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altogether unnecessary. He thought that Bill ought to be purified of the objections that had been raised against it. He believed the present Government were anxious to do all in their power for Ireland, and they ought not to be taunted with not bringing in mea sures. He trusted that some measure would be brought forward to make provisions for the Catholic Ministers. If measures of this sort were adopted, satisfaction would be given to those people in Ireland whose object was not agitation. Lord CAMPBELL supposed that this debate was to be looked upon as the consideration of the state of Ireland; and how they could do it without considering how the State trials had been conducted, he was at a loss to conceive. To attempt to consider the state of Ireland without mentioning the name of Mr. O'Connell, was like performing the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet omitted by particular desire.—(A laugh.) The Noble President of the Coun cil said the Government had asked for no fresh power or sought to suspend the Constitution, but something which had a worse aspect than either had been done. He wolud much rather see the Constitution suspended than the law perverted. When the Constitution was suspended it acquired vigour at its restoration; but when the law was perverted a dangerous precetlent was estab lished, which might be permanently hurtful. He felt great alarm at the apathy which existed regarding Ireland. It was true tranquillity existed, but could they trust to the continuance of that tranquillity ? Was there not universal and deep discontent ? Was not the repeal rent increasing ? Had the feeling they so much de plored subsided ? He feared not. Ile hoped England would be ever united to preserve the union as it then was, for the repeal would be more hurtful to Ireland than to England. But at the same time measures of concilia tion should be adopted. During his stay in Ireland an election for Dublin took place, when Mr. Hutton and Mr. O'Connell were the candidates. Mr. O'Connell, the hero of repeal and the favourite of the people, obtained a less number of votes than Mr. Hutton, the non-repeal candidate, showing that repeal was then, at all events, i❑ a less popular condition than at present, when the repeal rent was weekly on the increase. Here the Noble Lord suddenly stopped, in consequence of a loud conversation which was carried on between Lord Dalhousie and the Duke of Wellington. The Noble and Learned Lord said, " I stop, because I must needs bear every word those two Noble Lords are say ing." The conversation here ceased, and Lord CAMPBELL resumed.—The Catholics and Protestants of Ireland should be put on an equality, and until they were so, there would be no lasting peace or tranquillity in Ireland. The Bill was then read a third time. The Controverted Elections Bill was read a second time. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and their Lordships adjourned at Half-past Ten o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, August 2. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve. The Bishop of Down and Connor and Dromore's Estate Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord Lovat's Estate Bill was road a third time and passed. The Duke of Hamilton's Estate Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from 500 tradesmen of Bristol, against the Insolvent Debtors Bill ; also a petition from certain solicitors in London, to the same effect. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from tradesmen of Finsbury, Marylebone, and Southwark, to the same effect. The petitioners prayed that the Bill might, at least, be postponed until next session. Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from Finsbury to the same effect. The petitioners prayed that if any law were passed, greater powers should be given as against goods. NEW WRIT FOR DUDLEY. On the motion of Mr. J. YOUNG, a new writ was ordered to be issued for the election of a Member for Dudley, in the room of T. Hawkes, Esq., who had accepted tho Chiltern Hundreds. The report on the Charitable Donations and Bequests (Ireland) Salaries and Expenses Bill was brought up, as was also the report on the Marriages (Ireland) Bill, which were ordered to be read a third time to-morrow, at Twelve o'clock. INSOLVENT DEBTORS BILL. On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL proceeded to explain its principal provisions. The provisions branched into three different heads, each of which required a separate and distinct consideration. The first part of the Bill related to the amendment of the law of cessio bonorum ; the second, and, undoubtedly, the most important part, proposed to abolish imprisonment for debt in executions under 201. ; and the remaining part of the Bill introduced some amendments into the machinery of the Court of Bankruptcy. It was his conscientious conviction that the measure would be found extremely beneficial. It had been stated, as an objection to the measure, that it would injure the humbler classes of society by diminish ing the facility of credit, but he was rather inclined to doubt whether that was a good objection. For although it might, in some cases, be of advantage to people in bumble circumstances to get credit, it was more generally attended by consequences quite the reverse of advan tageous.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. and Learned Gen tleman then proceeded to read several passages from the evidence taken before a Committee of the House on the subject, tending to show that the abolition of imprisonment for debt would not have the effect of abolishing bona fide credit, but only of making trades men more careful. Mr. Dampier, who presided over the Stannaries Court, in Cornwall, and had jurisdiction over one hundred thousand persons in cases of small debts, but who had no power of ordering the imprisonment of debtors, gave it as his opinion that the abolition of im prisonment for debt would only have the effect of making tradesmen more careful. Any possible injury which might arise from this Bill, was not to be weighed in the balance against the evils inflicted by the present system. Had the House rend the evidence on this subject ? (Hear, hear.) They read of six or seven persons con fined in a dungeon, with nothing but straw to lie upon. When this Bill was objected to on the ground of mercy to the debtor, he asked them to consider the evils attending the system of imprisonment. —(Hear, hear.) What benefit was it to the creditor to be able to incarcerate the body of his miserable debtor ? Was the debtor any more likely to pay what he owed ? Certainly not ; for the class of persons affected by the Bill had not the means of doing so. In the arguments against this Bill he had not been able to discover any which were entitled to consideration, except that to which he had adverted ; and after what he had stated, he trusted the measure would be allowed to go into Committee. Mr. M. PHILIPS. did not mean to stand up as an advocate of imprisonment for debt, but complained that he had not had sufficient time to communicate with his constituents on the subject. He also thought they would disturb the operations of credit if they passed such a measure as this, without having explained it more fully to the public at large. There ought to be more caution in legislating on such a subject, and he thought he was not asking too much when he required a little delay. Mr. S. WORTLEY felt himself in some degree in the same position as the Hon. Member for: Manchester. There had not been sufficient time to consider all the consequences of this measure. He had that morning re ceived a petition from Sheffield, stating that the peti tioners were creditors to no less an amount than 40,000 L, which would be affected by this Bill. Undoubtedly the Bill was sanctioned by the highest legal authorities of the other House. But Hon. Members had not before them the evidence on which the Bill had been founded, and he thought when a Bill came down to them at the very end of July, they ought not to be called on to pass it at the beginning of August in the absence of those legal Members, who were alone able to judge of the effect of its intricate and technical language. He could not but express the strongest opinion that they ought not precipitately to pass such a measure. Mr. AGLIONBY also objected to passing such a - measure so late in the session, and without discussion. He concurred with the two Hon. Members who had preceded him. Such hasty legislation was most inconve nient and injurious. It ought to have been brought in earlier in the session, and at any other time than a morning sitting. He protested against its being sup posed that those who opposed the Bill wished to keep unfortunate debtors in prison. He objected to the 36th clause. He thought if all power over the person was relinquished, it would operate unfavourably to the working classes, by diminishing the disposition to give 'credit. Many descriptions of workmen being thrown out of work during portions of the year were enabled to obtain credit during that time on the security of their wages in the period in which they are employed. But the inclination to give this credit would be disninished ; nor in its present shape did the Bill give any increased power over the goods. This would tend to diminish the business of the Courts of Requests, as persons would not apply to them when they could only give judgment against the goods which in many cases would be of no avail. On the whole, balancing the evils o f b oth systems, he thought the abolition of the power over the person would act injuriously on the working classes. He should not oppose the Bill on ge. neral principle, but he must object to the time at which it was brought in, and to some of its details. Mr. SPOONER fully agreed with all that had fallen from the Hon. and Learned Member. He admitted that the learned Solicitor-General had made an able and powerful appeal to their feelings —one which it was difficult to resist. But they must legislate from judg ment, and not from impulse. He thought the Bill would injure the working classes, by restrictin g the amount of credit they now obtained. Again, why make the mea sure a partial one? If imprisonment for debt was wrong in principle, why not abolish it in all ca ses ? Why should they take from the small shopkeepe r a remedy which they still continued to the rich merchant and manufacturer? Feeling that great practical evils would be the result of this measure, he must press on the Go vernment the necessity of some delay. Sir J. GRAHAM, alluding to what had been said about the absence of Members of the legal profession, said if the principle was laid down that the House was only to legislate when they were present, it must give up legislating at all for four months out of the six. The early part of the session was always occupied by the great annual struggle for power, and practical legislation did not commence till after Whitsuntide, and soon after that came the summer circuit. Both in the spring and' summer circuits they were deprive d of the presence of the legal Members, who were only present during the great annual contest he had alluded to. In their absence the House must use its judgment and common sense, and do without common law as well as it could.—(Hear, hear.) He traced the progress of the measure through the Upper House, and read the opinions of the Commissioners who had reported on the subject, to show that public attention had been 'sufficiently called to the question. Nor was experience wanted in the matter. In Scotand arrest for debt was Unknown, and they had the recorded opinion of several THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1644. Bill was, that he expected a communication from Ireland relative to the Bill. the corner of the straw stack, and when it blazed up he threw the third match down, and ran Away. Cross-examined—There were one or two hundred persons present when I went to the fire. The stacks were in an open field. My attention was first attracted to the fire about eleven o'clock, at which time it was blaz ing and bad attracted a great deal of attention. I had known the prisoner before, and had conversed with him once or twice on the subject of fires, and I believe he is very fond of going to them. I know nothing of the state of his mind. The effect of my conversation with the pri soner was not to induce a belief that ho was silly. He is commonly called "Cuckoo," and I believe he answers to the name. The prisoner was with me four or five hours before I took him to the fire. I only gave the prisoner half a pint of beer at the public-house where I first took him. I am not aware that drink has a great effect upon the prisoner. When I took him to my house the prisoner had about a wine-glass more beer out of a tumbler. He subsequently emptied the tumbler of beer. He had made the confession before I gave him this beer, but when' he had drunk the beer, he said he would tell us which way he went. I did not see any other foot tracks than those of the prisoner in the direction that he took us. _ _ to the stack by mere accident; that having a toothache he had lighted a pipe, but being unaccustomed to smoking the pipe had fallen out of his month among some loose straw as he was taking some up on a fork to litter the horses. This statement he again made to the magistrates, in the follewing terms :—" I never had no such thoughts as our places get ting a fire. lam very sorry to think they happened as they was; it was done accidentally by me. I was so last night that I could not mention how it was done, because when I knew there was a fire I recollected how I had done it. I hope the judge will have mercy on me, not to punish me too much. If I had done it for the purpose, I should have thought nothing too bad for me. I had a good master and a good mistress, and I had no occasion to do it for the purpose." Mr. C.COOPER having addressed the jury for the prisoner, Mr. Justice WILLIAms left it to them to say whether the fire was or was not wilful, and therefore malicious, or, as the prisoner represented it to have been, the result of neg ligence and accident. The jury having consultel together shortly, found the prisoner Guilty. Sir J. GRAHAM said he was very anxious to con sult the convenience of the Hon. Gentleman, but he really could not postpone the third reading of the Bill, as it was necessary that it should be passed as soon as po3sible. OXFORD ClRCUl7l—Stafford, July 31. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL). At the sitting of the Conrt this morning, the case of the Stourbridge Navigation Company against Firmatone, which was appointed to be taken at nine o'clock, was called on, but as only five special jurymen answered to their names, and as a " tales " was objected to, the cause was made a remanet , and the absent jurymen, with the exception of those who were detained at home by illness, were fined 201. each, Re-examined—A good deal of time was occupied in going to the river and making inquiries. I gave nothing to the prisoner until he complained of being hungry and thirsty, and I swear that he was perfectly sober. Charles Mandeville—l am one of the Guildford po lice. On the night of the fire I went to the prisoner's house, and when the last witness came to me we inquired for the prisoner, but could not find him. The witness then proceeded to confirm the testimony of the last wit ness, and added that the prisoner, when he pointed out the foot tracks, made others by the side of some of them, and said, " You see it is my foot." We remarked there was a half-tip to the shoe, and the prisoner held up his foot and showed that he had a half-tip on his shoe. The prisoner also said that if the wind had been a little more in the west it would have made the old house smoke. The prisoner made this statement in answer to a remark made in his behalf relative to the wind, to the effect that it was fortunate there was an east wind at the time of the fire, or much more damage would have been done. The prisoner was perfectly sober at this time. By Mr. CEIAnNOCK — When the prisoner was at the house of the inspector he told us he would show the way he went to Mr. Bicknell's. I hare known the pri soner all his life. He is about twenty. eight years old, but I know nothing of his state of mind. He has been in the service of Mr. Drewett as shepherd. Ido not consider the prisoner silly. He always answered every question I put to him properly. I have myself some times called him " Cuckoo." He has been in the habit of prognosticating about the weather, but I have not heard him shout out in the street, " It will be a wet day' to-morrow." The prisoner is generally called through out the neighbourhood " the cuckoo boy.' He was not very cheerful at first, but when he had told us the story he said that he felt better, and he afterwards told us all the 'particulars, and seemed much more cheerful. The fire could be seen all over the town of Guildford. By Mr. CLARKSON—The prisoner is in the habit of imitatinr , the notes of birds, and among others those of the cuckoo. Mr. Bicknell recalled—l remember when the pri soner was brought to me by the witness Hollington. I have know him ever since he was a boy. I asked him if he was the man who had set my premises on fire? He said " I am." I said " How came you to do it—have I ever injured you?" Prisoner replied, " No, I have no animosity against you, but I am not right in my head at times, and don't know what lam about." The pri soner then said ho would show us which way he went, and as we were going along he told me how he had fired the stack, and pointed out a hedge where he had sat down and looked at the fire while it was blazing. He then took me to several places, and showed me his foot steps, and upon my remarking that some were not very plain, he told me'thatif I would go with him to the next field, which was fallow and hadj been recently ploughed, he would show me some that were very plain, and he pointed out the mark of his tip, and made an impression with his foot, and said, " Is not that a well tit?" HILTON V. LOBO GRANVILLE. For the plaintiff were Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Q.C., Mr. God son, Q.C., Mr. J. Smith, and Mr. Stammers; for the de fendant, Mr. Sergeant Wilde, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Whateley, Q.C., Mr. Ellis (the .Attorney-General for the Duchy of Lancaster), and Mr. Somerset. The declaration in this action was in "case," tht action being brought nominally to recover compensation for inju:l;es sus tained by the plaintiff in consequence of the working of tain mines, belonging to the Crown, of which the defendant was lessee, but as he had admitted the injury complained of, and also that he was the aggressor, the question really at issue was, whether, in fact, there was any prescriptive right, as claimed by Lord Granville, to work the mines in his oc. cupation without liability to make compensation for damages which might accrue to any buildings or lands during the pro gress of the excavations beneath the surface of the ground. Mr. KELLY, in opening to the jury the plaintifi's case, said that the subject matter for their present consideration was one which could scarcely be surpassed in importance by any question which could arise, either between the Crown and a subject, or between man and man ; for although Lord Gran ville was the defendant here, the Crown, under whom his Lordship held, was in fact the party to whom the plaintiff was opposed, and, consequently, all that wealth, power, talent, ingenuity, and industry could suggest would be brought forward to prevent what he contended was the vin dication of his rights. The right claimed by the Crown was one to work and excavate the whole of the land com prised in the manor, for the purpose of obtaining coals and iron stone, without restriction, control, or qualification, as close to the surface as might be considered advisable by the lessees of the mine, whether the land above were arable, pas ture, or whether it were covered with houses, buildings, or tenements of any description ; so that eventually all or any of those buildings might, as in the present instance, be brought to a state of utter demolition and ruin. This claim, preposterous as it seemed, drew no distinction between old and modern buildings, the dwellings of the poor or the more magnificent residences of the wealthy. Mansions of all kinds, hopitals, churches, were alike endangered, in whatever portion of the populous manor they might be situated, and yet, as it was alleged, no demand for compensation would be attended to, no redress, no relief afforded, however great the injury to property might prove. The point for the consideration of the jury was simply whether a party re presenting the Crown was justified in digging in the manner described, without notice, request, or warning, and without making compensation. The right was claimed, too, through out the whole manor, under the town of Newcastle-under- Lyne, under a large tract of country, particularly under Shelton and llanley, consequently the devastation might, if unchecked, extend to every building in those populous town ships, inhabited as they were by more than 20,000 inhabi tants, comprising two churches, nine or ten chapels, a county' infirmary erected at an expense of 22,000/., various manufac tories, residences of considerable value and beauty—altoge ther to the number of 4,000 houses. . . On the conclusion of the Learned Counsel's speech, evi dence was adduced to prove the order of the Lord Chan cellor ; the conveyance of the property to the plaintiff's father ; his own accupation since his father's demise ; and, finally, the detriment to which that property had been sub jected by the defendants since the year 1834. The plaintiff's case having thus terminated, Sir T. WILDE made an application to the Court to have the further hearing .of the case postponed until to-morrow morning, at nine o'clock. This request was acceded to by the Learned Judge. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ATCIIEELEY.) Philip Davis, aged 23, a labouring man, was indicted upon a charge of having attempted to extort money from James Taylor, under a threat of accusing him of having endeavoured to commit an offence of a horrible description. Mr. Owen conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Allen appeared on behalf of the prisoner. The Learned Counsel for the prisoner declined addressing the jury on behalf of his client, who was convicted, and sen tenced to transportation for ten years. Mr. Godson, Q.C., has been assisting the Learned Judge in the trial of prisoners during the latter part of the day. By Mr. CHARNOCK—I cannot say that I consider the prisoner to be of weak mind. He told his story very cheerfully, and walked over the field and pointed out the foot-marks. _ _ _ Jeremiah Campbell proved that he watched the river on the night in question. and looked for eel-lines, but could not find any, neither did he see any person come to the river. Sarah Elderfield—l am the prisoner's aunt, and reside in Bury Field-lane, Guildford. The prisoner and two other boys live in the house with me. On the night of the fire, the prisoner went out between six and seven o'clock, and he did not return until half-past eleven, be fore which time the officers had been to inquire for him. I asked the prisoner where he had been so late, and he said with a man from Godalming, whom he did not know, setting eel-lines. Cross-examined—The prisoner has lived with me for twelve years. His father lives at Isleworth, and is a very poor man. I think the prisoner is of very weak mind, and he had fits when he was a baby. Formerly I have remarked that his head was quite soft at the back, and ho frequently fainted when his hair was cut. He used to wander about the fields, but I am not aware that he was ♦ery fond of going to fires. The prisoner does not live very well, and if he gets half a pint of beer it is quite enough to set him talking ; and if he had taken a pint, I should not pay any attention to what he said. Ile once told me that he had dug a hole in St. Cathe rine's••hill. but I do not recollect that he said he was MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Derby, July 31. MERCER V. WITALL.—(SpeCiaI Jury.) This was an action brought to recover damages under cir cumstances of rather a peculiar nature. Mr. Hill, Q.C., and Mr. Huinfrey were for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Whitehurst, Q.C., Mr. Waddington, and Mr. Mellor, for the defendant. The plaintiff is a person between 40 and 50 years of age, and has lived for a considerable number of years in Chester field, where he officiated as managing clerk to an attorney of the name of Thomas, at whose death he passed into the service of • Mr. Richard Gratton, and upon that gentleman's death, the business being purchased by the defendant, he was taken along with It, and the consi deration to be paid was his articles, and a salary of 601. per annum for the five years he would have to serve. This arrangement was come to in the early part of the year 1841. It appears that in the early part of 1842, the defendant on his return from Lincoln, where he had been de tained for a fortnight or three weeks by ill health, thought he had reason to complain of the conduct of his clerk, and shortly after the plaintiff was dismissed from his employ, and lost the other advantages guaranteed to him, and this dis missal was notified in a letter sent by the defendant's bro ther. The grounds of dismissal as set forth in the plea were, that the plaintiff had been guilty of a breach of duty in hav ing combined with one Joseph Gratton, attorney, living at Chesterfield, to deprive the defendant of the benefit that should result from his purchase of the business aforesaid ; also to induce persons to employ the said Joseph Gratton in preference to the defendant, and also that the plaintiff had personated the defendant, &c. The plaintiff called the Joseph Gratton alluded to in the plea as a witness on his behalf; but on his cross-examination it appeared that Gratton and Mercer had been too intimate, considering the relative positions in which they stood to Mr. I,Vhall, the one being a rival attorney, and the other Mr. Whall's articled clerk. going to bury himself in it. It was a very curious place, and several people as well as myself went to see it. I believe the hole is there now. I never knew the pri soner to be mischievous. Since he last came out of pri son, I think his head has been worse than before, and he told me of a dream that he had had while in gaol. On the Wednesday, the day before the fire, he complained of his head ; and when he went out he told me he should not be home that night, and I sent his brother to watch him, as I feared something would happen to him. I met the prisoner afterwards, and he told me his head was so bad that he could not get home. By Mr. CLARKSON—The prisoner has had no fits since he was quite a little boy. He has been at work for a Mr. Drewett during the last seven or eight years, and be received seven shillings a week. The prisoner had never been under any restraint. I did not observe any thing particular in his conduct, from the time he came out of prison until the day before the fire. By Mr. Baron GURNEY—The prisoner was in custody for three months. Baron GURNEY—What was he tried for ? Witness — He was tried for a fire. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. CHARNOCK then addressed the jury, and said that in a case of this description, which was of a character The Learned Judge summed up very carefully, and the jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict for the plain tiff—Damages, 300/. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice • Coi.mr.Ax.) Isaac Dakin, aged 22, was charged with ravishing Harriet Hartshorne. Mr. Wildman prosecuted, and Mr. Dennison conducted the defence. Verdict —Guilty. Sentence deferred. to excite a prejudice in the mind of every man against the author of the crime. It was very difficult, indeed, to overcome that prejudice, but he trusted the jury would not allow it to prevail with them, but that they would be guided solely by the evidence in the cause. The case had been most fairly and honourably conducted by his Learned Friend, but upon the facts, as they had been proved, he submitted that the evi dence was not sufficient to prove, without any rea sonable doubt, that the prisoner was guilty of the crime imputed to him. The Learned Counsel then wont on to say, that the first question for the jury to consider was, whether the prisoner was proved to have committed this offence at all ' • and he submitt e d th a t t hi s was very far from b e in g made out. Should they, however, be of opinion that this was made out, he contended that the evidence for the prosecution itself made out sufficiently the fact, that the prisoner was of weak mind and not accountable for his actions. It was in evidence that he was called the cuckoo-boy, and that he was looked upon by all who knew him as a silly, childish parson ; and although, probably the jury were not very well ac quainted with medical matters, yet their own common sense would induce them, he apprehended, with very little difficulty to come to the same conclusion. Ile would then remark upon the' absence of any motive of revenge or towards the prosecutor, and upon the extraordinary manner in which the prisoner had confirmed his crime, and actually called evidence against himself, which he submitted was convincing proof of the weak state of the prisoner's mind. Mr. Baron GURNEY then summed up, and said the first question for the jury was, whether the prisoner committed the act imputed to him. If they thought he did not, there was nothing more for them to consider, but if they entertained a contrary opinion, then they would have to consider, not whether the prisoner had a weak mind or a silly mind, but whether, at the time he did so commit it, he was in such a state of mind as to know what he was about, and be capable of distinguishing between right and wrong. It was not necessary for any motive to be proved, and during the present circuit children of eight, nine, and twelve years of age had been convicted of offences of this description, when it ap peared that their only motive was to see a bonfire; but as it was proved that they knew they were doing wrong, they were convicted and punished for the offence. The Learned Judge then went minutely through the evi dence, and left the case in the hands of the jury. The jury, after deliberating for a short time, acquitted the prisoner upon the ground of insanity, and he was ordered to be detained in safe custody. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) CLERKEIV WELL. . _ Charla Henry Thomas, a genteel-looking young man, three vols. qu ar t o , s t splendidlyea st- r toast-rack, c k, a clerk to Messrs. Tennant and Harrison, soli c it ors , Gray's Inn-square, was charged with stealing a quantity snuffers b o o f u silver-plate, ldv edition r Ti and l a tseto, stand n t c dh o , e n t s ty. so Pictorialt .n g o Bible,f Chinese ii in candlesticks,kshawls,a a telescope, and other valuable articles, the property of Miss Elizabeth Grimes, to whom Air. Harrison, is guardian. In December last six cases of plate, books, &c., were brought from Bristol, and deposited in a room adjoining the office, in Gray's Inn-square, and to which the pri soner had access. On the 19th of June the prisoner pledged the candlesticks at the shop of Mr. King, a pawnbroker, in High Holborn, alleging that hiff name was John Thomas, and that they were the property of his aunt, a Mrs. Crowe, who lived in Gray's Inn-lane. On the same representation he pawned, at intervals, the other articles at Mr. King's, and at Mr. Crocket's, another pawnbroker, living in Dean-street, Holborn. On the 18th ult., he offered the silver toast-rack in pawn to Mr. King, but demanded so small a sum upon it that his suspicions were awakened, and he sent for po lice-constable Chapman, 38 E. When the constable arrived, the prisoner expressed his readiness to conduct him to his aunt, whom he now said lived in Leather-lane, and who would at once confirm the veracity of his state ment ; but finding that Chapman was determined on in vestigating the matter, he made a full confession of his guilt. The property was identified as Miss Grimes's, by Mr. Hull, an appraiser, and it appeared that the mason of the prisoner's stating the articles were the property of Mrs. Crowe was because the name of Crowe (Miss Grimes's aunt) was engraved on the inside of the bibles and prayer-books. He was committed for trial to the Old Bailey. A young lad, named Thomas Hobbes, was sent to the House of Correction for two months, for stealing fifteen apples from the orchard of a person, named Rippon, residing in the Archway-road, Holloway. Mr. Rippon was not present. The boy had never been in custody before ; but the policeman who apprehended him, Ser geant Kell, S, said he saw him in company with bad characters. The boy was aged about fourteen. Mr. I Greenwood was the Magistrate. NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Norwich, July 31. Robert English, aged 20, was indicted for wilfully and Mali ' ciously setting fire to certain stacks and premises, the pro ; perty of John Hogg, with i n tent t o injure James Smith. Mr. Cooper appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Carlos Cooper defended the prisoner. The prosecutor, Mr. Smith, is a farmer, residing at Wret ton, in this county; and the prisoner is a fanning servant, in his employment. On the night of the 7th of May the prose cutor went up to bed at eight o'clock, but had scarcely seated himself when he was alarmed by the voice of his wife, shriek, ing out "Fire, fire!" Rushing down stairs, h" and his stacks on fire, and, in a short time, the hoilSo and out-build ings were destroyed by the devouring el:,, n ent. A saperin tendent of the police riding home fr - m d u ty savir the fi re, and, hastening to it, lent his aid 1- " flames, and, while so el n ,, g ,d , was asked llq . a stranger, Ho.oert, "How he thought efore he could s '.,,e fireliad originated l'" 13 reply, the l'n i ir r- ': - .,ner, who was at bis elbow, intetreted, and ..... arresting the progress of the said, "1 w"..5 in the kitchen and heard it kuskt . 1 . 1 .1; a great 9n,no,s_. So did my mistrees ) who tritil out, Lawk-a-mercy, whatever can that be?" 'The abruptness of this in terruption cre,atod a suspicion in the mind of the policeman. and after th e t i re was quelled he went to the " mistress," and ascertaining from her that the sto a bout the " cannon" was an invention, b ut t h at she had see thetho prisoner go to the stack-yard just before the fire broke out, he took him into custody on the present charge. On the following day a boy, named Harrod, came forward and charged the prisoner with having told him on the previous evening, after talking about the late fires, " Ah, ba'! They talk of coming to Wret ton next. What should you think if this house and stacks were all to be burnt by the time you come to work to-mor row 1* This q ues ti on, which the boy thought a " run one, " he mentioned t o hi s mother before the fire, and afterwards to the policeman, i n w h ose presence the prisoner reversed the facts and acc use d th e b oy of taking the lead i n the con versation about the fires. On his way to the magistrate, however, he burst into tears, and made a confidant of the policeman, notwithstanding the most praiseworthy caution of the officer. In eo doing, he told him tlAt he had Bet fire i "Don't make yourself a fool, we are going to London-bridge," and the captain and another man also assured him they were going there. They all remained on board, and, on arriving at Hungerford-market the captain ordered all the passengers on shore, and said the vessel did not intend to proceed any further that night, but was going back to Lambeth to her moorings. Complainant insisted on being conveyed to Lon don-bridge, but the captain and crew, who behaved in a very , insulting manner, said they were not going there, and com plainant and his friends were conveyed to the moorings at Lambeth, where the hands informed them, in a taunting way, that they were going on shore in the boat, and invited them to follow. As Le had bar gained for a passage to London-bridge, he remained on board, and warned the captain that if he did not convey him to his destination, he would summon him before a inzt gistrate. About an hour afterwards, some of the crew re turned and repeated the offer they had previously made, to convey him to Lambeth, but he still declined going there, and the people belonging to the Snowdrop left her for the night, with only a lad on board, who soon afterwards went to bed. At half-past twelve o'clock, after more than two hours' exposure to the night air, he became alarmed for the safety of his sister, who was in a bad state of health, and his family. He awoke the bey, and, after creeping over several coal barges and other craft, the lad put them ashore in a boat half full of water, and he was obliged to hire a conveyance at a very heavy expense to convey them to Aldgate, where they arrived at half-past one o'clock in the morning. A very respectable young man was with him during the whole time, and he was present to confirm his statement. Mr. BRODERIP said, if what the applicant stated was true, he had very good reason to complain, and if the matter had happened within his jurisdiction he would have granted a summons against the master of the steamer. By a late regu lation, the magistrates of the Thames Police-court only took cognisance of matters arising below London-bridge, but if he made application to a magistrate of one of the Ponce-courts above the bridge, he would receive every assistance. Mr. Smith said that he had already applied to Mr. Twy ford at Bow-street, who said that he knew of no summary , i - zmedy which could be applied in the case, and he was ad visea apply to the Thames police magistrates, who were better acqu zinted with the laws relating to the river. Mr. BRODERIi apprehended there was a remedy against the master for detain:.ag a passenger or using abusive lan guage, independent of Ili...right of action. Mr. Leadlev, the clerk, p o tted out the 23d bye-law of the Watermen's Company, under the Magistrate had re cently convicted the master of a beL,w-bridge steamer for detaining a passenger and using abusive language towards him. The defendant was fined 40s. and the ka,,sts. Mr. Smith asked where he should apply for a zummons? Mr. Leadley said, as the applicant was detaine:! at Lam beth, he must apply to a Magistrate at Union-hall. Mr. Smith was obliged to the Court for making him ac quainted with the law. He and his family had been put W great inconvenience, and he should certainly follow up the case, for similar detentions were of almost daily occurrence on the river, and the steam-boat masters did just as they pleased. He had written to the Lord Mayor on the subject, and he hoped the new by-laws for the regulation of steam vessels would soon come into operation. commissioners of local courts that a power over the goods for debt was quite sufficient, reserving the power of imprisoning for fraud, or for any other misdemeanour. The power of issuing writs of capias had never been possessed by the old county courts nor by local courts until the middle of the last century, when in a local Act for a smell debt court in the county of Midddlesex, the power of imprisonment was given that had been gradually extended by several local Acts, but it had never been authorised by any general statute. One of the Commissioners had stated it as his opinion that this power of imprisonment ought to be abolished. Me was willing to admit that for the benefit and advantage of the labouring classes credit was indispensable, but he thought the system of credit, and the recovery of small debts in Scotland was preferable to that in England. The Hon. Member for Birmingham had quoted that town as an example, and had said that for the sake of the working classes them selves they ought not to abolish imprisonment for small debts. Now, he was asked why he, who had proposed to continue the power of imprisonment for small debts by the County Courts Bill, should now pro pose the abolition of imprisonment for small debts. He would tell the House the reason which induced him to consider that this power ought not to be continued for even six weeks longer, and Birmingham would not he for gotten. The House would remember the sensation which had been created during the present session by the statements which had been made of the horrors of the small debt gaol of Birmingham. He had caused inquiries to be made into the state of various small debt gaols in the country, and he could not have believed that such iniquities and cruelties could he suffered to exist in a Christian country. The Secretary of State had no control over those prisons, although he might have them inspected. However much he might be disgusted with the horrors of those gaols, he was perfectly impo tent to remedy the evil. He might recommend, but his recommendations were treated with neglect if the altera tions recommended were attended with expense ; and he was sure the Hon. Member for Man chester, who had objected to hurrying forward this Bill, would be the very person who would rather sit a month longer than not remedy these horrors. His attention had been drawn to the state of the small debt goal in Birmingham in the month of January last, in conse quence of a riot which had taken place in that prison on Christmas-day. He had sent down an inspector, and his report contain e d a s t a t emen t o f h orrors w hi c h he could scarcely have believed to have existed—horrors equal to anything which had been laid open by H owar d —and this in Birmingham had been cited by the Hon. Gentleman as a case in point why the House should not consent to the abolition of the power of imprisonment for small debts. (The Right Hon. Baronet here read the report in question, from which it appeared that the prison consisted of a kitchen and a cellar, situated in a street in Birmingham, and was for the imprisonment of persons whose debts were under 51. The day-room for poor debtors was a scullery, 18 feet by 14, and 7 feet high. There was a grating on a level with the pavement of the street, and debtors were stationed there to beg; and not withstanding spirits were prohibited, they were handed through this grating, and the goaler did not dare to in terfere, lest he should raise a riot which he would be powerless to quell. There was one general dormitory in the attic which was 11 feet by 16, in which were two plat forms extended along each side wall, and on them the prisoners slept ; at one time fifteen persons had slept together on one of these platforms and eight on the other.) The reason of this difference was that the prisoner who had been longest in the gaol was called the king, and possessed several privileges, one of which was that he should not be obliged to take more than seven bedfellows on his platform. No medical assistance was afforded to the prisoners in cases of sick. ness ; and they had possessed swords, staves, ecc., until the recent riot, when they had been taken from them. The riot had been occasioned by the practice of exacting from every prisoner 2s. 6d. on his admission, under the denomination of " chum-money." He had re monstrated with the authorities, and some amendment had been made, but not to a sufficient extent. But did the case of Birmingham stand alone ? Far from it. His attention had been directed to the small debt prison of Kidderminster, and, on the 15th June he had directed an inspector to proceed there. From his report it ap peared that the prison consisted of one room, twelve feet by twelve, paved with brick. The room was des titute of furniture. There was a bundle of straw in the middle of it, on which the prisoners slept in their clothes. There was a yard behind, thirteen feet by twelve, but it was so badly drained that in wet weather the prisoners were confined to the room. 'They never took off their clothes, there was no allowance of soap, and there were only two small jugs of water allowed per day for all the prisoners, for washing and drinking ; the only allowance of food was a quarter of a quartern loaf to each prisoner. —(Hear, hear.) There was no gaoler; they were visited by the beadle in the morning and the evening, and there was no power of procuring assistance in cases of sudden illness. The shortest time of im prisonment in this place was ten days, but a prisoner might be imprisoned forty days, and again detained upon a fresh execution.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He would not disgust the House by going into further details, but he submitted that such a state of things called for an immediate remedy, and it was much better, in his opinion, to abolish imprisonment for small debts than to attempt to remedy the defects of these goals, for he regarded the principle of the law which allowed im prisonment for small debts as indefensible.— (Hear.) If compensation to gaolers were necessary let compen sation be granted, but he trusted the House would not subject the unhappy debtor for six months longer to these horrors. Mr. F. 11. BERKELEY said he had presented a peti tion against the Bill, but after the statement of the Right Hon. Gentleman he felt that he could not support that part of the prayer of the petition which asked that the measure should be delayed.—(Cheers.) He hoped, how ever, that some alteration would be made in the 36th and 37th clauses. The House then resolved itself into Committee. Clause 1 was agreed to. On clause 2 being proposed, Mr. SPOONER protested against the abolition of the power of imprisonment merely on account of the im proper state of discipline in small debt gaols. Those defects might be remedied. The state of the Birmin ham gaol was known to the Right Hon. Gentleman in January. Sir J. GRAHAM said that four gaols were all that had yet been examined. He was afraid, that in their main features, all these small debt gaols were identical. Mr. WAKLEY thought the system of credit most in jurious to the labouring classes. He would be sorry to delay the Bill a single moment. He had presented a petition from his constituents against the Bill, but he should feel bound to support the measure, even if he were to resign his seat twenty-four hours after.—(Cheers.) Mr. S. WORTLEY said the Government had not answered the complaint of the Hon. Member for Bir mingham, that the measure ought to have been brought forward at an earlier period of the session. Sir J. GRAHAM said he was not aware of the extent of the evil before the end of June. Mr. BOUVERIE said, that in considering the ques tion of delay, they should be careful to put the saddle on the right horse. He thought great blame was attribu table to a high legal functionary in the other House. Sir J. GRAHAM confessed that he did not under stand the charge. Lord Cottenham took one view and Lord Brougham another, and the Lord Chancellor had to mediate between them. Higher intellects were never brought into contact, and he thought the Lord Chan cellor was quite right in hearing, evidence before he de cided upon the course which he had taken.—(Hear.) Mr. BOUVERIE said, what he had meant was, to blame the legal functionary in the other House who had delayed the first measure introduced in a manner which its proposer had no reason to expect. Clause 2 was then agreed to. Clause 3 was postponed. Clauses 4 to 15 inclusive were agreed to. Clauses 16 to 24 inclusive were agreed to, with a few verbal amendments. Clauses from 25 to 35 were agreed to without dis cussion. OR clause 36 being proposed, Mr. HAWES moved that the following words be added to the clause :—" Except it shall be made to ap pear to the satisfaction of the judge who shall try such action, such judge being either a judge of one of the superior courts, or a barrister, attorney, or solicitor, that such debt was contracted by any manner of fraud or breach of trust, or that such defendant has parted with any of his property with a view to defraud his creditors or any of them, in any of which cases it shall be lawful for such judge, if he shall think fit, but not otherwise, to certify the same under his hand, and thereupon to order that such defendant may be taken and detained in execution upon such judgment, in like manner, and for such time as he might have been if this Act had not been passed." Sir JAMES GRAHAM asked the Hon. Member to postpone the amendment, as he intended to introduce a proviso that would render it unnecessary. Mr. HAWES said he would certainly adopt the course suggested. Mr. SPOONER again objected to the partial effect of abolishing the power of imprisonment in small debts, and retaining it with respect to large ones. He was for carrying out the principle impartially and generally, but this they could not now be prepared to do. lie hoped the clause would be postponed. After some further conversation the clause w as agreed to. Clauses up to 47 were agreed to without opposition. Clause 48 was struck out. The remaining clauses were agreed to. The Chairman reported progress, and the report was received, in order that the Bill might be reprinted and recommitted on Monday, to enable the Government to introduce the compensation clauses. Sir JAMES GRAHAM gave notice that he would move the compensation clauses of the Bill to-morrow at Twelve o'clock. COMMON LAW PROCESS (IRELAND) BILL. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. A Message from the Lords brought up the Transfer of Licenses Bill without any amendments, and several other Bills. They also asked for a Conference on the Common Law Process Bill, which was agreed to. The Members appointed to hold the Conference then left the House, and on their return Mr. CRIPPS reported to the House that the con ference had been attended by the Earl of Delawarr and certain other P eers , on the part of the House of Lo r d s ; that their Lordship s h a d stated certain reasons for dis senting from the Commons' amendments in one portion of the Bill, and had agreed to the other amendments. The Hos. MEMBER then moved that their Lordships' reasons should be taken into consideration on Tuesday next.—Agreed to. CHARITABLE BEQUESTS (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. DILLON BROWNE wished to kno w from the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he would postpone the third reading of the Charitable Be- quests (Ireland) Bill till after Monday, for which day he understood the third reading was fixed. The reason why he asked the Bight Hon. J3art. to postpone the UNION-HALL. Elizabeth Garrett, a well-dressed female, was charged ; before Mr. Traill with an intent to commit suicide, by throw ing herself off the parapet of Waterloo-bridge. Mr. 'Wooden, of .Francis-place, said he was passing over Waterloo- bridge about ten o'clock last night, when his at tention was attracted by the extraordinary conduct of the prisoner, whe took off her shoes, and commenced singing, nancing, and making a great noise, which induced him to think that she was drunk. Suddenly, however, the prisoner burst out into a viol e nt fit of crying, and immediately jumped on the parapet of the bridge, and was in the act of throwing herself off, when witness and his friend ran to her assistance, and was just in time to save her from jumping into the river. In answer to some questions put to her, the prisoner said " she was tired of her life ; a villain had deceived her, and she would licQ If Pim W@TO not better inhabitants in the un- A policeman '"as sent for, and the prisoner known world." given into custody. onduct to Mr. The prisoner gave no explanation of bail for 1 : MAIM, the Maqlstrate, who ordered her to tint: . her good conduct in the sum of gOi. for three months, The ptisoner vcts locked up in default. PQ_LICR, On Thntsda.3l ?at. ,tailles smith, the proprietor of a coffee house, at No. 38, Mitre. street, Aldgate, came before Mr Broderip, to complain of an imposition practised upon him by the master of an above-bridge steamer, called the Snowdrop. Mr. Smith stated that himself, his sister, wife, and three young children embarked on board the Snowdrop, at Chelsea pier, on Sunday night, for London-bridge, the same vessel having conveyed them an hour or two previous from London bridge to Chelsea. Directly he and his family got on board, a man on the gangway I,§gan calling out " Ilungerford Market" only, and he inquired of him if the boat would pro ceed as far as Lonclon•:bridge ? The man; answered in the negative, and he therefore called to his family to come again en shore, and get their money returned. As soon as the man saw them malting preparations te, leave the steamer, to said, STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT. Yesterday a gentleman named Russell, whom we un derstood to be a surveyor, lately connected with the New Royal Exchange, had a truly miraculous escape from a horrible death by drowning, and mutilation under the paddle-wheels of a boat called the " Lilac," belong ing to the company known as the Wooden Steam. boat Company, plying between Chelsea and London-bridge. Mr. Russell, his lady, and child, embarked on board this vessel at Chelsea, and the lady wishing to land at Nine Elm's-station, the boat put in close to the wharf, but one passenger being taken on board, the boat imme diately put off from the wharf, and, upon the lady remonstrating, the captain said she could land a little lower down at the Bruns wick Pier. The vessel ran alongside this pier, but without " warping," when Mr. Russell, who held several drawings and surveying instruments in his hand, seeing his wife rather nervous, jumped on shore, to hand her and his child safely over, which he provi fientially effected. Having himself to proceed as far as th e Cjtv on important business, he was about returning on boaid, :,'hen the vessel, yielding to the propulsion of both paddles, wad to the action of the helm, suddenly started off at an angle from the wharf, and Mr. Russell was precipitated into du; water. The point of embarka tion in steam-vessels, as is wz'll known, is almost imme diately over the wheels, and the moment Mr. Russell rose to the surface, he received a fearild blow from the paddle, in its revolution, upon the right anal, and an other, a little below the knee, upon the left leg, Al though much stunned by these injuries, he maloged to swim ashore with much difficulty, while the steamer continued its course down the river without rendering the elightest assistance. MARKET NEWS.—(YESTERDAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE. Only moderate supplies of English Wheat have been re ceived up to our market this week, yet the stands were tolerably well filled with samples of that grain. Fine qualities mostly found buyers, at full prices ; but the value of other kinds was barely supported. In Foreign Wheat, upwards of 47,000 quarters of which have been released this week, previous to the rise in the duty to 18s per quarter, was a mere drug, and almost nominal in value. Grinding Barley was Is per quarter lower. In other kinds no alteration occurred, notwithstanding the large imports from abroad. In Malt next to nothing was doing. The Oat trade was very dull, at a decline of 6d per quarter. In other articles no variation. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats . 1 Flour I Eng1i5h........ 4,120 qrs. 310 qrs. 70 qrs. 2,990 sacks. ..... ' $15.340 Foreign...». 1 14,J60 21,230 25,400 Ma t. 3,550 qrs. 1112Wr1 rZELD. Although our market was rather extensively with Beasts, we have to report a steady demand for tbs.: de scription of stock, and in some instances an advance of lj per 81bs was obtained for the primest Scots, which were quoted at 4s per 81bs. The fresh arrivals from Scotland com prised 200 Scots. For all kinds of Sheep, the numbers of which were not large, the inquiry was active, at very full prices.. The supply of Lambs was large, owing to which the sale for them ruled heavy, at barely Monday's quotations. Calves, which were again plentiful, moved off freely, and the rates had an upward tendency. In Pigs, very little was doing. Milch Cows sold at from 161. to 191. 10s. each. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. s d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Second qualityslitte... 3,0 3 4 Second quality ditto 2 8 2 1 Coarse.woolled ditto.. 3 6 3 8 Prime large Oxen 3 2 3 6 Southdown Wethers 310 4 0 Prime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 3 0 4 0 Large Hogs 1 0 3 6 Prime small ditto 4 2 4 4 Small Porkers. 3 4 4 0 Suckling Calves, each 19 0 35 0 Quarter old Pigs,eachl6 0 20 0 Inferior Sheep 2 6 210 Lambs.... ....».».»..... 310 410 SUPPLY A MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 927 11,330 414 1 * 7O NEV7CMTE AND LEADENHAZZ. We had only a moderate supply of Meat, while the demand was steady, at full prices. At per stone, y the Carcase. a. d. tom. d. s d. to s. d. Beef, 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior ...... 2 6 2 -- middling ..... 2 6 2 g--- middling 210 3 2 prise large 210 S 0 prime 3 4 3 8 prime small ...... 3 '1 3 4 Perk, large 2 6 3 6 Veal ........ .•••••••••••••• 3 2 4 2 —small ....... 3 5 4 0 Lamb. - .3s 10d to -Is 10d. BOROUGH HOP The accounts which have come to hand from Worcester, parts of Mid Kent and Sussex, are considered somewhat less favourable than for some time past. From other quarters the reports are satisfactory. The demand here rules heavy, yet we can notice no material variation in prices. COLONIAL SuGan.—The market for British Plantation has been rather quieter this week, and prices therefore have been scarcely so high. Sales privately about 1,100 hhds for the week exclusive of to-day, and at auction 144 hhds 6 trcs. Barbadoes realised 64s to 67s for fine yellow, and 603 to 63s for mid and good. Refined standard lumps have been at 76s to 76s 6d per cwt. EAST INDlA.—Mauritius has been quiet, fine at 63s to 68s, brown at 46s to 54s per cwt ; 2,841 bags Bengal at auction partly realised 65s to 65s 6d for fine white, and 58s for mid yellow, being rather lower. Foreign yellow Havannah has realised 19s to 21s by piivate sale, and brown Bahia 18s 6d. to 19s. COTFEE.—British Plantation has been firm, but quiet ; 178 casks 271 brls :partly sold, Demerara at 57s 6d to 60s for low mid unclean samples • other sorts at 53s to 82s for ord to fine mid; 76 casks 35 brls Jamaica at 84s 6d to 85s for mid, and 54s to 69s 6d for good fine erd. Berbice ord to good ord has been sold at 43s to 525. Ceylon has been held firmly, and there is a disposition to speculate ; 2,019 brls at auction realised 54s 6d to 55s for real good ord, 53s 6d to 54s for good ord, and 56s 6d to 585 6d for fine ord. Privately good ord has realised 53s 6d to 565. Mocha has been quiet, and also Foreign. COCOA.—There have been sales of Trinidad at 36s to 375, and 45s per cwt, the demand having rather improved. Grenada is 34s to 41s per cwt. Rot.—This article has been steady. RicE.---There has been a good business doing in Bengal at Ils to lls tit; for mid white. Madras has been at 8s to 9s foryellow. SALTPETRE.•-•Calcntta has sold at 24s to 27s for 14i to three per cent. refraction. SPICES.-1,856 bags Pepper were nearly all taken in at 3id forgood brown Penang. Cassia Lignea has been sold at 61s 6d to 62s for mid. TEA.—The demand has improved this week, and prices are firmer. Common to good ord Congou, 100 to lld ; and ord Twankay, is lid to is 3d per lb. Hpon good ord, 253 d to 2s 4d per lb. The stock is 31,573,000 Ms in London. Tweeow.—P.Y.C. is 41s to 41s 6d per cwt, on the spot. CINNAMON.—The public sales have coneltuiC d since Our last, 1,600 bales 132 boxes having been sold, first at 4s to 6s, and third at 2s 8d to 4s 2d per lb. PlNES.—There has been another large sale (5,0005, by Keeling and Hunt. They were very fine generally, sta: l sold well. (From the London New Price Current of Aug. 2.) SUGAR.—To-day the market wail ia a tranquil stAte for West India Sugar : grocers and refiners operated with cau tion, and only 280 libds were sold at prices 6d to is per cwt under those of last Friday for inferior yellow and brown, but bright yellow kinds sustained the previous currency. The total sales fur the week are 1,700 hhds and trc,s. REFINED.—To-day the refiners, submitting to rather lower rates, tempted the grocers to purchase more freely. Sales were made at 74s to 74s 6d for brown, and 75s 6d to 76s per cwt for standard Lumps. For crushed there appears still a good demand, but little offering, and prices remain very firm, the refiners having large contracts for forward delivery to complete. Loaves continue in fair demand. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was a large public sale of Mauritius Sugar; the good and fine yellow sorts fetched very full rates, but inferior brown and grey went off heavily, and 6d to Is per cwt under former rates ; nearly the whole, however, was disposed of as follows :—fineyellow at 62s to 645, good 59s to 61s 6d, good mid 57s to 58s 6d, mid 55s to 56s 6d, low 54s to 54s 6d, fine brown 53s to 53s 6d, good 51s to 52s 6d, mid 48s 6d to 50s, low 44s to 45s 6d, very low black 41s to 425, low grey 49s to 50s 6d, mid 52s 6d to 545, good 55s to 58s, and fine 59s to 61s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was not much —ouest privately, but 238 bags at public sale were all in, " rates—fine white at 64s to 67s 6d, mid 61s 6d to 211 fu" - 655, and mid sound yellow 58s to 58s 6d 625, damp 60a ntio . ns of Brazil Sugar, this week, per cwt. afternoon Porto Rico Sugar FOREIGN.—For all desc;. ; full rates have been paid. /.1.11 sold at stiff rates, fine yellow at 21s, prod 19s 6d to 203, cluing 19s, 19s, logwood stain ed 17s Gd to 18s 6d ; privately there was an increased demand for all sorts. Yellow Havannah sold at 19s 9d, a small parcel of fine at 21s Gd F. white Ha vannah at 29s to 30s per cwt for good quality. bloLAssEs.—Arrivals of West India have again ,been very large ; there are sellers at further reduced rates. In East India Molasses scarcely any business has been transacted. To-day easier rates, 23s per cwt for Dominica. COCOA.—For West India prices have still a downward teUrAcircy Trinidad good red at 444 to 448 6d, laid and god mid 40s to 425, and ordinary 36s to 37s ; Grenada taken itt —fine bright red at 41s, mid '37s 6d, and low 34s per cwt.. The market for Foreign is in a very dull state. RICE.—For Carolina prices are steady.—dressed, duty P 3id ,; at 21s to 265, ditto, in bond,lBs to 20s, and ditto iinpo at rte 13s to 16s 6d per cwt. This afternoon Bengal Rice sold lls to lls 6d for good white, lOs 6d to lls for first class' so damaged, lOs to lOs 6d for second, 8s to 8s 6d for third, 7i to 7s 6d for fourth, and 8s 6d to Ils for oil damaged. CoFFEE.—The market has been better suppli e d with Wow e India Coffee of all sorts this week, and importers submitting to a reduction on former rates of is to 2s descriptions, has occasioned the home trade toppeirirccwhLefolar lercgel7 For Mocha, prices have an upward tendency. The afternoon Ceylon Coffee at an advance on fon:net - sa tes of 6d to is per cwt; ord ragged went at 535, good ord 551 to 565, very good ord 575, fine ord Plantation sort 615 6d to 6ag, pea berry 81s, sea dam first class 55s to 58s, second deo 47s 565, third do 45s to 51s, fourth do 45s triage, 3 0 s t ° 47 T 6d 6d. v.:.ry low 17s to 20 and sea dam 30s to 41s per cwt. Tr. A.—z. market has s, presented a brisker appearance for nearly every ( :,escription of Tea since Friday ; raercbao!s have shown firmnt.,,ts, and none has been submitted to Pu b , l ': competition. To-day a fair business was transacted in ' 1 1" Tea market at firm rate. ; sales of common Congou, ce s were made at I Id, and got.'l common to is Oid per lb.. SAGO at stiffer rates; com.:ion 13s per cwt; large it Pearl fetched 18s 6d. Sago 1 ;our at 18s to 19s per 0 ,3 " Fine Bermuda Arrow Root went. at is 2d to is 3d ; middling and good 8d to Is. St. Vincent's 6d. Tois les Mois 6d per lb.. RCM ' BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The demand has been brisk for Jamaica Rum, fair quality 30 to 34 per cent orei,r proof at 3s 3d to 3s 4d, better 33 to 36 over 3s 6d to 3s B°, good 34 to 36 over 3s 10d to 4s, and fine 4s 2d to 4s 6tl P er t gallon. Demerara, 3s 3d to 3s 4d paid for 37 to 38 per cet over proof. Leewards at 2s 3d per gallon, proof strengt' Ca;cutta at is lld to Is 111 d per gallon proof. Of East I ndia the home deliveries are not half of what eiey last year, but for exportation they are much blrg e L' the stock is 3,806 casks less than in 1843. The mom' ket for Brandy is in a dull state ; holders experien r ' difficulty in obtaining 5s 3d for Cognac in hhds of the besL brands of the vintage of 1838, and 5s Id for puns; ditto 1 839 f Ithds 5s Id, puns 43 lld ; ditto 1840, hh,ia ss, puns 4s luoj ditto, 1841, hhds 4s Ild, puns 4s 9d ; ditto 1842, hhds 4s lov puns 4s 6(1; mid and good mid sorts 2s Ild to 4s 6d, and 100 and very low 2s 7d to 2s 10d per gallon ; common Geneva a t IS 10d to Is lid; fine fit for home consumption is 23 Sd to 33 6d per gallon. English Corn Spirits lOs 4d per gallon, INDIGO.—Since the conclusion of the quarterly sale of E s— India Indigo, there has been an excellent demand for ,all scriptions for home consumption and exportation ; the ra, te i s 4 previously established are fully supported. For Spalv s f Indigo holders submit to a reduction on former rates P 2d per lb. OiLs.—Prices for Southern Oil rule lOs to 2 C / I ° per tun under those of this day week; good clua li ,s , s ! 291 lOs to 304 middling 271 15s to 28/ 15s, a" Imo- dark 26/ 15s to 271 ss. For Seal Oil 35/ t° 35/ 103 :)er tun accepted for pale. Cod is held for 33/ 10, , t o 341. liclders of Sperm manifest firmness, 841 to B ."' per tun being paid for prime British ; at auction 5 tun! fetched 831 for Oil, and 88/ for Headmatter. Linsee d Oil 25s 6d to 25s 9d per cwt. Rape Oil is plentifith 36s 6d to 37s accepted for pale, and 35s 6d to 36s for browg' Palm Oil at 27s to 28s per cwt for good and fine qualj i ., tl " Cocoa Nut at 288 to 30s per cit. Olive Oil at 44 / to 401 Gallipoli, 42l to 43/ for Spanish, ?Ind 401 to 411 per tun B" Barbary. TALLOlV.—Although there are seller..' of Russian Tall°r on the spot upon rather lower terms, the purchases n',! have been trifling at 40s 9d to 41s 3d per cwt Or P.Y.Can ut "i For delivery there are sellers at 41s 9d to 42s for th e Iss r three months of the year, being 3d to 6d per cwtllo,l, former rates ; Town Tallow at 40s per cwt nett cash. afternoon South American, and South Wales were offere the former partly sold at 35s 8d to 39s 6d, and the latter lw 36s to 39s 6d per cwt. BATHING IN THE SERPENTINE.—We have p 6" ceived a communication from a director of the Royal Moo n ,. Society, referring to the recommendation of the jury, in "Z e livering their verdict in the case of James Davey, for t t" Society to employ an additional number of men. In ie communication the director says :—"There is not, I fearlessly assert, an establishment in Europe more perfect or in betteror more efficient order than the receiving-house of the Roy Humane Society in Hyde P ark, and the activity of its super'intendent, and likewise of its boatman, which is best tes t by the promptness with which, in three minutes, he foul the body, having, in the meantime, picked up another Ells! who was drowning. A daily report of the estimated num u % of bathers is made to the secretary, and I have ascertaine. from him that by a careful and moderate computation theta exceed 270,000 during the last and the present month ; 11 5 . that during this period thirty-o ne cases have been resa and fifteen taken to the recei vi n g -ho u s e , where they were stt r i s cessfully restored from apparent death ; still, however tou e st it is to be regretted, only three of the casualties have I t proved fatal since the bathing season has com menced-_,. know that the institution cannot exceed its present expert s and more particularly in Hyde Park, which already eosteA y er i large portion of its income. If we look at the crovit state os' the river Thames, the wonderful increase of trn s by steam, and the numerous accidents, too many of wi l , l4. ' r have been fatal, we shall find ample room for the Moey ment of more men ;mid boats by the Humane Society-TitsJ is indeed a fine field or the Institution to carry oat t o objects, and cheerfully wOuld the committee endea.votsr. do as much on the Thames no it has done on the Serpen t l s iO if the public, whose safety alone is concerned, would e ta " it to do so." SALE OF WEST INDIA PINE APPLES AND LI VE 1 cer TUltTLE.—Thursday at two o'clock a public sale took Pt.v. by Mr. Keeling, at No. 9, Pudding-lane, of about 5,000 b, 11 : eye pine apples (these making about 20,000 which have u`,l o , disposed of during the last few days), and 40 li ve turi , ;., brought by the Walter Scott, in 28 days from .New P ro be dence, with 150 tins of undressed turtle, from Hondtjas' , 40 0 first class of pine apples, nearly 2,000, were sold at 2 ) ) 4 0 varying from 3s. to 7s. each, and the second and third DI j from 6d. to 3s. They were all in very good condition , s'i i t realised about 6001. The live turtle was knocked down from is. to le. 3d. per lb., and the undressed turtle at 5 6 . L ie d lb. The sale-room was crowded, and among the purcliP— were several large fruiterers, tavern-keepers, &c. SINGULAR ACCIDENT AND MIRACULOUS Esc. B —On the 20th inst., as a youth of the age of twenty, jo 1 ": 0 &ploy of Mr. Chandler, of H o ddi ng t on M an or Farm, Was 1., th e act of harnessing a team of horned cattle, in by master's field, one of them, a powerful brute, suddenly bt. came resti.",e, and bolted, when the lad in his efforts 5 overtake him a 2 fortunately became entangled in the end o{ the iron trace, to w hich a hook was attached, which 1 0 ;7; encircling his ancle 11xed itself in one of the links of t .n. trace, and in this positiolz the poor fellow was dragge d vii •!, great velocity for some considerable distance, until his 0:1, arrested the attention or his master, who, with arnazin9 presence of mind and courage;. boldly rushed to his resol: and, with great difficulty, sue ceeded in releasing the PoS fellow from his iron bondage, by seizing the infuriet7 animal by his horn and nose, and .thus preserving the b°,„ from inevitable destruction had not this timely assis tao ‘i arrived when it did. Little injury '0 as done to the PI: 0 fellow, beyond a few bruises, and being- "almost frightene d death.— aeltenham Examiner. THE LATE ATTEMPT AT MURDBft AND . J UIC ON WANDSWORTII-COMMON.—Upon inquiry' At the Na nd i worth and Clapham union on Thursday, the reporter W e , tained that Amelia Alfred, the young woolen who , to Monday evening last, made so determined an atten 3 Pt i . oo destroy herself and two children by plunging into A "`;; I pond on Wandsworth-common, still lies in the imfirmari t° ' a very precarious state. It is a rather singular o, re er stance, that the man French, with whom Alfred it habited, went on Wednesday morning to the union to — l l O his father, who is inmate of the house. At that tiraeL ee was wholly unacquainted with what had occurred, bat l'im oo t he heard the facts he hurriedly left the house, and 1.0 been seen in the neighbourhood since. a ° ll DISTRESSING SUICIDE.—An inquest was 1101 he Thursday afternoon, at the Queen's Head Inn, Brompitonf,, — ; fore John Hinde, Esq., Coroner, on the body of Mr e. P ), ; Coniston, who had destroyed herself on Tuesday 'Wi l de , by throwing herself into a well. It appeared that 0 0 4 6 ceased arrived at her sister's residence in Garden ,-45 0 `, Brompton, on Sunday last, from Limehouse, at which 11 1 , the deceased's husband resides, and who is a. blackstd, The deceased appeared to be in great distress of caused by her husband's ill-treatment, and she told he r sister, Mrs. Cannard, that she was obliged to leave husband, for she could not remain with him an y loco that he did not know where she was, as she le ft hi tU g on the bed in a state of intoxication. On Monday, 4 : l w: n d the whole day, the deceased was exceedingly melanch( on Tuesday morning, being missed, search was may IC, e she was found to have thrown herself down a well on the premises, which was 140 feet deep. The body was gpt by the assistance of some men of the Royal Engineers, Irin ghe sent for the purpose by Sir Frederick Smith, the colon( IL P was quite dead. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." SIX POUNDS of TEA, and upwards, sent, carriage free, to part of the Kingdom, at the Wholesale Price, on receipt of a TO Lance, or Poet-office order. Black, 2s. Bd., 35., 35.4 d., 35. Bd., 45., 4s. 4d. 4s. id., be. Green, 3s. 4d., 3s. ed., 45., 4s. 4d., Si., 55. 4d. 65., 7s. Coffee, 9d., Is., Is. 2d., ls. 4d., Is. 6d., Is. Bd., 15.10d..2$ c% G. T. MANSELL and CO., Wholesale Tea Dealers, 2, 33 , #;00 LERSBURY CIIEAPSIDE. Agencies will be given to res pt°' parties BIRPHS. On the 25th ult., at B ury- court, Mrs. Henry Hilly of daughter. On the 29th ult., at Belford, Northumberland, the 101 4 W. Brodrick, Esq., of a daughter. . - ile . On the 30th ult., at D a lston - terrace , the lady o f - , Williams, Esq., of a son. et On the 30t1) ult., at St. James's, Bermondsey, the Id° George H. Drew, Esq., of a son. of On the 30th ult., the wife of the ReT. Dr. Saunder s ' Charterhouse, of a son. On the 30th ult., in Mansfield-street, Portland-pLicep 11°. William Bodkin, of a son. Ile . On the 31st ult., at Willen Vicarage, the lady of t.ho George Phillimore, of a daughter. e 0 0 On the 31st ult., at Dartford, Mrs. Charles Colyer„ c• 121„..., fl' 1 :e. PETITIONS. Mr S. O'BRIEN presented a petition from Birming ham against the Insolvent Debtors Bill. Mr. HUME presented a petition to the same effect. Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from a meeting of seamen of the port of London, complaining of abuses in the administration of the merchant seamen's funds. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN INDIA AND CHINA. Mr. DENNISTOUN wished to know from the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer whe ther he had made any arrangements for increasing th© steam-boat communication between India and China. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he had communicated with the India Board on the sub ject, and it was their intention that a communication should be established between this country and Suez, and a branch communication direct from Suez to China. lie believed that if the question was not now settled, it would be shortly, and the arrangements would be com plete by the beginning of January, 1845. ART-UNIONS BILL. Mr. WYSE moved the "third reading of the Ar Unions Bill. ➢lr. ESCOTT said that words had been introduced into the Bill, exempting private lotteries, as well as public institutions, from penalties. Now he knew in stances in which persons made a profit of 10 per cent. by private lotteries, and he wished to know whether the House would sanction the words introduced by the Right Hon. Gentleman, exempting such lotteries from penalties. Mr. WYSE said that the only object of the Bill was to indemnify those societies that had laid themselves open to the operations of the law, but it hadno reference to the unions to be established in future. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. C USTOM-HOUSE. On the question that the House resolve itself into a Committee on the Charitable Bequests and Donations (Ireland) Bill. Mr. BROCKLEHURST said he would take that opportunity of asking the Right Hon. Baronet the question of which he had given notice, as to what further evidence and reports may be expected beyond what was delivered this day, in reference to frauds in the Custom house, and what information and assurance can be given as to the intention of the Government to take more vigorous measures during the recess, towards the cor rection of past frauds and the application of efficient checks for the future. Sir ROBERT PEEL, in answer to the Hon. Mem ber's question, said that with respect to what further evidence and reports might be expected in reference to the frauds in the Custom-house, that he believed the next point to which the Commissioners intended to turn their attention was, the control over the legal expenses of the board. With respect the question, whether the Government intended to take more vigorous measures, he was not aware how they could take more vigorous measures than they had done. Every fraud was not only a loss to the Treasury, but an injury to the honest trader, and prompt measures had been taken to suppress them. Mr. WILLIAMS feared that the Custom-house de partment would not be purified until there was a total change there. Mr. lIUME said there was a strong impression pre valent in London that, as long as the Custom-house Board remained in its present situation, it would not give any degree of satisfaction. There must be indi vidual responsibility—that was what they wanted. The Custom-house and Stamp-office departments should form a branch of the Treasury, as in other countries. Whilst individuals, having 4001. or 500/. a year salary, had so much temptation that they could, without much chance of discovery, purloin as much in one day as their whole year's salary, the abuse would be perpetuated. Sonie thing ought to be done to prevent the recurrence of it. Sir R. PEEL considered the introduction of this sub ject as very inappropriate. Mr. WYSE inquired if the Irish Government had taken any measure for the division of the Union of Burnchurch. Lord ELIOT was understood to reply in the affirma• tire. CHARITABLE BEQUESTS (IRELAND) BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill. Sir JAMES GRAHAM gave notice of his intention to move the following amendment ; in the 6th clause, instead of the words " that all matters concerning doc trine and discipline of the Church which shall be in question before the said Committee," he would substitute the words, " that the consideration of all charitable donations and bequests, and matters relating to them, in which any question should arise concerning the usage and discipline of the Churches of England and of Rome." The next alteration was in the 15th clause, and regarded the power of leasing : " That it shall be lawful for archbishops, bishops, and all those in holy orders, in the Catholic Church to execute leases." He thought these alterations would meet all the wishes of the Hon. Gen tleman opposite. Mr. WYSE expressed his approbation of the altera tions made by the Right Hon. Baronet, and thanked him sincerely for them. He, however, thought there was a defect in the Bill as regarded monastic institutions. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said the Bill would give still greater facility to nunneries and such institutions in claiming trusts which had been devised to them. Mr. P. HOWARD took that opportunity of advert ing to certain publications by several clergymen of the Church of England, especially Dr. Newman, respecting monastic institutions. Those divines had written in favour of such institutions, and he (Mr. Howard) thought the Government ought to have left the law respecting them where it stood. Colonel RAWDON expressed his satisfaction with the Government measure. After a few words from Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN, the preamble was agreed to, the House resumed, and the report was brought up, and ordered to be further consi dered to-morrow. DEBTORS' AND CREDITORS' BILL. This Bill passed through Committee, and the repor ordered to be received to-morrow. TRANSFER OF PROPERTY BILL. This Bill passed through Committee, and the report ordered to:be received to-morrow. ARMS (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill passed through Committee, was reported, and ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time to morrow. PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS BILL. This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. SAVINGS' BANKS. Mr. HUME then rose to move that the House would, early in the next session, take into its consideration cer tain resolutions respecting the savings' banks of the United Kingdom, in doing which he said that his object was to place the resolutions on record, so that on a future day they might be referred to.—(The resolutions were of an enormous length, and the Hon. Member said he Would not trouble the Speaker to read them.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that if Hon. Gentlemen would print pamphlets at the public expense, he did not think it was incumbent on the House to read them. He could not believe that the Hon. Gentleman could suppose that the House would agree to such enormous resolutions being carried. The resolutions were then negatived without a division. The House adjourned at Half -past Seven. SUMMER ASSIZES. HOME CIRCUI T.—Guildford, Aug. 2. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baroa GURNEY.) .ARSON.—George Elderfield, 28, was indicted for feloniously setting fire to a stack of straw, the property of John Bicknell. In another count, the stack was said to be the property of the Right Hon. Arthur Earl of Onslow. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Knapp conducted the prosecu tion, and Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner. Mr. CLARKSON having briefly and candidly detailed the facts of the case, called the following witnesses. The case was of rather a singular character, and appeared to create a good deal of interest. Mr. John Bicknell examined by Mr. KNAPP-4 hold a farm called the Wilderness farm, about a mile from Guildford, and which is the property of Earl Onslow. About half-past ten at night, on the 17th of May, I was awoke by an alarm of fire, and I got up immediately and found a straw-rick on fire. The fire very soon com municated to the other buildings, and before the horses and cattle could be got out, several were destroyed. Fifty quarters of oats and two of beans were also burnt. On the next morning the prisoner was brought to my house in the custody of an officer. Charles Hollington—l am inspector of police at Guild ford, and upon my receiving information of the fire, I sent for the engine, and proceeded myself to the spot. I also, for particular reasons, sent a constable to the prisoner's lodgings, and afterwards went there myself, but we could not find the prisoner. We searched for him on our way to the Ere, but could see nothing of him at that time. We again went to the prisoner's lodgings after this, and he was then at home. I asked him where he had been, and he replied, " Laying eel-lines ;" and he added that he had met a young man at the water side, and remained with him until eleven o'clock at night. I told him to show me where the lines were laid, and took him to the river, and he pointed out several places. Ho said he did not know the young man he had been with. I then, in the prisoner's hearing, instructed a constable to watch the river, and told the prisoner I should detain him until I found whether his story was correct. The prisoner said be was thirsty and I gave him some refreshment. While he was eating it he told me it was of no use for the constable to watch the river, for there were no eel-lines there, and he said he would tell me which way he went. At this time Mr. Bicknell's name had not been mentioned. The prisoner then took me over several fields towards Mr. Bicknell's farm, and showed me the track of footsteps, which I have no doubt were made by the shoes of the prisoner. As we were going along the prisoner pointed to a wide hedge, and said he had lain down there and gone to sleep, and that ahbeoduitd five ot in the morning, b so im m . e b l o v y e s :I, g ' o er t e t c o lo t s h e the by, farm b and I told' Mr. Bicknell I had a man in custody w h o h ad ut confessed 'that he caused the fire. Mr. Bicknell asked him if he had ever injured him, and he replied that he had not, and on his asking him how he came to commit such an act, the prisoner said the fact was that he was not right in his head, and that at times he did not know what he was about. Mr. Bicknell then walked with me and the prisoner, and the latter again showed the track of his footsteps, and I afterwards traced them by myself nearly up to the prisoner's lodging, and the way he ap peared to have gone was more than a mile round. The prisoner afterwards told me that he took three lucifer matches from his coat, and the first he tried to light broke. The second ignited, and with it h© set fire to MARRIED. On the 23d ult., at North Witham, Lincoln, the. _ mot pre 4 , l y, Rector of Wacham, Norfolk, to Emily Lloyd. M o rk daugb:or of the Rev. Henry Dowson, incumbent of Frystorf, Yorkshire. On the 30i.!1 ult. at tha 'N ' ectorv, Binfield, Captain pits of the Grenaclier ult., to' aartih, only daughter of t " H. D. Lowndes, Esq. i° 9l On the 30th ult., at Tavisiq;:lc, Devon, R. J. S. -•;°,, Esq., of Tavistock, to Eliza Ann . ., second daughter Bridgman, Esq., of the same place. _ ....o°_,-----' DIED. tscl• On the 25th ult., at Deal, Robert Geotje Sparrow, boigt l On the 26th ult., at Burnaston House; Derby, 02 , Arthur Mosley, of her Majesty's 9 5 th Regimes: t, agecl,, COW On the 30th ult., Mrs. Otway, of the Albany- roar, berwell.,sinion, On the 30th ult., Louisa, third daughter of L. P' 6 • Esq., Paragon, Blackheath'. get tf , On the 31st ult., in Tonbridge - place, Euston -squat f•tb. widow of the late John Palmer, Esq., of Rickmansw( 'r job° On the 29th ult., at Perry Hall, Statfordshin t, Gough, Esq. . Eton' On the 29th ult., at Worcester, Richard Henry, " gi,o o. Esq., son of the late Richard Houton, Esq., of Leamiv,„ S On the 30th ult., at Regent-street, Henry Crokatt, r e , . On the 30th ult., in Milner-square Islington , 31 . Aiii .b. . Higgs, third master of the Proprietary Schoo l. 0f ,P ()n the 30th ult., Mr. Thomas Gardner, 84:11 Thomas ar Gdner, cultil aged 2House, 1 9. I r o rtbili* On the 31st ,at Marlborough Marian, the wife of John Greatrex, Esq. ilolloirsi, On the 31st ult., at Spring Cottage, upp er Jemima, relict of Mr. Joshua Greaves, of Brixton.. ,Theries, On the 31st ult., at Albert-terrace, Kines-roaa, '-' e th Sophia, relict of the late W. Wyburn. lita )) On the Ist inst., at Faulkbourne, Essex, 1 ~, 411 ' .-r!:- Wrangham, aged 68. --------''''''''" ..-- , of yOlPl u i lt 17 London: Printed and Published by MURD9,of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sus 0 ul ce 'tlt . Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, the Middlepez, Saturdiry, Anguet 3, 1844. T 1;, "lee Dro ce Ne wc 4 0.4 Thl 4-44 or tli.. TL ,!• DrJtiu!. c4r, T 1 havi All. ern ') the 11 kid s Iron, Ti then .. Ti .0t c t, l l)ki , rie, altec datio i .sdr t rek ' , The NVik tir , (2 0 ,4 , 1 1441, 11 C"S3 04, °Don klp,„ Kean 1 4, 04