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Trent Valley, 2 paid York and North Midland (50 paid) — Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) ............... Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 pai0........0 67% Ditto Extens on ... .... " 01......•••• 12 Parisand Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen. ZU paid ................... ......... .... 39 Rouen and Havre, 10 paid CRIMINAL COURT-(TIIIS DAY OLD COURT. The morning was principally occupied in disposing of cases of petty larceny, which were of the most unin teresting character. Thomas Robinson, a sailor, aged 17, was indicted for having, on the 30th of October, attempted to steal from the cabin of the schooner Mary Ann, lying in the River, a watch and chain, the property of William Gordon Brown, a Custom-house officer, who was asleep there. The offence was clearly proved. The RECORDER said there could be no reason to doubt that the prisoner was there for the purpose of com mitting the felony. He was a stranger on board the vessel, and had boarded in the middle of the night. He had no account to give why he was there, excepting that he wanted a night's lodging. The jury found him Guilty, and The RECORDER, after informing him that the offence was punishable with fifteen years' transportation, and if transported at all, the least term was ten years, but there was a power of mitigation; and in consideration of the prisoner's youth, the sentence was, that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one year. Isaac Higgs, aged 28, a paper-stainer, was charged with having assaulted Robert Collins, a City policeman, in St. Paul's Churchyard on the night of the 21st of October. Mr. Wuxi/4s appeared for the defence, and said that by his advice the prisoner threw himself on the mercy of the Conn. The RECORDER said that it might be as well to hear the evidence. The policeman having been heard, The RECORDER, in addressing the jury, said that this assault could scarcely be of that character contemplated by the statute, as of "intent to do some grevious bo dily harm ;" but it was left to their discretion to say whether the assault was such, or whether it was an un premtditated blo 3-, induced by some premature exertion of power on the part of the constable. The jury found him guilty of a common assault, and he was, after a sev.•re admonition from the Bench, sent to the House of Correction, to be kept to hard la- I bour fur six calendar months. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FLOM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE—The surplus revenue which is now at the disposal of the Minister, is r(garded by the landed interest as a circumstance which may be rendered subservient to their own special advantage. The re peal of the malt-tax is now agitated by the land owners, and the aid of the farmers is invoked to press this relief to the agricultural interests upon the Government and the Legislature. Thus the surplus revenue which the income-tax has wrung from the community, and of which the agricul turists have paid a lesser proportion than the other classes, is to be at once swallowed up. The removal of a tax in which the agriculturists have an imme diate and special interest, and from the abolition of which the other classes of the community would derive only a remote and doubtful benefit, is sought to be procured by this enormous sacrifice of the general in terests. We must, however, guard against miscon struction and misrepresentation. We should be glad to see the malt-tax repealed, if the price to be paid for the repeal were not exorbitant in amount and unequal in • its distribution. The income •tax—that iniquitous and unnecessary imposition, still oppresses the nation by its unequally-distributed weight, and insults it by the inquisitorial investigations into their affairs, to which it especially subject s th e merc h ant and the trader. 'The coming session will compel Sir R. Peel to develope his views and intentions respecting the modifications or removal of this odious tax—a burden for which, it is now made evident, there was no real necessity; as the deficiency for which it was to provide would have been made up from other sources. That Sir Robert Peel would be quite willing to purchase an extension of the term for which the income-tax was originally imposed by a repeal of a considerable amount of taxation, there is little doubt. The income tax is prolific—is collected with considerable ease— and places at the disposal of the Minister so con siderable an amount of surplus revenue, on which he can rely, that there is good r eason t o believe that Sir Robert Peel would not be indisposed to relinquish the malt tax, or any other tax of equal amount, if he could obtain, as an equivalent, the extension or perpetuation of the income tax. It is even probable that he would propitiate the agriculturists, and re enlist them in his support, by yielding to their wishes in this matter. For these reasons we deem it necessary to draw the attention of the public generally to this subject, and to state our objections to the movement among the agriculturists to obtain the repeal of the malt tax at the present time, and at so great a sacrifice of the general interests of the coupe try. If the surplus revenue—as it appears in the official returns of the quarter and year ending October 10, 1844—be referred to, it will b 3 seen that the malt duty is nearly equivalent to that sum. Repeal the malt tax, and the case of the Minister in his attempts to continue the odious income-tax is established. The surplus revenue is swallowed up ; and, as the re venue for the coming year would be minus the amount of the malt duty, the income-tax must be re tained to supply the deficiency thus created. The advocates of malt tax repeal will remind us that the abolition of a tax is not necessarily a sacrifice of revenue. The sum remitted on one article of con sumption will, we shall be told, by reducing the price of the article to the consumer s , find its way back to the Excheque r f rom other sources. The consumers of beer and British spirits, having less to pay for those articles, will be able to expend more on other exciseable commodities • and thus th e con sumer will be benefited, a n d yet the revenue will not sustain loss. That this argument is valid, and would, to a certain extent, be borne out by the result, we believe, and are willing to admit. But we must, in such a case, look not merely to sound financial principles, but to the general policy of the party in power. These princi ples were propounded by the late Ministry ; and, by successfully opposing their practical application, Sir Robert Peel managed to obtain the Government. Sir Robert Peel provides for present and prospective deficiencies in another way. his plan is to meet financial exigences by increased taxation. The know ledge of this fact is sufficient to caution the public against indulging any expectation that Sir Robert Peel will relinquish the income tax, and repeal the malt tax. At all events, let the former be removed before any appeal be made to Parliament for the abolition of the latter. STANDARD.—WhiIe we have to lament the apostacy of a few fops and fribbles in our own Church, we are happy to know that we are receiving in profitable exchange some of the elite of the Church of Rome —men who abandon their profession not in a thirsty pursuit of suplice services, and an admira tion of absurd antics; but from an inward conviction that the faith and practices of the fallen Church are not the faith and practices inculcated in the Gospel. We lately mentioned the case of Mr. Macnamara—a man .to whom his neighbours, of all ranks and re ligious persuasions, give the highest character for probity and purity of life, and who declares that he 'has been led to the studies and convictions that caused him to abandon the Church of Rome by the beastly immoralities of the Irish Romanist clergy, and the protection extended to those beastly immoralities by the Irish Romanist bishops, one of whom sought to bribe him, Macnamara, to silence upon the point, by an .offer of high promotion. This is not a proposition on a pint of doctrine, upon whi c h a man may b e mistaken. 1 is evidence in the matter of fact, by a compe tent and an unexceptionable witness. I , Ve have - seen no attempt rtornananswer Mr. Macnam . ara s heavy charge. In Ge move," as will be seenY'b the "the straw begins to the Journal des Dyebiak following ex e S aotfurdthaey upperA tract from u p Catholic priest, rector of ptsaublvisillbed t e te tt r er on the Province of Silesia, has thisalel subject of the tunic of Treves_ peared in many o f th e j ournals of Ge h" -ral any, and an impression of no less than fifty thousand copi es of it has been taken from one pu bli sher of Leipsic in eight :days. The;Chapter of Breslau has cen cured the priest, who will be probably dismissed. N, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1844. It has been proposed to open a subscription for the compensation of Mr. Ronge, the gentleman in question, his parish is called Laura Hutte." The Journal des Debats gives a translation of the letter which has caused this great sen sation in Germany. It is an earnest and eloquent protest against the exhibition by Arnoldi, Bishop of Treves, of some rag which he offers for public worship, as part of our blessed Lord's raiment. The letter has a good deal of the plainness and vigour of Luther's earlier style, but with much more of classical polish. FREE TRADE IN ALL THINGS. (From the Struggle.) There are very few that seem to understand, or are willing to trace, the workings of monopoly. It always shields itself under the plea of supporting some feeble class whose interest the public should consider more than their own. "Oh you should stop French shoes, for if they are allowed to come, whatever is to become of our shoemakers ?" " You should stop foreign gloves, foreign silks, and all that, or the people employed in making these articles will be ruined." Free-traders, to be con sistent, connot lend themselves to stop any of these; for they maintain that it is the interest of the public to " buy in the cheapest market," both as to grain and every other article. And if they cannot show that such freedom of imports is the greatest advantage to the greatest number, they ought at once to abandon their principles. Let us, for instance, take shoes as a specimen. Suppose that, quality for quality, we can get foreign shoes for eight shillings for which we now pay ten shillings. I don't suppose we can in reality get them any cheaper than the English shoemakers can sell them for, having the advantage of a market at home ; but, for illustration's sake, we will suppose so. The shoe maker is a loser by this free trade, but all the shoe wearers are gainers, and they, of course, are the most numerous c l ass . Nay, we shall see that others are gainers as well as they. What becomes of all the two shillings saved at every pair of shoes ? These are not thrown away, but ex pended with other artisans in purchasing additional articles. The shillings will soon be converted into new umbrellas, new pots or spoons, new shirts or sheets, new books, or perhaps into an additional pair of shoes in the year. Persons engaged in the manu facture of these articles are sure to get the difference. Free importation, which is nothing more than free competition, I believe is beneficial to all the parties concerned, and to the shoemaker among the rest. It is almost certain to set his wits to work, to enable him to make as good and as cheap an article as his Parisian competitor, who has to pay all the ex penses of import; and if he find out that one disad vantage he labours under in the contest is dear eating, he will be ready, as he ought, to enforce the principle of competition in this also. To the purchaser of the article it must necessarily be an advantage. To the country at large it is equally so. Every country gains in proporion as it possesses itself of the greatest amount of necessaries and enjoyments by the least amount of labour. Whatever quantity of shoes are imported, they must be paid for by something made in this country ; that is, the labour expended on shoe making in France must be exchanged for the labour expended on something in England, say linen yarn, or whatever else it may be. Whether the linen yarn be sent direct to France, or whether it be exported to some other place for gold, and that gold paid to France, it amounts to the same thing. The cheaper shoes can be got, and the better it must be to the whole country. And if the English have a genius for shoe-making this competition will stimulate it to their advantage.; and if not, they will soon move into other branches of labour wherein they really excel. I believe we want nothing but perfect freedom to bring out the capabilities of every country—freedom to carry our labour to any part of the world we please—freedom to the whole world to bring their labour to us—and freedom for every workman at home to apply his genius and talent in any depart ment of enterprise he thinks proper, without control. If we are not prepared to go this full length in carrying out our free trade principles, we ought never to complain of the monopolist landlord who interdicts the supply of foreign corn to keep up his own rents NEWSPAPER PRESS OF FRANCE. In this present year, 1844, when the several parties in the Chambers have their various echoes in the journals of the country, and when the principal func tion of the press is to diffuse the ideas which are dis cussed there, we shall be able to give the best general impression of the different portions of the periodical press, by classifying the parties of which they are re spectively the organs. Whatever may be the sub divisions of parties in the Chamber of Deputies, one broad line passes through it and divides the whole house into two sections. On one side are the dynasties or those who support the Orleans family : on the other those who are hostile to that family and who fovour the Duc de Bordeaux or a republic. The dynasties, who occupy the centre droll and the centre gauche, are subdivided into doctrinaires, juste milieu, tiers parti, and ministeriel: of these the section most de voted to the preservation of the royal authority, calls its members Conservateurs. The principal organs of the Conservative party are Le Journal des Debats, La Presse, Le Moniteur Parisien, Le Messager des Cham bres, La Revue des Deux Mondes, Le Globe, La Revue de Paris. This party also has the direction of Le Moniteur, the only jonrnal which gives a complete and regular report of the Parliamentary debates. The centre gauche, conductrd in an irresponsible manner by M. Thiers has its representatives in Le Courier Francais, Le Constitutionnel and La Patrie. The tiers parti—a moveable body, now voting with the centre droit, now with the centre gauche at the bidding of M. Dufaure, is alternately blamed and praised by the journals representing those various shades of opinion. La gauche, directed by M. Odillon Barrot, has its official interpreter in Le Siecle, of which the principal editor is another deputy, M. Chambolle. L'extreme gauche, or gaucheradicale, is sustained by Le Nationel, La Refome, La Revue Indepentlante. The views of these three papers are very decided and uncompro mising, and they exercise at least as much influence upon their friends in the Chamber, as the latter upon them. La droite legitimiste, the different portions of which differ very materially in some respects, notwithstand ing their agreement in the general principle from which they derive their name, is represented in the press by La Quotidienne, La Gazette de France, La France, L'Echo Francais and La Mode. Each party thus retains several counsel on its side, who plead its cause before the bar of the public —a judge who some sometimes, indeed, appears to nod amidst the most impassioned speeches, but who, at others, takes per haps only too lively an interest in the pleadings, and sums up and passes sentence with somewhat more of heat and empressement than becomes the gravity of the judicial character. Of course these counsel are none of them paid : nothing could be more offensive than such a supposition. They are none of them paid : but some are feed—(subventione is the proper term as applied to a journal)—and this subvention, as far as the Ministerial journals are concerned, is avowed in secret according to circumstances.—Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review. Love's DESPHRATION.—On Wednesday last, some excitement was created in Ulverston, by a respectably attired female casting herself out of the window of a room in the Queen's Arms Inn there. She tied a hand kerchief round her face, then slipped it up over her eyes thus becoming" blind" to all danger, and putting up the sash of the window, got out backwards, and after hang. ing by her hands for a short time, dropped down. She alighted on her feet on the pavement, but losing her ba lance she fell backwards, her head coming in contact with the stones. She was immediately taken up in a state of insensibility, and carried into the inn. From inquiries, it appears that the female is the daughter of a respectable tradesman in Kendal, and is about nineteen years of age; that she has become enamoured of a young man about the same age, who is connected with a corn pany of itinerant players which were at Kendal last week, and removed from that place to Ulverston, where she also proceeded on the wings of love, in pursuit of the `• cushla ma chree." She was, however, followed by a relative, who took her to the Queen's Arms, where she had her under restraint, when the incident above related took place. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-At a Committee of the Court of Aldermen, held o n S atur d ay, the proposi tion of Alderman Wood, to abolish the evening sittings of the Central Criminal Court for the trial of prisoners at the Old Bailey, was taken into consideration, and it was unanimously resolved that the experiment should be tried, commencing with the sittings in the month of December next. The consideration of the second part Alderman Wood's proposition, as to having a third court tiler the greater dispatch of business and the accommoda tion of the public, was reserved until the result of the experiment of abolishing the evening sittings should be ascertained. BUY SALT MEAT IN THE MORNlNG.—Selrera butchers, from Leadenhall-market, who were summoned on Friday and fined for having a draught of from one to two ounces against purchasers, each declared that the scale, being wooden, became saturated with the salt and brine front the quantity of salt beef and pork weighed therein throughout the day. The Lord Mayor asked the defendants whether the draught was only against the purchaser in the evening, and being answered in the affirmative, his Lordship said that under such circum stances he would advise the public " to buy their salt meat in the morning." The majority of the residents in the Tower of London, belonging to the civil departments there, have received notice from the Secretary to the Board of Ord nance to quit their respective dwellings by the end of March next. It is understood that the tenements which they occupy are to be pulled down, and that barracks and store houses are to be erected on the site.—United Service Gazette. On the 14th inst. there was picked up on Broad Haven Sands, in St. Bride's Bay, a new boat, having " Simeon, of Langharne, John Sael," painted thereon, and had one oar and a piece of chain and rope in her.— Cambrian. THE MAGISTRACY. --John Kelly, Esq., has been appointed resident magistrate of Shinrone, King's County, replacing Sir William Lynar, who succeeds Mr. Kelly in Waterford. —Dublin Evening Post. DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE. INQUEST ON ONE OF THE BODIES. At eleven o'clock, on Friday morning, the coroner, Mr. Swann, and a jury, held an inquest on the body of William Varnalls, at the Three Wheat Sheaves, Old Lenton. William Gell identified the body. Thomas Cooper, of New Lenton, lace-maker, said, I was akßeeston station at half-past two o'clock, in tending to come to Nottingham by the Derby train. The Derby train being delayed, I was standing at the Beeston station, and saw a train coming from Nottingham upon the down-line instead of the up line. That was the line nearest Beeston; I saw Mr. Lightfoot upon the tender of that lot of carriages. They whistled very much coming up. I saw it go past, and they shouted to a boy (Tom) to turn the point just above the station, so as to place them on the right line. Mr. Lightfoot there got off, and came back to the station-house ; he went into a little room, began to talk to a policeman, and I over heard Mr. Lightfoot say, that there was a tender off the line, and that was the reason they came on the down-line, and he had come to stop the Derby train. After they had been talking some time, the policeman fetched a red flag and gave it to the boy, and said, " Go full half a mile up the Derby line." In about ten minutes, the Derby train came down at a slow pace, as I thought, in consequence of the flag; it stopped at the station some time. Whilst the Derby train was standing, I saw a policeman running up the centre of the road as if he had come from Nottingham, and I heard him say to Mr. Light foot, " If I were you, I wouldn't start the train yet." This I heard him say above once or twice.—(The witness here minutely described the policeman, who was called into the room, and stated that his name was James Howitt.)—ln fire or ten minutes after that, I heard Mr. Lightfoot say, " I think they have had time enough to get the tender off." Mr. Light foot then came out of the little room, and mounted the tender. I should have gone down by that train, but I was alarmed after what Mowitt had said, and determined not to go. This I state upon my oath. I was very near Mr. Lightfoot when he got upon the tender, and I heard him tell the engine driver to go at a slow speed. The train then started at a slow pace. I stopped at Beeston station, and in a short time (it might be a couple of minutes) I heard a loud crash. I was listening to hear whether all was safe. There was a very thick fog, and I could not see the trains, nor half way to them. I thought there had been an accident on the line. I and two or three other persons ran down the line to see what was the matter. Before I could see the train I met the guard of the down-train running towards Beeston.— (Joseph Coleburn was then called, and identified by the witness. Coleburn is an engineer, who occasionally acts as guard, and was doing so on this particular occasion.) I said to him, "Is there as an accident ?" He raised up his hands and said, "Oh, yes, there is a serious accident, but I havn't seen what I " I ran forward, and he went on to Beeston. I came up to the trains ; they were, I should say, about three quarters of a mile:or a mile from Beeston. I saw two trains, both upon the same line, crushed into one another. Some of the passengers were still in the carriages, and I saw some lying on the ground, as if hurt. I saw some men car rying Mr. Dean into an adjoining field, and as sisted in lifting him into a cart. I also saw a stout elderly man in the same field as Mr. Dean ; he was bleeding very much from his head, or his eyes, or his ears. I saw nothi ng th e ma tt er w i t h his leg. I helped to lift him into the cart, and he complained of his chest. He said, " I feel very tizzy ; for God's sake, let me lie do wn ." I never saw t h at h i s leg was broken after he had been placed in the cart. There was ene other person in the cart before the deceased. Mr. Dean was also lifted into the cart. He was alive, but I said to Stanton, " George, you may depend upon it, Mr. Dean is dying." I saw no more put into the cart, and I don't know who drove it away. I then went back to see if any other person. wanted assistance. I helped Mrs. Dean, (Mr Dean's brother's wife) to Beeston ; she was hurt, but not so much so as to be unablelto walk with my as sistance. I saw several other persons injured ; I shouldZthink ten or twelve. I did not return again to the train. The engines and carrges were very much shattered, but I cannot give any description of the damage. I know none of them. William Murden, of Old Lenton, labourer, said, at the time of the accident I was working in Mr. Cheetham's field, which adjoins the railway, and I had a horse and cart there. I heard the crash, and immediately I and Mr. Cheetham, who was the only person with me, ran to see what was the matter. I saw two trains on the same line, and they appeared to have met each other. When I first saw them they had run one into the other; one or two of the carriages were broken. By a Juryman—l recollect no whistling; I was taking no notice. I was about a hundred yards distant from the rails, and could have seen the trains except on account of the fog. I did not see any engineer that was wounded. James Howitt, lodge-keeper at the Wilford-gate, said that a train arrived at Nottingham from Derby at a little before two o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, with coals and passengers. It left the latter in the station-yard, and came back with the coals again, on the departing line, to the points just above my gate, to cross, in order to come in on the arrival line, for me to turn the coals into the coal line. I saw that as they were crossing the points the engine went on one line, and the tender on the other, which threw the tender off the line. I cannot say how this happened, for the points had always worked properly before. There was no man there then, for the points being self-acting points, it was not necessary to have a man stationed there. Trains had passed over them two or three times that day. I have known the points to stick sometimes in winter and bad weather, but never to get wrong before in such weather as it was yester day. The man had oiled them on the day before in my presence. The engine and tender stuck fast, and we could not move them. I ran into the yard, and called the labourers and engine-:nen to assist, but we were unable to move them, as it required jacks and levers to get the tender on the line. Kearsley (an engineer, amongst those who came up), when he saw what had occurred, told me to go off to Beeston, to stop any trains that might be coming down, because he s/id they should have to go on the down line with the next train. That was about two o'clock, and a train had to start at a quarter-past two. I immediately set off, and ran as hard as I could towards Beeston, but Kearsley's train caught me about 300 yards below the station, and passed me there. I called to the engine as it passed, and could hear the whistle blowing behind me before they caught me. I kept running on as fast as I could, and when I got to the station, the train had got on the right line, and had gone forward. The station-master at Beeston was there, and I said to him, " Turn the red board up the line, until you see a train coming up. We have got a train off at the bottom end, and one line is blocked up." The person who was with him went and turned the signal directly. I waited about there until three o'clock, exactli at which hour a train from Derby came down. The train stopped on seeing the signal. Mr. Lightfoot said, " You and I will go down by this train to Nottingham." I said, "We had better wait until the train from Nottingham comes up, it may come on this line." He said, "Oh no, it will come up on the right line ; John Kearsley's there, and he will see all is right." The CORONER—Stop, I shall not put that down. After some discussion all the hearsay evidence was struck out, and the inquest was adjourned till Tuesday. INQUEST ON MR. JOHN DEAN. At five o'clock on Friday afternoon, M. Browne, Gent., Coroner, and a very resp e ct a bl e j ury , o f w hi c h Mr. rilliam aylor was foreman, assembled at the General Hospital, to inquire into the cause of the death of Mr. John Dean. Thomas Cooper, James Ilowitt, and Jonathan Raven, were examined, and gave evidence vary similar to that given at Lenton. Mr. Sibson, house-surgeon, attributed death, which took place before deceased reached the hospital, to internal injuries received by the sudden concussion of the carriages, which caused a doubling or sudden twisting, striking the body against a hard substance, had caused the liver to be nearly divided into two parts. Messrs. Wadsworth and Patchitt appeared on be half of the Directors, and Mr. Campbell for Mr. Lightfoot, superintendent of the railway. The inquiry was continued till a quarter past ten, and then adjourned till Monday, at two o'clock in the afternoon. THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. INQUEST ON THE BODIES. On Saturday, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Du Burgh Arms Tavern, West Drayton, on the bodies of Samuel Brooks and William Tuckwell, two labourers in the employ of the Great Western Railway Company, who were killed near the West Drayton station on the morning of Thursday last. George Inglis deposed that he was an engine-driver, in the employ of the Great Western Railway Com pany. On the morning of Thursday last he left the Paddington terminus with the Bellona engine and train, which was the eight o'clock train from Pad dington. He was not aware of the accident at the time of its occurrence, but discovered it when he reached Slough, by seeing blood on the guard- Iron of the wheels. After witness arrived at the Swindon station, he, for the first time, learned the extent of the accident. The journey was foggy throughout. Witness's train had no lights When witness was close to the West Drayton station be sounded the whistle, which it was customary for him to do. That was w h en h e was twenty or thirty I yards distatit from the station. Witness had sounded the whistle' full a hundred times between Paddington and West Drayton. The fog was so dense that be was quite close to the station before he could ale that the signal was right, and the policeman's arm up. Witness's train did not stop at West Drayton. It was a quick train. Did not notice any labourers on the line that morning, nor any getting out of the way. Patrick Hearn, a labourer on the railway, deposed that he was at the West Drayton station when the accident happened. He heard of it about eight or nine minutes afterwards. He immediately hastened to the spot, and found the body of Samuel Brooks about 140 yards from the spot where the occurrence took place, lying on the middle of the line. His body was knocked to pieces, and the head was bat tered. The two men had not left witness five minutes before. Witnees was not on the line when the trains passed. Benjamin White deposed that he was stoker to the Bellona engine, and was with it on Thursday morn ing. It was very foggy, and the whistle was blown about every quarter of a mile. The engine-driver also whistled about ten yards from the bridge, and again as soon as they had passed West Drayton station. A lengthened and desultory discussion then ensued between the coroner, jury, witnesses, and officers of the Company, as to the best means of preventing the recurrence of such accidents in future. All the wit nesses and the officers of the Company agreed that they were quite satisfied with the present arrange ments, and said that if the men would not themselves take the necessary precautions by getting off the line earlier, instead of waiting until a train is close to them, all the restrictions in the world would not pre vent such accidents; they could not, therefore, sug gest anything that would IN an improvement. The CORONER said, that being the case, that the men who were the most interested in the matter did not see how it could be altered, and could not make any suggestion for its improvement, he did not see that the jury could go advantageously further into the case. It was clearly an accident, arising from the de ceased's negligence and incaution. The jury - immediately said they were quite satisfied on that point,'and returned a verdict of—Accidental death. THE FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR LEICESTER. LEICESTER, SATURDAY MORNING.—An inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Edward Jowett, the unfortunate man killed on the railway near this place on Thursday night, took place last evening, at six o'clock, before Mr. John Gregory, coroner for South Leicestershire, and a respectable jury at the Marl borough's Head, near the station. ..... From the evidence of the two principal witnesses, the driver and stoker of a coal train which left Leicester for Rugby, about seven o'clock on Thursday night, it appeared that deceased acted as breaksman to the same train, and accompaniod them on that occasion. After passing through the Kingston-hill Tunnel', which is little more than a mile from Leicester, one of the coupling chains connecting the coal trucks broke, and the train was stopped to remedy the accident. This having been done, the engine was again set in motion, but owing to the humid state of the atmosphere, and consequent slipperiness of the rails, the wheels did not " bite," and the deceased got down off the truck on which he was riding, and taking a small spade or shovel with him, crossed the line for the purpose of obtaining a little sand to throw upon the rails. While in the act of doing this, the second goods train from London came along the down line at a rapid pace, but, from the fog which prevailed at the time, it was not observed by the driver of the coal train until within a few yards' distance. When the train had swept past, the driver called out to the deceased, and, obtaining no answer, commenced a search for him. In a very tew moments he was discovered in a senseless state by the road side, with a frightful wound over the right temple, from which the brains protruded, and other contusions about the face. He was immediately placed on one of the trucks, and conveyed back to Leicester, where he lingered until ten o'clock, and then expired. In the absence of all positive knowledge, it is conjectured that, in consequence of the noise from the engine of the coal train, the deceased was altogether unaware of the approach of the down train, the connecting bar between the wheels of the locomotive attached to which appears to have struck his head, aad inflicted the wound above described. After hearing evidence to this effect, the jury expressed. themselves satisfied, and returned a verdict of " Acci dental death." The deceased was a very well conducted and respect able young man, and the solo support of an aged mother. He had been employed on the railway for some years. STATE OF THE AGRICULTURAL ! POOR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—The sympathy you evince for the distressing condition of the agricultural labourers induces me to hope that the following remarks may not be unaccept able. The Times has treated the subject with so much feeling and truth, that in the end a beneficial effect must be produced upon those who have the power of apply ing a remedy to the evils of which we all so loudly com plain. The remedy is in the hands of the Government of the country and its landed proprietors, to whom re spectively my suggestions are addressed. As regards any Government measure of relief, I will say, in a word, that the only principle upon which it can proceed must be that of providing work for the labourer, instead of the system at present pursued. This might be done simply and effectually by the adoption of either of the following plans, or by a judicious combination of them:— I would propose, in the first place, that, in accordance with the recommendation of a Committee of the House I of Commons, the clauses of the present Highway Act for forming parishes into districts, and for appointing ' district surveyors, be made compulsory ; that the appoint ment of the surveyors and the management of the high ways devolve upon the board of guardians ; and that labourers in want of work be employed by the surveyors under the authority of the board, being paid by the piece, and at a rate of remuneration lower by twenty per cent. than the average wages of independent labourers in the neighbourhood. lam satisfied that the offer of the workhouse as a test of destitution might thus be safely withdrawn, as no man would accept the inferior wages and hard labour of the surveyor unless compelled by actual necessity. My second proposal is, that a labour rate be established by law, to be applied solely in the payment of agricultu ral labourers who require employment, and to be levied exclusively on lands of the value of 20L a year and up wards, as persons assessed below that amount are una ble to employ labourers, and very frequently in difficul ties themselves. (See note 1.) - A third measure measure would be to prohibit the ad mission into the workhouse of unemployed labourers, excepting a very small portion (say one in ten) of the whole number who might at any time be without work ; the remaining nine to be entitled to out-door relief suffi cient for the maintenance of themselves and families. This would operate as a strong inducement to the rate payers to provide the labourers with work ; it would put an end to offers of employment at low wages, with the alternative of the workhouse ; while at the same time, by permitting the offer of the house in a few cases, it would furnish a security against wilful and profligate idleness. On the adoption of any of these plans, it should be rendered penal to combine for the purpose of defeating their operation. It is a frequent practice at present to collect private subscriptions as well as the paro chial rates, with the view of giving a cheaper relief than that authorised by law and sanctioned by the board of guardians ; the object being, under the dis guise of charity, to relieve the pockets of the rate payers by obliging the labourer, under threat of the workhouse, to accept an inferior rate of wages, or a lower amount of relief than would be ordered him by the board. And I may take this occasion to reprobate another injurious practice, by which many children are deprived of the opportunity of education. The young children of widows and others receiving out-door relief are compelled to work ; their trilling earnings are de ducted from the relief given to their parents, whose forlorn condition is rendered even more miserable by increased expenses in food and clothing consequent upon the labour and exposure of the children. The employ ment of such children under the age of twelve should be prohibited by law. The last measure for the relief of the labourer falling within the province of Government which I am prepared to recommend, is the encouragement of well-combined plans of emigration, in which labourers contributing their labour and binding themselves to the fulfilment of their part in the undertaking during a term of years, would, at the expiration of the term, receive an equitable share upon a division of the lands reclaimed. (See note 2.) By carrying out one or more of these measures, or rather a combination of them, all with suitable modifica tions, the Government of this country would, I am con vinced, greatly ameliorate the condition of the agricul tural labourer, and that upon the only sound and safe principle—the only principle that is consistent with his independence and self-respect, viz., giving him occupation instead of alms. I now proceed to remedies which are in the hands of individuals; and these, though ineffectual unless sup ported by legislative interference, are simple in their ap plication, and in no respect open to objection. Let the landed proprietors act upon a proper sense of their re sponsibilities, and not to be deterred by any personal trouble, or tho appearance (for I am persuaded it would be only an appearance) of personal sacrifice, and I ven ture to predict that we shall hear much less of the suf fering and disorder of the labouring population. It will not be out of place here to remark, that I be lieve the existing distress to be aggravated in no small degree by the recent changes in the laws affecting agri cultural produce. At any time it would be natural that the tenant (who has agreed to take upon himself the payment of the rates) should endeavour to reduce, the burden ; but, under the present depression of prices, it cannot be expected that he should fulfil his obligation, or find work for the unemployed labourers, which many landlords have insisted on, unless he be relieved by a corresponding reduction of rent. Having hazarded this observation, I proceed to express my conviction that a judicious system of allotment is cal culated in the highest degree to insure the well-being, both moral and physical, of the agricultural labourer. Let the landed proprietor begin by putting a moderate rent upon his cottages, refusing in every case to let them in conjunction with the farms. It is unreasonable to ex. pect a labouring man to lay by more than Is. a week at the very utmost to meet his rent, yet 51 a year is not an uncommon rental. Let every man ofgood character upon an estate occupy a rood of garden ground. To a certain proportion (perhaps one-half) of the whole number, let an additional allotment be made of three acres of pasture land, or so much as will enable them to keep a cow and three or four sheep ; and, as a still further stimulus to industry and frugality, let there be on the estate a cer tain number of small farms of forty acres, or large enough to employ two horses, and support a family above the condition of a labourer, thus encouraging the in dustrious by a prospect of advancement in life, and re storing to the community a most valuable class of men, now almost extinct, between the mete labourer and the large farmer. At present the agricultural labourer is deprived even of hope—he has no opening before him— nothing to look forward to but a life of toil, and an old age of destitution. (See note 3.) It must, however, be remembered, that such a system of allotment as I have recommended is on no account to be looked upon as affording the labourer the means of support. or rendering him independent of his regular work. It is a means of bettering his con dition, and giving him some comforts and advantages ; but these he only acquires by working at extra hours. It delivers him also from the ruinous consequences of occasional want of employment, to which he is liable, even if all other causes were removed, from bad weather alone—such consequences, for instance, as becoming in volved in debt with tho small shopkeepers, whose prices are naturally high in proportion to the length of credit and uncertainty of payment. I have now laid before you my sentiments upon this anxious and important subject, and will only make a re mark in conclusion. It i s th e op i n i on of persons more c onversant with these matters than myself, that under such legislative regulati ons as I propose, the occupiers of land would immediately find it their interest to leave no labourer without employ, and the powers given by law would seldom or never be called into direct operation. I must also state, that the plans which I have recom mended for private adoption have been found by expe rience to be both easily practicable and singularly bene ficial. In many instances they have been defeated by the selfishness and prejudices of individuals, but their value has not been the less evident. As to the facts stated, I am prepared to prove them by a host of wi tnesses.—l have the hono ur t o rema i n, Si r, your faithful and obedient servant, WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY. Grimsthorpe, Nov. 15. Note I.—SUppose the number of labourers in a parish to be 120—viz., 40 whose labour is valued at 12s. weekly, 40 at 103., and 40s. at Vs. Then 40 at its. would require weekly £24 40 at 10s. 40 at 83 IR And the 12. would require for a month 's wages 240 Or in shillings And suppose (to make the calculation as simple as possible) the amount of rateable property in the parish to be 4,8004, excluding all occupations below 20/., then the monthly rate would be Is. in the pound. As an example, Mr. A. is assessed at 100/., his monthly rate therefore is SL. He has in his employment, during a month, one man at 125., for £ s. d. £ s. d. two weeks Two men, at 10s., for one week Three men, at Bs., for two weeks 2 a 0 412 0 Remaining to be paid to the rate, or, in other words, to be ex pended in additional labour, by Mr. A 0 8 0 Note 2.-1 wish to see in our emigration agricultural projects undertaken by a combination of different classes on an extensive scale, and with unity of design. Thus, the capitalist and manufacturer at home—the one fur nishing money, the other goods—would combine with the man of science and the labourer on the spot. At the end of such a term as would enable the lands to be brought into cultivation, a division would take place, adjusted upon a fair estimate of the contributions of all. Thus, for example, the services of a labourer for a year might fairly be equivalent to a 50L share. Note 3.—The occupation of three acres of pasture would give him that great necessary of life, a supply of milk for his family, which he can very rarely buy, and at the same time afford him a profitable investment for his money, by the purchase of a cow and sheep, which would produce him as many pounds yearly as he could get shillings in the savings' bank. It would conse quently enable him to accumulate the capital necessary , to stock a small farm. I cannot refrain from adding 1 two very significant facts for the benefit of those who talk of the impossibility of a labourer's purchasing a cow :—I have seen the plan of a parish, of the date of 1717, in which every cottage had an allotment of pasture. At some subsequent periods all these were taken away, and let with the large farms. Ten years ago they were 1 restored, and there are now in the parish thirty-three labourers who purchased cows for themselves as soon as the allotments were granted. THE LAW OF GAMING. IMPORTANT LEGAL OPINION. BIRMINGHA.M, FRIDAY EVENING.—For many years past the magistrates of this borough have been in the habit of convicting licensed victuallers for allowing card playing in their houses, the act of playing having been hitherto held as an unlawful act. A few days ago several respectable licensed victuallers were summoned before the magistrates, charged on the evidence of the police, with having allowed card-playing in their houses. Mr. Harding, solicitor, rigidly cross-examined the witnesses, when they admitted that they did not hear or see any thing which warranted them in swearing that the parties were playing for money or any other consideration. Mr. Harding then submitted that the mere playing at cards in a public-house did not constitute an offence, and that unless it could be proved that the parties played for money or some other consideration, no conviction could take place. In this view of the case he was followed by Mr. Edmonds, aho contended also that it was requisite to specify the precise nature of the game in the informa tion. Messrs. Cm and Barlow, magistrates' clerks, ad mitted that the arguments required consideration, cad agreed to prepare the points for the consideration of counsel. They accordingly submitted the case to Mr. Archbold, to which is now appended that gentleman's reply:— " In the Licensed Victuallers' Act, the 9th Geo. IV., cap. 6, the forms of the licence provide that the person licensed shall not knowingly suffer any unlawful games, or any gaming whatever, in his house. Under this Act an information is laid before Justices against AB, li censed victualler, for knowingly suffering gaming with cards in his house, and the evidence proves that, with the knowledge of A B, persons were playing with cards in his house at the game of 'All-Fours,' but it is not proved that they were playing for any stake. Under these cir cumstances, it is objected that no conviction can be made, for the following reasons : "First, that no stake is proved to be played for ; and, secondly, that the game is not named in the information. The opinion of Mr. Archbold is requested, Ist, whether it is necessary to prove that a stake was played for ? 2dly, whether it is necessary to specify in the infroma tion the particular game at cards which was played ; and whether a statement of the name of the game is suf . - ficient, without foaling the mode of playing it ? " A similar information is laid in the same words against C D, and other licensed victuallers, but in that case, although the evidence shows that parties were play • ing at cards with the landlord's knowledge, it does not appear what game was played. In addition, therefore, to the objection which exists in the other case, it cannot be proved in this what specific game was played. " Mr. Archbeld is requested therefore to advise whether a conviction can properly take place against CD. The principal question upon which Mr. Arch bold's opinion is asked, is whether a licensed victualler can be convicted of en offence against the tenor of his license for allowing persons to play at cards in his house for recreation only, and his attention is directed to the statute 33d Henry VIII., cap. 9, the eleventh section of which will not apply, unless some gain is to accrue to the landlord; but by the 16th section, playing at cards by any manner of artificer or craftsman of any handicraft or occupation, husbandman, apprentice, labourer, servant to husbandry, journeyman, and other persons therein named, is prohibited, except at Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence. " Are not games at cards, therefore, by such persons at other times than Christmas, and then out of their masters' houses and presence, unlawful games, and may not a licensed victualler, in such case, be convicted of knowingly suffering unlawf u l games i n his house, with out any proof that a stake was played for ? If Mr. Arch bold should be of opinion that a licensed victualler is so liable to he convicted, he is further requested to advise as to the form of the information, so far as regards the statement of the offence, and state what facts aro neces sary to justify a conviction." THE OPINION. " The present informations, I think, cannot be sup ported, without proving that the parties were playing for money, and that the landlords knew of it. The licence prohibits the knowingly suffering any unlawful game, or any gaming whatever. A game may be unlawful, although the parties do not play for money, or money's worth. But the offence here charged is knowingly suf fering gaming with cards; and to prove a playing for money or money's worth. An information for the other offence stated in the licence, namely, knowingly suffering any unlawful game, may be set out in the offence thus:— [Here follows the form of information, which is merely useful to magistrates' clerks.] " As on stating the species of game played, it is in all cases desirable to state it, in order to preclude any ob jection of uncertainty; but I do not think it absolutely necessary that it should be stated, because playing at any game of cards for money is gaming, and playing at any game of cards by artificers, &c., out of Christmas or in Christmas, except in his master's presence, is an un lawful game. " J. T. ARCHBOLD. " 4, King's Bench-walk, Temple." CORONERS' INQUESTS. MELANCHOLY CASE.—A Coroner's inquest was held on Thursday evening, at the Gun Tavern, Woolwich, before C. J. Carttar, Esq., and a respectable Jury, on view of the body of William Terence Maden, a child aged two years and six weeks, alleged to have died from starvation. The jury having viewed the body expressed their sur prise at the miserable under-ground room in which the family resided. Elizabeth Maden, a young Irish woman of decent ap pearance, with an infant at her breast, deposed that she was the wife of William Maden, a gunner of the Royal Artillery, who had left on foreign service about five weeks since. Deceased was her child, he was two years and six weeks old, and had been ill for about a month. Witnesn; had taken him twice to the Ordnance Hospital, on the Ist and 18th of the present month. The medical gentleman told her the child was very ill, and gave her four powders, and told her to give him some castor oil occasionally. He did not tell her to call again, and she did not go between these days, because she did not think the child was so near death. Witness received 2s. 6d. a week from the regimental fund, and Is. 6d. and two loaves from the parish. This was all she had for the support of herself, the infant, and the deceased. She could do no work on account of the illness of de ceased and the child at the breast. Out of the 4a. she received weekly, she paid Is. 91 (and latterly Is. 7d.) for rent. Her firing cost her sd. a week, candles Is., soap 3d. This left about 9d. a week for their support, which witness spent in potatoes and broad. She might say that she was in distress indeed. She applied to some of the " quality " about the neighbourhood, but none of them gave her anything. One lady referred her to the lady of the district, but witness could not find her out till the child died, when the lady gave her one shilling, and an order for some tea and coffee. The child died at about half-past nine on Tuesday morning. On Monday it had some beef tea, which Mr. Bayly kindly gave her. It had nothing on Sundoy, except a little coffee and bread, and during the week it had nothing but a potato() and a little bacon occasionally. Witness had no meat or milk to give it, only a lath: tea. No person in the house gave her any money, but the landlady gave her some bacon, and two or three times a basin of soup. The child's feet and stomach were swollen. It often cried for food. Witness would have fed it very differently, if she could have done so, but she could not. On Saturday night some person, whom she did not know, sent her a shilling. When her husband left her She had three or four shillings. Sarah Ann Wilks, landlady of the house in which the last witness resides, said the family was in the greatest distress. Since the father left Woolwich, the child had never lifted up its head. Witness had never seen the mother and child have anything but dry bread, potatoes, and coffee. She used to carry the child in her arms wherever she went, and a kinder mother witness never saw. On the day the child died, there was not a bit of fire in the raom, and witness begged a pound of meat from Mrs. Bayly for it. Verdict—" That the deceased died from natura causes; but accelerated from the want of proper nourish. ment, owing to the ignorance and inability of the parent to afford it." Some benevolent persons in the town are anxious to obtain subscriptions to enable the poor woman to join her husband in Malta, and Mr. J. Watts, high constable, has offered to receive subscriptions. SUSPICIOUS DEATH ON EPPING FOREST. —Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. C. C. Lewis, one of the coroners for the county of Essex, at the King's Oak Inn, High Beech, on the remains of John Harris, seventy years of age, whose b o d y was recently discovered hanging in the forest. There being some suspicions of the vaguest character that lie had not died by his own hand, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased was found dead, but by what means his death had been caused there was no evidence before them to show. WATLINGTOL—AWFUL EFFECTS OF THE GAME LAW3.—On Tuesday last, about half-past three o'clock, the inhabitants of Pyrton, a village within a mile of Watlington, were thrown into the greatest consternation by a melancholy report, which, alas, proved too true, that a poor boy, about sixteen years of age, of the name of Henry Pridcheat, had committed suicide by hanging himself with a pocket handkerchief, from the top of a gate four feet high. It appeared that the poor boy was employed by Mr. Dickers, a respectable farmer in the parish, to shoot sparrows on the new sown wheat. O n Monday afternoon, whileperformi ng his duties, hestarted a pheasant ; the temptation being great, and feeling a desire to try his capabilities on a larger scale, he firtd at the bird, and unfortunately killed it. At this moment William Clark, one of Lord Parker's gamekeepers, came up, and threatened him with a prosecution ; the idea of appearing before a magistrate, and in all probability, of being sent to prison, filled his mind with the greatest mental agony. The keeper having taken his master's gun, he was a f ra id to return to his employer, and he is described as having wandered about in the greatest distress. On the follow ing morning it i s re p or t e d that he applied to a per son i n the village for som poison to kill, as he said, his masters' rats, but was refused, and in the afternoon he was dis covered by some children at play suspended f rom t h e top of a gate, on the footpath leading. from Pyrton to Weston, in a kneeling posture, a breathless corpse. The deceased has been employed by Mr. Dickers nearly five years, who gives him an excellent character. The above may be relied on as !in authentic f act, as our cor• respondent has visited the village, and had a melancholy view of the mortal remains of this new victim to the atrocious game laws. So great is the want of agricul tural employment in the parish, that Lto fbwer than thirty-three able - bodied persons are employedby our surveyors repairing the roads, withal, good udgesj say that tho land wants all the labour.-04:ford Chronicle. t°in P THE COWGATE, EDINBURGH.—For some --° for past excavations have been making near the Cowgit t o e d o the foundation of a suite of court-rooms to occorn o the Lords Ordinary. Th e b u ildi ngs are to run sou I s from the present b u ildi ngs const i tut i ng our courts o f „ i s ! and the south wall w ill verge upon the spot where 0 l ;4 of our readers will remem b er the Back-stairs ascen d( of yore. In the sp ace c l eare d b y the workmen, a ment of the first wall of the city (built about 146 0 )0 been laid bare. Ab ou t t h e en d of September , a o of much more recherches discoveries were made hi ss & workmen. South f rom the fragment of wall, and ditn i so from the present building for the fi rs t an d s e ` e rf divisions of the C our t o f S ess i on—fourteen feet h the surface of the earth—was found a range of st: of wooden coffins, lying close beside each other, and st y taming human remains. In one, the skull containet,;lo brain, still so far fresh as to show the vermicular 1 : 1 01 of surface. These coffins were straight in the sides t y I had lids rising into a ridge in the centre. About 0 11 same time, ten or tw e l ve yar d s west from that Vet; to st also beyond the line of the city wall, the workmen" ) icl I embedded in the ground, eighteen feet below the lc the present Cowg ate , a common-shaped barrel; or de size (six feet hi g h) res ti ng on one end, and eighteen isost deep into a stratu m o f bl ue c l ay, with a massive s beside it; leading to the presumption that it had h e ! o i barrel kept for the p ur p ose o f gathering rain, pavan stone step to enabl e an y one to get to its top, an-:l O kee s a supply of it content s . Th e staves of this barrel :yr still, for the most p ar t, f res h and sound. Still far i to the west, near t o th e b arre l , and at about the as t oo depth, was found a copper dish or basin, about inches diameter, and six deep, having tie rim 3 10 evasated. There can be no doubt that, all these t o ps have lain for several centuries undisturbed, The hod' would be a portion of those interred in St. Giles's uh""01 yard, which was abandoned in the sixteenth century- do barrel and dish must have been part of the curia of a citizen of still earlier age. The Cowgate a gti 1470, however much earlier, and it was for sone; 411 the residence of the great. So large a copper dish rtbs only belong to a p erson o f some distinction. 1311.4 most curious inferen ce f rom t h ese discoveries, is us/ the gradual rise of th e l eve l o f the street in the co y of time. Some years ago a street was round twelv e ill below the p resen t causeway of the Cowgate, net , „til eastern extremity ; h ere we fi n d h ousehold articles nesl still lower. This, however, is common in all u e :l e si cities, in consequence of the want of police reguls`' s of in the middl e ages . R e f use and rubbish were 18;419 the street, and, not being removed, soon became trod down, and th us ra i se d the soil. Even paveusents °ejsdi thus lost sight of. Fresh accumulations contis t k i w e taking place, the ground rose of course, rid, in 7 4 1 the bases of buildings were accommodated to the level.—Scotsman. DISTRESSING SUICIDE or A. You}; LiPlt"-petl Friday this neighbourhood was shocked by a I ",l f ek that Miss Jan e G u lli ver, d aughter of Thomas Gr-w:of Esq., of Bloxh am , an d s i ster to Mrs. Fisher, of 61100 bury House, with whom she had been staying wise P o si had drown e d herself. She was ab ou t twenty - s ir I_, o l of age, and had f or a very l ong period been in indiff e ' t - e ), 1 health, and latt er ly h er sp i r i ts had been greatly aftcstsi so much so that her medical attendant had sulEStri sc lei the propriety of h er not b e i ng left alone. On the morning, she had, with one of her casters, Banbury. On their return, she went into the it i , o ss and then, as the family supposed, up stairs to ef t . 0 0! her dress. This was about one o'clock. At lla u b oo two Mr. Robert Field, of Grimsbury Mill, saw a e h Os floating at the mill-head, against the bars whir JP placed to prevent substances passing to the whe e 'l l eth, remarked that a shawl had blown away from sovn„t,vol and told his boy he had better get it out. .- 1 P - sse walkestirpoi got hold of the shawl, and then found that there W i j e )i body under it. He gave an alarm, a n d Mrs and some of his men came and raised the body,' r ta sit they found to b e th at of Miss Jane Gulliver, $Dd yft it out into the house. It appears she must. bar Mrs. Fisher's, i ns t ea d o f going up stairs, *sminew„t tt after her sist er ' s b ac k was turned. She t:nen 11100' the back o f M r . Fi e ld' s garden, a few 'nundred from Mrs. Fisher's house, and there. .., av i ng tak e 'shs, her pattens, and pinned her clothes titootly rou nd li! r ' s se threw herself i n t o t h e stream, which was ver y rain" fed swollen by the profuse rains that had fallen for s he ea preceding days. It is supposed that she must bat tl ,ed' very quickly c arr i e d to the spot where she was which is about forty or fifty yard from where she herself in. Her pattens were found on the ban* iie tA bl man who was wan d er i ng b y the river some time " 0 tti e the body was discovered. An inquest was held 'lt, us! body of the y oung l a d y the following day. It is the course of the evidence that a report had pr el ' e jief that deceased w a s enc i ente, but it was proved, on " 0! 4 testimony, that th ere was not the slightest felon'hr for this asper s i on upon the character of the up'o sii young lady. But to wh a t cause the depressi, j r t of ef f ete from which she had been suffering wa s attr'soutable tasei was no evide nce to s h ow, and the jury ret., uree a 0 1 %0 to the effect " Th at t h e deceased drow,,ed herself...eW in a state o f t emporary insanity," at, th e sa me tw o clo' expressing th emse l ves satisfied that, there was no rooor tion for the report alluded to, hist whi c h for th e p e t faction of he r f r i en d s , the Coroner had thought PdsolL to investigate. —Abridged froso the Banbury Gua r be , We are sorry to learn that, in some ' , ar i l to:* Wilts, the current rate of wages has been reduce° per week.—S omerset c ounty Gazette. 4 BIRTHS. —t, On the 19th inst., at the Grammar School, L allgi * ,or Somerset, the lady of the Rev. E. D. Green, of a son; viso lb On the 18th i ns t„ at L ark Hall-lane, Mrs. Sidnof i'c' of a daughter. P' 4 On the 20th i ns t., i n N ottingham-terrace, Regent'''. 1,, ' the wife of F. D awson, Esq. of a daught er . o' On the 21st i ns t. , at Hatc ' ham Lodge, New Cross, g T. Fawcett, of a daughter. Di il tt° On the 21st i ns t., t h e l ady of Charles Main Wort h Esq., of a da ug ht er. t he .4, On the 21st inst,, at Titchfield-terrace, Regent's-P -ic. gri' wife of Joseph Needham, Es q., of a son. On the 21st inst., at Park-square, Regent'e-Pa r of ' Francis Cook, of a son. • ~, l as, On the 22d inst., at Clapham, Mrs. William Pr ° _ a il., daughter. On the 22d i ns t ., M rs. Howell Bernard-street, Nu" , / square, of a son . , _....-- MARRIED. or • burg h • On the 15th inst., at Wardle Lodge, Lear Eclio ~ o t , taiii James Alexander Duncan Fergusson, Benpl V i' r iter Margaret, daughter of the late James Hope, -" ° ...0 sec the Sign e t, Edi n b urgh. 11 4 • tit s On the 16th inst., at St. Mary's, Islington,, Naomi, ef 0 , eng . ra ver,,, ii jo daughter of the late Mr. George Robins , City of London, to William Martin, of 'dells-street, Lo , merchant. 0 0° .,„ ar fr On the 19th inst., at the Paris'', Church, floc, e tv e 9—,, Reade, Esq., of Hutton Locraa, 't.;leveland, to M i t n ` i y ci , LOlS bara, se con d d aughter of John Watson, Esq., o Brighton. _ shte),i n irit t nb lio ,2a 2 Bg l te s hd t o i 6 n fB s o t , at She ) rbor li ne, Dorsetshiret fir' OP° On inst., at Malta, of O N\ l ' i r t u h th e a s m th , K in e s n t. t : 1 , w EA'' Lord, Esq., of Long Henry Buttalls"B' ' lisil eel Yn-street,London , i ß n ay Jerm San' 0.1 es Cast! B b does. On the 16th inst., at Rod e' ar 3 Cheltenhatn, David Potts, Esq —"Y .- terrace , 82. On the 16th iti" . st , at Rugby, Miss Martha Eid u .g . . es 'f . 10981 On the 20th i nst., at Brighton, Caroline, w"" ° Window, Esq ,of Craig's-court, London. As ko(' ' s‘l. ' On the 21st inst., in Wimpole-street, Ada —1) ijolds wort gr' of Redheugh, Durham, aged 86. On the 21st inst., at Clapham-rise, Frances Ten' 10. k da o ug n h t t h e e r 2 oli st llo il l s ls t. w , oartthHilaltlmptiaEces,q.n, eoa f r ti c ie un i t n e n r c b4 r g iv , ra ft: l ,(18 ; Ellen, relict of Colonel Webb, of the Coldstream ye, ,,i ng s On the 22(1 inst., at Kensington, Mary -A delin.' 1P daughter of W. Rea, Esq m ' - rcil Vt Jnpp,On t c h a e rp 2 e 2 n c t l er in e st all S 4 ar i e: o h n , do th n e wire of r. 1/1'.411 ...-.-- ____ d --n-r—_•_z.L - ________-- ______2, , t__, - r- - - - ::", u o, g l , Lon_A!On : Printed and P u blished by Ai",IRDO •I'l go . 11 0 No. 112, St r a n d, P r i n t er , at T, 1,, _ . s . as Offic e b oa atf S zand. in the Precinct of tly„ s air o _hi Ole Middlesex, Monday, Nritriaber 28, Ilk* ARREST OF BURGESS, THE ESCAPED FORGER. The Boston Post, received by the Great l'i r ost e ' l 3 gives the following, relative to the event referred to • the above beading : • William Burgess, alias Ellis, whose escape from P i g; land and arr es t h ere h ave a l rea d y b een fully stated in t Pose was brought before Mr. G. T. Curtis, commissioner for examination. hsa The COMMIS SIONER , a ft er th e usua l pre li m i na ries been gone through, said to Burgess—Have you $ 9l counsel ? Prisoner—No, Sir. Commessroeue—llo you wish for any cou nsel ? F li t : soner—No, Sir. I'm willing th e t rut h should come opt j 10th article of the treaty of 1842, coon° ,e called the " Ashburt on Treaty," was now read, si'rio which it appeared th a t f ug i t i ves c h arged w i th f orge ry bo to be given up by the respective Governments upon g exhibition of compete n t warran t s, an d ev id ence raja!! a reasonable probability that the offence has been O w 'flitted, and by the party charged. aed Mr. Richard Bord was th en exam i ne d , an d identi Burgess as a late clerk in the Bank, and as the perf who vouched for Eld er as b e i ng " Wi ll i am O xe nford• owner of the stock transferred by means of the forgerl' s , After partially heari ng th e ev id ence, the C° 3l ! to sioxaa thought it was n o t necessary to go any f ur ther'n i it, unless the prison er d es i re d i t; an d i u reply to a clue.'tem as to his wishes, th e p r i soner rep li e d—l d o no t en tion what is stated. I am perfectly satisfied to go h° 516 0 . Y ll COMMISSIONER—Have y ou anyt hi ng to say wil ; c : f e • tificate should not b e gran t e d t h at you are a fagliea from justice, as is charged against you ? Prisoner -- 11 COMMISSIONER—The evidence • proves beyond oi s , reasonable doubt that the offence has been 60 0 , mated, and also that Burgess aided in its con3lni g "7 o 'There is then no q ues ti on b ut t h at i t i s my duty to Is' . t , a certificate to that effect. I therefore order Burgt e t be committed to the gao l, t o awa i t t h e order of then' States Government. The Commissioner the n s i gne d t h e certificate, 11P g which the Secretary o f St ate w ill i ssue an or der s) the delivery of Burge ss i n t o t h e custo d y of the English officer. is• As described by him se lf, B urgess h a d a b ar d job, gettieg off from Nahan o h Th urs d ay n i g h t. I t to ok In to three hours, and frequently the officers were nea r _„ e him. At one time he was lying on one side of a 1,.° 0 rock, while the offi cers were pass i ng by on t h e on o side. He stumbled into a pig pen, repeatedly fall d ija o the water, and occasionally sank deep into the Sa n is the beach. After he found a boat he was six ho lo reaching the Light-house Island, on which he was o ' l 4 on tiatarday evening. If conv i cte d i n E ngland, of if" there cau be no doubt, he will be transperted for life- conversation yesterday, he spoke feelingly of his letel complice Elder, and expressed a wish to see where ? e buried. Elder bad b een on a v i s i t to the house or h, prisoner's father i n th e country several months bta , , 'o , 0 the forgery. He was only forty-seven years of . :10! the prisoner thought, an d was occas i onally engagl u the horse business. His father was an extensive deal in lumber. THE St THE INFANTICIDE AT WOLVER HAMPTON. The magistrates intimated that they would take bail; themselves in 801., and two securities for each prisoner in 40L Mr. Hill said he would wish to ask Miss Railton one or two questions upon oath, but she need not say any thing which would criminate herself. Miss Railton was then sworn , and stated that she h a d recently been in the family way. Mr. Sheriff attended her with instruments last Sunday month. He had at tended her with instruments within the previous week; that she had no labour pains previously to his performing an operation on Sunday month, and that some hours afterwards she was delivered of a c hild . The evidence affecting Sheriff given on the previous days, and deemed necessary to fix th e o ff ence o f attempt ing to procure abortion against that individual, was then repeated take n ee y e lb I.and Hogg,trtrial the Mr, l Quinton, Mr. Ombl er , aprisoner (Sheriff) was then c for felony at the ens u i ng assizes. d a Inspector t tod by t oCCtolaa SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. COURSING. ITASUNGTON, CHESHIRE, Nov. 20.—The Welcome Stakes of 901. were divided by Mr. Johnson's Mem non and Mr. Barker's Vector.—The Anticipation Stakes of 26 soya. were divided by Mr. Best's Speculation and and Mr. Jebb's Plassey. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. South Berkshire, Tues., Woolhampton ; Wed., Ufton green ; Fri., Tidmarsh—lot Sir J. Cope's hds., Wed., Elvetham MountS ; Fri., Swab lowfield-place. Craven hds., Wed., Bri ms l a d e ; Fri., Albourne Chase ; Sat., Hunt's-green. Sir John Grard's hds., Fri., Bryn -11. 'Lam bledon hds.,NVed., Hogg's Lodge; Fri., Mar well Hall. Tues., Tichbourne Park ; Thurs., Minch Barn ; Sat., Weston-common. Haydon hds., Wed., Moss Kennel ; Sat., Carr's Burn Whin. Ludlow hds., Wed., The Serpent; Fri., Stanton Lacy-11. N. F. H., Tues., Hunter's Inn ; Thurs., Buckland-gate ; • Sat., Fighting Cocks. Mr. Rose' s hds., Wed., Creycombe Village ; Sat., St. Anne's Chapel. United Pack—Thurs., Linley. Vine hds., Thurs., liannington ; Sat., Chinhain. 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"BUTTER TORE BORN FORTUNATE THAN RICE."--. 1 a i fi t r i is m Ctl a r n re n n a t m l ye named reported 3,ia y wo o a d t Is S , a l e s a k fo i r l Ide,d andwithin fo four r miles cor rectlyao, that a well-known millwright (a working m an ) of that place, by a recent decision in the High Court of Chancery, immediately comes into the possession of a large estate near London of the annual value of 13,0001, as well as arrears of rent for the same for the last twenty years, amounting, of course, to the suin of 260,0001.—Lincolnshire Chronicle. it FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday night I of Birmingham, on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway. The train was 'passing under Cleeve-bridge and the unfortunate man not being sufficiently on his, guard, his bead came in contact with ono of tho iron pillars which support the bridge, and he was i ns t antly killed. The prisoners, Miss Railton, Mr. Sheriff, and Mr. and Mrs. Hildreth, were again brought before the coroner's inquest on Thursday, but no further evidence of any im portance was adduced, and the inquest was again ad journed until Tuesday next. On Friday the prisoners were placed at the bar of the public office before Mr. Hill, Mr. Barker, Mr. Dehane, and Mr. Briscoe, magistrates of the county. 'the only additional witness called was John Titley, a cowman, who deposed that he found the body of a female infant in the nightsoil in Mr. Quinton's outhouse. The prisoners declining to say anything in their de fence were each committed to Stafford. Miss Railton for concealing the birth of her child, and the other pri soners as accessories. f