The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. r FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. STANDARD.—As it is not improbable that the high easterly winds in St. George's Channel may delay our Irish express, conveying the report of yesterday's . proceedings in the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench, we will take the opportunity to say a few words upon the effect of the State prosecutions in Ireland. We are well aware, that the topic has for some months pos sessed vary little interest ; but this absence of all interest in the repeal agitation, and in the destina- ' tion of its authors, is the very fact upon which, if we could, we would willingly fasten attention. 'We pray of our readers to event as faithful a retrospect as they can of their views, their feelings, and their expectations regarding Ireland for the last fifteen or twenty years ; or, indeed, as long as any of us can remember. We again pray them, having done this, to say, can they point to any month within the period of recollection during which Ireland has been so little the object of interest as during the last three , months ; and, finally, whether the interest' of which ', lireltrel has been for so many years constantly the ob ject, has not been a painful interest—the interest of some present danger, or of some evil, the cure of which ap- ; peared to be hopeless. For the first time within the , memory of the existing generation, that interest is i i altoasther extinguished. If any one now asks a q uestion 1 abotit Ireland, it has relation to the success of the at mospheric prindtple, upon trial at Dalkey, or the Cashel railroad, or the facilities of crossing the Irish Sea, or the capacity for improvement of the western. ports or the western fisheries, or perhaps it. concerns. the progress of agricultural schools or educational societies ; in short, whether weak or strong, the pre- , sent interest in Irish affairs is of a pleasant nature.. t Who would hare thought such a change possible., t this time three years, when the country was threatened; with an Irish rebellion if it dared to dismiss the Whig Ministers ? Who would have thought such a changepossible twelve short months ago, when Mr. O'Conne ,; tIL i was arranging his campaign of monster meetings; ?' What would have been thought, in May, 1843, if the: Attorney-General for Ireland, had he been rash enom gia to promise the one-half of what he has done ley mildly putting the law in motion in its most simple and constitutional form ? Even that h: ilf would be more for the pacification of Ireland the in has been accomplished by all the statesmen that ha ye ruled the country for half a century. This is to walk in the light of the Constitution, and to stand upon tl ie law. The path may be often rugged, steep, and tediou is, but it is direct and broad, and it is sure in the end to bring you to victory, to whatever toils and attacks it may expose you by the way ; and it is thus th at Mr. Smith has achieved the peace of his cou a try. He has, single-handed, grappled with cox a spirators and a conspiracy that held a long series of governments in a slavery more or less degrading ; I to has flung them down icon the threshold of the pen al dungeon about to open for them ; and this not onl ly without provoking the rebellion so often threatened : is the penalty of laying hands upon the inviolable perso n of the arch-incendiiry—not only without provoking ri ;- hellion—but, as we see contemporaneously, extinguisl l ing every motive and opportunity for rebellion. Th is is what has been effected, by the learning and vigour of one man, and he, perhaps, the most modest, unpr( t tending man that ever took so prominent a part in put i lk life. GLOBE.—The erection of the Nelson monument i n Trafalgar-square has given universal satisfaction to th e nation. It seemed to be an atonement to the memor y of England's greatest naval hero, for a neglect wit ti which the metropolis was justly chargeable, in omittin g to gracegbne of the principal thoroughfares of th e chief city of the empire with a statue to commemo - rate his unrivalled deeds of heroism. The combine naval power of France and Spain was annihilated b, V Nelson, at the moment when Europe was in arm s against us, and our existence, as a nation, was threatens. I by the restless ambition of the former power. Trafalga r bore the same relation to the destinies of Britain upoi I the ocean which Waterloo exercised over them upon th land. Yet Wellington, in his military character, ha s been honoured, as he deserved to be, during life; and th victories he achieved perpetuated by statues erected to commemorate his deeds. But forty years were suffere I to elapse ere a public place in London was appropriate( I to a statue to remind the country which Nelson ho - noured—and, we may add, which Nelson saved—of those heroic deeds that shed a glory around the nem.? •f Britain and preserved to her the undisputed empiro of the seas 1 Yet this tardy tribute to the heroic Nelson has been marred by an official interference as ungra cious as it is indefensible. The Committee appointed to superintend the management of the funds subscribeci for the erection of the monument to Lord Nelson, were anxious to accompany the opening of the monument to the public eye by an entertainment, to be given, on the spot, to the survivors of the old veterans who( shared in the glories and the dangers of their invincible' leader. Permission for that' Purpose had been asked. and obtained from the Chief - Commissioner of Woods and Forests. Circumstances had caused a postponement of the dinner for a short time. Yesterday was selected by the Committee; and arrangements were made for the purpose. Advertisements were put forth. The Duke of Cambridge was announced as having graciously con sented to preside on the occasion. At almost the last hour, and when the arrangements were deemed complete, Lord Lincoln interfered and withdrew the consent he had given. Placards were posted around the square on Wednesday evening, announcing that the dinner was unavoidably postponed ; and great surprise and disappointment were in consequence excited. By in terdicting the dinner on the proposed and pecu liarly appropriate spot the only spot where any special interest would be created by the dinner to the brave men who were to be entertained—Lord Lincoln has caused the project to be abandoned. The old weather-beaten, and in many instances . maimed and wounded, veterans were thus deprived of their long expected treat ; and the mblie were disappointed of witnessing what to every Englishman would have been a gratifying spectacle, because associated with events which can never be recall d without emotions of a truly patriotic character 1114 tendency. About 250 men -of the crews who fought under Nelson's leadership are understood to be " laid up " in Greenwich Hospital—many of them bruised and battered—indeed, crippled " hulks." Their number is rapidly diminishing. A few months, and they may all be removed beyond the reach of such a gratification as that which was designed for their aged frames ; and far from the disappointment and chagrin which the aban donment of the festival they were to enjoy, and become the observed of all beholders, has oceasioned to their ft elings. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT May 25. (Before Sir KNIGHT IIIILTOB:.) WARD V. THE SOCIETY OP ATTORNEYS. Mr. JAMES PARKER moved for an injunction to re strain the United Law Society, in Chancery-lane, from surrendering their charter, and obtaining a new charter upon different trusts from the charter now in existence, and from alienating any of their property. It appeared that unier the old charter the shares were held in trust for the different members of the society, and for their executors, administrators, and assigns. By the new charter it is proposed to make the trusts correspond with those of the Universities, so that the shares should not be parted with by the members. His HoNoun directed that notice should be served upon the defendants, and granted an interim injunction. * COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May 25. (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUERN V. THE NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. GRAINGER moved, on behalf of Sir Wm. Chater, for a mandamus against this Company, commanding them to lower a road. The Act of Parliament which authorised the Company to make the railway provided that where any bridge should be erected over the rail way, the ascent of the approach to such bridge should not exceed one foot in twenty feet. The affidavits upon which ho moved stated that on the road in question there was an ascent of one foot in eleven feet. The COURT asked when this road was made ? Mr. GRAINGER replied in .1838. Lord DENMAN said parties should come earlier. The Court would not interfere after such a delay.—Rule refused. FEBCITSON V. CHAMBERS AND WIFE. more restored to liberty. He was, however, again arrested by another party, and, having settled the de =land of that party, he was now unable to obtain his discharge because the Marshal persisted in keeping him iin custody, on the ground of the plaintiff's suit. I; was .agm submitted that, having already been in custody on tltis particular writ, the judgment was fully satisfied, and he was, therefore entitled to his discha"ge. The COURT granted the rule. The Court then took the new trial paper, but no case of interest came on. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, May 25. IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM LANGLEY GRACE. This insolvent, who had a number of " loan societies " on his schedule, appeared for his final order. An attorney appeared to oppose, and Mr. T. B. Ltughes supported the application. Mr. HUGHES took a preliminary objection to the op position, on the ground that it was on the part of a loan society at No. 4, Farringdon-street, called " The Life Assurance Company," which was not a corporate body. Ile cited a case which had been decided before Mr. Com missioner Fonblanque (on an objection raised by Mr. :Sturgeon, the barrister), that a loan society which was :not chartered could not oppose. The point arose re specting one of the parties connected with a promissory :note, on which it was now sought to oppose the present The attorney said he appeared for a Mr. Coventry, a payee of the note for 501. Mr. HUGHES said ho was one of the parties belonging to the Loan Society. Mr. Commissioner HoLnovr• said the opposition was now by an individual creditor, and, prima facie, the party had a right to oppose. Mr. Coventry might be ' a money lender, and using the grand name of a com pany. Mr. THOMAS insisted that the same rule should be applied in this case as was in the one he had cited. The ; note was the same, and although the name of one of the parties might now be given, it was evident that the As surance Company held the promissory note. The attorney who appeared to oppose, said he was for Mr. Coventry, who had been his client for a number of years. Mr. HUGHES asked for an adjournment, in order to prove his proposition, as he felt confident that the Court, acting on the rule as laid down by Mr. Fon blanque, would not permit an unchartered association to oppose. Two instalments had been paid on the note at the office of the Society, and the Company had got the insolvent to insure his life. lie pressed for an adjourn ment, and for an order that Mr. Coventry should attend. The Learned COMMISSIONER, after some further dis cussion, adjourned the case to the Bth June, in order to ascertain the validity of the point raised, and gave an in timation that Mr. Coventry should attend. Mr. HUGHES said he was confident the note was held by the Society, and that two instalments had been paid at the office in Farringdon-street. The case was adjourned accordingly. The plaintiff brought this action to recover compensa tion in damages for slanderous words which had been used by Mrs. Chambers. These.words were the follow ing :—" Mrs. Ferguson is a. notorious thief, and she has brought up her whole family t o theft, and all crimes that are bad. The whole family are notorious thieves. One of their daughters robbed us a fortnight ago. and the old man, the father, lives upon the plunder." Upon the trial it appeared that Mr. Chambers's wife did not live with him, and that she had not been robbed. The Counsel for Mr. Chambers then urged that Mrs. Cham birs was a woman of very violent temper, and that Mr. Chambers had no control over her. Lord Denman, how ever, who tried the cause, directed the jury that the hus band was liable for the acts of his wife. The jury re turned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 40s. damages. Mr. JAMES was instructed to move an arrest of judg ment, on the ground that a sufficient cause of action was not stated in the declaration, because it was only alleged that the plaintiff lived upon plunder. Now there could be no doubt that a man might exist upon plunder with out being aware that that upon which he was living was plunder. It.was evident that the slander was against the wife and daughters, but this action was brought by the plaintiff. • Lord DENMAN considered that the plaintiff was in cluded in the fam il y , and in that light had good cause of action.--Rule refused. COURT OF EXCISE. Mr. Wm. Parsons, the proprietor of the Duke of York, in Turk-street, Bethnal-green, was charged with hav ing in his possession five gallons of British spirits that had not paid duty, and was find 201. Johanna Rapp, of 23, Golden-square,Westminster, was complained of for selling wine and spirits, she having no license. The case was fully made out by two respect able officers of the court. Defendant's residence is a lodging-house, and information having reached the Board of Excise that exciseable articles were retailed therein as in a tavern, a detection immediately followed —wax-lights were charged 35.; apartments, 105. 6d.; fire, ls.; servant, 35.; and the other charges for refresh ments were equally exorbitant. An attorney argued, that as the officers went to his client's house on a Sunday, stating that they were going to a funeral, she was bound to serve them; but Mr.Mayow sarcasticallyreplied, that such articles ought not to be sold by unlicensed persons, to the detriment of the very heavy taxed tavern-keeper. Proof having been given that the defendant was rated in the parish books at a rental of 821. a-year, the Court gave judgment, fining her in the penalty of 23/. Victor Gengues, of Nos. 1 and 2, Leicester-square, was ordered to pay 15/. for a like offence. Edward Smith, 17, East street, Fibsbury-market, French polisher, was summoned for being in possession of a quantity of illicitly manufactured spirits. Ten gal lons of the stuff was produced in court. It was 22 per cent. over proof. Defendant said he had purchased the spirit as naphtha. at 9s. 6d. per gallon. Mr. Sanders, the store-keeper, in answer to the Court, said that the duty was 7s. 10d. on such spirits. A fine of 5/. was inflicted, and the liquor was adjudged to be forfeited. John Gibson, 4, Providence -buildings, Old Kent-road, was summoned for working a private still. Mr. Bayfield, a gentleman connected with the Excise, said that he discovered on the defendant's premises a private still, which was in full operation, and charged with sixty gallons of molasses wash. A most extensive business must have been carried on by him.—Fined 501. No other cases than the above-mentioned were brought publicly forward during the past week. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) CITY POLICE COMMITTEE. The question brought by the City Police into this Court, last week, of the alleged nuisance caused by the Jew dealers obstructing the different streets and avenues in the neighbourhood of Petticoat-lane, by exposing their goods for sale, again occupied the at tention of the magistrates, Mr. Alderman Kelly, Mr. Alderman Fairbrother, and Mr. Alderman Johnson, for a considerable time. The Court was crowded on Saturday chiefly by persons of the Jewish persuasion, and the interest taken in the proceeding was greater than on the pre vious investigation, which resulted in consequence of Mr. D. W. Harvey, the chief police commissioner, having visited the neighbourhood, and the determina tion on the part of the corporation to suppress Sunday trading. After much discussion, it was resolved on the part of the defendants and others of the Jewish persuasion present in the Court to abandon all Sunday trading ; and the Commissioner expressed his firm determina tion of prosecuting all persons found trafficing after this day (Sunday) week. The owners of the two marts hoped there would be no distinction made. All dealers should be treated alike as well as the marts. Mr. Ryland—Depend upon it the Corporation will indict any persons offending after receiving this caution. CLERKENIVELL. A man named Pearce was put at the bar, charged with stealing a sovereign, the money of Sarah Bridges, a servant to Mr. Richardson, of No. 4, Belgrave terrace, Holloway. The prisoner, it appeared, was employed, with other men, in painting and otherwise beautifying the house of Mr. Richardson, and while so engaged, the box of the prosecutrix was broken open, and out of it was stolen a sovereign. The companions and fellow workmen of the accused consulted together on the subject, and they eventually fixed the crime on him, and under that impression they first inflicted "a summary justice" in fastening his hands behinds him, and painting his face, the lower part white, the nose red, and the forehead blue. The matter would have been thus allowed to drop, had not the prisoner sub sequently applied for an assault-warrant against one of his shopmates for the injury, or rather insult, he received on that occasion. It was positively sworn to that the accused, while under this treatment, acknow ledged that he had stolen the sovereign, expressing, at the same time, his sorrow, and a desire to be allowed to work it out.—Committed to Newgate. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 25. TfIE QUEEN V. DOUGLAS. The Hon. Mr. DENMAN moved for a rule to show cause why the defendant should not be discharged out of tf4e custody of the Marshal o f the Queen's Bench Prison, on the ground that he had been in prison upwards of 12 smiths, and his debt was under 20/. The defendant was committed in exeoution on 23d of February, 1843, for a debt of 12/. 7s.—Rule granted. BROWN V. 'WRAY. Mr. C. JONES applied for a rule to show cause why t e defendant in this case should not be discharged out o the custody of the Marshal of the Queen's Benchr l . icon. It appeared that the defendant had, on a p o.. _ nous occasion, been in custody for the same debt, and on the same writ. In March, 1842, defendant had made as arrangement tom the debt to the plaintiff by instal flWT'ts of per month, and the first payment would bkorne due on the 23d of April following. On the 14th of that month however, ho wants arrested by another eked/tor, whereupon several detainers, the plaintiff's being one of them, were lodged against him. He quickly scibtled the other claims, and on the 18th he sent to in f6rm the attoeney of the plaintiff that the Marshal would not release him unless the detainer of his client were withdrawn. That was, thereupon, done, and he was once THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1844. be bound by the illegal act of her agent.' Ile then called Mr. Tucker, who stated that in consequence of the resolution of the Board of Guardians, he had the notices produced stuck up in the shop, and that on the day in question he had asked every person who came with lace if it had been ordered, and all that had been ordered he paid for in money. The lace that the complainant made was a sort that was never ordered; they had no sale on it. Cross-examined by Mr. Cox—Mrs. Chick sold bread, butter, drapery, &c. Employed five bakers. Did not deliver the bread to the lace-makers, but gave them tickets to go to either of the bakers for it. Paid one baker 451. for ten weeks' bread. The difference in price at which Mrs. Chick sold the bread, and at which it could be bought for ready money, was a halfpenny per loaf; the difference in the price of butter, one penny per pound. Paid all the persons on the day in question in cash, whose lace had been ordered, there having been eighty persons who brought lace that day, perhaps more, perhaps less. Would not swear that he paid, 1/. in money ; would swear that he paid some money. Did not know if he had paid ss. ' • believed he had. Had the bill declaring that he would exchange goods for ready-made lace printed in consequence of the resolutions of the Board of Guardians. Wrote it himself ; employed no lawyer to do so. Did employ a lawyer's clerk. Several other witnesses, whose evidence was unimportant, were then called, and Mr. Cox addressed the Bench. After the facts that had come before them, he need say nothing as to the injurious effects of the truck system; he had proved that the lace had been ordered, and paid for in goods ; and the attempt which had been made to throw dis credit upon the informants had failed; he had never known a person in her position give evidence better ; he was very fortunate in having so good an inform ant in the first case that was brought forward, The BENCH at once declared the offence proved, and fined Mrs. Chic' in a penalty of 51., and 21. costs, and ordered that 2/. 10s. should be paid to the poor woman, Sarah Perry. They further intimated that on any further conviction of any one they should award the full penalty. The public are indebted to the exertions of Mr. E. Carter, of Ottery St. Mary, for this case having been brought forward.—Western Times, WORSHIP-STREET. Charles Stewart, a young Scotchman, and a person of Jewish appearance, named Dan. Rogers Rodrigues, were charged with being concerned in an extensive robbery, amounting to 1,5001. of goods, committed on the sth inst., on the premises of Mr. Hay, jeweller, , Leith-street, Edinburgh. The prisoners described themselves as " surgeon-chiropodists." Rodrigues was known as a hawker of pens, pencils, &c., in the neighbourhood of Petticoat-lane. Sergeant Barker, of the H division, stated that in consequence of information he had received, he went with Davis, a police-constable, to Petticoat-lane, where they apprehended the two prisoners for the burglary at Mr. Hays. Upon Rodrigues they found two cases of surgical instruments, a gold ~pin, and some loose jewel s, and upon eward a gold watch, two gold chains, a gold pin, three gold rings, a duplicate for a silver snuff-box pledged on the 18th instant, and a silver-mounted riding whip. At the residence of Rodrigues, Devonshire-terrace, Bethnal-green, they found a considerable quantity of apparel, a cloth cap, with gold band, a gold breast pin, a dial, a neck chain, and gold rings, a duplicate for a brequet chain, ledged that day, a pair of pocket pistols, and other articles produced. When apprehended they declared their entire innocence. Some of the articles found upon.them, corresponded with portions of the stolen property. They admitted having been lately Scotland, but said they had re turned to London before the time the robbery was said to have been committed. They were both re manded to allow time for evidence being brought from Scotland. L AMBETII-3 TREET. Richard Pi wither s e, a waterman, was charged before Mr. Nortonsof being ra u c d o y n c o e f r n t h e d e , y alu with e f o s t others, thein stealing 33 gallons property of Mr. Lucey, master r a Mr. Pelham attended for ighterman. the prosecution, and called Mr. Evans, the inspectoron the of the River Police, who stated, that early last month one of ten cassmoofrg of the 25th of nin brandy, on board a punt belonging to the prosecutor, in h St. Kathe rine's Dock, had been plundered o f thirty-eightte gal lons of its contents. A day or two terwar li g ht er man, named Drake, was taken into cust o d y on a on a charge of being concerned in the robber y , and the evidence against him amounted to the fact of his having taken a punt, which lay alongside that on board, of which the robbery took place, out of the St. Ka therine's Dock, to the St. Saviour's Dock. F rom that morning the prisoner had kept out of the way ; but on the night before he, Mr. Evans, succeeded in apprehending him in the long room of a public house in Ratcliff Highway, in company w ith a num ber of low prostitutes, Ile had at first denied his name, and was rather " bounceable," but ultimately acknowledged he was the person he (Evans) was in search of, and he was taken to the station-house. The prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery, and said he should be able to prove his innocence. Mr. Pelham applied for the remand of the pri soner until Thursday next, when Drake, the other man in custody, would be again brought up. Mr. NORTON complied with the request, but said he should take good bail for his appearance on that day. From what transpired during the hearing of the case, it appears that plunder of this description in the docks and on the river has latterly been carried on to a very considerable extent. Charles Newling was charged with stealing one hundred Manilla cheroots, the property of Alexander Stewart. The complainant stated that he was an ap prentice on. board the John Horton, of Liverpool, then lying in the London Dock, and which had just arrived from a foreign voyage. On that day the pri soner and another person came to him on board, and the latter asked him if he had any cigars which he wished to have taken out ? He replied that he had some which he wished to take to his father in Dublin. The prisoner's companion then asked to see the cheroots, and said he would put him up to a " dodge," by which he could take them out free of duty. He then placed the cheroots in a handkerchief, tied the latter round the waist of the prisoner, and endea voured to keep him, witness, in conversation, while the prisoner jumped into a boat, and was about to make his escape. He (witness), however, called out to a Custom-house officer, and he was secured, not, however, before he had thrown half the cheroots into the water. Mr. NORTON observed that it was not only a most " artful dodge," but the most barefaced robbery he had met with for some time. The prisoner, in defence, said that the person who had accompanied him was bargaining to pay the com plainant ten shillings for the lot, and, because he did not pay him 11s., he gave him into custody. Mr. Walker, the inspector of police in the dock, said that similar tricks were of daily occurrence, and that sailors complained bitterly of being robbed of cigars and various contraband goods by a gang of persons of the prisoner's description, by various dodges" as they were called. The prisoner was remanded for a week. QUEEN-SQ UARE. A question as to the right of the Equitable Gas Company to break the ground in the Vauxhall-bridge road, to lay down their pipes, was, on Saturday, to have been determined by the Magistrate at this Court, but was reserved for the investigation of some higher tribunal, in consequence of the Magistrate considering that he had no jurisdiction in the matter. The facts of the case are these :—ln the night of Friday, the 17th, the Gas Company laid down a new main across the Vauxhall-bridge-road, near Regent street, and on the following morning a large number of the Bridge Company's men endeavoured, under the orders of their superiors, to take them up. As fast as the Bridge Company's party dug the earth out, the adverse gang shovelled it in. Mark Webster, on the part of the Bridge Company had got a hammer, and was about to remove or break up the pipe, when the gas-lighters shovelled the earth over him and his tools, and, on his scram bling out of the hole, George Kelly, one of the Equit able's, shoved him in again, for which he was charged with an assault. The bone of contention is, that the Gas Company did not ask permission to break the ground or lay down the pipes, and this is met by the other party with the declaration that they were put ting down a fresh main by the side of the old one, which old one had been placed there by permission, and the Magistrate, on looking to Lord Lansdowne's Act, which gives the summary jurisdiction in assaults, was of opinion that he had no power to adjudicate where a question of right was fairly set up, and left the opposing parties to try the merits of the motion in one of the superior courts.—Committed to Newgate WANDS WORTH. Joseph G. Buck was charged with assaulting Joseph Orger, groom to Lieutenant Colvin, of the 9th Lancers. The complainant stated, that on the previous after noon, as he was returning with his master and other gentlemen from the races, and while the carriage was stopping at the Bell, at Tooting, the prisoner came up and struck him in the mouth. The provoca tion, he believed, was, that a short time before, he had dragged the defendant away from the leaders of his master's carriage, while defendant was endeavour ing to stop them, alleging that his cart had been pur posely driven against by the riders. Lieut. Colvin, Lord Altamont, and Mr. G. W. Bacon, of Hertford-street, Mayfair, gave evidence, and said that no provocation was offered to the defendant before he assaulted the groom. The defendant said he had been very much ill used in the first instance. The carriage had been dviven recklessly and wilfully against his chaise-cart, and he and two friends had been thrown out with great violence. Upon getting up he had tried to stop the leaders, but had been dragged off by the complainant. Upon coming up with the car riage at Tooting, he merely went up to it to get the owner's name, when the complainant rudely pushed him away, upon which he had struck him. He had no witnesses; one of his friends was the steward of a ship, and could not come, and he would not bring the other. Mr. CLIVE said the prisoner had acted very foolishly in so doing. He could not postpone the case, because there had been ample opportunity to have produced witnesses. Whether the prisoner had or had not been ill-treated in the way he described he could not say, but if such conduct - had been pursued towards him, he knew that the law would give him redress, and therefore the assault complained of was altogether inexcusable. The prisoner must pay a fine of 10s. The fine was paid. UNION-HALL. John Allchin, one of the stewards of the Rsform Stock Benefit Society, held at the White Bear, Ber mondsey, was brought up for re-examination, charged with being concerned w►th a man named Marrs, the secretary, not yet in custody, with breaking open the " strong box" of the society, and stealing upwards of 201., belonging to members of the society, who were all very poor men, having wives and families to maintain, and at the same time defacing the entry book, so that the sums of money could not be cor rectly known. The landlord, it appears, had recently taken pos session of the house, and a few days subsequently the members had a meeting in his room. At its conclu sion, and after the departure of the members, the money-box, which was left there, was demanded by the secretary Marrs and the prisoner Allchin. Under the impression that he was authorised to deliver it up tot he secretary, the landlord gave it them, and no sooner had they disappeared, than he found the box had been broken open in the room, its contents, amounting to 201. abstracted, and the leaves of the entry-book lace rated, so as to make recognition of the sums or parties matter of impossibility. On this discovery Allchin was instantly secured, but Marrs had absconded. All chin admitted that he applied for the money-box in conjunction with Marrs, but he was totally irrrespon sible for its contents, which Marrs had appropriated, and decamped with. The Magistrate said no doubt existed in his mind that they were the two men who had plundered the society ; his determination was to commit them both for this cruel robbery, but he should remand Allchin to await the capture of Marrs. TRUCK SYSTEM IN THE LACE TRADE. At lloniton, on the 18th inst., Mrs. Chick, of Branscombe, lace manufacturer, was called on to ans wer the complaint of Sarah Perry, a pauper of Ottery St. Mary, for having paid her wages in truck. The justices present were—Wm. Porter, Esq., in the chair; G. Smith, Esq. ; and the Rev. T. J. Marker. Mr. Cox, of lloniton, appeared for the prosecutor, Sarah Perry ; and Mr. Coleridge, of Ottery, appeared for Mrs. Chick. Sarah Perry was first called, and examined by Mr. Cox.—She stated that she had worked for Mrs. Chick between 17 and 20 years, and that during the whole of that period she had been accustomed to be paid in goods ; that sometimes she received a halfpenny or a penny in money, when the goods did not exactly come to the amount of the lace, but that she never had, on any occasion during that period, received as much as sixpence she most posi tively s wore ; that just before Christmas last she took some lace to Mrs. Chick, who ordered her to go on making the same lace, and that on the 13th of February she took the lace so made to Mrs. Chick's shop in Branscombe, that she saw Mr. Tucker, Mrs. Chick's agent and son-in-law, and that he took the lace, and paid her in goods, viz.—a piece of print, a loaf of bread, and some butter. On cross-examination by Mr. Coleridge, she ad mitted that she had seen some paper stuck up at the shop, like two that he produced, but that she did not read them (one of these papers was the resolutions of the board of guardians against truck, the other a paper signed by Mr. Chick, and stating that he should not, in future, order any lace to be made, but that he should exchange goods for ready-made lace). She also said that Mrs. Chick had once sent her away without buying her lace, because it was not made I well, but afterwards she called her back and took it. Mr. Coleridge tried to break down her evidence as to Mr. Tucker not asking if the lace was ordered, and her stating it was not, but without effect. Mr. Coleridge then addressed the Bench for Mrs. Chick. He did not defend the truck system ; he did not deny that his client had practised that system up to the time that the Board of Guardians had issued their resolution, but from that day his client had been most xe anxious ty not he to put breakferw forward w de the la paperand i n w h p i r e o h o f h ofe had : n aused to be printed, and he would show that he payed c m o o u n ld ey re t l o y a u l p l wh e thato ta rded s re c lace. fie couldkle also t NOVEL SCENE IN A JURY-BOX. A case was tried in the Palace Court, on Friday, in which a poor woman sought to recover compensation in damages for injuries sustained from a barrister of the Inner Temple of the name of Carter, caused by being run over and knocked down by his horse taking fright and running away, and the question which the jury had to consider was, whether the accident was occasioned by furious driving, or whether it was purely accidental, when no blame could be attached to the driver. The damages were laid at 191. 19s. After the jury had been locked up for nine hours, they sent to the Judge to inform him that there was not the slightest possibility of agreeing. The Learned Judge again read his notes and explained to the jury the question which they had to determine. After another hour had elapsed, one of the jury, of the name of Eamonson, the proprietor of the well known bedding and furniture establishment in the Strand, sent a note to the Learned Judge stating that he differed in opinion to eleven of his fellow jurymen, and added that he was fully determined not to be starved into a verdict, neither would he endure to be brow-beaten or quarrelled with because he differed in opinion ; he also added, that he was in ill-health and required stimulants, and that the officer in charge of the jury would net even allow him a glass of water ; but let the consequence be what it would, he would never alter his mind. His Lordship intimated to the jury, that if they (lid not agree by eleven o'clock they must be locked up until the following morning. The jury were now heard by the public in the Court in loud and angry altercation, and it was pretty clear that language of the most refined description was not made use of, and it was conjectured that from " words they would come to blows." Shortly before ten o'clock the jury came into Court in a very excited state, and informed Mr. Hewlett, the registrar, it would be impossible for them to agree. Mr. Hewlett replied they must retire. Mr. Eamonson, who ap peared much excited, violently exclaimed, " No, I will never go into that room again to be bully-ragged into a verdict." Several of the jury addressing Mr. Eamonson, " Wherever you are, there we will be," when the whole of the jury expressed their determi nation to remain in Court. The scene of quarrelling and recrimination that now ensued in the jury-box surpasses description ; the public were quite surprised at this novel and un heard of scene in a court of justice. All consultation was now at an end, and the jury commenced amusing themselVes in various ways ; some preparing to take a comfortable nap, others commenced reading, whilst the remainder stared about the Court, exclaiming, " What a laughing-stock we are making of ourselves." At length, shortly before midnight, the Learned Judge again took his seat on the bench, and addressing the jury said, as there was no probability of their agree ing, he could, if he thought fit, keg.. them up until the following morning- ; but he foresaw that no good would result from such a proceeding, as in the morn ing, it was clearly apparent they would be as far off agreeing as ever ; he had therefor e come t o th e reso lution of discharging them without giving a verdict, and they were discharged accordingly. CORONERS' INQUESTS. On Saturday Mr. Baker, the Coroner, held an in quest at the Commercial Inn, Poplar, on the body of Thomas Mayes, aged 13, a very fine boy, who lost a s t on Ratcliffe. and On Friday worked with hi m i n his life under the following deplorabl e c i rcumstances : William Mayes, of 14, Castor•street, Poplar, said the the Ratcliffe deceased INa Dock, at morn ing, between seven a n d e ight o'clock, whilst the work people were raising the lower mast of a ship, he was suddenly informed t hat h is son had been found lying on the ground and was bleeeding. He forthwith proceeded to the spot , a n d discovered him as described, blood flowing from his nose, mouth, and ears, and on lifting up his shattered head, he ascertained that his ' poor boy was gone. He removed him with all speed to a Mr. Buchanan, surge on , where he was pro nounced to be quite dead. A wan separated witness from deceased, who was stationed to give the word of command to the men at work at the crane, in doing which he had frequently to look round the edge of the wall, and whilst so engaged, it is supposed that the crane must have suddenly slipped and jerked back, crushing the deceased's head severely between that and the wall. No one saw the accident take place. Joseph Perry deposed that he worked in the same yard, and saw the deceased about three minutes pre vious to the occurrence, or to his finding him in the situation already described, about three feet from the crane. He heard no cries of distress, and could only account for the accident happening as stated by the father of the deceased. The Coroner having remarked upon the melan choly facts of the case, and observing that no doubt the deceased's death was occasioned in the manner mentioned by first witness, although there was no positive evidence of the fact, the jury returned a ver dict of " Accidental Death." Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., Coroner, held an inquest at the George Inn, Church-lane, Kensington, on the body of Mr. Matthew Orpwood, aged forty-four years, the landlord of the above inn, who committed suicide on Wednesday last. It appeared from the evidence gone into that the deceased had for the last five or six years been much addicted to drinking, and during the fortnight previ ous to his committing the fatal act had not been sober an hour, although he was able during the major part of that time to attend to his business as usual. During these repeated fits of in toxication he was generally very low and dispi rited, and latterly he had complained of a pain in his back, for which he was attended by Mr. Turner, as sistant to Mr. Pollock, surgeon, of Bath-place, Ken sington. On the morning of Wednesday last he was from six o'clock attending to the bar, and between ten and eleven o'clock went into the kitchen to see to the cleaning of the pots, when he complained of a pain in his head. About half-past eleven o'clock Mrs. Orpwood-saw him go in the direction of the cellar, with his leather apron on, and considering he was attending to the cellar duties his stay was taken no notice of.- About half-past twelve o'clock, however, on his sister going to the top of the cellar stairs to cut a piece off a flitch of bacon, which was hanging there, she was horror-struck at finding the deceased hanging by a rope from the same nail, quite dead. He was immediately cut down, and surgeons sent for, but although blood flowed freely, life was quite ex tinct. Deceased has left a widow and four children. Verdict—" Temporary insanity. WILL or THE INURQUIS OE WINCIIESTER.—The will of the Most Hon. Charles Ingoldsby Paulet, Mar quis of Winchester, of Amport House, Andover, has just been proved by Henry Beaumont Coles, Esq., one of the executors, power of proving hereafter being reserved for Sir John Walter Pollen, Bart., the other. The will, which is very short, and dated 1843, gives nearly the whole of his property to his son (styled by courtesy Earl of Wiltshire), now Marquis of Winchester ; to his executors 200/ each, as an acknowledgment for their trouble in acting as such ; to butler, housekeeper, and very many other servants, annuities and legacies respec tively, varying from 101. to 100/ The personality is sworn under 18,0001. The deceased was styled " Premier Marquis of England," the title of Marquis having been bestowed on the family, of Winchester on the creation in 1551. Mr. Pattitrion, a ma r k e t gardener at the Folly, near Newby, has discovered that guano is a perfect remedy against the attacks of the grub. He has saved beds of both carrots and onions by strewing guano over them, whilst two beds left without guano, by way of experiment, were totally destroyed,— Lancaster Guardian, WEST-END GAMBLING HOUSES. The recent capture by the police of a number of the gambling-house proprietors and unfortunate vic tims, has caused a general feeling of satisfaction among the respectable inhabitants who reside within the district in which these dens of robbers flourished, at the expense of the miserable dupes who nightly at tended them. In the City the exposure has occa sioned a great stir, and excited a vast deal of conver sation and interest ; and the magistrates there say that this first bold effort upon the part of the police authorities must be followed up with an unflinching determination not to permit any attempt at re-esta blishing these horrible nuisances. We have taken the trouble to make inquiries, through a channel of unquestionable authority and experience, into the par ticular condition of affairs amongst the maters of the extensive vicinity of the playhouses, and we trust that the information we shall from time to time supply will give important assistance to the police, and that the police will be honest enough to act:upon it. It appears, upon the exami nation of the roulette tables which were seized by the officers, that they were found to be so ingeni ously constructed as to prevent the possibility of winning upon the part of the players, the proprietor having the power, by the use of a secret spring, to check the ball in. its progress to the aperture, the fall ing of the ball into which would entitle the dupe to win. The dice which were taken in all the houses, particularly in the Albemarle-street crib, were false, and consisted of different descriptions, variously num bered, and so ingeniously contrived that it was ut terly impossible for any one but the most adept black ' leg to detect the villany. For instance, if the player had to throw six to win his bet, one of the fraternity usually termed " bonnets " would change the dice with the expertness of a thimble-rigger, and substi tute dice without such a number upon them, so that a losing number must be thrown ; the same trick is carried on with any other number. The expectation of the slightest chance of what the unfortunate players call luck is, therefore, quite out of the ques tion. This plan has been acted upon in all the play houses, but most successfully in the large establish ments, in which the greater number of assistants or " bonnets" are employed. It may be useful to describe these rascals. A " bonnet" is sometimes a regular swell, dressed in the first style of fashion. On occasions he is dressed without any dash at all, and generally in black, and he frequently assumes the clerical appearance, " with spectacles on nose." These worthies appear at the tables, in the presence of the casual parties who are playing, as total strangers to all parties, and play with a remarkable degree of ease and quiet, as if they had nothing on, earth to do with the conspiracy to plunder ' the visitors. There is another class of " bonnets" to be seen at the minor houses. They are mostly Jews, and appear covered with mosaic gold chains and rings. If an unhappy person with a propensity to play gets amongst these indefati g able gentry, the idea of escap ing with the amount of a fare of a cab is quite absurd. A " bonnet" generally receives from three to five guineas a week, and a per centage of from 25 to 50 per cent. upon the money lost by any friend he may introduce to the establishment. Some of the indivi duals who follow this most degrading occupation were formerly in respectable situations in life, but their early love of play reduced them gradually to their present infamous position. When a " bonnet" becomes too well known—say after five or six years' employment—he becomes useless in that capa city, as his phis is recognised by the still decent frequenters of the house ; but he is not altogether discarded by his old associates in villany. He is kept to be turned to another account,, and appears in the character of a " dodger." In this capacity, if he happen to be a sober fellow, he does great service to an establishment. His duties are, however, most laborious, as well as debasing. He is engaged in the out-door work of the house at night—in following new visitors to their residences, and ascertaining who they are, and all about them. If a stranger ofgentle manlike appearance walk into a flash hell, and lose fifty or one hundred pounds without making any bustle or croaking about it, and behaves "quite the gentleman," the " dodger" is ready to follow him to his place of abode, and to make inquiries, which, if found to be favourable, cause great attention to be paid to him on his next visit, and when he loses what ever money he has about him, he is offered a loan upon his IOU, or his cheque. The moment the ac commodation is accepted, the gentleman is booked as a safe pigeon, for a sum corresponding with his posi tion in society. This game progresses for some time ; the I 0 U's and cheques are paid, but at last the victim finds out the secret that he has been robbed and that everybody about him has been concerned in plucking him. In some instances a dupe is bullied out of his bills, or threatened with exposure amongst his relations and friends. In other cases, however, men who have plunged into the vice without thought, have been able to muster up nerve enough to send for the police to take the extortioners in charge upon the demand of a settlement, and under such circumstances the claimant has rejoiced to get away, and has never been heard of as a claimant afterwards. These practices have been carried on to such an extent within a few years, that many young men who held respectable situations in public offices and in mercantile houses in the City have been obliged to forfeit them in consequence., of the annoyances to which they were subjected by the duns of the gam bling-houses for the amount of I 0 U's for money lost by the means we have already described; shame alone having prevented them from at once rousing the police from the nightly sleep in which they have been indulging, while the owners of the flash hells have been wide awake in this most atrocious work of rapacity. - There is no part of the metropolis which the gam bling-house keeper and his satellites hold in such utter abhorrence as the City of London. They de clare that a City Alderman (and they more particu larly point at Sir Peter Laurie) has no notion of the duties of a magistrate—that his early education unfits him for taking an enlarged and liberal and enlightened view of the refined usages of society—that he is in truth a century behind the age; and they adduce, as an instance, the fact that no gambling-house could ever be established in the City, in consequence of the absurd and misplaced vigilance of the Civic authorities. It is not in the spirit of exaggeration we state that there is not a hell-keeper or " bonnet" or " dodger" at the West-end who would not willingly subscribe to pay the funeral expenses of the Alderman of Alders gate ward, whose image is perpetually haunting their imaginations, as it was said, to visit the sleeping and waking thoughts of Coster long before that delinquent was charged with the offence for which he was removed from the country. We trust that when any of these gentry make their appearance in the City, to at tempt to extort money, pretended to be won, they may be handed over to the magistrates for whose qua lifications they have so much contempt. Not long ago a young gentleman of highly respectable family, who held a situation, producing 1,0001. a year, under Lord Jersey, the Master of the Horse, was ruined amongst these hells, and, having become indebted to some of the proprietors, was absolutely hunted out of his office, and exposed, and is now wandering an out cast about the Continent. It is well known that several of the men wha have shares in these establishments, and keep expensive equipages, can neither write nor read, from such low conditions have they risen to wealth; but they have, indirectly attached to their interests a well-known attorney, who is associated with a class of persons who supply him with ready-made or extemporaneous evidence, for the purpose of sanctioning the enforce ment of any demands they have the shadow of a right to make. The Secretary of State for the Home Department has been in communication with the Commissioners of Police upon the subject of effectually putting down gaming ; and it is rumoured that the Commissioners have been rebuked for having allowed the Police Act and the laws against gambling to be so openly and audaciously violated as they have been within the last two years, and they have been called upon to state whether it is requisite to make the laws more stringent to enable the authorities to check a practice which has proved so destructive, and so completely paralysed the moral energies of society. It is considered a most strange and inexplicable fact, that in such a country, boasting of an effective and most powerful police as to physical strength, public decency and the laws are so fearfully infringed, while at Paris all the gambling-houses were com pletely broken up within forty-eight hours after the Act passed for their prohibition • and although ten years have elapsed sin ce th a t prohibition, not a single instance of the transgression of the law has been heard of.—Sunday Times. THE COLLIE RIES OF THE T YNE . •-•..Arrangements, as is now pretty well known, have been set on foot for some time past by the coal owners of this district, to get their pits again at work. In addition to those 'already enumerated we have now to mention Willington, Heaton, Sosfuth, and Coi lodge, as having partially resumed operations. We have been informed that Felling Colliery will commence full work next week, with an entirely new set of men, unless the turn outs should in the meantime accept the conditions offered by their late employers. If the pitmen should still hold out, they will in many instances be compelled to quit their dwell ings, in order to make room for those . who are willing to accept employment.—Newcastle Advert i ser. LONGEVITY.—On Thursday, William Milnes, aged 104 years, the oldest pauper on the barony roll and pensioner on the Old Man's Friend Seibiety, Glasgow, died in that in stitution. The deceased was brother to Andrew who is still alive and hearty in the Old Man's Asylum. He is in his 103 d year. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL Securr—We are de lighted to be enabled to inform our readers that there is every prospect of the approaching meeting surpassing all the preceding. ones. The entries for implements ex ceed that or the last year at Derby by 130. We are given to understand, that from the numerous applica tions already made for stock certific,ites, there is uo doubt that the show in that department also will be the largest on record. The Duke of Richm on d was e l ected, at the meeting of the Council on Wednesday last, Pre- j sident fvr 1845. —Hampshire Independent, A. SCENE AT THE NOMINATION FOR SOUTH LANCASHIRE. MR. COBDEN'S SPEECH. RICHARD COBDEN, Esq., M.P., asked if the Sheriff I had decided that no one weld speak unless he had to nominate or second a candidate ? The SHERIFF replied in the affirmative. Mr. COBDEN then intimated that he would propose another candidate. Mr. BRANDT—The time to do so is before the candi dates speak. You are now quite out of time. Mr. COBDEN—No ; I believe I am quite in order. — (Cheers.) Mr Cobden then came forward to address the electors, amidst loud cheers from the majority of the as serabage, and considerable uproar and hooting, all sorts of clamorous vociferation from Mr. Entwisle's booth ; which the Sheriff for some time in vain endeavoured to restore to something like decent quietness and order. At length Mr. ENTWISLE essayed with better effect, saying —Gentlemen, I do beg of you; that you will give every man a patient hearing and be quiet, and allow every man to speak. The gentlemen in the booth having subsided into a momentary hush, the Tory mob below took their cue from them, and were tolerably quiet for a minute. But I Mr. Cobden had no sooner again commenced, by asking " Why, what are you afraid of ? " when he was again assailed by an uproar of yells, shouts, groans, and shrieks, in which we are bound to say, those which pro ceeded from the hustings equalled, if they did not sur pass, those which emanated from the crowd. Mr. BRANDT loudly called " order," but in vain; and, turning to Mr, Cobden, he said,—lf the gentlemen on the hustings would be quite silent, you might proceed. Mr. COBDEN—Yes; but they are by far the worst. The SHERlFF—Gentlemen, Mr. Cobden, as a free- ' holder of this county, has declared that ho intends to propose another candidate. He has a right to he heard, and I shall insist upon having him heard, or I shall ad journ the meeting. Mr. COBDEN—Now, gentlemen, respect your High Sheriffi—(Renewed Tory uproar.) Gentlemen, I will stand hear till midnight but I will be heard.— (Groans and hisses, responded to by loud cheering from the free traders.) Mr. JOHN WILSON PATTEN, M.P. (to the friends of Mr. Entwisle)—Gentlemen, Mr. Cobden has a perfect right to be heard, and you will do yourselves no good by this. Mr. COBDEN—NOW, gentlemen, shall I go on ?—(lm mediately a large drum was beaten, close by the Horse and Jockey inn, about 30 yards from the hustings.) Gentleman, that is their argument, The UNDER-SHERIFF requested Captain Woodford, the chief of the county constabulary, to give orders to stop the drum ; but he cooly replied, " the drum is half a mile off;" and gave no directions concerning it that we saw or heard, although he had previously given various directiens to stop the music of the bands which were playing while passing the hustings. The uproar, both on the hustings and in the crowd, continuing. Sir T. BRI.NCKER said, Gentlemen, pray hear Mr. Cobden—he has a right to be heard. Mr. COBDEN—Now, gentlemen, are you ready to hear me?—(Renewed yelling, hissing, and clamour.) Ad dressing the Sheriff, Mr. Cobden said, Pray, Mr. Sheriff, request those people on the other side of you to be quiet. The SHERIFF—I have requested them, but in vain.— (A. Voice on the hustings—" Get down with you, Cobden.") The Sheriff suggested to Mr. Cobden, that if he commenced speaking, the noise would probably cease in a while; and Mr. Cobden said he had no objec tion to try that experiment; but, at all events, he was determined to be heard, if he stayed all day. He then came forward and spoke for a time, amidst all sorts of discordant noises, which, however, gradually diminished, and, during the greater part of his speech, he was only occasionally interrupted in this way. So far as we could hear him for the clamour, he said— Gentlemen, I will detain you but a short time, but claim the right, as a freeholder of this county, to appear before you. I will maintain my right to be heard in this meeting, even if I am obliged to remain till twelve o'clock at night.—(Cheers, hisses, and " Off, off.") Our opponents have stated—(Tory uproar)—ah ! its a very few of them that are making all the noise. Our oppo nents on this occasion have made one great admission, to which I am very anxious to draw your attention. Mr. Entwisle has stated that there is no point of dif ference between himself and Mr. Brown, on general politics ; he has let us know that Mr. Brown is as good a Conservative as he is himself, and that the only point of difference between them is on the free trade question.—(Hear.) Now, I thank him for that admis sion, because it at once proves that the free traders of South Lancashire, who are willing to support Mr. Brown, whether they are Whigs, Radicals, or Chartists, are sufficiently in earnest in support of that principle to throw aside party on this occasion ; and if we gain nothing else by this election—and I think we shall gain a great deal more—we shall at least gain this—that we shall have a moral standing hereafter, as being an honest party--caring neither for Whigs nor Tories, but having at heart the principles of free trade, which we have been so long contending for.—(Heir.) But Mr. Entwisle has stated—(Great uproar from Mr. Entwisle's booth)— e that Mr. Brown comes forward claiming the patronage Of her Majesty's Government, and anxious to seek popularity as the supporter of Sir Robert Peel.—(Hear.) Now, Mr. Brown distinctly stated that he would supp , ,rt any Go vernment, whatever it might be, so long as their mea sures were good; and that he would go to Parliament neither to wear the colours of Sir R. Peel, or to bow to his dictation, any 'more than he would to that of Lord John Russell.—(" Question.") But the Hon. Can didate on the other side has said more. He says Mr. . Brown has narrowed this question to a mere question of corn. Why, Mr. Brown distinctly said that he was op posed to all protective and differential duties, whether in cern, or sugar, or coffee, or in any other article.— ("Off, off.") Gentlemen, it is not very easy .to learn from the speech of Mr. Entwisle what his own princi ples are in reference to trade or anything else—(hear) —but there is an old saying, that you may know a man by the company he keeps—(Laughter)—and there fore, if we would learn Mr. Entwisle's opinion, we cannot do better than refer to the opinion of the lion. Gentle man who nominated him. I declare to you most solemnly that the fallacies that gentleman used on the subject of the corn-laws have been dead and buried, even in the House of Commons, were these things generally are very long-lived, for the last two years.—(Hear, hear.) If it were not that I would not wish to be personal, I would ask the Hon. Gentleman where he had been for the last five years ; for I think, if we had found some antediluvian remains of a politician, he could not be more hopelessly in the dark as to the question of the corn-laws.—(Laughter and applause.) He tells us that we want, by repealing the corn-laws, to throw land out of cultivation. Why, has he ever consulted the best farmers whether a free trade in corn would throw the land oat of cultivation ? Did he ever ask Lord Spencer, the best arable farmer in the kingdom ? Did he ever ask Lord Ducie ?—(Cries Loom Mr. Entwistle's booth of " Off, off," and Mr. Brandt, turning to the gentlemen, called out repeatedly, " Order, order.") Gentlemen, we advocate free trade in corn, because amongst its other good effects, we believe that a free trade in corn will make the land of this coun try to be better cultivated ; and that is the opinion of all the best farmers in the country.—(Cheers, and Tory hooting.)—Gentlemen, there's but a few of them ; but they make a great noise.—(Laughter.) But I do not take the landowners of Lancashire ' as the best judges on this question ; for I remember. that Lord Duck, Lord Spencer, and other distinguished agricul .turiste, have declared that Lancashire and Cheshire are ' two of the worst f arme d coun ti es in th e ki ng d o m.— ' (Hear, hear.) When attending an agricultural meeting at Knutsford, I remarked u pon the s t a te of the land ' along both sides of the railway, that it was actually growing more rushes than grass. Now, I happened lately to be in the company of a number of farmers from Knutsford ; and they said, " What a lot of drain ing has been going on here since Cobden blackguarded them about their rushes !"—(Laughter and applause.) Why, I scarcely ever make my appearance in any part of the country, but draining-tiles spring up as if by magic, wherever I put my foot ; and, if the mere fear of free trade makes them grow increased quantities and improve their land, how much more will free trade itself do ?—(Hear and applause, and a cry of "Down with the League !") Gentlemen, those noisy fellows are reduced to about a score now.—(Laughter.) Now this gentleman tells us that there was no country ever great and prosperous that depended upon foreign ers for food, and neglected their own agriculturists. But we don't intend to neglect our own agricul turists. I saw Lord Ducie at Bristol the other day ; and he said to me, "I can grow wheat at 365. a quarter, and charge 2/. au acre rent for my land."—(" Hear" and " Oh !") Now that shows how ignoran; some of these Lancashire squires are of farming. Now, gen tlemen, and farmers who are here, I want to re mark upon what Colonel Tempest has said.—(" Name your candidate.") I will propose him in my own good time. Colonel Tempest says that the proportion which rent bears to the produce of the land is only from Bs. to 1 10s. a quarter on the wheat grown. This is an attempt to make the farmers believe, that they have all the 1 benefit of the corn-laws; but I will expose that fallacy, so that every farmer shall understand it. Let every , farmer that hears me go home, and take an account of all he gets at market for the sale of his produce, and then see how much of that money goes to the landlord, and how much in other directions; and he will find, that, of the gross amount of what he has received, one-half of all he takes from elle market is paid to the landlord for rent.— (Uproar.) When I was in Scotland I had some conversation with a body of intelligent East Lothian farmers, who made a calculation there to gether; and they came to a conclusion that every quarter of wheat they took to market they paid to the landlord 225. 7d. rent upon it.—(l - fear, applause, and hooting.) Now, I de not say that the landlords are not entitled to all the rent they can get; but they have no i right to put on a corn-law to raise their rents, and then tell us that the farmers get all the benefit of it. Now, this gentleman tells us that the agricultural interest is a much richer and more powerful interest than the menu facturiag interest—that they have hundreds of millions of capital more than us, and that we are a comparatively small and insignificant interest. Is it not, then, very unreasonable that this mighty giant should come and ask protection at the hands of this little diminutive dwarf ? (Laughter and cheers.) But if we are really so small and insignificant an interest as this gentleman says, who made us so? Why is it that our trade is not greater? Why is it that our foreign trade is not larger? We come to complain that it is not large, and we tell you the reason; and then our opponents, who are chargeable with having made us 1 so stunted in growth and so insignificant in size, turn round upon us, and say—" Get away, you insignificant I pigmy ! you have no right to complain : see what a 'nighty giant I am."—(Laughter and applause.) Well, then, one thing more let me remark upon. The-gentle men on the other side propose to give equal protection to all. Now, I ask these gentlemen how they propose to give protection to the lebouter for hie wages ?—. ----------- (Hear and cheers.) The labourer is told that be is to suffer a reduction of wages if we bring co rn front abroad. The labourers are told, "You will ha li v e l! t° „ work for the same miserable wages as the P Russian peasant, and to eat black bread." T he y In ro? '"°_ as well tell you that if you are to bring rice fos Africa, you are certain to grow black and to have curlirt hair.—(Loud laughter.) If we proposed to bring curia Russian or Polish peasants or operatives , to compete R with our labourers at home, there might be some o_ of reason for what they say; but there is a free trade in labourers; there is no prohibition of labour ers ; but l'fe_ propose to have free trade, which means mor e trade corn, sugar, coffee, and all the other comfor ts and 14 cessaries of life which the working classes require; ah.,‘ having this free trade, there will be more employln; for labour, for two masters will be seeking_ one muse) stead of two men- seeking one master—(APP; and, consequently, there will be a rise in wages, an. ° _. er working man will get the comforts of life at a tow s price, and at the same time will get higher wag: e i , for his labour.—(Cheers.) I see a great toaue farmers here—l suppose your landlords will 1111;; no objection to my speaking to you and for it is rather difficult to get at y ou; f t ;re , now I want to let the cat out of the bag. t heir ors are told that this corn-law is passed The for e t-netit and they are told to support the corn-100 nh, these cause it maintains their interests. But how d : ea of corn-laws benefit you farmers ? If we raise the pri e the corn by Act of Parliament, do the corn-laws gilTiarl farmer the benefit of all this increase of price bell? --- k • uproar.) Gentlemen, there is now only about Lori dozen of them.—(Cheers.) This is a part of DIY; m e which the gentlemen on tho other side will not 1„ o ut tell if they can help it ; for they do not like lue,: p lue common sense into the heads of the farmers. men, if we in Parliament raise the price of corn, w e lt d a d itlo lords raise ai, ye, yes.")see e ur rentsin proportion. I suppose ow n ing cottages in a back street l a w to lise , the rents to the same amount as those of h u t b s t Sppos h i e n r g e, a ploasteofa men ra ise in the front street, how long do you think d o, would last ? Why, only till the next q uarter a , of and then the tenants would l eave , or those landlorso. houses in the front street would raise their rents ' t 00 l m what haime t i(d e fnaau l tcyv candle-making ed bn e n,gu t dh w ieb. an i u t reb l .tlse)s; business. uhem f Gne a l el r eab m ansey:gt ! elmdb r aearnma w lrodste h whehn o aaeit, said, " I really de ll ; CO l making e h o et n tes n e htot yt ie same imhi n pao- rt srlprice iswf o h e e o t f h a e s g re p wr Be a bt t p _ e s i- o i l e h i s oi s (1 ! ) 1 stant fluctuation in prices, and down to 395. ; but, gentlemen, your rentisl.. let high prices, and then it is to be paid when price s on al_ i s and the consequence is that the farmer is allealLoldP books of his landlord. Aftersome further remark s : lt o" yo!, Recollect that next Monday is the poll ; 1001 P- no' votes ; you have had enough of blue and rell i ; bo aefig the sound principles of common sense and of I° `; Take into your consideration the importanc e n o OS; question to this district ; consider what a bloWli e sel7, strike by carrying the free trade candidate. . 0 , en ° first steamer will carry the intelligence to An ie v ri s a At the Americans will say, " We thought the EeP t riek . l not in favour of free trade ; but they ha"„ o bis . 1 1 in London and won there, and now they ha ./ ' ' • • an the same standard in the manufacturing distrie;ets we will go on and reciprocate with them, and j°--ef fry hand to hand, in carrying out the princip les trade.—(Great cheering.) - REDUCTION IN THE ROYAL HOUSE article appeared in the Times of Monday la s ' e ot from a weekly publication, respecting some re c e ssr ductions in the royal household; but for the e s - r ticle , currency and the implied sanction given to tbis f oo hs by its having found a place in the columns toetl A ii journal as the Times, we should not have eV' e n f ece th ss e ar w y ri t t o er no o t f ic e e u r h d a c m on a t l r k a i d o i u c e t tahtteemabpsture fa-) bet loWe bet ° character of the Sovereign in the estuna tinu . 11/ _, loyal and devoted subjects. After some renlarTi; r proper spirit of an ignorant d e tractor, the wr.-siets ceeds to 'say, " but the popular grievance e ° ., li deetie . the somewhat anomalous fact, that this very oulr, will absolutely entail an increased burden on t` l " ' o f Persons, whose services are thus dropped out 0 0 0 royal household, must be pensioned; but the their are not to be paid out of the amount saved by , es' duction, but are to constitute a fresh charge on the Fe; tional treasury. The consequence will be, th at :by t h.- lic expenditure, instead or being diminished be of 25,0001. a year (the assumed reduction) , w,i, 111 „, s mented by the amount of the pensions." Se l ,7„ - died we seen so much ignorance and falsehood elnu,e - be Pe,,"; in the few lines forming the above extract. 4 , o f 0 sious, whatever they may be, will be paid °°'' same fund that the salaries would have been b. p i e t namely, out of the revenue voted by Parliament,he f maintenance of the Sovereign, or in other words,' tae! List, which is granted to the Sovereign in COnsiderseots the surrender of the hereditary revenues of the Crorilf the public. This constitutional arrangement fle e t , th: takes place after the accession of the Sovereign t o ft Throne, and in a pecuniary. point of view it esnl.lojeo) the public to a farthing's amount, whether her nibessl continues on the royal establishment the ilio n r„ed of useless domestics, or whether they are Peilsw;o,,ei liberally, as, we believe, has been the case In stance. Upon this question we feel we have as v' whatever to inquire or remark. It is enough fees, 05 know that it is most false to assert that all,: son rangement which may have taken place in if:,. 1 1 4. e• household can become a matter of additional er the national exchequer that is, on the publ ic ' d server. O re n THE WONDERS OF MANCHESTER. --• Be es e lf chambers vaster than are told/of. an Arabian resent peopled with inhabitants moree'wohderful than 0 ,01 0 Pefi. For there he beheld, in long-continueo,,e, tlist those mysterious forms full of existence without 11 ' OS perform with facility, and in an instant, what Da n is s fulfil only with difficulty and in days. A Ina °ll ll is slave that neither brings or bears degr a dation : ene sgP being endowed with the greatest degree of 0 0', and acting under the greatest degree a" p as ~s ment, yet free at the same time from ,;„ 11 I ' l and emotion. It is theref o re not only 3 sl a ve , a supernatural slave. And w hy should o ne oa r '- the machine does not live ? It breathes, it rO Ol breath forms the atmosphere of some towns• i t no t i s with more regularity than man. And has e ',„ girl. k r e voice ? Does not the spindle sing like a in e u r ",' es, 11 ; her work, and the steam-engine roar in jollY a strong artisan handling his lusty tools, anu Debt "_,• fair (lay's wages for a fair day's toil ? Nor s r guy weaving-remn be forgotten, where a thousand ° i t lll o hundred girls may be observed in their coral nere.tt working like Penelope in the day time ; 50°10 0 etred some pert, some graceful and jocund, some ebs d, their occupation ; a little serious some ; few 56 00 fhe the 'cotton you have observed in its rude state' st icl have seen the silent spinner change into threat, watP; bustling wearer convert into cloth, you ma y DO . ; , as in a moment it is tinted with beau tiful col err" printed with fanciful patterns. And yet th e ,,l s ties ; 01 mysteries is to view machines making ll:n a p e w spectacle that fills the mind v( ith curious, an d '• speculation.—Coningsby, or the New Generation. DEPARTURE or TROOPS FOR GUERN SS , Ir ; Goe f fr sudden embarkation of a large body of trooPs, l° o ed sey, on Sunday and Monday, somewhat a'3r;aserrti. Isle of Wight friends, who surmised than an ale ° 0 tion had broken out amongst the. Guernsernentlocontir, ject being to depose Governor' Napier. T, lle a d is P e ie from Guernsey, however, show that the lstoritieso feetly tranquil, and the intention of the autube Pe ordering this military movement, appears t° no t, V o l: nently to increase the garrison. We know te in - ever, why there should have been so much ha,s a simple transaction.—Hampshire Independe" opt We are informed by a corresponden t rece ive Roberts, solicitor, of Spring-gardens, ha s r ';:ere f° „er' structions from several persons whose hou ses of bly entered by the police, when the late caPt il , o o o te a sons employed in gaming was made, to COte_ g olly tions for trespass against the magistrates 01 1' 00 00 er o warrants, and also against the Police Constni ss st ioa . e d whom they were enforced. The houses in cla e s 0 01 4 entered under the impression that gambling Witt'ef on in them, but nothing was seen or discoverea to P,A the suspicion. The late Sir Richard Birnie h s v u e r, 800/. for the settlement of a like action.—Obser BIRTHS. On the 22d inst., at Worlingham Hall, Viscoun' + efis 60 0 1 f of a son. time Car r • On the 27th of February, at Colesberg, - hot% o f. Hope, the lady of John Campbell, Esq., of a dau t e lad/ On the 9th ult., at Spanish-town, Jama ica/ 0 06 Simon, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. _dat-sti On the 23d inst., at Hunter-street, Bruns" s py) of Mrs. Mardon, of a son. ri On the 23d inst., at Lymington, the la Y Agar, Esq., of Elm Lodge, of a son. S 6 %o°' On the 23th inst., the lady of C. Evens'Fort's - On the 23d inst., at the Royal Naval College, the lady of Captain Wilson, R A., of a daughter; of irbe . : On the 24th inst., at Temple Dinsley, the latly o , otP t ; P. Halsey, Esq., of a son, which only survived a c o ci., is herOilital.iieest2yttsh7i4ntsht Regiment,, the lad) o o f f n er . t Horton ,: ro 10, ore, On the 24th inst., at the Priory, see, tby Henry Haes, of a son. ov On the 24th inst., air Chester-terrace, -es Hied wife of the Rev. Morgan Cowie, of a son, wh o „low f NT I few hours. ladY ° On the 24th inst., in Abingdon-street, the Currey, Esq., of a son, still-born. MARRIED. „wick opt , On the 14th inst., at St. Pancras, Mr. Fl r Martin, to Ellen Matilda, youngest daughter e- Pr° the est Crutched-friars. A te, On the 23d inst., at St. John's Church, lug ,of 9(1 4 Elphege Van Zuyen Van Nyevelt de Gaesbe 4,1 0 00, to Ellen Claiborne, eldest daughter of Thomas Wat. Job!e,ibingd(4l6stl le Wandswort of Charleston, South Carolina, and of }forgot On the 23d inst., at St. laelen's Church , to , 00 , Henry Westcar Peel, Esq., of Watling Esq ofA 05 rine, eldest daughter of J. Torry__ Hest 4 9 ' er ! log , DIED. Robert 4 ' 11° 1 0 " On Thursday, the 23d inst., Mr. Robo_ o __ t _ ga s proprietor of the Bedford Hotel, Piazza, C, On the 12th inst., at Rome, Thomas Anon! Qta tfort 4 ifittli s, t M o r f s. th S : rlial;'llll32elj b iro, o O n n t t h h e e 2 21 1 s s t t rust., ns t a i t ia ß n a n y a s i lYa r t e e l r in , Esq., of Belgrave, Leicestershire. Aeit olj Ile" Irish Dragoon Guards. On the 22d inst., at the Vicarage, poncast . .., e ', 5 4 ,,,„ 1 -0 1 On the 22d inst., at Hatfield, near IsTorthoPjZittsof Pia Archer Allen, Esq., Lieutenant in the 4th R o e r g e : r " William Pilkingtos, Esq., of Kensington-g -% ice otf On the 23d inst., at Highfield, Southanipto" Hollis, aged,43l. Esq., of Gloucester -place, Portman-square; ,rtroat On the 23d inst., at Cumberland - sees a ged. i 0 - $ O, O Eliza, the wife of Admiral Carpenter, On the 23d inst., at Notting-hill - te rracc, I f q(*. London ; Printed and Published 197 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tm ma'. t he W .-- Strand, in the Preeinct of the Sitiol, 01 Middlesex, Monday, May 27, 1544. pp l „,: 7 111 „,.' LliN + he ( :119 , r' 11 -tLF.p Th t , irrnAs 'a'ds or oa Aro no ki ek• }4wi t • v,,,10 a , ion s 114 eztrilq ‘tillorlosof 1)66i: 1(0«1; (4 ' 1 ' 44 . .£ fit z • arr A jk;•nric, l ! rih s n" R ra lir. 6 1 ' , 4%4 • .14, 1 ( f 7 I), !fi t rrr, 4,4i 1 44 Wi1l I ft, kg•irn•ni' , . • 11,, • ur kr i' Wic 11 ks:‘