The Sun. — London, England, 1842-04-21 00:00:00

0 0r rs3r • Ile 'T of be ite , 0- s. t be c er a- t t e re- i n- t of ari it 0 3 re ri in erest ri for thr v ith oras ut- io , fitted enCe- to ualot spite tha t life r 3 of aith i nilo• • U 1 It' mg - raj , de- cure rya- ron r or • P I rhs ; rac • c 1g to• t 1 of od. that If the' Y ap s • to s . 0 or 4101. L ' l- IziCTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) r her , WAKEFIELD. `',c'innaittee remained in deliberation during all the ea r l y '9 t morning, and, at twelve o'clock, the Chai r m an an that the Committee had declined to declare the eke -111:14. on the grounds submitted tot em yesterday. Sk i e ornmittee then proceeded with the scrutiny. Great kt k i !Its were made of the needless delay and expense occa , dU by the non-attendance of Counsel. Mr. Austen, tt' lud Ur.. Wortley were engaged by the petition*rs, and t,2219* of them was attendance whets the decision of . RlAtce was annorAneed. kW lis LLIGENC E. ot. CIIANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) kutfcret the VICS-CHANCELLOR of ENGLANAN) 4 i 1,2 HAN - COCK V. HULLMANDEL.. tn "unour gave judgment in this case this morning. It a PlAioatiou to restrain the defendant from using a cer til'ee4s of rr . mting from stone, for which it was alleged Ili a Plainti had an exclusive patent. Its t , " 0 UR refused to grant the injunction, but directed 1 49 t° try whether the defendant had or had not infringed o f ll3 .iff's patent, as alleged in the bill, reserving the ques tests until the action should have been tried. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) , rI, . HART V. ISAACS. 4, 'S l'aa an action for mesne profits. h e :titt.t. Aß stated the case. The defends.nt held premises PlaintiU's in Covent • Garden, kat ient of 421., from ,the plaintiff h a d a power o f e j ect i ng t h e defendant by ^ t "ree months' notice. Legal notice was given, but the de- Vheld the premises in his possession from Michaelmas to -4 . ef January. A witness was called who proved the ' , kid th e jury brought in a verdict of 141. for the plaintiff. ° LV Ilt . ENT COURT—.('.PHIS DAY) IN RE WILLIAM PITT. li , Insol vent ' s pet i t i on to b e d i scharged was opposed by i t "oodroff e on behalf of several creditors. th:PPeared on his examination that dui ing his confinement alarsh a l sea prisoner, while in a s tat e o f i n t ox i cat i on, ' tif his fellow prisoners began "l ar ki ng " w i t h hi m, an d e ; . h " }nit behind the fire in the pri son t a p- room . Pl ace d d ' A 4 the crown of it and hi s h an dk erc hi e f, was a prom i sory ‘ t i l 'awn by a person named Peters in his fav our , f or 200/. 11, W k S destroyed. Z• e Learned COMMISSIONER said, that upon looking over ittitent's schedule he could see not the slightest allusion transaction. The money was still due to him from • ~ and it was q u it e ev id ent t h at t h e mot i ves for the 44 1vier e to defraud the body of the creditors. In tho tease he felt very mush inclined to inflict the most ex 4„:tatitenne permitt b the aw, namey, int. -4 flent. The case ed was y then adjourned l sine h die.e years' i 41E ROEHAMPTON M URDER, 7• 44 :AMINATION OF GOOD AT SOW-STREET THIS DAY. ,l e l . Good was this morning conveyed in the police van 4:: 4 erkenwell to this office, which h e reac h e d at a quarter ti ti e, This, we suppose, was an earlier hour than had been k, t Ved, and in consequence th ere were f ew or no vis i tors to IL on his Arrival. excitement es - liich existed in the üblic mind, and hich .4essted iaself in so conspicuous a ma p nner on the occasi w on of t i:, previous examination, h as n o t one w hit a ll aye d s i nce fie; and by ten o'clock the whole of Bow-street was Q' crowded with living beings, all anxious to catch a re of th e wre t c h e d man . 1 the former examination we had occasion to notice the , esy which was exhibited to war d s gen tl emen o f t h e press; '''''r Pleasing duty to-day, however, to have to express our ‘,, t r atification at the manner in which the whole business Inducted. The representatives of the public press were ed shortly after nine o'clock, and every convenience was to them. Mr. Alexander O'Driscoll, an artist of c elebrity in this particular line, was also present for the ~ e of t a k ing a s k etc h of t h e pr i soner and the Court. !,Y available part of the C our t was fill e d w i t h well individuals, " and the platform was crowded with gentle- ! °f rank, amongst whom we noticed the Earl of Uxbridge, George and William Lennox, Sir George Wombwell, the ' ' Captain Ryder Burton, Lord Montfort, and other gen- ' 1, e of f as hi on . 11 t - HA LL , the sitting Magistrate, took hi s sea t a t half-past ' t w .hen Da n i e l G oo d was pl ace d at t h e b ar, charge d w i t h 4. 4 ful as urder of Jane Jones, alia s G oo d. t, eti Sh.elaule, the S'olicitor to the Tr e a sur y, a tt en d e d on b e h a lf ' si" Prosecution ; and Good was unrepresented. "e s % „ 4 appeared at the bar to-day dressed i n a rou g h bl ue INin l' coat, waistcoat and t rousers , an d a bl ue nec k erc hi ef , 1 1 t ° l l 3 throat. He look e d well on entering the dock, and Ile e s t e calm. He stood, a s o n th e f ormer occas i on, w i t h h is s k,'„ting on his hand. ' , 4 4 ; 41 au1e said he had the honour of attending on behalf of the ' l ', ll ts s ,..to carry on this prosecution. It was not his intention to , k es ;', l o the features of the case at any great length, as they were j," known to the Magistrate and the kingdom at large. ws,'"Old content himself atpresent with calling the attention ke ai . , i , A agtstrate to a few oates, anti the first was Wednesday, a s tl. On that day a search having been made at the Vol' a Mr. Shiell, in Putney Pa,rk-lane a discovery was "f the r e m a i ns o f a f ernale ; at the search the prisoner tl etent, and whilst it: was going on he made his escape. , or Jane Os I ‘e s il daY, the 3 4 'ere "April, :person of the name of Jane ester mad, sed, who resided at No. 18, South- s tr ee t, d left her home, meaning to return, as h e e s . ° env, early next morning. She was in company with ,tVoner in the afternoon of that day from the hour of four ieast. eight or nine in the evening, which was the last s unfortunate person was seen alive. She was then in %Vetbsenhood of Boehampton. From the afternoon of tell Voday up to this day no tidings hadbeen heard of her being 1 l tetee He should show what be came o f t h e p r i soner f rom i M t :la • ' tip to the 6th ; and he would now call the attention of astesetiste to the 11th of April, and he would show what ' " fr b el the prisoner from the 6th up t o th a t d a y w h en h e 1 2et. % i .airoselt in the capacity of a b r i c kl a y er ' s l a b ourer a t ' E l4 ge, and was Accepted. H e rema i ne d th ere till t h e ' ? I %lien he was taken into custody. . , •;,. ' first witness called was oonstable Wiam le t' e t2i3, who deposed as foll p ows lice c :—On the 6th lli April, 1 was rin Wandsaorth town. On that d a y I w en t to the 7 1 's of M r . Shi e ll, i n P utney Park-lane, for the purpose of , i ,'le the coachman into custody on the charge of stealing a ! s, h °l trousers, T wo l a d s, name d D agna ll an d S pee d, ae • Pa rtied me. (Th e w i tness h ere recounte d t h e same ev i- V' Precisely as was taken before Mr. Hall on the morning of r‘j i l `te last, and which appeared in The Sun of the same day.) is i hilst thi s w i tness was g i v i ng h i s evidence, and rec i ting S t k i t ellmstances attendant on the finding of the mutilated i lk. h °, , of the unfortunate fem a le, th e p r i soner a pp eare d ; 4 10,,''ih . ely uneasy, Ana trembled v er y muc h. Ai r . H a ll o b. I ,ittits, told him that he might s it d own if h e c h ose to dol'l l . 'isoner availed hims e lf of th e °r p m tunity, and leaning 'ironer Otte upon his hands on the front of the bar, almost imme- Os, ,'4l' l ( was loosened by the gao l er , an d some water h aving; I N t "eured, in a few minutes he recovered himself, and re hthis s t an di ng posture .] s R a Prisoner said he had no questions to put to this witness. N A 7rt Speed was next called, and confirm, d the evidence Ne ht e on a previous occasion, and which has a!so already ap- A s " 1 The Sun of Monday last and other dates. e Nsk i tike Houghton, sen., late gardener in the employ of Mr. 7'0 4 leas also called, and his evidence was similar to that 41, °11 Alonday last. except in one particular. On that occa- A t e stated that on the morning of Tuesday he perceived a N s ,, t illentity of smoke issuing from the chimney of the liar ti.w.rei accompanied with an offensive smell, such as is Imk from ' • Q th e singeing of horses; to-day he ,tated that there C" smell at all p erce ptibl e . '.t il , ltiel Palmer, P o li ce - sergean t V 6, was next ca ll ed, and 1 s 'ed es follows :—On the night of Wednesday, the 6th ‘i t iPril, I was stationed at Priest-bridge, Putney, on the L 'ii4, 4 endsroarl, which is about one mile from Mr. Shiell's ‘ll,'s On that night, about half-past eleven o'clock, I went ~,° ' e stables. I found police; constable Gardiner, Houghton, Xi", and Speed there. Th e y showed me the trunk of a i e, which was lying in an open stall. I searched the a ' , and in the next stall I found a mattress and two ' t ees tied up with a piece of cord. , ts tl s t ' HALL (to wiiness)—From your observatien of the L le' L eould you tell whether the injury had • been lately done to VC, 1 1 . ? Witness—l should say it was not at any great k s : of ti me . h ir ?olination continued—l went to the harness-rooorn ; I P 1 the stove, and found some pieces of bone, which 1 Itt e Produce (they were here handed in, and had the appear :f calcined bone). When I went into the harness .room i~'eeived a strong stifling stench, like that which would ~ from burnt animal substance. I have smelt that smell V,a'fro m mea t b e i ng b urne d i n the fire. I a l so f oun d on V" ss ro-binn in the harness-room a parcel of keys, some loose it - "roe tied together, which are now in the possession of Tee, 44'4rtsh constable. I put the keys in my pocket, and lost ki, s ; but I have seen theta since in the possession of the , 4,,•• constable. ` , 1 % •• HA LL (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to ask this wit lissanY question ? Prisoner—No, your Worship, I don't. N s , l uert Tee was then called, and said, 1 am the constable of l 4 ropton. Having herd of the circumstance on Thurs. er ecting, I went to the w s tables of Mr. Shiell, after 7 I had rote the Coroner ; it was about four in the afternoon. O' were many people present, Barnes, the policeman, and p t i t '• I saw the trunk of a female lying in the stable. On ithl,night I went again ; and in the stable, opposite to where , `tti l 'l was found, 1 found some keys. I took possession of A' and now produce them, eleven in number. `t; i ner was re-called, and identified the keys produced, as I . l..Which he had found. N.' re-callesf—l was present at the inquest. I buried the s. • ° II Friday last in Putney churchyard, between 2 and 3 in lillft,, il t vrn oon . itp . HALL (to witness)—Who pointed out the body to you? s IO---I do not know, Sir. ;Is :"oe constable Josiah Tye, V 199, deposed as follows :—I S 11 C t etioned at Wandsworth on the night of Wednesday, April 'sq . l Went to Mr. Shiell's stable at a quarter to JO that , L ii,,, I found Gardiner there, and made a search. I saw era of a female there. I afterwards went to the harness -11 ss 'tni observed a very fulsome, sickly smell, like the burn -4t ' the rind of a piece of pork, or burnt hair. I searched i si 'eplace, and I found two pieces of a skull in the ashes, a . I now produce. 1 found other fragments of human l'4), k ill the furnace of the fire-place, which I also produce. Oe ' lO O been in my possession e'er since. 1 went on the ~ t l e i l i ° 3' following ( April 12) again to the stables, and made a il i k li l , in the coach house. I examined the four-wheeled ii t s i p l and on removing the cushions, and opening the lid of ,;!e, f lv ing-box, a very bad smell rose from i - , and on the out 'lli the box was a small piece of flesh. 1 have not got that 'ake, but it is in my possession. I il gi c Prisoner would put no question to this witness. bklt, 4 1 ,' Houghton, jun., was next called and spoke as follows. ra:".. son o f Th omas Houghton, sen., and w a s in the em :,'es s - ' Mr. Shiell as under gardener. I was in my father's ~,A,th c l the evening of the 6th April ; about half-past nine on i,hs e ght, the prisoner's little boy came up with my sister Sd f' to my father's house, and in consequence of what he ti i 4 to went the stable, when I found my father, Gardiner, and sat , e ; I did not see the coachman. At twelve o'cleck '1 1 11 4 'ught my father told me what was in the stable, se -, then went to the stable and saw the trunk Oth 'etnale in one of the stalls : there are four s:e, ,f , over the stable. I occupied one of them. The l k % ,'' „ the room which I occupies! was always left open. It 4, 9 es,ee the space between the harness-room and the stable. 1, s t :te a furnace in the harness-room. On Tuesday morn { ', y e o'clock I came down from my room about half-past "e :khe prisoner was in the stable. I smelled a very uncom- Oc.1 1 ' 4 " 1 1, and I asked him it he had been singeing the horses, ,1. Mie ns ell led . me to imagine had been done. He said he it 4 V i in liquor over a 'night, and had been toasting i4th e nt`ese for refreshment. The fire was lighted i '. in the harness-room. I heard it burn t'ilQ. rri soner said it was for the purpose of drying the s k i s ,'. The prisoner kept t key of the harness-room. `it( l 4 „'Nri the prisoner for two years and a quarter, during "tae he acted as coachman to Mr. Shiell. He has told TIRE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1842. me that his little boy was at school and Was 1t the care c.f hi. (pthetter's) sister. Ile did not say What part of 1.( - velen tit •iv 6 at, there than that it Was at the West l end, I Late seen the female he called his :sister At the stable three tiarosl fait time Wei 441 kAter Monday last, about ten o'clock M the 4noriii4r. I do not recollect when the other Visitk 4;t:rt paid, but they were about three . 6r feet. tebnths since. He introduced her to me as ia'slitth I have seen the little boy with her en one ettasien. have seen Susan Butcher at the stable', tllo, in Company with the prisoner. 1 have ecett hrir there four or file times: The last time was about a. tritifith since, and the first time I should thi , k * , a, about ten or twelve months ago. I never knee , either of the females to stay there at night: The prisoner has always told me in conversathtns that I have had with him that he could neithbr read nor write. Good had the key of the stahl*, bilt I could get to my room without going threefrh it; he always kept the stable door locked. The Woman he tailed his si ter, when she called, nsed always to wear a light blue bonnet. I slept fti 11117 rootn every night. Iu as there on Sundays Monday, anti 1 iiidsday night: 1 heard no noise Bering any of those nights, Those tirefe the ally two females that I e'er saw in the stable. John Bustin examined—l am an Inspector of the V division of Polite. On Wednesday, 6th April, I was stationed at Wandsworth. On the night of that day, I went to the stable of Mr. Shiell. I found Mr. Bicknell, the Superitttendetit, Sera jcant Pelt -nail, and police constable iryt there. I tent into the stable on the right heed 1 and, ifs the stable, under the win dow, I saw the trunk of a female lyin g . I afterwards went into the harness -Doom, and b ro k e open abox which was locked. I thund nothing:in it save some man's clean linen. I then reached the table-drawer, and found the knife I produce—(it is 'a kelfe with a long Spanish blade. The knife appattred to me to be smeared with something, *MA I believed at the time to be blood. It also had the appearance of having been lately sharpened cud rutted since, though it still kept the edge. I tftervrkrds searched the fire-place, and on the right side of it I found this axe, which I now produce. It appears to me to be a common chopping axe. Upon each side of the edge and the pole I perceived marks which appeared to me to be those of blood. There were two lines hanging across the room, and on one of them I found a piece of a coloured silk handkerchief, tinged with blood. The fire was laid ready for kindling. I assisted Sergeant Palmer in searching the fire place, and under the coal and wood I found some fragments of charred human bones, which I now produce. I also found over a saddle-rost in the harness-room two pieces of a female gar ment, made of flannel ; they are evidently of the same piece, and appear to have been torn in two. I should think they are parts of a flannel petticoat. I also found in the same room two pieces of linen ; there are spots of blood on both sides, and there are two holes cut out of them, not apparently with scissors, but with some sharp instrument. The material is twilled calico. All the things I have produced, except the flannel and the calico, I found on the 6th. The flannel and calico I found on the 7th. When I ceased search ing, I locked the door, and kept the key in my pocket. Oa the Bth I made another search in the harness-room, and, assisted by Dr. Ridge, in sifting the cinders, I found another quantity of bones, which I now produce. In a. box I found a small quantity of tea, and a bottle contain ing a little something, which I believe to have been the re mains of milk. On the Bth I went to 18, South-street, Man chester-square, by direction of the Superintendent, for the pur pose of searching the room. I took possession of the front kitchen, locked it up, and kept the key. On the 9th I went to the same place again, to make a snore complete search. I saw Sergeant Golding find a piece of silk, and two pieces of cotton print. I went the day before yesterday again, and found the book I hold in my hand ; it appears to be a rent book, and contains a number of receipts in the name of Good. I also received a book from the landlord, which I produce (a mang ling book). I examined the trunk of the woman on the Bth, after it was washed. I particularly examined the skin about • the neck, and about half an inch below where the head was cut off, on the right side of the windpipe, I observed a small mole. Alfred Benjamin Allen examined—l am a medical man re siding at Putney, and am an assistant of Mr. Shillite. I was at Mr. Shiell's stable on Wednesday last; the trunk of a ferra'e was shown to me by Mr. Bicknell. I examined it profession ally. I found the head had been severed from the body by a clean cut through the integuments, and between the second and third cervical vertebrae; the cut was very clean and appeared to have been done by a sharp instrument, and I should think after death ; it appeared to have been done by incision and not by a blow. The arms were both taken off at the shoulder joints; the processes of the scapula were rather fractured, but the flesh was cut clean through ; there was a longitudinal incision extending from the sternum to the ptabes, a clean cut round the body just below the false ribs. The abdominal and pelvic viscera were entirely removed, except a small portion of the bladder. Her legs were taken off at the hip-joint; a clean cut through the flesh just below the great trochanter. The whole of these incisions appeared to have been done after death. An axe was shown to ere. I will ven ture to say that the stains are those of blood. I see them still upon both sides of the edge. They are not so plain now as they were. The left thigh-bone appears to have been divided by an instru ment like an axe.—( Some bones found were produced). This piece of bone appears to me to be part of the thigh-bone, or femur, which has been subject to the operation of fire. This aprears to be part of the knee-joint ; it is in a calcined state, such as would have been produced by being burnt in a very hot fire. These are decidedly portions of the human skull, the sutures are quite plain. The mutilation of the body appeared to have taken place four or five days previous. Benjamin Ridge examined— I am also a medical man, re siding at Putney. I examined the bo3y on the 7th and Bth of April by an order from the Coroner. It was in the stable then. I have heard part of Mr. Allen's evidence, and I agree in all of it that I have heard. lam clearly of opinion that the incisions must have taken place after death. I shouldaay that the female was of a healthy state of body, not exhibiting any appearances of having died from natural causes. I consider she was between four and five months gone in the family way. I agree with Mr. Allen in his statement with regard to the bones. Mr. Allen re-called—ln the total absence of the organs of generation I can scarcely say whether the woman was pregnant. From the appearance of the breasts, I am rather inclined to think that she was. Mr. itlaule said—Sir, that closes the first class of evidence on the night of the 6th. I will now take you, Sir, to the second class of evidence—that is, the day of the 3d. Jane Brown examined—l am the wife of John Brown, he is a greengrocer residing at No. Id, South-street, Manchester-square. I knew a female of the name of Jane Jones three years last October. She took a lodging in my house, the front and back kitchens. She lived with me as lodger up to Sunday, April 3, occupying the front kitchen. I know the person at the bar. 1 saw him about three years ago occasionally call to see Jane Jones. Ile used to come about once a day generally. He was then living in service; but I thought ho left then for the country, and in consequence he did not come for some months. Jane Jones had tat o lotlgers with her when first, she came, but had no re lations with her. She had a little boy with her about two years ago. He came to live with • her. His father left him there. He went by the name of Daniel Good. lie appeared to be about 8 years of age then. He continued to live with Jane Jones till she left the house. She changed her name about six months after she came to live with me. I have seen the prisoner with the little boy at the house. He used to come and visit the boy ; he went to school its Dorset-street ; his mother I believe placed him there. The boy called Mrs. Good'- mother;" and the prisoner "father." When the prisoner came of late to visit her he generally drove in a pony-chaise, and that would be about two or three times a week. Prisoner told me the boy was his son. The prisoner paid the rent of the lodgings to me for the last three years.- I saw Mrs. Good last alive on Sunday, April 3, between the hours of two and ' three in the afternoon. I heard her lock her room-door, come up stairs, and go out at the private door. I walked into the street to see who it. was, and I saw it was she ; she went in the direction of Manchester-square. She wore a blue bonnet ; I had seen her in that bonnet many times before ; she also wore a mingled dark brown or red cotton gown, and a shawl with coloured flowers, on a black ground, and black bouts. She had no one with her. I heard the little boy go out about two ; he was gone, as I thought, to the Sunday-school. During the time Mrs. Good lived with me, except on Easter Sunday, she had never been absent before. I have not seen her since. I did net see the little boy again that duy. He did not sleep at home. I saw the prisoner the next morning about eleven o'clock. He came on foot, and came into the shop. He asked me if he could have the room three weeks longer, and he told me Mrs. Good was gone, and would not return. lie had told me about a fortnight before that she was going to take care of a gentleman's lodge. On Monday morning he said she would not return, as she was gone to her place. He said lie wanted the rooms three weeks longer, because there was a mangle to be disposed of and a bed, which she would want. He added that he was going to take the little boy away. He came again in the afternoon with the little boy, and he staid a few mi nutes. He only called with the boy; and when I heard the little boy was going away, I called him back and gave him an orange. He and the boy then went away together. I aw the prisoner again the next night about ten o'clock. lie went into the kitchen by means of the key which he had. The kitchen door was fastened with a padlock, and 1 heard him unlock the door. said he had come to town to take his family to a ball. I asked how Mrs. Good was? He said he did not know ; he had not seen her that day. I did not see him afterwards till now. On Wednesday night, about twelve o'clock, I heard his voice at the street door of my house, but I did rot see hint. My husband let him in. (A blue silk bonnet was here produced in Court.) This is the bonnet Mrs. Good wore, on the 3d of April, when she left my house. This is the dress she left my house in. She wore boots similar to those produced. Mr. HALL— What is the reason of your speaking so posi tively to the bonnet? Witness—Only from the colour and , make. Mary Ann Clark examined—l am a married woman. My husband is a tailor. We went to lodge in the same house as Mrs. 3ood. We occupied the second floor back room. Jane Good lived in the front kitchen. She had a little buy named Daniel Good with her for about two years. He used to call her mother. She kept a mangle and took in washing occasionally. I was ac ivainted with the prisoner. He used to come once a week. She told me that he was her husband, and the little boy called him "father." The bonnet produced is Mra. Good's. I made it myself about two years and a half ago. ( The examination was proceeding when we went to press. ) Several statements have already been put before the public relative to the apprehension of Daniel Good, and of the causes which led to the result, all of which abound in inaccuracies. The following correct version of the facts has been taken from Mr. Humphrey, the Superintendent of the South Eastern Railway police for Tonbridge district, by whom he was appre hended : Mr. Humphrey's statement is as follows :—" On the morn ing of Saturday last, about 10 o'clock, I was on the line of the South Eastern Railway, near to the town of Tonbridge, when one of my men came to me and said that he had seen a man named Rose, who worked on the line, and who had told him that he had observed a person at work at some cottages ad joining the station who answered the description of the man Good, the supposed murderer of a female at Putney, which he had seen in the Government Hue and Cry. I told my man to keep watch, and to follow me, but not to let the object of my search imagine that he was suspected. I then proceeded to the buildings in question, and just before I got to them I saw the man who had been described to me ascending a ladder with a hod of bricks on his shoulder. I was not dressed in private clothes, but in my uniform. The man saw me, and looked at me very attentively, and when he got to the top of the ladder went into the building, and I lost sight of him for nearly a quarter of an hour. He was gone much longer than there was any necessity for, and I believe he was then considering how he could best make his escape. I went round to the back of the building, but could see nothing of him. I then turned and went away towards the line, leaving the constable to watch him. When J had got on the line, I turned and saw him descend the ladder and go to a heap of bricks. I got up to him as he was filling his hod, which he did much more quickly than the generality of labourers are in the habit of doing. I observed to him, " You are working hard." He said, " Sure enough 1 am, the bricks are very heavy, and my shoulder is very sore." I asked him how long he had been working there, and he said a fortnight. I then asked him to take a glass of ale, and he said, " 'fhankee, Sir, I will," and came away imme diately. I asked him, as we went along, how long he had been used to that sort of work, and he replied, about eighteen years. I asked him where he had last worked, and he said, at Deptford. I saw my censtable following me, and I held up my hand for him to watch us. I took the man to the parlour of the Angel Inn, and gave him a pint of beer, which he said he preferred to ale, and said, " You had better take your cap off or you will not feel the benefit of it when you go out again." He took it off immediately, and to me apparently without suspicion. I saw then that his head was partially bald, and "exactly itilSweted the detcription in the Police Gazette. My honstable thbn eame in, and I called hind oa one side, and told him to place the man under no restraint, but if he at tempted to leave the room, to make api ironer of him. The man sat by the fire, and from his attentively gazing at me and the constable while we were talking, I think he imagined we had found out who he wks, and that the game was up. I then asked him *litre lie lodged, and he said at the basketmaker's, near the Flull. I left him and the constable together, saying that I would he back directly, and that he was to wait until I returned. 1 went irtittiediately to his lodgings, and asked the keeper of the house, Mr. Audrey, if they took in lodgers. lie said they did. I asked him if hey had an Irishman lodging there—a bricklayer's labourer. He said they had. I asked him where he worked, and he said at Mr. Izard's cottages, close to the line: That was the place whence I took him. I then ascertained he had been lodging at Mr. Audrey's from the Monday night previous. I asked him what he had got with him—if he had a parcel ? Mrs. Audrey said. he gave her a parcel, and desired ter to take most particular care of it until he asked her for it again. Mrs. Audrey also said she took is from him, and locked it up in a box in her bedroom, and she had not seen it since. I asked her to allow me to look at it, and she went and brought it to me. It was a bundle tied up in two handkerchiefs which had been sewn toge ther. There was a piece of string also round it. After examining the parcel I went to the lodgings of another of my constables, and took him with ms to the Angel. I told both of the constables not to allow any person to come into the parlour ; and I told the prisoner he must consider himself in my custody for a time. The constables (Stephen Ludlow and William Peckham) then proceeded to search him, when they found a small engine-turned silver watch, a blue and black purse tied to the garter which was round his left leg, containing three sovereigns, a half-sovereign, and three half-crowns. He did not account for the possession of this money, and I did not ask him a single question re-pecting it. On the top of his shoulder, and under his shirt, we found part of an apron and two halves of very old and dirty stock ings. The prisoner, without being asked, said he had put those things there to ease the pressure of the hod, for it hurt his shoulder very much. I then went out and asked Mr. Barratt, the builder, who had employed the man ? and he said Mr. Steer, his foreman. I saw Steer, and asked him if the man told him where he came from, and he said from London the day before. I then asked Steer if he had observed anything particular in his appearance while at work. Steer said, as did also some of the men, that he appeared a strange man, and that his manner was different to ordinary men. He appeared, they said, restless and fidgety. I then returned to his lodgings, and asked the landlord and landlady what they had observed in the man's behaviour. They also said he was very restless, and that if any person knocked at the door when he was at home, he was the first to go to the window and see who it was. He would walk about the house a great deal, and was much disturbed at night. I then took the pri soner formally into custody, and sent to Mr. Hare, the ma gistrate, who resides about two miles from Tonbridge. That gentleman came into town as soon as possible, and at half past eleven o'clock he was taken before him at the office of Mr. Scsone, the Magistrate's clerk. The man Rose, at the exami nation, positively identified the pri oner. The examination was over at half- past four o'clock, when I procured a light chaise-cart, and having previously handcuffed him, sent him in charge of Ludlow and Peckham to Maidstone gaol. I pro ceeded immediately to London,calling on my way on Mr. Mal lalieu, the Superintendent of the R division, who accompanied me to Scotland-yard, where I acquainted the Commissioners of Pollee with the capture of the prisoner. From Scotland- yard I proceeded to Wandsworth, and brought back with me Wheeler, a Constable of the V division, to:whom,Good's person was well known. We then came back to town, whence we proceeded to Maidstone, where we arrived at four o'clock on Sunday morn ing I called up Mr. Joseph Bone, the Governor of the prison, and said I had brought a man with me to identify James Connor, who was committed to that prison on the previous day from Tonbridge. By direction of Mr. Hare, the Magistrate, two men, as much resembling the person as could be obtained, hail been placed in the cell with him. On proceeding to the cell we found the prisoner and the two men asleep. The Gover nor called all three by their names, and told thew. to sit up in their beds, and required them to take off their night-caps. The moment that was done the constable Wheeler pointed to the prisoner, and speaking in a low tone of voice to the Go vernor, so that he might not be overheard, said, " That is Da niel Good." The Governor then said, " That will do, my men—lie down again." We went again to the gaol, at a later hour of the morning, and Mr. Aiallalieu wished to take the prisoner to town, but the Governor said he could not d s charge him from his custody unless he had a warant from Mr. Hare authorising him to do so. We then went to Tonbridge, and obtained a warrant from Mr. Hare for the removal of the prisoner to town, with which we returned to Maidstone. We quitted that town with oar prisoner about three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and stopped at Grec..wich on the road to town. On the road the prisoner spoke of different things, and it was su-prising how he held the connecting links of his conversation together, so that we could scarcely get in a word. He betrayed not the slightest symptom of excitement. At Greenwich we stayed until the horses had been put into the police van, and in that van he was conveyed to Bow-street. where he arrived a few minutes before eight o'clock ; and I gave him over into the custody of Superintendent Shandrock, of the F division." CONDUCT OF GOOD IN PRISON. Since his confinement in the House of Correction he has behaved in the moat exemplary manner, avoiding all conversa tion in regard to the murder, stating only that Butcher has been the cause of all his present misfortunes. He says that he first became acquainted with Jane Jones (the murdered woman) in France, and by his own account he has travelled for a long time on the Continent, and was for several years serving in the Peninsula, as servant to Colonel Mainwaring, of the Portuguese army. His manners are mild and obliging, but he seems to consider that there is no proof that he is the murderer. He made an inquiry of a party connected with the pr,son whether he would be dissected, and his body be kept above ground, in the event of his execution, and he seemed to grieve very much at the idea of his boy being sent to a union workhouse, as he says he would be pointed at as the son of a murderer. Alessrs. Williams and Hillingworth, the clergymen attached to the prison, are constantly in attendance upon the prisoner, in their religious capacity, and Good pays every respectful at tention to them. Yesterday, Mr. Mayne, one of the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police, attended at the prison, and directions were given that the clothes which he then had on should be taken off, and a blue prison dress, such as is ge nerally worn by the prisoners committed for offences by the Magistrates, be put on: Good was instantly taken to an apartment, and the storekeeper was ordered to supp'y a blue prison dress, which Good put on, anii his clothes were placed in the hands of the proper officer. This change, it is supposed, was caused in consequence of Gamble, the bricklayer, who is in custody on suspicion of being an accessory after the fact, boing suspected of having supplied Good with the dre s, for the purpose of facilitating his escape. The description given of Good in the handbills circulated for his apprehension is said not at all to correspond with his real person, but this report, it is probable, originated from his having ultimately disguised himself, for the purpose of escape. He says that he bought the hod which was found upon him at Tonbridge, at Deptford, and he carred it all the way to Ton. brithe, in the character of a bricklayer's hodman. When unobserved, he paces backwards and forwards, with a steady undisturbed look,• and when spoken to maintains a confidence and placidness which could scarcely be expected in a person placed under so heavy charge. NATIONAL CONVENTION. (THIS DAY.) The Convention met this morning at nine o'clock, pursuant to adjournment. The names of the Delegates having been called over, Mr. Al‘Dowar.r. read a letter from Mr. Thomas Duncombe, M. P.,relative to Mr. Sharman Crawford's motion in the House of Commons this evening, and requesting a deputation from the Convention to wait on him (Mr. Duncombe). Mr. Doyle moved, and Mr. F. O'Connor seconded the motion, that a deputation be at once sent to Mr. Duncombe ; and Mr. M'Pherson, Mr. M'Dowall, and Mr. Moir, were a - eordingly appointed to wait on the Hon. Member for Finsbury. The Standing Orders were suspended to hear a statement from the Finance Committee respecting the funds in hand. Air. O'Coetioa moved that the Report of t-. 0 Committee be taken into consideration. After a long conversation the original motion was withdrawn, and, Mr. O'Connor moved, and Mr. Pitkeatbley seconded the motion, that the Finance Committee be instructed to prepare an address to the people, • and that the several Delegates be re quested to correspond with their constituents for the purpose of increasing the subscription. This resolution was carried. Mr. BEEZLEY then moved a resolution to the following effect—That it was the opinion of the Convention that some measures should be adopted for the purpose of bringing out more lecturers, and in order to do this it was necessary that the plan of organisation should be allowed in that part of it, which required that one-fourth of the subscrip tions of the members of the Association should be appropriated to the support of the agitation, and that in its stead it should be ordered that 6d. should be paid for every fifty members, and fur every twenty-five members above that slumber. Me. Powett s?conded the motion. After a short conversation, Mr. BEEZLEY withdrew the re solution, and it was resolved that a Committee should be ap pointed to inquire into the subject. A Committee was then appointed, consisting of Mr. O'Con nor, Mr. M'Dowall, and Mr. Lowery. The SECRETARY then read a communication from the At torney-General, respecting an application which had been made to him concerning the convicts, Frost, Williams, and Jones. The application had been made to the Attorney-General to allow a deputation to wait upon him. The an swer of the Attorney-General wag, that he had no time to receive such a deputation, but requesting them to communicate by letter. A similar am licatioa had been made to Sir James Graham, and the same reply received. Mr. MORGAN Winnzaats trusted that they would not allow the matter to rest, but that they would appoint a depu tation to wait on the Attorney-General and Sir James Graham, and that the Committee would demand an audience. The Deputation was then appointed. The Deputation appointed to wait on Mr. Duncombe having returned, Mr. O'Cort NOR, moved—" That they do now report." Mr. Al'Dowann replied that they had waited on Mr. Dun combe, who stated that he had seen the letter of Mr. Sharman Crawford in the Nonconformist, but he should refrain from any observation on the subject until the presentation of the National Petition. He further stated that be considered that the party of Mr. Sharman Crawford was acting in a very fac tious manner. Mr. Duncombe wished to have the correspondence of the Convention laid before him. He still hoped that the Ministers would be compelled to hear a deputation at the bar of the House of Commons in support of the Charter. He wished the Convention to correspond with him when it was necessary, and he assured the deputation that he would advo cate the principles of the Charter.—(Cheers.) A deputation was then received from the City of London Chartists • and the deputation stated that they had engaged the Crown and Anchor Tavern for a public meeting, to take place on Tuesday next; and they.:therelore, wished the co-operation of the Convention. The services of the Convention were ordered to be placed at the disposal of the deputation. A vote of thanks was then passed to the deputation. Several notices of motions were then given ; and, on the motion of Mr. Fer.rgus O'Connor, the Convention adjourned at Quarter past One, to Nine o'Clock to-morrow morning. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week ending April 16, 1842: Passengers Merchandise 495 17 2 £1,295 4 8 Darlington, April 20. W. O'BRIEN, Secretary. A most important and beneficial regulation, relat ing to Chaplains in her Majesty's Navy, is about to take place. When those gentlemen qualify and perform the duty of naval instructor and schoolmaster, in ships, they we to have, in addi timi to the pay of chaplain, three-fourths of that granted to naval instructors, and, after a certain period, a similar portion of half-pay. Thus a clergyman of a man-of-war, combining the duties of chaplain and naval instructor, will have sea pay amounting to near 260/. a-year, in addition to bl. a-ye•r from each of the young gentlemen he educates ; the latter will, how ever, most probably be discontinued.— United Service Gazette. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY•) BATH AND BRISTOL RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Ladies Cup of 50/., added to a ISweepstakes of 10 sous. each, h ft. For 3 yrs old, 9.t 71b ; 4 yrs. list 21h; 5 vrs, llst 91b; 6 yrs and aged, 12st. Mares, Sc., allowed 31b>; winners extra. Once round and a dis. (14 Subs. ) Mr. Goodmar.'s The Tiger, aged (General Gilbert) 1 Mr. S. Scott nd Greenfinch, 5 yrs Mr. W. Sadler's The Conqueror, 3 yr s Mr. Balehin's Gog, 4 yrs ..... ............ 4 Mr. Watson's Virtue, 3 yrs. Won by a neck. The Western Stakes, of 30 sous., h ft, with 20 added. For 2 yrs old colts, Bst 91b ; and fillies, Bst 61b. The straight half mile. (15 Subs.) Mr. J. Dixon's Vitella, out of Kittinus, 3 yrs ....(Owner) 1 Mr. Treen's Young LochinYar Mr. Sadler's Decisive Won by two lengths. Sweepstakes of 1 soy. each, 5 ft. Last half mile. Gent'emen riders. (3 Subs. ) Mr. Collett's Gammon Box, 4 yrs, list 91b (Gen. Gilbert) .1 Mr. Foster's Combat, aged, 12st 6t04 on Combat. Won by a neck. The Original 5 soy. Stakes, with 50 added, one mile and a di-s. Mr. Isaac DAy's m by Nimrod, out of Bush, 5 yrs, walked over The Dyrham Park Handicap of 10 soya. each, h ft., with 20 added ; Gentlemen riders ; mile and half and a distance ; (4 Subs.) Capt. Jones named bli Fitzw illiarri, 6 yrs, lOst, Capt. Pettat 1 Hon. J. Dutton named Bro. to Prizeflower, 6 yrs, 1 tst 71b 2 Capt. Freestone's Rough Robin, 5 yrs, lOst 131 b Won by a neck. The Hack Stakes of 3 soys. each, with 10 added ; winner to be sold for 501. ; straight half-mile, were won in three heat, by Captain Pettat's Victor, 4 yrs (owner), beating Mr. Job son's Frank, 6 yrs, Mr. J. 1. ixon's Lady Georgina, 5 yrs, Mr. Drew's The Mite, 4 yrs, and two others. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. (From the ,rotes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) WEPNESDAY, Amu 20, COPYRIGHT BILL—( In the Committee) Fifteenth Clause (Remedy for the Piracy of Books, or parts_ n —,,uest: of Books, by Action on tha Case) -.on put, . That the Clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill :"—The Com mittee divided : MAJOR] TY— AYES, 36. Dickinson, F. H. Morris, David Farnham, E. B. O'Brien, A S. Fielden, J. O'Brien, W. S. Forbes, William Pakington, J. S. Gladstone, W. E. Palmer, George Hardy, John lions, Captain Howard P. H. Scott, Hon. F. Inglis, Sir R. H. Sutton, Hon. h. M. Jackson, Serie:tilt Whitmore, T. Lockhart, 'William NVinnington, Sir T. M'Geachy, F. A 7 TELLERS. Nlarsham, Viscount Mahon, Lord Miles, W. Godson. It. Adderley, C. B. A rkwright, George Bailey, Joseph Baskerville, T. B. M, Bodkin, W. H. Hatfield, Beriah Broadley, H. Campbell, A. Christie, W. D. Christopher, R. A. Colville, C. lt. Cripps, W. Darby, George Blake, Sir V. Bowring, Dr. Brotherton, J. Vobdea, Bieiiard zvans, W. :NORITY-- NOES, Ewan, W. Muntz, (i. F. Plumridge, Captain 'Dioritely, Thomw. Villiers, Charles P. 11. NVilliams, W. TELLER? Wittley, Thomas Aglionby, H. A. PROTEST AGAINST T FIE SECOND READING OF THE NEW CORN BILL. Dissentient— 1. Because no alteration of the existing duties upon foreign corn ought to have been proposed without having previously endeavour"d to ascertain by a Parliamentary inquiry at what prices, and in what quantities, it could be imported; and also hether the remunerating prices of corn which is grown at home continue to be the same as they were when the present Corn-law was enacted. 2. Because the protection which agriculture now enjoys is not greater than is requisite, is advantageous to all classes of the community, and could not be diminished without extreme injustice to those who, under the faith of Parliament, have in vested their capital in the cultivation of land. 3. Because the proposed alteration of the Corn-law would " cause a very considerable decrease of the protection which the present duty affords to the home grower." as was allowed to be the ease by the Minister who recommended that alteration. 4. Because a " very considerable decrease" of the present protection would discourage 13riti>h agriculture, might render this country dependent upon foreimiers for a supply of the first necessary of life, and might, in the event of unfavourable sea sors, expose it to the horrors of famine. 5. Because a " very considerable decrease " of the present protection might produce a permanent depression in the prices of British corn, a corresponding diminution of consumption and expenditure, and a corresponding increase of the distress and discontent which now unhappily prevail. 6. Bemuse the discouragement of British agriculture would be very injurious to the labourers who are now employed in tillage, and might reduce their wages, which, in many districts, are already much too low to provide for their eomfortable sub sistence. _ _ 7. Because it is the bounden duty of Parliament to afford due protection to those mho are employed in agriculture, as well as in any other branch of British indust►y, all of whom have a common interest to prevent the competition cif foreigners in the home market.; STANHOPE. MALMESBURY. BE A UMONT. THE DRAWINGS OF THE LATE SIR DAVID WILKIE. A crowded assemblage of artists, amateurs, and fashionable visitors, was gathered yesterday at the rooms of Messrs. Christie and Manson, to inspect the mass of sketches by Wilkie, which are, in a few days, to be exposed for sale by public auction. These sketches consist of a great variety of subjects, and include all those made during Wilkie's last tour in the East. To judge from the number of persons present, the interest displayed, and the encomiums so freely lavished, the sale appears likely to prove attractive; but. it required an almost idolatrous admira tion of the great painter whose drawings were here exhibited, willingly to endure the excessively-heated atmosphere of the room in which they were placed. As to offering a critical opinion of the collection, the intense crowd in which we were involved renders that almost impossible, hut it is scarcely ne cessary, as the admirers of Wilkie are " legion," and neither to be stimulated nor deterred by print. For our own parts, highly as we esteem the powers of the painter, who deservedly stood at the head of his profession. we confess that it is not to his sketches (as to those of ltaffaelle ' Michael Angelo, and other great masters) that we should look for a sure indication of the greatness which was in him. The qualities which we chiefly recognise in Wilkie are the originality of his c•inceptions, the boldness of treatment of his subject, and the truth with which he tells his story; the diversity of his characters, the harmony of his grouping, and the great effect of his light and shade. These are amongst the merits which belong to his pictures, but his sketches do not bring before our eves the same fidelity or expression which should belong to parts even of a great whole: they are merely the'ebauches which satisfied the painter, who seldom gave his genius full scope until he was fairly embarked in his picture. Of course there are exceptions to be met with, and the present collection affords numerous in stances. but the nvjority of the sketches which we saw yester day fully bear us out in our opinion. Of this v e are certain, that there are hundre,is of artists whose drawings would give q uite as much satisfaction as those o f Si r D av id Wilkie. To justify the general tenour of our observations, we need only in stanceof the " Village Schoo`," and " john x lf a - d fi m i,is it h ,i e st d tu erpiniegthree sgeranwnt," which contain ail the excellence that we • find hi the best of his pictures. Ills portraiture, we consider, of very the Kn hoa doubtful merit, and his id,a of female beauty somewhat obscure ; but the name of Wilkie will cover a multitude of drawbacks; and we doubt not his sketches will find their way into many Portfolios, notw:thstanding the high prices at which they will doubtless be sold. We observe that the sale commences on Monday next. EXPERIMENTS IN THE MARSHES AT WOOLWICH. Amongst the numerous invention's submitted to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and referred by their Lord ships to the Committee of master shipwrights recently sitting at Woolwich Dockyard, was a composition to be used in place of the substance with which vessels are at present calked to render them water-tight. The experiments ordered to be made by the master shipwrights to ascertain its value when applied to the purpose for which it is intended, and the result, are interesting and satisfactory. Two pieces of African teak, a species of wood difficult to be joined together by glue, on account of its oily nature, had a coating of the composition applied to them in a boiling state, and in a short time afters wards bolts and screws were attached to each end, the joined wood placed in the testing-frame, and the power of Bramah's hydraulic engine applied to the extent of 19 tons, -when the chain broke without the slightest strain being susceptible where the joining took place. A larger chain of one inch and a half in diameter was then applied, which broke with a strain of 21 tons, the joint in the wood remaining apparently •as firm as at first. The utmost strain the cement can bear in this form, therefore, remains to be proved when experiments arc made with larger chains. Four pieces of hard woe(' were then joined together, weighing in one piece 44 cwt., and car ried to the top of the shears in the dockyard, a height of 76 feet, from which it was precipitated on the hard granite wharf wall below, without any of the joints yielding in the smallest degree. The results of these severe tests induced the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to communicate with Lieu tenant • General Sir George i I urray, G. C. B. and G. C. H., for the purpose of making experiments with it in the marshes, by bringing the full force of cannon-balls against it. Accordingly a number of flanks of oak 8 inches thick and fir 16 inches square were joined together with the cement, to represent 8 feet in height and 8 feet in length of the side of a first-rate ship of war, without anything else in the shape of bolt or se curity to assist the composition ; and it was on Tuesday set up as a target at the butt in the marshes. At one o'clock in the afternoon Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.B. and G. C. H., Colonel Cleveland, Colonel It. Jones, Lieutenant- Colonel Jackson, Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmers, Major Sandi lands, Major Vaughan, Brigade-Major Cuppage, and a num ber of officers of the Royal Artillery, and a large detachment of the Ist battalion, were present to assist at and witness the experiment. Lcrd Adolphus Fiticlarence and a number of civilians w ere also present, anxious to know the result ; but, after remaining from one to three o'clock, it was found im possible to fire a single shot, two brigs having anchored within the range, notwithstanding repeated warnings not to do so. At the request of Lord Bloomfield the firing was deferred till yesterday, the men being ordered inthe marshes at 9 o'clock a.m. At that hour a large detachment of the 9th battalion, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. W. Arbuthnott and Major Hope, arrived, and shortly afterwards Lieutenant- Colonel J. F. Love, C.B. and K.H., of the 73d Regiment, and Brigade-Major Cuppage; but after remaining until eleven o'clock could only obtain three shots, owing to the length of tlme occupied by the brigs in getting out of the range, and the number of vessels passing at high water. It was originally intended to fire from the five-gun battery; but three new 32-pounder guns having been placed at 41)0 yards distance on point blank range, it was considered desirable to use them, as they will be wanted immediately for the first class steam-vessels, and consequently the shots did not take effect. At one o'clock in the afternoon, however, the levels were taken and three shots fired, every one entering the target, the third in a direct line with the bull's-eye within three inches of its outer circle. The effects of these shots were wonderful, tearing the wood to pieces, and in only one instance, where the joint had not been good, showing that they had any effect upon the cement, so as to separate the joined parts from each other. A hole six inches and a quarter in diameter was then bored in the centre of the target, and a 32-pounder shell inserted and exploded by a match, which tore the wood to small splinters without in many places in the least separating the composition. This new invention is said to possess the power of expanding like India rubber in warm climates, and will not become brittle under the coldest temperature. It appears to be a great fa vourite with naval officers, as it is so clean, having only the appearance of French polish. The name f the inventor is Mr. Jeffrey. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sza,—Allow me to suggest, through the medium of your if properly acted upon, may importance to the Reform in. terest. It is simply as follows :---That every person paying his portion of tax upon 1501 . or more, under Sir Robert Peel's pheallreearite what,r pro ve in of considerable probability, Bill, ought to be entitled to a vote for the county or division of the county in which he resides, the same as the 501. tenants at will voters under the Chandos clause. Surely the man, who by his abilities and attention to business can earn 1501. per annum, and who is eo:npelled to pay a tax for merely exer cising his praiseworthy talent, and necessary enterprise and exertion, has an equal stake in the country, an i is as fully com petent to exercise the elective power, as the mere occupant of a farm or a hou-e of to. per annum value.—Yours truly, Manchester, Apri 120, 1642. A REFORMER. WIGNEY'S BANKRUPTCY. Up to last night no less then 2,492 orders for admission to view the late residence of the Messrs. Wigney had been issued by the auctioneer, Mr. Ridley; and a second edition of tl e catalogues has become necessary, the first hating been entirely sold off. We understand that, besides the other iron. which Mr. Isaac Wigney had in the fire, there was one which has not hitherto been made known, namely, a shop in Bond-street for the sale of caontchouc. The protection to a bankrupt Member of Parliament against arrest does not operate where a felony has been committed to the extent of 101. 7 —Brighton Gazette. DISTRESSING CASE OF SUICIDE.—An inquest was held last evening, at the George, High-street, Wapping, be fere Mr. Baker, en the body of Wm. Macdonald, aged 10, a clerk employed in the London-docks. Caroline Stewart deposed that the deceased occupied lodgings in her house. On Thursday week last the deceased returned home greatly excited, and said that he had been suspended from his em ployment. He said that whilst engaged in an office in the London-docks during the absence of Mr. Mitchell, the chief clerk, he recollected having committed an error in his books, and went away to the room where they were kept to correct it. When he returned to the of f ice he found Mr. Mitchell there, who reprimanded him for having quitted the place with out his leave, and, as a punishment, suspended him. The fol lowing Monday deceased went for his salary, and whilst waiting fur it, he was accosted by Mr. Mitchell, who declared that if he found him loitering about the office he would give him into the custody of a policeman. Deceased appeared to be much af fected at this treatment, but was afterwards assured by Mr. Chandler, a gentleman connected with the Docks, that he should be reinstated. Arrangements had been making for, deceased's marriage with a young lady to whom he was much attached, and it was to have taken place a few days ago; but witness observed that since he received notice of his suspension he took little of his former emjoyments„ and gave way to despondency. On Sa turday night last lie appears to hale taken a large dose of ar senic, and died from the effects of it at eleven o'clock the next morning. Mr. Garrett, surgeon, said that he had made a post mortem examination of the body, and though he could not po sitively say that the deceased had taken poison, he thought, from the appearance of the intestines that he had taken a large dose of white arsenic. Deceased, on Thursday week last, pur chased twopenny worth of arsenic, ant said it was to destroy rats. Verdict, Temporary Insanity. DR. REID'S LECTURES ON CIIEMISTRY.—The series of Dr. Reid's lectures, which was interrupted on the preced ing Wednesday by the occupation of the great room in Exeter Hall for the exhibition of Mr. Hullab's singing classes, when Dr. Reid's disciples were too numerous for any lesser apart ment, was resumed hat night; and, we are happy to say, to an increased audience, there being rot less than 2,000 persons present. Dr. Reid pursued his explanations upon the delete rious qualities of carbonic acid gas, demonstrating its existence and formation in ealcin. d cinder and coke. Diagrams of the various fireplaces and chimneys now in ordinary use were drawn up before the Professor's platform, the use and conve niences of which were explained by him to the audience in his own graphic and instructive manner. Fissures more than thirty feet deep, and fallings-in of the earth, have taken place on the plain above Vanguard, so:ne even dividing the by-roads and paths, so as to require being filled up or guarded by railing. These accidents have been occasioned by some of the numerous old stone•quarries wiih which this part of the country abounds having given way. We learn by letters from Italy that a shock of an earthquake was felt at Florence on the 6th of March, which awoke all those who were not very sound sleepers, but fortu nately did not continue long enough to do any mischief. AFFGHANISTAN, COPY OF A LETTER FROM LADY SALE TO GENERAL SIR ROBERT SALE, FKOM CAUBUL, GIVING A PRECIS OF EVENTS IN THAT CITY FROM THE 2D TO THE BTH OF NOVEMBER, 1841, AND DESPATCHED ON THE 9TH OF THAT MONTH. " Aly dear Sale,—The last letter I had from you was dated the Ist, from Gundamuck. On the 2d an insurrection broke out in Caubul, the shops plundered, Johnson's house and trea sury looted (stripped) and burnt. He was in cantonments, his guards and servants murdered. Troup and Warburton were in cantonments; their houses burnt; Sir A. Burnes, his bro ther, and Broadfoot, murdered; Skinner supposed to be se creted by his gomashta ; Sturt was sent by the General a message, and was stabbed in four places in the King's presence —the face, the shoulder, a glance on the arm, and on the side. There are three principal chiefs at the head of this—Abdoola Khan, Atehokaye Morita Meuin, and Seeunda Khan. The Kussulbashes are in, but are afraid to declare openly in our favour. Shelton, with two regiments and one company, in the Bala Hissar. On the 3d the 27th came in. They had to fight their way, being followed by 200 men, and had five killed, and 15 wounded. Gordon slightly wounded. A number of Ko histaners came into Caubul. " The Trevors got out of the city with just the clothes they had on their backs. Their house burnt. The Affghana at tacked the cantonment and fort, but were repulsed by Waller, who was wounded by a ball, which lodged in his armpit. Another large party, who have raised the religious standard, came against the cantonments at the rear gate, where our guns dealt destruction, and the cavalry cut them up. Sturt able to speak, the wound in his shoulder deep, the 'isle not so bad, the lungs uninjured; the face wound near the corner of the eye ; he was struck on the bone with such force, that he was stunned for the moment ; he had warded off two blows. " On the 4th, Khan Shurreen Khan and others drove part of the fighting men out of the town. The enemy took pos session of the small fort nearly opposite our bazaar that joins on the King's gardens. The guns played all day against the gate of the Shah Bagh, which is .filled with the enemy ; it cannot be blown open with powder, as there are too many people about it. A large party of horsemen showed themselves on the Shah Sang-hill. Mahmoud Khan's fort, where the tower has been thrown down, has been taken possession of by the enemy. He is on our side, and therefore they ha'e cut off his son's ears. We slotted and shelled the fort opposite our bazaar all day, but with little or no effect. The Kohistans up in arms and furious. Maule and Wheeler murdered; their men overpowered. Maule's khatagie (servant) alone escaped ; came in half naked this day (tbe 14th). Saw killed Gordon and St,vayne, of the 44th. Robertson, of the 44th, and four men wounded. Walsh, Hollaken, Warren, and sixteen men, 6th cavalry, wounded; thirty-one missing. At tea-time an alarm ; very brisk firing. " sth inst.—The troops employed all day. Guns and mor•. tars, with shot and shell, at the fort, with very little effect. `• 6th inst.—Sturt insisted, weak as he was, in shirt, plasters r and pay-jumas (drawers), on going to the General (Elphin stone), as there was no engineer there but himself. We have only Warburton and Eyre as artillery-officers—no laboratory man—the General gave him leave to do what he pleased—by ten o'clock we got all in order—by twelve a good breach, and in a few minutes it was carried--Raban killed—Dear wounded —Hobhouse and twelve of the 13th volunteered for the assault —one man badly wounded—those of the enemy who escaped were joined by a large body of horsemen, well dressed and mounted, evidently Kussulbash—Sturt says not more than 2,000, others say 3,000—a beautiful sight—Anderson's horse charged up the bill, ar.d drove the enemy all alonis the crest of it to the extreme left, where the sth Cavalry charged up— they were hemmed in—more Affghan horse came up, and they had a great struggle with swords, but the Affghan matchlock was so hot, that they in turn drove ours back all along the ridge, and they had outnumbered us so greatly as to be able . to retire in excellent order. Anderson's horse again went up the road to challenge them, but their position was good and they maintained it. We had every man eut on duty canton ments. A brigade was much wanted in the field. Two guns of Warburton's were seized by the enemy in the city, and the men forced to work them. They have thrown a number of balls into cantonments and into Sturt's garden from Mahmoud Khan's fort. Sir William Macnaghten has given .50,011) rupees to a Kussulbash chief to create a diversion in our favour, and promised him two lace if he succeeds. The Envoy and General agreed to send for the 13th and 35th (Sale's Uri gale)—at first the General would not, but yesterday the order went off for you to return with the 13th and 35th, leaving your sick, wounded, and baggage in safety to come on by long marches ; but much responsibility is thrown on you in this way, and you will have to fight great numbers near this, whatever the state of the country may be far off. " The enemy have had possession of the Commissariat Fort these two day s'—to-day they have set it on tire, as also a village near the town that fired on them. We thought it was the city on fire. Sturt got the wall of the garden near the Commissa riat Fort down by the Sappers to-day. A new King and Vizier had been set up, but the other chiefs will not have them. Codrington's. corps in Chareckan surrounded. All the officers wounded. Rattray and Salisbury killed. Sturt's wounds are doing well, but he overworks his strength; his mind keeps him up ; and Harcourt tells me to give him wine and arrowroot. He cannot get open his mouth to get food in properly. His tongue and throat have suffered, and all the nerves about. He is out all day, and the soldiers 'help him about. Last night he did not get to bed till one, and then was waked up by a note. Mackenzie defended the fort he was in till his ammunition was expended, and then he cut his way out : has three wounds. We have intelligence that we were to be attacked to night, and that they were making boosa bays to throw into the ditch. No one had made arrangements for an attack. The General and Anquetil gave Sturt a carte blanche. Ile has told off the officers and people to their posts, and paraded them this evening, and at nine went with Paten, Eyre, and l'ellew, all the rounds. The Envoy is in cantonments, and his place is a cavalry and infantry intrenched camp, and the walls loop-holed. We have a nine and a six-pound, r in the battery next us, 15 guns in position, the walls well-manned, and our men stanch. If we get over to-night, we shall, 1 trust, repel the enemy till you arrive. Heaven shield us all! I should not be nervous if I could see what was going on. I hope they will not attack us this night; but the unusual still ness of no firing looks like mischief. " Bth instant.—We had an alarm at four o'clock. The enemy attempted to take the fort back again. They mined a large hole, and set fire to the bastion, -but were driven back. We are all in high spirits, and look forward to your arrival with interest and anxiety.—With our united love, 4‘ FLORENTINE SALE." Mondiere, a foot soldier quartered at Paris, was yesterday condemned to death by the permanent Court-martial for the offence of striking a sentinel on his post. It appeared in evidence that, in the evening of the Bth ult., Mondiert- was returning to his barracks when he met a woman with her eon, a boy about ten years old, in the avenue Lamothe-Picquet, near the Hotel des lnvalides, and nut only accosted her, but, not withstanding her remonstrances, persevered is offensive o•er tures, and forced her to go out of her way home from fear of giving rise, by being seen with him, to injurious suspicions In the minds of her friends and neighbours. She walked on till they came to a sentinel posted near the Ecole Militaire, whose protection she claimed. The sentinel recommended Mondiere to retire to his quarters, and leave her to go home with her child. Fle, however, took offence at the interference of the sentinel, abused him, and at length struck him a blow on thA fdce, which produced blood, and induced him to seize his as. sailant and call out the guard. Mondiere broke away from him, but left in his hands the epaulette of his capotte, which came off in the struggle. By this Mondiere was discovered and recognised. In answer to the depostions to the above effect, Mondiere had nothing to say but that he was in liquor, knew not what he did, and had no recollection of the circumstances As he had previously borne a good character, the President, in passing sentence upoa him, announced that he would recom mend him to the Royal clemency. Upon this a petition to the King for a commutation was i mmed iately drawn up, and signed by all the members of the Court. BRIGHTON, APRIL 19.—A dispute has taken place between the Brighton Railway Company and Lord Lowther, respecting the price for conveying the mails by railway, which is likely to end in depriving the inhabitants here of a day mail from London. The mails can be sent by coach on the common road for about half the cost of what the Railway Directors want to charge for conveying them by railway. The arrangements for taking off the Portsmouth and Brighton mail are in abeyance until the dispute between the Company and the Post-office is finally settled. LITERAT URE. METRICAL CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND. • TV. Smith, London, 1842. The design of this work is remarkable for its inge nuity, and the execution is worthy of the conception. It is a history of England, commencing with the Con quest, and terminating with the death of George the Fourth, and is written in verse, for reasons which the author has satisfactorily explained in a modest and judicious preface. "No fact in the world," says he, "is better known than that metre, or rhythmical con struction, is that form of language which is the best beloved of memory in its dawn, and the latest which attends it on its journey to decline. It is the earliest shoot, and often of the longest duration ; and there is scarcely any intellect so ungenial, but will offer some 1 corner to the hardy vegetation of song. Take, for ex ample, the bulk of that which the memory has retained of school-day associations, and verse will be the ally whose intimacy has encountered the least in terruption. Like bearded grass, it has crept up the sleeve of the fancy whence no power can dislodge it. It has attained • its place with but little 'solicita tion, and holds it with obstinacy." This is forcibly and eloquently urged, and forms an ample justifica tion of the present experiment. hundreds will pe ruse Mr. inayxnond's metrical Chronicles with avidity, who would have turned from them with indifference, had they been written in dry, tame, matter-of-fact prose. We do not, however, recommend them simply because they are metrical—for metre is as often as not associated with dullness ; but because the versi fication is of an easy, flowing, and familiar character, the imagery judiciously sparing, but always appro priate, and the sentiments such as become an English gentleman and scholar, who knows how to interpret history in a right spirit. The author had many op portunities of digressing, and indulging in the use of such luxuriant metaphors as his fancy, which is any thing but sterile, might suggest; but he has had the rare good sense to resist all such temptations ; and nothing is more creditable to him than the simple, straightfor ward manner in which he progresses with his task, and the tact with which he everywhere adapts his de scriptions to his theme. Now and then he sounds a loftier note than usual, hut his tone is always in har mony with the character of the event he narrates. We might have wished, perhaps, that he had devoted a little more space to the circumstances of Henry the Eighth's marriage with Anne Boleyn, for this is one of the leading epochs in our history, and contributed, more than aught else, to precipitate the great crisis of the Reformation, which certain Oxford wiseacres hare now, for the first time, dis covered to have been, not a blessing but a curse ! Mr. Raymond might here have digressed a little with propriety ; but he seems to have resolved on avoiding everything that might have the effect of checking, even for a moment, the running stream of his narra tive. The notes interspersed throughout his wort: are copious, but not too much so, for they are inva riably pertinent, and serve agreeably to relieve and illustrate the text. Much curious and diligent re search is evident throughout them ; and among other singular extracts, with which the author's reading has supplied us, is a description, in Latin, by Erasmus, of the exceeding fondness of the English ladies for kissing gentlemen, which for the benefit of the un learned we thus freely translate :—" They kiss you," says he, with a fervour and emphasis worthy of the occasion—" they kiss you on your arrival, and they kiss you on your departure. They greet you with a kiss, and they dismiss you with a kiss. In fact, you can't move a step without being kissed. All things are full of kisses.' Alas ! our modern English ladies are sadly changed for the worse in this respect. There is no such exuberant kissing now a-days—none of that show of unsophisticated tenderness of nature which so delighted Monstrelet, and which old Cavendish has dwelt on with such minuteness in his quaint " Life of Wolsey." If a gentleman now venture to plead prescriptive right in justification of his kissing a lady, he must pay for it forthwith, as was the case with an enamoured swain the other day, who was fined five shillings for the assault, and looked on as a perfect heretic in point of propriety ! Mr. Raymond concludes his Chronicles with some remarks in verse, which show much justness and force of reasoning, clothed in graceful and truly poetic language. POEMS: BELMOUR HOUSE, A PLAY. Simpkin, London, 1842. The author of this volume of poems assures us that he has published it " in compliance with the repeated solicitations of his friends," and adds, that he " aspires not to public fame" in consequence of the composition, which is exceedingly modest, considering that not a few of the poems are marked by such decided originality as might become even the Muse of Wakley. That there are occasional defects in them, is true, but what human production is perfect ? There are spots even in the sun, why then should there not be blemishes in the delectable little volume before us ? But not only is the author a poet of " mark and likelihood," he is also a dramatist, as is abundantly proved by his "Belmour House, a Play," the chief person ages of which are a bookseller and his , son Charles, the latter of whom is, it seems, a traveller for the paternal firm, and is represented as being endowed with all those chivalrous and romantic qualities for which the bibliopolical fraternity have ever been re markable. This high-minded young man, while - jour neying outside the stage-coach from Bristol, with his order-book in his pocket, is fortunate enough to meet with Miss Matilda Belmour—a lovely and susceptible who is also travelling outside with her father. The parties happening to like each other, they very soon fall into familiar conversation, and the result is that Charles receives an invitation to old Belmour's house, which he gladly accepts; and, when asked 'what is the nature of his trade or profession, replies in a fine strain of eloquence, that he is " a dispenser of knowledge— in a word, a bookseller," one of those " presiding ge niuses who sit at the well-head of knowledge, and send forth its living streams to the very ends of the earth !" On receiving this information, Mr. Belmour luckily remembers that he is having " a large winged book case made," and adds, in the true spirit of disinte rested friendship, " As Mr. Booker is a bookseller, I shall certainly em ploy our friend, Mr. Charles, to furnish it according to his own taste and judgment." To this aft'ectionate proposal; Charles, with a shrewd eye to business, makes answer, " Sir, I shall be most happy to do so, and on the most reasonable terms." While the parties are thus sociably conversing, a man servant enters with the pleasing intelligence that, " dinner is on the table," whereupon old Belmour, who is evidently a wag, replies with irresistible drol lery, " I am very happy to hear it !" We direct our readers' particular attention to the exquisite felicity of this unstudied repartee. Can anything be more jo cose—anything more appropriate to time, place, and circumstance? We regret, however, to be obliged to state that the sally makes not the slightest impressin on the midriff of the youthful Charles, for he gravely refuses his friend's offer to stay dinner, who accord ingly launches the following brilliant sarcasm against him : " I thought you were too old a stager not to take care of the belly-timber !" But though the youthful bookseller refuses to make a longer stay at Belmour's house, he has no idea of dropping his acquaintance, for it happens that during his few hours' visit he has fallen in love with Matilda Belmour, who—we have great pleasure in assuring our readers—reciprocates the affection. But, alas, the " course of true love never did run smooth," and this attached couple are rendered seriously uneasy by the exceedingly rude conduct of one Chip, a cabinet maker, who, it appears, is a discarded suitor of the young lady. It will scarcely be credited that the in stant this monster in human form learns that Charles is his rival, he resolves on pitching into him; which, coming to the ears of the enamoured bibliopole, he ex claims in a transport of chivalrous wrath, " My ho nour is at stake !" and forthwith seeks Chip, with a pistol in each hand, loaded no doubt to the muzzle, and for the bloodiest purposes ! When the half frenzied cabinet-maker gets sight of these ugly wea pons, his courage gradually oozes out at his fingers' ends, and he faulters out, " I now look upon you, Sir, as an honourable man and a gentleman, being thoroughly convinced that you had no intention of rivalling me in the affections of the amiable young lady who has been the innocent cause of our hostile meeting." Now this was true magnanimity on the part of Chip, though we fear that the sceptical reader will 1w apt to attribute it to the sight of the pistol, which, it is well known, possesses extraordinary logical powers, and has often brought conviction home to the minds even of the most prejudiced. When the news of the intended duel reaches the ears of old Belmour, he is so enraptured with Charles's boiling courage, that he cracks several bright jokes, and among others the following : " My dear boy, why did you not name the duel to me at the time, and I would have chopped the impertinent Chip into a bunch of Lucifer matches. Turn round, my boy, and let me, see if your limbs are whole, you courageous dog, you !" The upshot of the affair is, that Charles and Matilda, after indulging in divers billings and cooings, are each made happy with the other's hand ; and the author winds up his play by invoking a blessing on their heads, to which, as their sincere well-wishers, we cordially respond Amen ! Such are the leading incidents of this transcendant drama, which, ad mirable as it is, is surpassed, if possible, by the poems of the same author. Here, for instance, is one entitled "Farewell to the Village," which is replete with touches of the tenderest pathos : Farewell to the village, the scene of my birth The loveliest of spots I e'er trod upon earth. When thy beauties I think on, my bosom cloth swell, Ah, scenes of my youth, fare ye well, fare ye we ll. "There's the old village church, with ivy grown o'er, With its steeple, which seems to heaven to soar, The church yard, where friends and companions are laid, , t of stern nature each one having paid." • We. pause here to express our admiration of th truly benevolent feeling that suggested the last line- The author, it will be seen, takes special care to N.; sure us that the " friends and companions," to whom he alludes, were not buried till they had each Ifeid the " debt of nature," fearing that otherwise we migh he apprehensive that they were buried alive, and our sensibility thereby receive a grievous shock. After enumerating . a few more particulars respecii.n3 the " Village," the poet proceeds as follows : " But the girl I adore, I am leaving behind, She's my heart's own desire, so loving and kind, Ah, who, when I'm gone, her sorrows can cheer ? Oh, my heart it will break, to part from my dear ! " Farewell village streams, willows weepin,,, ,, arlund, Ye sweet blooming vallies with foliage crowlVd. Farewell thy old church, and farewell to thy people, Farewell to thy clerk, and farewell to thy steeple." We have here a complete inventory of affectionate recollections. How touching is the allusion to tht parish clerk; and what a world of sentiment is con veyed in the adieu to the steeple ! The clerk, the steeple,• and the weeping willows, indeed, seem to share the writer's affections equally with the girl is his " heart's own desire"—a proof how singularly comprehensive is the range of a poet's sympathies ! We close our hasty notice with the observation that the present volume abounds in passages worthy even of the seraphic genius of a Middlesex CoroLsr. HALL ON THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. Whittaker, London, 1842. The thoughtful reader will find much matter for reflection and speculation in this instructive volume, especially in the chapter on the " Unity of our. Species," in which the conne:Zion between mind and matter is argued with force and subtlety. In refer ence to the effects produced by excessive joy on the body, the author observes :—" Joy at times so powerfully exhausts the brain and nervous energy es to produce death. The classical reader at once remembers the unhappy fate of poor old Sophocles, who died with delight on being crowned for conmiosing a successful tragedy in his old age ; and also the sto ries of the Roman ladies, who expired on seeing their sons return from the battles of Thrasymene and Cannae. But to examine facts nearer home. Dr. Mead says that during the never-to-be-forgotten year of the South Sea Bubble, more individuals went mad when they had acquired large fortunes, than other: who were ruined by that system of fraud." The volume is dedicated, by permission, to Earl Spencer. ABBOTSFORD EDITION of the WAVERLEY NOVELS. Part I. Cadell: Edinburgh, 1842. When this work is completed, it will be by many degrees the most satisfactory and elegant edition of Sir Walter Scott's Tales that has yet appeared. The embellishments will be in number about two thou sand, and will represent the real localities of the great novelist's scenes, which have already been diligently explored for the purpose by Clarkson Stanfield, to gether with the pictorial and antiquarian Museum at Abbotsford. In the present Part there are nct less than twenty-four choice engravings, among the most interesting of which are the views of the park and library at Waverley Honor, of the well-known Eildon Hills; and of the old-fashioned desk wherein the long-missing MSS. of Waverley was found. But, perhaps, the engraving that will most interest the reader is the sketch of Sir Walter Scott's easy chair ; we see his thick-soled shoes lying beside it, his every day coat flung carelessly over it, Ills staff leaning against it ; but where is the man himself? The sight of these familiar objects will scarcely fail to call forth strong feelings of emotion in the mind of the specta tor. The engraving is, indeed, one that abounds in deep pathos. The Part is got up in every respect with remarkable skill and attention to details. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Aran, 'St.—The Malabar, 72, Captain Sir George Sartorius, is hourly expected from Gibraltar, where she has been relieved by the Formidable, 84, Captain Sir Chas. Sullivan, Bart. The greater part of her crew will be drartecl into the America, M), which is to be commissioned forthwith et Plymouth. The Malabar, it is said, is to be converted into a troop-ship. Large drafts of seamen volunteers are daily brought to this port, and lodged on board the guard ships St. Vincent and - Victory, for general service. Orders have also been received to obtain serviceable landsmen. Accounts have betn received here, reputing the accivals at Malta, on the let April, of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Owen, K.C. 8., in her Majesty's ship Queen, 110, last from Gibral tar, and of his having assumed the chief command a the fleet in the Mediterranean, vice Hear-Admiral Sir Ftancis Mason. The steam-vessel Kite, Lieut. Gooch, wan to leave Ply mouth on Sunday, for Sierra Leone and Ascension, tilting su pernumeraries fir the squadron on the west coast of Attica, and dispatches for the senior officer. The remainder of the crews of the Niger Expedition. it is expected, will come home in the Pluto steamer, now at Ascension. The 13enbow, 72, Capt. Stewart; Daphne, 20, Capt. Mil ling ; and Wasp, 16, Commander Murray, are on their way to :pithead, from the Mediterranean. Their progress is retardvd by the ea , terly winds ; and the Scylla, 16. Commander Sharps, has been ili , pateheol to the Chops of the Channel with supplies of provision, and water. _ _ The WePesky, 72, Capt. Maitland, by ]otters of the 15th January, may be looked fur in England next July, to be raid off. The Larne corvette, Capt. Blake, was to leave the Eat. Indies immediately for Spithead, by way of :Madras and Trin comalee. The Wizard, It?, Lieut. Somerville. has been ordered to he paid off at Plymouth, where she has arrived from Simon's Day,'' Cape of Good llove having left on the Ist February. It is said that Captain the Hon. Dike I3yng, appointed Com modore at .Jamaica, vice Douglas, will proceed thither in the linaum, which is to be fitted f,,r the purpose of lying there as a receiving ship. The ships at Plymouth, named Agincourt, 72, Capt. Bruce, and troop ships lle,istanee and Crocodile, are ordered to be com pleted for sea sNith all possible dispatch, and extra hands are at work upon them fir that purpose. At Spithead—No vessel of war. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Royal Gcorgr, yacht, Winchester, Nautilus, Speedy, Silvia, Echo, Vula-au, and tenders.—Brighton Gazette. A WEVULTY PETITION.—TIIO memorial to the Queen from the ladies of Liverpool, Manchester, and the sur t °nutting districts, for a total repeal of the Corn-laws, has bees sent to London for presentation to her Majesty at the next levee. It bears the signatures of 59.000 Manchester ladies, 63,000 Liverpool, 21,600 Salford, 17,000 Huddersfield, 16,000 Leicester; other large towns have contributed to well the petition, respecting which our Manchester correspo/rent says : —This remarkable document contains 275,575 signatures; weighs 96Ibs. ; and its carriage per railway costs 16s. Sum, idea may be formed of it. bulk when it is stated that it foams a coil of nearly thi ee feet in diameter. Sheffield Iris. Last night the family of Mr. Stahlschmidt, the ex tensive coal-merchant, of the Belridele-whirl, Belvidere-rond, Lambeth, were thrown into the deepest grief and excitement. in consequence of the following painful occurrence :—lt ap pear. that Mr. Stahlschmidt left home yesterday morning at an early hour, and was driven by his coachman (in his carriage) to the City, where he remained and transacted some busines,, having previausly sent his carriage home. Towards the even ing he hired a cab, which was proceedirg homeward with him through the le'otough, when a friend of his (Mr. Pegg, an other coal-merchant) observed him, as he passed, suddenly stagger and fell back on his scat. He instantly called to tit.., driver, who stopped the cab, and assisted to carry him into the surgery of Mr. Galloway, where he was placed en a chair, and almost directly expired. A. few days since the body of a female, about 28 years of age, which had been a considerable time in the water, was found at Horselyddwn. It was supposed to be the body of a person who was drowned seven months ago, but this did not turn out to be the case, and it has not yet been owned. Her linen was marked " 1840, K. A., No. 5." She was about 5 feet high, and wore a black spotted dress, and a white ! striped petticoat.. Only the arms of her gown are left. Sli,, had a black net silk glove on her left hand, and one black worsted stocking, but no shoes. The hair of the head is en tirely gone, and part of the skin also. The chin is also gone. 'the inquest on her remains stands adjourned till the 3d of May. PF.DusTarAN FEAT.—On Monday a wager of .50 • sovereigns, between Lieutenant Peel (nephew of the Premier). of the 60th Rifle depot, stationed at the Pigeon House Fort, and Major Wynyard of the 58th Regiment, in which the for mer undertook to perform the arduous task of walking 15 miles in three hours, was decided. The ground was in the Park, from Castleknock-gate to the Phoenix, one mile. A very con siderable number, principally of fashionable spectators, was as sembled on the occasion. Mr. Peel won the wager, perform ing his work easily, II minutes within the given time. Freeman's Jaurnal. We hear that one of the privates of the Scots Greys, now stationed at Exeter, received one hundred lashes on Satur day morning, for repeatedly pilfering the rations of his com rades,—Devonshire Chronicle. FRENcu TAXES.—The illoniteur publishes the fol lowing table of the receipts of indirect taxes for the first quarter of the present year, as corapared with the corresponding quarter of the year 1841. There is an increase on the quarter ei 13,088,000 francs 1842. 1841. Francs. Francs. Registration dues, &c........... Stamps Customs, Navigation, &e French Colonial Sugars . 7,773,000 5,4 0 7,0 00 Foreign Sugars 1,408,000 2,243,00 ° Indigenous Sugars Salt Dues (Extraction ) Salt Dues (Consumption) 2, 324 00 0 1,830,00 Potable Liquors 21,114,000 21,202,000 Public carriages and other Indirect Taxes... . 7,684,000 7,104,0r.0 Tobacco Sales Gunpowder Sales m oney. 11,027.001) 10,947,000 Letters and duty on sending For Passengers by the Manes Postes 521,000 497,000 Mails and Packets ................. 164,000 172.00 u Total 176,550,000 163,462,800 MELANCHOLY DEATH. — Yesterday the proceedings of an adjourned inquest were resumed before Mr. W. Carter, at the White Cross Inn, Richmond, Surrey, respecting death of Mr. Francis Dagtield, who was drowned on Good Friday last, immediately opposite Strawberry-hill. The !jut witness examined was a waterman, who stated that on /est. Wednesday week he was sculling up the river, when he saw the body of deceased lying partly exposed on the shore sl. Richmond. He immediately conveyed it ashore, but it - wa in a dreadful state of decomposition. A Mr. Smith de posed, that on Good Friday he and the deceased hirod a boat. at Richmond, torow up to Strawberry-hill. As far as that the witness sculled tip, but when they had got to the onro residence of Horace Walpole, the deceased expressed a wish to row, and he (witness) rose up to give him the seat. The boat was turned round one of the aits, and at this instant we of the Maidenhead barges was seen close ahead, being towed by two horses. The men on board called out to the deceased to keep out of the way, in order to avoid the towing-rope., but he was so unskilful that he ran the wherry right athwart it, and it was upset. The deceased almost instantly sank, anti was never seen alive afterwards. He (Mr. Smith) with great difficulty and exertion got hold of the toning-line, and was at last pulled aboard the barge. In • his opinion the bargemen were not at all to blame, and after the boat was upset they seemed to render all the assistance which was in their power. The drags were used for some time, but the body ecnild not be found. The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." r• ;ley's the 1a. 14 DC' rer tooi itbsl tb 6 ,e 0 lac' I 1(1' 7 r frel i ~t . 6- of