The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The Times of this morning contributes a rather large instalment towards balancing its ac count on the Otaheitian question. For some days the entries in its columns were principally on the other side; and a large amount of sound argument, inter spersed with wholesome invective, were introduced to show the unprovoked and indefensible character of the outrages perpetrated by the French authorities at Ota ' cite ; and also to impress upon our Government the bligations by which it is bound to demand and enforce indemity and reparation for the indignity offered to the British flag in the person of Mr. Pritchard, the Consul of this country, and for the abuse of the powers assumed by the French officers under the " Protectorate " they had set up. No longer than yesterday an article of this cha racter, of no ordinary excellence, enforcing these views, appeared in the columns of the Tim es. " A change has this morning come o'er the spirit" of our Contemporary. As if scared by . the sou nds itself had made: apparently fearful of having assisted to rouse the spirit of the nation ; or, possibly, of hav ing " roared" too loudly in the ears of Lord Aber deen, and disturbed the dreamy repose which con stitutes his delight; the Times suddenly becomes mild as a sucking dove ! Recently so big with rage against French aggression and outrage, for which re paration must be demanded, and atonement made, our Contemporary—in the spirit of Shakspere's popinjay, now " talks like a waiting gentlewoman of " the pity, so it was—" " That villanous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly." The occasion of this marked change—at once both sudden and complete—is not very obvious. The meeting at Exeter Hall yesterday, convened for the purpose of enabling the Directors and members of the London Missionary Society to make a public demon stration of their views and sympathies upon the state of things at Otaheite, is made the peg upon which the Times hangs its new opinions on this question. We neither adopt the whole of the views put forth by the speakers at the meeting referred to, nor undertake to defend the language in which some of them gave utterance to their opinions. There are, however, strong provocations to regret and indignation in the ministers and gentlemen on whom the Times pours out the vials of concentrated contempt and wrath for their interference. The argument of our Contemporary will induce an opinion that the Society which met yesterday on this matter had obtruded itself into a dispute with which it had no peculiar concern—that, in fact, their interference is impertinent, and their agitation mischievous. Has the Times forgot, or did it never know, that by the patient, persevering, and devoted labours of the agents of this Society—not composed exclusively of Dissenters, but of clergymen and members of the Establishment, uniting with Dissenters in this noble enterprise— Otaheite and the other islands in the Georgian groupe were civilised and Christianised ? Had the South Sea Islanders continued in their state of bar barism, they would not have attracted the regards of the French, nor would the subordinate authorities of that nation have forced their " protection" upon them. They were reclaimed from barbarism by the agents of the Society which met yesterday to express its sympathy with the islanders whom they had raised from the debasement of senseless idolatry, and the vices and cruelties which follow in its train. Those shores, once unsafe for any vessel to touch at, were rendered approachable and hospitable through the heroic courage and indomitable energies of the missionaries who were sent forth to, and supported by the contributions of, the Society which is upbraided by the Times, in one of the fitful changes for which it is remarkable, with exceeding their vocation by expressing their views on such a subject. If the Times did " not know what particular call" the meeting of yesterday had to " involve itself in such matters," it is now informed ; and will doubt less admit the ignorance which induced the reflections upon the meeting and its proceedings, and apologize for the discourtesy and injustice of which it has un wittingly been guilty. The marked discrepancy of our Contemporary's present opinions on the main question, with those it has recently put forth, may be less easily reconciled. But as we are not the " protectors" of our versatile fellow-journalist, we refrain from dwelling upon what we cannot explain, and are not called upon to defend. The Times thinks Otaheite too insignificant, in a commercial sense, to deserve the attention of the British nation. Would you provoke a war between the two Governments about " a row in Otaheite ?" This ques tion is, however one of those which cuts two ways. If Otaheite be of little value to England, it is of far less importance to France. Yet France has deemed it worth putting forth its best acts of circumvention to secure it I France has juggled Lord Aberdeen into conceding the " Protectorate" of Otaheite to itself. And now, when outrage and havoc have grown out of the " Protectorate ;" and indignity and outrage to the British Consul have followed the deposition and banishment of the Queen, the question is gravely asked, whether this had not better be hushed up ? Who would think of disturbing the pacific relations existing between two great nations, because " a row has taken place at Otaheite ?" Otaheite is not altogether so contemptible, even in a commer cial point of view, as some persons suppose. The following return of the average yearly number of vessels of commerce, belonging to different nations, which touch at Otaheite, is from a quarter on which implicit reliance as to its accuracy may be placed : it will also show that France has less interest of a com mercial kind in Otaheite that any other civilized State Yearly. English Merchant Vessels American ditto French 2O Queen Pomare and her people have a strong claim on the British Government itself. This must be ad mitted, if the promises of protection they have re ceived from successive Administrations be regarded as of any worth. STANDARD.—If we were not well aware that the first, nay, the only consideration with particular classes of persons is to keep themselves constantly be fore the public, we should be at a loss to guess the purpose of the gentlemen who collected to make speeches at Exeter-hall yesterday. These gentlemen, one and all, deprecated the suspicion of a wish to involve the country in war ; but we defy the most sagacious to suggest any purpose consist ent with the preservation of peace their meeting and their speeches can serve ; taking them upon their own representation, they adopted a pro ceeding which can do no good, but which it is obvious to every one may be productive of evil. Let us not be misunderstood ; we are very far indeed from undervaluing the beneficial effect of missionary labours, but we protest against the interference of missionaries and missionary so cieties in the direction of the Government of the country. The useful missionary is in spired by one and one only feeling, zeal for the propogation of true religion ; but zeal is passion, and government, like law, ought to be " mind without passion." If, in the administration of the complicated affairs of a great empire feelings, even the most noble and exalted, are allowed to take the command of calm reason, there must be an end of con sistency and systematic government. Without even departing from the subject immediately before us, we can see a striking example of the danger of this inver sion of the proper order of influences, in the prevail ing temper of a considerable portion of the French people, acting so powerfully upon the Government of the country as to threaten it with an overthrow, if it do not persevere in a course which every unprejudiced human being must see to be both imprudent and unjust. We do not wish to say it offensively, but we certainly anticipate the judgment of posterity when we assert, that each successive step taken by the French officers in Otaheite has been - wrong. We have it, indeed, upon the acknowledge ment of the best and wisest men in France, that the principal step thus taken is indefensible, and such as ought to be retracted. Nevertheless, by a misappli cation of one of the most honourable feelings of our nature, patriotism, our neighbours insist upon maintaining as just and right the unauthorised wrong-doing of the officers of France with all its its injurious consequences.. This maybe unjust unwise, of and so it is, but it is, nevertheless, the effect of an honourable . passion. The French people are, they ought to be, jealous of the rank and honour of the a l ga r - in u st ntz, a m nd ust their , jealo t usy is naturally directed s minenin power mad in reputation of the rival nation e France can afford to submit to a wrong from Naples or Bel gium, because submission in either case could be ascribed only to the magnanimity of the more powerful state ; but it is hard for human passion to yield, even to right, in a dispute with an equal, because such submission may be misconstrued. This state of things, of which we have the evidence before our eyes, demonstrates the danger of permit ting passion to interpose in the higher concerns of Government. Yet, if not to excite a passionate feeling of resentment against the French people, though not, perhaps, against the French Govern ment, what can be the effect of a meeting and speeches like those of yesterday at Exeter-hall ?It is true that the effect in this country will be incon siderable, because the speakers and their general prac tices are pretty well known here. The speakers all with the exception of Mr. Baptist Noel (if it is right to except him), Dissenters from the Established Church, and as much separated by political opinions (in this Mr. B. Noel is no exception) as in religious profes sion, from tha vast majority of the people. The Mis sionary Society is a society wholly unconnected with the Grovern.nent, the Church, and all the other insti tutions of the country, to which it is pretty generally hostile, as our own colonies have experienced in more than one instance. The people of England, indeed, I rejoice at the success of its members in the conversion of the heathen, as they rejoice in the success of American missionaries in the same glorious work, and the people would anxiously support them in protecting their converts from the errors of Roman ism—but we are too well acquainted with the habits of some of the missionaries to hold ourselves respon sible for all their proceedings, or to wish that they be allowed to claim from the Government more than the protection to which they are entitled as British subjects. Nor have they any right to claim more : as Dissenters they renounce the au thority of the State to govern their movements, and it is too much for them to expect that the state shall support a line of conduct which it is not permitted to influence. It certainly was an un fortunate choice which selected a Dissenter as the British Consul at Otaheite ; for that gentleman, how just and honourable soever his disposition, could not help considering himself more as the represen tative of the Missionary Society than of the Sove reign of the United Kingdom. So far, there fore, as regards the effect upon the mind of this country, we apprehend no evil from the demonstration yesterday, which, indeed, shows how very slight has been the political connexion be tween this country and Otaheite, and so slight, chiefly because of the care of the Dissenters to keep the Queen and her people in their own hands, to the exclusion of the British in common with every other Government. It is in France—where the absence of rank and total want of political importance of the speakers at Exeter-hall must be less known, and where the interior politics of our Dissenting sects can hardly be appreciated—that the mischief (if any) of the display to which we refer will ope rate. It becomes, therefore, our duty to set forth the truth as plainly as we can, and we surely say no more than truth in asserting that the meeting at Exeter-hall does not speak the sense of the people of this country, but the sense of a class which hardly ever concurs in sentiment with the great majority of the nation, and certainly will not bring the people to concur with it by coming forward in its Dissenting character to dictate to the Government upon a mo mentous and most delicate question of foreign policy. We have not disguised our opinion that th French officers at Otaheite have been in the wrong from first to last. The first error was, however, the parent of all that followed, by a very natural transition, and the gradual advance from the imposition of the original paltry fine, upon grounds which no pub lic law can justify, to the last act of extreme violence — the seizure of the sovereignty—is, after 11, perhaps the best excuse for what appears at a hasty view so shocking. It seems to us, however, that the proper course to be pursued by England in such circum stances is, while she takes care to protect her sub jects, and to assert the honour of her flag, to refer all besides to the native justice and generosity of the French people. A few incendiaries and Jesuits may deny justice to poor Queen Pomare, but it is impossible to suppose that an intelligent, a high minded, and gallant people, like the French, will permanently, and after all motive for national jealousy shall have ceased, pursue a course of unjust aggression, such as every man must consider that, which has hitherto been pursued towards the Queen of Otaheite. We have spoken with many Frenchmen upon the subject, but we have not met with one who does not acknowledge that the justice of the case is wholly against his country, and acknow ledge also that the judgment of posterity will be as unfavourable to France in this affair, as all admit the public opinion of Europe to be at present. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TlMES.—Since the Emperor Charles V. retired to the monastery of St. Just, the world has scarcely witnessed so singular and unexpected an act of volun tary abdication as that of Mehemet Ali, which has just been announced by the French telegraph. Al though the retirement of the Pasha of Egypt from public affairs to the precincts of the Holy Cities can not be compared, in political importance, to the seclu sion of the august head of the House of Austria in the 16th century, yet as an instance of individual force of character it is not less remarkable ; and it would seem as if the most signal renunciations of political greatness were to crown the lives of those men who had been must eager in the pursuit of it. Mehemet Ali will occupy a conspicuous position in the history of Oriental nations, as one of the greatest, and probably the last, of those men who rose by the sole energy of their natures and the capricious in fluences of Asiatic manners from the lowest orders of society to all but the supreme dignity of Mussulman empire. Like Hyder Ali, or the low-born heroes who, in past ages and in various countries, disputed the ascendancy of the cross over the crescent, Mehe met Ali found within himself resources equal to the pressure of the most eventful times, and superior to the declining tendencies of his race and of his creed.mßut, unlike any of the other heroes of Mahommedan history, he was resolute without fanaticism ; and he combined to a remarkable degree the habitual exercise of arbitrary and absolute power with a true respect for more civilized countries and a practical tolerance of other forms of religion. If we attempted to sum up his character in one word, it would be in that of " self possession." The most cruel and violent acts of his life, such as the destruction of the Mamelukes, were performed with a coolness and design quite distinct from the ordinary excesses of Oriental vengeance. The administration of Egypt was conducted with the same stern indifference to all but the steady growth of that power which the Pasha was labouring to esta blish. During the events of 1840, when a less pru dent or a more timorous man might have compro mised his existence by an act either of defiance or of submission, he kept his temper, and therefore he kept his pashalik. To his immortal honour,he forwarded the British mails to India whilst our fleet was attack ing Syria and menacing Alexandria; and on no sub sequent occasion has he betrayed the smallest resent ment for conduct which, on the part of certain high servants of the Crown of England, was harsh, impo litic, and unjust. Indeed, we may here allude with peculiar satisfaction to the very marked reception given by the Pasha to the present Governor-General of India when he passed through Egypt a few weeks ago ; and we trust that the treaty which was rapidly negotiated at that interview will afford a permanent and effectual protection to our overland communica tions with India. Lastly, as if even death itself was not to find him unprepared, or as one who is anxious to witness at least the commencement of his own pos terity, the old man retires from the shores of the Nile, which he has once more opened to life and to a second greatness, and betakes himself in meditation, if not in devotion, to the consecrated City of the Prophet. It is, however, premature to assume that his career is already closed. His life is probably even now better than that of Ibrahim ; and in the vicissitudes which are now crowded on the surviving members of the Ottoman empire, it is impossible to foresee any . secure repose but in the grave. Some uncertainty, indeed, still hangs about the actual fulfilment of this great and sudden determination. Within a few weeks, and by the last accounts from Egypt, the Pasha was in all his usual vigour of body and mind —full of projects and active designs which seem calculated rather to prolong the duration of his life and power, than to forestal the close of them ; and at no time was the abrupt cessa tion of his interest in public affairs more unforeseen. The personal remarks arising out of this singular event are not unconnected with other and more ge neral considerations. It is impossible for any one who takes an enlarged view of the condition of the countries contiguous to Europe, whether in the south or in the east, not to perceive the same universal symptoms of decrepitude, wherever the Mussulman rule and Mahommedan institu tions still maintain their ground. From Persia to Morocco, and throughout the whole expanse of the Turkish dominions, the same results obtrude them selves on our notice ; the causes are probably different—sometimes foreign. egression, as in Al geria, or foreign intrigue, as at Constantinople— more frequently a bad internal policy, and a corrupt and depraved class of public servants, most unfit to be the organs of absolute power ; but the results are the same. Every part of these Mahome tan countries is more or less insecure ; none of them are in a condition to defend their independence, if it were seriously attacked; and since they owe their present political existence to the protection or for bearance of the Christian Powers, they are little more than tenants at the will of those whom they still per secute and contemn. The inevitable consequence is, that rights so ill-defended are peculiarly liable to encroachment; and that the resistance to such en croachment proceeds, not from the power directly affected by it, but from the indirect consequences it might produce on the European states. The Govern ment of Mehemet Ali has furnished a solitary in stance in our time of a Mahometan state sufficiently enlightened as to its true position, and invested with a sufficient control over its own resources, to will what it thought expedient, and to accomplish what it willed. The use of absolute power in the hands of the Pasha has doubtless created anew the land of Egypt, and restored the valley of the Nile to the im portance which it justly held in the ancient world : but he leaves behind him no tradition of his system of governm en t ; th a t system has called into existence no other men capable of fulfilling his designs; and as far as the descendants of his own house are concerned, t it he m v a i y ces be of ap th p a re t h f e a n ta d l e s d y t s h t at th f ey relapseill which int o all he either entirely shook o e ff or m o a misgovernment adapted to the objects of a wiser administration. The retirement of the Pasha of Egypt cannot but be regarded as an event of the more importance, since it w ill s h ow w h a t ex pectations or apprehensions we may entertain of the fate of that country under his successor ; and the per manent establishment of the overland route to India has rendered this subject one of the greatest interest to the British possessions both in Europe and in Asia. ADVERTISER.—Data are now furnished from THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1544 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 13.—The Thunder, 6, Com mander Barnett, arrived yesterday from Bermuda, which she left on the 20th of June. She has been employed for the last three years, and a longer previous period, in surveying the Bahama Islands and the Gulf of Florida, She will now be paid off. The Queen, 110, Captain Martin, was removed from alongside the dockyard jetty to moorings off Cold Har bour, Gosport, usually occupied by the flag-ship, this morning. She is completing hands and stores for flag service at the Nore. The Collingwood, 80.—This ship has not yet receive sailing orders, although it was in very positive terms stated by a generally well informed weekly print that she would sail on Sunday morning last. We believe there will be some alterations in her appointments, as we are informed Captain Eden will not go out in her in consequence of impaired health, and that Commander Broadhead, who commissioned her, will be posted. Thus two of the most important offices will have to be filled, which will necessarily cause some delay in her sailing. The gallant Admiral, Sir G. Seymour, is on leave. Much speculation is afloat as to who will be appointed to the flag captaincy. The Mercury, tender, Second Master J. Scarlett, re turned on Sunday evening from Sheerness and Wool wich, with newly entered men for the Collingwood and Queen. The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Commander W. Tring • ham, was recalled from the coast of Sussex, where she had been cruising for some months past, on Saturday week. She came into harbour last night. Her crew will be employed forthwith in fitting up the royal yacht (to which she is tender). Indeed, she is now nearly stripped, and will be laid up until winter. The Victoria and Albert royal yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, having been partially rigged, and got all her spars and stores on board, was removed this morning from the basin to moorings in the harbour, where the crew from the Nautilus joined her. She is now very rapidly fitting for sea, and will try her engines and new boilers to-morrow, it is expected. The Vindictive, 50, was dismasted on Monday, prepa ratory to being docked for overhaul and repair. The Dwarf steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander W. Chamberlain, is in dock, having her boilers repaired. She will be in future the tender to the royal yacht, being peculiarly adapted for that particular service. The Canton transport is hourly looked for at Spit head w ith the remaining detachments of the 55th Regi ment from China. The Firebrand steam-sloop has been tried out at Spithead, and her engines and machinery found to work splendidly. She is now ready for the pendant in the harbour. The Lily, 16, is undergoing repair and refit in the basin, in order to form one of the experimental brig squadron. The Hornet, 6, Lieutenant-Commander Miller, left Nassau for Jamaica on the 14th ult., where she expected to receive orders to sail homeward and be paid off, hav - ing been nearly five years in commission. The Nautilus transport, Lieutenant Sanders, agent, called at Teneriffe on the I 1 th of July, en route to Rio, which an accurate estimate may be formed of the value of the squirearchy—of that intelligent body which, on all occasions, is found steadily opposed to those general improvements in government by which the character of the nation is continually advanced. A Parliamentary return has just been published of all the inquests on the bodies of gamekeepers, taken by the coroners of England and Wales, since the year 1833, together with the number of persons convicted of offences against the game laws during the year 1843. Though fully aware that much of the immo rality with which the agricultural districts are charged is directly attributable to the strict preservation of game, we were by no means prepared for the extent of the misery which the magnificos of the plains, the illustrious vendors of hares and rabbits, annually in flict upon their respective neighbourhoods, for the sake of the paltry profits derived from this species of traffic. Before the French revolution there were poachers, but they were the exception to the rural population. The peasants then met with regular em ployment, their wages were either sufficient for their wants, or the commons and wastes supplied what their labour failed to procure, and there being no prohibition against importing corn, the necessaries of life were within the reach of the humblest. Few men forsake the advantages of a constant and remunerating em ployment for the precarious occupation of a poacher, subject to the horrible contamination of a gaol, or the everlasting disgrace of transportation. The pea. sant was generally contented, and the squire conse quently enjoyed the undisputed monopoly of the rabbits, hares, and vermin, the possession of which is the proud characteristic of his caste. Matters have somewhat changed since then : the squire has seized upon the commons and wastes, as profitable additions to his preserves, and the peasant is, consequently, de prived of the means by which he was enabled to eke out his subsistence. In order to obtain a higher rent for his land than it is worth in the market, the squire has raised the price of food, thus causing an advance in every other article essential to life, and the difficul ties of the peasant are increased. The means of the farmer are crippled by the same cause, and he, to eke out the rent demanded by the squire, is compelled to give only half employment, with less wages than for merly, to the impoverished and starving labourer. That the latter should become an offender against the game laws under the circumstances, equally exaspe rating and tempting, in which the squire has con trived to place him, is not surprising, since men have been known to commit robbery and murder under less exciting causes. Having converted the work ing population in the neighbourhood of his estate into famished depredators, the squire next entered into a sort of league with the more desperate and notorious poachers, who, re ceived into his service, now patrol those grounds which they formerly plundered, and with deadly weapons, furnished for the purpose, occasionally maim or murder their old companions. The latter natu rally endeavour to defend themselves, and, always fighting at a disadvantage, arc frequently worsted. No wonder, then, that ex-poachers or gamekeepers are sometimes waylaid and murdered. A similar esprit de corps actuates both parties, and every assize in the agricultural counties furnishes several instances of the very frivolous pretences on which these ruf fians will destroy each other's lives. It is not twelve months since a gamekeeper attempted the murder of a man, whose whole offence was frightening a couple of partridges, and the man himself was nearly hanged for a necessary act of self-defence. We defer enter ing into this part of the subject, as a case not very dissimilar, the aggression having been committed by the game-keeper, awaits adjudication. If the game-pre servers can acquit themselves of the guilt of blood, which these returns fix upon them, they will accomplish more than their countrymen will be able to do for them. The document which has suggested these few obser vations, is a most valuable addition to the statistics of crime in England and Wales. It furnishes us also with a clue to the mystic causes of the extravagant amount of county-rates in the agricultural districts, as compared with those parts of the country where extensive manufactories and a dense population are always certain to find employment, for the adminis trators of criminal justice. In the thirteen English counties that have the largest proportional population engaged in agriculture, in none of which it is less than 45 per cent., it is found from official tables that the numbers committed for trial vary every year but little from 4,290, two or three more or less. On the other hand, in the thirteen English counties having the largest manufacturing and mixed population, the numbers committed are about 16,000. It is scarcely necessary to observe that these manufacturing counties are not noted for abundance of game, and that, consequently, it is not here that we are to look for offenders against the game-laws in any number worth taking into consideration. From the return, just published, it appears that dur ing the past year the number of convictions for of fences against the game-laws in England and Wales amounted to 4,577, of which 4,402 belong to the former, corresponding very nearly to the annual com mitments in the agricultural counties, where game preserves abound. Putting down the annual amount of miscellaneons offences, not against these laws, at the excessive number of 1,400, we have no fewer than 3,000 criminals whose offences are directly connected with the system of game-preserving. There is another consideration which this return suggests, and that relates to the administration of the game-laws. The squires make these laws in Parliament, and they put them into execution in their capacity as j ustices— a truly convenient system. Of the 4,402 poachers, only 144 were convicted at the assizes, where a judge administers the law ; but at petty and quarter sessions their worships, the confederated Noakeses of the field and the bench, convicted the enormous number of 4,258. In Wales only eight were convicted at the assizes, but 125 were variously punished, at the dis cretion of the game-preserving justices. These are open mouthed facts, and require little comment. We had once thought that the frequent recurrence of sanguinary affrays between armed parties of game keepers and poachers, often terminating fatally, would have occasioned some little relaxation of a system which is altogether indefensible upon any rational principle. But when it is found that the game-pre servers are the chief cause of the criminality of their counties, and that the honest and industrious rate payers are severely taxed for a purpose by which in dustry is checked, honesty corrupted, and families recklessly plunged into the deepest misery from des titution, people may be induced to pay a little closer attention to the legislative and magisterial doings of their game-preserving neighbours. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 15. (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.) THE LINENDRAPERY TRADE.-CAPTURE OF THE BANK- RUPT.-IN RE BANNISTER. The bankrupt carried on business as a linendraper at Portsea, and at the previous hearing it appeared that he had purchased goods in London and Manchester in the course of a few (six) months to the amount of nearly 10,0001., of which he made forced sales, be the sacrifice what it might, and leaving his wife behind him, and the place of business remaining open, he repaired to France, but soon found his way again to London, where he ex changed his bank notes fur gold, and ultimately took his departure (absconded) to the island of Madeira, whither he was immediately pursued by an officer of the Court, armed with the warrant of the Learned Commissioner, and such other aid as could be furnished by the Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs, and was there arrested, some 2,8001. in specie having been found in his posses sion. He arrived yesterday in London, in custody of the messenger, but his surrender not having been taken, ' he still remains in custody, and, as we are informed, with his own consent. It is confidently expected that, from one source or another, the creditors are likely to realise 10s. in the pound. SUMMER ASSIZES. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, Aug. 13. NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant AT CHERLEY and a Special Jury.) WALTERS V. DARKER AND OTHERS. Mr. W. J. Alexander and Sir T. Phillips appeared for the plaintiff in this case, and the defendants were represented by Mr. Whateley, Mr. Whitmore, and Mr. Keating. The action was brought by the plaintiff; the widow and administratrix of one Benjamin Walters, deceased, against the defendants, as Directors of the Alfred Home and Foreign Mutual Insurance Association, to recover the sum of 5001., upon a policy of insurance, effected on the life of the said Benjamin Walters. To this the de fendants pleaded, first, the general issue; secondly, that at the time of Walters making the declaration which was the basis of the contract he was afflicted with paralysis; thirdly, that his habits of life were intem perate; fourthly, that he had, although he had stated the contrary, frequently consulted a medical man; fifthly, that the policy was effected by fraud, covin, and misre presentation; six hly, that one Charles Herbert Croft was interested iu the policy, but that his name was not inserted therein; and lastly, that the policy was made for the benefit of Croft, but that he had no interest in the life of Walters. The plaintiff joined issue on the first plea, and replied de injuria to the others. Sir T. PHILLIPS having opened the pleadings, Mr. ALEXANDER stated the case to the jury, and said that the policy in question was effected on the life of Benjamin Walters, a cattle-dealer, at Bedwelty, on the 4th of May, 1841, Walters being at that time in the 60th year of his age. Mr. 'Walters had the misfortune to die in the August following, when only one annual premium had been paid, but that in itself would be no ground even for suspicion, because the uncertainty of human life was so great that no man, however young or vigorous, could be sure of another hour's existence. The defendants had put many pleas upon the record, all of which it lay upon them to prove, except the first, and the execution of the policy having since been admitted, he might rest his case upon that admission, and wait till his Learned Friend, Mr. Whateley, had closed the evidence which he kad to offer on the part of the defendants. He should not, how ever, take that course, but anticipate, as far as he was able, the case intended to be set up on the other side, and he should show that Mr. Walters, although at the advanced age of 60 years, was a man originally of very vigorous constitution, and of active habits, and that he had never been attacked by any disease like paralysis, although in the March of 1840, in coming over the moun tains from Abergavenny to Tredegar, on the top of a coach, he had caught a severe chill, which had confined him to his bed for some time. It was proper that he should tell the jury that the plaintiff in this case was only nomi nally a party to the action, the party really interested in the result being Mr. C. H. Croft, a solicitor, of great respec tability, residing at Newport, to whom Walters was largely indebted for money advanced to him. At the instance of Mr. Croft Walters, who had previously in sured his life in the Norwich Union Insurance-office for 2001., made proposals through Mr. Croft, who had re cently been appointed the agent of the Alfred Insurance office, for a policy upon his life of 500 Z, and his proposals having been accepted, after he had been examined by the medical officer of the company at Newport, Mr. Essex, the policy was assigned by Mr. Croft, with the full know ledge and approbation of the Alfred-office, as he should show by various letters which passed between Mr. Croft and the solicitors to the company in London. (The Learned Counsel here read the letters.) Mr. Walters died on the 7th of August, 1841, but the Alfred had re fused to pay the 5001. secured by the policy, and at last the present action was brought. The policy on the life of Benjamin Walters, for 5001., aided in the Alfred-office, was here put in and read. A letter dated November 23,1840, addressed by Messrs. Maltby and others, solicitors to the company, to Mr. Croft, was also put in, as was the rest of the correspon dence between the parties referred to in the speech of Mr. Alexander. Several witnesses were examined, all of whom des with stores for the squadron. The works of the new steam basin, in this dockyard, are progressing very rapidly. Several slips in the earth have lately taken place, one on Sunday week, which it was feared would retard the work. Should the present showery weather continue, further slips are feared. The Prince Regent, 120, in process of razeeing to a 90-gun ship, is progressing rapidly in her alterations. It is reported in the dockyard that when she is completed the Camperdown, 104, will take her place, to undergo the same beneficial operation. GONE TO THE DOGS. (From Punch.) The papers have informed us of the death and burial of Yeos, a greyhound to which her Majesty and Prince Albert were both " greatly attached." The death of the beast appears to have been so sudden, that the Queen suspected foul play, and Mr. Brown, of Windsor, who is, it seems, the royal dog doctor, was immediately sent for, that a post mortem examination might take place immediately. Several of the servants gave evidence at the inquest. The following extracts will show how carefully the investigation was conducted. Sarah Scrub, the scullery-maid, was now brought in, and cautioned by Mr. Brown that her testimony would be taken down, and might be used elsewhere against her. Her examination then pr oceeded —Knew th dog Yeos. Saw her last alive poking her nose into a dish of sweetbreads on the pantry dresser. The dog was allowed to go everywhere by her Majesty's command, and was not to be thwarted in anything. The dog was a very great favourite with the Queen and Prince Albert. Witness was in the habit of feeding Yeos : gave her a pate de foie gras the day before her death. She seemed in good spirits, and ate it with appetite. By Prince Albert—Did you make him too rishe by too much of de nastie salt buttare? The witness replied distinctly that fresh butter had been used. Prince Albert—Can you aware dat? Witness—l can.—(Great sensation.) Dr. Prietorius, who had been watching the case on the part of Prince Albert, thought it would be useless to carry the criminal part of the matter further. He (Dr. PrEetorius) would candidly admit he had no stronger evidence to offer. Mr. Brown—Then I suppose, Doctor, you withdraw from the inquiry ? Dr. Prvetorius—Certainly, unless you think there is enough for a remand. In the case of the Marquise de Brinvilliers, which a good deal resembles the present, a remand was allowed. Or to come to later times, if we are guided by the rule in the prosecution of Madame Laffarge— Mr. Brown (interrupting)—No, Doctor, I think we must not do that. The surgeon then, assuming the office of Coroner, proceeded to sum up as follows :—This affair was appa rently involved in a good deal of doubt, until this in quisition was held. The deceased (weeping) might have been poisoned, or might not, and here the difficulty comes in to determine whether he was or wasn't. On a post mortem examination, there was a good deal of vascular inflammation about the coats of the nose, and I have no doubt the affair of the sweetbread, which was possibly very highly peppered, had something to do with these appearances. The pulse had, of course, stopped ; but, as far as I could judge from circumstances, I should say it had been pretty regular. The ears were perfectly healthy, and the tail appeared to have been recently wagged, showing that there could have been nothing very wrong in that quarter. The conclusion at which I arrive is, that Yeos came to his death from old age, or rather, by the lapse of time ; and a deodand is therefore imposed on the kitchen clock, which was rather fast on the day of the dog's death, and might have accelerated his demise. This verdict having been regularly entered, the in quest was broken up, and the scullery-maid set at liberty cribed Walters as a man generally . in the enjoyment of robust health, but suffering occasionally from rheu matism. Mr. WHATELEY then addressed the jury for the defen dants, stating that he should prove to their complete sa tisfaction that Walters had intended to cheat the Alfred Insurance Company by concealing from them his know ledge of the fact that he had been attacked by paralysis, of which, in fact, he died, and also by representing that he had had no medical attendant since he was 21 years old. Witnesses were then called for the defence and exa mined for the purpose of showing that Walters had had an attack of paralysis in 1840, and the register of his death was put in, from which it appeared that paralysis was there stated as the cause of death. This part of the case was, hobs ever, disproved by the evidence of one of defendant's own witnesses, which was as follows: William Williams , examined by Mr. WHATELEY— . . _ _ Benjamin Walters died in my house. I gave the account of his death to the registrar as near as I could. He asked me what was the cause of death, and I said that he had a pain in his bowels, and that Walters had told me that some one at Pontypool had told him that he had had a kind of stroke. I signed my name in the column next to that in which the cause of death was put down. I did not read what was written down, and I did not know that the cause of death put down was " paralytic stroke." By the COURT—I know the appearance which a man has under the palsey. Walters did not appear to have it, nor to have had any strok. I did not tell the re gistrar that he died of a paralytic stroke. I never named the word " paralytic" to the registrar. Some other witnesses were examined, without carry ing the case further ; and, upon Mr. Alexander's rising to reply, the foreman said that the jury had a strong opinion on the subject, and that if they were allowed to confer together for a short time they might probably save his Lordship some trouble in summing up. After the lapse of a minute or two, The Foreman said—We think that the plaintiff has made out her case, and that the defence has entirely failed. A verdict was then entered for the plaintiff, with 5001. damages and interest. Mr. Sergeant ATCriERLET, in answer to an observa tion of Mr. Whateley, said,:that he thought that the mere fact of paralysis being stated to be the cause of death in the register was a sufficient exculpation of the company. in having instituted these proceedings.—The case lasted two days. SEIZURE OF ANOTHER ILLICIT STILL.—IlliCit dis tillation is at present carried on in the metropolis to a greater extent than ever, and in addition to several seizures that have been effected within these few days, information has been received that several were in opera tion in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green, and, ac cordingly, Kay and Parzeter, two officers of the Excise, aided by two constables of the H division, proceeded about noon on Tuesday last to the premises Nos. 9, 10, and 11, Temple-terrace, Bethnal-green, said to be occu pied by John Peake. Entrance could only be ef fected at No. 11, when they passed into the yard and over the walls to No. 9, where a private still was dis covered in full work. It was fully charg.'d with molasses wash; there were several backs filled with wort ; a quantity of casks containing spirits, some molasses, with the usual apparatus and utensils necessary to carry on a considerable trade in spirits. The whole of these were seized, and two lads who were discovered on the premises fled, but having been ultimately found con cealed in two adjoining houses, were captured and con veyed to the station-house. Vans were procured for the purpose of removing the articles, when a mob assembled and endeavoured to prevent the removal, by assailing the officers with mud, brick-bats, stones, &c. The officers exhibited their fire-arms, and a pistol was discharged over the heads of the assailants, but to no purpose, and they were compelled to remove the prize in the midst of repeated volleys of missiles, and succeeded in conveying it in safety to the Excise warehouse in Old Broad-street. The Excise-officers escaped without any personal injury; their clothes, however, were woefully bespattered with mud and dirt. The police were' less fortunate, as con stable 49 H was violently struck on the hat with a brick bat,;by which it was broken through, and his head rather severely wounded. THE HARVEST.—The wheat harvest is very for ward in most parts of this county, and that which has been already housed is in excellent condition. The yield is good, and the weight of grain averages from 631bs. to 651bs. per bushel. Many of the samples exhi bited in our market on Saturday weighed 621bs. per bushel, and fetched I9s. or 20s. per bag. The barley crop in the immediate neighbourhood is very inferior in quality. The rain which has fallen in abundance during the last fortnight, though a great hindrance to getting in the wheat, has done wonders for the turnips, which were looking very bad previously. From the accounts we have received from various parts of the country, it would appear that the harvest is in general going on very fa vourably, though in Scotland and the northern counties it can scarcely be said to have commenced. The yield is expected to be above the average. During the whole of last night and this morning the rain has fallen heavily, and we are sorry that, at the time we write, there is a prospect of its continuance, as it will stop the progress of the harvest men.— Worcestershire Chronicle. RESUMPTION OF W ORK BY THE SOUT H SHIELDS COLLIERS.—The principal portion of the St. Hilda pit men went to work on Tuesday (yesterday) morning, and the rest will go to work as soon as arrangements can be made for their employment. This pleasing result has been brought about by a portion of the inhabitants step pin, tin and acting as mediators. We hope that th e leading personages in other towns will act in the same manner, and try to soothe down the unhappy differences that now exist.— Tyne Mercury. THE REV. JACOB SAMUEL.—We understand that a summons for damages has been raised at the in stance of the Rev. Jacob Samuel against the Rev. John Hunter, minister of the Tron Church, Convener, and the other members of the Committee o f the Establishment for promoting the Conversion of the Jews, eon eluding for 6,0001. s t e rling as reparation to him on account of their having failed to confirm his appoint ment as their principal missionary to the Jews, and for the farther sum of I,OOOL, injury done " for the done to his feelings rand reputation" in consequence.- - Witness, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday the master of the East London Union es tablishment attended to explain why he refused to admit two destitute persons, who were taken to the union as casuals for temporary shelter and support by the police. Mr. Alderman FARNCOMB asked the master why he refused admission to these two poor persons ? The master said that their casual wards were full. The re lieving officer had sent in 49 casuals, and the wards scarcely afforded them standing room, much less sleep ing room. He never refused admission while there was room. Mr. Alderman FARNCOMB asked if before he turned them away he gave them some food, and the means of procuring shelter somewhere ? The master replied they never did that. Mr. Alderman FARNCOMB—The poor creatures must not be allowed to sink, and he referred to the correspon dence between the Commissioners of Police and the Poor-law Commissioners, dated September, 1837. If they could not accommodate fifty paupers, the guardians had better attend to the - evil at once. If they had not made proper accommodation before they had better do it now. Winter was approaching and would bring an increase in the number of applicants, and in the neces. sity of proper relief. The Alderman sent one of the casuals, a sailor, shiver ing with fever, -to the hospital, and the master of the workhouse took charge of the other pauper. WORSHIP -STREET. Yesterday, a very pretty young woman, about 24 years of age, named Elizabeth Wilcochs, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Bingham, charged by Mr. Dossett, the relieving officer of the Hackney Union, with concealing the birth of her male child. The prisoner, who was exceedingly pale and exhausted, and allowed to be seated during the inquiry, was, for a considerable period, in the service of Mrs. Mary Anne Walters, a lady residing in the Paragon, Hackney, as cook. On the morning of the 19th ult., entertaining a suspicion as to the pregnancy of the prisoner, the lady sent for her into the drawing-room, and accused her of it; the prisoner hesitated, made no reply, and burst into tears. She was told to quit the house the next night, but in consequence of a communication being shortly after made by one of the servants, named Emma Free man, to Mrs. Walters, that the prisoner had just left the water-closet in a greatly altered condition, her mistress placed herself in the hall, from which she observed the prisoner standing at the sink in the scullery in a dread ful state of debility, and having, on again speaking to her, received a very faint and confirmatory answer from the prisoner, Mrs. Walters sent for the medical attendant of the family, Mr. Harris, who found the prisoner seated in a chair in her bed room. He questioned her thee or four times, but the prisoner was silent, and from a cursory examination of her person, being satisfied that there were strong grounds for suspicion, he communicated with Mr. Dos sett, who placed her in a coach, and had her removed to the lying-in ward of the workhouse, where she was at tended by a nurse, and again subjected to a more rigid examination by Mr. Harris and the medical officer of the union. The fact of her recent delivery was now beyond doubt, and Mr. Dossett, accompanied by Mr. Harris and THE ARMY OF THE CAUCASUS The Journal des Debats makes the following re marks on the reverses which are said to have been sustained by the Russian army of the Caucasus : " The war of the Russians in the Caucasus, which has already lasted some years, does not appear likely to lead to the speedy subjugation of that country. Fresh defeats have been recently spoken of as having been sustained by the Russian troops. The Augsburgh Gazette confirms the reports which had before reached us, but we are still without the details. "Schmal, who headed the Caucasians in their late successful affair, is a sort of warrior prophet, who, for some years, has governed and led to battle the Lesghis, the Koubilchis, and the other Mussulman tribes of the Daghestan. He is the Abd-el-Kader of those countries. Derbend, the capital of the Daghestan, or Eastern Caucasus, is a large and ancient city, with a popula tion of from 12,000 to 15,000 souls. Its foundation is attributed to Alexander the Great. It is strongly fortified, and stands in the middle of a long and narrow defile, surrounded by inaccessible heights. It is situated on the Caspian Sea. It has a trifling trade ; but the port affords no shelter against the heavy gales which occur on that coast, and which drive the waves with great violence into the very streets of the city. There is there a mausoleum of the rulers who are honoured as martyrs, and to whose tomb the Mussulmans of the Caucasus come from all parts to do honour. " The defile in which the town is situated at one time bore the name of the Caspian Doors ; and, in fact, it was closed towards the extremity of the city by large iron gates. There are remains of a large wall, built by Darius to stop the incursions of the Scythians. The difficulty which Schmal would therefore have had to encounter in getting possession of a place of such strength, appears so great as to throw some doubt on the report. But although it may appear improbable, it still cannot be said to be impossible, after the feats which he and his followers have performed on former occasions against the Rus sian troops, defeating them in every point, even where they considered them the most strongly posted. The Russian army of the Caucasus is, however, but a demoralized portiOn of the Russian farces, as they are chiefly composed of men who are sent there as a punishment. The officers, therefore, serve without zeal, and without that ardour which they would otherwise feel." THE BURNS DEMONSTRATION. —Last Sabbath a Dissenting clergyman in town, who, in the brief period he has laboured here, has earned for himself no inconsi derable notoriety from his peculiar theological opinions, took occasion to warn his hearers against attending the Burns festival. In his strictures on the character of the poet, the' bard was found greatly wanting by the stan dard of this rev. gentleman—he was admitted to have had great genius, but the preacher insisted the devil was n greater genius, yet no one thought of getting up a de monstration in favour of his infernal majesty. We can not help congratulating the rev. g entleman on the nice sense of discrimination he possesses! —Ki lmarnock Jour nal [The Witness newspaper has been gaining for itself an unenviable distinction by venting its spleen in the same kind of miserable twaddle.] —Scotsman. A TESTIMONIAL TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF Comm()lis.—We really think, now that the session is over, that a testimonial ought to be presented to the Speaker of the House of Commons , as a n ex pression of public sympathy for his unprecedented sufferings this year ; for if it be true, that there is nothing so fatiguing as having nothing to do, what must it be to watch six hundred people, night after night, doing nothing for six months in the year ! Nye propose that the testimonial consist of a handsome night-cap, with an air cushion and pillow, a warming-pan, and a copy of "Sleep at Will," to enable the Speaker to pass future sessions in greater comfort and repose.—,Punch. a labouring man named William Rose, went to Mrs. ! Mr. Tyrrell, solicitor to the Dock Company, appeared , Walters's house to examine the servants' water-closet in for the prosecution ; and Mr. Wontner for th ) defenc% the rear of it. Mr. Dossett procured a light, which he ' Considerable interest was attached to the p risoner fastened to a cord, and lowered to the soil, on disturbing examination, as he is known to have been for some time which with a pole he discovered a large linen bundle connected with a daring gang of thieves. About two beneath the surface, and on turning this bundle over months ago he was charged, in conjunction with two two or three times a portion of the cloth gave way, and other lightermen, named Drake and Pearce, with steal the face of a child appeared. A ladder was now sent ing 3 8 gallons oebrandy, found secreted in a lighter be_- . for and Rose directed to descend and bring the body up, longing to Mr. Lucy. After s everal investi g ations, which which he did. It was that of a fine, full-grown male left no moral doubt of the guilt of all the prisoners, .. child, and was wrapped in two pieces of old linen, which Riley and Drake were discharged for want of sufficient were tied round and fastened with a long piece of quill- , evidence, Pearce having previously made his escape by . ing net. The child, on which there were not the slight- knoclting down Cook, the gaoler at the Lambeth-street _. est marks of violence, was then washed and carried to ! Police-court, and making his way through the crowd the workhouse, from which the prisoner herself had been ' assembled at the police van. Pearce was out of the way too ill to be removed in custody until yesterday. for some weeks afterwards, and subsequently got into i Many affecting incidents as regarded the prisoner collision with the police, and was committed to prison came out in the course of the examination, and it was i for one month, for assaulting two constables in the exe proved that several articles of baby linen, in a state of cation of their duty. The robbery with which the prie preparation, on searching her boxes, were found in them; soner now stood charged was planned and executed ill 4 and that, in addition to these, a bundle of the same little the same way as the former one, the detection in both , articles was forwarded to the residence of Mrs. Walters cases was similar, and the quantity of brandy stolen , by some friend of the prisoner for her use directly after was precisely the same. the unhappy girl'had been removed to the workhouse. Yesterday fifteen witnesses were examined, from The prisoner, in a scarcely audible voice, said that she whose evidence it appeared that in t h e latter part of greatly regretted what had occurred; she was taken bad July upwards of fifty casks of brandy were conveyed in in the kitchen, where the child would have been born, but lighters from the London and St. Katherine's Dock fur her mistress having directed her to leave it, she was com- shipment on board the Honduras, for Jamaica, in the pelted to go to the water-closet, and the birth there took West India Dock. The lighters which conveyed them be : place involuntarily. longed to Mr. Sage, Mr. Lucy, and Mr. Riley,:the prisoners The depositions of the witnesses were then taken, and father, and one of those lighters, a lug-boat, No. 774, the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial. was navigated by the prisoner himself. The casks were An old man, named John Bates, full sixty years of all in a perfectly sound condition when they left the Lon age, carrying on the business of a poulterer in Caroline- don and St. Katherine's Dock. On the evening of the place, West Hackney, was charged with an assault, with 3d instant, after the delivery of the brandies on board the intent, &c., upon his daughter-in-law, Jane Jackson, a Honduras, the prisoner was seen coming over that vessel girl between twelve and thirteen years of age. by Davis, a watcman, who spoke to him, and he said he The evidence, which was of a disgusting description, was looking after a lug-boat alongside the ship. He re and wholly unfit for publication, displayed a shameful quested Davis to keep an eye on his lug-boat during his degree of turpitude on the part of the prisoner, who absence, and he saw no more of him then. At six merely offered a general denial of the allegations against o'clock in the morning of the sth instant the prisoner him, and was fully committed to Newgate for trial. was seen coming through the lock, which leads from the WANDS WORT H. export-dock to the river, with his father's lug-boat, and Yesterday Charles Birch, police-constable 9 2 V, was Biggs, the foreman of the lock, asked him for the u sual brought to this Court by direction of the Commissioners written pass authorising him to go out. The prisoner said he had not got one, and he was directed to go back and ob- . of Police to answer a charge of stealing a piece of lace, the property of Mrs. Barrington, the lady of Colonel tain one of the proper officer. The prisoner left the loc k apparently for that purpose, and did not return. Directly Barrington, of Barnes-terrace, Barnes. Mr. Wham de- after n • the accused. e was gone Biggs discovered something which ex fendeda cited his suspicions, and he communicated with Hase ltine, Benjamin Singleton, the butler to Colonel Barrington, stated that on Friday, the 12th of July last, a piece of a dock constable, who waited for two hours , and then hauled back the lug-boat into the export dock bawls, lace was missed from the lawn ; it had been placed when he searched her more effectually , than Biggs had there to bleach, and was safe at half-past 12 o'clock on done, and on lifting up the bottom boards, he found con the previous night. Witness and the other domestics cealed, between the ribs of the lug-boat, and partially searched the different outhouses, as it was supposed that the birds might have taken it, as they had other things, immersed in bilge water, 43 skins, containing 38 gall ons and and one quart of brandy. He also discove red, under the hidden them. The search, however, was ineffectual. head sheets of the lug-boat, a complete set of implements In the afternoon witness had occasion to go down to the called at the prisoner's house to inquire for drawing off spirits from casks, which cons isted of a village, and he ca centre-bit, gimlet, tap, spite, and tube, and also t en can if he had seen anything of it. The prisoner was in bed when witness called, but he came down directly in his vans bags, evidently intended to convey the b ladders shirt and trousers. Witness asked the prisoner if he containing the brandy ashore. No more was s een of had picked up a piece of lace or something of that kind the prisoner until Thursday night last, when Mr. Evans, jun , an Inspector of the Thames Police, who kne w his off the lawn, and he answered directly, " I picked up a haunts,. apprehended him at a brothel in King stre et, piece of tape or string which I had seen round the • Commercial-road, the place where he took him into sus" dog's neck when you were playing with it, and, as tody on a former occasion. The gauging, delivery, and, my stocking was coming down, I fastened it with shi it." He directly afterwards fetched the piece of p proved by a variety of w ment of the casks of brandy on board the Honduras lace from his bed-room, and gave it to witness, was itnesses, and upon fiv e ' and said he was very sorry he had taken it if it casks being re-gauged, a deficiency of 38 gallons o's one quart—the exact quantity found in the bladders--- was of any consequence. Colonel and Mrs. Barrington left home about half-past six o'clock on the following was ascertained. Samples from the casks and the s kills were produced, and corresponded in colour and quality. Saturday morning. His mistress took the lace with her. Mr. BALLANTINE asked at what time the prisoner en- Colonel Barrington considered the policeman perfectly tered the dock with his father's lug-boat ? Simmon s innocent of any intention to steal, and so did his lady. replied, that he entered the dock with his ma ster's The lace was about an inch and a quarter wide when lighter, containing brandy, on the 31st of July, and the ironed out, but when exposed to the rain and dirty, it prisoner went in with the lug-boat at the same time. might have been taken for the string witness had used. Mr. BALLANTINE inquired if there were any marks 01l Cross-examined—lt is not at the desire of Colonel or the casks, corresponding with the implements found in, Mrs. Barrington that this charge is made. Their opinion the lug-boat ? Haseltine said three of the casks heu , is, as I have stated before, that he (the constable) is been bored by a centrebit, and the holes stopped up er , perfectly innocent. The charge does not emanate from terward with cork. The centrebit produced fitted me, for my opinion is the same as my master's. The th D 6 mark. He applied the centrebit and gimlet to the s r l prisoner had the care of the house and grounds, and holes in two other casks, and they also corresponded. gave as great satisfaction as any officer could do; James Anderson, a watchman ,in the export -doe Amelia Mente, the wife of a painter and glazier, living said that after the lug-boat was stopped by Biggs at the in Sheen-grove, Barnes, stated that she lived in the mouth of the lock, the prisoner came to him for a past same house as the prisoner and his wife. She recollected and he said he would give him one. They walked a few that on iday morning, about five wes since, Mrs. Birch called her into the parlour, and as e ke k d her to look paces, when the prisoner turned round and looked le' wards the outer lock. Witness cast his eyes in the sares at a piece of lace. The prisoner had not long come in, and gone to bed. The lace was rough-dry and about direction, and when he turned round again the pri soner had disappeared. three yards in length. Mrs. Birch having observed that Mr. Wontner said the case was a remarkably weir_ she would make it up into a child's cap, witness said, one in all its circumstances. Any person on board the " You'll not make it up into a child's cap, it is too ex- Honduras, and it was proved there were thirty or forti pensive, it is real thread lace." About twelve o'k the same day the last witness and a policeman came cloc to persons on board, might have stolen the brandy and O il ' cealed it in the lug-boat, and it would be a violent Fre° the house to inquire about the lace, and Mrs. Birch said to witness, " For God's sake don't say anything sumption to suppose the prisoner was the thief, bec ine he left the dock suddenly. about it." Cross-examined—The prisoner and his wife have been Mr. BALLANTINE could not believe any thief woe) ! on friendly terms with me, and I always have with them. be so disinterested as to steal brandy from a ship,ande About a fortnight since I was taken on a warrant before it to one else. The facts were suffiCient for the ,i'w .. some the bench at Richmond for threatening the life of his cision of a jury, and he committed the prisoner for trial. The investigation created great interest. wife, and was bound over to keep the peace. If there was any ill feeling then it is gone now. No one told me to prefer this charge, and I have not brought it. I have not made his wife ill by my very bad conduct. On my oath I have never said I hoped she would not survive her delivery. The witness here became so excited that it was found necessary to forcibly restrain her. Her frequent appeals to the Deity as to the truth of what she uttered were really blasphemous. Sergeant Mark, 3 V, said, that in consequence of the statement made by the last witness, and inquiries made, the Commissioners bad deemed it necessary to send the prisoner to this court on the charge of stealing the lace. Mr. CLIvE—If I had really a doubt about the inten tional stealing of the lace I should have sent the case for trial. It is the duty of a constable not only not to rob, but also to take no liberty with what he finds, but give it up to the proper authorities. It seems to me from the evidence of the butler that the policeman's conduct was that of an honest man ' • for, when even roused from sleep he was not confused, but directly admitted that he had the property, although at the time he took it he thought it was of no value. There was no pretence for a case of felony against the prisoner, and he should dismiss the charge. GREENWICH. Yesterday Eliza Smith, of No. 11, Frederick-street, Greenwich, servant, aged 17 years, was brought before Mr. Traill, in custody of Sergeant Fenn, 31 il, charged with attempting to drown herself in the river Thames, on the morning of the 10th inst., off the Royal Hospital, under the following circumstances:— It appeared from the evidence that a waterman, named Edward Thorn, was proceeding with a fare, when he heard a man cry out that a woman was in the act of drowning herself. He rowed with all speed to the spot, and caught hold of her clothes after the body was under water, and hauled her ashore. She was stiff, and ap peared dead. She had most deliberately walked into deep water. The prisoner was then taken to the Anchor public-house, and the usual means applied to restore suspended animation, and after much labour she became sensible of her situation. Sergeant Fenn said that, being in a dangerous state, it was deemed necessary by the medical attendant to send her to the union infirmary, where she had been since Saturday last. Mr. TRAILL asked her what she had to say to the charge of attempting self-destruction? The prisoner replied, that she was living servant in the family of Mr. Hewett. of London-street, Green wich, and that the work she had to perform was too much for her; the place was too hard. She left at six o'clock on Friday night, and did not like to go home, her father having so many children, and being himself out of work. Her father, who was present, said that when at home she was a very good girl, and he could not in any respect account for the rash act. Mr. TRAILL said there must be something wrong, which did not appear in evidence ; he certainly did not believe that hard work had been th motive to such con duct. He said he should hold her to bail in 40/. to keep the peace for six months. Her father, a respectable-looking man in apparent grief, said he would enter into the required recog nizance for her good behaviour, which having been ac cepted, the prisoner bowed and left the Court, resting on her father's arm. Mr. TRAILL called the waterman who had saved her life, and desired the chief clerk to give him ss. out of the poor-box, for his prompt humanity. Yesterday a young man named George Doughty, aged 18 years, was charged before Mr. Traill with breaking into the house of his father, who is an um brella-maker and brass-worker, corner of Roan-street, Greenwich, and stealing sundry articles. Mr. Doughty deposed that he make all the doors and windows fast soon after eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, and suspecting that something was wrong he made particular search in his workshop and, cellar ; he found the flooring-boards loose, and saw through into the cellar. Not finding out the cause of this strange ap pearance he went to bed, and had since discovered that the prisoner had hidden himself in the chimney. On coming down stairs on the following morning he saw the side• door open, by which means the prisoner must have escaped. On looking over his stock afterwards he missed six small brass anchors, ivory hocks, a hand vice, three mortars, two carronades, and sundry other articles. Mr. D. P. Taylor, solicitor Greenwich-road, deposed that the prisoner called at his house and offered three mortars and other articles for sale in an unfinished state, which roused his suspicions. He told him to leave them and bring the carronades at six o'clock the following morning, and he would endeavour to strike a bargain for the lot, as he had a friend who had a taste for such things. He had since given information to the police, and the prisoner was apprehended at his father's desire. Mr. Doughty identified all the articles produced as his property. Mr. TRAILL inquired what he had to say to so serious a charge ? The prisoner admitted the robbery, and said that his father gave him Bs. fourteen days since, to keep him until he could get a ship to go abroad, and not having succeeded, he could not go about starving until he did. He had neither money nor home. Mr. Doughty assured the Magistrate that the prisoner had been in the habit of robbing him during seven years past. He turned him away, and had frequently taken him again, but nothing induced him either to be honest or industrious. Mr. TRAILL said it was a most lamentable thing for a parent to prosecute his own son, but it did appear, under all the circumstances, to be absolutely necessary. The prisoner was then committed for trial at the next Central Criminal Court. The prisoner, on being re moved from the dock, imprecated horrid denunciations against his father. THE ADARE CONSPIRAC MARY REGAN AGAIN. ti Mary Began, whose husband was convicted at the' — d assizes for burning the Earl of Dunraven's stables to sentenced to transportation for life, was brough t be e by the Bench, charged with threatening a similar eriplvi., her own mother, the principal Crown witness Os n t Vokes expressed it) in the case to which we biore referred. Mr. Vokes stated to the magistrates that the prisoner / had been arrested a few days ago upon the charge cd her mother, who stated that she threatened as she W ool not be let with her husband to New South Wales, 511 0 would commit another burning, or perpetrate some criols that would send her out of the country. It was 1 119 t 0 charge upon which the Bench could commit her, but t , had written to the Government to obtain money to tel 7, her to America, where she said she was willing to g t .: and in the meantime she might be remanded for fo to ther examination to keep her out of harm's way til l -answer was received. gage The mother and step-father of prisoner then dence to the effect stated by Mr. Vokes, and also ODe that they feared she was following bad practices, as was in the habit of staying out at night. . In reply to a question from' the Bench, the prist/"Dv who is an extremely young woman, and rather a ".;:, • looking person, said she was willing to go to Anler l ,, - ; but wept at the apprehension of being sent back to Pr' s- o r, The Bench, upon her promise to be of good behafi; Do permitted her to be at large, till an answer shoal(' received from the Government.—Limerick Reporter. HER MAJESTY'S AUTUMN EXCURSION.--"' nfa e 0 royal have been given for the immediate equipment of steam yacht Victoria and Albert. She has a ccorcliPa g e s been masted, &c., and received on board her fuel. P'olo captain, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, had arrived frtbe Cowes (where he has taken temporary lodging) , f° in purpose of hastening her outfit ; and the yacht virjultli few days make a trial cruise, having been furnished ":1„0, new engines and boilers. Rumour states the sth of tember as the contemplated period of her Majes t Y s barkation for summer cruising. The iron steamer D'l;obt Lieutenant Chamberlain, from her small size a nd to draught of water, is selected as a tender to the yacu„lrio' convey her Majesty up narrow rivers, or where the , te , toria could not by possibility reach. — Brighton G aze` o o INCENDIARISM IN YORKSHlRE.—lnformat ioll r ig last night received at Bow-street Police-office, tho,, ei : of on the morning of the 10th instant several stack the wheat, belonging to Mr. Brigham, of Slingsby, i rl u b of county of York, then standing in a close in the por'„,,d• Slingsby, were feloniously set on fire and dest r vi o re The following rewards have been offered for the 100 hension and conviction of the incendiaries, viz.:- -P • i yite Right lion. the Earl of Carlisle, 10/.; by the Couli . ,tl a 10' Insurance Company, 100 L; by the Yorkshire xift-006 surance Company, 50/. ; and by Mr. Brigham, 5/. .i op et also been intimated to the police authorities that roper means will be used to obtain her Majesty's gr a 00 0 pardon to any accomplice who will give such i nforto as shall lead to the conviction of the principal. BIRTHS. _.,...Dv' On the 13th inst., in Woburn - place , Russel l-V P" — William Treiv, of a son. teb On the 13th inst., in Great George-street, Weet t°ll:l° Mrs. H. M. Clark, of a son. es se ir I' On the 13th inst., at Huntingdon , the l ad y of C. jun., Esq., of a daughter. ,fr o °l On the 13th inst., at Hammersmith , the wife t". T. . A Jones, Esq., of a son. icfavaP t`P- On the 14th inst., the lady of Thomas Platt , of --,, e t.' , • and of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., barrister-at - law , of daugl t r . 01 At Corbalton Hall, Ireland, the Hon. Mrs. GorbB '' daughter, still-born. . am. ifs On the 10th inst., the lady of J. James, Esq., of A - - bel On the Ilth inst., at Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hants' of the Rev. Essex Holcombe, of a daughter. Ire'' ,„r,d, 11 On the 12th inst., at Sharavogue, King's Countf",t b p 01l the lady cf the Hon. J. C. Westenra, 291. P., of a s oo, t, survived a short time. 00 °1 On the 12th inst., at Granby-street, Morni n gtor a II t Mrs. Edward Culton, of a daughter. ...,,,.thaorel On the 13th inst., at Ashmeadow House, 11'''' the lady of James Dickson, Esq., of a son. ir Artila co MARRIED. Ijo, o" On the 19th of April, at Penang , Lieutenant,,.,,,, se o , lett, of the 27th Madras Native Regim ent, to liTept Co vi ". daughter of the late Edward Presgrave, E.9g d of 1 , sel On the Bth inlor of Singaore. Ffacifi e We p st., at Whitchurch, Hants , Majo r ) th e the the Madras Army, to Marianne , thir d daughter 0,. gr.„, t ' T. J. Atkins, Esq.. of Bishop's Stoke. On the 13th inst., at St. Paul's, Covent-gar,C of '" P Nichols, of Cambridge, to Frances , third dailgl" ali ° Cribb, of King-street, Covent-garden. Ch u rch, veir On the 13th inst., at 'West Hackney ch igou - Cooper, Esq., of Southampton, to M iss Leah 10( nington, of Basingstoke, Hants. m a jor , 0 .. On the 14th inst., at St. Mary's, m bia ary iebon.e . 9 ., datig ht. Jones, Prince Albert's Hussars, to Ann r ilts . Joseph .Neeld, Esq., M.P., Grittleton House, " fe liCs DIED. h i ll s f On the Bth inst., in Sloane - st reet, Charlotte Le slie of the late John Boylston Hallen, Esq. f °scar On the 1 lth inst., the infant daughter 0 or), so s' Stephen, Esq., of Dudley. bet S t , he V eir ' On the 12th ult., at Croydon, SarreY , 11 ° cow, Esq. • fe or t John On n Phithe p l p 2 s tl l t v i 3 n . s c t. , e , at _ i‘ T. Hampstead , ii.of c raii fi Emma, ei , l3... _ o i rd s him',,, es Ir . ,„,,,, f , On the 12th inst., at the Rectory_ tc,lo,l7;didesc D Hampshire, Henry Vincent Bayley, P.'-'• Stow and Canon of Westminster. of the I 'llrsg°ll' daN fort ll4.°s6l' On the 13th inst., a t Chicheste r _ lace, Ne O w n the 13th Kent-road.st., Cornelis Schenk, Esw(l.9an Jam b El o iz n ab t c h t e h, l t 3 h t e h Clap On the 14th inst , at the Terrace, Zoralin, Esq., aged 86. winisfet.,ofatWßialltill',nMFiaehrlaaerl, _. ~...,, jou 0, CEosnci;table,Eiclny_,, TiFl3-6 TC4jl{(Pll I,ontiou. Printßd and Publizhed by 140. 1 ", No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Th e Sun 0 ffieet„,nouty Strand, in the Precin of Precinct the Savoy, in the 11 " Middlesex,' Friday, Auguat 16, 1644. THAMES POLICE. 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