The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-26 00:00:00

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Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen, 20 paid Rouen and Havre, IU paid lB% SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—On Friday we communicated the grati fying intelli‘s ' ence that her Majesty contemplates an early visit to her Irish subjects. We alled,upon the same well-informed authority, that in the event of the decision of the House of Lords being against the defendants, and the judgment on which they are incarcerated consequently affirmed, that the Royal visit would be deemed a fit opportunity for extend ing to them the clemency of the Crown, by a remis sion of the portion of the sentence then unfulfilled. We are gratified to find that similar information to that we communicated has been received in Dublin, where it is regarded as true. The anticipated release of O'Connell and his co-agitators is, of course, a sub ject on which the Irish journals express themselves in terms of praise or blame, accordingly as the poli tical party to which they are respectively attached are favourable to coercion or conciliation. The Evening Mail deprecates any such act of clemency; and positively raves, in maniac phrase, at the bare idea of such a course. To release O'Connell by an act of royal grace and favour, would, in the opinion of this consistent organ of Orangeism, be fraught with the most calamitous consequences to Ireland. The royal prerogative of mercy would be prostituted— the Queen's Royal title and dignity would be dis honoured—the public peace would be perilled—and the interests of Protestantism be injured, if not de• stroyed !—The Repeal journals are equally disap pointed at the prospect of this heavy blow and great discouragement to agitation. The release of O'Connell, by an act of the royal will, would go far to neutralise the virus of disaffection. The generous spirit of the Irish people would recog nise in the Queen the deliverer of the most popular of her subjects in that part of her do minions. The law having decided that the proceed ings of the Association were illegal, the dissolution of the repeal confederacy would follow. Gratitude for an act so signally appropriate in connexion with the royal visit to Ireland, would effect more than a hun dred proclamations would be able to secure. The mandate of authority may compel a temporary external obedience. The impulse of generous feeling not merely prompts to an abandonment of acts which the law threatens with punishment. It tenders the loyalty of the heart, and is a better security for obedience than fear, though fear be produced by the presence of an armed host. Such, we believe, would be the result of this well timed act of conciliation. At all events it is worth trying. If it succeed, the recollection of it will be sweet. It will be " twice bless'd " the do nor and the recipients would, in their relative posi tions, be advantaged by the deed. The Times adopts a similar view, and recommends the course as one well calculated to strengthen the public safety by conciliating the people :—" After the judges have delivered judgment, and affirmed the conviction of the conspirators, her Majesty's royal clemency will then, it is said, exert itself; and the royal visit be a signal for their release. This course seems a digni fied and consistent one. The majesty of the law has been vindicated by the conviction of the prisoners, and by the temporary confinement they have had. The meetings are suppressed, and Ireland is tranquil. A continuance of the imprisonment would have the appearance of vindictiveness rather than of justice ; while the generous release of the Irish leaders will cripple their powers afterwards, and put them so much the more in the wrong in case of any future outbreak." STANDARD.—Our anticipation of the effect that would be produced in France by the Tangiers corre • spondence of a morning Contemporary, has been fully verified, and our impression of the fallacy of the statements which is contained, as completely con firmed. The Paris journals received this morning comment, almost without an exception, in terms of natural indignation upon those letters, and the re marks by which public attention was directed to them. "If the writers," says the Journal des Debats, " had confined themselves to criticis ing the operations of the French squadron, the orders of the admiral, the manoeuvres of the ships, or the inaccuracy of their gunnery, there might have been permitted so inoffensive a gratification of their ill-humour; but to accuse a French Admiral, French officers, and in fact, the French navy, of cowardice, was, indeed, contempti tible." The Debats asserts with justice that neither the British Government, nor a very great majority of the British people, have the slightest sympathy with the authors of such mischievous attacks. Indeed, the anxiety displayed by a large and respectable portion of the British press to disclaim the slightest participation in such attacks has been received as evidence how much they have been condemned in this country. Several of our Paris Contemporaries, judging from the style of the letters, appear to have inferred that they were not written by naval officers. The use of the editorial plural personal pronoun by one, and the designation by another of his letter as his " article," would cer tainly appear to have favoured such a conclusion. The confusion between the language of naval and military men supplied an additional argument against their authenticity; for although the im pression conveyed by the words " another officer," prefixed to a communication which is immediately preceded by a letter headed "From a Naval Officer," would imply that the whole of the letters were from officers of that arm of the service, such is not pre tended to have been the fact ; and however erroneous our belief, arising from the internal evidence supplied by their style, that they were of home production, we were not far wrong in assuming that they were not the productions of sailors. The Journal des Debats publishes a letter from a French naval officer, which affirms that " the ignorance of naval manoeuvres in these letters" forbids the belief that they were written by naval officers, so that we were not singular in our opinion on the subject. All that now can be said is, that they must have been the productions of very young officers, whether naval or military ; or their authors would have known their duty better than to have given cir culation to representations which, setting aside the insulting language in which they are couched, are in all important particulars unfounded. One of the charges brought against the Prince de Joinville in these letters is, that he was deficient in daring in not having advanced nearer the town than 800 yards. The letter of the French officer, to which we have already referred, states a fact that fully confirms the opinion we expressed on Wed nesday last, and which must have been, or ought to have been known to every officer, military or naval, connected with the British squadron. Previou s l y to taking up his position, the Prince had had the channel for his ships carefully buoyed out, in order that he might place them as close to the works as th e depth ofwater would allow ; when it was discover e d that up their it was impossible for them to take positioni indeed, is than s ome 800 yards. The flag-ship, water beneath b is e said tb to have had only five her keel during the bombardment ! That thisnesata tion, however, was sufficiently close to be one of considerable danger, may be gathered from the fact confessed by the " Naval Officer" of the Times' that the Sutfren received fifty cannon shots in he; m hull ; and surely the deliberation with which th e squadron took its station , i n the face of might btenbemavye who, according to the se authorities, destroyed the greater part of it during the opera tion, would, if shown to be imprudent, reflect any thing but discredit on the boldness of the move ment. The fact appears to have been, that the Moors permitted the French ships to take up their position unmolested, in the belief that the shallow ness of the water would protect them from too near an approach. It cannot be doubted that it was the duty of the Prince to profit by this delusion, a blunder which enabled him to bring up his force at his leisure. Of what consequence was it that, in exe cuting this man ceuvre, some of the ships may have been placed in a raking position if lie was satisfied that the enemy had no intention of firing upon them, lest they should divert him from the difficulty into which they supposed him to be hastening ? So much for the imputations on the daring and nautical experience of the French Admiral. Equally unfounded would seem to be the account of these green-eyed " naval officers," of the ineffectiveness of the French fire. The fortifications of Tangiers, instead of being, as was affirmed, only slightly injured, were, in most instances, reduced to ruins, and the guns dismounted. The total destruction of the town formed no part of the intentions or instructions of the Prince. MOST DISTRESSING CASE. Two young persons, named Mary Ann and Sarah Ann Ann Johnson, of lady-like manners, and evi dently of superior education, about four months ago engaged an apartment at the house of Mr. Stainsbury, No. 27, Charlotte-street West, White Conduit-fields, at the rent of 43. per week. They commenced a small school, and obtained a few scholars, but they were not enabled to support themselves or to pay their rent, and they became involved in arrears to the amount of 2/. 10s. They were pressed for the money, or a portion of it, but were unable to answer the de mand, and kept their distressed and starving condi tion a secret until it was discovered by their landlord, who told them if they would leave the lodging he would forgive them the whole of the rent. This, however, they declined doing. The younger sister, Sarah Ann, whose previous system had been wrought upon by grief, want of nourishment, and the anxieties attendant upon the school, fell into a state of con sumption and insanity. Every step she heard she fancied to be a fresh application for rent, and she in dulged in loud exclamations to her sister, such as " Here they are ; they are coming for the rent." Last Saturday week a noise attracted the attention of Mrs. Stainsbury, who proceeded up stairs to the young ladle.' apartment, and found them struggling violently together. The younger sister sprung upon the other in a state of raving madness, pulled and dragged her about, and would have choked her had she not been prevented by timely assistance. It was not until now that the real destitution of the unfortunate creatures was exhibited. Medical aid was called in, and Mr. Kitt, surgeon, of No. 15, Upper Copenhagen-street, and Mr. Duncombe, at tended, but the youngest sister lingered until the fol lowing Monday, when she expired, the doctor having no doubt that she died through want of nourishment. The remains of the deceased lay in the room with the surviving sister (alone) until Friday, when, from their decomposed state, the sister having no friends nor means to bury the body, the landlord applied to the parish authorities. A coffin was sent to the house, and the remains were interred on Monday last in the burial-ground of the Chapel-of-Ease at Hol loway, her sister being the only mourner. The sister has been visited by one or two humane persons, who have afforded her temporary relief. She is a most in telligent person, and states that they were orphans of respectable parents, who came from Dumfries, in Scotland, about ten years since. The parents died and left property, and the sisters lived for some time afterwards at Lewisham, in Kent ; but in their in experience they speculated in building, and were cheated of their money, and reduced to distress. They were often starving. Her sister and herself had re peatedly lived on a penny loaf and cold water, in preference to exposing their distress ; and on being asked if they ever applied to the parish for relief, she said they chose rather to bear their misfortunes than go to the workhouse. They had no friends, and they entered upon a small school, which was too precarious for a livelihood. The unfortunate young lady is still in the house, depending upon casual bounty, and In great grief. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Arc. 25.—The unprotected state of our ports has become amongst naval men a leading , topic of conversation, more so at the port than else where, and not without good reason, we think, when we have before our eyes the fact that neither Portsmouth, Devonport, nor Sheerness has a "guard" ship, and the only ship fitting out for that service is the Queen, 110, in this harbour, for the flag of Sir J. C. White at the Nore. The St. Vincent, 120, until lately the flag-ship at this port, is in the Sound at Plymouth, ordered to hold herself in readiness to leave that port at a moment's notice. The Collingwood will leave Spithead in a day or two (Tuesday is reported) for her station, when there will be no ship fitting out at this or any other port except the Queen. A descent upon our coasts, even to the mouths of our harbours, would be, under such circumstances as the above, an attempt by no means difficult of accomplish ment, especially if steam were employed ; an enemy might pour shot and shells into our garrisons, and into this, perhaps, easier than any other, in the night, and be out of reach before any craft could get out of harbour to cope with them. To remedy the possibility of this, it is the opinion of heads grown gray in the service that a first-class steam-frigate, of powers somewhat like the Terrible (now building at Deptford), should be con structed for the service of each port, and which should be kept in such a state of constant readiness as to be eligible for chase or fight almost at a moment's notice. Such vessels would be far more eligible and efficacious in keeping off marauding foes than all the guard-ships that ever carried flags. The Collingwood, SO, Captain Smart, at Spithead, has received sailing orders. She will sail on Tuesday, we believe. The Inconstant, 36, Captain Freemantle, was at Por Royal, Jamaica, on the 20th ult. The Queen, 100, Captain Martin, has her topgallant masts pointed, and will drop down to Spithead from her moorings in the harbour, it is expected, next Saturday. The Spartan, 26, Captain the Hon. C. G. J. B. Elliott, was at Port Royal on the 23d ult. The Fox, 42, Captain Sir H. Blackwood, is on her way from Tangiers, to relieve Commodore Chads, in the Cambrian, 36, in China, who will return to England. The Albatross, 16, Commander Yorke, arrived at Sierra Leone on the 2d of June, and was to place herself under the orders of Captain (since Commodore) Jones, the senior officer on the African coast, who was expected in the Penelope, 22, steam frigate. The Growler, steam sloop, Commander C. 11. M. Buckle, from the Brazils, and the sloops Ringdove, 16, Commander Sir W. Daniell, and the Wasp, 16, Commander S. H. Ussher, from the West Indies, were ordered to reinforce the squadron on the coast, to assist in the suppression of the slave trade. The Pique, 36, Captain the Hon. M. Stopford, left Ja maica on the 10th ult., for Barbadoes, with specie. The Vindictive, 50, now in dock here, is being expe dited (it is reported) for flag service on the West India station, to relieve the Illustrious, 72, flag of Sir Charles Adam, whose period of service has expired. Th• Victoria and Albert royal yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, returned to Cowes last evening, having been out four days on a trial cruise, which has yielded the highest satisfaction. She came into the har bour again this day, at twelve o'clock. In Dock—The, Vindictive, Prince :Regent, Dwarf, Scourge, and Athol. In Harbour—The Victory (flag-ship pro tern), Queen, Excellent, Sylvia, Nautilus, Fearless, Echo and Comet steamers. In the Basin—The Daring, Osprey, Lily, Flying Fish, Pataloon, and Waterwitch. SHEERNESS, AUG. 23.—The Monarch, 84, is ordered to be brought forward for commission forthwith. An order to enter 100 men for general service has arrived at this dockyard, since which announcement " many have called, but few have been chosen." In the Harbour—The Ocean, Raven, and Africaine. In Dock—The Monarch, Herald, Beagle, and Vernon. PROMOTIONS. Assistant-Surgeon. —James Allan (1837) to the rank of surgeon. Second-Master.—W. H. Green, of the Fearless, to the rank of master. Clerk.—E. Gabriel, of the Madagascar, to be pay master and purser. APPOINTMENTS, Captain.—M. IL Dixon (1 8 1 1) to the San Josef, with the charge of the ships in ordinary at Devonport, vice Burgoyne, whose period of service has expired. Lieutenants.—T. J. R. Barrow, L. B. Mackinnon, G. Pyne, J. W. Probert, S. F. Short, all additional to the Formidable, flag-ship at Gibraltar. Mates.—T. 11. Molyneux and R. Barrington, to the Excellent ; J. R. Hanyard, to the St. Vincent ; W. IL Cottony, to the Comet. _ _ Assistant•Surgeon.—W. P. Banks, M.D. (1838), of ire Fearless, to the Crane. Clerks.—A. Arlington (in charge), to the Alban ; J. B. Martin (in charge), to the Lynx ; T. W. W. Spear, to the Dwarf ; G. T. Harris, to the St. Vincent ; Mr. Rivers, of Deptford Dockyard, to the Director of Works' Department of Chatham Dockyard. Masters' Assistants.—G. Raymond, to the Crane ; Henry Petch, to the Tartarus. Naval Cadet.—G. R. Tuckey, to the Alfred. Boatswain.—John Stanley (sup.), of the San Josef, to the Fox, vice Culter, superseded. ROYAL MARINES. PROMOTIONS. First Lieutenant.—G. Elliott to be Captain, vice Bridge, to half-pay. Second Lieutenant.—W. Hutchinson to be First Lieu tenant, vice Elliott, promoted. INFRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE RIVER QUEEN.—On Wednesday afternoon, an accident of a frightful character took place on board the River Queen up.>n her voyage to Ipswich from Walton-on-the-Naze, in Essex. It appears that the vessel, as usual upon days when she takes an " Excursion," had a crowded deck and cabin, and some parties to avoid the crush went down into the engine room, open under the permission of the engineer. Among these were Captain Robert Resker, of the Zephyr brig, belonging to this port, his wife, and several other persons. Resker afterwards carte on deck and sat upon the hatches connected with the li g ht a b ove th e eng i ne room . F rom t hi s position he was seen to rise, and then suddenly to fall backwards through an opening upon the engine, within the works of which he was caught, and though the engineer, prompt at his post, atopped the way of the boat immediately, the unfortunate man was crushed to death in an instant.— Suffolk Chronicle. MURDE R OF A CHILD.—A child, twenty-one months old, n ame d Elizabeth Carpenter, died on Tues day at Bristol, i n consequence of the ill-treatment it re ceived from a woman ( not i ts mother) with whom its father cohabited. During the ab sence o f i ts father, the unfeeling wretch was i n t h e habit of beating the oor infant about the head with her clenched fist. She had been frequently heard to declare that she hated the child, and that if the father did not take it away, she would kill it. On Friday an inquest was held, and the jury re turned a verdict of "Wilful murder against Elizabeth Light," the woman whose brutal treatment had occa sioned the poor child's death. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 24. APPLICATIONS UNDER THE NEW ACT. The cases of several insolvents were brought before the Court on the question of fees to be paid on the filing of their proceedings, and the Learned Commis• sioner was obliged to be somewhat po_itive on the subject, in order to counteract the opinion which seems to exist, that men are not only to get into debt, but to be considered "martyrs" because they happen to be in prison. There is a sickly affectation of hu manity either for the debtor or creditor, instead of the centre path, in which the truth will be found. An attorney applied to his Honour, with a view of ascertaining whether the schedules of insolvents in prison could not be filed without the payment of fees until after their discharge. He said that from what had appeared in the newspapers the applicants thought they could be released at once from prison. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE said that every article that appeared in a newspaper did not constitute law. The whole Act was to be carried out, and not a part, and therefore it was quite impossible that pro ceedings could be filed without the payment of fees. The attorney hoped the payment of 11. in each case would be deemed sufficient till a scale of fees could be promulgated. An advertisement of the first hearing could be inserted in an evening paper for a less sum than was charged by the morning papers. The COURT said that the advertisements were for creditors, and must be inserted in the morning papers of known large circulation. The Commissioners were anxious to give every facility to the discharge of men, but in a court of law there must be certain regulation, without which no proceedings could be satisfactorily carried on. The attorney again referred to the statements which appeared in the papers and the forms published. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE (significantly)-- Take the law from the Queen's printer. Some further discussion occurred, which ended in the Court ordering that 30s. in each case should, in the first instance, be deposited with the messenger of the Court. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE intimated that in a few days the orders would be issued; it was im possible to make rules instanter. TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUG-UST 26, 1844. was kept, was locked. At a little after ten o'clock it was found that the room had been forcibly entered, and the box, containing the cash and some silver spoons, &c., stolen away. The persons who had com mitted the depredation must have gained access from the back part of the house. To connect the prisoners with the burglary, it was shown that the two men, about a fortnight previously, had been sitting in an upper room in the house, from which room they could obtain a view of Mrs: Taylor's bedroom. On the Saturday night bi - fore the robbery, the male prisoners were seen in Chapel-street, opposite to Mrs. Taylor's house, from which situation they could see the bedroom window. The prisoner Locke lodged in Spear-street, which is about a mile and a quarter distant from Mrs. Taylor's house, and there had several times been seen with him at his lodgings a short man, not in custody, who must have been one of the parties who committed the bur glary. On the Sunday evening in question, Locke and and the little man spoken of, left the house at which Locke lodged, in company together, and went to a public house kept by a person named Wilson, where the little man changed his dress ; subsequently Locke and this man, in company with the other two prisoners, were to gether at the College Inn, near to the old church. The next glace in which they were seen was in Sidney-street, near to Mrs. Taylor's premises. The prisoner Jennings was keeping watch at one corner of the street, and the little man before alluded to at the other, and the prisoner Locke was passing about before the house, and after doing so for some time, he turned the corner into Scholefield-street, and was lost sight of for about a quarter of an hour, when he was seen to come apparently from the house, carrying something under his arm, and on going up to the other men some one said it's all right, and the parties separated. In a pit standing in the road taken by the man who was seen to carry some thing under his arm, was found the stolen cash box, and on the road taken by the man who has escaped the vigi lance of the police, were found other portions of the stolen property, and also a dark lantern. To connect the female with the transaction, it was shown that at the time the prisoner Locke was walking before Mrs. Tay lor's house, she had gone, in company with Jennings, into Mrs. Taylor's vaults, probably with the view of as certaining in what situation the inmates of the home were stationed. Jennings, after this, went to his lodg ings, where he left a message that if a man, answering the description of the little man spoken of, called, he was to meet him at the College Inn ; and at a quarter after ten o'clock this man and the male prisoners were toge ther at this public -house, where a transaction took place which was important to the inquiry into the guilt of the prisoners. The landlady and her daughter were sitting in the kitchen opposite to the room in vvhieli the par ties were, and they hoard a sound as of gold money being counted. In consequence of this, on hearing of the robbery, a communication was made to the police, and instructions were given what was to be done if the parties came again. About ten o'clock the following morning the two male prisoners did come again, and the police were sent for, who took them into custody. Locke had on an entire new suit of clothes, and in his pockets were found seven sovereigns, and in the pockets of Jen nings were found four sovereigns. When told the charge upon which they were apprehended, they stated that they were at their lodgings at the hour the offence was com mitted, which was ascertained not to be the fact. These accusations having been proved in evidence, Mr. WiLictszs addressed the jury on behalf of the pri soners. This, he said, was a ease which would require on their part a very great deal of care, watchfulness, and jealousy over themselves. He knew of nothing more easy than by an exercise of ingenuity to excite suspicion against others ; and if they lent a ready car to the party making an accusation, and allowed that party to make an impression on their minds, there was afterwards a secret satisfaction, of which, perhaps, they might be uncon scious at the time, in making every circumstance fit the accusation and justify the impression on their minds. All cases of circumstantial evidence were calculated to ex cite suspicion ; and the circumstances in this case, as stated by the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, were put together with great skill and ingenuity ; and it fre quently happened that a Learned Counsel so situated, unless he was something more than human, allowed his judgment to be warped. It would be their duty to find a verdict in accordance with the evidence ; and he felt as sured they would take great care to ascertain whether the evidence which had been adduced was sufficient to justify them in pronouncing a verdict of guilty against the prisoners, of one of the highest offences known to the law of the land. fie contended that the case against the prisoners, as stated by the prosecution, was not suffi cient to justify them in coming to a conclusion of guilty, and that all the facts deposed to were perfectly compati ble with the innocence of the parties : accused ; in fact, against the female prisoner there was no case whatever. The Learned Counsel concluded an eloquent and inge nious defence by a passionate appeal as to the conse quences if a verdict of guilty was returned against the prisoners. The Learned JUDGE, with great perspicuity, summed up the case to the Jury, who, after a deliberation of a few minutes, returned a verdict of Guilty against the whole of the prisoners. A previous conviction was proved against Jennings. Sentence deferred. IN RE TOLFRET. This was an application on the part of an insolvent who had been five years in prison, and was originally taken on a Judge's order as a person about to leave the country. The attorney for the insolvent mentioned the cir cumstance to the Court, as a difference of opinion ex isted on the subject. The insolvent was now charged in execution, and the point was whether he could avail himself of the new Act, which he could not have done if the proceedings had not gone on to execution. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQU was of opinion that he was entitled to his discharge, as he was now in prison on an execution ; and he made the order ac cordingly. IN THE MATTER OF ROBERT BANISTER. This case has already been before the public. The bankrupt was a draper at Portsea, and had absconded from his creditors ;he had visited Madeira. He had, however, returned, and the present sitting was fixed for his last examination. The solicitor to the fiat applied for an adjournment, in order that a fiat against Charles Banister might be worked in London together, in accordance with an order of the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy. The Court granted the application. SUMMER ASSIZES. NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 23. CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.) Eliza Daley, James Daley, and Elizabeth Daley, were indicted for attempting to murder a new-born infant. Mr. Armstrong, assisted by Mr. Ifulton, conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Wilkins the dofence. Mr. ARMSTRONG having stated the case to the jury, Mr. HELTON called Eleanor Evans, who stated that she lived at 34, Be dale-street, Manchester, and kept a lodging-house, and the three prisoners, who were mother, son, and daughter, rented apartments from her. The female prisoners slept in the same bed-room with witness, and James Daley occupied a room to himself. Witness ob served that the younger woman, Eliza Daley, ap peared to be pregnant, and remarked to her, that it was so said by all the married women in the neigh bourhood. She had also spoken to the mother relative o the state in which her daaghter was supposed to be, and she (the mother) said it was nothing of the kind ; she had a complaint of dropsy before she left Ireland, and that she had had two other daughters who had died of the same complaint. On the afternoon of the 25th of July, the two women in company went out, and remained absent until seven o'clock in the evening ; and when they returned, Eliza Daley went immediately up stairs, and the witness following shortly afterwards, perceived that she was undressing herself, and remarked to her that it was an early hour for her to be going to bed. Eliza replied, " Yes, but I sun rather unwell." Eliza Daley, having undressed herself; went to bed, and the mother took up a cup of coffee. About half-past ten o'clock witness had occasion to go into the bed-room, when she found Eliza Daley sitting on a box at the foot of the bed, having on at the time a green striped dress. Witness said, " Miss Daley, what are you doing out of your bed ?" and she replied, " I ans not well, and have got up," and she then jumped up and ran down stairs, and shortly afterwards witness heard the back door opened, and some one go out. Witness, after a little lapse of time, went down stairs, and found that Eliza Daley had gone into the privy, in which she re mained upwards of half an hour, when she was called in by witness. Witness about eleven o'clock went to bed, leaving the two female prisoners in the parlour, and shortly afterwards she heard some one come in at the front door, who proved to be James Daley. About twelve o'clock the son and mother came up stairs, and witness asked Mrs. Daley where her daughter was, and she replied that she was sitting in the kitchen. Witness said, " It's a main poor excuse ; I must go down and look after her." Mrs. Daley said, "Don't, my dear; I'll go." Witness said, " I feel alarmed ; I must look after you both." Mrs. Daley made no reply, but got into bed, and witness shortly afterwards heard an infant cry. Her nephew, John Roberts, brought a candle, and she went down stairs, and found Eliza Daley sitting in the kitchen, and from the appearances near to the place, she found that she had been in labour. Mrs. Jackson was called, and Eliza Daley said, " What do you want here ? go to your bed," and she then swore. James Daley came down stairs, apparently much confused, and asked for an explanation of what was going on. He was told that his sister was in labour, and he exclaimed, "It's a mis take ! 0, my life and my character !" The elder Daley said it was not true that her daughter had had a child ; she was suffering under a complaint of which two of her daughters had died, and the appearances were caused in consequence of the great quantity of medicine she had taken, and said it was unkind of witness to expose the girl before her sister. James Daley begged hard of witness to be as silent as possible, for he believed it to be altogether a mistake. From what his mother had said witness went up stairs, and found Eliza Daley in bed, and requested her to confess whether or not she had had a child, for if she had had one, every attention should be paid to her. She (Eliza Daley) said it was nothing of the sort ; swore at them, and requested that they would go to bed. Some time afterwards Eliza Daley exclaimed, "0, what shall I do ?" and her mother requested her to be quiet. Witness, on awaking in the morning about six o'clock, f oun d Eliza Daley sitting up in bed changing her clothes. The mother was not there at the time, but came in shortly afterwards, and took away some foul linen and a green dress. Eliza Daley's clothes were placed together, as though she had con te inplated leaving the house. Eliza Daley was taken into custody. Several witnesses were called to depose to the facts mentioned by the witness, and that the elder Daley early on the morning named in the indictment was endeavour ing to gain access to a privey, having with her at the time a bundle. Peter Smith, a night-soil man, stated, that on the morning of the 26th of July he found the body of a male child, wrapped in a cloak, lying on some ashes in a midden. Mr. WILKINS proceeded to address the jury on behalf of the prisoners, when His LORDSHIP interrupted the Learned Counsel, stating that ho wished to consult Mr. Justice Cresswell on the subject of the indictment. On his Lordship's return into Court, he said he thought it his duty, in order that justice might be done, to stop the proceedings. He had looked at the indict ment with some care, and had found that it was founded on a statute that, whoever should attempt to drown, or suffocate, or strangle, with intent to commit the crime of murder, should, although no bodily injury should be occasioned, be held to be guilty of a felony. In the in dictment there was no other crime whatever charged ; and it was his duty to tell the jury that, what ever they might ,think of the misconduct of the prisoners, there was no evidence whatever of an attempt to suffocate or drown. If the child had been placed in the midden-hole, without the person so placing it there having a knowledge of what was on the other side of the wall, this would not be a legitimate mode of construing the statute ; and on the other hand, supposing that the person placing the child there was acquainted at the time with what was in the midden-hole, it then must appear that they had se lected the dry ashes to put it upon a place of compara tire safety and not of danger. There was another diffi culty also which presented itself. It was necessary that it should be shown who was the person placing the child in that situation, and of this fact there was altogether an absence of evidence. His Lordship, after some re marks relative to these points, said he should not order that the prisoner should be liberated, as an indictment in a different form might be presented. A verdict of Not Guilty upon this indictment was then taken. Alfred Locke, Thomas Jennings, and Ellen Leech were charged with having committed a burglary on the night of the 21st of July last, in the house of Deborah Taylor, and stolen therein upwards of 300/. in money, and some silver plate, her property. Mr. Brandt and Mr. Monk conducted the case for the prosecution; and Mr. James and Mr. Wilkins defended the prisoners. The prosecutrix is a widow, and keeps a public-house in Salford called the Nelson Arms. The front of the house looks into Chapel-street, and the back into Sidney-street. On the evening of Sunday, the 21st of April, Mrs. Taylor's bedroom was noticed to be in a state of safety, and the bookcase, in which the money August !4. CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD CRDIEP BARON). William Swanston was indicted fur the murder of his wife at Wigan. Mr. Sergeant Murphy and Mr. Segar conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Wilkins and Mr. James. It appeared that on th© evening in question the pri soner came home from the fsctory in which he was em ployed as an overlooker. He went up stairs, and found his wife lying intoxicated on the floor. It would ap pear that he had given her a kick in the hinder part of her person, and shortly after he came down stairs and mentioned to a little girl, his eldest daughter, that her mother was drunk, and there was no supper ready. He afterwards went again up stairs, and finding his wife still lying on the floor, apparently in much pain, he carried her down, put her in a chair, and sent for a doctor. By the time lie arrived, the seat on which she sat and her clothes were drenched with blood. Tho medical man had her again taken up stairs, and on examination found that the kick the prisoner admitted he had given her had displaced the bone at the extremity of the spine, rup tured the bladder and some blood vessels, of the hemor rhage from which the unfortunate woman finally died. She was sinking, indeed, when the doctor was first called in. Some brandy was administered to her, which she at first refused, saying she did not like it. The prisoner then remarked, " if, thou hadst not been so fond of it, this would not have happened." He expressed, how ever, great sorrow at what had occurred. He had al ways borne an excellent character, but the unfortu nate deceased had latterly been given to habits of intoxi cation. Guilty of manslaughter.—Sentence deferred. James Burgess was indictment for an attempt to mur der his wife. _ Mr. Brandt conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. J. Pollock. The prisoner was a machine-maker, and about two years ago, being then 18, was married to his present wife. They had one child. Some family disputes arose between the wife's family and him, and he finally sold off his goods with the intention of going to America, she returning to her friends. The windows of his father-in-law's house having been broken, the prisoner was accused of having done it, and he asked his wife to meet him at the house of a mutual acquaintance, to try and make it up. She did so, and they being left alone in the house, he asked her to go into the other room. She re fused. lie then put out the candle, seized her by the throat, and strangled her, as she said, until she was blind, and then with a knife attempted, as she supposed, to cut her throat. The neighbours hearing an alarm, broke in the door, and found the prosecutor standing on the floor leaning against a table, and nearly insensible. Her throat was much bruised, but no wound had been inflicted, it having apparently been the back of the knife which had been used. Evidence was given of the prisoner having threatened on more than one occasion to cut his wife's throat. Verdict—Guilty of an aggravated assault. To be im- , prisoned two years. OXFORD ClRCUlT—Gloucester, Aug. 23. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY.) John Smith, aged 50, a bill discounter, was charged with forging aad uttering an endorsement to a bill of exchange, with intent to defraud Thomas Gardener. Mr. Godson (Queen's Counsel) and Mr. Greaves con ducted the prosecution; Mr. Keating, Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Gruy, the defence. This case was rendered more interesting than similar investigations usually are from the singular circumstances disclosed in the progress of the inquiry. The prosecutor and prisoner had been intimate asso ciates for years in the business of bill discounting, but had recently disagreed. The alleged forgery, an en dorsement to a bill of exchange drawn by prosecutor, took place in March, 1842, when notice of its being dis honoured was given to the prosecutor by the attorney for the prisoner, who commenced proceedings against the acceptor, and recovered the amount in an undefended action at the Gloucester Summer Assizes, 1843. In March last, a bill for forgery was presented to the grand jury, without any previous inquiry before a magistrate, when the trial was postponed to these assizes, the pri soner being admitted to bail. Numerous witnesses were called to state their belief that the endorsement was not in the prosecutor's handwriting, but, as usual, they all varied on cross-examination as to the parts of resem blance and non-resemblance. After a very powerful and searching speech from Mr. KEATING, The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence, and a verdict of Acquittal was pronounced. The trial lasted until half-past ten at night, when the business of the assizes closed. At one o'clock Chief Justice Tindal left the town on his way to London to prepare the judgment in the Writ of Error upon the Irish State Trials, which is to be de livered on the 2d of September. On the 4th of Septem ber we understand that that very learned and most 'ex cellent person starts on a continental tour. WESTERN CIRCUIT. —Bristol, Aug. 23. (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON and a Special Jury.) PARFITT v. THOMPSON AND OTHERS. Mr. Crowder, Mr. Sergeant Manning, and Mr. Ball conducted the case for the plaintiff, and Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Butt that for the defendants. This action was brought to recover the amount of the loss on a policy of insurance for 2,0001, which had been effected on a vessel called the " Hutchison" by the Forth Marine Insurance Company, of which the defendants were members. The ship was built in 1825, and pur chased by the plaintiff in 1838, when she was repaired at an expense of 1,500/ In 1841 she was el artered by Laurie, Hamilton, and Co., on a voyage to Sierra Leone, and then this insurance was effected. On the 10th o f March, 1841, the vessel sailed from Bristol, under the command of Captain White. In the Bay of Biscay the weatheriwas very bad, but the vessel arrived in the Mala couri river on the 15th of April, where it remained till the 9th of July, when she sailed for England. When off the Isle de Los there was very rough weather, but when off Cape Verd, the windlass, anchor, &c., were lost, and the vessel became leaky, and with some diffi culty reached the Gambia river. An agent of Lloyd's then surveyed the vessel, and it being found necessary that very considerable repairs must be done, and which could not be completed there, it was considered best to sell the vessel, which fetched 411/. The defendants contended that they were not liable for a total loss, but only a portion, and they paid 4001. into Court, and alleged that the question was, whether the vessel had sustained the damage by the perils of the sea or through unworthiness. Mr. Justice PATTESON having summed up. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; the amount of damage to be regulated by Mr. Powell, of London. Several common jury cases have been tried, but they have been chiefly brought under the Interpleader Act, to determine as to the proprietorship of goods and fur niture, and their interest was confined to the locality. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, OLD COURT: (Before Mr. Baron GURNEY and Mr. Justice WIGHTMA.N, John Donny('liff was indicted for cutting and wounding Sarah Powell. Mr. Gur wood prose cuted, and Mr. Prendergast defended. It appeared that on the day in question, the 23d of June, she met the prisoner, and went to a public-house with him, where they had some drink. They went afterwards to other public-houses, and both eventually got tipsy. They then went to prosecutrix's lodgings, where they quarrelled, and she aggravated him very much, upon which he struck her in the face, and then took a knife from his pocket and stabbed her in the breast. The prisoner was convicted, and sentenced to be impri soned fur four months. SENTENCES.—Faith Bowerman, aged 17, who was on Friday convicted of the manslaughter of her new born infant, was brought up and sentenced to be im prisoned and kept to hard labour for two years. Sarah Hyland, aged 22, convicted of concealing the birth of her new-born male child, was also brought up and received a like sentence. John Le Grand, aged 50, described as a merchant, was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling house of Robert Anwyl, and stealing 180 dozen of lace caps, capes, collars, &c., value 601., the property of John Byng Banks. It appeared that Mr. Banks occupied rooms as a warehouse in the dwelling of Mr. Anwyl, at 82, in Lawrence-lane, and that the property in question was deposited in the rooms used by Mr. Banks. The rob bery in question was committed on Christmas eve, and was first discovered by a man named Jones, in the employ of Mr. Anwyl, who went to the house to get his master's rooms ready for him. He found Mr. Banks's door had been broken open, and imme diately fetched the police, who discovered everything in confusion. On Mr. Banks being informed of the circumstance he repaired to the premises, and dis covered that the goods in question had been ab stracted. It was subsequently discovered that a Mr. Lafitte, a dealer in gloves and French goods, in Addle-street, was selling goods which resembled exactly those stolen from Mr. Banks. On inquiry, it turned out that the prisoner had sold 180 dozen of caps to Mr. Lafitte, which, on being examined, turned out to be the caps stolen. That person had given 271. 10s. to Le Grand for the caps. This being the case, the police received orders to apprehend the pri soner, which they did, and on searching his rooms discovered some collars, which had also been stolen from the warehouse of Mr. Banks. The RECORDER said he did not think there was sufficient evidence to convict the prisoner of having broken into the warehouse, although there was some thing against his character. At any rate it was doubtful whether he had come honestly by the goods. He was only one degree removed from the other per sons who had sold the goods. The jury immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) Louisa Saville, aged 17, and Mary Saville, 16, were convicted of stealing one shawl, value 95., the pro perty of Sophia Green, 26,111igh-street, Islington. The prisoner Louisa was sentenced, at her own re quest, to transportation for seven years, having no other means of procuring her livelihood except by prostitution ; but the Common-Sergeant, taking into consideration the youth of the prisoner, the sentence was afterwards respited, it being mentioned that an attempt would be made to get the prisoner into the douse of Occupation. The other prisoner was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. FELONY.— William Day, 32, was indicted for steal ing one tablecloth and two napkins, value 31., the property of Mary Ann M'Cragan, and one scarf and one gown-piece, value 41., the property of Clara Brown, in the dwelling-house of James M'Kean, Spurney - street, Leicester-square, on the evening of the 4th of Augus t. Witnesses were called, who detailed the facts of the case, and swore positively to the prisoner's identity. Mr. PEACOCK addressed the jury for the prisoner. Several witnesses were called to prove an alibi. Each underwent searching cross-examination. The jury, disbelieving their evidence (though the wit nesses swore that the prisoner spent the day in question in their company) found him Guilty. He was sentenced to transportation for seven years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MANSION-HO USE. William Laidler, who stated that he had been a seaman on board the ship John Campbell, of Liver pool, a vessel of 600 tons, in the palm oil trade, ap peared before Sir John Pirie, for the purpose of making a declaration relative to a mutiny on board that vessel, and a series of cruelties which, he stated, had been crowned with murder. Sir J. PIRIS, upon looking over the statement con tained in the declaration, said it was quite impossible for him to allow such a paper to be declared to be true before him, with the view to publication, until he should have made application to the owners of tke vessel on the subject. He was, he said, aware that many awful occurrences took place on the coast of Africa, but parties interested not unfrequently ex aggerated, and sometimes wholly misrepresented matters, and were themselves sometimes chargeable with mutiny, the very apprehension of being accused of which induced them to be the first to complain. The seaman solemnly pledged himself to the truth of the statement, which was to the following effect : 'l'he ship, John Campbell, left the Liverpool Docks on the 21st of October last, bound for Old Calabar, on the African coast, in the palm oil trade. Two weeks after the ship sailed the skipper (Robert Nelson) died of Madeira, when the supercargo assumed the com mand, in defiance of the senior officer on board, who should have asserted his right according to the usages of merchant ships in such cases. About a month after our skipper died the supercargo reduced our daily rations to a very serious extent. We had now gained our destination, working hard under an African sun unloading the ship, but finding ourselves oppressed with heat, and languishing for the want of food, we consulted, went aft, and respectfully complained to the proper officer, the first mate, that in consequence of the reduction of our rations we felt weak and unable to do our work. The officer referred us to the supercargo. 'We then addressed ourselves to that personage, who also refused our request, on the ground that the ship's provisions were short, and should be reserved for the home ward passage. We knew this to be an evasion of our just claims, and a falsehood, as the owner, Sir Joseph Sharp, at the time we signed the ship's articles, said we should have plenty to eat and be well used. After our humble petition was derided and denied, we re turned quietly to our duty, whilst the supercargo sent off to some of the ships in port, and having con versed with their skippers and supercargoes, several of them accompanied him on beard the John Campbell. We now believed our usual allowance of food would be granted to us, and being satisfied, we gave them three cheers as they passed over the side, being under no apprehensions. On this occasion the supercargo was told that the John Campbell crew did not recog nise him as master, but were ready to obey the senior ship's officer on board. The supercargo did not re turn on this day, but remained all night ashore, and next morning he sent for half the ship's crew, no rea son having been ass i gne d for this unusual order. This mysteriou s request having excited our sus picion, all hands refused to comply until the intent was known. Wh en t h e messenger returned, he said we might look to ourselves, as the war canoes were pre paring to come off. Our amazement may be con ceived; and there now ensued a scene of barbarity and cruelty that could not be exceeded by the most ignorant savages on the coast, and inhuman and blood thirsty as the natives sometimes are, they cannot be excelled by the butchery and bloody purpose of the orders issued in this deplorable instance. We saw about fifty armed war canoes put off, with from 18 to 20 natives in each, chanting their war-songs of blood ai.d slaughter, with the supercargo at their head. They soon drew up in a circle round the ship, and swept her deck with volleys of shot and poisoned ar rows. Being astonished at such an extraordinary at tack, and shuddering at the idea of instant death, we stood on the defensive with such weapons as came to hand, but becoming weak from wounds and loss of blood, the ship was easily boarded, and nine of us tied with cords, and thrown, covered with gore, into the canoes, and taken ashore and paraded through King Yambo's town, where every species of cruelty and insult was also inflicted upon us. The natives having exhausted their cruel energies, we were stripped, our clothes taken away, and ourselves put in chains, and suff ere d t o lie on the damp ground in separate huts, and fed on water and half a pound of bi scu it a d a y during 43 days, two of our number having died from this brutal treatment—the carpenter and Edward John son. the crew being now in chains, and the ship defenceless, the natives turned upon the supercargo, and plundered the vessel of her gear, and every move able article upon which they could lay their hands. This was but a slight portion of retributive justice upon the supercargo. The paper of the applicant, after some particular details of severities alleged to have ben practised by the supercargo, states, " On the 10th of May the French brig-of-war Alloinella arrived, when we were, thank God, all put on board of her, and landed at Gambia on the 11th of June, and lodged in gaol, but were instantly liberated as soon as the magistrates had examined the case, no crime being recorded." The statement concludes with the expression of determination to bring the supercargo to public justice upon the arrival of the other injured parties, and gives the names of the men who were ironed, viz., Alfred Benness, Samuel Gil lin, William Hall, Edward Cadogan, Edward John son, Joseph King, William Laidler, and' the carpen ter; and the names of those stated by the a:iplicant to have been murdered, viz., Edward Johnson and the carpenter. The statement, which is dated, " Gambia, Ist July, 1844," is signed William Laidler and William Hall. Sir JOHN PIRIE—How do you say these men were murdered ?—They were poisoned in the but ; some of the poison was found, and pronounced by the me dical men to bc., destructive of life. Sir JOHN PIRIE —Have you brought any certifi cate or paper with you relative to the case ?—No. William Hall and I are the only men here ; all the rest are scattered about. Sir JOHN PIRIE—Is the ship in which you were employed arrived yet ?—I do not know. We are only just arrived. We were brought from Gambia in the Rowena schooner ; Sir Thomas Ingram, the Go vernor, sent us over to England. The applicant then showed one of the poisoned arrows, which he said had been sent against the vessel from the armed canoes. Sir JOHN PIRIE—WeII, I shall write to the owner, Sir Joseph Sharp, at Liverpool, immediately, upon the subject. It is scarcely possible that such things could have happened without the owners having, by this time, received some intimation of it. The applicant most solemnly declared that every word he had written was perfectly true, and that as many of the crew as survived would testify to the accuracy of it. Sir JouN PIRIB then sent the seamen to a place of refuge, and wrote to the owner of the vessel, alludi, , g to the matters detailed, and requesting information on the subject. GUILDHALL. Richard Evans, an ostler, residing in Catharine Wheel-yard, New Brentford, was charged with hav ing exposed a glandered horse in Smithfield market on Friday afternoon. City police-constable Race, who discovered the beast at the entrance of the market, stated, that on telling the prisoner that the horse was glandered, he replied that it ought not to be so, as he had just bought it for 4/. 15s. at Dixon's Repository, and did not bring it into the market for sale. Witness went accordingly to ascertain the truth of his story, and ascertained that he had spoken correctly. Alderman CLIALLIS—And pray do they intend to give this poor man's money back that he gave fur the diseased beast? Race—l cannot tell, Sir; they said that the horse was quite sonnd when they sold it, and, therefore, they could not put tip with the loss. Alderman CHALLIS—Then I think it is a very dis graceful proceeding. It's evident that the prisoner did not know the animal was glandered, or he would not have purchased it, and he must, therefore, be dis charged. Prisoner—Then pray, Sir, cannot I have the money or horse ? Alderman CIIALLIS—The beast I shall order to be destroyed, as it is not fit to be allowed to go at large ; and as for the money, why I am afraid you must seek the assistance of a civil court to recover. It is very certain that you have been imposed upon, and I am very sorry for you. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John Atkins, a well-known thief, was charged with having, in company with a number of other thieves, assaulted police• constable Crowning, C 158, and Mr. J. Gibbons, a gentleman well known for his adroit ness in the detection and apprehension of pickpockets. Mr. Gibbons said about five o'clock on Friday he saw two thieves, one of whom put his hand into a lady's pocket, and apparently obtained a booty. The two men then went into the Coach and Horses, in St. Martin's-lane, and Mr. Gibbons waited until he saw a policeman. The police-constable C 158 came up, and he told him what he had seen. The constable went into the house, and, after great trouble and risk, succeeded in getting the thief into the street. While taking him towards the Vine-street station-house, through St. Martin's-court, the constable was sur rounded by a gang of thieves, who knocked him down, and shamefully ill-treated him. The prisoner, who was handcuffed, was rescued and got off. Wit ness was struck by Atkins, who was one of the fore most in the attack on the constable. The result was that Atkins was secured and lodged in the station house. Mr. HARDWICK sent Atkins to the tread•mill for one month for the assault on the constable, and fur ther inflicted the fine of 51., or two months' imprison ment, for the assault on Mr. Gibbons. QUEEN-SQUARE. George - Walker, the driver of the hackney cab 555, and William Worley, the driver of 877, were charged on a summons with wanton and furious driving, whereby the safety of the public was en dangered. The case was proved by a police-constable of the B division, named Friendship. He stated that at half-past twelve on the forenoon of the 29th ult. he was on duty in Knightsbridge, and saw the two de fendants driving at a furious rate from the direction of Kensington. Both horses were galloping, and the drivers were whipping them at the time. The cab 555 was driven up against the other, and at that mo ment 877 caught some projection, and defendant Worley was thrown off the driving-box with great violence. The other cab was then driven off at the same speed as before, and the policeman followed on another vehicle, but was unable to overtake it. Stevens, It waterman, who had seen part of the oc currence, confirmed the constable's statement. It was here represented to the magistrate that the two drivers had been fined 40s. each at another police court, at the instance of one of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for ill-treating the horses on this occasion. The men, in defence, expressed their regret, and said that they had already undergone punishment for this offence. Walker said he was only just out of prison. _ Mr. BURRELL said that this was a distinct charge. It was most fortunate that life had not been sacrificed by defendants' conduct. The public safety must be protected, and he should, therefore, commit defendants for two months each. LAMBETH- S 7 PEET. Thomas Charlton Cowley was brought up before the Hon. C. Norton, on his remand, for levying libe ral contributions, in the shape of board, lodging, and necessaries, on several tavern-keepers at the East-end Mrs. Howard, landlady of the Red Lion, Penning ton-street, London Docks, stated that he had not only introduced himself, but one of his friends, to her pub lic-house, and, by his plausible story and address, had got in her debt to the amount of 8/. The parties now said they would not be at the trouble to prosecute, and would not press the case. The prisoner still persisted in saying that he was one of the most wealthy landed proprietors at Port Lincoln, as Judge Cooper well knew and could prove, and would give a mortgage on his estate to Mrs. Howard, or any other of his prosecutors. As none of the parties pressed the case, the prisoner was discharged. He assured the magistrate that the estate was well able to pay, and he would import some of the 200 bullocks he had upon it, for the purpose of satisfying the complaints. ___ UNION-HALL. A youth named Hornblow was brought up for making a most determined attempt to drown himself in the Surrey Canal. It appeared that the defendant had been walking with a young female, and in the course of their walk they quarrelled, when he quitted her arm, and, rush ing towards the Surrey Canal, jumped into the water. He immediately disappeared, when a young man living on the banks of the canal witnessing the act, and seeing him rise to the surface, plunged in after him, and a struggle ensued, during which the drown ing man pulled him under, and it was with the utmost difficulty witness at length succeeded in saving their lives. The defendant was quite insensible when got out of the water, and was obliged to be conveyed to the workhouse, where the usual remedies for resusci tation being adopted, he was at length brought to life. Mr. COTTINGHAM said that the intrepidity displayed by the young man who saved the defendant was very much to be commended, and that he deserved a re ward from the Humane Society for his activity ; that it was just such a case as a society established for rewarding meritorious persons for saving the lives of persons from drowni ng , s h ou ld con f er some substantial mark of its favour on so deserving a person. The magistrate then ordered the defendant's father to enter into his recognisance for his son's future good beha viour. William Windsor, well known to the police, and previously convicted of felony, was charged with steal ing a purse, containing some silver, from Mrs. Pear son, an actress of the Surrey Theatre. The complainant stated that she was walking along the London-road about five o'clock in the afternoon ; when she got to the corner of Garden -row she was addressed by a young man, who asked her if she had lost anything. She immediately put her hand into her pocket, and found that her purse, containing some silver, was gone, and the young man said he saw the person who robbed her, and who at the time was running with great swiftness down the London-road. Henry Hughes, servant to Mr. Folk4rd, the pawn broker, of the London-road, stated that he was ing at his employer's door at the time mentioned saw the complainant closely followed by the pit and three other young fellows. When the 'all to the corner of Garden-row, he observed the pan. step out in front of his companions, and with quickness and dexterity thrust his hand into the's plainant's pocket, from which he instantly witb it, and then placing his hand in his own pocke t i d away, followed by his associates. The fact was known to a policeman, who succeeded in taking prisoner into custody. The policeman stated that the prisoner belongedi a very daring gang of pickpockets who in_ febt London-road and the vicinity of the Surrey and that he had on a former occasion been cOO% of felony, and had only recently been liberated gaol. COTTINGHAM said that he should comm prisoner at once to the Old Bailey, and he gave n tions that the record of his former c onv iction siS, be made known to the judge, in order th a t such ti,u' gerous character might be sent out of the countit THAMES POLICE. On Saturday Mr. James Donovan, proprietor Windmill, Robert-street, Limehouse, a ppear 4 answer a summons, taken out at the i n stance of Spector May, for having his house open for the ow e beer on the morning of Sunday, the 18th inst. ,A Police-constable 129 K stated th a t at 1 181 _,5i one o'clock on the morning named i n the summon saw the door of the Windmill opened, and five let out. He attempted to go in but the la prevented him. Witness, however, contrived t° f m, and searched the house by himself. He first l a man asleep in the tap-room, and then procee the parlour, upon which the landlord said he boo business to enter, as there was no persons theref ot private friends. Ile, however, w e n t i n , a nd 011 _, eit five men, two of whom were smoking, and one Pi t o There was no liquor upon the table, but witness,. y a female concealing two tumblers, on e of wide' found contained gin and water. Mr. BALLANTINH—There is not a tittle of evi cte d here to prove the sale of beer for which the sum, ll ; has been taken out. Had it b een f or the S l ' spirits the case would have been otherwise, but' 111 now dismiss it. WANDSWORTH. h s ic Mr. Adam Leffler, the emi nen t vocalist, Nv--° be in Portland- place, Clapham-road, wa s b ro ught vs" , Mr. Clive, charged with being drunk an d riotou s ) ! the Clapham-road, and also with assaulting A Edward Symons. Astl Police-constable John May, 281 IT, stated .— i , of ) that (Saturday) morning, about half-p as t two the defendant came home to his residence in Sy se terrace, Portland-place. In a f ew m inutes 4 ;,i wards Mrs. Leffler ran out, pursued by the deferTo Witness ran up to them, and Mrs. Leffler clam protection, and wished her husband removed frtall Witness took defendant back to his r es idence, 3 0 remained in doors some time. He afterwards out and went to a neighbour's house, where hi s d t y had taken shelter. He knocked at th e door, an 00 people in the house desired witness to take t± away, which he did, and again pe rsua d e d bias J into his own house. Witness subsequently went 5 1. his beat, and, in the interval, the d e f en d an t vire,e j lady's house, broke open the fro n t d oor , a nd 0 ' ci ‘ on the landing of the stairs, when witness was e o in, and he took defendant into custody. -lm I 1 fendant had been drinking freely. 9 CA Mr. CLIVE—Did his wife make no charge. 0 1 stable—No, Sir; she only wished him to h e away. ..,110 A gentleman her stepped f o r war d, an d ash - 100 Mrs. Leffler was in attendance, and w ished te her husband bound over to keep the peace. ro d Mrs. Leffler, who was weeping, was then h, bel , forward and sworn. She stat e d th a t s h e had of married to the defendant twel v e y ears . 5,,„ 1/ sorry to be compelled to take such a course , c o! was necessary for her safety that she should" protection from her husband's violence. That, ati l ing lie had returned home between two an° of o'clock, after drinking freely, and took out a ° bo ld; her. The first thing he did after entering 0 1 51 was to kick her sister and herself. Wh en bet ti, the knife, complainant ran out of th e h ou se, ae $ O, fendant struck her as she was leaving the housei t O said she should never enter it a ga i n . Defenda e 4 o l frequently taken a razor in the d ea d o f th e nige p a i g said he would murder her. H e h a d pu t his hard her throat, and threatened to choke her.' Mr. CLIVE—What is your h us b an d? C°l n P 9 ant—He is a singer. II Mr. CLIVE—What hav e y ou t o say in aninfl, this charge? Defendant—l deny it in tot(); l' o e to having used any serious threats, she is lah e t i j ot under a great mistake; and it i s no t t r ue that g tempted to make use of either a razor o r a kin yr, night. I was certainly very much excited. tif home in the morning in an angry m oo d, so! i caused me to drink freely of br an d y an d wad/ night. I regret, exceedingly regret, that this_,'? sure should have taken pl ace; b ut, as it has ejt) far, I may as well state the origin of this disag'il' affair. I received a note from some young laait 9 o questing me to get them orders for the theatre..J wife chose to put an imm ora l cons t ruc ti o n on Do nocent an affair, and applied epithets to the that they were wholly undeserving of. Lit. when she was out, I went after her, not to loj a 'f f but to bring her back. I sent my sister and 11 1 ' vant after her, but she would not return h°7,4,0 8 afterwards went to the house of Mr. Le Mercier, be e I knew she was concealed, but when I got in't, house I was given in charge. I ought to ha ve bli e at the theatre to-night t o a pp ear b e f ore thepst i but I suppose I shall have to relinquish my enga to t ° l f Mr. CLIVE—EIad the c h arge b een me rely' your running out of the house after your , )0 4 should not have considered it of much mo meot' io , V accompanied as it is by acts o f repea t e d vlolet your wife, I must take cognisance of it. Per Complainant—l cannot p u t u p w ith it sni is. Even before his children his con d uc t i s disgrsc! og for Defendant—You must ha ve a mo th er ly feellor la your children to bring me here and e ndeaf ruin me. ia 54 Mr. CLIME--You must find two securitieo_c ! O r each, to answer for your g oo d con d uc t tower wife for the next three months. As the defendant wa s b e i ng remove d f ro m t.- - pd; Mr. Symons stepped for war d, an d sa id charge of assault to prefer against him. He felt ovJ self bound to persevere in the charge, if it to secure peace to the neighbourhood. Mr. Nicholls, the second clerk, said the e 5, ' nisances the defendant h a d en t ere d i n t o we re ge., and therefore ho would h ave t o b e o f goo d be all persons. 'lftrge4 Mr. Leffler—This gentleman, who now cbh as a meddling fellow, interferes in ui rye' affairs, and had the impudence last night to to by the collar ; consequently I struck him. a tr., Another gentleman n ow came f orwar d, s li d old Mr. Leffler had cut his sister-in-law's h eB during the quarrel that morning. alt er ! Mr. CmvE—l have no c h arge o f th a t nature; on the police-sheet, and th e consta bl e h a s Tr ... ," 07, word about it. Was h e p resen t ? C ons t a ble ~‘ j not present, Sir; a n d no comp l a i nt the la" made to me. ble The gentleman said several persons saw t he iff stream down the lady' s nec k an d s h ou ld e rs. frie r' Mr. Leffler—Neighbours, I suppose ; rot neighbours. a tliet to Mr. CLIVE—I shall no t procee d with 'tied charge now. Th e d e f en d ant h as to fi n d sur e roe , 3 keep the peace towards his wife, and, di s e y other persons. Let thi s case b e , decided Pol o then, if any other p ar ty w ill persevere 10 reotaif charge, they mu s t a p p l y f or a warran t o r %Oa' against the defendant. He will remain 11) re # until he procures bail. ll Willi The defendant, not b e i ng prov id e d with ti re' moved in custody. he rep In the course of half an hour a person, in syclseYw sented himself as the landlord of the houses in ae yeral 0 1 terrace, complained to the magistrate tha t - aenc e ce his tenants were giving him notice in conse4 pe' l af the disturbances Mr. Leffler created. -I ' bt it II took no notice of what he did, but he thoug to their duty to do so. ter Prif Mr. CLIVE—The p o li ce - mus t no t e houses because a man and his wife q uarrel; tar bs o o Mr. Symons here observed that the 1 2 15 o ne t took place in the str ee t ; f or i ns t anc e, ha d 7,0 morning lasted two hours. Th e d e fendant he via" they were all cats and cowards, an d that settle his (Mr. Symons's) account. de f en der .i.tat isP Mr. Cravn—l have already Laid the _, her un its held to bail, and now, if you wish to furs' ago' 1 him, you must exhibit articles of the p eace n ulic e 'bt him at the sessi ons . With respect to theiirco °d oe want to point out thi s f ac t t o you pe • the F' ° d O OOl4 to be extremely cau ti ous i n i n t er fering 1 1 a bre!:j disputes. Ido not say they should rerTj er i n g, 4 . 01 . of the peace to take place without inteli + t h e nl you know you have your remedy Wit's" misconuct. After d some further conversation the partiesleft court. BIRTHS. On the 19th inst., at La Billarderie, nea r Cognsc, the lady of Frederic Hennessy, Esq., of a son. „ leo , Vf" O engineer, nthel9t of a daughter.hinst.,atlsimburgh the wife of G . civil u" MARRIED. On the 6th inst., at Frankfort-on -the-Maine, 191 Mr. Bolton, the Rev. W. F. Lanfear , British Ca_gPligte Wieshr.den, to Agnes, youngest daughter of tho Murray, Esq , of Murraythwait, Dumfriesbire. DIED. V s4 ' J. On the 23d inst., at Blackheath-park , James Nell; lat e On the 23d inst., at Kensington, K itt y , relict of t Ferard, Esq., of Englefield-green, Surrey. London: Printed and Published by MIJIIDO 1°74.0. No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office,„apty Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e Alichllesex, Monday, Augwit 26 1 1844. C ~~ ~p L~