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'-'' - f,..' ir ':V ' k,..d , .. ,11 ‘-' X iv di AYRSHIRE. Valuable Estate in Ayrshire for Sale, at a Reduced Upset Price. TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC ROUP, Within the Waterloo Coffee-house, Edinburgh, on WED.. wrsnar, tie 20th day of January next, at One o'clock Afternoon, if not previously disposed of by Private I3argtin, THE LANDS and ESTATE of MUIR KIRK, lying in the parishes of Muirkirk and Aechinieck, in whole or in Lots, as formerly advertised. This Estate extends along the waters of Ayr and Greenock for several miles, and is at an average distance of 22 miles from Glasgow and 25 from Ayr, with which places, as well as with Edinburgh and Dumfries, it communicates by excellent road,. The Lands, which are partly Arable and partly sound Sheep Pasture, are susceptible of great im provement by surface Draining and Liming; are let to substantial Tenants, and on the expiry of the present Leases a considerable rise of Rent may be expected. The Lands abound in Coal, Lime, and Ironstone; and an ex tensive Ironwork has been long established in the centre of the Estate. There is also great abundance of Moor Game ; and the Lands , holding of the Crown, afford a Freehold Qualification in the County of Ayr. The Estate will be exposed to Sale, in umiak), at 80,0001. or in Lots, at proportional Upset Prices, The net Land Rental, at present, after deducting public burdens, together with the average returns from As Minerals, amounts to about 3,4001., being more than Four per Cent of the Upset Price ; and as the Estate consists chiefly of Paature Lands, the necessary disbursements for repairs and ex pences of management are extremely moderate. A snore eligible investment, in the present state of the Money Market, therefore cannot well be imagined. Fur plans end results of the Estate, and farther pan ti ostlers, application may be made to Mr. Patrick Cock burn, accoentant in Edinburgh ; to Mr. William Mac kenzie, writer to the signet ; or to Mr. Hobert Brown, or Mr. William Leighton, at Hamilton. John Pearson, at Springhill, near Muirkirk, will chow the Laude. Edinburgh, 10th December, 1849. TIIE MAILS.—It appears that the direct distance from York to London is 174 miles, but 196 by the mail-coach road, thus making a detour of 22 miles.— Between London and Newcastle, the detour is 31 miles; betwixt Edinburgh and London, 67; between Manchester and London, 234 ; between Carlisle and J ondon, 491 ; between Glasgow and London, 60/ 1 miles. The inhabi tants of Edinburgh and Glasgow arc still making every effort to obtain an acceleration of their mails by changes or improvements of their respective lines of roads.— Leeds Intelligeneer. (And we sincerely Lope they may succeed in their object..—En. Sun.) LONDON, WEDNESDAY INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 12. Cornelius Lee was opposed by Mr. BARRY, on behalf of Reuben Martin the pugilist (formerly landlord of the City of London public-house, we bel'eve.) Mr. WOODRUFFE appeared for the petitioner. The following is a verbatim copy of the bill be tween the parties, and it need hardly be mentioned that the items excited considerable mirth. " Cornelius Lee in account with Reuben Martin, about 1826. To cash lent him to catch rats 1 0 1827. To ditto, to enable him to go to Brighton 1 0 To ditto, to enable him to purchase a mar riage licence to wed Elizt Cummins 4 0 0 To ditto, to enable him to get another per son's clothes out of pledge 2 0 0 1828. To ditto, to help him to purchase the lease of the house, No. 6, Deter-street 8 10 8 1529. To cash received of Mr. Woolley the soli-. citor 4 0 0 To sundries, such as wine, &c. occasionally 2 0 0 £22 10 The insolvent was examined at great length by Mr. BARRY. After which the COURT ordered certain amend ments to be made in his schedule, and said they would give judgment to-morrow. SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS. Yesterday these sessions commenced. The busi ness of the day was, first, the routine affairs of the county, receiving gaol reports, &c. The Grand Jury were sworn and charged by the Chairman, Mr. Serjeant SCRIvEN, upon the nature of the duties which they were bound to discharge. Nip lIALLSEY and Mr. GORDON (two new magistrates) took their seats on the bench, and were sworn accordingly. A long conversation ensued upon the presentation of the Coal Report, from which it appeared that the grossest frauds were practised upon the public. Complaints were made of the comparative ineffici ency of some of the coal-meters executing the pro visions of the last Meterage Act; and it was said, that while one (Mr. Turquand) of them had, since the Act was passed, prosecuted in 65 cases, the two others had only proceeded with 21.—The report was received. Mr. BRISCOE brought forward his promised mo tion on the Game Laws, and moved, that the Ceurt do convey, through the Members for the county, to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the expression of its deep regret that his Majesty's Government have not considered it their peculiar duty to bring forward measures for the amendment of the Game Laws, which are universally admitted to be the fruitful parent of many grievous crimes, and daily tend to demoralize the people. Upon a show of hands there were—For the motion 7, against it, 11. Lost by a majority of 4. Upon the bringing up of the Report of the visiting magistrates, to whom the petition of the debtors confined in Horsemonger-lane gaol, for an increased allowance of food, fuel, and clothing, bad been referred to by Mr. Secretary Peel, it was stated that the magistrates rejected the general complaints of these debtors, and only recommended that during the winter months they should have an additional blanket. Mr. BRISCOE dissented very strongly from this re port. He said he had taken some pains to become acquainted with the facts of this case. The debtors in this division of the county, until 1823, were con fined in the Borough Compter. In that year, an act passed to require that all those whose residence was within the Eastern Half Hundred of Brixton should he committed to the county gaol, or some other prison in the county of Surrey, exclusive of the prisons in the town and borough of Southwark. Nothing in the act is mentioned respecting their treatment as to food, bedding, or fuel. But it may fairly be presumed, that their treatment was to be similar to that which they had hitherto received, consistently with the good order and government of the prison. The present allowance to debtors in the Borough Compter consists of a straw mattress, and three woollen rugs, with coals, tables, and forms ; 14 ounces of the best bread, daily ; 21b. of meat, without bone, per week; and good strong soup, which will bear diluting, three times a week, supplied gratuitously by Alderman Birch; besides benefactions on Christmas and New Year's Day, and on Old Christmas Day, when beef and porter, and plum-pudding, are given by the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs. The debtors are also allowed to receive provisions from their friends, are permitted to work, and to purchase with their earnings any articles they wish. Now the regulations of the county gao l strictly prohibit any debtor from receiving any por tion of food from their friends, who takes the county allowance, consisting of a pound and a half of bread daily, and a pint of gruel every four days, and one pound of meat made into soup, with barley and oat meal, and vegetables, for the remaining three days in the week. The bedding consists of a canvass ham mock, a rug, without table, or chair, or form, or coals, or candle, except five chaldrons given at Christ mas in lieu of a Christmas dinner. Now, both un tried and convicted felons are allowed for bedding, a flock bed, two blankets, and a rug. Why not debtors ? when the 33d clause of the gaol act says " Every prisoner shall be provided with suitable bedding." The expression being general, seems ne cessarily to include debtors. It should be observed also, that these being Court of Request debtors, are for very small sums, and not able to provide them selves with bedding. In point of fact, very few had a bed ; some a single blanket, and many only the county rug. There were four recent cases of com mitment which he copied himself on Saturday, and which strongly showed that the law required amend ment as to the imprisonment of debtors for small sums. The cases of poor debtors he had selected were as follow : Dec. 30, 1829. s. d. Original debt 5 2 Costs 8 0 Officer's fee 14 2 The costs were nearly twice the amount of the debt. From the Court of Requests at Wandsworth : Dec. 30, 1829. s. Debt Costs 5 5 12 5 Paid 10 5 Execution 12 11 Officer's fee Jan. 4, 1830. Original debt '1 10 Costs 5 6 Officer's fee 1 0 Jan. 4, 1830. 10 4. Original debt Costs 5 6 Officer's fee 14 6 The report of the visiting magistrate was then agreed to. On the motion of Mr. H. SUMNEa, it was ordered, with a view of preventing the growth of frauds in the coal trade, " That the county members be in structed to apply to Parliament for an extension or renewal of the Surrey Coal Meters' Act." At six o'clock the Magistrates adjourned. ,VENING, JANUARY 13, 1830. IMPROVEMENTS AT BATTLE-BRIDGE. The inhabitants of Battle-bridge, much to' their credit, intend erecting, by subscription, a splendid Obelisk where the old Toll-house stood, to be called St. George's Cross, for the purpose of improving the neighbourhood and removing the danger the public are exposed to in crossing the seven roads that smite at that spot. The lower part, or lodge, intended to form a police station, is ornamented with eight bold Grecian columns with enriched fascia and cornice, from which arises eight ornamented pedestals to support gas lights, in the centre of which, on the east and west sides, is the royal arms carved in stone. Above this is another pedestal with base and surbase mouldings, with a double faced illuminated clock, which will be seen at a great distance, the whole surmounted by St. George and the Dragon sculptured out of one block of stone—the total height from the ground about forty feet. The model of which, as designed by.:Mr. Stephen Geary, has been submitted to Mr. Peel, as head of the, new police, Lord Lowther, and the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Roads, &c. Thus Battle-bridge, with its dust-hill and turn pike will no more be known but by the new desig nation of St: George's Cross, surrounded with well built respectable dwellings, together with the new grand and magnificent Bazaar, the extensive Lon don Horse Repository, the Panharmonion, Prome nade Gardens, and the Theatre now forming, the Dramatic School, &c. &c. &c. It is expected that Prince George will shortly lay the first stone, and be opened on St. George's day. NEWGATE. STATEMENT of the Number of Persons in custody on the Ist January, 1829, and Committed to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate in the Year 1829, and how they have been disrosed of:— In custody on Ist. Jan. 1829—Males, 186—Females, 96—Total 282 Committed to 31st Dec. in clusive, under 17 years of age 2,9(38 Above that age 924 627 Of whom there have been Executed 27 3,250 Died 4 Removed to the Hulks at Gosport 2OO Ditto Portsmouth IGI, Ditto Sheerness 199 Ditto Chatham 251 Ditto Woolwich:.... 225 Ditto Deptford lO Ditto Devonport 25 Ditto Penitentiary, Milbank l2 Ditto Refuge for the Destitute l3 Ditto, by Habeas for tr al at the Assizes 23 Ditto, to the House of Correction for London B2 Ditto ditto Middlesex 419 Discharged, having received his Majesty's pardon 5 Ditto, having been acquitted at the Old Bailey Sessions 609 Ditto, bills of indictment not having been found 281 Ditto, not having been prosecuted 27 Ditto, having been imprisoned pursuant to sen tences 93 Ditto, whipped 99 Ditto, fined Is 66 Ditto, upon bail, and for other causes 33 Removed to the Lunatic Asylum 5 Do. Clerkenwell, Guildhall, and Tower Session, for trial 24 Remaining in custody Ist Jan. IS3o—Males, 196; Females, 158 2,896 354 3,250 373 of whom have been in Newgate before. Committals decreased this year, 138. STATEMENT of the Number of Persons Committed to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, and convicted in the Year 1829, and the Nature of their OtTexces, together with the Number Acquitted, Discharged, Sentenced, &c. during the same period : Murder Burglary 7 Housebreaking 4l Highway robbery Shooting at with intent to murder Returning from transportation 3 Horse stealing 3 Cattle stealing Sheep stealing Forgery Uttering forged notes Rape Arson 1 12 Uttering counterfeit coin, having been before convicted 5 Attempting to strangle a child Stealing in a dwelling-house above the value of 5/ 33 Manslaughter Bigamy Selling counterfeit coin Concealing the birth of an infant Receiving stolen goods l6 Larcenies 1645 Misdemeanours 1835 Of whom there were sentenced To death* Transportation for life lO4 fourteen years 162 seven years 678 Imprisonment in Newgate and the Houses of Correc- tion—viz. : Imprisonment fur two years l3 Eighteen months 3 One year 4l _Nine months ... 6 Eight months 1 Six months B6 Five months Four months Three months l2B Two months Six weeks One month and under. ; lB2 Fined one 611 illing and discharged 76 Whipped and discharged 99 Received his Majesty's free paraon 2 Those whose judgment remains respited 4 Died convicted 1838 Acquitted 609 Ditto, on the ground of insanity 1 Discharged, bilk of indictment not having been found Ditto, not having been prosecuted 27 Died before trial 2756 * 25 of whom have been executed, with two others, con victed in 1828, for the following offences—viz.:— Murder 1 Burglary 2 Housebreaking... Highway robbery 6 Uttering forged notes... Forgery ... Coining 1 Arson 1 Stealing in a dwelling-house 1 Sheep stealing 1 Shooting at, &c 1 Attempting to strangle an infant 1 27 JOHN WONTNER, Keeper, LIVERPOOL RAILWAY.—On Tuesday and Wednesday experiments were tried on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway where it crosses Chat Moss, a dis tance of four and a-half miles, where it had been asserted, by many engineers, a foundation could never be obtained. Mr. STEPHENSON'S engine, " The Rocket," crossed the Moss backward and forward each day at the rate of from twenty-four to twenty-eight miles an hour, drawing a train of loaded waggons weighing thirty-five tons. On Tuesday, owing to the unfinished state of a part of the road, the engine was thrown off by the breaking of one of its smaller wheels; but although it was going at the rate of twenty-four miles an hour at the time, and al though there were upwards of forty persons riding in and upon the waggons, none of them received the slightest injury. PRICE 7D. MR. OWEN. ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH NATION. FELLOW COUNTRYMEN,--After having visited various countries, I find you, on my return, increased in wealth, and also in poverty and distress. That the public wealth has greatly accumulated may be inferred by the improved state of the roads and the higher degree of cultivation visible in every part of the kingdom—by the increase of the large towns, and the superior character of the new build= ings—and by the multiplied productions of every description which are now created. That poverty and distress also more extensively prevail is equally evident, from the increased appearance of wretched. ness visible among the lower orders, and from the degree of corroding anxiety and care depicted upon the countenances of the great majority of both the middle and working classes; producing among the population of these kingdoms an appearance of less satisfaction and more misery than is to be seen among any other people, whether free or enslaved, in any other part of the globe. And these results arc produced in a country superabounding with means for the creation of wealth; and in one, where public opinion has a greater influence in directing the measures of Government than in any other, perhaps, except the United States, of North America. It becomes, then, most inte resting to ascertain how it is that there exists such extraordinary means of creating wealth and of se curing pecuniary independence to all within the British dominions; and yet that there should at the same time prevail so much poverty and misery among a large portion of the population ; and so much dissatisfaction with the existing order of things, both at home and abroad. The cause is in yourselves, and from you the remedy must proceed. The scientific knowledge of the educated part of the inhabitants of this country greatly exceeds tha• of their moral and political knowledge. For, by means of scientific knowledge, powers have already been obtained, sufficient, if rightly directed, to sa turate with wealth not only the British dominions, but the world at large; while the deficiency in morai and political knowledge is so great, that these powers of production, instead of being applied to the creation of the most valuable wealth, for all the population are now so unwisely directed as to make a few individuals greatly too wealthy either for their own or the public benefit, and to render poverty and crime, and their consequent misery, unavoidable to a large proportion of the community. The remedy for these evils is to be found, there fore, only in the introduction of more correct moral and political knowledge among you. An accurate knowledge of these subjects would enable all parties to discover the great and lamentable errors into which mankind have hitherto fallen in directing the powers of E ociety ; and to perceive that in order to govern a country well, it is neces sary that all its physical and mental powers should be applied to form the best character for the whole population, that it may be enabled to produce the greatest amount of the most valuable wealth, and to distribute it in such a manner as to secure the greatest degree of happiness to the whole popula tion. These desirable results, it is evident, have never hitherto been obtained for any portion of the human race; and all are effectually prevented from attempting to introduce into society such measures as would secure them, by the mistaken system of morality which they have been forced from infancy to receive. To give a right or beneficial direction to the new scientific powers of production, a union of feeling and of action is necessary ; and that union cannot be permanently effected among any portion of the human race, by any moral or religions system found ed on the notions upon which all the past and pre sent moral and religious systems of the world have been established. Is it then desirable, that for the sole purpose of keeping men in ignorance and misery, they may be more easily governed by the few, while the few, also, are essentially injured ; that moral and religious errors, which generate disunion, and a want of charity and of kindness among the human race, and which prevent the enjoyment of a very high degree of happiness among all people, shall be longer allowed to be considered sacred in the esti mation of the public ? My conviction is, that now there is no wisdom whatever in thus continuing to destroy the superior faculties of the human race,—that there is not one individual, whatever may be his station ; who is not grievously injured by this deception,— and that for the safety, well-being, and happines! , of all, it is necessary now to unmask the hypocriEy of a system by which so many evils of the most la mentable description are entailed upon the popula tion of all countries. It is the moral courage to effect this object that is alone wanting, in order to relieve the world for ever from poverty, or the fear of poverty ; and to remove the obstacles which now prevent a superior character being formed, and rendered permanent among man kind. Shall we, then, of the present generation, who have been permitted to perceive these great truths, be deterred, by fear of man, or by say tem porary consequences, from performing the greatest duty that ever can be performed for the human race ? Shall we, for want of bestowing a rational education upon the people, and givin g a r i g ht direc tion to their industry, see Ireland in misery, and agi tated from its centre to its circumference ? Shall we see the middle classes rapidly sinking into the lower, and the lower, incompetent, by their utmost exertions, to secure a reasonable support ? And shall we see the whole population, from the highest to the lowest, educated under false notions, and sur rounded by the most vicious or futile circumstances, and not attempt to remove these evils, when the means of removing them for ever from the world have become ebvious ? Shall we see nations op posed to nations, striving to obtain some small ter ritory, when the earth is still a wilderness for want of people to cultivate it; or contending for the pri vilege of disposing of some of their useless produc tions to distant countries, while their industry would become tenfold more beneficial to themselves if it were wisely applied at home ? Shall we see na tions inflicting, through war, almost every kind of evil upon many millions of their respective popula tions, for the mere chance of obtaining some uncer tain commercial profit, while these nations possess the most ample means to gorge the world with the most valuable and substantial wealth ? Shall we, I ask, see these enormous evils advancing day by day, many of them hourly increasing, and distinctly perceive the cause which generates these sufferings, and from fear of an ignorant interested public opi nion, take no open and effectual measures to remove that cause ? Whatever circumstances may exist to prevent others from now coming forward to aid in this great woik for the regeneration of mankind, none exist to determine from thus performing the highest duty that man can perform for man. Perceiving the ex• tent of the evil, its cause, and its remedy, I can no longer refrain from placing them before the public ; and from calling upon all nations and all people to put far away from them the cause of their igno rance, their imbecility, and their vices, and Ito apply the remedy'in their power for the innumerable sufferings proceeding from these evils. For man is incompetent to think as he pleases, or to feel as he likes; yet all the moral and religious systems known have been made to rest so l e l y on t h e contrary sup position. This single error is the origin of evil among n'tnkind, and alone generates all the evil existing, at this hour among the human race. If the supporters of these system eon discover error in what is here advanced, let them now openly come forth and prove wherein that error consists. The time has arrived when it has become unavoid able that the question should be for ever set at rest, and that the truth or error of these respective sys tems be made manifest to the world. If it be true that man is forced to believe according to the strongest conviction made upon his mind, and to feel according to the impressions which external cir cumstances make upon his individual organization, then a very superior moral, political; and commer cial system, for the practice of the world, may be immediately adopted, and evil and suffering may be altogether removed from human society. But if, on the contrary, man does possess the power to be lieve as he likes, arid to feel as he pleases, then must the present wretched condition of the human race continue without ceasing; for experience has abundantly proved how man, under these notions, 'ias thou* and felt, and how necessarily evils and sufferings have followed from these thoughts and limp; and thus no hope would remain for:the future. But a new day is opening in Britain which will extend its light from these islands, until it shall illumine every continent, and every island where man dwells. For the first time in the history of Britain, truth may now be publicly spoken, on sub jects the most interesting to man, without the in dividual being liable to be burnt or imprisoned, or without his experiencing any other inconvenience than the being called, by ignorant and interested persons, a visionary or a madman. And when truth can thus be publicly spoken, and have a fair chance of being heard, it will be seen how soon error will disappear before it, and how rapidly every mind will advance in the acquisition of real knowledge. Man must believe according to the strongest conviction that can be made upon his mind, and truth must, therefore, sooner or later prevail over error. Under the impression, then, that every fact con nected with the subject will prove that all human evil proceeds from the erroneous supposition that man has been formed with powers to believe as he likes, and to feel as he pleases, and that this origin of evil must now give place to the superior know ledge that man is forced by the unckanging laws of his nature to believe, in obedience to the strongest conviction that is made upon his mind, and to feel, in -obedience to the impressions made by external objects upon his individual organization ; I have developed a - new moral, political, and commercial system for the British dominions, founded on this change of moral principle : which system will in the first instance be submitted to Government for their calm consideration, and afterwards be laid before the public; as it must, ere long, be adopted to relieve you from the dire effects of immorality, and of mis .lirected scientific power. The plan recommended is, to supersede the circumstances which pervade the moral, political, and commercial system now in practice, by other circumstances of a more favourable character, formed in accordance with the now-ascertained law of hu man nature, that belief and feeling are alike inde pendent of the will of the individual. Such a com bination of circumstances would at once relieve the world from all the misery entailed upon it by the consequences arising from a contrary supposition ; which supposition could only have been upheld, through past ages, by reason of the ignorance which pervaded the human race upon these all-important subjects. No such change, however, ns that which I propose can be established unless borne out by the sanction of a majority of the reflecting part of the population. —I therefore thus address you, that you may at eisure consider the principles upon which the pro posed change is founded, and that all who may deem themselves interested in opposing that change, or its principles, may have an opportuwity of bringing forward their objections with the lea<t delay. I say with the least delay, because the sufferings of a large part of the industrious classes in Great Britain and Ireland are now almost greater than they can submit to, without seeking a remedy for themselves, unaided by the non-producing classes; and because, while the existing moral, political, and commercial <ystem shall continue, these sufferings must un avoidable increase. Bedford-square, Jan. 11, 1530. ROBT. OWEN. MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY. The dismissal of Mr. Frost from the situation to which he was so very recently appointed by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, was al luded to at the meeting of the Medico-Botanical Society. The circumstances attending it tire curious and worthy of being recorded. Some short time since Mr. Frost, as Secretary to the Royal Humane Society, a situation he then filled, was directed by the Treasurer of that noble Institution to wait upon his Royal Highness, upon business connected with the establishment. He was received with condes cending affability and kindness, and upon an applica tion made by Mr. Frost, was appointed one of the Surgeons in ordinary. Mr. Frost then solicited the Royal Deke to become President of the Medico- Botanical Society, and stated that, at a general meeting held, it was the unanimous wish of the members that they should enjoy the high and dis tinguished honour of having that Illustrious Per sonage to preside over them. It was understood by the Royal Duke, that since the death of his la mented brother, the Duke of York, the Chair had not been filled ; under such circumstances the signature of the Royal Prince was obtained to a paper, purporting to accept the office, to another, by which John Frost, Esq., and other gentlemen, were appointed Vice Presidents. Mr. Frost then proceeded to obtain his Majesty's sanction. It how ever happened in time to prevent a collision which would have been indeed painful to the Royal Duke, and to the present Noble and much-loved President, that a circular, signed by the Earl as President, fell into the hands of his Royal Highness; thus, cir cumstances, which ought not to have been kept back, became known to the Royal Duke; the docu ments were instantaneously recalled, and the name of Mr. Frost struck from the roll of his Royal High ness's Household. It has been attempted to awaken some sympathy for Mr. Frost, in consequence of the wish which exists in the Medico-Botanical Society to eject that gentleman, but when it is remembered wich what vehemence he urged the expulsion of the first Bo tanist of the xge for writing an angry letter, and when Lord Stanhope positively asserts that he was on that occasion deceived by Mr. Frost, our feeling in his favour is very much diminished.—llforning Paper. A melancholy instance of the effect of violent passion occurred at Kingstanley, Gloucestershire, on Monday night last. TleouAs WILKINS, a weaver, had been requested by his mother, who is bedridden, to come to her house to protect her from the violence she appre hended from her grandson, named JoieN Daliazura who, with his wife, lodged in her house. It appears that the old woman ; ha - sing received no rent from her grand son, had desired them to get lodgings elsewhere, but he refused and determined to keep possession of his room by force. About half-past nine, DANGINFIZI,D, accompa nied by a sister, entered the house. Wurxxs, a sister, and DANGERTIELD'S wife were in the kitchen, where a quarrel immediately ensued between the women. rose to part the combatants, when DANcitnrlcrm in stantly seized his uncle by the threat, and stabbed hint deeply in the abdomen. Wiumrs fell to the ground, while the nephew, wiping the bloody weapon, rushed out of the house and effected his escape. Surgical assistance was procured immediately, but the bowels were rut and protruding through the wound, and the poor fellow lin gered till the night, when he died. The deceased was a a'out healthy man, about 40 years of age, but timer lied. DANGERFIELD, who is yet at large, is about 26 years of age, and recently married. An inquest was held upon the body yesterday, when a verdict of " Wiliul mur der" was returned against Jos or D cuter Journal. )