The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-24 00:00:00

SLAVERY. The proceedings of the Glasgow Emancipation Society, which held its annual meeting on the Ist of August, bring out one or two points of considerable interest. We notice with some surprise that, after the strong !measure taken by this Society in relation to the re ception by the deputation of the Free Church in the United States of slaveholder's money, the Committee should have selected one of this very deputation, whose conduct they so justly (as we think) disap proved (the Rev. Dr. Burns, of Paisley), to move the adoption of their report. They pave the way for his acceptance of this post, however, by a modification of their report on the one hand, and by giving him free dom of speech on the other ; so that we have at length a public defence, by a member of the deputation, of the course which was pursued. That portion of Dr. Burns's address which related to this subject we have given entire, and our read e r s w ill b e a bl e to estimate its worth. For ourselves, we remark principally the Doctor's acknowledgment that neither himself nor his companion, Dr. Cunninghame, was prepared for so complete an identification of the churches with slavery as ip some instances they found ; and that, if the Free Church were to send another deputation, they might find it necessary to pursue a different course. It ap pears that a letter has been written by the Rev. Henry, as Moderator of the Assembly of the Free Church, intimating that the matter had been found surrounded with difficulties, and that it had been referred to a Committee. We trust that the Committee will act a wise and salutary part. At the same meeting the fact transpired to the pub lic that, on board one of the vessels of the British and North American Mail Steam Packet Company, in July last, a gentleman of colour was excluded from the use of the saloon during the voyage, having paid the full fare. It is certainly no enviable notoriety that the Acadia and Captain Judkins have obtained for themselves, by being the first to introduce into English ships this piece of American insolence and inhumanity. We are glad to find that a remon strance, signed by twenty-one saloon passengers on board the Acadia, has been sent to the Directors of the Company ; and we trust they will have good sense and good feeling enough to put an immediate step to so un-English, un-christian, and revolting a practice. A third point of much interest in the meeting we are referring to, was the reference made by Mr. George Thompson to the law for the abolition of slavery in British India. He said he was not aware that any slaves had actually acquired their freedom under that law, and that measures ought to be taken by abolition societies to induce the Government to adopt measures for making it more fully known. We entirely sympathise with Mr. Thompson's feelings on this subject. The Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, in their deep anxiety in rela tion to it, have, on two occasions, sent out letters of inquiry to their correspondents in India, soliciting information ; and, from intelligence they have re ceived, they have reason to fear that the fact is, as Mr. Thompson states it. It is clearly the duty of the Goverment, to cause this important law to be translated into the vernacular languages of India, and to be widely diffused among the population. And, if some measures of this kind be not promptly and effectually taken, it will be the duty of Anti- , slavery Societies to make representations by which 1 attention may be drawn to the subject. The British people can never be satisfied that a law which they hailed with so much delight should remain a dead letter. —Anti-slavery Reporter. bADVERTISEMENT.] TILE CURE OF ISEASES THE ONLY REMEDY FOR QUACKERY. Let doctors treat diseases as they ought to be treated, they will then cure their patients, and thus put an e n d to all quackery. Medicine is a simple science, If which sho u ld , and can, be understood by all persons. Nature's laws are opposed (which it is submitted they are, under the organic theory of the faculty) all the learning and research in the world will not enable doctors to cure diseases. So long as poisons * are used as medicines, and u se l ess v i s i ts made upon the sick, the science Of medicine will not cease from being (what it r ought never t o h ave de scended to), viz., a trade! ~ . Issued by the British College of Heath, New-road, London, for and on behalf of the body of Hy ge i sta • Poisons have been introduced as medici nes , in order that the public should not attempt to c ure t h eir own diseases. GORDON CASTLE.—The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are at present entertaining a large circle o f friends at this magnificent seat, where his Grace has just arrived from his shooting quarters. The following are among those who aro partaking of his Grace's hos pitality. The Earl o f U x b r id ge a nd the Ladies Con stance and Eleonora Paget, the Earl of March, Lord and Lady Templemore, Colonel Rotten, Mr. Cox, Mr. Roby, Mr. Russell, Mr. Ricardo, &c. The family circle includes the Ladies Caroline, Augusta. and Cecelia Gordon Lennox, and Lords George, Henry, and Alex ender Lennox. Provost and Magistrates," by Mr. John Richardson, W.S.—and " The City Members," by Mr. Macfarlan. The company broke up shortly after eight o'clock. THE BANQUET. The banquet in the evening took place in the large Waterloo-room, which was by eight o'clock com pletely filled. Mr. Hume did not arrive till after the proceedings were begun, having been detain e d a t the dinne r . M r . D un l op, of Brockloch, was, on the motion of Dr. Purdie, called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN referred to the proceedings of the day, and congratulated the meeting, that in this city of palaces and monuments, they had now laid the foundation of one monument, on whose pedestal would be inscribed the motto of liberty, to mark the progress which the principles of freedom were acquiring as time went on. The act of justice which had been that day done to the memory of these early reformers showed unequivocally the determination of the present race of re formers not to allow the expression of their politi cal opinions to be put down by legal flaws and forms, and to maintain and enforce with boldness the principles held by the martyrs of the last century.— (Cheers.) The Chairman went over some of the more marked and expressive sentiments and prophetic enunciations of the political martyrs—sentiments which, so far from being the evidence of a criminal disobedience to the law, were now believed in almost universally by the people of this country. Posterity, in fact, had given its verdict in favour of these princi ples, and they would maintain and defend these prin ciples even if another Braxfield should arise; although he felt assured that Scotland would never again be subject to the dictation of such a c h arac t er. —(C heers.) The Rev. W. MARSHALL proposed the first senti ment—" The people, the sole element of national greatness, and the only legitimate source of political power." The CHAIRMAN then introduced Mr. Hume, as the long-tried and persevering champion of economy and popular rights. Mr. HUME was received with loud and continued expressions of applause, and after briefly addressing the meeting, proposed, as a sentiment, " Honour to the memory of Muir, Palmer, Gerrald, Skirving, Margarot, &c., and their compatriots. Mr. SKIRVING, of Kirkaldy, (the son of one of the martyrs) then addressed the meeting, whom he thanked for the interest they had shown in the cause of the reform struggle of 1793 and 1794, and for their kind expressions towards those who had suffered in connexion with it. Upwards of fifty years have now elapsed since the reformers in this country associated under the name of the " Friends of the People"—and if we examine attentively the principles of these early reformers, and take into view the history of reform since these societies were suppressed by an arbitrary power, we shall find that these associations, claiming as the citizens of a free country individual voice in the choice of their representatives—and the annual exercise of that right showed that they formed just ideas of representations, as that alone by which their country could enjey that political regeneration of which they found her so much in need. And what is the reason that we at this day, notwithstanding the strength of the reformers ranks, appear so far from obtaining a free and full representation simply be cause as a body we have no fixed principle respecting the extent to which the principle of representaticin ought to be applied in order to secure effectually the liberty of the subject on this point. At the period of which I am now speaking I was a young man, indeed a mere boy, but I have a (distinct recollection of many of those who distinge:ished themselves in the cause of reform. And it has often struck me, in taking a view of the characters of the leaders of that move ment, that perhaps on no occasion was there ever such a number of men eminent alike for their moral and religious worth, united for the attain ment of a popular right, all of them, with few excep tions, being men who enjoyed the confidence of their fel low-citizens, being selected by them to manage their affairs both of a religious and civil description. And with regard to those whom you have this day pro nounced worthy to have their deeds commemorated by a public monument, I would just remark, that their political career affords the most incontestible proofs of the purity of their motives, disinterested patriotism, and unfeig ne d l ove of liberty. May th e generous ef forts of the reformers of the present day to perpetuate their tense of their worth, prove a stimulus to the pa triot, and a terror to the oppressor.—(Cheers.) The Rev. Dr. RITCHIE spoke at some length to the - next sentiment, " Success to the principles for which the martyrs suffered," anti was followed by Mr. Somers and Mr. C. G. Scott. The Rev. P. BREWSTER, is a long speech, moved a rote of thanks to Mr. Hume, and the other projectors and contributors to the monument. A vote of thanks having been moved to the Chair. man, the MeMing separated at half-past eleven o'clock wanting, of the absolute necessity that existed for such a measure; the virulence and unchristian vindic tiveness displayed by these writers clearly evincing what deglee of forbearance might be expected by the most honourably disposed debtors at their hands. For the obstruction it has met with in other quarters it would be more difficult to account, if one of its ob jects had not been to protect the unfortunate insolvent from the rapacity of a class of persons who are often the chief cause of his inability to meet his engage ments ; and whose rapacity is frequently the only ob stacle to his release from prison, when the obduracy of his creditor has been finally overcome. In the teeth of the opinion of Lord Brougham, that the attestation of the affidavit of the insolvent need not cost him more than half-a-crown, the Commissioners of the Bank ruptcy Court, although not entirely agreed as to the extent in which the unhappy debtor shall be mulcted, are sufficiently of accord as to the im possibility of his dispensing with the services of an " attorney-at-law ;" and whilst some of these func tionaries are content that the amount of which he is to be thus denuded shall be 21., others have decided that it ought to be 31. It was naturally enough to be expected that a measure calculated to discourage the rapacity of the lower class of attorneys, and diminish the necessity for the interference, as often as heretofore, of even the more respectable part of the profession, would meet with every possi ble opposition from those whose profits it is cal culated to abridge. Hitherto, in a large majority , of the instances in which a debtor has been incarce rated for less than 201., the law costs have formed the larger portion of their respective debts. Lord Brougham's Bill diminishes the temptation of either the -creditor or his lawyer to heap cruel and fruitless expense upon the debtor, since he can no longer hold over him in terrorem the prospect of imprisonment on his account, whilst it affords the creditor ampler and more accessible means of punishing any fraudulent or dishonest conduct on the part of the debtor. Lord Brougham assures us that no " attorney-at-law" is required to assist an insolvent in his application to the Bank ruptcy Court, and that the Commissioners have no power whatever to require such a person to witness each sheet of the petition and schedule, in the face of the schedule to the Act, which requires the signature " but once, and the attestation, not of an attorney-at law, but merely of an attorney or agent." The Com missioners refer, it seems, to the statutes of the 5 and 6 Victoria, c. 116, and the 7 and 8 Victoria; as their authority for altogether resisting his ,Lord ' ship's suggestion, and quote the clause that " each sheet of such petition and schedule shall be signed by the petitioner, in the presence of and attested by his attorney." We do not understand in what manner this provision can be said to controvert his Lordship's opinion. He seems, indeed, to have been perfectly aware of its existence, and the language in which it is couched is precisely that on which his suggestion appears to have been founded. Perhaps his Lordship's re• marks on the irregular attendance of Commis sioners, coupled with a fellow feeling for the pro fession of the law, and an impatience of the cur tailment of its profits, may have had some influ ence in the matter. For the present, however, we must confess that we prefer Lord Brougham's definition of the relative meaning of the words "at torney" and " attorney-at-law," to that of the Commissioners', and we cannot but continue to regard it as one of the most important features of his Bill that the debtor may obtain his li berty without being subjected to the extortions of the lower classes of attorneys-at-law. Such a proposal could not fail to excite a strong opposition on the part of a large and singularly active body of persons. Their objections aro, however, entitled to even less credit than those of the traders and shop keepers who have lately expectorated, through the columns of the Times, so much bile upon the subjec BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, AUGUST 23.—A few brands of middling and fine Antiguas have constituted chief attraction in the market this week. These have brought from 60s. to 685., being very full prices ; but the low and middling descrip tions of raw sugar continue neglected, and former rates are with difficulty supported ; the transactions of the week do not exceed three hundred casks. Bengal and Mauritius are quite neglected. Rum has been in good demand, and nearly every puncheon offering has been taken by the trade at improved rates.—Bristol Mercury. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH.—The Queen, 110, Captain Martin, is progressing very rapidly with her equipment, and will go out of the harbour to Spithead on the first of next month. She has got her top-gallant masts pointed and all her running gear rove, and most of her stores on board. The Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart, still remains at her anchorage at Spithead. Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour is at Portsmouth, and has his flag flying on board of her. The delay in sending this vessel to sea has given rise to numerous speculative reports, and among others that it is in contemplation to change her destination from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. The fact is, she is only waiting the termination of the nego tiation between the British and French Governments re specting the Otaheite affair, it being deemed advisable that the Gallant Admiral should leave the country with something like definitive instructions as to the course he is to pursue when he ass umes th e comman d i n the Pacific. The Collingwood is in most excellent order, and does credit to the service. The Victoria and Albert, royal steam yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, has not returned from her cruise, but is expected this afternoon. She left on Tues day afternoon, and proceeded to the westward, and has been kept at sea during the week, in order fully to test her new tubular boilers, and to ascertain the advantages of her various internal improvements since last season, especially if the unpleasant effluvia arising from the bilge water has been done away with by the remedies that have been applied for its suppression. The yacht is to be got ready immediately for the use of ber Majesty, who it is understood will embark the second week in September. The experimental brigs are not yet commissioned, and the delay has caused considerable surprise in the nautical world, for they have been all ready, with top-gallant masts on end, for some time. It has been alleged that the reason why they have not been commissioned is because the Lords of the Admiralty have it in contem plation to commission some larger vessels, and that the hands will be required for them. We do not know how true this may be, but it is very evident that the cause of delay in commissioning these brigs is only of recent date, and therefore it is not unreasonable to suppose that the Admiralty may be waiting the turn of events before they man these vessels. Every necessary preparation is being made at the various dockyards to meet any sudden emergency. A number of able seamen are being entered at each yard as riggers. This is a very excellent precaution on the part of the Admiralty, for should the exigencies of the service require a; number of line-of-battle ships to be brought forward at a short notice, these are the men whose services will most be wanted. The rigging of the advance ships is all ready to throw over their masts, and by the aid of these men the vessels can be full• rigged and all ataunt while the regular hands are entering. It is rumoured that the Government has acceded to Captain Warner's proposition, and will moor a line-of battle ship off the Goodwin Sands for him to destroy, as he alleges he will do, with his projectile, at a distance of five miles. One of the old hulks in the Medway, that are unfit for further service, will be selected for the ex periment. She will be jury rigged and towed out by a steamer to the appointed place. In order to remove the slightest shadow of doubt respecting all being fair and above board in the forthcoming experiment, Captain Warner has undertaken to conduct it in the presence of four distinguished officers whom he has selected, and who necessarily, by being on board the same vessel with him self, will have an opportunity of witnessing and bearing testimony to the efficacy or the failure of the plan. On the other hand, the Government will take care that Captain Warner shall have no communication with the vessel that is to be destroyed previously to the ex periment. IER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO IRELAND.—We learn from a quarter on which we place reliance—without, however, undertaking to vouch for the fact—that the long-looked-for visit of her Majesty to Ireland will cer tainly take place during the present autumn. Our inform ant states that the first week in October is actually named for this gratifying excursion. We are also assured that, in the event of the judgment against O'Connell and the other State prisoners being affirmed by the House of Lords, an act of Royal grace in their favour is contem plated, and that the remaining term of their imprison ment will be remitted, Such an act would be as ap propriate to the occasion as it woald be conciliatory in its influence upon the Irish people, and would cer tainly conduce to the public tranquillity. We under stand that, should the weather prove favourable, her Majesty is desirous of taking a short aquatic excursion in the early part of September. The arrival of the King of the French is expected about the 17th, and will extend to a week or ten days ; during which every means of welcoming and entertaining his Majesty, on a scale suited to his dignity, and the magnificence and state of our beloved Sovereign, w ill b e em pl o y e d. On the departure of the French King, the preparations for the royal visit to Ireland will commence. The royal yacht has been ordered to be in immediate readiness. — Evening Paper. EXPERIMENTS IN TIIII WOOLWICH MARSHES. — Major-General James Webber Smith, C. 8., Director- General of .Artillery, Colonel Peterson, Colonel Lacy, Royal Artillery, Colonel Sir George Hoste, C. 8., Royal Engineers, Lieutenant-Colonel Densey, C.B.,Lieutenant- Colonel Dundas, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmer, As sistant Director-General of Artillery, Lieut.-Colonel Colquhoun, Major Hardinge, K.H., Captain and Ad- MARKET INTELLIGENCE. jutant Mitchell, Royal Artillery, Brigade Major Saud (From the London New P r ice C urren t o f A ug. 23. ) ham, Captain Stotherd, Captain Howorth, and Captain Lloyd, Royal Engineers, assembled in the Marshes, at SUGAR.—The market has presented a firmer appear ance for all descriptions of Sugar subject to the 24s duty half-past one o'clock, P.M., yesterday, to witness expe and 5 per cent this week. To-day there was no public riments with four 24-pounder guns, placed at 600 yards distance . from target, andrecoiling a platform, the sale of Colonial Sugar of any sort. For Westlndia pre- a vious rates were sustained, and a fair demand existed ; invention of Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson, of the Royal bright yellow sorts are still the most in request. The Engineers. Ten rounds were fired from each gun, and total purchases for the week are 1,750 hhds and trcs, the out as of 40 shots fi re d, exact l y 30 entered the target, which W market closing with a firm appearance. knocked d own i n the last round of the second gun REFINED.—There has been a much better demand for four . guns, and it is intended to fire on the right. Previous to the commencement of the refined goods for home consumption this week, the re• liners are not so eager to sell, and large parcels have been Practice 100 119 t s. had . been piled in rear of each of the the whole 40 rounds disposed of, but at no improvement in prices. Brown Principle on which the platform . . to_ : test . the strength and efficacy of the platform. The Lumps have been selling at 72s 6d to 735, Standard is constructed is very i Lumps 73s 6d to 745, Tittlers 73s to 80s, Ham- simple, consisting merely of eight pieces of timber, 3f to 73s cwt burgh Loaves 73s ed to 81s, double ditto 82 s inches by 41 inches thick, and 9 feet long, joined together to 925, and wet Lumps 70sinto four sleepers 15 feet long, over which is placed crosswise 36 pieces of similar dimensions, held together To-day several parcels of refined goods were per taken -by the home trade; brown . Lumps at 73s to 73s 6d, and b y wooden pegs about three quarters of an inch in dia standard 74s to 74s 6d per cwt. For crushed Sugar meter, and having only the two outer pieces attached by made under bond there continues to be a good demand, b olts to the sleepers. At the conclusion of the practice l platforms was taken to pieces, and the cwt. Of Loaves lar ge p ar c e l s have been disposed of per atpegs and it is difficult to purchase first sort under 27s 6d to - day one of t wooden were found to have held all the pieces per rather higher rates. fectly together without any of the pegs being in the least RlCE—Bengal has met with less attention this week. injured or strained out of their original position, and the Importers are more inclined to realise, and have sub- sleepers retained their position without the slightest ap in itted to a reduction on previous rates of 3d per cwt ; e of havingbeen p i earanc displaced by the weight of the by private contract, the operations are upon a small large guns and carriages during the recoil. Before scale, middling white at lOs 6d to I ls, good middling leaving the marshes Mr. Hale exhibited specimens of his bold lls to lls 6d, good Its 6d, sea-damaged 5s to rockets in the presence of several members of the Select I Is, and Indigo damaged I Is. The market has become Committee. Nine of the rockets were fired at 900 yards quiet for Foreign East India Rice, and at a public sale range, and ten at 1,100 3'ards range from wooden tubes. Madras declined 3d t o 6d p e r cw t ; low to good yell ow Some of th em went as far as the butt, and others fell selling at 8s to 8s Gd, and small pile of middling white considerably short of that distance, and it did not appear lOs 6d per cwt. Carolina at 21s to 265, and Patna that a straight line could be depended upon. One other at 14s to 18s per cwt. rocket on a diffiaent principle was fired, and it pro- COCHINEAL has brought full rates, and a fair bust- 44 4 ceeded, af ter escap i ng from the tu b e , a distance of about ness has been transacted by private contract. None 150 yards, a t an angle of a b out 45 d egre es, and entered has been offered at auction, but 40 serons Honduras are the ground o f a ra i sed b ank to i m i tate the walls of a fortification, again s t w hi c h th e balls used in ricochet declared for Tuesday. COFFEE.—With West India Coffee the market has practice are directed. The practice during the experi been better supplied this week, still the trade have pur- ments was carri e d on un d er th e c ommand of Captain chased sparingly, and the limited business transacted has Garstin, with Li eutenants Th omas an d Turner, Royal been at a reduction on former rates of 2s per cwt. This Horse Artill er y, an d Li eutenants B ar ker and Strang e , afternoon Rio partly sold at 30s fur ord rather mixed, and five non-commissioned officers, 46 gunners and dris ers, x.eidia„ and three bugler s . I and 28s for sea damaged, being the full value ; Sayan' fetched 28s, and triage 20s 6d ; Ceylon mid coloury , had • • The Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Aberdeen, and the Military Secretary to the Commander-in. B.P. went at 81s to 85s 6d, low mid 71s to 73s 6d, fine ord 625 6d, pett berry 735 to 925 6d, triage 425 to 525 •Chief, interviews with irßobert ay. $• Peel yesterday. ebtr Mbition THE FUNDS--(CLOSING PRICES, BRITISH FUNDS. Bask Stock ........ ........ . 11,9% Indian Stock 289 3 per Cent. R e d .. ...... ........ 99% Ditto Bonds . ........ — Pnu 3 1,1 ter Cent. Cons 2 per Cent. Red ew 3% per Cent 1 1 00 21 31 D EL itto ßi N u e s7l, A oo r a u l it s ies d ...... 9873%fpm New 5 per Cent.... ........ Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 73 pm. Jan 'lB6O l2 9-16 Bank Stock for Acct. ~. Oct. 1859 — Consols for Act. 98% Jan. 1860 — India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent .... ..... Portuguese,s per Cent Belgian, 5 per Cent lO3 Ditto, New Ditt0.............. Brazilian Bonds ,Prussian, 5 per Cent ..... ... Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — IRussian, 5 per Cent ..... ....... .. Chllian, 6 per Cent Colombian, 8 per Cent ...... 13% Spanish, 5 per Cent : 2% Ditto, 1824..».... — ,Dltto, 3 per Cent Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Deferred................ Danish, 3 per Cent . .... Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent .. ..... 35% French, 3 p er C ent. —f —c Ditto, 6 per Cent., 183 f — Dutch, 2% per Cent 61% Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... Di tto, 5 per Cent lOO% 911 A RES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid)......... ..... 103 Ditto, New Shares, 17% paid 27 Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Dublin and Cashel, 2 % paid Eastern Counties (23 paid) ..„ ..... .... .......... Ditto Registered - (8/ 6s 8d paid) Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 138 4d. paid,Ne. 1 1 Ditto ditto, paid, Na 2 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Ditto Quarter Shares (12% paid) Great North of England, 100 paid Ditto New Shares ( paid) Great Western (75 paid) Hull and Selby, 50 paid 66% London and Birmingham (Stock) London and Blackwell (161. 13a. 4d.) 7% London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Greenwich (I2t. 15s. 4d. paid) B% Di ito, Preference or Privilege, £lB 17s 2d paid :2% London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) l9 Ditto, Scrip, 10 paid 19% Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Manchester and Birmingham Midland Counties (100 paid) lO6 Newcastle and Darlingron Junction. 21 paid 48 %3 North British, 2% p a id: Norwich and Brandon, 4 paid South Eastern and Do ver (33 2 s 4 d paid) ..„.» 37% Ditto New Shares, 4 paid Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) lO4 Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Roue n . 20 pa i d Rouen and Havre, 10 paid lB% -- - CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY). NEW COURT. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) James Hodges, silversmith, aged 26, was charged with stealing an ounce and a half of silver, the property of Messrs. Garrod. Mr. Prendergast conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that Mr. Withers, the foreman of Mr. Garrod, from circumstances which came to his knowledge, had reason to suspect the prisoner. The prisoner, on the 31st of July, was seen going into the weighing-room, under suspicious circumstances, in formation of which was given to Mr. Withers, who :accused him with taking some of the silver. The prisoner was walking away quickly, and dropped the silver, which was marked by Mr. Withers. The case was clearly proved against the prisoner. The jury having found him guilty, the prisoner was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the House of Correction, with hard labour. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM TELE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The tardiness with which the inquiry into the Landlord and Tenant system in Ireland pro ceeds, and the improbability of any considerable prac tical advantage to the population from the labours of the Commission, have bean often made the subject of complaint and prediction. We do not expect any new disclosures by the publication of the report, ap pear when it may. It is not information as to the state of Ireland, and the causes of the depressed and disorganised condition of the people, that is required ; but an honest purpose to remove their grievances ; with which all who are not wholly ignorant of the social condition of Ireland, are acquainted and must deplore. The appointment of the Commission to inquire into the nature and practical operation of the relations which exist between the landlords and tenants in Ire land, was a mere pretext, resorted to by Sir Robert Peel for the purpose of evading the demand for a practical remedy tbr well-known grievances. It was a weak apology for doing nothing. The source of most of the monster miseries of that wretched country, and the provocatives of its peasantry to those terrible instances of what has been described as " the wild justice of revenge "—by which it is degraded and disgraced— will continue to operate. The report of this Commis sion—fraught with facts which have been elicited by former Commissions and Committees, and published in their reports—will be laid upon the tables of Parlia ment, and ordered to be printed, with all the pomp and circumstance of some new revelation. Thus the farce of inquiry will close. While, however, the Commissioners are carrying on the inquiry at the several places they visit, with closed doors, and all the other means of keeping the information they receive sacred from the prying curiosity of the public, some of the particulars they collect escape, by some means or other, and thus prematurely obtain publication. The following facts, published in the Irish journals, as having been given in evidence before the Commission, though not new, sufficiently illustrate the condition of the peasantry, and account for the recklessness they occasionally display : " In consolidation of farms agrarian outrages have chiefly originated. This has diminished labour and caused great distress and misery, driving many of the evicted tenants to desperation. " FARMING POPULATION.—Large farmers with grass lands are in some cases in a comfortable condition. With tillage lands the contrary is generally the case. Small farmers are commonly struggling for a liveli hood ; and labourers are in the most wretched state. Wages, where employment can be had, seldom ex ceed sixpence per day, without food. Witness knows many families who can get no more than one meal of potatoes and salt a day. The Government loan fund is of great service to labourers. . . . . . The rent on small farms is generally higher than on the larger ones—the rent of small farms is generally paid in cash, and witness believes more punctually than that of large farms. The children of tenants. on the death of their parents, are left to the care of friends, who, in general, perform the duties of guardians, if the farms are left to them. Labourers in the country usually hold cabins with little or no land from far mers, but they usually reside near or in towns, where their condition is miserable in the extreme. In the country, the rent is paid by distress, or civil bill at Quarter Sessions. The con-acre system, which prevails in some parts, is of infinite service ; but for this they would be unable to obtain provisions. Con-acre is usually set at 101. per acre, and taken from farmers. In many cases employment cannot be obtained at any rate of wages. The wages usually given are Bd. per day in summer, and 6d. in winter. Witness has known la bourers to go seven or eight miles at four o'clock in the morning, and offer to work the day for 6d. Agrarian outrage in almost every case has arisen from the evic tion of tenantry." " Lord DEVON —Do the Catholic clergy assist, by ad vice, to put down agrarian outrage? "Answer—Yes, always; and but for the advice of the Catholic clergy, the dread of future punishment, and the hope of future reward, I am confident assassinations would be more frequent. " Lord DEVON—How did these outrages originate? " Answer—Before the passing of the Emancipation Act, gentlemen gave leases to a numerous tenantry for the purpose of making them 40s. freeholders, and had frequent intercourse with these tenants for different purposes; but since the passing of that Bill the landlords have consolidated their farms, and driven the smaller farmers to seek employment as labourers when no em ployment could be obtained. If the landed proprietors had more intercourse with their tenants, and corrected such grievances as lay in their power, I feel confident that the tenants would do all they could to cultivate their friendship. But the rents are chiefly paid through agents, who, having no interest in the welfare of the tenantry, do not care, with some honourable exceptions, what becomes of the tenant, so that the rent is paid. Now, as the rents are frequently demanded at a time when the tenant is not able to pay it, from not having sold his crops, an eviction takes place, and the tenant is driven out on the world. From the number of these evictions, the tenants look on the landlord with suspicion ; the landlord, on the contrary, equally fears and suspects the tenant ; and thus originate the agrarian outrages. Some landlords and agents ask their rents in a harsh and intemperate manner ; this appears to the tenant as if the landlord or agent owed him some ill-will, and he is, therefore, afraid that they will evict him. Tenants will make great sacrifices to serve a landlord or agent who deals with them in a kind and courteous manner. I know of some landlords and agents who are more kind and generous to tenants of a desperate character than to their more industrious and peaceable tenants." What security can exist for the preservation of social order, or for the respect in which life and pro perty should be held by the community, to render both secure, in a country where masses of the popu lation are thus made to feel that " that the world is not their friend, nor the world's law 2" One advan tage will result from the inquiry, though not pre cisely that which Sir Robert Peel contemplated when he issued the Commission. The wretched condition of the small farmers and labourers will be again exhibited—a condition more deplorable than is to be met with in any other portion of civilised Europe. The cause of that deeply-seated and widely spread moral and social wretchedness will also be partially, if not fully, developed. Though not within the range of legislative interference, nor to be cured by the interposition of Government, the exposure will not be altogether futile. Publicity will be secured; and public opinion will be brought to bear upon the landed proprietors ; to whom, as a class, the calamitous circumstances of the tenantry and labourers must be attributed. Neglect of the duties of property, with a rigorous exaction of their rights—and in many cases extortion of more than their legal claims constitute the source of Ireland's monster grievance. STANDARD. —Th e p aper been fired from the mas k ed battery f ts a wp o c o h tem h p a o ve . rary at Lord Brougham's Act for abolishing impri sonment for debt for all sums not exceeding twenty pounds, afford ample evidence, if further evidence were VENING, AUGUST 24, 1844. Mocha was nearly all withdrawn ; Havannah privately, I 87s 6d to 40s per cwt. TEL—There has been more activity in the market this week, and importers have shown firmness. The rates previously established are full sustained for Congou, and the dem an d h as b een good ' for all descrip tions: 100 to lid paid for large parcels of common sound, 1 lid to is Oid for good common, is Id to is 6d for middling and good blackish leaf, and is 6d to 2s 4d for fine and Pekoe descriptions. Pouchong has met with increased attention at 5d to 9d, and for superior sorts 10d to Is per lb have been paid—this is still the cheapest description of Tea. Souchong, however, is not much wanted, and the supply exceeds the demand. Scented Orange Pekoe is greatly wanted, and prices rule high, owing to the smallness of the supply; sales made at 3s Id to 3s 5d ; Plain Orange Pekoe at is 7d to 2s 4d ; Twankey at is 2d to is 3d per lb ; the better kinds is 4d to Is 8d ; and superior Hyson kind is 9d to 2s sd. Imperial and Gunpowder are in good request. Hyson common at 2s 4d to 2s 6d per lb. For Caper there has been a much better demand. In Flowery Pekoe and young Hyson the operations are upon a more extended scale, and prices rule firm. To-day the mar ket was firm, and a fair business was done in most de scriptions, common and good common Congou cash fetched lld to is Oid per lb. StueEs.—Holders of Black Pepper have shown firm ness this week, and none has been offered at auction. To-day Cassia Lignea met with more attention at public sale, but a decline on former rates of Is to 2s per cwt, good middling I lb bundles went at .58s 6d to 61s, mid 56s 6d to sss, good ord 503 6d to 51s, half bundles 51s to 545, mouldy 48s 6d to 53s 6d, cockroach damaged 49s 6d to 54s 6d, sea damaged 445, broken 47s 6d to 48s 6d per cwt. Of Nutmegs 16 casks were offered, and mostly sold at firm rates, good mid brown Singapore fetched 3s 6d to Ss 7d, good 3s 8d to 3s 9d, fine 5s 2d, mid 3s 4d to 3s sd, low mid 3s. and worm eaten 6d to is ld ; sound for exportation only taken in at is 6d to 2s 2d. Mace, good bright Sin gapore fetched 5s 7d, good mid 4s 6d to 4s 9d, mid 3s 2d to 3s 6d, ord 2s Bd, and mouldy Is 10d. Cloves were not much in request, and 41 chests Penang at public sale sold Id to 2d per lb cheaper, and went at 2s 5d to 2s 7d for fine bold bright Penang, and 2s to 2s 3d for good. Pepper was little inquired for. SAao has been inquired for, 112 bags at auction were bought in at 14s per cwt for middling small brown Pearl. Sago Flour at 18s to 20s per cwt. Holders remain firm and supply the market sparingly. This afternoon of Sago 190 chests at auction were all taken in at 24s for fine small white Pearl, and 21s for fine large Brown being above the value. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Of Jamaica Rum, in second hands, extensive parcels have been taken by the shippers and the home trade, at prices showing an advance on those previously quoted of Id to 2d per gallon. The purchases amount to 400 puns at 3s 8d to 4s 6d for 32 to 38 per cent over proof. Leewards at 2s 4id to is 5d per gallon proof. Demerara at 3s 5d to 3s 7d for choice marks 36 to 41 per cent over. Calcutta Rum at 2s 2kd to 2s 3d per gallon proof, with certificate. The arrivals of Rum are still small. Brandy—Cognac best brands, of the vintage of 1838, hhds at 5s 4d, puns at 5s 2d ; litto 1839, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; ditto 1840, hhds 5s Id, puns 4s lld ; ditto 1841, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d; ditto 1842, hhds 4s 9d, puns 4s 7d; middling and good middling 3s 3d to 4s 6d, and low 2s lld to 3s Id per gallon; of the last mentioned sort the supply has become scanty. Geneva fine for home consumption is fetching 2s 6d to 3s 6d per.gallon. English Corn Spirits remain at lOs 2d per gallon, nett cash. FRUlT.—Grocers have taken several parcels of Cur rants, paying 47s to 49s for Patras, and 4ls to 43s for Zante and Cephalonia. Importers show much firmness. INDIGO. —An increased desire has been shown to pur chase East India this week. All descriptions have been in excellent request for exportation, and several parcels sold for home consumption. Picked lots are fetching a profit of 2d to 4d per lb ; at public sale, however, 100 chests were withdrawn at stiff rates ; Madras at 2a 3d to 2s 4d per lb for low quality. Spanish is wanted, and the tendency of prices is upwards ; the market is sparingly supplied. SALTPETRE.—In the early part of the week the mar ket for rough, without any apparent cause, suddenly be came dull, and previous rates were with difficulty sus tained. To-day some purchases were made privately. At auction, 850 bags Calcutta were taken in at 6d per cwt above the value, 5 per cent refraction good dry yel lowish white at 26s 6d, the remainder, however, sold at very full rates, and fetched 24s to 24s 6d for middling grey, rather damp 13-id per cent refraction. OILS.—In common descriptions of Fish Oils few pur chases have been made this week, and former rates are with difficulty maintained. Pale Seal at 351 to 35155, and Cod 331 15s to 341 per tun. Sperm Oil is wanted, and prices rule high. Linseed is again cheaper, but at 25s per cwt a good business has been transacted ; the supply is, however, on the increase. Rape Oil at 36s 6d to 37s for pale, and 35s 6d to 36s per cwt forbrown. Olive Oil at 451 to 46/ for Gallipoli, 43/ to 441 for Spanish, and Barbary 40/ per tun. Holders show firmness. Palm at 26s to 28s per cwt for good and tine quality. Cocoa Nut Oil at 28s to 30s per cwt. This afternoon at public sale 140 tuns of Sperm Oil went at 83/ 15s to 851, and Headmatter 901 to 911155 ; of 130 tuns of Southern a small part only sold at 29/ lOs to 311 for good and fine, and 26110 s to 28/ lOs per tun for inferior. TALLOW.—AU increased desire has been shown to purchase Russian Tallow; on the spot the demand has been very good, and an advanced rate paid, P Y Candle selling at 41s 3d to 42s per ewt for fine quality. For delivery the operations are upon a more extended scale at 42s per cwt for the last three months of the year. Town Tallow has brought stiffer rates and the market has been nearly cleared at 40s 6d to 41s per cwt nett cash. For other sorts of Tallow prices are still improving. This afternoon at public sale New South Wales Tallow sold at 36s to 42s 3d ; Taganrog 3Ps 6d to 40s 3d ; South American 35s to 39s 6d ; fine Sheep Odessa 40s 3d to 40s 6d ; and East India 42s to 42s 9d per cwt. COURSE OF EXCHAI Amsterdam CF. 12 44 Ditto, at sight l2 2 Rotterdam 2U. 12 5 Antwerp 25 65 aamburgh M.B. 13131 Altona l3 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles 25 90 Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine l2l NGE.-(YESTERDAY. Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice 47 Naples 394 Palermo, per oz llB4 Lisbon 544 Oporto 544 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres .NewYork,2ldyssight Philadelphia PRICEB OF ZULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars...£3 17 9 Portugal. Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bars 0 4 114 Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. L 3 M 952 Trieste, ditto Madrid 37 _ ._ Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville — SUMMER ASSIZES. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. INFANTICIDE.—Sarah Hyland, aged 22, spinster, was placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of her new-born child. After the evidence had been heard, Mr. Ballantyne addressed the jury for the prisoner, when Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up, and put the case to the jury as one of concealment of birth. The jury deliberated for a considerable time, when they retired to consider their verdict. They were locked up nearly eight hours, and at length they re turned a verdict finding the prisoner Guilty of con cealing the birth, and not guilty of murder. Faith Bowerman, 17, was also indicted for the murder of her female illegitimate child, by casting it upon the ground, and thereby giving it divers mortal wounds and fractures, of which it then and there died. Mr. Simon conducted the prosecution. Mr. Char nock appeared for the prisoner. In this case it appeared that the prisoner was a country girl, and in the month of April she came to London on a visit to her brother, who resides in the Belvidere-road, Lambeth. Shortly before the Ist of July the prisoner had complained of being unwell, and her sister-in-law went out on that day to get some salts for her. Upon her return the sister saw some appearances which induced her to suspect that the prisoner had been delivered of a child, and she taxed her with it, but the prisoner denied that it was the case. Shortly afterwards, however, the body of an infant alive was found in a gateway close to the house where the prisoner lived, but there was no dis tinct evidence that she had been delivered of an infant. At the time the infant was found it had some marks of violence upon the head and upon the body, and the inference was that the child had been thrown over a wall that adjoined the prisoner's brother's resi dence to the place where it was found. When the prisoner was questioned she denied all knowledge of the child, but appeared dreadfully weak and agitated. Mr. Oliver Duke, the surgeon of Lambeth parish, who examined the child at the workhouse, proved that the head was very much contused, and the bones of the skull were fractured. The back was also very much bruised. The infant, notwithstanding these injuries, was alive when he first saw it, but it died about two hours afterwards, and he attributed that event to the injury that was received upon the head. In cross-examination the surgeon said that the in jury that appeared upon the head might have been occasioned by falling upon the stairs. He also said that the loss of blood consequent upon the delivery of a child would in some cases almost occasion a state of frenzy in the mind o f th e mother. Mr. CHAENOCH addressed the jury, and contended that the evidence was altogether insufficient to war rant the jury in convicting the prisoner of the heinous offence of which she was accused. Mr. Justice WIGRTMAN having summed up, the jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter. Judgment was respited. Amelia Alfrey, 26, was indicted for feloniously assaulting Mary Anne French, and casting her into the water, with intent to drown and murder her. Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner. William Alfrey, a little boy, deposed that the pri soner was his sister, and he lived with her, by the water-side, at Wandsworth. On the 29th of July he was on Wandsworth -common, and saw the prisoner there, accompanied by her two children, a little girl and a boy; their names were Henry French and Mary Anne French. The prisoner lived with a man named French, and the children went by his name. Shortly afterwards he heard the prisoner scream, and on going to her he found her in a pond with her children. It was very shallow water, and he ran in and held up the children's heads, and also tried to hold up the pri soner's head. A little time before this occurred, he had seen the prisoner walking about, and she told him to go home., He did not see the prisoner carry the children into the water, but he thought they walked in. NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 22. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.) SMITH V. BOUTCHER. This was an action to recover the amount of a com mission claimed by the plaintiff for obtaining freight for a ship of the defendant's. Mr. Knowles and Mr. Crompton were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Martin and Mr. Edwards for the defendant. It appeared that the defendant was a ship-owner in London, and the plaintiff a ship-broker in Liverpool. Some communication was opened between the plaintiff and the defendant, and the former procured a freight for the vessel to Laguayra, with liberty to call at any island in the West Indies. After the charter-party had been signed, the defendant entered into a contract with Government to convey some troops to the Bermudas on the same voyage. The party on whose behalf the plain tiff had made the original contract objected to this, on the ground th a t t h e B ermu d as are not i n the West Indies, and required that the charter• party should be cancelled, which was done. The defendant, however, objected to pay the plaintiff his commission, the voyage which he had negotiated having been given up. The plaintiff alleged that this was no fault of his, nor any matter to him. He had done his work, and desired to have his reward. It was shown that the defendant got about 260 L by the passage of the troops, and that the freight saved by the vessel was somewhere between 5001. and 8001. The commission was Si. per cent. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 35l M'CLEERE V. FRANCE AND ANOTHER. This was an action for an assault and battery. One of the defendants, William France, pleaded that he was not guilty, and that the plaintiff first assaulted him. The other defendant, Thomas France, pleaded nob guilty. Mr. Wortley and Mr. Cowling appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Martin and Mr. Crompton for the defendants. It appeared that the plaintiff is a gentleman of for tune, living in Wall-street, Wigan, in this county, of which place he is also a magistrate. The defendant William France is a shopkeeper, whose premises open into a yard into which the plaintiff's premises also open, and there is a common passage to the yard from the street. In the yard are the stables and coach-house of the plaintiff, and a warehouse of the defendant, William France. The other defendant, Thomas France, is his brother. On the 27th of May last there was an election for the southern division of the county. Wigan is one of the polling places. The plaintiff had been dining with his party, and had returned to bis house about nine o'clock in the evening, and immediately went into the yard. where, according to the evidence of a young woman who was a daughter of the plaintiff's coachman, the defendant William France came up with a stout walking-stick in his hand. Something was said between them, which the witness did not hear, when the de fendant William France struck the plaintiff several very violent blows on the head and face ; so violent that his hat was cut through and knocked off his head, and a swelling produced the size of a hen's egg. Just at that time, Mrs. M'Cleere and a neice were coming out of the plaintiff's back door to go to the stable to see a pony of Mr. M'Cleere's She, seeing her husband assaulted, began to shriek, and a Mr. Isherwood, the superintendent of a factory, hear ing the cry, ran up the yard. He saw the defendant William France strike the bare head and face of the plaintiff twice with the stick. His face was covered with blood. Thomas France, the other defendant, had the plaintiff by the shoulder and held him, as it appeared to the witness, not to prevent mischief, but to give his bro ther a better opportunity. The witness rushed between them, and said, "No more sticks," and they all w en t down on the ground t oge th er , w i t h Mrs. Kirk the plain tiff's niece, who had gone to the spot. She and Smith, the coachman, gave similar testimony. Mr. MARTIN addressed the jury for the defendants, and called witnesses to prove that the plaintiff on his way home from the election dinner had struck with a stick a little boy of the defendant William France, who acciden tally ran between his legs ; that the child ran home cry • ing to his mother ; that when the defendant came into the yard she went to him and complained, to which he replied, " Go to the devil," on which she fetched her husband. Some of the witnesses also swore that when the parties met the plaintiff struck the first blow, and that the only object of Thomas France in interfering was to separate the parties. On cross-examination it appeared that most of the witnesses who deposed to those things were on the other side of the street, and could only see that part of the yard which was in a direct line with the passage ; while most of the plaintiff's witnesses were on the spot. A servant girl of the defendant, however, stated that she saw what took place from the steps of her master's back door, which opened into the yard. Mr. WORTLEY replied, and the case having been summed up, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff —Damages 501. In the Crown Court the Lord Chief Baron was en gaged during the whole day in trying cases of rape. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Aug. 22. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ATCHEItLEY.) HORRIBLE ATROCITY.—Thomas Goatman, aged 17, was indicted for unlawfully and maliciously wounding a mare, the property of William Humpidge. Mr. Skinner conducted the prosecution, Mr. Francillon defended the prisoner. . It appeared that on the 10th of April last, the prisoner, who was a farm servant of Mr. Humpidge, for some rea son or other which did not transpire, was dissatisfied with one of the horses committed to his charge, a fine and valuable young mare; he was observed by some by standers to go from the stables and to cut a short thick stick from a " service" tree in a neighbouring hedge. And shortly afterwards ho was seen punching the animal about the bind-quarters, with a piece of stick about twelve or fourteen inches in length. No one witnessed the brutal and atrocious act which the scoundrel next committed, but the evidence left no doubt that, after some further ill-usage, he thrust the piece of wood, which he previously tapered with a knife at either extremity, up the hind-quarters of the poor mare, as the meatus urinarius, the bladder, and intestines were lacerated in a horrible manner, and the poor animal, in the convul sive throes induced by the agony she underwent, actually caused the weapon in question to work its way forward through her body until it reached her chest, whence it was cut, after death, by a labouring man who came up shortly afterwards. It was suggested, on behalf of the prisoner, with more ingenuity than probability, that the mare might have swallowed the stick while browsing in the field. As both ends were, however, trimmed with a knife, and as the ground under the tree was strewed with leaves and chips, and the prisoner had been seen using his knife there, he was at once convicted by the jury. The Court passed upon him the comparative lenient sentence of twelve months' imprisonment. . The mother was re-called, and she stated that the letter in question was written by the man French, and in it he expressed his intention to abandon her. (The letter was read.) The witness said that after the prisoner received this letter she observed the ymptoms in the prisoner's conduct that she referred to. In cross-examination the mother said that French had been charged with some offence, and the prisoner had exerted herself very much to obtain a lenient sen tence for him. She appeared very fond of her children. Mr. CHARNOCK, in his address to the jury, said it was impossible for an advocate to do so upon a more distressing case than the present. He then proceeded to comment upon the facts, and said it was evid en t that the cruel manner i n which the unhappy prisoner had been deserted and abandoned by the man for whom she evidently felt an ardent affection, had unsettled her mind, and that in a paroxysm of frenzy she committed the act imputed to her. Mr. Baron GURNEY, in summing up, remarked upon the distressing nature of the case, and said there did not appear to be the slightest ground for believ ing that the pristner entertained any malice towards her children ; but if the jury thought that she went into the water with the intention of destroying them and herself, she would, in law, be guilty of the offence imputed to her. If they thought the facts proved, it would then he a question whether, at the time the act was committed, the prisoner was in such a state of mind as to be accountable for her actions. The jury, after a very short deliberation, acquitted the prisoner on the ground of insanity, and she was ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. The first witness, the prisoner's brothe r , was th en re-called by Mr. Baron GURNEY, who told him that the courage he had shown, and the manner he acted at the time, did him great credit, but he regretted to see, by the depositions, that he had not to-day stated all he knew. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. Yesterday the adjourned quarter sessions for the city and liberties of Westminster was held at the Court-house, Broad Sanctuary. The Court was much crowded, in consequence of its being imagined that this would be the last sessions which would be held in the Broad Sanctuary, on account of the junction of the sessions for Westminster and Middle sex at Hicks's Hall, Clerkenwell-green, under the new Prisons Act. TREASURY PROSECUTIONS.—Two most respectable looking men, who carried on extensive business as tradesmen in the Vauxhall-road, named Thomas Meadows and Robert Hill, were indicted for violently assaulting 'William Robert Anstell, a constable of the B division of the metropolitan police force. The prosecution, which was instituted at the in stance of the Treasury, was conducted by Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Doane ; and Mr. Clarkson, with whom was Mr. Wylde, appeared for the defence. Perhaps there were fewer cases ever tried in this Court in which the evidence, which extended from half-past ten until near seven o'clock, was more contradictory. Mr. BODKIN, in stating the case for the prosecu tion, said this was a case of sufficient moment to call for the intervention of a Treasury, or special Govern ment prosecution, instead of leaving it to the ordinary and less certain course. On the evening of the 13th of May last, the two prisoners, accompanied by Mrs. Meadows, were passing along Vauxhall-bridge-road, Meadows being, at the time, in a very drunken and excited state, when they overtook the constable, An stell, who was on duty at the time. Some months previous to this Meadows had a dispute with the con stable, since which time he entertained an angry feel ing towards Anstell. Hill, who was perfectly sober, requested the constable to take Meadows, but he re plied it was contrary to his duty to do so, all he was allowed to do with a drunken man was to see him to the station-house. Meadows, upon this, contrary to the entreaties and endeavours of his wife, rushed at Anstell, knocked him down, and, while lying on the ground, kicked him violently in a vital part of his person, and otherwise inflicted severe inj ur i es upon him. After considerable exertion, the constable got upon his feet, and other policemen arriving, they tried to take him to the station-house, but such was his violence, kicking and biting all around him, that they had to send for an additional reinforcement from the station-house. They then placed him on a truck, after strapping all his limbs, and wheeled him to the lock-up, where he struck several of those around him. The Learned Counsel then called about twenty five witnesses, amongst whom were nine policemen, in support of his statement. After which, Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury, and stated that it was his client, Hill, who had here most right to complain. The object in mixing him up in the in dictment was to prevent Meadows from having the advantage of his evidence as a witness. He thought the jury and the country could not sufficiently strongly mark their reprehension of the system of dignifying every little common assault into a Go vernment prosecution. Besides, they should recollect the vast expense which it entailed upon the country, by all the unnecessary and cumbrous machinery of Treasury solicitors, first-rate cou nse l, & c. I n t h e present instance the conduct of the police had been gross and brutal in the extreme ; they had dragged the unfortunate man along the gravelled way on his face, like a dead dog, instead of rendering him that assistance which his helpless condition, and the en treaties of Mrs. Meadows, would suggest to the mind of any man of ordinary feeling. As for Mr. Meadows assaulting the policeman in the manner described by Mr. Bodkin, it was preposterous, for he was a diminutive man, while the constable stood about six feet high. Evidence was then called in support of his state meat, and in refutation of the witness for the pro secution. The merits of both sides may be best guessed at by the verdict of the jury, which was one of Ac quittal in favour of Hill, and of Guilty with respect to Meadows. The COURT sentenced the latter to two months' im prisonment, with hard labour. The names of no less than twenty persons ap peared in the calendar for trial to-day, upon an in dictment charging them with having committed a violent assault upon Henry Maynard on the 26th of July. The facts of the case, which have been already before the public, arose out of an attempt on the part of one of the steam-boat companies which ply upon the river to pull down the pier established by a rival company, for the purpose of landing, their passengers, adjacent to Temple-bar, and which attempt caused considerable excitement and alarm in the neighbourhood, in consequence of the conduct of a gang of long-shore-men who were engaged in the attempt. Owing to the pressure of other business, and the number of witnesses likely to be examined on both sides, it was deemed advisable to postp one the hearing until the 12th of September, the last day of sessional sittings in Westminster Court-house. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) CLERKENWELL. RZPORTERS AT POLICE-COURTS:A change has been made within the last few days in the interior arrangements of the Clerkenwell Police-court, pro ductive of great inconvenience to the reporters for the morning newspapers who attend them. The box which had been designed and constructed for the ac commodation of reporters, and which has been ex clusively occupied by them since the erection of the court, is now, by direction of the magistrates, only used by police officers. A seat at the rear of the box has been placed for the reporters, and this is the o n l y part of the co ur t, exce pt the body, which they are permitted to occupy. At other Police-courts, the Thames, for instance, reporters are allowed to sit at the table when they find it more convenient, although there is a box for their especial accommodation ' the very same as that from which the rep or t ers have been expelled at Clerkenwell. But no such privilege is allowed at Clerkenwell—they have been forbidden ' Cross-examined—There were plenty of people about at the time the prisoner was in the water. The water was not deeper than just above the knee. George Steer deposed that on the evening in question he heard a scream, and went to the pond, and found the prisoner and her two children in the water. Witness assisted to get them out, and ascer tained that one of the children was tied to the prisoner's body with a shawl, but he could not state whether the other was attached to her. The prisoner was lying upon her hack in the water, and appeared in an exhausted state, and all she said was, " My children !my children !" in a low tone. The prisoner and her children were then taken to the workhouse. By Mr. CHARNOCK—In witness's opinion the mother and her two children all screamed together. The pond was not at this time very deep. The prisoner appeared very much exhausted, and her hands had changed colour. Witness had heard that the prisoner was once confined in a lunatic asylum. William Lee, a police-constable, said that he found the prisoner in the state described by the last witness, and assisted to convey her to the workhouse. He produced the shawl taken from the prisoner. By Mr. CUARNOCK—He heard the prisoner say it was trouble that had made her do it. Emily Alfrey, the prisoner's mother, deposed that she was not married to the father of the children in question, but they had cohabited together for six years. He had latterly deserted her, and she had in consequence become very ill, and was confined in a lunatic asylum for six weeks, and when she was dis charged she went to live at witness's house. Before the Ist of July witness had observed symptoms in the prisoner's conduct of her head becoming bad again. John Busain, an inspector of police, proved that he received the prisoner in charge, and told her that she was accused of attempting to murder her children and to commit suicide, and she replied, in a faint tone, 'lt is distress that drove me to do it." The witness then produced a letter found upon the prisoner when she was taken to the workhouse. even to lay their hats upon the table, a convert" denied to no other persons. Owing to a defect in construction of the court, the difficulty of hearing, very great, and one of the magistrates, at least, t° ,l plains of the defect almost every day he sits; be% porters are now placed at a greater distance from: applicant, the witness, the prisoner, and the 0 0 6; trate, than before. The applicant and witness nr e one side of the court, the reporters' seat by the oft site wall. In addition to the inconvenience of: tance, the new seat has been plac e d directly beta' the gaoler's door and the magistrates' fire-0 0 % f that there is a current of air cons t an tly rushing !,, d the cell-yard, which, in cold weather, will beL prejudicial to the c o mf or t, if no t t o th e health, ofd who sit there. The reporters, in the first innt'; remonstrated with the chief clerk on the subject , finding it fruitless, memorialised the Secrets State. The subjoined ans wer h as b een return the application : " " Gentlemen,—l am I d V i r h e i c t eha l I , t edb y Aug.s Secret cr 2, et t James Graham to ackno w l e d ge th e rece ipt 0 1. letter of the 17th inst , complaining that an alters which has been recently ma d e i n th e position of reporters' box at the Clerkenwell Police-court a' e inconvenience to the rep or t ers i n th e di sc h ar ge °l t duties. And I am to inform you that Sir ;o J Graham is desirous that ever y o pp or t un ity nb° given for affording to the public accurate info of the proceedings at the Police-courts. " Sir James Graham has made a full inclui r l o t the magistrates respecting the alteration, and. the report which he has rece i ve d, it ap p ea rs OP change has been made w ith a v i ew t o the o n nience of the public and of those engaged in the,, r duct of business in the Court; he directs me, fr fore, to inform you, that under the circumstanT t y must decline issuing any instructions to disturu o v existing arrangements.—l am, Gentlemen, /5 11. „s dient servant, " H. MANNERS SU'Llv " To the Reporters, &c." WORSHIP-STREET. Two men, named John Hunt and James Ifa';: f , the former a journey man l oc k sm ith, an d th e la" , t e, weaver, were placed at the b ar , b e f ore Mr. Br e isf ill ton, charged on suspicion of having stolen a quantity of jewellery and other articles, the Fr° of Mr. Joseph Burns, landlord of the Black public-house, in School-house-la ne , Mile-end. , 4 0 The prosecutor stat e d th a t th e prisoners i ;j 6 : members of a S oc i e t y ca ll e d " Th e Old Fri' 0 4 the meetings of w hi c h were h e l d at h i s ho 'ft they both attended there at a general meeting °tip members on the previous night. On going o_4 soon after the company h a d di s p erse d, h e foull°e the door of his bed-room, which was situated diately over the club-room, had been broken and that a quantity of jewellery, consisting of 0 1 gold brooches, several rings, seals, breast-plug:4 other articles, had b een a b s t rac t e d from the din e s y compartments of three chests of drawers, the v i s e of which had b een f orce d w ith some iron I,oegi ment. In consequence o f th e equ i voca l conlk the prisoners durin g th e even i ng , h e imp:l o 'l l.t o suspected that they were implicated in the rob and caused them to be taken into custody. Mr. BROUGHTON inquired if anything was e r as to the habits a n d genera l c h arac t e r 0` prisoners ? Sergeant Barker said that he knew n othing tio t all prejudicial to the character of Waterloo, ba t f ol Hunt had been kno wn t o th e p o li ce f or s olo° as a suspected person. * O . l Mr. BROUGHT ON said th a t th ere was no no o r to inculpate the prisoner Waterloo; but he dered the conduct of Hunt was so full of suss that he should cert a i n ly reman d hi m f or t inquiry. The prisoner, Waterl oo , w as di sc h arge d, 01 1 other prisoner was ordered to find substantil l for his appearance on Wednesday next. QUEEN-SQUARE. George Smith, alias Samuel Beevington, was 01 10 with having on two occasions fraudulently . obt7oe the enlistment money as a recruit, he having 4 4 sealed the fact of his b e i ng a di sc h arge d so ldier , the 2d Life Guards. Prisoner enlisted with Sergeant Greaton 00 Grenadier Guards, on Friday, and in answer t° oo, interrogatories of wheth er h e h a d ever b een a s° , d ye or discharged on any prior enlistment, replied le t ha negative. It was subse q u en tly ascer t a i ne d th i s ofe had been dismissed f o r b a d con d uc t f rom the 2a te Guards, and he was bro ug ht b e f ore th e Magistrasetll this Court on Saturday. On reference to the of o section of the Mutiny Act, M r . B urre ll felt 9 t ie doubt upon the interpretation to be put uP° r ! th s words of the clause, and di sm i sse d th e man with caution. On Wednesday the p r i soner again eni is nil with Sergeant Philips, of the East India Corn o service, and was brought to this Court be sworn in. He had answered the several ques ts 10 put to recruits in the outer office, and was ta k eno_. d before the Magistrate to be attested, w hen some the officers of the Court recognised him ",,L1:1 ire first had been charged on Saturday. The ' e l ° o re first stoutly denied it, but finding that there 0, three or four persons ready to swear to his identiti m . admitted the fact, and added that he was now posed to make a good soldier. the Mr. BURRELL, on turning to the latter part of d yesterds&ol section in the Mutiny Act, before referred to, was opinion that the concealment of his having be e t . / soldier before the j us ti ce a t th e ti me o f his e OI F, for attestation was clearly a n o ff ence , an d cowry! : defendant for one month as a rog ue an d vagabond MA R YLEB ONE. At t ' ASSAULT ON TOLL.COLLECTORS.—Yesterday Henry Dawes, a veterinary surgeon, residingbe Stephen's-mews, Fitzroy-square, and John &Tip wood, a man in his service, were charged before Rawlinson with the following violent assault Thomas Staples, a toll-collector, at the HaMr_A s l turnpike, deposed th a t on th e prev i ous Wedne'' t y the defendants, who were in a gig, drove up t ° gate, gate, when Mr. Da wes as k e d f or c h ange fora 511" Complainant gave him a sixpence and three li e d be pieces, expecting of course th a t th e s hilli ng Yien Boti handed to him. He, however, did not receive it, t, Mr. Dawes was in the act of driving on when c.,40 plainant laid hold of th e h orse , and asked for theill'ej to which he was entitl e d. Mr. Dawes then , de d ,t), that he bad had ninepence f rom hi m (compla!hinlie and flogged him with cons id era bl e v i o l ence wit" 0 whip. He (Mr. Dawes) then knocked him doW, 0 1 0: 1 did also the servant, who i n a dditi on th ere to lac him as he lay on the ground. A les 'William Easum, another toll- co ll ec t or a t the,,,,,ies stmt was stated that on seei ng th e wa y i n w hi c h ` 4 lbo was treated he spoke to Mr. Dawes, telling hiril. c od he was acting wrong, w h en h e (M r . D awes ) in° the a flogging upon him ; he was also struck by servant. - h ° Mr. Dawes, in answer t o th e c h arge , sa id t"5 a A gave Staples 6d., and received from him 3d• 1 0 4 ticket. He (Staples) sei ze d th e h orse by , the P, and used language of a mos t di sgus ti ng descriP ,oll ' h i t s and he then got o u t o f th e g i g an d k noc ked l' oy s down. His servant used no more force then,toro necessary towards Staples to r emove hi s band ' the reins. • ge The defendants entered into secur ity f o r the bed pearance at the sessions, in the even t o f their uw indicted. CHICKEN MANUFACTORT.—Nature is getting ;Of perfluous. We rather thi n k s h e w ill soon be vote (l , ° " - or fashion, and disp ense d w ith. Th ere ' s a c h ap just Oirity publication-o ffi ce hatching chickens i n a bi g box, 13 ,7 e r day, having a thousand eggs always doing. The i l tt ie ble of attending th em i s s li g ht ; t h e h eat costs ve ry P, be it and the chickens cr ac k th e i r s h e ll s an d wa lk u p to . ; of dough and water lik e woo d- c h oppers to t h e i r dint e li; sailors to their gr og . Th e y are c l ean , strong , and '",„"tigb grow fast, and rarely di e ( no t b e i ng d ragg l e d th" the grass) ; and who ever h as a h atc hi ng machiped ot have " Spring Chickens" every week in the year, small expense. If we could only invent a machin e jot. eggs, now, hens would b e d one w ith.—N ew Y or k 10_,,,,0e, BIRTHS. ife 4 On the Ist ult., at St. Vincent's, West Indies, the,Wicis4 Alexander K. Wight, Esq., manager of the Coloni x ' there, of a son. 3f .On . On the 23d inst., at Upp er H ar l ey - s t ree t, M rs . PI- Anderson, of a son. On the 22d inst., at B e df or d- row , M rs . C. J. Shoubri d g e ' a son. • On the 22d inst., at Stoke Newington, the lady d Miller, Esq., of a daughter. On the 22d inst., at Holmwood Parsonage, Surrey , tile of the Rev. J. S. Utterton, of a son. MARRIED. ~ On the 22d inst., at Streatha m Ch urc h, J o hn, yoaely t i li gsr of Joseph Dawson, Esq., of Streatham-hill, to Mal , / daughter of the late William Bousfield, Esq. 'a- On the 22d inst., at St. J o h n th e Evangelist's, , it, ster, Barnard Wight Holt, Esq., of Abingdon-streeD eo , 0 minstsr, to Sarah Margaret, only child of Dyer Walcot-place, Kennington, Esq. i cess,r 6 On the 22d inst., at St. G eorge ' s Ch urc h, Hane, ver s ; ficau o i Giles, eldest son of Giles R e d ma y ne , E s q., of e Esq. , street, to Eliza, third daughter of Francis Sadler , Highgate. On the 22d inst., at Tewkesbury, William DIED. of Hawkes, the infant son of W. M. Rich ar ds , surge °° ' f town. On th 3d ist., at Cronsdt, Wurtembrg, the Be v " O. Parsons, e Vicar of Sanderton and Arundel, e and late Fel l° ‘ Magdalen College, Oxford. south On the lit t h inst., at the Grand Hotel de Rouen , sou th Maria, the wife of G. Suttor, Esq., of Sydney, N eff Wales. On the 20th inst., Sophia, widow of G. W. Lyndon , E ros * On the 22d inst., at Connaught-terrace , Bage" re- Luke Wade, Esq., aged 77. On the 21st ult., at Otte Suffolk, the Rev. J. Youlfi ier On the 22d inst., at Haver-court, near G ravesena rietta, the youngest daughter of Mr. C. A. Becke t ' „flip P er On the 23d inst., at Hornsey, John Cooper, Esq. , Bedfor the d lace. On -p 2U inst., at Tredegar-place, Bow, Mrs. Dm. cher, relict of Mr. Henry Fulcher, aged 76. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUZI i s No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Bun Office, 14 °' of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Middlesex, Esaturday, August 24, 1544. nie#