The Sun. — London, England, 1839-10-26 00:00:00

competition for land, till at length there would be a ten siderable fall in the rent of land in Irelend, and the Irish peasant would rise in the scale of existence and be happy. " The evil, therefore, being in the competition for and consequent high rent of land, and as this evil can only t)e removed by a repeal o f- th e C orn -l aws , so is it of main Consequence that, as long as these laws exist, Ireland must be ruled by pl a i n d ownr i g h t f orce, or b y a variety of miser able tricks and expedient s a ll t erm i na t in g in a waste of money, a corr u pti on o f manners , an d t h e t o tal perversion of all sound public principle. To this pass, therefore, are things come, that, in otder to benefit a small knot of haughty, unfe e li ng , rapac i ous l an dl or ds, the well-being of millions is disregarded, famine and misery s . talk through the land, and all goo d governmen t in Ireland is impossible. " The third and last thing to be noticed is the . heavy tax imposed by the Corn-laws in the enhanced price of food, the consequence of which is, that so large a portion of the labour an d i nco me of the community being exp en d e d in the acq u i s iti on o f the bare necessaries of life, there re. mains less for other purposes, and the less, by consequence, is the power to pay the taxes of the Go vernment. " And therefore as, while the Corn-laws increase the public burdens, they not only diminish the income of the community, but also render that i ncome l ess productive, it is impossible for the wit of man or d ev il to devise a scheme of things more essentially pernicious and deadly destruc tive of the best interests of society." We have before now, we believe, put before our readers most of the points which Mr. PAGE puts to tersely and so clearly, and we have now his calm and deliberate sanction, and also that of the Times, for the name of "Devil's laws" which we gave to the Corn-laws. He defies even the wit or wickedness of the Devil to invent anything more mischievous. We have also expressly applied his argument res pecting Ireland to our own fever and filth-infected towns, and have charged the want of room, the disease and death mentioned by Dr. SMITH, and paraded by the Bishop of LONDON, on the refusal to allow corn to be imported, which Mr. PAGE justly describes as a refusal to allow land to be imported. But we hail his illustration of Ireland as exceedingly apposite at this moment, because we see that Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN, M.P., has just issued a " long and elaborately drawn manifesto to the Electors of ' the County of Limerick," in which he defends his vote against Mr. VILLIERS' motion, on the ground that it would injure agricultural labourers. Ac cording to this landlord, it is beneficial to the farmers and labourers of Ireland to pay their idle landlords 20 or 40 per cent, more for their land than they would have to pay were the Corn-laws abolished. Mr. PAGE would teach him better ; but landlords, we have long been convinced, are so blinded by their stupid selfishness, that they are wholly incapable of learning. They may be taught by some convulsion, when it will be too late to learn to any profit ; but till that comes, they will learn nothing. Mr. O'BRIEN would have the Irish go on growing lumpers by grubbing up the earth with their miserable instruments, and so com peting with one another for a scanty and wretched subsistence, instead of allowing their land, if that would be the most profitable, to be converted into pasture, while they obtained an abundance of food and clothing by using the admirable mechanical contrivances of modern ingenuity. Mr. O ' BRIEN, like the writer in the Herald, avows that his object—and the object of the law—is to keep up prices, while the sole end and object of all the ingenious inventions, and of the striving and struggling of modern times, is to reduce them, so as to bring food, clothing, comforts, and luxuries, within the reach of a greater and greater number of well provided human beings. Against this law of human nature,—the prin ciple of all social improvement, —the source of all the increasing supply of the wants of man, the i2orn-law is avowedly erected as a barrier. It is not to check vice or crime, but the progress of so ciety. When such devilish laws constitute the practice of Legislators, how can they wonder that devilish theories fill the hearts of their subjects ? To be consistent as long as they preserve the Corn laws, stopping the increase of food, they ought to patronise the doctrines of MARCUS, and authorise the establishment of OWENIsM, in order to put a stop to competition, and the increase of the species. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT GARDEN. UNDER TILE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME N'ESTIIN THIS EVENING S:ATURD.AY, Cm 26, 1839, THE FOURTH CLYMPIC NIGHT, Will be acted the ilurletta of YOU CAN'T MARRY YOUR GRANDMOTHER. Sir Robert Bloomli, Mr. W. Farren ; Algernon Bloomly, Mr. Charles slat;hCws ; Tom Swan, Mr. Keeley ; Ready, Mr. James Vining; Susan Trim, Mr. Orger; Emma Mel ille, Madame Vestris. After which. ADVICE GRATIS. Mr. Odbodv, Mr. W. Farrel, ; Mr. Eventide, Mr. F. Mat thews; Mrs. Eventide, Mrs. Orger. To which will be added, ONE HOUR! OR, A CARNIVAL BALL! Mr. Charles Swiftly, Mr. Charles Mathews! Miss Dalton, Madame Vestris. To coucluril with a Purletta called A QUIET DAY. Mr. Augustus Somerday, Mr. Keeley; Mrs. Somerday, Mrs. Orger. On Monday, Artaxerxes, with Ask No Questions, and The Queen's Horse. On Tuesday, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, with Why Don't Yon Marry ? and Dr. Dilworth. Dress Boxes, is; s=econd PHee, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles. ss. ; Second Price, -2:-. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-pa.,:. Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Cluck. „... Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Box-offlee, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bead-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, The production ut Ainsworth's " Jack Sheppard," hag attracted complete overflows, and been pronounced to he :.he greatest achievement ever yet attempted, it will consequently be acted every Evening. THIS EVENING, OCT. 23, Will be acted, Ainswrwth's celebrated Drama of JACK SH EPPARD. Illustrating all Cruikshanks' inimit - able Tableaux Vivant. Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Heslop, Laws, Smith, Ross, Neville; Mrs. Vining, Mxs., Daly, Miss Martin, Miss Grant, M►s. Laws, &c. To conclude with tl-.a Comic Drama ettitled THE SPtCTEiE ERIDEGIIOO3I. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We arc obliged by " Agens' " Communication, but we shall be unable to find room for it. The paragraphs, of which Mr. Scales complains in his letter to the Morning Chronicle, did not appear in The Sun, and we cannot, therefore, see any necessity for inserting it. - - - - - - Flinn WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 10.110ftROW %turning 2i minutes after 4. t Evening .4g minutes after 5. o\r_ 2 'l , ; • 4.4, , Q , 4lt> LONDON : SA,"DURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1839. We have f oun d another ,.-- able auxiliary in our war against the Corn-laws iit a Mr. RICHARD PAGE, a gentleman well knoNn for his talents in the City of London, and who has, we believe, for some years past been the financial oracle of the Times. By that Joutnal yesterday extracting some of Mr. PAGE'S rerAarks on the effects of the Corn law, we conclude. that it is not yet converted to that part of the To ;y creed which declares it right to starve the P . Jol,ie to enrich the landowners. But unless it adopt that, we can inform the Times, that all its services to Toryism will be of no avail, It may bawl for the Church till even the priesthood will be tired of hearing the iteration ; it may rave against the Whigs till even the Tories shall think they are enough abused ; but these emin en t serv i ces w ill not suffice to procure 1 the favour of either tithe-lords or landlords, unless it also make common cause with them in uphold ing that law which is the means of maintaining ~their superiority, and starving the people. The ,'Times ca nnot serve G on and INIANtmoN, and it must either follow the Herald, the Post, and the Standard, and defend the Tory starvation-law, or It must give up, and be given up by those Tories to please whom its columns are now daily filled with the most virulent abuse of their opponents. Mr. PAGE'S opinion, as quoted in the Times, is very strong against the Corn-laws. " The Corn-laws," he says, " limit the market for the products of our manufacturing industry, they lower profit and wages, and so diminish the income of the community, And this both absolutely and proportionally. There is les* trade, and this trade is carried on at a reduced rate of P r rfit, sad so that, to all the extent of the diminution of Itn Y l e.t, our absolute income is diminished at the same rate l ' u t ,, P r ofit. and, to all the extent of the lowering of profits r proportional income is diminished upon the same ! a mouilt ut trad e . atoll of tr,de Consequentotherwise,increase on the repeal of the Corn-laws, wo uld i i , b y ,...,nan u..crease in the total income of the com munity,? pn.fit. A nd b.. a t r u . e r, re shoul d be no rise in the . rate of in the income Y of ofthie,rprofits there would be an increase oniiii,unity, if even there should be I no extension of trade: income, consequent then, must be the in when,crease of bu t ( . goent on a repeal of the iCorm laws, there would be 1. arise of profits and an extension of trade ! 1 4, Secondly, the Corn laws cease an addition to the Go i vernment taxes, and this is in N o w ay ,. 1 I. By increasing the expenditure of the Govedrnment 1 in their purchases of provisions for the army ev a e n n nayy. r This increase amounts to a considerable sum in time i of peace, and in aver It would he enormous. 2. By rendering all government in Ireland impracti table, except by means o f a nii:Aary force, which is the cc. casicn of taxes; or the jobbing expenditur e of large suns of money For the prosecution of what ar e called public welks ; and this again is the recasion ,:f taxes. Now, that this proceeds from the Corn -laws may very easily be made appear, for it rout be plain to every on , who will but for a moment turn his reflections on the mat ter. that the a lone original cause of the distress of the Irish peasantry, and which in very fact ocea_ ! sion3 m ore m i ser y to b e crowded into one single p: -o vine° of Ireland th an in ail the rest of Europe together,put p is the ex cess i ve corn petition for land ; and for this there neither i s nor can be hut one remedy, and that is to in -1 Crease the quantity . Now, this would immediately be ac t complished by a repeal of the Ci.rn-laws ; for, as to im port corn is virtually to import the land which produced that corn, so i.; it clear that every importation of corn cr fo:ed of any description is a virtual addition to the produc tive soil of the country. " And therefore, as the more corn we imported in re- I turn for our m anufactures, the greater virtually would be I the quantity of land imported, so the less also would be the We understand that Colonel CUNNINGHAM and Lieutenant-Colonel Sir F. SMITH, of the Royal Engineers, and Mr. BARLOW, of the Royal Military College at Woolwich, are appointed Com missione►s, in pursuance of the Address of the House of Commons, to inquire into, and report on the different proposed Railway communications between London and Edinburgh. It will be seen, by a communication that appears in another part of The Sun of this day, that a Grand Fancy Ball and Concert are to take place on the fourteenth of November, at Guildhall, for the benefit of the Polish Refugees. This is an excellent suggestion, and will, we trust, be taken up and followed out with spirit, for the best feelings of humanity are interested in its suc cess. No nation on the face of the earth have such strong claims on our sympathies, as the Poles. Their name is a synonyme for free dom ; they have fought and bled in the same righteous cause to which our own energies have ever been unremittingly devoted ; and the only dif ference between us is, that we have succeeded, and they have failed, in the struggle. In proportion as we set a high value upon freedom, should we sympathize with those Polish patriots who have made so many efforts, against over whelming odds, to secure the inestimable boon. If they be now beset by poverty, and the thousand evils which that gaunt spirit never fails to bring in its train, it is because they have held fast by the right cause ; and because in their extreme need they have resisted all the golden induce ments which their Russian oppressor would gladly have held out, as the price of Polish apos tacy. A Pole in rags is —in the pre sent situation of that country—a far prouder spectacle than a Pole glittering with Stars and Orders. His very destitution is his noblest badge of honour. It proves him to be steadfast—incor ruptible ; the sworn foe of despotism —the tried friend of freedom. Honour, we say, to such men : They are worthy of all admiration ; and sorry indeed, and disheartened should we be, did we think it likely we should ever see the day when Englishmen would fail to sympathize warmly in their behalf. It is appropriately remarked in the recent Num ber of the Edinburgh Review, a propos of WILKES, that tyranny always seeks to strike at liberty through the sides of some one of her unworthy votaries. WILKES was an immoral man, and the Government of his day thought it might establish a precedent with regard to him, which it would not venture to attempt in regard to a man of better character and reputation. Something of the same kind happens in our day, but with some differences. The Chartists are not immoral, but they are ex tremely unpopular. So far as finding support in the country, they are worse off than WILKEs, and in their persons liberty—so far as that is protected by our laws and institutions—seems likely to be severely wounded. The Government is not in clined to oppress them, but the bulk of the middl e classes are terrified at them. Between them and the Government, as between the Govern ment and WILKES, there has been no per sonal quarrel ; it only allows the law to take its course, but the subordinate administrators of the law, catching the sentiments of that class amongst whom they live, and of whom they arc, execut e it with severity or carelessness, which in other cases they would avoid. Our Paper yester day ref erre d to two such cases,. those of Messrs. LOVETT and COLLINS and of Now, but f or t h e unpopularity of i t r cle i s 3 e . °.l3 individuals ilik:N. amongst the classes who usually Give th e i m p u l se to public opinion —and unpopularity in its ell.L . ' " cases would the same as a bad reputation those ery general in have excited, we have no doubt, a v dignation, and the Warwick Magistrates, as well as the Police Magistrates and Inspectors, would have been loudly denounced. We did our duty by re probating both these infractions of popular rights at the time they first took place, bUt some experience having convinced Us that public writers cannot create a general feeling contrary to the conviction and prejudices of the public, we have not dwelt on the theme. The public would not have gone with us, and we should have wasted space that has, we hope, been employed in enforcing acceptable truths or conveying useful information. The Tory journals, however, seeing in Mr. B. O'BRIEN's letter a vehement attack on the Whigs, have pointed it against the Ministers. They ought to have proved that the Ministers had been forward in ordering his arrest, or in treating him with indig nity. The fact is not so. Mr. B. O'BRIEN is the victim of the strong hatred of popular rights, and of every approach to democracy, which the To ries have carefully nourished. Of the injustice of their journalists, and of their hatred to those prin ciples which Mr. B. O'BRIEN advocates, though they make use of him, their silence regarding the severer treatment of :Messrs. LOVETT and COLLINS is a convincing proof. They are the deadly enemies of the cause in which Mr. O'BRIEN is engaged, though they use his complaints to attack the Ministers. One of them goes so far as to declare that the Torics cannot innocently look on the punishment of the Chartists while they tolerate, that is, do not im peach, the Ministers. The Standard flatters the Chartists by affirming that the Ministers should be punished. They have transgressed no sworn law, and the stickler for law, when his own personal views are opposed, blames the Ministers for merely causing the laws to be executed, and would make a law to hang them. Such barefaced perver- sions of all the usual principles of the Tories, to serve a momentary purpose, will not de ceive the Chartists. The conduct of the Standard is a good evidence of the baseness of the Tories, not of their desire to protect freedom. The fact is that the Ministers on this subject have acted on a Tory sentiment, have executed a Tory law, and are supported by the Tories throughout the country. Were the Tories in heir places, grape shot would be substituted for indictments, and charges of cavalry would be the mode of seizing those Chartists whom they would transport for life, or consign to an infamous death at the gallows. We detest the unnecessary seve rity, not to say cruelty, of which Mr. B. O'BRIEN complained ; and we detest the severity with which a more worthy man than Mr. O'BRIEN, Mr. LOVETT has been treated ; but we are well con vinced that had the Tories been in office the seve rity of the Whigs would have been gentleness itself compared to the mercy of the Tories. When not one Tory journal said a word about the Chartists, except to aggravate their offences, and stimulate the Government to institute prosecutions, we opposed with all our power the assaults that were made on public liberty through them. The Chartists will not for one moment, therefore, sus pect us of deserting that cause when we warn them that the pretended sympathy of the Tories for them and Mr. O'BRIEN is meant, if possible, to make them instrumental in re-establishing the Tory tyranny, which is ten times worse than the govern ment of the Whigs. It will be seen from a report in another part of the Paper, that a meeting has been held in the City, for the purpose of presenting to the LORD MAYOR some testimonial of gratitude for the ad mirable manner in which he has performed his official duties. There can be but one opinion on this subject among the great majority of the citi zens of London, and, we may add, of the inhabi tants of the Metropolis. He has been assiduous in his duty—impartial in the administration of justice, active in discovering and redressing abuses, and although said to be strongly attached to Tory po litics, he has not, in any one instance, come forward as a partisan, or forgotten thegreat object for which a Chief Magistrate is appointed, the wel-being of his fellow-citizens of all classes, sects, and parties. For the discharge of one part of his Magisterial office he deserves the highest praise. From the commencement of his Mayoralty, and we may now say, to the end, he has exert e d himself unceasingly to put down an abominable monopoly which has robbed the inhabitants of Lon don of some 500,0001. annually, and caused dis ease, and in many instances death, among the half-fa mished poor. He did this, too, at the expense of pri vate friendship, and with the certainty of dire hos tility from a most powerful body, who were interested in upholding the abuse, and who consequently left no scheme untried to defeat his object. This is an example which, we trust, will be imitated ; and for this humane, generous, and fearless con duct, no honour the inhabitants of London can confer, would, by unprejudiced persons, be con sidered misplaced. The Baptist Ministers of Jamaica, as ourr cadets are aware, lately presented an Address to the Go vernor of that Colony, as a mark of respect on his retirement from his office, during the continuance of which lie had thrown over them the shield of his protection against the furious enmity of the planters and their servants. To this Address Sir LIONEL SMITH made a reply which is worthy of notice, not for the pretended sensation which it has excited among the opponents of negro emancipation in Jamaica, but for the evidence which it contains of the falsification of all those prophecies of miscon duct on the part of the blacks, with which th e abettors of slavery made the welkin ring on both sides of the Atlantic, and for the well-grounded hope which it holds out of the permanent prospe rity of that Island under a system of free labour. Both these documents will be found in anothe r part of The Sun. The Address, while it bears testimony to the im portant services which Sir LIONEL SMITH has . rendered to the cause of humanity, and to the in terests of the Colony, by the manner in which he has discharged the duties of his high office, natu rally deplores the loss of such a Governor at a time when the Ministers of the Baptist persuasion are at the mercy of their bitter enemies—entirely defenceless, and without the least protection from the law. How can this be, it may perhaps be asked ? How can it happen that any portion of the community can be without protection from the law ? Let the contu macious Assembly of Jamaica answer the ques tion. These magnanimous legislators of Lilliput have placed their functions in abeyance, have re fused to make any of those alterations in the civil polity of the island, which the change from slavery to freedom demanded. Hence it is that every office of trust is in the hands of the whites, almost all of whom are in the slavery interest. Hence it is that the tried friends of the negroes, " through good report and through bad report"—the Baptist ministers, are at the mercy of juries selected from among their relentless enemies, many of whom, their address states, have violated the solemn sanc tion of an oath to gratify their feelings of hostility towards them. that smells so rank in the nostrils of planters, attor nies, and overseers. These petty tyrants had made the negroes brutes, and wished to keep them so tile ilaptist missionaries inculcated the doctrine that the negroes were men, and made them Christians. Can we wonder that they are hated and persecuted by those who have set both humanity and Chris tianity systematinily t deBatice While, however, the missionaries have the testi mony of their own consciences to the rectitude of their course, the proof of the efficacy of their noble labours afforded by the conduct of the negro popu lation, and the evidence of such men as Sir LIONEL SMITH in favour of their meritorious exertions, they may smile at the calumnies of their persecu tors. " Where," asks the Governor, " are the vagrants ? Where the squatters ? Where the injuries against the properties or the per sons of white men ? Out of the 300,000 op pressed slaves let loose in one day to equal rights and liberty, not a human being that mass has committed himself in any of those dreaded of aces. The admirable conduct of the peasantry in such a crisis, has constituted a proud triumph to the cause of religion ; and those who contributed to enlighten them in their moral duties, through persecutions, insults, and dangers, have deserved the regard and esteem of the good and the just in all Christian countries." In the next paragraph of the answer we find the only means described by which the estates of the absentee proprietors can ever be expected to yield anything like a profitable return. The great error into which they have fallen—the cause of the re luctance which has been manifested by the negroes in certain quarters to work, is the continuing of such persons in the management of properties, as have rendered themselves obnoxious by their ty ranny, or by their fraudulent conduct in their trans actions with the black population. A change, for the better, in this respect, Sir LIONEL SMITH states, is already in progress. When it is com pleted, then, and not till then, will Jamaica be productive and prosperous. Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 17th instant, have come to hand. Several addresses were presented to the Cortes by provincial Corpo rations, thanking them for unanimously adopting the resolution of the 7th for maintaining the fueros inviolate. The address i❑ answer to the Speech from the Throne was read in the Chamber of Deputies on the 16th, but as it has yet to be adopted by that assembly we shall take no further notice of it save that it is entirely in unison with the conciliatory spirit displayed by the represen tative body since the opening of the Chambers. ESPARTERO was on the 16th at Muniesa. The cause of this hostility, however the planters may strive to keep it in the back ground, is ex plained in a single line of Sir LIONEL S m TH'S reply. telk the Ministers that they have " iaised the negroes from the mental degradations of slavery to the cheering obligations of Christiariity." " Thus," he con tinues, were the negrocs "taught that patient cn• durance of evil which has so materially contributed to the general tranquillity." This is the offence The French Government, alarmed at the earnest ness with which the Liberal journals have de nounced the granting of passports to DON CARLos, annowiees, through the official columns of the Monitero. of Thursday, that the report cf passports having been forwarded to the Pretender is unfounded. We are very glad of this ;as the liberation of CARLOS at the present moment would greatly embarrass the Queen's Government, and most probably lead to the commission of more frightful atrocities than have yet taken place in Spain. But though the passports have not been actually forwarded, a correspondent of the Com merce, writing from Vienna, under date of the 10th inst., informs that journal, that the liberation of the Pretender has been settled for some time between the Cabinets of Paris and Vienna Never were the Conferences between the" French Ambassador anti the Imperial Ministry more frequent than since the arrival of CARLOS at Bourges. Notwithstanding the personal incapacity of the Pretender, and the cruelties of his Generals, which have always received his direct sanction, he is still, as the representative of Absolutism, a pro digious favourite with the Great Northern Powers even more so than the illustrious " by courtesy" Duke of CUMBERLAND and Autocrat of all the Hanoverians, boors, burghers, and Professors. The writer further states that Count DE ST. Au- LAiltE, the French Minister, had assented to the propositions of Austria and Russia relative to CARLOS, and that orders had been given to provide apartments at Salzburg for the Pretender and his family. The French Government does not seem to perceive that the drift of the Northern Powers in giving an asylum to Pretenders to the thrones of France and Spain, is neither more nor less than to secure the means of . exciting at ally moment, civil wars in these countries, should they incur the hostility of the Absolutists. The Commerce publishes the following letter from Perpignan, dated the 17th instant, giving an account of the capture of Moya and Castel Tersol by the Carlists, under Count D'ESPAGNE : " On the 10th inst., at nine in the morning, the Count D'Espagne appeared before Moya and summoned the place to surrender. The inhabitants having refused to open their gates, the Carlist artillery opened a fire upon the forti fications. The breach soon became practicable, the esca lade was ordered, and the town taken by assault, and all the inhabitants fell by the sword. A part of the Christino garrison retreated to the convent of Escolapios (Brethren of the Christian Doctrine) and to the church. The walls of the convent were sufficiently stron g to protect the sol diery. The Count D'Espagne, to avoid bloodshed, then sent a young Chartist chief to propose a capitulation. The Chris tines, in the hope of bein g reinforced, detained the envoy for a considerable time, but at length sent him back ; but scarcely had he left the convent when a general discharge of musketry from the Christinos laid him dead on the field. The exasperated Carlists flew to arms, scaled the wa►ls with ladders, and, in spite of the courageous defence made by the garrison, they got possession of the roof, and massacred without mercy the 300 Christinos who had taken Vefuge there. Those who were barricaded in the church, seeinglhat all resistance would be in vain, proposed a capi tation, which was granted, and they, to the number of 150, laid down their arms, and were taken as prisoners to Berge ; the town was then given over to the license of the Carlist soldiers, who first sacked and then burnt it. • " From Moya the Count D'Espagne marched on Castel Tcrsol. There he was received by the ecclesiastical chief and the authorities at the head of the people, who, dread ing to share the fare of Moya and many other places, had signified to the Christino garrison that they would not defend the town, and that they wished to open the gates to the Carlist General. But the Count D'Espagne was not satisfied with this actof submission. He demanded that all the armed men should be sent out of the place. These, to the number of between 150 and 200, presented themselves before the Count D'Espagne, who said to them, • I order you to return to your homes henceforth, to occupy yourselves in agricultural pursuits. Lay down your arms, which were never intended for you._ remain quiet, and no harm shall be done to you.' During these expeditions the Cariist Brigadier Thanes surprised a part of the garrison of "alai, and took the pri soners to Berge. " The Carlists have gained upwards of 1,000 muskets in these affairs, which will serve to arm the recruits which are flocking to their standard. They have also taken 1,200 prisoners, and Cabrera and the Count D'Espagne are both resolved to resist to the last." The Capitole, a Russian organ, has a long article, intended to show that England is greatly inferior to Russia as a Naval Power : " England possesses but the powerless wreck of her once formidable navy. Of 65 ships of the line, with which, by rebaptizing them twice or thrice a.year, she contrives to swell her nary list, 50 are unfit for service ; 40 of them have been rebuilt or recast (ref ondus) three times, the rest twice. Si x only, and they ate the best in the eastern squadron, are on their first timbers, and may consequently be deemed to be at least 15 years old. Of the 50 held in reserve, but which are totally unserviceable, four are guard ships. The rest are preserved in the dockyards, like the mummies that are to be found in our museums. " Of the 12 under the orders of Admiral Stopford, and three which have been fitting out since the middle of Jun e last, the c rews consist of 7,500' men only, being about the complement necessary for seven sail of the line in time of war. Of the 140,000 seamen who man the commercial navy of England, only 45,000 are Englishmen, while of the 120,000 w hi ch man the merchant ships of the United States, 50,000 are British, 20,000 French, and 10,000 Ger mans, Italians, or P ortuguese . " Russia has twenty 'ail of the line in the Baltic. i n her ports on the Black Sea, in three divisions, twenty. six, all armed and equipped. Five only of these have been remodelled. The rest have come off the stocks within these twelve years. This gives forty-six sail of the line new, or nearly so, but at least perfectly solid. The mean number of seamen on board these vessels is 700 —total 34,960, or four times the number on board the British fleet. " To sum up—Decrepitudc, weakness, poverty, insolence, hatred, ill-will, selfishness, on the one side ; on the other —youth, health, vigour, strength. Russia possesses not only her ancient limits, but, if necessary, the division and the domination of the world." Such is Russia's estimate of our naval strength, Tlll2. SUN, LoNboN. sATfuttbAy, CerOBER 26, 1839 and were it correct we would res - son to be alarmed. But though our Navy is not in so good a condition as we desire to see it, and as it must St:drily IY! , :c..rrie under the present Administra tion of that department, it is giiil r bOcrfrAl enough to enable us to laugh at the vauntings of Russia. There is no domestic news in the French Jour nals. The publication of the King of HOLLAND'S Speech caused a slight decline in the price of the Dutch funds on Thursday. Mr. CLARKSON and Mr. DOANE conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. Sergeant A NuttEws and Mr. BODKIN appeared for the prisoner. Mr. CLARKSON stated the case to the Jury. The melancholy circumstances to which he had to call the attention of the Court had arisen out of a transaction which took place at sea as long ago as the 14th of April last. He appeared on behalf of the brother of the deceased, who was Captain of the barque the Secret, which left Liverpool in October last, bound for Valparaiso and Guyaquil. The vessel having effected the purposes for which it had gone, was upon its return homeward, in about twenty degrees south latitude, at the southern extremity of the coast of Peru, when the shocking act took place, for the commital of which the prisoner was placed at the bar. At this time the crew of the ship consisted of a number of seamen, a passenger, of the name of Hunsworth and his lady, and another passenger of the name of Barnard, who had undertaken to work a passage home. It, appeared that for some reason or other the prisoner had been flogged more than once by the order of the captain ; and upon the evening of the 13th of April he had been subjected to that discipline in consequence of some irregularity. The mate of the vessel, George Minty, on the 14th, had performed his duty of the early watch, and had gone to bed, and while there was awakened from his sleap by dreadful cries and screams from the captain's cabin. Upon hearing these the mate rushed out of bed, and went to the cap tain's cabin ; in doing which he passed the prisoner, who had a dagger and pistol in his hand. The Learned Counsel then proceeded at considerable length to detail the facts of the case, which were fully detailed by the following evidence which he called : George Minty examined by Mr. DOANE—In the month of October, 1838, was mate on board the Secret Arthur White, the deceased, was Captain at that time. She was bound for Valparaiso and Guyaquil, where she arrived on the Ist of March, 1839. The prisoner joined the vessel at Guyaquil as steward. On the 13th of April they were about 20 south latitude off the coast of Peru. Recollected the prisoner at the bar being flogged by order of deceased. Witness had the middle watch on the 14th, and at four o'clock in the morning went off duty and got into bed. Was awakened s hortly after by loud screams from the captain's state cabin, to which witness instantly went. On going along he passed the prisoner, who bad a dagger in one hand and a pistol in the other ; he said if any person came near him he would shoot them, blow their brains out, or stab them. When he went into , the captain's cabin he saw him sitting upright in hia bed, with a large dagger which helone , :ed to him in his hand ; that dagger was safe ia witness's room when he went to bed. The captain's feet were out of bed, there was no pistol there. The dagger now produced was the MAN SION-H OUSE—(THIS DAY.) EXTRAORDINARY CASE. -- A respectable-looking young man, whose name, under the circumstances, we refrain from publishing, was brought up, charged with having stolen 1501. George Oyler Thirtell, of Steplehurst, Kent, gave the following evidence :—About twelve months ago he came to London on business, and soon after his arrival met with a person in the Borough , named Richardson, whom he had previously known. During the week following they met several times, and one day went together to Shadwell. On returning, they called at a public-horse in Ratcliffe -highway, and I had something to drink. The prisoner was there, seem ingly very elated. He said he was almost intoxicated with joy at something that had occurred that morning. He proceeded to say, that his father had died without a will, and left only him and an elder brother —that he had come to London, and his lawyer had found out that the elder brother was born a few days previous to wedlock—(Laughter)—and therefore that all the property would come to him. Thirtell—We had three glasses of brandy and cloves, or gin and peppermint ; I don't recollect which. The Loan MAYoß—Either of them are good things for the purpose they had in view. Thirtell—We dined at an eating-house , and the pri soner paid for the dinner, he was so rejoiced. The Loan MAYOE—I. should think you rejoiced wise in meeting so good a companion.—( Laughter.) Thirtell—After dinner we went out, and the priso ner wanted to treat us with some wine. I said I would not take advantage of him—(Laughter)—but had no objection to take a glass of brandy. We went to the George and Dragon, in Toole -street, and had some brandy and water, into which something was put, which I caused me to feel very much overcome in a short time, butn of enough tot:ake my intellects a way.—(Laughter.) The prisoner said, " Perhaps I am doing very wrong in coining among strangers in this way, for my lawye r said I was to take care, and keep respectable company -(Great laughter.) I would spend one hundred pounds freely among men of respectability, who would not take advantage of me ; I don't mind giving you five pounds a piece, to give away to the poor of the parish."—(Laughter.) Richardson said we had protected him in his property, and were re spectable men, and produced some money. I went to the bank and fetched three 50/. notes, which I showed to them, and then put the notes in my pocket. I was about to go back to ' the bank when the prisoner pulled out his money, and said, ~ I shall have mine doubled up and put in my watch-pocket. Won't you have yours done in the same way ? Richardson, double his ul ) I' I took the notes out of my pocket and was goin to double them up when Richardson caught boldg of them and doubled them up before m y eyes , and put them, as I thought, in my pocket—(Laugh ter) —and we then walked out together. When we got outside the prisoner said, " I've left my gloves on the table ;" and being nearest the door, I turned back to fetch them. .. The Loan MAYOR—It was uncommonly polite on your part..—( Laughter.) Thirtell—Too much so, my Lord, for on my return they had both bolted, and I have never seen either Of them until I met the prisoner this morning. The prisoner, in his defence, denied all knowledge of the transaction, and said that he had been in the ernPlnY of a respectable firm until within the last few mouths. The Loan MAYOR thought there must be some leis' take as to the identity of the party. He was liberated on entering into his own reeogn iz ances for his appearance on Tuesday next. The Earl o — f Derby is now at Knowsley the possession of better health than for som e time past. Should the Noble Earl continue in the enjoy ment of .e good a state of health he will be in town early in t 4 so ensuing spring. don Viscount Falkland will leave the Clsren Park In Hotel on Tuesday next for the south of France, where Lady .Falkland and his Lordship's son are awaiting hi e s return from Windsor Castle. The Noble Lord cam, up to town by the Great Western Railway to the prorogation as ene of the Lords Commissioners. e The marriage of Lord Glenlyon and Miss Honl Drummond will be solemnized early in th e approacbiot week, at Dunkeld, Perthshire. ' r ite REDBOURNE HALL, NEAR BRIGG .--- Muria Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's arrived, on TuestlaY last, from Holly Lodge, Highgate, for the winter. Lord Francis Egerton and Lady Charlotte Gre vile have arrived at Bridgewater House, from Worstel Hall, Lancashire. Lord Francis Egerton, with Le rd Evelyn and the Hon. Mr. Wortley , were to have sailed from Lisbon last week for Gibraltar and Cadiz. , L EAMINGT ON SPA, OCT. 24.—The Earl an U Countess of Cork, who have been residing here a few weeks, have taken their departure from Marston Hous e, their seat near Frome. Lord and Lady Barham, ac companied by the Hon. C. Noel, have arrived from Ss' ton-park, Rutlandshire, but leave to-morrow for 0 100 ** cestershire. Lord Blaney, Lord and Lady Harley. Colonel and Lady Sophia Des Vceux, Lord Saye and Sele, Sir Thomas Cochrane, M.P., Lady Palmer, the Hon. Lindsey Burrell, Sir Edward and Lady Hamilton,_ &c., are among our recent arrivals. The Countess of Charlemont, Lady Elizabeth Clement s, Sir Alexaneyt„. and Lady Bannerman, the Hon. Captain Bruce, and Lady Caroline Pechell, Lord and Lady N Nev_ip t, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Tollemache , Lor d Sinclair, IP count and Viscountess Dillon. . RAMSGATE.—Her Royal Highness the Print' cess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester honoured the WO of Ramsgate on Thursday last, by a visit to their ne w hall, for the purpose of inspecting the portrait of he r Majesty, painted by Mr. W. Fowler, and recentlY placed their by Royal permission. Her Royal High ness was received by the Deputy, Richard TomsoN Esq., the Rev. G. W. Sickleniore, Vicar of St. Law rence, the Commissioners of the town , and the or trait Committee. The Princess was pleased to e%Pr ess her entire concurrence in the opinion s o universally ea- tertained of the excellence of the liken e s s to her M jesty, her admiration at the taste disp la y ed in the frame n and drapery (the style of Lou is Quatorze), ad her thanks to the gentlemen composing the Committee (wh o were severally introduced by the Deputy, and the Vicar of St. Lawrence, to her Royal Highness) for the atten tions paid to her.—Kentish Times. NEW ORGAN.—We are glad to hear that the inhabitants of St. Peter's, Cornbill, are about to erect an organ on the German scale, in their parish church. and that they have already liberally subscribed upwards of 3001. towards this desirable object. We believe there is not any instrument on this plan in any of the metropolitan churches, notwithstanding the high terms in which the organ erected by Messrs. Gray for the Grand Festival held in Exeter Hall in 1836, was spoken of by Mr. Gauntlett in the pages of the " Musical World," and by the writers of the different notices which appeared in the various journals of that time: We trust the example thus set will be speedily followe d by other parishes in the city of London, where new in' btruments are so much required.—Musical World. APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen to whom the Court of Examiners granted certificates o qualification on Thursday :—Charles Radclyffe Dell' Congleton ; Jukes Stirrop, Worcester ; John Turner, Macclesfield ; Alfred William Warder ; Joseph VV„II .. ner Hodson, Staines : Charles James Freeman D" ward 'Tye Woodward, Liverpool ; Samuel CromPon' Manchester ; and Robert Nesbitt Robson, Durham.,, The merchants of Harnburb are about to bull, ste. :m-vessels to keep up an additional and continua ' mennu „.,cation between that port and Hull. A Corresplondent of a Contemporary, Or t i ll : Dorset Chronicle, cites the following remarkable _se stance of animal spivs:thy :—" Walking lately t‘ilre'lls, the ground usually called ti,e Bishop's Park at t, when, on the evening of a day which had been WY we h which within about twenty yards of the deep tie" . al parts, runs through and divides it into two nearly 0ft'1 .. ..-.,_ an d I saw a full-grown mare standing what then appeared to me (for I could but just ci f . olo part of its head and neck) to be her colt, falleon_J.., on its margo;:eern the trench, and unable to tree itself, on account f r t . : soft slimy bank which it had to climb. I walked::;, ward—the mare did not recede, but seorsed more e a :, nest and agitated as I approached. I stood still . t i r t:_; , five yards of her, and observed that there was do_ her if not agony, in her demonstrations. I then noticed, '',:, grasping within her teeth the mane of the ject of her solicitude, twist most dexterously a I 6 : 1 S 0 111 of' its flowing hair round her mouth, plant her fee t - , e to in the ground, and with all her strength struggl,o effect the captive's liberation. After much slA' s j e st i and slipping, and straining and groaning. she W a ll e t I helpieSS,ttlvit in dragging the captive up the bank ; and then i ' v ' a o ld had supposed to be her colt I perceived to be a n or blind horse ! They stood for an instant as if to mutual from . exhaustion, and to exchange an emotion of of brute joy. I was much charmed with this display °` ; c oal, sympathy, and sprang forward to caress the kind an d the but the mare bounded away into the open field , 00 t er, poor blind horse followed the sound of her foots, f e lt until I saw them quietly. grazing in the distance. ~,_.."-..in.„ instructed,as I walked away, meditating upon that g : b 1 ,51 ture which says—" Ask the beasts of the field, th e - . teach thee. " . ' . ~, this DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Last nig-. _... i. d theatre was lit up, preparatory to its being. 01 3 7 . ,a this evening ; and the interior, after the cleaning_ and this 1 redecorating that it has undergone, has a most p il e 1., and beautiful appearance. The seats have been _ ; f f . covered, as well as the rails on the front of the I: o 7 . i. _ v te The boxes also have been new papered, and the p e !_ d boxes re-decorated. The ceiling has been clean_ claire, re•touched ; and from the brilliant light of the lob. bies and the saloon have been fitted up in eel .st her the most agreeable effect is produced. tThheerniost elegant style, and certainly, as far as the arran t g e eli a.. and decoration of the theatre are concerned, h 'n il credit. We sincerely thruisstbehset : I s . finangdeirlids ersaetrhersiciavzearyrdous enterprise answer pectations.of de t b h t e s ' Muctholottasof been h o e said jost i y n , p som y e po quarter s e o f s the . ,_. ._paymen hold from her Majesty the credit justly due of the late Duke of , York. . have no desirteo tsouevelilteno act of grace. But it should not be lost sight of tha. t the Duke's executors had succeeded in hance*: 1 _ 1 : establishing their claims against the Crown to. theitnninoecs of Cape Breton, as comprised in a grant of the ad cf the province of Nova Scotia, which the CroV wn made to the Duke for 60 Years from 1826. , TO Isse' re d must have either paid the 'Duke's debt.s. 0r.13,41 4, 5e the mines tobe worked for the benefit of the ,e . te?5 140 ../' --- , Morniny Post. '".-se EVENING EDITION. SECRETARY WANTED. ASECRETARY WANTED fora PUBLIC COMPANY of the most important charact e r. H e must possess an elegant style of writing, be well acquainted with accounts, of gentlemanly address, and prepared to ad vance 3001., on undeniable security, which, after the first year ( of appointment will be returned to him. Apply (post paid) to F. H. S., at Messrs. 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AR$. - TROLLOPE'S DOMESTIC MANNERS of the AMERICANS, revised, with additions, and 15 Engravings, (including a Portrait of Mrs. Trotlope, complete in one vo lume, tis. _ _ _ GLEIG'S TRADITIONS of CHELSEA COLLEGE, with Portrait of the Author, complete in one volume, 69. The succeeding Vol ume , near ly ready ,will contain ITALY; with SKETCHES of SPAIN and PORTU GAL : and An EXCURSION to the MONASTERIES of ALCOBACA and BATALHA. By WILLIAM BECK FORD, Esq., Author of " Vathek." Embellished with a fine Portrait of Mr. Beckford, from the Original Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, price 6s. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. ,„*. To be had of all Booksellers. SIR IiUNIPHRY DAVY'S WORKS. Now in course of publication, in separate Volumes post Bvo., price 10s. 6d. in cloth bindire,r, THE LIFE AND COLLECTED WORKS OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY , B ART Edited by his Brother, JOHN DAVY, M. D., F. R. S. *,,,* It is presumed that this new and uniform Edition of the Writings of Sir Humphry Davy will not exceed Nine Volumes, embracing the Whole of his Works, during tho space of thirty years.. Vol. I. Contains the LILE, complete in itself, with Portrait. •' This collection from its variety and interest promises to be one of the most valuable republictions of our time."—Spec tator, " congratulate the public most sincerely on the publica tion of a complete and hsndsome Edition of Sir H. Davy's Works." —United Service Gazette. This Memoir is a worthy record of the Life of our great Philosopher, and should be studied by the youth of England, that they may know how mighty a power resides in the mind to conquer difficnities."—Britatinia. Elii,r, and Co., 65, Cornhill. BOURSE.-PAM!, THURSDAY, OCT; 24. • r lest Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price Price. reach 5 per i ents _1:0 110 60 110 70 ... 1 1170 3 por t ents Bank et Prance 28 4 ,4 lit ...• 4 c40 Latlitte Bark 5,000 f. Sh 5210 ...5810 ...5210 ...52.0 I,toof. Sh 1 0 ,5 065 ... lis m i, ti Bel,s,an 5 per Cent, 10144 ~. 1404" 11 , 1% 3 per Cents 7l 8 7. 80 7i .. 71 613 13:ink 7',o ... 740 ... 73 . 140 Clupottc Spanish Ac ive Passive 734 ... 7% ... 7% ... 7% Portuguese 3 per Cents Nea °titan Roman 1533c, ... 103% ... 1113% ... (5 2 3% RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, It. 13 515 ... 515 ... 515 ... 515 LB Havr , Strashore to Bale ... 31/9 75 ... 309 75 ... :inEl 75 ... WS '5 Montpellier to Cette MONEYAND COMMERCIAL N WS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.-Our mar ket continues exceedingly depressed, with more unset tled prices, and an increased desire to meet the demand. American descriptions are id. to Fl. lower, according to quality ; the better grades having declined the most, the inferior the least. Surats are fully id. to id. easier. The high price is evidently curtailing the demand ; and it is remarkable, under this circumstance, that good Orleans, at the present comparatively low price, have not more attention. Exporters have taken 3,300 bales of American and 150 Surats, and speculators 500 Americans. The sales to day are 3,500 bales of all kinds, We have received a Mauritius Price Current to the 17th July. Exchange on London—Bills, thirty days' sight, 3 per cent. prem. ; Bank bills, ninety days' sight, none ; private hills, ninety days' sight, from 1 to 2 per cent. discount ; ditto, six months' sight, 2 to 4 per cent. discount. Our arrivals this morning are a French mail, and ship letters from Bahia ; Sydney, May 8 ; Madras, June 13 ; Calcutta, April 20 ; St. Helena, Aug. 19—old dates. THE FUNDS. The Consol Market opened rather heavy this morning and left off yesterday at 91 sellers for the Account, and for Money, 901 /. At present may be quoted at 90k 1 for Marley, and for Aocount 904 s, with little doing ; Exchequer Bills, 3to 1 discount ; Bank Stock, 179 180 ; India Stock, '246 '247. The Market for the Foreign Exchanges has again exhibited symptoms of weakness, the rates on all the principal continental cities having fallen, notwithstand ing the efforts of a trading firm, who act for the Bank of England, to sustain the prices. The demand which exists for gold for export, in fact, completely renders inefficient all the efforts of the Bank to keep up the Exchanges more than for one or two post dais. It is satisfactory to learn, however, by the advices from the Continent, that the Exchanges there were becoming more in favour of this country, and this may work indi rectly the remedy the Directors are now striving to effect. The rate on Paris left off at 25 60 ; on Ham burg at 13 94 ; on Amsterdam at 12 11 ; on Antwerp at 12 31 ; and on Frankfort at 1504. In the Foreign Market Spanish has improved, owing to its coming higher from Paris, closed at 29/ i, at present 29/ 30 ; Portuguese continue as they closed, 361 37 ; Three per Cents., 241 25 , Colombian 32i ; Mexican, 3'21 ; Brazilian, 711 721 ; Dutch Two-and. Half per Cents., 52k ; Five per Cents. 1001, PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OYI - 1: O'CLOCFC. ?tank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cans. 3,0 per Cent Ditto Red New 2 per Cent... ...........t5 % 3 per Cent. Annuities, 17 it - New 5) per Cent. Bank LongA:enuities to!xpir pm() 500 - 1 Jan. 5, - 1860 13N 11-16 Oct. 10, 1859 • ... I :3Y,A .1.2 n. 5, 140 Jan. 5, 1880 Ditto Sumli 2 ; Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account - April 5, 1880 — I India Stock for Account ... - Jan. 5. 1870 i Congos for Account 91 90% PRICES OF FOREIGN FU NDS THIS DAI AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds 72%K, Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account .. Dim) Acc.unt. 37 , /,' fiN 7 Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ......... Chilian Bonds D tto Accou. t Columbian Bends Ditto Account Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic Columbian Bonds, 11:24 ... —. Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account 32 . Ditto Account lO 29% 30 Danish Ponds Ditto Account —, Deferred l. *t Greek Bends ' French, 5 per cent....... —f. —c. • . - Ditto Bonds, 11.123 — 4 per cent. Ditto Account - —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Exchange. —r. —c. Ditto Account ......... Ditto, 6per Cent ; Ditto Account bYY.i Ditto Account Seapolitan Ditto Account — r'ItiCES OF' SHAIMS THIS DA V A'l ONE O'cLi U. Paid. Per Share. 73i Eastern Counties Railway IG )I..rth Micaird Railway Company B3 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, YESTERDAY. Amsterdam U.F. p 2 7 !i4airaitar Ditto, at sight ............... 12 4 I Leghorn 30 35 Rotterdam .2 U. 12 74 ;Genoa.. Antwerp... Hamburg. Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 50 Palermo .... ....... .......per oz. 1204 Ditto ....... ........ ...3 Ms 25 75 Lisbon S3N Marseilles. Bourdeaux Frankfoxt on Maine, Ex.M. Isl!i i i Bahia 27 Petersbutgh, ruble... 3 Us. SS Buenos Ayres — Berlin Vienna, effective f1...3 M 10 7 Philadelphia 46 Trieste ditto lO S PRICh_. OF BULLION, per OZ. Itadrld 'IN Portugal (Sold, c0in.....E0 0 0 Cadiz... ESilboa .... 8 trcelona 96 New Dollars ......... ..... 0 4 1O Seville 36 Silver in Bars HALF-PAST ONE. We continue in the same state as in the early part of the morning ; no speculations of consequence doing in the Funds ; money continues at an easy rate. In the British Market, Consols at one period reached 91, since which they turned rather heavy, and receded to 901 for the Account, supposed owing to the Foreign exchanges having lowered. In general Saturday is a dull day for speculations, not only in the Funds but in commercial affairs. Consols at present 90i for Account ; Money, 90,1. Exchequer Bills, 2 3 1 dis. ; Bank Stock, 1791 1801 ; India Bonds, par. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active continues at 30 ; Portuguese, 37 ; Three per Cents., 25; Colom bian, 32 ; Brazilian, 72i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52 ; Five per Cents., 100§ No reports or any further arrivals. CRIMINAL. COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.—John Wentworth Fairbank, aged 19, the steward of a vessel, called the Secret, was indicted for the wilful murder of Arthur White, the Captain of the sum) ship, on the 14th of April, on the high seas, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England. one ; it was above a foot long. Upon the Captain stat ing something to hint, he went upon deck to sectere the prisorie onttd the prisoner on the starboard side, On the mainmast ; be had a leittol and dagger then in his hand. Witness tried to disarm him, when he said if he came near him he would shoot him, and when witness cantle close to him he snapped a pistol at him and ran atia: Witness seized a broom and ran after him, and tie again snapped a pistol at him ; followed him round the gallery and under the main-sail, and upon arriving there he asked Mr. Barnard, a passenger, to fetch him a pistol. The prisoner during this time had got under neath the mainsail on the top of the long-boat, and after that he got to the forecastle. Witness went half way down the forecastle ladder unarmed, but was ad vised to go no further by Mr. Barnard. The prisoner was ultimately secured, and witness went again into the captain's cabin. The other passengers were there, and the captain was sitting in the same posture, but he could not speak. On examining 11,s body, found a large wound under the breast bone, part of which had been scarified by the point of the da4ger, and under that a large orifice, through which part of the bowels protruded. Mrs. Hunsworth assisted to bind up the wounds, but the captain expired in about twenty minutes. The wound was about an inch and a-half in length. After witness laid the captain on the bed he went on deck, and ulti mately the prisoner gave up the arms he had, and was put into irons by the witness. Witness asked' him how he came to do so desperate an act, to which he replied, if the Captain ha,d not snapped a pistol at him he would not have done if. Witness had searched about the Captain's bed, but could net find a pistol there. Saw a pair of pistols belonging to Mr. Bar nard on the table in the dining cabin. On the same day the prisoner made a statement, which witness took down in writing in the presenccof Mr. Hunsworth and Mr. Barnard, and when they arrived at Rio Janeiro that statement was read over to the prisoner before the Consul there. That statement was, that he went into the Captain's room to clean it out, that he was order,‘d out by the Captain, but did not go. The Captain told him if he did not go out he would blow him out, ►t the same time taking down a pistol from over his feet. He then went out. Saw the Captain take the pistol up again, prisoner went into the next room, took the mate's dagger out of his room, and that from Mr. Barnard's, hid the cutlass, hid Mr. Barnard's pistol and dagger under a chair in the cabin, and pro ceeded with the mate's dagger to the captain's state room, opened the door, when the Captain said, " So you will not mind what I say to you," put up his hand and reached for a pistol, and then he stabbed him ; he said not a word more, and the prisoner took the pistol and dagger from under the chair, having left the mate's dagger sticking in the captain. Could not recollect Mr. Barnard putting any questions to the prisoner at the time his statement was taken down. Cross-examined by Sergeant Atinativ*--Witness had sailed with Captain White upwards of three years, but the prisoner had been with them only since the Ist of March. The Captain generally kept pistols in his berth. There was also a nautical almanack there, which was large enough to cover the pistols if there had been any there. It was the duty of the steward to clear out the berths ; and go in there early in the morning to get hoots and shoes. Did not hear Mr. Barnard tell the prisoner to give the arms up to him. He, however, did give them up. All on board seemed very much agitated. There were some unpleasant remarks made on board with respect to Mrs. Hunsworth and the Captain. The Captain ordered other boys to be flogged as well as the prisoner. One boy ran away in consequence. Between the Ist of March and the beginning of April, six of the crew left the ship, only one of them had been pu nished. Did not know that a man had thrown him self overboard, but he believed that one was lost about a mile from shore, in the River Guyaquil, and had not been heard of since. Captain White was about 25 years of age. There was an indictment against witness for the murder of a man, named Shaw, on the high seas, on which he expected to be tried. . Re-examined—Never bad any difficulty in procuring hands to steer the vessel. The usual dumber of men on board was 12 or 14. The men who had been flogged had not been severely punished. Did not recollect any men being flogged on account of what they had said of Mrs. Hunsworth. Never saw any thing wrong between Mrs. Hunsworth and the Captain. The attack on the Captain had been made on the 14th, the day after the prisoner was flogged. It was on the outward bound voyage that Mr. and Mrs. Hunsworth came on board. When wit ness saw the Captain he did not believe he had the power to snap a pistol. One of the pistols found on the sitting cabin table had a cap on that appeared to have exploded. Witness discovered this after he had secured the prisoner. Was sure that the Captain had not the power to place the pistol on the table. Up to the time of the occurrence taking place there was not much necessity to complain of the crew of the vessel. It was in consequence of a communication made by the prisoner that Mr. Barnard and witness had arms. John Hunsworth examined by Mr. CLARKSON— When at home resided at Waterford. Shipped himself and his wife and family at Valparaiso on board the barque Secret for Guyaquil, and from thence to England. This witness corroborated the evidence given by the last witness, as to the attack of the prisoner upon the Cap tain. Witness had been married 12 years and had two children. When witness sari the state in which the Captain was be ran on deck, when he saw the mate pur suing the steward, who had a pistol in one hand, and a dagger in the other. After a great deal of difficulty he was secured, and gave up his arms to Mr. Barnard. After this, witness went down to the Captain, who never spoke,and died in less than an hour. Witness put his name to the statement made by the prisoner. There were no arms in witness's berth ; but upon searching the captain's there was discovered a pair of pistols, loaded, at the foot, on a shelf, but they appeared not to have been touched for some time, as they were covered either with clothes or paper ; witness could not say which. Mr. Barnard took possesssion of them. The arms in the mate's and Mr. Barnard's rooms had been removed. Cross-examined by Mr. BODKIN—The place where witness slept was on the opposite side of the vessel to where the Captain slept. There was no partition be tween them. Witness bad done duty on the vessel at the request of the Captain. After the alarm the mate was on deck some time before witness. Mr. Barnard was called upon his recognizances, but did not appear, and his recognizances were ordered to be estreated. James Anderson was a seaman on board the barque Secret at the time the unfortunate occurrence hap pened. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS—Had been present when words passed between the Captain and the prisoner. The Captain then said, " Move your self a little faster, you seouth!rel, or I will have your flesh off your bones, or your life.'' Re-examined by Mr. CLARKSOIC—The Captain did nothing to the prisoner on that occasioi:: James Kemp was also a seaman on boars the barque Secret at the time of the Captain's death. Cross-examined—Had never known the prisoner be fore he came on board. He conducted himself well. Several other seamen were examined, who gave simi lar evidence. _ James Julien, an officer at Falmouth, had received the dagge- from the Magistrates of that place. Mr. Barnard had given evidence at Falmouth, hut witness did not know what had become of him, or what was the reason of his absence to-day. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS made a very feeling address to the Jury on behalf of the prisoner, contending, in the first place, that what had happened was caused by the great provocation on the part of the Captain, and in the prisoner's self defence, when the Captain levelled a loaded pistol at him, and therefore that it could not be considered in the light of de liberate murder ; and secondly, that the statement said by Minty to be made by the prisoner, and which was taken down by him, could not be relied upon, inasmuch as several alteratiors had been made in it which had not been satisfactcrily ac counted for by Minty on his cross-examination. Mr. Justice BOSANQUET summed up at considerable length, and the Jury retired ; but the verdict was not returned when we went to press. NEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER and the LORD MAYOR ELECT.) At the opening of the Court, the following prisoners, some of whom had been before convicted, pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against them, and were sentenced as under : Mary Jones, alias Garrett (twice before convicted), seven years' transportation ; Margaret INl‘Leod, six months ; Thos. Bossett, three m onths ; J. Paine, one year ; Elizabeth Walker, seven years ; Rachael Horton, seven years ; Robert Tyrell, ten days ; and George Butler, alias Butters, six months. The RECORDER told the Jury that they formed their judgment on the cases •from the depositions, from which sometimes a great deal of information was to be obtained. He mentioned this merely to show why there was such an apparent inequality in the sentences. Joins Pearce was indicted for stealing four candle sticks, the property of William Brooks his master. It appeared that there had been a dispute between the prisoner and a fellow -servant about some bad money, which was calculated to induce an angry, if not a malignant, feeling. The Jury returned a verdict of acquittal. John Smith was convicted of stealing a silk handker chief, value 45., the property of John Batson, and being a known hand, he was transported for ten years. EVENING EDITION.