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............. ed 406. cony, • e on • tarn - T worki ging _ t , 3 ° ttache. )peered that he to Pr e " cow by la rived et ss tie 011 Viriilen• norsonh r - • on the° Of 100 en en: oppoi of Esser state fa it is t° ;ht into reYO lll6 o hour* bales , to of the ut c atch' stemo r I haul' there 104 g On tt g on i" : gilt do*" ish re,sr, 'est 10' . 1 in con' for repeal to ,ttep. id JUI) 44 'ins, ild di [g secon d. the fare.,s, D oing I P°inS LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Auc. 17.—Wind, fresh breeze at W.N.W., and el , udy. INYcza, Auc. 16.—Arrd. Aimwell, Stockton for Exeter_ with loss of bowsprit, sails, rigging, cutwater , hating b een i n con t ac t this morning off Dungeness. with the schooner Sarah, of Newcastle. Off, William Carson, Ilarvey, Buenos Ayres. 'PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 16.—Wind N.W. to W.—Sld. Lord Boddington, !Cork and Calcutta ; Childe Harold, Cape, tic , and Bombay ; John Peat, Bermuda. The Tieutnselt for Bremen to New York (hence 10th inst.), nd , the desina, from Hamburgh to Malaga, have both been assisted in here with considerable damage, having been in contact. SOUTHAMPTON, Auc. 16.—S1d. Lloyds, Quebec. TORBAY AUG. 16.—S1d. Talcoman an 4 Ceylon , Que bec. 431. 1' SALCOMBE, AUG. 15.—Kingston, PurmouTu. AUG. 16.—Wind variable.—Sld. Dahlia IQ As,,, for Quebec. s DEAL, Attu. 16.—Wind N.W., moderate. P.M. 1 ,4 8 . W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Melia, Rio fur Antwerp; 14 ., den, Taylor, Bahia; Sorweild and Three Darner, both St. Croix, for Copenhagen; Herculean, Holmes, New Orleans; ' Columbus, Meyer, Ditto for Bremen; Hendick H ay, Moore, New York; Eagle, Quebec. Sl , l. Mary r je ay i , Launceston; .. Brenda, Matir . ititts; Coquette, St. "a; }avourite, Ichab , _.e; novidence, liabtax. Re- Main t , 'lgnet for end''rt l'hilip; Chariot and Norna, Eurt,pc Cyrus, Quebec; and one or two others. ALDERNEY, AUG. 14.—A hogshead of Bordeaux w'ne, larked " B F, 540, Ducros, Jeune, and Co., Bordeaux," W as Picked up on the north side of the island, 11th inst. MILFoRD, AUG. 15.—A schooner is sank in St. Bride's 13 SX, about three miles from the shore. kAtmouTu, Auc. 15 AND 16.—The handspike, pra,,thtd Lord Arid," picked up at Lundy, Irelatio, it Js feared belonged to the Lord Aria of this port , which was at I 'enarth Road, Ist inst., chartered for titiernsey, and hal not since been heard of. Sid. I. W. Dare, Al g" Bay . . Off, Fenelon, Barkenstein, Eiavannah, and naiit'd for Antwerp. 13 A 5 mouTE, AUG. 14.—1 t blew a heavy gale this , n —°th ig• A head-board, marked " Cynthia, carved 1111 d gilt ur on it, has been picked up off thii. T he Des ire, from Beaurnaris, did not come ashore here 6th 'rt.• as stated. Ib : I ONTRO:=E, AUG. 14.—The Highlander, from Arch -1411:1, tiAtme on the Aurot Bank, has been got off , and In era eonsi&rably damaged. M eath, AUG. 15.—The Wave, from Hayti to h neath, ashore here, has been got off with lit' le damage. OFF CORK, AUG. 14.-Ilarmee. Smith, Ichaboe. LIYERPOOI, ALA:. 16.—Wind variable and moderate. Alegone, Bathurst. Sld. Scotland and Indus, Quebec ; Engle, Syria, and Birkenhead, St. John's , „ w Bru nswic k . O f f , E nc h antress , R osc i us , and Birken head. NOTICE TO MARINERS. , i9 1 , - " ROUSE ON THE ISLAND OF BANGOE. " 1 "e fAlowing has been received at Lloyd's:— " Admiralty, Aug. 15, 1844. of " .Z f ir 1 - " - .1. am commanded by my Lords Commissioners ; ,'"e Admiralty, to transmit to you herewith, for the lormation of .the Committee for managing the. affairs u Lloyd's, copies of the translation of two ru..tic.•s re - ce iTed from her Majesty's Consul at Elsinore; one re Petting a light in the island of Bangoe, in the Little and szi lltibited in the other describing two new beacons , to be Sir the Lyse Sound, in the Cattegat. — l am , Your most obedient servant, • (Signed) SIDNEY HERBERT. " To Win. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's." (TRANSLATION.) " The light on the island of Bangoe between Assens : un; the passage established for the guidance of the Packets cross i ng the Li tt l e B e l t , w hi c h had hitherto lit passage only south of that island, will, within ;'ne present summer, be raised five feet higher, in a otutern at the t o p of the lighthouse ; the lighthouse i thereby come visible from all sides, except in the dire ction of about N.F.E., .by in which direction it wou ld be. concea l e d a s h or t wa y by Bangoe town during e progress o f th e works connected with this content rtated change, which will prevent the original light ero being shown for a time. Light will be afforded by largQ lantern with reflection, which will be fixed at th e, same height, and will light in the same direction as the red light. Geberal Board of Customs and Trade, July 12, 1844." (TRANSLATION.) " Iu the course of the month of August of this year wo beacons will be laid down at the Lyse Sound, in the N.E. in the island of Hesseloe, viz.— tThe betto in, with two brooms at the top, at the N.E. eu i _of the af o r esa id g round, in 4.1 f a thoms water, and, • b earings, Hesseloe lighthouse S.W. S., the Koll S.E, E ‘_`, °lle beacon, with one broom at the top, at the N.W. .ngof the ground, in 4i fathoms' water, and, by bear -111gs, .nesseloe lighthouse S.W. by S., and the Koll E. bY " The beacons will remain exposed throughout the year. " General Board of Customs and Trade, July 12. 1844." • LIGHTS ON THE. ISLAND OF UDSIRE. " Ad miralty. Bth August. of the am commanded by my Lor 4 s Commissioners Admiralty to transmit to you herewith , for t he • o f inform ationb of the Committee for managing the talks from m Y"'s a copy of the translation of a notice received ru 4ur Majesty's Consul-General at Christiania, an- Vutteing the erection of two new lights on the island of dsir °.—l am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " SIDNEY HERBERT. e , W. Dation, Esq.. Secretary, Lloyd's." ALTERATION Iv THE BUOYAGE OF THE RIVER JAHELL. Amiralty, Aug. 15, 1844. . Sir,--I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners (4. the Admiralty to transmit to you herewith, for the ulformati, n of the Committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd' s a copy or the translation of a notice, received from ' her Majesty's Consul-General at Hamburgb, ri respectingjahell.a n alteration in placing the buoys i n the I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, (Signed) SIDNEY HERBERT. To Win. Dobson, Esq., Secretary at Lloyd's. (TRANSLATION.) OF FICIAL NOTIFICATION RESPECTING TH E LAYING DOWN OF BUOYS IN THE RIVER A "ter Jahell, examination of the sands at the mouth o f the "Yer Jahell, and subsequent changes, have rendered it 11ee slary to increase the number of buoys, and to make 11 °Iike alterations in the placing of them. The following regarding their position is herewith PlPiliely made known The course of the Jahell is marked at present by ', w ,eire buoy s , o f w hich seven lie behind Wangrage and re Minsen-Olde-Oog, and five in the Upper Jahell , f r om Hooks.eil, as far as the Aberahn Fields, viz.:— • ,Yirst. B e hi n d W angerag e and the the Minsen-Olde "0g; on entering— . • Aon the larboard side. •• ` 4 t. At the beginning of the Jahell Plate is a white b , 1 • 10 3', with black stripes, and marked on its uppermost 81 de with a crow n and Jahell, lying at low ebb in 4 1 rathorns of water. W angerage light, bearing S.W. / W. MinEen, bearing S. 4 W. „ Weser Schlussel Buoy, bearing N. by E. / E. ‘• At the end of the Jahell Plate, the length of which is 45,000 feet, is a white buoy, in six fathoms water. asgerage light, bearing W.N.W. Minden and buoy E., bearing S.W. 4 W. Weserlight vessel, bearing E. by N. 4 N.. teop..,uarden, bearing S.W. a W. on the starboard side off the Plate, the length of • ..atcli is '30,000 feet, w hich commences north of the " n, O`anee Balge," -and E. by N. IN. of the Wangerage logtith,Luse, and goes thence as far as the Minden Olde , a, 1. 4 0 t buoy A; lying in five fathoms of water. " sngerage light, bearing W. by S. S. Minsen, bearing S.W. M Schlussel buoy, S.W. thick buoy B, lying in 45 fathoms water. W 'lngerage light bearing W. 4. S. MiOsen, bearing S. by W. 4 NV. 4. 1 , V i eser signal vessel, 'bearing E.S.E. ack buoy C, lying in 54 fathoms water. Nang,erage light, bearing W. / N. lktin,en, bearing S.W. by S. 4 S. .. WESer signal vessel, bearing E.S.E. S. ° D. lying in 5 fathom. water. / Y 4 ng..ragre light, bearing W. by N. N. b.aring S.W. S. 7..W,eser r signal ve - s-el, bearing E. S. buoya a t E. in 5 !:,thoin , water. angertige light, be:iring N.W. by W. W. Minsen, bearing S.W. 4 W. Weser signal vessel, bearing E N.E. f E. Stand white buoy, bearing N.E. E. bearin2: S. by W. 4 W. - ee°ml.—lti the Upper Jahell. ~., 0.1 the starboard side of the Voslapper Plate. 8 . 111. wk buoy F lying in five fatnoms water. lir ebierbi:ehe bearing' E.N.E. E. llooksieler hearing W. N. S ngearden bearing S.W. 4 VI . v. likek buoy C lying in five fathoms water. Ci'it-rbache bearing N.E. 4 E. llooksieler Hill bearing N.W. Sin tr , warden bearine. W. by W. li:opperhorner Miil bearing S.S.W. 4 W. m l). ,Ate on the s t ar b oar d s id e a t the end of the Hoppenser - 10 Black buoy H lying in four fathoms water. V.. e ngWarden bearing N.W. by N. ‘•!,,-oPperh orner Mi ll b ear i ng W . b y N. ..I..t l twarder Mill bearing E.S.E.IL on the starboard side, after having passed the Vii- Titeft.sSitl, and bef ore t h e mee ting of the Marienseltr and Steinhausen Tiefes. 11, led buoy in three fathoms water. • 110 „ PerhOrner Mill bearing N.W. /W. r ...chwarder:Mill bearing East. va n e Mill bearine. S. E. • N .' On the_ starboard side, after having passed the arelersiel. 12. White buoy lying in 24 fathoms. l i opperhorner Mill bearing N.W. by N. arder Mill bearing N.E. by E. 4 E. 1e w eigburger Mill b ear i ng S. / B. _ f n entering, vessels must take the following course:— A----From the buoy A to B, E.S.E. Width of the stream 3,000 feet ; depth of the same, 4 to 6 fathoms. B. Lrom the buoy Bto C, S.E. E. Width of the stream 2,500 feet, depth of the same, 5 to 64 fathoms. c. From t h e buoy Cto D S.S.E /E. Widt'i of the strew m .3,000 feet &nth of the same 5 to 7 filth im,. /:) roui th " Fe buoy 1) to E, South. Width of the stream 3,500 tees depth, of the same 5 to 7 , athorns. X. From the buoy BtoF, S. N. Wid hoftl e strewn 8 t o 10,000 ft-tt depth, 6 to 61 fathoms. felt, runs tl e b E, at a distance of from s to 6, 00 0 , runs the strand of Minser-Olde-Oog, 4 flithoras depth. close to the marked course, and in the direction ' °4l it to th• Bre merb&che to On width of the river is THE Siu N, LONDON, MONDAY MORNINCi",__AUGITS'r.,_I9.L 1844. COMMISSION OF LUNACY, THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE or MR. BRENT SPENCER: A Cotiimissioti kit:died itiltifPriidd *is optntid oft Saturday in the 13oard-rooxit of St. Luke's Work house, Arthur-street, Chelsea, before Mr. Com missioner Barlow and . fifteen . special jurors,.. of whom Captain Hague, R.N.i wits foreman, AO Inquire into the state of mind of Sir. Brent Spencer, Esq., tiled 37, son of the lata Goalies tat Sir Brent Spencer, described in the Commission as of No. 4, Prince's-street, Marlborough-road, Chelsea, bachelor, but now an inmate of the . workhouse of St. Lnite's ChelSetb . The Commission •was taken out at. the instance of the parochial authorities of St.. Luke's, Chelsea, who were represented by Mr. Thomas, the barrister. The commission was unopposed ; but Mr. Head, from Mr. Stecle, solicitor, of Lincoin4s..lnn-fieid ' attended to watch the proceedings on behalf of Mrs. Pelham. The Court was much crowded in consequence of the interest the subject of this inquiry has excited by the examinations which have taken place at Queen- SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ! NEW STEAMBOAT ItEGULA DEVON AND EXETER RACES.—(CONCLUDED.) ' TIONS Volt THE THAMES. THURSDAY. , Saturday being the day appointed for examining The Second Class of Home Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 3 ft, ' into and deciding upon the objections offered by the with 25 added. Two miles and dis. I , soverat 'parties interested in the.oteatit-boat navigation Mr. King's bf, by Jack-in-the Green, out of Eliza 1 of 2 the river Thames, a very full Committee of Mr. Downe's Usurper, aged , Aldermen assembled at the Guildhall. The City Members' Plate of 501. Heats, one mile The Lord Mayor took th e c h a ir at eleven o'clock. . Mr. W. Ley's Fair Play, 3 yrs 2 There were present, besides his Lordship ) Aldermen Mr. Scobt•la's Fox, 4) rs , (New . man) . 32 1 1 3 Farebrother, Sir John Pirie, Wood i Eilr G. Carroll, 117 n PP n a t ‘ l r i e g u G i a a t i i n b o b n w s : o h l b o j e e t h e lY t a i d: g and l‘ltiBgr°"' Mr. Crofton's CornopeAn, 4 yrs A Forced Handicap of 2 soya. each, 25 added, the new Challis, !ult.., was won in two heats by Mr. Crofton's Cornopean, I The broan MAYOR handed in a letter from Mr. 4 yrs (Blanton), beating Mr. Reed's Mona. Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added, be to en th l:n . clauselon f n o e r c t r e e d . One mile and three quarters. , stricting the number of passe g r as calculated to n e ~, Mr. Williams':. Elysium, 4 yrs . (Blanton) I , • within very Mr. Ley's Fair Play, 3 yrs I steam companies, at the same time that it would Lung, witht:titr g i l i subject the vessels to more dangerous accidents than Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 boys. each, 2 ft, and 25 added. . , • Mr. Ley's Fairplay H , 3 yrs a mile, " (Cowley) 1 1 , could befal them when they were well packed with Mr. Graham's Alice Lowe. 3 yrs 2 2 ! passengers. He also complained of the hardship Mr. Allibone's Icarus, aged " , . 4 3 : which the owners of steam- vessels would be subject Mr. King's f by Jack-in-the-Oreen, Eliza, 3,yrs 3 4 to by the harrssing conduct of common informers, TENBY RACES.--Thonsnky., and other obnoxious vultures, and particularly to the The Tenby Stakes of 3 sovs, each, and 20 added, the rate of speed mentioned in the regulations, which second to save his stake, were won in.two heats, by Mr. rate, he contended, would prove altogether ruinous lientiet s.,n's Gre• dy Sam, aged, heating Mr, Lucas's St. to those concerned in the important business of steam David,s yrs, Mr. Bower's Piston, Mr. Llewellyn's Giraffe, navigation, and transfer all the traffic to-the railroads. aged, and Mr. Olivsr's Sergeant Botheram. Ile added, that all men of naval experience frequently The Tradesmen's Plate of 15/., added to a'Sweepstakes expressed their admiration of the extraordinary skill and power exercised in the river by the servants of of 2 soya. each, were also eon by tireedy Sam, carrying 71h extra, beating Jenny Jones, St. David, and another. ,_ The Gogerddan Sakes, of 10 sovs, each,' h. ft., with 20 the company. added; for hunters. Gentlemen riders. Four Miles. Some other papers contai n ing objections having Mr. Foss ell's Cracksman, aged (Owner) I been read over, Mr. Southby's Waterloo, 5 yrs Mr. Boultbee's My Grandfather, 6 yrs .., 3 the Greenwich steam-vessels, requested to be admitted, The Members' Plate, of 501., added to a Sweepstakes oft in order to make some objections which he considered 5 soya. each. Ileats, two miles. inight'be advantageously discussed in the Committee Mr. Wesley's Counselor, 5 yrs walked over. before they decided upon the regulations. He parti- The Ladies' Plate, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. cularly called the attention of the CoMmittee to the each. Hews, one mile. • steamersthep res ier resen t .steamersil i steamers h we were eif which hh t the ei e present dfifitne etnhe 7rems moment eas g andwere, re T, the hhee great difference which existed between the build of Sir C. Cockerell's Aurunzebe ...(S. Darling, jun.) 1 1 . Mr. P. Pryse's Chaos, aged MARLOW RACES.—THURSDAY , declared, made for speed, and performed the passage The Silver Cup, given by Sir R. Clayton, added to a Sweepstakes of 1 sov. each. Heats, twice round. Mr. Preston': Bosphorus, aged (Pattison) 1 1 i from Hungerford-market to Gravesend in half the Mr. Bray's Fire) Oaks, 6 yrs 3 2 I time the old steamers used to occupy in going the Mr. Ibbotson's Paradise, aged 2 3 same distance ;at the same time they occasioned little The 'Quarry Stakes of 2 soya, each, and 20 added, once or no swell in the water. In fact the fastest boats round, were won in two heats by Mr. Dixon's Fez• occasioned the least disturbance in the water, and they hunter, aged (Livesey), beating Mr. Hepple's Lady Flora, co uld be stopped instantly. The low price at which 6 yrs, Mr. T. Hussey's Rabbi, 4 yrs, Mr. Richards's Chemist, aged, and Mr. Patton's alma-ion, 6 yrs, they accommodated the public, being. fourpence a P re - The Hurdle Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 20 added, head instead of eightpence, the original demand, quired that they should - be allowed not only to,carr3- ns!. 1b each, once round, were won in two heats by Mr. Patfon's Palmmon, 6 yrs (Wynne), beating Mr. Lamb's Donald Caird, aged, Mr. Pocock's Luck's-all, a large number of passengers, but that they should lass rapidly, and experience showed that they could Mr. Ward's Fidget, and several others, easily, go safely, for they had never been so unfortunate as BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY, to encounter any dangerous accident. It should, he submittedam-bts a be considered, too, E IIO R HANDICAP.—Even on Franchise, 8 to 1 agstthat the Greenwich steam-boats Godfrey (taken), 8 to 1 agst Rowena , 12 to 1 agst actually kept avast number of watermen Jamie Forest, 14 to 1 agst Glossy, and 30 to 1 agst Pe- and their famil i e s from the workhouse, without bene o, dometer. fitting the Directors one farthing. GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES. —2 to 1 agst Morpeth, 7 The LORD MAYOR said the Directors built the to 2 tio-st Prince Royal, 6to I agst Mr. Mostyn's lot. vesse l s f o r their own profit, but the competition inter- ST.'LEGEIL-3 to 1 agst The Cure, 4to I agst Ithu- fered with the profit expected from the speculation. rid, 8 to 1 agst Bay Momus (taken), II to 1 agst Red Deer, 12 to 1 agst Princess (taken), 12 to 1 agst Ugly - • - • Buck, 14 to 1 agst Foig-a-ballagh, 16 to 1 agst Morpeth, were kept going for no other object than Captain Popplewell assured the Lord Mayor that the vessels that of. keeping those poor men and theirfamilies and 33 to 1 agst Milton (taken). ABERYSTWITH RACES—WEDNESDAY. from starving. He begged to suggest that amongst the Committee should introduce one regulations The Johnny Raw Stakes of 5 sovs. each , 3 ft, with 20 the added. to prevent the steamers from running at the same Mr. Hall's Brilliana, 3 yrs walked - over time. The races which were run at present were The Cardiganshire Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 most dangerous. He also stated that the barges in only, if declared. Two miles. (11 Subs.) ' the river were, instead of each of them being taken Mr. Westley's Counseller, 5 yrs (H.-Darling) 1 care of by competent persons, hooked together by Mr. Parr's Ninety-One, 3 yrs . , 2 half-dozens, and under the control of a lad. The Crosswood Stakes of 5 sovs. -each, 3 ft, with 20 Sir Jonx Pato agreed in the condemnation of such added. Heats, one mile and a half, over hurdles. a ractice. lira Powell's Cracksman, aged ...(Mr. Cresswell) 1 1 . p Captain Popplewell having made some objections Mr. Ackers named Chance, 6 yrs 2 2 to the regulations of .en directed that each of the Heats, minor importance,ance, withdrew. The Town Plate, a dd o e n d e t m o i a le S a w n e d ep a st h a i k l e r s . of 3 sovs. each. th The LORD MAYOR Mr. Hall's Brilliana, 3 yrs (E. Gr iffiths) 01 1 clauses should be read. Mr. Parr's Zanthus, 4 yrs Mr. Pryse's Chaos, aged 3 dis. the regulations were agreed to, they could ascertain THURSDAY. - the number on board each vessel. The Tradesmen's (Handicap) Cup of sOl., added to a The LORD MAYOR said the material points were to Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and 3 only if de- fix the speed and the number of pass engers , an d they could then look to the best m ean s of carrying the re - Mr. Parr's Ninety-One, 3 yrs (E Griffiths) 1 gulations into effect. _ •--.-- Glared. Mile and a half. .. Sir C. Cockerell's Aurunzebe , 4 yrs - 2 ' Alderman T. WooD wished to know whether it had been ascertained that they had the power of en forcing the fines under the Watermen's Act. Mr. FIRTH (of the Town Clerk's office) said the City Solicitor had taken counsel's opinion, which was in favour of the power. Mr. FIRTH then proceeded to read the clauses and the various objections stated to them at former meetings of the Committee. . , Some conversation took place upon the third clause, whiCh went to regulate, that the space given for every person should be four feet. The objectors to the clause had suggested three feet instead of four. By the clause, the Ruby, Gravesend boat, .which had been known to carry 1,000.0 r 1,100 passengers, would be limited to 674, and that number the Committee con sidered to be quite large enough, and adopted the re gulation. The other three vessels will, of course, be regulated in proportion to that criterion. An altera tion was adopted as to the power of suspending, or annulling the licence. By the alteration, the magis trate, and not the Court of Aldermen, were vested with that authority. -Upon the motion of Alderman T. Wool), the fifth clause, relating to the obligation upon steam vessels to keep at a distance from barges, &c., was expunged. The sixth clause, which prevented passengers, under a penalty, frnm getting upon the paddle-boxes, or otherwise obstructing the captain and his men from performing their duties, was agreed to unanimously. The seventh and eighth clauses were also agreed to.. Upon the 9th clause, which related to the employ ment of tug steamers in going alongside vessels whilst towing them, and which was objected to by Sir John Hall and the Shipowners' Company, some observations were made, but the clause was agreed to, and it was added that no steam vessel should have more than two vessels in tow at the same time. A long discussion took place upon the 10th, and last, regulation, which was, that no steam-boat or vessel of more than 200 tons burthesi, registered ton nage, shall be navigated upon the river westward of . GreenwiCh Hospital at a greater speed than at the rate of six :miles in an hour with the tide, nor more than four miles in an hour against the tide ; and that no steam-boat or vessel of leSs than 200 tons burthsn, te regis red tonnage, shall be navigated at a greater speed than at the rate of eight miles in an hour with the tide, nor more than six miles in an hour against the tide, under a penalty of 51. Alderman T. WooD said that it was quite impos sible that a regulation limiting the speed in sb remark able st• manner could be carried into effect. Hethought that the speed of steam-vessels ought to be regulated upon the principle on which furious driving was pu nished. It was quite evident that there were several parts of the river in which steamers might go at a rapid pace without the least hazard to the lives or properties of others. The captains and owners were responsible for any injury to property, and their re sponsibility in the case of the loss of life was still more serious. - Sir Jour( PIRIE said that the •sinall steamers :did a vast deal of mischief on the river. They drew but little water, and - they ran in close to the banks of the river, aud were very prejudicial to wharfs. He, how ever, thought that the Committee might- add a mile an hour to the speed to which it was proposed to re strict the steamers of various tonnage by the 10th re gulation, and that the restriction should not extend below Cuckold's Point, opposite to Limehouse Church. Sir John moved to that effect. Alderman T. WooD did not think the rate proposed by Sir John Pirie was sufficiently great --•so restric tive a regulation would entirely annihilate the passing of the Gravesend steam-boats from Gravesend to Lon don-bridge. He then proposed that the addition to the speed proposed in the 10th regulation should be two miles an hour, for all the steam vessels of the square. Mrs. Harriet Eleanor Pelham, the mother of the unfortunate gentleman, came into the room, and took her seat . by the side of the Learned Commissioner, and she was shortly after followed by Mr. Wilson Pelham, her, other son. Mr. Commissioner BARLOW said the jury had nothing to do with the matters which had appeared in the public prints, and which would come before an- other tribunal.. £he object was, to ascertain whether Mr. Spencer was of unsound mind; and, if so, to take the, necessary control over his , property. Mr. Thomas then addressed the jury, saying that he appeared for the parochial authorities of Chelsea. On the 18th of May, in consequence of -information from the Rev. Mr. Burgos, the magistrates sent the police to. the house, No. 4, Princes -street, Chelsea, where Mr. Spencer was found, under circumstances which have been detailed at the police-office. Mr. Spencer' was natural son of General Sir Robert Spencer, who had left him by his will 2001., to be paid at his death, which took place in 1829, besides 3,2001., and 3,000/. to his mother, which would revert to him at her death. The disease commenced with some eccentricities. of the mind in 1828, when some disappointment in love caused him to take to drink ing, which produced brain fever, and ultimately un soundness cf mind. He might be restored by proper treatment, but until then it was necessary that his property should be protected: . The Learned.CommissitimEs left - the Court to as certain if Mr. Spencer would wish to be present, but the latter intimated he would rather decline._ _ . The following. evidence was then adduced :- . _ Alfred William Warder, examined byMr. Thomas -I am a sorgeon, of York-place, Queen ' s Elm,Chel sea. lam medical officer to the workhouse of this parish. I know. Brent Spencer, who became an in mate on the 18th of May last. Saw him the same evening, and spoke to him. His mind, in my opi nion, is decidedly insane. He did not appear to un derstand what he was talking about. By the COMMISSIONER-When he it asked any question he only says;" Ah !" or "yes." He does not know the value of coins, though he may know their names. He knew nothing about his family. He did not understand the sovereign when I showed him the ie,shim heritage ." coins and said he would prefer the half crown. Said he had been what Will he Watch, did and the he t bold id, , smuggler. 0 I asked . p I don't know what he meant by that. I asked him where he lived ? and he said; " Oh, yes, in the world." When I saw him yestera daysand asked him how he was, he said, " Very well," but he does not always answer. _ I have seen him with a book, and he said, " That is a pretty book." I said "Is it ?" and he said, " Oh, yes, about robbers, _ perhaps about clergymen, eh ?"- (Laughter.) He has been much the 'same since he has been in the workhouse. He is not fit to take care of himself o THE GRAND DUCHESS ALEXANDRA NICOLAEWNA property. By Capta OF RUSSIA.-A paragraph announcing the demise of or n Blue -He has not been under any the Grand Duchess Alexandra of Russia, purporting to restraint since he has been in the workhouse. he derived from authorit), appeared conspicuously in the - Mrs. Pelham -here made some observations. The Morning Herald of yesterday. This announcement was Commissioner 'intimated- that he could not officially of course echoed by the Standard of last evening ; but recognise any person being heard, whether for or op we are happy in being enabled to give a direct contradic-don to this report. The latest accounts which have PUBLIC INCOME AiND EXPEN- posed to the Commission, but would put any proper question which she or her adviser might suggest. reached this country from St. Petertiburgh are up to the DITURE. • 3d inst., and were received in town yesterday. By those By the Comm:mosaic, at the suggestion of Mrs. letters we learn that her Imperial Highness was still in A paper, containing an account of the public in- Pelham-When he saw his mother his manner was, come and expenditure of the United Kingdom for different, he seemed pleased, and showed her great a very precarious state ; but, happily, the statement - published by the /Wining Herald and Standard yester- three years, ended the sth day of Jimuary, 1842, attention. This made no alteration in the state of his day is totally devoid of foundation,-Post of Saturday. 1843, and 1844, has b een issued in a printed shape on mind. • On Saturday a notice was issued at Guildhall, by the motion of Mr. William Williams, the Member for Thomas Keene examined-I am medical officer of order of the Cemmissionets, of Sewers for the City of the town of Coventry. The following particulars of one division of this parish. I first saw Brent Spencer. London and the Liberties : thereof , that on and after this document will not be uninteresting to our readers on the 7th of June last. He said /he employed hint-. linnday the thor. aigh tare of Ludg.te-hill would be generally. We find, first, that the gross total amount of self in reading and writing, though he had then access closed, in consequence of an ord••r from that body for the public income was, in the year ending January 5, to no books. He said he had not left school, but had : the same to be repaired. 1842, 52,315,433/.; in the year ending January 5, been at Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, and h a d M. Dupre; who purchased from M. Aguado, for- 1843, 51,120,040/. ; and in the year ending January 5, taken a degree at Oxford. He said he was ire-the, merly banker to the Court of Spain, a hotel in the Rue 1844, 56,935,0221. The gross total - amount of the habit of riding on a donkey, that his property was in Turgot, valued at from 200,000 f. to 300,000 f., for a cer- public expenditure during the same period was, the Bank of England, and he had received the hit min sum of money and a life annuity of 20,000 f., has, by in the year 1841-42, 54,465, 3181 .; in the year dividend man y y ears a g o; that his father and mother the death ef the annuitant, become possessed of the pro -1842-43, 55,195,1891.; and in the year 1843.44, are both living, and that he has several brothers and petty atter the pas msnt of only one or two years an nuity. 55,401,7401. It accordingly follows'that in the two sisters living. He told me he lost his eye at school The cheap trips on railways are becoming so first-mentioned years, 1841-42 and - 1842-43, there or at play in Hyde Park. He answered correct l y common, that soon, probably, we shall cease to think any. was an excess of -expenditure over income, amount- several questions in arithmetic. My impression then thing about the matter. On Thur.day. the Madrigal So- ing in the former to 2,149,8851., and in the was that he was of unsound mind, and at all subsea ciety, of Manches•cr, took a trip to Alderly, that well- latter to no less a sum than 4;075,1191. In the year quent visits my opinion has been more strongly noted rendezvous on the Manchester and Birmingham' During part of this witness's evidence Mr. Pelham selves, as well as gratified many others, by singing of their choicest songs. The day was spent in thmeaunty- exceeded the amount of expenditure by 1,433,2831. made some interruption, which drew forth a remark Thus in the above three years the balance appears to from the Commissioner, that Mrs. P. must discone most po-sible harmony, The fare both ways was only be ' ls. fid. The railway c , •mpanies no doubt find cheap 4,791,7211. against the revenue, inasmuch as that tinue such a course if she wished to remain. excess of expenditure over income still remains to be Louis Edward Enghleback, clerk in Messrs. fares beneficial.-reds Mercury. CRICKET.-MALTON AGAINST LEEDS.-On Mon. reduced. It is known, nevertheless, that the quarterly Coutts' bank, said the payment on behalf of Brent day and Tuesday last, the second match for the grand returns for the current year, hitherto published, have Spencer, amounting to 1961. a year, had been paid sweepstakes of 80 sovs., was played on the York cricket been generally favourable to the revenue, and hitherto to Mrs. Pelham, but 961. was now taken off. ground, between two elevens of the Mahon and Leeds therefore a gradual extinction of the adverse balance The money was paid by an order of Lady Garvagh, clubs, which ended in favour of the latter at one innings, seems far from improbable:, Proceeding to details, it who Was the executrix of Lord Garvah, brother to with 87 notches to spare. The attendance of spectators appears that the total amounts received under different the late Sir Brent Spencer. The receipts, in Mrs. was very numerous, and the match created considerable heads during the three years in question were as Pelham's hand-writing, stated the money to be rel interest amongst the lovers of crieketing. follow, viz. :-Customs in 1841, 28,376,3051.; in ceived on behalf of herself and son. KEFIELD.-On 1842, 26,289,776/. •; and in 1843, 27,928,659/. Ex- S ERIOUS CASH ROBBERY AT WA Ephraim Simmons said he was an inmate of the Wednesday last, Ann Higgins, of Kirkgate, Leeds, was rise in 1841, 9,471,917/. ; in 1842, 9,311,1381.; and workhouse; when Mr. Spencer came into this house placed at the bar of the Wakefield Court-house, charged in 1843, 8,641,2221. Stamps in 1841, 7,276,360/. • his beard was four or five inches long, and his nails with receiving a large sum of money stolen from Mr. 'in 1842, 7,139,7831. ; and in 1843, 7,076,7521 .' very long; he was under witness' scare; he did not Exley, of Wakefield, corn-merchant. The particulars of Assessed and land taxes in 1841, 4,715,358/. ; in 1842, use a knife and fork when eating ; he never washed the robbery were, that on the 31st of July, Mr. Charles Exley gave to his brother, to take to 4,485 ? 4101. ;• and in 1843, 4,385 , 06 81 . Th . e p roperty - or dressed himself ;he was not violent, but on the • • the bank along with some gold, a promissory note tax yielded in 1842, 582,038/. only; but in .1843-4 , contrary, very quiet ;if ever witness turned his back for 30/., thirteen 51. Bank of England notes, one 40/ • in 5,387,455/. ; the Post-office, in 1841,,1,495, 5 . , to him, he would throw his food at him; witness 101., and three 51. notes of Messrs. Leatham's bank, and 1842, 1,578,145/. ; and in 1.843, 1,535.,2161. The heard him call out for brandy and ,sherry; he was other property. Mr. Exley, who is book-keeper to his Crown lands and other ordinary rescources are hardly fond of raspberry jam. brother, proceeded home, having, as he thought, the worth mentioning. Under the receipts, of. 1843-44, Thomas Cheeseman, another inmate of Chelsea notes in a pocket-book along w i t h hi m , b ut , on examina- however, the sum of 1,315,208/. (the money received workhouse who had also had the charge of Mr. Spen tion, found that he had either lost it on the way, or left from. China under the treaty of August, 1842) con- eer, corroborated the chief portion of the testimony it in the counting-house. OR returning to the counting tributes to swell the amount, and virtually c onsti- of the previous witness. house, the money was not there, and nothing further was tutes , fact, 3/ mentioned. in the surplus of that year,. which was - Thomas Tunstall, police - consta bl e 96 B, was exa heard of it for some days. Suspicion had attached to some only 1 " 43328 'a ' a lr e ady „ . We now pro mined. His evidence was precisely the same as that parties in Leeds, who had displayed a good deal o f p a p er ceed to the " expenditure side of the account. As given at Queen-square. • ' • money, and the prisoner, Ann Higgins. along with a Mrs. un der the different heads vary but Lengthotn, AIM Machan, and a young man who was the total amounts give the John Thomas Ryder, Chairman of the Board of afterwards discharged, were detected offering part of little in the three years, we shall merely' the stolen money at various shOps in Kirkgate and particulars of the amount disburied in the year ending (Tunstall) . ' Briggate, Leeds.. Mrs. Lengthorn and Ann Machan the sth of January, 1844, the,grand total of which Thomas Johnson, surgeon, attended Mr. Brent were both admitted evidence for the prosecution, and was, as has already been stated, 55,501,740/. In Spencer in July, 1830, for i brain fever. He was clearly swore that the notes' they had endeavoured to then sent to a lunatic asylum. He was of opinion get changed had been given to them for that purpose by country 2,783,542/. ; the charge of the -public debt, fine, the charges of collecting the revenue cost the that he was then, and still continued, of unsound Ann Higgins. The final detection of the delinquentsmind. was made by Mr. Pegler, draper, of Briggate, who, on interest on thepermanent debt; 3 924 1841 on the ter- , , • 29,261,012/. (of which the sum of 24,512,753 1 . was for The jury having expressed a wish to see the unfor having the 30/. note offered to him by Elizabeth Long- . - , minable annuities • 135 , 9911. for the expenses of m a - . tunate gentleman, left the room for that purpose. He th.rn and another woman , suspecting it to be stolen, . • took it to Messrs. Beckett's bank, whet eit was identified, ex- had retired to his room, and was walking up and notes stolen quer bills. The The civil Government entailed an by nomb• r arid description, as one of the , • • . nageme . nt, and '388,98./. for the interest on Exche down. To sundry questions put by the Commis sioners and jurors he merely answered by monosyllit- Civil List and from Mr. Exley. Several tradesmen from Leeds at- pense on the nation of 1,626,2191., of which the sum tented, and proved having changed notes for the parties. of 371,800/. was appropriated 'to t he bles and confused sounds. He said he wanted to go After a careful investigation of the corroborative cir- Privy Purse, 308,4231. to the allowances granted to back again ; and he wanted to eat his dinner. In fact, cumstances against the prisoner, Mr. Tew committed the the several branches of the Royal Femily, 26 , 317/. to his remarks were generally incomprehensible. • woman for trial at York assizes. The money was sup- On the return of the jury, the - following witnesses posed to have been stolen by a son of the prisoner, now- 106,0011. to the salaries and expenses of- the two the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland's e.stablishment , were examined :- posed an inmate of York Castle, for brutally maiming a man in Houses of Parliament (including planting), 510,3941. George .Ledbitter-Knew him from 1824 to 1830, Leeds. The pin-otter, although repeatedly cautioned not to the civil departments (the Government offices, during which peril he had been a gay young man. to` do so, said, in her defettee--‘ , Last Saturday week,He had ' had a brain fever porevious to about August, there came a young woman, Ellen Tide, into rny'house; pensions, and superannuation al &c.), including superannuation allowances, 297,9771. 1830, and he then appeared much altered. it is 'not a house but a cellar. Ellen is a bad woman ;to ot h er annuities, . Henry Tembs, hairdresser-Was employed by , Mrs. ' &c. Aft l'itl revenue • and 5 307/. to civil list pensions. The she cam , • an d asked '' if my son had `come home. I said, lowanees on the Consolidated Fund and on the gross no ; she said he would soon be here, c. er Pelham to shave and cut the hair of Mr. Brent Spen cer for some time, till about four and a half years while, Peter came in, and she took something out of her charges incurred by the administration of justice breast, and gave.it to him. They went into the coal- amounted to 1,782,469/., of which 580,516/. was ap- For Alderman Wood's proposition four hands, and , ago. No one has attended upon roof since. hole together, and stuffed it (the money) under the coals. propriated to courts of justice, 566,438 1 . to police and against it, five hands, were held up. The amendment Mr: Wilson Pelham, brothe the unfortunate That night I got a sup of drink, and took the money out. criminal prosecutions,river. and 635,5151. to correction. was, of course, negatived. gentleman-My age is twenty-two. I have lived in 1 I went into L. ngth' ire's house next morning, and her an additional mile Princes-street eleven years. I have not attended on (Mr.. Lengthorn) and Cottle'. woman robbed me of it-- The diplomatic expenses amounted t 0.361,4261., viz., Sir -John Pirie's motion, g i v i ng 178,456/. tor the salaries and pensions of foreign Mi- an hour to all steamerSiin going with or against the Brent Spencer during four or five years. He has not sv,.ry ►penn" The prisoner, who is an Irishwoman, . lusters ; 125,708/. for Consuls' salaries and super- tide was then agreed to. been out during that time-not out of his room. I In re made strong asseveration of the truth of her state annuation allowances; and 57,2621. to the disburse- The regulations will be reported to the Court of have occasionally taken him his food. Have had no and d eclared that Mrs Lengthorn had told her that ment, eclat. .the next s inents of outfits, &c. The gross total charge for Aldermen on nt - doctor to him for seven years. The last doctor was Ann Machan had robbed her. . If this statement is cor reet, the case bears the singular feature of money stolen the maintenance of the sea and land forces amounted culties may yrese ff the mselves : t _ in the endeavour to Sir George Tuthill. He was kept in the room be be the parantour of a ion, having been re-stolen from to 14,513,9171.; of which the sum of 5,997,156/. was carry them into eec work he members of the Court have cause he was violent, and in an unsound state of mind, the son by his mother, and again re-stolen from the appropriated to the army, 6,6 0 6, 0571 . to the navy, , certainly gone to with a great deal of energy to and has been in that state for about fourteen years. guilty mother, while in a state of drunkenness by another and 1,913,704/. tO the ordnance. Among the less ' i abate the dangerous nuisance of racing and over- Sir Brent Spencer always treated me as though I was party. important items, there figure the following sums, viz. , i crowded steam-boats. 'his sop., He left me no money. ENGLAND IN 1830.-I only wish you could read -416 056/. for the China expedition; 1, 245 1 8 , 231 . for After the consideration of the by-laws, it was By the COMMISSIONER -Mr. Johnson was there , Arthur Young's Travels in France in 1789 and 1790, the opium compensation ; 11 , 2861 . for bounties , Ice. , 'ordered that the harbour-master should deliver in a thirteen years' ago. Brent Spencer was then out of and see what he says of the general outbreak then of the for the promotion of fisheries; 405,246/. for public return of the situations of all the lighter roads between his mind . He has been in that state ever since.. He . : rea. entry, when they burnt the chateaux all over France, works ; 211,5611. for improvements and various public London- bridge and Greenwich s the number of bthree t'attemptedthrow Mrs. and and ill-used the families of the proprietors, and then services (paid out of the revenue of Crown lands) ; at each road; and in whose occupation the same are Pelham out of the window, and also to throw himself compare the orderliness of the French populace now. It ~., for I' 6 834/. the Post-office ; and 1,760,463/. fora at present. speaks volumes for small subdivided properties, general " , •-. out. This was in 1835. Since he had been shut up intelligence, and an absence of aristocratical manners variety of 'the harbour miscellaneous services, tod numerous, and not ordered, that , - about fighting, and wished and distinctions. We know that, i n t h e fi rs t revo l u ti o n, sufficiently important, to merit a detailed enumera- the Committee their opi nion upon the mode a t presen t o ge t out to fight somebody. to be seen in decent clothes was at one time a sure road tion. The charge, in 1843, for home secret service ; a dopted in loading sand, coal, and oth er barges, and Mary Chalford-I have seen Brent Spencer this to the guillotine ; so bitter was the hatred engendered in money was 10,000/. ; for foreign secret service money w , at restrictions and rules they would suggest for day. I have known him seventeen , years, I use d to . a brute population against those who had gone on in 33,8001.; and for secret service money in Ireland 1 t h e d ue regulation of the same. live - servant with General Sir Brent Spencer, and the luxury and refinement, leaving their poorer neighbours 5,7701. The amount of terminable annuities was, on The Committee adjourned, after having sat four sgentleman used to liveat home w i th him. His to to remain in the ignorance and wretchedness of savages, the sth of January, 1844, 3,924,723/. ; and, in cor- hours i n deliberation upon the clauses. . father was very kind. to him. and therefore wi th the ferocity of savages also. Th '- e responding perpet uities, as 'estimated by Mr . Finlai- Here several of the jury expressed themselves satis dissolution of the Ministry may do something ; but the .. _ _ ssP6, leavin g - ' difference of. 2 3 ' 73 961/. son, 1,050,7 2/. ; a. „• • evil exists in every parish in England ;and there should' Faamt RENTS. -The framework knitters in the fled, upon which the Learned Commissioner recapi- We have thus endeavoured to give our readers some be a reform in the ways and manners of every parish to Midland Counties are holding meetings respecting the tulated a portion of the evidence; and the jury imme cure it. We have got up a dispensary here ; and lum idea, however imperfect, of the present condition of , exaction of frame refits: from the workmen, a species of diately came to the unanimous conclusion " That thinking of circulating small tracts ala Cobbett in point the pecuniary resources of their country, and the pre- truck. A resolution to the following effect is passed Brent Spencer was of unsound mind, and had been of style, to show the people the real state of things and sent expense of maintaing its various institutions in a wherever meetings are held:-" That if the masters are so from 3d July, .1840." ' their causes. Half the truth might be of little use ; but manner hecorning the honour and dignity of f 0 great determined to stop frame rents, every person shall keep - A woman here came forward and declared that ignorance of all the truth i's something featful, and a an empire. f all mones a strict account o . b al dted from his or her Mrs. Pelham had kidnapped her child. Mrs. Pelham, _ _ do no- 1 knowledge of the whole truth, lam convinced, . earn'ngs, and give notice they consider such stop- l oo ks u a ts. much flushed, said, " Oh, no." Tbe other of the rich has been a 1 ARTISTS' ANNUITY FUND At a and shall, at the thing but pacify, because the fault __ . .- numerous meeting page illegal ; a . conclusion of the trial woman was ordered out of the room. She then de sin of ignorance and thoughtlessness : they have. only of gentlemen connected with this useful fund, held o n . Chawner V. Cummings,. use all legal means to reco v er ' 1 G lar e d th t - th(Wilson Pelham) was done what the poor would have done in their places, Th urs d a y eve ning, at the Freemasons' Tavern, a piece the same; and . that this meeting pledges itself not to d . ar a e younger son Pelham about twent - than to take ofplate was td to Abraham C 11 , A sign document' '' What with +ll . d f t. kidnapped from her by Mrs. . y because tew men's morality rises higher wrong to is ground to on two years since. She tare of themsels - t-s, abstaining from actua l token of the personal esteem of the inemb( rs, and as an . the pour man death. Lord John d ultimately proceeded tali. rs..-Ltle of Dr. At to, ld. acknowl. dgment, however inadequate, of the sense en. Russell's appeal on behalf of the working classes, at the length to the same effect, an . formal corn taint. - A mixture of lard and wood soot', in equal quan- tertained by them of the unremitting . zeal displayed 'on close of Parliament, does - him everlasting credit.-From A' CAV-L--rom to Queen-square to make a l3 tities, is stated by the editor of the Cincinnati Advertiser, all occasions by Mr. Cooper in the proniotion of the a Correyondent . - [lt will be seen from o ur police . report that the to be .. the soyerelguest thing in the world" for burns l interests of the Association during a period of thirty , The cost e nd entertained by the ma of a hogshead of tobacco of 1,200 lbs. complaint was misslP a •: ' • . and scalds. i years. - _ . RAILWAY MORAL CLASS BOOK. (BY THE BISHOP OF LONDON.) (From Punch.) MORALS TOR THE FIRST CLASS.—The morals pre scribed for this class are the same on all days of the week. An act hieh is moral on Mondays, Tues;. days, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, is moral also on Sundays. The reason i , that this class em ploys the best tailors, eats the best food, drinks the best wines, in short, lives the best ; and lastly and especially, pays the highest fare of all the three classes. Moreover, being accustomed to amuse themselves all the six days of the week, it would he cruel to deprive them of recreation on the seventh ; and having little or no business on any day, they have as much business to travel on Sunday as on any other. MORALS FOR THE SECOND CLASS.— It is not, strictly - speaking, quite proper for persons of this class to do the same thing every day ; so that a per fect system of morality would prohibit them from Sunday travelling. Many of them go to Holborn and the City for their clothes, dine upon two courses, and cannot afford hock, claret, and champagne, or even good port and sherry. llowever, on the whole, they are pretty r e spectable. Thus, for the trans gression, the rigid rule of right may be relaxed, and they may be permitted to travel on Sundays ; but they are to understand this permission as a sufferance merely, and their conduct in availing themselves of it is by no means to be approved of. Moits.Ls You THE THIRD CLASS.—For this class of people to travel on Sundays is a heinous crime. They are meanly clad, and live upon a coarse kind of food. Toil and hardship are their portion during the week, and enjoyment on the Sunday would make them discontented with their lot. The third class of 'railway passengers is formed of the inferior classes, and not being respectable, no respect whatever should be shown to its inclinations. Its fare is nothing like an atonement for the crime in question. The Legis lature, therefore, has acted very improperly in com pelling Sunday trains to run third-class carriages ; and the statute, if possible, should be evaded. THE WEDNESBURY MURDER.— 1 EXECUTION OF THE CULPRIT, BEARDS, AT STAFFORD. Saturday morning, at eight o'clock, the extreme sentence of the law was carried into effect at the Stafford County gaol, on William Beards, who was found guilty at the late assizes, of the murder of Eli zabeth Griffiths, at the village of Wednesbury, on Saturday, the 16th of last March. Late on Friday evening the doomed culprit expressed himself as being at peace with the world, and pre pared to die. He retired to rest apparently much composed, and at an early hour rose. He was imme diately joined by the Reverend Ordinary, who re mained in earnest prayer until the arrival of the Sheriffs and other official authorities. He repeatedly thanked them for the extreme kindness they had shown to him, and again acknowledged the justice of his sentence. He was conducted to the scaffold, erected on the summit of the front of the gaol, the open space be neath containing an immense multitude. The execu tioner having adjusted the rope, the Rev. Gentleman commenced reading that beautiful prayer in the burial service, " In the midst of life," at the conclusion of which the fatal bolt was withdrawn, and, :after a few seconds, the wretched murderer ceased to exist. His body having hung the usual time, it was cut down, and interred within the precincts of the prison. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, AUGUST 16.—The partial decrease in the amount of sales has been appa rent in the foreign wool trade during the past week, but prices are without variation. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, AUGUST 16. i We have not any alteration to notice this week; sales I continue steady, and prices firm. .WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, AUGUST 16.—We have no alteration to note in the trade from last week ; sales have scarcely been so extensive, yet prices are equally as firm in both long and short wool. LEEDS.—There has this week been a very brisk demand for beavers, pilot cloth, shawls, and fancy cloakings, in fact, for goods of every description adapted to the winter trade. The supply of goods to the Cloth Halls still continues to be very small, con sequent on the manufacturers being engaged in de livering to order, and the stocks in the hands of the manufacturers are smaller than they have been for many years. Prices are a little higher in low quali ties, but fine goods are without any alteration. There has been a fair average quantity of business done in the warehouses, principally in goods suitable for the winter. BRADFORD MARKET, TIIIJRSDAY.—In the Piece Market there is a steady business doing to-day in merinos, orleans, and cobourgs, for the home trade, and the shippers are busy selecting goods suitable for the approaching German fairs, which are generally expected to be brisk, as the supply sent forward for the spring fairs was very small, the advanced prices having deterred the merchants from buying. The spinners are generally working to order ; old stocks are cleared out, and prices are firm. There is not any improvement in the demand for wool since our last; the supply being good, the spinners buy only for immediate use. Prices are steady. TRADE OF MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING, There is no fresh feature in our cloth market since Tuesday. The demand h steady, and fully equal to the production, indeed in some kinds of cloth the supply is hardly equal to the demand. The home trade is very lively ; a large business indeed is doing, and probably never a larger one was doing by our home merchants. All branches seem to be doing well. The dyers now are remarkably busy, a sure sign of a very good domestic trade. Twist is very ready sale, and, if anything, is again in favour of the spinner.—Leeds Mercury. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET AUGUST 18.—Five hun dred hhds. West - India have found buyers since our last, at from 565. to 655. per cwt., which are considered firmer rates. The transactions in Bengals and Mauri tius continue on a limited scale.—Bristol Mercnry. REVELATIONS OF RUSSIA. - There is no country in the world about which England ought to know so much, and does in reality know so little, as about the vast empire of the Czar, the principle on which it is go verned, and the desires and designs of those who govern it. With one sole exception, the writing travellers of the last twenty years have appeared to conspire together, as if by common consent, to blind Europe—and Eng land in particular—to the real views and objects of that vast despotism which has reached its acme in the person of the Emperor Nicholas. At length an Englishman, and one who appears to have had unequalled means and facilities for observation, has dared to speak the truth about Russia, her government, her institutions, and the fearful results to which they tend, fearful no less for Europe than for her own people. These " Revelations of Russia," just published, are the most startling dis closures of the kind that have ever been put forth, and so intense and stirring is the social and political interest mixed up with them, that the book has all the excite ment of a romance, combined with all the homefelt inte rest of what it evidently is—a true history. Tits VICTORT.—We are requested to state that the new naval novel, The Victory, or The Ward Room Mess, by M. H. Barker, Esq., " The Old Sailor," is published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlbo rough-street, and may now be had at all the libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just published the following popu lar novels :—Parsons and Wi dows, by the author of " Peter Priggins"—The Wil f u lness of Wom Ma rs ton, a by the authoress of " The History of a Flirt" —!Hyde Sporting Novel, by "Craven"—Whitefriars; or the Days of Charles the Second, an Historical Romance, third edition. The follo win g are just ready :—Arthur Arundel, a Tale of the E n g lish Revolution, by Horace Smith, Esq., author of " B r ambletye House,' and the Roman Traitor, a True Tale of the Republic, vilby the au thor of " Oliver Cromwell," "Marmaduke Wy," &e. ThO annual return of the P E RIODICAL METE ORS. — meteors of the loth of August has this year excited a more than usual interest. Preparations for noting them having been made, they were accurately observed i n B e l g i u m by the astronomers, M. Quetelet, Dr. Fur ster, and others. On the night of the 9th, between nine and eleven o'clock, only seventeen of these fallen stars were observed ; but on the 10th, (the regular , period of their return) Dr. Forster found that the number of those which crossed the western hemisphere alone amounted to rather more than seventy - p hour. Some were exceedingly brilliant, er riously coloured, whilst others left long " tra y i l ns . of light in their track. What ma rem arkable was their evident. tendency to a ' eo s ny4i i n st g point in the heavens , very near to Antaresin the heart of the Scorpion. Indeed , hardly any exceptions appeared to this rule ; and yet they commenced from every b qua rter, a circumstance that will very interesting to as tronomers in distant parts. One of the most brilliant 35 e of these meteors appeared atminutes past 10, mean time, at Bruges, and it crossedthezenith, or nearly se, not far from the fi rst star of the Harp, descending towards the hori zon i n a di rect i on W.S Besides the ordinary meteors, Dr. Forster observed some remark able white lines, apparently electric, which seemed as if drawn along the sky momentarily, and which had also a direction towards W.S.W. Observers will now Wait anxiously for the 12th and 13th of November, which is the next period Of the meteors.—Galignani. „ - only 5,000 feet, there being only two sands E.N.E. of F, where there are only 21 to 4 fathoms water. F. From the buoy F to G. and as far as the Rustring siel Augsentief S. E. Width of the strum 7,000 feet, ' and before the Rustringsiel Augsentief only 3,500 feet ; depth of the stream 5 to 6 fathoms. G. From the Rustringstel Augsentief as far as the . buoy 11, S. by W. Width of the stream 3,500 feet; depth 5 to 84 fathomss. H. From the buy II beyond the Rel buoy, as far. as the White buoy, S. by W. Width of the stream 4,000 feet; depth 81 to 3 fathoms. • i. From the White buoy as far as the Vareler Roads, S. by E. E. Width of the stream 2,500 feet; depth 3, 2i, and 14 fathoms. Of these buoys, the one marked Jahell will remain moored during the winter ; the buoys 2to 7 will be re placed in the beginning of November by Bojin, the buoys Bto 12 will be then removed altogether. All the buoys removed in Noveisber be replaced in spring, as soon as the weather permits of it. In order to cover the expenses of these buoys, a ton nage of eight groten (gold) for each oat last of the burthen of a vessel entering the Jahell, will be levied. Such tonnage must be paid to the receiver appointed by the bailiship of Minsen by all vessels of five oat lasts and upwards, whether they seek a place of refuge, or freight, or to dis•clirirge their cargo, if they come to an anchor in the Jahell south of the black buoy Sub. No. 7, or if they visit a port or er , ek of the Jahel l . Each vessel will, however, only once a year be liable to pay tonnage. All bailiships bordering on the Jahell are hereby ordered, at the request of the lawful receivers of such tonnage, to assist in levying it in the same mariner as other public taxes, and to decide on cases of dispute ac coriing to the foregoing regulations. From the de cision of such bailiships, an appeal can only be made to the Government. Grand Ducal Government. (S:gaed) NIUTZENBECIIER BUCIIOLTZ. Oldenburgh, June 4, 1844. ANOTHER CASE OF PIRACY AND SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, SUPPOSED MURDER. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. Within the last day or two - letters have been re- GLQBE.—The bombardment of ;Tangiers by the eeifed front Dundee, communicating to the under- Prince de Joinville's squadron, intelligence of which writers information respecting the brig Hannah, be- reached the British metropolis yesterday, and was longing to that port, from which strong suspicions are announced in the Globe, seems to have taken all par apprehended that the captain, Mr. Lowther, was mur- ties by surprise. Hostilities between France and tiered by the crew, fir the purpose of possessing them- Morocco— vvhich it was hoped and believed had ;elves of the vessel and cargo, but afterwards their been averted by the interference of Mr. Drum plane were frustrated :by the hip becoming leaky. mond Hay—have actually commenced. " The dogs The particulars, it appears,_ were brought over by the of war" have been let loose ; and the capital of Hibernia, steamer, from the Lloyd's agent at Quebec, Morocco is laid in ruins by the cannon of France. and are as follows : Another difficulty is thus created in the pending O n th e m o r n i ng o f Monday, the Bth of last month, ne g otiations between the Cabinets of England and when the . harque Scotland, William Hamilton, bound France ; from which we sincerel y ho p e the two to Quebec, was w ithin ten hours' sail of that port, two countries will, by the wise policy of their Ministers, boats w ere di scovere d several miles to the leeward, be extricated, without being involved in war with each The captain, sus p ec ti n g they belonged to some ship- other. Such an event cannot be too strongly depre wrecked vessel, immediately bore down and picked sate d. The discharge of the first hostile cannon in a them up, when he ascertained that they belonged to dispute between France and England, from whatever the brig Hannah, of Dundee. The boats contained cause it might arise, would be felt as the shock of an seven men, and the statement they made to Captain earthquake, by every civilised nation in the world. Hamilton was to this effect : The interests of every Power would be effected in a .. They stated that on the night of the sth the greater or less degree, in proportion to their local posi- Hannah encountered a heavy pie of wind, and on the tion upon the map; nor could the most far-seeing following day it was found she had sprung a leak, statesman set limits to the exte nt of the hostile for there was upwards of two feet of water in her o perations, nor predict the duration and effects of hold. They all turned to the pumps, and finding, the conflict. Such are our deliberate and deeply after twenty-four hours pumping, that the water, felt opinions respe c t in g the consequences of war instead of diminishing, had increased several feet, between France and this country. It may fairly they urged Captain Lowther to take to the boats, be asked, why the hostile position in which France which he refused, Saying there was a chance of saving and Morocco are placed toward each other, should the vessel, and that he should not leave her. create fears that England will become involved .There being nine feet of water in the hell then, in the contest? Are not the two former coun they determined to leave the vessel, and launch- tries completely independent Powers ? May they not ing the two boats, which was all the s hip pos- quarrel and fight, if they please, without involving sessed, they jumped in and left her, leaving the cap- England in the strife? The question, in this abstract twin, without any possible means of escape, on board. form, seems capable of an easy and satisfactory reply. It was then twelve o'clock at night, and at daybreak There is nothing in necessaril a war betwee invon „Fran th is ce the following morning they looke d round, in the and Morocco which, y, lvee hopes of seeing the ship, but she was nowhere to be country. History and experience, however, prove seen. Captain Hamilton, suspecting the truth of that events far less likely tote roduce war, of . a COM. , these statements, resolved, the moment he reached prehensive range and of prcted duration, than the Quebec, to acquaint the magisterial authorities, upon present quarrel ' between France and Morocco, have which a brief inquiry was instituted, w hi c h resu lt e d caused the sword to be drawn by almost every . „in the committal of the whole of the ship's crew of Power, on one side or the other, - until the whole the Hannah to the Penitentiary, the magistrates continent of Europe became converted into the scene having a strong belief that some foul play had been of its calamitous operations. - Nor is this the only perpetrated -on board. A. few days after their source of our apprehensions. The war party in committal, a vessel that had put into Quebec re- France possesses considerable and growing influence. ported that the wreck of the Hannah had been dis- M. Guizot, it is evident, is disposed—probably more covered on the banks of the Anticosti, and that it had, from compulsion than inclination—to a seeming corn - he believed, been taken in tow by , another vessel, to pliance with its incessant clamours for military bring her into that port. Her arrival naturally was demonstrations. The Prince de Joinville's pain looked for with intense interest, and on the 28th the phlet—though a mere feather in the scale it vv w ars Hannah Hannah was brought safely into Quebec, with very cau g ht at with avidit y . As a feathea . in little damage. It is needless to say that the unfor - thrown u p to ascertain the. popular I;4Am; tunate master, Captain Lowther, was not to be found, France. The experiment was successful. Its senseless nor any of the ship's papers. The prisoners were to gasconades were largely quoted as indisputable autho undergo a second examinatiou on the 12th inst., and. rity by the mischievous party with which this hair in the meanwhile every possible inquiry was to be brained youth had joined himself. His vanity was made. The Hannah was heavily laden, but the na- fed by applause ; and his warlike doctrines were quoted `ure of her cargo is not mentioned. by the French press, as though they had proceeded from an oracle. If prudence had actuated the French Minis.• try, and peace had really been its cherished and deter mined purpose, would a youth like De s Joinvilk have been appointed to the difficult mission with-which he was entrusted—a mission in which the alternative of hos tile attack was to be preceded by negotiation? To our mind the selection of the Prince dejOinville for this service seems pregnant with suspicion -as to M, Guizot's desire for peace. It indicate a pre-determined purpose, on the part of the French Ministry, that negotiation should be the precursor of hostilities ; and not that it should prevent them. We will assign one or two of the reasons which induce this opinion. The first is the language held by the Paris Globe —M. Guizot's own organ—on this very subject. The fole lowing extract from an article on theAforocco war=e though written some days before the Vi - ench expedie tion appeared before Tangiers, anticipated the result and avows the real purpose for which it was under taken. It will be seen that England's power in the Mediterranean is to be reduced by the subjugation of Tangiers :—" Morocco is evidently the dependent of England, who maintains and protects it. Eng land can only hold Gibraltar, as long as no great Power has possession of the coast of Morocco and 'rangier. Place French cannon on the African coast of the Straits, and the import ance of Gibraltar will diminish one-half. England is, therefore; obliged to maintain the Islamism of Tangiers in order not to have France there, as she is obliged to maintain Constantinople, in order to pre vent Russia from taking it." Another reason is, the manifest importance which the French attach to the possession of Tangiers, as the means of securing their Algerian territory. That Abd-el-Kader had greatly annoyed the French in their military progress, is unquestionable ; and that he was able thus to impede their operations, and, to a consi derable extent, frustrate their quiet settlement in Algeria, cannot be denied. But Abd-el-Kader's irruptions into Algeria supply no justifiable reason why the Emperor of Morocco should be attacked, and his capital bombarded. To implicate the Emperor of Morocco, it was necessary to show that he connived at, and assisted, that formidable chieftain in his sallies, and in his other annoying proceedings. Whe ther implicated or not in' the hostile irruptions of Abd-el-Kader—the alleged provocation given to France by the Emperor of Morocco — nothing can be snore certain than that England cannot permit France to possess herself of Tangiers. An attempt to appro priate to herself a single foot of land in the Empe ror'-of -Morocco's dominions, would—at least, if the Cabinet of England be not criminally imbecile, and traitorously indifferent to what pertains to the honour and interests of their country—be followed by a de cisive protest against the act. This, if not .imme diately successful, an armament, on a scale sufficiently large to give effect to that remonstrance must in stantly be dispatched, to enforce upon France the necessity of keeping within those limits which the preservation of the balance of power manifestly pre scribes. England has no disposition to acquire fur ther territory. She neither seeks to add to, nor to make a boast of, the strength she wields. A tran quillity of spirit—the result of a 'consciousness of power to resent insult, and to protect herself against aggression—pervades the nation. A force is con stantly at the disposal of our rulers, which, if pro perly prepared and employed, enables this country to rest quiet, devoid of fear, and as little disposed to boast. STANDARD.—The affair of Otaheite is, we trust, in a course of satisfactory accommodation by the only parties who can properly or safely meddle with it, the responsible executive Governments of Great Britain and France. Certain it is that the facts which come to light day by day are not of a character to make the accommodation more difficult on the side of this country. Already Great Britain seems to be scarcely a party in the dispute, which in substance lies not between France and this nation, but between France and an anomalous sort of government in 'Otaheite, in which power is divided between thenative Queen and a society of missionaries, as jealous of the influence of Great Britain at least as of the influence of any other European power. Were it not that by an unlucky chance the missionary prime minister of the Queen has obtained the cha racter of a British Consul, which, however, he solemnly renounced four months before the acts now complained of occurred, Great Britain would really have no concern in the affair. A writer in this day's Times, whose statements are entitled to the considera tion due to those of every man who verifies what he says by his name, gives an unpleasant view of the moral state of the higher authorities in Otaheite, and even charges the missionaries with conn they ivanc cean at what they ought certa inl y to condemn, if not prevent it. This writer, who ou rn sign e, s ., his char name " Walter Brodie, the Gore, Eastbges Queen Pomare with bigamy and habitual drunken ness, intimating that a considerable portion of the missionaries themselves are the reverse of teetotallers, and m entioning the imprisonment " in the stocks" of Mr. Pritchard's representative, the British Vice- Consul, whose h abits are, it appears, rather too jovial. This outrage upon British rights was, it appears, offered by the Otaheitan Government ; but we have not heard that any reparation was de manded for the restraint imposed on the Vice-Con sul's legs. Mr. Brodie alleges against the Otahetian Government and its missionary adviser the graver charge of having accompanied, by unneces sary harshness and indignity, the deportation of the French missionaries two years ago the "fons et origo" of the dispute with France. Now, these considerations are of great importance, not merely in relation to the question in dispute between Great Britain and France, but to the continued progress of true religion and its conse quences—the civilisation and happiness of the human race. As regards the present diplomatic ques tion there is much in the state of society which we have been contemp!ating in Otaheite to com mand a great relaxation on the part of diplo matists on both sides. Our free-acting ancestors of the eighteenth century used to hold, that whatever might be the state of political relations in Europe-- " there was no peace beyond the line." Now it may be wise to adopt the same discrimina to ting boundary, for a somewhat more pacific purpose, and h o ld that rigid rule of public law ought not to extend much beyond the northern hemisphere, more, espe cially in the imperfectly civilised islands of the Pac i iti mi c I ; t 1- deed, public law being, like all other law, -andca n n o o t f well tions anywhere. The second, and immeasurab ly th e more important consideration is, theht throtem. wn by That the even ts at Otaheite upon the m issionary sys the missionaries have wrought an immense amount of good in the South Seas cannot bedisputed ; even the least satisfactory p i ctu r i eof ht o ,re ta c h ot e on it lt e els, e t t la s i he t has r eached us pres ents a glorious)ut a contrst tate of redfiftlYetioenar,s ag o' this good likely. to be i t a h n e c i h s o l tn , permanent ? Is it not even apparent, that under the missionary. government the Coiree Of