The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1844. answered the purpose of the - Attorney-General, whose object it was to ensnare. And, gentlemen, if this prosecu tion shall succeed, as my Lord de Grey is a patron of the fine arts, he should cause a statue of Justice to be erected in com memoration of his achievements; but the goddess should be no longer represented- with a sword and balance, but with a hook in one hand and a trap in the other. What, gentlemen, has been the course adopted by the Government in these prosecutions? Sir Edward Sugden begins by dismissing some of the most respectable magistrates of the country, on account of something or other that was said in the House of Commons, and because " the meetings have a tendency to outrage." The direct contrary has been proved by every one of the witnesses for the crown, and Mr. Ross, the clandestine sub-inspector of the Home-office, in the very last words of his examination, s tated that he saw no tendency to outrage whatsoever. Lord Cottenham de clared in the House of Lords, that the proceeding of the Lord Chancellor was utterly unconstitutional. Let me be per mitted, gentlemen, to contrast the proceedings adopted by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland with the doctrines laid down by Mr. Baron Alderson, in his charge to the grand jury, delivered at the Monmouth summer assizes, 1839. It is reported in 9th Carrington and Payne, page 95 : " There is no doubt that the people of this country have a perfect right to meet for the purpose of stating what one, or even what they, consider to be their grievances ; but in order to transmit that right unimpaired to posterity, it is necessary that it should be regulated by law and restrained by reason. Therefore, let them meet if they will in open day, peaceably and quietly; and they would do wisely, when they meet, to do so under the sanction of the constituted authorities of the country. To meet under irresponsible presidency is a dangerous thing. Never theless, if when they do meet under that irresponsible pre sidency, they conduct themselves with peace, tranquillity, and order, they will, perhaps, lose their time, but nothing else. They will not put other people into alarm, terror, and consternation. They will probably in the end come to the conclusion that they have acted foolishly ; but the Constitu tion of this country did not, God be thanked, punish persons who mean4o do that which was right, in a peaceable and orderly manner, and who are only in error in the views which they have taken on some subject of political interest." Gentlemen, I do not believe that a single witness was produced by the Crown to prove that by the great assemblies which took place within the last nine months the slightest apprehension was created. But the Attorney-General himself admits the fact, for he dues not indict Mr. O'Connell for breaking the peace, but for a conspiracy to keep it. Let us pass to the proclamation. The commentaries of Mr. O'Connell upon the remarkable • fact, that that proclamation was delayed until the day be fore the meeting was to take place, although notice for that meeting had been given for three weeks, are most deserving of your consideration. &circumstance occurred connected with that proclamation not undeserving of note. It has been always the usage in this country to summon every member of the Privy Council. Upon this occasion the Chief Baron, al though living in the neighbourhood of Dublin, was not sum moned; and Mr. Blake, a Roman Catholic, who was in the habit of attending the Privy Council, who lives also near Dublin, was not summoned. He had been appointed to the office of Chief Remembrancer by a Tory Government ; he had been the intimate friend of Lord Wellesley,. the great statesman ; he had never taken any part in any violent pro ceedings ; yet was he left out, while the Recorder of the City of Dublin, by whom the jury list was to be revised, and in whose department an accident of a most untoward kind has happened, was summoned to the Council. A proclamation is sues ; it is at once obeyed. Mr. O'Connell had long before de clared that a proclamation should be obeyed. There was an end, therefore, to these monster meetings. For what purpose, then, did the Crown institute this prosecution ? The bills are found ; the traversers apply for the names of the wit nesses on the back of the indictment. One of the judges de clared he thought it matter of right ; another of the judges intimated his opinion that it would be advisable for the Crown to furnish the list within a reasonable time. From that day to this the list has never been given. The list of jurors is drawn by ballot ; there are eleven Catholics upon it. They are struck off. The trial comes on. A challenge is put in to the array, upon the ground that one-tenth, or very nearly one-tenth, of the jury list was suppressed. One of the Court expresses an opinion that the challenge is a good one. Ilis brethren differ from him ; but when in a trial at bar, at the instance of the Crown, one of the judges gives an intima tion so unequivocal as to the construction of the jury list, per hops it would have been more advisable for the Crown to have discharged the order for a special jury, and to have directed the High Sheriff of the city to have returned a panel. I mention these incidents, gentlemen, in order that your feeling that the traversers have been deprived of some of those contingent benefits given them by the law, should give them an equivalent for any loss which they may have sustained in your anxious performance of your sacred duty. At length, in the midst of profound silence, the Attorney-General states the case for the Crown, and consumes eleven hours in doing so. I was astonished at his brevity, for the pleading on which his speech was founded is the very Behemoth of indictments, which, as you see, " upheaves its vastness" on that table. Nothing com parable in the bigness of its gigantic dimensions has ever yet been seen. The indictment in Hardy's case, whose trial lasted ten or eleven days, does not exceed three or four pages? but this indictment requires an effort of physical force to lift it up. Combined with this indictment was a tremendous bill of particulars in keeping with it. Gentlemen, the Attorney- General, as I have already observed to you at the outset of these observations, denounced the traversers at the close of almost every sentence that was uttered by him ; but it struck me that it was only in reference to two of those charges that he broke forth in a burst of genuine and truly impassioned in dignation. The first of those charges was—a conspiracy to diminish the business of a Court of Law. How wellinight Lord Chatham exclaim—l remember to have read it somewhere but I forget where—" Shake the whole Constitution to the centre, and the lawyer will sit tranquil in his cabinet ; but touch a single thread in the cobwebs of Westminster-hall, and the exasperated spider crawls out in its defence." The second great hit of the Right Hon. Gentleman was made when he charged Mr. O'Connell with a deplorable ignorance of law, in stating certain prerogatives of the Crown. With respect, gentlemen, to the Arbitration Courts, the Society of Friends are as liable to an indictment for conspiracy as the defendants. The regulations under which the Quaker arbi tration system is carried, on will be laid before you ; and the opinions of Lord Brougham, who has always been the strenuous advocate of the arbitration system, will, I am sure, have their due weight upon you. With regard to Mr. O'Connell's alleged mistake respecting the power of the Crown to issue writs—what is it, after all, but a project for swamping the House of Commons, analogous to that of. Sir James Graham and my Lord Stanley for swamping the House of Lords ? The plain truth as this—the Sovereign has the abstract right to create new boroughs. But the ex ercise of that right might be regarded as inconsistent with the principles of the Constitution. Lord Denman and one of his late Majesty's law advisers in the House of Commons, dis tinctly asserted the right to issue writs ; and although that opinion was reprehended by Sir Charles Wetherell, I believe that of its being strict law there can be little doubt. But the real question between the Attor ney-General and the traversers, and the only one to which you will be disposed to pay much regard, was raised by the Attorney-General when he said that there existed a dangerous conspiracy, of which the object was to prepare the great body of the people to rise at a signal and to erect a sanguinary republic, of which Daniel O'Connell should be the head. Gentlemen, how do men proceed who engage in a guilty enterprise of this kind? They bind each other by solemn oaths. They are sworn to secrecy, to silence, to deeds, or to death. They associate superstition with atro city, and heaven is invoked by them to ratify the covenants of hell. They fix a day, an hour, and hold their assem blages in the midst of darkness and of solitude, and verify the exclamation of the conspirators in the language of the great observer of our nature— " Oh, Conspiracy, Where wilt thou find a cover dark enough To hide thy monstrous visage ?" How have the repeal conspirators proceeded? Every one of their assemblages have been open to the public. For a shilling, all they said, or did, or thought, were known to the Government. Everything was laid bare, and naked to the public eye. No oaths, no declarations, no initiation, no form of any kind was resorted to. They did not even act toge ther. Mr. Duffy, proprietor of the Nation, did not attend a single meeting in the country. My client attended only three; Mr. Tierney, the priest, attended no more than one. It would have been more manly on the part of the Attorney-General to have indicted Dr. M'Hale or Dr. Hig gins. He spoke of Dr. Higgins, but thought it more prudent not to include him in the indictment. Gentlemen, an enormous mass of speeches, delivered by Mr. O'Connell within the last nine months, has been laid before you. I think, however, you will come to the conclusion, that they are nothing more than a repetition of the opinions which he expressed in 1810; and when you come to consider them in detail, you will, I am sure, be convinced that these speeches were not merely interspersed with references to peace and order with a view to escape from the law, but that there was through the entire mass of thought that came from the mind of Mr. O'Connell a pervading love of order, and an un :affected sentiment of abhorrence of the employment of any other than loyal, constitutional, and pacific means for the attainment of his object. He attaches fully as much im portance to the means as to the end. He declares that he would not purchase the repeal of the union at the cost of one drop of blood. He announces that the moment the Govern ment calls upon him to disperse his meetings, these meetings shall be dispersed. He does but ask " the Irish nation to back him ;" for, from that backing he anticipates the only success to which as a good subject, as a good citizen, and as a good Christian, he could aspire. But if, gentlemen, it be suggested that in popular harangues obedience to the laws, and submis sion to authority are easily simulated, I think I may fear lessly assert that of the charges preferred against him his life affords the refutation. A man cannot wear the mask of loyalty for forty-four years ; however skilfully constructed the wizard will sometimes drop off, and the natural truculence, the genuine features, of the conspirator must be disclosed. You may have heard many references made to the year 1798, and several stanzas of a long poem have been read to you, in order to fasten them on Mr. O'Connell. It was in 1798 that the celebrated man was called to the bar, who is destined to play a part so conspicuous on the thea tre of the world. lie was in the bloom of youth—in the full flush of life—the blood bounded in his veins, and in a frame full of vigour was embodied an equally , elastic and athletic mind. He was in that season of life, when men are most disposed to high and daring adventure. He had come from those rocks and mountains, of which a description so striking has appeared in the reports of the speeches which have been read to you. He had listened, as he says, to the great Atlantic, whose surge rolls unbroken from the coast of Labrador. He carried enthusiasm to romance ; and of the impressions which great events are calculated to make upon minds like his, he was peculiarly susceptible. He was unwedded. He had given no hostages to the State. The Conservative affections had not tied their ligaments, tender but indissoluble, about his heart. There was at that time an enterprise on foot ; guilty, and deeply guilty, indeed, but not wholly hopeless. The peaks that overhung the Bay of Bantry were visible from Nenagh-hill. What post was taken in that dark adventure by this conspirator of sixty-nine? Did he play Pierre at two-and-twenty, who is ready to play Renault at sixty-nine? Cur ran was suspected ; Grattan was suspected. Both were designated as traitors unimpeached, but on the name of Daniel O'Connell, a conjecture never lighted. And can you bring yourselves to believe that the man who turned with abhorrence from the conspiracy of 1798 would now, in an old age, which he himself has called not premature, engage in an insane undertaking, in which his own life, and the lives of those who are dearer to him than himself, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of his countrymen, wo u ld, bey o nd all d ou bt, be sacrtficed ? Can you bring yourselves to believe that he would hashe wouldwon without theet h l e a ff n u , d s i e o f n h o i f s h a i s rt i n h g , 1 e e f d r h o i p s o a f ff e b e l t t— s t a h n a d t blast all the laurels , which it is his boast that he of his redemption, in a deluge of profitless blood, and that he would lay prostrate that great moral movement, which remotest he has raised so high that it i s visible from region of the world ? What he wa s i n 1798 h e is iu 44. Do you believe that the man who aimed at a revolution , would repudiate French assistance, and de nounce t h e pre ' sent dynasty of France ? Do you think that the man who aimed at revolution, would hold forth to the detestation of the world the infamous slavery by which the great trans atlantic Republic, to her everlasting shame, permits herself to come nearer home, doyou think that t t h o e be ma d n egr w adhoe c aimed ; t revolution would have mdignantlyre. puisted the proffered junction with the Wish Chartuta the highest praise to say that he has proved himself to be not unworthy of her. We should see her encompassed by all the circumstances that associate endearment with respect. We should not only behold the Queen, but the mother and the wife, and see her from the highest station on which a human being could be placed, presenting to her subjects the finest model of every conjugal and maternal virtue. I am not speaking in the language of a fictitious enthu siasm when I speak thus of her. I am sure that this project is not only feasible, but easy. If the people of his country were to combine in demanding it, a demand so just and reasonable could not be long refused. It is not subject to any one of the objections which attach to the re peal question. No rupture of the two Parliaments—no dis memberment of the empire is to be apprehended. Let Irish men unite in putting forth a requisition for a purpose which the Minister would not only find expedient, but inevitable. Put if you, gentlemen, shall not only not assist in an under taking so reasonable and so safe, but shall assist the Attor ney-General in crushing the men who have had the boldness to complain of the grievances of their country, you will lay Ireland prostrate. Every effort for her amelioration will be idle. Every remonstrance will not only be treated with dis regard, but with disdain ; and for the next 20 years, we may as well extinguish every hope for our country. Gentlemen, you may strike agitation dumb—you may make millions of mutes ; but beware of that dreary silence, whose gloomy ta citurnity is significant of the determination of its fearful pur pose. Beware of producing a state of things which may eventuate in those incidents of horror which every good man will pray to avert, and which will be lamented by those who contribute to their occurrence, when repentance, like that of those who are for ever doomed, shall be unavailing, and con trition shall be in vain. Gentlemen of the Jury, I do not deny that strong speeches have been made by my client, and by the rest of the traversers ; but I deny that those speeches bear, when taken altogether, the interpretation put upon them. To this subject I shall revert. At present I entreat you to consider whether the speeches of Mr. John O'Connell are of a more exciting and inflammatory character than those which are spoken in almost every popu lar assembly, whether it be Whig, Radical, or Conservative. Mr. John O'Connell proposed the health of the Queen in lan guage of enthusiastic loyalty at Mullaghmast, and added that the' peech delivered by the Queen was the speech of the Mi nisters, and could not be justly considered as the emanation of her own unbiassed mind. This is, beyond all question, constitutional doctrine ; although the Attorney-General took most especial care not to tell you this. Indeed he made an ultra-forensic endeavour to convey to you the impression that the traversers had spoken of her Majesty in the language of personal disrespect. This is most unfair. Mr. John O'Connell adds, that if the Mi nistry were wantonly to attack the people—in other words, if they were, without a proclamation, without a no tice, without any form of law, to let loose the soldiery uron a public assembly, resistance would be the result. But he and his father had again and again said, that to the law they would submit ; and that if a single magistrate came into a meeting to disperse it, he should be obeyed. Mr. John O'Connell may have used strong expressions, but he is not indicted for them. He is indicted for a conspiracy, and for nothing else. And even if he were indicted for these strong expressions, in the uniform habit of Englishmen in their public discussions he would find a justification. lou probably have read some of the speeches made at the meet ings of the Anti-Corn-law League. They were fully as vio lent as the repeal harangues. The aristocracy is de nounced as "selfish," "sordid," and "base-hearted.' A total overthrow of the existing order of society is foretold; refe rences are made to the French Revolution ; and the great proprietors of the country are warned to beware. But the Anti-Corn-law League, it may be said, is a Radical institu tion. How is it ? The Tories themselves, when under the influence of partisanship, expressed themselves in reference to the Sovereign herself. You cannot have forgotten the contumelies heaped upon the head of the Queen upon the resignation, in 1839, of Sir Robert Peel. I will not, gentle men, disgust you by a more distinct reference to those traitorous diatribes, in which even Clergymen took part. It is better we should inquire how it is that gentlemen connected with these very prosecutions have thought it de corous to comport themselves when their own passions were excited. The name of the Right Honourable Frederick Shaw is attached to the proclamation. I hold in my hand the peroration of a speech delivered by that gentleman, and reported in the Evening Mail of 9th March, 1835 :—" The Government might make what regulation it pleased ; but he trusted the people knew their duty too well to submit to its enactments. We might degrade our mitres; it might deprive us of our properties; but if the Government dared to lay its hand on the Bible, then we must come to an issue. We will cover it with our bodies. My friends, will you permit your brethren to call out to you in vain? In the name of my country and my country's God, I will appeal from a British House of Commons to a- British public. My countrymen would obey the laws so long as they were pro perly administered ; but if it were sought to lay sacrilegious hands on the Bible, to tear the standard of the living God, and to raise a mutilated one in its stead, then it would be no time to halt between two opinions —then, in every hill and every valley, would resound the rallying cry of 'To your tents, oh, gruel!" I won't ask the Attorney-General of Ireland what he thinks of this, because this speech refers to a subject somewhat embarrassing to him ; and what his opinions are, upon the Education Board, it is not very easy to conjecture; but I may venture to ask the Solicitor- General, who is himself a commissioner of the Education Board, whether Daniel O'Connell, in :his whole course of agitation, ever uttered a speech half so inflammatory as this? With respect to Mr. Sergeant 'Warren, he, I suppose, agrees in every word of it, and only laments that after so much sound and fury the Recorder of Dublin is the steadfast supporter of the Government, by whom all the misdeeds thus eloquently denounced have been subsequently committed. Gentlemen, I find in the Evening Packet of the 24th of Ja nuary, 1837, an account of a great Protestant meeting which took'place at the Mansion-house, where all the great represen tatives of the Conservative interest in this country were as sembled. Some very strong speeches indeed were made at that meeting. The Earl of Charleville said, " Well, gentlemen, you have a rebellious Parliament ; you have a Lord Lieutenant, the slave and minion of a rebellious Parliament." That speech was heard by the Right Hon. Thomas Berry Cusack Smith. Did he remonstrate against the use of language so unqualified? Not at all. lie got up and made a speech, in which he stated that "he was sorry to find that Roman Ca tholic Members of Parliament paid so little regard to their oaths." When the Right Hon. Gentleman had such im pressions, I cannot feel surprised that care should have been taken to exclude every Roman Catholic from the jury box. Let him not misapprehend me. Ido not refer to his language in the spirit of resentment. Resentment is not the feeling which the conduct of the Right Hon. Gentleman is calculated to produce. The Right lion. Gen tleman has expressed great indignation at the references made at Mullaghmast to transactions from which the veil of oblivion ought not to be withdrawn. He said, and justly enough, that men should not grope in the annals of' their country for the purpose of disinterring those events whose resuscitation can but appal and scare us. But how does the Right lion. Gentleman reconcile that position with his having been himself a party to a resolution passed at the meeting of which I am speaking, in which it is stated, that the con dition of the Protestants of Ireland is almost as alarming as it was in the year 1641, when events took place, from whose recollection we ought to turn with horror and dismay. I referred you, gentlemen, to speeches. Permit me now to refer you to the great monster meetings which have taken place in assertion of the rights of the Protestants of Ireland. Mark, Ido not complain of those meetings. Ido not com plain that seventy-five thousand men should have as sembled and moved in order of battle; but I do complain that the men who looked upon those assemblages with so much indulgence, when the purposes of their own party were to be promoted, denounce as treasonable assemblies in which no such demonstration of organised and per fectly disciplined physical force was made. The following account of the Hillsborough meeting was given by the Even ing Mail :--" At an early hour of the morning (some of them, indeed, over night) the great landed mprietors of the county repaired to the different points on their respective estates at which it had been previously agreed they should meet their tenants, and march at their head to the general place of as semblage, so that the area in front of the hustings did not pre sent a very crowded appearance, until the arrival of the men in large masses, each having a pride of marching border-fa shion, shoulder by shoulder, beside his neighbour and bro ther, with whom he was ready to sacrifice life in defence of his country and religion. Shortly after eleven o'clock, a tremendous shout from the town announced the approach of the first party. They were from Moira, and were headed by the Rev. Holt Waring, who was drawn by the people. A flag, the union jack, was hoisted at Mr. E. Reilly's, as the signal of their arrival. In a few moments they were seen descending the steep hill from the town, and approaching the place of meeting in a close, dark, and dense mass, comprising rt ceainly not less than 20,000 persons. Having escorted Mr. Waring to the foot of the platform, they received his thanks, expressed in warm and energetic language, and having Oven three cheers, deployed round and took the position assigned them. • . . Amongst those who marched at the head of the largest battalion, if we may use the expression, were the Marquises of Londonderry and Devonshire ; Lord Clanwil liana.; Sir Robert Bateson, Colonel Forde, Colonel Blacker, Lord Castlereagh, and Lord Roden. The latter had 15,000 men in his followers. 'They marched from Dromore. At twelve o'clock, the scene was the most imposing that fancy could conceive, or that language possesses the power of de picting. The spectacle was grand, unique, sublime. There certainly could not have been, upon the most moderate computation, less then seventy-five thousand persons present, exclusive of the thousands who filled the town, or thronged to absolute impediment all the adjacent roads and avenues." From that description, gentlemen, I turn to a re solution, passed by the Irish Orangemen on the' 12th Novem ber, 1834, and which I find in the appendix to the report from the Select Committee on Orange lodges :—" And, lastly, we would beg to call the attention of the grand lodge, and through them return our heartful thanks and congratulations to our brethren through the various parts of Ireland, who, in the meetings of three thousand in Dublin, four thousand at Bandon, thirty thousand in Cavan, and seventy-five thousand at Hillsborough, by their strength of numbers, the rank, the respectability, and orderly conduct of their attendance—the manly and eloquent expression of every Christian and loyal sentiment, vindicated so nobly the character of our institution against the asperion thrown on it, as the paltry remnant of an expiring faction.' " That phrase, gentleman, is one which Lord Stanley, in one of his variable moods, was pleased to apply to the Orangemen of Ireland. Gentlemen, in the part of the report which I have read to you there are some re markable entries relating to a subject of which you have heard a good deal from the Attorney-Genaral ; and although I deviate, I am aware, from the order of topics which I had prescribed to myself, yet, finding in the book before me matter which seems to me to be exceedingly pertinent to that topic, I shall now advert to it. Gentlemen, the entries to which I am alluding are these—, " 15th 1833, William Scott, 16 company Royal Sappers and Miners. That the Committee would most willingly forward all documents connected with the Orange system to any confidential persona in BallY mona, as pruden c e wou ld not permit that printed documents should be forwarded direct t o o ur military brethren." " Ist January, 1834--Resolved that warrant 1,592 be granted to Joseph Min of the Ist Royals." "17th December, 1829, moved by the v' Charles Boyton, seconded by Edward Cottingh am , that t e next warrant number be issued to the 66th reg i ment, and t hat at the be Quec brethren be directed to send in a correct re t urn order that new warrants may be issued." Gentlemen, I in refer you to these resolutionswith no other view than to show you what proceedings men who conspire to establish an in fluence over the army naturally adopt. If it was the object of the traversers to seduce the army from their allegiance, would not expedients have been ado_ p ted very different from those imputed to the defendants? Would riot Repeal societies have been formed? Would not a clandestine correspondence have taken place with the "mili tary brethren ?" Would not money have been distributed to the soldiery? Would not the propagators of mutiny have been located in the public houses frequented by sol diery? Would not Roman Catholic priests, who attend at the military hospitals, have been charged to instil Repeal prin ciples into the soldiers' ears? Does anything of this kind appear to have been done? A letter written by the Rev. Sir. Power—a Waterford priest, who is not made a defendant—who is not to be punished for his letter s—is given in evidence against my client, although he is as innocent of its composition as the fore man of your jury. When that letter appeared in the Na tion newspaper, whi r was not an ex officio information fi led against the Rev. . Power, whose manuscript would most `eigtainly have been given up ? But that would not have Had a combination been effected between the Chartists and customed to feel and act as gentlemen. Mr. Wilkins, the Repeaters, it would have been more than formidable. however not only cast the imputation we have de - At' the head of that combination in England was Mr. Feargus O'Connor, once the associate and the friend of scribed upon the Lord Mayor in the most offensi ve Daniel O'Connell. The entire of the lower orders in the terms and tone ; but after his Lordship had indig - North of England were enrolled in a powerful organization. nantly and positively contradicted the offensive state- A league between the Repealers and the Chartists might ment —and this twice —persisted in repeating that such have been at once effected. Chartism uses its utmost a nd its most clandestine efforts to find its way into this country. were his "instructions,' behaving previously affirmed the fact of his own knowledge .• " I know , " s a id O'Connell detects and crushes it. Of the char g es p re- „ " • " that one of the magistrates of the ferred against him, am I not right when I exclaim that his life contains the refutation? To the charge that Mr. City of London has visited that poor woman, and has " O'Connell and his son conspired to excite animosity been tampering with her. N ow, giving Mr. amongst her Majesty's subjects, the last observation Wilkins the benefit of his subsequently softened that I have made to you is more peculiarly applicable. Gen- down " I know," into " such are my instructions," tlemen, Mr. O'Connell and his co-religionists have been made the objects of the fiercest and the coarsest vituperation ; and is it, we ask, to be endured , that a Magistrate , yet I defy the most acute and diligent scrutiny of the entire sitting on the bench of justice, and administering of the speeches put before you, to detect a single expression the laws of the country with an anxious desire —one solitary phrase—which reflects in the remotest degree to further the course of justice, is to be bearded upon the Protestant religion. - He has left all the contumely b l y i r a barrister, and accused of perverting his office to heaped upon the form of Christianity which he professes utterly , unheeded, and the Protestant Operative Society has t e purposes of private intimidation, and endeavour not provoked a retort ; and every angry disputant has, with- ing to work on the fears of a female, in a state of out any interposition on his part, been permitted to rush in sickness, to induce her to make " a declaration" re "where angels fear to tread." Gentlemen, the religion of Mr. lative to the offence of which she stands accused, and O'Connell teaches him two things—charity towards those who concerning in open which she is, in a few days, to be brought him wrong You recollect it is from dissent from him in doctrine and fo s ucrgivenessh incidents that we of those who are before him d o Court ? This has been affirmed . enabled to judge of the characters and feelings of men—you of the Lord Mayor by Mr. W ilk i n s , of his own know remember to have heard, in the course of the evidence, fre- ledge, and emphatically denied by the Chief Magis quent reference made to poor old Sir Bradley King. The trate, as " grossly false and untrue:' The couple of unfortunate man had been deprived of his office, and all coin- sheets of paper, stitched together, and indorsed with pensation was denied him. He used to stand in the lobby of " m the House of Commons, the most desolate and help less look- the agical words two guineas," as the price of his ing man I ever saw. The only one of his old friends that vituperation, and designated his " instructions," were stuck to him almost was Baron Lefroy. But Baron Lefroy then opposed to,the Chief Magistrate's distinct denial. had no interest with the Government. Mr. O'Connelfisaw The explanation which the Lord Mayor conde- Bradley King and took pity on him. Bradley King had been scended to give, not merely exonerated his Lord his fierce political, almost his personal, antagonist. Mr. O'Con ship from the unjustifiable and utterly unfounded nell went to Lord Althorp, and obtained for Bradley King the compensation which had been refused him. I remember assertion of the barrister. It did more. It proved having read a most striking letter addressed by Sir Abraham the extreme delicacy in which the Lord Mayor acted Bradley 'King to Mr. O'Connell, and asked him for it. He toward the unfortunate woman. He had been sent could not at first put his hand upon it ; but while looking for for by a prisoner confined within his special jurisdic ithe told me that soon after the death of the old Dublin tion, without knowing the object for which she sought alderman an officer entered his study, and told him that he was the son-in-law of Sir Abraham, who had a short time before his presence. Had he not gone to her at her request, his death, called him to his bedside, and said—" When I it might have been said that she wished to complain of shall have been buried, go to Daniel O'Connell, and tell him some of the prison authorities in their treatment of that the last prayer of a grateful man was offered up for him, ner, and had no opportunity of doing so. He, there and that I implored heaven to avert every peril from his fore, went. But no sooner did his Lordship find that head." Mr. O'Connell found the letter : you will allow me to read it : she was desirous of making some communication re specting the offence with which she stands charged, than he refused to receive her statement ; and most considerately referred her 'to the professional gen tleman employed in her defence, as to the pro priety of her making such communications. The Lord Mayor could only receive her communications as a magistrate ; and would not receive them until he was satisfied that the woman's attorney concurred in the expediency of her making the proferrecl disclosurds. Had the Lord Mayor acted with less caution—had he encouraged the prisoner's disposition to make a " clean breast"—there might have been a suspicion of " tam pering" with the weakness of the unfortunate woman, confined in a felon's jail on a charge of felony, and suffering from illness ; but, as it was, the whole matter, both in its spirit and form, was a pure inven tion ; a gratuitous outrage upon decency, perpetrated by a barrister, and therefore holding the rank of a gen tleman, such as we never before witnessed in a court of justice, and hope never to behold again. If Mr. Wilkins should be . tempted to repeat his experiment of yesterday in one of the higher Courts, we have little doubt that he would speedily find him self in a situation in which he would have time and opportunity for reflection. At the termination of the cause, in which a Judge had been so grossly insulted by a barrister, a committal for contempt would most certainly have ensued. As to the paltry excuse re specting his. " instructions," on which the meagre apology Mr. Wilkins subsequently tendered was made to rest, it was far from being commensurate with the gravity of his offence against propriety. STANDARD.—There is so much to gratify in the meetings of agriculturists now following each other in such rapid succession all over the country, that we hardly know howto object to any incident of their proceedings. The congregation of good men for the promotion of a good object always tends to make the men themselves wiser and better, and in this way, and in many other ways, always reflects a benefit upon the country. The purpose of the as semblies of which we are speaking may be but to protect a great and important interest, but their effect must be to promote political and statistical knowledge, to advance agricultural science, now already so rapidly advancing, and to give to the ' pursuits of agriculture that activity and that vigour which are always the result of security and confi dence. But the active' and vigorous advances of agriculture are the greatest blessings to that country which is the scene of them—for they are, in fact, additions made to the strength and resources of a . • people, so much more valuable than territorial ac quisition, that they are subject to no external influ ence, cause no extension of exposed frontier, and need neither fleets nor garrisons for their preservation. In forty years the population of the United Kingdom, and the means of supporting that popula lation from the produce of agriculture, have doubled. Who does not see that the absolutepower of the United Kingdom has doubled also ? And though the con temporaneous increase of population in other countries has rendered the relative power of the British empire less than double at the end of the 40 years, it will scarcely be pretended that Great Britain has not greatly outrun every other State of the world. But that this is the effect of the mighty improvements that have been made in agriculture, the work of the British farmer, is plain, from the consideration that an increase of population, without a corresponding increase of the independent means of supporting that p o pulation, is a movement t ow ards weakness and : not towards strength. With these views, we shall not, as we h ope , b e suspected of carping, r naturedly at anything con nected with the agricultural meetings in progress ; persons. are induced to join the b t y ha a t cfeoarnspirac— but, as the truth is always best to be told, we must say that in our opinion they are making a great deal too much of the Anti-Corn -law League. We of the conspiracy; know that man y y as contemp tibleisi we run a risk of retard ing the agricultural organisation at which we re joiceconvincedrofitaubsle to the, speaker aange thatul a s u r aitl representin g ma c l t l i ny meetings as much as any one ; but an experience, not that though it most profitable to the ; and the truth is that despicable_altogether unworthy o tof may t t e h l the ln theost h o b rr at ai h ty a s si s mosta w always yps Great Britain. The subscribed money. We t h ohf e e a t rheer Leaguet o fears have a i v s e ou ft thettethe utterly truth farmers t r s l d of than a mere doubtLeagli e th rs at sa t yhetyhahtaytheeysubscribed trifle--enough to print a few tracts, hire a few lecturers, and pay a year's rent for a few plaistered houses. The be, and no doubt it is, their deity ; principle of their union is to cheat, and why should we doubt that they cheat in the details by which they try to establish that principle ? But suppose that they have collected as much money as they pretend, what people. They can with one hundred then ? Money may se i l l it s h il e English O'Con nbuott it h o i p s e no t t o the idol o e f n t t h y e British people. thousand pounds. e s t l e odf himself Again, the League was avowedly Repeal Associa nell. We do not dispute some t fo io rm n. e m d u r po . C n obd th e e n m h o o d u points of resemblance, but they happen to be such as are now under the as say process of a judicial iuquiry, and it is therefore not proper to allude to them. And suppose the imita tion complete—suppose the League an exact copy of the Repeal Association. The original bubble has been burst by Mr. Smith's strong right hand, and its fate shows the hollowness and fragility of the imitation. Whatever the fate of the trials, the Repeal agitation is dead for ever, and the "League" must soon follow in the course of nature. In con ceding to the League, however, a vigour and vitality equal to those of the Repeal Association, we have conceded enormously , too much. The Repeal Asso ciation found prepared to their hands that complete organisation which the Leaguers have been vainly labouring to imitate, even at a distance. The Re , peal Association had a principle pervading, and as it were, saturating at least three provinces of Ireland. The League have no such prin ciple. The Repeal Association is thus in Ire land everywhere—the League is in England no where, except in some house in Manchester and in the corner house of Water-lane ; for the "Punch and Judy" übiquity of its tumblers, hired from the Judge and Jury Court, cannot be gravely said to constitute " a local habitation " anywhere. To treat the thing as in any respect formidable is a cheat, though it may be an unconscious one ; and it is a cheat in extending which we exhort the speakers at agricultural meetings not to assist. They may make a danger by raising the League from its proper state of contempt; but in that state the League will perish if they do not relieve it by the honour of their notice. " Barnett's Hotel, Spring Gardens, 4th August, 1844. " VERY DEAR Six,—The anxious wish for a satisfactory termination of my cause, which your continued and unwearied efforts for it have ever indicated, is at length accomplished. The vote of compensation passed last night. To Mr. Lefroy and to yourself am I indebted for putting the case in the right light. To my Lord Althorp, for his Lordship's consequent candid and straightforward act, in giving me my just dues, and thus restoring myself and family to competence, ease, and happiness. "To you, Sir, to whom I was early and long politically opposed--- to you, who nobly forgetting this continued difference of opinion, and who, rejecting every idea of party feeling or of party spirit, thought only of my distress, and sped to succour and support me, how can I express my gratitude ? I cannot attempt it. The reward I feel is to be found only in your own breast ; and I assure myself that the gene rous feelings of a noble mind will cheer you on to that prosperity and happiness which a discriminating Providence holds out to those who protect the helpless and sustain the falling. " For such reward and happiness to ynu and yours my prayers shall he offered fervently ; while the remainder of my days, passing, I trust, in tranquility, by a complete retirement from public life, and in the bosom of my family, will constantly present to me the grateful recollection of one to whom I am mainly indebted for so desirable a closing of my life..—Believe me, my dear Sir, with the greatest re spect and truth, your faithful servant, "ABRAHAM BRADLEY KING." You may deprive him of hiis liberty—you may shut him out s from the light of nature—you may inter him in a dun geon, to which a ray of the never yet descended ; but you never will take away him the consciousness of having done a good and nbl tion, and of being entitled to kneel down every, fig fore he sleeps, and to ad dress to his Creator tht divinest portion of our Redeemer's prayer. The man to whom that letter was addressed, and the son of the man to whom that letter was addressed, are not guilty of the sanguinary intents which have been ascribed to them ; and of this they put themselves upon their country. fescue that phrase from its technicalities let it no longer be a fictitious one; if we have lost our representation in the Parliament, let us behold it in the jury -box, and that you participate in feelings of millions of your countrymen—let your verdict afford a proof. But it is not to Ireland that the aching solicitude with which the result of this trial is intently watched will be confined. There is not a great city in Europe in which, upon the day when the great intelligence shall be expected to arrive, men will not stop each other in the public way, and inquire whether twelve men upon their oaths have doomed to incarceration the man who gave liberty to Ireland ? Whatever may be your adjudication, he is prepared to meet it. He knows that the eyes of the world are upon him, and that posterity—whether in a gaol or out of it— will look back to him with admiration ; he is almost indif ferent to what may befal him, and is far more solicitous for others at this moment than for himself. But I—at the com mencement of what I have said to you—l told you that I was not unmoved, and that many incidents of my political life, the strange alternations of fortune through which I have passed, came back upon me. But now the bare possibility at which I have glanced has, I acknowledge, almost un manned me. Shall I, who stretch out to you m behalf of the son the hand whose fetters the father had struck off, live to cast my eyes upon that domicile of sorrow, in the vicinity of this great metropolis, and say, " 'Tis there they have im mured the Liberator of Ireland with his fondest and best be loved child ?" No ! it shall never be I You will not con sign him to the spot to which the Attorney-General invites you to surrender him. No. When the spring shall have come again, and the winter shall have passed—when the spring has come again, it is not through the windows of this mansion that the father of such a son, :and the son of such a father, shall look upon those green hills on which the eyes of so many a captive have gazed so wistfully in vain ; but in their own mountain home again, they shall listen to the murmurs of the great Atlantic ; they shall go forth and inhale the freshness of the morning air together ; " they shall be free of mountain solitude ;" they will be encompassed with the loftiest images of liberty upon every side ; and if time shall have stolen its supple ness from the father's knee, or impaired the firmness of his tread, he shall lean on the child of her that watches over him from heaven, and shall look out from some high place far and wide into the island, whose greatness and whose glory shall be for ever associated with his name. In your love of jus tice—in your love of Ireland—in your love of honesty and fair play—l place my confidence. I ask you for an acquittal, not only for the sake of your country, but for your own. Upon the day when this trial shall have been brought to a termination, when, amidst the burst of public expectancy, in answer to the solemn interrogatory which shall be put to you by the officer of the Court, you shall answer "not guilty," with what transport will that glorious negative be welcomed ! How will you be blest, adored,, worshipped : and when, retiring from this scene of excitement and of passion, you shall return to your own tranquil homes, how pleasurably will you look upon your children, in the consciousness that you will have left them a patrimony of peace, by impressing upon the British Cabinet, that some other measure besides a State prosecution is necessary for the pacification of your country. At the conclusion of the Right Hon. Gentleman's speech, a suppressed murmur of applause ran through the Court, which presented a very excited appearance for some time before he ' sat down, and several of the auditors were seen to shed tears, and amongst them Mr. O'Connell himself. ' The Lord Chief Justice intimated, that if it met the appro bation of both parties, the Court did not feel disposed to hear other counsel that day (it was then three o'clock . Mr. Moore, who was to address the Court t e second in order of the traversers' counsel, said that he felt grateful for the kindness manifested by the Court in that intimation, as he felt unwilling to address the Court after the speech which had been delivered by his Learned Friend. If it were not tres passing too much on the time of the Court and the public, he would feel it a great pleasure not to be called on to address the Court till Monday. But, if his Lordship had not thrown out that suggestion, he would not have felt justified in asking the indulgence. If their Lordships thought that they could consistentlywith the discharge of their duty postpone the further hearing of the case till Monday, he should be most happy to avail himself of the indulgence thus accorded. The Lord Chief Justice said, it was now three o'clock, and without unnecessarily infringing on public time, as Mr. Moore's speech could not be finished by the time the Court would rise, if the Attorney-General had no objection, the Court was desirous to afford every indulgence to the Learned Gentleman, if postponing the further hearing to Monday morning would do so. The Attorney-General having intimated that he had no objection to the course proposed, The Court then adjourned till 10 o'clock on Monday (this day)• SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—A " demonstration," such a:s, under the circumstances, we believe to be unprecedented, as it was certainly unprovoked by anything in the conduct of the magistrate against whom it was ha zarded, took place yesterday at the Mansion-house during the examination of the parties accused of the will forgeries. Mr. Wilkins, who appeared as counsel for Mrs. Dorey, one of the prisoners, took occasion to remark upon a decision by the Lord Mayor, that a portion of evidence, the reception of which had been opposed by Mr. Chambers, was pro perly admissible— , I do not wonder at the decision, when I know that one of the magistrates of the City of London has visited that poor woman (pointing to .Mrs. Dorey), who is suffering from Illness, and has been tampering with her. " The Lord Mayor—You are making, Mr. Wilkins, an assertion which is grossly false and untrue. " Mr. Wilkins—My Lord Mayor, I accuse you of that con duct. Such are my instructions. " The Lord Mayor—Your instructions tell you, then, that which is false and untrue. " Mr. Wilkins—My Lord, permit me to say— " The Lord Mayor—No, Sir, I will not hear you ; attend to me. The fact is, the woman sent for me ; I went to the prison, as it was my duty, as a magistrate, to go. She told me she was desirous to make a declaration to me. I declined to hear her, and desired her to confide her case to her solicitor and professional advisers, and not to send to or make any statement to me.—(Loud cheers from the audience.)" We often hear of the privileges of the Bar. The licentiousness of speech in which the Old Bailey bar risters have indulged from. time immemorial, has passed into a proverb from an experience of its truth. This licentiousness has been hitherto confined to squabbles with each other ; bullying of witnesses in cross-examination • outragingdecency when addressing a jury for the defence ; occasionally pressinga point after the presiding judge has given kis decision ; or cracking coarse, jokes with the Common Sergeant at an after-dinner sitting of the Court. It remained, however, for Mr. Wilkins—who is, we believe, a new importation from the provinces—to aspire to pre eminence in the worst characteristics of the Bar, by this bold experiment on magisterial endurance. There is said to be but one step between the sublime and the ridiculous. In aiming at the one it is by no means unusual to sink to the level of the other. The learned gentleman in question pro bably only meant to serve himself by showing his professional courage. He first created the giant he undertook to slay. Before he even ventured to hint that which he asserted of the Lord Mayor, as a magistrate, he ought to have ascertained, 'beyond the possibility of a mistake, that his Lordship had acted as he described. The time when, and the manner how, ought to have been stated with pre cision. Even then, the allusion to, or assertion of, the facts, ought to have been calmly and circum stantially set forth. This was demanded by the relative position of the parties in the Court; and this would have been instinctively felt by most men ac• SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. COURSING. CARDINGTON.—The Puppy Stakes (25 subscribeis) were won by Mr. Nash's Cruiskeen • Mr. Dobede's David Deans ra n up.—The All-aged Stakes (32 s ubscribers) were won by Capt. Daintree's Kate; Mr. Arch's Actress ran up.—The Consola tion Stakes (8 dogs) were won by Mr. Dobede's Foremost; Capt. Daintree's Kissing Crust ran Up BETTING AT MANCHESTER•••••FRIDAY. CHESTER Cur.-6 to 1 agst Davrson's lot-7 to 1 apt Kent's lot-100 to 7 agst Sir Robert (taker.)—.lB to I agst Cattonite (taken)-22 to 1 agst The Prior (taken)-25 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn)-25 to 1 agst What (taken)-25 to 1 agst Hooton-25 to 1 agst Tacita (taken) -30 to 1 agst Portrait— y. 33 -2 t o o : o af; ag st Astr Orlando nagill(taken)-33 to 1 agst Recipro city-40 to 1 agst Testatrix (taken). Offers on the field agst 15. (taken) -20 to 1 agst Cock amaroo-20 to I agst Leander-30 to 1 agst lonian -33 to 1 agst Voltri-50 to I agst Saddle Bow. The three favourites as before. Mr. Thornhill's Elixir and Elemi have arrived at Sam Chifney's stables ; and the Duke of Bedford's f by Liverpool, out of Plaything, and Lord B. Russell's Glen Fishie at W. Edwards'. At the Aberystwith Hunt Meeting on Wednesday, the Open Steeple Chase Stakes ' , were won by Mr. Lewis' Tally -ho (Oliver), beating three others, by a length. We have reason to believe that the statement which iik'Pearaci in yesterday's (Friday) Herald ? relative to some projected improvements in the Post-office e ii completely watruer.iltrnkl. POLICE INTELLIGENCE (SATURDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A young man of fashionable appearance, who d. clined mentioning his name, was brought before the Lord Mayor in the custody of John Forrester, the officer, under circumstances of a remarkable description. Mr. Bush, the solicitor to the Committee of Bankers for protection against felonies and fraud, prosecuted. Upon being put to the bar and asked what his name was, the prisoner said—My Lord, I am brought here, as they tell me, for having committed some offence ; what that offence is Ido not know. Mr. Bush is there, and I call upon him to state. • Mr. Bush said the prisoner had, as it appeared, two names, Charles Powers and William Wallace, and the charge against him was the double one, of having be come improperly possessed of a bill of exchange, and with having forged an endorsement upon it. Mr. Bush stated the facts as they appeared in the evidence. The prisoner said he was taken by an officer into cus tody, without having committed the slightest offence, and he had no solicitor to aid him. The LORD MAYOR—YOU are charged with having stolen a bill of exchange. You understand that, I sup pose ? The prisoner—Stolen it ! that's impossible. stolen it, indeed ! who are the prosecutors ? The LORD Moron—The Queen prosecutes in this case. If you wish to consult a solicitor before we pro matter; but notwithstanding this, he got the goods con demned, and ran up the expenses from ss. 6d. to 125., and would not part with them until the 1!. 12s. was paid. The landlord of the poor woman, in the course of the proceedings, complained that though the defendant had barn paid the money on Tuesday week, he had not been enabled yet to obtain his twenty shillings, and was there fore advis:d to take out a summons for him in the Court of Requests, which he did. Mr. NORTON called on the defendant at once to pay the poor man his pound, and also t'Ae sixpence he had paid for the summons. lie (the defendant) could not suppose for a moment that the money paid from the poor-box was intended to be pocketed by him. The defendant, with evident reluctance, paid the 11. 6d., and having pleaded guilty to an overcharge of 25. - in his expenses, Mr. NORTON, after some severe -and pointed remarks upon what he termed disgraceful and disreputable con duct, convicted him in a penalty of three times the amount of the overcharge and the expenses. ➢lr. Nor ton also diracted that the inventory and appraisement put in by the defendant should be impounded, as they were so irregularly drawn up as to subject him by an other mode of proceeding to very heavy penaltios. WORSHIP-S7'REE coed, I shill remandyou at once. The prisoner—But if I am remanded I shall be obliged to go to prison. The prisoner still persisted in withholding his name. Mr. Bush then called Mr. Francis Smith; a banker at Hastings, in the firm of Smith, Hilder, and Co., Mr. Hogg, a clerk In the country department of Master man's banking-house, Mr. F. Borton, clerk at Messrs. Prescott and (rote's, and Mr. Stride, banker, of Token house-yard, for the purpose of proving that the prisoner had negotiated a bill to which he had no right, with a forged endorsement. After some conversation between the Lord Mayor, Mr. Bush, and the prisoner, he was committed for a week, under the names of Charles Powers. alias William Wallace, and on leaving the bar declared that it was a great cruelty that a man should be thus sent to prison for nothing. On Friday a filthy old creature named Margaret Gra ham, was placed before Mr. Broughton on numerous charges of plundering little children of their clothing. The circumstances which led to the prisoner's de tection were these :—As Mrs. Eliza Sillery, the wife of a publican, residing in Mare-street, Hackney, was walking at dusk in the evening on the 16th instant, down the Middleton-road, which is very lonely, and leads from Dalston into the Kingsland-road, she heard the cries of a child a short distance off, and after listening some time, saw the prisoner kneel ing under a dark wall about twenty yards out of the road, in front of a little boy between three and four years of age. As the child kept crying and sobbing, she thought it suspicious, and stopped, when she heard the prisoner say, " Step here, my dear, and I'll come back again in a minute.' She then walked away from the child towards the witness, but seeing she was observed, she became confused, turned back again, took hold of the little boy's hand, and led him down to the bottom of the wall, the child asking her to take him to his mother. The witness was now convinced the prisoner was steal ing the child, and went up to her, when she found the little creature without any external covering, shivering from head to foot, and crying, as the witness said, " ready to break its heart." She told the prisoner the child was not her's, but she said it was, and while she was speaking the witness saw something han g ing out under the prisoner's shawl, which she pulled on one side, when the prisoner dropped the child's cloth cloak, and fur tippet. The witness picked them up, and in stantly seized the prisoner by the arm ; she struggled violently to get away but she held her firmly, and called for the police, which attracted the notice of an elderly gentleman, and brought him to her assistance, and be tween them, in spite of the resistance of the prisoner, succeeded in dragging her down the road till they met a policeman, into whose custody they gave her. The child ceuld neither tell its name nor where it lived, bet fortunately its aunt, Matilda Wright, came up at the moment and identified it as James Cowley, the son of respectable parents, residing in Brunswick Cottage, Hackney-road, from whose door it had been decoyed about an hour and a half before. The prisoner had given the little fellow two apples to induce him to go with her, and they were still in his hand when Mrs. Sillery found him. The prisoner was remanded till yesterday for identi fication, as a great many other children in the neigh bourhood had been robbed by an old woman exactly answering the prisoner's appearance, but though several children were produced, and there could be no doubt the prisoner was the guilty party, they were all too young to depend upon their testimony, and the charges were obliged to be reluctantly abandoned. The pri soner was fully committed to Newgate on the case above stated. CHARITY.—H. 8., 51., and 8.N.F., 10s., for the wido w Hoscroft ; and half a U. note from R. E., who will send the other half on this being acknowledged. UNION-HALL. George Kent, a marine-store dealer in Bermondsey, was brought up, charged as the receiver of the brass work.of a fire engine belonging to St. Olave's parish, under the following circumstances : It appeared that since the destruction of Saint Olave's church byfire, the engine-house having shared the same fate, the engine and its appurtenances were kept locked up in an arch under the Greenwich railway. This place, it seemed, was broken open on Tuesday night, and the engine itself being of too unwieldy a description to carry off without detection, the thieves proceeded to wrench off all the brass-work, together with the copper tubes on the new hose, thus rendering the machine totally useless, in the event of its being required. The follow ing day the prisoner sold the brass-work of the engine to a brass-founder in Shoe-lane, named Payne, the latter of whom, on subsequently being informed of the circum stances of the robbery, gave information of the fact of his purchase from the prisoner, which led to the appre hension of the latter. A portion of the brass-work had "St: Olave's-Parish" marked on it. The prisoner, in accounting, for the possession of the article, said that ,he purchased it all of a man whose namd he did not know but whose person he should again recognise if he .saw him. The MAGISTRATE said that .the prisoner gave a most unsatisfactory account of the manner in which he be came possessed of the article, and remanded him. Three men, named 7'ramley, Bent, and Bishop, were charged with furiously driving a cart against the pony phaeton of Edward Crawley, Esq., of Battersea, throw ing that gentleman out, .and smashing the vehicle to pieces. From Mr. Crawley's statement it appeared that on the preceding afternoon, between five and six o'clock, as he was drivin g his pony phaeton along Kennington lane, the three defendants, who were in a cart, came along in the opposite direction on the wrong side, in such a furious manner as to come in collision with the phaeton, which it upset, shattering it to pieces, and he (Mr. C.) was thrown out, and it was miraculous he was not killed ;as it was his arm sustained some injury. The phaeton was not only broken in the way described, but the pony was also very much hurt. The defendants :expressed their regret at what had taken place, and the man who was driving having under taken to pay for the damage sustained (upwards of 201.) the magistrate, at the intercession of the complainant, consented not to inflict the penalty, at' the same time reprobating in strong terms their conduct in driving in such a reckless manner. Two young women, named Rebecca Jones and Mary Brien, were charged with attempting to commit suicide. Jones, it appeared, was seen at a late hour the preceding night, in the neighbourhood of Bankside, go towards the river, into which she was about to plunge when she was seised by a policeman, who prevented her. It was then observed she was under the influence of liquor, and when questioned by the Ma gistrate, she said that she was 19 years of age, and that for some time she had been leading a life of prostitution, that her life was one of misery, and that she could no longer survive it. Mr. COTTINGHAM said that there was an excellent institu tion, called the South London Institution, into which she would be taken if she consented to go. The unfortunate girl said that she would gladly become an inmate, upon which the Magistrate sent a policeman with her to the institution. The other girl, Brien, was observed to ascend the balus trades of Waterloo-bridge, and was prevented by a gentleman from throwing herself into the water. Mr. COTTINGHAM, on finding that she was desirous of re forming her wretched mode of life, that of prostitution, also sent her over to the above institution. GREENWICH. On Friday Captain Henry Pratt, who stands charged with obtaining moneys from different persons, under pretence of procuring them advantageous engagements, was brought up for final examination before Mr. Jeremy, and the following additional evidence taken : Mr. Daniel Davies, owner of the brig Constance, lying in the Commercial Docks, whom the prisoner had re presented to Captain Parker, of Commercial-road, East, as a person who would appoint him to the command of the Dryope, another vessel belonging to the same owner ship, deposed that he had nothing whatever to do with that ship. About ten days before the prisoner came on board, and represented himself as having been in the employ of Mr. John Davis, of Prince Edward's Island, and was going to that island in the spring. had never made any appointments with the prisoner to meet at Lloyd's. Had no property or interest in the Dryope Pratt told witness he was going master of the Dryope. Thomas Andrew Carr deposed that he is owner of the Dryope ; the ship is in dock under a ship-keeper, no master being appointed to her since her voyage from North America. Prisoner came to Lloyd's, and was in troduced by the waiter, as a person wishing to see him. He said he understood the ship was for sale, and two friends of his had gone on board to examine her, with a view to purchase, and that, if not sold to them, he was willing to offer terms. He said he had been in Cunard's employ, the great North American shipowner, and would give bills on that firm in payment. Witness de clined, having heard of the prisoner's proceedings. He ordered the ship-keeper not to let him on board again, many people having, he understood, being duped by the specious representations of the prisoner. Mr. JEREMY said he believed an extensive system o fraud had been carried on by the prisoner ; he should therefore, certainly send him for trial on the two charge of Capt. Parker, and -Mr. Hay, the shipwright. The parties were bound over to prosecute at the Sur rey Sessions. THAMES POLICE. On Friday Mr. Swainson, from the office of Mr. Jones, Solicitor to the Admiralty, applied to Mr. Ballantine, for process against Captain Thomas Dunnett, the master of the brig Sarah Charlotte, now lying in the London Dock, for having abandoned three British seamen, named Edward Wilkinson, Hiram Gibbs, and James Cline, at Bahia. Mr. Swainson said his application was founded on the 40th section of the Merchant Seamen's Act, and the circumstances were these :—The men shipped on board the Sarah Charlotte under articles at Guayaquil, a city and seaport of Quito, in Colombia, on a voyage to Vigo, in Spain ; but owing to a scarcity of provisions and water, the vessel was compelled to put into Bahia, in distress. Here the three men who were subsequently abandoned were taken ill, and went ashore for medical advice. Captain Dunnett wished to send them to the hospital, and applied to the British Consul for his consent to their going there ; but the doctor to whom they applied said the illness under which they laboured was very trifling, and with a little medicine and care they would soon recover. In consequence of this statement the Consul would not give his sanction to the seamen being sent to the hospital, and directed them to return to the brig. The captain, however, declined to receive them, and said he would not have any sick men on board his ship, and compelled them to fetch their clothes out of the vessel, and in defiance of the remonstrances of the British Consul, sailed without them. Two of the men now present were sent home in the barque Mary, of Liverpool, and_ had very recently arrived in London from • that , town, in a very destitute state. The ether man joined an American ship at Bahia, on a voyage tie New York. Per Majesty's Government considered this was a fit case for prosecution, more particularly as a dangerous practice was growing up of abandoning sea men in foreign ports in violation of the express provi sions of Sir James Graham's Act, which declared that no master should discharge any individual person of his crew without the previous sanction of the ambassador, consul, or vice-consul. Mr. Swainson then put in a cer tificate from the British Consul to the following effect: " These are to certify that Hiram Gibbs, Edward Wilkinson, and James Cline, seamen, were left at this port of Bahia by Thomas Dunnett, jun., master of tho - British brig Sarah Charlotte, of Harwich, on her voyage from Guayaquil to Vigo, without my sanction or know ledge. "EDWARD PORTER, Consul. . . . „ British Consulate, Bahia, Oot. 30, 1843." Wilkinson, one of the seamen named in the Censure certificate, was then sworn, and confirmed the statement of Mr. Swainson. _ _ In answer to questions from the Magistrate be said he went out in the Creole, Captain Stephenson, to South America, and was attacked with the fever of the country, and compelled to leave the ship. He shipped on board the Sarah Charlotte in June last, and remained with her four months. Ile was sure the Doctor at Bahia said that he and his shipmates would do well with a little medicine and care, and that there was no occasion for them to go to the hospital. Mr. BA.LLANTINE . said the case was a proper one for inquiry, and he would grant a summons against Captain Dunnett, and ascertain the facts. Hiram Gibbs, another seaman, then got into the wit ness box, and was beginning to make his statement. when the Magistrate said both cases were similar, and. • there was no occasion for two summonses. Mr. Swainson then gave directions to Ellis, the second: usher of the Court, to board and lodge the seamen for the present, and the Admiralty would be accountable for the expenses. The determination of her Majesty's Government to prosecute masters of ships who abandon sailors in foreign ports, is likely to bring incalculable benefit to merchant seamen, many of whom, in the words of the Act of Parliament, " have been reduced to distress, and thereby tempted to become pirates, or otherwise mis conduct themselves." The master of a ship, who left a seaman on the African coast, was prosecuted by the Admiralty at the last Liverpool Assizes, and, upon con , vietion, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment. MARKET NEWS.—SATURDAY. COVENT—GARDEN. For the time of year, the supply of vegetables was extensive, yet the demand was tolerably active, at prices fully equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight. In fruit, both orchard and hothouse, exceedingly little was doing, at late rates :—Potatoes, from 2s 6d to 4s 3d per cwt. ; Spring Onions, 2s to 4s ; Coleworts or Greens, 2s to 3s 6d ; Turnips, is 6d to 2s 6d ; Carrots, 2s 6d to ss; • and Leeks, 8d to is per dozen bunches ; Onions, is to 2s; Spinach, is 6d to 2s ; Apples, is 3d to 4s • Pears, 5s to 12s; and Brocoli Sprouts, is to 2s per half sieve ; Walnuts, 12s to 16s per bushel ,• Oranges, 4s to 14s ; and Lemons, 5s to 12s per 100 ; Spanish Nuts, I6s per bushel. NEWGATE AND IMAM:MIAMI.. Prime Beef and Veal sold freely; other kinds of meat slowly, on the following terms :—Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Veal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 3s to 4s per 81bs by the carcase. We had an ex tensive supply of both Game and Poultry, while the ge neral demand ruled heavy, on the following terms:- - Fowls, 2s. to 3s 6d; Chickens, Is to 2s; Ducks, is 3d to 2s 3d; Geese, 3s 6d to 5s 6d; Pigeons, 6d to 10d; Tur keys, 4s to 7s; Rabbits, 4d to is 6d; Hares, is 6d to 3s; Grouse, Is 6d to 2s; Partridges, Is 6d to 2s; Pheasants , . 3s to 3s 6d; Wild Ducks, is to 2s; Teal, is to Is 6d; Widgeons, Is to is 6d; Snipes, 6d to 9d; Woodcocks, is 6d to 3s; and Plovers, 3d to 6d each; Larks, 10d to Is per dozen. :lIITNGERPORD. Although the supply of Fish was rather extensive, the sale for it was comparatively steady, at fully previous rates. In Meat, Vegetables, &c., very little was doing. NEWPORT. There was barely an average supply, yet the demand was in a sluggish state, at barely stationary prices.--" Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 64 ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 4s to 5s ; and Pork, 3s to 4s per 81bs. BILLINGSGATE. We had a large quantity of Mackerel offering at 46s to 50s per 120. In other kinds of Fish, very little was doing. WHITECHAPEU All kinds of Meat were in good supply and heavy de mand at barely late rates.—Beef from 2s 2d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 5s ; and Pork. 2s BEI to 4s per - 81bs. BREAD. The prices of.. Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are from Bid to 9d ; of Household ditto, 6d to 8d per 41b loaf. HIDE MARKET Raw Hides at per stone of 141b—Best Steers and Heifers, 5s 6d to 5s 10d • Middling Hides, 4s 8d to 5 s 2 d ; ferior ditto, 4s 41 to 4s 6d. Sheep and Calf Skins at per skin—Market Calf, 6s 6d to 8s 6d ; Long-woolled SheeP , 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Short ditto, 2s to 3s. • HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/12s to 313 s ; Useful ditto, 31 5s to 3/ 13s ; fine Upland ditto, 31 14 s to 4/ ; Clover Hay, 31 3s to 5/ ; Oat Straw, 115 s to 11 85 ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 9s to 1/ 12s per load. There was 0 , trifling improvement in the demand for both Hay and Straw, at fully late rates. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 318 s Useful ditto, 3/10s to 3/ 15s; fine Upland ditto, 3l 16s to 41; Clover Hay, 31 10s to 4/18s; Oat Straw,li 7s to 119 s; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 12s per load. Supply but moderate, and trade steady. Prices somewhat on the advance. WHITECITAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2 / 8 s to 31; Useful ditto, 315 s to 3/ lOs ; fine Upland ditto, 31 12s to 41; Clover Hay, 3/ to 51; Oat Straw, 11 5s to 11 8s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ lOs per load. A good suPP I Y' and a fair demand. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—FRIDAY. r. There was only a small supply of Wheat to this day's in a _.„, ket; the Millers do not purchase freely, but the holders 1 ", very firm in demanding last week's prices. Select samples_ul Barley are taken off at full rates, but secondary qualities 'ne t t ; dull sale, and barely supported their former valise. 005, 1 a Shelling are more in demand than of late, at rather imPr''' - prices. Beans must be noted Is. per quarter dearer. Wnest, Suffolk, Essex, and Kent Per qr. of 601b o t L o p t he bliii 60 i ,," is Red. 53 to 56 „ - Ditto ditto White... 56 62 r., 58 Norfolk Red 52 54 "''' 51i Ditto ditto 5l White... 55 59 A py bg Lincolnshire and Cambridge Red 5l 52 = i 54 Ditto ditto White... 53 5 6 ! 5t Yorkshire 50 Ditto ditto White... 51 55 ... Foreign • - ..... Ditto • ditto White... 55 5 9 e rtal• 1; Per quar.ar imp ~d Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk - 31 34 '— Yorkshire a d Lincolnshire - - Grim:ling • 50 32 -. $1 Foreig ' —•••-• 32 t:ei , Per qr. , f 6.31 b. to th_ MO 90 , Beans, Sma'l 'n• Ticks - Foreign -- ...F. Oats, Potato a d Pola d —s. -..,4 ..• , ~,, 11%ealint Moiling lO.l. to Ild., Fcrcign — d to --d. pet S i t c ° ,_A . 211. to 21s. per " • d I ,Cc Malt — 40. fine 431. per .. 5, 3 11.. Rapeseed RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums r ; heived on the principal Railways of Great Bri t ' sl e d for the week ending on the day of the month prefixtor to each. The return includes the money received .1 ,.,. passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and 1131 ' chandize : Week Total- i Name of Railway. E. 9' v. ended 5 Jan. 20 Birmingham and Derby Junction.... 1,270 1 1 19 Birmingham and Gloucester 20 Brandling Junction . 761 9 Chester and Birkenhead - n 9i 21 Dundee and Arbroath . - 1 20 Edinburgh and Glasgow... 1,796 16 1 21 Eastern Counties ... 3,522 , 6 20 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr....... 1,122 1° 3 20 Glasgow, Paisley, and Greeno,k...... 643 4 , IT 20 Grand Junction , and Chester & Crewe 6,438 2 • e 438 ' n 20 Great North of England 21 Great Western ...... 11,59 0 3 0 19 Liverpool and Manchester 4,122 )9 3 19 London and Birmingham 13,6 30 4 4 25 London and Blackwell 625 ••• 01 20 London and Brighton 2,804 16 10 25 London and Croydon 227 ? l e 715 1 - 6i 23 London and Greenwich 21 London and South Western .- ...... ::: 4,5 . 62 16 1: 2ek 18 Menchester, Bolton, and Bury 7 °" a 1 20 Manchester and Birmingham 20 Manchester & Leeds & Hull & Selby 5,25 1 10 9 20 Midland Counties. 2,3" 4 20 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,272 ' 8 21 Newcastle and North Shi e ld s . .. 292 16 Northern and Ea 3 79.......1 18 8 20 North Midland stern North Union. ' -- b 0 16 Paris and Orleans ---- ----- --- 3, 316 0 22 Paris and Rouen 2, 732 0 6 20 Preston and Wyre ''' 204 13 10 11 20 Sheffield and Manchester 467 , 4 25 South Eastern.. 2,r3.6 v 6 20 Taff Vale.. •• 550 11 21 Ulster 20 York and North Midland 1,394 . W klef DEATH BY DROWNING.—On Fricitty Mr. a tre et, held an inquest at the Lord Hill tavern, Hermitage-5, el, Harrow -road, on view of the body of a very fine yourti by Mary Anne Hawkins, aged 13, who had been dr e , V e - rdict , accidentally slipping off a barge into the canal. " Accidental death." BIR TR S. k J! Of On the 22d inst., at Upper Tulae-hill, Brixton, the G. B. Rule, Esq., of a son. On the Ist of October, at Mauritius, the lady of lieDrY low, Esq., of a daughter. On the 20th inst., at the Trafalgar, Greeuvrichti ire ' H On art, of a son. the 21st inst., the wife of Mr. James Watson, loi tcber' of Montpelier Vale, Blackheath, o a daugher. On fhe 24th inst., at Barnstaple, f Devon, t the lady of Th°lll°l Stephens, Esq., of a son. On the 24th inst., at St. Leonard's-on - Se a, the lady et ill° Rev. T. Kearsey Thomas, of a MARRIED. Th.bioo oo, On the 25th inst., at Doncaster, the Rev. Julian Nwhispe, M.A., to Harriet, third daughter of the Re v. John , D.D., Vicar of Doncaster and Canon of Yorkl_____------"' D On the 17th inst., at Moorabu lED. , Australia, Mr. 13. Fra llen ' the brother of Mr. Samuel Hallen, of Stamford -street. „_.,,, On the 17th inst., at Great Portland-stre et, Eleanor J a n daughter of the late N. J. N. Buckle, Esq., of Gloucesterip. P On the 25th inst., at Finsbury-circus, Charles VVillia brecht, Esq., aged 47. On the 25th inst., at Abbots Langley, Herts, Begot, Esq 6 London: Printed and Published 17 y 111URD0 Y a fill l l , No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office , No. 112;4: the Cetuiti of Middlesex o Monday, JaniterY 2 9 ' GUILDHALL. On Friday John Davis and John White were re-ex amined, the former charged with receiving, and the latter with stealing an ingot of brass, the property of Mr. Payne, of No. 68, Shoe-lane, brass-worker. Mr. Ballantine, the barrister, conducted the prosecu tion, and Mr. Humphreys attended on -behalf of White, and Mr. Wolfe on the part of Davis. Mr. Ballantine stated that the prosecutor employed a number of hands, and it Was evident he was beirg robbed to a considerable extent; as, in addition to the prisoners, two charges were pending at Union-hall, of having un lawful possession of his property. He, therefore, in self-$. felt bound -to seek that the law should be carried to extremity. White was in the habit of coming' into Mr. Payne's foundry several times a day, and, he had the means of either stealing the property himself, or carrying it out for some - of Mr. Payne's workmen. White came as the servant of a respectable firm in the neighbourhood, in whose employ he had been many years. The evidence already taken was read over, to the effect tha t on, Monday last Wardle and Barnes, two City po licemen were watching in plain clothes, and they saw White leave a small parcel at the bar of the Black Dog, in Shoe-lane, about five in - the evening . About eight o'clock Davis went to the bar and asked if - his Toieman had left anything for him. The harm lid gave him the parcel. Ile was stopped outside the house, and the parcel was found to contain an ingot of brass, worth 3s. The barmaid-identified the prisoners as having left and received the:parcel. White was in the habit of leaving parcels for Davis. Mr. Ballantine now called Mr. Payne to identify the ingot. He said it was cast in a mould peculiar to his concern, and he never sold brass in the 'shape of ingots. Mr. Wolfe urged that no part of Davis's conduct be trayed a guilty knowledge, and he could show under what representations he received the property. Mr. Alderman HOOPER thought the proof of a guilty knowledge had not been made out against Davis, and he should, therefore, discharge him. He should commit White for stealing, but he would be remanded till the next day that the depositions may be prepared. - A donation to the poor-box of 2/. was received from George Woodfall and Son.- BO TV-STREET. A young man, named Hebb, a servant, at the Reform Club House, Pall Mall, was brought up for final examination, charged with stealing a quantity of articles the property of the Right Hon. E. Ellice, the Earl of Clarendon and others. Mr. Coppock appeared for the prosecution. A short time ago, a woman with whom the prisoner co habited, committed suicide, and left one child chargeable to the parish. The parish of St. Martin's seized the goods found in the prisoner's room, in order to appropriate them to the main tenance of the child. Amongst these had been found a number of articles belonging to the Reform Club, and witnesses were called to-day to identify them. The little girl deposed to having seen the prisoner bring home the articles in question from the Reform Club House, and also apples, pears, nuts, &c. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and was fully committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. Mr. Hardwick on entering the Court on Friday, had the usual packet of letters from poor persons asking for pecuniary assistance, placed in his hands. Mr. HARDWICK t old Clements, the chief usher, that the magistrates had been compelled to come to the de termination to receive no letters unless the statements in them were properly authenticated. The number of letters received during the present week alone, amounted to upwards of . 100. It was quite impossible that these letters could all be attended to and the cases receive proper investigation. Besides, if some stop were not put to this letter-writing system, the Magistrates, instead of doing good by giving small sums away to the poor, would be creating a great evil, for they would unavoidably be the means of bringing into active operation the host of beggingeletter writers, the idle and the profligate, who abounded in some quarters within the jurisdiction of this Court. Applicants, there fore, must distinctly understand that their written state ments must be accompanied by vouchers from respect able housekeepers and tradesmen to whom they were known, and that if this condition be not complied with their application will not be noticed. It must further be understood that recommendations will not be received from the landlords of the applicants, or from small shop keepers to whom they may be indebted. MARYLEBONE. On Friday a wretchedly-attired, but apparently strong and healthy young man, who gave his name Francis Evans, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Long, upon the following charge, preferred against him by Mr. Bingham, one of the orship-street police magistrates— It appeared, from the evidence, that on the same day the prisoner was lying upon the pavement in the New road, and that he had chalked upon a stone close to him the words "I am starving." Mr. Bingham, who hap pened to be passing, and thinking that he had seen the same man upon a former occasion, under similar cir cumstances, directed the attention of a constable to. wards him, upon the sight of wham, he (the prisoner) got up, and as he was in the act of walking off, he was taken into . custody. The object which Mr. Bingham had in view, while pursuing this course, was, that an inquiry might be gone into with the view of ascertaining whether the prisoner was one really deserving of relief, or an impostor who ought to be punished. The prisoner said he was a coach-painter by trade ; he was a single man, and had been out of work some time. Jones, the usher, here stated that the prisoner bad been brought to this Court more than once before, and convicted, and that upon each occasion he told the same story which he had done now.—He was committed to the House of Correction for a month. William Ward, a notorious smasher, was charged with baring passed three counterfeit shillings at the shop of Mr. Savage, 83, Harrow-road. Police-constable Thomas Hallingan, 83 D, said that he ascertained from Mr. Savage the description of the prisoner, and having found out the same evening that three " smashers " or titterers of base coin had sought admittance for the night, at the Refuge for the Destitute in Market-street, Paddington, he went there, accompanied by the complainant, Mr. Savage, who identified the party who had passed the shillings. He was therefore taken into custody, and on being searched at the station-house, a counterfeit half-crown and two bad shillin gs were found upon him. On a more minute search being made, there was also found a phial containing some liquid, used appa rently for colouring the coin. Mr. Losc said that he had no doubt of the prisoner's guilt, bat it would be necessary to remand him for the attendance of Mr.- Savage. The prisoner was then recondncted to the cells. LAMBETH-S1 PEE T. On Friday John Wood, sen., John Wocd, jun., and John Felix were 13laced at the bar before Mr. Norton, for further examination, on a charge of stealing a vast quan tity of printed paper from the Export Excise-offiv, in Tower-street, Tower-hill. Mr. Mayow, solicitor to the Board of Excise, attended n i f tfik t os the eeeenpe p nsp j os reo o aepsrmn s p ocih e caduattruachdt the clean eentba q ua n tity ntetv ev i d e n ce eonxosu tnai occasionallysti r c t hhe e o: eroi afforded er jadapne dneace, am r Tfn e oe d doormwmf t aphesvl carrying a roau- t yi ssl t etee h rddd e e btit themselveswy, at t ohwot the differen t ey l di g d i e ffah r net r pi house- temrhnoi f departments, and sold it as waste paper to a great num ber of shopkeepers. The Court was much crowded with the persons who had purchased the paper from the prisoners, and a ft er their evidence had been received, Mr. Mayow applied for another remand, which was granted. George Homes, a broker and appraiser, carrying on business at No. 25, Brick-lane, Spitalfields, who has been before at this Court to account for irregularities in the discharge of his duty as broker, appeared on a sum mons charging him with making an overcharge in a case in which he was engaged, under very aggravated cir cumstances. The brief facts of the case were these :—On Wednes day; the 3d inst., Homes made a seizure of the goods of a poor old woman for an arrear of rent of IL 55., and removed the goods on the same evening to his own pre mises. On the following Friday the poor woman came before Mr. Norton, and having related the miserable state to which she was reduced, principally by her hus band going to sea without signing the note, which would entitle her to a monthly allowance from the owner of his ship, that humane magistrate directed Saunders, one of the summoning officers, to see the parties, and make the best terms he could with them ; and, deeming it a fit case for relief from the poor box, said a reasonable sum would be given to settle the matter, and get the poor woman back her things. Saunders called upon the landlord, and on informing him of what the magistrate proposed, he, though a poor man, at once offered to take 20s. for his debt. The officer next went to the house of the broker, but was unable to see him until the Monday following. The poor woman herself, however, saw him, and told him what the magistrate had offere&, and also the landlord, and he then said he could not re store the goods without his expenses. On the Monday he was again told that the magistrate would settle the - o r ti 0 P C Al (t • ha th, , th, da tit! Dry Lo Es Sh KC ttru tat • A ; kh, hal • tin kit Ph, rid • ks, tor Stu sou of 1 dan 'Col E. Ei~ Si ] Sii