The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-12 00:00:00

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Ditto New Shares 4 paid Trcnt Valley, '2 paid 8 ,,,i Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) 167 Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, I paid Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen. 20 p a id SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TUB EVENING - PAPERS OF TIIIS DAT. GLOBE.—From assailing the majority of the law Lords, by whose decision the writ of error was affirmed, the impugners of that decision turn to level ling objections to the house of Lords as a court of appeal in such cases. The court, it is alleged, was inadequate for what it performed. What 1 the so lemn judgment of the Irish Court of Queen's Bench, with all its long train of previous, concomitant, and subsequent circumstances, reversed in a moment by a triumvirate of Peers, acting for the nonce, in the capacity of judgei ; and the four folio volumes of evidence, so carefully prepared, and so beautifully arranged, reduced in an instant to so much waste paper ? True : this has been the case. But, then, if the Court be inadequate for the perform ance of its functions, blame not the Court, but the law, which constituted the Court. Let the law be changed, if it require alteration. In the meantime, it is the Court which has been appointed, and has been accustomed, to decide such questions. It has violated no rules. It has observed its prescribed forms. And, if the lay Lords thought fit to waive as they have been wont to do, their undoubted right of voting on a question respecting NA hich they could have no knowledge, it is only what they have done on for mer occasions. It would be very hard if a rule which they have laid down to themselves, and long acted upon, as most consonant with justice and decency, should then only be departed from when the punish ment of a political antagonist was to be secured by its violation. It is only those who would trans form the lay Lords into fit associates for Jeffries; caring not for justice, but thirsting for revenge ; who have ';entured to blame the lay Lords for not esta• blishing a precedent which, however it might gratify the evil passions of a particular party, would have covered the House of Lords with disgrace, and for ever ruined its character and influence with the country. Another objection is, that the Writ of Error was al lowed, and the judgment passed on the defendants re versed, contrary to the opinions expressed by a ma jority of the judges, whose advice had been sought. But to this may be replied, what is the end and de sign of a court of appeal, if it is not to possess this liberty of thought and act ? l‘Thy was the House of Lords constituted a court of appeal by our ancestors, if it is to be restricted in the way assumed by those who urge this objection ? If it is merely to have the privilege of confirming, and not reversing the judg ment of the inferior courts, it might as well not exist. Surely, it is not intended to be affirmed of the judges that infallibility pertains to their deci sions. The records of their judgments attest the contrary. The celebrated privilege case of Ashby v. White is a proof to the contrary. In that case Lord Chief Justice Holt stood alone against the other eleven judges, with the Lord Chancellor into the bar gain. But, in the end, his judgment proved to be right, and was eventually affirmed. On the great Regency question the judges were also notoriously in the wrong. Besides, what has our legal constitution established ? From a judgment in the Queen's Bench, confirmed by the justices of the Common Pleas, and the Barons of the Exchequer, an ap peal lies to the House of Lords ; the dernier re sort, as Blackstone calls it, for the ultimate de cision of every civil action. Does not this show that on the very nicest points of law the House of Lords—constituted, as we know it to be, and imperfect as we may think it for the office— may reverse the decision of every judge in the land ? And are we to suppose that this has never been done ? There was a time when the privilege, strange as it may seem, was of infinite value. Such times may come again. That it admits of abuse, is true. In the meantime the principal inconvenience attaching to the House of Lords wisely gets over, by leav ing the decisions on points of law to the law Lords who may be Members of the House. This is merely what was done on the late occasion. And this is what the Tory journals, and the Tory party generally, have the modesty to complain of. "Todo a great good"—for such, in their eyes, would the further imprisonment of O'Connell have been—" do a little wrong," is the advice they would have given. Most fortunately, it now appears, that if given it would not have been followed. The lay Lords have not been the rogues their friends wiihed them to be. They have acted, in this instance, as honest men ; and honesty, in this instance, as in all others, will prove to be the best policy. In the event ful times which are approaching, it is everything to have justice clearly on our side. This the Tories themselves will be brought to know and to confess. In th 3 meantime let them rail. Perhaps railing may abate their rancour ; which, bottled up, might explode, and damage if not destroy them, and those around them. Let them exhaust their vocabulary of abuse upon the men who by fair and honest means, in the exercise of their legal right, and in conformity with established custom, have rescued the victims from their hands ; and restored them to that liberty which, it is now proved, they ought never to have been deprived of. It is to be hoped that their restored liberty will not be abused, either by the principal of the unjustly -convicted parties, or by any of the subordinate leaders of the repeal movement. The irate Tories by all the railing and ribaldry they employ cannot reverse the decision. From the decision of the House of Lords there is no appeal—except to posterity. The names, and the slanders of those who seek to invalidate that decision, will pass into oblivion. But on the principles they have sought to establish—on the monstrous proceed. ings to which they have lent the aid of their advocacy —and on the political leaders and their tools on whom they fawn—the sentence of future generations will be pronounced in terms of unequivocal condemnation. STANDARD.— Our attention has been directed by the Morning Herald to an announcement in a provincial journal, evidently possessing some peculiar means of information in regard to Whig tactics, which derives additional confirmation from sundry signifi cant hints in the speech delivered by Mr. O'Connell at the Conciliation Hall on Monday. It is as follows : It will be recollected that we announced, some time back, on high authority, the difference of opi nion among the judges, and also that the majority of the tribunal of final appeal held an opinion favourable to the traversers. We revert to this, not for the purpose of vain boasting, but to obtain confidence for the announcement, which, upon the same autho rity, we are now enabled to make. It has been resolved to form a union of Liberal parties, for the purpose of driving the present Ministers from power, and it is intended to propose that one of the bases of agreement shall be a federal Parliament for Ireland. We ha ve every reason to r informatilony;onant h d e source from which we derive our co mmend the constitu enc i es of the lsingdom Ns t 'e o be prepared soon to declare what policy is to be adopted in the present critical circumstiteces of the State." Such a tumour has been current for some months past, and experience has satisfied us there i s not imaginable baseness to which the Whigs will descend, that may offer them the remotest chance of a return to office. That some such schem e as the one above described has been gravely con sidered, even if no very active steps shall have been taken to carry it into effect, is extremely pro bable. After the Lichfield House compact, a con spiracy against the best interests of the country more disgraceful than any previous coalition in the history of political parties, we can have no reason to question the readiness of the Whigs to enter once more into a similar undertaking. In the present desperate condition of their affairs, in deed, the temptation is greater than ever ; and notwithstanding the five hours' speech by which Lord Monteagle established the fact that the union was the greatest blessing ever conferred on Ireland; the Royal Speeches, in which Lord Melbourne denounced the very idea of repeal as the direct prelude to civil war ; and the elaborate declarations of Lord John Russell and other Whig notables, that any evil word be preferable to an attempt to disturb the Act of Union ; nothing is more probable ban that they are ready and willing to combine with Mr. O'Connell for that purpose if they can foresee THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, X 844. JUDGE'S CHAMBERS. APPRnIENSIUN dr GAmBLEas.---resterday, Frede rick Pemberton, alias Frederick Joseph Pemberton, was brought before Mr. Baron Gurney, in the custody of Inspector Aggs, of the C division. The prisoner was described of 31, St. James's-street. The court was crowded with West-end gamblers. It appeared that the prisoner was engaged gambling at the last Gorhambury races, and an indictment had been preferred against him at the St. Alban's sessions, Mr. Baron Gurney having granted a bench warrant for his apprehension. A man named Mo Jacobs, de scribed as a lawyer's clerk, and living at 101, Ber wick-street, met Pemberton yesterday afternoon in Regent-street, and took him to the - Vine-street station, where he was given into the custody of In spector Aggs. Jacobs told the prisoner, on the way to the station-house, that there was no occasion for him to go, as it could be " settled." On arriving there, Aggs, well knowing the whole of the parties concerned, at first refused to entertain the charge, when Jacobs became so abusive that he was threatened with removal. After a short " consultation," Mr. Mo Jacobs consented to the bail, and the prisoner was liberated on entering into his own recognizance in 801., and finding two sureties in 40/. each, to appear at the next assizes at llertford. James Hollick Davis, otherwise HoHick Davis, of Hendon, was then brought np in custody of Sergeant Maris, A 50. It appeared that the prisoner was pointed out at the Middlesex Sessions Court on Friday by a man named Randall to Mr. Jacobs, and formerly livery servant at a gambling booth at which the prisoner acted as one of the principals. An indictment had been preferred against the prisoner at the Croydon sessions in 1843 for gambling on Ascot Heath race course, and Mr. Justice Coleridge had signed a war rant for his apprehension. The prisoner had been residing for some time at Guernsey and Jersey. Mr. Russell, the solicitor in the qui tam actions against Lord George Bentincic, attended on his be half. Bail was tendered, the prisoner in 801., and two sureties in 401. each. Mr. Baron Gurney said, in such a serious case he could not consent to take bail for less than 2001., and two sureties in 1001. each. The prisoner then entered into his own recogni zances in 2001., and two sureties in 1001. each, to ap pear at the next assizes at Abingdon. The parties avowed that Lori George Bentinck was connected with the prosecutions, but it is very doubtful whether his Lordship is in any way mixed up with them. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 11. (Before Mr. Commissioner FONELANQUE.) TREGEAR AND LEWIS'S BANKRUPTCY. In this case the bankrupts carried on business as music and picture dealers in Cheapside, and to-day was appointed for their final examination. However, as further accounts were required, which the Court ordered to be made out, an adjournment fur a few weeks was agreed to for their preparation. A number of insolvent cases were heard before Commissioners Fonblanque and Fane, but, like the others which have preceded them for the last fortnight, they contained not a fact worth reporting. chiefs in the bundle, put his own handkerchief over them while the shdpma&s head was turned another way, gracefully wiped his nose with thetti, arid put them into his pocket.—(Laughter.) When I ob served that, said the lady, I lifted up the flap of the counter. I said to him, Don't any or these handker chiefs please you, Sir? No, said he. Then said I, interrupting him and preventing him from going out, allow me to look at those you have in your pocket ? He declared that he had none, and that he was a gen tleman, and had a cab waiting for him at the door, and out he rushed into the street. I ran after and caught hold of him, and he struck me ; but I would not let him go. The fellow with the green coat seized me by the wrist to disengage me from him, but I kept my hold, and the prisoner and I were up and down together three times, he struggling to ge'z away, and I struggling to hold him. The fellow in the green coat then kicked me in the hip, and the prisoner struck me abhiw on the neck, and then he ran off. I followed him along the street, and caught hold of his coat, which gave way, and the tails of his coat remained in my hand. He then escaped from me, but was soon brought back in custody. He denied that he was the person accused, but there he was, with the upper part of his coat on his person, and the lower part of it in my possession. James g innaly, of Hoxton, bookbinder, stated that at about a quarter past eight o'clock he wai in Bishopsgate-street, a few yards from the shop of Mrs. Bradshaw ; that he heard her cry out, and saw her and the prisoner struggling on the ground ; that the prisoner ran away, and that he ran after and secured him, without losing sight of him. The witness added that the handkerchiefs were picked up near the London Tavern, where he secured the fellow. Nicholas Merry stated that he picked up the hand kerchiefs at the time. Mrs. Bradshaw identified four silk handkerch!efs, by the private mark of the house. The prisoner here stated that the handkerchief which covered the others was his property, and he re quested the Alderman would cause it to be restored to him. It was stated that the handkerchief which the pri soner called his was unhemmed, and in all probability had been stolen by him. The prisoner very coolly said that it had been washed two or three times, and nobody but himself could lay claim to it. John Scott, City policeman (626), stated that he heard the cry of " Police" near the shop, and saw the prisoner escape from the grasp of Mrs. Bradshaw. As the prisoner approached, witness asked him what was the matter, supposing it was an assault affair, and the prisoner said " That man struck me—take him for God's sake." Witness said, " What man ?" " That man in a buff waistcoat," replied the prisoner, and when witness looked in the direction pointed at, ran off. Witness followed and apprehended the prisoner. Mrs .:Bradshaw--A jeweller in the same street was robbed of property on the same evening, and no doubt by this prisoner, assisted by the fellow with the green coat. He has no doubt that this prisoner was one of the thieves, but as he has no proof, he does not wish to come forward. The prisoner-- Now don't say that. Don't say that things are worse than they really are. Mrs. Bradshaw—When he came to the shop he had a black patch upon his lip, but he tore it off be fore he got to the station-house. Alderman Gums committed the prisoner for trial, and congratulated the lady upon such uncommon self-possession and courage as she had exhibited throughout. The green-coated gentleman will, in all probability, be very soon in custody. CLERKEN WELL. Anne Rhodes was brought up for final examina tion, charged with stealing an immense quantity of wearing apparel, house linen, tea, sugar, spirits, books, and alm os t every ot h er por t a bl e ar ti c l e o f a well furnished house, being the property of her master, Mr. Cross, residing in York-plac9, Stoke Newington. James Gibson was charged with receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen. It appeared from the evidence, which was very voluminous, that the female prisoner, a demure 'look ing person advanced in years, has been in the employ ment of Air. Cross during the last five years, and has, from the first day of ber•servitude, carried on a whole sale system of plunder, but so artfully and secretly effected, that up to this time she was believed to be " a faithful servant." The malt prisoner was in the same service about two years ago, and since then it appears that Rhodes has kept up a constant com munication with him. He lodged in Norfolk-street, Islington, and thither the plunder was conveyed ; in fact, it clearly appeared that she was his paramour, for with the landlady of the house she went by the name of Mrs. Gibson, and whenever her employers were put of town, she came there laden with plunder, and they passed the night in the same apartment. At length Maria Woodgate, her fellow-servant, who had been induced to convey some tea, sugar, brandy, &c., in hampers to the prisoner's lodgings, informed her mistress of the fact. The female prisoner was forthwith given into custody, and made a full con fession of her guilt. She declared she would stab herself, and soon after became so ill that she lay for several days in the workhouse in a very precarious condition. At Gibson's lodgings a very large quan tity of the stolen property was fou n d, s t owe d i nto every hole and corner capable of cont a i n i ng it ; t h ere were jars' and even p a il s fil led with tea, sugar, and ttle spirits s, of every des cr i p ti on. bottles, Mr. COMBE decided on committing the prisoners for trial, and depositions were taken down ac cordingly. QUEEN -SQUARE. Yesterday the first order of affiliation under the recent Act of Parliament was made at this office. The putative father of the child was Joseph Edgely, a young linsndraper's assistant, who was summoned to show cause why an order of 28.6 d. per week should e of the child s h e then held in her 12th of not be made upon him for its maint enance . or o e f to F t ern h b ei a n r t y im . intim acy , an d t o h er hav ingrmT arms been m todhtehehe delivered w Defendant visited her r and passed the night with Alfred Easton proved that the compl a i nan t l o d ge d ithfive her. times at her lodgings, at his house, and had been delivered on the day stated. Defendant had visited her there, and passed as her husband. In answer to a question from def en d an t' s so li c it or , witness said he was jositive th a t t h e child had been born on the 12th of li cbruary. The solicitor said he did not consider there was the required pro duced in this case. p description of confirmatory testim ony Mr. BURIUILL observed, that it was no t necessary to go back so long a period as n i ne months before the birth. It was enough that she should be confirmed in some material part of her testimony. He thought the case clearly made out, and should adjudge the defendant to make an allowance towards the main tenance of the child. Mr. Edwards, the chief clerk, inquire the amount ? Mr. BiIRRELL said it must be 2s. 6d. per week. The object of the Legislature in mentioning this sum had clearly been with a view to put part of the onus on the mother of the child. Defendant was further adjudged to pay the sum of W. 17s. travelling expenses of the officer to Nantwich, and other costs. inquiries in Catherine-street, when they were informed by the neighbours that the brother had left there a long time before, and that no one knew where he had gone to. Policeman 74 K, from information he receisred from one of the last witnesses, went on the preceding aYen ing to the house of the prisoners and took them into custody. On apprising them of the nature of the charge against them, the male prisoner said that the infant was at the house of his brother, in Henry street, Commercial-road, but afterward admitted that the brother had gone to Bristol, and that they had neither since heard from him, nor knew where he was to be found. On the road to the station, the male prisoner told his wife to keep close and not say anything, as there was no evidence whatever against them. In defence the male prisoner denied having deserted his child in the manner that had been described, and persisted in his statement that he had placed it in the care of his brother, who had left London more than a month ago, and he had always since then entertained the firm conviction that the infant had been carried by his brother with him to Bristol. The female prisoner's statment was precisely to the same effect. Mr. BROUGHTON said that the case was one of very deep suspicion, and there could be no doubt whatever that the child produced in Court was that of which the female prisoner had been delivered at the house of the woman Atthill. lie should commit them both to prison for child-dropping, but let the case stand over for a week, to give them an opportunity of bringing forward any exculpatory evidence they might be able to adduce.—.-The prisoners were then removed. DESCRIPTION OF REMARKABLE FARMS. By ADAM BROWN. No I.—Near Chelmsford, in Essex. A journey of a few minutes less than an hour into Essex, by the railway from London, will bring you to a station, where, if you are curious about remarkable farms and farmers, you may leave the train. Having got out and given your ticket to the officer, go down the winding stair. At the bottom of it you will find yourself beneath one of several archways, each raised upon many pillars, bearing aloft the level railway upon which runs the train you have just left. It is now on its way to Colchester, and you are at Chelmsford. Looking through the pillars you will see passengers going t.) and fro, carriages, carts, and waggons also. Before you have emerged into the full glare of day light, you will observe the end "of a new row of brick built houses, and on the end of the house nearest you, on a painted sir-board, the words, " Office of the Essex Society for irotection to Agriculture." Should you turn to a:9 right, and proceed to the north and north-west, you will pass many pretty little houses with floral adornments around them ; and you will come to a park of fine old tresss and meadow grass, through which, to the left, there is a footpath. Enter and proceed by this footpath. You will in ten minutes reach a small river, over which you will cross by a wooden bridge. You will then p:occed by the brink of this river for shout fifteen or twepty , minutes, if you do not delay. But if you linger ants examine the farm land on your left, and the fences that enclose it, and the gaps in the fences, and the weeds in the fields, and all the signs of dilapidation, including the washing away of the road on which you walk by the river—not a rolling, spoliating, reckless river, but a deep, slow, lazy river, which, even in doing nischief, does it in such a lazy style, that you are forced to believe that the road is gnawed away by the tooth of time, and not by the floods of one year—if you linger to examine such things as these you may, likely enough, take another half hour. And indeed if you do, it will not be the worst spent half hour of your life. You will see that the river has not done its little hits of mischief in recent floods ; no, nor in the floods of recent years. You will, on more intimate acquaintance with it, find it is an old fashioned river that does not like to be put out of its old way, and which never has been interfered with ; for on its banks are those who, not liking to be stir red up, or turned aside themselves, not even for their own good, are averse to troubling even the old river by leading it in a new and more profitable and be coming course. Therefore, on they go; the water in its course, and the dwellers on its bank in their courses, as the streams of water and the generations of men did even in the days of the kings of the East Saxons. But, having arrived at that junction of roads where the river is to be parted from, you may with pro priety come to a dead halt. Stand still ; think for a while. Here is a toll-bar, there is a village. Behind you is a farm-house, yard, stable, barns, corn stacks, haystacks, carts, waggons, wheels without waggons, one wheel without its fellow, its fellow lying a hundred yards off, without its ring ; iiL* ring keeping comp my with a piece of a plough, anci a piece of a plough lying in the most likely place on all the farm to break a horse's or a cow's legs, Frag ments of implements, and implements separated from the companion implements, present themselves to you in wondrous confusion. You may think it worth while to look. round the whole farm-steading and farm fields after this. It is worth while. I will go with you ; I will show you. Look here ! A horsepond and a ditch full of water. "Is the water all of that black colour in Essex ?" you will ask me. " No, it is not ; you saw the river ; the river was only earthy coloured because of the rain." " Why, then is the horsepond and this ditch full of black wa ter ? and that other ditch as well ? and this hole down in the field where the cattle are drinking ? Do the horses drink that black water in the pond ? Why, it has a stench. Ah! how nasty it is !" Nasty ; yes, it has cause to stink and be nasty. It contains the urine of the cattle and the washings of the farmyard dung. You wonder how anybody can give horses and cattle such water to drink ; but it is an old custom to do so, and it would incur trouble and expense to drain the liquids of the yard some were else. You are surprised that the horses should drink this water. Rest assured the horses would choose good water as readily as any human being would; perhaps more so, for their tastes are not viti ated by strong drinks from choice, they only drink polluted water from necessity. You are surprised that a farmer, for his own profit, does not provide his horses and cattle with pure water. But you may be still more surprised that the very pollution which poisons this water consists of sub stances which make poor soils rich, and rich soils richer still ; consists of substances which are here utterly wasted, and for the draining of which into speedy and utter waste those ditches are made; con sists of substances thus wasted at the very threshold of the farmer's house, though precious as the guano of Ichaboe, carried to this country by five hundred ships, over latitudes of ocean measuring thousands of miles. But, proceed over the farm. We have little diffi culty in getting through, so far as gaps can serve us ; but those undrained bogs, and broad ditches choked with weedy foulness, let us be careful how we tra verse them, lest we sink. And mind the briers that fill up the wide distance between the old stumpy hedgerows—distances that would produce ten bushels of wheat on each four hundred yards lengthways ; that is to say, if by any possibility one could ever hope to see wheat sown on so rich a soil as this. You are surprised. See you not that wheat is not cultivated here. See you not that, where there was once cultivated land, as we may see by those ridges, there is now grass, and that grass is giving way to rushes and thistles, docks and weedy wastefulness. True this is good land, the best land in Essex for wheat; but if you went all over Essex, and all Eng land, you would not see wheat so little cared for as here. Now we come to another farm-steading, belonging :o the same farmer, and again we see the liquids of he farm-yard running to waste; again we see the solids laid out to dry in the sun, as if it were good that the ammonia should go into the air rather than into the earth. You ask why it is that one farmer should hold so much land, and make such a poor use of it. I will tell you. He holds so much land because he is rich, and can be depended on for the rent better than a poorer tenant can be depended on. He is rich while many other farmers are poor; and he is so because they are poor. His work is not that of toiling at the farm to enable him to pay his rent; it is the "selling up" of other farmers who cannot pay their rents. His desire is not to get a good system of leases 'introduced, that he and his neighbours may expend capital on their land, and cultivate well. His desire is, that the present uncertain system of tenure may continue. He thrives by it. He is a land valuer ; and each tenant-at-will, moving from farm to farm, year after year, has his stock, and farm, and implements valued , and he pays the valuer at the rate of six guineas a day and his travelling expenses. Did you not read those papers on the walls ? Ob served you not that sales of growing crops, sales of farm implements, sales of work-horses, sales of household furniture, sales of brewing utenails, and several other sales of farm property, are advertised in at least seven different large bills, in large letters, posted on every side of the highway, and at the arches of the railway, the sales to take place this week, next week, and the next again ; one five miles east, several of them six, and ten, and fifteen miles west ; others north, and three out of the seven with no auction duty to pay? Have you to be told that "no auction duty" means by warrant of the sheriff ?—that "warrant of the sheriff" means a broken farmer being sold off, and that " broken farmers," when sold off to pay their rents, contribute also to the income of an auctioneer ? And who is the auctioneer ? Why, the farmer on whose farm we now stand. And who is he ? No other than the Secretary to the " Essex Society for the Protection of Agriculture," Mr. Robert Baker, of Writtle. You may stare with surprise that this eminent farmer, as you would suppose him to be, who has got a prize of 50/. from the Royal Agricultural Society for the best_ essay on Essex agriculture, and who keeps upwards of one thousand acres of the best Essex land in that deplorable condition in which you see it, should be such a very bad practical farmer. But so he is. IVere he a grocer, and kept his tea and his coffee in one canister, and sugar in such a place that he could not weigh an ounce of pepper without letting sugar and pepper mingle together; were the coffee, " when newly roasted and ground," put out to the door in an open tray to allow its flavour to escape into the air instead of the flavour being preserved to bring back the customers at another time; were streams of water allowed to run through the sugar hogshead and carry the liquid into the cellar to mingle . with the liquors there ; were he to neglect to have the counter repaired when a panel was broken in its front; were he to have beam and scales tumbled over on the floor and covered with r-srdigris, and the tea-chests standing where each person who assisted in the shop must either step into them or risk breaking a leg by leaping over them ; were he to have his whole shop and stock in such confusion, l while he was away from it all the year over five days out of six, who would believe that he was a good grocer, even though he might publish pamphlets on the grocery trade, and argue that all the villager.; of Writtle s i lon i,l I, c,,nstf:lne.l to lmy sudl ,rtHs.: , :, , i t Lk own prie ,, , al . 10, 0,111 ••?;•.0 :, 110 t“id to :Cli - Would he not be called a very bad grocer ? And i 3 it not beyond all question that competition with i I another grocer would have at l eas t t wo good effects ? —that while it gave the v ill agers o f Writtle g better I any prospect of ultimate advantage to themselves from such a compromise. Their argument for de livering the Irish Church into Mr: O'Connell's hatids; ! will, we doubt not, be repeated tin thb present occa , sion ; a pretext which has invariably afforded the ex cuse for violent and unconstitutional changes. The howl for repeal is, we are told, about to subside into a canting whine for a federal Par liament, and the _Morning Chronicle attempts to delude its readers into the belief that a federal Parliament would not necessarily involve a step " so desperate as the repeal of the legislative union." The chief object of our Contemporary, indeed, in its article of this morning, would seem to be prepare the way for the open adhesion of its party to Mr. O'Connell on this question. Nor are certain passages in his speech on Monday last by any means less significant. There is a coincidence between the sentiments of the Whig journalist and the Repeal Agitator, which, at any other time, might excite surprise. Mr. O'Connell recommends his proposed Council of Three Hundred as " a steady drag on the wheel of the movement." The Morning Chronicle deplores the position of Mr. O'Connell as the "creature of circumstances," adding that, " like all popular leaders, he must follow as well as lead ;" and ex presses its belief that Ireland " might be conciliated by a Liberal Government." Mr. O'Connell de clares that, though " the Whigs deserved in some instances to be assailed, the Irish owe a debt of gratitude to them," (base, brutal, and bloody, as he was wont to consider them), and he adds that " it would be hard to get him to abuse them again." Then follows a compliment to our Con temporary, which is reciprocated by another compliment to Mr. O'Connell for the mode ration of the language of his late speech ! To this succeeds, in Mr. O'Connell's harangue, an appeal to " the English people to join him in hurling Peel from office." By the English people Mr. O'Connell elsewhere informs us that he means the English Whigs ; and (" there is nothing like leather") the Morning Chronicle is of opinion that Ireland can only be tranquillised by a Whig Go vernment ! It is to the Whigs that Mr. O'Connell has been indebted for the late extraordinary re versal of his sentence; and it would be hard, indeed, if he did not express some gratitude for their services. Gratitude is often the pre cursor of even more tender feelings, and ac cordingly we should not be in the least surprised to find that Mr. O'Connell and the ►l'higs had become as loving and intimate as of yore ; and had entered into the rumoured compact viith him. The only safeguard of the country against the consequences of so mischievous an ar rangement, is the difficulty of rendering any contract between two :parties so much better known than trusted, binding ; and whilst the Whigs will not commit themselves again without a direct pros pect of advantage, their evil genius will not en cumber himself with their support unless they seem likely to attain a position very much more commanding than the one they occupy et present. Repeal agents are, we are told, about to be dispatched to this country to feel the pulse of the public on the subject, and if it should turn out that the Whigs are as destitute of influence as they are of character, the ' visits of these missionaries of sedition, as well as the subscription of Mr. O'Connell to the Duncombe fund, I will have been hazarded in vain, and the contemplated coalition will fall to the ground. OTAHEITE. The Moniteur publishes the following return of the vessels which touched at the harbour of Papeiti (Ota heite) in 1843 : WHALERS. French, 6, measuring 2,371 tons, with crews of 183 men, and laden with 10,200 barrels of oil, estimated at 106,040 dollars. American, 59, measuring 19,556 tons, with crews of 1,728 men, laden with 106,200 barrels of oil, worth 1,567,800 dollars. English, 2, measuring 580 tons, with crews of 57 men, laden with 1,800 barrels of oil, worth 25,000 dollars. Total, 67, measuring 22,517 tone, with crews of 1,968 men, laden with 118,200 barrels of oil, to the value of 1,698,940 dollars. 3 IERCHANT3IEN. French, freighted by merchants, 3, measuring 667 tons, with crews of 42 men ' • value of the cargoes, 360,000 f. Vessels, freight e d by the State, 3, measuring 1,220 tons, and with 55 men. American, 3, measuring 840 tons, and with 39 men ; value of the cargoes, 293,000 piastres. English, 8, measuring 975 tons, and with 80 men ; value of the cargoes, 176,000 dollars. Danish, 1, measuring 77 tons, and with 9 men ; value of the cargo, 16,000 dollars. Hamburgh, 1, measuring 127 tons, and with 9 men ; value of the cargo, 18,000 dollars. Total, 19, measuring 3,906 tons, and with 234 men. COASTERS. 12 vessels, measuring 302 tons, and with 61 men. LITERATURE. ARTHUR ARUNDEL. 3 Vols. Colburn, London, 1844. We have here another of the numerous tales tha, have appeared within the last ten or a dozen years on the subject of the English Revolution of 1688, which —as Mr. Horace Smith, the author, justly observes has been panegyrized by historians much too highly, when they have applied to it the term " glorious." The tale is exceedingly fertile in point of incident, and is far superior to the author's first and best known work, " Brambletye house," inasmuch as there is less of an ambitious straining after effect ; and the various personages of the narrative are introduced with more skill, and made to play their parts with more propriety. One of the most entertaining chap ters in the work is that which gives an account of Arthur Arundel's visit to France ; where he meets with the Grande Monarque at Versailles, and is introduced to the celebrated Madame de Maintenon—that maud lin and consummate hypocrite, of whom, however— as we gather from one or two passing remarks—Mr. Horace Smith seems to entertain a very favourable opinion. ELECTION FOR CHAMBERLAIN.—At three o'clock his day the numbers were :—Mr. Alderman Brown, 2,306 ; Mr. Heppel, 65. The poll finally closed this afternoon at four o'clock, and the declaration will be made on Saturday next. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—Yesterday afternoon, the following shocking occurrence took place in the New-cut, Blackfriars-road, by which a fine little boy, named Thomas Smith, three years of age, lost his life under distressing circumstances. It appears that about a quarter to six o'clock in the afternoon, the father of the deceased, who is a carman in the employ of Mr. Burgess, a cow keeper in the Corn wall-road, was driving his own cart, which was heavily laden, homeward. The father of the de ceased had, a few moments previous, had twopence given to him for the purpose of procuring a pint of porter, he accordingly stopped for a minute at the door of a public house, from whence he had half a pint of beer, he drank a portion, and leaving the child t o fi n i sh the remainder, proceeded onwards. The boy, when in the New -cut, ran after, and had just overtaken his parent, when he either accidentally fell or was knocked down beneath the wheels of the cart his father was driving. He stopped the horse as quick as possible, when it was found that one of the wheels was resting upon the unfortunate child's neck. The horse they at tempted to back, but the animal refused, and they were compelled to urge him onwards, before the deceased could be picked up. He was conveyed to the surgery of Mr. Marshall, who, on examination, found that life was quite extinct. That gentleman said death must have been instantaneous. The father, who was in an almost frantic state, bears a most excellent character for steadi ness and sobriety. k r Cheap excursion trains continue to form an im portant feature of railway traffic—a new proof of the public usefulness of railways—a new element in their own revenue—a valuable addition to the recreations, amusements, and moral culture of the English people. The Dover excursion trains did not, fur the first two weeks, meet with adequate success, but the Directors persevered, and now their Saturday trains, returning up till Monday night, are crowded with passengers, who can thus spend part of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, in France, going and returning from London at a single fare. The number of excursion tickets issued for the six excursions, from the 27th of July to the Ist of Sep tember inclusive, was 45,532, being an average of 7,000 each excursion ; the last excursion consisted of 14,000 persons.—Railway Chronicle. A CURE FOR THE DISTEMPER IN CATTLE, BY THE EARL OF ESSEX.--I cannot resist giving a receipt for the treatment of beasts that may take the prevalent dis temper. It showed itself last winter in one of my yard stock, by its discharging abundant saliva from the mouth, with sore and inflamed tongue and gums, very dull, no appetite, confined bowels, and rery hot horns. I desired the bailiff to give him one half-pint of the spirit of turpentine, with one pint linseed oil, repeating the oil in twenty-four hours, and again repeating it ac- POLICE INTELLIGENCE. cording to the state of the evacuations. At the end of twenty-four hours more, the bow e l s no t h av i ng b een (YESTERDAY.) well reeved, I repeated both turpentine and oil. In two MANSION-HOUSE. days the beast showed symptoms of amendment, and in A man named John Brown, who was without a three or four took to his food again, and did perfectly coat, and appeared to have suffered in a conflict, was Well. All the yard beasts and two of the fattening brought before Alderman Gibbs, charged with having beasts have had it (five others I had sent to London be- committed a daring robbery. The case was made fore the disease appeared), and all have been treated in remarkable by the display of extraordinary spirit and the same manner with perfect success . Half a pint of turpentin e i s the smallest energy upon and one pint the l arges t d ose the part of a lady, of rather small stature in e du • e. r three or four clays. Little food beside oat mea l and delicate appearance. gruel was giVen.—Quarerly Journal of Agriculture. Mr. Hobler appeared for the prisoner. [The remedy above prescribed has been found effectual Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Bradshaw, wife of Mr. Brad in this neighbourhood in sever a l cases even where the sba . w,.of No. 103, Bishopsgate-str e et Withi n , hosier disease had attain e d a considerableheight. It was tri e d and glover, stated that, about ten minutes past eight with success by a farmer near Donnemana and many of o'clock on Tuesday night, a man came into the shop, his Londonderr neighbo y Sentinel.urs whose ] cattle had taken tilt: distemper.-- dressed in a green s h oo ti ng - coa t an d ye ll ow b u tt ons , and asked to look at some ribbons. Witness showed THE FRENCH ACADEMY OF ARTS. --The Ad y him some, and cut off a yard and a half. While she of the Beaux Arts, on Saturday, awarded the e a a t n o e n in u k l . prizes for engraving. The first was accorded was engaged in cutting, the prisoner entered, followed Aubert, pupil of MM. Martinet and Delaroche ; and the by the shopman, who had been out, and whom she second to M. Tourny, pupil of MM. Prudh omme and desired to s erve him. The moment she saw the pri- Mulard. The academy next selected the candidates soner she suspected that he was a thief, and she ob served hi s mo ti ons. T he shopman incautiously place 1 from whom a successor to the late M. Tardieu is t o b e chosen. This having been done the meeting separated, upon the counter, near the prisoner, a bundle of hand- The election is to take place at the next sitting. kerchiefs, and the man with the shooting-coat and The Hull and Gateshead papers give encouragi ng yellow buttons at the moment exchanged glances accounts of the prosperity of the shipping interest. with the prisoner, who took up some of the handker- GAMING HOUSES. Mr. PRENDERGAST now moved that bench warrants might issue in the case of THE QUEEN V. GODFREY AND OTHERS. The defendants, Godfrey, Joseph Bevan, Joseph Sherwood, C. Liley, and W. Sufffin, had been indicted on the 19th of August, for keeping a common gaming house in Bury-street, St. James's, but had neither put in bail nor appeared. The party making the affidavit swore that if the bench warrants were issued, he was in possession of such information as would enable him to capture them, and so bring the parties up for trial. The COURT granted the application for the war. rants, with 24 hours' notice of bail. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. WALESEY, Deputy-Assistant Judge, and a full Bench of Magistrates.) The first September session under the recent Act for the better administration of criminal justice in the county of Middle3ex commenced on Tuesday, at Hicks's-hall, Clerkenwell-green, before the Deputy- Assistant Judge and an unusually full bench of Ma gistrates. The calendar is numerically extremely heavy, con taining no fewer than 96 cases, of which 63 are in dictments for felony, whilst 33 are for misdemea nours, some of an important character. The grand jury having been sworn, The Deputy-Assistant JUDGE shortly addressed them. The cases which were disposed of in the course of he day did not offer any feature of public interest. During a temporary cessation, however, Mr. PRENDERGAST said he trusted his Lordship would permit him to make an application for the postponement of a case wherein the defendant was in dicted for a nuisance. The case was entitled " The Queen v. Thompson." The defendant was very ex tensively engaged as a brushmaker, and had a manu factory at Kentish-town. The prosecution was by a gentleman of the bar of the name of Pike. The affi davit upon which he made the present application dis closed several most important facts in reference to the circumstances of the case, and it was quite clear that as the prosecution had for its object the stoppage of his business, the proceedings were a life or death matter so far as the defendant was concerned. There was this singular fact, too, connected with the ewe— that it was the first instance in which a brushmaker bad been prosecuted for carrying on his trade. No brushmaker had until now ever been indicted for a nuisance. The ground upon lit bleb he moved for a postponement of the case was the absence of a mate• rial witness. The Learned JUDGE asked whether there could be any objection to a postponement ? Mr. HORRY, who appeared on behalf of the prose cution, said there were very powerful objections. Mr. PRENDERGAST begged to direct the attention of the Learned Judge to the fact, that had the late statute been still in force, the case could not have been tried until the adjournment day, which would have fallen just about the period at which the next ses sion would commence, so that in reality, although a postponement was now asked for until the ensuing session, the case would come on quite as early as before the new Bill had come into operation. The Learned JUDGE thought it was very early in the session to make such an application, for the wit ness might be obtained ere it had concluded. Mr. PRENDERGAST remarked, that the object in making the application thus early was to relieve se veral professional witnesses from a probably unneces sary attendance for three or four days. The JUDGE inquired of Mr. Horry what inconve nience could arise by the postponement ? Mr. HORRY replied, that the inconvenience to tho prosecution would be very great ; in addition to which the nuisance—a nuisance of the most pernicious and destructive character—would still be carried on. The defendant was in the habit of using a preparation of sulphur to, as he said, bleach the bristles of which he made his brushes ; and he furthermore used, as the Learned Counsel was understood to say, the chlo ride of arsenic in the construction of a peculiar de scription of fancy shaving-soap, as well as for another purpose. The fumes which were the result of these operations were of the most injurious character, and spread themselves around the neighbourhood wherein they were carried on with the most lamentable effects. The object of the prosecution of course was to ac complish the removal of the nuisance as quickly as possible, and any postponement would tend to delay the achievement of so desirable an end. He was in structed that the defendant had removed this nuisance from another place about two years since. With respect to the ground upon which the postponement was sought, he should submit that the affidavit did not show the materiality of the evidence of the par ticular witness sufficiently even to justify the appli cation ; whilst, on the other hand, the prosecutor had a witness who was now in the most dreadful state of health, and who had lost her husband and daughter from the operation of these poisonous fumes upon their system. Mr. PRENDERGAST here read an affidavit, which set forth that the nuisance, if nuisance it were, had been discontinued from the moment when the notice of indictment had been served upon the defendant. Eventually it was arranged that the trial should be postponed until the next sessions, upon the under taking of the defendant not to renew his operations during that period. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday James Lewis, a shoemaker, and Sarah Lewis, his wife, a good-looking woman, were placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with de serting their child, an infant six weeks old, whereby it had become chargeable to the parish of Wrapping. A 'woman named Mary Gray, living in Henry street, Commercial-road, stated, that while going for her husband's supper beer, on the night of the 31st of May last, when about five or six houses from her own door her attention was drawn to the cries of a child close against her feet, and on looking down she saw a bundle lying upon the pavement, which turned out to be a male infant six weeks old, rolled up in a bundle of dirty rags. She called a stranger who was passing at the time to witness the circumstance, and that person went with her and the child to the sta tion-house, where, at the intercession of the constable on duty, she agreed to take the infant home with her ies of the Wapping t a . nd keep it till the next morning, when the authori house, where it had r ij em ni a o i n ne " d ' drop ping of the child, and they took it into their work ciaodilVillesor DEAFNESS. woodTELSoTdlgMermlaAiLdenfilreOarild, Berke, Sawyer, Esq., of Hay eerveeirnfsoirnmeee.d of the Solo- Another woman named Hannah Atthill, the wife of a h weaver in Seabright-street, Commercial-road, said mons, 39, Albemarle - street, a Ge S nil and B. been deaf for some time, I was induced, in the Gentlemen , i 1 having of last at the two prisoners came to lodge at her house February twelvemonth, and remained till the TeTbae_r! 1839, to make trial of your Invisible Voice Conductors, 31st of May last, when they left. On the Easter sn ear , , I ttn h o a u d g n h o a l t i my advanced age, at that time past my 77th obtaining any relief, yet immediately I Monday preceding their quitting her house the applied y them I ocPoelotlf much r ch the general conversation, and my female prisoner was confined of a boy, and was acco• hearing has become u so aid.proved l b a y m theiruse use, that I cal modated with a box of linnen by a benevolent society now hear acutely without the ir ' , Gen tl emen, l842. of ladies in the neighbourhood. 'When the prisoners most obedient servant, J. Sawyer. 22d june left their apartments they took away with them the tsisiate Henry Cowper, Esq,, of Tewen Waters, Herts, to infant in question, and another child three years of for m a n , S . and 8 1 . Solomons :—Gentlemen, having been deaf age. In consequence of having heard something Conducrorys.eallihe w e a n s abl induced to try your Invisible Voice with regard to the baby, she determined to question and at a place of w y orship most e os m t me ? t pe4s h o e ns s i e n ct eo c r i n e pany al the female prisoner the first time she saw her, and on Handglass which you have sent me Iris very excellent, pa and an accidentally meeting her in the streets three weeks suit iant my_ sight perfectly, the transparency of which is so !mil ago asked her as to the health of the child, when the ma ~ that although I have passed my 86th year the 22d of theY mat, yet they enable mo to read, and by candle- light, with prisoner replied that it • 11 d was being was quite we ,an greatest ease and comfort to myself. I return you my best taken care of by her sister. thanks, and remain your obedient servant, Henry Cowper The child was produced in Court by one of the 22d June, 18 39.—Telescopes, Opera Glases, Microscop ' e workhouse nurses, and on being shown to the witness ' ` S 'c- of the same kind of Lenses.—Caution.—Messrs. S.alcll3. So s - , laomons, Opticians and Aurists, arc not in any way connected with Atthill, she immediately identified it, from a mark on i _person of the same name in their immediate neighbourhood. its person, as being the infant the prisoner was con- , D . lor n any part of the country. To prevent mistakes, be cau fined with at her h - to h • ouse ; and also swore having twits, and Ohserve,—Only to be had at 39, Albemarle -street, seen the rags in which the little creature was found Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. wrapped up in the street in the apartments of the pri- IPSWICH G RAND S TEEPLE CHAS E. —W e have I as soners while living w i t h her. certained, from good authority, that this steeple chase, Two other witnesses, fellow-shopmen of the male which has been so long postponed in consequence of the prited de,th of the late Lord Hill, w h. ) was one ~ f it, , zonPr, deposed to conw,rs.ition , they had had with la "' . chief pat r o n ., will Cane off about tb,: 11 , 1.1,11 , . of ti,o ilia) '''''' 'i"• ' `i:‘ . to the d eser ti tm of th e child, when he told them it was Ja( nth ~ f N_osel,i,..”. Seveval cr.tcic 114)1..c..4 01,. ..lit iii. at the house or his brother, in Catherine-street Com and are now 41 training i and the a rrangements which , mercial-road, to whom he was are being made are upon such a footing, as cannot fail of paying 3s. 6d. per week for its support. They had insuring amusement to the lovers of this sport.—lpswica suspicions AS to the tr u th o f this statement , and' .E ma de . E xpress, ' Last evening the same coroner held an inquest at the Rising Sun, Globe-road, B e th na l- green, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Duncraft, aged 74. Mr. George Frances, of No. 4, Chester-street, stated that deceased lodged in his house. On Sunday evening witness's daughter went out to spend the evening, and in consequence (,f the rain was detained till a late hour. The deceased hearing her knock at the door, got up for the purpose of letting her in, and whilst in the act of descending the stairs she fell headlong to the bottom. Witness immediately went to her as sistance, when he found her head doubled up beneath her body, and bleeding profusely from her nose and mouth. Mr. Griffiths, a surgeon, was sent for, but she expired before his arrival. Verdict, "Accidental Death. UNION-HALL. Yesterday Sarah Drew was brought before Mr. Cottingham, on remand from last Thuslay, charged with administering poison to Richard Drew, her husband. Mr. James, the solicitor who attended for the pro secution, said, that he was requested by the com plainant to state, that he was overwhelmed with grief at the awful situation of his wife, to whom he had been married forty years ; that they had sixteen chil dren, four of whom, their sons, young men of most exemplary conduct, had joined in the prayer of their father for the liberation of their mother. The com plainant was most anxious she should be discharged upon bail, as he was convinced that she would not make any further attempt upon his life, and that, under these circumstances, he (the complainant) wished that she should return home to her dwelling, if the Magistrate sanctioned it. Mr. COTTINGHA M said, that the alleged offence was of such a nature that he could not possibly grant the application ; that the intercession of the old man now made on her bnhalf evinced the kindness of his feel ings towards her, notwithstanding the de s p era t e means by whi c h s h e sought his life, and that the charge was one which must go before a jury. It was given in evidence that the quantity of arsenic put into the complainant's tea was enough to kill four persons; that there were also two other lumps of the same mineral found on the floor where the prisoner had been previously standing, a quantity that was said to be sufficient to poison twenty persons. It was only a matter of astonishment how the prisoner or any other person could have procured such a quantity of the deadly drug without proper inquiries being mad e by the per son w h o so ld i t . The person, whoever he was, was guilty of the most culpable negligence, to say the least of it, and he (the Magistrate) was ap prehensive now that the discovery would not take place. The prisoner, who stood trembling at the bar, fre quently asserted her innocence of the alleged offence, and declared that she never touched her husband's teapot on the evening in question, and had no oppor tunity of putting poison in it, even if she were in clined, for he was not a moment absent from the room. Mr. COTTINGIIAM observed that the prisoner's pre vious conduct to her husband strengthened the belief that 'tiers was the hand that administered the poison —that previously to it she had uttered threats against his life—had also threatened to burn the house ; and when she saw him retching violently from the effects of the poison he had swallowed in her presence, and when he complained of a sudden sickness and a burn ing sensation in his mouth and throat, instead of ren dering him any assistance, her expressions and un feeling conduct on the occasion were such as to war rant the conclusion that she was the offender. The Magistrate then directed the depositions to be taken, and said that he should commit the prisoner, but that she should be brought up again on Tuesday next, to give the policeman an opportunity of making further inquiries as to where the poison was bought. GREEN W ICH. Yesterday Thomas M'Clune, a superannuated war rant-officer, was convicted of having used abusive lan guage to the relieving-officer of the union, who had gone to remonstrate with him for having expelled from his roof his daughter, a girl under 20 years of age, whom her father declared to be utterly unworthy of his protection. He was sentenced to a fine of 58., and, in default, to imprisonment for seven days. Immediately after he was locked up, his son, a sailor, was brought up for having struck the relieving officer, on account of the charge against his father. The young man declared the old man, having a wife and five children to support, could not endure the pro fligacy of his daughter. He was called on to enter into recognizances for 101. His earnest entreaties at length induced the Magistrate (Mr. Grove) to respite his father's fine for ten days. CITY OF LONDON ASSESSED TAXES.—COURT OF APPEAL. Yesterday a general Court of Appeal for the City of London was held in the Land Tax-room, Guildhall buildings, before the Commissioners appointed for the execution of the 48th Geo. 111., c. 141, called the Assessed Taxes Act, for the purposes of hearing ap peals •against the first assessment for the sth of April, 1844. Pursuant to the provisions of the above Act, duplicates of the first assessment of the duties of the said taxes on the inhabitants of the City of London and its liberties, was given by the Commissioners to the collectors appointed to receive the same, on the 13th of July last. A number of appeal cases were entered for hearing in the Court, most of which were disposed of without any material points being elicited during their hear ing. Out of the number of appeals which had been made, in thirty-five cases the applicants were suc cessful. The Court, having disposed of the business of the day, adjourned. CORONERS' INQUESTS. SUICIDE.—Last evening Mr. William Baker held an inquest at the City of Paris, Bethnal-green, on the body of Mary Tipson, aged 56. It appeared that de ceased gainedl'a living, by washing, for herself and three daughters, but had lately failed, and got into arrears for rent to the amount of ten shillings. The tax-collector subsequently called, which apparently preyed much upon her mind; and on Saturday even ing she went out, as she stated, to take some linen to be mangled. She was unusually low spirited. Not returning, her daughters became alarmed, and after a great deal of inquiry her body was fount floating in the Regent's-canal, near the Eastern Counties Rail way bridge, by Clark, the lock-keeper. There being no other evidence, the jury returned a verdict of " Found Drowned." supply of sugar, and coffee, and tea, and spice at A moderate price, it would cause him to mind his Oval shop and improve his own business. What is here supposed of a grocer, Mr. Baker, ° f the " Society for Protection to Agriculture," is, 35 ! farmer. Ile may be a very respectable, moral I 1 that I know nothing of; nor is it my province to quire ; but, as an agriculturist, he is one of the in eminent slovens that ever came into distinction. DONCASTER RACES. From the subjoined outline of the various prize! 11 nominations for the ensuing meeting, it will be Colli o that, even should Alice Hawthorn walk over for,t,o, Fitzwilliam Stakes, Queen's Plate, Corporation l' and Cup, for neither of which she will have to WI more than weight for ago, there appears a prob e bi l4 of an average, if not of a brilliant week's racing MONDAY. Adel; The Fitzwilliam Stakes of 10 sove. each, with 50 as-„-,b. 3 yrs old, ist 51b ; 4 yrs, Bst 51b ; 5 yrs, Bst 1:" 6 yrs and aged, 9st. One mile and a half. C rcolt!, The Champagne Stakes of 50 sous. each, h ft ; pd Bst 71b; and fillies, 83t 51b ; two yrs old ; secona 55 his stake. Red House to the ending post. Colonel Anson's Gossamer—Mr. Bell's Sowerby- -- ,t, Bennett's Hope—Lord G. Bentinek's Longitude , Elis, and Pug—Lord Chesterfield's Twig—Mr. 61 : i j worth's br c by Camel, out of Rowton's dam—C ° 'ol Cradock's Jingle Pot—Lord Eglinton's Vaudeville ij. Lycurgus—Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-way—Afr- Fox's c by Stockport, dam by Viator—Lord Sister to Deerslayer—Mr. lieseltine's The Helmsru g ;to Mr. Irwin's The Connaught Ranger— Mr. Js c l ii p i ,:_vinate—Nlr. Johnstone's c by 'Touchstone, 1..5 , .1 1 ,11 Robee.,:a—Mr. Lintott's c by Sheet Anchor, out of ' l lO , —Sir a f by Physician, out of Castawil --- :,16 Mostyn's pai:tasa—Mr. R. Newman's Blood s tone ----- f , G. Nevill's Amaline—Mr. Osbaldeston's Easton — c g G. 03borne's Firemaster — Mr. Pedley's Poll of IlrglPP/.0. —Sir R. Pigot's The Lass of Gowrie—Mr. W. R. lir, say's Mid Lothian—Mr, J. Sheppard's Alaric --- Smith's Alice Gray—Mr. Stephenson's Wynyard---°0 Westminster's Somers and Anne Page—Mr. Wil s , 2 . St. Pancras—Mr. T. Whiteringhara's br c by 1°,111310 stone, out of Rebecca—Mr. Worthing - ton's Lane ' Witch—Mr. Wreford's c by Camel, out of Mouche• Her Majesty's Plate of 100 Guineas ; three yrs eljoi 7st 91b ; four yrs, 9st ; fire yrs, 9st 91b ; six yrs aged, lost. four miles. - oor Plate of 501., for horses that never won pa sweepstakes ; three yrs, 7st 71b ; four yrs, Bst 71b; Match, &c., 9st. Heats, St. Leger Course. Match, 2,000 ; 12st each ; two miles—Mr. Jacq uel ': A British Yeoman, 4 yrs, agst Mr. IL Johnste Wi!lism le Gros, 5 yrs, to be ridden by his o w,ier. rgni ,4 Match, Itedhouse in, 150, h ft, Bst 71b eacl l' i — e icr Glasgow's Sister to Pathfinder, agst Lord Chest er Lady Wildair. TUESDAY. 7 11); The St. Leger Stakes of 50 sovs. each ; for colts , 85- t and fillies, Bst 2lb ; the second to receive 2001. on.tba the stakes, the third to save his stakes, an d winner to pay 100/. towards expenses. hic ) There are 108 horses engaged in this stake, of 1141 not above a dozer are likely to go to the post. T Tb he.l,;.,,e, probably be included in the following list :— e Tlt Ithuriel, The Princess, Bay Momus, Valerian, A i. Devil-to-pay, Godfrey, Lightning, Foig-a-ballag b ' o or vice, Zenobia, Milton, Morpeth, Red Deer, and '- three ether,. The Cleveland Handicap of 20 sovs. each, &c. One, , r e Knight of the Whistle, 4 yrs, 9:—Semiseria , sst 61b—Flamingo, 5 yrs, - 7st 41b—Little Philip, "I' 4 Tat 2,. 1 b —Porto Bello, 4 yrs, 7st 111b—Poor yrs. 6st .101b—Quebec, 4 yrs, 6st 101b—Poussinli 6st 81b—Ti.e Pride of Kildare, 3 yrs, Est 21b---.'ilocie Free, 3 yrs, ti.:4 216—Joan of Arc, 3 yrs, 85 „, t Logi Rowena, 3 yrs, sst 8 1 b—Epilogue, 3 yrs, sst. ..ku" paid. for The Selling Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 30 added; 50, three yrs old, Est 121 b; four yrs, Bst; five il' r ea 71b; six yrs and agtd, Bst 101 b. St. Leger eOl- Winner to be sold for 2001., &e. lOW The Corporation Plate of 60/.; for three yrs old, 6 four yrs, 7st 12lb; five yrs, Bst 51b; six yrs ttnd" Bst 121 b. Mares allowed 31b. Heats, two riles' WEDNESDAY. 1 51 . 4 The Great Yorkshire Handicap of 25 sovs eaeu' n , l( lo and 5 only, if declared, with 200 added • the secy jo brst receive 100 L, and the third save his stake. St. course. f Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs, lOst 316—Knight Whistle, 6 yrs, Bst 71b ; Trueboy, 4 yrs, Bst 21b--yr,ilb. Yeoman, 4 yrs, ist 121b—Semiseria, 4 yrs, 7st 1.,!, r0 e Johnny, aged, ist 91b—Pompey, 4 yrs, 7st 81b---100, chise, 5 yrs, 7st 71b- -Scalteen, 5 yrs, 7st 716--P f grt 4 lo4 4 yrs, ist 61b —The Caster, 4 yrs, 7st 51b — Man ta, 1 01 7st 31b—WhistleBinkie, 5 yrs, ist—Heslington, 5 Y r : f te, ---(4,7e him a Name, 6 yrs, 6st 121b—Belle Dian e ' WA 6st 101 b Fisticuff, 4 yrs, Est 101b—Little Philip , .l4o 4 , • fist 81b—Dr. Allen, 5 yrs, Est 81b—All Fours, IV 6st 81b—The Artful Dodger, 5 yrs, 6s l 81b rweef Soldier, 4 yrs, 6st 81b--.Everton, 4 yrs Est 71 1 ) -- ", - 3 yrs , worth, 4 yrs, Est 61b—Hemp, 3 yrs, 6st—BruneJ, od, 6st—Mickey Free 3 yrs, 6st--Milton, 3 yrs1011)--- " frey, 3 yrs, sst lA—Dog Billy, yrs, sst n o r stead Pet, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Glossy, 4 "rs , s st 41b---fs 5 bition, 3 yrs, sst—Cockfighter, 3 yrs, sst—Rove ,:4, yrs, sst--Advice, 3 yrs, 4 st 121 b. The rest dots' British Yeoman and Semisaria do not run. , 00 The Foal Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft; for three „- St. colts, Bst 71b; and fillies Bst 31b; the winner of Ow Leger Gib extra. One mile and a half. etee Heretic, Bebington, Louis Philippe, c by 'Touche, out of Miss Giles, Juvenal, Lancet, Miss York. old The Municipal Stakes of 200 sovs., h ft ; for two Y.rs colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 41b. Red House It„,, Lord Eglinton's Lycurgus and Britannia—Lord UnTer gow's f by Sheet Anchor out of Canada—Lord Ch, e c o' field's Salira—Col. Anson's Kedger—Mr. Wrefordl.ord Camel out of Mouche—Mr. Worley's John Davies -- G. M Bentinck's Cowl. atch, 200 sovs., h ft, Bst 716 each. Red IrouSeivoy, Lord Glasgow's c by Bay Middieton, out of Miss against Lord Chesterfield's Brother to E. 0. THURSDAY. Or es The Cup of 3001., with 504 added for the second I„.rs, 7st; four yrs, Bst 51b; five yrs, Bst 121 b; six and aged, 9st; mares and geldings allowed alb j 01 , winner of the St. Leger 51b, and the ne e ° ll extra. A mile and five furlongs. o ld eel * Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft; for 3 yrs Est 7st; and fillies, Bst 21b. St. Leger course,' 011 i Joe Lovell, Attaghan, Infidel, b c by VelociP eue ' of Amulet, Dolly Spanker. ,7114 The Two Yrs Old Stakes of 20 sovs. each; colts, 85 o ke. and fillies, Bst 41b. T.Y.C. The second to save hi 5 3 5 0, & Colonel Anson's Jezail, Mr. Bell's Sovverby , 1 * Bennett's Violet and Hope, Lord G. Bentinck's 510 Longitude, and Miss Ellis, Mr. Brook's Tita n ' Cher' W. _gulkeley's Sister to Coal Black Rose, Lod yr, terfield's Twig, Mr. I). Cook's Yellow Boy, - 3il iprd Calson's Punjaub, Lord Eglinton's Bretwa lds! ow e, Glasgow's f by gay Middleton, out of In3pe,rlbbot' Mr. Heseltine's Helmsman and Fitzallen, Sir C. son's Botanist, Mr. Irwin's The Connaught Rang e T' n ess , A. Johnstone's ch c by St. Martin, out of Mar chle Mr. Lintott's c by Sheet Anchor, out of Li lls ; ,t, 0 06 Meiklam's Freeman, Sir C. Monck's f by of Castaway, Mr. Newman's Bloodstone, Mr. u• ',. Amaline, Mr. Osbaldestone's Easton and Seen t° ,.l.eisnt G. Osborne's Firemaster, Mr. Ramsay's 3/ 1 -id -i- f o reer ° Mr. H. Stebbing's Mainstay, Lord Westminster's t'et.. and Anne Page, Mr. Wormald's Sister to Pedole et v of The Innkeeper's Plate of 1001, added to a B , tti ot ol‘e' 15 sovs. each, 10 forfeit; the second to save his Red House in. Match, 200/,h ft, Bst 71b each, T.Y.C. Lo r gow's c Sister to Pathfinder, receives forfeit fr°'"" Gulley's f by Sheet Anchor, out of Phoebe. rRIDAY. , 4 35 r ,./ The Scarborough Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 1 -r o f W eld colts, Bst 716; and fillies Bst 41b; the wine.' St. Leger 71b extra. One mile. a. Susan, Godfrey, Prince Royal, The Cure, R° W- Ailiel , The Park Hill Stakes of 50 says. each, h ft, for f 1 110 Bst 71b each; the second to rece i v e 100/. out ° Princess, St. Leger course. 13 1 5 4 The Princess, the Maid of Fez, Luneta, Co sl n d Rose, Emma, Here I go with m y Ey e Out, Al' I. ° ll- oon . Hat, Miss Sheraton, Joan of Arc, The Bee, A0 1 9'1009 nets o' Blue, f by Retainer, out of Purity, Wi l l Oaf The Pride of Kildare, Louisa, Lady Sale, Princesshopel, Deuce Ace, Sorella, Zenobia, Seaweed, Missy, St riit 0 55 ' Little Fairy, Epilogue, The Boarding School Carol, Thais, Lady Sarah, Miss York. 5 0 0 Match, 300, h ft. Red House in—Lord GrAs— agst Lord G. Bentinck's Longitude. 4 The Town Plate of 100 L; for 3 yrs old, 7st 51b; ;l e o Bst 71b ; fillies and geldings allowed 31b, and 113113 31b. Heats, two miles. _roe) BIRTH& ° On the Bth inst., at Hale Hall, Cumberland, t he la Miles Ponsonby, Esq., of a son. e l. FrO On the Bth inst., at Broadstairs, the lady of Trower, Esq. ' of a daughter On the 8 thinst at Colchester, Mrs. E. Daniell , of On the Bth inst.,. at Burnham Westgate, Norfolk , t" of the Rev. H. Sweeting, of a daughter. Cbir On the 9th inst., at Chatteris, the lady of W. man, Esq., of a son. - MARRIED. d 11N 4 On the 9d inst., at Sidmouth, Captain hiassingber,- ' no t. to Julia, eldest daughter of M. Gutterei, Esq., _of Bei rtb isciv On the 3d inst., at St. Mary's, Southwark, Howard ../. s y. son, Esq., to Catherine Hannah, widow of the Ist e ,,, o re Medley, Esq., and second daughter of the late Sir u Mouat Keith, Bart., R.N. . n d r 15 „' On the 3d inst., at Hardenhuish Church, Ale' ‘ ,.,• -- e of 'J . ' Rook, RN., of Lackham House, to Ellen, datigb"— of Clutterbuck, Esq., of Hardenhuish House, Wilts. -r .1' On the 7th inst., at Windrush, John Clibborn, 'lot° Lypanisky, King's county, Ireland, to Eliza, relict of tb Arundel obts, Esq itf . Jo" On the ß 7th inst., at All Saints, Huntingdon, -- I. ' oil , King Westrop, of London, t o M a ry, second daughter o —,' Edward Sharman, of Huntingdon, --- ot ( On the sth inst., Grorge p T i n .li ma . s Thorpe, Esq. , ibrnienj the Army Pay-office, aged 55. ireoll * I On the 21st ult., while bathing , in the Dam.p_e.,‘,a.,t,i; p i Is ' George Drysdale, aged 19, son of the late Sir iv nil. dale, of PitteueLn Fifeshire ; 00 141 On the sth inst. (3eorge Wakefield, Esq., of 31-11 Greaves, Warwickshire. __,, s re,, Lo O re n hz t o h l e ,a 6 ro t d h i, i z i l i g s e t. (l. 7 in 6. 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