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

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.tI PROM THE DAILY PAPERS OP YESTERDAY. TIMES.—The question of allotments is now going the round of the counties. Its discussion appears to ease the conscience of the landowner, and cast a gleam of hope over the condition of the labourer. While there is talk, there is some promise of doing. Mean while the labourer is speaking, not in meetings, not in speeches and pamphlets, not in distinct plans of any kind, but occasionally in blind and desperate revenges, oftener more silently and solemnly by famine, sickness, and death. To judge from the un impassioned tone of " landowners, clergy, and tenant farmers," one might suppose the world standing still while the labourer's cause was heard and nature had agreed to suspend all her changeful operations. But, like the ship-load of ice which melted, while the Custom-house officer was ascertaining its place in the tariff, the labourer minishes continually, and is be coming a very small man indeed. We who see him already half melted, can scarcely picture him in the fair proportions he once enjoyed, or at least could once attain to. The full-grown cottager, the man who, after a youth of in-door 'service, could invest his little savings in a little stock, and with a little land, or a little right of pasture, was a little farmer, as like a great one as a sapling oak is to the monarch of the woods, is extinct. 'The croft, the orchard, the common, the cow or two, and its lesser accompani ments, have all passed away. The labourer is now a labourer indeed, and nothing more. He is plucked of his once decent plumage, and is the biped implume of the philosopher. And he continues to waste. The present generation is a hopeless case. We may al most give it up for dead. But what is to be done with the next ? Of the unborn there is hope. That there should be any discussion at all on the subject is hopeful. It cannot be supposed that the myriads who for their slender pittance of beans and onions toiled and perished at the Pyramids would have oontinued their fruitless labour, if there had been the smallest variety of sentiment as to the value of those structures and the necessity of their own case. But at present the discussion on the case of the English labourer does not proceed in the most profit able form. There is no attempt to elicit, gather, and reconcile facts. The labourer, his cottage, his wages, his employment, the value of his produce, his propor tion thereof, and all the circumstances of his condi tion, are not put into the crucible of inquiry, and left to show their own results, whatever they may happen to be. The investigation is of a much less searching character. It is limited to the benefits of certain defi nite proposals. Is it advisable to go about persuading or forcing the collective landowner to let certain small portions of land to the labourers ? There could hardly be imagined a more conventional way of con aidering the popular distress. Use, however, there is in all inquiries. The man who looks for silver - may find lead, and the alchemists discovered how to purify metals when they were thinking of nothing but transmutation. So is there use in all social researches and expedients. A proposition to enlarge or rebuild the labourer's cottage, to provide him with a better description of household furniture, with a clock, with more frequent change of linen, or a decent hat and pair of shoes, or maintenance for an ass or a cat, or a pianoforte, or any other accession to his comforts, would not fail to elicit his hardships and • difficulties ; and would be profitable in that way, if not otherwise. The allotment scheme is of so artifi • • cial a character as to be really unintelligible without reference to some remarkable peculiarities of our so cial state. It is a proposition to let land to la bourers. What hinders the letting? Cannot they pay rent ? or will they not ? On the contrary, the labourer will generally pay much more rent than the farmer. When the Coryptimue of economists declined to let land for sd. a lug when he could get Bd. fer it, he was not speaking with reference to the general demand for land ; he could not get his Bd. a lug from farmers ; his supposed customers were a small genera tion of men who reckon land by lugs instead of acres, to whom it is the greatest of boons to get the smallest bit to call their own, but whom it is, unhappily, the apparent interest of the farmer and landowner to deprive of that small boon. His Lordship committed the singular inconsistency of speaking the language of political economy on an artificial supposition. Descending from the open market of nations, he applied its principles to the close market of a parish. He addressed himself to the forced and unnatural • demand of a crowd of parochial serfs, who would outbid one another to the very gates of death, because they hal always been rigorously excluded • from it at any price, as - if it were a natural correla tive to the intrinsic value of that land, and resulted freely and simply from the public competition. The allotment discussion, therefore, involves inquiry in this remarkable fact, that while the labourer is willing to give a good rent for land he cannot get it, but must be backed by a public agitation in his demand. Whole counties are summoned with the charit able intention of allowing labourers to give enormous rents for miserable patches of soil. If the two Gracchi were shaking the empire to its basis for an agrarian law to parcel our dukeries amongst our surplus population, there could not be more fuss, more extravagance of hope, more rigour of opposition, more earnestness of debate, than we now witness on the simple question whether they who till the soil may be allowed to rent not near a hundredth part of it for their own special use. The fight, the eloquence, the economical caution, the self-interested demur, the legislative wisdom, are—for what?—for ten acres, may be, out of two thousand. At the next count y or district meeting on this subject, we wish some inquisitive gentleman would just ask what makes the importance of this question. How comes it that the distrig r ution of ten acres out of two thou sand has become an affair to convoke counties and harass the Legislature ? Why is the whole press of the country to be moved, and the abstrusest theories to be waked from the depths of intellect, before a ploughman is to be suffered to pay 20s. yearly for his quarter acre of potatoes and cabbages ? What would be thought of such a controversy in the neighbouring nations ? In France, the Reforme observes, that an idea may be formed of the number of fractional parts into which property is divided by the following facts : —There are in France 5,205,411 properties on which the land-tax is rated at sums not exceeding 5f., 5,242,84 G at from sf. to 100 f., and, in fine, there are 445,271 which exceed 100 f. Who would think of an allotment agitation there, where a man can get any quantity of land to his taste as readily as he can buy so many pounds of bread or ounces of coffee and sugar ? 11'il lIERALD.—As the year draws to its close, as ( I.e- Cabinet Councils begin to assemble weekly, and as • Tonethe period for the actual meeting of Parliament must rFy soon be fixed, the attention of the public Ix gins to &ono • be drawn to the question which usually follows : tI i N Y I And what will Parliament do when it meets ?" , wift 'Under a weak and incapable Government this ques• .s . ) , a: iion is generally asked with some degree of anxiety. " squeezable Administration" may look forward with tolerable certainty to the application of " pres -tx• . sure from without," and both its friends and its -enemies must naturally regard with some disquietud..7 *the probable result of the squer:zing process. It is a `one proof of the more firm and stable character of err the present Government, that the one point to which 1 " `men's minds seem just now to he directed, is, " What T:IVIL taxes ara likely to be taken off People have lefr 1 . I , 66 talking of " organic charges; „ the Chartists are •; almost extinct ; the " suffrage movement moves not ; even the League is content to " look to the regis ' tration," and to anticipate great things from the Revising Barristers' Courts of October, 1845 ; no u. thing, in short, is now heard of, in the way of politics, but questions of finance and trade—Bra zilian sugar, the New Zealand Company, or the Lerman Zollverein. And, as to Parliament, as we have already observed, the chief thing p eo pl e seem t O expect or desire at its hands, is, the passing of a good many railway Bills and the remission of a few of the taxes. Now, on the latter point, we are not going to dispute any proposition so entirely self-evident as that all taxes, in themselves, are " atrocious," " abomin able," and, above all, exceedingly unpleasant. But while all this is undeniable , the Government, be it Whig or Tory, may safely plead in its own excuse that it is called to administer the affairs of a nation which has undertaken in various ways to pay about fifty millions per annum ; and that one of its first duties evidently is, to see that means are found to meet this great annual liability. Hence it follows, that as the revenue, only lately recovered froM the effects of Whig quackery, exhibits but a certain moderate surplus, that remission of taxation for which people are so eagerly looking can take place only within the limits so marked out. Do men gene rally desire the termination of the property-tax ? if they do, then are they not acting irrationally in assembling together in great numbers, to call for the remission of the duty on cotton, upon tea, and upon various other things now talked of? So much so, that we cannot help considering a meeting called to petition for the remission of this or that duty, to be, in effect, a mating for the con tinuance of the property-tax. We do not for an in • stant question the desirableness of the remission of the duty on raw cotton, on malt, or on tea. Nor can it be denied that the duty on insurances is one of a most objectionable character. Of all the various modes of internal taxation, this, perhaps, is the very worst. Now, we have no manner of doubt , that it would give oz . the greatest satisfaction to the Government, as well as widely extend their popularity, were it in their power to propose the extinri. of, m or a large reduction in, all these duties. But they . th u e st w i r l h o . t, and they will not, follow in.. the steps o by reducing revenuentil the proves engagements duties for popularity's sake p ,t l i inadequate to meet the ub gradual but constant increase is obliged toV' and a the nation's debt. What we desire, then, n to 'ad u e rge in upon all petitioners for , ,and all talkers about, these expected reductions of various duties, is, first to settle what they would have done with the property-tax. If they mean to expect its entire extinction, then it is perfectly unreasonable to look for anything beyond hat. But if they are content to keep the property tax, provided the tax on cotton, on malt, or on tea zs got rid of, then they ought very plainly and explicitly to say so. GLOBE.—The Irish clergy, as a body, seem by no means satisfied with Sir Robert Peel's pretty clearly expressed intentions respecting the Doman Catholic seminary at Maynooth ; and still less with the increased grant for national education. On the former question there have been some bitter personal attacks on the Premier ; in which his conduct on the Catholic question has been referred to, as ind i c ative of his leaning toward Romanism ; and of which his present purpose of increasing the Parliamentary grant to Maynooth, with a view to render ing that seminary more efficient for the purpose of training youth for the Roman Catholic priesthood, is a mere continuation. The contemplated change in the Dublin University, by which its honours and emo luments would be rendered available to numbers who are now excluded from both, has also provoked a Pro testant demonstration against Sir Robert Peel ; which will, doubtless, be revived, and increased, whenever the proposal is submitted in a tangible shape to the University authorities. It is true that Sir R. Peel has gained over some, and muzzled others of the clergy, who were among the foremost in denouncing the National system. Still there re main a large number, " whose tongues "—to use the language of one of the " faithful among the faithless "—" have not lied unto Baal, and whose lips have not kissed him." Among these are nearly the whole of the clergy of one diocese (that of Derry). These have issued a declaration, couched in the strongest terms, in which they protest against the National system, as calculated to foster and encourage erroneous and strange doctrines. They justify the course they have taken in thus openly protesting against the false policy of the Government ; " for," say they, "we have fallen on trying times, when every other feeling ought to be merged in a sense of the strong necessity which now exists, that the sound and uncorrupt portion of the clergy should take and avow their side." The manifesto thus proceeds : " We humbly hope that, by publishing our sentiments, we may co-operate in encouraging our reverend brethren in the other dioceses of Ireland, at the same time invit ing all our brethren of the laity to join heart and hand in this good cause ; so that, as a Church of Christ, we may be enabled, by the blessing of our Almighty Head, to discharge our pledged and incumbent duty, of being wit nesses and keepers of God's holy word." " This striking and admirable document," observes the Dublin Mail, " may be taken as the una nimous opinion of the parochial clergy of the diocese c° Derry ; and it does them infinite honour, as conscientious and disinterested servants of their Heavenly Master, and faithful shepherds of the flock committed to their care, that they have, in a body, given such a response to the Ministerial policy, which excludes all persons in the Church holding their opinions from the due rewards of professional service and eminent abilities." And in a subsequent paragraph Sir Robert Peel is assured that he " will find it utterly impossible to carry his principle of preferment (the reward of subserviency) into practical operation." The following quiet but not the less bitter allusion to a vacant deanery, and to the principle which will probably guide the Govern• ment in filling up the vacancy, exhibits the feeling which prevails among the Irish Protestants on this subject : Our informant was incorrect in stating that Dr. Wil son was nominated Dean of Limerick. No such appoint ment has been made, nor is it likely. The impression is that some one of the Rev. Gentlemen who are advocating the merits of education, as administered by the National Board, in the columns of the newspapers, will be selected for the dignity." We have not alluded to the subject because we ap prove of the opposition to the Government in these matters. We regard the resistance of these clerical malcontents as an emanation of that narrow and exclu sive policy to which Ireland, in the interests of its in habitants, was long the victim. Bigotry was the parent, and intolerance is the instrument of this policy. Its adherents, instead of considering what is required by the condition of society and the circumstances of the great mass of the population, reason and act as though the land were formed for them alone—to be the theatre on which they should exhibit their ascen dancy, and where the people, body, soul, and spirit, should be subjected to their rule. For this sove reignty they have striven, are striving, and will strive, until they see and feel that the strife is vain. But though on the the one hand we deplore the powerful opposi tion which is made to the Government, in its attempts to adapt its policy to the spirit of the age, and to the circumstances of the Irish people, we cannot wonder that the Government has met with resistance from such quarters. The conduct of Sir Robert Peel, in conjunction with the leading members of the Government, when endeavouring to oust the Whig Ministers, is the main cause of this resistance. They encouraged expectations in those who now resist their educational policy, which are now shown to have been fallacious. Disappointment has engendered distrust; and this has, in its natural results, led to that embodied hostility which—though it may not be successful in effecting the overthrow of the National system of education, nor in defeating the other mea sures against which it is directed—will be a source of embarrassment to the Government, and cannot fail to estrange its adherents, and thus divide and weaken its party in Ireland. STAN DARD.—The late deplorable accident on the :Midland Counties Railway naturally calls atten tion to the possible dangers of the new means of transit, and to the proper guards against such dan gers. In the first instance, however, we must be careful not to exaggerate the hazards of railway travelling, which, as experience has shown, are less than in any other mode of travelling. Even in the infancy of their use the casualities upon rail roads have averaged much less, in proportion to the number of travellers, than coach travelling used to average, even in the high state of per fection to which it was carried in this country. Still, though railroad travelling is, we believe, the safest manner of locomotion yet discovered, the late accident and other accidents, rare as they have been, prove that it is not yet absolutely safe; but to al solute safety the public are entitled if the thing be attainable. And seeing how near to perfection the system has been already carried, we do not despair of the object being attained to. Still, if we would spare the lives of our fellow-creatures during the stage of improvement, the public must exercise some forbearance, must make allowance for the acci dents and inconveniences inseparable from the adoption of every new art, must occasionally submit patiently, and with:good-humour, to cautionary delays necessary for the safety of men's lives. Already, railroad tra velling, by daylight, and in clear nights, seems to be perfectly safe from collisions ; the generally almost rectilinear course of the trains gives to the eye suffi cient warning of the approach of a train by day, or in a clear night, to allow time for a halt. The enemy to be dealt with is fog, which renders the eye comparatively useless ; and the ques tion to be solved is, the most certain, and easiest, and (a consideration not to be over looked) the cheapest means of communicating through the fog. The electrical telegraph first presents itself; and this means of communication will, we doubt not, be adopted sooner or later upon every railway, on the score of econotev as well as from considerations of safety. Such a communication from station to station would enable railway managers to save much expense in their preparations, as well as to give immediate notice of the departure of every train, so as to render colli sions impossible. The electrical telegraph has not yet, however, as we believe, been carried to that state of complete perfection to justify an implicit reliance upon it, and its establishment demands an ex penditure of time and money that forbid the hope that it can be very early adopted. The second means of communication that occurs is addressed to the ear— the bell, gong, or bugle. At sea the bell and gong are found useful means of warning, and on shore they, as well as the bugle, communicate sound to a very great distance—to a distance much greater than would serve as ample warning to a railway train to avoid a collision. In thick weather one of these noisy sentinels might be e as ily a tt ac h e d to the engine of every train, and if the trouble of giving it voice were a consideration, it might be self-sounded by a communication with the machinery of the en gibe. Our opinion is, however, that a communica tion independent of, and separated from, the train would be desirable, whether the train were or were not provided with a warning instrument. A series of bells, gongs, or bugles, beside the railway line, and at a distance of about half a mile apart, to be manned in thick weather either by the railway police or by labourers specially employed for the occasion, would render impossible such frightful acci dents as that at Beeston, while the expense would instance would very trifling. The outlay in the fir s t would he probably not more than 401. or JO/. the mile, and besides that it would save many lives, it would well repay railway proprietors, by render ing this mode of travelling perfectly safe, and ob viating all the expense caused by accidents. The damage to engines and carriages at Beeston is very properly lost sight of, in our estimate of a misfor tune that has proved fatal to our fellow-creatures ; but the pecuniary loss must be considerable, probably several thousand pounds, all of which would have been saved had there been a proper means of communication established. It may be said that fogs occur but seldom, and that the collision at Beeston was the effect of neglect or stupidity ; but fogs, neglect, and stupidity, are accidents that wise men will anticipate as of inevitable occurrence, and that good men will provide against, if they reach threaten l l.es to of endanger ourfell o w each ; and befo-rlife. Fogs are clearly beyond fellow -creatures a t w u • ere dependant unnecess unnecessarily l u y p n leave the r vigilance and correct judgment of others, we ought . to be quite sure that we are e i v it er us nz t l!gent or stupid general ourselves. w ho F d re id de n ri o e t k m ila allowancesthatny, forthe eGnar'large neglects and blunders of his subordinates, did not know half his business." In what we have said, we would not indeed imply that there was either neglect or stupidity in the sad affair at Beeston—an opinion upon the point were prema ture. Misapprehension there certainly was; and, as certainly, neglect or stupidity, while means of com munication are wanting, might lead to all the horrid consequences to which something clearly led. brown paper parcel on his shoulder, which ho took to the defendant's house. The door having been opened, he went in, left the parcel, and returned. A boy followed soon after, carrying a small parcel, which he disposed of in the same way. The man who was seen first returned with a third parcel, which, like the former, was left at the house of the defendant. The officer then proceeded in search of a policeman, and not being able to find he called up another officer in the Customs to assist him. The man and the boy escaped, but Jordan succeeded in seizing a parcel, which was found to contain a qua ntity of pressed tobacco. On entering the prom;.zi he found the defendant part!,- standing on the stairs ; and, on seeing him, he ran out of sight. To bacco was kieized on the premises to the amount of 1,906 lbs., which was appraised at 347/. 14s. An in formation was then laid for the purpose of condemning tllo tobacco, and 91/ the trial a verdict was given for the Crown, and judgment entered on that ver dict. This judgment was conclusive evidence that the tobacco was liable to seizure, The only question which the jury had to decide on that occasion was, whether the defendant harboured and con cealed the tobacco, knowing that it hacl not paid the duty, Witnesses were then called and otarnined on behalf of the Crown, after which, MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENI.NO. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 11 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10ii1. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 42k ; and the exchange at Paris on London at shot t being 25 57k, it follows that gold is 0.59 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advicea from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4541 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31.175. 141 per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 9,1 ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 10k, it follows that gold is 0.23 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New York on London i 3 110-f per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng • land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.68 per cent. in favour of England. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be added to the above difference. The brokers are making up their account for the settlement in the English market, which takes place on Thursday. Consols are at a degree of firmness which is not participated in by the other English securities. They are the only stock of any importance, the dividends of which, under the new arrangements, will be payable in January, and hence a special demand for them arises among the public. On the other hand, in the heavy stocks, sales have been effected on account of some Scotch firms, and the market for these is weaker. The quotation for Consols for Money and the Account is 100 i, and the stock is felt to be somewhat scarce. Messrs. Rogers and Co., the parties upon whom the large robbery has been committed, have received this afternoon a letter from the Home-office, stating that Sir J. Graham has recommended to her Majesty the free pardon of any accomplice engaged in this transaction, so as to lead to the apprehension of the others. Among the methods proposed for enabling the issuing bankers to evade the late banking Act, mentioned under this head. was one in which a "letter of credit" was to be the instrument employed. It has been assumed that this method is legal. but a reference to the Stamp Act (55 George 111., c. 184) shows that it is more than pro bable that letters of credit, if unstamped, are liable to the same penalties as post-dated cheques. The words of the Act are these :—" All receipts given by any banker or bankers, or other person or persons, for money received, which shall entitle, or be intended to entitle, the person or persons paying the money, or the bearer of such receipts, to receive the like sum from any third person or persons, shall be deemed and taken to be an inland bill within the meaning of this schedule, and be liable to the same duty as on a bill of exchange fur the like sum payable to bearer or order." If these words include "letters of credit," which it seems they do, it will be well fur bankers to use caution before they em ploy them as a substitute for notes payable on demand. The state of the Stamp Law, with respect to bankers, seems to be in a vague and unsatisfactory state ' • and that useful publication, the Bankers' Magazine, has lately been collecting information connected with the subject, of which the above is a part. The other plan of evading the law, by issuing bills at sight for fixed amounts to the partner or cashier of a bank, with an endorsement in blank, is considered by a correspondent as likely to expire of its own ac cord. A large number of them soon find their way into the hands of rival bankers and others, who specially en dorse them to their London agents, and these in a few days return upon the hands of the first issuers, totally useless for the purpose of re-issue. As it is not generally known that Bank of England notes are a legal tender in Scotland and Ireland, a Trea• sury minute, dated the 12th of November, 1836, to which our attention has been called, is highly valuable. It is there expressly declared as the opinion of the law officers of the Crown, that the Act 3 and 4 William IV., c. 93, applies to Scotland and Ireland, so as to :mike Bank of England notes of 51. and upwards a legal tender in those countries. This opinion leaves the question open as to whether the Bank of England could issue 1/. notes in Scotland and Ireland, where that low denomination is not prohibited. It is said that sonic of the Scotch banks have been so much impressed with the belief that the Bank of England has this power, that they have made application for 1/. notes to that institution. These, we understand, were at once rejected. In the Gazette of last Friday was inserted a return of the average amount of the circulation of notes in Scot land and Ireland for the four weeks ending the 9th of November. This return is published under the 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 (the Act passed in 1841), which formerly included the average of the circulation of the Bank of England, the private and joint-stock banks in England, and the Scotch and Irish banks. The return published in the Cktzettes of September 27 and October 25 omitted the Bank of England return, as being now unnecessary, but contained the averages of the English private and joint-stock banks in the usual form. The present return omits these latter items also, thus leaving only the Scotch and Irish banks. The increase in Scotland, according to the last return, as compared with the previous return, is 296,6301., and in Ireland during the same period it is 675,0361. With regard to the circulation of the Bank of Eng land, published in the same Gazette of last Friday, there appears to be a very slight difference from the previous week. The circulation of notes in the hands of the public being 20,580,7501., showing an increase of about 21,000/. The bullion, however, as in the previous re turn, shows an increase, the present amount in both branches of the establishment being 14,231,252 L, which is 115,6231. more than the previous return. Hum Fair, for defendant, said he would not call into question the evidence just adduced, but he thought he might fairly call upon the jury to deduct 600 lbs., on which duty had been paid. The SOLICITOR:GENERAL replied, saying he could not conceive how the jury could yield to the request of his Lcarned Friend, after the evidence had been so strongly unfavourable to the point on which he rested. His LORDSHIP having summed up the evidence briefly, The jury found a verdict for the Crown, with damage's in the single Yaine of 0474 Us, —Verdict entered accord ingly. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 27. (Sitting at Nisi Prim.) WEBB V. BEVAN AND OTHERS. The plaintiff is a livery-stable keeper in Gray's Inn lane, and brings this action of trespass under the follow ing somewhat singular circumstances :—The defendant, Mr. Bevan, a barrister, had placed a horse at livery in the stables of Mrs. Savage, in Fetter-lane, for the pur- pose of being taken by some trusty person in her service to be sold at Tattersall's. This commission was in the first instance entrusted to one of Mrs. Savage's ostlers, named Charles Stocking ; but from something that transpired respecting that person, his mistress strictly forbad him to take the horse sway. However, he did so ; but instead of taking him to Tattersall's he sold it f)r 101. to Mr. Webb, the plaintiff, to whose possession it was traced. The defendant Mr. Bevan, accompanied by the other defendants, of whom three were police constables, proceeded to Mr. Webb's stables, and recog nising his horse, demanded it to be restored to him. The plaintiff refused, insisting that he bad fairly purchased it from a person authorised by the defendant. He then locked the stable-door, which the defendants broke open, and took the horse away. Mr. Wfi..p.ss (with whom was Mr. Lush), for the plaintiff, contended upon these facts that the first autho rity to Stocking to take the horse to Tattersall's was sufficient to make good the purchase by the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, for the defendant Mr. Bevan, Mr. Sergeant Channell, for another defendant, and Mr. Sergeant Byles, for the constables (who suffered judg ment to go by default), addressed the jury at some length, complaining that all who were present with Mr. Bevan were made defendants, and he was deprived of their testimony, and contending that upon his own case the plaintiff was entitled to no damages, or at most to a very small amount. The evidence for the defence went to prove the owrer ship in Mr. Bevan, and the unlawful removal of the horse (or stealing) by Stocking. APPEAL COURT, DOCTORS' COyi.IIONS. The Court at yesterday for the purpose of hearing ap peals, of which but a comparatively small number were on the list. The only case of the slightest general interest which was heard was an application for a monition to isstr, against John Doricourt Taylor, whose case has already appeared in this paper, for having failed to comply with certain orders of the Court. _ _ The case had been heard some time ago, when the Court adjudged that Mr. Taylor should pay a stated sum into Court within fifteen days from the 13th of this month. This term having expired to-day, the process of Court was now sought. In support of the application, affidavits were put into Court and read, which stated that Mr. Taylor had left England, and was out of her Ma jesty's dominions, and that any further dwlay in the is suing of the monition would be attended with a frustra tion cf the order and intention of the Court. The COURT held that it would be rather precipitate to issue such a process on the very day when the order of the Judge was only to expire, and consequently deferred issuing the monition until the next day appointed for the sitting of the Court. This being the last case on the list, the Court rose. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 26. (Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs.) THE RAINBOW TAVERN, FLEET-STREET, IN RE ISAAC ARGENT. This case came before the Court on Friday last, for the choice of assignees, and was adjourned over to this day, for the purpose of certain creditors, who then sought to prove, producing their books, to verify their accounts, and also for the examination of Mr. Coils, who was alleged to have been in partnership with the bankrupt. Mr. Tioggins attended for the bankrupt, and Mr. Cooke for certain creditors. Mr. Commissioner EvaNs—Do any creditors attend to prefer joint proofs ; for I und e r s t an d a t th e l as t hearing that such an object was in contemplation ? There was no answer. Proof of several debts was tendered, and one re lating to accommodation bill transactions with Mr. West, an innkeeper at Hastings, was ordered to stand over. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 27. Mr. Coils having been sworn, was examined by Mr. Hociairis, and stated in substance as follows : I formerly kept the Rainbow Tavern, Fleet-street, and now produce an agreement entered into between me and Argent, who subsequently occupied that house in consequence of such agreement. There were many payments and other transactions between us after that time. Mr. HOGGINS—aO you keep any book ? Mr. Coils—No, Ido not; but I produce a statement of the payments between lbs. I have other papers beside that which I now produce, but they are at home, and when the Court wishes they shall be forthcoming. Mr. Cooke, the solicitor, made out the agreement between me and the bankrupt. Were all your transactions with him in conse quence of that agreement ?—No, they were not all on the footing of that agreement ; such as rent, for example, and other matt-A.3. Now tell the Court, Mr. Coils, when you took pos session of the Rainbow Tavern ?—I think it was on last Saturday fortnight. How came you in possession of the Rainbow ?—T put in an execution for money due to me. Did 7ou examine his (the bankrupt's) accounts, or ascertain the nature or amount of his property ? No, I did not. How much money does the bankrupt owe you now? —1,7001., of which 1,000/. is upon his bond, and the remainder upon bills of exchange, and a cheque for 200/., which I lent him. There was a bill of sale from the Sheriff to me, dated 12th November, 1844. Did you then pay over the money to the Sheriff? — No, I did not, as t myself issued the execution. No other proofs having been tendered, Mr. John Wells, of Upper Norton-street, gentleman, was chosen assignee. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before Mr. Justice WICEITMAN and a Middlesex Common Jury.) BARKER V. MARIGNAN. Mr. Petersdorff 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. lie 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 plain tiff 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 101. 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 cowkceper, 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 home his gig was upset in Marsh-lane, ii 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 bad 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 tilt) , are required. The heap i❑ question, it was contended, extended from the greeniward 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. PETERSDORFF (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, under 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 aIL CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Lord Chief Justice DENMAN.) _ _ . His Lordship entered the Court and took his seat at 10 o'clock. THE SLAVE TRADE ON THE COAST OF AFRICA. Mr. PRENDErtossT and Mr. CLARKSON appeared to make an application on the part of Captain Thomas Jennings, late of the Augusta, who was charged with slave trading on the Coast of Africa. Mr. PERNDEROMIT prayed that his Lordship would enter at once upon the trial this session, or at least fix a time for it, as Mr. Jennings's character and prospects were greatly injured while the present charge of felony was kept suspended over his head. The injury was the greater, as that gentleman solemnly protested that the accusation was a most unfounded one. Mr. PATH■ opposed the application upon an affidavit of Sir George Stevens, which was read to the Court. It would be quite impossible to proceed with the trial until the presence of Captain Hill, who was at present in com mand at the Bolam River, could be had in this country. That would, at the lowest computation, involve a delay of six months, and on that ground he moved that the application be dismissed, and a postponement granted for that time. Lord DENMAN said that Captain Jennings had already urged a plea in another Court, that he had been already tried for this offence, which plea had been dismissed. Had it, however, been held good, there would have been no necessity for Captain Hill's evidence in the case; hut now that officer's evidence was indispensable. He would, therefore, order that the trial take place in the coming June Sessions. Three young men, labourers, named William Sadd. Henry Clow, and George Henry Vaughan, were indicted for feloniously assaulting John Augustus Lock, with in te•nt to murder him. A second count charged them with a common assault. Mr. Justice WIGIITSIAN having hoard Mr. Platt and Mr. Bovile in reply to the objections, refused to stop the case, but reserved the points. Mr. PETEnsnonFF then addressed the jury for the defendant. Mr : Justice WIGHT2dAN t in summing up, left these 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 then retired to consider their verdict. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 27. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before the low) CHIEF BARON.) THE ATTORNEY -GENERAL V. TOPLIV. This was an information filed by the Attorney- General against the defendant, for harbouring and con cealing, and having in his possession a quantity of tobacco, which had not paid the duty. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Jervis, and Mr. Wilde, conducted the case for the Crown ; Mr. Ilumfrey and Mr. Barstow were counsel for the defendant. The SOLICITOR •GENERAL said, the circumstances of this case were very abort. The defendant carried on the business of a tobacco manufacturer in Bermondsey7 street, Surrey. About three o'clock on the morning of Dec. 3, 1843, an officer of the Customs, wee , : Jordan, in consequence of information he had received, proceeded to watch the premises of the defendant. He planted him- A( if undor one of the arches of the Greenwich Railway. atul had not been standing there long before he observed a man coming from a court or alley a,d;attent, with a Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Doane appeared for s the prose cution ; Mr. Prendergast for the prisoner r. Payne•for Clow, and Mr. Ballantine for Vaughan. The person assaulted, John Augustus Locke, a sworn constable at Nicholson's wharf, had taken a drunken person into custody for obstructing the b us i ness t h ere, and while conveyi ng him to the station-house, li e was surrounded by a mob, among which the prisoners were conspicuous who committed the assault complained of, and released the prisoner. They were at a subsequent period taken into custody. The prisoners were this day tried for the commi - in assault only. Evidence having been given, and the counsel for the prisoners having severally addressed the jury, Lord DENMAN' summed up, and the jury, efier con suiting togetip , r, - return,d a verdict f Guilty ii,vainst Henry Clow, but reiommendeil to mercy on account of previous !•ood chiirseter, A!,(i Acquitted the other two. His LORDSHIP then said that th, , prison ; r had been c. , n- Yietod of a brutsl and cowardly assent, but in considers., tion of the good character he had receivefl, and the recr.an naemititiou of the jury, the punishment indicted weted bt THE SIJN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING; NOT_VMDEP „Le, 2B, 1844. lighter than the critnetidietred• be be imprisoned and kent • The sentence was that months, and at the •- f,o hard labour for six calendar recognizatices of that ri Pnter into hi g (‘ITT Patrick r" 504 to keep the, peace tor two years. ..rammon, a labourer, aged 25. was indicted for feloniously wounded Gfiorge Higgins, a policeman, ~y striking him on the head - with a brick. It appeared that on the morning of Sunday, the 13th October, the prisoner and another man were wrestling in High street, Islington, wEen the constable Higgins Mlle up and ordered tltein to move on. Th e y did so , but on entering a certain court one of the persons threw a brick at the coristakde. He endeavoured to take the offender into ely,tody, when the prisoner struck him on the head with, another brick, and he fell down insensible. When he recovered he was placed under surgical care, from several wounds on t h e h ead nud a brokn collar bone. The assault was clearly proved by corroborating evidence. Mr. COTTINGHAM asked him - why,he deserted; and his reply was that when with the regiment he got drunk and rem.rinH f)rn !t• to go back, afid eaith: tE. I, olL i on . liO ded t h a i ; he was now most anxious to join his regiment. Mr. COTTINOHAM said the prisoner had committed a serious offence against the articles of war, and asked him if it was likely he would get punished? The prisoner said that he was certain he would not be flogged, that he would get a few daps sharp drilling, and a little soli tary confinement in the black hole. COTTINGHAM said that his present condition was attributable to liquor, and advised him ita future to ab stain from it. The Magistrate added that it was his duty to commit him to gaol until the authorities at the War-office were apprised of his being in custody. The deserter was then sent to prison. The prisoner pleaded that he was intoxicated, and had been assaulted in the fiat inst4nee. His Loansnir, after a severe admonition, sent him t , l the }louse of Correction, with hard labour, for six months, and at the er.d of that period to enter into sureties in 501. to keep the peace for a couple of years. Several petty larcenies were next disposed of, but they possessed no feature of interest. James Smith, aged 23, was convicted of a burglary in tho dwelling•house of Philip Kennel!, and stealing there from a watch and other procerty to the value of a(, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. The additional charges upor. the calendar since last Monday are twenty-seven, consisting principally of lar cenies from houses and from the person. No charges of a particularly heavy character are added. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. On Tuesday Charles Conner, a young man of re spectable appearance, was charged with having de serted his wife and infant child. THAMES POLICE. ATROCIOUS OUT RAQ E.--AD active-looking young man, named Charles 'Valiant Glover, a labourer, re siding in Whitehouse- Line, Stereley, ",\ 35 charged with fel,,mou,ly wounding Ann Nehl, a young warried woman, in an advanced state of pregnancy. It appeared, from the evidence of several witnesses, that on the evening of Monday week, the prisoner, whose conduct was more like that of a raving maniac than of a rational being, ran a-muck along the Mile end-road, in a state of infuriated drunkenness, with a mason's trowel in his hand, striking every person who came in his way. He first hit a man named Green, who was selling umbrellas near the kerb-stone below the London Hospital, with such force, that but for the intervention of the coat collar the blow would have nearly decapitated him. He next struck at, but fortunately missed, a young man named Hopkins, and then rushed on striking furiously both right and left, Green and Hopkins being in pursuit. On arriv ing opposite the London Hospital, the prisoner shuck Mrs. Neal so forcibly on the left side of the head that the trowel cut through her bonnet and laid open her cheek to the teeth, two of which were displaced, and hung loosely by light filaments from the gum. She fell senseless on the pavement, bleeding profusely from the wound, and was ultimately conveyed to the London Hospital. Green and Hopkins continued their pursuit of the prisoner, who still ran on, striking at all in his course until he was overtaken by the latter near Osborne street, on which he turned and attempted to use the trowel, but Hopkins closed in on him, and they both fell in the struggle and rolled over and over in the mud. He was then given into the custody of two constables, whom he kicked and cuffed violently on the way to the station-house. Mrs. Neal, who had been in the hospital until Saturday last, attended yesterday with her head bandaged up. She seemed still pale and languid from what she suffered. Her testimon = y was in accordance with the statement given above. The prisoner said he was drunk at the time, and had no recollection of what occurred. Mr. BRODERIP told him that was no excuse for running a-muck at the public, and, in his mad vio lence, striking at every person he met. In the case of Mrs:Neal, he must take his trial for feloniously wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and the other parties injured could have redress by indicting him at the Sessions. The prisoner was fully committed. A poor wretched-looking woman, having a baby in her arms, nearly blind, stated that she was the wife of the prisoner, to whom she wa x marr i e d i n D u bli n . In March last he left her under the pretence of seek ing employment as a clerk, but never returned, and in a few months afterwards the child which she now held was born. Having no means of supporting her self, she started in pursuit of her husband, who had, as she was informed, left Ireland in August to enter upon some situation in the Treasury. She4 ollowed him to England, but alth oug h s h e had Iseenstaying in London several weeks walking from street to street in the hope of meeting him, she failed in her endea vours until Monday, when she accidentally saw him in Drury-lane. He told her that he was unable to support her, but she followed him a considerable dis tance, and then gave him into the custody of a police man. The woman said she had been in St. Martin's workhouse during part of the time she had been in London, having become wholly destitute. The prisoner, NI ho assigned no other reason for de serting his wife than his inability to maintain her, declared that he was still without money or employ ment, but that he expected very shortly to obtain a situation through the influence of a friend. Mr. JARDINE said the case was attended with much difficulty, occasioned by the wife's having left the parish to which she had legally become chargeable. Unless the prisoner now undertook to keep his wife and child, he must either go into the workhouse with them, or be passed back to Ireland. The prisoner said, he should he able by disposing of some clothes to support her, probably, until he ob tained a situation. He hoped the Magistrate would net deprive him of his liberty, or send him back to Dublin, where he had no prospect of getting employ ment. It was true he had no home at present in London, but he would contrive to get into lodgings. With this understanding Mr. JARDINE dismissed the man. previously reminding him of the consequence , . to which he would render himself liable by a breach of his rngagem'•ut . . MARLDOIIOI7GII-STREET. *'On Tuesday:two men, named Thomas Sullivan and Justin Connor, were placed at the bar before Mr. Hardwick, charged with stealing two cloaks from the carriage of Lieut.-Col. Le Blanc, of the Royal Hos pital, Chelsea. James Bickerstaff, a scavenger, stated, that while with his cart in Soho-square on Friday last, he saw the prisoners go up to a carriage that was standing near the Soho Bazaar, and one of them took from it two cloaks, upon which they both ran away. Witness followed them till he saw a policeman, to whom he communicated what bad occurred, and pointed out the direction taken by the thieves. Police-constable 57 C said, that from the informa tion he received from the preceding witness he went in pursuit of the prisoners, and succeeded in over taking Connor in Sutton-street. On finding himself pursued, Connor dropped the two cloaks. Sullivan escaped till Sunday, when he . was arrested in St. Giles's by a policeman, who recognised him from the description given by Bickerstaff. Col. Le Blanc identified the cloaks. They were safe in the carriage just before some member of his family left the vehicle to go into the Bazaar. The prisoners, who declined saying anything, were fully committed. CLERKENWELL. THE Tunr TRIUMPHANT.-.-Mr. John Stevens, ho described himself as a retired tradesman, residing at Old Manor-street, Chelsea, was charged with vio lently assaulting Mr. Thomas Banting, a dairyman, living in John-street, Bedford-row. The complainant, who had his left arm in a sling, and is blind of one eye, deposed that on the evening of the 21st he had a few friends spending the 4rening with him. At a quarter-past eight o'clock the de fendant came into the shop, and, in a very peremptory manner, demanded his money. Mr. Couna inquired if he owed Mr. Stevens any thing ? Complainant said he had lost 151. in betting with him on races, 13/. on Foig'a-ballagh, in the St. Leger, and 2/. on other stakes. He went on to say that he told the defendant be had not got the money, who thereupon called him a swindler, and applied other language to him too vile and disgusting to be mentioned in the presence of witness's wife and friends. Witness still persisted in saying he had not the money. The defendant exclaimed, " I Will knock your other eye out." Witness told hini he must leave the house, whereupon, raising a large stick, he aimed a violent blow at his head. Witness put up his arm to ward it off, and received the blow on it. The blow caused a swelling as large as a half pint pot on the elbow, and he had not since then had the use of the limb. The defendant swore he would " serve him out," and "do for him." Wifuess's friends interfered, and the defendant went away using bad language. The defendant denied the assault, and said i was rheumatic gout affected the. complainant's arm. His money had been due since the St. Leger race. The complainant had nearly choked him. Mr. Goodwin, one of . Mr. Banting's guests on the occasion, confirmed the complainant's testimony in every respect. He also added that in consequence of the defendant's violence a mob of 150 people had ga thered round the house, and that he threatened "to do" for the complainant, if not now at sumo other time. Mr. CoMBE (to the complainant)—Why don't. you pay Mr. Stevens the 151.'? Complainant—l was un able to do so, Sir—other parties had not paid me. Mr. COMBE—Nonsense, how is he to know wliether they have or not ? You had better pay him the 151. You are a long time in his debt. The complainant repeated his inability to do so. Mr. Costae—lf you are an honest man you will pay him. The complainant's wife here stepped forward, and, in a tone of indignation, said the defendant was , con tinually coming to her husband's house, requesting of him to bet on various horses, which he said would certainly win. He had in consequences made two bets with the defendant, which he lost. The defen dant was himself indebted in various sums for bets made in their , neighbourhood. Mr. COMBE (to the complainant)—The defendant asks for a bill. Why dmi't you give him your bill for the 151., which you acknowledge you owe? The complainant said that after having received such treatment, he should be less inclined to do so than ever. Mr. CoMBB—If you pay him the 151., I'll fine him for the assault. The complainant said he had been brutally created, and declined the offer. The defendant, who admitted that he was " a betting man," was merely bound over in his own recognisance to answer any charge at the sessions. Two men named Bryant, and one named Lynch, were charged with lighting a fire in an uninhabited house, the property of the Globe Insurance-office. Lynch was further charged with violently assaulting police-constable Moss, G 195, and police-sergeant G 3. It appeared from the evidence tbat about ten weeks ago an extensive warehouse, was burned down in Back hill, Clerkenwell. It was insured in the Globe Insurance office, and is now in process of re-erection by that , esta blishment. Last night, Moss being on duty in Back hill, saw a fire on the first floor of the warehouse, and on climbing up to the first floor, saw a large fire in the room immediately over one of the large wooden beams, and all the chips and shavings in the neighbourhood of it. The inhabitants of the adjoining houses were startled out of sleep by the flames and smoke. Moss sprung his rattle, obtained assistance, and extinguished the fire. There was neither grate nor hearthstone in the room, and there can be no doubt but for the timely arrival of the constable, the whole premises would have been consumed. The men were under the influence of liquor, and Lynch kicked the constables s 6 violently that Moss ' was almost disabled, and sergeant G 3 much hurt. Lynch could not be removed to the station-house until hill arms and legs were fettered. The two Bryttuts were in.default of fine sentenco to ten days' imprisonment, and Lynch to three weeks r/A /ON- L George Seymour, u fine tall young fellow, was chsrged on his own confosio3, with beitr;• N destlier from the 49th Itegilnoit A N u e:en:jam st l ipd that the pris , -i7.0-r allird station-hot:4o the prepeding night, c„iid 44) ing was deserter from the above reglinent, kidded triat lie cenie therc to giTo himself jut° custody. CORONERS' INQUESTS. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE AT A BRICK-KlLN.—Tues day evening Mr. Baker held an inquest, at the London Hospital, on the body of Jeremiah gray, aged thirty five years. Mr. William Webb, of No. 10, Albion-road, Dalston, tailor, deposed that about nine o'clock on Thursday night, . whilst at supper with his family, he was alarmed by hearing cries of distress prsceediug from a field at the rear of his house. Ile immediately went out and discovered the deceased standing with his arms out stretched, having the whole of his clothee in a complete blaze from heed to feet, and calling for God's sake to help him." Witness, with the assistance of a policeman and a young Imin, drtag the bin cling remnants oil his body till he was completely naked. Witness then took off his own coat and wrapped it over deceased, and with assistance he was carried to a chemist's shop in Queen's row, from whence he was subsequently conveyed in a cab to the above Hospital, but,' owing to the density of the fog, nearly three hours elapsed before they reached that establishment. The deceased, whilst in the chemist's shop, was quite sensible, and said that having had a penny given him he bought some potatoes, and had pro ceeded to the brick-kiln, near which he was found, for the purpose of roasting them, when he was overpowered by the vapour, and, falling asleep, his clothes became ignited. He further stated thut he had no home er friends, being quite destitute. The house-surgeon said the deceased, when admitted, was burned in a most dreadful manner. He lingered until the next morning Verdict—" Accidental death." SUICIDE IN A STATION-HousE.—Tuesday afternoon Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Chequers, Tothill street, Westminster, on the body of Sarah Edensaw, aged 34, who destroyed herself in the New-way station hOuse of the B division, on the night of Saturday last. Abraham Wright, police-constable 99 B, deposed that about a quarter before eleven o'clock on the night of Sa turday last he took her to the station-house, and charged her with being drunk and disorderly. She was locked up, as she had been before hundreds of times. To the best of his belief deceased had been drunk for the last seven weeks, and she told him herself that. she had net been in bed for three weeks. She occasionally worked at the Nag's Head, and during the interval of the house being closed and the opening in the morning she would go and sit on the pavement in the Almonry and smoke a pipe. William Glimpson, police-constable 162 B, stated that he locked the deceased up in the cell of the station-house shortly before eleven o'clock. On visiting her at a quarter before twelve he found her hanging by her apron from the top of the door which leads from the cell into the yard. He cut her down instantly, and she was at once conveyed to Westminster Hospital, where bleeding was attempted, but without effect, as she was quite dead. Verdict—The deceased hung herself whilst in a state of intoxication. MELAXCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Tuesday an inquiry was gone into before Mr. Higgs, at the Union, Jerinyn street, to investigate the circumstances attending the death of Edward Arthur May, Esq., aged 24, of 17, Duke-street, St. James's, the son of Sir Stephen May, Bart., who put a period to his existence. The first witness examined was Charles Belzoni. the landlord of the house, 17, llnke-street. who stated that deceased's aunt bad taken a furnished bed-room at his house, and the deceased arrived on Friday last, having just come from Madras. The last time witness saw him alive was when he came home at eleven o'clock on Sun day night ; he asked for, and was supplied with some bread, butter, and porter. On the following morning deceased's cousin, Mr. Brinsley de Courcy Nixon, came about half-past ten o'clock to call him up, when he found the door of his room fattened on the inside. He had not done so before. An entrance was effected by a door which communicated with another room, and on merely looking into the room arid seeing some stains of blood on the bed, witness immediately ran and fetched Mr. Miller, a surgeon, who, on examination, said he had been dead several hours. The manner of the de ceased gentleman was very strange, and witness was of opinion he was not right in his mind. He was found undressed in the bed with his throat cut, and he had evidently inflicted the wound with the table knife, which had been sent to him with bread and butter (the knife vras produc,d covered with liood). His Iclothes were much the worse for wear. A Jotter rig/led by the deceased SVPS produced, di rected to the ett,torn-house [went, to clear his luggage from the barque Mary Anne, by which he arrived.from Madras. Robert Jaqueq, captain of the barque Mary Anne, said, from his conduct at Madras and during the voyage, it was evident he was rot right in his head, lie was dismissed from the Iladra.: army by the sentence: of a general court-martial. He was very melancholy during the voyage. Brillsley de Courcy Nixon, of 20, HAes-street., Ca vendish-square, a cousin of deceased, said he was for merly a Lieutenant in the Hon. East India Company's army of Madras. He dined with witness on Sunday, when be appeared to have a very wild, vacant, and rest less look. The jury returned a verdict of "Insanity." THE LATE TRAGICAL EVENT AT MILE-END. OPENING OF THE LETTERS. The doubts that prevailed in the vicinity of this melan choly occurrence as to the actual poison with which the yonng couple had destroyed themselves, were finally set at rest by the post mortem examination which the bodies underwent in the course of Monday afternoon by Dr. Letheby, an eminent professor of chemistry at the Lon don Hospital. The scent of prussic acid was immediately detected on their being opened, and on the contents of the stomach being carefully analysed on Tuesday at the above Institution, upwards of half an ounce of the pure acid was extracted. From inquiries instituted, it appears tilt'. Duckett purchased it at Batley's, in Fore-street, Crippl e .. gate, having procured it by representing himself to have been sent by a druggist who deals with ;he firm, The buttles, which were found on the ma el-piece, and which contained it, were labelled "Sobelld's Prussic Acid." According to the request of the deceased, inscribed on the letter found in the apartment, and directed to Miss Chapman, in Lucas-street, it was delivered in the course of Monday afternoon at her residence, and opened i n the presence of Mr. Porter, the constable of Stepney. On the envelope being broken open it was found to con tain two epistles, both of which were addressed to that young lady, and written in the handwriting of Duckett. One was a piece of poetry in twenty-four verses, and is a beautiful piece of P enmanship. The title is, " Th e L ast Lay of Two Broken Hearts, written and composed by C. A. D.," executed in the illustrated style in old Eng lish, with a variety of inks. It bears the date of Nov. 8, but it has evidently been written as far back as Sep, tember, which date was erased, but which is still par tially discernible. The theme shows a wild paroxysm of Live on hi s part, roanifestiug the mo s t f ervent attach ti P / Twa t to the ill-fated girl. He bids adi eu to his parents qnd other relations, and pray furgivene s. overt y had blastedprosvnts, and 44 SinVP! Fate had marr'd their earthly bliss, they would seek en (-nth" krav”.'' B ,, rhe wild torsin is nispla)ed thrzlighout the whole His [tizzy hogging tiwt :fight be her grave The langua;, , e of it shows the unfortunat, i.vriter to have I.er,n a, meat intoficct!!al young man, out the extravagant 01.0=43 uE hiSlacisit.. , n which it displays prove, almost beyond a doubt, that his mind was in some wayaffect/ The second is written in th e same su p er i or style, i;p2rs e;f the e lf eff,aed confirms the supposition that has been 63 a tertain, amongst the friends and r e l a ti ves , tkat he had prt I st upon the miserable girl t o f or f e it her existence with, l l It states " that ere she (Miss Chapman) had recoil s that epistle they would be in the sweet sled p of dea th " Fate had marred his bliss in this world was r e d par. d to leaveit, it, and she, for whom i7e ha,i Ave.!, b' told hiai "If you die without me you wai be my mu t. derer !" and, to use the words of Lady Jane Grtl' " Death hurl no terrors." Both productions had deep black borders round them. ALLEGED MI:TINY ON BOARD SHIP. On Monday two well-looking sailors, named '%Vi.l l ° Whittaker and James Elliott, wer e b roug ht before ~1 Ilushtiet. at the police-court, Liverpool, on a charge having been guilty of mutinous conduct on beard 6 ' American vessel, called the Jersey Tar. John M'Cane deposed that he was master of the 'ell t ; sel in question, and that wh i l e s h e was lyi ng a t Trie t i o the prisoners struck him and the ma t e re p eate dly a quarter-deck. He cautioned them, but they shook an knocked him from side to side, heedless of all rele° o strances. Seeing that he had no cont ro l on board e r ship, he thought to go ashore and seek the ass istaece r ; the Consul, but they prevented hi :n f rom l ee v ing, ~1 1 ; when he jumped into the boat, Whitt a k er j u mp after him, and by means of a ro p e th e own b y the au*" prisoner (Elliott) drew the boat back again to the r vs e' He (the captain) then jumped i n t o hi s own O° Z; and having been sculled by th e ca bi n -b oy t o landt; stated his case to the Consul, who sa id th a t, a s he If bound to Cephalonia, there would be men-of-war:W e l and that he would be sure of having all put torigh"' s that port. The next morning the Consul had the er i ,, soners taken into custody by two officers, who 0„ 1 ' them under lock and key, in the h o ld o f th e J er sey On arriving at Cephalonia there were no men-of . M there, and the vessel was chartered for Liverpool. -AP; she had been chartered, the prisoners were takell ike shore, and kept in confinement u n til suc h ti me as :1 vessel was ready for sea, and th en th e y were deliveP back. They were brought from Cephalonia to Li pool in custody, one of them at a time being allowed come on deck. The prisoner Whittaker entered into a long del lie said that on Sunday, the Ist of September, the ei tain gave him a dollar, and allowed him to go ashore Trieste, where he met the mate of the vessel, bet whom and himself some words ands fight ensued. Nts he (the prisoner) next went on board the vessel the PS I struck him across the eye with a stick. He they iro to a doctor and had his eye dre sse d, an d, i n a f e w u' 131t after, he asked the captain for his discharge. The 1,1 tain promised him the discharge, b u t i n the coure h is some conversation that ensued gave him a blow witu t o fist which tumbled him down the hatches. The W o k I subsequently took a crowbar, and threatened to his (the prisoner's) brains out ; he a l so th re ateneusf, get his pistol and shoot him. Then Elliott and 103 i were taken into custody, the captain gi v i ng t h e m e ~f e li of handcuffs, and saying " the r e was a pa i r of ,„r for them ;" and they were kept in confinement fort teen days on bread and water. The p r i soner cous in by holding up a piece of black bre a d t o the C0,1.16,.„1'di sample of that upon which himself an d hi s Qo m?'" had been fed in confinement. f The prisoner Elliott also made a st a t emen t sinaill i a effect, except that he denied that a n y bl , Jeje had 'r t y i struck by either the captain o r hi mse lf, a l t h o ug h li - i.' former had on one occasion taken off his coat to b 0 , 00! The captain denied that Whittaker's story was 'oil and said that he should be able to prodnce the Mee t y two British captains to-day to prows the truth ef i charge. Mr. Rushton accordingly ordered the prisoners tee remanded until to-day, and remarked that it was f/ grave case.—Liverpool Times of Tuesday. A ITA.RKET NEWs._.(yEszTERD:' -i l (702 M EXCHANGE Comparatively speakirsg, supply of Engiisher was tolerably good. The best parcels fully k'nPr Monday's quotations, hut .":11. other hinds were sale. So little was doing in foreign Wheat the to , prices were next to nominal. B ar l e y an d Malt 0 , very dull, but - not cheaper. Oats, Bens, and Pees° • extremly inactive. ARRIVAL & 'foil/ Wheat. Earley. I k Oat,. 4,0 Elish..... ..... 6,00 qrs. 4,240 qrs. --- --0" Irish . -- -- qrs. I ...... Foreign. 4BO 3445 560 Malt. 4.800 ars. 1 1 , 1311PECHAPEZ. - We had only a moderate supply of Meat, wilije ? demand was tolerably steady, at full pricer. Bee f ' ; , 9 1 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton. 2s 4d t o 3 s 8d ; V ea l, 35 : and Pork, 2s 4d to 3s 10d p e r Bib s b y t h e cativo"' COAL IKAELICE7, Ai l#l l Prices per ton at the close of th t market : cot Main, 16s 6d ; Buddle's West liartley, 18,1 otio Hartley, 18s ; Hasting's Hartley, 18s ; Helywell 20s Nelson's West Hartley, IBs ; Old Po.utor', Ord's Redheugh, 16s fid ; Oakwellgate 1 5 5 4 vensworth West Hartley, 17s ; Taylor's W est PZ i ry 17s 6d ; Townley, 17s 6d ; W es t Hartley, 189 ; Acun Close, 20s ; W. E., Brown's unse reesed , W. E., Clark and Co., 18s ; W. E., ( .31enne il "61 1 W. E., Killingworth, 19s 6d to 20s ; W. E.% New , 19s 3d ; W. E., Northumberland, 19s 9d ;., 40 ;00 1 1 20s Walker, 6d 19 ; W. 19s • B , E d en M y l ii 's Haineito2n.la • ;2sW6ti. E • + Be Hetton, 20s 3d ; W. E., Haswell, 21s 6d; W. E'' g el 22s 3d ; W. E., Hylton, 20 s ; W . E., LarabtoTtuoill W. E., Pemberton, 20s 6d ; W. E. Richmont l 4 o o o , W. E., Russell's Hetton, 2.2 F, 3d ; W. E. 11 22s 6d ; W. E., Caradoc, 21 s ; W. R. Hartleric,ello e ' W. E., Heseldon, 20s ; Tie 11, 20s 6d ; W. E' B`rlle 22s ; W. E., Trimdon, 2 Is 6d ; W. E., Tenan Li c o so o 7 pool, 20s 9d LW. E., Aeielaide, 22s ; W. El Ogle! Tees, 20s ; W. E., _E re•uwood, 19s ;W. E., , , Tees, 19s 6d ; W. E. % 'Tees, 2 9 3 ; W. E., Tee s „ 1 0. 18s ; W. E., West, T ees, 20 s ; Claekmann a lro , Cowpen Hartley, :a s ; H art l ey, 17 s 6 d ; W. P"'ls, hilt Elgin, 17s 6?....----Ships arrived since last daft STATE OF TRADE. ,„ (From the Mancheste r G uar di an .) _ fd tl Owing to th e a d vance o f t h e season, the de7ier,, yarn (which has b een so excee di ng l y act i ve d ur ingt few weeks) has now somewhat abated, and rather prices were yeste r d a y accepte d f or certa in_ A! *ions of warps and of cop-weft, which had Pr e rl commanded higher relative prices than other sor ts ' ff ec all the ordinary s hippi ng num b ers and qual i t i es , ho= the prices remain quite as high as heretofore goods, the demand is still limited, with a slight t stl is a decline in prices, in some few fabrics. gel ly ROCHDALE FLA NNEL M ARKET , MONDAY, - 0 4 ibER 25.—The flannel market ha s b een heal ° d o , prices ruinously low. When trade is good, lids° generally the busiest, and the demard Christmas. Wool has been rather ),etter to bug but the inquiry for it continues very limited. [ADYERTISE' AENT .] t AN EXTRAORDINARY CORE OF ,tx.-- v e ruE KNEE, BY LIOLLOW)..e3 OINTMENT AN° . ` 1 0 1 : t Henry Croft, residing at 18, Castle -street, 5, 0 ,. ° r jit i was an in-patient at Thomas's Hospital, '; ( 1 ; e scessed knee, and cane out as incurable on `Thii oNf et if June last year, after being there three months- 0 . last he left Guy's Hospital, where he had b ee r "( weeks, said pronounced incurable—indeed, tbei der 'e mended his leg to be taken off—yet, however ` ll/ t ot it may appear, he has just been cured by e th g e a r Holloway 'l Pills and Ointment.—Sold rr" le ,;:i r,i loway's Establishment, 244, Strand (where 11 ": i e he had gratis), and by almost all respectable v` n..dieine throughout the civilised world. 0 -6 INCREASE or THE VALUE OF SALMON FO B 1 4 4 ThEk:///.—The fishirgs on the Tweed 3 06 mouth, belonging t o John tValdie. Esq., of li e9 g hl Park, and whi c h no t many years ago only 11 4 annual rent of 21L, h ave b een ' l et within tbe fir 0,1 to Mr. Sermon, i n th e county of Durham! being an inc rease o f 189/. per annum. Frowej /(, traorilinitry rise of rent some id ea may be fora re anxiety manifested by s p ort i ng gentlemen to 7,4 right of fishing for salmo n i n t h e Tweed. 11 1 '1 1 1 1 ,f/. amusement which attra c t s many distinguish(' P° duals to our locality during the season for 511 . .6'elso Chronicle. — ,O " • BIRTHS. file fil; On the 14th inst., at Mapert on H ouse , th e ladle . l Fitzgerald, Esq., of a da ug ht er . On the 20th inst., at the R ec t ory, Himler, StD°Qvil the lady of the Rev. W. H. Piliens, of a daughter- xi. On the 21st inst., at Cress we ll, th e l a dy efo- i t. " i l we h 11, tEsq.,e23d it ofa son. ns On . , .• at Brooklan F. W. Bramston, o f a son . On the 23d inst., at York street, Portman-square, ltd of S. Walcott, Es q ., o f a (laughter. tlr I On the 24th inst., at Nalliford, Middlesex, j ot Lieutenant Colonel Leenard Cooper, of a son. l , y/ On the 24th In s t., a t Bryanston-square, the e"- "0 4 Alston, Esq., o f a daughter. 'IN "Wandsworthfel'es; o f Mar, i li d On the 24th i ns t., M rs. J o h n D ay , CI ) Caventlisft-square, of a son. lady of „,,t On file 25th inst., in Sloane-street, the v Tutenham, Esq., of a daughter. ,„ 01 0 On the 25th inst., in Doughty-street, Mrs. u'_ .. 1 ,,,, / of a daughter. , i 0 e l MARRIED. cos' ?ti At the Ambassador's Chapel, Firmin Fran air architect, Paris, to Frances Anne, third daughtel . . fr ei Ball, Esq., late of Postferd- hill, near Guildford, ? v r t P, t , On the 23d inst., at T e ddi ng ton Church, 0 0 0 r/ Leverett, of Nelson-squ are , t o Miss Hooper, a Middlesex. -------4, DIED. On the 11th inst., at B o dwenni, near Bale , )slorw A 55, t i Samuel Evans, Esq., aged 60. ~ egetirelic c On the 16th inst., Alexander Gompertz, Dot, _ rto , On the 20th inst., at Aberdeen, Margaret In the late Thomas Black, Esq. On tthhee 21st t h i i n n s s t t .. : a a t t ls h lin e g at t h on, c 3 o f t r ia S g . e, T. n G es Salop, Joseph Kennerlev, Esq., aged 86. D.,, la te of On the 24th inst., William Holloway, -'''''''' 0 4 1 pore. w N e rr I n v ill i f itiv ; o l, portly° i (( ..)) nn thetli e 2 2 5 5 t t h h i inst.,inst., M a l tss Gloucester-place, t o e f r- C p t e r e e l : -r° ' ' 44 ,tor Mrs. Sarah Coops, aged 78. . • g dalw t y On the 25th inst., at Newington, Surrey' _ ..A. tle r TwiC u ' - ' rot . e ja o m n es tr 2 M s u t h rra i inst., t E . , sq K . a , Kate-Anne, only sotnalry.tseurrar .- c iv e. mil of Caroline Parker, On the 25th inst., Robert Lowden , FA.' CD Reading, Berke. , • Ott tne 115th i. , ....5t ,at Cirencester, Marie, wife ' pher .110',viv, Esq. Ll On the - 26111 ult.. at Upper Vernon-street, Mr, Thomas Arnott, agea 62. e."me • YOfff,' 713, Loo4on: Pzinted and WURD O el NO. 112, StrAti, k'rint.cr, At rt . .. Straml, in tits Prnisct of Oa Savoy: Middlesex, Thursday, November 28118441 I i te e an