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HAYTI. ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE OP THE BRITISH AND FO REIGN ANTI- LAVE II Y SOCIETY TO THE PEOPLE OF HAYTI. HAYTIANS,—The great body of philanthropists in Great Britain and Ireland, especially those who have been actively engaged in securing the abolition of slavery in the British colonies and possessions abroad, have long taken a deep interest in your welfare, and have watched with no common pleasure every , indi cation of the rising greatness and prosperity of your country. Your enemies have pronounced you unworthy of the liberty you enjoy, and have invented a thousand calumnies to injure you in the eyes of the civilized world. But your friends have been prompt to repel those calumnies by an impartial appeal to the history of your great struggles for freedom, and to demand for you that consideration and justice which they feel to be your due. The object of your enemies has been not merely to destroy your character, by exciting the horror and disgust of the ignorant, the unreflecting, and the pre judiced against you, but by that means also to im pede the great work of African regeneration, and the extinction of slavery and the slave-trade throughout the world. In Great Britain this was the case previ ously to the abolition of slavery in its West India co lonies. In France it is the case, now that the friends of human liberty there are exerting themselves to achieve the same noble object for its colonial pos sessions. Such being the 'fact, judge, then, of the pain with which the sincere friends of Hayti have heard of the unhappy divisions and disorders whic have drawn upon you the eyes of Europe and America, and have filled your enemies with exultation and delight. In the continuance of those divisions and disorders they see the germs of a civil conflict which will exhaust your strength and resources, and make you the prey of a powerful European State which once controlled your destinies, and is still anxious to possess so splendid an appendage to its territories as " the Queen of the Antilles." As the great organ of the abolitionists of this coun try, the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society, in addressing you their sincere counsel and advice, presume not to give an opinion on the cause which has led to the late disastrous events in your island. They deplore its existence, whatever it might have been. They deplore them for your sakes. They deplore them for the sake of Africa. They deplore them for the sake of the millions of your race now held in bondage . They deplore them for the sake of mankind at large, for so long as the en • slavement of any portion of the human species shall be continued, so long will the final triumphs of justice, civilization, and religion be arrested in its course. But the Committee sincerely trust that the events they deplore may be finally terminated ; that Hayti may be preserved free and independent; that stability may succeed to disorganization ; and that the whole body of the Haytian people may feel that whatever cause of dissatisfaction they may have had with the past state of affairs, that now they have the strongest reason to combine loyally and firmly with each other, to promote the welfare of their common country,. to develop Hs vast resources, and to• cause it to be re spected the nations of the earth. To the accomplishment of this great end the Com mittee would earnestly exhort you to lay aside all sectional jealousies. Let the parties .in the east, the west, the north; and the ',south fee:: that there . is a nobler object . to be gained than mere political pre dominance, namely, the welfare of their common country. Let there be mutual forbearance ; let diffe rences of opinion be healed by wise counsels and-ge nerous concessions ; and let it ever be remembered that there is no wisdom in the sword, which is the mere symbol of physical force, not of enlightened reason ; of brutal passion, not of calm deliberation ; of proud ambition, not of self-sacrifice and love of country. Let not the .pride of caste and the prejudice of colour dissever you. Strange that the children of a common Parent, endowed with similar mental and moral attributes, influenud by simi!ar affections and passions, should allow the tincture of the skin to form an impassable barrier to fraternal union and generous co-operation. On this point the Committee appeal to you as brethren ; fur however much they differ from you in complexion, they feel united to you by a common origin, .and would enforce and practise the common obligations arising out of those natural re lations which were intended by the great Creator to bind man to man in a holy and inseparable brother bood. _ _ Let not differences of religious conviction, opinion, and practice, separate you. The rights of con science are • of paramount importance. Where they are not respected, no other rights are or can be secure.., On this paint the Committee appeal to you as Christians, and, with the history of Euttope open .before their eyes, where they behold the ascendancy of Catholicism on the one hand, and 'Protestantism on the other, and the bitter fruits which have resulted from it, they would earnestly exhort you to avoid the perils of religious con flict. IntOlerince of the opinions of others in mat ters of ,religion is the oft . spring of bigotry; and bigotry, if it be not controlled by public opinion, leads to proscription and persecution. "Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind," is the lan guage of the great Apostle of the Gentiles. Let, there fore, those who suppose themselves in possession of the truth use none other' weapons in its 'propagation and defence than, those furnished by enlightened reason and the sacred canon of the Scriptures ; and instead of the bitternest of strife, let there be a holy emula tion to follow the divine example of the great Re deemer of mankind, who, whilst on earth, " went about doing good," and who came into this world, " not to destroy Men's lives, but to save them." Feeling the deep importance of the subject nri which they have addressed you, the Committee have foreborne to appeal to you on the lower ground :.of self-interest; yet ..they would venture to remind you that never was there so favourable an opportunity enjoyed by Hayti as the present m ment offers, for the development of her internal resources and the in crease of her foreign trade. Not only has Great Britain repealed a detestable law, which forbade Haytian vessels and Haytians from entering the ports of her colonies, but her Legislature, during the last' session. of Parliament, has enacted a law which allows sugar, the produce of free labour, to enter her markets on favourable terms, whilst it excludes that raised, bythe oppression of the slaves in Brazil and the Spanish colonies. Ha,ytians, yob, have now.an opportunity presented to you. of benefiting your country, by the establish ment of peace auiong yourselves ; by calling into ac tivity the energies of your cultivators; by the enact ment of•just laws, and their impartial administration ; and by. promoting the intellectual, Moral, and reli gious improvement of your rising _youth. We earnestly beseech you thus to act, and thereby falsify the sinister predictions of your enemies, and realise the sanguine expectations of your friends: By adopting this line of conduct, you will greatly assist the friends of human _liberty in every part of the world in their exertions to promote the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade, and will' assuredly hasten the coming of that day when the fetters by which millions of human beings are tortured in body, and degraded in mind, shall be universally broken. On behalf of the Committee, (Signed) THOMAS - CLARKSON. 27, New BrOad-itreet, London. Aug. 16. THE OLD. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Who that has sat in the gallery of the old House of Commons—that 'venerable building which the calami tous fire of October 16th, 1834, reduced to ashes—can fail to recollect his first feelings of disappointment as he gazed with a sense of wounded pride around the dark and narrow -room, and looked in astonishment at Ilionourable Members grouped in various attitudes of carelessness and indifference ! The aspect of the Chapel, plain almost to rudeness, appears to have struck an inteliq,ent French stranger with a feeling akin to pity, or contempt. 44 La salle," he writes, " est petite et sans e decoration—point de marbre—point d'or— point,de'peintures."* Its paltry dimensions, confined Space, and want of accommodation, could only be -adequately described in the vernacular of Cobbett, *rho possessed the peculiar faculty of disenchanting iris readers from all charms of poetry, of vulgarising the noble, and d e b as i ng the sublime.' " Wh y " he asks; w Frith the natural indignation of a new Member, 4 ' are sixthundr e d An d fifty-eight of us crammed into a space that allo ws t o ns no more than half a foot , ;square . There we are, crammed into this little hole, squeezing one another, treading upon each other's' toes. running about get a s ea t, go i ng t o t h e hole at seven o'clock in the morning, as I do, to stick a bit of paper with my name on it on a bench, .1 to indicate that I mean to sit , there for that day ; , then routed out of those places again after a divi siontaken place, and running and s c r am bli ng for has for a seat in just the same manner as peopl e do when they are let into a dinner-room at a . public 'dinner at the Crown and Anchor orelsewhere." Yet such as it was, " cabin'd and confined," undeco-1 rated for a century, decked only with a new coat of painting and whitewash, destitute of all architectural pomp, unadorned by a single monument of sculpture or art—into That building what intelligent stranger was ever ushered for the first-time without a throb bing heart and heightened pulse! Who but has lowered his voice on first entering that room as he felt 'the genius of the place compelling awe, the deep inspiration of the past! Mighty memorie , , rlqd Aspopitiions,. breathe their subduing spells around the stranger. Within those walls the battles of hu nianitf,have;been'fought, the privileges of freedom - - ,vindicated; and the liberties of England won. For ten gei :erations, ever since the gentle • ,al,o;ttkgile Y wall, a n d ;without ornament—wanting 'and I 1 s Edward VI. allotted that consecrated chamber, lo the great council of Parliament, the genius and virtue, the dignity and rank, the wisdom and eloquence, of the nation have been there represented. Treasures of statesmanship have been lavishly poured forth in that hall, which there Sias no prudent hand to gather. There blushed the chivalry of Raleigh, there wept the servile patriotism of Coke, there recorded its protest the faithful loyalty of Hyde. Its floor was once profaned by the hasty step of the unhappy Charles, who left his guards at the door as he faltered into the Speaker's chair—once far more basely desecrated by the stamp of Cromwell, as he crowded the benches of a truck ling assembly with .the myrmidons of an usurper. But fearfully was the insult avenged ; nobly have those assaults of despotism been requited by the Acts of freedom—the Habeas Corpus Act, the Bill of Rights, and the Act of Settlement—those death war rants of tyranny which have since been read there as law. There with an eye glowing fire eloquent as his voice, Chatham spoke for immortality, and triumph ing over physical weakness and bodily decay, made his very crutch an instrument of oratory—there the great Commoner crushed the House of Bourbon, and smote her power with that electrical shock which re verberated in another hemisphere. On that floor the mighty Burke—great even in his failures— threw down the dagger, as a specimen of the pre sents which French fraternity was preparing for his countrymen. There Castlereagh walked proudly up the House amid loud huzzas, with the Treaty of Peace, signed at Paris, in his hand. There Canning called the new world into existence, that he might redress the balance of the old. By the table in that Chapel, afterwards stained with Percival's blood, the brow of the boldest warrior has grown pale, as he stood up to receive the thanks of the House, and with trembling voice stammered forth his gratitude. Blake, and Albemarle, and Schomberg, Marl borough, and a greater even than that proud captain, the hero of a hundred fights, the Duke of Welling ton, have drunk in there the pealing applause which heralded Westminster Abbey. At that bar the proudest of England's peers have bent the head to deprecate the Commons' vengeance ; the governor of millions—the Ministers of State—have there bowed the knee, and in their impeachment confessed the grandeur of the great national inquest. There the noblest sons of genius —Bacon, and Newton, and Wren, Addison, Gibbon, Milford, have sat ' mute but not inglorious.' There Oglethorpe taught the lesson of humanity to inspect our prisons, and Meredith and Romilly pleaded, against capital punishments, that criminals still were men. These walls have rung with shouts of triumph as the slave-trade went down in its ini quity. Peals of laughter have awakened the echoes of that chamber to generations of wits—Martin and Coventry, Charles Townshend, and Sheridan, and Canning. The hollow murmurs of sympathy have there rung back the funeral tribute to the elder and younger Pitt, to Grenville, and Horner, to that eloquent orator, conspicuous among his countrymen, Grattan, who in his dying hour there poured forth his soul. What exhilarating cheers, the only re wards to St. John, for those lost orations which have perished for ever, have there rewarded the ef forts of Pitt and Fox, as they sunk back exhausted ! The forgotten oratory of that chamber would more than balance all that is recorded! Magnificent as the new building may be, adorned with paintings and embellished with trophies of our progress in the arts, far more convenient than the oldchamber, in splendour not to. be-compared, the-palace-of senators, and not the more hall—it can never rival, in the mind's eye, that humbler room empannelled with living memories, blazoned with illustrations of the past. The cloud of light, which filled the old temple with the glory of the Presence, far more than transcended the vivid splendours of the new. Though the rising structure cannot be for centures what St. Stephen's Chapel has been, it will stand, we may rest assured, as the former House, the classical sanctuary of Britain's intellectual greatness, the chosen palladium of her proudest attri butes—freedom, and eloquence, and power.—Towns end's Memoirs of the House of Commons. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 28. (Before Mr. Commisiioner FONBLANQUE.) IN THE MATTER OF EDWARD EDWARDS. In this case th , - bankrupt had carried on business as a draper in the Cily-road, and this day had been up printed to receive proofs of debt and to choose assignees. Several amounts, constituting in the aggregate between 400/. and 5001. were proved, the creditors being either bankers, or wholesale warehousemen in the City. Mr. Thomas Scales, of the house of Scales and Co., Milk- , street, was chosen assignee, and an allowance of 2/.1 a-week was made to the bankrupt out of the estate. • • SECONDARIES' COURT, Aug. 28. Mr. Secondary James sat in the Court, Basinghall street, this day, at eleven, and heard the cases, but neither of them contained any point of interest to any except the parties concerned. SUMMER ASSIZES. NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 26. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.) FARRAR V. DEFLINNE. This case, which had occupied the Court from about Friday noon, came to a conclusion this afternoon. The question was (as has been beFore stated) whether the defendant was, at the time of the liability incurred to the Manchester. a partner in the firm of Todd and Co., of Manchester. Notwithslanding the great length of the case, it was from the very nature of the point in issue a dry repetition of acts and declarations from which the partnership might be inferred. Mr. BAINES having concluded his case, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL addressed the jury on be half of the defendant, and commented very ably upon those features of the case which bore in favour of the defendant. He did not call any witnesses. The Learned JUDGE summed up the case briefly, without going through the details of the evidence, and the jury after having retired for a few minutes returned into Court, and delivered a verdict fur the plaintiff— Damages 1,2351. CRIM. CON.- WOOD V. MONK. This was an action for crim. con., alleged to have taken place between the defendant and the wife of the Mr. Knowles and Mr. Hoggins appeared fur the plaintiff, and Mr. Watson and Mr. Atherton for the defendant. Mr. KNOWLES, in stating the case to the jury, ob served that the injury of which the plaintiff had to com plain was one of the deepest that a man could sustain, and which could be brought before a court of justice. The plaintiff was a stone-mason by trade. He had also been the keeper of a tavern. About 11 years ago he marrit , d a beautiful young woman, who had since borne him three children, and with whom he had lived upon the most affectionate terms. He for some time resided at Preston. About three years ago he went to keep the Hesketh Arms Inn, at Southport, but in 1842 he returned to Preston, and conducted an inn known as the sign of the Grapes and Punchbowl. The defendant was a person of _ _ respectable station in life, being an alderman of the bo rough of Preston, in which town he had for many years carried on an extensive practice as a surgeon. In that character he had been introduced to the plaintiff's house, and had taken advantage of the facility which these cir cumstances and the misfortuMes of the plaintiff gave him to effect the ruin of the plaintiff's peace. The plaintiff did not succeed in his undertaking, and was sent to Lan caster Castle, from which place he obtained his libera tion under the Insolvent Debtors' Act. In the mean time, his wife carried on the business of the inn. The defendant was called in to attend her professionally, and taking advantage of those circumstances, effected her ruin. On the subject he (the Learned Counsel) would add nothii4; but leave it to the jury to say what da- MageS such a defendant ought to pay to the plaintiff, whom he:had so deeply injured. A woman named Mercer was then called, who stated that she had lived servant with the wife of the plaintiff during his• absence at Lancaster ; that about the Bth of October last year her mistress sent her to the defendant to 'tell him to come and see her, as she was ill. The witness went, and soon after the defendant came. He and her mistress went into the back parlour. While there a man came for a glass of spirits, and offered 6d., which witness took to the parlour to get change from her mistress. On opening the door she saw the defen dant and her mistress in a position which she described. She drew back, gave the man his sixpence, and let him go on trust. On another occasion her mistress had a swelling on her finger, and sent witness for defendant. lie came, and they went up stairs together. Witness went to the room to ask her to change a half-sovereign for a customer, when she found• them both in bed toge they. Witness was then single, but; had since got married. On cross-examination she denied that she had ever seen the plaintiff strike his wife till after his return from Lancaster, and that she had not been offered 201. or 5/. by the plaintiff to prove his case, but had been told she should be well paid, and have her expenses clear. Mrs. Prodtor, a married woman, stated that in Ja nuary last she went as servant to the inn, and detailed some occurrences similar to those deposed to by the last witness. : • On cross-examination she admitted that she did not live with her husband ; she had been parted from him three times. He was the ostler at the inn at Boscough bridge. She . had lived in the house of the plaintiff since his wife had left. Mr. WATSON addressed the jury on behalf of the de fendant, and urged the immense importance of this case to his client; Niho, as a marri e d man , w ith a f am il y , holding , a respectable position in life, and being of 'a pro fession in which the most rigid integrity was necessary to insure or "retain success, had everything at :Alike in this cause. "He then commented on the nature of the evidence which had been adduced, its unlikelihood, the contradictions between the two witnesses, and all the circumhtanCes of the case, which, he contended, deprived their testiniony of any credibility whatever. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to call witnesses b contradict the case of the plaintiff, and the case was adjourned at seven o'clock. CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.) CHARGE'OT MURDER.—Owen Leonard was indicted for the-wilful murder of his wire, Bridget Leonard, and inflicting several wounds on her body with a razor. Mr. tlulten and Mr. Drinkwater conducted the prose cution; the prisoner was defi.nded by Mr. W. M'Oubrey. It appeared from the statement of James Leonard, the principal* witness fur the prosecution, a boy twelve years of age, that his father, the prikther, was a tailor, living in Pter-street, in this town. The deceased was his mother. There was a family of six children, of whom the witness only was residing at home. The de ceased was in the habit of letting part of the house to lodgers, and on the 27th of July the attic was occu• Pied by a :person named Livingstone and his wife. There was another male lodger in the house whose name did not appear. On the evening of that day this boy had retired to, bed in a room on the first floor, where the deceased and the prisoner slept. He had on going to bed left them and Livingstone and his wife and the other lodger in the kitchen below. He was awakened by a noise, and found that it was the lodger singing ; and he then heard the voice of his father in angry altercation insisting upon the lodger leaving the house. The boy came down stairs, and found the lodger on the point of departing. After he was gone, the prisoner continued very angry. He called the deceased a w —e, and accused her of misconduct with one John Guest, who had been a lodger several years before. Soon after the Livingstones went to their room, and were let up stairs by deceased. The prisoner followed to the room on the first floor,.and the boy saw his father put something bright into his pocket. He went up to the room of the Livingstones and desired' his wife to come down stairs. He himself went down to the kitchen and barred and fastened the •door and window. The deceased soon after came down, and the prisoner recommenced his abuse of her on the subject of John Guest; and used the same opprobrious epithet as before. She only replied, " Are you sure ?" which she repeated several times. She was sitting in a chair behind the door, and the prisoner struck her with his fist somewhere about the face, and then took:" the bright thing" out of his pocket, which proved to be a razor, and began cutting her about the throat. The boy cried " Murder!" and endeavoured to pull him away, but he repeated the blows in different parts of his unfortunate victim. The boy at last got the door open and ran for the police. In the meantime Michael Hamilton, a neighbour, came to the door and endeavouredto push it open. s The-parties were behind it, and he could only get -hold of the Irair-of the prisoner s who again forced the door to. Oa a second attempt -he forced an entrance, and found the deceased lying on the ground, and the prisoner standing over her, striking her with something he held in his hand. He said to the prisoner, " You old villain, what are you doing to your wife ?" He then found that the nose of the unfortunate woman was entirely cut from her face, and she had a severe gash upon her cheek. The witness ran to call the police, and the unfortunate woman in the meantime crawled parti ally out of the door, saying faintly, " Keep him in, keep him in ; put 'something to me, I shall die ; he has cut my throat.", The prisoner then pushed her with his foot, whenshe fell out on the pavement, and he shut the door to. Several policemen coming up she was carried to the house of a surgeon, and thence to the hospital, but died from loss of blood before she arrived there. The prisoner was found in the middle of the kitchen floor washing his hands, and being asked why he had com mitted the act, said she was an old b—h. seemed to have been drinking, but yet to know what he was about. On examination of the body of the deceased, it was found -that several frightful wounds had been inflicted on the face; neck, legs, and thighs, one on the latter being , seven inches long and near six inches deep. The lateral' , jugular vein and the femoral artery were divided. • Mr. ISPOURREY addressed the jury for the defence, and contended that the prisoner was insane ; and that, at all events, under the provocation stated, the offence did not amount to more than manslaughter ; and called several witnesses in support of the first position, but who failed to make out that defence. CROMWELL AND THE NAVY. During the disturbances in the reign of Charles the First the managing officers of the navy were directed by the King to refuse obedience to .the orders of Parliament,' and a number of ships having been carried away by Prince Rupert, the naval force of the country was reduced to so low a state, that at the beginning of Cromwell's government he had only 14 ships of war of two decks, carrying 40 guns ; but under the careful management of very able men in different commissions which he appointed; such vigo rous measures were pursued, that within a short time, though engaged in war with the greatest naval power in Europe, the fleet was increased to 150 sail, of which more than one-third were two-deckers. The navy was by Cromwell raised to a height which it had never before reached. During the Dutch war Cromwell's cruisers took no less than 1,700 prizes, valued at two millions sterling, from the enemy. England was victorious in five general engagements by sea, in the course of which the ablest commanders that had ever been in the service of the States of Holland—such as 1)e Ruyler, De Witte, and Van Tromp—were vanquished. Never was greater at tention paid to the navy. Old vessels were not only carefully repaired, but new ones of a larger size built. It was di , covered that Raleigh, notwithstanding his great talents, had committed an error when he main tained that a ship of war ought never to exceed the size of 600 tons. Sealed orders seem to have been first resorted to in the Protectorate, which forms a memorable epoch in the naval history of England Blake, the glory of his age, taught us that wooden walls are superior to stone walls, and that a castle could not. rvgist ships -;well stationed and bravely fought. Blake performed an action in the Mediter ranean infinitely more daring than the recent attack made by the French on Tangiers. Having presented himself before Tunis, the Dey, by way of reply t o a mes zage demanding the release of some Englishmen, who we7e in captivity; desired him to look at the castles at 'Porto Ferino and Guletta, then do his ut most. Blake; roused by this bravado, immediately stood into the bay, and having carried his ships close up to the fortresses, ,he commenced such a severe cannonade, within musket shot, that they were soon destroyed. He then manned all his boats and burnt every ship in the road, including several corsairs, which had long infested the trade of the Mediter ranean. This gallant action spread the terror of the English name along the coast of Africa, and not only the Tunisians, but the pirates of Tripoli and Algiers were glad to agree to an accommodation. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL.—We are requested to state that the Queen has signified her royal pleasure that an additional week's holydays be granted to the young gentlemen of this school, in celebration of the birth of the infant Prince. The school %ill, therefore, meet on Wednesday, the 25th of September. TEE COMMERCE OF FRANCE.—The Moniteur publishes the returns of the principal imports of France in. July last, from which it appears that the duties levied thereon amounted to 14,980,828 f., or 3,571,601 f. more than in 1843, and 3,815,551 f. more than in 1842. The duties levied during the seven months of '1844, ending on the Istof August last, amounted to 86,528,235 f. They had been 78,290,550 f. in the corresponding period of 1842, and 81,328,445 f. in 1843. HERRING FISHING IN LOCIIFINE.—We are de lighted to learn the most favourable accounts of the her ring fishing in Lochfine. From the commencement of the season, the labours of the boatmen bad been rather unsuccessful ; but on the evening of Friday week the herrings appeared in immense.numbers, and the fishing of that night and Saturday morning was one of the most abundant which has been known in the loch for thirty years. The greater part of the fish on this occasion mere taken in the loch a mile or so above Inverary. On Monday night the fishing was equally abundant, the heaviest hauls being made from two to three miles be low the town. The abundance of the shoal may be learned from the fact, that some of the boats had taken upwards of 50 maize at one haul. From Saturday till Tuesday, the price for curing was 3s. the long hundred; but should the fishing continue good, it will of course soon be less. The quality of the fish is excellent. We are happy to observe that the accounts from the other fishing stations, viz., Dunbar, Berwick, Aberdeen, Wick, &c., were, at the close of last week, much more agree able than they had previously been.—Scotch Reformers' Gazette. CLERICAL INTOLERANOE.-011 Sunday last a scene occurred in the cemetery of Christ Church which has been the subject of much remark in the town during the - week. Michael Roche, a young man, who had be en - a member of the Rational Sick and Burial Society, and who, in his last moments, had intimated a desire to be buried in the above cemetery, was brought thither for interment by his mourning relatives. The Rev. O'Neil Pratt, minister of Christ Church, who officiated on the' occasion, on coming to that portion of the service which begins, " Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty Grad of his great mercy to take•unto himself the soul of our dear brother," &c., made a pause, and began to address the friends of the deceased, in language which was cal culated deeply to wound their feelings, and which was uttered in a, passionate and scolding tone, very ill adapted to the solemn occasion. He told them they ought to have been ashamed to bring the deceased there for inter ment, because he had lived and died an infidel and an unbeliever in the doctrine of the resurrection. The by standers implored the reverend gentleman to consider the feelings of the relatives, but he was deaf to their en treaties. He proceeded to make some remarks on the AUGUST MUIR OF ORD MARKET.—The August • immortality of the.soul, and the resurrection of the body, market was held at the Muir of Ord on Wednesday and E lating questions to the friends of the deceased, to which Thursday. There were many excellent lots on the e po intedly desired' an answer, as if be wished to pro- ground from Dunrobin and the western parts of Ross, v discussion, and yet when they attempted to speak, i which brought good prices. Mr. Sim, Drummond, pur he threatened them with punishment if they ventured to chased a lot of good two-year-olds at 71. 10 s. The highest interrupt him. Th e portion of the burial service above re- price we beard given for six . quarters was 3/, purchased ferred to was not read. A large crowd was collected on the. by Mr. Harper. There were only a: few crosses, occasion, and on all hands the violent excitement and un- ; which were Weight by Mr. Harper, for 8/. 10s. Mr. seemly irritation of Mr. Pratt are severely condemned, Boulderson sold a pair of capital three-year old Angus as unworthy the clerical chara c t er , and verunbecoming cattle at 301. The - following are about the 'prices : the occasion. We understand that two sisters of the de- Three-year-olds averaged from Si. to 8/, two-year-olds ceased, who are Roman Catholics, were resent at the 4/. to 71. 10s., six quarters from 2/. to 3/. There was funeral. A complaint, in regard to Mr. Pratt's conduct, - little doing in the sheep market, it being rather indif has b ee n forwarded to the Bishop by the agg r i eve d ee t a ...l ferently su ppli e d. W e th ers b roug ht from 18s. to 225., tives, but, we believe, no reply to it has yet been received. ewes from Bs. to 'SL, cheyiot lambs from 4s, to 65. 6d.— .--Maccieffield Chronicle. - _Boopshire:44onliser.. . The Lcarned JUDGE summed up the case very elabo rately, and the jury, after a few minutes' retirement, ment, found a verdict of Guilty of manslaughter. The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for life. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, AVGUST 29, 1844. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. ZDillitaes Laidler, the seaman who appeared before Sir John Pirie, on Saturday, to complain against the supercargo of the ship John Campbell, for bloody and desperate proceedings on the coast of Africa, appeared before the Lord Mayor, according to his Lordship's appointment. Sir John Pirie sat with the Lord Mayor on this occasion. The LORD MAYOR stated that the owner of the John, Campbell, which had not yet arrived, had re mitted to town an account of the depositions of Mr. Burnley relative-to the extraordinary transactions on board that vessel, received in this country six weeks ago. From that account, it appeared that a mutiny had taken place; that several of the crew, of whom Laidler was one, objected to Mr. Burnley as captain, although the appointnient was made by the owner, upon the death of Captain Robert Nelson ; and that, so menacing and insubordinate was the conduct of the mutineers, that he was obliged to apply to King Eyamba for assistance, to protect his own life and the property of his employers. From the details of the statement, which showed that Mr. Burnley had acted with becoming zeal, spirit, and discretion, it appeared that several of the crew had evinced the bloodthirsti ness which had been ascribed, with so much emphasis, to that individual, and had manifested a determination to destroy him. Laidler-- All that appeared in my statement was true. We were in a dreadful condition. Wm. Burn ley cut short our allowance, and reduced us to great misery, and he came down with the natives in three canoes upon us, and committed dreadful slaughter and bloodshed. The LORD MAYOR—You knew he was your cap tain, by the appointment of the owner, upon the death o' dept. Nelson. What right had you to dispute his authority ? Laidler—Mr. Bell was the first mate, and by right he ought to have been captain; but Mr. Burnley thought to carry favour with the owner by diminishing our allowance; and it was quite impos sible that we could work without being half fed. At the very time that we were kept in that condition he was sending off buckets of beef and quantities of bread ashore to King Eyamba. The attack upon us was dreadful. I was covered with blood. The LORD MAYOR—Why, it appears from the depositions that you poured hot water and fired upon those who went to you on Mr. Burnley's account, t induce you to act subordinately, and that you had written outside the bulwarks, " Blood for blood !" And after all you said the only objection you had for not returning to your duty was, that you would not obey Mr. Burnley as master, but would have Mr. Bell. You persevered in this desperate course, not withstanding the advice of the captains of the several vessels on the station. Laidler admitted that the crew knew of the ap pointment of Mr. Burnley to the command of the vessel, but said they would not have him, as he had cruelly shortened their allowance. He said the de positions were false in stating that any hostle measures were taken by the crew until they were fired upon and attacked in the most murderous way by the na tives in their canoes. He denied that the crew had mutinied—they had only defended. The LORD MAYOR—It is quite evident that there was a most dangerous mutiny on board. Here is the representation upon which King Eyamba acted in granting assistance to Wm. Burnley : " Sire,—ln consequence of the mutinous state of the crew of the ship John Campbell, J. Henry Burnley, master of the said ship John Campbell, peti tion your protection and assistance by going on board for the purpose o" quelling that mutiny. Should you fail by fair means in your attempt, I request you to adopt any measures you most approve of to secure the mutineers, for the safety of the ship and cargo. l am under the necessity of resorting to these measures in consequence of the repeated threats to me, and I know ing them to be well armed. " H. BURN LEY. " To King Eyamba." • The following representation, it appears, accom panied that : " Sire,—We the undersigned, serving on board the said ship John Campbell, and finding her in a highly mutinous state, quite concur in the necessity of the above request of Captain Burnley to you, as being the only means of protecting the ship and property, and beg you will immediately resort to any measure in your power to quiet the disturbance, as we have used our endeavours, and find them utterly useless. Signed by the English captains in the ri ver . " To Eyamba." What have you to say to these statements ? Laidler repeated that all the crew had done was in defence; that they had a right to object to any man being captain but the first mate, and that the suffer ings they underwent were most unmerited in every respect. Sir J. PIRIE—Do you deny that Mr. Sharp, the owner, authorised Mr. Burnley to take the command of the vessel after the captain's death ? Laidler— No ; that's quite correct. Sir JouN Pmin—Then why did you dare say that you would have another person to take the command? Laidler—Why did Burnley dare to reduce our al lowance of bread and meat ? It was better to be here in the worst prison, than to be there working under an African sun under a short allowance. There was no end to the buckets of beef and bread he sent ashore, while we were left in a shocking state. It's false to say we mutinied. The LORD MAYOR—Why, you admit that you were guilty of mutiny by stating that you disobeyed Captain Burnley when you were bound to obey. It is quite plain to me that you were one of the principal leaders in the mutiny, and take care that you are not called upon to answer to the charge of the person whom you have come here to calumniate. After all the captains of the English vessels in the river had in vain tried to bring you to a proper sense of your duty, the man who ought to have authority over you was obliged, as a last resource, to apply to the King. lie had nu alternative. Laidler—l have not stated a word that's false. I say, that after being slaughtered and wounded, we were dragged out of the ship and confined in huts, and two of the crew were killed with poisoned water. The LORD MAYOR—You were not fired upon until you fired and killed two of King Eyamba's men, and I judge froM the depositions that you were treated youwhich you all a h c a t d ed n o i ncl the ai os m m . the probability is that Mr. Sharp will look after you and make you responsible. is t Laidler no doubt at all that I shall take car e t o l oo k a f ter hi m an d There t des perateherewith forbearance manner, andt o make him responsible. Depend upon it I shall not be quiet till I have justice done to me. I say we were all treated in the most savage manner. My chest was broken open. The LORD MAYOR—In the chest of most of the crew were found property belonging to others. You have assailed the. characters of others. and depend upon it you will be made to feel that there has not been the least excuse for the course you have been pursuing. Laidler then left the justice-room, declaring that he would try elsewhere for satisfaction. The manner of the seaman was brutal and menacing in the extreme,. presenting an extraordinary contrast to the gentle and pathetic description of his suffer ings and feelings on the occasion of his first applica tion to Sir John Pirie. Sir JOHN PIRIE most unequivocally expressed his opinion as to the mutinous conduct of the crew, and hoped the statements which had gone abroad had done no injury to the character of Mr. Burnley. GUILDHALL. Frances Farrell and Richard Ro w land were p w la i c i ielde in n t e t h a e p , ,a b b a k r , , ,,, t h a e n f o a t t t 44o n fo a rni c h e r a rg w e i t o h f r b o e b in i . f ing " d h r i u m nk and in- that state. The' worthy Rowland stated that he was a tailor, and had been holding " Saint Monday" so religiously, that he had got drunk in consequence. While in that state he was put into a cub, and the female, with whom he had been drinking, there robbed him of from Bs. to 10s. The constable said that the female was searched at the station-house, and 7s. 6d. found upon her. The latter prisoner was discharged,- and then put into the witness-box, but he could give no evidence, as the preceding evening was a blank in his memory. Alderman BROWN said that, under the ejrumstances, he could do nothing to the female, and'slie — iiras, there fore, discharged. QUEEN-SQUARE. George ThomaS Young, a young man of very dejected appearance, w as pl ace d at the bar before Mr. Burrell, charged with breaking open a safe in the area of No. 26, Cadogan-street, ChelSea, and stealing therefrom a piece of beef, weighing 21bs., and a proportionate quantity of bacon. Policeman Henry m Hill, No. 176 B, depo sed that whilst he wa s o n duty thismorning a bout five o'clock, in Cadogan- s t reet , he noticed that the safe in the area of but he 26 he had beets ly b t e v e e n n forced tual open. On looking down he per ceived the prisoner crouching down in the coal-hole. He called out to him, and he tried to m ake his esca p e, which w as t a k en f rom foundtthaektsilafeintwoaseustidY. in T t h h e e c m o e a a l- t cellar. The prisoner, in extenuation, said he was very hungry 'Walter, at p th e e te t r inl m e, and he wanted somet hing to eat. charged before Mr. o He was committ e d f or t r i a l. public-houses on t h e sou th side of the river. INC7elt°tilVrig-hilainA,LwLi.th robbing several a well-dressed yo un g man, was Mr. Carter, landlord of the King's Head, in the Borough, stated that on Sunday night the prisoner en gaged a bed at his hOuse. That he remained in the house until between four and five o'clock the next day,' at a hich time the chambermaid, having occasion to go up stairs, found the prisoner on his knees in one of the bedrooms. This circumstance excited her suspicion. and on en ering 'she found that her box had been broken open, arid that a sovereign, some silver, and various other artielf•s had been taken: The prisoner was given into custody On th e spot, and the wholo of the articles were found in his pos session. The barmaid of the Hero of Waterloo was next exa mined, and she stated that on Sunday night the prisoner , engaged a bed at the house, and when he went away th e next day, it was discovere d that he bad entered her bed- I room, brpke - open her drawers and her box, and plun dered them of money, t oge th er w ith severa l articles :of ji , wellery, some of which were found in his possession when he was taken into custcdy at the K-ng's Head. A skeleton key vvas also found on him which fitt,d the lock of the bar-maid's doo r . The prisoner said tl,it his friends were respectable, in Ireland ; that he had received a sum of money from them to proceed to America ; but, instead of doing so he came to London, spent all his cash, and was reduced to poverty. He added that he had nothing to say in i answer to the charge. Mr. COTTINGIUM said that a great number of public houses had been robbed by a well-dressed man ; that he intended to com , ):it the prisoner for trial, on the two , charges preferred against him ; but that he should re- mand him till Saturday, to give other parties robbed an opportunity of attending. BOW-STREET. _ _ _ Tuesday Francis Hallett was charged with having taken indecent liberties with Mrs. Elizabeth Butter, at a late hour on Monday night, and with violently assaulting Thomas Humphries, who now lies in a dangerous state at the Charing-cross Hospital. The prisoner was represented by his attorney as a person holding a responsible situation under Government. Elizabeth Butter, ot . 179, Drury-lane, a married woman advanced in pregnancy, stated that she was at the corner of St. Martio's-line, Castle-street, shortly after twelve on Monday night, in the company of her husband, who had stopped to speak with some friends. With the view of resting herself, she sat down upon a large stone on the footway, which was undergoing repair, and while in that position the prisoner and another man came up to her, when the former assaulted her in the indecent manner charged. Her husband approached him and said, " She's my wife," and re monstrated with him. An altercation ensued, and,. during the scuffle, the prisoner raised his stick and levelled a severe blow at the head of Humphries, who was knocked down upon the pavement, bleeding pro fusely and insensible. Humphries had interfered as the friend of witness's husband. Joseph White, of 16, West-street, Soho, one of the party in conversation with Butter, corroborated this evidence. Samuel Pope, a plasterer, of Exeter, the companion of the prisoner on the night in question, denied that any indecency was committed by his friend, and said that the blow given by him was necessary for self defence, as the whole party were attacking him. William Crick, a by-passer, connected with neither party, also stated his opinion that the prisoner was justified in his attack upon Humphries. The certificate of the house-surgeon, to the effect that Humphries was in a dangerous state, having been put in, the case was remanded for a week. air. TWYFORD, after much consideration, acceded to the earnest application of the prisoner's attorney to take bail for his appearance —himself in 2001., and two sureties in 1001. each. MAR YLE BONE. Tuesday John Sprole, who, about twelve months ago was butler in the service of Mr. W. A. M. Mac kinnon, M.P., No. 4, Hyde Park place, was placed at the bar before Mr. Rawl;oson for re-examination, charged with having stolen a silver table spoon and a silver dessert fork, the property of the gentleman above named. It appeared from the evidence that upon several occasions articles of. plate had been stolen from the premises, and it had been strongly suspected that the prisoner was the thief. On Saturday last he (pri• soner) called at the house, when he asked to be allowed to speak to the housekeeper, and he was de sired to go into the kitchen. He went down stairs, and was soon afterwards observed to come out of the butler's pantry. 'lhe spoon and fork were almost immediately missed, and, on the prisoner being stopped by the butler, the said articles were found in his possession. Police-constable Bewley, 153 D, who was called in, took him into custody, and he then said that he intended to pledge the plate, and redeem it as soon as possible. The prisoner, who had now nothing to say, was fully committed to Newgate for trial. Tuesday Mrs. Anne Watson, a very respectably attired woman, about thirty years of age, carrying in her arms a fine infant, and who at the station-house said that she resided in Rupert street, Haymarket, was brought up in custody, and placed at the bar, be fore Mr. Rawlinson, chargechwith having stolen silk of the value of 151., the property of Mr. Rowland Hooper, in an extensive way of business, at 52, Ox ford- street. The husband of the accused was present. William Duggen, assistant to Mr. Hooper, deposed, that on the previous evening, between seven and eight o'clock, the prisoner entered the shop and looked at some calicoes, a quantity of which she purchased; and, while the woman who had served her was hand ing in to the cashier the particulars of the sale, wit ness, whose attention had been directed towards her (prisoner), saw her take from the counter five silk dresses (lengths not made up) and place them under her cloak; he went up to her and questioned her re specting what she had done, when she dropped four of the said dresses on. the floor; the fifth he took from her. Hardiman, 76 C, • stated that he was called upon to take into custody the prisoner, who denied knowing anything whatever about tie silk. Another shopman of Mr. Hooper's was examined, and his evidence was confirmatory of that given by the first witness. The prisoner, who has upon a farmer occasion been convicted of shoplifting, was committed for trial. William Taylor, a lad about fifteen years of age, was charge d by his mother and sister with having obtained money and cl9thes from the latter, and from another sister, on pretence that he was sent by his mother. It appeared from the statement of his mother that he was contirma!ly in the habit of pilfering articles from her dwelling and selling them. • • - Mr. IttwuNsoN asked Mrs. Taylor if she intended to prosecute her own child ? . Mrs. Taylor answered in the affirmative, as she did not know what to do with him. He was remanded for a week. John Gray was charged with stealing five sacks of coals from his employer, Mr. Hicks, a solicitor and coal merchant, in Keltish-town. It appeared that the pri • soner, who had been in the service of Mr. Hicks for eight years, was directed to convey six loads of coals of eight sacks each from - Mr.'Wood's wharf, at Kentish town, to the premises of Mr. Hicks. On every journey. except the first, he " dropped " a sack of coals at his own residence. He did not deny taking the coals, but said he intended to pay for them. He was remanded for a week to give the prosecutor, who is in the country, and who was represented by his son, time to attend. WORSHIP -STREET. Tuesday a good-looking young woman, about 28 years of age, named Maria Clifford, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged at the instance of the Rev. Mr. King, Rector of St. George's-in-the- East, one of the Directors, and Mr. Thomas Natt, Secretary to the Guardian Society for the Preserva tion of the Public Morals, an institution at the north side of Bethnal-green, and of which her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent is the patroness, with at tempting to induce two of its female inmates to enter upon a course of prostitution at . a well-known house of that description at the West-end. Mr. Natt said that the Institution, of which he was one of the Secretaries, and which was supported by a great number of the nobility and persons of distinc tion, had been founded for the very beneficial pur pose of providing a temporary asylum, with suitable employment, in the shape of needlework and washing, and repairing articles of apparel, for young women, who have deviated from the paths of virtue, and who have either been removed from the public streets by the operation of the laws, or have been awakened by their consciences to a sense of their danger and guilt ; and he need not point out to the Magistrate how essential it was to make a severe example of any person whom they de tected in making immoral overtures to any of the inmates, or propositions, the tendency of which was to seduce them back to a life of prostitution. There were now upwards of thirty inmates in the Guardian Society's establishment, of whoa, the prisoner, and two very pretty young women, 17 years of age, of the names of Huff and Fowler, formed th ree, and the cause of his charging the prisoner was this :—lt was considered beneficial and advisable by the Ladies' Committee, as tending to break the monotony of the asylum life, that the young women should have occasional opportunities of visiting their friends and relatives, and all the inmates were perfectly happy with their situation, and contented with these holi days, with the exception of the two young women Buff and Fowler, who, horn being two of the hap piest and best conducted, had, since the prisoner's admission to the institution, become discontented and directly the reverse. This conduct had, at last, be come so reanifest and annoying that the matrons and managers were satisfied there must be some improper cause for it, and one of the servants, who had the care of the. sleeping apartments, was directed to find it out, if possible. On .the preceding evening, when the girls were about to retire to rest, this woman,' as they took off their clothes, made a point of examining them, and on scrutinizing the stays of Fowler and Huff, she fancied she felt something like a letter sewn in between the stays and the busk of each of them. She was, consequently, induced to rip their stays open, and upon so doing found her suspi cions verified by discovering two letters, one in each stay, in the handwriting of the prisoner; strongly re commending the young women for a life of prostitu tion, to the hag lialy of a well-known house of a cer tain descripiton, in the neighbourhood of Manchester- square, and of which it appeared that the prisoner her self had formerly been an inmate. The instant this discovery was made one of the girls fell to the ground in hystericA, and upon being recovered was carried to bed; the other girl likewise became simi larly affected shortly afterw arils, and both of them, at the moment ha was speaking, were then confined to their beds, and had been ever sin?.e subject to a rapid succession of hysterical fits, so that it was impossible to produce them before the Magistrate with safety. On e of the young women, in the course of an interval between these affections was gently questioned as to the author of the letters, when ehe declared that the prisoner had written them, and been for a long time past tamper ing with them, to induce them to go back to an ex istence of vice, and irnmising them, if they would consent to go to the house to which she recommended them, they would each receive three guineas per week, be splendidly attired, wear gold watches and chains and jewellery, and have every luxury "heart could wish fur," and the prisoner's persuasions had had such an effect upon them that they had deter mined upon embracing the first opportunity of leav ing the asylum and following her advice. The pri soner was then called in and luestioned, Si hen, so far from contradicting what the young women had stated she fully acknowledged it to be perfectly correct, and attempted to justify her conduct, by saying that she had advised the young women for their own ad vantage, as she had learned from them that before they had sought refuge in the asylum they had been in the habit of frequenting establish ments of an inferior descriptiOn, and she thought it a pity such beautiful young women should be so. sacrificed. Although so late at night witness deter mined to make inquiry about the house in question, with a view to its suppression, and on going there found it to he a house of a very respectable and quiet appearance, and let at a rental, as he would imagine, of at least 801. or 1001 per year. He questioned the pf_liceman on the beat, and then went to the station house and saw the inspector on duty, who, upon mentioning to him his errand, sent for two other constables, and they all expressed their convic tion that the house was one of the description stated, although very well conducted, and no formal com plaint had been made to the police with regard to it. On receiving this confirmation the managers of the asylum had determined upon letting the prisoner re main in the institution that night, hut to give her into custody the next morning, which had accordingly been done. Two inmates of the asylum, named Susannah Matthews and Caroline Oade, the latter 20 years of age, proved, the first, finding the notes in the young women's stays, and the second, that they were in the handwriting of the prisoner, who, the Rev. Mr. King said, had been inmate also for about four months, but would never again be permitted to enter its walls. The letters were then put in and read, and were exactly as follows, suppressing the number or the house and name of its manager : " Miss Clifford's compliments to Mrs. —, and if she would be so polite as to speak to the bearer of this, Miss C. would take it as a favour, as she (the bearer) is quite ignorant of the life, and I think it would be a pity that she s h ou ld b e lost. Therefore, trusting you will do me the favour to take her into your house.—l am yours affectionately, " M. CLIFFORD. " Airs. —, Manchester-square." " Miss Clifford would also f;el obliged to Mrs. -- attending to this note, which is of the same nature as the other. They (the bearers) are .both destitute of homes, and deserve your earliest attention, as they are both nice young women, and 'I am sure you will like them.—Yours affectionately; . *" M. CLIFFORD. _ _ " Mrs. --, Alanchester-siltiare." The prisoner, upon being asked if she wished to o'er any observation, burst into a violent flood of tears, and declined saying anything.. Mr. BINGHAM, after some consideration, said if the prisoner had lived out of the asylum, and it could be distinctly proved that she was acting under the orders of the keeper or agent of a house of ill-fame, she would be undoubtedly liable to be severely punished; but as the evidence offered only went So far as to prove that she was an inhabitant likewise of the asylum, and therefore a companion of the other girls, he could not see that there was any offence proved, of which a magistrate, or the justices at quarter sessions, could take cognizance. Although it was not clearly shown that the prisoner was following the trade of a procuress, her conduct was so base and demoralising, that she ought not to be suffered to remain in the establishment an hour longer, and he, therefore trusted she would be instantly turned out of it ; and with respect to the present charge, he reluctantly felt compelled to discharge her from that also. The prisoner was then discharged, and, covering her face as much as possible, precipitately left the Court. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN WORK MEN. It is a strange thing, that, all over the world, in America, and in Europe, there should exist such a very unfavourable opinion of English labourers, and that their undeniable skill and industry in their par ticular vocations should be unable to remove the uni versal impression of their immorality, lawlessness, ignorance, and brutality. Even where it is found necessary to employ them this is always done reluct antly and fearfully. I was in Austria shortly after the English labourers had been dismissed from the railroads making there, because their turbulence, brutality, and drunkenness, occasion e d a ll ki n d s o f riots and accidents. I went to Saxony, and found that there, too, all the English labourers had been turned away, because their conduct was found quite insufferable. I went to Frankfort, and met a papier macho manufacturer, who told me, with rueful shakings of the head, th a t h e was indeed compelled to employ English labourers .in some parts of his business, because they understood their business so well, and were so remarkably skilful in it, but that he longed to get rid of them because they were the most troublesome, ignorant, and unmanageable of his workpeople. I went to Belgium, and read an inte resting report of an English Poor-law Commission, in which the evidence of a great manufacturer, of Philadelphia, concerning English labourers, was given at full length. This gentleman testified that one fifth of the workpeople in the American factories were foreigners, most of them Englishmen, whom, however, the manufacturers employed very unwil lingly, on account of their being so " dissipated and discontented." They were, besides, universally dis liked, because they were so given to drunkenness. The American labourers are always found better educated, more intelligent, and less given to sensual indulgencies. No strikes or combinations of work men are ever known among the American labourers as among the English, who are always combining to force higher wages from their masters. Tre supe riority of the American labourers is chiefly attributed to their superiority of education. The American masters are always very particular in having the children of their labourers sent regularly to school,— Kohl's England and Wales. IMPROVEMENTS IN WESTMINSTER.—The Metropo itan Improvement Commissioners having decided on opening a direct communication from the new Houses of Parliament to the north-west district of London, various plans and estimates were sent in, the majority of which were rejected, in consideration of the large amount of compensation which would be demanded by the owners of household property in the respective localities. The line has, at length, been definitively marked out, and a contract concluded for two-thirds of the work. The new street will commence at the western extremity of the Houses of Parliament, running in an oblique line from Abingdon-street to Eaton-square, from which point there is already a corresponding continuation to the Great Western road. By the fOrmation of this street, two very desirable objects will be attained. It will afford, a nearer and more convenient approach to the Houses of Parliament, the Law Courts, and the Government offices ; whilst the removal of the nu merous obscure streets, courts, and alleys, in that part of Westminster, will serve to abate a nuisance which has become so intolerable as to call for legislative repre hension. A great number of these dilapidated tene ments have for some years been inhabited by persons of the very worst class ; the property belongs chiefly to the Dean and Chapter, who are naturally anxious to break up this "den of thieves," and as the existing leases are nearly run out, the compensation demanded cannot be considerable ; it is assumed, at least, that it will be no impediment to the prosecution of a scheme which pro mises an ample return for the capital invested, and which is still further commended by utility, convenience, and decency. The new street is to be of the same width as ; Regent-street, and will be of nearly equal length. Great part of the line, which passes through Pimlico, fronting Buckingham Palace stables, has been cleared already.. In those streets which intersect the line thrOugh the other parts of Westminster, the workmen's operati,,ns are delayed only until the present occupants are expelled. Mr. Rigby Wason, late Member for Ipswich, has contracted for two-thirds of the line, at a rate much below the Government surveyor's estimate. Con nected with the above improvement another project has been revived with some prospect of ultimate adoption— namely, the erection of a bridge across the Thames, from the Ilorseferry-road to Lambeth-stairs, at the foot of Church-street, close to the Archiepiscopal Palace. This scheme was mooted nearly twenty years back ; a prospoctus was at that time issued, and a Bill brought into Parliament with a view to the issue of shares for Wilding a bridge by a joint-stock company. It met with so I;ttie support that, die 3 was rejected, and the project was consequently ahand, med. however, it seems that it is now regarded with more favour ; the Arch bisho, of Canterbury and the Marquis of Westminster having withdrawn their opposition, it is not improbable that the sanction of Parliament would now be obtained should the application be renewed ; more especially as a bridge at the point indicated would form an -appro priate continuation of the new street, and facilitate com munication between the northern and southern districts of the metropolis. EXTRAORDINARY FEAT OF PEDESTRTANISM.—On Tuesd ty a great nuutl er of persons assembled at the Rose mary Branch ground, at Peckham, to witness the per 4.inance a match undertaken by Malik., (better known under the cognomen 4 , f the Warwickshire Antelope). The match was to rim 10 miies a - orl pick up 100 stories, placed on the ground at a yard apart, to be fetched se p:rmely and riepos;ted at one end, malting-in the whole a distrince of 15 mile., 5 furlongs, and 200 yards, and comple:e the inure within One lirmr and 40 initiates. The stak,s were 301. In the betting the odds were on time. The grnur.d being meainred, he commented his hercu lean tack by running the 10 miles, which he completed in 59 minutes. Ile then went to work at the stones upon the ground, and which he cleared in 38 minutes—thus accomplishing the match in 97 minutes, and haring three minutes W.spare. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON. Auc. 2g.—Wind, N. W.. fresh breeze, ands' S,uTHAmpToN, AUG. 27. 7 —Arrd. Liverpool steanw Gibraltar, .• ith Peni,sular le:lib:. i)EAL, AUG. 27.—Wind N. \V. by N.—Arrd. 3 1131° : taineer, Demerara.; Mit anda, Johnson, Antigua: L!. pool, Potter, St. Lucia Charles, lehaboe : Rapid, o e d York for lt,ttertiam. Sid. Gipsy, South Seas ; .Duke- Argyle, Madras ; Samuel, Rio ; hero of Sidon, °'' John's ; Rival, Ichaboe. PORTSMOUTH, Arc. 27.—Wind W.N.W.—SId. labe l. 510 n.., Queiiec. OFF XIARGATE, AUG. 27.—Mon, Port Phillip. OFF DA_RTMOUTII. AUG. 27.—Eaing• Grove, De!. rara ; Lady Katherin e B ar h am , J ama i ca ; Lord 11`" lock, New Orleans flm Hull. OFF THE LIZARD, AUG. 25.—Caesar and Helene, 0 naives, for hamburgh. BRISTOL, AUG 27.—Arrd. Amelia, Allen, Barbado. OFF ST. ALBAN'S HEAD, AUG. 25.—ilewson, 110 14* Montreal ; Superb, New York for Gottenburg. OFF THE WIGHT, AUG. 26.—Washington, New 1° for hamburgh. OFF SALCOMBE, Arc. 25.—Drie Vrunden, Java f°l Rotterdam ; Richard White. Park, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 27.—Wind, N.N.W.—Arrd. P c ' ri. sans, Blyth, Bombay ; Russia, Gardner, New Orleans) Cabotia, Brown, New York ; Emma, James, Mentre P , Sld. Ingleborough, Calcutta ; Ann, Africa ; Victor"' Rio Janeiro ; Eduard Hayes, Pernarcbuco ; Lot Bahia ; Sophia, J ama i ca ; Vi rg i n i an, New Yor k ; °"'„ Nymph, St. John' s; Willi am Fi s h er an d Atalanta, 31°". treal. Off, Harbinger, Singapore. Aft The Pandora, of Waterford, burnt to the water's . -- 1 forward, quarter-deck and stern u n t ouc h e d, midshiP-44: flames. was fallen in with on th e 21 s• i nstant, in 10-. lon. 14, by the Ealing Grove, of Brighton. 1 --- MARKET NEWS. (YESTERDAY' ) COEN—EXCHANGE. Since Monday the arrivals of English Wheat:hs . been very limited, an d t h e show of samples of that 1 1 tide was small. The finest qualities were mostly 547 .1 at full prices. In oth er ki n d s excee di ng l y li tt l e ' 0 ; passing. Forei2n Wheat was in good supply, and hen demand, at barely late rates. No English Barley on offer, but the supply of Foreign was good. Thnlj, ‘ mand for this article, as well as for all ki n d s of tp.,, was in a very sluggish st a t e , at barely previous rat e , In Oats, Beans, _Peas, and Flour, a m o d era t e basilic' . was doing, and prices were steadily supported. _ _ _ Oats. Fla t ., l l, 130 qrs. I ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. English Irish.. Foreign ...... 460 1,530 I 590 Malt. 890 qrs. WHITECKAPEL. There was only a limited supply of meat, yet the. .. clr i i mand was heavy, at b a r e ly l a t e rates . B ee f , from t to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2 s 6d t o 3 s 6d ; L am b , 3s 40,0,j 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 4d t o 4s 6d ; an d P or k, 2 s 4d t o 3s per 81bs by the carcase. HOP INTELLIGENCE -101 MAIDSTONE.—The fi ne d ry weat h er o f the week has had a very favourable effect upon our P is : tations, bringing out the hops from the very pnie s :,,, the saying is, in some instances, and in others, ping the progress of any incipient disease. " College Ground," to which it is so much the fag" to refer, is going on extremely well, and some egr, rienced planters, who went over it yesterdays b$ mated the probable growth at not less than all F e , par acre—others ar e l ess sangu i ne, an d set i t a t fib' Other grounds are not so f or t una t e, b ut; on t h e vim this parish will have no reason to complain. OTIIAM, BEARSTED , AND HOLLINGBOuRNSc oIe e II° hops in these parishes have singularly . imp during the past w ee k, and 'With some few mdiat i ll. of disease, which are quite unimportant, promise LOOSE.—The plantations were seldom looP" better—the produce mill be abundant. 0 51 W ATERINGDURY.—.The hop groun d s h ere are flourishing, and will prod uce a f a i r average c rop 0 THE FARLEIGHS.—The hops here are going the planters could desire—plentiful and healthy'. T y Box LEY, ALLINGTON, AYLESFORD, BURHAM.- - l i hops in these parish es h ave very muc h improved or ing the past week, an d e i g ht or ten d ays ' c ontn r i or ante of fine weather mill bring quite an averagef MEREWORTII.—The fine weather of last wee. greatly improved the hops. They are looking. ful. In some grounds there will be a ton perLb, There are a few pieces o f s li g ht bi ne i n t h e pS - o f, but not many, and th ere i s no mou ld to snot The picking will com mence i n a b out a fortnight three weeks. THE PECKHAMS.— The above report applies e4O ty to these parishes and the neighbourhood, whe re plantations were probably never more luxuriant-0o WROTHAM AND IGHTHAM.—Very good. , eO , plentiful, hops c ome ou t we ll , an d per f ec tly e' Hopping will commence next week. ! bee/ 1 SEVENOAXS (W EALD P ART ).—Th ere has slight improvement in the hops "below the hill lei week. The youn g bi ne is looking a little li v e hat it is the opinion of an experienced planter ut oo they are too far gone to be able to rally ; still, s olo, favourable weather might do something . forj ef t, but in the parishes immediately below us, viz., L e igls Edenbridge, Chiddingstone, parts of Ashurst, I'enshurst, &c., they are past recovery. SE VENOAKS (TOWN PART OF UPLAND / " hops on the Stone Sh a tt er are come out beauti -61111 the bine strong and healthy. Accounts fro m quarters_ quarters agree that on th e S an d stone Rid g e, re 0 Reigate on the west to the county town, the tiA l scarcely a bad piece. Th e mou ld h as ma d e a s i b appearance at places.—Maidstone Journal. BATTLE.—The fine weather has considerablye proved those plantati ons w hi c h h a d not been al ther ruined by the bli g ht ; b ut t h e latter Vl' altogether unchanged, or is getting worse. p cb CANTERBURY.—The late cold nights have no s w favoured the h o p s , though an improvement ley, visible. In many grounds the burr still hang s t bit• but it is h o p e d a f ew warm d ays will remeaf t. fof The, average per acre is s aid t o b e a b ou t 4 cwt' this place and neighbourhood. t j et° CRANBROOK.—We sh a ll no t h ave a bin r po i many grounds here, a s th ere i s no t a h op to IN f ed in them, but w h a t littl e t h ere i s has been doing well with the late fine weather. ;n40 4 1 FARNHAM.—Our hops are very much ..74 0 0 within this last week. Picking will be general next Monday. They are generally fine and g7, os re . il MAYFIELD.—The hops have certainly hq within these last few days, except where the ve t _ had weakened the bine to such an extent as to Ler. it, in appearance, almost dying.—Sussex Adair STATE OF .TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of yesteratil," e eUl Business remains in the same state as last - the the yarn market being steady with firm priee 9 ; ci to goods market very quie t, w i t h a s li g h t tender decline. Stocks of every kind are still very 1 ° ° .... .," The ROCIIDALE FLANNEL MARKET, AUG. 26 ' joeo market today has been hut dull, and the 109 transacted very limited. The wool market tot been very quiet, w ith no c h ange i n prices. A a the failure of a small man u f ac t urer i s announc ed, on chief creditors are, as usual, the wool dealers. , al WANTED A COACTlMAN.—Yesterday, t h e rs r'd noon down-train had duly deposited the passeng, the Southend coach on th e pl at f orm at Brentivo 00 ° they were busily scrambling for trunk, band-blotel , brown paper parc e l, or o ccu pyi ng i ns id e, roo f, anu ocani. when it was suddenly di scovere d t h at t h e b o x wa s Quick came the inquiries— " Lost, strayed, or stolen, .Or fall'n through a hole in ' p to The carriage -floor is th e coac h ma n gone? but no traces of him could be found, till some °De ori o .4 .l !feted they had seen hi m t ro t t i ng a l ong the platf - 0 .41- • Shoreditch, and crying " Wo, wo" in his most per s o der, style to the starting engine. But steam-engine' s stand not the crie s o f stage coachmen — they ,. lb k pt iEbeen broken in to them ; so giving another triungo snort it only scudded along the faster, leaving orb °A London, to add railway trains to the old Er ° ,,,tos_ h "time and tide," &c., and th e p assenge rs at ,Pf e ,wb bridiing up and di s p u ti ng amongst t h e mseiv- i ocai should enact the pa r t o f a & e l ( mem b er o f a bet/. gt - and go on the box.—Essex Herald. CV r„,htl [ADvEnnsnatENT - J.—A STAR TLI NG HOLLOWAY'S PILLs.—A gentleman name d iittu%" Ae : late of the West Indi es , b u t now res i d i ng to w ith $ road, Liverpool, had suffered for many years et the l e ; s . ceased stomach, with fl u tt er i ngs an d a sinking ~bortj, of the stomach, an d p a lpit at i on o f t h e befirtingial of breath, with a contin ua l crav i ng a f ter s ubs°, ca ` 7 ,„ together with a depression of s pi r it s borden l : ( l lancholy. He paid h un d re d s f or a d v i ce with () ; it ing the least benefit, but, however extraorilio nr io of, appear, he was radi ca lly cure d i n a b ou t six we 7 . 150 ,n his ailments by these wonderful pills. Sold fessor Holloway's Oi n t men t) a t P ro f es sor Holl ° l l o tablishment, 224, Strand (where advice $ 391 . 0 1133 41. gratis), and by almost all respectable vendors chic throughout the civilised world. BIRTH S. Chid , On the 21st inst., at Park-road, Dalston, Ilewlett, of a u. On the 22d da inst , ghter at Harrow, the lady of FIW . 6114 t ; Tytv, of a daughter. f t e 0 41%4 On the 24th inst., at Lavender-hill, La"- - " „,, r ga lady of Mr. Jam es Ch ar l es C oc k ere l! , of a eon . St. On the 24th i ns t., a t H a dl ey, t h e l a dy of Jante s 0 , Burke, Esq., of P ar k- s t reet IVestminsier of silT e s De s On the 26th i ns t., a t Hi g hgate, the wife o f "7 Mont, Esq son. t B il nief c ra On the 26th inst., in Great Coram - st ree t ' .0° square, the wife of C. H. Weston, Esq., barrister-7 daughter. ~,h ritw" MARRIED. 1 o the o lie* On the 22d i ns t., at Paris, at the Chape l f is xace Ambassador, Aime Francois, Comte de Broe,if I ra ly da;.,l ca l o , Chamberlain of the King of Bavaria, to Lou-""`", As ton v A , ter of the late George Rowland Minshull,Eack,:vtiee-0'" Bow-st street ' 23 4 (d t , ton, Bucks, aid many years a Magistrate at the DIED. A 0,• On the 9, 1 of June. aged 14, Henry Paul, sou, ,l o t so aged On the 21st inst., at Burcot House, t ‘ l,7lf i n s e l l' o l l 2: th . e l bliiledaPauluAl.rmthfe. children som or es sett. Jo, the wiirt T, Cold k handl ESQ. $O, 0 „NV Jo. 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