the most poignant remorse—and when she returned to the room where the body of the deceased was lying, still quivering in the agonies of death, the mental anguish she exhibited is stated to have been of the most appalling kind. The wretched woman has become much more calm and composed since she has been in Horsemonge-lane gaol ; but in order to prevent the possibility of her doing any act of violence to herself, a female warder is constantly with her. As the town of Kingston, althoagh within the distance over which the Central Cr- minal Court has jurisdiction, is not one of the places named in the Central Criminal Act, thn case can- not be disposed of in that Court, and the prisoner, therefore, cannot take her trial until the Summer assizes, in August next. CON.FEs , sIoN OF MURDER. There is at present in custody on board H.M.S Impregnable, Captain Lord F. Kerr, the flagship of the Admiral, Sir H. Stewart, at. D-vonport, a man named Charles D 41719, a native of Wales. This man, who is about 28 years of age, was brought from Rio Janeiro by H.M.S. Buzzard, where he had been Bevy. ing as supernumerary on board H.M.S. Madagascar, having entered on board that ship from a merchant vessel whilst lying at Rio. He states that he could not stayon board the merchant ship because,although the captain and the mate were partial to him, the crew hated him, and were continually plotting to throw him overboard. He had not been long on board the Madagascar before the same fancy seized him, and as here was no proof of such a feeling existing on the part of the crew, he was ques tioned, and the result was that he said some few months before he had, in Wales, murdered a young woman, and that the body would be found at a place which he indicated. The man, who from his hallucination was useless on board the ship, was transferred to the Buzzard, and on the arrival of that vessel in Devonport a week ago was handed over to the Impregnable. It is understood that during the week some per sons deputed to that duty have gone to Wales, and, singularly enough, found the body of a woman which has apparently lain there for the time men tioned by Davies (nine months) in the place indi cated by him. In consequence of this discovery he will, no doubt, be forthwith handed over to the civil authority to be tried for the murder, in which it is pretty clear that he had some part. There can la, no question but that his mind has been upset pro bably by the horror and remorse consequent on his crime. He is still in dread of the sailors throwing him overboard. CAREER OF A SWINDLER AND THIEF. (From the North British Daily Mail.) That "fact is stranger than fiction" has now passed into a truism which few will attempt to deny; and of all the "strange facts," probably that connected with crime is the strangest. M`Levy, the Edinburgh detective, gave to the ol i ,14y ie log "I:tei," wilich every man of Liz , eLsl of any 1,7, -. :gtht.n,l. vxperieuen conic add lo almost ad infinitum; and now we purpose to give a plain recital of a few of the more prominent facts regarding a man whose photograph is before us, who has earned for himself the unenviable distinction of being a hypocritical scoundrel, who is at present in durance vile in Greenock prison, and which may serve to drive him into an honest course of life, or make his continuance in nefarious prac tices uphill work. He is no common thief, but a successful swindler; one who, under the garb and guise of a mission ary or clergyman, has succeeded in robbing many men of their money and clothes, and a number of women of their happiness, and in some instances of their virtue. A more plausible fellow never oreathed, or one whose " melting" story could more successfully draw a col' , from the pocket. Henry Thornton Hay—he has a number of aliases besides —is about 40 years of age, middle size in height, speaks with a slight English accent, and although possessing a sinister eye, has a somewhat open countenance. In his better dressed days —now he is miserably poverty-stri.lien —one of his most common tales or dodges, whereby he worked up on the credulity of unsuspecting good people, was to the follewing effect :—Having got an ear to listen to him, he began—" I was born in London in 1825. My father was a curate of the Anglican Church, and sent me to Cam bridge University, where I was entered a pensioner at Queen's College, and subsequently graduated there. In the year 1843 (if he was addressing a Free Churchman, he would say)—when your nr , ble Church made that giorinu stand—the tide in my affairs occurred, which, as Shakspe) e tells us, ' taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.' Mine, truly (here he would put his hand to his eyes), has been bound in shallows and in miseries. My former com panion at Queen's College had a sister, and she was my sweetheart. Having been driven from her home by the cruelty of a stepfather, she walked down to Jambridge, a distance of e 2 miles, and called upon me at the college. What could be done? I consented to leave college, and accompany her to her aunt's at Merthyr Tydvil, in Wales. We set out next morning, but had only reached Brecon when she bscam e so ill f rom fatigue as to be unable to pro ceed further. She rallied a little, and as we had made the acquaintance of the clergyman and doctor of the town, things were looking bright again ; but as the sun went down on the third day of our sojourn in Brecon she died in my arms !" After such a tragic tale, does not the reader's heart begin to soften towards the unfortunate man ; but wait a lit le, only the half of the heart-rendering story is told. " That sad event occurred in May, 1843, and it so unhinged me that I could not settle, and so I rambled over the country until the following August, when I found my self in Plymouth, and, not knowing what to do with my self, I enlisted in the 85th Foot, and was soon sent out to North America. On the voyage thither I learned the trade of a cooper, which stood me in good stead since. The re gimeat subsequently went to Barbadoes, and while there I was transferred to the 3d West India Regiment, which having mutinied, I assisted to quell, and was promoted to be corporal and schoolmaster of the regiment. In 1847, the 71st Foot having been ordered home, I volunteered into that regiment, and towards the end of the year arrived in Glasgow. On the reduction of the army in 1849 I was dis charged from the service without a home, without a pro. fession, and without an aim I" By this and similar tales he has victimised many charitable people ; but before the reader sends us half a sovereign for the poor unfortunate, we advise him tq look on the other side of the picture, which we are now about to trace after careful inquiry. Thornton Hay, there is reason to believe, is the son of a pobr English curate, and has certainly been a grief to his parents as to many others He has received a tolerable education, but was never an alumnus of Cambridge, so that his tragic love•story may be discarded as having its founda tion only in his prolific brain. He enlisted under the name of Thomas Watkins, proceeded with his regiment to the West Indies, where he deserted and entered the 3d West India Regiment. He was discovered, punished, and per mitted to come home in the 71st Regiment, arriving in Glasgow in 1847. Soon after, his penchant for preaching and deserting was exhibited in this city, and called forth general attention.' He has always been "quite the ladies' man," ar.d possessed of a peculiar knack of ingratiating himself with the fair sex. In the end of 1847 , he pulpit of Greenhead quoad sacra Church was vacant, and accord ingly Thornton Hay, having obtained the confidence of a female manager of the church, who kept the keys, he preached four consecutive sabbaths, under the name of the Rev. Mr Bertram. As he left; the pulpit, two sergeants of the 71st Foot apprehended him as a deserter, and con veyed him through the streets in his white neckerchief, &c., to the barracks, where he had left his wife, which event caused some stir at the time, as many of our readers will remember, He was tried by court-martial and pun is'ied. After his discharge from the army he returned to Glasgow, and obtained a situation at the Theatre Royal, where he continued four months. He now sought and gained employment in a cooperage in Dunlop-street, where he w , rked a few months as a journeyman. and next trans ferred his coopering services to Kilsyth. He did not remain long there, however, but returned to Glasgow, resumed coopering, and sometlatag else. He got introduced to one or two Free Church ministers, told his wonderful tale, and so far imposed upon them that in December, 1854, he was invited to a church soiree ,sat upon the platform, and de livered an address. He regularly attended a Free Church in the centre of the city, pretended great holiness of life, counterfeited the Christian character, and made a profes sion which paled the greater lights around him. By this pseudo-sanctity he imposed upon many, chiefly the " weaker vessels," and the consequences were wounded feelings, de stroyed prospects, and illegitimate children. The cool audacity of the scoundrel was great. On one occasion he invited two respectable girls, to whom he was at the time paying his addresses, to his lodgings to tea, and then in troduced the one to the other as his sweetheart. He like wise, with the view of marrying another sweetheart, took a house in South Portland -street, and had it furnished by one of her rslations ; but fortunately his character was disco vered, and he had to make a hasty retreat. He next turned up near London, and palmed himself off in a Roman Catho lic family as a greatly persecuted peor Roman Catholic priest. Here he lived for some six weeks, but discovering that the bishop of the diocese was coming that way, he decamped. In London he now came out in the garb and profession of a clergyman from Scotland, and succeeded in defrauding several people out of considerable sums, amount ing to over £lOO, fur which he was duly punished by impri sonment for a twelvemonth. In August, 185 e, he was dis• charged from prison, and proceeded to Cambridge, where he told part of his plausible tale, and obtained employment as a cooper in Mr. Johnson's cooperage. After a few dabs he procured an introduction to the teachers of the Wesleyan Sabbath school, and in a week or so he addressed the chil dren. He alao preached subsequently in several of the vil lages in the neighbourhood. His next step was to impose upon the fair sex. In a few weeks he had no less than half ; a-dozen sweethearts, from all of whom he borrowed money under various pretences. One of them a poor but fine girl, he greatly deceived. Her father, a labouring man, with a small portion of land, he so duped by relating the false history of his life, and other particulars, as to get him to mortgage his crop, so as to lend him £5, under a promise that he should marry his daughter. The wedding dress was prepared, but before the nuptial day arrived the vaga bond decamped. This money enabled him to rig himself out again in clerical garb, and to proceed to Glasgow, where he arrived as a pretended agent of the London Mis sionary Sneinty, just arrived from India, In this character he traversed the city and neighbourhood, addressing meet ings here and there; but although his speeches were quite barren of new facts, and indeed disappointed the most un suspecting, still by his apparent great holiness of life and uprightness of character, he insinuated himself most as tonishingly into the confidence of many good people. He had, therefore, no difficulty in getting the loan of money, especially as be was every day expecting his annual salary from the Missionary Society, along with his travelling ex penses. By these means he made a pretty large haul in Glasgow. He had not, however, uninterrupted success. In the east end of the city there is a large Sabbath class, com posed of about 100 young men and women. To one of the young men of that class he got introduced; aLd by his plausible speeches, his ministerial appearance, and frank ness of manner, completely deceived him, pecuniarly also to a small extent. He was in due course invited to the adult class, and expressed a &sire that the missionary from India should be permitted to hold forth for a short time. The teacher, who is a shrewd, acute man, did not at once con- cede to the modest request, as he invariably displays great caution before permitting any one to occupy his proper place. Hence he asked the missionary a few feeling qu, s .. tions about his missionary life and labours, how long he had been in In &c The questions were answered rather im patiently, and one answer made the teacher stare —to the effect that the missionary had just completed his term of three years' service in India, and that he had now returned home. D.aibtless the fellow, in his intercourse with the Wes leyans at Cambridge, had discovered that their preachers were generally only three years in one place, and thus had fallen into the error. The teacher, finding his statetnenis would not hold water, suspected his true character. Hay never again visited that cliss, remarking, in excuse to his friend, that the teacher did not seem to like him. However. the scoundrel was more successful in that quarter than he ought to have been. He got introduced to one of the young women, and became her suitor. She introduced him to her minister, a highly respected U.P clergyman on the south side of the river. In Dec., 18.56, their congregational soiree was to be held, and the " missionary" was announced as a speaker. The speech was delivered, but the general feeling in regard to the "missionary „ was that the London -Mis sionary Society had not much credit by their "agent." Having been invited to dinner by the worthy minister on the following day, as he was leaving he borrowed S 3 from his reverend h st Thy also made love to anotta r member of !hat Bible c ass, and about the sasae ;law 1, 3 became a gu est at a m i llowner ' s house in the east-en.., rom whew wife he succeeded in getiii;:=2, It loan of X 5, The money not coming back as promised, the U P. minister made a few inquiries, which resulted in the discovery that there was no such agent of the London Missionary Society as Rev. Thornton Hay, and that, doubtless, he was an impostor. Information was accordingly conveyed to the police, but the " missionary" succeeded in getting off t 3 Liverpool. He was not again heard of by the Glasgow police imtil about the middle of It.sr, a,,d wail he had 'p ,s std :la rf.a!,y k rtuae. At the b?... ginning of that year, on his arrival in Liverpool, he gained the good opinion of several of the Established Churci clergy, who opened to him their pulpits; and here hefleeced a num bar of people to the tune of £lOO at least. He next turned up in Edinburgh, as a clergyman of the Anglican Church, " taking a survey of the state of the Episcopal Church in Scotland." He preached at the cast! the soldiers, and in other places in that town, getting to keep up his finances, which occasionally ran rather low. He subse quently repaired to London, and in coming back to Liver pool scraped acquaintance with a Glasgow gentleman, by whom he expected to have made samething by calling at the post .office in Glasgow, but was unsuccessful, and had to make a hasty journey to Edinburgh, where he remained but sho‘ tly. Passing through Haddington, he imposed upon some of the descendants of the Scripture commentator of that place, obtaining money which carried him to Sunder land. Here he made a narro w escape of condign punishment. Having succeeded in obtaining £5 from a female member of the Society of Friends, by using a forged letter iron a Friend in Glasgow, the lady's husband detected the forger,' in time to have him apprehended at the railway station as he was about to proceed to Newcastle. On seeing he was ietected, he hurriedly tore up into a hundred pieces two letters strewing the station with the fragments. These being carefully gathered and put together, showed that he was bent on bu-ineAs inNewcastlAs an • esteemed brother." The lett , -r,- purp eel tobo letter, of be roduetif .n from two U.P. ministeri, it; Gi .szow to a U P minister in New castle, written in high fl , ,wn lAnguage, and among other things said—" The bearer is an esteemed brother, and a great acquisition to-the arise of Dissent in England." 'Un fortunately, by some flaw in the evidence, he was acquitted of his Sunderland fraud; but the police of Haddington were in waiting for him, and thither he proceeded, and was incarcerated for five weeks. As soon as his imprison ment at Haddington was past, he was waited upon by a sheriff's officer from Glasgow, who brought him here, and he was convicted 'before the sheriff and a jury of ob taining money under false pretences, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Immediately on coming out of pri son, he had the aufacity and impudence to call upon the 15. P minister whom he had before so grossly cheated, and informed him that now he had suffered for what he had done, and that if the minister did not give him some assist ance he would be compelled to victimise some other body. He also assured another of his dupes that rather than pay his debt he would go back to prison. He was driven again to the sad necessity of having to work for his bread, and got employment in 1859 as a cooper in the Cowcaddens. In December of that year he forged his employer's name to some orders for provisions on various dealers in that quarter of the city, and was again sent to prison for that crime for six months. He was liberated at the end of' June in last year, and made his appearance in Greenock early in August. He was employed as a cooper with Messrs. Theme and Curtis; worked by the piece at small casks far holding gunpowder, and was a smart, worker. He went to lodge with a de cent man, a shopkeeper in Tobago-street, who was in the habit of addressing religious meeting of the poorer classes on Sabbath and other evenings ; and who, to use this man's own words, " thought him a brother in Christ," and this probably led to Hay's introduction to him. He stayed only about two months in this house, during which he regularly conducted private worship, praying and sing ing psalms like a professional. He was a sober man all his his life, and his stock of clothing, which was all on his back, was extremely meagre. On Mondays after a pay he would go to Glasgoe , and return the same evening with empty pockets and no improvement in the spare ward robe. He was disposed to be communicative about his past history—said he had written his lite once while in prison, and tha , it was inserted in Fraser, which is not the fact; said he belonged to Glasgow, that his father was an Episcopalian clergyman, that his mother, who had dis .weed him, was still living in a good position in Edinburgh, sometimes he said London; that he had been educated in Oxford to be a clergyman, had been abroad, lost his wife there, had another wife alive ; and rumour ad.ed that he had a third wife in Glasgow, who had a family to him, and that it was to see her he went to Glasgow fie tried to get ingratiated into the Methodist congregation in Greenock, but a portion of his history had been forwarded there from Newcastle, which frustrated this. He seemed contrite, and frafikly admitted previous misconduct, and it was believed that he had turned a leaf, and was willing to do better in future, ttiough at times he spoke of being haunted by some evil gen i us. H e l e t t t hi s fi rst lodging, and went to anot her in Ann-street—still getting provisions from his first landlady—where a fellow-workman lodged, fro m whom he borrowed a coat and trousers, and, dressed in these borrowed clothes, he went out and preached a Ascourse to a large crowd of listeners at the Mid Quay shed, consign ing evil doers to perdition in very eloquent language. He wound up in Greenock by bolting, leaving one landlady minus a grocery account, and another an account for lodg ing, and rewarded the benevolence of his fellow -workman by running off with his coat. He came to Glasgow, stole a cheese in Candleriggs, for which he was duly sent to prison for 6 / days ; at the expiry of which the Greenock police apprehended h'm, and he is now suffering for his Greenock misbehaviour imprisonment for 30 days, which will expire in about a week. We trust he will now find it to his acivantawe to stick to his trade; at all events, we should suppose it a rather diffi cult matter for him to impose upon anybody in this part of the country. Mil E 7 NORWICH—MA.Im/ 30. At this market to-day wheat was in small supply, and rather a thin attendance. The condition was good, and prices were the same as last week. Barley was in limited supply, and last week's rates were supported White wheat. 64s to 66s I Red wheat ........ 558 to 614 Malting barley....4ss to 47s I Chevalier barley...4ls to 440 Distilling do ....31s to 348 I Oats.. ............ 26s to 300 Flour, 41s to —s Od per sack from the miller. OXFORD-111/mm 30. The market was well attended, and a good business done at an improvement of Is to 28 per qr. for dry descriptions of wheat. Barley in middllig demand. The difference in the price of oats was very remarkable, prime samples sdling at 30s to 33s per qr, and ill-conditioned sorts sold as low as 13s per qr. LEICE ST E It--MAucx 30. The supply of wheat scare, ly an average one, and prices as before, with a fair trade. White wheat, from 70s to 74s —red, Vs to 73s per 36 stone; a rather quiet demand for barley, grinding, 32s to 345; malting, 37s to 43s per qr. ; oats, 24s to 38s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 56s to 68s new, 38s to ,Os per 33 stone. Fine flour, 60; I Seconds, 47s I Thirds, 468 per 20 stone. YORK-- MARCH 30 The trade was firm, and wheat )n short supply; sales were effected at fully higher vrices. Oats in request, but no advance ut.on late rates. Barley in small supply, at late rates. Wheat, red 45s to 56s 1 ( hits..., 26s to 29i , White d 0 ......... .58s to 64 8 1 Beans 18s to 50t- Barley ........... .38s to 42s I Peas .... to —0 Malt, 70s to 72s per qr. •; rye, 378 per qr ; flour, 488 to oOs per sack. NORTHAMPT9N—MARCH 30. At this corn-market the wheat supply was moderate, and the quality irregular, prices ranging from 65s to 69s for old, and 42s to 62s for new. In barley a steady business, making 38s to 435, grinding 29s to 32s per qr. Oats in moderate show, and prices as efore—quoted at '22s to 38a per 24 stone. Beans, old, 51s to 565; peas, 40s to 50p. Rye, 37s to 425; malt, 68s to 72s ; flour, 33s to 34s per sack [ADVERTISEMENT. Pills and medicine invariably ag. giavate and perpetuate diseases; their annoyance, dis. appointment, and expense may be avoided by persons in indifferent health sending only their address to E. S. 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