The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

MORNING SUN CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. The third Sessions of the Central Criminal Court, dur int* the present Mayoralty, commenced yesterday, at the Justice Hall, at the Old Bailey. At ten o'clock the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Alder man Sir Chapman Marshall, Alderman Lainson, the Sheriffs, the tinder-Sheriffs, and the other City autho rities, took their seats upon the back and the Court was opened with the usual formalitqF - - The Grand Jury having been impanelled and sworn, The RECORDER proceeded briefly to address them on their duties, the performance of which would not, he was happy to state, according to present appearances, detain them so long as was sometimes the case. The cases that were brought before them were for the most part of an ordinary character. There was one case, however, to which he would direct their attention for a few moments. It was on a charge of feloniously uttering forged notes. It was perfectly possible that a person might be inno cently in possession of forged notes, and might attempt to pass them without knowing they were forged, therefore the mere fact of possession could not be taken as an assumption of guilt. It was for them to decide whether the previous circumstances deposed to in the case, such as that the party charged had made a previous unsuccessful attempt to pass the same note, ar gued a guilty knowledge on the part of the accused. He was sorry to observe that the Calendar contained six charges of cutting and maiming, none of which, however, presented any legal difficulties. He would not detain them longer, but at once remit them to the execution of their duties. The Grand Jury then retired. The Calendar contains the names of 162 prisoners, of whom 21 are committed from the City of London ; 111 from the county of Middlesex ; 14 from Kent ; and 16 from Surrey. There are four charges of cutting and maiming from Middlesex, and two from Surrey. ROBBERY AT A BARRISTER'S CHAMBERS.—Louisa Stanfield was indicted for stealing a considerable quan tity of plate, consisting of silver spoons and forks, of the value of 401., the property of James M'Donald. Mr. Adolphus appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Chadwick Jones for the prisoner. The prosecutor is a barrister, occupying chambers in the Temple, and had employed the prisoner as his laun dress, and her husband in waiting on him at his cham bers. The prosecutor goes the Northern Circuit, and on his return to town at the conclusion of the long vaca tion, he discovered that his forks and spoons had been taken from his chambers and transferred to the shop of Mr. Walmesley, a pawnbroker, residing at No. 100, Drury-lane, by the prisoner at the bar, and a quantity of imitation silver substituted in its stead. The pri soner, during the prosecutor's absence, had been en trusted with the keys of his plate chest. On behalf of the prisoner, Mr. CHADWICK JONES, having elicited from the prosecutor that he had been left a legacy under his father's will in which document he was called James Benassa M'Donald, contended that the indictment was bad, on the ground of the misnomer. Mr. ADOLPHUS contended that the objection was in valid. The prosecutor, who was born in India, had come to England at a very early age, and had always gone by the name of James M'Donald only, and the circum stance of his having once signed his name as James Be nassa M'Donald, was not sufficient to prove that he had received the name of Benassa at his baptism. The RECORDER said that, in his opinion, the evidence in support of the misnomer was so slight, that it scarcely amounted to anything. That, however, was a question of fact which he should leave to the Jury. The case must go on. Mr. CHADWICK JONES having addressed the Jury for the prisoner, who had hitherto borne a good character, The RECORDER, in summing up, said that the Jury would have two questions to determine—first, did Mr. M'Donald bear any other Christian name than that of James; and, secondly, did the prisoner take the property in question with the intention of stealing it. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. ADOLPHUS said there was another indictment against the prisoner, which, however, under the circum stances, it was not his intention to press. He felt bound to say that no person could have behaved better than the pawnbrokers had in the present case—they had afforded every facility to the prosecutor. Mr. M'Donald recommended the prisoner to mercy. The prisoner was then removed. - John Stanfield, 27, the reputed husband of the female prisoner, was then indicted for stealing a shirt and some other articles of wearing apparel, the property of the same prosecutor, his master. Mr. Doane defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prosecutor upon making the dis covery of his former loss, instituted a further search, which led to the apprehension of the prisoner, and upon his person there were found some articles of wearing apparel, the property of the prosecutor. There was every reason to believe, that although the prisoner and the woman represented themselves to be man and wife, that they were not married, and it appeared that it was in a great measure owing to his solicitation that the former prisoner had committed the offence of which she had been found guilty.—The Jury convicted the prisoner. The RECORDER directed the prisoners to be brought up for judgment, and after observing that they had been convicted of a very serious offence, said that as there ap peared to be good reasons for believing that the woman had acted under the control and solicitation of the other pri soner, the sentence upon her would not be so severe ttX it otherwise would have been, He then ordered the man to be transported for seven years, and the woman was sen tenced to be kept to hard labour for twelve months. William Cooke, 19, was indicted for stealing a cash box, fifteen sovereigns, and some silver, the property of William Finch, and John Hardman, 23, was indicted for feloniously receiving part of the money, knowing that it had been stolen. Mr. Prendergast defended Hardman. Mrs. Fanny Finch deposed that her husband kept the Cock public-house at Clapham, and on the 29th of Oc tober, a quarter before twelve at night, she placed a cash box on a chair in the tap-room. It was locked, and con tained about twenty pounds in gold and silver. She let some people out of the house, and having secured the door she went up to bed, leaving the cash-box in the tap-room. The prisoner Cooke had been employed in the house occasionally, and he came backwards and for wards after the loss of the cash-box was discovered. The cash-box was missed on the following morning after she had left it in the tap-room. .James Knowles, a labourer, proved that on the 18th of November, he was at work at the prosecutor's cow house, when he found a cash-box. It had been covered, but a dog that was with him, scratched it out of the ground. It was half open, and all the money was gone. A police constable proved that while he was on duty at the Clapham Police Station, he heard a man named Laing ask the prisoner Cooke what he had done with the money, and he replied that he took the cash-box out of the tap-room, and carried it into the yard, where he broke it open, and he took out the money and gave five sovereigns to Hardman, and some more of the money to his sister, and he kept the rest, and afterwards hid the cash-box in Mr. Finch's cow-shed. Another police-con stable proved that the prisoner Hardman came to him and told him that he wished to deliver himself up, and he said that he knew nothing of the robbery, but that Cooke, as they were walking together, pulled a bag of money outof his pocket and gave him two sovereigns, and he was at first afraid to take them, but he ultimately did so, and he afterwards gave him two more, and he then accompanied Cooke to his sister, and he gave her some money, and they subsequently went to Kent-street, in the Borough, where they staid till they spent all the rest of the mone). Mr. PRENDERGAST, on behalf of Hardman, submitted to the Jury, that although it appeared to be clear that he had received some of the stolen money, there was not the least proof that he knew it had been stolen ; and he called witnesses, who gave him a good character. The prisoner Cooke said nothing in his defence. The Jury found Cooke Guilty, and acquitted Hardman. The RECORDER having ascertained that Cooke was in a very ill state of health, and under the care of the sur geon of the gaol, ordered the judgment upon him to be respited until next Session. NEW COURT. Edward Carter was indicted for stealing slbs. weight of cigars, value 1L 10s., the property of John Weston. From the evidence given, it appeared that the prisoner met the errand-boy of the prosecutor, as he was taking the cigars in question to a house in the Edgeware-road, the boy had the misfortune to let the bundle fall, and the result was, that the cigars were strewed about the road. The prisoner came up to the lad, and assisted him in tying up the cigars, and accompanied him to the Edge ware-road, but the party refused to receive the cigars, as a considerable portion of them were missing. The prisoner then took the lad to a coffee-house in St. Giles's, told him to go in and inquire for a person named Johnson, and that while he did so he would hold the cigars for him. As was to be expected, on the boy's return the prisoner had decamped; he was, however, subsequently secured by a policeman. The Jury, without any hesitation convicted the priso ner, and The COMMON SERGEANT sentenced him to four months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. Philip Godfrey, aged 36, described in the calendar as a saddler, was indicted with obtaining money under false pretences. From the evidence given it appeared that the prisoner was employed by Messrs. Reeve and Hatton, who carry on the business of engravers and printers in King-street, Covent-garden, to obtain orders at a com mission of la per cent. Messrs. Reeve and Hatton were in the habit of paying their servants every Saturday, and the prisoner, for the purpose of obtaining money on account, represented to them that he had orders from Messrs. Truman and Ilanbury, and Messrs. Charrington, for card-plates. Upon the representation of the prisoner the orders were got up at considerable expense, but before the plates were sent in the prisoner decamped, having obtained his commission from the prosecutors. From the statement of one of the prosecutors it appeared that they estimami their loss, in const , quence of the false orders given by the prisoner, at between 9 00/. and 3001. Mr. Clarkson app,ared for the prosecution, and Mr. Ballantyne defended the prisoner. The COMMON SERGEANT summed up, and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him tea nit The Cora'r sentenced him to fo.ir calendar months' imprisonment and hard labour. A WOMAN, NINETY-THREE YEARS OF AGE, BURNT TO DEATH.—Mr. Baker held an inquest on Saturday last, at the Middlesex Hospital, on the body of Ann White, aged 93, of No. 74, Belton-street, Long acre. Samuel Guthridge, one of the lodgers, said that on Monday night last he heard the deceased, who lived in the room below his, give an alarm of 4 ' fire," and call out for help. He instantly ran down stairs, and saw the deceased in flames. A man helped him to extinguish the fire by wrapping a cloak around her, and subsequently in taking her - to the hospital. Witness had since ascer tained that deceased was searching in a box for some sugar, when the candle which she held fell against, and set firc to her cap. She:died of the injuries the follow dAy. Verliet, " Aecilental Death." LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 3. IN RE THOMAS STOWELL. The insolvent in this case was the well-known com mon informer. He had been previously before the Court on his application to be admitted to bail, which was refused. His last application to the Court was opposed by Mr. Cooke on behalf of one creditor. Having come to an arrangement, the Learned Commissioner ordered •him to be discharged. IN RE BLACKET REDESDALE HARRISON. The insolvent appeared on his petition to be dis charged, and was opposed, on behalf of his detaining creditor, by Mr. Nicholls. Mr. Commissioner BOWEN, after hearing very detailed' evidence, ordered him to be remanded for eight months from the date of his vesting order at the suit of his de taining creditor, for vexatiously defending an action, whereby a large and unnecessary amount of law costs was accumulated. IN THE MATTER OF RUBEN MARKER.-PERJURY. Mr. WOODROFFE made an application to the Court that it would order the schedule of the insolvent to bo given up to Mr. Langrishe, the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Sussex, as the grounds for sustaining an indictment for perjury against the insolvent. It appeared that on the 3d of last September he had been before the Court and filed the schedule to which he (Mr. Wood roffe) alluded, and from which was omitted certain pro perty to which he was entitled, when he was remanded for three months. Circumstances had transpired since by which they were enabled to establish the charge of wilful and corrupt perjury on the schedule, and proceed ings were now about to be taken. Mr. Commissioner BOWEN at once acceded to the application, ordering that an office copy should be filed of the schedule before it left the office. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. These sessions commenced yesterday, before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS and a full bench of Magistrates. The LEARNED SERGEANT having congratulated the Jury on the lightness of the calendar, both in this Court and at the Old Bailey, the Court proceeded with the hearing of the trials, which were very few and en tirely without interest. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-ROUSE. Maurice Pitcher and George Augustus Pitcher, who were a few days ago brought before the Lord Mayor in the custody of Forrester the officer, charged by Colonel Aspinall, the American Consul, with having committed extensive forgeries upon certain banks in Philadelphia, in the United States, were re-examined yesterday. The American Consul attended. Mr. C. Phillips, upon the part of the American Consul, stated, that Colonel Aspinall having received information that the banks of Philadelphia had been plundered by means of forgeries committed by Maurice Pitcher, and that the brother of that person had aided in the depre dation, measures were taken to apprehend the two ac cused persons. Colonel Aspinall, immediately after their apprehension by Forrester, received from them the most full and undisguised acknowledgment of the offence. In fact, the young men had, by giving up all the property they were in possession of, and confessing the whole of the iniquitous transaction, made as complete an atonement as it was in their power to offer, and the American Consul, who compassionated their youth and the destitute condition in which they were in a strange and remote country, was unwilling to take any measures against them without receiving express directions to that effeet from the Government and the bankers of the United States. There were, the Learned Counsel said, such difficulties in the case, as regarded a prosecution in this country, as could not be overcome, for there existed no evidence that they had committed any offence in England. The expense attendant upon sending them back to America, if such a course were practicable, would be of no small amount, and under all the circum stances it was considered advisable to apply for the fur ther remand of the prisoners until Wednesday, as Colo nel Aspinall might in the interval receive directions for his peremptory guidance with respect to the two young men, who had evidently plunged into the criminal act without consideration. The LORD MAYOR—You require that they should be remanded to the Compter for a few days ? Mr. Phillips—Yes. It is merciful to send them to that place, for they are supplied there with the necessaries of life, which they have no earthly means of procuring, for they have given up every farthing, and they are now ut terly destitute and penniless. Maurice Pitcher—My Lord, if you give us our liberty we could soot find means of support. The LORD MAYOR—That is just the thing we enter tain the most reasonable doubts of. You know nobody here, and your introduction to this country is not of such a nature as to raise funds for you among strangers. Suppose you were at your liberty, what would you do ? You, I think, had some intention of going into the Aus trian service ? Maurice Pitcher—Yes. It was my de sign to enter into the Austrian army. The LORD MAYOR—And is it there you would propose to go now? Maurice Pitcher—Yes, my Lord. The LORD MAYOR—What means have you of going to Austria? Maurice Pitcher—Means! why, I should work my passage over. The LORD MAYOR—You don't seem to know that, if you go to Vienna, you have a great way to travel by land. Maurice Pitcher—Well, I can work my passage to any other country, and join any other army. Mr. Hobler—How do you know that they want soldiers in Austria? lam sure they would not, under any cir cumstances, take a person who appears so ill adapted to undergo hardship as you.—Here Maurice Pitcher, who is evidently a lad altogether unfit for harsh service of any kind, seemed to be surprised. His brother, George Au gustus, who, although not 18 years of age, is a person of larger dimensions and apparently of much greater strength, here advanced in front, as if to show that his services would not be rejected anywhere. The LORD MAYOR—It is quite a wild and ridiculous scheme. You are neither of you qualified for service. Such soldiers as you would make are not wanted by any country. I shall remand you till Thursday. In the hands of Colonel Aspinall, you are in the hands of a gentleman distinguished for humanity, and who has com passion for your youth as well as your destitute condition. Mr. Phillips—Colonel Aspinall will do what is best for them, consistently with his duty to his own Govern ment, and to the commercial men, for the security of whose property he has been exerting himself. The prisoners were then remanded till Thursday. A blunt tradesman, named James Jannock, whose ut terance soon declared him to be a Scotsman, was brought up, charged by a City policeman with having insulted a gentleman named Jones, who was in conver sation with a lady in Bread-street. From the police man's account it appeared that as the defendant was walking along Bread-street, in an inebriated state, on the first night of the New Year, a gentleman, who sub sequently stated his name to be Mr. Jones, and gave his address, was standing on the pavement talking to a lady. The defendant, in a rough manner, desired the gentle man to move out of the way, an address which Mr. Jones resented by pushing aside the person who so unceremo niously attacked his dignity, whereupon the defendant proceeded to apply such language to his assailant as was very difficult to be endured, especially under the obser vation of one of the fair sex, for the Scotch blood was up, and the owner of it had evidently received the finishing stroke to his education in the vicinity of Petticoat-lane. The scene concluded by the introduction of the defen dant to the station-house, a place wonderfully calculated to bring a man's pompous thoughts down to the level of common humanity. The LORD MAYOR—Pray, where is Mr. Jones? He ought to be here to substantiate his charge. The policeman said that the gentleman was not in attendance. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, defendant, what have you to say ? Defendant—Why, you see, my Lord, the first day of the new year is a great day with the Scotch ; and I was with a few friends having a bit of jollification. So on my return home through Bread-street, which is, you will observe, my Lord, very narrow in the pavement, this Mr. Jones was discoursing with a lassie. Well, I told him to mak room for a civil body to pass ; and what means does he tak to mak room, do you ken ? Why, he shoves me right into the middle of the mud. Well, as I had a leetle drap to see the new year properly in, I for certain did talk a bit to him ; and then up comes this man, and at the desire of Mr. Jones, bundles me off to the station-house. The LORD MAYOR—Officer, was there room for the defendant to pass on the pavement at the time. Police man—l should say there was, my Lord. Defendant—ls it not rayther hard, my Lord, for an honest tradesman to be locked up in a station-house for such a trifle as this. If I happened not to be known in the City, I should have been in custody till this morning —and all for nothing—all because I said, " tak yourself out of my way."—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—You ought not to have got drunk, my friend. That generally carries its punishment along with it. The defendant—l admit I was not sober, but there was no room to pass on the pavement. The LORD MAYOR—Ah, we know very well how large a pavement must be to suit the capacity of a drunken Scotchman.—(Great laughter.) Defendant—But your Lordship will allow that my punishment was too severe for my offence. The LORD MAYOR—Why fcertainly think it was ; but as a philosopher you will derive advantage from the circumstance. If you do get drunk any more you will, I dare say, keep a more civil tongue in your head, especi ally when you speak to anybody in the street who has a lady under his protection. You are discharged ; and I can tell you one thing for your information, it is, that I shall never see you in such a situation again. —(A laugh.)—The defendant, who seemed to feel the kind lecture of the Lord Mayor in the right way, then bowed and retired. GUILDIIALL. A poor creature, named Williams, was charged with stealing a leg of pork in Shoe-lane. In reply to the worthy Alderman, the prisoner said he was forced by hunger to take the meat, and it was quite a matter of indifference to him whether he was seen or not, as any fate would be better than wandering the streets night after night, with nothing sac the flag of a hall door to sit on.—Comtnitted for trial. The number of unfortunate beings who were brought before the Bench in a state of destitution was appalling. The greater number of them broke windows or lamp: for the purpose of being sent to gaol to get shelter and a morsel of bread. CROYDON POLICE, Jan. 3. Enoch Clarke, and Thomas Clark, two boys, the first 13 and the other 11, were brought before Mr. SUTHER LAND, ''iarged with felony, under very aggravated cir cumstances : William Field, a boy nine years old, stated that he was engaged in minding his master's sheep, on Hamsey green, near Croydon, when the prisoners came up to him and asked him if he had got a knife, and when he told them he had nut, they said they ;must have his comforter and his smock frock, Ike was about to call for assistance, when they both attacked him and threw him down, and one of the prisoners held his hand over his mouth while the other took his shoes off, and was proceeding to strip him, but hearing some one approach ing, they desisted, and ran away, taking his shoes with them. A person soon afterwards came up, and he gave him information of what had taken place, and he rode after the prisoners, and they were taken into custody. John Glover stated that hearing the boy Field cry out, he went to him and found him very much frightened and his face was bleeding. He told him he had been assaulted and robbed by two railway boys, and witness having ascertained in what direction they had gone, went after them, and he found the prisoners walking in the road towards Croydon, and he stopped and questioned them. They at first denied having com mitted any robbery, but at length the prisoner Enoch admitted that he took the shoes from the boy Field, and he said he did so because they were better than his own. The prisoners said nothing in their defence, and the Magistrate, having ascertained that they bore a very bad character, directed that they should be committed to the county gaol to take their trial. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1842. CORONER'S INQUEST. Last night an inquest was held at the Edinburgh Castle, Strand, on the body of Charlotte Closson, aged 63. Mrs. Deborah Johnson. 31, White Hart-street, Drury lane, said that she met the deceased accidentally about three weeks ago. She was talking to a person witness knew. She stated that she was very hungry, when witness took her home and gave her a cup of tea and some bread and butter. She called to see witness at her tea-time several times since. On Saturday she called again, when she appeared almost in a dying state, and she stated that she had not had anything to eat all that day. She could scarcely hold her cup of tea, and witness thought every moment she was there she would die. Witness offered her a red-herring to eat, when she stated that she was too far gone to cat. Wit ness then observed to her that a person in her state ought to go to the workhouse. During the conversation she observed that she knew Mr. Short, proprietor of So merset House Tavern, Strand. Witness and her sister had led deceased as far as the passage to take her there, when she died in their arms. By the CORONER—I sent to the deceased's sister, who lives in Upper Bland-street, a letter on the Saturday, in which she was told that the deceased was dying from want. The letter was returned, and some pieces of printed paper were pasted on it, to the following effect :—" Peni tent sinner ! On earth to-day, to-morrow in hell. Seek pardon—delay not." When she read the con tents she was almost immediately seized with death. Witness has since seen the sister, who stated that the deceased left her husband thirty-five years ago with two children, and that she had been frequently relieved by them. She was brought to the state she was in owing to her own misconduct. Other witnesses were examined, when it appeared that she was bequeathed 500/. at her father's death, and that she had been supported by her family, from whom she had alienated herself by her own misbehaviour. Verdict—That dece;.sed died from want, brought on by her own stubborn temper. MUNIFICENCE AND LIBERALITY OF THE EARL OF KINTORE. Provost Blaikie has just received the following com munication from the Earl of Kintore, enclosing a check for 300/. " Keith-hall, Christmas-day, 1841. " My Lord Provost—By the Herald of the 27th of last month, I am so far glad to infer that Aberdeen at' present is an exception to Paisley, and several places in England, where the manufacturing interest is distressed. " We are well aware that the Corn-laws are the alleged cause of this distress. Whether this be bona fide the case or not, I am not prepared to say ; neither do I, at the eleventh hour, sufficiently understand the bearings of this vital question, to enable me to vote pro or con ; and I consider it far too intricate a question to vote at random on. lam no Monopolist ; I wish, if possible, to see fair play extended to both interests, and not to dam age one, with the unfounded hope of benefiting the other. As far as I can glean at present. I see heavy taxa tion on the one side, and starvation in some places on the other. God forbid 1 should, for an instant, hesitate to extend my sympathy to honest operatives out of work, destitute of food and raiment ; still, I would fain hope that Parliament, while giving every proper allowance to the present distressed state of the manufacturing interest, will, at the same time, give every fair and due protec tion to the agricultural interest ; and, when any Par liament, be it Whig or Tory, shall be enabled to de velope the quo modo, by fixing such an equilibrium as shall generally satisfy the country, then I, for one, shall willingly subscribe to the same, be it for or against me. Meanwhile, I tender you my voluntary contribution for the distress you do have. I beg it may be applied as ne cessity demands.—l remain, my Lord, with much re spect, your Lordship's faithful and obedient servant, —Aberdeen Herald. KINTORE. DISTRESS AT STOCKPORT. The following statement has beeq published by the authority of the Mayor of Stockport : It is well known that the cotton manufacture of this kingdom has been long and greatly depressed, and that numbers of persons engaged in it have been thrown out of employment, and great distress occasioned in the va rious towns and districts of which it is the staple ma nufacture. The borough of Stockport, the working population of which is engaged almost exclusively in this manufacture, has suffered in common with other towns, from its general and long-continued depression. The distress so occasioned has been increased to an ex tent, it is believed, beyond that of any other town, by special and peculiar circumstances of a local influence. We allude to the entire stoppage of some of the largest establishments in the town and neighbourhood, by which several thousand persons have been thrown out of employment, who still remain without any pros pect of being able to return to it. Of the establishments at work, a great part are so only partially ; and the working of short time (that is of four days per week) has been continued to a greater or less extent since May last. Upwards of one-third of the horse-power in the town and neighbourhood is unemployed, which, if at work, would give employ ment to more than 4,000 persons. It is believed that there are, altogether, about 5,000 operatives of various trades unable to obtain employment. The conse quences of this suspension of labour are extensive loss and suffering among all classes dependent upon trade, and unexampled distress and privation among the work ing population. This distress, heightened as it now is by the severity of the weather, has arrived at a pitch of which it is impossible to convey any adequate idea by mere statistical information. The Poor-rates have regularly increased, and are now become a serious drain upon the diminished resources of the comparatively few who are able to pay them. Families, two or three together, are crowding into one house, or leaving their cottages for cellars : some are quitting their native land : numbers, having exchanged all but the last ar ticles of their wearing apparel for the means of sustain ing life, are on the verge of destitution. Honest men, willing to work, are compelled, with their entire fami lies, to become street mendicants, or to live, day by day, on the precarious charity of their neighbours ; and besides an increase of disease arising, in a great mea sure, from a deficiency of food ; many, it is to be feared, are literally starving to death. Of 15,823 indi viduals, inhabiting 2,965 houses, lately visited under the direction of a Committee appointed for the purpose, 1,204 only were found to be fully employed ; 2,866 partially employed, and 4,148, able to work, were wholly without employment. The remainder 7,605 persons were unable to work. The average weekly income of the above 15,823 per sons was ls. 4id. each. The average weekly wages of those fully employed were 7s. 6-1-d. each. The average weekly earnings of those partially em ployed were 4s. 'lid. The Committee appointed for the purposes of the relief now to be afforded, being fully convinced that all the efforts that can possibly be made in the town and neighbourhood will be utterly inadequate to meet the pressing necessities of the case, have resolved, under the direction of the Meeting by which they were appointed, to make an appeal to their countrymen generally, and especially to those individuals and classes of society who feel little of the pressure of the times, or who are re moved from all fear of personal suffering and privation. ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.—The first meet ing for the season was held on Saturday afternoon, the Right Hon. Sir Alexander Johnson, Bart., in the Chair. A letter was read from Captain Newbold on the ancient mounds of scoriated ashes in Southern India. Many conjectures had been made as to their origin, and amongst others it was considered that they were the re sult of volcanic action. The improbability of this was, however, pointed out, as there was even no vestige of volcanic action in the neighbourhood. Many of these burrows were of some extent, one, which was mea sured, being of the dimensions of 34 yards by 29. It was the author's opinion that They were ashes princi pally of slaves, or of those slain in the battle-field, which was also interestingly confirmed by the fact, that on analysis they were found to contain largely phospho ric acid. Sacrificial rites with human bodies were prac tised by the ancient Hindoos on a very large scale, to propitiate success in war, agriculture, &c. On one occa sion it is recorded that no fewer than 1,000 human sacri fices were offered, and in another instance 1,000 ele phants 'and an equal number of sheep. The Hindoos were, however, nut the only people characterised by human sacrifices, as the same was practised by the ancient Druids only a few centuries before the Great Alfred, by the nomades of Tartary, and in some of the ceremonies of Greece and Rome. The practice still exists amongst the Koonds, from which it is likely, how ever, to be rooted out, by the vigorous measures of Lord Elphinstone. In the course of a subsequent conversation it was stated that there were no signs of volcanoes, either active or extinct, to be met with between the Himalaya mountains and Cape Cormorin. " I want a cheap cheese," said a countryman, upon entering a provision shop. You must go to Hol land for it, then,' was the reply of the shopkeeper, " for you cannot have it in this country."— The Struggle. SILK HOSIERY TRADE.—It is the intention of the operative silk stocking-makers to memorialize his Royal Highness Prince Albert to renew the once pre vailing fashion of wearing silk hose for ordinary as well as Court dress.—Leeds Mercury. FREAKS OF NATURE.--011 Monday evening last, a calf was ushered into life with the extraordinary possession of two heads. The animal is still alive, and has two mouths, 'with both of which it eats, four eyes, but only two ears...-Liverpool Chronicle. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, JAN. I.—The Rev. Henry Howes, M.A. of Gonville and Caius College, has been presented by the Lord Chancellor to the Rectory of Barton St. An drew, Norfolk. The Rev. Thomas William Salmon, M.A., formerly of Gonville and Cahn College, has been presented to the Perpetual Curacy of Hopton, Suffolk, by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. The Rev. S. Vincent Beechy, M.A., of Gonville and Caius College, has been nominated to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Peter's Church, Fleetwood, by Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, Bart. The Rev. John Witherington Peers, M.A., of Catha rine Hall, has been preferred to the Vicarage of Tets worth, in the county of Oxford. Patron, Richard Barry Slater, Esq., M.D. The Rev. T. S. Green, M.A., of Christ's College, has been appointed Chaplain to the Ashby-de-la- Zouch Union. The Rev. W. Oldfield, formerly of St. John's College, has been appointed to the Curacy of Bucknall and Bag nall, Staffordshire. The Rev. Charles Richard Alford, M.A., of Trinity, has been licensed by the Bishop. of Worcester to the Per petual Curacy of St. Matthew, in Rugby, Warwickshire. The Rev. Nicholson Burrows, 8.A., formerly of Trinity College, late Principal of the Hull College, was on Tuesday, the 21st ult., elected Head Master of the Yarmouth Proprietary School. The Bishop of Lichfield has licensed the Rev. George Lloyd, 8.A., of Emmanuel College, to the Perpetual Curacy of Willesley, in the county of Derby.—Patron, Sir Charles Abney Hastings, Bart. OXFORD, JAN. I.—Messrs. H. T. Glyn, G. R. 11. Somerset, H. E. Cramer, T. 0. Blackall, W. E. Raw storne, and C. Lloyd have been elected actual students of Christ Church ; the three former are from West minster school. The following have been appointed chaplains of Christ Church :—The Rev. P. C. Kidd and the Rev. J. B. Fawkes. Sir J. C. Thorold, Bart., has presented the Rev. Edw. Trollope, of St, Mary Hall, to the Vicarage of Rauceby, Lincolnshire. Lord Rolle has presented the Rev. R. H. Chichester, of Exeter College, to the Vicarage of Chittleham, De vonshire. The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church have pre sented the Rev. C. G. Hutchinson, student of Christ Church, to the Rectory of Batsford, Gloucestershire. The President and Governors of Guy's Hospital have presented the Rev. John Nelson, of St. John's College, to the Rectory of Peterstow, near Ross, Herefordshire. The Trustees of Christ Church, Litherland, in the county of Lancaster, have nominated the Rev. J. E. Bates, of Christ Cnurch, to the Perpetual Curacy of the above-named church, to which he has been licensed. The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. R. Hodges to the Vicarage of Little Barrington, in the county of Gloucestershire. The contest for the Professorship of Poetry, which is carried on with such unprecedented activity, and which has occasioned such excitement throughout the country, will, it is understood, be decided this month, Wednes day, the 26th inst., being mentioned as the day of election. ALARMING FIRE AT, THE LONDON GAS WORKS AT VAUXHALL—On Saturday afternoon, be tween the hours of one and two, the inhabitants residing at Vauxhall and its vicinity were thrown into a state of great excitement by the sudden issuing of huge volumes of black smoke from the premises of the London Gas works, situated in the Vauxhall-walk,• Vauxhall, and in a few minutes after its outbreak, so dense had the atmo sphere become in the immediate neighbourhood, that it bore a close resemblance to a thick black fog. The alarm of the inhabitants residing near the premises at this mo ment, fearful that an immediate explosion would take place, was extremely painful to behold. It appears that the fire was occasioned by an overflow of tar on the hydraulic main in the No. 3 retort-house, which imme diately, on its descending communicated to the mouth piece of the furnace, and thus caused a most terrific igni tion. Happily, however, at the time a great number of workpeople were on the premises, and they were actively employed in throwing water on the flames, which in the short space of a quarter of an hour were so far sub dued as to prevent them extending any further. Almost immediately upon its being known in the neighbourhood that the premises were on fire, Messrs. Burnett and Co., the eminent distillers, of Vauxhall, dispatched two of their powerful engines, manned by 20 of their own work people, to the scene in case of emergency; but upon their arrival there was no occasion to put them in operation. although the assistance of the men was eagerly accepted. This is not the first time that the Company are indebted to the valuable aid of Messrs. Burnett and Co.'s work people. The engines of the brigade belonging to the Waterloo-road station, acc ompanied by that o f th e W es t of England, were quickly on the spot after the outbreak, but the fire being extinguished before they arrived, they were not called into use. The damage done could not be ascertained, but principally the most destroyed is tar. Not the slightest inconvenience will be felt at the works from this accident. It is a singular circumstance that on the same day five years ago nearly all the Company's works on the banks of the river were destroyed by fire. TRADE OF DUNDEE.—FIax continues in de mand at last week's quotations, with a good deal of bu siness doing. For the present there appears little pros pect cf any advance in the price. The various foreign advices received since our last are as follows:—From Archangel (12th November o. s.) they write—" The accounts from the flax districts in the interior of the country, about the quality of the new flax, continue, we are happy to say, more favourable ; but how, under these circumstances, taken along with the bad state of things on your side, there should be found buyers of Otborney flax in the usual proportions at Ro s. 125, and 2d sort flax codilla at Ro s. 5.50, we really do not understand." In St. Petersburgh nothing doing in either flax or hemp. Riga dates are up to the 10th December, when prices of produce remained stiff, chiefly in conse quence of the weather continuing open and mild, which prevents supplies being received by the sledgeway. At that date, so little appearance there was of winter setting in, that two ships had been chartered to load grain. Flax was there taken at—for Crown Marion, R.S. 314- or 37/. 10s. 3d. ; PTR, R.S. 29 or 341. 18s. sd. ; DC, R.S. 25 or 301. I Is. id. ; RT., R.S, 21 or 26/. 6s. sd. Ex change was 39d. per R.S. There is a good deal doing here in yarns, chiefly for the French market, without which outlet we must have experienced great stagnation, seeing the home market is in such a depressed state.— Dundee Advertiser. THE LADIES' MEMORIAL TO THE QUEEN ON THE CORN-LAWS.—We understand that this memo rial has already received upwards of 50,000 of the signa tures of the women of Manchester.—lllanchester Times. SMUGGLING.----A large quantity of struggled brandy, 170 casks, was brought to our Custom-house on Monday last. We are informed it was found buried in Blue Anchor bay. It is said that the teetotallers here are exceedingly rejoiced.—Somerset County Gazette. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WEST ERN Raieway.—With such examples before us, each unhappily growing in intensity, of the misery it has caused, can any man say, that the front of a luggage train is a Et—for we will not insult common sense so much as to call it the safest—place for human beings to be put ? We can conceive that it is the best place for the pockets of a Company, who may have to pay for the goods they may damage on the way, and not for the lives taey may destroy ; but unless in the greater risk to life and limb, we can see nothing to be gained by the pas sengers, and we seriously hope, if the Companies do not one and all take warning by the calamitous event just happened, and provide better for the poorer public, that the Legislature will do it for them. The public pay for a safe conveyance, and have a right to it, and they who attempt to prejudice that right, are as much enemies to the railways as they are to the public. For our part we have always upheld railways, as the safest of all modes of transit hitherto invented, and we feel our indignation rising when we see it affected by ignorance or wilful ness, or dogmatic pertinacity in favour of absurd or dan gerous practices. We do not mean to say that accidents would be totally prevented by running passengers' trucks behind the goods—for the Hull and Selby acci dent rises up before us as a proof that carelessness may frustrate the wisest plans—but we say, that the elements of accidents are more numerons in front than in the rear of a train, and that it is no less the interest than the duty of every Company to give their customers the safest place their conveyance admits of.—Railway Magazine. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—An in quisition was held on the 28th ult., at Cullompton, be fore Charles Brutton, Esq., Under-Sheriff', and a highly respectable special jury of the county of Devon, Arthur Chichester, Esq., foreman, to assess the compensation money to be paid by this Company for the purchase of about seven acres and a half of land in the parish of Burliscombe, required of Richard Hurley, Esq., of Uffculm, and for damages resulting to him for the taking of such land. The sum of 500ewas awarded for the land and timber, including 1401. fOr the timber, and the sum of 2301. for damages, includin g 301. f or the te nant, making in th e w hole the sum o f 73G1. the Com pany providing a b r id g e in lieu of a l eve l cross i ng . Mr. Ilurley's claim for the items comprised in the award of 7301., amounted to 1,7721--O n th e follow ing day an o th er i nqu i s i t i on w as h e ld i n t h e Town H a ll at Wellingto n , b e f ore Edward Cole s , E sq., un d er She riff, and an equally respectable jury of the county of Somerset, to assess t h e c ompensation mo ne y s t o b e p a id for about el even acres o f land in the parish o f Stan - 1136)rd Arundel, requi re d o f T. W. Were, Esq., a n d f or d amages resulting to him, and the following sums were by con sent awarded to th a t ge ntleman, viz., 1 ,5001. for the land, the house and buildings, and the timber. The house and buildings were valued by the claimant's surveyor at 8001, and the timber at 2601., 8001. for severance and all consequent damages, making a total of 2,300/. Mr. Were's claim amounted to between 4,0001. and 5,0001. In these two jury cases Sir William Follett, with Mr. Talbot, were the counsel for the C om p an y , and Mr. Ser geant Ludlow and Mr. Montague Bere for the land owners.—Bristol Mercury. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—A most diabolical attempt was made on Wednesday night to cause a further accident on the Groat West rn line. The mail train was on its way from London, and when within about three miles of Bath, the signal was given to the engine-driver of something wrong, and the train was stopped with all possible dispatch. On investigation it appears that sense villain had placed two large stones (one on each rail) with the view of sending the engine off the line, but which did not take place. One of the stones was crushed into a thousand atoms, and flew over the driver and st oxer w ithout doing them any ser i ous injury ; the other s t one was forced on one sid e b y t h e sword, or guard, whi c h i s placed before the w h ee l s, b ut both the guards w ere pu t o ut of their place, and much bent and twisted. AN EMBRY O CONSERVATIVE.-A young gentleman was asked the other day if his father was not giving him a liberal education. " No," indignantly re plied the young cockatrice, " My father is not giving me a Liberal education ; he is giving 4e a Conservative sducatioß, Sir.' STATE OF THE HOISERY AND LACE TRADES. (From the Nolinghans Review.) The demand for plain bobbin net by no means keeps pace with the supply, which is increasing, it is said by persons who have the b es t means o f knowing, to an extent which is pregnant with ruinous consequences. The number of machines worked by power are about equal in the Western and Midland counties ; and we believe both are suffering from the want of demand. ' In this state of affairs common prudence says that to avoid an extensive stoppage, it would be wise for the factory owners to work only half hours. A total stoppage would be fatal indeed to the workmen, espe cially in the Midland counties, who have in general no other employment to resort to. We have heard as yet but of four power factories on the Continent, viz. one al St. Quentin, consisting of sixty-seven machines, one at Douay, employing twenty-three machines, one at Hartha, in Saxony, employing eleven machines, and one at Litterwitz, in Moravia, containing about 145 machines.' These factories do not require English hands, only as setters-up, or overlookers, women being employed in many of them. A considerable hosiery firm in this town, have given notice to their workmen that they intend to reduce the prices for making full-wrought cotton hose from six pence to two shillings per dozen, according to quality. This has caused a considerable sensation in the villages north of Nottingham. A meeting was held at Arnold on Monday, which appointed a deputation to wait upon the house in question, as many of the hands, contrary to expectation, seemed determined to strike, and, ac cording to the usual custom in that branch, bring in their frames to the warehouse. Upon hearing this the hosier retrograded from his original purpose, and proposed to only abate one description of hose 3d. per dozen, but the wary manufacturer artfully pro posed that the workmen should increase their hose in width half a size, which is nearly equal to a shilling per dozen in fine stockings. Such is the state of excitement that a meeting of delegates from the numerous villages in which this manufacture is carried on, is called to meet next Monday at noon, at the Cross Keys, in Bayard lane. Another meeting, we understand, is called at the Nag's Head, Mansfield-road, at the same time of the hands who work for the house proposing the reduction. So great has been the gradual encroaching peculations of the hosiers in respect of the size and width, that three whole sizes have been imposed on the workmen since 1821 A report has reached us, of the intention of establish ing a power lace factory in the United States, and we have heard that some parties have an intention of form ing a joint-stock-lace manufactory at Patterson, where there are already some considerable cotton factories, the capital to consist of 600,000 dollars, to be subscribed in shares. The project is to build 200 power bobbin net machines, a factory to contain them, and a spinning and doubling establishment, to supply the machines with thread ; the whole is to be propelled by water, Patter son being admirably situated, having a constant supply and fall of water for any purpose. lt is certain, that a master smith in this town has stated that he has been offered 4001. per annum to superintend the erection of the lace machinery. It is grievous to state, that there is no visible im provement iu the drawer, glove, plain silk hose, or knotted branches. It is as mysterious to know what has become of one part of the workmen, as to conjecture how the others manage to exist. A. very singular lot of frames was offered by auction, by Mr. W. Wright, at the Ptough and Harrow, con sisting of a number of frames from Godalming, in Surrey ; many of them are more than 120 years old. Among the rest, we were sorry to observe the cele brated frame " Magog," the widest stocking-frame in the world, it being 54 inches on the needles. This giant frame was built by Mr. Horton, the noted pa tentee, in London, about the year 1777. It was ori ginally a knotted frame, and was calculated to make silk breeches, then in the height of fashion. About the year 1790. Mr. Horton being a partner, it was removed to the Keeley factory, Godalming, where it made fleecy blankets and great coats until the year 1838, a period of 48 years. So great was the width, that the London giant frightened all the Nottingbairi purchasers. and there was never a bid for poor old Magog. When this is known, " half Godalming will be in tears," as he is known to be a " reeler good-un." The sale of these frames shows the vicissitude of human affairs. Though the stocking-frame was invented at Calverton, yet stocking-frames were worked in Godalming before they were in Nottingham, as in 1665 there was only one shop in the place. In the reign of Anne there were nearly as many stocking-frames. in Godalming, Guild ford, and 17 villages round, as in London. DREADFUL SITUATION OF THE COUNTRY. (From the British Queen.) • Our readers must be aware that we do not rank among those who, since the late change in the Go vernment of this country, have been proclaiming distress and starvation throughout the land, from mere party motives, in order to accomplish party purposes. On the contrary, we have been willing to believe that distress was not generally prevalent, and that although money might bear a high rate of in terest, still there was work as well as wages for the working man. We were sorrowfully mistaken in the sober view which we took of the matter ; for if we may trust to the personal information of a gentleman who has had ample means of knowledge upon the subject, the country was never in a more distressed condition, nor the working man more shorn, not of the comforts, but of the necessaries, of life. In Paisley and in Glasgow, the weaver is cut clown, with a wife and family of eight children, to 4s. per week— in Stockport, one-third of the shops are to be let!— four thousand houses and cottages are in the same plight ; while, four years ago, there was neither house nor shop to be had ! The mills are shut up, and the cotton-spinning, the skirting, the printing, and the yarn trades, are almost extinguished. Of Black burn, Bolton, and Rochdale (a great flannel menu foctory), we can give no better account. Their facto ries are either a matter of great loss, or they are shut up—the same expenses being incurred ; but, instead of a profit of 501. per week, there being a loss of 2001. ! Of course, we speak of firms of considerable import ance ; but, as an additional confirmation of what we have stated upon the best author►ty, we may add that a large house in the city was compelled, in consequence of the oppressed state of trade, to sell at 3d. a yard under prime cost, and at the same time to give notice to the manufacturer that they could not furnish any further orders for goods, unless the price was reduced below that amount of loss ! In other instances, where the benevolence of the manufacturer induces him to keep his mill open, three days' work only are allowed ; but even these three days are allowed simply because the manufacturer hopes for better times, and the machinery in hi . ; mills would rust and be rendered valueless by a cessation of its em ployment. We have gathered these facts, as we have men tioned, not from exaggerated newspaper reports, but from practical men, who are fully aware of the truth of what they have stated to us ; and what, we ask, is the cause of this dreadful state of things, and what the remedy ? The cause is easily to be found in the laws which impose unnecessary taxes upon the people, and injudicious restrictions upon our domestic and foreign trade ; the remedy, in the reduction of the one, and modification or abolition of the other. It is therefore with an earnestness which we trust will not be undervalued, that we are anxious to press upon Sir Robert Peel's attention an inquiry into every portion of our commercial code, and the most judicious mode of making such alterations in it, as without materially damaging existing interests, may give that free course to trade which is the only foundation of its prosperity. We are not the advocates of violent changes either in the Constitution or in the laws which regulate either our external or internal trade ; but it is as clear as the sun at noonday that this country is in a most distressed condition, and that great changes must be made, in order to enable us to meet the dangerous competition of foreigners. In our island position—in our coal and iron and other mines—in our facilities of internal and external communications, we have means of wealth unsurpassed in the world, and it only requires a master mind to encourage them not only to retrieve past errors, but still to maintain England in the position of being he greatest commercial emporium which bas existed either in ancient or modern times. The Kendal Working-Men's Anti-Corn-law Association have published an address to the public, on the present distressed condition of the working classes, and the effects of monopolies, especially the Corn-laws, on family expenditure. They say, amongst many ex cellent remarks—" The bread-tax having introduced poverty into our dwellings, it might be expected that it would then take pity upon our miserable condition, and cease in its effects. Not so—it is unrelenting and un satiable in its operations ;. it demands its 20 per cent. from the miserable pittance of Bs. per week as well as 21s. per week, as may be seen by the tables. We are compelled to pay 3d. per loaf more for bread, 4d. per pound more for meat, 2d. per pound more for butter, 4d. per pound more for sugar, 9d. per pound more for coffee, &c., than other rations.' The Bristol Steam Navigation Company intend, early in the ensuing spring, placing an additional steam vessel, of 500 tons register and 220 horse-power, on the station between Bristol and Cork ; thus giving a steam communication three times a week between the two ports, for the conveyance of passengers, goods, and let ters, as each vessel will convey a mail. bag. Should the intercourse hereafter increase so as to be sufficient for the support of four vessels, the same Company will be prepared to a place a fourth vessel on the station.— Bristol Mercury. LEEDS.—About one quarter of the workpeople usually employed when business is in a prosperous state are now out of work. THE EXCHEQUER BILL FORGERY..--YeS• terday an order was sent to Newgate from the Home office for the removal of Edward Beaumont Smith to the hulks, in pursuance of his sentence. Ile was accord ingly placed in a carriage, and conveyed to WoolWich, where he was put on board the usual receiving hulk. A tariff wag expected at St. Petersburgh with the new year of a more rigorous kind than the existing ~ ne. It 1 , ; said that many articles, especially goods, will have to pay the double duty. NEW MODE Or PLAYING TRAGEDY.—On Saturday night last, the domestic tragedy of George Barnwell, and other entertainments, were played at our theatre to an audience consisting of about twenty people, and played in a style which, we will wager a trifle, never was and never will be equalled on any stage in her Ma jesty's dominions—several of the performers reading their parts from books or manuscripts, and the greater part of the tragedy being accompanied by the orchestra in a style at once original and appropriate. For instance, when Barnwell makes his passionate protestations of at tachment to Milwood, the tune was " Thee, thee, only thee ;" when she leaves him in a pretended pet, the ap propriate air was " Though you leave me here in sor row ;" and when Milwood pretends to be in great grief and tribulation, her sorrows were soothed by the gentle air of " Hush thee, my darling 1" Again, when the un fortunate apprentice steals into his uncle's grounds, the band struck up " Meet me by moonlight, alone I"—at the moment the murder was committed, " 0 cruel !" burst from every instrument in the orchestra—and when Milwood's villany was detected, she led off to the tune of " Off she goes." All this was no doubt highly diverting, and afforded infinite amusement to the audience, amon g st whom was the manager himself.— Whitehaven Herald. ANTI-CORN•LAW MEDALS.—Mr. Davis, of Birmingham, has designed and executed a spirited and characteristic medal, suitable for Anti-Corn-law Asso ciations. On the obverse side is the emblematic figure of justice, holding her balance over the column of the Anti-Corn-law League, upon which her mantle rests. Motto, " Undo the heavy burdens, deal thy bread to the hungry." On the left is a group of once prosperous and happy artisans, reduced to misery and distress by the oppressive and unjust Corn and Provision laws, appealing to justice for redress, that they may earn their daily bread. On the right is the pampered personification of monopoly, deaf to the cries of the hungry, anxiously fearing the interference of justice, straining in his selfish grasp the emblems of abundance. On the reverse side in the foreground, the monster monopoly is overthrown, bound hand and foot, still grasping in his hand the rem nants of his once cherished Corn and Provision laws. The happy results of unrestricted industry are exhibited by the active exchange of produce and bustling cern meree;. plenty and domestic comfort enlivens the surf ace of sea and land. Motto, " Free Trade with all the world."—Manchester Times. A short time since, as some labourers were ex cavating gravel in a field at Great Conard, near Sudbury, they dug up a human skeleton, which was lying about two feet below the surface, and from the position in which it was found, it appeared to have been hastily thrown, uncoffined, into the earth. A week or two after, a second was discovered, in a field about a stone's-throw from the first, and the village gossips hastily ransacked their memories fcr all who had been " missing without leave," in order to account for this mysterious circum stance, and connected it with tales of "Bloody men, Whose deeds tradition saves ; Of lonely folk cut off unseen, And hid in sudden graves ! " In all human probability, these skeletons were the re mains of some stragglers from one of the battles which have been fought in this neighbourhood, between the Saxons and the Danes, who probably died of their wounds on their retr ea t f rom th e f a t a l field, and were hastily buried by their comrades where they fell.—Essex Standard. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have issued orders to the master shipwrights of Ports mouth, Plymouth, Chatham, and Sheerness dockyards, to assemble at Woolwich on the 3d of January next, and, with the master shipwright of the dockyard there, to ex amine and report upon the best methods of obviating such complaints of weakness in the hulls of her Majesty's ships as have lately been made, and especially with re gard to the Britannia, which ship, it will be recollected, was a short time since sent home from the Mediterra nean in consequence of alleged state of decay. It ap pears, upon inspection in dock at Portsmouth, to have been a false pretext upon which this fine ship was sent home. This Committee of Master Shipwrights is also to report upon the best means of rendering the bows and sterns of our men-of-war most effective for attack and de fence, having reference to Mr. Blake's arrangements as put into practice on board the Vindictive.— United Ser vice Gazette. We are requested to state that Ephraim Leman, who gave evidence in a case heard at the Mansion-house on Saturday, is not in any way connected with the family of Mrs.L. Leman,Great Prescott-street, Goodman's-fields ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT WITH FIRE ARMS.—On Monday last, as Mr. Thomas Whitford, the. son of Mr. Whitford, attorney, of St. Columb, was amusing himself with some other lads on a shooting ex cursion, about a mile from the town, on getting over a hedge the gun accidentally went off, and literally blew his head to atoms. The unfortunate young man was about seventeen years of age.— West Briton. GENERAL POST-OFFICE.--The following no tice was issued by the Post-office authorities on the New-year's morning :—" Post-office, January 1, 1842. —Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Mediterra nean, and East Indies.—The next mail for India via Marseilles, will be made up here the 4th inst. (to-mor row). The next mails for Malta, Greece, and the lonian Islands, via Falmouth, will be despatched hence on the 15th instant, and for Egypt and India on the 31st instant. Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres.—The Pigeon, for the mails of the 4th inst. (to-morrow). America.—The Britannia, for the mails of the 3d inst. (this day.) Ship letters from Rio de Janeiro and Singa pore, by the Black Nymph, Hall arrived at Margate." ADELAIDE GALLERY.—Last evening, S. Logan, Esq., of the Phrenological Society, delivered an introductory lecture to a course on Phrenology, fixed for succeeding Monday evenings. The Lecturer, after having taken a view of the various metaphysical and physiogno mical systems of the ancients, described the discovery of phrenology by Dr. Gall, as also the fundamental princi ples upon which it is founded. The lectures, if we may judge by the attendance and attention of the audi ence, the novelty of the subject, and numerous illustra tions, promise to be a source of great attraction to the visitors of this instructing and amusing Institution. DISTRESSING SUICIDE.—On Sunday evening about half-past six o'clock, a very respectable young woman, about twenty-one years of age, of the name of Martha Whitney, a servant in the employ of Mr. Bruce Tickney, fringemaker, of East-lane, IN al worth, committed sell-destruction in the following man ner:—She had obtained leave of her mistress on the pre vious night to go out for the day to visit her mother, who resides at Fulham. It appears she had spent the day at her mother's, and was returning home ; her mother and brother were accompanying her part of the way back, when they accidentally met a young man, who some time back kept company with her, but who has since married an acquaintance of hers. He asked her to drink with him ; she consented, and they all went to his house and had each some brandy ; when they left, and were walk ing alone- the water-side, near Battersea-bridge, the unfortunate young woman darted from her mother and precipitated herself into the water, and before she could be extricated met with a watery grave. No rea son can be assigned for her committing so rash an act, unless it was the disappointment she had received from the young man. When the Lord Chief Justice Dougherty was leaving Beaumaris, where his family had long been re siding, after an assize in which there had not been a single criminal case for trial, he turned to his Irish ser vant, and said, in allusion to this circumstance, " Well, Pat, what would they say to such a thing in our country ?" The Hibernian replied with an evident air of self-com placency, in the true Irish brogue, " I'll tell you what it is, your Honour, these Welsh are a poor mane-spirited people, and hav'nt the heart to do anything worth hang ing for." THE GREAT WESTERN STEAM‘SHIP.--This splendid vessel is now in Cumberland Basin ; she was brought up the river from her moorings at Broad Pill on Wednesday morning last, and passed through the lock at about seven o'clock. The bridge as usual had to be pre viously removed, as well as the ship's paddle-wheels.— Bristol Mercury On Tuesday last the large iron bridge, intended for the service of the Portsmouth Bridge Company, was launched from the Bedminster ship-yard ; and on the following morning a very beautiful steamer, built for the Austrian Government, and named the Archduke Fre derick, was also launched; in capital style, from the same place. On Thursday an attempt was made to launch the splendid steam-ship Avon, also built by Messrs. Acre man, Morgan, and Co., but unfortunately, after gliding about twenty yards she hung upon her ways, to the great disappointment of a large concourse of persons who had attended to witness the expected sight. We understand that the failure was occasioned by the effect produced by the late incessant rain on the new ground at the lower end of the slip : the ways became slightly de pressed by the earth giving way, and approached too near to a level to continue the moderate velocity which the vessel had acquired in the first instance. The launch has consequently been postponed until a greater inclina tion can be given to the ways. It is confidently expected that towards the end of the present month (January), this splendid steam-ship, and also the Severn, building on the adjoining slip, intended to form a portion of the West India mail steam-fleet, will be afloat. The follow ing is the measurement of the Avon :—Length between perpendiculars, 218 feet ; depth of hold, 23 feet 3 in. ; width of each paddle-box, 11 feet ; paddle-boxes to be surmounted by Captain Smith's life-boat, in lieu of the ordinary coverings.—Bristol Mercury. The West Riding address to Lord Morpeth has received 25,050 signatures, and the amount of the sub scriptions is nearly 1,5001. CORNWALL ELECTION.—The Liberal free holders of West Cornwall are, we hope, already fully alive to the importance of an immediate selection of a candidate to represent the interests of that division in Parliament. Several names have been mentioned, among them that of Sir Charles Lemon, for re-election ; Sir W. Molesworth, and Mr Robartes, the nephew of the Hon. Lady Agar. We trust that the Reformers will he united in choice and action in the struggle to regain their recently lost ground, for a struggle they will have to encounter with the monopolists. ACCIDENT TO LORD RENDLESHAN.— On Wednesday last Lord Rendlesham, whilst out shooting, met with a serious misfortune from the accidental dis charge of one of the barrels of his gun, which went off while his Lordship was in the act of loading the other barrel, the charge passing through the right hand, be tween the forefinger and thumb, and slightly grazing the side of his face. The finger was so severely injured that immediate amputation was necessary. The thick part of the hand is also considerably injured, but the -thumb escaped without injury. The accounts from Rendlesharn House last night —prod th e, his Lordship ou favourably. DISTRESS AT CARIJSLE. It aplivar, titat meeting on Tuesday week, at once set themselves to work in a business-like manner, and on Tuesday last presented to the adjourned meeting a Report which, in its details, presents a picture of misery such as the most callous cannot: look upon but with feelings of horror and dismay. It shows that the fourth of our population is living in a state bordering on absolute starvation! " The number of families," say the Committee in their Report, " with out any means of subsistence beyond a dependence on casual charity, was found to be 309, and the indivi duals belonging to these families to amount to 1,146. The cases most deserving of special attention are, of course, those where, notwithstanding the endeavour to obtain an independent subsistence, the amount of earnings is far below what is requisite to procure the barest necessaries. Exclusive of those who have no vi sible resources, the number of persons whose weekly means of maintenance do not exceed one shilling per head, is 1,465; of those who have more than one shilling but not above eighteen-pence per head, the number le 1,623 ; above eighteen-pence, but not more than two shillings, 692 ; more than two shillings, but below three shillings, 635." ' Thus we have 5,561 individuals, in a population of 22,000, reduced to such a state of suffering, that im mediate relief has become necessary to save thou from actual famine ! This is not a statement got up to serve any party purpose. The details have not been furnished by any " Anti-Corn-law League" for the purpose of bearing out their assertions of general distress. They have been obtained by a Committee composed of men of all parties, and including in their number most of the resident clergy of the Church of England, from a minute personal inspection ; and their correctness have been vouched for by Mr. Head a nd Major Wilde, both gentlemen who think the present , Corn-law " the best that human wisdom can devise.' And all this misery, too, is being suffered in a . town situate within an hour's ride of those broad acres be longing to Sir James Graham, for which he is at this moment seeking an increased rental of some twenty or thirty per cent., and which, according to his poetical flourish of last year, should now be diffusing unalloyed blessings to all around !—Carlisle Journal. THE MARKETS.—YESTERDAY. CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arivals of Wheat were moderate, of Bar• ley good, and of Oats very large. The fresh supply of Wheat was middling, of Barley and Oats again good. Wheat sold slowly at last quotations. Barley dull, and ordinary cheaper. Beans and Peas unvaried. Oats ex tremely heavy in sale, and ls. per quarter lower. In the Flour trade little demand. 4 RRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEIC• Wheat. Barley. outs. Flour English Irish Foreign 9,440 1,657 1 4,789 btla micas Olt BOARD OF SFI? Wheat,lled (old) - a. —s. Beans, Small olew) ..... White (old) —v. —6. (old) ........ 42 , 460. -- Bed 1841) s2s. 555 Tick (new) 28 301. Fine stis. 63s ----- (old) 4OO -- Superfine 665. 675. Harrow (new) 326.34 5 White (1841) ....54 6 . 58s. ------ Fine 60s 625. Brank Superfine "Os 735. Oats, Feed ----Foreignfree 565. 766 166.210 fly( 388 40s. Poland —s. Barley 26s 326 New 205.25 4 -- Grinding • 6s. 30s Potatoe --- Malting 335. 365., Malt Sts. 60s —; Scotch 26s.2ti& Fine New 62s ti4s. Irish 154.... 155.21& Pease, Grey, New 12s. 31s. Flour Town (per sack).::: —.-- Maple New .Ws. 355. Seconds t2s. --- White .345. 36s North Country—. Ns NIP Boilers 36s 38s. Bran ls 3.• SMITHFIELD. The supply of cattle and calves was moderate, o f Sheep short, and of Pigs very fair. The demand go d o for every description, at the prices quoted.—Bealts; 2,423 ; Sheep, 22,150 ; Pigs, 482 ; Calves, 194. Bel , 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; Mutton, 4s. to 4s. 10d. ; Veal. 4s. 40* to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. COLONIAL MARKET. The markets looked healthy, and the demand for 11 10/ , articles has improved. The imports were to a fair extol" TEA MARKET. The Market for Free Trade Tea presented a firs aspect, and common Congou, cash, was not to be bP under Is. 94d. - TALLOW MARKET. A good demand exists for Russian Tallow, and pry firm at 48s. 6d. to 48s. 9d on the spot. PROVISION MARKET. Butter in good request and prices firm ; Fine Dutc h .i 1145., and Irish 100 s. to 103 s. Bacon sold freelf w t 51s. to 565. Lord dull of sale at 735. to 755. per C Hams met with a fair sale. " HOP MARKET. • A fair demand for. Hops, and prices firm ; the supil moderate. • d. • ' s. 11 l 6 0 Walls End Hedlcy 17 0 Walls End Grange lt) ..... 16 t, Walls End Stewart's 15:i 19 0 Walls End Tees He1t0n,..... .I' s 0 16 o(Blythe AY CORN MARKETS. Wheat.l Barley. I Oats. I Beans, COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market .day, 10. huddle's West Hartley Chester Main Wylam Walls End Brown's Walls End Clark and Co COUNT' Per Quarter. Abingdon Andover Banbury Basii.gstoke Cirencester Coventry uaventry Derby Howden Hungerford Mahon Mai,enhead Nottingham Wantage Warwick Winchester York - 43 36 44 B. to s. 57 72 s+l 66 56 66 60 72 5s 70 63 72 65 '72 46 7:? 64, 78 52 75 60 76 0 76 - 76 58 67 8. to S. 25 36 26 30 32 40 32 37 25 35 32 33 38 44 27 38 29 37 28 33 32 35 28 32 36 34 '4B as 30 36 8. to s. 20 31 26 23 24 33 24 18 22 31 24 SI 24 31 21 27 IS 25 30 22 34 25 31 0 28 30 32 26 30 19 23 S. to t. 3.5 44 36 40. 42 46 43 44 34 45 40 45 36 44 41 44 36 46 I Peat', s. 38 42 38 48 .0 Per Bushel Birmingham 91 4/ 39 4$ 40 r 40 "t s 0 6 a. d. s. d. s. d. a. d. s. s. (L s. d, s. d. 70 3 6 36 46 36 40 S 0 70 WAKEFIELD CORN MARhEI'. , Norfolk and Suffolk ..... —s. 635. to 641. fine ~,,,6 11. - Lin. and Cam. Yorkshire Zs ' : 61... to 6fi e t a fl o n e e L 9l‘; ' White , Foreign, Red —s. 645. to 665. fine v - White Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk *---- Lincolnshire — s 232 6 :0 5 ii s . ... ttt t 000 • 3 7_ 3 0 1 a s ss .... Onefitin n n r e sos 1,.., :: : : „ --- Yorkshire Wold -- Foreign Beans, New -- Old - Oats, Potato --.- Poland —a. to 2es . . fine 961 —s. —s. to 26r. fine ~ ...--, wriezland and Small —s. —s. to 20s. tine e.' '. Stealing ... l2d. to 1234 d. pei St°2 g Shelling Malt Rapeseed ,,-1. Os. 36i. Os. 381. o la. ber 1. 0 " Wheat Wneat, IL HULL CORN MARKET :, Whit( (per Quarter) 6ss. (17s. Os. Red ens. 61s. 06s. Foreign 6os. 645. 61s. Malting SOs. 325. :435! Grinding Oats, British Foreign (in bond) Beans 3Bs. 40s. 425. Pease, Grey .. Blue and White 365. 38s. t 0.4 Linseed Ns .sios ti 2 9. _ ___ Barley, Flour (per sack) -s. 32+• Rapeseed per 10 quarters) —l. 37!. 98f. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 72s. Od 355. td. 20s. 64. 403, Od. Second 6O 0 32 0 22 0 36 0 Third 5O 0 26 0 18 0 30 0 Average price of Wheat CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) ........ Helstene St. Austell Bodnun Liskeard Launceston Camelford Penzance. Wheat. s. d. to s. d. —0 7 5 .. 7 8 —0 8 0 —0 8 8 —0 7 6 —0 7 5 66 7 e 7 8 8 MINING INT] r ores sold at Re, a. d. to I_ 0 39 3 0 3 0 —0 g 9 0 0 41 26 s 6 0 Tons.CW 4 C i r 2,715 6 % 0 •••••• ... -Average Standard, 1271. 8 * """ Barley. Pes 4P. 36 a a 2uantity of Cog, Average Produce Quantity of fine Copper Amount of 5a1e..16,2( 3 lat. Od s. d. is —0 3 g •••• 0 3 g -0 3 g ▪0 4 4 —0 3 6 •0 3 8 3 0 3 —0 4 0 , ILLIGEWCE. truth lit week., RARE BIRDS.—On Monday last, three s P el : wens of that rare and beautiful bird, the Egyptian g„ O ,, were shot in the fowlin g p oo l o f J ames Trem bath;sti, Esq., at Skewjack, in S ennen , an d h ave, b y h i s Jibe en been placed in the Museum of Natural History A t ,01 zance. We believe this is the first instance in this handsome bird has been shot in Cornwall.—We s ' Times. SILVER PLATED coRN - Etc --orriES** - ~ 14, A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing Silversaniti.st 10 Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England, su b n si_ i t t . t ft prices of the following patterns of strongly-plated COP,INP, r DISHES, with silver handles and edge s , an d s il ver shields I° engraving the crest or coat of arms : The - Gadroon Pattern. The Flower Pattern. Four strongly.plated cor Four extra strongly ner Dishes and Covers ....£lO 10 plated Corner Dishes x i s 10 Four extra strongly.platc d and Covers Corner Dishes arid Covers 12 12 N.B. The Covers are made ; they form extra dishes. Draw ii to any part of Great Britain or I a t th ith moveable handles, 5 ° - A O ,ngs of the above are forws :. Ireland, postage BIRTHS. 1 1 On the 29th ult., at Braclangwell, county of Crom arty! Fraser, of a son. On the 31st ult. ' at Merivale Hall, Warwick, the lad y of S. Dugdale, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. On the Ist inst., at Hampstead,the lady of Robert Brsa fol4l' Esq., of a daughter. Yr On the lst inst., at the Grove, Highgate, Mrs. Allen -IP— of a son. MARRIRD. On the 3d ult., at New York, H. Pinekn, of Walker, Et .ey Charleston, South Carolina, to Dora Modd, daughter of u• Box, Esq., of London. . .„00- On the 30th ult., at St. Augustine's Church, LI/yi e ld, Thomas Edward, elest son of T. Pickford, Esq., of May j, near Manchester, to Georgina Todd, eldest daughter a' Todd Naylor, Esq., of Kensingtor: House, near Liverpw h oo ss On the Ist in at St. George's, Hanover-square , . ip „ i dest Davies, Esq., of Streatham-common, to Eliza Mary,,e_oth daughter of John Lamprey, Esq., of larchwood, near ampton. DIKD. l e of On the 3lst ult., at Eaton-place, Lady Gardiner , the 1 0 o f Lieutenant-General Sir John Gardiner, K. C. 8. , an d sister Colonel th Wildman, of at Newstead Abbev- 1 ; On e Ist inst., Hakes's Hotel, London, Mary g" z- N v t. the wife of Sir Richard Sutton, Bart., of Norwood -park, tinghamshire. lb' t the 25th ult., at Steel's-place, Morningside, Ed io-u Walter Hutton, 1. sq., late of the Navy Pay-office, London...olo On the 27th ult., at Budleigh Salterton , Jefferys Th' Allen, Esq., Warden of Dulwich College. On the 27th ult., Mrs. Bloomfield, widow of th e late car tain oomfield, Otley, Sulk. O Bl n the 29th ult., at Hereford, Mr. John Apperly• f p er' mo On thndsey, London, aged 61. oraot' e 29th ult., at Southampton, the Rev. 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