The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE DUTY OF GOVERNMENT TO FROM THE EVENE.G PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES. GLOBE.—By means of the income-tax--which , (From the Sentinel.) has produced nearly fifty per cent. more than he I The condition of the working-classes has now fairly computed, added to a number of favourable contin- 1 and fully forced itself on the notice of the public. gencies—Sir Robart Peel finds himself in possession Newspapers of every shade of politics acknowledge the of a large surplus revenue. Under such circum- I prostration reme of measures industry, h howeverwhiwhich they may to be differ adopted. a s t Poaching and incendiarism in the o :tames, the cauntry has a right to ask and expect tn e diaought rural districts, sucide two things : —First—that the odious impost upon and prostitution in the metropolis, with the state of the trade and profe slogs be removed at the expire- unions both in town and country, have begun to alarm lion of the three years for which the tax was property, and the rich already despair of the conserve criginally imposed ; and that, if continued beyond tive efficacy of soldiers and police. Emigration, allot ti at time, in any form, it be confined to tangible, means, organic chemistry, free-trade, the confiscation of ascertained property. Secondly—a total abolition, or church-lands, a reduction in the interest of the fund n aterial reduction, of duties which press most severely holder, and even the total repudiation of the public en the trade and industry of the country. Of such debt, are among the various schemes propounded for duties, there is one which is peculiarly impolitic and averting that direful catastrophe which all in d fe e e e l d is . fast li - - oppressive. Perhaps there is no tax a reduction or re- pr o a o c v h e i r n g. our it The eadg political an d avalanche gives sign signs 'of a speedy fall, moval of which would be more advantageous to the i t n h g reatenine• to sweep away the useful and the cimmunity than the duty upon Policies of Insurance, useless, the good and the bad, the pa- At the same time it might be effected without ulti- lace and the workhouse. There is not a class mately occasioning any material loss of revenue. in society free from uneasiness, while the vast majority The great comparative extent to which the business are thoroughly discontented, being convinced that any of insurance is carried in Great Britain affords one of change could not work more evil to them than they now the least equivocal tests of our superior progress in endure ; and when that feeling becomes the faith of the civilization, and of the greatest diffusion amongst us millions, all the moral securities for order and govern ofea can then only sleep with habits of providence and foresight. It appears, ment are at end. W from the official returns, that the gross duty received bolted doors and loaded pistols lth at his bedside. on policies of insurance against fire in the United W e believe that there is yet time to avert revolution and secure the interests of all, and with that view we Kingdom, in 1843, amounted, in round numbers, shall venture to propound a plan at once simple and to one million sterling, independent of farming- efficacious, which will give fresh guarantees to every de- Mock, which is exempt from duty. As the duty scription of legitimate property, and put an end to pau is three shillings per cent., the property insured, perism, poaching, incendiarism, and all the crimes and subject to duty, was valsted at the immense sum of convulsions which follow in their train. All that we nearly 667,000,0001. But, vast as this sum cer- take for granted is, that Government is bound to pro tainly is, it is still true that most buildings, with tect property, and to recognise labour as property. their contents, are not insured at near their full Whence comes our present danger ? From the in value. Even in towns, many are not insured at all ; ability of employing our working population at remu and in the country the insurance of farm-buildings is nerati n g wages thei r; labour, a a b n o d u , r a t s ha t t h i e s ir to numbers the i r are annually t . d e r , ?,..1, they comparatively rare. It is difficult to imagine that increasing, depreciated from year to , year. On say,th otherphraonp this disinclination to insure can be owing to any cause who now possess the fixed capital of the country, find ether than the exorbitance of the tax. It is especially that sort of property appreciated from year to year, since the duty of governments to encourage habits of competition among producers must always tend to forethought, and to contribute, by every means in cheapen produce, and cheapness is equivalent to an in their power to the protection of property, and to crease of wealth in the hands of those who consume, but tfie mitigation of the disastrous effects of those do not produce. If no disturbing cause intervenes, this casualties to which it is exposed. But it disparity between the two great classes, here indicated, would appear as if Parliament, when it imposed must constantly become more and more unequal, till we this tax, had thought that the less security there beholdt andthem extre edestitution. When tllu broadly-defined contrast pointsuper was s for property and the more disastrous fires, nu '4' and other calamitous visitations upon it, were ren- reached, the war between iron and gold commences, and to that point we are tending. In the moral, as well as doped, the better! The practice of insurance has in the physical world, there are periods of destruction grown up amongst us, not in consequence of encour- and restitution, and in both the catastrophe happens agements by the Government, but in the teeth of when the component elements in their constitution cease the most formidable obstructions. The duties im- to be conservatively balanced. posed on it do not really seem to have been imposed The great error, not to use so harsh a term as wicked for the sake of revenue, but that the business might ness of our Government, has been, and still is, to legislate be suppressed. The premium charged by the dif- for the vested interests of the rich, to the utter disregard ferent offices on risks of ordinary hazard is, at of those of the poor. Statesmen have affixed far too this moment, Is. fid. per cent.; while the duty is no limited a mean l in nd gtothesyord " property ;" they have pensions, io t n ru s ie s s ine e less than 35., or 200 per ce n t. on th e pr em i u m ; so o they and that an individual ins u ri ng 1,0001. upon a house, a certain i nprtofio a profits arisinb uildings,g out of f certain have fortified by monopolies •, but, in their' wchufhes, definition of „shop, &c., pays the insurer 15s. to indemnify him property, they have never included labour. In reference against his risk; and 30s. of duty to Government,with to the masses of the people, the business of statesman- Is. on each policy, whatever may be the amount in- ship seems to have consisted, first, in excluding them stared, for liberty to enter into such a transaction ! from all voice in making the laws ; secondly, in taxing We hesitate not to say, that the existence of such a them on all articles of their consumption ; thirdly, in ditty is disgraceful to the country. To enlarge. taxing them to pay a standing army and police when on its mischievoas influence is utterly unnecessary ever they dared to protest against misrule; and fourthly, its operation in lessening and preventing insur- in depriving them of markets for their labour, in order ances is universally felt and acknowledged. We that, by such deprivation, other kinds of prboperty,edbe . are supported by the authority of eve ry one b es t able longingval those who to n make non-producers laws, to form a sound conclusion on such a p o i n t, w h en we ue Iproduce ma rs e statesmanship raised has acted in a very different spirit. iVhenever their express our conviction th a t th e re d uc ti on o f th e duty vested interests have been infringed, compensation has from as. to Is. per cent. would occasion such an been awarded to them ; thus the slave owners extension of the business, that the loss of revenue that were compensated ; and the same rule has been would take place in the first instance would, in a invariably applied to pensioners and sinecurists. But very short time, cease to be considerable, or be alto- when a tariff has narrowed the labour market, and de gether replaced. But though this anticipation stroyed the vested interests of the working classes by were not fully realised, would not the sacrifice of depreciating their property, no compensation whatever 100,0001. of annual revenue be compensated a hundred- has been voted to them by Parliament. When bread fold by the security afforded to two hundred was made dear by law, and labour scarce, the Legisla ture separated a man from his wife for the crime of being millions of capital ? We incline to think that Mr. hungry, after having put the loaf beyond his reach; and, Goulburn himself would pause before he determined if he ventured to trespass on the vested interests of game to resist a proposition for the reduction of this im- preserves, and seize a hare or partridge, then the Legis politic duty. The extreme hazard to which property lature provided him a lodging in the county gaol, leaving at sea is exposed, renders its insurance of peculiar his wife and children to the scant dietary, of the unions. consequence to individuals and to the public. Yet Now, this truly infernal system must be fundamen the insurers of ships and cargoes, as well as of tally changed. Government must find labour for the houses and the property they contain, are subjected unemployed. That is the remedy we propose. The to very oppressive duties. All policies of marine in- details of the plan are not difficult. The Crown and surance must be on stamped paper. Policies waste lands would give occupation to hundreds of thou on vessels engaged in the foreign or colonial sands in would inbringingtheminottroecusltureubirie harbours spad spade husbandry; wouldbandr trade, may be as conveniently effected in llamburgh, railro ads afford another engage field for others industry. ;l)b But how are these Amsterdam, or New York, as in London ; and as men to be paid ? Let us first ask those who put policies executed in these cities are either wholly the question, what they think of a Government who are exempted from duties, or are subject to such so cruel as to tax its subjects, and so little skilful as not as are nominal only, the duty imposed on them to be able to employ them ? Caa they honestly tax in this country causes a large portion of that in- labour to pay the fundholders, for example, and not tax surance business to be transacted on the Con- the fundholders to pay labour ? If statesmanship can tinent, and in the United States. That such is only achieve such triumphs as these, let it be classed in the case is known to every merchant. The insurance the category of swindling. We say it fearlessly,—a Go of vessels in the colonial and foreign trade is gra- v.ercnlamenttmeelfriitnsesounibveetresniotntowhaichtit,aelxnesfotrhethpeeiropllueioaunrd dually, but certainly, leaving this country. The declares Wh the l l s aw would scarcely aclo y w a man to keep a horse duty is, in fact, driving a valuable branch of industry and the it, unlesi he fed the animal; and shall our Con from amongst us. Even though it had no such effect, stitution throw its shield over the brutes, and refuse pre it is clear that a tax on the security of property at sea tection to the sons and daughters of industry ? is not one that ought to exist in am country, and, But the mode of payment is not difficult. Since we least of all, in a commercial country like England. vote thirty millions annually to pay the fundliolder, let IVe do, therefore, hope that Sir R. Peel will avail us vote half that sum to pay the unemployed poor, and himself of the favourable condition of the public for that purpose issue Government notes, not. bearing finances to repeal these duties. The country, so deeply interest, convertible into gold at its market price, and interested in their removal, should, by deputations receiving the character of a legal tender, being an ac from the various ports of the kingdom, press the sub- quittance of taxes at the Exchequer. jest on his consideration. The Right Hon. Baronet A sin g le : it would work. Suppose Govern the manner in which example will serve to illustrate the plan and will thus be prepared for having the su bj ec t brought meet were to determine on constructing a railway from before Parliament early in the app r o ac hi ng sess i on ; London to York. It would invite all the unemployed when we hope the removal o f th e t ax on policies of to apply to the proper superintendents, every man re fire and marine insurance will form one of the items ceivit , a fixed weekly salary, at a minimum of wages, of the new budget. which shall assume to be two shillings daily. Every STANDARD.—A case of some importance was man who could not get work from private employers argued in the Irish Rolls Court on Thursday last, would repair to the public work, and all able-bodied which involved the question of whether or not a be- paupers would be sent to the stations on the line. The quest in Ireland of money directed to be expended first step, then, in the process would be the abolition of "in masses for the soul's sake " be valid. The Bill pauperism, and the emptying of the unions of all but he aged the crie whose infirm' ties . ent t alleges that such a beq u e s t i s f or " supers titi ous pur audio them to a natonal asylum. d, it ln the next place, would poses, and therefore against the policy of the law." raise wages, permanently, all over the country, in every The facts of the case are these :—ln 1837 the Rev. trade and calling, since private capitalists could never Mr. Kearns, a Roman Catholic priest, of Rath- lower wages below two shillings per diem, which we have farnham, made a will, granting certain legacies ; di- assumed to be the minimum. Of course all prices recting a life annuity to be paid to his sister out of would rise to the great benefit of the producing classes. his property ; and further devising that any residue The wages paid at the various Government works accruing after the death of the annuitant should be would be distributed in the purchase of all kinds of " expended for masses for his soul's sake." The commodities, and increase the home trade. Those wages will named two executors, the Rev. Mr. Dugienan would be paid in symbolic money, and being taken in and Mr. Hodgens. Within five years of its date payment of taxes, would discharge Customs, Excise, Stami s, and all other unposta annually due to the G o - Mr. Kearns died with o ut h av i ng revo k e d hi s will, and the surviving, executor (Mr. Hodgens) that vt ; rnn s i work , On whatever work the men were employed, would form an addition to the real wealth of having taken out l e tt ers o f a d m i n i s t ra ti on, paid the nation when aompleted. If a line of railway, for in the several leg a ci es , an d con ti nue d t o the annuity up to 1840, w h en the annuitant pay stance, were constructed on this principle, it would be died, and he proceed e d to d i spo se of the '° re come national property, and all would benefit by the maining cheapness of transit, as it could be let to a company for residue of the property" in accordance with the desire a term of years at a competition tender, such company of the testator. Two parties, alleging to be next of merely farming the power of conveying goods and pas kin, have since disputed, not th e general validity of sengers, the plant of the railway remaining in the the instrument, the insufficiency of administration, or nation. Waste lands brought into culture under the manner in which the effects of the deceased were this system could be let on perpetual leases at administered up to the period of the demise of the corn rents, which rents might be annually applied annuitant ; but the validity of that portion of the to the reduction of the national debt. New harbours will which di rec t s th e " res id ue to b e expended thus created would be free of dues, or at most no more in masses" for the soul of the deceased ; alleging by du T es h r e .e s ed at b e e tloevNivch,diethhaansil'Ouleldarkttiegothiesmliimn limited forbids their bill that the " bequest of the said residue so full an ) exposition of the details of this system, as we for masses for the sake of the soul of the said deem necessary—a defect which we shall supply in our testator, was void and of ne effect, as being a gift next number. For the present we must be content with for superstitious purposes, and, therefore,. contrary announcing the principle on whi c h thi s reme di a l measure to the policy of the law." A c c or di ng ly th y seek to is based. We hold that a Government which levies taxes recover the amount of this residue from the executor. on the working classes is bound to find employment for The arguments of counsel on both sides have been the working classes, particularly such a Government as o heard, but the case still sta n d s over f or j u d gment. ours, which narrows the labour-market by deliberate legislation, and thus prevents private capitalists from The Freeman's Journal contend s th a t, t o re f use to permit a Roman Cath o li c p r i es t t o p rac ti ce t h e doe- a l... : i ive, if restr ictios on trade were ring that employment which they might be able to d. We trine of his Church—th e d oc t r i ne th a t it i s " a holy Z:ontend that poac n hing incendiarisni, end abolish ni e ne-tenths and wholesome th oug ht t o pray f or t h e d ea d , " w h en of the offences committed' against property, are instigated Preparing for death himself, would be a virtual by those various Acts of Parliament which deprive men repeal of the Emancipation Act, which invested per- of food, lodging, and raiment, by depriving them of Eons of that persuasion with the right of being as employment ; and consequently, that those who enact superstitious as they pleased ; and that the reoog- such unjust laws are more deserving of incarceration nition of such an ohitaele would be to prohibit di- than those who break them. Nay, more—we insist that rectly the free exercise of the Roman Catholic reli- it would be more humane to legalise infanticide, than to lion in Ireland, an d ren d er a new a g agitation for continue the laws which p rev e n t f a th ers f rom earn i ng emancipation indi s p ensa bl e . T he case was ably wherewithal to support their children, who are doomed argued en both sides, and the question appeared to peris f h for want of a sufficiency of food. We deny the Legislature to employ soldiers and police for to be whether the law which has existed in W I t r o ote t c h t e io Le property, lao ; unless they also give an ade- England since Ist of Edward IV., and which qu e at p e protect l io n n to fat our ; and by "adequate protec was intended to restrain such bequests can be tion," we mean that the Government is bound to find considered as applying with equal force to employment for every man able to work, but who fails a country in which so large a majority of to find employment from private capitalists ; and we its people are Roman Catholics. The question is hold this obligation the . more sacred in thi s country, certainly a delicate one, but precedents for disre- where the working classes are taxed wi t h out b e i ng re garding such bequests in this country are numerous P resentsd and unequivocal; and if the law of the land be ap pealed to to establish the validity of Mr. Kearn s will, why should not the supremacy of the Pope (a formal doctrine of the Roman Catholic religion) and the injunctions of Dr. Dens, be similarly vin dicated ? • NOMINATION OF SIIEICIFFS.—A Privy Council Will be held in the Court of Exchequer this afternoon, when the nomination of gentlemen to serve the office of sheriff in the different eounties of England will take place. lIER MAJESTY'S STAG HOUNDS.—The Royal pack this year consists of 53 couple, 36 couple of which are old and 17 young hoiinds—viz., 1 couple, 8 years old ; 1 couple, b years ; 2 couple, 5 years ; 7 couple, 4 years ; 9 couple, 3 years ; 16 couple, 2 years ; and 17 couple, 1 year old. Her Majesty's stag hounds in 1842, num bered 60 ; and in 1843, 52 couple. About 100 gentle men, including Lord Rosslyn, the master of the Royal pack, were at the meet on Friday morning, at New NVinkfield, where an untried deer was uncarted between eleven and twelve o'clock, going away to Wink field Park, on nearly to the village. where it doubled to the right on the left of Hawthorn-hill. Thence it made for near the r esidence ar Church, and was t a k en at Pott-bridge of Lady Malcolm, afte r a run, over a' country of nine miles generally heavy, of nearly an hour. Na fixture has yet been made for the by-day on Wednes day next. The meet on Monday will be at the Stag and Hounds, Binfield ; and on Friday, at Littleton, near Staines. ENGLISH AND IRISH WOMEN.—The Irish ladies have always been celebrated for their beauty. They are taller than those of England. I thought, when in Brighton a short time ago, that a greater amount of beauty, considering the number present, could not be anywhere met with, provided the ladies were brought accidentally together, than what I witnessed, evening after evening, on the pier and parade of that place. I will not say that among the same number of Irish ladies, brought by chance together, you would see a greater proportion of fine faces. The claims of the ladies in the one country and the other are, in this re-peer, so nicely balanced, that it would be difficult to say which of the two countries carries.off the palm. But this, I am sure, will be admitted by every unprejudiced Englishman who has walked, on a fine afternoon in August, on the promenade at Kingston Harbour, that he never, in any part of England, saw, in an assemblage of women of the same extent, an equal number of fine figures. There is, too, in the carriage and manner of the better order of tho Irish ladies generally, a marked superiority to the Eng lish women. There is comparatively little in Ireland of , that cold reserve and distant demeanour which strike foreigners as so unfavourable a characteristic of our English women. The Irish ladies have much of the ease, gracefulness, and vivacity of the French, without any of their exceptionable qualities. There is not in the world a more modest race of women than the Irish ; a remark which equally applies to all ranks and classes among them.—lmpressions of Ireland and the Irish. PEDESTUIANISM.—A man named Alabaster is now engaged on Parker's-piece in attempting the arduous task of walking 1,000 voiles and the same number of fur longs in 1,000 successive hours. Ile starts from the New La.—Cambridge Independent. The Russian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. THE SUN, _LONDON, TUESDAY VATENING. NOVEMBER 12, 1844. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY—Nov. 11. The Lord Chancellor took his seat in his Court to day, at a quarter before eleven o'clock, for the pur pose of hearing appeals. MATTHEWS V. MUSE. The further arguments in this case, which were partly heard on Friday and Saturday, were resumed and concluded to-day. The case came before the court upon appeal from the court below, which had ordered the defendant to make good the value of a number of Exchequer-bills, which he had, as a trustee, left in the hands of bankers, who converted them to their own use, and afterwards became bankrupts. The defendant was also ordered to pay the costs. The facts of the case may be thus shortly stated :—A tes tator, of the name of Matthews, by his will appointed the defendant a trustee of considerable estates in Suf folk, with directions to dispose of them in a reasonable time, and, at the termination of a beneficial interest in the fund, which was to be enjoyed by his widow, to divide it among his younger children, of whom the plaintiff was one. The testator died in 1834, and the defendant sold a portion of the estates, and placed the purchase-money, for a time, in the hands of Messrs. Oakes, as his bankers ; he, however, shortly afterwards, for greater security, placed the money, which amounted to 7,500/., in the hands of the Messrs. Wakefield, the bill-brokers and bankers, in Broad street, London. Negotiations were going on, with the concurrence of the widow of the testator, for paying the money out on mortgage, and in the meantime he gave Messrs. Wakefield instructions to invest it i:i the purchase of Exchequer-bills. The bills were pur chased, but the Messrs. Wakefield became bankrupts in April, 1841, and it turned out that they had felo niously sold the bills afterwards, and converted the produce to their own use, subjecting themselves to the provisions of the 7th and Bth Geo. IV., chap. 59, for the fraud. The money being therefore lost, the Master of the Rolls held the defendant to be re sponsible, on the ground that he had transferred to other persons the confidence reposed in him, and that having parted with the custody of the money, he must replace it, and pay all the costs. Mr. Bethell and a gentleman behind the bar ap peared for the appellant, and Mr. J. Russell and Mr. Chandless supported the judgment of the Court below. The arguments having concluded to-day, The LORD CHANCELLOR postponed giving judg ment till he had had an opportunity of looking into the papers and the authorities that had been cited. Tle n Court did not rise till nearly four o'cloelr: VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 11. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) HUXTABLE V. THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. The arguments in this part-heard case were re sumed and concluded to-day. The case came before the Court upon demurrers put in to the bill by the defendants, Messrs. Magniac and Co., and Messrs. Baring, Brothers, for want of equity as against them, they having been made, by the plaintiff, defendants to the suit, upon allegations that they were the autho rised agents of the State of Illinois in this country. The plaintiff, who is a married woman, by the pre sent bill sought payment through the defendants, as such agents, of a debt which she alleged to be due to her for principal and interest, accruing in respect to certain bonds of the State of Illinois, which she had been induced, before she married, by John Wright, of the late banking firm of Messrs. Wright and Co., with whom she kept a bank ing account, and before the bankruptcy of that firm, to purchase, and that at a time when Messrs.lVright and Co. were the accredited agents of the State of Illinois in this country, for the sale of the bonds of that State. The plaintiff by her bill further al leged that the state of Illinois, through its agents, Messrs. Magniac and Co., proved a large debt against the estate of Wright and Co. in respect of the bonds of the State entrusted to them for sale in this country, and that a sum of 15,0001. was then standing to the credit of the State of Illinois in the Court of Bank ruptcy, the amount of dividend already declared upon the debt due to the State of Illinois. To obtain pay ment of her debt out of that fund, the plaintiff filed this bill against the State of Illinois, making the defendants, Messrs. Magniac and Co., and Messrs. Baring, Brothers, as the alleged agents of the State on this country, defendants to the suit, for that purpose, and praying by the bill that the State of Illinois and the defendants, as its agents, should be restrained from receiving the fund from the Court of Bank ruptcy without first satisfying thereout her demand. Upon the conclusion of the arguments, The VICE-CHANCELLOR gave judgment, allowing all the demurrers, with costs, but giving the plaintiff liberty to amend her bill. COULSTRING V. COULSTRING. This case came before the Court upon a plea put in by the defendant to the bill of the plaintiff The plaintiff and the defendant are husband and wife ; they had lived together for some years and had four children. They quarrelled and separated, and upon that occasion the defendant, the husband, executed a deed, by which he allowed the plaintiff, his wife, twenty-eight shillings a week to keep herself and her four children. In that deed was a proviso, that if they should live together again, and thereby invalidate the deed, that upon any future separation another deed to the same effect should be executed. It appeared from the statements in the bill that the parties lived together again for about six weeks, and then separated, and the defendant refused to exeoute another deed. Upon this event taking place the plaintiff filed her bill to compel him to do so, to which the defendant put in his plea. Mr. JAMES, who appeared in support of the plea, was proceeding to open his case, when The VICE-CHANCELLOR inquired who appeared in support of the bill ? _ _ A little dapper female here stepped forward, and said she was the plaintiff, that she had very little to say, and she therefore thought that she could do it as well as employing counsel. The VICE-CHANCELLOR (smilingly) said he was always happy to see the ladies, but he thought it would have been much better for her if she had entrusted her case to counsel. The lady, notwithstanding the good advice, pro ceeded in a rambling strain to argue her case, and the result was as might have been expected. His HONOUR ordered the plea to be allowed. CONSISTORY COURT, Nov. 11. STONE AGAINST STONE. Dr. LUSIIINGTON gave sentence in this case, which was argued in Trinity Term last. It was originally a suit commenced by Mrs. Harriet Stone against Mr. George Stone, her husband, for a divorce by reason of cruelty and adultery. Mr. Stone denied both charges, and in return accused Mrs. Stone of adultery with Lord Sussex Lennox, and her adultery with Mr. Thomas Knox Holmes was incidentally pleaded. Mrs. Stone, in a third plea, charged her husband with connivance at her adultery with Mr. Holmes. The parties were married on the 23d of February, 1835, Mr. Stone being then a bachelor, and Mrs. Stone a widow, of the name of Hawkins. They had one child, and on the '24th of August, 1841, they separated. Mr. Stone is the partner of a m ell-known banking firm in the City. The adultery of Mrs. Stone with Lord Sussex Lennox, the Learned Judge observed, was proved to demonstration ; indeed, it could not be denied. Mr. Stone, therefore, would be entitled to the separation he prayed for unless barred by his own misconduct. To be deprived of remedy, he must himself have committed adultery, or have connived at his own dishonour, or have condoned the adultery of his wife after it had taken place. These, therefore, were the only questions he bad to try. A great many circumstances might arise in matrimonial intercourse deserving of severe reprobation ; but unless they bore upon the questions of adultery, connivance, or condonation, they were not properly within the cognizance of this Court. In consider ing the charge of adultery brought against Mr. Stone, it was a great relief to his (the Learned Judge's) mind, to be able to dismiss altogether the allegation of a connexion with the sister of Mrs. Stone, which had been abandoned, and of which, in his opinion, there was not the slightest evidence. The first charge of adultery against Mr. Stone respecting which evidence had been offered was, that in 1839 he had gone to the Lyceum Theatre, and accompanied a woman to her apartments, where he left his banking-book, keys, and a sum of money. No direct evidence of this charge was produced, but it was stated to be proved by the adthission of Mr. Stone himself—a species of evidence of the highest kind, provided always that it was accompanied by certain requisites, namely, that the party reporting the admission was credible, that the expressions were clear and distinct, and that the admission was sincere. Only one witness was produced to prove this charge, Ann Knowles. What bad she been brought to prove ? Why, that Mr. Stone at a subsequent time (about a twelvemonth after) acknowledged the fact in her hearing and in the presence of his wife and of Mr. Holmes. (The Learned Judge here read the deposi tion of Ann Knowles upon this article of the allege ' tion.) Now, laying out of consideration for the pre sent the degree of credit due to Ann Knowles, was the statement quite consistent with probability and with all the other facts of the case ? Assuming that Mr. Stone had been guilty of the fact imputed to him, was it very probable that he should have std.• milted it in the presence of three persons, one his wife, another the person with whom his wife is accused of having committed adultery, and the third the nurse of his child P If lie had done so, he would have been guilty of the grossest imprudence, unless it could be supposed that it took place with the knowledge and acquiescence of the wife, and that alb iya a habit of the husband, for had this been an isolated transaction, in all human probability it must have been concealed by him. But the charge was highly improbable, from the statement of the witness not relating all that passed, for nothing was said as to any observation from Mrs. Stone. It was impossible for the Court on such evidence as this, so inconsistent with probability, to bold that the 9 offence was established. If such a charge could be established upon the testimony of a single wit• ness, the circumstances must be probable, and the witness omni exceptione major, and this, looking to the testimony of Ann Knowles upon other points, could not, with propriety be maintained. Consider ing, therefore, this charge as not sufficiently estab lished, he proceeded to the next charge,—that Mr. Stone had been infected with a certain disease. Of this charge there appeared to be an ample field for evidence, inasmuch as several men were vouched. But the testimony of Mr. Liston, the surgeon, who attended Mr. Stone professionally, pronounced the symptoms to be equivocal ; and when a professional gentleman of eminence and of great medical skill declared the point to be doubtful, it would not become him (the Learned Judge), who had no medical skill and none of the opportunities afforded to Mr. Liston, to come to a different conclusion. Mrs. Knowles spoke to the same point ; but it would not he safe to credit her, even if her evidence were not apposed to that of the medical witness. The evidence of Mr. Scanlan to an alleged confession of Mr. Stone showed that it wanted one of the requisites, namely, sincerity, and that of Mr. Martindale did not go to convict Mr. Stone of matrimonial infidelity. Upon this point, therefore, the proof was not suffi cient to satisfy the Court. The only remaining charge of adultery was that alleged to have taken place with Mrs. Cole, his housemaid and housekeeper, at Mr. Stone's house at Fulham, in 1842, which rested upon the evidence of the g ardener, Maxwell, and his wife, the only other servants in the house. The Learned Judge went into a very minute exami nation of the details of their evidence, commenting upon the inconsistencies and improbabilities in their statements, and upon the fact that Mary Maxwell did not believe that adultery had taken place at the time, though she had come to that conclusion since. Whilst there was no proof of any improper familiarities be tween Mr. Stone and Mrs. Cole, still less of any act of adultery, the circumstances stated by the witnesses as affording an inference of guilt were consistent with innocence. It turned out likewise that the facts al leged in three articles of the wife's plea, which ap • peared to be separate and distinct, all occurred on the same day. The two most essential circumstancer were Cole's being alone with Mr. Stone in his bedroom, and her being outside his door in her night clothes, in toxicated ; the door, however, being locked. The latter circumstance could not be taken as evidence against Mr. Stone, and it was admitted by Mary Maxwell that Mrs. Cole had occasion to go into Mr. Stone's room in the ordinary fulfilment of her house hold duties. Under such circumstances the Celia could not infer guilt; it could not give way to sus picion ; it must be governed by the legitimate results of legal evidence. There was not a single act of indecent familiarity directly proved ; and, had there been a criminal intercourse carried on between the parties, he (the Learned Judgo) could not conceive that there would not have been more direct evidence. He must, under these circumstances, pronounce the charge of adultery against Mr. Stone not proved. He had now arrived at a stage of the investigation which entitled him to say that the adultery of Mrs. Stone with Lord Sussex Lennox being proved, and no charge of adultery against Mr. Stone being estab lished, it followed that he was entitled to a sentence of separation from his wife, unless he had condoned her offence, or had forfeited his claim to relief by connivance. It was unnecessary to define what in legal parlance was meant by the term "connivance ;" it might be sufficient to say, that the conduct of the husband might be most reprehensible and yet not connivance, He knew no authority for holding that coarse and brutal words, obscene and disgusting language, and an entire disregard of decorum, would alone constitute connivance. Such conduct, though most derogatory to a gentleman, and offensive to good feeling, even though accompanied by cruelty, and even the desertion of a wife, would not amount in the eye of the law to connivance, though it might have a direct and necessary tendency to lead her into a course which would expose her to the commission of adultery. The Learned Judge then stated briefly the facts upon which the charge of connivance was founded. An extract of a letter from a lady named Price, was communicated to Mr. Stone, wherein the intimacy of Mrs. Stone with Mr. Holmes was repre sented as the subject of observation, and it was alleged that notwithstanding this warning, he promoted their intimacy. But there was no proof of adultery be tween Mrs. Stone and Mr. Holmes, and could the Court act without evidence, and assume a fact which was essential to establish the charge of connivance ? The letters discovered by Mr. Stone in his wife's re positories were not produced, and their contents were not known to the court. There had been no case in which connivance had been established where the adul i tery was not clearly proved. Even though the husband might be supposed in foro conscientm to be guilty of connivance, in the eye of the law there could not be connivance without proof of the adultery and of the conduct of the party with relation to it; and there was not a shadow of proof in this case. The last topic in the case was the conduct of Mr. Stone on the 24th of August, 1841, on the discovery of the letters from Mr. Holmes to his wife. The facts alleged against Mr. Stone were, that he took his wife and child on that day, after the discovery, in the carriage to Fulham, and treated her with great kindness aria attention. The evidence of Ann Knowl es u p on thi s point was highly improbable, and was i ncons i stent with the fact of the separation on that day, and with the letter of Mrs. Stone. Upon the whole case, he acquitted Mr. Stone of all legal culpability which would bar him from obtaining a separation. He (Dr. Lushington) was not called upon to give any opinion how far Mr. Stone s gross and offensive conversation and demeanour, and his . permitting hi s w if e t o asso ciate with persons not of the best or purest character, might have led to her abandonment of all delicacy of feeling, and so have paved the way for her violation of the marriage bed. Such matt ers were not within the cognisance of this Court; an d h e re j o i ced, in this case, to be relieved from the responsibility o f pass i ng his judgment upon them. H e p ronounced for the divorce. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-ROUSE. Yesterday the new Lord Mayor commenced the Justice-room proceedings of the Mayoralty. After the cases of several pickpock e t s who were charged with having pursued th e i r calling in the streets on Lord Mayor's-day were disposed of, a case of smuggling, which caused a great deal of interest, came before his Lordship and Sir George Carroll. An old, and apparently very i n fi rm man, name d Henry Knowles, was brought up i n custo d y, upon an l information charging him, under the 3d and 4th William IV., c ap. 53, sec. 40, w i t h h av i ng carried and conveyed, on the 7th of November, three gallons and seven pints of foreign brandy, upon which the duty had not been paid, Mr. Goodman (the chief clerk) having asked the prisoner whether hp plead e d G u ilt y or N ot G u il ty ? The prisoner replied, Guilty. The prisoner was then informed that he was fined in the penalty of 100/., and that the law did not give to the magistrates any power of mitigating the fine. Knowles having been removed from the bar, Ed mun d Joh n Phillips, a licensed victualler, re siding at No. 41, King-street, Snow-hill, was charged upon an information, founded upon a section of the same Act, for having assisted in carrying and con veying three gallons and seven pints of foreign brandy. Mr. Poilbury, from the office of the Solicitor of Customs, attended for the prosecution ; and Mr. nobler appeared for the defendant, who is a man in very extensive business. Cohby Atkinson Davis (Custom-house officer) stated that about seven o'clock in the evening of the 7th of November, as he was watching the house of the prisoner, he observed Henry Knowles (the last prisoner) carrying i n to the premises, wrapped up in an old cloak, what appeared to be a long bottle, the handle of which he held. Knowles went to the back parlour, at the door of which Phillips was standing, and both of them went into the parlour together with the bottle or jar. Witnesss observed what occurred through folding doors, which were not quite closed. Knowles soon afterwards came out without anything, and proceeded in the direction of Smithfield, followed by Pattison, a brother officer, and witness, after watching at the door, went into the house and asked for the landlord, who came down stairs in a few minutes. Witness said he was an officer of the Customs, and that he (prisoner) had been receiving contraband goods, and asked him whether he had the article in that room (the parlour into which Knowles had been seen to go with the landlord)? The prisoner replied that there was nothing there but two small bottles of gin—nothing whatever else. Witness told Pattison, who had returned, having missed Knowles, to look in the corner of the room, and then Pattison drew from under the seat a sealed jar. The prisoner, upon being asked who had sealed the jar, did not answer, but appeared much confused and when asked whether he had permits for the goods, replied that his permits had been some days ago given to the Excise-office. Witness then cut off the seal and kept it, and he found that the contents of the jar was brandy. He then said to the prisoner, "N ow , 14i give you a ehan ue , or wait a n y ti me you think proper, if you bring proof that this came legally int o your possession, and that you have sealed it yourself." To that the prisoner returned no answer, and he ac cordingly seized the brandy and brought it away. Witness continued-H" I laid the case before the Board, and received directions. S u b sequent l y, on apprel bending Knowles in Sun-street, Bishopsgate, I founti upon him smile ocltntlyld tr4l)s,eci, and h ze4i which corresponded with the impression upon the jar. He then told me"— Mr. I - Tobler—Now, you know the rules of evidence well enoligh to be convinced that what he told you is not evidence, and cannot be heard. Witness—l went, after I took the Feat from Knowles, to apprehend Mr. Hobler—Why did you not take Mr. Phillips into custody when you seized the brandy ? Witness —I waited to receive the directions of the Commis sioners. Mr. Hobler--You arrested Mr. Phillips on the 9th instant, in his own house? Witness—l did. Mr. Hobler—ls not Mr. Phillips well known as a respectable publican ? Witness—He is well known to me as a receiver of contraband goods. Mr. Nobler condemned, in indignant terms, such a mode of answering his questions, calculated and in tended as it was to prejudice the case. The witness said the prisoner was well known as the keeper of a public-house, and repeated that the prisoner was known to him in the character just de scribed by him. Mr. nobler submitted to the Lord Mayor and Sir George Carroll that there was no case against his client. The Act alluded to persons carrying or con veying contraband goods, and to persons assisting in carrying or conveying contraband goods, but no proof whatever had been given that Mr. Phillip.; had been so engaged, nor had anything been stated to show that contraband brandy had been passed from the person stated to have entered the house to the landlord of it. Mr. Podbury—l intend to call Knowles as a wit ness, Mr. Nobler. Mr. Holler—Even then you will have no case, for Mr. Phillips never assisted in carrying or conveying the goods. Mr. Podbury—l'll show that the prisoner's conduct was in direct violation of the Act of Parliament. We have had numerous legal opinions upon the subject. Cobby Atkinson Davis, in continuation, deposed that the article contained in the jar was French brandy, anti liable to seizure. He never lost sight of the door from the moment Knowles went in, and there was no bottle or jar on the premises so large as that which Knowles had taken in. E iward Pattison (Custom-house officer) in every respect confirmed the testimony of his brother officer, and added that Davis said to the prisoner, "If you show me the seal the brandy was sealed with I'll give you the brandy," and that the prisoner observed to Davis, " You are going to take away part of my stock." Thomas Corhall (from the Queen's warehouse) produced a sample from the jar, the contents of which were liable to a duty of 4/. 9s. 2d., and were 13 under proof, the usual publican sale strength. Henry Knowles (the man who had pleaded guilty) was then examined. He was, in consequence of ill ness, obliged to give his evidence sitting. He knew the prisoner, and had taken brandy to him. The last time he took brandy to the prisoner was on Thursday or Friday evening. Thursday he believed it was. Re took it in a stone bottle, which was called a four gallon bottle, and was sealed with the seal produced, which had been afterwards found in his possession by the officer. He gave the jar into the possession of the prisoner in front of the bar, and they went into the back parlour with the jar. The prisoner had ordered the brandy, and witness received 3/. for it from the prisoner. Witness was not a licensed dealer, but sold on commission. Mr. Podbury—Did you receive directions from the prisoner to take the brandy to him ? Knowles—l did. Mr. Podbury—Have you taken brandy to him be fore ? Knowles—Yes. Cross-examined by Mr. Hobler—l was here just now a party accused. I pleaded guilty. The brandy about which I pleaded guilty is the same that I took to Mr. Phillips. The magistrates fined me 1001. Mr. Hobler—Did you not know, at the time you pleaded guilty, that you were going to give evidence in this case ? Knowles—Certainly not ; I had no idea of being called as a witness. The officer saw me, and what could,l sa y ? Mr. Hobler then vigorously urged his former ob jection, and argued upon the expectation which Knowles might have entertained of escaping the dilemma in which he was placed, by criminating a man so extensively engaged in business. He deprecated the course pursued by the Custom-house officer, in going into the house of Mr. Phillips two days after the seizure was made, and taking him to a prison without warrant or other authority, especially when there was not the slightest ground for saying that he had assisted in carrying or conveying the brandy. Mr. Podbury submitted that the information had been fully borne out by the evidence. The words of the Act were " carrying or conveying, or assisting in carrying or conveying, or concerned in," &c. &c. The conduct of Knowles showed plainly that the pri soner vas concerned, and most unequivocally con cernt, -. There were plenty of legal decisions to prove that parties removed at great distances from the place of seizure came under the meaning of the Act. As for the officer principally engaged in the matter, he had acted with his accustomed judgment and precau tion. Having some doubt upon the power he was at liberty to exercise, he applied to the Board of Customs for directions, and, having received direc tions, he at once proceeded to execute them. By the 52d section of tlae Act the officer might take a man at any time within six months from the violation of it. The LORD MAYOR—Sir George Carroll agrees with me in the opinion that the case has been fully proved, and we convict him in the penalty of 1001. Mr. Hobler called the attention of the bench to the fact that, without the evidence of Knowles, the case could not have been proved, and submitted that that formed some ground for mitigation. Sir G. CAnaom.—The case is a very strong one against the prisoner. He is a publican, and Knowles swears that he brought the brandy to him at his desire. The LORD MAYOR—There is abundant evidence of concealment, too. The case is completely sub stantiated. Sir G. CARROLL—Phillips is a publican, and a man of substance, and there can be nothing stated in palia tion of his conduct. He is not in poverty, as the other may be. The LORD MAYOR—He must pay the penalty. The prisoner immediately afterwards gave a cheque upon a banking-house in Lombard-street for the 1001. CLERKEIV WELL. Stephen ilforgan was charged with an assault under the following circumstances : Mr. John Camphine, residing at 60, Ossulton street, Somers-town, deposed that between eleven and twelve o'clock on the previous night he was re turning home along Gray's Inn-lane, when he heard screams and cries of "Police" and " Murder." He hastened to the place, and there saw the prisoner and one of his associates pulling up the clothes of two de cent-lo king poor women, and behaving in a most ob scene manner towards them. They were crying for help. The prisoner seemed to be taking a part in this ill-treatment, for when witness interfered he struck him a violent blow on the head, and seized the woman's dress. The prisoner again struck witness several blows on the head. There was no policeman near, and witness followed the prisoners into Holborn, where he and his associates turned upon witness, knocked him down, and kicked and beat him in a cruel manner. A policeman at length came up and arrested Morgan, who had previously directed his companions that were beating witness whilst pros trate in the kennel, to knock witness's brains out. Martha Kingland, the wife of a labourer, living in Clarke's-buildings, Bagnigge IVells- road, deposed that she was returning home along Gray's Inn-lane, when the prisoner and several of his companions met them. One of them knocked her down, and another pulled up her dress. She got up on her legs, but was again knocked down on th e f oo t way . The prisoner was one of the party. Saw him violently assault Mr. Camphine both in Gray's Inn-road and in King street. She was cruelly treated. Inspector Rawley stated that fro:n inquiries made it appeared the witness was a decent, quiet woman, the wife of a carpenter, and the mother of two chil dren. She was perfectly sober, and the prisoner was not intoxicated. Anne Whitbread, the companion of Martha Kings land on the occasion, the wife of a labourer, was then placed at the bar, charged with stealing a gold pin, the property of Mr. Charles Simpson, 252, Totten ham-court-road. ' Mr. Simpson stated that whilst he was standing with the prisoner Morgan in Gray's Inn-lane, on the previous night, the prisoner at the bar came up, and saying to him " You knocked me down," tore away the silk stock from his neck, which he recovered, but the gold pin he did not get back. He gave the prisoner into custody. The prisoner, in the most solemn and earnest man not, denied the robbery. It was Mr. Simpson who pulled up her clothes, knocked her down, and rolled her in the mud; and when the policeman was coming up, seeing that she was going to give him in charge for so cruelly treating her, he gave her in charge for stealing what she never saw. Police-constable Moss, E division, stated that Mr. Simpson gave the pri soner i n t o his charge for stealing a gold pin. The woman at once denied it, and said she had been terribly ill-used by the prosecutor, as well as by Morgan. Witness followed Mr. Simpson to his residence in Tottenham-court•road, and when at the door he said to witness, " I wish I could make it up; if she was not going to give me in charge for the assault, I vvould not have given her into custody. I wish I could make it up." The prisoner was the wife of a hard-working poor man, and the mother of seve ral children. On their way to the station, a friend of the prisoner's said, " You know, Simpson, you have lost no pin." Mr. GREENWOOD—I discharge the woman. The poor creature, on leaving the dock, cried bit terly, and said that she had been locked up all night on a charge of which she was wholly ignorant, and punished by a person who had cmelly ill-used her, without haying. givar, aoy provocation whatever. GREENWOOD said it was a very hard case, and if Mr. Simpson had any manly feeling, he ought to make the poor woman some compensation. The prosecutor, however, shook his head. Mr. GREENWOOD said a fouler outrage never came under his notice. The woman seemed decent and proper, and was grossly maltreated. He verily be lieved it was Simpson who pulled up the woman's dress. He would fine the prisoner 31., or six weeks' imprisonment.—The fine was pid. Anne Whitbread then applied for and obtained a warrant against Mr. Simpson for the assault on her, which Mr. Greenwood directed to be heard before his brother magistrate, as he might be supposed prejudiced. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday a dissipated-looking fellow, named Joshua Chatfield, was charged with a brutal assault upon his wife, a delicate little woman, in an advanced stage of pregnancy, and whose face was shockingly swollen and disfigured. She stated that the prisoner, who was by trade an engineer, and capable of earning 40s. per week, and by whom she had had eleven chil dren, was a most drunken fellow, and whenever in that state, which was of daily occurrence, invariably ill-used her. On,Saturday night he returned home drunk, as usual, and presented her with 55., which was all he had left of his wages, with 4s. of which he ordered her to redeem from the pawnbroker's his boots, which he had himself pledged during th e wee k to procure drink, and w ith the remaining shilling told her to procure food an d o th er necessar i es f or the Sun day. She begged him to give her more money, as the shilling was quite inadequate for their wants, on which he abused her with the coarsest language, and commenced a most violent attack upon her, striking her about the ribs, and knocking her down and kick ing her for more than half an hour. Her cries at last arrested the attention of a policeman, who forced his way into the place, and found the woman crouched up and bent together in one of the corners of the room, with nothing on her but her night dress, which was torn to pieces ; blood was fhwing profusely from her mouth, and she had every appearance of having been most brutally treated. Mr. BROUGHTON characterised the case as one of the most brutal assaults that had ever come before him, and said he regretted that he was not empowered to send the husband to prison for at least six months, as he richly deserved that extent of punishment. He, however, should punish him to the full extent of his power, and sentence the prisoner to pay 51. to the Queen, and in default of payment he must undergo two months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. The prisoner, who was .astounded at the sentence, was afterwards carried off in the van. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday Captain Samuel Weeks, master of the Maria Louisa, a vessel lying in the London Docks, and just arrived from Oporto, and James Ramfellon, a seaman on board his ship, were charged with smug• gling. Walden, a Customs' officer, found concealed upon the first prisoner's person two pint bottles and a small decanter, all filled with Faench brandy. On the person of the other he also found a small decanter of brandy, and, near to the spot where he had been searched he found a package containing nearly a pouni weight of foreign-manufactured tobacco, which the prisoner Ramfellon subsequently admitted he had dropped. The captain pleaded perfect ignorance of doing wrong in carrying so small a quantity of his own stores out with him, though he admitted he had sailed for upwards of nine years in and out of the port of London. The other prisoner said he had carried the brandy at the request of his captain, but the tobacco was his own property, as he had purchased it from his captain. Mr. HENRY inquired how it was that the charge against the prisoners had not been entered on a police sheet, and brought before him in the ordinary way ? Walden, the Customs' officer, replied that the fact was, that at the earnest entreaties of the captain, and his representing the great inconvenience he would be put to by being detained, he (Walden) had permitted him to go at large upon his pledging his word of honour to attend before a Magistrate on this day, and he had kept his word. Mr. MENRY —Did you make any inquiries as to whether he was really the captain of the ship before you allowed him to go at large ? Walden (evidently much posed by the question)—To tell the truth, I did not, your Worship. I may have acted wrong, but as the captain told me he had to report his ship this morning, and would be put to great inconve nience if detained, I allowed him to go. Mr. HENRY —No doubt it is a great inconvenience to any person to be kept in custody; but the law does not give a person in your situation any discretion in the matter. It is your duty to detain any person found guilty of smuggling, no matter what their rank or station, until conveyed before a magistrate; and therefore you have acted illegally in allowing the prisoners to go at large, and that, too, without even making the slightest inquiry about the truth or false hood of their representations, though the vessel was in the dock close by. Walden—l judged from his appearance, your Wor shi, he was what he represented himself to be. In reply to further questions put to Walden, and a dock-officer named Fryer, it appeared that no repre sentation whatever of the transaction had been made at the police station-house in the dock, or report to the Customs' authorities, upon which Mr. HENR Y r emar k e d that it was possible, but from the fact of the captain and his man coming forward, that the public would not have heard anything of the case. The admission of the Customs' officer disclosed an extreme laxity in the present system, or rather want of system, which should be at once put an end to. The captain was convicted in the penalty of 51., and his man in 205., both of which the captain in stantly paid. George Ramfellon, the brother of one of the last prisoners, and who is a labourer belonging to the Lon don Dock, was also convicted in the penalty of 205., for having in his possession 1 lb. of tobacco. This prisoner was taken at the same time with the others, but less fortunate than them, and his circum stances being much more humble than the captain's, he was locked up and kept in custody till brought to •his Court. He, too, paid the fine, and was discharged. THAMES POLICE. James Rich, a young man of wild and havard aspect, was yesterday charged with having made a desperate effort at self-destruction by hanging himself with his pocket-handkerchief in an outhouse attached to his father's premises. It appeared that he had been subject to fits from hydrophobia for the last eight years. As far back a:k that time he had been bitten by a dog, and exhibited decided symptoms of hydrophobia, though the• wounded parts were excised. When he was seized with the fits his bark (it was stated) was scarcely distinguishable from that of a dog. He also exhi bited a horror of water. Mr. BRODERIP—This is a most extraordinary case. I never heard of such a one before, though I have paid considerable attention to and am tolerably con versant with the subject. I always understood,that in cases where the symptoms were decidedly manifested hydrophobia terminated fatally. The prisoner was given up to his friends, who were cautioned by the magistrate to take great care of him. UNION-HALL. Lucy George, a respectable-looking girl, about 17, was placed at the bar before Mr. Train, charged with stealing the sum of ss. 2d., the property of her mother. The mother, a hard-working middle-aged female, stated that on Saturday evening last she gave her ss. 2cl. for the purpose of paying a tradesman's bill. Not returning home, she made inquiries, and found she had not paid the money ; she then gave informa tion to the police, who took her into custody at two o'clock on Sunday morning. She was sorry to say that she had frequently robbed her, not only of money but anything she could lay her hands on. She had been charged at this court on several occasions, and received the admonitions of the magistrate, who, at her solicitation, liberated her. She had endeavoured all in her power to reform her, but she was quite in corrigible, and she was now determined to have her punished. _ _ _ Mr. TRAILL asked the prisoner what she had to say in answer to the charge ? She replied that she had spent the money. Mr. TRAIL'. observed to the mother that it was useless to deal leniently with the prisoner. She was a hardened thief, and the best way would be to send her to the Old Bailey for trial. Ile would, however, remand her until to-morrow. The prisoner, who displayed the utmost indifference, was accordingly remanded. WANDSWORTH. Yesterday Maria Newton, an emaciated and care worn looking woman, was charged with deserting her child and leaving it chargeable to the parish of Wands worth. Mr. Unwin, the relieving officer, stated that he had adopted the only course open to him, that of charging the defendant with deserting the child, which was in the union, in order that both mother and child might be removed to their own settlement. The defendant said she had just got into a little work, and she was willing to take the child off the hands of the parish. If she was passed to her own parish she would be thrown among strangers, and should be obliged to return to Wandsworth. Mr. Clays observed, that if the defendant, after being passed to her own parish a second time, re turned, she would be liable to imprisonment for 21 days. Det % endant said she did not wish to go into the workhouse. She was willing to work and maintain the ohild. Mr. Unwin suggested to the defendant that she had better come into the house ; she would leave a situa- _ tion of misery for one of comfort. The defendant again expressed her repugnance at entering the workhouse, and said she would prefer going to a gaol. Mr. CLIVE said this was a very melancholy case. Here was a woman willing to work and maintain her independence, and he did not like to give an order for her removal into the workhouse, to which she ap peared to entertain so great a repugnance. At the same time, she was strictly liable in law for li e glecting to keep her child after she came out of prison. - The defendant said she earned from is. 6d. to 2s; a-day at washing and charing, and was certain 01 being employ ed three days in the week. Her eldest daughter, who lived with her, earned from Gs. to is. per week. Mr. CLivE a,ked the defendant if she had since her confinement ken enabled to purchase any fur• niture ? The defendant replied that she had not ; all she had in the room was a sack of shavings, upon which she, her infant, and her daughter slept. She trusted , however, that the should soon get round again. Mr. Cravn thought that the defendant's case was one deserving of commiseration. He could u nder' stand the feeling that induced her to keep out o f the house. She was evidently an industrious woman , and preferred enduring the greatest privations to be' corning a burden upon the parish. He though t ' under the circumstances, he could not do better tba.e appropriate a portion of those funds placed in 111 , hands by ben evo l en t p ersons to h er relief. He shou l d , therefore, allow her as much as would purchase a few necessary articles of furniture. The child would be delivered up to her at the expiration of three days. The poor woman appeared most grateful for the kindness shown her. SIDCUP. THE GAME -LAWS.—Frederick Stacey attended Yes . terday before the lion. F. Dashwood and J. Malcolm , Esq., to answer an information, charging him witb having unlawfully used an engine, to wit, a snare, for the pu r p ose o f catc hi ng game, at the parish o ' , Chislehurst, he not having a certificate, for which offence he had subjected himself to a penalty of 51. The defendant, who appeared to be a weak-minded , imbecile person, was accompanied to the court by 11 i 9 mother, a very ag e d woman , w h o cr i ed bitterly during, the proceedings, and a pp eare d t o b e dreadfully alarnoe at the nature of the charge against her son. John Ford, gamekeeper to Mr. Plaskett, a gentle' man residing at Chislehurst, deposed that on the 20 of October he found a snare set upon some land in that parish. He " laid up" to see .who would collie to take it, and shortly afterwards the defendant came , and was about to remove the snare, when h e i n ter• fered, and took it away from him. Mr. MALCOLM—Did he say anything to you at the time ? Gamekeeper—Yes ; he said it was the fire time he had ever done such a thing, and he had been very foolish; and be hoped I should not say anything about it, but I told him my master would compel no to take proceedings. Mr. DAstiwoon—What is the defendant ? Keeper —He is a labouring man about thelparish, and I dol think he is quite right in his head. The mother begged to be allowed to speak. S a e sail her son work e d on th e roads and was paid 15.64 per day, but l a tt er l y , f rom an injury he had receive ( ' by the bite of a boar belonging to Lord Bexley, h e had been prevented from working. She was sure he had never done such a thing before, and he would 1 1 °: do it again Sh e hoped, therefore, the bench woul d deal leniently with him. Mr. MALcorm inquired of the police-constabl e stationed at Chislehurst whether he knew an ything of the defend an t' s c h aracter ? — T he constable replied' that there was some suspicion that he was given 0 poaching, but no charge had ever before been mod e against him. The MAGIS TRATE i nqu i re d w h at was the nature of the injury the defendant had received from the boar?' The constable said he understood that two bo re belonging to Lord Bexley were fighting, and the defendant, on attempting to separate them, W es attacked by one of them, and very severely bitten in the thigh and knee. The MAGISTRATES asked the keeper whether he found any game or any other snares in the defendantl possession?—The keeper said h e h a d no game, 9117 he voluntarily turned out two pockets to show the he had nothing of the sort, at the same time declaring that he had never set hut this one snare, and begging him to forgive him, which he told him it was not in his power to do. The BENCH inquired the amount of the costs. g r. Freeman, from the office of Mr. Latter, of Bromley, who officiated as clerk on the occasion, said they were nine shillings. The mother of the defendant begged the bench to. be lenient. H er son cou ld not work. She was herse lf sixty-nine years old, and her husband was seventy two, and they had very little to subsist upon. Mr. MALCOLM, having consulted with his col league, said the charge had been made out; but as it did not appear that the defendant had been accused of 3 similar offence on any other occasion, the bench would deal very leniently with him, and only inflict a fine of twenty shillings and costs. The poor old woman paid the money, and she and her son left the court, both crying piteously, MILFORD.--The Berthally, Jones, from Portmadr„ to 'Newcastle, h as arr i ve d at this port, having narrowu escaped being shipwrecked. It appears that on a l l morning of the 29th ult., she bore up for Ramsey Soul in consequence o f th e w i n d bl ow i ng hard right a-held, where she remained till the next day; when, in endear vouring to get und er we i g h, s h e m i ssed stays and str uck on a sunken rock, where she stuck for five hours. T he weathe'r being moderate she came off, with comparative l f tr:flinfr damage to keel and pl an k s . I t h av i ng been deemed advisable to get the sloop George, Shearer, frfi gi ,,, Newport to Dublin, laden with coals, under weigh, belt too near the gro un d an d s t r iki ng h eav i ly, during the gal' of the Ist instant, it was accordingly done—but missing stays, she came ashore under the Old Battery, where si lt ' bilged and filled with water. The cargo has since beefs got out, and the vessel brougqt into Ilubberstone Pill 142 be repaired.—Cumbrian. APPREHENSION OF A MURDERER.—This morning about nine o'clock, Mr. John M'Laren, sheriff's offic er .: apprehended i n W as hi ngton-street, Anderston, , M'Lauchlane, lately a plasterer's labourer, the man who, in the month of September last, assaulted a person named Dunn or Dunion, with a reaping -hook, during i 5 quarrel, in a harvest-field on the farm of Alton, in the parish of Campsie, whereby the weapon in question e o i tered the b o dy o f D unn b e l ow the arm, and the point which touching his heart, he died almost instantaneous ] )'' The prisoner, who has not been seen or heard of sin ce the fatal affray, although every search has been made f° r him, was quite cool and collected when apprehended by Mr. M'Laren, and intimated that it was his intention 6 : any rate to give himself up to justice. He was conveyed by the officer on his way to Stirlin g Gaol, by the eleven o'clock t ra i n on t h e Edi n b urgh and Glasgow Railway.' Glasgow Saturday Post. THE NEW VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURTS.—A meet ing of the Queen's counsel and Chancery barristers tom‘ place on Saturd a y, a t W estm i nster, f or the purpose 0 e taking into considerati on th e great i nconven i ence w hich all the members o f th e Ch ancery b ar are now su ff er ino . from, by reason of no efficient courts having been PO; vided for the two 'Vice-Chancellors, Sir J. K. Bruce sir! Sir J. Wigram ; the former of whom has been sitting is the sessions court, Westminster, whenever that cour t was vacant ; and the latter has been occupying the large dining-r oom appropr i ated to the use of the county magistrates. The di s t ance o f t h ese courts f rom those 'l4 Westminster-hall has been felt most severely during th, e late inclem en t weat h er. A d eputation of three Quee n 5 counsel has been appointed to wait upon the Lord Char y cellor to request that, since the Government have thought proper to appoint two new equity judges, they will also provide proper courts fur them within the Pre' cincts of Westminster-hall. BIRTHS. On the 4th inst., at Ostend, the lady of G. B. Godbold' Esq., of a son. On the 7th insf., the lady ofJ. Ingle, Esq., Va son. On the Sth inst ,at Denmark-hill, Camberwell, Mrs, Bobei Elliot, of a daughter. On the 9th inst., at Bexley, Kent, the wife of Major shank, of a daughter. On the 9th inst., the wife of the Rev. M. Wilkinson, Mas te S of the Marlborou g h S c h oo l f or t h e sons of clergymen s"_ others, of a son. On the 9th inst., Mrs. Lewis Engelbach, of Old Dorset' place, Clapham-road, of a daughter. On the 9th in s t., a t Mil ton - street, D orset-square, t h e lady of J. Samuel, Esq., of a son. On the 9th inst., at Norwood, Mrs. J. Maitland, of a sou. At Minterne House, Dorset, Lady Theresa Digby, ° s ilkughter. On the Gth inst., at Gilli ngoase , near F a l mouth, t h e lady„ of T. Horsford, of Lin co l n ' s I nn , E sq., b arr i ster-at -l a w, °' daughter, MARRIED. ir• On the 7th inst., at St. J o h n ' s Ch urc h , P a d d i ng t o n, i'' to Lionel T. Ponsford, to Elizabeth, on ly d aug h ter o f the ''''' T. Lewis, Esq., of Porchester-terrace, Bayswater. , On the Bth inst., at N or thfl ee t Ch urc h , K ent, flora ti o s fourth son of the Rev. William Pace, M.A., Captain, 20, dr ,., 3 army, to Jobina, third d aug ht er o f Willi am H . Styles, •c's''' of .New House Farm, Northfleet. ---- DIED. r In Septemb er l as t, a t S oorapoor, i n t h e E ast Indies, 164,rfi. the wife of Captai n M ea d ows T ay l or, o f hi s Hi g h n ess Niz am's service. On the 17th of September last, at Kamptee, Lieutenant Cyril And rews B rown , o f t h e 7 t h R eg i ment of Ma d ras Kati /re Infantry. On the 19th ult., Louisa, the wife of John Lewis Salm °. On the Ist inst., in Finsbury-circus, Mr. Adolphus Fla* On the 4th inst., at Clapham, James Hannay, Esq. v., On the Bth inst., at Hammerstnith, Sarah, relict of Hilditch, Esq , aged 72. On the Bth inst., in Conduit-street, John Stevenson, 961 " the eminent surgeon-oculist. I nes On the Bth i ns t., a t T r i n id a d- p l ace, I s li ng ton, "'- Thomas, the infant son of George Athill, Esq. - On the 9th inst., at New Bond -street, Mr. Hardwick. On the 9th inst., at Wilton. place, Adam .Bromilow, E s q . ► barrister-at-law, aged 41. Beds, O n thethe Rev. 9th Johnhist e Rector ~ t the t Oil the 10th inst., at Han over -t errace , Peckham, the in daughter of A. Johnson, E On the 10th inst., Mary, s q. wife of N. van Fowinkel, Upper e ße o c r to o r t y tl h i l a o t u p s a e r ' i ts sh P , PaegreSdt7°7l: Ebury• street, Pimlico. On the 10th inst., at Broadstairs, Mary, the infant daugh ter of I. H. Benbow, Esq., of Doughty-street. of At Blackheath, Ma r th a , th e w if e o f M r . Edward Upton, Queenhithe. o f D. On the 11th inst., A me li a , th e infant daughter Meinertzhagen, Esq., o f Devonshire-place. Lon4on: Printed and Published by BIUKDO 1 12, f No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Olt r 4 °',„ o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tb Cougul Middieaez, Tuesday, November 12,1844.