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new writ was ordered to issue for the Borough of Christ church. EDINBURGH, SLAMANNAY, &c., RAILWAYS. Mr. GIBSON CRAIG, pursuant to notice, moved that the order made on Friday, tLe Isth day of this instant Mareh--That it be an instruction to the Conunittee of :Selection to refer the Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Sla mannan, and the Edinburgh, Leith, anu Newhaven Railway Bills, to the same Committee—be discharged, in so far as relates-to thi) Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail way Bill ; and that. the Committee on the said Bill have leave to sit and proceed on Wednesday next, without furthernotice. The Hoh. Member's observations were inaudible. Mr. MACKENZIE opposed the motion, and defended the order proposed to be discharged, on the ground that the railways were in reality but one line. Sir W. lIEATHCOTE opposed the motion. Mr. LABOUCHERE said he would oppose any de parture from the rules of the House. He thought the resolution of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Mackenzie) was one which the House ought not to sanction. He would, therefore, vote for rescinding the resolution, and would support the motion of the Hon. Member for Edinburgh. Mr. GLADSTONE said that the terms of the rule were quite clear, and if parties were suffering incon venience it was through their own neglect. He must say that he thought it was for the interest of all the parties concerned to adhere strictly to the rules laid down by the House on this subject. Sir G. GREY hoped the House would not establish a dangerous precedent. He thought the best course would be to extend the resolutions which the House had adopted, with regard to competing lines, to connecting lines ; and, with this opinion, he should vote for the motion of his Hon. Friend. Mr. ESTCOURT said that the order having been made, he was not disposed to vote for its discharge. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the motion 65 Against it - Majority against the motion —l THE LATE STATE TRIALS. Mr. WYSE rose to present a petition from the mem bers of the Repeal Association of Ireland, praying for inquiry into the late State prosecutions in that country. The petition had received a larger number of signatures than any petition that had ever been presented to that House from Ireland. The petition was signed by 821,334 persons, and had been got up in the short space of three weeks. It was signed by the coporations of the cities and borcughs of Cork, Kilkenny, Armagh, and other places, by several of the boards of guardians of the poor, and other persons of influence and standing in the country. There was also the greatest care taken to prevent any kind of fraud in the signatures attached to the petition. Means of every description were resorted to, during those prosecutions by the Attorney-General to insure a conviction of the traverser& The charge of the Judge also was such as to impress upon the minds of the peo ple of Ireland and also of the world generally, that there had not been a fair trial in this case. The petition was then borne up to the table by Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Wyse, Sir H. W. Barron, 4r. Blake, Colonel Rawdon, and Mr. Hindley. Upon the Speaker putting the motion that it be laid on the table, there was much laughter, for it seemed to require the united strength of all those Hon. Gentlemen to raise the pon derous mass of paper from the ground. When it was "laid upon the table," it completely covered it, books, ink, and papers. The petition was then read at length by the Clerk at the table, and Mr. WYSE begged to move that the petition be printed as it was.--(Cries of " Order," " Chair.") • The SPEAKER. said the Hon. Member must give notice of any motion on the subject. Mr. WYSE then gave notice that he would call the attention of the House to the subjeet of the petition on Monday next. WELSH GRIEVANCES. Dr. BOWRING gave notice that he should, before the recess, inquire of the Home Secretary whether it was his intention, during the present session, to propose any remedy for the removal of the Welsh grievances, whose existence had been recognised in the Report pre sented to the House. NEW POOR-LAW. Sir CHARLES NAPIER gave notice that, in Com mittee on the Poor-law Bill, he would move that the guardians should be authorised to give a higher rate of relief to aged people above sixty who had paid their poor-rates. Also that in the event of a man possessing a cottage of the value of 1001. being no longer capable of work, he should be eligible to relief. JAMAICA. Mr. VERNON SMITH said that in the papers which had been presented to the House on the subject of immigration the Noble Lord (Lord Stanley) had inserted queries with respect to the possibi lity of relaxing the rule confirming the immigra tion of women into the colonies to one-third. He begged to ask whether he entertained any intention of proposing a relaxation of the rule which had hitherto existed ? Lord STANLEY said that in consquence of a repre sentation which had been made to him, he had written to the Governors of Trinidad and Guiana to ascertain whether any practical inconvenience would result from the relaxation of the rule. - He had only received the answers five or six days ago; consequently he had not had time to send out further instructions. THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. O'BRIEN IN THE COUNTY OF GALWAY. Mr. BELLEW rose to ask the Noble Lord the Secre tary for Ireland a question respecting the appointment of a Mr. Thomas O'Brien, as a magistrate in the county of Galway, that gentleman having been until very lately a violent and undoubted Repealer. Lord ELIOT said the lion. Gentleman was quite out of order in making such observations. If the Hon. Gentleman had any motion to make he (Lord Eliot) would be prepared to give him any information respect in; it. - Mr. BELLEW merely wished to know on what grounds the appointment had been made. Lord ELIOT said he must decline answering the question. IMPORT DUTIES. Mr. EWART rose to move the following resolution : . —" That it is indispensable to the maintenance and ex tension of the trade of this country, that those duties be repealed which press on the raw materials of manu facture, especially the raw materials of the woollen and cotton trade. That it is expedient also that those duties be greatly reduced which press upon articles of interchange in return for our manufactures especially such articles of interchange as, at the same time, concern the subsistence of the people ; being (oe sides corn, which is - the subject of superior and separate consideration) such articles as tea, sugar, coffee, bacon, butter, and cheese. That it is expedient that those duties also be greatly reduced which, by their amount, encourage smuggling ; being at once injurious to the revenue and dangerous to the morality of the country ; such as the duties on tobacco, silk goods, and foreign spirits. _That whatever temporary deficiency of revenue be caused by such reduction, ought, until the revenue regain its former amount, to b e sustained by the property, and not by the trade and labour of the country." He said that the repeal of these duties were particularly called for in a time of peace, and still more so in a time of distress, such as that which this country had lately - witnessed. The same argument which applied to cotton also applied to wool. They would not be able to coMpete with fOreign countries if they kept up their present .high duties. They were obliged to re-export large quantities of the wool imported into this country. By repealing those duties they would add to the comforts of the people, and they would extend their commerce in coffee, tea, sugar, bacon, butter, and cheese —articles which were so necessary for the poor. He thought that for their sake they ought to remove the duties on those articles. America, with peculiar sagacity, abstained from levying any duty on tea and coffee. Those articles had become more important to the people of this country than formerly, because they had become more temperate. The tea duty pressed with peculiar severity on the poor. Taking the amount of tea imported into the country to be 40,000,000 lbs., it was not too much to say that 22,000,000 lbs. of it consisted of congou, the tea used by the poor. There was a duty of 2s. Icl. on tea of all descriptions, which pressed equally on the tea consumed by the poor and by • the rich. On the trade with China being opened, a proposition was made that there should be a distinction . in the duty, but a Committee having sat to consider the . subject, they found the difficulty of distinguishing the different teas so great that they recomnunded the . present rate of duty, which was adopted. He was of opinion that to make up to the poor for this,_they ought to remove the duty on cotton. They anticipated an ex tensive trade with China, but unless they removed the duties on cotton they would not be able to compete with Russia, who, next to themselves, were the greatest, ex . porters to China. The duty was reduced in 1784 by Mr. Pitt, and the consumption was immediately doubled. From 5,000,000 lbs. weight it was increased to 10,000,000, and in two years the consumption of tea, in consequence • of that reduction, rose from 5,000,000 to 1 7,000,000 lbs. weight. Then, as to the duty on sugar, it also pressed hesivily on the labouring poor, and it was known that . ten per cent. of all the inferior sugar consumed by the poor was adulterated. This was owing to the high duties on that article. With respect to coffee, the con sumption increased in an inverse ratio to the amount of duty. In 1811 there was but one coffee-house _which was frequented by the poor in London—there were now 2,000, and all in consequence of the reductions made from time to time in the duties upon that article. In the late adjustment of the tariff he regretted that the Right . Hon. Baronet did not make an equal rednction of duty on both foreign and colonial coffee, The_ article of coffee had shown in a peculiar degree the wisdom of re ducing duty to increase consumption. The present high duties were great encouragements to the smugglers. Look at the enormous duties which were imposed on the importation of tobacco. The duty on tobacco was about 800 per cent. on the Original cost of the article. Hardly a day passed without some . poor unf ortunate man being ch brought before the stipendiary magi s t rates in Liverpool for having contraband tobacco in his p ossession. He thought the duty - on tobacco ought to be reduced from 31. to ls. -" I hope," said. the Hon. Gentleman, in allusion to a somewhat ominous gesture on the part of an - Hon. Member on the Ministerial side, "I hope the Hon. Member does not meditate anything of that sort so spon!"(Laughter.) The HON. MEMBER alluded to protested that he did - not comprehend the meaning of the Hon, Gentleman (Mr. Ewart). Considerable laughter was occasioned by this little incident, and upon its subsiding Mr. EWART proceeded. On former occasions, when ides were reduced; the revenue had always been • benefited. This had .been particularly the case with respect to the arti c l e o f b ran dy. He thought the duty on brandy ought to be further reduced, considering that it WAS now very much used for pharmaceutical purposes. An Hem MEMBER here moved. that the House be counted, and, there being only thirty-eight Members present; the Spealteradjburned the House at Seven. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1844. ASSIZE INT ELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT, Lewes, March 20. CROWN SIDE.---(Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.) The business for the county of Sussex, owing to the Winter Asize, has been remarkably light. Thre were only thirty-one prisoners for trial, and the only serious case, except one of burglary, was the charge against the man LaA rence for the murder of Mr. Solomon, the chief officer of Brighton. The Court sat on Monday, . but none of the cases dis posed of on either side possessed the least feature of pub lic interest. THE MURDER AT BRIGHTON. In the course of the day the prisoner Lawrence was called up to plead, and, on the indictment being read, he said, in a firm tone, that he was guilty of striking the blow with the poker, but that he had no intention to kill Mr, Solomon. Lord Chief Justice DENMAN said that this amounted to a plea of not guilty, and he therefore directed that plea to be recorded. (From the Brighton Gazette.) John Lawrence was placed at the bar, charged. " for that he, on the 13th March, at Brighton, upon Henry Solomon, feloniously, wilfully, and of malice afore thought, did make an assault, and with a certain poker in his right hand, did feloniously, wilfully, and mali ciously strike and produce a mortal fracture, rupture, and wound on the said Henry Solomon, of which mortal fracture, rupture, and wound the said Henry Solomon died." The prisoner was also similarly indicted on the Coroner's inquest. The prisoner at this time betrayed considerable emotion. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Cobbett conducted the prosecu tion ; Mr. Chadwick Jones appeared for the defence. Mr. CLARKSON rose and spoke as follows:—It is im possible to conceal from oneself the importance of the me lancholy case to which your attention and that of the public by whom we are surrounded has been directed. I am instructed by the Commissioners of the town of Brighton, with the assistance of my Learned Friend, Mr. Cobbett, to lay the short and melancholy facts be fore you. It appears tkat no longer ago than last Wed nesday, a week only from -the present time, the deceased, Henry Solomons, in the discharge of his public duties, was found in the office which belonged to him in the Town Hall of the town of Brighton. Between seven and eight o'clock on that evening, the young man at the bar had been apprehended for the commission of some felony—shop-lifting, I believe—at no great distance from the spot. An officer of the name of Barnden had taken him into custody, and had brought him to the police office, as it is called, of the Town Hall of Brighton, where the chief constable Solomon was sitting in a chair ; and whilst he was there waiting for the arrival of the witness by whose information the charge was to be given, Solomon, the officer, put a few questions to him, one of which was how long he had been in Brighton. I think he gave a reply which, from information given to Solomon, he believed was untrue—namely, the prisoner said he had been there two days, whereas there is reason to believe he had been there many months ; and upon Solomon saying, " That is not true; we know you have been here a fortnight or more," the prisoner drew the stock from his neck, threw it down before him, and said, " I'm tired of my life ; give me a knife that I may make away with myself," and appeared in a state of considerable excitement. So lomon offering him no affront, making no suggestion of the smallest provocation, on the contrary endea vouring to soothe him, besought him to compose himself, told him he was not to be tried there, but that he: was merely waiting the arrival of a witness to enable the charge to be made. He then turned from the spot where the prisoner stood ; he im mediately placed himself in a large chair, which was nearly opposite, on one side of the fire-place--I don't know which. There were some other gentlemen in the room, whom I shall call before you ; and Solomon was engaged in conversation for a few minutes with those gentlemen. I believe I have detailed to you everything that had passed up to this time. In the course of this conversation the son of Mr. Slight, known to all of you as the highly respectable clerk to the Commissioners of the town of Brighton, who happened to be in the room, was leaning on the hatch door by which you enter. He was on one side—his back somewhat turned to the door. The prisoner rose from the chair, seized the poker that lay in the fireplace behind him, raised his hand with the poker in it, and struck a blow on the uncovered head of Solomon that felled him to the ground. The poor fellow fell on his hands and knees; he Has utterly incapable of helping himself; and he had at that moment received his death-blow.- But he was raised by the gentlemen, supported in a chair, and he became insensible. The man at the bar made this observation—" I know I have done it; I hope I have killed him; I hope I shall be hung," or, "I hope I shall be hanged." I should have told you before, that which you would expect should immediately follow such an act, namely, the act of the use of the poker on the unfortunate Solomon; he was seized by the young man. Slight at the moment. Mr. Slight did not see the blow struck, for it was struck from behind him ; but he did see the poker descend on the head of Solomon, and he did at the moment turn round and seize the party who must have struck it, and saw the upraised poker, bent as you will find it was by the force of the blow, in the hands of the man, and the moment it was taken from his hand he used the expres sions I have named. In these short observa tions are contained the whole transactions as respects the prisoner at the .bar. Desirous not to say anything to aggravate the facts, I shall simply lay the melancholy case before you ; and you will discharge, under the direction of his Lordship who presides, a duty serviceable alike to yourselves and the public. The witnesses examined before the magistrates and coroner were then called, and they repeated their former evidence, which fully corroborated the statement of facts made by the learned counsel for the prosecution. Mr. CHADWICK JONES then addressed the jury for the defence, and contended that the expressions used by the prisoner in Solomon's office, together with the entire absence of any conceivable malice or motive, showed that the prisoner was acting under a sudden impulse or frenzy, which deprived him temporarily of reason, and made him an irresponsible agent. Lord DENHAN then proceeded to sum up, and con cluded his observations as follow :—" You will weigh the whole matter in your minds ; and unless it is clearly made out to you that the prisoner was actually deprived of reason at the time he struck the blow, he is clearly gu ilty of murder. If you think he was deprived of reason, he .will not be guilty of murder, and you will acquit him of murder on the ground of insanity. But I need not say you must be fully convinced of that, before you say he is -not guilty of the murder." Clerk of the Court—Consider your verdict, The jury turned round in their box for about 12 mi nutes, when they resumed their seats. There was a breathless silence in the Court, as the Clerk of the Arraigns inquired, Do you find the prisoner, John Law rence, guilty of the murder of Henry Solomon, or not Foreman —Guilty. Clerk of Arraigns.—Prisoner a t th e b ar , you h ave beent 3? ' convicted o sentence e t n h t e e n c crime of ofw deathi l fu s l h m o u u l r d d murder; w b h e a p r a s have sed youupon r he you. The to sar prisoner, who had be en greatly agitated duringywhy the time the judge was summing up, was now supported by the turnkeys ; and Lord DENNAN at once proceeded to pass sentence. He warned the prisoner to make use of the few days which remained to him in this world, in seeking that repentance which should prepare him for the next ; and told him that there was not the slight est chance that the extreme penalty of the law would not be inflicted. The sentence of the Court is —" That you be taken from hence to the gaol for this county, at Horsham, and thence to the place of exe tion, and that there you be hanged by the neck till you are dead, and may God have mercy on your soul ; and that your body be afterwards buried ix the precincts of the prison. The prisoner was then assisted out of the dock in a highly agitated state; anttas he descended the stairs he gave an earnest gaze on the crowd, as if looking for some one, but he made no sign of recognition. The trial lasted three hours. THE REV. MR. MARSH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST. Sir,—l cannot but think that Mr. Marsh has been somewhat hardly dealt with. Ido nut desire to ex tenuate the immorality of which he has been confessedly guilty; but a', deeper, degree of culpability has been imputed to him, and, as it appears to me, on insufficient grounds. What has been established against Mr. Marsh, with respect to the unhappy woman, the subject of the late trial, in a short immoral connexion, more than four years ago, with a very brief renewal of it, not sought by him, but forced upon him, through the power :she had acquired from his dread of exposure ; and this last nearly three years ago. None subsequent was even alleged, and none certainly ever took place. Whether, under these circumstances, the proceeding to trial was jedicious, or otherwise, can hardly be judged of satisfactorily but by those who are acquainted with the prevalent impressions which it was thus sought to re move. The woman had established herself in his village and neighbourhood, frequented his church, and indus triously circulated abominable imputations against him, amongst others, that of his having administered to her drugs to procure abortion. He was unwilling to take steps against her, which would give greater notoriety to circumstances:of which he had long heartily repented. But his remaining quiet, coupled with her confident assertions, and imposing manner and appearance, at length caused a belief that these charges must be true. It was in consequence represented to him, by very respectable persons in the vicinity, that he must institute some proceedings against her, as the only means of disabwing the public mind, and putting an end to the scandal of her presence. He had no allki native, or was advised that he had none. On this ground lie was in duced to abide the issue of a trial; but in no case is it to be inferred that Mr. Marsh thought lightly of the dis grace he should bring upon his profession and himself. The contrary is strictly true. That Chief-Justice Tin dal, who tried this case, considered the prosecution, how ever lamentable in its exposures. nether censurable, nor unnecessary, may fairly be inferred f, om his having, upon the acquittal of the prisoner, allowed the whole of the costs applied for on the part of the prosecutor. It further appeared on the trial, from the el idence of Mr. Marsh, that about the period of his acquaintance with the prisoner, he had occasionally visited the house where he unhappily made her acquaintance. This sad circumstance lam far from desiring. to extenuate. But he solemnly denied, upon his oath, that even at that time it was his habit to frequent that or any other such place. No immorality whatever was proved, or even insinuated against Mr. Marsh of any later date. I cannot help, therefore, expressing my feeling that the Bishop of Peterborough (if I may trust the report of his speech in the House of Lords) a little overstepped the obligation of his part, when he said that Mr. Marsh was " frequently absent from his residence, unhappily, in this metropolis and in Paris." (I quote from the tines newspaper.) The Bishop was called upon to censure, and to censure with severity, what has been proved against Mr. Marsh. But surely it was unkind and uncalled for to heap odium upon him, by the introduction of an extraneous topic, and of facts merely presumed. The Bishop cannot know where Mr. Marsh is when absent from his home. The fact, moreover, is not as the Bishop allowed himself to surmise. Mr. Marsh has not been in Paris during the last four years, and was never there but twice in his life—in 1837 and in 1839; nor has he, for the greater part of that time, been in London, unless on the occasions when compelled by the unhappy woman in question, to negotiate her payments. Since 1842 he has scarcely been there at all, until her coming into the neighbourhood of Barnack, in last September. When absent from home, it has chiefly been on visits to fami lies of the highest respectability, with whom he is on terms of intimacy. The truth is, that these vicious indulgences, were re gretted and resisted even at the very time referred to, and he soon determined to keep out of the way of temptation. To make his nome more attractive to him, he induced his mother (a lady, of whom I may perhaps be forgiven for saying, that she is not more venera ble for her years and station, than for her eminent virtues and high intellectual endow ments) to take up her abode with him in the country ; hid' she did, at some sacrifice to herself. This was not a companion likely to be selected by an abandoned debauchee. Since that time he has been but little absent, and then never in Paris, and rarely, and but for short intervals, in London. One who, without pretending to account for his every hour, is well acquainted with the general tenor of his life. vouches for the,e assertion:. In his neighbourhood Mr. Marsh's conduct has been without reproach. Towards the poor under his charge he has been careful and liberal in ministering to their wants, and in supplying the means of education to their children. Accordingly, he is very popular with his parishioners. FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. A meeting took place on Wednesday evening at the Wesleyan Chapel, Sloane-terrace, Chelsea, which was very respectably attended by the frierds of the Free Church movement. Mr. Farmer, a gentleman residing in the neighbourhood, was called to the chair, and was supported by the 11ev. D. M'Kellar, late Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ; the Rev. Dr. Buchanan, of Glasgow ; the Rev. Mr. Tweedie, late of the Tolbooth Church,: Edinburgh ; the Rev. George Scott, Wesleyan Minister of Gravesend ; and other ministers interested in this spiritual mission. The CHAIRMAN stated that he regretted that justice should not be done to the mighty cause of truth by one more efficient than himself. It was indeed a momentous, a most important movement which was then going on— a movement which ought to, and did, draw blessings and reverence upon the heads of those pious and conscientious men engaged therein. Such blessings had been, and con tinued to be poured upon them, not only by those who had the welfare of the Church of Scotland peculiarly at heart, but praises were heard from all to whom the soul inspiring struggle for conscience sake was of the slightest import.—(Cheers.) The Rev. Dr. BUCHANAN explained the character of the visits of the Scottish Free Church ministers. He said that to show the extent of the movement to those who dwelt in England, it might be but necessary to say, that if such an one had been made in England, the results in proportion to that in Scotland would have been, that 1 1 500 ministers would have quitted the Established Church, and that from six to seven millions of laymen must have followed, to be in the same ratio as the number of the people who seceded in Scotland. But he would not say that numbers at all times constituted the right and honesty of the cause in which such numbers were en gaged. The Rev. Doctor then went fully into the rea sons which induced the ministers of Scotland to give up private emolument and domestic comfort, and to become voluntary exiles from their land in search of sympathy, adopting, as it were, the character of sacred mission aries, the better to make the grievances under which their Church laboured, known to their fellow-men. He (the Rev. Doctor) would urge, that as God was the head of the Church, his ministers could not bow down or obey a temporal master. He would strongly contend for the right of the people to elect their own pastor, and the interference which had sprung up to meddle with this wholesome right was a cruel and oppressive act, wholly at variance with the strict com mands of Divine precept, and in direct violation of the laws as guaranteed to the Church of Scotland. The people had a right to see that the man who was sent to look atter the welfare of their souls was not a cold, worldly mortal, alike careless of the spiritual welfare of his flock, as of that of his own. They, the people, had a right to see that such a man was not an irreligious man, whose intrusion had only for its end the idolatry of Mammon, and not the worship of God. Yet such a right was denied them.—(Hear, hear.) The first step in the revival of the Scottish Church after the Reformation, was the check which was laid upon the law of patronage. The patron might nominate an individual to a parish, but, before he could be received, he must preach at least four sermons, and, if such accorded with the feel ings of the majority of the Church members, the patron's nominee was elected, but, if otherwise, another must be provided, and so on until a fit and proper person, whose character, too, would bear the strongest scrutiny, was found. This salutary system was exercised for upwards of a century, and the results were eminently beneficial, and there came from day to day into the various parishes a class of ministers whom, for evangelical doctrine, ex cellence of heart, and brotherly love, no portion of the civilised world could surpass, or did ever equal.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) This period was very properly called a revival, but such blessings exci'.ed the envy and dis pleasure of the world, and the most insidious opposition to the progress of good arose. The patron became jealous, and insisted upon his protege being thrust upon the people. This the people resisted, and the wealthy patron flew to the courts of law, where he unhappily obtained a verdict to compel the people and ministers to elect his protege to the parish—a man whom they they so lemnly believed—and had the most irrefragible proof— was wholly unfit to be intrusted with so sacred and re sponsible an office.—(Hear, hear.) What did the minis ters do ? They refused.—(Cheers.) They said they could not fly in the face of the laws of God. Their duty was written in the holy hook—there was their law, and that law they must obey.—(Cheers.) The patron goes again to the Courts of Civil Law, and gets a ver dict, subjecting the Church to su b mi t t o Caesar in the things which are Christ's.—(Hear, hear.) When the ministers deposed men for immorality, the Civil Court interposed to keep them in office, and to this day some of those men remain. —(Hear, hear.) The Rev. Gentleman concluded an address, marked with great power, by stating that he looked upon the present accident in the Church's history as being one for its good. It had caused persons of most religious denominations to ex tend the hand of fellowship and co-operation to them, and such a friendship and co-operation might, at a crisis when he saw infidelity upon the one hand, and Popery upon the other, coming in like a flood, be of most espe cial service to the great cause of enlightenment and of truth. He was about to leave for Scotland that very night, and he carried back to the land of his birth a very strong sense of gratitude for the sympathy which had everywhere in England been raised on behalf of the Free Church.—(The Rev. Gentleman then quitted the platform amidst loud and continued plaudits.) The Rev. Mr. TWEEDIE said that in England the Reformation commenced with the King, and went downwards to the people ; in Scotland it commenced with the people, and went upwards to the King.— (Hear.) The books of policy in Scotland expressly stated that " no minister shall be forced into any parish contrary to the will of the people," and the principle is embodied in the word of God.—(Cheers.) The people must either listen to the minister thus forced upon them, or go some twenty, or it might be thirty, miles to hear another more consonant to the spirit within them.— (Hear.) Such men who had been forced upon the peo ple were, in - many cases, " experimentalists," such as got into the Church by subscribing to her doctrines, and when there, repudiated them—men who went so far as to state that to visit the heathen, and endeavour to make him acquainted with the blessed Redeemer, was both useless and foolish.—(Hear, hear,) Now there was an Act passed by the Court of Session in General Assembly, and winch was ultimately eulogised by the Lord Chan cellor Brougham from the woolsack, and its validity recognis e d b y the Attorney-General and Solicitor- General of was fr s e u m p supposed d t y by ranny these nf the Ge neral of S co tl an d . This Act protected the people, great authorities ,patrnn; yet to in protect with vou the ring to l ay ca r reyffiiete rout, and, the whilstm i ministers seekingr s tn g i contact ministers) lost th e i r learn from Bilbo - people their privileges, they ( t h e W e _ - a that the priest named Bilbao own. They (the ministers) would not consent to see who was arrested upon a charge of being involved in a Carlist their people thus subjected to have a man sent amongst conspiracy, has been tried by a court-martial and condemned them who was unworthy, and for thin they were dragged to im p risonment with hard labour for ei g ht y ea r s . into the civil courts, and the damages w e r e laid at SOMNAMBULISM.—It will be in the recollection of 16,0001. ! Since that period, in 1836, the ministers had our readers that an account was given of a very serious acci not had a day's peace. Actions of damages and p ena l- dent which occurred on the e ven i ng o f th e 22d o f D ecem b er last, to a private of the Royal Sappers and Miners stationed ties followed rapidly upon each other, and thus, at Br om p ton B arracks, near Chatham. The poor fellow, by taking the advice of the law makers, they named Henry Stirratt, had retired to bed at the usual hour in his sleep, and, opening the room door, proceeded along the (the ministers) became the law breakers.—(Loud after tattoo roll-call, and in about an hour afterwards got up laughter.) The Rev. Speaker then contended for ? e n the a sill, and fell a distance of between 35 and 40 the spiritual independence of the Church of Christ, prs s as to a window; and, having raised the sash, placed urging that no human being had a right to give laws to n found drawn l uv n?leknetl3etlmolT feet to tl Where he was shortly afterwards conscience, but the God of e' conscience. They were real , building, weltering in his blo f 0 7 1 feet from the wall of the to the death to submit to civil laws, in matters which and he sufferer was imme were civil, and they were equally ready to the death, to diately conveyed to the hospital resist the interference of civil laws in things which were by Dr. Chisholm, of the Ordnance Depa p r ro tm m eri t t, l y a attended to C h t spiritual. Th e mi n isters preferred retiring from such 1% 10 did everything for him th at talent and experience could o ake man a state of aff a i rs , w h ere they had not the liberty to con- suggest. On examination it was ascertained that th e l ower stilt God's word, b ut were to be compelled to t jaw was fractured in two places, and all th e j o i nts of dates from a certai n A ct of Parliament, - had suffered from which now lies the fall. So frightful his body was the. appearance upon the Presbytery table. He (the Rev. Speaker) of the unfortunate sufferer, and so extensive the injuries he would not take the interpretatio n of God's word f an Act of Parliament, while h e h a d the word itself covered, and was able to come with_ _is , eompany to which to.—(Loud cheers.) No stat u t e s h ould bind him to attached from Chatham to Woolich, and n ow per roal sustained, that not the slightest hope was entertain e d o f h i s to recovery. To the surprise of all prstriilnes he wonderfully re gohe is things spiritual, but the Statute B oo k o f t h e Almighty, —(Loud cheering.) Five hundred churches had been formsoar examined as to the cause of the accident . pre, built during the last five months, - to provide for the light ieb d e uti es, but viou.sly to his being discharged. - Soon after this scandal arose, he placed himself in the hands of a clergyman, much his senior, an intimate aad confidential friend of the Bishop, undertaking to follow his suggestions, and to abide by any wish the Bishop might entertain; though he was aware, or at least firmly believed, that, by lapse of time, no formal penalty could be imposed by him. When the trial was over, he determined to write to the Bishop, in the persuasion that, as no steps could be taken against him, his sincerity was not liable to be called in question. His intention was to express his deep sorrow at the disgrace he had brought on his profession and himself, his remorse at the sinfulness of the conduct which had entailed it, and his wish to abstain for a lengthened time from the exercise of his functions, and to withdraw from his residence. The unexpected notice taken of the affair made him withhold the letter ; but it was seen by friends, and the intention to send it known. One circumstance, which has brought censure upon NEI.. Marsh, is yet unnoticed. When asked, on the trial, if he had received any communication from the Bishop, he replied,—" Only mediately." A comparison of this expression with the Bishop's letter to the Times news paper, has caused Mr. Marsh to be taxed with prevari cation. The truth is, he might with perfect sincerity have an swered " none whatever." But as the friend alluded to had advised him to continue what he had already begun of his own accord, namely, to abstain from any pro.- ressional duties, he thought it p ro b a bl e t h at h e was in possession of the Bishop's wishes, though he had not an nounced them ; and, therefore, with proper caution, he replied as he did ; but surely in a spirit the very opposite to that imputed to him. The Bishop has, no doubt, expressed his feelings, in confidence, to the gentleman in question, and has felt persuaded that advice would be given and acted upon in accordance with them. This was enough for him. Bat it is hard that he should so have expressed himself, as to cast an unnecessary slur upon Mr. Marsh. So far from his having the direct knowledge of an in terdict from the Bishop, it happened that, when this same friend urged his return to Barnack to silence the suspicions before alluded to, he stated also, that as it was understood the Bishop had not interfered, Mr. Marsh's abstaining from his sacred functions when on the spot, would be regarded as an act of self-condemnation and self-abasement, and be becoming and useful. There is much, very much, to lament and to condemn in the conduct of which Mr. Marsh had been confessedly guilty; but is there anything in it for which a man is to be hunted out of society? Is it a case to call for new laws, or for stretching the existing ones, to visit it? Are the Bishops now accustomed to deal with cases of 'equal or greater enormity, when recent, and properly put before them, with extreme severity? If not, is it right to yield to a clamour, partly, at least, grounded on erro neous impressions? Here has been no aggravating circumstance of seduc tion or adultery. Ido not, for one, regard Church pre ferment as a freehold. There is a cure of souls attached to it, which justly imposes a strictness of moral con duct: at the same time it should be borne in mind that a clergyman, deprived of his preferment, is debarred by his orders from every other source of livelihood. This is a motive, certainly, for increased circumspection in him, but also for some unwillingness to proceed to extremity, except where the offence is heinous, or the character of the party is irreclaimable. I submit that neither condition is established against Mr. Marsh. lam his brother. I venture to hope that, from one in my position, this statement will not be considered unbe- __ ...._ coming or uncalled for. It is long, but I have found it difficult to curtail it, without taking from it its proper efficacy. Space has not been grudged in other quarters for censure : I trust to your generosity and sense of jus tice to admit this attempt to remove so much of it as seems unmerited. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, GEORGE HENRY MARSH. 7, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East, March 20, 1844. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) Upon the special jury case of Putland v. Troup being called on, one of the jurors, on his taking the book to be sworn, said he wished to know, being, as a Roman Ca tholic, deprived of his civil rights in other respects, whether he was eligible to serve the office of a juror. Mr. Baron ALDERSON looked up at the gentleman and said, "How can you be so foolish ? I cannot think how a man can make such a goose of himself. Don't be such a goose." - The gentleman was then sworn. The action was one of libel, arising out of a squabble with respect to some parish accounts at Hastings, and after two or three witnesses were examined, the record was withdrawn. LERREUX v. BERKELEY. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a banker • at Cohie, to recover a sum of .65,000 f., and interest, from the defendant, F. H. Berkeley, Esq„ M.P. for Bristol, under rather singular circumstances. Mr. Thesiger and Mr. Ogle were for the plaintiff; and Mr. Platt with Mr. Peacock were for the defendant. It appeared from the statement of the Learned Coun sel and the evidence that was adduced, that in the year 1826 the def en d an t h a d an i n t ro duction. to th e plaintiff, through Messra: Drummond, who were the bankers of his mother, the Countess Berkeley, and in consequence of that introduction numerous money transactions took place between them—cheques were drawn, bills dis counted; &e.-and at length there became a balance due to the plaintiff, of upwards of two thousand pounds. Some negotiations took place respecting the payment, and it appeared that at length the defendant signed a ' document, by which he admitted that he owed the .plain tiff the sum of sixty-five thousand francs, and that he was entitled to receive interest at the rate of nine per cent. upon that amount. It did not appear that any pay ments were made, either on account of principal or in terest, and eventually the" plaintiff received a letter dated " At sea," in which the defendant said he would • not be hunted any longer by a par cel of blackguards, and - he had, therefore, re solved to ." remove his bodY" to another plaCe. The defendant concluded this letter by subscribing himself, " Yours, very sincerely;" and the reading* of the docu. ment occasioned a good deal of laughter. It was upon the bond or deed referred to that the present action was brought to recover, not only the _principal, but the inte-' rest, at nine per cent., for a period of eighteen years. Witnesses were called to prove these facts and one Mr. Coup, in an swer t o a ques ti on f ro m Mr. Baron Alderson, said that, if parties chose to make an agree ment to pay nine per cent., that the law of France did not consider such a transaction illegal. Mr. PLArrmade a very able address to the jury on behalf of defendant, and commented upon the very ex traordinary character of the transaction, and the nt tempt, after eighteen years, during, which time there did not appetti tO r - hafibeen iiivlicittionor-denialid for the money, to enforce such a claim and he said the Statute of Liimitations would have barred the plain tiff lrom enforcing the claim but for his residing in a f , reign country. He observed that it was impos sible for any defendant to answer a claim of this descrip tion aftyr such a period or time had elapsed, and he called upon the jury, under those circumstances to give a verdict for the defendant. Mr. liaron ALDERSON having summed up the case, the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 6,6401, that being the amount of the principal slam, and the interest for eighteen years, at nine per cent. _ Two other Common Jury causes were then disposed of, and the the business of the Civil side concluded about eight o'clock. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Shrewsbury, March 19 CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) THORPE V. FOX. _ For the plaintiff were Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Valentine Lee, and Mr. Beadon ; for the defendant, Mr. Godson, Q.C., and Mr. Cooke. The circumstances under which the plaintiff in this case was compelled to seek redress for the injurieshe had sustained at the plaintiff's hands were somewhat singular. From the evidence of Susan Jones, a very intelligent Welsh girl, it appeared that on the 29th of last September she, with her master and mistress, into whose service she had entered that day, arrived at the George Inn, Shrewsbury, by the coach, from Montgomery. On alighting, Mr. thorpe in quired of the defendant, who is the landlord of the George public-house, what was the fare to London. Fox replied 255., at which Mr. Thorpe expressed some surprise, as he said the charge was much lower by the Greyhound coach, intimating at the same time, his intention of proceeding by that con veyance, and requesting the defendant to give up his luggage, in order to proceed at once to the office of that coach. Fox immediately affected great dissatisfaction, and said that the luggage should not be removed until 4s. were paid for over weight. Mr. Thorpe said that this was an unjust demand, inasmuch as he had already paid his fare before leaving Montgomery. An angry altercation followed, the demand was discharged, but some expressions of no very flattering tendency were thereupon interchanged, and at last one or two blows were struck, but it did not clearly appear who was the first assailant, or who gave the original provocation •, the plaintiff, at all events. came to the ground, and fell across one of hie trunks, his witnesses imputing the fall to a violent blow which he recei ve d i n th e face from the de fendant in the most wanton manner; the defendant's wit nesses attributing it, however, to intoxication on the part of Mr. Thorpe. The violence of the fall was such as to stun him for a moment, and to inflict permanent injury of the spine, the effects of which he will, in all probability, ac cording to the surgeon's opinion, continue to feel for some time to come. Not content with this, it was added that Fox knocked together the plaintiff's boxes, breaking them to pieces, and as in one of them a quantity of new laid Welsh eggs were packed amongst Mrs. Thorpe's dresses, the result of this rough treatment may be readily divined. As no offer seemed to have been made on the defendant's part to make any pecuniary redress for the various injuries occasioned by the occurrence above described, the plaintiff now sought re muneration from the decision of a jury. The jury retired to deliberate, and returning after an in terval of about half an hour, found a verdict for the plaintiff, Damages 100/. ; but the pleader, by some inadvertency, having only laid the damages in the declaration at 50/., the amount of the 'verdict was entered upon the record for that amount. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PARiuc.) The criminal cases, in the investigation of which the Learned Baron was occupied the greater part of the day, wore of such a character as wholly to preclude our publish ing them. At four o'clock, Mr. Baran Parke having completed the delivery of the gaol, proceeded to assist in the disposal of the civil business. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Derby, March 20. The Right Hon. Sir N. C. Tindal arrived in this town at about half-past five o'clock last evening, and opened the Commission. The calendar was, notwithstanding the recent winter as sizes, more heavy than usual; particularly in point of number, there being 60 cases and 68 prisoners for trial. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.) HUNT V. SHEFFIELD CANAL COMPANY. This was an action to recover damages for an in:ury al leged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, through the careless and improper conduct of the defendants. Mr. Whitehurst and Mr. Humfrey were the Counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. Hill, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Wildman appeared in behalf of the defendants. It appeared that on an evening in July last the servant of the plaintiff was driving his cart and horse with goods, and had to pass under an aqueduct, near Sheffield, belonging to the Company. When within six or eight yards of the hollow he was called to, but not in time for him to pull up, and the horse suddenly went into the water so deep as to cover the horse's back. The servant, who was perfectly sober and a steady man, got out of the cart and went up to his neck in the water to endeavour to disengage the horse from the cart, but the water still continuing to rise rapidly, he was warned to " come out, for God's sake, or he would be drowned," and was obliged to do so, as he couldn't swim, without having been able to release the horse, which was drowned. The horse was of the value of 251., and the injury to the goods in the cart was estimated at about 601. The material ques tion was the liability of the Company to make compensation for the injury sustained. Under the Act of Parliament they were empowered to make such an aqueduct as at the spot in question, but then they were to leave a certain space (15 feet) between the level of the road beneath and the lower part of the arch, and to make the declivity not exceeding a certain steepness. They had, however, only commenced the declivity at about 60 yards on each side, and the consequence was, that in the centre was a sort of hole, wherein the waters that were out had reached about nine feet in depth. Prior to the alteration made by the Company, the road was a dead level, and from the level of the land in the neighbourhood the water never could have exceeded two feet in depth. The jury returned a • verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 841. 13s. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Yorh, March 19. CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron Roixx.) THE QUEEN V. JOSEPH CHADWICK. This was an indictment which charged the prisoner with feloniously forging and uttering a receipt, and acquittance for the sum of 121., with intent to defraud one John Crowther. There were other counts in the indictment, laying the intent to hare been to defraud other persons therein named. The prisoner pleaded " Not Guilty." The prisoner had been admitted to bail, and had sur rendered to take his trial. His appearance was exceedingly respectable, and his whole demeanour that of a person who was perfectly conscious that an acquittal awaited him. The interest of the trial was grearly enhanced by a report (whe ther true or not we are unable to say) that but for this oc currence he was to have been last week married to a young lady of highly respectable connexions and considerable fortune. Evidence as to some facts on which the charge was founded was given but it possessed no interest. A considerable number of the most respectable gentlemen of the place wore called, who gave the prisoner the highest character; and, The case being summed up, The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilt. The acquittal seemed to be received with approbation by all parties. (Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) THE QUEEN v. COOKE. This was an indictment prosecuted by the Board of Excise against the defendant, who had been an officer of Excise, for obtaining money by false pretences. The indictment had been removed by certiorari, and was tried by a special jury. Mr. Wortley, Mr. Ellis, and Mr. Robinson appeared for the Crown ; the prisoner was not defended. It appeared that the prisoner had what is called " a ride," and had to visit the houses of publicans in his district, to several of whom ho pretended that he had paid the money for their licenses, and obtained the amount from them. He bleu went off to America, where he said he had purchased some land, but came back and was apprehended. He was found Guilty, and sentenced to be transported for seven years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A person of gentlemanlike appearance and address, named John Powell, was charged before Sir John Key, who sat for the Lord Mayor, under the following odd circumstances:— Mr. James Walters, the proprietor of the Guildhall Hotel and Coffee-house, stated that on the 14th of February the prisoner came to the house, contracted a bill to the amount of fourteen shillings and fivepence, which he paid next day, and then he continued to con tract a bill until the 22d, when the amount reached 3/. 2s. 6d. The bill had been made up to the 28th, as the prisoner's luggage was lying in his room, and no notice had been given that the room might be otherwise appropriated. On Wednesday night the prisoner after an absence from the 22d of February, walked into the coffee-room, and witness sent him in the bill and de manded immediate payment, in answer to which a check for 3/. 10s. was handed to him payable on the 23d instant, which he refused to take. The waiter had picked up a letter addressed to the prisoner, which pro fessing to come from the prisoner's brother, was calcu lated to throw some light upon the subject. The letter contained some observations in reprobation of the prisoner's conduct. Mr. Walters said that the prisoner had obtained ac commodation under false pretences, inasmuch as he passed himself off at the Guildhall Coffee-house as Mr. Whiteside, the celebrated Irish Counsel, who defended Mr. Duffy, one of the traversers in the Irish conspiracy affair. The character thus assumed had the effect of leading to a credit which would not have been given to a person who had applied without introduction. The discovery was made by a gentleman in the coffee-room, who stated to witness that he knew Mr. Whiteside, and that the prisoner certainly was not the distinguished person he represented himself to be. That gentleman had written to the Learned Counsel, and had received an answer contradicting the prisoner's assertion. The prisoner said he could easily show the necessity —the actual expediency—that he should assume the name of Mr. Whiteside, at the same time that he denied the correctness of the main features of the case, as repre sented by Mr. Walters. He had, he assured the Alder man, been a madman d ur i ng t h e space of six years, in consequence of an injury he had sustained in the head by a fall from his horse. He had been Coroner for the county of Kent, and there were many respectable persons in Lindon who could bear testimony to the truth of all he had said and should say. He had served his time under the gentleman to whom Mr. Whiteside had been a pupil, and as some of his family had th oug ht p roper t o k ee p up, after his complete recovery, t h e re p ort th a t he continued mad, in i t t he bey p o a n rt d with that the certainly intont h of order to carry out their designs upon property, he was, he considered, justified in personating Mr. Whste side, or any other individual, with the view of escaping the persecution either of mad doctors or Sheriff's officers. o g tre i n n d p ec r i e a t g en a d in in st g tb t e ha l t aw h , e it i %, ve a s s mMorl..eNtVhhanitehsie knew,de,he forhad on himselffrom which related to his personal security, whi c h was in danger of being hazarded by the discovery o f hi s r eal e h d a e d riv not taken any advantage upon name to his enemies. Sir JoIIN KEY told the pri soner t h at it appeared from Mr. Walters' statement, that if he had not repre sented himself as Mr. Whiteside, the bill would not have been allowed to run on, and asked whether the prisoner was able to discharge the amount ? The prisoner replied, that he could obtain it by send ing t.) a relation in town. He further stated, that he had three children, and that he had been called away from the Guildhall Coffee-house to the country on a subject connected. with- their welfare ; and he de dared that he was never so much surprised as when, upon re-entering the Coffee-house, he received a pe remptory order to pay the bill without delay, for he had greatly amused the customers by his description of what had taken place ups n the trial of the Irish tra versers. Sir JOHN KEY said, he had no doubt that Mr. Walters, would be satisfied to let the matter drop upon receiving the amount of the bill. The pri• , oner assented to this proposition. Mr. Walters said, it was not the insignificant amount of the bill that led him to such a course as that he had pursued on this 'occasion, but his apprehension that a similar scheme of humbugging might be played off at other houses. The remarkable thing that appeared to strike those who heard the case was, how on earth there could have been got together a set of such flats as could. for a mo.. ment, have mistaken the poor creature at the bar for the powerful 'and dignified advocate. WORSHIP-STREE7'. IJrm. Brown, a well-dressed iren, who formerly kept a beer-shop in Nelson-street, Hackney-road, was brought before Mr. Bingham for final ex , mination, charged with having been concerned in the commission of several daring burglaries, that have been lately perpetrated in the counties of Essex and Cambridge. It appeared that a continued series of daring and sys tematic burglaries, which have occasioned considerable alarm and excitement in the above counties, had taken place at different times, extending over a period of seve ral months, arid not the slightest clue to the discovery of the perpetrators was obtained until about six weeks since, when Superintendent Clarke, of the rural police, succeeded in apprehending two notorious characters, named Cuttress and Bennet, against whom a clear case was established, on which they were both convicted at the last Chelmsford Assizes, and were sentenced to transportation for life. In consequence of certain information that transpired on that occasion, the Superintendent proceeded, in company with Sergeant Brennan, on the 26th tilt., to the house of the prisoner in Nelson -street ; on searching which they discovered an immense assortment of miscellaneous property, the produce of different depredations, of which they took immediate possession. Whilst they were prosecuting the search, the prisoner escaped from the house, but he sur rendered himself on the following day to meet any charges that might be brought against him. Miss Sarah Giblin, niece to Thomas Scott, Esq., of Long Wendon, in Essex, stated that, on the 25th of Ja nuary last, her uncle's house was broken into and robbed of a large quantity of property. She identified the plated candlestick, table-cloth, and the carving -knife, now pro duced, as the p roperty o f her uncle. - Sometime before the robbery, she saw the prisoner on the high road, near her uncle's residence, in company with three other men, one of whom she believed was Cuttress, the convict. Algernon Herbert, Esq., of Ickleton, in Cambridge shire, identified a mahogany work-box, a writing desk, and carpet-bag, which were stolen, with other articles, from his house some time between December 23 and January 27, last. The Rev. Joseph Singleton, vicar of Babraham, near Cambrid ge , stated that hi s h ouse was f orc ibl y entere d on the night o f the 14th of December last, and a consider able quantity of plate and' other property, of the value of nearly 50/., was carried off. The two volumes pro duced, entitled " The Life of Christ." and " The Works of Milton," together with the several articles of cutlery, were his property. John Partridge, a coachman in the service of the Rev. Isaac Hall, of Snailwell, in Cambridgeshire, identified a box coat and some harness, which were burglariously stolen from his master's stables, in March, 1843. George Townshend, residing at Fordham, stated that the articles alluded to by the last witness were sold to him last year by the prisoner, whose sister lived with him in the capacity of housekeeper. Superintendent Clarke and Sergeant Brennan proved that the whole of the property identified by the other witnesses was found in the possession of the prisoner, who claimed it as his own. The prisoner (who declined saying anything) was fully committed on four distinct cases ; but to afford time for the identification of a quantity of unclaimed property which remains in the hands of the police, he will be brought up again next week. CLERKENWELL. George Commodore, dressed in a blue linen smock frock, and representing himself to be a butcher's boy, was charged with obtaining, on false pretences, numerous legs of mutton and sirloins of beef, the propecty of res pectable housekeepers. Richard Smith, footman to M. Warren, Esq., J.P., Montague-street, Russell-square, deposed that between one and two o'clock in the afternoon of the sth of March. the prisoner knocked at his master's door, and told wit ness, who opened it on his ringing, that he was sent by his employer, Mr. Kent, butcher, Southampton-row, for the leg of mutton which had been left there in a mistake a few minutes previously ; he wished to change the leg and would bring the right one in a few minutes. Wit ness called the cook, who gave him the leg of mutton. which had been left there by Mr. Kent's messenger. He never returned, and they were obliged to get another leg of mutton. Mr. Kent, the butcher, deposed that he had net autho rised the prisoner to take away the leg of mutton, and had never seen him before. Several of his customers had been defrauded of joints of meat in the same manner Mary Ann King, servant to Mrs. Susanna Francis, widow lady, residing at 50, Great Ormond-street. Bloomsbury, deposed that the prisoner obtained a sir loin of beef from her mistress on the 30th of February last, on a similar pretence as in the former case, alleging that he was in the employment of Mr. Watling, 21. Marchmont-street. Mr. Watling gave similar testimony to Mr. Kent. Mary Ann Farmer, servant t' Mr. Bully, of Bernard street, Russell-square, deposed that the prisoner ob tained a leg of mutton from her by a like ruse about six weeks ago. • - Sergeant Dodd said the police had obtained informa tion of frauds like the present on housekeepers in no less than fourteen different cases. Mr. Whiskin, "a county magistrate, residing in Upper Bedford-row, who, on Wednesday week, was defrauded of a leg of mutton, was on the bench, but could not identify the prisoner as the person who had committed the offence. • • The Court was crowded with housekeepers and ser vants who have been plundered by members of a gang to which, doubtless, the prisoner belongs. Mr. Ewart, the salesman; of gewgate-market, was likewise present, who, we understO6d; had been defrauded, but he could not identify the prisoner. Mr. GREENWOOD committed the prisoner for trial on the above mentioned three cases. Two dustmen, named Eton and Brown, were charged with the following outrageous conduct:— Mr. Jenkins, residing at 29, Bedfordbury, and a re spectable tradesman residing in Holles-street, Clare market, were returning from the funeral of the mother of the latter, between five and six o'clock on Wednesday evening last, still dressed in funeral garments, and were passing in quiet procession through Judd street, St. Pancras, when the prisoners, and four or five other dustmen, not in custody, drove up in dust carts, and after breaking the line of procession, one of the ruffians struck an unoffending female mourner with his whip. Jenkins remonstrated with Brown, but the latter struck him in the eye with his clenched fist, and with such violence as to very much injure and inflame that organ. And, on similar remonstrance, Eton struck the other complainant in the mouth, so as to cause blood to flow from it A:mob of 100 persons soon assembled, and police-constable, 107 E, with much difficulty se cured the prisoners. The prisoners, in.default of the payment of fines, were committed to the House ofCorrection—Eton for ten days, and Brown - for seven days. Wednesday Luvigi 3faranchi, an Italian, was charged by Andrew Bertti with having violently assaulted him, and otherwise ill-treated him. Mr. Horry, the bairister, attended far the prosecution, and said that the defendant was one of those Italian masters re siding on Saffron-hill, who sent about poor Italians with organs, &c., for the purpose of vagrancy. The facts were, that in April, 1843, the complainant was engaged by the de fendant to come to England, under a promise that he would be well fed, and paid 13 francs and a half per month to play music. On his arrival in England he was sent out with an organ to beg in the streets, and unless he brought home 2s. per day, he was subjected to the most brutal treatment. On the 6th lust. he took home 11d. to the defendant, when he struck him violently on the head, and ever since that period complainant was kept in constant terror, under a threat that defendant would ruin him for ever as a man, if he did not bring home more money. On the 13th instant defendant again beat him violently on the head, for not bringing home 25., when he sought the protection of Mr. Luciani, an Italian, who had taken up the cau se o f thi s persecuted class of per sons, who were deluded and entrapped into this country for the purposes of vagrancy, and then barbarously treated. The complainant had once been in the hospital for two months, in consequence of the defendant's violence, who struck him on the head and tore his hair. Mr. Horry was glad that some humane gentlemen were getting up an Institution for the prevention of such abominable traffic and cruelty, and he was instructed by the Committee to prosecute this case at the Sessions. He therefore urged that the defendant should be ordered to find bail to answer the charge, and not summarily convicted. The complainant, a poor sickly looking young Italian (who was interpreted by Mr. Luciani), proved having been engaged by the defendant at Parma, in Italy, on the terms alluded to by the Counsel, whose statement he in every re spect confirmed. Mr. GREENWOOD inquired whether the complainant had been paid the wages agreed upon ?—Mr. Horry replied in the negative. He had not received a single franc. Mr. GREENWOOD inquired how the complainant made his way to this country ? , --The complainant said that himself and eight other Italians, who were like himself engaged to play music," travelled over the Alps to France, and then by the steam-boat to London. Mr. GREENWOOP said that the system of entrapping poor Italians into this country was a most abominable one, and no good would be effected unless the Sardinian Ambassador interfered to preVent it, having in England no alien laws now. He ordered the defendant to find bail to answer the charge at the Middlesex Sessions. The defendant procured bail and was liberated. Thomas Barber, formerly in the army, was charged with an assault of a very savage character on police-constable Solomons, 54 G. • It appeared from the evidence adduced that Solomons, who is a very quiet inoffensive officer, was on duty in Cow-cross street, between one and two o'clock in the morning, when he saw the prisoner quarelling with two prostitutes, and creat ing such a riot as to disturb the whole neighbourhood. The officer requested of them to separate, and on the prisoner re fusing to do so, took him into custody. The constable had no sooner laid his .hand upon Barber than he attacked him, and knocked him . down on the pavement. The officer shouted for help, and when police-constable 49 G came up, Solomons was lying on the ground, and the prisoner, with his knee on his stomach and his hand in his stock, as if about to stranggle him. 49, attempted to drag prisoner away, but IT declared, with an oath, " I w ill t eac h hi m t h e five cutii. ' Solomons got upon his legs, b u t th e pr i soner k noc k e d him down again, and in the fall the officer's finger was hurt. The prisoner's defence very much aggravated his guilt, for he alleged that the constable had been in company with the prostitutes, and that he attacked him because lie refused to give him drink. He. further alleged that the otAcer 140 the i melt disgusting language. ..........- .0.. .. hyl Sergeant Boyson, 19 G, depos e d that the prisoner 4 tts said a syllable a b ou t th e o ffi cer ' s a ll ege d misconduct ' station:house. Mr. GREENWOOD, after a patient investigation efibt:liateri fully ascertained that the prisoner's defence was, ', w oe, fabulous. The Magistrate remarked upon the n - , e a - disttic" violent and unprovoked assaults on the police in i'w doge and sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 11., or nil commensurate term of imprisonment. The prisoner was committed. - • BO IV-STREE7. 04 ° Frederick Sh aw , a golaeater, and Frederick •P c : i f ii rti butcher, wet e placed at the ba r f or final examidatio n, 01 or with burglary and robbery at the house of Mr. A& cester, oil and colourman, New Com 0 p 40 , ton-street. , It appeared from the ev id ence , that on the 2 d of r o'tg the prosecutor's premises were broken into, and a t, t gold shells, brushes, a q uan tity o f gold leaf, gold us ther with Dutch and silver metal, were taken alit,e o property amounted to about 201., and a portion de l b 1 found upon the prisoners when they were appre llejl the offic , •rs on another charge. they 0 The prisor.ers declined thaking any defence , a u ' l Atilt- committed for trial. The prisoner Radford was next charged h ifilwAjg and robbery at the house of Mr. John Smith, f o llour• stationer and bookseller, 49, Long Acre, under the kip if l° circumstances :—The prosecutor's factory was b ra, of t on the night of the sth of February, and a quall• es ' and receipt stamps, 90 sovereigns, a number of 7, 11 :i of r, some packs of playing cards, and three Bank pul e otfl were stolen. The prisoner's brother had been il l : un d of the prosecutor, and some of the articles being l ° oo3 itte",, possession, he was taken into custody.—He Was e ° ,,. Both the prisoners were next charged with Ste l l'Zijer," dwelling-house of Mr. Ephraim Smith, workingJ e " with blarlido Carlisle-street, Soho. The prosecutor stated that on the evening 0 f ti ef i , tli l tt ; February his parlour door was opened with a latcte; s a quantity of jewellery taken away, value about 2w l ' tbl committed for trial. i The prisoners were again charged with a ropf,y e slillt house of Mrs. Green, 22, Cavendish-square, an d quantity of plate and a great coat. 9,0 04 The premises were broken into on the 28th of in the absence of the family, and a quantity of pia'. o eo ' r portion of which with the coat were found in the Ptlril.si. of the prisoners, and they were fully committed for , The prisoner Shaw was also committed for tria l t i° 4o , in his possession some gas fittings belonging to lay' " • Denmark-street. UNION-HALL. fa °. Three men-of-war's men, lately pail off, aPP lied lief, under the following circumstances : foie It appeared that they had be en rece ntly paid a. c og v t : Iris, on her return from the coast of Africa, and , ha uls° pended their wages, and b e i ng una bl e to get emp loy ' they were reducel to great distress. Mr. Corm :Glum, finding the poor fellows had s:::gilir?, deal of active service abroad, remarked that there ' 2 " ; be some asylum for such persons, until they RO riet O 0 0 getting on board other ships, and that they eh dee permitted to wander about the streets in WC- 1, a of ti t tif condition, after risking their lives in the service country. They stated that they had been at the Admire Lne oa ltV, blit rO received an answer that some steam-ships were ntlisfeti Woolwich, and that probably th e y might be el . CD board when they were launched in about a MOP then, however, they ran the risk of starving. d oe The MAGISTRATE lamented the situation of the t o ro tars, ordered them some temporary assistance froln., t h 0 box, and recommended them to get to Portaale" they might have a chance of employment. CORN AVERAGES. ~10, GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISL v ssit i _d For the Week ended Malik 10, 1544, made up hOll , "tor , the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns ill Wales. per Imperial Quarter. O. 44 I Wheat......... 565. 3d. Oats ..... Id., Reafi f."*" ° :. 5 1 .. ..... 331. 3d. Rye AVIRAONS OF Till LAST SlI Wig Weeks ending, WHEAT. !BARLEY.' OATS. I RUC. Feb. 10 52 7331 19 1 30 9 17 ..... 24 53 1 33 7 19 7 32 10 March 2 ..» 56 2 31 9 20 0 35 3 9 ...... 16.. » 56 3 33 3 20 1 33 8 IMrserat AGORZOATZ AIIZAO2II OF TH- Wheat.... ..... 54. Ild. Oats ..... 199 84.1 Beans.. ..... 31t. 51 Rye cuing ow roiteltax COAX. 00 10. Wheat ' lBs. 041. Oats Barley .......... 5:. Od. 1 Rye ..... 9s. 6d.1 Foie MARKET NEWS.-(YESTE- HAYMARZETS. 00, 1 0 SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow*Hay, 21 155 to //1; ful ditto, 31 5s to 31 lOs ; fine Upland ' dittet to 11,1 31 16s; Clover Hay, 315 s to 5l; Oat Straw, Beth 61 for Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 11 lOs par load. .2•1 Straw sold heavily, at the above quotations. .01;u741; CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2118 s to n o to 0 1 ditto, 3l 8s to 3/ 13s ; fine Upland ditto, 31 . 140 Clover Hay, 3/ to 4115 s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 7s to 1 19. k Straw, 118 s to 1/ 12s per load. A moderate suPP I slugsish demand. Prices about stationary. . 1 0 t 4i .„ 0 HITECIIAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, „, Si 1 „ 1 " useful ditto, 31 3s to 3/ lOs; fine Upland °l4 3/ 15s ; Clover Hay, 3/ 5s to Si 5s ; Oat Strail, , 1/ 83; Wheat Straw, 1/ Ss to 1/ lOs per load. S u l' and trade very dull.: oti MEAT MASLILETS. Veil? SOUTHALL, MARCH 20.—For prime Mutton , t0.,0 Pork we had a steady demand, at prices fully eq2 A4. ofsr obtained on this d a y se ' nn i g ht. I n a ll o ther kin — , noi exceedingly little was doing, and their value ha D,s. ward tendency :—Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 10d; M u llellob to 4s 6tl; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 2s 6 ‘ l !7 fi jiptir to sink the offal. Supply—Beasts, ri 32 • SheeP, , '" O 47 ; Pigs, 40. offF:01 0 ROMFORD, M.tocit 20.—Although the suppe", se. *o o offer to-day were by no m eans ex t ens i v e, the "7,04;i1 0 throughout inactive, on the f o ll ow i ng v terint,.r' :'_,L s• 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; Mutt on , 2 s 8d t o 4§ 6d; ai'o 4s 6d; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 8d per Slbs', g , Calves, 18s to 28s ; quarter-old Store Piga, Val V end- Mulch Cows with their small Calf, 161 0 -SI HALLSHAM, MARCH 20.—We had a comparativ e 4 : ., 6,1; demand for stock here to-day, at barely late ni nA ' to 4 1 ' from 2s 8d to 4s ; Mutton, 3s to 4s 8d; Veal, 35 I" .01 and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per 81bs. f r ARUNDEL, MARCH 19.—With the exception 0 f ol &O Beasts and Sheep, commanding a steady sale, at gat the demand ruled extremely inactive :—Beef, frnd ; • 4s ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 6d to •" Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 4d per 81bs. ,bOOlOlO CHICHESTER, MARCH 20.—T0-day's market a full average supply of sto c k, w hi c h m et a slow 111 . 6 4 teo, in some instances, depressed rates :—Beef, from 2 ' 4 0 4 r t y; Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s 6d; Veal, 3s 6d to 45 6d ; 01 2s 6d to 3s 6d per 81bs. Suckling Calved, 186 Cef ir . quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19 $ ; and Mil" , to 181 each. ted 111 :110 14. 4 ARTISTS' BENEVOLENT 1-N .e - • e ste'ler annual meeting of the member s o f thi s charity'', 0 1 4 in 1810, under the patronage o f G eorge the Fourt . ,' l 4 11 1 :10 1 0, ' the charter of incorporati on was gran t e d .to pd the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street. olite•P bell, Esq., presided. It appeared that the fund is. i p% wholly supported by the contributions of its to' j i if o* their own relief in sicknees or superannuation . 0,0 1 1, 1 8 0 to the annual Report read, the receipts, during t he .;idew'sf including a former balance of 99/, 5 s sld., of" stock, 5611. 18a. 9d., &c., 1,518/. 13s. ld.; deshlc t ri fit A Y penditure, a balance of 1091. 17 s . 9d. remain o t m' treasurer. The stock possessed by the Instit ° `O l upwards of 19,300/. ft )4 1 ) , DUBLIN, MARCH 19.—The Mary, J a mes, of - 111 08 - stranded on the Wicklow Bar, has gone to piec e. ;OS light has been towed back t o her etation. v , 6 0. 00 .4 0 COACH ROBBERY OF 1,500 SoVSE— '315 Monday the Defiance, Oxford coach,was robbed r sum, which had been forwarded from a banking? of Temple-bar to Messrs. Robinson, Thomso n'' bss a, 1 1 0 0 , the Old Bank, Oxford. The coac h man , Mr. 0° the.e s a highly respectable man, it appears , has been I dou bt.i of bringing bankers' parcels to Oxford, which o °.til e io . ..k, of the swell mob were aware of. The box contatfolltire, was put in its accustomed place of security,.,i ll , 6 ;er&rolbi in London, but on arriving at the Old Bank, ',. ‘ ,. 0 0400° missing. It is supposed that the robbery' ,ssr„i st o dd a person who occupied the box-seat, as on erro . '2 he was seen to open the boot, during the tinle_..o" ge - e .le" horses, and take something out. One of the pt . 7 001)...; crf is also supposed to be a confederate, stopped atf,,,,s,"tw he was taken into custody the same night by : m-ori:1001, ford City Marshal. He has undergone a private .00 before the Magistrate s , an d i s reman d e d . TO b . ° bel l et kept his place to O x f or d, an d at t h at time, 11!:eagsl- pected any more than any of the other nine flfr o off the coach, and has not since been heard O. on 9 o!' [AD VERTISEMENTI—ON THE / r •El G ‘ g v ill GRAVE ; OR. A MIRACULOU S C URE BY lIOW 9 ' 10 , —James Langley, a ladies' shoemaker, residingoot tld, street, Goswell-street, caught a violent cold as i t rid, months since, which, bein g . neglected, brough,' "Rters' :fl de7, 4 of the legs and feet, pains in the side and 31 ' . .t c h::jolr; sweats, with inability to keep food on his sts"; $ 11 1 `.;;; he was at last reduced to such a state of ge lle ortiVit'j and debility, that no one thought he could 10 _ 1 1 4r tf.; by the use of Holloway's Pills every d" 1 `.-- l i ,; V ) ; quickly disappeared, and he is now as hale sit os of:,te . , l l ever he was in his life.—Sold at Professor Os l i s d blishment, 244, Strand (where adyice ratY.,bt ie '4 and by almost all respectable venders of inewel the civilised world. -------":1--- 0, BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., at Wimbledon, the Ig a i -,A, Bowden, Esq., of a daughter. d the oi On the 18th inst., Mrs. Frederick Boyle_ - 1,e1 4 worth-road, of a son. made'''. On the 18th inst., the lady of Thomas A- - ' o° 4 Whitecross-streietst, ~ of at a Fulmer ,dauth I.zll Bucks, the --- r. ° 1 w O m n ik t iy h n e , l E B B thq.,nofadaughter. , ,040004 MARRIED. 01, i t otb le l jO On the 16th inst., a t St. M art i n ' s , Ludga' , e " tel . ' os' A Schack von Brockdorff, Esq., of Antwerp, o ps;" Offresie, third dau g ht er o f A . S a p or tas, Esq' ' . ' ig , Majesty the King of Prussia at Antwerp. , W .. to , '- On the 16th inst., at St. M arg aret's Chur_cig tbe•P • • 4 Mr. Adam John Hill, to Eliza, daughter- of ni " g r! 0,4, Benton, of Holborn. t l l l/ On the 18th inst., itt y at Caversham, oxfords _ ale D. Cleaveland, E sq ., C ap t a i n R o yal Artilleq, OO ', daughter of the l a t e W. Imes Pocock, 11 ' 84 ' , Royal Navy, of Rose-hill, Caversham. 1 1 DIED. •iiisril r e, On the 14th inst., Anne, relict of the late .1 4r1 , d • 0 0 Esq., of Alborough-grange, Essex. , yr:doe , ' l. A On the 15th inst., in Bishopsgate- street TY " —fay ettaLetitiA th the i w ns i t., wife of a t M A r. b T o h n o co m u, Thomas Merritt . gsdreno,l;7o.7ti On the iif. Poole, late Major in the 36th Regiment of: 1 • t i# 41 " Infantry. i 'di, ° -.44 On the 17th inst., at Reading, Arthur Sou 7,- Regiment. • 10 1 A Doc , On the 17th inst., in Harley-street, Robert ' of Octon Lodge , . Yorkshire. ~,, sPepti" rf. /.0 0 On the 18th inst., at Tooting, Surrey Paul ow• On the 19th inst., at Blackwall, dr. ThoW lll tal i builder, aged 76. ~• Virisi tli s e t , On the 19th inst.. at Snaresbrook, 11 • 0 1 ft be Mr. John Russell Rodgers. 0 On the 19th inst.,: e a d Y t frßs .iecla o covrn.s n . -Bjrt t ooha h hace e dnoln l , 09 9 ,at t ;E h .eesd i ncii i n ,6.l s ,Bsa t to . g. , R i hard 76. fit, City- road. ~ it, ° Ai On the 19th inst., Mr. Charles David Zettercl—° 0 141.- Ate pil o at Hyde-park.-square. -- - son of Eustratio Ralli, Esq rt°tea,d.reLict. ct we.... 0 1 TT 0 ' Y 6 1 (11 1I LIPI London: Pri n t e d an d Publi s hed by Ml 4 Pn*ce. No 112. Strand, Printer, rat The Sun ‘- , •ii s CO Strand, in the precinct of the Savoy, ^ t be March 22, 1844. •-teN ' :41,4 ~~] b k k.4.t „ le▪ g& IPj szi" 9 , I ▪ ; 9J . I 90 4 LW SI ,31 - 90 n 5 5 1 I Hi fll~R{7l Into 414 PARLIAMEIN TAR 1 - DIV ISIOIs (Prom the Votes and Proceedings If the House of Commons.) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20. COUNTY CORONERS BILL. (IN THE COMMITTEE.) Sixth Clause (Coroner to be chosen by a majority of per sons duly qualified to vote at the Election of Knights of the Shire for the County, &c.) :—Amendment proposed, to leave out " Knights of the Shire," in order to insert " Coroners instead thereof:—Question put, " That ' Knights of the Shire' stand part of the Clause :"—The Committee divided MINORITY-AYES, 45. Arkwright, George—Leominster Lascelles, Hon. W.--Wakefield Bailey, J.—Herefordshire Lawson, A.—Knaresborough Baskerville, T. B.—Herefordshire Lincoln. Earl of—Northampten Beckett, W.—Leeds: shire, South Bradshaw James—Canterbury Lygon, Major-Gen. Hon. H. Buck, L. W.—North Devonshire Worcestershire West. Chute, W. L. W.—West Norfolk March, Earl of—West Sussex Cripps, William—Cirencester Marsham, Lord—West Kent Darner, Hon G.—Portarlington Miles, Philip W. Skynner—Brkitc Darby, George—East Sussex Miles .William—Somersetshire Dickinson, F. H.—Somerset W. Nicholl, Right Hon. Sir John Divett, Edward—Exeter Ossulston, Lord—Northumbct Farnham, F.B.—N. Leicestershir Patten, Wilson—Lancashire Flower, Sir J.—Thetford Peel, Col. Jonathan—Huntmgcloc Fuller, A. E.—East Sussex Rendlesham, Lord —East Su& lk Gasket!, James Manes— Wenloek" Russell, C.—lteading Gladstone, Captain—lpswich Shirley. E.—Monaghan Gore, W. R. 0 Sligo Co. Smith T. B. C.— Ripon Graham, Right Hon. Sir J. R. G. Spry, Sir S .T.—Bodmin —Dorchester Sutton , C. M.—Cambridge Hardinge, Right Hon. air H•— Walsh, Sir John B...—Raihicashite Launceston Wilbraham, Hon. R. 8.-1 atica Hinde, J. Hodgson—Newcastle. shire upon-Tyne Wyndham, Colonel...W. Fussex Irving, John—Antrim Co. TELLERS. Jermyn, Earl—Bury, Suffolk Pakington, J. S.—Droitwlch Knatchbull, Sir E.—East Kent Knight, H. (I.—Nottinghamshir4 MAJORITY—NOES, 70. Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth Hanmer, Sir J.—Hull Aldatn, William—Le.ds Hawes, B.—Lambeth Arundel and Surrey, Earl of— Hay, Sir A. L.—Elgin, &c Arundel Henley, J. W.—Oxfords! ire Bannerman, A.—Aberdeen Hindley, Charles—aahton Barclay, D.—Sunderland Hodgson,lßd.—Berwick-on Tweed Berkeley, Hon. M. F.—Gloucester Howard, C. W. G.—Cuml.erlaud Berkeley, Hon. H. F.—Bristol Hutt, W.—Gateshead Bernal, R. jun.—Wycombe James. William—Cumber.and Bowes, J.—South Durham Johnstone, A.—Renfrew, &o. Broadley, Henry—East Yorkshire Kemble, H.—East Surrey Brotherton, J.—Salford Manners, Lord J.—Newark Bruges, W. H. L —D.:vizes Marjoribanks, S. —Hy the Puller, Charles—Liskeard Martin, John—Tewkesbui yr Buller, Edward—Stafford Morgan, O.—Monmouthshire Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co. Morris, D.—Carmarthen Bvng, Right Hon. G. S.—Chatham Morrison, James—lnverness Cavendish, Hon. G. H.—N. Derby Napier, Sir Charles—Maryleben: Colborne, Hon. W.—Richmond Faget, Lord A.—Lichfield Collett, John—Athlone Philip., G. R.—Poo:e Crawford. S.—Rochdale Plumridge, Captain—Pei.lyn or Davies, D. A.— Carmarthen shire Falmouth Dawson, Hon T. V.—Louth Co. Ricardo, L.—Stoke-upor -Trent D'Eyncourt. Right Hon. C. T.— Rushbrooke Colonel—Suflollr Lambeth Smith, R. V. —Northampton Douglas, Sir C. E.—Warwick Smythe, Hon. G.—Cantu:bury Duncan, Viscount—Bath Strickland, Sir o.—Preston Duncornbe. T. S..—Finsbury Trelawny, J. S.—Tavist‘ck Dusdas, Admiral—Greenwich 1 roubridge, Sir E. T.—S•sodvrch Egerton, W. Tatton—Cheshire Wall, C. Baring—Guildford Escott, 8.--Winchester Wallace, Robert—GreenocK Ewart, William—Dumfries Want, H. G.—Sheffield Nelden, John—Oldham Wawn, J. T.—South Shields Fox, Colonel—Tower Hamlets Wilshere, William—Yanncutt French, F.—Rosscommon Wood, Colonel T.—Middlesex Gill, T.—Plymouth TELLERS. Guest, J. J.—Mertkyr Tydvil Scott, Robert—Walsall Hall, Sir Benjamin—Mar y lebone Warburton, H —Kendal mcnse number of persons who had followed their pastors into the Free Church. But he would tell them that these churches were built with every regard to economy—Scotch economy.—(llear.) These, or nearly all these churches had been raised out of the deep po verty of the people; yet so thoroughly were they embued with the necessity for such edifices, that upwards of 206,0001. were subscribed by the poor and despised. Two hundred and eighty-seven new chulches were yet needed. Their people were well nigh exhausted, and it was for this the ministry appealed. The Rev. Gentle man concluded by stating, that the weekly income for the support of the Free Church ministers was now 2,3541., and that not a farthing of the money subscribed for church-building purposes, went to the maintenance of the clergy. The Rev. Mr. M`KELLAR and other ministers 'after wards spoke at some length, and the meeting separated at ten o'clock.