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In the first place he said that no crime of felony ,. trite in In anti secondly, he said that supposing a th e la the nature of a felony had been committed, ' Qe . Chesttat at Exeter had no cognizance of the case. coal grods upon which he said no crime had . _7_ e itiA hoed as. that the two vessels, the Felicida I . c e " itt 'lle Echo were wrortgfullv taken ab.ut it would be s t u b it t t i th e t ° til 3 ort this branch ttf his argument to show, _ uw a wh it ': °Tie or the other had been wrongfully talt!n. N did a r l egard to the first capture that of the Felicidade how; ehetheerek'e stand? This vessel had left the Brazils, bu P4N O She Was a Brazilian vessel did not appear, for . the a 4i:031.'3/going to the coast d Africa, in order to take i Le, iree°d` s 1 going It did not appear by the tatement . of t n t tl i ii e e ieliekr;nuge, nor was it contended for on the trial, th_a i /)4t h ode had duringthat voyage taken any slaves on board, tralepleg certain decks which would indicate that h N thin slaves, she was captured. Now.upon what . grounds_ le,lo-e lieutenant of the Wasp justified in taking po l e tri ed a of the Felicidade. It was justified at i t the it w °Pon two grounds, and in the first llie Of t il l said that by the treaty between theeCrown,6, th e 6 and and the Crown of Brazil, of November 18 as t 'nee of dealing in slaves was declared to be piracy,. , a wful ure, in the language'of the Learned Judge, it wa to h unt for all persons of whatsoever nation they might be beca u ,; l l9 wn and seize upon the Felicidade and o her it te b " e I !3 , were enemies to the human race. N he took two ~,1,455 clear that before a mere declaration w between tteatuv.o,ll, that a certain act which was lawful before the toe.bi',,,s,aould become a crime, was not binding . until a theveitgatory by some municipal law of the countia . Now, 1 414 1 1 6 4 ° 1 e this treaty was agreed upon there did ei,t is de clai. e .P a al l aw, the sth of Geo. IV., by which it was v u that slave traling was piracy. The statute ti le 2 ,. Passed two years before the treaty, and It itetuattion 2, chap. 113, it was declared that l , tti e l' having taken slaves on board should be , the ti es. , Alt of piracy and the 9th section provided the peaa - 'lra Their Lordship's however would see that although the whe e ,; . ' o ll of the statute prohibited a variety of acts, ag o to Ole penalties in respect of those . asts 4 nTin aPPlied, only the actual removing en and 11 ' 4 ii , , g aW aY of slaves was made piracy ; but the statute did koet")P thee. It did not omit to provide punish le the for the minor offences which were denounce cit second section. It went on in the 10th sec tete, te Make certain acts felony, and punishable by deeetertation for fourteen years. Now amongst the acts 1 r e „,f,ed was the Piratical one of filling up navigatingand .ant t - rea t stt 7 e fur the purposes of carrying 11 , d hi ef the law in England m 1826, when the . thel4l. was made between England and the Brazils. tlietj`eal offence of piracy was punishable with death, but tLeaer bites were punishable only with transportation, i 't by i,„ 1.41 not exceeding fourteen years, not less than seven,nor ,lastb'sPrionment for a term rot exceeding five years, _ i ,.' t lad ati ,jhree. It was said, however, that the treaty made ,''llte - L'al am piracy to be, or to have been concerned "c't or r Ying on of the slave ' trade, b. t the treaty could s a i a c _ to w o lely kt , Ittilt which was not effected by the law of England, Ak 'ot l ag that piracy which by the law of England i , • et 0...7°n knE usox—Brother Manning, will you be so "'tt „.",•° tkll its what point you intend to bring beforeus, 'l'tthre'to4°ll4l:44Bysible for us to uderstand you without a map ,ghat *h§erieant Alaarynvo replied that he bad already stated litelylstabrutrient'; Id divide itself into two branches -"tted! - " at no crime eli f th nature of felony had been corn kitteetabnd, secondl ,v supposing such a crime had been caul gt'e.,°4eti ti - h e 4 glish Courts had g no cognizance over it. committed te tll i tt r i '"'•• , , -P at e t wo m‘ 'n a p i : t first, because the parties ~ , u nlawf l u i ll i m p n ri s s — oned at the time it was corn- L' ll 'et h,",°,°, secondl -, Y th m at the Felicidade was unlawfully_ h'whieh7,`,sue Lieuten3t of the Wasp, and then the Echo, C li foll y - TaekYe_had. been an removed for confinement, was mi ke he said by the Felicidade. In the first place, ti„l'erly ~, ' the Felicidade was unlawfully . and im -14'4..4 w`as4Ptered, and . in order to maintain . that . posi tie,•,ed et combatting the grounds upon which it was it•'' he the trial that she was lawfalty captured at the `4tte-,swas interrupted bythe Learned Judge. He hr th e the :lreeitatr,gliment Upon two grounds—that independently h. th e 3, these parties had not been guilty of piracy Yh. law , the li Lea rn of England, . but it was contended aka°tea Learned Eriend, and ruled by the Learned Judge, that \n t I. °: of slave -trading was complete, by their going ~ ..,4 4 to 'for the purpose of taking on board slaves. thltY,ete:ineaded that s - ucli was not the meaninof the ze, °f the law of England, and he supported . kill at il nd b - what the English Le tife.at bad y showing be the nature th,;i"aty, )4, declared should ground than this. He said th e ppp eei - a et he took higher 41v u th ten g the treaty did expressly state, in the terms of the ' 44 4 oh' of the sth Geo. IV., that all attempts . to' deal t kb' I 'ld be suppressed, it would not be binding upon IN j e k e ts °f Brazil. - If a ' Brazilian . subject, after that it would be Aepeve4aged himself in the slave trade, tr4tukaltdere against England, fur . which the English k. ed, but at Rio de Janeiro might have repo.n ',twee th e . declaration existing trt ei 1 th e t COete fact of . a tb L e, did , ‘‘. counties declaring a particular act to be a t i n d• .‘„?,. make the Brazilian amenable .er to the laws of 11 ,`ed i,, ` taoever heard of a prison a a b i e u i s n t g corn such 4. ottell' England for an ih e t°ll lll4 a treaty? It woul e d ffen b e e e _ I perfectly un qP'rere I f s uch a doctrine were he d to pen-ail. h er " ;10 . ! t.t„!liarka.ble instances on . record here one country eliet.,ls/0-tle cognisance of the piracy of another. In the tete d ecla red ° Emperor Philip the Second e of Spain, by an 41. 4 a fraud his subjects guilty of piracy who should at- Pk et ies`rhande upon an insurance_ coniparry, in effect -580 the same 1 14 e ker a n e upon a ship. I (I desire` e another declaration, th n at all parties who - -stela rs Lt. cb t g4ift the herring nets . the coast of Flande A. h t hus e i Y . of piracy. Then, agaig, there was the case 4 tits 4 i t an A mbassador, in the reign of Queen Anne. li•s v' ,wa s found that the Ambassador had . committed etth elation .. as ' not Ito. , against the law of nations 14 4, ri eee a(ere. It was only matter for t w the re it e know came the English Ambassador in Russia. t ete,, 44 in the to another part of . his argument. I 'tt 14 0 v e treaty prohibited the detention, on any pre.. he need Thi s ' e lite t e,sel not having slaves on boart(ili,e and present case. e, Att lee .._ 'hat this had been done in l ° Ite was intended for the very purpose of prevent- L.N.triaeaPtain of .. 4v ,„, .vessels which were of the out for buttlie k i i, erthei Pre,VIOUS to the making o u ar eh 'lre t ; t'aessicapplied to vessels fitted F 1 - . ) . afterwards. It 11 44,3 14 11 v ~ nn, therefore, that the elieidade h tu a r d ed b , been littted "Attired- and being wrongfully cap . 41.4414' 4 at!? tlith• Lordships that the Felicidade remained a -tQ fr e aPt er "d a foreign vessel, to all intents and purposes, became ft a e u 1,14" 3 4 t . e e ; jut on the trial it was contended she beca te,,,, ° gliet s t s ' l l ; and that all on board of her were subre b c a e t t t a o -,, , ,,,.;.aw5. Now he might just as well argue t v ,,,mt . D v : Il it ll wz e le : fs i ru n or g atin f G r e om Sicily with a cargo of pit the i'DaL° emu, a n 4 det • dby a Spanish ship on suon of Gibraltar b me liable to the laws of . utrtt xbititon \NI (Cony ----.'a'---- Edition.) "otti ti /l oala A % 1111 (1 from our Afternoon titb t kw <34lmiral Blake or Cromwell have said ? He 1V1ii,441. 11,1°teect to show how the Echo was wrongfully bY the „Echo, their Lordships would recollect,_ ,,vaspi ft ;! th e tr' .t'tficidade, after it was captured by hto tilizatetpty provided that there should be no t de e tention ro cl l) 1.° )11 4 vessel ' unless it was made by a vessel ;tt l k - '; t o , I, II aVY of the sovereign whose subjec s less ap 41 44 ' s'lould the hbe conducted by t belonging; ake te a person of t ow „ a li„., searc c . `qo p',Llii . t tb; c,Lenant. On the trial it .. was attempted o hr ns . a capture made by a Blitih . vessel, s, that Yit i l ' th e c ' its capture became . a . British t qa ritit4 apture effected by the Felicidade, was a capture It wthat sh.vemel, and the Learned Judge used_ the te e l‘ x ,as pr p es ., - , ` 4 l, i a rath' l ilust be considered "as a boat of h 41° rd ether erfortunate however, that there was a deci,ion ` 1 ' ' Bell° ePon this point in ' a case somewhat analogous ie tillrga the cuseuld be found reported in sth Robinson, t pa6 a kirofer a 4 of Alelornaniac v. CobOst an ad ,%tro,,°shior ize, captured by a boat belonging t under which arose to o of Pa"„afit n'annea by the men of that ship, but no cap. 'tltk; Yale'd, it was ruled by Lord Stowell that r the t°,lllld he Press) avivessel beloninf captured totir i t i a 4 t t be ejvust-iitiecreleda i p n ar t t he area y t t o ha t t he a s lit p ish navy. of the navy of Great l! n rii t ain e kt, l : q' si, r4 rr e as a c ondemnation had taken place een i co h n. )41 4: 1 , at an, a h Le., n .-.. „': The Felicidade had never b to Sierra t t il t , ' but ev - 9eg been lost in her I N °' but e n If she had been, such condemnation the of tt ', are she • in the cap 1 d e I•eli ci. , esPective effect This de to fee the Echo, for ' W are ~,ale, however, did not apply d ass em ag t n e ation would It t ch (11 7 . ! th e 1'..,,,_,n00ard when she wa i l e s t ei o z f ed. ano ß th u e t r in ki t n h .d e , 10tr ea ' not 4 4 1 . , there Nv.s . a de e _ 4 Y theo3 to the Felicidade. It wag pro li Nei n d t e e d nan in t o e arel s t m t person under the rank of a d 'n e -t 1 r h • a f being eng a g e 1 lay i rad,e ant ship suspecte o , dent ,14 Ilksi. -A ow Lieutenant Stupart did not seT . hthe t„,' l tatl'hzao", , ,,hat it was undertaken by Thomas Palmer !,),,''fia„,,'ethae, but; Lieutenant Stupart was kt th° afte r ',',ut he did not go on tsars t e k tlhid blairposesguner had searched was not sufficient E in ch t o he till e n i e le x t ; 4 1 '1' 1 14 4 °ot ) the ,of the treaty that Lieutenant . Stupart fired of ' fru ueck of his own vessel bard by, bu. it tat tb . ,:„ that he should make the search and capture :4 e ,!, cak°(the Learned Counsel) therefore contended Lr:Leit at %• was illegal, because it was not undertaken t.e 1 744 Part y, ' t l i er art. It' the latter was to be considered the tOe etileatad of he might as well have been half . a on mile tOild not ' a few yards. necessary ro searchfle' ,f t,' , ot h e u ''' eotranerce it wasthat., 'lit li r tila of the n ken except in rigorous compliance with ' l li.,, t e of , the treat y th ey h er _,the to eaty. Another point invalidating the hph y i r ) l e gh tly 0.. 0 , was that, supposing the Felicidade had q, t). oo lac _I - w rongly been. seized and condemn w ed r ,..a . n_d tb. et ) t ,:olia on ;,' I , )art of the British navy, she bad no Waspnlee it't P,7.seiznricklrd, she was not within sight of . the r. c4 lad , t ela ad °_ was made, and there was no evidenc n e that li:tii::::b\vetdbetiyefutwiroaust sent in search of the Echo. 0 which ti t atta • th at e, the treaty was violated, 0 1 31' '44 . the sezing vessel shall have If h i e (the Learned Counse . l) bad ~ tr.h a 4 44 .por all of those points, lie maintained the_ ti' "ei. l4- 'lbi I .' e gal as an English cruiser seizing a French ~, 4 hr e 1) , In the Channel in a time of peace. Such a at'lsta being rties tt toi l , reil, w . g evidently unlawful, the ~),., ha,, ithout a • ”h,-siD b , It ti .ppealing to the laws l of pa their 4,3 y f ear right to rescue themse Nes and os hki'l l lle p i e• , He thought he had shown their Lo itßah, h).aceebeafrlY, from the review of the facts ilithe arced and, ore them, that Macherval had a right to tio tkai °e,lza r ' the other parties to oitain their liberty. ) .'lir;i t e . ii h u `;; . ,the Felicidade was in the first _ips t tan op ce to a/li, t3,thlveriti;:,cfealo,w,eneeirinof tthatthevesoeulrotnotfhe Sierraearlie? Leone, tiNoth ghat trib unal s tri bunal a riggliteto recapture his vessel, and I„o,),s lip ver force ~,v' necessary to obtain that pos iciteo , bad a lso c o as , 4 iti• 4)1 4 . a s ;_., a ntended that the men taken p,riy 'qttlih; t4iain tbelurni.r right t o , exert themselves eanso,. 0 t ' ll kt t. 1 41,1 l ' h, rtv tn the rtY ; and an other i Nah b 'tahl the other aby simultaneoub...‘ rushing; , h 4 tvi e. 1 th seatnen hi charge, s g appear aid not n on t Mr. e- Ti r e 1, / 4 4 14 tbr i o l lth e conflict that took place T elmer was qa,rritC,to pro- "erbeard; but under the circus: stances ),,. h a i t / wh of that th • flii:Nta °ll re at they , e act in question was raiL7 te ! . .. i 144 jeatedly,_l,z,lid had done nothing more than IT.. t,,g 4114 Z a hada e ; r l tr w ln i 7 . l by our ships in time c er f ei 7 aa r t ,tor 14vourejvallis the ich privateers capture . d , ar d 4, s ad ,a )1 e 0 ,,„_ .. , ere . w of the latter, taking . adva n n . - \ v6 . s`• if ?Nal Peurfunitaes rose up against their co ,'ll , t t eli )%, 411 3 w 119 their lib , rty by th wing them over ,,h4 th e: : I„wei: iitustifiabie in t tv - e cise of re priviteer seizures, ' 4 1 obj -a PtUre I wa s much moire so in the present case, li t . ,ftei Sec lad been illegal. Ih now came to mother at lit ali .11 , 6 's 1, 8 be had bes t s, , 4 % . , .e tnei , tot the contiction of these men. r.,, a ti s Th ntained they were not amenable .to til, l to I r l n e ot t! vessel in which these i-en were i o4 , th,4 sae orein_ls unfortunate occurrence had _: e ver' thtver it t o r ve ssel, and, therefore, in law a foreign etalt.yit, o r th co of law in this country had ju,isdic h4t,N, 8 4 of paietc% I la . d condemnation taken place before tit 4 , pb s , r, this view, f 17 44 he h 'Qg th e . 0 the case might have been d ' ad alr— - ca pture in accordanCe With the treaty, i aavina ‘a,), shown the Teasel had never been coil et Ll IVO ill her passage to Sierra 47 1 , 4 , 24 3 A ILT : ' ) yid ti"`" La wsCPl Arid; ,a• 114 alia, , Col' t. VI hen ce he : rep p 141'd 13urJ bv 111) 1 ' 1 .liiig w 'ith was at ill ten - r run s trx, L - ONDON, SATUttnAY Leone. There was a case in point that supported the view he had just advanced. It was the ease of the King r. Depardo, given in. "Taunton's Reports, " vol. I, The case was tried at the Old Bailey on' the 30th of October, 1807. Depardo •was a Spaniard, engaged in the Alnwick Castle ship, who killed a person named Burn, on shore at Canton. The wound was inflicted on shore, but Burn died in mnsequence of it on board ship immediately after- Wards. In' that case it was ruled, that the offence being committed by a foreigner, and beyond the jurisdiction of this realm, the courts of this country had no jurisdiction. Tile Learned Counsel then referred to another case of a similar - character in its main treatment, that of a Maltese who killed a man at Smyrna, It was given in 2d Mudie's Crown Cases. The trial took place in 1843, at the Central C:iminal Court, before Mr. Baron Gurney. It was then ruled , in an appeal to the Judges against the con viction, that the Court had jurisdiction, because the prisoner in the case, though a Maltese, was aßritish subject, and there fore subject to the British laws. These decisions placed the question of jurisdiction in a clear light, and with these he closed his argument, leaving the case in the bands of their Lordships. Couciel then rose to address the Court on behalf the three other prisoners, Jas. Majvanl, Francisco Serva, and Marie Jose Alves. He submitted that the courts of this country had no jurisdiction over those for whom he appeared, as thy were foreigners, and had never, by any act of theirs, given in their adherence or allegiance to the Government of this country. Before any person can be subject to the laws of this country he must do that which will bring bins under allegiance to the Sovereign of the country. The mere coming into the country was not sufficient to constitute allegiance, but the party must likewise become so by some act, such as the law recognised as a social compact between him and the Government. This was the view of the question taken by all eminent jurists, by Vattel, Montesquieu, Story, and others who had written on the laws of nations. Now, there had been no evidence that his clients had ever done anything that could be cor.strued into an act of alle giance to the laws of this country. There as no doubt that Depardn, had he been an Englishman, would have been triable for osurder, but not being so, he was considered not amenable to the laws of Great Britain. Even admitting that the slay ing of Palmer was an act of murder, the prisoners charged with it being foreigners, had no right to be tried by the tri bunals of this country, But the case was much stronger against this jurisdiction, when it appeared, as he maintained it did, that the Felicidade was a foreign vessel at the time of her seizure. Piracy, he admitted, was a crime for which, according to the laws of nations, the perpetrators of it could be attacked by any vessel, and under any circum stances. Pirates were robbers of the seas, and subject to be destroyed by any ships that might come upon them. But the slave trade had never been criminally considered piracy. It could alone be made such by treaty, and then an act of piracy was to be declared only when a ship was found having slaves actually on board. The Learned Counsel here went through the clauses of the treaty, showing that only ships of the navy belonging to the con tracting nations were competent to search vessels; that offi cers of a certain standing must have the charge of such searches and seizures, and that all such ships should carry written instructions. The terms of the treaty were clear and explicit. No seizure could take place without special instructions, and then the seizure must be made where slaves were found on board. If officers of the Navy were to be allowed to capture ships merely because they were fitted up for slave traffic, or to man what ships they pleased as cruizers in pursuit of suspected ships, nothing but confusion and bloodshed would repeatedly ensue. It had been so in the present case. The stipulations had been violated by Lieutenant Stupart in the seizure of the Felicidade, and the owner of that ship, with his assistants, had been tempted to make resistance afterwards to the crew that captured them, because of its inefficient force. This fact was itself sufficient to show that the seizure must have been undertaken without sufficient force and in a manner that could not have been intended by the treaty. The Felicidade being, therefore, an illegal capture, it followed that the using of that ship under the circumstances to take the Echo was also illegal. The Learned Gentleman then went over the points dwelt on by the previous Learned Counsel respecting the searching of the Echo by Palmer and the proceedings of Lieutenant Stupart; all of which, he contended, were in contravention of the terms of the treaty. Assuming even that these men under English jurisdiction at the time, he still considerod that. they had been unlawfully taken prisoners, and therefore justified in endeavouring by forcible means to obtain their li berty. Having recapitulated the principal heads of his argument in which the above is but an outline. The Learned gentlemen concluded by expressing, that from all the facts of the case interpreted by the laws of nations, and the writ ings of the highest legal authorities, the courts of this coun try possessed no such jurisdiction as had been exercised in the case under the consideration of the Court. This closed the argument in behalf of the prisoners. Counsel on the part of the Crown, said he was sur prised that not one of the positions urged upon the treaty had been touched this morning. It had been contenled on the trial, that the treaty of which so much had been made this morning was not in existence at the time. Now, it is necessary that the fact of the death being proved, all the necessities and informations of the case must be proved by the prisoners. But they say that they were confined in an ire proper place, in a place to which the English have no right, and therefore used violence for escape. That is no excuse for killing. I shall prove that the Felicidate was legally taken. as well as the Echo. Captain Usher having instructions from her Majesty, and sailing in those seas, sends two boats on board this slaver. The boats followed till they overtoek her. While Lieutenant Stupart is on board Sirkenda sub mitted. She had no slavers on board ; it is a question whe ther he therefore ought to have detained her. He argued, from the treaty with Brazil, that after 1830 it was piracy for any Brazilian subject to be taken With slaves on board. It was insisted on the other side, that from 5 G. 4 they must have slaves on board, or have had slaves on board that voyage; but it is clear that to be any way con cerned to the slave trade makes liable to treatment as a pirate. And if so, who is to treat him, who not This brings me to the jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty. Now, this is over all the seas wherever the tide flows. But without dwelling on this, here is a result, which, under the treaty subjects herself to the charge and punishment of piracy. The sth Geo. IV., is, after March, 1830, applicable as appears from the plain words of the Act, and from the construction put by Parliament on measures between Eng land and Brazil in 8 and 9 Victoria. The concern in the trade is illegal ; but, as his Lordship on the trial found, they were going for a cargo of slaves to Africa, thus subjecting themselves to the punishment of piracy. The Portuguese treaty ended in March, in the year 1820, and if any informality existed in the taking, yet the vessel was in possession of the Queen's officers by the submission of Siakera. That Surkera did submit appears from his refusing on this account to join the plot when requested by Serva. Lieutenant Stupart, when he left the Felecedade to Bo on board of the Echo, went with his jolly. boat, and the ritish ensign on her, Lieutenant Stupart being in uniform. The Echo was taken by a British vessel, under a British lieutenant, and under instructions which existed on board the Wasp, from which the boat came. The objec tions taken on the other side go for nothing. It has been said, and I agree with it, that: when a treaty has been made between two nations, it is necessary that some Act of Parliament should be passed, giving power to carry the Act out. All I contend for here is that she was legally taken—that all the circumstances and requisites of the treaty were performed. What should be done with them, there is no doubt of that at all. But it is not for those taken to say, while in custody, the place of custody does not belong to the person taking into custody, and, under that, make violent efforts to escape. As to the instructions, they certainly accord with the treaty, and with the: Act of Parliament after 1830. Let us look at it as a case of piracy independently. Here an officer of her Majesty is in possession of a ship by her master's submission. The men on board conspire to com mit piracy, and in committing that act kill an English man. It is laid down by Lord Coke that piracy against England, or an English vessel, or that of an alien, is punish able. The case may gol further. Piracy is a crime with all nations' now on the waves, over which the jurisdiction of the Admiralty Court extends. This vessel and the the jolly-boat were flo..ting, and on board of that vessel the crew conspire to commit piracy, to which Sirkera objects, and commits murder—are they to be justified ? The counsel quoted the case of the King r. Sawyer, to show that stopping short of land on the high seas on board of a vessel in posses sion of one of her Majesty's officers, parties are answerable for their crimes. To take up the narrowest point, it is con , tended that being in custody in an illegal place, then that in cool blood, murder may be concocted and perpetrated against the custodiers. It is but necessary to state the objection to see the monstrosity of it; and no authorities had been quoted in support of it. lake the case any way we may, I think I have made out that munier has been committed. The Learned SERGEANT rose to reply. He was amazed that his Learned Friend should contend that the Queen can legally come into possession by a wrongful act. It is said the Sovereign can do no wrong, but these acts, though done by officers in her Majesty's service, being their acts, and not the acts of the Crown, and being wrong, can vest nothing in the Crown whatever. The Echo was not taken by a British vessel, for by treaty the Felicidade was not the property of England and Brazil till sold, when she might be purchased by either. The Echo was, in fact, taken by the Felicidade, notwithstanding that the captors left by the English jolly-boat to go on board. The lieutenant left the Felicidade to go on board the Echo, but she in being hailed, sheered off, and was not taken till the followidg night. She was not taken by Lieutenant Stupart, but by another person sent by him, whereas the treaty compels the taking by a lieutenant in uniform. The. Learned Sergeant held there were no instruc tions on beard the Wasp, and if there had been, they would not have availed. There were no instructions, if those on board were bad. Now the treaty requires that instructions be put on board inhibiting the detention of Brazilian vessels by British officers, unless with slaves on board. But instructions were put on board to the effect that they should detain on suspicion of being concerned in the slave trade. The Learned CinEF BARON—The objection taken was that there were no instructions on board of the Felicidade. The Learned Chief Baron understood from the counsel that:these Portuguese treaties of 1826 ended iu 1830. By the treaty with Portugal the slave trade was only partially put an end to. By the treaty with Brazil it was declared piracy. The Learned SERGEANT here read from Bth and 9th Victoria to show that the mixed Commissions at Rio Janeiro, and Sierra Leone, ending on the 12th March, 1845, were extended by mutual agreement of both Governments for six months longer. As to the Felicidade, there is no pretext for confound ing the 'provisions of the sth Geo. IV. with those of the treaty of 1836. The words of the treaty are —the carryind on:of the slave trade, under which terms he submitted the present offence could not be brought. . He had no intention to differ from the dicta quoted on Homicide. — One of their Lordships remarked that was nothing as to the place where the case was to be tried. The Learned Sergeant argued and submitted the Felicidade was not the property of the English Government. It has been suggested that there was a locus penitentin, but that there was no evidence of any desistance from the purpose ; but the Learned Sergeant suggested that the locus penitentia 3 did not end till the slaves were on board. Prisoners Counsel said, under no circumstance is a person subject to the laws of a country who has not, by some act, complied with them. This proposition has not been haken. He would not say more of the distinc tion, as to prisoners of war. It has never been decided in any case that any person on board an English vessel is therofore subject to Engtish laws. It is claimed on the other side to "extend the jurisdiction of England over the high seas to the exclusion of other nations. This can never be done. Surkera's submission was to superior force, and gives no jurisdiction ; hekhrew his arms overboard when he surren dered. It is not shown that the jolly-boat from which the Echo was taken was the jolly-boat of the Felicidadelgahe [capture under the circumstances was illegal. he boat was on board the Felicidade. Any English captainlmight evade the treaty by sending a boat's crew to any number he pleased on board English merchantmen; thus givingthem a legality to capture; that is, if the capture be in this case thought lawful. As to the instructions those pointed out in the treaty of 1826 are by the treaty with srsr i" that if these instructions are not changed, they should , -- ee fifteen years after the slave trade was remain 1.. these 'ending only on 13th March, abolished, anot in February, the instructions of 1845.; and this case occu.. fi must lae prpved of 1826 were at the time in force. - --n_ &I A in al, the that if a captain unlawfully detain a seam., - case is murder. be ►nurder. lie quoted to the effect that it would not ' Prisoners' Counsel having now concluded, the Court rose at a coarter to four o'clock. The Count will sit again on the same cause at two o'clock on Saturday text. BANKRUPTCY.-(TMS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBOURN.) IN RE CAMPBELL. This insolvent is a clerk in the merchants'-office, Custom house, and came up for his interim order, which was opposed. The insolvent not being present at the hour appointed, an application was made to dismiss the petition. The Learned CommtssioNEß said he would adjourn the hearing sine die. The Learned COMMISSIONER in a previous case held, that. when a defendant was let out of custody, and obtained his interim order, non• attendance was not .a ground of commit ment. In the present case the insolvent not having been in custody, could not be committed. The insolvent arrived shortly after, and it was agreed to go on with the case. The principal ground of opposition was that the insolvent had not paid the expenses of the funeral of his uncle, from whom, previously to his death, he had received a large sum of monoy. Ttx insolvent said his debts were 213/. lie had a wife and two children and an aged mother to support, and his salary was . only 901. a-year. The (OMMISSIONER said that he could not make any order to apply any part of so small a salary. The opposing creditor bald that the salary was a rising one. The insolvent said that he had been an extra clerk at 255. per week, and that his present salary would not be increased for three years—perhaps not thenand his salary would then be raised 101. a-year. He admitted having received 23:1. from his uncle nine months before his death, and had paid it away to different creditors. Tne creditor said it was very hard that the money should have been given to the insolvent who had spent it, leaving funeralexpelses unpaid. _ _ The insolvent said that the remainder of the money left was so small that he did not think it prudent to administer. The Learned COMMISSIONER said the insolvent appeared to have given a clear account of the disposal of the money, and considering that he was pressed by circumstances, he, (the Learned Commissioner) would grant the interim order. TO CORRESPONDENTS. R. D.—Yes. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PouTsmotrrit, Nov. 14.—Her Majesty's steam.eloop Geyser Commander E. Carpenter, arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon, from Malta and Gibraltar. She had not a particle of news, the usual mail having announced that she was on her passage to Eng % ri . Some supernumeraries and invalids have been transferred the.llag.ship, and the Geyser has been ordered by telegraph to proceed to Woolwich to be paid off, having been nearly four yeats in commission. The Dee steamer, and an Ordnance vessel, arrived yesterday froom Woolwich, having the field guns and ammunition to be shipped on board her Majesty's ship President, for conveyance to the Cape of Good Hope or Mauritius, as may be required. Rear- Admiral Dacres, his family and suite, have embarked this day, and the Admiral having got his sailing orders, the President will put to sea to-morrow. Rear-Admiral Dacres is to relieve Rear-Ad miral the Hon. J. Percy in the command at the Cape of Good Hope, and that officer will return to England forthwith in her Ma jesty's ship Winchester. _ . The second trial of the Scourge steamer with the 13-inch mor. tar and 56-pounder long gun took place yesterday, and was of much longer duration, but equally satisfactory as the first trial. She left the harbour at 9 .at., with a number of officers from the Excellent, and Naval College, and seamen gunners (the Marine Artillery were dispensed with). Captain Chads, C. 8., again had the direction of the proceedings, and Captain Stevens, R. M.A., and Mr. Taplin, engineer and mechanist of the dock-yard, were on board to attend to the engines, &c. On getting outside the Nab Light the shell practice commenced, and fourteen shells, with a full charge of 201bs. of powder, were dis charged from the mortar, the range was nearly 5,000 yards ; not the slightest impediment in the steering of the vessel, or in the working of the engines, took place ; she was kept under steam all the time, but the precaution was taken of moving the men from the after wheel to the midship wheel. The result of the shell practice being most conclusive and satisfactory, the Scourge was anchored and the people went to dinner. After this was concluded, two boats were carried out 3,000 yards from the vessel, and moored about 150 yards apart, and the practice at them a ith the 56- pounder gun commenced, the full charge of 14Ibs. of powder was used, and 42 shots were fired with great precision, but without striking the boats, the shot pitching close to them at every fire ; this concluded the experiments for the day, and the boats having been got on board, the Scourge returned to the harbour about six o'clock in the evening. The shell room and magazines were admirably worked, and Captain Chads expressed to the officers and seamen his high approval of their skill and eircipline. Not a single ca sualty took place. The Scourge is in harbour, and will doubtless be soon put in commission, and if two carronades are added to her present armament, she will be a most formidable vessel, as she is very swift. A general garrison court-martial has assembled this day in the mess-room of the Royal marine barracks, for the trial of Second Lieutenant George Sheddon Dunbar, Royal Marines, charged with " ungentlemanly conduct on the afternoon of the 39th October last, being in a state of intoxication at the Victualling-store Barracks." The following officers compose the Court :—Presi dent, Colonel John M'Callum, Royal Marines; Lieut.-Colonel E. J. Crabbe, 74th Regiment; Lieut.-Colonel Gibsone, Royal Marine Artillery; Major J. J. Willes, Royal Marines ; Major IL Smyth, 68th Light Infantry; Major J. Fordyce, 74th Regi- Trent ; Captain W. L. Dawes, Royal Marines; Cal tain the Honourable F. O'Grady, 74th Regiment; Captain W. G. Gillman, 68th Light Infantry ; Captain P. J. J. Dusantoy, Royal Marinesl; Captain H. Evans. Royal Marines ; Captain J. R. Wesley ; Royal Marine Artillery; Captain J. F. Holmes, Bth Regiment; Lieutenant C. J. Hadfield, Royal Marines; Lieutenant F. W. Evans, 74 Regiment. Lieutenant and Adjutant Langley, Royal Marines, officiating as Judge Advocate. The Court have this day been examining witnesses in proof of the charge. The prisoner will be allowed until to-morrow or Monday to prepare his defence. The proceedings and sentence will be laid before the Commander-in-Chief, before the result is known to the public . Lieutenant Dunbar is a son of the late Captain Sir J. Dunbar, Bart., Royal Navy, and has only been in the MArine corps since March, 1842. SHEERNESS, Nov. 13.—The Eclair steam-sloop, Lieutenant commanding C. Harston, steamed down from Standgate Creek, and took up moorings in the harbour on Tuesday. Having had all her stores surveyed and delivered, she was paid off into ordinary this day, two of the men suffering from the effects of the . fever, having been previously dis charged to sick quarters. We have heard it stated that Sir William Burnett's solution (chloride of zinc), which was latterly used in cleansing the Eclair, has been found a valuable disinfecting substance. Lieutenant Harston is to be immediately promoted to the rank of Commander. The Eclair is to remain at her moorings with open hatches, and without the usual ship.keepers, for seine time. "7. That we also earnestly recommend the setting the people to work without any delay, by urging on and assist ing the construction of railways, and also in works of drain age, as recommended by Government commissioners, and other works of general or local utility. " I have the honour to be Sir, " Your obedient servant, " CLONCURRY." " Whitehall, Nov. 10, 1845. " Dly Lord,—l have the honour. to acknowledge the re qeipt of the communication of the 7th November, which bears lour Lordship's signature, earnestly calling the atten tion of her Majesty's Government to the calamity with which Ireland is threatened by the failure, through disease, of the potato crop, and suggesting fur the consideraion of the Government the following measures : ‘" 1. The opening of the ports of Ireland for all kinds of human food, free of duty. 7 " 2. Theclo,ing 411;e ports of Ireland against the ex portation of oats, either ground or whole. " '3. That the consumption of oats by cavalry regiments in Ireland be . diminished as much as it possibly can with safety to t he public service. '4. That the distillation from grain be suspended in Ire hmd, due precaution being taken to prevent illicit distillation. " , 5. That there be immediately raised money, by way of loan, to the extent of one -and-a. hallmillion at the least, and Chargeable upon Irish resources, such as the department of Woods and Forests, &c., and the amount of such loan be ap plied in the first instance to the increasing the quantity and decreasing the price of food in Ireland. " ' 6. The forming of granaries in each of the poor-law unions and other localities throughout Ireland, so as to bring food within the reach of all its inhabitants. _ _ ," 7. The setting the iieoplei; - ;awithout any delay, by urging on and assisting in the construction of railways, and also in the works of drainage, as recommended by the Government Commissioners, and other works of general or local utility, " I give full credit to the assurance that in making this communication, your Lordship and thozn who are parties to it are influenced by no other motive than the desire to aid the Government in the efforts which they are making to avert or mitigate the impending evil. . " I shall without delay submit this, as I have submitted all other representations which have reached me on this painful subject, to my col'eagues in the service of her Uajesty. " Although considerations of public policy and of public duty prevent me from entering, in this acknowledgment of y our Lordship's communication, into a discussion in respect to the advantage of the particular measures recommended for immediate adoption, yet I beg so assure your Lordship that the whole subject is occupying the unremitting atten tion of her Majesty's confidential advisers.—l have the h onour to be, my Lord, your most obedient servant, " ROBERT PEEL. " The Lord Cloncurry." FRIDAY NIGHT S GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, Nov. 12, 1845. The Queen has been pleased to order a congd d'elire to the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church of Oxford, em powering them to elect a Bishop of that see, the same being void by the translation of the Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God Dr. Richard Bagot, late Bishop thereof, to the see of Bath and Wells; and her Majesty has also been pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter, Samuel NN'ilberforce, Doctor in Divinity, now Dean of the oollegiate church of Saint Peter Westminster, to be by them elected Bishop of the said see of Oxford. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 13. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Frederick J. Bush, as Consul at Hong-Kong for the United States of America. DANGER OF FAMINE. DUBLIN, Nov. 13.—The following is the letter addressed by Lord Cloncurry, as Chairman of the Mansion-house Com mittee, to Sir R. Peel, and the Right Hon. Baronet's reply "Mansion-house, Dawson-street, 7th November, 1845. " Sir,—As Chairman of a Committee consisting of highly respectable gentlemen of all classes of political and religious opinions, appointed at a recent public meeting of the citizens of Dublin, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair, it devolves upon me, as a public duty, to address you as re sponsible adviser of our most gracious Sovereign, and which 1 do with unfeigned respect, and in the most anxious man ner, to call for your fullestland most immediate considera tion to the preaent afflicting and most dangerous state of the people of Ireland. We can assure yOu that our infor mation is both accurate and extensive; that it reaches over all parts of Ireland, and is derived from sources altogether unaffected by ally political party motive whatsoever. Be assured, Sir, we tell you but the simple truth when we inform you that the danger of famine is immediate and pressing, and if not averted by the activity of man and the blessing of a merciful Providence, must result in a pestilence of the most frightful nature. " We do solemnly assure you of our perfect knowledge that the destniction of the potato crop is extremely ex tensive, with some slight mitigation in particular localities; but as a general calamity is extending to all the provinces and counties of Ireland—nor does the evil rest here—for day after day the disease is extending. Quantities of pota toes apparently in the most healthy state one day are found, on the ensuing, partially, if not entirely, unfit for human er even animal food. The disease is in its nature expansive, and it is to our knowledge daily and hourly expanding; nor is there any rational evidence to show that that this wide-spreading rottenness will find any other limit than in the destruction of the entire potato crop. We do not intend you any disrespect, quite the contrary; but we do wish to impress upon your mind the awful responsi bility which, as her Majesty's principal adviser, you incur if your Government hesitates to adopt the most speedy and extensive possible modes of alleviating the impending cala mity. Whilst you hesitate, if hesitate you shall, the people of Ireland are about to perish in countless numbers. May we respectfully refer you to Lord Devon's report of last session, where you will find, or, indeed, whence we take for granted you are already informed, that the Irish agricul tural labourers and their families are calculated to amount to more than four millions of human beings, whose only food is the potatoes—whose only drink is water—whose houses are pervious to the rain—to whom a bed or blanket is a luxury almost unknown, and who are more wretched than any other people in Europe. We respectfully call your at tention to the fact that the foregoing description of the state of the Irish peasantry was published long before there was or could be the least suspicion of the most afflicting visitation of Providence in the destruction of the present crop. If then such was the condition of a large portion of the Irish people even in favourable harvests, you will in your humanity easily judge what must be the horrors of their situation if the approaching famine be allowed to envelope the entire population. "We implore of you, Sir, not to allow yourself to be persuaded that we exaggerate the horrors or certainty of the approaching famine; we have no motive under Heaven of misleading or misinforming you, and even if we had you may believe we are utterly incapable of acting on such a motive; our only object is to impress on your mind what we know to be the fact, that famine and pestilence are at our door, and can be averted only by the most extensive and active precautions. The season for receiving- supplies of foreign food is rapidly terminating, the northern ports of Europe, as also the ports of the British American colonies, as well as of the Northern American States, will soon be closed, until it will be too late to receive supplies from these countries. Other foreign countries—afflicted by a similar calamity—have already been before us in the market, and are daily enhancing the price of those supplies, which our Government might otherwise calculate on. The lives of the people of Ireland are in the hands of your Government, if you determine not to take immediate precautions, we are unable to contemplate the extent of the horrible consequences re sulting from the destruction of the people's food, and from the neglect of the protection of Government. We are incapable of using any language that could be construed into dictation, but we respectfully declare it to be our conviction that it is the imperative duty of the Government to adopt some or all of the following measures, together with such others as that Government may deem advisable to meet the impending evil:— " 1. The opening of the ports of Ireland for all kinds of human food, free of duty. "2. The closing the ports of Ireland against the exporta tion of oats, either ground or whole. "3. That the consumption of oats by cavalry regiments In Ireland be diminished as much as it possibly can w►th safety to the public service. "4. That the distillation from grain be suspended in Ireland, due precaution being taken to prevent illicit dis tillation. 5. That there be immediately - 'raised money, by way of loan, to the extent of one million and a half at the least, and chargeable upon Irish resources—such as the department of Woods and Forests, &c. ; and that the amount of such loan be applied, in the first instance, to the increasing the quantity, and decreasing the price, of food in Ireland. " 6. That we earnestly recommend the forming of granaries in each of the poor-law unions, and other localities through put kelepd, so a.s to Drip; food within. the reach of all its inlaainteuts, 1 WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 8. MEMORANDUM.—Iier Majesty has been graciously pleased Go approve of the 74th Foot resuming the appellation of the 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot, and of its being clothed accordingly; that is, to wear the tartan trews, instead of the Oxford mixture; plaid cap, instead of the black chaco ; and the plaid scarf, as worn by the 71st Regiment. The altera tion of the dress is to take place ou the next issue of clothing, on the Ist of April, 1846. WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 14. Bth Regiment of Foot—Lieut. J. L. Marsden to be Captain, by purchase, vice Malet, who retires; Ensign J. Stone, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Marsden; E. D. Lyon, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stone, Nov. 14. 16th Foot—E. J. Kennedy, ALD., to be Assistant-Sur geon, Nov. 14. 18th Fuot—J. H. Dwyer, A. 8., to be Assistant-Surgeon vice Fraser, who resigns, Nov. 14. 44th Foot—W. H. Mansfield, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur atiase, vice Dunkin, who retires, Nov. 14. 55th Foot—T. S. Brown, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur glase, vice Gordon, promoted, Nov. 14. 79th Foot—Lieutenant W. Al‘Call to be Captain, by pur. chase, vice Douglas, jun., who retires; Ensign 0. Graham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice APCall ; H. J. Street, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Graham, Nov. 14. 931 Foot—Ensign R. H. J. Stewart to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Douglas, promoted in the 2d West India Regiment; W. F. Elliott, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stewart, .Nov. 14. _ _ Rifle Brigade—A. W. Clifton, .Gent., to be Second Lieu tenant. by purchase, vice Tinlirg, who retires, Nov. 14. 2d :,West India Regiment.—Lieut. G. Douglas, from the 93d Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Nicolls, who re tires, Nov. 14. . _ _ R4al Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieut. E. S. Claremont to be Captain, by purchase, vice Jones, who retires; Ensign W. H. Kingsmill to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Clare mont, Nov. 14. WHITEHALL, Nov. 5. The Queen bas been pleased to appoint Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton, Esq., to be the Fourth Poor-law Commis sioner. POOR-LAW COMMISSION OFFICE. Somerset-house, Nov. 14, 1845. This is to notify, that, on Wednesday, the sth day of No vember instant, her Majesty, pursuant to the provisions of an Act, passed in the fifth year of the reign of his late Ma jesty King William the Fourth, intituled " An Act for the amendment and better administration of the laws relating to the poor in England and \Vales ;" and of another Act, passed in the second . year of the reign of her said Majesty, intituled "An Act for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor in Ireland," appointed Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, to be a fourth Poor-law Commissioner, con jointly with the three Commissioners appointed by virtue of the said first-mentioned Act; and that, on the 12th flay of November instan., at Sergeants' inn, the said Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton took the oath required by the first-mentioned Act, before the Honourable Mr. Justice Pattesen, one of the Justices of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench. By order of the Board, E. CHAD W ICK, Secretary. POOR-LAW COMMISSION OFFICE. London, Nov. 14, 1845. This is to notify that, in pursuance of an Act passed in the second year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, in tituled " An Act for the more effectual Relief of the Destitute Peor in Ireland," the Right Honourable Sir James Robert George Graham, Baronet, one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, has required Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton, Esq., one of the Poor-law Commissioners, to carry the provisions of the said Act into execution. By order of the Board, E. CHADWICK, Secretary. WHITEHALL, Nov. 11. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Bryan Jones, of Newtown, in the county of Montgomery, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. John Luke Boorman, silversmith, Gravesend, to surrender Nov. 24, at twelve, and Dec. 20, at Lalf-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, r...;signee, Sambrook court, Basinghall-street ; Matthews, Arthur-street West, London-bridge. John Smith, hardwarema n , Jewin-crescent, City, Nov. 24, at half-past one, and De c . 20, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alderman bury;. Smith, Wilmington-square, London. George Clayton, builder, Queen's-place, Holloway, Nov. 24. at one, and Jan. 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook -court, Basinghall-street 4 Wilson, South-square, Gray's Inn. David Froeschlen and Simon Price, tailors, Dover-street Piccadilly, Nov. 25, at half-past twelve, and Dec. 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankrupcy. Graham, official assignee, Cole man street, London ; Pike, Old Burlington -street. William Henry Bond, ale and beer merchant, Bow-lane, Cheapside, Nov. 25 and Dec. 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, offi c i a l assignee, Old Jewry-cham bers; Malby and Co., Old Broad-street-buildings. Thomas Standen, brewer, Pudding-lane, Maidstone, Nov. 21 and Dec. 20, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Fol lett, official assignee, Sambrook. court, Basinghall-street ; Bower and Son, Chancery-lane ; Hart, Maidstone. George Davis, saddler, High-street, Southwark, Nov. 26, and Dec. 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman- street-buildings ; Buchanan, Basing hall-street. James Emmins, builder, Princes-road, Notting. hill, Nov. 25, at half-past one, and Dec. 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-cham bers; Rhodes and Lane, Chancery-lane. Lucy Lang, lodging-house keeeper, Charter-house-square, Nov. 26, at one, and Dec. 24, at two, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Dean and Co., Saint Swithin's lane, City. POST-OFFICE REGULATION WITH REFERENCE TO THE TRANSMISSION OF NEWSPAPERS.—Considerable misap prehension has for some time existed with reference to the following point in the practice of the Post-office—the right of newsvendors, and the publie generally, to write the name of the sender, or the'initials of such party, in addition to the address of the person to whom such newspaper is intended to be delivered. It has been thought by many persons that it is pet fectly legal to do so, and the practice to a considerable degree has been pursued, to the delay of the body of mails and the annoyance of the authorities, as well as the vexation of the public, whose papers have consequently been charged with postage, according to their weight. Vendors and others, however; may now be aware that such practice is contrary to the regulation of the Post-office ; but as a most valuable con cession, on the part of the Postmaster General, has been made in favour of the bona fide newspaper dealer (that of the right to have his name and address printed upon the cover), the following letter, from the assistant-secretary of the Post-office to a newspaper agent, is subjoined, by which it will be per ceived that the question is now set at rest by official autho rity : "General Post-office, Nov. 13, 1845. " Sir,—l beg to inform you that the enclosed newspaper cannot be forwarded without full-letter postage, in conse qnence of your name and address being written upon the cover. I beg to add that newsvendors are allowed to have their names and addresses printed on the covers of news papers, but that they are not permitted to write them. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "THOMAS LAWRENCE, Assistant Secretary. "Mr. William Lawrence, 12, Great Trinity-lane, City." General O'Brien, whose name has been previously mentioned in this paper, and extracts from whose pamphlet upon the affairs of the River Plate and the conduct of Rosas have been placed before our readers, has now left this country for Monte Video. It is but due to this Gallant Officer to state, that he was in this country a most indefatigable agent. By his means and exertions numerous petitions were pre suited. to• Parliament on the commerce of the River Plate; and in his interviews with the Foreign-office here, as we ll as in France, he was incessant in urging upon the Governments of both countries the necessity for the interference that has now taken place.— Times. OBSERVATION OF SUNDAY IN DISPENSARIES. — Yesterday forenoon Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest, at the Vriend-at-Hand, Colonnade-mews, Russell. square, on the body of John Herridge, aged sixty-seven, a boot-maker. The deceased died almost suddenly on Sunday evening last, and his wife called in a private surgeon, though she would rather have consulted Mr. Lloyd, of a neighbouring dispen sary, who had formerly treated deceased successfully; but she could not do so, as the dispensary, she said, was closed to patients on Sundays. The Coroner was surprised at this, and could scarcely credit a proceeding which could be only justified by the cessation of illness on Sundays. A juror con firmed the statement, and said that certain dispensaries afforded relief only on six days in the week, and rested on the Sabbath. Verdict—" Natural death," isENIVG. NOVEMBER 15, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday Mr. H. Crunliffe, a gentleman who, it was said, is connected with Stock Exchange transactions out of the market, appeared to answer the complaint of George White (police man 24), for having obstructed the pathway in Bart holomew lane and Capel-court, commonly called The Stags"-alley. Mr. Corney, the Deputy of the Ward, and some of the paro chial authorities and inhabitants, were present during the examination. _ George White stated that, an Wednesday, the Bth of Oc tober, he was on duty in the neighbourhood of the Stock Exchange, where he was placedlfor the purpose of keeping the jobbers away. Tile LORDMAYOR—You mean, to prevent the public way from being obstructed. You cannot know anything of this gentleman as a jobber. • George White said he had been placed on the spot to keep a free passage on the footpath, which was much obstructed by the jobbers, to the great inconvenience of the men of business residing in the neighbourhood, and while in his usual place the defendant walked bp to him, and asked him how he dared to allow three cabs, which were near Bartholo mew-lane, to stand in such a place? To which witness re plied that he had no power to prevent such a thing, and that they were waiting for three gentleman who had business in the building. The defendant said he understood very well the system between witness and the cabmen. Witness then called the servant of a gentleman to % , hom one of the cabs belonged, and asked him, in the presence of the defendant, whether it was not waiting for his master? The man replied that it was, and Mr. Cunlitre then said to witness, "Never mind, old fellow, I'll do for you if you give me but half a chance." 111 r. Cunliffe—l deny that. White declared that the words he had used were the words which the defendant had used. He then asked the defendant his name and address, but the defendant refused to give him either, and told him he might find them out; after which he walked to the bottom of the court, and on his return said to witness, " Come along, I'll walk with you to Daniel Whittle Harvey now." Witness said " No, we do not do things in that way; I shall summon you before a magistrate." The defendant then walked away, but soon afterwards returned, and said to witness, " Never mind, I did not mean to affront you," and wanted to shake hands with him. There were a great many jobbers and others about the place, and an ob struction occurred for about ten minutes, to the immense annoyance of the public. The Loup MAYOR—Do you wish to ask the officer any questions, Mr. Cunliffe? The defendant—l merely wish to ask hint whether I did not, at the very outset, say I was sorry for what took place, and that I was not aware that I was doing wrong? The policeman said the facts were exactly as he described them. The defendant—The fact is, my Lord, that these cabs come down daily to the spot, and I thought such a thing ought not to be allowed, and said so to the policeman. At the same time, I never had an idea of offending agalnA the law. The Lonn MAYOR—You must be aware, Sir, that this man has a very troublesome duty to perform, and it is ex tremely unbecoming in a gentleman to aggravate the diffi culties lie has to encounter. The defendant—l know it perfectly, but I really did not think I was acting in violation of the law. Deputy Conley said the nuisance had become most ter rible. the pathway was completely blocked up by the agitated children of speculation, who seemed to be in fluenced by but one thought, and to be determined to stick fast in the one neighbourhood. Complaints were hourly made to him that ladies and gentlemen were obliged to walk in the mud, because the accommodation of a free passage was not to be had. _ _ _ Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, mentioned to the Lord Mayor that numerous complaints had been made to the late Lord Mayor on the subject, and that, whenever a fine could be legally inflicted, it was inflicted. Mr. Corney said the nuisance had vastly increased, and the crowds were become so great at present, that the exer tions of one policeman, who was appointed to perform the duty, were actually ridiculous, in opposition to such a body. Nothing, in fact, but the resolute interference ofa magistrate would answer. The policeman could, no doubt, make a pas sage for himself through the crowd, but as he passed the opening closed, and the Stock Exchange operations went on without the slightest interruption or postponement. The LORD MAYOR—The only plan I can think of upon which those gentlemen can manage to do business is, to select a room for their operations where they can cease from being a nuisance to any except each other. The defendant—That is, I believe, about to be the case, my Lord. Lhe LORD MAYOR—I am glad to hear it ; but in the mean time I must endeavour to protect the public from a further continuance of these obstructions. There are two Acts under which I can inflict penalties in this case, the " Sewers Act " and the " Police Act." I shall choose the former, as I can fine to a greater amount upon that Act. I can impose 5/. for an i fringement. Now, as this is the first case of the sort in my mayorality, I shall only fine the defendant in the sum of twenty shilli cgs; but in every future case that is proved here, I shall most certainly inflict a penalty of 5/. ; at the same time, I shall recommend that this be followed up by applications to the Police Committee and to the Court of Aldermen. GUILDHALL. Mr. Beckwith, jun., a share agent, appeared before Mr. Alderman Musgrove to answer a complaint preferred b) Mr. Fennell, a warehouseman in Aldermanbury, for detaining ten shares in the Essex and Suffolk Railway. The matter was heard some days ago before Mr. Alderman Wilson, who allowed it to stand over for arrangement; but no shares having been tendered to Mr Fennell, he now prayed the order of the magistrate that the ten shares, or the value of them, should be delivered to him by Mr. Beckwith. Mr. Fennell repeated his statement that he employed the defendant, as his broker, to buy two letters of allotment, at a premium of about ten shillings, vnd having paid the deposit on the fifty shares, he handed the bankers' receipts to the de fendant, to obtain the scrip at the company's offices. The scrip, as to one letter of allotment for twenty-five shares, was obtained forthwith ; but upon the other it could not be ob tained, as the deed was out of town, and the party to whom the letter was allotted could not sign. After a lapse of seve ral days, the defendant ceased to be found at his usual resort, but Mr. Fennell met him, and insisted on having the remain ing 25 shares. The defendant gave him 15 shares, and said he should have the rest i❑ an hour, but they had never been delivered, and Mr. Fennell resorted to the magistrate to re cover them. • Mr. Beckwith's answer was, that on the day the complain ant met him and pressed for the shares, saying he had en gaged to deliver them, and must have them, Mr. Fennel's bankers' receipt had not been, nor was capable of being, con verted into scrip, as the secretary of the Company could prove. With the previous knowledge and sanction of the complainant he borrowed the 15 shares, which were then at 11. premium. They had since fallen to par, and the loan of the 15 shares bearing premium could not be repaid with 15 shares at par. The difference, the 151., must of course be paid—the money value of the loan, not the actual thing lent. He claimed to hold the ten shares to cover this loss. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE endeavoured to get a distinct answer from the complainant, whether, at the time he re ceived the 15 shares, he understood they were borrowed for him, or were part of his own shares, the bankers' receipt being at that time convertible. Mr. Fennell avoided giving a plain answer. Mr. Beckwith said be could bring the secretary to prove the shares were not convertible; and Mr. Bloxam, a share broker, in Sutherland-square, could also prove all the facts as he stated them. Mr. Alderman Muscnova did not see why the magistrates should be troubled with settling disputes about these stagging transactions. If Mr. Beckwith bad ten shares, the property of Mr. Fennell, the latter bad a remedy in an ac tion of trover. Mr. Beckwith begged his , pardon for interrupting him, but these were not stagging transactions. The Alderman requested some definition of a stag. Mr. Beckwith explained that he was not merely an out side man, but one who wrote to various companies for letters of allotment, giving different and false addresses all over the country. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE declined giving any opinion on the case, and dismissed the summons. THAMES. Benjamin Barnett, aged 34, described as of no trade, and lately residing in Spitalfields, was charged with bein con cerned in an Outrage upon Joseph Bray, No. 43 11, and EcbVard Burgess, No. 198 H. Both constables appeared in a woeful plight with their heads bound up. Burgess had received a cut on the nose, which completely divided it, and there was an incised wound of considerable depth on his temple. Mr. Pelham appeared for the pi isoner. Bray, who was in an exceedingly weak state, said he was called by Burgess on Thursday night, between eight and nine o'clock, to secure a horse and cart, supposed to contain stolen property, and convey it to the station 'house. He was suddenly attacked by a mob of bad characters, who said the horse and cart should not be removed. Exclama tions of down with them, knock their heads off, were heard, and a furious attack was made upon him and Burgess. He saw a knife brandished. He received a most tremendous blow from a deadly instrument called a life-preserver, the end of which was loaded with iron or lead. He was dragged away from the horse's head, and received other blows from the life-preserver, and was carried off insensible. He swore to ;he prisoner having struck him with the life-preserver, and he had a brown coat on. Burgess, who was also in a weakly condition from loss of blood, said he was in plain clothes, and saw a horse and cart drive up to the King's Arms, Whitechapel-road. There was a quantity of straw and a sack covered over something in the cart. He suspected it contained stolen property. After seeing two men alight and go into the public-house, he stopped till Bray came up, and desired him to take charge of it. He went into the King's Arms for the pur pose of securing the parties, but could not see them. He came out again and was about to drive the horse and cart to the station-house, when he and Bray were surrounded. The pri soner, who was known to him, struck him. The prisoner was the most active among them. After a desperate strug gle a knife was used upon him. He received a dreadful wound across the temple, and another cut across the nose, which hung by the skin until his wounds were dressed at the hospital. _ _ _ In cross-examination by Mr. Pelham, Burgess said he stopped the horse and cart became he was certain something wrong was going on. He knew the prisoner well. A certificate was then put in, stating that Bray was in danger from the injuries he received, and he was imme diately removed in a coach to the hospital. Inspector Donegan said the prisoner was apprehended at ten o'clock the same night, and officers were in search of other persons concerned in the affray. Mr. BALLANTINE said the case was a most serious one, and must be further investigated. He remanded the prisoner till Friday next. The following property was found on Barnett :—A half plate, engine -turned, double-bottomed silver watch, jewelled in six holes, maker's name "William Haslett, London, No. 377," with a heavy gold curb chain attached; two gold mourningxings, one marked outside "In memory of" and inside "John Richardson, Esq., Obit. 13th of Aug. 1840, in his 70th year ;" the other with an inscription inside only, "Benjamin and Anna Bond, also Charles Bond ;" and 6/. m gold. The property has been deposited for inspection at the Denmark-street station-house. _ : Friday night both policemen were in the London Hospital, and reported to be in a dangerous condition. FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.— On Friday the bakers of the metropolis reduced the price of bread, of the second quality, ld. in the 41b. loaf, being equivalent to a re duction in the price of wheat of I ls. the quarter. Good house hold bread can now be obtained at from 60. to 7d. the 41b. loaf, although in some neighbourhoods t he price is kept up to Bd. Excellent flour may be had at Sd. the quartern. The price of the best bread remains unchanged. THEFT.-... On the night of Sabbath week, the cash box of the Secession Church in Moss-street was stolen from the chapel. There was a congregational prayer meeting on the evening of Sabbath, and it is supposed that the thief or thieves had secreted themselves under the seats, and re mained in the church after the meeting dismissed, as one of the church doors was found open on Monday morning. There was no money in the box.—Elgin Courier. Week Last ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. :t, t : bo - Uw .£ Nov. 8 Arbroath and Forfar ••••••-• • • • • • • • 203 112 - Bristol and Birmingham .•••• • • .. 7 Chester and Birkenhead ..• .. •.•. • • • • 565 383 6 Dublin and Drogheda.... •••••• • • • • • • 822 624 11 Dublin and Kingstown • 698••.•••••••• 656 9 Dundee and Arbroath . •. 8 Durham and Sunderland •. • ..... ••• • • 764 245 S Edinburgh and Glasgow • ........ 2,843 2,154 9 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 6,105 3,845 8 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 1,882 1,361 8 Glasgow and Greenock ••••• • • • • •• • • 769 663 7 Grand Junction .••.•. • • • • • ......... 14,206 12,024 8 Gravesend and Rochester .•.• - Great North of England • • • • • • • - • • • • - 9 Great Western . • 10 Hartlepool . • - 8 London and Birmingham 9 London and Blackw all • • 8 London and Brighton ..... •• • ....... 5,054 4,279 11 London and Croydon ..• - London and Greenwich . ... •• . • ..... 8 London and South Western .• • • ..... 6,126 5,182 9 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... 930 824 7 Manchester and Birmingham • ....... 3,933 2,822 8 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc•• 6,594 5,318 8 Midland Counties... 8 Newcastle and Darlington .......... 2,658 953 8 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,660 1,611 9 Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ 453 126 9 Norfolk 1,185 197 7 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,552 1,474 10 Paris, Corbel', and Orleans.- .... 6,419 5,593 10 Paris and Rouen •• • 8 Preston and Wyre •••. • • • • • •• • •• • 446 294 8 Sheffield and Manche5ter............ 1,142 580 8 South Eastern. •••• • . • 8 Taff Vale 1,093 717 9 Ulster . 642 632 - Yarmouth and Norwich •• • . •..... • - 8 York and North Midland ........... 4,907 4,833 JUiLLIN'ST" PROMENADE CON' • OERT§—COVENT GARDEN TrIEATRE. M. Jullien commenced his annual series of promenade concerts at this theatre last evening, and we are sorry to see, from his programme, that the season is to last for one month only, as he cannot have the theatre after Christmas. He has rallied round him in his orchestra all the great performers of instrumental music, and Barret, Platt, Richardson, Lazarus, Jarrett, Prospdre, Baumann, Harper, and Kcenig, are still among his principal solo performers. Tolbecque and Nadau I are his leaders, and Jullien himself wields the baton of conductor, with all that vigour and energy which has hitherto been his distinguish ing characteristic. The stage and refreshment-room have been fitted up with a new and elegant decoration. The pro gramme of the concert is to be changed every evening, and various novelties, in the shape of new quadrilles, polkas, waltzes, and overtures, are promised. We could not but ob serve the marked improvement which has taken place in the performance of the orchestra in pieces of classical music. Having been used to each others' play for four years, they are now enabled to produce that perfect ensemble which nothing but constant practice can ensble an or chestra to attain. It is not a very difficult matter to drill an orchestra into the performance of quadrilles an 1 tarantellas and dancing music, but it re quires constant and assiduous practice for years together to enable an orchestra to do justice to the mighty works Of the great masters. This M. Jullien and his orchestra have done. Never have the allegro and storm movements in Beethoven's pastoral symphony been more finely given than they were last night at Covent-garden. The symphony wits admir ably conducted by M. Jullien—all was quiet, tasteful, mnsi clan-like. It was evident that he felt, appreciated, and un derstood the ideas of the great master which lie was deve loping, in the only univ ersa l l anguage — mus i c. Th e so l o pei.oriners of the evening were Kcenig on the cornet-a-piston, and Richardson on the flute. The performance of the latter was truly marvellous. The house was crowded to suffoca tion in every part. There could not have been less than three thousand persons present. GRAND BALL AT GUILDHALL. Yesterday the Committee appointed to superintend and carry into effect the grand ball and concert to be given on Wednesday next, at Guildhall, for the benefit of the Ward Schools of the City of London, met most numerously, in one of the new chambers of that building. Mm. Brown, the Deputy of Dowgate Ward, of which the Lord Mayor is Alderman, was called to the chair. Soon after the proceedings commenced, the Lord Mayor, Lord Dudley Stuart, and Mr. Philip Sa!onions entered the room, and heartily joined in the spirit of the undertaking. The CHAIRMAN said he had the strongest reasons for be lieving that the citizens of London, who had so zealously supported the balls and concerts given in that building in favour of the unfortunate Poles, who bad been compelled by their necessities to appeal, through the excellent nobleman, now one of the Ward School Committee, to the benevolence of the public, would show at least as much zeal in a work of charity involving the dearest interests of their own poor. He had everywhere been met with the hearty good wishes of his fellow-citizens for the success of the experiment, and he expected to witness, on Wednesday, one of the grandest spectacles which ever appeared in Guildhall upon one of the noblest occasions. —(Cheers.) The Loan MAYOR said he had no doubt that be should, at the next meeting of the Committee, have to inform them that he must be supplied with a far greater number of tickets than had already been sent to him, and which he had already disposed of.—(Cheers.) He was convinced that the bankers and merchants in all the wards would most liberally contri bute to the charity, and he had already received several announcements to that effect; but he should reserve himself for the occasion of which he had spoken, and merely say that such a commencement in doing good in the new mayoralty as the approaching entertainment promised, would stimulate him to the most active use of his energies in the service of his fellow-citizens to the close of his official duties.—(Cheers.) He knew it was unnecessary to entreat the warm co-operation of those gentlemen by , whom he was surrounded in the work of charity to which they were in vited, but he should, through the medium of the press, which had upon all occasions so generously and powerfully assisted in crowding their Hall for the relief of indigence, call upen the opnlent members of the several wards who no longer resided in the City, but were removed, by the vast changes which had of late years taken place in consequence of the erection of extensive docks and warehouses, to other parts of the town, to aid him in his humble but strenuous endeavours.—(Cheers.) Mr. EAGLETON (tile Treasurer) assured the meeting that he had already sold more tickets for the charity than he bad sold upon any future occasion, and he bad for several years been treasurer to the balls given in the Guildhall im mediately after the 9th of November. —(Cheers.) Lord DUDLEY STUART spoke with confidence of the issue of the exertions of the Committee; and superintended the minor details of the arrangements with much industry and skill. The Committee broke up in high spirits. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. POST.—The tendency of the foreign exchanges is just now worthy of the most careful observati o n, s i nce i t wou l d appear to have, as, in fact, it must, so immediate an influence on the movements of the Bank. With a decline in the rates on the principal points of Europe, the Directors would, perhaps, have no hesitation in again increasing their minimum of discount on an early board-day, possibly the very next. A proper re gard for the public interest, as well as a reasonable view to the profits of their own proprietary, might have seemed to be a sufficient justification of the measure. But, with the market for foreign bills still greatly in favour of this country, and the indication there is of a continued advance, they can not, without incurring censure, venture at present to create renewed alarm by persevering in the restrictive course they have been lately taking. Three months' paper on Paris was again negotiated this afternoon at 25 95, or nearly a franc above par, while, on Amsterdam also and other leading cities, somewhat more was paid for the pound sterling than on the last foreign post-day. At the Stock Exchange money was not only easy, but in very considerable abundance. On the authority of several leading brokers, we may state that loans, on the deposit of f.• it guarantees, were to be bad, for limited periods, at the rate of four per cent., and, at the reduced value of stocks and other descriptions of security, a preponderaece of buyers is beginning to be perceptible. 'Tile share and foreign stock accounts have proceeded in a very satisfactory manner, and may be said to have been virtually concluded. Two failures were Lamed in the course of the day, but they were not of a magnitude to make any im pressicn. Only a very few thousands will cover the liabilities of the parties in default. An inimen,e aggregate of ditferencew•has, therefre, contrary to the general expec tation, been adjusted without any sensible derangement of the markets. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—We understand that a Privy Council will be held at Windsor Castle on Thursday next, the 20th instant, when a proclamation will be agreed upon for further proroguing Parliament from the 27th to an early day in January, then to meet for the dispatch of business. I 'COLONIAL ACCOUNTS.—A thick blue book has just been issued, containing a report of the Committee appointed in the late session of Parliament to examine into the accounts of the colonial receipts and expenditure, and to report on the evidence, whether a plan could not be introduced to attain in the colonial accounts uniformity, regularity, correctness, and completeness. A good deal of evidence was given before the Committee on the examination of 17 witnesses. The Com mittee sat 12 days to hear the evidence, which evidence ap pears in the book. There were 19 resolutions passed by the Committee, to be acted upon in the colonies with regard to future accounts, with instructions for their arrangement. The Committee seem to be of opinion that in order:to insure uni formity, an Act of Parliament must be passed on the subject. OUR INDIAN CORRESPONDENCE.—The army has succumbed, and Runjeet Singh's grandmother ascends the Punjab, with the title of Provisional Begun of the Grand Duchyof Tar tary. The Divan is under a cloud, probably on account of that immense cigar, Ben Bolin, who is fuming with vengeance. The Sheikh had fallen sick at Alicampane, and was cot expected to rise for the present. His maternal aunt has promised to aid him ; "leut the perfidious woman is said to be in league with Runjeet Singh, who has given himself up to the wildest excesses, drinking gallons of Carrara water and eating the shells of the delicious cocoa-nut with extra vagant recklessness. Should the Sheik rally, the contest must be fearful; but the British resident has received in structions to look on with his arms folded as long as possible. If a blow is aimed at him, he is to demand his passport, and retire to the frontier to await further orders.—Punch. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Last evening an inquest was held in the Committee-room of the Visiting Magistrates, in Horsemonger-lane gaol, before Mr. Carter, one of the co roners for the county of Surrey, on view of the body of Thomas M'Namara, a wire-worker and traptnaker, aged 32,w ho was in inmate of that prison, and the particulars of whose case on a charge of stabbing his wifo, have so recently been before the public. The first witness called was Mr. John Keene, the Governor of the prison, who produced the warrant of commitment for the prisoner's remand from Monday last to that day (yesterday), and said that the prisoner had been in his charge from the 3d instant. On Thursday morning last he was informed by the principal turnkey that the de ceased bad hung himself, and he, in consequence, hastened to his cell, when he found the decased quite dead and cold. He, however, dispatched a messenger to Mr. Meyinott, the prison surgeon, who promptly attended, and pronounced him to have been dead for several hours. Mr. Keene, at the con clusion of his evidence, said the present was the first occur rence of the kind that had happened during his residence there as Governor, a period of twelve years. The jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict to the effect, t hat the deceased had destroyed himself by ha n g in g , but that they had no evidence to enable them to form an y accu rate opinion as to the state of his mind at the time he commi tted the act. Major Creagh and the officers of th e depot of the Regiment,supper to thequarter e drank, ea at Fort andrtß egent gave a grand fashion of Jersey, on M o nday evening, at the theatre , which was splendidly titled up for the occasion. The entertainment w as g i ven in honour 81stball a n d of the Prince of Wales's birth-day. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, Nov. 14.—The sup plies of all grain are liberal, more especially barley. The wheat trade was firmer this morning, and all tear of any pre sent alteratian in the corn-laws having subsided, we had a good demand for the old and new wheats, at an advance of Is. per quarter; common sorts also were easier *ales. Fi ne barley Is. and inferior qualities 2s. per quarter cheaper. Oats rather lower, and shelling in li • nuted request. Malt as before. ILLNESS OF THE DOWAGER LADY HOLLAND...—We regret to announce that her Ladyship, who has been indis posed for some time past, is in an alarming and critical situa tion. Her Ladyship's symptoms are of a kind which give but faint hopes of her recovery. Sir Henry Webster and Colonel Fox (her Ladyship's sons) arrived in town yesterday from Paris, having left that capital immediately upon the re ceipt of the alarming intelligence. HER MAJESTY ' S Buc K 110UNDS...•NOtWith3tand. ing the extremely dense fog which prevailed from an early hour, the meet, which took place yesterday at Riching's Park , was attended by a field numbering upwards of three hundred, amongst whom were the Earl of Rosslyn, Captain Seymour, and several of the officers of the 2d Life Guards and the Grenadier Guards stationed at Windsor. The cele brated deer, Rory O'More, which afforded several excellent runs last season, upon being uncarted near the Crooked Billet, at Iver, made for Black Park, where it twice crossed the water, and thence in the direction of the Great Western Railway, which it crossed near Two•mile Brook, between Slough and away through Maidenhead. Rory then made Mr. Aldridge's farm, at Cippenham, crossing Chalvey-ditch, to Dorsey common, and was taken near Salt-hill, after a capital run of two hours and a half. In some places the fog was so thick that the hounds could not be discerned at a dis tance beyond 80 or 100 yards. Several falls and some half-a dozen duckings occurred at Chalvey-ditch, a locality well known by the sporting gentlemen who hunt with the Oueen'a hounds for mishaps of that nature. The pack was whipped off; and the stag secured, before it had sustained the least injury. A curious fact is mentioned in a letter to the _Evening Post, ;dated at Wexford, that "no potato, sound when dug, and which accidentally had been cut with the spade, became spoiled in the house, but remained perfectly untouched, fresh, and sound." cinctitAtt7 Wirmeon, FRIDAY.—The Queen promenaded on the Eastern Terrace of the Castle this morning, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Augustus of Saxe Cobourg. The very foggy state of the (lay has prevented the Royal Family from taking their usual exercise. Plince Albert, the Duke Ferdinand, and the Princls Augustus and Leopold of Saxe Cobourg, accompanied by the Count Dietrichstein and the Marquis of Salisbury, left the Castle on a shooting excursion this morning. The royal and distinguished party returned to the Castle soon after two o'clock. Lady Charles Wellesley Arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty. Their Excellencies Count and Countess Dietrichstein took their departure in the afternoon. The royal dinner party included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady - Anna Maria Dawson, and the Ba roness de Speth. The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance during dinner. Her Majesty 'a private band afterwards attendel at the Castle. Mr. N. P. Willis, Attacl.e of the American Legation at Berlin, arrived yesterday in the llamburgh steamer, bearing di,patches fur the American Government, from their Minister at that capital. VISIT OF THE DUKE OF WEL- LINGTON 30 DOVER. DOVER, Nov. l3.—His Grace the Duke of Wellingtcn, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, arrived here this morning at twelve o'clock, from Walmer Castle, and after inspecting the exten,ive- harbour works now in progress for enlarging the Dort, accompanied by the treasurer, Renshaw Latham, Esq , &c., proceeded to the Harbour House, where his Grace, assisted by the Commissioners, held the usual annual sessions. His Grace was received by a guard of honour of the 43d Regiment, Colenel Rice Jones, commandant of the garrison, and seviTal military and naval officers. The Noble Duke was, we are happy to say, in excellent health and spirits, and his reception was, as may be supposed, most cordial ; indeed every person—and there was a great number of the most respectable of the inhabitants, gentry. &c., present on the occasion—seemed eager to testify his respect to the illus trious Commander- in-Chief. The Commissioners present were, his Grace the Duke of Weltington, Mr. Jenkinson, the Mavor (Mr. Clarke), Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart., Sir Brook 'Bridge, J. P. Plumptre, Esq., M.P., William Deedes, Esq., M.P., W. 0. Hammond, Esq , the Right Hon. and Rev. the Earl of Guilford, and Papillon, Esq. At the above sessions it is understood that an application was entertained for a site of ground between the railway ter minus and the south pier, for the erection of a large hotel, and which will greatly add to the convenience of the large and in creasing number of pasyengers via Dover and the Continent, af'er which the annual accounts were passed, and the usual business dispatched. The Noble Duke, at the termination of the sessions, left for town at half-past two this a ternoon, per South-Eastern Railway, under the usual military salute from the redoubt at the heights. _ The remainder of the Commissioners dined at the Ship Hotel, and received there Mr. M'Gregor, the Chairman, and Viscount Torrington, a Director of the South-Eastern Railway Com pany, who attended the Board on the subject a finishing their Dover station. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT OSBORNE PALACE.—As one of the men, named George Driscoll, was at work under the roof of the new building, he overreached himself and fell down the well staircase, a distance of fifty-two feet, fracturing his left thigh and the back part of his head by the fall. The surgeon to the royal household, Dr. Hollmeister, was called in, but the poor fellow's head was so crushed that he lived only an hour and a half. An inquest was held at eleven o'clock this day by Mr. Sewell, coroner, and a verdict of "Accidental death' recorded. The man was a very steady workman, and by this accident his wife and five children are deprived of support. The new buildings are progressing very fast. The new house is roofed in, the tower nearly so; it is forty feet above the roof of the house, and must command a view of the whole island, as it can be seen from every elevated spot on it. Not only the tower, but the house can now be seen from West Cowes. Her Majesty and the Princess Royal are expected on the 20th. It is not expected that either the Prince of Wales or the Princess Alice will be down this autumn. The new landing-place is ready, and the steamers may now run along side of it, and land carriages, &c., with the greatest ease. THE BAR AND THE PRESS. (From the Law Times of this day.) We have learned from an authentic source, although we have as yet received no official,intimation of the fact, that a meeting of all, or the greater portion, of her Majesty's coun sel was held on Wednesday evening, at the residence of the Attorney-General, to take into consideration the subject matter of this controversy, with a view to an expression of opinion as to the propriety or otherwise of circuit and other reporting by members of the bar, with a view to a settlement of the dispute one way or the other. We are not permi'ted to state the particulars of the discus sion that there took place, nor the names of the parties and the sentiments they expressed, although some of them, as reported to us, sound passing strange after the language that had fallen from the same lips elsewhere. We can at present announce only the result, which was a decided expression of opinion that there was no objection to the practice of circuit and other reporting by members of the bar. Although this was only the expression of an opinion, and is not submitted as a regulation, still, proceeding from such an authority, it cannot but be deemed decisive of the ques tion that has been so hotly debated. The press has thus again proved its omnipotence, and achieved another triumph. There cannot be a doubt, when all the circumstances are con sidered, and previous speeches and votes remembered, that to the summary course adopted in suppressing the names even of her Majesty's counsel, as well as of lesser men in their re ports, the newspapers are indebted for this victory. Now, that the controversy is virtually at an end, may we express a hope that, by observing the strictest impartiallity themselves, and requiring it of their reporters, the daily papers will avoid again to excite the feelings of annoyance at undue prominence for some, and unjust suppression of others, which were the immediate causes of a dispute which had been a source of profound regret among those who, like ourselves, were de,irg i us of raising the respectability of the newspapers, and preserving the high repute of our profession, and therefore deemed that both would be benefited by an honourable alliance, and harmed by unseemly differences. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail. ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— RAILWAY ROBBERIES Mr. Nash, solicitor, Old Jewry, to whose unwearied exer tions the public are principally indebted for the discovery of Maynard and Garrett, the railway robbers, has received the following communication from the Home-office. relative to the threatening letters recently sent to him, daring him to prosecute Garrett and Maynard at the peril of his lite : " \Vhitehall Nov 12 1845. " Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, relative to certain threatening letters which have been sent to you; and I am to inform you that an offer of pardon to an accomplice in such a case is unusual, but a reward of one hundred pounds will be paid by the Government to any person who shall give such information and evidence as shall lead to the discovery and conviction of . the writer, or writers, of the letters in question.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, " S. M. PHILLIPS. " To Charles Nash, Esq., No. 6, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry." LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, EIGHT O'CLOCK, P.M.—Up to this hour, and departure of the mail train, there is no in telligence of either the Great Britain or Hibernia steamers. The weather has not permitted any communication from Holyhead by telegraph to-day. 1V ESTMINSTER COURT OF SEWERS. — Y esterl special Court of Sewers for Westminster was held Willoughby at Court-house, in Greek- street, Soho- square. Mr. in the chair. At the last meeting of the Court, Mr. Leslie ray thea moved and eventually veyor ; to which an amendment was moved the appointment of Mr. J. as assistant-sur veyor as to the in the meeting of to-day being held carried by the casting vote of the clia ,, i t r o mn, which resulted and as to the expe diencyL br ton brought efficiency of the surveyor's department, of making a change tlre therein." Mr. e e department, and proposing var forward a series of resolutions reflecting on the efficiency of the surveyors' ious changes thnesureeidn: the result l o ng and somewhat desultory discussion Avery lt of which was that motions were carried abolishing (subject to confirmation) the offices of assistant• surve yors, and limiting the establishment to a chief s urveyor and a consulting surveyor. A motion declaring that the resolutions passed should not be acted upon until they should have received the sanction of another Court, excited consi derable opposition, Mr. Leslie and Captain Bague stating that such a notice was a stultification of the previous proceed ings of the Court. A number of commissioners might come down at the next , Court. not having attended the present, and defeat the decision which the Court had come to to-day. The Chairman thought:that resolution was consonant with prudence and good sense. The motion for the confirmation at the next Court was then pi:t and carried by a majority of ten to five. The Court then 1.n..0ke up. DUBLIN, Nov. 13.—The accounts from the pro vinces this morning, in reference to the potato crop, are on the whole more satisfactory than those of last week. It does not appear that the heavy rains have materially affected the portion of the crop still remaining in the ground, while it is quite certain that the disease is not progressing so rapidly now as it did some time ago. In short, there is reason to hope that with ordinary care the sound portion of the crop will remain in that condition until the spring, in which case, although there mi ht be high prices,and an e mpikient supply, much of the an ed evil would be av , _ ogitoga Ay .) ~_