The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-16 00:00:00

CHARTIST MEETING. A crowded meeting, convened by the Chartists, was was held on Monday, pursuant to public notice, at the Vestry-rooms, Gordon-square, St. Pancras, for the purpose, as stated in the blls, "of adopting measures to make the Charter become the law of the !anti, and of praying her Majesty to dismiss from her Council her present advisers." Though the meeting was called for seven o'clock, the busi ness did not commence until eight o'clock, at which hour the chair was taken by Mr. Farrar. The CHAIRMAN commenced by stating, that though he was a strict Chartist, he desired that every one who might wish to address the meeting would be allowed to do so ; he highly de precated the conduct pursued by some Gentlemen who called meetings for the avowed object of eliciting public opinion. but would not allow any one to speak but their own agents, thus making public meetings, as the Duke of Wellington had expressed it, a public farce. He believed this meeting had been called for the purpose of effecting a union between the middle and working classes; whilst people ap peared to be striving far a union, he was sorry to see them quibbling about straws —adopting various names, but always shirking the question of the Charter. Thus it might be seen from the papers, that a meeting of the Radical Club, at which Mr. Hume presided, had been lately held at Radley s /lox', whet e the object was to give everything in the Charter but Annual Parliaments.—(" Oh.") He was the more H i sur prised at this, when he remembered that Mr. Hume, when n Parliament, had adopted the principles of the Charter. Mr. Sturge, of Birmingham, also had been talking about his " com plete suffrage," and had called meetings o n the matter ; but if Mr. Sturg - e were to propose such a thing in London, he (the Chairman) should rise and propose an amendment.— ( Hear. )----He should recommend the Chartists to combine with no party who were not prepare d to combine with them en one principle, and that, the Charter. He thought they shoeld agitate now for all the pints of the Charter, and then let agitation cease, and for ever.—( Hear, hear.) After a few more remarks, the Chairman concluded by calling on Mr. Pelling to move the National Petition. Mr. PELLING regretted that the duty which devolved upon him had not upon into other hands. He then read the National Petition at length, and bilefly proposed ;t for the adoption of the meeting. 31r. MEAD, of Birmingham, said he heartily seconded the proposition. As a true Britih sailor he always felt happy when fighting in the cause of liberty, that cause for which, when a young man, he also fought, but in &different way—( Chew s. ) He had now advocated the cause of Chartism for two years, at much expense to his pocket, and at some personal danger ; but he had nailed his colours to the mast-head of the old Britannia, and he would stick to them yet.—(:dear, hear.) They had had Lord John Russell's nostrum, and he had proved himself a perfect quack.—(Loud cheering.) Now they had Bobby Peel's plan, and they were goirig to have a property tax, and ?many people thought that it. would be a great thing ; and so it would, but it would come out of the people's pocket after all, because if they taxed the property of the middle men they would immediately lower the wages of their workmen.—( Hear, hear.) The measure, however, was better than they expected from such a man as Peel; but the fact was he had felt the pressure from without ; the Chartists were, as the renegade Dispatch had lately discovered, a powerful body, and Peel felt it too.—( Hear, hear). He ( Mr. Mead) contended for equal rights, equal taxation, and equal representation ; but they •would never get that till the Charter became the law of the land ; they had an indubitable right to this ; it had been given to them by their forefathers, and, by the Heaven above, they had moral strength enough to,regain it.—(Cheers.) Then as to the State Church, lock at what it was; why, Lord Chatlam, fifty years ago, said that it was a mockery, composed of a Popish Liturgy, an Armenian clergy, and Calvanistic articles. When compared with the disciples of our meek Re deemer, what a farce was the conduct of the ministers of our Church. They were to be found in the gambling hells, the race-course, the hunting-ground, and every where, in fact, but where they ought to be—the paths of virtue and humility.— (Cheers.) Was it a wonder, tnen, that the Charter demanded the abolilition of a State Church? He believed that a State Church was the source of all moral, social, and political evils. —(Hear, hear.) He rejoiced to say, however, that there were some goon` men in the Church ; and whilst there were such men amongst them as the Rev. Dr. Wade, the Rev. W. Spencer, and the Rev. Mr. Price, he could not condemn them all.—(Cheers.) He next came to the matter of class legis lation, and he would say roost unhesitatingly that to class legislation were owing the evils of the State Church which he had endeavoured to depict.—( Hear.) If they wanted to carry the Charter they must shut up their pockets, and use as few exeiseable articles as possible; let them do as the men of Birmingham did at the time of the Reform Bill, who had large placards printed, and stuck them in their windows, intimating that they would pay no tax till the Reform Bill was passed.—( Hear.) Property qualification was the Ireatest curse this country ever had. In one case the bricks and mortar voted for the return of Members of Parliament, and in the other case a barber's block, with plenty of yellow dirt in his rocket, became their representatives, whilst honest poor men could not vote, and talented poor men could not speak to uphold the rights of the people.—( Hear, hear.) Time. however, was precious ; their time was precious ; and he wonld call upon the numerous assembly to co-operate in obtaining the Charter for the law of the land. Now was the time, and he would remind them, as Shakspeare said, that " There is a tide In the affairs of man, which, taken at the full, Leads on to greatness." Let them go on then, no.v, for now was the time in this great moral warfare; and with Macbeth he would say to them, " Lay on Maeda, And damned be he that first cries Hold, enough !" Mr. Mead resumed his seat amidst loud applause. Dr. WADE next rose to speak to the resolution. He was an old Reformer, and Mr. Mead might recollect that some years ago be agitated for the Reform Bill in Birmingham, and the reason he liked the Charter was, because the points for which lie strove then, piecemeal and in detail, the Charter now con tained whole and entire.—( Hear.) He had since then been to Scotland, where he had the honour of being deputed by the working classes of London. He was the firstwho introduced the Charter into Scotland. It was there he made the acquaint ance of their excellent friends Messrs. Sankey and Thomas ildurphy. He was the first to stir up the bold Scotch, and to invite the blue bonnets to come over the border.—(Cheers.) Re had also gone to the Queen to petition for the restoration of Frost. Williams, and Jones, and there manfully, but inef fectua ly, had he argued their cause. His desire was to see the people happy, and it was that which had induced him to do what he had done in their service. The same principles actuated him now which actuated him then, and to obtain, the people's happiness he believed the Charter was the best—the only ob ject.—( Hear, hear.) He thought working men should be nominated as candidates for Members of Parliament, and re fc. Trod the meeting to Norway, where the affairs of the Stare were co nducted by working men, and where the affairs and accounts we re brought out in the clearest and most accurate manner. Tb e Reverend Doctor then proceeded to comment at some lee gth upon the articles of belief contained in the Charter, and con eluded by expressing his hearty concurrence with every thing contained in the six points. He had heard there was to be a. Conference at Birmingham, for the purpose of considering the union between the middle and working classes ; if he shy mld have the honour of being deputed to go there by any of the London Associations, he should stand up for the Charter whole and entire.—(Loud cheers.) The petition was then put from the Chair, and carried una nimously, amidst loud cheers. Mr. Nicitotsos, in a speech of some duration, which want of space wholly precludes us from inserting, moved a resolu tion, decl wing class-legislation to be the root of all evils, social, moral, and political, and that the meeting, being of opinion that a great evil required a great remedy, was determined to adopt the People's Charter, Dr. M'DoWALL rose with great pleasure to second this re. solution. He cautioned the Chartists to beware of the pro fessions of the middle-class men ; whatever might be their pro fesaions, he did not believe that they were actuated by any desire to benefit the great portion of mankind. They never - Troubled their heads about politics till politics interfered with them ; r.nri then they began to think about some reformation, ...Their interests were now interfered with, and they sought for tome change, but he would warn the labouring-classes not to trt tst to their sincerity, for so soon as t!heyobtained their object, which might be the abolition of the Corn and Provision-laws, per bap s, they would forget their professions and lea v e th e woAting-mfn •to •fight their battle alone.—(Cheers.) With rest trd to the income tax proposed by Sir R. Peel, he would assure the working men that they would ultimately have to pay it—it would all come out of their pockets. He cared not where j they put the tax, whe her they put it on champagne, which the -wo - Aing men never saw, or upon port wine, which they newer drank ; it was the same in the end, the labouring-class paid for it all.—( Hear, hear.) The repeal of the Corn-laws would be of no service to the people. Such a con cession might have suited them very well some fifty or sixty years ago, but now they were much in advance of such a iminciple as that ; now that they were sticking at the tree of currn pnon, what was the good of one saying, Strike here, and another saying, No, strike here, a yard higher. He would strike at "the root at once, and bring down the whole at one fell swoop.—( Hear, hear.) The Doctor then briefly adverted to the grievances of the Irish people, and having gone over the various parts of the National Petition, he concluded, amidst great cheering, by expressing his hearty and entire concurrence in the resolution which he had had the honour of seconding. Several other speeches were delivered by persona present, and a memorial was agreed on to her Alajesty, respectfully praying her to dismiss from her Council her present advisers. Votes of thanks were passed to the Chairman and the gentle men who had addressed them in the course of the evening. The meeting, which had been throughout conducted with the greatest propriety, separated at a very late hour. THE CASE OF flits. LUCAS, WHOSE HUSBAND KILLED HIS CHILDREN AND HENISELF.—The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress have determined to exert themseives to procure from the compassionate public the means of making some provision for the unfortunate creature who has been left. alone and destitute in the world, by the frightful catastrophe which took place on Sunday morning in Aldermanbury. His Lordship stated yesterday in the parlour of the Mansion house, that he was convinced the feeling caused by the every) was of such a nature, that it was only necessary for him to al- Jude to the necessities of the afflicted widow, to induce the bene 'Talent to come forward to her assistance. He and the Lady _Mayoress had made the most searching inquiries into the cha racters of the widow and her la e husband, and they learned loom every source to which they had applied, that the conduct of both hail always been unexceptionable, and that the brain of the poor wretched man must have been affected by the horror he felt at the approach of want and its con comitant miseries and degradation, as regarded his family. The almost distracted widow presented, at the moment his Lordship was speaking. according to the statement of his Lord ship's own medical man, who had been directed to attend her, one of the most deplorable objects in the world. The Lady Mayoress had been with her to administer whatever the poor creature was capable of receiving as corsolation in her pitiable condition, and some benevolent persons had joined in the inte rest felt for her, and had expressed themselves warmly in fa- Tour of a subscription for her relief. It was, his Lordship re marked, evident, from the hardness of the hands of the un happy sufferer, who was a person of very delicate frame and ";:calth, that she had never been idle while her husband was em ployed or seeking for employment ; and it was well known in the neighbourhood in which they resided, that the father and mother went, alternate Sunday, to church with the three children, who were always remarkable for the neatness of their appearance) Taking the case in all its circumstances, his :Lordship considered it to be one which had peculiar claims upon whose who had a " a tear for Tity," and he should, therefore, $, el the highest gratification in receiving contributions for the benefit of the helpless survivor. The American ship Solon, which arrived at this port on Tuesday last, brought the whole of )Messrs. Titus. Sands, and Co.'s equestrian stud and company, consisting of thirty-two horses. We understand that they hare taken the Amphitheatre, which place it is intended to openperformances , for th e dis iplay of equestrian performances , about the 2 0th oth inst. Amongst tthe artistes, is the great and unrivalled American rider, Mr. ',North, who has been creating wonders on the other side of the Atlantic. —Liverpool Chronicle. The railway cuttings are ,proceeding fast both east and west of Ashford, and extensive preparations are being Jnade for carrying on the works with all possible speed. A great many men are at present in employ, which number is to be considerably augmented as the spring advances.— Canter bury Journal. The forthcoming new opera of The Students of :Moss, we are authorised to say, is not, as has been stated, a " m nsietien, hut is entirely original—Mr. G. H. Rodwell, the 41 * l:44 V°"r* being the author of both words and MU; . DESTRUCTION OF THE OXFORD POST-OFFICE, BY FIRE. 13.—A r, OXFORD, MARCH fire broke out a little after seven ( FROM A CORRESTONDENT.) o'clock, A. m. (Sunday), which destroyed three or four houses, and seriously damaged two others. The Post-office and house occupied by Mr. John Parsons, tailor, &c., Messrs. Foster and Co., linen drapers , Mr. Marshall, music -sell er , High street, Oxford, are reduced to ashes. The Masonic Hall, Alfred-street, suffered materially , from fire and water ; the top floor at the north end of the Hall was burnt, and at one time it was feared that it would share the fate of the aforementioned buildings. Fortunately at the time the fire broke out, the wind was still, for there was a scarcity of water, although we are flooded for miles round Oxford at this moment. To make up for this deficiency, the pumps in the High-street were put in requisition, and so we had a good supply of spring water. The gownsmen and townsmen worked like slaves at the engines. The Postmaster has issued the following hand-bill The Post-office having been destroyed by fire, arrange ments have been made to conduct the Post-office business at the Town-hall, where a box will be open for the reception of letters, this evening; and it is intended to despatch the Lon don mail as usual. 'I he whole of the letters in the office have beer, preserved, and will be despatched and delivered in due course. "JOSEPH WARNE, Postmaster. " Sunday, March 13." The service at All Saint's Church was suspended this day, for various parishioners had availed themselves of the Church for the protection of their property. (FRO3I ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.) OXFORD, SUNDAY EVENING, MARCH I:S.—This morn ing, about seven o'clock, an alarming fire broke out on the pre mises of Mr. Parsons, man mercer, adjoining the Post-office in the High-street, Oxford. The flames immediately commu nicated to the Post-office on the east side, and that of Mr. Chas. Foster, jun., draper and haberdasher, on the west. It was a considerable time before a sufficient supply of water could be.obtained to work the engines, so that the flames got the com plete mastery, and those three houses were very soon entirely Oestro) , ed. The flames next caught the roof of Mr. Marshall's house, which has been considerably injured. Property to the amount of at least. 7,0001. must have been lost or destroyed. The fire is supposed to have originated in a flue which commu cated with a beam, and thus remained in a smouldering state all night. The houses are insured in the County Fire Office. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING-, MARCH 16, 1842 FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. Sabbati, 12 die Alartii 1842 Whereas, at the last election for the county of the town of Southampton, James Bruce, Esq., commonly called Lord Bruce, was returned a Member to serve in P ar li ament f or t h e sa id t own ; and whereas a petition. complaining of an undue election and re turn for the said town, has been presented to the Ih,use of Commons; and whereas the House of Commons did, on the 11th istst., resolve, that the seat of the said Lord Bruce fur the said county of the town of Southampton had by law become vacant, he being now the Earl of Elgin, a Peer of the United Kingdom; now I do hereby give) this: notice thereof, in pur suance of the provisions of an Act, passed in the fifth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to amend the law for the trial of controverted elections." Given under my hand this 12th day of March, 1842, CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE, Speaker. DUCHY OF CORNWALL, :MARCH 11, 1842. Sir William Moiesworth, of Pencarrow, Bart., has been this day appointed to be Sheriff of the county of Cornwall for the year ensuing. WHITEHALL, MARCH 5. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Sayers Turner, of Col chester, in the county of Essex, Gent., to be a Master Extra ordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The following places have b en duly registered for solemniz ing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act 6th and ith Wil liam IV., chap. 85 : St. Stephen's Church, Rochdale, Lancashire. St. Mary's Church, Stowhill, Monmouthshire. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JOHN HETHERI;G AN TO K N Rp , ; holesaleteamerchar.t, King's Arms-yard, City. TS. CHARLES PAGE, coach tyre smith, Nottingham-mews, Marylebone, to surrender March 18, at two, and April 26. at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assig nee ; Kell, Bedford-row. STEPHEN PEAKE, Luilder, Ramsgate, March 24, at seven, and April 26, at nine, at the Albion Hotel, Ramsgate. Smith, Barnard's Inn, London. JOHN JONES, cordwainer, Liverpool, March 24, and April 26, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Corn thwaite, Dean's-court, Doctors'-commons, London ; Corn th viaite, Cable •street, Liverpool. JOSEPH PAGE, Jun., porter merchant, Gloucester, March 28 and April 26, at twelve, at the Office of C. Small ride, Gloucester- Jones and Blaaland, Crosby-square, Lon don ; Smallridge, Gloucester. THOMAS MORRIS, grocer, Newbridge, Glamorganshire, March 26, and April 26, at two, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. Whiteand Eyre, Bedford-row, London ; Short, Bristol. JOHN ALEXANDER, brewer, Pendleton. Lancashire, March 29 and April 26, at eleven, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Har court-buildings, Temple, London ; Slater and Heelis, Man chester. PETER BOULD, cotton-spinner, Ovenden, Yorkshire, March 29, at one, and April 26, at tv, elve, at the White Lion Inn, Halifax. Emmet and Allen, Bloomsbury-square, London ; Alexander, Halifax ; Stocks and Macaulay, Halifax. JOHN PARUERY, soldier, Northampton, March 21, and April 26, at two, at the Stag's Head Inn, Northampton. Hall, Northampton ; Weller, King's-row, Bedford .road, London. JOHN DA VINSON BEDFORD, brewer, Burton-upon- Trent, Staffordshire, March 30 and April 26, at twelve, at the George Hotel, Burton-upon-Trent. Richardson, Burton upon-Trent ; Hicks and Braikenridge, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn, London. JOHN FRANKLAND and THOMAS FRANKLAND, merchants, Liverpool, March 29, and April 26, at three, at tha Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Makinson and Sanders, Elm-court, Middle Temple, London ; Atkinson and Saunders, Manchester. THOMAS FINCH COZENS, builder, Canterbury, March 24, at twelve, and April '26, at one, at the Guildhall, Canter bury. Plummer, and R. and G. Furley, Canterbury; Butter field and France, Gray's Inn-square, London. WILLIAM LLOYD, wine merchant, Liverpool, March 29, and June 26, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Whitley, Liverpool ; Lowe, Garey, and Sweething, Southampton-build ings, Chancery-lane, London. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. J. Wheeler, tailor, Princes-street, Hanover-square, April 5, at one—J. Buckle, tea dealer, Kensington, April 7, at twelve —T. Brown, plumber, Bell-yard, Lincoln's Inn, April 8, at half-past ten—F. Lock, wine merchant, Three-crown-court, Jewry-street, Aldgate, April 7, at twelve—J. Coulsell, builder, Richmond, April 6, at twelve—J. H. Cassell, naptha seller, Mill-wall, Poplar, April 6, at one. In the Country. . . T. E. Jones, leather seller, Birmingham, April 5, at one, at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham—J. Butler, saddlers' iron monger, Walsall, Staffordshire, April 13, at twelve, at the Ewan Inn, Wolverhampton—T. Wiggerham and R. Saunders, ale merchants, Birmingham, April 13, at half-past twelve, at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham—E. Raine, carpet manu facturer, Barnard Castle, Durham, April 14, at twelve, at the King's Head Inn, Barnard Castle—R. Peart, rope maker, Newark-upon-Trent, April 7, at two, at the Castle and Falcon Inn, Newark-upon-Trent—J. Cotton awl T. B. Oliver, hosiers, Nottingham, April 4, at one, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham—E. Knight, cabinet maker, Southampton, April 7, at one, at the Star Hotel, Southampton—F. Perks, Sun., hatter, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, Aped 16, at twelve, at the Vine Inn, Stourbridge—H. Caulier, nurseryman, Bath, April 2S, at one, at the Castle and Ball, Bath—W. I. Law, chemist, Manchester, April 5, at ten, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester—N. Fraley and J. E. Merchant, linen drapers, Bristol, April 6, at one, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. LLOYD'S OHIPPIN G. LONDON, MARCH 14.—Wind this day at noon S. RAMSGATE, MARCH 11 —Arrd. Eglantine, Newcastle, for Rouen, with loss of sails, bulwarks, stanchions, cargo shifted, &c. ; Evenwood, Seaham, Constantinople, with loss of sails, bulwarks, and cargo shifted; Naiad, London for Malta, with loss of bowsprit and figure-head, having been in contact with a barque; Ashea, London for Rio. The Henritte, from Amster dam, for Leghorn, has put in here leaky, and with loss of sails, and must discharge to repair. The Cwsar, from Ostend to Newport, got off the main, near Deal, and is rather leaky. DEAL, MARCH 12.—Wind S.W.-13. W.N. W. 6,3 A P.M. W. light.—Arrd. Fillungo, Leonard, China; York, Legg, and Jane Gifford, Mason, Calcutta ; Georgetown, Demerara ; Wm. Bayley, Begg, Berbiee; Mermaid, Ledgwick, Calcutta ; Arab and Paragon, Westward; Vistula, Northward. Put back, Trin dad, for Havannali, with loss of masts, sails, &c. and her bowsprit sprung. Arrived from the River, Wilmot, for Sydney ; Jean, Cape ; Crusader, Charleston , To. bago, New Zealand ; Pink China; Mary Catherine, Madras; Sarah Maria Ann, Algoa Bay ; Lotus, Barbadoes ; Lord John Russell, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Tapley and Caroline, westward. Sld. Amelia Mulholland, Abel Gower, John Hul lett, Lady Sarah Bayly, and several others. Put back, Shannon, for Bermuda. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 12.—Wind N.W. —l3. Wind, N.W. very fresh.—Arrd. Hindley, Mauritius ; Plymouth, Fuller, Mobile ; Josephine, Mattison, Charleston ; Pilgrim, Rawlins, Calcutta ; Lady Harvey, La Guayra ; Queen and Court ney, New Orleans ; Alabama, St. Joseph's ; Elizabeth Grammer, Charleston ; Ocean, Thomas, Sierra Leone ; with loss of sails. John M. Vicar, Calcutta Heroine, Valpa raiso ; Rosalie, Rio ; Emily, Pernambuco ; Henry, Winch, La Guayra ; J. G. Coster, New Orleans; Monongahela, Philadelphia. SOUTHAMPTON, MAncri 12.—Arrd. Montrose (steamer), Wilson, Gibraltar—left 3d inst., Cadiz 4th, Lisbon 7th, Oporto Bth, Vigo 9th. SR Tagus (steamer), Evans, Gibraltar. LoNnorr, MARCH 15.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. DEAL, MARCH 14.—Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Lowry, Valparasio. Arrivedfrom the River, Steadfast, for the Cape; Euphenia, Tobago; Columbine, Neves; James, Bermuda. Put back, the Lady Sarah, Bayley, for Jamaica. Arrived the Mary Mitcheson, Westward. RAMSGATE, MARCH 14.—Arrd. Sir Walter Scott, Shields, Bermuda, with boat stove, and other damage, having been in contact. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 14.—Wind S.—Arrd. Alecto, Ash ford, Jamaica—sailed 10th ult. Ski. Callao, Lima ; Rimac, Valparaiso ; Star, Monte Video; Rosendale, Bahia ; Zenobia, .Cape ; Retrieve and Queen of the Isle, Jamaica ; Rochell, Havannah ; Durango, Demerara ; Richard, St. Thomas ; Agnes, Nassau; British King, Edward Perkins ; J. E. Howell, Pennsylvania ; Mattakeeset, Genesse, J. G. Coster, and Isa bella, New Orleans ; Nicholas Biddle, Eli Whitney, Virginia, and European, New York; Portsmouth, Mobile; Eliza War wick, Boston; Manchester and Dash, Newfoundland; Pallas, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ; Clyde, St. John's, New Brunswick ; John Brooks, La Guayra. Ore THE WIGHT, MARCH 14 —Emeny, Osthaus, Port au-Prince; Paragon, Coleman, Calcutta; Hendricke, Ad miral, Batavia, for Rotterdam. _ _ TORBAY, MARCH 14.—Sailed Carrs, and Mary Rowe, Demerara; Acasta, Madras; Workington, Rio ; Bernard. Sierra Leone ; with the rest of the outward bound. FALMOUTH, MARCH 13—Wind W. to S.W. fresh breezes. —Arrd. Tagus steamer, Southampton, for Vigo. Sld. Mem non steamer, China. Put back Spencer, for Demerara. ....... BRISTOL, MARCH 14.—The 'Sloop Vigo, Williams, was wrecked on the Nass Sands, 11th inst., crew drowned. GLOUCESTER, MARCH 14.—The Heroine, bound to St Michael's, got off last evening, without damage, and proceeded. CARDIFF MARCH 12. —Sailed Bute, Marquis New York. _ _ • . - PORT TALBOT, MARCH 13. —The Grace, Stevens, from Swansea, in running into the harbour last night got ashore, and has become a total wreck ; crew and part of cargo saved. The Mary, Painter, and .Treselliek, Andrews, in entering this port last night, got ashore ; cargo (cop r) discharein g . PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 14.— Wind S. S.W. to S.—Arrd. Great Liverpool (steamer), Alexandria, left 24th ult., Malta 2d. inst., Gibraltar 7th. COWES, MARCH 14.—Superior, Havre, for Charleston; Emanuel, Tierbaff, Buenos Ayres. OFF DUNGENESS, MARCH 14.—Prima, Shields for Jersey, with loss of bulwarks, &c. INCENDLIRISM.-011 Tuesday evening, about half past eight o'clock, a fire broke out in a barn in the occupation of Joseph Yearby, of Patton (the same person that had a barn burnt down en the evening of Tuesday, January IS), which consumed the barn, a cart-shed and pigsty, and a large quan tity of potatoes, carrots, and onions. Two small cottages, the property of W. Astell, Esq., M.P., of Everton, were also burnt down ; they were inhabited by two poor families, named Cooper and Brittain, having six small children. —Bedford Mercury. EXTRAORDINARY HIGH TIDE.—On Saturday after noon the river Thames rose to an unusual height, overflowing its banks, and doing considerable damage at many places, both above and below London bridge. According to the tide-tables it was high-water at twenty-six minutes past two o'clock in the afternoon, at which time the depth of water at the outer lock of the entrance of St. Katharine's Dock was 29 feet 3 inches. In the Tower garrison there was no thoroughfare for pede.- ' trians, the depth of water at the " Traitors' gate" being nearly one foot. The late heavy gales is the reason assigned for this unusually high tide. TRADE IN ASHTON AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.-- Things are here in a very bad state. Nearly all the spinner s and manufacturers have announced their intention to make a reduction of wages, amounting to 10 per cent. on twist, and per cent. on weft ; the reduction to commence from next Friday. One mill is to be wholly stopped in a fortnight or three weeks. On Tuesday evening, a meeting of factory ope ratives was held in the Charlestown Meeting-house, to consi der the propriety of making a stand against the proposed re duction. Some of the masters, who, at the late Anti-Corn law meeting at Ashton, avowed themselves converts to Chart ism, and who are among , t those who find themselves compelled to propose this reduction of wages, were abused in no mea sured terms by the operatives. We have not heard what was the determination ultimately adopted by the hands, in reference to the proposed reduction.—Manchester Guardian. TAXES ON BREAD IN PRUSSIA.—The following information has been received from Dantaic respecting the octroi (a municipal tax, somewhat in the nature of a police rate or borough rate) :—" A small loaf of wheat bread, weigh ing three ounces, bought at the baker's shop, cost half a silver groschen, which is equal to 3 1.5 d. per lb. English weight and money. A loaf of rye bread of the finest quality, such as is used even among the higher classes, weighing 1 lb. 10i oz. cost 1 silver groschen, which is equal to 1 1-10 d. per lb. English weight and money. These are the prices, a little more or less, in 118 towns in Prussia, containing 1,728,376 inha• bitants, who have to pay the excise and octroi of 3s. per cwt. for wheat, and Bd. per cwt. for rye. The remaining twelve millions of inhabitants are exempt from this excise, and eat their bread so much cheaper. The rye consumed by the sol diers, and by the people, is of a much coarser sort, and con siderably cheaper than that of the first quality above men tioned. The klassen stener or poll-tax paid by the 12.000,000 who do not live in the cities, subject to the above excise, amounts on an average to Is. Bd. per head. It is levied under rates which vary from Is. 6d. (the lowest) to 211. 12s. (the highest); the lowest rate is levied from the lower orders per head, with the exception of those under 16 and above 60 • and the higher rates are levied from families."—Mr. James leek's Report. The Central Prison at Beaulieu, near Caen, part of which was not long age destroyed by fire (an act attributed to wilful malevolence), has again been subjected to a similar at tempt. A convict, who had still seven years of close confine ment to undergo, forced the door of his cell, a few nights since, and setting fire to his handkerchief threw it on a bed in an ad joining room. Fortunately it was discovered in time, and ex tinguished. The prisoner has been put in irons. On Friday last, a hay-rick, near Leigh, the pro perty of Lord Francis Egerton, was discovered to be on fire, but the lames were extinguished before material damage was done. It is suspected to be the work of an incendiary.--Liver pool Mail. A CHILD CHOKED BY A PIECE OF MEAT.—Mr. Baker, on Saturday, held an inquest at the Blockmakers" Arms, Ashley's-crescent, City-road, on the body of Caroline Neele, aged one year and ten months. It appeared that the deceased, who WAS the illegitimate child of Mr. Phillips, to bacconist, of Bath-street, City-road, was on Thursday last sitting at dinner with its mother. It got too large a piece of meat into its mouth and throat; it became black in the face, and before a surgeon could arrive it expired, and the meat was subsequently found in deceased's throat. Verdict—" That deceased died from accidental choking." CASE 01' INSANITY.—On Tuesday evening, the Ist inst., Edward Winter, aged 32, formerly a soldier, put an end ' to his existence by hanging himself in an up-stair room of his own hour, in Sanvv. gate. It was the anniversary of his wed ding, and he had been drinking a good dea' of beer, playing at cards, &c. In the course of the evening he asked his wife to take poison with him, which she declined ; and some time after wards she found him hanging as described. He was subject to fits, and had been discharged from the army as unfit for service. Verdict, " Temporary Insanity."—Leicester Journal. The navigation of the Rhone by steamers, between Lyons and Avignon has been resumed, after 52 days' interrup tiort, on account of the lowness of the water. - • TnE OLD 13ATu BANK.—We understand that a first dividend of se. in the pound will be shortly declared on the estate of Messrs. Hobhouse and Co.—Bristol Miaror. - THE NIGER EXPEDITION. — Letters have been re ceived by the Wesleyan Missionary Society, announcing the safe arrival at Kumisi, the capital of Ashantee, of Prince Wil liam Quantamissah, and Prince John Ausah, the sons of the reigning Monarch of that country. These two interesting youths, who had for some time been in this country for im provement in their education, left for their return in the late ill-fated Niger expedition. They left Cape Coast Castle on 7th November last, and were accompanied by Mr. Freeman and Mr. Higgins, two newly-appointed missionaries to that country. There are moments in which we live years— moments, which steal the roses from the cheek of health, and plough deep furrows in the brow of youth. •-i SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF MONDAY. GLOBE.—While we think the financial scheme of the Government open to such objections as we have stated elsewhere, and may put forward more fully on future occasions, we cannot subscribe to some of the .trictures of the Times (while it professes, on the whole, concurrence with the policy of the measure) and of the Chronicle. The latter compares it to Mr. Addington's Property Tax, and says, " Those who ex perienced the Property tax can testify at once to the justice, as well as the universality, of this feeling (against it.] " The tax was odious, because it was direct. Direct taxes are always those which the sub ject pays most unwillingly, because the whole amount is taken from him by the tax-gatherer at once, and with out disguise; and the people of England entertain this objection to direct taxation more strongly than those of any other country, because they have been the least accus tomed to it." The Chronicle, however, had stated that the people contributed, without munizurinina, not much less than 15,000,000/. a year under this tax. This is admitting too much in its favour, in extraordinary public emer gencies, to allow of summarily condemning it, on ac count of the odiousness of direct taxation. Its sanc tion, or condemnation, most depend on the neces sity of the case ; and such, on the Chronicle's showing, was the public feeling, while it was necessary. There can be no doubt of the ordinary feeling against direct taxation ; the question is, in a case of emergency, whether the force of that feeling, or the care for public credit, and for the public service, has the predominance. Whenever there is a clear case of necessity, the public have shown themselves willing to submit to a much larger amount of direct taxation than is now called for, and one of much more unmitigated incidence on men of small means. We repeat what we said on Saturday, that our final judgment of the Government plan must depend, not on its general principle of direct taxation, but on the manner in which that mode of taxation is applied in the present instance. There may be good reasons for con demning an income tax, to which a property tax would not be liable. - STANDARD.—No taxes—we may generalise the proposition—no payments are in the abstract objects of love, but men reconcile themselves to rent and rates as ne cessary evils, and habit will reconcile them as easily to an income tax. The tax has been heretofore unpopular, chiefly because it was unusual ; and not without reason, for a payment for which men have made no pro vision in arranging their affairs and adjusting their style of living, must be more oe less oppressive beyond the actual amount paid. Usage and reason will, however, at length reconcile all men who are not entirely selfish to that form of taxation which, if not perfectly just, is the most just that the mind can conceive, and which is absolutely the most economical and efficient. We have already avowed that we value Sir Peel's pro position chiefly as the auspicious opening of a rational and just system of finance. We find that we have not allowed ourselves room to take up Lord John Russell's objection to the parallel of 1797-1198 with 1842. But putting out of the question the mutiny at the Nore, which could not affect the financial question in one way or the other, as it cost nothing to suppress it, we con tend that the British empire demands far larger provisions for its defence now than it required at the epochs referred to. Look to 1798, when you had all the military division of Europe, that is, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, if not actually leagued with you, anxiously wishing for your safety and success — France, your only enemy, betrayed into bankruptcy and torn by anarchy. True, enough was not done in 1797, 1798, to make advantage of these circum stances, and, therefore, a worse state of affairs fol lowed. Compare this state of affairs with the pre sent. Look to France, firm and consolidated—look to the feelings and policy of Russia—look to the United States—look to your wars in Asia—and to the state not less to be regarded than a state of actual rebellion in which the Whig-Radicals left Ireland—look to these things. and then say that our present condition does not require as ample preparation and as " wary walking" as 1797 or 1798. FROM THE RYENIMGI PAPERS OP YRSTIRDAY. GLOBE.—Lord Brougham's "Resolutions" touch all the points in Sir Robert Peel's plan of finance which demand discussion, before the country can justly be called on to acquiesce in it. We have not hesitated to express our opinion that the principle of direct taxation is not what is objectionable in that plan, under existing circumstances. What is objec tionable is, that the principle is not carried out with fairness. "Itis my duty," said the Prime Minister, "to make an earnest appeal to the possessors of pro perty." It was his duty. It is a duty which, we think, has been too long postponed. Parties have been amusing themselves (to borrow a simile from Hume's Essay's) with a match of cudgel-playing in a china-shop--with a struggle for power amidst failing finances. The de mands of the public service have been yearly in creasing, while no corresponding increase has been obtained in ' the means of meeting them. The late Government proposed to relieve our finance by removing restrictions on our commerce ; and we have no doubt that the end would have been attained with the aid of time. But a great part of our difficulties, though largely owing to anti-commercial laws, did not admit of immediate removal by the relaxation of those laws. The short supplies of the first necessaries, which the impro vidence of monopoly brought on us, could not be converted to immediate abundance by any change in the Corn-laws. We hold, therefore, that, con currently with the liberal measures of the late Go vernment, a direct, and not a speculative, provision should have been made for the deficit. Half the duty of financiers was omitted in omitting to pro vide for the present. The late Budget cannot be seriously affirmed to have made such provision. Financiers omit the other half of their duty in dis regarding the future ; and that is what appears to us the failure of the present administration. We hold that the imposition of new burdens ought to have been accompanied by the concession of boons which have not been conceded to commerce and industry. We hold that in the imposition of those burdens there should have been exercised a discrimination which has not been ex ercised between the various sources of income; and that their comparative value and permanence should have formed the measure of imposition. It is indeed idle to attempt to estimate the comparative interest of richer and poorer citizens in the preservation of public credit, and the payment of public services. But it is no more than justice to take into calculation the com parative value of their possessions—of those perma nent or precarious resources which you make the subject of taxation. STANDARD.—Lord Brougham has given notice of nine resolutions, condemnatory of Si r Robert Peel's financial plan. These resolutions will be found in our Parliamentary report. None will be so rash as to deny to the Noble and Learned Lord the possession of great talents ; few will be so unjust as to refuse him the praise of a kind and patriotic disposition ; but it would be the extreme of rashness and injustice too, to as cribe to him the smallest imaginable amount ofpolitical wisdom. Lord Brougham's active life has been em ployed in solving the problem, how many blunders, and how much mischief also may be produced by the exercise of great powers, though directed by a generous and honest heart, if not governed by modesty and common sense. We need but name the early doc trines of the Edinburgh Review—the Malthusian philosophy of which his Lordship was the first patron and promulgator—the new political economy which has resulted in so much misery and loss—the premature abolition of the income-tax in 1816, from which our finances have never yet recovered—the political doctrine of the Noble Lord in 1819, now matured into Chartism—the attempt at exciting an insur rection in favour of Queen Caroline, an attempt boastfully avowed—the Neth Poor-law; these make Lord Brougham's trophy—let any one say what share wisdom had in rearing it. The New Poor-law crowns the edifice, and, as we may see, the principle of the New Poor-law is preserved in the resolutions before us. Let us, however, look to some of these resolutions. We begin w ith the first and most im portant : " 1. That a direct tax upon income ought never to be resorted to, unless in some great emergency of tlublic affairs, when an extraordinary expenditure may become unavoidable for a time, or in some pressure upon the finances of the country which can be sustained by no ether means." So far this is a simple dogma : no attempt is made to prove the proposition that a direct tax upon income ought never to be resorted to, except in some extraor dinary emergency; but granting the proposition proved, which, except for argument sake, we should be very unwilling to do, we meet Lord Brougham by telling him that a case of extraordinary emergency has arrived. Is it not a case of extraordinary emergency, when the revenue of the British empire has failed to meet its expenditure—when the ordinary sources of revenue have been found incapable of in crease—when the attempt to effect a social revolution for financial purposes has been gravely resorted to by the Ministers of the Crown, as their sole refuge from bankruptcy—is not this a case:of emergency ?We concede to Lord Brougham that the emergency is not the effect of national poverty ; Heaven forbid that it were. We know that Great Britain was never so rich as at this moment. ARSON AT CARLISLE.-CONFES- SION OF ONE OF THE PRISONERS. (From the Second Edition of the Carlisle J ourna l.) On 'aturday morning about two o'clock the Angel lnn, English-street, in this town, war discovered to be on fire, but, by the prompt arrival of the engines, the flames were subdued in about an hour. On examination of the premims, however, by Mr. Graham, superintendent of police, ample proof appeared that they ha l been wilfully set fire to, and he immediately took into custody Mrs. Christopherson, the landlady, her ser vant, and daughter. At eleven o'clock on the same day they were examined before the Magistrates, when Mary Blaylock the servant,confessed to having prepared peat, wood, shavings, and other materials by her mistress's order, to burn the house, for the purp,se of recovering the insurance upon the premises, which was 501. upon her stock, and 350/. on her furniture, under a promise to convey her to America to her husband. Mrs. Christopherson recriminated by laying the blame of the proposal to the girl. The prisoners were then removed and ordered to be kept in separate confinement. -- - The Hon. and Loyal Society of Ancient Britons have determined on celebrating the auspicious event of the birth of their Hereditary Prince, by a dress ball, at Willis's Rooms (Almack's), at the latter end of this month, and:a very full and brilliant assembly is confidently anticipated, Par ticularly as the young and gay baronet, Sir Watkyn W. Wynn, has undertaken to be the patron. CERTIFICATES-A PRIL 5. J. Macaire, J. Linnemann, and J. C. Berger, merchants, Liverpool—J. Worrell, victualler, Sussex-street, Tottenham court-road—R. Wilson, brick manufacturer, Blyth Tile Sheds, Norihun,berland—W. Wilcocks, saddler, Bracknell, Berkshire —E. Elfick, grocer, Milton, Kent—B. Palmer, tailor, Duke street, St. James's—G. Harriot, beer brewer, Ormskirk, Lan cashire—R. Bowley, broker, Commercial Sale-rooms, Min cing -lane, City—L and j. W. Lintl9y, grocers, North Shields. PARTNERSHIPS DfSS'OLVED. C. Ormond and W. Nelmes, chemists, Cheltenham—C. H. Purnell and W. Bolshaw, coal merchants, Liverpool —T. Evans and H. Cooper, gas fitters, Bishop's Stertford, Hertfordshire —II. Fowler and W. Newbery, mercers, Axminster. Devon shire—J. and R. Tully, cyder merchants, Paington, Devon shire—.J. P. Nicholson and. D. Simpson, sail makers, Glasson Dock, Lancashire—R. Hathornthwaite and J. Edmondson, chemists, Preston, Lancashire—J. Wood and D. Fisher, en gineers, Church-street, Lambeth—W. W. Cooze and W. H. l'enley, house decorators., Frith-street, Soho-square Prichard, sen., T. Prichard, J. Prichard, jun., and W. Prichard, linen drapers, Chester (so far as regards J. Prichard, sen. )—G. and R. Peverell, grocers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne— W. Little, B. Roberts, and J. T. T. Mitchell, merchants, Bishopsgate-street (so far as regards B. Roberts and J. T. M it chell)—J. Pace and J. Denniston, ship brokers, Sunderland— R. H. and T. Glenny, Little Ilford, Essex—J. Fife and H. P. i llrumell, surgeons, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—T. Rhodes arid H. Robinson, tailors, Manchester—M. Beard and E. A. Parke, dealers in fancy worsteds, Vere-street, Oxford-street—C. Willoughby and J. Underwood, tailors, Warwick-street, Bel grave.road, Pimlico—D. Ostler and B. H. Hobson, hatters, Wisbeach, Cambridge—E. Storer, J. Storer, and E. Storer, boot manufacturers, Whitechapel—E. C. Manning, A. F. X. Cravino, and J. A. Manning, rectifiers, St. Andrew's-terrace, Waterloo-road—S. and C. Payne, china dealers, New Sarum, Wiltshire—F. Nalder, F. H. Nalder, J. Spall, and J. Hardisty, glove manufacturers, Cheapside—J. G. Leonhardt, W. Martin, and J. Leidinger, comb nr.kers, Greenwich. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ROBERT oiBBONS, i;aicer,ELii);; g ti,iiarch 17 and April 7, at twelve, at the Chambers ofJ. Robertson, Edinburgh. CHARLES HAMILTON, Fairholm, March 18 and April 8, at two, at the Chambers of Renny and Webster, Edinburgh. ARCHIBALD SCOTT, farmer, Southfield, Haddington, March 21 and April 11, at one, at the George Inn, Haddington. JOHN HUTCHINSON, flesher, Edinburgh, March 21 and April 18, at twelve, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh, WILLIAM MACPHERSON and JAMES M'NAUGH TON, distillers, Denny, Stirlingshire, March 22 and April 12, at two, at the Chambers of J. and J. Chrystal, Stirling. PETER HOUSTON and ROBERT POTTER, builders, Glasgow, March 22 and April 12, at two, at the Writing Cham.. bers of G. 13. Leech ! Glasgow. THOMAS RAMSA Y, merchant, Glasgow, March 21 and April 11, at two, at the Writing Chambers of D. and J. Wilkie, Glasgow. TRE MARKETS.-( YESTERDAY). COLONIAL MARKET. There was a large amount of bu s i ness d one , an d genera lly a t higher prices. The public sales went off briskly, and almost the whole was disposed of. B. P. Sugar advanced Is. per cwt., and upwards of WO hhds. and tierces were sold. Bengal and Mauritius also went off freely, at higher prices. Refined Sugar advanced ls. to 2s. per cwt., and some heavy contracts were made. West India and Ceylon Coffee much higher, while East India were dull, and rather cheaper. Spices were held with more firmness, but not much business done. Rice in fair demand at former rates. TEA MARKET. The public sale was well attended, but passed off heavily, without any material change in prices, and the principal part was sold. Company's Congou is quoted at Is. I lid. per lb. cash. TALLOW MARKET. This market remains dull, and the tendency downward, and 483. 3d. the nearest value of the article. (From the London Neu, Price Current of March 15.) SUGAlL.—British Plantation Sugar has sustained the former currency during the past week; the demand, however, was limited both for Grocery and Refining purpo=es. To-day there was more activity in the B. P. Sugar market; the purchases amounted to 900 hhds and trcs, and would have beeu on a larger scale if the market had been better supplied ; the prices paid were 2s above those of Friday for all descrip tions ; middling yellow Jamaica fetched 645., and the market clo,ed with a firm appearance. RErtxxle.—Common brown lumps 77s to 78s, good 79s to 81s, Standard Ltunps 82 5 ,_ Tittlers and Harnburgh Loaves, common 80s to 82s, middling 83s to 8.55, good 86s to 90s, fine 92s to 975, superior and small 98s to 112 s per ewt. Pieces have sold freely at improved rates ; fine at 71s to 755, good 68s to 70s, low to middling 60s to 67s per cwt. Bastards have been in brisk request at higher prices; common to middling selling at 40s to 475, good 49s to 535, fine 545 to 59s per cwt. Treacle has sold steadily at firm rates, common at 26s to 26s 6d, patent 27s to 28s 6d, best old make 29 5 , Golden Syrup 29s to 31s 6tiper cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar has been in fair re quest at 28s 9d to 29s for the best. A good sale has existed for Loaves, 61bs have fetched 36s to 375, 101bs 34s to 355, 14lbs 33s to 33s 6d. Treacle has been in brisk request at 13s to 13s 3d. In Bastards and Pieces several sales have been made at 16s to 25s per ,ewt. Dutch Crushed Sugar neglected. To-day the Grocers were free buyers of Refined goods, paying higher r ates ; Standard .Lumps fetch 83s per cwt ; of Bastards and Pieces some large parcels were taken at the rates q uoted above. Treacle in good request. In Bonded Crushed. Sugar the operations were on a more extended scale fo': good quality ; in Loaves no change in price ; there are yet several buyers. 11 1Auarrics.—This afternoon there was no public sale, but by private contract a. brisk demand existed, and large parcels were dispo=sed of is 6U' to 2s above the rates of Friday. Sales of good to fine yellow s ;ere made at 6gs to 695, low to middling 63s to 65s 6dJper cwt. 3,soo:bags are declared for sale on Friday. EAST INDIA.—Th is afternoon white Bengal was in good re quest privately, and the rates paid were 2s above those of last 'Tuesday —good to fin* qualitics fetched 69s to 72s per cwt: brown sorts met with a. free sale, and at auction 1,554 bags, 26 }ihds 31 trcs went ; tt prices Ais above those of last week. Good brown fetched 51 is tid, mid 54s to 555, mid to good damp 53s tosBs, l ow 46 s 6d t o 47s 6d per c wt. Fonciosr.—Hollers ,of Brazil a re firm, and a g oo d demand has existed, es p ec i a lly 1 'or brow n descriptions for Refini ng i n e m et with. llow Ye bond, th e supp l y of which is small; sa l es ha v e been made at 16s 6d to 18 5 f or l ow to go 0 41 quality. To-day s evera l in quiries ex i sted for brew n anti , Yellow sorts of Brazil, an d f u ll rates offered but few parcels Havannah in, small par eels is s, t are to iling a b t 21s to 21s 6d for fine quality. 26s 11 , lo s t t a . s y sE in s c .— er F it o ,s r W e, ~emstinlonn 23s 6cl to 245, and very or d 22sdia a good demand has exi s t e d. Th e purchases hav e ) seen 27 0 p u ns:; St. Kitt's,good quality at 25 s to per cwt. Foreign !I .olasses sold at 7s to 7s 6d per cwt. Honey is still wanted, flue sorts in p a rticular, the supply of which is scanty, 40s to 70s is the value of low to fine. TEA.—The ma rke,t since last Tuesday has been in a quiet state. To-day there was little activity in the market for Free Trade Tea, and some holders were disposed to realize. Of the tot al quantity passed the sales, amounting t , ) 11,800 packages, only 4,800 found purchasers at a reduction on last sales rates, of id for Congou, d for Twankay, and ld for Pouchong. All ether sorts went at Id cheaper. Congou, but mid rather strong, little burnt, sold at is 100 to Is 11d, mid strong o,d Pouchong kind is 11 %d to 2s, good blackish leaf 2s Id to 2s 3d, line 2s 4d. to 3s, Pouchong low Is 2d to is 4d, mid is 74 to is 71d, good and fine is 8d to 1 s 10d. Souchong 2s to 2s 0 1 / 2 d, young Hyson common Is 9d, Caper middling fresh Is 100, Twankay middling is 10.0 to is lid, fine bright leaf 2s 1 1 / 2 d to 2s 2d, Gunpowder good mid 3s 64 to 3s 100, ord 2s 4d, Imperial but mid 2s 6d to 2s 11 V 2 d, low 2s 2d, Hyson sk;n but mid rather coarse is 7d to Is led, rather strong burnt 2s, Hyson but mid rather coarse 2s 4d to 2s sd, good 3s to 3s 10d per lb. Company's Congou flat at Is 104 d to Is 11 d per lb. COFFEE.-Th's afternoon the home trade were anxious to purchase Coffee of all clean descriptions ; but of West India the supply at market was far from adequate for the demand.' The public sales were well attended, they comprised 2,269 bags 5 casks Ceylon, 526 bags Java, via the Cape, 500 bags East India, 203 bales Mocha, .54 casks 9 puns Berbice, and 10 bags Demerara; Ceylon went at fully former rates, fine kinds, how ever, brought high prices ; superior 107 s to 1275, fine fine ord 90s 6d to 98s 6d, fine ord 815 6d, good ord 77s 6d to 80s, pale good ord ragged 76s 6d to 775. Java brought full prices, good fair from the Cape 60s, bulked 54s 6d to 555. Mocha, however, mostly taken in at 103 s to 107 s for low mid and mid. Berbice went at 120 s for mid colory, 10Is for low mid, and 94s tid to 98s for fine fine ord. Cocoa.-British Plantation at 44s to 46s for good and fine red Trinidad, and at 39s to 43s for low to mid. Foreign, 32s to 33s for good red. RKE.-Java is held with firmness, yellow has realised 8s 6d to 9s 6d, low to middling white 9s to les, good middling to good les 6d to lls 6d per cwt. The stock of Rice is still heavy. Patna Rice good add fine at 18s to 225, low to middling Iss to lis : Carolina has been less in request, we quote first sort 365, second do 345, third do 325, and inferior 28s to 30s per cwt. This afternoon Bengal Rice met with a free sale, and at auc tion 4,225 bags 1,040 pockets were all disposed of, but the prices accepted show a decline of 3d per cwt ; low white went at 9s, mid es 6d to 10s, and good mid lOs to 105 6d per cwt. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-For West India Rum the market has been in a quiet state. Leewards have maintained the former vahie, Jamaica has declined ld to 10 per gallon, excepting for the finest sorts, the sales have been 150 puns Leewards, proof common at 2s 2d good, 2s 3d ; and of Jamaica 100 puns, middling quality 28 to 29 per cwt over proof at 4s Bd, good middling to good 30 to 35 over at 4s 9d to 5s 4d to 5s Bd. Of Calcutta Rum sub. ject to the 'high duty, the large quantity of 400 puns were sold at is 30 to is 4d proof, but of Rum with certificate the sales have been only 100 puns, Is 10d, good quality at Is lid, mid to good la 8d to Is 7d, low cloudy is 74 to is 7d per gal. There have been some ar rivals of Rum. Brandy was in brisk request towards the close of last week. Cognac first brands of the vintage of 1836 has been selling at 5s 94 for hhds, and 5s 7d for puns ; do 1837 hhds 5s sd, puns 5s 3d; do 1838 hhds 5s Id, puns 4s Ild ; do 1839 'Aids 4s Bd, puns 4s 6d ; do 1840 Mods 4s 2d, puns 48 per gallon. Geneva dull of sale at Is lld to 2s for common, and at 2s 6d to 2s 8d for the best. To-day holders of Rum were firm, anticipating that a Go vernment contract will be shortly declared, and former rates were sustained ; but there was little business done. British Corn Spirits have declined to 9s 84 per gallon, at which rate the distillers are forcing sales, but there are few buyers. SPICES.-To-day there was a fair inquiry after several kinds of Spice, this may be ascribed to the important reduction pro posed to he made in the duties. Black Pepper was in good request, and stiffer rates paid ; sales of common and fair Su matra made at 24c1 a 20. Cassia Lignea much wanted, 89s to 92s paid for mid and good mid. Unica-Madras 2s 3d to 3s 3d have been paid for low and middling quality. At auction on Wednesday 4 chests common Madras went at 2s 2d to 2s 3d per lb. For sale on the 12th April, 3,009 chests were declared. Spanish has met with more attention. COCHINEAL-To-day the demand was active, and at public sale 214 serons all sold, but at a decline of 2d per . lb; very low and foxy silvers went at 3s Id to 3s sd, middling and good 3s 6d to 4e 4d, ordinary blacks 4s 4d to 4s 6d per lb. SALTPETRE.-This afternoon there were ready buyers of Rough, and at public sa , e 2,388 bags Calcutta went off at fully former rates, and all sold; refraction 13 to 12:4 per cent., at 27s 6d, ti per cent. 27s to 27s 6d, 54 to 41 per cent. 27s to 27s 6d, and unrefracted good 27s 6d to 28s per cwt. T ALLOW.-To-day the trade operated freely, and it is diffi cult to get I' Y Candle under 48s 6d on the spot. The large quantity of 1,000 pkgs South American is declared for sale on Friday, besides 200 casks Russia. OILS.-The market has been in a dull state for Linseed Oil, and prices have declined :to 33s 6d to 33s 9d per cwt. Rape has moied off steadily at former rates. Olive 531 to 541 for Soanish, and 591 to 601. for Gallipoli. Importers of Southern Oil having submitted to reduced rates of les per tun, has led to a good demand, and 249 tuns, at public sale, in good casks were principally sold ; fine 331 15s to 341105, good 32/10s to 33/10s, ord and mid 3115 s to 32155, inferior dark '271 be to 2515 s per tun ; the home trade were the principal buyers. Pale Seal has been little inquired after, but the supply being scanty, holders have been enabled to get 391 lOs to 391 15s for small parcels of first quality. For other kinds of Conirt on Fish Oils the market has been in a dull state, and prices have declined les to 15s per tun. At auction 60 tuns went as follows : -Straw Seal at 331151, Newfoundland Whale 301155, Newfoundland Cod '271 lOs to 27/ 15s, Dog Oil 28/, Cod Foots 161, Blubber 91, pumpings of Southern 161 per tun. To-day Cod Oil was in good request for export, at 27l 15s ; and of low dark Seal Oil several parcels were taken at 271 les to 281 per tun. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT, March 14. AGABYG V. HARTWELL. Lord La.wc DALE gave judgment in this part-heard cause to • day. There were two questions brought under consideration on this occasion. The first was, whether the plaintiffs were entitled to the costs of the suit, the other related to the interest accruing on the testator's property. His Lordship would dis. pose of the question of interest first. The testator in the cause had died in August, 1812, having bequeathed to his four sons 50,0004 in stock, with certain limitations. One of the sons having died soon after the testator's death his interest in the fund of course had ceased. A second son of the testator, namely, Johannes Agabeg, had died in 1516, and his interest is the fund had become in consequence vested in his three children, under the terms of the original will. The surviving sons, namely, Carapate and Bective Agabeg, in the month of March, 1811, had execu'ed a deed by which they transferred their interest in the fund to trustees for the benefit of their children. The fifty thousand pounds was vested in English stock, and the dividends on it had been received by the testator's agents in England, Messrs. Fairley, Bonham, and Co., and had been by them carried during his lifetime to his commercial account, and after his death to the account of his sons. Not long after the execution of the deed mentioned, notice of the transaction had beer, given to the defendants, Fairley, Bonham, and Co., and his Lordship thought he must therefore assume that they had become aware of Johannes' share of the property having become vested in his children. It seemed that, notwithstanding the notice thus given, the defendants had continued to receive the dividends, and to carry them to the commercial account, as formerly. The testator's son, Cara pate, had died in 1819, leaving issue, in whom his share of the property had become vested. Bective had been the only son of the testator, who now survived him, which he had done by ten years. A bill had been filed in this (the Rolls) Court by the trustees of the deed of settlement, and the sons of Carapute desiring to have the rights of the parties de clared. The first decree had been made in 1831, and it had directed certain inquiries to be made. Those inquiries had been satisfactory, and had been reported upon in the month of May, 1832. In the year 1833 the cause had come on to be heard before the Vice-Chancellor, and he had decreed that Fairley, Bonham, and Co. were entitled to carry the dividends to the commercial account of the testator during his life, and after his death to the commercial account of his sons. An appeal from that decree had been made to the Lord Chancellor, who confirmed the Vice-Chancellor's decree. The decision of the Lord Chancellor not being satisfactory to the parties concerned, an appeal from it had been made to the House of Lords. Pending this appeal, a report pursuant to the decree of 1833 had been made in 1834, and the result was that a petition had been presented to. this Court, and the cause having come on for hearing before Lord Cottenham, then 11Iaster of the Rolls, in the month of May, 153.5, he had made a decree, ordering the interest to be paid on the fund in respect of the title of the children of Johannes and Carapate after the death of their parents. Some time after that decree had been pronounced the appeal to the House of Lords had been heard, and judgment had been given, whereby the decrees made by the Vice-Chanc e llo r and Lord Chancellor had been both reversed. It had been in fact then declared that the defendants, Fairley, Bonham, and Co., had no right to receive the dividends after notice had been given them that the moues had been vested in trustees for the benefit of the children of Carapate and Bective. A petition for rehearing had come on before the Lord Chancellor in 1840, when a decree proper on the occasion had been made, and with regard to the question of interest, whether it was open or not, depended very much on what,had been done on this latter oc casion. What had been done by the decree in 1835 had been inconsistent with the decree made in 1833, and this latter being also inconsistent with the order of the . House of Lords in 1837, it had become impossible to give effect to it. It had, therefore, been necessary to provide so much of the decree of 1835 as effected the question of interest, in order to make it consistent with the order of the House of Lords. It appeared to his Lordship that, nothwithstanding the decree of 1840, the question, as to what ought to be done with the interest, still remained open. Under these circumstances he thought he could not do otherwise than order that the interest at the same rate should be taken for those dividends as for the former ones. With respect to costs, if there had been any common fund in Court, he would have thought it his duty to have ordered them to be paid out of that; but such a fund not being in Court, he oould not give costs to the plaintiffs. TUESDAY. The Court was engaged the greater portion of the day with consent petitions, after which his Lordship proceeded to dis pose of the remaining short causes. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, March 14. (Before Vice-Chancellor BRUCE.) FORD W. CLOUGH. In this case a lady of the name of Allen, who was entitled to a considerable sum of money, and who was stated to be a per son of weak intellect, had been induced to marry the plaintiff Ford. It appeared that a license had been obtained by the plamtiff on an affidavit that he was twenty-one years of age. Under a recent statute, the marriage, under the circumstances, had been declared by the Court to be valid, though the plaintiff had subjected himself to a criminal prosecution. The object of the present application was to obtain a settlement of the wife's property. The Court directed the property to be settled on the wife for her life, with remainder to her issue, and, in default, to her next of kin, excluding the husband from all participation and power whatever. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM. ) His Horton a was engaged during, the day in the further hearing of a cause of sharp r. Taylor. We shall give an outline of the case when the Court has delivered its judgment. TUESDAY. (Before Vice-Chancellor Wta RAM. ) SHARP V. TAYLOR. Mr. Sharp and Mr. Follett having concluded the arguments for the plaintiff yesterday, Mr. Burge addressed the Court this morning 4n behalf of the defendant. The papers in evi dence in the cause are very voluminous, and it is expected that his Honour will take time to consider his judgment. SECONDARIES' COURT, March 15. Mr. Secondary JAMES sat in Guildhall to-clay. Several undefended actions were takerl:first. The opposed cases possessed no features of general interest. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Marcie 14. IN ItE JOHN WILLIAM BATEMAN. The insolvent was a stonemason carrying on business in the Horseferry-road, and was opposed in person by a creditor named Leis, on the ground of having obtained a quantity of goods under false representations. It appeared from the evidence of the opposing creditor, that in July, 1440, he received a shipment of Carara marble, and the insolvent, with whom he had had previous dealings, and who at the time was consideiably in his debt, called upon him, and represented that he was about coining in for a large sum of money under his father-in-law's will, upon the receipt of which he would pay the amount of his account. Having said he was in want of marble for chimney-pieces, which he was about executing for some new houses building at Knights bridge, be (Mr. Lewis) sent it to his yard upon the strength of his representations, which he found eventually to have been false. The insolvent, in his direct examination, denied having made the alleged representations as a matter of certainty, but he said he had such expectations. The LEARNED COMMISSIONER ordered the case to stand adjourned for the production of further evidence, with respect to the will of the insolvent's father-in-law. IN RE RUGGLES. In this case the insolvent described himself as an artist re siding at Ivy Cottage, Ivy-lane, Lewisham. The number of creditors appearing in his balance sheet was 56, and the aggregate amount of debts owing to them only 1361. His petition was supported by Mr. Nichols. It appeared, that in the year 1838, he took the benefit of the Act, alter which his father-in-law, who was a gentleman in affluent and respectable circumstances, allowed his wife an anuity of 1301 and placed them in Ivy Cottage which he fur .nished, and charged only 2C/. a-year rent ; altogether it usually let for 50/. Mr. WoonItUFFE, on behalf of several of the creditors, con tended that the conduct of the insolvent had been such as to render him amenable to the discretionary clause. He had an income of 1301. a -year, and was living almost rent free, yet he contracted debts with a vast number of small tradesmen, which must have pressed heavily upon them, and which he never showed any intention of paying.—Judgment deferred. TUESDAY. A number of unopposed cases were taken during the early part of the morning, in the hearing of uhich not the slightest feature of general interest transpired. RE STANSLEY. This ease had been already before the Court, and adjourned for the purpose of inserting the names of Messrs. Whitbread and Company, the brewers, who had had various transactions to the amount of nearly 3,0001. with the insolvent, who was the proprietor of the Cloudesley Arms tavern. The amount of debts appearing in his schedule was con siderable, while any assets that might be available to his cre ditors were comparatively trifling. He was arrested at the suit of the Secretary to the Equitable Gas Company, and shortly afterr:ards disposed of his interest in the Cloudesley Arms. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS (addressing Mr. Morrell, the in solvent's attorney) said that it appeared from the schedule that there had been transactions with the Messrs. Whitbread, amounting to nearly 3,0001., yet there had been no means taken to procure the attendance of any person from that firm. He trusted Mr. Morrell would act more cautiously in future, when the interest of others were placed in his hands. Mr. Morrell said the omission was entirely owing to the negligence of his clerk. Ali:. Commissioner HARRIS—The consequences of such negligence always fall upon the Attorney. I understand you have already felt its effects, in the course pursued by this Court a short time back, and until I see more attention I can not express any regret at the circumstance. The further hearing of the case must stand adjourned until the attendance of some person on behalf of illes3rs. Whitbread can be pro cured, and the special balance-sheet amended. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Nottingham, March 11. John Richardson, aged 23, was capitally indicted for com mitting a rape upon the body of Ann Hickson, at Flintham. Of the committal of the offence there was clear as distinct proof, and in spite of a vigorous cross examination, the prose cutrix stuck to her tale. The corroborating witnesses ap peared, however, throughout to have a pique against the pro. secutrix, and did not corroborate her in any one particular that they did before the Magistrates. They spoke so much at variance with her evidence that his Lordship, however much he reprehended their conduct, was obliged to direct an acquittal of the prisoner. WILFUL MURDER. AT MANSFIELD. —John Jones, alias Samuel Moore, aged 24, was placed at the bar, charged with the wilful murder of Mary Hallam, at Mansfield, by cutting her throat with a knife. The prisoner, who is a fine handsome young man, formerly lodged with the deceased's parents, arid had for some time paid his addresses to her with success. A little before last Easter, however, the intimacy broke off, owing to some violence on his part, and the prisoner went to lodge at Mrs. Wragg's, in the same yard ; still, however, speaking to the deceased at certain times, loving her, as he says himself, "to destruction." She had, however, formed an acquaintance with another person, which gave him great uneasiness. On Thursday, Dec. 30, the deceased returned home from the country, and at nigh about half-past eight she went out into the yard, saying sht would go and hear some news. She never returned. Search was made for her everywhere, until at last the prisoner's shop. which is a garret in the same yard, underwent inspection. By getting on a table and chair a view through the window was obtained, and there lay the lifeless body of the hapless girl, with her throat cut in many places, and the floor a pool of blood. The prisoner was apprehended in his lodgings within three hours after the girl had left home, and on the road to the lock-up confessed that it was he who did the murder ; that he thought as he could not have her no one else should, and that he intended to destroy himself ; but his mind misgave him, and he was glad he had not done so, as he ought to suffer publicly, as a warning to others. Tile only palliation he endeavoured to make was, that the crime was not premeditated ; that it was done in a moment. He did not wish to be defended on his trial, and actually at first pleaded guilty, but his Lordship would not receive the plea, and the people of Mansfield, who pitied his situation, raised a subscription to defend him. Mr. Miller addressed the Jury for the prisoner. His LORDSHIP then summed up, and the Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty of Murder. He was sentenced to execution. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Three gentlemen having waited upon the Lord Mayor in the Justice-room, while his Lordship was engaged in transacting the public business, and requested his attention in private, his Lordship requested that they would communicate with Sir Peter Laurie, who was in another room, and who would readily give them advice. Soon afterwards Sir Peter Lauries entered the Justice-room, accompanied by the applicants, and stated that they had to complain of a very extraordinary species of swindling which he apprehended was becoming very general, and to meet which, he believed, exposure in the public papers to be indispensably necessary. It appeared from what had been represented to him by two of the parties who happened to be executors to the will of an old lady deceased, that a person had gone to Doctor's-commons ; examined the will ; took down the name and addresses of the executors ; drew a bill, and forged the name of the deceased to it, and sued the executors for the amount. The executors, knowing that the old lady at the very time the bill was alleged to be drawn was bedridden and paralytic, and wholly unable to sign any document, of course resisted the payment, and a case which appeared in the newspapers, in which a similar attempt to impose was made, completely opened their eyes, and confirmed them in their determination not to be victims to the miscreants who planned such a nefarious scheme of robbery. After a lengthened statement from the applicants respecting the mode in which the forgery had been committed, and re marks from the Lord llayor and Sir Peter Laurie on the danger to the public from such practices, his Lordship said he would take care that the netatious transaction should be inquired into. _ _ GUILDHALL. THREATENING LETTERS.- Richard Bates was pkced at the bar, under the following circumstances :—A gentleman, re siding in Newgate-street, deposed that he received a letter of a most disgusting nature, stating that a report was is circulation in the Borough, respecting the character of the witness, and im puting to him an unnatural offence. The letter (which is unfit for publication) went on to state, that if the witness would com municate with the writer, he would devise means for the sup pression of the report. In consequence of this letter, the witness sent for an Inspector of Police, and showed him the letter ; and he advised witness to answer it, which he did, and addressed it, as directed in the letter to be called for at the Post-office, High-street, Borough. The letter was left at the Post-office, and directions were given to the Postmaster to give the person who called for it into custody. Monday evening, about a quarter past seven o'clock, the witness was sent for by the Postmaster, aed on his proceeding to High-street, Borough, he found the prisoner in custody. The man• was then taken to the Station-house. John Green, an assistant at the Post-office, High-street, Borough, deposed that the prisoner came last night and in quired for the letter in question, and witness said if he would wait a few minutes he should have it. Witness then sent the boy for a policeman, but he could not fini one. The prisoner said he would call again, and left the shop, but witness tollowed him and gave him into custody. The prisoner, in his defence, said that he knew nothing about too letter addressed to the prosecutor, and he had been requested by a person to call at the Post-office and ask for a letter that wss lying there. The policeman who took the prisoner into custody stated that the prisoner had been searched, and several letters of the same nature as those received by the prosecutor were found upon him.—The prisoner was remanded till to-morrow. John Cook was placed at the bar, charged with picking the pockets of John Anderson, under the following circumstances. The prosecutor stated that he lived in Hemlock -court, Cary street, Lincoln's Inn-fid.ds, and the prisoner was a resident in the same house. On the previous night he was in a public house in Drury-lane, and he saw the prisoner there, and recognising each other they entered into conversation. Shortly afterwards a friend of the prisoner came in, and they all left the house together. When they got into Lincoln's Inn fields the strange gentleman proposed that they should take a cab and ride as far as the Strand, which proposition was acceded to. On their arrival in the Strand the stranger got out of the cab and disappeared, and on the cabman requesting the amount of his fare, the pri soner said he had no money about hiin, and the prosecutor was obliged to pay the cab hire. The suspicions of the prosecutor were by this time aroused, and they prompted him to feel in his pockets, and he then discovered that his money had been extracted, together with his pocket handker chief and pocket-book, containing memoranda and duplicates. On further examination he found that a large brooch he usu ally wore in his cravat had also disappeared. The witness said he was perfectly sober. He immediately gave the prisoner into custody. The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was invited by the prosecutor• to take a ride in the cab, and he had no idea that he was to pay for it. The robbery he knew nothing about. He was remanded till Saturday; to obtain further evidence. BOLV-SIREET. George Fowler, a respectable-looking country lad, was brought up under the following circumstanees : Mrs. Mary Cass,llstated that she had been in the City to receive some money, and having transacted her business she took an omnibus, with the view of reaching her home early. She had not been in the omnibus long when two persons left it, and she found that she had lost a bill of exchange for 601. She immediately took a coach aed proceeded to the firm of Messrs. Antrobus and Co., the bankers, in the Strand, where the bill was made payable. When she arrived there she found the prisoner there, who was just about presenting the bill for pay ment, in exchange for which he asked for six 10/. notes. She spoke to the clerk, and he asked the prisoner where he got the bill ; he said a gentleman near the door had given it him, and had told him to get change for it whil s t h e wa i ted near the 'door. A policeman was immediately sent for, and he went to the place, where the prisoner said the man had promised to stop, but no such person was to be found. The prisoner was not one of the men who had been in the omnibus. Policeman, F 120, corroborated the latter part of the prose trix's evidence. The prisoner, in his defence, stated that he was a basket maker by trade, and had come to London from Faversham for the first time on Monday last; he was now living with his aunt in Churchway, St. Pancras. On the day in question he was proceeding along the Strand in company with his cousin, a little boy about ten years of age, when a man called to him, and asked him to go to the bank and change the note. Prisoner replied that he was a stranger, and did not know anything about banks. The man said, " You see those black railings ; that's the house; go there, and ask for six ten-pound notes. I am going in her e t o get a glass of gin. " He then went to the house pointed out, and handed in the note, when he was taken into custody. Mrs. Jervis, the prisoner's aunt, a respectable -looking woman, proved that the prisoner had come to London on Monci a the first ti me , an d s h e was sure that he wou ld no t be capable of doing anythi ng wrong. Monday be for John Jervis, a young lad about 10 years of age, was next examined. He underwent an extremely minute examination by Mr. Hall. His statements in every particular corresponded with what had been said by the prisoner, and were delivered in so ingenuous a manner as to leave no doubt in the minds of the Court as to the correctness of his statements. Mr. HALL then, addressing the prosecutrix, said—You have hoard the evidence ; there is no reason to believe that there is • any ccliusiun botween the parties who have given evidence in this case. The prisoner's appearance is that of a csuntry boy, and it is very likely indeed that he has been matte the dupe of some more designing person. He was not in the omnibus, and I think it very probable that the person saw sent him in with the bill saw that he was a rustic, and fixed on him as a proper person to carry out his infamous designs! The place where the ma n r e ma i ne d, w hen the prisoner went in wish the bill; appears to have been so situated that he could see him come out, and could, of course, see the police man go in and come but. The persons who stole the bill Ina,' yet be apprehended, and then this youth will be forthc oming,t° identify the man who gave him the bill. Then (ad dressin o g t the prisoner) he said, 44 You are discharged, 'and the re is n Ca slightest imputation on your character." Five voung women, named Ja ne Knight, Ellen Ealing' Plwebe Baldwin, Ellen Ralph, and Mary Horrinton, we!! charged with being disorderly and creating a disturbance ul• the workhouse of St. George's in the Fields. Mr. Buckstone, the master of the workhouse, dity of whose visage has not a whit decreased since .we the pleasure of last seeing him at this Court, stated the cha i i i a at with a great deal of dignity and complacency. He said nt on Sunday morning in chapel, but before the commencerne_ of the sermon, the priioners at the bar, who vos always e" w eb', • refractory, commenced singing a song respecting of the ea quake; after the service was over they tore up the Pgl e f fie el! .. stones in the yard, and threw them at the Watchman; the roik soner Ealing, moreover, excited the other girls to their , 4 Go it my of destruction by clapping her hands, and saying girls, that's your sort.' the the rubic_ugns. Mrs. Sarah Penny, the matron of " the house," prove statement relative to the singing in chapel. i s wile A decrepid old man, dressed in the workhouse gare,,,. was denominated the watchman, stated that Jane Knig n " b e she would smash him, if he went nigh her or by he r ; s swore Elle would smash him to pieces, and deniolage him. T b : other girls also, with the exception of Baldwin, took and threw at him, from one of which he received a severe bl u o . on the temple. Baldwin advised the girls not to throw st un at him, and said it was a shame to hurt the old man. t ot Richard Provu, an inmate of the workhouse, corn:MP:Ai the statement of the watchman, and said lie recognised glue' and Ralph as being particularly active. A a Buckstone stated that Baldwin, Ralph, and Ealing had been in prison before for disorderly conduct. d The prisoners were then called on for their defence , an e i e they all said something, we present our readers with tb statements. 1 WS Mary Horrinton said—Please yer wertship, hafter chaps vos a playing at hop-scotch, vich I had a bit o' brick and ill:, up stop o s_ a cross in one of the beds, the hold man cums hop v er ri e sel ship, and he says you d—d b—h if you don't be hoff, to , you in two vith the stick, vich he m a d e no mo re ado but be rI ith the stick and cut me and the other gals hover the hains-Ler Jane Knight, who laboured under a slight defect in ne s speech, plunged at once in medias res, and said be bl o t 0 0 over the h-a-arms and I hit him on the he-ed, and IVir• I t r ter called me a b—y w—e. Besides, they d-d-don't give and sugar, vich I'm two-and-tw-tw.twenty and is ti-ti-tled Mr. Buckstone explained that those who were shu ve t h e it were allowed tea and sugar, but he had the power to stop allowance if they behaved improperly. Ellen Ealing said, I never throwed a stone. didn' t Ellen Ralph said, 1 only eaved one stone, and tha siss touch the old man, it fell just by his feet ; the worst, and she aint brought up at all. El Sa e l t -E e i ll that I've been to prison, and hinders me from going out getting a place, vich I might easily do. sv 4 ° • Phcebe Baldwin, who was in vain endeavouring to art. fee' a tear, said in a drawling tone of voice, interspersed stile quent sobs—Please yer Wership (sob), I never heaved ..i se d pot at all (sob). I said I had a father of my own, and sbuw,,b), like him to be thrown stones at (sob). Oh, yer Wership V)se" do look over it this time, and it shall never occur agat e A koit deed it shan't (sob). The master always fixes on me, 1 . "„ . " know what for, and is always telling me I shall go to Pru e ' ( Sob, sob, till interrupted by the gaoler.) 0 49 Mr. HALL said the conduct of the prisoners was most or dalous ; and having given to each a severe admonitions, li,s tenoed them as follows :—Jane Knight, to be impriso n oth' weeks ; Ealing and Ralph, each to be imprisoned one m• the Horrinton, twenty-one days , and Baldwin, tea days' sgglnleytofralestio House of Correction. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. 0 tb l. James Laurence, a young man known to the police , associate of thieves, was placed at the bar, charged slit t 4ll , glary in the residence of J.F.Archhbold, isq., barrister', do, l'ark-street, Queen. square, Westminster. It appear bate on the night of Thursday,the 3d instant, Mr. Archbold: 00 was broken into by means of a kitch e n-window, t ha t left unfastened, being pushed up, and a hole being._ e it' through n inside shutter, by means of which the fastea!pa was displaced. The delinquent, it would seem, remained ce hour on the premises, and having got into the wine g ° regaled himself with some ch o ic e o ld wine, and ° eg , pudding which was taken from the larder. The P r° o l l missed on that occasion was but of trifling amount, being; a violin, an accor di on , two open:- glasses and a a ilver ic a s the value alt oge th er b e i ng a b out 8/. No trace, I ° o , l could, at that time, he gained of the robber ; but Ye - sras morning the pri soner was seen to c li m b ou t o f the Mr Archbold's house, and, on being taken into custediiooo, duplicates relating to the previously stolen property, were upon him.—The prisoner was fully committed. t i ,001 EMBEZZLEMENT BY A FEMALE AT THE ble BAZAR K. —Fanny Vernon, a youn g f ema l e o f resperis r otrial prepossessing appearance, wa s c o m m itt e d t o take her the ensuing Sittings of the Central Criminal Court' 0 0 c( _,, with feloniously embezzing and secreting certsia., ll . pr" money, received by her for and on account of I" Essex, her employer. It appeared that the prosecutrix had a stand in the P ro tn764 i Bazaar, and that the prisoner had been in her s ,, ru nlidet between eight and nine months, and such entire ,"" ag eosen was placed in her integrity, that the sole 0 0 :; of the business was at intervals entrusted to _ . .h e : c ton, ioss ever, circumstances arose which threw swrdet her, and which ultimately led to tisgi e" - „," of her having on Saturday last received two autos t icleSP . and on Monday the sum of 45., in payment for a i r- e dne chased at the counter, and of which she had rend er h e w ° count to the prosecutrix. The extent to which 0"" carried this system of peculation cannot be ascertain"' prosecutrix kept no account of her stock. ns ear The prisoner, on her knees, and cry i ng bi tter ly, nl- i;d nestly implored for mercy. The p rosecutr i x sa id s" e d u ty vindictive feeling against her, but she thought it he r rise"'' bring this"case forward as a warning to others. Th e P had been treated by her with great kindness. Mr. MALTBY said it was a case that precluded de o re' The prisoner had most infamously abused the eontiroas, be' posed in her, and proved herself t the the most dol e ' bo o' cause secret, enemy of her best friend. „,aors Yesterday Richard Jenkins, a respectable looking 30 years of age, underwent an examination on sl e ds; being concerned in a very extensive r o bb er y of iewethe money, which took place on Sunday ev en i ng last, 01; dence of Mrs. Amelia Charlotte Marsham, a r l '"„,,e . rtt i4 ; No. 35, Charles-street, Berkeley-square. The P r Zl i eeit7,.,, question principally consisted of gold neckchains , P it ) 05 armlets, brooches, lockets, and other trinkets, set ; 0 0/.!2: month and precious stones, of the value of between, .0 0 gir" 4001., and also nine sovereigns, and three Si. Bank o' li e ; notes. It was seen safe in the case, where it was ni c lridt,v posited in hire. Marsham's bed-room, about seven i ° l Sunday evening, and was missed about half-past baR that night. The prisoner is the husband of the coe" t hereA • in the habit of frequently visiting her. At presen t de l not the least clue to the property. He was rola° Thursday next. ti t WOR S HIP-S TREE T. rr isr ba , A decent-looking mechanic, named John 0 0 . n",ti charged with having stolen a turnip, value one farthlnt i r" the shop of James Smithurst, a green-grocer in Edw is City-road. tkl PAM The complainant stated that on Saturday ev ening 1 011 soner, passing his shop. helped himself to a turntlh,:ot t is began eating before his face, and as he suffered dallY ' j og depredations,.he thought himself justified in g d i prisoner into custody. is° t; th The policeman said that on recei v i ng c h ar ge of p i ed r tits the latter threatened to knock him do wn , if he pr ey ly te_ 4 l detain him on such an accusati o n, but h e w ent ' t oo" station-house, without attempting any vi o l e n c e. /). was bailed out by his friends soon after h e wa s leek i eu h i t ter9 In answer to the charge, the prisoner co mplaineu l ed tr the harsh conduct that had been pursued towards hin t 'sieslo his character must have been well known to the e° ll ll, a: he had lived five years in the v er y ne i g hbourbo he pe o , taking the turnip was a mere thoughtless act, an d do have paid for it most willingly if he had been allowe° cbail Mr. BROUGHTON said that it was a mos t trurq.e . „ r J re tiel b and the policeman would have ex erc i se d a so und al" he had refused to take it.—Th e pri soner was discharg ed UNION-HALL. os tit d e, AN INTRUDER.—Frederick ,Harmer, a young, r. charged with being fo un d concea l e d i n th e house o f • kern, a solicitor, at Brixton, for an unlawful purens e ' t bst The policeman gave the magistrate a letter fret„, 3 0, 1 0 tlenian in which he stated that since Harmer had 7 k tresr, hely, he ascertained that he was p ay i ng h onour able a togs the housemaid, and that he merely came to the hon se folle fol e t stolen interview with his sweetheart, knowing tiltheree were not permitted there. Th a t h e (M r . Treher°,' to: under all these circumstance s , did no t w i s h t o appea r " the charge. • Ole The MAGISTRATE said that Mr. T re h er n, bed'. ..a 0 etiel d e , ought to have known better than to give the the r pai t l custody, without appearing, at all e ven t s , to state wee o ft the charge against him. The M ag i s t ra t e then regriocked the accused was put to the in co n ven i ence of being e sit and discharged him forthwith. bilP Edward Cashman, a man with a severe wound 01 1 : ho s) if from a blow of a policeman's staff, was charged s tore into the premise s o f M r . Passenger, glass-nlant" Union-street. 0%0 premises ls'awsesernegteo be broken i Passenger stated, that n having ha t d informat io n up all the pit eight with the p o li ceman to watch for the b ur glars. wren,-. o clock in the morning the prisoner and another fill A n be gall mi e to get over th e ga t e at t h e rear of the prem i se s, anu rrhe r„ packing a crate containing decanters, for removal. 1 ; 0 i nse"s man rushed forward to secure the men, both of w a ken 1 / 0 1.1 desperate resistance, and before the prisoner waa str oll be° found necessary to use a staff, with which he wa s aped, the head, and knocked down. The other man es fe e Leing well known he will soon be in custody. ,it(s e The prisoner's defenc e was that he got over t he feet high) for a necessary purpose.—He was remand" , re ,f MAIDSTONE ASSIZES.—Edward Smith, - • To e s"P•atts.ind l i t c a te p d pe y ar c e st d er th da a y t f t , h tr e c p u ar tti t n ie g s and had n ti t u i a m rre inf ie., l ; a e r op l a s ris p o o o;ol house at Ashford, and a fight took place, whe n :°kety who came off second best, drew a knife from hl Jj - jrt . .o stabbed the prosecutor in three different laces. 'l' id the nIT,OI turned a verdict of guilty, and Baron G u rney kea d sr zo was becoming so common, that strong measures 0 co Lv ide r P to put it down; he would therefore take time t 7 " sentence should he passed on the convict. BIRTHS. On the 13th inst.; in Eaton - square , the lady of I% l °P r Or ( 5 ' neral D'Oyly, of a daughter. Rife ° On the 12th inst., in Lpper Gower-street , the Bush Teller, s., of a son. the on the 12th E in q st., in Keppel-street, Russell-squares 1, of Fitzowen Skinner, Esq. , of a son. e fi- On the 12th inst. , in Osnaburgh-terrace, Reg s. Rhys B. Gritl:ths, of a son. e e MARRIED. On the 9th inst., at St. Mary's Church, M g elcoMb ° fV 4 ' James Douglas Moffat, Esq., Bengal Cavalry, only s ° , /l a ,IS° 44 Moffat, Esq., of Harperton, Roxhurghshire, to Jeannett youngest daughter of W. Moffat, Esq., of Weymouth- Willfam iE W ß Ordsworth, PO' On the 10th inst., W. Dobson, Vicar of Tuaford, Notts, aged ten neolonntolfist-b:D., $' On the 12th inst., in Walcot-dace, Kennington, ' Tugwell, aged 74. ' ° 00 London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOv• 4 4 ,i 1 No. 112, Strand, at The Sun M e e, No. 112, SIT the County of Middlesex, Wednesday, March 16,