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............''''... indict._ COe, Lice of 10; bout eTv the count was bad. If they charged a man with intend ing to i n ti m id ate as a cr i m i na l o ff ence , and with intend ing to use a d emonstrat i on o f p h ys i ca l force criminally, e indictment must state on whom the intimidation, and on whom the demonstration of ) physical force, was i ntended t o operate. In indictments for obtaining money under false pretences, it was always necessary to state w hose money was t o be obtained. In indictments for Nespiring to defraud it was necessary to state who was to bedefratided, and how the fraud was to be accom- Plibhed. Therefore he contended that in an indictment fo r a Political conspiracy in which intimidation was cri tainaby charged, it was necessary to state whom_ it of i ntended t o intimidate. He challenged the Counsel the Crown to spew on what ground this count eduld be held good, and why . it was unnecessary to stat e on whom t h e demonstration of physical force 1 / 1 5 to act. It was bad for generality. But he would Proceed t o s h ow that i nt i m id at i on and the demonstration 01. Physical force were not necessarily illegal, and if he (In " pu physical se in which it was lawful to changeintimida tios r in the am, f orce r to assist in procuring a ‘ ll th e law, he should prove that this count did not ne- cess itrilY charge any crime at all. He besought their " Ig ships to dismiss from their minds that the real ob- J 4 " of these m ee ti ng s was to procure a repeal of the ;pion, an obj ec t w hich was opposed to the wishes of the Legislature, an d to th e w i s h es of the majorityof the PenPle in t hi s country . B ut l e t th em s u ppose that this merge related to a change in the law in favour of which . 0 vereign, the great body of the people, and the ma ) rn Y of one House at least of th . e Legislature were ul t t ed—a change just and desirable in itself,. would . it be "'awful to further that object by the intimidation of Ph Y s ieal force ? Let him suppose that the third w resd ite of some such measure as the Reform Bill `hest fixed to take place in their• Lordships' House at evening, and that a body of 10,000 men were to lia3 ernble •in Spa-fields, and to say we will march down to t h e louse of Lords,. and prevent the Lords from „,`rtrli; the law, would it be illegal if a body of gentle -4n residin in Whitehall and the different streets th ron .g ,„ , g which these men would have to pass, were to - "Y let us oppose the progress of these men, and by inti- Wodation and a demonstration of physical force, prevent heir going down to the House of Lords? Would that be gat or not ? Yet that proceeding would be described b y this count o f th e indictment. t a n rd lituouGnlst—Why do you not take the case of a person hotding out a pistol to prevent a highwayman n nn robbi ng take the case him by intimidation ? You narties engagedhlC in an act almost of high treason, in the the loy'alsubjects of the King assemble to prevent kr eo nilnission ofbrime. 1 „ 1 7, 1 % ZELLT--That was just the case: yet these loyal. in'r e . t . ll ',ye, in the words of the indictment, seeking by un 4 lation and a demonstration of physical force to ,Inge the law and the Constitution. Th at be intimidated how important it was that the person t o • In timidated should be named in the indictment, !t1 order th at it might be shown that intimidation was Ill egal, and th at t h party accused might know, at once , hat he had to defend himself from. Unless it were in t ended to overru l e th e p r inciple laid down on the Queen v• Peck, 9th Adolphus and. Ellis, page 6 . 26, and to adopt t otally new and different principle, thiscount could not be sustained. He would, therefore, venture to ask Whether was the intimidation of a large meeting neces• %ay for that was the question—illegal ? Was a meeting to intimidate evil doers illegal ? There were l astly cases in which a meeting to intimidate was attended W ith ood. He therefore said, it would be necessary to sh ow g what the intimidation was, to show that the meeting was necessarily illegal, unless their Lordships We re Prepared to hold th a t, i n a ll conce i va bl e cases , Where large, meetings were held to intimidate, no matter W hern, that all such were illegal. Where was the object "erehere, which object was necessarily illegal? Where " e re the means stated, in furtherance of this object i „ l'hich were unlawful ? The object was not illegal. tin to effect a change in the law, and lti n t 0 C onstitution. That was what was done in a milul e pie of cases. Every person who brought in a B srlittrnent had more or less that object in view. It i l ' r l (lid not theref ore b e con t en d e d th a t the object was e e g i al- Then, with regard to the means employed, t h ey jee, ll ; 4l find, divestin g th e cou nt of the multitude of ad tha-,v,es and adverbs in which the means were enveloped, s(l t was to exhibit physical force, and to intimidate vrh -- "etlY• Why, if eve ry large meeting of persons 111 wine" Y• the re was a large phys i ca l f orce exhibited was tti: gsl, a large number of persons coming forward to be gP cir s „, ll i n as special constables would be guilty of con rir - Y$ becaus they contemplated a meeting whereat • 4 tph , • b e xhibited, and whereby som e 3 sical force was to e t h o a 2 t tis s,° ll 2 were to be intimidated, would be illegal, t hs•ts' ls t ne meeting was for the purpose of exercising 1 11 , 4 141si eal force, and causing that inti midation in ' ! ti the law, and not in violation of d the I . a f v o v . . Possit A Words o unlawful" and " seditious" was 1_ to dive . e e any precise_ meaning._ He need not refer ci ted. ris of the case of the Queen v. Rowet„ already 1 /y0 II that se there was an indictment charging gal tin e d rsOn s With being in an open place for certain mile gave tt — „ Yer Y bad purposes, and words were used which said t b Larti cular character to the illegality oac ts to the_ist t t e he ra f it a i oth d e ene• But the words were deemed insufficient of ..,Acts illegal. So here there was nothing on r case ' ce "" count to show what was illegal. Anothe . Wall lannPd°intel?as that with force Orem that of the King v. Cherer, 4th Barne qld unlawfully interim u s t i m le Ole service for the the defendantchu r chyard w o as f the indicted s d h f h o he tne Mr. Cecil, a clerk, in rea u o rial of the Dead" over a corpsc, car that he did prevent and hinder the burial of the said h o,.Pse according to the rites and ceremonies of the Churc . rtgland, and laid violent hands on the said Mr. Cecil, ii ,ad there were other counts. The court held that that ti urge was too general, observing that every interrup Was o n not an indictable offence. So here he (Mr. 4Q l ly) ontended that every intimidation was not an in ci:Lble offence ; it must be shown how and upon whom it ' e7rated in order to be indictable. The court said the defendant must see clearly what he had to answer ° the also with th e se defendants. A meeting to procure re Peal of the union ws perfectly lawful, in ti ger to be made unlawful, a it must be shown whowere facts arties intended to intimidate ; the count . must state 01 , t from which it should be made evident that the s,. 7en ng was illegal. He would trouble their Lordships .:th no other authorities with reference to this count, but - "Nice submit that it was necessary, in order to establish s ' er ime of thi s ki n d, not mere l y to state that the acts were C l l: l r law ful, but to plac e up on the record circumstances lectlY and e x p ress l y s h ow i ng h ow t h e y were unlawf ff ul ct prayed their Lordships to consider well the e t '1 1 1 .24 the law, and upon the well-being of the people c o d . f • ecUntry in of political excitement, of their e • 41 this case He intreated them to consider how upo n vague.es and general charges, persons might treated as crimi na l s . I n th e se times , when there was 1 3 :0 )t h of disc uss i on , and freedom of assembly, when, f r 're ` Bill received the Royal assent, meetings were so BilltheY held in various parts of the country, some b for strop and some against it, it did appear to him to as e a a e„,O-(wIT P r eposition for that House to affirm, sitting or tine ;If Error, that every assembly, relating to acbange e l l at e e ld i l e o lit t l is w as illegal. Meetings were, and would, be f Upcountry for political objects in times too „ Inen t — prosecutions might be resorted ma_ —oimes for the gratification of private., was l • ice ` for from party feelings—and I:en the hunmLPossible to shut their eyes to the fact that e • nSt of men must be subject to them, and he ventured heldiuly •u to beseech th e ir Lordships to pause before they that any o f t h e su bj ects o f t hi s rea lm must be put rer th eir trial on a vague c h a rge like that to which upon ~l ' ?e d • It was under these circumstances and tin ;rounds th a t h e su b m itt e d to their Lordships that as s si xth count— an d th e same line of argument would hr„P A IY to the other counts—was clearly too general et cod in law. He had said that there was only one other tc, ll ,, n t in the indictment to which he would call the atteT : p O , l- ", i nf their Lordships. The eighth count wa_s, asl t - C'u l e , more extraordinary, when considered sixth s ubject of a criminal charge, than the ;r e — Count. It was that these eight persons i - 0 ,1,a, id, unlawfully, maliciously, and seditiously, et b h - „`',: ti a , conspire, confederate, and agree, with each ftre t and with divers other persons, whose names d urors aforesaid, unknown, to bring into hatred for t tL ia rePute th e t r ib una ls by law established in Ireland fid,„ " admini strat i on o f j ust i ce , an d t o diminish the con th 1 7 of her said Maj e sty's liege subjects in Ireland in 14 0 4 t -i winistration of the law therein, with the intent to tion e ller Majesty's subjects to withdraw . the adjudica oth r u l, their differences with, and claims upon each law est e hV i rom the cognizance of the said tribunals by det ti e . 3 ; n 0 (1, and to submit the same to the judgment and eo n e t r y -4 1atio n of other tribunals to be constituted and th e A l 'ed for that purpose, in contempt of our said Lady ofar, n en, and the laws of this realm, to the evil example e of o ,;,?tnors in the like case offending, and against the Reac , s aid Lady the Queen, her Crown, and Dignity. e trii; BUbstance of this charge was the bringing some do 11141 or other—what particular tribunal is not . men confidesote "into hatred and contempt, and withdrawing the co uld of the Queen's subjects from them. Now they t n ot Mean all the tribunals of the country. They did 1 1() ;e - .p tn o ean to bring all the minor courts, or all the courts of e t c :oor Id u ces d ss r e e r;vi contempt. It must apply to courts of peintit°ons. Supposing those courts to be so bad hatred and contemp . t, and honest mende cooild to eff ect an improvement in the law, which they etii)1011-rns,niiny effect by holding up these courts in their true re order that they might by lawful means procure law interference of the Legislature to alter `TheirLord. 0 7 in this respect, would that be criminal? "uld not here enter into the question of whether e r t ' h not the courts of law were co odious as to require in If the vices and defects of the mode 1 4 , jusfice was administered was to become question in dealing with people's altering the law, freedom of discussion in this country untrya,t t /t ifil n is tlid ,, be e a v n en enl • could any great improvement in where it was most needed, be effected_ t ""e3" Were to be deemed criminal who agreed ip•Ougeititihee; 'Ti any number to hold up a particular nstitution to the hatred and contempt of the If this indictment, which was framed at Z e 'lltion law were good at the present day, it would have /:01in man centuries ago. And if any number of elis had agreed together to write down the Star jnarnher, or the High Commission Court, and hold them to the hatred and execration they deserved, they "ght have been indicted for conspiracy. the Lord CAmPuELL--The overt act being the publishing Proceedings of the Star Chamber. Ex u.Y—Precisely. That would have been an ` 4 l : . :rt act, t h e effect of which must have been to hold up i Star Chamber to hatred and contempt. But was it „, e ,g 4l ? If the courts were such as to deserve the respect ...`!" confidence of the people, they would have it. But the itiestion was not as to the character of these courts. ° Parties to a case might come to very different Pinions as to the decision on a case ; one might think • 1‘ i O Y just o ne an d t h e other the very reverse. But or va free country like this, where all the vices and evils an aria f institution might, if nu t c h ecked, grow into r g i a , °l'm a part of the system, was it en -44 for Englieholea to agree together, if they believed conscientiously that any institution deserved hatred and contempt, and to hold it up in its true light to the people ? He would quote to their Lordships the descrip tion given by an eloquent and learned writer, who had , been a Cabinet Minister (Mr. Macaulay), of the manner in which justice was administered in England in the time , of Charles the Second and James the Second ; he so.) s— " The next great blessing which we awe to the Revolu- ' tion is the purification of the 'administration of justice in political cases. Of the importance of this change no person can judge who is not well acquainted with the earlier volumes of the State trials. Those volumes are, we do not hesitate to say, the most frightful record of baseness and depravity that is extant in the world. Our hatred is altogether turned away from the crime and the cri niinals, and directed against the law and its ministers. We see villainies, as black as ever were imputed to any person, at any bar, daily committed on the bench, and in the jury box. The worst of the bad acts which brought ' discredit on the old Parliament of France—the con demnation of Lally, for instance, or even that of Calas, may seem praiseworthy, when compared with the atrocities which follow each other in endless succession as we turn over that huge chronicle of the shame of England. The Magistrates of Paris and Toulouse were blinded by prejudice, passion, or bigotry. But the abandoned judges of our own country committed murder with their eyes open. The cause of this is plain. In France there was no constitutional opposition. If a man held language offensive to the Government he was at once sent to the Bastile or to Vincennes. But in England, at least after the days of the Long Parliament, the King could not, by a mere act of his prerogative, rid himself of a troublesome politician. He was forced to remove those who thwarted him by means of perjured witnesses, packed juries, and corrupt, hard-hearted, brow-beating judges. The Opposition naturally retaliated, whenever they had the upper hand. Every time that the power passed from one party to the other, there was a pro scription and a massacre, thinly disguised under the forms of judicial procedure. The tribunals ought to be the sacred places of refuge, where, in all the vicissitudes of public affairs, the innocent of all parties may find shelter. They were, before the Revolution, an unclean public shambles, to which each party in its turn dragged its opponents, and where each found the same venal ferocious butchers waiting for its customer. Papist or Protestant, Tory or Whig, Priest or Alderman, all was one to those greedy and savage natures, provided only there was money to save and blood to shed. Of course those worthless judges soon created around them, as was natural, a breed of informers more wicked, if possible, than themselves. The trial by jury afforded little or no pro tection to the innocent. The juries were nominated by the sheriffs. The sheriffs were in most part of England nominated, by the Crown. In London, the great scene of political contention, these officers were chosen by the people. The fiercest parliamentary election of our time will give but a faint notice of the storm which raged in the city on the day when two infuriated parties each bearing its badge, met to select the men in whose hands were to be the issues of life and death for the coming year. On that day nobles of the highest de scent did not think it beneath them to canvas and marshal the livery, to head the procession, and to watch the poll. On that day the great chiefs of parties waited in an agony of suspense for the messenger who was to bring from the Guildhall the news whether their lives and es tates were, for the next twelve months, to be at the mercy of a friend or foe. In 1681, Whig sheriffs were chosen ; and Shaftesbury defied the whole power of the Government. In 1682, the sheriffs were Tories. Shaftesbury fled to Holland. The other chiefs of the pasty broke up their councils, and retired in haste to their country seats, Sydney, on the scaf fold, told those sheriffs that his blood was on their heads. Neither of them could deny the charge, and one of them wept with shame and remorse." Such was a true description of the tribunals of the coun try at the time to which this eminent writer refers. Though, thank Heaven, they lived now in different times, and under different institutions, yet, he would ask, if it would be criminal for any number of men to unite to write or speak down tribunals in which there might be many vices of practice and administration. Was the charge of an indictment of this kind necessarily a criminal charge—that of con spiring to bring the tribunals of the country into con tempt? If the courts did not deserve contempt, they would not receive it ; that decency of language and moderation should be used in the discussion, might be necessary, but it was another and a very different ques tion, because parties believed that such were vices of the system, that it deserved hatred and comtempt ; they be came criminal because they agreed to speak of that insti tution in what they believed to be just and becoming terms. Again, this was extremely vague. He would not say how the administration of justice had been carried on ; he would not say anything of how the ecclesiastical courts had been spoken of in and out of Parliament. The attacks that had been made upon these courts was not upon the judges, but upon the system ; look at the criminal courts ; in these courts many men had been tried who were not guilty, and suffered death, in consequence, perhaps, of the badness of the system ; and was it to be said, hat those who had been their nearest and dearest relatives, suffer under a bad sys tem, that, if they decreed it, they would be guilty of conspiracy ? It was too much to say that parties could not attack a bad system without being guilty of conspiracy. There were many parts of the system that might be assailed, and with truth, and for doing so men ought not to be considered criminal. As to the latter part of the count, was it to be said that it was a crime to say that the administration of jus tice had become hateful and contemptible, and that parties would refer their differences to another tribunal? He submitted that there was nothing illegal or criminal in attempting to bring any part of the system into contempt in order to obtain an improvement ; there was nothing he believed that it would be illegal to bring into con tempt except the religion of the country, and that had been even held not to be illegal. On these grounds the count being bad the whole was vitiated, and the whole indictment must be reversed. MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The transactions in Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were not extensive, but prices were firm. Sales,3,ooo bales. Shares were dull at the following rates :-Birmingham and Glou cester, 95 ; Grand Junction, 228 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Half, 1151 ; London and Birmingham, Quarter, 26i ; Lon don and South Western, 831 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 54 ; North Midland, Thirds, 32i ; South Eastern, 351; Paris and Lyons, 2i. Tiler; are accounts from the Mauritius this morning to the sth of April, but they are, as usual, extremely barren of intelligence. If the financial affairs both of Spain as well as of Portugal are fairly represented in the accounts that have recently come to hand, there cannot be a doubt but that the treasuries of both kingdoms arc in a more impoverished condition than they have before been. Still so sanguine are foreign Minis ters that the gullibility of John Bull is as extensive as ever, that new propositions are made 114)r fresh advances of capital, upon the security of thrice hypothecated revenues. The first proposition of M. Mons is thus disposed of by a City capitalist of long standing. Being asked what he would be ready to take the proposed new issue of Stock at, the price assumed for the Three per Cents. being 35 per cent., " Why," said he to the interrogator, " if you will strike off the 30 per cent., then I will come to some terms with the remaining 5 per cent." It is intended, to make the bait more sure of suc cess, that the dividend upon the proposed new Stock should be made payable in Paris and Amsterdam, as well as in London, but it is not believed that the scheme will take. Then, as to Portugal, the Cabral Ministry is in a rapid course of annihilation. What with internal dissensions and politi cal intrigues, this fine country is reduced to nearly as low an ebb as that of Spain. Here, too, a new attempt is about to be made to obtain fresh advances from this side of the water. To those of our readers who hare any spare cash at disposal, we may give this advice—select some good , Englisli line of railway, about to be carried out under the provisions of an Act of Parliament, invest in that, and let foreign loans alone. There have been some accounts received at the Hall of Commerce from Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. Another battle had taken place, in which the French party, who had joined the Orientals, had been defeated. The petty squabbles and minor military movements that so frequently take place in that direction scarcely deserve notice. The commercial news is deficient in interest. 'A very small amount of business has been transacted in the English Stock Exchange to-day, notwithstanding the banks are now - open for private transfers. The prices of Consols have ranged frofn 981 to 99 for Money, as well as for the Account, the_ dividend deducted. Bank Stock has been quoted at 1981; India Stock at ,285 ; and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 1011 A. Mexican Bonds have varied from 36 to 36a, now being at 36*. Columbian and Venezulian have been done at 13A ; Peruvian at 261, and the Dutch Five per Cents, at 10013 In most of the Rail Way Shares a slight improvement has taken place this morning, as the corrected list of prices will show. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Oficial List.) Bank Stock..oo ;O • 000000 ••••• 0000000 •••••••••••••••••• 0000000 • IgEN 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99 9ti7 99 3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities 102% New 3% per Cent. Annuities...-.. . ....... . Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan.lB6o 1234 '7-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860. ....... India Stock Consols for Open ng ..... ....p.m, ..... ••••••••••• Exchequer Bills, 130. 134 d 10001. ........»....»........ .. ••••••• ..... 7 4 prn. .. .. " 5001. 1 ... ....... .. ........ ............ 74 pm. ' Dittoinall.. ...... .. " ...... -- 74 pm. Ditto Advertised pm. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCX. Columbian Bonds. 13% % Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .... ........ ".... Ditto for the Account. 363„% Ditto Deferred Stock 16% 16 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. 2634 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 Ditto for the Account. 23% Ditto Three per Cent. ............... ..... . . ..... Ditto for the Account •." ....... ..•••••••„ Dutch 234 per Cents ....... ............. ....... ..... Dutch 5 per Cents ....... 100% %J 4 New Loan. 4 per Cents. (1844) PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Derby Birmingham and Gloucester Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Chester and Holyhead.. ......... .... 5 Dublin and Cashel .... 234 438% ... to Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered 81. Os. M. Edinburgh and Glasgow ...... ...... 50 ..... Great Western Ditto % Shares Ditto nfths l2 ..... .... 22% Harwich (Braithwaite) London and Birmingham. lOO 226 to Ditto New Thirds 2 37% ...... to 38 London and Brighton 5O 46% London and Greenwich ... ...... .. 12% London and South Western 41% ...... 83 Midland Counties lOO 97% to North British North Midland ...... ..... ...... ....... 100 ... Ditto % Shares 4O 48 Ditto Thirds 21.. 130. 4d. 32 . .... .... to South Eastern and Dover ......... 32% 35%% ... to 35 Ditto New Trent Valley . ....... ........ ......... 2 Yarmouth and Norwich lB 25% to Ditto % Shares 25 ......... 52 Ditto Scarboro' Branch 254 2l to Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux... 1 Paris and Orleans ..................... 20 .... .. ... 39% to -- Paris and Rouen .......«.. 20 ..» 00000 39 . to MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 6.—We have again an improved market, and considerable business has been done in Manchester and Birmingham, and Trent Valley. Manchester and Birmingham, 554 544 ; Paris and Lyons, ; Trent Valley, 1041. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DA 1 .) LONDON, JULY B.—Wind . Southerly, fresh breezes and cloudy at times. Dual, JULY Wind N.N.E. to N.E. E.N.E., moderate.—Arrd. Coaxer, Ridley, Singapore; Sterling and Lalla Rookb, Kenney, Calcutta; Eden, Boyce, ditto; Themis and Eliza Ann, Bell, Bahia ; Emerald, Gaynes. Antigua ; Edwina, New York ; Pearl, Douglas, Montreal ; John 1 ors ter, Gambia. Sld. Catherine Elizabeth, 'St. Vincents ; Victor, Cape of Good Hope ; Thalia, Ichaboe. OFF Ilesyneas, JULY 7.—Argb, Canger, Valparaiso : Ska tan, Bahia, for Stettin. OFF Porersmouyn,JULY 6.—Seppings,Thompsen,Calcutta, COWES, JULY 7.—Arrd. Columbus, Sterling, Rio Janeiro; Diantha, Storey, Matanzas ; Nestor, Moses, New Orleans. Sorrtweryox, JULY 7.—Acrd. Ocean, Jobson. Miramichi ; Royal Tar (steamer), Gibraltar , 29 th ult. Sid. Cairo , Quebec. OFF SALCOMBE, JULY 6.—Lord Wenlock, Hobbs, James Angus, Camsell, and Ellen, St. John's, New Brunswick. Put back, Patelina, for Gambia. EXMOUTH, JULY 4.—Sld. Calea, Ichaboe. PLYMOUTH, JULY 6.—Wind Northerly and fine.--And. Emma, Spice, Miramichi ,• Constance, Malony, Prince Ed ward's Island. 7. Earl Hopetoun, Bartlett, Cape Breton. Sld. Asia, Calcutta. OFF ISLE OF Wlcarr, JULY s.—Finden, BuenotAyres. FALMOUTH, JULY 6 AND 7.—Wind N.—Acrd. Mastery, Lucy, Rio ; Rossana, Morrison, Brazil. Sld. his Neapolitan Majesty's ship Merafrie, Batavia. Off, Reliance, Calcutta ; Active, Hutchison, Buenos Ares ; William Rushton, Foster, Port au Prince, and sailed for Antwerp ; Parton, Richardson, Port au Paix, sailed for Hamburgh ; Snelhied, Kemp, Ha vannah for Amsterdam. OFF EASTBOURNE.—PetroneIIa, Mauritius. OFF NEWHAVEN.—Niagara, Champion, Mauritius. LiivntirooL, JULY 6.--Wind N.N.W., light..—JULY 7. —Wind N.W.,moderate.—Arrd. Glenny, Sydney, New South Wales; Imaum of Muscat, Port Phillip ; Elora, China ; Earl Powis, Sutton, and Pandora, Newland, Calcutta ; Ma labar, Barker, Bombay ; Marcella, Vallent, and Undaunted, Callao ; Sir C. Napier, Hantriss, and Ursula, Valparaiso ; Helen, Noel, ditto and Bahia ; Argyle, Welch, Eliza, and Leuvick, Jones, Ichaboe; Panope, Pipon and Selina, Bell, Buenos Ayres; Commodore, Williams, Ichaboe ; Kate, Honey, Rio Grande; Severn, Whitler, Bahia; Brazi lian, Goble, Bahia ; Nightingale, Hunter, Pernambuco ; Gloucester (late Feed), Princes Island; Esquemaux, Barba does ; Concord, Cuba ; Hebden, Loughbridge, Porto Cabello ; Charles Humberston, Clinton, Coronet, Essex, Glasgow, Hamlet, Isaac Allerton, and Thetis, New Orleans; Cornelia , Great Britain, and Greenock, Fleek, Mobile (Globe, Apala chiola ; Lanarkshire, and Rosalama, Savannah; Indefatiga ble,. Scott, Charleston ; Hudson, Page, and Southener, Palmer, United States; Briton, and. England, Bartlett (17th ult.), New York ; Trinidad, M'Kenney, St. John's, New Bruns wick ; Prince Charlie, Quebec ; R. J. Haynes, Trinidad ; Frances, Corkhill, Barbadoes. Off, Speed, Mobile. 5. Sid. Vibelia, Cape of Good Hope ; Cloughbane, Ichaboe; Jane and Barbara, Quebec. 6. Cincinnatti, China ; Captain Ross, Cape of Good Hope ; -Lanercost, Luna, and Robert Isaac, New York; Emma, Montreal. 7. Ann, Africa ; Lan cashire, and Queen of the West, New York; William God dard, Boston ; Evergreen, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Glenview, Helen, William Peirie, and W. G. Anderson, Quebec. CAMPBELTUWN, JULY 4.—The Diana, of Speymoutli, from Liverpool to St. Menans, with salt, is ashore on the island of Sauda, and expected to become a wreck ; crew saved, cargo lost. POOLE, JULY 4.—Arrd. Nelsen packet, Newfoundland. 7th, William Field, ditto. STUDLAND BAY, JULY 6.—Arrd. Caroline, Haim, Ichaboe. The following vessels were loading guano at Ichaboe, on May 2 :—Zenobia, Horatio, Grindlay, George Glen, Alexan der, West Indian, Indus, Bombay, Tulloch Castle, Rain bow, Henry Wellesley, Dream, Lowther, Trinity Yacht, William and Ann, Flora, Highlander, Rebecca, Hudson, Jo seph Hume, Ann Grant, Conservative, Emily, George, Amy, Charles, Ann Laing, Robert Kerr, Matthews, Columbine, Grace, Hanover, Cicero, Thalia, Helen, and several others, names unknown. At the Chincas, loading :—Sophia, Mary Russell, Thomas Worthington, Commercial, John Souchay, all for England. Lord CAMPBELL wished to advert to this difficulty, You say, Mr. Kelly, that these bad counts char ge n ' e offence, then we find the record saying " for the offences aforesaid." Now, can that be supposed to include that which you say is no offence. Mr. KELLY submitted that that must be so, because the word offence aforesaid must mean the offence the jury had found. Offence could not mean offences ; it must mean one offence well laid, and an offence ill laid. The LORD CHANCELLOR—Every time, Mr. Kelly, you adverted to this circumstance, you used a word that is not in the indictment—several offences—whereas, it is offences aforesaid. Mr. KELLY asserted that there was not a single offence legally charged ; the offences aforesaid must mean the offences found by the jury. Suppose, for instance, in an action for slander he were to introduce a most absurd and ridiculous count—suppose in the first count the slan der was stated to be that the man had been called a felon, that in the second count it was stated to consist of something equally actionable, and that is the third count it was stated that he had called the plaintiff an honest and an honourable man—if on those three counts a verdict was given with general damages, the court not being able to discriminate how much had been given by the jury on the good counts, and how much on the bad ones, would reverse the judgment, and send the case back again for trial. So in this case the court did not know how much of the punishment had been apportioned to the good counts and how much to the bad ones, and he apprehended they had no choice, but must reverse the judgment altogether. Their Lordships here retired for a short time ; on their return, Mr. KELLY resumed, and said that in reference to the point he had just concluded with, the only consequence which would arise from reversing the judgment, would be that the same degree of precision would be observed in criminal cases which was now observed in civil cases ; and it would be competent for the prosecutor to enter up judgment upon one count which the court held to be good, as was done in civil cases. He would now proceed to the ques tion which rose up nn the writ of error, in fact relative to the swearing of the witnesses before the grand jury ; and it would . appear, both in the plea in abatement in the case, and on the assignment of the writ of error, in 'fact, that the witnesses in support of of the indictment, if sworn at all, had been sworn, not in open court, but before the grand jury only ; and he would submit to their Lordships that, under the statute regulating the swearing of witnesses upon indictments in Ireland, there was no authority in the grand jury to swear the witnesses in this prosecution, being in the Queen's Bench, but that they must be sworn in open court ; and upon this, this further and more important question arose, whether, supposing the statutes did ex tend to the Court of Queen's Bench, and therefore the witnesses were properly sworn, whether they did not authorise that the names of the witnesses should not be indorsed on the bill, and signed by the name of the foreman, or by his initials. He would refer to this latter point first ; but, before doing so, he would proceed with regard to the swearing of witnesses upon trials on indictment in Ireland. This vas regulated by two Acts of Parliament, the 56 Geo. 111., c. 87 and the 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 37. Before he called the atten tion of their Lordships to the particular language of these statements, he would state what he considered to be the effect of them. Before the statute of 56th George 111. was passed, a practice prevailed in Ireland of sending witnesses before the grand jury without being sworn at all, and indictments were found on the testimony of those witnesses who were not sworn ; and to regulate this evil that statute was passed. That statute provided expressly that in all cases where witnesses were to give evidence before agrand jury, on any indictments ; they were first to be sworn in open Court, so that from the time of passing the Act to the year 1838 no Bill had been properly returned, and no person was put upon his trial upon an indictment unless the witnessess in support of it had been sworn in open Court. [The Learned Gentleman was proceeding when our report left.] ACCIDENT TO THE HON. MISS BOYLE.—We hear that the Hon. Miss Caroline Boyle. niece to the Earl of Cork, and Maid of Honour to the Queen Dowager, had a miraculous escape from drowning last week, at Allarston, the Noble Earl's seat near Frome. It appears that Miss Boyle was on a pleasure excursion on the lake, and when pushing off amongst some willows she lost her footing, and fell from the boat where the water was 16 feet deep. Miss Boyle clung to the boughs. Miss Warburton, her companion, threw her the end of an oar from the shore. Miss Mary Boyle, who had been waiting the arrival of the tow- boat, at the further end of the lake, alone munoored the boat, and assisted by Miss Warburton, succeeded in dragging in the half lifeless lady just as her strength was giving way and her hands were relaxing their hold. BRUSSELS, JULY 6.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, sister to the King of the Belgians, accom panied by the Prince of Leiningen, left Verviers at twenty five minutes past two o'clock, and arrived with her suite, by a special train at the station near Lacken at a quarter to seven. wo of the royal carriages were ready to convey her Royal Highness and attendants to the palace of Lacken. PORTSMOUTH, JULY B.—CIIMESE RANSOM.—A farther portion of this ransom has been received at Ports mouth from on board her Majesty's ship Childers, from China, by J. W. Cooper, Esq., of the Treasury, who will pro ceed in charge thereof to London , to deposit the treasure at I MP ORTATION OF FOREIGN BEASTS..•-011 Sund ay the Royal Mint. The floating-bridge :across the harbour morning last, eleven very fine cows were landed from on from Portsmouth to Gosport has been stopped since Friday hoard the Emerald Isle, Captain Bouch, from Rotterdam. evening, owing to the breaking of one of the chains, thus —Hull Advertivr. preventing the sending over of any carriages or horses, and causing thereby much inconvenience on both sides the har . APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN H I GH LIFE. " bour. Every exertion is making to repair the damage, and have to announce that the nup tials of Lord Charles Welles- it is hoped the usual communication will be speedily restored. ley, son of the Duke of Wellington, and Miss Pierrepont LYCEUM.—The following distinguished persons is finally appointed to be solemnised to-morrow. The have visited this theatre during last week :—The Marquis Duke of Wellington, as we have p reviousl y stated, g ives of Worcester, Lady Stanley, Lady Theresa Lister, Earl , and the wedding breakfast at Apsley Ho use, for which circulars Countess of Jersey, Earl and Countess of Ailesford, Earl and of invitation have been issued. i Countess of Harrington, Lady Manley, Earl of Miltown, HUNGEREORD SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—On Friday, Lord de Lisle, Lord and Lady Duncannon, Lord Compton, wooden cradles were placed at each of the pintos in the Lady Cator, Lord Craven, Sir Wm. and Lady Middleton and centre of the river, for the men to work in, in fixing the family, Sir John and Lady Boileau, Sir henry and Lady chains across the river, for the Suspension Bridge -The Willock and family, Lord Dungannon, Lord Charles Welles whole of the iron works are ready, and it is exp ected to be le y , Lord Bur g hle y , Lord Suffield, Lord Hillsborough, Lady completed by the Ist of August. Hall, Lady Harriet Clive, Sir R. Barton, Sir Andrew Cor- A wag, passing through a country town, observed bett , H. Villebois , Esq. , A. K. Oom , Esq. , Hume , Esq. a fellow placed in the stocks, "My friend," said he, " I ad- Lord Guernsey, Hon. Charles Hill, Mrs. Hammersley an( family, Captain Harvey, Mr. Bagge, Goldsmid, Esq. vise you by all means to sell out." °'l should have no ob jection, your honour," he replied drily, "hut at present they Lady Augusta Finch, Right Hon. H. Pierrepoint, Mrs, seem much too low." Sneyd, &c. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1844. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORT4MOUTII, JULY 7.—The Childers, 16, Commander Wellesley, having discharged her cargo of silver at the Royal dockyard on Thursday, hauled off into the stream, and was inspected by the Flag Captain of the port (R. F. Rowley) as deputy for the Commander-in-Chief, after which ceremony she commenced stripping, preparatory to being paid off at this port. The Childers touched at Simon's Bay, on her way home, on the 30th of April, at which date the Wincliester,so, Captain C. Eden, flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Jocelyn Percy, had recently returned from a short cruise; the Thun derbolt steam-sloop, Commander G. N. Broke, and Cleopatra frigate, 44, Captain Wyvill, were also lying at the Cape at the same date. The Childers came into port minus four of her guns, which she had left behind at Hong-Kong, to mount a battery with. She has been upwards of rive years in com mission, has had two !commanders, and is in a very dilapi dated state. She will be paid off, docked, thorougly over hauled, and refitted ferthWith. The Queen, 110, Captain Sir C. Sullivan, will be paid off on Tuesday next, if the Camperdown is round by that time. The Spy, 3, Lieutenant-Commander Woolridge, is ordered home from the Islnnd of Ascension, to be paid off. She will be-relieved by the Sealark, 10, Commander Gooch. Byprivate letters from the Madagascar, 44, Captain Foote, we learn that she is on her way home from the Cape Verd Islands, to be paid off. The Albion, 90, Captain N. Lockyer, is ordered for the Mediterranean. The Clio, 16, Commander J. Fitzjames, is on her way home from Bombay, to_ be paid off, and is shortly expected. The Cornwallis, 72, Captain P. Richards, with the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, G.C.8., is expected home from Madras the 30th proximo, to be paid off. The Star, 6, Commander Dunlop, has captured two slavers —the Nova Christina, schooner, picked up in a sinking state off Sierra Leone, with 70 slaves aboard, and the Mary, a beautiful craft of near 600 tons, captured near Badagry, after a run of 200 miles ; she mounted four guns, and had a crew of 40 men, fitted to carry 950 slaves. We have letters from the Star to the Ist . of May, all well, at which date the Hyacinth, 18, Commander Scott, was cruising off the Bight of Benin. The Scylla, 18, Commander R. Sharpe, left St. John's, New Brunswick, on the 15th ult., for the Bay of Fundy. The-North Star, 26, Captain Sir J. E. Home, Bart., was at New Zealand on the Bth of February. The Warspite, 50, Captain Wallis, and the Vesuvius steam vessel were at Gibraltar on the 22d ult. The Nimrod, 20, Captain Glasse, and the Sapphire troop ship, Master- Commander Fittock, left Madras on the 4th of May for Coringa. The Java, transport, arrived at Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, on the 24th of May, and sailed for Hong-Kong on the 25th. In Harbour—The Victory, Rattlesnake, Coll ingwood, Queen Excellent, Resistance, Childers, Fearless, and Echo. In Dock—The Rodney, Victoria and Albert, Prince Re gent, Albert, Scourge, Pantaloon, Lily, Athol, Waterwitch, Seaflower, Wanderer. _ At Spithead—The St. Vincent. DEYONPORT, JULY s.—The Caledonia, 120, sailed this day from the Sound, for Gibraltar. In consequence of the hosti lities between France and Morocco being considered by the French Government sufficient warranty for sending out a fleet, under the Prince de Joinville, her Majesty's Govern ment have wisely determined to send out a squadron for the protection of her Majesty's interests in that vicinity. Conse quently the St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley, expects orders hourly to follow the Caledonia, and it is probable that on the arrival of the Camperdown, 104, Captain Martin, she will also be dispatched to the same destination ; as also the Col lingwood, 80, Captaim Eden; Cornwallis, 74, shortly ex pected from the East Indies ; the Madagascar, 44, Captain Foote; the Thalia, 42, Captain Hope; and we are credibly informed the Albion, 92, Captain Lockyer, and Volage, 26, Captain Sir William Dickson, Bart., have been ordered from the Irish station upon the same errand. The Fox, 42, Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood, Bart., is or dered to sail this day from Barnpool to relieve Commodore Chads in the Cambrian, 36, on the East India station. She takes out two full-length portraits of her Majesty as presents to the Emperor of China. Second Lieutenant Parke, R.M., will take a passage in the Fox, to join the Isis, 44, Captain Sir John Marshall, Knt., K.O H., at the Cape ; she also takes out the shipwrights, coopers, and smiths entered on board the San Josef for service in China, to be borne on the books of the Agincourt, 72, Captain . H. W. Bruce, flag-ship of Rear- Ad miral Sir- T. J. Cochrane, Knt., to whom Sir Henry will be second in command, and hoist a blue pendant as Commodore of the second class. The Sydenham steam sloop, Commander D. R. B. Maple ton, arrived from Portsmouth on Wednesday, received su pernumeraries, and sailed in the evening for the Mediterra nean. The Swift packet, 6, Lieutenant-Commander J. Douglas, was paid advance yesterday, and will proceed to Falmouth in a day or two to convey the next mail to the Brazils. The Delight, 10-gun brig, has been sold out of the service by private contract. On Monday a number of artificers were placed upon the Amethyst, 36, frigate, to expedite her launching, her slip being required for the Avenger steam-frigate, of which the following are the dimensions : Feet. Inches. Length . . 210 0 Breadth 39 0 Depth... 0 ... 25 6 I : 444 rece . nt E ly ngi vai n d es, off 6so he h re or w se as power. The I docked on Tues day, to have her copper cleaned and undergo a thorough n T du o s n , s 8 overhaul, preparatory (we are informed) to speedy re-com mission. Lieutenants Nepear and Farmer, three sergeants, three corporals, one fifer, 150 marines, and 150 sailors, draughted from- the San Josef; embarked yesterday in the Caledonia (as supernumeraries), and Captain Delacombe, R.N., als em barked to relieve Major Mitchell, who stands next for pro motion. In Harbour.—The San Josef, Diligence, Swift, Confiance, and Adventure. In Dock.—The Grecian, Kent, Ranger, and Acteon. In Barnpool.—The Fox. PROMOTIONS. Commander—Frederick Hutton (1838), of the 'Vanguard, to the rank of Captain. Lieutenant—George' Elrington, to be retired Commander, by order in Council of 1830. Mates—John: Johnston (1841), of the Inconstant; W. L. Partridge, of the Dido ; and Charles S. Dunbar, of the Fox, to the rank of Lieutenants. Second Master—G. L. Hall, of the Sydenham, to the rank of Master. APrODITIIIEICTS. Uaptains—Frederick Bullock, to the Porcupine ; J. C. Car penter to be out-pensioner of Greenwich Hospital. • Deputy Inspectors of Hospitals—Edward Hilditch, to Ja maica Hospital ; Oliver Evans, M.D., of Jamaica Hospital, to Bermuda. Lieutenants—The Hon. P. F. Pellew, additional, to the Collingwood ; Alfred Fairman (1829), to the Warspite • W. L. Partridge, and Charles S. Dunbar , add itional, to the Agin court ; F. E. Johnston, of the Queen, to the Illustrious. Surgeons—Charles M'Arthur, M.D., of the Victory, to the William and Mary packet, for special service. Master—G. L. Hall (acting), to the Geyser. Second Masters—F. Farrant, to the Sydenham ; T. Pitt (1841), to the Medusa steam-packet ; W. B. Edwards, to the Caledonia ; R. T. Saunders, to the Zephyr steam-packet. Assistant-Surgeons—W. Fosken, M.D. (acting), additional to the Illustrious ' • W. A. Leslie (acting), additional to Ply mouth Hospital ; R. Clark, M.D., and L. Elliott, M.D., addi tional, and T. F. Wooldridge (acting), additional of the Cale donia, and V. C. Clark, M.D. (acting), additional to the San Josef, for duty at Plymouth Hospital ; L. C. Urquhart, M.D., from the Camperdown, additional to the Ocean, for service at Sheerness Dockyard ; G. Willes, for service at Ha.slar Hos pital; J. Gordon (acting), of the Camperdown, to the Poic tiers, for service at Melville Hospital. Mates—C. 0. H. P. St. John (1840), of the Excellent, to the St. Vincent ; R. Chambers, to the Firefly ; E. Burnstall, to the Porcupine ; G. S. Boys, late of the Vernon, to the Albion. Naval Instructor—G. S. Bourne, to the Talbot. Gunner—J. White (acting), to the Apollo. Clerk—D. Stapleton, to the Porcupine. Midshipmen—H. Bennington to the Excellent; F. Bul . lock, to the Porcupine. Naval Cadets—F. A. Campbell, to the Camperdown ; .J. H. Chads, to the Cambrian. Colonel Lawrence, C. 8., has retired from the command of the Chatham division of Royal ➢iarines. EXTENSIVE FIRE AT STRATFORD.—Yesterday ,Sunday) morning, a few minutes after one o'clock, a de structive fire broke out in the High-street, Stratford, near Bow, by which much property was destroyed of a most va luable character. Two houses are gutted, and two others, with the contents of the whole, very seriously damaged. The outbreak occurred in the house of Mr. Henry Ballard, watch and clockmaker, and jeweller, 4, High-street. The building contained seven rooms, and the fire was discovered at the back of the premises by one of the K division of police. .The parish engine and the Jeffery-square and. the Wellclose square engines were soon upon the spot, and an abundant supply of water was furnished. Before the engines from town had arrived the flames had obtained firm hold, and the house was on fire from the top to the bottom. The interior of the building was entirely consumed, as were also the stock and furniture, not a particle of either of which is saved. The adjoining house, in the occupation of Mr. Robert Pearson, grocer and cheesemonger, had also caught fire, and another on the other side, adjoining, was on fire at the back and roof. Upwards of fifty of the neighbours being employed at the engines, the effect became shortly apparent, and in less than an hour so greatly had the fire been subdued, that the inha bitants of No. 2, High-street, were enabled to remove the chief part of the contents of that building, the destruction of which at one time appeared inevitable. With incessant la• bour, up to a quarter past three o'clock, the flames were sub dued, and all danger of the extension of the fire was at an end. How the fire originated is not known. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Saturday morning an unfortunate accident occurred to Cockrill, 108 L, one of the officers at Astley's Theatre, which is likely to be attended with serious results. It appeared that about three o'clock, as he was about to go off duty, he went over some new houses at the rear of the theatre, in Stangate, to ascertain whether the lead and workmen's tools were all safe, and on crossing a plank on the first floor his feet slipped, and he fell through the joists into the cellar, a depth of 20 feet, broke his right leg, and seriously injured the spine. He lay there nearly 20minutes, until his groans brought a constable to his assistance, when he was speedily conveyed to Guy's Hos pital, where he now lies in a precarious state. He is well known to the public as the " Duke," from his striking like ness to the Duke of Wellington. Several of our Contemporaries have taken notice of the omission of 100,0001. in the statement of the decrease of the property-tax in the present quarter, the decrease being stated in the published account to be 9,2241., whereas it ought to have been stated as 109,224/. This error, however, makes no difference in the comparison of the total increase and decrease on the quarter, as we observe some of our con temporaries suppose, as there happens to be another omission of the same amount on the opposite of the account. The increase under the head of "Repayment of Advances" is stated to be 36,3501. instead of 136,350/. ; the sum received under this head in the present quarter being 274,557/., and in the corresponding quarter of last year only 138,207/. The aggregate amount of the decrease under the several heads of revenue for the quarter is 771,2231., and that of increase for the same period 594,924/., instead of a decrease of 671,2231., and an increase of 494,924/., as stated in the ac counts published on Saturday. The actual decrease on the quarter is 176,299/., being precisely the same after this cor rection is made , as before. As these quarterly accounts can never be made tip till late in the evening of the sth Of the month, it is not surprising that in the hurry of transcribing the numerous copies of this account for the use of the several public journals, clerical errors of this sort should occasionally occur; and when, as in the present case, there happen to be omissions of equal amount on the two sides of the account the error is very apt to be overlooked, as it does not affect the general result.—Herald. TIIE LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—This important national work is now fairly commenced: A satis factory arrangement has been made between the company and the Earl of Lonsdale, upon the fair principle that a valuer should be appointed On either side, with power to name a third party ; and the adjustment of terms will, therefore, The number of steam-boat - pass en gers from London be an easy matter. The first general meeting of the coin to Hull amounts to about 36,000 per artnin3.—Hull pany was held on Friday last at Kendal. A very efficient Advertiser. body of Directors has been appointed. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND titiblit Opinion. " Who rum may read." FORMIGN. The Journal de Frankfort announces the arrival of the Duchess of Kent and the Prince de Leinengen in that city on the 29th ult. They alighted at the Hotel d'Angleterre. The august travellers, on the 30th, received the British - and Saxon Envoys, and the British and Prussian Consuls, at din ner. On the 2d they took their departure in one of the Co logne Company's steam-boats for Mentz, whence they were to proceed by railroad to Brussels. On Thursday, at two o'clock, the King of the French, ac companied by Colonel Dumas and two orderly officers, paid a visit] to St. Cloud. His Majesty returned to Neuilly to din ner. In the evening their Majesties received the Portu guese Minister, and the President, Vice-Presidents, and Se cretaries of the Chamber of Deputies. Prince Gaston de Montmorenci has undergone an interro gatory respecting the reported Legitimatist conspiracy. The Gazette de France asserts that it produced no more result than that of the Duke d'Escars. _ _ . We learn, by a letter frOnc6)rita of the 27th ult., that the Duchess d'ingouletne had left for the chateau of Frohsdorf, near Vienna, where she was to arrive on the 30th ult.. The Duke de Bordeaux was to arrive there on the 4th inst. • - --•-• --•- The Nation, a journal publi s h e d i n connexion with the Gazette de France, and the responsible editor of which is in prison for an offence against the laws regulating the press, has suspended its publication. This is announced as follows by the Gazette :—"A new responsible editor having become necessary, he presented himself to the Minister of the Inte rior, after having paid to the Minister of Finances 33,000 f. for his personal cautionment. The Nation has thus already 133,000 f. at the Treasury, but the Minister of the Interior demands, on account of the appointment of a new responsible editor, a new cautionment of 100,000 f. The Nation will try the merits of this act of persecution, but at a great expense." A professor of philosophy at the College of Avignon, who was suffering under brain fever, threw himself from the win dow of his room, last week, and, in falling, broke both his legs. The shock caused an instant return of reason. The unfortunate man, on being picked up, uttered a well-merited reproach. "You knew that I had lost my reason," said he, " and yet you left me unwatcbed." A letter from Algiers, June 29, states that the tobacco plantation, which had been formed in Algeria as an experi ment, hive been perfectly successful. A letter from Pesth. (Hungary) of the 14th ult. says : " Baron Salomon de Rothschild arrived here on Monday last, from Vienna, in the Pesth steamer. Numerous depuL tations from all the different corporations, as well as from the Israelite community, waited upon' him, all eager to do honour, and show their gratitude to a man to whom the city owes its magnificent bridge over the Danube, connecting it with Ofen, the railroad now in construction, which forms a junction with that of the Emperor Ferdinand, and more than forty large establishments, which give bread to thousands of families, besides other great proofs of his charity and bene volence. The directors of each of the theatres put one of their first boxes at his command, and when he appeared in them the audience rose to receive him. Having visited all the charitable establishments, he left 10,000 florins (1,0000 to be distributed among them. On the 13th he returned to Vienna." COTTILT-WiII9MIO_NAMT.E. The Duchess of Gloucester intends to gWeit splendid en tertainment next week, at Gloucester House, to her neice the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Duchess of Glou cester, and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, have signified their intention of honouring the Waverley ball by their presence to-night. The Ladies Pa tronesses, who have engaged to attend, have agreed to meet punctually at ten o'clock, in order to receive the royal visi tors. The Royal Archers (the Queen's Body Guards for Scotland), headed by the Duke of Buccleuch, and those noblemen and gentlemen connected with Scotland, who have arranged to appear in the Highland garb, have taken upon themselves to assist in preserving a suitable space for the Royal Family, and likewise to guard the allotted arena for the fancy quadrilles. On Saturday evening Viscount and Viscountess Palmer ston entertained the Duke and Duchess of Leinster and Lady Jane Fitzgerald, the Marquis of Anglesey and Lady Adelaide Paget, Earl of Besborougb, Countess of Newburgh, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Viscount and Viscountess Leveson, Viscount Ossulston, Lord Elphinstone, Lord and Lady Ash ley, Hon. Mr. Fitzwilliam, and a distinguished circle, at din ner, at their mansion on Carlton-terrace. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch's dinner party at Montague House, on Saturday last, consisted of Earl Bathurst, Earl and Countess of Beverley, Lady Louisa Percy, Viscount Melville and Hon. Misses Dundas, Lady Georgiana Tier, Sir James and Lady Graham, Viscount and Lady Sarah ingestre, Sir George and Lady Clerk, &c. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have arrived in Port man-square from Ireland, and are expected to remain in town for three weeks before going to Deene Park, Northamp tonshire. Viscount Melbourne, Earl and Countess of Minto, Lord and Lady Carrington, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, and a distinguished party, dined with the Marquis and Marchioness of Landowne, on Saturday, at Lansdowne House. - AZISCELLANZOI7B. Mr. Scholefield, son of the late Member for Birmingham, has received a pressing invitation from an influential body of the electors, to come forward as a candidate. In his reply he says—"l assure you that I should have felt compelled re spectfully to have declined the request which has been urged upon me, if it had not been accompanied by a strong expres sion of opinion, that the majority of the independent electois of the borough would probably concur in the views which dictated it; and that ultimately the Reformers of our town would combine in my favour. If lam thus acceptable to my fellow-townsmen, and union be your watchword, I no longer hesitate, but cheerfully tender you my humble services in discharge of the important and responsible duties of your representative." The following are the prices of a ,few choice paintings sold ht Mr. Christie's, King-street, on Saturday :—" The Reposo," by Titian, 200 guineas ; " A Hawking Party," 13,y Wouvermans, 620 guineas; " Le Lendemain des Noces," by Tethers, 510 guineas ; "An Italian Landscape," by Gaspar poussin, 380 guineas ; the " Flight into Egypt," by Claude, 760 guineas; "A Party of Peasants," by Teniers, 850 guineas ; " Susannah and the Elders," by Guido, 900 guineas • the " Interior of a Large Room with an Arched Door at end of it," by Ostade, 1,310 guineas. We observe, by . the provincial papers, that there have been co pious falls of ram in all parts of the country, and that the crops have been much benefitted by it. The grain, especially the wheat, looks well. Sunday being the anniversary of the birthday of the Em peror of Russia, the event was celebrated by a grand service at the chapel of the Embassy in Welbeck-street. Among the distinguished individuals present were the Prince and Princess Radziwill, Prince Lottykoff, Prince Lubormiraki M. de Oberskorff, Baron Brunnow, and the several attach& of the embassy, the latter in their official uniform, and wearing the decorations presented to them on the occasion of the Em peror's recent visit to this country. Very numerous applications have been made to the Home office for a remission of the sentence on Barber, who is now on board a convict-ship about to sail for: New South Wales, but they have all been unsuccessful. The Juno, 26- gun frigate, on the plans of Sir William Sy monds, was launched from Pembroke on the 2d inst. Her dimensions are—Length, 131 ft* ; breadth' 40 ft. 6 in. ; depth, 10 9 in. ; tonnage, 911 tons. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET JULY MEETING, TUESDAY. Handicap of 20 sous. each, and only 5 ft, if declared by ten o'clock this (Monday) evening, for 3 yrs old and upwards. New T.Y.C. The July Stakes of 50 soya each, 30 ft, for 2 yrs old ; colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 51b. New T.Y.C. The s econd to save his stake. Lord Albemarle's Scarmentado and Tisiphone—Mr. I3ouverie's Old England (late Bastion)—Mr. John Day's Winchester—Lord Exeter's Tunick, Deodara, Jet, and Concealment--Duke of Grafton's Sister to Canadian— Col.e Herseyeon—Mr. J . Rogers ' s Gl ee —M r . W re f or d' s f, by Slane, out of Seakale, and Sis teroCN s ainl ten Junior, out o f Vi ctor i a , an d f by Li verpoo l , 'l esteria.—All in training at Newmarket, except England, Winch es t er, an d M r . W re f or d' s t wo , w hi c h are o,uby Match, 100, h ft, N ew T.Y.C.—Duk e o f B e df or d' s Glen Fishie, Bst 12th, aga i nst L or d Ex e ter' s P e t rowna , 121 b. (Both at N ewmar k et. ) o Old a t Stockbridge. td to PeelSfe V WEDNESDAY. 5 01. ; for three yrs old, 7st 21b; four, Bst 71b; five, 9st llb; six and aged, 9st 51b. From the starting post of T.M.M. to the end of R.C. The Town Plate of 501. ; for three 37s old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 31b. Last mile and a distance of B.C. 4 Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each; for three yrs old, 6st 91b; four, Bst llb ; five, Bst 101 b; six and aged, 9st. T.M.M. The winner to be sold for 3001., &c. S we epstakes of 10 sous. each; for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. 'Last half of B.M. Winner to be sold for 2004 &c. Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. New T.Y.C. Winner to be sold for 100/., &c. THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 10 sous ; for two yrs old, 6st 111 b ; and 3 yrs, 9st. New T.Y.C. Winner to be sold for 2001, &c. Handicap of 15 SOTS each, 10 ft, for all ages but 2 yrs. From the starting post of B.M. to end of New T.Y.C. The Chesterfield Stakes of 30 sovs each, 20 ft, for 2 yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b; winner of the July Stakes, 71b; the second horse 41b extra. Last half of B.M. Lord Albermarl e's Tisi p hon e and Alecto—Duke of Dirce—Lord Exeter's c Tunick, f Deodora , f Jet, and f Concealment — Duke of Grafton's Sister to Canadia n —Mr. King's Richard Bedford's fifield's Cricket—Colonel Peel's Herse y , f by Slane, out of Sea f kale, and Sister to Camelion— Lord Spencer's Joseph— by c by yornseaCaesar out of Misno mer —L or d Chester., out of Joseph — Mr. Wagstaff's The Queen of Cypress— Air. Wrefurd's f by Sultan Junior, out of Victoria, and fby Liverpool, out of Westeria. All at Newmarket and in training, except the Mis nomer colt, the Dirce filly, and Mr. Wreford's two. It is reported that Running Rein has been destroyed to prevent any further discoveries. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) LIV ERPOOL JULY MEETING , 1844 . Accep tances for the T ra d es ' C up. s ix yrs, Bst 91b--Willia m -l e -G r o s , five yrs, s i x yrs, Bst 51b —A r i stot l e, fi ve yrs, Bst 31b 81SsitTisdi7leleb—alS,cifiPusa-iergea;74, Bst—The Era, four yrs, Bst—Pompey, four yrs, 7st 111b—Lothario, four yrs, 7st 101b—British Yeoman, four yrs, 7st 101b—True Boy, four yrs, 7st 91b—Yardley, four yrs, 7st 81b—Scalteen , five yrs, 7st 71b—Aristides, four yrs, 7st 71b—Whistle Binkie, five yrs, 7st 71b—The Caster, tour years, Tat 51b—Queen of the Tyne, five yrs, 7st 51b—Armitage, four yrs, 7st, 11b—The Neill, four yrs, 7st—The Currier, aged, three yrs, 4st Glb. 7st—The Poor Soldier, four yrs, 6st 131b—The Orphan, four fo 6 th t s i t r re 9 e: , b— r y s, rs, 6st 21b—Mickey Free, ai e nr: Derby Handicap. yrs, fist 121b—What, four yrs, 6st 101b—Red Rose, six yrs, R ti c at d D Bl e b ei, p t as hr t e o e ral y , rs ti , i 6 re s c t 66s1bt-10T1bh—e BestNaw or o t f b , T a h g r e e d e : 3 t , l rs ir p ee ss 3 t 7s 7l , b_ 6s ß t— ri T ti a sh r l oli, The following have paid :—Discord, aged—Chatham, five yrs—John-o'-Gaunt, six yrs — Flamingo, five yrs—Sally, five yrs—Proof Print, five Pre—Bramble, four yrs—Gaper, four yrs—Vakeel, five yrs—Emma, three yrf—Vin Ordi- Yrs--Colin Clink, four yrs, n d a ea ir d e : three 37s—Bowsprit , three THE NEW POOR-LAW BILL. .A frightful case has recently occurred at Beeding, near Horsham, in Sussex, of accidental poisoning by eating putrescent meat. Some circumstances of that case, in connexion with the conduct of the Poor. law Guardians of the union in which Reeding is situated, remind us that we have hitherto omitted to notice the subject-matter of the " Second Report from the Select Committee on Medical Poor Relief," recently issued from the Vote and Paper-office. To speak first, however, of the Beeding affair.—lt seems that a labouring man, named CHAPMAN, bought of a farmer, among whose herds and flocks the murrain had extensively prevailed, the carcass of a cow which had died a few drys before. CHAPMAN'S object in buying the carcass was—by his own confession—to have fed with it the poultry (!) and the pig (! !) which he reared around his miserable hut in the neighbourhood. The chickens died. The pig, whether it met with the same fate, or was slaughtered, was partly eaten by CHAPMAN and his family. Alarming symptoms having rapidly supervened, the medical officer of the union was called in, and found that the wretched family, the poultry, and the pigs all in habited one and the same room, the stench of which was almost fatal to the medical man and those who came to aid him. The CHAPMANS were removed into a tent pitched for them at some little distance from the but ; the meat was burned and buried; and every remedial treatment adopted to save the family from the animal poison they had too clearly absorbed by eating the infected food on which they had for some time subsisted. But these attentions were vain. CHIPMAN and two of his children sunk under the effects of their deleterious diet ; and a third child, who laboured under similar symptoms, by the last accounts was not likely to survive its brethren and parent. " What renders," says the writer of the statement, "this extraordinary case more astonishing, is the fact that the deceased family have been buried, and no notice forwarded of their deaths to the coroner, though we are informed that the medical officer has announced it to the Poor-law Guardians of the Horsham Union, in which the parish of Beeding is included." Of course, we can reason only on the allegations before us as we. find them in the Hampshire Inde pendent. But, assuming them to be true, as we are hound to do, we should say a most flagrant case of neglect of duty is established against the functionaries in question ; and, we are sorry to add, an additional evidence supplied of the miserably deficient machinery of our very costly and very clumsy poor-law admi nistration. It must not be forgotten that this is by no means a solitary case of official neglect, in re ference to the last sad scenes of a miserable pauper's existence. We mean neglect of those guarantees which, so far as solemn and public investigation into the causes of any individual death can supply them, the law has scrupulously provided for the pro tection of the pauper as well as of the aristocrat, This case of CHAPMAN and his children has, however, one redeeming feature in it at least. The succour of the medical officer of the union was prompt ; his at tentions sustained; and his removal of the unhappy people to a tent at once humane and considerate. Very different is the impression with which we rise from a perusal of the evidence attached to the Second Report of the Select Committee before us. To this Committee, "appointed to inquire into the Mode of administering Medical Relief to the Sick Poor under the Provisions of the Poor-law Amend ment Act," had been " referred the petition of Mr. JOHN B. RYDER, of Sloane-street, Chelsea." The report itself is sufficiently brief. " Your Committee have examined several witnesses respecting the case of Henry Osman, which was brought under their consideration : the testimony given in evi dence is very conflicting. Your Committee are of opinion that there was irregularity on the part of the medical officer of the Kensington Union House, in having removed the said Henry Osman without a medical certificate in writing, and without having seen him within twenty-four hours of his removal ; but your Committee are not prepared to say that the Poor-law Commissioners exercised an unsound discretion in not making further inquiry into the case of Henry Osman." Now the case of HENRY OSMAN is very clearly stated by Mr. RYDER himself, in answer to the desire of the Conimittee that he should describe it to them:— " I felt it my duty, in the month of July last, to lay a complaint before the Poor-law Commissioners, in whose province I suppose grievances of this kind peculiarly come, and whose duty it is to investigat e co m pl aints ; and the complaint is this: that on the 14th of July last year, a pauper, named Henry Osman, aged 56 years, was removed in the most. hopeless and helpless state from the Kensington to the Chelsea Workhouse; in fact, when he arrived at the Chelsea Workhouse he was in an absolutely dying condition ; and there was no medical certificate granted as to the fitness and safety for his removal, which, I submit to the Committee, ought to have been the case, and which, I think, the Commis sioners themselves cannot for a moment deny the pro priety of, and, in fact, the absolute necessity of. As a proof that he was in this extreme state of sickness—in this dying state—he died the following morning, very early, i. e. about five o'clock, of inflammation of the lungs, which I am sure I need not tell the Committee, is a complaint above all others requiring the nicest and tenderest care before they remove a man." The evidence of Mr. J. B. GUAZZARONI, the medical officer of the Kensington Union, whose conduct has been impugned, we confess by no means removes the unfavourable impression which we, on the first public notice of OSMAN'S case, conceived of it. By his own showing he does not appear to have considered the man to be in at all so dangerous or exhausted a condition as other witnesses (examined), and as the officers of the Chelsea Union evidently did at the time of the pauper's removal. Ilis evidence appears to us characterised by a sort of in difference to the suffering of a patient, amounting to absolute flippancy ; and there is a tone of nonchalance in his answers to questions relative to the general course of pauper treatment in the Kensington Union, which is in singular bad taste. He is too pro foundly professional to know anything on any subject not within his own immediate duties ; and he thinks it sufficient reply to an imputation on the manage ment of the one workhouse in allowing a pauper to be removed thence to another workhouse in a filthy con dition, that the man had had a bath at the former— when he first went in. " It has been stated that when he arrived at the Chelsea Workhouse his person was in a very filthy state ?—I have no reason to believe that it was so. " Is great care taken of their personal cleanliness in the Kensington Workhouse ?—Yes ; on their admission they always have a bath." But from the evidence of the Relieving-officer of the Kensington Union, it is clear that Mr. GUAZZARONI was guilty of a positive neglect of duty in not giving a written order or certificate for OSMAN'S removal. " When the medical officer gives his certificate to the effect that the recipient may be removed with care, after his naming the conveyance in which he should be re moved, I do not think it necessary that the medical officer should be immediately present at the time, if he gives a written statement to that effect. " But upon this occasion he did not give a written statement ?—No, he did not." The surgeon of the Union-house at Chelsea dis tinctly deposes to having found OSMAN in almost an hour after his reception into that house in a dying state—rapidly sinking. The master of this house remonstrated with the men who brought him from Kensington on the impropriety of removing him in such a state as he was, before he assisted to help him out of the cart. The female nurse (MARGARET DA VIDSON) deposes to the fact that she and others put OSMAN to bed immediately, because they thought him in a dying state; and she deposes likewise to the filthy condition of his person and his clothes; the latter of which were obliged to be immediately de stroyed. The evidence of the male nurse (JAMES NEWTON) is still more stringent and precise to the dying condition of the man when taken out of the cart. Mr. RYDER, the Chairman of the Board of Guardians at Chelsea, brought this case before the Poor-law Commissioners, struck by the entry on the admission-book of the workhouse, that the man had been removed in a dying state. hie complains, naturally enough we think, that the Poor-law Com missioners— " Instead of instituting what I, with great submission, say they ought to have done, an investigation into this case—instead of a public inquiry, which was what I asked for, • and which would have satisfied all parties (and I think there was nothing unreasona bl e i n my asking for a public inquiry, and being satisfied with nothing less), they get from the Kensington Union— from the very parties themselves, whom I charge as being implicated in the removal—a report with which they allow themselves to be satisfied, and decline to grant any.further inquiry. If this inquiry had been granted,. Lbave every reason to believe, and I am pre pared to swear it, flat a great deal of public good would have'srisen Iroin that inquiry ; public good in this way, that it would, have prevented, I have no doubt, by the which would have been given to it, other similar instances of what I term gross cruelty to the door, in remoying them during their dying or their- sick moments. There have occurred since this cue three or four cases where coroners' juries Lave sat on the bodies, one of which occurred in this very Kensington Union ; and therefore it was that 'I have been dissatisfied, and I have a right so to be, with thenaanner in which the Poor law Commissioners have thought proper to end this in quiry ; and having those dissatisfied feelings, I thought it a duty I owed to the poor in general to present a pe tition to the House of Commons, praying them to grant what they have granted, a Committee to inquire into my complaint." Upon the whole of this case we are satisfied that it is an organic mistake in the New Poor-law to require complaints of this kind to be carried in the first instance before the Poor-law Commissioners—it is a niere mockery. Their powers should be altogether administrative ; their judicial decisions can "never tend to any other result than to bring the Poor-law into odium, and to involve themselves in absurdities such as those which their Assistant, Mr. Nicnor.LS,-. - perpetrates in his posting reports from Ireland. They have in some cases a positive interest in screen ing the misconduct of their subordinate functionaries —in all cases a natural tendency to palliate it. We cannot understand why the Select Committc,e should not be prepared to say " that these Commissioners ex ercised an unsound discretion in not making further inquiry" into OSMAN'S case ; still less can wo attach the weight of one feather, or the ,value of one straw, to the quasi defence set up for them—that Mr. RIDER was not "authorised" by the . written instructions of the Board of Guardians to present his petition, or to enter into correspondence with the Poor-law Coin missioners. This last pretension of imporial un approachability, except after due ceremonial prelimi naries of office, is exquisitely ridiculous. We have seen it imitated on a small scale by minor " com missioners" clothed with a tenure of offico adroitly expanded by them—for the public good, of course-- from a two years' duration into one of four ; but we have never seen the Fum-Ho grandeur of Chinese irresponsibility so amusingly acted'as, on certain oc casions, it is at Somerset House. r AMERICAN NEWS. The packet ship England, Capt. Bartlett, arrived at Liverpool on Saturday, after a run of little more than 18 days, from New York. The House of Representatives had passed a resolution authorising the Postmaster-General to enter into an ar rangement with our Government for the purpose of fa cilitating the dispatch of the English mails from Boston to Montreal, &c. The Senate had rejected the clause of the Naval Appropriation Bill, abolishing corporal punish meets, on the 14th ult. The President had nominated J. S. Green as Secre tary of the Navy, but the Senate had not acted on it.. The grand jury finished their labours in connexion with the recent riots at Philadelphia on the morning of the 15th ult. In their presentment they state that they have acted on upwards of 200 bills of indictment, out of which number they found 161 true bills. They refer at some length to the late disturbances; the whole of which they attribute to the lax manner in which the law has been exercised by the constituted authorities of the city and county, and more especially those of the district of Kensington, and to the efforts of a party to exclude the Bible from the public schools. They severely censure the authorities of the disturbed districts for their want of energy and promptitude on the occasion, and are of opinion that their conduct ought to undergo legal inves tigation. Judge Parsons addressed them upon the con clusion of their labours, and said that the Court had read the presentment with great satisfaction, and approved ot, it entirely. , We have no commercial news. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Ro3 al Suite, and the Household, attended Divine ser vice Yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. His Royal Highness I'rince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting, went on Saturday morning to the Hanover-square Rooms. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked on Saturday fore noon in the Royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal, and at tended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing on Saturday afternoon in an open carriage and four. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the Equerries in Wait ing, Colonels Buckley and Bouverie, accompanying her Ma jesty on horseback. her Majesty visited her 'Royal High ness the Princess Sophia, at Kensington. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the S'iscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Miss Liddell, lion. Miss Paget, Earl of Morton, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Meek • lenburgh-Strelitz, attended Divine Service, yesterday morn ing, in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. Baroness Ahlefeldt and Major Stephens were in waiting on the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, went, on Saturday morn ing, to Kew - . Their Royal Highnesses returned to Cam bridge House in the afternoon. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, Baron Knesebeck, and Major Stephens, ' honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. The Duke of Wellington, the Hon. S. Wortley, and Sir F. Trench, attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. J. V. Povah officiated. The Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquises of Salisbury, An glesey, and Granby, Lords Effingham, Bandon, Harrowhy, Candor, Wilton, Wrottesley, and Alford ; Ladies Wilton and C. Sanford, attended the daily service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Prayers were read by the Rev. J. V. Povah ; the Lessons by the Rey. Dr. Dr. Knapp. The Ser mon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The musical service was Arnold's in F. the Sanctus in A. (the Earl of Wilton), and the anthem ‘. In Jewry is God known," (Dr. Clarke). Lords l'owis Wilton, Wharncliffe, Godolphin, Forester, Norreys, and Henniker, and the Countesses Brownlow and. Wilton, attended the afternoon service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Lord Stanley left town on Saturday for Tonbridge Wells. Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister, transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign-office. Dispatches were received on Saturday afternoon at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the West India Co lonies. Sir James Graham and other Cabinet Ministers visited Sir Robert Peel on Saturday. The ball which killed Lord Nelson has long been in the possession of Captain Vincent Beatty, formerly Captain of the 24th Light Dragoons, and senior sur viving brother of the late Sir William Beatty, M.D., R.N., the principal medical attendant of Lord Viscount Nelson on board the Victory. This gentleman has ad dressed a letter to the Earl of lladdington begging ; that this national relic might be submitted to her Majesty, and praying her royal acceptance. To the ball are at tached the particles of the coat and epaulette forced into the body by the stroke, set within a crystal case, which is mounted with a double cable of gold around its circum ference, and it opens like a watch, Lord Haddington wrote in reply, begging Captain Beatty to call on him at the Admiralty, when his Lordship handed him a letter, written by the Hon. George Anson, from Buckingham Palace, stating that her Majesty wouldi much like to pos sess the relic, and intimating that Windsor Palace would be the proper place for its deposit. SERIOUS ASSAULT.—At the Brentford Petty Ses sions, on Saturday, an omnibus conductor and coach man,' named Frederick Alleston and William Limpus, were fined, the former 40s. and 7s. costs, or one month's imprisonment, and the latter 20s. and 7s. costs, or four teen days, for a most outrageous assault committed by them in conjunction with Thomas Goddard, a horse dealer (who did not appear to his summons), on the per- • son of a Pole, named Tlesah Kowski. It appeared that the complainant was riding on the defendint's omnibus, on Thursday, the 27th ult., and Goddard and Alleston, while Limpus held his hands, rubbed him over the head, face, and neck, with " cow-itch," from the effects of which his skin was in a state of high inflammation, and much blistered and raised. The Bench said it was one of the most outrageous cases, and they should fins the defendants in the utmost sum that the law allowed. A warrant was issued against Goddard. GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.—A rumour is afloat that, in consequence of the difference between Mr. Miles and the Government on the Sugar Duties Bill, the Bristol Tory party have unexpectedly found themselves denuded of local patronage. This may be true, or it may not ; but it may be stated, in part confirmation of the correctness of the report, that the office of weigher at the Custom-house, Bristol, has been filled up, on the recommendation of the Member for Shrewsbury, by a native of that town ; and that a native of Brighton has been appointed to the ()Zee of tide-waiter here, on the recommendation of one of the Members for Brighton. The appointments are not, certainly, of much import ance, but " straws thrown up show which way the wind blows."—Bristol Mercury. LIVERPOOL FRIDAY.—The man who committed so many horrible atrocities on board the Saladin, ac ! counts of which have been published in all the papers, was well known in Liverpool. His wife lives here at present, and has been a resident of the town for some years. , They did not reside together for a long time past ; but he allowed her 9s. a week, which she received at the parish office. Upon being made acquainted with his tragical deeds on board the Saladin, she manifested little or no surprise, as she had often been subjected to ill-treatment at his hands ; but she expressed much .con cern at hearing of the fate Of her unhappy son, who, it will be recollected, was thrown overboard after the father. RAILWAY TRAVELLING TO LIVERPOOE.—SeveraI correspondents of the Times have been complaining, within the last few days, of the arrangements of the Grand Junction Company, which render it impossible for a second-class pas senger to go through from London to Liverpool without stopping. One of them states that,, start from Euston-square what time he may, he must remain for hours in Birmingham, unless he consents to pay first class fare on the Grand Junc tion line. The conduct of the Birmingham Company and of the Great Western, who have many second-class trains, is contrasted with that of the Grand Junction, who have but two—one at 6 o'clock in the morning, the other at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It is a great pity that this cause of reproach has not long since been removed. We are satisfied that it, would tend to the pecuniary advantage of the Grand Junction Company to make an alteration.--Raiheay Record. An accident, which proved fatal in its results, has occurred to a boy named Lund, at the Marylebone Theatre, on Friday night. The boy was engaged in at tending to a water piece, entitled the IVaier Fiend, in which there is a large fall of water, He was carried over the fall, and in descending received such injuries as caused his death on Saturday night. Preparations are in progress to commence' the Whitehaven and Maryport Railway immediately. 1 I I I