The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

SINGULAR CASE OF ABDUCTION. On Friday a young man, named Thomas Robins, dressed as a farmer's labourer, was brought before Mr. Baillie, the sitting magistrate, at New Brentford, in the custody of the police, on a charge of having stolen a quantity of wearing apparel, consisting of various silk dresses, shawls, body •Imen, &c., with a number of books, the property of Mr. G. i -Willavyse, an extensive farmer near Newbury, Berko, from whose employ he had absconded on the 7th inst. Mr. Willavyse stated that he had known the prisoner from his childhood, his father and mother, and other members of his family, having been for years in his employ. During the last five or six years the prisoner had also worked for him •cecasionally, and at Michaelmas last he hired him as a yearly .farm servant, at nine shillings a week, and lodging, &c. The prisoner gave every satisfaction until the night of the 7th inst., when he absconded with his (witness's) daughter, who was only fifteen years old, taking with them the articles in question. He did not discover the abduction until the next morning, when he galloped to Reading in pursuit, thinking they would probably have gone by the Great Western Rail way to the metropolis. At Reading he could learn no trace of them, and he consequently returned home. The next day, believing them to be in London, he went to town, and applied to the Commissioners of Police on the subject, but, after the lapse of a week, he again returned home. On the previous day, however, he received a letter from Mr. Green way, the landlord of the Drum public-house, Old Brentford, * inquiring if any member of his family had improperly left *home, as a young man and a young woman, who had every appearance of being respectably connected, had been lodging -for a week at his house. Witness instantly started for ,Brentford, having first obtained a warrant for the prisoner's apprehension. On arriving at Brentford, he ascertained that they had taken lodging at the house of a shoemaker in the town. having procured the assistance of police-constable Smith, T 92, he went to the house, where he found both his (laughter and the prisoner, the latter of whom he imme diately gave into custody on a charge of felony. By Mr. BAILLIE —The value of the articles was consi derable, as his daughter had removed the whole of her ward robe, with all her books, including her Bible and Prayer book. Until he discovered their absence, he was not aware of there being the slightest intimacy between his daughter .and the prisoner. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, declared all that had taken place between him and Miss Willavyse had been with her own free consent. • Miss Jane Willavyse was then called in. She was a fine looking girl, about five feet four inches high, of considerable -embonpoint, and about fifteen years of age. She gave her evi dence with reluctance. It was elicited from her that, having consented to elope with the prisoner, she had at midnight, on -the night of Tuesday, quitted her father's house by means of .her bedchamber window, and descended by a ladder, which had been placed for her by the prisoner, •taking with her, of her own accord, the property the prisoner was accused, of stealing. They started on foot to Maidenhead, where they arrived in the early part of the morning, and rested them selves. They then found that neither of them was in pos session of a farthing of money, and they were compelled to pledge some of her clothes to procure refreshment. Being fearful of discovery at Maidenhead, they returned to Brent ford, walking all the way, upwards of twenty miles, and took a lodging at the Drum, as has been stated. While at Brent ford, they supported themselves by pledging various articles, but the prisoner had got a situation to go to on Monday, as a farm servant, at nine shillings a week, at a farmer's in the neighbourhood of Brentford. Mr. BAILLIE said, after the evidence of Miss Willav y se, the charge of - felony could not be sustained ; and he sug gested to Mr. Willavyse the propriety, as his daughter was so young, and matters had gone so far, of arranging the affair. Mr. Willavyse refused to adopt the suggession, and de clared his determination to prosecute the prisoner for the ab duction, his daughter being under sixteen years of age, which made his carrying her off a felony. Mr. BAILLIE said, under those circumstances, he had no alternative but to send the prisoner before a Berkshire ma gistrate to deal with the case. The prisoner was accordingly conveyed, on 'Friday night, by police-constable Smith, to Newbury, and on Saturday morning he was taken before a magistrate of Berks, where the charge of abduction was preferred against hint After the examination of §everal witnesses, he was remanded for the production of other evidence on Friday next, and was afterwards conveyed to Reading gaol. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) CLERKEIV WELL. _ . - Yesterday Margaret Kelly, a ferocious-looking woman, was brought up for final examination, charged with stabbing John Dymmock, a carter, residing at No. 13, White Horse-court, Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell, with a knife, whereby his life was seriously endangered. The occurrence took place on the 6th of May, since which the prosecutor has been in St. Bartholomew's Hos pital. From the position of the wound it was feared lock jaw would ensue. Yesterday, however, the prose cutor, although not yet quite recovered, and having his head bound up, attended in Court and gave his evidence. All the circumstances of the case were mentioned in our paper of the Bth inst. Mr. Cooper, the house-sur geon of the hospital, deposed to the nature of the wound. The prisoner, who has throughout exhibited the most callous indifference, was fully committed for trial, William Barlow, an engineer, residing in Church street, Limehouse, William Brady, and William Wilson, genteelly attired persons, were charged with creating a disturbance in St. Johri=s-square, at two o'clock on that morning. Constable 66 G deposed that he sawßarlow and Ridley pushing one another against the doors in St. John square, and making a noise calculated to disturb the inhabitants. When he took them into custody, Barlow offered him a bribe of ss. if he would set him at liberty. The prisoners were in liquor. P. C. Marryatt, 31 G, corroborateA this statement. When Barlow was arrested, he became abusive, and said he paid 151. a-year taxes to support the police. Mr. Gur.ExwooD ordered Barlow to find bail ; fined Ridley 10s. ; and ordered Wilson to put a sum in the poor-box, which he did, and expressed his regret for the misconduct. James Connor was charged with assaulting police. constable 35 G. The prisoner quarrelled with his sister, in Bleeding hart-yarJ, Holborn, on the previous evening, and gave her a blow, which rendered her insensible, and caused her to bleed profusely from the nose aud mouth. The constable took him into custody, whereupon the prisoner knocked him down, and tore his uhiform coat and trowsers so as to render them useless. Committed for twenty-one days. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday a min named Thomas Patterson, and Eliza beth Patterson, his wife, were placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, on the following charge of robbery and attempted murder, upon a young man named George Allen, a linen-glazer, residing in Monkwell-street, Fore street, Cripplegate. The prosecutor, whose face was a mass of cuts and contusions, and in other parts of his person bore mani fest evidences of severe ill-treatment, stated that as ho was passing through Allersgate street, at eleven o'clock on the night of Sunday, the 19th inst., he was accosted by a young woman, with whom he ultimately went to numerous houses, and lastly to a very wretched one, where he was attacked, robbed, and then wounded. The whole proceedings were of the lowest and fiercest cha racter. At last the prosecutor made a violent struggle, and succeeded in breaking away and running into Ar thur-street, where he met a policeman, and while telling him of the ferocious attack that had been made upon him, the two prisoners passed the end of the street, and were immediately pointed out by the prosecutor as two of the persons implicated. Henry Turpin, an officer, who searched the prisoners' house, deposed to finding the outer case of the watch and the prosecutor's money-bag there, and to the floor of the room being in several places dyed with coagulated blood.-13oth prisoners were fully committed to New gate for trial. Brown and Smith (officers) stated in the course of the examination that the female prisoner had belonged to a desperate gang, which had been routed out by the parish authorities from Granby-street, Waterloo-road, where they had located themselves, and afterwards distributed themselves in other parts of the metropolis. The male prisoner was stated to be very respectably connected, but had been discarded by his relatives in consequence of his marriage with the other prisoner. SUICIDE.—John Leaman, aged 60 years, an inmate of the workhouse in this borough, whose habits and conduct had obtained for him the bestowal of privileges not usually granted to the paupers, was detected on Sa turday last, tinder circumstances which gave assurance that he had been guilty of a most atrocious violation on the person of a child only nine years of age. This girl it appeared had been allowed after school hours on Saturday, to remain with her father in the man's yard as an indulgeuco to her parent. Having missed her, the father in the pursuit of an inquiry, went to a room in that part of the yard in which Leaman worked, but was unable to enter it, as the door •f the room was fastened on the inside. He asked Leaman if his child was• there, when the girl cried out " I am here, father." The father then went away, and presently the girl came after him, and in answer to Close interrogatories he elicited confirmation of his most painful - surmises. Subsequently he encoun tered the wicked object of the child's pollution, and visited upon him the indignant scorn of a man dis honoured and wretched, and informed him that he would cause his imprisonment. The charge was not given to the authorities of the establishment until the next day, when, preparatory to other proceedings, the master stopped Leaman's leave at the gate. On his presenting himself, as usual, o n going i to church, Leaman was in formed that his leave had checked. He turned away, and was not heard beers checked. an hour-and-a-half afterwards, when it was discovered he had secured the door of the room as before, finished b his career by self-destruction. He was suspende d been dead y som th e e t l n ec e k by a rope, and apparently had An inquest was held on the body on Monday, when a' verdict of "Flo de se" was returned. HlSnriegmhta,inas, according to law, were interred on Monday Stoke Church, between nine and twelve o'clock, withoutt the rites of Christian burial.—Devonport Independent. CHURCH-RATES.—Lord Denman 's decision and sound reasoning upon it, in the church-rates cases, s et the points at rest. That Dr. Jenner Fust should have given the decisions he did, astonished every reasonable person ; and that his decisions were completely opposed both to the spirit of the law and former decisions, was As clear as that one and one make two. Church bigots will be quiet now it is to be hoped.—From a Correspondent. It has been ascertained that the pressure of the at • mosphere is, on an average, 15 pounds on ever square inch of surface. The extent of surface on the body of a man of mean stature, is computed at 2,160 square inches, which sum, mul tiplied by 15, gives 32,400 pounds as the total amount of weight or pressure he ordinarily sustains—a weight so pro digious that, did it not admit of the most indubitable de monstration, we could not well credit. it. Now, suppose the mercury in a barometer to rise or fall an inch, this will make a difference of exa c tly a quar t er o f a p oun d ressure on everysquare inch of surface, and hence will either add to or remove 180 i0ads w from the average weight pressing on the bod y .— Dr , Do eatl , l ; erhe a d on Headaches.. " DOG EAT G. —Nearly all the Nisi Prius cases this term wer cases in whi c h a tt orneys were either plaintiffs or defendants,— Dubin Paper. et trIT Nttitton SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 28. Dividend per Amount Paid. Names of Coro panics. Annum. 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(per cent. tper cent. per cent. .per cent. (percent. per cent. per cent. ?per cent. Yper cent. beer cent. r per cent. b per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 2 46 percent £}6 per cen t THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1844. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—A general impression seems to pervade the public mind, and especially that portion of the community most conversant with the administra tion of the justice of the country, that the time has arrived for the abolition of Grand Juries. The Grand Jury of the last session of the Central Criminal Court made a presentment to this effect on appearing in Court at the termination of their duties, for the purpose of being formally dis charged. With the option thus communicated, the presiding Judge expressed his concurrence. The Grand Jury of Surrey made a similar representation this morning, on appearing in Court with their last hills. The views expressed by the latter body were expressed in the following terms : "It is the opinion of the Grand Jury, in the present improved mode of administering the justice of the coun try, that the institution of a Grand Jury, though at the time of its introduction of great value, is now not only unnecessary, but actually injurious to the public interests. " First : Because the careful investigation of the cases by the committing magistrates, assisted by professional men, who (where the cases are heavy) appear on the part of the prosecution, and for the defence of the pri soner, has already sifted the evidence ; thus rendering another intermediate inquiry wholly unnecessary. " Secondly : The opportunity afforded by the inter vention of a Grata Jury between committal and trial for tampering with the witnesses, often causes the evidence given before the Grand Jury to differ from that given by the witnesses before the magistrates. It is thus frequently changed both in its terms and ten dency. The bill is, consequently, ignored through a deficiency of evidence ; the operation of the law is obstructed ; and the guilty party escapes by means of the very institution which is designed to aid in the administration of justice. " Thirdly: The province of the Grand Jury is often abused. Bills are preferred, and accusations made, the grounds of which have not undergone previous investi gation by magistrates. Such proceedings are often prompted by an expectation of extorting money from the parties accused, or to subject them to expense and annoy ance for the purposes of revenge. "For these reasons the Grand Jury consider their functions as no longer beneficial; that they are often in jurious, and might be safely dispensed with." The Chairman of the bench expressed, in strong terms, an opinion, that the change alluded to is worthy the consideration both of the Legislature and the Government ; especially as similar views had been recently expressed by other grand juries. The institution of a public prosecutor—to whom, or to his deputies, the evidence in each case should be submitted previously to trial, and by whom the pro ceedings should be instituted and the prosecution car ried on— would be a salutary substitute for the Grand Jury. The classes out of which the Grand Juries are now taken might be most beneficially associated with their fellow-citizens from whom the Petit Juries are selected. Thus the intellectual elements of the latter would be improved, and the public administra tion of justice in the Criminal Courts of the country raised in character and improved in efficiency. STANDARD.—The buildings designed for a col lege for the cultivation of " modern languages and literature" have just been completed at Oxford, and a prospectus of the plan and design of the proposed in stitution has been issued. We have not been so fortunate as to see a copy of this prospectus, which is made the subject of unfriendly cri ticism by the Times ; but IN e think that in the cri tique itself of our contemporary we find proof that our contemporary is unjust. The principal ground of the Times' complaint is, that " A rule is laid down entirely prohibiting all entrance upon the subject of religion in the academical study of these [the modern] languages. Religion appears to be considered —upon that easy liberal theory which has severed the connection between religion and know ledge in all other branches—to have nothing to do with modern literature ; and accordingly an ex press rule is inserted, involving very clearly this principle." Now surely there is here a very un fair inference drawn from a rule which plainly understood, appears to be unexceptionable. The -" College of Modern Languages . and Literature" is not a substitute for, but an auxiliary to, the estab lished system of University education, of which it will not be disputed that it is properly careful of the reli gious instruction of the young men subjected to it. There is not, we are happy to say, one college or hall in Oxford in which a sound Scriptural education, in the pure doctrines of the Church of England, is not a principal, we may with gratification say, the principal object of instruc tion in the undergraduate course. At Oxford, therefore, no merely auxiliary instruction can be charged with effecting that divorce between learn ing and religion which the limes seems to appre hend. The young men will go to the Col lege of Modern Languages and Literature in structed, and (as far as human teaching can confirm them) confirmed Protestant Christians, to learn, it may be the French, German, Italian, Spanish, modern Greek, or whatever other modern language may be there taught, and which they may wish to learn, just as they might go to a school of riding or fencing, or swimming or music, not to receive religious instruction, or to learn to slight religion, but to acquire an accomplishment with which properly doctrinal religion has no con cern. Every Christian, no doubt, feels the force of the apostolic injunction, that " whatever we do, all must be done to the glory of the Creator" — but this contemplates ends, not details, and the best men daily do a hundred things with which they would deem it a fearful irreverence to associate a direct allusion to the truths of religion. Now to us it appears, that between the philology of modern languages and religious truth there is no ne cessary connexion, any more than there is between religious truth and tiding the great horse, driving, swimming, or fiddling. There is, therefore, no impro priety in excluding religious discussion from a strict course of philological study, which, let it be constantly remembered, is pursued concurrently with a separate course of careful religious study, and in subordina tion to it. The Times, indeed, seems to feel that the merely philological course of study proposed in the College of "Modern Languages and Literature" will not support its censure ; and therefore, by au artifice, which we cannot help regarding as an unworthy one, tries to enlarge the sphere of study at the new college to the whole ,field of letters. " The whole field of modern literature, it must be observed, is a pretty wide ground entirely to disconnect with religion in this „way; and the misfortune is, too, that it does not stop with itself, but drags other departments into the same scrape." This is a poor fallacy. The College for the Cultiva tion of Modern Languages and Literature, plain!y intends no more than such cultivation as is already bestowed upon classical literature ; from which latter cultivation it will, we presume, be admitted, religious discussion is and ought to be excluded, for though our contemporary may not understand the distinction, our Universities have always sepa rated religious and profane literature as anxiously in their study, as they have been careful to unite them in the student. It is indeed the unhappy com bination of these two naturally distinct, and in value immeasurably unequal objects of study, in one and the same pursuit, which in early times paganised Christi anity into Romanism. May:we not fear that the Platoni cism made fashionable by the late eccentric Mr. Cole ridge, and mixed with religion by his followers, is exercising through the Tractarians a like injurious in flswuuhceohn c dt e hi m u i n p k o t a n pt P eh ra r o ta t s e t sehtveaennst sun t s nh m e ?ofT truth heys brightestcu arnel lightsyb e a re o fm assistedihs u t a , n k ba e yn n genius. Who Avould illustrate the Pentateuch by Ilerodotus and Lucretius, the Psalter by Pinder and Horace, and the Prophets and the New Testament by Plato and Cicero? As witnesses to historical facts, the writers of Greece and Rome are use ful helps to religious education, but to allow them to mix as teachers—to make their dogmata the topics of " religious discussion," were a grievous sin. The case of classical education, then, clearly proves the possibility, and in particular instances the necessity, of separating many branches of study from an intermixture with "religious discussion ;" and the only question that can arise is, whether "modern lan guages and literature" ought not to be so separated? For ourselves we have no doubt upon the point. We know of no single book in any modern language which could properly be made the text book of religious instruc tion for members of the united Church of England and Ireland. There are many excellent theological books in the French language, from De Mornai to D'Au bigne, with which we, perhaps, might not quarrel, but we should be slow to recommend them to an Oxford college. As to the other languages of continental Europe, they are, as respects theology, a perfect blank to the English Protestant, except the crazy literature of Germany, which, with its rationalism on one side, and its platonicism on the other, and its cold-hearted infidelity, the foundation of both, is worse than a blank—it is a labyrinth of traps and pitfalls. There is, therefore, an utter want of books in the modern languages to supply topics of religious discussion ; and if books were forthcoming, where are the teachers ? The use of a college of modern lan guages is to teach men, not merely to read modern languages, but to write those languages and to speak them. TIIE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) BUCKINGHAM-PALACE, MAY 23, 1844. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Frederic Thesiger, Esq., her Majesty's So licitor-General. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. 2d Regiment of Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry.—Cornet J. Gar rard to be Lieutenant, vice J. Clode, promoied ; H.W. Bonsey, Gent., to be Cornet, vice the Marquis of Chandos, promoted, May IS. S. EDWARD GILL BANKRUP FLIGHT, T publisher, Adam-street, Adelphi, to surrender June 4, at two, and July 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin lane, Cornhill ; Turner and Hensman, Basing-lane, Cheapside. EDWARD LOUIS, perfumer, Gerrard-street, Soho, June 6, at one, and July 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Crosby and Cump ton, Church-court. EDWARD OXLEY, jun., hatter, King's Lynn, Norfolk, June 8, at two, and July 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Groom, o ffi cial assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard street; Dixon, New Boswell-court, Carey-street; Ransom, Sudbury. THOMAS BRAND, livery-stable keeper, Stamford-street, Blackfriars, June 11, at half past two, and July 9, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Fre derick's-place, Old Jewry ; Harman, Earl-street, Blackfriars. JOHN SISON, dealer in toys, Brighton, June 11, at eleven, and July 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Rickards and Walker, Lincoln's Inn-fields. JOHN BERWICK, worsted stuff manufacturer, June 11, and July 2, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Few and Co., Henrietta-street, London ; Weatherhead and Burr, Bingley ; Naylor, Leeds. THOMAS KEARSLEY_ and THOMAS WATT, bone merchants, Runcorn, Cheshire, June 8 and July 1, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Harrison, Birmingham ; Smith, Bedford-row, London. _ _ WILLIAM MONK, jun., currier, Nottingham, June 12 and July 4, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Parsons, Notting ham ; Spurrier and Chaplin, Birmingham. JACOB BARNA RD, clothes dealer, Cheltenham, June 13, and July 9, at one, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, St. Augustine's-place, Bristol; Messrs. R. and J. B. Winterbotham, Cheltenham ; Dix, Bristol. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. G. Kersting, schoolmaster, Oxford -street, Stepney. W. H. A. Cole, attorney's clerk, Church-road, Camberwell. R. Ackland, Mapledurwell, Hampshire. J. Fury, butcher, Chester. J. Bridge, quarryman, Bolton-le-Mo ers , Lancashire. R. Davies, landing waiter, Toxteth-park. J. Rowley, chimney sweeper, Sheffield. J. Samway, brewer, Yalding, Kent. T. Doyle, marine store dealer, Liverpool. J. Rantell, wheelwright, Thaxted, Essex. J. M. Girling, veterinary surgeon, Northampton. T. Basham, brewer, Fieldgete.street, Whitechapel. J. Walker, tailor, Fetter-lane , S. S. Oliver, clerk, Blenheim-place, St. John's-wood. S. Blanchard, boarding-house keeper, Charles-street, Chelsea. F. Wymer, steam chip steward, Southampton. H. Tovey, carriage lamp manufacturer, Bristol. J. J. Shotbolt, innkeeper, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire. J. Wedge, carpenter, Holloway. W. Tamer, wine merchant, St. Alban-street, Lambeth. H. B. Glover, shirk, Great Bland -street, Newington. H. White, warehouseman, Arlington-street, Camden-town. E. M. Danels, schoolmistress, Turnham-green. C. Perkin, victualler, Ilollington, Cheshire. J. E. Adams, schoolmaster,, workhouse, Marylebone. G. Parker, coal dealer, Norwich. E. Phillipps, Albany-street, Regent's Park. H. Jennings, Princes-road, Lambeth. W. Jones, saddler, Litchborough, Northamptonshire. H. T. Archer, attorney, John-street, Adelphi. J. Reed, shoemaker, Cheam, Surrey. J. W. Newton, farmer, Moulton, Lincolnshire. R. Newton, farmer, Moulton, Lincolnshire. G. E. Green, Whalley, Lancashire. D. Roberts, stationer, Manchester. 'l'. Singleton, druggist, Sheffield. W. Hallsey, cheeremonger, Derby-street, Mayfair. J. Longbottom, woolcomber, Wainstell, Yorkshire. E. Matland, assistant to a publican, Liverpool. J. Johnson, bricklayer, Huddersfield. J. Mathews, tallow chandler, Hammersmith. J. Seagar, undertaker, Wood-street, Lambeth-walk. P. Beer, tobacconist, Plymouth. H. Silley, Shaftesbury -street, New North-road. T. E. Wharton, comedian, Mount-terrace, Whitechapel-road H. J. Murton, lieutenant-colonel R. M., Brompton. J. Robinson, boot maker, Charlotte-street, Portland-place, . Morgan, assistant grocer, Brompton. SECOND NOTICES. J. Jewers, Catherine-buildings, Pimlico, June 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. W. F. Perry, Poslingford, Suffolk, June 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. H. Gomperti, Oak-cottages, Old Brompton, June 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. J. Locke, surgeon, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place, June 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. W. H. Worley, copperplate printer, Shaftesbury-street, Hor ton, June 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. W. Elson„ hawker, Northampton, June 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee. W. Fothergill, licensed victualler, Batley, Yorkshire, June 1, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee. W. Marsden, table-knife-manufacturer, Sheffield, June 1, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee. H. Nicholson, butcher, Leeds, June 1, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds. S. Firth, innkeeper, Northowrarn, Yorkshire, June 1, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of May 28.) SUGAR.—For West India Muscovadoc Sugar the de mand was extremely limited on Wednesday and Thurs day ; but on Friday, Grocers and Refiners were induced to purchase more freely, in consequence of merchants submitting to a reduction on former rates of 6d to is per cwt. REFINND.—To-day Refined Goods were not to be purchased on the terms of last week; brown lumps were sold at 76s 6d, and :Standard Lumps 77s 6d, to 78s per cwt. The grocers are generally disposed to get stocked with Refined Sugar. Tho market is firm for bodded Crushed Sugar It 26s per cwt, and several orders are unexecuted. MAITRITILIS.—Fine yellow at 64s to 655, good 62s to 635, middling 60s to 61s 6d, low 58s to 59s 6d, and common to fine brown 52s to 57s per cwt. EAST INDlA.—There has been an improved demand for Bengal Sugar, and rather hither rates have been given; Manilla 17s to 225, and Java 18s to 24s per cwt. FOREIGN.—For yellow Havannah Sugar rather higher rates have been paid. White Havannah all taken in above the value, middling to good at 26s 6d to 29s 2d, and ordinary 25s Gd to 265. For Brazil full prices have been given ; good yellow Bahia at 19s for refining here under bond, and small parcels of low to good white at 21s-to 23s per cwt. MOLASSES.—West India at :rather lower rates, Antigua of good quality and fine Dominicia at 26s to Indianone nne hasratherauction been e under nn and d oo rf f theer offered few parcels former at 27s 6d. Bengal 15 s to 17 s per cwt. COCOA.—Prices are still on the decline for West India a; sold no privately neh a v cb West te been have n e offered b at rates. o eFFEE.-0f public sale. In Jamaica purchases to a fair extent have bee made privately at full rates; mid quality has fetched 18s to 93, and superior 94s to 95s per cwt; some vessels from Jamaica are daily expected. To-day Ceylon Coffee at 49s to 49s 6d per cwt for good ordinary ; other sorts at the 4d per lb duty are unal tered in value. Foreign Coffee was sought after, Rio at 29s to 32s for ordinary to good ordinary, and good ordi nary St. Domingo, 31s 6d. TEA.—There has been a falling off in the demand for Black Tea, and the limited, business transacted has been upon easier terms, common Congue for cash selling at 110 ts Is, good common is Op to Is. and Pouchong ord to good ord at 4d to 9d per lb, but for Green Tea prices are firm, the supply being small. To day the operations we extremely limited, and former rates were with difficulty sustained. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—For Jamaica Rum former rates are sustained ; 26 to 28 per cent. overproof 3s 2d to 3s 4d, 30 to 35 over 3s 5d to 3s 9d, good 3s 10d to 4s, fine 4s 2d to 4s 6d, and superior 4s 8d to 5s per gallon. Proof of common quality has been fetching 2s 2id, and good brown ditto 2s 3d ; Demerara 35 per cent. overproof as 3s 3d per gallon. Calcutta Rum Is 10d to Is 10i per gallon accepted for proof, with certificate. For Brandy prices have a downward tendency excepting for low descriptions :—Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 7d, puns 5s 5d ; ditto 1839, hhds 5s sd, puns 5s 3d ; ditto 1840, hhds 5s 3d. puns 5s Id ; ditto 1841, hhds 5s 2d, puns, 5s Od; ditto 1842, hhds 5s Od, puns 4i 11d, middling qualities 3s 2d to 4s 6d, and low, 2s 8d to 3s per gallon. Geneva shipping sort on the quay is is Bd, and fine for duty 2s to 3s per gallon. English Corn Spirits lOs 2d per gallon, cash. To-day Brandy was at rather lower rates ; Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1842 selling at 4s 10d to 5s per gallon. A parcel of Leeward Island Ruin, just arrived, 8 per cent overproof, has been sold at 2s 5d per gallon. SAGO.—Fine large bright Pearl has fetched 20s per cwt. The lowest price of common small Pearl is 12s 6d. Sago Flour at 19s to 20s per cwt. BlcE.—Bengal Rice, middling white selling at lOs 9d to I Is, and better sorts Ilt 6d to 12s; lOs per cwt for low white. Yellow Madras Ss Gd to 9s, and yellow Java Bs - 9d to Os per cwt. Cleaned 'Rice at 13s to 16s for Patna ; and 21s to 26s per cwt Carolina. INDIGO.—In East India little business has been trans acted in any description, and in some cases the rates ac cepted are rather under those of the last quarterly sale; Spanish has been less inquired for, but prices do not give way. This afternoon low mixed Bengal Indigo sold at 2s 6d to 3s 2d, and Guatemala at 3s 5d to 3s lld for low and middling quality. OILS.---For Linseed Oil reduced rates have been taken; sales made on the spot at 25s 9d to 265. Rape Oil, pale at 38s 6d to 395, and brown 37s 6d to 38s per cwt. Palm 20s 6d to 23s 9d for inferior, and 18s to 198 9d per cwt Oil at 26s to 275. for good, 2 4 s to 25s 6d for middlin g , for very low dark quality. Cocoa Nut Oil may be pur chased upon lower terms. Ceylon taken in at 30s per cwt for fine quality. Holders of. Olive Oil are more inclined to sell, 511 for Gallipoli , 501 for S p anish, and 491 to 49/ lOs per tun for Barbary. Common Fish Oils have met with a dull sale ; Cod at 3315 s to 331108 ; Seal, pale, 334 yellow and straw Seal 291 lOs to 314 and brown 28/ to 291 per tun. Sperm Oil at 751 to 76/ for fine British, and 73/ to 74/ per tun for other descriptions. This afternoon Southern Oil at 271 to 301 per tun. Lin seed Oil at 25s Gd per cwt. TALLOW.—Prices cannot be quoted lower at present for Russian Tallow on the spot, 40s to 403 6d is the value of P Y Candle. For delivery for the last three months of the year at 41s 3d to 41s 6(1 per cwt. Town Tallow at 38s 6d to 39s per cwt nett cash. South American at 33s 3d to 38s 3d, for middling to fine, and New South Wales at 36s 6d to 37s per cwt. To-day there was little business done in any sort of Tallow, but in prices there is no variation. ROYAL COLLEGE Or SURGEONS. -- The Court of Examiners admitted the following gentlemen members of the Royal College of Surgeons on Friday evening last :—Henry Kingsley, Guy's Hospital ; Nathaniel John Dampier, Guy's Hospital ; Samuel J. Remnant, St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; Thomas Callaway, Guy's Hospital ; Robert Ellis, University College ; Edward J. Protheroe, University College • Richard H. Donovan, Dublin ; James M. Moullin, Dublin ; John Cowburn, University College ; Thomas Hepwell, Dublin ; Wil liam C. Byass, Guy's Hospital ; George Frederick Wills, Guy's Hospital ; Henry Fearnside, University College. A HAT DY Posr.—A straw hat was sent through the post last week for the Rev. W. Horton, of Preston, paid by six pane stamps I CIVIL WAR IN-SWITZERLAND The New Gazette of Zurich, of the 22d May, contains a circular letter of the Vorort, dated the 13th of the same month, and addressed to all the cantons of the Confe deracy. Its object is to acquaint them with the steps it has adopted in order to maintain tranquillity in the Va lais, by ordering the various corps of the federal troops to march into that canton. To this document is an nexed a dispatch from M. Meyer, the Federal Commis sioner sent into the Valais. This report, which is dated 17th May, says in substance : " The Grand Council assembled this morning, and will meet again this evening. Order prevails in appearance, but in reality the country is placed on a volcano, which must explode either to day or to-morrow. Both parties are preparing, and there is much talk about gunpowder having been distributed in Lower Valais to ' Young Switzerland,' and of orders issued to keep ready. The same has been done in Upper Valais. The impending arrival of volunteers of Old Switzerland is even men tioned. Thus a collision is to be apprehended." M. Meyer writes at ten at night : " A catastrophe is preparing; the debate in the Grand Council has been a most stormy one. Violent scenes are stated to have taken place. The Opposition and some members of the Conservative party have left the hall. It had been beforehand resolved to propose the occupation of St. Maurice, and to appoint a comman dant of the troops. The Opposition were aware of that project. To-night, or to-morrow, Young Switzerland will march. Under these circumstances 1 have notified • to the Executive Council that I should assume the title of Federal Commissioner, if matters required it. " Quarter to Eleven.—The Grand Council have just ordered the occupation of the communes that have re belled, and the appointment of a commandant of the Landwehr in the person of M. de Kalhermatten ; it has issued extraordinary powers to the Executive Council. and appointed a Committee of three members of the Council. These resolutions have been adopted by a ma- jority of forty-two votes." " The communications," says the Arni de la Consti tution, of Berne, of the 22d May, " are intercepted ; the priests direct the movement. Great and serious dis orders are committed. Young Switzerland' is in want of arms, and ammunition. Letters from the Canton de Vaud state that the whole western part is stirring. The arquebusiers of that part of the canton have proceeded to the assistance of Lower Valais, without waiting the Government orders. Provisions have been sent. The people of Vives are coming to the assistance of the liberals. Never have the affairs of. Upper and . Lower Valais presented so much importance as at this moment. What determination the Vorert will come to is not known ; but Berne and Vaud have resisted and will not let any troops pass." The Paris Quotidienne, a Legitimist and High Church paper, gives the following account of the cause of these disturbances, and infers that the civil war will extend to every canton : " It is reported that the government of the Valais had been victorious, and that the people of the Lower Valais, beaten by the Conservatives, had been obliged to sub mit. However great may be the truth of this news, the affairs of this Canton are undoubtedly in a deplorable state, and order can be ne longer maintained. Catholics and Radicals are in arms against each other ; and al though the first are the more numerous, the others are better organised, and have little or nothing to lose. To this we may add, that the latter are sustained by the Radical States of the Confederation, and that these States, with Berne at their head, have already proved, as in the affair of the convents of Argau, how little it costs them to adopt illegal and violent measures in ob taining a triumph for their principles, or rather for their wilfulness. What is passing in the Valais is, in a de• gree, the faithful image of the state of all Switzerland. In every part there is division and disorder, if not fla grant, at least in all hearts and in all the governments. The most anarchical doctrines are set up in opposition to Conservative opinions, and in face of the Conference of the Catholic States we find a haughty league of most of the Protestant Cantons. It is in vain that Bale Town and Neufchatel endeavour to keep up some appearance of order ; men's minds are too much excited, and the present President of the Directory, M. Siegwart Mul ler, is as ready to carry his ideas to the extreme as ever was M. Neuhaus, the late Radical chief of -the Con federation." SUPPOSED MURDER and SUICIDE. Yesterday, considerable sensation prevailed amongst the inhabitants of the neighbouring village of Bootle, in consequence of a rumour that a. child had been mur dered by its mother, and that the latter had then com mitted suicide. Upon inquiry, it turned out that the report was not without foundation, and that there was but too much reason to believe that both these horrible crimes had been perpetrated. The facts appeared to be, that about nine o'clock on Saturday night, a remarkably fine male child, with long brown hair, and apparently between seven and ten months old, was taken out of the canal, near Coffee- house-bridge, Bootle. When first taken out, he showed symptoms of life, but soon afterwards died. He was very respectably dressed, having had on a striped printed frock, flannel petti coat, linen shirt, dark check gingham pinafore, black and white netted worsted handkerchief, blue and white worsted socks, and a brown bonnet, lined with blue silk. The canal was afterwards dragged, and the body of a female. supposed to be the mother of the child was speedily found. She was rather delicately formed, and was apparently between twenty-one and twenty-four years of age. She was five feet one or two inches in height; and the colour of her hair was brown. She, also, was rather respectably attired, baying on a dark printed cotton dress, lilac printed apron, plaid worsted handker chief, stuff shoes, not much worn, black worsted stock ings,,: and a black, stuff merino bonnet. A gold Hag was found on the fourth thiger of her left hand ; and she was supposed to be from Liverpool. There appears very little doubt that the female was the mother of the child. She was, at all events, its nurse ; for, in the earlier part of the evening, she was seen suckling it on some steps near the canal bridge. There were no marks of violence on the infant, but there were a couple of large black spots on the right leg of the female,- and a contusion under one of her eyes. The child was first discovered by a gardener named Edmund Smeahurst, who happened to be passing along the canal at the time, and who states that his atten tion was directed to the spot by having heard something like a person moaning in the water. He succeeded in getting the infant out, and then ran and in formed the 'police, who, upon their arrival, found Mr. Reid, surgeon, in the act of endeavouring to restore ani mation. The bodies were conveyed to the Rising Sun public-house,.where they remain at present, and where they were visited by some hundreds of persons yester day. The female was recognised by several, who stated that they had seen her frequently in and around Bootle. A carter, amongst others, said he observed her nursing the child on Saturday, near one of the Bootle turnpike gates.—Liverpoo Albion of Monday. ANDOVBIL—Rumour states that our borough is likely soon to become the arena of another political con test, by the anticipated resignation of Lord W. Paget. Mr. H. B. Coles, of Middleton House, has for some time past aspired to the honour of a seat in Parliameat by the suffrages of the electors of Andover. An agent of the Conservatives has paid a private visit to the town, making the fullest inquiries confidentially, doubtless hoping " to catch the weasel asleep;" but we can assure them the Liberals are stirring and quite prepared fur the struggle, come when it may. The present state of the register is highly satisfactory, and leaves no doubt of a triumphant majority.—Hampshireindependent. DEATH BY CLIMBING.—On Saturday, an inquest was held before C. Collins, Esq., on the body of John Harry, of Rhossilly, Gower. It appeared that on the Wednesday previous he called at Stouthall, the seat of J. N. Lucas, Esq., for the purpose of gaining permission to get down some young rooks from the trees adjoining the park. Not being able to see that gentleman, he was requested by the housekeeper to call on some other day, when he would very probably gain permission. It is supposed that the deceased must have proceeded imme diately to climb the trees, and • that he laid hold of a decayed branch at a considerable distance from the ground, which gave way, for on Friday morning he was discovered quite dead in the road, his head, on the back part of which was a. wound, having evidently come in contact with a stone. Verdict, " Accidental death."— Cambrian. DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM PORTS MOUTH GAoL.—Within the last fortnight, a plan has been organised by three desperate prisoners in the above gaol, to liberate themselves. Tneir names are, Dennis Kirby, a private of the 49th regiment, committed for trial for a robbery with violence; William Allyn, for stealing a piece of print; and John Maclin also for felony. It ap pears from information communicated to Mr. Hunt, the governor, that the prisoners intended to have put their plan into execution on a Sunday, and that last Sunday was the day fixed upon for the purpose; but on Sunday they were all secured. It is usual for the prisoners all to pass into chapel before the turnkey, who counts them as - they pass, and when the whole number have gone in he turns the key upon them, and awaits the conclusion of the service before he unlocks the chapel door ; thus altthe tenants of the prison are locked in, including the governor, and every person con valescent. It was the intention of the three prisoners above named to have lingered until the last in going into chapel, and then to have turned the key ur on the whole community, overpowered Mr. Hill, the turnkey, and possessed themselves of the keys, by which means their liberation would have been easy. When the plot was discovered,.Maclin offered to turn Queen's evidence, but Mr. Hunt being already, through a secret agency, possessed of the facts, dispensed with Mr. Maclin's ser vices. Kirby, the soldier, was promptly sent off to Winchester gaol, there to await his trial at the next assizes. Allyn and Marlin were both ironed ; and their irons will not be removed until their trials, nor then, un less ordered out of the country.—Hampshire Advertiser TRAGICAL Evtor.--L-Shortly before the royal mail steamer Trent, now in harbour, sailed from St. Jago de Cuba, a very fine-looking black slave went on board, who on being reported by the purser to the captain, was told that he could not be taken off the island without a passport, and therefore must go on shore again. To this he strongly demurred, and on being urged, he replied in broken English, " Me go shore again ?" and drew a knife from his pocket, with which he nearly severed his head from his body. The unfortunate man had in his possession 200 dollars, three boxes of cigars, and a copy of " Gil Blas," which were taken ashore along with his body by the Spanish authorities. It was understood, adds our informant, that he had the misfortune to belong to an unkind master, and that, finding his hope of escape thus baulked, he had committed the rash and fatal act above described.—Jamaica Times, March 22. The Conservative members of the Mouse of Com mons propose to entertain the new Secretary of War, Sir Thomas Freemantle, at dinner, after the recess, as a mark of the high estimation in which his courtesy, frank ness, and obliging disposition are held by them. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. EDINBURGH, FRIDAY, MAY, 24. UNIVERSITY TESTS. - The overtures on the subject of the University Tests were read, when • _ • _ Principal MAcsAnwar said—lf ever there was an oc casion when it was justifiable to allude to a subject so unimportant as the personal feelings of an individual, I be lieve that this is one. Sure lam that I never rose to ad- dress the General Assembly or any other body with such a distressing consciousness of my own inability to do jus tice to the subject which I have now taken the liberty to bring under your consideration. The extent and the im portance of the subject appals me. The apathy, to me unaccountable, which prevails in some parts of the Church and the country requires no common effort to dispel; but I take encouragement from the well-known kindness and indulgence of the Assembly, to which I have been often and deeply indebted, from ;the intelli gence of the members, and from the zeal with which-I know, when they are convinced of the importance of the cause, they will embark in a measnre which involves the great interests of a national and Christian education in our beloved country. The overtures upon the subject show that they have been called forth by a variety of measures which have been recently adopted by dissent ing bodies, by the Universities, and by municipal cor porations, for an alteration of the law of the land in respect to the connection between the Church and the Universities. And in proceeding to lay before you my views in connection with this topic, perhaps the best method of doing so will be first to read the resolutions which I mean to propose to the Assembly. I may mention that it was my original purpose to have moved that we present a petition to the Legislature. Had the question remained in the same state that it was two months ago, when a legisla tive measure was in dependence, I should have persisted in my resolution ; but as it is well known that a motion was made for leave to bring in a Bill upon the subject, and that that motion was refused by the House of Com mons, I think that, we should be deficient in consideration for that respectable branch of the Legislature if we were now to 'trouble 'Ahem with unnecessarily any direct application. But I think it proper that the Assembly should adopt a series of resolutions expressive of their view of the importance of this question, and should cause these resolutions to be circulated, not only within their jurisdiction, but thnt they should be communicated in some shape or other to the Legislature. The resolutions I mean to propose areas follow:- 1. That the General Assembly regard the moral and religious education of youth in universities, public institutions, and parochial schools, as a national object of unspeakable importance, and productive of the highest benefits to every country in which it has been success fully conducted and- maintained. 2. That for this purpose the religious and ethics . tional establishments of Scotland haveat all times been closely connected, to their mutual advantage and secur ity, and their connection kept up by a number of Le gislative enactments, particularly the Act of Security, 1707, providing, among other safeguards of our national Church, that professors in Scottish universities " shall before, or at their admission, acknowledge and profess, and shall . subscribe to the Confession of Faith of the Church of Scotland, as the confession of their faith, and that they will practice and conform themselves to the worship presently in use in this Church, and never en deavour, directly or indirectly, the prejudice or subver sion of the same. ' 3. That this Act is not an ordinary statute, but part of a solemn national compact, insisted on as an indispen sable condition of even treating for- an union with Eng land, engrossed in that treaty as " a fundamental and essential condition thereof," in all time coming; of vital importance to the prosperity and existence of the Church of Scotland, and not to be altered or abrogated without, endangering the constitution of our country in Church and State. • 4. That the Church of Scotland has hitherto reposed unlimited confidence in the security and protection af forded by this law, confirmed as it has been by the sa cred oath taken by all British Sovereigns on. their ac cession to the throne, and no less by the assurances so often given and repeated to this Assembly by our pre sent beloved and most gracious Sovereign, of having their rights and privileges, as established by the laws of this kingdom, inviolably maintained and preserved. 5. That while the General Assembly rejoices is un distarbed tranquillity the fullest confidence in the fulfil ment of those assurances, they cannot but view with some measure of anxiety the attempts which have been recently made in various quarters to deprive the Church of an essential element of its security, by dissevering from it the most important establishments of public edu cation,—the petitions which have been presented to both Houses of Parliament for the repeal of that part of the Act of Security which relates to professors in universi ties, and the motion actually, though unsuccessfully, made for leave to introduce a Bill founded on those pe titions into the House of Commons. 6. That under these circumstances the General As sembly feel called on to declare, that they would consider the,repeal of the clause referred to in the Act of Secu rity, as a direct attack on their most valuable rights and privileges, as a fearful obstacle to the training and edu cation of young men for the holy ministry in our lan as inflicting a deadly injury on the Universities of Scot land, by shaking the confidence of the public in the principles of their professors, and as a measure fraught with peril to the ecclesiastical establishments and educa tional institutions, not of• Scotland only, but of every part of the British empire. Such a change they must earnestly deprecate and oppose on every occasion by all lawful and constitutional means. 7. That these resolutions be printed, and copies of them transmitted to all the Members of both Houses of Parliament. After a speech from Mr. BREWSTER against the reso lutions, and speeches from several other Members in their favour,, Mr. BREWSTER said he had intended to move a counter resolution, but as he felt that the whole of his brethren would be- against him, he would not trouble them. The resolutions were then agreed to. MINISTERIAL COMMUNION. Dr. COOK, after a few observations, in which he urged the necessity of ministers taking care not to open their pulpits to any one who did not entertain the principles of the Establishment, otherwise the minds of the people would be bewildered and unsettled, and some risk in curred of rooting religion altogether out of their minds —proceeded to read the folio wing report of the Com mittee appointed to consider this subject : " The Committee are deeply impressed with the im portance and desirableness of promoting unity, and maintaining friendly relations with all who love the Lord Jesus in sincerity and truth. They feel that it is of equal importance to maintain the purity of Christian doctrine and discipline, and to guard the great principle of an Established Church. To secure those important objects, the Committee would respectfully recommend that admission of those other communions to the bene fits of the Establishment shall not be left to the discre tion of individual ministers, nor granted to those of the soundness of whose faith we cannot be fully aseured, but that in every case it shall be' required that permission be asked and received from the Presbytery of the bounds, or a standing committee of their number, who shall in any case report to the Presbytery ; and that it shall be borne in mind by every Presbytery, that such admission is to be granted only to those who, by the recognition of, and subscription to a creed or symbol of faith, give un doubted evidence that they maintain with us the vital doctrines of the Christian faith, and the principles which, as an Establishment, we are bound to maintain." Mr. Balfour of Clackmannan, Dr. Muir, and Mr. Clark, of Inverness, having expressed their approbation of the report, it was unanimously agreed to adopt it in the meantime, and to send it down to Presbyteries for their consideration. The Assembly adjourned at six o'clock till half-past seven in the evening. EVENING SEDERUNT. The Assembly met again at half-past seven, and pro ceeded to take up THB - CABE OF BANFF, The facts of this case appear to be these :—On the 10th of August last, a presentation in favour of the Rev. George Henderson, minister at Cullen, by the Earl of Seafield, was given into the Presbytery of Fordyce, and sustained by them, and the usual steps ordered to be taken towards a moderation in the call. The Presby tery met for the moderation of the call on the 24th of August—Lord Aberdeen's Act having received the Royal assent seven days previous. The call having been signed by twenty-six persons, heriturs and mem bers of the congregation, the Presbytery, in terms of, and in the spirit of, Lord Aberdeen's Act, intimated that, if there were any objections to be offered, they were then ready to receive them. A list of reasons and objections, amounting to fourteen in number, were ac cordingly given in, signed by forty-four parishioners ; and included objections to " the exuberance of his ani mal spirits"—to his preaching being " incoherent, un connected, and ill-deduced"—to his " natural defect of utterance"—to his want of " a musical ear"—and to the sordid motives which they believed had influenced the presentee in accepting the presentation. The Pres bytery, without giving any opinion of the relevancy of the objections, allowed a probation of the same. After a very tedious procedure, the Presbytery, on the 28th of March, came to the opinion that many of the ob jections were very frivolous, and that those objections only were relevant wnich related to the alleged fact of Mr. Henderson's preaching being " incoherent, un connected, and ill-deduced," and of his not being distinctly heard because of a defect in his utterance ; but that in regard to the former of these, the evidence was extremely contradictory. The Presbytery, how ever, resolved, because of the novel situation in which the recent Act of Parliament had placed the law, to refer sinzpliciter the case to the Synod of Aberdeen. The matter having come before the Synod 'in April last, the Synod referred the case to the General Assembly. Pyper, advocate, appeared for the presentee ;Mr. Penney, advocate, for the objectors; thellev.Dr.Mearns and Mi. W. Grant for the Synod. There was a_ preliminary point which occupied the House for a considerable time, viz., an appeal by the presentee against a judgment of the Synod, dismissing a petition and complaint against the competency of the Presbytery to treat this case under Lord Aberdeen's Act, which was not in existence when the appellant's presentation was granted and sustained. The Assembly repelled the objection, and ordered the parties to pro ceed to state the merits of the case, which they accord ingly did. Parties being removed, a discussion ensued, when Mr. GIBBON, of Lonmay, moved—" That the Assembly sus tain the reference from the Synod of Aberdeen ; find that there is full evidence that the people of Banff will not wait upon the ministrations of Mr. Henderson—that the people of Cullen are affectionately attached to him ; that he is useful in his present charge ; and that there is no prospect of greater good to the Church by his translation to Banfl."—(Laughter.) Dr. COOK then addressed the Assembly, and after some remarks said ho wished—he did not make emotion —that the matter obould be sent back to the presbytery, with instructions to proceed in the constitutional deed of ascertaining whether there is gro und for the transla tion, and to report to the Commission, which meets *i n August, and let them pronounce a decision upon it. Professor ROBERTSON, of Ellon, said he cou ld comor no other conclusion than that they should sen d the ob jections back to the Presbytery, remitting to the l're.s: tha bytery to cognosce and judicially decide up on the opt jections, and in the event of appals or complain ts, the whole case should be brought up to the Commission in August, when it should be ready and ripe for decisio!. In this motion the Assembly concurred ; after whicil • they adjourned at two o - clock in the morning. NOMINATION AT KILMARNOCK. (From the Scotch Reformers' Gazette.) day KILMARNOCK, SATURDAY.—This was an Wain iu Kilmarnock. By Mr. Robertson retiring, the grO n remained clear for the-Hon. Edward P. BOUYerie, Refor mer ; Mr. Her.ry Vincent, Chartist ; and .4Str. Roof T. Prinsep, Tory. Shortly after 12, as these g entleroc: approached the Council Chambers, and appeared on th balcony, they were severally loudly . cheered —M r. cent, as a matter of course, coming in for a double share of popular favour. The windows ot the opposite buildings were tilled with the beauty and fashion of ' the' district and the house-tops were clad by a number of an ii°tl and M daring adventurers. r. Sheriff Bell officially commenced the business the day. Mr. Sheriff-substitute Jameson w as also the platform, as was also Provost Brown, 'UWE'S 1 3 , 18 C e; wood, Wilson, and Young, Sir J. Campbell, Sir Fairlie, Charles M'Allister, Esq., E. H. J. Craufurd, 17. Auchenames ; J. Pattison, Esq., Cunningham he ad; g. Cowan, Esq., Ayr ; G. Mitchell, Esq., Glasgow; j). Andrews, Esq., writer; L. Lamond, Esq., writer, &atoty Mr. Huou CRAIG, ex-Chartist, in a highly lau speech, proposed Mr. Henry Vincent, with the con fi tios , expectation that ere long he would be the Right Th is Sir Henry Vincent, Prime Minister of England • o rs , auspicious announcement was received with loud ch Mr. GEORGE OSBORNE seconded the nom i na tion. _, e Provost BROWN came before the meeting, not to 1r1,71,, a long speeeh, but simply to propose the Soo. Bouverie as a fit and proper repretentative. on Bailie YOUNG seconded this ndmination, and exP re his conviction that Mr. Vincent's appearance would on divide the Reform interest. Mr. Wu. WALLACE proposed Mr. Prinsep, the C o/v servative candidate. Mr. J. THOMSON seconded the nomination. Mr. VINCENT then stepped forward, and in 1°4,.111136 highly popular manner addressed the multitude, er:ties inn all party feeling—appealing to the sense. of Pi t of and conviction of his hearers—and leaving the r"-ifeik the contest in the hands of the Reformers th eras n Ile He denied the assertion that had been made, abetted , came to divide the Reform constituency, and come that he was the only candidate who could honestly forward, and appeal to the people. e stig' The Hon. P. BOUVERIE then addressed the and and stated that, respecting as he did the chareeen', the honouring the abilities, and appreciating nearly 11 0 political principles of Mr. Vincent, he could not g ° _ to g o. whole length that that gentleman was prePer' to r In reference to his other opponent, Mr. Bouverie Coople. dered that he was totally unfit to represent 01:00 Mr. Bouverie then defined the true meaning of Tor;' Conservative—that a Conservative is trol,",he ler opposed to the alteration of the corn-laws, se° provement of colonial interchange laws. - - goa, trated at length the evils of these restrictive larfroaci dwelling on the absurdity of rejecting slave suCverid accepting slave-grown cotton and tobacco,—Mr• o bli' concluded by a hearty appeal to the numerous ss e which was favourably received. but Ills Mr. PRINSEP then addressed the assembl a g e, iit tab le, Conservative opinions were far from being Pai'belog and he was accordingly but indifferently receive., of frequently interrupted by loud and repeated illar dissapprobation. I.°r The SHERIFF then took a show of hands ---1 :, 5 .,t P r „, Mr. Vincent, when a whole forest was showeli; so' Mr. Bouverie, when comparatively few aPr earc- tleo lf° as for Mr. Prinsep, we only observed a stout gen' in the centre holding up both hands ! Elec ted 5 The SHERIFF then declared Mr. Vincent ;,,,oclt ,- show of hands, but intimated that a poll was cee'i sce by the other two candidates, which would talgel - scoic' Tuesday, commencing at eight in the mernir*" . Reformers Gazette. Price. 107 31% 65 460 192 162% 25 65236 141 365 5C2% 40 4 g o IRS 100 0 0 78 8 0 67 10 8 105 0 0 110 0 0 100 0 0 Stock Stock 14'7 9 0 Stock aeon 5000 63 2 8 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 3 500 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 1000 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock 100 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 P 101 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 26 0 0 77 10 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 • 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 30 0 0 50 • 0 100 0 8 50 0 • 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 153 12 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 12 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 29 0 0 50 0 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 1613 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 32 0 0 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 (.1 50 s 50 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 159 - 0 0 35 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 90 0 0 20 0 0 55 o o 2000 5000 10 0 0 50 0 0 2500 50 0 0 25 0 0 40 0 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 5000 100 0 0 15'o 6 5 9 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 500 70 :38M 112% 101% 60 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 0 0 - 5 0 0 5 0 0 55 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 250 0 0 All paid 2 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 o 2 10 0 2 10 ( 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 6 5 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 5U 0 0 200 0 0 2.5 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 17 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 i 25 0 0 10 0 0 16 0 0 18 0 0 N 0 0 50 - 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 31 5 0 28 0 0 50 8 0 5000 20 0 0 90 0 8 39 0 0 8000 25 0 0 48 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 72}i 16}2 G% 6% 5% 400 11.,135. 142 50 16S 1P94 16% 16% 2% 40s. 21i. 4% 170 205 12% lb° 41g 185 Iso 27% 217 100 0 0 100 0 0 70 0 0 90 0 0 100 0 0 23 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 o 0 12 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 'lOO 0 0 50 0 0 25 I 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 LOO 0 0 2 0 0 32 0 0 70 0 0 3000 40 0 0 7 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 45 0 0 15 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 18 0 0 50 0 • 25 0 0 31 0 13 10 0 100 0 U 25 0 ( 150 0 0 21 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 • 75 0 0 7 10 0 7 10 0 40 0 0 13 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 10 10 0 3 0 0 50 0 0 7 0 0 150 0 0 5000 10 0 0 40 0 0 2 10 0 - 100 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 30 0 0 35 10 0 32 10 0 14 0 0 1 10 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 7 0 0 75 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 25 0 50 0 20 0 O ioo 0 0 O 20 0 6 O 50 0 0 O 20 0 0 PANIES' PRICES. 844. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 9 1 0 0 2 10 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 2 3 9 0 65 223 98% 118 74% 21% 00 20% 108% 55 4.5 11% 6K 225 88 43 24 56 R, 38% 265 96 10% 20 29 I % 6 10 Ns 4% 118 31 7 .0 fm 4 4 17 54 IS l 5li 5% 4 171 169)4 224 170 105 20s. 50 663. 9 14 leg On the 23d inst. at St. RlCHalieEn'aD.Charcht l'bing:Overto H e n r y eatlinhd lN ee l st e 2te s sr c drt a aah r ue eig l n,i ' is e ctt e ' e.a l ,r , mao L td ' f s q . ofWatli n g t o n , 6 1 b 1 .0 11' 0 1°13 :01 1, G I Ann, youngest daughter, ofwall B i. i naO3e On the Camden-town. o P. v r Cle te , te On the 27th inst., at Croydon, Surrey, -•--. IMP dal t t e e g r cue, of Smithfield-bars, to Elizabeth 13ristoW, • of W. Taylor, Es of C 'den q., roy____:_____ nnestehrtaeser,,l3Eitis!..o,i,:oof;rigeliorior: •• . A DIED. ' 130 4 Or' On the 29th ult., Sir John Hamilton nigh, v l i ' o o G° On the 21st inst., at the Hague, Holland, " --. Dom" n wri : ili gh son t et o ro r t i tile tt: lo p: 01 Frederick, tenth Earl of Athlone. On the 25th inst., at Kemp- town, uses of Bristol, aged 69. ~A ire , 244- 4 0/ On the 234 inst., at Romsey, in Hai:or -13 W .-- P , Young, sen., Aldermen of the Corporation of t 4u ffuli‘t ~,, On the 24th inst., at Rose-hill, Nottidge, Esq., aged 82. 0 °1" 1 014 On the 24th inst., at Hollaxn House, li P" widow of the late J. Anderson, Esq. use-terracv, On the 24th inst ., at Carlton Hoo, Crockford, Esq., aged 69. Cap tain GOil 1 On the 24th inst., at Bethnall-green, otr e. ' men, aged 43. aro' • On the 25th inst., Harbut John W ard,Eoco 10° 1 Islington. op f W . e, On the 25th inst. , S amuel SaTag second so latt, Holborn-hill. „” 1f $ l7 _. . ' 11 $1 DO ----;f0 11 • f • ----- -------e, I 0.7 :1 0 : 11 London: Printed and Publialteel by* IS , OW* No. 112,. Strand, Pristar, at Vie SO i . Strand, in the p.regieot of to S afe ' .: , . • ',.: hliddleaeX, Tuaday, BUY 28,' . 1844. ... - liejormers LraZetiC. A.O GATHERINGS EXTRAORD INT .—, A venerable pair, man and wife, and Wl' i t ble respectable people, died lately in Galloway , 01 4 day of one another, whose effects, if brought ";01010 would furnish matter for one of the most f 4 catalogues that was, perhaps, ever subroitte".oo auctioneer to the attention of the public. A l l / c popular reports abroad on the subject, it is dinioeS arrive at the exact truth; but as we br ie f some pains to inquire into the facts 1 .0/r case, the following will be found a close tilla mation : —Deposits of siver coin, secretireopt places where no one would have ever e e f il lif of looking for such articles—one parcel ce r er 1 0 wrapped in a piece of rag, found in a cornn 6000 lumber-drawer, others in paper crammedrest': basket, or hid in outhouses or some equally ung,oo 9 ing corner. These coins appear to have been 3 P 1,10 from the light of day for a number of years! fTr SP, different values they represent, such as ls. I 2s. 6d., and 55., and had become in consegne l nisei r only tarnished, but nearly as black as so% f ltiO There were also gold coins, foreign as well as P . il l f est of very small values, up to 51., with a g• f riety of very different articles, the fancf . . ° Aiej parties appearing to have been, to have a 0 0 ' - ; o 9' of everything. Of these, let the following sP ec i i tap suffice :-8 richly-mounted riding-whips; ' 0 ; 1 : broken pieces of linen ; 30 pairs of good sh,,,e'lbs,a dozen of towels ; about 250 rich-coloured e si":. 10 ; gyi kerchiefs ; 3 dozen thimbles, of divers pairs of scissors, and 1 gold pair ditto ;40°410; ' silk stockings ; 30 gowns, made and unto or women's bonnets ; a let of shoe-makers spail threads, with bristles attached; coffin -lacing' of #3 great number of bottles of wine and sP irits .cl O qualities. Part of these were found in an old teA t supposed to contain nothing but rubb ish ; btioged the assistant to a professional gentleman, ell f, - / it ( 71 / 1 inventorying the effects, was directed t o thre bottles - , he drew from their hiding-places seventeen . itp sgS e o wine and spirits, some of the former oh:7, e lts,:i i But there was an endless array of other nje s L ine d i enumeration of which would occupy g eoe':s space, if not exhaust the patience of the ; reader. The husband, in this case, ~co was esse!,o, pigeon-fancier for many years, and , . he m o d very large collection of these birds, wint r ,d9 larly fed and cleaned with his own i cti o ' wy b o which included nearly all the varying breeds ro d the world ; and, although a lengthened r e a . sni ff intervened, we still recollect him Poi et tit elf/ curious fact in natural history—name l Y k yfost• fe y , time the turtle-clove coos, it lifts its had. also a number of fine canaries; but :his °{1)0 thered favourites have been dispersed, slee`viitbilibiti among friends and acquaintances residing' potti . locality which knew him so long and Courier. roff' SO • ISLINGTON LITERARY AND SCIENTI[II%O —The junior members of this Society meths Qt,iof evening, at Highbury, to commemorate A"coire,olt; Birth-day, W. H. Butterfield, Esq., son of o re e - sif terfield, in the chair. The usual loyal toasts. w ra ssfe.4 o That of Prince Albert, in connexion with l t ,lt h e o ircinhol art, was received with enthusiasm. The _ l l , s erce..ie the navy being proposed, took occasion to ea o w" if the wooden walls of Old England had 1* orbs fob maintain the supremacy of the seas, stirelP4tY e fo r and steam came into play, the skill and ing, e- occ e ," engineers and artificers would be eq uabY_ 0 ,9" This allusion to a recent brochure elicited we n 23°, 0 1 The Cheviots and other high grounds,!o‘,:eileiF and west have been, daring the presentwee'' with snow.-- 7 . Newcastle Journal. fo rt , BIRTHS. t, - o f On the 25th inst., in Upper Berkeley square,stree Mrs. Edmund Batten, of a daughter' c, On the 25th inst., at Thedden Graage, -11-ae 1 0 ' John Wood, Esq., of a son. 1011 On the 24th inst., at East Betford , the ° Hal On l, of a son. _ t . di e , the 24th inst., at Menabilly, Cornwall, oro, than Rashleigh, Esq., of a daughter. Nest er ' nfr On the 25th inst., at Launton Re ctory ' , cs-. Al On the of a son. ar 9ll' 0 25th inst., the wife of Thomas Bodg es a j, den, Esq of Ramsgate of a son On the 25th inst., at,Chigwell., Mrs. Gorgel3w. ° f Ail e 4 daughter. the 13(11 On the 25th inst., at Southamp ton, y . Giles, Esq., Civil Engineer, of a son and he ll 4. On the 26th inst., at Wharncliffe-terrace , par road, Mrs. T. Southey, of a daughter. " John 1;• On the 26th inst., in Finsbury-square, of a daughter. Middle" %, ) 0. On the 26th inst., at Alperton-place, p ony , Alder, of a son. gydr On the 27th inst., in Dorches ter- p lace, Henry Pyie, of a daughter. )0P r Ae, rei ?el JAI tie tio; Wll deb the th, eta V? 11 0 1 4 / Aar ; et ip on trio, ~A T ••• 1.1 r ~A . ~1 .~ 41 41 • CL t4 a , e 4 au) 4r, th , ht* ' t .A ‘l4,