The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The case of Mr. David Salomons is likely to be the last of its kind. The spirit of the age is, happily, hostile to religious tests, as qualifi cations for secular offices. The manifest inconve nience of the practice, no less than the flagrant in justice of the principle they involve, requires that they be expunged from the statute-book. In the present instance, a worthy citizen, whose public and private virtues have obtained for him the respect and confidence of the public ; who has been selected by the citizens of London for the office of Sheriff, which he served with honour to himself and advantage to the community, and who worthily fills the office of magistrate in two counties —was elected as alderman of one of the City wards. His election is pronounced void by the Court of Al dermen. Why ? He is a Jew ! The law—which has been changed and modified, in order that profes sors of other religious sects may be admitted to office in corporations—sets a mark of degradation on a Jew, as such. A Jew may be virtuous, wise, wealthy, charitable ; esteemed by all for his private worth, and venerated for his public excellences ; the community may deem him worthy of trust, and his Sovereign may select him as a fit subject for honour ; but corporations will bar their doors, and refuse to admit him to office within their halls. Though the magistrates of two counties actually receive him as their equal, and concede to him the precedence in their sessions, those of the city of London will exclude him, as ineligible to be their associate, and stretch the law to prevent him from occupying a seat in their assemblies ! Such is the monstrous exhibition which the public is compelled to witness and deplore in the middle of the nineteenth century, but of which it will exert itself to prevent a repetition. It may not be either uninteresting or unavailing, if a brief retrospect be taken of the course by which the pre sent invidious and injurious state of the law has been arrived at. The injustice of the principle, and inconvenience of the practice, will be thus clearly ex posed. The declaration which Mr. Salomons was unable to subscribe, and for which inability he was ousted by the Court of Aldermen from the office of alderman, to which he had been elected, was in tended to protect the interests of the Established Church. By binding those who are not members of that Establishment under a declaration, made " upon the true faith of a Christian," not to use their influence, as members of municipal corpo rations, against its interests, a security, it was sup posed, had been obtained against the machinations of evil-minded Dissenters who, if members of cor porations, might plot its destruction. When the Tory Government of 1828 was compelled by the progress of liberal opinions, to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts, this declaration was imposed upon all. Thus, while professing to abolish all teat, it contrived to create a new test—lest repulsive, but not less invidious and insurmountable than the old. The practical operation of the new declaration was loudly and justly complained of at the time. Many persons, who had no objection to bind themselves against offering injury to the Established Church, had conscientious scruples about oaths. These regarded the declaration of 1828 as partaking of the nature Oran oath ; they consequently objected to this form of de claration. To meet the case of such persons, the Le gislature, in 1837, passed an Act making a special exception in favour of three descriptions of persons ; and professing to relieve them alone. It left all the rest in the same position in which they were placed by the Act of 1828. The sects relieved by the Act of 1837 are Quakers, Moravians, and Separatists. The Jews, and all persons not of these comprehended sects. bat who have conscientious scruples respecting oaths, are still excluded. The words of the declaration, or test, of 1828, " on the true faith of a Christian," ex cluded the Jew ; it excluded also the Quakers, and others ; the latter objected to it, as partaking of the na ture of an oath, which it certainly does ; the Jew, who does not object to any oath, however formal,was excluded by the substance, though not by the form, of the words. The new teat, or declaration, substituted by the Act of 1837 for that of 1828, leaves out these words; but contains a declaration that the party making it is either a Quaker, a Moravian, or a Sepa rarist. This necessarily excludes all, whether Chris tian, or Jew, or Gentile, who belong not to these three excepted sects. STANDARD.—An Evening Contemporary has admitted an article upon the insolvent laws, the spirit of which may be easily apprehended from the following passage, with which it commences :—" All persons in the land (i.e. all the honest) are indignant at the laws which have been growing up of late years respecting insolvency, and which have reached the very top of vice and error in Lord Brougham's late Act." In this strain the writer proceeds through a full column of " money lenders' lament ;" but, though our Contemporary has thought the composi tion deserving of the distinction of leaded lines and large type, we must decline proceeding to examine its trite fallacies. According to the writer, money lenders are all suffering inno cents, debtors all knaves, a view very different from what we should collect from the doctrine of the Scriptures, and from the opinions of moral writers. The truth is, that the old debtors' law was so monstrously oppressive as to compel its Mitigation. Sixty-four years ago, as Mr. Burke declared, at Bristol, its " savage operation " had reached those physical limits that it could not pass ; there were not in the kingdom gaols enough to hold the debtors whom the merciful cre ditor class would consign to dungeons ; and hence some insolvent Act became necessary. During the 64 years of interval the insolvent laws have been , gradually ameliorated, with the constant accompaniment of unparalleled improvement in the morals and in the commercial credit of the country. At length these laws have reached that point, that character, and character only is the foundation of credit. The man of substance, or of known probity, industry, and pru dence, can now certainly obtain credit as easily as when the debtor law was in most stage operation ; nay, more easily, for the money formerly staked in otherwise desperate credits, relying upon the security of the debtor's body, is now turned into that channel in which it can be lent upon the security of character. The moral importance of this change can hardly be overrated ; but its effects are not as obvious as soon they must be. Many persons who gave credit upon the security of the creditor's flesh and bones, find themselves losers by the loss of that security, and complain, with some plausibility, that they are cheated. For example—the writer to whom we have alluded tells a story of a creditor, who, " after immense difficulty and expense," procured the arrest of a debtor who owed him 2001., the debtor obtained an interim order, and escaped to Antwerp. " The immense difficulty and expense," fixes the date of the debt at some period prior to the late insolvent Acts. Now this may be a hard case, though we confess that our impressions are not in favour of one who bestows immense expense upon the capture of a creature so very poor as to fly his country for 2001. Be this, however, as it may, such cases are not likely to recur in the present state of the law. Creditors will not inconsiderately trust men so dishonest or in such bad circumstances as to be likely to fly to Antwerp from debts of 2001. The present wrong must therefore be submitted to, for the sake of a far more extensive exercise of justice, and a far greater good. One knave has escaped to Antwerp ; thousands of honest and industrious, though unfortunate men, have been rescued from the cruelty of hard-hearted, or vindictive creditors. The Jew has lost " his pound of flesh," but the pecuniary value of character has been greatly enhanced—almost the greatest bles sing that can be conferred upon a nation. Consoled by this reflection, we turn to an other matter connected with the subject. Sixty four years ago, as we have said, Mr. Burke indignantly declared that all the gaols of the kingdom were insufficient to contain the vic tims with whom relentless creditors would load them. And now we find our Contemporaries en gaged in a hot dispute as to the disposal of the oldest, and we believe the largest, debtors' prison in England, the Fleet, which has for more than a year been unoccupied, and is now "to let." This we must think a salutary and even a glorious change ; but our immediate subject is the disposal of the prison. The Times takes up the proposition to convert the late prison into baths and laundries for the poor, and bestows more than a column of highly animated rebuke upon those who hold the site and buildings are too valuable to be applied in specie to that object. At the risk, however, of incurring share of the censure of the Times, we must agree with those who think that the locality is not well adapted to the proposed object; and, further, that even were the locality a more indifferent matter than it is, there would be a great want of true economy in converting the Fleet into baths and laundries. Every one knows that the value of ground varies greatly in this metropolis, and the value of ground, to say nothing of the building, is perhaps six or even tenfold greater in Farringdon-street, than in the less affluent districts, the very places where baths and laundries for the poor are most wanted. Supposing, then, that there was good ground for saying that the to value of the Fl ee t i s i n an espec i a l manner due the poor, it is plain that the economical way in which to g'e , to work is to sell the old prison, and from the proceeds provide baths and laundries for the poor in the several quarters in which they can be at once most cheapl y and most usef u provided. E ven if the neighbourhood o f Fleet dit ch be desirable, a great deal of waste ground in th e ne i ghbourhood of that agreeable stream can be had within a few hundred yards northward of the prison, in the middle of a much poorer neighbourhood than that A Lower Farringdon-street. We are, however, y. w r o ng in treating the ar ti c l e of .es. time. ic 'really relating to the question V-\ 1 of disposing of the FlelA Tri on ; we ought, perhaps, to Consider this topic as " a peg" upon which out. Contemporary would hang an invec tive against the indifference to the comforts and the claims of the poor, which it supposes to prevail; if so, the topic is as ill chosen as most of the topics which the Times employs on the same or kindred subjects There is nothing disrespectful or indicative of a want of care for the poor, in saying that the site of the Fleet Prison is too valuable to be applied to the construction of baths and laundries. Some of the frontage on the river bank is said to let for a guinea and even two guineas the inch ; would not this frontage though admirably indeed adapted for baths and laundries, be much too valuable to devote to the object when, retiring a hundred or two hundred yards from the river, a perfectly suitable site could be obtained for a tenth or twentieth of the money—would not (supposing a specific sum provided for baths and laundries) the selection of the river frontage be to rob the poor of nine-tenths or nineteen-twentieths, as the case may be, of the benefit designed for them. COMMERCIAL CHANGES NOW IN PROGRESS IN THE NORTH OF EUROPE. A plan has been some time in contemplation for effecting a junction between the river Elbe and the Baltic Sea, by the enlargement of the harbour, and by the construction of wet docks, on the best English principles, at Gluckstadt, a port situated a few miles up the Elbe, in the deepest and most accessible part of that river, and by a railroad, nearly finished, from the new docks to the deep and capacious harbour of Kiel, in the south-western quarter of the Baltic. Kiel, one of the finest harbours in Europe, is the most commodious station in the Baltic, for steam-packets to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Stettin, Dantzic, and all parts of the Baltic, and to St. Petersburgh and all in tervening places. This new and efficient line of rail road will not only connect Gluckstadt with Kiel northward, but also with Altona eastward, above the dangerous and difficult shoals off the Schleepsand, Schulan, and Blankenese, which renders the naviga tion of the Elbe, above Gluckstadt, so tedious and expensive ; and, at the same time, being below the Hanoverian port of Stade, will save all the onerous dues levied on vessels and merchandise that pass the guard-ship placed there by the King of Hanover for collecting them. An English engineer of eminence has surveyed the locality, and made plans and esti mates for the enlargement and improvement of the harbour, and the construction of the wet docks, which are to be executed under the control of a company now forming in that part of Germany and in London ; half the capital to be raieed in Holstein and half in England, with a joint board of governors in the two countries ; that in England to have a veto and a ge neral controlling power. To this co-operation the Government of Denmark have made several im portant and liberal concessions. By these means the long and circuitous voyage round the Shawe and through the Cattegat, by way of the Sound to the northern shores of the Baltic, will be shortened nearly 80 degs. lat., and render the arrival of merchandise and passengers from England, France, Holland, Italy, and places southward by steam-ship to Gluckstadt, and by railroad from that part to either the Baltic, via Kiel, a distance of about forty English miles, or to Hamburgh and the Upper Elbe, by similar con veyance, via Altona, a distance of about thirty English miles, far more certain, and much shorter in time than by the present route. It will also avoid the slow and dangerous passage between Gluckstadt and Hamburgh, which often detains large sea-going ships many hours out, and in waiting for water to carry them over the bars between those cities. Be tween the months of November and January last, upwards of 160 vessels which sailed from Altona and Hamburgh, were detained, as is well known, for six weeks in the Elbe, by the prevailing W.S.W., and westerly winds that then prevailed, whereas had they loaded, and taken their departure from Gluckstadt, the same wind which brought them from Hamburgh to the Kraustsand, opposite Gluckstadt, would have taken them to the open sea. This im portant junction of the east and north seas will effect a junction between Great Britain, the greatest manufactory in the world, and those countries which border on the Baltic, and whose rivers empty them selves into that sea on the north, and into the Euxine on the south, the granary of Europe, and the most productive of timber, hemp, pitch, tallow, iron, and other materials used in ship building. It will thus open new sources for the reception of British manufactured goods, and new supplies of grain, cattle, and raw materials in return, entirely free from and out of the jurisdiction of the anti-Bri tish impost of the Prussian Zoliverein (Customs Union), from which Denmark, Holstein, the Hanseatic repub lic of Hamburgh, Lubeck, and Bremen, the kingdom of Hanover, and the empire of Austria are at present free. The Government of Hanover, alive to the import ance of keeping free from the shackles of the Zoll verein, have also resolved to make a port in the Elbe, and the same English engineer has reported to them thereon, recommending one at Brunchauven, at the mouth of the Swinge, a tributary stream run ning through Stade into the Elbe, in preference to Haarburg, opposite to Hamburgh, for similar rea sons, as being below the before-mentioned shoals and in deep water. Also a railroad from that place through Stade, with a branch line to Haarburg, to the city of Hanover, where there is already a rail road just opened to Brunswick, which will shortly be connected by railroads with Magdeburg, Dresden, and Southern Germany, so as to make a railroad corn • munication between the Elbe and the Rhine, through the metropolis of Hanover. The consequences of these projects to the commerce of Great Britain is easier fore seen than detailed within the narrow limits of a newspaper announcement. Since the above became known, a company has been formed at Harwick and London, to run a steam-boat daily from Harwich to Gluckstadt, which can be accomplished in twenty one hours. It is called the European Steam-packet Company, and they propose building five iron steam-ships of five hundred tons burden, as a commencement of their operations. A public meeting of this Company was held last Saturday in the Town Hall, at Harwich, the mayor, R. Cob bold, in the chair. The hall was crowded to an overflow. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Bag shawe, the chairman, Mr. A. Bauer, of Hamburgh, the deputy-chairman, Mr. Crofts, and other Directors of the Company, Captain Deane, of Harwich, who for years commanded a vessel from Harwich to various parts of the .North and Baltic Seas, and who confirmed the facilities of the plan, and by Mr. Elmes, the surveyor of the Port of London, and engineer to the Gluckstadt Harbour and Dock Company. A meeting of the London friends of this latter company was held yesterday at the London Coffee-house, which determined that, as they were thus supported by a projected as by exist ing steam-packet companies, and by the Government of Holstein, to complete the London arrangements forthwith.— Sunday Paper. AGRICULTURAL POVERTY. Haying lately visited a part of the country on the borders of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and only a few miles from the Duke of Buckingham, I took some interest in observing the condition of the agricultural labourers in that neighbourhood. Had I not beheld those poor people, I could not have credited a true description of their state. Where the manu facture of straw plait is carried on, you will now see a great many of the grown-up lads, and even the men, engaged in it, in consequence of the want of employ on the farms. And yet that business is overdone ; the men and the lads are, evidently, not at all wanted in it, but turn to the employment merely from having nothing else to do. Their next move is, into the union house. It is a difficult thins to depict, in a few words, the appearances of the misery here exhibited. We may say " very, very poor," ' excessively poor," and so forth, using any general terms you please, which, after all, can only express such depth of distress as might occur to any body from accidental circum stances, and in a short time. It needs minuteness of description, to those who have not beheld it, t o repre sent the character of the poverty seen here, which ap proaches very nearly to, if it does not quite equal, the lowest depth of wretchedness which you find in the most despotic States on the continent of Europe. The mud-made huts or hovels are fit only for pigs to live in, and the existence of such dwellings for human beings is a disgrace to our common country—more especially to that part of it where such things are seen—and still more especially to those great lords of the soil who inhabit that part, and who make so many loud pretensions of solicitude for the people on the land. The raggedness and the filth of that people is surpassed, I should suppose, nowhere but in Ireland. But it was the lords of the land who brought Ireland to her present state ; and, therefore, why may we not expect them to produce the same here, if they are allowed ? There is a squalidness which looks almost like the plague--denotes the suf fering either of dreadful disease or long-continued famine. And this is in England ! and in Bedford and Buckingham ! ! two of the counties the most ex clusively possessed by those who call themselves " farmers' friends," and who demand " protection !I " In the counties to which I allude, and where the people are thus suffering, the land is nothing like fully cultivated, and it requires no more than for the people to be allowed to till it properly, to furnish them all with abundance of food.—October 12. — (From a Correspondent of the Wiltshire Independent.) THE LATE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.—We understand the funeral of the deceased Duchess is to take place at Blenheim to-morrow, when her mortal re mains are to be deposited in the mausoleuM of the house of Marlborough, in the chapel of Blenheim. The Duke, the Marquis of Bl an df or d , an d L or d s Alfred and Allen Churchill, and several of the immediate relatives of the Duchess are to _Attend the funeral. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COUR.T George Henry Ward, aged 39, stable-keeper, and George Ward, aged 19, groom, were indicted for obtaining, by false pretences, from W. Angerstein, Esq., the sum of 1151. 10s., with intent to cheat and defraud him thereof. In another count the defendants were charged with the offence of conspiracy. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Ballantine prosecuted, and Messrs. Bodkin and Williams appeared for the de fendants. The charge was made against the' defendants under the following circumstances :—The prosecutor, a gentleman, residing at Blackheath, saw an adver tisement in the Times, in which three horses were offered for sale, and according to the description given of them they were almost perfection. They were stated to be young and handsome, nearly thorough bred, remarkably clever as saddle-horses, and, above all, perfectly sound. The advertisement concluded by stating that a liberal trial would be granted to any person who might be inclined to purchase the animals. Mr. Angerstein saw the advertisement, and could not refrain from going to see the horses, with a view to their purchase. Upon going to Gloucester-mews, the place to which the advertisement referred, the prosecutor saw the younger prisoner, George Ward, who showed him the horses, and told him that they had been sent up to the other prisoner by a third party, to be sold on commission. Soon after this, the prisoner George Henry Ward made his appearance, and he informed the prosecutor that the horses had belonged to a highly respectable family of the name of Loyd, residing near Stratford-on-Avon, and that, in consequence of the death of the elder member of the family, they had relinquished keeping the horses and had ponies in their stead. He described the horses in such glowing terms that Mr. Angerstein was quite enraptured, and he resolved not to lose such treasures, but forthwith gave a cheque for lla and the elder prisoner handed him a receipt for the amount, which contained the following expression : " All the horses warranted sound, quiet to ride, and drive in single and double harness, and if the horses were not approved of within seven days, the money was to be returned." Having obtained possession of his prizes, the prosecutor directed them to be taken to the Veterinary College, where it was speedily found that one of the " sound" horses was a roarer, and badly spavined ; the second had a chronic lameness in the off fore-leg ; and the third had been unnerved in both the fore-legs, and, in point of fact, the horses were almost valueless. The prosecutor finding lie had been" done" sent the horses back to the prisoner's stable, and on going there the next morning to demand his money, he found that horses and prisoners had all decamped, and he heard nothing more of either of them until the 26th August, when the same horses were offered for sale through an advertisement of a similar character to that which had attracted the atten tion of Mr. Angerstein, and they had very nearly succeeded in getting off two of the horses to a gen tleman named Prior, when they were taken into cus tody. The elder prisoner on being charged with de frauding Mr. Angerstein of his money, said " he ad mitted he owed the man the money, and he intended to pay him as soon as convenient." The above facts having been proved in evidence, Mr. BODKIN took some technical objections to those counts in the indictment which charged the defen dants with obtaining the money by means of false pre tences, and contended that the specific allegations spoken to in the evidence were net in accordance with the terms of the indictment. The RECORDER held the objection to by valid, but decided that the count for the conspiracy ought to go to the jury. Mr. BODKIN then addressed the jury in behalf of the elder defendant, and argued that the evidence was not sufficient to show a conspiracy between the parties to defraud Mr. Angerstein, as all that the younger defendant appeared to have done in the matter was to act as a servant in the stable of the other, and the chief matter alleged against him was, that when his master made some representation about the owner ship of the horses, he did not get up and contradict him. The Learned Counsel made some remarks upon the subject of the law of conspiracy, and said that many of the Learned Jndges had declared that they could not define it, and it had been observed by one of them that if two or three people were to cough together in a church it was a question whether they might not be indicted for conspiring together to disturb the congregation.—(A. laugh.) He con cluded by callinir, upon the jury not to strain the law to meet any particular case, and expressed his opinion that the evidence did not make out the charge, and that the defendants were entitled to their acquittal. Mr. WILKINS also addressed the jury. The RECORDER then summed up, and after a very short deliberation the jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both defendants, upon the count charging them with conspiracy. They were sentenced—George Henry Ward to be kept to hard labour for twelve, and George Ward for four, months. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. ' Yesterday, Anne Smith, a young woman, having a fine boy about two years old in her arms, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hall, charged under the follow. ing circumstances : It appeared that the prisoner lived in the service of a tailor named Thomas Henry Ilorrabin, about two years back, at No. 21, King-street, Covent-garden, by whom she was seduced, the fruit of which was the child in her arms, and shortly after he turned her away, leaving her in the most wretched condition. Having received assistance from some humane per sons, she contrived to make her way to Reading, where she lived on the bounty of her brother, in ad dition to what she could procure by hard work, which she could seldom obtain, until about thirteen weeks back, when she returned to London for the purpose of claiming some assistance for herself and child from her seducer, who is a married man. After receiving the most plausible promises respecting his intentions towards the boy, the only sum she could induce him to afford her was 10s. which supplied her necessities for only a very short time, in consequence of which she went to his house, where she found it was not the same woman he was living with that had acted as her mistress when she was in service, and having upbraided him with behaving with such cruelty to her and her infant, he applied the foulest epithets to her, and took her to the station-house, where he charged her with having annoyed him. In answer to the Court, the complainant admitted having been her seducer, but he did not desert her, as he had offered her 2s. a-week to support her and the child. Mr. HALL considered such a sum was too paltry, and he hoped the parish authorities would assist in compelling him to secure a proper amount, instead of allowing the mother and child to become chargeable. The complainant said he had a housekeeper to maintain as well as his wife, who was parted from him, and he could not afford more than he had offered. A lady residing in Norfolk-street, Strand, who happened to be in court, came forward and offered to take the prisoner immediately into her service. Mr. HALL, having complimented her on her humanity, entered into an arrangement with the parish authorities to take the child at 4s. per week, of which the complainant promised to bear a part. UNION-HALL. Henry Brenton, an apothecary, in Nevvpont-street, Lambeth, was charged with causing the death of Mary, his wife. The deceased, it appeared, expired on Saturday afternoon, and a rumour having been propagated in the neighbourhood that she died from the violence exercised towards her by the prisoner soon after having given birth to a child, he was ac cordingly taken into custody the same evening, Mr. Traill having granted a warrant for his apprehension on the application of Mr. Houston, a surgeon, of Thavies Inn, Holborn, the father of the deceased. The prisoner who had been locked up since Satur day night, on being placed at the bar declared his in nocence of the alleged offence. Mr. Houston, having been sworn, stated that the prisoner was married to his daughter, and that about eight weeks ago she had given birth to a child. That on last Thursday se'nnight he was informed that his daughter had received considerable injury at the hands of the prisoner, and that she died of those in juries on Saturday last. The witness described that an examination had taken place since his daughter's decease, and that it was pronounced that the injuries inflicted were on the lower part of the spine. Mr. TRAILL asked him what evidence he had of the alleged acts of violence ? The witness, in reply, said that he was present on Saturday last, when his daughter was dying, and that she mentioned to him that the prisoner had done her the injury. The wit ness added that he believed that no person was in the room at the time of the alleged injury, hut the nurse attending his daughter had heard a scuffle in the bed room. The nurse, a woman named Lee, was then called, and stated that whil e s h e was attend i ng on the de ceased last Thursday s e ' nn i g ht, on l eav i ng the room and going down stairs she heard a scuffling noise in the bedroom, and heard the deceased complain of ill usage on the part of her husband ; that the next morn ing witness found her mistress insensible, and although she recovered her senses in some measur after that, yet she dwindled away until Saturday, a n d then expired. In reply to Mr. TRAILL, the witness said slie heard the deceased tell her father that the prisoner had ill used her, but she did not describe th:d manner in which he did it. Mr. Houston stated that extreme violence must have been used by the prisoner on the occasion. Mr. Fisher, a surgeon, stated that he had instituted an external examination on being apprised of the cir cumstances, and discovered that. (ier death had arisen from disease of the lower part, of the spine, which ap peared to have been caused by violence. That if the injury was owing to the circumstances attending a difficult parturition the patient would rid hate been en abled to rise from her bed, but having been informed that the deceased had been up since she gave birth to the infant, he therefore concluded she must have re• ceived the injury subsequent to her delivery. The prisoner said that the injury of which his wife died *ag from natural causes, and that he had done nothing to produce it. Mr. TRAILL remanded the prisoner until a post mortem examination of the deceased had taken place. LAMBETH-STREET Yesterday, William Duvall, late a second mate on board the brig Prince Oscar, and who has been in custody for a fortnight on a charge of " gouging" ab:fordse Mr. ever Henry. ely injuring his captain, was again brought On the last examination the prisoner was remanded upon the understanding that if the prosecutor was not able to proceed with his ship, which was chartered for an outward bound voyage in a fortnight, he should return to town and prosecute. Yesterday, being the day to which the prisoner had been remanded, the chief clerk received a letter from Captain Lawrence, of which the following is a copy " Ogle Tavern, South Shields, Oct. 19, 1844. " Sir,—ln accordance with the request of the ma gistrate, I beg to inform you that I still remain in a state of great indisposition, and now that I have got home am incapable of leaving my house, owing to an attack of fever, occasioned by my former treatment; but I hope by the time my ship is ready I shall be able to go the voyage in her, and as I find it will be impossible to appear against the prisoner Duvall, I trust that the magistrate will punish him to the ut most of his power.—Remaining, dear Sir, your obe dient servant, JAMES HUTCHINSON LAWSON, "Captain Prince Oscar. "To the Chief Clerk, Lambeth street Police-court." The letter enclosed the following certificate of a medical gentleman : " South Shield•, Oct. 19, 1844. " I certify that I am attending Mr. J. H. Lawson, who, in consequence of sore throat and general fever, is incapable of leaving his house. " WM. KING EDDOWES, Surgeon." Mr. HENRY observed that from the appearance of Captain Lawson when before him, and his present condition, he thought it very improbable that he would be able to proceed with his ship, and while there was the slightest hope of his remaining to prosecute, he should not part with the prisoner. Cap tain Lawson, besides the dreadful suffering which he must have endured by the prisoner's savage attack, had been put to such inconvenience that he (Mr. Henry) felt great reluctance in depriving him of proceeding with his vessel, as such proceeding would lead, in addition, to a serious pecuniary loss, and therefore he was reluctant to compel him to attend and prosecute ; but while there was a hop 6 of his remaining, he would not dispose of the case. Mr. HENRY again remanded the prisoner, and directed the chief clerk to write to Captain Lawson to apprise him of the fact, and request that the cap tain would communicate, when the time arrived, whether he should proceed with his vessel on her voyage or not. Mr. henry received from " C. 0. Hastings," a letter, enclosing a post-office order for ten shillings for Mr. Cormack, one of the poor men who had ap plied to him some days before on the subject of the claims of the unfortunate members of the Legion on the Spanish Government. WORSHIP -STI?EE.T.... The Baron lie hausen,lheSwedish Minister, sat on the bench yesterday with Mr. Broughton, the pre siding magistrate, and appeared to take a lively in terest in the proceedings. Alfred Edwards, a young man describing himself as " a pickle manufacturer," who has been many times examined, was placed at the bar for final exa mination before Mr. Broughton, upon a charge of having poisoned Jane Gregory, a young woman of loose character, with whom he had been fur some time past intimately connected. There had been a little quarrel between them, but on the occasion out of which the present charge origi nated the prisoner visited the deceased at her lodgings in Spitalfields, and a reconciliation appeared to have taken place, and in the course of that evening the deceased drank several times from a bottle containing what was said to be " brandy and bitten," given to her at the time by the prisoner. She was afterwards exceedingly sick, and continued so until t he following morning, when she died with the symptoms of poison, having repeatedly, and with her dying - breath, de clared to every one that her illness was occasioned solely by the liquid which " Alf," the prisoner, had given her. Mr. Smith, who was called to her just before her death, and afterwards made the post mortem examination, found the stomach so inflamed in patches, as convinced him that death had been caused by some acid poison. Mr. Leeson, lecturer on che mistry at St. Thomas's Hospital, to whom the various substances were transmitted for the purpose of analysis, obtained from the coats of the stomach a precipitate which yielded a globule of pure lead weighing four grains, and had no doubt that a con siderable quantity of some preparation of lead had been swallowed and probably ejected from the stomach " during the deceased's mortal sickness. The liquid in the bottle, however, did not contain any lead, but was found to consist in great part of the strongest spirit, almost pure alcohol, with an infusion of bitter herbs, flavoured with bitter almonds or kernels. In the stomach a slight odour of hydrocyanic (prussic) acid was detected, arising no doubt from the flavour. ing of bitter almonds, from which it is abundantly obtained. At the prisoner's residence Sergeant Lam bert found a paper, marked "Poison," containing a quantity of sugar of lead, and another paper contain ing a white powder, which Dr. Le eson sa id was w h at is called white precipitate, used sometimes for clean ing plate, &c., but decidedly poisonous. The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against the prisoner more than a fortnight since, and the Coroner's warrant was of course issued for his committal to Newgate upon that charge, but the evidence appeared to be very unsatisfactory, and at length it was suggested that the body, which had been buried immediately after the inquest, should be exhumed and further examined. On Friday l as t it was accordingly taken from the grave, and s uc h o f i t n he th v e isc p e r r e a sen a e s e w o e f re t h r e eci c u h ir ur ec c l h churchwardens, removed from it the police, and other witnesses, the remains were again committed to the earth. - After a good deal of evidence Mr. BROUGHTON in formed the prisoner that he would b e comm i t t e d to Newgate to take his trial, and the witnesses were bound over to prosecute. The prisoner, who appeared very dejected, and looked as if he had wept a great deal, sa id h e would reserve his defence until the trial. DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —BIRMINGHAM, named William Ocr. Westley, 0A very now lies r i e n s p t h e c e ta G b e l e n e y r o a u l t apint,ai in this town, in a most awfully mutilated state, occ as i one d b y an acci dent which happened to him on Tuesday last, on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway. It appears that Mr. Westley was a pupil to Mr. Bayli s , c i v il eng i neer t o the above company. On the Tuesday morn i ng , h e h a d occasion to come from the Camp-hill station to the ter minus on the Derby line to attend his office in Lavvley street, and for that purpose he got on an engine with the driver, and started off at an ordinary pace. On arriving, however, at the ticket platform, within half a mile of this town, the unfortunate gentleman caught hold of the engine railing, and was in the act of leaping down, when the propelling wheel caught him by the right leg and thigh, and swung him round several times, crushing his limb in the most frightful manner between the platform and the engine. The driver, on beholding Mr. Westley in this terrible situation, became literally paralysed, and tried to stop the engine, but could not until the wheels had passed over Mr. Westley's left leg, and nearly severed it from his body. On the unhappy man being extricated from the wheels, he was conveyed to the landing, and immediately attended by Mr. Pryce, sur geon, who rendered every assistance in his power, but the injuries were found to be so extensive as to render his removal to the hospital necesssary. On his arrival there, the principal surgeons were sent for, and it was decided that amputation of both legs should immediately take place, and the melancholy operation was performed. Mr. Westley is only twenty-one years of age, highly esteemed, and most respectably connected. His family resides at Queen's Cross, Dudley. FATAL AFFRAY BETWEEN A BROTHER AND SISTER. —Yesterday, Mr. William Baker, Deputy Coroner, re sumed and concluded an inquiry at the Black Bull, Haggerstone, touching the death of Thomas Lynes, otherwise Lyons, aged 44 years, who, it was alleged, had come by his death in consequence of maltreatment, and the receiving of some violent blows from his own sister. A report of the case has already been detailed in our Worship-street police intelligence. It will be in the recollection of our readers that it was alleged that the death of deceased was caused by the ac cused, Elizabeth Marshall, striking him repeated blows upon the head with her fist. Two of her sons swore they were present during the whole of the affray, and saw no blows struck. Mr. Pickering, surgeon, who had been ordered by the coroner to make a post mortam examina tion, said deceased was labouring under epileptic fits, and, in his opinion, death had been caused by maltreat ment and fright. Mr. Coward, another surgeon, who as sisted at the post mortem examination, corroborated the last witness in all the material points. The blow on the right eyo was not sufficient to cause death : but excite ment or other causes might have produced it. The Co roner summed up the evidence, and explained the law of the case, and the jury, after some deliberation, returned the following verdict:—" That deceased, Thomas Lynes, died from epilepsy, brought on by previous excitement." OPENING OF Coßrinux.—The wooden pavement, which has been in progress some weeks in Cornhill, will be finished this day, a junction thus being formed with the wooden pavement at the east end of the street. The thoroughfare will be, to-morrow, opened for the passage of vehicles. A gentleman, just returned from Sydney, in a letter to one of his friends, says that, during his short stay there, he twice saw Archibald Bolan. He describes him as being employed as a superintendent of the trans mission of clothes to and from a Government washing establishment in the Vicinity of the town.—Newcastk Journal RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTIitIiN RAILWAYS.—COMPETING LINES.—A meeting on this subject was held in the town of Mo naghan on Wednesay. The Northern Whig says — "The object of the meeting was to receive and con sider a report of a deputation who lately visited this town, with reference to an extension of the Ulster Railway line to Monaghan and Clones, and who afterwards visited Newry, to consult about a railway from that town, to join the proposed Dundalk and Enniskillen line. The deputation made their report, which we publish. Their visit to Belfast is repre sented to have been satisfactory ; but circumstances, stated by them, necessarily rendered their visit to Newry unavailing. The report having been read, no farther attention seems to have been paid 'to it. A deputation from the parties concerned in getting ti line from Dundalk to Enniskillen, attended -;,and . the discussion was applied to this—whether the people of Monaghan would give their approval and support to the Dundalk and Enniskillen project. 'The frien , ls cif that plan appear to have formed by much thO more numerous portion of those who attended the meeting; but, though a motion was proposed, in favour of the plan, and an amendment against it, and though both were put from the chair, and the 'ayes' taken on both, the 'noes' were not called for, on either side ; and the meeting broke up, after as the report has it, doing nothing." RAILWAY FROM EDINBURGH TO CARLISLE.—There is no doubt that a railway from the metropolis of Scotland to Carlisle, passing near to the flourishing manufacturing towns of Galashiels and Hawick, will ere long be formed. We understand that his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Sir James Grahath are taking a deep interest in this great leading line, which cannot fail to be of incalculable advantage to the abovementioned places.—Kelso Chronicle. NEWPORT, NANTY6I.O, AND BLABNAYON RAILWAY. —On Wednesday last, a LL-nutation frOm the provi sional committee, attended by soliCitor of: Lord Abergavenny, and directors of the 13,'Itish Iron and Blaenafon Company, had an interview vb, - ;qh Lord Dalhousie and General Pasley, at the office of the Board of Trade, and were, we hear, most favourably received. Mr. Blewitt, M.P., the chairman of the committee, at the conclusion of the interview, pre sented to Lord Dalhousie a pap* he had written, and had caused to be printed, explanatory of the district, and of all circumstances connected with the proposed railway, for which Lord Dalhousie expressed his thanks to Mr. Blewett, and promised that it should have his attentive perusal. Lord Dalhousie said that the interference of the Board of Trade in matters of this nature, was regulated solely by "public con siderations ;" and that it was no part of his duty to enter into questions of "private interest."—Mon mouthshire Merlin. LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY. A:tatters have proceeded so favourably with the pro jectors of this undertaking that their most sanguine expectations have been more than realised, as far as they can be so during the earlier stages of their negotiations. The whole amount of shares contem plated by the Committee as sufficient have been al readystholadt,thatfor double u a u n iu d b er.t applications is stated have u b been authority inade the whole number of shares could have been disposed of in Manchester alone. We trust that, now that the chief difficulty has been overcome, no obstruction will be thrown in the wav of the Committee by the pro prietors of the land through which the railway will pass, but that the Act, for which all necessary mea sures are being taken, will be obtained without diffi culty or delay, so that the works may proceed as early as possible.—Derry Standard. WATERFORD AND LIMERICK RAILWAY.—On Wednesday last a meeting of the provisional commit tee of this undertaking was held in Waterford, and it has never been our lot to witness one of so influential a character. It would appear that the whole landed and commercial interests of the south-east of Ireland have taken up the project with enthusiasm. Amongst the persons present, representing the different districts, were the Lords Besberough, Glengall, Huntingdon, Carew, and Duncannon ; Sir H. Winston Baron, M.P., and Mr. Wyse, M.P.; Sir B. Morris, Wall; Messrs. Meagher, Millward, Strangman, J., J., and Robert Malcomson, Newport, Lalor (Cregg), Sar gint, Riall, Fennell, Shaw, Davis, Denny, Sweetman, Jacob, Tandy, Mortimer, Walpole, E. Power, White, Power of Mount Richard, &c. Lords Bes borough and Glengall, and the Messrs. Strangman and Malcolinson, were deputed to confer with Mr. Vignolles, the engineer of the Company, respecting the various preliminaries necessary to be adopted for immediately carrying out the enterprise—which being done, and reported to the Mayor of Waterford, who tilled the chair, the Committee took the matter into consideration, and unanimously decided that Mr. Vignolles should proceed to complete the survey, and that he and Messrs. Mortimer and Tandy should have all the parliamentary steps finished by the 30th of November, according to the standing orders of the Houses of Parliament, which they reported to be per fectly within their power. The general business of the Company was then proceeded with, and the pro spectus, which was unanimously approved of, ordered to be issued forthwith. All the above noblemen and gentlemen are shareholders, some to a considerable extent. About 5,000 shares are already taken by residents along the line only, and deposits paid—con sequently this main truck line, which will confer such benefits on the south of Ireland, is now certain of being completed with the utmost dispatch, and we sincerely wish it success in every shape. The Com pany meet the Directors of the Great Western Rail way at Wexford on the 19th, to carry out simulta neously the great plans they have in view.—Dublin Evening Post. EYE, OCT. 18.—The railway meeting held in the Town-hall, Eye, for promoting a railway from Ips wich to Norwich, for having the line run close to the town, and to have a first-rate station at Eye, for the accommodation of the public in this district, was most numerously and respectably attended by many owners and occupiers of land in the vicinity of Eye, as well as by a great majority of the clergy, gentry, profes sional men from Ipswich, Norwich, Beccles, Hades ton, Diss, &c. We observed Lord Henniker, E. Kerrison, Esq., Rev. Drs. Chevalier, Creed, Kershaw, Ashfield, and A. Cooper ; Messrs. T. Utton, T. French, E. Chenery, W. Edwards, Cream, Robert Prettyman, W. Lawton, B. Cotten, R. Wallis, Ellis Gowing (Mayor of Eye), Edward Gowing, G. Sherman, Samuel Peck, James Gooderham, Robert Todd, Henry Wells, H. Case, James Moore, S. Ash ford, Hazard, Etheridge, R. Tacon, Bohun, and Wil kerson, Beccles ; J. Tuck and Beckwith, Norwich ; Rodwellrobbold, Josselyn, Allen, Ransome, &c., Ips wich; Heffell and Norton, Brooks, Cupis, Farrow, sen., kc., Diss ; and Beedy and Co. from the Brandon Com pany. Lord Henniker was called to the chair. Sir E. Kerrison being unwell could not attend the meeting. The Noble Lord, in opening the proceedings, merely stated the object of the meeting from the advertise ment which had appeared in the Suffolk papers, and said, that as a Member of Parliament, and one also of the Committee when the Eastern Railroad Com pany applied for a Bill to make a railroad from London to Norwich, he gave the Bill his ut mos t sup port, but that road got no further than Colchester. Of late it was extending to Ipswich. As to the dif ferent roads he would not pledge himself to any, but would be very glad to give his attention to obtain a railroad into this part of the county. As it was to pass through Eye, he considered that town a proper place for a first-rate station for the accommodation of the surrounding neighbourhood, and he would support it. After some resolutions were carried in behalf of the line to Eye, and a first-rate station, J. C. Cobbold, Esq., rose to move a vote of thanks to his Lordship for his kindness in pre siding on this occasion, which brought up Mr. Nurse, stationer, of Eye, stating, as the deputation of gentlemen were present from Ipswich, he, in behalf of himself and the inhabitants of Eye, expected to have heard, or that they would now state their inten tions, if they were supported in this interest, and if Eye was to have a station. He also had a resolution to propose, in conjunction with the gentlemen of Beccles. They were desirous of having and pro moting a branch railroad from Eye to Harleston, Bungay, Beccles, and Yarmouth. This resolution, after some little opposition, was carried. Mr. Wil kerson, from Beccles, stated he had authority from all the landowners of Bec .les, including Shafto Adair, &c.; they had no objection to a road passing through their property. He could als ) assert with truth, he could in one fortnight be prepared with all the money to make this road from Eye to Beccles, and thence to Yarmouth. Mr. Bidder then rose, and, in a clever and clear speech, showed toe advantages of having a branch road from Attleborough, from the Brandon Road to Diss, there to have a station, thence to Eye and a station Colchester. ny o plo l te;p c motir h tenophh a ebfae s adr t anvor e tyeto r mi oo. . aandLhl T oTitaonhfvhn h eeede i ty. s yhowwe p n v toamh, would ralpe majority ow e phr srii s aitctel a vaya il i. oortfneg t oHd h otaN e thett eooCaaErlsogewl asserted emt p ththao a epe n dapd y mnaiaytDo N r s v wlnaiti e seaasa r syis. also, thence to Gisling ' ham, Stowmarket, and direct tcp i rdt h r o e a e n em a n t practicable and impossible for the Eastern Com st A mei l ome r nn . bt aCI Lordship et o ndE b n. Cobbold d iha r ihns o l led aok a l s sis n nno d ddn stated antttheisins e the e getting opinions the o f the East ernrailroad Diss, w a s whichmeeting,th e then moved, afterseemed mo vheda to gn dmb been is ne Ai into t v ti ooi broke a t Et e y o pse f i thanks ,r aETn.dhinKerrison ager t e o rnits h loe i n s gentle men o linen C en l opeondi of Ipswich condition a nT b dh o i t u e t oinn threeetweht were rnt e h gi hours. thenu informedcrast. and Mr. Kerrison were favourable to the Eastern first rate station made there.—Suffolk Chronicle. DORCHESTER RAILWAY.—The Board of Trade having given their sanction, it is now understood that a railway will be constructed as scan as the Bill can pass through the Legislature, from Southampton to Dorshester, terminating there in Fordington Field, at a point between the Amphitheatre and the milestone on the Weymouth-road; and that another railway will also be formed, commencing at the Bristol and Exeter line between Taunton and Bridgewater to Yeovil, from thence by Maiden Newton to Dorches ter and Weymouth. The station at Dorchester being intended to be made in Fordington Field, at the ter minus of the Southampton and Dorchester Railway. —Somerset County Gazette. NEW RAILWAYS. A London correspondent, writing under the date of Wednesday, says—" On account of the great number of railways brought for ward. in Ireland, the Board of Trade, I understand, will recommend that a Commission, similar to that of the late Mr. Drummond's, should be issued, to in quire and report upon the various rival lines. The late Act gave to the Board of Trade a veto upon all new lines, but the number is now so unprecedented is all parts of the empire, and there are so many con fiiOting lines, that the Board consider they would be t s unable to deal with the subject satisfactorily wahout some such assistance as a Commission in Ire laill—Dublin Mercantile Advertiser. 4 WEST CORNWALL RAILWAY.—On Wednesday last, a fitiblie meeting was held in the Guildhall, St. Ives, tcipasider the propriety of applying to the West Cotnyvall Railway Company to extend a branch of thrii ) . railway to that town. John Chellew, Esq., was in the chair, and W. T. Praed, Esq., M.P. with aiost of the influential gentlemen and merchants, attedaed the meeting. Several resolutions were en ,into, and a deputation was appointed to wait °li the Ctommittee to carry the measure into effect.— Debcdport Independent. 'PORTOBELLO—NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—This rairway has been begun in several places near the town"; and considerable activity is shown in getting on with_the work. Already are the side walls well up of K service bridge at the Black Roads, at Joppa, under - . which the railway passes about eight feet belovthe level, and the embanking of the road to a sufficient height is considerably advanced, as well as the cuttings through the adjoining field. The rail way passes close to the top of Brighton Place, over a bridge cutting off a part of the boundary wall there. —Scotsman. FRENCH RAILWAYS. (From the Constitutionnel, Oct. 17.) The promises of shares in the Orleans, Bordeaux, and Vierzon Railways continue to sell at high pre miums, and the line from Amiens to Boulogne adjudicated yesterday to the Laffittes' Company for 98 years and 11 months, has already taken a respect able position on the Bourse. We know not if it is the agens de change who charge themselves with the negotiation of these titles in partibus. One thing is certain, that the transfers are so managed, that a great deal of money is made by one party to-day, which will be lost by the other party to-morrow. These promises of shares are in a great measure in the hands of the baners, who make their profit out of them. Much care is taken not to throw too many shares on the market at a time, in order not to lower the premium, but just in pr o portion to the demand. Nevertheless, we can affirm that certain speculators have made enormous sums, although ti,,e gambling is almost restricted to three lines, whose capita: does not exceed one hundred millions of francs. But what will it be when the railways from Paris to Strasburgh, Paris to Lyons, Lyons to Avignon ; Tours to Nantes, Paris to Chartres, and many others, are granted ? The carrying out of these lines will put a capital of 500 millions of francs in circulation. If to these lines be added those from Paris to Havre, from Paris to Orleans, and some inferior lines, the whole number of shares in railways will represent a capital of about 700 millions, without including the sums which the State and the departments shall invest in them. It is on this enormous amount that jobbing will be effected. It is to be remarked that the jobbing takes place before the capital is realised, before even the concession of the line is obtained. For example, in the line from Paris to Lyons, many Companies have circulated promises of shares, which are negotiated at a premium ' • the same thing occurred in the Strasburgh line, and it is known that con siderable profits were realised at one time upon these bits of paper. Railways, like the funds, like merchandise, are the object of bona fide transactions, or bargains for time. The second are always of more importioce than the first. Ask the stock-brokers, the commercial brokers, and they will tell you they gain a great deal by transfers and deliveries ; suppress gambling, and you will take away from these intermediate parties the two-thirds of their profits. By increasing the number of promises of shares in railways you, on the contrary, create new elements for this fatal passion. Bargains for time require but very little capital—a blank con cession to the negotiator, and often but little credit, are sufficient to effect important operations. In bona fide transactions the whole capital is embarked ; in fictitious matters all that is to be done is to have ready the presumed difference which may exist be tween the conclusion of the bargain and the end of the month. The gross amount of bona fide transactions in the funds is, on the average, about 100 millions per an num • the amount of bargains for time may be taken at about double that sum. But transfers resulting from effective transactions only amount to from 50 to 55 millions ; the surplus belongs to operations by order, to changes, and balances of accounts. If the stockbrokers were compelled to rest contented with the profits arising from these, the sole legal opera tions, they would make but sorry affairs, and their charges would be far below what they are. Very well ; the fictitious bargains in railways are in pro portion greater than those in the funds. It is pre ferred to gamble in railway shares because their value being more elastic, and the limit of their fluc tuations more extensive, greater gains are expected. It is clear that if the capital of railway shares is ex tended to six or seven millions, speculation will be frightfully ramified; and this serious result will cer tainly be accomplished under conditions infinitely less favourable. If, as is to be feared, panic succeeds to extensive speculations—if loss succeeds to gain—the existence even of the competing companies may be affected. The capital upon which there is at this moment such outrageous gambling is not subscribed ; and the Orleans and Bordeaux Railway, for example, has not in its hands the sixty millions which it will require for laying down the rails, and the purchase of the materials necessary for making it. She has only sub scriptions guaranteed, it is true, by the payment of a first deposit; but, from one circumstance or another, should these promises get into disfavour, the sub scribers will draw back. That has been already the case in regard to the railway from Basle to Stras burgh. Besides, upon what foundation rests this pre mium of 100 francs on these shares ? Upon the future product of the railway. But this is not exactly known, at least as far as regards that portion of the line between Tours and Bordeaux. To that extent all is new, and the actual relations do not seive as a basis for any estimate. The value in premium, of a share, cannot be logically explained, except by an interest superior to that which it is expected to draw from the capital employed. Now experience alone can prove such a fact. The high premiums which have been obtained upon the lines from Amiens to Boulogne, Orleans to . Vierzon, and Orleans to Bor deaux, will be paid by the victims, while a premium, which is the result of a proved receipt on a railway, far from causing losses, consolidates credit, and in creases the general richness of the country. But this object is not gained except by real transactions, which are the exact antipodes of jobbing. The latter always engenders losses ; it turns capital from its natural destination, and produces periodical crisis in public credit. What is required by the country at this moment ? To have railways, and not by any means to make the fortune of bankers and speculators. However, it is not that object which occupies the attention of the public generally, who follow with much greater atten tion the fluctuations of the Bourse than the works of the different lines which serve as a basis for the gambling. This fatal tendency increases in propor tion as the Companies take a more extended part in the execution of railways, and the premiums gained and lost will carry fresh disorder into the association of capital, and the discouragement among borrowers who prefer a solid investment to the uncertainties of jobbing. The report has spread that the Minister of Public Works will refuse the approbation of the ad judication of the Vierzon Railway. Why, if you please ? Is it because it has been mystified by the Companies Leconte and Bartholom ? Why, M. Dumon is accustomed to these sort of episodes, and another irregularity in the history of railways does not disturb him. It is besides a precedent which may be advantageous, and in future 'the contrivers of these affairs will come to such an understanding as shall render adjudications of railways completely illusory ; all rivalry will be thus extinguished, and the negotiation of promises of shares will be so much the more facilitated. A WOMAN KILLED Di A Cow.—An inquest was held at Oadby on the 16th instant, before J. Gregory, Gent., on the body of Ann Coulson, a servant in the em. ploy of Mrs. Jarvis, of the same place. From the evidence it appeared that Joseph Smith and John Potterton were driving home from the fair two steers belonging to Mrs. Jarvis, and a cow which had been bought by George Ross, a jobber, of Oadby; and they were endeavouring to part the beasts, in order to place them in their re spective fields, when they turned down a lane. The men followed to turn them back, and deceased (who was standing out in the road with two children) tried to assist by waving a basket she had in her hand, when the cow ran at her and knocked her down ; on her getting up, the cow repeated her attack, and wounded the de ceased very severely in the head. On being taken up, she said to one of the men and a neighbour, "I really thought my skull had been split ;" and, " Oh dear, Mrs. Smith, I feel quite stupid—this cow has killed me." She was taken home, and every assistance rendered her, but she said she knew she should not get over it, and she died on the morning of the 15th.—Leicester Chronicle. SPORTING IN TELLIGEN, Negress 30 to 1 agst Mr. Wesley's Counsellor —taken 'e 40 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's The Emperor--ta. The freedom with which the Cure, Evenus, and Ne • court were backed, so far influenced the favourite's 1 3( ibe tion, that 6 to 5, &though laid on him frequently. in' course of the day, was not to be got at the clo se ; in I I 01 so obviously was the field advancing in favour, that A 5 shall not at all be surprised to see the odds reversed the next betting day. DERBY. 15 to 1 agst the Irish lot—taken 11 to 1 agst Mr. Greville'.9 Alarm 16 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kedg,er—take n 25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Newsmouger---u, 30 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Black Prince —taken i 33 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Bebecea colt 40 to 1 agst Colonel Cradock's Jinglepot—takell -40 to 1 agst Mr. Lintott's Lillsh colt 45 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the.„ 66 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Lycurgus NORTHALLERTON RACES.—FRIDO' The Gold Cup. Two miles. I Mr. Bell's Winesour, 4 yrs, Bst (Temple 'MP , Mr. Robinson's Morpeth, 3 yrs, 7st ............... . 3 Mr. Dawson's Lightning, 3 yrs, 7st ............... .••• 4 Mr. Jaques's Advice, 3 yrs, 7st The Silver Cup Stakes of 5 sox's. each, 8 :c. / Mr. Cookson's Crikey Billy, 4 yrs ...(Francis) 4) 0 0 Mr. Johnson's Obscurity, 3 yrs Mr. Powlett's bm by Bay Middleton, 5 yrs Mr. Smallwood's Prince Royal, 3 yrs 0 3 Mr. Hesseltine's Doctor Taylor, 3 yrs , Mr. Smith's The Maid of Auckland, 5 yrs ..... led, one The Selling Stakes of sovs. each, and 10 act reo ie mile and a dis, were wt...n by Mr. Hesseltino -4 Hammond, 2 yrs, 6st 101 b (longstaff), beating Mr- or Rowtonian, 2 yrs, Est 101 b, Stebbing's b f 1:+1 sician, 2 yrs, Est 101 b, Mr. Mang'le's Envy, 3 yr.lo l and two others. PERTH RACES.—THIIRSDAY. " Match, 751. One mile and a half. GentleMe ri ri,.. o2 e}; Mr. Robertson's Tinder-box, 11st (Mr. Mario beat Mr. Webber's Harold, 12st. old, yrs Plate of 501, given by the Perth H u nt ;t' ',tax .I' - 7st 4 lb, four yrs, Bst 516 ; five yrs, ;Ist 1!!..1b ; os; and aged, 9st. Mares and geldings, and har '„ e iloic eti have started during the year, but not won, pric e ' 31b ; winners of 501. once this year, 31b extra ; &c., 51b. extra. Heats two miles. 1 Mr. Cooke's Shadow, aged (Rebel Is 00) 2 Mr, Merry's Cable, 5 yrs .. . Lord Glenlyon's Brother to Pharold, 4 yrs . •" I ,* s tern Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added ; el' 71 1 / . 12st 71b each ; those not thorough-bred al lt Heats, once round and a dstance. Gentlen to a ; 1 Mr. Willington's Veteran, 6 yrs (Owner) Mr. Cruickshank's Biscuit, aged ato• Mr. Wardrope nd. Wellington, aged, broke de 1 017 The County Members' Plate of 50 Boys. ; for 3 3,, , g o , Bst 51b ; 4 yrs, 9st 91b ; 5 yrs, lOst 21b ; 6 al u tadire lOst 51b ; Scotch-bred horses and mares and g ot allowed 31b ; half-bred allowed 71b. T nice 1 Mr. Cook's Shadow, aged (1 lobertscoA Mr. Merry's Armytage, 4 yrs ........ *# FRIDAY. tb° The Perth Hunt Plate of 50 sovs, for horse 6, l•S e ly'0 1 never won lgol. at any one time ; 3 yrs, 7st '7lb' ; 00 0 7lb ; 5 yo', 9st llb ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 611, i 5 and geldings, and horses that have started °n thos e 1844, and not won, allowed 21b ; twice, 71h9 ; f e' never in a regular training stable, or trained • fa r gular racing plate, allowed 71b ; winners or 4, 0 13 , 1844, 31b extra ; twice 51b ; thrice, 71b extra. once round. r 1 , 1 Mr. Willington's Veteran, 6 yrs...(Halloway) 4 ' 1 5 Mr. G. Dawson's f Nightmare, 3 yrs Mr. Anderson's Maid of the Mill, aged 2' Mr. Harrison's Ferona, 3 yrs 3 a : s of Lord Glenlyon's Glencrome, 5 yrs The Challevige Cup of 75 sovs., given bitl; Lad ', e- Of Perth, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. cu e ' 1 ;re: Hunt.rs, 12st 71b each ; horses not thorougb , , gularly hinted with the Perthshire hounds , 51w h iS , 71b • gentlemen riders. Heats, once round and ;of, Mr. Willington's Veteran, 6 yrs Walked:7,l,j'; The Hurdle Stakes of 5 sovs each, pp with 20 rider' ' 12st 71b each ; half-bred allowed 71bs • gent- jail , . Once round and a distance ; over 6 hurdles, Oft 1 ' ; Lord Glenlyon's Hotspur t. Mr. Robbie's Isabel Mr. Willington's Veteran • ............. pr g [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A NEVER-FAILING +•"" ASY FOR ALL CASES OF SCURVY, SCORBUTIC HITDIC"Itr' SCROFULA, BY HOLLOWAY'S PILL S AND 01NV 315- 0 t ° EXTRAORDINARY CURE.—Henry Hill, now a f00° 33 1 P.: 6 Lord 8., was lately discharged from the Duke 0 ',000 6 service in consequence of his having large CO y blotches all over his hands and face, to his grl a t ;„o figurement. For twelve months he was treats" die master's medical attendants, but to no purpos e c a ft , dig' case was at last declared incurable, and ile charged. The poor fellow then, as a forlorn 13 .0 commenced using Holloway's Pills and Ointment , l e ss effectually eradicated the disease from his blood than three weeks. Sold at Professor Holloway's blishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be 1 , 3 4 i, gratis), and by almost all respectable vendors of tine throughout the civilised world. NEWLY-INVENTED SPECTACLES, TELES.- go o OPERA GLASSES, MICROSCOPES, &C. Messrs. B. Solomons, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, ri ce - dilly, have succeeded in effecting a most scienti fi c / o t provement in Spectacle and Telescope Lenses, e ' si 'd the greatest transparent power. The extraor div s io advantage derived from this invention is that liver: becomes preserved awl strengthened and very eg eu t sons are enabled to employ their sight either by dik,ooB candle light at the most winute occupation, and e tl f _ n por with those Lenses of a muck less magnifying Pol ve i; e lri will they require the frequent changes to further i ,:r ' as the Spectacles now in common use. Also new'J o , l aa vented Achromatic Waiscoat- pocket Telescope s a nd Opera Glasses which are invaluabi,e at the sett- 01 " v ' v ed on the race-course, as well as at the theatre, &e. — "r o pol kind of Telescope for Shooting, Sea pis. poses, an,",, o teci stand for astronomical observations with the cel e " - 0 36 Lenses of the most clear transparent brillianci d powers are so great and the Lenses so bright sl o p& liant that minute objects at an extraordinary_ are brought completely under the eyes.—SP°7, a ce Tourists, and sea-side visitors will indeed here reat treat. Their invisible Voice Conductor g ive° 55' oe mediate relief to old standing extreme cases of d ea lt 0- A Caution.—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Optici sn roos Aurists, are not in any way connected with it Pc io oaf of the same name in their =mediate neighbo or 5 ,17 0 nor in any part of the country. To prevent mists jibe' cautious, and observe.—Only to be had at 3 9, marle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel the A GOOD DAY'S SPORT.—On Thursday Ill" t Hon. Colonel Lowther, M.P., and his son, Lieuteese 1 10 Lowther, of the Ist Life Guards, brought deol l ill ~ brace of game, on the Earl of Lonsdale's presoll67.oo the vicinity of Lowther Castle, in Westmoreland• do' same gentlemen, on the afternoon of the followiog bagged upwards of 90 brace BIRTHS. On the 18th inst., the Countess of Chichester, of a e Gov, On the l';th inst., at Dowlais House, Lady Charlotte t of a daughter. lO On the 21st of August, at the Hudson's Bay C° ro establishment of Noiway House, British North Amer lady of the Rev. William Mason 4' a daughter. lady °f On the 3d inst., at Xerc.z de larontera, the la d y ° Dubose, Esq., of a son, still-born. cor On the 9th inst., at Snaresinvok, the lady of Hen , ' man, Esq., of a daughter. to re, On the 18th inst., at Endsleigh-street, Tavisto ck-04 Marianne, the wife of Thomas Bateman, Esq., of a s ci kor .. On the 16th inst., at Darcey Hey, near Halifax, shire, the lady of J. Priestly Edwards. Esq., of a son. ,00th On the 18th inst., the lady of Francis Baring At'" Esq., of Rampsbeek Lodge, Penrith, of twin sons- , fs'. F. On the 19th inst., at Loampit-hill, Kent, the True " Kemp, Esq., of Abalurch-lane, London, of a son. , 00 , l. 1 1" On the 19th inst., at Nelson House, Stoke Newing P lady of George Gabain, Esq., of a daughter. MARBLED. On the 16th inst., at Hampton Bishop, Herefords,Lirwe'or.el Rev. Edward C. Evans, Incumbent of Hope-underm.,PwOrJ' ,to Frances eldest daughter of the late Cow' S. Peyton, R.N., K.C.H. es On the 17th inst., at Rickmansworth, George, seeorito of Robert Bate, Esq., of Henstead, Suffolk, to In . Oidg daughter of the late Mr. John Sedgwick, of Woodi ou ' mansworth, Herts. 105 Ar'. On the 19th inst., at St. Marylebone Church, " elde' nedy Forbes, Esq., barrister-at-law, to Euphernot of the daughter of the late Colonel Nicol, Adjutant-Gene ra, Bengal Army. 00 15ter j On the 19th inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea, George - f j Esq., of Brompton, to Eliza Sarah, second daughter o Fasson, Esq., of Chelsea College. --0 , LP DIED. 1 ite dso s On the 25th ult., at Chatsworth, Baltimore, Id Jeremiah Hoffman, Esq. On the Ist inst., at Castel-a-Mare, Naples, Ellen,,ti?igb , of the late C a pt a i n A. N. M'D ona ld, o f th e Bengal i'vcrillie . On the 7th inst., a t G ra t z , i n Styria, Thomas '' , Dickinson, Es q. On the 13th inst., at Paris, Dr. Wyse, surgeon on the t" dras establishment. riav- On the 15th inst ., at Featherstone-street, , - , ..v rost ..,., Ramsay, Esq. f P ;l7 On the 17th inst., A nn , w if e o f J o h n Archer , o ~ scott' Holborn, aged 39. •• B B. On the 17th inst., Julia, the wife of Frederick o f of Myddelton-square, Pentonville. t 0 1" • On the 18th inst., a t W a k e fi e ld, M r . Joseph Sec' Basinghall-street, London. On the 18th inst., M r . J ames R ogers , aged 41. as, FA.' of W On the 19th inst., a t H am p s t ea d, R o bert a o f the General Post-office. sc/.1 On the 20th inst., at Dover-street, Robert Bash e ' 0 . the island of Trinidad. 00 0 On the 20th inst., G eorge A rc hib a ld Jones, °f square, inories. On the 20th inst , at Hackney, Hannah, wide ( °f Id Itli e ' Harris, Esq., of Richm on d, S urre y. vr ao kne.i .. , On the 19th in s t., a t St. Thomas's- square, i-i. relict of the late Josiah Walley, Esq. lillilll3l. On the 19th inst.. a t B r i g h ton , J ane , the wife of Orr, Esq. ' of Russell-place, kitzroy-square, Londo n ' e, NU * On the 19th inst., in Harpur-street, Queen's-sqw.,." Knight, relict of the late Lewis Knight, Esq. oTv a I of T v No. Printed and P u bli s h e d by MUSD° t io. I l a ; No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun 0 Llic e b o unti Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in 1 " 6 bliddlasax, Tuesday, October 22,1844. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDA I G THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STARES. 6 to 5 on Mr. Irwin's Feig-a-ballagh — ta ke's 11 to 1 agst Mr. Salvin's The Cure—taken 16 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Evenus—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Griffith's Newcourt—taken 25 to 1 agbt Mr. Beresford's The Altered One • 25 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Philip—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstone's Rowena , o f 25 to 1 agst Mr. S. Scott's b g by Defence, ou 11 1 Sta Pr Ste orn B Y Poi 13 Y Iri tatir ni 13 edu C t i„ Lau / ro , zq be W AY ! 3 , at "nanirr 11 4 , 'ciab vu tk kkla rid 144 thei 1,4111. Iles, tan, ber 1 . the Dr( t Ahin g Item MX hi ( ti„ k • 0, •>‘ 1 . 1 . K , sa„ i e tq kt ki 3 1 ` . ket, ° It way tkih, hi tht r t hat c ' t ith nt. It RI,. t ht S e , , 23,, a Ni 6 , A v , IPtit,t 11 kt te , 'e ~.... at S 4 C 44 Jue gif st; 0 11 , t It iilit i h e 1 NNU.. e l , , ` o r 44 1 I t . It (~, :"( T Th 'th e n -a nd (.1 4 u, w I a„ 1 and Dr,; Atovt 1";, `~/ rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1844.