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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING-, APRIL il l 1844. THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE AT WOLVERHAMPTON. WovvEit xa mr•rox, Moss AY.:—This day (being Easter Monday) the Anti-Corn-law League, under the denomi nation of " Great Free Trade Meeting," made one of their magnificent provincial displays in this town. In consequence of the comparative smallness of the public buildings within the borough, a temporary pavilion was erected in the Horsley-fields, capable of holding about 3,000 persons. The principal speakers upon the occasion were Mr. Cobden, M.P., the Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., Mr. R. R. R. Moore, and Mr. Thornely, the other Mem ber for the borough of Wolverhampton. Mr. Cobden, on entering the building about two o'clock, in company with Mr. Villiers, was cheered by . the assembled company. Upon the motion of Mr. J. WALKER, seconded by Mr. C4lcrwitiorm Mr. Barker, a lame manufacturer and a borough magistrate, was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN, on presenting himself, said he was painfully sensible that there were gentlemen present much more able than the individual to whom they had done honour to fulfil the duties of the chair; but he claimed their sympathy, their forbearance, and their support. This was not a political meeting. It was a free trade pavilion, and they were met simply to discuss a free trade question, in which Tories, Whigs, and Char tists might cordially unite. Neither the ballot nor the extension of the suffrage would be brought before them: They were assembled to receive a deputation from the Anti-Corn-law League, and to express their approba tion of the course pursued on the corn-law question by the two .gentlemen who represented them in Parliament. He (the Chairman) did not, however, think that the corn-laws were the sole root of the evils of which the country had reason to complain. He believed that the currency-laws required revision; but he also, at the same time, believed that by altering the corn-laws the Go vernment would be speedily, compelled to alter the money-laws.—(Hear, Hear.) The speaker then pro ceeded to read an extract from the work of a living author (Sir J. Graham), entitled " Corn and Currency," in confirmation of the views he (the Chairman) advo cated; and concluded by introducing to the meeting their excellent representative, the Hon. C. Villiers. Mr. VILLIERS said that they were assembled to give a cordial reception to those disting uished men—he might say_ that distinguished man, Richard Cobden—who was the apostle of those doctrines of which the electors of Wolverhampton had ever been the consistant sup porters. It were to be wished that all other constituen cies in the kingdom had been equally true to' their prin ciples ; if they had, much misery and suffering would have been prevented. Now, it could not be denied that the object of the corn-law was scarcity of food ; it' such were not the object of the law, there was no sense in it. This was the blessing promised to the working man. ' When he (Mr. Villiers) first visited Wolverhampton this 4kuestiOn was well put and settled by a working man. When talking to him upon the subject he (the working man) said to him, " Well, if scarcity of food is likely to improie the condition of the working classes, it strikes me they would be much better off if they had no food at all."-;.:(Cheers and laughter.) This to him (Mr. "Vil • tiers) appeared to be a very natural deductionif a small quantity of fo;x1 would be better for the people, then • • none at' all would be still more beneficial.—(Cheers and • laughter.) Mr. Villiers next argued that the press at corn-laws had already lost them many continental mar . kets, and that the same system was about to rob them of the markets of the Brazils. It was at Wettenhall, near that town, he ( Mr. Villiers) first learned that England had nearly lust the German market ; and he often thought, had he been a working man, how cruel he should have deemetlit that persons in :Parliament, who knew no thing of trade, nothing' of manufactures, and nothing of commerce, shonld not only be anxious to cripple the business of the working classes in this country, but ab t6lutely to rise up rivals in trade abroad. He (Mr. Villiers) owed his connexion with that borough to the reputation which from its enfranchisement Wo v erham p ton had stoutly and steadfastly maintained for the as sertion - and 'support of the principles of free-trade. — (Cheers.) The late Mr. P. Thomson it was who first informed him of the probable retirement of Mr. Fryer and • Mr. w. Whitmore, and told him that if he (Mr. shrluld be so fortunate as to succeed iu obtaining the confidence . r.f the people of Wolverhampton, he would enjoy the confidence -of the most determined opponents of monopoly to he found in the country. The speaker dwelt at some length upon the part taken by Fryer, the late Member .for 11'oh•erhampton, on the .que - ition of the corn-laws. They might rely upon it, that nothing but agitation could get rid of that ob.; ..tioxiotiA law, and with agitation he believed they should succeed.—(Cheets.) He called upon them to support the Lrague as the best itoAruntent for effecting agitation. They went into the agricultural districts and bearded the zr.on - opolists in .their L.NYII denF.—.(Cheers.) If the League had done no other good it had at least date tiiii—it had raised a discuss on upon the condition of agricultnns, and his friend Mr. Cobden did not despair hi discussion of convincing the landholders of the kingdom Ciat it would be for their benefit that the corn-laws should be repealed. In conclusion, he begged lee e to state, that he attended there at seine parso — nal inc'mveuience ; but the respect in which he held his constituents and the. protniuent part which for some years past he had taken in the repeal of the corn-laws, compelled him at all risks to be present on that occasion, -,(Mr. Villiers resumed his seat amidst long-continued cheering.) The CHAIRMAN next introduced to the meetin g Mr. Thornely, the other Member for the borough of Wolver hampton. He expressed a hope that his connexion w:th the borough would continue for many years. Mr. THORNELY, who was well received, in the course cif his speech said he verily believed if no corn law ex isted at present there was not a man in the country who would be bold enough to petition fur its enactment. — (Cheers.) When he and his colleague (Mr. Villiers) ac companied a deputation of the iron trade to Sir Potent Peel in autumn last, one gentleman on that occasion lc- Marked upon the importance of the American trade. When this subject was mentioned he (Mr. Thornely) told ;ir Robert Peel that he went along to the full extent with his colleague (Mr. Villiers) upon the subject of the - corn-laws—that he objected not only to a sliding scale, •but. to a fixed duty—and that, in his opinion, su long as a protective duty en corn was maintained, the American - tariff would exist in full force, but so soon as that pro tective law was repealed, the tariff would he abolished. The CHAIRMAN then rose, and said the meeting was, as he had before stated, purposely called for discussing the principles of free trade ; but all political topics were advisedly excluded. If, however, any - gentleman present differed from the opinions of I revious speakers upon the eubject of free trade, he would now, under the restric tion adverted to, if he thought proper, have a right to address the meeting. All he (the Chairman) would say was, that if there were any such gentleman present, he would do all in his power to ebtain for him a fair, silent, and impartial hearing. Ile would now call upon any epponent of free trade to come forward and state his LtNt. (The Chairman paused for a short time, but no person took up the challenge.) It appeared (contintu-d are Chairman) :the meeting was unanimous upon the subject.---(Cheers). He would now introduce to them their distinguished friend Mr. Cobden.— (G reat cheering). Conmse upon being introduced by the Chair rame was received with vociferous cheering. Since their worthy Chairman had made an effer of discussion, and it had not been accepted, it might he said that they were all agreed upon the question under argument. But he (1I r. Cobden) teas told, that, although silent, there were eentlemen present who, from timidity or from other reasons, objected to enter epon a public discussion. Ile weuld therefore attempt, if possible, to convert one of these stray sheep, and, if possible, send him as an apos tle or missionaryof free trade into the agricultural ells iricts.—(Cheers and laughter.) Mr. Cobden proceeded to show that the agriculturists, instead of being taxed heyoral the manufacturers, were exempted from a great portion of the imposts paid by the latter classes of the community. Ile enumerated the farmer's dog -tax, lioree-tex. dairy and cheese-room window-tax, toll on tuanure, Sze. fie (Mr. Cohdeu) was extensively engaged in a mautifacture which required a laree quantity of a tain descriptioa of manure. Some hundreds and thou sands of leads passed. through turnpike-gates to his works ;,) the course ur a year, and fur which he was, as a mat • ter of rieces,ity„ compelled to pay a heavy amount of tonne. Now the same description of manure, which at other times passed through turnpike-gates, paid no toll at trig ; and n by ?- Because it was placed upon the lands of the great squires and landholders.—(Cheers and laughter.) Speaking of the corn-laws generally, Mr. Cebden said there was not a man of intellect in the House of, Commons who was not ashamed to advocate them. He. admitted that Graham and Gladstone, Stanley and :eve!, were intellectually able and distinguished men; bid it was impossible to sit opposite to them and not perceive that it wes nothing but. the force of circumstances which induced them to maintain their present position—it was as clear as day that they were ashamed of the humiliating task which they had to perform.—(Cheers.) No doubt, while they were saddled and bridled by the Duke of ltichmond and the Duke of Buckingham, they would continue their present policy, but they might rely upon it on the first opportunity which presented itself the Ministers to whom he had referred—by far the ablest members of the Cabinet —would bolt out of the course, end run in an opposite direction.—(Cheer s and laughter.) After contending that agriculturists themselves would hive no reason to complain of a repeal of the corn-law, Mr-Cobden next proceeded to show that low prices of bread had always a beneficial effect upon the labourer. He put it to the labourer how high prices had benefited him during the last five or six years? They had received l e ss wages, obtained less employment, and in many cases the unfortunate workpeople had had no employment at all,-(Hear.) They had had their wages reduced to the lowest ebb in 1839, 1840, and 1841, when corn was high, b ut w hen prices became more natural and free, when wheat was reduced to 50s. Bd., then trade gradually revived; ir,:n, as it had done recently, rose 20s. a ton ; em ployment became more general, and wages were aug mented. Were not these facts? No man could deny but that trade, especially in Lancashire, was in sonic degree improving; and he (Mr . . Cobden) would go fur ther—he would prophecy that if corn kept at no higher price than 50e., trade and commerce would continue to improve; but if it got up as before to 60s. and upwards, then wages and employment would be as low and as scarce as befire.--(Hear, hear.) They had been told that if they reduced the duty on corn this step we uld be rolloired by a reduction of wages. lle (Mr. Cobden) came there to prove that what their opponents said was not true, end he had i:o hesitation in saving that be could prove th at t h e working man would be better without the corn-laws, even if th e i r a b o liti on was to be followed by a reduction of -wages.—(hear, hear.) Again, they had been told the working men of the kingdom derived ' no benefit fro m f ore i gn trade • but if they did not,4 others did. There were classes ofthe community who derived considerable benefit ' from the importation of the luxuries of life ; and Why did not the poor and , working man enjoy with th e r i c h equal benefit Be• nage there was a law to prevent the free importation of bread, pork, and other necessaries of life.—(Hear.) lie r k new whet was pawing; in the minds of. farmers who I were then listening to him. " Yom," said they, " but every sack of flourand cask of pork brought to this coun try will be to our injury; it will by so much reduce the price of my stock and the amount of my gains." But the far mers should recollect that the people of this country were not all fed. It was because not less than 10,000,000 of the population of Great Britain and Ireland—for he always considered Ireland a, part of his own country— (Cheers)—were never fed at all upon meat, that he and his friends of the League advocated the entire removal of all taxes upon human food.—(Cheers.) He knew no place in the kingdom where all the elements of prospe rity showed themselves so clearly, so manifestly, as they did in Wolverhampton and its neighbourhood. Free trade was all that was wanted.—(Cheers.) Why, they had. every thing about them. They in Manchester had to go to America for every ounce _of cotton they used, before they could begin to' Work ; they in Wolverhamp ton had their materials at their very door, at every step they kicked them before them.—(Cheers.) They had skilled hands and skilled fingers. able to manufacture articles from_ a steam-engine to a grate, and down to a needle; and yet here they were, with all these advan tages, With their hands tied behind them by a parcel of senseless squires, who knew nothing and cared nothing for either them or their interests. 7 --(Cheers.) It was true, however, that they had even amongst themselves people who stood by the corn-law, and why ? Because it was termed a party question. There would be just as must sense in maintaining the old system in astro- Horny, that the sun goes round the world, and not the world round the sun, because Newton, Copernicus, and Laplace' made it a party queStion, as making the re peal of the corn-law a party question. He could only compare it to an absurdity which occurred in their own House of Commons. A discussion took place upon the subject of lighting the House. Some Honourable Mem bers maintained the superiority of the Bude light, and others contended for a different mode of illumination. However, at length a division occurred, and, strange to say, the Tories , walked out at one door, and the Whigs at another. It was a party question.—(Laughter and - cheers.) Mr. Cobden concluded by saying they knew the object of the League. Too many kind things had been said of himself and his friends. They had certainly done what they could ; but the Leag ue would be entirely powerless unless supported by suc h gentle men as those by whom he was then surrounded. But the question was not, as stated by their opponents, whether the League was good or bad, but whether the corn-law was good` or bad.—(Cheers.) Really, as a , farmer's son ashamed to see how the farmers throughout the country were bamboozled on this point, he contiessPd he was ashamed of his order.—(Cheers.) It was not the League, but the corn-law, which was on its trial.— (Cheers.) Now, he would advise the farmers present,. if, at any future meeting of the landlords they beard the speakers begin to abuse Cobden, to interrupt them by saying, " Please tell us how we are benefited by the corn lawss--that is what we want to know—we want to hear nothing of Cobden."—(Cheers and laughter.) He (Mr. Cobden) cared little for the abuse heaped upon him. Such scolding as generally proceeded from the squires was, indeed, entirely unworthy of the tea-table of a ladies' boarding-school. The squires, on these occasions, were the laughing-stocks of the whole kingdom.—(The Hon. Gentleman concluded a long speech amidst vo ciferous cheering.) Mr. R. R. Moonu being introduced by the Chairman, next addressed the meeting, and detailed the progress of the League. A subscription was then entered into, amounting to upwards of 600/., exclusive of 130/. from Mr. Villiers and Mr. Thornely, the two Members for the borough. The meeting then broke up. THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE The position of the principal characters in the Anti- Curn ;law League is about as ticklish a one as could well be imagined. Here are a few men whose names were not to be found in the book of fame yesterday or early this morning, but who are now perched on the topmost pinnacle, surrounded by a meridian glare of notoriety. Half-a-dozen cotton-spinners and calico printers have become the world's talk. Moreover, at present they sre flouting on the, full tide of popularity. They are the idols of that numerous and important class who think that change. is never out of season, and that, if we must have change, the sooner the better. Not the least nervous part of the business is that they have achieved their own greatness. They have not been horn great, nor has their greatness been thrust upon them. The fates open their hands, it is true. The era is pro pitious. It is a rare - combination of circumstances to have the Premier himself a man of cotton, and a system of agricultural protection at the same time. Something or other must come of such encouragement and such provocation. The blood and spirit of manufacture em brace its high destiny. The millowners rush forward to occupy the breach which chance has opened. Cobden becomes the captain of our fortunes, and Bright " the cynosure of every eye." Their stake is aggravated by the circumstance, that they have put themselves into the most hostile possible attitude to everything great and powerful, themselves excepted. Princes, powers, and potentates, spiritual and civil, are the daily sport of their tongues. Standing on the boards of Covent-garden, it is their bold and sim ple rule to attack every individual, every class, every thing on earth, that is not likely to form part of their present audience. Sure of their cause, of its vast im poit, and awful sanctity, they denounce as their enemies and the enemies of the human race, not merely every body who wags a tongue against them, but everybody who, possessing a tongue, does not give them its active and unreserved assistance. Nothing will satisfy them till the whole bench of Bishops enter in procession through the side scenes, lay down their mitres at Mr. Bright's feet, and, addressing themselves to the " gods" in ,the upper gallery, pronounce it the divinest of pre cepts and first of human obligations, "to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest." As for the country gentlemen —poor things '.—it's quite shocking to think how they come' off at the bands of these universal tormentors.. If, therefore, the Leaguers should chance to fall, it is quite evident they will fall heavy. Their defeat will be celebrated by injured monopolies, despised ranks, insulted dignities, calumniated persons. A hun dred several interests will demand their respective vic tims. Bright must be offered up to appease the grave indignation of the bench, and Mr. Fox the wounded feel ings of the inferior clergy ; scarce will Cobden satiate the deep vengeance of Whitehall ; the purer mactation of Mr. Villiers will hardly calm the perturbations of our fair aristocracy. The East and the West Indies will seve rally lead off perfect hecatombs of twenty guinea sub scribers. A mixed and eager crowd of great and small proprietor?, young ladies with portions, young gentlemen with expectations, elder brothers with their rents half eaten up by settlements, and dowagers with life interests, will scramble for the bodies of the smaller fry of the League, for provincial stars, youthful debutants, and the respectable seconders of the fourth, fifth, and sixth reso lutions. Another Smithfield, another St. Bartholomew, will close the awful scene. But the greatest circumstance of peril remains. IF it were really a good-fot , nothing cause, a mere ephemeral object, puffed up into unjust dimensions, oblivion ould soon succeed on failure, and the disgraced offenders would receive from time itself a virtual amnesty. The world might never forgive, but it would soon forget. On the contrary, the warfare undertaken by these calico Titans, rude, grotesque, and fright ful as they are, is really an honest and noble one ; that is, its objects are so. They don't see it, but the greatness of their 'cause, the depth and importance of their principles are their chief danger. They trust to it and swagger. They think the end jus tifies the means. It must be virtuous, they think, to be pursuing a sound and beneficial object. The manner of doing it they fancy to be a minor consideration. We must, then, tell them seriously and plainly, that this is not the case ; and that they are themselves, at this pm sent moment, within au ace of leaving on the page of history a lasting lesson to the contrary. A great cause as often makes little men as it makes great men. The greatest causes have made at least the most notorious traitors and self-seekers. The man who handles a vast negotiation as he would bargain with a huckster, and puts the interests of the human race at the bottom of his pedlar's pack, is only making himself the scorn of ages. Better had he been content with the por tion of a worm, seeing that he was really no better than one, than gibbet himself for the contempt of schoolboys a thousand years to come. . . _ Of course; we cannot make the Leaguers what they are not of themselves. They must excuse the homely earnestness of our proverb--" We cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." It is fur them, and for them only, to prcve to the world whether they are the benefactors of their kind, or cotton grubs. For whom, and for what, do they ask that the country should run such risks, for risks at least there are, involved in a greater freedom of' trade ? For whom, and for what, do they ask that important items of the revenue should be surrendered, and the vested interests of the land should be endangered ? For themselves only, or for the whole nation, themselves included ? Is it their scheme of a blessed futurity, that they are to build new mills, create new manufacturing cities, dig new ducks, lay down new railways, enlarge their mansions into palaces, and their pleasure grounds into parks, add town houses to country houses, and ally themselves to the much hated, much envied aristocracy ; while, all this time, the operative, the mother of a family, the squalid youth, the sickly girl, are to go on standing at the spindles for ever, winter and summer, from half past five in the morning, by the inexorable mill clock, to seven in the evening ? True, they boast of their "flesh-pots." There will be all the greater demand for labour, wages will rise, and you will teed and clothe better. The potato-fed labourer will envy your portion. But "if the tale of the bricks which they did make heretofore" is still laid upon them, what is this but a well-fed bondage ?—such a bondage as a free state should not allow in the helpless portion of its citizens, in its females and minors. The factory system is a great fact, one which we can not be blind to without permanent injury. The League, as a witness to it, is another great fact. It has been glad to accept that title. But there is one aspect of that original great fact which the League has hitherto been .miserably slow to recognise. There are now in this country hundreds of thousands of women and young persons chained to the steam-engine, with no power whatever to change their employment, a n y more than if they were indeed cast and forged, and welded parts of the fabric. Once in the factory, never out. Walls of adamant and nine-fold Styx surround them, and for ever close them in. Whatever power they may have to better the other terms of their rigorous service, they cannot of themselves procure a necessary abatement of their daily toil. As a great fact, this vast portion of our people must, if left to themselves, work to their bodily and mental injury, to early decay, and shortened lives. Is it for these, as well as for the interests of capital, that the League clamours so loudly for free trade ? If not, we can only assure them that among all the names that stink in this world, and will stink to eternity, that importunity with the vilest s u e n l i ti o s n hA o e f s t s h : e w m h o ic s h t outrageous dle Lengie wouldin that case present, will be the most thorough, universally, and deservedly loathsome and abominable. — Tines. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Taunton, April 8. Faith Sealey, aged 20 years, was charged with ad ministering white arsenic to her father, William Sealey, of Kingston, on the 20th of April, 1843, by which means he became sick, distempered, and died ; and in another count she was charged with aiding and abetting in the ame. _ _ _ Mr. Carey and Mr. Mereweather appeared for the Crown, and Mr. Kinglake and Mr. Edwards for the prisoner. William Westeembe proved that he made the coffin for the deceased. There was a plate on it bearing his name. He was present at Kingston church on the 18th of January, when the coffin was exhumed. Andrew Fudge, grave-digger, exhumed the corpse, and placed it in the belfry at Kingston. Police-constable Burford was present when an-opera tion was performed by Mr. Welch, surgeon, of Taunton. This was at the belfry at Kingston church. The two last witnesses were present. Mr. F. Welch, surgeon, proved that he took out the stomach and intestines of the deceased, and s conveyed them in an earthen jar, sealed, to Mr. Herapath, an eminent analytical chemist at Bristol. Mr. Herapath produced the stomach, and showed that, by a variety of scientific tests, he discovered the pre sence of arsenic in the stomach of the deceased. The following witnesses, the brothers and sister of prisoner, were then called : Thomas Sealey, aged twelve years, said he could not remember what his father had for dinner on the Thurs day when he was taken ill, but that he had some po tatoes and salt. His father was sick after he had his dinner, and threw up some blood. When witness re turned borne in the evening his father was very ill in bed. He recollects when a ball took place at the Pru dent Widow, his sisters (the prisoners) were there, and when his father went 'for them they would not return with him, and did not come home till after he was gone to bed. John Seeley, fourteen years old, said on this day he had meat,and potatoes for dinner. In other respects he corroborated his brother Thomas. William Seeley, sixteen years of age, came home after the rest of the family had been to dinner, and then one of his sisters told him that his father had salt fish for dinner that day. In cross-examination he said they had lived on fish and potatoes a fortnight previously and a month afterwards. Sarah Sealey, ten years of age, said, before my father died I heard my sister Faith ,(the prisoner) say to my sister Mary, " We should do better without father than with him, ' and Mary replied, " Yes, we should." She said this several times. Witness said she would tell her father of it, and they then threatened to beat her. Sophia Fudge proved that she went to Mr. Mortimer's, a surgeon, at Bishop's Lydiard, for medicine for the de. ceased, William Sealey, and that she gave it, on her return, to Mary Seale} (the other prisoner). • Mary Tucker, of Yarford, said that the evening pre vious to the deceased's death, and during the night, he was very sick, and vomited something of a yellow colour. Thomas White proved that he lodged at the deceased's house ; that he went for the doctor the night previously to the deceased's death, and said there were no rats in his (deceased's) house. James Sealey, a livery servant, in the employ of Mr. Esdale, of Cocklestone, proved that the prisoners kept house for his father. Mary Tucker proved that she was present at the ball at the Prudent Widow, and that deceased came for the prisoners, hut they would not go with him. James Bond corroborated the last witness, and said, when the deceased came he shook a stick at them, and that he had subsequently kept company with Mary Seeley, the elder prisoner. Harriet Moreman. a servant at the Half-moon, Taun ton, proved that the prisoner, Faith Sealey, came to her to go with her to purchase some arsenic to (as she said) destroy rats. That she went with her to Mr. Beadon's, chemist, at Taunton, for it ; but that -he would not let her have it unless she brought a note from the person at Kingston, whom she said it was for. That then she and the prisoner returned to the Half-moon, and that then prisoner said she would go and try some where. else to get it, and that she afterwards returned, and, showing her a small paper parcel, said 1 have got it, I bought it at Mr. Joyce's (another chemist at Taun ton), and that the lad who served said it was enough to poison a thousand men. Ann Richards, another servant at the Half-moon, cor roborated last witness. Mr. Beadon, chemist; could not remember any applica tion having been made at his shop for arsenic. Mr. John Joyce, chemist, had not sold the prisoner any arsenic himself, but had a lad seventeen years old in his shop that had access to a quantity of arsenic which was loose in the bulk, to serve customers with, and at all times a wrapper labelled "poison" was given. Aaron Bamfield, last witness's assistant, had no recol lection of selling the prisoner any arsenic. Ann Fudge proved that the day on which the de ceased was taken ill she was doing needlework at William Sealey (the deceased's) house. That the pri soner Mary Sealey asked him to have some tea. Ile consented, and also to have s-mie sugar with it. There were two sorts of sugar on the table at the time, but that the prisoner Mary Sealey went to the dresser and took up a whity -brown paper, which contained some thing, but witness never saw her put anything into the tea. That the deceased took it, and then was obliged to go to bed. Police-constable Burford said, after Mary Sealey's apprehension, went to prisoner, who was then living at Mr. Clarke's, in Fore -street, Taunton, to ask her ques tions relative to the transaction, when he said to her, " You may choose whether you answer it or not, as it may make for or against you. " Mr. KINGLAKE here objected to the conversation being deposed to, on the authorities of me Justices Coleridge and Maule. His LORDSHIP—Was the prisoner then in custody? Police-constable Burford—No, my Lord. His Lon - mule—Then, as Mr. Carey presses the evi dence, and I think it admissible, let it proceed. Witness then inquired if she had purchased arsenic, under the circumstances related by the witnesses Harriet Moreman and Ann Richards, and that to each question be put, she said it was not true. The following confession of the prisoner, admitted at the coroner's inquest, was then read:—" My sister asked me, the same week my father was taken ill, if I . had made up ray mind about going to Taunton on Tuesday. I told her I had. She said she wanted me to buy some thing for her. I aslced her what it was. She never told me till I was going away. When I was going away I asked her what it was I was going to bring for her. She asked me if I would bring her a pennyworth of arsenic. I asked her where I could get it. She answered at Mr. Joyce's, where she had got it several times before. She said, You mind, you must have some one to go with you.' I asked her, Who can I get, except Mr. Green's servant.' She asked me who she was. I said Ann Richards, that lived at Mr. Woolcott's, at Bishop's Lydiard. I said I don't know if I shall buy it or not.' She asked Why can't you get it as well as I can?' I said If it is a strong poison, they won't let me have it without I carry an order.' She said, If they ask what it is for, it is to poison rats.' I said, don't hear any rats here about the house.' She said, No, if a waggon and horses were to go through the bed-room you would not hear them.' I then said no more, but came away to Taunton. I went to the Halfsmoon, and saw Ann Richards. I asked her if she would go to the shop with me. She said she could Lot, and her fellow-servant went. When I asked Mr. Beadon for it, he said he would not let me have it without a note, or a proper witness from the house, a person whom he knew. He then asked what it was for; I said it was not for myself, but for some person that I knew. He said he would not let me have it, and I then went to Mr. Joyce's. His little boy was in the shop alone. I wanted some other things, and after I had them I asked for the arsenic, to poison rats, as my sister told me. I said I could say no further than that it was not for myself. He did it up in three papers. He told me to be very careful what I did with it, because ever so little would poison a man. He added, I can plainly say, and n o t tell a word of a story, that there's enough to poison a thousand men.' I said I should not have any hand with it, and that I would tell the person what he did say. I paid him for it, and came away. We stopped there about ten minutes. When I came home I gave it, to my sister; she put it in her pocket. I did not see any thing more of it till Thursday at dinner-time. My father was fond of salt fish, and generally had one for his break fast and dinner, with a roe, if he could get it. My sistet• dressed it. I was up stairs cleaning the room. When I came dawn I saw my sister with the roe out on the plate. She had got the same parcel as I brought from Taunton, shaking some of it on the middle of the milt of the fish. I went out of doors, and said nothing to her. I My father came in to dinner in a few minutes after, and she put it up for him. He. took up the milt and ate it. He said it did net taste so good as many which he had had before. After he had been to dinner, he sat down and had a pipe of tobacco ; then he went out to work. He did not complain till he came home in the evening. When he came home I was out in the garden. He came in and sat down, and rested his elbow on the table. He then asked Mary for a cup of tea.. She gave gave it to him. I went up stairs. He took his tea, and then went to bed. We stopped up with him till between 11 and 12 o'clock. My sister asked him if he would take anything before we went to bed. He asked her what she had got, whether any groats or arrow root. She said she had some of each. He said he would have a little. My sister got him some, and he was worse that night. Next day he sent for Mr. Mortimer, of Bishop's Lydiard, who sent him some powders, and that day I took off my shoes, and came down stairs, and caught my sister mixing one of the powders ; one was larger than the others." Mr. KINGLIKE then made a very impressive address to the jury, and his Lordship having summed up, The jury consulted twenty minutes, and then returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The case lasted till late this night. NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liveipool, April 8. (Before Mr. Baron ROLFE and a Special Jury.) GOSLIN V. BIDDEN. This was an action for money lent and money due for rent of certain rooms in the house of the plaintiff, occu pied by the defendant. Mr. Watson and Mr. Hoggins for the plaintiff ; Mr. Knowles and Mr. Segar for the defendant. This case was commenced on Saturday evening at a late hour, but, after the examination of one or two wit- . nesses for the plaintiff, was adjourned until this morning. It appeared that the plaintiff was a contractor for some of the works lately executed at Fleetwood-on-Wire, and the defendant was the engineer under whose superin tendence they were carried on. The defendant, on first going down to Fleetwood, lodged in the same house with the plaintiff, and they were, it appeared, on terms of great intimacy and friendship. Fleetwood was, at tnat time, insufficiently supplied with-lodging-room, and many of the parties whom employMent on the works, or other objects; . ittracted to the spot, were obliged to put up with very inconvenient accommodation. The plaintiff and defendant occupied the same room, and the same bed.. In 1840 the defendant got married, and it was Alleged that, previous to his going up to London for that purpose, he borrowed of .the plaintiff the sum of 1201., the first item of the plaintiff's claim. It was sought, alio, to make out . that, in the course of the cighteen months next following he borrowOd of the plaintiff various sums, amounting, in all, to 1,3711, the amount claimed in the bill of particulars • but of this sum evidence was given of but 8001., together with 30.1. rent for apartments occupied by the defendant, after his marriage, in a house which had been taken by the plaintiff. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da mages, 300 L CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. TUE WILLS FORGERIES. Yesterday being appointed for the trial of the parties implicated in the forgeries which have recently attracted so much attention, the avenues of the Old Bailey were, at an early hour, crowded with a mass of persons anxious to obtain admittance into the court. This was found, however, to be a most difficult task, admission, with the exception of barristers and those immediately concerned in the trial, being refused to all who were not armed with Sheriffs' tickets. The court was, of course, most rapidly filled in a very short period after the doors were opened. All witnesses were ordered to retire to the London Coffee-house till called for. At ten o'clock, Baron Gurney, Justice. Williams, and Justice Manic, took their seats upon the bench. The Crown was represented by the Attorney General, Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Bodkin, and Sir John Bayley. Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Parry appeared as counsel for Barber ; Mr. Graves and Mr. Ballantine fit Fletcher ; Mr. Stone and Mr. Phirn for Sanders ; Mr. James for Mrs. Dcrey ; and Mr. Doane for Griffin, who, however, it was known, was to be admitted as evidence for the Crown. William Henry Barber, Joshua Fletcher, William San ders, and Georgiana Dorey, were first arraigned and pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment, charging them with the forgery of a will purporting to be that t Eliza Bur chard. There were in this indictment eight counts vary ing the charge. Barber, Fletcher, and Georgiana Dorey, were then arraigned upon two other indictments, to which they also severally pleaded Not Guilty. Barber, Fletcher, Wm. Sanders, Lydia Sanders, and Georgiana Dorey, were then arraigned upon another in dictment, charging them with the forgery of the will of Ann Slack, to which they also severally pleaded Not Guilty. These several indictments involved the cases of for gery of the wills and names of Ann Slack, Eliza Bur • chard, Mary Hunt, and John Stuart. It having been arranged that Griffin should be ad mitted as an approver, he was not arraigned. The reading of the indictments and the arraignment of the prisoners occupied the Court for nearly an hour. Before proceeding to swear the jury, Mr. WILKINS made an application to the Court on behalf of the pri soner Barber, that the trial for the forgery of the wilt of John Stuart, of Great Marlow, Bucks, should be post poned, on the ground of the absence of the Bev. Mr. Coxwell, of Great Marlow, an essential witness for Bar ber's defence. Affidavits Were put in, stating that the Rev. Gentle man's life would be endangered by an immediate attend ance in Court, as he was in a state of extreme prostration from recent and severe illness. Baron GURNEY said the Court could grant no favour --ghat rested. in the discretion of the Attorney-General, es representative of the Crown, the, prosecutor. A mat ter of right belonged to the Cuart, but in the affidavits 'and letters produced no ground of right had been es tablished, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he would be the last man to deprive a prisoner of any means really requisite fOr his defence. But he could say unfeignedly that he was et a loss to see of what use the Rev. Gentleman could be to Mr.. Barber. The affidavits were not regular. Mr. Wtidmis admitted there was a slight irregularity, but he had.had• too much experience of the Attorney- General's courterS , to counsel, and consideration fur pri soners, not to believe that his request would be com plied with. He (Mr. Wilkins) best knew Mr. Barber's defence, and the necessity for Mr. Coxwell's presence, and he begged to assure the Court that that presence was of the highest importance to the interest of his client. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL. rather than defer this one case until the next day, would prefer to have them all deferred till the morning. • After a lengthened conversation, it was suggested by Baron GURNEY, that the letter said to be from the rector. of Great - Marlow, and - on which the affidavits were founded, should be produced, in order that the Court and the Attorney-General might form their own opinion as to its bona fides, of which strong doubt was evidently entertained. A messenger was accordingly, dispatched to the. chambers of Mr. Braman (Barber's solicitor), Verulam-buildings,' Gray's Inn, to procure .the same. On the return of the messenger, the letter _or the Rev. Mr. Coxwell was handed to the Attorney- General who read it to the Court. It was addressed to Mr, Bramall, and after acknowledging the. receipt of the subpoena, stated the writer's inability from illness to attend, concluding thus :—" Besides I know nothing of .the matter except that the remains of John Stuart were interred in Great Marlow Churchyard by me." • After another conversation among the counsel and consultation with the Court, Mr. Baron GURNEY said they were of opinion the in dulgence might be granted, but all the trials must be postponed until to-morrow morning, as the Attorney- General had determined to proceed with that of Stuart first. At that time, however, the Court would require all parties to be fully ready to proceed. The prisoners were then removed back to Newgate, and the Court was rapidly thinned of its much disap pointed visitors. Heury Davies was indicted for feloniously assault ing Thomas M'Carthy with a poker, with the intent to do him grievous bodily harm. Mrs Clarkson conducted the prosecution, and M essrs . Doane and C. Jones appeared for the defence. From the evidence of the prosecutor, it appeared that both-he and the accused were licensed victuallers at Chelsea, Mr. Davies being the landlord of the Ca dogan Arms. The occurrehee in question took place in the night of the 12th of January in the defendant's house. The prosecutor was in the house drinking for a great many hours, and in the course of the evening some dispute arose, and, according to the prosecutor's 'story, the accused seized a poker from the fire-place, and struck him a very severe blow with it on the head. In cross-examination, he admitted he was a g use w of insulting orsefo language to the accused. The good deal for liquor liquor at the time, and that set up was, th a t no po k er was use d, h prosecutor ma ki ng use o f some o f- he but t thathad made defence upon the struggled expression a to the fell tb e accused, down, f a e n ns vt they ey and that he hurt hii head in the fall. A witness named Fry was called to prove these facts, and he swore positively that no poker was made use of. C::ptairt Fitzgerald, a blagistrate for the county of Middlesex, was called to speak to the character of Mr. Davies, and he described hi pa as a very honourable and respectable man, and he bore testimony to the excellent manner in which his house was conducted. _expressed themsel ves sa t is fi e d, and with out .._ the Judge to sum up , a t once re t urne d a rr verdictthre(ub jury f n &ot guilty. Mr. Baron GURNEY observed, that the real fact of the matter appeared to be, that the prosecutor had not wilfully mis-stated the facts, but from the quantity he had drank he was not in a condition to tell what really did take place. (Before the RECORDER.) Anne Elizabeth Earnshaio, 34, married, and Emma Wells, 28, single woman, were indicted for stealing a silver knife,, value 6s. 6d., the property of Mary Anne Rose. Mr. Ballantine prosecuted, . and Messrs. Clarkson and Wilkins appeared for the prisoners. The circumstances under which the present, and several other charges of a similar character were made against the prisoners having been very recently fully given in our police reports, it will be unneces sary to repeat them at any length on the present occasion. The prisoner Earnshaw, who is respectably connected, accompanied by the other woman, Wells, were in the habit of going to the shops of different jewellers, and asking to look at various articles, such as Watches, rings, &c., and taking that opportunity to steal every article that came in their way. -In the present case they went into the shop of the prose cutrix, in Farringdon-street, and asked to look at some silver fruit-knives. A great number were shown `them, but they did not purchase any ; and, immediately on their leaving the shop, a silver knife was missed. The prisoners were followed to a pawn broker's shop, and taken into custody, and upon Wells being searched, a silver knife was found in her pos sion, which the prosecutrix identified as her property, but it appeared that it was not the same she had missed. Air. CLARKSON, on behalf of the prizners, argued that the knife in question might have been sold at some former time, and that there was no proof of its having been stolen at the time the prisoners were in the shop. Several witnesses were called, who gave the pri soners an excellent character ; and it was stated that Earnshaw was in the receipt of a considerable income, and that the other prisoner lived with her as a companion. The jury found Earnshaw Not Guilty, and con victed Wells, but at the same time recommended her to mercy.. The RECORDER said they had better wait a little before they took this step. The prisoners were then indicted for stealing two diamond rings, value 3/. Is. 6d., the property of Thomas Chapman. This case Was of a si m il a r d e scripti o n t o the last, and the jury returned the same verdict, acquitting Earnshaw, apparently upon the ground that the pro- perty was found in the possession of W ells. The prisoners were then arraigned upon another indictment, charging them with stealing a gold watch, value 301., the property of John Smith. The prosecutor in this case is a watchmaker in the Strand, and the prisoners went into his shop, and wished to look at some watches. A great many were shown them ; but they said none of them suited, and left the shop without purchasing any article, and, almost immediately after .A ards, a gold watch, value 301., was missed from one of the trays. This watch was subsequxntly found in the possession of the prisoner Wells. _ The jury, in this case, found both prisoners guilty. The prisoners were then indicted for stealing a gold locket, the property of George Lamb. The case was clearly made out, and the jury again returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners. The RECORDER sentenced them to be transported for seven years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) CLERKEN WELL. THE ABDUCTION CASE.— Win. Burton Newenham was brought up on remand, charged v.ith the abduc tion of Miss Frances 1 ouisa Wortham, of 28, Gerard street, Coburg•rond Islington a ward in Chancery. The prisoner took his place in the dock with great composure. He was neatly dressed, but looked paler and in worse spins than on the previous occasions. The Court as crowded with respectable civilians and professional gentlemen, and gnat anxiety was mani fested to know the result of the struggle between Mr. C mbe and Vice Chancellor Knight Bruce for the possession of the prisoner. Mr. Allen, the tipstatr of the Court of Chancery, was in attendance, bearing the Lord Chancellor's warrant for the prisoner's ap prehension. Mr. Mallard, a c:Amty Magistrate, sat on the Bench with Mr. Combe, as a spectator. Mr. Southey, of the Temple, conducted the prosecution ; and Mr. Hum phries defended the prisoner. Mr. Southey said that since the last hearing of the ease he had communicated with Vice-Chancellor Bruce, and informed him of the Magistrate's deter mination, and of his reasons for coming to that deter mination. The Vice-Chancellor said he considered Mr. Combe acted wrongly in detaining the prisoner against the Lord Chancellor's warrant. The Vice- Chancellor said he entertained a very strong opinion on the subject, but he had not been able to coiumu nicate with the Lord. Chancellor, who was at his country seat in Berkshire. He (Mr Southey) had been directed by the Vice-Chancellor to express his opinion, and it wasp under his Honour's direction he did so. He would not call up. n the Magistrate to pursue any particular cour , e. Having communicated what had transpired, he was now ready to go on with the case. Mr. Count:—Let the case be proceeded with. Mr. Humphries—Before your Worship comes to any decision I have a proposal to make. Mr. COIIIBE—I have already decided. I do not think it necessary to reiterate the reasons which I have already publicly stated for the course I am about to pursue. If the Lord Chancellor or the Vice-Chancellor have the power to take the prisoner out of my hands, then let them -exercise it, and I will, of course, yield to it at once. A prisoner has been brought before me charged with a very grave offence—evidence has been submitted which warranted me in believing that that offence had been committed. I have reason to know that evidence can be adduced which will prove the commission, of a much higher offence. I repeat Ido not fed mvseif at liberty to give the man up to the Court of Chancery 'ander such circumstances. If the law gives paramount autho rity to the Lord Chancellor—authority to take a prisoner under these circumstances from a police magistrate, I must submit, of course, but I am not aware that the law confers any such powers. Mr. Southey—l do not now makq any application to you one way or the other. Mr. Commi—l was callei upon to give the pri soner up to the tipstaff of the Court of Chancery now present on a former occasion, I refused to do so, and I now refuse. Call upon Mrs. Wortham to appear. After some delay, Mrs. Wortham, mother of the lady, made her appearance. She was genteelly at tired, and took her place in the witness box with ap parent reluctance. Having been sworn, Mr. COMM: asked Mr. Southey if he would exa mine her, or should he (the Magistrate) do so? Mr. Southey preferred the Magistrate's doing so. In answer to questions from tr.e bench, Mrs. Wortham repeated her former testimony, which the clerk (Mr. Mould) upon this occ3sion took formally down in depositions fur trial. She added several new facts. The,following is the substance of her testi moray :—Her husband was in the shawl trade in Re gent-street, and died on the 14th of June, 1842, leav ing no property whatever. Her daughter, an only one, Frances Louisa, the subject of the present inves tigation, was born on the 24th of December, 1828, and was con , equently 15 years old last Christmas eve. The prisoner came to lodge at her house in June, 1840, and continued to lodge with her at Ge rard-street up to the period of her husband's death, when he left. Mr. COME—Do you know what he is ? Witness —No ; I have been informed that he is a person of independent fortune. A lady in the neighbourhood, with whom he formerly lodged, told me so. The witness proceeded to state that, after her husband's death, the prisoner continued on visiting terms with her. Six months after her husband's death, her daughter was bequeathed landed property to the value of 4001. a year, but at present incuuibered with a life annuity of 2001., of which bequest the prisoner was aware. On the 7th of January, 1843, witness re ceived a letter froin Mr. Hawkins, one of the trustees of the property, which letter she showed to the pri soner on the Sundry following. Mr. Humphries objected to this evidence. Where was the letter Mr. Southt-y said it would be produced on a future occasion, but was not then in Court. Mr. OMBE—State what the prisoner said when you apprised him of this bequest to your daughter. Witness—He said " Oh, I am very happy to hear it."—(A laugh.) I asked him if I should not write to Mr. Hawkins ; but he said "By no means, and that he would recommend me to his attorney, Mr. Hammond, of Furnival's Inn." He agreed to take the copy of the deed to his own solicitor; but I never got it back since. I saw it the day the bill was filed in Chancery. The prisoner subsequently stated that he was afraid it should go into Chancery; but he did not say anything about Miss Wortham being made a ward of Chancery. Mr. CoMBE—Was there any conversation between you and the prisoner about her being made a ward of Chancery ? Witness—Yes ;on the evening before he abducted her. He was at my house. I had just received a letter from Mr. Camberton, one of the trustees. Mr. Humphries objected to the contents of this let ter being stated, as it was not produced The witness, in answer to the Magistrate, said the prisoner read the letter, and when she spoke to him about her daughter becomin' a ward of Chancery, he said he " thought it would be so." The witness then narrated the circumstances of her daughter's abduction, which took place on the 13th of October last, and which have been already published. He removed her during the temporary absence of the witness, who did not again see them until last Thurs day week at the station house. Witness was then her daughter's only guardian, and had never given her consent to the abduction, nor even known that the prisoner was paying his addresses to Miss Wortham. Mr. COMBS—Was your daughter from home after her father's death for any period. Witness—Yes; for six months at school, with Miss Brown, on Stockwell common. Mr. ComnE----Did the prisoner see her. Witness— es ; he frequently accompanied me there, and some times went there with books and messages froth me to her. Mr. COMBE-NOW, Mrs. Wortham, tell me if you had Any communication w►th your daughter since her return ? Mrs. Wortham (after much hesitation)--I have had some, but not a great deal. Mr. CoMBE—Did she explain any of the circum stances of her departure to you? Mrs. Wortham again hesitated. Mr. Southey--I object to the question. Mr. COMBE repeated the question. Mrs. Wortham (reluctantly)—Yes • she told me she thought she was going to Furnival's Mr. Southey-1 object to any question on this head. Mr. CoMBE—You, the solicitor for the prosecution, object ! Why, I must say, that is very strange indeed. Mr. Southey—l say it is very indiscreet to put such questions now, and that it will defeat the end of justice. Mr. COMBE—State your objection. Mr. Southey—l have done so. Mr. COMBS—You have objected, but you have given me no reason for objecting. Mr. Southey—l have already given you my senti ments on this matter in private. Mr. COMBS—Sentiments are not reasons. I think the questions are necessary ; apd if you cannot show me the contrary I will feel it my duty to put them. Mr. Southey—Mrs. Wortham is here to give her evidence of what she knows of the matter, but not to mention what Miss Worthen) said. Mr. COMBS---She is here to answer what questions I think proper to put to her, and if she does not an swer them she may as well know thst I have the power of sending her to the House of Correction. Mr. Southey—What the daughter told the mother is not, I submit, necessary to the present inquiry, and I feel myself bound again to say that extracting such information from her will defeat the ends of justice. Mr. COMBE—If you really think so, you are bound to show me why. Mr. Southey—l will, in your private room. Mr. COMBE—Then let us hear them. The Worthy Magistrate and the Solicitor for the prosecution then retired to the Magistrates' private-room. After the lapse of a quarter of an hour they came into Court, when Mr. Combe said that he had heard all Mr. Southey had to say, and that he still remained of the same opinion. The case must be proceeded with. But he would now remand the prisoner, that those documents might be produced which were necessary to complete the case. The prisoner Was then rernande 1 to Wednesday next at twelve o'clock. James Gregg was eliarged with the following outra• gQous conduct : Georg‘? Waddington, the gaoler of the Court, an ac tive and intelligent officer, deposA that on the Irevi , :11S day he was cow, eyieg a prisoner from the Court to the Clerk's office, for the purpose of having the depositions taken d .wn, when the prisoner, who was drunk in the passage, seized him by the collar, and ,Jr.uged him with so much violence, as to ob.ige him to release the prisoner. Serg& ant N 10 came up, and when the ruffian found that he would be overpowered, he seized Waddington's coat bet. eor his teeth, and at empted further violence. He sb uteri so as to disturb and interrupt the proceedings of the Court, and it required the combined exertions of four constables, all of whom he kick,. d and cuffed on his way, to tak him to the station•house. The prisoner, who had been locked up all night, and expr-s,e,i contrition tor his comluet, was senivreed Mr. CO3l BE to pay a tine of 55., or seven (by s im prisonment. AMBLER) Rb IiGH-STREET. Edward Howaid, a hard) luoking sailer, with scarcely a vestige of cloth nag abuut him, V% placed at the bar on the io!lowing charr,e. 11.•r s- cford, the constable of the Mendieity Society, ,ta!ed that b,tween e7ght and nine o'clock last evening, he Yaw the pri,ioner sanding in Regent-street, stupefied with; drink, and evidently incapable of taking care of himself. Ile %‘a,6 the,, as to clothing, as he now appeared, without hat, coat, shoes, or stockings ; to keep him out of harm's way he was locked up in the station-house. 111.4x,Tpv—How do you account for being found in this mist table plight? Prisoner (with a seaman-like hitch up of his trows , rs, and a ret , ogra!le scrape of the right foot)—Plea , e your honour, I got amongst the shark. I have been fifteen years in the Royal Navy, and about a week ago I landed, and was paid oil three years' money, all in a lump. Somme of the small craft pt me in tow, down by %Vhitechapel, I'm tnld ; and they took out not only cargo but harait and all, and turned me adrift as crut:ky as I am. I'll know butter next time. Mr. INIALTDY—How much money have you lost ? Sail ,r—A bout V,/. Mr. ;MALTBY— You are discharged. Sailor—Thankee ; I'll soon be after getting another ship. MARYLEBONE. Michael Refferman, Edward f !ages, Jeremiah Leary, and James Ryan four Irish labourers, were charged with an aggravated assault upon the police, one of whom is at present lying in a dangerous state in the hos• pital, from a severe injury received or the head by a cut a hod. An , constable, who gave evidence, was °Aged to be supported into Court The fads way ne compri,ed in a few line:. A general " Irish scrimmage" had occurred yesterday evening in Oxford-mows, Summer's -street, Paddington, and one or two constables. among whom was the unfortunate man Smith, ran in atnon them, with the intention of sepa rating the combatants. . They, however, were deter mined not to be baulked in their humour. and, forgetting their own animosities in the general weal, at once, to use the graphic language of one of the constables, "pitched into the whole on' us like bricks." The staffs were wrenched from the hands of the policemen and used with great effect on their heads, until at last they were forced to retreat. Soon after a greater body of men were orlered to the scene of action, and succeeded in capturing the prisoners. The first two, liefferman and Hayes, were each sent for a month to the House of Correction. Leary, against whom there was no evidence, was discharged ; and Ryan who had been particularly at•tive, was remanded till Friday, in order to ascertain how constable Smith was getting on. Charles Crawley, a most determined ruffian, who was only liberated from the House of Correction yesterday evening, was again brought up this day charged with an aggravated assault upon the person of Rernenti Epsural Iyauco Herrerd, a Spaniard, who could not, unfortunately, speak English, and as no ono in Court understood Spanish, this part of the case could not be sustained against the prisoner. Sergeant Cumming said that a witness was in attend ance at the station-house when the charg , was taken. who detailed he circumstances ; but she was not at the Court this morning. The prisoner, when locked up. kept shouting throughout the night, to the great annoy ance of the other prisoners, who were effectually deprived of a night's rest, by his vociferous exclamations. Constable 26 D said that when taken to the station house the prisoner said, " Oh, old Jack Rawlinson will be sitting, and I'll be sure to get off." Mr. LONG, who happened to attend this day in place of his brother magistrate, smiled, and remarked that the prisoner might find his good fortune desert him. Prisoner—l've got a witness outside, yer wersehip. Here you covey (to Franklin, the chief usher), just call in old Mother Crowley, will ye. Mother Crowley was called. She gave her amiable son the best of characters, but knew nothing of the case in question. The prisoner was sent again to the House of Correc tion fur .teven days. QUEEN'S-SQUARE. A great number of pers - ins were charged at this Court to day with the commission of various offences, varying\ from drunkenness and disorderly conduct to the most aggravated species of assault. In fact, the lower por tion of the inhabitants of this district appear to be de termined to enjoy the Easter holidays and the fin weather, but it is really lamentable that their chief amusement should be intemperance and riot. From the charges of the above nature, we extract the following:— Two decently-dressed young women, one having pretty little child in her arms, and whose face bore evi dence of her having been recently engaged in a seriou* conflict, both her eyes being dreadfully bruised, and her face otherwise injured, were placed at the bar, char. ed with creating a disturbance last night, and fight ing. In answer to the charge, the defend ants stated that they had been to Greenwich fair, and having, with their husbands, drank rather freely there and on their return to London, they had lust all recollection of the e% en a of the preceding night, or of having infl,cted sammary punishment on each other. They were tined 2-. 61. each. A sturdy lab uring man v. as next charged with creating a disturbance in the Feathers, a gin palace, in the Broadway, and in conjunction with other persolu, who escaped, assaulting the landlord and others engaged on the premises. lie was fined 205., or in default of payment fourteen days' impris ument. Frederick 7'ondinsim, a fashionably dressed young man, was charged in the sheet with assaulting James Graham, a professional singer. It appeared that whilst Mr. Graham was returning from the place where he is in the habit of warbling, the defendant struck him, at the same time stating that he had taken indecent liberties with his the (defendant's) wife. The defendant was drunk at the time, and as he had struck the complainant by mistake for another person, and made an ample apology for his misconduct, the complainant was de sirous of withdrawing the charge. The defendant, who gave a fictitious name and address when charged, for the purpose, as is said, of avoiding his real name from gettin g into the newspapers, was fined 2s. Gd. tor bein g drunk, which was paid. Eliza Franca young woman, was charged by Mar garet Smith with assisting another female, who has not yet been taken into custody, with stealing a bag from her reticule, containing 2/. I Is. Gd. The prosecutrix stated that &he met the prisoner and the other woman in the Strand, about twelve o'clock last night; and being acquainted with them, she treated them to some coffee and other refreshments. They walked together until they arrived at a court running out of New Tothill-stre,t, where they knocked her down, pulled the reticule from her, and having abstracted the bag containing the money, threw it into the road and ran off. She, however, caught the prisoner by the shawl, and retaine.l her hold until a policeman came up. The prisoner, who denied the charge, was remanded until Monday, to give the police time to trace the other person implicated. UNION-HALL. - Jams Dean was charged with having caused the death of William Grubb on.the preceding night. It appeared that on the preceding night Grubb and the prisoner were at a public-house called the Coal Smack, at Rotherhithe, the latter person being at the time very much intoxicated and quarrelsome. Grubb struck at the prisoner, who retaliated by striking him in return. The landlord here interfered, and said there should be no fiehting in his house, upon which the parties went out and began to fight, and the deceased was knocked down. Shortly afterwards he went into the house and exhibited his eyes,. whiehswere very much swollen, and requested the landlord would lance them to allay the inflammation. The landlord, however, refused to comply with the request, desiring the deceased to go to a sur geon. This advice .was taken by the deceased, who ac cordingly proceeded to one, who recommended his imme diate removal to the hospital, where it appeared he expired in less than an-hour after his admission. The prisoner in his defence said that he was struck by the deceased, and that they fought outside the public house. COTTINGUADI said that the prisoner's conduct in fighting with a man so intoxicated as the deceased was at the time reflected great discredit upon him ; that if the case did not amount to the crime of murder, it was at all events a charge of very aggravated manslaughter. The Magistrate then remanded the prisoner until an inquest is held on the body of the deceased. THAMES POLICE. Charles Tripp, a shoWily dressed man, whose air and demeanour in the dock exhibited considerable preten sion, was yesterday charged with a cowardly and unpro voked assault en a modest looking young woman, named Mary Craven. The complainant stated that as she was going down Butcher's-row on Monday evening, three gentlemen, of whom the prisoner was one, were standing at the door of No. 10. One of th e gentlemen (nut the prisoner) put out his foot, and nearly tripped complainant up. Heraunt remonstrated with them and went back to take the num ber of the house, after which the prisoner pursued them. He used the coarsest possible language, called her and her companions b—y w —s, and gave her a violent blow on the head, threatening at the same time to smash her face. She called for a constable, and, when one came in sight, the prisoner offered to take them to the fair and make it up. This, however, they declined, and he was given in charge. Mary Kelly, a barmaid at the Plough Tavern, con firmed the complaimm's statement, and added that Tripp had also given her a violent blow. The prisoner, who undertook to plead his own cause, with the usual proverbial result, not very complimentary to the client, cross-examined the witnesses with an air of would be professional sagacity, which created con siderable merriment. He did nut prove very successful in shaking the direct tesitnony, though his flippancy enforced the reprimand of the Court. Being called oti fyr his defence, he declared solemnly, if it were the last word he had to speak, the statements of the eoMplalllslid: and her witue,s were false. Seeing one of his treeni talking to the women, whom he took to be worm' town, and he still retain,A the same intpressibo , so asked him to come away, upon which the cemplui n ,p and her tric!nds abused end threw dirt at hint, which be naturay put up hand, which ap'll t t l t bi sibly have struck one them. lie regreted th a " n - 0 1 witnesses who could disprove their assertions were present. ''t Mr. .LIR:.DEnir would ease his wind on that pole 0 w sending the case to the sessions, when he could p rne tl their attendance. He should, however, accept bai l ', j ,701 self in 401., and sureties of 2c1., to answer both entlp, of assault.—Bail not being forthcoming, he Wasted"' GUILDHALL. On Tuesday Geo, ye Gumne was brought up in tue to lso tcdy of Daniel Forrester, on suspicion o; having 10 1 four parcels, containing Bank of England notes anue o ts to the amount of 1,6001., from the Captain's P ri bd room, on board the City of Boulogne s , teatn-bost , 00 , voyage to England, on the 6th of Sept e mber. 1 41 r. P a t. phr, , j's clerk watched the case on the part of the P soner, and Mr. Child conduct, d the prosecution. oil The evidence peeviously taken was read over, W o os effect that the prisoner tendered one of the stolen i t e for 101., at Mr. Storey's, a ta,lor, in Fleet street, in rdol meat for some c:othing, and he was there apPrt hei f i eld b) Forrester. The officer discovered that others ° rs / stolen notes had been put into Circulation, one Basle having been changed at Messrs. Ilarveys', th e iiee drapers, on Ludgate•hill; one at a tobacconist's in street, one at a tobacconist's in the Strand, n„n e f ol' hosier's in the Strand, and on e a t a g r oc er's M turd-street. In three of these cases the witnesaf'dol tiv.l) identified the prisoner as having. pass e l' 10 1 notes, but there was no evidence from France to that these notes were placed in the parcels stelen%,„ e Mr. Child then proposed to bring the case 110 `*". the prisoner as to two 51. not, s. to tool 'The tirst witness sworn was a French Man, w - 8 . tIO the oath in the fashion of his country, not holdirt", writings of the Evang-lists in his hand, but hald' il° hand up, and repeating the form of words. ; t 4 Sir I - trrun I,Atritu. said this was the custom - 11 .,,• b ich lard, and it :appeared to be more solemn than tha l ; s ol prevadefl in I , .ngland, of listening iu silence and the co%er of the book. • rf°' Fermin 8ra5.. - eur, clerk to a banker at Boulog,ntt dueed a list of notes to the amount of 1801., wh i L eß 'o°` 2901. in mail, he packed up in a Rarcel oh tu e 6 ijoi o S, September last, and addressed it to Mr. WiXhtl 1 46:1 Bank, 1, ,ndon. In the list were two W. notes, M s ' and 35,063. He gave the parcel to a clerk Boulle, to convey it to Mr. ]) e Wisme, the 6 broker. „lc)) Etienne Bottle deposed that he saw the notes 1; 19 , up in the parcel, and deiv red it at Mt. De W 02 140°, Jean Baptiste De IVisme, a ship-linker at 1 3°1 . 1 fir dep , .sed that he receive! this parcel, and placed It . five others and the sh;p's papers in a l e ather 1 11 0 0 was nttlitr heAty, al.cl iie delivered it tc i!.aptiste, 0 01 , belonging to the New Commercial Steum-boat Co l/4 who fetched it. nl j Baptiste Seneschal, clerk to the Boulogne Pn e d the Commercial Company, stated that he receirlo leather bag from the last witness, and carried Itotr to the company's office, and thence on board the ° boat, where he delivered it to Captain Tune. to? Captain Tune deposed that he to o k the bagels berth, a private room in the state cabin. He P ia° be th r. sax parcels in a drawer, having first compar o ,1 do ordresses with the invoice. On e was- d i rec ted do or Wight. He shut the drawers, and locked the his cabin. c's . .0 Sir PETER LAURIE a s k e d if h e saw the Per" after he left France,.for it was material to kW / • the felony was committed? Captain Tune said he saw them safe when th : f :tli,,, got out to sea about nine miles. H e did not 0 3 '°; e lto' till hall the passengers were out of the ship 00 r e London. Sir P. LAURIE asked when he sailed, an d Abe reached London. Captain Tune replied he sailed at ten O'clock 0° , 1 4 e. and reached London at two in the afternoon ne s it ' ve t°' The prisoner's solicitor asked how long he pied in passing from coast to coast ? Captain 'Tune said generally two hours quarters. besivr Sir PETER asked if he saw the prisoner on had any recollection o! him ? The Captian answered, no. Mr. Baker, a tob accon i s t in th e St ran d, prof e a ,,,7,0 11 ,0 /6 received th e 51 not num b er 14,673, f rom the,r o s . frj who gave hi m a fi ct i t i ous a dd ress, diff er i n g T r boor given at either of the other places. The prisoner • Or a quarter of a pound of cigars. is J. Dickenson, s h o p man to M r. J ones, a groce—,4 ford-street, said :he took the other 51. zloty , 35,063, from a man who pur c h a s e d some 'gr o-e1 w I 'er wcut away by an omnibus. He cou ld, not 9 4, 0 0, ) prisoner was th e per s on. H e h a d some remye iv the prisoner's face, but he had no distinct ree°oo that he was the person who paid thi s particular 1.1 tt ) , Mr. Child said that was all the evidence he .9 ec! prepand to offer, but if a little time were might be able to strengthen his case. had The prisoner's solicitor reserved what he 115 till he saw the whole case. The prisoner was tilt n again remanded. MARKET NENVS—YESTER' CORN-EXCHANGE. i d roei The supply of En g li s h Wh ea t o n s how s v— :o( 1 1 scanty. but fully ad, qu at e meet the' Wan 0. dealers. Prime samples were dispoSed of .", f tl' i quotations, but the middling and inferior des were extreme: y heavy. In Fureign Grain, °ere! and in bond, so little was doing that the rates ti ti Oti most nominal. Barley moved off steadily, 4 e quite equal to those noted in our last report. 1 ; 4 trade was very dull, but of all other Grain O e ' 7 slow sale. ARRIVA,(S. .110 Wheat. Bar Ly. Oats. sr, English Irish.. 5 ,5,0 Foreign...,,,„. 310 2,570 2 : i10 alt, 7,320 qrs • winirmckuipEz. ° ,OOl We had but a m o d el a e suppiy . of Meat OP, while the general d eman d e% as steady on the gs 4 ") terms.—Bee, from 2,2 d to 3s 41; illitttont 3s 8d; Lamb, 5s 2,1 to 6s 4,1; Veal, 3s 2d, to 4 5 Pork, 2s 4d to 4s 2d, per Blvis., by the carcase. t FATAL AFFRAY AT HORSLYDOWL—On, 05' bet eett the hours of si x an d seven , a quarrel " !f o ) front of the bar of the Coal Smark public-hon,t e beo s 4 o down, between two persons of the names 0, 1 for i d which has resulted in the death of Top From the few particulars that could be'obtainvl s o that Dean, who was the. son of a coalmeter,".was 5 .011 c e) front of the bar. using obscene language, wbon4i o monstrated with him on his impropriety. high words to pass between the parties, and i ir . i o l o l they came to blows. They then retired streets, where several rounds were f o ught 1 re";p4 se -'ms, was severely beaten, or e lse he . . li t! some serious injury by bein g th rown dowe' ir A, r e com m ended state he was in, he i mme di a t e ly reptio neighbouring surgeon, w h o recomended forj to the hospital. The po o r f e ll o w st a rted °"'d purpose, .and had just reached the entranc e , nil Hospital, when he w as su dd en ly o b se ried i t ' o p and then fall to the gr o und. H e w as pit•be f a .„foopf insensible state, a nd carr i e d i n t o th a t 'list''' . 01 the house-surgeon was promptly in attendan ce tiSc j deavoured, but in vain, to restore' him t° CCfI ness, the vital spark having for ever flOWn• s f [ADVERTISEMENT.] —AN EiTRAORPIT4t,-,0 OF A CASE OF CONSUMPTION BY HOLLOW.* 1 0 01 1 ;41 —Miss Newman, aged 19, whose f a ther is li i/ living in Long-lane, Bermondsey, had .been 1 , sumptive and dangerous st a t e f ur a b ou t tWo Y e t hetsic! parents considered her ease as hopeless: wb recommended the u se o f th ese miracu l ou s 1 1 ' , 0 4 0 13 0 11 after she had taken them for about alive, Aco stored her to perfect health, although she bac', espill it dered on the brink of the grave. This mediea l be , 0 5 0 4 1 any coughs or colds, however bad they , wet L d° 5 4- as asthmatical affections. Sold (also 110 11 ° .: ment) at Professor Holloway's establish:by s i p Strand (where advice m a y b e h a d grAis),:en he i ll all respectable medicin e ven d ers t h roug hout t world.' IRTHS. 94 . On the 2d inst., at Sout B hampton-row • Busse it ' 9 lob Augustus Toulmin, of a s o n. * lag o 041 On the 4th inst., in Guildford-street, the 5 Blogg, Esq., of a son. ho e, On the Gth inst., in Doughty-street, Meeklo - • k . Mrs. Henry M. B a g s t er , o f a d aug h ter. _,;fs )( id On the 6th inst., i n O x f or d- terrace; the ••• 'cp Chapman, Esq., of a son. 10 14 On the 6th inst., a t B e df or d, t h e l a d y of the Brereton, of a daughter. • ° f I go On the 7th inst., at Elthatn, Mrs. Goschent ° l go On the 7th inst., at Wall, near Lichfield, " , P ott, of a son. Pt' 1# 0:1 the Bth inst., the lady of W. T. 1 10 °P -4 India House, of a daught er . to o tir On the Bth inst., at Wimbledon, Mrs. ," daughter. MARRIED. On the 6th of February, at Chitivalsah, Ils e a r ,he 0 44 ) East Indies, Thomas Palmer Mo or e, Esq., T a i meut Madras Native Infantry, to Jessie, si a ,Torr ,y5 l Montgomery Young, Esq., Eskside, 101' / 1 5 1 , Britain. On the 21st of February, at the Cathedral, W el 3°. ander Tod, Esq., 42d R eg i men t M 1.11 adras Orrok, third surviving daughter of the late CO 'O,/, ‘ 4 11 son, of the Indian Navy. Fre deri the ts r Ai On the 6th inst., at St. Mary's, Lewisham , Perceval, Esq., to Emma, eldest daughter of Gilbert, Esq. p o w On the 6th inst., at Witney, Oxon. Arthu r. Dublin, to Miss MaL .... y Wilkinson, f WitneY• A , P DIED. to g ' On the 9th inst., at Portland-place, Cl a P haliv P ° Emmeline Corner, aged 47. ° 6.111) On the 11th of February, at Mangalor e, of Dorset-place, orset -suare. 0 0 o w On the 4th inst D ., at Clifton, Arthur Elton, sa celiti cistp Clements Parr, Esq. On the 6th inst., Harry Walter, fifth B ° ll 91) George, of Dean-street, Soho- square. gsrf On the 6th inst., at Bishop's Stortford, Mr 4 s: Ga te,rs On the 6th inst., at Kirkby Mallory , 14 ". JP' Hon. Caroline Russell, youngest daughter of lA' Clifford and the late John Russell, Esq. ' e pre' ol On the 6th inst., at Hastings, John Gaultrf. ' Lieutenant 6th Regiment Madras Native BIP`; stsP On the 7th inst., at Kennington Mr. G eorg p li e On , CO° d oe On the 7th inst., at Linton, Cambridgeshire dr riet, the wife of Mr J. J. Holine, surge On. E34•,0n the Bth inst., Nathaniel Warner BrOll3lQ field Hall, Suilblk. London: Printed and Published by ALL''' . t 4:" It" No. 112, Strand, Printer, at he Mal the Co Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Middlesex, Thursday, April 11, 1844. ~. °f LOI sir Sti lt } The the put t o f th e "j "Porte cesiu m , 1414 Bea pill Lea The teu udn pressin The "'Aldo yt i b iktiut