The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENT NIS I MARCH _2B, 1844. tet; g tnal d ue—they upon the League, and speedy terms with the League.—(hear, hear.) terms that were to be made being, that they 1 4 1 u serve the , League, and in the end serve them pot es; by the total abolition of that infamous mono bk--(Cheers.) He contended it IA as a warfare o Zst civilisation thi s wanton abuse by the land el of their legislatorial powers ; for when and tin the world's history had civilisation advanced Connection with the harmonious and harmonising zsences of commercial intercourse. To whom did qua owe its first alphabet but to those adven -1 merchants, the Phoenicians ? There was _. feant abr o ad about the instability of commerce. kY , the - empire of the Phoenicians lasted 700 years. t4l4ts the it but their commercial intercourse that over elega n t an d p o lished Athenian his superiority t t r ptib t i lle rude Spartan ? In the Middle Ages the Lies of Italy, while they kept alive some th e ;„ n . of political freedom, did it in connection with t h:L . commercial greatness. Their princely mer iis were the sources of wealth and civilisation to "'"Pa took ages. In that great start which took at the period of the Reformation, they k ft ,, ll , l _ l _aliy found the burgesses, the tradesmen, and ili h ua 4 tal making good their position in society, and f or at advance raising the feudal lords themselves ; p o 2that were they then, and what would they be it" , but f or th e b en i gnan t influence of commerce ? '„ . 4 for that those very persons who denied to the ir,:illrer the food which his labour had earned , 1 1 " they surrounded themselves with all the Aries they could accumulate from every fo ,cfp region —these men would have been, instead it te l yillg in richly carpeted rooms, dwelling in rush floors, in cold and stony residences, more like 4e 6 ns than anything else, with unglazed windows, let in the sleet and snow, as well as the air of l er ikv ,,erl• They would still, if sanctioning the char ki!' some mercantile guild, affix to it their marks 'ad of writing their names; and would have been 4 01 informed of those distant countries, over the of which they exercised so large an in tiree as those feudal barons, who, when they set Autry the crusade to Palestine, expected in that to encounter giants riding on unicorns, to P 4 h l , black magicians, who for breakfast sucked eggs and who expected to find griffins and Y Isirras as plenty as barn-door fowls.—(Laughter.) li, it w as commerce had made men of them. cio and beggarly was the boon that was asked of 44; 4 in return, to allow the very humblest of the 1 44 11 _,Yers the reward of his labour which Providence allotted him. Laws for the restriction of com %Zee were an absurdity under any circumstances , a wickedness as well as an absurdity—much ge were they both in such a country as this. W, this land was made for commerce—it was it ki rd out for commerce by the hand of Heaven • Creative power had stamped that as its des- Their long lines of coast—their beautiful 1 6 „ . ,ra—their safe harbours—all indicated that every qi that blew ought to waft from their shores some • hn. lght of wealth or knowledge or charity to every 4 51 ° 11 of the world. It was marked out for com j!e by its coal-beds and mineral treasures, by ma- IS which nature itself had put into their hands enable them to minister to the subsistence of their t s u r niillions, and feeding and clothing millions and ti le i ons more. The industry, the unwearied toil, ki e keumulated capital, and the persevering skill and it had of this land—the means lfy which already attained all they could show LeL were the conquests they had to make, L ee was their mission from Heaven for the universal 7nt of mankind. Then who or what was this Ce(l class, that they should stand up and say that ulaball not be dons, because it would deteriorate b2_ l ' property and lower their rents ? Why, sup it should do so, was there anything in that class, th e geh had for ages such immense advantages over all t h rest of society, supposing they were to suffer a CPPrary privation, that they should allow it to • k i r in the way of accomplishing all that humanity 4 a right to claim, and which charity ejostice alike awarded their sacred sanction to? i t 7a:l they permanently divert this island from its p, a _per work—could they succeed in permanently bTolding laws which must cripple the manufac ti7s and commerce, by which they had been en -11;;Ieci, which had made them a great and strong t,; . ; 41 --could they go on in suppressing these? , p re luci they keep down the ebullition of misery and sup ,th.ta-all indications of discontent—could they, through tcoming years, to the fullest extent carry out, which ig . were far from being able to do, the purpose for 4 7t1 the monopolist laws were enacted, what dis - N ;Fks, results would take place from end to end of this 4,1 41 7? With a growing population, and a declining ( 1 4 7,,! -- --with ports barred against the foreigner by A,7—disease and famine would continually sta lk th e ltcl--frightful demoralisation would ensue — do i ron arm of power must be put forth to keep ts el the millions ; they must "Make a solitude and el k it peace ;" such peace as would be the peace of a h i Zbyard, where every man was nerveless, every 14,1 4 ' was cold, and all were mouldering fast int o olle s ti c,ft corruption. The land would be portioned into little squirearchies , and each rural t y rant Q l„, _ , stalk, in all the solitary maje st y of self-as- Vfonitio..., over his own petty domain. The p easant d think it a great prize when he g ot a g ood st i i e lPotatoe. Intellect, the arts , • a ll that civilised sofened life, would leave the country, which, de fitZed and abandoned, would become so fearful a spec te ;that we should say, "Godof heaven! let this island t o , e wbelmed again beneath the ocean fro m which it ti bit • Let it find a worthier grave there, rather than the long annals of its glory should end in any- T ,, e g So infamous and so disgusting!"—(Loud cheers.) I,%vere not then advocating any me re manufac . cl 4;;",, question; they were not pleading for any mere Pim "Y to the poor ; they were asserting one common gl'eat right of humanity, and one interest, which l a . ' not merely a uniary interest of the passi n g 1, 1 4 t but th e interes of human nature in all countr ies vi lis for all ages—a cause which was the cause of ci tliktitson itself. That for which they strove was, 'Re world's progress should not be turned back er the effect of this mischief and wrong. It was teZ,„llse that would call forth the warmest th e rga of their hearts and the intensest d evotion of y w r, Souls ; a cause that would be before them from '" %-day, and from night to night, and from year to ko ti till the result they contemplated was obtained; I.l4that it 'was regarded, in all its importance, by a n. ,Whose station gave them ampler means of . of 7 0 ,ng on that result. For should the Sovereign k k rese realms have her moments of perplexity a nd 11 10 ,,,llsness distracted by conflicting -councils, and stci she look wistfully at the battles of warring Shen ; should she, in such a moment , desire to hI °r° What it Was which would make her reign toy as to wipe away the tears of the distressed, • e 4athe the naked, to feed the hungry, and th e "those who were trampled down ; should , •, 014 desire _to know what it was that ter e j render her reign illustrious, not only by tor ie - ' l 4' misery . aid recovering her people from , 41, i n g,but by giving a higher splendour, one before t igi ell the glories of conquest and of legislation, insti- It i :aa and of revolutions in former times should all Vtl let pale in comparison;—should she desire to.know Was that magic wich should reader her reign I) • ' I I' ill the world's history, and the best and 114iltest in the annals of Great Britain ; when she %( adthis, oh that some good angel would whisper thi s " ear that the talismanic words that would do all t o i t , Were " Commercial Freedom !"—(Loud cheers, shZwed the conclusion of the Hon. Gentleman's rcveh ) t._ 41, a CHAIRMAN then announced that these meet due 'would be re-commenced after Easter, and that 1 10 tice of the day of meeting would be given. -"assembly then dispersed. det"4' O'CONNELL AND THE GOVERNMENT... F . t' o e are b eg i nn i ng to ask themselves what effect will t nt Of the Ministers on the Factory question have on the. Polk a ? Mr. O'C onnell ? I t was suppose d t o b e a var y hazardous I titekwhen Sir Robert Peel's Government was surrounded 1 1 ) 4 por .ule ~, I.lalo of undivided . power, and appeared to have the the great majority in England and Scotland, to til t 4;" k , onnell up for judgment. It has lately been dis , Proved that the "convicted conspirator" is regarded Pates re 'mense number of Englishmen as Ireland's beet Part y ,‘; ,and while the Ministry was strong, and, apßa_ ait4 al most omnipotent, they made now the with ludfi a g 4 inst the Government. But 1.411 etil Y become a mere rope of sand. It cannot hold its own 417trs together: it is damaged beyond . healmg. Half the i 401" of England have decided g st it. From t fle e r mural saints, led on by Lord Ashley, it it is obliged to ter r : r refuge to the manufacturers who are opposed to it. In R - Vng the law into execution against Mr. O'Connell, who r ted by all Ireland and a great portio9 dammed En land, it vei n a'Y look for feeble assistance. Will this ama g ge n d G .‘ o ,e - Ine tee,, not. then, denuded of popular support, venture. t ' trim te a verdict which no person defends as just, after a t berer wili ch no man describes as fair ? It is concluded, 1, 411► that . the Ministerial defeat on the Factory Bill ,„ a shield for Mr. O'Connell. 'Pitt? 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GLOBE.—The motion brought forward last night, so ably and dispassionately, by Mr. Hutt, has tested the, sincerity of the Cabinet declaration , that the colonies are henceforth to be treated as English counties. Let us hear not another word of the policy of founding new colonies to trade with. Let us hear not another word of devoting public means to supporting settlements, which, some day or other, are to prove the best customers fur our manufactures. The best cus tomers for our manufactures are those who will give us most for them. The Minister of Trade, and the Minister of Colonies, each told the House last night that there is a landlord in the path, who will not hear of our colonies giving corn for cottons. Ever so distant a prospect of that calamity would create a land panic. l'et, confessedly and notoriously, the difficulty in trade with new countries is to get returns. Confessedly and notoriously, returns in grain would, very generally, be the most welcome. Confessedly and notoriously, what we spin cottons chiefly for is food. What new countries would give food chiefly for (after supplying themselves) would be cottons, and other manufactures. It is this description of exchange that creates the whole reciprocity of interest between old and new countries. It is this which is the most difficult to establish between them ; because it is most difficult to get enough from new countries for our exports. Hence the whole system of hollow credit, of in flated speculation, of paper or hind bubbles in the money market. The efforts of those interested in new countries is to direct thither a flow of wealth from the old one. - ' The effort of wise government ought to be to encourage their means of returning the wealth they drain. All else is ephemeral delusion—capital goes abroad, indeed, but it comes not back again. A most unhappy, corrupt, crafty character is engendered, where life should be most simple; and (as Mr. Murray:, we think, tells us of Port Philip) " colonial ' is the oniy epithet which is thought necessary to characterise any.stroke of over-reaching in business. And then - we amuse ourselves by satirising the " colo nial" character after we have formed it ;—after we have fostered, by our credulous advances, and contracted policy, the,very vices which inevitably spring from teach ing men to borrow, without teaching them how to pay again—nay, throwing absolute obstacles in the way of the sole payment they can make ! Such was long our American policy—though the United States, to all valuable intents and purposes, continued the most im portant colony we had, and might so have continued, had we encouraged her agricultural interest to look to England for a free market. What did we do instead ? Encouraged the growth of paper, instead of that of corn. Inflated that immense wind-bag, which American cultivators now view as their worst nuisance. Engen dered enmity (for your insolvent debtor is your enemy) instead of securing friendship (for your steady cus tomer, who looks to you for your custom, is your friend). And now we see factories building in the 'United States, instead of wheat growing for us—rivals establishing, instead of customers established, as they ought long since to have been—and we shall probably a gain (when burnt fingers are a little forgotten) see Lnglish capital drained to feed American competition. The capital goes, the people stay—as many as cannot go after it. Those who can, take off their little capitals after the large one ; and last comes " Syste matic Colonisation," with its flying machine for the masses. We know that capital has light wings to fly wherever speculation sends it ; we have learned of late that a new volatile principle is discovered, by which the millions of men can fly on the wings of the millions of money ; and if the machine could only rise off the ground again, after its late heavy falls, there is no doubt it might navigate air to any extent, and transplant na. tions like thistle-down. We have encountered the ire of an atne damnee of the Colonies -Flying-Machine school by anticipating from Lord Stanley precisely the decision Lord Stanley last • night uttered. It is now manifest that the talk of identifying our colonies with our counties was an empty boast—that, as regards the vital article of subsistence—the article of all others which forms a subject of the most natural tr ade between old countrie s and new ones—we will not admit the notion of any regular trade with our colonies—first, because that trade would be of no consequence to us now, and secondly, because the landed interest believe it would be of too much consequence hereafter. Now we consider, as the mover considered, both these grounds of rejection as grounds for assent. If the colonial corn trade is of no present consequence, the landlords have no pretext for present panic. If it is of future importance—then it is of future benefit to the colonies and the empire. STANDARD. —Our readers will, we are assured, ap preciate the considerations which dispose us to treat ra ther of the general subject, than of the details of Monday night's debate in the House of Commons. The Ministry is the best that the present generation of Englishmen has seen ; but upon the question discussed on Monday, it is altogether wrong in our opinion, in the opinion of its best friends, and, as we are convinced, in the opinion of the great majority of the nation ; but when we see our friends seriously in error, it is no doubt our duty, in the first place, to give our humble exer tions to withdraw them from their mistaken course ; but no less are we bound to abstain from exposing and magnifying those less import• ant lapses into which a great original error is sure to lead. Meanwhile we must not overlook the gratitude due to men like Lord Ashley and Sir Robert Inglis, who embrace the right course, and prove their ability to defend it with vigour and with spirit ; they, however, would scarcely accept as the fitting testimony of gratitude a se vere and uncandid treatment of temporary antagonists, whom, for their general conduct, they respect us much as we do. The question debated so much and so earnestly during the last ten days would seem, at first sight, to be thoroughly understood ; but, may we be pardoned for saying it, neither the Parliament nor the public is, in our judgment, as yet in a condition to decide upon it with any approach to certainty, so far as the commercial considerations are concerned. The moral question —the question of humanity—is indeed quite clear, and from its plainness, and the peremptory duty which it points out, we suppose it has happened that Lord Ashley and others have thought it unneces sary to refer to the consideration on the side of com merce ; but as all the objections come from this side it ought not to be wholly neglected, as it has been. If the whole commercial view had been fairly taken, the whole subject would have been ex amined in its integrity, and not, as it has been, partially, and in the detail of capriciously selected in stances. In dealing with such a matter we cannot generalise our information enough, but the vice of our present system of political knowledge lies in this, that while we are all for practical generalisation, we rarely generalise in the collection of proofs. One or two ex amples are thus made the foundations of a system: this is remarkably the case in the matter before us. What is the question in issue, considered as merely a commercial question ? The distribution of the hours of labour in manufactories, with reference to the pro portion between the hours of labour and of rest. Now, surely, the first step in the investigation of this question would properly be the amount of the hours of labour necessary during some period, which might be called a fair manufacturing cycle. We suppose five years will -not be thought either way very far from such a cycle. Of this information, however, both the House and the country are, up to the present moment, altogether destitute, though it might be easily obtained. The number of mills employed in manufactures is, if we are not mistaken, returned by the factory inspectors, l well as the number of labourers employed in these mills—but to the num ber of hours, or days, or weeks, or even months, during which each mill has been at work, we have no clue whatever, and here is the ground upon which we say that the House of Commons is not in a condition to de cide the commercial question. Lord Ashley, and they who support his Lordship, say that into that ques tion they will not enter. They stand upon the moral ground and the ground of humanity, as para mount, and they are right. They are, however, an swered by a plea of commercial necessity ; but surely it lies upon those who advance that plea to esta blish its validity, by showing that all the time they claim for labour is necessary to support the manu facturing system of the country. Unless they do this their resistance is an insult to common sense, no less than to the moral and humane feelings of the people. Let, then, some opponent of Lord Ashley move for returns of the mills and mill labourers .of the manufacturing districts during five years, and for the number of hours in each year in which each mill has been at work, a return easily obtained from the factory-inspectors, and one which must be decisive of the whole commercial question ; for if it should turn out that the mills have, on the whole, wrought less than twelve hours a day for the 1,555 working days of five years, it is plan that, commercially, the twelve hours a day are not necessary; and if it should turn eut, as we believe it would, that the mills have not on the average worked six hours a day for the five years of the cycle, it must be quite manifest that ten hours daily labour must be sufficient. Our conviction, the result of careful inquiry, is, that the mills on an average of the whole do not work six hours ; and we are more confident in that conviction, because, though we have more than once asserted it, and shown its bearing upon the question now in issue, uo one has yet ventured to contradict it. This assertion we shall repeat until some opponent of Lord Ashley calls for the returns to which we have referred, and those returns prove that we are in error. report. STATE OF TRADE. (From tho Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER.-Our spinners and manufacturers are now reaping the bitter fruits of tha unfounded and mis chievous speculations in the raw material, at Liverpool and in the United States, of which the public have heard so much during the last two or three months. By those speculations, th e price of the raw ma t e rial was forced up ; and prices in this market gradually followed, to an extent, indeed, which caused the more prudent buyers to limit or entirely suspend their purchases, thereby causing an accumulation of stocks in the hands of the spinners and manufacturers. In this critical state of the market, intelligence arrived of the complete breaking down of the speculation in the United States ; and the consequence, as may be readily imagined, has been a great stagnation of business on our Exchange, followed by a very serious reduction of prices. Yesterday was one of the gloomiest and most depressed markets that have been experienced for some months past. Goods of all descriptions, except good 49-inch skirtings (for which there has been a fair demand) have declined in price since last week ; and some descriptions of yarn are selling at a mere shade above the lowest rates of last year. We learn, hoever, that these reductions of price have caused some increase in the demand ; and, as soon as the cotton market be comes steady, it seems not improbablo that a fair busi ness will be done. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, MARCH 25, —We have had a busy market to-day, somewhat similar to that of last Xonday. There hat been a numerous attendance of buyers, and goods have sold freely . at last week's prices. In the wool market there is no change to -- --- IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 27. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. BIRMINGHAM CORPORATION BILL. Mr. MUNTZ moved the second reading of this Bill. Mr. DUG DALE said that he sliJuld oppose the second reading of the Bill. He believed that it was not agreeable to the wishes of the majority of the people of Birmingham. He should therefore move that it be read a second time that day six months. The amendment having been put, Mr. MUNTZ said he did not see any reason why the usual form of referring the Bill to a private Committee up stairs should not be observed. The Bill would save the ratepayers of the town 3,5001., and therefore it was a matter of much importance to them. After a few words from Mr. NEWDEGATE and Mr. SCHOLEFIELD in opposition to the Bill, the House divided, when there appeared— For the second reading 67 Against it 77 Majority against the second reading —lO The Bill was consequently lost. On the motion of Mr. AINSWORTH, the Bolton and Preston Railway Bill was read a third time, and passed. Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition from• all the manufacturers of the city of Carlisle, praying for the repeal of the cotton tax. Mr. STANLEY presented a petition in favour of pro tection to British agriculture. Mr. GALLY KNIGHT presented a petition against any alteration in the corn-laws. _ _ _ _ - Sir. HUME presented a petition from Montrose against the New Prisons (Scotland) Bill; also a petition praying that the House would adopt some means to pre vent the present abuses and hardships which pressed upon the manufacturers of tobacco ; also another petition from Wells, against the Commons Inclosure Bill. Mr. HOPE presented a petition from a place in Kent, against the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. day next, he would bring on the miscellaneous estimats? The CI-TANC7LLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he would take the Commissariat Estimates and the Miscel laneous Estimates on Friday next. In answer to a question from Mr. BEItNAL, Sir ROBERT PEEL said he would take the British Museum Estimates on Friday night. THE INCLOSURE ACT. Lord WORSLEY said that he regretted he had gives; many of his friends the trouble of coining down to make a House as he found himself quite incompetent, through indisposition, to the task of conducting this Bill in a Com mittee. He should, therefore, move the postponement of the Order of the Day to the 24th of April.—Agreed to. The Night Poaching Prevention Bill was read a third time, and passed. COUNTY COURTS. Sir JAMES GRAHAM gave notice that he should, on Friday next, move for leave to bring in a Bill to re gulate county courts in England and Wales. The House then adjourned. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT, Kingston, March 27. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) THE MURDER OF LORD GRANTLEY'S GAMEKEEPER. —James Eldey, 38, was indicted for the wilful murder of James Edwards. _ . There were four counts in the indictment. The first charged the prisoner with shooting the deceased ; the second with shooting him, and also beating him to death; the third with beating him only ; and thct fourth charged the murder to have been committed by casting the de ceased into the water, and thereby suffocating and drowning him. Mr. Clarkson, with Mr. Locke, conducted the prose cution ; and Mr. Charnock appeared for the prisoner. The case seemed to create a good deal of interest, and the Court was crowded during the trial, which lasted some hours. Mr. CLARKS3N stated the case for the prosecution, which he said was instituted by Lord Grantley, in whose service the deceased was employed as gamekeeper. He observed that although his Lordship had felt it his duty to prosecute the present indictment against the pri soner for the murder of an old and faithful servant, yet, of course, he had no desire but that the case should be fully and' fairly investigated, and if in the result the jury should be satisfied that the more serious charge had not been made out against the prisoner, such a result coming from a conscientious conviction in the minds of the jury, upon the evidence, would be quite satisfactory to his Lordship and to all concerned in the prosecution. The Learned Counsel then proCeeded to state the facts of the case as they afterwards appeared in evidence, and also the law upon the subject, concluding by calling the following witnesses : Joseph Head, examined by Mr. LOCKE—I am bailiff to Lord Grantley, and live at Bromley. I knew the de ceased, James Edward.% He acted as gamekeeper to Lord Grantley. I recollect the 6th of January, and on that day I went along the %Vey and Avon Canal, to wards Wonersh. I know the lock which separates the canal from the Lynarsh-field. (A plan of the neigh bourhood was here produced and proved to be correct). Examination continued—l was on horseback by the side of the canal about nine o'clock in the morning, when I saw something on the water, which, at first, I thought was a piece of sack or tarpauling. I dismounted, and threw in stones for my dog to go into the water, but he would not do so. I made some inquiries, and ob tained assistance and returned to the spot. At this time the body was out of the water, and I recognised it to be that of the deceased, who was in his usual dress. The body appeared very much beaten. The head was wounded in several places. I examined the ground near the canal, particularly on the Lynarsh side; and on that 3ide it rises up to the edge of the canal, for a distance of two feet. I obsez ved a large pool of blood, and from that spot it is five or six yards to the edge of the canal. There is some furze about two yards from the canal, which is used as a preserve for game. I examined these furze bushes, and saw some small portions of human flesh on parts of them, and the pool of blood lay on the ground below the furze. I also saw the marks of heels and toes of shoes near the bank of the canal, and a few years nearer to the lock of the canal, I saw other marks of the same size and description, and I there found the hat and stick of the deceased, which I now produce.— (The hat bore an indentation on one side evidently oc casioned by a very violent blow. The stick was a very slight one.) Cross-examined—lt is dead water in the canal except when the lock is let off. At the place where the body was found there are about three or four feet of water. The furze may be about two or three yards from the bank of the canal. At the open part of the furze a per son might very easily get into the canal. There is a good deal of traffic at times on the canal. Re-examined--The land on the opposite side of the lock is not preserved. The land, all along, retires to wards the Lynarsh-field, and if the body had rolled at all, it must have rolled up a hill. I have seen the de ceased wear the hat I produce, and also know the stick to have been his. Mr. Duncombe, a surveyor, who had been previously called to prove the correctness of the plan, was again placed in the box, and he described the details and the position of the different localities, with a view to show that it was impossible for the deceased to have rolled into the river, as represented by the prisoner in his state ment. William Stanton, examined by Mr. CLA imsoN'—isfy father has a wharf on the canal, near Lord Grantley's preserve. On the morning the body was found, in con sequence of something Mr. Head said to me, I went to the canal and saw an object floating in the water. I as sisted to bring it to the bank, and it turned out to b 3 the body of the deceased. I knew him directly, and I re marked that one of his ears was very much lacerated, and on the opposite side the skull seemed to be beaten in. The wounds appeared to have bled a good deal, and they were bleeding at the time the body was taken out of the water. _ Humphreys Durrant confirmed the testimony of the last witness, relative to the finding of the body. He also said lie observed that the ear was jammed all to pieces.—(This corresponded with the marks on the hat.) The ear was cut in every direction. Charles Jenkins, inspector of police, produced a broken gun-stock, which was found near the canal, also the broken lock of a gun. Henry Day, examined by Mr. Locxx—On Saturday, the 6th of January, I was close to the canal in the Ly_ narsh-field, and I picked up the broken gun-stock. It was in the furze. There was blood upon it, and also a small quantity of human hair. The brass upon the butt of the gun-stock was bent up, and upon that I saw the hair. Henry Green deposed that on the same day the water was drawn off the canal, and he found in the bed of the canal the remaining portion of the broken gun-stock. Edmund Walker, examined by Mr. Loewe—l am gamekeeper to Mr. John Sparkes. I knew the deceased well, and was with him at the Jolly Farmer public-house at Bromley, on the evening of the sth January. There was a raffle going on, and a good many people were in the house. The deceased came in about half-past seven o'clock in the evening, and we drank together. He was quite sober when he went away, which was about eight o'clock in the evening. When Edwards went away he had such a stick in his hand as the one that has been produced, and I have no doubt it is the same. Cross-examined—l cannot undertake to swear posi tively that it is the same stick. We had only two pints of beer together, but I don't know what the deceased had drank before. I stayed an hour, expecting the de ceased would return as he had promised, hut as he did not come I went away. Alexander Lambert examined by Mr. CLARKSON— I was at the Jolly Farmer public-house on Friday, the sth of January, and I remember the prisoner coming into the house in question about seven o'clock. His legs appeared to be wet, and he asked me to let him dry his clothes by the fire. I did so, and went into the bar, where I saw the deceased, and drank some beer with him. He was quite sober. He left the room for a short time, and asked me to hold his stick while he was gone. I did so, and I have no doubt the stick that has been produced is the same.-.-(The portions of the broken gun were here handed to the witness, and he identified them as having originally formed a gun which he had seen in tho possession of the prisoner. By Mr. CuAnNocx—l was not examined before the Coroner. The prisoner is a married man, with a family of six or seven children. It is a very old stock indeed,, and appears to be worm. eaten. Ido not swear positively to the stick, but to the best of my belief it is the same. Re-examined--The prisoner had been working for a person named Tickner. George Lucas, potoboy at the Jolly Farmer, proved that he saw the prisoner leave the house about eight o'clock. Charlotte Brown examined by Mr. CLARKSON—I live at Bromley, and about eight o'clock in the evening of the sth January I heard the report of a gun come directly from the Lynarsh field, and shortly afterwards I heard a second report in the same direction. Ten minutes might have elapsed between the two reports. John Turrell proved that lie also heard the report of a gun, and likewise heard some person cry out very much. The cries were repeated several times, and at last he went out, and then heard some one call out " Oh dear!" The sound came in a direction from the lock. He heard no other sound after the person called out " Oh dear!" Thomas Champion, examined by Mr. aintesoN—On the night of the sth January I heard the report of a gun, and about five minutes afterwards there was a cry of " Come on." Immediately afterwards I heard a second report. Joseph Head re-called—The deceased had persons under him called watchers, whose duty it was at night to watch these preserves. By Mr. CHARNOCIE—The deceased was taller and stouter than the prisoner, but I cannot say whether he was a stronger man. John Burl, examined by Mr. LocKg—l know the pri soner, and have frequently had conversations with him, About a twelvemonth ago he told me that he would never be taken by any one man. Cross-examined—l don't know what we wore talking about which led to the observation, nor whether it was a year and half or two years ago. Charles Jenkins re-called—l am the inspector of po lice stationed at Shere, near Guildford. On Satmlay, the 6th January, in courequerAce pf what I had heard I went tq Bromley, 4nd front thence to a place called Run Common, where I found the prisoner working for a per son named Ticknor, and took him into custody. I con veyed him to the Jolly Farmer at Bromley, and loft him in charge of a parish constable while I searched the pri soner's house. I found in his house a short smock frock ith spots of blood upon it, and which appeared to have been partly washed and hung to the fire to dry. The blood was upon the breast and upon both sleeves. I took the frock back to the prisoner, and he told me, in answer to a question I t to him, that it was his own frock, I the told the prisoner I should take him on suspicion of the murder of the keeper, and he replied " Thank God, I am innocent." Shortly after this I searched the prisoner. and found a powder-horn and a clasp knife in his pockets. I next emimined the pri soner's person, but could not discover any bruises or other marks of violence. I made a furtler search at the house of the prisoner the next day, and found a large quantity of chisels, planes, and tools of every description. William Biddlecotnb, examined by Mr. LOCKE—I am chief constable of Godalmine . , and accompanied the last witness, when he searched' the prisoner's house. I examined the prisoner's arms, chest, logs, and head, and found no mark of violence on any part of his per son. I subsequently searched the prisoner's cottage, and in the grate in the bed-room I found a shirt covered over with old rags. The shirt was torn in the breast, and there were marks of blood on that part, and also on the left wristband. The right wristband appeared as though it had been in dirty water and afterwards dried. I searched the prisoner's wood-house, and found the coat which I now produce. It was wet, and in the pocket there were some pheasant's feathers. I also found two guns, and part of another gun. In the prisoner's house I also found the greater part of a leg of mutton, a piece of pork in salt, and also some butter. Cross-examined—The right cuff of the jacket appears to be very much torn. It is also torn under the arm. Charles Hollington, examined byMr. CLARKSON—I am inspector of the police at Guildford, The prisoner was given into my custody about 10 o'clock at night, on Saturday the 6th, and the next day, in consequence of a communication I received, I went to the police station to see the prisoner. He told me he wanted to ask a favour. I said if it related to the charge against him, I must caution him that what he said must be taken down, and would be used against him at a future time. He told me that it did not relate to the charge, but that he de sired to see Mr. Pitman, the clergyman of Stratford parish, and I promised to endeavour to do what he wished. On the Monday morning I again saw the pri soner, and lie told me he wished to say something. I said he had better wait till the inspector who took him in charge came. He said that he could not wait, adding that he wished to relieve his mind. At this time he ap peared very feeble and dejected, and scarcely able to support himself. I then took down in writing the following statement from the prisoner's mouth:— " On Friday evening I went home and took supper, but on entering the door I saw my son eating some victuals. I said 'to him, Where are you going to Bill?' He said, lam going to the raffle.' I said, What is the use of your going to the raffle?' He replied, James Shurlock is going to give me a pint of beer, father; will you come down and take a part of it?' I told him that I would as soon as I had eat my supper. I went down as soon .as I had eat my supper, and took paxt of a pint of beer, and called for another; and after that me and my son went home together, and my son had something to eat and went to bed. When he was gone I said to my wife, Oh, how hard it is for us to be in such distress ; we have neither butter, nor cheese, nor sugar,' and whether she had any tea I am not certain, for when we were at supper we had but a piece of bread each of us, with a little tea without sugar or milk, and as I had spent the twopence for the beer, we were quite destitute. It hurt my feelings; so I said to my wife, will go and get a bird or two if I possibly can, for I cannot bear to see us in such distress.' And I took the gun and went and shot a brace of birds, and I thought if I could get sale for them it would get a little tea and sugar. I came away from the preserves directly, hoping that I should return safe, 'but when I got to the river side I saw the keeper coming towards me. I stood on one side behind a furze bush ; but he saw me and said, ' you, I've got you now.' He appeared to me to be a little the worse for drink. He put up his stick and tried to strike me, saying your eyes, I'll kill you.' I replied, Don't do that, good man ;' and as he was going to strike me, I jumped in and threw him down. He got up again and used the same expressions. I threw him down again, and he held me and repeated the third time, ' I will kill you.' I then said to him, 'We will fight, life . for life.' He replied, will,' and directly he got up, he struck at me with his stick and I warded off the blow with my gun. I then struck him with the butt end of the gun ; and as near as I can tell, it was near the side of the temple. He rose again, and I saw the blood running down his face. He seemed fully bent to come at me again ; and I struck him again with the butt end 'of the gun, and he fell down. Whether I struck him once or twice afterwards I am not certain ; but the last time I struck him on the ground, he rolled into the river. I then went away and left him, and saw him no more. I then went home, and my wife said to me, Have you got any thing ?' I showed her what I had got, and she said, Whatever shall we do with them.' I said, I don't know,' I could not say anything more to her then, but went to bed. She hung my wet clothes to dry by the fire, and got up the next morning and brought them to me. (Signed) " JAMES ELSLEY." Examination continued—ln consequence of what the prisoner said, I went, on the Monday evening, to his - cottage, at Bromley, and saw a bee-hive that was in his garden, and I there found two hen pheasants. The prisoner had told me where to find them. They ap peared to have been shot. Cross-examined—l asked the prisoner to sign the statement, and he did so very readily. Mr. C. J. Woods examined by Mr. CLARKSON—I am one of the Coroners for this county, and I remember upon the occasion of the inquest being held on the body of the deceased, that the witness Hollington tendered his statement, and when it was read over he said he wished to abide by it in every respect. Thomas Punter examined by Mr. LOCKE—I remem ber last winter hearing the prisoner say he would do for Edwards some day or other if he had a chance. Cross-examined—Did not know what he meant by it, or who else was present when it was said. Could not say when he first mentioned the conversation having taken place. James Douglas examined by Mr. CLARKSON—I am a labourer, but I am not in any regular service. I was placed to watch the prisoner in the station-house at Guildford; and on the Sunday morning the prisoner made a statement to me. I did not mention that state ment to any one until last Tuesday night, when I dis closed it to inspector Hollington. The prisoner said to me, lam so full I cannot bear it any longer. He then knelt down on his knees, and said he hoped the Lord would forgive him, and protect his wife and family. The prisoner then said, that he saw a man coming over the lock, but did not know who it was at the time, and that he ran back into the furze bushes, and as he was doing so, he looked back and saw it was the keeper, and if he had kept on running he would have just got into the cover out of his way ; but as it was he got into the furze thinking he would pass him. Edwards, however, he said saw him and said " you, rye got you, I will kill you;" and he replied,." don't do that good man." Ed wards again said that he would, and as soon as he said so, he (prisoner) paid into him, took him round the waist, and threw him on his back. Edwards got up, and they struggled, and both fell to the ground, and were struggling together for a minute or two, when Edwards again said. " you, I'll kill you." He then said to him, "If that's what you mean, Jem, we will fight life for life." Edwards then asked kim to let him get up, and, as soon as he had done so, he came at him with a stick, and he hit him down with the butt-end of the gun, and he laid on the ground for several minutes. I (the witness) told him that he might then have ran away, but he said that he could not go away from the spot, and he felt deter mined to finish him. The prisoner went on to say that, after a little time, the deceased came at him again, and they continued to fight nearer and nearer to the canal, and the deceased fell down near the canal, and he (pri soner) put up his foot and poked him in, and went away and left him. Cross-examined—Believes this was all that took pace. Did not put it down in writing, and should not have mentioned it when he did, if he had not been asked the question. Ile sometimes acted as assistant to the police, sometimes as a gaoler, and did any job in a fair way. He was formerly a publican, and then took to being an assistant to the police. He was not whitewashed. By the CoURT—I did not at first think there was any material difference between the prisoner's statement to me, and the one he made to the inspector. Mr. John Ray examined by Mr. LocKE—I am a sur geon, and reside at Bromley. By the direction of the coroner, I made a post mortem examination of the de . ceased. I observed many lacerated wounds upon the head and face, and no less than twelve on the right side. There were also the same number on the left side. There was a wound upon the nose which exposed the bone. The principal wound was over the right ear, and this was three inches long, and three broad. The temporal bone and the jaw bone were both fractured, and pro bably at one time by the blow of some heavy instrument. At first I thought there were traces of a gnn-shot wound, but I did not discover any shot. The skull was fractured, and laid bare in several places. The deceased died of aneurism of the brain, which would have caused instant insensibility, and almost immediate death. The jugular vein was severed, as was also the carotid artery. Witness was shown some blood upon the ground, which he had no doubt flowed from the jugular vein. It would be totally impossible for a person who had lost such a quantity of blood as must have been lost in this case, to have risen from the ground. By Mr. CHARNOCK-All these injuries were such as might be produced by two men fighting with a gun and a stick. By Mr. CLARKSON—There could have been no fighting after the deceased received the blow on the side of his head, which fractured the skull and severed the jugular vein. The skull was completely smashed, and there must have been a number of blows struck upon both sides of the head. Mr. John Chandler, surgeon, of Guildford, confirmed the testimony given by Mr. Ray. By the COURT—Did not think that suffocation had anything_ to do with causing the death of the deceased. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. CHARNom then addressed the jury for the pri soner, and he commenced by observing that he felt deeply the responsibility that was thrown upon him in having to defend the prisoner upon such a dreadful charge as the one now made against him ; but he trusted he should be able to satisfy the jury that the offence did not amount to murder. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to comment upon the circum stances of the case, and said that it was a melancholy thing that, in order to enahlo persons in the position of Lord Grantley, to enjoy their pleasures, and preserve their game, the lives of the poorer classes were to be sacrificed, and he expressed his opinion that it would be much better if there were no game, and that auoh lordly pleasures should be altogether abolished, than that such dreadful cases as the present, and similar ones all over the country, during the present assizes, should have taken place. He then went on to contend that the state ment of the prisoner was the real truth of the transac tion, and that the violence had been done upon the un fortunate deceased under the impression entertained by the prisoner that his own life was in danger, and, under such circumstance, tha offence would only amount to mftnilquglitor. Mr. Baron ALDERSON summed up, and went minutely through every portion of the evidence s cowmonting, in his usual clear and adiniral3le — mannet, - 401 the more important points, as he proceeded, concluding by leaving the case in the hands of the jury. The jury retired, and, after being absent about twenty minutes, returned into Court, and delivered their verdict, finding the prisoner guilty of Manslaughter. The prisoner was immediately called up for judgment, and the Learned Judge, after observing that the prisoner had reason to be extremely grateful for the lenient view the jury had taken of the case against him, sentenced him to be transported for life. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Lord Chief Justice DENMAN and a Common Jury.) SKINNER V. SALE.-TRESPASS. This was an action for an alleged trespass and seizure of the goods of the plaintiff. The. defendant pleaded Not Guilty as to the trespass, and that the entry into the . house was by the leave and license of the plaintiff. Mr. PLATT, who appeared for the plaintiff, stated that the plaintiff was now a pauper, but that he had been a tenant of the defendant. The plaintiff occupied a cot tage at Pain's-hill, of which the defendant was the land lord. The Learned Counsel'remarked that the law gave to landlords very great privileges, and it was most im portant that these privileges should not, as in this in stance, be strained too far. Yet here the defendant had taken the opportunity of distraining for rent, on the 4th of January last, in the absence of the plaintiff. Mr. PLATT called the plaintiff's wife's sister, and other witnesses, from whose evidence it appeared, that on the day in question the defendant came to the cottage, took an inventory of the goods, and, although it was a wet, snowy day, turned the woman and her two children out of docks. A distraint was made upon the goods, and a quantity of tools belonging to the plaintiff were also taken away. Mr. THESIGER, for the defendant, suggested that the remark about the privileges of landlords was only meant to influence the minds of the jury. The defen dant, he said, was justified in distraining for the rent due to him, and with respect to turning the plaintiff's wife out of doors, she had stated to a witness that she intended to give up possession the next morning after breakfast. The Learned Counsel called witnesses in support of his statement, but did not prove that any rent was due on the part of the plaintiff. Mr. Prarr, in reply, contended that no answer had been given to the case. All the goods of these poor people had been seized, and the defendant had even made a merit of allowing the poor woman to take her clothes. The Learned Counsel, after again adverting to the inclemency of the season when the plaintiff's wife and ber young children were turned out of doors, re marked also upon the fact that the distress had been put in at the time when the plaintiff was absent, and not only had lie been expelled from his home, but his in dustry had been paralysed, in consequence of his tools having been taken from him. Thus he was ruined, and was compelled to sue in forma pauperis. In this coun try, happily, however, a poor man could recover damages for any injustice practised towards him, even by the highest dignitary in the land. Lord DENMAN, in summing up the case, said there was no doubt the house had been entered and the plain tiff's family turned out of doors. This might have been justified if rent had been due, but he, did not find any evidence that such was the case. Mr. THESIGER said the plaintiff in his declaration charged that he was a tenant of the defendant. Lord DENMAN said they could not assume that rent was due because there was a possession. As to the al leged leave and license to enter the premises, Cle wife had no right to give uppossession without her husband's authority. There was no justification for the trespass. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 151. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.--Liverpool, March 26. CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) Thomas Cashmore, aged 20, was indicted f or cu tti ng an d wounding Robert ifiddleton, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Hutton conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was not defended by Counsel. It appeared that there had been some previous grudge be tween the parties, and meeting accidentally on the day in question r the prosecutor addressed the prisoner tauntingly by the title of Mister Cashmore. The.prisoner being offended at this, addressed to the prosecutor a query, the exact applica tion of which did not appear, namely, "Who killed Isaac Cutts ?" The prosecutor, who is a much more powerful man than the prisoner, was much irritated at this, and, seizing the prosecutor by the collar, shook him violently. The prisoner, in return, threw a stone, and then ran into the shop in which he was employed in his trade of joiner. The prosecutor fol lowed and kicked him repeatedly. A struggle ensued between them, which lasted for some little time, and on its ceasing the prosecutor found that he was wounded on the left side, and was bleeding copiously. The prisoner had then a chisel in his hand, but at what time of the contest he had procured 'Fit, or whether he had the chisel in his hand when it com menced, did not appear. On the person of the prosecutor being examined, it appeared he had received two wounds, evidently inflicted with the chisel, which had been struck from below upwards. One was just above the hip bone, and the other higher up. They were of a serious nature, and his life was for some time in peril. The prisoner in his defence declared the prosecutor had beaten and kicked him very severely, and that he had struck in self-defence, without reflecting that he had the chisel in his hand. Verdict—Guilty of a common assault. To be imprisoned for six calendar months. Catherine O'Brien, aged thirty, was indicted for cutting and wounding her husband, John O'Brien. Mr. Whigham conducted the prosecution. It appeared that on the evening in question the prosecutor was sitting in his house half asleep, leaning his head on his hand. His wife, the prisoner, came in, and he waking up, thought she seemed under the influence of drink, and accused her of being intoxicated. She was at that time cutting some bread with a knife. She retorted his accusation with some irritating words, and the prosecutor finally struck her. A scuffle ensued, when the prosecutor received a wound in the face; extending from the cheek-bone to the corner of the mouth. He now, however, seemed very unwilling to press the charge, and stated it to be his belief that the wound was ac cidentally inflicted.—Verdict not guilty. The final entry of causes is forty-seven for the Salford list, and ninety-four for the West Derby list. It, has been ar ranged that all in the second lists after No. 60, except unde fended causes and special juries, shall be tried befcre Mr. Justice Coltman, after the criminal business shall have been disposed of. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, March 26. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PanKE.) James Wynyard, aged 22, a fellow of extremely forbidding appearance, was charged with maliciously cutting and stab bing James Berry, with intent to do hum grievous bodily harm. Mr. Greaves prosecuted ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Skinner. On the 2d of last September the prisoner and some others were drinking at the Golden Ball, at Monmouth, and after wards sat down to cards ; a dispute arose amongst them, and the prisoner made use of some opprobrious epithets towards the uncle of the prosecutor, which he resented, and a challenge to fight having been given to the prisoner, he struck Retry in the side, who fell with Wynyard upon him, and, while down, the prosecutor received so many severe kicks from the prisoner, that his chest remained black and blue for a month after. The landlord then interfered, and separated them ; but the prisoner, watching his opportunity, struck at Berry, over the head of his mother, who was sitting at the fire, and with a clasp-knife stabbed him nearly to the heart. Fortunately he recovered, the wound not proving very serious, although at first presenting a dangerous appearance Mr. Skinner called a witness, who gave a somewhat different version of the occurrence ; but the Jury did not seem to place much reliance on his story. Wynyard was convicted, and sentenced to transportation for fifteen years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. David _Hearn who has been knownas a coffee-stand keeper on London-bridge, was brought before Sir'Peter Laurie, charged with having committed a robbery upon a sailor. Ford, the prosecutor, stated that he belonged to the ship Brilliant, now lying in the London Docks, and that, as he was passing over London-bridge, at a very early hour in the morning, he saw the prisoner, and in vited him to have something to drink, a compliment which was at once accepted ; that they walked to a public house in Darkhouse-lane, and there enjoyed some liquor, and that the prosecutor laid his head upon the table at about half-past three o'clock, and fell asleep ; that, while he was reposing, the landlady saw the pri soner's hand slip into the prosecutor's pocket, and that she seized him in a vigorous manner, and with the as sistance of a person whom she called, she opened the clenched fist, and took two half-crowns and some small silver out of it, after which she deposited the thief in the custody of a policeman. In the prisoner's posses sion were also found two books, which were the prose cutor's property. A boy named Plummer stated that he saw the prisoner draw a watch from the prosecutor's pocket, but as there was a guard chain to it, the fellow failed .in disengaging it. The witness said he had himself something more to make complaint of against the prisoner. A few nights ago he had gone to the theatre, and having been de. tamed till a late hour, he asked the prisoner, who was on London Bridge, to accommodate him by letting him know where he could get a bed. The prisoner offered to take him home to his own house ; and thither they went, and the prosecutor, after having treated his host, retired to bed. At six in the morning, however, the prosecutor was surprised at the entrance of the prisoner, who threatened to hand him over to the custody of a police man who was waiting below, if he did not consent to fork out two shillings. Sir PETER LAURIE said he was astonished that the police should allow a man who must, as was apparent from the statements just made, be known to be a bad character to have the privilege of standing on London Bridge. The prisoner was then remanded. Two common girls of the town, named Elizabeth Boswell and Mary. Reid, were brought up, charged with having been concerned with another girl in robbing a young female, aged about fourteen years, named Susan Ii In the course of the examination Sir Peter Laurie found that there was ground for supposing that a plan had been made to entice the little girl into a house of ill-fame in the notorious vicinity of Wentworth-street, and that, if it had not been for the interposition of a decent and humane woman named Ann Kean, the poor child would, in all probability, have been ruined. Susan Furr had, it appeared, from a long statement made in an unmethodical manner, been living with a young lady at a house in Clerkenwell, and was employed in making artificial flowers. The lady had oceasion to leave town, and the little girl, having obtained an ad mission for two to the City of London Theatre, was ob served in conversation with the prisoners, to whom she offered the orders. It afterwards appeared that she wont home, made up all her clothes in two bundles, and put them into the possession of a girl who was known to be the companion of the prisoners, but who decamped with the property. The prisoners, who had taken a room in Wentworth-street for the accommodation of Susan Furr and themselves, were, after the disappear ance of the thief, taken into custody, and they stated that the little girl had applied to them to help her to a lodging, and ageed to pay the expenses arising from the accommodation which they provided in the sbove-men °tied street '•'• ,r ~~~ ..,,,•,. Nd. h titr 'IV44 "• IN '‘' Sir PETER LAURIE said that t he 0 ', . ! -. 4'A in comparison with the awful da =,/",. .' ',., ~Y • ' .r. 1 . -. %'-' ; :ar child was near falling. He knew t • g : , ~ :;tv' e 0 ' :- i were regularly employed in decoyin ;.. , W il lg.W.l --. inexperienced of their sex, and such ... stiolth , ..7 l ' n finitely more to be dreaded than r ev •~+WI- irmigina94l i. 414. whom the victims were betrayed. h . .'"v ,' ha - ^effniEe which he was disposed to punish more severely than the diabolical one of being in any way instrumental in the ruin of female innocence, and he wished to impress upon the - police the obligation they were under to give all the protection they could afford to poor young females who were exposed to the industrious villainy of the women he alluded to. The escape of Susan Furr was, in Sir Peter Laurie's view, attributable to Ann Kean, who gave the alarm to the police, and acted in sueh a manner as entitled her to very highcommendation. The little girl, whose father is dead, and whose mother's intellect has been affected by the calamities of her family, became an object of much interest, and Sir Peter Laurie stated to her aunt, who was in attendance at the police-room, that he should use his influence to gain admission for her into one of the great institutions of the metropolis. The two prisoners, as there was no evidence against them calculated to show that they had done any mis chief to the child, were discharged, upon their promise to appear, if required to be present, upon the apprehen sion of the female who stole the bundles. WORSHIP-STREET. THE FIRM OF WIGRAM AND Co.— William Spurrell, alias Wigram, Mary Elizabeth Spurrell, his daughter, and James Martin, a well-dressed man, described as a law writer, were finally brought up, charged on sus picion of having fraudulently obtained possession of a large quantity of haberdashery goods, of the estimated value of 2502. The Court was crowded during the investigation by tradsrnen and other persons, who manifested the most lively interest in the proceedings. It will be recollected that the greater part of the pro perty in question was found at the house of the prisoner Spurrell; the police also discovered nearly a ream of printed circulars, offering aid in the shape of accommodation bills to persons in embarrassed circumstances, together with numerous letters from country tradesmen, accepting of the proffered assistance, and referring to inclosed re mittances, as being the commission charged by " Messrs. Wigram" for their invaluable services. An invoice for goods consigned to the imaginary firm, from Mr. Lea royd, a draper, at Pontefract, was also found on the pri soner Martin, at whose house a further quantity of haberdashery goods was afterwards discovered. At the former examination the elder Spurrell avowed himself to be the head and sole representative of the firm in question, and said that, being a natural son, he haa assumed the name of Wigram, which was that of his mother. Sergeant Lambert now stated, that the letter carrier of the district had been desired to attend to give some explanation as to the extraordinary circumstance of his having been in the daily habit of delive r ing to th e eld er Spurrell, at his house in Goring-street, letters which bore the superscription of " Messrs. Wigram, Brothers, and Co., Barclay-place, Hackney." He had so written to Mr. Learoyd, the draper at Pontefract, who was now in attendance to give evidence. Mr. David Graham Learoyd was then called, who stated that he first became acquainted with the firm of "Wigram and Co." in the month of November last, when he received one of their circulars by post ; and being in temporary want of money, he wrote to them requesting to be accommodated with two bills of 1001. each, and enclosed the amount of their commission. The bills which purported to be accepted by "William Brading, commission agent, Commereial-road, London," were transmitted to him in due course, and had since been negotiated. From subsequent inquiries which be had made he had reason to believe that no such person as William Brading, the ostensible acceptor, was in ex istence. The several articles of haberdashery now pro duced were his property, and were consigned by him to Messrs. Wigram for the purpose of being sold by commission on the 9th inst. An invoice was sent with the goods, which amounted to 173/ I Is. • and he had received a bill at three months acce pt e d by Messrs. Wigram for 1721. 65., which he had paid over to his bankers. He was induced to make the con signment in consequence of a statement in Messrs. Wigram's circular, to the effect " that if he had any goods on hand, and found the sale dull or difficult, they would use their endeavours to turn them into money to the best advantage;" and he distinctly treated with them in the character of commission agents, and not as purchasers of the property. Mr. Hentage, who attended on behalf of the prisoners, submitted that no case whatever had been made out to justify their further detention. To constitute a breach of trust on the part of an agent, it was essential that ex press written instructions should be sent with regard to t he disposal of any property with which he might be entrusted, but so tar from that course having been pur sued in the present instance, the prosecutor had made out the invoice in the name of Messrs. Wigram, and had received their bill in liquidation of the amount. The transaction, therefore, amounted to an absolute sale of the goods, and the prisoners were entitled to an imme diate discharge. Mr. BROUGHTON said that after giving the matter the most mature consideration, he was of opinion that the case had not been sufficiently made out to support an indictment, and although the whole conduct of the parties was marked with every appearance of fraud ; he was bound to act strictly on the law of the case and the evidence bearing upon it, and he must, therefore, order them to be discharged. Sergeant Lambert then applied for instructions respect ing the disposal of the property, and after a short con ference with the prisoners, Mr. 'Tentage stated that they offered no objection to its being restored to the pro secutor. Mr. BROUGHTON said that the prisoners were actin very discreetly in adopting that course, for if the bill which the prosecutor had so incautiously received was not paid when it became due, there could be no doubt that they would be liable to an indictment for conspiracy. The prisoners, to their manifest surprise and satisfac tion, were then discharged. CLEBKENWELL. A young man, named John Smith, rather genteelly attired, was charged with attempting to commit nume rous frauds on housekeepers. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner has been for some time in the.habit of visiting houses which have lodging bills in the windows, on pretence of taking apartments. The rooms shown to him invariably suited his taste, and so anxious was he to conclude the bargain that he always insisted :on leaving a deposit. For this purpose he drew forth a sovereign or half a sovereign (he never had any small change), expressed a wish to leave five shillings as a guarantee for his return, and having obtained the change, walked away, leaving the landlady quite pleased with the punctuality of her new lodger. Failing to come, however, on the day ap pointed, the lodger was suspected, and the deposit, on examination, turned out to be a counterfeit. On the pre vious evening he went into the coffee-shop of Mr. Hitchin, 15, Colonnade, Russell-square, and asked for a pork pie, which was supplied him. In payment he threw down half-a-crown, a genuine one ; the change was laid on the counter, but whilst the landlord was engaged in other matters, the prisoner put one of the two:shillings in his pocket, and left a bad one in its place. He then re membered that he had a penny, which he wished to pay for the - pie and get back his half-crown. The landlord, however, discovered the fraud, and upon charging the prisoner with it, he instantly swallowed the base shil ling, and then in a daring manner set the landlord and police at defiance.—The prisoner was remanded. DARING ROBBERY.--Two women of the town, named Reeves and Holland, were charged with robbing Mr. Briggs, an artist, residing in Moorgate-street, of a gold watch. The prosecutor was returning from a dinner party last night along Holborn, between 12 and 1 o'clock, when he was accosted by the prisoners. They asked him to treat them, which he refused. When he entered Gray's inn -lane, one of them pushed him into Fox-court, the other threw her arms round his breast ; he shouted po lice, and a constable, 35 G, came up. They were secured, and Mr. Briggs then found that his watch had been removed, and that his gold chain had been cut or broken. Every search was made for the watch, but it could not be found, and it is believed that the prisoners threw it away when they saw the officers coming up. Mr. Briggs was perfectly sober. The prisoners, who did not deny the charge, were re manded. Sixty postage stamps have been received by Mr. Combe, the sitting Magistrate at this Court, for the re lief of Mary Anne Hartwell, whose case appeared in The Sun about a week ago. The benevolent donor re quested that the receipt of the stamps might be ac knowledged in The Sun, as from H. C. E. S. Our Reporter has been requested to state, that when the period of her imprisonment had transpired, Baylis, the messenger of this Court, by direction of the Magis trate, conveyed her to an asylum, in accordance with the wish she expressed on her trial. She, however, re fused to enter the asylum; and there is too much reason to believe that she has again resumed the same profli gate course of life which, on her examination, she seemed so determined to abandon. The stamps lie at the Police-court, and will be re turned to the donor, if he wish, or applied to the gene ral purposes of the poor-box. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. NOTICE TO MARINERS. PENICHE LIGHTHOUSE. Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, March 26, 1844. Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you, for the information of the Committee of Lloyd's, the inclosed' translation of a notice issued by the Directors of the Lisbon Custom-house, relative to an alteration in the Peniche Lighthouse, which has been received from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon. (Signed) 3. 3kGREG-011. To W. Dobson, Esq. (Translation ) NOTICE TO NAVIGATORS. Through the Great Custom-house of Lisbon it is made known, that in order to prevent the inconvenience arising from the almost complete similarity of rotation in the mechanism of the Berlengas and Cape Carvociro, or Peniehe Lighthouses, the motion of the latter has been altered so as to repeat. the brightest light every thirty seconds, which produces an almost continual light, and renders the twa lighthouses totally distinct from each other. Lisbon Custom-house, March 8, 1844. The admirers of Fornasari will regret to hear that he is now suffering so severely from water on the chest as to prevent his singing; and it is in contemplation to send for famburini, who will shortly be in Paris. Mr. Ilighaw, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Rx.chequer yesterday, at his official residence in Dpwnin 6 - sir eet. THE STATE TRIALS IN IRELAND. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Banagher, in the King's County, complaining of the con duct of the Government in prosecuting the late State trials in Ireland. THE INCLOSURE BILL. Mr. HENRY BERKELEY presonted a petition from Bristol, against Lord Worsley's Inclosure Bill. TOBACCO DUTIES. Mr. HUME moved that all the petitions presented on the subject of the Tobacco Duties be referred to a Com mittee up stairs.—Ordered. The Bolton and Preston Railway Bill was read a third time, and passed. DOVER HARBOUR. Mr. E. RICE begged to ask the Right Hon. Gentle man, the First Lord of the Treasury, when the Commis sion respecting the formation of a Harbour of Refuge at Dover would be formed ? Sir R. PEEL said that he had this day signed six letters to naval officers, requesting theni to act upon the Commission. THE FACTORIES BILL. Lord SANDON thought it advisable to take that op portunity of requesting his Noble Friend the Member for Dorsetshire to state what course he intended to take on Friday night next, in reference to the Factories Bill, and whether he intended to follow up the challenge which he had thrown down to the Government? Lord ASHLEY said, Sir, my first impression—which has since been confirmed by the opinion of several friends —was, that I should not offer any opposition to the Go vernment's withdrawing the Bill on Friday night— (Hear)—and it is not my intention to offer any opposi tion.—(Hear, hear.) I know that in so doing I surren der many advantages which I already possess. But I think it is (my duty, when I can, without compromis ing any principle, to consult the convenience of the House and the Government.—(Hear, hear.) I take this course on the understanding that the Go vernment will immediately introduce another Bill, and will take the discussion upon it on an early day after Easter.—(Hear, hear.) I presume that the House will not ask me now to state what course I may feel it my duty to pursue on that occasion —(Hear, hear)—but I beg leave to state that on Friday I shall offer no oppo sition to the withdrawal of the Bill.—(Cheers.) Sir JAMES GRAHAM—I may perhaps be permit ted to give notice that it is my intention to move on Vri day, that the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into Committee on the Factories Bill be discharged; and after that Order of the Day shall have been disposed of, I will give notice that I shall move for leave to bring in a Bill to alter the existing laws for regulating labour in factories. If the present Bill should be withdrawn, and leave to introduce a new Bill should be obtained, I shall move that it be read a first time on Friday, and printed, and shall fix the second reading for an early day after Easter.—(Hear, hear.) I, therefore, give notice, that on Friday next I shall move for leave to bring in a Bill to alter the laws regu lating labour in factories.—(Hear, hear.) The first motion on Friday will be that the reading the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into Committee on the Factories Bill be postponed to that day six months, but I shall not be at liberty to make the motion of which I have given notice until the other Orders of the Day shall be disposed of.—(Hear, hear.) Sir R. PEEL—I rise, Sir, for the purpose of correct ing a mis-statement of a single expression made use of by me the other evening. I should not have made this correction, had not the misstatement to which I allude been made the subject of comment. I have no doubt but the misstatement was owing to myself, for I am aware that I spoke in a very low tone,as I was suffering from exhaustion at the time I spoke. lam reported to have said that this was no party question ; now what I really said was, that the factory question was no depart mental question.—(Cheers and laughter.) COUNTY CORONERS' BILL. _ _ Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that before the • Order of the Day for the further consideration of the re port on the County Coroners' Bill was read, he felt it his duty to move for the insertion of certain words re stricting the powers proposed to be given to magistrates at quarter sessions. He had given notice of a motion for that purpose. On further consideration he was convinced that it would be impossible to restrict those powers by the mere insertion of additional words in a clause, but it would be necessary to introduce a special clause for that purpose. He, therefore, proposed to have the clause printed in order to give the House an opportunity of considering it, and he hoped his Hon. Friend would consent to the postponement of the mea sure for that purpose. Mr. PAKINGTON consented to the proposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman, and moved that the Order of the Day be read, for the purpose of its being postponed until Monday. Mr. HUME said if the Bill was to be postponed till Monday, he hoped the discussion would be taken at an early part of the evening. • Mr, PAKINGTON said he would endeavour to bring it on at an hour that would admit of its being properly discussed. MASTERS AND SERVANTS' BILL Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said, he believed the question now was, the reading of the Order of the Day ; if they allowed the Order of the Day to be postponed on one Bill, there could be no objection to its being postponed on another ; and he had an objection to the Bill that stood No. 7 on the paper—the Masters and Servants' Bill, which he intended to' propose should be postponed till after Easter. This was one of the most important Bill that had been introduced during the present session, not excepting even the Factories Bill, or the Commons Inclosure Bill. The labouring popula tion had been taken quite by surprise by this Bill. The Bill was totally different in principle to any which had preceded it ; and it had been altered in almost every word, from the preamble to the last clause contained in it. The Government, under such circumstances, ought to discharge the order for its committal, and bring in a new Bill, as they proposed to do on the factory ques tion. He had several petitions to present against the Bills, all of which went boldly to the point, by calling on the House to scout it from their corsideration. Sir J. GRAHAM thought, after what had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman, he ought to state that the Bill was disclaimed by the Government as a Government Bill. There was but one new enactment in this Bill, and that was the 4th clause, which applied to contract work ; and he thought it highly expedient that it should be well con sidered. He (Sir J. Graham) was for the most part favourable to the new enactment, but he was not at all pledged with respect to it. He certainly thought this Bill ought not to be proceeded with in the absence of the Hon. Member for Somersetshire. Mr. FERRAND said, he had that morning received numerous letters from persons in the manufacturing districts, all expressing the greatest alarm as to the effect of the 4th clause of this Bill, if it should become law. That clause provided that if a working man should not fulfil a contract — The SPEAKER said the Hon. Gentleman could not go into the merits of a portion of the Bill upon the mo tion then before the House. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE said he should then move that the Order of the Day be read, for the purpose of having the Bill disposed of. On the motion that the Order of the Day be read, Mr. HUME objected to the Bill, because he thought it would tend seriously to impair the interests of the working classes. Mr. DALLY KNIGHT said the motive of this Bill was to enable magistrates to assist the working men in deciding the points of difference between masters and servants. He thought if Honourable Gentlemen knew as much as he did of the difficulties which surrounded a magistrate, in the cases between masters and servants, they would not oppose this Bill. Mr. FERRAND denounced the principle of the Bill, and said he was confident that before the Bill again came under the consideration of the House the table would be covered with petitions against it. Mr. HAWES thought the Bill in its present shape was much more satisfactory than when it was brought forward by the Hon. Member for Somersetshire. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that he had a perfect right to press his motion, and if' he stood alone lie would do so. He did not care a straw for any man.—(Hear, hear, laughter, and cries of " Chair, chair.") Mr. Hume attempted to address the House amidst loud cries of " Hear, hear," " Chair, chair," and great eotifilsion. The STEAD Eli tip:might tbet the Hop. Member fcir Finsbury avid the Member for Montrose hitd a perfect right, according- to the rules of the House, to press their motion ; but the effect of it, if carried, would be to prevent the other Orders of the Day from being read. After a few words from Mr. DUNCOMBE and Sir R. PEEL, the motion was withdrawn. li E G an tE ei li or w o i f sh th ec p l o z,, tt eh sk en t u h e e r w R h i g e h t h t e H r o i n n . THE ESTIMATES. G e G Ma h OR G e the event of tho roetoriee J3iU win wit idrawn I