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Mexican, 5 per Cent Pato, 6 per Cent., 1837 Dutch, 2% per Cent.„... 61 4 reruvi4n, 1925, 6 per Cent 23 ' Ditto, 5 per Cent .........100% Jan. 1 8 60........... 12 11.16 FOREIG more restored to liberty. lle was, however, again arrested by another party, and, having settled the de mand of that party, he was now unable to obtain his discharge because the Marshal persisted in keeping him in custody, on the ground of the plaintiff's suit. I: was now submitted that, having already been in custody on this particular writ, the judgment was fully satisfied, and he was, therefore entitled to his discharge. The COURT granted the rule. The Court then took the new trial paper, but no case of interest came on. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, May 25. IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM LANGLEY GRACE. This insolvent, who had a number of " loan societies " on his schedule, appeared for his final order. An attorney appeared to oppose, and Mr. T. B. Hughes supported the application. Mr. HUGHES took a preliminary objection to the op position, on the ground that it was on the part of a loan society at No. 4, Farringdon-street, called " The Life Assurance Company," which was not a corporate body. lie cited a case which had been decided before Mr. Com missioner Fonblanque (on an objection raised by Mr. Sturgeon, the barrister), that a loan society which was not chartered could not oppose. The point arose re specting one of the parties connected with a promissory note, on which it was now sought to oppose the present applicant. The attorney said he appeared for a Mr. Coventry, a payee of the note for 501. Mr. HuottEs said he was one of the parties belonging t) the Loan Society. Mr. Commissioner HoLaoyn said the opposition was now by an individual creditor, and, prima facie, the party had a right to oppose. Mr. Coventry might be a money lender, and using the grand name of a com aepy. Mr. THOMAS insisted that the same rule should be applied in this case as was in the one he had cited. The note was the same, and although the name of one of the parties might now be given, it was evident that the As surance Company held the promissory note. The attorney who appeared to oppose, said he was for Mr. Coventry, who had been his client for a number of years. Mr. HUGHES asked for an adjmtrnment, in order to prove his proposition, as he felt confident that the Court, acting on the rule as laid down by Mr. Fon blanque, would not permit an unchartered association to oppose. Two instalments had been paid on the note at the office of the Society, and the Company had got the insolvent to insure his life. He pressed for an adjourn ment, and for an order that Mr. Coventry should attend. The Learned COMMISSIONKR, after some further dis cussion, adjourned the case to the Bth June, in order to ascertain the validity of the point raised, and gave an in timation that Mr. Coventry should attend. Mr. HUGHES said he was confident the note was held by the Society, and that two instalments had been paid at the office in Farringdon-street. The case was adjourned accordingly. COURT OF EXCISE. Mr. 'Wm. Parsons, the proprietor of the Duke of York, in Turk-street, Bethnal-green, was charged with hav ing in his possession five gallons of British spirits that had not paid duty, and was fined 20/. Johanna Rapp, of 23, Golden-square,Westminster, was complained of for selling wine and spirits, sho having no license. The case was fully made out by two respect able officers of the court. Defendant's residence is a lodging-house, and information having reached the Board of Excise that exciseable articles were retailed therein as in a tavern, a detection immediately followed — wax -lights were charged 3 5.; apartments, 10s. 6d.; fire, ls.; servant, 35.; and the other charges for refresh ments were equally exorbitant. An attorney argued, that as the officers went to his client's house on a Sunday, stating that they were going to a funeral, she was bound to serve them; but Mr.Mayow sareasticallyreplied, that such articles oughtaiot to be sold by unlicensed persons, to the detriment of the very heavy taxed tavern-keeper. Proof having been given that the defendant was rated in the parish books at a rental of 821. a-year, the Court gave judgment, fining her in the penalty of 251. Victor Gengues, of Nos. 1 and 2, Leicester-square, was ordered to psy 15/. for a like offence. Edward Smith, 17, East street, Fibsbury-market, a French polisher, was summoned for being in possession of a quantity of illicitly ma nufactured spirits . Ten gal lons of the stuff was produced in court. It was 22 per cent. over proof. Defendant said he had purchased the spirit as naphtha. at 9s. 6d. per gallon. Mr. Sanders, the store-keeper, in answer to the Court, said that the duty was 7s. 10d. on such spirits. A fine of 51. was inflicted, and the liquor was adjudged to be forfeited. John Gibson, 4, Providence -buildings, Old Kent-road, was summoned for working a private still. Mr. Bayfield, a gentleman connected with the Excise, said that he discovered on the defendant's premises a private still, which was in full operation, and charged with sixty gallons of molasses wash. A most extensive business must have been carried on by him.— Fined 50/. No other cases than the above-mentioned were brought publicly forward during the past week. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) CITY POLICE COMMITTEE. The question brought by the City Police into this Court, last week, of the alleged nuisance caused by the Jew dealers obstructing the different streets and avenues in the neighbourhood of Petticoat-lane, by exposing their goods for sale, again occupied the at tention of the magistrates, Mr. Alderman Kelly, Mr. Alderman Fairbrother, and Mr. Alderman Johnson, for a considerable time. The Court was crowded on Saterday chiefly by persons of the Jewish persuasion, and the interest taken in the proceeding was greater than on the pre vious investigation, which resulted in consequence of Mr. D. W. Harvey, the chief police commissio ner, having visited the ne i g hbourhood, and the determina tion on the part of the corporation to suppress Sunday trading. After much discussion, it was resolved on the part of the defendants and others of the Jewish persuasion present in the Court to abandon all Sunday trading ; and the Commissioner expressed his firm determina tion of prosecuting all persons found trafficing after this day (Sunday) week. The owners of the two marts hoped there would be no distinction made. All dealers should be treated alike as well as the marts. Mr. Ryland—Depend upon it the Corporation will indict any persons offending after receiving this caution. CLERKENWELL. A man named Pearce was put at the bar, charged with stealinc , a sovereign, the money of Sarah Bri d ge s, a servant to G ' Mr. Richardson, of No. 4, Belgrave terrace, Holloway. The prisoner, it appeared, was employed, with other men, in painting and otherwise beautifying the house of Mr. Richardson, and while so engaged, the box of the prosecutrix was broken open, and out of it was stolen a sovereign. The companions and fellow workmen of the accused consulted together on the subject, and they eventually fixed the crime on him, and under that impression they first inflicted " a summary justice" in fastening his hands behinds him, and painting his face, the lower part white, the nose red, and the forehead blue. The matter would have been thus allowed to drop, had not the prisoner sub sequently applied for an assault-warrant against one of his shopmates for the injury, or rather insult, he received on that occasion. It was positively sworn to that the accused, while under this treatment, acknow ledged that he had stolen the sovereign, expressing, at the same time, his sorrow, and a desire to be allowed to work it out.—Committed to Newgate. ---- WORSHIP-STREET. Charles Stewart, a young Scotchman, and a person of Jewish appearance, named Dan. Rogers Rodrigues, were charged with being concerned in an extensive robbery, amounting to 1,5001. of goods, committed on the sth inst., on the premises of Mr. Hay, jeweller, Leith-street, Edinburgh. The prisoners described themselves as " surgeon-chiropodists." Rodrigues was known as a hawker of pens, pencils, &c., in the neighbourhood of Petticoat-lane. Sergeant Barker, of the II division, stated that in consequence of information he had received, he went with Davis, a police-constable, to Petticoat-lane, where they apprehended the two prisoners for the burglary at Mr. Hay's. Upon Rodrigues they found two cases of surgical instruments, a gold pin, and some loose jewels, and upon Steward a gold watch, two gold chains, a gold pin, three gold rings, a duplicate for a silver snuff-box pledged on the 18th instant, and a silver mounted riding whip. At the residence of Rodrigues, Devonshire-terrace, Bethnal-green, they found a considerable quantity of apparel, a cloth cap, with g old band, a gold breast pin, a dial, a neck chain, and g old rings, a duplicate for a brequet chain, pledged that da y , a pair of pocket pistols, and other articles produced. When apprehended they declared their entire innocence. Some of the articles found upon them corresponded with portions of the stolen property. They admitted having been lately in Scotland, but said they had re turned to London before the time the robbery was said to have been committed. They were both re manded to allow time for evidence being brought from Scotland. __ TRUCK SYSTEM IN THE LACE TRADE. At Honiton, on the 18th inst., Mrs. Chick, of Branscombe, lace manufacturer, was called on to ans wer the complaint of Sarah Perry, a pauper of Ottery St. Mary, for having paid her wages in truck. The justice 3 present were—Wm. Porter, Esq., in the chair; G. Smith, Esq. ; and the Rev. T. J. Marker. Mr. Cox, of Honiton, appeared for the prosecutor, Sarah Perry ; and Mr. Coleridge, of Ottery, appeared for Mrs. Chick. Sarah Perry was first called, and examined by Mr. Cox.—She stated that she had worked for Mrs. Chick between 17 and 20 years, and that during the whole of that period she had been accustomed to be paid in goods ; that sometimes she received a halfpenny or a penny in money, when the goods did not exactly come to the amount of the lace, but that she never had, on any occasion during that period, received as much as sixpence she most posi tively swore; that just before Christmas last she took some lace to Mrs. Chick, who ordered her to go on making the same lace, and that on the 13th of February she took the lace so made to Mrs. Chick's shop in Branscombe, that she saw Mr. Tucker, Mrs. Chick's agent and son-in-law, and that h e took the lace, and paid her in goods, viz.—a piece of print, a loaf of bread, and some butter. On cross-examination by Mr. Coleridge, she ad mitted that she had seen some paper stuck up at the shop, like two that he produced, but that she did not read them (one of these papers was the resolutions of the board of guardians against truck, the other a paper signed by Mr. Chick, and stating that he should riot, in future, order any lace to be made, but that he should exchange goods for ready-made lace). She also said that Mrs. Chick had once sent her away without buying her lace, because it was not made well, but afterwards she called her back and took it. Mr. Coleridge tried to break down her evidence as to Mr. Tucker not asking if the lace was ordered, and ber stating it was not, but without effect. Mr. Coleridge then addressed the Bench for Mrs. Chick. anxi anxious resolution, n tt butoßoardbreak fromre a kt that the t Guardians He did not defend the truck system ; he did not deny that his client had practised that system up to the time a l n i d e client had been m and proofissu e e e d o f his t their that u the sd a l y a w; his c anxiety, he put forward the paper which he had caused to be printed, and he would show that he payed money to all from whom he ordered lace. He also could rely upon the fact that Mrs. Chick could not LAMBETH-STREET. Richard 33 gallons of brandy, P w ier it ie l : b a o witerman, was charged before Mr. Norton concerned, with others, in stealing Mr. Pelham attenYd'ead master fo lighterman. of the value of 53/., the property of Mr. Luce y, the prosecution, and called Mr. Evans, the ins who stated, that early on the mrooferf the o R f i t v h e e r Poli ce, 26th o f on board a pros k e s cutor, r it t i ld tf: St. Kathe tmhoenitehng?nnge of to t t h e: punt Kathe rine's Dock, had been plundered Of thirty-eight e lons of its contents. A day or two te gal= lighterman, named Drake, was taken into cu r s a charge of being concerned in the robbery, and the evidence against him amounted to the fact of his having taken a punt, which lay alongside that on board of which the robbery took place, out of the St. Ka therine's Dock, to the St. Saviour's Dock. From that morning the prisoner had kepvan t out of the way ; but on the night before he, r. Es, succeeded in apprehending him in the long ' room of a public house in Ratcliff Highway, in company with a num ber of low prostitutes. Lie had at first denied his THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENIN G 4 MAY 27, 1844. name, and was rather "bounceable," but ultimately i be hound by the illegal act of her agent. He then WES i ll-END GAMBLING HOUSES. acknowledged he was the person he (Evans) was in called The rec Sent capture by the police of a number of search of, and he was taken to the station-house. Mr. Tucker, who stated that in consequence of the the gambling-house proprietors and unfortunate vie- The prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery, ' resolution of the Board of Guardians, he had the tims, has caused a general feeling of satisfaction and said he should be able to prove his innocence. notices produced stuck up in the shop, and that an among the respectab!e inhabitants who reside within Mr. Pelham applied for the remand of the pri- the day in question he had asked every person who the district in which these dens of robbers flourished, soner until Thursday next, when Drake, the other ' came with lace if it had been ordered, and all that had at the expense of the miserable dupes who nightly at man in custody, would be again brought up. been ordered he paid for in money. The lace that the tended them. In the City the exposure has occa- Mr. NORTON complied with the request, but said 1 complainant made was a sort that was never ordered; sioned a great stir, and excited a vast deal of conver he should take good bail for his appearance on that they had no sale on it. sateen arid interest ; and the magistrates there say day : Cross-examined by Mr. Cox—Mrs. Chick sold that this first bold effort upon the part of the police From what transpired during the hearing of the , bread, butter, drapery, &c. Employed five bakers. authorities must be followed up with an unflinching case, it appears that plunder of this description in the Did not deliver the torebead to the lace-makers, but gave determination not to permit any attempt at re-esta docks and on the river has latterly been carried on to them tickets to go ther of the bakers for it. Paid bushing these horrible nuisances. We have taken a very considerable extent. one baker 45/. for ten weeks' bread. The difference the trouble to make inquiries, through a channel of Charles Newling was charged with stealing one in Price at which Mrs. Chick sold the bread, and at unquestionable authority and experience, into the par hundred Manilla cheroots, the property of Alexander which it could he bought for ready money, was a ticular condition of affairs amongst the macers of the Stewart. The complainant stated that he was an ap- halfpenny per loaf; the difference in the price of extensive vicinity of the playhouses, and we trust prentice on board the John Horton, of Liverpool, butter, one penny per pound. Paid all the persons that the information we shall from time to time then lying in the London Dock, and which had Jus on the da inuestion in cash, whose lace had been supply will give important assistance to the arrived from a foreign voyage. On that day the pri-. ordered, there hay i ng b een eighty persons who police, and that the police will be honest soner and another person came to him on board, and brought l a ce that day, perhaps more, perhaps less. enough to act:upon it. It appears, upon the exami the latter asked him if he had any cigars which he Would not swear that he paid Ti. in money; would nation of the roulette tables which were seized by wished to have taken out? He replied that he had swear that he paid some money. Did not know if he the officers, that they were found to be so ingeni some which he wished to take to his father in Dublin. had paid ss. ; believed he had. Had the bill declaring ously constructed as to prevent the possibility of The prisoner's companion then asked to see the that he would exchange goods for ready-made lace winning upon the part of the players, the proprietor cheroots, and said he would put him up to a "dodge," printed in consequence of the resolutions of the Board having the power, by the use of a secret spring, to by which he could take them out free of duty. He of Guardians. Wrote it himself ; employed no lawyer check the ball in. its progress to the aperture, the fall then placed the cheroots in a handkerchief , tied the to do so. Did employ a lawyers clerk. Several ing of tile ball into which would entitle the dupe to latter round the waist of the prisoner, and endea- other w itnesses, whose evidence was unimportant, win. The dice which were taken in all the housea toured to keep him, witness, in conversation, while were then called, and particularly in the Albemarle-street crib, were false, the prisoner Jumped into a boat, and was about to Mr- Cox addressed the Bench. After the facts that and consisted of different descriptions, variously num bed come before them, he need say nothing as to the bored, and so ingeniously contrived that it was ut make his escape. He (witness), however, called out injurious effects of the tru ck s y ste m; he had p roved t erl y im p ossible for an y one but the most adept black to a Custom-house officer , an d he was secured, not, that the lace had been ord ered, and pa id fo r in g oods ; l e g to detect the villan y . For instance, if the player however, before he had thrown half the cheroots into the water. and the attempt which had been made to throw dis- had to throw six to win his bet, one of the fraternity Mr. NORTON observed that it was not only a most credit upon the informants had failed; he had never usually termed " bonnets" would change the dice ; with the expertness of a thimble-rigger, and substi " artful dodge," but the most barefaced robbery he known a person in her position give evidence better had met with for some time. he was very fortunate in having so good an inform- tote dice without such a number upon them, so that The prisoner, in defence, said that the person who ant in the first case that was brought forward, a losing number must be thrown; the same trick is of the had accompanied him was bargaining to pay the corn - The Basch at once declared the offence proved, carried on with any other number. The expectation s callsli slightest I l i u t e c s k t is chance therefore, of w q rh u a i t te the out unfortunateof the (I.lc s plainant ten shillings for the lot, and, because he did and and fiorndeedreAdlrtsh.aCth2icll.clions.aspheonualldtyheofpsa/i.d, a t n o d t 2 h l e . c p os o t o s r , op not pay him I Is., he gave him into custody.. , Perry They further that - Mr. Walker, the inspector of police in the dock, woman, Sarah . . . intimated Lion. This plan has been acted upon in all the play said that similar tricks were of daily occurrence , and On any further conviction of any one they should houses, but most successfully in the large establish that sailors complained bitterly of being robbed of award the full penalty. meats, in which the greater number of assistants or cigars and various contraband goods by a gang of The Public are indebted to the exertions of Mr. E. " bonnets" are employed. persons of the prisoner's description, by various Carter, of Ottery St. Mary, for this case having been It may be useful to describe these rascals. A " dodges" as they were called. brought for werd.Westera Times, " bonnet" is sometimes a regular swell, dressed in the first style of fashion. On occasions he is dress ed The prisoner was remanded for a week. NOVEL SCENE IN A JURY-BOX. Q UEEN- SQ UA RE. without any dash at all, and generally black, generall in and — 4O --. he frequently assumes the clerical appearance , " w ith A question as to the right of the E q uitable Gas A case was tried in the Palace Court, on Friday, in Company to break the ground in the Vauxhall-bridge-spectacles on nose." These worthies appear at the which a poor woman sought to recover compensation road, to lay down their pipes, was, on Saturday, totables, in the presence of the casual parties who are in damages for injuries sustained from a barrister of have bees determined by the Magistrate at thisplaying, as total strangers to all parties, and play with the Inner Temple of the name of Carter, caused Court, but was reserved for the investigation of some being run over and knocked down by his horsetki by a remarkable degree of ease and quiet, as if they had higher tribunal, in consequence of the Magistrate fright and running andthe question n g nothing on earth to do with the conspiracy to plunder away, considering that he had no jurisdiction in the matter. the jury the visitors. There is another el •of .ass "bonnets" to had to consider The facts of the case are these :—ln the night of be seen at the minor houses. They are mostly Jews, was occasioned by furious driving, or whether it was Friday, the 17th, the Gas Company laid down a new and appear covered with mosaic gold chains and rings. purely accidental, when no blame could be attached to main across the Vauxhall-bridge-road, near Regent-If an unhappy person with a propensity to play gets te driver. The damages were laid at 191. 19s. After escap street, and on the following morning a large numberamongst these indefatigable gentry, the idea of the jury had been locked up for nine hours of the Bridge Company's men endeavoured, under the the sent to the Judge to inform him that in with the amount of a fare of a cab is quite absurd. orders of their superiors, to take them up. As there y was not the slightest possibility of agreeing. A. " bonnet" generally receives from three to five fast as the Bridge Company's party dug the The Learned Judge s again l read s his notes and explained guineas a week, and a per centage of from 25 to 50 earth nut, the adverse gang shovelled it in. to the •ur • the question which they had to determine. per cent. upon the money lost by any friend he may indivi- Mark Webster, on the part of the Bridge After j another hou had elapsed,one of the jury,of introduce to the establishment. Some of the Company had got a hammer, and was about to remove duals who follow this most degrading occupation the name of Eamonson, the roprietor of the well break up the pipe, when the gas-lighters shovelledwere formerly in respectable situations in life, but known bedding and furniture p establishment in the the earth over him and his tools, and, on his scram- St sent anote to the Learned Judge stating that their early love of play reduced them gradually to bling out of the hole, George Kelly, one of the Equit- hdi differed in opinion e, their present infamous position. When a " bonnet" of his fellow jurymen, able's, shoved him in again, for which he was charged dadded er that to even . d fully determine not to be capa with an assault. The bone of contention is, that the an t h e verdict, was employment—he becomes useless in that ld he endure to be Gas Company did not ask permission to break the starvedbrow-beaten into a withneithwou because he differed in city, as his phis is recognised by the still decent ground or lay down the pipes, and this is met by the . or quarrelled hryas in ill-health and frequenters of the house ; but he is not altogether other party with the declaration that they were put- opinion ; stimulants,healso added, that that e officer in charge of discarded by his old associates in villany. He is kept ring down a fresh main by the side of the old one, r th eci e l u e y . d wouldn t and il the him a glass of water • to be turned to another account, and appears in the which old one had been placed there by permission, but let the consequenceeevenha allow it would, he would character of a " dodger." In this capacity, if he and the Magistrate, on looking to Lord Lansdowne'sd.e whathappen to be a sober fellow, he does great service to never alter his inLordship intimated to the Act, which gives the summary jurisdiction in assaults, . ur , that if the did His by eleven o'clock they an establishment. His duties are, however, most was of opinion that he had no power to adjudicate j mu ) s ' t be locked followinghathagre e morning. The laborious, as well as debasing. He is engaged in the where a question of right was fairly set up, and left . ur were no up until h t e the w heard y.public in the g. Court out-door work of the house at night—in following the opposing parties to try the merits of the motion in J. loud and itpretty clear new visitors to their residences, and ascertaining who in they are, and all about them. I f a stran g er of gentle one of the superior courts. , that language of the most refined description was not WANDS WORTH. manlike appearance walk into a flash hell, and lose made use of, and it was conjectured that from " words Joseph G. Bach was charged with assaulting fifty or one hundred pounds without making any they would come to blows." •s " Shortl before ten .ow ._ . y . Joseph Order, groom to Lieutenant Colvin, of the 0 , , 1 jury, bustle or croaking about it, and behaves " quite the clock the came into Court in a very excited 9th Lancers. tl n " the "dodger" is ready to follow him to gFri ema , state, and informed Mr. Hewlett, the registrar, it The complainant stated, that on the previous after-his place of abode, and to make inquiries, which, if would be • • 1 for 'to agree. Mr. Hewlett noon, as he was returning with his master and other iossibe retire. them_ Mr. Eamonson who found to be favourable, cause great attention to be , a - . replied they must P gentlemen from the races, and while the carriage was eared much excited, violently exclaimed, " No, I -s -mud to him on his next visit, and when he loses what-- stopping at the Bell, at Tooting, the prisoner came pears/ never into that •to be bully-rag ge d ever money he has about him, he is offered a loan up and struck him in the mouth. The provoca- into . g c o , room again l i upon his IOU, or his cheque. The moment the ac tion, he believed, was, that a short time before, he _ sm a ° verdict." . "Wherever of the jur addresseeg i h r i ,; commodation is accepted, the gentleman is booked as had dragged the defendant away from the leaders of -P- ' hen n th e e n' whole of ere h ver you are, theredwe vi e : a safe pigeon, for a sum corresponding with his posi his master's carriage, while defendant was endeavour- nation to remain intCe jury ex reseed their eterms tion in society. This game progresses for some time ; ins to stop them, alleging that his cart had been put- The Court. the I 0 U's and cheques are paid, but at last the scene of quarrelling and recrimination that posely driven against by the riders.victimfinds the that out secret he has been robbed Lieut. Colvin, Lord Altamont, and Mr. G. W.now ensued in the jury-box surp asses hpublic quite surprised novel description' and that everybody about him has been concerned in Bacon, of Hertford-street, Mayfair, gave evidence, , t e _ were . at this . and ln- plucking him. In some instances a dupe is bullied heard of scene in a court of justice. All consultation . and said that no provocation was offered to the n out of his bills, or threatened with exposure amongst was now at an end, and the jury commenced amusing defendant before he assaulted the groom.his relations and friends. In other cases, however, themselves in various ways ; some preparing to take . a The defendant said he had been very much ill-men who have plunged into the vice without thought, comfortable nap, otherscommenced reading, whilst used in the first instance. The carriage had beenhave been able to muster up nerve enough to send for driven recklessly and wilfully against his chaise-cart, the remainder stared about the Court, exclaiming, the police to take the extortioners in charge upon the What a laughing-stock we are making of ourselves." and he and two friends had been thrown out with demand of a settlement, and under such circumstances ' At length, shortly before midnight,the Learned Judge great violence. Upon getting up he had triedthe claimant has rejoiced to get away, and has never to stop the leaders, but had been dragged off by again took his seat on the bench, bahi a fi n t d a f dd h re e !sing the been heard of as a claimant afterwards. ' the complainant. Upon coming up with the car- in r ise as there was w t as ho nu fit, o t ro loch T o th t their agree . - 1 These practices have been carried on to such an tinge at rooting, he merely went up to it to get the ihg, f i l e could , i he thought , lfut he em up until extent within a few years, that many young men who owner's name, when the complainant rudely pushed the _o_ lownag_morn g fo resaw that no good ch . aproceeding, would result from su as in the morn- held respectable situations in public offices and in him away, upon which he had struck him. Ile had mercantile houses in the City have been obliged to arent they would ing, it was clearly app be as far off no witnesses • one of his friends was the steward of a forfeit them • in consequence of the annoyances to gam ship, and could ' not come, and he would not bring the in as ever •he had therefore come to the reso aglye g . ' • them without • • lution of discharging giving a verdict, which they were subjected by the duns of the other.and they were discharged accordingly. bling-houses for the amount of I 0 U's for money Mr. awn said the prisoner had acted very foolishly in so doing. He could not postpone the case, because alone having prevented them from at once rousing the there had been ample opportunity t o have p roduced police from the nightly sleep in which they have been indulging, while the owners of the flash hells have witnesses. Whether the priso ner had or had not been ill-treated in the way he de scribed he could not been wide awake in this most atrocious work of say, but if such conduct had been p ursued towards rapacity. him, he knew that the law wou ld g ive him redress, There is no part of the metropolis which the gam and therefore the assault complai ned of was alto g ether bling-house keeper and his satellites hold in such utter abhorrence as the City of London. They de inexcusable. The prisoner must pay a fine of 10s. The fine was paid. clare that a City Alderman (and they more particu - UNION-HALL. larly point at Sir Peter Laurie) has no notion of the John Allchin, one of the stewards of the Reform duties of a magistrate—that his early education unfits Stock Benefit Society, held at the White Bear, Ber- him for taking an enlarged and liberal and enlightened inondsey, was brought up for re-examination, charged view of the refined usages of society—that he is in with being concerned with a man named Marrs, the truth a century behind the age; and they adduce, as secretary, not yet in custody, with breaking open the an instance, the fact that no gambling-house could " strong box" of the society, and stealing upwards ever be established in the City, in consequence of the of 201., belonging to members of the society, who absurd and misplaced vigilance of the Civic authorities. were all very poor men, having wives and families to It is not in the spirit of exaggeration we state that maintain, and at the same time defacing the entry- there is not a hell-keeper or " bonnet" or " dodger" book, so that the sums of money could not be cor- at the West-end who would not willingly subscribe to rectly known. pay the funeral expenses of the Alderman of Alders- The landlord, it appears, had recently taken pos- gate ward, whose image is perpetually haunting their session of the house, and a few days subsequently the imaginations, as it was said, to visit the sleeping and members had a meeting in his room. At its conclu- waking thoughts of Coster long before that delinquent sion, and after the departure of the members, the was charged with the offence for which he was removed money-box, which was left there, was demanded by from the country. We trust that when any of these the secretary Marrs and the prisoner Allchin. Under g entry make their appearance in the City, to at the impression that he was authorised to deliver it up tempt to extort money, pretended to be won, they to the secretary, the landlord gave it them, and no sooner may be handed over to the magistrates for whose qua had they disappeared, than he found the box had been lifications they have so much contempt. Not long broken open in the room, its contents, amounting to ago a young gentleman of highly respectable family, 201. abstracted, and the leaves of the entry-book lace- who held a situation, producing 1,000/. a year, under rated, so as to make recognition of the sums or parties Lord Jersey, the Master of the Horse, was ruined matter of impossibility. On this discovery Allchin amongst these hells, and, having become indebted to was instantly secured, but Marrs had absconded. All- some of the proprietors, was absolutely hunted out of chin admitted that he applied for the money-box in his office, and exposed, and is now wandering an out conjunction with Marrs, but he was totally irrrespon- east about the Continent. sible for its contents, which Marrs had appropriated, It is well known that several of the men who have and decamped with. The Magistrate said no doubt shares in these establishments, and keep expensive existed in his mind that they were the two men who equipages, can neither write nor read, from such low had plundered the society; his determination was to conditions have they risen to wealth; but they have, commit them both for this cruel robbery, but he indirectly attached to their interests a well-known should remand Allchin to await the capture of Marrs, attorney, who is associated with a class of persons who supply him with ready-made or extemporaneous evidence, for the purpose of sanctioning the enforce ment of any demands they hare the shadow of a right to make. The Secretary of State for the Home Department has been in communication with the Commissioners of Police upon the subject of effectually putting down gaming ; and it is rumoured that the Commissioners have been rebuked for having allowed the Police Act and the laws against gambling to be so openly and audaciously violated as they have been within the last two years, and they have been called upon to state whether it is requisite to make the laws more stringent to enable the authorities to check a practice which has proved so destructive, and so completely paralysed the moral energies of society. It is considered a most strange and inexplicable fact, that in such a country, boasting of an effective and most powerful police as to physical strength, public decency and the laws are so fearfully infringed, while at Paris all the gambling-houses were com pletely broken up within forty-eight hours after the Act passed for their prohibition • and although ten years have elapsed since that prohibition, not a single instance of the transgression of the law has been heard of.—Sunday Times. CORONERS' INQUESTS. On Saturday Mr. Baker, the Coroner, held an in quest at the Commercial Inn, Poplar, on the body o Thomas Mayes, aged 13, a very fine boy, who los his life under the following deplorable circumstances William Mayes, of 14, Castor-street, Poplar, said the deceased was his son, and worked with him in the Ratcliffe Dock, at Ratcliffe. On Friday morn ing, between seven and eight o'clock, whilst the work people were raising the lower mast of a ship, he was ea, mouth, and ears, and on suddenly informed t hat his son ha d been found lying on the ground an d was bleeedin g. He forthwith proceeded to the spo t, and discover ed him as described , he ascertained that his poor boy was gone. He remov ed him with all spee d blood lift flowing ingu p his s f rh d iid o a m t t e h r i e snose, to a Mr. Buchanan, surgeon, where he was pro nounced to be quite dead. A wall separated witness from deceased, who was stationed to give the word of command to the men at work at the crane, in doing which he had frequently to look round the edge of the wall, and whilst so engaged, it is supposed that the crane must have suddenly slipped and jerked back, crushing the deceased's head severely between that and the wall. No one saw the accident take place. Joseph Perry deposed that he worked in the same yard, and saw the deceased about three minutes pre vious to the occurrence, or to his finding him in the situation already described, about three feet from the crane. He heard no cries of distress, and could only account for the accident happening as stated by the father of the deceased. The Coroner having remarked upon the melan choly facts of the case, and observing that no doubt the deceased's death was occasioned in the manner mentioned by first witness, although there was no positive evidence of the fact, the jury returned a ver dict of " Accidental Death." Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., Coroner, held an inquest at the George Inn, Church-lane, Kensington, on the body of Mr. Matthew Orpwood, aged forty-four years, the landlord of the above inn, who committed suicide on Wednesday last. It appeared from the evidence gone into that the deceased had for the last five or six years been much addicted to drinking, and during the fortnight previ ous to his committing the fatal act had not been sober an hour, although he was able during the major part of that time to attend to his business as usual. During these repeated fits of in toxication he was generally very low and dispi rited, and latterly he had complained of a pain in his back, for which he was attended by Mr. Turner, as - sistant to Mr. Pollock, surgeon,of Bath-place, Ken sington. On the morning of Wednesday last he was from six o'clock attending to the bar, and between ton and eleven o'clock went into the kitchen to see to the cleaning of the pots, when he complained of a pain in his head. About half-past eleven o'clock Mrs. Orpwood saw him go in the direction of the cellar, with his leather apron on, and considering he was attending to the cellar duties his stay was taken no notice of. About half-past twelve o'clock, however, on his sister going to the top of the cellar stairs to cut a piece off a flitch of bacon, which s hanging there, she was horror-struck at finding the deceased hanging by a rope from the same nail, quite dead. He was immediately cut down, and surgeons sent for, but although blood flowed freely, life was quite ex tinct. Deceased has left a widow and four children. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." THE COLLIERIES or THE TYNE. —Arrangements, as is now pretty well known, have been set on foot for some time past by the coal owners of this district, to get their pits again at work. In addition to those already enumerated we have now to mention Willington, Heaton, Sosfuth, and Cox lodge, as having partially resumed operations. We have been informed that Felling Colliery will commence full work next week, with an entirely new set of men, unless the turn outs should in the meantime accept the conditions offered by their late employers. If the pitmen should still hold out, they will in many instances be compelled to quit their dwell ings, in order to make room for those who are willing to accept employment.—Newcastle Advertiser. Lorin EVITY.—On Thursday, William Milnes, aged 104 years, the oldest pauper on the barony roll and pensioner on the Old Man's Friend Society, Glasgow, died in that in stitution. The deceased was brother to Andrew who is still alive and hearty in the Old Man's Asylum. He is in his 103 d year. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY....-We are de lighted to be enabled to inform our readers that there is every prospect of the approaching meeting surpa ss i ng all the preceding ones. The entries for implements ex ceed that of the last year at Derby by 130. We are given to understand, that from the numerous applica tions already made for stock certificates, there is no doubt that the show in that department also will be the largest on record. The Duke of Richmond was elected, at the meeting of the Council on Wednesday last, Pre sident for 1845.—Hampshire Independents WILL OP TUB MARQUIS OB WINCIIESTPR.—The will of the Most Hon. Charles Ingoldsby Paulet, Mar quis of Winchester, of Amport House, Andover, has just been proved by Henry Beaumont Coles, Esq., one of the executors, power of proving hereafter being reserved for Sir John Walter Pollen, Bart., the o ther. The will, which is very short, and dated 1843, gives nearly the whole of his property to his son (styled by courtesy Earl of Wiltshire), now Marquis of Winchester ; to his executors 2001. each, as an acknowledgment for their trouble in acting as such ; to butl er, housekeeper, and very many other servants, annuities and legacies respec tively, varying from 101. to 1001. The personality is sworn under 18,000/. The deceased was styled " Premier Marquis of England," the title of Marquis having been bestowed on the family of Winchester on the creation in 1551. Mr. Pattiniton, a market gardener at the Folly, near Newby, has discovered that guano is a perfect remedy against the attacks of the grub. He has saved beds of both carrots and onions by strewing guano over them, whilst two beds left without guano, by way of experiment, were totally destroyed , La ncaster Guardian. A SCENE AT THE NOMINATION (Hear and cheers.) The labourer is told that he is to FOR SOUTH LANCASHIRE. suffer a reduction of wages if we bring corn from MR. COBDEN'S SPEECH. abroad. The labourers are told, "You will have to RICHARD COBDEN, Esq., M.P., asked if the Sheriff work for the same miserable wages as the Polish or Russian peasant, and to eat black bread." They m i g ht had decided that no one coeitl speak unless he had to as well tell you that if you are to bring ric e from nominate or second a candidate ? Africa, you are certain to grow black and to have curl y The SHERIFF replied in the affirmative. hair.—(Loud laughter.) If we proposed to bring in Mr. COBDEN then intimated that he would propose another candidate. Russian or Polish peasants or operatives to compete with eur labourers at home, there might be some she. Mr. BRANDT—The time to do so is before the candi of reason for what they say; but there is a free trade in dates speak. You are now quite out of time. labourers; there is no prohibition of labourers; but w.O Mr. CoBDEN—No ; I believe I am quite in order.— (Cheers.) Mr Cobden then came forward to address the propose to have free trade, which means more trade le torn, sugar, coffee, and all the other comforts and ne.- electors, amidst loud cheers from the majority of the as cessaries of life which the working classes require; end : sembage, and considerable uproar and hooting, all sorts having this free trade, Caere will be more e mploymen t of clamorous' vociferation from Mr. Entwisle's booth ; fur labour, for two masters will be seeking one man, ills which the Sheriff for some time in vain endeavoured to stead of two men seeking one master—(Applaus e ) --- restore to something like decent quietness and order. the and, consequently, there.will be a rise in wages, and At length Mr. ENTWISLE escaycd with better effect, working man a ill get the comforts of life at a lower s saying —Gentlemen, I do beg of you, that you will give ge h er wa every man a patient hearing and be quiet, and allow price, and at the same time will get hig for his labour.—(Cheers.) I see a great ma n y every man to speak. farmers here—l suppose your landlords will Ila' e The gentlemen in the booth having subsided into a no objection to my speaking to you Isere! momentary hush, the Tory mob below took their cue for it is rather difficult to get at you; an d from them, and were tolerably quiet for a minute. But now I want to let the cat out of the bag. The f arn r . Mr. Cobden had no sooner again commenced, by asking " Why, what are you afraid of ? " when he was again era arc told that this corn-law is passed *for their benefit and they are told to support the corn-law, bc assailed by an uproar of yells, shouts, groans, and shrieks, in which we are bound to say, those which ' pro- cause it maintains their interests. But how do these_ seeded from the hustings equalled, if they did not sun- corn-laws benefit. you farmers ?If we raise the price of pass, those which emanated from the crowd. corn by Act of Parliament, do the corn laws g i ve the Mr. BRANDT loudly called " order," but in vain; and, farmer the benefit of all this increase of price ?—C-r e , r y turning to Mr. Cobden, he said,—l the gentlemen on uproar.) Gentlemen, there is now only about ball e the hustings would be quite silent, you might proceed. dozen of them.—(Cheers.) This is a part of my stol e Mr. COBDEN—Yes; but they are by far the worst. which the gentlemen on the other side will not let 11, . The SHERlFE—Gentlemen, Mr. Cobden, as a free- tell if they can help it ; for• they do not like me to pe' holder of this county, has declared that he intends to common sense into the heads of the farmers. Gentle' propose another candidate. He has a right to he heard, men, if we in Parliament raise the price of corn, we land', and I shall insist upon having him heard, or I shall ad- lords raise our rents in proportion. I suppose you find it so.—(" Yes, yes.") Supposing a lot of men owning j ourn the meeting. raise Mr. COBDEN—Now, gentlemen, respect your High cottages in a back street here, pass a law to _ Sheriff.—(Renewed Tory uproar.) Gentlemen, I will the rents to the same amount as those of hotte stand hear till midnight but I will be hoard.—(Groans in the front street, how Jong, you think that would last ? Why, only till I ,,tie• next quarter dafs and hisses, responded to by loud cheering from the free and then the tenants would leave, or those landlords 0.: traders.) Mr. JOHN WILSON FATTEN, M.P. (to the friends of houses in the front street would raise their rents s lap. lately met with a farmer who said, " I really don't ken Mr. Entwisle)—Gentlemen, Mr. Cobden has a perfect what to do. Some years ago my brother and IC O of right to be heard, and you will do yourselves no good by this. menced business. My brother wentento the businessdl , e , I Mr. COBDEN — Now, gentlemen, shall Igo on ?—(lm- candle-making ; he hash he bean with the same ca ade three times as tal as in farming, butmuch as !; se , mediately a large drum was beaten, close by the Horse and Jockey inn, about 3 0 yards from the hustings.) bad when he begun, and I have lost half of what I he" , Gentleman, that is their argument, —(llear, hear.) Gentlemen, the corn-laws cause a C°rl 73 9 . The UNDER-SHERIFF requested Captain Woodford, stant fluctuation in prices, making the price go u p to .t the chief of the county constabulary, to give orders to stop and down to 395. ; but, gentlemen, your rent is filed, ; I the drum ; but he cooly replied, " the drum is half a high prices, and then it is to be paid when prices are 1 e ,,, i ; mile off ;" and gave no directions concerning it that we and the consequence is that the farmer is always on ',ll ed saw or heard, although he had previously given various books of his landlord. After some further remarks,he tided directions to stop the music of the bands which were Recollect that next Monday is the poll ; look after yo u ' y playing while passing the hustings. votes ; you have had enough of blue and red ; neY l ones t t The uproar, both' on the hustings and in the crowd, the sound principles of common sense and h this Take into your consideration the importance of _„ continuing. Sir T. BRINCKER said, Gentlemen, pray hear Mr. question to this district ; consider what a blow you 0 11 4 Cobden—he has a right to be heard. strike by carrying the free ee trade candidate. The Yeila a ti Mr. COBDEN — Now, gentlemen, are you ready to hear first steamer will carry the intelligence to Americhere me?—(Reneeeed yelling, hissing, and clamour.) Ad- the Americans will say, "We thought the English,ii dressing the Sheriff, Mr. Cobden said, Pray, Mr. not in favour of free trade ; but they have trisect.. sri Sheriff, request those people o s the other side of you to in London and won there, and now they have pl nr iia the same standard in the manufacturing districts ; and be quiet. he o The SHERIFF — I have requested them, but in vain.— we will go on and reciprocate with them, and join t ,_„_, (A Voice on the hustings—" Get down with you, hand to hand, in carrying out the principles of IP' Cobden.") The Sheriff suggested to Mr. Cobden, that trade.—(Great cheering.) if he commenced speaking, the noise would probably cease in a while; and Mr. Cobden said he had no objec tion to try that experiment; but, at all events, he was determined to be heard, if he stayed all cley. He then came forward acid spoke for a time, amidst all sorts of discordant noises, which, however, gradually diminished, and, during the greater part of his speech, he was only occasionally interrupted in this way. So far as we could hear him for the clamour, he said — Gentlemen, I will detain you but a short time, but claim the right, as a freeholder of this county., to appear before you. I will maintain my right to be heard in this meeting, even if I am obliged to remain till twelve o'clock at night.—(Cheers, hisses, and " Off, off.") Our opponents have stated—(Tory uproar)—ah ! its a Very few of them that are making all the noise. Our oppo nents on this occasion have made one great admission, to which I am very anxious to draw your attention. Mr. Entwisle has stated that there is no point of dif ference between himself and Mr. Brown, on general polities ; he has let us know that Mr. Brown is as good a Conservative as he is himself, and that the only point of difference between them is on the free trade question.—(Hear.) Now, I thank him for that admis sion, because it at once proves that the free traders of South Lancashire, who are willing to support Mr. Brown, whether they are Whigs, Radicals, or Chartists, are sufficiently in earnest in support of that principle to throw aside party on this occasion ; and if we gain nothing else by this election—and I think we shall gain a great deal more—we shall at least gain this—that we shall have a moral standing hereafter, as being an honest party—caring neither for Whigs nor Tories, but having at heart the principles of free trade, which we have been so long contending for.—(Hear.) But Mr. Entwisle has stated—(Great uproar from Mr. Entwisle's booth)—that Mr. Brown comes forward claiming the patronage of her Majesty's Government, and anxious to seek popularity as the supporter of Sir Robert Peel.—(Hear.) Nov, Mr. Brown distinctly stated that he would support any Go vernment, whatever it might be, so long as their mea sures were good; and that he would go to Parliament neither to wear the colours of Sir R. Peel, or to bow to his dictation, any moro than he would to that of Lord John Russell.—(" Question.") But the Hon. Can didate on the other side has said more. He says Mr. Brown has narrowed this question to a mere question of corn. Why, Mr.' Brown distinctly said that he was op posed to all protective and differential duties, whether in corn, or sugar, or coffee, or in any other article.— (" Off, off.") Gentlemen, it is not very easy to learn from the speech of Mr. Entwisle what his own princi ples are in reference to trade or anything else—(hear) —but there is an old saying, that you may know a man by the company he keeps —(Laughter)—and there fore, if we would learn Mr. Entwisle's opinion, we cannot do better than refer to the opinion of the Hon. Gentle man who nominated him. I declare to you most solemnly that the fallacies• that gentleman used on the subject of the corn-laws have been dead and buried, even in the House of Commons, were these things generally are very long-lived, for the last two years.—(Hear, hear.) If it were not that I would not wish to be personal, I would ask the Hon. Gentleman where he had been for the last five years ; for I think, if we had found some antediluvian remains of a politician, he could not be more hopelessly in the dark as to the question of the corn-laws. —(Laughter and applause.) He tells us that we want, by repealing the corn-laws, to throw land out of cultivation. Why, has he ever consulted the best farmers whether a free trade in corn would throw the land out of cultivation ? Did he ever ask Lord Spencer, the best arable farmer in the kingdom ? Did lie ever ask Lord Ducie ?—(Cries from Mr. Entwistle's booth of " Off, off," and Mr. Brandt, turning to the gentlemen, called out repeatedly, " Order, order.") Gentlemen, we advocate free trade in corn, because amongst its other good effects, we believe that a free trade in corn will make the land of this coun try to be better cultivated ; and that is the opinion of all the best farmers in the country.—(Cheers, and Tory hooting.)—Gentlemen, there's but a few of them ; but they make a great noise.—(Laughter.) But I do not take the landowners of Lancashire as the best judges on this question ; for I remember that Lord Ducie, Lore Spencer, and other distinguished agricul turists, have declared that Lancashire and Cheshire are two of the worst farmed counties in the kingdom. — (Hear, hear.) When attending an agricultural meeting at Knutsford, I remarked upon the state of the land along both sides of the railway, that it was actually growing more rushes than grass. Now, I happened lately to be in the company of a number of farmers from Knutsford ; and they said, " What a lot of drain ing has bees going on here since Cobden blackguarded them about their rushes !"—(Laughter and applause.) Why, I scarcely over make my appearance in any part of the country, but draining-tiles spring up as if by magic, wherever I put my foot ; and, if the mere fear of free trade makes them grow increased quantities and improve their land, how much more will free trade itself do ?—(Hear and applause, and a cry . of "Down with the League !") Gentlemen, those noisy fellows are reduced to about a score now.—(Laughter.) Nom this gentleman tells us that there was no country ever great and prosperous that depended upon foreign ers for food, and neglected their own agriculturists. But we don't intend to neglect our own agricul turists. I saw Lord Dude at Bristol the other day ; and he said to me, "I can grow wheat at 365. a quarter, and charge 21. an acre rent for my land."—(" Hear" and "Oh 1") Now that shows howlignorant some of these Lancashire squires are of farming. Now, gen tlemen, and farmers who are here, I want to re mark upon what Colonel Tempest has said.—(" Name your candidate.") I will propose him in my own good time. Colonel Tempest says that the proportion which rent bears to the produce of the laud is only from Bs. to 10s. a quarter on the wheat grown. This is an attempt to make the farmers believe, that they have all the benefit of the corn-laws; but I will expose that fallacy, so that every farmer shall understand it. Let every farmer that hears me go home, and take an account of all he gets at market for the sale of his produce, and then see how much of that money goes to the landlord, and how much in other directions; and he will find, that, of the gross amount of what he has received, one-half of all ho takes from the market is paid to the landlord for rent.— (Uproar.) When I was in Scotland I had some conversation with a body of intelligent East Lothian farmers, who made a calculation there to gether; and they came to a conclusion that every quarter of wheat they took to market they paid to the landlord 225. 7d. rent upon it.—(Hear, applause, and hooting.) Now, Ide not say that the landlords are not entitled to all the rent they can get; but they have no right to put on a corn-law to raise their rents, and then tell us that the farmers get all the benefit of it. Now, this gentleman tells us that the agricultural interest is a much richer and more powerful interest than the manu facturing interest—that they have hundreds of millions of capital more than us, and that we are a comparatively small and insignificant interest. Is it not, then, very unreasonable that this mighty giant should come and ask protection at the hands of this little diminutive dwarf 2 (Laughter and cheers.) But if we are really so small and insignificant an interest as this gentleman says, who made us so? Why is it that our trade is not greater? Why is it that our foreign trade is not larger? We come to complain that it is not large, and we tell you the reason; and then our opponents, who are chargeable with having made us so stunted in growth and so insignificant in size, turn round upon us, and say—" Get away, you insignificant pigmy I you have no right to complain : see what a mighty giant I am."—(Laughter and applause.) Well, then, one thing more let me remark upon. The gentle men on the other side propose to give equal protection to all. Now, I ask these gentlemen how they propose to give protection to the labourer for his wages 7 An REDUCTION IN THE ROYAL HOUSEIIOI.De-- article appeared in the Times of Monday last, Or o .. from a weekly publication, respecting some recent te r ductions in the royal household; but for the greitvie, currency and the implied sanction given to this arti ,, by its having found a place in the columns of etT is journal as the Times, we should not have deem necessary to notice and contradict the absurd faLsell°,l,o of the writer of such a malicious attempt to lower the character of the Sovereign in the estimation of u the loyal and devoted subjects. After some remarks in proper spirit of an ignorant detractor, the writer Pi e ceeds to say, " but the popular grievance consis ts t i o e the somewhat anomalous fact, that this very redaebii, will absolutely entail an increased burden on the P t he Persons, whose services are thus dropped o ut o _ OO royal household, must be pensioned; but the P ea r not to be paid out of the amount saved la their vs . duction, but are to constitute a fresh charge on t, l3° „ ti tr' tional treasury. The consequence will be, that tne this lie expenditure, instead of being diminished h)_ l 3 „g. 25,000/. a year (the assumed reduction), will hu bs cs mented by the amount of the pensions." Seld_ es we seen so much ignorance and falsehood embea,.. w- ,,, e 0 in the few lines forming the above extract. Tu e ltlis sions, whatever they may be, will be paid out °` • t v same fund that the salaries would have been P si t he namely, out of the revenue voted by Parliament f 0 Cif maintenance of the Sovereign, or in other wor3s, the. d List, which is granted to the Sovereign in considerativr to the surrender of the hereditary revenues of the Cro the public. This constitutional arrangement neees" t he takes place after the accession of the Sovereign t°ffect Throne, and in a pecuniary point of view it come t 11 . e stf the public to a farthing's amount, whether her iti,_„ss continues on the royal establishment the incurnbTi4 of useless domestics, or whether they are pension e° is. r liberally, as, we believe, has been the case in eire'l,o4 stance. Upon this question we feel we have no u s t o whatever to inquire or remark. It is enough fo r sr know that it is most false to assert that any n ew vsl rangement which may have taken place in the 0.10 household can become a matter of additional che r g e ob• the national exchequer that is, on the public.' server. t fel THE WONDERS OF MANCHESTER. —He e- ,,e pa chambers vaster than are told of an Arabian fable! foior peopled with inhabitants more wonderful than Affitets, Peri. For there he beheld, in l ong - con tinued 0 0 5 those mysterious forms full of existence without life c o perform with facility, and in an instant, what his fulfil only with difficulty and in days. A Inae hill l is slave that neither brings or bears degradation two being endowed with the greatest degree of ° e c ity and acting under the greatest degree of e os ioo meat, yet free at the same time from all, P e, bet and emotion. It is therefore not only a s' fil a supernatural slave. And why should one T r ita the machine does not live ? It breathes, ;00 breath forms the atmosphere of some tovvne• I t not with more regularity than man. And ha s it st voice ? Does not the spindle sing like a inerrY t f e , h ie her work, and the steam-engine rear inlly nh °r i tt iog a strong artisan handling his lusty too ls, end g a o ld fair day's wages for a fair day's toil ? Nor sh° fi fteen weaving-room be forgotten, where a thousand or & g hundred girls may be observed in their coral nee'retti, working like Penelope in the day time ; 5 00 44 some pert, some graceful and jocund, some ahss .Anv their occupation ; a little serious some ; few " t hat I ° o the cotton you have observed in its rude state', ands have seen the silent spinner change into tlireaa'w otri bustling weaver convert into cloth, you maY n°loers, of as in a moment it is tinted with beautiful ,„ s terf printed with fanciful patterns. And yet the e°l fiess mysteries is to view machines making Ins o n sa'" spectacle that fills the mind with curious, and e speculation.—Coningsby, or the .New Generation. DEPARTURE or TROOPS FOR GUENNeS,. r . Gael; sudden embarkation of a large body of trooPs,'?„,ed ° sey, on Sunday and Monday, somewhat tosiitisesc Isle of Wight friends, who surmised than en the 00 tion bad broken out amongst the Guernsernelocou°,, ject being to depose Governor Napier. T i lle v d is Pei from Guernsey, however, show that the fectly tranquil, and the intention of the au o tn; pe rte;, ordering this military movement, ap_Pears o ot• 1 1411 nently to increase the garrison. We kilo to ever, why there should have been so much liasw aft. , 7 at. a simple transaction.—Hampshire Indepen , -e t hot We are informed by a correspondent w i f e! l e i. Roberts, solicitor, of Spring-gardens, has 1. w e re Ofer structions from several persons whose houses . 0 o f P bly entered by the police, when the late oapt_t ve ce l ec t sons employed in gaming was made, to eo,__ 0 0, 4 Lions for trespass against the magistrates ‘l'nsTerivers er e warrants, and also against the Police Cortn' s „ st ios ° id whom they were enforced. The houses in carr, i iy entered under the impression that gambling w,a' t , jusi, ! on in them, but nothing was seen or discoverehusa tops the suspicion. The late Sir Richard .13irn„ie, s erver. 800/. for the settlement of a like action. — u us BIRTHS. of °' t ess " On the 22d inst., at Worlingham Hall , Viscoun 6 -Aa of a son. in the CAP . .1, On the 27th of February, at Colesberg, „iidtter. 1 of Hope, the lady of John Campbell, Esq!, of a as On the 9th ult., at Spanish-town, J am aica, 0 06 Simon, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. wicit-scl On the 23d inst., at Hunter - stree t, Brous Mrs. Mardon, of a son. of N V ' On the 23d inst., at Lymington, the lady t s, Agar, Esq., of Elm Lodge, of a son. p.„, of s 0• 0 11 On the 23th inst., the lady of C. Evrene , paw On the 23d•inst., at the Royal Naval Col the lady of Captain Wilson, R A., of a dang titerL y of P• ' oo co• On the 24th inst., at Temple Dinsley , the _ la te $ P. Halsey, Esq., of a son, which only su rvived (9. On the 24th inst., the lady of Rob ert Hoeto her Majesty's 74th Regiment, of a son. ,_„...orarrngici tiiO On the 24th inst., at' the Priory, Wan aef .440- only Henry Haes, of a son. p i ton. e a On the 24th inst., alt Chester-terrec c v who 10 wife of the Rev. Morgan Cowie, of a son, 11.11 few hours. On ;rllithofinassto,ni:isAtilbli-nbgodrnon. -street, the WY' • Curre willP 4 0 0 ( MARATED. • Frec uir,l o( Von t ' On the 14th inst., at St. Pancras, Martin, erutcli o ptel o f 131 1 0 ., On the 23d inst ., at St. John's Chump 0 - 1 • d to -friars. Matilda, youngest dati:hter of om t " 11004,60 .00 d a esbel i e l join , Elphege Van Zuylen Van Nyeyelt to Ellen Claiborne, eldest daughter c c l o Tht i t as e :g't i t o o, I t c :; of Charleston, South Carolina, aeCligrN AbinFi o Ce„, On the 23d inst., at St. Hale& oont ifi gdcw Henry Westcar Peel, Esq., of IVO tu , gtTL o f Ao rine, eldest daughter of J. Torry Hester, Ems " , fe DIED. Robert Virsilleardefj. On Thursday, the 23d instt.e,i h _ ta ffo Inas On the 12th inst., at Rome, o_ Dias. . 40 proprietor of the Bedford Ho On the 21st inst., at Bayswater, t it f • o'` the I nt" On the 21st inst., Hannah, relic Fliet7o Btriazzthcont..sg rd. to Esq., of otfhßee2lg2rdavines,tL.,eaitee tshteervslter.age,orthop_,,,. att 4 On the 22d inst., at Hatfield, near poness,ds4'oair Irish Dragoon Guards. Archer Allen, Esq., Lieutenant in th e 4th No rt h 0009.1 ..b h o in uw itre.a v ce, 11.0000ber t 7 ,16 William Pilkingtou, Esq. , of -- Ic erl sin g t 2 n tOn , bo o l n i. t i l ha m ege 2l 3 l dl in .in st s . :., at a n t .t4 S P°rtmanairtreet, port Monday, en p dareg i an On the 23d inst., at Cumberlan 76 , age, Esq., of Gloucester-place, Nghofittlinidg' Eliza, the wife of Admiral Carpenter, age r u npo l og i ;1:1 Published lir N i 0 044 '0 0 Load no rm' str te am d d a , nd pri P u ub ter, at 2 ... w ,es ia vise No. 112, the SAyO7, Strand, in kictayof27. SH IR_ES. 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GLOBE—By a piece of paltry manoeuvring, in perfect keeping with their paltry tactics, the Tories managed on Thursday night to prevent Mr. Christie front bringing on motion for inquiry into the constitution and present con qlition of the two Universities, with a view to assimilate them to the changed circumstances of the country, and thus ex tend their usefulness, in conformity with the design of their founders. The mode in which the Conservatives—of all abuses—effected this was explained by Mr. Christie on the following evening. To that explanation we refer in justification of the term we have used to designate their con duct. We do not charge this act of disreputable trickery upon the members of the Government. It was concocted and executed by honourable, but—except in such duties— very insignificant, gentlemen who occupy the third and fourth seats behind the Treasury Bench. These worthy in struments of the party seem incapable of any higher eleva tion of thought or act. In this instance they had just dis cernment enough to see that the statements by which the Honourable Member for Weymouth would support his motion for inquiry would open the eyes of the public to facts they are unwilling should become known ; but without having sufficient foresight to discern the consequences of barking those statements. Those who plotted for the pur rose of stilling the motion may rest assured that the course taken to prevent the statements and arguments of the Hon. Member from meeting the public eye has tended to strengthen the generally received impression that a searching investi gation, with a view to an extensive renovation and reform in those institutions, is necessary, and must at no distant period be granted. Exaggerated apprehensions in the public mind, called up by the efforts at concealment, will tend to increase the demand for an extensive and salutary change. The motion fur inquiry is merely postponed; the temporary de feat it has sustained will tend to facilitate the object, instead ,of suppressing the investigation. No expectation was enter tained that the inquiry would have been obtained, as the im mediate result of the motion. It is probable that but little discussion would have taken place upon it. The mo tion would have been negatived—it may be " without a division." What then ? The speech would, it is true, have been heard with impatience by those who are always pre determined to vote against inquiry, in proportion as the facts adduced prove the neeessity of reformation. Such would only have "sat out" the discussion, that they might, if necessary, record their votes aga inst the motion. But in the reports supplied by the public journals on the following day, the speech thus listened to with impatience, or with listless indifference, in the House of Commons, would have been read by hundreds of thousands. Sooner or later, the impression thus produced would operate within the walls of Parliament, and speak even there " with most .miraculous organs." The days are long since departed when a Member of Parliament spoke only to those within the House of which he was a member. Then the effect he pro duced upon those who immediately heard him was every thing ; and the impression out of doors was scarcely worth a thought. The Tories know that another era has dawned upon the nation. Hence, whenever they can prevent a motion for inquiry from being brought forward, they do so— not so much from an apprehension of its effect within, as Of dread of its results upon those without the walls of Par liament. To this apprehension we refer the trick to which they had recourse on Thursday night. By counting out the House on Mr. Christie rising to bring forward his motion for inquiry into the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, with a view to render them more beneficial to the country ; they hoped to keep the country in ignorance of matters which affect the character of the close corporations of learning and piety at Oxford and Cambridge. The fallacy of that hope will become apparent. STANDARD.—Our readers will have known that the Irish Court of Queen's Bench has refused the motion for a new trial, that has now occupied it for a term and something more. Mr. Perrin alone dissented from the refusal as regards Mr. O'Connell, and Mr. Crampton dissented in the case of Mr. Tierney ; but as two of the judges agreed to refuse in every case, the rule for a new trial is refused to all, viz., re fused by the whole Court as respects six of the traversers, Dr. Gray, Messrs. Steele, J. O'Connell, Duffy, Barrett, and Ray; refused by three of the judges to one, in the case of Mr. Da niel O'Connell, refused by two of the judges against two, in Mr. Tierney's case; but the equal division of the Court operates as a refusal, because, where the judges are equally divided upon an affirmative proposition, the negative always of course prevails. In consideration of the equal divi sion in Mr. Tierney's case, the Attorney-General intimated that he would not call that gentle man up for judgment. Mr. Tierney is certainly not the 3east guilty of the eight traversers; on the other hand, he appears to ns the most criminal, after the master incendiary; but no doubt the Attorney-General exercises a sound discre tion in bowing to the equal division of opinion on the bench. It is amusing meanwhile to see the use which the Dublin Free man's Journal tries to make of Mr. Tierney's escape. "The most recent fashionable announcement respecting the Irish Attorney-General was, that the learned functionary attended the Premier's last ball. He has just returned from London—his last lesson in prosecution is yet fresh in his memory, and we must, therefore, look upon his declaration yesterday, that he would at once demand judgment on the repealers, as the carrying out of orders issued by the head of the Cabinet. The wily Minister wishes to keep his hands off the clergy, and in deference to his known veneration' for Catholic priests,' he has instructed his officer not to demand judgment on the Itev. Mr. Tierney. We have no doubt but the surplice(' ruffians' will duly estimate his forbearance." Whoever reads the argument of Mr. Jus tice Crampton, will see how much Sir Robert Peel's ieatructions have had to do with Mr. Tierney's good luck. We have copied from a morning Contemporary (the Herald), a review of the grounds upon which the Justices Perrin and Crampton respectively decided against their brethren in the two cases, in which they did so decide. As this article pretty exactly expresses our own views, we shall say nothing _more upon that subject except that every one antici pated from the first day of Michaelmas Term, how Mr. Perrin would act ; such anticipation, however, being wholly unconnected with any doubt of ! the Learned Judge's iutegrity, and resting solely upon the practical proofs he had given, when Whig Attorney-General, of his erroneous views of the law of conspiracy. It were strange, indeed, if the - Learned Gentleman should not, as judge, have some qualms at treating, as criminal, what himself had connived at if not encouraged, when charged with the vindication of thelaw as first law officer of the Crown. Mr. Crampton, too, had a difficulty of the same kind, though much less in degree, to contend with, for he also had been a Whig law officer, but it was in the earlier and better period o f the Whig Administra tion. On Saturday the Attorney-General called upon the counsel for the traversers to offer their motion in arrest of judgment, if they intended to make one. Sir Coleman O'Loghlen, on the other side, declared that a motion in arrest of judgment was intended, but the traversers' counsel were not ready. Not ready. at the end of 'six months ! The Attorney-General demanded to be at least informed of the grounds of the motion, and of the authorities by which it was intended to support it. in order that on Monday (this day) he might be prepared to reply instanter, without wasting more time; but for this the traversers' counsel were not prepared at the end of six months. The Court interposed with more firmness and de •cision than it had previously manifested, and told the learned advisers of the traversers that they must, in the course of the same evening, communicate to the Attor ney-General the information that he so reasonably re quired;—and there the matter rested. The motion in arrest of judgment being, as every one knows, designed me rel y for :delay, will be spread over as many topics as possible; but as on such a motion there can be no apology for the traver sers being all ow ed separate and distinct counsel, and as the `Court seams to have awakened to the duty of discounte nancing pettifogging quibbling, intended merely to con sume the public time, the whole matter may possibly be dispos e d o f i n the course of the present week. Ana • whether it i s or not, i 3 a matter of little consequence, for • - the case is one before they are of those that may be said to be forgotten completed. s Nobody now has reason to re . Bret the delay th at has occurred, except the traversers, who have now still b e f ore them e whole of that punishment, a which -very considerable part o f th would have been already ex pended, had they not resorted to the dilatory policy. A young lady offers the following f • . .serviceable and original rules for the guidance of :—" Before marriage it is necessary that a situations, should see her intended husband in four viz.-Ist, tipsy ; 2dly, playing at cards and losing wait ing for his dinner ; and lastly, in a ballfro l Tni, dlY ' • " DOG EAT DoG."—Nearly all the lNi ' Prius ;cases this term were eases in which attor neys were . e ither plaintiffs of defenda n ts . —Dubin Pa per. -------- LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 23. THE QUDEN V. DOUGLAS. , • The lion. Mr. DENMAN moved for a rule to show cause why the defendant should not be discharged out of the custody of the Marshal of the Queen'e Bench Prison, on the ground that he had been in prison upwards of 12 _ months, and his debt was under 201. The defendant was _committed in execution on 23d of February, 1843, for ,a debt of 121. 7s.—Rule granted. BROWN V. WRAY. • Mr. C. JONES applied for a rule to show cause why the defendant in this case should not be discharged out of the custody of the Marshal of the Queen's Bench Prison. It a pp eare d th a t the defendant had, on a pre vious occasion, been in custody for the same debt, and on the sam e wr i t. I n M arc h , 1842, d e f en d an t had made " faTangement to pay th e d e bt t o the plaintiff by instal per month, and the first payment would :become due on the 23d of April following. On the 14th t of that month however, he was arrested by another • creditor, whereupon several detainers, the plaintiff's • being one of them, were lodged against him. He quickly settled idle other claims, and on the 18th he sent to in ' form the attorney of the plaintiff that the Marshal would not release him unless the detainer of his client were -withdrawn. That was, thereupon, done, and he was once THE ho I°Rltol l ci . • -4,1 4%-fi A Thom n 41111011331);;Irlin 14,eftrds on m Y :1 "Nr o'cl ock. Th, cam 414 Gollerie,: lj Eci jrz po'rticulNtr '" 3', bc:l, ItA j ,. l )tri tr. t • in Divi b; r , tt for toee , ipo ,t4c P 1" P At th e 41 41 4, *n it o to 4 WY kid ' r' " I of