The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. , racist THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—The probable invasion of the Punjaub occupies a prominent place in our India news of this month. Hostilities, it is said, are meditated there, and this invasion is one of self-defence on the side of this country. Another statement of the case is more simple, and subjects the territory of the Punjaub to , what is called the law of extension on the part a the Indian empire. The two statements may probably be combined. Want of order and government in a native district takes the form of anti -English out breaks; and the Indian empire outside is a pressure always at hand to make its way through any channel opened to it, as air rushes into a vacuum. The result is the combination we mention —native States act the assailant, and English empire extends. The case of the Punjaub is one of a class. No new moral or political hypothesis has to be invented for it. One casuistical mould fits all the stages of our Indian progress from the first. The mould was made under Lord Clive and Warren Hastings; and it still remains in the Government workshop, and forma the foreign policy of one Governor-General after another. Lord Ellenborough and Sir Henry Har dinge are individually as differen t men, perhaps, as could be found to succeed each other; but their po licy is the same. Their policy is the same, because it is neither's o*n policy. Sir H. Hardinge finds his course cut out for him as soon as ever he gets to India. Ile hears as soon as he lands that he is to invade the Punjaub, and has his lesson given him, his line laid down for him—just as a soldier comes to be drilled. The Governor-Generals act, in this respect, one like another. The Indian policy is a Procrustean one with respect to its conductors; and requires spirit and activity rather than originality in the latter. Here, in fact, is the old story again, which recurs like a dream. We heard of Sinde two years ago and Lord Ellenborough; now of the Pun jaub and Sir Henry Hardinge. The internal con dition of this State has been one of the greatest confusion and anarchy for a long time. The chiefs live by plunder, and amuse themselves with perpetual feuds ; a weak minor of questionable legitimacy sits nn the throne, and cannot control them. The Sikhs, a ieowerful military, race, not unlike the Ma melukeg of. Egyp t in position, are filled with a sp i r it of hostility to the Indian Govern anent. poet Igahomed and his son, Akbar Khan, with a third, Yar llahomet, the usurper of Herat, have, it is said, fi n - met ; an alliance, and made arrange ments with lieera Singh a:"'d the Sikhs, in prepara tion for an attack on the E ng ;:sh territories. These intrigues are well known, and Sir eery Hardinge, it is thought, will make use of his kri:.weledge, and anticipate their invasion by an invasion of his own. A singular unanimity is said to pervade the opera tions of the chiefs of the alliance ; and they eihibit altogether a more formidable frontage than a native attack has often presented. Lord Ellenborough showed some acuteness, though an acuteness not con sistent with the rules of the Company's service, in the undisguised and bold partiality with which he treated the military department as opposed to the civil. Lord Ellenborough seemed to foresee the line which things wet* • taking, and saw that the military were the department to be attended to and complimented. India was bright ening up a little from its grave commercial character into the belligerent one; and foreign relations were taking the place of internal. His Lordship took the camp accordingly, and sank the Hon. Company's ser vant in the gallant man of arms. He took a regular taste for a soldier's life, acted the comrade, and looked forward to being the favourite and admired of the Indian army—their great man. We rather question whether, if his Lordship had had the veteran experi ence of a full-blown general, he would have found his enthusiasm so great, and whether the charm of novelty was not a considerable ingredient in the mixture of at tractions which connected Lord Ellenborough with the military department. But so it was. "The only regret I feel," says his Lordship in his farewell speech at the dinner given him by the military society at Cal cutta, " the drily regret I feel at leaving India, is that , of being separated from the army. The most agree able, the most interesting part of my life, has been that which I have passed here, in cantonments and in camp." According as Indian policy takes the foreign direction, the military acquire more and more int portance. If they have a great deal to do, they must be complimented, cheered, and courted. The late Governor-General did this ; and though he did it in a way invidious to the civil service, and contrary, to rule, there was some point in the adoption of the line. Sir H. Hardinge has now a fair field before him. Ile goes out with apparently fewer difficul ties than his predecessor; with a line well marked out for him, and a thoroughly understood Indian policy to carry out. According to the account of our correspondent he has started well, and suc ceeded—though there is a disparaging proverb as to such early successes—in creating a most favourable impression of himself in the eyes especially of the na five gentry. Ile will not have the temptation of a new soldier to set up the military above the civil, and make invidious distinctions. With respect to the . Punjaub—there is no reason why he should wait for a_positive invasion from that quarter before com mencing proceedings, provided he can satis factorily make out that an invasion is threatened. The ordinary rules of self-defence allow an anticipa tion of the attack, provided the intention of attack can fairly be proved. But there should be this proof. Even our Indian policy, not a very straightlaced one, should have its evidence to bring forward on this heed. We have alluded to the subject of the Indian army : we will mention one point—the prac tice of military flogging, which is, it is said, to be revived there, having been dropped ever since Lord William Bentinck's Governor -Generalship. The dis cipline in some of the native regiments seems bad enough, certainly ; but this is not the proper mode of remedying it. Flogging never reclaimed a mutineer; and a recurrence to the practice will be a much more odious thing than the original practice itself. The fault in the native regiments seems to be the want of officers, not of modes of punishment. With the present inadequate establishment the routine work of the army, on which so much depends, is necessarily all done. We shall be disappointed if the addition of an extra captain to each regiment will not supersede the proposed cat-o'-nine-tails. At all events, we hope the (xperiment will be tried first. CHRONICLE.—From Lord Ellenborough's cha racter it might easily have been anticipated that he ' could not quit the Indian stage without committing some of those strange antics which must immortalise him as a hero of political melodrame. Still, his quiet retirement to private life, and the failure of all attempts at Calcutta to get him the usual ovation paid to departing Governors, led us to hope that the award of such abrupt dismissal had recalled him to a sense of dignity, and of the respect due to the high office which he held, as well as to those from whom he de rived it ; and although a rumour reached us by the last mail of his having sat and talked in solemn 'banquet with the military chiefs whom he pa tronised, casting insult and defiance at the civil authorities of the Indian Government, we did not credit behaviour so marked with spite, disgrace, and impolicy. If there is a country in the world in which Europeans of all classes should be taught to hold ami cably and equally together, it is India, where they are so insignificant in numbers and eminent in posi tion. If there is a country where civilian rule and political prudence ought to be made to predominate over brut! ideas of violence and conquest, it is again India, where the material force of the European is as nothing compared with his moral predominance — where wealth and revenue, instead of being co-existent with empire, is-found generally in the inverse propor tion of extent, and where glory is a dear and idle gain, too distant to affect our character with our true rivals, and calculated to awe merely the subject or semi subject races of Asia. . hence all the great men 'who have ruled and conquered Hindostan, gladly embraced every opportunity of sinking the soldier in the statesman, considering administrative reform and organization achieve ments more difficult and more glorious than routing or crushing barbarian hordes. As to Lord Ellenborough, if he was sent to India with any specific views at all, it was as the representative of these ideas. He went out enthusiastically, obstinately, -perversely civilian, and his first act was to " snub" his predecessor, in a proclamation, for having sent armies across the Indus. The smell of gunpowder was, however, too much for the weak brains of the new Governor, and no sooner did he taste of "pomp, pride, circumstance of glorious war," than all his ideas M India, of its wants, of his own duties, and of his employers' wishes, changed as if by the touch of a magician's wand. Whatever censure such unwarranted and sudden change may deserve, it certainly is patter pf amazement that his Lordship should not have been prepared for the strong disap • probation which his whisk round to a war policy must have excited in England. We are not now going to discuss the merit of the achievement wrought under Lord Ellenborough. We may merely remark, that the glories won in battle are the greatest slurs upon his administration. They were glories, because won over enemies equal or su perior to us in numbers, enraged and emboldened by our own rashness and injustice. We perilled success, -where a slight degree of prudence would have ren •dered it so certain, that neither Scindia nor Mahratta (thirst have offered resistance. They were battles fought, not for the security of India or the mainte- Dance of rights, but for the glorification of Lord El lemborough, and the illustration of his military friends. That these friends should have feted him excites neither our surprise nor our censure. But no words ly-,,,ean convey condemnation strong enouh upon an N - ndividual placed in the rank of the Q ueen's vice and representative in India, who would be 'rented is exclusively delighted with all he bacrseen in camps—who, having undertaken such THE Strikl,_ LONDON, FRIDAY MORNiNG, OCTOBER 4, 1844. - • - some very attractive form. It is only by the agency of letters that you can effectually and permanently operate upon the minds of such persons, even to the point of bringing them to listen to their religious teachers ; and, therefore, a knowledge of reading 'and writing is a necessary for a great por tion of our people, if they are to be preserved from a state of utter corruption fatally infectious to the whole community. With such a danger threatening neither the Church nor Church men would withhold the remedy on slight consi derations. They would leave it to the sectarian oppo nents of Sir J. Graham's Bill of last year, to oppose the saving blessing upon selfish grounds—trusting to him who inspired the wisdom of Solomon, to give back the children, whom the dishonest claimants would willing permit to perish, to the real parent, who proved parental love by even the most painful sacrifice. This, we are confident, is the almost uni versal feeling of Churchmen—we know that it has always been ours. Let all the people be educated by the Church by all means, if they will accept educa tion from the Church; but in any case let all the people be educated. as in cantonments and camps, and that he leaves behind him in India no thing or person worthy his regret, save the military ! What a member of a British cabinet, or of the Senate of a constitutional country ! We exclaim loudly against Frenchmen, even against Napoleon, for his changing France into a barrack. We denounce the present admirals and generals of France, who sacrifice the peace and inde pendence of nations to the hoisting of a flag, to the shade of conquest, or to a bulletin recording a feat of military success. But our Lord Ellenborough out- Frenchifies any Frenchman that ever wore sabre. And, indeed, when we hear of his feats, read his pro clamations, and listen to his account of what he loves best and alone, we cannot believe that he is an Englishman; for sentiments and conduct so un- English, so at variance with English reserve, English taste, and English dignity, are not to be met with in biography or history. It will be noted with pleasure that Sir H. Hardinge declined attending the military dinner at which his predecessor made such an unseemly display. Not the most unseemly part of that display was the assurance given that Sir Henry Hardinge, under the advice of the Duke of Wellington, would " take a correct view of the re al interests ohndia." This 'correct view his Lordship explained to be to continue the system of liberality, kind consideration, and favour towards the troops in India. High ex pectations'are accordingly formed of what the mili tary intimate of the Duke of Wellington will do, when his civilian protegi ,'did so much. New regi ment: are spoken of as likely to be raised, one captain to be added to each of the actual regiments. These, and the re-establishment of military flogging for the sepoys, are announced as Sir Henry Hardinge's acts of inauguration. Were such rumours as these to be realised, then, indeed, Lord Ellenborough's threat, conveyed through his old organ, the Englishman, may not prove idle,, via., that Sir Henry Hardinge's sword,though more polished than Lord Ellenborough's, would still cut as keenly against the policy and the interest of the Indian Directors and of the civilian service. We shall, however, not pass judgment on Sir Henry Hardinge from hearsay. GLOBE.—It was not without curiosity we waited to see how Lord Ellenborough would complete his cycle of contradictions in word and action ; and it is not without amusement we read the last exertion of his lungs military. Those who remember Lord Ellen borough's speech at the London Tavern, before leav ing England, and the extraordinary warmth of the expressions it contained of sympathy with the people of India—those who remember (and who can forget?) his first proclamations of policy when arrived at his seat of empire—may sigh or smile, according to their respective temperaments, at the thorough and total contrast of this last flourish of drums and trum pets. According to ',Lord Ellenborough's prologue, his whole soul was turned to the arts of peace, and his whole energies were to be devoted to pacific im provements ; according to his epilogue, his whols soul is devoted to camps and cantonments, and his whole regret in leaving India, is that of being separated from the army. A French Jacobin exclaimed " Mon ame est sans-culotte I" Lord Ellenborough's soul is Sepoy. The hundred millions have vanished from the view of the Brummagem Napoleon ; and all that is not military is, in his estimate, merely Pekin. By the way, talking of Pekin, is is a new light to the British public, that it has to thank Lord Ellen borough for the conduct of the Chinese war, and the peace of Nankin. We are bold to say, this was un known before. It was unknown that the Chinese war was not that of the British arms and councils, but of the Ex-Governor-General of India. If this had sooner transpired, it might have spared Britain a monster ingratii:ide. It was erroneously imagined that Lord Ellenborouh's achievements were Sinde and Gwalior—the former fertile of additional bur thens, and provoked mutinies of his dear Sepoys—the latter w h ere crudeness of conception wa s betra y ed by a b o rtiveness of result. These are Lord Ellenbo rough's trophies : let him not clutch at those won for us by the commenced operations of the late Govern ment, and their successful close under the present. If it be pleaded that the total revolution in the tone of this eccentric ex-functionary, who swaggered in all civil, and swaggers out, as we have seen, all military —is fairly chargeable only on his improved insight into the attributes of our power ; we can only say, that a sense of imperfect initiation should have made him more modest at first ; that a sense of former miscon ception should have rendered him now more cautious. But, if he was wrong before, he has now mistaken for right merely the reverse of that wrong. If he was wrong in his ostentatious announcement that swords were to be turned into pruning-hooks, he is not less wrong in his equally ostentatious announcement that our main stay is the sword. A wise man would have blurted out neither the one nor the other un called-for sentiment. If he must needs make the bases of our power matter of speech, which belong better to action—if he must needs favour our attentive enemies with his fleeting and personal impressions of what we might, would, should, or should not have done—and what we may, can, or shall do—he should, at least, have sought to embrace his whole subject better. If the ruler of India was to put forth review articles on our Indian policy, he should have tried to write them like those ascribed to Mr. Macaulay. If he was resolved to furnish food for Eastern fancy to chew the cud upon, about the prestige of our power, and so forth—his Lordship should have given himself the trouble to present a less crude and more complete idea of that great moral ascendancy. ,Ile began by believing that the " prestige" of Ellenborough and his fortunes was to bear everything before it ; he ends with the mere physical-force charter of Sepoy swords. And he is the Governor, under whom these very Sepoys have been made naturally mutinous by demands of uncon tracted-for servicebeyond that very Indus whose boun dary he had himself designated as our ne plus ultra. Yes, we can well believe Lord Ellenborough now sees reason to hold other views of the posture of civi lised powtsr, girt by semi-barbarians. Notwithstand ing this exclusively martial flourish of his—which flows naturally from the smart which he feels from the civilian rod which has beaten him out of India — we will hope to see him come back among us a sad der and wiser man. Like Napoleon, after taking farewell of his Old Guard, he seeks refuge in Eng land. The Brummagem Napoleon, however, is a shade safer company than the actual one. STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle of this day, in a long article replying to the observations of the Times and Morning Post upon Lord Wham cliffe's speech, asserts that " the Standard shrinks from either publishing or praising the speech." Our answer to the first part of this charge is, that we published the speech at length on Saturday last ; and to the second part we reply, that in defending the principle clearly enounced in Lord Wharncliffe's address, we imagine we did more to serve the speaker's purpose than we could have done by applying the' commonplaces of eulogy to what was plainly intended as a simple unadorned statement of the view of the noble speaker and his colleagues. We published the speech, we re peat it, on Saturday. The Morning Chronicle did not publish it until Tuesday ; nor the Times until yester day. To which of us can the charge of shrinking be most properly applied ? We gave the speech as soon as we got it, and defended it as soon as it was at tacked. What more could we do ? But why should we shrink from repeating our avowal of acquiescence in principles which we have avowed since the very first establishment of this journal, and which the writer of these lines has always maintained ? We have ever held that it is the duty of the State to provide the means of education for all who are not able to provide these means for themselves. For the Church we claim this right, in common with all other denominations of Christians ; and claim also that whatever provision may be made for Dissenters shall not be made in a manner insulting, or otherwise derogatory, to the just social claims of the Church, or in a manner to in jure the interests of that pure religion of which she is the guardian. Subject to these qualifications, which surely are not unreasonable, the most ample provi sions that can be made for the education of the people will be the best for the Church and for the country. We remember that when Lord Brougham first com menced his noble task of promoting the education of the poor, many good but mistaken men expressed alarm at the danger that, as the proposition came from a dis tinguished leader in the latitudinarian Whig party, its effect must correspond with its suspected purpose in undermining the religious principles of the humbler classes. Lord Brougham has otherwise honourably vindicated himself from these unjust suspicions; and the result of his labours has been gloriously opposite to that which was feared from them. In proportion as education has extended, the religious feeling of the populatiOn has advanced ; and not only have the mass become better Christians, they have become more attached Churchmen. It is quite true that in the rural districts the people have always pre served their religious feeling, without the aid of read ing and writing, so long as they adhered to the do mestic hearth, and were provided with the teaching of a faithful parish minister ; and it was this happy view of rustic life which startled many at the pros pect of a change. But, in the rural districts, re ligious knowledge was, like much other useful knowledge, traditional—derived from the oral com munication of beloved parents, and a respected ministry. They know little of history who suppose reading and writing the only means of instruction. The analogy of the general rustic life of England is, wholly !misapplied to the state of social many , of has grown up in the last fifty years in however, lfe that g ou ro r w ma u n p ufa i c a tu t r o in o gpermitted to andour been great in some of our unprovided and neglected country parishes. Men exposed to the corruptions and dis tractions and the gaol fever of the soul, that is sure to be generated where multitudes are crowded to gether without any moral preservative, must become kill Inn rtrta 171111•11 dionravg4l nit; 1 matt. tiennworl to the ant's bill of costs, which included the following items : —" Stamp and oath, 3s. Bd. ; sale, Bs." Mr. GREENWOOD —Why, the Act of Parliament allows but 25. Gd. for the stamp. Defendant—That may be so. Mr. GREENWOOD —Then how do you make out Ss. Bd. ? Defendant-2s. Gd. for the stamp, 2d. for the paper, and Is. for the oath. Mr. GREENWOOD —The Act makes no allowance for paper ; however, it may be customary ; but hew about the oath ? Defendant—A shilling for the con stable before whom the appraisers were sworn. Mr. GREENWOOD —The charge is illegal. The constable has no right to receive a farthing for such a purpose. Defendant—Butl always make this charge. Mr. GREENWOOD-4 dare say you do ; but that does not make the charge the more legal. Let that item be struck off. Complainant—On the day of condemnation (five days after the seizure was made, and before the sale) I offered Mr. Pullen the amount of his bill, as well as the appraised value of the goods, but he refused to receive it, but took them home, and told me to call with the amount on the following day, and I should have my goods back. I did call on that day with the amount, but he refused to receive it, telling me the goods had been sold. Mr. GREENWOOD—Was there a sale ? Complainant —None whatever. Defendant—But I assert there was; and the two appraisers are in court ready to swear they were there. Mr. GREENWOOD—And who bought the goods ? Defendant—The landlord, Mr. Gunston. Mr. GREEN woon—The landlord. Was there any body but the landlord and the two appraisers at this " sale ?" Defendant—No; but that makes no dif ference. Complainant—But the landlord was not there. Mr. GREENWOOD—Is that a fact? Defendant — He was not there, but he was only a few doors away. Mr. GREENWOOD—Then how can you have the effrontery to say he bought the goods? Defendant —They were bought for him. Nothing is more cus tomary. Mr. GREENwoon—There has been no sale, let that item be struck off. What did the goods cost you ? Complainant—They stood me in 251. a very short time ago, but they were valued at only 81. Mr. GREENWOOD said this case was a fair specimen of the system of brokerage practised in Clerkenwell. Nothing could be more iniquitous or illegal. No sale, but the goods of a poor family were swept away and disposed of in some underhand manner tor less than a third, frequently less than a fourth, of their value, whilst the full charges of brokerage were made, and sometimes much more than those allowed by Act of Parliament. He would fine the defendant in three Ines the amount of the overcharge—ll. 7s. and the costs. The money was paid, and the overcharge refunded to the complainant, who thanked the magistrate hear tily, and left the court. Amongst the numerous objects of human infirmity and wretchedness daily brought before this Court, is one half-witted looking creature named Henry Wright. He has only one eye, and there is a vacancy of expression in his countenance, which, though it betokens nothing of insanity, seems to border on fatuity. This man was one of the principal witnesses at the trial of the miscreant Gould, for •the murder of Mr. Templeman. He was then barman in a public-house. During the last few years he has been repeatedly brought before this Court for sleeping in omnibuses, out-houses, and shutter boxes. The Magistrate has, upon , these occasions, usually sent him to the workhouse, but he remains there no longer than a few hours, and resumes his farmer wan dering. He has been found lying in the snow during the night, and if he were not as hardy asa Kamschatkan, he must long since have perished. Last night Police-constable Wright, 304 N, found him sleeping in a slaughter-house, and conveyed him to the station-house. Inspectors Thatcher and Penny said they considered the prisocer was not right in his mind ; the former added that he seemed to be almost starving . this morning, and that he gave him some food in the station-house. The MAGISTRATN directed that hi should be subjected to the examination of the parish surgeon, so that, if he were of unsound mind, he might be provided for in a proper manner. BOW-STREET. Ellen Smith, an Irish woman, was brought before Mr. dal!, charged with creating a disturbance in Stanhope street, Clare-market.• The officer who took the prisoner into custody stated that he saw the prisoner in Stanhope-street the previous night, screaming and crying out that she was a true Catholic, and that she would never be a member of the infernal Bible religion. She also expressed her reverence for his Holiness the Pope in very energetic terms, de claring that he was the father of all the world. She was quite sober. In her defence the prisoner said that she had been married a short time since, and her husband was a Pro testant, but she was a Catholic. Her husband wished her to conform with his religion ; but this, said she, I will never do—no I would sooner lay my head on the block than leave the blessed religion. Mr. HALL—But you must not make a noise in the street. Prisoner—l will always support my religion, and I am ready to lay my head on the block to do so. Mr. HALL—WeII, if you are brought here again for making a noise I shall fine you. You may go now. The prisoner then left the Court protesting that she would never be an apostate. MAR YLEBONE. Wednesday, Mr. John Goodwin Bamby, residing at No. 4, Seymour-place North, Euston-square, and who described himself as an " author," was charged before Mr. Rawlinson on a warrant, with having indecently assaulted Hannah Snelgrove, a pretty looking girl, his servant. The appearance of defendant was singular in the extreme. His•hair was of extraordinary length, and from his chin a iandpeoloUred beard shot forth, which reached nearly as low as the top button of his waistcoat. He wore a white hat, and a shirt collar a-la Byron. His wife was present during the " deli cate investigation." Complainant stated that she entered upon her situa tion on the 12 th of September, and that on the fol lowing day defendant laid hold of her, and asked her to go up stalls with him. She refused, and threat ened to tell her mistress. In about a week afterwards, as she was coining down stairs, he took liberties with hei, and in ~consequence of his behaviour she had quitted the house. Mr. RAwuNsoN--What is your master ? Com plainant—He is what they call a Socialist, sir. Defendant, in a written statement which he read, denied the truth of what had been alleged against him, and dwelt strongly upon the fact of complainant not having mentioned a m single riot syllable to his wife with regard to any iprop of conduct y his part. Neither of the parties had any witness to produce, and, Mr. RAIYLINSON ordered the defendant to enter into his own recognisance in 201. to appear at the sessions, in the event of complainant thinking fit to indict him. John Dwyer, a middle-aged man, having the appear ance of a groom or coachman, was charged with having obtained four pair of trousers, a coat, a silk waistc oat, and two cravats, by false pretences, from th e valet of Captain Williams, of 36, Connaught sq uare. The p r isoner had been employed to remove the fur niture of Captain Williams from Connaught - squar e to another house, which he had lately taken. lie came to the valet on Tuesday morning last, and told him that the Captain had given him the clothes, which were in a drawer in one of the rooms. The valet remarked that the Captain bad given him no instructi ons to do so, hut believing his story he ultimately gave him the articles in question. Capt. Williams said he was unwilling to prosecute the prisoner for the sake of his wife and family. He had given him a quantity, of clothing, and that was the way he repaid his generosity. The prisoner, who said he understood that the c tillp captain intended to give him the things, was remanded Sa turday, to give the police time to se arch for them. LAMBETH-STR EET. Wedneday William Sefton, a powerful seaman, was brought before Mr. Henry, u pon hiwn confession, The prisoner, it appeared, of being a deserter from the 66th Re s o giment of Foot twenty years ago. had given himsel f u p to the sentry on duty in front of the Royal Mint, Tower hill, as a deserter, at an early hour on Tuesday morning, and was locked up- When brought before Mr. Henry, the prisoner, who app eared p erfectl y col lected in his manner, ac knowledged that what wa s said was perfectly true; that he had enlisted in the 66th Regiment at Hull about twenty years ago, and after remaining three weeks with the regiment, had deserted. In reply to Mr. Henry's questions, he said that immediately after his desertion he went to sea, g i w ing himself up was that and from that time up to the present, had been serving in her gpjesty's and the merchant service. lie also said his reason tor he had acknowledged being a deserter to Cue; 0r , ,?%v he had last sailed with, and being ] on unfriendly terms or the other of them would give him into custody as with many of them, he strongy suspected that one aldeserter, and he therefore thought his best course was to give himself up. Mr. HENRY said he thought the case a very un usual one, but still he felt bound to detain the prisoner and report him as a deserter. lie added that from his age (forty years) and the nature of his occupa tion for twenty years, he thought him of little use to the army, particularly as he iou3t have entirely f o r. gotten the slight exercise he acquired in three weeks drill. The prisoner vim here about to be removed from the Court, when the sergeant, in reply to the latter remark of Mr. Henry, observed that while in military custody, the prisoner talked a good deal ab o ut marching and countermarching, and endeavoured as well as he was able to keep the st e p wit h the soldiers. This circumstance struck Mr. Henry as indicative of mental aberration, and he in consequence again questioned the prisoner very closely. His replies to many_ of the questions were perfectly rational, but, his difference with his late PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. NEW ZEAL AND.—(CoNenunEn.) "The error in policy which your Committee have pointed out as having in our opinion been fallen into by the officers who have held the government of New Zealand, in not asserting the right of the Crown to all the unoccupied soil of these islands, is very closely connected with another, to which we also feel it necessary to advert. It appears to us that there has been a want of vigour and decision in the general tone of the proceedings adopted towards the natives; measures have not been taken, as we think they ought, for making the original inhabitants under stand that they are now to be considered as British subjects, and must therefore abstain from all conduct inconsistent with that character. The local authori ties may have been guided by a desire to treat the natives of the soil with the most scrupulous justice, and with the greatest consideration ; but we are not the less persuaded that, not only in what has been done with regard to the ownership of land, but also in showing too much respect for native customs, they have been led to pursue a line of policy which in its consequences must be injurious to the true interests of those, out of consideration to whom it has been adopted: We agree in the opinion expressed by of the witnesses we have examined (M r. Earp), that the rude inhabitants of New Zealand ought to be s treated in many respects like children, and that in dealing with them, firmness is no less necessary than kindness. In the first instance there was on the part of the natives a disposition to defer with almost super stitious reverence to the authority of the Govern ment; and had this authority been firmly and judi ciously exercised to suppress intestine war, and all , savage and barbaro us customs, and to enforce between diff ere nt tribes and between individuals the great principles of justice and respect for property, no serious resistance would probably ever have been at tempted. But from an over-sensitive fear of in fringing upon native rights, the authority which, had it bean decidedly assumed, would, there is every reason to believe, have been willingly submitted to, has been lost, and the consequence hss been, that murder and cannibalism have been allowed to be com mitted unpunished, and that very serious hostilities have broken out between different tribes, while the right of the British Government to interfere has been repudiated by the more powerful party, and the want of the promised protection loudly complained of by the weakest. Your Committee are persuaded that an en lightened humanity and a regard for the real welfare of the native tribes require that British power and authority should be resolutely exerted to put a stop to such a state of things, to maintain internal peace, and to prevent native customs and usages from being acted upon in a manner inconsistent with good order and morality, and with the progress of civilisation. We would beg to refst to the report of Captain Grey, the Governor of South Australia, on the best means of promoting the civilisation of the aboriginal inhabi tants of Australia, which was transmitted by Lord J. Russell to Captain Hobson, for his guidance, as con taining an able exposition of the policy which ought to , be pursued upon this important and difficult subject. ' " It is necessary to observe that the policy we recommend requires for its safe adoption, in the pre sent state of affairs that the Governor of New Zea land should have at his disposal more power than he now possesses of enforcing obedience to his authority. We see no reason to apprehend a successful attempt by the natives to overturn by force the power of the Government; we concur with Major Bunbury, in thinking that 'the jealousy and rivalry of different tribes amongst themselves would prevent their acting with any effect against the European population,' and we have no doubt that civilisation and intelligence, in the event of a struae, would maintain their ac customed superiority ; still we consider that it is of the utmost importance, in order to avert the Calami ties which must ensue from even an attempt at resist ance to the authority of the Governor, that he should be armed with so obviously superior a power as to prevent any such attempt from being made. Addi tional means of enforcing obedience to lawful autho rity are required, not merely against the natives, but against the lower clasi of emigrants, an account of whose insubordinate proceedings at Nelson, which from the want of force could not be properly put down,- will be found in the Appendix. " Adverting to the scattered situation of the settle nietais whip!: have been formed, and to the importance of their all being not only promptly protected when ever an emergency may arise, but also frequently visited by the Governor in person, we conceive that by far the most useful addition which could be made • to the force at his disposal would be that which would ' be afforded by placing an armed steamer of moderate size under his orders. In addition to this, we think that a militia composed of the settlers should be organised, from which we v. ou'd by no means ex elude such of the natives as should so far have adopted the habits of civilised life as to be fit to bear arms in the same ranks with Europeans • we need also hardly observe that such a three should always be kept under the complete control of the Governor, and that he should always have such a proportion of regular troops under his. command as not to be en tirely dependent upon the militia for support. We are further disposed to believe that advantage might result from endeavouring to create a permanent native force under European officers, but in which their own chiefs might also, perhaps, hold; commands ; suet a force would probably afford, not only a cheap addition to the military power of the Governor, but ........: ba;nd nrp - ssed about shipmates, he said he was in dread of their waylaying also a valuable instrument for gradually training - The him, in company with persons they had employed for i natives to habits of order and subordination. the purpose, and giving him a desperate thrashing. " Your Committee cannot offer these recomme Mr. HENRY, satisfied from this that his mind was tions, tending to what may be thought a more severe wandering, directed that he might be taken to the ; enforcement of authority over the natives, ritheut, station-house for the night, and that the person at at the same time, expressing their strong sen se of the whose house he lodged, as well as anybody else know- ' duty incumbent upon the Government of adopting ing anything about him, should be in attendance on the most effective measures for their welfare and im the following day. Iprovement. With this view, we conceive tTeat every Wednesday Mrs. Conne, the prisoner's landlady, effort should be made to amalgamate the 'two races ; attended, and said she had known the prisoner for more particularly, the utmost attention should be paid many years, and that he had been in the habit while I to the education and training of the rising generation in London of lodging at her house. lie had always of the aborigines; and whenever their improvement been an exceedingly well conducted and sober man, lin intelligence will admit of it, the natives should be and she had never observed any peculiarity in his placed in every respect on a footing of perfect manner until Saturday night last. On that night he equality with their white fellow-subjects, and ai soon had very much alarmed herself, husband, and family, as possible, they should be employed in the civil by his extraordinary conduct, and they were corn- service of the Government in any situations in which pelled to sit up with him all night. He kept scream- I they can make themselves useful. We also attach ing out that a steam-frigate was coming over the much importance to the adoption of a good system of houses for him, that in every moment he expected making reserves of land for their benefit. These re the Horse Guards, and was in the act of throwing serves ought, in our opinion, to be of moderate size, himself out of the window, when her husband I and interspersed with the lands destined for the occu caught him. pation of settlers ; the natives should be encouraged, Mr. HENRY, on hearing this, felt quite satisfied as themselves, to occupy and to cultivate the land thus to the state of the poor man's mind, and ordered his reserved for their benefit, and only those parts of it immediate removal to the parish workhouse, prepara- for which they might have no immediate occasion tory to his being sent to a place of proper security. should be allowed to be let on lease to Europeans, the GREENWICH. leases being restricted to a moderate term of years, Wednesday Ann Smith alias Watson alias Mary Ann and the rents so obtained being considered as ap- Stow, a dress-maker (of very respectable connec- plicable only for their advantage. By this arrange tions), carrying on business in Brand-street, Green- meat the natives established upon such reserves being wich, was brought up for final examination, charged scattered, a few together, amongst the European with stealing goods from the shops of numerous linen population, would be more likely than under any drapers, silk-mercers, and other tradesmen in Green- other plan which has been suggested, gradually to wich and Deptford, under the following circum- adopt the customs and way of life of their civilised stances : neighbours ; whereas, if the land reserved for them Charles Harris ' haberdasher and linen-draper, were in lar g e blocks, a n d they were collected together Brunswick-place, Greenwich, identified two pieces of in considerable numbers, the probability is, that they cotton print, consisting respectively of 14 yards and would cling far more pertinaciously to the habits of 171 yards, recently missed from his stock. These savage life, and if so, this interesting people would articles had heen traced by the police to the shop of too surely melt away before the advancing tide of Mr. Delany, a pawnbroker, in Church-street, Green- European settlement. wich. Witness had no recollection of the prisoner "It is an evil of which the experience of other coming to his shop. colonies affords frequent examples, that the progress Daniel Riordan, shopman to Mr. Delany, said that of settlement is impeded by land coming into the he took the articles produced in pledge from the pri- possession of persons who endeavour to derive a soner. She had often brought piece goods to pawn, profit, not from its improvement, but by suffering it I and gave the name of Smith, George-street. On the to lie waste until it acquires value from the labour last occasion she gave the name of Watson. and capital expended in the surrounding district ; it, William Hardman, linen and woolen-draper, therefore, appears to us, that means should be taken Blisset-street, Greenwich, deposed that he had - lost to guard against this abuse in New Zealand. This goods out of his stock. Knew prisoner, who was in will, we trust, be to a great extent effected by the the habit of purchasing goods at his shop. This regulations which will prevent property in land from witness identified _a piece of unbleached calico, mea- being acquired otherwise than by purchase; but, as suring 60 yards when in his stock, which had been a further security, we would recommend that some pledged by the prisoner for five shillings. part of the colonial revenue should be raised by Mr. D. Riordan, shopman to Mr. Delany, de- means of a tax upon land. On the North American posed that he advanced money upon it on the 23d of continent, when a tax has been imposed upon land September. The prisoner had since denied having with the view of checking its being held by persons pawned it, or any knowledge whatever of the article. not really intending to make use of it, we believe the Emily White, of No. 19, Blissett-street, wife of a tax has generally been laid upon wild land only. carpenter, deposed that she saw the prisoner pass from Looking, however, to the difficulty of accurately de- Mr. Hardman's, with a large roll of linen under her termining the degree of improvement which should arm on the 21st ult. Witness lives opposite to Hard- exempt land from a tax applying only to that which man's, and knew the prisoner for some time past, is designated as wild, and to the facility thus afforded though not acquainted with her. She was surprised for evading the burden, it appears to us more ad at the moment at seeing her carry so large a parcel. visable that such a tax should be imposed on all John Low, of the firm of Thomas Wilkinson, Ker- land, whether wild or otherwise. If the tax were shaw, and Low, linen-drapers and silk-mercers, Lon- low (we think it ought not to exceed 2d. an acre) it don-street, Greenwich, identified two pieces of Irish would be unfelt as a practical burden on land really linen, 14 yards of gros de Naples, two mouselaine de turned to profitable account, while even this small laine dresses, and two pieces of cashmere for dresses, payment recurring annually, would powerfully tend comprising 22 yards. to discourage the retention of land by parties deriving Mr. John Dawson, pawnbroker, Skelton-lane, no immediate advantage from it. Greenwich, proved lending 15s. upon one of the pieces a" Such a tax ought not of course to apply to land of Irish linen, on the 23d of September. The pri- now occupied by the natives, or to that held as re soner gave her name Watson, George-street, Green- serves for their benefit. The land granted to the wich. He had also advanced money on a piece of New Zealand Company ought also to be regarded in cotton on the 30th of August, on a piece of cashmere a different light from that held by private individuals; Gs., on another piece of Irish linen 125., and a roll of they have obtained that land in the character of silk 17s. agents for the public in carrying on the work of Other cases having been adduced, colonisation ; so long, therefore, as they adequately Sergeant Lovell said he had a vast number of du- discharge the duties belonging to that character, they plicates in his possession still, which he had found ought not to be subjected to the tax in respect of land about the prisoner's apartments, which she had hid they hold for this purpose ; at the same time, care away. They consisted of books, scarfs, tea-kettles, should be taken that no privilege capable of being fire-irons, brushes, flat irons, bedding, &c., nearly all abused should be given to them. We would, there new, and which he had very little doubt were also fore, suggest, that the lands remaining unsold in the stolen property. hands of the Company, should be free from the tax, so Mr. JEREMY asked the prisoner what she had to long as the extent of land so held should not exceed say to the charge ? that which would remain to them supposing that The prisoner declined to say anything. from the commencement of their operations they had The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute, one year with another sold 1-25th part of the land and the prisoner was fully committed for trial. assigned to them by the Crown. Should their sales upon the whole fall short of this, they might fairly he required to pay the tax upon the difference. It might also be proper to insist, as a condition for their enjoying the proposed exemption, that a fixed proportion of the proceeds of their land sales should be applied to the promotion of emigration. " Your Committee have now stated very fully their views upon those parts of the subject referred to them which have the most important bearing upon the practical measures which ought now to be adopted, and having in their resolutions adverted to some of those measures which do not seem to require any particular explanation, had originally intended to have offered some remarks upon the complaints which the servants of the Crown in the colony, upon the one side, and those employed by the New Zealand Company on the other, have mutually made against each other; but upon further deliberation, it has ap peared to us that the unhappy differences which have prevailed are most likely to be allayed by our for bearing to pronounce an opinion which must of ne cessity involve an expression of blame on sonic, if not all, of those who have taken part in these proceed ings ; we therefore have thought it most expedient to abstain altogether from entering further into this ' part of the subject; even as to the unhappy affair at Wairau, by which so many valuable lives were lost, we will add nothing to the resolution which we have unanimously adopted, and we will only express our earnest hope that all classes of settlers, and more especially those persons to whom important duties in the newly-established colony have been entrusted, either by her Majesty's Government or by the Com pany, will feel that the interest and welfare of all re quires that harmony should be re-established, and that this can only be accomplished by mutual for bearance and moderation." AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER. (From the Farmer's Magazine.) It is certainly a most pleasing task for us to have to report, this month, most favourably of the weather for harvest work. Notwithstanding some few showers have fallen in most parts of England, the atmosphere has proved, taken as a whole, as fine as could have been desired. This fortunate circumstance has, as our readers must be aware, produced benefits of no ordinary nature to the British husbandman, whose time, during the month, has been actively occupied in the field. Such was the rapidity with which cutting and carrying were carried on in its early part, that a general conclusion of those' highly important opera tions, so far as regards wheat, barley, and oats, was arrived at by or very shortly after the 15th, while by the 20th the beans and peas had been all secured. In those districts north of the Humber, though a few patches of oats and beans are still out, the crops may now be considered as safely stacked. A difference of opinion, as is almost invariably the case at this season, appears to have sprung up as to the quality of the present year's produce ; but this, in our opinion, is a question speedily set at rest. It is quite evident that, at the commencement of cutting, a time marked with considerable humidity in the southern counties, large quantities of wheat and barley were carried too hurriedly ; hence reached the stack-yard in a condition alike unsatisfactory to the growers as well as to the dealers. This, however, was an exception to the general rule ; for general we may consider it when the resplendent weather w.hich followed is taken into consideration. As might be expected, the farmer's care is that of wisely disposing, at the earliest possible period, of his damp wheats, apprehensive as he may be of their not improving in stack ; hence the primary cause of so many out-of-condition parcels having been brought forward in the different markets. Taking, therefore, this year's produce of the grain crops from one end of the country to the other, we maintain, and we think, upon the very best authority, that it has never been exceeded, though it might have been equalled in quality, in any previous year. Thus much as relates to quality, and we shall now briefly revert to produce. It is admitted on all hands, though, of course, partial deficiencies are to be met with, that the yield of wheat this year for England is a very large one—consider.. ably above an average of years. At to barley, there is certainly a deficiency in it, and, to supply the fall ing off, a steady importation of foreign will, we think, be required. Oats, again, are not to say abundant, yet the produce is very nearly an average one. A slight falling off is also observed in beans and peas. In con sequence of the want of moisture in the early part of the season, the straw of all descriptions of - grain is unusually short. That circumstance has continued to operate mpst weindielally to the interests of the graing community, whose supplies of pasture herbage have been smaller than have been known for a series of years past ; consequently very great exertions are now being made, by sowing winter tares and vetches to provide food for the stock. For the time of year—arising chiefly from the comparative sluggishness in the demand for wheat here, and the low price at which that article has been disposed of—the imports of foreign wheat have not proved large, though they have quite equalled our n ecessities. Of Canadian flour, however, from the premium offered for its importation by the new Flour Bill, the receipts have been large beyond all precedent, quid no doubt will continue so while the present legis lative enactment continues in force. Our advices from Quebec and Montreal inform us that not less than 370,000 barrels of flour have been exported this season against about 180,000 at the same time last A new species of diser.se has now appeared amongst LAW INTELLIGENCE. JUDGES' CHAMBERS, Oct. 3. (Before the Lord Chief Baron POLLOCK.) Yesterday morning William Nash, an omnibus proprietor, whose omnibuses run between Bayswater and the City, was brought up on habeas from the New Westminster Bridewell, to which prison he had been committed by Mr. Jardine, one of the magis trates of Bow-street, for the period of one calendar month, on a charge of furious driving, opposite St. Clement's Church, in the Strand, in the custody of William M'Ken, one of the warders of the prison. William Ramsden, a conductor of one of the Shep herd's-bush omnibuses, was also brought up before the same Learned Judge on habeas, from the City Compter, in order to be discharged, from a conviction of Mr. Alderman Farebrother, charging him with wilful misbehaviour in having deceived a passenger relative to his destination. Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, attended on behalf of the prisoners, and the magistrates' clerk of Bow-street, and Mr. Martin, from the office of the City Solicitor, appeared to support the convictions. It appears that the magistrates of the different police-offices throughout the metropolis have come to a resolution, in consequence of the numerous cases of complaints of furious driving, as well as misbehaviour of omnibus drivers and conductors, in order to pro tect the public from danger, imposition, or incivility, that in every instance where the offence is fully made out to their satisfaction that they will commit the parties complained against to prison, for the period of one or two months, instead of inflicting a fine, which the magistrates maintain is not an adequate punish ment, as the fines, however heavy, are invariably paid out of a fund established for that purpose. The City magistrates have also come to a similar resolution, and during the last two days, the two prisoners having been convicted, were accordingly committed for the above term. Mr. LEWIS, on behalf of the prisoner Nash, now argued at some length that the conviction was lost on the face of it, and that the complaint should have been made, in accordance with the terms of the Act of Parliament, within seven days after the offence had been committed. In this instance the cause of com plaint arose on the 20th ult., and that therefore, tak ing the following seven days, the complaint should have been made before the 27th, instead of which it had been made eight days after, and the magistrate had no jurisdiction. Mr. Lewis cited a great number of cases in support of his argument, independent of which he said he had two other objections to the con viction, which conviction he was inclined to think that his Lordship would at once say was bad in law The commitment did not describe the description of vehicle that he was furiously driving; and the complaint alleged to be on the oath of Mr. Bain bridge and others, and the commitment did not specify that the oath was administered in the presence of the magistrate, or by him, and therefore he contended that the magistrate had not shown that he had any jurisdiction. In the case of " Regina v. King," Mr. Justice Patteson had clearly laid it down that the jurisdiction must be distinctly shown, and in that case, where the want of jurisdiction was apparent on the face of it, the Learned Judge said that he could not assume that the magistrate had jurisdiction, and it was a defect which rendered the conviction bad in law, and his Lordship consequently discharged the prisoner. The Lord Chief BARON intimated that it would be the more convenient course to hear Mr. Lewis in Rainsden's case before he gave his decision. Mr. Lewis informed his Lordship that some of the points' were the same, which he would not again argue ; but he would principally rely, that the com plaint was made after eight days, and also that the party alleged to have been deceived with respect to the route of the omnibus was not the complaining party, and consequently it was not an offence under the 28th section of the Metropolitan Carriage Act. His LORDSHIP overruled most of the objections, but said that as there were one or two very important points for consideration, he would not at present pro nounce on the legality of the conviction, but would take a day or two to consider, and should, therefore, adjourn the case till Saturday, when the prisoners could again be brought up. The prisoners were then removed in custody. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 3. There were about a dozen cases put down for hearing before Sir Charles F. Williams, but they were all un opposed, and therefore uninteresting. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A young man, named John Hitchcock, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having stolen a great number of pairs of boots in the house of Mr. Smith, of Barge-yard. The prisoner, who was in the employment of a tradesman in the same building, was in the habit of going into the prosecutor's warehouse, and having in curred the suspicion of one of the shopmen, was seized and searched, and a pair of boots, which were identified as the prosecutor 's, was found in a basket which he was carrying. The policeman into whose custody he was given found upon him several dupli cates for boots pledged at a great variety of places, and those boots were ascertained to be the property of Mr. Smith.—The prisoner was committed for trial. Two girls, named Ellen Hart and Emma West, who had very much the appearance of country-bred girls, were charged with having plundered a shop in Greenwich of about thirty yards of doe-skin cloth, value 4/. Mr. Lowe, jun., who is connected with the shop which was plundered, stated that the piece of cloth was exposed at the door, and had been suddenly missed from the place. The firm had been very often robbed by shoplifters. One of the servants of the concern stated, that in consequence of information which he received, he went to the railroad, and 'saw the two prisoners go into one of the carriages. The train was just about to start at the time, and witness got into another of the carriages, determined to follow and cause the pri• soners to be apprehended. Upon the arrival of the train at the London terminus he saw the two pri soners get out and-take a cab, into which they both went, and as soon as the cab reached Gracechurch street he directed a policeman to take them into cus tody. At the bottom of the cab the piece of cloth was found. It was identified. The prisoners both declared that a woman had given the piece of cloth to them at Greenwich to take for her to Aldgate-pump, where she promised to meet them. The policemen present, upon being asked whether they knew the prisoners, replied that they had never seen either of them before. The prisoners declared that they had never before been in such a place, and that they did not know what it, was to be before a magistrate. They were committed for trial, and upon being introduced to the lodge at Newgate, were immediately recognised as persons who had been tried at the Central Criminal Court fur shoplifting, at which act it was stated they were particularly clever. GUILDHALL. Two precocious varlets, the one thirteen, and the other fifteen years of age were placed before Mr. Alderman Farebrother, charged with picking pockets. Alderman FAREBROTHER addressing the younger prisoner—Have'nt we met before ? Prisoner—No, I never was took before. Alderman FAREBROTHER—Ob, yes, we did though. We met in Newgate. The two juveniles were sent', to where it was sup posed they would be better known by the officers. Sarah Smith, a woman with a child in her arms, was charged with breaking five squares of glass in the window of Mr. Butterfield, licensed victualler, Farringdon-street. The shopman said that the prisoner was in at the bar yesterday drinking with her husband, and as she was quarrelsome and fighting he put her outside, when she broke the windows. Alderman FAREBROTHER—The husband, having the money, was kept inside of course. How much did he drink ?—Only half a pint of beer. Alderman FAREBROTEIER — Ob, more than that. You ought to have turned the husband out, and the wife would then have gone away quietly. The husband was then called in, and after some few questions and replies, the Alderman discharged the prisoner. CLERKEIV WELL. BROKERAGE EXTORTION.—Mr. James Pullen, a broker, residing at 62, Eagle-street, Red Lion-square, was summoned to answer the complaint of Thomas Davis, residing at 34, Liquorpond-street, Gray's Inn lane. The complainant deposed that he was a milkman. He had been distrained upon by Mr. Pullen for rent due to his landlord, Mr. Gunston, living in tho same cattle in various parts of the country, and which has, we find, produced most serious, most extensive losses. The beasts seem to be suddenly seized with a violent cold ; and unless immediate remedies are adopted, they are lost in a short time. The shortness of keep has produced some un usually large stock fairs in different quarters, which has caused the trade to be unusually dull, at miser ably low prices. Although the turnip crop is not expected to be a productive one, a very great improvement is noticed in it, yet moisture is still much required to increase the bulb. As the working of the new tariff is a matter in which our readers are so immediately interested, we shall here devote some space to its consideration. On its first passing into law, the greatest anxiety was manifested by our graziers and others as to its proba ble effect upon the value of stock in this country, from large importations. Speculators of all classes were speedily abroad in the principal markets to purchase cattle for our markets, and not a few of them were enabled to obtain what may be considered fair profits- The deficiency of good beasts abroad, and the advanced rates demanded for them, caused the importers, in the latter end of last year, to act with caution in their operations, more especially as the quotations here were ruling lower than at the corresponding periods of some past seasons. These, then, are the principal rea sons why the arrivals of foreign beasts have not equalled in numbers those which were once expected. During the present year, the arrivals of stock have been tolerably extensive. Our advices from Scotland sta'e that harvest work has progressed rapidly, under the most favourable auspices, and that the principal portion of the crop is already secured in excellent condition. The various markets have been only moderately supplied with grain ; yet the demand has ruled inac tive at about stationary prices. In Ireland, cutting and carrying have been brought to a pretty general conclusion. The produce of the crops is fairly represented. Fine wheat has sold freely, at full prices. In other kinds of corn a fair business has been doing. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN. For the Week ended Sept. 03. 1814, made up from the Ret urns of Mt In pector- in the different Cities and Towns in England anti Wales. per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 4ss 9d I Oats Barlcy ...... 341 Id Rye - --- • AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. - Weeks endingl l :WHEAT. !BARLEY.' OATS. RYE. BEANS. I TRAWL --- Aug. 24 '4O 1! 33 3 20 4 36 8 35 10 34 0 31 4O 4 34 11 20 7 34 2 37 0 33 1 0 Sept. 7 5B 11 3.5 9 20 5 SA 4 39 1 33 10 14 ..... 21 45 3 35 6 20 5 35 7 37 3 33 I 28 45 9 34 5 20 5t 37 3 96 8 33 0 IMPLAIAL ACIaItiGIATI AVXItAOIII OT THI SIX. witaKS Wheat 471 sd. 1 Oats Barley. ...... . 355. Od . 1 Rye .... DIJTIsa Olt FOttIIGN CORN. Wheat ........2Cs. Oil. Oats .....» 6s. Od. Beam.... 5 , . OIL Barley ... ..... . 31. Od. I Rye .....« 7s. 6d. 1 Pease...». 9 4 . 66' MARKET NEWS.—(YES HAT MARKETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4110 s I Useful ditto, 41 I2s to 41 18s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 to 5/ 5s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/ 6s ; Oat Straw, 118 s tO 11 lOs ; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 13s per load. A moderate supply, and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 155 to 4110 0 Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51; fine Upland ditto, 51 25 to 51 8s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/; Oat Straw, 1188 to 1 ' lOs ; Wheat Straw, 11 lls to 11 13s per load. SupPli limited, and trade active. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 318 s to 4110 8 + Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51; fine Upland ditto, 51 t l 51 5s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61 lOs ; Oat Straw, 8s to 11 lOs ; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 11 12s per lotto' A fair average supply, and a sluggish inquiry. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTHALL, OCT. 2.—The supply of fat stock being, rather extensive, the demand was throughout heavy, sou prices were with difficulty supported. Still, however, good clearance was effected. Beef, from- 2s 6 `e s to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s ; Veal, 3s 6d 1 " 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 8d per iilbs,;to sink the offal. Supply :—Beasts, 69; Sheep, 3,930; Calves, 591 Pigs, 41. RoMFORD, OCT. 2.—There was comparatively little doing in our market to-day, yet prices ruled abvut ate; tionary. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 2 5 to 48 ; Lamb, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 2 a' and Pork, 2s 4d to 3s 8d per Sibs. Suckling - Cale 18s to 32s ; quarter-old Store Pigs, 168 to 20s ; en' Mitch Cows, with their Small Calf, 161 to 191 each. t HAILSHAM, OCT. 2.—Prime Mutton sold readily, full prices ; otherwise the trade was very dull ; Beef, 2 6d to 4a ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s ; 613 Pork, 2s 4d to 3s 6d per Blbs. ARUNDEL, OCT. I.—Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 1° 1 ; 11futton, 2s 6d to 4s ; Veal, 3s 6d t o 4 s ; an d PoPZ 2s 6d to 3s Gd per 81bs. A good s u pply, an d a sluggis h demand. uoi CIucHESTER, OCT. 2.—There was very little h cer, ness doing here to-day. on the annexed terms 6 d from 2s Gd to 3s 10d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s; Veal , to 4s ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per 81bs. 511 0 %%,. Calves. 18s to 325; quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s tO 1 7; and Mulch Cows, with their Small Calf, 161 to 191e4°... 'ERDAY. - SHOC KING ACCIDENT.—Between ten and el efe , 4 ll o'clock onW e d nes d ay , as J . U n d erwoo d , a b out e i g ht Yea — s of age, the son of very respectable parents, residing No. 9, Buckingham -street, Pimlico, was, with a crow of other children, in the Broad Sanctuary, Westinies t . er ; looking at one of the street cleansing machines stank% there, when he either fell, or was pushed, against it another boy at the instant the horse drawing it moved off er and his right hand being drawn in between two of th cog-wheels, was literally crushed to pieces, two of 13 ., is a fingers being torn off, and falling at his feet. The chi', was instantly carried into the Westminster Hospitt" Amputation of the wrist, it is feared, will become inch . ' pensable. LOSS OF A VESSEL WITH ALL HANDS OFF Y a"At j a : MOUTH.—A melancholy shipwreck occurred on Sunot„ . ' afternoon last off Yarmouth, about ten miles distant fro; the coast. A large foreign vessel, reported to be schooner, with a white ball painted on her bows, wv suddenly seen to capsize in a gale of wind and disaprefl; about a mile outside of the Cross Sands. She had 5 1 0 11 0 of distress flying, and was apparently running for tl j land when the catastrophe happened, and it is fea l.ei l . § that every person perished. There were several colh a ri passing through the roads at the time, and the mast . . immediately bore to the spot where the vessel had g i3 ", o down, in the hopes of picking up some of the unforttle a ' crew, but none were to be seen. . 11) 1 [ADVERTISEMENT.] —A NEVER FA IL I NG RElth'" FOR ALL CASES OF SCURVY, SCORBUTIC HUMOU R" ' AND SCROFULA, By HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND 01 26 ; MENT.—EXTRAORDINARY CURE. —Henry Hill, no lo footman to Lord 8., was lately discharged from the pit of B's. service in consequence of his having la r d scorbutic blotches all over his hands and f a ce, to m l 4 great disfigurement. For twelve months he was treate by his master's medical attendants, but to no purPe d e ' and the case was at last declared incurabl e , and he vi ne „ .- discharged. The poor fellow then, as a forlorn hfrii„ commenced using Holloway's Pills and Ointment, vie' c l effectually eradicated the disease from h i s WO in less than three weeks. Sold at Professor nollcr way's Establishment, 224, Strand (where advice a l l be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vendor s - medicine throughout the civilised world. BIRTHS. of On the Ist inst., in Hannover-terrace, Mrs. Longma n ' a daughter. e. On the 29th ult. ' at Anglesea, Hants, the Hon. Mrs. • Trench, of a dau g hter. ilar th On the 28th ult., at th e Vi carage , Abb o t' s L ang l e y, the wife of the Rev. R. Gee, of a son. On the 28th ult., at Taliaris, Carmarthenshire, the lady Es Wilam Peel, of a dahter. On the 29th u q. lt. , ,at Judd- ug place, New-road, the lady a l. Wakefield, Esq., surgeon, of a daughter. On the 29th ult., at Preston Candover, Hants, the lady F. Jervoise Ellis, Esq., of a son and heir. On the 29th ult., the wife of Thomas, Gribble, Esq., .1 1 n 39 St. John's wood-road, of a son, On the 30th ult , the lady of Isaac James, Esq., of a sou. DIED. On the 3d ult., at New York, Frederick, son of the la" Pittman, Esq. ' of Warwick-square. t ots On the 27th ult., at Sarsgrove, Henriett a M ar i a Lang s „%nli On the 29th ult , in Lower B roo k- s t ree t, Ip sw ich, -A" Maria, the second daughter of the late J. P. Smith, Esq--,0 On the 30th ult., in Albany-street, Regent's-park, - 11 ;08 Eleanor, eldest surviving daughter of Darius Davey, Island of Antigua. or On the 30th It., at R-; , atc Rebt - third daughter ult., .eigate, .ebecca, Mr. Hart, solicitor, aged 21. o° On the Ist inst., at Fenchurch-street, Ann, relict late Naaniel Ponder, Esq. On the Ist inst., Mr. William Waters, Anchor-tern Southwark-bridge-road. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY „Ace , Major-Generals—Biggs, East India Company's S e ' 'f• Cawnpore ; Aaron, East India Company's Service, Cavi n etif Colonel Logan, 63d Foot, Aide-de-Camp to the O ti Dover. 'roe Lieutenant-Colonels Carmichael, Unattached, •-‘, f p. 4 f N.B. ; Dalles, K.H„ half-pay Macdonald's Recruiting Li ° Greenhithe, Kent. Majors—Urmston, 31st Foot, Bengal ; Carter, East Company's Service, Delhi. Stit h Captains—O'Reilly, 85th Foot, Ilarbadoes; HallidaY•ol Foot, Hyderabad ; }lack, 2d West India Regiment, (3 , 311 0 11. : H. M, Dixon, half pay, 88th Foot, Kensington ; 1 30 ",, e 'c00" pay 103 d Foot, Quebec • J. Hammill, late of the 9E" Portsmouth Robert M:Leod, late of the Royal Marin es ' Lieutenants—Lane, half pay 3d Dragoon Guards; Gibbon, half pay 23d Foot, Plymouth. 04 1 Second Lieutenant and Ensipns—Nugent, RoYn c l ie ve o neers, St. Kitts; Haslewood, half-pay 89th Foot; hair-pay Elford's Corps. Legi °l3' Paymaster Amey, half-p a y 6th Li ne B n . German Bath. Quartermaster Martin, half-pay 3d Dragoon Guar, d „ s ;, l o lls ' Commissariat Depa r t men t—D epu ty A ss istant ,•," sary-General Brock, half-p3y. . Medical Department—S urgeon R o b ertson , half•P a •l . f.pd Foot, Montreal, Canada; Surgeon Dr. Cavanagh! 62d Foot, Wexford ; Surgeon Fogarty, halt-pay Regiment; Apothecary O'Hara, Dublin. London: Printed and Published by MURDO 11 !1 N,. 112, Strand, Printer, at Me Sux Office , ,„„ a nti S rand, i n the Precinct of the Savoy, in the ‘ll' Middlesex, Friday, October 4, 1844. CRA Z'y (Sun iire—Fore Star Ofli IRI The Hon. J. M. Brack John Brigh Michael Br Robert Wal }Award Tu The Chisho Lieut.-Colo quhnun, James Farq ENGINEERS. Souorroas- PARLIAMAN The fern Port ant purl by York an( at.,er mature such a lir The line , Most central end and th St. Ig eots, Stamford, to and east of Tho rne, Sni The dicta will be t will re and a castle and I itlls Bradford, .r na o s i v d ir al c rew c t e s : ad ra lab t in e nieal all ddti ex ntfil t :l l ' Taking it colnshi re wi It Opens and the Wei The line, drainage of t Markets and The inclin Magnitude o Ing lines thre In travelling line under or The expel much reduce profit is sof tables, whieh prepared as I The capiti exceeding th advisable to those of the The sure, hest, the Din many other brought to th form an spin pan icd by a n April, 1844. at King's- cro At this dal for a direct lh than a montl Prospectus at bridge and 1 that time a changed theh Pany, and the 2,550m01. t 4,000,000/. Pally also adc Of the Fen Motet's of the Company wet ber of their C Eccretary, bL A map •f Ilahed in the the promoters appropriate u] of the Direct Still the pr very far short seen from the From Lon( way is 219 mi to be 200 mil Estimated and based on seen at the ofl BY Passenger: Parcels.. Merchar conv eys Ditto of Mineral Deduct for ra expenses 41 Being about 9 To thc Gentlemen 50/. each in Undertake to Dated thi. .11) IRE The ° ALLOT , unlesa lodged the Bth instal 6 4 - , Dloor ---_________l TO snip , Cc GRIM: Duchess of t con?rnended I acident to tl , SIGHT BY the Its me of cures have be certain in it/ lufferer to u rh• Lords of •sties, the 1) ractitioners arinutone's aton e ', e _ e l to th e e ° l fiehi, Es" al fnrationai ble. r , Snuff et Mecu s t a nd . a: ,„ Or. `ePorts Andrei i n N . eo brane i benefit to the ado Lion as al be r • Them, ac he and A fe w r L 0 th . il ess cure ro ni " I)ear Sir,- the rniraculo the far to rather to be r a deafness fr o et liberty to m' should much were mot univl Chanto 1 can eou ".a)8 IS n W NE Ei Inlieved c.f ex ""Ma . dame tas,f, of csa F. of Tb J. • I atcßhed Hnacl i °l4 efve th and the only f This o c k; r l -Z r.i stere, at 8 fol)rieter, ann- cenrt.ro. ltrld *lt the He. r in c i pal Toy Ee):1 etnb:rnariBee on the 6t?orrT4 Any uan sondilig q St and so one HERBIk. MARRIED. ,c• On the Ist inst., at Trinity Chur c h, St e p ne y, Frede,' , ;: t p, third son of George Green, Esq., o f 131aacwall, to EEO"' on On the ly daughter Ist inst., at St. George's,Hanover-square, William Bellingham, eldest son of A. Greville, Esq., of ? 1 " eN Mymms (late Captain in the Rifle Brigade), to Mart;"' youngest daughter of A. Petty, Esq.