The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

JOINT-STOCK BANKS. The new number of the British and Foreign Re view contains an article under the title of " Coin and Currency." The article, instead of discussing fully and fearlessly the question of banking , which occu s pies so much of public attention at this moment, prin cipally consists of a retrospect of the history of bank ing in England. So far, however, as the writer's views ean be discovered from the casual references to the principles on which the business of banking ought to be conducted, he concurs with us in the opinion that the joint-stock banks have been of the greatest service to the country, and that any attempt on the part of the Government to interfere with them ought to be resisted by every constitutional means. There is a ver y decided and general impression in the monetary cir cles of the country, that Ministers contemplate some important changes in reference to ' the constitution and powers of the joint-stock bank ing companies. The impression, we fear, is too well grounded. Deputation after deputation from the directors or the joint-stock banks have, within the last few weeks, waited on Sir Robert Peel, with a view to learn his intention in relation to these esta blishments. Not an atom of information on the sub ject could be elicited from him. He shrouds his designs in the deepest darkness. The conclusion to which the joint-stock banking companies have con sequently come is, that he does meditate some inva sion of their powers and privileges. If he do in any way assail these associations, he will soon discover that he never committed a greater act of folly for himself as he could not contemplate one more fraught with evils to the country: It will be strange indeed if, instead of curtailing the exclusive privileges of the Bank of England, as every one expected he would when the question of a renewal of the charter came to be discussed, he should bring forward a measure for abridging the resources and impairing the useful ness of the joint-stock banks. Though the Premier persists, in defiance of all the entreaties for information, of those who are most in terested, in concealing his intentions either as regards the colossal corporation in Threadneedle-street or the joint-stock banks throughout the country, the period is at hand when he must make an unreserved revela tion of his plans and purposes. Immediately after the Easter recess he is to make an exposé of his intentions and measures in reference to the question of the cur rency. Until then, we suppose, we must wait with phi losophical patience. One feature, we have reason to be lieve, in his future banking policy, will be to deprive the oint-stock banks of their right to issue notes of their own, and to confer on the Bank of England the ex clusive privilege of making paper issues. There is something so evidently fraught with the most serious mischiefs to the monetary interests of the country, in any scheme of this kind, that did not what seems to us irresistible evidence of the fact crowd upon U 3 from all quarters, we could not believe that such an idea had ever entered the Premier's mind. To with draw from the joint-stock banks the privilege of issuing their own notes, will be in many, perhaps the majority of cases, the same as if these banks were to be annihilated by Act of Parliament. Sir Robert Peel professes to be a great stickler for maintaining vested interests : if he carry his understood intention into effect, he will earn for himself the unenviable re putation of having committed a wholesale robbery of the shareholders in joint-stock-banking companies. Divest them of the right to issue their own notes, and you despoil them at once of their property. Their mein source of profit lies in their having a paper issue of their own. It was on the faith of such right being continued that they commenced business ; without it business could. not, in many instances, be carried on without incurring a ruinous loss. Consequently, should the Premier persist in his understood purposes, the joint-stock banking business will receive a blow, from the effects of which it will never recover. Nor will the injury in the supposed case be con fined to the shareholders : it will be extended to and deeply felt by the public. The infinite service which the joint-F,toek banks have been able to render to the country, has• been chiefly throUgh means of their privilege to make issues of their own purr. The country knows, and is forward to acknowledge, the services of the joint-stock banks. But for them the national distress would, in times of pressure,. have issue", in all probability, in a national bankruptcy. They.alone, on repeated occasions, have neutralised the injurious effects of capricious contractions of the currency, on the part of the Bank of England. To; deprive the joint-stock banks of the right to issue notes of their own, and to place, as it is sup posed. the Premier means to do, the entire paper cur rency of the country in. the hands of the monetary monopolists in Threadneedle-street, would be one of the most audacious anti-free-trade deeds ever perpetrated. It would be the grossest outrage and greatest insult to the country, which ever Toryism committed in the days of its unresisted do mination. The country loudly complains of the extent to which it already suffers from the caprices of the Bank o: England ; and Peel purposes to place the nation still more at the mercy of that gigan tic establishment. The cry everywhere is—in Eng land; Scotland, and Ireland, for an abridgment Of the present powers of the Bank; and Peel purposes to confer upon it much more enlarged and important powers than ever. The country calls, in the spirit of free-In:fie principles, for an extinction of the mone tary monopoly so long enjoyed by the Bank,; and the Premier intends - to make that monopoly greater than before. This is progrers in flee-trade principles 'with a vengeance. It is the crab-like progress of going backwards. Bat will Ministers succeed in carrying out their currency projects ? It will be passing strange if they do. We have too much faith in the omnipotence of public opinion, when fairly and fully expressed, to suppose that any Government v; ill be suffered to an nihilate the joint-stock banks, merely to play into the hands of a corporate band of monopolists, who are ambitious of possessing an exclusive control over the currency, and the consequent monetary destinies, of the country. Of this we are certain—that the most vigorous and determined opposition which Peel has-had to encounter on any measure, is now in the course of organisation on this question.—. Advertiser. ANOTHER JACK SHEPPARD. There is at present in Portsmouth gaol a young man named John Smith, alias George Baker, whose dee:ls as a burglar, though not so extensive in their nature, are quite on a par as re gards management with those performed by the Ainsworth iminortalised Jack Sheppard. This candidate for Government patronage is by trade a bricklayer, and apparently about 10 years of age, slim in Make, with a small head and hard features, :with a simplicity of expression, 'Alicia, but for the strong est evidence, wou!d go far towards impressing an ordinary jury with an opinion of his incapacity for the performance of such deeds as we are about to mention. his first. exploit in this locality was breaking into the house of a clothes salesman, named Byerly, situate in Ilanover-street, Portsea ; this he accomplished on the evening of the .sth March (Sunday), by removing some bricks in a systematic and workmanlike way from the outer wall of the dwelling ; the hole thus made. led into a passage communicating with the shop. But the thief was not rewarded with a rich booty— merely a fe w articles of wearing apparel and carpenter's tools, with which he got clear off, notwithstanding the bundle they formed was a very large one. He decamped to Southampton, and there offered some of the articles for sale ; hut Southampton becoming un comfortable, he returned to Portsmouth with some of the articles from Byerly's on his person, which were re cognised by a local police-officer, as those described by Bycrley as having been stolen from his house. lhe prisoner was lodged in gaol, and brought up be fore the borough magistrates on Thursday the 14th of March, when, the evidence being very conclusive , h o was committed to take his trial at Winchester next assizes. On searching the prisoner, at Portsmouth gaol, about 30s. in silver and halfpence were found upon him, which led the authorities to suppose that he had been robbing some till at Southampton daring his short stay, which circumstanoe being published in a local paper, speedily brought two persons from Southampton, who recognised the prisoner at once as the man who had entered the house of Mr. Maurice Batchelor, called the Queen Charlotte, in Simnel street, Southampton, on the night of the 10th of m a rch. In this casz, the prisoner had secreted him self in the house, and remained concealed until the in mates were all gone to bed, When he stole forth, and after arming himself with a cleaver and a carving knife, proceeded to the till, which he broke open and emptied of its contents; he then collected what other property he could, with the assistance of a lantern, which be.found in the kitchen, and made good his escape. The money and property was the same as found upon him when captured by a local sub-inspector of police, who searched him. These desperate robberies be coming known through the local press, on Thurs day evening last a sergeant of local police from Greenwich arrived at Portsmouth gaol, and asked to see the prisoner. He was conducted to his sell by Mr. Hunt, the Governor, an d immediately identified the prisoner as the noted George Baker, who, with three others, already in custody, have been the terror of the peaceable and loyal men of the western part of Kent. They have committed no less than three burglaries, and One• sacrilege, all in the neigh• botsrhoxl of Lewisham. At one of the houses broken into a booty:of 2001, rewarded their desperate exer tions; they broke - open the Post-office, cut open the mail bags, and scattered the letters about, and stole others supposed to cOntain money. The Portsmouth prisoner has also, in emulation of his celebrated pro totype, made a bold stroke at an escape from the bo rough gaol. He had possessed himself of a piece of iron hoop about - six .inches long, which he sharpened upon the stone sink of the pump in the yard, and notched it towards the point like a saw ; with this, and the assistance of an iron shoe-heel, he contrived to dig out the mortar from between the bricks on the side of his cell neat the yard, he had made au incision found the bricks about eighteen inches in extent, and in order to prevent the work being seen, he had, when " done work: filled up the vacuum thus created by a quantTy of oakum, which he coated over with the appearance of lime to look like the other part of the cell. This he accomplished by, it is supposed, scraping some lime off the wall and mixing it with his own water. Ills intention appears to have been to get into the yard and unhinge the door of the water-closet, which would have assisted him on to a shed to which he could have grasped the spouting of the roof, and by main strength lifted-his body upon the roof, from which he would have doubtless descended by some scaffolding poles, forming the various stages of the new wing in course of erection as a prison for soldiers. The keen look-out kept by the gaoler, how ever, frustrated the deep laid scheme, the successful issue of which would, doubtless, have been worked, but for the good watch kept. The prisoner has been put in irons, and two men are constantly with him when in his cell, and will remain with him until re moved for trial either to Winchester or Maidstone. It is supposed he will be removed by habeas to the latter place, especially if the Government prosecute for the Post-office robbery. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The Times of this morning has the fol lowing diatribe against the tendencies of the age we live in :—" For legislating upon utilitarian principles, —for embodying in public enactments, made for the benefit (!) not of the law-givers but of others, — the detestable morality of Hobbes and Hume and Gibbon ;—for realising in practice that species of poli tical morality which holds that man is no more than an impersonation of capital—a mere representative of so much labour,'—that charity is only a falsifica tion of economy,-7-and that that benefit of the governed,' which it is universally conceded ought to be the object of every Government,—is nothing else than the highest possible state of productiveness' to which the aforesaid subject multitude may be brought ;—for legislation of this sort, we say, give us the days of King William and Queen Victoria, for certainly never before, since England was a nation, has this sort of thing been more consistently carried out within the walls of Parliament." NVould that any spark of the dry light of intellect of Hobbes or of Hume—would that any vestige of the painful and diligent research of Gibbon—were in deed, as the Times most monstrously alleges, " con sistently carried out within the walls of Parliament." Of course we have nothing to say of the religious scepticism of these highly distinguished men—no thing except what Bacon, perhaps, might have said— that they had better have left religion unreasoned about—have left faith in possession of her rights, and reasoned where reason could hope to arrive at posi tive and practical colaclu-ions. But that a slap-dash piece-work plasterer of diurnalism should flatter him self that he can smear over the great names of Hume and Gibbon—that he; in his Puseyite muddle-headed ness, can obscure all their genius has enlightened— that he can consign to reprobation all that distin guishes modern times from the middle ages—is truly to concentrate a whole revived Order of Jesuits in his own little person ! Vite, vite, morbleu! Eteignons les lumietres— Et rallumons le feut It is very true that neither Hume nor Gibbon, nor any close thinker, nor conscientious researcher of the last century, traded in clap-trap sentiments. The fitter prototype of Times newspaper philanthropy was the hollow-hearted, selfish, canting Rousseau—the caricaturist, by dint of exaggeration, of every exalted sentiment—the exemplar of every human depravation which (self-induced) cerebral derangement alone could excuse. But when the Times was "pitching into" the direction impressed on legislative intellect in these our degenerate day; by the still surviving influence of the great minds of the last century, why had it no word of abuse for Turgot ? Because there are names which even the Times dare not desecrate. Because the Times, in the thickest haze of its recent High Church inspirations, has probably a sort of glimmering idea that in Turgot it would fall foul of a statesman who demonstrated practically, in twelve years of unob trusive provincial administration, the wisdom of the modern economical principle of" promoting the highest possible productiveness" by admitting the utmost pus sible freedom of industrial and commercial transactions. No, no !—it has not been philosophical scepticism (dangerous as we allow that is, when pushed into re gions where positive truth cannot be arrived at by process of mere reasoning)—it is not philosophical scepticism that makes legislative inroads on social abundance and happiness. We wish our legislators had some of the wholesome scepticism of Turgot— some of his aversion for all presumptuous dogma tism, whether philosophical or priestly. The name of Turgot will be ever identified with all the ra tional conquests of the spirit of modern improve ment. In his own days he stood aloof, on well-con sidered and high principle, from all those clique and coterie influences on which lesser men lean so instinc tively. Turgot was a man of no party, and no philo sophical seat. The men of sects and parties of course took this exceedingly ill in him; and could not under stand how any one could be amongst them, and, not of them. His friends amongst the philosophes reproached him for not being of their mind : and he reproached them in turn with the foolish attempt to impose a com munity of opinions, and thus assume responsibility for those-of each other. lie detesta.d all esprit de corps (philosophical, not less than priestly), because he found, says his, congenial biographer, Dupont de Nemours, that even amongst men otherwise estimable, the sort of fanatacism inseparable from that spirit seldom fails to alloy the love of truth and justice which Turgot preferred to everything. The morality of sects the most scrupulous is never so good as that of honest individuals ! In this spirit of clique and coterie Turgot besides found this serious inconvenience —that it tended to excite animosity and prejudice in sosiety at large against those little exclusive sects and societies which form themselves in its bosom, and thus retarded the success of the good intentions of those whom their zeal excited to form then confederations. " It is the spirit of sect," he said, " that provokes the spirit of persecution." It is certainly true that neither Hume, nor Gibbon, nor Turgot, would haVe told the labouring population that law could get them twelve hours' wages for ten hours' work. Turgot never would have admitted into our cosmic : colonial arrangements a fifth quarter of the globe as it were (if 'we may use the Iricism), and charged our colonial estimates with grants now for South or West Australia—and now for New Zealand—at the very time of .declaring we will not take the corn our colonies can send us ! STANDARD.—The zeal with which the opposi tion journals pursue the misrepresentation first started by the Dublin Evening Mail, proves that the letter, imputed falsely to Sir Robert Peel by the Irish jour nal, possesses more than a local interest. We shall be excused, therefore, by those least intereeted. in Irish affairs, if we return to the subject. The utter falsehood of the Dublin Evening Mail's story is proved by a passage in the Dublin Statesman of Wednesday the 4th inst., which the Dublin _Evening Mail of the following Friday has not ventured to contradict. The Statesman is a journal of nearly the same political character as the Mail, but the fact that the Mail has not ventured to deny that its " appalling communication' was a hoax, or to contradict the assertion that its friend and prompter, Mr. Frederick Shaw, had denounced the utter falsehood of that com munication, is decisive. We repeat what we said on the 22d of March, " There was not one word of truth in it." The purpose of the falsehood, by whomsoever invented, is apparent by a passage of a later number of the Dublin Evening Mail (March 29). The falsehood, then, wae invented for the purpose of damaging the Ministry—a purpose which men may think legitimate or not, but which certainly does not justify to moralists the use of falsehood as a means, and will scarcely justify to politicians of enlarged and patriotic views the formation of an anti-Saxon alli • ante in Ireland, the arrangement which the falsehood was intended to promote. As" we are speaking of a resort to illegitimate means, it may be proper to note a very irreverent and disgusting parody which the Dublin Evening Mail of Friday has thought fit to publish with reference to the matter of which we are speaking. The Mail does not, as we have said, venture directly to support the veracity of its " appalling com munication" of March 20, but it presents a parody of the third chapter of Daniel, in which Sir Robert Peel acts the part of Nebuchad- nezzar, and the Archbishop of Armagh (Lord John Beresford), and other prelates and cler gymen are made to represent, Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego. We feel scarcely at' ease in shortly describing such a thing—and we hope that it is as disagreeable to the most Reverend Archbishop as it is to us. " About twenty-seven years ago Mr. Hone was prosecuted for publishing some paro dies upon the Liturgy, and none of them was so offensive in form as this—none of them could be so indecent as a parody upon the Holy Scrip tures themselves. The Liturgy, beautiful as it is, is still but the words of man, but the Holy Scriptures are not the words of man. We certainly would not wish to see prosecutions like that of which Mr. Hone was the object repeated ; we much prefer trust ing to the effect of public opinion for the preventing of such offences as his, and we have little doubt that public opinion will prevent a repetition of the error of which the Mail has been guilty in this par ticular. NOVEL NUTCRAGKERS.—A facetious writer in the Bristol Times, in his _reminiscences of the churches of that city, relates that one of those sacred edifices ? hav ing been built on a bad foundation, had declined so much from the perpendicular, that it oscillated very danger ously, and that while the bells were being rung, it was not unusual for boys to insert nuts in the opening cre , vices of the was to be cracked !—Very col, this THE ROYAL HOSPITALS. The following reports were yesterday placed before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, at Christ's Hos pital : A TRUE REPORT of the number of Children and other poor People maintained in the several Royal Hospitals of the City of London, under the pious care of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Alder men, and Governors thereof, for the year last past. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. Children put forth apprentices, and discharged from Christ's Hospital, the year last past, 193, ten whereaf being instructed in mathe matics and navigation, were placed forth apprentices to commanders of ships, out of the Mathematical School founded by his late Majesty King Charles the Second Children buried the year last past.... ...... Children now under the care and charge of the Hospital in London and at Hertford br tdrltted sentations 193 4 To ,e admi, on pre__ granted to this time. . The names of all which, as also when and whence they were admitted, will appear in the said hospital's books. The support of this hospital materially depends upon benefactions and bequests. As that part of its income which is permanent is far short of maintain ing the usual number of children, whose education quhlifies them for the Church, the naval service, and for every station in life, according to their abilities; and as the principles of religion, as well as the due or der of civil society, are points to which their attention is constantly directed, it is hoped .that all charitable persons will readily contribute to an institution, which is not only of local, but of national good. The expense of repairing and keeping up the buildings of this hospital (many of which were very ancient, and originally formed part of the old Grey Friars's Monastery) having been found to be ex tremely burdensome, a fund was established in 1802, by subscription of the Governors and other friends of the hospital, with a view to the gradual and complete rebuilding of the whole fabric ; and a great part has accordingly been restored in a most commodious and substantial manner, without reducing .the number of children upon the establishment during the progress of the works. Much, however, yet remains to be done; and the Governors regret to state, that the fund originally subscribed is completely exhausted, and a very considerable sum has been, : expended from the general funds of the charity ; but they are willing to hope that the generosity of the public will afford the means of completing this great work, and pre vent the necessity of encroaching further upon the permanent income of the hospital, and thereby di minishing the scope of its usefulness. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL. Patients admitted, cured, and discharged, during the last year, 5,372 in-patients, 16,937 out-patients, and 16,924 casualty patients, most of whom were poor, sick, and lame persons ; and many of them, being des titute of all relief, have been supplied with money, clothes, and other necessaries, to en able them to return to their several habita tions, amounting together to .. . 39,233 Died o ••• .•• • . 377 Remaining under cure, in-patients. 489 t Out-patients 1,865 This being the most ancient hospital in the city and suburbs of London, and having escaped the great fire in the year 1666, the buildings by length of time be came so very ruinous, that in the year 1729 great part thereof was necessarily taken down. A sub scription was then entered into by many of the worthy Governors, and other charitable persons, for defray ing the expenses of rebuilding the hospital, which was progressively effected. The funds for this pur pose having been exhaused, and the buildings still being inadequate to the purposes of the charity, it was found necessary to make a considerable addition thereto, and the Governors have removed within the last three years valuable property on the north side of the principal entrance in Smithfield, and have erected on the site thereof a spacious surgery, which is open at all hours of the day and night for persons requiring medical or surgical assistance, with addi tional wards, and an operating theatre adjoining; whereby a very large sum has been expended, and the fulfilment of the intentions of the benevolent Founder, to afford immediate relief to the multitude of poor diseased or injured applicants, has been more effectually promoted. All fees on the admission of patients have been abolished, the sisters and nurses placed in situations of comfort better adapted to the nature of their duties, and the accommodation for the in-patients now so extended as to admit 550, *while their diet and gene ral comforts are very materially improved. The ac complishment of these objects, so essent'al to the wel fare of the patients, has occasioned a very heavy increase of annual expenditure. The Governors, therefore, earnestly represent the strong claims of this ancient institution to the public, hoping that by their continued support and encouragement they may be enabled to render relief to the annually in creasing necessities of the poor, and the urgent calls upon this charity. ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL. There have been cured and discharged from St. Thomas's hospital, in Southwark, the last year, of sick, wounded, maimed, and diseased persons, 3,609 in-patents, and 37,216 medical and surgical out-patients, including casualties, some of whom have been relieved with money and necessaries at their departure, to accommodate and support them in their journeys to their several habita tions 40,825 , Buried from thence, after much charge in . _ their sickness C In-patients Remaining under cure",: Out-patients and ca sualties 249 429 957 So that there have been, during the last year, of poor miserable object; under the care of the said hospital, and destitute of other proper care, in all .......... 42,460 The Governors think it their duty to state, that in consequence 'of the rebuilding of London brilge, and the formation of its new approaches at an elevation of many feet above the old level, they have been obliged to make large purchases of ground and buildings adjacent to the Hospital, at a consider able expenditure of capital, in erder to secure such ventilation and accommodation as are necessary to the health and comforts of the patients. They have also been obliged to rebuild the north wing on a new site, the former building having been rendered inse cure by the removal of the houses adjoining. And they. lave now rebuilt and opened a corresponding wing on the south side, which had become necessary in consequence of the old south wing being 30 dilapi dated, badly lighted, and ventilated, as to snake it un fit for the reception of patients; thereby they have been enabled to admit a larger number of patients within the Hospital. It is, therefore, humbly and earnestly recommended to all charitable persons, that they would be pleased, by their contributions, to en able the Governors to defray these heavy charges, and to meet the still greater outlay which will be requi site to complete the plan of improvements now un avoidably in progress, as well as to continue afford ing, and still further extending relief to, the dis tresses of the numerous sick, maimed, and diseased poor, who daily apply, in large numbers, for the same, as appears from the above and other annual accounts—particularly in the class of surgical out patients, for whose better relief and attendance ar rangements upon unimproved plan have been adopted. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1844. BRIDEWELL HOSPITAL. Reeeived into this Hospital during the last year, under commitments by the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen of this City, as criminal or disorderly persons, who have been kept to hard labour or received correction .. BO4 Apprentices sent by the Chamberlain for solitary confinement .... Received into this Hospital during the same period sundry poor persons, who have been committed for wandering abroad and begging in the City of London . . 1,010 The Governors inform the public that they have opened a new House of Occupation in St. George's fields, where the honest and industrious poor (and more especially the young) are instructed in useful trades, upon a more extensive scale than has been found practicable of late years, owing to the increase of buildings contiguous to the old site, and where, in the case of those who have forfeited their characters in society, the great objects of moral reform, a n d restoration of character (as contemplated by the original charter) are provided for, on an enlarged scale. _ _ _ BETHLEM HOSPITAL. CURABLES. Remaining in the Hospital on the Ist of January, 1843, including those out on leave of absence — Men }1 198 Women 125 Admitted in 1813—Men lO9 1 284 Women" 175 482 DiE.ch irge 1, cured—Men 159 Women 103 } DIU°, uncured Men . 21 Women 56 77 Do.reluestoffriendg—Men 6 12 Women 63 Do. improper objects—Men . 18 1 Women I .1. g 33 Ditto, having been sent out on leave of absence, and-no account reeeired since of their state of mind— Man 1 1 Died - 8 i Wain .. 11 S 19 Remaining on the 31st of December, 1843 Out on leave Men W0men...... 79 16 In the Hospital—Men 165 W omen 100 INC URABLES. Remaining in the Hospital on the Ist of January, 1843 Men 88 Women 5O Admitted in 1843—Man Womo 2 Discharged, cured—Man 1 Do.requestof friends—Men 2 _ _ Died - Men Woman Remaining on the 31st of December, 1843 In the Hospital—Men 84 Women 5O CRIMINALS. Remaining in the Hospital on the Ist of January, 1843 — Men .. 64 t 85 21 Women Admitted in 1843—Men 91 IS 10 Women. Discharged, cured—Women 2 2 Died Men Remaining in the Hospital on the 31st of Dec., 1843 Alen 90 Women 2O Remaining in the Hospital on the Ist of January, including those out on leave— Curables l9B Incurables ..• BBi 371 Criminals , 85 Admitted in 1843—Curibles . 984 Incurables Criminals lO 667 Discharged in various ways in 1843, as specified— Curables 3Ol Incurables Criminals 5 Remaining in the Hospital 31st Dec., 1843, in cluding those out on leave— Curables . 181 Incurables Criminals 90 The Governors inform the public, that a Committee meets every Friday at Bethlem Hospital, to admit and discharge the insane from all parts of the United Kingdom, without expense to their relations or friends. The Hospital for lunatics, on an improved plan, newly erected in St. George's-fields, unites the ad vantages of air, exercise, and out-door occupation for the patients. To extend the means of relief, however, it must be obvious, that nothing short of liberal con tributions on the part of the public at large can suffice, which the Governors most earnestly solicit, and are fully convinced they shall not solicit in vain. CENTRAL CRI VIINAL COURT. There aro at present 260 prisoners for trial ; but that number will very probably be increased to about 350 before the Grand Jury are discharged. Upon the Court being opened, The Low) MAYOR said that he wished to allude to the circumstance of the public being refused admission to the galleries of the Court, which were the only places where they could be accommodated without paying sums of money, varying from five to twenty shillings, accord ing to the importance or interest of the occasion. He thought that this ought not to be. The public had a right to admission to a court Of justice, and no money should be demanded from them. The RECORDER said, undoubtedly, as a general rule, the-public were entitled to admission, but at the same time, care should be taken that order was preserved, and the Court protected from inconvenience. If any rules had been framed relative to the admission of parties to the Court, it was a question whether, upon a sudden, those rules should be interfered with without considera tion, or that the public should be admitted indiscrimi nately without some regulations for the preservation of order. _ The Lonn MAYOR said that all that was required was, that an officer should be in the gallery to see that the persons conducted themselves properly. It was mon strous that when any caw of public interest, such as that of Barber and Fletcher was brought forward, the public should have to pay for admission to hear the trial. Mr. Sheriff MusoaovE wished it to be distinctly un derstood that he was no party to the taking money for admission to the galleries. The Sheriffs had the charge of the Court, and were bound to keep order in it, and so far they were responsible; but he had determined to have nothing to do with the subject of remuneration, or the receipt of Money for :the admission of persons to the gallery. The LORD MAYOR was not. aware' what was done with tho money, but he believed that some portion of it had been applied to the payment of the Lord Mayor's sword bearer. He, however, would not receive any portion of it, and it was his d?sire that the public should be admitted freely to the Court. The RECORDER expressed his opinion that this was hardly an occasion to discuss so important a question, and he would merely remark, that the charge of the CoUrt was vested in the Sheriffs, and it was their duty to preserve order, under the authority of the Lord Mayor, who was the head of the Court. There could be no doubt that it was illegal to demand money for admission to a court of Justice, and any persons who received money would do it at their peril, and would subject themselves to be indicted. Mr. Sheriff Moox begged to be allowed to state that he had nothing to do with the receipt. of money for ad mission to the galleries. and the Grand Jury In the course of the day , Mr. Un der - Sheriff ANDERTON weTreheslcroonrnv.ersation then dropped, addressed the Recorder from the gallery, and said, that although he had given directions that the doors or the gall.,ries: should be kept locked, some one had opened had paid money fur their them, and severnl persons who were then in the gallery The RECORDER gave directions that the person who h ad ad mi informed him that th e y had received the money should be brought into the body of the Court, and this was accordingly done. In answer to questions from the RECORDER, this person said that he took the money under the authority of Mr. Dornton, who rented the galleries from the Sheriffs. The RECORDER said there could be. no doubt that. he was taking the money at the peril of being - indicted. • Mr. Under-Sheriff ANDERTON requested the Court to give an order for the restitution of the 'money that had been receivel. The RECORDER said he could not take upon himself to make such an order, but tne parties who had paid it had their remedy. Mr. Under-Sheriff ANDERTON said he was informed that the doors of the gallery had been f zee(' open by order of the Lord Mayor. It was impossible fur the Sheriffs to keep order in the Court if they were not par mitted to adopt their own measures for that purpose. The RECORDER thought it would be better nut to dis cuss the matter any farther at that moment, particularly as the Lord Mayor had left the Court. All that could now be done was to' place an officer in the gallery to preserve order, and the public would be admitted without interruption. THE WILL FORGERIES. The following is the form in which the several parties charged with being concerned in the Will Forgeries, stand indicted in the calendar : Thomas Griffin, 60, tailor ; William Henry Barber, 36, solicitor ; and Joshua Fletcher, 50, surgeon; are in dicted for feloniously aiding, abetting, and assisting a female unknown, to personate an owner of certain stock, called the Long Annuities, standing on the books of the Bank of. England, to wit, the sister of ono John Ste wart, ..&c. Williar% Saunders, 47, fishmonger, Barber, and Flet cher, are indicted—Saunders for forging and uttering, and Barber for feloniously uttering, a testamentary do cumentary writing, purporting to be the last will and testament of Mary Hunt, deceased, with intent to de fraud our Lady the Queen. Fletcher is charged with feloniously meeting, and procuring Saunders to commit the felony. Georgiana Dorey, 32, and Barber and Fletcher, are indicted—Dorey for uttering a forged writing, purport. ing to be the last will and testament of Eliza Burchard, deceased ; and the other two prisoners are charged with inciting Dorey to the commission of the offence. Lydia Saunders, 38, and Barber and Fletcher are charged upon a fourth indictment—Saunders with utter ing a forged paper, purporting to be the last will and testament of Anne Slack deceased ; and the other pri soners, as in the former indictment, with counselling and procuring her to commit the offence. The trials are not expected to come on before Mon day next. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY•) GUILDRA4L. Charles Freeman, otherwis‘ rather, was brought up in the custody of Daniel Forresto for re-examination, charged with uttering, at Messrs, Child's, the banker's, a forged cheque for 55/. 10s. 2d.; purporting to be drawn by Mrs. M'Pherson, of Cadogan-place, whose trustees have an account at the bank, and permit her to draw. The evidence already published was read over, to the effect that the prisoner presented the cheque as the busi ness was closing; that it was paid, after some scruples as to its genuineness, with three 10/. notes, a 51. note, and the rest in cash; that the prisoner changed one of the 10/. notes at a hatter's in the Strand, in payment for three hats; that two of the hats were sent to Mr. Kebble's,No.3, Dean-street,Soho,where the prisoner was found by Daniel Forrester on Wednesday night last, the cheque having been uttered on the 12th of March. Daniel Forrester now stated that he could carry the .case a little further, by tracing another of the 10/. notes to him, and showing that he went to the banker's. Sir P. LAURIE asked the prisoner if any one was de fending him?—The prisoner replies), no. Sir P. LAURIE asked if he meant to employ any per son.—The prisoner said he could not afford to do it. Sir P. LAURIE asked if he admitted or denied the charge.—The prisoner replied he denied everything, ex-, cept that he bought the hats. Sic P. LAMS, Wing looked M the cheque, expressed some surprise that it was paid, as there were inaccuracies in the spelling of common words. Mr. Shepherd, the banker's clerk, said there were many such genuine cheques paid at banking-houses. The imitation of the lady's signature was good. Alexander Austen, a bookbinder, residing in King street, Long-acre, stated that he knew the prisoner, and met him about three weeks ago, about four o'clock, on a Tuesday. He said he was going to take some money, and should not be above five minutes. Witness accom panied him to the door of the banking-house close to Temple-bar, which the prisoner entered. Witness waited for him twenty-five minutes, and then left, as it began to rain. fie saw the prisoner again the same evening, and was invited to be one of a small party; be intended to dine at the White Lion, Drury-lane. He accepted the invitation, and dined on the Thursday fol lowing. Sir PETER LALTItIE desired him to state who was present. The Witness—There were Mr. Perry, a journeyman printer and comic singer; Mr. Kebble, a picture frame maker; Mr. Willett, a tailor; Mr. Bartlett, a coffee house-keeper; and three others whom he did not know. Richard Watsc•n, apprentice to Mr. Kebble, deposed that he asked the prisoner about a fortnight ago to lend him a few shillings. The prisoner gave him a 10/, note to get change, and he got it changed at Mr. Rippon's, No. 400, Oxford -street, a licensed victualler. Mr. Rippoa identified a note produced by Forrester from the Bank as the one he changed for Watson on the 16th ult., and Mr. Shepherd identified it as one of the not,s he paid to the prisoner in cashing the forged cheque. Mrs. MTherson stated that the cheque was not signed by her. The prisoner was in her service for about a year, and left four months ago. She once sent him with a cheque for his own wages to Child's. A second charge was then entered into. Mr. Frazer, a clerk from Messrs. Child's, proved the payment of a cheque for 351. 16s. 9d., purporting to he drawn by /Sirs. M`Pherson on the 19th of February. He did not remember who received it. He marked the num. hers of the notes he paid on the back of the cheque. The 5L note produced was one of them. James 'lodge, the landlord of the White Lion, Drury lane, stated, that he changed the note produced for the prisoner on. the 19th of February, and paid it on the same day to the brewer. He did not know the prisoner at the time, but found he was known to a young man who frequented his house. He made the prisoner write his name and address on the back of the note. Mr. Keblole, of Dean-street, said he had known the prisoner fro m his boyhood. Ho believed the cheque and the address on the back of the note to bn in the pri soner's havAwriting. Mrs. M'iPherson proved the cheque was forged. Sir PEM'R LAURIE inquired of the banker's clerk if the crime c f forgery was increasing or diminishing? The witaa - ess said it was increasing. The prisoner boldly denied that he hai uttered either of the cheques. Sir PET2EM LAURIE thought the charge was very clearly made out, and committed the prisoner for trial. WORSHIP-STREET. ROBBERY AT A BROTHEL—Yesterday Robert Wendover, a tall thin man, who wore a shade over his eyes, aid Thomas Dennis, a short and thick-set man, wearing a smock• frock, were placed at the bar before Mr.. Broughton, the Magistrate, on suspicion of having loo2en concerned in stealing a valuable gold watch, which was now proved to be the property of Mr. Bennett, a surgeon, resident in Upper Southwick street, Hyde Park. About noon yesterday the prisoner Dennis offered a gold watch in pledge for .51., at the shop of Mr. Peachy, a parnbroker, in Goswell-street, stating that he had been sent with it by Mr. Richards, of North ampton-square. Mr. Peachy detained him in order that he might make inquiry, as he suspected the watch to have 'o,_;en stolen, but while he turned his back the prisoner :ran away, but w2.s pursued and taken back to the s.:J - lop. He got away again, however, but was again pursued, and after a hard run and much enasilig, in the course or which he was lost sight of for a few- minutes, he was at last found concealed in a cow-shed, and was given in charge to police-con stable 92; G. lie then said the fact was, that he had not been sent to pawn the watch by Mr. Richards, but had it from a man with a shade over his eye, and he mentioned where that person was then to be found. Policeman 142 G, said that he went to the St. John of Jerusalem public-house, Jerusalem-square, where he found. in the top room the prisoner Wendorer, who had a shade over his eyes, and answered the descrip tion which the other prisoner had given. Wendover being told that he was taken into custody on suspi cion of stealing a gold watch, said he would say no thing about it till he got to e station-house, where he made a statement to the sergeant on duty. Sergeant Ellis, who received the charge at the sta tion-house, said Wendover told him that he had found the watch in Tottenham-court-road, and that he did not know- what had become of a gold chain which he admitted was then attached to it. On searching him a knife and case, now produced, were found upon •him ; and also a document, produced, which pur ported to be the Queen's free pardon from seven years' transportation. Mr. Ben nett, the surgeon, now identified the gold watch, .and. also a knife and . case now produced; and stated that on Thursday se'n night he went to a place in Brook-street with a female, whom he had met in the New-road, and there lost his watch with gold chain, &c. and also his gold pin, silk handkerchief, tooth pick, knife and case, and about 19s. in cash. The prisoner Wenclovcr, who felt his way as he moved es if nearly blind, now repeated that he bad found the batch, and sent his fellow-prisoner to pawn it. He admitted that he had been convicted and trans ported, but afterwards pardoned, as shown in the pro duced document ; but neither he nor the other pri soner would state where they lived. Mr. BROUGHTON remanded them both. OCCUPATIONS OF THE POPULA TION, ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS OF 1841. That portion of the census which relates to the oc cupations of the population is only completed as to 27 counties ; those not yet finished being the follow ing thirteen, viz. :—Lancaster, Salop, Somerset, Hants, Stafford, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwick, Westmoreland, Wilts, Worcester, and York. These 13 counties include the principal manufacturing counties of England—viz., those of Lancashire, York shire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire ; and there fore it may 4e presumed, that the proportions ex hibited in the other 27 counties will become still more favourable to the manufacturing and trading portion of the people, when these great manufacturinc , districts are included. The proportion of the various classes in 27 counties in England—viz., Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, Chester, Corn wall, Cumberland, Devon, Dorset, Derby, Durham, Essex, Gloucester, Hereford, Hertford, Huntingdon Kent, Leicester, Lincoln, Middlesex, Monmouth Norfolk, Northampton, Northumberland, Notting. ham, Oxford, and llutlandshire, comprising a popula. tion of 28,048,321—are as follow : Farmers, graziers, yeomen Agricultural labourers 640,222 Persons employed in trade and other occupa tions Persons returned as of independent means Residue of population, consisting of almspeo plc, pensioners, paupers, beggars, other per sons (of course including females not in trade, and children) ,tal. population The decimal proportions .of the different classes may therefore be thus stated : Farmers and agricultural labourers 8 per cent. Persons employed in trade and other occupations Persons of independent means Residue of population 1 00• per cen A ITARD CASE.—It is most probably known to our readers that in 1830 an order emanated from the Horse Guards declaring that the widow of no officer who had served for a less period than ten years should be entitled to a pension. It is not our present purpose to discuss the propriety of such an order, so far as it relates to the widows of those who have entered the service as commissioned officers, hut we notice the subject with the most sincere wishes that the authorities at the Horse, Guards will, upon consideration, come to the just and charitable conclusion that the case which we now lay before our readers does not come within the spirit of the order of 1830—a cold interpretation may bring it within the letter. The sad case is this:—A gallant soldier served for twenty-eight years in the ranks of the 78th Regiment, for twenty-five of which he was a non-commissioned officer. He rose to the rank of sergeant-major, serving in the West and East Indies, and was at length, through the unaided recommendation of his own merits, promoted to an ensigncy in the 78th Regiment. From that corps he was removed to the 22d Regiment, and served in the late campaign, under Sir Charles Napier, in Sinde, where he fell a victim to that illness which, more than the enemy's fire, thinned our brave army. At the time of his death this officer was acting adjutant to a wing of the regiment, and we are assured that had a vacancy occurred, his gallant commander, Colonel Pennefather, who has often spoken of him as one of the best officers and soldiers he ever knew, would have made him adjutant to the regiment. The widow of this old soldier and officer ap plies for the usual pension ; she is met by the order of 1830, and told that she has no claim, inasmuch as her husband had not served his Sovereign as a commissioned officer for 10 years. In the name of common justice, is this tho fitting answer to give to the widow of a gallant soldier who, though not promoted to an ensigney until 1838, had been faithfully serving in every subordinate grade of the profession from 1816? The case of this widow is still further aggravated by the misfortune of her having to maintain two daughters by a former mar riage of her late gallant husband. Most sincerely do we hope that the authorities at the Horse Guards may re consider this case, which is not more distressing than it will be disgraceful to the national honour, should - the just claim of the afflicted widow be repulsed by the un feeling interpretation of an order which never contem plated such a claim.—Observer. -The Earl of Iladdington visited sir James Graham yesterday, THORWALDSEN. The first efficient patron of this great artist vas an Englishman. In the year 1800, Thomas Hope, who had heard of the skill of the young Danish sculptor at Rome, ordered from him a copy of his colossal statue of "Jason," in marble, and enabled Bartel Thorvaldsen to remain and prosecute his studies in the capital of the arts. Thorvaldsen (it is thus he wrote his own name) was born in 1770, during a journey made by his family from Iceland to Copenhagen. His father, Golskalk Thorwaldsen, was a carver of figure-heads for ships, his mother the daughter of a clergyman. The child showed an early disposition for drawing, and was placed by his parents, whose circumstances were narrow, at the Arts Academy of Copenhagen, where he was received without charge. He began early to exercise his skill, it is said, upon the figure heads at which his father laboured, and at which the young Thorvaldsen would work when he carried his dinner to the carver at the wharf. At the academy he gained no prize, however, until 1787, and the great silver medal two years later, when the historical painter, Abildg,.aard took a fancy to him, and gave him further instruction in the general principles of art. In 1791, Thorvaldsen gained the small gold medal for his composition of " Heliodorus chased from the Temple," and at the same time the pa tronage of the Minister of State, Count Reventlow. In 1793, his mezzo-relievo of "Peter healing a Lame Man at the Gates of the Temple," obtained for the young man the great gold medal and the three years' travelling studentship. But before he took advantage of the means thus afforded to him for visiting the wonders of art in the south, he devoted a couple of years to labour at home, and completed several pieces of sculpture. On the 20th of May, 1796, Thorvaldsen left Co penhagen in a Danish ship of war ; but the voya g e of the young sculptor was so tedious and dangerous that he did not reach Rome till May, 1797, having passed by Malta, Naples, and Palermo. The presence of the great works of art which here surrounded him, if they inspired him with energy and emulation, filled him often at the same time with despair ; and stories are told of works which were completed by the young man, and then broken to pieces and thrust aside in a corner of his studio. However others might praise him, he was the last to be contented with himself. His three years' salary was come to an end, and he had made preparations to return to Denmark, with the clay model of the Jason statue, which he had completed for the academy (after having broken up the first figure of the natural size), when Mr. Hope ordered the marble of him, and enabled him, by his munificent remuneration, to remain in Rome. It is to this timely patronage that we probably owe much that has been left us by the greatest of modern masters. Wealth and honour now flowed in upon him. All the great patrons of art thropghout Europe were anxions for works from his hands, and he remained in Rome until the year 1819, occupied with prodigious activity. Having to make a monument for the Swiss who fell at Paris in 1792 (the wounded Lion), he determined to visit the place where the monument was to be erected, and at the same time to take the opportunity of revisiting his native country. While in Copen hagen the Government ordered from him statues of the " Saviour," the "Baptist," and the " Twelve Apostles," for the Frauenkirche, then newly built; and it was with these works that he occupied himself, especially on his return to Rome. He returned to Copenhagen finally in 1837, having completed, in the forty-two years of his labour, about two hundred great works and a great number f busts. A series of outlines from 'ihorraldsen's works (Stuttgard, 1839), from which the above biographical sketch is taken, mentions the English possessors of some of his principal , pieces. Mr. Hope was th e pur chaser of the " Jason,' the " Psyche," and the " Genius and Art ;" the Duke of Bedford of the has - relief of " Briseiz ;" Lord Lucan of the famous "Day and Night ;" Lord Ashburton of the " Hebe ;" and Lord F. Egerton of the " Ganymede." We have received the following from an eminent sculptor, to whom Thorwaldsen was known, and the details he gives of the character of the great man, of whom he himself is a worthy disciple, and whose in tense love of art for its own sake, he shares, will be read with interest : "Before leaving England, Lady It - took me to Chantry's studio, that he might give me some advice how to study. A footman opened the door, and Chantry's conversation was all about dukes and royalty. He never spoke a word to me, but sneered several times at the idea of any one going to Italy to study. " Three weeks after that, one fine morning saw me knocking at a door in a common stair on the Pincian hill at Rome, covered with names in chalk, a mode adopted by people instead of leaving their cards, on not finding any one at home. I was fortunate ; and the artist himself opened the door, in a dressing gown, old and worn, and his long grey hair flowing on his shoulders, round a square-shaped head, a broad and rather low forehead, under which shone a pair of the mildest grey eyes I had ever seen. Bene volence and simplicity marked his character. He carried a piece of clay in one hand, and a modelling stick in another. The room I entered, upon his cour teously asking us to do so (Wyatt, the sculptor, was with me), had a plain tile floor ; the tables were covered with prints and casts, and the walls were hung with early pictures of young artists and parts of his " Triumph of Alexander." He was making a small model in clay of his equestrian statue of " Maximilian of Bavaria." I used the name of Lady R- as commissioned to do. He immediately in vited me to call on him whenever I chose, at this, his private studio ; and said that any work I wished to copy in the collection of his works I was at liberty to do ; that all that was necessary was to inform the custode of the studio, and the work would be brought out for me ; and that if I had no materials of my own, everything in that shape was at my service. I lost no time, ani commenced a study of his Mer cury: Every day this benevolent, and good, and true artist came into the principal studio about mid day; he would come up to me, praise my work first, and then point out errors, and as the most positive language, take the modelling tool himself, and by a few strokes inform me of my error, and in a manner u hich excited in me the most devotional feeling to this father in art. " This conduct was uniform, and during my resi dence in Rome, for two years, I never experienced any difference. I had the use of his study whenever I chose ; and whenever I got up a statue at my own place, Thorwaldsen was ever ready to come from the the Piazza 13arbarini, to the Piazza del Popolo, where I was, to give me his advice ; he has come these two miles ,in a day in July, found me out, written his name on my door with a piece of chalk, and that he would be back in one hour, as it might be. He would then go off to some other student to perform a like office, assist in arranging his draperies, and then re turn to me. All this he did for me, and he never expected, and I never paid him one farthing. Similar traits in his character are innumerable, and I believe no artist yet asked his advice that he did not feel anxious to give it ; he really lived, as I have heard him say an artist ought to do, for art itself. Though simple in his manners, he was the companion of princes, apparently estimating them only as they loved art, and approximated to the artist. The present King of Bavaria was his pupil and friend. The Giar dino di Malta, belonging to his Majesty opposite Thorwaldsen's studio, was itself a studio. Everybody loved Thorwaldsen, and the enthusiasm of his coun trymen, when he returned to Copenhagen, having bequeathed the results of his long life to them, speaks volumes as to the man. _ _ _ "Among his principal works were the model of the Triumph of Alexander, a has relief, 140 feet long and 3 feet high, conceived and executed in three months, Thorwaldsen having volunteered to execute it for Napoleon's residence, the Pope's Palace, on the Quirinal, showing the most masterly modelling ever seen. His Mercury slaying Argus is unrivalled, and among a collection of the antique appears where it ought to be. His equestrian statue of Poniatowsky is a large work, not equally worthy of him ; but Poniatowsky standing is perfect, only eclipsed by Flaxman's Sir John Moore. His great group of St. John preaching in the Wilderness, is charaterised by a species of Raphaelesque expression, and one portion, a youth leaning on the shoulder of an old man, is the most divine thing ever seen ; the intellectual expres sion of calm old age, and the awakening intelligence of the youth, elevate the soul to a degree not to be conceived unless seen. His Saviour and the Twelve Apostles, a colossal work—Christ being eighteen feet high, and the others twelve each—are wonderful draperied figures, characteristic to the highest degree of the different men ; the draperies seem as if one could raise them, they are so exquisitely cast and executed. His great monument of the Pope Pius, in St. Peter's, contrasts unfavourably with Canova, who was the greatest artist of th e t wo i n the nudo—wit ness Palamedes, the Nixus-Theseus, and the Centaur, contrasted with Thorwaldsen's Mars; but in female form and simple beauty of expression, Thorwaldsen was immeasurably his superior, witness the contrast of the two Hebe s, Night and Morning, Hercules and 10, and the multitude of beautiful little exqui site bas-reliefs Thorwaldsen was ever producing. Art must feel his loss as European ; and it is to the ho nour of our country that Mr. Hope gave him his first commission, Jason with the Golden Fleece. I hava always understood that Thorwaldsen was sent to Rome by the academy at Copenhagen, having got a passage to Naples in a Danish frigate, and that for the first two years in Italy he did nothing except study the German and Italian languages, and when his time was nearly expired he began his Jason, which contrasted favourably with Canova's style ; it was a novelty; it was seen aid appreciated by Mr. Hope, and thus was fixed Thorwaldsen's career in I Rome. " Re had A uatural daughter, a very beautiful wo- man, Who has been married to a Baron -, Gentle man of the Bedchamber of the King of Denmark. "He was about five feet nine inches in height and a portrait, lately published of him, and which may be seen at Molten° s, is a perfect likeness." AME RICAN PAPERS. The following are from the file of American jour' nals received by the Montezuma : A medical man, who has lived in Montreal for some time, has been detected at the head of an organised band of young thieves, who robbed under his direc tion and carried their booty to him. A shopkeeper in good circumstances and respectably connected is under recognizance for no less a crime than that of breaking through the partition wall of his own house, into his neighbour's, and robbing him of property to a large amount. SHOCKING MURDER.—The Natchez Courier gives the following particulars of a dreadful murder recently perpetrated in Louisiana : A Miss Demoss was killed about the 14th of Fe bruary, near Minden, Claiborne parish, Louisiana. She left the house of a neighbour in the evening to return to the house of her father, a respectable planter, but not arriving, a search was commenced, and a young man, by name Lambwright, was met in the woods. Upon the searching party proposing to go up a certain branch, he stated that it was no use, he had been there hunting, &c. They did go, however, and found her dead. She had been violated, severely beaten, and then her head was held under water to finish the work of death. Some other circumstances have excited suspicion of Lambwright, but there is no positive evidence against him. He is a young man, married, with one child, and before his marriage had addressed Miss Demoss, and been by her rejected. GENERAL ROSAS AND MS DAUGHTER.—It iS Said that Rosas has invested largely in the English funds, With an eye to a future loss of power, but at present there is no appearance of a change. His only family is a, daughter, Dona Manuelita—a young and unmarried • lady—handsome, fond of music and of dancing, who, at her father's country residence a few miles out of the city, entertains his numerous visiters with cour tcsy and grace—part of the nature of a Spanish girl. The general manner and modes of thought of the fair sex of that fair region, as well as some features in the character of Rosas, are well illustrated by an hi: cident—the truth of which lam sure of. Rosas had caught a certain Colonel, a bitter enemy, one of the " salvajos Unitarios," and cut off his ears, presenting them to his daughter. La Senorita Manuelita pre served them among the valuables of her parlour table, and when exhibiting her various curiosities, as young ladies like to do, she would direct the especial atten tion of her visiters to the ears, and narrate, with a sparkling eye and a heightened colour, that they . once belonged to her father's enemy, the savage Unitarian Colonel. AN OFFER PROMPTLY ACCEPTED.—OR Saturday morning the Editor of the Advertiser issued a call for for "four hundred TVhig subscribers" to his daily paper—the subscriptions to be paid if the Loco-Foc o candidate for the Presidency should be successful' But if, on the contrary, Henry Clay should succeed° no pay would be required. When this offer becam e k flown about town, subscription papers were opened at various places; and before night the " four hull" dred Whig subscribers " were obtained.—Roehester Democrat. DEATH OF SALAZAR.—W e have recently con; versed with a man who left the neighbourhood 0 1 Santa Fe last summer, who gives us the particular s of the death of the notorious Salazar, the miscrean t from whom the Texan Santa Fe prisoners received such brutal treatment while in New Mexico. Ik e was out upon an expedition in the Indian count* stealing horses, and while thus engaged was waylaid, killed and scalped, and his body left a prey to th e buzzards and prairie wolves—a fate similar to that to which he consigned some five or six of the unfortir nate Texans who were entrusted to his charge be" tween San Miguel and El Paso del Norte. For these acts of more than barbarian cruelty he was ordered t e , be tried by th e M ex i can Go v ernment; b u t so isolate is Santa } that he found means to escape. A WI cruel, relentless, h ear tl ess v ill a i n p ro b a bly neve r lived than Salazar, and it would almost seem an act of re' tributive justice that he has thus fallen.—New O f ' leans Picayune. Mr. Southard, the late Treasurer of New Sers e /' whose accounts were lately reported as showing s ue ficiency of between 4,000 and 5,000 dolls., has w rittl a letter to the Legislature, in which he offers to sea ° to the State by bond and mortgage upon unincute: bered real estate, the whole amount of the defalcatiou reported against him. (From the New Orleans Picayune of March 3.) FATAL D VEL.—A fatal duel was fought on Thur s ; day last at - Vicksburg, between Mr. Hammet, edi tn t c ' t of the Vicksburg Whig, (and brother of the Mernuv r of Congress from Mississippi,) and Mr. Ryan, .edi, t % of the Sentinel. They fought with pistols. At W fourth fire Mr. Ryan fell mortally wounded, beinv d shot directly through the lungs. He died within t e l minutes. In two of the previous fires Mr. Hamm et had been wounded, but the affair was allowed to pr"' ceed. Our readers may recollect that the same If. ties had before met and exchanged shots with riT and that the difficulty was then arranged upon t ad ground. They will remember, too, that Mr. It); was the successor of Dr. Hagan in the editorial ch at who was killed within the last year. ere SUPPOSED MURDER.—WhiIe some labourers - w employed clearing away the materials of houses le i cently pulled down at the corner of Walnut ej .. Water-streets—a part of the city of notoriously 7 0 repute—they discovered in the cellar the a hues body, buried about six inches below the surface. is the body 'of a female, evidently young, rot" teeth are quite perfect, habited in an ordinary ble c , i 3 O silk dress, black hair, faste ne d u p a t th e b ac k of I.' l head with a comb. The trunk of the body, thotig f • disembowelled by decay, is yet in a good stat e m °, preservation, but the fl es h is quite gone from "0 head and arms. On the head the hair is nearly remaining. After the body was deposited to the earth, a thick coating of lime a ppears A , O have been poured over it, doubtless for r ot; double purpose of accelerating decay and preven t : b ig any offensive effluvia arising therefrom. Taking ' OO in connexion with the fact of her being attired i n ordinary everyday dress, there can be little do u is that a murder has been committed. The body ee supposed to have lain there two or three years. Thfbe or four years ago a man named Roach resided in t o house, who was a widower, and had a daughter eighteen years of age living with him. This l o t married a second time, and it was well known th is both he and his second wife severely ill-treated -1 4 daughter; for she was often seen with her q if black and her body bruised. At last she s uddeVy disappeared, very soon after which Roach and re wife abruptly left this country for Ireland, and i` not since been heard of. " th, d to dent' The Aurora says, ..e young man sentenceL for aiding in the escape of a quadroon slave hat i .' - if o pardoned by the Governor of South Carolina. - 11 e however, to be publicly whipped." DARING FEAT.—Mr. Daly, the celebrated ste e l v , chase rider, betted a wager with Mr. Sefton, of u r- t fj oi ham, that he would jump the rails and dyke in fil t he the Lincoln stand with the reins in his mouth t0, 1 ,, u , stirrups over the saddle ; and w hi c h he cleverly (LI 0 0 complished after the seco n d race , on a h o rse he ha" crossed before.—Stamford Paper. HARRIED. tie Te igi ; On the 16th of January, at St. George's Church, Ca l ms Cape of Good Hope, Thomas William Green, Esq., to P• Jane, youngest daughter of the late A. Barker , 149 ' Waterford, Ireland. a h On the 4th inst., at St. Mary's, Hornsey, George ,— b c ter ° Esq., of Sewardstone, Essex, to Eleanor, eldest dank it Charles, I'errott, Esq., of Highgate. " M e t On the sth inst., at St. Olave's, Hart-street, a tfl oae,„ Hurst, only child of the late Jcseph Hurst, Esq., of ton-place, to Helen, second daughter of Mr. Thoma s • son, of Mark-lane. a JO On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Hanover- a q ua Lawrence, Esq., of Brunswick House, Windsor, to Ell i wia daughter of Henry Saunders, Esq., Winchester Tower, sor Castle. gifig 'P a f ' On the 6th inst., at Headley, Thomas Lac' bter arms-yard, Esq., solicitor, to M ar i anna , eldest &Logo , Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N., of lleacrore, Sur D/ED. 9 44 On the Gth inst., at Homerton, Rober t s o n , t late of Kindence, Ross-shire, North Britain, aged 80,ande On the 24th of January, in camp at Gwalior, • th Macqueen, Esq., M.D., of her Majesty's 3d Foot . oftis„ On the 30th of January last, in camp , near. kitoio,'' Charles, youngest son of W. J. Thompson, Esq, 34. by square, of the 36th Madras Native Infantry, aged Jo On the 12th of February, at Calcutta, Lieutemw .e. William Henry Pownall, aged 27. C On the 22d of February last, iu Bombay , Capt ain of Denton, of the Company's Service. On the 18th ult., at Tours, Anne, wife of R. Ravre ' felef Stratford-grove, Essex. On the 29th ult., at Hastings, the Re v. Edward Mitford, aged 32. se Al On the 31st ult., at Inchbrayock, near Blonttrpe ,130 the wife of Major-General Archibald Watson, of t h e Light Cavalry London: Printed and Published by MURDO . 1O 0. 10; No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Offieet4 l ol 0 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the in laiddleata l Tuesday , April 9, 1844. Savoy, the Vv T"1 th, nitthe Nuelted " 44 02 wi Se • of Au ( rn TC 11 . 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On the 4th inst., at Upper Seymour-street, Euston-sq Mrs. Taylor, of a son. ,-,_ n et* On the 4th inst., at Reading, the lady of Major -ve " Tickell, C. 8., Bengal Engineers, of a son. ,ktirlh On the 4th inst., at Chester, the lady of Sir Walker, of a son. 10 1* On the sth inst., at John-street, Berkeley-squar e ' Harry Surman, of a son. o il, ( On the sth inst., at Kilburn, Mrs. Edward Hodgkiuse a daughter. i f of On the sth inst., at Henlow, Bedfordshire, the if- -e Stuart, Esq., of a daughter. dee , 0 6 On the 6th inst., in Montagu-place, Bryanston-squad' lady of 11. P. GippF, Esq., of a son. , ill e On the 6th inst., at Gordon-place, Tavistock-squ a— ' lady of john Fenton, Esq., of a son, Stae Y On the 6th inst., at St. John's-terrace, Park-road , well, the lady of the Rev. A. Walbaum, of a dats2 .. .._