The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-19 00:00:00

THE WAIRAU MASSACRE. tiltarn the Southern Cross, New Zealand paper, of the 23d of March.) ',IATERVIEW BETWEEN HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND RAUPARAHA, THE PRINCIPAL CHIEF PRESENT AT THE WAIRAU MASSACRE. On Monday, the 12th of February, his Excellency Governor Fitzroy, accompanied by Sir Everard Home, Captain of her Majesty's ship North Star, Major Richmond, Mr. Commissioner Spain, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Forsaith, and several o ffi cers belonging to the North Star, landed at Walkanae. His Excellency and suite were received on shore by the Rev. Octavius Hadfield, Messrs. Symonds and Clarke, and a large body of natives, who, to the num ber of 400 and upwards, soon assembled in a large open inclosure within the pah. His Excellency commenced by reading the follow ing address :—" I salute you, chiefs and elder men. Health to you. Peace be among you. I am glad to see you. I rejoice to meet you here. I have much to say to you—many important things. I have heard of all that has been done—some things good, but some very bad. When I see your church, the work of your own hands, and when I hear from your true friend, Mr. Hadfield, what progress you have made in Christian knowledge, I rejoice greatly; but when I hear of the evil that has been done by some, I can hardly believe it can have been done by the same peo ple ; so bad is it in my sight. I have heard of all that happened at the Wairau, according to the English account, and it has grieved my heart exceedingly. I now ask you to tell your story, that I may compare the two and judge fairly. When I have heard your account of that dark day, I will reflect, and then tell you what I shall do. The had news I have heard about killing the English so cruelly at the Wairan, after they had ceased fighting, and had trusted to your honour, has made my heart /rev dark, has filled my mind with gloom. Tell me your story, that I may compare it with the English and know the whole truth. When I first heard of the death of my friends, of the English who fell at Wei rau, I was very angry, and thought of hastening here with many ships of war, with many, many soldiers. and several fire-moved ships (steamers). Had I done so your warriors would have been killed, your canoes would have been all taken - and burnt, your houses and pahs would have been all destroyed, for I should have brought with me from Sydney and other, places an irresistible force. But these were hasty, angry, unchristian thoughts—they soon passed away. I considered the whole case; I saw that the English had been very much to blame, even by their own account, and I saw how much you had been pro voked. Then I determined to put away my anger and come to you peaceably. Let me now hear your story." Rauparaha then rose, and several voices from among the crowd of his countrymen urged him to speak out, that they might all bear. He said— " There we, evil intended in the commencement of the affray. Land is the foundation of all our trou bles. The Europeans say it is theirs, but 'who says so besides themselves ? The Tory came to Port Nicholson, and that was the commencement of the evil. We heard of the sale of that place by Warepori and Puni. Warepori was smoking his tobacco and wearing his blankets alone ; we never agteed to it ; payment was made, but we never received it ; thus grew the seeds of evil. Who authorised Warepori to receive his payment ? Who authorised him to do it privately ? Why did he not call the people together, and pa them all ? The Tory anchored off Kapiti, Colonel Wakefield wanted to buy all the land (here Rauparaha mentioned the names of several places), but all which I sold was Blind Bay and Massacre Bay : I and Tungia sold these places, and Warepori and Puni . sold Port Nicholson. The land which I sold to Colonel Wakefield I sold myself; I did not consult anybody. Colonel Wakefield then went to Taranaki, and when he returned he laid claim to all the land ; nothing was said concerning Wairau, , until now he claims it. There was sufficient payment made ; all I received was—(here he commenced enu merating articles, but was told that he need not go into those details)." Rauparaha continued—" I wished to enumerate them, because Col. Wakefield says the Maories are holding back the land which I have been paid for. Porirua also is claimed by Col. Wakefield, but Rangihaeata will never consent to sell it. Now I come to Wairau. Wairau was taken away b Thompson and Wakefield (meaning Captain ekefield.) When we heard they were surveying tie land we went to Nelson to forbid them doing so. We went to Captain Wakefield's house. He said, ' I must have Wairau ;' I said, ' No.' He replied, ' I must have it.' I answered, ' No, you shall not have it.' He said, ' If you do not give it up, you shall be tied in this manner.' (Here Raupa raha, to explain his meaning of the threat held out by . Captain Wakefield, put his hands in the position of a person handcuffed. Rangiha,eata said, I will not give up Wairau, neither will I be taken prisoner by you. Captain Wakefield then said, ' We will shoot you." Well, what matter if you do ? we shall lose our life, hut Wairau shall not be taken.' After this interview at Nelson, Captain WSkefield sent over more surveyors, amongst them was Mr. Cotterell. We heard that the survey of the Waken was nearly finished; Puaha went to tell them to desist, but they would not. Puaha returned to Porirua, and told us so. We then arose. The chiefs and old men went on board a schooner, and the young men in canoes to Cloudy Bay; we stayed at To tara-nui (Queen Charlotte's Sound) some time, and then went to Wairau ; we pulled up until we saw Mr. Cotterell ; we then brought all their goods, &c., down to the mouth of the river. Our slaves and the Europeans avere.imgaged in moving the things. Then we pulled up to the wood and saw Mx. Barnicoat ; told him we had' come to fetch him. Ile had no boat; so we took him and his things on board my canoe, and coiaseyed them to the mouth of the river, having burned the huts which they had erected. The Eu ropeans then left Wairau for Cloudy Bay, thence to Nelson ; we were up the river planting. After this Mr.Tuckett arrived with some people to survey ; I sent to him and said, ' Come, Mr. Tuokett, you must go!' He said, ' I must survey the land. I replied `No, you shall not,' and brought him down to the mouth of the river. I asked Mr. Barnicoat to retain with me till the boat came for him ; the boat with Mr. Tuckett had gone to Nelson. We con tinued our planting, till one morning we saw the Vic toria (Government brig) ; then were our hearts re lieved, for we imagined that Mr. Spain and Mr. Clarke had come to settle the question of our lands. Being scattered about at different places on the river, we took no further notice, expecting a messenger to arrive from Mr. Spain and Mr. Clarke ; but a messenger came up to nay that it was an army of English, and that they were busily engaged cleaning their arms and fixing the flints of their guns. They met Puaha, and detained him prisoner. They said, ' Where are Rauparaha and Rangihaeata? Puaha said, ' Up the river.' They answered, ' Lit us go.' Puaha was glad to hear them say this, as he was afraid they would kill him. He afterwards watched his opportunity, and ran away and came to us. A - messenger had before come to tell me that Puaha and Rangihaeata had been caught by the Europeans. Afterwards Puaha and Rangihaeata arrived, and we consulted what we should do. I proposed going into the bush, but they said, ' No, let us remain where we are; 'what have we done, that we should be thus beset?' The Europeans slept some distance from us, and after they had breakfasted, came on towards us in two boats. We remained on the same spot, with out food ; we were much alarmed. Early in the morn ing we were on the look-out, and one of our scouts, who caught sight of them coming round a point, called out, ' Here they come, here they come I' Our women had kindled a fire and cooked a few potatoes that we had re maining:, and we were hastily eating them, when they care° in sight. Cotterell called out ' Where is Puaha ?' Puaha answered, ' Here I am, come here to me ' They sa id again, ' Where is Puaha ?' Puaha again saluted them. Cotterell then said, ' 'Where is a canoe for us to cross ?' (R aupara h a h ere described the manner of their sitting down, some one side, some on the oth er ). Thompson, Wakefield, and some other gentlemen, crossed over to us with a constable to take me, but . tbe greater number stopped on the other side ofthe creek. Thompson said. ' Where is Raup ara h a Pi I. answered ' Here.' ' Come, 7ou must come with' in e I replied, On , Where ? He said, , , board the replied, `What for?' He an ard the ship. I answered, ' To talk about the houses you burned down; I said, 'Wh a t h ouse was it I burned ? Was it a tent belonging to you, that you make so much ado about it? You know it was not, it was nothing but a hut of rushes • the materials were cut from my own ground, therefore I will not go aboard, neither will I be bound if , • you ate angry about the lan d, let us talk it quietly Over ; I care not if we talk till night and all to-morrow, I will settle the question about the land.' Mr. Thompson said, ' Will you not go ? I said. ' No,' and Rangihaeata, who had been called for, and who had been speaking, said so too. Mr. Thompson tliep called for the handcuffs, and held tip the warrant, saying, ' See, this is the Queen to make a tie Raupa rahe I said, ' I will not listen either to you or to your book.' He was in a great passion ; his eyes rolled about, and he stamped his foot. I said, ' I had rather be killed than submit to be bound.' He then called for the constable, who began opening the handcuffs and to advance towards me. Mr. Thompson laid hold of my hand. I pushed him away, saying, ' What are you doing that for ?' Mr. Thompson then called out Fire !' He called out once, and then Thompson and Wakefield called out together ' Fire.' " On being asked which of the gentlemen it was who gave the command to fire, Rauparaha answered, " Thompson gav e the word f command, but Wake field recommended him to do so. The Europeans I began to cross over the creek, and as they were crossing they fired one gun. The women and chil- I dren were sitting round the fire. We called out, ' We shall be shot: After this one gun they fired a volley, and one of us was killed, then another, I and three were wounded. We were then closing fast. The English guns were levelled at us. (Here he described by comparison the distance between the contending parties.) I and Puaha cried out, 'Friends, stand up and shoot some of them in payment.' We were frightened, because they were very close ; we then fired, and three of the Europeans fell. They fired again, and killed Rongo, the wife of Rangiha eata. We then bent all our energy to the fight, and the Europeans began to fly. They all ran away, firing as they retreated. The gentlemen ran too. We pursued them, and killed them as we over took them. Captain Wakefield and Mr. Thomp son were caught by the slaves, who brought them to me. Rangihaeata came running to me, crying out, What are you doing ? Your daugh ter is dead. What are you doing, I say ? Upon which some heathen slaves killed them. (Rauparaha here particularly mentioned that those who killed the prisoners were, to use his own literal expression, devils, not missionaries, meaning heathen natives, at the instigation of Rangihaeata, neither Puaha nor the Christian natives being present.) There was no time elapsed between the fight and the slaughter of the prisoners. When the prisoners were killed the rest of our people were still engaged in the pursuit ; when we arrived at the top of the hill, Mr. Cotterell held up a flag, and said, That is enough, stop fight ing.' Mr. Thompson said to me, Rauparaha, spare my life !' I answered, A little while ago I wished to talk to you in a friendly manner, and you would not, now you say save me. I will not save you.' Rauparaha continued, ' It is not our custom to save the chiefs of our enemies ; we do not consider our victory complete, unless we kill the chiefs of our op ponents ; our passions were much roused, and we could not help killing the chief.'" Rauparaha then sat down. His Excellency the Governor said—" I thank you for the relation you have given me. I shall now calmly consider the whole matter, and give my decision in a short time." After a silence of about half an hour, his Excel lency rose and addressed the natives as follows : " Now I have heard both sides ; I have reflected on both accounts, and I am prepared to give my deci sion. I, the representative of the Queen of England, the Governor of New Zealand, have made my decision, and it is this :—Hearken, 0 chiefs and elder men, to my decision :--In the first place, the English were wrong; they had ao right to build houses upon lands to which they had not established their claim—upon land the sale of which you disputed, on which Mr. Spain had not decided. They were wrong in trying to apprehend you, who had committed no crime. They were wrong in marking and measuring your land in opposition to your repeated refusals to allow them to do so, until the Commissioner had decided on their claim. Had you been English men you would have known that it was wrong to resist a magistrate under any circumstances, but not understanding English law, your case was different. Had this been all, had a struggle caused loss of life in the fight, wrong and bad as it would have been in the sight of God, I could not have blamed you so much as the English. The very bad part of the Wairau affair, that part where you were so very wrong, was the killing men who had sur rendered, who trusted to your honour as chiefs. Englishmen never kill their prisoners ; English men never kill men who have surrendered. It is the shocking death of those unfortunate men that has fOled my mind with gloom ; that has made my heart B og dark—that has filled me with sorrow. But I know how difficult it is to restrain angry men when their passions are roused. I know that you repent of your _conduct, and are now sorry that those men were killed. As the English were very greatly to blame, and as they brought on and began the fight, and as you were hurried into crime by their miscon duct, I will not avenge their death. In future let us dwell peaceably without distrust. I have told you my decision, and my word is sacred. I will punish the English if they attempt to do what is unjust or wrong. Your chiefs must help me to prevent the natives from doing wrong, so that we may live happily in peace, helping and doing good to one another, no man injuriag or encroaching on his neighbour, but buying and selling freely as each may desire, with the consent of the other, but not unwillingly. By such measures, we shall receive mutual advantages. The natives must not interfere with Englishmen who have settled on land fairly purchased ; the English shall not encroach upon land which the natives have not fairly sold. No path, nor cultivation, nor burying-ground, shall be taken or encroached upon, by any Englishman, except by the general desire of the natives to whom it belongs. Where there is any mistake or doubt about boun daries of purchase, appeal must be made to the law. The law will see justice done, and I will be respon sible for its execution by properly qualified persons. Recommending you to the advice of your best friends, the missionaries, the protectors, and officers of Government, I now bid you farewell, and wish you all health, and the blessing of God." SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. YROX TER EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The proceedings of the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, held on Monday at the Conciliation Hall, will be found detailed in another column. Mr. O'Connell was present. The desire to tee him was as stro9., and his entrance to the meet ing elicited acclamations from the assembled thou sands as enthusiastic, as on his first appearance after his liberation from prison. The chair was taken by the Honourable G. Hely Hutchinson, whose rank confers importance on his junction with the repealers, which the leaders appear to appreciate, and will know how to employ. The accession of such men will naturally influence those of humbler station. The manifestly-powerful ad vantage to any popular movement which is con ferred by the presence and active aid of the aris tocracy, is obvious. The impolitic proceedings of the Government has thus contributed to confer ad ditional ecliit on repeal agitation. The Repeal As sociation has thus acquired an importance, and its meetings are invested with an interest too ele vated and extensive, to admit of their being re garded with indifference. Every public journal, of whatever political party, now reports the proceedings of its meetings to an extent equal to what would be appropriated to the proceedings of the Imperial Par liament, were it in session. The sayings and doings of Mr. O'Connell and his subordinates in the move ment, at each successive meeting of the Association, draw to it increased numbers, wealth, and influ ence. Even in this country, the meetings are now regarded with new and more lively emotions ; such as were never experienced by Englishmen at any previous period in the history of repeal. For this obvious advantage to the repeal project, by the immense accession to its power which the sympathies of England must necessarily impart to everything that pertains to Ireland, O'Connell, and those who take a prominent part in the agitation, are indebted to the Government more than to them selves. The State prosecution, with its monstrous perversions of right, employing the machinery of law to deprive the prosecuted parties of the substantialities of justice, roused the public mind in this country against the Government ; and enlisted the innate sense of right which is characteristic of Englishmen in favour of the accused. Every unfair advantage was manifestly taken to embarrass the de fendants while preparing to answer the charges pre ferred against them by the Crown lawyers, in the " monster indictment" they were called upon to meet. From the moment that issue was joined between the Crown and the defendants, the verdict was as certain as though it had been already recorded. This know ledge was derived—not from the facts of the case, but from the pre-arrangements of the Crown lawyers, and the disposition manifested by a majority of the judges to secure a conviction. This scandal ous departure from the ordinary administration of law, as the minister of justice, deprived the trial of all moral dignity. The verdict of the jury and the sentence of the court derived no sanction from public opinion —it, therefore, exercised no salutary influence upon the people, whom it designed to awe and control, nor upon the agitation it was intended to suppress. The conviction of the repealers was a source of embarrassment, rather than of triumph to the Govern ment. O'Connell was at once raised from an agitator into a hero—from a hero into a martyr. His liberation has invested him with a still higher character. The reversal of the judgment pronounced upon him has elevated him, in the view of the Irish population, to the rank of a conqueror, who comes forth from a prison—to which an unjust sentence, pronounced by a partisan court, the result of a verdict delivered by a partisan jury, had consigned 4im—to conduct them to the cherished object of their excited hopes—a separa tion of their country from English connexion. They have been taught to ascribe all the evils of their condi• tion to the union. A sense of those bitter evils has induced them to listen, with credulous avidity, to any scheme, whatever be its name or form. However it remov e ybe fr aug ht w i t h f rau d or f o ll y , if it p rom ises to or mitigate the miseries of their lot, it finds fa vour in their eyes. They join its ranks, subscribe to swell its funds, and lift u p their voices in praise of the men who place themselves in theits aggregate m van ofita ent - pro cessions, and tak e a leading part in t imp. The enthusiasm which YConnell's liberation from will • prison has excited throughout Ireland, require his acknowledged tact and influ ence t o keep it within hounds. This is manifest from his recent speeches. Interlarded as they are with personal vituperation, still a tone of moderation pervades them.- A disposi=' , tion to parley, rather than to commit himself to the extreme course which heads less cool would counsel, and hearts more ardent would devise, is discoverable throughout his Monday's address. The reversal of the judgment has touched a chord of sensibility in O'Connell's bosom. This would be responded to in kindred strains by the bulk of the Irish people, were any indication of a design t o enter u p on a more conciliatory system of administrative policy to be given by the Government. Hitherto the policy of Sir Robert Peel's Government in Ireland has been only provocative of the worst feelings in the people ; and has led to results equally embarrassing to the executive, and mischievous to the country. A re trospective view of what has taken place in that country will explain our meaning, and establish the imputation which we deliberately cast upon the Ad ministration. STANDARD.—The termination of the war in Morocco has evidently taken most of our Contempo raries by surprise, but it is for the readers of the Standard to say whether they have been early and fully prepared ifor the event. The 'Whig-Radical journals have moreover a twofold occasion for wonder —they are astonished that the war has been so promptly concluded, and also that it has been con cluded without any territorial aggrandisement to France. From this perplexity the Morning Chronicle tries to extricate itself by first treating as a Ministerial journal the Times (which on the alternate days it claims with better reason as an ally in its war against Ministers), and asserting that the non-fulfilment of all the violent threats of its boisterous Contemporary is proof of a victory ob tained by France over the British Government ; secondly, by assuming that France, having in flicted great injury upon Morocco, and shown the power and disposition to repeat that injury when again provoked, must henceforth exercise an uncontrolled influence over the Moors. 'We are at issue with our Contemporary upon both these points. We deny that the British Government is in any respect responsible for the language of any pub lic journal, least of all for the language of a journal like the Times, bitterly hostile to it, and certainly not less bitterly hostile because that homage which the Times always pays to the will of the majority for bids an open declaration of war. Surely the Go vernment is not responsible for the libellous letters of the penny-a-liners on board the Warspite, Sir Ed ward. Owen's just censure upon whom our Contempo rary this morning resents by inserting a trumpery paragraph from a weekly paper, though it (the Times) admitted these libellous letters to be, as in good truth they were, " indefensible." The Morning Chronicle, indeed, goes the length of making her Majesty's Mi nisters responsible even for these contemptible libels. The Morning Chronicle knows, we fear, the utter falsehood of its assertion that the Times developed Lord Aberdeen's conduct (a strange phrase, by the way), and the equally gross falsehood that the Times is " a Ministerial organ," yet, as we fear, with a full knowledge of both these falsehoods, and with an avowed knowledge that these falsehoods give to ithe fabrications and other follies of the Times all their power to irritate the French people, the Morning Chronicle deliberately publishes these falsehoods. Is not this to provoke ill-will by the moat unjustifiable means ? Upon the second point—the influence over Morocco ob tained by France through her late operations against that empire—we hold an opinion very differ ent from that professed by the Morning Chronicle. The expedition against Morocco was really forced upon France, contrary to both her interests and her wishes ; and we have no doubt that the wisest French statesmen feel that, honourable as its results have been, and conducive as they are to present peace, they are the reverse of promising as regards the future. The case of the Russian march to Adrianople, which the Morning Chro nicle cites in support of its views, is by no means analogous. The fact proved by the Russian invasion of the central dominions of the Porte, contrary to the will of all Europe, was this, that Russia possesses local opportunities of overwhelming the Ottoman power, which would place Constantinople at her mercy, despite of all Europe. Neither a British fleet nor a French army could by possibility arrive in time,— indeed the fleet would be always insufficient to prevent the passage of 100,000 Russians over the Balkan, and if Turkey was to be saved, all the Powers of Europe must engage in a doubtful struggle with the Q'zar. Is this the case of Morocco ? Is there anything in the late events to prove that Morocco, aided by one first-rate European Power of equal naval strength with France, could not tindicate its independence in case of an attack ? We will not pursue the question into details, because we dislike the contemplation of such hypotheses; but the matter comes to this—Has the Emperor of Morocco the same reason to fear instant and irremediable mischief from France that the Porte has to fear such mischief from Russia. The truth is, that the operations against Morocco were what from the first they professed to be, purely defensive, and, their purpose being accom plished, they have been concluded with loyalty and good faith. This it is which puzzles our Contem poraries, who saw more than a defensive purpose in the expedition. As we have before said, the war was a necessity ; but a necessity drawing after it a rain of evil to those upon whom it was imposed, and no imaginable benefit. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1844. HOP INTELLIGENCE. MAIDsTosE.—The hop-picking is now commenced at most places; where they began last week, they almost all come far short of what they were called. The hops are now coming into good order for pick ing, and we shall have some very good hops, but few that will be fine in colour. TICEHURST.—The crop in this neighbourhood is very partial. Some grounds being likely to produce from eight to twelve cwt., and others not more than two cwt. per acre. Where the picking has corn menced, the hops come off short of what was antici pated, and the opinion in the best informed quarters is against the duty. Maidstone Gazette. Merrim.D.—flop picking in this parish has become general—they come short in most instances ; indeed, I have not heard one case where they do not fail ; they will come short one- third, and the samples must be indifferent, the hop itself being full of vermin. There has been some pockets sent off during the week. I have not heard of any sales being effected. ItvE..—The hop-picking has now become general, and the growth is anticipated to produce quite an ave rage crop. From the great number of persons em ployed the oasts are constantly overpicked, so that in many of the gardens the pickers are not allowed to work more than three-quarters of a day. STATLEHURST.—The picking, which had begun here, has been stopped, owing to their being of worse quality then expected. The crop will not even come up to the low estimate made last week. TUNBRIDGE.—We cannot give any accurate notion of what may be the picking here, the gardens being so "platty."—Sumex Advertiser. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the 14th of September,jlB44." The Tablelis issued from the Office of the Registrar-General : _ Weekly CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Average of Five years. Epidemic,Endemic,andContagious Diseases 236 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat B4 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 132 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration _ Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 2l 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion .. Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 7 5 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 9 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1 Old Age, or Natural Decay 55 71 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified... B4O 942 Deaths from all Causes ...... DEATHS FROM TIIE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Solomon Parker, 19, and Joshua Jacobs, 25, were indicted for a burglary in the dwelling-house of Abraham Belasco, with the intent to steal the goods and moneys of the prosecutor. The jury found the prisoners Guilty; and Parker was sentenced to nine, and Jacobs to twelve months' imprisonment. Alfred Dellinger was convicted of stealing two tablespoons, the property of James Morris Frost, and he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. Edwin and William Hartlidge, brothers, were brought before the Lord Mayor, in the custody of In spector Waller, charged with robbery in the house of Mr. Sarl, jeweller, of the Poultry, and Cornhill. Mr. Humphrey appeared for the prosecutor, and Mr. Hobler attended for the prisoners. William Brown, shopman to Mr. Attenborough, a pawnbroker, stated that he knew Edwin Hartlidge, who called at the shop on the sth of August, and pledged a gold watch for 2/. 10s. A few days afterwards the same prisoner called and offered another gold watch, asking the loan of the same sum upon it. Wit ness handed over the watch to a fellow-servant, and said he would accompany the prisoner to the address which was given with it; and which was different from that given with the former article. They accordingly went together to the neighbourhood of Dorset-street, Clapham-road, where, at No. 15, Edwin Hartlidge said he resided. When they approached the house the prisoner told the witness he did not wish to let his parents know anything about the watch, and he must therefore decline calling at home, but he requested witness to go with him to his brother, who resided at a little distance. As they went along, Edwin Hart lidge met a man who seemed to be waiting for him and after exchanging a few words, the man ran off, and the prisoner asked the witness to go elsewhere with him. The witness refused, and ultimately re turned with him to Mr. Attenborough's shop. On the way Edwin Hartlidge told witness that he had purchased the watches for 71. a piece, and that one of them was his brother's, and the other his own, but he could not tell where he had bought them. William Sarl,' jun., stated that Edwin Hartlidge had been in the service of the house about four years, and had left about nine months ago; and William had also been in their service two or three years, and up to the time of the robbery. It was the duty of William Hartlidge te attend to the shop in the Poul try, and his, general instructions were to prevent any one from going upon the premises who did not be long to the concern. The watches were kept in a glass case on the counter, the keys of which case wit ness locked up in an iron safe. He saw one of them on the night before the robbery was committed on the premises in the case. It was one of those pro duced which Edwin Hartlidge had taken to the pawn broker's shop. The other watch was also the property of the firm, and had been stolen. Witness was pre sent when William Hartlidge was questioned about his brother Edwin, who, he said, crying, had slept on the premises on Friday night, and had attempted to rob them, and that he had snatched from his brother two watches which the latter had taken from the case, which was opened by him with a pair of scissors. The witness not only identified the watches, but two breast pins and brooches, which Edwin Hartlidge had sold or made presents of, and which had been stolen. _ _ _ Mr. Hobler submitted that the suspicion of the par ticipation of William Hartlidge was very weak. The LORD MAYOR, however, after a very scrupu lous examination of the evidence, said he considered there was quite enough to show that William Hart lidge aided and assisted his brother. It appeared that there was no mark of any attempt to open the watch-case with any instrument. Inspector Waller, after a great deal of exertion, ascertained that Edwin Hartlidge had stolen two other watches, and pawned them at the shop of an other pawnbroker. The watches were produced and identified. The prisoners were both committed for trial ; and bills were ordered to be _laid before the grand jury against them at once, so that probably a very few hours will intervene between their committal and their trial. Robert Walker, a well-dressed, smart-looking young fellow, was charged by Mr. Kemp, broker, of Ab church-lane, with having robbed him of a purse, con taining 141. and some silver. The prosecutor stated that as he was passing through St. Paul's Churchyard on the preceding day, his attention was attracted by the appearance of a man who was looking sideways at him. He imme diately turned round, and saw the prisoner, whose face he recollected, and who ran off upon finding him self observed. Witness, upon putting his hand to his coat pocket, missed his purse, which contained fourteen sovereigns, and five or six shillings in silver, and he at once followed the prisoner, crying, " Stop thief!" The prisoner was secured by a porter and a policeman, and the purse, containing the money, was taken out of his right hand. The LORD MAYOR asked the prosecutor how he happened to know what sort of person the prisoner was at the moment ? — Mr. Kemp said it was rather singular that a few days previously hi s w if e , w hil e passing in a carriage, saw him surrounded by a set of fellows, who were all, no doubt, thieves, and called out to him that one of them was trying to pick his pocket. He turned about and SIM the prisoner, and made a blow at him. One of his companions, however, was taken and conveyed to Guildhall, f rom w hi c h t h e magistrate committed him to Bride well for seven days, upon the evidence of his (prosecutor's) servant. The prisoner Said the gentleman was mistaken about having seen him before. Gooch, the turnkey at the Giltspur-street Compter, stated that the prisoner was well known as the corn panion of thieves, but had been particularly lucky in escaping committal. A The prisoner was then committed for trial. BOW-STREET. Y e eighteen years, Frdr tiecrkda cy W orn rn awthorn, aged seventeen, and H enry Baldwin, Yesterday sixteen, having the appearance of country labourers, were brought up in the custody of the officers of the detective force, and placed at the bar handcuffed, charged with having made their escape from the gaol of St. Alban's, where they had been committed for trial at the next assizes for felonies. The escape of fo f them, apprehension the prisoners was publish e d in the Police Gazette, and a reward of pprehension by Mr. Deayton, the governor of the prison. givingfifeten guineas a minute Sergeant Wicher, a detective o ffi cer, state d t h a t about half-past seven o'clock in th e morn i ng h e met offered descriptionr theiro the prisoners in the Strand, and suspecting that they answered the description given of the persons who had made their escape from St. Alban's, he followed them until he obtained the assistance of Parker and Thornton to apprehend them. On questioning them, they immediately admitted having made their escape on the 13th inst., and it was their intention to have enlisted, in order to be sent out of the country. The prisoner Hawthorn also said he had been committed for a burglary, and his companion for stealing a• watch and 55., and that the turnkey had employed them in cleaning windows, and they made their escape with the ladder he had supplied them with for that purpose-. The prisoners did not deny they were the persons described in the placard produced by the officer. • Mr. JARDINE ordered them to be conveyed to Watford, where conveyances are easily obtained to St. Alban's. The prisoners were then removed to the cells for a short time, where they exhibited such noisy conduct that they were threatened to be confined separately in an underground apartment unless they desisted. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday Mrs. S. Silvera, of No. 18, Whitehead's grove, Chelsea, appeared to a summons, charging her of a cab. w ith refusing to p a y t h e l ega l f ar e for the hire T. Roberts, the driver of the cab, 1,391, stated that between eight and nine on tae evening of the Bth in stant, he took the lady up in Ebury-street, Pimlico, and drove her to Whitehead's-grove, where he de-,_ manded sixteenpence' which she refused to pay. The lady inquired how he made the fare amount to sixteenpence. The driver replied that there was eightpence for the mile of ground from Ebury-street to Whitehead's grove, and there was eightpence back carriage. The lady said s h e had offered the driver a shilling, which he had refaced to take. She was not aware that there was any back carriage ; there was a cab rank within two minutes' walk up where the driver had set her down. Mr. BURRELL observed that the lady had behaved very liberally in offering the shilling, as she supposed the fare was but eightpence. The public were not aware of the fact, that a mile back carriage, at least where the party were set down above three miles from the General Post -office after eight o'clock in the evening, was legally claimed by the driver without reference to his being near a cab rank or not. The body of magistrates at the police-courts had consi dered the conveyance of the person and the back car riage as two distinct fares, and had acted upon it. He must adjudge the lady to pay the amount claimed, with the costs. The Lady—How much then, Sir, have I to pay ? The Clerk—Six and fourpence, Madam. The Lady —Pray, ray, what is that for ? The Clerk— The amount of the fare claimed with the man's loss of time, and the sum mons . " Well, really," said th e l a dy, with apparent vex ation, " if ever a cabm an i nsu lts me or overcharges me, I'll summon him directly. Don't be surprised, Sir, if you see me making au exhibition of myself here." Mr. BunaELL—But, Madam, it would be hardly fair to revenge yourself The Lady (with much warmth) —I assure you I shall summon the first person that offends. Mr. Burrell again attempted to address an observa tion to the lady, but on being again interrupted by her assurance that she would make an example of the first driver who overcharged her, he relinquished the idea of reasoning with her, and proceeded to other business. The lady then paid the amount and withdrew. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday Martin Clerk, a Swede, was placed at the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norton, on a charge of stabbing Mary Anne Judith, a prostitute. The complainant stated that the prisoner, on his re turn from a former voyage, had stopped with her for one night, and from that time he had frequently threatened to stab her. On the night before she was in the Swedish Flag public-house, in the neighbour hood of Ratcliffe-highway, and seeing the prisoner kick a young woman with great violence, she told him he must be a great brute for doing so, upon which he grasped hold of his knife, and, opening it hastily, made a lunge at her left breast. She threw up her hand to ward off the blow, and received a wound from the point of the knife. The young woman whom the 'prisoner had kicked was next examined, and deposed that she was merely standing by where the prisoner was settling with a cabman, when the prisoner, without the slightest pro vocation, gave her a desperate kick. S.) brutal was the kick that she was for some time unable to speak or draw her breath, and throughout the night she re mained in great torture. This witness fully corrobo rated the prosecutrix in her statement. Other witnesses proved that the conduct of the pri soner, particularly when he took the least liquor, was of the most ruffianly description. For sometime be fore he had committed the offence with which he was charged he marched up and down the long room of the public-house, drinking the liquors of some and upsetting the grog of the customers there, and when remonstrated with he threatened instant destruction to any person opposing him, declaring that while he he had his knife about him he cared for no one, as it was his particular friend. On making these threats the prisoner grasped his knife, which was slung by his side from a thick cord round his neck, and brandished it about, so that all present were struck with terror at his appearance and manner. The prisoner, in reply, said that he was so drunk as to forget all that happened. Mr. NORTON observed that he seldom heard of such dastardly and outrageous conduct, and commit ted the prisoner on the capital charge. THAMES POLICE. A Customs locker, named John Howes, in the em ploy of the Crown, who was formerly a police-con• stable, was convicted by Mr. Broderip, on Monday, under the Police Act, for having in his possession a pint of rum, supposed to be stolen, or unlawfully procured, and the sentence passed on him, was seven weeks' imprisonment and hard labour, in addition to the week he had been in custody from the time of his apprehension. The evidence against him was in substance this, that he was seen to enter one of the warehouses in the West India Dock and drink out of a glass bottle containing rum, which he left between some hogsheads of sugar, where it warallowed to remain for three days, that he took the bottle away and deposited it in his desk in the box belonging to the Customs lockers, and that he afterwards returned to the same warehouse, and threw away a tin case when he saw he was observed, and it was found to contain a pint of rum. To-day Mr. Williams, a solicitor, who was employed jointly with Mr. Pelham for the defence, served a notice of appeal against the decision of Mr. Broderip, and tendered the names of two respectable housekeepers as sureties. Mr. Leadley, the junior clerk, on making known the solicitor's business, and placing an order before the Magistrate for his signature to have the prisoner brought up and to put in bail, said that Howes in tended to appeal to the Middlesex sessions. Mr. BRODERIP, who looked surprised, asked Mr. Williams if it really was his intention to appeal ? Mr. Williams replied—Certainly. I am so instructed by the prisoner and his friends. Mr. BRODERIP said it was a very bad case, for the prisoner was an officer employed under the Crown, and he (the Magistrate) ought to have superadded hard labour to the imprisonment. Mr. Williams said the sentence on the commitment was hard labour. Mr. BRODERIP—I did not include hard labour in the sentence ; I never mentioned the words. Mr. Leadley assured the magistrate that he in cluded hard labour in his sentence of imprisonment. Mr. BRODERIP-It is no such thing; my sentence was seven weeks' imprisonment, without hard labour. Mr. Williams said he was present when sentence was passed, and said nothing was said about hard labour. He was never more surprised in his life than when he saw the words " to be kept to hard labour" on the commitment at the prison, and he understood his client was set to work on the treadmill. The sen tence of the Court was simply imprisonment for seven weeks in the House of Correction. Mr. BRODBRIP-Then the commitment is wrong. Mr. Leadley said he inserted on the minutes the sentence actually pronounced by the magistrate, and the form of convicticn was drawn up by himself and Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, according to the decision. Mr. BRoDEEIP—My sentence was without hard labour. Mr. Williams—lt was, Sir; I heard you pro nounce it. Mr. Leadley was positive the sentence included hard labour, and after some conversation with Mr. Broderip in an under tone, retired with him to the magistrate's private room, and no more was said on the subject except by Mr. Williams, who positively asserted the form of conviction was wrong. In the afternoon the prisoner was brought up before the magistrate, and having perfected the requisite sureties was set at liberty. SAILING MATCH BETWEEN AN ENGLISH AND FRENCH SHIP OF WAR FROM VALPARAISO TO THE CHANNEL. The Paris Globe of Monday contains the follow ing :—" A contest such as we should be glad to behold frequently, because it shows sentiments of mutual esteem and friendly rivalry, took place lately between a vessel of the English navy and another belonging to that of France, and we mention it to prove how easy it would be to maintain or to cement the intercourse between the two countries. Before returning to Europe the English frigate, the Vindic tive, Captain Toup Nicholas, and the French brig the Adonis, Captain Viscount de St. Georges, happened to be in the harbour of Valparaiso. In the conversa tions held between the officers of the two nations, Captain Toup Nicholas praised to the skies the qua lities of his frigate, the best sailer in the British navy, according to the account of Admiral Napier himself', who boasted of it in the House of Commons. Vis count de St. Georges also - ventured to speak of the qualities of his brig, and, on an ironical smile appear ing on the face of the English officer, he politely challenged him to see which vessel would first reach Europe, whither they were bound. The challenge was accepted, and it remained to decide what was to be the wager. Forty-six months' station in the Pacific Ocean had frightfully tarnished the French officer's epaulettes, and therefore the English officer, whose own were not in a very brilliant state, pro posed a pair of epaulettes. The day of sailing having arrived, the Vindictive, the Adonis, and two American frigates, weighed anchor at the same time, and set sail towards Cape Horn. The national feeling had doubled the ardour and address of the rival crews, and they performed their duty with marvellous pre cision and rapidity. The English frigate spread all sail, and the Adonis glided like a seagull over the waves. At the expiration of a few hours, and while land was still in view, the French brig had already gained the distance of several leagues on the Vindic tive. The captain of the Adonis thought that it was only rood taste to take leave a second time of Cap tain _Coup Nicholas, before he departed finally for Europe. He, therefore, sailed back towards the Vindictive, which 'was majestically advancing, and after having gone round her, again resumed his voyage, crying, " Bon voyage" to the English. In a few hours the brig had completely disappeared. Captain Nicholas, on his arrival in England allowing that the Vindictive frigate had been nobly beaten by the Adonis brig, wrote a very civil letter to Viscount St. Georges, with a handsome pair of captain's epau lettes. The brig Adonis is a veteran of our squadron. She carries 20 guns, and was built 20 years back. She was condemned on her return from the South Sea station, but the report given by her captain of her brilliant qualities has caused the Minister of Marine to give orders to have her re-constructed in the same proportions." Galignani, of Monday, in giving the above, makes the following remark : " This must be rather a bold boast of the gallant captain, for the Vindictive, if we mistake not, was beaten in a trial trip in the Channel, before she sailed for her station in the Pacific. IVe must remark that, in comlaring the sailing qualities of two vessels of the abo've sizes, it is material to know the state of the weather. In a light wind a brig of any sailing merit might beat a frigate, but in a smart breeze would soon be hull down.'" MARSEILLES, Sept. 11. The following interesting notice was made known this morning. Travellers from Alexandria, India, Constantinople, &c., will hail with joy the new qua rantine regulations of the French Government : "QUARANTINE ESTABLISHED BY A MI NISTERIAL DECISION, DATED AUG. 14. " WITH UNCLEAN BILL OF HEALTH. " Art. 1. French Post-office Packets.-19 days after debarking effects and passengers. " Passengers by these Boats and their Baggage.-17 days after landing at the Lazaret ; 14 days only when the baggage shall have been plombes at the, consulate of France at the port of embarking, and that this operation be legally certified. " Art 2. French or Foreign Men-of-War.-17 days after the landing of passengers and their baggage. " Passengers on Board these Vessels.-17 days without spoglio, 14 days with spoglio. " Art. 3. Vessels with Pilgrims.-25' days. " Pilgrims.-25 days after landing. " Art. 4. Every oilier description - of Sailing-ves sel or Steam-boat.-21 days after landing suspected articles. " Passengers by these Vessels.-17 days without "(who, 14 days with spoglio. " Mere han dise.-21 days after I anding at the Lazaret. " WITH DOUBTFII. BILLS OF HEALTH. " Art. 1. French Post-office Packets.-15 days after debarking effects and passengers. Passengers by these Boats and their Baggage.- 14 days after landing ; 12 days only when the baggage shall have been plombes at the consulate of France at the point of embarking, and that this operation be legally certified. " Art. 2. French or Foreign Men-of-Wan-14 days after the landing of passengers and their bag gage. Without passengers, 12 days. " Passengers on board these Vessels.-14 days after landing without spoglio, and 12 days with spoglio. " Art. 3. Vessels with Pilgrims.-20 days. Pil grims, 20 days after landing at the Lazaret. " Art. 4. Every other description of sailing vessel or steam-boat.-15 days after landing suspected articles. " Passengers by these vessels.-14 days without spoglio after landing at the Lazaret ; 12 days with spoglio. Suspected goods 15 days after landing at the Lazaret. " WITH CLEAN BILLS OF HEALTH. " Art. 1. French Post-office Packets.-12 days after debarking effects at the Lazaret. " Passengers by these boats and their baggage.-9 days after landing, and their baggage exposed to the air. " Art. 2. French or Foreign Men of War.-9 days, with or without passengers. " Passengers on board these vessels.-9 days after landing, and their baggage exposed to the air. " Art. 3. Every other description of vessel or stea►n-boat.--12 days after landing suspected goods. " Passengers by these vessels.-9 days. " Suspected Merchandise.-12 days after landing at the Lazaret." Last evening the steam-packet Rhamies entered this port from the Levant ; she brings news of no im portance from Constantinople to the 29th. The letters from Alexandria are of a date anterior to those brought by the Alecto with the Indian mail. The steam-packet Royal George also entered this port last night from the coast of Spain; she brings dispatches for the Government from the Prince de Joinville. The Royal George sailed from Cadiz on the Ist ; at that date four French steamers were lying in the roads. Two French men-of-war cast anchor in the roads at the moment of her departure. The following is an extract from a private letter, dated Athens, August 29 : "M. Coletti is in a most critical position, and I doubt much that he will be able to stand his ground. The country is in a state truly deplorable —a civil war at Mama and other provinces, an empty trea sury, no commerce, and, I am credibly informed, great dissensions in the council. Informatioh has been received that the fourgon with the commercial correspondence for Trieste, dispatches from the Austrian and Prussian Governments, and an auto graph letter from King Otho, had been pillaged by a bald of miscreants between Calamaki and Lou traki. The banditti got possession also of 14,000 drachms in gold. Our coast is infested with pirates." The following has been received from an Italian Consul : REGULATIONS FOR PASSPORTS IN THE TURKISH EMPIRE. Art. 1. Every person desirous of entering the Turkish empire must be provided with a passport from the competent authorities. Art. 2. Every subject of a foreign power friendly to, or in alliance with, the Sublime Porte, wishing to enter the Turkish empire, must have his passport vised by one of the consuls of his nation, or by the ambassador or consul of the Sultan, at the Court of the country to which they belong. Art. 3. On arriving in the country, either by sea or land, the passport must be immediately presented to the proper authorities. Art. 4. Within twenty-four hours after his arrival, the traveller should present himself before, the proper authorities to reclaim his passport, and if he intends taking up his residence in the place, should provide himself with an authority for that purpose. Art. 5. Any seaman or passenger landing from a vessel and desiring to remain in a place, must provide himself with a certificate stating that he has regularly being discharged from the ship, and must then get his name registered at the Passport-office. Art. 6. Passports for the interior of the country are delivered at Constantinople, at the Passport-office. Art. 7. To obtain a passport for travelling in the interior of the country,it is necessary toobtain a letter from the consul of their nation, which they have to present to the Chancellor. Art. 8. A fresh passport must be obtained for every fresh journey, and the usual vises obtained. Art. 9. Passports granted by the Ottoman Govern ment are valid for one year, and must bear the name, age, description, &c., of the bearer. The name of the wife and children under 15 years may be inscribed on the same passport. Above that age a separate pass port will be required. Art. 10. Every captain of a vessel carrying pas sengers is required to ascertain that they are respec tively provided with the necessary passports, which he must take into his possession until their landing, giving a receipt for the same, to be returned at the end of their voyage. Ambassador; and diplomatic agents of friendly and allied powers are alone exempt from this regulation. They are, however, to give notice of their arrival within twenty-four hours, and to send their passports to he registered. Art. 13. Any traveller being unprovided with a passport, or having one which is not en regle, sh ou ld present himself before the proper authorities of the place . in which he may be, and explain the reason of such being the rime. If these excuses are considered satisfactory, a written certificate to that effect will be given to him; if not satisfactory, he ,will be placed under arrest, and sent out of the Turkish empire. Art. 14. Any one presenting himself at the fron tiers without passports en regle will be refused per mission to enter ; or, if they have entered the country and are found travelling therein they will be arrested and conducted before the authorities, and dealt with according to the circumstances of their case. Art. 15. Any one travelling with a false passport, or under a false name, will be liable to arrest, and to be sent out of the empire. Art. 16. The traveller is bound to produce his passport at the desire of the different authorities who may demand it. Dated at Constantinople, July 20. THE EARL of ROSSE'S LEVIATHAN TELESCOPE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-With pure delight do I communicate to you the fact that the leviathan telescope, on which the Earl of Rosse has been toiling in his demesne at Parsonstown now upwards of two years, although not absolutely finished, was on Wednesday last directed for the first time to the sidereal heavens. I very much regret not being present on this occasion, but experiments on which I have for many years been employed rendered it impossible for me to leave home. The letter which I have this morning received from its noble maker, in his usual unassuming style, merely states, that the metal, only just polished, was of a pretty good figure, and that with a power of 500, the nebula known as No. 2 of Messier's catalogue was even more magnificent than the nebula No. 13 of Messier, when seen with his Lordship's telescope of three feet diameter, and 27 feet focus. Cloudy weather prevented him turning the leviathan on any other nebulous object. Thus, then, we have, thank God, all danger of the metal breaking before it could be polished overcome. Little more, however, will be done to it or with it for some weeks, inasmuch as the Noble Earl is on the eve of quitting Ireland for Enzland, to resign at York his post as President of the British Association, and to visit his noble relatives at Kilnwick and at Brighton. This done, he returns to Ireland; and I look forward with intense anxiety to witness its first severe trial, when all its various appointments shall be completed, in the confidence that those who may then be present will see with it what man has never seen before. The diameter of the large metal is six feet, and its focus 54 feet. Yet the immense mass is manageable by one man. Compared with it, the working telescopes of Sir William Herschel, which in his hands conferred on astronomysuch inestimable service, and on himself astronomical immortality, were but playthings. J. SOUTH. Observatory, Kensington, Sept. 17. L4DVP.RTISEMENT.] THE TURN OF IFE !—CURE EXTRAORDINARY By HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—A respectable woman, aged 47, named Graham, residing in Scotland-road, Liverpool, was in the most critical and dangerous state for nine months, being sometimes almost choked with phlegm, with shortness of breath, palpitation of the heart, toge ther with a general derangement and debility of the whole system. Her life was in the greatest danger when she commenced the use of these miraculous pills, which restored her to the highest state of health in five weeks. They are the finest medicine in the world for females of all ages. Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) A Supplement to the Gazette of Tuesday last was at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand published last night, containing a continuation of the (where advice may be h a d grat i s ), an d b y a l most a ll Orders in Council of the 3d September, relating to the respectable medicine vendors throughout the civilised Ecclesiastical Commission, and the Commercial Treaties world. with Great Britain, Austria, and America. ADVENTURES OF A TEN POUND NOTE. On Tuesday, a rather curious case came before the sitting magistrate at Worship -street Police-court , and was in substance as follows :—A man, named Abriham Gunton, a policeman of the H division, 00 the 2d of May last, received the sum of 551., in la and 51. notes at the London and Westminster Ban" , and, for security against fire and flood, packed theta up carefully, and carried them about with him in one of his pockets. While on duty, at ten o'clock on Thursday morning last, in a court leading out Of the Hackney-road, he had occasion to enter $ house belonging to a Mrs. Piowright, and took the notes from his pocket, laid them down, quitted the place, forgot all about them, and left them behind 'him. Directly after he had left, Mrs. Plowright dis• covered the treasure, but not being able to read of write, and never having possessed a genuine note of her own, she thought all th ese mus t b e spur i ous, or flash notes ; and, to settle the question, called in an elderly neighbour, named Joseph Reading, t o w h om she'conl municatedher discovery, and asked his opinion. Read ing, who possessed only the same amount of education , did not know what to advise her, but considered then " Bank of Elegance" notes also, and advised her to keep all the notes but one of them, purporting to be for 10/., which he expressed his determination to show to a mere enlightened friend of his, one William Short, a porter employEd in the docks. This was agreed to, and Reading hied straight to the docks, where he got into consultation with Short, who, though in a similar state of blissful ignorance, corroborated the opinio n of the others, and emphatically declared th e note to be " flash." Reading upon th is walked away, and left behind him th e note, which was carelessly left on the top of a barrel , and as Short had to make certain significant bier' glyphics for every cask or pipe that was rolled into the cellars, he thought the note could not be applied to a more usef u l p ur p ose , an d ac tually made all his enterings upoif the note till the back it was completely filled with chalk-marks. I' was now thought to be of no further use, and wa s removed from barrel to barrel, u ntil a t last it b e• came so annoying to be obliged to move th e paper about, that it was pushed o n to th e ground' where it remained for an hour or two, trodden upo n by every workman who entered the vaults, until at length it became so tattered and disfigured with mud and dirt that it got out of sight, and was lost altogether. What makes the thing more astonish• ing is, that a number of mechanics and Irish labourers were in and out of the place the whole time, s o ° yet none of them noticed the quality of the note' During this peregrination of the note Gunton, the owner, discovered his loss, and made application t ° , Mrs. Plowright for his property, 45/. o f w hich was at once restored, and a promise of resto ra ti o n of the I°' note made for the following Monday; but when 3 101 ': day came the note could n o t b e f oun d, an d Gunto n gave Mrs. Plowright and th e t wo m en , Reading Short, into custody. It was proved that 201 '' Plowright was a respectable though uninformed Per, son, and that she had resided 40 y ea r s i n on e holl: 58 ; and there being no grounds whatever for imPtit ll3 dishonesty to any of the prisoner s , or anything m o r n than an unfortunate ignorance. Ars. Plowright an d Reading were at once discharged, and Short circle. to enter into his own recognizanc e s i n case anyth, ie s i further should in future transpire rega r ding the 1° property. CONFUCIUS IN OFFICE. e ye advantages the King of Loo at le ng th saw 1 1 — e advantages that might be derived from employing .:d actual services of the philosopher. He remembel; that Confucius, in his earliest y o uth, a n d holding °°m i a subaltern appointment, had established barro ° ' between the inhabitants of the town and the count*: and had made the kingdom of Loo as su m e , as it we lly a new form, by the influence which the metropeet necessarily has over all other towns. He hoped t l3 . he would have the same success in his riper age' 10, , 4 vested with an office which should give him authors 64 over the general police of the kingdom. He sumo° r , him to Court, and imparted the views which he ente to tained. Confucius, who sought for nothing b ut . c . make himself useful in bringing men back to the tice of their respective duties, accepted, without ne e a tation, the burdensome duties which the King wpb Ae a to impose upon him. He began by filling h° ° ,," c h of governor of the people i n the ver y town in vvw the Sovereign held his Court. On entering into office, the first of his cares hi= to make himself agreeable to the majority, benevolence towards all those of the lower He frequently conversed with them ; he placed m' in ; self on their level; he seemed even to consult the.. e and by this means he adroitly insinuated to thera.t°,.o expediency and necessity of what he had res olved do. When he thought that they were convin ced, that from their dispositions h e j u dged that he cod -: venture without risk of compromising hi m self or de' basing authority, h e p romu l gated h i s ordinances and had them executed to th e l etter. A f ter three months had elapsed, he had the sati s f ac ti on to f ee that all things had changed their face. Peace reigned in families ; the citizens, far from seeking to /I T, one another, as they had formerly done, set pated one another by their kind offices ; honesty r .s. vaned in trade, and assiduous labour among art issl io Ting. koung, delighted with an alteration so use,. o , to his subjects, and so glorious to his reign9:„Ve cordially thanked him who was the author. ": 00 . kingdom of Loo," said he, "is in the most flourisblel. state ; my subjects are b eco me submissive, docile , laborious. This is your work. But it is not ct" plete ; I hope it will soon be so. is' His hopes were not disappointed; the new log o , trate turned his attention towards the lab° llre are si This class of persons, the most useful of all, W el ; it to him to deserve particular a tt en ti on , and he ga v t he them. He sent experienced persons to survey ac country, and desired them to give an accursteteb, count of it, in order that nothing might be es cr fished which could turn to any one's prejudic e ' on their return he took advantage o f the inf° ll " oto which they gave him, to make regulations ansild e ci to the qualities of the different lands, which he di v cia o into five general classes. He assigned to each,. wa s the peculiar species of grain or vegetable wh ich and best adapted to it ; fixed the time for sowing e ach planting, as well as that of reaping, so Os tfec species should have full scope for arriving a t P e pro' tion. The strict observance of these regulatiens. e b 0 cured an abundant and wholesome food, and ri c alti' well as poor, the proprietors of lands, and th e Ts of vators, were equally benefited.—From " iese the Life of Confucius," in Captain Piddings Olio and Tea Talk, No. 21. ----- • , MELANC HOLY OCC URRENC E.—On Manua"' ing to about one o'clock P.M., while two boats, belenii h the Fair Isle were on their way to Orkney, laden whit e produce of the island, they were overtaken by s tait squall" when about seven miies to the S.E. ( 4 .t ',. 3 - eare u ' light in Sandy. One of the bo a ts in s tantly chs 9 'rrb o tteu l and has since been found by a London salric t( ' re thre e up, and has been taken to Sandy. There w ee r . li e s men on hoard, two of whom have left large ' 2l- s caPe* deplore their loss. The other boat had a narrow e —Ross-shire Advertiser. --- BIRTHS. Ea Km Fen . On the 12th inst., at Wimbledon, the wife of .- v,-Iv nell, Esq the ~ of a son, still-born. On 14th inst., Mrs. Frederick W. Rogers, of 51e 3 il dbar On the 16th inst., at Carshalton, the wife of Sainne man, Esq., of a daughter. the lady On the 16th inst., at Landport-terrace, Son Yrs. of J. C. Giles, Esq., R.N. of dauter. v rnseY , On the 16th inst., at Wo ley-green,l near A.° f til e Charles Simeon, of a daughter. _...:.r e o On the 15th inst., at Bury St. Edmond's, th e wA. ife Rev. J. W. Donaldson, of a daughter. the vi On the 16th inst., at Store-street, Bedford - sq uare, of James J. G. Wilkinson, of a son. ___.---------- NARRE ete isl On the 16th inst., Mr. Thomas D. Brocklebank, CO traveller, Liverpool, to Eleanor, second daughter of Kendal, Esq., Gleaston, near Ulverstone. eldest son of W. H. Browning, Esq On the 17th inst., at St. Sepulchre's, Skinner-street, rear Middlesex, to Frances Anne second daughter of Houghton, Esq., of Charterhouse• square. On the lith inst., at St. Mark's, Kennington, Jolin -A u 'e,orP, Cory, Esq., of Durham, youngest son of the late Rober,'_ ter ol Esq., of Great Yarmouth, to Emily Ann, fourth datlgu Joseph Hall, Esq., South Lambeth . of Newingtol.nies DIED. ife B °' On the 24th of July, at Caracas, Louisa, the w 0f,..„. 5 . to Wilson, Esq., her Britannic Majesty's Charge dA e 5 f/an Venezuela. S tan On the llth inst., at Pontcsford, near Shrewsburi, Brockett Brockett, jun., barrister. Thoni lls On the 15th inst., at Hampton-place, B ri g hton, Atkins, Esq., aged 67. hild ° f On the 15th inst., at Tonbridge , wel ls, the i n fant c Arthur W. Ward, Esq. neOrb e y On the 16th inst., at Augusta - place , Clapham.roauf— Favenc, sq., aged 6t • fi 0 8 On the E l6t li inst., a Virg t St. John's- wood, Emily 'n" wife of Mr. l'homas Ditchburn. r e l ict of On the 16th inst., at Petersham, Maria Theresa, the late Joseph Geurdez, Esq. of Turnhain-green. _ gr. John li Clause, tliel7th of in t s h t e , s a a t n t ic ir p e l e a r c il e : . ich, Jane, re lict of the M t ' On the 16th inst., Captain Robert Ma cleod. Ao l3 ' On the 17th inst., at Hawley-terrace, Camden -town, relict of W. Thompson, Esq. of Kentish-town. . sarall' On the 17th inst. in Ormond-street, Queen-aquar4-g'at%irti relict of T. Dale, M.D., of Devonshire -street, Bishop. daol,l,th ter reo of theit l a i rttest Joseph .,at N c V i e: N t , 01-ilea,nli,sqE. ss?..x, , a( 3 On the 17th inst., in London,' P Eliza, the wife of Cs- -° Price, Esq., of Paris. i h rlatt' On the 14th lust., at Amelia-place, Brompton, .1)--11 the child of the Rev. Henry John Owen. :A vof t" On the 15th inst., at Imlitigton, Hannah, the wi“°'• late Rev. Professor Farizh,olCtinibridge, aged 77. -nor , On the 15th inst., at Grosvenor place, John William -,-• of den, Esq., aged 46. , , late On the 15th inst., George Vernon Cotton, I,, sq'' Frederick's-place, Old Jewrv. • ,,abot h Mar), 1 On the 16th inst., at Wilton-place, Frances 1-a-t.itoc• Catherine, daughter of Adam Brornilow, Esq., barristei vOUls ti I,onvton -. Printed and Published by gITRDO -il P, o. 112, Strand, Print :r, Prinr, at The ..ore oMee, U N 'ty ° I '''t•i"- I,l ` l . in the Precinct of the Savoy , in the c ,D • whiaiebes, Thursday, September 19,1344. TEE ABOVE HEADS. Total. Weekly Average of Five Years. Consumption l2l 147 Scarlatina 7O 34 p lnia -- yncumo) . •• ••••• Dropsy .. ... .. •. 2l 35 Hooping Cough l6 33 Typhus Small Pox ..imu. Disease of the Heart Measles Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain ...... Diarrhoea. .. . - Sudden Deaths ••• 7 15 DISTRICT'S. - - -...—. West 135 13S North 172 171 Central ...._ East 175 207 South. _ - 946 Total .... 00000 • •••••• •.... 843 ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, SEPT. 16.—There has been a very good attendance of buyers in the market to-day, and the demand for flannels has been brisk at former prices. There is no change in the wool market —the demand steady, and prices firm.—Manchester Guardian. SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 18.—The Tweed, Royal Mail Steam •packet Company's ship, Capt. Sharp, arrived here at 10 A.M., this morning. She brings 155 oz. of gold dust, and 1,193 oz. of silver. On the 26th of August a destructive fire, at Guadeloupe, destroyed the Custom house and fifty-five houses ; loss estimated at 30,000 f. We believe that the Tweed brings no other news of im portance. STATE OF TRADE.—Although the commercial ac counts received from India by the last overland mail were not very satisfactory, they were better than had been generally expected, and have exercised a rather beneficial effect upon our market. Nearly all descrip tions of goods (with the exception of printing cloth, which is rather heavy) have been in better demand during the last two or three days; and, in some cases, rather higher prices have been obtained. The yarn market is rather quiet ; but prices are steady.—Man chester Guardian. Dispatches for Sir C. Metcalf, Governor of Canada, and for the Governors of the other North American Provinces, were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office. GRA" t ailY Sand At Bevel Pir e—Fore Ci Star Office THE i rA N ap hat the I eraissnAvpo aUtting to a ItPs4 lution o of the Court LntitY of One "It, 0.C.8. T. ] r 3 ~ the WIN' Weber, wi 4 1ICE, at Medicine- Surgery— neac.riptii General a SuPerinte: Chemist-) Materia 3► Illdwiferj F.L.S. 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