The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-19 00:00:00

ebtrb Myttion THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 19934 Indian Stock ...... ......... 9 per Cent. Red ....... ....... sper Cent. Cons 3 per Cant. Red IO 2U Ditto New Annuities ... 97 % New 336 per Cent lOl% Lx. Bills 1,0001.130 ... 73 pm. New 5 per Cent........ Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 73 pm. Jan 1860............. 12 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct — Oct. 1852........ ..... Consols for Act. ..... Jan. 1860.............. 12 16 India Stock for Acct 282 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian 5 , 5 per en Portuguese spr Cent — Begian, per C t 103 ! Ditto, New , Ditt e 0.•........ 00000 Brazilian Bonds .............. Si% Prussian, 5 per Cent — Buenos Apes, 6 per Cent... IRussian_, 5 per Cent Cbllian, per Cent Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per Cent 13% Spanish, 5 per Cent Ditto, 1824 ..... Ditto, 9 per Cent Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent...... Ditto, Deferred 12% Danish, 3 per Cent ;French, 5 per Cent.... —t —c. Greek. 1825.5 per Cent...... Exchange —f —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent ....... 35% French, 3 per Cent. —c Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — Dutch, 2% per Cent...... 61% Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — /Ditto, 5 per Cent ........100% - - - SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) BO Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid 82% Ditto Fifths, 12 paid Lancaster and Carlisle, 5 paid 5 14 London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 7% London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid) ..... Ditto, Preferenco or Privilege, £lB 17s 2d paid 21 % Landau and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) 1951 Manchester and Leeds go paid) ..... ............... Ditto New Quarters ( 2 paid) Midland Counties (100 paid) ........... ....... ..... North British, 2 51 paid 2% Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (125 paid) Norwich and Brandon, 4 paid South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) ..... Ditto New Shares, 4 paid Thames and Medway, £l9 5s 8d paid lO% Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) — Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) ... ..... .. .. . . York and Scarborough Branch ( 254 pai d) ...... Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid ...... Paris and Rouen. 20 paid .. ........ ........ ......... Rouen and Havre, 10 paid RUMOURED OCCUPATION OF TANGIERS BY THE FRENCH. The Patrie, Paris journal, of Saturday evening, has the following article : " Rumours of the highest importance were circu lated to-day at the Bourse. It was said that the Prince de Joinville had landed, and had taken posses sion of Tangiers, where the tri-coloured flag was waving at this present moment. " It was added, that the English Consul had imme diately protested against this measure. " The complication of these events, the strange si lence on the part of Government—all this has caused a real panic, which has produced a considerable fall in the prices of public securities, as will be seen in our report below, that the Three per Cents. fell 75 centimes and the Fives If. 10c. " There were other reports mentioned, besides these. It would appear that the King received the important news we have just mentioned, last evening, at the moment he was going to dinner, and the Ministers were instantly sent for to meet in council, over which his Majesty presided. After the council, extraordinary couriers were dispatched in all di rections. _ _ " Finally, persons who pretend to be well informed assert that Tangiers, immediately after the bombard ment, had been pillaged, plundered, and laid waste by the Moors themselves. Some exaggeration there may be in these rumours; but public anxiety is extreme, and for the Government to remain silent longer would be an unpardonable fault." SPIRIT •of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The bombardment of Tangiers—even though the active intelligence should lack confirma tion—would be sufficiently threatening to the dura tion of peace, with which the essential interests of England and France arc identified. There is, how ever, hope that war yet will be averted. The forbear ance of Lord Aberdeen is proverbial. The lamb-like patience that has hitherto shown itself invulnerable, still promises to be proof against this additional in stance of French aggression. The Herald—which, in all the qualities that separates our Foreign Minister from the sympathies that have been roused throughout the nation against the reiterated inso lence and injuries of France, bears a striking resem blance to its patron and prompter—bestows a reproof upon us for our remarks on this now all-absorbing event. Tangiers is not, it seems, of sufficient im portance to warrant a moment's regard from anation so great and glorions as England ! France may, accord ing to the Herald, be permitted to play what pranks she pleases on the entire line of the African coast ; bombard what towns she pleases, and occupy what ter ritory she pleases, without calling forth any expression from England, beyond, perhaps, an expostulation uttered with " bated breath," against what cannot be altogether approved. If a remark, prompted by surprise and indignation at the indifference or pusillanimity which characterises the Ministers of this country, be uttered, the complaint is met by the ready excla mation, " England is great; and Sir Robert Peel is Minister ! " What necessity can exist for uneasiness ; even though one event after another, each indicative of the aggressive policy of France, tread each other's heel ? " Who's afraid ?" The Herald assigns a. long string of reasons—some of them very strange ones; which are adduced for the pur pose of making out a justification for ministerial for bearance :—" England has nothing to fear, in the vul gar sense of the word, from a war. At this moment the surplus revenue of the country, beyond its expen diture, represents a capital of nearly one hundred millions sterling, which might be doubled or trebled if necessary, and true economy would dictate to engage in war ' cum toto corpore regni,' should the cruel necessity of war be forced upon us. And not only are the pecuniary resources, but all the other elements of military power at hand. We have an ample, if not a redundant, population. We, too, have a bold and high-spirited youth, whom we do not always find it easy to provide for in peaceful occupa tions. We have an enormous amount of capital (the Three per Cents. have been hovering about par) the possessors of which would not be sorry for a more active demand for it. We have manufacturers who do not forget the prodigious fortunes acquired between 1793 and 1815 ; and agriculturists not unacquainted with the prices of that period—even our labourers sometimes think of war wages." What is this but a repetition of the old story of the countryman, Nyho sought improvement of a good state of health, and be took himself to a quack ? To the questions, " Do you eat well ?—Drink well ? —Sleep well ? "—the answers were " Yes." " Oh !" said the quack, " I will give you something which shall speedily cure you of all that The nation's " surplus revenue," derived from the income-tax, will give place to formi dable deficiency. " A redundant population" will be readily got rid of by the wholesale destruction of life that is occasioned by war. " The bold and high• spirited youth, for whom it is not easy to find employment in peaceful occupa tions," will be provided for by commissions in the sud denly-raised fleets and armies that will be required in the war, on a grand scale, which England is suffi ciently wealthy and powerful to undertake. " The Three per Cents., which have been hovering about par," will rapidly sink to 60 ; and the fundholders " will not be sorry for a more active demand for their capital," in the loans which the Chancellor of the Ex chequer will be compelled to raise to provide the sinews of war. " Our manufacturers," continues this profound lecturer on the commercial advantages of war, " do not forget the prodigious fortunes acquired between 1793 and 1815." The manufacturers who profited by the war were chiefly those who fabricated the munitions of war, which were purchased by the Government with the money raised by means of enormous taxes imposed upon every imaginable article consumed by the people. There are " agricultu rists who still remember the prices of that period. Even our labourers," adds this approved Govern ment guide, " sometimes think of war-wages !" Yes; and these different classes, whom the Herald represents as desirous of war, have also a salutary recollection of the widely-spread ruin caused by a return to peace, and to peace-prices. The immense increase t o the ational Debt, and the perpetuity of the imm ense load of annual taxation imposed on the country to pay the interest of that sum • with the other numero us ca l am i t i es wh i ch were entailed upon the nation by the " just and necessary war, ,, in which England was en gaged from 1793 to 1815 ; are, we trust, sufficiently Inressed upon th e memor i es , an d se en and felt in the daily privations of the community, to cause a renewal of war to be deprecated as a fearful visitation, and an aversion of its threatened curse to be anxiously hoped for, as a deliverance from the worst of national ev ils. As to the insignificance orfaTasaonagiefrosr, o n which the He rald ex p atiates, as a please, slowing, the French t o oc cupy it, whole territory of Morocco, if they and the without the remonstrance or interference o f England—we are h a ppy to find that at pr esent there is no response t o the disgraceful hint. It would be a shorter an d a less troublesome course to surrender Gibraltar to the French, without further question, than to allow England's power to be frittered away by , the occupancy of Tangiers by a French army. Could not the disput e be arrange by a French "Protectorate" being establis hed on the old rock, in order to keep the English in order, and as a retaliation for some fancied affront to thegreat nation, n e!: allowing them to do as they please upon it ? STA,NDARD.—Whoever has had the misfortune to be i n sioately acquainted with an hypochondriac (and it is a pLigue that few escape thr4igh life) must be aware that there is nothing more unac septable to the sufferer from imaginary ma ladies than the plain, and what ought to be the consolatory truth, that there is nothing really the matter. Flatter his delusion, assure him that he is in a dying state, and if friend you will be welcome, if physician well fed, and if relation duly considered in the ready will : but dare to tell the truth, promise length of days, recommend beef stakes, port, and an excursion on the moors, and you are sure to lose friend, patient, or in heritance, according to the relation in which you stand. Nor is it only in respect to bodily aili ments that this unreasonable hypoctondria pre vails, though doubtless the high and palmy state of medical quackery in our day demonstrates its preva lence in that department. There are hypochondriacs upon all subjects —every one remembers the doleful gentleman in Goldsmith's pleasant comedy, who always visited with his bitterest resentment, those who told him that his fears and his resentments were groundless. We are tempted to quote a passage for the benefit of our Contemporary alarmists. "My dear Honeywood—Look at this, it will freeze you with terror—and yet my wife can read it—can read it, and laughs." The friend appealed to gives no en couragement to fear, and our disappointed hypochon driac proceeds, " How, sir, do you maintain that I should lie down under such an injury, and show neither by my tears nor complaints that I have something of the spirit of a man in me ?" Whoever will compare this last touch ing appeal with some recent articles of the Morning Chronicle, Times, &c., and, comparing, will observe the community not only of principle, but almost of phrase, between the apostrophe of Goldsmith's huinourist and the remonstrances of our public instructors, will, we think, agree with us that all nervous fancies are not limited to corporal ailments, and that there is much quackery which has no concern with pills, draughts, or lotions. The public, in fact, always has been, and always will be a complex giant hypochondriac. And the press, we must say it to our shame, lives in a great measure by exciting the absurd fears of this patient. Take the history of Great Britain for the last fifty years—that history is, certainly, one in which prosperity predominates. But be lieve the predictions of the press, and the coun try must have perished at least twenty years ago, and had the suggestions of the press been adopted twenty years ago or more, the country would, in fact, have sunk to a third-rate power. It is a remarkable fact, too, and one which must go far to excuse the quacks of our order to worldly judges, that the most persevering alarmists and fault finders, and the most uniformly bad advisers, have always been and are, in a commercial view, pretty generally the most prosperous. if the ground were not already occupied, it would be an ex cellent speculation to set up a journal with some such motto as this—" How are we ruined ?" and to conduct the organ of woe upon a principle of indiscriminate abuse, sneering and snarling at every measure that did not emanate from the im portant " we," and at every public man that should refuse to bow to " us." It would be quite un necessary to give that pledge for political integrity that a decent consistency affords, as experience shr. , ws ; and as for talent, the smallest amount possible would be sufficient, as we see by the in spiration that always invests the editors of a popu lar journal in succession with eloquence, wisdom, and learning, for a long succession of years, though the parties may be and have been uniformly a succession of absolute dunces—except during the illuminated periods of their employment. The secret is all in this, abuse plentifully and indis criminately, find fault without end. ;Everybody can shine in this, from Billingsgate to Westminster, Covent-garden and the Corn Exchange, Dublin. L All can be eloquent and seemingly wise for the day, if they will only throw aside the restraints of truth and decency, and minister to the humour of the day, which, if the venerable Hooker says rightly, is commonly a sour, angry, and desponding humour. A journal such as we speak of must command commercial success, if the ground were not uluckily already occupied. Our E. reflections have been thrown into this channel by an article which we have elsewhere copied from a morning paper, not precisely of the stamp that we have been describing, but which seems to prove by its recent success that quackery is not the only road, though certainly it is the easiest, to public favour. , The article in question demonstrates, we think very satisfactorily, that the alarm set up by a majority of our Contemporaries, is wholly groundless—that France is neither desirous of con quering Morocco, able to conquer that country, nor ' able to retain it if conquered. Further the article to which we refer offers a series of remarks which must convince all who are not intellectually blind that as England never was either absolutely or relatively one-half or one-third as powerful as she is at this moment, no war can be declared against England ; by any country the rulers of -which are not down • right madmen. CUSTOM-HOUSE DETENTION. TO THE EDITOR. Or TIIE TIMES. Sir,—l was glad to see some sensible remarks on the detention of passengers by the London Custom house authorities, and venture to offer a brief account of what has just occurred to myself, which I think will point out the defective part of those perhaps necessary, but certainly always troublesome and an noying, regulations. On arriving at the London-bridge wharf the pas sengers' luggage was conveyed to the baggage room, while they awaited in an adjoining one the pleasure of the officials. Although the steamer comes up to the wharf, and the baggage room is upon the wharf itself, more than an hour elapsed before the officers an noun ced them selves ready to examine the luggage, which, to passengers just landed after a voyage, and perhaps long absence from Eng land, is no slight trial to their patience. Their names are given from the Captain's list, and therefore, in the order in which they paid their fares, and, fortu nately, mine stood among the first. Even when the examination commenced, it was very slow and weari some work ; a party with a large quantity of luggage would not be less than twenty minutes, or perhaps double that time; so that even I, who luckily had not more than seven or eight names before me, had to wait nearly another hour before my turn came; and from the numbers which were below me, I am con fident that some must have been detained more than double that time. On entering the baggage-room I found a landing waiter at a desk writi ng i n t o a book the numbers which had been affixed indiscriminately to each article of luggage. There was only one man to search out my things from the confused heap, which he could only do with my assista nc e ; f o r the affixed numbers did not follow each other in any sequence, and were, therefore, no guide whatever. He then called out my name with the numbers aforesaid, and the landing waiter entered them. The same man had to open and examine the trunks; I was not permitted even to unlock them, still less to open them myself. He was much hurried, and the examination was ne cessarily very imperfect, although a good deal of fussy and rather annoying roughness was dis played in pulling the clothes out of their plice and crushing them down again without the slightest re gard to their smoothness, &c. This done, the trunk was stamped by another landing-waiter, and when all had gone through this process, they were taken to another table to be again stamped and delivered. There was a great deal of pretension made at " open ing everything," even down to a little parcel of a dozen apricots. The whole process seemed as badly arranged as possible. Nothing could be more use less than affixing random numbers to each article of luggage, and then entering them into a book—a pro cess which alone took as much time as the whole examination would have done in a Belgian, and still more a Prussian, Custom-house. There being only one man to search out the luggage of each person, open and examine, it is perfectly absurd when we consider that he has to perform the same duty for 80 or 100 pas sengers. There was no incivility shown beyond an unavoidable degree of rough haste in going through the examination, although the half surly silence of the chief landing-waiter—a stout mieldle-aged man, who did not vouchsafe a word beyond a monosyllable or two to his sub—struck me as very different to the cheerful civility particularly of the Prussian officers. With them the business is much more simple and short, and the baggage of a couple of hundred railway passengers is dispatched in the same time that is required for a dozen by the mud dling and feeble arrangements of the London Cus tom-house. A circle of tables is formed round the room, within which at least a dozen officers stand with the baggage ; the passengers range themselves on the outside with some more officers for still further expe dition ; the whole is done much more agreeably, and with fifty times the dispatch ; each article receives its mark of having been examined, which is inspected by two more officers at the doors ; and lam sure that I speak within bounds when I say, that from the mo ment of my arriving at the station to my leaving it I was not detained twenty minutes. E. R. August 14, 1844. THE FOREIGN MAILS.--The following notice was issued on Saturday at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand :---" The next mails for British North America, Bermuda, and the United States, will be made up on Monday evening, the 19th inst. (to -day), to be forwarded by the Hibernia steamer, kla Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston. The next mails for Malta, Egypt, India, Hong-Kong, and China, will be made up on the morning of the 3d of September, to be forwarded via Southampton ; and by the overland closed mail to India, s c e., via Marseilles, on the evening of the 7th of Sep tember." On Saturday a notice was issued at Guildhall, by order of the Commissioners of Sewers for the City of London and the Liberties thereof, that on and after Monday the thoroughfare of Ludgt.te-hill would be closed, in consequence of an order from that body for the same to be repaired. SUMMER ASSIZES. WESTERN ClRCUlT.—DevizeB, Aug :... 16. Henry Hatter, William Box, and Adam Clements, were indicted for assaulting James Wilson, putting him in fear, and stealing from his person four sove reigns and other moneys, his property. Mr. Ball appeared for the prosecution. It appeared that the prosecutor, who is a commer cial traveller from Thames-street, was driving his gig between nine and ten o'clock on the night of the 2d of May, on the road between Calne and Devizes. When he arrived at a place called Bromham-cross, he saw three men in the road ; one of them was in the centre. Upon coming up to him that man seized the horse's bridle. Mr. Wilson told him to get out of the way, and at the same time lashed his horse. The man then held the horse more firmly. Mr. Wilson then lashed the man, when he received a severe blow on the shoulder, which was struck by a man behind with a bludgeon. Mr. Wilson then took out his life preserver, and was getting out of the gig, when he was struck a blow on the head, which stunned him, so that he could not tell what occurred afterwards. When he came to himself he found he was standing against his gig, bleeding profusely from his head. His purse had been taken ; it contained four sove reigns, a crooked half-sovereign and a new one, and a crooked sixpence with two letters on it. He got into his gig and drove towards Devizes. He over took a cart with two men in it, and one of the men accompanied him to Devizes. The prisoners were the men who stopped him. A surgeon was then sent for, and he stated that Mr. Wilson had received severe wounds on his head and shoulder; the wounds were very dangerous. The next morning Hatter told a relation what they had done the previous night. The prisoners were taken into custody, and on Box and Clements were found the marked moneys. They were seen together on the 2d of May and on the following day, and the prosecutor swore moat positively to them, and described their dress. The jury found all the prisoners Guilty.—Judg ment of death recorded. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Aug. 16. NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.) NEWTOR V. uoLroan AND OTHERS. This was an action of trespass, brought by Mr. Augustus Newton, barrister-at-law, against the late High-Sheriff of this county, and four other defendants, officers and assistants of the sheriff, for breaking and entering the house of the plaintiff, injuring the locks of the doors, and beating the sons of the plaintiff. The defendant paid 21. into court, and pleaded that the plaintiff had not sustained any further damage. The plaintiff appeared in person to conduct his own case ; Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Greaves repre sented the defendants. The action arose out of a proceeding which has already formed the groundwork of two trials, one of which (a civil action) took place at the last Middlesex sittings in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, and the other (an indictment for perjury) at the last Worcester assizes. It will be necessary, therefore, in order to make a report of the present case intelligible, to go a little farther back than the sth of July, 1843, when the trespass now in question was committed. The plaintiff having become indebted to a wine merchant in the amount of 121., was served with a copy of a writ, and consented to a judge's order to enter up judgment, which was accordingly entered up, and a writ of ca. sa. was issued thereon. An officer of the sheriff of the city of Gloucester arrested the plaintiff by virtue of that writ while he was attending the Midsummer Quarter Ses sions, last year at Gloucester,in his professional capacity, and the plaintiff laimed the protec tion of the Court. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, who pre sided, declined to make any positive order on' the subject, but suggested an arrangement, by the terms of which the plaintiff was to be at liberty to pursue his professional avocations during the continuance of the sessions, the plaintiff on his part undertaking not to take any advantage of the first arrest. A few days after the quarter sessions had concluded, the writ of ca. sa. was placed in the hands of George Wilson, a special bailiff nominated for the purpose, and he pro ceeded, accompanied by Holtham, Turner, and Vines, the other defendants on the record, to the residence of the plaintiff at St. Paul's Cottage, Cheltenham. The bailiffs arrived there about a quarter to 12 o'clock in the day, and finding the garden-gate could not be opened from the outside, Wilson scaled the paling. The plaintiff's younger son, William Philip Newton, came up at the moment, and attempted to get over the paling at a different place, but the defendant , Turner pulled him down by the leg into the road. , Being, however, young and active, the youth suc- ceeded in getting over the paling before Wilson could accomplish the same feat, and immediately ran to his mother, Mrs. Newton, to acquaint her with what was taking place. He then ran back, and tried to set a large Newfoundland dog at Wilson, who being fore warned, was fore-armed, and presenting a pistol, threatening to blow out the dog's brains if it was not taken away. The lad, frightened out of his wits, ran away as fast as he could, and one of the servants shut up the dog in a stable. The defendant Wilson then got down into the garden, and opened the gate for Holtham, Turner, and Vines, who went with him to the front door, and endeavoured to obtain admit tance, which was refused. The bailiffs then retired for a short time under the shade of some trees, and finally effected an entrance by the back door, which, wording to the plaintiff's case was burst open by the defendant Wilson. The bailiffs then entered, arrested the plaintiff, and took him off in a fly to Gloucester gaol. The plaintiff's eldest son, Francis Robert Newton, was pushed about a little by the defendants in getting through the passage, and the plaintiff brought two actions for what occurred, one of which, in which the cause of action alleged was false im prisonment, was tried in the Common Pleas, and the plaintiff was fortunate enough to obtain 501. damages. rhe other action was that which was tried to-day, in which the gravamen of the plaintiff's complaint was, that his door had been broken, and his two sons had been assaulted, by which he lost the benefit of their service. ....._ , _. Mr. Sergeant TILPOURD addressed the jury for the defendants, contending that the 40s. which had been paid into court was an ample compensation fer the injury which the plaintiff had sustained. The jury, being of the same opinion, found a ver dict for the defendants. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant AT- CHEELET.) Richard Harris, aged 30, pleaded guilty to three several charges of burglary, and was sentenced to transportation for life. Considerable progress has been made with the calendar, owing, however, chiefly to the ignoring of bills by the grand jury, and the number of prisoners who pleaded guilty. Among the bills ignored are both the charges of child murder. Saturday, August 17. The business in the Nisi Prius Court to-day has been of a most uninteresting character. Upwards of seven hours were consumed by the trial of a case in which the question was,"whether certain goods which had been seized by the assignees of a bankrupt were really the bankrupt's property or that of his brother, who had purchased them, as the plaintiff's case stood, under a bill of sale. The next action was one, which was in effect undefended, upon some bills of exchange ; and the third was an action of ejectment, where, the plaintiff having made out a prima facie case, a com plete legal answer to the action was made out by proof of a feofment and fine. This closed the day's pro ceedings at six o'clock. CROWN C OURT.—(Be fore Mr. Sergeant ATM/MEV.) Francis Augustus Cox, a person ;very respectably connected, was iudicted for stealing, at Bristol, on the 15th of May last, a certain order for the payment of 291. I ls., the property of the Postmaster-General. Mr. Whateley, Mr. Godson, and Mr. Bros, ap peared for the prosecution. Upon being arraigned, the prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLDT sentenced him to nine calendar months' imprisonment, with hard labour. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.- 7 Liverpoo4 Aug. 16. . _ The Learned Judges of Assize arrived here last evening from Lancaster, and opened the Commission of Assize for the southern division of this county. This morning their Lordships attended Divine ser vice, and about noon proceeded to business. The Lord Chief Baron presides in the Crown Court, and Mr. Justice Creswell on the Civil Side. The cause list contains an entry of 37 causes for the first list, which includes the hundred of Salford, and 95 for the second list, for the West Derby hun dred. It is rumoured that the Solicitor-General, Sir F. Thesiger, comes down on a special retainer in two cases—"Farrer v. Deflinne" and " Milne v. the Cor poration of Manchester," in which latter also Mr. F. Kelly comes down for the plaintiff. The calendar contains the names of 86 prisoners. There is one case of murder, 5 of attempts to mur der, 7 of manslaughter, 4 of rape, 10 of burglary, 5 of cutting and wounding, and 2 of throwing vitriol. CROWN SIDE. Richard Woodhouse, a youth of about 17 years of age, was indicted for throwing a corrosive fluid over Jane Liffey, with intent to injure her. . Mr. Green conducted the prosecution, and Mr. J. Pollock the defence. It appeared from the evidence, that on the 16th of May last some children, among whom was the child who was injured, and who was little more than two years old, were playing in Penny-street, Manchester, near her mother's house. The prisoner, who had been sent by his master to a shop for some aqua fortis, was returning in that direction, when he met the poor little child, and without any provocation poured some of the liquid on the back of her neck, in consequence of which she was severely injured. She was taken to the infirmary, where she remained six or seven weeks before she was sufficiently re coverd to be discharged. Mr e . J. roLlocs, in addressing the jury for the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AVGUST 19, 1844. prisoner, contended that it was a thoughtless act, and that the prisoner could not have anticipated what could have been the result. ..... The jury found the prisoner Guilty of an assault. -Sentence deferred. __ James Brittain was indicted for stabbing Henry Cotteral, at Wigan, in March last. Mr. James conducted the prosecution. It appeared that the parties were related to each other, and resided in the same house at Wigan. On the night of the lath of March a quarrel occurred between the prisoner and the prosecutor's father, in the course of which the prisoner struck the old man, who thereupon sent for the prosecutor, who was ab sent at the time. On his arrival he attacked the prisoner, who snatched up a large knife which was near, and inflicted a severe and dangerous wound on the prosecutor. He was shortly after taken into custody, and a knife which was found in the house, likely to have been used on the occasion, was found wet with blood. _ _ The prisoner appeared to be a poor untrained, half witted person. Guilty of a common assault.—Sentence deferred. Patrick 111‘Crea was indicted for wounding Daniel M'Avov, at Rainhill, on the sth of August. Mr. J. Pollock conducted the prosecution. It appeared that on the evening of the offence the prosecutor, who is a labourer, was standing at his own door, when the prisoner came past. In con sequence of some old grievance they were not on good terms, and the prisoner began using very abusive language to the prosecutor. The prosecutor advised him to go home, and he went some distance, when he suddenly returned with a knife in his hand, and made an attack on the prosecutor, in which the latter was wounded severely on the temple, and one of his ears nearly severed from his head. The prisoner was shortly after apprehended, when he stated that he had been struck by the prosecutor, and that drink had been the cause of the quarrel. Guilty of an assault.—Sentence deferred. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice CusswELL.) The first cause on the list was undefended. The next four were actions by Sir Oswald Mosley, the lord of the manor, and owner of the market of Man chester, against sundry butchers who persist in selling flesh meat in shops in their own houses instead of on the stalls of Sir Oswald in the public market, thereby avoiding the espionage of the inspec tors of the market and the payment of Sir Oswald's market tolls. Mr. Wortley, Mr. Brandt, and Mr. Denman ap peared for the plaintiff; the several defendants ap peared in person. The proof was the same in each of the cases — namely, that plaintiff was the owner of the market, with the right to take tolls, and the selling by the defendants in places out of the market. In each case a verdict was returned for the plaintiff, with small damages. Similar actions have been frequently tried before for infringements of these market rights. COOKE V. REDDILLION. This was an action to recover the price of 600 pieces of mousselin-de-laine, delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant. Mr. Martin and Mr. Crompton conducted the case of the plaintiff, and Mr. Watson and Mr. Atherton that of the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff, who is a manufac turer, had contracted to supply the defendant with a certain number of pieces of mousselin-de-laine, to be delivered within a certain time, to be paid for in cash, with a discount of 2f per cent. for the ready money. About 1,400 pieces were delivered and paid for; but it was alleged that those now in question were not de livered in time, nor were of sufficiently good quality; yet the defendant, alleging that he was in immediate want of the goods to supply his customers, retained them, and did not send them back. The cause occu pied the remainder of the day : A verdict was ulti mately returned for the plaintiff for 3301., being the full amount claimed, after deducting a discount of 2i per cent. Saturday, Aug. 17. DOB, DIM. BATBMAII AND A2IOIIIIII, V. LKVBIL ALND ANOTHER. This was an action of ejectment, to recover the possession of 11 warehouse between Crow-alley and Bank-street, facing Walker-street, in Manchester. Mr. Martin and Mr. Cowling conducted the case of the plaintiff. The defendant Lever and his wife and the other defendant :(who said she was no more than their servant) appeared in person, and way was made for them on the floor of the court. It appeared from the evidence that the property had formerly belonged to a Mr. Clegg, who was one of the early and successful race of cotton-spinners, and who amassed a large fortune in that business. He purchased the property in 178 t, and built the warehouse in question upon it. He died in 1818, having devised the property to the present plaintiffs, and Mr. Thomas Wilson, late of Highbury, near Islington, London, who having died about a year ago; the property vested in the plaintiffs, as trustees of Mr. Clegg's will. Last year the property was untenanted, and a lock was put on the warehouse door. The defendants broke off the lock, took pos session, and barricadoed themselves in, pretendsng that they had a claim to the property, as the heirs of a Mr. Hamilton, who died some 70 years ago. The case was proved on the part of the plaintiffs, and the receipts of the rents:and profits of them for a series of years. During the case of the plaintiff only a few ques tions were asked, but on the defendant2,Lever being told that he might now address himself to the jury, said his wife would state his case. Mr. Justice CUESSWELL said he could not allow that. If he appeared in person, he must speak for himself. He might have counsel if he chose to em ploy one, but his wife could not be counsel for him. The lady, however, armed with a long paper, would not so be silenced, and proceeded in her harangue. The Judge for some time used his endeavour to in duce her to desist, but to no purpose, and it soon be came evident that the shortest way was to let her have her say. The substance of her harangue was, that her husband was the real heir to the property, and that they had been sold for gold. His LOUDSHIP directed the jury to enter a verdict for the plaintiffs. This being done, he proceeded to explain to the defendant Lever that he had no defence to the action, and that if there had been no other bar, the lapse of time since 1787 would effectually prevent him from defending the action. The lady again broke in, and it was only by di recting the next cause to be called on that her ha rangue was put an end to. SANDFORD V. JACKSON. This was an action of trover to recover the value of a parrot and cage. Mr. Atherton appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Brandt for the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff is a widow lady of a certain age. She had a brother who first owned the parrot, and she, it was alleged, purchased Poll and the cage of him for 51. 105., a receipt for which sum was produced. It was admitted, however, that no money actually passed, the brother being at the time indebted to the plaintiff in a larger sum. Some time afterwards a sister of the plaintiff, who resided with her, fell ill, and could not bear the noise of the bird, on which account Poll and the cage was sent back to the brother's for a while. The brother, then being in difficulties, said he feared if it remained in his house his creditors would take it, sent it to the de fendant's. The occasion of its removal being passed over, the plaintiff was desirous to reclaim her favourite bird, and sent to the defendant for it, who refused to deliver it up, alleging that it belonged to the brother, and had passed to his assignees ; on which the pre sent action was brought. It had, however, been allowed to slumber, and would no doubt have been dropped altogether, had not the defendant compelled the plaintiff to proceed with it ; the consequence of which was a verdict for the plaintiff —Damages, 81.10 s. CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.) Joseph Farrell was indicted for the manslaughter of Amelia Farrell, his wife, at Manchester, on the 31st of July last. Mr. F. Pollock conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Wilkins the defence. It appeared from the evidence, that on the day named in the indictment, which was a Sunday, the prisoner came home to his dinner at a later hour than usual, at which the deceased expressed her displea sure, and accused him of having been 'in the com pany of another woman, to whom she applied a variety of epithets current on such occasions. He assured her it was not so, and begged her not to use such language, especially in the presence of " Em ma," his daughter by a former wife, She, however, called him a liar, and continued her vituperations, when at length he was so much provoked that he threw some boiled potatoes at her, and as she still con tinued, he struck her with 'the back of his hand once on the eye, and once on the mouth. She did not fall immediately, but after a little ti me a pp eared to sli p down beside the wall, when it was found that her nose was bleeding. The child cried ou t, and some neigh bours ran in. The deceased said " This is hard usage," to which the prisoner replied, " Then you should have held your tongue. She walked with help to a neighbour's house, and the next day kept her bed, but so far recoved as to go about the house, complaining of giddiness in the head. On the 7th of August she got worse, and a medical man was sent for. She soon after died. On a post mortem ex amination it was discoved that there was considerable extravasation of blood on the left side of the brain, which at that time adhered to the skull, and appeared to be of several days' standing. It appeared on cross-examination, that before the 31st of July she had complained of her head, and said she should not long survive her sister, who had died of apoplexy about a month before. Mr. WILKINS addressed the jury for the prisoner, and contended that the death might have been caused by apoplexy, and not by the blow from the prisoner. The jury, after deliberating for some time, found the prisoner Guilty.--Sentence deferred. Edward Maylett was indicted for the manslaughter of Thomas O'Donnell at Manchester, on the 23d of July last. Mr. Monk conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Wilkins the defence. It appeared that the prisoner was a boatman on the Rochdale canal, and on the morning of the 23d of July last, was conducting a boat to the Piccadilly wharf, in Manchester. The boat was in the empty lock, and the prisoner had raised the sluice for the purpose of letting the water in. The deceased, who was a boy, had been bathing, and on coming out of the water was crossing the lock-gates, at the end of which the prisoner was standing, for the purpose of getting his clothes, which were on the other side. The prisoner, as if in sport, caught at him as he passed, and the poor boy slipped into the full lock, and was drawn down by the current, and did not rise again. For awhile the prisoner seemed stupified, but some boys shouting that he had murdered the lad, he jumped into the boat, and began searching for the body with the boat-hook. Not finding it, he closed the sluice and let the water out, when he succeeded in getting the body out, after it had been submerged about ten minutes, but life was quite extinct. Mr. Wtr.wirts addressed the jury, who returned a verdict of Not Guilty. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 17. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fo,inLANQUn.) D. ROSS'S BANKRUPTCY. The bankrupt In this case was a commission agent carrying on business in Love-line, and to-day he applied for his certificate. He was opposed on the ground that he had speculated and been extravagant in trade and personal expenditure, having at the time liabilities hanging over his head for 11,000/.connected with a Scotch sequestration. The COURT considered the opposition justifiable, and a postponement of the bankrupt's certificate was made for one year and a half. THE NEW INSOLVENCY LAW In the case of an insolvent named Holmes, the first under the new Act, his Horiouß gave it as his opinion that it would be better to employ an attorney than an agent. CITY SHERIFFS' COURT. DONOIIUE V DRAPER. In this case the plaintiff, Mr. John Donolaue,green grocer, Vere-street, Clare-market, sought to recover from the defendant, Mr. John Draper, landlord of the Globe, Charles street, Hatton-garden, the sum of 6/. for the hire of a van. Mr. Charnock appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Lush for the defendant. Mr. CHARNOCK stated that the defendant had a Derby club at hii house, the members of which were desirous to go to Epsom on the Derby day. The defendant, in consequence, engaged a van of the plaintiff, for which he consented to pay Cl., it being for the accommodation of ten of the members. On the day named, the van being at the door, the driver of it, who was the plaintiff's brother, was told by the defendant that the plaintiff had agreed to let the van for twenty persons. There were eighteen, however, who took their seats, in ad dition to whom the defendant put into the van three barrels of ale and porter, twelve hampers of provisions, with a large quantity of cigars, soda water, and bottles of wine. With this load the van went to Epsom Downs. On its return, at Tooting, there was a disturbance among the party, and, in a pugilistic encounter, a person named Bullen received a black eye. The defendant was so disgusted with his friends that he left them there, and came to town in a cart. The defendant now refused to pay the de mand upon him, and offered to pay 41. The action was brought to recover the whole amount. Mr. Proctor, a coal dealer, said that on the 16th of May, he was in the defendant's parlour, when the plaintiff was there. He heard the former say, "Is your van hired ? If not I will engage it, and give you 61." Witness understood the plaintiff to allude to the Derby day, and asked for a deposit. The de fendant replied, that he could pay for the van in the morning, when the van was brought. He also ob served, that there would be ten persons besides the luggage. By Mr. Lusu—The defendant told him that he had offered tlae plaintiff 41., which he refused to take. Daniel Donohoue, the plaintiff's brother, confirmed the statement of the Learned Counsel, and said that the luggage, with the passengers weighed above two tons. He produced the excise ticket for the hire of the van, which was signed by the defendant. Other evidence to a similar effect being given, Mr. LUSH, for the defendant, contended that his client was not the person who engaged the van. Two gentlemen, of the names of Silk and Bullen, rendered themselves responsible, and they agreed with the plaintiff that twenty persons were to go in the van, and that they would pay him 61. for the hire of it. He would prove this, and that the horses in the van were not sufficiently powerful for the journey; that one of them jibbed; and that the party were fre quently obliged to get out of the van, in order to push it along the road.—(Laughter.) Mr. G. Silk, a commercial traveller, said that he entered into an engagement with the plaintiff for the hire of his van, for which he was to pay 31., the plain tiff consenting to take ten persons of his party. Mr. Bullen was to provide ten other persons, and to pay an additional 3/. Witness was to receive the money from each, which was Cl. for the day. Some brought their own provisions. Defendant supplied only two barrels (nine gallons each) of ale anal porter, two dozen quart bottles of stout, six bottles of wine, two dozen bottles of ale, some cigars, and a piece of beef and ham.—(Laughter.) The van had not got further than Kennington, when one of the horses began to jib, and some of them had to get out to push the wheels. Others got out, fearing that the van would be upset.—(Laughter.) This happened, at least twenty times, an on some occasions they all got out. They arrived at the course about half-past one o'clock. They left again about half-past five o'clock, and it was near eleven o'clock before they got to Tooting. There were some would not go any further, and they hired a cab, while other s wa lk e d t o t own . On a part of the road the driver got out to fight, and that de tained them half an hour. It cost witness 12s. for the hire of a cab to town. By Mr. Lusx--There were only two of the party the worse for liquor. He had never been at Epsom before, and would never go again. Mr. Bullen corroborated the last evidence, and said that the cause of his dispute was, that his hat was knocked down over his eyes. He resented the af front, when he received a black eye. Mr. Penny, one of the party, stated that he agreed to pay Mr. Silk. He went out for a day's pleasure, and it was the hardest day's work he ever had in his life.—(Laughter.) Sometimes, when the party was pushing behind and the driver whipping the horses, they would start off into a gallop, when they all had to run, and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could get up to the van.—(Laughter.) Some other witnesses being examined, Mr. CHARNOCK replied, and observed that the sig nature to the ticket was in the handwriting of the de fendant, and was a proof of his responsibility. The Learned COMMISSIONER summed up, when the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, Cl. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) GUILDHALL. Richard Palmer, a young man residing at Ber mondsey, was charged with pilfering silver spoons from two taverns. Charles Woods, waiter 'at the Three Cups Tavern, Aldersgate-street, stated, that the prisoner was served by him with a tumber and tea-spoon, containing six penny-worth of gin and water, in the coffee-room, by his order. He (witness) suspected him, and continued to watch him, but was unfortunately called away. On his return, in three minutes, he found Palmer had left, having thrown the newspaper over the glass to conceal that he had taken the silver spoon. He ran into Aldersgate-street, informing the police of it, de scribing the particular kind of chocolate -coloured trowsers he wore. No other person had been in the room at the time to steal the spoon. About twenty minutes after he was taken by a Cit y po li ceman, owing to the description given. He denied having been at all at the Three C u p s , an d on b eing con fronted with Woods, the waiter, still persisted in this statement, though he was immediately recognised by the latter. A metal spoon, made of British plate, was found in his waistcoat pocket, which, he said, he had picked up. Five duplicates, relating to two shirts and other wearing articles, were found on him, toge ther with three pocket handkerchiefs. William Freeman, waiter at the New Inn, Old Bailey, remembered the prisoner as having remained about an hour in the room with some hot gin and water he had ordered. After depositing a tray in a cupboard in the room, he was absent for a few minutes, and on his return found Palmer had decamped, taking with him five silver salt-spoons. Witness had singled the prisoner out from among a number of prisoners in the Compter, on being taken there for that purpose. A. silver cruet, worth 3/. 10s., had been stolen by onother man at the same time. The prison; offered no defence, and was remanded, under expectation that other charges will appear against him. MARYLEBOIVE. Shortly before the meeting of the Court, a poor Italian, who gave his name Louis Morangi, was brought up in custody and placed at the bar, charged, at the instance of Viscount Frankfort, No. 17, South wick-crescent, Hyde Park-square, with having re fused to desist from playing his organ when required to do so. It will be remembered that his Lordship has for years past evinced a most decided antipathy to street music, particularly that of the organ-ic descrip tion, and that, upon several occasions when offending musicians have been placed at the bar of justice to answer for their misdeeds in disturbing the said ec centric nobleman, Mr. Wooller has attended to con duct the cases; his professional services were, how.. ever, now dispensed with. tf,liaries Davis, the butler, gave evidence to the effect that on the same afternoon, about three o'clock, the prisoner was playing hii; organ for some time within a few doors of Lord Frankfort's residence, and by order of his Lordship witness went out and desired him to move away. He continued to play on, and presently stationed himself dirsctly in front of his Lordship's house, at which spot he was ulti mately given into the custody of police-constable Wilkins. Mr. RAWLINSON here read a section applicable to the offence, in the 57th clause of the Police Act, which runs thus :—" And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for any housekeeper within the metropolitan police districts, personally, or by his servant, or by any police constable,to require any street musician to de part from the neighbourhood of the house of such house holder on account of the illness of any inmate of such house, or for other reasonable cause ; and every person who shall sound or play upon any musical instrument in any thoroughfare near any house, after being so required to depart, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than 405." Mr. RAWLI&SON (to Davis)—ls there any illness in his Lordship's house ? Davis—There is not, Sir. Mr. RAWLINSON—Then, what "reasonable cause" do you assign for having ordered the prisoner away ? Davis—Only that Lord Frankfort does not like mu sic, Sir, Mr. hAWLINSON—These organ-players know that he don't like it, and they go there on purpose to an noy him, I believe. Isn't that so? Davis—lt is. Sir, there can be no doubt of it. Mr. RawurisoN—Then it's very scandalous con duct. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, stated in Italian, that he was not aware of his having done any thing wrong, and that he was merely playing in the street as usual for his livelihood, when he was laid hold of by the constable.—He was discharged. QUEEN-SQUARE. _ _ As the magistrate was about retiring, a respectable looking elderly female applied to Mr. Burrell for his assistance under the following circumstances :—Ap plicant, who stated her name to be Elizabeth Bird, said that between 21 and 22 years ago, she was de livered of a male child at No, 9, John-street, Marl borough-road, Chelsea. When the infant was about a month old, a very handsomely-dressed lady visited her at her residence, and having much admired the child, asked her if she was inclined to part with it. Applicant replied that she was not ; but on the lady stating that she would adopt it as her own, and that it would become the heir to very large property, she said she would consider of it, and speak to her hus band on the subject. The lady subsequently visited them three or four times, and as applicant still ob jected to be separated from the infant, the lady said that she should be admitted into her service, and there remain with her offspring, undertaking never to di vulge to any person that it was her child. She at length consented to this arrangement, on the lady promising that she would be a friend to her and her other children as long as she lived. She then took the child with the understanding that she would im mediately provide a wet nurse for it, and come on the following day to conclude the arrangement. From that period to the present day she had never seen either the lady or her child, although year after year she had made every effort to trace them out, and had gone before the magistrates at Chelsea to ascertain if they could in any way assist her. From inquiries she had made of late, she had every reason to believe it was a Mrs. Pelham. She had been that day to the workhouse at Chelsea, and had recognised Mrs. Pel ham as the lady who took her child. She had a youth with her of one or two and twenty years of age, but having parted with her child at a month old, she could not attempt to say whether that young man was her son.; Mr. Edwards, the chief clerk, explained to the Ma gistrate that Mrs. Pelham was the person who had been charged about three months ago at that Court, with great cruelty to a lunatic son, the issue of her connexion with Sir Brent Spencer. He had been found confined in a most filthy state, it would be re membered, at Chelsea. Mr. BURRELL asked if this was the child of which the female spake ?—Mr. Edwards replied no ; it was the one who had been charged with her, and who went by the name of Wilson Pelham. Tunstall, a police-constable of the B division, ob served that there was a great likeness between the ap licant and Wilson Pelhatn, * ) , z Mr. BURRELL mild it*Oa-long period of time to speak to a person's:. idetlay.—Aoplicant said that if the written account she had given in to Mr. Rider, the Chairman of the ricittrd• of Guardian, was referred to, it would be found to exactly correspond with Mrs. Pelham's appearance. She recognised her the mo ment she saw her. Mrs. Pelham was a very hand some woman at the time she had the child from her. Mr. BURRELL remarked that she still retained the traces of great beauty. What could her object be in taking the child ?—Mr. Edwards observed that it was no doubt to palm it upon some gentleman as his off. spring. Mr. Rider, the Chairman of the Board of Guardians, who had taken a very active part in this prosecution, had stated-that it had been ascertained that the female, Mrs. Pelham, had an allowance of 1001. per annum from some gentleman in Edinburgh. Mr. BURRELL asked if there was any other person who had seen the lady at the time she took the child ? Appellant replied, her husband, who was still alive. Mr. Edwards observed, that the applicant had parted with the child with her own consent. Mr. BURRELL expressed his opinion that it was a felony notwithstanding. Her intention was to carry off the child at the time she made these alluring pro mises. She had evidently intended the fraud from the moment. Her story of making it the heir to large property, and of permitting the mother to re side with it, were all ingredients of that fraud. Mr. Edwards inquired what course the magistrate intended to adopt ? Mr. BURRELL said he should take time to consider. He then turned to two or three cases in the law books which appeared to confirm his view, and said that he should examine the statute law prior to the 9th of George IV. on the subject. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. FELONY.—AIice Harvey was brought up for final examination on a charge of having stolen some pro perty from the residence of Mr. Ilodson, M.P., No. 13, Upper Brook-street, where she recently lived as housemaid. The stolen property was here prodived. It turned out, on examination, that the prisoner had pilfered everything on which she could lay hands ; there was a blanket, a pair of stays, a bottle of champagne, same coral beads, and a remnant of finery, the pro perty of her master And mistress ; a brooch, a pair of earrings, and other articles, belonging to the house keeper (Mrs. Wyke) ; some lace and stockings be longing to Grace Miles, another servant; a shawl, belonging to Ann Jolly, a fellow servant; and a quan tity of sugar and spice pillaged from the store-room. The housekeeper, Martha Wyke, gave evidence as to the manner in which the prisoner's delinquency had been detected. The prisoder, who had lived as housemaid in Mr. Hodson's family for about six months, left her place last Thursday week. She went to her friends at Bromley, leaving her boxes behind to be sent by the carrier. When the carrier called the boxes were brought down, but one of them being badly corded, the lid came open, and dis played a blanket, which was immediately known as the property of Mr. Hodson. This led to further search, and then the various articles produced in Court were found in the boxes. In defence, the prisoner accounted for the posses sion of the articles in various ways. Some, she said, were her own property, other articles had been given to her.—The prisoner was fully committed. A decent looking lad, who gave the name of Wm. Stafford, was charged by police-constable C 55, with having been wandering about St. James's-square, at unseasonable hours. The constable said, when he questioned the de fendant, he was told by him that he (defendant) was destitute, and without the means of paying for a shelter. Mr. HARDWICK questioned the lad, and drew from him the following story : He said he was the nephew of Alderman Humphery. He had been in the employ of Mr. Birch, the pastry cook of Cornhill, but had been discharged because he had pocketed threepence when sent on an errand, by charging sixpence for what had only cost half the money. Since that time he had tried to get regular employment, but without effect. He had subsisted on the produce of his clothes until that resource failed, and latterly had kept himself from starving by ob taining...a job here and there. Mr.HA v aDwrcx requested the constable to make inquiries into the truth of the lad's statement. The constable on his return, acquainted the Magistrate that the lad had stated the truth with respect to his relationship to Alderman Humphery, and also as to his dismissal from Mr. Birch's service. Mr. HARDWICK asked the lad what he proposed to do for a living ?—The lad said when he came of age, he was to receive 3001. He thought if he had a trifle to buy food with, he should be able to get work enough to keep him. Mr. HARDWICK directed Clements, the chief clerk, to give the lad ss. out of the poor-box. The lad expressed his gratitude, and was liberated. THAMES POLICE. Joseph Morris, the proprietor of several tenements in Stepney, was charged with assaulting a poor wo man named Mary Pearson, who resided in one of his houses. It appeared that the prisoner had sent a broker into complainant's house a few days since, under a distress warrant for rent, and sold all she had. He came the next day, and finding that some charitable persons had given her a chair and some blankets, he attacked her and beat her, and endea voured to force her opt of the house. One of the complainant's neighbours proved the assault, and said the prisoner had also flourished s chair over her head in a menacing manner. The prisoner, who seemed as subservient to power as he had been tyrannous to poverty, interlarded his ad' dress to the Magistrate with your Reverence, your Lordship, and even your Majesty, said the coal' plainant owed him three-quarter' rent, and after the furniture bad been taken from the house the key was given to him. On the next day, however, the woman, he found, had taken possession again, and he certainly did try to force her out. Complainant said she was out at the time her good§ were taken, and when she returned home she found everything gone. Mr. BALLANTINE fined the prisoner 405., or in de' fault he was to be imprisoned three weeks. The prisoner for some time refused to pay the fine/ until he saw the cell door open, when he thought it better to produce the money. UNION:HALL. On Friday Sarah Bagley, who it will be recollected assumed the dress of a sailor to accompany a young midshipman to sea, and who was charged with having absconded from home, taking a quantity of cloth and also some money belonging to her father, a letter' sorter in the Post-office, was again brought before Mr. Cottingham, having been remanded from Wet nesday, in order to have inquiries made with a vied of discovering her paramour. The girl's father said that she still maintained a° same silence with respect to giving any informati° ° as to the person who inveigled her from home, as su ° did on the former occasion ; the only circumstan ce she divulged being that he was a midshipman in the navy, but as to what ship he belonged she refused to „ tell. He added that he was willing to overlook s° that bad occurred, if she promised never again t° assume the disguise of the other sex ; that he bad s comfortable home for her, and that he and her mother would receive her with open arms. Mr. COTTINGIIAII in vain endeavoured to extrac t from the girl the reason of her having quitted b° l under such extraordinary circumstances, and he Pre:, ceeded to put several questions as to her acquaintsts' with the man whom she said, on the last occasil when she was brought up, had promised her a ha t on board his ship to go up the Mediterranean. She said in reply, that she went to Dover with hit and that he took her on board his ship, which v e 7 l _ lying in the docks there, and that she walk e d o n 13 0 5.,.. r 1 and that he was called " Ned" by his shipmates; ts°', when she returned on shore, he took her into a pub" lie-house, desiring her to wait for him, but he nev: returned, and she was obliged to make the best oft!: way back to London ; that she afterwards met bite town, when he promised to take her to Italy, and marry her, and she prepared to go with him in W garb of a sailor, to work her passage, and to Ins il i him fulfil his vows when they got to the end of the y voyage. Mr. COTTINGHAII said that he now believed °I accused had been telling a great many falsehoods , a i ° it was absurd to suppose that there were men-of- 7 5 1 lying in the dock at Dover; that she had prevaricat ed a good deal in her story, and that he supposed was anxious to make a noise and excite the astonisP ment of people by acting in the manner she had don e ' She must get rid of the romantic nonsense which el . l f t o floating in her brain of her inclination to act the P 1 1" of a heroine in followingher lover in disguise to DIN and instead of reading such balderdash as she was the habit of doing, attend to her domestic affairs" 0 stop at home at the house of her father, who , 0 respectable man, and held a responsible situation , ij stead of playing the fool, which would assuredly e ve e j in her destruction. The Magistrate, having cautiq o her as to her future conduct, consented to liberate ° 0 on her promise to accompany her parents hotnel a which she agreed : and she was accordingly given re to them, and they left the Court, she having gin viously doffed the sailor's togs and dressed herself her own clothes. for Richard Mullett was brought up on reman d to stealing a horse, chaise, and harness, belonging Mr. Davis, livery-stable keeper, Blackfriars-r0ad....1 Henry Jordan, carrier, said that the prisoner.r • for some days been driving about Woodford avr it t dashing female whom he called his wife, and hol bps ot up the horse and gig at his stables. He said he come down to enjoy the scenery of the forest, 5 1,, offered him, on a subsequent day, the gig ° t w o saying he was short of money, and that the gig tort l, worth 161. Mr. Brood, a coach-maker of Wo o ° l oo l,l to whom he introduced him, asked him if 31. le e ict do, which he agreed to accept, and ga v e him a re. c o ot for the amount, signed "R. Mullens." The prla, then accompanied Mr. Jordan's servant to Stts o i,e,, who pawned the harness for him for 2/. The, ' d o . was, subsequently, offered by him t o Mr. (P r p who suspecting the circumstances, gave inforin s .. d e to the police. The sergeant found him and btu sumed wife in bed at Woodford, and on being t°7 d p the charge against him, he replied, " What's to Pk' He was then taken into custody. b i t a A second charge of felony was brought agaitis io ar by Mr. Kerslake, stationer, of Vauxhall, whose „ e ls ings he had plundered of fifteen volumes of no and other property, having rented the rooms e o four weeks. He had disposed o f th e articles to Ps it i r brokers in the vicinity, and all the cases were s" stantiated. A plea of monomania was s e t u p by counsel e n Ili° behalf. aid s The MAGISTRATE said this was a very =e---7ffre' custom at the present day to aid every criminal of spectability, but the jury would judge of the cry He was then fully committed to the Central minal Court on both charges. 10" George Walters, cabman, and Thomas TaP,'„,'" v ieg bourer, were brought u p on reman d f o r u e " o fs furiously over Mrs. M ary A nn R ees, th e who compositor, in Webbe r - row , b y w hi c h h e r 1 endangered. Mr. Rees stated that the surgeon had 1 1 °".„; ti ld nounced his wife out of d anger , b u t th a t she " eO 5 O remain a cripple for life. H e h a d b een a t the °rob° of a nurse, and two medical men, and it would a long while before she could venture down stil irg ist§, Walters, in a ruffianly manner, said, that Alf' s pa, after the accident was in th e o ffi ce on Thursali the complainant only sou g ht t o ma k e prope them. ld Mr. Rees denied that stat emen t ; hi s wife - h fef been even out of bed sinc e th e acc id en t, except minutes, when she fainted away. The MAGISTRATE said they w ere ev idently 1 11 1 0 ruffians, and as they viewed th e case in that 51' and supported it by a falsehood, he should orde r , 10 4 ters to pay 3/. for the dam age , an d a fi n e of 21 ' to be with expenses, and Taylor to pay 21. 105., or imprisoned for one month with hard labour. They were then both locked up. th st THE VICTORT.—We are requested to Opp/ the new naval novel, The Vict or y, or The Warlon Mess, by M. H. Barker, Esq., " The Old Si l ., 1 01? ° : published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great f b r orier rough-street, and may now be had at all tho p opt i o i Mr. Colburn has also just published the follow il lbor,,,, Jar novels :—Parsons and Widows, by the s ll by e " Peter Priggins"—The Wilfulness of Woros a t i oil e authoress of The History of a Flirt"—Hyde ' Di ' Sporting Novel, by "C raven "—Whi te f r iers; r ol; Days of Charles th e S econ d, an Hi stor i c al third edition. The following are just read)" Arundel, a Tale of the English Revolution, ,f & w b s Smith, Esq., autho r o f " Brambletye 141 c. Roman Traitor, a True T a l e o f the Repubn iL author of "Oliver Cromwell," "Marmaduke sir,. a. V. BIRTHS. On the 12th inst., at Milton-next-Grayssendt ''" A be o f Sharland, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at th e Vi carage , S o merton, dos ii , the Rey. W. R. Newbolt, of a son. , 41 ,04° - On the 15th in s t., in Queen Ann-street, Caiel l ' — R V the lady of G. Burrows M.D., of a daughter. . r ei-bw On the 15th in s t., drs. Sampson Samuel, of l'“" Vic"( ings, Finsbury-circus, of a daughter. On the 15th i ns t., th e w if e o f t h e Rev. W. I V b.lef' s.l l ' of Old and New Shoreham, of a son. ICA On the 16th i ns t., a t Middl eton-road, D a l s ton' Shaw. of - .., of a son. ....—....___ On the 12th inst., at lif th A e ß ß ß rili E sh D Embassl• P e l es u r -cl-birlielt John Woollett, Esq., of Vernon, to arianne se° ofJohn Arthur, Esq , late of France._. ~u , Chre a r o On the 14th inst., at St. Martin'slin-the-r t e ”„" f , to ''''" pher Francis Holmes, Esq., Captain in the ii o -soso; d Aniss, On the 14th in second dayst.,.ghter at St. Pan Harding, r Braio t ''Gilh er ' of Steward-street, Spitalfields, to b c f r a a9 4 M Ann. Willistri a ti ghter , oldes t 5 R. B. Clarke, Esq., of Gower-street, New-road. ;,, the igl o o .° On the 14th inst., at Hampstead, Sylvia 3 1 ,„ r 7 Fraa j el daughter of Major Bull, of York House, to,. 713rtuinf, Antonio Chixhorro de Gamo Lobo, of 110 0 ,,,i ur- : v orth ...ip On the 15th inst., at Hampton, Captain Iv e" . 'ih e lit Madras Grenadiers, to Harriet, third daughter 0, 0 Ambrose Hardinge Giffard, Chief Justice of COI ° ' t ire DIED. liter of On the 10th inst., Julia Liddell, second daug Da° late On the r. John Twi. the 12th inst., at at Winchester, Lieutenant Arth ur ft : e 0 Shakespear, of the 49th Regiment. 11 - a rse, On the 12th inst., at Compton rauncefoot, Son, Montagu Scott, Goodin Husey Hunt, Esq. On the 13th inst., at I ' t Duke of Buccleuch and g Queensberry. t he d a u g hter 0 ' Lady - An a l g es 'lylll b i staeti; On the 14th inst., Miss Isabella Wright, tus 0. 0,0 eldest datfahmteirngortite late ff, Wright, ironmonger, Hammersmith -gate, ag ed har lesV On the 14th inst., at Topsham, near Exeter, C ll yeark• rig third surviving son of G. Gwilt, Esq ., efSoutlL of m On the 15th inst., Samuel Luck Kent, - 144 '' Elaa °r Wycombe. Miss On the 15th inst., at Richmond -green, voef ., Walmesley. vast au l ' stets .° On the 15th inst., at the Manor House, - .„ i ni a ta Katherine Juliana, the second daughter of 1 , 1 k, A d* Fry, Esq. the 0 i n n t t a h n e t I d 6 a t u h g i h n t s e t r ., 0 fa J. .r m bri u d iigen e ; sq . wire, ii_y: - j, Psr egiroraio On the 13th inst., at the Rectory House f ti ti Leicestershire, Mrs. Rachel Wilson, aged 87% ,_, sci ., of On the 16th inst., Thomas William Tyllaa l° Middle Temple, barrister. os London: Printed and Published I_,y MU Offi eg4RDO 00 . 1 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 7'fic Sea rno nti Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the " Middlesex, Monday, August 19, 1844. i~