The Sun. — London, England, 1844-07-29 00:00:00

PI ZIT of thii PUBLIC JOURNAL S FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. 'GLOBE—A new writ was moved last night for Cirencester, in the room of Mr. Master. We have no shame in saying that we never heard of Mr. Master, till we heard of his accepting the Chiltern Hundreds. He will be succeeded, of course, by some new no minee of Lord Bathurst. The borough of Cirencester, which returns two Members, has, we find by a Parlia mentary return presented to the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. Ilume, during this session, 496 electors, of whom 153 are qualified as ten-pound house holders, and 343 as potwallopers. The gentle-phrased " Parliamentary Coinpanion" tells us of this borough, 4 .` Lord Bathurst has some influence here." The fact i Cirencester is a cornple nomination borough. Mr. Cripps , the banker in the town, returns one Member (at present his son), and Lord Bathurst the other. Why Lord Bathurst's late nominee retires, or who Lord Bathurst's new nominee is to be, we do not know, nor do we care ; but this we know, that the sooner this and sixty or seventy other nomination boroughs are got rid of, the better. And they must be got rid of. Cirencester is a large constituency, in comparison with many others. At Andover, we find by the same return, 240 electors send two Members to Parliament; Lymingtoie in Hampshire, 282 electors return two Members. Constituencies of this size are inevitably governed by proprietary influence or bribery. We have had elections during the present session for Abing don, Woodstock, Launceston, Christchurch, Horsham, and Devizes. The first five places return one Member each. Huntiagdon and Devizes each return two. Abingdon has 158 electors; Wood stock, 392 ; Launceston, 344 ; Christchurch, 327 ; Horsham, 339 ; Huntingdon, 374 ; Devizes, 374. The number of electors in every one under 400 ! Why, will; a farce of popular representation is this ! The Duke of Marlborough does what he likes with Woodstock, the Duke of Northumberland with Launceston, Sir G. Rose with Christchurch, the Duke of Norfolk with Horsham s and Lord Sandwich with Hunt ingdon. At Abingdon and Devizes every one knows .that money and proprietary influence together do the business. The 158 electors of Abingdon strengthened the Government by returning the Solicitor-General, when his Grace of Afarlborough vvould have nothing more to do with him at Woodstock. What a proud proof of popular confi dence! And even to gain this great popular victory, his " elegenee" had to come down with scramble-money ! With the exception of Horsham, the Members for all these bre•oughs are supporters of the Government ; and the Member for Horsham is a protectionist. We trust that the Liberal party will not allow Cirencester to be trans ferred from one noodle-nominee to another without a contest, even though the contest be hopeless. Let some one go there to sow the seeds of sound principles, which on a future day may be fruitful, and to expose the nomi nation system of the borough. STANDARD.—The debate upon the subject of drainage, though opened in a bad spirit by Lord .Normanby, was useful, as whatever forces atten tion to the subject must be useful. The health of large towns must ever remain precarious, until . these towns shall be sufficiently secured against the presence of stagnant water. We say the presence of stagnant water, because great mis apprehension prevails upon this subject, as it—is genernlly supposed that the absence of ill smells and of filth obvious to the senses, is a sufficient guarantee for health. The reverse is the fact ; dry dirt, however of fensive to the senses, is comparatively harmless, whereas the exhalation from the wet soil, though damped by the, purest water, and the exhalations from stagnant water, however pure, are fatal. The proximity of a per fectly limpid fish-pond has been known to perpe tuate fever in a house until the cause of the mischief was removed, though, unhappily, not until after the sweeping away of successive families. On the other hand, few persons enjoy better health than those living in the foetid atmosphere of slaughter-houses; tallow-chandleriei, and the like. Drainage properly so called—the removal of water—is that to which tee Legislature must first direct its attention" if it would secure - the public he filth, cleanli ness would be no doubt an important auxiliary to dryness, even in preserving health ; and it hes great influence upon morals, as well as being essen tial to comfort, but the first great object, we repeat it, is to exclude wet and damp. As the Legislature has taken up . this subject, we hope that it will ultimately extend its care for the happiness and well-being of the poor a little reedier. Something is wanted to provide better lodging for labourers in largo towns (the field garden allot ment system will do much in the country and in villages). We are persuaded that with facilities and encouragement afforded by the Legislature, capitalists ',light be tempted to invest money in the erection of whet we y call labourers' barracks, in which each labourer might have a room and a bed to himself at a small rent, instead of being driven, as they now are, to sties in St. Giles's, for half or a third of a bed in the filthiest recesses of which they pay is. 6d. and 2s. per week. There can be little doubt that a barrack eapeble of comfortably accommodating one hundred men might be substantially built for 5,0001., the present interest of which sum, invested in Consols, is 150/. per * annum ; but 100 men paying no more than one shilling et-week each, would give 2601. a-year. There would be, t:Serefore no loss upon the investment • whereas the benefit to the poor, both the direct benefit to those lodged in the barrack, and the indirect benefit in reduc ing rents generally, would be of inestimable value ; nor would the labouring classes be the only gainers—those infectious and contagious diseases whic periodically sweep through all ranks with impartial cruelty, however originating, are always nursed in the crowdee abodes of poverty. For ourselves, when we see any street or district of streets not of the very worst Oescription, thrown down _ for any public improve ment, we are disposed to 'ask, what has become e e t iee inhabitants? and the unpleasant answer that occurs is, that they have probably removed to some wo, - se place—far though there are some decent smell streets in the remoter suburbs, poor people, whose constant daily toil lies in the city; can hardly afford to in crease their labour by an' additional three miles' walk in the morning, and as much more at night,. we should therefore rejoice to see the very, worst districts evis cerated, and labourers' barracks, with spacious surround ing areas, in the room of the present abominable edifices The "BUSINESS" of PARLIAMENT. A sunrise or so ago, we paused, as once Wordsworth 'Tensed, on Westminster-bridge, and, smitten by the ,oene; fell, like the poet of Rydal Mount; into deep ph,losophic thinking. We thought of the Abbey, and o t. t h p two-pences taken at its doors ; we thought of the d ean - a: ld chapter, and their tenants; of the Almonry; of the rejee.s.ed statue of Byron, and of the onslaught of Baron Fi t 'ziaardinge. And then we turned towards the rising ;vans of the new Houses of Parliament, and. thinking of their cost, asked ,despairingly what is the good of then; Yes, fellow-countrymen, we put it to you—are not Bousee of Parliament, old and new, vain .and useless as Egyptian cenotaphs'? We put it to ti! NiastriOus and di,,passionnZe man, who, with a patience_ tj l :, - t must surely be a set-off. to some minor sins, plods his ,% through the daily debates of Parliament-,we. Pitt it yr him Whether the business of the country, as it, is grat'ely called by some droll talkers, might not be , More effie.ently performed by some mechanic means, than by the six hundred and fifty-eight learned indi viduals „o w L lvet in - February to do everything, and senart, to tn:st, h:tring done nothing?, Really the trick .is ni - or so old, tact; t We wonder at the courage of any p,r, of .Ministers - win: can repeat it. At the opening of s.ession bow bcallt..roil is legislative alacrity !, ~ f ter measure is prorniscd—nay, is fairly bronght one, perhaps two I,:adings, and is dropped for anot:;fn- session, to he dropped pgain. A night or two S:100k; Sir R. Peel, with one of his blandest smile', in f.rt,,ed the 'nous, that .ho would ict it know what r i me i t h a d hat upon Bills not 4, be_ proceeded with ; h e (Add count .the addled eggs, and in the sezion they !right poor, defrauded —sit again. If Herr Dobler or the Wizard of were bt conjure after this fashion, the audience tip the benches. Returning to the new f Parliament. we must again protest against, ti,,, uas b,,vished upo 'them. For what busines4 tua - beet? c :reefed in n the present session that might :,are been u ciently transacted in a t entry-box ? '\ In then, ti.2f . se costly buildings for men to do nothing in ?. Why, 1, deed,. should we have Members of _Parliament at all, h err otre we are that Mr. Babbage ‘ xotild construct a legislatin machine, which, in the hands Peal, would fully arniA v s erall the purposes of living • s tl)4 ,`ors ? We are serious. We ti,,,erefore proposa that, at t!),, ur • - iit election, every gentleman desirous of affixing to his name should, on his ele;!tion, send his pruXy 10. •whine. to the House of Common, setting the . is,,tc l irrept ~at "Aye" and "No," us Mr. liabbsge wilt ilt,truct him'. on eertam questions, and . suffering the Mini.try to isi - e their divisions accordingly. The result of tlie present session convinces us that the " business of Ili, country" %v,;ll be got through quite as well' as by, the nresent mode with this advantage, that the ma chines may be put rtilYwhere•—Punch• s 1 i t!g- ImA:rip OF IcuAnou.—The brig Grace, of :Newcastle, Captain Wilkin, arrived at Shields- on Sa turday last, from _fells-bee, bringing 800 tons of prime gtettio. The Grace left the island on the Ist of May, and there were thirty-seven vessels than loading and waiting for cargo es , with others coming every day. F rom a sitaament made by the mate of the vessel, we learn that the stock of guano is one-third gone, and that 100 vessels have taken this portion away. The thickness varies fvoin 30 to 40 feet; but a few feet of the surface consists of the skins of birds and other rubbish, which has to be removed before getting at the genuine ma in faci ng , eac h s hi p t h e i r own, terial. After this t he y d i g and then it is taken to the shore in bags and barrows, and carried along ajetty(ereeted with the vessel's spars, planks, .and yards) into a boat, and thence to the ship. The vessels :lie about 300 yards from the shore, and at times the surf is ,veryhcavy, so that the jetty becomes a matt er o f necessity. The Grace's boat once upset with eight hands, and •it was with difficulty the crew reached the shore. 14 yes -8 , AA can load at once ; and those which are waiting their t r help the nearest l oaded vessel, and then tak e her place's A large boat was purcha sed b y the ca p tain of the `Gra c - : to load with, and he sold it to another when he left. Th e ,.„ re a few labourers who live on board the ships, and a l so coin •vanies at London, Liverpool, &c. The shore is quite as far as regards inhabitants ; _ but there are annum sn. •ble quantities of seabirds, .c . alled ‘ . 4 pen guins,", and an ,. ,they tribe, called by the sailors shags. ' One or two eggs of the latter bird _have been brought home by the crew, which were found at the depth of 30 feet in the guano, ite perfect. The cargo was quite a speculation of the cai. , tain's , own. The vessel having been at the Cape 0f.G00. 1 Ilope, and having heard there of thks manure, well.— he took tl'e ship and succeeded Sn»derland Herald. The Secretary to the New Priso: Commission had ito interview withl Lord Wharucliff e , at ;he Privy Counil cam, on Saturday. UNION-HALL. Henry Shillingswo;th, a butcher in St. George's Market, was charged with wantonly and cruelly cutting off the tail of a pig, denominated the " Learned Pig," which has been for some time exhibited about the town in a caravan. William Manley stated that he was a showman, and was the owner of a very e x t r aordin a ry pig, whicli he exhibited, and which was the chief maintenance of his family. On Thursday last, he sent his little daughter to give the animal an airing after a long confinement in the van, and, as she led it with a chain to its neck round St. George's Market, on passing the defendant's slaughter-house, he cut its tail off with a large knife. The complainant here exhibited the tail, which appeared to have been sliced off close to the poor pig's haunches. The complainant added that the defendant acknow ledged to a man named Randall that he committed the act, saying that he was urged to it by a Mr. Bennett, who defied him to touch the pig's tail. Mr. TRAILL asked the defendant what he had to say in answer to the charge, which was one that exhibited great cruelty towards a poor dumb animal ? The defendant said that, as he was going into the slaughter house, the pig was in his way ; he happened to have a knife in his hand, and, intending to strike it with the blunt edge of it, he, by mistake, struck it with the sharp edge, and cut off its tail. Be declared that he had no intention to maim the pig, and that it was quite an accident. Mr. TRAILL asked the complainant's daughter whether she believed the defendant had cut off the pig's tail acci dentally ? The witness replied in the negative : that she was leading the• pig along gently, with the chain round its neck, and just as she was passing the alaugh• ter-house the defendant ran to the pig, and stooping down, cut off its tail. Mr. 'TRAILL--What did he do then ? Witness—He burst out laughing when he saw the tail on the ground. The pig began to squeak most.terribly. I was frightened, and ran off to my father, and told him what had hap pened. Mr. TRAILL—Did you say anything to the defendant when he acted with such brutality? Witness—Yes. I exclaimed, " Ah, you have cut off poor Toby's tail, and you'll catch it from my father."—(Laughter.) I took Toby with me, squeaking all the way and bleeding, but I left his tail behind me on the ground, and it was after wards brought home by a little boy. The defendant called a Mr. Bennett for the purpose of proving that the pig's tail was accidentally cut off, but this attempt to disprove the charge completely failed. Mr. TRAILL asked the complainant what value he put upon the pig ? The showman replied that it was inva luable to him ; that it was capable of performing many curious tricks, an:l was a source of considerable profit to him_by its exhibition. Mr. - Meru—Your pig .was distinguished by its intel lectual qualifications, therefore it won't suffer much by the loss of its tail. You can exhibit as usual,can't you ? Showman—The pig is so disfigured by the want of a tail that I am afraid he won't be so popular with the public as he Was before.—(Laughter.) Mr. TRAILL—What are . the tricks he performs ? Showman—He would tell the hour of the day by the cards—would tell young women's fortunes, and intimate by the cards the number of children they are likely to have when married, and (Laughter.) Mr. TRAILL—That will do. I have heard quite enough of Tuby, the learned pig. The. act committed by the defendant was cruel in the extreme, and deserves severe reprehension. BOW- STREET. Mr. Thoma s B arr i,* Chitty- Meader, landlord of the Ship publit.t-house, in Essex-street, Strand, appeared upon a summons to answer a complaint preferred against him by the police, for opening his house on the 14th, being Sunday, before the hourof one o'clock in the after ::win. Mr. l)uncomhe appeared for the defendant. Inspector Black, F division, stated that at a quarter before twelve o'clock at noon he found, in a room up stairs, three men eating bread and cheese. There were also fir a room - fronting the river one man and two women sitting at the sarhe table, with a quart pot beforii them, three parts of which was full of beer. There wa, also a man sitting next to the window-with a glass befo te him, j . containing a small quantity of pale ale.' He then eft the A Claims OLD HousE.--Among the various house, having acquainted the landlady of the rcum- buildings in West-street, (formerly called Chick-lane), stance, but the defendant Was not present.. now about to bepulled down for the Clerkenwell improve- In his cross-examination the witness said that the meats, is a house, supposed to have been built at least landlady told him to turn the persons out of thei house. 300 years ago, once known. as the Red Lion Tavern, The company war ott the same floor with the kitchen, but for the past century used as. a lodging-house, and" and he did not observe that there was a w, tiding party the known resort of thieves, and the lowest grade in the hogs'. The premises were close to the pier, and of the frail sisterhood. It is situated on the west side lie never saw any p erson i n th e com p an y b e f ore . of the Fleet River, now called th e Fl ee t. Ditch, and, Mr. Dubcombe said the circum s t a nces connectt.l.l with used as a common sewer ; and from its remark the case. were, very brief, fur the females found in the , able, adaptation as a hiding-place, . with its various house were no lass than a bride and her bridesmaid, who means of escape, is well deserving a visit of the curious. ,being morning from Chelsea, and t nown . had clime thatlts - dark closets, trap-doors, sliding panels, secret re to the maid-servant ,of the honse, she, v e ry na t ur a l uy i n - 1 cesses and .hiding places, no doubt rendered .it one of vited them to. take somethot in on such a memor a bl e oc . i the most. secure places fur robbery and murder. It was casion, to which theY seemed nothing loth, and having I here that a chimney-sweep, named Jones, who escaped a gone to her mistress, she rurned in a short time with I out of Newgate, about three years since, was so something rot an exhilarating nature, of which th e y par- i securely, hidden, that, although it was repeatedly took without, paying for it. . They were shortly after I searched by the police, lie was never disco joined.by some male friends who were acquainted with . vered, till it was divulged by one of its inmates, the landlord, and on geeing the police enter, they went , who, by incautiously observing that he knew where out and walked on the pier until he returned. , ' abouts he was concealed, was taken up, and remanded A young female, of interesting appearance, 'having from time to time, as an accessory to his escape, but who proved the facts above stated, . . at last, tired of prison fare, and prison discipline, pointed Mr. TWYYQED said the police were not altogether .t o • out the place to obtain his own liberty. He was concealed blame in taking notice of the circumstance, and as a suf- by parting off a portion of a cellar with brickwork well ticient answer had been made, ho considered het could besmeared with so o t a nd di r t, t o pre v ent detection. This come to no other conclusion than - to dismiss til l cot-.' cell, or more properly den,, is about four feet wide by nine I in depth; and during Jones's incarceration therein, he had plaint. I food conveyed to him thr oug h a sma ll a p er t ur e, by a brick The lion. W Ross Toucliet was placed at the bar for re-examination, charged with firing a pistol at the or two being left out ne x t th e ra f te r s . It was here, abo u t the; , seven years since, that a sailor was robbed, and after of Mr. T. Smith, proprietor of a shooting gallery, in High Holborn, the contents of which lodged in hit loins, , wards flung naked through one of the convenient aper with intent to murder him. i , ture, in (the wall, into the said sewer, for which two and a woman were men transported for fourteen years. A solicitor attended to conduct the proiecutiov , and A Mr. Clarkson, with a gentleman from the ollfica of' skull, and numerous human bones, have been round cellars, some of which have been taken away by the prisoner. Mr. Smith's son, who was present .on the Messrs. Stephens and Wilkinson, appeared on behalf of in the , . Mr. I aylor, the police medical officer. On one occasio n , r melancholy occasion, and Mr. Collins, a jeweller and though the premises were surrounded by seven police silversmith, residing in Green-terrace Clerkenwell who .officers, a thief made his escape by its communications , , is st e p -b ro th er o f M r . S m ith, were also in attendance. with the adjoining houses, which were all let out to the A certificate was handed to the Magistrate&inn the ' lowest charact , rs. Numerous parties daily visit the pre house-surgeon of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to the raises, among whom have been many of the police and effect that Air. Smith was going on well, but as hi could county not yet be p ronounce d out o f.d anger , h e cou ld no t a t ten d basil magistrates. TEE • . STATE TRIALS.—The Judges will not to give evidence until a future day. . all be in town until Friday, the 23d of August ; Mr. TWYFORD, addressing Mr. Smith, jun., sal there their Lordships shortly afterwards will have a was every rea son to h ope that h i s f ather wou ld b e mee ti ng to consider the. , questions propounded to enabled, at a future day, to come forward and give them by the House of Lords, and it is generally evidence, that the ease might be sent to the jury in a expected that judgment in the case of Mr. D. proper form; in the meantime the prisoner shold be O'Connell, and the other traversers, will be given either remanded for a fortnight. I ; on Thursday, the 29th, or Friday, the 30th of August. The gentleman who attended on the part of Mr. Smith, As before stated, when the public business of Parliament }aid it was by no means certain that Mr. Smith!would is brought to a close, both Houses will adjourn from recover( ;;.;fficiently in a fortnight to give evidence: , time to : time until the judgment on the writ of error is Mr. TWYFORP ;!,,j4 if 'he was not well enough by that puonounced. There will he no- formal prorogation until that question is deeicied.—Ministerialpsper. The Magistrate then inflicted a fine of 1/. 12s. nn the defendant, and in default of pa)ment:committed Ilia) for ten days. A PLEASANT BEDFELLOW. I was awakened,ad last night, by a v i o l e nt s t orm o f thunder - . and wind and rain. Hard dreaming as I was, I had sense enough left t o f ee l something moving in the b e d, an d by th e li g ht f rom nlighning, a flash of lightning, to my y unspeakable horror I saw, crawling over the mattress, a cobra de capello. He his head when he came to my body, and slowly crawled on to my legs; and, as there was nothing over me hut a thin cotton Sheet, I could distinctly feel the cold, clamm, body of the venemous reptile through the sheet. the heat of' my body seemed agreeable to the monster, as he coiled himself up there. I lay dead still; I knew my life-depended upon my remaining motionless ; for, had I moved a leg or an arm, he would' instantly - have bitten me, after vatich I could not have lived many minutes. A *cold sweat ran in a stream down my back ; I was in an agony of terror. Home and friends, and all that was dear to me, rushed to the memory ; my whole life passed in re view before me. I saw no way of escape, and I eon- Sidered my doom sealed; every flash of lightning showed me my new bedfellow, in all his loathsome. ness. Well; there the reptile lay, but how long heaven knows ; to me the time appeared inter minable. When I had lain in one position abont three hours, my legs became sore and stiff, from having been kept so long motionless ; and at this time, I gave an involuntary shudder, which at tracted the notice of the reptile. He raised his head about a foot high, thrust out his forked tongue, and looked around him, as if for some living' object to prey upon. I now thought it was all over with me. I prayed mentally (for I dared not move my lips for fear of at tracting notice) for the forgiveness of my sins, when—. Heaven be praiied!=the reptile unfolded his coils, and crawled slowly away from off my on to the bed, d own b y th e bed-post to the floor, .and then l e f t tne. It h as be en sa id, that poverty makes a man acquainted with strange bedfellows; it might b added, so does wandering in foreign clirnes.—Fr om Journal of a Wanderer. THE gAltVEST.—Owing to the great number of agriculturists from all parts of the two western coun ties, who have, during the last few days, embarked at this place for Southampton to attend the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, we have been able to make very extensive inquiries relative to the harvest. " One and all" are exhilarated by the fine prospects which are presented. The white crops will a ll b e goo d, b u t w heat especially ; a hich will l'e far bey on d th e average in s traw as well as grain ; while even the green crops, which it was thought were damaged, and in some instances destroyed , by the long drought, h ave b een surpr i s i ng ly invigorated by the late rains. Thi s i s goo d news f o r the poor and the country at large.-- W es t of England Conservative. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JULY 26.—The de mand conti nues s t ea dy, b u t not active ; nearly 700 tierces W e st I n di a are re ported to have been sold during the week, and prices are unaltered. Bengals and Mauriti us are fl a t, an d but little business has been done i o. these descriptions during the week. Rum con tinues in.YerY good demand, and the offices have been cleared of samples at extreme priccs.—Bristol Mercury. r. . LANY I NTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, July 27. (Before Mr, Commissioner GOULBURN.) - ROE V. BLACHFORD. The above case, which was ordered for to-day, we,s not gone into, and the further examination will not, therefore, take place at present. i‘s THE MATTER OF BIONTEFIORE AND MONTEFIORE. This being the day appointed for the granting of the bankrupt's certificate, the case was called on at twelve o'clock. when Mr. Chambers appeared for the bankrupts, Mr. Bramwell for Mr. De Castro and Mr. Lucas, two of . the assignees, as well as the great body of the creditors. Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Miller attended to oppose the bankrupts, on the part of the other assignees, Messrs.' A. A. Goldstnid and Mr. Ward. • • Mr. Edwin James said that he was there to oppose the bankrupts on the part of Mr. Goldamid and Mr. Ward, 'two of the assignees; and as he knew that his Learned Friend, Mr. Bramwell, would perhaps urge s that his clients were actuated by factious motives, he (Mr. James) would, with his Honour's permission, state in what partienlar manner the assignees, De Castro and Lucas, were connected with the bankrupts. The first was a creditor for the sum of 4,0001., and the bankrupts I had given him a preference to that amount. The second was brother in-law to one of - the bankrupts. The state of affairs in the present case was by no means flourishing. The probability was, that the assets in the schedule would not pay more, than 3d. in the pound, and the se parate estates would yield at most 2s. 6d. ; for while the amount of the liabilities was 42,4881. the sum to be realised was only 1,5001. The bankrupts carried on business in London, in Sydney, and in Hobart Town, as he would prove to his Honour, in the most reckless manner. They failed in January, 1841, but offered no composition, simply requesting that time might be given them. To this the creditors at once as sented, and they executed a deed, agreeing that that a period of three years should be allowed in order that the bankrupts might overcome their difficulties. In that period certain circumstances took place which would, he trusted, disincline the Court to grant their certificates, or if it did grant them, to annex conditions calculated to do the creditors justice at a remote period, which the bankrupts seemed willing to overlook now. In August, 1843, a fiat was struck against Joseph Montefiore, and in the February of the following year a joint fiat was taken out against the two. Thus ' he, (Mr. James) would observe, the means of strictly in the bankrupts' affairs were hardly afforded, because they, having douses in Hobart Town and Syd ney, and only nine months elapsing from the date of the fiat to the passing that Court, it was perfectly impossible that the creditors could have any means of satisfying themselves as to the correctness of the schedule. He would now direct the attention of the Court to the posi tion of Mr. Goldamid, his client, and one of the as signees, with respect to the bankrupts. In 1839 the bank rupts were indebted to Mr. Goldamid in the sum of • 20,0001, for which they gave a bond. They must have been then, he was almost justified in supposing, con scious of their insolvent condition, for it was only by taking 35,0001. in debts as good, which, in 1844, were proved hopelessly bad, that they . could imagine them selves solvent. lie would next point out to his Honour their mode of dealing with some property in the color tiles. Just twelve days after giving Mr.Goldsmid the bond for 20,0001., they i executed contemporaneously a post nuptial settlement n favour of their wives, but in this set • tlement they reserved a life interest for themselves. What did they do at the period of bankruptcy in 1841 ? In January of that year they stopped, and in August they revoked their life interest in the property, and gave to their wives the priority. It was stated in one of their private letters to be worth 4001. a-year, and he con tended that in common justice the creditors ought to 'have had the benefit of such property. There was an other transaction which, in his opinion, did no credit to the character of an English merchant. Mr. Joseph Moutefiuie. was in. the. colonies. in 1841, and it appeared sold farming stock, on what was called the Wellington land, for 8,5001. This was in the interval during which their,.craditors had extended to them the indulgence of time, and how were they treated? Mr. Joseph brought home in the whole 5,1001., being there .fore mintis 3,4001., which they (the creditors) under stood vas settled on a Miss Sheepland there. That was all .they knew of it. The Learned Counsel th en r ea d selections from letters passing between the partners, one 'of which was—" You will see that I have written in a par ' ,ticular strain,a sort ofpolitical mode, as that fellow must see it." Such were the flattering terms in which they spoke of his client Mr. Guldsmid, to whom they were indebted 20,00 9 / 4 and with whom they were incensed because he did not advance another 40,0001. He would continue • the extract—" as well as the general body of our ere ditorst" \Vas this the integrity that their creditors should expect at their hands ? The Learned Counsel then adVerted to the preference evinced towards Mr. de Castro's claim, and concluded a powerful address by calling on the Hon. Commissioner not to grant their Certificates. • . Mr. CHAMBERS addressed the Court at great length. The present application was a most important one, and would materially affect the character of the bankrupts, whose transactions had been extensive, and who had hitherto maintained an unsullied reputation. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN, in giving his opinion, took a review of. the case (having previously called on the official assignee to state his opinion on ,the conduct of the bankrupts since the fiat was issued). He held that the bankrupts had passed through the ordeal to which they had been subjected without reproach, and that they would leave the Court as unfortunate men, with unscathed characters. The Learned Commissioner said this case illustrated the benefit of placing the granting of a certificate in the hands of the Court, which was a decided improvement in the law. The bankrupts received their certificate. t time,.the prisoner should be remanded again to await the arrival of Mr. Smith, whose evidence would be very I brief. After a few observations from Mr. Clarkson, the pri soner, who seemed very indifferent as to the result of the investigation, was removed from the bar. James Bailey, a middle aged man, described as a ear -1 penter ' was brought up in the custody of a constable of the A, division, charged with threatening the life of Mr. James Dasell, a clerk in the Army Pay-office. 'The complainant, who has been a clerk in the War office for twenty-five years, stated that, in consequence of new arrangements made in Chelsea Hospital, the pay ment of pensioners was removed to the War-office. He knew the defendant, with whom he had frequent com munications, respecting his restoration to the pension list, from which his name was struck off in the year 1819. In the early part of the present-year he came to the hospital, and holding up his fist, sail " he would yet do fur him," under the impression that he (witness) was instrumental in having his name struck off the list. He had made up his mind when he had removed from Chelsea he should see no more of the defendant, but on the 11th inst. he made his appearance at the Army Pay office, and in a menacing manner made further inquiries after him, of which he gave information to the police, by whom he was advised to give him in charge, and as he repeated his visit on Friday he was taken into custody. A gentleman connected with the same office proved he was well acquainted with the defendant for some time, and whenever he made his appearance he seemed in a most excited state, fancying that the complainant had been his enemy, in having his name erased from the pension list. Since the complainant left Chelsea he made several inquiries, and in consequence of his general manner, witness thought it necessary to put his friend upon his guard, for he said he would find him out wherever he went. In answer to the Court, Mr. Dasell declared he daily went in fear of the defendant, from his generally excited manner. The defendant said the complainant on a farmer occa sion accused him of cowardice and desertion, which, being false, affected him deeply, for he had served with credit through the whole of the Peninsular war, in which he had been disabled, and he denied having ever used any threat. Mr. TWYFORD ordered him to put in bail, himself in 601, and two sureties in 30/ each, to keep the peace for the next three months. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Hugh Grady, a person holdin g a situation in the Jews'-garden at Chiswick, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having indecently exposed his person to several young women in Kensington-gardens. The charge was fully proved by two nurse-maids, Sarah Pearce and Elizabeth Drury. The fellow exposed himself three times to them, and he was given into cus tody as soon as they could communicate his filthy con duct to a constable. The prisoner said he was well known to the nobility and gentry. He had an unfortunate complaint upou him, w'nich obliged him to seek relief in an expeditious manner, and this had most probably led to the mistake into which the young women had fallen. A third witness, however, came forward, and put the matter beyond doubt that the exposure was intentional. Mr. HARDWICK sent the prisoner to the treadmill for three months. Mr. Picnot, the proprietor of the Bedford Hotel, Bear street, was summoned, at the instance of the police, for permitting disorderly conduct in his house. The charge was proved by Inspector Beresford, who sail that persons were fighting in the house and eaus ing much disturbance. _ The landlady said, it was impossible to prevent bad characters from occasionally coming into the house. The hotel was conducted in the most respectable way, and if any disturbance did occur, the most prompt means were resorted to, in order to expel the disturbers. Inspector Ber.:sford said the inhabitants had com plained of the way in which the house was conducted, and he had good reason for saying that, if a better sys tem was not adopted it was probable the Magistrates would suspend the license. Mr. HARDWICK inflicted the fine of 4/. and costs. LAMBETH-S7 BEET. Jacob Michael, a well-dressed Jew, who was described as a general dealer at North Shields, was placed within the felons' bar, before Mr. Norton, -on a charge of con spiracy, with Simon Simmons (at present in custody), in octaiaing goods to the amount of nearly 601. from Mr. J. N. Hart, of the firm of Hart and Son, watchmakers and jewellers, of King -street, Finsbury, by fraud and false pi e tences. WHAT SORT OF EDUCATION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE POOR ? After a very protracted discussion, the prisoner was ordered to find bail for his appearance at this Court to-day, when Simmons will be . , brought_ up fur further examination. After struggling for above a century, the opponents of general education have been reduced to silence, and are compelled to give in their adhesion t' some kind of general education. The question now is one of degree. The old oppo nents of education are still for giving as little as law sible, and that of the worst sort. A little reading, less writing, and no arithmetic, is what their liberality would extend to; but still the two latter cannot he absolutely refused, anl though reading can be con fined at schoolg' to hymns, psalms, catechisms, and tracts, the schoAmaster, who -is sure to be imbibed with a better spirit than his haughty superiors, is led to give instnictions in writing and arithmetic of the best kind to some of the better scholars, who neces sarily become favourites, and almost his . adopted children. Never was there a greater mistake than to narrow the education given to the bulk of the people. It ought to be as extensive and liberal as possible, for nature is very capricious in her gifts, and, instead of following the ordinances of man, and giving the best minds to the great and noble, she is frequently de mocratic enough to confer them on the meanest and poorest of the people, who sometimes, if they can but obtain a scrap of education, will work out wonders, and have often astonished the world with their prodi' gious discoveries, far surpassing all that was ever made by the proudest disciples of the schools. If some of the cheap and popular publishers of the day would give well-condensed biographies of all the great men who have sprung from the common people and acquired immortal fame through the strength of their own, often unaided, and frequently persecuted genius, they would confer a greater benefit upon society than by almost any other work of the kind which has hitherto been published. Let us briefly glance at a few. The intricate Ptolemaic systens, supported by Aristotelean dogmas, had maintained undisputed possession of the schools for hundreds of years ; to have questioned it would have brought the Inquisition and the thunders of the Church down upon the head of the impious innovator; for, in those days,to reason was considered synonymous with Atheism. Copernicus, a poor obscure Polish Roman Catholic priest, appeared, and contended that, instead of the sun, going round this little lump of earth of ours, the earth went round the sun. The learned world stood astonished at the assurance of the contemptible priest ; but truth, whenever she shows herself, is invincible ; Copernicus at once divided the learned world, and half of it became relu3tant con verts. Still, as both systems were little better than theories, no further 'advance could be made without more nunteroas and . accurate observations, to obtain what no unsound theory can withstand—facts. The father of Galileo was so poor that he could not maintain his son at Pisa; he applied for a bursary ; was disappointed, and Galileo seemed doomed to hope less poverty, when he obtained a patron in Guido Ri baldi, who got him a lectureship at 15/. a-year, and this poor scholar, who left college because un able to defray the expense of a doctor's degree, upset all the learned schools in Europe ; at tacked with fearlessness Aristotle's doctrines of mechanics, and overthrew, as with the spear of Ithuriel, his fine-spun theories of the perfec tion, smoothness, and absolute incorruptible essence of the heavenly bodies; for Galileo had a telescope, in: vented and made by himself in his hand, and dis covered the rugged irregular surface of the moon, and what was far more important, the satellites that revolve around the planet Jupiter. So palpable and striking an analogy to the primary planets ~ revolving about the sun, furnished an argument in favour of the Copernican theory, to which the most bigoted followers of Aristotle could scarcely with hold assent. And how did the enemies of education meet these truths ? They declared the doctrine of the earth's motion to be false, and imprisoned Galileo. " It is in vain," exclaimed Pascal with honest zeal, " that you have procured against Galileo a decree from Rome condemning the opinion of, the earth's motion. Assuredly that will never prove it to be at rest; and if we have unerring observations proving that it turns round, not all mankind together can keep it from turning, nor themselves from turning." ' Those observations were made by Tycho Brahe, who, not being a poor man, nor a commoner, does not come within our range ; but the immortal Kep ler, every way Tycho Brake's superior, does. At twelve years of age we find him a poor sickly pot boy in a miserable public-house kept by his father. He afterwards went to the University at Tubingen. The word university has an aristocratic sound in an English ear ; for though in former days Oxford could boast of 30,000 poor students, all commoners, both our English Universities have long since been devoted exclusively to the education of the rich, and the poor, with here and there an excep tion, as in' Bishop Prideaux's instance, have long since been prohibited from entrance to places origi nally built expressly for their use. But the terms " university" and " student" have a widely different meaning in Germany, a clear though not very full account of which may be found in the Life of Thomas Platter in the 79th volume of the " Family Library," containing the " Lives of Individuals who raised themselves from poverty to eminence or fortune." Another strong instance of the importance to so ciety itself of giving to the very lowest classes an op-' portunity of obtaining education is furnished in 'the life of Valentine Jomerai Duval, librarian to the Duke Leopold, of Lorraine. He was the son of a labouring man, who left a wife and large family in a season of unusual scarcity. Duval kept turkies for a master by whom he was almost starved. He afterwards became cowherd to the four hermits of St. Anne, who assisted him in gaining some useful knowledge, and taught him to write; and the use of figures in arithmetic. His own genius led him to study astronomy, and, obtaining some old maps of the world and of the constellations, he was enabled to make a kind of a.rmillary sphere—in which the earth was a ball of clay, and' the lines bent hazel twigs. Thus, almost without any human assistance, and with the aid of a few old books, he mastered, to a considerable extent, mathematics, and, as all self-taught persons an, irre gular in their studies, heraldry. It was in the midst of a forest, clad in the homeliest habiliments, and pursuing his studi es , t h at h e was f oun d b y Leo pold Duke of Lorraine, who took him in his rude garb, and sent him to the college at Lunneville, where he subsequently became professor of history, antiquities, and of ancient and modern geography. This is one of the numerous instances in which genius has forced itself to eminence in spite of all ob stacles; but 'if we wish to have a serious, happy, in dustrious population, means of extending education to en, on the most liberal scale practicable, must be supplied.---/3righton Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A grey-headed old man, named James Thompson Irvine, who, it was evident, had seen prosperous days, ap plied to Su- John Key by letter, which stated his melan choly case to the following effect :-- In the year 1804, the applicant rented the premises No. 56, Wood-street, Cheapside, of Messrs. Samuel and John Painter, of Coleman-street, at the rent of WI., and also paid 301/. for the lease. In that year he consigned gooda to Messrs. Kilpatrick and Brothers, Hamburgh, to the amount of 3,600/., the whole of which were taken pos session of by Marshal Duvoust, when he entered Ham • burgh, by order of Napoleon ; and confiscated the pro perty Of all the English merchants who traded there. The consequence was, -that the applicant, and numbers of others, were ruined by the merciless plunderer.. Re became a bankrupt, and for a length of time he endea voured to support himself and his family by the sale of various articles of haberdashery, but the state of trade was such as to render-all his efforts that way unavail ing. His wife had, in consequence of her intense anxiety for the welfare of her children, been visited with a dreadful mental malady, and had been six years an .in , mate of a lunatic asylum in Bethnal-green, and the four children were thus depthed of her maternal care. and attention.- -After a further statement of afflictions, the unfortunate applicant referred. to:Messrs. Hall, 73 nglish, and Gutch, of No. 50, King. William-street, as igentle• men who were able and- willing to authenticate the de tail of hisdistresses and deplorable cause of them.: Sir JOHN KEY gave a, sovereign to the .poor man, whose condition was greatly to be pitied, and said that in all probability some kind-hearted persons, whe might through the usual humane channels of intellizence, be come aequaitited - witit the reverse of fortune occasioned by the unavoidable event,- would help a poor sufferer in his extremity. - . ‘T 11 E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SULY 29, 1844. CAPT. WARNER'S EXPERIMENT. - - - In answer to a question as to the recent experi ment, Lord Ingestre-Said- 7 • it was notorious that .an experiment had been tried, on Saturday last, upon a large ship, which had been shattered and sunk by the force of certain projectiles, the invention of Captain Warner. TI- was not at lihert , • to dis , lo,e eith,,r the maArials by li de -truoti. WAS . effected, nor the manner in which it was done — (Hear, hear)--but perhaps it would afford some pleasure and Satisfaction to the public if he read a document to the House which had been drawn up entiray with re ference to the subject.—'Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord then read the following certificate : " July 21. " We, the undersigned, hereby certify that the ope rations against the John o'Gaunt, of 300 tons, conducted by Captain Warner, off Brighton, on Saturday the 20th inst., were under our management and control. We further certify that the explosion did not take place from any combustible master either on board or alongside tho ship, but was caused by Captain Warner, who was on bard the William Wallace steamer, having the ship in tow at a distance of about 300 yards. and that the ex plosion took place in consequence of a signal made by us from the shot..., the time of which was not previously known to Captain Warner. " We further declare our belief that Captain Warner has never been on board the ship since she left Gravesend. " INGESTRE, Captain, R.N., C.B. " T. DICKENSON, Captain, R.N. " W. H. HENDERSON, Captain, R.N., C.B.'" A person who vouches so confidently as Lord Ingestre does, should be rather snore accurate in 115 statements. It is not, as he says, notorious that the bark was " Shattered and sunk by the force of cer tain projectiles." Whether she was destroyed by projectiles, or by some other means, such as a tor pedo attached to her bottom, or drifted against her, is as yet purely a matter of conjecture. Nay, the ex periment has been sa conducted, that there is no cer tainty that the explosion was not from combustibles concealed in her. We do not think it all probable that there has been any such trick in the matter, but in an experiment of this sort, it is not enough to look to probabilities and fair presumptions—possibilities of foul play should be guarded against. The ship supplied by a friend for the experiment should have been overhauled and thoroughly searched, and kept under the charge of persons in no way con nected with the experimentalist, or interested in his suecess. Lord Ingestre certifies that the explosion was not from aay combustible matter on board or alongside, but he does not acquaint the House what measures he took to satisfy himself on these two points ; and his voucher that the vessel was not destroyed in that war perhaps rests on no better grounds of proof than the assertion that she was sunk by projectiles. Captain Warner's invention may be all that he re presents it, but the experiment to prove it so has not been fairly tried: To have conducted it satisfactorily there should have been no communication between Captain Warner and the vessel to be destroyed. She should have been placed out of the hands or the persons interested in the success of the experiment. She should have been brought to her station, and the experimentalist, without any opportunity of commu nitation, Should'have proceeded to prove the power of his invention. Instead of this, what was done ? The barque which came from the eastward was towed to the westward of Brighton, tot Shoreham roads. Why was she not brought up in Brighton roads, or, if it was preferred to bring her up off a port (why, in fine summer weather, we cannot comprehend), the most ' natural course was to have brought up off ~ewhaven, and with the ebb (which was against her, as 'matters were arranged) she would have come off Brighton in a couple of hours. We a,dvert to these points because things were so managed as to make it necessary to take the barque in tow, Captain Warner being on board the towing steamer, and having the vessel he was to operate against snugly at his disposal under his stern. It is not thus that enemies are bl own up . Wh en captain Warner has an enemy in tow, he will take good care not to blow her up. It may be excellent to catch birds by putting salt on their tails, but when you have caught your bird you spare your salt. With a vessel in tow it is obviously easy Ito drift anything against her side, or to have other means of communication beside that of the tow-line. - Why, then, was there the towing so liable o sus picion? As we have before remarked, the barque might as well have been anchored off Brighton as taken past to Shoreham to be towed back agai,n. Or even when off Shoreham, she might ha ve been got under weigh on the flood tide, so as to have tine to her station in due tim e at Brighton. But o, they waited for the contrary tide (keeping the 1 public waiting too, long after the appointed time as if expressly to make th e necess it y f or t h e towing We do not wonder at th e i m p a ti ence o f L or d B rougham at these dilatory manoe uvres . It i s flippantly, re marked that he could not make allowanceor the adVerse tide; but why did th ey t a k e care to whit till the tide"was contrary ? Enough has been done, however, to warrani, 'nay, to demand, an experi men t a t any necessary cos con ducted in a different way, so as to b e c l ear o f fall the suspicions which attach to the recent trial. Let the Admiralty devote one of their many fivorth less old ships to this useful purpose, and in th mere destruction of some of them there would be a nefit to the service ; let well- se l ec t e d o ffi cers, not artial advocates of the alleged i nven ti on , h ave t h e c stody of the vessel up to the time that she i s broughti to her e station, and let Captain Warner, without any tpwing, show what he can do against a s hi p favouring his ex periment more than enough in being helplesslytadrift, and not manoeuvring as an enemy would be, t avoid or baffle his operations. As for the explosion, it seems to have ber complete, and as a mere coup de theatre nothin, be more successful. But the main point is i explosion, but the means of effecting it. There is not a doubt, that with access to St. for the skilful employment of combustibles, it be blown into the air in the twinkling of an ey the question Would be, whether this could be d an engineer who did not approach within half. of Besides building.mode of s e ttli ng th e quest i on o f ( the Warner's invention by another and fairer expe , there is only one other course, namely that of the secret from Alexis' in a state of clairvoy , Examiner. 1 very could )t the Paul's might ; but ne by -mile aptain 'tnent, etting ce.— tal i i n s e h e ever obably ch the ng arc and 9 the Sir R. nkland ANTWERP, JULY, 25.--The concourse of J., families towards this city, on their way to the. Upper during the last few weeks, has been greater than recollect it to have been in former seasons, owing p to the increased facilities for speedy travelling wh new line of railway to Cologne affords. The follow amongst the most distinguished of the Nobll9 Gentry :—Lords Walsingham and Stuart de Dec, Countess De Salis and family, the Duc de Melfort ; H. Inglis, M.P., and family ; H. Floyd, Esq ; R. Fri] Russell; Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P., and fa.nily. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT BASTHAM. body of the late Mr. William Brown, who was di at the late Eastham Regatta, was found on Ince near Runcorn, on Tuesday morning l ast. . An i was held on the body on the same day, b,.for e H. ton, Esq.,, and one of the crew of the boat, Mr Mould, gave a clear and succinct account of the tunate occurrence. It . appeared that when tl , l (the Amphitrite) w as s tr uc k by t h e f i rst wa Mould directed the_ deceased to steer th to shore. Immediately afterwards, a secon struck the , boat, and half filled her . with The deceased called out, " Oh, God ! bri Princess, we are sinking ;'', and immediately th filled with water and swamped. We give the re in Mr. Mould's. own words :—"'l di:ected the ( hold hard to the boat ; for a moment I was undo the boat, and afterwards gained the surface water ; I saw the deceased struggling in the The boat turned with her , keel upwards, and ceeded in dragging the deceased on the boat. I rei astride on the boat for some time ; a wave again the boat, and rolled her over. I recovered my se: ag lin succeeded in getting on the boat. At this missed the deceased, and several minutes elapsed b again saw him ; I afterwards saw him floating near th and I pulled him partly on the boat. Deceased eluni till one of the steamers came to our assistance.' steamer came in contact with the Amphitrite, concussion again threw ine off the boat. From th I saw nothing more of the deceased, and I eve was pulled into a boat belonging to the stew should think about a quarter of an hour elapsed fr time of the accideut to the time I was picked up nearest boat which•could in any way render ass was the steamer which came up, but whirl stationed about .three quarters of a mile off 1 th 3 Amphitrite swamped." The Coroner reoapi the evidence to the jury,- and expressed a hop, boats of so light a cons t ruct i on — on l y fi t f or ! rivers as the Dee—would not again venture it tests on the Mersey, for which .they were totally' and he also expressed his regret that the steam not been stationed so far from. the shore, and tha were no boats placed in.the course the prize boa to row, in order to give assistance in case of ani dent. The jury found the following verdict :—l' the deceased was accidentally , drowned .by the up of the boat Amphitrite_; and they wished, also, cord their thanks to Mr. Mould, for his praise% elufforts in endeavouring to save.the.life of the d , at the peril of his own.". The remains were interk Thursday morning at, St. Bride's Church, Ch es t e r BIGOTED OVER.—A gentleman, named iCran. stop, obtained at the. Roscommon Assizes, on 111iinday, 26/. dainages and cost; for • tli•expenSe of a , nuirriage settlement drawn up , between Aila sister`. and , a Person named Lawder, who, on the eve of marriage, ref4ed to allow the nuptial knot to.be tied by aCatholic °ler yraan after a Protestant o ne had officiated, ' hi s i nter d e be i ng of the forme r p ersuas i on. The-bigoted swairtul st his f bride and his money - , for the ladY , refused to 1 '' half measures." " ' I LOOK B EFORE YOU LEAP.--On Wednesday ' orn ing a fine youn g salmon, weighing between 81b. an d 9 ~ was .gambolling i n th e S evern, a little' above the En g li s h ridge, in in this town, and happening to , indulge in an extra nourish without first ascertaining where he was, he fell plump! into a boat which was moored near Mr. Blockley's timber-yard; and, after several violent efforts to,r j egain hisnative element' he became a passive captive: in -the hinida of s t labourer:— Val L',... 1, . ) .141,A,, captive: .Y Shrewsbury Ch ron i c l e . • s an the The ;tame 11 was when lulated e that such OGII. unfit ; r had there hwi ace'- "That letting to re forthy L!oaaeil •ed on STATE or TRADE. YORK WOOL MARKET, JULY 25.—There was not much business doing this day, the show of wool being very small, and the buyers few in number. Prices were as, follows;—Good lots of hog and ewe, 145., 14s. 6d. to 155.; locks and cots, 9s. 6d. to Hs. per stone. For moor wool there apps ared a dull sale at 7s. to 7s. 6d. The buyers and sellers have determined to attend once a fortuight for the remainder of the present season. LEEDS.—The markets at both our halls have been very brisk both on Saturday and Tuesday; after the market of the . latter day the stocks on hand were tighter than We ,have seen them fo r a long time.' Goods of 1.,w qualities are a shade higher, but floe qualities are without. any alterat,on, although the stocks are exceed ingly low. There h.tve iieen a arger number of buyers in the market this week than fur a long time past, and their purchases have been heavy in iow priced good's. The s..ipping houses also are busier than usual at this period, c.n-equently more than an average business has been done in finished gothis tlur.ng the week. BRADFORD, THURSDAY.—The lemand for merinos, moreens, and all other worsted goods, continues to prove, and are firm in price. In other goods there is no marked alteration. Yarns are a m ire ready sale, and the prices very firm at . a shade advance. There has been rather more wool changing hands during the week, and as the spinners have been buying cautiously for some time past, it is more than probable the demand and prices may alike be permanent. The prices demanded in the country continue to rule beyond what can be af forded to bring to market: MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING. --We have had a large business in cloth this week, and since Tuesday the demand appears to be on the increase. The consequence is a slight improvement in mos t d escr i pt i ons, with a cer tainty of prices further advancing, if even the present demand only continues. The home trade, now that a fine harvest is almost certain, continues to improve ; in deed the demand is unprecedented. Twist is the turn dearer ;no stocks of export numbers—and many spin ners are refusing to contract at present rates.—Leeds Mercury. QUARTERLY TABLE OF MOR TALITY. The Quarterly Returns are obtained from 115 dis tricts, sub-divided into 576 sub-districts. Thirty-four districts are placed under the metropolis, and the re maining eighty-one districts comprise, with some agri cultural districts the principal town s an d c i t i es 41 Eng land. The ,pop ulation was 6,578,912 in 1841. The deaths registered in tho last quarter (ending June 30) amounted to 38,925, which is less by 7,116 than the deaths in the previous quarter, and 1,283 less than the average of the corresponding spring quarter in the five years (1838-42). Allowing for the increase of the town population, the mortality was t en per cent. below the avera ge o f th e season. The reduction in the mortality has been unequally distributed over the kingdom ; but, as a general rule, it has been most remarkable i n the large manufe,ettr4ng districts. Average of five Deaths in the previous spring Quarter ending Quarters, 1838-42. June 30,4844. Manchester .... Salford Ashton and Oldham 1,377 Leeds Sheffield Stockport 630 ..... 416 Liverpool .. . 1,744 Birmingham re ma i ne d the same ; and in a few of the other manufacturing districts, to be shortly mentioned, the mortality was above their average. Small-pox and Scarlatina hare been epidemic in the metropolis ; and towards the end of the quarter, fifty one persons (chiefly children), died of the former, seventy. eight of the latter disease in one week. The deaths in the quarter from small-pox e ere 425. 107 of the number were reported by the iiformants to have been vaccinated ; but the evidence of this would necesztrily be, in many cases, uncertain and imperfect, Influenza has declined ; and since the mean temperature has ri,en above 60 degrees, bt.tv% el complaints have b. come more prevalent. _ _ The epidemics most frequently menlicrl.4 in the country districts are • scarlatina, measles, - small-pox, hooping-cough, arid typhus. The quarterly meteorigical table has been compiled from the weekly tables supplied by the Astronomer Royal, The mean temperature (55 deg.) was 1 deg. 9 above the average of the season ; the highest temperature of .the air (observed) was 83 deg. 3, thy; lowest 34 deg. , ; the thermotheter once ro-e in the sun to 111 deg. 7, and fell on the grass so low as 21 deg. 6. The mean dew point was 47 deg. 9. The quarter has Veen remarkable for the small quantity of rain which fell, The rain collected in thirteen weeks was only 2,31 inohes, and of this 1.55 inches fell upon the last week of June. Districts in which the mortality was I;igher than the average mortality of the spring quaTter in the seine dis. tracts--The south districts of the metropolis, Portsea Island, Northampton, Bedford, Clifton, Stroud, Here ford, Kidderminster, Weit Derby, Wigan, Bradford, Merthyr.Tydvil. Districts in which the mortality was lower than the average mortality of the spring quarter in the same, dis tricts—Brighton, Oxford, Norwich, Dorchester, Bristol, Worcester, Wolverhampton, /4tockport, Macclesf i eld, Great Broughton (Chester), Liverpool, Preoo,A, Bury, Bolton,Treaiatt, Manchester, Salford, tauten, Sheffield, llnddersfield, Leeds, York, Sonderland, Tynemouth, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 'Pontypool, Newtown, Anglesey. Tug > Tis Logp E.Luotes WIG. During the State .Trials" in the House of Lords, itttsly, Sir Thomas Wilde apologised to the Lord Chancellor for not being in full costume, anti requested to be and was permitted to address their Lordships withont his wig. This reminds us of a story told by Mr. Horace T ' wigs in his " Life of L or d Ridon, just published :—Lady Eldon, in all Ler anticipation of her Lord's judicial promotion, had been ran c h fretted by the consideration that he wMild hsve to assume the ordinary head-dress of tbe ton law judges -a powdered bush wig, She had therefore in portrait, while he was yet dueed him to sit for his Attorney-Gener4l4 §o at to make sure of preserving a record of hi s fe4t4re s, undisg u i se d b y the obnolcious „ rt , h , ; and this portrait, which was painted by stir Thomas (then Mr.) Lawrence, and which remained in Lord Eldon's possession till his death, is dressed in exact accordance, with the toilette which he prae tiled till his elevation to the bench. In compliance kit Lady Eldon's feeling Lord Eldon applied often to King George the Third to allow him to dispense with his wig at times when he was not engaged in perform ing official functions. He pressed on the King the fact, that in former days wigs were not worn by the judges. I' True," replied the King, 4, I admit the correctness of your statement, and am willing, if you like it, that you should do as they did for, though they cer t a i n l y had no wigs, yet," added his Majesty, facetiously, " they wore their beards." The King further added, ' No, no, innovation in my time." TEST OF AGE At the inquest which was held last Monday, by Mr, Wakley, at the Elephant and Castle, St. Pancras i on the body of a female unknown, that was taken nut or the Regent's Canal, in reply to a question from Mr. Wakley, Mr. Cooper, the house surgeon of St. Pancras workhouse, said that he could not positively stale the age of deceased, but that from appearances he Judged she was ' about twenty years old. Mr. Wakley asked if he could not tell a person's age from the teeth? Mr. Cooper said that he could do so to the age of fifteen, but that after that , period it would be difficult. Mr. Wakley was of a contrary ; as he thought that, with a little attention, the age of any person could be ascertained Aum the , appearance of the teeth. .~-. ;. :. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING.—The trade of last week has been regular, but without animation. The proposed alterations in the sugar duties have been suffi cient to unsettle the busine4s, to the loss of the importer, widlont any sAicie,;t t.) the (~ s liat-r to ,2ozni:en- contea.tpiced it, , xt 5;=.5.,4,,, l'a,rliameitt, leav every thing in a state of uncertainty, injurious to all par; ies ; first to those who, not already in the sugar business, will not move until they know on what they may cal culate, and consequently to the consumers in the de lay of those • arrangements, from which a larger supply might be expected; producing the extraordinary state of things that, in England, with an increasing popu lation, anti, as it is urged, increasing wealth, the consump tion is, to say the least, not increasing, while the contrary is the fact in other countries. Also, consequent on this state of things, is the appearance of the Brazilian tariff, making so large an increase of the duties on manufactures as greatly to reduce our exports, unless we will admit their exports on more equitable duties. In other articles of colonial produce, the transactions are on a limited scale, which thraws the whole weight of holding on the importer, and prevents any buoyancy in prices. An active business is doing generally in the manufacturing districts, and has increased since the rain has given hopes of a large crop of wheat and otherwise improved the appearance of the spring crops. The farmers will probably find this season a 4 last, that the sliding scale will cause the payment - of high duties on grain set at liberty when they would least wish this to be the case, and forcing sales from tiie disproportioned amount of capital required to 'pay the duties, as compared with the import cost of the article. If the harvest is well secured, we may reasonably look for a steady home trade. Our expoi•ts to foreign markets may continue on a respectable scale to some quarters, but to others the prospects are not encouraging. Money continues abundant, yerthe general uncertainty prevents that commercial activity which such a state of things might be expected to produce. It is remarkable how general the feeling seems to be amongst the consu mers not to stock themselves largely with the raw ma terial. A general impression seems to prevail that the tendency of the new Bank Bill will be to restrict the currency obstinately ; and that any 'circumstance which caused a draw upon the Bank for bullion, would, to a certainty, be productive of severe pressure on the coun try. This dead-weight feeling is only to be removed by those measures which would divert the drain upon the Bank to a drain upon the unrestricted industry and. energies of the country.—Liverpool Journal. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, JULY 26.—We have no material change to report in the foreign wool trade this week. The demand continues brisk, and the amount of sales effected has been considerable. Prices, too, are buoyant, with a tendency upwards. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, JULY 26.—Sales of combing and clothing wools progress steadily, and to a moderate extent. Prices are very firm and tending upwards ; but still are not such as to allow a profit on the rates asked by the growers for the new clip. WAKEFIELD WOOL AIARK ET, JULY 26.—T0 meet the advance in all growing districts, higher prices are sought by the staplers, which consumers are not yet dis posed to pay, consequently there has been little done; at old prices, a large business would have been done. The de mand keeps good for all short wools, and stocks are light in the market. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. ~, TWO VESSELS PLUNDERED AND miE MASS . .CRE OF 'IIIE CREWS. The recent arrivals from Sydney bring over the/ titulars 4;1 more horrible bot,Al,ry by the natives,o! S,,uth Sea Islay:4 .:tit' by loch st.hi o;' tit - S tY -111 Sydney, May 6, signed by the chief mate, Henry ander : The Magnet; on coming to anchor off the n orth . l end of the Liffore, one ef the South `eals:ands, 7 e 14th of Jimu-try, w;,s, a s usua l, b i . ar d e d by e non :use natives to barter with us , an d th e i r d ea li ng s wer e Their conduct tltrouitotit was so satisfactory, 88 _„.,il duce Capt a in L ew i s t o go as h ore an d spen d r e (lays with one o f t h e c hi e f s . Whil e th taro was absent, we were informed that a t 0! had late), been taken, and th e grea ter Pa r ti the crew massacred by t he nat i ves at t h e islaniwi Maryee. The distan c e n o t b e i ng muc h, we deer, upon immediately p r o ceed i ng to t h e i s l an d m , n tione ts : 0 endeavour to rescue the remainder of the crew and (r d property might n o t h ave b een destroyed. We acc j ingly weighed, and with a favourable wind succee d ` reaching the place the following day. At four I' o l . er canoe came alongside, wi t h amissienary ald men, who had just come from the south--east e at! T r e,, of the island, and they confirmed what we had viously heard, Th e information they furnished 1. 15 ,0 f was, that all hands had b een kill e d , an d t h e vessel re sunk ; but that the sail s , ro p es , an d part o f her st,, were ashore in a hole in a rock, abreast of which 04 : 0 spot where the vessel w en t d own . Th ey a l so , to° oeel little alarm, stated th a t ano th er vesse l had e ither ,"' h wrecked or taken, a n d th at a ll t h e crew ha d me t set t similar fate, except t wo seamen, w h o manage d toe , tv to that island, where th e y still remained ; and t hey added, that if we r ema i ne d till the following day%, would bring them o n b oar d. W e accordingly dll'.o b: be l and about mid-day th e same men came alos having with th e m one o f t he surv i vors, the , tht the chief detained. Th e account h e gave of is transaction was, that he sailed from London l? f month of September last, in the brig Janet of I' Is . barton, Capt. Gorman, on a voyage to the South die lands, to procure a cargo o f san d a l wood and toToie shell, but was wrecked upon the coral reef off Caleu ke do on the 14th of Decemb er ; seven o f t h e crew perished the wreck, and the r ema i n d er , f ourteen i n num b e r, ,fiJ themselves in a boat, and landed on the same day °Po Isle of Pin es . Th ey rema i ned there but a short 1 0 and sailed again, anticipating to fetch the other ti e r inhabited by a more c i v ili se d race of people, but 11°)°,t1I nately they touched Maryee, where they f were ill ts o r attacked by the natives, th e i r boat destroyed. and t V teen of their companions wounded. He and o°, e t v, sailor, named William Ri c h ar d s, were Save d , and it afterwards succe e d e d i n escapine, 0 ,0 to that part of land. We inqui re d o f them whether they had pt anything of the vessel that had been taken by th e ito o! tives. He replied i n th e negat i ve, but said a great 00 things had lately b een di str ib uted amongst the tol'ee consisting of sail s , c l ot hi ng, mathematical instra re a d aed various other articles. He said a boat OA by natives left the island a few days before, 1 1 e ° e on board a gr ea t many articles, among ye watch and chronometer, but did not kne w they became possessed of them. Mere cit e Alexander observ es , th at t h e conduct of the man e% l O their supicion, for he ref use d to l eave the islandeleo.l he could with ease have done, and accompanied fsf As we could not l earn anyth i ng further as to the tot the vessel, we d e t erm i ne d on further search, and 'load time in making f or t h e south-west end of Liffore Is where it was understood the boat full of goods ha' l , to, and if po ss ibl e to l earn the particulars from Bio,,te chief of the trib e , w h om we had some preeiousrodt ledge of. At seven A. 37. t h e next day the I " cti e reached - the place, and f ront t h e f i rst boat ths t , t tt alongside they ascerta i ne d the ill-fated vessel ton,' brig Two Sist ers , a S out h Sea whaler, conarlo,ede Captain Brend. The account th a t was furnishe";ie of her loss was, that two or three days after her ar tl+ off the coast, at the time there was a large humb. l° , t zt natives of both sexes on beard, and part of the , ad were employed a t t h e i r respective duties, sad': they were all seized (it was stated on ace'' en ,io ono of them t a ki ng lib erties with one of the os'o wives), a ri d h orr ibl y massacred. Not a single °B-,bor taped —none, not even the pn_r cabin. boy—all were tif t chered, and th e i r b o di es thrown overboard, The n a dp then plundered the vessel of everything that was vs lu oi ii • and afterw a rd s th e s hi p was set fire to an d c°°'"iifri4 As some of the property had to our knowledg e tie/ taken to that part of the island, and strongly so - reV: these people to have been accessory to the w hole u pP section, we resolved to detain the chief's brothe r itel the rest went ashore and brought off what things „ p ig had in their possession that belond to the unf o 9. Or, vessel. They consisted of a chronometer, gr ea tiot" Jured, a jolly boat with the name "Two Sisters" P 1 ;0' in yellow over the stern, a quadrant, some acc ount and the log, which was kept up till the 16th of P e ,, c " be° last. We were prepared for an attack had "Li- 7 d tY made, but all passed off quietly ; and having ii` - c , c ipe chief's brother, we set sail from the island .to '"J‘trool Mr, Alexander concludes by stating, that he has " s ell, suspicion as to the truth of the seaman, Jones:_' 4 „, t ment. We suspect that the vessel was not wrecaer o de that he , along with the o th er seathan, Richards; Pf o o with : the natives her d es t ruct i on for plunder, and " sacred their brother rnessmates. .The atrocities perpetrated on these islands m 'f South Sea h ave b een very great. Within the las t 0 years no fewer th an t h ree vessels have been destli:i by the natives, and upwards of fifty persons murded DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF THE 1 1 ° 13P NAPIER. The Robert Napier left London on Wednesday, noon, for Liverpool, with a very heavy cargo on ei t l ( and about thirty paisengers. Nothing particoati worthy of notice seems to have taken place until di half-past ten o'clock at night, when she arrived place called Woodsontown, between Portrush and Castle; she was a considerable distance off the lase', being little or no wind, and the night excessivelY a , The discovery was made by one of the crew, e lls served smoke issuing, it is stated, up the main way, but whether it emanated from the cargo ; e ,l? boilers, it was i mpossible to say, for no sooner we hatchways removed, than the flames burst forth alarming violenc e , an d t h e consternation that in9,oi ensued amongst the passengers and a ll on b o ard, 1 ‘ a description painful in the extreme. The pump s got to work, l engt h s of leather hose screwed „ streams of wat er b roug h t to b ear on that part 0,004 but very little effect was apparent, for veil ,7 1 , afterwards the d estruct i ve element shot forth w . .." per creased fury. C a p ta i n F orrester, the coremantlee4o, ceiving the imminent danger of his crew and pass e ? determined t o run t h e vessel ashore. According steamer's head was brought round for the de jire r eo l , jscts, wh i l e th e b unts (three in number) were gotr to be launched overboard at a moment's notice 0 ,, , e 01 4 preservation, The dista nce f rom t h e shore beirtfq;sl 7 e 1 miles. it w as near l y an h our before she struck. t " beine=Bally Castle Bay, near Belfast. By that 0 5 01 after part of th e s hi p presented a vivid sh e et of 61. e 9 ' flames reaching f ar a b ove the deck. Before OP ~e' went ashore, the passengers were all got saFelY 0 19i!; boats, and were conveyed to the beach without su e +'p the sli g h test i njury, but their lugg4ge ,vas board, and was afterwards burnt. The light henrel. by the coast-guard stationed along th at par t o f ta , ' some time before she reached the bay' tV", the tim e s h e struck, a powerful body oftioithr were in att en d ance to render assi-tartee. flit' col: however. had to n strong a h o l d of the ship; and 0°41,. standing all ti+ e exert i ons used e , she c n ti nue d to b el l, several hours, and, according to the letter receivo t olO t. underwriters at Lloyd's from their agent at ~c o an " was 1)4116 to the water's edge." Anfilhqr s. r oc however, states that " although the steamer is tipte pier° wreck, she being burnt from the quarter (I, her machinery and part of the cargo will be s' The steratuer as reported to be partly insured. edi SF's SANDWICH.--A WATER SPOUT.---011 ~ ti one of the most extraordinary events ever recorded nessed at this place. About noon a whirlwind twc.,D, tended by what is ca ll e d a " water out," vit e within half a m il e o f t h e town. It came over a P a l e i ts belonging to M r . J enn i ngs Gibbs, of Littlebourne' cor some men had just commenced stacking the haY; t hre e le is standing closely by was carried the distance al pe ol i e ct four rods, and aOrne of the hay as far as t br- li to towards 11 11w:ter, Some boys who were in the Itta i r a l taken off their legs, and thrown to the gro und "" " t il violence, and covered with hay. The harla ke gre A of were sitting quietly at dinner, were, of course' 0 13 0 0 0 , surprisel and alarmed ; and still more so, wh en O f , their baskets was borne off like a parachute, derable distance, and lodged in the river. The A C O° spout," in its course, sucked up every pond, a t !"l 7 , e t ; to 0 is ter Phhug the river the water rdshed up like a ibi ln ,, - 0/ 6 t 1 . 7; enomenon was exceedingly alarming, and I v ' a „par e e ll e hear of the terror created at Minster, where it itt i burst. Our informant, upon whom we may -the whole chapter of events.--Kentish Observer. pIyaMMION,IOI RTHS. A „, 9 4 " On the 19th in s t., the w ife of Charles Woodbriuer' . OF Uxbridge, of a son. iti r. 131 ' On son the 24th inst., at P ar k- p l ace, Peckham, .-- 1.9. re terw Clf a . St. - On the 24th inst., at the Vicarage lionSe!. 0000 'Planet, the lady of th e R ev. G eorge Hodgson, 41!;01, On the 24th inst., at Woolton-grove, near Liv .wr plat Samuel Woods, jun., of a son. Ij. F 0 On the 25th in s t., a t Bryanston-square, * re ' ee * Broadwood, of a daughter. . w . 0, i v On the 25th lust , at Lloyd-square, Mrs. '. • the of a son, f t ji On the 25th Inst., at Clapham -park, the wife 0 f. v• Wodehouse Raven, of a child, still-born. On the 25th inst., at Hampstead, the wife of t he Ile t bil B. Wells, of the Rectory, Woodchurch, Kent. 000 On the 26th inst., at Bernard -street, Russell -5g lady of R. Pollock, Esq., of a daughter, still -bor n ' c rir!‘ MARRIED. vre , .. . 0 6 O. the 20th i ns t., a t Stoke Prior , Worcestersh i re ,jigisi' John Hornsby, of Brunt s f or d-hill , B romsgr ove' t fle e relict of the late Rev. Mr. R. Evans. eide f lio f On the 25th inst., at Caine, Matthew of the late Canon Marsh Benqk to .., o Merv' t Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Mr. Sergeant ...- 4 00 TOOO Castlefield, Wilts. • williarn c ob On the 25th Inst., at St. John's, the Rev. 00 _ as F EN., of Leeds, to Anne, eldest daughter of Thom Esq., of Milbank -street, Westminster. , Chancellor of Salisbur.Y_etber portZ il i s oci 4lt f ; DIED. On the 24th inst., in Gloucester-place, Louisa, the you nges t d aug h ter of t h e l a te Sir J , Lloibin, Bart. o f J ° On the 25th i ns t., Eli za, the eldest dapg"-- r or , Nye, Mount-gardens, Westminstet-road 13011 " On the 25th inst., at Witt role-street, Charles Esq., aged 67. A 1 ,00 , _,,.. On the 25th inst„ 40 Long-acre, Mr. Janes ''''' --- of '--------"-- .-- --,„-Y,,r) —OII,IIIY, London: Printed and Published by Man'i l ifice, P l° l ( ' S *No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun .:' t h e CO" Strand, in the Precinct c.f . the SAM', ''' 'Middlesex. Monday, July 29, 1844. 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