The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENIN G PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. ____ GLOBE.—Lord Ashley has, we perceive, pledged himself —in a letter written in reply to some appli cation on the s u bj ec t f rom a Ten-Hours' Committee in the north—to renew his efforts in the next session to obtain a legislative restriction of labour in factories to ten hours a day. After the experience of the last session, when those who advocated the restriction of factory labour to ten hours afterwards voted against it when it stood part of the Factory Bill—and thus shirked the question and stultified themselves, on the ground of the embarrassments which an adherence to the " cause of humanity" would occasion to Ministers, who opposed the ten-hours' resolution—we have no appre hensions of any very firm stand by Lord Ashley and the other advocates for restrictions on factory labour. There will be a grand exhibition of micros copic benevolence. Cases of factory labourers' debi litated constitutions, and of their shortened existence, will be cited. Medical opinions, and statistical returns of Sanitary Commissioners, will be quoted. Every effort will, in short, be used to " make out a case" for legislative interference in the way asked for. All this will be done—without the least idea, on the part of Lord Ashley and his supporters, that their attempts will prevail with the Government or with the House of Commons. The former will remain firm to their declared purpose of resisting any legislative inter ference with the rights of labour in the men, and of capital in their masters. The House of Commons will be careful how it allows itself to be caught napping, when it ought to be wide awake. Members who support her Majesty's Ministers will call to mind the confusion of face and agitation of feeling which were caused by the awkward affirmation by the House of the ten-hours' resolution moved by Lord Ashley ; how Sir Robert Peel was compelled to employ alternate reproaches and entreaties—remonstrances and persuasions ; how Sir James Graham was even driven to utter expres sive threats of resigning office—and the fears which pervaded the possessors and the expectants of place and profit from the Government, lest, if the ten hours' clause passed, the Cabinet should be shaken, if not, indeed, be broken up. There will be no repe tition in the next session of any such scenes as those which took place on this question in the last. A. speech of the character we have described may be de livered by Lord Ashley. He will be followed by a few speakers, pro and con. Sir James Graham will wind up the debate by a good common sense view of the question, in which he will demonstrate the mani fest absurdity and glaring injustice of the proposition. And thus the matter will end for another year. We should not think it worth while to advert to the subject, were it not that there are a number of well meaning people who, like Lord Ashley, allow their feelings to lead their reasoning faculties astray. They listen to exaggerated and frequently false accounts of the sad effects of working in factories for twelve hours ; and embark on a Quixotic enterprise of pre venting such results by agitating for an Act of Par liament to restrict the hours of labour. The benevolence of heart which moves to such efforts as Lord Ashley has employed to effect this ob ject, claims commendation—the perversion of in tellect, or rather the deficiency of the reasoning powers, which such efforts display, moves commisera tion. Aware of the influence which such schemes ac quire over the niore amiable feelings of our nature—by which the judgment is blinded to their inevitable con sequences—we deem it necessary to place before such persons some of the reasons which induce us to lend our aid to Government in its opposition to Lord Ashley's proposition ; although by so doing we find ourselves in antagonism to some influential indivi duals of our own party, with whom, on questions of national policy, we generally concur. All inter position with the employment of labour is in direct contravention of the principles which ought to go vern contracts between employers and the employed, and is an infraction of the laws of society which are in dispensable to the freedom of the individual and the postulates of commercial undertakings. Th e prin ciple, to be worth anything—and if essenti a l t o th e well-being of the social system —must be general. Where can its limits be placed ? The Legislature has no more right to interfere between the owner of It factory and his artisans, than between the mas ter of a house and his domestic servants. There are many trades and commercial establishments in which it is utterly impossible to apply a restric tive enactment to reduce the hours of labour. Take the case of a daily morning paper. To produce the journal, a large number of men must be employed during the entire night. The places in which they ply their respective vocations, in furtherance of the common object, are lit with gas. The men are neces sarily crowded into a small space, and the ventilation is more or less imperfect. Let Lord Ashley visit one of those establishments at midnight, and his benevolence will prompt him to interfere for the prevention of the consequences to human health and life from such intense application in such an a tmosphere, for so many hours, constituting the entire night. But prudence will step in, and prevent him from interfering between the proprietors of the morn fals- journals and the men in their employ. And ye t, if Lord Ashley's " principle of humanity" be worlth .anything, he is bound, in consistency with his princirles. to make the attempt. The same argu ment apply to the thousands of tailors who, in a posture confessedly injurious to health, ply their calling thro:igh the live-long day, and borrow from the night some of the hours which tired nature claims for repose and re-invigaration. Will Lord Ashley include these in his " charter of benevolence?" The system of " over hours," by which men extend the usual periods of work under special circumstances by two, three, and four hours, should also be taken into the Noble Lord's humane consideration ; and a special enactment be made, to render such excessive taxation of man's limited physical powers penal both upon the employer and the employed. We admit the abstract desirableness of assigning to man a moderate and carefully-regulated por tion of • labour, that recreation may be en joyed, intellectual and moral improvement properly cultivated, and rest from fatigue insured. The mis fortune of Lord Ashley, and of the super-humane persons who adopt his theory , is that it is simply im practicable. 'We should be sorry, indeed, to believe it the only one which could be proposed for the "con summation devoutly to be wished," of improvement in the lot of labour—and amongst the greatest of such improvements, undoubtedly, must be ranked the re laxation of all extreme degrees of toil requisite for support or comfort. STANDARD.—The rule which we have pre scribed for ourselves, and which our readers have so long kindly indulged, prevented our alluding as we could have wished to the admirable charge of the Bishop of Worcester, published in yesterday's Standard. That noble and most seasonable address could, however, well dispense with an introduction. Our readers have seen and appreciated it, and any compliments on our part would be flat in com parison with their own sense of its merits, and of the good Bishop's claim on the gratitude of the country. The excellent Bishop of Salisbury, at pre sent administrator of the diocese of Bath, in consi deration of Dr. Law's infirmity and great age, has ad dressed the clergy of the last-named diocese in pre cisely the same spirit, urging the same advice. We have not seen any copy of the Right Reverend Lord's address, and we do not know that any copy has been printed, but we have what we consider sufficient authority for saying, that it was in all respects precisely similar to the address of the Bishop of Worcester. Lastly, what gives us a sincere plea sure on every ground, we are able to communicate the following graceful letter of the Bishop of Exeter, putting an end to the differences that have lately disturbed his Lordship's diocese : " TO TIM CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE OF EXETER. " Bishopstowe Dec. 23, 1844. " Dear and Rev. Brethren,—lt has Ceen represented to me by many of you, in different parts of the diocese, that the use of the surplice in preaching is more repugnant to the feelings of the people than could have been reasonably anticipated. To these feelings, however erroneous, I deem it my duty to surrender what may be abandoned without the sacrifice of any principle. I therefore with• draw my order, as respects the surplice. " That order was avowedly issued by me, not for the sake of enforcing an express rule of the Church, but in execution of the power given to me to ' appease a diversity' in Divine Worship, and so to remove a symbol of disunion amongst ourselves. If my object cannot be obtained in the way which I had pointed out, without leading to other evils of as grave a kind, let me, however, hope and en treat that in using your own discretion in this particular, you will so use it as shall least expose you to the re proach of cherishing party spirit. Wherever, therefore, the surplice is now used without offence, there, I hope, at will be continued in use. " The enforcement of the rubrics rests on different gro t ;nd. In them the Church has spoken clearly; and to th e voice of the Church, when it gives not an uncer tain soun:i. every true Churchman, and especially every faithful mitjater, will hearken with reverence and sub snission.—l am, Rev. and dear Brethren, " Your faithful friend and brother, " H. EXETER." May He who guards his Church forbid that any Churchman fall into the grievous sin of treating this accommodation as a victory. There can be no victory in such a case without a war, and he who rAhould now triumph would confess that he has been at war with his spiritual superior, and would re :Ntle r himself obnoxious to the charge of makii7 a hypocritical pretence of a conscientious , d to disuise his the scruple, proper autn, or ntY er of the g enm et it y Church. Lus to rather understand the arrange men t as , w h at i n trut h i t . Right Reverend L or d' s disco is, the effect of the very, that the innovatiu.'s or renovations t o w hi c h he for a moment thought,' it his duty to give countenance, are in the m;...`ds of the people intimately and inseparably conntrled i with a profession of the Tractarian heres, anu that t4t it I only, WAS on. this account, and this &coo y W t his just authority has ever been resisted. Once satisfied that such is the true state of the case, the Bishop has acted with the affectionate care and the manliness that have ever distinguished him. It remains now for the people to show that they merit the favourable, and, we are thoroughly convinced, just estimate of their motives which has led to his Lordship's con ciliatory and truly paternal concession. Let the peo ple show that they never ceased to cherish a grateful veneration for his Lordship's personal character and sacred office, even while they seemed to resist his command. This they can most satisfactorily demonstrate by a careful recollection of all his Lordship's manifold services to the great Protestant cause, and the multitude of the be nefits he has conferred upon his diocese. As care fully dismissing from memory the occurrences of the last month, as a well-disposed man dismisses recol lections of the rare and accidental harshness of a father, whose whole life otherwise gives proof of kindness, care, and deeply-seated love. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1844 INTERESTING OCCURRENCE. The Aeenir National contains the following inte resting recital :—" Some months back, a pris)ner, escorted by two gendarmes, was brought to Tulle, sentenced to undergo there five years' imprisonment. His wife, a young woman in black, covered with a thick veil, accompanied him to the door of the prison. The prisoner is a person named Vinsot, a receiver of taxes in the arrondissement of Tulle, who had been condemned by the Court of Assizes of the Correze, under the following circumstances :—At the hotel where M. Vinsot lod;ed before his marriage was a pretty girl, to whom he was said not to be indifferent. He got married, however, to a most amiable young woman, of excellent education, and tenderly attached to him. The girl at the inn lay in some months after, and her child disappeared. She was taken up under a charge of infanticide, and, from the information which she gave, M. Vinsot, to whom she said she had given the child, was also arrested. This affair plunged both his family and that of his wife into the greatest grief, and caused much surprise in the country. The young wife, as may be supposed, received a dreadful shock, but refused to believe that her husband was guilty. She attended him during his trial and the preliminary proceedings with great devotedness. He was found guilty by the Court as a party to the concealment of the birth of the child; and the girl, who declared him to be her accomplice, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. They were in due course removed to their places of confine ment, Vinsot being accompanied by his wife to Tulle, as already stated. Her conduct soon became known, and the people, who seldom fail to admire in others what is really noble, treated her with the utmost veneration. Months passed over in this way, the young wife remaining firm in her convic tion of her husband's innocence, when the girl whose child had disappeared fell ill. She, at last, became in se dangerous a state, that a priest was sent for. Alarmed on his representations at the thought of ap pearing before her Divine Judge without atoning for her sins, she confessed before witnesses that she had wrongfully accused Vinsot, having herself killed the child with a view to ruin her former lover, whom she detested for leaving her. She died shortly after this avowal. The circumstances were immediately im parted to the Procureur-General, who at once applied for a royal pardon for Vinsot, which, we doubt not, will be at once granted, to the heartfelt delight of his attached wife." POLICE INTELLIGENCE (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A man named Clark was brought before the Lord Mayor, having on Tuesday evening surrendered him self upon self-accusation. A policeman stated that the prisoner addressed him on Tuesday, at about five o'clock, and said he VMS anxious to surrender himself, as he had been guilty of engaging himself to go out to Bombay as steward in one of the ships of Sir John Pirie and Co., receiving N. from the firm on account, and breaking the con tract. This person also told the witness that he had paid his landlady 9./. of the money thus advanced, and that he unfortunately sat down with a set of friends, and caroused until the remainder disappeared ; that he was unable to bear the sight of those he had wronged upon recovering from his debauch, and that he was soon reduced to the necessity of hawking Luci fers and playing the flute, which, however, he was at last obliged to pawn to save him from dying by star vation. The witness produced the duplicate of the flute. The Loan MAYOR—You are aware that Sir John Pirie is present ? Prisoner—Yes, my Lord ; I see him. I was ashamed to go near him when I found I had lost the money, and I thought the only repara tion I could make was by resigning myself into the hands of justice. The Loan MAYOR—Were you aware that the offi cers ofjustice were looking after you ? The prisoner —No, my Lord. I hope your Lordship does not think I would wantonly leave so good a situation. I have been sixteen voyages as steward, and I have borne all along an irreproachable character. Sir J. PIRIE—The man received the 9/. in advance in November, and never appeared. Ido not care about the 91., but nobody will take him into employ ment. As far as lam concerned, I do not wish him to be detained. The LORD MAYOR—Then I discharge you, prisoner. The prisoner then left the room, evidently disap pointed at not being rewarded by another engage ment, as well as forgiven. A labouring man named Henry Clack was charged with having stolen a cart-load of bricks, the property of Mr. Brown, builder, of College-hill. The prisoner had been employed to convey bricks to Stanning-lane from a barge, and he contrived to take elsewhere one load, which he was not able to account for. The LORD MAYOR, at the request of Mr. Brown, the prosecutor, who complained that he was dread fully plundered, remanded the prisoner for a few days. A man named William Ling wood was charged with having stolen two turkeys and a goose, the pro perty of Mrs. Howard, poulterer,at Leadenhall-market. The prisoner had been seen by one of Mrs. Howard's men deliberately take one of the turkeys and the goose from the place in the shop where they were de posited, place them across his shoulder, walk into the street, thrust them into a bag which he carried, and re turn to the stall and pick up the other turkey in like manner. The witness had followed the prisoner and collared him the moment he was walking off with his last prize. The prisoner declared that he knew nothing at all of the lost turkey, but merely that it lay at his feet when he was taken into custody. As for the first turkey and the goose, he had most honestly bought them of two country people who called upon all passers by to " buy the last turkey and goose," and if the Lord Mayor thought of letting Mrs. Howard have his property, it would be a great encouragement to butchers to charge respectable people who had made purchases with robbery, in order to get posses sion of all they had.—(A laugh.) The Loan MAYOR (to Mrs. Howard's shopman)— You swear that you saw the prisoner take all these ? Witness—l do. The LORD MAYOR—And that they are Mrs. Howard's properiy ? Witness—Certainly they are. The prisoner was then committed for trial. Two pickpockets, charged with having stolen pocket handkerchiefs, were committed for trial. THE CITY POLICE.—It is a remarkable fact, and must be highly gratifying to the lovers of temperance and order, that not one charge was entered at any of the police-stations in the City throughout the twenty four hours of Christmas-eve and Christmas-day ; that only one robbery, under thirty shillings in value, was committed ; and that only one destitute case occurred, and that was the case of a man who, when taken to Aldersgate workhouse, was found to have in his pos session the comfortable sum of 41. 3s. 10d. A great deal of credit is due to the City police for the activity and skill evinced during that usually turbulent and noisy period. GUILDHALL. Yesterday Edward Downes Boucher, a clerk at the Castle and Falcon Inn, Aldersgate-street, was charged before Mr. Alderman Hooper with obtaining money by false pretences from Mrs. Lee, a saleswomnn in New- gate-market. Mr. Alexander, one of the proprietors of the inn, stated that a grazier having complained to the agent at Derby of the charges made for conveying some goods to Newgate-market, the waybill was referred to, and the charge therein was found to be correct, but less in amount than was said to have been received in London, Upon referring to the books in London, it was found that the sum paid by salesmen was no greater than that charged in the invoice, but upon application to the salesmen it appeared the prisoner, whose duty it was to collect the money, had made a practice of increasing the charge for his own benefit, while he returned the proper amount as all he had received. A delivery-book was made np from the way-bills with the addresses and amounts to be charged. It was then given to the pri soner, that he might make out a bill for each salesman, collect the money, and take his receipt for the safe ar rival of the goods. When so signed it was the duty of the prisoner to return the book, with the money col lected, to the cashier. Mr. Alexander then produced four bills made out to Mrs. Lee, of Newgate-market, in which he had varied the charges to the extent of 11. 6s. 4d. in the course of a month. The prisoner had manu factured a spurious delivery-book, that the . proper price to be charged might not be seen when the signature was affixed ; and in the genuine delivery-book the prisoner used to forge the signatures of the salesmen. George Lee, in the service of Mrs. Lee, proved the payment to the prisoner of 2L 18s. on the 16th of No vember, 31. 6s. lod. on the 23d, 61. 17s. 6d. on the 7th of December, and 51. 19s. on the 14th of December. The signatures in the delivery book produced were forged, They were signed in black ink, whereas he had used blue ink for six years past. Charles F or d, e l er k to M r . Al exan d er , d epose d, t h at on t h e 16th of November the prisoner accounted for 2h 14s. 6d.i on the 23d, for 31, is. 4d. ; on the 7th of December, for 61. 9s. 6d.; and on the 14th of December, for 5L 9s. These were the correct charges and all the pri soner was authorised to demand. The fuur bills pro duced for higher amounts were in the prisoner's hand writing. The prisoner wept, but offered no defence. Mr. Alderman HOOPER said, that the prisoner having pursued such a fraudulent course must be committed for trial ; but he remanded him, that the depositions might be prepared. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday Lord Ranelagh waited on Mr. Hardwick, to lay before the magistrate a statement of the case of se veral foreigners, by whom his Lordship was accom panied, who had been sent by the French Government to England under remarkable circumstances. His Lordship said, the foreigners were Spanish Car lists—several holding high military rank—who had been obliged, for their own personal safety, to leave Spain, and take refuge in France. These foreigners had been suddenly compelled to quit France, and they had been shipped off to England by the French authorities, and left on the shores ()This country quite destitute, and ig norant of the English language. A paper which Lis Lordship handed to the Bench explained the case of the foreigners as follows : " There are Spaniards who, for some years past, have been refugees in France. For the slightest infringe ment of the French police regulations relative to foreigners, they are seized, put in irons, thrown into prison, and marched from town to town, in company with the vilest felons, until they reach Calais, where they are placed on board ship, and landed on the shores of this country, not only ignorant of the language, and without the means of even temporary subsistence, but, in most instances, exhausted by fatigue and want of food. Ilere they wander about in utter destitution, besides suffering from a climate so much more severe than that to which they have been accus tomed. Their earnest entreaty to the French Govern ment for permission to proceed to Italy or Germany is disregarded, and England is consequently made the penal settlement for every offence against the orders of the French police. The Spanish Consul refuses to grant them passports under any consideration but that of swearing to observe a form of government which they despise, and under which their lives would not be worth an hour's purchase. The other foreign Consuls in London, by virtue of their instructions, are unable to assist them ; therefore the refugees or martyrs to their political opinions remain without the means of existing in this country, as well as destitute of the power to leave even when a passage to a more eligible place of abode is provided for them by private charity." His Lordship said, that deeming it right that our Government should be made acquainted with the pro ceedings of the French Government, more especially as lie had reason to believe that other victims would shortly find their way to this country in a similar manner, he had addressed a letter to the Foreign Secretary, Lord Aberdeen, and he would now read that letter and the reply to it : " 3, Bolton-row, Dec. 19. "My Lord,—l take the liberty of representing to your Lordship that there are, and have been for some time past, in London, various Spaniards, who had previously been resident in France, as refugees from the recent po litical troubles in their own country. " That of these the greater number have been sent from France by the. French Government, on account of some slight infringement of the laws relating to strangers (such, for example, as an attempt to cross the frontier, or as being found in a state of destitution), and landed upon the shores of Britain, as though they had been transported to a penal settlement, only without the slightest provision for their maintenance. " That the Spaniards referred to have not been al lowed the choice of their destination, even where they have earnestly prayed to be sent to Germany, Italy, &c. " That such exiles are unjustly cast as a burden upon the resources of English benevolence, or left to the fright ful alternative of starvation ; and, finally, that I have reason to believe that the number of such cases is likely to increase. " I have felt it my duty to bring this subject under your Lordship's consideration, in the hope that, either by a rtmonstanee to the French Government, cr by some public means of relief, your Lordship wid see right to put an end to so great an evil.—l have the honour to be, your Lordship's obedient r ervant, " The Earl of Aberdeen." " RANELAGIL" He had received the following reply:— " Foreign-office, Dec. 21, 1844. "My Lord,—l am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to acknowledge the receipt of the letter which you ad dressed to his Lordship on the 19th inst., relative to the arrival in this country from France of various Spanish refugees.-1 have the honour to be, your Lord4hip'k► humble servant, " 11. F. ADDINGTON. " To Lord Ranelagh." His Lordship said, as nothing was to be hoped from Lord Aberdeen's interference, he had advised the foreigners to come to this court to seek advice, and to ascertain it anything could be done for their relief. Some of the foreigners had received trifling assistance from the parish in the way of food, but this was such a precarious and insufficient prospect that he trusted something more advantageous could be suggested. Mr. HARDwicx said the case was one in which he possessed no means of interference. Even if he was disposed to assist the parties, his power would only ex tend to some temporary relief from the poor-box fund ; but even then it was a very doubtful point with him whether such a disposal of the money sent for the uses of the poor would be exactly in accordance with the wishes and intentions of the benevolent donors. The only course which he could suggest to the foreigners was to apply to the parishes in which they were respectively located for relief. Lord Ranelagh promised to communicate this sugges tion to the parties in whose behalf he had interested himself. William Wicks was charged with having uttered a forged cheque of 101., purporting to hare been drawn by his master, Joseph Shaw, on the Regent-street branch of the Union Bank of London. Robert Seton, one of the clerks, said the prisoner pre sented a cheque for 101.. about four o'clock on Saturday afternoon at the banking-house, in Argyll- place. From information which witness had previously received he handed the cheque to another cashier, who took it into the manager's private room. Henry Clack, manager, said as soon as he was shown the cheque hesent for the prisoner into his private room, and questioned him about the possession of it. The prisoner said he got it from a Mr. Howard, and then, in reply to other questions, said that his master, Mr. Shaw, was waiting for the money. When the inconsistency of the two stories was pointed out to the prisoner he at tempted to screen himself by alleging that witness had misunderstood him. He then said he had some errands to execute for Mr. Shaw, and if witness would allow him to go, he would be back as soon as he had done what he had to do. Witness told him he had sent for Mr. Shaw, and he must wait till Mr. Shaw came. A police-con stable was subsequently sent far, and the prisoner was given into custody. Joseph Shaw, upholsterer, No. 47, Mortimer -street, Cavendish-square, said the prisoner had been in his em ploy as light porter since March last. About the begin ning of December he ascertained that several forged cheques had been presented and paid at the Union Bank, and feeling assured that the offender was some one in his employ who had obtained access to his cheque-book, from which several blank cheques had been taken, he kept watch and the result was, that he missed two of the paid forged cheques from the drawer in which he had placed them:. , On' Thursday morning last, about half-past seven o'clock, after the prisoner came as usual to his work, and was let in by the cook, witness was so placed as to see the pr.soner enter the house, and to ascertain that he proceeded im mediately to the counting-house. Witness, by means of a trap-door in a room above, which commanded a view of the counting-house, was enabled to see the prisoner take out the drawer in which the cheque book was placed and tear out a bank cheque. Witness did not immediately act on the information he had ob tained, but he went to the banking-house, and stated what he had discovered, and then it was arranged that time should be given to see if the prisoner would present the cheque after it had been filled up. On Saturday, just before the bank closed, the prisoner presented a cheque for 101, and was taken into custody. poli•ce-constable Lister, 143 C, said he searched the prisoner's lodgings, 27, Castle-street, Oxford-market, and fourid part of g genuine cheque. This fragraeut. Mr. Shaw said, must have been taken out of the drawer whero he kept his cheque-book and cancelled cheques. Mr. Woolf (for the prisoner) cross-examined the wit nesses, but elicited nothiag material. The prisoner was fully committed. The following seasonable donations for the poor-box have been received :—" J. H. IL," 21. ; " G.," 21. ; and " E. C.," 51. MAI?YLEBONE. Yesterday this Court was much crowded from an early hour, in consequence of a report that a number of Spa niards had murdered a man, and that they would be brought up for exam:.iation before the sitting magistrate, Mr. Long, upon the charge. The rumour with regard to the murder turned out to be untrue, but, as will be seen from the subjoined evi dence, the sufferer, who has been severely wounded on the head by cuts from one or more razors, cannot, although he attended to make his statement, be con sidered free from danger. His name is William Tiler man, and he is a shoemaker, residing at No, 11, Hamp ton-court, f ) ssulston-street, Somers- town. His head was covered with barOages. The names of the pe!sonera were Manuel Santa, Vin cent Peyton, Philip Ascencion, and Dias Garcia. Mr. John Vials, landlord of the Vjetoria public=bouse, Charlton street, Somers-town. deposed, thit on the hear vious night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, i!s pri soners entered his premises and called for drink. They were accompanied by ten or twelve others ; and as all of them were much intoxicated he refused to serve them, They then abused him ; and Santa struck at him with stick, in addition to which ho threw at him a number of quart and pint pots, some of which hit him. Another of the party also attempted to injure him with a bludgeon. William Therman, the poor man who was wounded, deposed that, as he was passing through Charlton-street he heard a great disturbance, and saw nearly a dozen Spaniards, amongst whom were the prisoners, armed with large sticks and bludgeons. He seized hold of one of the sticks, which was in the possession of a man not in custody, when he was immediately knocked down, by two tremendous blows, and while lying upon the ground, Ascencion and Garcia being on the top of him, he re , ceived several severe wounds from a sharp instrument upon the head and ear, and the collar of his coat was cut completely through. He also received many very se vere kicks upon his body. Mr. Parker, surgeon, Phoenix- street, Somers-town, stated, that he had examined the man Therman, and found on the left side of the head yr:mud upwards of five inches long. The skull was laid bare about thole inches, and the ear completely divided. On the right side of the head was a wound six inches and a half in length. Other evidence was gone into, from which it appeared that some of the prisoners assaulted Al ith considerable violence two or three constables, one of whom was bitten severely in the hand by Peston. Two razors were produced by the officers, both of which were picked up close to the spot where the man Therman was attacked ; one of them was covered with blood. Therman said, he was quite positive that he must have been wounded either by Ascencion or Garcia. The surgeon, in reply to a question from Mr. Lox°, said, that from th• nature of the wounds, sloughing might take place, and fatal consequences might probably ensue ; in fact, it was scarcely safe for the sufferer to have quitted his home to give evidence in tke case. The apron which Therman wore when the murderous attack was made upon him was exhibited to the magis trate ; it was completely saturated with blood. There was also a quantity of blood upon the prisoner Ascen sion's shirt when he was taken in charge. The prisoners, through an interpreter, who had ex plained to them the whole of the evidence, denied the truth of all that had been alleged against them. Santa and Peston were each committed to the House of Correction for a month, for assaulting the constables ; and Ascencion and Garcia were remanded till Thursday next. Q UEEN-SQ UA RE. Yesterday Mickael Hughes, W. Davis, G. Gilson, H. Lane, H. Harding, T. Doling, W. Meredith, J. Branch, Cassidy, J. Wilson, and IV. Addinay, 11 sturdy young paupers, two or three of whom were under 16 years of ago, were charged with creating a serious riot, and doing considerable damage, in the workhouse of St. Luke, Chelsea, and violently assaulting Mr. Sutton, the master. Mr. Ryc.er, the chairman, and several others of the Board of Guardians of the pariah were present, attended by their clerk and solicitor, Mr. Lowland, who stated that the conduct of the defendants had been of such a character that he had received directions from the board to prosecute with the utmost rigour of the law. Mr. Sutton, whose eyes were blackened and face much discoloured and swollen, stated, that defendants after being regaled on Christmas-day with roast beef and plum-pudding became, with many others, so disorderly in the course of the afternoon that he found it necessary to visit and request them to preserve more order, which he did in the kindest way. At 8 o'clock in the evening, the usual time at which the inmates of the house retire to rest, he received a message, stating that defendants requested leave to remain up another hour, which he refused to give them ; and, in about a quarter of an hour afterwards, he was informed that they refused in the most positive terms to go to bed. He then wont into the day-room, where he found defendants and others, and recommended them to go to bed quietly ; observing, that if they did not obey in the course of five minutes, he should feel it his duty to send for the police and give them into cus • tody, upon which they left the room and he followed them. On arriving in the yard, Watson, a pau per, who had since absconded, made a dead stop, and the others fbllowing his example, refusedlo move, when finding it necessary to take some decided step, he or dered the watchman to lock Watson up. Defendant Davis immediately rushed at witness and struck him a violent blow in the face, observing, " I'll kill the Witness laid hold of him by the collar and dragged him into his dwelling-house, but Davis called for assistance, and the other defendants surrounded the master, knocked him down, and beat him in the most savage manner. The blows fell so thick that he was unable to say how many struck him, but he recognised Hughes as being most active in the attack upon him. Defendants at tempted to force' him down some cellar steps, but he succeeded, with assistance, in getting away from them, and went for the police. On his return, he found that the defendants had broken 97 squares of glass and three sashes in the tailors' shop and their sleeping-room, and had knocked out the panels of a door in their endeavours to get into the old man's room. Mr. Sutton in conclu sion said, that the whole of the defendants were actively engaged in the riot, and that he had been considerably injured by the attack made upon him. Joseph Lamb, a watchman in the house, confirmed a portion of the master's statement, and added that lie was preceding defendants with a lantern, to show them into their bedroom, when Davis came np, and observing llere goes for the - lantern," kicked it out of his hand, and broke it into pieces. Defendants made a desperate attempt to force their way into the women's room, and behaved altogether in the most outrageous and violent manner. Another watchman, in giving a corresponding account of the riot, expressed his opinion that, but for timely aid, Mr. Sutton would have been torn to pieces. Defendants denied having created a riot, struck the master, or done anything amiss. Davis and Hughes were loudest in their protestations of innocence, and one of the other defendants said he had bees drinking a drop too much, and did not remember what occurred. A lad, about 17 years of age, was called by one of the party, to prove that he was in the sleeping-room at the time of the riot, but he admitted, in answer to a question from the master, that his father, who was upwards of 90 years of age, and who was maintained in the work house, had given him his pint of beer allowed on Christ mas-day by the guardians, which, with his (the boy's) own pint, made him so drunk that he went to bed at four o'clock in the afternoon. Mr. Ryder observed. that he wished to offer an obser •ationion the statement made by one of the defendants, " that he was drunk, and did not know what had oc curred." It was the desire of the board of guardians, in common, he believed, with the ratepayers of the parish, that the inmates of the house should be treated with kindness and liberality, but at the same time it was their earnest desire that they should not indulge in any ex cess. He had learned from the boy that be obtained the drink by buying that belonging to other paupers, lie (Mr. Ryder) much regretted that the endeavours of the authorities to make them comfortable should be met with so bad a return. Mr. BURRELL observed that he should send the case to the sessions, when other evidence which Mr. Lowland bad been desirous of calling, but which was unnecessary in the present stage of the proceedings, could be pro duced. Defendants, who of course were not provided with bail to answer for their appearance, were sent to prison, WORSHIP-STREET . Yesterday Henry Willis, the driver of one of Wilson's Holloway omnibuses, named the Fav our it e , was c h arge d before Mr. Bingham with having, by furious driving, caused serious injuries to a little girl ten years of age, the daughter of a tradesman name.! Powell, residing in Gee-street, Gosvvell-road. It appeared from the evidence of two witnesses, named NPAllum and Thomas, that between eleven and twelve o'clock on the preceding day their attention was at tracted by the rapid career of two omnibuses, which were proceeding down the City-road at a most den eerous rate, in the direction of Finsbury-square. At the entrance of the square, the driver of one of the omni buses, No. 4,241, belonging to the Paddington Convey. ance Company, and which was on the wrong side of the road, for the purpose of passing a gentleman's chaiie immediately in front of it, urged his horses on to the footway, where the injured child and her brother were crossing, aid before there was a possibility of their saving themselves, both the children were hurled to the ground and trodden under foot by the Conveyance Company's horses. As the wheels of the omnibus were on the point of passing over them, however, one of the wit nesses rushed forward and fortunately succeeded in snatching them from their perilous position, and carried them to the residence of Dr. Jeaffreson, a surgeon in the square. At the moment of the occurrence the vehicles came into such violent collision that two of the spokes, they said, were smashed out of the wheel of the pri soner's omnibus ; but, notwithstanding the serious mis chief they had produced, both drivers continued their career in the same reckless manner, and were soon out of sight. Sergeant Cuthbert, 17 G, stated that at 12 o'clock ke was summoned to the house of Dr. Jeaffreson, where he found the two children under the care of that gentleman and Dr. Leeson, the divisional surgeon ; from the latter of whom he received directions to convey there in a cab to the residence of their parents. One of the children was fortunately injured to only a trifling extent, but the other—the little girl—was ascertained to have received several very serious contusions on the lower part of her person, and both the surgeons were at first apprehensive lest concussion of the brain should supervene, and fatal results ensue. The sergeant added, that on leaving Dr. Jeaffreson's one of the witnesses pointed out the prisoner, who was on his return journey to Holloway, as one of the parties implicated in the transaction, and he imme diately took bins into custody. He had previously dis patched a constable named Bailey to the Bank to appre hend the other Tian, but on the officer's arrival there he ascertained that the driver had absconded to avoid the uonsequences of his misconduct ; and their subsequent efe o eta to capture him had been ineffectual. evrtiacate was put in, describing the nature w il i a th 4 s l such e b h of the injuries ,the child had sustained ; and The prisoner on being called upon fur his defence, im puted a il whole blam e of the transaction to the oth er driver, a; i l d ts p li c e:l a h g is ain h s o t rse h s is into veh ic a le ga a l s lo t p o , and render his (the prisoner's) horses wholly uncontrollable. Mr. 8MG114.31 said it was manifest from OP evidence driven who of the wit t, ! llat the prisoner was much Jess culpable thantheontelr man who bad e§mpad, and he should, therefore, allow him to put in bail foe his appeartma on that day week, by which time it was probable the other driver would be iq custody. I WIDTH OF STREETS AND ALLEYS.-m-iffidgr new ) o fetropolitan Building Act all streets and alleys formed after the is; proximo must be of a certain width' It is enacted by thud section, And R schedule annexed. that with regard to streets and other was beTPsfter forged, from sofar as relates of the Act, securingo all theconditions, asufficientwidth b regulations, 41 . 14 directions contained in the schedule shall be duly observed and performed; end that if any person offend in resp ec t th ereo f , hp s h a ll be iihille tf) hit the penalties and forfeitures imposed by the AP; ill re: spect of any buildings either built contrary thereto, or without due notice to the surveyor appointed is pur suance of 00 421 to inspect such buildings. By the schedule It is deci4red, that every Omit ( 0 4 0 ePtin4 any mews) must be of th e widtL or Potty ilest at tht3 IL 4 if the buildings fronting say street be more than forty feet high from the level of the street, then street must he of width equal at least to the height of the buildings above thc We! ! Jvery alley or mews must be of the width of iao feet at alth the same proy4o ppqtiopp4 with regard to streets. Every alley must have tWQ ens trances, each being at the least the full width of the alley, and one of the entrances at the least open from the ground upwards. The width of streets and alleys is to be ascertained by measuring from front to front of the 1 buildings on each side of the streets or alleys. PUNCH'S ALMAN A.CK FOR 1845, We subjoin the following extracts : " SOLILOQUY OF A SHERIFF'S OFFICER. " Hilary Term ! Pshaw ! There's nothing hila rious about our terms now. This is a precious land of liberty, this is ! ven a sheriff's officer can't find a shoulder to turn his hand to. Time vas, ven I took my two bottles and, my six bodies a-day. But now I thinks brandy : and-vater a luxury, and hasn't as much as a diaman ring to my finger ; I yonder ven they'll gladden my heart vith a execution ?' for the sheriff's officer who wouldn't serve a fellow-eretur in a distress isn't vorthy of the name of Levy ! So I may as yell sell Madame Tassaud my top-boots to stand by them figures of Vellington's and Blucher's. "CLIMATE OP LONDON. "Professor Howard, in analysing the climate of London, took some fog home in a basin, and found it to contain nine parts smoke to one part porter. He undertook to extract a pint of stout from the atmos phere of Oxford-street on a very foggy day, if the fog only lasted till he had completed the operation. " EXTRAORDINARY STATISTICAL FACT. " A lady in Fitzroy-square has a cat which in the course of last year broke fifty plates, six cream-jugs, two brass candlesticks, three soup tureens, fifteen tea cups, and one poker; and has eaten no less than thirty chickens, two sweetbreads, seven turkeys, three legs of lamb, ten gooseberry pies, and three pots of pre served apricots. Nevertheless, this extraordinary cat is the greatest favourite with the cook and all the ser vants. " WORTHY OF ATTENTION. "Advice to persons about to marry—Don't. " THE ART OF PACKING. " A carpet bag should be packed by placing the clean linen in first, including the frilled shirts. After which stuff in the coats and boots, garnish with shaving tackle, and ram down with hair brush. If the pack ing is not then successful, insert your foot into the bag, and pull fiercely at the handles. It does not matter about the carpet bag being wide open at both sides, so as it is closed with a padlock in the middle. " MUSTARD. " The lodging-house variety is very scarce. It may sometimes, however, be raised in about a week from the kitchen, by ringing for it regularly every morning. " TDB LANGUAGE OF DOOR-KNOCKERS. "R AT signifies—Pots, taxes, pa-per, duns, D'ye want any apples ?' physic, the dustman on boxing day, and servants' followers. " RAT-TAT announces—the postman, the comical cousin, and the downy' dun. RAT- TAT..TAT —is the signal of a poor relation, a charity-touter, or a bill of exchange. " RAT-TAT-TAT- TAT-TAT- TAT—RAT• TATETT in dicates a footman in full powder, the polka-professor, the pet-parson, or the chimney on fire. " RATTA-RA-TATA-••••but no, a gentleman's knock cannot be described by the most ingenious phono graphy. " APPROPRIATE BIRTHDAY GIFTS. " The most appropriate birthday gifts are such things as nobody wants, or nobody would use. Velvet braces lined with satin, and embroidered with but terflies, are the best adapted for any relative engaged in a light fancy business, as a South Sea whaler, &c. Painted French garters will do well for a grand father with one leg in the grave ; a silver-mounted riding whip is likely to suit an uncle in the navy ; and a cocked hat i 3 just the thing for a friend who is a Quaker. " TO EPICURES. WHAT TO EAT—WHAT TO DRINK—WHAT TO ATOlD:—Turtle, Champagne, and 'Hun sandwiches a penny.' " AMUSEMENTS FOR. THE YOUNG. "A kitten should always be kept where there are children ; when they are tired of pulling its tail, they can put it into their father's boots. A box of colours is also a source of great amusement, affording them an opportunity of daubing their faces, and of appearing in illuminated pinafores. It is well to let them know where the preserves and pickles are kept, so that going after the jam they may get a bite at a capsicum. On wet days they should be allowed to put peas into the piano, and thump the keys with their drumsticks. Train them to pull gentlemen's whis kers, and wipe their lollipopped hands on ladies' dresses. " ORNITHOLOGICAL DEBUT. " The cuckoo makes its first appearance before a British public early in spring, and trusts to that in dulgence which an English audience is never known to withhold from strange birds, who come in the cha racter of foreign vocalists. " DIRECTIONS FOR FINDING A POLICEMAN. " Look down every area in the street; if you do not by accident see one, ring the bell and inquire if the policeman is in the kitchen. Repeat this at every door, and you cannot fail eventually to find one. " BOILING. " The boiling point varies in different localities. In Bel grave and Grosvenor-squares, Mayfair, and S' pring - gardens, the pot •can hardly be boi►ed under 3,0001. a year ; whereas up at Camden-town the pot will boil at 1501. or 2001. ; and about St. Giles's or Spital flelA at is. or Bs. per week. " LITERARY. " June is Nature's publishing season, when she sends forth several of her periodicals. That splendid annual the strawberry begins to appear in parts, and the gooseberry comes forth in numbers. Some apples and pears may also be expected, as specimens of some early editions of those beautiful standard works in Nature's library. " CONFESSIONS' OP A CONDUCTON. " 'Buses is erroneously said to hold only 13 insides; if they like they can hold a great many more, besides bundles and wet umbrellas, ?!an is a squeezable animal, and 'buses is like carpet bags, there's no knowing what they will hold till you tries 'em, Con.. sequently, though your 'buss seems full, shove 'em in, and drive on, and the 3 are sure to shake down and fit in as close as wood-pavement. Bad sixpences is useful on rainy nights, for stingy women as won't pay more than the fare for themselves and a oarawan full of parcels. When short of pas-engers, stop at the corner of every street to make obserwations and dance the Polka OH the foot-board. EXPEUMNTS IN CHEMISTRY. " Potato is nothing hut 6tarah bilt a Ogee of potato dropped :nto a glass of grog would not have the effect of stiffening it. " CIIRA? FURNITURE. " You must not . give a house-warming if you have bought cheap furniture, for the warming of the house will melt the glue, and the furniture will fall to pieces. A house may be furnished for 401., if your necessities are confined to a deal table and a knife box, a couple of japan chairs, and a Pembroke two-flap. It has been said that the cheap furniture is made of green stuff, but the stuff is not half ao green as th ose who buy it. " HINTS FOR SHOPPING. 6 , If you want to purchase a piece of tape, go to Waterloo House, and ask to look at everything new in dresses, cardinals, cloaks, muffs, carpets, and fea thers. Having fixed .upon what you would purchase if you had the money, say, you see nothing to suit you,' buy your tape, and resolve, by future rigid economy in the house-keepin g , to squeeze that duck of a polka jacket' out of the pies and puddings. " A FEW WORDS TO 111 E LAUNDRESS DT ONE OF TIIE TRIBE. " Don't never wash for a two-pair back, if so be you can help it. He's sure to miss one of his two shirts when you takes home the basket. Squares is good, and so is terraces if they're opulent, as they don't go t.) tea-gardens on Sundays, and so can't have their feelings hurt by seeing you in their silks and muslins (which, in course, you've sent to a wrong party) at the Condick, or Copinghagen, where you may take 'em to air 'em. "EXPORTATION OF BRIDES. " Mothers with a multitude of daughters should divide the favours of their family fairly between their native country and the colonies. Thus those daughters who are blessed with aquilines and raven tresses will be found admirably adapted for home consumption, whilst snubs and doubtful auburns should be de voted to the Indian market. N.B.—Squints will do for Canada. " HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. " The cheapest way to furnish a room is to paper it with postage stamps. For this purpose put all your friends under contribution. You will only re quire 33,542 to paper a small room. The most expe ditious method is to advertise for a ladies' horse, a Natif de Paris, or a grand piano (letters post paid), en d with the answers you will receive you will have sufficient to paper your largu4t room, 14114 a cupboard to spare, " POPULAR DELUSION. " Tt IS the greatest fallacy to suppose the post was invented merely to carry letters. The postage was redliced to enable tradesmen to send their goods at a cheaper v4t/s, The Pentriil depot of this new psregi4l Delivery Company is at St. Martin's-le,Cirand, where cats, turbots, trunks, eggs, dogs, coal-seottles, lobsters, chairs, butter, and every tirticiP if fond and furni ture, from an oyster to a tour-poster, are received up to seven P.M. N.B.—Cats, turbots, coal-scuttles, and four-posters are not admissible through the opening in 0E! !ter - laoxl but must I .lf , 4t the win flow, "now TO 'MAKE A GUY. _ " Get a head of long hair turned up at the ends, and put it on a chapeau Francais, take a pair of tpustgchios l an imperial, and eye glass i add to thew bititi saw scurf, with a gold pin like a beadle's staff, braided coat, crimson waistcoat, ladies' boots, canary kids, a tremendous swagger, and a very small riding whip. Put these together on a block, turn it into Regent-street about three O'clock, aria PH will 4" s4oW4e4 in makigg 4 pev*t guy, " TMPARTANT To Roui4owiats. "The present quotations in the money market for 501. bill are 101. in money, and the rest in good cholera Cape. The advantages of this system are— you can have your .b4l discounted by the father, be I sued by the son, arrested by the uncle, sold up by the nephew, and locked up in the sponging-house by the first cousin. " MEDICAL. " Certain cure of a cold in a prima donna. Stop her salary, or put a rising vocalist in her part." THE LOSS of the BRIG FIRE FLY —INTERESTING NARRATIVE. The brig Firefly, Captain Kerr, commander, bound for New Calabar, on a trading voyage, and laden with a general cargo, left Liverpool on the 14th ult., shortly after noon. After clearing the docks and entering the river, she was towed as far as the Light-house by the Mona steam-tug, from which point she set sail at four P.M., steering N.N. West, aided by the influence of a favouring breeze. The atmosphere even then was somewhat hazy; light rains, too, fell, with intervals between, up to eight o'clock, after which the fog became more dense, ac companied by drizzling moisture, with little inter mission up till pretty near the hour of midnight. Previously Mr. Dick, M.D., and surgeon to the ship, had been on deck, assisting to keep a good look out ; but on observing that vigilance was duly exercised, and the greatest pains taken by the captain, the second officer, and the watch on duty, he at length ventured to retire to rest. His sleep, however, was not a long one, and whether sound or otherwise, scarcely two hours had elapsed, when he was aroused by cries of " Keep her off—keep her off —helm to port—helm to port—hard to port—hard to port," &c &c. These sounds were sufficiently alarm ing, and anon a fearful shock ensued, accom panied by such a creaking of timbers, that convinced the surgeon that collision of some sort had been the fate of the Firefly, in all probability with some other vessel, despite the persevering efforts made on deck, to avert, by every means, the possibility of such an accident. Immediately the surgeon left his cot and rushed on deck in his shirt, haunted by the idea that the vessel was about to sink in deep water; while the first object that met his view, was the steamer that had occasioned the whole mischief, proceeding on her course, as if nothing had happened, although vociferously hailed to turn back. On ascertaining these signals of distress, Mr. Dick rushed back to the cabin, threw on such garments as he could most readily find in the dark, and then ran for ward to ascer tain as correctly as possible under the circumstances the full extent of the injury the brig had sustained, stopping by the way to encourge the men en gaged at the pumps, depressed rather than animated by the impression that their's was indeed a struggle between life and death. The bows when attentively examined were found torn and stove, more particu larly the starboard bow; and from these and other appearances, it became too certain that the vessel would soon founder, however untiring and herculean the ex. ertions of her crew. After orders had been given to launch the boat, in the hope of attracting the attention of the steamer that slackened not her pace, she after a little time was discovered returning with two lights on her star board quarter, and then for the first time the coin mender inquired whether the brig had been damaged by the collision ; but when answered in the affirma ' tire, in place of dispatching his boat to the wreck, he requested those on deck to send their own to the steamer. Although this appeared strange, the boat was launched as speedily as possible, and when the men sent to guide it were about to put off, the word was given that not a single rowing-pin was forth coming. After some little delay a piece of wood was found, fitted if split, for the purposes required ; but, unfortunately, every axe was amissing. In this way half an hour elapsed —the steamer, in the meanwhile, plying round the Firefly going off, perhaps, out of sight, and again returning, re. called by the outcries of the sinking crew, and the lights exhibited on the starboard of the wreck. Such, indeed, were the panic and confusion, heightened by the thick darkness which brooded around, that every oftr for 4 time was amissing the surgeon picked up one aelong the crew feet. Calls were again made for the Firefly's boat, and an answer returned that it was out of order, By this time the carpenter had ennotleued sl* k't of water in the hold, and the steamer being then at some distance, Mr. Dick jumped into the long-boat to essay whether it could not be got afloat ; but in vain, from want of an axe to cut the fastenings. It was tiler, he felt 1 decided emotion of terror, and a sink ing of heart, reuse easily coeceived than 450114 ; but the fit was momentary, and, in place of relax ing, he redoubled his efforts to secure the only remain ing chance of of escape—the steamer brought along side as nearly as possible. Hailing and rebelling were, as a last effort, resorted to with the greatest energy, while two lights were kept moving to and fro in the brig, in the direction in which the steamer had on the last occasion disappeared. And at length her red lights were perceived at the distance of 400 or 500 yards, twinkling dimly through the haze, and bear ing down on the Firefly. At this jnnetere the men had al4andunctd the pumps in despair, on finding the vessel filling so fast, while the helmsman, who had similarly deserted his wheel, was seen under the dim light of the binnacle, tearing his hair, and exclaiming uneeasingly, `‘ Lost ! lost lost!" By persuasion, however, he was wiled back to his post, and then the Kroonien, six in number, resumed onerations, in all probability at the most critical moment supervening the collision, It is astonishing whet wi ling time applied to pipping can effect, in the case of an accidentally disabled ship, and again there was a momentary gleam of hope when the steamer re-appeared within fluty or fifty yards ; and at length alongside, although not until the main deck was level with the water. Thus favoured at the eleventh hour, or rather beyond, the boat was got round; bet, when at length afloat, from the want of gearing, seemed to be little, if at all, under the control of the crew. Never can the writer, who communicates, forget the heart-rending cries simultaneously raised when the steamer for the last time stopped short at a distance of about fifteen yards, as if those who manned her dreaded the eon sequences of e second collision, and durst not risk it for their own safety. The wild shrieks uttered, with the moanings that died more faintly away, were suffi cient to melt a heart of s t one . " C ome e l enga id e —we're sinking, sinking!" would hew fo u nd mourn ful echoed hafl the Qglid land been nearer, and con trasted dismally with the three hearty cheers which saluted the ill-fated barque when she left her moor ings in the port of Liverpool little moo than twelve hours previously. The 4tuamer at length within grappling distance, the surgeon lost no time in springing into her rigging; and then commenced a fearful struggle to get over her bulwarks, rendered the more difficult from so many clinging to the same points, and the terror of cattle close at hand, threatening amidst the darkness to toss every adventurer overboard. The horned animals cleared, Mr. Dick immediately made for the quarter-deck to survey the wreck ; at that awful moment not a sound was uttered, although shortly after the wail of woe was distinctly heard. Again all was still, for a few moments, when a gurgling sound again smote the ear, and though the gulf between the two vessels was then fifty or sixty yards, a rope was instantly thrown overboard. As near as masehe at the same time, the commander of the steamer exclaimed, " go no nearer at so great a risk, for the sake of a single individual." On this Captain Kerr said the surgeon should take a note of the determination—surely even one life was precious ; and a life-buoy, in consequence, was thrown over board, the steam-master remarking that to approach nearer might risk the foundering of both vessels. The cries of distress had now become fainter, al though gurgling sounds were still audible, as of pro ceeding from persons struggling in the water. Ces sation, however, quickly followed, an d th en th e com mander of the Britannia steamer, Dublin, inquired of Captain Kerr and his friend whether there was any necessity for tarrying any longer ? To this question; Captain K. having made no a nswer , th e surgeon sa id he feared all hope was lost, but expressed in the same breath his conviction that a boat might have been dispatched in time to save them all. To this the ready answer was, that no sooner had the collision occurred, than they became all masters on board that his crew refused to obey their head officer, and that one man in particular averred, that if they ven tured to go alongside the wreck, every soul on ly.;ard would jump into the boat, and infallibly swamp her; and not only this, but that his venturing to return In the first instance was contrary to the cull of all on board—a circumstance whic4t accounted for the numerous returns find departures of the steamer. qtlt of the twenty-three individuals that embarked in the Firefly all were eventually saved excepting the chief mate, the individual who was heard struggling in the water. But he hid been somewhat wilful, as was afterwards ascertained, by maintaining that his vessel was not much damaged—that she would still float—and that, in place of a boat, it wou ld be better to crave a tug from the steamer into Beaumarie bar boar, Ilia last words were, " I'll not desert her, stick to the last," after which he ran aft to, the cabin, in place of seizing the rope thrown overboard. [ln reference to the above catastrophe, our readers will mO4O that weeks have elapsed since we stated 014 t Pertisels of the wreolt of two vessels with name hoards had hada picked up on the shores of Galloway, partly on the Borgue shore, and partly near Garlies town. In consequence of these notices we received a letter from the surgeon of the brig Firefly, the pro perty of Meesre, A,W. and G. Maxwell and Co., Liver pool; to the effect that the boxes containing surgical in struments,books,&c.w ere his property,andtliat hewould repair to the spot, with the view of claiming them, so soon as his health, shattered no doubt during the late ehipverecli, euaWed him to undertake so long a journey. In our last number we mentioned the pains taken by Mr. McDougald, superintendent of the rural police, Kirkcudbright, to avert pilfering, and preserve everything as far as possible intact against the Yield to Galloway of the lawful owner. VP;), 1 1 .1 a private source we learn, that the eab,in cg , the Firefly, from being aituate4 on *66 1 was upet d4ring the collie sion, and subsequent'.y washed by tidal influences ti the shores of Galloy,vay, while the frame-work of the ill-fated vessel itse if was discovered at sea, keel 1 1 1 ) .: wards, and to we d b y steam to the port of Li verpo ol' To these facts •ve have only to add, that the abo • narrative rests exc l us i ve l y on facts supplied by Mr; Dick, surg es a o f the ship, although soniewh a marred in efr. ect f rom the lack of space, which pre' vents us ev tering into every minute particular.] -- Dumfries Courier. WILL OF THE LATE MR. MINIS' From an examination of will of the late Air Dunn, now on record, it appears that prior to the re' moval of his .superb Chinese collection to Euro_pet h e had made pro v i s i on f or l eav i ng i t to the city o f delphia. After appointing his executors, the proceeds :—" I give and bequeath my Chinese collet tion, and all the goods and chattels comprising ol e same, or in any way belonging to or incident thereto. to Governeur Emerson, M.D. John H. Latialerrs James 11. Bradford, M. 8., Frederick B rown , and W B. Langdon, in trust, to hold, preserve, and as for,.. a : may . be practicable, to perpetuate the same." -Al l ' ; `,; stating the system and organisation of the trusty t"" will proceeds to endow the institution with the pro ceeds of hi s i n t eres t i n L aurel-hill Ceme terP for the purpose of insuring, preserving, and resusel" tating the Chinese collection. He desires that the true tees shall invest the sum of 10,000 dollars which the,' will receive from his executors, and apply the interest and income th ereo f i n purc h as i ng woo d or C oal, or both, and potatoes, to be distributed during the 1 . 1 " clement weather of each winter among deserving in: digent persons. N o r did M r . D unn ' s c h ar i ta bl e yieli's stop here. After providing for the payment of larg e legacies to the trust ees , th e w ill di rects t h at s boulay!' any time, the Chinese collection, contrary to h t, earnest hope by any calamity, cease to exist, in present character, certain sums shall be paid to true' tees, after which the r es id ue o f th e f un d or p roceel of the collection, provided it did not exceed the sum 50,000 dollars, shall go to the Union Beneee",,, "" lent Association o f Phil a d e l p hi a, t o b e app li e d the following objects, viz. :—" I desire and eat l . l(e „ rise the manager s or di rec t ors o f the 1-Inf; Benevolent Association o f Phil a d e l p hi a , t o invest t," same in good securities, and to pay the interest in income thereof to a board composed of twelve r e ; spectable ladies of the city of Philadelphia, w ho shed be appointed by the said managers or directors 11l '; nually, and whose vacanc i es s h a ll b e supplied 195' t " b „ said managers or di rec t ors , so o f ten as they oect; The said board of ladies shall keep regular mianr, of their pro cee di ngs , an d s h a ll app l y an d use sa id IP terest and income f o r th e re li e f an d b ene fi t of re, , spectable m arr i e d women i n t h e i r accoucheineok' ,' who are indigent or in very moderate circumstan ce9 ' by giving them a ss i s t ance i n th e i r own dwelllllo places or apartments, furnishing them with a nuns' physician, clothing, and pecuniary aid besides,. n° l exceeding thirty d o ll ars i n th e case o f one i n di vi dl on one occasion, as th e sa id b oar d o f l ad i es may thill„, best. The ben e fit s o f thi s f un d are to exten d to any parts of the city o f Phil a d e l p hi a or iihertli;:. and to the wives of mechanics generally, an d the d serving of' professions, and o f any age . If an y Part. a the said f un d s h ou ld rema i n after providing the sa l / sum of 50,000 d o ll ars , i n manner aforesaid, then desire said trustees to distribute the same amougslil% charit a bl e an d li terary i nst i tut i ons as they may th i. l° . most eligible." S uc h were th e mun ifi cent awl the ritable views of Mr. Dunn, whilst prosperity sh on e , upon his affairs. Unhappily, a train of circurnsta.ne occurred by which hi s es t a t e was so muc h d epr eciate d as to pre ven t hi s carry i ng out hi s views, as Ab P " . : expressed, with justi ce t o hi s f am il y, - • po• of his will relating to the ChinF":,e revoked in a codicil ; but the-continuanea of his ki• nd disposition towards his fellme.eisiaens is shown other liberal begviesta so charitabl e a n d lit er ary 1 , 1 1, • tittiop§. To the Indigent Wid ows an d Suit, 1\ omen's Society of Phil a d e l p hi a h e l eaves 1 0, 0 7 0 dollars ; to the Apprentioes' Library CompanY, I° 'd, 1- doliq rs 'union benevolent Association, 10,0 0 ° tars the American Phil osop hi ca l S o ciety, I° ' dolla rs ; the Academy of Natur a l S c i en ces, 1-0,000 ,hd dollars. Th ese l ast b equests are contingent upon `. windi ng up o f hi s estate, which, with judicious mole nagement, i s deemed sufficient to cover the v ' rh ground IllryrUed oqt by the hand of noble generosity -, 4 4 4ita4apitia Inquirer, GROSS ABUSE of the PARDONING POWER 1N AMERICA. The publi c ear h as b ecome f am ili ar w i t h reP°rts °f nor the exercising of the pardoning power by G°ve-- in Porter, of Pennsylvania. The latest instsulee,. o which his Excellency has interposed the execut i ve clemency in favour c', 4 : k rogue, is furnished by t he ShippensburA , i s suffie l. ireeky News. The story entii iticliccous to excite a smile, but such gross per versions of delegated authority on the part of a hig h functionary are too serious a matter for laughter. it seems that one John Piper, a notorious loco' foe() blackguard, who had taken a very active part itt the late election, had committed an assault and hwitofs upon the editor of the paper above-mentioned i f'„e which he had been i n di c t e d b y the grand jury. trial is thus reported ; ros Ai* comstoNwzALTA V. 40/IN PIPER, INDICT'' , ASSAULT AND EITTERIG Called up by the Court. Conarron . Court—Call a jury in th , 3 eas e o f aThe wealth v. John Piper," Sam Hamutili-----Yot need'nt call a jury - 9 ,ion ? rmeeutlng Atto rney —Will there b e a sub° iyer.. barn Hammill ( w ith a gr i nn i ng sm il e and clu ing there won't. Prosecuting Attorney —Well. like tiammill—lf the Court please 9hou to have a n opportun i ty to make a speech in this.terato and lash th e d astardly coward that brought 1 Court, Hammill, we don't want to bear ------ Sam Hammill—l have here a previous pa rdon Or' folding the paper) from Governor Porter (hand,,lllo the 'Anion to the Court), go t on th e petitio u n or 0 the kf d Democrats o f C um b er l au d count y, nder , broad sea l, too. (This was said as Sam sat do" - with a most hyena grin.) fro 'rho C our t was astounded, the bar woke up its slumber s; jurors, witnesses, and spectators,,:-., were surpri se d at this new and speedy mode of ni: y posing o f cr i minal cases. And then the mean s no which the prev i ous pardon had been obta i ne d, the rl tl tion of 30 0 goo d Democrats of Cumberlan d co unt Y,„ Verily, verily, democracy is not what we took it W be; we k new i t to b e bad enough, in all c oot:Or o but thin new movement " caps th e climax.”--- 13°$ paper, A G , Winter Joon LIENT.—At the South Lancashire ho s Assizes on the fith inst., before Mr. B a r o n Gurney , / rape ca ses were tr i ed. In two the offenders wer e ° the victed an d sentenced to transportation for life. Tiot third his Lordship stopped the case, as there Wa s e d sufficient ev id ence o f res i stance. His Lordsh i p °hie ri he that, with respect to the resistance in such W is e % io wished it could be made more generally known , , t lOrd all cases of that nature the parties attacked were.W - ",,ht in adopting every means at their disposal ; theY 113 ; . d employ the weapons which nature had given thew' o r , claw, bite, or even put the man's eyes out, for tgo ro e pose of protecting themselves from his violence. • o ls great di ffi culty was, o w i ng to t h e nature o f su ch i ru i l de r ries, in ma ki ng such a matter public. But the el women might te ac h th e younger, that in case of gz of attacks th e b est course to adopt was to fly at the the party, an d use their nails with the utmost degr- e 04 violen ce . I f such a course were adopted, he felt asso-tila that cases s uc h as t h ey ha d b een inquiring into *- become less frequent. A and The Dowager Lady Huntingfield and Lor - rbe Lady Huntingtield have, within the last few Liar: o ) ,),it rally contributed to the comforts of the indigeoP v ;oo o o l n otl t i he inb, family estate, in Suffolk, b y causing (06 &c., to be given away, as well as large of coal, r~ BIRTHS. On the 22(1 inst., at Salisbury, fa W l ' Ott the 94th inst Mrs. Gr..' ' • ame id, ~ ..uatn,of Gloucester-roa d ' cester-gate, RegeAt's-t— k of the - -Ir lis J s Hussar' , ° - G ior ,ar , a son. lath- of 0- ' A '' Oh the 18th i- ist at Ballachin House, strath-TIP soo i ...aptain Robert Scott, of a son. , n the 19th bast Mrs. Butler, wif e o f H. B u tler, °f a ~ and heir. On the 23d i nst., in Basinghall-street, Mrs.Thomso Marl° Wadd, of a son. reckb hilli On the 24th inst. at the Priory, El m - g rove, - Mrs. Edward Cook, of a dau&hter. , re -stg et ' On the 24th inst., the wife of Dr. 'Willis, no of a son. On th e 25 t h inst., at Brighton, Lady Knighton , of a ' 3l3 ' still- born. fo On the 26th inst ., the wife of William Greet, E s 1" _...... daughter. MARRIED. • On the 23d inst., at St. Benet Fink, Mr. William TIP of Priest. hill, Wetherbv, Yorkshire, to Ellen, Youngel scree ter of the late Mr. William Hamper, of Threadnsedlstree At Kingston, DIE D. Jamaica, on the 9th of July, S. LY' nfi ', E*l bill • yB3 On the 29th of September last, onboard her Msi est Pilot, Norman Shairp, E'sq , R.N. CaOrinilet,hEe sq 2 . 4 , t l h x i e l s is t t iii ftt s re u t n , second e) daughter of WillitM ward,()n theEsci 2 . :t a th gc ils.. , ! 6: at Lyme Reg .. is, Dorset, i c ' se P li liar On the 25th inst., Alfred Baker, Esq., late of HaY ne 11"s* Silverton, D evon. On the 25th inst., Mary Ann, wife of Frederick Toultnig• Esq., of Upper Clapton. On the 25th inst., at Buckhill, near Caine, Robert Hughe 4 Esq., M.A., aged ?2. . On the 25th i nst., William, the eldest son of Mr. E• Gowland, of H g c arleyford-road, ed 18. 3 f a g. On the 26th inst., a t N or f o lk- cr escent, Hyde Park , dales, daughter of Major-General Pasley. etst On th e 26th inst., at Blackheath, Edwin Howard, youn g son of R. Ritherdon, Esq. On the 2QU.), inst., in Gloucester-road, Hyde Park-gardeerat kAezry, the sixth son of the late Major Ralph 11 n r 7 01,1 ,C-.OJ. aged 19 years and 10 months. Landon : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sups Office, No. 112. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the CoaPil 411 1 0 441 .4 0 . 1 1 December 27, 1844.