The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-04 00:00:00

& , btr ition TilE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES). BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock . *** ............ Indian Stock pm 3 per Cent. Red — 'Ditto Bonds ........ ..... •87 pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. ..... 3% per Cent. Red New 3)4 per Cent.... New 5 per Cent. ...... Long Annuities to expire 1 Ditto 5ma11..........._ pm. Jan. 1860.-- .... ... Bank Stock for Acct SOI Oct. 1859 ,Consols for Acct....-. 991,i Jan. 1860 lndia Stock for Acct.... 293 Y, FOREIGN FUNDS. ' Austrian, 5 per Cent ......... i Portuguese, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per Cent ......... Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — Russian, 5 per Cent. 11 73 Chllian, 6 per Cent ..... Colombian, 6 per Cent ..—. 15% Spanish, 5 per Cent Wi Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 3 per Cent 36 it Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 Ditto, Deferred l6 Danish, 3 per Cent ........... French, 5 per Cent.......122r 7sc. Greek, 18 5, 5 per Cent — Exchange .. ... ..... ...„. —f• — c- Mexican, 5 per Cent .—.„ — French, 3 pe;Cent. --E —c• Ditto, 6 per Cent., ma Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent 3l Ditto, 5 per Cent lOO% SHARES. Bristol and Gloucester (3f) paid) Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) 7% Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ll2 Ditto Half Shares (. 0 paid) Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) 7% Newcastle and Darlington Junction (15 paid) Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen ( 20 paid): ........ .. ....... -....„ :6% South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ........ .........„ 35% Strasbourg and Bale (14 paid) ll3/4 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. STANDARD.—The Quarter's Revenue, as we stated yesterday, will be made up this evening, and we understand that the year's account will show a very considerable increase in all the main branches of revenue. The quarter's - account will exhibit an increase, as compared with the correspond ing quarter of last year, on every item of revenue, thus testifying a progressive improvement in the commerce and trade of the country, and the con dition of the several classes of the population. On the year we understand the revenue will ex ceed that of the year ending sth April, 1843, up wards of one million five hundred thousand pounds ; it probably will be nearly two millions. On the quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year, the accounts, as at present made up, show an increase in the Customs of upwards of 300,0001. In the Excise the increase is from 40,0001. to 50,0001. The property-tax remains much the same. There is an increase in the Post-office returns, the stamps, and in every other branch of the public revenue. GLOBE.—" We are assured," says the Times of this morning, "on unquestionable authority, that the rumour current yesterday on the subject of the meet ing at Sir Robert Peel's is wholly without founda tion. The dismission did not turn at all on the Fac tory Bill, nor was there any threat of dissolution." The " child at Limerick" being the "killed," and the " report contradicted," we turn from the Times facts to its theories on the Factory question. The Times takes Sir James Graham to task for the following passage of his speech on that question : " I will now pass -to another argument hardly less terrifying—the argument that a e have now arrived at a new social state—(Loud cries of " Hear")—such as to lead to a departure from all fixed principles which have hitherto guided the wisest men on the subject ; that we must meet this new social state by a new scheme of legislation on this matter, and that whereas all men have hitherto held that interference with the market of free labonr was unjustifiable, or only to be justified in a strong exceptional case, this rule must now be in verted and legislative interference must be general; there must be no limit, excepting not even the necessity of the case, but even the possibility of the case.—(Hear, hear.) . . . I say a more dangerous course has never yet been opened to the view of a legislative assembly. Within the last forty-eight hours I have seen sin expression used, to which, on the whole, I am willing to give my assent—that this is the commencement of a Jack Cade system of legislation." To this the Times replies, that the Poor-law Amendment Act (upheld by Sir James Graham, for which effcnce the Home Secretary seems to have succeeded Lord Brougham as the Times' " whipping boy") was founded on the same argument which Sir James objects to—that we had arrived at a new social state On the very supposition that we had arrived at a new state of things—that cur increasing population burdened the land, and that our increasing trade and commerce afforded an opportunity for relieving the land of that burden—the very persons now so old fashioned and timorous did ten years back, either as principals or accomplices, perpetrate the New Poor-law— the greatest social revolution England has yet seen, and the greatest break into existing law, and rule, and prece cedents Yet when this new state of things, thus created, imperiously demands to be met in its turn by new mea sures—when the most prominent necessity of the day is protection of labour—our statesmen suddenly affect a constitutional horror of novelty. Nothing is too new when the landlord or the capitalist asks them for relief; but when the millions are at their feet, then, For hea ven's sake,' they say, ' let's have no novelty.' Thus do they ride and tie with protection and political economy, with novel emergency and legislative precedent." According to the Times, then, the New Poor-law created a new state of things—and thereby created a necessity for new measures of" protection for labour." 'Those who supported the New Poor-law are incon sistent in refusing to support these new measures. Presently, however, the Times discovers that the new state of things is "not of our making,"—not, there. fore, of Sir James Graham's making, nor the New Poor. laws ;—and that those who supported that mea rare were right in their view of the circumstances on -which they founded it : " Such is the present exigency. A new power cf na tt l ye has suddenly started up in the midst of us, as if it were a mighty river suddenly gushing out of the earth, or a new order of existences, half brutal, half rational, with which we suddenly found ourselves allied. The whole nation feels its benefit ; in &Jury its aid ; but the labourer its competition. At the same time our population has fearfully increased tar beyond our natural capabilities. These changes are not of our making ; Heaven has sent them. We eunnot close our eyes to the fact. Though we trisd to reject the fact as a whole, still we should be obliged to encounter it in a thousand de. liw s . The disorders of the country are new. Their symptom are anomalous and monstrous, if we look only to what has been before. The learned practitioner can not find them in the old works of p athol ogy ; or, if he thinks he has identified the new with the old, is set right at last by the discovery that he has made some fatal blunder.. A vast and friendless population, driven through the most miserable straitness of life, thronging t oed crushing, and treading on one another , pa s s be tween the Scylla of excessive working and the Charyb dis 4sf destitution. Where shall we find the like of this in history ? Then, why are we to insist on the neces sity of a legislative precedent, if there be none exactly so the purpose ?" The Times, then, subscribes to the opinion that . 4 our population has fearfully increased far beyond our natural capabilities." how does the limes har tmonise this opinion with its other opinion (implied 'by its support of the old poor-law practice—for the prineiple of poor-law relief still subsists—nor is there an ything uprecedented in unions of parishes, nor in union-workhouses) —the opinion, namely, that it is the duty of parishes to enable every man to live com fortably on his native spot—to make good t o every man from public funds any deficiency of support which he can derive from his hereditary mode of industry, unless, on this theory of parochial obligation, the Times' poor law talk is meaningless. But this theory of pa rochial obligation is untenable, if it is true (as the Times also thinks), that " our population has fear fu:ly increased far beyond our natural capabilities." To Juarantee support to the labouring people in their ,ssative parishes, and their old employments, is to s et on the presumption that they have not " incretwel beyond our natural capabilities." But the Times .say they have. We can tell the Times that it has a battle - to fight for its own consistency before it is in a positio,i to take up the cu d ge l s ag ainst Sir J. Graham's. Le,:Wing the 7 imes to reduce to harmony as it can its own clashing p ro p os i t i ons, we ta k e t h at o ne of them which we think true—that our people increase beyond our merely internal resources—and we pursue no further, for the present, the plain ad vantage this gives us against an adversary who is incessantly clamouring for the right of labourers, wherever they are born, there to be main tained from those resources— for migration is usually .necessary to take advantage of other resources —those, namely, supplied by manufactures and com merce. We leave the Times, for the present, unmo. lesto:1 in its elf-contradictory statu quo on that / p o int, We make use of its admission solel y as it tears on the factory question. What is the inference as regards that question, from the admitted increase of our population far beyond our natural capabili• ties ? • Is it not that we are to that extent (a large extent, by the showing of the Times) dependent on foreign demand, and on foreign returns for our manufactured products? (When we say foreign, we include colonial, which Lord Stanley treated as :foreign, on Mr. Hutt's motion.) Is the inference rea sonable that we can afford to tie our hands, and to slacken our machinery—that we can afford to produce less for demand, just in proportion as we want more in supply? It is not perhaps wonderful that so large a section of those politicians should legislate to limit our means of buying, who have legislated against our .having the things we want to buy. As well play for *nothing as work for nothing. A restrictive Time Bill may be not an unnatural pendant to a restrictive corn law. But ever so many restrictions will not make one liberty. Short hours are not cheap bread : and short bread involves long work toall who are so happy as to get it. The Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company's steam a lit , City of Aberdeen, arrived on Tuesday f orenoon , w i t h 213 fat cattle, and a large cargo of general goods; and the mme la n un. .'it the Duke of Welling arrived, with 274 ca ttl e , th e tier ever shipped by one vessel ; the latter princi rgest fair.. The whole arrived in tine order, and Pally for Bam Com any'snew remises at 257 Wa waliediashoreb., 4 6PP ' ' PP THE' ( LONDON, THURSDAV EtENING, APRIL 4, 18444. after the eagerness evinced by the English journals to publish the games of the late match. "6. The maximum of time to be allowed for each move to be 30 minutes."—Agreed to. " 7. In the half of the games (twelve) both champions to begin with the King's Pawn two squares." To this M. St. Amant consents ; remarking, that, out of the 2 1 games of the last match, he had commenced - by this move three times, whereas Mr. Staunton had done so only twice. He however, further observes that in a great match, such as that in question, he is of opinion that no shackles or impediment ought to be placed on either champion's style of opening. " 8. E ich day's play to commence at 11 o'clock, and whoever should be inexact to pay a fine of one guinea," —Agreed to. M. St. Amant, in conclusion,:iayS :--'From the tenor of your letter, the lapse of time that you have permitted to pass, and concurrence of other circumstances, you—or more correctly, the friends Sou have consulted—do not appear anxious for you to renew your battle with France. Not wishing to refuse explicitly, you make use of indirect means, such as a victor supposes he can impose. Any man of good faith will perceive this on reading your letter. If the same disposition to recommence the strug gle is not winced on both sides, it is useless to prolong the negotiations. For my own part I dec l ar e that Ido Inot desert the field of battle, and that I recognise your superiority only as accidental."—Galignani. PROPOSED MAGNIFICENT NA TIONAL _ MONUMENT IN LONDON, TO NEWTON. To THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF LINCOLN, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE METROPOLIS. " Sibi gratulentur Mortales, Tale tantumque extitisse, HUMANI GENERIS DECUS." A part of the inscription on the tablet to the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, in the sanc tuary of England, Westminster Abbey. MY LORD—Not having the honour even of the slightest personal acquaintance with your Lordship which might warrant me in soliciting an interview, I most respectfully pray leave to address you through the public press, on a subject to which I have always, ever since I originated it, between 18 and 19 years ago, attached a far deeper and more expansive than a mere national interest. _ Your Lordship, I am quite sure, will agree with me in my conviction, that the name and memory of Newton belong not to England alone, but to all the nations of the world. I respectfully hope that your Lordship will not con sider me obtrusive if I beg, concisely, to enumerate the following facts in proof of the undeviating perseverance and fervour with which, ever since the time of its 'origi nation (Oct. 1825), I have urged my favourite project on thepublic attention of England; a project in which I take leave to say I have, and can have no personal interest whatever. lam not a professional architect, and, in addition to this, the nature of my avocations and duties sternly exacts from me that my general residence should be, not in London, but in my native country, Ireland. First, ii October, 1825, after one day visiting our new observatory at Cambridge, then nearly- com pleted, under the influence of the train of meditation inspired by contemplating the building—for who at Cambridge could think of astronomy without recol lecting Sir Isaac Newton ?—I wrote from my college, my own loved college Magdalene, a letter to the editor of the Times, which was immediately after published in that journal, suggesting the principle or my design. That design was then, and it is now, that, as an exqui sively appropriate n a ti on al monument to Newton, a magnificent dome, of mighty elevation and diameter, should, like that which I had seen in Italy, at Assisi, over the antique chapel, be reared by England over this house and observatory in her metropolis ; the house and observatory themselves being at the same time put into as perfect a state of repair as British architec tural skill could devise, to protract their duration, with all their sublime associations. Secondly, I came to London from Cambridge and made drawings on the spot from nature, and also drawings of my design, elevational and sectional, NS hich were beautifully lithographed by Mr. Scharf, and which I published in the print-shops. Thirdly, I presented copies of these to the Royal Astronomical Society, the Royal Society, the Insti tution of Civil Engineers, and to many highly dis tinguished individuals. Fourthly, in the summer of 1834, I came from Clare to London, and was examined by a Committee of the House of Commons, the Shannon Navigation Committee, on the state of the navigation of that great river, and also touching certain improvements ; and deeming that to be a very favourable opportunity, I, by another public letter with my name, in the Lon don newspapers, revived my long-cherished project for the national monument to the illustrious Newton. On this occasion the distinguished President of the Royal Academy, Sir Martin Archer Shee, in response to my solicitation, with the greatest courtesy and kindness, gave me his permission to dedicate to him whatever new pictures I might find it necessary to publish from new drawings. Fifthly, in 1836, Lord Monteagle, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, honoured me by presenting from me a petition to the House or Commons, and I was subsequently honoured in the same manner by the presentation of a second one to the House by Mr. Hume. These petitions were published in,several of the London and Irish newspapers. In the second, presented by Mr. Hume, I intro duced what appears to me to be a great improvement. It r i m a t e e that , and ia nothing ua iao a could with beth the spirit o feli citouslyf appropriate, my design, than that a statu e of white marble , of the most exquisite e ß ecution, of Newton sitting in medi tation, should be plac ed in t hi s his observatory , where he so often sat in l ife in celestial me ditation , and fr om occurredpp to whence I am now writing to your Lordship, and ploring from you and England not to let it, and the house which it crowns so nobly, tumble prematurely, in England's metropolis, into ruin and rubbish. I do not deem i it f lictupon expedient, your hav Lordship ingalrea the ai dytres.- Pcritseecdtusorall ong'to a details of the plan which I recommended, as they are described in thejpetition presented by Lord Monteagle. In conclusion, I respectfully pray permission to quote one passage frcm my letter from Cam bridge in 1825, a second from my letter written in ROM MAGDALENE COLLEGE. ' Protected London in 1 834, a nd a third from my first petition to the House o f Commons. F' FROM mIiELETTER in the manner I have described from the dilapidating influence of rains and winds, the venerable edifice in which Newton studied, or was inspired, that palace of the soul,' might stand fast for ages : a British monument more sublime than the pyramids, although remote antiquity and vastness be combined to create their interest?' FROM THE LETTER OF 1834. "The body of Newton has lung since mouldered into dust and earth and ashes, and these are not diffe rent from the dust and earth and ashes of the other great men of England who surround his sepulchre. "But this airy hall,' the observatory, which I now again, for the second time, call on England to save from ruin, was the ethereal citadel from which, while he lived, the spirit of Newton made incursions into the abyss of celestial space—the empyrean—' the blue serene'—the hyaline of Heaven; and in its fight, made as if it had taken to itself the wings of the morning, it seemed, as it were, almost to disidentify itself from its human essence, and to bleild with those superior existences described by Milton, those pure intelligential substances with thoughts which wander through eternity. " FROM THE PETITION PRESENTED BY THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. " Sibi gratulentur mortales," And let the people of England exult above all others, "Tale tantumgue extitisse," HUMANI GENERIS DECUS. " Petitioner respectfully, most respectfully, hopes that this appeal to the House of Commons will not be mmvle in vain, especially in an epoch like the present, when the light of science sheds an Elysian effluence on the world ; although it be now, in comparison with what it will be hereafter, only as the cool dewy roseate dawn of a roseal•blushing morning, in com parison with the meridian torrid glory of the Arch- Chemic Sun." " This must be the case, in consequence of the in evitable progressive development, through fuVre ages, of portions (to use the words of the mighty metaphy sician Locke) of those masses of knowledge which still lie hidden within the secret recesses of nature." I have the honour to be, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, THOMAS STEELE, A member of the Cambridge Senate, and of the London Institution of Civil Engineers. Observatory of Newton, No. 35, St. Martin's street, Leicester-square, March 29, 1844. METROPOLITAN DRAPERS' ASSOCIATION. A meeting of the Drapers' Association was last night held in the Hanover Rooms, for the purpose of taking those steps which may be deemed most expe dient for procuring an abridgm ent of the hours of business in the drapery houses in the metropolis. This Association, it is right to remark, does not con template any appeal to the Legislature for its in terference; it is formed on pur el y voluntar y prin ciples, and seeks to accomplish its objects solely by moral influences.. There is, therefore, all the differ ence in the world between its proposal to abridge the hours of business and the legislative proposal to abridge the hours of labour in the factories. There is this much difference between the two cases—that the abridgment of the hours of business in the dra pery trade would not lead to any diminution in the amount of business done, whereas, in the case of the factory operatives, the Ten Hours' Bill would be fol lowed by a reduction in the amount of work per formed to the extent of one-sixth. In drapers' shops POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. James Mitchell, a native of Calcutta, appeared before Alderman Wilson, for the purpose of complaining against the Captain of the vessel in which he came to this coun try, for having left him to take his chance the moment his services ceased to be required. He had, • he said, been engaged by Captain Beilby, of the Sophia, at Calcutta, to work the vessel to Liverpool. Upon the arrival of the ship at Liverpool, the Captain gave him a piece of paper, containing a few words, signifying nothing ; told him to travel up to London and apply at the East India house for a pa ssa g e back to India, which would be at once yielded to him, and regularly hum bugged the unfortunate man by assurances that all would be right. At the East India-house he was informed that the Company had no power, since the trade to that em pire had been thrown open, to dispose as they could wish of the natives who navigated the ships on their voyage home. The conduct upon the part of the Captain had caused the greatest distress to the applicant, who was actually starving in the streets, for he found a negative to all his appeals for a passage. Alderman WILSON regretted that all he could do in such a case was to order a little temporary relief to the poor man, and send him to the union. It was, he ob served, a most lamentable thing to witness the numerous eases of the kind in our streets, and if the Legislature would not introdu3e some expedient in a Parliamentary measure to meet the evil,.the mischief would be quite in tolerable in a short time. The East India Company were certainly not obliged to send home natives who came to England in vessels not belonging to them, and it bad be come a practice amongst the free traders to accommodate themselves with the labours of these unfortunate men, and to abandon them to casual charity. He trusted that in the Poor-law Bill some regulation would be intro duced, from which advantage might result to persons so calamitously placed. It was stated that one of the individuals who had been subjected to the treatment described, had taken it into his head that the Lord Mayor was bound to protect all distressed foreigners, and actually . broke the windows of the Mansion-house five different times, upon finding that his complaints had not the expected effect. . Several most painful instances of the above descrip tion have been of late stated at the India-room, but in the present state of the law, it is quite impossible for Magis trates to deal with them satisfactorily. BOW-STREET. A middle-aged man, named Henry Burgess, was brought up before Mr. Twyford, charged with stealing a double-barrelled gun of the value of 20 guineas, and part of another gun, from the shop of Mr. Charles Egg, gunmaker, Piccadilly ; and also a key-bugle, the pro rerty of Mr. Henry Fenton], music-seller, Strand. Thomas Oldham, the landlord of the Archer's Arms Ta vern, Newton. street, Holborn, was also charged with receiving these articles, well knowing them,to have been Mr. ComBE asked the tipstaff to make his own state ment. Mr. Allen said that he had acquainted the Vice- Chancellor with the proceedings at this Court on Friday last, and his Honour's positive directions to him were to come to this Court and take the prisoner into his cus tody. I told his Honour that you had refused to give him up, but the Vice-Chancellor said, you must go there and take him. Mr. COMDE said it was not the first time he had been asked to give up a prisoner, nor the first time he had refused to do so. He felt it his duty to refuse in this instance. The offence was a criminal one, strong evi dence had been tendered, and evidence of a stronger nature would probably be adduced. If there was an intention to prosecute the prisoner in a criminal court, this Court was the proper medium for advancing such a proceedin g . He was not aware that it was in the power of the Vice-Chancellor, or of any other judge, to take a prisoner out of the hands of the magistrate. If there were such a power it must be attained through some legal process in Court, and let that be resorted to, and he would, of course, yield to it. The Vice-Chan cellor, if he wanted the prisoner must take the regular mode. Giving up the prisoner. under present circum stance, might amount to compromising of a felony. He (Mr. Combe) relied on the position in which he stood. An Act passed in the reign of Mary, made this offence a misdemeanor, and the provisions of the 9th of George IV. were still more stringent. Under all these circumstances, he must refuse the application, and com pel the attendance of Mrs. Wertheim Mr. Humphries had no objection that the prisoner should be handed over to the Court of Chancery, and Mr. Southey again urged the Magistrate to give him up to the tipstaff, but the worthy Magistrate declined doing so. The prisoner was then remanded until Wednesday next. Mr. Humphries asked if bail would not be accepted ? Mr. ComnE said he would accept:competent bail. What was the prisoner's profession or occupation ?—Mr. Hum phries said he had been called an esquire for t he last 20 years." — '"' Mr. ComBE said he would not accept of less than two sureties in 5001. each, and himself in 1,0001., to appear in that Court on that day week at twelve o'clock. The required sureties not being forthcoming, he was locked up. lt was erroneously stated that Miss Wortham is pos sessed of an independent fortune. Our reporter has been requested by the solicitor for the prosecution to mention that such is not the case. Her means are exceedingly scanty. THE SEVENTY-NINTH HIGH- LANDERS. THE SQUARE OF THE HIGHLANDERS AT TOULOUSE, APRIL 10, 1814. (From the Note 13Jok of Captain John Ford, Royal Hospital, Chelsea.) Though the square formed by the 79th Cameron Highlanders in the valley of the Ers, near Toulouse, is mentioned by French military writers, and is laid down in their plans, yet I am not aware that the par ticulars have been given in any British publication or official letter; I may, therefore, be excused copying from my notes a few words respecting - it. The Sixth Division, commanded by Sir Henry Clinton, of which the 79th Regiment formed a part, erossed the bridge over the Ers at Croix d'Aurade, but did not sustain so much loss from the fire of the redoubt des Au gustins on the Plateau de Calvinet when advancing along the valley, as the Fourth Division which had preceded it. After passing and getting out of the range of the guns of the above men tioned redoubt, the 79th was on the right of the di vision in the valley, between the Plateau de Calvinet in possession of the enemy, and the little river Ers ; while so situated a corps of French cavalry unex pectedly appeared, debouching in slow time by one of the deep farm roads which cross the plateau, with the intention, no doubt, of attacking us if not pre pared to receive them, of turning the right of the two divisions, or of cutting off their communica tion with the bridge which we had passed, the only one over the Ers not destroyed by the enemy. The position of the 79th was, therefore, a very important one. Lieutenant-Colonel Neil Douglas (command ing) immediately formed square, ordered out Ensign Balfour to the front with one of the colours, and gave the word " march." Balfour's conduct was much admired ; he carried himself quite erect, the colours inclined forward— which, as he had no shoulder or waist-belt to support them, required strength of arm—pointed his toes, and gave the step to the square with as much regularity and correctness as he would have done at any formal parade in England. The view of the two corps ad vancing in slow time to meet each other must have been a very interesting sight, as seen from the high ground which the French held possession of. When the square had arrived sufficiently near, Lieut.-Colo nel Douglas halted it, called in Balfour, and ordered the grenadiers to give the enemy a volley, upon which they wheeled round and retired as slowly as they had advanced. I believe they did not sustain any loss from our fire—certainly I did not see one man fall. The French account does not agree with that I have given ;_ the French author must have written the passage from an incorrect report, because though the Dragoons and Lancers in the French service are called " Cavalerie de Ligne," they had not so many as 115 regiments of that description of force, there fore the 115 de Ligne must have been an Infantry regiment.' The threatened attack upon the 79th square was made by cavalry. On the morning of the battle of Toulouse, the 79th had only 414 rank and file present in the field, but they were veterans in every sense of the word. Not a shot was fired at us when in square. It was in attacking and carrying the redoubt des Augustins that the 79th afterwards sustained such a serious loss, about one-half of the 414 rank and file being either killed or wounded. Four of our officers were buried in one grave in the redoubt (three of whom bore the name of Cameron, and were cousins), and a fifth at Toulouse, and thirteen wounded.—United Service Magazine, April. stolen. Mr. Egg, the gun-maker, stated that he lost from his shop, on Monday last, a double. barrelled gun, and part of another gun, which were contained in gun-cases which bore his name. William Barton, inspector of the G division of police. stated, that from information he received, he went with the policeman to Oldham's house yesterday morning. He saw the prisoner there, and told him that there was something wrong. The witness, with one policeman, went up stairs to a back room. The prisoner Burgess, and three other men, were in the room. Upon these men seeing the witness and the officer, they made a rush to the door, but were stopped. Two of the men then effected their escape by the window. Burgess was taken into custody. James Fryer, shnpman to Mr. Fentum, music-seller, Strand, proved that the bugle produced bad been stolen from his employer's shop. William Bird, appraiser, 20, Exmouth-street, stated that the prisoner Burgess waited upon him on Tuesday evening, and said he had a double barrelled gun and a key-bugle to sell, and he wished the witness to inspect them. He consented to do so and accompanied the pri soner to Oldham's house. When he arrived there he saw Oldham, and after waiting some time Burgess said the landlord had advanced 2L on the gun, and they could not get the gun out of his possession until the money was paid. At length a young man with the prisoner said to Oldham, " Come, let us see the gun, for the party will not wait." Oldham replied, " Presently." After:this the witness was requested to walk up stairs, and he did so. The gun in question was produced, and Burgess asked 121. for it. After considerable discussion the whole party adjourned to an empty house in Charles street, Drury lane, and there the prisoner Burgess, after getting a candle, produced a part of a gun and a key bugle. The prisoner appeared very anxious to sell the articles, but the witness would not buy them then, but agreed to meet the prisoner again the next day on the subject. Upon his return home, however,' he heard of the robbery which had taken place on the two prosecutor's premises, and he immediately gave information to the G division of police of the facts which had come to his knowledge. Mr. TWYFORD considered this to be sufficient evidence upon which to remand the prisoners, and they were ac cordingly remanded for a week. A young man, named James Shaw, a goldbeater, was charged with being concerned with others, at present in custody, in breaking and entering the house of Mr. Jacob Worster, oil and colourman, 61, New Compton street, and stealing a number of camelhair brushes, a quantity of gold leaf, and other articles. The case was proved against the prisoner, and he was committed for trial. CLERKENWELL. . THE LATE CASE OF ABDUCTION.—EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS.—Yesterday morning, when Mr. Combe took his seat on the Bench, Mr. Southey, solicitor for the prosecution in the case of William Burton Newenham, who was charged at this Court on Friday last with the abduction of Miss Wortham, a minor, and a ward of Chancery, came before the Magistrate, accompanied by Mr. Allen, tipstaff of the Court of Chancery, under the following circumstances : Mr. Allen applied that th© prisoner, W. B. Newen ham, be delivered up to him. Since the hearing of the case at this Court, he had had a communication with Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, who directed him to pro• ceed to this Court, take the prisoner into his custody, and place him in the Queen's Prison. Mr. Allen pro duced his warrant, signed by the Lord Chancellor, the substance of which was, " That whereas, by order made by his Honour Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce in the above case, bearing date the 22d of December, 1843, it was ordered that the said W. B. Newenham be commit ted to the Queen's Prison for contempt of Court, CHESS. the tipstaff is hereby required to take him into custody, It would appear from a correspondence which has and place him in the above-mentioned prison." taken place between M. St. Amant and Mr. Staunton, Mr. COMBE observed that the prisoner had been re- that the return match between those two celebrated mended until this day. Was Mrs. Wortham in attend- players is not likely to come off, as the lovers ante ? of this scientific game had anticipated. In the Mr. Southey replied in the negative. After a corn- last number of the Palamede, M. St. Amant's munication with the Vice-Chancellor, he thought the chess journal, is published a letter from that gen better course was to deliver up the prisoner to the tip- tle:nan, in answer to certain conditions laid down by staff. He wished it to be distinctly understood,. that it Mr. Staunton, as the bases of the second match, to the was not with any view to a compromise he made this most important of which the French champion re suggestion. fuses to consent, on the score of their being un- Mr. COMBE—If Mrs. Wortham, the mother of this reasonable and extravagant. M. St. Amant commences young lady, do not voluntarily attend, I will issue a by declaring that he considered Mr. Staunton bound summons for her ; and if she do not come upon the by promise to play another match, on terms so similar summons, I will issue my warrant and have her brought to those of the former contest, as to call for no up it. l am reso l ve d not to let this matter drop. The hesitation as to their acceptance ; that as he has no evidence already tendered is very strong. This is a very written agreement, he cannot force him to act as his serious case, and important not only as regards the promise seemed to imply ; and that he should, therefore, parties concerned, but in reference to the public at large. merely recapitulate the terms proposed, and state why Here is a young girl, not fifteen years of age, removed he refused to accede to some of them. The new propo from her mother's care. Why, it is just the very sitions, he remarks, smack dreadfully of the victor . description of case contemplated by the Statute—a per- Brennus, when throwing his sword into the scale, never son not able to take care of herself and under sixteen spoke with more authority. Mr. Staunton's conditions years of age. It is stated by the prisoner, that he is are : married to her. That aggravates the offence, but there "I. To play with M. St. Amant, or any other player,' is no evidence whatever of the fact. From circumstances five matches of five games each, for 501. a match, or which have come to my knowledge, I have some reason 2501. in all." To this M. St. Amant replies, " that he to believe that the offence may amount to a felony ; but sees no sufficient reason for changing the stakes. As I cannot now enter into these c i rc umsta nces. I have the former match was for 100/. a-side, so should be had an intimation that f u rther ev id ence w ill b e tendered, the new one. If the intention of the English and I think a compromise would be not only injurious player was to play for a larger sum than before, to the complaining parties in this case, but to defenceless the new preposition might defeat this purpose, as the children similarly circumstanced as Miss Wortham. chances were, that out of the five matches, between such The Police Act gives me power to issue a summons for equal players, only one would be the difference at the a witness who does not voluntarily attend, and, in default end; and that, therefore, only 50L would be won or lost. of attendance on the summons, to issue a warrant, and a But even supposing that one party won four matches, warrant I will most undoubtedly issue and have her and the other only one, the sum won would be 150!., brought up upon it if she does not otherwise attend. leaving the mean 1001., the same as in the other match. And if *le prisoner is instrumental in keeping Mrs. Why, therefore, change, particularly as the new propo-i -1 Wortham from coming forward, I tell him h e i s doing , tion had this great disadvantage, of the possibility of one himself a very great injury, for I will most 'assuredly champion winning three matches, or nine games, and keep him in custody until she attends. the other two matches and twelve games, each thus The prisoner who was dressed with scrupulous neat- deeming himself entitled to sing lo triumphe r' M. St. ness, and who took his place at the bar with great coin- Amant invites Mr. Staunton to reflect on these observa posure, was here about to make an observation, but tions, at the same time declaring that, should the con- Mr. COMBE stopped him in order to inform him of the edition be insisted on, he will subscribe to it, although position in which he stood. He had been charged with unwillingly. misdemeanour, but it was not improbable that he would 2. Those matches to be played at London or be sent for trial for felo n y . It became therefore ver y Paris within three 'months after March 1, 1844, necessary for him to be cautious in what he stated. The the sum of 501. being allowed out of the stakes to the magistrate then repeated to him the usual caution, tell- . person who shall leave his own country for the put ing him he would certainly commit him for trial either on the charge of felony , or on that of misdemeanour. pose." On this M. St. Amant declares , that as i t is utterly impossible for him to be absent from Prisoner—l do not see why I should be charged with Paris, on account of his mercantile occupations, for felony. I aver that I have nothing wha tever to do with more than ten days, he cannot play the matches in Mrs. Wortham's absence. Miss Wortham eloped with me London ; that as to 50/. being allowed in place of 20/. of her own free consent. Can it be felony then ? (the sum agreed on for the former match), he considers Mr. COM - BE—lt does not make any difference one way it to be an extravagant demand, and refuses absolutely way or the other. to consent to it. Labourdonnais, he observes, went four Mr. Mould (the clerk) asked the prisoner if he had ; i times to London to contend with the Eng lish p la y ers, any profe ss i ona l a d v i ser ? ' and never once thought of making any su ch sti p ulation, The prison er sa id h e ha d Messrs. Vi ncen t and Sher- wood, but they were not i n attendance. H e added— "3. The play to take place i n a p rivate room, with no With regard to my apprehension, which took place on • person present but the seconds and a referee on each Thursday last, I received on that ' day a letter from Mr. 1 sde." Strongly objected to, though not absolutely Sherwood, my agent, who lives at 7, Carlisle-street, nothing.could Soho -square, requesting me to attend his to Mr. Staunton's own showing, . I refused, on the ground that " as, even according at residence upon that evening, and to produce my wife, assuring criminal at the same time, that if I did so all civil and.me club during the late contest ; to insist on such a surpass the - admirable conduct of the Paris proceedings would be abandoned against me. there, and having been told that Mr. Southey ' drawing-room, my wife went up to him reluctantly be ..y way. By this stratagem . was in the went something had been done on the previous occasion to condition would be considered an insult, as implying that M. St. Amant further render such privacy necessary." cause she is large in the famil or treachery, if I may call it so, I was given into the observes, that he feels convinced of the utter impossibi lity to find three gentlerm n among the Paris chess hands of the police. . players willing to submit to such solitary confinement. In reply to an observation of Mr. Southey, the pri- I "4. A game to be played every day, except Sunday, soners said he did not mean to imply the slightest cen- from the beginning to the end of each match , whe n one sure on that gentleman's conduct in any way. . or two days rest would be allowed, as might be agreed Mr. COMBE told the prisoner that what he said had on, before the next was commenced." Refused point n o reference to the present charge, but the prisoner blank, on th e groun d o f hi s mercan tile engagements ab tartly answered that the Magistrate was bound to hear solutely preventing such an unlimited occupation of time. . his defence. He was proceeding to state a g reat deal of (M St. Amant is, we b e li eve , a w i ne -merchant.) The i rre levant matter, when Mr. Humphries caine into Court, Flel:lch champion proposes f our d a y s p e r week instead and, as agent for the p rison& 4 , prevented him from say- of , six. . ' until after the whole of the matches are brought to ins more. 5. The publication of the games to be forbidden a conclusion." Objected to, though not refused, Mr. Southey . again applied to the Magistrate to de on the roundg that such b . !' t• could not liver up the prisoner to the tipstaff of the Court of Chancery. Vice-Chancellor Bruce was of opinion that prove injurious to pu Ica ion his authority superseded the police magistrate's. He amateurs of P • d a l r e ' party, and that the to hear of any such condition. M. St. Amant observes (Mr. Southey) was anxious that the matter should be , . ems an ndon would be unwilling further, that this prohibition * appears . strange, coming placed under the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, as be thought such a course would be most desirable for ; I from a native of England, the country of publicity, and all parties. the business now done in thirteen hours could easily s years of age, has a strong French accent, and speaks be done in ten or even eight hours, and consequently of herself as having resided a long time on the Con no pecuniary injury could be done either to the mas- tinent. She is well conversant with titled names, ter or the assistant by shutting up one or two hours and very plausible in her manners and statements, earlier than at present. In the case of the factory and apparently amply provided with a supply of ready operatives, the diminution in the amount of produc- . money. It is hoped that this exposure may possibly tion would be followed by a corresponding reduction lead to detection of other parties concerned, or at in the amount of wages. Our readers are aware least prevent the accomplishment of the fraud else that the Drapers' Association has existed for some where. The lease has been retained by the solicitor time. They are also aware of the objects for which to facilitate any further investigation. it was formed. The unusual length of time each day which assistant-drapers are obliged to devote to busi ness, has long been the subject of regret to all who wish well to their fellow-men. The practice hitherto has been, and in many instances is still, to keep drapers' shops open to nine in the evening. Some keep open even later; but let us take nine as the general hour of closing. Now, to be kept confined behind the counter from eight in the morning till nine in the evening, must not only be exhausting both to body and mind, but must be very perilous to health. What materially aggravates the case of the assistant drapers is the fact, that they take their meals in their employers' houses, which are in every in stance above their shops. They have, consequently, no opportunity of inhaling a single draught of fresh air for thirteen long hours. Nor is this all. They are only allowed half an hour for their meals—so that out of the thirteen hours, they have to be on their feet twelve tedious hours. Now this, in the nature of things, must be too much for the human constitution. Experience proves that it is so. Many young men come up from the provinces to the metropolis, possessed of robust constitutions, and enjoying excellent health, who, in a few years, catch, by means of this close confinement and constant physical exhaus tion, the seeds of diseases which speedily terminate in death. The injurious effects of close confinement and continuous application to business, in drapers' shops, are clearly seen in the countenances of the young men, while engaged in their ordinary occupations. No one can have entered any of our large drapery estab lishments, without being struck with the pale, sickly looking countenances, he sees around him. The ap pearance of the young persons in these establishments is sufficient, without a knowledge of the facts which bear on their case, to convince the visitor that there must be something wrong in their condition. What aggravates the hardships of their case is, the circum stance that they are mostly young men of intelligence, and, consequently, of susceptible feelings. And they have a painful consciousness of the hardships of their position. They consider themselves to be, not merely in a state of drudgery, but in a state of slavery. Their long hours are aggravated by the irksomeness of their employment. The anxiety which they must necessarily feel to acquit themselves in such a way as to give satisfaction to their employers, adds very greatly to their other sources of unhappi ness. Their ingenuity is constantly on the rack to adapt themselves to the whims and caprices of their customers—the permanency of their situations being in many, if not the majority of cases, wholly depen dent on their success in doing business with those who inspect their employers' goods. But there are other respects in which the destiny of the assistant draper is a hard one. He is possessed of sufficient education and intelligence to make him desirous of acquiring more. With the present system of long hours, his advancement in mental cultivation cannot be expected. He is so exhausted, so jaded, physi cally and mentally, by the duties of the day, as to have little relish, and still less strength, for mental application of any kind. The interval between the hour of shutting shop and retiring to rest is so short, that he requires it all for pedestrian exercise in the streets ; or it may be, that he spends it in places in which he may drown, for an hour or two, all recollection of the hardships of his condition. If, instead of the present hour of shutting up haberdashers' shops, they were closed at seven in the winter and eight in the summer, the young men would be happy to avail themselves of the various means of mental improvement with which the metro polis abounds. They could read at home, in literary institutions, or in the more respectable class of coffee rooms ; or if they preferred it, they could attend courses of lectures on literary, philosophical, and scientific subjects. Messrs. Hitchcock and Co., of St. Paul's Church-yard—the largest retail drapery house in London, or, perhaps, in the world—have not only an extensive and well-selected library for the use of the young men in their establishment, but they have lately established a course of lectures in their own premises for their benefit—the lecturers employed being the most distinguished men they can procure in the various departments of literature and science. Were the proposed abridgment of the hours of busi ness carried into effect, other houses would doubtless follow the example. The objection on the part of the master drapers to an abridgment of the hours of busi ness, is that they would thereby lessen the amount of their business. There could not be a greater mistake. The same number of dresses would continue to be bought. If it were once under stood that the drapers' shops were all to shut at seven in the winter, and eight in the summer, those intending to make purchases would make a point of paying their visits by six in winter and seven in summer. And not only would the same amount of business continue to be done, but there would be a considerable saving to the master in the expenses of the establishment; for he would save the price of from one to two hours' gas-light, varying according to the season of the year. This is not mere theory. Messrs. Hitchcock have tried the experiment. During the last six months they closed at seven, and they found that they did as much business as in the corresponding months of the previous year, when they continued open from an hour to an hour and a half longer. In the item of gas alone, they calculated their savings to be 30s. per night, through this abridg ment of the hours of business. The views which we are pressing on the adoption of the trade were ably and eloquently advocated by the various speakers at the meeting last night. The more the question is examined, the more convinced the master drapers must become, that while their assistants would be incalculably benefited, mentally, morally, and physi cally, by an abridgment of the hours of business, they would not suffer in any way by the change, but would, on the contrary, in addition to the gratifying consciousness that they were contributing in a very great measure to the happiness of those in their em ploy, be considerable gainers by the saving which would be effected in gas. light and in other items of ,ense.—Advertiser of Tuesday. COMMONS INCLOSURE BILL. (From the Morning Advertiser.) In consequence of the indisposition of Lord Worsley, the Order of the Day for going into Committee on the Commons Inclosure Bill NA as on Wednesday night postponed by the House of Commons till the 24t1i of April, and most earnestly is it to be hoped that the friends of justice and of the poor will spare no effort during the brief interval thus given, in endea vouring to defeat this monstrous attempt at public spoliation. While the Morning Chronicle is employing its columns in aid of this iniquitous proceeding, and en deavouring to blind the eyes of the public to its real character, the Times admits into its pages a most valuable expose of its true nature. The morning or gan of Whiggery volunteers to write in favour of a rapacious act worthy only of the age of feudal oppres sion, and the " leading journal" does not leave its readers without the means of perceiving the gross in- justice against the poor, of Which the Chronicle is the advocate. The Commons Inclosure Bill is, in the language to which we refer, "a proposition which gives 4,000,000 of acres to those who already possess 32,000.000," and which, we may add, makes this magnificent donation to the landed aristocracy under the most hypocritical pretences. Under the profession of regard to the poor, and a wish to provide for them, the great landlords in Parliament are about to divide among themselves about one-eighth of the whole coun try ; and the organ of Liberal opinions, the stern as sertor of public rights, aids the cupidity of landlords in Parliament, by trying to persuade the country that there will be no harm done. We admire the pointed sar cas:m which pervades the following language, and unveils the hypocrisy of which the Chronicle is the advocate : " The parties to this important question are the gentry of the country on the one hand, and the com mon people on the other. The first assume, and with truth, that there is want of employment in many parts of the kingdom, and by the inclosing, paring, and tilling of many f those wastes, every labouring man will obtain the great and scarce bDon of employ _ _ ment, for which he is pining. The increase of their own estates is not for a moment admitted as a motive, though an addition of one-eighth is not a contempti ble addition." If this very large portion of the country which is now the property of the nation, is to be brought into cultivation for the benefit of the poor, we beg to suggest a plan by which the interests of the poor can be effectually secured, and at the same time the nation at large shall receive whatever ad vantage may be derivable from the improvement of its own property. Let these four millions of acres be sold or rented, or allotted to the poor, and let the proceeds go towards the liquidation of the National Debt. Can we afford to put into the pockets of the landed aristocracy those funds which, if judiciously appropriated, would considerably diminish the bur dens of an over-taxed population ? What man in his senses, who knows the facts which for months past have been constantly before the public, relative to the heartless-kulifference of landlords to the pros ' perity of their tenantry, would for a moment dream of those landlords devising a measure simply for the benefit of the agricultural labourers and farmers? What a disinterested, benevolent race these landed Members have become, to consent to have their estates en- larged, not at all for their own advantage, but simply from the kind and anxious wish to add to the comforts of those miserable families to which their compassion has assigned as an ample support, 6s. or 7s. a week ! The true extent of the regard which is had to the poor in the contemplated measure, may be best un derstood by the fact, which is stated in the Times, relative to the inclosure at Croydon : " Some years ago an Act was obtained to inclose no less than 6,000 acres of land at Croydon, in Sur rey. The lord of the manor, the holders of land, and others received large portions—among them the late Lord Liverpool. To the poor were allotted about 200 acres. These they never obtained, neither com pensation; but a court-house being - wanted, another ' Act was passed ; the poor man's lots were sold in pur suance of it, and the money spent in this monument of rapacity." Here is a beautiful specimen of the treatment to which the poor are subject by landowning M. P.'s. A large extent of common is inclosed for the benefit of the poor, and their portion is appropriated to the erection of a court-house, where they may stand in the presence of their wealthy neighbours charged with poaching on the manor which was, once their own possession, and which the laws of their coun try have taken from them and given to the rich. The friends of the poor have every reason to dis credit the professions of those by whom Lord Wors ley's Bill is advocated, and to oppose a measure which, as long as the game-laws disgrace our sta tute-book, will increase the perils to which the lives of the poor are exposed. The more inclosures the more game preserves, and the wider will be the scene in which desperate encounters will take place be tween the furtive intruder and the gamekeeper. To the numerous illustrations which have recently been furnished of the evil results of these foolish and cruel laws, an addition has just been made by a trial reported in the papers yesterday, for the murder of the gamekeeper at Kingston. In the language of the Learned Counsel who defended the prisoner, it is "a melancholy thing that, in order to enable persons in the position of Lord Grantley to enjoy their plea sures anci preserve their game, the lives of the poorer classes are to be sacrificed, and it would be much better if there were no game, and that such lordly pleasures should be altogether abolished, than that such dreadful cases as that before the Court, and si milar ones all over the country during the resent assizes, should have taken place." It is evident, from the confession of the unhappy convict Elsley, as well as from numerous other similar statements, that the feelings that exist between poachers and gamekeepers are those of the most deadly hatred, feelings strangely inconsistent with the trivial cha racter of the property which one of the parties has to protect and the other is anxious to seize. In the case to which we have referred, the gamekeeper seemed determined to kill the poor man who had knocked down a brace of pheasants, and a deadly encounter, a "life-for-life" fight was the result. If the victim of these inhuman and unnatural laws had been the keeper of the Crown jewels or the guardian of Majesty, he could not have displayed more ear nestness in the guardianship of the property intrusted to his care, or have shown a more deadly enmity against the man by whom his charge was assailed. It is really a monstrous absurdity that the idle amuse ments of the aristocracy should be so sacredly fenced round by the sanctions of law as to peril human life and liberty whenever they are invaded. And when, as in the unhappy case at Kingston, we see one life sacrificed, and another barely saved from the gibbet, in a contest for a brace of pheasants, taken to rescue his wife and family from the fangs of starvation, we are the more impelled to protest against a measure by which the number of such cases will be increased. Besides the design which the disinterested Members of Parliament have of dividing this land amongst themselves, there is another too obvious not to pre sent itself to the mind of every thinking man. This scheme is one of the efforts of the pro-corn-law party to perpetuate the ruinous policy of which they are the abettors. Want of employment—the effect of the corn-laws—is to cease for a few years by set ting the unemployed labourers to work on their own land, and thus one of the arguments for free trade is to be answered, and the clamours of the League to he silenced. Should this policy (by the aid of the Morning Chronicle) succeed, the day which the land lords dread will be put off, until it will be too late to adopt the only measure that will save the country from ruin, England will have lost her manufacturing enterprise, and all her interests will be bankrupt together. (From the Times.) The second debate on Lord Worsley's Inclosure Bill is adjourned till after Easter. We are glad of this. The interval of time thus gained will afford an opportunity to Hon. Members of investigating the merits of a subject on which, we suspect, the greater number of them are more ready to vote than to re fleet. And, though we do not profess to be very sanguine in our hopes that the arriere pence of a Parliamentary majority m a y t urn t h e sca l e o f a . on i L mn favour of a generous and just as opposed to an L interested policy, yet we do not wholly despair of seeing the House do on this occasion what it has I done on others —namely, rescind its previous deci . sions, and retract its former language—an inconsist ency which, however derogatory it may be to the dignity of a legislative assembly, is not unfrequently more in accordance with the wishes, and more sub servient to the interests, of tilos() who are represented in it, than the most stubborn and pertinacious eon. sistency would be. The House has of late exhibited a very strong predilection in iavour of the principle , of humanity over the petty wisdom of economists and the selfish abstractions of rich men. The causes from which this predilection has arisen still exist, and must operate on future occasions to thwart any ten , dency to a sordid or oppressive spirit of legislation. It cannot be that those who have stood forth strenti ,.l than nly strenuously, nudoetueslrT,inetdo championly,an and not less th triumphantly mast s rights in th e popu l ous towns whiechpooowre their wealth and prosperity to his labour—it cannot 1 be that the very same men can forget to maintain the privileges which the policy and philanthropy of past ages guaranteed to him and his children in the soli of his native hamlet. We wish Hon, Gentlemen would ATTEMPTED FRAUD. A person assuming to be a lady called about a fortnight since at the residence of a solicitor in Ux bridge, and produced an unexecuted engrossment of a lease, purporting to be a lease from Mary Ann Montagu, of Privy-gardens, to John Gray, of Henley upon-Thames, of a farm called Grosvenor Farm, stated to be near Henley, at a rent of 500/. per annum. The lease was admirably drawn, and properly stamped, the stamps bearing the Hampshire mark upon them, a stamp of 4/. being dated Nov. 29, 1841, and the second, of 11., the 30th of No vember, 1843. The deed altogether bore an ap pearance of being completely authentic. The person represented herself to be the lessor, Mary Ann M..ntagu, and that she was the owner of the farm demised, the existing lease of which would expire at Lady-day, when the lease then produced was to be executed ; that the title-deeds of the property had been destroyed in the fire at Hillingdon-house, where she was at the time on a visit ; and that she was very desirous before the completion of the lease to have her loss re paired by the preparation of fresh deeds, or some other evidence of her title, for the satisfaction of the tenant, if it could in any way be accomplished. She made an appointment to call on the following Monday to furnish instructions and full particulars of her title to the property. Upon her again calling, her statements were somewhat at variance with her former account, in consequence of which inquiries were instituted, which led to the discovery that her representations were entirely false; but as there was no apparent ob ject for the deception, the professional gentleman to whom she had applied did not apprise her of the in vestigation which he had made, in the anticipation that her intentions might be discovered, and perhaps an extensive fraud be thereby frustrated and exposed. At a third interview she arranged for an appoint ment with the alleged tenant of the farm, to meet her at the solicitor's office, for the purpose of execut ing the lease. It having been ascertained that there was no such person as John Gray residing near Henley, no letter was written, but on the 25th, the appointed day, the soi-disant Mary Ann Montagu duly made her appearance, accompanied by a respect ably-dressed young man, who stated himself to be John Gray, jun., the son of Mr. John Gray, the tenant of Grosvenor farm ; that his father had, upon reflection, determined not to renew his lease from Miss Montagu ; and that he, with his father's con sent, had proposed to become the tenant, it being his father's intention to assign over to him all his farming stock, and to assist him with capital. To confirm this statement a letter was produced, purported to have been written by the father. In 'some way (most likely by inquiry at the Henley post-office) it had been ascertained by the parties thatno letter had been written to the tenant. Mr. J. Gray, jun., had been well tutored in his part thus far, but on being requested to take a seat in another room, apart from his instructess, where a policeman was introduced to his acquaintance, his assumed character required more art than he was master of, and a few searching questions elicited 'that the aspiring would-be-tenant of Grosvenor farm, at a rent of 5001. per annum, was a servant in the employ of a farmer at Colham-green. Unfortu nately no evidence of an overt act of fraud could be obtained to justify giving the parties into custody ; but it was apparent that there was for some purpose a deep laid scheme, in which other parties of more plotting capacity than Miss Montagu, or her pre' I tended tenant, are concerned. The woman represent ing herself as Mary Ann Montagu is about thirty bring themselves to an examination of the purr''. and effects of the Bill, and ask themselves what 1t really is, and what it proposes to do. The Bill is nothing more than an embodiment of a scheme whi ch has become very fashionable of late years—that 0( centralisation—aggravated by the worst features of spoliation. It takes from the poor to give to the rich, whilst it throws over the fraud which it sur Bests the pretext of consent on the part of those who'l l it pillages; and it crowns the mischiefs which it Ile' cessitates by creation of a new board of assistant' commissioners, secretaries, and a large staff of mom" cenaries, who will doubtless be just as likely to regal"' the prayers or the remonstrances of the poor cool* moners, as that other great central board—the Poor: law Commission —is habitually moved by the snist)ll. cations of parochial paupers. There is one dug to be said in favour of this Bill —that c' l3 the face of it it shows less humbug the might be expected. It of course has a goo," deal about appeals to Parliament, awards, and arbr trations, and so forth ; just as if when the plunder once began, one did not know who must get it; bu t on,the whole it does not profess much in behalf of th e poor, as its supporters in and out of Parliament do;" it puts them quietly on one side, tells them that its of no use in the world making any noise about the matter, and coolly transfers their property—often the smallest portion of the commonable land in a paris h —according to the will and pleasure of the one or two gentlemen who may happen to possess an late' rest in two-thirds of it—i.e., of the great landowne r or landowners in the neighbourhood. There is, At all events, something bold and straighforward in this" which distinguishes Lord Worsley's tone from that taken by many of his party, who professed to be i 1 pelled by an overwhelming solicitude for the good the poorer classes. And on this ground alone' that it despoils the poor cottager of all that he 1 call:his own in the way of property—on this grout.. alone, if on no other, we would strongly ro i l' this measure. But when, in addition to tr one noxious and hateful principle, it involves It creation of a central board, with Heaven. 0 V knows what powers and what salary, and the dis pensation of no little patronage, we think that I , we are discharging a most important duty 1 . 11 denouncing a despotism which will be no l es s proib' gate than oppressive—no less costly to the public tb inimical to the welfare of the poorest classes. If i _t b e poor are to be not only injured in their property, bUt.. OP also wounded in that generous pride with which consciousness of hereditary privileges was w ont inspire the very humblest individual, do not ins ult those whom you rob by the mushroom superstruetni r of a well-paid Commission. If you must erect a ll e ,g aoard, and if you are grasping for more patronage , Pj any rate look out for some subjects more powerful ' 111 „, less sensitive than the rural cottagers to operatenP ° , - Look abroad upon the wide field of foreign and u i? , mestic politics ; and in the wide ocean of finance, r , litical economy, and European alliances, you will 11 0 some green spot whereon a Commission may fatt e d to your heart's content. You are fond of talking ab °- the happiness, the comfort, the manly independel and the honest cheerfulness of the rural popufation 0 ' not talk thus, whilst you are destroying the bash ° 0 ( which your panegyric rests. Do not deprive him that petty remnant which political economy or I . D" e , vidual covetousness yet allows him to retain, of 0 % 0 rest in the soil which gave him birth. Deprive hi of this, and you extinguish in his bosom the 11- t0 spark of ingenuous pride, and you convert him . „11 1 . a sullen, reckless, thriftless, and serf-like hire You speak kindly and sympathetically of his nut i l i fi sports when it aids your purpose; you pass at pt through Parliament, not, of course, as at first 941 0 , would appear, to ward off certain legal penaltiesk ° o f yourselves, but to encourage the manly sports 0 1 your poorer countrymen; do not let this enactin c o —philanthropic and disinterested as you would it considered—be the limit of your well-doing V. ,/ right-voting. Resist a Bill which would take 9 from the alleged object of your genial sympathies, 13 1 4 ' only the few acres which pastured his small st" but also the green-sward where— " All the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree; While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd, And many a gambol frolick'd on the ground, , And sleights of art and feats of strength wen t rewin d . If you are bent on preserving the healthy antreini ing sports of the English peasant—sports which ro beguile him from the beer-shop, and allure him Chartism—depend upon it that you will do more . „, wards realising this purpose by resisting Lora Oro ley's Bill, than by a thousand enactments di r ect)/ indirectly in favour of horse-racing. MYSTERIOUS PRIZE. . e f On Wednesday last, as a young man wa s enjel l i the agreeable pastime of popping at sma ll birrof some fields near Sedgley, an intended victim °ld deadly sport perched itself on som e thi ng , the eeof nature of which was not v er y di scerna bl e , in °lle the pits of water with which the fields in that nel ii t bourhood abound. Our sportsman took his aim, the feathered one, too cunning to remain in l ei f dangerous company, wisely took wi ng and e Pret away. Disappointed for the moment the wan° , resolved upon a scrutinizing examination of the traordinary looking affair from which the bir t a_ fr ol, just departed. It looked like the head of a In, el dimly seen through a kind of mist o f l ong -stir g rel slime and weed. But what business had a," there ? Determined to s o l ve this myste'ol appearance, and a hedge being neared hero of our adventure judiciously 'mid , himself with a tolerably lengthy hedge :o g and took many a cau ti ous po k e a t t h e tantel'or object before hi m . Th e wee d s and aqueous ill ef e tations at length ga v e wa y, an d a portion of a bly portly kind of kilderkin stood revealed to 'ff It was heavy, and literally stuck in the Thud' ft# get it out unaided was impossible, and assistance o .ot speedily gathered. A stout rop e an d a hearty two soon brought the curiosity to the shore. evidently well charged with something—but i d could it be ? It was broached, and forthwith &Si, poured a rich stream of ruddy mellow old P 0" 0 ,0 port such as might have warmed the h ea rt of t iot old Bacchus himself! The cheerful news of t y wonderful vintage soon spread around ; ever, most unseemly vessel was the precious 1; uo r cag e quaffed, and those " drank port v‘;'no q n e'er iie ref port before." Nor did the luck of the party end. fed for one of them saga c i ous l y enough conjee') that, as the surface o f th e p i t presented suell..voet things, its inner depth s m i g h t not be less s ates ; 01 , torily stored, and forthwith an active explorati e all its muddy reo esses commence d , and the skniwir enterprise of the party beheld its r ewar d i n the 01 landing, amidst cheers and eager expectatio n o t tt another rotund prize, of similar size and asPt.o 4 the one already secured ! Thi s , on tapping, t:iefl' out to be a cask of peppermi n t ! A s the news of' . elf ing these good things derelict became more extee sl o known, it was resolv e d th at means should be ta ke o b l6 discover, if possible, , _ unto whom these recoarj,fie, waits legitimately belonged. Th e wine eesPolif, found to be mark e d " P r i nce and Co., Tarnvie. and three " Ws" were impr e s se d on th a t contain 0 ato the peppermint. A commun i cation was forwarl po' Tamworth ; b u t, s t range enough, the firm knew e° thing of the commodities—nor is any t rac e of ,p to be found in th e b oo k s , t h ough referred to f o r J back.— Wokerhampton Chronicle. [ADVERTISEMENT.] va 4Ct ON THE VERGE OF THE GRAVE ; OR, A -Lw 0 :1 LOUS CURE BY HOLLOWAY'S PILL9.--James ll ,Es e ie t o te , , ladies' shoemaker, residing in Allen-street, Gosiveuvrl caught a violent cold about twelve months shic e l„a f r o l being neglected, brought on a swelling of the legs 11 ,..",bi5' pains in the side and shoulders, night sweats, with i ' r i e jed to keep food on his stomach ; indeed, he was at l ast , to ti ,"l to such a state of general weakness and debility tha' 0/0 thought ke could long survive ; but, by the use of H d ye o Pills, every dangerou s s y s t em qu i ckly disappeared? 81160044 now as hale and as h ear t y as ever b e was in his life.--tolil4 Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand _lov advice may be had gratis) ; an d b y a l mos t all taBr vouclors o(medicine throughout the civilised world- __sr ---,,,.............-- BIRTHS. o f " On the 4th inst., a t P ar k Vill age W est, Reg s , Mrs. Wyld, of a son. On the 29th ult., at Bil s th orpe Rectory, Nottingwow :000 the lady of the Rev. Ch ar l es Ramsay Flint, of a dg! 0 :111° On the 31st ult., at Woolwich, the lady of Caption J. i, 5.9 9 ' Bingham, Royal Artill er y, o f a d aughter. 31 ' `- On the 31st ult., at Terli ng ' s - par k , t h e lady o f g Turvin, Esq., of a dau g ht er . Ole .° On the Ist inst., i n O rc h ar d- street, Chiphes t e r, of R. Henty, Esq., of a daughter. f Pt ilsi On the lst inst., in Nottingham-place, the lady 0 Hay, Esq., of a d aug h ter. of Or On the Ist inst., at the Limes, Cstrshalton, the lady 00% 4 tain E. M. Daniell, Hon. Company's Service, of a da°so l ' On the Ist inst., at Ebury-street, the wife of Georg e e 0 f 3 . . Jon i On of a son. On the Ist inst., at Wandsworth-commos, Mr s 4 o f of a daughter. On the 2d inst., in Gloucester-road, Hyde-park-g°l Mrs, 0, J. Venables, of a son, still-born. MARRIED. ro , PE 6 , On the 10th of January, at Cal cu tta, William Fil ; ia 9° " ' of Burdwan, to Georgiana, eldest daughter of S. _,,./ Esq., of Islington. ---- t DIED. i o il, On the 4th inst., at the Glasgow Letter FoundrNie New-street, Alexander ',McAdam, for 51 years tl'Ae ' d servant of the firm of Alexander Wilson and Sour,. oce l On the 22d ult., at Pisa, of consumption, George' son of William Peek, Esq., London, ad 19. • P gisli ° ..,....,,,,,1..- At Bremen, Germany, Commander Henry W1L"'"" 00° R.N. aged 60. 0 1 0 On the 30th ult., Elizabeth, widow of the late Mr. ___,, Eastland, S. Michael's, St. Alban's, aged 84. „,,. ic,11,0 On the 31st ult., at Farnham, Surrey, Samuel ( 2 , ,' r cot Oa the 26th ult., at Chailey, near Lewes, re ir lic t Forster Gorin, Bart., aged 76. 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