The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

OFFICE OF THE CHAMBERLAIN OF THE CITY OF LOND'JN. Yesterday a numeroui meeting of the friends of Alderman Brown, one of the candidates for the office of Chamberlain of the City, vacant by the death of Sir W. lleygate, took place at the City of London Tavern. There were amongst the laige assemblage the follow ing gentlemen:--Aldermen Sir Peter Laurie and John Johnson, Rev. J. A. Hankey, Mr. Curling, Mr: Bousfield, Mr. Baggally, Mr. Johnson, the member for Coleman-street, Ward, &c. Sir P. LAURIB, as the seni.,r Alderman present, was called to the chair by acclamation. He stated that he certainly felt highly honoured by being called in so emphatic a manner to the chair. He would have felt more gratification if the chair had been occupied by the Lord Mayor, as his Lordship had intended. various duties of the office had, however, been an obstacle to his Lordship's intention ; but the meeting might be assured that the Chief Ma gistxate had been most laborious and ener getic in his exertions for the success of their re spected fiend Alderman Brown.—(Loud cheers.) He found in the paper of arrangements for the day SO many influential names of gentlemen wh) were to take part in the ,proceedings, that he should not trespass upon the attention of the meeting, but he would not be doing justice to his own feelings, and to the high character of the candidate he supported, if he did not at once declare his conviction that in the metropolis there could not be found any individual so well adapted as their excellent friend, Alderman Brown, for the important office of Treasurer of the ancient City of London. Alderman Brown's reputa tion was unblemished and unassailable; and he had never uttered a falsehood.—(Cheers.) As to the re sult, there could, he was convinced, be no doubt. In deed, he did not expect to hear of the other candi dates on Thursday, the day of nomination ; for upon finding, upon their _canvass, that they stood not the slightest chance of success, they would, it was rea sonable to suppose, retire from the contest previously. —(Cheers.) He would add nothing more than that Alderman Brown had through life shown that his word was his bond, and that he was in debt to no man.—(Cheers.) Alderman JOHN JOHNSON' felt the highest gratifi cation in moving the first resolution. He had had an aequaintance with Alderman Brown of twenty-two years standing. The resolution stated that Alderman Brown, by his long and faithful services as a magis trate, by tike industry, ability, integrity, and punc tuality, with which he had discharged his magis terial duties, and by his zealous vindication of- the rights of the liverymen, when reeently assailed in the Court of Common Council, had justly entitled himself to the esteem and regard. of his fellow-citizens; and the fact of his being, next to Sir C. S. Hunter, senior Alderman, furnished an addidional claim to the Livery of London.—(Cheers.) Mr. T. A. II A?'4 KEY seconded the resolution, and bore testimony to the high character maintained by Alderman Brown during a public life of some con siderable length. It was not in the power of any man to allege against the worthy Alderman the slightest act of an objectionable nature in his public or private career; and in the whole of the civic com munity no man could be found who was better quali fied for the high office.. • The resolution was adopted amid great cheering. Mr. R. BAGGALLY proposed a resolution, pledging the meeting, collectively and individually, to use every exertion to secure the election of Alderman Brown. Mr. R. JOHNSON seconded the resolution, which was unanimously adopted. Mr. D. S. Ilnwsost proposed the next resolution. It was to the effect of appointing a Committee to conduct the election. Mr. Bousrmn seconded the resolution. The list of those who volunteered to serve upon the Committee included the names of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Sir John Pirie Sir Peter Laurie, Sir Geo. Carroll, Aldermen Challis, Farncombe, and Gibbs, Mr. John Masterman, M.P., Mr. T. A. Hankey, and above 200 other names, which it was determined should be published in the newspapers. Alderman. BROWN rose amidst cheers. It was, he said, now forty years since he had been called upon, amidst those with whom he had first drawn breath, and amongst whom be had received his professional education, to become a member of the City of London. At that time he had supposed there existed no merits of his own which could have induced his friends to think so favourably of him. He was then but jist entering into life, but he was the son and grandson of those who had maintained an unblemished reputa tion in thesimmediate neighbourhood in which he had been born and bred.—(Cheers.) On that spontaneous suggestion of his friends he had consented to accede to their wishes. In so consenting he felt that he had the character of two questions to support, and he had also felt that he had to vindicate, by the proper dis charge of his duties, as a member of the Common Council, the judgment pf those who, by electing, had placed such unbounded confidence in him. Twenty-seven years afterwards the alderman of the ward resigned his gown, and then the honourable appointment to the magistracy was offered to him. lie had at first refused to' be a candidate, but upon con sultation with his friends he had felt it to be his duty to accept it. lie had accepted the office with the feel ing that the discharge of duties of the office would be met with an indulgence which, he could say, hail been more than realised. 2 -(Cheers.) He declared that he could not lay claim to all which the resolution just passed attributed to him.. To the fearless and con scientious discharge of the duties of his office as a ma gistrate he, however, certainly would lay claim, and he believed he had never been insensible to the esti mation of wise and good men.—(Cheers.) On po litical questions he had always maintained that course Which, in his conscience, he believed to be right, and at the same time he had given credit to others who dif fered from him from%the same conscientious feeling. He had always been convinced that in this land of li berty there must, and there ought to be, differences of opinion, and that it was by the discussion of these differences of opinion truth was elicited.—(Cheers.) In many of these discussions he had taken part, but he was sure that he had never intentionally uttered a syllable calculated to give offence to any man. Sup ported as he had been he could not entertain a doubt as to the result of the election, but still he instructed his friends not to relax in their exertions, and not to forget that no election. was secure until the return was actually made. He further had a most anxious desire that the contest should be conducted through out as a contest between gentlemen, and that every thing which had the appearance of calumny and mis representation should be abstained from altogether. Mr. ICING moved the thanks of the meeting to Sir Peter Laurie for his conduct in the chair. Mr. Catritua seconded the motion, which was una nimously carried, and the meeting adjourned. EMANUEL HOSPITAL. Some days ago we mentioned, under the head of "The Committee of Aldermen," that some essential alterstions were about to be proposed. The proposi tions for enlarging Emanuel Hospital are directed, we are given to understand, to educational purposes. The present establishment consists of about twenty boys, twenty girls, twenty residents in alms-houses, and ten out-pensioners. The Court of Aldermen have recently increased the number of children to forty, and have established on the estates of the hospital a school sufficierrtly large to give daily education to all the poor children of Bransburton, iii Yorkshire, where some of them lie. On the first endowment, by Lady llacre, the rents of the estate did not exceed 1001. per annum, but, by the falling in of the leases, and judicious management of the estates, the rents now produce between 2,000/. and 3,0001. per annum, which sum, by the express ,direction of the founder, is to be expended in education and alms at Emanuel hospital in Westminster; on a site contracted for by Lady ITacre herself, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and purchased for that purpose, pursuant to her directions, by the executors. The Court of Aldermen, therefore, have determined to give the utmost l a titud e t o th e f oun d e r's intention, wind to enable the neighbourhood to enjoy to the fullest extent the advantages of a cheap and good eduction. H ence it b ecomes necessary to e l eva t e th e position i n a rat i o w i t h i ts f unds to give it somew h at f now c h arac t er ; an d th ere i s f or thi s pur poseow under the consideration of the Court, a pro position that the master should be converted into rt resident principal' s subordinate to whom s h a ll be a number of master rd assistants, i n th e var i o u s de partments of scholastica education , that at least sixty the children may be on ur ll iation enjoying board, 'Aging, and clothin g , as I‘.e as ‘ learning, and who are to be selected from amongst clergymen, and other professional the children of na men and tradesmen, in reduced circumstances. There is also a proposi tion that 400 persons of like classes not in the founda tion, shall receive daily education simil ar to that given to the upper and junior departments of the Kimg's College, upon payment of a small amount, to enable the Court to provide and secure a supply o f learned and able tutors and masters. Thus it is contemplated to establish in Westminster another groat institution in a dense population, for the education of the growing classes of the community. hitherto the Emanuel liospital has been unknown. There is now a prospect of its being made one of equal utility with many of the great institutions of the . kingdom. TIIa NAVIGATION oY TIIB RIVER TIEAMES.--A Pa ragreph has appeared in some of the newspapers to the effect that the new regulations, which the Committee of Aldermen have be en di scuss i ng are now i n operation. There is no truth in it. The further consideration of the regulations is postponed. Before any new regulations can be in operation, they must pass th• Court of Alder men, and be confirmed by the approval of a judge. It is stated that the Star steamer had 1,2.50 passengers on i board on T. esday last. EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS. - - - - - ALEXANDRIA, AUG. 19.—After the infliction of the fines upon the several members of the Council at Cairo, by which Mehemet Ali increased his finances by upwards of 250,000 dollars, his Highness seems to have thought no more of this matter, and left the capital for Aleiandria, where he arrived in the after noon of the 9th inst., amidst the firing of guns from all the ports in and about the town, and all the ships of war in the harbour, Egyptian, French, and Eng lish. Some preparations had ben made for the re ception of his Highness, but, on consideration, it was decided that nothing particular should take place, as he might have taken it amiss. The day after his arrival the Viceroy received all the grandees of the place, the Consular and European merchants, with whom he conversed as on ordinary occasions. His Highness was not looking very well, but is now recovering fast ; he has resumed his usual habits, and all is again perfectly quiet. It now appears — that the only cause of Mehemet Ali's excessive ill-humour, which made him leave Alexandria 30 suddenly for Cairo at the end of last month, was the conduct of several members of the Council at Cairo, who had taken some measures with regard to the government of the country without his authority, and without informing him of what they had done, and his Highness did not seriously mean what he said before his departure about resign ing and going to Mecca. . Sarni Pacha, Mehemet Ali's private secretary and. constant attendant, leaves to-morrow by the French steamer Le Caire from Malta and Lucca, where he is to take the mineral baths for the benefit of his health. This old and experienced man enjoys the fullest con fidence of the Viceroy, and his Highness's parting with such an able counsellor tends to show that he does not meditate any change for the present. The Viceroy has during the last few days dis patched the greater part of his ships of war, with ample funds, to the coast of Asia Minor, to pur chase horned cattle and horses for Egypt. Most of the ships have no guns at all on board, and the re mainder very few. On the 13th the French steamer from Syria arrived here with 157 passengers, mostly Turkish pilgrims proceeding to Mecca. Amongst the passen gers from Constantinople was his Excellency Mazloum Bey, Minister of Justice and Charge d'Affaires of the Viceroy of Constantinople, sent here by the Sultan to investigate the state of affairs in Egypt ; but, as he found all quiet, he returns to-morrow to Constantinople in the Nile. The Viceroy has made him several handsome presents, and sends 16 horses to the Sultan. Her Majesty's ship Belvidere left this port at day break on the 9th instant, for Malta, towed out to some distance by her Majesty's steamer Geyser. This frigate made a very short stay here, having arrived only late on the previous evening. The two annual fairs of Tautah and Sheik Ibrahim, which take place at this season in the Delta, have been exceedingly well attended this year. It has been computed that at the Tautah fair there were no fewer than 120,000 persons assembled, and a very large amount• of business has been transacted there. On the 17th instant the dam that closes the mouth of the canal of Cairo was cut. This ope ration is done when the Nile has risen sufficiently high for the Government to proclaim that it has attained the sixteenth cubit of the Nilometer. In this, however, the people are always deceived, for there is an old law that the land-tax cannot be exacted unless the Nile rises to the ,height of sixteen cubits of the Nilometer, and the Government thinks it proper to make the people believe as early as possible that it has attained this height. The period when the com pletion or abundance of the Nile is proclaimed is when the river has actually risen about twenty or twenty-one feet in the neighbourhood of the metro polis, which is generally between the 6th and 16th of August; that is, when there yet remain, of the measure of a moderately good rise in the neighbour hood of Cairo, three or four feet. The schooner Emmetje arrived here on the I6th inst. from Beyrout, which place she left on the 10th. The Turkish fleet was still in the Bay of Beyrout. The country all about Nablous was in a very dis turbed state, and the Turkish Government appears not to have the power to maintain peace in those districts. AccthsrrT.---A shocking accident happened on Wednesday night last, at the Dereham Theatre, to Mr. Dillon, one of the performers. He had just com pleted his dress for the character he had to repre sent, and was preparinc , to leave the dressing-room, when he approached too near a lighted candle, and was instantly enveloped in flames. He ran towards the stage and was observed by some of the audience, who rushed forward and endeavoured, by press ing upon him, and covering him with such things as were at hand, to extinguish the flames, in which they did not succeed till he was so seriously burnt that he now lies in a very precarious state. A gentleman with great pre sence of mind stepped forward and announced that no further danger was apprehended, and happily prevented any sudden rush to the doors.—Norf olk Chronicle. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION IN YORK.— The general subscription fund for the approaching meeting of this scientific association has already reached a sum exceeding 9001. It is exclusively appropriated for covering the expenses at York, in which city the an nual meeting is to take place on the 26th of next month. Earl Fitzwilliam is a contributor of 1001. ; and among the subscribers are the Archbishop of York, 501.; the Earl of Zetland, Lord Feversham, Lord Wen lock, and Sir John F. B. Johnstone, Bart., M.P., respec tively 25/.; Viscount Morpeth, 201.; the Bishop of Ripon, Lord Hotham, M.P., Hon. J. Stuart Wortley, M.P., Hon. 0. Duncombe, M.P., Sir Edward Vavasour, Bart, Sir W. B. Cooke, Bart., Sir Thomas D. Legard, Bart., Sir George Cayley, Bart., Sir J. H. Lowther, Bart., M.P., Mr. H. R. Yorke, M.P., Mr. H. Warburton, M.P., Mr. A. Lawson, M.P., and Mr. H. Broadley, M.P., have each transmitted donations of 101.—Hull Advertiser. EXPLOSION OP Two STEAM-ENGINE BOILERS, NEAR NEWCASTLE.—A most alarming accident oc curred on Wednesday morning at the extensive iron fur naces of T. Firmstone, Esq., at Little Madeley, near Newcastle-under-Lyme,. by which one man lost his life, and property to a considerable amount was destroyed. The cause of the calamity was the bursting of two steam engine boilers. At about seven o'clock, both the boilers, almost simultaneously, burst with a tremendous explo sion, filling the air for some distance around with the shattered fragments, and vast quantities of bricks and other materials. The utmost alarm was naturally ex • cited on the works, the men running in all directions for safety. Great fears were at first entertained that the loss of life would be considerable, as from twenty to thirty persons were about the spot at the time of the ex plosion. A number of cottages adjoin the works, which are occupied by the workmen, and out of them women were observed running in all directions, anxious to as certain the fate of their husbands or relatives ; happily, however (and it was considered little less than miracu lous) only one individual received fatal injury, although many had remarkable and hair-breadth escapes. The unfortunate man vehose life has been sacrificed, is Charles Mayer. He was'observed by the engineer, Thos. Rhodes, in the slack-hole putting coal on the fire, scarcely a mi nute before the - explosion. His mangled remains were found amongst the ruins a few yards distant from the place where he was last seen, and when picked up life was quite extinct.—Leeds Timer. We are happy to learn that Mr. Whittle Harvey's Committee of the Greenwich Proprietors has succeeded in completing an arrangement with the South-Eastern. We will not anticipate the meetings which are about to take place on this subject, but we may state, for the information of those who are interested in the matter, that the result of the arrangements will be to give to the ordinary shareholders, after discharging all outstanding liabilities, for the first ten years, an average dividend of something more than 9s. per share; and after that period in perpetuity nearly 12s. Taking money at 4 per cent., this would make the share worth 111., now increasing to 151 ten years hence ; taken even at 5 per cent. the present value would be 9L, increasing to 12/. In any case the value of the shares must be regarded as considerably raised by, the new arrangement. The old preference shares still receive, of course, 5 per cent., but the securities for all will henceforth be identical, the whole becoming, as it were, preference shares, guaran teed by the South Eastern, at the rates we have men tioned. The proprietors are, we think, to be congratu lated on the arrangement.—Railway Chronicle. J. TRAVERS, Es..—The will of the late J. Travers, Esq., has been proved in the Prerogative Court, by Maria Travers, widow, J. L. Travers, Esq., J. I. Travers, Esq , the sons, and S. Amory, Esq., the executors. The property is sworn under 70,0001. The will is dated in 1843, and gives Clapham Park (the residence of Mr. Travers), plate, furniture, carriages, horses, &c., to his wife, Mrs. Travers. He also gives her the use of the habitable part of the house in St. Swithin's-lane, where his business as a wholesale grocer is carried on, and a legacy of 1,0001. His stock in trade, and business he gives to his sons, above-named, and makes a suitable provision for all his children (fifteen in number) except his son Joseph, who is excluded from all benefit under the will, having been already provided for by his father in his lifetime. He directs that his shares in the Assam Company may not be sold till the year 1850. He gives to the Unitarian Chapel, Effra-road, Brixton, 2501. To his executors, and such of his brothers and sisters as shall be living at_his death, Si. each for a ring. These are the only legivies of interest, and the remainder of his large property is bequeathed to his wife and children. DOVER, AUG. 30..—The new iron steamer Princess Mary, recently placed on the Ostend station, hence with a mail on Sundays and Thursdays, left Dover harbour yesterday at ten o'clock, with one carriage and 118 pas sengers: this day she returned from Ostend with two carriages and $2 passengers, and after an iar extraordi nary quick_ passage thence saved the tide into Dover our. This is a feat never yet before accomplished by a ny steam-p ac k e t on thi s s t a ti on . THE LATE SUICIDE AT DEPTYORD.—The funeral of the unhappy girl, Eliza Kendall, took place on Friday last. Tho deceased was followed to the church of St. Paul, Deptford; by nearly fifteen hundred persons, a very great proportion of whom were females. The pall was borne by eight maidens dressed in white, carrying large bouquets of flowers i n t h eir hands. At the grave, the survivinc , sister was so overcome by the solemn scene that she Tainted, and was with difficulty saved from falling in upon the coffin. The three remaining daugh ters were suitably attired in mourniag for the occasion, which had been purchased with sums raised in very small subscriptions amongst the working classes in the pari s h in which they had resided. twaddle to recur to them, if it was not for their im portant bearing upon the particular character of the prosecution, which, unlike fzJrcner legal attempts to tchieve the peace of Ireland, really embraced the lawal merits and the equity, if we may so speak, of the great question in issue. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1844. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—War and police are necessary evils: but there are aggravations of war and police, whici. I the first free country in the world ou?ht to be the first to abandun. Two of the worst of these aggra vations, post-office espionage, and privateering, have most unexpectedly found apologists at this period of the nineteenth century—the one in a French Prince of the Blood —the other in two Committees of the British Parliament. We need not say that our refe rence is to the privateering Naval Essay of his Royal Highness the Prince de Joinville, and to the Reports of the Secret Committees of Lords and Commons, on the Secret Openino. of Letters at the Post-office. We hold that the English and French public have each their duty to perform in this matter. They have each to disclaim and repudiate the doctrines thus ad vanced in the highest quarters. 'We should be puz zled to which to award the bad eminence of superior barbarism. If England had not recognised in her Home-office the morals of Vidocq, while France adopted as her banner the black flag of Paul Jones (so far as the avowals of high official authorities can commit either nation), the one would have sunk her self, by her apathy or connivance, to an immeasur able depth below the moral rank held by the other. Perphaps it was providentially ordered that France and England should disgrace themselves, at the same moment, in the same style; lest either should feel itself to have lost that comparative level in self-esteem, the loss of which would have driven it to war with the other pour avoir (le la consideration. Our attention is recalled to these subjects by articles in the Westminster Review and Spectator. The former adduces more evidence than we had yet seen of the unworthy participation in the worst vices of the police of foreign countries, into which our rulers have been led by permitting them selves to be made the instruments of the vengeance of foreign Governments—without a motive—and with an aggravation—the aggravation of secrecy and per fidy. Perfidy is impossible on the part of those Go vernments to their malcontent subjects ; because these malcontents know them too well to repose any confi dence in their treatment. But in England every one is free in everything but breach of the laws, and every ene thinks himself safe. It is, therefore, we re . peat, perfidious in this Government to break the confidence reposed in its freedom ; and having first, by that freedom, encouraged foreigners who resort to , our shore to commit themselves, in words and in writing, by disclosures they never would have ven tured elsewhere—it is most perfidious to spy secretly into those disclosures for the purpose of transmitting them to the Governments whose vengeance the exiles have fled from—to whose vengeance their connexions are still exposed. We do not mean to say that our Government should take part with the exiles of other States—or even that it should not arrest machinations commenced in this country to dis turb them. England does not profess herself a refwgium peccatorum for all manner of plotters —an Archimedean standing room, from which they may move the world with revolutionary enginery. But is there no medium between this connivance with foreign enterprises making our shores their starting-point —is there no medium between leaving conspirators and their Governments ig iorant that such things are detected (and therefore putting each on their guard—the one to desist, and the other to be vigilant)—is there no medium be , tween this permission of plots and armaments against friendly neighbours, and .the secret communication to , foreign Powers of the secrets of other men—without warning those men of a danger they could not have , feared in a free country ? This is even something worse than the old fame of Venice, and her lion's mouth. It is inveigling men to criminate themselves, and others, in the confidence of correspondence. It is leaving them, unwarned, to proceed from wild words to overt acts, and handing them over, as they leave our shores—or their friends and connexions on their own—to the secular arm of their irritated Go vernments, whom we have taken into our secret con fidence. STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle has to day a long article upon the Writ of Error—an article full of misrepresentation and malice, but probably containing no passage more false or malicious than the following :—" The recognition of this Irish-judge made-law of conspiracy, by the court of ultimate ap peal, would be the establishment of a principle with which none of the usual modes of political activity in England could exist. Political societies would be come ipso facto conspiracies. Public meetings would be almost as unsafe as associations, and even parish ves tries would have to bridle their tongues. These results, it would be more proper to say, would happen, if the Irish conspiracy law could be not only sanc tioned but enforced in England. But everybody knows that it could not be enforced, and that no Mi nister would dare to make the attempt. The oppor tunity for doing so has been open here as well as at the other side of the Channel. The Anti-Corn-law League is quite as much of a conspiracy as the Re peal Association. In one sense it is a more formidable body, inasmuch as, if permitted to exist, it will cer tainly effect its object, which the Irish League is not likely to do. Moreover, the jury which convicted Mr. O'Connell would most certainly have convicted Mr. Cobden, if he could only be brought before them. But, for all this, nobody has seriously thought of in dicting Mr. Cobden, nor is it likely that any one will, even if the decision of the House of Lords should be such as to encourage the design." The answer to this statement lies in a single word ; it is not for the use of any of the usual modes of political activity in England, but for the abuse of nearly all these modes that Mr. O'Connell and his accomplices have been prosecuted and con victed, upon the principle of law, " abesus non tollit usum," it is obvious that the modes of political ac tivity, if innocently and legally resorted to, are wholly unaffected by the decision in the case of' these parties. Whether the Anti-Corn-law League have or have not transgressed the legal limits of political activity may be a question ; but it would appear that the law ad visers of the Crown think differently, for it is un true that a British Government would not in like cir cumstances act as the Government of Ireland has acted. Witness the prosecution of Henry Hunt and others, twenty-four years ago; and the more recent prosecutions of Mr. years O'Connor by the Whig- Radical Ministers. But whatever may be the posi tion of the Leaguers in this respect, it is quite indis putable that the limits of legal political activity were largely transgressed by Mr. 0 Connell and his con victed associates. We may admit that the law allows men to organise political societies to hold multi tudinous assemblies of the people, and to express their political opinions freely and boldly, but it cannot be pretended that these privileges are not qualified, as the exercise of all the privileges of freemen are qualified, by the condition that they shall not be exercised to the injury of the community, or so as to endanger the established order of law and government. Now it will hardly be denied by the Morning Chronicle itself, that the practices of Mr. O'Connell, and the other Repealers, in the last year, and for many preceding years, grossly violated this con dition—the injury occasioned by the unrestrained repeal agitation is proved more strikingly by nothing than by the happy change in the social state of Ire land, which followed its suppression almost with the rapidity of a charm. The danger of the agitation to the established law of order and government was the daily theme of complaint with all the Whig- Radical journals and statesmen during the session of 1843. Here, then, we have distinctly marked the dfferentia between " modes of political activity" generally, and " the political conspiracy" prosecuted at the State Trials in Dublin. " Modes of political activity" may be harmless or otherwise ; but' when they become mischievous and dangerous they be come criminal conspiracies. It is, however, to be conceded, that in a free country " moles of political activity" that are undesignedly in jurious are to be regarded with tenderness, and we cannot help thinking that the Lancashire conspirators of 1819 had hard measure, as, notwithstanding the dangerous tendency of their proceedings, it diffi cult to believe that they designed any permanent evil. It was certainly right to suppress their con spiracy, but the penalties inflicted upon Mr. Hunt, and some others—penalties threefold greater in duration, and tenfold more severe in all their circumstances, than those imposed upon Mr. O'Connell and his fellow-prisoners — were almost excessive. The Lancashire conspirators comtem plated no great or enduring evil as a means or as an end, but the utmost extravagance of charity would fail to acquit the repeal con spirators of resorting to criminal means for the attainment of a criminal end. What are the means, of employing which they have been dis tinctly convicted, not upon doubtful evidence, but upon evidence supplied by themselves ? These means were by speeches and writings exciting hatred between different classes of the people, exciting hatred also against the laws and the Government, superseding the authority of the Government by the establishment of rival courts of justice, endea vouring to destroy the power of the Govern ment, by debauching the military from their duty, collecting vast multitudes of the most ignorant and excitable of the population, frequently in military array, for the purpose of alarming the Govern• ment and the well-affected, and encouraging the disloyal by an illusion of their irresistible strength. These were the means contemplated—not con templated only, but put into extensive action, and not put into this extensive action upon a single , occasion, as happened at Manchester, but constantly and frequently, and for a succession of years. And to what end were these means directed ? To extort a repeal of the union by intimidation, the Re- I pealers themselves say; or, perhaps, scarcely less than high treason ; but common sense discovers another, and, if possible, a much more criminal end—the wresting of Ireland from the British Crown. These 1] are facts so obvious and familiar, that it would be but i FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. CHRONICLE.—The opinions of the English judges were delivered yesterday in the House of Lores upon the eleven questions which had been re ferred to them for consideration, in the case of the Queen v. O'Connell. The House ordered the opi nions to be printed, and adjourned over the further consideration of the case itself to Wednesday morn ing, when the final judgment will be delivered. As the principles involved in the discussion are of as much importance as even the consequences which nay follow from the final decision of this extraordi nary case, we shall take the liberty of adverting to the opinions which have been pronounced, with all the respect which is due to the moral, intellectual, and professional excellence of the judges of this coun try, but with the freedom and fulness which are j us tified by the almost unparalleled importance and sin gularity of the transaction itself. We shall confine ourselves to a single point upon the present occasion. Amongst the arguments addressed to the House of Lords upon the part of the defendants, it was said that, as there were some bad counts in the indictment ; as the defendants had been found guilty upon each ; as the judgment was general, and the quantum of punish ment a matter in the discretion of the judges, it was to be presumed that a part, at least, of the punishment must have been awarded upon the bad counts, and that as it was impossible to ascertain how much had been, as the whole may have been, so awarded, the defendants may in fact have been punished for that which was, in law, no offence. This argument was adopted by Mr. Justice Coltman and Mr. Baron Parke, who, upon this part of the case, have ex pressed their opinions to be for the reversal of the Judgment of the Court below. The other six Judges who attended the House of Lords upon the argu ment, have declared, on the other hand, that they will presume that the Irish Court of Queen's Bench must have awarded the whole of the punishment upon the good counts, and none of it upon the bad, inasmuch as that Court must be presumed to know what counts of the indictment are bad and what counts are good. The English judges having made this presumption in favour of the infallibility of the legal perspicacity of their brothers in Ireland, proceed to decide unanimously that the sixth and seventh counts of the present indictment are " so bad, that if the indict ment consisted of those counts alone, it would be im possible to give any judgment against the defendants upon the verdict." We entreat the most particular attention of the reader to what we are next going to state. The Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland was moved to arrest the judgment, upon the ground that the 6th and 7th counts, as well indeed as all the other counts in the indictment, were bad. But the Court refused the application upon the ground, to use the language of one of themselves, " that the sixth and seventh counts were unexceptionable." The counts in question are declared by the Irish judges to be " unexceptionably good.' The same counts are de clared by the English judges to be incurably bad ; and the English judges having so expressly decided, presume that the Irish judges, who, in the case ac tually under consideration, have declared bad counts to be good, invariably know the difference between good counts, and bad! Never in all time was a presumption more totally annihilated by contradictory facts ! In delivering judgment upon the motion i n arrest of judgment, Mr. Justice Perrin expressly de clared that he concurred in refusing the motion, upon the ground that the " 6th and 7th counts were unex ceptionable." Mr. Justice Crampton thought it un necessary to enter into the merits of the first five counts, upon the ground that the 6th and 7th were " legally good and sufficient in substance and in form," whilst the Lord Chief Justice declared every count of the indictment to be good and sufficient in law, and " particularly the sixth, seventh, and re maining ones." Those counts upon which the Court in Ireland mainly relied in support of the judgment, are now expressly and unanimously declared by the English judges to be illegal and invalid; whilst the same judges declare that the Irish judges, who have absolutely, deliberately, and repeatedly, come to a wrong conclusion upon this point in this very case, must be presumed to be infallible upon such a point in every case; and this presumption of general infallibi lity is made the ground for supporting the Irish judgment in an argument by which the same judgment is proved to be wrong, whilst it is presumed to be right. In a view to the practical consequences, this point is even more importantthan as an exhibition of logical inconsistency, or as the assumption of a state of affairs in opposition to the indubitable facts of the case. The English judges take for granted, as the 6th and 7th counts are bad, that the Irish judges did not award any part of the punishment in reference to those counts. Now, the part of the charge exclu sively contained in those counts, is that of creating intimidation by the exhibition of great physical force. In reference to this matter, Chief Justice Penne father, in refusing the motion in arrest of judgment, observed, " Take any one count of the remaining set," (after the sth) in these counts" (the 6th and now e 7th &c.), " those dangerous offences are set out in a way which, in my opinion, requires no further cer tainty. The jury have awarded upon each of them, and it see not why the judgment should be arrested." Mr. Justice Burton , in delivering the final judg ment of the Court, declared that the " main offence to the traversers was that they had conspired to procure the repeal of the union by intimidation to be produced by the exhibition of great physical force." From these statements it appears incontrovertible that in fixing the quantum of the punishment, the Court of Queen's Bench not only had regard to the offence which was charged in the 6th and 7th counts, " mainly" inflicted in reference charged in th o se counts, whichut thecounts to punishment a l a v r a e s d by th e E ng lish judges bt t hr areoffence declared c to be so deficient in the necessary elements of legality, that if they stood alone upon the record, no judgment could be given against the defendants. Such is the extraordinary position in which the ease and the parties are placed by only one part of the decision of yesterday. HERALD. —Yesterday, the House of Lords re assembled to receive the answers of the judges to the questions proposed to them in the writ-of-error cases of " The Queen r. Gray," and " The Queen v. O'Connell and others." Eight of the judges appeared in person, and the answer of a ninth, Mr. Justice Coleridge, absent from indisposition, was delivered by Chief Justice Tindal. In the case of " The Queen v. Gray," all the judge; present, except Mr. Baron Parke dissentient, agreed to reverse the judg ment of the Court below. In the case of " The Queen v. O'Connell and others," six of the judges present, and Mr. Justice Coleridge, agreed to affirm the judgment of the Irish Court of Queen's Bench. Baron Parke and Mr. Justice Coltman dissentient, but upon grounds purely technical. The proper time to consider the opinions of the judges, and the elaborate arguments by which these opinions are severally supported, will have arrived after the House of Lords shall have pronounced its judg ment. At present, however, it may be allowed to us to observe — First, that the judges are without exception, unanimous in pronouncing the repeal conspiracy illegal, criminal, deserving of punishment, and in the case sufficiently proved. Se condly, all the judges, without exception, treat as idle and invalid those objections to the construction of the jury which have been made the ground of so much angry complaint in the Irish Courts, in the press, and in Parliament. Thirdly, not one of the objections to which the answers of the judges allow any weight, much or little, was raised in the Court below. They all escaped the sagacity of Mr. O'Con nell himself and of his nine learned and experienced advocates ; and whatever, therefore, their value, it is plain that they were the reverse of obvious—a full justification of the Irish Court—and ground for a strong presumption that they are to be ascribed solely to the difference of practice in the two countries. TIMES.---A considerable majority of the English judges have answered the questions propounded by the House of Lords by affirming the validity of the verdict and th e judgment in the case of "The Queen v. O'Connell." These opinions, we suppose, may be considered as the groundwork of the judgment of the Lords on the Writ of Error, and we may anticipate that the supr e m e t r ibunal of appeal will pronounce against the reversal of the judgment of the Court below. We do not of course profess to foretell the effect which this announcement will produce upon Irish minds. The moral obliquity of vision with which everything English is regarded will doubtles s pervert a judicial decision, founded on legal argu ments and irrespective of all but legal considerations, into the expression of a political prejudice and Saxon hostility. The Nation and its gentle brethren of the Repeal press will doubtless tell the Irish people, and the mass of the. Irish people will believe it when they are told, that the English judges are animated with a profound hatred of Ireland, and that their refusal to reverse the proc ee di ngs of the Queens Bench in Dublin is the result of deliberate malignity and na tional injustice ! And the fact that no other result was anticipated after the arguments of the traversers' counsel had been heard and replied to, will be tor tured into a sign of extreme unfairness, bigotry, and wrong. But we trust that there are persons even in the Repeal party who will look with a calmer eye upon the proceedings in the House of Lords, and will acknowledge the patient attention and lawyer-like consideration which the case of the traversers has received from the English judges, both during the progress of the trial and since its conclusion. That the judges are not unanimous proves, what it would be superfluous to prove in England—that party feel ing has nothing to do with the formation of a judicial inference on a question of law; while the high autho rity which the eminence and learnin g of Mr. Baron Parke give W every sentence be utters on points of law, makes us more strongly appreciate the value of the numerical majority by whom his opinions are overruled. At the same time we are rejoiced to see that the Irish Court of Queen's Bench has been saved from the odium and the disgrace of having sentenced several persons to a gaol on a conviction generally condemned by sound lawyers for looseness and infor mality. The case was fully and ably argued at the bar of the House; and yesterday the judges entered into its technical merits with a minute::ess, a particu larity, and also a certain degree of disagreement upon peculiar points of objection, which, taken together, must preclude the suspicion of apathy or antipathy— of bigotry or impatience on their part. Supposing, then, that the House of Lords will square their judg• ment by these judicial opinions, the traversers will abide in prison till the expiration of the period for which they were sentenced, unless the Crown be pleased to exercise its prerogative in their behalf by curtailing the duration of their confinement. On this subject we have already expressed our opi nion, and we confess that, having seen the majesty of the law vindicated, we should have no objection to seeing its severity relaxed against those who, while they are suffering its penal ties, reject the proffer of mercy with all the pertinacity of voluntary but ostentatious martyrdom. O'Connell and his parasites are in gaol; and this is a strong prima facie evidence of defeat. When a man is sent to gaol, his opponents may fairly be said to have the upper hand. A prison is a hard test of the vitality of a party. O'Connell is in this predi cament ; he has been check-mated at the game of agitation. His imprisonment has been a moral vic tory on the part of Government. It has shown a determined and successful resolution not to tamper with men leagued to dissolve the integrity of the empire. . So far it has evinced the courage and con stitutional principles of an English Cabinet, bound to support the union between the two countries. But, this object attained, it is a matter worthy of consi deration, how far it is expedient to continue the pu nishment of a man who knows full well that the sympathies of a people with its demagogues are most keenly roused by the severity, as they are most effec tively allayed by the indifference, of Courts and Ministries ; and who, if released from his present situation, would be reduced to the alternative of un popular tranquillity, or unmeaning, because fore warned, agitation. We do not, indeed, think that the pacification of Ireland will absolutely turn upon any conduct of the Government towards the tra versers, or upon any other measure; but we think it generally politic to be generous and forgiving, when generosity and forgiveness can be exercised without present loss or future compromise. THE INDIA MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, AUGUST 19.—The — ieninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Oriental arrived here this morning from Malta and England, with 76 passengers for India, who proceed this evening on their way to Cairo and Suez. Telegraphic intelligence has been received that an English steamer from Bombay arrived at Suez on the 17th instant, in 27 days, with 80 passengers. Should the steamer have arrived at Suez on the morning of the 17th, there is a chance of the mails reaching Alexan dria in the course of the night or to-morrow morning, in which case the French steamer, which is to leave for Marseilles early to-morrow, will probably defer her de parture until the afternoon, to enable the Indian corres pondence to be forwarded by this opportunity ; but should the mails not be heard of at all to-morrow, the French steamer must leave before sunset, and the Indian news will reach Europe only by the English steamer, that is, about three days later. AUGUST 20, SEVEN A.3l,—lntelligence has been re ceived this morning from Can.), that it was not the Bombay steamer, but the Bentinck, from Calcutta, that arrived at Suez on the 17th inst. with 86 passengers. It was an error committed by the telegraph in announcing that the Bombay steamer had arrived. The Oriental will consequently be detained four or five days longer before leaving for England. Lord Ellenborough was to leave Calcutta on the 28th of July by the Nemesis, and could not be expected to reach Suez before tho end of this month, as the monsoons have been very severe. The Semiramis, from Bombay, had not reached Aden on the 10th, when the Bentinck left, consequently the Bombay mails cannot reach Suez before the 21st or 22d. Captain Kellock, of the Bentinck, has brought rather important news from Aden, where it appears that a strong army of 35,000 Arabs is collecting for the purpose of attacking the place. The mails of the Bentinck have net yet reached Alexandria; the above news has been received by expres'. The French steamer Caire sails immediately. PORTUGAL. We have received letters from Lisbon to the 27th ult. Senhor Don Luis Gonzalez Bravo, on being presented to the Queen of Portugal. on the 22d ult., in his capacity of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of her Catholic Majesty at the Court of Lisbon, delivered a speech characteristic enough of the man. There are references in this fulsome address to a desire, on the part of the Spanish sovereign (the modest General Nar vaez), for more extensive relations with Portugal, and to reciprocity of interest between the two countries, which " Providence," through the interpreter of its works and will (Gonzales Bravo), it is declared, " created sisters." A report was current, that the Envoy Extraordinary was the bearer of a communication to the Portuguese Ministry, from his own Government, offering to place an army of 40,000 men at the disposal of the Portuguese sovereign, and stating the readiness of the Spanish Government to send the troops into Portugal. It ap pears that the Secretary of the Spanish Legation was dispatched in all haste to Madrid, on the 24th ultimo, two days after the audience of the Spanish Ambassador with her Majesty. The similarity of the characters of Narvaez and Cabral, and the identity of their political views and objects, might prepare people far any event which might give occupation to men of restless minds, reckless of consequences—bold and indiscreet—who have risen to power, in turbulent times, by means of bayonets, and know no other way of maintaining their power ex cept by military force. The dismissals and resignations of persons holding judicial offices continue. The Crown Procurador, or Attorney-General, the first law officer of the Crown, has resigned his office, on the grounds of the illegality of the decree of the Ist of August. The law officer next to him in rank has followed his example. The whole of the Judges of the Relacao of Oporto, it is said, with one exception, have protested against the late measure as a violation of the Constitution. The Marquez de Niza has also protested against the late decree. The money diffi culties continued on the increase, the civil employs .s and pensioners of the Government being now nearly three months in arrears, with few exceptions. _ POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) IVOR SHIP-S7'R E ET. Yesterday a middle-aged um of respectable appear ance, named Francis Crocker, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with obtaining under false and fraudulent pretences the sum of 1.55. and a gold wedding-ring from a young unmarried woman named Mary Judd, in the employment of Messrs. Bunyan and Co., wholesale seed merchants in the City-road. It will be unnecessary to repeat the unfortunate prosecutrix's statement, the substance of which has been already inserted in our paper, further than to say, that she was cowtecl by a tradesman named Abel, carrying on business near Aldermanbury, who, after fixing the day for the marriage, anti presenting her with the wedding-ring, deserted her and married an other woman ; and the prosecutrix employed the pri soner, who represented himself as a solicitor, in prac tice at No. 4, Thatched-house-row, Lower-road, Islington, and Roll's-yard, Chancery. lane, to bring an action for breach of promise of marriage. In this character he obtained the sum of 15s. from her to pay for a writ he told her he had served Abel with, and then the wedding-ring as security fur his costs. All this the prosecutrix having sworn to, the prisoner was taken into custody by Holland, one of the warrant-officers, who went to his house yesterday morning and demanded the ring; the prisoner said a friend had it, but on being pressed acknowledged that he had pledged it, and on being brought to this Court and searched, a quan tit y o f duplicates were found upon him, one of which was for the ring in question, together with a letter directed to the prosecutrix, couched in these terms :—" Mary Judd has this day deposited in my h an d s t h e gold wedding-ring enclosed, which I promise to return on payment of money advanced by me, and expenses in curred in prosecuting an action against Mr. Abel." On breaking this letter open and looking for " the ring enclosed" a base metal ring, bent into every imaginable shape, and not worth even a farthing, tumbled out: Frederick Fox, shoptnan t o M essrs. Pickford and Co., pawnbroksrs in Old-str ee t, pro d uced the prose cutrix's ring, which was pledged at their shop by the prisoner on the 13th ult. for 4s. The prisoner, in defence, denied that he had ever represented himself as a solicitor. He had been em ployed, he said, for 30 years insolicitors' offices, in one of which he had served as articled clerk. He was last at M r . Abb ott ' s i n Chancery-lane, but left him in 1841, and had since then acted as reporter, and been employed by Mr. Gurney. He had been lately inv o l ve d in difficulties, in consequence of living with a lady who was of such extravagant habits that she had completely ruined him. He had intended to carry this business out for the prosecutrix, and had employed Mr. Hutson, a solicitor near Finsbury square, to transact it for him, but he was sorry to say that that gentleman had not done his duty by him. Ile had paid Mr. Hutson the 15s. in question, but had no proof; unfortunately, that he had done so. Holland said he had been to Mr. Hutson's offices, and seen that gentleman's clerk, who told him that the pris oner h a d certainly been there to give instruc tions, as he said, for a writ to be issued, but he had not paid th em a s hilli ng, and, so far from their firm intending to carry the action on, they had told the prisoner that the letters sent to Miss Judd by Mr. Abel were not sufficient to support an action. Mr. BROUGHTON said he was clearly o f opinion that the prisoner had obtained the property in ques tion by a false and fraudulent representation, and he had no hesitation whatever in committing him for trial; but as the depositions could not be then► taken he would accept bail for his future appearance, and that must be, himself in 1001., and two responsible sureties in 501. each. CLERKENIVELL. Inspector Miens, of the S division, came forward yesterday and stated to the Magistrate, that there was a charge of a very serious nature on the police sheet, respecting which he sought his Worship's advice. Mr. John Stephens Murphy, an Irish gentleman, be, longing to a mercantile house in the City, awl residing at No. 53, Spencer-street, Northampton square, was charged with causing the death of James Rogers, and injuring three other persons, viz. :—John Hill, Thomas Bignall, and Elizabeth Bignall, whose life is despaired of. Mr. COMBE asked where the prisoner was ? The Inspector stated that Mr. Murphy was lying at his own residence dangerously ill. Prom the statement of those who witnessed the transaction, and who were then in Court, the facts of the case appeared to be these :—The deceased, John James Rogers, was a carter in the employment of Mr. Upton, of Highgate, and lived in North-street, Highgate. Thomas and Elizabeth Bignall were aunt and uncle of the deceased, and John Hill his cousin. On the previous (Sunday) evening between eight and nine o'clock, the Bignalls and Hill, who lived in Hill street, Wellington-street, Blackfriars-road, had been visiting Mrs. Rogers, wife of the &cased, who has just been confined of her fifth child, and were return ing home along the Holloway-road, when they saw a one-horse phaeton, in which Mr. Murphy was coming down Holloway-hill at full speed ; they endeavoured to avoid it, and ran towards the side of the road, but the vehicle turned into that side of the road, and before they could leave it came into collision with them. They were all knocked down. The deceased was caught in the springs and dragged into the road, and the wheels of the right side of the vehicle pased over his head, producing a compound fractur2 of the skull. Elizabeth Bignall's arm was broken, and the wheel's passing over her breast, severe internal in juries were the consequence. Thomas Bignall's col lar-bone was broken, and he was otherwise much in jured. Hill's wounds are not dangerous. At the moment of the collision, Mr. Murphy was thrown out of•the vehicle. lie was rendered insensible by the fall, and his head was dreadfully cut and contused. The vehicle was broken in several places. The suf ferers were conveyed to the Whittington and Cat, Highgate, and Dr. Moger, of Highgate, was imme diately sent tor. Up:m his arrival, Rogers was found to be in a dying state, and he did not survive more than a few minutes. Mrs. Bignall was for a long time insensible, and it was feared would not live through the night. Everything was done for the un fortunate survivors. Mr. Murphy was in the course of the night removed to his own residence, where he lies under the care of Dr. Matthews. Bignall is toll collector on the Southwark-bridge. Certificates regarding the condition of the sufferers from the medical gentlemen were produced. They described the condition of the Bignalls as very dan gerous. Mr. CoMna inquired of Mr. Murphy was in cus tody ? The inspector replied, that he was under the surveillance of the police, and that he would he able to attend that Court on Wednesday next. Mr. COMBS said, he could not at present interfere. The police inspector must exercise his own discretion. BROMLEY. (Before Viscount Sydney, Chairman ; the Rev. Sir C. Farnaby, Bart. ; E. R. Adams, Esq : ; Captain Bahrens ; the Rev. T. Scott ; P. Dyke, Esq. ; Chapman, Esq. ; G. Jackson, Esq., &c., &c.) This was a special session for the purpose of renew ing the licenses of the victuallers carrying on business within the district, and in consequence of some mat ters that have created a good deal of interest in the neighbourhood, there was an unusually full attendance of magistrates. The licenses of the other victuallers having been renewed without any opposition, Mr. Martin, the landlord of the "80-peep," at Chelsfield, applied for a renewal of his license. Mr. DYKE said that, before his brother magistrates granted the application, he must beg leave to lay before them some circumstances that had come within his knowledge, and which he thought they ought to be acquainted with. He had reason to believe that this house was the resort of the most desperate cha racters, and he knew that one man had lived there for several months with a prostitute, who had no means of living but by plunder, and who was eventually transported for deer-stealing. That man had since stated that, if he had offered him any opposition (the deer were stolen from the park of Sir P. H. Dyke, the worthy magistrate's father), he would have shot him dead, and it was his intention to do so. He did not wish to rely upon this circumstance alone, but he felt it to be his duty to mention it, and the police, who had also made inquiries respecting the applicant's house, would be able to put the bench in possession of further facts respecting it. Serjeant Leverick, of the R division, said, that in consequence of instructions he received, he made some inquires respecting the "80-Peep." He first disco vered that a woman, to whom the landlord had given a good character, with a view to get her into service, had been charged with setting fire to her master's house. Upon his going to the house on a Sunday morning during Divine service, he found twelve or fourteen persons, gipseys, men and women, almost all of whom were in a state of intoxication, and some were lying dead drunk under the hedge. One man seized his horse by the bridle, and he had great diffi• culty in getting away from him. The place was a regular rookery, and appeared to be the resort of the most desperate characters. Lord SYDNEY asked the applicant what answer he had to give to the statements relative to the manner in which his house had been conducted ? The applicant said he could not deny that the per son referred to by Mr. Dyke was a verydesperate cha racter, but the fact was, that he took possession of his shed, and he did not dare to get rid of him, for he threatened him, that if he attempted to do it, he would poison his water, or set the house on fire, and he was actually afraid to attempt to remove him. Lord SYDNEY said it was his duty, when he knew he had such a desperate fellow about him, to have ap plied to the magistrates, if he really desired to get rid of him. Some other statements were then given, tending to show that the house kept by the applicant was a place of resort for the most desperate and abandoned cha racters. The CHAIRMAN said he believed the " 80-Peep" was not within the metropolitan police district. Inspector M‘Gill said it was not. Sergeant Leverick said that when he went to make the inquiries on the Sunday morning he referred to, he asked some questions of the constable of the parish, and he told him he would find plenty of people at the house. Mr. ADAMS—Why did he not interfere, and do his duty ? Mr. DYKE said he believed he told the constable he was afraid to do so. His LORDSHIP then, after a brief consultation with his colleagues, said that the bench were unanimously of opinion that it was their duty to refuse to renew the license, as it was clear that the house was the resort of desperate and abandoned characters, and a nuisance to the neighbourhood. GRAVESEND. EXTRAORDINARY FRAUDS.—IIenry Kingsford, a respectably-dressed man, formerly carrying on busi ness as a miller at Northfieet, near Gravesend, was placed at the bar before Messrs. Staff, Oakes, and Spencer, borough magistrates, charged with obtain ing money under false pretences, by giving cheques on the banking-house of Messrs. Park and Co., of 0:41 Broad.street, he at the time knowing them to be of no value. Mr. J. H. Matthews, solicitor, of Gravesend, ap peared on behalf of the prosecution, and another pro fessional gentleman attended on the part of the pri soner. Mr. Matthews said that he appeared on behalf of Mr. C. Westbrook, an inhabitant of Gravesend, who accused the prisoner at the bar with obtaining goods and money from him under false pre tences. He (Mr. Matthews) would not rely solely on that case, as he believed he was in a condi tion to prove that Mr. Kingsford was a regular trafficker in obtaining money under false pretences, and would therefore state the cases in the order as they occurred. The first case had reference to a bill drawn by a person named Stewart, described as a wine merchant, and accepted by th e pr i soner, f or 341 . This bill was dishonoured, no such person as Stewart being known. The next case he should prove was, that the defendant called upon Mr. Parslow, a re spectable tradesman of the town of Gravesend, and bought a pair of trousers, which came to 1/. 75., and for which in payment he gave a cheque for 5/.,drawn by John Stewart, upon Massrs. Park and Co., of Cushion-court, Broad-street, receiving the difference. This cheque was post-dated, being given on the 16th, and made payable on the 19th of August last. Mr. Parslow, when the day of payment arrived, received a note from the prisoner, requesting him to keep the cheque for a few days, as Ste wart i was not able to meet it. M r . P ar sl o w, however, n the course of business, paid it away, and on its being presented at the bank for payment, the answer was, "no effects." On the 21st of the same month, the prisoner called at Mr. C. Westbrook's, in High street, Gravesend, purchased several silk handker chiefs, paying for them with a cheque for a similar amount drawn by the same John Stewart upon Messrs. Park and Co. Mr. Westbrook paid it into the Commercial Bank, and on the 22d it was re turned with the following addenda:--"Drawn with out authority." The prisoner was then applied to to return the money and the goods he had received, which he said he could not do. He further said that he had been deceived by Stewart, but that he must have money one way or another.:He (Mr. Matthews) said the prisoner bad been most systematic. The cheques were printed, and had every appearance 0 Mr. Stewart being a man of some importance ; but the fact of the priioner knowing the bill to have been dishonoured showed that he had a guilty know" ledge that when he gave the cheques they were of no value, Ste tNa . i . f. no effects in the bank. Mr. Parsiow and Mr. Westbrook having . fully proved the statement of Mr. Matthews in every par ticular, that gentleman called several other witnesses, who proved that the bill drawn by Stewart and ac cepted by the defendant was made payable at Messrs. Loup and Co.'s, No. 6, Great St. Helen's, where, on its being presented, no such person as Stewart Was known. Subsequently a letter was received from Stewart, stating his reason for not taking up the bill. wag, that he had received no consideration from the prisoner for it. This the latter denied. The witnesses were cross-examined with much skill by the prisoner's solicitor, but without skaking their testimony. Mr. Matthews said there was another case against the prisoner ; he had paid away a cheque for 10/. drawn by a person named Rooney, upon the hank of Sir C. Scott and Company, which got into the hands of a gentleman named Murray, residing in London , who, on presenting it for payment, was informed that no such person was known there. He (Mr. Mat . thews) was directed to apply to the prisoner concern' ing it, when he referred him to Mr. Stewart, of Edmund-street, Gravesend. Mr. Weir, of the Commercial Bank, Gravesend , said he had a dishonoured bill at present in his p os * session, drawn by John Stewart upon Mr. Elmes, the surveyor of the port of London, and a cheque a few months since was presented, drawn by Stewart upon the Rev. Mr.' Ball, no such person being known.. The prisoner's solicitor having declined to s ay any' thing in answer to the charge, Mr. Matthews contended that there was quite suf' ficient under the Act 7th and Bth George IV., for the magistrates to send the case for investigation before another tribunal. The question was, had goods and money been obtained by false pretences ? He eon' tended that he had sufficiently proved they were, 0 Kingsford knew when he gave the cheques they we" of no value, Stewart being in insolvent circumstance s, and without the means of paying. The Magistrates, after some consultation, cool' mitted the prisoner for trial, agreeing, however, t° take bail for his appearance at Maidstone, himself in 1001. and two sureties in 501. each. GREENWICH. THREATENED MUTINY ON THE HIGH SRO.' Yesterday William Lazenby, Richard Robinson, Jam e Matthews, Henry M'Millan, William Bowen, and Samuel Lard, seamen belonging to the barque Duk e of Wellington, of 400 tons, John Delany, master, frool St. John's, New Brunswick, were brought before g r• Cottingham, who sat for Mr. Jeremy, charged vi iti d l threatening to kill the captain with a handspike, an ' further to throw him overboard, under the follow in g circumstance; : Captain Delany deposed that he shipped the PT soners for the voyage at St. John's, New Brunsivioy from which port he sailed in July, and arrived in t he , Commercial Docks on Tuesday last. The ship' A 'r timber-laden. On the 29th July the men were turt le ; up to relieve a watch at seven bells A.M. The Prii soners refused to turn out. He spoke to them, an they made an excuse for so doing, saying that th e y had had no watch below the previous day. The nq r morning at seven bells he again called them to the; duty, and they again refused. He called them ! ej ' and told them that the ship's rules must be attend to. They told him he might do his best, and Wet: very abusive. Witness said he must use other mee l ., , and would shoot them if they continued in that - nous state. In the evening they altered their ten et and said they would obey orders and rise at seven bells if called. They, however, continued to use Yell bad language during the voyage, and when at Dover' they abused him in presence of the chief mate, 5 , 1 had left the ship without leave since she had arriv e : The threats used by the prisoners against his life (3- the passage compelled him to seek the protection °f the law—he feared to go to sea again with such 6 mutinous set, it having been communicated to Dm that his life was in danger. He then called Wm. Smith, a seaman, who deposed that the P ri l 'a soner M'Millan had said on the, voyage that he urp ~„. take a handspike and knock the captain down. language was addressed to the other five prisonel" who cried out, " Aye, that's good, he is Irish captain." M'Millan told witness to shut "4 door at night, which would make it quite dark ; Pj would then knock him down with the handspike, en then he would heave the Irish Captain Delany ev; board if it was a dark night. They drew their 101 l every night, using threatening language at the titn e e i i Witness was much frightened. The ship wee victualled for the voyage—food without restriction was allowed. The discontent arose about being oi l at seven bells for next watch. Henry Thompson, another seaman, eorroboretta the evidence of last witness. Andrew Donaldson, ship's carpenter, was ca l e a for the defence, and with much rel uc t ance dep o3 ,. that the prisoners did not refuse his (wit ness ' s ) o ene e Mr. I. Willard, the owner, was on board during t at passage, but was a good deal in his berth. Did - hear the captain complain of the p r i soners . i 1 1. 0 8 sailed with a much better crew, and a much w ° •,,. one. Had heard the prisoners threaten the captt a Was busy at the time, and did not recollect w- words—thinks they were not about his life. Mr. May said it had been proved by credible a n d that they had threaten e d to kill a e c aptain e ll throw him overboard some dark night. t he Mr. COTTINGHAM said, there was no doubt gist th e language had been used by th e p r i soners , a nd Viet ' O l captain was, therefore, entitled to the protection nt the Court. If, however, they had intended to, i fbt, their threats into practice, they had had, no u !,,..ge opportunities sufficient during the nit of the pne — g al; Mr. May said, that similar threats had been 11 ., )- do since the ship had been in port; what would th e : when she again put to sea? the The prisoners denied the char ge , an d s aid that St. vessel was leaky the second day after leaving t he John's. They were pumping h er f ro m six inning morning until eight at night, a n d th a t after croster, the Banks of Newfoundland she became nearly" t he logged. They could not s tand th e wo rk, a n ', oil captain had called out that if they did not co in deck he would blow their brains out. He had 9 ' re, in his hand. They had been 48 ho u r s at the P o il l and wanted rest; and when it was dry weath er . 0 were kept working at the rigging; and whether it wet or dry, Lhey had no rest below. The second mate said that they had three ho tbs rest out of the 48 at the pump, during which owner alone was below in his berth. hi ge Mr. COTTINGHAM said that the men ought t a had rest when the danger was past, which, P e ~r t bef was the cause of discontent. He did not thin' 0 ,10, intended to carry their threats out. The c i4 ,,P or ot however, swears that his life is in danger, and eot, trust it in the hands of the prisoners, and h e .1-, the therefore, direct that their further connection wit that ship must cease here. He then told the prisone r ol d it was a very serious affair, and much to their iclrote discredit as British seamen. The worthy Alag is t bel then recommended the master to pa y than wages up to the time, and discharge them. . 0 0 1 Ths prisoners, after entering into their recoghliii her to keep the peace towards the complainant an d a Majesty's subjects, were discharged. elr BIRTHS. riari On the 30th ult., at Wandsworth-roa 1 , M !s• R • C' of a daughter. grr• On the 31st ult., at Laura-place, Claptom Bowes, of a son. - On the Ist inst., in Mortimer-street, Mrs. Dederick - pity of a daughter. Dan iel On the Ist inst., in DevonsLite.square, Mr.. . a ltir ° ' ling, of a son. u sr, On the 2d inst., in Ch ar l o tt e - s t ree t, Bedford -5 g t Alh er John Elam, of a daughter. We' On the 2d inst., at G rove -l ane , C am berwell , W' Dummler, of a daughter. 001 1 ° 14 ' On the 29th of August, at Albion Villas, G. Wilkinson, of a son. On the 30th ult., at Ludgate-street, Mrs. a son. oe. On the 30th ult., at Swarland-park, the •L' ofr. son, of a son. o if e oi On the 31st ult., at Kingston-on-Thatnes, the de P9ll. Frederick William Ramp of a son. G. Ware, On the 31st ult., at stead, Mrs. J. aGeor ; 0, l e rxri cott, uoi,f li r • MARRIED. bo os . On the 28th ult., at Worship-street, Meeting-,l3,:iierfiei,, H. Black, elder and pastor of the Mill-Yard Se late I. Baptist Church, to Ilarriot, third daughter of the e 4 W. Slater. t' Vi eb9ll lV On the 29th ult., at All Souls Church, St. 3- ‘ 3 s riglc o f R. L. Baker, Esq., surgeon, of Bordesley,Aston, " Eel'' shire, to Emma Matilda, daughter of James Large , "" Old Cavendish -street, Cavendish t re. On the 31st ult., at St. Martin'sq-ina-the-Fields,:— eltle-, A datu fit' tleston, Esq., of the Inner Temple, to Rebecca AnTbe Cit•T daughter of Mr. G. H. Heppel, of 'ri of London. oleo" gag •tt On the 31st ult., at the Church of St. Dior A 100 0 ' Oxford, Mr. D. Nutt, of Fleet-street, London, to youngest daughter of Mr. John Parker, of Oxfor d ' 0, 914 On the 31st ult., at Greenwich, Henry Duntilli! to f tb ° of the Island of Barbadoes, to Mary Elizabeth , r e ' c Princes-street, in . late Bersin Reece, Esq., of the same island. ________/ 11S $R '* Phillips, ntsl72Bth ult., AnneDttel,Ett (laughter of lip Joll a Esq., ofCulham House, Oxfordshire. vr ociS On the 29th ult., at Milner-sq ua re, Islington, gr . ' Bryant Adams, of St. John's-square. u , c klo l6 On the 30th ult., at Beckenham, Kent, Huy"' t-- OX Es On the 30th ult., Rosetta, second daughter 0- Stiebel, Esq., of Russell-square. a . 10° On the 30th ult., at Froomal Lodge, Hampstes r Sheffield Brooks, Esq., of John-street, Bedford-N/4%i., Vet, On the 30th ult.. in Tavistock - p lace, Francis Bli'l l o 71. F.R.S., President of tho Royal As tronomical SocieTr a d h • On the 31st ult., in Cornwall-terrace, R e gent s Cleasby, Esq., aged 69. TOvo London: Printed and Publis hed by MURDO 111; No. 112, Strand, Printer , at The Sux Office , c ; ta ity 0 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. ill th e Middlesex, Tuesday, September 3, 1844 )1 0 , Iv 44, 1.1 ki le - 111 ho t C BI ttr