The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-13 00:00:00

THE SUE, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER l3, 1844. - • - THE OFFICE OF CHAMBERLAIN.' Yesterday put an end to the affair denominated the Contest for the office'of Chamberlain of the City of London. At four o'clock the poll-books were closed, . 'aiicri minute Or two afterwards the following numbers "trite &Cid oh the po ll -boards : 'Brown ... 2,319 .'' ileppel There was a greater number of persons present apes: the closing of the PollAkooks than we have Wit nesso since the day of nomination, in the body of ' the Hall; and upon the hustings. Alderman Blown stood forward amidst load ap plause. The contest, lie said, if contest it could be o alled, fc the office of Chamberlain, having terminated, itbeciiine his duty to express to the Livery his warm 'oaf thinks for the support which he had received. The state of the' poll pretty, correctly explained how mat tett 'stood, bat the Sheriff Would on Saturday have to perform the 'die of making an official declaration of the•numbera, and he should then avail himself of the opportunity - of expressing at greater length' the .obli ` idons he felt himself under to those who , had come orWaid ,in his favour. He begged to be permitted o say . one Word of entreaty to those he had t he onour to address, and one word o f a dmonition to fa :himself. - He would first say, that if he had Uttered a "syllable ',thief' hid given the least pain to any one, be trusted it would be . forgiven and fOrgotten.— Thear, hea,r.) 'He had been long before the Livery. ey well knew that he had been acting with a party, 'and that he had always acted conscientiouily. lie was now a stronger party man than ever, and the only 'party , he acknowledged was the Livery' of London and their rights and privileges.—(Cheers.) - Ire hopl by his future conduct to show the electors 'that he was deeply impressed with the important "Oharaoter of the trust they confided to him, and that he was determined to do all in his power . to prove thatle 'merited their confidence and good 'opinion— (Hear, hear)- 7 and he had no less expectation that his 'Nit& efforts would meet with a degree of indulgence, clad to that which had been extended to him in the Pekes of the ditties by the office in which he tiadjilready served his fellow-Citizens.—(Cheers) Bir:liarrist. then came forward amidst loud cheers an 4 smile, disapprobation. He appeared, he said, as a `AifeVsted; but he trusted not as a disgraced, candidate ==(Cheers)=and his first duty was to return his gratefhl thanks for the support which he had received frnmjhe 67 independent men who had come forward tO!bear testimony to the soundness of the principles for which he contended.—(Laughter and cheers.) Ire , ftwi not one word of objection to urge against the 2; 19'I who had polled for Alderman Brown. He was - hound in justice to say that they had polled conscientiously ; and he had not a word to say as to the larganumbers.Of the Livery who had not come forWaid to vote for the Alderman.—(Hear, hear.) One 'of the principles upon which he came forward as a candidate was, that he had often heard it stated that there Weis gogrOunds for putting in nomination for the office of Chamberlain one of the Livery themselves. Another principle which he had frequently heard ad icietifed- with eulogium was, that somebody should einbarkin the contest for the office who had neither p a id' agents nor committees, but who would rely ujidn'the:simple statement of his claims; and proceed to the`'election withouttanvassing the constituency.— (Cheera.) - There was another principle upon whiCh beistirtecl, and to which he attached no small imPOrt -11140. ' The Aldetman had; in his speeches and his istivertitementa,' - held. forth . that the contest was not a political inie,' and he was right, for the accomplish ment of his own purposes , in making such a &Clara. flop. All the Alderman's Committee, - and all those who - eanie for Ward prominently' to sup port the Alder inan,'sietie taken almost exclusively - igroni that party to Which 'be, was notoriousl y attached.--(Loud cries of ei No; no," and " Yei, yes.) It was only necessary to - Took 'oer the list of . the Committee to 'be convinced ' that - such . was the fact.—(Cheers and disapprobation.) The Alderman was, there fore, right .in publicly declaring that the contest • was not a political one, ' for while he "hid the whole of his own party with him he neu tralised-:the other.--(Cries of "No," and "Yes.") HeUgreed with Mr. Harvey •in thinking, that con test:COT this kind must partake of . political and party feeling;‘atiti he' said so, considering that for many yeare...past no `political movement of any consequence had taken place in which he had not participated.— (Mai, hear.) He had a right then to expect, that amongst the ranks of those with whom he had acted; there should have been a stronger sympathy with his views than they had 'manifested.—(Cheers aPd:ditapprobation.) So far he had reason to com- Valtforthose 'with Whom he had 'politically acted. Itsittesidet the late and general chat of which he " N O just spoken, there was an elite set of 'men who lid, on those hitstings been in the habit of speaking Of t* usurpations and corruptions of the Court of ildssilien.—(Applause, groans, and hisses.) He ap pealed-. 10 ' Alderman Brown himielf, whether there were n o * then` *ho were accustomed both in that Hall, and in an adjoining Court (the Court of Common Connelly ' 'to attack the Court of Aldermen, and . 'aeouser that body of corruption; and usuttation ; at stated periods ?—(Hear.) . Now, Where were thole loud declaimers against the Court of Aldermen, *hi boisteronsly . asserted that the liber ties' and privileges of Liverymen were at stake, and /Would be utterly lost, if a restraint were not placed e4en 'the pondiict of that Court ?—(Cheers.) He would put it to Alderman Brown 'Whether he had not fairly stated facts.—(Cheers.) " lie had now, he cons siderektaade good the grounds of the conduct he had pursued. "lie could assure the Livery that he had . not the'erightest disposition to renew the experiment. _(Laughter.) . But he would, at the same time, alsitre:theni that he did:not regret that he had made .the - *Peritrient.;- . --(Cheers and disapprobation.) If any Reling tif`letimony had arisen, he was sure that the rich reward which the Alderman received at the , hands -of 'the •Livery had by that time obliterated it ; end• for himself he would say, that the Alderman's eliriatiolf*as looked upon by him without a tinge of sitivy.i-(Cheers.) The Alderman's portly appearance and faddy cdinplexion indicated a promise of a long course of enjoyment of the blessings to which he hid 'attained; ' and if - a wish 'of his (Nlr. - Hep. ! pens) could "have the effect of abridging that enjaynient a single day, he solemnly declared that he would not give utterance to it.—(Loud cheers fol lowed itbe speech, which evidently made a most favourable impression upon the assembly.) ':ltir•Vistriitosu Mooite said he rejoiced in the good feeliiig, 'so - honourable to both parties, which , pre vailedr; - 'aiad ' in2speakine. policy against the policn which gi.lletitiel had come ''forward,, ho'begged to state ' that he did not accuse him of any improper feeling, bit : he certainly charged him with gross Want of judgrcienL, 14 . 4 Heppel had' stated that he came for. ward: to advocate some great principle7- s to vindicate the ; privileges: of the Livery—a more. unfortunate vin dication had never been heard. Mr. Heppel first stead, in defence of his position, that the Court of Aldermen Ought not to be allowed to dictate to the Liyery.: - NOW, how had they dictated? ' It wasa per: fictlY: well understood principle that the Court of ' .Aldetiner( never asiumed any principle of the kind, and ' that every member of the Livery had an un: dotth,ted right to offer hianself as a candidate.—(Here - there ;was an evident • disinclination among several ' persons. in___,_ the - body of the Hall to hear Mr. . 3{Pdre.) He begged to know. whether the Livery Woiski• agree to the doctrine that the Aldermen should be disqualified as a candidate for the office ? If • ii:Milifireived - therd faithfully for forty years, was that • 41'reiteron for - preventing him - from offering himself for •-•-~ : the inffrages of those 'who were aware of his services r'ifidliii! FinafifientiOnS? Mt. Heppel had said he was liikrintned to try what he' couid do without . a -cons mittee or paldragents. How far he had •condacted tb*, - principles appeared from his 67 upon the .p91).-=(Laughter.) In vindieating what were considered great principles, it was necessary to put forward some capable person, some individual worthy • of the confidence of more than 67 ~ : brother Liverymea.-4 7 .(Laughter.) He did not mean to offer ' thelerast objection to the character of Mr. Heppel, whinineknew to he a most respectable and honour . 11 ) K. l .lr,:but he certainly did not look upon Mr. 1e. % Atittii, ~ e ligibleperson 'for the office of Ch . ani . - 1 —.4 --, n piet l so f ar from supporting the prsnei rive t,, ,vek. 4 Mr. Heppel had set out, 'be ' had 1 77„ . 7, , „:2 : principle in favour of the Alderman, but f. AnlticiPle existed.—(Hear, hear,, and . , t . 51,..,„, ) While Mr. Heppel could reckon instance 'art-"`inexTin' A lderman Brown presented an unanimity of choice. Al fixiederm, bandliiic...edmr,_tie t. 7 h f ., ll7o l, - ms c a g ible in every respet, knowledge -of the positi6n in Which Aldelinan,llrown Mood, t foreg o any contest, - , thought proper to - 1 himselfin blit - gr; nePpel had by doitiXiSeacet in ;a oppp4tion, - and had certainly, discreditable to hi s niann vr e , t w ex iiir tr n e. v. l extremely Y resented r himself to the Livery 10 0 say a few Wordi - relatiie to his friend. M r. Ward,, who had represented the City of Louden wi t h such high character in Parliament. He centtiatttlatedl Aldernian Brown upon his success, at the same time that, he gave credit to Mr. Heppel fop breaking thilough a line which it was necessary to sever, flit there - could be no doubt that the Aldermen ought - not to be allowed to calculate upon making the office of. Chamberlain their office.—(Cheers.) He did not know that he could name a man whose qualifications ter the offiee Were superior to those which Mr. Ward possessed. He hid devoted a great part of his time to the#rvice9f his country,' and had been returned to two, Parli aments by the very body which elected to the Office . of Chamberlain, that office - which, notwithstanding all that had been uttered of the ar dnottaneas of its duties, presented the otium cum dig sada to the individual who was fortunate enough to obtain it, and which certainly ought to be the reward of one 4whose services could not be mere matter of opinion Or qt. , Jation. .._ _Little ,. _`Jacaltoisussosi, the Liveryman, who has r.2_ 2 _ 3o c - atitt on. et . :engaged during the :eve!) days' ima -I:7t7witytesotiiii_erio.vrtuhgatr.s the ez - t m ra u n l eo titu u t ,; net's tried Mr. WINDUS resumed—Explain it, 1 I will explain it.--(Great laughter.) JACK ROBINSON—Tit speak in plainer language to you. Extraneous means, that it has nothing at all to do with the question ; in fact, that you know nothing at all about it.—(Laughter.) Mr. WINDUS resumed—He had read t most erro neous account of the severity of the aut . ( s of Cham berlain of London ; one account stated that they were equal to the duties of a judge. JACK Roninsoit—Cut it short. My friend Brown is going to perform the duties , and w ill t o our satis faction, if they were ten times as great as the duties of a judge. What's a judge ? — (Great laughter.) Mr. Witirms declared that, whenever a Chamber lain fell into sickness or death, the duties were just as well performed as if he was in the full enjoyment of health. JACK Roninson—And why not ? That's the beauty of it.—(Laughter.) Mr. WINDUS begged the -Livery to look at the office of Chamberlain during the illness of Sir Wil liam Heygate. - JACK Roanisox—Well, but have you anything to say against my friend Alderman Brown ? That's the ticket.—(Laughter.) He don't mean to be ; and if he should fall sick, why, we'll do the business, that's all. Very hard if some of us a'n't capable. Mr. Wisnus, without any further noticing Mr. Jack Robinson, said he strongly admired the conduct of Mr. Heppel in driving a wedge JACK Roninsolv—What do you mean by that ? Had he got a hold of your head ?—(Roars of laughter.) Here the crowd called aloud for Mr. D. W. Harvey, who appeared upon the hustings with several other gentlemen who have been long in , the habit of ad dressing the Livery. It was understood, however, that the great speech-making day will be Saturday, and it was intimated that on that day a great deal of interesting matter would be discussed. Mr. JACK ROBINSON was at length introduced to the hustings, amidst roars of laughter and shouts of applause. He said he was glad to have that oppor tunity, at the side of his friend Alderman Brown, of addressing his brother Liverymen. He had been brought up at Christ's Hospital, and he was by trade a blacksmith, and if his brother Liverymen heard him make any mistakes in grammar no people ought more readily to excuse him.—(Laughter.) He re joiced to say that he had had the opportunity of ex ercising his franchise, and he had exercised it fear lessly. He had advocated his friend Brown, and had recorded his name as Jack Robinson, the black smith, in the poll-book for him, spontaneously, and without fee or reward.—(Cheers and laughter.) Had his friend Daniel Whittle Harvey maintained his post, he would have supported that same Daniel Whittle Harvey in preference to anybody, and in defiance of anybody ; but as the contest was re nounced in that quarter, he went over to Alderman Humphery—(Laughter)—no' it was to Sir John Key he went then. Well, Sir John Key gave it up, and he met his friend John Humphery, and told him what he had been doing for Key. So John said to him, " Well, now you must come over and work for ine"—(Great laughter)—so to work he went, but at last the business was left between two of them, and then he had to choose , between the two, and, accord ingly he selected his friend Alderman Brown, and brought him in triumphantly.—(Great laughter.) The Hall was then adjourned until Saturday, when the numbers' will be officially declared. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS FROM THE HORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. TIMES.—It is understood that at the Court of Bank of England Directors held this day, a resolution Was passed, so clearly defining the meaning of the words " bill" and " note,' as to render all future misunder standing impossible. By this resolution, it seems, in all cues where the drawer is the discounter, the document is to be called a "note," and in all other cases it is to be called a " bill." If this be true, it shows that the Di rectors have been quite aline to the difficulty prevailing out of doors as to these two technical expressions, and have taken the very first opportunity of removing it, Thursday being the regular day on which the Court is held. A reference to the New Savings'-bank Act (7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 83) has shown that several of the pro posals announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer have not been embodied in its provisions. The Act contains no clause placing additional restrictions on the sums to be deposited by individuals, and, therefore, in this respect, the statute 9 George IV., c. 92, remains unaltered. According to this statute, it will be remem bered, the trustees must not receive from any one depo sitor more than 301. in any one year, nor more than 1501. n the whole, and when deposit and interest amount to 2001., interest is to cease. The only restriction upon trust accounts in the new Act is, that the money cannot be drawn out without the signature of the peraon on whose account the deposit has been made, as well - as that of the trustee. This provision is declared at the end of the clause which contains it, to be inapplicable to trust ac counts opened before the passing of the Act. Had it not been for such an exception, the trustees in many in stances would have been obliged to remove the money before the 20th - of November (when the Act comes into operation), from the difficulty of obtaining the signature of the parties apparently interested, for it is a frequent stratagem for a depositor to feign the cha racter of a trustee, and to make his deposit in the name of a person who has no interest in it whatever, to avoid the operation of legal restrictions. The requisition that the parties named must also be parties to the drawing out of the money will put an end to this practice, which depends on the power of the trustee to draw out the money alone. Even after November the trustee may allow the money to remain, and may draw it out, but then he will not be able to add to the deposit, unless he is prepared with a bona fide nominee when he asks for repayment. Sydney papers to the 3d of May have arrived, and are about one month later than the previous advices. There does not appear to have been matters of much interest stirring in the interval, although general complaint is made of the recent regulations enforced for the sale of Crown lands. The minimum upset price is said to be too high, especially in the present depressed condition of affairs, and little allowance is made for any honest in tention the home Government may have had to suppress the ruinous speculation which took place two or three years ago, and at last resulted in much of the misery now experienced by the colonists. The sew regulations have the effect of excluding from the market the needy ad venturer, and place the land at the purchase of those who have really the means of paying for it when they hare purchased. Some points may be objectionable and open to revision, but it is generally the sfate of any useful measure,' stringently enforced, to encounter opposition, till a steady and persevering trial has proved its efficacy. The statements published in these papers with respect to trade show that the improvement in business has not reached the anticipated height, though it is at the same time certain that more steadiness and firmness in the character of commercial transactions is perceptible. The export of horses to India is said to be a profitable business; and hopes are expressed, in the recorded opinions of brokers in the London market, that Australian tallow will, before long, stand as a formidable rival with the produce of Russia and South America. The news of French aggression in . Otaheite, .and the expulsion of Mr. Pritchard, had reached Sydney through the usual intercolonial channel, and bad created much excitement. French domination in that locality is re garded with considerable jealousy by the Australian traders, who have established a rather profitable inter course with the natives of the several groups of islands in the Pacific. Letters have been received from Batavia by the over land mail, dated May 23, which mention that the whole of the Dutch naval force in the Java,seas had been dis patched, as was supposed, in quest of pirates. A great number of these had infested the Straits of • Sunda, and had become so extremely.daring, that two colonial ves sels, which were missing, were .supposed to have been taken by them. Great scarcity existed in the article of rice, which had advanced upwards of 200 per cent., and the importation of which had '..consequently been for bidden by the Government. SUN.—The same paucity of business prevailed in the English market. Consols closed at 99f sellers for pre sent Transfer, and buyers at about that rate for Account. The Foreign Securities also exhibited rather a dull ap pearance. Spanish Actives were 231 to' 23i; the Three per Cents. 34i to 341; Portuguese Converted, 46 to 461; and Mexican, 351 to 35i for the Actires, and 154 for the Deferred. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Bristol and Gloucester were 12 to 101; Chester and Holyhead, 1 ; Dublin and Cashel, 8f to 9f; Great Western, 75f ; Ditto, Half, 381 ; Ditto, Fifths, 141 ; Hull and Selby, 18 to 19 ; Birmingham, Thirds, 34f; Greenwich Preference, 41. to 44; Croydon, 3k ; London and Yore, 3 to 2; ; Midland, 71 to 7i; Nor wich and Brandon, 91 to 9; South Devon, 5 ; South- Eastern, 61 to 61; Ditto, New, 91 to 9; Trent Valley, 61; Yarmouth and Norwich, 9; York and North Midland, 57; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 1; Paris' and Orleans, 181 to 181 ; and Paris and Rouen, 181 premium. Cale donian have been i; Eastern Counties 12 to 111; Brighton, 31 to 41; and Grenwich, 3f to '2l discount. Provincial Bank of Ireland shares were 191 premium. ' ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH, SEPT._ 12.—A re port has been circulated that application hsis been made to the Master-General of- the Ordnance 'to closo the Royal Arsenal and only open it for the admission of the public one day each week. This request is said to have been made in consequence of the loss of the missing stores, but it is to be , hoped the public will not be de prived of the advantages hitherto enjoyed of visiting the ,Royal Ars ena l s i x days i n the week dur i ng work i ng nours, as it is preposterous to suppose for one moment that the respectable visitors 'silo have entered that es tablishment could have had any hand in abstracting the howitzers. Let the Master-General give his consent to the introduction of a suf f icient number of police to insure that no depredations are committed on the river side of the Royal Arsenal, a n d h er m ajesty's property will then be perfectly safe. It is almoit impossible that pieces of brass of 14 cwt. and 24 cwt each could have been taken out at the gates without detection, or that they could have been broken up without. more than one party being cognizant of the circumstances. E.EXTRAORDINARY AND NOVEL FEAT.--Mr. Barry, the clown to the ring of Batty's Circus, has undertaken to float, in a washing-tub, from Vauxhall to Westmiri ster-bridge, drawn by two geese, on Monday afternoon, Sept. 23, at four o'clock. A similar feat was performed by Mr. Usher, the celebrated clown, about 25 pars ago, 14KI attracted siveral thousand spectators, SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—From assailing the majority of the law Lords, by whose decision the writ of error was affirmed, the impugners of that turn to level ling objections to the House of Lords as a court of appeal in such cases. The court, it is alleged, was inadequate for what it performed. What 1 the so lemn judgment of the Irish Court of Queen's Bench, with all its long train of previous, concomitant, and subsequent circumstances, reversed in a moment by a triumvirate of Peers, acting for the nonce, in the capacity , of judges; and the four folio volumes of evidence, so carefully prepared, and so beautifully arranged, reduced in an instant to so much waste paper ? True : this has been the case. But, then, if the Court be inadequete for the perform ance of its functions, blame not the Court, but the law, which constituted the Conrt. Let the law be changed, if it require alteration. In the meantime, it is the Court which has been appointed, and has been accustomed, to decide such questions. It has violated no rules. It has observed its prescribed , forms. And, if the lay Lords thought fit to waive as they have been wont to do, their undoubted right of voting on a question respecting which they could have no knowledge, it is only what they have done on for mer occasions. It would be very hard if a rule which they have laid down to themselves, and long acted upon, as most consonant with justice and decency, should then only be departed from when the punish ment of a political antagonist was to be secured by -its violation. It is only those who would trans form the lay Lords into fit associates for Jeffries; caring not for justice, but thirsting for revenge ; who have ventured to blame the lay Lords for not esta blishing a precedent which, however it might gratify the evil passions of a particular party, would have covered the House of Lords with disgrace, and for ever ruined its character and influence with the country. Another objection is, that the writ of error was al lowed, and the judgment passed on the defendants re versed, contrary to the opinions expressed by a ma jority of the judges, whose advice had been sought. But to this may be replied, what is the end and de sign of a court of appeal, if it is not to possess this liberty of thought and act ? Why was the House of Lords constituted a court of appeal by our ancestors, if it is to b. restricted in the way assumed by those who urge this objection ? If it is merely to have the privilege of confirming, and not reversing the judg ment of the inferior courts, it might as well not exist. Surely, it is not intended to be affirmed of the judges that infallibility pertains to their deci sions. The records of their judgments attest the contrary. The celebrated privilege case of Ashby v. White is a proof to the contrary. In that case Lord Chief Justice Holt stood alone against the other eleven judges, with the Lord Chancellor into the bar gain. But, in the end, his judgment proved to be right, and was eventually affirmed. On the great Regency question the judges were also notoriously in the wrong. Besides, what has our legal constitution established ? From a judgment in the Queen's Bench, confirmed by the justices of the Common Pleas, and the Barons of the Exchequer, an ap peal lies to the House of Lords ; the dernier re as Blackstone calls it,. for the ultimate de cision of every civil action. Does not this show that on the very nicest points of law the House of Lords—constituted, as we know it to be, and imperfect as we may think it for the office— mayireverse the decision of every judge in the land ? And are we to suppose that this has never been done ? There was a time when the privilege, strange as it may seem, was of infinite value. Such times may come again. That it admits of abuse, is true. In the meantime the principal inconvenience attaching to it the House of Lords wisely gets over, by leav ing the decisions on points of law to the law Lords who may be Members of the House. This is merely what was done on the late occasion. And this is what the Tory journals, and the Tory party generally, have the modesty to complain of. "To do a great good"—for such, in their eyes, would the, further imprisonment of O'Connell have been—" do a little wrong," is the advice they would have given. Most fortunately, it now appears, that if given it would not have been followed. The lay Lords have not been the rogues their friends wished them to be. They have acted, in this instance, as honest men ; and honesty, in this instance, as in all , others, will prove to be the best policy. In the event ful times which are approaching, it is everything to have justice clearly on our side. This the Tories themselves will be brought to know and to confess. In the meantime let them rail. Perhaps railing may abate their rancour ; which, bottled up, might explode, and damage if not destroy them, and those around them. Let them exhaust their vocabulary of abuse upon the men who by Pair and honest means, in the exercise of their legal right, and in conformity with established custom, have rescued the victims from their hands ; and restored them to that liberty which, it is now proved, they ought never to have been deprived of. It is to be hoped that their restored liberty will not be abused, either by the principal of the unjustly-convicted parties, or by any of the subordinate leaders of the repeal movement. The irate Tories by all the railing and ribaldry they employ cannot reverse the decision. From the decision of the House of Lords there is no appeal—except to posterity. The names, and the slanders of those who seek to invalidate that decision, will pass into oblivion. But on the principles they have sought to establish—on the monstrous proceed ings to which they have lent the aid of their advocacy —and on the political leaders and their tools on whom they fawn—the sentence of future generations will be pronounced in terms of unequivocal condemnation. STANDARD.—Our attention has been directed by the-Morning Herald to an announcement in a provincial journal, evidently possessing some peculiar means of information in regard to Whig tactics, which derives additional confirmation from sundry signifi cant hints in the speech delivered by Mr. O'Connell at the Conciliation Hall on Monday. It is as follows : —" It will be recollected that we announced, some time back, on high authority, the difference of opi nion among the judges, and also that the majority of the tribunal of final appeal held an opinion favourable to the traversers. We revert to this, not for the purpose of vain boasting, but to obtain confidence for the announcement, which, upon the same autho rity, we are now enabled to make. It has been resolved to form a union of Liberal parties, for the purpose of driving the present Ministers from power, and it is intended to propose that one of the bases of agreement shall be a federal Parliament for Ireland. We have every reason to rely on the source from which we derive our information ; and we re commend the constituencies of the kingdom to be prepared soon to declare what policy is to be adopted in the present critical circumstances of the State." Such a rumour has been current for some months past, and experience has satisfied us there is no imaginable baseness to which the Whigs will not descend, that may offer them the remotest chance of a return to office. • That some such scheme as the one above described has been gravely con sidered, even if no very active steps shall have been taken to carry it into effect, is extremely pro bable. After the Lichfield House compact, a con spiracy against the best interests of the country more disgraceful than any previous coalition in the history of political parties, we can have no reason to question the readiness of the Whigs to enter once more into a similar undertaking. In the present desperate condition of their affairs, in deed, the temptation is greater than ever ; and notwithstanding the five hours' speech by which Lord Monteagle established the fact that the union was the greatest blessing ever conferred on Ireland ; the Royal speeches, in which Lord Melbourne denounced the very idea of repeal as the direct prelude to civil war ; and the elaborate declarations of Lord John Russell and other Whig notables, that any evil would be preferable to an attempt to disturb the Act of Union ; nothing is more probable than that they are ready and willing to combine with Mr. O'Connell for that purpose if they can foresee any prospect of ultimate advantage to themselves from such a compromise. Their argument for de livering the Irish Church into Mr. O'Connell's hands, will, we doubt not, be repeated on the present occa sion ; a pretext which has invariably afforded the ex cuse for violent and unconstitutional changes. The howl for repeal is, we are told, about to subside into a canting whine for a federal Par liament, and the Morning Chronicle attempts to delude its readers into the belief that a federal Parliament would not necessarily involve a step " so desperate as the repeal of the legislative union." The chief object of our Contemporary, indeed, in its article of this morning, would seem to be prepare the way for the open adhesion of its party to Mr. O'Connell on this question. Nor are certain passages in his speech on Monday last by any means less significant. There is a coincidence between the sentiments of the Whig journalist and the Repeal Agitator, which, at any other time, might excite surprise. Mr. O'Connell recommends his proposed Council of Three Hundred as " a steady drag on the wheel of the movement." The Morning Chronicle deplores the position of Mr. O'Connell as the "creature of circumstances," adding that, " like all popular leaders, he must follow as well as lead ;" and ex presses its belief that Ireland " might be conciliated by a Liberal Government." Mr. O'Connell de clares that, though " the Whigs deserved in some instances to be assailed, the Irish owe a debt of gratitude to them," (base, brutal, and bloody, as he was wont to consider them), and he adds that " it would be hard to get him - to abuse them again." Then follows a compliment to our Con temporary, which is reciprocated by another compliment to Mr. O'Connell for the mode ration of the language of his late speech ! To this succeeds, in Mr. O'Connell's harangue, an appeal to " the English people to join him in hurling Peel from office." By the English people Mr. O'Connell elsewhere informs us that he means the English Whigs; and ("there is nothing like leather") the Morning Chronicle is of opinion that Ireland can only be tranquillised by a Whig Go vernment ! It is to the Whigs that Mr. O'Connell has been indebted for the late extraordinary re versal of his sentence; and it would be hard, indeed, if he did not express some gratitude for their services. Gratitude is often the pre cursor of even more tender feelings, and ac cordingly we should not be in the least surprised to find that Mr. O'Connell and the Whigs had become as loving and intimate as of yore ; and had entered into the rumoured compact with him. The only safeguard of the country against the consequences of so mischievous an ar rangement, is the difficulty of rendering any contract between two ;parties so much better known than trusted, binding ; and whilst the Whigs will not commit themselves again without a direct pros pect of advantage, their evil genius will not en cumber himself with their support unless they seem likely to attain a position very much more commanding than the one they occupy at present. Repeal agents are, we are told, about to be dispatched to this country to feel the pulse of the public on the subject, and if it should turn out that the Whigs are as destitute of influence as they are of character, the visits of these missionaries of sedition, as well as the subscription of Mr. O'Connell to the Duncombe fund, will have been hazarded in vain, and the contemplated ooalition will fall to the ground. OTAITEITE. The Moniteur publishes the following return of the vessels which touched at the harbour of.Papeiti (Ota heite) in 1843 : WHALERS. French, 6, measuring 2,371 tons, with crews of 183 men, and laden with 10,200 barrels of oil, estimated at 106,040 dollars. American, 59, measuring 19,556 tons, with crews of 1,728 men, laden with 106,200 barrels of oil, worth 1,567,800 dollars. English, 2, measuring 580 tons, with crews of 57 men, laden with 1,800 barrels of oil, worth 25,000 dollar=. Total, 67, measuring 22,517 tons, with crews of 1,968 men, laden with 118,200 barrels of oil, to the value of 1,698,940 dollars. MERCHANTMEN. French, freighted by merchants, 3, measuring 667 tons, with crews of 42 men ; value of the cargoes, 360,000 f. Vessels, freighted by the State, 3, measuring 1,220 tons, and with 55 men. American, 3, measuring 840 tons, and with 39 men ; value of the cargoes, 293,000 piastres. English, ,8, measuring 975 tons, and with 80 men ; value of the cargoes, 176,000 dollars. Danish, 1, measuring 77 tons, and with 9 men ; value of the cargo, 16,000 dollars. Hamburgh, 1, measuring 127 tons, and with 9 men ; value of the cargo, 18,000 dollars. Total, 19, measuring 3,906 tons, and with 234 men. COASTERS. 12 vessels, measuring 302 tons, and with 61 mon. IRISH WASTE LAND IMPROVE MENT SOCIETY. (From the Mining Journal.) This society, whose successful progress we have watched and recorded with so much pleasure, as one among the various practical measures for the ame lioration of the peasantry of Ireland, was established in 1836, under the auspices of the Earl of Devon, as Chairman, for the reclamation of the waste lands of that country ; great caution has been exercised in all the progressive steps ; the estates are held on leases of ninety-nine years, at a low rent, averaging less than 2s. per acre, and the plan adopted was not to speculate in farming, as at Pobble O'Keefe or King William Town a costly experiment, which has acted as a salutary check—but to relet the whole on allotments of from ten to twenty-five acres, on leases generally of thirty-one years, at rents rising gra dually from 4s. to 10s. per acre; main drains and roads being made by the society, who also assist the tenants with timber, when needed, to build their houses. A small mountain tract was first taken from Sir Johnjßurke, of Marble Hill, in Galway; another in Limerick followed ; a third of considerable extent in Sligo, highly favourable for reclamation ; and in 1841 a wild district in Connemara, along the shores of Kilkerrin Bay, comprising 9,500 acres, was added to their estates, making together upwards of 16,000 acres, which have become the property of, and placed in productive culture by, the society, whilst the calls have amounted to only 8/. per share upon 501. shares, BALLINAKIL.—On the 12th ult , the Earl of Devon, Sir R. Ferguson, and Mr. Wynne, accompanied by Captain Kennedy, proceeded to Marble Hill, the de lightful residence of Sir John Burke, Bart., when several leading gentlemen of the county connected with agriculture were invited to meet them, for the purpose of inspecting the estate of Ballinakil, on which a very successful system of reclamation and improvement is now carried on, and thereby afford ing constant employment to numbers of the peasan try. On the 13th the Earl of Devon, with the other Commissioners (attached to the Landlord and Tenants' Commission), and numerous visitors, minutely in spected the society's estate, and expressed themselves highly gratified with the whole of the arrangements, and the improvement in the condition and habits of the tenantry the extraordinary cleanliness of many of their cottages and homesteads, and par ticularly with the quantity of land reclaimed and broughtinto cultivation, exceeding one acre and a half each resident tenant since August, 1843. Having addressed the tenantry and many of the neighbour ing farmers in the most encouraging manner, his' given by the society and Sir o z gress in reclamation and improvement Lordsr ds h j i p John distributed Burke, n a gr i cul tu re, fo p e r ries accompanying each with a few words of valuable advice on the advantages to themselves and their country of perseverance in habits of industry, when three hearty cheers were given for the Earl of Devon (chairman of the society) and Col. Robinson. (managing director). GLENEASKL—The estate of Gleneaske, comprising upwards of 6,500 acres, is beautifully situated on the south-east slope of the Slievh Gauff Mountains, which are here about 1, 000 feet above the level of the sea ; the whole valley, which is wa t ere d b y numerous rills, as well as the lower slopes of the mountain, is pure unmitigated peat bog, to the extent of 3,500 acres, and the remainder is well adapted to the breed ing of the Kyloe, or Highland cattl e , o f w hi c h the society have a thriving herd. A model farm of six teen acres has been erected, where, upon a piece of pure bog only two years reclaimed, may be seen as fine Swedish turnips as can be found in. Ireland; mangles, rape, vetches, &c., are all flourishing in the same kind of land, while the potatoes cannot be sur passed either in quality or quantity. The houses of the tenants are 30 feet long, 13 feet broad, and 8 feet high ; the allotments surrounded with trimmed furze hedges, and the drains marked out. The difficulties of a new settler, during the first year, are here admi rably met—he works for the society on roads and drains while his first crops are coming up, for which he is paid Bd. per day, and 10d. per perch for furze hedges, thus rendering hi m ; al some measure inde pendent of the land, until it is made, by his own Atnons,- the whole of the smalllabou r, ho to ld p er r s od o u c c c e up a ro y c ing p. l 1,400 statute acres, not one was without turnips or clover, or both, and some rape and vetches in addition ; and there are generally five or six head of cattle on each farm, and evidences of recent draining and reclamation on the part of the tenants were likewise apparent. The society offer a strong stimulant for the latter, giving, a prize of 21. for every acre reclaimed, equal to four years' rent at the highest rate. After draining, the surface is burned and lined, then two successive crops of pota toes taken, then a crop of Aberdeen turnips, and, lastly, oats laid down with clover ; lime is too far distant to be generally available, but limestone can be procured, and the lowering of Lough Taalt, executed at a trifling cost to the society, laid bare a rich bed of marl, which is little inferior in fertilising power to lime.' At this estate prizes were given similar to those at Ballinakil. KILICERRIN.—This estate is in an equally pros perous condition, the result of the same fostering management a s a t B a lli na kil an d Gleneaske ; and, upon a re cen t di s t r ib ut i on o f pr i zes there for good farming, &c., before Lord Devon, Captain Kennedy , and the p r i nc i pa l gentry o f t h a t par t of the country, the people generally poured in as to a national festival or great fair, ar raye d in all the colours of the rainbow —so popular is the society becoming where its ope rations are kno wn , th a t popu l a rity being the natural result of a ju s t a p prec i a ti on o f its increasing endea vours, through th e a bl e manag ement of Colonel Ro binson, to improve the condition of the people. PERILOUS ADVENTURE. —On Saturday morning last, a party of twelve individals, two of whom were women with children, set out from this harbour in a small boat, for the Lady Isle, where they intended to wind up the festivities of the race-week with a pic-nic on that fine little island. Here, according to their own account, they spent the day so pleasantly, that the shades of evening were within an hour or so of closing around them before they thought of steering their course home wards. Having ultimately left the island, the fog be came so dense before they had proceeded any distance, that they lost all knowledge of their track ; and, after trying in vain to make the shore, they eventually gave themselves up to th e mercy o f t h e w ind and waves. After beating about for severa l h ours , i n a state almost bor dering on distracti on , t h ey caug ht a glimpse of Pladda Lighthouse, which they succeeded in making after a good deal of exertion. They were most hospitably en • tertained by the keepers ; and as the wind was unfa vourable during the whole of Sunday, they were obliged to remain there till Monday morning, when they set sail, and reached this about mid-day. Their non-arrival on Saturday night created great sensation ; and a boat was dispatched to the Lady Isle on Sunday in search of them ; but as it returned without having learned any thing whatever about them, the anxiety of their friends and relations became most intense. Indeed, before their arrival Testerday, all hope of seeing them alive was en tirely given up ; and when it at lengsh became known that a boat like that in which they set out was observed in the bay, the crowd that collected along the quay to witnea their arrival waa immense,—Ayr Observer, MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. WALESBY.) Margaret Taylor, aged 70, was indicted for steal ing nine yards of printed cotton, the property of John Swann. The evidence against her was quite conclu sive, and the jury found her guilty. It appeared that she had been very recently convicted of a similar offence. The COURT sentenced her to six months' imprison ment in the House of Correction. John Ayres, Joseph Wentworth, and Thomas Cooke, were indicted for assaulting George Mason Pratt. Mr. Prendergast appeared on the part of the pro secution, and Mr. Payne for the prisoners. It appeared from the statement of the witnesses, examined on the part of the prosecution, that the pro secutor had served some legal notices on the prisoners' master, the occupier of a farm at Willesden, and that on the 22d of August last he w.;;s walking in a field in that neighbourhood for the purpose of observing whether an injunction which had been granted by the Court of Chancery against the removal of any pro perty from the farm had been obeyed, when he was met by the prisoner Ayres, who invited him to take part of a pint of beer, to which he assented, and hav ing been joined by the other two prisoners, they all adjourned for that purpose to a neighbouring beer shop. They proceeded together along the towing path of the Paddington Canal, a distance of about 200 yards, and when they came to a deep part of the canal, near Old Oak Common-bridge, Ayres suddenly seized prosecutor by the middle, and, assisted by Wentworth, threw him into the canal. While he was struggling in the water, Cooke, the third prisoner, laid himself down on the towing path, and caught hold of him and pulled him ashore. The prisoners then ran away. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Ayres and Wentworth, and acquitted Cooke. The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence, said there could be no doubt that the prisoners had been insti gated by their employer, Mr. Davis, to act in the manner they had done, and, therefore, he should pass a very lenient sentence upon them, viz., that they be imprisoned one month in the House of Correction, and there kept to hard labour, and that they do also enter into their own recognizances in 201. each to keep the peace for the next twelve months. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. THE STEAM-BOAT RIOTS AT TEMPLE-BAR PIER.— Seventeen men, named William Irish, Henry Stollard, William Fitzgerald, William Richard Reave, Thomas Maxton, Thomas Norcott, Richard Ash, John Wal king, Thomas Jones, William Vallance, Robt. Wilson, Richard Field, George Everard, James Everard, John Rutland, Thos. Coll, and Edward Collins, were placed at the bar yesterday u p on an i n di c t ment c h arg i ng t h em with creating a riot and violently assaulting Henry Maynard, in the parish of St. Clement Danes, on the 26th of July, 1844. There was also upon the calendar a further count, charging Rutland, the two Everards, Reave, and Ash, with an assault upon the same Henry Maynard. The circumstances of this case must be fresh in the memory of the readers of The Sun, they having been published at length when the examination of the several traversers took place at Bow-street Police office. The subject of the indictment arose from the circumstances of two rival steam-boat companies lay ing claim to the right of ingress and egress at a wharf called the 'Temple-bar Pier. Those rival companies were known as the Waterman's and the Old Wool wich Company, and an altercation having arisen be tween them, it was alleged that the traversers attacked and violently assaulted the prosecutor, Maynard, who was in the service of Mr. Francis, the proprietor of the pier known as the Old Temple-pier, near the bottom of Water-lane. A most voluminous and contradictory mass of evi dence was adduced before the Court, which occupied it from ten o'clock in the forenoon until half-past seven, at which hour the jury returned to consider their verdict, and after remaining closeted until past nine o'clock, they returned into Court, and stated that their verdict was one of Acquittal in favour of all the prisoners with respect to the Court charging them with riot. All those prisoners whose names were not included in the second indictment were then ordered to be dis • charged, and the trial of the five individuals charged with assault was postponed to the 6th of October. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MARYLEBONE. Yesterday a young man, named John York, was brought up before Mr. Rawlinson,e charged with having robbed his late master, Captain Fuller, R.N., of No. 27, Montagu-square, of property to a consi derable amount. Captain Fuller stated that on the 20th ult. he dis charged the prisoner, who had been his footman for twelve months, and in a few days he missed a great many articles from his house. He communicated the particulars of his loss to the police, and the prisoner was at length apprehended on a warrant which he (Captain Fuller) had obtained. Ross, the constable, deposed that he had beers many days upon the look-out for the prisoner, and met with him that morning at a fruiterer's shop in Dorset street. On the road to the station-house he ran away, but was followed and speedily recaptured by witness. He was searched, and on his person were found a valuable gold watch and chain, and a diamond ring, and at his lodgings,2o,Augusta-street,Cumberland-market, witness subsequently discovered and brought away a musical snuff-box, a silver inkstand, a silver teaspoon, a work-box, and a number of waistcoats and handker chiefs. together with a quantity of sealing-wax, pen cils, soap, &c. Captain Fuller examined the property alluded to, and identified a great portion thereof as his. The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was fully committed to Newgate for trial. WORSHIP -STREET Amongst the remanded cases appointed for re-exa mination before Mr. Bingham, was one relating to a person named Lewis Henry Jacobs, a dealer in china, recently residing in Tyssen-plac e Kiagsland, who stood char g ed with having feloniously uttered a forged acceptance for 15/., with intent to defraud Mr. Wil liam Harvey, a master builder, living in the same neighbourhood. It will be recollected that the prosecutor had been employed by the prisoner to repair certain premises belonging to him at Lambeth, and received in pay ment the bill in question, which purported to be ac cepted by Mr. William Simmons, a tobacconist, in High-street, Newington•causeway. The bill, on its becoming due, was presented to the ostensible ac ceptor, and that person, having declared it to be a forgery, the prisoner was given into custody, and was examined before Mr. Bingham on Thursday last, but Mr. Simmons not being in attendance, the prisoner was liberated on bail, and his brother, Moses Jacobs, a dealer in china, living in Berwick-street, Oxford street, gave his recogniLances in 50/. for the appear • ante of the prisoner on Thursday last. On that day Mr. Simmons attended in Court, and proved that the acceptance was not in his handwriting ; but the pri soner himself was not forthcoming, and his bail having assured the magistrate that he was unavoidably absent from serious illness, Mr. Bingham agreed to extend the recognizances until Thursday. Yesterday the prosecutor and witnesses were again in attendance, but the prisoner failed to appear ; and Cole, the officer who had char ge o f th e case, inti mated to the magistrate that he had been to the pri soner's house, and found that he had absconded with all his goods, and that every effort to discover his retreat had been made without effect. The MAGISTRATE said that, undet• these circum stance, the recognizances of the prisoner's bail must be estreated, and he should order it to be done forthwith. The prisoner's brother here stepped forward,•and begged hard that the magistrate would allow him a little time to endeavour to trace the fugitive, which he expected to be able to effect within a few days. The MAGISTRATE, however, refused to accede to the application, and said that the utmost he could do in the event of the accused being re-apprehended within a reasonable time, would be to consent to a representation being made to the Barons of the Ex quer to set aside the estreatment. Mr. Vine, the chief clerk, was then directed to make out distress -warrants to recover the amount of the recognizances. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday an elderly widow woman, named Hard ing, living at No. 4, King-street, Soho, appeared to a summons before Mr. Hardwick, for having on the sth inst. " unlawfully sold certain fireworks, to wit, a cracker." The selling was proved by policeman 177 C, who stated that boys were constantly supplied with squibs from the defendant's shop. Thus armed, the urchins amused themselves with the old-fashioned games called " funk the cobbler," and " the devil among the tailors," much to the annoyance of the locality. It frequently happened that a flaming missile would find its way through some parlour window, and disturb the gravity of a family tea party. This amusement at length became so frequent that many of the in habitants were alarmed, and applied to the police, who succeeded in finding out that the fireworks were sold by the defendant. Mrs. Harding declared that she sold no fireworks to boys to let off in the street. Five years ago an explosion took place on her premises at Chelsea, on which occasion her son and daughter perished. Since that time she was much reduced, and was now a lone widow, and for that reason the neighbours came forward to persecute her. Six or seven of the inhabitants of King-street com plained of the danger they were subject to from the practice. Fireworks were frequently placed under the sills of doors, or stuffed between the crevices of shutters, and set fire to. It was high time to seek the interference of the law to put a stop to the system. Mr. HARDWICK said, that although the boys, who were guilty of letting off fireworks, ought to know better than to do so in the streets, yet the greater blame rested with those who supplied the articles. The defendant must adopt some other means to get a living than selling fireworks in crowded streets. The case had been fully made out, and he should impose a fine of 20s. or seven days' imprisonment. The defendant begged very hard to be let off the fine, and Mr. Hardwick ultimately allowed her till Saturday to pay it. On the afternoon of the 27th ult., the prisoner, with another man named Cooper (who has been in custody some days), went to the above house during the absence of Mr. Brundell, and told his wife that her husband was locked up at the station-house, charged with felony. The prisoner said he was a police-officer and had come to search the house. He produced a forged search war rant. Mrs. Brundell, who had just got over her confine ment, at hearing that the prisoner was an officer, al lowed him to take every valuable article from the house. His companion, Cooper, was taken into custody on Monday, • the 2d inst., near Westminster-bridge, just after they had committed a robbery at a coffee-house in Grafton-street, Soho. Mr. James attended for the prosecution. Goff, 83 L, an active officer, stated that he was pro ceeding with Brooks, 118 L, along Newington-causeway, about two o'clock, when they met the prisoner, who (although he had considerably altered his dress and ap pearance) they instantly recognised as the " tall man." Goff told him what he wanted him for, when the pri soner denied all knowledge of the transaction. The prisoner was identified by Mrs. Courtney, a lodger in Mr. Brundell's housP, as the man who pocketed the money and other property. Two of the prisoner's companions were in custody, and were remanded by Mr. Traill until Tuesday next. Goff stated that the prisoner was wanted for an ex tensive forgery and several robberies. Mr. Cotiingham remanded the prisoner until Tues day next. UNION•HALL. Yesterday John Riley, a smartly dressed dapper young man, was brought before Mr. Cottingham, charged with stealing 101. from William Charles Curden, under the following circumstances :—The prisoner was taken into custody on Tuesday night in the act of striking a woman near Astley's Theatre. On the way to the station-house he was observed to take something out of his pocket, which he seemed very anxious to throw away, but being noticed by the policemen, on being taken from him it turned out to be a purse containing a number of flash notes at one and, and at the other several well-executed counterfeit sovereigns and half-sovereigns. The prisoner then pretended that he had picked up the purse and its contents, but a policeman in the court having stated that the prisoner was suspected of having committed a robbery near the terminus of the Dover Railroad, he was accordingly detained, and when brought up yesterday a young man, named Curden, from Dover, appeared against him. Curden's account was that he came up from Dover on the 7th instant with 10/. in his pocket to enable him to live until he obtained a situation in town. On his arrival at the terminus, he was addressed by the prisoner, who assumed to be a stranger in town, and inquired the way to Newington. As the complainant was going in that direction they proceeded together, and on the way the prisoner was invited into a public-house, where they had not been long before a well-dressed elderly man entered the room and joined in the conversation. The stranger produced a pack of cards, and made a bet with the prisoner, with whom there was no doubt he was in collusion, respecting the cutting of the pack. The bet was taken by the prisoner, who borrowed the stakes of complainant, saying he left his purse at his lodgings, and that he would repay him. In this manner the prisoner and the other stranger continued at play until the former obtained possession of the whole of complainant's 101., and then left the house with him, saying he would go and get his purse and pay him. Soon after they left the prisoner made some frivolous excuse, and:" bolted" away from the complainant, who had net seen him again until that day in custody. The prisoner declared complainant was mistaken in his identity ; but it having been stated that he was suspected of being connected with a gang of thieves, called " magsmen," who lie in wait for the arrival of strangers from the country, and onuster in strong numbers about the different railway termini, he was therefore remanded, as other cases were likely to be got up against him. ROBBERY BY ASSUMED POLICEMEN.—APPREHEN SION OF THE " TALL MAN."—At a late hour on Wed nesday afternoon George Western, alias White, a tall man, dressed in a black coat, with an apron round his waist, was brought before Mr. Cottingham, charged with stealing twelve and a half sovereigns, two gold wedding rings, a gold brooch, six silver spoons, and other property, from the house of Edward•Brundell, a carpenter, at 24, Agnes-street, Waterloo-road, under the following circumstances : _ Mr. Mathews, for the defendants, warmly contendl against the power of the Bench to enforce payment of the penalties and costs pending the appeals which' , had entered in every case of conviction of the toute rs for the Star Steam-packet Company. The repetition of the offence by the defendants On , the 3d instant, in apparent defiance of the numer ° , ll ,, convictions recorded against them, having been AP; proved by James Adams, the street- keeper, f The Magistrates convicted them in penalties °, forty shillings and costs for each repetition of the °l' fence, as set forth in the informations. Saue Rowe was also charged by James Ma lli t s in with having, on the evening of the 3d instant,„ l : tacked him in the High-street, near the Star-eln c " and with abusing him, with a view of provoking , breach of the peace. Finod forty shillings and costs. Mr. Mathews immediately lodged with the t' 3 ` qu clerk notices of appeal against the convictions. Cheap excursion trains continue to form an portent feature of railway traffic— a new proof och e,, e public usefulness of railways—a n ew e l emen t in their own revenue—a valuable addition to the recreatil;: amusements, and moral culture of the English Pee,P; o The Dover excursion trains did not, f or the first * 0 weeks. meet with adequate success, but the Direct: e per=evered, and now their S a t ur d a y trains, re tur al b ? „ up till Monday night, are crowded with passengers , can thus spend part of Saturiay, Sunday, an eblein in France, going and returning from London at a S ing be fare. The number of excursion f tickets issued for ' six excursions, from the 27th of July to the Ist Di tetuber inclusive, was 45,532. being a n average of 7 , „,, i) each excursion ; the last excursion consisted of 14,e'' persons.—Railway Chronicle. A CURE FOR THE DISTEMPER IN CATTLE, m- ?for EARL OF EssEx.—l cannot resist giving a receiP‘ d i r the treatment of beasts that may take the prevaleot_ e a temper. It showed itself last winter in one of my Jih e stock, by its discharging abundant saliva from red mouth, with sore and inflamed tong u e a nd gutrol m .o, l dull. no appetite, confined bowels, and very hot "s"ibt I desired the bailiff to give him one half-pint of , og spirit of turpentine, with,one pint linseed oil, repea oe , the oil in twenty-four hours, and again repeating it A o f cording to the state of the evacuations. At the en o 0 twenty-four hours more, the bowels not having be : ft o well moved, I repeated both turpentine and oil. O A ' in days the beast showed symptoms of a men dment, an three or four took to his food again, and did peri ec .', , well. All the yard beasts and two of the fatten,l v r; beasts have had it (five others I had sent to London b i n fore the disease appeared), and all have been treat ed o< the same manner with perfect success. Half a Pi n do e turpentine is the smallest, and one pint the largestl during three or four days. Little food beside :sure , gruel was given.—Quarterly Journal of Agric ull i'ol [The remedy above prescribed has been found eff' c t he in this neighbourhood in several cases, even wher e id disease had attained a consider a bl e h e i g ht. It w ast f r of with success by a farmer ne a r D onnemana , and Int, his neighbours whose cattle had t a ke n the distal: l2 r Londonderry Sentinel.] DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—Yesterday afterlorb; the following shocking occurrence took place i e t o New-cut. Blackfriars-road, by which a fine little, life named Thomas Smith, three years of age, lost al he t under distressing circumstances. It appear s the about a quarter to six o'clock in the afternoon, the father of the deceased, who is a carmal je c o rn' employ of Mr. Burgess, a cow keeper in the, f ee wall-road, was driving his own car t, which heavily laden, homeward. The father of the ne e ceased had, a few moments previous, had tw° l : t of given to him for the purpose o f p rocur i n g a 1 gof porter, he accordingly stopped for a minute at the t of of a public house, from whence he had half al l° 6o ith beer, he drank a portion, and leaving the child to o ip the remainder, proceeded onward s . The boy, w i n hit the New-cut, ran after, and had j us t overt parent, when he either accidentally f e ll or was lE // , down beneath the wheels of the c a r t his fat_ al h e. •blit driving. He stopped the horse as quick as ee tiag when it was found that one of the w h e els was r e al' upon the unfortunate child's neck. The horse theefore tempted to back, but the animal refused, and they ed „ compelled to urge him onwards, b e f o r e the de cd could be picked up. He was conveyed t o the surge"o,o Mr. Marshall, who, on examination, f oun d that li f t e hoce quite extinct. That gentleman said death loe s oei/ been instantaneous. The father, who was in an e t , frantic state, bears a most excellent character for s ness and sobriety. A Cle l / 31 1 FRE FRENCH ACADEM Y or A RTS .—The tic - no sP of the Beaux Arts, on S a t ur d a y, awar d e d the it " prizes for engraving. Th e fi rst was acc orded I t y Aubert, pupil of MM. Martinet and Delaroche ; sei second to M. Tourny, pupil of MM. Prudhoinn s tef Mulard. The academy next selected the ear i to from whom a successor to the late M. Tardiea L s ro te chosen. This having been done the meeting sePe The election is to take.place at the next sitting. t ail° FATAL ACCIDENT AT DALRY.-011 Tuesday, a number of workm e n were engage d i n excavati ti gd 10 foundations of the Free Church about to be ere of this place. and in taking down an old wall of tiliel 0 (1' fourteen feet in height, a large portion of the we' t or denly fell down, burying William Hannah, the 0 .50 0 tor for the building, beneath the mass. Medical woo immediately procured, but when be was got out 'L o ot found to be dead, his skull being fractured in b ete three places, and his left leg broken. One or twootito who were beneath the wall escaped very narrowly a like deplorable fate.—Glasgow Argus. SIGHT AND HEARING TESTINIONIALS'eoI 39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY. 68 - 11 0 Browne Clayton feels desirous to express the CO o w f 7 0 and advantage he has derived at his a dvancedsg°, o o years, and after two years' trial, from the use of "jrrbeir S. and B. Solomons newly invented Spectacles. l o co valuable inventions fully merit the patronage th& received. Address, Adli ng t o n -h a ll, Lancasa l Major-General Sir Howard Elphinstone begs to ss) bsfl the Spectacles he has now bad some time In t r r e ;,. o (l 7 fully redeemed the assurance of the Messrs. S . „ - n el Solomons as to their excellence, and having te" r fer much comfort and advantage from their use, fa,_r Pate l ' able to every other kind of glasses. 13, NOrfola;"rs. Park•lane.—The Hon. George Cavendish, tO ILfie„sl.y. or and B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle-street, Picettau;;;Ac' posite the York Hotel. Gentlemen, I approve ve ry p od ° of the Spectacles I purchased from you ; h ilq- t e use cf glasses for, many years, and never met w i to cnable me to see equal to yours, and with les e en dish venieu.3e to my eyes. Yours obediently, G. Cr Tie r Leixlip Castle, Ireland.—lmproved Achromatic e kilw copes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, &c., of thes of lenses, to surpass any ever yet invented. 1/00 Messrs. S. and B. Solomons' Invincible Opere t° ;ie im p Conductor, Sound Magnifiers for deaf persons , bi jeP: O P medi ite relief to old standing extreme cases 43 tici°' yef oil net --Caution. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons , I d A twists, are not in any way connected wi,t 11 4 1 .11 0 ,,: tin same name in their immediate neigau,i s oc"' ): in any part of the country. preveat,r Q Alb e cautious and observe—only to be had at "1' marle-street, Piccadilly onpos:te the York klote [ADVERTISEMENT.] - f ANOTHER WONDER I—CURE EXTRAO- s. r- HOLLWAY'S PlLLs.—Mrs. Maguire, a respect: o co son, residing near Sunday's-well, Cork, was g l b e e P re l in a case of dropsy, and was perfectly cured, Iv oo derfe nounced to be at the point of death, by thes e w e c orlf pills. Persons, either young or o ld, who bee ote n nt e s i lent, pottle-bellied, bloated, or dropsical, natY tteo ll , avoid apoplexy and other dangerous disease s I /. bea t thereon, but also regain the highest stat e ‘ , cs s s tig„, strength, and energy, and their figures beco ol .; 0 1c1(s'" as light, and as good as in the days of youth. Holloway's Ointment) at Professor ElolloWai be 1 1 0 blishment, 244, Strand (where advice r a g v end ° gratis), and by almost all respectable med icine throughout the civilised world. CLERKENWELL. Jeremiah O'Leary, a powerful-loking man, was, charged by Sergeant Buckley, 12 N, with havi ng violently assaulted him. The prosecutor, on the pre vious night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, was called to quell a disturbance in Lower-road, Isling ton, when he was followed by the prisoner, who knocked him down, and ill-used him in 20 brutal it manner that he was unable to perform his duty. Mr. COMBE sentenced the prisoner to seven days' imprisonment, without fine. Charles Simmons, a cabman, employed by Moses Isaacs, a cab proprietor, was summoned for neglect ing to pay the sum of 12s. Th e d e f en d an t, on b e i ng engaged, signed an agreement to pay 12s. a day, but had been unable to earn that sum. The prisoner said he had paid every farthing he received, and he begged not to be punished, as his family would be driven to distress. He had pledged some articles, and would now pay 4s. He had already paid 235. out of 365. Mr. COMBE suggested that the money should be paid by instalments. Mr. Isaacs refused to accede to this, and the pri soner was committed to the House of Correction for fourteen days for failing to pay the 14s. In reference to the case of Miss Johnson, of 27, Charlotte-street West, White Conduit-fields, which has been noticed in the newspapers, information ha s been received by the police and the Mendicity officers that some parties have taken advantage of the pub licity given to her distress, &c., and are going about imposing upon the charitable public by falsely repre senting that they are authorised to collect subscrip tions for her. Yesterday 2/. was forwarded to this court from Sir Claude Scott and Co., bankers, by a gentleman, Mr. Watt Ormsby, of Manchester-street, Manchester-square, and other charitable persons have also forwarded donations, &c. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday, a young man named James Boylett was brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with stealing a quantity of linen, valued at 51., the property of a man named Day, of No. 10, Turner-row, Bow-2ommon. It appeared that Day's family had made yesterday a washing day, and at an early hour were in a shed adjoining the premises, where they left a quantity of linen partially in the suds, and were at breakfast. On their return they found the linen gone and raised an alarm, when all the gossips of the neighbourhood met for the purpose of discussing the best means of discovering the thief who had invaded the laundry. While they were in full conclave, a boy named Callison, who had seen the prisoner in a ditch rolling up some linen in a red handkerchief, gave information of the fact. The women immediately set off in various directions and formed a cordon about the fields, while others started across them to intercept him. The alarm spread in all directions, and the whole population of the neighbourhood turned out. The prisoner, finding himself hotly pursued, sought refuge, first in a ditch, afterwards under a hedge, , and lastly in a pond, but he was driven from his hiding-place, and at. last took to the main road, and passed a beer-shop called the Farm-house, at full speed, with a bundkTtinder his arm. He had not gone far before the women con fronted him, and he took to his heels in a contrary direction, and dropped the bundle. He passed the beer-shop again running, and Fielding, the landlord, who had been in the meantime acquainted with the robbery, ran out and seized the prisoner, but he got away, and leaped over a fence. Fielding pursued him over hedges, ditches, and fences, from the Ben Jonson Fields at Stepney, to Poplar, and at last captured him. The prisoner knocked him down and started again, and such was his agility that he passed over brick walls, . quickset hedges, fences and dykes with the quickest rapidity. He was met, however, in all directions by the cordon feminine, who turned him back, and while making his way across a turnip field, he was met by Fielding again, who fairly run him down, and detained him until a police-constable named Cunningham, No. 142 K, arrived, who searched him, and found upon him pieces of linen, which he had concealed under his clothes. The articles were identified by the daughter of the owner. There were ___________---..---- two silk handkerchiefs found on the prisoner which DIED. were not owned. f egent'sq a On the Bth inst. ,_at Halstead, The prisoner, in defence, said he was in the em- infant daughter of Thomas Walker, Esq., 0 Holbeeo• ploy of Wigram and Green, at Blackwell, and that Mr. James Tester, of Bartlett's-build e ing s 2 . V , Ga ther r t he saw a bundle of linen in the road, and picked it On n the e 3d 7th inst., tnst Mr. at th d n e Llr s i l e e s, o lp iv d ig l h U t, AraT_evinsfo , up. He run away because he saw others running. Kent, Eliza be th n., b o c , f , th D ot: Wall : til l : , eldest daughter of the late ' G. Dodwell, /kE s q Fielding, the landlord of the Farm-house, said the Sligo, Ireland. unia rif " chase lasted an hour, and the prisoner cleared fences, On the , Go, h r g: ditches, and embankments in " no time." Surrey, aged 73. 7th inst., Mrs. Haekblock, se n., Mr. BALLANTINE committed the prisoner to New- On the Bth inst., at Bexhill Watson, Esq . , of Eastn ,or Herefordshire, fo r mer l y 0 gate for trial. 2d Dragoon Guards. Isea, Is abella' tri. TOWN-HALL, GRAVESEIVD. On the 9th inst., in York-place, Che 9 een,Fu lli ti.roed' In pursuance of the frequently expressed determi- of the late Vicarage, Susee- iti „,_ nation of the presiding magistrates to put a stop to the On the W. Leonard, Esq., of Parsoll ac s" , g cam ere id° 10th inst., at 7 A 4 Albion-terr ace , e practice of " touting" for the steamers on the Sun- Vans Christie, Esq., aged day in particular, as a breach of the Sabbath as well O n n the 10th inst., _ Ch I J hnson Esq.,late o aids, othe 10th inst., ar e.s o 9 as a nuisance, and on week days as a great public nui- St. Giles's. Goo d t nan Bl rs• eye h atKentish-town, John Ti7. l l3 b ro rell ' a d!tz l ; B t' sance, yesterday James Reid and Samuel Rowe were On the 11th inst., at Great Alie- stree t , again charged with the commission of this so often- Kaufman Michael Meyers, eldestson_rafnivicis,iu eldest della repeated offence. On the 11th inst., Susanna J ane 7 _ ,:____...,..,...--.... _ _. 'Mr. Southgate, solicitor for the town sioners, having applied to the Bench to have the el .- - e-inted and Pub li shed by Mtn" , No. commis- of Mr. Benjamin_E.fl,Lin_g_____,ton, Lavend e r-hill, oouri..;_ovitiof 61/ (: penalties in all the former convictions enforced,. as the a 'a ' 1 : () .24 o 'll' ll2, Strand, Printer, at The Su n ,_ the Colimq commission of the offence was contumaciously per- 1 Stra.nii, in the Precinct of the Savoy, W sisted in, Middlesex, Friday, September 13, 134 a. . 16 °44 „ f i On the Bth inst, at Streatham, BlßTHS the lady of p re of a daughter. On the 9th inst.. in Manchester-square, the la dy a l ow. dy Pearse, Esq., of a daughter. kg , the Is On the 9th inst., at Peterley House, Buck s ' ph° Lieutenant-Colonel Alves, of a daughter. We. On the 9th inst., at Ilfracomb, North Devon' 001- Ayres, jun., of a daughter. f We l On the 10th inst., Mrs. John Buckingham' ° eo/ born, of a son. a le, On the 10th inst., at Carlton-villas, Maida . f dia gim let e Captain W. B. Goodfellow, of the Hon. Eas t Of . 17 0- Engineer Corps, on the Bombay Establishme n t yr , ' On the 11th inst., at Ba) swater, the wife ° s oll ' J o lla's' dick, of King William -street, Chat ing-cross, ° St. On the 11 th inst., Mrs. Edward B. 510 e, Southwark, of a son H ARRIED ia etlef' At St. Mark's, Kennington, by HARRIED. Rev. Jb to seP orist i l, M.A., Mr. John Meeson. of Alder anburY, nri2tt° o f North , din Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. John W in er ford, On the 4th inst., at St:John's Episcopal 9 11 T a r v e u ral l ',. O te burgh, James Archibald Ca pbell, Esq., o' -- Getae'" l4 Maria Grace, eldest daughter m of Donald Charles 0 0 1 Esq., of Barcaldine. 13 8 On the Bth of June, at Calcutta, A. Waugh, Es (l 4 ger: Engineers, Surveyor-General of India, eldest son . _.„bin. General Waugh, Auditor-General at Madras, it_oooJ°7l:Cal- Morrison, second daughter of the late Dr. Grau cutta, and Newington, Edinburgh. 1101 On the 11th inst., at Trinity Church, Marylehatr ^ ocf N n Cohen, Esq., of Park-crescent, Portland place' Lecbmere, fourth daughter of John .Eleathcote, Esq.' ..,./. mere, Cheshire. be ' ley On the 10th inst., at Strathfieldsaye, Hants, t I% 2 4 ' Warren Hayes, Rector of Aberfield, son of the late , i—inp, - R e sucal"" Hayes, Bart, to Ellen, second daughter of G. }4. Esq., of the Priory, Berks. L( BAIT Meat, by LO ar the chief e Oravle Drew' The held nt at tabl, and ex N.B. salving ai-in. h 4- In bal Made Ditto v kandl C. IV Just BLould tratis, Sole a uPerse( PATI these Li 401 1 of t r ound .„ VS' agat i and f C. late, w eherch€ Lltragor exid recc sow s ca 4 D' I n iS £O° C l Tf end W e o n a sea That Pledg e, Patronai ceiv ed, teßtify. 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