The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-16 00:00:00

S PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—The Standard, of last night, devotes yr t another column to the bootless task of attacking tk a decision of the majority of the law Lords, by which the judgment against O'Connell was reversed, and to impugning the motives of the three Noble and Learned Lords who constituted the majority. If the slightest advantage, even of a party descrip tion, could be gaiked by thus pertinaciously assailing the decision—if lie result, instead of being final and irreversible, were open to review and recal, w;iatever we might think of the reasonings of our Contemporary, we should, at least, have a clue to the object sought to be attained. But, seeing that things are as they are—the judgment re versed—the order for O'Connell's discharge from prison issued and acted upon—the prison-doors thrown open—and the great agitator at large, and again at the head of the movement, which he animates and guides—what imaginable object does the Standard, and those who prompt its attacks, propose to them selves by keeping up an incessant wailing against the "three Whig law Lords" and their votes? The disappointment and chagrin which the failure of the prosecution has inflicted on the Government, and on the Ultras who counselled the ill-advised proceed ing!, would excuse, for a time, the impotent rage of a party whose favourite scheme was frustrated at the very moment they were anticipating triumph from success. But to continue the howl of misery, " from eve to morn, from morn to dewy eve," is rather too bad. We admit the violence of the blow—we concede that the effects are stunning—that the mischiefs it produces to the policy and hopes of the party are great, and are likely to be ruinous. But "it is not in mortals to command success." The Government and its employes did what they could to secure it. No one can say that they allowed the trifling consi d'erations of justice, or even the semblance of justice, to operate against the attainment of their preconcerted designs. They made a bold push for a complete triumph over a political opponent. If O'Connell be not now a prisoner; if he be not now under the lock and key of the gaoler, and held under the yet more effectual and tremendously heavy recognizances to keep—what the law designates, but does not define— the peace; recognizances which he might be unable to find, and thus his imprisonment be continued for years—if these desirable results be not secured—this " consummation, so devoutly to be wished" by every Tory helot, be not realised ; the blame is neither with the Government, nor with those to whom it commit ted the conduct of the proceedings. The indictment was of enormous length; a very monster—the jury was sliscreetly selected; all "good men and true"—the wit nrsses were well trained—the Attorney-General did all that an unscrupulous advocate could do to " make the worse appear the better reason"—the Chief Justice charged the jury to the very top of the bent even of those most anxious for a conviction—the motion for a new trial was refused—the motion in arrest of judg ment shared a similar fate. Everything was done just as it ought to be. The protracted proceedings at length terminated. The sentence was deter mined on. " The law allows it ; and the Court awards it." The impatient Tories, who had pr nted for the fulfilment of their predictions as to the amount of punishment on the " convicted conspirators," and who had complained bitterly of the delay in the proceedings—were at length satisfied. The Court had, upon the whole, done its duty. The rock of Carrickfergus was not, it was true, selected by the judges as the place of O'Connell's confinement—the term of im prisonment was not certainly quite so long as their notions : of justice inclined them to desire and to name —nor t as the fine quite so heavy as they conceived ought to have been inflicted. But there was still much to be thankful for. They would, at least, have the positive delight derived from knowing arid feeling that O'Connell was safe in custody for one year ; and might be kept so for much longer—for who would venture to become bail for his good be haviour ? Repeal was, of course, crushed by the sen tence passed on its leader. There might be a struggle for life ; but it would be the convulsive throes which precede dissolution. A coercive policy having been commenced, who would undertake to say tha£ it would not be continued ? The Catholic population would be kept under the iron heel of despotic rule— their wretched condition unmitigated; and their complaints and remonstrances disregarded. If they abstained from venting their griefs in the language extorted by calamity, their silence would be con strued into the indulgence of the gloomy revo lutions of implacable revenge, which watches for a favourable opportunity to gratify its propensities ; and must, therefore, be intimidated by the pre sence of military force. If dissatisfaction with t}ir condition were shown by overt acts, and tFey proclaimed their injuries to the world— they would then be seditious—insurgents—rebels — traitors; against whom the military ought to be em ployed, and the sword should be commissioned to de vent.. A new crisis has arrived. The unexpected release of O'Connell, by the reversal of the judgment against him, has placed the Government is a new position toward him and the Irish nation. We wish that there existed grounds to hope that Ministers were prepared to act in this new position with discretion, if not with magnanimity, We had almost said, we wish that the example set them by O'Connell were likely to be imitated by them. We are not disposed to scan with severity the expressions, strongly vitu perative against persons, as they doubtless were, with which O'Connell's speech to the popu lace on the day of his liberation from prison, and hie address on Monday at the Conciliation Hall, were disfigured. Something must be conceded to the class of persons he addressed on both occasions ; and also to the necessity, which he doubtless feels, of feeding the excitement with suitable aliment, by which he, and the agitation, are sustained. Still a tone of Aeration pervades his speeches. So far as the future operations of the Repeal Association are alluded to, there is a marked abstinence from all im plied, much more expressed, counsel to any extreme and dangerous measures. If we understand the coarse indicated by the address Mr. O'Con nell delivered on Monday, there is a disposi tion to check, rather than to excite, the ardour of his followers ; to wait for, and watch the policy of the Government; not to anticipate and embarrass it ; to give Ministers no advantage by his indiscretion ; but to avail himself of any false movement which their policy may afford to him over them. The formidable elevation to which the defeated prosecution has raised him—the increased confidence in his legel invulnera bility which is felt by his followers—the immensely increased influence which he now wields over their aff,ctions, enable him to move the masses at his will. ill the Government seize the critical moment ? By a mixture of prudential caution for the preservation of the pence, which a momentary influence on the part of the multitude may peril, combined with abroad and well-de fined system of conciliation of the popular feeling, and amelioration of the present oppressed and wretched condition of the peasantry, they may avert a national cal unity. If they are unable or unwilling to adopt the only policy which can preserve Ireland from com motion, if not from the dissolution of its connexion with this country, let them at least have the virtue to resign their posts, and leave to other hands the work of counteracting the evils, and diminishing the , clangers, which they have increased and exaspe• sated by the means they employed to diminish and subdue them. STANDARD.—Two of our pseudo-Conservative Co ltemporaries, one following in the wake of the cAI er, like the parasitical fish that derives its sub tristence from picking the teeth of the shark and is to aerated for the sake of the humble service it performs, )ear to be greatly disappointed that the Conserva tive candidate for North Lancashire, Mr. Talbot 'Clifton, is likely to walk over the course; and have accordingly done their best to encou rage the drooping spirits of the League to take the field against him. Both are agreed in opinion, !kat Mr. Clifton has not been sufficiently explicit - In h t is addrest to the constituency he aspives to repre sent. „Re„ Re promises, to be sure, "as a paramount duty, to devote his best exertions "to the mainte- LCe of our institutions in Church and State ;" to .endeavour ~tp rotection f or h is capital, for the agriculturist that full arise, to which the burden his industry, and his enter rdene he has to sustain entitle 1 1 1; - ; " to consult, ~ u a t t e a matter of the first import ance, the welfare of to give his " general support to ,a, Con se rvative securing a p co G nt o' i t v i n ernment," as the best means of institutions of those ines timable blessings, which our the e utions in Church and State have conferred upon ( nation ;" and to attend to the varied commercial) "interests o of his constituency." All this would se em t aff oisius be explicit enough for any ordinary, Conservativ e , and is, we pea, a little too explicit for Mr. Clifton's met ro critics. At all events, it ords a pretty to Indication that his m ind is made up on those leading questions which appear to be the object s of eo much doubt and uncertainty to his assailants. Re does not profess to be a Conservative of the family of " Young England," or after the manner of the Times; one who will give a feeble and hollow support to the Minister on points on which his adhesion is comparatively unimportant, and then watch with feline vigilance for an opportunity of turning round, upon him at some more cri tical moment of his career. With a profession of Christian sympathy for the poor, he does not pro pose to make a simulated devotion to their interests • an excuse for incessant attacks on the Government, • and incendiary attempts to work upon their miseries until he has - stimulated them to acts of sedition and outrage. He does not prbfess to make an affected . sympathy with suffering a lever for attacks'on the Mi • tasters. With this class of Conservatives he claims no manner of alliance. Hinc ilia lachryma ! Hence it is that he has failed to make himself understood to that ipecluliar order to which it is the glory of our caring dissatisfied Contemporaries to belong. it is the Queen's Government, and not the ideal Go vernment of the Morning Post and Times, to which Mr. Clifton promises his general sup port. He seems to be a sensible man, content with the language of common sense, and avoiding alike the mock heroical phraseology of the gascon and the empty but noisy verbiage of the Young Englander. Sir Robert Peel is the last man in the world to desire to impose degrading conditions on his supporters, or to require them to " wear his livery." The apprehensions of the Morning Post, which discovers that Mr. Clifton is not sufficiently intelligible in his exposition of his Conservative principles, will, we are satisfied, prove fallacious ; for if report does not greatly belie him, he will be found in every respect worthy the support and esteem of the large and important constituency to which his political manifesto is addressed, and one whose practice will more than keep pace with his professions. We are glad to see that, notwithstanding this combined attempt to throw a wet blanket on his exertions, and the invitation to the League to oppose him, Mr. Clifton is likely to have no rival. The election is fixed for the 20th instanst, and the League is too low in credit and in pocket to enter upon an other contest, even in Lancashire, and all their efforts to obtain a scapegoat to undertake the burden have miserably failed. After two unsuccessful attempts to obtain a rival candidate, therefore, they have been compelled to adopt the resolution that " it is not de sirable in the present state of the register to bring forward a free-trade candidate." ELECTION OF CHAMBERLAIN. DECLARATION OF THE POLL. Saturday being the day for declaring the result of the poll for the office of Chamberlain, there was a tole rably numerous attendance at Guildhall to witness the proceedings. At twelve o'clock precisely Mr. Sheriff Musgrove announced that Alderman Brown having polled the greater number of votes, that gentleman was duly elected to the office. Immediately after this, the Lord Mayor, Alder men, and other City authorities came upon the hust ings, when Mr. Alderman BROWN, who was evidently labour ing under considerable excitement, addressed the livery in a brief but neat speech. He said they had just emerged from an eight days' contest for an office to which they had done him the honour to elect him, and he thanked them for the confidence they had re posed in him. It had been a matter of surprise to many that he had put up for this office, but he should state as a reason, and which he should not be ashamed of avowing, that he was not what would be termed in this commercial city a man of wealth ; therefore the situation to which he had been chosen would come very acceptably to him at his period of life ; and he trusted that he should give satisfaction in the per formance of its duties. The worthy Alderman again thanked the livery for their support, and concluded amid loud cheers. Mr. SHOOBRIDGE had to thank the livery on behalf of Mr. Alderman Brown, but entering subsequently into matters connected with the foundation of the City Almshouses, which were considered irrelevant to the present proceedings, he was received with disap probation. The meeting was then dissolved. The whole affair only occupied twenty minutes, and there was a manifest disappointment in the hall at the brevity of the proceedings, some lengthened speech-making having been expected upon the oc casion. It is a matter worthy of remark, as one of rare oc currence under similar circumstances, that all the ex penses of Alderman Brown contingent upon the elec • tion were discharged by him previously to the poll being declared. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1844. INCENDIARISM. BIGGLESWADE, SEPT. 11.—The little village of Arsley has been the scene of another incendiary fire, attended by the most disastrous results, as the great bulk of the property destroyed belongs to persons of the poorest class, some of whom are literally without a home. The fire broke out at midnight, and appears to have originated in a hay rick close to a beer-shop kept by a man named Livett. The spot was sur rounded by a number of cottages, the inmates, of which had long beforo retired to rest. There was scarcely a breath of air, but owing to the hay being thoroughly dry the flames spread to the adjacent buildings before the arrival of the engines, which were obtained from Biggleswade, Henlow, and Hitchin, all some miles distant from the scene of conflagration. There was also much difficulty in securing a supply of water, for which, in rural districts, no provision is ever made. The Rev. H. Smith, Mr. N. G. E imonds, a large land owner residing in the neighbourhood, together with Superintendent Blunden, of the local police, were early on the spot; directing the operations of the fire men, and encouraging the labourers to exertion. The fire, however, was not got under until nearly four o'clock, having totally destroyed six small houses, be sides seriously damaging several others. From exa minations subsequently made, there is no doubt that it was the act of an incendiary. The flames were ob served in the first instance by constable Link on going round his beat; and he states that, although he kept a vigilant look out, he saw no person near the spot. The part of the stack fired was furthest from the beer-shop, and could not possibly have been the result of accident. The presumption is that it was caused by some chemical preparation, which was de posited in the hay at an early hour in the evening The occupants of the cottages in their terror were unable to save any portion of their furniture, all of which was consumed, together with their harvest gleanings.—Cambridge Chronicle. EATON SOCON, SEPT. 11.—Last Tuesday evening some vile miscreant set fire to a large stack of wheat straw (the growth of 1843), standing in the centre of the rick-yard of J. H. Day, Esq., in this village. The flames threw their unearthly glare over the neighbourhood for miles around, and thousands has tened to the spot. The first persons present put a large cloth over the barley-rick, close to windward, and wetted it; those were soon aided by the Eaton Socon and St. Neot's engines, and thus the devouring element was confined to the large straw-stack, which was all consumed. Happily the evening was remark ably calm, otherwise it is probable no efforts could have saved the entire homestead. We understand Mr. Day is insured in the County-office, and that no suspicion attaches to any individual.—Cambridge .Chronicle. - On Thursday afternoon, about one o'clock, a fira was discovered on the farm premises at Lymage, oc cupied by Mr. Philip Armstrong, of Graffham. It was first observed by a labourer, who had left his work in the barn for the purpose of fetching some water for his dinner, burning at the corner of a straw stack placed round the yard, and communicating with the outbuildings of the barns. The most efficient assistance was rendered on the alarm being given, and by judiciously cutting off the communication by pull ing down an outbuilding the damage was confined to the destruction of the straw and the outhouse. Had the flames once got fairly hold of the buildings the destruction of property must have been great—the whole of the produce of the farm standing on the spot. At present the loss is confined to about 30/.; insured in the Suffolk Fire-office. How the fire originated is not known, but from happening in the middle of the day, with but few persons on the premises, it is one of those cases where the most searching investigation ought to take place.—Cambridge Chronicle. INCENDIA.RT FIRE.—We regret to have again to record the occurrence of an incendiaryy fire in Suffolk, which occurred on Wednesday evening last. Between seven and eight o'clock flames were observed issuing from a barn upon an off-hand farm belonging to Mr. John Phillips, in the parish of Barton, near Bury. The entire contents of the barn were destroyed, con sisting of 200 coomba of oats, and thirty of wheat, a large quantity of straw, together with a shed contain ing a new broad-wheel waggon and various other implements. We believe the property was insured.— Cambridge Chronicle. FIRE AT BROOM.—On Sunday afternoon, about three o'clock, a fire broke out from a pig-sty in the occupation of Mr. Sells, at Broom beds. The flames issued from two different parts, and there is no doubt it was the wilful act of some wicked person. There were several buildings connected with the sty, and if active exertions had not been rendered, a large amount of property would have been destroyed on tlns farm as well as on the adjoining premises, belonging to E. Lindsell, Esq. The fire was extinguished before it destroyed the sty.—Cambridge Chronicle. MILITARY PUNISHMENT.--A Vienna letter of the 28th ult. relates that a few days ago, on the plain of Sohmelz, near that city, while a regiment of Uhlans was at exercise, a captain being dissatisfied with the manner in which two of the privates of his company had per formed, called them out of the ranks, and ordered to be inflicted upon each five strokes with a cane. A crowd of persons, w h o had assembled to see the exercises, mur mured, and hooted the officer, because, according to the . articles of war, this was a punishment not to be given stripped, 1 l fi n v e public . strokes I f the two soldiers, however, imme diatelyadeowbanckon his T to submit, b but theoannddmreceivedpre paringtheperated that they disposition to populace pelt h tefbaface, second officer became wi t b so st e o x n as es - , and showed a dis proceed to more violent in terference. On go the n e t' l fall in, and marched it offotoontelli ordered the regiment to e barracks, followed by the crowd, shouting, "Long live the King! No more c orporal punishments!" When the regiment was back in its quarters, the captain wa s put under arrest, and will be brought to a ignanz court-martial.—Ga t • . EFFECTS Or TRADE.—Contrary to • established custom, most of the mills in Huddersfield have already come into to light up. This arran g ement has us ually - O into operation immediately after Honley feast, a pe r i o d which is a fortnight distant. Manufactories still con tinue to spring up in Huddersfield and its neighbour hood. Several of the first magnitude are at present in cane of erection.—Leeds Mercury. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 13. (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.) C. J. BANNISTERS BANKRUPTCY. The bankrupt in this case was a draper, carrying on business at Derby. He has failed for about 4,0001., and his assets are said to be under 2,0001. He was originally connected in business with his brother, Robert Bannister, of Portsea, who, it will be recollected, decamped with between 2,0001. and 3,0001., but was captured at Maderia. The fiat against C. J. Bannister was, in the first instance, issued in Birmingham, but removed to London, in order to work the two bankruptcies together, and thus thoroughly investigate the state of their affairs. The sitting to-day was for the choice of assignees, and the only proof upon which any discussion arose was one tendered by the trustees of the wives of the bankrupts, they having married two sisters, for 1,1201., cash advanced to enable them to commence trade. _ _ Mr. M. Chambers supported the trustees, Mr. Young appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Reed, as solicitor for several creditors, opposed the proof. An examination of witnesses was entered into, to show the bona fides of the proof; at the conclusion of which, Mr. Commissioner GOULBITEN said he was satisfied that the money was advanced, and therefore he should admit the debt. The only question was whether it was necessary, under the terms of the settlement, for the bankrupt to join in the proof. As, however, the wives had joined with the trustees, he did not think it requisite for the bankrupt to do so. Mr. REED then stated that the number of creditors for whom he appeared carried the choice of assignees in favour of Mr. G. Hitchcock, of St. Paul's-church yard, and Mr. D. Ainsworth, of Manchester, both warehousemen ; and added that they would require the bankrupt to give a minute and detailed statement of his affairs in his balance-sheet. Mr. Reed parti cularly referred to the deficiency which appeared in the bankrupt's stock and bank account between Ja nuary last and August, the latter the date of his failure. The bankrupt said his books would explain all, and give, he was sure, satisfactory information of the state of his accounts. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN urged the bankrupt to be assiduous and attentive to his estate, and distin guish his conduct from that of his brother, which had been exceedingly faulty. The bankrupt promised attention to the request of the Court, and the proceedings were adjourned till the 28th of September, when the two brothers will come up for their last examination.: INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept. 14. IN THE MATTER OF RENTON NICHOLSON. A petition from the above-named insolvent, who lately kept the Garrick's Head, in Bow-street, Covent-garden, was filed in the office of the Court as a preliminary proceeding to his appearance for hearing. It appears from the petition and the documents an nexed, that the insolvent, who describes himself as late of Exeter Hotel, Strand, out of business, was arrested on Friday and taken to the Queen's prison. He exdeditiously procured the necessary papers, and was enabled within twenty-four hours of his confine ment to petition the Court. By the description it seems that the insolvent had kept the Garrick's Head, which place he rented of Mr. Simpson, of the Albion Tavern, who had distrained furniture to 901. and books to 101., which were on the premises, for arrears of rent amounting to 250/. CITY OF LONDON SESSIONS. (Before the RECORDER, the LORD MAYOR, Mr. Alderman GIBBS, Mr. Alderman CHALLIS, and Mr. Alderman FARNCOMBE.) On Saturday, William Bowes, George Jackson, William Robinson, Thomas Dench, and Frederick Langhorn, were indicted for having, on the 13th of August last, created a riot in the West London Union, and violently assaulting Mr. William Thompson, the master of the union ; and James Kemble, John Daw son London, John Buckmaster, Thomas Phillips, and Henry Lamplough, the Board of Guardians. The master of the workhouse said that on Tuesday afternoon, the 13th of August, he received instruc tions from the Board of Guardians to have the defen dant Dench confined in the Refractory Ward. Wit. , cress ordered the door-porter to take him into custody. Defendant refused to go, when the porter took hold of him to remove him by force. He resisted, and wit ness went to the assitance of the porter. As soon as defendant had got to the bottom of the steps, he called out for assistance, when Robinson and Bowes came to his aid, and they called out for other parties to come and assist them. Fearing that the whole of the in mates would help in the rescue, he closed a door leading from the yard into the union, to prevent their coming in. Scarcely had he done so, however, than. another of the defendants procured a ladder, and was only prevented from getting over the gate by a chevaux-defrise. The whole of the defendants in their turn pitched into witness, and thrust him forcibly to the ground. Whilst on the ground, one of them called out, "D—n him, kick him, my boys !" They created such a noise that all the female inmates rushed to the windows in the greatest state of excitement, and the boys outside hooted, and threw showers of stones over the wall. The RECORDER—For what offence was he ordered to be placed in confinement ? Witness—For talking and laughing during Divine service. Other evidence, showing that the defendants be haved in a most shameful and cruel manner was ad duced, when the jury were addressed by the Recorder; and, after a few minutes' consultation, a verdict of Guilty against all the defendants were returned. Sentence—Dench, who acted as ringleader, one month; and the remainder of the defendants fourteen days each in the House of Correction. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Deputy-Judge WALESBY.) On Saturday a youth, named Burchfield, ten years of age, was indicted for assaulting James Todd, a lad of the same age. It appeared they were playing in a field, when Todd struck Burchfield, who told him if he did so again he would throw a bottle at his head; and, upon his repeating the blow, he did fling a bottle at him, which made the blood flow profusely. The prisoner was found guilty. The JUDGE inquired of the complainant's mother what expense she had been put to ?—She replied she did not know what the surgeon's charges were. Mr. Burchfield, of West Smithfield, came forward and said he was related to the prisener, who was a good boy. The JUDGE—I think, if you give Mrs. Todd 31., it will not cover more than her expenses, as she and the medical man have attended the Court three days. Mr. Burchfield—l really think, your Honour, it will be encouraging parties to bring charges of this kind here. The JUDGE—That is a very improper remark. Be careful you are not guilty of contampt of Court. You see in me the representative of the law, and I must see that it is respected. Mr. Burchfield apologised, and said he would pay any sum the Court fixed. The JUDGE then severely admonished the prisoner, who is of a very violent temper, and discharged him with a caution, on paying a fine of 9s. _ Two pickpockets, named Leivra and Blase, were sentenced to transportation for ten years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A man, named Chares Joseph Gosling, who was said to have been a sort of Old Bailey agent, or getter up of defences at the school of morality and polite ness—the Central Criminal Court—was brought be fore the Lord Mayor and Alderman Thomas Wood, charged with felony. Charles .T. Madell, of Milton-street, Cripplegate, cabinet-maker, stated that he knew the defendant, who represented his name to be Joseph Golding, and called at his house, at about half - past eleven o'clock, in the forenoon of the Bth of August. Witness had for sale a clock, for which he asked eight gui neas . The defendant said he was building a row of houses at Haggerstone, and that he wanted to show this clock to a lady who owned the ground, and that he had no doubt of finding a customer for the article. The price was to be eight guineas. It was the de fendant's own suggestion. Witness took the clock to the defendant's house, in Cullum-street, and the de fendant said he should have either the clock or the money next day, but never since that day had the witness received either one or the other. Within a day , or two after he put the clock into the defend ant's hands, he ascertained that it had been pawned in Sun-street. About two days after wit ness parted with the clock, he saw the defendant. The clock was then at Hackney. Eight days after the supposed sale of the article, the defendant called and said that he had not got the money for the clock; that he had the night before been to Hackney, and that the lady was out of town, but the clock was quite as safe as if he had the money. Three days after that the defendant said he would take a silver watch witness had to the lady, as she had a daughter whom it would suit. Witness said the price of the watch would be three guineas, and the defendant said he would have an answer for both on the same day. The defendant then told witness to wait for him at a cer tain public-house, and he would take an omnibus and be back in two hours. Four hours elapsed before the defendant came, and then he told the witness that he had not got an answer, but that he should in a day or two. Witness had not received watch, or clock, or money at all, and he had learned that the clock had been sold for half the price he had set on it to a pub lican in Leadenhall-street. The watch had not been traced at all. He did not intend to part With either of the articles without the money. Williaro, Underwood, ShOpMALI to pawnbroker, stated that on the 10th of August he received a clock between three and four o'clock in the after noon, but it was not pledged by the prisoner.—(The clock was here produced and identified.) Robert Winson, of East-tstreet, Kennington, said that on Friday fortnight he received the clock from a person of the name of Gould. The defendant was not present. Witness did not know that Gold was in partnership with the defendant. He had known Gould twelve months. Mr. Woolf stated that the two names of Gould and Goulding were used according to the necessity of the case, and that creditors never could find either, for the moment one was asked ,for the other appeared, and vice versa. John Appleton, of 119, Leadenhall-street, publi can, stated, that he had purchased the duplicate of the clock of Winson, for 1/. lOs., and he had taken it out of pawn for 11. Mrs. Ann Harris was then called by the prisoner, who said that she was the lady from whom he had got the order for the clock, and she was examined at great length, by the Lord Mayor, who elicited from her the fact that the prisoner was her brother in-law. She repeatedly contradicted herself and at length refused to answer any more questions. Mr. O'Brien cross-examined the prosecutor in a very ingenious manner, and proved that the poor man had, in his anxiety to get his property, or part of the value of it, so acted as to convert what was a dead robbery into an apparent debt. The Lord Mayor and Alderman Wood very scrupiously examined the evidence, in the hope of being able to establish a case against the defendant. His LORDSHIP--I regret very much that we are obliged to discharge this prisoner ; we cannot help it. You have been plundered, but you have, by the course you have pursued, been completely out- generalled by the defendant. We are sorry for you, and we hope the press will do justice to the defendant, who has acted in the most infamous manner. Here several persons came forward, and stated that the defendant had obtained goods fraudulently from them. The prisoner—Nonsense; the money has been lying at my house for you all these three or four days. There were several fellows, no doubt of the de fendant's stamp, in the Court, who was evidently de• lighted at the decision of the magistrates. The de fendant put on his hat and strutted out of the bar. LAMBETH-STREET. William Kingaby, a messenger at the Sailors' Home, Well-street, Wellclose-square, was charged before the Hon. G. C. Norton, with embezzling va rious sums, amounting in the aggregate to upwards of 801., the moneys of Captain Elliott and other Direc tors belonging to that Institution. From the evidence it appeared that the captains and owners of vessels are in the habit, on their arrival in the port of London, of sending their apprentices to the Sailors' Home, paying for them a certain sum weekly. Bills had been given from time to time to the prisoner to collect the amount due for these ap prentices, and, though he had received the money for them, he had never made a return of it. After a brief examination, the prisoner was re manded to a future day. John Mitchell, a ruffianly-looking fellow, was charged with committing a murderous assault upon Mary Anne Murray, an unfortunate female with whom he cohabited. It appeared from the evidence of the complainant, whose life had been for some time in considerable danger, that on Wednesday week he, without the slightest cause, attacked the unfortunate woman, struck her with his clenched fist, kicked her all over manner,the body, untilan d jumped upon her in the most savtge he reduced her to a state of insensibility, and the very point of death. Mr. Brown, a surgeon, in East Smithfield, described the nature of the injuries inflicted. Mr. NORTON remarked that during the whole of his magisterial experience he did not recollect a more dastardly or savage case being brought before him, and committed the prisoner to Newgate, to take his trial on the charge of wounding. CLERKENWELL. A few days ago a woman named Stephens was charged at this Court with presenting a begging letter to Inspector Barton, of the G division, who took her and her two children under his care, with a view to benefit them in case the distress which she pretended to be labouring under was founded in fact. On the following day she and her children were in troduced to Mr. Combe, and her tale exciting much sympathy, she was given over to the charge of the parish officers of Islington, that a full investigation into all the circumstances detailed in her begging letter might be made. The case, as one of distress, was duly inserted in the morning papers, and fairly represented, and as is usual in such matters, the eyes of many benevolent individuals were drawn thereto, and subscriptions to be applied to her use have been sent anonymously to Mr. Combe. One sum of 51., from D. N., is requested to be acknowledged as received in the newspapers ; but the humane donor will, on application to the above worthy Magistrate, receive that sum back again, or cause it to be appropriated to a better purpose, it having been ascertained beyond doubt that the woman is utterly undeserving of protection—that she was drunk when her husband died, and that she has been a disgrace and outcast of society, deceiving every one that would befriend her ever since. Mr. COMBE, in a feeling address to the defendant, said that he would not, if he could avoid it, have any thing more to do with her, and left her with Mr. Hicks, the relieving overseer of Islingto n , to be passed to her own parish, believed to be Whitechapel. On Saturday Mr. John Nicholls, a gas-fitter, re siding at 14, Leather-lane, was charged on an infor mation with having defrauded the City of London Gaslight and Coke Company. The information was founded on the 57th of George 111., c. 23, sec. 17. The penalty was laid at 201., and 1/. for every day during which it should be proved the fraud existed. The Court was crowded with professional and other gentlemen, and much interest was manifested in the proceedings. Mr. HaW96, father of the Hon. Mem ber for Lambeth, was on the bench. Mr. Clarkson was for the prosecution, and Mr. Charnock appeared as counsel for the defence. Mr. Clarkson said he had been informed that a sys tem had been resorted to of late, in order to defraud gas companies, which was so ingenious in its nature, and so difficult of detection, that if not at once put a stop to, they would be ruined in a very short time. There were two modes of supplying gas, one by con tract and the other by meter. Public-houses were generally supplied by the latter. Now, it was mani fest that if by any means the gas could be turned from passing through the meter, the Company had no means whatever of knowing how much had been consumed. The gas-meter was then placed on the table and its construction explained, which was necessary to under stand the alleged offence. Two tubes communicated with it, the one c onducting the gas from the main pipe into it, whence by machinery the number of cubical feet of gas was told on the index outside. The other tube conveyed the gas away from the meter and ramified it into miaor ones, distributing the gas all over the establishment. In fact, it was in some re spects like the human heart, supposing the first-men tioned tube to be the pulmonary artery, and the latter the aorta. The fraud was alleged to have been com mitted by cutting away portions of both tubes so as to prevent communication with the meter, and placing between them a short tube which communicated with both, lying on the top of the meter. The tube is called a " Jerry." The first witness called was Mr. E. Newbold. He deposed that, in April last, he kept the Coach and Horses beershop in Cross-street, Ilatton-garden, and subsequently the Grapes, in Smithfield. On Saturday, the 23d of March, a few days before he became land lord of the Coach and Horses, the defendant was intro duced to him, by a man named Sullivan, as a gas-fitter. The defendant came on the 28th, but the meter and pipes had been then erected, and the inspector of the gas-works had been there. Defendant went down to the cellar where the meter was, and returning after some time told witness it would be all right, and that the pipes and meter wanted to have a little job done to them, which he would do, " but it must be taken i n t o ac count." The defendant came a few days after, and having been in the cellar for some time, came back, saying he would complete the little job with the pipes. Witness went out, and on coming home in the even ing saw in the cellar Hammond, the prisoner's ap prentice. The next day Nicholls came again, ob tained a candle, went down to the cellar, and when he came up told witness he had now done the little job, and that it was all right. The day after he came again, and asked witness how the gas burned ? Wit ness answered very well. He then asked if he had looked at the meter. Witness said he knew no more about the meter than the meter did about him. He said "Just go and look at it." Witness did go and look at it, and saw the jerry. On returning, witness said, " What the d-1 is that you have got there, the gas does not go i n t o t h e me t er at all ?" Nicholls said " Never mind, it i s all right." Witness said he wanted an expla na ti on, b u t h e l e ft and gave none. When prisoner went away w i tness t o ok off the jerry and made the pipes communicate with the m eter as before. He hid the jerry first in his drawer and then in the cellar. At the latter end of May or the begin ning of June he gave the jerry up to Mr. Butler, su perintendent of the gas comp s a y any. ing he wanted to The defendant had repeatedl ask e d him for it, make one of the sam e pattern, b u t witness refused to give it up. At one time Nicholls said to him that gas companies would be very well satisfied if they were paid for half of the gas that was consumed. Cross-examined —Could not tell how many public houses he had kept. Could not say, but he h ad kept forty-nine. Nicholl s sue d him in the Sheriff's Court for gas-fittings, and obt a i ne d a verdict for 191 . against him. It was after Nicholls brought the action wit ness communicated with the gas company. William Hunt, a potmau at the Twelve Bolls iu Bride-lane, was. next examined—Was potman to Newbold. Nich oils came into the bar about that time, and said to Newbold, " Well, governor, how does your meter get on?" Newbold said, " Take a candle and go• and look." Newbold looked at it after, and said, " 'What the d—l do you call that ? It's not in the meter• at all." Nicholls had a pint of porter and went away, and Newbold went into the cellar immediately afterwards with a screwdriver and brought up the jerry in his hand. Heard Nicholls say that h.e had put 47,000 cubic feet of gas back for one indivi dual. Heard Newbold refuse to give the jerry up Ito Nicholls when the latter asked for it. Mr. Cjbarnock having cross-examined this wit ness, bu t without in the least degree shaking his tes timony., addressed the bench on behalf of his client. He rel;,ed on the suspicious character of Newbold, — on the extreme unlikelihood of a respectable tradesman committing so grave an offence without any prospect of advantage,—on the length of time that had, elapsed between the period of the alleged of fence ar id the prosecution,—on the probability of New bold be ing entirely actuated by vindictive motives, in conseq aence of having lost the suit in the Sheriff's Court, and on the supposition that Newbold, who was alone the gainer by the fraud, did it himself, or had it don e by some other person. Ja! nes Hammond, the defendant's apprentice, de posed . to having been sent for by Newbold to do some thing to his-gas-pipes, at the Coach and Horses, and i 'mind the pipes had been broken at the meter. New . bold came down, and said, " Have you done that ?'" Witness said, " How did you break it ?" Newtb old then pulled a " jerry" from his pocket and said„ "I broke it screwing this on; what do you think of it ?" Witness asked him where he got it, and b e said he found it in the cellar. Witness knew that :it had been on before, for it smelt of gas. Wit ness 1 •efused to put it on, and said he would send his maste r. When witness told Mr. Nicholls he said that 1 witness had acted very properly in not putting it on. r. Clarkson again addressed the bench. 111 r. COMBE said, though he placed no reliance on Newl )old's testimony per se, yet, confirmed as it was by 11 unt, a perfectly disinterested witness, he ?felt it his duty to convict, and would fine the defendant in the ft) .11 penalty of 201. and costs. 111 v . Charnock gave notice that he should appeal from the decision. UNION-HALL. Sal 'ah Drew, the Wifeofan — ;ged man, the pro. prietc.r of a circulating library, in Castle-street, Soutbtwark, was brought before Mr. Cottingham for re-examination, charged with administering a quan tity of arsenic to her husband, with intent to destroy him. The principsl object, in remanding the prisoner, was for the purpose of giving Policeman 67 L an opportunity of discovering where the arsenic was purchs tsed. The. MAGISTRATE now inquired whether the seller of the article was found ?—Mr. James, the solicitor for the prosecution, replied in the negative, and said that his client still exhibited great unwillingness to appear against the prisoner, a feeling in which he was joined by his children. Mr. COTTING lIAM said that the charge against the prisoner was of so serious a character that he could not listen to such a suggestion as that just made; that it was his bouna ten duty to send the case for investi gation before a higher tribunal, and for that purpose should commit t he prisoner. The MAGHTB, ATE said that in the interval of the trial, should it be as rtained where the arsenic was bought, evidence of the -fact might be adduced before the grand jury when the indictment was preferred against her. During the time the prisoner was at the bar she trembled very much, and seemed to be labouring under the pal sy. When told that she was to be com mitted she wept bitterly, and was obliged to be sup ported out of the dock. WORSHIP-STREET. George Oberhausen was brought up for final exa mination, up ort a charge of robbing his employers, Messrs. De la. ;Rue and Sons, an :committed for trial. BRENTFORD. CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—On Saturday a person of respectable appearance, named John Tolfree, an excise-officer, living at No. 6, Mary-street, Palace New-road, Lambeth, and also in Linkfield lane, Isle worth, appeared before Mr. H. Pownall and the Rev. 11. S. Trimmex, the sitting Magistrates, to answer a charge of cruelty to his own child, a boy eleven years of age. Mr. Lewis, assistant overseer of Isleworth, attended by desire of the Board of Guardians of the Brentford Union to support the charge ; and Mr. Nicholas, solicitor of New Brentford, appeared for the defendant. John Tolfeee, a good-looking, intelligent child, was the first witness called. He deposed that he was a son of the defendant, and was living in the house in Linkfield-lane, Isleworth, where his father had several times chained him up. On the previous Saturday week, as he sat at dinner, about half-past one o'clock, his father mune in and immediately took him up stairs, where he went to a box and pulled some chains out, with which he took him to a back room, and having nailed the chains to the floor, fastened them round witness's right leg with a padlock, and left him there. He remained there chained down all that day and all that night. At night his father's housekeeper brought him up a piece of bread and butter, and on the following morning (Sunday) he succeeded in getting loose from the chains, and rent down stairs ; but on the house keeper seeing him, she called his father, who took him up stairs again, to the back-room, and again chained him by the leg, that time adding, also, chains to both hands. On thait day (Sunday) the housekeeper brought him up some breakfast about twelve o'clock, and about one .o'clock his father unlocked the room door, and unchained one hand, giving him at the same time a piece of dry bread. He remained in that con fined state until the following Th urs d ay , w h en h e again succeeded in freeing himself from the chains, and got out of the room. On the Monday he had no thing but dry bread and water, but on the other two days the housekeeper brought him some meat, and told him that his father had ordered him to have dry bread only. While in the back room he had no bed to lie on, but laid on the floor. On the Thursday, when he got the chains off, he went out into the street, and told Mrs. Russell and other neighbours the treatment he had received. By the Bmsca—His father had often told him not to call him ‘‘. father." While confined from the Sa turday to the Thursday had water once to wash with. His father had beaten him very much, but not so much lately. Had not at times as much as he could eat. By Mr. Nicholas —Had done nothing to deserve such punishment. The Bench then examined the boy's legs. The right leg bore evident marks of the effects of the chains, but the worst was the left leg, which was covered with bandages, and on their being removed there was found a wound above the top of the instep of the size of a crown piece, the effects of the chains, which excited indignation from all who witnessed it. Four other witnesses, neighbours of the defendant, were then examined, who corroborated the statement of the boy. The defendant, in answer to the charge, acknow ledged having chained the boy up, but, in extenua tion, pleaded that the boy was a liar, thief, and every thing that was bad. Mr. Nicholas proposed to call witnesses on behalf of the defendant to prove his statement; but The BENCH said they could not go into th a t par t of the case, as it was one of too serious a nature for them to decide summarily. They had made up their minds to send the case to trial, and they should re quire the defendant to enter into his own r ecogn i zance of 501., with two sureties in 251. each, to appear at the sessions. _ The defendant immediately found the required sureties. _ Mr. Lewis was bound over in the sum of 401. to prosecute. RICHMOND PETTY SESSIONS. On Saturday, William New, a shoemaker by trade, was charged before Captain T. Price, Chairman, and a full bench of magistrates, at Richmond, Surrey, with having on the 22d of last month stabbed his wife. The wife of the prisoner, who made every effort to evade appearing against her husband, and who gave her evidence with considerable reluctance, was exa mined at some length. From her statement it ap peared, that on the 22d of last month, while at din ner, her husband and herself had some words, when the former made a lunge at her with the knife he was using with his meal, and stabbed her in the side near the lower rib. On observing her blood flow from the wound, her husband absconded, and had not after wards returned to his home. During the examination of the wife she endeavoured as much as possible to exonerate the prisoner, declar ing on her oath that she did not believe he intended to injure her, and that the injury was inflicted in the heat of passion, during a quarrel between herself and her husband. The magistrates, however, took a very different view of the charge, and it being the opinion of the medical gentleman who attended the wife, that if the wound had been a little more in front of her person it must have proved fatal, they fully committed the prisoner to take his trial at the Central Criminal Court, on the capital charge of stabbing with intent to murder his wife. VESSEL RUN DowN.—A fishing lugger, belong ing to Peel, called the Utility, John Collister, master, has been missing for some weeks, supposed to have been run down, whilst riding at her nets ; it has since trans pired that this fearful apprehension of her fate has been too well founded. The unfortunate vessel was sunk, in the darkness of the night by a steamer, on her passage from Belfast to Liverpool, and the whole of the crew, seven in number "in the depths of the ocean buried." Four were married, and had families,—Manx Liberal. HERRING FISHERY in SCOTLAND. FISAERROW, FRIDAY.—Our port for the last fort night has presented a scene of unusual bustle and activity. The herring made their appearance off luchkeith on the 23d ult. Their whereabouts was made known to our fishing community in rather a singular manner. Two young lads, the sons of a widow, had been left behind on the departure of the others for the fishing ground, in the expectation of being enabled to catch haddocks for their own and their mother's support. All their attempts, however, had failed, and the old woman began to suspect that, the haddocks being entirely gone, some other fish had taken their place. She, acting on this suspicion, ferretted out two or three old nets from their repose in a garret, and sent out the lads again to try their luck. The next morning they returned, to the old woman's surprise and gratification, with five thousand herrings, which they sold at three shillings per hundred. This lucky capture immediately got wind, and the boats came in rapidly from the eastward, and a most steady and most plentiful take has been the consequence. The shoal was close in with the rock, and very often the nets were shot in two fathoms' water. The sea around presented an oily appearance, and so nu merous were they that the nets were borne down by the weight of the fish as they went over the boat's side. From this plentiful take, their price was much reduced. At Dunbar they were selling at 11 s. a cran. One of our most active curers has nearly filled a thousand barrels, and at Cockenzie 500 barrels were cured in one day. They have everywhere met with a ready market, and have afforded to all classes a cheap and plentiful supply of food. Other countries will also benefit by their abundance. Several French vessels from the ports of Dunkirk, Boulogne, Dieppe, Fecamp, Caen, and Gravelines, have been during the whole time off the Inch, fishing with their own boats, purchasing from our fishermen, and curing their car goes on board. It is not often at this season that the he,rring have come so high up in our Firth. In 1793 a similar shoal made their appearance off Cockenzie, and about seven years ago another equally plentiful, in the bay of Kirkaldy. BEAWICK.—The take throughout this week has been the best the fishermen have had during the season. The shoal from which our fishermen ob tained their supply last week, lying to the north of the harbour, at the latter part of it removed fur ther in the bay ; of this circumstance the Eyemouth men were apprised by the crew of a vessel, and proceed ing to the place on Friday last, were amply rewarded. This induced our men to proceed to the same place throughout the week, and with the exception of this morning there have been great quantities of herrings caught. While there are instances of boats having on each morning only one cran, others again have had as many as forty, and in some few cases as many as sixty. Last night the boats proceeded as usual ; a change of weather, however, took place, and the most of them thought proper to return in the course of the night. A thick mist, with an easterly wind, rendering it extremely dangerous to continue at sea, excited considerable anxiety for those re maining out. During the morning there were still three boats out, and as the thickness of the atmosphere prevented them knowing their position or finding out the harbour, guns have been fired by the Skylark cutter brig, in the port ; and the bell at Spittal chapel has been ringing throughout the morning to assist them in finding out their course. The fishing will in all probability close next week ; some boats have two hundred trans for the season, while others have below one hundred. WICK, SEPT. s.—The fishing may be said to be fairly over for a season. The total catch for the week will not add much more than three-fourths of a cran to the general average for the season, which is about ninety-nine crans, or eight crans lower than that of last year. The highest take any day this week has been 2 8 crans, and the quality has continued to be of the finest description. Notwithstanding the amount of the general average, we do not remember of a fishing so extremely irregular ; for, while many of the boats have exceeded 300 crans, a considerable number have not reached 30. All the south boats have left for home—those belonging to the West Highlands and Orkney are rapidly leaving, and the home boats are being drawn up as fast as possible. It is not likely that any further attempts will be made this season. One hundred and twenty-four vessels have been entered at Pultneytown for exportation, and many more will be required ere the total quan tity caught be carried off. It may be safely affirmed, that the general take over the whole coast is far below an average one ; for, while the fishing at Wick has been good, there has been a considerable falling off at other stations. The consequence has been a brisk demand for fish, in all quarters, at a rise in prices. 17s. 6d has been freely given in Wick for crown brand, and 17s. without any brand, and in several cases these have been refused by the curers, who seem confident of a further rise. SPECIAL HOLIDAY TRAINS. Within the last fortnight the following special holiday trains have been conveyed along the Midland Railway, and others immediately connected with it : A train of nearly 4,000 children, belonging to Sunday schools of the Established Church, from Sheffield to York and back. Scholars, Is. each; teachers, 2s. each ; there and back. A train of 4,000 children, belonging to the Lan casterian School, fom Sheffield to Hull and back. Children, ls. 6d. each ; teachers, 3s. each ; there and back. A train of the same number, belonging to the Wesleyan Methodists, from Sheffield to York. Chil dren, ls. each; - teachers, 2s. ; there and back. A train of about s,soo—men, women, and children —.from Sheffield to Hull and back. Grown people, 3s. 6d. each, there and back. A train of about 2,500, and another of about 1,000, from Sheffield and Rotherham to York. A train of 6,500, men, women, and children, from Leeds to Hull ; the latter trains at proportionately the same low fares. By way of experiment, some months since the Directors of the Chester and Birkenhead directed that double tickets should be issued, so that passen gers might go from Birkenhead to Chester by a train at twenty minutes past ten o'clock each morning, and return in the evening of the same day at half-past eight o'clock ; the fare there and back being only one shilling more than the usual fare one way. Some weeks after the same plan was adopted from Chester to Birkenhead and back, and at the same fares. The results have far exceeded anything that was expected.—Railway Chronicle, LLOYD'S SHIPPING. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. __. __ Arrivals.—Vixen, Heppenstall, from — Mauritius, at Cowes, sailed May 12, St. Helena July 6 ; Watkins, Whiteside, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed March 18, St. Helena July 6 ; Euphrates, Christmas, from Ceylon, in the Downs, sailed May 4, St. Helena July 8 ; Active Reliant, from Bombay, in the Downs, sailed May 11, Mauritius June 10, St. Helena July 23 ; Narwhal], Baker, from New Zealand, in the Downs, sailed April 12 ; Orpheus, Digby, from Ceylon, in the Downs, sailed April 14, St. Helena July 8 ; James Matheson, Cushing, from China, at Liverpool, sailed April 25, Ascension Aug. 1 ; Susan Crisp, Cocks, from Ichaboe, off Fal mouth, sailed June 28, St. Helena July 21. Arrivals at Sydney.—Augustus, from Adelaide ; Achilles, April 21, from London ; Sultana, 28th, from Otaheite ; United Kingdom, 29th, from Liverpool Elizabeth, from Cork ; Ganges, from London ; Tenas serirn, 30th, from Calcutta. Departures from Sydney—Gannett, April 24, to London; Arachne, to Newcastle, to load, for London. Arrivals at Port Philip—Sea Queen, April 15, from Cork ; Johnstone, from Liverpool ; Arab, 25th, from London. Departures from Port Philip—Hawk, April 25, to Adelaide; Tyne, 26th, to London; the Gilmore was to clear April 29, for London. Arrival at Port Nicholsoa—Governor, from London. Arivals at St. Helena—Bombay, July 12, from Cochin and sailed 14th to Marseilles; Highlander, 14th, from Ichaboe; Favourite, from Ichaboe, and sailed 20th to Cork; Salopian, 18th, from China, and sailed 19th to Liverpool; Lord Lyndoch, 19th, from Cochin, and sailed 22d to London; Maid of Alicante, 21st, from London; North Pole; Wave and Fortitude, from Ichaboe; Anne Laing, 23d, from Ichaboe. Departures from St. Helena—Britannia, July 7, to Falmouth; Sylvia, Bth; Amicus, 18th, to Cork. INTERESTING TO LADIES. To Messrs. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-garden, London. 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A young woman, named Mary Webster, who re,' sides with her widowed mother, near Mr. Simmons 5 paper works, in the Via Gellia, at Bonsall, has re' cently had the narrowest escape from a miserable death that we ever remember to have heard of uno er anything like similar circumstances. The young woman, who is 22 years of age, stout, and rather good' looking, is unfortunately of somewhat weak intellect. It appears that shortly previous to Tuesday week she was walking with her mother on a foot-road leadmi from Bonsai]. to Ible, when, at a place called Boo b ' Lees, a common cotton handkerchief which she wor e , was blown off by the wind, it being rather rough 3 : the time, and before it could be recovered it wen,' down the shaft of a deserted lead mine which ha been carelessly left unsecured. The loss of the hand' kerchief seems to have affected her in an extraordv nary degree, and on the night of Tuesday we e k; about ten o'clock, she left her home, and, althoug h diligent inquiries were made after her, nothing wh at ' ' . ever was ascertained respecting her until the follo W mg Monday morning. On that morning her i nother, who was then seeking her, inquired of a miner, named John Massey, who was working on Bonsal d Lees, if he knew anything of her daughter, $ 3 . received for answer that he did not. The ch s ; tracted mother went forward on her now u10i, 136 i hopeless search, and being in the neighbourhood the shaft into which the handkerchief had blown' she went to it, and shouted down, when, s trang e to say, her ears were greeted with the voice of her lost daughter, who, at the expiration of a week entombment without sustenance of any kind, Ir e peared to recognise the voice of her parent. overjoyed mother now hastened back to Massey lt he miner to whom she had last spoken) and he lost n° time in obtaining the assistance of some brothel miners, who speedily collected the necessary tackling for rescuing the miserable sufferer from her ill, grave, and everything being adjusted to secure as as possible the safety of the object of their hump exertions, Massey and another miner, named Will Bunting, descended the shaft, which is twenty ye • . deep, and perpendicular, and found her in a cron e ", mg position at the shaft foot, sensible, but nea r bereft of physical strength, and to use Mussel t & words, "as cold as a corpse." She had (no alb in moments of delirium) unclothed herself to th e waist downwards, and taken off her shoes and ° 13 , 1 6 , stocking, and she had actually recovered the lost hay' kerchief, which was lying by her and in which 'f e l l tied up one of her shoes. Having been safely attac hed to the rope, she was drawn to the surface, and durni her ascent she attempted to hold on, but was; course, too far exhausted to do so effectually. K e t haps the strangest circumstance connected with till strange tale is, that in a few minutes after arriving the surface, she told her mother that before sh e ti d , tempted to descend the shaft in search of the ha ll 3 kerchief, she had taken off her gown, and hiddeolA in a wall. The gown was found exactly as described by her. She was now carefully removed home, o °, on putting her to bed it was found that she hat' re i ceived no external injury beyond comparati v es lacerations and bruises. Weak restors tlf o f were sparingly administered, and under the care Mr. Evans, surgeon, of Winster, there is every likotie'l hood of her restoration to perfect health. She Oa § that she believed the shaft was only two or three Yn r ,. er deep, as she looked into it on the day she lost her handkerchief, and thought she saw the - bottom. 5 $ had descended apparently four or five feet, will eri ke , peg which bore her weight, proving rotten, h r° ,.ii and she was precipitated, as already described, n e %t i twenty yards to the bottom, her fall being, no dour in some degree broken by the resistance of th e against her clothes. She complains of having h e r fered horribly from thirst, and had eaten part of an y under garments, but does not seem to possess ie c knowledge of her own as to the length of time n d, living entombment had endured.—Nottingham JUur DUTCH MAIL. l e ft THE HAGUE, SEPT. 11.—The Prince of Prus sia the Hague yesterday evening at eight o'cloc k ,11 Amsterdam, from which place we understand h e "- go to pay a visit to the King of Hanover. We announced, some days ago, the severe pu i Lli ment inflicted by the police mag i s trate of Unie n ,"' - a at London, on three individuals, for having coupons of the public debt of the Netherlands, 13 01114. interest . at 5 per cent. We are now able to el l ; municate the satisfactory intelligence that all t 0 forged coupons, as well as the copper-plate use 4.,... making them, have been deli ve red, at London , to xre' Meers, agent to the house of Vanden Hoop, "d:rts in the possession of that h ouse . Thus, all the reper in the ° that have been circulat e d, a n d repeated journals, respecting the supposed circulation of forged coupons, are proved to be false. extract in a'nE HAGUE, SEPT. J S a ELT. pa I " BATAVIA, MAY 7.—Accounts from Macassar ,--- nounce the arrival, on the 26th of February, of t i. ll . n l p 3 e7s, "" r r e e ce rn iv a er to t -day boats, bringing the crew of the Belgian mere"; ic i brig the Charles, Captain Hoed, which vessel, bto from Singapore to Manilla, ran aground off the 1. '"3, Coety, on the coast of Borneo, in the Macassar SO yfo:1__Io and was attacked by pirates." [ADVERTISEMENT.] 8 1 ANOTHER WONDER !—CURE EXTRAORDINAA-- et . HOLLWAY'S PlLLs.—Mrs. Maguire, a respectable Ever son, residing near Sunday's-well, Cork, was given p ro' in a case of dropsy, and was perfectly cured, wile n i Vol nounced to be at the point of death, by these wronue,,,o. pills. Persons, either young or old, who become c° l. rof -lent, pottle-bellied, bloated, or dropsical, ma y not ( c ) iirig avoid apoplexy and other dangerous diseases attecojh there m, but also regain the highest state of li n . o .ht, strength, and energy, and th e ir fi gure s become ti,, i t ( l ;loo as light, and as goo d as i n th e d a y s o f youth. S° l " s tir Holloway' s Oi n t ment ) a t P ro f essor H o lloway's bad blishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be on clorli gratis), and by almost all respectable mediciaa throughout the civilised world. -t MURDER OF THE DOVER d. POLICEMAN.- - :I °P 05; OF WILFUL MURDER.—DOVER, SIFT. 14,—The of on the body of Samuel Couchman, police-coa st e fea' this place, who was savagely murdered on Sunda) ? o pt ing last at Bridge-street, Charlton, Dover, while 2ttry of ing to quell a riot that had ari sen a mong a P S: pg broom dashers and poachers, p r in c ipally consi st ' a ni' an old man named James Clark a nd his five sons, consist e ve nated, after four sittings, this morning, between ° g r ad and one o'clock, A.M., when a verdict of wilfulAiipsi was returned against James Clark, the father, "boric Clark, Thomas Clark, John Clark, and StePhe n ,„o ll " (his sons), William Smith, a n d o th er p er sons a:relay* Frederick Clark and John Wood, who, with 0 1 °tedi and one of his sons (Stephen) were t a ken into n ",; ( itli ° on the morning of the murder, were discharged , l fald' old man and his son Stephen were committed to * id. stone gaol, to take their trial at the next A P o ver stone assizes, and the witnesses were bOan" sea; to prosecute. The prisoners in custody were iserea off to Maidstone this day. A reward has been ° Clark' for the apprehension of Thomas Clark, William hi e John Clark, and William Smith, who a re still at "'se It is reported that these parties were seen to ante L o ur` senden-wood, near Canterbury, the scene of the A t here'' tenay tragedy, and that they are still concesi e e ' be The funeral of poor Couchman, the policeman , " ir plsc e pense of which was defrayed by the borough, tc )° ,7„iitie l " on Thursday, and was attended by the civic aun a tb o &c. A subscription has also been commenced f ° erect benefit of the wife and the two children of the ta n , e l 0 man. No similar case of atrocity having occ ur. Dover in man's remembrance, it has prOdlleed 5500 lancholy sensation unprecedented. It has been, w hiell in some of the papers that the broom handle with Ile' Thomas Clark (one of the parties still at large) as sa , o to his victim, and which the witnesses described " 1 0 0 1 have grasped with both hands, and " struck bin i n ea u ' like a butcher killing a bullock," was loaded at i ti e e liis; with a piece of iron, but this is not the fact. It a"; ft eu' home-made broom handle, without any append,ag y e e ' be t ; as the surgeon stated, a tremendous blow mustl`n:it Daly given with it, for the bones of the nose were 0 ' broken, but driven into the head. t , th e The Earl of Wintert on ' s annu al treat `;,IOW labourers engaged on his estate to celebrate thiLivele° vest home," took place on Tuesday last at Sh i " to tb n Park, Sussex. It was a day of pleasure, not (Alio their persons employed by the N o bl e E ar l, but als° t N o ble families, who were liberally entertained at tia n Earl's expense ------- - of BIRTHS. On the 6th inst., at Strangways• terrace, Truro, t he Is lll the Rev. J. G. Venables, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., Mrs. J. Yeomans, at Tubbendeece °III near Orpenton, Kent, of a daughter. the get' On the 10th inst., at Alveley, Salop, the lady of ,bS R. A. W. Considine, of a daughter. }W e On the 12th inst., at St. Augustine's Cottage, ~,r,JO$ Kent, Mrs. D. H. Macleod, of a daughter. On the 12th inst., in Gordon-place, the lady o f It• '"-- Bromley, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. Nrorr i* On the 11th inst., at Cheltenham, the Rev. J0200.'006 D.D., President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford , t° 10111e' Mary, youngest daughter of the late Rev. James Jolla Rector of West Kington, Wilts. $ f. On the 12th inst., at Pitchcomb, Gloucesters hire, to gr• West, Esq., to Emma Sophia, f o urth daughter of the lit Edward Hogg, of Pitchcomh. ___-------'"'-''-' -- ----- D fif'D. .. golf ° On the 13th of June, at D e lhi, Lieutenant J. 0. Adjutant of the 7th Regiment of Native Infantry. ;,„ Tol e r On the 28th of June, Amelia Augusta, wife of Ciapta"" good, Adjutant of the 35th Li g ht Infantry a Da rt' On the 30th of June, at Calcutta, Andrew g'Quee lop O , Esq., of th Bak of Wester India. V s ' On the 16th e ult., n at Madeira, n the Rev. John T hoelas velyan, Vicar of Milverton. Basil gall, On the I Ith inst.,e at llaslar Hospital, Cap tain R.N., aged 56. of t il On the 11th inst , at Leamington, Mrs. Hook, widow Very Rev. James Hook, L L.D , l a te Dean of Worcestel:o sir, On the 12th inst., Mary Duncombe, wido w of the isi Duncombe. Esq., of Bromsgrove W or cester. of r . On the 12th inst., at Fleetwood, Sampson, infant soli Lucas, Esq., of Temple house, Manchester. t dSag ir .... 01t1:=71La, FannY , Y Nin g e ....s... ,./ 8 ter of W. Cowburn, Esq. ------ of us , Lunaun : Planted ann l'unfished. by niiJEDO Y°., c r o . II; No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Ogiceausi Os Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the bliddlogss, bbaday, Oirtymber 16, 1844. ( but n I!hr tee ford Pal; raft Can Ti :4 4 Yliry etru lvhe The Of ai Mei Aul Wa Lie Op] 91111 club Ind] to ii titO Th, *I I , is c at ;