The Sun. — London, England, 1839-03-28 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. SHOREDITCH AND THE NEW POLICE BILL-(YESTERDAY.) A meeting, got up by the Vestry, to petition against the Metropolitan Bill, was held at the Church of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, and was attended by the most numerous assemblage which had ever been got together in that neighbourhood before or since the passing of the Reform Bill. Th e Ch urc h was li tera ll y cramme d f rom I floor to ceiling. Mr. THOMAS REECE, Churchwarden, in the Chair. Letters were received from Lord Stanhope, Mr. Byrim, M.P., Dr. Lushington, M.P., and Mr. Clay, M.P., apologizin g for not attending. The letters of Mr. Clay an d Dr. Lushington occasioned a heavy dis cussion as to the propriety of having them inserted on the minutes. Mr. GouGu said he thought that the conduct of these Members with regard to those Bills was of that sort that it de ser v e d the utmost expression of disap probation.—( Hear, hear.) They had never read or examined those Bills, or if they had it was rather extra ordinary the small quantity of knowledge which they had extracted from that reading. Indeed, Dr. Lushington had said that he thought the Bill a pretty good one, but that it wanted weeding.—(Hear.) He (Mr. Gough) thought this meeting should give their Representatives a lesson that would be of use to them, and he thought they should not separate without testifying their disap probation of the Government which wanted to coerce them by the infliction of this Bill.—(Hear, and cheers.) Mr. SOLOMONS defended the conduct of their Representatives. An amendment proposed, to the effect that the letters should not be inserted on the minutes, was withdrawn. The letters were ordered to be inserted on the minutes. A resolution, to the effect that the petition prepared by the Committee be read and adopted, was proposed by Mr. PRICE, who said that if any petition better than that which they had seen advertised through the Papers, and which he had drawn up, they should bring it before the meeting at once, and he should withdraw that which he now had the honour to present. They had heard of an Irish Coercion Bill, but now they had to deal with an English Coercion Bill, which he hoped they (the meeting) would assist in getting rid of.--(Hear, hear.) They had heard of the 9.0,000,000 which had been voted for the redemption of the blacks in the West Indies, now the same persons who had passed that measure wish to enslave the people of England. The delay that was occasioned in carrying forward this Bill was of this much use, that it would give them an opportunity to con sider that Bill under all its bearings, and enable them to testify their opinion of those hateful persons who are seeking to inflict it, as they did the detestable Poor law, on the country.—(Hear, and great cheering.) He conjured them not to give way to clamour : it was necessary that this, the largest meeting that has !,,et been held on the Police Bill, should separate with a character for order and tranquillity, which this great parish had always maintained.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped that they would not persevere in their intention of getting a hearing for those Char tist gentlemen whom they had invited to attend.— (" We will.") Mr. Price went into a lengthened detail of those clauses of the Bill which would press most heavily on the inhabitants of London. He thought that those who framed this Bill, and who were pro posing to pass it, should be not only sent to the tread mill, which they had intended for the people, but trans ported for seven years.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Mr. Price continued to comment on the Bill at fur ther length, and kept the meeting in a state of laughter for some time at his ludicrous descriptions of Lord John Russell and the new caricatures. He described his conversation with Mr. Clay, and then proceeded to say that we should not have the Bill at any price.—( Hear, hear, and immense cheers.) He asked was there any one there of so nondescript a way of thinking that could imagine to himself that in this great parish, with 80,000 inhabitants, we wanted anything more in the way of coercion ?—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Was it to be borne that policemen should have the power to break open their houses day or night.—(Sham e , shame.) Is it not better to get rid of it altogether than think to amend those clauses which all acknowledge to be bad. If there is any man here who may be induced to support the Bill, let him be heard with impartiality. If there is any Magistrate, policeman, or other person, who is interested in its passing, will point:out any advan tage which may be in it, he would willingly hear him.— (" We won't have it at all," " Hear, hear," and cheers.) He begged leave to move the adoption of the petition, which the Vestry Clerk should read. Mr. WEIR, the Vestry Clerk, then read the peti tion, which prayed the House of Commons not to pass the new Police Bill or the new Metropolitan Courts' I Bill. Mr. GOUGII said the exposition which they had heard from Mr. Price of the character of that Bill would, he was sure, be enough to enlist their exertions in order to prevent its being passed. The cries of the people are not allowed to come to the ears of their young and amiable Queen. Their petition, if sent to the House of Commons, is Burked ; on its presentation to that house it is not required. What is its nature ? it is merely mentioned that it is the petition of the inha bit ants of Shoreditch, and there it lies. They lived in very eventful times. A. new power had arisen among them, with influence, as great as any of the other three powers, which were in being for ages.--(Hear). With the opinions of this power, he agreed in the abstract, and although differing from them in some of their measures, he would accord to them that they seemed to pay more attention to the people's interest, than any of the other powers.—(Hear, and Cheering for the Chartists.) Mr. Attwood, the other night in the House of Commons, told those contemptible Whigs, as he termed them, that the measures which had brought England to its present awful state, if not soon re traced, the country would be driven to a state of anarchy and confusion which could not be remedied till ages had passed away. Mr. Gough recommended their discon necting themselves with any thing appertaining to phy sical force. It was what the Ministry wanted, in order I to put them down by force of arms.—(Hear, and cries •of " Never, never—we will put them down.") Mr. DYSON said that his ground of opposition to this measure was much higher than what had been taken he those gentlemen who had preceded him. It was that it infringed on the liberties of those who had little liberty remaining to them, namely—three millions of the ' unrepresented.—(Hear, and cheers.) He moved an amendment, that unless Universal Suffrage was had no good measures could be obtained at the hands of the Legidature. Mr. Dyson proceeded to say that un less the fear of physical force was behind, no good could be obtained from moral force.—(Hear, hear.) He thought every person £hould have arms.—(Cheers.) Mr. WILLIAMS, of Long-alley, seconded the amend- 1 ment. Mr. CIIILDS supported the petition against the Police Bill, and resolution which proposed it, in a speech of great length and ability. Mr. PEARCE said that, in order that the meeting might be unanimous, he would engage to pass the amendment of Mr. Dyson if the meeting would pass the petition.—(Great Cheering.) The CHAIRMAN having put the amendment for the adoption of a resolution for Universal Suffrage, it was carried by a forest of hands and an enthusiastic repeti tion of applause, that continued for some minutes. There were twelve hands held up against the resolu tion. Mr. PRICE proposed that a petition founded on the foregoing resolution s should be adopted. Mr. Goucll, in seconding this resolution, would not detain the meeting at that late hour ; but he could not refrain from calling their attention to the victory they had gained, in order that they might give the due con sideration which it deserved to the question of Univer -1 sal Suffrage.—(Hear, hear.) They, the poor, had as much right to make the laws as the highest in the land. Was there a poor man in the country but paid more taxes than any Nobleman ? What was the reason that Universal Suffrage was hitherto kept cl.,wn ? It was a secret, but although it was so, it was easy to guess that by keeping it from the people, the governing party had it in their power to keep up tax ation and aristocracy.--(Hear, and great cheering.) If those people who wished to deprive the nation of its right to Universal Suffrage,did persevere in their present line of conduct, they might provoke the people to mea sures to which themselves would be sure to fall a sacri fice. Why, if the working classes were to stop their hands from labour for six days, what would be the state of the country.—(Hear, and great cheering.) Mr. Gough continued'at great length to enforce the necessity of Uni versal Suffrage, and concluded by saying that they should march in moral array to the House of Commons, in peaceable order. with their petition, at the head of six or seven hundred thousand people, and perhaps then they should be heard by that House. The Constitution of England was enough if it could be remodelled. It would bring them peace, order, ships, commerce, trade, and happiness. Mr. Gough sat down amid the most unbounded applause. The resolution was put and carried with twelve dis sentients. Mr. PEARCE proposed that the petition shoold be entrusted to Sir M. Wood for presentation in the Com- mons Mr. GouGil seconded it. Mr. '.EAacE said that as Earl Stanhope bad done their cause- service, in his opposition to the New Poor law and Lord Brougham, he would beg to move that their petitio should be entrusted to him for presenta tion to the Lords. Mr. GoOGI I seconded the resolution. It passed with the same dissentients as before. The g e ntleman w h o led the opposition created great l aug h ter from the vivacious manner in which he acted. I.a o.Ae resoluti on to address t he Queen for Universal Suf t was also passed with acclamation. 411tA. resolution empowering the Vestry Clerk to get RA I , A lotions inserted in rhe Sun, as well as the • •ral ,Pape rs , was passed w i th acclamation. itis44, .Jotr the Q ueen , t h ree c h eers f or t h e i r 1 .1 `*l4 : an, and three cheers for the h tl!ree. groans for the Mi n i s t ers , he imtneva.se meetingos separated in '' , ..1 4 `~ ' l IRISH RAILWAYS (From the Times.) We are happy to pereeive evident signs of the coming discomfiture of the Irish railway job. Even some of the steadiest 'supporters of the present Go vernment have refused to swallow the pill, and the Ministerial prints have since taken those gentlemen to task for their insubordination in a tone of half suppli cation, half menace, which smacks considerably of despair for the success of this audacious attempt. Lord Brougham—the " stormy peterel" of the political horizon—has already sounded the tocsin of opposition in the House of Lords, and Mr. Whittle Harvey's motion for a return of the names of the Members through whose property the proposed railroad is to pass, is likely to throw additional light on the subject. We cannot believe, notwithstanding the clear expo sition of Sir Robert Peel, whose opinion was supported by several of the subsequent speakers from both sides of the House, that the Members who voted with Mi.. nisters for making railways in Ireland at the public ex pense, could for a moment have reflected on the con sequences of the important principle they were adopting, and of the grave and dangerous precedent they were fur nishing for future legislation. We have always admit ted, and it is self-evident, that if the interference of the State were not invariably found injurious, or even fatal, to all the undertakings with which it comes in contact, and to lead to the grossest jobbing, extrava gance, and mismanagement, it might and probably would be advisable that Government should take upon itself the construction and administration of all railways, in England and Scotland as well as in Ireland, for the purpose of rendering those important means of commu nication a public highway, of giving the accommodation they afford at the lowest possible rate that will cover the necessary expenditure, and of always being at full li berty to adopt such regulations and make such improve ments as circumstances and the interests of the public might render desirable. But we maintained, and we still maintain, that long experience has proved the Goverment in this country to be utterly incapable of that econominal and effective system of management by which alone the fore going advantages could be derived from the construction of railroads at the public expense. Look at the Post office, look at the packet service, look, in short, at any and every, undertaking labouring under the incubus of Government management, and compare its tortoise pace with the giant strides of individual enterprise, its callous indifference for the interests of the public, and some times even its indolent contempt for their wishes and opinions, with the zeal, the promptitude, and the intelli gence which are displayed in the arrangements of most private undertakings in this country, because called forth by that most powerful—perhaps the only really efficient—of human motives—self-interest. We hear much of the irresponsibility of joint-stock companies and individual capitalists ; but are they not actuated by the all-powerful motive just mentioned to study the wishes and convenience of the public, upon whose patronage alone depends the success of their un dertakings ? Even, however, should this motive alone not be found sufficient to insure the necessary accom modation (of which strong symptoms have certainly appeared in the case of one or two Railroad Companies) there can be no great difficulty in enforcing it by a few simple regulations on the part of the Legislature. But once give the management of railroads and other similar undertakings into the hands of Government, and what will be the alleged irresponsibility of companies when compared with that of the nominal servants, but, as daily expe rience shows, the real masters of the public, who pays them, and with the insolent bearing of most of these uncontrolled Jacks in-office? Responsibility of Go vernment officials, indeed ! Who has not been detained by the hour in public offices, or obliged to call again re peatedly, for a matter requiring but a moment's attention, because the clerk or other official whose duty it was to at tend to it was reading a newspaper, or chatting with ano ther, or not yet come to the office, or gone to take his lunch, or attending on some superior ? And who has not been paid with black looks, but oftener with some insolent reply, if he has ventured to express his impa tience or dissatisfaction even in the most forbearing manner ? Again, see the blind partizanship, and the zealous, and often not over-scrupulous, esprit de corps, with which all public functionaries are defended by their official fellows in Parliament when their conduct is impugned. A poor friendless clerk might indeed be dismissed to appease complaints, and to make a show of deference to public opinion ; but let the culprit be a re lative or protege of some Whig influential—and if in Ire land,even but a twenty-fifth cousin of one of the Tail,or an acquaintance of the priest—and he will snap his fingers at all threats of complaint, and continue his course with perfect impunity. Why, one of the greatest evils of Government management is, that public employes are, really and practically, under no responsibility, and that they have no motive for exertion, no interest in the success of the business with which they are connected. They receive neither more nor less salary whether their official duties be zealously or indifferently per formed, and as they know full well that promotion de pends upon interest, and not upon merit or real claims, their only study is to get through their work with as little trouble as they can. As to the economy of Government management, it is surely impossible to mention it seriously—in Ireland, too, above all countries, where we shall now perhaps be told that the purity of its moral atmosphere would be as promptly fatal to any attempted job as the effect of St. Patrick's charm is said to be to every reptile. But if Parliament decide that, notwithstanding these objections and all previous received opinions on the subject, it is advisable that Government should undertake the making of a railroad from Dublin to Cork and Limerick, that decision must and will apply not only to every other part of Ireland, but also to the whole of England, Scotland, and Wales. It is mere quibbling to say that Ireland is p oor , th a t s h e h as not within hrself sufficient capital to construct railroads, and that the expected return for the necessary outlay is not sufficient to tempt English capitalists to embark in the enterprise. Cannot Wales, cannot the interior of Scotland, cannot most of the agricultural di s t r i c t s even in England, more or less, sa y th same thing with perfect truth ! The complaints from Members connected with other parts of Ireland, which immediately followed Lord Morpeth's proposition, are but a very small foretaste of the clamour with which Parliament will be assailed from every corner of the kingdom, if it persevere in the determination adopted that evening. Every Member will have a railroad to propose and urge for his part of the country, and will point to the grant of 2,500,000/. for the Irish south-western line as an unde niable precedent for the claim of his constituents. Once open the door to such claims—once recognize such a principle, and it will be impossible to limit its applica tion, or to shut out the torrent that will overwhelm Parliament. Government must then undertake the con struction of railroads in every part of the kingdom, which has not the means of effecting it itself, or where the profit is not sufficient to tempt capitalists ;orMinisters must ac knowledge that this isanother job to propitiate the Agitator and his band. They ask only for 2,500,000/ ,just to begin with, not to alarm John Bull too much ; but the °Tow!. ings of the rest of the kennel, whose turn to be fed was not yet come, sufficiently indicated what the extent of the feeding will eventually be. The truth of all this, and the innate modesty of Irish Representatives, have since been strikingly illustrated by the bashful motion of Mr. French for extending the job of Government rail way-making to the province of Connaught ! Lord Morpeth conveniently assumed, like the Com missioners, that it was necessary for the public to make railroads in Ireland, because no companies would undertake them. But this is a most unfounded as sumption, as proved by the Commissioners' own Re port. There were more companies and capitalists than enough in the field before the Commission was issued ; but all indix idual enterprise was first stopped by that step, and next destroyed by delay of now three years, during which that inquiry and its adjuncts have entirely suspended all the proceedings of the in tended companies. This is another proof of the blessings and boasted advantages of Government inter ference ! Mark the honesty and ingenuousness of the Commissioners, and of their friends the Ministers. They first stop private enterprise, and tire it out by delays and disappointments, and then turn round and say, " Oh, there is nobody who will undertake these rail roads, and as Ireland must of course have railroads like other countries, we must make them for her." If; as was truly observed by Sir Robert Peel, railroads in Ireland be a profitable investment, why not leave them to companies and capitalists ! But if they be not profit able, it shows that that country is not yet in a state to require them, and you have no right to undertake them, unless you be also prepared to extend the same advan tage to all other parts of the kingdom. As far as we can understand from Lord Morpeth's confused statement, and from the Commissioners' Re port, the estimate adopted by Ministers for the cost of the intended railroads is about 10,0001. per mile, while the report states that the average estimated expense in England has been about 17,0001. per mile, and the cost of the Belgian railways, so much lauded by Ministers, 8,5001. per mile. Now, so far from this result being, as Lord Morpeth and his colleagues seemed to flatter themselves, conclusive against the English system and in favour of the Belgian, it is exactly the re verse. Belgium is, of all countries in the world, the most favourable for the construction and operation of railroads. The surface is almost invariably flat ; its soil is soft and free from rock, stones, or other impe diments ; labour is little, if any, more than one-third of its cost in England, and not cheap but bad, as in Ireland, but cheap and good, from the low price of provisions, the constant employment of the people, and their industry and manual skill ; and the cost of the railroads was not enhanced, as it has been in England, in many cases several thousand pounds per mile, by the cost of an Act of Parliament, of buying off opposition, of paying exhorbitant demands for the land wanted or for damages, and of other exactions. If, therefore, all these relative circum stances be taken into consider a ti on , i t w ill b e seen that 17,00 01 . per mile is considerably cheaper for Eng land than 8,500/. for Belgium ; and, consequent l y, t h at the case adduced by the Commissioner s and by Ministers as an illustration of the advantages of the principle the THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 2R, 1839 have adopted, affords, on the contrary, an additional proof of its fallacy. Again, the cost of railroads both in Belgium and Great Britain shows the all but certainty that the expense in Ireland will greatly exceed the esti mate of the Commissioners. That estimate is not much more than the cost in Belgium, nor than the half of that in England, although it has been repeatedly proved, that notwithstanding the difference of the rate of wages in England and Ireland, the actual cost of the work performed was much the same in the two countries. How, too, does 10,0001. per mile agree with the cost of a railroad already made in Ireland, the Dublin and Kingstown, which cost 41,800/. per mile? The truth is, whatever fine professions may be put forth about the welfare of Ireland, that this is simply another sop for the " Tail," through the property of the principal of whom—not forgetting the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose neighbourhood at Limerick has, by some singular chance, always happened to Come in for an unusual share of Irish "improvements"—the proposed Railways will pas 3 ; independent of the patronage and snug berths which the English millions will provide for their dependents. How " munificent," to use Lord Mor peth's expression, in the Irish proprietors to offer without charge perhaps a dozen acres of bog each, in order to encourage the construction of a work by which all the rest of their estates will probably be doubled in value ! But will they all undertake to give even these slips of land without charge ; or will they not be found asking ten times the value for their wastes (as they did to the English company established for the cultivation of waste lands in Ireland), and for compensation in disturbing their crumbling cabins, when the job is safe out of the reach of Parliament, and the cake is being snugly cut up and divided at Derr} nane ? Another inducement in sup port of the job is to bolster up the ricketty and absurd Poor-law scheme passed last year, of which Ministers and its administrators begin, no doubt, by this time, strongly to perceive the ridiculous insufficiency and to dread the consequences, and to wish to prop it up by creating a large amount of artificial employment in order to diminish " the pressure from without," which threatens to overwhelm their parochial penitentiaries even before the plaster can dry in them. Thus it is with Whig legislation. A bad measure one session, patched up with another in the next, to prevent the tottering edifice from absolutely falling. BOUNDARY QUESTION. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR. FOX AND MR. FORSYTH. MR. FOX TO MR. FORSYTH. Washington, February 23, 1839. Sir,—l have this day received a dispatch from Major- General Sir John Harvey, Lieutenant• Governor 'of the Province of New Brunswick, containing the enclosed proclamation, issued by his Excellency on the 13th in stant, and conveying to me the information of an unjus tifiable incursion into a part of the disputed territory, situated on the Aroostook river, by an armed body of militia from the State of Maine, acting, to all appearance, under the authority of the government of the State. The professed object of this incursion is stated to be to capture or drive away a party of persons who are alleged to be trespassing and cutting timber on the lands in the neighbourhood of the Aroostook River. But it is well known that all that part of the disputed ter ritory is placed under the exclusive jurisdiction of her Majesty's authority, and that it is bound to remain so, by explicit agreement between the Government of Great Britain and the United States, until a final settlement of the question of the north-eastern boundary. Her Majesty's officers, therefore, cannot permit any act of authority, such as is now attempted by the State of Maine, to be exercised within the territory in ques tion ; and it will become the bounden duty of the Lieu tenant-Governor of New Brunswick to resist the at tempt, and to expel by force the militia of Maine if the present incursion be persisted in. _ - Under these circumstances, I invoke the immediate in terference of the General Government of the United States, to prevent the threatened collision, by causing the authorities of Maine to withdraw voluntarily their Militia Force, and to desist, in obedience to the agree ment subsisting between the two nations, from their present unwarrantable proceeding. I avail myself of this occasion to renew to you the as surance of my high respect and consideration. H. S. FOX MR. FORSYTH TO MR. FOX. Department of State, Washington, Feb. 25, 1839. Sir,—Your letter of the 23d inst., calling upon the General Government to interfere to prevent a collision between the Governments of New Brunswick and the State of Maine. which you apprehend will be the con sequence of a recent attempt made by the State to expel trespassers upon the public lands in the territory in dispute between the Government of the United States and her Britannic Majesty, has been laid before the President, who, after a careful examination of its con tents, has instructed me to reply that your own note, and the proclamation of Sir John Harvey, the Lieute nant-Governor of New Brunswick, which was sent with it, have been both prepared under erroneous impres sions as to the facts of the transactions to which they relate. Communications from the Government of Maine enable me to state to you that the recent move ment in the disputed territory was founded upon a re solution of the legislature, a copy of which is herewith inclosed. You will perceive that no military occupation of the territory was contemplated, the sole object having been to remove trespassers, who, in violation of the rights of property, to whomsoever it may belong, and the declared intention of both Governments, were gradually and hourly diminishing its value. From the authority given to the agents of the State of Maine, and from information of undoubted authenticity, it is known that the persons engaged in this affair, although armed from an spprehension of resistance from the large body of armed lawless aggressors on the public domain, were not detailed from the Militia of the State for that purpose, but were employed by the land agent of Maine and one of her Sheriffs, who were to direct and control all their movements. Had the sole and avowed object been accomplished, the party would have immediately withdrawn, leaving the territory in all other respects in the condition in which it was found by them. This termination of the enterprise had been thus far suspended by the unexpected seizure and detention of the land agent of Maine, who was arrested by the tres passers when in the act of putting himself in communi cation with the agent of the Government of New Bruns wick, appointed by the Government to watch the tres passers he had himself been appointed to arrest or drive off. Her Majesty's Government cannot be surprised, however, much as it may regret, with the President, that Maine has thought herself compelled to adopt some decisive movement on the subject, when it is recollected that, as long ago as the year 1529, Mr. Clay, then Secretary of State, apprised the British Minister, Sir Charles Vaughan, on the occurrence of similar, but less extensive violations of the property in question, alleged to have been authorised by the Colonial Government, that if such trespasses were authorised or countenanced on the disputed territory, it was not to be expected that the State of Maine would abstain from the adoption of preventive measures. It is true that in the present instance the trespassers were not believed to have been either countenanced or authorised by her Majesty's Colonial Government ; but that circumstance would itself lead to some surprise at the excitement produced by an act equally required by the interests of both nations. Sir John Harvey has, in deed, subsequently taken measures which prove his own conviction of the necessity of interference on the part of one or both Governments to arrest a systematised plun dering of the public domain. The President hopes, there fore, as you will perceive, that there was no military oc cupation attempted, that the object in view was perfectly lawful, the necessity of it being acknowledged by the act of Sir J. Harvey ; that as soon as the purpose is ac complished the agent and his assistants will as heretofore on like occasions be withdrawn; that you will not find it difficult to satisfy her Majesty's colonial authorities that there can be no occasion for collision with Maine, growing out of this renewed exercise, on her part, of an oft-asserted right due to herself, and useful, in this in stance to her Majesty's Government, whatever may be the result of the pending negotiation, especially on the supposition that the territory in question should be here after found to belong to the British provinces. In that event, the President persuades himself, from the known disposition and long-tried forbearance of the State authorities, that he will find it easy to protect Maine, or procure the voluntary disbandment of any militia that may have been brought together from the apprehension of a collision with the colonial government. The propriety of the prompt release on each side of the agents of the state and colonial governments who have been arrested, as the President believes under a mutual misapprehension, is so obvious, that he takes it for granted they will be respectively set at liberty, if that has not been already done. It would give me pleasure to be able to conclude this communication without further remark ; but there is another error in your letter, of so grave a character, that to as oid all possibility of misapprehension, the Pre sident has made it incumbent upon me to call it to your especial notice. It is the assertion " that it is well known that all that part of the disputed territory is placed under the exclusive jurisdiction of her Majesty's authority, and that it is bound to remain so, by explicit agreement between the Government of Great Britain and the United States, until the final settlement of the question of the north-eastern boundary." That Great Britain has sought, on several occasions, to prove, argu mentatively, that the exclusive jurisdiction rested with her until the final settlement of the question, I shall not controvert ; but the question of title and of the right of jurisdiction as consequent thereon, or as resulting from the previous exercise thereof, has been a subject of con tinued controversy between the two Governments, in respect to which neither has released or waived its claims. So far from any relinquishment or right of jurisdic tion having been made, or any agreement, either ex press or implied, entered 'into on the part of the Go vernment of the United States, of the nature alleged by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, and affirmed also in your note of the 23d inst., it will ap pear, from the whole course of the correspondence between the two Governments, extending through a series of years, that that o f t h e United States has throughout, and on frequent occasions, solemnly pro tested as well against the existence of the right of the exclusive possession and jurisdiction, as to the exercise thereof, and has, upon every proper occasion, asserted that both belonged to Maine and to the United States. The assertion now made, therefore, appears to the President to be so extraordinary, that I am instructed to ask from you a full explanation of the ground upon which it is placed, as the President owes it in duty to the General and State Governments that the error may be traced to its source, and that the two Governments may know distinctly, and without delay, the true extent of their understanding on this point, that no unfortunate or fatal consequences shall spring from any misconcep tion on either side in respect to it. In the present state of the intercourse between Great Britain and the American continent, and the rapidity with which her Majesty's Government can be consulted on all ques tions arising with this Government or in her Majesty's possessions, the President believes that this state of the question should of itself furnish an amply sufficient rea son to prevent any hasty action on the part of the Colo nial Government which may lead to results fatal to the good understanding, and eminently hurtful to the pros perity of the two countries. I cannot take leave of this subject, without advert ing to the delay of her Majesty's Government in making some decisive proposition to advance the final settlement of the question of boundary, thus exposing the two Governments, as the present condition of things on the frontier too clearly shows, to consequences which neither can look to without pain, and full of mortification to that one to whom any unnecessary procrastination may be justly attributable. I avail myself of the occasion to offer you assurances of the high respect and consideration, with which I have the honour to be your obedient servant, JOHN FORSYTH, MR. FOX TO MR. FORSYTH. Washington, Feb. 25, 1829. Sir,--I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this day's date, written in reply to a communication which I addressed to you on the 23d instant, upon the subject of the dispute that has ar;sen between the Governments of New Brunswick and Maine. With reference to that portion of your letter wh;ch treats of the question of actual jurisdiction, pending the negociation for the settlement of the disputed boundary, I deeply regret to find that the Government of the United States is now placed directly at variance with the Government of her Majesty in its understanding of that question. I shall lose no time in transmitting your letter to her Majesty's Government, in order that I may be able to convey to you, if necessary, a full knowledge of the views and intentions of Great Britain upon this part of the subject. I confine myself, for the present, to pro testing in the most formal manner against the views set forth in that part of your letter to which I am referring. I adopt this course in preference to entering at once into a detailed discussion of the matter, because, in the first place, I shall be best able to do so after a direct com munication with my Government ; and, in the second place, because I entertain the hope that an early settle ment of the general question of the disputed boundary may render this subordinate point of difference of little moment. I avail myself of this occasion to renew to you the assurance of my high respect and consideration. To Hon. John Forsyth, &c., &c. H. S. FOX. CHEAP POSTAGE. Among the numerous party questions that distract the country, cheap postage is a proposition that meets support on every side save one,—the Exchequer, —and even that has no ground for opposition. Since Mr. Rowland Hill brought forward his plan of a penny postage for all letters, so great was the conviction it carried into every reflective mind, that it has received the consideration, countenance, and support of the Conservatives, Whigs, and Radicals. In a country daily advancing in civilization, com merce, trade, manufactures, and all the arts of life, ready means of communication become, as it were, its life's blood,—circulating from the centre through every part. But ready communication, though advantageous to the wealthy, is of little use comparatively to the great bulk of society, if the means of communication be so dear as to place them above their reach. In this case, a post office with all its paraphernalia, may exist ; but nine•tenths of the population never can avail themselves of it, whilst a very large portion even of the wealthy will not, because they will not submit to be taxed where a far equivalent for services ought only to be demanded. The postage of letters never ought to be used as a medium of taxation. If it be, it acts as an impediment upon every industrious movement and clogs every action of society. Besides, it defeats its own intention. It has been proved before a Committee of the House of Commons that in consequence of the excess in a rate of postage in this country, means have been adopted by which millions of letters are conveyed through other channels than the public post, which has thereby been deprived of an invaluable revenue. Laws may be made as stringent as you please ; but if unjust, particularly in a financial point of view, be defeated, though written in letters of blood. The public post is an establishment of that description that as it could not be committed to private individuals, it ought to be under the control and management of the Government ; but Government has no right to raise a revenue upon it. All that it is entitled to attend to is, to see that the best possible means of com munication are established, and such a rate of postage charged as will cover every probable attendant expense. If a greater amount of postage is charged than is neces sary, the public will invariably set itself right by adopt ing some other means for the conveyance of letters than the Government establishment. As to Mr. Hill's plan, the mind of the public is made up that it ought to have a fair trial. There is, as we have already observed, but cne opposing party, —the Exchequer ; but it has been shown, as far as figures and just data can go, that the Exchequer, in stead of losing by the adoption of the plan, would be nefit to a very considerable extent. If this be doubted, our reply is—make the trial. With these views, upon this very important subject, we are glad to hear that numerous petitions are getting up in favour of Mr. Hill's Uniform Penny Postage. A requisition for a public meeting in this town has been numerously signed and presented to the High Con stable, who has called a meeting for Thursday next, when we trust the inhabitants will not only come for ward in favour of Mr. Hill's plan, but that every firm to which postage is an object,—and it is so, more or less, to every one —will get up a petition, so that Parliament may see that the whole country, for once, is unanimous in demanding an uniform Penny Postage.-- Brigh to n Patriot. GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. transactions fifteen "Lifeo n 11 0 of volumes oR d a ue y mn f e c reo v s e o n f i n 4 g t , 0 V e . 0 m E Societypp prising ies A si en t ngt the sothfai en o ßn r :o d ,rh i ul n ionn a lce r ;e y doa m fn twedheeetarii wereenr Alamilton, Esq., Presid en t, i n the Chair, amongst the C m a a th r e d who died about three months ago, and who was the only European that ever returned fro m Ti m b uctoo, the attempt to reach which has cost the lives of so many enterprising men. Mr. Pentland gave a very interest ing account of his travels in Upper Peru, which he prefaced by reading a communication from Mr. Bowring, who has resided for many years in that country and Bolivia. He first described Cusco, the capital of ancient Peru, a town containing 30,000 inha bitants, but of which very little is known to Europeans. The construction of this ancient city and the whole of the surrounding country, display many remarkable spe cimens of Cyclopean architecture, which display the very great advances that must have been made in civilisation by the ancient Peruvians. The walls of Cusco are of porphyry, composed of blocks of 2 0 or 30 tons weight, not cemented together, but most finely grooved. Many stones of 300 to 350 tons weight, or about twice the weight of Cleopatra s needle, are found in spots where they must have been conveyed from a distance of at least seven leagues, and this must have required some extraordinary mechanical contrivance. Amongst the diseases of the Indians, small-pox is the most prevalent and destructive, and out of a population of 240,000 no less than 30,000 fell victims to its ravages within three months. It is a melancholy fact that the preva lence is attributable to the circumstance that the clergy will not encourage vaccination, because a great part of their revenue is derivable from burial fees. Mr. Pentland next described the lake Titi caca, formerly held very sacred by the Peruvians, which is six times the size of the lake of Geneva, this remarkable inland sea being at a height of 12,900 feet in the Andes. The water is perfectly soft and fresh, and all the peaks extending to the surface arc covered with sepulchral monuments. One side of the lake is very rich in agricultural produce, and the other equally so in mining in dustry; but there was not until lately any navigation on it, with the exception of the common rush boat of the natives. An enterprising Englishman, however who run away from a dock-yard, has recently placed upon it a schooner of seventy tons, for the purpose of communicating betuee e n , t whe heeorpposites them hores,which he was obliged to mak e piecemeal, and th en carry across t h e A n d es to the shore s o f the lake, that ple sum would be r equ i red. Amon his scientific observations was noticed his di scovery of fossil3o,oool.,put together. Anothercommencingregionsingenuity,theconstructionelevationofa feet.twelvewhilstfeetprobably remains in tertiary rocks at an elevation of 19,400 feet, the highest, perhaps, that had been discovered. The President announced that the British Consul at Alexandria had communicated that there was now an excellent opportunity for an en terprising English traveller to explore the White Nile. A large Egyptian force was about to proceed, under the Pacha or some of his superior officers, for the purpose ordiscoverin,; the gold mines, of which some accounts had been received as being very rich, and every facility would be allowed to an English traveller joining the expedition. SARAH WHITTAKER'S DEPOS TION. _ - (From the Manchester Times.) On Monday, Daniel Maude, Esq., the sitting Magi• strate, went to the Infirmary, and took the deposition of the unfortunate woman. She said, I and my husband, George Whittaker, have disagreed some time through jealousy. Last Tuesday, the 13th instant, we were up all night. My husband was tipsy, and took the axe in his hand several times and threatened to cut my head off with it, and he has done so before. About seven o'clock on the morning of the 14th instant my husband went out to get some beer, and I then went out of the house to my mother's, and did not return until Sunday (yester day). My husband then came to my mother's,and said If I would go home he would never touch me any more. I went with him to his brother's house, and he threw me on the bed. Immediately after that, without having any words, he took an axe from near the bed and struck me on the side of the head with it. I took hold of the axe and stuck to it with my hands. Before that he had struck me two or three times upon the head. I cried out, "Oh ! George, do not." H e never spoke, but kept layi ng on . I shouted out " Murder," and the old man came in. My husband was going to hit him. My husband had removed his goods from his own house to his brother's, and the axe must have been removed with the goods. He did not carry any axe with him when I accompanied him. My husband was quite sober yester day and so was I. I left the house on the Wednesday. I took the youngest child with me. I never saw my hus band from the Wednesday morning until the Sunday. We had not any quarrel after I saw my husband on Sunday, and he struck me without any words having passed. Before I left my mother's house with my hus band I sent for a pint of ale, and my husband drank of it. After we went to my husband's brother's house some ale was sent for, and my husband drank of that : it was before we were on the bed. My husband has not been a bad one to me when he was sober ; only when he was drunk. It is all jealousy. He has told me many a time that he would do it--but he has done it now. My mother said he was not right when he did it. ROBBERY OF FOUR THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED POUNDS WORTH OF GOLD DUST. On Monday afternoon two boxes of gold dust, valued at 4,600/., consigned to the Brazilian Mining Company in London, were obtained from the wharfingers at the Dublin Steam-wharf, St. Katharine's, by means of a forged order, under the following extraordinary circum stances : The two boxes containing the precious metal, lately brought to this country, were shipped on board the City of Limerick steam-ship at Falmouth. and were landed at the wharf on Sunday afternoon. They remained in custody of the wharfingers until Monday at noon, when a well-dressed man, of genteel address, drove up to the wharf in a yellow bodied box cab, drawn by a brown horse, and asked for the boxes, stating that he was the person authorised to receive them. He produced documents giving a description of the boxes, which cor responded with what appeared on the ship's manifesto respecting them. He also showed a letter, bearing the Falmouth post-mark, addressed to the Company to whom the boxes were consigned. It was compared with a letter, also bearing the Falmouth post-mark, re ceived by the agents of the Dublin Steam Company, at their office in John-street, Crutched-friars, respecting the delive r y o f th e b oxes, and was found to correspond. ' The stranger paid the wharfage and other dues, and the people at the wharf, believing the documents to be genuine, delivered the property to him without hesita tion, and the foreman of the wharf deposited the boxes in the cab. The stranger thanked the foreman for his attention, and after presenting him with a shilling the cab drove off. Two hours afterwards another person connected with the Brazilian Mining Company came for the boxes, and the fraud was then discovered ; for the genuine documents and letter addressed to the Com pany by the Falmouth agent were produced. The people at the wharf and the agents of the Dublin Steam Company were astounded on ascertaining that they had been defrauded of the valuable property con fided to their care. No time was lost in obtaining the aid of the Police, and several officers, including Lea, of Lambeth -street, were immediately ;gained to look after the thief. On the same evening Lea, whose activity and intelligence are well-known, traced the cab which brought down the thief to the Dublin Steam-wharf, and carried him and the boxes away. The driver said he was hired by the man in the City, and returned with him to Cheapside, when he com plained that his horse did not go fast enough, and paid him his fare and got into another cab, which proceeded in a westerly direction. No further trace of the thief has been obtained. He was dressed in black—a dress coat with velvet collar ; his complexion is dark, and he wore large black whiskers; in height he is rather above the middle size, and appears about forty years of age. There is no doubt that the person who obtained the boxes of gold dust was in league with a confederate at Falmouth, who knew when the boxes were shipped. From the manner in which the robbery was ef f ected, and the production of the forged order and letter the parties must have been fully aware of all that related to the shipment and amount of the boxes in London, to whom they were consigned, and the business of the Brazilian Company. The weight of each box was about 1001bs ; they were eighteen inches square, and marked with the initials "C. B. 18-19." The wood of which the boxes were composed is foreign, nearly resembling common deal. It is feared that the gold-dust has been placed in a crucible kept by some of the Jew receivers in the metropolis, and converted into bars for the purpose of destroying all chance of proving its identity. The loss will fall upon the agents and wharfingers of the Dublin Steam Company. Late on Tuesday it was reported that a clue had been obtained which was likely to be the means of apprehending the parties concerned in the robbery. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Up to last evening, notwithstandin g the greatest ac tivity on the part of the officers of poli ce engage d i n tracing out the guilty party in this extraordinary and ingeniously planned robbery, nothing tending to the ap prehension of the persons implicated, or the recovery of the two boxes, has been obtained. It appears that the Messenger belonging to the Bra zilian Mining Company arrived at the wharf only one hour subsequent to the departure of the boxes, having in his possession the bill of lading, and not until then was the fact of this extensive and extraordinary rob bery, accomplished by means of forgery, ascertained. The loss will fall on the Dublin Steam Navigation Company. The person who obtained the boxes accurately de scribed their contents, the marks on them, and the time they were landed at Falmouth. The wharfinger was completely put off his guard by the ingenuity and cunning of the thief. He was, however, seen by so many persons, and the cabman who drove him as far as Cheapside, when he transferred himself and the boxes to another cab, which proceeded in a westerly direction, has so distinct a recollection of the man's face and person that it is not probable he will long escape detection. The following has been fur nished as an accurate description of the thief :--Be tween forty and fifty years of age, about five feet nine or ten inches high, stoops in his walk, pale sallow com plexion, rather long nose, dark hair and whiskers, changing a little to grey, dressed in black, with velvet collar to his coat, much the appearance of a Jew, talks rather quick, and sometimes wears spectacles. Some of the people at the wharf believe that he spoke in a Falmouth or west country dialect, but there is some doubt about this. The parties connected with this deep laid plan must have had their attention on the boxes from the moment they were shipped at Mexico to their arrival in London. LAW INTELLIGENCE INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MARCH 27. SCANDALOUS IMPUTATION.—Thomas Catchpole was opposed by a widow woman named Hickman. She had brought an action against him, and her son John Hick man was the witness ; she denied that he was in part nership with her ; she had, however, cards printed as " Hickman and Son," she was in the same way of busi ness as the insolvent. Mr. WOODROFFE, on the part of the insolvent, asked her whether her son had not .been tried at the Old Bailey and transported for seven years ; he was in structed that such was the case. The poor woman declared that it was false, her son was a steady young man, and by his exertions supported her family of seven children. Mr. Commissioner LAW took up the matter, and eli cited from the insolvent that a person had informed him of the circumstance. The Learned COMMISSIONER told him it was a scan dalous imputation, and one he knew was not true ; he re manded him on that ground for a period of ten weeks from petition.—The poor woman was very thankful. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—KINGSTON, MARCH 27. THE MURDER AT COBHAM.—This morning having been appointed for the trial of Thomas Sakers, the man who stands charged with being concerned in the murder of Thomas Chipps, a gamekeeper to Mr. Harvey Combe, at an early hour the doors of the Court were besieged by persons who were anxious to hear the trial, the case having created a great deal of interest in the county of Surrey, owing to the daring character of the outrage that was committed. Soon after nine o'clock Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE took his seat on the bench in the Crown Court, and the pri soner, Thomas Sakers, was then placed at the bar. The indictment charged that the prisoner on the 4th of December, with the stock of a gun, or a bludgeon, inflicted divers mortal wounds and fractures upo.i the head of the deceased, of which he languished until the 13th of the same month, and then died. He was also charged with the murder, upon the Coroner's Inquisition. Messrs. CLARKSON and DOWLING conducted the prosecution, and Mr. CHAMBERS the defence. Mr. CLARKSON having addressed th e J u ry, c a lled witnesses ; but it is neeless to give the whole of the evidence, as the substance of it has already appeared in most of the papers. The only statement of any interest was that made by an accomplice, which was to the following effect : James White, the accomplice, was then called. He deposed that in December last he resided in the Back Lanes, Kingston. Knew a man named Burdy ; and was acquainted also with Allen and the:prisoner Sakers. On the Ist of that month witness met Burdy and Allen, and Sakers joined them. Witness told &kers and Allen that Burdy had told him he knew where to go and get some pheasants. Sakers and Allen said that Burdy had told them of it before, and they fixed on the Sunday night to go, and they were to meet at Kingston. Burdy was drunk, and so they did not go that night. They met on the next night, andSakers brought two guns with him. The guns were in pieces, and he pulled them out of his coat pockets and gave one to witness. Allen had a third gun. A day or do before this, witness pur chased an ounce and a half of gunpowder, at the shop of Mr. Minck, at Kingston. They set off from King ston about a quarter past nine o'clock, Sakers and wit ness going first, and Burdy and Allen following them. Sakers had on a cap similar to the one that was found in Mr. Combe's park. They went along the Esher road through the turnpike gate, and across Ditton Marsh. They went through Esher to Fair Mile, and so on to Cobham. They did not go by the high road, but through the fields to Cobham Park. They arrived in the wood about eleven o'clock, and Burdy shot off once. Sakers also shot off three or four times. The witness then identified the gun-stock produced, as being one of those brought by the prisoner. He identified another stock of a gun as being the one carried by the prisoner After they had fired three or four times witness heard a noise like a gate being opened or shut, and witness told Sakers, and he said if it was so they had better be off. They then all began running in a direction away from the wood, and as they were going Sakers took his gun to pieces and put it into his pocket. They ran about a hundred yards, when Allen said, " there is a bloak' (a man) runnning from that there tree to the sheep pens." When they got near to the sheep-pens he saw a little brown dog, and he barked, and they then ran into the sheep-pens, Sakers following witness, and the other two being last. At this moment he saw a man sitting on one of the pens, and he retreated, and Sakers passed him and he saw both of the keepers immediately attack Sakers, and both of them hit him on the head. Did not see which struck first, but when he turned round he saw both keepers hitting at Sakers. Witness looked on, and did not do any thing. One of the Reepers went away, and Burdy and Allen followed him. At this moment Sakers was in the act of haling, and the keeper struck him again, and sprung upon his back, and they fell down together. SaKers, while falling, called out, " Don't run." While they were down, he (witness) hit the keeper over the shoulders with the stock of the gun. The prisoner and the keeper still kept struggling upon the ground, and witness saw the other keeper knock Burdy down. Allen then ran in, and laid hold of the keeper's arms. While this was going on, witness was standing at the corner of the sheep-pens looking on and did not do anything. Sam Burdy got up after he was knocked down, and picked up a gun barrel from the ground, and he went up to the keeper and hit him on the side of the head with it, and he (deceased) fell down and exclaimed "Oh Lord, oh dear!" When witness saw that, he ran away, and when he had got about fifty yards he called out to his com panions to come away, saying they would be " sure to be took" if they did not. The otherst hen came up to him, and they went over the palings into the road near to Effiingham Common. They then went to Leatherhead. They subsequently returned to Kingston. On their way Sakers complained a good deal, and appeared to be very much beaten about the head. They got two pheasants, and Allen gave Sakers a shilling for his share of the transaction. He was taken into custody the day after. _ Cross-examined—He saw the men sitting behind the sheep-pen gate, when he went in. Did not observe them rise up, but when he turned round he saw both the keepers striking Sakers on the head. He saw the keeper with the white jacket on (deceased) hit Sakers on the head with a bludgeon, and he afterwards knocked Burdy down. Daniel Carpenter, a person in the employ of Mr. Combe, proved that he traced the footsteps of four persons from the spot where the affray took place, to Effingham Common ; one of the tracks corresponded with the shoes worn by White. He also observed marks of blood in several places upon the track. Mr. Minck, a shopkeeper of Kingston, proved that the witness White purchased an ounce and-a-half of gun powder at his shop on the night of the 3d December. The prisoner has bought gunpowder at his shop. Other witnesses were called in confirmation of the statement made by the approver White, to show that the prisoner and White, Burdy, and Allen, were seen going in the direction of Cobham on the night the affray took place. On the case for the prosecution being closed, Mr. CHAMBERS made a very powerful and ingenious address to the Jury, contending that the offence only amounted, at most, to manslaughter, as the prisoner and his companions were evidently endeavouring to make their escape when they were suddenly attacked by the keepers, and not having any notice who they were, thus resisted them in their own defence, and with no other desire than to ensure their escape, and, therefore, in law, the charge of murder could not be sustained. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of " Guilty of Man slaughter." MIDLAND CIRCUIT—LEIcEsTEn, MARCH 26, MOORE V. ORAM. This was an action of assault. The plaintiff is a jour neyman frame-work knitter and glove-maker; the de fendant kept the Wood Boy public-house in Wood- Boy -street, in this town. In the December of last year Moore, Oram, and others, were playing in Oram's house at all fours for a tenpenny stake, which the de fendant won, and, the money being uncovered, Oram said there was a halfpenny short, and hinted that Moore had not put down his quota. Subsequently the money was found to be right, but a squabble ensued, and Oran), who was described as being a powerful man, knocked the plaintiff down, and not content with that, he kicked him when down, and put him into the street. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 40s. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LAXCASTER, 11Lincir 26. William Bell was indicted for the wilful murder of John Alderson, at Preston, on the 2d of January last. It appeared that the prisoner, who is about forty years of age, but has the appearance of being much older was on the evening of the day in question at the Wel lington public-house in Preston, in company with the deceased, a man much younger and stronger than him self. Both parties were much intoxicated, and high words arose between them respecting a penny which was to be paid for a glass that had been broken. In the course of the contention Bell rose and struck Al derson, who, with the chair in which he was sitting, came to the ground in consequence. The landlord came in, and prevented Alderson from retaliating, ordering Bell to leave the house, and detained the deceased for some time, so as to prevent any collision. Bell appears to have gone to another public.house, and obtained more liquor, after which he went home. The deceased, who lived opposite, also arrived at home at half-past eleven o'clock. He was very tipsy, and sat himself down moodily by the fireside. In about two or three minutes he rose and went out without his hat. His wife followed him. He crossed the street to Bell's door, took hold of the latch, and shook it, desiring him to come out and fight, as he wanted to pay him for what he had done at the Wellington. Bell came out, saying, "If thee stops awhile I'll finish thee in a few minutes ;" and then thrusting out his hand several times in the direction of the spot where the deceased was standing, said, " If thou steps a foot higher I'll stick this through thy heart." The deceased replied, " I'll try thee," and they then closed. There was a slight scuffle, and the de ceased almost immediately returned to his own house. His hand was covered with blood ; he sat down, and his wife assisted to take off his neckcloth and waistcoat. A wound was discovered over the region of the heart, and in about ten minutes he was dead. The prisoner was immediately taken into custody, and a penknife covered with blood was found in his :possession. He was still very much Intoxicated. On a post mortem examination of the body of the deceased, it was found that the in strument which had caused the external wound had penetrated the heart. The Jury returned a verdict of " Aggravated Man slaughter." His LORDSHIP, after commenting on the enormity of the offence, said that the use of the knife had become so common of late, that it was necessary, on every occa sion where death was unlawfully caused in that way, to mark the opinion of the Court upon such cases by a very severe punishment. The prisoner was sentenced to transportation for life, to be employed on the public works. James Stuttard was indicted for the manslaughter of his wife, Sarah Stuttard, at Burnley, on the 16th of October last. It appeared that the prisoner with several other per sons were dining- at the Talbot Inn on the day in ques tion, and that all the party were much intoxicated. His wife, the deceased, came for him to induce him to go home, but he refused, and on her turning to leave him he gave her a kick behind, which took effect on the lower part of her person. She sat down at a li tt l e distance, moaned, and complained of being much hurt. She shortly after rose to go home and left the house, followed by the prisoner and some of his companions, leaving a streak of blood on the floor all the way from the spot where she first received EVENING F,DITIOv the blow. She fainted on the way, and was left on the footpath by th e p r i soner an d hi s f r i en d s , who, being intoxicated themselves, thought she was so likewise. Her uncle, who followed her at a short distance, found her in this state, and conveyed her to a neighbourly.; cottage, where she shortly after expired. It was found that the cause of her death was the haemorrhage from a wound caused by the kick the prisoner had given her. The Jury found th e p r i soner G u il ty , an d hi s Lordship, on his subsequently being brought up for sentence, said, he had at first been much inclined to transport him, but taking into consideration the excellent testimonials which had been handed up in favour of his character, as well as the fact of his not being in the habit of being intoxi cated, although unfortunately so on the present occasion, he thought ha might mitigate his punishment. Still it must be a severe one, and he must be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for eighteen months. POLICE IN TELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A gentleman named Langton, residing at Langton, in Lincolnshire, applied a day or two ago to Mr. Dyer for his assistance in the recovery of a horse, which had been obtained from him in a very peculiar manner. Mr. Langton said he bought a horse for 65/. at the stable of a dealer in Oxford -street, which horse he was soon afterwards induced to change for another horse on payment of 10/., with a horse-dealer named Styles, whose stables are in Peashell-street, Paddington. Mr. Langton had the horse put to his carriage, but it was soon found that the animal, although a very strong one, was so unsound as not to be worth Si. Mr. Lang ton immediately sent to Styles and as he had bought the horse under warranty, he required to have the bargain cancelled. Mr. Langton ultimately agreed to have his own horse back, and to lose the 101. which he had given to boot. Styles requested Mr. Langton to send the horse to his stables, in Peashell-street, promising to return the other horse. The horse was sent to the stables, but as soon as it was delivered Styles refused to send back the other horse, or to give back the one re turned. Finding he was likely to lose by the transac tion, and believing there were circumstances connected with it which brought the parties so acting within the scope of the law, applicant had determined upon bring ing the matter before a Magistrate. Mr. DYER was of opinion that the affair had been so managed as to preclude a Magistrate from acting. Mr. Langton, however, had better seek the assistance of an officer, who would perhaps put him in the way of re covering his property. Mr. Langton adopted this suggestion, and obtained the assistance of Sherwin and Dewny, two officers of this establishment. The officers put in force the fol lowing stratagem to get back the horse :—Having as certained that the horse was still at the stables in Peashell-stieet, they tutored Mr. Langton's goom, and desired him to go to the stables under pretence of buy ing a horse for his brother. The bait took ; the groom was told if he succeeded in getting a purchaser for 401. be should have 20/. for himself. The party who made this offer told the groom he had just " screwed" a gentle man out of 50/. by the same horse, and that, in fact the horse was like ready money, for though sold over and over again, the animal was sure to go back again to the stables. The groom promised to do what he could ; he was told the horse had been advertised that morning as the " property of a gentleman," and that it would be sent to Cavendish-square, where the "gen tleman" would meet the buyer, and clench the bargain. The horse was accordingly sent to Cavendish-square, where Mr. Langton was waiting unperceived, and then Mr. Langton came forward and took possession of the animal. HATTON-GARDEN. Mary Aforiarty, a profligate Irishwoman, was charged with having stolen a sovereign, the property of James Brown. The prosecutor entered a public-house in St. Giles's, and asked for change of a sovereign, when the prisoner snatched it up and swallowed it. Mr. BENETT—I shall remand the prisoner. Prisoner—Good luck to you for it ; it will take a little of the gin out of me.—(A laugh.) Mr. BENETT—What have you to say to the charge ? Prisoner—The devil a word ; you may settle it be tween yourselves.--(Laughter.) Mr. BENETT—You are remanded until Saturday. Prisoner—l'm glad of it; I wish you had trans ported me ten years ago, and then I would be a dif ferent character; you might set fire to me with a match. —(lncreased laughter.) - The prisoner has been repeatedly charged at the dif ferent police offices for disorderly conduct and theft, and for years past has scarcely been a week out of a prison. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, Fer the Week ended March 22, 1539, made up f rom, th e R eturns o f the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 7ls. 3d. 1 Oats Barley IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE t'IE WEEES PRECEDING. Wheat Barley '72s I OLt. Oats 3Ss. 4d. Rye I 41s. 6d. Pease 36s, 11d. DUTIES OW FOREIGN CORN. Wheat......... 2s. Gd. Oats Barley 4 s . 10.1. I Rye . THE MARKETS ,ET.—March 27, Walls End Todd's Bensham Walls Endßraddyll'sHetton Walls End Haswell Wal's r'nd Hetton Walls End Lambton Walls End Stewart's Walls End Hartlepool Walls End Clarence Tees Walls End Gordon Walls End Tennant ..,. Walls End Tees Walls End Victoria Tees Walls End West Hetton L'angennech Nutts last market-day, 103. COAL MAR: s. d., Hebburn Main . 2O 6, Holywell Main 2O 31 Leaze's Main l7 31 Ord's lledhugh neton lB 3i Tanfield Moor 2l 0 Townle y l9 3! West Tanfield l9 0 West Hartley Wylam 2l 6 Walls Fiat Bell and Brown 20 9 Walls End Dunn's l7 6 Walls End Heaton 2O 9 Walls End Hilda 261 ( 1 Ships arrived since 1, COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. 1 Barley-. Oats. Beans. Pease. _, to S. Per Quarter. Abingdon...—. Andover —.... eirmingham idport— Cirencester Guildford Henley Highworth Maidenhead.- 7tlonmouth Reading,..,,,,,,,,. Salisbury Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury.., Uxbridge,„, Vantage W:.nni Hier.,. Windsor Worcester.—. S. to S. 64 80 74 62 63 80 73 80 61, 81 65 80 68 80 72 78 63 88 64. 70 63 75 64. 74 64 75 64 74 63 75 63 74 S. to 5. 30 34 20 31 30 40 32 36 7 32 26 30 28 35 26 32 26 32 32 42 24 36 32 34 25 35 30 34 33 40 28 36 S. till, A. s. to s. 22 30 25 - 16 22 25 30 20 2.5 26 30 20 30 23 26 22 29 28 34 20 26 22 29 20 27 20 28 28 32 20 24 22 32 17 28 20 25 22 26 - 21 22 ,65 70 132 36 30 32 CHELTENHAM MARKE Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d Pe. Wheat S 3 9 3 Beef barley 4 2 5 0 Mutton Oats 3 9 4.3 Veal Beans Pease 4 6 5 6 Lain!" Hay 31 15s. to 41. 10s. Od. per ton. LEEDS CORN MARKET. -Marsh 26 Wheat, Norfolk and SitOhlk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suithlk - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding 28s. to 30s. Beans Oats, Potatoe 255. to Vs. I" -Mealing, I. or. --d. to-d Eng. 14d. to 16d. per stem' Shelling 365. to-38,. per load. Rapeseed. English, 301. to 32/ . Foreign, :30, to 32/. peg las.. NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHAGE -11 arch 23. New. 4Ss. 70s. s2s. 72 , .) .. 61s. 74s 67s. 745. .. 625. 63s -s. .. 325. 383 -8. . s: .. 41s. 43s -s. -a. .. 245. 368. -s. -s. ~ 66s 66: -s. -s. -8. 44a. 475, -s. -s 43s. 465. 50s. 52s --s. 42s 458 s 275. 28s. 27s. 298. 24s 25s 253.265. - Foreign -s. -s. --s -a, Flour (per sack) s2s. 565. -s. --a. - 33 - 39 32 40 - 49 --. 43 - 46 34 44 31, 40 33 42 41 46 - 92 - 46 - 40 no 70 74 63 72 67 70 28 32 24 34 27 34 - 40 33 42 36 40 34 39 -- 42 33 ii Wheat, Northumherland - Norfolk and Suffolk Berwick and Scotch - Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk Foreign Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk—, Grinding and Feeding Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk Beans, Small Tick Pease, White ----- Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ...... Feed 4 a it. to it 7 9 7 9 7 8 O 8 • 9 PLATE SUITED FOR PRESENTATION.--- Elegant or Splendid Silver Inkstands—Silver Waiters of every' size—Silver Cups, New and Second-hand—Fifty varieties of Silver Tea and Coffee Services--Gold Snuff Boxes—Silver Table Snuff Boxes—Silver Epergnes--Silver Bread Baskets. And many other articles of Plate adapted for Presentation as Testimonials, &c., may be selected from, in the Show Rooms at T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Corn hill, London (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street). N.B. By addressing a paid letter stating the amount of the testimonial required, drawings and particulars of various articles suited for the price and object can be forwarded to any part of the country. BIRTHS. On the 23d inst., the lady of Henry Hulme, Esq., at Peck' ham-rye, of a daughter. On the 25th inst., at Woburn-place, Mrs. Walter C. Yen' ning, of a daughter. On the 25i.h inst., at Woburn-square, the lady of C. 13 ' Esq., of a son. Spaeth, MARRIED. On the 23d inst., at Fareham, Captain Edward Lever!. Gower, Rifle Brigade, t o F rances Cecilia, daughter of the la te Dr. Powell. DIED. On the 18th inst., Sarah, wife of David Mendes, of 3licid le c i sex-street, Whitechapel, aged 73, leaving 92 children an grandchildren. On the 17th i ns t., at Haddington, Miss Isabella n eB nie Dunlop, fou r th d aug h ter, and on the 20th inst., at John's-Place, Leith, Mi ss M argaret D unlop, third daughter of George D u nlop' On the 25th inst., in Russell-square, Esq., of John's-place, Leith. late William Hay, Esq., of the ancient house of Innes, a nrcl- On the 25th inst., at I3arton-under-Needwood, S taff Es q, shire, and late of A rdwick, near Manchester, John Wilson) aged 47. • 11.- 0 n the 25th inst., at the Treasurer's house, Foundl i ng Helen, widovr of the pital, Samuel Compton Cox, Esq., late one of the Mils' of the High Court of Chancery, aged 82. infant (laughter of the Rev. William Clive. Little On the 25th i nst ., i n M anc h ester-square, Elizabeth , the On the 15th inst., M rs . Weath era ll, o f Thistle-grove , Chelsea, aged 84. Lo o ndox : Printed and Published by MURDO YO U— °f •, No. 112, Strang, at The g un Office. No. 112, &ran, the county of Middlesox.—Thursday, March 28, 1639.