The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-30 00:00:00

rnE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NO 30 1344 4 the PUBLIC JOURNALS, under the wise and ust government of the pre- GLOA3B 1E EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. sent King, no such attempts would now be made; GouP fan, .—The great financial truth which Mr. but we are speaking of the effect of the former , t o leasthough Ch ance ll or o f t h e Exchequer, has French policy upon the minds of others, and the ci .ails tie' n, that " - high duties diminish revenue," is events to which we have referred are too recent for .nplified. Theproceedings in the Court o f E x - th e i mpress i on pro d uce d b y them to be yet effaced. chequer on Wedn es d ay against certain delinquent to Certain it is that the hopes of Jacobin revolutionists bacco-cls alers, whose smuggling speculations on a large and of despotic counter-revolutionists everywhere scale ha texcited the attention of the revenue officers, fur- point to France, without any fault either of the nishcol ivincinge v id ence th a t w h ereexorbitantdutiesare British or the French Government; and th a t as levied on any article, the smuggler will interpose, either revolutionist or counter-revolutionist party end tivide the market with the honest importer, predominates, the French influence will be in the avhOU the will undersell, and yet obtain an enor- ascendant. This is the penalty we must expect to pay motif profit. The illicit trader, who deals with the for our fidelity to the principle of non-intervention coati •aband importer, replenishes his stock at prices —u we have seen we have to pay another penalty of vastl y less than he oan procure the article for from the same Lind for our prosperity. There is the fair dealer. lie can, therefore, undersell his another consideration connected with our respect bone st neightrour, who is eventually compelled to for the independence of all nations, tending in doss his c h op and ' retire from the trade. The the same direction, for which we have as little rem sue, in the mean time, suffers to an enormous cause to blush, though unfortunately it does • extei it—not merely by being defrauded to the amount not reflect much honour upon human nature. Spain by 'hich the ditties are evaded, but in the immense and Greece, two of the States in which our influence eill ) •• Ise Ist w l eich the coast-guard service, and the is said to have declined, have both had proof that Eng 'ether pe an'. - e -wise-and-pound-foolish devices for pro- land (it may be for her own sake) will not allow them teet.ins, t'ne revenue against illi c it i m p or t a ti on , are t o b e fi na ll y oppresse d b y any a ll y or any enemy; Inunta D ied. Fill up the useless hole which folly dug they deal with us, therefore, upon the ungenerous in the 3 sigh road of commerce, and the corps of watch- principle that they will make the most of er :en, with lights and staves to guard against acci- the time, while they rely upon our ultimate d' tr t el , which is kept up at a great public ex- protection. These are principles of action, P might be diminished, if not abolished. The we repeat it, not to be controlled by any ii ;h duties levied upon the importation of wines art of diplomacy, for what have they in common with ails° exemplifies and proves the same financial truth. diplomacy ? It is not by intriguing with this indi- The Manchester Guardian of Wednesday refers to, vidual, or that party, that the mind of a nation is to :and gives the result of, an " elaborate table," annexed be changed, or the moral sense of a whole people is to to the circular ofan extensive wine house of Manchester. be elevated. Officious meddling would have a di- This document states the quantities of the different rectly opposite effect, while it would infinitely de kinds of wine imported yearly from 1784 to the pre- tract from the high character of this great and sent time; with the various rates of duty payable on universally honoured, though universally envied each; the produce of those duties • and the amount of coun t r y. A s t o th e ca p r i ces o f th e P or t e , or o f t h e consumption per head of th e population. This state- Pacha of Egypt, who can account for the caprices of ment deserves the attentive consideration both of the tyrants, or who can correct them? We must always Government and the public. The former it will in- calculate upon such caprices, and must anticipate that struct in the suicidal effects of exorbitant duties upon they will be generally unfavourable in proportion to the revenue; and the latter it will furnish with facts, our success, for constant success implies superior on - whit') to base applications to the Government and wisdom, and superior wisdom is to the ignorant and t 1, 03 Legislature for their diminution or removal. From ill-disposed always a reason for dislike and fear. this table it appears that, notwithstanding the We have thus briefly considered the subject immense addition to the population during the upon the hypothesis supplied by our Whig-Radical • last fifty years, the average quantity of and Young England Contemporaries, and, as we wines consumed in England and Scotland think, satisfactorily shown, that unless England de alone, taking the nine years preceding and scends from her present high station, or abandons the terminating with 1795, was greater than the ingenuous and honourable policy that has raised her to quantity consumed in England, Ireland, and Scotland that position, she must, in a period of peace, expect that on the average of the two last years, 1842-3. In the her seeming influence will be less than that of France. former period the quantity taken was at the rate of Not that France seeks such preponderance by any 5,524,890 gallons ; and in the latter period at the rate unworthy means. The employment of such means of 5,412,104 gallons per annum. The respective rates is, we know, impossible to the present Government of duty during the former period were 4s. 10d. on of France; and the employment of such means, French wines and 3s. lid. on the wines of a ll o th er t o a ser i ous ex t en t , b y any government of France, countries ; while the duty at the latter period is ss. 9d. would probably defeat its own object by exciting per imperial gallon of all kinds, except Cape. The jealousy ; b u t it i s ex p ec ti ng t oo muc h t o expect t h at effect of this increa se d ra t e o f ditty on the consump- France or any other country will reject an ad tion of the article, and consequently on the revenue vantage freely offered to her, and offered as it were derived from it, is manifest. "Itis a singular fact," in obedience to a law of nature. What we have to do remarks the journal to which we have referred, "that is to remain indifferent, until some of our material in the duty received in England and Scotland on foreign terests are attacked, or, at least, endangered; and if wine, in the year 1795, exceeded, by about 20,0001., Lord Palmerston, or some one like him, does not ob that received in 1842 in the whole of the United King- tain admittance into the Foreign-office, this state of dom ! But, probably, the effect of high duties will be comfortable indifference will continue long enough. most forcibly exhibited by the average consumption'per head of the population. In the ten years ending 1794 the (average) consumption was equal to three bottles and a half per head; whilst in 1842-3, it had sunk to one bottle and four-ninths, being rather less than 42 per cent. of the former amount." 'Were the wines of foreign growth to be admitted at a moderate rate of duty —suppose of one shilling per gallon—the increased consumption would in a few years com pensate the temporary loss to the revenue ; while the comfort, health, and even the morals, of the people would be improved. The apprehensions which are sometimes urged, in the absence of sounder argu inents, against the admission of foreign corn free of duty, will be employed against reducing the duty on wine. It will be sail, "If we admit the foreign article free of, or at a low duty, we shall be placed at the mercy of foreigners for a supply ; and, in the event of a war between Great Britain and the wine producing countries, the supply would cease." The objection is more specious than sound. The use of wine, even were the duty diminished, would, in such a ca.e, be still principally confined to the classes who could easily betake themselves to another exhili rating beverage, even though the supply of wine were limited ; while those who now regularly drink wine would still manage to procure their accustomed glass at a price not greater than is now paid for the article. The diminution in the consumption of barley which a considerable increase in the present consumption of wine would occasion, would be also urged against a con siderable reduction in the wine duty. This also, though a more formidable objection than the former, is scarcely tenable. The agriculturists—who would employ this argument against lowering the duty on nine—are using every exertion to render this country inde pendent of for e i gners f or a supp l y of corn. By all the appliances and means which modern discoveries in science can supply, the land is to be made in creasingly productive, to furnish adequate supplies of food for the constantly increasing population. But in that very proportion in which the demand for barley is diminished, bread- corn will be produced ; and thus the object for which the agriculturists are striving with so much commendable earnestness will be as:.i,ted. This argument may also be employed with effect in resisting the attempts which are now being made by the farmers to obtain the abolition of the malt-tax, at the cost of retaining the income•tax. A removal of that impost would increase the consumption of barley; but then a larger breadth of land sown with barley would reduce the quantity on which wheat is grown; and thus the necessity for importing wheat from other countries would be created by the British agriculturists, who affect so great a horror of our being dependent on foreigners for a supply. STANDARD.—By what is called, in newspeper phraseology, a curious coincidence, we have the or gans of the two extreme parties in England—" the old Whig-Radical party " ana " the Young England .party," Viz., the Morning Chronicle and the Al/arming Poet, this day attacking the policy of S'r It. Peel's Govertunent upon the very same ground--the alleged 'predominance of the French above the English influ onoe in Spain, in Egypt, in Turkey, and in Greece. As it is not pretended that England has sus tained, or is likely to sustain, any material loss in consequence of this alleged inferiority of influence, we can afford to examine the question calmly and in the abstract. And thus examining it, we think we shall find, even supposing the allegation much better founded than it see±s to be, that in the state of affairs de scribed, we have no reason to he ashamed or alarmed for our country, or for blaming our Govern ment. England and France are at the head of the nations of the world. United they can command—we trust long will command—the peace of the world; and while this happy state of universal peace is preserved, they will in a great degree share the influence which their ascendancy gives them, in more or less equal proportions. These proportions will of course be determined according to the miser sal and immutable laws by which the con duct and the feelings of mankind are re gulated, laws which no diplomacy can seriously affect. Nosy it may be stated, as a proposition ad mitting of no exception, that all nations are naturally jealous, that they see with pain and apprehension the rapid advances to a marked ascendency of any one nation ; and that when competition on their own part is hopeless, they will (except sunder the pressure of danger to themselves) rejoice to assist a rival in reducing the ascendancy of the object of their jealousy. Now we say it with regret, though not with regret that England has advanced, but with regret that France has not kept pace with her—that England has advanced more rapidly in prosperity and power during the last half century than any other nation —more rapidly than any nation ever before ad vanced. Here, then, is an occasion of universal jealousy ; a motive to every nation on the face of the earth (other considerations apart) to aid our next neighbour—our rival, but still, we hope, our friend, to come up to our level. Prima facie every nation in Europe would, for the reason stated, allow a preference to the French before the English influence, but with respect to the nations bordering tipon France there is a counteracting principle. France, though perhaps absolutely less powerful, is relatively to these bordering nations more power ful than England—she can injure them much more easily than England can, as they have felt too re cently to forget the lesson. It is only in the coun tries protected by distance or by local circum stances, from French power, that the common feel ing of jealousy has full play. In aid of this common feeling there are other motives at work in those countries where the English influence is said to have declined. In every country where men can pretend to think, nay, in every council of the moat despotic state, there will be two par ties, and these parties will seldom be very scrupulous as to the means they employ to se eure their own preponderance; but in the pre sent condition of Europe the least scrupulous yarty, if it desire a change, whether that change be from despotism to freedom, or from freedom to despotism, will naturally attach itself to the French influence. Non-intervention, honestly pursued, has been for centuries the characteristic of British policy. We hardly remember an exception, save tender the Whig Governments of 1827 and 1831; and Whig Governments are themselves, happily, exceptions to our whole system. It would be an in tralthetiunLirteoraltitioofSayatlhse same of France. Even since showln herself France has, on more than one occasion independenc e •ie of her too pr , mpt to violat , -! xneigliAb.ours, witness the Puke of Angoulerne's Spain to Marshale tif e, to establish despotism, re tiEwsp.„isyeeeiteili: Netherlands to support unprovoked - an -rard' 3 invasion occupation of Ancona, and enterprises. We hare a full confidence that, I I 'aolL TI MARKET , INTELLIGENCE From the Londriit .Vern Price Current of Nov. 29.) S UG.III.—To-day theisetler descriptions of West India Sugar were in demand, anitsfetched full rates, but low yellow and brown sorts movectoll . heavily, and the prices accepted were in some cases raiser under those previ ously quoted. The total purchases amounted to 240 hhds, including a public sale of 103 hhds of Barbadoes, which went at former rates, viz., fine yellow at 64a 6d to 655, good Gls 6d to 635, good middling 603 to 61s, middling 57s Gd to 58s, and low 555 to 56s per cwt. The estimated purchases for the week are 1,510 hhds and tierces. Refined Sugar is wanted by the home trade, but some of the refiners at present have scarcely any to offer fur sale. The goods at market found ready purchasers at the following rates : Brown Lumps at 72s to 72s 6d, Standard Lumps 73s Gd to 745, Tittlers ordinary to middling 725 6d to 755, good 76s to 78s, fine 79s to 83$, Hainburgh Loaves single 74s to 83s, double ditto 84s to 903, and wet lumps 71s to 71s Gd per cat. Bastards—low at 40s to 41s, middling 42s to 455, good middling and good 40s to 50s, and fine 51s to 563 per cwt. Pieces, fine and very fine at 68s to 70s 6d, good G.ss to 675, middling and good middling 59s to 645, and loa 56s to 58s percwt. Treacle, boiled from West India Mol.as a‘s at 15s•Gd to 19; 6d, Patent 21s to 225, and Golden Syrup 23s is 26s 6d per cwt. Crushed Sugar at 29s 6d to 29s 9:1 per cwt. Loaves are in excellent re quest; the supply is small, and prices rule firm. Turkey, Double Refit:: d If to 41b 31s to 40s; ilamburgh 6lbs 33s 6d to 345, 9 to 10lbs 31s 6d to 325, 13 to 141bs 30; to 30s 6d. Tittlers 20 to 301bs 30s. Prussian 40 to 45!hs 308. Pieces in demand at 24s to 268. The demand for Bastards was good at 20s 6d to 21s for yellow, and IBs to 18s Gd for brown. Treacle has been fetching 12s 3d to 12s 6d. Dutch Crushed Sugar at 27s 3(1 to 27s 9d per cwt. To day the home trade were not so desirous to purchase Re fined goods, and some of the refiners are inclined to sell for forward &livery. Brown Lumps are 725, and Stan dard Lumps at 73., 6d. Bonded Crushed Sugar is fetah ing 295 6tl to 305 per cwt. MAURITIUS.—At previous prices some parcels have been disposed of by private contract. None has been offered at auction ; indeed, the quantity at present in the merchants' hands is small, but arrivals aro daily expected. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon at public sale 2.192 bags of Bengal Sugar were offered, the Dohali amounting to 247 bags, were s , sl:l at steady rates—good strong yellow at 64s to 655, midlling 635, damp and washed 623 Gd to 64s Gd, the remainder consisted of Date Sugar, a part only of which found buyers at a decline in prices of is per cwt—low soft dingy yellow went at 50s to 52s Gd, middling ditto 53s 6d to 565, damp and washed 49s to 55s 6d, ordinary heavy brown 435, a - id good dry grey a 60s per cwt. FORElGN.—lrtspOrterS of all descriptions of Foreign Sugar still display firmness, and buyers generally enter tain a favourable opinion towards the article ; the busi ness transacted has been larger than in the previous week ; the market is still sparingly supplied, notwith standing the late advance in prices. The stock is much less than it was in 1843 at this period, and in the value there. is little difference compared with that time ; from the Continental markets the accounts are satisfactory fur the article. COCOA.—West India is still wanted, and previous rates are supported ; at public sale 329 bags of Trinidad, an inferior parcel, were all sold ; sea damaged, of which the bulk consisted, went at 27s 6d to 40s, sound mid dark red fetched 43s 61 to 445, and low grey 41s to 42s ; 82 bags Grenada fetched 40s to 435 for sound, and 375 to 41s per cwt for sea damaged. The market has still a firm appearance for Foreign Cocoa. COFFEE.—lmporters of West India have been more inclined to rta.li. a dais week, still :here has been a goad demand for most descriptions, and the rates previously estublished have generally been supported. This after noon there was no public sale of any kind of Coffee ; Ceylon ofgood ordinary pale quality met with little at tention, and 52s to 52s 6d per cwt is the value. Jamaica of middling quali!y is however much wanted, but little is to be had. For coloury Ceylon there were several in quiries, and full rates paid for the parcels disposed of. MOLASSES.—Prices remain firm for West India, and puichases to a fair extent have been made by private contract. To-day some parcels of West India were sold at full rates, making* the total purchases for the week 300 puns, chiefly at 21s 6d for Sr. liitt's, and at 21s to 21i 6d for St. Vincent's. TEA.—Merchants manifest firmness, and none has been offered at public sale since this day week. The Trade generally are desirous to operate, and the market has a very firm appearance ; the clearances from the warehouses for home consumption have exceeded 480,0001 b since this day week ; the demand is de cidedly increasing for nearly every descriptions of Tea, and stocks in second hands are much reduced of late. To-day the market was firm for Tea, and several transactions took place. Twankay of common quality is fetching Is 3d to Is 3id, and and Congou cash 101 d to 11d per lb ; large parcels aro being laid down for in spection SPICES.—The supply of Nutmegs having increased, a decline in prices of ld to 2d per lb has taken place this week. Singapore fine bold brown at 4s ld to 4s 2d, good and mid good 3s 7d to 3s 11d, mid 3s 5d to 3s 6d, and worm-eaten is 9d to is 10d per lb. Cloves are not much wanted •, good bold bright Penang was sold at 2s ld to 2s 2d, but Bourbon at 10d to 100 formid. Although prices rule low f or bla c k P e pp er, st ill t h ere are few shipping orders, and the home trade have purchased sparingly.pCelisnnahalmcon h b as een attr d ac isp te o d sed mor o e f. att H en ol t d io e n r , s and f several parcels frb C oae a srtehngseioraoomdffLeoari more needd ea bfiauntseimanifest,anuaecsn business oant. transacted 3 ndt op firmness, i3papid a ov n pta d oet re lt none yhlbeartef 4 h r hdalasos to beeng m4 a ll,i i d n and mid. Rtmi, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The market is firm for Leeward Island Rum at 2s 4d to 2s 5d per gallon, proof strength. Calcutta has met with more attention— small parcels have been disposed of at 2s 3d proof with certificate. Jamaica is held for the former currency. In Demerara little has been done. Brandy of common quality has been little asked for, and prices are rather lower, but for the best brands there has been a lively demand. Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 201, puns 5s ; ditto 1839, hhds, 4s I Id, puns 4s 9d ; ditto 1840, hhds 4s 11d, puns 4s 9d; ditto 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d ; ditto 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s 5d ; ditto 1843, hhds 4s sd, puns 4s 3d, common 2s 9d to 3s, and middling to good mid 3s 2d to 3s 10d per gallon. Geneva at is 9d to is 10d, fine for duty is fetching 2s 4d to 3s 6d. English Corn Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon. FRUlT.—There continues to be an extensive business doing in Currants; New Zante 48s, new Patras 45s to 50s, at the latter prices sales have been made ; old Cephalonia 445, old Patras 45s to 465. For Raisins there has been a lively demand ; Chesme, in barrels, at 46s ; Valentias at 50s, except a cargo of inferior quality sold at public auction from 47s to 495. At public sale, on Tuesday, a parcel of damaged Patras Currants was sold, butts 45s to 495, caroteels and barrels 46s to 503. Greek Figs in casks and barrels were bought iu at 3 to to 3S; a low boxes sold at 38s. .A large parcel of Turkey Pulled Figs of ordinary quality and out of condition were also offered, and sold from 46s to 525, one lot of 1-16th ileums realising 575. New Imperial French Plums in i-quarter, and eh-cartoons sold from 120 s to 150 s, in chests 75s to 765, and new Prunes in i-chests at 38s. El —An increased desire has been shown to per. ' '``s 0c„ , : . 4 1 Ao v _ s chase Bengal this week, and by private contract many parcels were disposed of at prices above previous rates : the sorts most in request have been low mid dusty white at 10s 9d to Ils, other kinds are selling at Ils 3d to Ils 6d, for mid, and lls 9d to 12s 6d for good mid to fine white. Madras at 8s 3d to 9s per cwt for yellow. Java by pri vate treaty yellow at 9s to 9s 6d, and white lOs to 11s 6d The stock of East India is still diminishing. Cleaned Rice 13s 6d to 18s for Patna, and 23s to 28s per cwt for Carolina. fested some such intentions, but was then quieted, and went away. On the 12th of last October he again ap peared with six other persons, and made use of violent language and threats, and was then again removed or in duced to go ; but on the following Monday the transac tion took place which was the subject of these proceed inge. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to the detail of the facts, which were to the following effect :—On that morning, shortly before nine o'clock, the postman, on his return from the abbey, saw several parties of men all going in the direction of the abbey, armed with sticks, blud geons, hammers, crowbars, an axe, and other of the like sort of weapons. He went back and gave the alarm, and the lodge gates were closed. Twenty-nine men, of whom the prisoners were four, and two women made their appearance at the lodge gates and demanded entrance of the keeper, which was of course refused. They then stated that they would pass, and broke the locks, and went through up to the door of the abbey, at which they made some knocking, and then round to the housekeeper's door, which they proceeded to force. His Lordship and the whole of his family were away from home. At the last-mentioned door the intruders were met by Elijah Dencer and Charles Hancock, two of the county police, who required them to depart. They pro ceeded, however, to force th e d oor , w h en H ancoc k put his hand to the breast of James Leigh to stop him, upon which James Leigh struck at his head with a bludgeon. Then ensued a general murderous attack on the two policemen who were knocked down, and with others of his Lordship's servants, t o t h e number of nine or nearly so, were most seriously injured, the lives of some of them having been long in danger, and with one, if not with two of them, the :danger was not yet over. The assailants then knocked two of the panels out of the door, and effected an entrance. Upon the housekeeper remonstrating, she was told she must leave, as it was their house, and there was no longer any occasion for her services. Mr. Jones, his Lordship's solicitor, who, in consequence of a recent absence of the house-steward, happened to be residing in the house, on perceiving that the door had been under the circumstances forced, ran along some passages and made his escape over the roof and down a ladder ; after which, having taken horse, he made the best of his way to Coventry for the police. The parties having now thus effected an entrance, claimed the right to the possession of the property, and broke open the pastry-safe, larder, &c., and barricaded, with chairs and tables and the like, the door which they had broken ; but the violent ringing of the abbey bell, and other circum stances, having alarmed the neighbourhood, the villagers came to suppress the outrage, and mustered in sufficient numbers to make resistance to them useless, threatening in strong language an instant attack upon and expulsion of the intruders, who now be com i ng somew h at a l armed, offered to lay down their arms and await the arrival of the police, upon the condition that Mr. Chapman, one of his Lordship's head stewards, should address the vil lagers, and bring about quietness in the interim. Mr. Chapman, to avoid further mischief, addressed the vil lagers from a window, and accomplished this, and the parties laid down their arms and remained quiet until the arrival of Roby, the inspector, and a body of police, who took them, offering to go anywhere, but still claim ing their right, together with the huge pile of awfully destructive implements now produced, before the magis trates, by whom they were all 29 committed to take their trials here this day. The Learned Counsel remarked that they might all have been now standing to take their trials upon the grave charge of felony, but it had been deemed sufficient to make a selection, in which considera tion had been had to the degree of violence used by each. The prisoner James Leigh was the ringleader of the party. It might be deemed necessary, added the Learned Counsel, to advert to the motives for such a thing, to show how it could have come to pass that this outrage had been committed. Lord Leigh himself had been in the actual possession for a period of twenty-one years, having succeeded his father, who inherited from his uncle, to whom the property had passed in 1806—a period of thirty-eight years in all. The present was the oldest branch of this noble house, and down to 1806 had resided upon their estates in the county of Gloucester. The first Lord Leigh, who had been created a peer about the year 1622, was a younger branch, and the last lord of this branch dying without issue, it came into the possession of his maiden sister, who died in 1806, when that branch became extinct. Many persons had thought that there must be descen dants of the younger branch to take in preference to the elder, and others had thought that there must be other questions of title, and a large prize tempted some persons to make claims on very slender grounds, and others to advance money to support them, and one George Leigh had made a claim to the estate and title, as being de scended from one of the Lord Leighs of the younger branch. Now, the form of proceeding in support of a claim to a title was different to that in support of a claim to an estate, and the former had been thought the most eligible for adoption; but the investigation before the House of Lords, so long ago as 1829, came to an end suddenly, by the counsel for the claimant admitting in its course that he could not further proceed with the claim. It was theh thought that the nobleman, whom he was now representing, would be allowed to enjoy his estate in peace and quietness. If these parties had still thought they had any claim, why had his Lordship been allowed to enjoy it at all, during all the time from 1829 to 1844? But there was on the part of many illiterate and ignorant persons a dis position to believe that all the estates in the kingdom were enjoyed by wrong people, and though the law had pretty well settled the question as to this estate in 1829, different claimants had from time to time Made their appearance, who, frequenting the various public- houses in the neighbourhood, there told different stories.reflecting upon the honour and honesty of Lori Leigh and his family ; and, among others, that a certain tombstone had been destroyed to destroy evidence, This was put forward at the investigation before the Lords in 1329, when the late Lord Abinger, then Mr. Scarlett, as counsel, adopted the test of detection of put • ting it to witness after witness, who came and deposed to having repeatedly seen and noticed the tombstone, to make a drawing of it, and which they all did, amd the difference was so excessively absurd as to put the whole of them effectually out of Court. The Learned Counsel having then remarked upon the fact that the law as to time and long possession made it absolutely unimportant in every respect what title there might have been, or these people might believe to be, proceeded to mention that any such supposed claim, even if the parties them selves believed that they were such, or even any real claim, could have no relevancy whatever to this in quiry ; for parties who had claims must advance and maintain them according to the forms of law, and not by taking that which they might want by storm. No advantage to the parties so acting could thereby accrue, however good their title or claim might be ; and it was well that these ignorant and misguided sort of people should be made to know this. He should ill represent Lord Leigh by making any observations as to his elm racter or that of his family, or by noticing, in 1844, sto ries as to the dead proceeding from such a source and under such circumstances. He was confident that when the jury had heard the evidence and the instructions that they would receive from his Lordship, they would enter tain no doubt whatever as to the guilt of the four pri soners at the bar of the heinous offence with which they there stood charged. The facts stated in the opening were abundantly proved by the numerous witnesses. The two policemen appeared to have been grievously injured about the head ami body, and principally by James Leigh, the ringleader, and Thomas Leigh. William Freeman, an assistant game keeper, received about half a dozen blows on his arm and one on the head, inflicted with bludgeons, from the effect of which last he could not lie in his bed for a week, and his life still continues in danger. His shirt was sa turated with blood. Joseph Freeman, labourer on the estate, had his arm broken when put up by him to pro tect his head from a heavy blow from a huge hammer. Charles Humphreys had his head very severely cut and eyes blackened, and fake cut across with blows also in flicted by a bludgeon. Robert Jaycock was struck at by the prisoner Watts with a stone-breaking hammer, but happily escaped the blow. The prisoner Flowers had also a bludgeon, with which he struck the policeman and others several severe blows. Mrs. Savory, the house keeper, saw nearly all that took place, and deposed to James Leigh's dismissing her from her situation, and to the general " Hurrah !" as soon as the inside of the house had been gained by the whole body. Mr. Chapman proved one of the parties to have had a large axe with him. Messrs. Watson and Cottle, the surgeons who had attended the wounded, described in general terms the nature and extent of the injuries sustained, and par ticularly those sustained by the unfortunate William Freeman, which were the subject of this indictment. Besides other injuries, including a dreadful contused wound, extending from the elbow to the wrist, he had received (but by whose hand it was struck was not in evidence) a severe wound on the left side of his head, cutting through the integuments of the bone, and ex tending in three directions, the effects of which had pre vented him from being able to lie down in his bed for a week, and from which he was not out of danger until Monday last, and could not even now be so pronounced, a swelling having recently appeared under the bone, which, coupled with the earlier symptoms of, dreadful pain in the h ea d, an d s i c k ness an d shivering upon putting his feet to the ground upon a surface in the least degree uneven, was a very alarming additional symptom. They also both deposed that the wound (a very thick hat having been cut through) must have been inflicted by a very hard blow with a heavy instrument (such as a very heavy short bludgeon produced), the necessary re sult of which blow would have been to inflict a grievous bodily injury. Mr. TEMPLE having addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoners, urging the absence of any of the intents charged in the indictment, and treating the whole pro ceeding as a mere riot and a consequent fight, in the heat of which blows were struck without premeditation, which had, most unfortunately, caused the grievous in jury to the poor man Freeman, which the prisoners, as through every one else mu s t do, most deeply deplored. His LORDSHIP proceeded in summing up very hued nou sl y toe xpc l un d and case,e explain andain the then law bearingough a most impartial rev i ew o f t h e f acts, a b out w hi c h there upon seemed the several parts of f the , however to b e no t muc h di spute, l eav i ng i t to the jury to say, wheth er th e pr i soners at t h e b ar were proved to their sati s f ac ti on to h ave b een gu il ty o f any of the offences charged, and if of any, then of s‘ hich, course, deferred. not see that th e jury would be warranted by th e ev id ent e in finding an y one or more of the four prisoners guilty, without finding th em a ll guilty alike. The jury havin g considered upon their v er di ct for a very few minut es , a t a b out h a lf- past seven o'clock There returned beinga verdi ct other of indictments, Guilty sentence ofac was,onainon assault.of o deferred. SAGO has been in good request by private contract, and prices are inclined to adrance, low Pearl has been selling at 108 to 15s, mid 16s to 19s, good 20s to 225, and fine 23s to 265; Sago Flour is fetching Ile to 19s per cwt for small parcels. Of Bermuda Arrowroot 69 pkgs at public sale went at 8d to is 2d, 120 pkgs of St Vin cent 6d to 10d, 20 tins of Jamaica 64d, 6 casks of Tois lus Alois 5d per lb, 11 casks of Cuba honey 32s to 37s per cwt. INDIGO.—The purchases made in East India have been trifling this week. Madras is fetching former rates, but the demand has been only for small parcels. The mar ket for Spanish has a dull appearance, and of 73 serons of Guetamala at public sale, a small part only sold at 2s 10d to 4s 10d per lb, being 2d to 3d under former rates. COCHlNEAL.—lmporters demanding a further advance in prices has checked business, and 271 bags of Hon duras silvers at public sale were nearly all taken in at an advance on the rates of the last auctions of 2d per lb ; a few lots were disposed of at 4s 2d to 4s 8d fur low to fine silvers ; 150 bags of Honduras are declared for auction. SALTPETRE.—The demand has further increased for Rough this week, and none has been offered at auction ; exporters and the home trade are desirous to operate, and have taken several parcels by private contract, paying prices rather above those of last Friday. TALLOW.—This afternoon at public sale 382 pkgs of South American Tallow went at 33s to 39s 3d ; 28 casks of North American 38s 6d to 39s ; 56 casks of Italian 39s 3d ; 124 casks of New South Wales39s 3d to 40$ 6d; 91 casks of Cape 38s to 41s 9d; 15 casks of Naples 40s 6d to 40$ 9d ; 18 easks of East India 40$ to 41s c 3d ; and 349 casks of stranded yellow Candle Tallow 38s 3d to 39s 6d per cwt. Ou.s.—A further reduction in prices having been sub mitted to for Olive Oil. Buyers have been induced to come into the market with more freedom ; for Gallipoli 411 to 421 have been accepted, 391 to 401 for Spanish, and 381 to 381 10s per tun for Barbary and Levant. This afternoon lower rates were accepted for Sperm Oil, at public sale 70 tuns selling at 78110 s to 86115 s for American. 60 tuns of North West Coast Whale Oil of Foreign Fishing in bond 31/ lOs to 33/ 15s. 99 casks of Cocoa Nut Oil 241 to 281 lOs per tun. COAL 217.ARZET. Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's West Hartley, 1756 d ; Carr's Hartley, 17s 6d ; Davi son's West Hartley, 17s 6d ; Hastings Hartley, 17s 7d to 183 ; Holywell Main, 20s ; Nelson's West Hartley, 173 6d ; New Tanfield, 16s 3d ; Old Pontop, 16s ; Ord's Redheugh, 16s 6d ; Old Tanfield, 16s 3d ; Pott's Primrose, 16s ; Tanfield Moor Butes, 165 6d ; Tanfield Moor, 19s ; Taylor's 'West Hartley, 17s 3d ; Townley, 17s 6d ; West Hartley, 18s ; Wylam, 17s 6d ; W. E., Clennell, 18. ; W. E., Edmondsley, 193 ; W. E., Gos forth, 20. 63 ; W. E., Gibson, 20s 6d ; W. E., Heaton, 203 6d ; W. E., Killingworth, 19s 6d ; W. E., New march, 193 ; W. E., Northumberland, 19s 93 ; W. E., Ramsay, 16s 6d ; Eden Main, 20s 6d ; W. E., Belmont, 21$ ; W. E., Braddyll's Hetton, 22. 3d to 22s 6d; W. E., Haswell, 22s 6d ; W. E., Hetton, 22s to 22s 3d ; W. E., Hytton, 22s ; W. E., Lambton, 22s to 235 ; W. E., Richmond, 20s 6d ; W. E., Russell's Hetton, 22s ; W. E., Sherburn, 22s ; W. E., Stewart's, 22s to 22s 3d ; W. E., Whitwell, 2113 ; W. E., Caradoc, 223 ; W. E., Hartlepool, 225; W. E., Heselden, 205 ; W. E., High Thornley, 20s ; W. E., Kelloe, 22s ; W. E., South Hartlepool, 17s 6d; W. E., West Hartley, 19s 3d ; W. E., Bitchburn, 19s ; W. E., Brown's Deanery, 21s; W. E., Evenwood, 19s; W. E., Tees, 225; W. E., Tees Hetton, 18s ; W. E., West Hotton, 19s 3d ; Clackmannan, 16s ; West Hartley Netherton, 17. 6d ; Woodifield Cook, 17. 6d,—Arrivals since last day, 86. • LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 29. BELLER V. ADAMS. This was an action for compensation in damages for false imprisonment, brought by Anna Deller, a maid servant, against her former master, Mr. Adams, a schoolmaster and lecturer on astronomy, residing at Tottenham, under these circumstances :—On the morning of the 11th of March last, the pre sent plaintiff stated to her master, that, having had occasion to enter the room in which the plate was kept, she discovered that it had been removed, and the basket which had contained it was left empty. She appeared at the time to be very much agitated, and requested Mrs. Adams to send for a policeman. After this the nursery-maid, who had been sitting at the window at the time when the robbery was supposed to have been committed, sail that she saw a man crossing the lawn before the house, that he was dressed in a velveteen coat, and that he resembled a man of the name of Higgie. That person was apprehended, but was afterwards liberated on his reeognisances. On the examination of the premises by the police, no trace of the means by which the robbery was effected could be found ; but it aas observed, that a door which opened only on the inside, was left ajar. The plaintiff said that she had been cleaning the steps and pas sage, and might have forgotten to shut the door. On the same evening the defendant applied to a magistrate. who advised him to give the two servant women into custody, it being too late to get a warrant ; but Mr. Adams preferred to give the plaintiff only into custody, as it would be inconvenient to part with the nursery maid. The plaintiff was accordingly taken to the station-house on Saturday, and on Monday was remanded to Friday, when she was discharged. For this imprisonment the present action was brought. The trial occupied part of yesterday, and the -whole of this day. The jury found for the plaintiff on the first issue, but on the others for the defendant ; the verdict being, therefore, substantially for the defendant. WINTER ASSIZES. HOME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, Nov. 29. TILE MURDER AT DOVER.—James Clark, 60, John Clark, 28, William Clark, 30, and William Smith, 23, were indicted for the murder of Samuel Couchman, at Charlton, in the borough of Dover. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Rose conducted the prosecu tion ; and Mr. Horne defended the prisoners. The case occupied the Court a great many hours, hut the facts upon which the charge was made against the prisoners lay in a very small compass. It appeared from the statement of the Learned Counsel and the evidence, that the unfortunate deceased was one of the police-constables of Dover, and he was engaged in that capacity at the time he lost his life, on the Bth September last. It appeared that in the afternoon of that day a number of disorderly persons had been quarrelling together, and there was fighting going on for a considerable time, the elder prisoner, the other two, who are his sons, and a third son named Thomas, being actively engaged in the disturbance. The deceased interfered, but he was very much abused, and some of the pri soners were heard to make use of very bad language towards the police, and to threaten that some of them should be done for before night. The disturbance continued until eleven o'clock at night, when the deceased and another constable, named Smith, laid hold of the prisoner, James Clark, and one of his sons, with a view to take them into custody, when Thomas, the other son, interfered, and said that he would take his father, who was at this time very drunk, home, and he did so. The two constables were then pushed about and assaulted, and Thomas Clark was seen to come out of his house with a large bludgeon, partly concealed, by his side, and without saying a word he raised it, and with both hands struck the deceased a tremendous blow across the face with the stick. The blow literally smashed the deceased's face, and he fell to the ground as though he had been shot, and died almost immediately afterwards. The man, Thomas Clark, who was no doubt the actual cause of the death of the deceased, absconded imme diately after the occurrence, and has not since been heard of, and the prisoners were charged accessorially with the murder from their having been present during the affray, and from the threats they had made use of. In addition to this it was proved against the prisoner Smith, that while the unfortunate deceased was lying dead upon the ground, he jumped up with a gesture of exultation, and exclaimed, " There you--, you've got it; you are no good." These facts were shown in evidence, but there was an absence of any distinct proof that the prisoners were actually present when the fatal blow was struck, and the only evidence that tended to show they were aware of the fatal result that had taken place, was the fact that imme diately after the death of the deceased, one of the pri soners said to the other, " Come along, my dear brother, let us bolt—we have done something to be talked about." Mr. HORNE addressed the jury on behalf of the pri soners, and having alluded to the more material portions of the evidence, he contended that it was not sufficient s to enm y o a ru r .s ra jo n ffu t the estni offence ee jury wwitnzh w i i n ti co hs n t v sh i u c emy tin mw g eedr t e h u e 7 p u ri s s aen o dd ners of the . the jury, after a consultation of nearly two hours, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. MIDLAND CIRCUIT, Warwick, Nov. 2s. THE QUEEN V. JAMES LEIGH, AND OTHERS. James Leigh, Thomas Leigh, Joseph Flowers and William Watts, stood charged upon an indictment, with having, on the 21st of October last, at the parish of Stoneleigh (at Stoneleigh Abbey, the seat of Lord Leigh), feloniously cut and wound e d one W illiam Free man, with intent to maim him, to disfigure him, or to do him some grievous bodily . harm. There were three other indictments against the pri soners, for the same offence upon other persons —on e f or assaulting d a on c e o i n n st w a h bl i e c , h tot hepreventwere their included lawfulwitht apprehen sion,,.enty five others in a charge of riot, all arising out of the same transaction, the particulars of which appeared in journalthis before shortly t h after f t r committingth final magistrates.)examination Mr. Hill, Queen's Counsel (specially retained), as of the pri soners slated by Mr. Miller and Mr. Mellor, appeared on behalf of the Crown. Mr. Temple (specially retained), assisted by Mr. Eardley Wilmot, conducted the defence. Mr. Hri.r, opened the case ; and, after briefly premis• ing, that Lord Leigh now was and long had been in the possession of the estate of Stoneleigh Abbey, stated that so long ago as the month of February last the prisoner James Leigh first appeared in the grounds and maul- Friday, Nov. 29. At the sitting of the Court this morning it vas inti mated, as we understood, by the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, thr,t, as the jury had aL - ea(iy givei. their opinion upon one of the charges of felony, and as the facts in all of them would be so nearly the same, there was no desire on the part of the prosecution bo press any of the other charges of felony, and, with his Lordship's permission, they proposed to offer no evi dence upon either of them. Verdicts were taken ac cordingly. The whole of the twenty-nine were then put upon their trial for the riot, but at two o'clock, when our report was necessarily dispatched, the case was still pro ceeding, Mr. Temple being in the course of his address for the defence. The facts being the same as in the case reported yesterday, there would seem to be but little doubt that there must be a verdict against the whole of the twenty-nine for the riot. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS Or THIS DAY. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The proprietors of the Peninsular and Oriental steam Navigation Company held to-day their annual meeting, which was very numerously attended. The first subject mentioned in the report was the con tract with the Government for the extension of the mail service to and from India. The financial arrangements for carrying out this service have been already made by the Directors, and the Proprietors have paid the first in stalment of 5L per share on the 4,000 new shares of 50/. each. The report states, that the Directors have en tered into contracts for four now ships of 1,300 tons each, and one vessel of 700 tons, which are to be ready for sea next year. It is expected that the new monthly line of communication to Calcutta, Madras, and Ceylon, will be in operation from January next, and the commu nication to China will be opened as soon as the vessels now building for the service are placed upon that line. The negotiations for the purchase of the new steam ship Precursor terminated in that vessel becoming the property of the Company for the sum of 45,0001. and 5,0001. contingent upon a mail contract being obtained, her original cost being about 80,000/. An additional sum of B,OOOL has been expended to increase the accom modation of the vessel. In the event of the Pacha of Egypt taking into his hands the traffic across the Desert, the Directors state their belief that the Company's vessels on the line will be purchased by the Egyptian Government. Several complaints were made in the course of th e mee ti ng , o f the inconvenien ces which attend the transit, and which furnish so many arguments for the establishment of a railway to Suez ; but the chairman (Sir J. Campbell) explained, that as the Company were only chartered for purposes of navigation, they could take no steps for the amelioration of the land passage. The profits of the year ending the 30th of last Sep tember are stated at 65,0424, which, with the undivided profits of the preceding year, makes a total of 109,8971. The usual dividend of 3 per cent. was declared for the six months ending the Ist of October, and the undivided profits, after deducting both this and the April dividend, were stated at 74,0201. To reduce the expense of insu rance, which is found to weigh heavily upon the profits of the Company, the investment of the sum of 10,000/. towards the formation of an insurance fund, was voted, after the report had been confirmed. Our attention has been directed to a passage in a speech by Sir R. Peel, delivered on the 6th of May last, relative to the prospect that the provisions of the new banking Bill would be evaded, and which it may be use ful to quote, as it shows that the Ministry, foreseeing such abuses as possible, are prepared with a remedy, which it will be prudent in the parties concerned not to provoke. It is as follows : "It is thought by some that this privilege might be perverted, so as to give rise to something like the sub stitution of a bank-note of a certain kind, and of a circulating nature. The power has been held by private banks from time immemorial, and it has not hitherto been accompanied by any abuse ; and why should it be anticipated that joint-stock banks would abuse such a power by using it contrary to the intentions of the Legislature ? But I give public notice, on this opportunity, that if the power should de abused—if it should be attempted to circulate small bills, so accepted, within the limits reserved to the Bank, I shall not hesitate to appeal to Parliament on the instant, for the purpose of correcting that evil." On the proposal f or a universal penny receipt stamp, lately brought into discussion, acorrespoadent remarks— " I think that if the stamp was of the same description for any document, whether receipt-check or letter-paper, that came within the proposed plan, it would materially simplify the scheme ; and, with respect to the hint about stamping bankers' cheques, I imagine that it would be productive of good results. Why should there not be a universal form of cheque printed by the Government, leaving the name of the bank vacant, and supplied to bankers at a less price than to the public ? lam in a bank which is far from a very large one, yet it is not uncommon to have paid,soo or 600 cheques a day, exclu sive of bills. Any one who has leisure to look at the number of banks in England will see that, allowing that some of them do not pay perhaps nearly a tenth of that number, there would result a considerable revenue from this plan. The customer of the bank Ido not think would complain, for on him individually the tax would fall very lightly." HERALD.—The intelligence brought from the United States by the Hibernia steamer was so generally antici pated in all the main features that it produced no sensa tion in the mercantile circles. The violence of party writing in the United States had not in any degree sub sided by the decision of the Presidential election, and the best informed and most impartial Americans in town state that nothing like a correct opinion can be formed of the future policy that will be pursued from the state ments of the press. The New England papers in para• cular are virulent beyond former precedent against the policy of the Democrats in placking Mr. Polk at the head of the pal, and if we were to place confidence in their prognostications, inevitable ruin to everything worth preserving in the state must be the consequence. In that quarter, however, apprehensions about a reduc tion in the tariff is the predominating principle, and the most moderate persons lay it down as a certainty that it will undergo considerable modifications in the next ses sion of Congress. The Whigs and high-t ar iff men now rest their sole hop e u p on th Senate, but after such a declaration of opinion as the votes in the election set forth, the most sensible Americans have but faint expec tation of a majority of the members having sufficient moral courage to resist the torrent, and act upon their own independent opinions, on any one of the questions which have been the rallying cry of parties. The whole matter taken together exhibits such a picture that if we are to consider America as experimenting to solve the problem of the fitness of democratic, combined with fe deral institutions, for the good government of society, we have no longer to wait for the solution. There is nothing in the commercial letters worthy of notice, except a very general expression of apprehension that the election of Polk will for a time produce a de gree of uncertainty respeCting future measures, as to bi seriously injurious to business. The first impressions have actually had the effect of staying the progress of some iron' works and other manufacturing buildings in course of erection. As a specimen we give the following from Boston :—" The times already feel the influence of Polkism. Goods have fallen, and a hundred houses that were going up in Boston have been c 6 untermanded, also a number of ships which were about to be built." These, we should suppose, however, are exaggerated pictures, from which time will withdraw the deeper shades. The accounts from Peru and the River Plate in the American papers, are not so late as those we have re ceived direct. It is upwards of a month since we gave the particulars of the defeat of Vivanca, in Peru, whick is given as news in the American files. The Canada accounts, confirming the statement formerly received, of the decided Conservative majo rity in the elections, has given unqualified satisfaction to the merchants engaged in trade with those colonies. There are, indeed, few evils in human affairs but some good can be extracted from them, and we are informed that the excesses to which Democracy has led in the United States, has tended very much to weaken the force of Radicalism in the British Provinces within the last few years. The commercial accounts froth the Ca nadas are generally of a favourable complexion, al though the season had closed. The effect of the notice of the Bank of England to lend money on the deposit of securities, at the rate of 24 per cent. per annum, has had an influence on the market beyond its direct influence. Many capitalists had been withholding their money from employment in the ex pectation of an advance in its value up to the payment of the January dividends, and that expectation being now frustrated, their dormant funds will be brought into immediate activity. There is another distinction be tween the present and former notices, besides the reduc tion of the rate of interest to per cent. Formerly, the parties borrowing bad to retain the money for not less than ten days, whereas there is now no such restriction. The money may be borrowed one day and repaid the next, an advrntage which will materially increase the number of applicants. Persons resident in the country can form a very inadequate conception of the amount of business which is transacted in London which will be affected by this difference of time. SUN.—The English Stocks leave off firmly this after noon, Consols being 1004 for Money, and 101 to for Account. Exchequer Bills, however, the differences having to be paid in the English, Foreign, and Share Markets, further declined to 595. and 575. premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 1024 1. The Foreign Bonds maintained a firm appearance. Spanish Actives were 241 i; the Thre e p er Cents., 351-1; Portuguese Converted, 55i; and Dutch T wo -and-a-Half per Cents., 63k to 621. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Cambridge and Lincoln were ; Churnet Valley, 11 ; Dublin and Belfast, ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 11 ; Great North of England, New, 11; Great Western, 60 to 61f ; Ditto, Fifths, 141 •, Birmingham, 119 ; South-Weetern, Eighths, 24 ; London and York, ' 11- to ; Newcastle and Darlington, 384; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, > ; South-Eastern, New, 7 ; York and North Midland, 52f to 54; Ditto, Selby Extension, 13; Boulogne and Amiens, 3 to 24 ; Orleans and Bordeaux, si; and Paris and Orleans, 21 to 21/ premium. Bristol and Exeter were at par; Blackwall have been 94 discount; and Direct Northern I discount toper. There was an improvement in the rate of Exchange on Antwerp and Frankfort, and on Hamburgh, Trieste, and Amsterdam, the quotations were steady, Paris alone being a shade lower. OXFORD ClRCUlT—Gloucester, Nov. 28. (Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) John Richards, aged 26, pleaded guilty to the charge of uttering, at Bristol, a forged Post-office order, with intend to defraud the Earl of Lonsdale, her Majesty's Postmaster-General. The prisoner, a simple-looking mechanic, had received a letter from his mother enclosing an order on the Bristol post-office for as., when, unconscious of the counter-check deposited with the office by the person transmitting the amount, the prisoner added the sum of 21. to both order and letter, and applied at the office for the 455. The variance between the documents at once created suspicion, and occasioned his apprehension. The Learned JUDGE, considering the facility of trans mitting money by means of these orders to be most use ful to the public, especially to the lower classes, and being fearful that if frauds were successfully practised against it, the benefit might be withdrawn, sentenced the prisoner to transportation for ten years. Richard Young, aged 45, was charged with having, at Cheltenham, on the 11th of October, feloniously and maliciously stabbed Elizabeth Young, his wife, with intent to maim, disable, or do her some grievous bodily harm. Mr. B. Williams conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Cooke the defence. The prisoner, a coal-dealer in Cheltenham, was in October very much affected in mind, labouring under the supposition that he was pursued by "a thousand evil spirits." These fits of aberration were of frequent re currence, and productive of much violence to his family, towards whom at other times he displayed the utmost affection and kindness. On the 10th October he awoke his wife in the middle of the night to " wipe away the blood from a thousand spears which had penetrated his side," and called up the children and his wife to look at the wretches who persecuted him, and whom he described to be standing at the foot of the bed—there being, in fact, no blood nor person visible except to his own disor dered imagination. His conduct very much alarmed his family. Medical advice was obtained in the morning. The prisoner was bled, and took willingly the medicine prescribed, but in a few hours after insisted that poison had been administered to him. He seemed so evidently determined on suicide, that his razor was secreted by his wife, and he retired to rest apparently tired and com posed. In the middle of the night of the 11th his wife was awoke by a stab in the abdomen inflicted by a pen knife, which the prisoner had provided himself with. The wound bled profusely, but was only skin deep, and by the surgeon's evidence had not been inflicted with much force. The poor woman, greatly alarmed, shouted " Murder 1" the children fastened themselves in their own room, and the whole neighbourhood was thrown into a state of great excitement. The prisoner denied any intention to injure his wife, and on hearing that she would probably not recover from the effects, expressed his determination to die with her, and cut his throat in three places with the same knife. An eminent surgeon, on being called in, found the wound on the wife to be not at all dangerous, and sewed up the throat of the pri soner, who seemed on his trial to be recovered from the effects of the injuries. In a very feeling address, the counsel for the prisoner contended that the wounding was aocidental, or amounted only to an assault at a moment when the prisoner was not responsible for his actions. After a very careful summing up from the Learned JUDGE, The jury Acquitted the prisoner of the felony, but found him Guilty of an assault at a time when he was not in his right mind. The grand jury have ignored the bill for murder. Only ten cases have been disposed of to-day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARYLEBOIVE. Yesterday a well-dressed man, between 40 and 50 years of age, named William Key, shopman to Mr. John Dent, a linendraper, &c., in an extensive way of business at Nos. 30, 31, and 32, Crawford street, Bryanston-square, was brought up in custody of Ross, 157 D, and placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with having plun dered his employer of property to a very considerable amount. A number of pawnbrokers were in attendance with large packages containing goods which the prisoner had pledged ; and it will be seen from the evidence that the prisoner had, while in Mr. Dent's serviae, been keeping. a draper's shop at Hammersmith, in which the greater part of the stolen articles were found, the business being carried on by his avife. Rebecca Foster, wife of a confectioner in East-street, Manchester-square, deposed, that on the previous morn ing, about eleven o'clock, the prisoner, who was a stran ger to her, came to the shop and made a small purchase of sweetmeats, after which he took something from his coat pocket, and, having wrapped it up in a newspaper and tied it with string, laid the parcel on the counter, saying that be would call it for it presently; he then went away. In the course of the afternoon, thinking there was something suspicious about the matter, as the prisoner had neglected to make his appearance, witness took the said parcel to the station-house. Inquiries were subsequently made by the police, and it was ascertained to whom the contents belonged. Ross, the constable, who is a very intelligent officer, stated that on the previous evening, in consequence of information which he received, he went in plain clothes to Mr. Foster's shop, and at eight o'clock prisoner came in and asked for his parcel, which witness had at the time in his hand. He was told that Mrs. Foster was then out, and that he could not have it till she returned. In a few minutes she entered, accompanied by Mr. East man, principal assistant to Mr. Dent, who, having be fore examined the parcel, in which were two mousselin de-laine dresses belonging to his employer, exclaimed (addressing the prisoner), " Good God, can it be you !" to which he (prisoner) replied, " Yes, I've done it, I've done it." He further said that he was a lost man, and that what he had done was through distress. At the station-house, when about to be searched, he pulled from his coat pocket a table-cover and gave it up; a duplicate for some cachmere and mousselin-de-laines, pawned by him on Wednesday last, was found in his possession, as also a few shillings in silver. He gave his address, 21, Dowell's-row, Hammersmith ; and after he was locked up witness proceeded to the house, w h ere t h e prisoner has a shop kept by his wife, and in it found a number of table-covers, together with a quantity of drugget, and a variety of other articles connected with the trade. He also discovered in a portfolio, which he took from a book case, between sixty and seventy duplicates for dresses, and almost every other kind of drapery. &c., pledged within the last few months. He had raised upon the said articles upwards of 501., and the probability was that they were worth nearly four times that amount. Mr. Eastman identified the dresses 'taken from the parcel, as also the table-cover given •up at the station, and the rest of the property found at the shop, as being Mr. Dent's. The prisoner, who seemed very dejected and had no , thing to say, was remanded till Friday. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Vic toria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 23d day of November,lB44. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. X. Notes issued ... 27,528,875 X. Government debt 11,015,100 Other securities 2,984,900 Gold coin and bull ion 11,935,264 Silver bullion X 27,528,8751 M. MA: Dated the 28th day of No' BANKING D: X. £27,528,875 RSHALL, Chief Cashier. Iveraber, 1844. ;PARTMENT. I Proprietors 'capi tal 14,553,000' Rest 3,139,027 Public deposits (including Ex chequer,Savings banks, Commis sioners of Na tional Debt, and dividend ac counts) 4,812,191 Other deposits 7,864,144 Seven day and other bills 965,990 Governmentsecu ritios (includ ingllead Weight Annuity) 13,539,775 N. O o th te e s r s . .............. 7 9 : V 10 7 ;4 4 0 6 0 2 Gold and silver coin 836,715 £ 3 1,334,3521 • M. MAJ Dated the 28th d ay of No OXFORD UNIVERSITY BOAT RACES. The anaual four -oared races on the Isis, for a silver cup and medals given by the University Boat Club, was decided on Wednesday. The trial heats came off on the two days previous, when St. John's beat Exeter, Baliol beat Trinity, St. John's beat Baliol, and University beat St. John's. The final heat between the University crew and the Oriel crew, the holders of the cup and medals, caused considerable interest amongst the lovers of aqua tic amusements, and the banks of the Isis were thronged with spectators. The University crew were the favour ites, although the 0:1.1 lia:l pr ocured a fine new beat to row in, differently- con,trtteled from the Oxford boats, being made after the fashion of the Newcastle boats. The distance was from Of ey to Oxford, rather more than a mile. The University crew went oir at a slashing pace, and although much pressed by the Oriel crew, who were close upon their stern, maintained the lead through out, and won gallantly by two boats' lenqt11::. This is the third time within four years that the cup has been won by the University crew. The crew on the present occasion consisted of Messrs. A. K. Dawson (bow) ; Follett, 2 ; A. Gray, 3 ; F. C. Walsh (stroke) ; C. H Shebbears (coxswain). INTERESTING TO LADIES. To Messrs. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-garden, London. Percy-place, Landport, Portsmouth, April 4, :844. Gentlemen,---I think it but an act of justice to inform you of the benefit I have derived from the use of your admirable Macassar Oil. About six months ago I found my hair getting daily more weak and thin, and much discoloured, from a p r a c ti ce I h ad adopted. of ' wetitisig it continually ; fearing that I should lose it entirely, and hearing of the efficacy of your Macassar Oil, I have for some time past constantly used it, and the result is, that my hair is now perfectly restored and much improved in appearance and cokeir, having hecoine thick, dark, and ; it also curls freely without the use of pvcr, which it never did before. To all my friends I have warmly recommended your Macassar Oil as an e.zcellent restorative and preservative for the hair: As I have a n objection to see my name in print, I beg you will not publish it; but you are at liberty to show this letter, or make any other use you please of it, and refer applicants to me, if necessary, in proof of the efficacy of your Ma cassar 01—Your obedient servant, THE WEATHER.—A sharp frost set in in this neigh bourhood on Sunday night last, after a long continuance of soft, damp, and most nuhealthy weather. We tr. sr that it will have a beneficial effect on the public health, and put an end to the ravages of typhus fever, which has prevailed for some tittle to a most alarming extent in all parts of the town.—Liverpool Paper. Sir Thomas Fremantle had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. ......... Rowland's Macassar Oil preserves and reproduces the Hair ; prevents it from filing: oif or turning Grey Changes Grey Hair to its Original C o l our ; frees it from Sete:aid Dandriff, and makes it beautifully soft and curly. Ask for " Rowland's Macassar Oil." MI (*there Are Erttudtgent counterfeits. AP : - Cj N IMPORTANT CHANGE OF THE L AW WITH T ..•"boOP TO SEAMEI7.--A very important alteration has Act made in the law relative to merchant seamen, by to m o b if Parliam en t p asse d d ur i ng the last session, and I s. "" o f is just about t o come i nto operation. The princiPlio !ompelling all merc h ant seamen to register thelos e get is carried into eff ec t, b ecause, a f ter that date, no Mas re , _!an carry to sea an y seaman, w i t h out having first ob. ceived from hi m hi s reg i ster t i c k et, which is to beemos tamed by a s eaman on app li cat i on to the Castom -k ,O of any port. Th e master must keep such reebil ticket in his possession so long as the seaman is i ri A tO service ; when th e seaman l eaves i t must be restorro him. The p ena l ty o f t h e master neglecting to c' u 101 possession of the register ticket of each seaman carries to sea is 51. All masters are to take tilsi l : g et prentices to the Custom-house, and obtain regle tickets for them, w hi c h t h e masters are to keep is whi• p possession until th e ex pi rat i on o f the apprent i c e! stt The Act makes it a m i s d emeanour to alter a re gi j os ticket, and provides that upon the death of a seaman e d ticket must be re t urne d to t h e Custom-house. Alo material alteration is also made in the form 0 ` tides of agreem en t, w hi c h. a f ter the Ist of Janug'oo alma specify the quantity and quality of provisionS 1 10 , seaman is to receive per day ; and if, from any 6 0 .01 stances, the allowa nce i s reduced, the seaman is 01 °,0 to 4d. per d a y a ddi t i ona l wages ; but if the eedlloBj, amounts to one-third, then the seaman is entitled W ho per day additi ona l d ur i ng suc h reduction. Every rho beyond th e medicines n ow requ i re d, i s to carry s uPP t o of lemon or lime-juice, sugar and vinegar, which ar, e , o o be served ou t t o t h e seamen after they shall have wn-or twelve days on sa l t p rov i s i ons, i n the following Pr4sail lions, namely—h a lf an ounce o f lemon or lime juice 0 sugar per d a y, an d h a lf a pint of vineg a r p e r wee'of long as th e u se o f sa l t previsions is continued. re n o 20/. fur each default. Every ship carrying 100 Rer iti c im besides those n ow requ i re d b y t h e sth and 6th Vict.:elt, 107, is compell e d t o carry a surgeon. In cases o f w if the seaman exerts himself to the utmost of his P i e 1 ,0 to save the ship, cargo, and stores, he is to be psi r id wages, even though the ship had not previously or o pil freight. Every master, before he sails on a voyage , vi to when he r e t urns h ome, i s to d el i ver a list of his er e the Custom-house of the port he sails from. EXPECTED STRIKE OF THE COAL-MINERS P' 0 0+, rious circu ms t ances , w hi c h h ave recently come WADI knowledge, seem t o i n di cate an i ntent i on on the Pipite the Lancashire Colliers' Union to cause a general 8 6 0 ere long ; and we propose briefly to notice a few, de connected with that a g it a ti on w hi c h i s now so 11'00 triously fo men t e d amongst the body of working O with the view of m a ki ng th e pu bli c acquainted wit'h tt ite object of thi s i n t en d e d str ik e. The remarkable I ° o to of this agit a ti on i s t h e proposal by the coal their employers to force a rise in the price of coaqiic, contracting and dimini s hi ng th e supp l y to the IsitbeiS and then to all ow th e coa l m i ners to share with tf the profits which would result from this artificial sca r ea' and consequ en t d earness o f an art i cle which, a t thi" v of son of the y ear , may b e terme d a prime necesstrtiag life. It may be said that we are not fairly repres ifr t hei the views and objects of the coal miners ; an d tbstoief have no intention e ith er to i n d uce or, by a general! tr t be to coerce the mas t ers i nto a general combinatioe ' e we avowed object of maki ng an d k eep i ng coals dear .—' ch ester Guardian. „ea no CONFLICT WITH A W OLF. —A young man, , oe , Ducret, aged 19, li v i ng at Ch enevry (Haute'6lo,ol,l with a farme r name d M a i re, was a few days since 5 P o , o l ' ing manure over one of his master's fields, when S TV appeared, and a conflict took place between them' d tba young man, with great presence of mind, preset: lo3 t hat prongs of the pitchfork which he was using, load whenever th e an i ma l sprang at h i m, it came on the orlf points of the instrument. The battle had lasted 9 , at' • s ell r a quarter of an hour, when Ducret, finding him t it A, ting weak while the hard skin of the wolf had k e P l ike most uninjured, thought of using the pitchfork tti oif; club, and dealt his assailant such a blow as to 8 0 0 , His master ran up at the moment, and the Ring or eeP quickly dispatched. The Prefect, on hearing of courage, sent him a present of 50f.—Galignal..--. BIRTHS. of s fjeli On the 19th of Nove m b er , th e C ountess Gi g lineci ° and heir. r y,1800"" , On the 27th of No vem b er , th e l a d y of t h e R ev . G. ""' Rector of Water Skatford, Bucks, of a daughter AHRRIED. On November 26, at the Church of Notre Dame etto and afterwards at the Hotel of the British Eruhtles);; MP' Monsieur Jacqu es - Ed ouar d Lebey de Bonneville , t King. r ats On the 26th November, at Dihden, the Hon. Olive r/ 0 AO . Lambart, youngest s on of the late Earl of t a,tiag" Elizabeth, secon d d aug h ter of Captain Willes, ° Jb a down, near South am pt on. u Ou the 2Fth of Noveinbcr, at St. Jalll , ''s Clioreli: gar- B rownin'g Edwards, Esq. , o" Glyn-Afon, Caro arvc% to goose' garet Anna, daughte r o f C a pt a i n C arpen t er , of Haw' Sunbury. DIED. Hamlet On the 22d of N ovem b er , i n L on d on , Mary Mi n . M' Thompson, second daughter o f R. F. Thompson , I' citor, of Oxford. On the 23d of November, at Blackheath, Ja ne ' the eldest daughter of the late J. Tennant, Esq., o f Liverpool. tor On the 24th of N ovem b er , i n Seymour-street, Ell 3 sunare, Airs. ilary Ann bingley j On the 27th of Nov em b er , Ch a rlotte, the wife of qtr' Henry Tule London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOur No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sus OffickfLif Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in flee vv' MiddiUM iiftUtrdin &Tabor 3G, 1644, SPIRIT I £31,334,352 tSHALL, Chief Cashier. ember, 1844. COMMISSION OF LUNACY. Yesterday forenoon, at eleven o'clock, a commissioo de lunatico inquirendo was opened before Mr. Commis; sioner Winslow and a jury of_fifteen gentlemen, of win c ? Colonel Gant was f oreman ( an d wh i ch also cons i s ted of several magistrates of th e coun t y o f Middle sex ), at th e Manor House, Green-l ane , St o k e N ew i ngton, as to e state of mind of Mr. George Porter, aged 46, f a merchant carrying on business in the City of London , but described in the commission as late of Tottenham' and at present res idi ng i n Philli p - street, K i ngs l an d-road' The commission was sued out at the instance of 3 1 Porter, the w if e o f th e a ll ege d l unat i c, and was supporte by Mr. Bateman, of the Chancery bar. Mr. Porter wa s unrepresented by Counsel. Mr. William May, a member of the Society of Veil was first called, and sa id h e res id e d at Tottenham, ati had known Mr. George Porter for seventeen years. first attended him on account of his mind in the ran of Mai, 1837. Wh en h e saw hi m h e found h i s pr i nc iPl delusion was that he had a few days before, whilst sit' ting in his apartment, seen two tablets similar to thcle on which the ten commandments were written ; 12 churches, appear i n a fl as h o f li g h tn i ng on t h e Rau, and on them he saw i nscr ib e d words from t h e IND chapter of Hebrews, 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th verse °' which he rep ea t e d w i t h great fluency. Ho had never known Mr. P or t er f ree f rom that d e lus; , ' '7 since. Shortly a ft er h e was ta k en w i th this ma l a dy he saw Mr. Porter, with Dr. Sutherland, sen., and . e in d six months he was removed from home and plat under the car e o f hi s cous i n, M r. Samuel Porter. "„', saw him in July last in Phillip-street, and on being i, ° ; troduced Mr. Po r t er su dd en l y rose as he pat outiani hand to shake h an d s , an d exc l a i med, " No, no, luifr; May, you have b een t h e cause o f my being here.'' ' 11 " subsequently b ecame more reconciled, and in converse' tion repeated the delusion about the wall, and said li d e , had lost his s ou l ; an d th at in consequence of the on the wall he knew that it was cast into utter perditif d : w Another delusion was, th a t hi s b ra i ns no l onger ex ist but that there w as a bi r d i ns id e hi s head which "' communicated with by a gentle spring from his bea rs ' and which was acted upon by the fiend. He would declare that his tongue had been melted out of mouth, in consequen ce o f his blasphemies. He invariabl believed that th e wr i t i ng on the wall was his condemns' Lion. and his mind has in consequence become in fe morbid state. By the ComtismNtn—lle enjoys good health, a? is rational in other res p ects . H e a d m i ts h i s ow n 11, 4, capacity to manage hi s a ff a i rs , an d I b e li eve him who') incapable of doing so. Mr. Samuel Porter, the cousin of the unfortun ate i l gentleman, deposed that he would sometimes say 1 .",; vessels in his skull had b urs t. Th ere was a fiend i n s' u " him who pulled a string and kept his heart in motion Further evidence having been given by Dr. &the" land, and the unfortunate gentleman having been ill: duced to the commi ss i oner an d j ury, the jury ultimate, returned a verdict, " Th a t M r . G eorge P orter i s o f 111 , sound mind, and in ca p a bl e o f manag i ng himsel f o r 4 1 ' affairs, and has been so since the 10th of June, 183 HE CASE OF STABBING A • LIVERPOOL CAPTAIN. Yesterday, a middle-aged man, named Samuel Dro v e a sailor, was brought up before Mr. Rushton, chal e t with having, on the morn i ng o f t h e 18th inst., stou.4 Captain Launcelot R ee d, c f t h e s hi p Si r Charles N s Pi" while on her voyage from St. Andrew's to this P ert ' about 700 miles to the westward of Cape Clear. elf It appeared from th e ev id ence o f t h e cook, stes car o and a gentleman of the name of Porter, a passengers s t /l be part owner, that between four and five o'clock 0 0 tg morning in ° question, the captain requested Browo . , haul in the mainsail during a squall. The prisoner $ fusing to, do it, an altercation ensued, whereupon captain pushed him and was struck in return. The Or tain then caught h o ld o f B rown to place him in con fin e 4 ment, and was stru c k severa l t i mes, rece i ving no s'eti', serious injury, b u t, w h en th ey h a d got as far aft as .J mainmast, he felt a sha r p instrument p i erce him, 1-1/ called out, "I am stabbed—l am killed." The C r i s y being immediately aroused, he was conveyed to, cabin, when it was found that a deep wound had bees" k ; c h dieted on the lower part of the stomach, through 0 1 his bowels protruded, an d t wo ot h er wounds, though li. dangerous, on the left side. On Wednesday last, vessel arrived in thi s p or t, an d a warrant was usual the apprehension of the prisoner. • of From the evidence o f M r . D eane, surgeon, the life the captain appears to be in extreme danger. tbs On examining the clothes worn by the captain at op time the affray took pl ace , w hi c h were produce d in 040 eight distinct cu t s were v i s ibl e i n the jacket, and on e the trousers. The ease was remanded till to-day, to await the s o p deuce of the captain and one of the crew, who was watch at the time of the occurrence. bale ` The captain (who went ou t as mate i n t h e Sir Ce-eo Napier) resides in Ch ar t er - street, and from the A res os precarious situation in w hi c h h e i s now ly i ng, i t was cop sidered necessary to t a k e hi s test i mony inme dist Mr. Rushton, accompanied by Mr. Ellis and Mr. D es o! proceeded to his residence for the purpose yest er v a afternoon, when the.statement of the captain was 1 %1 in presence of th e p r i soner . Hi s evidence did not r materially from that given by the witnesses. A' till The prisoner, on being shown the knife, imule" ls , e d after being taken into custody, admitted that it belop to him, and at the captain's examination did not .101 any of the statements which were then made.— Liv e " Mercury of yesterday. I