The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-28 00:00:00

.i t•• friurb Etatton TILE FU DS— PRICES. Lank Stoek.. BRITISIst FUNDS. ..........ei div. t'.U6 ;Ditto Bonds 4.1,000 bei PH , 7 = per Cent. Red ........„ ... 10) Ditto under £l,oof , - pin. per Cent. Cons per Cent. Red gew 3U per Cent 10234 Ditto New Annuities ... New 5 per Cent —l Ex. Bills , 1,0001. I%d ... 60 pm. Leng Annuities t o exp i re ! Ditto ow. ......... ...... Go pin. Jan. IWO.-- ......... 12 l Ditto Small 6O pi* Oct. 1839 ll;%i l Bank Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1& 60 ....... .. Indian 5teek............ ........ 287 !India Stock for Acct — FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent Russian, 5 per Cent Ditto, Metallic Brazilian Bonds Romer; Ayres, 6 per Cent.,, ' Ditto, 1811 ...................... Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Chllian, II per Cent C+lninbian, 6 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent ....... ..... f Ditto, 3 per Cent Greek, 1845, 5 per Cent — IVenezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct... Mexican, 5 per Cent - t Neapolitati Bonds, 5 per Ct... IF renc h , 3 per Cent . —l. —, Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent. ~.... i F.:change Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct,,, 2i#! Dutch, 2% per Cent Portuguese Bonds, a ', , er Ct ' Ditto,.s per Cent......... — SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) ts Bxighton, Lewes, and Hastings, ') paid 2 14 Cambridge and Lincoln, 13 paid lit Direct Northern, 23 paid ... ....... ......... Eastern Counties (25 paid) Great Western (75 pal()) London and Birmingham (Stock) London and Blackwall (1131. 13s. 4d.) 6% London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid) 9% London and York, 234 paid Midland (100 paid) Birmingham and Derby, £lOO paid 79 Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, '2l paid . 57 Richmond and West End Junction, 1 paid 13.6 South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) ... Ditto, New Shares, 4 paid.... West London, Old Shares, ..20 paid .. ... York and North Midland (50 paid) lOO Ditto Half Sharon (25 paid) Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid 6d Ditto Extension Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid ...... ........... 44 Orleans and Vierzon, 2 paid lll4, Orleans and Bourdeaux, 1 paid Paris and Lyons, 2 paid 3 Paris and Orleans 120 paid) Paris and Rouen. 20 p ai d COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) CADERIX V. LITTLE. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The jury, after about an hour's deliberation, returned a •rert - lict for the plaintiff on all the counts —Damages, 40s, , which, in this action to try• a right, carries full costs. ----- SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING FAPERS OF THIS DAT. STANDAII,D.—The Chapter of the diocese 0; . Exeter have addressed to the Lord Primate a meme -tral,_ praying his Grace to consult with the Bishop as to the best means of establishing uniformity if, the order of public worship. The course pro poaed by the Chapter is no doubt open to some objection:, and objections of cons id era bl e we i g h ; have been offered against it; but, looking to tin evil consequences that must flow from the present state of affairs if notch longer continued, any; unable to discover any better means of correct dug that Unfortunate state, we must express no anxious hope that the proposition of the Exeter Chap ter will be favourably received and lirrnly acted upon. W e have besides a complete confidence that the Bishop la ill decide with a full knowledge of what suits tie age in which we live, and decide without pre judSeses and wisely. The cha rac t er i st i c, o f our time is practical v Common sense, which, with out shi k shting kmagination in that which is its pro per sp ere, the sphere of innocent pleasures, reject, it absolutely from all the serious business o; fife- This makes us severe and strict in all ow greaser concerns, and there is none so grave as Mi• makes also (though not in the bad sense) jealous and sceptical. Whether it has originated it our political inquiries or elsewhere, we will hardy -submit -submit to anything without a reason for it, and good one. And in truth our best religious teacher, are somewhat to blame for this disposition, if the dig. '.pooktion (which we are far from thinking) is one t, .be famented. What are " Butler's Analogy," and " Paley's Evidences," but practical commentaries upon the Apostle's command to " prove all things F . 'Now, this being the temper of the time, as is wel known to the Bishops, we have no apprehension that their Lordships will not see the necessity of adapting their arrangements to it, and take care that while . public worship shall be conducted "decently and it, order," no ceremonies shall be imposed that hav( not the sanction of uninterrupted usage or manifest utility ; sternly rejecting whatever is merely sym bolical, or otherwise only calculated to work con fusedly upon the imagination. Such things, in thi, mature age of the world, are objectionable a, puerilities—injurious to the grave temper propel for religions worship; and their puerility is cer tainly not atoned for by their known con nexion with Popish errors, both in those win first introduced them, and in those who would noes revive them. We repeat our conviction that th, Bishops will see the necessity of restoring the order of public worship universally to what it has beet during the last two or three generations, without the least regard to time-repealed rubrics, and obsolete customs. The worst of revolutions, it was said by Lord Somers, and afterwards by Mr. Fox is a counter=revolution ; and the most offensive of innovations is the renovation of what hat been long and deliberately discarded ; tin reason is the same in both. The counter-revo talons and renovations are victories gained over their former superiors by a lately depressed party. and the hiStory of the world tells how such victories are always used. The Bishops will be cautious hog they draw upon Themselves, or, if they are careless about themselves, as we truly believe they are, how they draw upon the sacred Establishment of which they are the guardians, the odium of giving a triumpl to the Tractarian party, by setting u p i nnova ti ons of renovations abstractedly distasteful to the people, and rendered more intolerable by their apparent connexion with Popish errors. GLOBE.—Since we roused the attention of the public to the state of our relations with Brazil there has been nothing but restlessness in Downing-street :sad Whitehall. The organ of the Board of Trade is t ,, ld to browbeat the _Ministers of Brazil ; and forth -t ith " insolent Brazil" is held up to scorn and indignation for attempting to profit by the foolish and selfsought perplexities of its super-subtle pre s,; lent. But this course being found inexpedient, the apologist of the Foreign -office is instructed to bold the language of conciliation, and to justify even the Brazilian tariff! Accordingly, we learn that " the sole object of it is revenue,"—that Brazil has " hostile intentions towards us,"—that she is ac tuated only by one motive, " which Brazilian -Ministers are bound to make the law of their conduct --we mean the interest of the state which theygovern." -Now, this is all beside the question. The intentions of Brazil towards us may readily be supposed to be iiiornired by her own views of her own interests, and by a very natural desire to increase her trade, and, of course, leer revenue. About her intentions towards us, we may concern ourselves but little. The ques tion the public is interested in is, as to the intentions of our own Government towards Brazil, which, as far as they can he gathered from existing in formation, have reference neither to the exten sion of our trade nor to the increase of our reve nue ; but appear, on the contrary, calculated at once to narrow the one and restrict the other. The attempt now made to clothe the wretched policy of our Cabinet with. a sentimental regard for the inte rests of our merchants, we discard as altogether childish ; as the last resource of men who, struggling both against events they either did not or would not foresee, and principles they can no longer oppose, and left destitute of any intelligible defence of their policy, seek to disguise their failure under the chimerical pretence of protecting our merchants from the evils of over-trading and over-credits. Their course in opposition left them no alternative but to allow the Brazilian Treaty to expire without making any attempt to renew it, and to risk the in- s ;serious consequences to our trade; and it precluded W. 'them from all frindly negotiation with a Power with hold which we had long enjoyed an advantageous trade in of s uet` that very article which we still import, refine, and farming s,. export ; but which we are not all owe d—i n d eference and dechnm, to the political casuistry of the Board o f T ra d e —t o We a, 7 . . S. Lintott, grog a for home consumption. We import and carry on tanford, draper. c a direct trade in the article to the extent of 13,000 tons C. Knight,-grocer. annually. We supply both our own colonies with H. a -,,,n refined sugar, and foreign countries with still larger - quantities of raw sugar; but not a pound may we eat at home! 'We may carry on any amount of trade in, and consume all or any of, the products of Brazil-- her coffee, or her hides, or her tobacco—and even her sugar—provided not a particle of the latter find its way into the tea or coffee of the labouring classes of this country ! And, beyond even this, we may import free-labour sugar as it is—(absurdly as falsely) called from Java, which now competes with the slave trade sugar of Brazil in continental markets, and thus increase the demand tOr the sugar of Brazil and Cuba .there brit to consume ourselves that w hich our policy AcciouNr FRO M TIIR 'INCAUTIOUS USE OF FlRE forces others to consume, is forbidden by the ARMS.—Yesterday afternoon a i dreadful i accident , oc dictates of humanity' Hence, as MM r. 'Culloch c .o u r a rti a d d o n u a b m o e s t r i d jaohfishing-smackn Carr Carrier, aged yln6g, off belonging to thßillingsgatee observes, "though we do n o t swee t en our tea with t - sugar produced by B raz ili an or C u b a s l aves, vessel. The poor f e ll o w, it appears, had been cleaning clothe oursel v e s w ith woo l, manure our lands w i th we a fowling-piece, and had broken a piece of wow! bones or which he used for the purp ose i n th e b arre l, i n or d er and manufacture our p a p er o f rags which are to remove which h e p oure d some pow d er i n t o th e paid i with this very !ft is obviou s , there- • gun, and then foolishly dropped on to it a hot cinder. fore, that in so far as buying their produce goes, we 'he explosi on w hi c h t oo k p l ace s h attered his r i ght b aud are direct enc ouragers o f s l avery i n Brazil. And ,to pieces, and dreadfully lacerated the arm. He was thus it is, that while our present system lays our conveyed to Guy's Hospital, and was immediately at trade with Brazil and Cuba under a disadvantage, tended by Mr. Edward Cock, who performed amputation and oblike a our people to pay double its natural at the wrist joint. The lad is in a fair wa y o f recover y. • price for an important necessary of life, it pro- AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.— Since Th urs d ay l as t, motes that very slavery we affect to deprecate !" not less than seventy-seven persons have been admitted Such sophistry as that to which we ri( l i i ed a r y e t ad- o b e certed has indeed only to be stated into the workhouse of the Banbury union ; and we be here we are not mistaken when we state that an equal scouted by every intelligent and honest lu number are ready to present themselves for a like pur- And whist the plea put forward by the Go ve l r n i pose. Of the seventy-seven, forty-one are from the these ablUrd inconsistencies—put forward ron t for parish of Bloxham, and they entered together on Friday paper - piciliarly affecting a knowledge of mercantile ast, passing through our town in melancholy procession. —Banbury Guardian, i ;zl,-- THE CASE OF INFANTICIDE AT WOLVERHAMPTON. CONCLUSION OF THE INQUEST. This investigation was resumed on Friday last, and adjourned on the evening of that day. On Tues ' day the Coroner and jury met again, and after the examination of several witnesses, whose testimony added nothing to the general statements published last week, the jury, after ten minutes deliberation, re turned the following verdict :—" That the said unknown female child was born alive in the month of October, in the year aforesaid, and died immediately after her birth, and was found dead on the 28th day of the same month, in the same year, in the night soil of a certain privy situate in the parish aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, and that her death was caused by ex travasation of blood upon the brain, the result of ex ternal violence, but how or by whom such violence was caused, sufficient evidence does not appear to the said jurors." Mr. Sheriff was removed from the police station to Stafford on the night of his commitment, and Miss Rail ton and Mr. Hildreth early on the following morning ; but Mrs. llildreth has remained in the town, in conse quence of the ill state of her health. DR. GLOVER., IN REPLY TO MR LETHEBY, ON THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN BELANEY'S CASE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The only reply to Mr. Letheby which I think myself called on to make through the public press, con sists in the correction of three misrepresentations of my statement. In a letter to the Medical Gazette I have re plied more fully. 1. Mr. Letheby accuses me of endeavouring to prove that the taste of prussic acid " must be hot." Now, I only go the length of supposing this substance, when swallowed in a poisonous dose, to be capable of giving rise to a sensation which a person might term "hot," not being in a condition to " search for choice expressions." 2. He tries to found something upon an inference which he supposes me to make in Belaney's favour, from his apparent intention of using the lancet. But I expressly guard myself from drawing any such inference; and content myself with showing, that as bleeding is, in the opinion of most authorities, an excellent remedy iu such cases, and in the opinions of others the very best remedy which can be employed, it does not quite follow, as the Medical Gazette bath it, that Belaney Wok out his lancet in order to kill his wife. 3. no asserts that I dissent in. Into from the opinion given by himself and Dr. Thomson in regard to the smell of prussic acid remaining for some_timc in a room where some of this substance may have been spilt. I express no such dissent, but endeavour to show the exis tence of circumstances which explain the absence of smell in the case in question. The position which I hold is so secure, that Mr. Letheby, like another opponent, in despair of being able to attack it with success, has fallen on points which Ido not hold, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT M. GLOVER, M.D. 12, Northumberland -street, Newcastle-on• Tyne, November 27. • MR. HURST'S AFFAIRS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Silt,— A grossly exaggerated statement in reference to the affairs and pecuniary embarrassments of our pre sent Member, Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., having gone the round of the principal newspapers of the day, copied from the columns of the Brighton Guardian, which from the evident vindictive feeling exhibited in the article iu question is calculated, not only unnecessarily to wound the feelings of Mr. Hurst and his connexions, and in flict a deep and lasting injury on the junior members of his family, but also create an unfavourable impression in the minds of strangers as to the tradesmen who are al luded to in that article —we, the undersigned tradesmen of the borough of Horsham, with many of whom Mr. Ilurst has for years past been in the habit of principally dealing, feel it our duty, in justice to Mr. Hurst and ourselves, thus publicly to deny, so far as our knowledge and interests are conceraied, the truth of the statement inserted in the Guardian reflecting on the character and conduct of Mr. Hurst in reference to any debts con tracted with ourselves, or of which we have cognizance with any other tradespeople. Our accounts have been always fairly and honourably paid at the usual period of the year for discharging the same, and we have every confidence that our claims for the current year will be discharged in like manner. So far from Mr. Hurst's " disappearance" from Horsham being sudden and un expected to us, it was a matter of common notoriety for some considerable time previously to his departure. With regard to the alleged intended sale of his house hold furniture, farming stock, &c., the only disposition of such property advertised is the ordinary sale of farming stock, &c., by a gentleman quitting his farm and declining to follow that occupation. We are, Sir, your obedient servants, W. Lintott, grocer. INNT. Aldridge, plumber, gla- J. Stanford, draper. zier, &c. C. Knight, - grocer. G. Waller, gun maker. H. Hazel!, saddler, &c. R. Collins, tailor. C. Rowland, stone-mason. J. Honywood, builder. J. Penfold, smith. 'T. Honywood, builder. H. Stanford, baker. T. Redford, butcher. J. Herring, druggist. J. Rowland, t brickli J. Potter,'baker: B. Rowland, } layers. Webber and Taylor, buil• ders. J. Clarke, printer and book binder. G. Rich, upholsterer. IS. Stove'', brewer. H. Mitchcll, brewer and coaliG. Clark, coachniaker. merch ant. Horsham, 20th Nov., lb ;".flil)4 5i4. 7 1 ••••-•W , t ' THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY _EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1844. affairs—that " it was indispensable that a salutary and foreseen check should be given to the export trade now and for the next few months"---and " to change the slovenly, and in many instances desperate system of doing business now practised in Brazil ?' Com ment upon such puerility as this were wasted. It is further stated, that " if the Budget of 1841 had been adopted at the moment it was brought forward, it would not have changed in any one particular the subsequent policy of the Brazilian Government. Mr. Baring proposed the reduction of the Sugar Duties absolutely and unconditionally ; and no stipulation for the renewal of the commercial treaty, or for the main tenance of low import duties on British goods, was so much as required of the Brazils." Now, if this were merely the dictum of the Times, it might be al lowed to pass without much consideration. But if it be derived from any higher source, we hope the day is not far distant when we may find it confirmed in Par liament by some one competent to speak, and having a full knowledge of all the facts of the case. We shall be anxious to hear any one, speaking with the authority of the Board of Trade, say that the reduction then pro posed by Mr. Baring, absolute and unconditional as it was, " would not have changed in any one particu lar the subsequent policy of the Brazilian Govern- ment ;"—that is, if we are to understand by this that the reduction of the sugar duties then pro- I posed would not have enabled us to negotiate and re new a favourable treaty with Brazil, without that interruption to our trade which now immediately flows from the policy of the present Government. If, however, this, and this only, be meant—that Mr. Baring's well-timed reduction of the sugar duties, would not have changed the old policy ot• Brazil to wards this country, which was singularly favourable to our trade ; then we agree with the Times, and admit that such would have been the case. We recommend our Contemporary to inquire further into this matter before it again lends itself to making random assertions upon a subject on which it is but imperfectly informed. But then, Mr. Baring, in 1841, made an absolute and unconditional reduction of the sugar duties. No doubt he did. And a hat did Sir Robert Peel say in 1842, when he was courting Free Trade "cheers" to sustain him in his amendments of the Tariff?— " Make every possible effort," said he, "to obtain re•• ciprocal advantages from other countries ; but, if you fail, you should not refuse to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest, for the purpose of punishing other countries." And again, in 1843, referring to the same period, he said, " I then declared that 1 consi- i dered that our domestic interests in all these arrange ments were of primary consideration. I laid down the principle, that it would not be wise in us to punish ourselves, because other countries refused to adopt se- milar arrangements as to their import duties. These principles I laid down last year, and I adhere to them still." The principle on which Mr. Baring acted is here adopted, defended, and justified by Sir R. Peel. More favourable terms than those of Brazil towards us could not be proposed or expected, whilst Brazil had a right to expect mere favourable terms from us. Her tariff was an encouragement to our ma nufactures. Our tariff was a discouragement to her produce. Mr. Baring, therefore, did wiser• in unconditionally reducing our Sugar duties, as a preliminary to a renewal of a beneficial treaty with Brazil, and which at that time was in our power. ti In 1841, however, the members of the present Go vernment refused to relax the prohibitory duties on foreign sugar, because a moral consideration was in- • volved, viz., the question of the slave trade I They adhered to their refusal even in 1843, upon the mo- • tion of Mr. Hawes to reduce the duty on foreign sugar to 34s.—the identical amount they subsequently adopted for their duty, on their miscalled free-labour sugar ; which, admitting it to be such, if imported, only opens the markets, to which it previously went, to a corresponding supply of slave-labour sugar. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 27. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminste r , b e f ore M r . Justice WIGHTMAN and a Middlesex Common Jury.) BARKER V. MARIGNAN. Mr. Peteredorff appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr, Platt for the defendant. This was an action to recover damages for an arrest and alleged false imprisonment. The plaintiff is a livery stable keeper, and the defendant's horse and chaise had been brought to plaintiff's stable and put up there. During that time the horse was baited. In about half an hour after the defendant arrived at plain tiff's stables, and called for his horse and chaise, on which he was told that there was a shilling to pay. Ho replied that his horse and chaise had not been sent there by himself, but by the landlord of the Brown Bear, in Covent-garden, and that, therefore, he should not pay the charge demanded. Upon this plaintiff told him that he should detain the horse and chaise until his demand was paid, whereupon the plaintiff went out, and returning with a policeman, gave the plaintiff into custody, and at the station-house preferred a charge of felony against him for stealing his horse and chaise. To recover damages for this causeless arrest and false imprisonment the pre sent action had been brought. The jury found for plaintiff—Damages 10/. DAVIS V. CURLING. This was an action against the surveyor of the high ways of the parish of Tottenham, to recover damages for the consequences of an accident which had been occasioned, as was alleged, by his neglect. The plain tiff is a cowkeeper, residing in Lambeth, and on the Ist January, 1843, he drove down to Tottenham in a one horse chaise, accompanied by his wife, to the house of a Mr. Newsome, where he remained to supper. On his return homo his gig was upset in Marsh-lane, is conse quence of his driving over a heap of gravel. The gig was broken to pieces, and Davis and his wife were both seriously injured. The former was confined to his bed for three weeks, and was disabled from attend ing to his business for six weeks. It appeared that on each side of the lane there is a track of greensward, on which it is customary to place heaps of gravel for the repair of the road, where they are left until they are required. The heap in question, it was contended, extended from the greensward into the road. Several of the plaintiff's witnesses swore positively to this fact, and also stated that they had, before the acci dent occurred, frequently drawn the attention of the defendant's servants to the dangerous state of the par ticular gravel heap which had occasioned the accident. Mr. PLATT (with whom was Mr. Bovile) having concluded the case for the plaintiff, Mr. PETIFIRSDORVP (with whom was Mr. James), for the defendant, submitted that he was entitled to the verdict, on the ground that the defendant had not re ceived twenty-one days' notice of the action, which, as a public officer, he was entitled to, ander the 109th section of the sth and 6th William IV., cap. 50, and that the plaintiff must be nonsuited, even should the Court decide no notice was necessary, because there was no proof of the allegation that defendant had received distinct notice to remove the gravel, and that there was no evidence to show that he had suffered the gravel to remain there wilfully, or even to show that he knew that it was there at all. Mr. Justice NVlotursum baring heard Mr. Platt and Mr. 80 - vile in reply to the objections, refused to stop the ease, but reserved the points. Mr. PETBA3DORFF then addressed the jury for the defendant. Mr. Justice WIGIITMAY, in summing up, left there questions to the jury --First, were they satisfied that the defendant ever knew that the gravel was in the place where it was ? Secondly, if he did so know it, was it negligence and want of due care on his part to leave it there ? Thirdly, if they answered the other two questions in the affirmative, were they satisfied that the accident had been occasioned by such negligence ? The jury returned with a verdict for the plaintiff, answering each of these questions in the affirmative, and assessing the damages at 351. WINTER ASSIZES. HOME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, Non. 27. The Commission of gaol delivery for the county of Kent was opened on Tuesday by Mr. Justice Wil liams, and this morning the business of the assize commenced. There are forty prisoners for trial, some of whom are charged with murder. There are also several other serious offences. John Cogger , 33, a person of re s pe c t a bl e appear ance, surrendered in discharge of his recognisances, to answer an indictment charging him with having unlawfully acted as an attorney at the Quarter Ses sions at Maidstone, without being duly qualified or admitted to practice in that capacity. The defendant pleaded guilty. Mr. BODKIN ' who was instructed t o p rosecu t e , sa id the indictment had been instituted by the Law So ciety of the county, with a view to put a atop to the practice of unauthorised persons acting as attorneys. They had, of course, no vindictive feeling towards the defendant, and as he had acknowledged his error by pleading guilty, the prosecutors would be satis fied with his entering into his own recognisance to appear and receive the judgment of the Court, if he was called upon to do so, which would, however, not be done unless he repeated the offence. The defendant having entered into the required re cognisances, was discharged from custody. THE CASE OF RICHARD DADD, THE PARRICIDE 7 Mr. BODKIN made an application to the Court in reference to the above prisoner, who, it will be remem• bered, after having murdered his father, made his way to France, and was eventually brought back to this country and committed for trial. The Learned Counsel, after having briefly alluded to the circumstances of the case, said there was no doubt that the unhappy young man was insane, and he had been removed, by order of the Secretary of State, to a criminal lunatic asylum, where he now re mained. As the trial, therefore, would not come on, he had to apply to the Court to discharge the recog nisances of the witnesses who had been bound over, and to order that the money and other valuables taken from the person of the deceased gentleman at the time of the discovery of the murder, might be delivered to his friends.—The Court made the order. Mr. HORMI applied to have a person, named Richard Snoard, whose name appeared upon the calendar as charged with forgery, called upon to ap pear in discharge of his recognisances. The circumstances connected with this case are of rather an extraordinary character. The accused is represented to be a man of very considerable pro perty, and the offence with which he is charged was alleged to have been committed upwards of four years ago, and the indictment has during all that period been upon the files of the Court, but has been post poned under various pretects until the present time. The accused was admitted to bail in the sum of 1,0001. to appear and answer the charge, and in his failing to do so, the recognisances he had entered into were entreated, and the amount was eventually paid into the Exchequer. The defendant was afterwards taken, and was again admitted to hail, and the trial was to have taken place at the last Summer Assizes; but upon the application of the counsel for the defendant, it was again postponed, and the indictment now once more came before the court. The defendant was called upon to appear, but did not do so. Mr. Hoare then applied to have the recognisances cstreated. He said the case had now been standing i)ver for several years, and it was very hard upon the prosecutors that they should be trifled with in this manner. He trusted, therefore, that the Court would either insist upon the defendant appearing and taking his trial, er else estreat the recognisances. Mr. Justice Winni Alts said that if the party did not appear in pursuance of his recognisances, they would, of course, be entreated_ Mr.' BODKIN shortly afterwards said that he and Mr. Clarkson were instructed to defend the accused, and he was in attendance iu the Court, but was, not prepared at that moment to take his trial, but he would be ready to do so, if time was afforded him to obtain the attendance of some material witnesses. Mr. Justice WULLIANIS said the trial must come on in its turn during the assizes, or else the recognisances would be estreated. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday Mr, John Smith, a packing-case maker, carrying on business at the corner of Distaff-lane, was brought before Aldermen Hughes and Hooper, charged with indecently assaulting Sarah Crisp, a girl belonging to the Queenhithe-ward School for Girls, in Old Fish street. Mr. Deputy Goss stated that he was the treasurer of 1 the ward school, and it having come to his knowledge that the defendant had enticed half-a-dozen of the school children into his premises by giving them a few half• pence, and had tak en th e opportun i ty to behave inde cently to them, he thought it was his duty to bring the matter before the Magistrates. lie had carried this practice on for some time ; but on account of the tender age of the children it was desirable, perhaps, that they should be spared a public examination, and that the ' charge should be limited to an assault on one child. Sarah Crisp' aged 10 years, then stated that her father is dead, and she is maintained by ker mother. She had been clothed and educated in the ward school for six years past. She first went into the defendant's shop with some other children about a year ago, when he gave them some halfpence. lie did not take any liber ties with her then, nor at any time when any of her schoolfellows were with her. But he had behaved judo. cently to her on several occasions. The last time was a fortnight ago, when she e s tme out o f school before dinner. The MAGISTRATE inquired particularly as to this transaction, but did not :find ground to commit for a felony or a, misdemeanour. _ Tice defendant said ho was innocent. Hi s shop had no windows. It was an open carpent er ' s shop close to the street, and it was impossible to act in the way de scribed without being scan by the persons passing. He had no means of answering the case except by denying it, and by showing its improbability. Mr. Alderman Hoorßit said, he was in the habit of passing the shop, and knew thee were planks standing up at the back of the sh op which would afford a cover to such acts. The Magistrates having consulted, Mr. Alderman Humuta said, if the defendant did not choose to submit to a at' mmary conviction, he might be committed for trial at Coe sessions, aid the whole of the children whom he had assaulted would be called. He would take the conser l uence of that examination. He believed all tbf, girl 1 , 41 stated—for children end fools ! generally spoke the truth. They then adjudged him to pay a tine of 51. for the assault. The defeudaut paid the fine. Mr. Alderman hoorzn recommended him to remote immediately from a neighbourhood where his character had become infamous. If he did not the alderman would take care he should be watched. BOW-SiKEET. Yesterday John Ogilvie, who was charged with ex• torting a gold watch and chain, and 5/. ItOs., from Mr. F. Mieville, of Hanover-square, by threats of an infamous character, was brought up for final examination. Mr. Hobler, the solicitor for the prosecutor, stated that since the last remand another distinct charge of a similar nature had been instituted against the prisoner, which he was prepared to go into. The only additional evidence offered in the former case was that of a woman named Mary Ann Gill, who said she had lived, until about a month ago, in Pitt street, John-street, and knew both the prisoner and the cabman, Charles Rouse (who was examined last Fri day). She recollected Rouse bringing her an umbrella some weeks since, and saying it was left in his cab; it was afterwards fetched away by the prisoner, who wore a gold or gilt chain at the time. On being questioned by the prisoner, she admitted that she had great doubt as to hie being the young man who took away the umbrella ; and as it appeared evi dent to the Court that her testimony would be of no service to the prosecution, it was not returned with the depositions. The prosecutor iu the other case was Mr. Claud Neil son, a clerk in the office of his father, 3, Leadenhall street, who stated that in the afternoon of November 9, whilst looking in some print-shops in Finch-lane, the prisoner rushed against him twice in a suspicious man ner, mid subsequently followed him to Mr. Barraud's shop in Cornhill, where he had to call on business. The prisoner waited till he came out again, and then con tinued to follow him, although he walked as quickly as he could through the passages leading into Lombard street, hoping to avoid him. In one of these passages he heard the prisoner calling to him " to come away from the street," and he then became so much alarmed that he ran off at full speed until compelled by fatigue to stop in a lane near the India House, where he turned upon the pri soner (who had pursued him closely), and asked what was his object in following him ? The prisoner re plied that he must have money, and would not leave till he had received some ; upon .which the prosecutor gave him Is , and desired him to go about his business. The prisoner said, " A shilling is not enough for what you have done ; you must give me a great deal more ;" and on being asked for an explanation, be added, " A man is coming who has seen it all, and unless you satisfy me, I will give you in charge." He then addressed some filthy epithets to the prosecutor, and beckoned to a per son who seemed to be waiting a few yards distant, but the prosecutor succeeded in getting away, and ran into the shop of Mr. Vardon, ironmonger, 3, Gracechureh street, where the prisoner arrived immediately after him. The prosecutor inquired for Mr. Vardon, whom he wished to see in private, but the prisoner declared that they should not speak together unless in his presence. Mr. ,Vardon, however, took the prosecutor through his counting-house, and directed a warehouseman in his employ to keep back the prisoner, who tried to effect lan entrance also, but was prevented. The prisoner then said, " Luckily, he has given me a shilling ;" and in a few minutes afterwards, finding that he could not get into the room to which the prosecutor and Mr. Vardon had retired, he said he would tetch a policeman, and ac cordingly left the shop, but did not return. Information of the occurrence was then given to the police. Both Mr. Vardon and his warehouseman, William Hannah, as well as the prosecutor, having spoken posi tively to the prisoner's identity. Mr. JARDINE bound the parties over to prosecute and give evidence, and committed the prisoner for trial on both charges. It was too evident from what transpired in Court that the prisoner had confederates in these execrable trans actions. I prisoner, was accessory to the robbery, for unless he could do that, the charge against that individual must also fall to the ground. The coMplainaeadmitted that he was not in a condi . tion to do so, althougist he had strong grounds for be . lieving thaiffielpfistme was influenced by that person. The pristifeiliert ~..;.,. ed out again on her lawful hus band (as alWeitged ..121 .to enter the Court, and witness I the falsel4d.ivvick`vi e uttered against them both. She then ptiieeeded to st4te that there was no foundation for eitherilie charge of obbery or bigamy. That she left the Priisoner, in consequence of ill usage, and on i Sunday last was made an honourable woman, by getting ' I married to Mr. Smith, and that her marriage so exaspe- I rated Watts, that he trumped up these serious charges against her to be revenged. The Magistrate said he should discharge the accused, and she left the bar with an air of triumph, asking the complainant what he gq‘,,after all, by his motion, and advised him to keep out Akihe way of " Mister" Smith, her husbaiak:ka ase of accident. I , i ~ , AL ,, . )7' H-STREET. ROBB :,...,..f, V. ~:t ' s - 7Vi . . 44 ; . 1JT10N OF DUMMIES.—James Seceder .- - - : ~,„ - ~ on ware placed at the bar, before MiN . ry,. on i c arse, or rather suspicion of stealing twplrapitlesiSf qufcksileer, of the value of 501. From et e helvisPrit* ofslnspector Don n i gan an d th e police-cof k 0W Riallert^Thorp, H 155, it appeared that, about six o'clock oil the *ceding evening, the latter ob served a town-cart stop in front of a blacksmith's shop in Pennington-street, and immediately after observed two men carry something heavy from the vehicle into the house. Suspecting something wrong, he watched the place for a few moments, and seeing a little girl in the shop, he asked her who the parties were, and what they had taken into the house? She replied that it was Mr. Saunders and another person, whom she did not know, and that the former said he wanted her master to drill a bole in two stoves he had brought for the purpose. Saunders was secured, but his companion had made his escape, and on examining the articles taken into the house, they were found to be two bottles of quicksilver, of over 901bs. each, and of the value of 501. The pro perty was taken in the cart to the station-house, and on examining the vehicle, the name of Richard Owen, of Fashion-street, Brick-lane, was found on it. Mr. Owen subsequently attended at the station-house, and repre sented that the cart had been hired about three o'clock in the afternoon, by a man named Priestly, to do a job from the Borough to Tower-hill, and that his man, John Robinson, had accompanied it. While making this statement, the prisoner Robinson entered the station house, and was detained by Inspector Donnigan on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery. When the officers had terminated their evidence, Mr. Golding, a town carman, entered the Court, and, addressing Mr. Henry, said he had attended to apply for a warrant against one of his men, named Sandford, for absconding from his employment en that morning under very suspicious circumstances. Mr. Golding then stated, that on the day before he had sent Sandford with a van and two horses to remove fifty battles of quicksilver, in bond at Fresh Wharf, to the Southampton Railway sta tion. On his return Sandford did not produce a receipt for the goods, as was usaal in such transactions, but stated as his excuse that there was some mistake in the weight. On the day following, he (Sandford) came to the yard at an early hour, but it was evident, from a con versation which he had with one of the men, that there was something wrong, and he absconded from the pre mises shortly afterwards. Sir. Golding added, that he had no doubt whatever that the two bottles of quicksilver then in court formed a part of the fifty entrusted to Sandford's care, and for which the Customs would hold him (Mr. Golding) responsible. Mr. HENRY observed that it was somewhat singular that Mr. Golding should enter the court at such a moment, and recommended him to lose no time in going to the railway station, and ascertain if any and what portion of the quicksilver had been delivered there ; for it might happen that the whole were stolen. Mr. Golding immediately acted upon his Worship's suggestion, and, taking Thorp, the officer, with him, pro ceeded to Nine Elms. On his return, at five o'clock, he informed Mr. Henry that fifty bottles had been delivered at the railway station, but only forty-nine had been sent on to Southampton, as the fiftieth was found to be 171bs. short of the proper weight. Thorp said he had no doubt whatever that the bottle which he found at the railway was a " dummy," or old bottle, which had been emptied o f th e qu i c k s ilver and filled up with melted lead, but the latter was considerably lighter than the former. He was the more convinced it was a dummy by the fact that it bore the same number and marks as one of those taken on the preceding night, but both the figures and letters were somewhat different. Mr. HENRY remarked, that from the circumstance of Sandford delivering the proper number of bottles at the railroad, there could be but little doubt that the " dum mien," as they were called, had been substituted for the real quicksilver, and he should therefore recommend Mr. Golding to proceed to Southampton, and take the numbers and exact weight of all the bottles belonging to the parcel there. The prisoners were then remanded. Saunders, it appears, has been for some years under the surveillance of the police as a receiver of stolen pro perty. He has been tried at the Old Bailey for that of fence, and also fined 1001. for smuggling, for which he served twelve months in the House of Correction. SINGULAR TRIAL OF AN ARAB FOR KILLING HIS CONCUBINE. A. trial for murder, peculiarly interesting from the party accessed, the circumstances leading to and at tending its perpetration, the witnesses examined, and the nature of their evidence, was held on the 15th and 16th inst., before the Court of Assizes for the department of the Var, sitting at Draguignan. The prisoner was Abdel Kader Ben Aoufi, formerly I)acherchaour, or chief of the armed police of the Emir Abdel Kader, and the charge against him was the murder of one of his wives, named Fathma Beth Abell Kader. At an early hour the Court was crowded, includ ing a great number of ladies, for whom seats were specially reserved. But the most striking part of the scene was a numerous body of Arabs, en camped as it were in the enclosure reserved for the witnesses. They were almost all very fine men, tall, handsome _in features, though deeply embrowned by the sun of the African desert, their eyes shining brilliantly through the white burnous with which they were carered from head to foot. Each, as a true believer, wore a chaplet or rosary on his arm, or round his neck, and sit ting crouched, seemed to take no notice of what was passing around him, but from time to time re peated verses from the Koran. Among them was only one woman, a negress, so covered with her white kack, that she might have been taken for a man, but for the delicacy of her legs and feet, arms and hands, which were naked. They were all prisoners of war brought from Algeria, and con• fined in the island of Ste. Marguerite, sum moned as witnesses for or against the prisoner' Ben Aoufi is a man of about forty-five years of age above the middle size, with a healthy complexion, high forehead, aqualine nose, and most brilliant eyes, but a countenance expressive of the greatest mildness and strong intelligence, and his de meanour was grave and dignified. Two interpreters were sworn. The prisoner had always shown great veneration for his mother, who, with his son, was at his request brought from the Island of Ste. Margue rite to be present at his trial. After the usual formalities the indictment was read. From this it appeared that, two years ago, after the capture of the senaleh of the Emir, Abdel Kader Ben Aoufi and his family were then taken prisoners, and, being brought to France, were sent to the depot in Sainte Marguerite. Two other families were made captives with them, and at their own request were placed together in one apartment of five rooms. Ben Aoufi formed a close intimecy with another Arab cap tive, Abdel Kader Ben Rehab, who had been an aga or captain in the Emir's regular cavalry. For some time their friendship remained undisturbed, and Ben Aoufi appeared to have full confidence in the fidelity of his two wives. Aiterwards, however, he became jealous of them, and accused one of them, Fathma, of a guilty intercourse with Ben Rebah, with whom he broke off all connexion. In October or Novetn - ber, 1843, Ben Rebah assumed a seat in the mosque to which Ben Aoufi claimed to be en titled, and demanded it in insulting terms. Ben Rebah retorted, saying that Ben Aoufi had no right to talk so high, as his house was nothing but a house of debauch, and that he, Ben Rebah, had the night before lain on one side of Fathma, while he, Ben Aoufi, was on the other side of her. He used, indeed, terms which we cannot repeat. Their quarrel became desperate, but they were separated by their friends. From that day Ben Aoufi became inveterate against both his wives, but particularly against Fathma. One day he determined to kill her with a knife, but he was deterred from doing this by the supplica tions of his mother, who represented that Fathma was with child. About a fortnight before the murder, the Marabouts, or priests of their religion, endeavoured to reconcile Ben Aoufi and Ben Rebah, and for a moment the former seemed to yield ; but his jealousy returned upon him with greater force. lie every evening locked his door and carried the key about his person, depositing it at night under his pillow, sleeping between his two wives. A negro, named Mobarek Ben Mokear, became a marked object of his suspicions, believing that he afforded Ben Rebah opportunities for approaching Fathma. In the evening of July 28, he felt per suaded that his wives took the key of their room from him. He made a terrible scene, and went to bed almost in a state of frenzy. The next morning, Fathma rose before daylight, and having performed her ablutions, bent herself with her head to the ground in prayer. He, hearing her, sprung also from the bed, and reproached her with infamous conduct. She protested her innocence, and he, having ascertained that there was no strange person in the room, and that the door was still locked, went out to perform his ablutions. Returning, and find ing her in the same attitude, he took up a log of wood, and beat her with it on the head until she expired, notwithstanding his mother, who was present, did all in her power to pacify him. His rage, in fact, was so ungovernable, that he made a blow with the log at his other wife ; but she avoided it, and it fell upon a female slave who was near her. At this moment the negro Mobarek Ben Mokear crossed his path, and was knocked down by him. Believing he had killed him, Ben Aoufi exclaimed, " I have but an other to destroy, and then I shall be at rest." This was Ben Rebah, and he was going out in search of him, when the concierge of the fort, hearing the noise, arrived at the moment and stopped him. While being taken to the prison he struck an Arab who was in his way on the face with the log, which he still re tained. At his previous examinations he acknowledged his crime, but stated that he was under the influence of a frightful dream, and when he woke he believed he heard the rattling of keys. On being interrogated in court, however, he changed his tone, and, insisting that Fathma had violated the law, her hour, he said, was come, and the Prophet allowed him to kill her. After the examination of some of the witnesses, Ben Rebah was called, and gave an account of the quarrel between him and the prisoner in the Mosque, and partly admitted his having thrown imputations on the fidelity of the two wives, but greatly softened the language said to have been used by him. He gave an account of the reconciliation between hire and Ben Aoufi, in consequence of the desire of the commandant of the fort that they should live together in peace. He stated that they met at a religious festival, and being seated at the same repast they reciprocally put into the mouth of each other, in sign of oblivion of the past, a small quantity of vermicelli, and the wit ness by desire of the Marabouts, as being the youngest, first kissed the head of Ben Aoufi in sign of amity. He protested that he had never had any intimacy with Fathma, and he said what he did because Ben Aoufi had provoked him by first saying that his own wife, who remained in Africa, led a disorderly life with the French soldiers. Ben Aoufi insisted that the evidence of Ben Rebah was false, and affirmed that Fathma, having deeply insulted him for the scandal he had thrown upon her, by avowing her in discretion, he had caused her to be killed by the negro named Mobarek. In the course of the exatni- nations, the President of the Court cited passages from the Koran, contradicting the assertion of Ben Aoufi that he was authorised by the Law of the Pro-. phet to kill his adulterous wife. At the conclusion of the evidence the Procureur du Roi delivered his requisitory, and the counsel for Ben Aoufi replied. The President then asked the prisoner if he had anything to add in his defence. Ben Aoufi required that his judgment should be post poned. Being told that this was impossible according to the course of justice in France, he asked that his mother might be allowed to sit by him while his sen tence was pronounced. The President refused, say ing that an innocent person could not be placed on the bench with one under accusation of crime. Ben Aoufi then turned to the interpreter, and said, " am condemned to death, pray that I may be buried according to my religion." The President then summed up, and the jury withdrew. After three-quarters of an hour they returned with their verdict, and at the entrance all the Arabs rose from their crouching position, and from their white burnous, seen by the dimlight of evening (it being near six o'clock), they looked like so many ghosts rising from their graves. The jury negatived the question of murder, but declared the prisoner guilty of giving blows and wounds causing death, but without premeditation, and also found that there were extenuating circumstances. The sentence pro nounced by the Court was four years' imprisonment. On hearing this judgment, Ben Aoufi said that it was too much for him to bear. But he retired smiling ; for, although he had been repeatedly told that he could not be condemned to death, he was always con vinced that that would be his fate. When the Presi dent went to the prison after his condemnation, he and his mother both expressed their gratitude for the leniency which had been shown to them. We understand that at the Privy Council to be held by her Majesty at Windsor Castle to-morrow, a Proclamation will be agreed upon for the p rorogu i ng arliament from Thursday, the 12th of December, to Tuesday, the 4th of February, then to meet for the dis patch of business.—Evening paper of yesterday. [ADVERTISEMENT.] AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF AN ABSCESS IN THE KNEE. BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.— Henry Croft, residing at 18, Castle-street, Southwark, was an in-patient at St. Thomas's llospital, for an ab scessed knee, and cams out as insurable on the Ist of June last year, after being there three months. In July last he left Guy's Hospital, where he had been four weeks, and pronoun,eef taken, incurable—indeed, howeverl ral — ile—inde4.d , the ‘ y v - on r c e l c e o rf n u z- i mended his leg to le it may appf-ar, he has just ben cured by th e use of Holloway's Pills and ointmcnot.--Sold at Professor Hol loway's Establishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable readers of medicine throughout the civilised world. MARYLEBONE. Yeste-rday a shabbily dressed man, named Thomas Tyndall, was placed at the bar before Mr. Rawlinson, charged with having, in the following very daring man ner, stolen a watch, the property of Mr. Morley, 47, Ox fo rd- street- It appeared from the evidence that on the previous evening, about six o'clock, the prisoner entered the shop, and asked Mr. Morley the price of a good silver watch ; one of the value of 31. 18s. was shown to him, and, after looking at it for a few minutss, he expressed a wish to see one of a somewhat superior kind ; a watch of the price of seven guineas was laid down on the counter for his inspection, when he immediately took it up and ran out of the shop with it as fast as he could ; he was pur sued, and on a cry of " Stop thief " being raised, he was ultimately taken into custody. In his progress along one of the streets he flung the watch into the road. The prisoner, whose only defence was that he was out of employ, and had not a decent shoe to his foot, was commuted to Neivgate for trial. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Jane Brown, a smartly-dressed and pretty little woman, was brought up on a warrant before Mr. Broughton, charged with having attempted to stab James Golding, a general dealer, living in Wellington-street, Shacklewell. Mr. Wolfe appeared for the defendant, and Mr. Hal lett for the prosecution. The prosecutor said the defendant had run up a bill with him to the amount of 11. 65., and after repeated ap • plications for the money without effect, he was obliged to take oat a summons to enforce its recovery. Wish ing, however, to avoid resorting to such harsh measur es , if possible, he went on the 4th inst. to the defendant's house, in Amherst -terrace, in the hope of quietly arranging the matter. The door was opened by a woman, who said the defendant was not at home, and he turned round to go away ; but he had no sooner reached the garden gate than the defendant appeared at the street door, and called out, " Here I am, and if you advance an inch further I will run you through with this." She then ran towards him, brandishing a naked sword, with which she suddenly made a thrust at his left breast, and the sword struck him very sharply ; but he stepped rapidly backwards, and fortunately escaped any personal injury ; but as it was the point of the sword entered the breast of his coat, and made an incision in it to the extent of several inches. Apprehensive of fur ther violence, he ran off to the station-house and communi cated what had occurred to an officer, who went to the house and took the defendant into custody : but in con sequence of his being unable to appear sufficiently early against her at this Court she was discharged, and had since then had the assurance to commence proceedings against him for false imprisonment. (The prosecutor exhibited his coat, which had a cut in the left breast of it about the extent described in his evidence.) He was cross-examined as to his having used violent and threaten ing language previous to the defendant's attack upon him, and denied having done so most positively. Constable Brannan, 69 N, at the desire of the last witness, went to the house of the defendant, the door of which was opened by her. She still had the sword in her hand, but on telling her his business she dropped it in the passage. The sword was an ordinary ship's cut lass, and very sharp pointed, but was jagged at the edge and had seen some service. Inspector Howie said, immediately after the warrant was issued against the prisoner she and her husband absconded from the neighbourhood, and he had been unable to obtain any clue to their residence until the preceding day, when he traced them to a house in , and took the prisoner into c S u h s e t p o p dy er . ton-street, Hoxton In defence, Mr. Wolfe said that on the prosecutor going to his client's house he made use of the moat violent and disgusting language, and the defendant being ap prehensive he would commit some personal violence upon her, took up the sword to defend herself, but without the slightest intention of using it. He called two witnesses, named Anne Dallaway and Catherine Stebbins, who described the prosecutor's language in similar terms; but they differed very materially in some of the facts, and both denied seeing the sword used, though both were present at the time. Mr. BaouceeroN disbelieved these witnesses, and was satisfied, from the evidence, the prosecutor had con ducted himself on the occasion in a proper and tempe rate manner. Had the defendant succeeded in executing her threat, it would have been an undoubted case of murder, and had the sword only drawn blood, and the jury were satisfied of her intention, she would have been liable to fifteen years' transportation. As it was, he should only convict her of a very aggravated assault, and order her to pay a fine to the Queen of 505., or, in default, undergo six weeks' imprisonment in the House of Correction. A great number of tradesmen, comprising butchers, bakers, publicans, and others, pressed forward, and ap pealed to the magistrate as to what steps they should adopt to recover the value of goods they had incautiously supplied to the defendant and her husband on the faith of their respectability before they absconded from the house in Amherst-terrace. Ono of the tradesmen, who was a publican, had supplied them with beer, spirits, &c., to the extent of 251., during their short residence in that neighbourhood. Mr. BROUGHTON regretted he could render the com plainants no assistance, but if they could establish a case of fraud against the defendant and her husband, they might give them into custody. UNION.HALL. Emma Smith, a pretty looking woman, was brought up in custody, charged with stealing a 51. Bank of Eng land ❑ote and some sovereigns, the property of Henry Watts, of 18, Princes -street, Blackfriars-road. The complainant cemmenced by saying the prisoner had given in a wrong description, by styling herself as Mrs. Smith on the police-sheet, when in point of fact she was his wife. That by care and frugality ho had saved the above sum, which he deposited fur safety in a drawer in his bed-room. That the prisoner was aware of the fact, and that on Sunday she urged him to go to church, and that during his absence she went to the little hoard, took every shilling, and went off and married another man. Mr. COTTINGHAM—If that is the case, there is an end to the charge of stealing, for whatever property is yours is alse your wife's. The prisoner declared that although she had been living under the protection of the complainant for the last eight ySars, still that she was not his wife, and, added she, looking daggers at the complainant, " you are a wicked man for bringing me here." The prisoner frequently interrupted the complainant by exclaiming, " ()h, you wicked man, my lawful hus band is outside the Court, and I defy you to prove that ever I was your wife. Give me into custody, if' you dare, for bigamy, and I shall have you tried for perjury." She then called out for Smith, at the top of her voice, desiring him to come into Court and hear what the old monster, Watts, had alleged against her. Mr. COTTINGIIAM said he could not entertain the charge on which the prisoner wa- brought there, as the complainant still persisted in the assertion that she was his wife. The magistrate then asked the complainant if he could prove that the man whom be alleged married the THE LATE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. NOTTINGHAM, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.--The in quest on the body of Mr. Dean was continued to a late hour last night, and then adjourned to Friday morning, on which day it is expected the jury will be enabled. to come to a decision. The witnesses examined were Mr. John Chadbourne,. of Pinxton, Derbyshire, miller, one of the passengers ; Joseph England, of Alfreton, saddler, another pas senger ; John Fisher, the engine -driver, who directed the train from Derby which came in contact with the train from Nottingham ; John Kearsley, another engine driver, who spoke to the circumstances attending the getting off of the train at the Nottingham station ; Mark Markland, the engine• driver of the train from Notting ham which ran into that from Derby. This person did not guide the train on Thursday afternoon, though he was with it. All these parsons spoke to circumstances which had been previously elucidated, the tendency of their evidence being to attach neglect on the part of the Company's servants. Mr. Hutchinson, one of the managing Directors, was also :examined. Nothing very material was elicited from his evidence. A great portion of the day was taken up in discussing objections raised by Mr. Campbell, solicitor for Mr. Lightfoot, and this gave rise to a good deal of recrimination on both sides. The jury continued their sitting till half-past nine. The Directors have promised to produce on Friday a Ycry material witness, but who is ;offering at present from the injuries he received in the fatal collision. ADJOURNED INQUEST ON MR. VARNALLS. This inquiry was continued to a late hour last night (Tuesday), and was adjourned to this morning. when the Coroner and jury re-assembled. Among the witnesses examined were Kearsley and Markland, the engine drivers; Joseph Mowett, of Derby, an engineer; and John Boulton, of Long Easton, over looker of the contractor of the permanent'way, &e. There was nothing new in the evidence. Mr. Caunt, of Not tingham, surgeon, who had made a post mortem exami nation of the body of Varnalls, stated the nature of the injuries received by . the deceased. The principal seat of injury was in the right leg, the integuments of which were lacerated from just below the knee to the ankle the thigh bone was likewise fractured. Death resulted from the shock which his nervous system had received. Witness did not think that the circumstance of his hav ing been refused admission into Mr. Godfrey's house made any difference, as he had lost too much blood ere he reached Lenten to leave any chance of recovery. It is difficult to say when this investigation will ter minate. The result is now the point of public interest. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, Nov. 25. Mr. Murchison, President, in the Chair. Nine new members were elected into the Society. The paper read was " An Account, by Lieut. Selby, 1.N., of his Ascent of the Kuvan in the Assyria steamer." The Secretary prefaced the reading of this paper by observing that it was one of particular interest, as show ing what might be done by an enterprising spirit in con junction with professional ability. The Kuvan rises in the Zerd Ikoh Mountain near Ispahan, and, after tra versing the valleys of the Bochtyari mountains, emerges from the hills three miles north-east of Shuster, wheneaa it flows in a south-west direction to the sea by a direct and an indirect channel. At about two-thirds of the way from the sea towards Shuster the river is traversed by a bund at a place called Ahwaz. Up to this spot the Eu phrates steamer had ascended in 1836, when it was deemed impracticable to proceed further. This bund, however, Lieut. Selby succeeded in passing in March, 1842. "having pushed for the bund," says this officer, "the whole power of steam was unavailing, and twice was the vessel driven back. Finding steam alone unavailing, I sent a large hawser to the opposite bank, and by the application of tackle forced the passage, which till then had been supposed to offer an insurmountable obstacle to the perfect navigation of this river. Proceeding onwards the town of Bond Ikir was reached, where an artificial canal, the Aub I Gar gar, enters the stream; this spat is 35 miles from Ahwaz, and here the Dizful river falls into the Kuvan. Ascend ing the canal, the steamer came to within a mile of Shuster, where a band prevented further progress, i though boats go up into the town. Having dropped down again to the confluence, the Kuvan itself was ascended to within five miles. After which, the Dizful was navigated to beyond Kalah Bander, which is about 13 miles from the town of .Dizful. The waters getting low compelled the traveller to return, but not until he had completed his survey of these rivers, which, easily navigated as they are now proved to be, and penetrating; into the very heart of the southern province of Persia, where the climate is admirable, the soil fertile, and the inhabitants particularly well disposed, cannot fail to offer• a fine field for the extension of our commerce in the east. Wood for the steamers is everywhere abundant, and together with provisions remarkably cheap. The ascent to Shuster, from Mohammera, by the Aub I Gargar, can be effected in three days, by such a vessel as the Assyria, and in two and a half by such steamers as are now built. The paper was a long one, and could only be read in part. Shuster, which contains a population of 8,000, was described in detail, and the good feeling of the in habitants highly extolled. General Monteith, who had himself surveyed that country, and knew it well, favoured the meeting with some interesting details. Count de Kalnolci, Count Nemer, s. i Baron "Van- Gnheim arrived in London , esterday afternoon, by the eneral 'Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Earl of Liverpool, from OstAmd. DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, Nov. 23.—1 n the sitting of the Se cond Chamber to-day, a royal message was rec.eivedl with a project of law for prolonging the law of' the, 31st of May, 1843, relative to the i m p o rt, ex port, tail'. transit duties, till the Chamber shall have agreed to a new tariff of duties_ We have received Java papers to the 10th August:, BATA VIA, JULY 26.—1 n the evening of the 6th of this month a fire broke out at Sigler, which destroyed'. the dwelling and out-buildinga of M. Von Vlotin, jun., contractor with the Government for the prepare• tion of coffee. As the building was chiefly of Ben boo and wood, the fire spread so rapidly that nothing could be saved. The mills, the warehouses, and their contents, happily escaped. There was also a fire in the capital of Socricartte in the night of the 16th, which reduced to ashes hundred native bamboo buildings, and, extending to the Chinese camp, destroyed thirty-two store-houses; the damage is estimated at 70,000 florins. The First. Chamber, in its sitting of the 23d, hes again rejected the proposed address of the Second Chaml , er, in answer to the speech from the Throne. In consequence of this resolution, notice will be sent to the Second Chamber that the First Chamber does not see sufficient reason to present the (amended) ad dress to the The sections the Second Chamber are to meet on Monday, the 25;,h, to examine the project of lase on the tariff of duties on importation, exportation , and transit ; and on the amendment on the excise on soap . It is probable that the Chamber will not meet be' fore Wednesday, on which day it may come to it resolution, in consequence of the reiterated refusal of the First Chamber to assent to the: address to the King. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. - - 'SLANT) OF HERM, OPPOSITE — pUERNSFY. The following letter contains particulsa - s of some irt • terest to the shipping interest Guernsey, Nov'. 18, 1844. Sir,—The proprietor of the Island of berm,rybc h lays immediately opposite the town, complains - that did' culties are placed in the way of vessels roeeeding there to load stone, while none exist i n re spect o r vessels going to St. Sampson's, although, he com'end 6 ' the cases are precisely similar. I understand that Ile: 41 has been considered as no port, and therefore vessels are not warranted in laying there to take in cargo, Alle also, that as Herm is a small islet, separated from Guernsey, that going there may be considered e s a deviation, the consequence of which difficulty is, till many vessels refuse to proceed there, a n d o th e rs wiLl only go on payment of sixpence per ton extra freight' which upon stone is a very serious difference. Now, the harbour of Herm is inclosed by a jetty of about three hundred feet long, and vessels are in safety ; therefore think it can scarcely be considered as no port ; 01 ,, u as regards a deviation vitiating the insuranc e , I thi" that as Herm is only a small islet, absolutely dependeol on Guernsey, and within two miles and a half of th e ' island, and as near St. Peter's port as St. Sampson% I cannot understand why a difference should be wad e ' The proprietor is prepared to buoy off the entrance° to the harbour, and to perform such other forrunlitie § as may be requisite to remove these differences. The" arc pilots living on the island.—l remain, &c. (Signed) LLOYD'S AGENT' William Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's. POST-OFFICE INQUISITION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--I wish to place the following facts at yet r disposal, wishing them to obtain publication :—Ontl' e 12th instant I posted a letter addressed to my father , who is a farmer in Somerset, informing him of intention to start from London on the following cit l V for the purpose of visiting a dying sister. I accov; ingly did leave London on the following day. W r b s o was my surprise upon arriving at m y f a th er ' s , to fi that I had not been expected, an d th a t m y l e tter 11 1 ' not arrived. I set this down to the negligence of t 136 country postmaster, when, lo! the next morning, rot letter arrived with a monstrous Post-office seal s e ti tached to it, and an intimation that it had been open at the General Post-office. Upon making a complai n t to the Post-office authorities, I r e c e i ve d nothing bu vague unsatisfactory replies. I think it right that this fact should be made pub l.l4 seeing that it very clearly shows that a system 0'7 4 at the Post-office of opening every hundredth, 01. _,1 may be fiftieth, letter, in addition to those addres s e d to suspected persons. No suspicion could have isted in my case, for, as I have already told you, 111 ; father is nothing more than a pl a i n co u n try faVn e " and I am a servant. THE INC6ME-TAX, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,--It has been stated in some provincial peP e ,.. A that the odious income-tax will pr o b a bly be repeso"; so far as respects the tax on trade and professionse;f, consummation most devoutly to be wished! The di ficulty, however, will be to find a substitute, if y t Chancellor of the Exchequer should apprehend th i s s this repeal would cause too gr ea t a re d uc tion in ! revenue. There is one s our ce o f revenue "win ° would be most productive, and would not press 01 the people at large—this i s a p ro b ate duty on re t property. There is a considerable probate duty c 1; personal property--why should not the duty on thou two descriptions of property b e equa li se d ? ne were to investigate the subject, yo u wou ld find it on of vast importanc e , and your di scuss i on o f the s° /,, ject would bring it before the notice of the kit - 10° 1 :i It will, perhaps, be found, that this equalisatio n t_ for 0 1 the probate duty would not only compensate repeal of the income-tax on trade and professions , b i ti o also admit of the repeal of the duty on cotton and reduction of the duty on tea. without detriment to ' " revenue, i. e., without decreasing the present reven° Yours, &e. A SUBSCRIBER' THE SCOTTISH HosriTAL.—The festival of Sa ln ; Andrew will be celebrated by this ancient and excelle n t Corporation on Saturday next, under circumstances a more than usual eclat. The chair is to be taken by I J of i Saltoun, an old and zealous supp or t e r o f the IlusPit' to r who during his recent command in Chins, has adde d , o his former long and di s ti ngu i s h e d m ili tar y c areer ,`,, merit of having furnished a n um b er o f new ta il s in il' ll , ll tration of the history of the war. The N o ble Lord " 1 come up from his hunting quarters at Cold s tream for t j ., i r express purpose of the fe s ti va l, an d return i nun edist afterwards, thus making a journey of nearly 700 0°,: 0 for the benefit of his poorer countrymen. His Lortls'lol is to be supported by his brother, the Hon. Wi lls o Fraser, for su m a ny years th e i n d e f a ti ga bl e an d pop , ' l I . treasurer of the Corporation, by Sir Henry PottingV by Colonel Burns, the s on of the p oe t, by th e only 6n ; the brother and nephew of Mungo Park, and by f l i t+ and-thirty stewards, who have volunteered to act on occasion. If we add to these induc e me n t s the nnt i°Pt f music of the pipes, by Ma c k a y, piper to th e l a t e Duk e it Sussex, and Macbeth, the Duke of Sutherland's PiP er ' will be admitted that the att rac ti ons o f t h e d a y Are vf nil common order. o f II ,hess _er itoyal Highness the Grand Duel. tir g Mecklenburg Strelitz is said to be in that i n teres iA t o situation which, promises, at an ear ly p er i o d, to 0" the domestic, happiness of her illustrious family. DIED. io to‘. On Tuesday last, after an illness of only a few dai,t 4 ,. , ,pg 69th year of his age, Mr. David Wollen Irwin, ( I°- 1 0 , 4 " period of more than forty years in the confidential or'ipili,: the " Norfolk Chronicle" proprietary—beloved by hi ki 'oort`' endeared to his friends, and respected for his sterling and Christian virtues by all who knew him.: A 65. On the 25th inst., in `Dover, John Marsh, Esq., age - AO" On the 26th of July last, at Vineyard, Parramatts' Josephs, widow of Captain Phillip Gidley St f pg R.N• bo r _, , i On the 21st inst., Miss Elizabeth P r i c e, upper . 0 ` street, Regent's-par. f , n it, On the 22d inst., at Paris, Mary, the wife of Pe'w Mocatta, Esq., of London. , ; ti tens l :l. t' -.- On the 23d inst., at Loftus, near Gisborough, 8- I‘C ,- ' General the Hon. Sir Robert Laurence Duncr , Colonel of the 59th Regiment. On the 23d inst., at Portsmouth, Mr. Charier i t 01 1 .64 Parker, Midshipman of her Majesty's ship Eagle, ag ed 10; On the 24th inst., at Bridge-cottages, Kentish-towitote garet Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Rev B owne, of St. Vincent's, aged 25. fsq , a On the 20th inst., at Hawkehurch, Thomas Barn s ' Magistrate for the counties of Dorset and Devon. ~,istol' On the 23d inst., in Lee-terrace, Blackheath, P J• Newton, Esq., aged 76. k equ ar " ill On the 24th inst., in Hunter-street, Brunswic - oce P. Penton, Esq., Second Secondary of the late r i P e " lit the xchequer, aged 70. On E the 24th inst., at Brislington, near Bristol, f lizabet ta , relict of the late John Hurls, Esq, aged 86. 00° 11 On the 25th inst., at Little Chelsea, Maria Ang us- - of the late G. Ogg, Esq., of Putney. r wee WO' On the 25th inst., at Kettering, the Rev. J am es of Vicar of Geddington, Northamptonshire, aged 71. r elict On the 26th inst., in Dorset-square, Mrs. Meyer, the late Dr. Meyer, aged 87. kliesit l '' Disc ._.40, On the 26th inst., Frederick Heisch, Esq. , of , 5 psis , On the 27th inst., in Park-lane, Piccadilly, Le" sd, O Esq., aged 88. On the 27th inst., at Grosventr-place, - m itt) , William Peacock, Esq.. aged 70. ni o On the 27th inst., Eliaa, relict of the late Tho Esq., of Southwark. CamberWell-r° ox Luipvul, : Printed and Pubilshed by MUNN 'N, 11 5 ' No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The ban OL"' o pAti Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in tb . 1114(11.5"' Tkundat, licnisable 14 Ih. BIRTHS. g i de, On the 24th inst., at Woolwich, the lady o f C a ptain L i stO bridge, Royal Artillery, of a son, whi c h li ve d on ly a few,n, On the 2Pth inst., at Regent-square, M rs . Xniglit , daughter. , On the 25th inst., at Wilton-street, Grosvenor-PA—AO lady of H. Lewis, Esq., of Green-mead ow , Gl am organ of a daughter. %l b On the 25th inst., at Holland-place, Kensington , Benjamin Priest, of a son. MARRIED. Cs lr On the 26th inst., at St. Margaret's, W e stminster , ar ili tain Draper, 64th Regiment, to Anna Constance, ~,f °, ,uerf daughter of John Grubb, Esq., late of Horsendon Bucks. •t% ril On the 26th inst., at St. Pancras Ne w Ch ur ch, • :111 el Isf Law, Esq.. Woburn-place, Russell-square, to Margaret, ; it h' daughter of Samuel Clegg, Esq., Civil Engineer, Sidruo street, Regent-square. gP On the 26th inst., at St. George's, Hanover- square , Desire Alexis Joseph Lebeau, of Brussels, Officer ' 3 ,,,,a s rik Household Troops of hi s M a j es ty th e Ki ng o f the Be l b'a to Maria Amelia, relict of the late Rev. T. H. Whittuel'i;:re, daughter of J. Jenkins, Esq., of Ch e p s t ow , Monmout: I 1 te)ii 14 4 et di 144,