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

STATE OF TRADE. Since our last article under this head appeared, we have experienced very little change in the usual channels of business. There has been a moderate consumptive demand, and nothing more, for the leading articles of commerce ; and the stocks in im porters' hands being more than sufficient for the wants of dealers, prices have rather receded than otherwise ; this will especially apply to sugar, coffee, and cotton, and it is difficult to account for the pre sent position in which we find many of the most im portant articles of our trade. Money matters are still easy, and facilities readily obtainable; yet we find no disposition to speculate in produce; indeed, the current of speculation flows rather in the direction of railway schemes, which are springing up in every quarter, and will, should Parliament sanction their plans, find full employment for all the spare capital of the kingdom for many years. We are within the mark if we estimate the expenditure on these newly-projected undertakings at twenty millions per annum ; and when we take a retrospective view of late years, and consider bow short a time has elapsed since money was hardly obtainable at six per cent., we think we find some cause for alarm at the sudden and lavish expenditure which these speculations suggest : yet we believe that there are applicants for far more shares in every com pany than their prospectuses require, atilt no sooner are the shares allotted than the lucky holders rush into the market, and find purchasers for their prizes at considerable premiums. There is too much reason to fear that a spirit of wild and deeply ruinous specula tion is afloat; and Parliament must, and we believe will, energetically refuse to sanction such a lavish expenditure, and thus many of the schemes will fall through, and commerce will be saved from the serious influences of such vast speculations, which must always att unfavourably on mercantile operations. In the manufacturing districts a good and improv ing business is going on, every cotton mill fit for work is actively employed, operatives are getting better wages, provisions are low in price, and masters are making money more easily and more rapidly than at any time for the last seven years, for, whilst the prices of manufactured goods have been improv ing, the spinners have bought their cotton at gradu ally receding rates, and thus all the advantage has been on their side. pertains—even the decorous and satisfactory distri bution of justice in the Central Criminal Court by the judges appointed by the Corporation—these are trifles compared with the privilege of faring sumptuously at the City's charge. Though the intellect may be ob scured, and even the decorum of demeanour requisite to maintain the dignity of the judgment-seat be violated, through the indulgences of the table—the evening sittings of the Court will be continued, unless the Government do something more than " mom mend " their abolition. STANDARD.—The cause of federalism proceeds as slowly as Mr. O'Connell can desire, and almost as slowly as he expected it would proceed. Mr. Duffy, of the Nation, on his own behalf and that of his friends, denounces it as a cheat, and for once in his life appears to have stumbled on a fact. Mr. Smith O'Brien professes the deepest attachment to the ori ginal watchword; but is kindly " disposed to make some concession of opinion, and try a federal constitu tion by way of experiment." One would think that this pompous but empty declaimer had intended to be merry at the expense of his repeal associates, when he enunciated the aphorism that the panacea for every evil under which Ireland is labour ing at the present moment is self-government This is the great secret all the world over. No man is so happy and free from disquiet of all kinds, as he who possesses the important qualification of being able to restrain a wild and erratic disposition. The axiom is as old as the hills, and can never be too often repeated. It is one, moreover, the value of which has been appreciated in all ages. There are, however, no class of men in existence less qualified to practice this humanising virtue than Irish repealers ; it being the very last lesson that their instructors ever dream of teaching them. When such .men as Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Smith O'Brien have learned the art of self-government in their own persons, they will be better qualified to recommend it to their countrymen. At pre sent they are but types of the mischief that would ensue from permitting the national self-government for which they clamour. The reason why self government, as a moral principle, is not more fre quently displayed, appears to us to be that every man wishes to frame a system adapted to his own wishes and circumstances. Thus, what one man deems self-government, another considers the wildest moral wilfulness; until parties are even more at issue as to its meaning than Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Duffy, and Mr. Smith O'Brien. Mr. O'Connell being unable to put any rein upon his avarice, and finding the repeal rent in a progress of rapid decline, would fain start a new hare. Mr. Duffy, of the Nation, who is well aware that the comparative prosperity of his seditious newspaper depends upon the amount of agitation that is kept afloat, dsmands self-government in the amplest sense of the term. We wonder he does not super add a proposal to revive the Irish monarchy. Mr. Smith O'Brien's definition of the phrase varies from Mr. Duffy's, inasmuch as he seems to consider it somewhat squeezable. He asks high-minded men how he can serve Ireland ; how he can rescue its po pulation from the unnumbered evils they suffer; how he can " uplift and uphold the honour of his country." He answers his own inquiry by the simple and ex pressive phrase of self-government. His notion is, a return to the " international arrangement of 1782 be tween Great Britain and Ireland, and the reconstruc tion of the Irish Parlianient upon a reformed prin ciple ;" in other words, the total and unconditional repeal of the union. Unlike Mr. Duffy, however, he will be content with any instalment of the "debt" he can obtain, and professes to be "disposed to make some concession to public opinion (we thought the eight millions were all but unani mous on the subject), and to try a federal constitu tion by way of experiment." To accomplish his great object, or, indeed, any portion of it, he is kind enough to assure us that all will be considered as fish that come to net ;" albeit, the convert should bear " the ill-omened designation of Orangeman !" " Let him (he adds) adopt the new and undefined de signation of federalism ; and if he labours to promote the welfare of Ireland —if he cherishes its glory as his own personal honour"—he will be eligible for admission into the federal ranks ! But Mr. `rnith O'Brien seems to forget that it has been pronounced by an an authority mere potent and in fluential than his own, that Orangemen possess none of these qualifications. It would be idle to repeat the character which the arch mendicant apostle of repeal has assigned to them, and almost as unneces sary to express our belief that those Protestants who promote his present mercenary speculation by joining the ranks of either repeal or federalism, will be con sidered to have earned individually the character he has given of their body. Owing to adverse winds, our imports have been light for some weeks, but so soon as a change takes place we shall have ample supplies and full employ ment for out of door labourers. We may, too, ex pect the first indication of the extent of the new trade in guano, the imports of which will begin to be very extensive, and must insure the farmers a large supply at very reasonable prices. Ships in great numbers continue sailing to Ichabne, and there is every reason to believe that Great Britain will receive a supply of 200,000 tons before the Ist June next, besides which there will be large imports from the South American coast. Thus we see a trade, as it were only of yesterday's creation, surpassing in extent every other branch of business; and whilst yielding lucrative employment to shipping, it affords to agriculturists n cheap arid highly valuable manure for land. At the present moment there is very little demand for the article, and purchases fur delivery in all this month, might be made at 51. 10s. per ton, which, con sidering that the freight alone is often 41. per ton, and in some cases more, yields but a small profit to the importer, after paying the necesz-ary expenses of load ing and landing.—Liverpool Mercury. (From the Leeds Mercztry.) FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, Nov. B.—There have been rather more inquiries for Foreign Wools : ithis week, and about an average quantity has changed hands, at recent rates. ENGLISH WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, Nov. B—Tile manufacturers still buy very sparingly, and only for iinfnediate use. We do not quote any alteration from Lst week's prices. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, NOV. B.—There is ?,o relief to the dull state of the wool market reported t;n- several past weeks, and that this long abstinence Yrora huyitag on the part of the consumers has net Nro, 1 need a greater effect on prices, can only be ae . 'milted for by the light stock in growers' hends, and he firmness with which it is held. LEEDS.—We have this week had two of the dullest markets at both our Cloth halls that we have had •iuring the year; there appears to he a little doing to older, but a total absence of speculation in goods of ray description; prices however keep steady, as the : nanufacturers are curtailing the supply in preference t a submitting to any material reduction in price. Business has also been dull in the warehouses during he week ; there have been eery few buyers in the sown, and foreign houses continue very still. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.— The demand for combing wools has undergone no change during the week ; the supply in the market is fully adequate, a.ri every description, to the requirements of the rode. Although not more than half the usual bu einess has been transacted by the staplers generally, • hiring the last two months, prices have not receded much ; indeed so little is the decline, that the spin ners are quite indifferent about prosecuting their sivocrefon. There is an evident flatness in the yarn business, and the contracts entered into for November are at lower rates. We scarcely ever knew such general complaining amongst the spinners as at pre mint. Yarns are not more than ten per cent. higher now than they were at this time last year, while wool is fully twenty-five per cent. dearer, and higher avages paid for labour. These very great dispropor tions at once account for the vast curtailment in the production which is now adopted by almost every establishment both in this town and the surrounding neighbourhood. The piece trade continues in as un ftatisfactory a state as can well be imagined. Not ;withstanding the remarkable decrease in the pro ..tction, goods are dull of sale, and prices less than the cost of making. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY Evert - tem.—There is no new feature in our cloth market this week, bough we have had accounts both from India and a ;hina. The prices for all kinds of cloth are steady ; t hough many had, no doubt anticipated that the ad vance in wages would have enabled the manufac ture* to have realised a corresponding advance. The • home trade is most satisfactory, so far as regards de kland. In yarns there is an immense business 4 t hing, and, under such circumstances, it is quite sur prising that an advance has not taken place, especi zdly on export numbers. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MAN SION-HO L/ SE. Mr. Driver, wholesale stationer, of No. 28, King. street, Cheapside, and another respectable and extern sive tradesman, applied to Sir Peter Laurie, in _ con• sequence of the active exertions of a gang of depre dators, one of whom was named John Simonds ' who represented himself as a dealer in East and West lUdia produce, and whose office was at 13, Great St. Thomas Apostle. Mr. Driver, it was stated, had been victimised to the amount of 181. Mr. Simonds, who is a person of respectable appearance, called in the absence of Mr. Driver, and gave an order to his son for two reams of paper, and for the engraving of two plates, with 1,000 copies of each. The order was executed upon the understanding that ready money was to be paid; but, unfortunately, Mr. Driver's servant was pre vailed upon to leave the goods without receiving the cash; and, as might be expected, all applications were fruitless. There was the appearance of real business in the purchasing counting-house, for there were several real hams about the place. Sir PETER LAURIE—Are you sure they were real hams ? For these fellows have so much ingenuity that they elm stock their premises with all sorts of imaginary goods.—(Laughter.)--The witness said there was, he believed, no doubt as to the reality of the hog's flesh. There were, however, several packages on the shelves very neatly arranged, which corresponded with Sir Peter Laurie's description of some of the London swindlers. Mr. Boyd, a very intelligent station clerk, stated that upon hearing the representation of the gentle man relative to Simonds, he went to the counting house in St. Thomas Apostle, and saw there a num ber of packages, which upon examining proved to be filled with chaff and sawdust. The owner of that property, however, had absconded, and the female who had let the counting-house to him was in great alarm. There were several persons, no doubt, in the firm, which had been traced to Thames-street, where 1:-.1PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. 27.0711 THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—The evening sittings of the Central Criminal Court have by no means tended to raise the character of the Civic Judges. They are gene rally the scenes of indecorum, such as are witnessed in no other court—nor in this, except after dinner. The unseemly altercations between the counsel en paged for the prosecution and the prisoner, tks yassttges of wit between the Bench and the Bar ith occasional ebullitions of excited feelings front the same quarters, have been often alluded to k nd remarked upon by the press. They showed, but plainrf, that the bottle had been freely circulated an the festive _board in the adjacent dining-room ; vnd that the effects were unfavourable to the suit rthle pelormance of the duties in which they were *.agaged. We need only mention the subject to those who have witnessed the post-prandial " sayings and doings" of the two Courts, in the evening sittings, to recal attention to scenes which fully sustain our remarks. It as therefore with some satisfaction tnat we noticed a proposition made by Alderman Wood at a Court of Aldermen held last week, the object of hich was to abolish the evening sittings of the Central Criminal Court, and to establish an addi tional Court, so as to dispatch the whole of the b t isiness before dinner. We had hoped that a desire in the Court of Aldermen to prevent the recurrence e . unseemly exhibitions in a court of justice, would I I e ve prevailed over even aldermanic attachment tf the delicacies of the cuisine. The hope was de 'wive. The proposition was scouted as one which it would be derogatory from the dignity of the Court of Aldermen to entertain. It did not even meet 'ith a seconder; but fell, still-born, to the ground. One member of the Court—an ever-garrulous knight —treated the suggestion with marked contumely. An ogler (Ald. Copeland) considered it as little less than DU:minable ; and declared that, if carried, he would re sign his gown—the most expressive mode of showing his alhorrence of the innovation upon the vested rights and ivileges of Aldermen. The proposal was thus all la.tt hooted out of Court by the indignant gastro .* meg. At the close of the discussion Alderman Wood of served that, if the Court of Aldermen did not set ab.n)t reforming the evil, they perhaps would receive a NV' at on the subject from a higher quarter. The worthy AVierman did not imagine that his prediction would b e so speedily realised. Great commotion was caused tir , :on'T the civic functionaries who were assembled on tant'd,sv last at the Old Bailey, for the purpose of m+tin g : Ole Judges to fix the days for commencing Ott. sittin gs f the Court in the ensuing mayoralty. A letter from Sir James Graham, recommending the Court of AhlernAen to take the abolition of the evening sittings of the Court into its seriou consideration, was produced. Thelettei•of the Right Hon. Home Secretary wt s alluded to yenta day at. the Court of Aldermen, art wns treated rather cavalierly by the worshipful • embly. " Alderman Wood wi s h e d that the letter itten by Sir J. Graham to the Lord Mayor, on the six lect of doing away with the evening sitt nvi at the C e -ttral Criminal Court, should be en tered v on the ra',nutes of the Court. lie submitted a motion on the sv ject, and Alderman Ilumphery seconded tile trio- i 6,7, Lord Mayor most decidedly objected to proposition, which at once fell to the ground." 1 er e influence Of public opinion, enforced by the c.-?mrnendation of the Government, communi,2ated ati re ,,cuali the medium of the Minister to is hose tie- rn • .t ent the duty of superintending the adniinistva .. ,te th criminal justice of the country specially they had taken in all they could. Sir PETER LAURIE declared that he would feel the greatest satisfaction in coming in contact with every individual of the firm. He, however, would have the satisfaction of meeting Mr. Simonds out of the City by means of the press, the exposure of such cases rendering infinitely more service to the public than the diluted trials at the Old Bailey. Mr. Boyd stated that every exertion should be made to secure the person of the accused. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1844. used the expressions attributed to him, all the de fendant had to do was to say he was only the servant, and not accountable for anything presumed to be wrong or objectionable. He could not see what right the defendant had to step forward and assault the complainant in such a violent manner. The defendant said he certainly struck the com plainant ; the complainant made some infamous re marks with reference to Mrs. Parkes. Mr. HARDWICK said the complainant had not seen his way clearly in his venture ; the parties had put their own value on the prints, and this had dis appointed the complainant's expectations. The com plainant had used some strong language previous to the blow, and this circumstance would go in mitiga tion of the punishment. The Magistrate then inflicted the fine of forty shillings and costs. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mrs. Jane Tyrwhit, the wife of a gentleman of for tune, residing at No. 1, Charles-street, Berkeley square, was put to the bar before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having stolen a microscope, value 2s 6d., from a stand in the Soho Bazaar, kept by Miss Mary Ann Lewis. Mr. Chambers attended for the accused, who was allowed a seat within the bar. Miss Lewis said the prisoner came to her stand be tween four and five o'clock on Friday afternoon, and made a purchase of a thermometer, which she paid for. Immediately afte r th e pr i soner h a d l e f t the stall, in consequence of a question put to her by the inspec tress of the bazaar, she looked over her stock, and missed a small microscope. The microscope was some time afterwards shown to her, and she knew it to be her property, and it was safe on her stand just before the prisoner made a purchase there. She did not see the prisoner take the microscope. Sarah Harker said she was inspectress of the bazaar. She was in No. 300 room, where Miss Lewis's stand was, at the time the prisoner was buying something at the stand. While the last witness was putting the purchase in paper, she distinctly saw the prisoner take the microscope from the counter. As soon as the prisoner had left the stand she went to call one of the men belonging to the bazaar, and having met with one of the door-keepers, she went up to the prisoner, who had joined a young lady who was at another stand with a gentleman, and requested them to walk into the office. A police-constable was sent for, after which the prisoner was given into custody. Cross-examined—Was sorry to say that she had made many similar charges against ladies; but could not tell the number. George Norris, door-keeper, said he followed behind the prisoner as she was on her way to the office with the matron. He saw something drop from the side of the prisoner, which he immediately picked up. It was a small microscope, which he now produced. Police-constable Merchant, C 49, said he received Cmge of the prisoner, and to,k her to the station- Mrs. Harker was re-called, and cross-examined-- The prisoner and the lady with her were searched at the bazaar. Their clothes were taken oft; hut no thing was found upon them to implicate them in any charge. NVitness searched the prisoner, but not the other lady. It was part of the orders from Captain Trotter's °Kee, that persons suspected of theft should be searched. Mr. Bryant, the clerk, gave witness orders to search suspected parties. Had seen the a)or-keeper find the miscroscope, which was after wards identified by Miss Lewis. l,zasLewis, when questioned, said there were many articles of jewdiely on her stand, of smaller bulk, and of far greater value, which were quite as much within the prisoner's reach as the microscope. Mr. Chambers said he appeared on behalf of the lady, Mrs. Tyrwhit, who was charged with stealing a small article, the selling price of which was half-a crown. In such a fearful, terrific charge as the pre sent, against a lady in her station, it was indispens able that the evidence should be as clear as possible. The case attempted to be made out against the lady was one of the greatest improbability, and this had made him anxious to put certain questions to the witnesses, in order to elicit circumstances which a jury would always wish to be clear upon, before they came to their verdict, on a charge of this sort. It was always desirable to see whether a party, charged with a trum pery offence, even if in an inferior station, had an opportunity of committing an offence of a more serious nature in point of value ; and it was with this view that he had put questions and obtained informa tion to show that the lady had an equal opportunity of taking articles of infinitely greater value, and of smaller compass, than the trifling article she was accused of having stolen. In ordinary cases this fact formed a strong argument against the presumption that an accused person really intended to steal an article like the microscope produced, which was neither useful, ornamental, nor capable of being dis posed of. He could well understand how a person in a superior rank of life, forgetting what was due to herself and neighbour, attracted by ornaments of value, might be tempted to pilfer the property of another. Indeed it was beyond doubt that ladies had taken articles of value from the premises of Messrs. Howell and James, but it was inconceivable to sup pose that a lady would stoop to steal an article so petty as to be procured for half-a-crown. In dealing with the charge, there was another matter to which he begged to direct the attention of the court, as it was certain a jury would look very closely into it. It was the situation of things at the bazaar at the time of the alleged robbery—the time of day—the number of customers at the bazaar, and the great improbability that any party intending to steal would place herself at a counter, with many eyes turned towards her and in specting her actions all the while. There was also another part of the evidence which he must publicly ' remark upon. He was quite willing to admit the immense importance of this bazaar, but then he in sisted on it that public justice ought to be done there. If persons were charged with offences so serious as felony, he contended it was the duty of those who were on the watch to give accused persons a fair opportunity of explanation, or, if the case was clear, to give the offender at once into the custody of the police. It could not be tolerated that a suspected person should be led through the bazaar to an office to be searched, and that when, by this means, a crowd was collected round the part, something should be picked up from the ground, by the help of which something only a charge was attempted to be sus tained. According to the evidence not only the lady snspected was searched at the office, but her niece was obliged to undergo the same disgraceful cere mony. He was, however, glad that in this case this practice had been resorted to, for the result was to show that the ladies did not go to the bazaar to take what did not belong to them, nothing except what was their own property having been found on them. There was one other point which he was anxious to have cleared up, and he fortunately pos sessed the means. In ordinary cases of shoplifters a strong proof of guilt was evi&nce showing that par ties went into shops to purchase a small article, and adopted this pretext to steal a larger one. But he should show, in the case of Mrs. Tyrwhit, that she went to the bazaar for an expensive purchase. The lady had a fancy for paroquets. She had recently lost one of a pair, and she had gone to the bazaar to replace her loss. It was when going down stairs, after having entered into a dealing for one of these ex pensive birds, ar.d after having stopped for a minute to make a trifling purchase at one of the stands that she was, to her horror and amazement, charged with stealing an article of no real use or value. He men tioned this circumstance to show that it was utterly hapless a charge of this nature could be sustained be fore a jury. If, on inquiry, it should turn out there was a real foundation for the charge, then the persons at the bazaar did only their duty. But he was there on the part of the lady to deny the charge, and to ex press her indignation and astonishment at being charged with a felony at the bazaar, when she had , merely gone there with her husband and niece to make a purchase. Mr. Ashton, a bird-dealer in Oxford-street, was calved. He said he had a room at the Soho Bazaar, where he sold birds. He knew the lady at the bar very well. The lady had been to him on the day when the alleged theft took place, to get a companion for her grey parrot. The parrot would cost Si. or 91. Mr. Chambers said the lady's niece was in attend ance, but on consideration he would spare her feelings and not call her. Mr. Haunwicia said, under all the circumstances, the evidence was of a nature that he could not do otherwise than have it submitted to the consideration of a jury, however extraordinary and incredible it might appear for a lady of station to purloin an ar ticle of such trifling value, yet with the direct testi mony of the matron, who saw her take it, of the per son who saw her drop it, and of the proprietor of the stall, who saw it safe just before the purchase, and missed it immediately afterwards, he did not see how it was possible to decide otherwise than that the case must go to trial. Mr. Chambers applied for the prisoner to be ad mitted to bail. Mr. HARDWICK agreed to take two good bail in 2501. each, and the prisoner's recognizance in 5001. Bail was immediately put in. James Smith, a clerk in the employ of Mrs. Parkes, in Golden-square, who recently had a picture raffle, yeas charged with having assaulted Robert Fisher, of No. 23, Clarges-street. The complainant said he purchased some tickets in the recent picture lottery, one of which came up a small prize. He went on Friday, with a friend, to Golden-square, to exchange his tickets for prints. The defendant showed him the pictures which were to be selected from, but these pictures appeared to be so inferior that he told the defendant he thought the public had been imposed upon, that the pictures were not what they were represented to be, and that, in short, the public had been humbugged. The de fendant instantly struck him from behind a blow, which blackened his eye. Complainant was staggered by the unexpectedness of the assault, but having re covered he returned the blow, and a scuffle ensued, which was put an end to by the interference of those who were in the room. A solicitor who attended for the defendant wished the complainant to say in whose service he was. The complainant objected to answer the question, and Mr. Hardwick, held the question to be irrelevant. The complainant was then cross-examined. Ac cording to the terms of the raffle he was entitled to prints of tke value of a guinea for his ticket. Nothing was offeret..to him to select from except what ap peared to him to be prints of little or no value. Was not offered a two-guinea print for his ticket, but was told he could have it if he paid the difference. Did not call the defendant either a liar or a thief. John Richardson, cheesemonger, 41, Old Bond street, went with last witness to Golden-square. While looking about the room he heard a noise, and on turning round, to his great surprise, saw his friend and the defendant fighting. He ran to part them, and told the defendant neither he nor his friend had come there to fight; they had come there for their property. Parted the combatants, and would not let any further violence take place. Did not hear any offensive words from the complainant to the defen dant. The only words he heard the complainant use were, " Show us the pictures ; there are no pictures here worth anything." Nothing could have been more uncalled for or unprovoked than the assault on the complainant. Edward Pearson said the defendant struck the com plainant a severe blow on the face, but did not hear any words from the complainant to provoke the blow. Heard the complainant say something about having been humbugged. The defendant's solicitor said the black eye which the complainant exhibited had been done with a stick carried by the witness Richardson. Mr. Richardson said this was quite untrue, as he had neither stick nor umbrella with him. The solicitor then said he would admit that blows had been exchanged, but he would prove they had been provoked by the complainant calling those con nected with the raffle cheats and thieves. A nephew of Mrs. Parkes said the defendant offered the complainant a two-guinea print because he was dissatisfied. The complainant, however, was very abusive, and called the defendant a thief. Lavinia Smith, the defendant's daughter, said she heard her father offer the complainant a two-guinea print, because he appeared to be dissatisfied. The complainant, however, would not accept the offer, but said they were all a set of swindlers, and had cheated the public. The complainant afterwards called he r father a thief, and then her father struck him. The complainant declared, on his solemn oath, there was no truth in the statement that the defendant had offered him a two-guinea print for his ticket. On the contrary, the defendant was downright saucy to him, and, in quite an off-hand way, said the public were never satisfied. lie (complainant) replied, they had got the public money, and that was all they wanted. He thought the public had been hum bugged, and he thought so still. 111 r. HARDWICK said it was clear some little provo cation had occurred on the part of the complainant. The complainant felt himself aggrieved and had used strong language, which had provoked a retort. _ _ The defendant declared that a valuable Russell print was o&red to the complainant. This was peremptorily denied by the complainant. Mr. llARnwicK said he could not see why the de fendant should take upon himself to be the champion of the establishment. If the enmniftinat.t WORSHIP-STREET. Charles James, alias Fitch, alias Thompson, who has been a considerable time in custody, was finally examined before Mr. Broughton, the magistrate, upon several charges of swindling. Different parties of an exceedingly numerous gang of male and female swindlers, who have been for many years in the habit of victimising landlords and tradespeople in all quarters of the metropolis and en virons, have been for several weeks under examina tion here, and in the course of this week no less than seven of them have been committed for , trial, on charges of felony and conspiracy, and one of them for forgery. The prisoner now before the magistrate was stated to be the son of one of the others, named William Johnson Thompson, but the charges against him were entirely distinct from the rest, and they have been reported as they occurred. The following is a brief outline : The prisoner, who is a smart littl e f e ll ow o f i m • posing address, hired a house at Notting-hill, belong ing to a gentleman named Gyles, resident in Burton crescent, and father-in-law of Mr. Ballantine, the barrister, and he signed a written agreement for three years' occupation, stating himself to be an individual of fortune, keeping a couple of hunters, &c., and de sirous of just such a house in the vicinity of London. The house being "partly furnished, Mr. Gyles em ployed a van to remove the furniture to his own resi dence in Burton-crescent, but just as they were loading the van the prisoner arrived, and pretending to take a fancy to some of the articles, pro posed to purchase the whole, and they were accordingly left on the premises, the prisoner pro mising that if " his lady," who, he said, was then in the country, did not approve of them, he would send them to the prosecutor, free of expense. Having thus obtained possession of the house and furniture, he drove about in a hired four-wheeled chaise, accom panied by a confederate, who passed as his groom, and levied contributions upon the tradespeople about Kensington and the neighbourhood, the " groom" representing him, " in confidence," to be a young gentleman of good family and large fortune, just re turned from college and commencing housekeeping ; and having obtained large quantities of goods in the course of a few weeks (to the amount, it was said, of 3001.), they shut up the house, and absconded, stripping the house completely of the pro secutor's furniture, and even of some of the fixtures. The prisoner was lately apprehended at Hoxton, by Brenan and Cole, of the G division, who found him in a poor lodging at a shell-fish shop, and in his possession an immense number of tradesmen's bills, a number of pawn brokers' duplicates, and no less than four written agreements for houses which he had taken in different parts, where he had played much the same game as above-mentioned. It was stated also that he had been previously convicted. He was now committed for trial upon five different charges. Mr. Vann, a solicitor, applied to the magistrate for an order to the officers to deliver up the duplicates, and other things not identified, brut the magistrate de sired him to communicate with Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor for the prosecution, intimating-, however, that such things as were not required in connexion with these charges ought to be restored. COLLIERS' CONFERENCE. During the week the colliers have been holding a conference in this town, which, we believe, has been numerously attended by delegates. The following are some of the resolutions which have been passed. Mr. Roberts, the miners' solicitor, was present at the proceedings : _ _ " That - a Committee of five persons be appointed to elicit all the information possible respecting the real state and position of the miners and colliers generally, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature for an Eight Hours' Bill for mines and collieries. " That this Conference recommend each district to give a premium, for the purpose of procuring the best statistical information on the most vital points con tained in the thirteenth proposition of the programme. " That this meeting approve of the second clause contained in the thirteenth proposition on the pro gramme, viz., the working of coals by weight on the beam and scale principle, but that the size of the tubs be regulated according to the thickness of the mine. " That a petition - be presented to the Legislature, praying for a repeal of the duty on export coal. " That a petition be presented to the Legislature praying that an improved system o f ,vent il at i on b e adopted ; also, that the various methods of ventilating mines as laid down by humane and scientific indivi duals, be thoroughly investigated, so that which may he considered best and safest for th e protect i on o f t h e lives of the working miners and colliers, be brought into general operation. " That a petition be presented t o th e L eg i s l ature, praying for the appo intment of Governme n t Inspec tors, for machinery, ropes, mines, &e., or with a v i ew of seeing that any law which may be obtained f o r th e safety and welfare of the miners, be fully and effi ciently carried into operation. " That each sub - district or county secretary, furnish the general secretary of the association each month with a balance -sheet of the number of members, good and bad, and with the amount of the moneys paid to the separate funds." Wakefield Journal. The discovery of a very ingenious fraud has re cently been made at the Custom-house. It is known to our readers, that a duty of is. 6d. per ounce is paid on all silver plate stamped at the Goldsmiths' Hall ; and that, should such plate be afterwards entered for exporta tion, the exporters may demand from the Customs a drawback of duty ; in other words, they may claim the repayment of the Is. 6d. an ounce which had been paid to the Goldsmith? Company, when the plate was stamped with the hall mark. The fraud to which we allude consisted in this : after the articles of plate had been stamped, they were enlarged by the addition of silver which had not been stamped, and which had therefore not paid duty ; yet, when the articles were sent to the Customs for exportation, drawback of duty was claimed on the whole weight—that is to say, upon such por tion of the article as had not paid duty, as well as upon the portion which had. This fraud was carried on to a great extent in silver knife handles, to which a large ferrule was fraudulently attached after the handles had been stamped; and thus drawback was obtained for the entire weight, although the ferrules had not been in cluded in the weight upon which duty had been pre viously paid at Goldsmiths' Hall ; so that the revenue was defrauded to the extent of Is. 6d. per ounce on such ferrules. Upon being brought to the Searchers' office for examination, Mr. Scanlan, searcher and landing waiter, acting either upon private intelligence or his own observation, detained the plate ; and it has, we hear, since been established, that no doubt exists as to the fraudulent manufacture of the knife handles. They have since been condemned ; but the other portion of the plate has been given up, as it appeared that the ex porters were not parties to the fraud, and had paid to the manufacturer of the knife-handles the full price for them.—Sunday paper. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OP MR. SERGEANT AN DREWS.—Many painful rumours were rife throughout Friday and Saturday morning at the Courts of West minster Hall, that the above Learned Gentlemen, who was a leader of the Midland Circuit, had made an at tempt at self-destruction, which, on making inquires at his residence at Hampstead-hill, unfortunately proved but too true. From the statement of his medical attendant, Mr. Headland, of Guildford-street, it appeared that the Learned Sergeant had been for some period greatly depressed in spirits, and had passed most of his time in his library. On Thursday it was apparent that the Learned Sergeant seemed un usually depressed, and after breakfast he retired to the library, where, in the course of the morning, Mrs. Andrews had occasion to enter, when she was horror struck at beholding the Learned Gentleman de luged in his blood. Losing her presence of mind the lady gave a dreadful scream, which was heard through out the house, and the servants of the household were quickly in attendance. Mr. Evans, of Hampstead, was immediately sent for, and rendered every assistance which the emergency of the case required. Mr. Head land, the family surgeon, on being promptly apprised of the melancholy transaction, lost no time in doing all that human aid could suggest or skill accomplish for his unhappy patient. At a late hour last night a long con sultation took place between the medical gentlemen, when, we regret to state, the Learned Sergeant was not considered out of danger.— Observer. 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B.—There is no alteration to notice in our sugar market this week ; the demand still continues limited, but prices are about sup ported ; the sales since our last are u nder 500 hhds. West India, and 700 mats Mauritius. Irr rum there is IRELAND. ILLNESS OF CHIEF JUSTICE PENNEFATHER. DUBLIN, Nov. 9.—The Chief Justice has not appeared in the Court of Queen's Bench since the second day of term. His Lordship is suffering under severe cold and an inflammation in the eyes. Rumours are still afloat of judicial changes, founded upon the supposition of the retirement of Chief Justice Pennefather. ORANGE OUTRAGE IN TYRONE. We have seen a letter from Dungannon, giving an ac count of some outrages by incendiaries. The victims are Roman Catholics, who had taken land from which Orangemen had been evicted. Some persons are in cus tody, charged on suspicion. Notices had been posted, that " No Papist would be a llowed to take the lands." Those outrages have occurred in the parish of Killyman, rendered notorious by the former proceeding of the " Killyman Wreckers." STATE OF TIPPERARY. Mr. Sergeant Howley, in addressing the quarter ses sions grand jury at Thurles, on Wednerday, thus alluded to the recent murders in this county •—" I feel I ought not to pass over, without remark, the crimes—the many heavy and dreadful crimes—which have been lately per petrated within this riding of the county. If they do not carry with themselves a strong persuasion to the well disposed portion of the community, of the necessity, upon their part to awaken from their criminal in differeace—l will not say sympathy with the murderers —and vigorously to co-operate in the detection of the guilty delinquents, I cannot think that any means I might employ could be more effective for that purpose. How many are there who would themselves shrink from the crime of murder, think it no harm to conceal facts which might help to the de tection of offenders if promptly stated to the official authorities ? Such persons may weakly imagine that it tends to their own security not to mix themselves up with such matters—they are as foolish as criminal in thinking so. No man knows, if daring villians gain confidence from impugnity, how soon the blows may reach himself ; for every transaction of life, no matter how trivial, may lead to such crim e s, and has been in this county a sufficient motive to the murderer to strike his victim and carry out his sanguinary proscription. Instances are well , known of men who have refused to impart information they were capable of giving, falling in their turn victims to that system of crime which, if they had not actually promoted, they did not at least aid in checking and putting down. It may, gentlemen, be very desirable, with a view to prevent the continuance of such violent crimes, to endeavour to trace the motives which may be supposed to have produced them—to ascertain what causes may have produced them—to see how far those causes (if proper to be removed) should be set aside, or be so qualified as not to stimulate to violence and blood the passions of the people. I will not say that those who enter upon such discussions may not be actuated by the best intentions, and with a perfect desire, by the modes to which they resort, to dry up or to exhaust the springs of crime ; but I can not help thinking that it is not quite wise, while the act of murder is still recent, to raise up collateral discussions on the general causes of crime, or the par ticular motive that may be supposed to have produced the offence in question. Explanations at such a moment are too likely to be interpreted as a justification of the dreadful act, and not only to give additional boldness and confidence to the ill-disposed, but tend in some measure to keep back others from aiding in the detection of the criminal, by throwing round him the false colours of re tributive justice. Whilst the pursuit is hot, the only cry should be against the murderer—and it appears to me that clinical lectures on the exercise of rights over the mangled remains of the unhappy victim, are, to say the least of them, ill-timed, and may be very mis chievous." FEDERALISM: LETTER FROM MR. CRAWFORD -LOCAL LEGISLATION FOR IRELAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING POST. Sir,—lt seems to me that the time is now arrived when it becomes the imperative duty of those who are of opinion that local legislation is necessary for Ireland, openly to state their opinions and their views, and the means by which that object can be obtained consistently with the safety of imperial connexion : the principal of local legislation, combined with imperial supremacy, is that by which I conceive both these objects can be effected. This question has never been raised before the public mind ; but it is misunderstood by many, and misrepresented by others, while its friends leave it in the hands of its opponents to be tortured and twisted at their will and pleasure, without seeming to have the moral courage to avow their faith, or to defend its truth. I am of opinion that those who hold that Ireland requires the application of this principle are doing deep injustice to their country by shrinking at this period from its advocacy. I conceive they ought to assume an independent position, supporting their views with honest plainness, unfettered by any attempt to acquire doubtful support ; but opening the question to the adherence of all sincere friends of their country, of every party and denomination, who can see in it a mode of ameliorating her condition or securing her rights. Desirous, then, to throw off from myself the stigma of now deserting a cause which I have long ad vocated, I respectfully submit to the friends of Ireland the following observations:— I shall, as a preliminary step, refer to the practical evils which have arisen, and which it may be appre hended will hereafter occur, from the existing state of the connexion between Great Britain and Ireland. I shall class them under the following heads :- 1. Violation and insecurity of civil rights. 2. Imperfect and ignorant legislation regarding our local institutions and financial capabilities. 3. The danger and the probability of an assim'lation of taxation. 4. Expenses and difficulties in seeking and obtaining Acts for improvement. 5. Insufficiency of aid from the State for public works in Ireland. 6. Evils of centralisation, and probable increase of them. 7. Inadequacy of the Irish representation in the Im perial Parliament to express the wants and feelings of the people of Ireland. 8. Inadequacy of the Imperial Parliament to do the work required, under the present system of Parliamen tary business. 9. Difference of circumstances between England and Ireland, rendering assimilation impracticable and inex pedient. 10. Proof of the foregoing, from the present condition of Ireland. 11. Present danger to the connexion of the two countries. First—There is no security for civil rights. The union was based on the theory of identification, but that identification was not provided for by the Act of Union —that identification does not exist—that identification cannot exist between countries whose circumstances are in every respect so dissimilar as those of England and Ireland. From this cause separate legislation became necessary; and how were we treated ? Just as every country must expect to be treated, and I will say, deserves to be treated, who place the power of separate legislation in the hands of the representatives of another country. By the means of an English majority in the Imperial Parliament the two great meas ures f or t h e ad vancement of popular liberty—the Parliamentary Re form Act and the Corporation Reform Act—were cur tailed in all their important provisions when framed for Ireland, and the rights of the people of Ireland have been incessantly violated by a success i on o f ar bitrary and unconstitutional laws, passed on various oc casions since the union by the same power. In proof of this I may call to recollection the numerous Insur rection Acts, and Acts for the partial infliction of mar tial law, the Whig Coercion Act, and the other Coer cion Acts which afterwards succeeded it, the Arms Acts, and more especially the last Arms Act, which I may designate by way of distinction, the branding Act. Disturbances have frequently occurred in Eng land, but never was she treated by her own representa tives as her representatives treated Ireland. I ask, do not such acts and proceedings as these prove that Ireland has no available representation against the danger of separate legislation by the Imperial Parliament, and con sequently no security for her rights if England has the will to invade them ? In such cases the representation of Ireland in only adequate to give to England a colour able pretext to say—" these are the laws of an Imperial Parliament." Thus Ireland holds her liberties at the will of England, " and to depend on the will of another country is the definition:of slavery—" (Grattan). Secondly--The laws passed by the Imperial Parlia ment for the regulation of our local institutions' re gene rally full of blunders, and betray the grossest ignorance of our requirements. I need not enter here into a parti cular enumeration—l give one as a specimen of all : I shall name the Poor-law Act, and I know well that the strongest friends of the principle of a poor-law will unite in the assertion of the unsuitableness of its provisions to the wants of Ireland. In cases where this law works well, it arises not from the law itself, but from the guardians exercising a judicious administrative authority, which bends its austere provisions to the circumstances of the poor. Third—The effects of the union, and of imperial le gislation, are manifested no less injuriously with regard to the financial relations of the two countries. The pro portion of debt and contribution to the expenditure im posed by the Act of Union to be paid by Ireland were so excessively beyond her powers, that in a few years she became bankrupt. England then consolidated the exchequers. An act of bankruptcy cannot again occur on the part of Ireland, separately from England ; but, nevertheless, the drain is still going on beyond the means of Ireland to bear. The revenue is drawn, not from the luxuries of wealth, but from the means by which an impoverished people support existence—not to be spent in Ireland, to circulate and stimulate indus• try—but to augment the riches of England ; and thus this drain, drawn, I may say, from the blood of Ireland, produces the most injurious effects on the ,progress of improvement, and increases the poverty of her people. In consequence of the poverty created by these causes, Ireland is at present exempted from certain descriptions of taxation imposed upon England and Scotland, more particularly the assessed taxes and the income-tax ; but is it to be believed, that if we continue on a system of joint expenditure, that exemption will be allowed to ex exist ? Will the English and Scotch Members agree that the establishments of Ireland should be paid out of the imperial funds, and that she should not be sub jected to a like system of taxation with themselves ? Is it just or fair - to expect it ? There is nothing but their mercy and the mercy of the Minister to prevent it. What could your puny Irish representation in the Im pe:ial Parliament do to stem the evil ? You now plead at the bar of England in forma pauperi—your plea is at present admitted ; but the moment Ireland shows symptoms of rising prosperity, her progress will be crushed by these new inflictions of taxation from which you can only be saved by a new arrangement of the financial relations of the two countries. I ask, are the landed aristocracy, and the impoverished trading interests, prepared to endure the:consequences of the assimilation of taxation ? If you are prepared to submit in your happy state of inaction—stifle every rising thought about your country's rights or interests ; but, mark, when the tax-gatherer knocks at your door, let us hear no murmur of complaint. You will have no right to complain. If you shall suffer evil, you will only suffer the just recompense of your own deserts. Fourth—The enormous expenses and other difficulties in procuring Acts for local improvements in the Imperial Parliament, are such as a poor country like Ireland can not compass—therefore, improvement, and its necessary accompaniment, employment, is virtually stopped by this cause alone. Fifth— The improvements of a poor country, where capital does not abound, would require some support from the revenues of the State. The riches of England enable the Imperial Parliament to refuse this aid to England, and, consequently, it is refused to Ireland, although the circumstances are so totally different. Sixth—l would put it to Irishmen of all sects, can they deny the evils which have arisen to Ireland from the centralization system, as far as it has been carried out, aril the increase of evil which will be produced by its completion ? Do they not see the public boards and public offices transferred one by one to the metropolis of England, drawing away to that one great vortex the whole expenditure of the country? That great evil of Ireland, the absenteeism of its landed proprietors, has been immeasurably increased; not only pleasure, but the emoluments and duties of office, draw them away from their country. The public expenditure in every depart ment of the state thus becomes a source of exhaustion to Ireland. But this is not all; the centralizers will exert every power to put down the demand of Ireland for local institutions by increased consolidation. They know that so long as any one separate institution remains to distinguish Dublin from any provincial town in England, the demand for a local legislature cannot be resisted by argument. Your Lord Lieutenancy will be abolished— the business of your executive will be done by some English-Irish secretary in London—your separate courts of law will be abolished—lreland will cease to have a metropolis. Dublin, without the stimulent of official expenditure—without commerce or manufacture—with out the means of support or employment for its popula tion—will sink into that state of wretchedness and de cline which has been the fate of many splendid cities, whose ruins are now the only indications of their former prosperity. Seventh—Conservatives talk of the evils of agitation ; they say that agitation is the bane of Ireland. I ask them what produces agitation ? Discontent. What produces discontent ? The feeling of suffering by the people, and the impression that there is no effective organ to declare their wants or wishes. Can any one say that the representation of Ireland in the Imperial Parliament is an effective organ for that purpose ? I may here refer to the words of Grattan, so forcibly applicable to this part of the subject :—" What ! when you banish Parlia ment, do you banish the people ? Do you extinguish the sentiment—do you extinguish the soul ? Do you put out the spirit of liberty when you destroy that organ, constitutional and capacious, through which that spirit may be safely and discreetly conveyed ? What is the excellence of our Constitution ? It provides an organ . . . . through which the humour of society may pass away without preying on the vitals. Parliament is that body where the whole intellect of the country may be collected, and where the spirit of patriotism, of li berty, and of ambition, may all act under the; control of that intellect, and under the check of publicity and observation." I maintain this is what Ireland requires. Can any impartial person say, that the interests of Ire land have been properly attended to by the Imperial Parliament 2—and can it be denied that agitation has produced an attention to those interests which could not have been otherwise obtained ? I desire, then, a legiti mate organ of expression for the declaration of the people's voice—l desire a local Legislature in the two Houses of which full effect will be given to the voice of the people, modified by the moral weight of a resident aristocracy. Eighth—l would ask, can it be asserted that the Im perial Parliament is capable of properly transacting all the immense mass of public and private business which is now imposed upon it, unless some new arrangement of that business be effected ? The establishment of local legislation for Ireland would be one of the most effective means of diminishing the laborious duties of the Impe rial Parliament. Ninth—Assimilation of laws, which is essential to consolidation and real union, can only take place where there is assimilation of circumstances. Are the circum stances of England and Ireland similar ? England, the highest country in the world in commerce and manufac tures—lreland among the lowest ; the former a com mercial country—the latter an agricultural. Can the identical same laws be suitable to two countries where the difference of their condition is so great ? Can the same system and amount of taxation be borne, which must be the unavoidable result of a junction of expendi ture ? Will the same laws and institutions answer for a country in the incipient move towards prosperity, which apply to the matured condition of England's wealth ? It might as well be said the same quality and quantity of food would be fit for the infant and the adult : the food which would be fit for the man would kill the child. Such will be the fate of Ireland if she be not treated with the indulgent care which her feeble advances to wards prosperity require, by giving her every encourage ment which is not inconsistent with the interests of the empire at large, and with that perfect freedom of com mercial intercourses between every part and portion of the United Kingdom which is essential to the peace and prosperity of the whole. Tenth—The truth of the foregoing positions will be proved by a reference to the present condition of this country. Ido not propose to enter into the hackneyed line of argument with regard to the advance in trade and manufacture, or in national rights, which have occurred at different periods, both under the existence of the Irish Parliament and the Imperial Parliament ; no candid man can deny that good and evil measures have emanated from both Parliaments, but good ones only when the external power of the public mind has coerced assent. I care not about statistics of commerce and manufactures as indexes of national prosperity, unless it be proved that the condition of the mass of the population corres pond with these indications. Now, what is the condi tion of Ireland after 43 years' existence of the union ? We have the statement of the poor inquiry commis sioners, that in a population of about 8,000,000 of souls, there is an amount of pauperised population to the ex tent of not less than 2,300,000. This statement may be somewhat exaggerated in figures, but it is undoubtedly a true description of the general condition of Ireland : our people are unemployed whilst our extended natural re- I sources are undeveloped—our waste lands unimproved, and our richest lands in a state of not so much as half production. We are without manufactures or capital of our own, and nothing but a scanty pittance of the super abundance of English capital has yet crossed the channel which separates us, whilst it is applied with such profuse extravagance within the limits of her own ter ritory. We have agrarian combination among the small occupiers of the soil for the purpose of procuring that justice by their own laws which the laws and insti tutions of the state do not afford them the means of obtaining. We have a general spirit of discontent against British rule, which rule is only at this moment maintained by the power of military occupation. We have no identification of laws, feelings, rights, or into. rests—all the great features of condition and social rela tions which can form characters of distinction between any two countries exist with relation to England and Ireland. The sea which intervenes between us, and which must ever check the freedom and speed of com munication attainable on land, still proclaims, as in the days of Grattan, that we are not, and cannot be identified as one country, and every reference to past and present circumstances proves that Ireland must depend mainly upon her own exertions and her own resources for the advancement of her prosperity. Eleventh—l would, in the last place, put this ques tion to the friends of British and Irish connexion. Is that connexion now in a state of security, or in a con dition which can be beneficial to either country ? Is it not a parchment connexion, liable to be torn asunder, whenever it shall be the object of any foreign State, hostile to Britain, to open the rent ? Does it not, in its present state, render Ireland the weakness, instead of the strength of Britain ? Is it not wasting her own re sources to hold Ireland in this way, instead of adding those derivable from Ireland to her Treasury ? Is it not necessary that some means should be taken to strengthen the ties of friendly union, which alone can become strong when the connexion they bind together is founded on the basis of equal interests, and mutual benefits and con fidence ? The foregoing short review of the circumstances and condition of Ireland, will, I trust, be considered sufficient to warrant me in the conclusion (and in calling on others to join me in that conclusion) that some change' should be adopted to remedy the evils complained of. What that change should be I shall endeavour to point out in a succeeding section of these observations. WILLIAM SHARMAN CRAWFORD. Crawfordsburn, Nov. 7, 1844. CITY OF DUBLIN REGISTRY. Yesterday the numbers admitted were—Liberals, 14 ; Tories, 13. The Tories are still unable to recover their lost ground. THE NEW WHIG JUDGE.—The grimaces, the contor• Lions, of the orange polytrashery press, on the subject o f the late Whig appointment, are most comical to witness. They tell us they should net be surprised if Mr. Pigot were the next judge—nor should we. We promise our readers some amusement on this matter in the course of the ensuing week.--Dublin Evening Post. DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL IN KERRY.—A letter from the Liberator arrived in town last night, stating that until after the provincial banquet in Limerick he could not possibly accept the invitation.—Kerry Exami ner of Friday. THE MURDER AT BARNANE.—Yesterday (Friday) morning three men, named Martin Maher, the elder, Martin Maher, the younger, and William Maher, were fully committed to the gaol, at Nenagh, by John Gore Jones, Esq., R.M., and Major Priestly, to take their trials at the next assizes, for the wilful murder of Ti n. othy Cleary, near BArnane.— Tipperary Vindicator. Lord De Mauley, Mr. Wellesley, and Mr. Drummond, are at present enjoying the hospitality of the Earl of Besborough at Besborough House. Mr. Norman Mac donald has left town for Besborough House on a visit to the Earl of Besborough. ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRINCE OF WALES'S BlRTH DAY.—Saturday being the third anniversary of the birthday of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the morning was ushered in by the ringing of a merry pe a l at the different churches throughout the metropolis. The royal standard was hoisted at the Tower, Somerset House, St. Martin's, St. Giles's. St. Margar e t' s , t h e Italian opera, and the usual public edifices. The el- il dren belonging to the Welch Schools in Gray's Inn-lane had a holiday on the occasion of the natal day of their Prince and were regaled with a substantial dinner of roast beef and plum-pudding. At Windsor the day was kept by the different tradespeople who furnish the Castle. During the absence of her Majesty and Prince Albert this week the state apartments at the Castle will be onpn INCENDIARISIVI IN SUSSEX. BRIGHTON, SUNDA T.—Between ten and eleven o'clock last night a light was observed in the north, which was evidently the reflection from a large fire in the neigh bourhood, and half an hour afterwards news arrived that a barn on Mr. Gorringe's farm at Withdean, two miles and a half from Brighton, was on fire. On inquiry at the farm, this afternoon, we learn that the fire was seen by several persons about the same time, when intelligence was immediately conveyed to Mr. Gorringe. The villagers turned out, and every man seemed to exert himself to the utmost to quell the flames, which in a few minutes had completely enveloped the barn, the roof of which immediately fell in with a crash Owing to the extreme drought of the summer, littlt water could be obtained, and the only thing to be done was to endeavour to save the corn in the barn, and is prevent the extension of the fire to the adjoining farra buildings. The latter object was accomplished, but the former almost entirely failed, not more than about a waggon load of wheat-sheaves being saved, and these are so much scorched as to be nearly worthless. The fire made rapid progress, and nothing is now left of the barn but the stone walls. The whole of the contents of the barn are now (six o'clock p.m.) a mass of smoulder int fire. The farm belongs to the wife of Captain Ogle, son of Sir Charles Ogle, who had insured the premises in the Phcenix ; the farming stock of the tenant was also insured in the County Fire-office. The damage is esti mated at 5004 We regret to add that no doubt exists that the fire was the work of an incendiary. Mr. Gorringe's men, on reaching the barn, discovered the flames through a gap in the door, where one of the planks of which it was composed had been. wrenched off. A young man, named Lidbetter, a wheelwright in the village, and son of the bailiff of Mr. W. Stanford, in the adjoining village of Preston, was one of the first to carry the intel ligence to Mr. Gorringe ; and he stated, that having gone out of the road to get under some trees for shelter from a storm, two men passed him in a direction from the barn to the high road at the moment he discovered the fire ; and that on seeing him they threatened him with pistols, if he dared to follow them. It appears, however, that there are no trees capable of affording shelter at the spot in question ; and the strangeness of his story, the improbability of two men who had fired A building going from it towards a frequented road, when the downs in the opposite direction afforded an almost certain means of escaping detection, together with the circumstance of his passing several cottages which stand next the fire, to give the alarm at those more diitant, combined to raise a suspicion to his disadvantage. Two of the East Sussex constabulary arriving during the progress of the fire, Mr. Gorringe desired Lidbetter to repeat his statement to them ; and on his doing so, they took him into custody, and conveyed him to Brighton, where he is now locked up, awaiting an examination be fore the magistrates. Mr. Gorringe invited all the man who had rendered assistance at the fire to dine at his house to-day ; a nd after dinner explained to them, that if any one had fired the barn out of malice towards him or the owner, he had entirely failed in his object, inasmuch as the whole of the property was insured. A BATTLE WITH RATTLESNAKES.—RattIesnakf9 are proverbially abundant upon all these prairies; and, as there is seldom to be found either stick or stone with which to kill them, one hears almost a constant popping of rifles or pistols, among the vanguard, to clear the route of these disagreeable occupants, lest they should bite our animals. As we were toiling up through the sandy hillocks which border the southern banks of the Arkansas, the day being excessively warm, we came upon a perfect den of these reptiles. I will not say thou Sands—though this, perhaps, was nearer the truth—but hundreds, at least, where coiled or crawl ing in every direction. They were no sooner dis covered than we were upon them with guns and pis tols, determined to let none of them escape. In the midst of this amusing scramble among the snakes, a wild mustang colt, which had, somehow or other become se parated from its dam, came bolting among our relay of loose stock, to add to the confusion. One of our mules evidently impressed with the impertinence of the in truder, sprang forward and attacked it, with the appa rent intention of executing summary chastisement ; while another mule, with more benignity of temper than As, irascible compeer, engage d most l ust il y i n defence o r the unfortunate little mustang. As the contest was carried on among the waggons, the teamsters soon became very uproarious, so that the whole, with the snake fracas, made up a capital scene of con: fusion. When the mule skirmish would have ended, if no one had interfered, is a question which remained un determined ; for some of our company, in view of the consequences that might result from the contest, rather inhumanly took sides with the assailing mule ; and soon after they entered the lists, a rifle ball relieved the poor colt from its earthly embarrassments and the company from further domestic disturbance. Peace once more re stored, we soon got under weigh, and that evening pitched our camp opposite the celebrated " Caches"—a place where some of the earliest adventurers had been com pelled to conceal their merchandise.—Journal of a Santa Fe Trader. THE CHILDREN OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY,—It will be seen from what I have said that nothing co uld be more extreme than the poverty of the Irish peasantry. And yet, notwithstanding all the hardships through which they have to pass on their journey through life, I never saw a set of finer-looking children than those you meet with in the poorer districts of the country. They far surpass, in the comeliness of their little coun tenances, the children of this country. I saw hundreds of them whom, from the regularity of their features and the symmetry of their forms, I thought perfect pictures. It is true, that as they advance in years, they lose the singular beauty which characterises them in early life ; but this is solely to be ascribed to their hard destiny, which compels them to be constantly employed in the hardest outdoor l&bour without half the requisite amount of food. It is only surprising that the Irish peasantry can exist at all on their limited supplies of food, consider ing the great amount of labour they have to go through. Englishmen would perish in masses were they compelled to perform, for ono short month, the same amount of hard work, without more than one or two scanty meals a day, and those meals consisting solely of potatoes.—lmpres sions of Ireland and the Irish, by the Author of " Random Recollections." REMOVAL OF BODIES IN THE TOWEL—During the last few days, much interest has been manifested in the Tower, in consequence of the exhumation of the bodies interred in the burial-ground attached to the church of St. Peter in Vincula, opposite the White Tower, in that fortress, the ground being required for the capacious new barracks, which are to be erected on its site, and that of the grand storehouse. A few days since the Bishop of London attended and consecrated a large vault to the westward of the church, which has been made for the purpose of receiving the dead removed from the yard. Most of the bodies have, however, bee? taken away by the relatives, and re-interred in different parts Of the country, in their several family vaults. The Board of Ordnance has directed the ground to be completely cleared by the 14th instant, and those remains which have not been removed by the relatives up to that day will be disinterred and placed in the vault. Those who were laid in the ground were principally persons who had held civil situations in the fortress. The barracks are to be built somewhat after the style of the Wellingt on B arrac k s , i n S t. James 's Park, and when completed the garrison will afford ample accommodation for a whole regiment. THE BIRMINGHAM TRADE.—We are much pleased to state that our manufacturers generally are fully em ployed —several of them, to our knowledge, have three months' orders in hand. We are also gratified to add, that two eminent firms have, within the last fortnight , voluntarily advanced the wages of their workpeople" one employing upwards of one hundred pair of bands' —Birmingham Advertiser. PEMBROKE DOCK.--Mr. Brunel has visited Hobb'e Point, on the subject of the Milford branch of the Sot? Wales Railway. The share-list in Pembrokeshire le steadily progressing. Th e resu lt o f t h e d e l i b erat i on s o' , the Committee on fortifying the Naval Arsenal a t Pem broke has not been made public. It is rumoured, hog" ever, that an additional battery is to be constructed on. some of the adjacent heights.—Carnarvon Herald. PRODIGIOUS POTATOES.—Mr. Worthington, farmer , Hiskin, has dug up several remarkably large potatoes, varying in weight from 4ilbs. to 51bs. each.—Presto s Guardian. BIRTHS. On the 4th inst., at Roehampton, the lady of D. B. Char man, Esq., of a daughter. On the 6th inst., at Waltham-cross, Hertz, the lady of . 1%. Jearrad, Esq., of a son. On the 7th inst., at Salters'-hall, St. Swithin's-lane, Mr s ' Edward Thompson, of a daughter. On the 7th halt., at Hanover-terrace, Peckham, the lady of A. Johnson, Esq., of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at Thornton Watlass, the wife of the Be' Reginald Courtenay, of a son. On the Bth inst., in Dorset-place, Dorset-square, the lady of J. T. Blunt, Esq., of a son, still-born. TARRIED. • d On the 30th ult., William Da n i e ll, E sq ., surgeon , Nay/srl to Emma, youngest daughter o f T. L. T i ff en, E sq., o f Elm" , cottage, Great Cornard, Suffolk. On the 7th inst., at Bow Church, Henry Walker, Es ( 1„-..' t° Harriet Susan, only da ug ht er o f J o h n B urnet, E sq. , of Eg mont House, Kensington, On the 7th inst., at St. Mary Abb o tt' s , K ens i ng t on , Mr• J. Jenner, of Reading, to Elizabeth L ew i s , th e younges t daugh ter of the late William Fynmore, of Craven-street, Strand. On the 7th inst., at Cheveley, Ji,hn Fairlie, Esq., of Oleo' ley-Park, to Mary, eldest daughter of William Parr haaCSOn Esq., of Newmarket. On the 7th inst., at the Independent Meeting-h ouse , Grea t Yarmouth, the Rev. George Moir, Mi n i s t er o f the Free Church at New Maehar, to Ellen, daughter of the late John Shelley, Esq., of Great Yarmouth. On the 7th inst., at St. Peter's, Dublin, Jolliffe Tuffnell, Esq., 3d Dragoon Gua r d s , t o H enr i e tt a , re li c t o f the late Fannin, Esq., of Dublin. On the 7th inst., at Highworth, Wilts, George Frederick Crowdy, Esq., of Faringdon, Berks, to Maria Kate, youngest daughter of James Crowdy, Esq., of the former place. DIED. es On the 31st ult., in Br u ns w i c k- square , B r ighton, James Blackledge Brackenbury, Esq., of Manchester. On the 3d inst., at Hackney, Mr. H. Parry, aged 64. On the sth inst., Elizabeth, second daughter of the Rev' J. Greenwood, D.D., Rector of Colne Engaine, Essex. On the 7th inst., at Stroud-green, Hornsey, Middlesex, yr *Pattinson, Esq. street , On the 7th inst., John Clarke,Esq., surgeon, of Dean- Southwark, aged 43. On the 7th inst., Anne, the wife of John Ilderton Bow* Esq , aged 70. On the 7th inst., at Bedford, John H. Gow, Esq. . In York street, Po r t man - square , James, the son of Mr. w Banks, aged 33. ;aeon: Printed and Published by 31 URDO YOUNG, „ No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 11 " Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in thi Counti 0