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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—In the House of Lords last evening, the Lord Chancellor and the President of the Council had a tilting-match, with a manifestly mutual wish to gain a triumph at each other's cost. This is bad manage ment. It exhibits disunion in the Cabinet on ques tions of " great pith and moment ;" and occurring, as the disagreement does, at the close of the session, will operate mischievously during the recess. Ministers should, for obvious reasons, keep their biclserings from the public eye and ear. The walls of the Council Chamber should alone be privy to their altercations. If -- opinions clash in the Cabinet, the brow should be smooth, and the temper calm, when the disputants come forth from the Council to the Houses of Parlia ment to which they respectively belong. There should be the appearance of concord within the walls of Parliament, whatever differences may prevail elsewhere. To see the Lord Chancellor and the President of the Council press ing their discordant views upon a grave ques tion upon the House of Lords with pertinacity, and even dividing against each other, is a scene that will be associated in the public mind with dissensions in Cabinet deliberations upon the measure ; and cannot be contemplated without diminished respect and confidence in the Government, the members of which show so little respect for themselves, and of confidence in each other. The occasion which gave rise to this strange ex'nibi tion—in which it is rumoured there is more than met the eye of the amazed beholders of the scene—was briefly this :—The House of Commons had male an amendment in the Bill for regulating the Irish law courts. As the measure had originally stood, the ap pointments to certain offices had been vested in the Lord-Lieutenant. The Lords had amended the clause, and transferred th's patronage to the Judges ; but the Commons, upon the Bill being sent down for their ap proval, had rejected the proposed alteration; and re inserted their own clause, which vested the patronage in the Lord-Lieutenant for the time being. Lord Wharncliffe had been appointed to conduct the conference with the Commons, and had failed to induce the managers of the Lower House to forego the clause they had restored, and to adopt the alteration of the House of Lords. His Lordship moved that the amendment of the Commons should be adopted by the Lords. The Lord Chancellor resisted the motion; and with considerable warmth of feeling and acerbity of expression, declared his intention of divi ling the House upon the question. The difference of opinion between the Lord Chancellor and his colleagues on this question was not sudden and accidental, but deliberate and foreseen. It involves, as will be seen, an important principle. It exhibits the strange and unprecedented occurrence of the highest law officer of a government opposed upon a question per taining to the administration of the law by his colleagues in office ; and that opposition openly expressed, persisted in, and carried to a division in Parliament. Lord Wharncliffe " was of opinion that the patronage of certain offices in the courts of law in Ireland should still, according to ancient usage, be continued in the Lord-Lieutenant." The Lord Chancellor pronounced this arrangement of the patronage of these offices as "unwise and unjust; and as degrading towards the judges of Ireland." STANDARD. The proceedings in the House of Commons last evening would have been of little inte rest but for Lord John Russell's annual resume of the offences of omission and commission of Ministers during the session, and the reply which it provoked from Sir Robert Peel. In the outset of his address, however, the Noble Lord explained with commend able ingenuousness, in reference to Lord Lynd hurst's caustic reviews of the policy of the late Government, that he did not think that Minis ters ought to be held responsible for the legis lative failures which might take place in the course of a session, and that, acting on this principle, he did not intend to follow the course which had been adopted towards himself and his late colleagues by tke Noble and Learned Lord ; for want no doubt of the materiel to which those periodical reviews were in debted for so much of their force and pungency. Such resumes must have a few facts for their foun dation, or they will be irredeemably spiritless and dull. Instead, therefore, of following out the errors of Sir Robert Peel's Government seriatim, Lord John Russell was content to call the attention of the House to the general results of its policy, as demon strated by the present state of the country. The first topic of complaint was its Irish policy, and above all the harshness and injustice with which it had treated the Irish conspirators, in whose behalf were recapitulated for the hundredth time, the wrongs they had suffered at the hands of Protestant jurors and unrelenting prose cutors. In discussing the foreign relations of the country, the affairs of Morocco and Otaheite were not overlooked ; and after alluding to the general con dition of the people, " the scanty means and severe toil of the labouring population," the currency, the corn-laws, and the emigration questions, his Lord ship wound up his " omniuen gatherum" oration by a pointed allusion to the manner in which the time of the Legislature was wasted at the beginning, and the indecent haste with which the business of both Houses was transacted towards the end, of the session. The reply of Sir R. Peel was alike ad mirable for its temper and argument. It gave the Noble Lord full credit for the benevolence he had claimed for his advice, but questioned the usefulness, at such a moment, of vague insinuations as to the neglect of the condition of the humbler classes by the Legislature, calculated to excite expectations which could not be fulfilled. With regard to his Lordship's abstinence from any detailed remarks on the progress of the session, Sir Robert Peel expressed his regret that his forbearance should have deprived him of the opportunity of showing that there never was a ses sion in which more important and beneficial legisla tion had been effected. Among the measures which have distinguished the present session,-and to which we propose hereafter to refer more particularly, the tranquillisation of Ireland is, beyond all question, the most important. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Saturday Mr. G. J. Mills, lieputy-Coroner for West Middlesex, held an inquest at the Duke of York, Queen-street, Edgeware-road, on the body of Harriett Jones, aged 44, a widow, late resident at the above street. James Jones, aged 13, a lad of rare intelligence and command of language, said deceased was his step mother, having married his father three years ago, and he, after two years of constant illness, during which deceased parted with nearly all her effects to support him, died six months since. Deceased had been 19 years in service, chiefly as laundress to the Earl of Shaftesbury and the Duke of Montrose, and when she married witness's father he was coach man to Miss 13eaument, of Alontague-square, in whose service, a year afterwards, he burst a blood vessel, which rendered him an invalid until he died. Until within six weeks deceased managed to procure sufficient food for witness and three other brothers and sisters, all children of his father by a first wife. At the epoch last mentioned she lost the custom of the Earl and Countess of Cardigan and Mr. Hussey, for whom she used to wash, and ever since she appeared very low and desponding. To pay ker rent (4s. 6d. a week), and to get bread for her four step-children, she was obliged to pawn all that remained of her furniture, and he believed she nearly starved herself. Since she had lost all employment she was in the habit of lying in bed until late in the afternoon, when she would jump up as if she were mad, dress herself hurriedly, go out, siying that she was going to visit some friends, and not return until very late at night. In truth, she did not, on these occasions go to see any friends, but wandered about the streets. Latterly, of nights, before she went to bed, she prayed that the might fall asleep and awake no more. Between six and seven o'clock on Friday morning witness found her dead, hanging by the neck from her bed-post in the front kitchen, by means of a clothes-line. The previous afternoon a younger brother of his saw her . with the line, and witness believed she then hanged . herself; and that, having locked herself in, they thought her from home, until he discovered her. She had not paid all the expenses of his father's funeral, and she had received two lawyer's letters, which an noyed her very much. George Jones, aged seven, another step-son, said that see i ng hi s mot h er with the clothes-line in the kitchen on Thursday, he asked her if she was going to hang herself? She said, "No," and told him to go and play. He asked her the question because he had heard her say she would do so. They all lived on bread and dripping, but did not get enough. Ver dict, That Aeceased hanged herself from extreme poverty. RECRBATION OF THE WORKI NG CLASSES.—MAN CHESTER, FRIDAY MORNING.--Y eitC i d and respectable meeting of th e merchants, a ery numerous ts , manufacturers, v and tradesmen of this town, w as h e l d in the large room o f propriety the Town-hall, for the purpose of conside r i ng of taking some steps to promote the formation tii e of public walks, parks, and play - grounds , for the working c l asses. Al ex ander Kay,. Esq., Mayor, presided. On thepla platform were Lord Francis Egerton , M.P . , Mr. M. Philips, 3r.p. Sir Thomas Potter, Knight , M r . Thom as Townend, Mr. John Woollam, Mr. R. Gardner, Mr. Alderman Burd, Mr. Alder man Neild, &c. The first resolution was moved by Lord F. Egerton, who was received with loud cheers from all parts of the meeting. In the Course of his Lordship's address, he said that he did not consider that in promoting the object of the meeting he was conferring a gift upon the humbler classes of Manchester; on the contrary, he was their debtor, and he was glad of that opportunity of paying off a portion of the account. The meeting was subsequently addressed by the Rev. Canon Clifton, Mr. M. Philips, M.P., Messrs. J. C. Harter, James Heywood, James Kershaw, Robert Gardner, John Woollam, Alderman Neild, &c. During the proceed ings a subscription was entered into, and amongst the con tributors were, Lord Francis Egerton, 1,000/. ; 'Mark Philips, • 1,000/. ; Sir 8.43c:d, Bart., 1,000/. ; J. C. Harter, 500/. ; , . , Mr. ; 4.-44 : Thomas Votter, 500/ • Alder- elldt"500 as Townend, 5001. ; J. and N. Philip .00 ; Lvelollershaw and . Co., 500/. ; James Heywood, 'OOl icalayor,.2ool. There ere several other I 5° subscriptions Wad, making a total of, a r ly 10,000/. ; and it is believe - J. that ,010 9 147 ta boratethis urpose: LAWS OF GAMING. The following is an abstract of the third report from the Lords' Select Committee on the Laws on Gaming : " That the Committee have met, and considered the subject matter to them referred, and examined several witnesses in relation thereto ; and the Committee have inquired into the extensive frauds which have of late been perpetrated on the turf, and which they find to , consist principally in the practice of dishonest adven turers, who wager large sums of money with the in• tention of receiving if they win, and of refusing to pay if they lose. " After receiving much evidence with respect to this practice, the Committee at first felt disposed to recommend that stringent laws should he enacted by the Legislature for the punishment of such offenders. Upon a mature consideration, however, of the whole subject, they do not think it expedient that the courts of law should be occupied in the investigation of these transactions, but that all persons who wager with honest intentions should be compelled by motives of l i self-protection to use greater vigilance and care than they now appear to be in the habit of exercising, and that they should refuse to lay wagers with men of whose honour and solvency they have not sufficient knowledge. " The Committee are the more inclined to this view of the subject from the circumstance of its having been lately decided in the case of Wood v. Lcadbitter,' in the Court of Exchequer, that the stewards of races are fully empowered to exclude from the stand and its enclosures, and consequently in many cases altogether from the course, all persons guilty of malpractices on the turf, and thereby to give a public warning of their characters. " The Committee think it desirable that this amusement should be upheld, because it is in accord ance with a long-established national taste ; because it serves to bring together for a common object vast bodies of people in different parts of the country, and to promote intercourse between different classes of society; and because without the stimulus which racing affords, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to maintain the purity of blood and standard of ex cellence which have rendered the breed of English horses superior to that of any other country . in the world. The Committee cannot, however, in too strong terms condemn the practice of excessive bet ting which now appears to exist, as affording direct encouragement to dishonest men, who but for this system of immoderate gambling would seldom have opportunities for giving effect to their fraudulent designs.' " The Committee are of opinion that the interpre tation of the law is anomalous and contradictory, and therefore that the statutes require revision. " The majority of the witnesses examined by the Committee were of opinion that betting should be legalised ; but the Committee repeat that, after ma turely considering the whole subject, they are of opinion that that measure would not have the effect of remedying the evils now complained of. "With reference to the present mode and the ex tent of betting, the Committee consider that if it were made legal, a door might be opened to extensive perjury and fraud: "The Committee, therefore, beg leave to recom mend that the law should henceforh take no cogni zance whatever of wagers ' • that all statutes making it penal should be repealed; and that debts so con tracted should be recovered by such means only as the usages and customs of society can enforce for its own protection. The Committee have reason to hope that in thus imposing upon honest men a necessity of greater caution and reserve, the system of excessive betting will be restrained by those considerations of prudence which past occurrences must have suggested to persons desirous of speculating without danger to themselves. " The Committee have inquired into certain trans- actions which have lately been brought before the courts of law, arising from the fraudulent practices of individuals substituting other horses for those named in the stakes which are limited to horses of a certain age, and thus obtaining the advantage arising from running at even weights three-year-olds against two year-olds, and four-year-olds against three-year-olds. The succes , , however, which has attended the prose cutions instituted for the recovery of the stakes thus unjustly won, and the rules which the Committee are led to believe will be hereafter strictly attended to, ae, to the examination by competent persons of all horses which may be objected to, render it necessary for them to make any further comment upon this part of their inquiry. " The Committee have received evidence respecting the gambling houses in the metropolis, and they trust that the zeal and vigilance of the police will not be confined to places resorted to by the middle and lower classes, but that the law will be equally put in force against all houses, whatever be their denomination, or whatever the class of persons resorting to them, where illegal gaming is known to be carried on. " The Committee likewise beg leave to observe, that the stewards of races, now that their power is recog nised and established by law, must henceforth be held responsible to public opinion if gambling-booths or tables are permitted on race-courses." THE NEW STEAM-VESSEL RE GULATIONS. On Saturday the Committee of Aldermen assembled at Guildhall for the purpose of hearing objections to the proposed by-lawi for the regulation of the steam vessels. Besides the several gentlemen who appeared on the previous Saturday on behalf of the steam-vessels, Mr. Cruden attended and represented the Star Gravesend Steam-vessel Company, and the other companies were also represented. The Lord Mayor was in the cbair. Mr. CRUDEN objected to the second by-law, which gave to the Watermen's Company the power of be- coming the owners of several steam-vessels. The Star Company, he said, most emphatically submitted that it was never contemplated by the Watermen's Act to give such authority to the Watermen's Corn• pany. They were wholly unfit for the exercise of such authority from their total ignorance of steam navigation, and from the prejudice which their interests excited against the new power. It was distinctly un derstood, when the Act was brought in, several years ago, that steam-vessels were to he excluded from its operation, so that there appeared to be no rational ground for supposing that the power which was de nied to the IVatermen's Company at that period should be conceded to them now. The LORD MAYOR said, that upon looking at the powers which the Court of Aldermen possessed, they did not think it necessary to apply to Parliament at all, and they had no notion of doing so. They had a right to frame certain regulations for the protection of the public. The proprietors had surely no reason to complain, for hitherto they had had it all their own way; they went as rapidly, and carried as many as they pleased through the river; and the time had arrived when the advantages they had taken of the power they supposed they possessed must he checked. As to the Watermen's Company, it would be for the Court of Aldermen to decide upon the propriety of allowing them to be agents. Mr. CRUDEN respectfully urged the necessity of getting rid of the interference of the Watermen's Company. Alderman HUMPHERY said that Mr. Cruden evi dently was of opinion that the Watermen's Company was wholly incapable of judging between the small craft in the river and the great power of steam which had risen up, and that the IVatermen's Act was never framed in contemplation of the existence of such an authority in such a body. lie (Aldermen Humphery) was convinced that some of the Watermen's Company knew nothing about steam navigation. Sir J. PRUE said there was no doubt whatever of that fact; neither was there any doubt that the Wa terrnen's Company must have a feeling against steam vessels. The LORD MAYOR said, the first question to be de • cided was, whether the regulations proposed were proper regulations ? The next was, who would be the proper parties to carry them into effect? He wished to know from Mr. Cruden whether he con- sidered the regulations in themselves objectionable ? Mr. CRUDEN said the Star Company took their stand upon the objection to the IVatermen's Company as age - zits in carrying out the regulations altogether, and they could not take any steps till that company was altogether repudiated. Ile spoke with all respect to the Committee, from whom he had received much, kindness and respectful treatment. If the Committee. would propose to them a code of regulations, wholly independent of the agency to which they objected, they would at once proceed to the consideration of them, aud he entertained no doubt that the result would be most satisfactory. Sir JOHN Pram said he saw very plainly that the objections of Mr. Cruden comprehended the two great points in question—the speed and the over- crowding. After some discussion the Committee determined to decide. upon the objections which had been made on the last day of meeting, on Thursday next. STATE OF TRADE.—We do not remember at any time greater activity in the principal branches of manu factures than there exists at present, except when that activity has been of a speculative and feverish character. Throughout Yorkshire and Lancashire, in the Cotton, Woollen, Worsted, Flax, Linen, Silk, Cutlery, and Machine-making businesses, trade is lively, and we be lieve all hands are employed. The poor•rates are, of coarse, exceedingly relieved. If we should be blessed with a gool harvest there is every prospect of another year of prosperity. And here we have another proof of the connexion between prosperity, and cheap food. At present there i e s the prospect of an abundant harvest.— Leeds Mer6ury, LAWYERS I S ; CHINA.---No attorneys are authorised by law in China; th ose self-constituted, are thus defined and described by a Chinese classic writer: 7 j, Villanous and perverse vagabonds, w h o afe.TfOria:Of 'makitiff, stir,: and who, either by fraudulent excite discord; or by disorderly and ,illegal pro cee di ngs , intirrii date and impose upon people —From Cupitaui Piddings Chinese Olio and Tea Talk, No. 15. SUMMER ASSIZES. - MIDLAND CIRCUIT.— Warwick, Aug. 9. (Before Lord DENMAN and a Special Jury.) GRACH AND OTHERS, ASSIGNEES, v. INGALL. This was an action to recover the amount of a policy effected upon the life of one John Scott, a bankrupt, de ceased, the amount being 2,000/. Mr. Hill, Q.C., and Mr. Mellor, were for the plaintiffs ; Mr. Humfrey and Mr. Waddington represented the de fendant. The action was brought by a Mr. Samuel Beale (he being in fact, the real plaintiff) in the names of the as signees of John Scott, who had the misfortune to become a bankrupt in the year 1842, dying in the December of 1843, the defendant being the secretary of the Imperial Life Insurance Company. The policy was for 2,0001., the premium paid was 531. per annum. The policy was effected in the month of May, 1840, the bankruptcy was in 1842 ; the present plaintiffs were appointed assignees under the fiat, when, under their direction, the policy was sold for the benefit of the creditors, and was bought by Mr. Beale, for the sum of 1351. John Scott died in the December of last year, and the payment being re sisted Beale brought the present action in the name of the assignees, though he himself was the actual plaintiff. There was no doubt about the policy having been effected, but it was alleged that at the time it was granted he had not answered truly, as for instance, he had had spittings of blood, consumptive symptoms, cough accompanied by inflammation, &c., all of which he studiously concealed from the office.- The facts as proved on the part of the plaintiff were these. That in the year 1840, Scott (who lived in Birmingham, and was a traveller), had been advised to insure his life, and applied to the Norwich Insurance Office for that purpose, but .though accepted, yet doubting the stability of the office, thought there was no reason for such doubts, he changed his mind as to insuring at it, and applied to the Imperial Life In surance. It appeared that having given much trouble to the agent of the Norwich Office he paid as much as 61. to him in consideration thereof. He was subjected to a rigid examination by the medical gentlemen acting on behalf of the office and was accepted. In the declara tion made by Scott he gave the name of Williams as the person who was his usual medical assistant, and who certified to his being in a good state of health, and that he had never known him otherwise, excepting those casual illnesses parties are all subject to. In his evi dence Mr. Williams swore he was a medical prac titioner in Birmingham, and that he knew Scott in and from 1832 downwards ; and that he was his medical at• tendant in May, 1840, and considered him in good ge neral health ; that he gave a certificate to that effect, mentioning, however, theren that he had a loose carti lage of the knees ; that he remembered his being con fined to his bad for three weeks in 18.10, owing to the en largement of the inguinal glAnds, which Scott told him was occasioned by his going into the water. He had a cough, but not such an one as to cause uneasiness in the breast of the witness. In his cross-examination, this witness gave certain equivocal answers, the bad effects of which, however, was explained away, or nearly so, in his re-examination. _ _ The principal witness, however, in the case for the plaintiff was Dr. Ingoldsby, who stated himself to have been for many years the mAical referee of the Norwich office, He examined Scott on the 19th of February, 1840, and considered him a good life. His age when he died was thirty-three. It was his duty to take parti cular care as to pulmonary symptoms, or indeed any affection of the chest. Spitting of blood for a number of years was a strong consumptive symptom, and par ticularly so if accompanied by a cough. Ile had every reason to believe that the chest of the deceased was sound when he examined him. Is considered a very strict examiner. Several witnesses were called who spoke to their always having considered him healthy, though one, Luke Brierly, stated the deceased conceived he was ill, and would run all ever the country for doctors ; one day he would be all dead, and another all alive again. The case on the part of the office was, that Scott had know ingly deceived the office, ani it was stated, that it would b' proved that the family of the deceased was a con sumptive family ; that his father had died of that dis order at the early age of thirty-one, also two of his bro thers and one sister, there being only one other sister remaining ; that the deceased had suffered from and was prescribed for a disease of the lungs long before 1840, and that Scott was continually sending for prescriptions to be made up, and that, in short, the whole was done in fraud of the office. Ann Scott, the sister, deposed to her father being said to have died of consumption. She her,,elf did not re member him. She lived with her brother from Christ mas, 1839, to his bankruptcy, in 1842. He had a bad cough when he took cold. Assisted in cleaning the bed rooms, and on one occasion observed blood in a vessel. Her brother said it came from his head. Many- other members of the family were called, at whose houses he had stayed for a few days, two or th ree times a year, who deposed to his being considered un healthy ; to his continual coughing and spitting ; and one witness said that for six years before his death there was consumption staring in his face. Of the family, however, said to have died of consumption it was only rumour and hearsay. The brother who died at the age of 19i, it was said, had brought his death upon him by misconduct of his own. The principal medical evidence—though several others were called—stated he attended Scott for inflammation of the lungs in 1835. Bled him. Atten:led him the same year for a venereal complaint and ulcerated sore throat. In 1836 again attended him, when he was la bouring under a very . severe cough and spitting of blood. Also attended him in 1837 for a cough and cold, and for the like cause in 1838 ; the mucus was streaked with blood. Should say that in 1840 the deceased had bad symptoms of consumption.' Several other surp:ons were called, some of whom had attended Scott, and spoke of him as a consumptive man ; yet Mr. Williams, in 1843, a few months before Scott's death, had given a certifi cate recommending him as a good life to the Western Insurance Office, and on his certificate he was accepted. The lungs had been examined and found to be full of cavities, and were much diseased, but the surgeon of the Imperial Life Office, who had examined them when in a comparatively fresh state, was not called. Mr. HILL, in a very powerful speech in reply, com mented strongly on this fact, and went very minutely through the whole of the case. The Learned JUDGE having carefully summed up the evidence, the jury retired at nine in the evening, and after an absence of half an hour, returned a verdict for the plaintiff. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Hereford, Aug. 9. The civil business was all disposed of yesterday , at an hour sufficiently early to enable Lord Chief Justice Tindal to try-a case of horse-stealing before the Court adjourned. As was mentioned in yesterday's report, there were four causes in all to be tried, one of which was undefended, and two were substantially in the same predicament. The fourth was the following:—. AIgLEN V. THE RINQTON RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. tierjeant Talfourd and Mr. APMahon appeared for the plaintiff, and the defendants were represented by Mr. Whateley and Mr. Keating. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a gentle man of property, residing at the " Moor," to recover ,the sum of 371. I Is. 4d., for moncy_paid to the use of, the Company, which was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1818. By the provisions of the Act it was required that the Company should repair and keep in order the fences of the property through which the railroad was carried, and the fences on both sides of the railroad being very defective at that part of it which passed through Mr. Allen's estate, the plaintiff in 1843 repaired .the fence:, and obtained an order from two magistrates' for the payment of the amount which they had cog to re pair. No attention having been paid to the order, the present action was brought. Mr. WHATELEY, for the defendants, submitted that the order was bad, the jurisdiction of the magistrates not appearing on the face.of it. He t.)ok also several other objections to the order, but the Lord Chief Justice said he would not stop the case, but would hear the answer which the defendants had to make to the merits. The case then set up on the part of the defendants was that the " Moor" estate was originally the property of a Mr. Harris, who died in 1824, and that in 1819 a parol agreement was made between the company and Harris, by which Harris undertook, upon receiving two sums of 101. and 301., to fence the estate himself, and keep it in repair. Afterwards, however, he changed his mind, fancying that a fence would spoil the view, and the com pany then put up a kw well with a gradual slope, so that the view remained the same. Lord Chief Justice TINDAL—I think your clients spent their money very foolishly, Mr. Whiteley ; but I have heard your case, so that it may not Lome down again. The plaintiff most be nonsuited, with leave to move to enter a verdict for 371. lls. 4d., the sum assessed by the Justices. . CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ATCIIERLEY.) Richard Taylor, Thomas Taylor, and James Taylor. all young men under the age of '2 1 , were indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Daniel Bond, at Ashperton, on the 23d of July last, and stealing therefrom a pair of trousers two shirts, two coats, and other articles, his property ; also, a piece of bacon, two handkerchiefs, and other articles, the property of George Bond. The jury, after some deliberation, found all the pri soners Guilty, and they were sentenced to transportation for 15 years. - This was the only ease tried to-day in either, Court which was not of the most common-place character. Only one indictment remains for to :narrow, a case of sheep stealing, which will be tried before Mr. Sergeant Atcherley. The Lord Chief Justice will proceed to Monmouth and open the commission there. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WeIIs, Aug. 9. CROWN COURT. ARSON.—George Garland was indicted for setting fire to the dwelling-house of John Shiers, at Somerton, on the 14th of May, some persons being therein at the time. Mr. Cox conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. Edwards defended the prisoner. From the evidence produced on the part of the prose cution it appeared that Shiers kept a public-house called the Dragon, at Somerton, and that the prisoner some time before the fire had lodged there. Something, how• ever, arose which it was more than hinted at was a jealous feeling on the part of Shiers, and the prisoner was turned out Of doors. In the early part of May the prisoner was at the shop of the father of Shiers, and in the course of conversation he said he would be revenged on Shiers and his family. The father said the only way in which he could be revenged would be by setting his house on fire. The prisoner said he should never be happy till he had blown• John Shiers' brains out. On the 14th of May the prisoner went into the Dragon public-housel about nine in the evening. After being there about an hour a quarrel arose between the prisoner : I nd prosecutor, which-ended in the latter turn ing O w iirigoner out of dtiors•; he then went towards the back court of the prosecutor's house, and in &short time afterwards the cellar was discovered to be on fire ; it was, however, soon put 9at, and, nix ) n F 9 *ing among tho THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1544 DUDLEY ELECTION. Mr. Benbow has been returned for Dudley by a large majority—more than two to one out of 563 who voted. The numbers were—for Mr. Benbow, 388 ; for Mr. Rawson, 175. The result was fully expected. The Government press will, we trust, remember in its exultation, that Mr. Benbow goes to Parliament, having disavowed under compulsion on the hustings personal attachment to Sir R. Peel, and tracing ge neral depression of trade in his new constituency to Sir R. Peel's tariff. Mr. Benbow then is one more added to that band of " generous supporters" of the Government, between whom and the Government the Prime Minister has confessed that there are wide dif ferences on fundamental principles—another recruit for " Allies's boy." There is another thing which the Government press will do well to bear in mind. The number of regis tered electors in Dudley is 911, out of which number only 563 have voted in all, and only 388, less than half the whole number 67, have voted for Mr. Ben bow. Mr. Benbow then has been returned to Par- liament by the votes of a minority of the electors of Dudley. That 348 electors out of 911 should have abstained from voting altogether, admits of only one explana tion—influence. If so many have stayed away from the poll to avert Lord Ward's displeasure, how many of those who have voted for Lord Ward's agent may have given the direct lie to their convictions ? Who will believe that a manufacturing constitu ency like Dudley would have sent a man to Parlia ment to vote for denying foreign markets to its ma nufactures, and cheap bread to its artisans, if dependent voters had been protected by the ballot from intimidation ? The Dudley election, then, is another proof, added to the recent Salisbury, Hastings, Exeter, and South Lancashire elections, of the ne cessity of the ballot. We took the occasion of the late vacancy for Cirencester—where the Government have achieved another triumph in the return of Lord Villiers to represent Lord Bathurst and the local banker's overdrawn accounts —to call attention to another class of recent elections for small boroughs, where the ballot by itself could not be a sufficient remedy. In Abingdon, Buck ingham, Christchurch, Cirencester, Devizes, Horsham Huntingdon, Launceston, and Woodstock—in all of which the constituencies are under 500, in all but one of which (Cirencester) under 400, and in one of which (Abingdon) under 300 —wholesale bribery and intimidation might still neutralise the ballot. The Government purse might still afford to furnish a sum to be divided among the bulk of the electors of Abing don, if the Government candidate were returned. The Duke of Buckingham might still sway the 380 electors of Buckingham with his own band of depen dents—have them called together and told, " Your number is sufficient to ensure the return of my can didates—if they are not returned, you will all have notices to quit?' Besides, whether improper influences exist or not, can it be said that constituencies of two, three, four, and five hundred are sufficiently large to give anything like the attainable security for a proper choice of re presentatives! If the 225 electors of Harwich were all spotless as the milk-white hind, would it not yet be monstrous that so small a number should choose two Members of Parliament? If the 170 electors of Caine and the 190 electors of Reigate—we wish to be impartial—were entirely independent respectively of Lord Lansdowne and Lord Somers, would it be right for such miserably small constituencies each to return a member to Parliament, when so large .a number of men possessing the qualification of the Caine and Reigate electors are without a voice in the representation ? We have derived our information as to the numbers of the different constituencies from a return of regis tered electors, moved for by Mr. Hume. The same return furnishes us with the following facts : That there are forty-four boroughs in England returning each one member to Parliament, and thirty two returning each two members to Parliament, with less than five hundred electors; making in all ninety eight English members elected by consituencies under five hundred. That in Wales there are three boroughs, each re turning one member to Parliament, with less than 500 electors. Indeed, they are all under 400 ; Beau maris, 315; Brecon, 330; Flint, 270. That in Scotland there is one borough, Ayr, re turning one member, with 440 electors; and one county, Bute, with 420 electors ; while another county, Caithness, just exceeds the number 500, having 528 registered electors. Another Parliamentary return of registered electors for Ireland, moved by Mr. Butler, shows us sixteen boroughs, each returning one member, with less than 500 electors. The result of the whole is, that 119 Members in the United Kingdom are elected by constituencies under 500. Of these 72 are Conservatives, and 47 Liberal Members. In England the proportion of the Conservative Members to the Liberal Members for small boroughs is larger, the numbers being 64 to 34. In Ireland, where the Liberal party could only gain by the enlargement of constituencies, there are 10 Liberal and 6 Conservative Members, for boroughs with less than 500 electors. Add to the Conservative majority in corrupt and nomination boroughs, their majority in landlord-rid den counties ; and what would become of the Govern ment in the house of Commons, if voters were pro tected by the ballot, and constituences were uniformly large enough to render bribery and nomination im practicable ? There should _be no constituency with less than 1,000 electors. It does not follow from establishing a minimum of electors, that we should also establish throughout the representation a uniform proportion of Members to electors. If the thousand electors are fit men to choose, and can choose freely, and are not tempted to be corrupt, they may make as good a choice as a constituency of 20,000 ; at any rate the twenty thousand will not make twenty times as good a choice. There would be no reason, then, that the West Riding of Yorkshire, with its thirty thousand electors, should be intrusted with the choice of more than two members, because another constituency, that does not exceed a thou sand, returns either one member or two mem bers. Other considerations would determine whe ther it should have one Member or two ; but its choice of two members could be ,depended upon, equally with its choice of one. We regret that Mr. Duncombe has not had the op portunity, during the past session, of bringing forward his motion for a Committee of inquiry into nomina tion boroughs. It will, we trust, be one of the very first motions of the next session. The time is come when, keeping clear of wild and impracticable schemes of organic change, the Liberal party must look the gyring defects of the present state of the representa tion in the face ; and without ballot, and with the pre sent number of nomination boroughs, neither can corn-laws be repealed, nor justice to Ireland achieved, nor any other object, in which the hopes of the great bulk of the people are embarked, attained, unless by some accident to which no statesman would trust, or by the creation of a popular excitement which every wise and honest statesman would do all in his power to avert. —. Evening paper. THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES. THE SILVER SCULLS. The great contest for the championship of the Thames took place on Saturday, the result of which we hasten to communicate to our sporting readers. It is unnecessary for us to enter into any lengthened exordium on the sub ject of this great race, as those to whom it will be of any interest must be acquainted with the fact of their having been given for competition among gentlemen scullers. The race was expected to be something approaching to first-rate, from the well-known prowess of the two gentlemen engaged in it. Mr. Chapman, who held this honorary distinction in 183t1, 1842, and 1843; had in the contest of each year exhibited such extraordinary power and pluck as a sculler, that it required a rare good man to dispossess him. Mr. Bumpstead, of the Leander, the winner of the challengers' trial heat last Monday, as his opponent on the present occasion, was a person of no mean skill or ordinary game, as was evinced by the fact of his having defeated all the best scullers of the day, save Chapman, who was not a competitor, at the Great Thames Regatta and at Henley. A good race was, therefore, reckoned upon; but unfortunately it was at such a time in the day as prevented many who would willingly have subjected themselves to a trifling nconvenience from witnessiug it. Mr. Bishop officiated in lieu of Mr. Lewis, as umpire ; and about half-past ten was rowed by a crew of picked watermen to the starting place, followed by the Leander, the Royal Academy, and other crack clubs, and a considerable number of other gentlemen, in boats of different denominations. Mr. Chapman won the choice of station, and took the outside place, wo presume from a feeling that there was more tide to be found there. The start was taken very evenly, and, after a few strokes, Mr. Bumpstead gradually drew in advance, the labour on the part of either gentlemen being beautiful. Mr. Chapman, as they neared Lucas's-road, which they passed outside of, made a plucky spurt to overhaul his opponent, but the other putting the steam on at the same moment no change took place. Mr. Bumpstead off the Horseferry just contrived to draw his stern clear of his opponent's head, and in rounding the point off the Peni tentiary, went further in advance. On entering the next reach Chapman again made a powerful spurt, and the other following his example, they went by the lead works at a rattling speed, but Bumpstead having a clear lead rae of Putney-bridge the winner by half a minute. Both of about four lengths: At Battersea, at Wand swort h. and, indeed, to the very goa l of victory, Chapman ro we d as fine a stern Wager as ever was seen , but was unable to general ahi n is ai o n p iti p c o t n io e n n , t,. a Ns n , h d os i‘ e tr s . c ß ul u li ru ng pst waseadpassed • the tdhem under gen tlemen appearcd"to have had enough of it. oft On r Szitinrdtry fienn Ole 04_ Governoi - Or Van Dieman's Lurid. Mr. C. E. Ogden, and Sir Francis Cockburn had in-. turviowts with Lord Stanley °a Saturday, ashes of this fire, a tin box belonging to the prisoner was found between the wall of the cellar and the thatched roof, and the mark of the box as if the fire had been in it was apparent upon the wall. The witnesses, how ever, were in many instances inconsistent in their story, and contradicted each other in many particulars. ➢lr. Justice PATTESON summed up, and the jury re turned a verdict of Not Guilty. Nearly the whole of the day was occupied in trying prisoners charged with unnatural crimes. NISI PRIUS COURT. ALPORD V, ASHFORD. Mr. Sergeant Kinglake and Mr. Bute conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. Crowder that of the defendant. The plaintiff was an Innkeeper, residing at Shepton Mallet, and the defendant was an attorney, and secretary to a cricket club called the Shepton Mallet Club, and the action was brought to recover 32/. Is., for the hire of a field and carriages, and for refreshments supplied. The defendant was manager of the club, and gave orders for everything. Matches wers played with other clubs, and the plaintiff provided the marquees and provisions, by the direction of the defendant. The club played a match at Bristol, mad the plaintiff provided the carriages for conveying the members to that place. It turned out that a Mr. Marshall was president of the club, and that the plaintiff had first sent the bill to him. The jury found a verdict for the defendant. August 10. John Wiko.r was indicted for having discharged a gun at Thomas Ashman, with intent to murder him, at Chilcompton. Mr. Fitzherbert conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. Prideaux defended the prisoner. It appeared, that about half-past eight in the evening of the 18th of March, the prosecutor was standing inside his house, at the window, facing the road, when he heard the report of a gun, and in an instant the glass of the window came in upon him, and blood ran from his head in streams. His head was wounded, and it was a month before he was able to work. There had been disputes between the prisoner and the prosecutor, and the latter had employed an attorney to recover a debt which he alleged the prisoner owed him. So far the case was clear. Several witnesses were then called, who stated that they saw the prisoner that night near the house of the prosecutor with a gull in his hand; but they all ad mitted they had continually said that they had met some one, and did not know who it was, so that as soon as Mr. Prideaux had made his address on behalf of the prisoner, the jury said they had for some time made up their minds, and that they should acquit tho prisoner. A verdict of Not Guilty was therefore re corded. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) BOW-STREET. The Hon. William Ross Tonchet, was brought up for re-examination, charged with having discharged the contents of a loaded pistol at Mr. Thomas Smith, the proprietor of a shooting gallery in Holborn, with intent to kill and murder him. Mr. Vandrey, a solicitor, attended on the part of Mr. Smith, and Mr. Clarkson, together with Mr. Robson, the solicitor to Lord Audley, attended on the part of the prisoner. The prisoner was brought to the Court in the early part of the day, in a cabriolet, and not in the prison van, as on his former examination. Previous to the prisoner being placed at the bar, Mr. Clarkson (ad dressing the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Twyford) said he had been given to understand that, since the last examination of the prisoner, the surgeons by whom he had been attended in the hospital, had, at length, succeeded in extracting the ball from the back of the unfortunate gentleman (Mr. Smith), and that he had since been going on favourably ; he therefore wished to know whether the professional gentlemen were of opinion that ho was now sufficiently convalescent to attend the Court that day and give evidence, for if he were not, the prisoner must again be remanded for a period which would prevent the possibility of his trial taking place at the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Court. A police-constable of the F division here produced a certificate signed by the house-surgeon of St. Bar tholomew's Hospital, of which the following is a copy : " I hereby certify that the pistol ball has been ex tracted from the back of the patient, Thomas Smith, and part of the lumbar vertebrae has come away with it, but Mr. Smith, although now out of danger, cannot be removed without considerable risk. (Signed) " GEORGE ROYDE, " House Surgeon, St. Bartholomew's Hospital. prisoner "Augustlo, was B44 then placed at the bar, and Mr.. " T he TWYFORD, addressing him, said he was happy to find from the certificate of the house surgeon of the hos pital that the unfortunate gentleman, Mr. Smith, was in a fair way of recovery, and that beinf , the case, and as in the absence of Mr. Smith it would be impossible to prooeed further with the case, he should feel it his duty to remand the prisoner for another fortnight, by which time there was every reason to hope that Mr. Smith would be sufficiently recovered to enable him to attend the Court. The prisoner, on hearin g c , the above intimation from the wortjy Magistrate, bowed respectfully to the Court, and was then removed from the bar. After his departure, Mr. Tw YFORD addressed the son of Mr. Smith, who, it will be recollected, was present at the unfortunate occurrence, and told him that his father would be put to as little inconvenience as pos sible, should he be sufficiently recovered to attend the next examination of the prisoner. Mr. Smith, jun., thanked the Magistrate, and said that from the improvement that was daily taking place in the health of his father, he had every reason to be lieve he would be sufficiently convalescent to attend the next examination of the prisoner. A young man, who gave the name of Charles Lamb Dowden, and who was stated to be an actor, was brought up by Pocock, one of the constables of the F division, charged with having uttered four forged bills of exchange, two of which were for 51. each, and the other two for N. each, with intent to defraud different tradesmen, under the following cir cumstances : Mr. John Fox, a broker, residing in Castle-street, Long-acre, stated that he had known the prisoner about four years, as a performer at Sadler's Wells Theatre ; that the prisoner came to his shop on the 4th of last May, and said to witness, "I believe I owe you a small account. I shall be happy to settle it now;" and for that purpose he and the prisoner went to a public-house, where the prisoner gave him the Lill produced for 51., which purported to be accepted by a person named Hagger, residing at Paradise-row, Chelsea, at the same time requesting witness would give him the difference (2/.) between the amount for which the cheque was drawn and the sum which he owed him. Witness promised to do so in the course of the day, but previously put some questions to the prisoner respecting the acceptor, to which he replied, that Mr. Hagger was his uncle, and that the signa ture to the bill was in his handwriting. Witness in the mean time proceeded to Chelsea and made some inquiries with respect to the genuineness of the signa ture to the bill, and the result was that he discovered it to be a forgery. Mr. Twyroap—Then you have not been defrauded by the prisoner ? Witness replied the only loss he had sustained was the loss of time in making in quiries of the prisoner's uncle, who said he had not seen the prisoner for the last two years, and had nevex authorised him to put his name to a bill. Henry Spratt, a bootmaker,:stated that Mr. Hagger was upwards of ninety years of age, and had lodged at his house during the last five years. During the first three years the prisoner had been in the habit of visiting Mr. Hagger. Witness was positive the sig nature to the bill produced was not in the hand writing of Mr. Hagger. The prisoner, with reference to this case, said he would reserve his defence until he had an opportunity of consulting with his professional adviser. He was next charged with having attempted a si milar fraud upon Mr. John Smith, a publican, in Vere-street, Clare-market, and in which he was more successful; for according to the evidence of, the prosecutor, the prisoner, who owed him a bill of 21., came and tendered in payment a bill for 51., and re ceived the difference, after which prosecutor discovered that the bill was a forgery. Mr. Wells, the landlord of the Sir Hugh Middle ton, adjoining Sadler's Wells Theatre, stated, that in the month of March last the prisoner gave him a bill for 91., in payment of a score which he had run up at witness's house. He had since ascertained that the bill was a forgery. The next victim was Mr. Williams, the landlord of the Clown, public-house, in St. John-street-road, opposite the Sadler's Wells Theatre, who took the other 9/. bill of the prisoner, in payment of a score of 1/. 95., and handed the prisoner the difference. The prisoner was remanded for further examination. MARLBOROUGH-STREE7, A French lady, named Louise Pessault, lAr i mg at 73, George-street, Portman-square, who appearA to have recently sustained severe injury, complain:le to the Magistrate that as she was walking along Cast_street about one o'clock, a man, who was an entire stranger to her, and who was running with his head helddown, suddenly butted her in the face, and knocked her down with such violence that she was stunned(fer the moment. The man ran off as fast as he could, but was taken by a person who saw her knocked down. The mother of the man who committed the assault said her son was a little eccentric in his conduct, and he had, no doubt, committed the assault under the in fluence of a fit of eccentricity. Mr. HARDWICK said he could not allow a man to escape without punishment who knocked down people in the street and nearly fractured their skulls, merely because he was supposed to labour under eccentricity. The man must be brought before hlm, and he would then entertain the charge. The defendant was speedily produced in Court, and the charge of assault having been clearly proved, he was fined 405., or one month's imprisonment. HAMMERSMITH. Mr. Armstrong, a gentleman, residing at No. 102, Mount-street,-sare, appeared before Mr. G. Clive,. the sitting magistrate; on summons under the Metropolitan Carriage Act, (6 and 7 Viet., c. 86, sect. 7), at the instance of 40114 Perrin, conductor of the omnibus No. 2,043, for refusing, on the 28th ult., to pay one shilling, the lawful fare, for riding with the complainant's omnibus from Knightsbridge to Black-lion-lane, Hammersmith. The refusal of the defendant to pay the fare de manded (one shilling) having been proved, the de fendant said he did not deny having refused to pay one shilling as the fare fur the short distance he had ridden in the omnibus. He had done so on public grounds, with a view to have the point settled as to what was the legal fare, and whether the conductors or drivers of omnibuses are empowered to charge what they please. He and several of his friends had suffered so much from such impositions that he was determined to have the point settled. Mr. CLIVE said, by the Act of Parliament under which Mr. Armstrong had been summoned, it was envted, section 7, that the proprietor of every me tropolitan stage carriage "shall, on the inside of every such carriage, keep distinctly painted, in a conspicuous manner, a table of fares to be demanded of passengers in such carriage, and the fares therein specified shall be deemed to be the only lawful fares, and may be recovered by the driver or conductor, as in the case of hackney carriages, in a summary way, before any justice of the peace; and every proprietor making default in the premises, shall forfeit the sum of 20s. for every offence." By the 33d section, also, "every driver or conductor who shall demand more than the legal fare from any passenger, or who shall refuse to admit and carry at the lawful fare any passenger for whom there is room, and to whose admission no rea sonable objection is made," is liable to a similar pe nalty. His (Mr. Clive's) opinion, therefore, was that the proprietor of every metropolitan stage carriage has the right of putting up whatever table of fares he pleased, and of recovering those fares by summons. If he chose to put up "Fares—Sundays, 55.; Mon days, ].s. 6d.; Tuesdays, half-a-crown," and so on for each day, he could do so, and could recover such fares, the public not being required to ride in an omnibus so priced unless they chose. Proof was then gone into that in the omnibus in question the fares were stated as follows :—" Fares, Is.; four miles, 6d.; Sundays, ls." The defendant was then adjudged to pay the fare, with costs. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. REMOVAL OF THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT 01? THE FALKLAND ISLANDS] FROM rola LOUIS TO PORT WILLIAM. The following has been received at Lloyd's:— " Downing-street, August 9. " Sir,—l am directed by Lord Stanley to inform you that, in consequence of the superior advantages of Port William, in the Falkland Islands, over Port Louis, the Governor has been authorised to remove the site of the principal town, which had been originally fixed at the latter, to Port William.' By a dispatch recently re ceived, it appears that the removal has been effected, and that the Governor expected to be able to transfer his residence to Port William before the 30th June last. (Signed) " G. W. HOPE. " W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's." DREADFUL AFFAIR.—ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On the morning of Sabbath last, a most dis tressing event occurred in a family named Fife, belonging to Alloa Colliery. Regarding some trifling circumstance a dispute arose between the father and son, a young lad of about twenty, till at length the former, enraged almost to fury, lifted a hoe, which unfortunately happened to be lying near, and struck his son a tremendous blow with it on the head—laying the skull almost completely open. It was not expected that the lad could survive, and accord ingly information was speedily conveyed to the police, who proceeded to the house, and took the father into custody. He, however, requested to be allowed to go into another apartment for a moment, and had been absent but a very short time, when, on the officers entering the room, they found him weltering in his blood, having in the interval cut his throat in a shocking manner, Medical aid was instantly procured for both ; and up to yesterday they were still alive, but very little hopes were entertained of their re covery.—Stirling Journal of Friday. NORWICH THEATRE.—MP. Webster and Madame Celeste have been performing with the greatest succPess at Norwich. The favourite pieces of Suzanne, Victor and Hortense, The Trumpeter's Daughter, The Vivandiere, and the Pretty Girls of , Stilberg, have drawn crowded houses. These pieces, says the Norfolk Chronicle, have afforded an opportunity for the display of the various intellectual qualities of Mr. Webster and Madame Celeste. Nothing can be more elegant, more easily graceful, more playful, more feminine, or more fascinating, than the comedy of the la dy ; whilst the energy and force with which she delineates the stronger or more tender passions of our nature, are equally vivid and impressive, and her accent, unconquerably French, serves only to render her fluency more piquant. Mr. Webster has abundant vivacity, with an ample share of happy, buoyant, animal spirits ; but he has also deep feeling ; and the power of concen trating his emotion, till it bursts forth in an overwhelm ing torrent of passion, which shows how the actor feels, and makes the audience feel also. It is a great mental treat to witness such acting ; and, in every character which this lady and gentleman represent, there is the same display of the most accurate taste and correct judg ment, united with the talent of personation, that causes them to seem really to be the characters they assume. COPIES OF PAINTINGS, &C., FROM THE ROYAL PALACES, FOR THE KING OF THE FRENCH.—The King of the French, upon the visit of her Majesty to France, in the autumn of last year, having expressed a desire to be permitted to employ artists to copy some of the most cele brated portraits in the royal galleries in England, for the purpose of forming an historical gallery of distinguished warriors, statesmen, prelates, &c., at the Chateau d'Eu, in Normandy, the request of the French Monarch was most graciously and promptly acceded to by Queen Victoria. The selections which have been made by the King of the French are from paintings at Bucking ham Palace, Saint James's Palace, Hampton Court, and Windsor Castle, where artists are now busily engaged in making the requisite number of copies for his Majesty, which , will amount to upwards of fifty. Copies of the following paintings in the Waterloo Chamber and the Throne-room, at Windsor Castle, have just been completed for the King of the French, by Mr. G. P. Healy, which will be forwarded to Louis Philippe in a few days :—His Majesty William the Fourth, by M. A. Shee; his Royal Highness the Duke of York and the night Hon. William Pitt, by the late Sir Thomas Lawreuce. REVELATIONS OF RUSSIA.—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has this day published " Revelations of Russia ; or, the Emperor Nicholas and his Empire in 1844," by " One who has seen and describes ;" in 2 vols., small Bvo., price 245. bound ; which can now be had of all booksellers. These volumes proceed from the pen of one intimately conversant with the subject, and an eye-witness to much that he describes. They will lead the reader through startling disclosures regarding the reign, acts, and cha racter, of the Emperor Nicholas—the nature of his Government—the secret police, or Russian inquisition— the oppression of the nobility—the more than \Vest Indian slavery of the peasants, and the unparalleled per secution of Roman Catholics, United Greeks, and Jews. They will, also, be found to contain minute and ample details on the naval and military force of the Russian empire; together with a full account of the general con spiracy of the Russian nobility against the Imperial Government, &c. MANAGEMENT OF INFANT CHILDREN.—Friday Mr. G. I. Mills held .an inquest at the Cock, Brook-street, New-road, on the body of William Joseph Mott, aged eight weeks, the illegitimate child of Sarah Mott, a young servant out of place, residing with her mother, at No. 20, Fitzroy place. The child was born healthy, and continued so for a month, when it became cross and convulsed, and its grand mother, WhO had the chief care of it, began to give it small doses of gin and water, wine, and syrup of rue and oil of almonds. These liquids afforded temporary case to the child, but destroyed its appetite, and it died on Saturday night last, having refused the breast and every sort of food for three or four days previously. A medical man was only once consulted, about ten days before the child died. .The grand -1 mother of the child considered her knowledge of the treat ment of children equal to that of any doctor, and therefore did not think the aid of any one necessary. " The grace of God," she said, " and nothing else, caused the death of the child." Mr. Mills said that giving the child gin and water and wine, was only keeping up the disease ; and though the grandmother thought she was a sufficiently good doctor, her treatment of the deceased child proved the reverse. There were many dispensaries, and plenty of surgeons, whereby advice could be obtained at very little charge, and he thought it strange that the relatives of deceased had not taken advan tage of them. He did not think the case one criminating any person, but it would have been much more satisfactory if a doctor had been consulted within some days of the child's death. Verdict—" Natural death." EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF GOOD FORTUNE.--A poor fisherman, residing at Sidmouth, having fallen in arrear with his landlord, hired a boat for the purpose of conveying his few household effects to Portland. The wind blowing from the north-west he put out to sea, and was hailed by a homeward-bound East Indianian. There were on board the vessel twenty-five passengers, and they offered him three pounds a head to take them ashore. The offer was thankfully accepted, and the duty duly performed. The boatman then returned to his late desolate habitation, relanded his furni ture, and immediately afterwards waited upon his landlord and discharged his debt.— Glasgow Courier. STONE IN A MAN'S STOMACII.-011 Monday last a lunatic, named Joseph Little, aged forty, confined in that ex cellent institution, the Asylum, Brownlow-hill, complained of being unable to eat in consequence of something in his throat. He was removed to the infirmary, and every atten tion paid him, but he died on Thursday. On examination of the body, a large pebble was found in the throat, and in the stomach a quantity of little stones and grass. How he got them no one could tell. The same care was taken of him as of other patients.—Leicestershire Mercury. NOVEL EXPORT.—A novel entry for export was made yesterday at the Custom-house, viz., 500 pine apples for France, by way of Havre, and 100 for Hamburgh, being the first exportation of the kind that ever took place from England. They were entered b? Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, and formed a portion of the cargo of the Fear Not, the vessel which recently made the extraordinary and un equalled passage from the Bahamas in twenty-one days. They were shipped yesterday on board the Havre and Ham- burgh steamers, the former being for the Paris market, and from their excellent quality and condition, and being care fully packed in cases of thirty each, will, no doubt, stand the second voyage well. RAISING THE WIND.—A correspondent inform us that he knows a person who inserted in " the leading journal of Europe" an advertisement for which he paid 93. At the foot thereof was appended—" Parties wishing an answer to their application will please to enclose a postage stamp." Within a week he received no less than 219 letters with postage stamp inside, which not only paid for advertising, but gave a bonus of 9s:3d. in his favour. It is said-that hun dreds of_persons l avill resort to this novel mode of " raising the wind."— Ifircgtor Journal. ~:~~y ~-~ STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, AUG. 9.—The de mand for foreign wools has continued steady throughout the past week, and prices are very firmly maintained. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, AUG. 9.—There has been a large business done this week in clothing wools, and prices may be quoted a little higher. Comb ing wools have been well sought after, but the manufac turers.seem little disposed to buy, except to supply their immediate wants, at the small advance which took plane a short time ago. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, AUG. 9.--13011SUMeri come more freely to market to, give the slight advance lately sought by the staplers, the lighter descriptions of combing wools being most in demand ; but from the high prices given to the growers in all districts, stocks cannot be replaced even with this slight advance. Blan ket wool continues scarce, and worth rather more money . YORK WOOL MARKET, AUG. B.—The show of woke was only moderate, and the sale rather dull. The hold ers asked more than the buyers were willing to giv e ' The prices for good mixed lots of Hog and Ewe were 14i. 6d., 155., and 15s. 6d. Moor 'Wool continues low , not realising more than 75., 7s. 6d., and Bs. per stone, at which prices a tolerable good clearance was made. LEEDS.—There was more business done at the cloth halls this week than for some time past, bat this Was only from the circumstance that more goods were brought to the cloth halls, as the stocks were left in the same exhausted state at the close of the marker as has been the case of late. Low goods are still looking IT but fine qualities are without any alteration in price, er though there is a little more doing in them. There has been a good deal of business done in the warehous es during the week, more particularly in heavy goods for the winter demand. B4RNSLEY.—The linen trade is steadily improving , the weavers are chiefly fully employed, and there is a good prospect of a brisk autumn trade. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is a - fa i t business doing in.the pieco trade, both by shippers a n ,." home trade merchants ; and as the prospects of . tue harvest are favourable, a full trade is not generally e 1 petted till late on in the season. Inprices there is no Inv terial change. In the yarn trade, very little change has be e apparent for some time past, and the yarns generally 03 taken off as produced. The stocks on hand are lig, b e r j and prices very firm. The market is now well supp le with all kinds of combing wool, both colonial and 1 3 v 1 " tish, and for which the demand is hardly so buoyant 0 last week, but there is no alteration in prices. TRADE OF MANCHESTER, FBlDAY.—Though the ae" counts from Calcutta and Bombay are not very favour' able as regards the trade of this district, still a 1 0 0 business is doingat both 'places—whilst from t," 4 . northern parts or China the accounts are decidedly 0. vourable. The commercial intelligence brought by ti ll last mail is on the whole deemed rather favourable, though the effect produced on the market on Tuesday was scarcely perceptible, the demand being much til e same as on the previous week. Since Tuesday there'll been but little change either in the demand or value any kinds of cloth (though. the calico printers are 110 ,4 using an increased quantity, owing to the supply water, by which their works are in full operation) ; is owing to an increased supply of this kind of elo' and caused by a number of manufacturers turning theft looms to the production of these fabrics. Twist is la nn rt abated demand, and the turn dearer for the exe numbers.—Leeds Mercury. NOTTINGHAM, AUG. B.—The lace trade c ontinue'' a lively state for fancy articles, and for coarse and middy in plain nets and quilling. This market It; therefore, bare of stock of all kinds—even fine plain I l e r , are sold off, and scarcely any are making but to ortl if Coarse yarns, up to one hundred and eighty, are den ide " c e, worth more than at any time during the late afive l ii ] and are daily becoming more scarce. A demand s . sprung up for both 'Scotland and Ireland of some re rr nitude for these numbers, accompanied by such a o f vival at Bradford, as to render any material increas e r ,. stock, and consequent reduction in prices, very W o o bable before next year. The sales of bobbin a nd lv_ e l silk nets and laces, plain and figured, white, colotrio and black, have been unusually large both in 1-Ing, and America during the past season ; and wi ll dently require more means to be provided for the ply of the coming one. This is a very important a . ,,, c1 r . tion to the diversified operations of the trade, natc,,rot manently located in this neighbourhood. The 011 ' 0 1 certain blessing of an abundant harvest is cheering stimulating trade here as in most other great man° tories.—Leicestershire Mercury. SALE OF A WIFE AT LEEDS.—On Saturday .fter noon one of these disgraceful and illegal transae l ' fo i , the sale of a wife, took place with all the ordinary 0, mantles, in the butter and poultry market, in this t 0 )00 1 The wife, who was a rather good-looking woman, 5 ,,0, 25 years old, made her appearance according to cus "o , with a halter round her neck, which, in our o p iel d might with some show of justice, have been transfer` 0 to the neck of her worthless husband, and made to fi4. little more tightly. A large crowd of people having thered round, the husband, George Woodhead, of Ile a" worth, near Doncaster, who officiated as auctionee r ' bis ceeded with the sale, and speedily "knocked doriotioi better half (as he is said to have done many a col before, in another way) to the highest bidder, ,ejt Tier, William Idle, of Ousewell-green, near Roth° d who purchased the lady for five shillings. S h h e 1 1:fP been married to Woodhead, who is servant wit 60 Allen, farmer and butcher, of Hemsvvorth, abentrael, years, three of which she had lived in service, in 0 bad it is said, to escape from his ill-usage. The 1 0 0 0 been mutually arranged between the parties, bef o re m at' took place, the woman having contracted a see° e , riage with Idle in January last, and been livlite the him since that time. The people wh o ass embles : rathe occasion would have handled the husban d roughly, had he not escaped into an adjoining r house ; but he did not, however, long escape the P°4lei he being apprehended soon after by Mr. Read , the urid constable. After being remanded for some days, d i ' cot which he remained in prison, he was brought 111:100 final examination, before George Goodman and op Clapham, Esqrs., at the Leeds Court-house yest!,4' when, on his master and himself entering into '" t " nizances for his good behaviour during the tie months, he was discharged. The woman, wh o w h e t be' prehended by Sergeant Hepworth, will be broug„.." fore the West Riding magistrates, on a charge o f bib " —Leeds Times. tre LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.'""'-- e „ c itl , ' 5 on this line, for the week ending Saturday last, 14- o le r the enormous sum of 22,067/. 16s. 5d., of whichThil, than 17,8901. were derived from passengers alone. loc.!, is the largest amount ever taken in the same 51) ,tet" time upon any railway in the world. It is at the re 4 1851. per mile. The nearest approach to the t c ' i to, - ceipts was on the Great Western Railway in to !'" week ; but then the Great Western and its bra1c..,.00: upwards of 220 miles in length, whereas the P„,," ham, with its Aylesbury branch, is only 120.---l" Pt Record. Pi fblo CONSOLATION IN DISCOMFORT.--In a co- to .o- 4 last winter a druggist was awakened by a, a dye rapping at the door. Going down he fow l ? fellow who wanted to purchase a dose of Ito shop was entered, the dose prepared, and a half t pit in the drawer. "How much did you make o operation?" asked his wife, as he got into bed._„ e d cents," was the reply. " A shame it is, ret w ; irritated dame, "for a man to disturb your r, e rog ii, l4 dose of salts." " Recollect, my love," said the ' l ,, 0 3° " that the dose of salts will disturb the man' s re-' .0 than it has mine."—American Paper. ore li fe' Letters from Constantinople state, that th b rig, been some terrible earthquakes in Persia ; I ftb 24 1111 ( 0 heran, and Ispahan equally felt them. Iciasini r e ' re and various other cities, towns, and villages, Rbarl or less overthrown, leaving many inhabitants under the ruins. Ve y A Circassian nobleman having lat.A.,s, Russian General a blow upon the face in ws l i e oli d eo to flight on his white charger, in order to aisKo Prussian frontier. This noble beast cleared W ed Fl o ' of sixty leagues in twelve hours. Two niog n , t o,e 11 agents, who pursued, were unable to 7; 0 , though they changed horses three times. oig BIRTHS. V On the 25th of June, at the British Legation, C utlet lady of Belford Hinton Wilson, Esq., her Britannic 1 0 Charge d'Affaires to Venezuela, of a son, and h eir ' , the On the 4th inst., at Doddershall, near Aylesbury' pc, of G. Pigott, Esq., of a daughter. dy of On the sth inst., in Lincoln's Inn-fields, the l a ' Jo Lister, of a son. On the 6th inst., at Counter-hill, New-cross, o f , Barlow, jun., of a son. DCA' On the 6th inst., the wife of F. Barlow, E 9 4 . ' daughter. On the 6th inst., at Brighton, the wife o f the Ile f la df Nea Onle' of a daugr. k the 6th inst., hte in Albion-street, Hyde-Per t " the R. G. Stevens, Esq., of a son. lag On the 6th inst., in Upper Brook-street, the 10 1 1 tb s Fane, Esq , of a daughter, still-born. On the 7th inst., in Chester. terrace, Regent's-P3I oree' of John H. Cancellor, Esq., of a son. William JP" On the 7th inst., the wife of George Esq., of Norton-street, of a daughter. V ie MARRIED. job° f' r! On the Bth inst., at Plymouth, by the Ve s iVtn e i o siiil Rector of Bradford, Devon, W illiam Augusttlecmtelie son of John Francis Byrne, Esq., late Captain Po,rafi l° "o o°' Guards, and grand nephew of the late Lord late ndsay, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of thv pt I i Art i ste mander John Yule, R.N. te tti th e On the 23d inst., at Stoke Church, near DeVad of . p c Arundel Browne, Esq., to Dora Anna, only cu" or; Rev. St, John Browne, of Kinsale, Ireland. volu aver te On the 6th inst., Caversham Church,ll;3d Sandemau, Esq., late Captain in her MajestY's,..;,, ofti to Amelia, fourth daughter of W. CrawsbaY, Joel sham-park; Oxon. On the 6th inst., at Trinity Ch urc h. Mr. IY ill gre gi3Ar. pad of Oxford, to Mary Anne, only c hild of lire !A te j, Blackall, of Vauxhall-bridge-road. jo hnste ll 'uito On the 6th inst., at Colton, Major James 0 _r the 44th Regiment, to Anne, eldest daughter . Penny, Esq., Bridge-field, Lancashire. S h O a c ri l foFrrtihd,a-3l‘fr• Jan.- - u of. t t m l a a t ny ßer yp m ea t l t r d Es heath, Croydon. Navigation Co fDP 04 On the ~th.rann London. veryieet;at Tonbridgc Welts, suddenlY,.rai R.N., surgeon, t there. to Dow t_ K h . opr E ap l e l On th© 2d hist , at e convict esta_bli!orinetiiovat of Brighton, Mr. J D lir es t f hir e ' oe ' On the 2d inst , at Milton Clevedor, Soinerse.o Geary. al,c)Fl'erraknhctis"° Hthalei, Ge:°' 0, rine Cecilia Hannah, the Only child. of the Bev* . Alii iir " 0 0.- hie , :thrtuelnslli,hLiinnesotinsahtirße roadwater House, De3,r.f jrill,' Elinor, widow of the Rev. H. L. Walsh, D.C.I-4.1.v • 9 4. A coil , On the 6th inst ,at Lincolnshire. Berks, Leonard ~. -ohs. t he On the 6th inst., at Leatherhead, Mr. Walter c,.`"reff On the 7th inst., at Flower -place, Godeo lle ' - ---.1 / Hon. George Henry Nevill, aged 84. • %-, u• --, ----........,----..—.........---__;.---=0 , Oa. - 1 14; London : Printed ana •Pabfished' hY 'l4"l.i)oiee, 141° 11 et No.. n 2, Strand, Prinfaic tit The Sits As C.OP Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy., 11 3 '''' Middlesex, Monday, August 12, 1644. , t 1 et,