The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. 510)1 THE MMHG PAPERS OF SATURDAT. GLOBE,—Mr. O'Connell has been check-mated, tue:ell agitation discouraged, by the interference of the Pep si See. A Rescript from his Holiness the Pope, addressed through the Propaganda, to the Catholic bishops and clergy of Ireland, commanding their abstinence from all interference in the political agitations by which Ireland is distracted, is a heavy blow and sore discouragement to the repeal cause. The document in question states that the distrac tions which exist among the faithful in Ireland are "most distressing to the Sacred Congregation, and to his Holiness himself," as " tending to the detri xnent and disgrace of the Universal Church." And he enjoins on the clergy to "avoid mixing themselves up with secular affairs, and to assiduously foster among the people a spirit of quietness, calm, and peace, which is the bond of Christianity, and a due obedience to temporal power in all matters of civil life. The leader of the agitation saw, with instinctive perception, the effect of such a document on the re peal cause, and the necessity which existed for neau tralising its power by denying its authenticity. He therefore asserted that it was a fabrication—a weak invention of the enemy; framed with some skill, but still betraying its destitution of authority by internal marks of its illegitimate origin. Its latinity was also severely examined. It was submitted to the crucible of criticism ; and two or three somewhat clumsily-constructed sentences were detected, and commented upon—as proofs that the Rescript could not have emanated from Rome. The Pope's la tinity must, of course, partake of the infallibity of his office. Any defect which criticism could detect in the construction of a phrase, would detract from the claims of the document to reception and re-. apect. The admission of its authenticity would be to impugn the claims of his Holiness to exemption from error. Such a discovery would, therefore, in itself, be sufficient to raise doubts in the minds of the Re peelers. These doubts were further strengthened by some assumed irregularity in the mode of its transmis sion. The Pope's Rescript was therefore pronounced a vile forgery. The Roman Catholic clergy were assured that they were still "free as air" to aid the " hereditary bondsmen" to effect a separation of Ireland from England, by agitating for the repeal of the Legislative Union of the two countries. The laity, encouraged and sanctioned by the clergy, would con tinue, with undiminished energies, to subscribe to the funds, and throng to the meetings, of the Repeal Association. Mr. O'Connell, therefore, in a letter to Dr. Cantwell, impugned the integrity of the Rescript, and avowed his belief that it was " not a canonical document." The Roman Catholic Archbishop Crolly has, however, set the question of the authenticity and imperative obligation of the Rescript upon the Bishops and Clergy of the Ca tholic Church, entirely at rest. The Archbishop states, in a letter to Mr. O'Connell, that " The Re script has been laid befor the assembled Catholic pre lates in Dublin;' who " not only acknowledged it to be authentic and canonical, but to be a document of such importance that they entered it on their minutes, and unanimously resolved that they would regulate their conduct according to its injunctions, and use their influence with their clergy, in their respective dioceses, to prevail on them to follow its salutary instructions." 'the Pope's Rescript, and the prelate's letter arlirm ing and enforcing it, have placed Mr. O'Connell in a position of serious embarassment. We see no path way of escape for them. lle is transfixed between the horns of a dilemma. If lie obey the mandate, his political existence, as an agitator, is at an end. He has hitherto professed to act in the most perfect ac cordance with the bishops and clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, to the authority of which he has bowed with deep devotion. The presence of some of the bishops at the repeal meetings, and the active aid of the inferior orders of clergy in every way in which that aid could be given, has contributed to keep up the influence which Mr. O'Connell has wielded over the Public mind in Ireland. To the sanction and aid of the priests, O'Connell has been wont to refer the multi tudes. He has thus animated the popular excitement by appealing to the presenceand sanction of the minis ters of religion to the cause of repeal. But the bishops and clergy of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland must implicitly obey the orders of the Holy See, and must at once detach themselves from the political agitation. The withdrawal of the clergy will be the :signal for all good Catholics to do the same. The re sults seem already to be anticipated and prepared for in the repeal councils. Retrenchment, the necessary conse uence of diminished resources, is alrea d y commenced. Still further reductions of the repeal staff are an nounced. " The first report of the Finance Commit tee, read to the General Committee on Tuesday, and adopted, recommends the reduction of eighteen clerks, and also some out-agents, including Mr. W. J. O'Connell, the London Head Repeal Warden, and several others of minor note in Dublin. The salaries of the officers retained are to be reduced, with the ex ception of My dear Ray,' who is to be continued, with his present allowance of 4001. a year, besides im portant sundries. A reduction in the printing and stationery depart:nents is under consideration ; after which the newspapers in the pay of the Associa tion will come under the notice of the retrench ing committee." To denounce the authority of the • Pope, and exhort the inferior clergy and the laity to refuse obedience to the Bescript, is the alternative of admitting the Holy See to interfere with repeal, and thus withdraw the clergy from agitation. Such a course would, by its desperation, defeat its design. It would be fatal to his influence as an agitator of the people, while it would be destructive of his reputation as a member of the Church, which enjoins upon all its members implicit obedience to spiritual authority. In this the crisis of his fate, Mr. O'Con nell's tactics will be subjected to a test such as they have never yet been called to endure. He pro poses that " a lay deputation be dispatched to Rome," to avert what he designates" a conjuncture which in volves their civil and religious liberties in the most imminent peril." Report this morning states that Mr. O'Connell is about to proceed to Rome on this mission. He will thus be able to with draw himself from Dublin at a time when it is peculiarly embarrassing for him to be there. The circumstance of his proceeding to Rome on the re peal business would keep up the delusion a little longer. He would be thus gently let down from the elevation of political power, which he has so long oc cupied, instead of finding himself hurled from it suddenly, and unprepared. Mr. O'Connell's apology for having denounced the Concordat between this country and Rome, negotiations for which never had as existence, is remarkable for its puerility. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has set this bugbear at rest. In a letter, under his own hand, addressed to Archbishop Murray, his Lordship denies that there was any,.the slightest, ground for the story respecting "-a negotiation for a Concordat." The torrent of obloquy and abuse which Mr. O'Connell poured forth upon Archbishop Murray, for his sup . posed privity and assent to this negotiation, is thus sbown to have had no provocation. " There has never existed," says Lord Heytesbury, " the slightest inten tion of entering into any negotiation with the Papal See upon the subject of a Concordat." Fifty of the clergy in the diocese of Dublin, of which the (Ca tholic) Archbishop Murray is the head, have sub scribed an address to him, couched in terms of the most reverential and affectionate respect, and pros miring in all things to be guided and governed by his advice and authority. These are unmistakeable signs .of repeal declension. If the Government be wise .enough to improve the opportunity, there is hope for Ireland. But if there be nothing effectual done for •the improvement of' the people, and the day of pro pitious events be allowed to expire, without remedial measures for the grievances which have produced re peal agitation—then will agitation, under another name, and in another form, be re-kindled, and the last .error will be worse than the first. STANDARD.—We never complain of fair war, iow fiercely soever it may be waged, by the press. Indeed, we con ceiva a kind of affection for the adversary - who hits hardest, if only his blows are straight, and de livered in a manly manner. We should infinitely prefer shaking hands with John of Tuam to the touch of Dr. Pusey, Mr. Newman, or Mr. Oakeley. Nay, even among the Tractarians, we would respect. Mr. Ward for that challenge—which Dr. Tait says is his otily offence—had not the challenge be - en soiled his subsequent shabby refusal to acknowledge .bhadus Zste, thbok coirtaining it. This is, we suppose, because it is not, we believe, the common taste. However it is our taste , and we think that the public interests would g ain , the interests of weuld,if . as truth certainly w it were made . general. This, however, by t h e do we a . ln proportion and it respect fair war,di slike expose foul a system of foul play on the part of the Morning Chronicle, to • which we slightly alluded yesterday, and which our ' Contemporary seems resolved to persevere in. We mean the imputation upon the Foreign „Minister that the Times is his organ. The Mornini , Chronicle, in a leading article of this morning, re • ?oats the foul imp utation—foul in every sense— ? less than three or four times in on e abort column. If our Contemporary retorts upon 1 4s;that we ascribe its articles on foreign policy, - And similar articles of the Globe, to the . ;dictation of Lord Palmerston, our answer is, that the charging any nobleman or gentleman with writing in the Morning Chronicle or Globe, or dic tating an opinion to either of these journals, im putes nothing disgraceful, more particularly when the nobleman or gentleman happens to be a Whig, whether " juvenile" or mature. The case of the Times is notoriously otherwise ; ..aerawling through all parties, it has left some of its silo° upon each ; and it is a remarkable circumstance . • connected with that journal,. that whenever any foul opprobrium is cast upon any parte, it is supplied by the conduct of the Times, during its connexion with that party in the course of its tortuous career. The Reform Bill, say the evicted proprietors of Schedule A ., was carried by brutal violence, because the Reform journals called for " brick-bats and bludgeons ;" the Times being the only Reform journal that ever made the savage and treasonable appeal. The Whig Ministers, say their sorrowing friends, were driven from office by a fanatical rage, excited by the orators of Exeter Hall • the Times, the Standard, and the Morning Herald de nouncing the Roman Catholic clergy as " sur pliced ruffians," a " demon priesthood," &c. the truth being that no Exeter Hall orator ever used such foul and gross language; nor did any journal, except the Times, ever print such phrases—as, indeed, we lately had occasion to explain in our own defence. Thus it happens that the Times leaves its stain upon every party which it encumbers and soils with its temporary support. The stain is, how ever, a wound when inflicted upon a public man, and we are sorry to be obliged to declare that we be lieve that in this case it is intended to attack the peace of Europe through the sides of Lord Aberdeen. The Times is known to be odious—most justly odious in France—and let Frenchmen be once persuaded that the Foreign Minister of England enterta ins as his organ the journal that for a year has done little in its foreign department but heap the foulest insults upon France, her functionaries, fleets, and armies, and they must regard that Foreign Minister as an enemy, and even their own ministers as treacherous servants in keeping on terms of civility , with such a Minister, and vouching for his good in tentions. The Times will not disclaim the Foreign office organship ; for when did the Times ever sacri fice the chance of a shilling upon its day's sale to any public object ? And, therefore, we, who know just enough of the Foreign-office to know that it has no connection direct or indirect with any newspaper, are therefore under the necessity of exposing the foul and mischievous misrepresentation. Of course ene mies will ascribe the part we take to jealousy, as the Standard has been so often untruly called "the Go vernment organ;" our reply to such a charge is that we never, either directly or iniirectly, pretended to the title, and never omitted an opportunity of respect fully but explicitly disclaiming it. THE SHAPWICK MURDERS. Yesterday (Friday) the Coroner's jury assembled at Shapwick, to ascertain the cause of the death of James Dimond, an illegitimate child, aged seven years, of Sarah Freeman, who died in N ovember, 1843. The body was exhumed on Saturday last, and a portion of the contents of the stomach was subjected to analytical tests by Mr. Herapath, who pronounced it as his opinion that the child had been poisoned by arsenic. Evidence was given which incul pated Sarah Freeman in administering the poison ; and a verdict of Wilful Murder against her was re turned. Five other sudden deaths of children have, it is said, lately taken place in one family in this parish, which Sarah Freeman was in the habit of visiting ; and it is expected that further exhumations and in quiries will in consequence take place. BRISTOL, SATURDAY MORNING.—The inquest held at Shapwick on the bodies of the husband, Henry Freeman, and the illegitimate child of Sarah Free man, concluded late last night, the jury returned in both cases verdicts of wilful murder against her. The facts adduced in evidence in the case of the illegitimate child (a boy about seven years of ege) showed that it died suddenly in the month of No vember, in the year before last (1843), and at the inquest which was held on the body, the following day, a verdict of natural death was recorded. On the body being exhumed, on the 11th instant, the surgeon took away from the coffin the whole of the intestinal canal and the liver, and placed them in a jar. Since then they have been carefully examined, and it was distinctly discovered that the child's death had been occasioned by arsenic, a portion of which had been ex tracted and produced to the satisfaction of the jury. In the case of the death of the husband, which hap pened shortly after that of the child, and whose body has also been exhumed, Mr. Hera path, the surgeon, stated he had analysed the contents of the stomach, and was of opinion that the death had resulted by the same poison—arsenic. On the 27th of December the prisoner gave notice to a burial club that her husband had died, he having been a member of the club ; 201. was paid to her, with which she expressed herself much dissatisfied. The inquest concluded at nine o'clock last night. MORE SUPPOSED MURDERS.—At the conclusion of the above inquests, the Coroner made the subjoined remarks to the jury :—" Gentlemen, I am afraid I shall have further occasion for your services. I have received a letter from highly respectable persons, the statements made in which are very alarming—namely, that five other deaths have occurred in the parish very recently, and all of them in one family. It is also stated to me in that letter, and I do not know how far it may be true, that the woman (Sarah Freeman) was in the constant habit of visiting that house. MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY POACHERS. Saturday information was received of an assault of a most deadly nature committed upon Henry Tebby, a gamekeeper in the service of Rousby, Esq., of Collisford House, near Bicester, Oxfordshire. The keeper, it appears, was proceeding to Hethe, about seven o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of engaging a man to work on the following morning, and was passing a plantation, when he heard the cry of a hare, as if caught in a snare, and, going to the spot, he met three men, one of whom he knew, and addressing him, he said, "Ah ! Jesse Willis, is that you know you." The fellow instantly struck him down with a heavy bludgeon, and as he lay on the ground all the three men beat him most dread fully, and then made off. He was so much injured as to be unable to move for some time, but at length made his way to the house of the Rev. A. Maguire, a Roman Catholic priest, and requested that some one might be sent to Collisford to inform his brother and his master of what had occurred. The Rev. Gentleman himself immediately went into the village to look for a messenger, and on the way asked a man whom he met to go to Mr. Rousby's, at Collisford, and inform him one of his keepers had been dreadfully beaten by poachers. The man, how ever, who afterwards proved to be no other than Jesse Willis himself, declined the mission, and some one else was sought for. In the meantime a constable named Harris had arrived, and from what Tabby told him he went into the village and apprehended Willis, and took him also to Mr, Msguire s; and the keeper, being asked if he knew that man, said, " Yes, that is lirillis—that is the man that struck me." Mr. Jones, a surgeon, was sent for to attend Tebby, who he found to be in a dangerous state, frightfully cut, and suffering from a concussion of the brain. The poor man was afterwards removed to his own house, and the next morning Willis was taken before the magistrates at Bicester, and remanded for a week, a medical certificate being produced, stating the danger in which Tabby was. ATTEMPTED MURDER AT UXBRIDGE. Since Wednesday last the greatest excitement has prevailed throughout the town and neighbourhood of Uxbridge, in consequence of a most diabolical at tempt made by a young man, named Thomas Deck man, to murder his wife and child by means of poison. From the inquiries made into the circumstances by Inspector Cooke, T division, and other officers of the metropolitan police, it appears that Thomas Deckman, who is not yet twenty years of age, and is by trade a journeyman baker, was married to his wife, Eliza beth Deckman, last October twelve months, and they have one child six months old. For some time past the husband has been out of work, in consequence of which they had been compelled to remove from their lodgings, and took up their abode at the house of the wife's father. From the period of their mar riage they had mot been a happy couple, and the hus band had often threatened to do for her, and had on one occasion sharpened a razor, and placed it under his pillow for that purpose. On the morning of Wed nesday last the husband got up before his wife, and left the bed-room, saying he was going to enlist for a soldier. Before, however, he left the house, and while he was in the sitting-room, the wife heard a rattling of crockery, and thought that her husband was get ting himself breakfast. She afterwards got up, and made some coffee, and about nine o'clock sat down with her sister to breakfast. On adding sugar and milk to the coffee she noticed that the milk immediately became curdled, not withstanding which, she, however, drank the contents of the cup, and, in less than five minutes afterwards, was seized with a feeling of sick ness. She then poured out another cup of coffee, and again added sugar and milk, when the latter was again curdled, when her suspicions became excited, and she poured some coffee into a basin, and added some milk, and found that it did not curdle. She then tasted the sugar in the sugar-basin, and finding that it had a strange taste, she concluded that some poison had been mixed with it, and sent her sister with the basin and contents to the shop: of Mr. Chave, chemise, in the High-street, who, on tasting and examining the sugar, declared it to he mixed with oxalic acid. The wife was, during two hours after taking the coffee, exceed ingly ill, and it was only by administering emetics that the poison was extracted from her stomach in time to save her life. Information of the occurrence was immediately forwarded to the police .station, when a search was made after the husband, but he could nowhere be found. A. description of his person was then distri buted throughout the police districts, which re sulted in his apprehension in the course of the fol lowing .night. .On Friday he was brought up for examination before Mr. T. T. Clark, a local magis trate sitting at the offices of Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge, the clerks to the magistrates at Ux bridge, and, after a short examination, was remanded THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING: JANUARY 20, 1846, -- until the result of the analysis of the sugar remaining in the basin, which has been placed in the hands of Mr. Rayner, surgeon, of Uxbridge, to analyse, can be ascertained. The magistrates room and the road outside was crowded by hundreds of persons anxious to hear the evidence, and to obtain a sight of the pri soner. On Saturday our reporter ascertained from I\lr. Rayner that he had found in the portion he had al -1 ready analysed a quantity of oxalic acid. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CIIANCELLOR'S COURT, Jan. 18. EX•PIRTE TER VICAR OF TWIVERTON. This was a petition by the vicar of Twiverton, other wise Twerton, Somersetshire, and the provost and scho lars of Oriel College, Oxford, for payment out of court of a sum of money paid in under the Great Western Rail way Act, and that the Railway Company might pay the costs thereof. The vicarage, with the garden, orchard, and offices belonging to it, was purchased by the Great Western Railway, and the purchase-money was paid into the Bank of England, as directed by the Act, and laid out in the purchase of 2,5861.175. 9cl. Three per Cent. Consols. The Act contained a direction that in case the Railway Company required the vicarage and land, the purchase-money was to be laid out in the purchase of other lands, or in erecting another vicarage - house. The vicar upon his house being taken, purchased land as a site for a new vicarage for the sum of 1,2861., which money was paid out of Court for that purpose, and the costs paid by the Railway Company. A new vicarage house had since been built by the petitioner for 1,7751. 16s. being more than the residue of the sum paid by the Railway Company for the original vicarage. The present peti tion was by the vicar and the provost and scholars of Oriel College, Oxford, who were the owners of part of the land about the vicarage, and it prayed that the re mainder of the snm of 2,8861. 17s. 9d., might be paid out of Court for the building of the new vicarage-house, and that the Railway Company might be ordered to pay the costs thereof. Mr. Osborne, for the Great Western Railway Com pany, contended that the Court bad no, power to direct the Company to pay the costs. The V IC E-CHANCELLOR 'said he had nothing to do with the abstract juctice of the matter, nor could he speculate upon what the Legislature intended to do ; he could only construe a certain set of words con tained in the Act of Parliament. His Honour then read the 9th section, as before quoted, and stated that, in this case, the application was, not to have the purchase-money paid out of Court simply, but to have part of the money paid out to defray the expense, not of purchase of land, but of building the vicarage-house on land which had been purchased by the Government securities already paid out by order of the Court. He could not, there fore, allow his mind to be influenced by his personal notions of what was justice in the abstract. He could only say, that on the true construction of the Act, the case for which the vicar contended had been omitted or had not been provided for. The vicar must, therefore, pay the expenses; but as to the costs of this application he had a discretion, and he should not give the costs to he Company. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Jan. 18. THE IPSWICH MURDERERS—APPEAL TO THE JUDGES. The judges assembled this afternoon in the Exchequer Court, fur the purpose of hearing the argument of counsel on behalf of the two Howells and Shipley, who were sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Williams, at the late Ipswich assizes, for the murder of a policeman named MTadden. The error assigned was the inadmis sibility of certain evidence received. The evidence was the confession of the parties. Mr. PRENDERGAST, who appeared on behalf of the prisoners, addressed the Court in a long and ingenious speech, contending that part of the evidence adduced on the trial was inadmissible; and in support of his argu ment qu-tod several law cases to show that the evidence in question ought not to have been admitted. Mr. GORDON arose and was about to address the Court, when Lord DENMAN, on behalf of himself and his learned brethren, intimated that they did not think it necessary for him to do so, as they (the judges) were of opinion that there was no argument before them to show that the evidence was not admissible. The decision of the judge who tried the case was, therefore, confirmed, and the unfortunate men are. left for execution. CONSISTORY COURT, Jan. 18. BRITTEN V. BRITTEN. • This was a case of divorce by reason of adultery, pro -- moted by Thomas Britten, Esq., against his wife, for the commission of adultery with Mr. Edward Henry Keeling,, of the firm of Clark, Etcling, and Clark, wine brokers, in Great Tower-street, City. Shortly after the case was opened by Dr. Addams, the Court inquired whether it was a suit in ptenam? Dr. ADDAMS—It is, sir. The COURT—I have no sort of occasion to trouble you. Dr. ADDAMS—I submit it is clear. The COURT—It is imp ;ssible that a case can be more clearly proved. It is quite unnecessary to enter into the circumstances of the case. It can do no good to the parties or to the public. Let the parties be called. The REGISTRAR —They have been called. The Court then signed the sentence of separation. SHERIFFS' COURT, Jan. 18. 1 (Before Mr.- Commissioner BULLOCK.) FORD V. DAVIS. Mr. V ALEN TI;IE LIKE, who appeared for the plaintiff, stated that his client is a bootraaker, on Holborn-hilt, and had brought this action to recover 14/. from the de fendant, Cyrus Davis, the ex-pugilist and landlord of the Plough public-house. in Gilcspur-street, West Smithfield. In the month of October last a watchmaker named Shimmell, being in want of money, deposited a gold watch with the plaintiff as a security for 141. Shortly afterwards, Shimmell told plaintiff that he could dispose of the watch, and it was deposited with him, the defen dant undertaking to pay the plaintiff the 141. in the event of a sale, or to return the watch. Ford having ascertained that the watch had been raffled in a billiard room belonging to Davis, called on him and asked for his money in the presence of witnesses, and on that oc cusion the defendant said that he had forgotten the cir cumstance, but would settle with him in a few days. Several days elapsed, and no money being forthcoming, Ford again applied to Davis, when he guaranteed the payment of the money. High words then ensued ; the defendant calling the defendant a - liar, and, finally, putting down two 5/. notes, and offering to bet that amount that he had never made any promise relative to the watch or money. The plaintiff, in his excitement, was rash enough to put down a similar amount, where upon defendant handed the 201. to his wife, saying, " Here, old woman, you stick to this," and the same is still retained in spite of the interference of mutual friends, so that Ford is minus his 101. and his watch, or the value thereof. This action, however, was only brought for the 14L, leaving the bet of 10/ the subject of future pro ceedings. Two respectable witnesses were called, and they proved the promise to pay the 141., and also the raffle. For some reason, however, unknown to them, he (defendant) handed the amount paid by the subscribers to the raffle to Shimmell. Mr. LUSH, for the defence, contended that there was not sufficient proof that his client was bound to restore the watch, or give 14/. to the plaintiff. The defendant had the watch raffled, but he considered that it was for the mutual benefit of Ford and Shimmell, and he thought they would settle the matter between them. Mr. Davis was willing to restore the watch, and would have done so on the first application, but his son, who was the winner of it, had gone to the theatre with it on his person. On the following day it was offered to the plaintiff, and he refused to aceept it. Mr. Shimmell was called for the defence, and, in his cross-examination, he admitted the receipt of the produce of the raffle, and the application of it to his own use, and that he afterwards placed in defendant's hands a watch of much greater value as a security to repay the plaintiff, which watch was, to the best of his knowledge, in de fendant's custody. He added that he was present when Davis objected to pay the 14L, and had recently heard him say that he would bet 10/ that he never undertook to pay the 141. He saw each of them put down 10/, and likewise saw the defendant pass the 201. to his wife, telling her to keep it. He believed that it was in her possession at the present time—in fact, he heard de fendant admit that such was the case within a very few days. Mr. Lunt hore rose from his seat, and consented to a verdict for the plaintiff for the 141. Mr. VALENTINE LEE remarked that the matter would not end there, it being his client's intention to take other proceedings for the recovery of the 101. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 18. THE lIIPPODROXE RACE-COURSE. - IN THE MATTER OF dACOIt CONNOP. An application was made in the case of this insolvent, who had been connected with the Hippodrome Race course, to appoint an assignee before the hearing, with the view of making the property at Notting-hill available ' for the numerous creditors under the estate. The in solvent had sojourned among the Poor Knights of Wind sor, and a question was raised whether his residence in the Castle-yard, New Windsor, was for him a privileged place. lie had, however, been taken in execution, and was now a resident in Reading gaol, and his case had been appointed to be heard on Feb. 7, before Mr. Com missioner Pollock on the ensuing circuit. 'rhe schedule filed by the insolvent for public inspection, of which notice has been given to the creditors, extends to many pages. The debts in the aggregate are set forth at 67,240/. 1 ls. 3d., and the debts owing to the insolvent, all of which are bad and doubtful, to 36,239/. 12s. The consideration debts from January, 1840, are mentioned at 63,232/. 95.; those without eon. sideration, 2,2001.; and those more than twice entered, to 1,571/. 2s. 3d. The insolvency is attributed to the insolvent not having had sufficient capital to work so extensive a building speculation as the Hippodrome, and farther, to his liabilities for three persons, inserted as debtors in his schedule. He was a bankrupt in the year 1829, when he obtained his certificate, and the debts still unpaid were in amount 80,0001. It seems that the insolvent's income had been about 2,000/. a-year, and his wife had a separate property of 250/. From a statement in the general balance sheet, it appears that the insolvent has an expectation that if the property be properly worked it would produce as much as 10,000/. over the debts due on the same. The debts due to various creditors on simple contracts, for work done and mate rials supplied, amount to 9,0001.; and the charges on the buildings to secure debts to creditors, are in amount 40,369/. There are 106 creditors and nine debtors in the schedule. Mr. WOODRUFFE now applied to make the rule, which was granted a few days ago, absolute, for the appoint im-nt of Mr. R. Laurence, a builder, who was a creditor for npv. , ir !-; of 2,0001., as assignee. The Learned Counzel remarked that the insolvent had been lessee of the Hippodrome, and employed the various parties to erect buildings on the ground, which belonged to Mr. Ladbroke, who was anxious to benefit the creditors. The arrears of ground rent amounted to about SOU., and work had been done by the simple contract creditors to about 12,000/. ; and Mr. Ladbroke had it in his power to work a forfeiture, but he was willing to continue the leases on the payment of the ground-rent. The object of the application was, therefore, to clothe a creditor with the office of assignee, in order that the buildings might be completed and sold for the benefit of the creditors. The CHIVE' COMMIE:MONZA asked whether the insolvent was in attendance ? Mr. WOODRUFFE said he was not, but he supposed he would like to be ; he was in Reading gaol. The Learned COMMISSIONER said - he meant whether he showed cause ; he might have been out on bail. The COURT ordered Mr. Laurence to be appointed assignee. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. BURGLARY.—Thomas Howell, Frederick Smith, and Robert Franklin, were brought up for final ex amination. It will be recollected that two of the pri soners were found concealed in a chamber at the George and Vulture, Cornhill. The depositions of the witnesses were read over and signed, and the parties were duly bound over to pro secute. Howell and Smith were then fully committed on the charge of burglary, and Franklin as an accessory. The prisoners displayed the most hardened indif ference throughout, Howell humming a tune the greater part of the time. Howell addressed his Lordship about the cab fare having been taken from his pocket. It was 4s. LORD MAYOR—Apply to the Court at the trial. Howell—Till then I suppose my wife must go with out. I never rode in the cab. It is not proved. The LORD MAYOR—I cannot interfere. The prisoners were then removed. GUILDHALL. A smartly-dressed young man, of the name of Ellis, who is supposed to be some City warehouseman, was charged with having offered a dozen silk handkerchiefs in pledge, the same being suspected es stolen. Mr. Attenborough, the pawnbroker, of Fleet-street, said that on Friday afternoon the prisoner came to his shop, and desired to pledge a piece of silk handker chiefs for four shillings. There appearing something suspicious about his behaviour, he was induced to ask him several questions respecting where the property came from, and where he lived. The prisoner replied that he had purchased it in the early part of the week for 10s., at a public-house, and that he resided some times in Laurence-lane, and at Cole's-place, Com mercial-road East. He them requested him to walk with him (witness) to the former address, so as to ascertain whether he spoke correctly, and on their way there the prisoner stopped and admitted that he had told falsehoods respecting his address. Wit ness then, believing that the property had been im properly obtained, gave him in custody to the first policeman he met with. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE—WeII, prisoner, per haps you will tell me where you got the handker chiefs, and your right address ? The prisoner gave the same story as he did to Mr. Attenborough, and remarked that he should not have attempted to pawn them, had he not been pushed for a little money. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE wished to know whether the prisoner was known. The prisoner said his friends were highly respect able. He had two brothers filling very important situations in the City. A person here, in the body of the Court, cried out that the prisoner's friends were highly respectable, but they would not help him now he had got into such a disgraceful situation, as he had mixed with bad cha racters. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE observed that he could not part with the prisoner until some inquiries were made about him, and accordingly remanded him till Wednesday for that purpose. WORSHIP-STREET. William Tluraites, a weaver, was placed before Mr. Broughton, for final examination, upon a charge of embezzling upwards of 401. worth of silk velvet, which he had been employed - to weave for Messrs. Everson and Co., silk manufacturers, in Spitalfields. Mr. Humphreys attended for the complainants. The prisoner, it appeared, had three looms, and at different times since September, received materials to make three pieces of velvet of thirty yards each, re ceiving, as the work progressed, a more than usual advance of cash on account of wages. Mr. Gascoigne, the foreman, visited occasionally to inspect the works, and on the last occasion, in December, the prisoner said, "if you come on Christmas-eve you shall have the whole 1' When he next went, however, he found the place empty and locked up, the looms and the whole of the property were gone, and the prisoner had absconded. Last week the prisoner was discovered at work at Loughborough, and there apprehended, brought to London by railway, and delivered in custody at this Court. It was now proved that dur ing the progress of the work he had contrived to draw his wages in advance to the amount of upwards of 101. from his employers, whose loss altogether was little short of 50/. The prisoner admitted having made away with the work, but alleged that he had been driven to it by the persons employed under him, who got from him more than he received, and reduced him to distress. Mr. BROUGHTON said it was a most aggravated case, and a person plundering his employer of even a twentieth part of the property, under other circum stances, would be liable to transportation, but he could only sentence the prisoner, under the Silk Act, to three months' imprisonment—a punishment wholly inadequate to the offence. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. An information against Mr. Hunt, the proprietor of Morland's Hotel, Dean-street, for keeping (as alleged) his house open for the sale of liquors after twelve o'clock on Saturday night, was heard before Mr. Hardwick, the sitting magistrate. Inspector Squires, of the C division, proved that he went to the defendant's house about half-past twelve o'clock on the previous Saturnay night, and on gaining admission he went up-stairs, and in a room on the first floor he saw nine or ten gentlemen seated around a table, with refreshments before them. Everything wore the appearance of a convivial and social meeting, and one of the party was singing at the time witness made his appearance. When witness entered the room he was told by the company that the society was a literary one, and that they were in their own club-room. Witness went over the defendant's house, but with the exception of one person before the bar, and the gentlemen up-stairs, there was no one in the house. The lights were also extinguished, and the house was otherwise closed. Mr. Duncombe, who appeared for the defendant, said his answer to the complaint was, that the police had intruded themselves into a place where they had no business to show themselves. A number of lite rary gentlemen and artists of celebrity had for many years rented rooms of the defendant. In these rooms they established a club, the members of which met to discuss subjects connected with literature and the arts, and to refresh themselves with a social glass. They had a right, he contended, to remain in their own room as long as they pleased, and to be exempted from the surveillance of the police. The information could not be sustained against the defendant, he being charged with "keeping his house open for the sale of liquors after twelve o'clock on Saturday night," be cause the principal witness himself proved the house for business purposes was closed, and that the only part of the house in which persons were found was a club-room, over which the defendant had no control. Besides, no proof had been given that liquors had been served after twelve o'clock. The proprietor of the hotel proved by the books of the club proceedings, that the room in which the ten persons were found by the inspector was rented of him lsy a number of gentlemen, who paid him a yearly rent, and who had appropriated the room to the pur pose of a literary and scientific club. Mr. HARDWICK said it had been distinctly proved that the room visited by the inspector, although forming part of the defendant's house, was in reality in the nature of a separate tenement. The landlord received a yearly rent for his room, and therefore the right of occupancy was e ntirely vested in the members of the club. The renters of these rooms had a right to use them for their own purposes, and if they so pleased, to remain in them all night. He must therefore consider that everything done in these club-rooms was precisely the same as if done in the next house, or any house not a public-house. The members of the club had a perfect right to indulge their convivial tendencies, but then, if the landlord of the house supplied them with refresh ments after the hour of twelve on Saturday night, the landlord committed an offence and was clearly liable for: having violated the provisions of an Act of Parliament. The evidence before him went only to show that a number of gentlemen were in their own club-room with refreshments before them, but in a case like the present he considered it was his duty, in order to justify a conviction, to have proof that the defendant actually served liquors after twelve o'clock. Inspector Squires said he had a witness who would prove that a person came out of the house with a pot of porter after twelve o'clock at night. Mr. Duncombe, with considerable warmth, pro tested against the course pursued by the inspector. The inspector had closed his evidence, but finding he had not stated enough to ensure a conviction, although sworn to speak the truth, and the whole truth, he at• tempted to re-open the case by introducing evidence of a totally different character. Had the inspector attempted such a proceeding at the Central Criminal Court the judge would have instantly ordered him out of Court. Inspector Squires said he had only partly given his evidence, when he was interrupted by the defence set up by Mr. Duncombe. Mr. Haunwicx. said he actually thought the evi dence on the part of the police had ceased; otherwise he should not have offered the ramarks which he had just uttered. He did not see that he could with pro- Now, gentlemen, is not this perfectly true ?—(Hear, hear.) And yet there are not a few landowners who seem to think that if tenant-farmers can pay their rents and just rub along, they have no right to expect more.— (Hear, hear.) Tell a landlord—of course there are ex ceptions, but the exceptions prove the rule—that any particular tenant is making a profit, and he will imme diately think, and not unfrequently act upon the thought, that the farm has been let for too little rent.—(Hear, .ar.) Now let us see what has been the effect of these notions amongst the landowners of England. Upon this point Mr. Low says : "In the finest parts of England funds have been pro gressively accumulating for stocking the farms to a degree unknown in any other country in Europe ; but the essential conditions having been too often wanting, of security of possession, and a beneficial connexion be tween the landlord and the tenants, agriculture has re mained comparatively fixed, while every other branch of industry has been advancing." —(Hear, hear.) Compare this stationary state of agri culture with the onward progress of other branches of British industry. Mr. Low says : " The manufacturer of cotton, of wool, of iron, has the assurance that the machine which he constructs and improves for the purposes of his trade is his own, and that the more perfect he can render it the more profit able will the use of it become to him. The farmer who lays out capital on the great machine on which his all depends—the earth which he tills—has often no such as surance. It is the property of another, who in the end will profit by all the improvements which the skill of a tempo rary possessor can make upon it. The manufacturer re ceives, directly, the profit of his stock in trade; the farmer must share those profits with another, who undergoes no part of the labour and risk ; his industry is fettered by conditions imposed upon no other class of traders ; and the inconveniences of obtaining returns for a present expenditure more slowly than in any other profession are frequently aggravated by the uncertainty whether he will ever have the power of recovering the eapital advanced." —(hear.) Now, gentlemen, tee. hear a greet (1,1 n'owt " mutual confidence," " tenures," 't tenant rights," and so forth. Listen again to Mr. Low : " The only fitting security for a man who has capital to employ in the cultivation and improvement of land is a written covenant, subsisting for a definite and adequate period. Tenancy at will, it must be apparent, se much extended over the richest pares of England, is in no de gree an adequate substitute for the lees e, ensuring te the tenant his right of possession for a determiued period. Habit, indeed, may reconcile the tenantry of a country to such a species of tenure, and a kind of confidence may arise that a tenant will not be capriciously dispos sessed, nor an unfair advantage taken of his expendi ture ; but this confidence, however great, is not to be compared, as the means of inducing men to spend capi tal on land, with that sense of security and indepen dence which is the soul of industry and exertion. It is impossible to divest the tenant-at-will of the knowledge that every improvement which he makes upon his farm gives it a higher value to another, and adds to the means of raising the rent against himself." —(Hear.) Now, gentlemen, who can doubt the truth or the justice of these remarks ? And I beg of you to give them your serious attention. We now come to the subject of rents ; and upon this point the Professor ob serves : " The tenant who takes land, and the landlord who lets it, should so adjust the rent, that the tenant shall be able to bear the pressure of deficient crops, or of low prices arising from favourable ones; and no prudent man ought to contract for rent which will not allow him to meet that contingency of his trade which arises from a fluctuation in the amount and prices of his commodi ties. . . . The landlord who would secure a prospe rous tenantry, and improve his estate, must not trust to his per tentage or bounty on an audit day, but must place his tenants in the condition which will enable them to fulfil the obligations under which they engage in virtue of a fair and well-considered covenant." —(Loud cheers.) Now, gentlemen, these remarks have evident reference to corn rents, and upon this subject just allow me to state the relative positions its which English and Scottish farmers are placed to each other; the Englishman paying a fixed money rent, the Scotch man, a corn rent. We shall take a farmer at 200 acres at 255. an acre, money price, which, farmed upon the five course system, will, I suppose, have about 40 acres of wheat in each year. Adopting the general notion that wheat must pay the rent, then it will require at least two-thirds of the wheat crop upon the forty acres to satisfy the landlord for the rent of the whole farm. Let us now see how a corn rent will bear upon landlords and tenants. The English landlord asks, as I have be fore supposed, 255. an acre for, his 200 acres, and the English tenant accepts the offer. The Scotch fanner, on the ether hand, bargains with his landlord to give him four bushels of wheat, or half a quarter of an acre. Now, supposing that these bargains are entered into with wheat at 50s. a quarter, as long as this price continues: all parties, both Scotch and English, stand upon the same footing, paying 255. an acre rent. But let us suppose that wheat falls to 405., how will matters be then ? Why, the English farmer will continue to pay 255. an acre, whilst the Scotch farmer pays 20s.—a difference, be it observed, of 501. upon the 200 acres, or of 255. an acre on the 40 acres growing wheat !—(Loud cries of " Hcar, hear.") Ten shilling a quarter is, however, by no means the limit of tke fluctuation to which the farmer is liable. In 1835 the average price of wheat for the whole year was under 40s. a quarter. At that time the tenantry of Eegland held their farms at a rent calculated tip.,o the ud,r standing that wii(At was to sell for Ws, at b at, wiiii.h price it was believed the Act of 1828 would se.atre. We all know the distress which then overtook the English farmers, as proved before the Committee of 1836. But we also know that the Scotch farmers, paying corn rents, who were examined before that Committee, gave a very different account of their condition ; and one of the most intelligent farmers in the county of Haddington shire has since stated that he cleared more money from his farm in 1835 than in any year since. —(Hear, hear.) And the difference in the state of things in England end Scotland was caused by the difference in the terms of renting, for whilst the Scotch farmer paid 4001. to his landlord, the Englishman paid 6001. In fact the English farmer is now paying three times as much rent for his land as his grandfather paid about seventy years ago, whilst his wheat is actually selling under the price of that period.—(Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, these are facts which demand very serious reflection at your hands, and I think these farmers' clubs may be made very useful instruments in leading to a right understanding both upon these and various other topics in which your in terests are concerned. You begin to talk them over amongst yourselves, and having talked together, you will soon learn to act together. For, depend upon it, the want of unity of purpose and of action has been one great cause why the present vicious system under which you are suffering has continued so long.—(Loud cheers.) I had intended to say a word or two about game—(hear, hear)—but I have already trespassed so long on your indulgence upon other topics that I must pass on.— (Cries of "Go on !") I have now done with agricul ture; my toast, however, goes somewhat farther, and embraces " Manufactures and Commerce." And, gen tlemen, I think I can by way of conclusion very briefly show cause why these two branches of our national in dustry are as much entitled to your good wishes as your own occupation of agriculture. For, gentlemen, great as your predilections and respect for the pursuits of agri culture may be—honourable, invigorating, and benevo lent as its principles are, dating from the very birth of time, growing with every growth of civilisation, and ad vancing with the advance of light and knowledge—in dispensable as are its aids to the public welfat e and the national greatness, I very much question whether you could conveniently dispense with the other ingredients of my teast.—(Hear, hear.) , We are no longer able to become a nation of shepherds if we would. Manu factures and commerce have materially assisted in fixing our high position with the nations of the world, and so much so, that although, as was observed by an eloquent statesman, " the pipe has `always been recognised as the pastoral instrument, we must rely on manufactures and commerce to help us to pay the piper."—(Cheers, and laughter.) Agriculture furnishes able and vigorous hands, but we must also rely upon commerce and manufactures for some of the open and capacious mouths.—(Cheers and laughter.) And, gentlemen, the more we look into every employment and every interest that engages the various classes of man _ kind, the more we shall find that we stand in need of each other.—(Hear, hear.) Moreover, although I may be as ready as any man to cry " Speed the plough," I must recollect that ploughs to be used must be manufac tured, and though we read in ancient story books of the dragon's teeth growing up into a crop of armed men, I doubt whether any of the most sanguine competitors in drill or broadcast, could succeed in turning up a plough ready made.—(Cheers and laughter.) Gentlemen, I might pursue this subject, but I think that the few ob servations I have already made on this branch of my toast will be sufficient to establish the claims of com merce and manufactures to he allied with 9,griculture.— (Hear, hear.) They are the leading branches of in dustry, and when you reit ct besides all else what cern merce does to develope the resources and augment the welfare of the country—how much it does to unite the scattered branches of the human family—to unite nation and nation—clime and clime—man and man in one cemented bond—to soften the asperities of international jealousies—and to calm the savage tendencies to strife and to murderous war—l think you will agree with me that commerce ought to be associated in the same goodly fellowship—and therefore it is with confidence and plea- Rae that I now call upon you to drink—" Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce."—(Mr. Brotherton re sumed his seat amidst reiterated plaudits.) Mr. Iltrurs (of Tupton Hall) was called upon to re spond to the toast. He regretted that it was not in his power to give expression to his thoughts with the same fluency and eloquence Mr. Brotherton had displayed in proposing the toast, to which he had been unexpectedly called upon to respond. If he had the power of expressing, with equal felicity, his own thoughts upon the subjects of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, they would be a complete reiteration of Mr. Brotherton's speech.— (Oheers.) Though a small farmer himself; his prisicipal pursuit was commerce, add his experience had taught him how intimately connected were the real interests of agriculture and commerce.—(Hear, hear.) See how they mutually assisted each other. If the firm with which he was connected were deprived of the support which the operations of agriculture afforc:ed them, they must cease to produce. The firm were indebted to the agriculturists for the consumption of something like 40,030 tons of lime per year; and on the other hand, the farmers of the district were equally indebted to them, for the firm paid in wages alone about 40,0001. annually, a great proportion of which was expended in the agricultural produce of this district.—(Cheers.) It was impossible, with any degree of common sense or notion of right, to separate the two interests. Mr Brotherton bad alluded to the land agents, against whom a 12011 score was laid. Now he thought th at c l ass of people were rather too roundly rated, and that more was fathered upon them than they were justly ea- titled to bear.—(Laughter.) Let them loo k at tit matter fairly. A land agent goes to the landlord: an. the says "My Lord," or " Sir"—as the case may be times are bad, and it is impossible that I can collect the full amount of rent ; you must make some ce allowan . " Oh," says the landlord, " I can't hear of su ch a thing,i I have been giving fetes and balls in Lon don—Pti laughter and cheers)—l have spent 100,0001., and Mu s h have money to pay my debts."—(Hear, hear.) Couldel. a case what was the poor agent to do ? Ho w help himself; when he received imperial commands like e ats. these ? Let them not be too hard upon the ag" I, Believe him, they had plenty to bear, and m ore than Or, at all times either convenient or comfortable.--(lies,„ hear.) He perfectly agreed with Mr. Brotherto's rus, marks upon the subject of tenure. In his opining it w impossible for the farmer, however industrious he 0 1 be, to carry on his operations either satis factorily profitably, without a fair and reasonable assistance fre'l his landlord.—(Much cheering. A A man takes a farnl; his landlord for the time being may be a reasonable °lli and the tenant has an inward conviction th at he will not be displaced, so long as he pays the rent ; but then, bably, he has to look forward to the coining of a fang', heir to the estate, who may, from caprice , o r a varietyf, (Cr ies and blight the prospects of the tenant at a br,etarli; and drive him at a short notice from the farm were, of" Hear, hear.") The industry of years is, as it rOO lost to him; he receives no compensation worth the, ll s it s for the hardship he endures ; and can obtain no sulu iti ei p e o reason for the visitation brought upon hitn- - k'' .-- fe ' hear.) Was that state of things desirable, or conduel..., to the promotion of the best interests of agriculture (" Nor) He had no hesitation in saying that 9-119 the of the landlords in this country we re not awa re o „ 0 0- state of their tenantry. He (Mr. Binns) had btast, gaged all his life with landowners; he was, - a ; so. free from them now, and right glad he Was to be —(Much cheering and laughter.) He scanted the I r a to be placed on the right horse. He knew that the quite agent had an onerous duty to perform, and it was 1 0 0. ;'t4t the agent c ul,l at all tines conduct tor tart' to the satisfaction of both h bier and occupier'd 1.53 the roamer condescend, d to mix more with, an sr. „.. understand the position and requirements o f, the latt e e on (Cheers.) Unless a tenant has a certain fixed ten tir iv the land, he is a fool to expend his money uP ° ,,, 11 0 00 1 (Loud cheers.) By proper cultivation, and ' 1 , 4 , -- gor good understanding between landlord and tens n V eat . tan.) ought to become an exporting instead of an of ag country,—(Hea.r, h-ar ) There was plantY. Of a apt all that was wanted was cultivation, and a judicious plication of capital. It was an old axiom that the ra ' th y measures would not grow good corif. So far fr ° te a for being correct, the coal measures were better sag- 0 0i! growing corn than any other geological strata i s of country, except the igneous rooks of the Loth i ooo l Scotland, against which the coal measures 0,1100 compete, though they rank,d second. After 0 w a(la upon these and other points some little time leng e „ ti aell Bintis concluded by thanking the meeting for 0 1 7 4 lotle attention they had given him, and sat down fue l "' , applause. ch r e ef: Lite SECRETARY (Mr. F. Brown) here rea d e fro sa of the Committee for the past year, which gav e $ able account of the proceedings of the club. e t ' The Rev. S. REVEL moved the adoption of thelject• and made a few appropriate observations on t . h: Mr. Luicarin proposed " The Committee. ad) to them for their valuable services."—(Appl anse ls iC a' Mr. HOLLAND (of Grassmore) responded on b :' te atie'' himself and colleagues, and, in doing so, to experiments made by the Committee as to the 0 ylio value of different manures. The results („, s a ftli a„, called re late season would allow) were satisfactory. •-"A a ' n ailist. ought to use every effort to improve their st-,, t ilea d considering the diminished price of corn anth e i wh e .; (Hear, hear.) If landlords would come forworatr tenants were iu difficulties, and say " We will °c a vil' case by reducing the rent "—(Loud cheers)--413:10 gles would meet with some alleviation. Bu t s 03 - not the case. Instead of meeting them with al. or it_ 4 ,l on a tenant's complaining, the answer, in li Thet s ;,> cases, was, "If you do not like to star' o 'a far ita a i you may leave it ; we have plenty waiting der: n o (Hear, hear.) Let the farmers then, in f iltUre' re more upon themselves. He knew there 'cli f f) r",,, landlords who acted upon the principle, "r at ell let live ;" but, unfortunately, they were ' e weed paratively.—(Hear, hear.) Farmers' clubshona ' tend to unite farmers in one co mmon ister e l agreement in all that concerned their rnutwa i - e They would be able to stand in their own de'`-er more effectually than in their mere individual es ell —(hear, hear.) What was of importanc e would produce more effect upon the landlords- 0 a e s Landlords who expended large sums in route s til:# should . take heed and stop in time. These Nei r aits f or of serious moment, and the shadow of coming e a aigb, 0 upon them. He did hope, however, that tb - ol er ho i) instrumentality of farmers' clubs, where g,r ief t bat,:le well as improvements could be discussed' a aiolvo te l landlord and tenant would he brought int ° timate consideration of their mutual interstedes's, rate he was convinced that such societies agr e , o o 6° ttls to do great good, and if the farmers had onlY )410;fr in themselves, he had no doubt that they eat to overcome the difficulties by which they W e " sent surrounded.—(Loud cheers.) After several other toasts had been dran l3 :t,„ Mr. LINGARD proposed the health of to aa and thanks for his valuable services.—(l)llP honours.) L. 44i Mr. F. BROWN returned thanks in a brief 5 r ati Pi Indwied .b) saying that piaceding sneak/Ate-Pr% left him a heal of asette to fire 'at" --- ` a sasV/bi lie gave " Suceees to the fsrmers' clubs if' tb play Song—" The jolly old farmer, smoking his jl Mr. Ramsden. asa lied The Rev. S. REVEL proposed the nest to- t d the health of a gentleman whose characterirebtli fedi eulogium, for he was known and appreciateuvaiave sent—" Mr. Ilunlok , ."—(Drank with three tile, Song—" The Old English Gentleinan' ' ' - ""• )(tar thard. ,Th e Mr. RAMSDEN was called upon to propose d id and Corporation of Chesterfield," which h e r car speech.—(Drank with honours.) t the ti Mr. LINGARD, as the oldest member 0- , it present, returned thanks. noa s i„Y Mr. BROTHERTON proposed " The Tow- e a r-dr) Chesterfield," and had great pleasure in , t te s ti it the name of one of the o'dest and 113 °Dril e " tradesmen of the town—Mr. Hewitt.---` honours). • l o t; Mr. HEWITT responded. ai er o Mr. BINNS proposed " The Tenant-I'o'le land," and prefaced the toast with some P er tro s, vations. be 0 0 0, 4 Mr. GILEs proposed " Mr. Brown and Mr. BROWN responded. 0 1 , A ti V i Mr. RAMSDEN proposed the health of ° -- t o r i tenant-farmers in the district Mr. •° s " ba —(Clapping of hands). Mr. BACON was received with loud s e rt ai •p plst ise ' been a ploughman between 50 and 60 Y be ltol, handled the scythe in all its forms ; a" d , b a e a P„ t 7boeal, were things to be improved upon at "'"i heir With regard to improvements, it was oe ir i,sli l ,l o , of a great many to do what they cou ld bti vp i self would like to do a great many thingeoo46o).ll/ Brotherton had observed, the f a rmers curity for the outlay of their capital- ti e r s?'" man was more willing to expend i noneYa • tr y than he was, with the proper means , an a ref e a ll otl i , curity ; but the want of means not only a r ainaisi to sP„ but many others whom he knew from ea t ' p j I t wishes.— (Molar, hear). Now he woh00.) !fedi"' things before their landlords.—(llcar, oti c at° 0: 4 proceeded Mr. Bacon, we must call 1 1 P a- t be tr c *, to lower our rent.—(Cheers). Let us 0°- 9 0 %5 7 6 naming our distress. With high rentse'oo_ifwag, cattle reduced one-third in value, lo w „, arit i , „ / (C h l, Chesterfield Market-place, and 809113e,a -duce of farms lower rented at a disli a ll adS' bell Let us have asssistance from our 1 113 ,,`;, - e ar e a /y We are willing to do all we can, " - e riP 0 —what then ? " Help help or I ,P g tril i sf o i) cheers.) It so happens that we are Pol l ? s evii e .,,,Fea for our land in these parts that others co' _ le i' f t ing; how then, as I before asked, cs s baf e eraFf „ m ot sr them in the market ? I repeat we ro pe , t ot .. A, from our landlords, and no doubt, i t. Polo°, 1 0 V r i they will show a disposition to do eve.rY te 00 0 cessary to enable us to properly cultic,i3 a o not, we shall be like a man in a boat vvicidaanor or steer him, going up and down. P 5 11 , d , 0 4 finally go to Davy's Locker.—(Ch ee- r i'fre evt Mr. Chairman, I have spoken my op ° 00)", no offence to any one.—(Cheers.) „ cool _„7 Mr. BROWN proposed " The r 0 (Drank with three times three.) ,a t lsOf The health of the Vice-Chairnotnrl'ieee, ' - pr9 followed, interspersed with songs an u c f e rahltat i " viviality of the evening was cons' with gr` The proceedings altogether went off BIRTHS. v • bore' ' cotoo O ei i i ott t fi h i: eea cs 1 115 5 660 t ntt h il.: inst., iilinsstt..: l' a i a i tt Prince's-street, 1 n lis c gi s e n r y : s o - s t e, t ;e r t e .h e se t t , r —E lady d i c g e ;: o eJ le i t o) intosh, of 111atliiiitosh, of a daug,hter. o. 3 ' roan, the wife of W. DAWSOII (COOl Ol fl h Castle), of a son. lo ol' poi" , :itAltßi Elf. Bro w AAj g On the 14th inst., at Durie, Fife, F. ', d ot u" i l iPot i Clai r to D, c oti" 1 31 1 a iN t i ll :o - c o n c h a r t ti e hs , tei eSF ih : Edinburgh,,inotp.,ntotaiteA.lcarhyrisrit'arner, e c : o, satirlre ; t oel : Thwaites, of _unwell-street, Pentonville?, .109..,-eiglii. daughter of the late Mr. S. Price, 131acicill is I' of r ' Tll OO or c..; On the 16th inst., at Kensing,tort 4 . datig 4 41), ' E.q., of Brighton, to Louisf., younge s " if ° ' ee Bennett., Esq., 01 Kensington. I Two )9 e t to talc On the 16th inst., at the Catholic CbiSbireAittfi- Mousle3 - , Esq., of Ilauntot Nall, Staff(?rioV, daughter S. Ruby, Esq , of Alve" te 17 .~. widow o n the o f LT p O t the ( n m htl l :l : et t N l h l ao i it n ntet s s s t tp. ., r a ri C a, or a ir i a l itne Anne'hrii fg e . f i 13 1: y 00 Igo Tho On the 14th inst., at . CI it . li' ill ' f il ed ro l , ,ife ° ~„v t i Esq.,- of Morely . Yorkshire. e 3fr. ,A Mall, •/, 01 h iw ,• On the 16th inst., Caroline, the NY' ' ,ClO 0' 1 Smi, of Camberwell. ~,,,, ~,, c. l et• On the 16th inst., John Holland, l' s q• .DP I mon, Surrey, aged 77. tre tS V" A , P e I On the 17th '' in • h gate - $ -- 0.- . I Liam A inst s , Bts ops -$O/I.A. plf fi 1 rpthorp, aged 54 On the ' , 1 3 in Irilli!'biti'•lP, l i : 17th inst., at D ves a iqi co A e Mary, the infant daughter of Benthani a t or) ~e f i On the 17th inst., in Ke el-street, ,-- , 4 00, ori 1 1 ? P t r A ft° RP 0' i the your ' • youngest child of Mr. Shag e • u ae, , e ,.0 if o On the 17th inst., in Dlontagu-sigrhert 'Jae' second daughter of Archdeacon Sir Woe fleet , /4 I On the 18th inst , Francis Gibbol,,,,cord-6 ~ ,.014 I Western, Esq., of Caroline.- lace, Galli . ____- - t ; " % a l p ___---- V 0 ,,f,9 ___---- DO 00 V London: Printed. and Published jg e so la 03 , No. 112, Strand, Printer, st k itv oy, 1 Strand, in the Freeißet oft b e o, ietb• Aliddleaero Morviay, January 2 -terraee• le -en'the I°l3. :. 4', priety allow evidence of another character to be pro duced, now that the peculiar circumstances relied upon by the police in the first instance had not been found sufficient to warrant a conviction. Mr. Hard wick then dismissed the information. WINGERWORTH FARMERS' CLUB (Abridged from the Derby Reporter.) FIRST AiI w— NUALMEETING. On Tuesday last the first annual meeting of this flourishing Club was held at the house of Mr. Turner, Nag's Head, Wingerworth, near Chesterfield. At the appointed hour, a large party . of members and friends sat down to a dinner comprising the usual delicacies of the season, and which was served up in a manner highly creditable to the host and hostess. The dessert and wines were also excellent. John Brown, Esq., Vice-President of the Society, occupied the chair; Mr. Samuel Denham the vice-chair, Scc. After the usual loyal toasts had been given, The CHAIRMAN having called for a bumper, rose to propose the toast of the evening—" Prosperity to the Wingerworth Farmers' Club." It had been said that farmers' clubs were designed more for the benefit of the landlord than the tenant. He (the chairman) disputed this. No doubt in this, as in every case where - the tenan learned to cultivate the soil upon improved principles, the landlord would reap a proportion of the benefit; but by improved culture the tenant derived increased pro duce, and ampler returns.—(Hear.) Farmers' clubs afforded facilities to farmers which they could not obtain from any other source. By assembling together, and communicating the results of their respective experi ments, they diffused a knowledge of schemes beneficial to the :farmer within the range of a very large circle, and induced, by their example, a very general adoption of systems of improved culture.--(Cheers.) Some farmers thought that it was a great disadvantage to them for the landlords to learn too much; but he (the Chairman) was certain, that the more landlord and tenant met together, and discussed questions affecting their mutual interests, the better would it be for both parties.—(Cheers.) The late Lord Leicester, one of the greatest practical agri culturists of the age, knew how to appreciate a good tenant, when a careless or an ignorant landlord could not. In the one case the tenant was placed in a right position ; in the other he was placed in a false one ; and let the active and enterprising farmer not suppose, there fore, that his interests could be permanently promoted, unless his landlord was capable of appreciating his worth, his intelligence and industry.—(Hear, hear). Having offered these few very imperfect remarks, he would submit the toast for their approval, merely adding, that so long as he remained in the neighbourhood, the Win ' gerworth Farmers' Club should receive hie cordial sup port.—(Cheers). The toast was drank with three times three, and " one cheer more." The CHAIRMAN next gave the health of "The Lord- Lieutenant of the County." (Drank with musical honours and three times three). The CHAIRMAN, after passing a few complimentary re marks, which were loudly applauded, called upon Mr. James Brotherton to propose the next toast. Mr. BROTHERTON, on rising, was received with loud cheers. He said, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen—The toast I shall have the honour to propose, is one which I trust will meet with a cordial response from every indi vidual in this room. It commences with "Success to Agriculture." And, gentlemen, I know of no period in the history of this country, when that sentiment was more pregnant with meaning, or more suggestive of topics for calm and serious reflection, than the times in which we live.—(Hear, hear). For with the apprehen sion of supposed danger from without, and the existence of yet more formidable difficulties and hindrances within, it may well become a question of grave import to the farmers of England, how is the occupation in which they have embarked their capital, and by which they are striving to subsist, to be best maintained and its interests most permanently secured.—(Loud cheers.) With re gard to one branch of this question, viz., so far as it affects the mere practical cultivation of the soil, I am happy to say the difficulty is comparatively small. For in the improvements which have taken place during the last twenty years, and more especially during the last ten years, it must be obvious to every intelligent ob server, that an entirely new era has opened upon British agriculture. Science is now lending her powerful aid to combine sound theory with practice. New facts and principles are almost daily being developed, which worked out to their legitimate results, bid fair to secure to the agriculturists of England a position and a fame equal to any which has yet been enjoyed by those who are en gaged in the other branches of our national industry.— (Cheers.) Of the advantages of combining theory with practice in the cultivation of the land, few persons, now a days, will have the hardihood to dispute. But if proof were wanting, I know not that amongst a variety of ~thers, I could select a more notable instance than that which is related of Lavoisoir, a celebrated French che mist. It is said that this intelligent individual (without a minute knowledge of the art of farming), by fol lowing an enlightened system, doubled in nine years the produce of his lands in grain, whilst he at the same time quintupled the number of his flocks.—(Cheers.) But, gentlemen, it would be impossible for me to give you even a faint outline of the numberless advantages which may be daily derived from the application of science to farming. 'fake one branch only. It is scarcely possible to enter upon any investigation in agriculture, without finding it more or less connected with the doctrines and elucidations derived from chemistry. For instance, if land be unprodnctive, and a system of amelioration is to he attempted, the only sure method of obtaining the ob ject is by determining the cause of its sterility, -which must necessarily depend upon some defect in the consti tution of the soil, and which may be easily discovered by chemical analysis. Now there are some lands, as you are, no doubt, most of you aware, which, though of good apparent texture, are yet sterile and unproductive in a high degree ; and common observation, and common practice afford no means of ascertaining the cause, or of removing the effect. The application of chemical tests in such cases, therefore, must be obvious ; for it is evi dent the soil must contain some noxious; principle, which may be easily discovered, and in all probability as easily destroyed. For example : are any of the salts of iron present?—they may be decomposed by lime. Is there an excess:of silicions sand ?—the system of improvement must depend upon the application of clay and calcareous mat ter. Is there a defect of calcareous matter?—the remedy is obvious. Is there an excess of vegetable matter in dicated ?—it may be removed by liming, paring, and burning. Is there, on the other hand, a deficiency of vegetable matter ?—it is to be supplied by manure.— (Hear, hear.) Again—a question often arises concern ing the qualities of different kinds of limestone employed in cultivation. To determine this question fully and accurately, in the common way of experience, would demand a considerable time, perhaps some years, and trials which might be injurious to crops ; but, by the simple chemical tests, the nature of a limestone is dis . - covered in a few moments, and the fitness of its appli cation, whether as a manure for different soils, or as a cement, determined.(Hear, hear.) Another example— peat earth, of a certain consistence and composition, is an excellent manure ; but there are some vanities of peats which contain so large a quantity of ferruginous matter, as to be absolutely poisonous to plants. Nothing can be more simple, we are told, than the chemical operation for determining the nature and probable uses of these and other substances of their kind. Now, gentlemen,' these, and numberless other instances—as cited by Sir Humphrey Davy, Liebig, Johnston, and other great chemists—might be adduced to prove the desirability of combining science with the practice of agriculture ; but I am sure you are too fully convinced of the truth of the proposition, to render any further details on this head necessary.—(Hear,' hear.) But, gentlemen, great as the advantages to be derived from the application of science to the art of farming may be, high and important as the principles which it dove lopes undoubtedly are, unless !preceded by other con siderations, which, in my opinion, are of paramount importance, they must, to you, as tenant farmers, be comparatively useless. And here, gentlemen, I ap proach a branch of my subject, upon which I am anxious to offer a few observations, and to which I respectfully ' solicit your indulgent attention. But, first of all, allow me to state what I conceive to be the object and design of farmers' clubs. I look upon farmers' clubs as esta blished, not only to discuss and promote the improve ments which are more immediately connected with the practical cultivation of the soil, but also as afford r int to the tenant-farmers an opportunity to discuss, and so lay the foundation for removing, the obstacles which cripple their energies and prevent them from deriving that fair proportion of advantage from the prosecution of their trade, which they have a full and perfect right to expect.—(Cheers). I am aware that in most of the k l farmers' clubs which have been established in different parts of the country, great anxiety has been evinced by certain parties to exclude the discussion of what they call (and I believe them), "obnoxious subjects"—such as rents, leases, and game.—(Loud cheers.) But some how or other, in almost every club of whose proceedings kI have seen any account, these " obnoxious subjects" have crept in, in spite of all the sh ifts and manosuvres which have been resorted to to keep them out. r tinued cheers and laughter). And, gentlemen, I think it perfectly right that these things should be discussed. — (Renewed cheers). There are times when farmers must speak out, not only about guano and drilling, but about land agents, land valuers, and game preservers — (Loud cheers) —and indeed it would be no compliment to la landlord to suppose that he would wish you to keep silence upon those topics which affect the privileges and just rights of your occupation, and more especially upon those grievances which it may be in his power to alleviate or remove.—(Vociferous cheering.) For if it be desirable to discuss the expediency of the introduction of a new " drag " upon the land, surely it is equally desirable to discuss the propriety of taking an old one off it—(Cheers and laughter)— and one too which is much more obnoxious than even the new ono is beneficial.— (Renewed cheers.) If it be desirable to introduce a new presser on the land, is it not equally so to remove those older pressers which operate upon the farmers' pockets rather than on his land ?—(Cheers renewed.) Well then, gentlemen, the first of these obstacles to improve ment upon which I shall offer an observation, is the te nure of land—(Hear, hear)—and upon this subject, viz., the relation between landlord and tenant, I will quote the opinion of one who is much better entitled to your consideration than any unsupported opinion of mine on such a subject could possibly be—l mean Mr. Low, the Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, who, in a work just published, " On Landed Property and the Economy of Estates," (a work I would strongly recommend to the notice of the club), says— " Not even the accumulation of capital, to the degree of stocking the farms of the country, will avail for giving to agriculture the means of successful cultivation and improvement. The owner of this capital must have the means of employing it with advantage, by security of possession, by the privileges required for the proper management of his business, and by that fair and lenient exaction upon his industry, which will enable him to employ his capital with a profit," srr*. u.~• ~.,.....rw~