The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FRA3I THI3 EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. STANDARD.— The Three per Cent. Consols were yesterday at par. One hundred pounds in stock selling far one hundred gold sovereigns. This marks an epoch in our history which suggests many im portant reflections. Ninety-five years have passed since public credit occupied the same proud posi tion ; the Three per Ceat- Stock has not been at par since 1749, and in 1749 the public debt was little more than one-tenth of its present amount— namely, about eerenty- eight millions sterling. The in crease of the debt were but an equivocal proof of the increase of the wealth, even of those to whom the debt is due., and the reverse of a proof of the increased wealth of those by whom it is due, were it depreciated in value ; but rising as it rises in price, it affords a gratifying demonstration of the - enormously aug mented affluence of both. The nation is now be lieved—and the belief is all in such a case — as well able to meet engagements of 750 millions, as it was believed able• to meet 78 millions of engagements in 1749. As regards the stock holders, therefore, the capitalists in the country have multiplied nearly tenfold in value in the 95 years ' and the wealth of their debtors must have increased at least tenfold also; but this is not an adequate view of the subject. The improvement in the price of stock is not the work of 95 years; it has been effected, and in a far greater degree, in just half the period. At the commencement of 1798, the price of the Three per Cents. was 47, less than half the price at par, the present price ; many millions of the stock, now worth its full price, was then, and for several years before and after, bought at half, or less than half, the price that it would now bring. .And at that time the public debt—the amount, in fact, of stook in the market—was little more than half what it is at present, confining the market even to the public stock ; not one-third, if we add the various other stocks on sale—all 23 it were bidding higher prices against the public stock. In the year 1798, then, the market offering certainly less than one-half the present amount of securities of all kinds, more than one-half, in fact not one-half, the present price could be obtained for the best among them. It is true that 1798 was a year of alarm. The French was- was at the time at its height ; and the rebellion in Ireland, which the lately convicted conspirators have been labouring to repeat, ..was impending ; but the state of the stock market for years before and after 1798 prove that the effect of the immediate alarm was not very considerable. The money was want ing ; the State wanted to borrow more than the people had to lend. The people are now, however, able to pay twofold what they borrowed 50 years ago. Whoever lent the public 5001. in 1798 has had six per cent. for his money for 46 years, and may now receive 1,0001. This is to support public credit, and public credit is strength and safety. Bnt credit is not strength and safety only. The example which it has been our business to note this day—the example of a nation whose securities stand at par, after such augmentations of her debt, and such dangers and difficulties as Great Britain has had to struggle with during the last half century, this exam ple is a means of economy no less than of strength and safety. In no possible adverse conjecture can Great Britain ever again hare to borrow at such a disadvantage as in 1798. A -Whig Government could do much ; a Whig Government, in fact, not only checised the upward progress of the public securities, but even reduced the Three per Cents. from 92 to 88, in the 11 years between 1830 and 1841 ; but we may almost defy a Whig Govern ment even to reduce the price of securities again ifiuch below 90. The grould has been made good so far ; the capital is in the country, and, what is not lees important, is shown to be in the country. It must be employed, and this we must all have learned, both by experience and by the discussions of the last few years, that capital not only grows faster than the polls:lotion, but much faster than the means of profit ably employing it can grow, do all that we can by industry end enterprise. This ()tens a view as to the future—hitherto we have referred chiefly to the past. The Three per Cent. Consols have risen to par from 88, during less then three years of Sir Robert Peel's Administration ; and what is to be above all things remembered, they have risen concurrently with a prodigious outlay in railroads and other specula tions absorbent of wealth, and with a very great Improvement in commercial industry and enter prise, as the financial returns attest. Will the price rest permanently at par ? We ask will the price rest permanently at par, because we can imagine many reasons that will operate to suspend the upward progress for a season. But upon what ground is it to be assumed that the elastic move ment which has raised the public securities 12 per cent. in less than three years, will not continue its force beyond the present point ? I Ve confess that we can find no such ground Capital will continue to increase beyond the means of employing it, so long as the commerce and manufactures of the country shall prosper; publib credit, if capable of improvement, will continue to improve, and the time may thus be brought on when men, unable to obtain two per cent. upon any other secure investment of money, will gladly take two-and-a-half or even two-and• a quarter, through the purchase of public stock. It is thin that the "I , ,ight hundred millions inscribod on the wall," so muclian object of terror a few years ago will be effaced or regarded as an object of indifference. Twenty years more of European peace and of moral improvement at horns would effect it all, and what are twenty years in the life of' a nation ? Our readers will scarcely think these reflections out of place when they consider the occasion of them. GLOBE.—It is no part Of our duty to settle the relative value of the Standard's "authorised," and " unauthorised," communications. Whether the latter or the former be most deserving of credence, or whether they be alike worthless, may be safely left to the discernment of the public, aided by the experience which our Contemporary has supplied in the frequent detections and exposures of his most confidently-affirmed and reiterated statements. The position which the Standard occupies with reference t' the National Board of Education in Ire land—the Irish clergy—and Sir Robert Peel, is evi dently one of considerable embarrassment. It has been positively and repeatedly affirmed, and is generally believed, in Ireland, that Sir Robert Peel has intimated that preferment will be, in future, withheld from such of the Irish clergy as persist in opposing and counteracting the operations of the national system of education in that country. The Standard positively affirmed, with all the confidence of authority, that there was not a single word of truth in this statement. It now admits that the contradiction, thus positively given, was not supplied by authority; but still persists in its' truth. In the meanwhile the aspect of affairs in Ireland tends to confirm the belief that some such determination has been come to by the Go vernment, and an explicit intimation thereof been made to those whom it specially concerns to comply' with it. The Parliamentary grant to the Educational Board in Ireland is incrtased ; and the allowance from the Ecclesiastical Commission to the parish clerks who aot as schoolmasters in the sehocls, set up by the.clergy in opposition to the Government schools, is withdrawn. But what is mire remarkable, as confirmatory of the report which is re-iterated by the Dublin Mail—the recognised, and generally ac cusately informed, organ of the Ultra- Protestant party in Ireland, with which journal the statement originated—is, that the Government organ (the Dublin Packet) has, ever since the report was published, em • ployed its most persuasive powers to effect an acquies cence by the clergy with the supposed determination of the Government to maintain and extend the Na tional System of Education. " A crisis has arrived in the affairs of lie Church. The time has come when longer opffisition to the National Schools will be not only useless, but mischievous. Make a virtue of necessity ; and submit with a good grace to that which, if an evil, is inevitable.' This, is substance, and almost in words, is the advice which the leading journal of the Irish Government addresses to, and urges upon, the truculent Clergy with reference to the system of popular education they have endeavoured to counter act and destroy. In the last number of the Packet which has reached this country, we find the same subject disctssed, and compliance with the Go vernment views and purposes enforced, with increased earnestness. A few sentences will illustrate the al tered state of circumstances which the Irish organ of the Ministry endeavours to impress on the clergy of the Established Church in Ireland :-- " Often as the subject of National Education has at , tracttd the public mind, never was such engrossing in terest fixed upon it as at the present moment. We are deeply convinced that there is a critical turning point now, and that the welfare of the Church of Ireland very much depends upon the manner in which she guides her s*" at this nice and difficult juncture. We are anxious, therefore, fearlessly to discharge our duty as public monitors, and to offer such practical iuggestions as flow frail our own most careful consideration of this mo mentous question." "It is seldom," says the wily inculcator of s uh raiseon to the will of the powers that be—"it is seldom, alas ! that a public man can act merely on abstract principles of what is best, per se. One point seems fixed —that Government will continue the National Board. All sides seem to agree on that. Their resolution s eems to gain force and fixedness." Well, and what then ? Do systems change their nature from evil to good as political parties rise and fall ? Does the policy which was fraught with mischief t o she interests of Protestantism, when administered by a Whig Government, become the source of blessing w h en m eted upon by a Con servat i ve Administration ? Let us ponder well the suggestions of the Government scribe, who advises the most sturdy of the clerical op ponents of the National Board to consider their ways And be wise But, perhaps, some will cry out 'shame What TI HE SUN, LONODON, WEDNESD4Y EVF,NI Nr4, AprtiL 844. are we to change our principles because a Tory Govern ment is in power ? Are we to veer about like weather cocks with the Ministerial gale, and call that right under the guidance of Peel which we protested against under Melbourne. ?' All this is very tine in the way of Flap-trap eloquence, a wl will go down with many as irresistible argumentation. But let declamation sleep for. a moment, while reason speaks. Of course, prin ciple cannot change with, or be the le Ist affected by, the ruling Mini s t ers ; hut practical conduct must and ought to admit of modifications from such considera tions." . . . • . . • • • • _ _ What was politic and wise then (under the Whigs) is not so now. Every motive of prudence loudly suggests that it is only common sense to endeavour to make the best use_of an institution,, now that it is impossible to alter or suppress it, which it would have been most in expedient and impolitic to take any part in, as long as holding off seemed likely to produce such effects." Such is the advice which the Government, by the mouth of its servant, the Dublin Packet, addresses to the clerical opponents of the National Board of Edu cation. Is it not passing strange—assuming that there has been no change of purpose, from infirmity to de cision on the part of the Government in this matter — that simultaneous with a statement that a decisive course was henceforth to be adopted—which statement had no foundation in fact —there should be all this waste of argument by the Government organ to recon cile the clergy to a state of things which had really no existence ? On the supposition that the Govern ment means henceforth to give efficiency to its own system of education in Ireland, by removing obstacles which have hitherto retarded and counteracted its success, all is plain. On the contrary hypothesis, everything is confused and contradictory. Will the Standard undertake to reconcile the discrepancies ? In the meantime, the High Churchmen in this coun try see, in the ecclesiastical measures of Sir Robert Peel, everything to alarm their fears. The system of exclusive privileges, civil and religious, of which they are by education and habit the advocates, they con sider as perilled by his policy. The Church and State Gazette has for several weeks poured forth its anathemas on the Government, and especially on Sir Robert Peel. In consistency with the distrust of the Premier which that influential organ of the Ultras in this country has long inculcated, upon all who desire to preserve Protestantism in both countries from threatened ex tirpation, we find in its leadinc , articles of Saturday last, the tocsin of alarm sounded in the loudest notes. In one article we read :—" The Church, the House of Lords, the Monarchy, must all abide the furious trial. They may yet be saved ; but not by the policy adopted by Sir R. Peel. That is certain de struction to all ! Under it the House of Commons will become omnipotent, and, as in times past, will break down and trample upon the other forms of the Constitution." MARKET. INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of April 9.) SUGAR.—There has been more activity in the home consumption Sugar market, and prices have assumed an upward tendency for all descriptions ; for West India the prices paid were 6d above those previously quoted for common yellow and brown, and Is per cwt higher for bright yellow and strong refining sorts. BEFINED.—Today Refined Goods brought higher rates, brown grocery lumps selling at 765, and standard lumps 775, per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar much wanted, and is not to be procured under 26s per cwt. MAURITIUS.—A good demand has sprung up for all descriptions, and prices have advanced is to is 6d per cwt. To-day some parcels were sold privately at rather higher rates, low to middling yellow 59s to 645, good to fine 65s to 68s, and brown 56s to 58s Gd per cwt. EAST INDIA.—For some parcels of Madras full rates given by private treaty. Java has been more in request privately. Manilla yellow at 18s 6d to 20s, and brown 17s to 18s per cwt. To-day several purchases were made privately in Bengal, and prices are looking up ; common white 62s to 62s 6d, middling 63s to 645, good to fine 65s to 68s per en•t. FOREIGIZ—Since our last report, the market has pre sented a firm appearance for all descriptions of Foreign Sugar, and none has been brought to public sale; a good disposition has been shown to purchase yellow Havannah, but holders asking higher prices, business has been re stricted. This afternoon, several inquiries existed for Foreign Sugar, and a floating cargo of Bahia. was sold for the Baltic, at 19s for brown, and 22s 9d per cwt fur white. MOLASSES.—For West India rather lower rates ac cepted. Trinidad at 25s 6d, Antigua, 27s 6d, Demerara 355, and imported indirect 24s to 24s 6d per cwt for good quality. Bengal Molasses at 15s to 17s per cwt. Fine Honey has brought full rates, but inferior is cheaper. COFFEE.—There has been little desire shown to pur chase West India Coffee since Tuesday last; clean quali ties, of which the supply is still scanty, have maintained the former value, but for unclean kinds prices have given way. To-day the market for all descriptions of Coffee was in a flat state, and prices are still going down for Ceylon ; good ord selling at 58s to 59s per cwt ; the large quantity to arrive cause the trade to operate with much caution. Coco.s.—lmporters of West India have refused to fur ther give way in price, but the demand has been limited privately, and 329 bags of Trinidad at auction only partly sold ; low red at 48s to 495, middling 50s Gd to 51s, and 45s to 46s per cwt for sea damaged. Of Foreign some parcels sold privately at 28s 6tl to 29s 6d per cwt ; holders show firmness, and none has been brought to public sale. TEA.—Since Tuesday last the market has presented a firm appearance for all descriptions of Tea ; purchases to a fair extent have been made in black and green, and full rates paid. Common Congou, cash, has fetched Is, good common Is Oid to is O cl, Twankav, ordinary Is 2d to is 3d, and Fly son common 2s 2d to 2s 4d per lb. To-day several parcels of Tca were disposed of, and the rates paid show a slight advance on those of the last public sales for the lower kinds ; common and good sound common Congou, cash, sold at Is 0-1 d to is Old per lb. RICE.—The fine weather and the late dull state of the Wheat market operates against the demand for Bengal Rice : few purchases made privately, and prices are looking down, mid white selling at lls 3d to lls 6d, and good 12s per cwt : none has been submitted to public competition. For Java the demand has been only for small parcels at lOs to lOs 6d for mid, and Ils to lls fid fur good mid white, being rather cheaper. Madras has been taken sparingly at 9s to 9s 6d per cwt for yellow. In Patna the operations are upon a small scale only at 1-ls 6:1 to 18s, and Carolina has been taken sparingly at 21s to 26s per cwt. To-day 1,000 hags Madras Rice was sold privately at 9s per cwt for yellow. SAGO.— Prices are still looking down for this article, the demand being limited and supply large; ordinary 13s to 14s, middling 15s to 16s, and good to fine 16s to 20s per cwt. Sago Flour is scarce, and 21s to 22s per cwt paid. To. day ssrne parcels of common Pearl Sago were sold privately at ISs per cwt. Buss, BRANDY AND lIOLLANDS.—Jamaica Rum at stiff rates; 30 to 32 per cent overproof has fetched 2s 6d to 3s 7d, 33 to 37 over 3s 8d to 3s 114, fine 4s to 4s 6d, and superior rather high flavoured 5s to 6s per gallon. Demerara at 3s 3d to 3s 5d for 35 to 37 per cent over prouf. Leewards 2s 2d to 2s 22d paid for proof. Cal cutta Rum at is 114 proof, with certificate. For Brssrly holders display firmness Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s I Id, puns 5s 9d ; 1839, Lhds 5s 9d, puns 5s 7d ; 1840, 'Aids 5s 7d, puns 5s 5d ; 1841, hhds 5s 6d, puns 55 4d ; 1842, hhds 5s sd, puns 5s 3d, mid marks 3s 6d to 4s tid, and low 2s 10d to 3s 4d. Geneva fur exportation at is 8d to Is 9d ; fine pale fit fur daty is 2s 2d to 3s per gallon. English Corn Spirits is firm. INDIGO.—There has been r/ good export demand for East India since Tuesday last ; several purchases have been made by the home trade, and the rates paid show an advance on those of the last quarterly sale of 3d per lb for all descriptions_ OILS.—For Linseed Oil fur immediate delivery, prices have an upward tendency ; 27s to 27s 3d paid for large parcels on the spot. Rape Oil in excellent de mand, pale selling at 39s to 393 6d, and brown 38s to 38s 6d Per cwt. For Olive Oil higher prices again paid, Gallipoli fetching 52/, Sicily 501 to 51/, Spanish 49/ to 50/, and Barbary 481 to 48/ lOs per tun. Cocoa Nut Oil at 30s to 32.3 per cwt. Palm Oil a.L2Bs.for good, 27s 6cl 'for mid, and 24s to 26s Gd for low and very common quality.. Sperm Oil at 761 to 76/ 103 per ton for prime British. Headmatter much in reqtlest. For common Fish Oils rather lower prices taken for all sorts. Pale Seal at 34/ 5s to 34/ 103; Southern sold at 29/10s to 29/15s,v4ry low dark 271155, and Newfoundland Cod at 331 15s to 34/153 per tun. TALLow.—To-day a god business waS transacvd in P.Y.C. for delivery in the last three months of this and for the first two months of next year at 42s to 42s 3(1; but on the spot the demand was dull—prices vary from 40s 3d to 41s per cwt, gccording to quality. The accounts from St. PeterSburgh state that prices had advanced for Tal low, and dm supply will Le less . than last season. On . Friday, 353 casks of .American Tallow will be submitted o public competition. The holiday train ,on the Dover and Brighton Railway came up last night crowded with pwsengers, to the amount of a thousand persons. The day was as fine as could be wished, and all parties seemed to have enjoyed the day's trip to the utmost. The arrange ments made by the Company were in every way com plete, and the great number ec , nveyed at so rapid a rate for so many miles without accident perhaps, as great a proof of the safety of steam conveyance as • has ever been furnished. The town of Dover has enjoyed a large share of the patronage of the Londoners in their brief interval of leisure. The cliffs, the beach, and the Channel breezes seem to have had irresistible charms for the many in "politikus city pent," for they have availed themselves of the opportunity of visiting them in hundreds. The ancient Cinque-port has rarely seen such gaiety as it has witnessed this Easter. DISGRACEFUL Fly.UD.—We have been requested to state that some persons desirous of injuring the cha racter of the Anti-Monopoly Association of this town, have lately adopted the following plan : —Letters a re issued in the name of the Association, professedly signed by one or other of its officers, and addressed to various parties. Some of them contain applications for money. Several have been addressed to gentlemen of known monopolist opinions, requesting them to act as stewards at the approaching banquet. It may not be generally known that this is an indictable offence, and the Council have, we think, wisely offered 501. reward for such infor mation as may lead to the detection of the offender. It may be proper here to state, that all letters issued by the Association are prefaced with an engraved heading of its name and motto, and if sent by post are prepaid.— Liverpool Times. PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 9. Dividend per Names of Com- Annum. ponies. Amount Paid. Price. Share. S per cent. 41. .£ B. d. 97 18 0 113 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 X E. d, 100 • b 0 41 13 4 leo - "i 0 100 CI 0 ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Taunton, April 8. Faith Sealey, aged 20 years, was charged with ad ministering white arsenic to her father, William Sealey, of Kingston, on the 20th of April, 1843, by which means he became sick, distempered, and died ; and in another count she was charged with aiding and abetting in the same. Mr. Carey and Mr. Mereweather appeared fur the Crown, and Mr. Kinglake and Mr. Edwards for the prisoner. William Westcambe proved that he made the coffin for the deceased. There was a plate on it bearing his name. He was present at Kingston church on the 18th of January, when the coffin was exhumed. Andrew Fudge, grave-digger, exhumed the corpse, and placed it in the belfry at Kingston. Police-constable Burford was present when an opera tion was performed by Mr. Welch, surgeon, of Taunton. This was at the belfry at Kingston church. The two last witnesses were present. Mr. F. Welch, surgeon, proved that he took out the stomach and intestines of the deceased, and conveyed them in an earthen jar, sealed, to Mr. Herapath, an eminent analytical chemist at Bristol. Mr. Herapath produced the stomach, and showed that, by a variety of scientific tests, he discovered the pre sence of arsenic in the stomach of the deceased. The following witnesses, the brothers and sister of prisoner, were then called : Thomas Seeley, aged twelve years, said he could not remember what his father had for dinner on the Thurs day when he was taken ill, but that he had some po tatoes and salt. His father was sick after he had his dinner, and threw up some blood. When witness re turned home in the evening his father was very ill in bed. He recollects when a ball took place at the Pru dent Widow, his sisters (the prisoners) were there, and when, his father went for them they would not return with him, and did not come home till after he was gone to bed. John Sealey, fourteen years old, said on this day he had meat and potatoes for dinner. In other respects he corroborated his brother Thomas. William Sealey, sixteen years of age, came home after the rest of the family had been to dinner, and then one of his sisters told him that his father had salt fish for dinner that day. In cross-examination he said they had lived on fish and potatoes a fortnight previously and a month afterwards. Sarah Sealey, ten years of age, said, before my father died I heard my sister Faith (the prisoner) say to my sister Mary, " We should do better without father than with him," and Mary replied, "Yes, we should." She said this several times. Witness said she would tell her father alit, and they then threatened to beat her. Sophia Fudge proved that she went to Mr. Mortimer's, a surgeon, at Bishop's Lydiard, for medicine for the de ceased, William Sealey, and that she gave it, on her return, to Mary Sealey (the other prisoner). Mary Tucker, of Yartbrd, said that the evening pre vious to the deceased's death, and during the night, he was very sick, and vomited something of a yellow colour. Thomas White proved that he leidged at the deceased's house ; that he went for the doctor the night previously to the deceased's death, and said there were no rats in his (deceased's) house. James Sealey, a livery servant, in the employ of Mr, Esdale, of Cocklestone, proved that the prisoners kept house for his father. Mary Tucker proved that she was present at the ball at the Prudent Widow, and that deceased came for the prisoners, but they would not go with him. James Bond corroborated the last witness, and said, when the deceased came he shook a stick at them, and that he had subsequently kept company with Mary Sealey, the elder prisoner. Harriet Moreman, a servant at the Half-moon, Taun ton, prOved that the prisoner, Faith Sealey, came to her to go with her to purchase some arsenic to (as she said) destroy rats. That she went with her to Mr. Beadon's, chemist, at Taunton, for it ; but that he would not let her have it un l ess she brought a note from the person at Kingston, whom, she said it was for. That then she and the prisoner returned to the Half-moon, and that then pri s o ner sa id s he would go and try some where else to get it, and that she afterwards returned, and, showing her a small paper parcel, said I have got it, I bought it at Mr. Joyce's (another chemist at Taun ton), and that the lad who served said it was enough to poison a thousand men. Ann Richards, another servant at the Half-moon, cor roborated last witness. Mr. Beadon, chemist, could not remember any applica tion having been made at his shop for arsenic. Mr. John Joyce, chemist, had not sold the prisoner any arsenic himself, but had a lad seventeen years old in his shop that had access to a quantity of arsenic which was loose in the bulk, to serve customers with, and at all times a wrapper labelled "poison" was given. Aaron Bamfield, last witness's assistant, had no recol lection of selling the prisoner any arsenic. Ann Fudge proved that the day on which the de • ceased was taken ill she was doing needlework at William Sealey (the deceased's) house. That the pri soner Mary Sealey asked him to have some tea. He consented, and also to have smie sugar with it. There were two sorts of "sugar on the table at the time, but that the prisoner Mary Sealey went to the dresser and took up a whity-brown paper, which contained some thing, but witness never saw her put anything into the tea. That the deceased took it, and then was obliged to go .to bed. Police-constable Burford said, after Mary Sealey's apprehension, went to prisoner, who was then living at Mr. Clarice's, in Fore-street, Taunton, to ask her ques tions relative to the transaction, when he said to her, " You may choose whether you answer it or not, as it may make for or against you." Mr. KINGLA RE here objected to the conversation being deposed to, on the authorities of Mr. Justices Coleridge and Manic. His LORDSHIP—Was the prisoner then in custody? Police-constable Burford—No, my Lord. His LORDSHIP-1 hen, as Mr. Carey presses the evi dence, and I think it admissible, let it proceed. Witness then inquired if she had purchased arsenic, under the circumstances related by the witnesses Harriet Moreman and Ann R:chards, anal that to each question he put, she said it was not true. The following confession of the prisoner, admitted at the coroner's inquest, was then read:---" My sister asked me, the same week my father was taken ill, if I had made up my mind about going to Taunton on Tuesday. I told her I had. She said she wanted me to buy some thing for her. I asked her what it was. She never told me till I was going away. When I was going away I asked her what it was I was going to bring for her. She asked me if I would bring her a pennyworth of arsenic. I asked her where I could get it. She answered at Mr. Joyce's, where she had got it several times before. She said, You mind, you must have some one to go with you.' I asked her, Who can I get, except Mr. Green's servant.' She asked me who she was. I said Ann Richards, that lived at Mr. Woolcott's, at Bishop's Lydian]. I said ' I don't know if I shall buy it or not.' She asked Why can't you get it as well as I can?' I said If it is a strong poison, they won't let me have it e About I carry an order. She said, If they ask what it is for, it is to poison rats.' I said, don't hear any rats here about the house.' She said, 'No, if a waggon and horses were to, go through the bed-room you would not hear the-m.' I then said no more, but came away to Taunton. I went to the Half-moon, and saw Ann Richards. I asked her if she would go to the shop with me. She said she could rot, and her fellow-servant went. When I asked Mr. Beadon for it, he said he would not let me have it without a note, or a proper witness from the house, a person whom he kxew. He then asked what it was for; I said it was not for myself, but for some person that I knew. He said he . would not let me have it, and I then went to Mr. Joyce's. His little boy was in the shop alone. I wanted some other things, and after I had them I asked for the arsenic, to poison rats, as my sister told me. I said I could say no further than that it was not fur myself. He did it, up in three papers. He told me to be very careful what I did with it, because ever so little would poison a man. He added, I can plainly say, and not tell a word of a story, that there's enough to poison a thousand men.' I said I should not have any hand with it, and that I would tell the person what he did say. I paid him for it, and came away. We stopped there about ten minutes. When I came home I gave it to my sister; she put it in her pocket. I did not see any thing more of it till Thursday at dinner-time. My father was fond of salt fish, andgenerally had one for his break fast and dinner, with a roe, if he could get it. My sister dressed it. I was up stairs cleaning the room. When I came down I saw my sister with the roe out on the plate. She had got the same parcel as I brought from Taunton, shaking some of it on the middle of the milt of the fish. I went out of doors, and said nothing to her. My father came in to dinner in a few minutes after, and she put it up for him. He took up the milt and ate it. had before. After he had been to dinner, he sat down He said it did not taste so good as many which he had and had a pipe of tobacco ; then he went out to work, He did not complain till he came home in the evening. When he came home I was out in the garden. He came in and sat down, and rested his elbow on the table. He then asked Mary foe a cup of tea. She gave gave it to him. I went up stairs. He took his tea, and then went to bed. We stopped up with him till between 11 and 12 o'clock. My sister asked him if he would take anything before we went to bed. He asked her what she had got, whether any groats or arrow root. She said she had some of each. He said he would have a little. My sister got him some, and he was worse that night. Next day he sent for Mr. Mortimer, of Bi ;hop's Lysliard, who sent him some powders, and that day I took off my shoes, and came down stairs and caught my sister mixing one ~f th e p ow d ers ; one was larger than the others." Mr. ICI.NoLmia: then made a very impressive address to the jury, and his Lordship having summed up, The jury consulted twenty minutes, and then returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The case lasted till late this night. NORTHERN ClRCUlT—Liverpool, April 8. (Before Mr. Baron ROLFE and a Special Jury.) GOSLIN V. BIDDEN. This was an action for money lent and money due for rent of certain rooms in the house of the plaintiff, occu pied by the defendant. Mr. Watson and Mr. Hogging for the plaintiff ; Mr. Knowles and Mr. Segar for the defendant. This case was commenced on Saturday evening at a late hour, but, after the examination of one or two wit nesses for the plaintiff, was adjourned until this morning. It appeared that the plaintiff was a contractor far some of the works lately executed at Fleetwood-on-Wire, and the defendant was the engineer under whose superin tendence they were carried on. The defendant, on first going down to Fleetwood, lodged in the same house with the plaintiff, and they were, it appeared, on terms of great intimacy and friend - ship. Fleetwood was, at that time, insufficiently supplied with lodging room, and many of the parties whom employment on the works, or other objects, attracted to the spot, were obliged to put up with very inconvenient accommodation. The plainti ff and defendant occupied the same room, and the same bed. In 1840 the defendant got married, and it was alleged that, previous to his going up to London for that purpose, he borrowed of the plaintiff the sum of 1201., the first item of the plaintiff's claim. It was sought, also, to make out that, in the course of the eighteen months next following he borrowed of the plaintiff various sums, amounting, in all, to 1,371/, the amount claimed in the bill of particulars ; but of this sum evidence was given of but 800/., together with 30z rent for apartments occupied by the defendant, after his marriage, in ahouse which had been taken by the plaintif£ The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff--Da mages, 300/. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. The Recorder sat in this Court and disposed of a num ber of cases of larceny, the details of which were of no public interest. s In the course of the day the Grand Jury came into Court and returned the following bills, having reference to the alleged will forgeries :- 1. A true bill against William Henry Barber, Joshua Fletcher, William Saunders, and Georgiana Dorey, for felony. 2. A true bill against the same parties. • 3. A true bill against the same. 4. A true bill against Barber, Fletcher, and Dorey. 5. A true bill against Susannah Richards, Barber ; Fletcher, and Dorey. 6. A true bill against these same prisoners. 7. A true bill against Lydia Saunders, Barber, Flet cher, W. Saunders, and Dorey. 8. A true bill against all the above-mentioned pri• goners. 9. A true bill against Dorey, Barber, and Fletcher. 10. A true bill against the same prisoners. It will be seen that no bill has been returned against Griffin, and it is expected that he will be admitted a witness for the Crown. SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS. REIGATE. April 9. The general quarter sessions for the county of Surrey commenced to-day, at the Town-hall, Rei gate, before J. W. Freshfield, Esq., Chairman ; H. Kemble, Esq., M.P. ; J. W. Denison, Esq., M.P. ; Sir R. Frederick; C. Barclay, Esq.; A. K. Barclay, Esq. ; T. Puckle, Esq. ; H. Gorse, Esq.; G. T. Nicholson, Esq. ; and a number of other Justices. FEES OF COURT. The usual routine business having been disposed of, Mr. JEFFREY, upon the report of the Visiting Jus tices to the county gaol being presented for confirma tion, said he begged leave to bring to the notice of the Court a subject which he considered of very great im portance. He held in his hand the petition of a person named Ward, who complained that, being arraigned upon a charge of misdemeanour, and ac quitted, he was compelled to pay a fee of 10s. 6d. for his discharge. The petitioner complained bitterly of this proceeding, and of the hardship of a poor man being compelled to pay a heavy fee, after he was declared innocent of the charge made against him. He (Mr. Jeffrey) would not waste the time of the Court by any remarks upon the injustice of this course of proceeding. He believed that the question had before , arisen, and that the only plea urged in favour of the continuance of the practice was, that it had existed for a great many years, that the fee had been sanctioned by the judges, and that in point of fact a prescriptive right had been obtained. The matter had, however, been brought before Parliament, and the Secretary of State for the Home Department had declared the practice to be illegal, and to amount almost to the offence of extortion at common law. Mr. Jeffrey then read an extract from a speech made by Sir J. Graham in the House of Commons, in which he declared all such fees to be ab origine illegal, and said that the order of the Court of Quarter Sessions sanctioning such fees, although they might justify persons in taking them, could not render them legal ; and, considering it a great hardship upon defendant, he felt it his duty to bring the subject before the Court. He believed that in Middlesex the practice of taking such fees had been abolished, and he thought it was high time that the same course should be adopted in the county of Surrey. Thc CHAIRMAN said he believed it had been the custom from time immemorial to take these fees, and this was the difficulty the Court would have to get over. Mr. JEFFREY said, that although this might be the case, in his opinion it was illegal, and the Court were bound to interfere and stop such proceedings in future. The CHAIRMAN said that if the fees were illegal, they could not be enforced. Did Mr. Jeffrey mean to make any motion upon the subject? Mr. JEFFREY said his only object, on the present occasion, was to bring the matter before the Court. He thought it monstrous, and contrary to every prin ciple of justice, that a poor man, who was acquitted of the charge made against him, should have to pay a heavy fee for his discharge. Mr. Dawsoil concurred with the Hon. Magistrate, that it was•a hard and cruel case for a poor man to be compelled to pay such a fee. A complaint of a simi lar nature had been made some years ago, and a me morial was submitted to the Secretary of State. He believed that there was at present a Committee of the House of Commons sitting, for the purpose of con sidering the question of those fees, and whether it would not be better to substitute a salary in lieu of them. As to their legality, he could not admit that an opinion of the Secretary of State ought to be of more avail than the order of Quarter Sessions. Mr. KEMBLE wished to know who received those fees, and how they were applied ? By a paper which he held in his hand they appeared to be divided be tween the crier of the Court, the jury, and the sum moning officer. The Deputy Clerk of the Peace said that he had nothing to do with those fees. They were received by the crier, and he could explain how they were ap propriated. Mr. KEMBLE said this what he desired to know, and he put the question to the crier of the Court. The Crier replied that he believed the fees in ques tion had been taken for a great many years, and for 40 years he had taken them under the authority of the. Court. The money was divided between the jury, the summoning officer , and himself. Mr. KEMBLE—And these fees were received under the authority of the Court ? The Crier said they were. The CHAIRMAN inquired what was to be done upon the subject. Did Mr. Jeffery mean to give notice of any motion ? At present the discussion was pre mature. Mr. JEFFREY said he thought the matter was one of very considerable importance, and he should cer tainly give notice of a motion to take the subject into consideration at the next session. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) GUILDHALL. Yesterday George Gumm was brought up in the cus tody of Daniel Forrester, on suspicion of having stolen four parcels, containing Bank of England notes and cash, to the amount of 1,6001., from the Captain's private room, on board the City of Boulogne steam-boat, on her voyage to England, on the 6th of September. Mr. Hum phrey's clerk watched the case on the part of the pri soner, and Mr. Child conducted the prosecution. The evidence previously taken was read over, to the effect that the prisoner tendered one of the stolen notes for 101., at Mr. Storey's, a tailor, in Fleet-street, in pay ment fur some clothing, and he was there apprehended by Forrester. The officer discovered that others of the stolen notes had been put into circulation, one fur 5/. having been changed at Messrs. Harveys', the linen drapers, on Ludgate-hill; one at a tobacconist's in Fleet street, one at a tobacconist's in the Strand, one at a hosier's in the Strand, and one at a grocer's in Oxford ford-street. In three of these cases the witnesses posi tively identified the prisoner as having passed those notes, but there was no evidence from France to show that these notes were placed in the parcels stolen. Mr. Child then proposed to bring the case home to the prisoner as to two 5L notes. The first witness sworn was a Frenchman, who took the oath in the fashion of his country, not holding the writings of the Evangelists in his hand, but holding his hand up, and repeating the f orm o f wor d s . Sir PETER LAURIE said this was the custom in Scot land, and it appeared to be more solemn than that which prevailed in England, of listening in silence and kissing the cover of the book. Fermin Braseur, clerk to a banker at Boulogne, pro duced a list of notes to the amount of 1801., which, with 290/. in cash, he packed up in a parcel on the 6th of September last, and addressed it to Mr. Wight, Union Bank, London. In the list were two 51. notes, Nos. 14,673 and 35,063. He gave the parcel to a clerk named Boulle, to convey it to Mr. De Wisme, the -ship's broker. Etienne Boulle deposed that he saw the notes packed up in the parcel, and delivered it at Mr. 1)e Wisme's. Jean Baptiste De Wisme, a ship-broker at Boulogne, deposed that he received this parcel, and placed it with five others and the ship's papers in a leather bag. It was rather heavy, and be delivered it to Baptiste, a man belonging to the New Commercial Steam-boat Company, who fetched it. Baptiste Seneschal, clerk to the Boulogne agent of the Commercial Company, stated that he received the leather bag from* the last witness, and carried it first to the company's office, and thence on board the steam boat, where he delivered it to Captain Tune. Captain Tune deposed that he took the bag to his berth, a private room in the state cabin. He placed the six parcels in a drawer, having first compared the ad dresses with the invoice. One was directed to Mr. Wight. He shut the drawers, and locked the door of his cabin. Sir PETER LAURIE asked if he saw the parcels safe after he left France, for it was material to know where the felony was committed? Captain Tune said he saw them safe when they had got out to sea about nine miles. He did not miss them till half the passengers were out of the ship on reaching London. _ _ _ _ _ Sir P. LAURIE asked when he sailed, and when he reached London. Captain Tune replied he sailed at ten o'clock at night, and reached London at two in the afternoon next dad•. The prisoner's solicitor asked how long he was occu pied in passing from coast to coast ? Captain Tune said generally two hours and three quarters. Sir PETER asked if he saw the prisoner on board, or had any recollection of him ? The Caption answered, no. Mr. Baker, a tobacconist in the Strand, proved that he received the 51 note number 14,673, from the prisoner, who gave him a fictitious address, differing from that given at either of the other places. The prisoner bought a quarter of a pound of cigars. J. Dickenson, shopman to Mr. Jones, a grocer in Ox ford-street, said ' D U took the other 51. note, number 35,063, from a man who purchased some grocery, and w;:nt away by an omnibus. He could not swear the prisoner was the person. He had some remembrance of the prisoner's face, but he had no distinct recollection that he was the person who paid this particular note. Mr. Child said that was all the evidence he was now prepared to offer, but if a little time were allowed he might be able to strengthen his case. The prisoner's solicitor reserved what he had to say till he saw the whole case. The prisoner was thEn again remanded. CLERKEN WELL. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE. - Yesterday morning when Mr. COMBE took his seat on the bench, a re spectable looking man, who seemed to be labouring under great excitement, came before the Magistrate, requesting his advice. He said his name was Long; that he was in the employment of Messrs. Ashton and Berwick, under takers, Gray's Inn-road. On that morning, about nine o'clock, a woman cut her throat in his house, No. 3, Robert -street, Bedford-row. She was not dead, but nearly so. Mr. COMBE inquired where she was ? Long—She, is at the Gray's Inn-road Hospital. The surgeon told me there was no hope of saving her life. Being further interrogated by the Magistrate, the applicant stated that the unfortunate woman is the wife of a gentleman's servant, and that herself and husband have been lodging with him for a consider able time. On Monday last they had a quarrel, but up to that time they lived very happily together. Yester day morning at eight o'clock, the husband left home to go to his employment, and about nine, applicant was called in, and found the woman in her parlour bleeding from a terrible gash in the throat. He had her conveyed to the hospital immediately. Mr. COMBE said he could not see in what manner he was called upon to interfere. Long wanted to know what he was to do with the room in which she committed the act, which was co • vered with blood. Mr. COMBE ordered him to lock it up until the hu3 band's return. The applicant thanked the Worthy Magislate and left the Court. [The Reporter ascertained that the woman is sup posed to have committed the act in her own room on the second floor, as there is a large pool of blood there and a razor dyed with blood lying beside it. It would seem that she regretted the act soon after its execu tion, for she put a wet towel to the wound, and then, strange to say, walked down stairs to the parlour on the ground floor, which she entered. A woman who was sitting there was horror-struck on seeing the gaping wound from which the blood was flowing; the unfortunate creature staggered and fell, but was placed in a chair. and removed to the hospital. Her name is Maria Nave, and she is about twenty-eight of age. She has no children. Late yesterday even ing the Reporter called at the Royal Free Hospital, and was informed that she was still alive, in frill pos. session of her intellects, but in great pain. She had expressed her contrition for the crime, and a clergy man was obtained at her request. Her recovery was considered hopeless.] John Jones was charged with being concerned in stealing a gold watch, a gold chain, two gold seals, and a ring; the property of Mrs. Louisa Barnechini, landlady of the Hole-in-the-Wall public-house, Kirby street, Hatton-garden. The prisoner and three others went into the house of the prosQcutrix on the previous day and called for some drink. The jewellery was lying on a desk be hind the bar, which had been left unattended for a few minutes. Immediately on the departure of the prisoners the property was missed. Jones, who is an idle disorderly character, was arrested in the evening by Martin, police-constable 144 G. When the pri soner was apprehended he said he had attempted to destroy himself at London-bridge on Sunday evening, and that he would do for himself to-night.—Re manded. OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT.—Six labourers in Mr. Barlow's brick-fields, White Conduit-fields, five of them named White, and a sixth named Pearson, were charged with assaults of a very aggravated character, on Mr. William Dennis, and on Mr. J. Price, builders, residing at Twyford Villa, Caledonian-road, Is lington. fir. Price's face was bruised in a shocking manner; one of his eyes was quite closed up, his head was bandagei in consequence of the wounds which had been inflicted on it by his brutal assailants. It appeared from the evidence, which was very voluminous, that on the previous day a little boy, in crossing the brick-fields, disturbed some of the sand which had been prepared by the prisoners. One of them, John White, followed the lad, and because he refused to return with them beat him cruelly, dashing him against the ground with all his strength. Mr. Dennis, seeing that the poor lad was fainting from the ill-treatment, told White to desist, but White immediately struck Mr. Dennis on the breast, and knocked him down. Mr. Price ran to the assistance of Mr. Dennis, but the other prisoners, and several other of their fellow-labourers, not in custody, came running across the field in a body. They immediately attacked the prosecutors. Mr. Den nis received a blow on the head which rendered him senseless, and three or four other very severe blows on the chest. On recovering somewhat he ran into his own house, which was hard by, but had no sooner reached it than his wife cried out " Oh, for God's sake go back, they are murdering poor Price." He returned with a stick, and saw five or six men beating Mr. Price, who was lying on the ground bleeding profusely from several wounds on the head. John White was crying out " Give it to the b—," and " Give me a knife and I will soon knife him." A police sergeant came up, and Mr. Price was removed into his house, in a state of insensibility. Mr. GREENWOOD expressed his determination to send the prisoners for trial, and depositions were ac cordingly taken down. The case was, however, re manded for the attendance of the boy, who it is hoped will come forward. • THAMES POLICE. Charles Tripp, a showily dressed man, whose air and demeanour in the dock exhibited considerable preten sion, was yesterday charged with a cowardly and unpro voked assault en a modest looking young woman, named Mary Craven. Vie complainant stated that as she was going down Butcher's-row on Monday evening, three gentlemen, of whom the prisoner was one,_ were standing at the door of No. 10. One o f th e gentlemen (not the prisoner) put out his foot, and nearly tripped complainant up. Her aunt remonstrated with them and went back to take the num ber of the house, after which the prisoner pursued their. He used the coarsest possible language, called her and her companions b—y w —s, and gave her a violent blow on the head, threatening at the same time to smash her face. She called for a constable, and, when one came in sight, the prisoner offered to take them to the fair and make it up. This, however, they declined, and he was given in charge. Mary Kelly, a barmaid at the Plough Tavern, con firmed the complainant's statement, and added that Tripp had also given her a violent blow. The prisoner, who undertook to plead his own cause, with the usual proverbial result; not very complimentary to the client, cross-examined the witnesses with an air of would be professional sagacity, which created con siderable merriment. He did not prove very successful in shaking the direct testimony, though his flippancy enforced the reprimand of the Court. Being called on for his defence, he declared solemnly, if it were the last word he had to speak, the statements of the complainant and her witness were false. Seeing one of his friends talking to the women, whom he took to be women of the town, and he still retained the same impression, he asked him to come away, upon which the complainant and her friends abused and threw dirt at him, upon which lie naturally put up his hand, which might pos sibly have struck one of them. He regretted that the witnesses who could disprofe their assertions were not present. • Mr. BRODERIP would ease his mind on that point by sending the case to the sessions, when he could procure their attendance. He should, however, accept bail, him self in 40/, and sureties of 20/, to answer both charges of assault.—Bail not being forthcoming, he was locked up. DR. KALLEY AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN PORTUGAL The case of Dr. Malley, a Scotch physician, who was, last autumn, illegally imp r i sone d at M a d e i ra, on a charge of " blasphemy and heresy," and " abetting apostacy and heresy," has been tried at Lisbon and Funchal. On the 24th Feb., the Judge Conservator at the latter place passed the following sentence :—" Sup posing the British subject, Dr. Kalley, to have dis turbed the public order of this island by preaching doctrines opposed to its religion, as is sworn by' the witnesses; and considering this preaching an abuse which degenerates into crime; nevertheless, the said Dr. Kalley, as a Protestant, which he is, is not punishable, seeing that there does not exist a law to punish in the per son o f th e accused the act charged. , therefore, declare the a ccusa ti on g i ven aga i nst t h e said Dr. Kalley irrelevant, an d or d er hi m to b e h e ld clear of guilt.' Baffled mi the religious question, Dr. Kal ley's pro secutors, we understand, are going to institute pro ceedings against him as a disturber of the public peace. On the other hand, Dr. Kalley, at the sug gestion of Lord Aberdeen, is about to petition the Government at Lisbon, for compensation for the loss of his professional income during his illegal im prisonment. In the course of the proceedings before the tribunal of Rellacao at Lisbon, the public prosecutor, acting as counsel against Dr. salley, gave a very lucid ex position of the existing law of religious liberty in Portugal, wherein he clearly showed that the supra' macy of the Romish Church is no more, but that Portuguese subjects enjoy the same liberty -A S fr Englishmen do in all religious matters. He says► " I do not characterise the accusation as bias• phemy, nor as heresy, because these crimes are only considered such when committed by : ers of the Roman Catholic apostolic religion , and not by those who, like the appellant, follow 3 different faith, and therefore, being extra ecclesianh are beyond all censure civil and ecclesiastical. Nor can I characterise it as apostacy, because I under stand that the crime of apostacy ceased to exist among us in virtue of Article 145 of the Constitutional Charter; in which ample religious liberty is guav' teed to Portuguese citizens in the following terms :I No one shall be prosecuted for motives of religion; wherein the absolute term ' no one' excludes all ex' ception of persons, and the very broad expression for motives of religion' embraces all that relates to the re ligious creed of every one ; and, therefore, if these two citizens apostatised from our religion, though `hey did greatinjury to their souls, yet they did not • commit any civil crime for which they can be Pa' nished." EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE. In the course of the discussion which took place on Lord Ashley's amendment, on Friday week, Sir 1 1 . Inglis said, " The supporters of the Ten Hours' pre position had been taunted with the sufferings of the agricultural population. They had been told of Eng' lish women being kept labouring in the fields during seven or eight hours on a winter day, without the or portunity of change for clothing. He would be glad to hear the county pointed out in which that oe' curred." We should be glad to know the agr icultte ral county in which it has not occu r re d. If the Right Hon. Baronet will only take the trouble to re' fer to a report laid before Parliament last session, on the employment of women and children in agetcul' Lure, he will find the following remarks, by 311 :: Austin, relative to the female population of DO4 lO l Devon, Somerset, and Wilts : " The clothing of women employed in field-labou r would appear to be inadequate for their work; but thei deficiency is not complained of by them. A change ° clothes seems to be out of the question; although neees", sary, not only for cleanliness, b u t f or conven i ence , all" saving of time. The upper parts of the under-clothe s of women at work, even their stays, quickly become we t through with perspiration, whilst th e lower parts cowl escape getting equally wet in ne a rly ever y kind ° work they are engaged in, except in the driest weather. It not unfrequently happens, that a women, on return' ino• home from work, is obliged to go t o b e d f or an hour or two to allow her clothes to be dried. It is also by 0° means uncommon for her, if she does not d o thi s , to P 11", them on again the next morning nearly as wet as when she took them off. It does notappear that anyill cense' quences to the health have been observed to arise froal this cause, unless rheumatism be partly attributable to Here, then, is a statement as to the condition 0 ,! female labourers in the agricult ura l di s t r i c t s which we would recommend to the special consideratio n i not only of Sir Robert Inglis, but of all those sur porters of Lord Ashley who have been so loud la their condemnation of the factory system, on AS count of the severe toil to which females e mploy in mills are said to be subjected. M r . A us ti n .seem inclined to believe the improbable s t a t emen t, that working all day without a change of clothes has "n ° ill consequences to the health ;" but there are other who hold a very different opinion. Th us we find , f from the report of Mr. Deni son on th e coun ties Suffolk, Norfolk, and Lincoln, that, although all P e informants (with one exception) agree that out-doe labour is "conducive to health," the single witness to .. the contrary is perhaps more worthy of credit tile : the whole host of those who differ from him. Rev. E. J. Howman, rector of Bexwell, in Norto" who is said to have paid great attention to the cool' tion of the labouring classes, makes the following statement : " As far as I have been able to form an opinion, I a i Th satisfied that out-d oor l a b our i s p re j u di e i a l to the . hes'„ of females ; and this opinion has recently received e°"; firmation in the inquiries I have made on the subjec amongst my medical friend s . Th ere are very f ew at t!ie ts age of fifty who are n o t a ff ec t e d w i t h r h eumat i sm various shapes. A young man who has recently cot from town to assist one of our surgeons, was particuliFt s struck with the prevalence of scrofulous cornP lo amongst the women." Much stress was laid by Lord Ashley and his 50 0 : porters on the ignorance of domestic duties amo., ll ° B the females employed in factories ; but this evil " n t fear is one which prevails to quite as grea t a n exte a among the female population of Dorsetshire, en other agricultural counties, as it does in the inen t/, E 0 facturing districts. In the report to which we h 5. already referred, Mr. Austin, one of the asaist all f Commissioners, states that, " among the wo men the agricultural labouring class, ignorance of the COP i ; monest things, needlework, cooking, and other matte. of domestic economy, is described as nearly un r versally prevalent. A girl brought up in a cottugp until she marries, is generally i g n oran t o f near ) everything she ought to be acquainted with, for t t , comfortable and economical manage men t o f a e ° o ( tage." Mr. Austin remarks, that in c onsequ ence their ignorance of domestic economy, s uc h girls so prevented from getting out to service. We rat P et _ A. fear, that, even though they were e v er so we ll 04 0 7 it would still be impossible for them all to find eT l o i tions in the country. ,The only two modes by W"',. the great mass of them can earn an independent ti, lihood f lihood are in the field or in th e f ac t ory . L or d Ash and his followers seem res o l ve d t o exc l u d e t h e m o°r , the one mode of occupation ; b u t hi s Lordship 01°50 nately shuts his eyes to th e o b v i ous f act, that, biai, doing, he would, in the first place, render the o° ll e ~, tion of the female pop u l a ti on o f Dorsetshire, and.9ro agricultural counties, s till more wretc h e d t h a n at present. —Manchester Guardian. . Mrs. Charke, the eccentric daughter of Colley ber, had long lived OR unpleasant terms with her 1 0 ' 0 1 by whom she was treated with just severity for her to disregard of all social duties and common dec Being on one occasion greatly irritated by the draina t 7 t er refusal to honour her drafts, she equipped herself the style of a gentleman of the road, and hi r i n g 0. 12 4 . able charger, actually waylaid her f a th er upon EPPtild forest, by stopping his chariot, presenti ng h er pistol, "to desiring hint to deliver. The affri g hted comedisrho• save his life, could do no less tha n p ar t w i t h his r l , o is " Young man, young man," sa id th e dramatist, " tf„ 3 l ‘ l," a sorry trade, take heed i n time." " And st- ) 1'14" replied Charlotte ; " but I' ve a w i c k e d o ld hunks ° i f e 4 father, who rolls in money and mistresses, yet don so me a guinea, and has h a d th e i mpu d ence to ro l°3 ol worthy a gentleman as yourself answer for it."! Elliston Papers, in Ainszvorth's Magazine. - , be LOTS OF BAIRNS AT EYEmounit..--If the ma n e• happy whose "quiver is liberally filled,",the ladieinf mouth must have qualified their liege lords to talk W l .O with " the enemy in the gate." I n ever s aw such nwilbel of children as the door of every domicil e pr es ented. t he were crawling in and out of boats, or creeping t° l tst/ quay or jetty, and As I foolishly i mag i ne d, i n monle% ? • risk of drowning. "Do child ren f requen tly droP,l to s ; I inquired, in a paroxysm of alarm, of the jolly 11°5;er, " Aye, aye, fule things, they often fa' ower yon l ) ; of she answered, coolly. "G o d bl ess me !—Dos'eria course ?" " Na, na," returned the landlady ; " ° °° ; o tli, then, to be sure, a bair n ' s drooned ; but there's 011 ',i.? some idle body in the w a y t o fi s h t h em oot , t h e clee!' o b' Though the worthy hostess spoke so coolly on tku, jest, I thought it rather a risk, to allow • two-Yea r : t beit to tumble into twenty feet water, depending ? n t hiil being "moistly some idle body in the way to fish rot." —Maxwell's Wanderings. BIRTHS. On the 2d inst., at Southampton-row, Russell-squar e ' Augustus Toulmin, of a son. i°b il On the 4th inst., in Guildford-street, the lady ° f Blogg, Esq., of a son. ~.toref On the 6th inst., in Doughty- s t ree t, MecklenbUrgh"" Mrs. Henry M. Bagster, of a daughter. f I`'.o On the 6th inst., in O x f or d-t errace, . the wife of • 6th i Esq., of a son. Cl isie° •On the nst., at Bedford, th e l a d y o f th e Bev% Brereton, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at Eltham, Mrs. Gfischen • of a g °ll V'lliL' ll On the 7th inst., a t W a ll, near Lichfield, Mrs. i 1 , ott, of a son. $0", On the Bth inst., the lady of W. T. Hooper, F 4141 . India House, of a daught er . , of ' On the BtL inst., at• Wimbledon, Mrs. W. SO" - daughter. . D. On the 6th of Februa MARRIE ry, at Chitiv alsah, near Bilm'riteg l i East Indies, Thomas Palmer Moore, Esq., of the 2 2d w erl t ment Madras Native Infantry, to Jessie, eldest dal* Sort Montgomery Young, Esq., Eskside, Musselburg h ' Britain. Al e On the 21st of February, at the Cathedral, BombnY , ander Tod, Esq., 42d Regiment Madras ArnlY , Bichtt iv Orkok, third surviving dau g ht er o f th e l a t e Captain son, of the Indian Navy. clatigolt On the 6th inst., at St. M ar y' s , L ew i s h am , Freda' it,- Perceval, Esq., to Emma, eldest daughter of the - o f Gilbert, Esq. P 44 On the 6th inst., at Pitney, Oxon. Arthur 1‘ 10 " - ' Dublin, to Miss Mary Wilkinson, of Witney. DIED. pad? — l4 i On the 9th inst., at Portland-place, Claphani -rO, . 4 .ieff Emmeline Corner, aged 47. On the 11th of February, at Mangalore, Captain f ej. o f T. of Dorset-place, Dorset-square. soil On the 4th inst., at Clifton, Arthur Elton, seco nd cil t Clements Pa, Esq leo l 0 f Jr• C On the 6th rr inst., Harry Walter, fifth son 0 . e tc) George, of Dean-street, Soho. square. r r it Lani° ille On the 6th inst., at Bishop's Stortford, Mrs. 30- - s hire? 0 On the 6th inst., at Kirkby Mallory, Leicester _ O OO Hon. 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