The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-08 00:00:00

II the c ons i deration is for the E mperor, who made no sacri- Ike at all. It is singular enou g h that not one o f t h e papers makes the v. test all ~ 8 r go usion to that p art o f the QUEEN ' S speech whieh recommends an incl ease in the navy estimates. The llfunitur contai ns a report from the Ministf r of War, advocating strongly n fr om th e the advatages to be derived Firi definitive establi s h ment of a Normal School of nz. The , bject of this school is stated to be . princi- PanY to give efficient in •truetions to the various tegi• meats, by which additional confidence shall be impart. d to the troops by mproving their aim individually. '1 he Iferiort stat,s that as General nosToLAN, who b4il been l'rrif)..Nrily at the Lad of this department, has born ' Pronir,ted t, the c.inmand of the Polytechnic School, it aliPPeared advisable to nominate definitively another ge- Zle e qficer to supply his place, and concludes with re_ tnending the Duke d'AUMALE as n proper person to t he vacant post. A royal ordonnanee, dated Feb. 2, PPointing his Ro3al Highness as recommended, follows the report. THE BO LTRSF--ThunenAv, FEB. 6, Firit Ulgtest Lore Last Nlcli IN Prlct. Price. ?rice. Price. f.aveciareents....•• 122 GO .. 122 60 •• 122 40 •• 122 40 ,°r-ariil-a-llalf„ .• 113 .. 113 .. 113 •• 113 T ?, ,, 4r8— ••••••••••• 113 . Ha 118 •• Ils , \ . — ee tier Centa.. .. ;3 5•• , 5 5 5 - ,s 4 95 .4.5 „.r ,``lek o i p. ew Loan .... •• •• 86 23 86 25 . 88 25 .. .86 ho a " ) , 1111 1 -•irszi ce,,..,...... ..A9800280 - Matta p i - " , 'of. Shar . 1585 1085 1085 —lOB5 ves. 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Bs7 50 4 o i t ; 4 rg tO . . i :, ;••••• - • • • • • 1157 —ll6O —1159 ..1160 - -°4 toc ar — „e:„. •• • • •• 313 75 .. 315 31'2 so 315 t "e`L'es•• •;•• 940 .. 965 .. 910 965 'IIIIS ENK"'s COMA. ~... 4 ____...„.._ "N 1 3- ,L As ._.....( , ' HIS DAY. (13ea„ „ (Sittings at Nisi Prius.) -,,, -'' me LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.) 10,:, :l is se t . roars L. LAWSON.—LIISEL. C•Pcl , Jon for libel has been tried before, when the jury were j l, l) h ar e g u ecir all b y n c i 08 nhst;natnd, sbeing able to agree, the next day were A' s, / l' t t' a i , lbel °B called. on at half.past nine o'clock., the special s'i":'edt''." called over, when but five of the gentlemen summoned laa b i°l . to °their n arnes. The Lord Chief Justice ordered the . fine atal a beenforced on each of the absentees. The plaintiff It tale, tit , and a jury was made up. 01 _ 14 t. se; -B°Pened the pleadings. ie"tighasiiellt Tatrouan stated the case . The plaintiff was a th, ° , r) tv 4 ,°f the Ch,..rch of England, and the libel . for which this latearsetr°,lght was calculated to do themust grie f s o th u e s p n i t a j t u n r t y tif to . la . 4 4. 4 ' and feelings and to the dearest interests he o courts, of law, ~0 1. `7411,1 ti0a . .4 t W . 43 a gentleman not unkn,?wn i t n an t t journal in the St, ) " , th e r ".wilh the greatest and mostimpor trt,,%cai„r.Nes n ewspaper --as the registered publi-her of which 11,: le 2s th ' nito this Court. The libel was published ' in the Timcs tta ltii i lf, h e i . ul Y, 1843 The libellous allegation was, that the ," , td.'„ for to r :•° a clergyman of the Church of England, was . sus. ,onoNts-` r.;Be°oduct by the Bishop of London. The pleas which its, ttl been advised to make rendered it necessary for llis,„eirter,',4tinee the libel to the jury, with a statement of assZaof :` an eeti in the life of the plaintiff: Mr. Furth was lics'revisarnllenaan who once possessed a considerable fortune, t, , lia ; tl he u c o t° the French Revolution fiih.d a diplomatic .sitthia gla,tYlist4"t of Versailles. N\ hilst serving the publi . c in t at t.th,:ats aecarne c onnected with persons of the first distinction lcil,,Wthend, aroonyst Others, with the Duke of Orleans, the 1 4, 4 to, P'e'ent King of the French. He advanced large ttiet;),,,line(tie°.l:l"an to that Prince, in consideratio , n „, of which t rhl 4 '4o l f ` w ere to b( p :id—one of 1,000/. fix t 1., co -n al•te tst at soil, the °r the life of his wife, and one of 1,000/. for the ~ a, 444 a : ' ' and P ,,, l•e ‘cnt plaint ff, then a chid. The Revoluti . li s 'l a' n eo ti ct ss " l e farnil of ' the plaintiff were severely dis. rlaiki'altitisr-squenee of having "placed too much trust in Princes." ,%"trth „, e i f . Yen"rored the army, and served in Holland under the jth l. ",‘ , Celj* lit he alterwards left the army, and entered 103 he ege, Oxford, to prepare himself for the Church, in s "to, l 'd p •„„dained deacon by the Bishop of Winchester, in t 'sti, ' ,, l ker ri t ;„,` by the Archbishop of York, in 1806. He after -014 `q st ~, ' as as sistant -minister at Dulwch College, and ht°,,lis:4,lllsterirs'reihtqls churches in the metropolis. .He . was acs some t , 4 1it t , 'ace of Wain to the Philanthropic Institution, where, i 't , i ;n --.L.,'olne dispute relative to the matron, he resigned :.I'rZa_e.sao.'l,l°.lnn this ercuintance, which occurred :Flirty years ;'ors, ; _a'th a ' r l this libel to fix an imputationupon the plain „Nak`lat lie would be proved to be wholly groundless.. Ne " 44 s s - "ad ,already tla, peace , iar ed i_ the told the jury, they were aware that his t, h ;_tri . , (ol. a Of 181, 1 1 t.he misfortu t a o es th o e f the Revolution • and after Commissioners of British th t r i ll w al 41 con,l4:teio:ipplied large sum was awarded to him, lathel',4'laNiti,l,YlPttili,°ver toL his A creditors creditors ; and he still pressed upon ‘l 't• 4 " , ke ~ ?„ th e of Orleans, when restored to their estates, t - " r go '' 'Th uitY for his life, the arrears, and the interest 'ls', r ea ch r ne tin s , an 1,, 0 , h e _e er the accession of the present King h o is f Po t h , r etdea i n Paris, urging upon that Sovereign t'l ttl itl PPli t "' for th . his father. Failing ~,,c u ll catio n, e debt of the Prince, . • . h ,,,, hh. he returned to England, and for some time re. ZiNs, ia \v'' Wife and children, in circumstances of much h t bet/tee Andsworth. In July, 1843. an altercation took ~,.'"lti s ' e nt a him and his landlord on the subject to, -.4 .'11t r : 6 4,, 1 'ir., h'eurnicr he owed, and it resulted in the latter i ii ` . la al "dth a; e Mr. Clive, the magistrate, upon a charge of s I 'lls ' lolit g'nt leillon instead of dealing with tie charge be. Ills h. off th ' ' him an opportunity of a t Zli ,-" tri o e case for a week to give that'. l' r e 'l :; 3' t° Pay the rcnt due-20s. This was a matter in t,.thetin:itta,tt_rate had no right to . interfere. However the . t i ;:i irller r el , o ; t ~ eepperted the case, and it was only justice to say 1;p4 1, 141. , that :4,..ees.ented the case of t l. i laintiff in so affecting IN trt , e to,,,, ar u . ,E c riPtions for the re t e ef ' of Mr. Forth and his When the week tot,• fou r ' r 0 ,,,e . d by several correspondents. k io l hi t , ‘, did not go to the pol ce-affice. The magistrate at,ltittstata his re primanded reprimanded him for not attending ac. to t . as, e Wow, ' °I-der. Mr. Forth apologised, but the i nn -2'014e air':':ltend to nothing but the payment of the 9.05. tsi r ot • kr the could not pay that, Mr. Clive ordered hint 4 4 th st .flitte,`"'e assai lt, and In default, committed him sent a,:rta aj kl iffit n days for the assanit, and this aged gentleman a,' Ti l ,lla tl , O . ff in the prison van to Kingston gaol, where s4 th is wa., ' his wife procured his release by paying the 20s. tp _11er,,, ) % s oh reported in the Times and excited much greater ;Zi' 11% la'''' burinsreli:.er' were transmitted to Mr. Clive for the t', Th°llh, relit that magistrate, instead of forwarding them 41, 14 1)4' 1 11o ne to require his attendance at the police-office to tki,,Pl'ev i 'l e th e :* , Tke plaintiff declined to expose his distresses IC th - : r esse`. ub s ti ;, as . he was not then . compelled . to do as in li:tira en ho e• aAr. Clive , in commenting upon his obstinacy, ' es-,,', l ,, f l , t4 h e nee 071 rn?tle inquiries into his character, kilt, Red 'h ie d which he would return the subscrip c'llOrits ' l s tin..°4°'s whose address he had, The Times r,.. t-,, statewarr antable remark • and added, upon its own 1, 4 441 5, 1 .1 :be Learrnents now charged agisinst the defendant as kt t el lto r 'rae asr , ned ergeant made a brilliant speech, in which l 'Atp,: 4 th e 7,',°ned tribut e to the memory of Mr. Barnes, the h ails , npos, under whom he himself had been . engaged N t, li ti e l, s, ° . t " ie ts,r_tewbieh also, its vast influence. gigantic power, ot ti s t el I,.pri,a,,lol;au,sae tt of thei unfortunate : t b h o e r p a o t e o r, eulogy.sod the op. i 14 l ( ! hri I t e d4,,,,a 1i q u1:00 the e j o u rei to it and elaborate fair, moderate, and 14 : lll Sa t t°1.1 is: h " ' as w ould co y i g ate the plaintiff for the in. it t ttl 'er .4l 'el I "aet yr and l!'l "S 0 • 17, in ~. tonse ~feelings, _, l,,ettt, ne ark_ uotten, examined by Mr. Jaaars- T .Had been IN e, , eht er, , Y. Served in the same regiment into which Ilt, l 'lat, ' V ith es " , a s a Cornet in 1796 That was the Ist Life t 4 tpi t With - ,,, i 'elt the regiment in . 1798. Renewed his ac. 1 his'l'otthCetarn:lr• Forth in 1833 Was then Member of the 4 1 ~,l'111; befota-111.°r Southarept . and brought the claims of „ ti lts . , 6 it er e late t'oet,liouse. ThrClaims were for debts due to 'll/lit-'l,'latin, -Ze ofd rleans Witness 63W the articles in el l 40°Li''S -sbto-at tplaintiff had been suspended, but he 1 tit it. l.it a 'kat n Knew that plaintiff had entered the /1 14 'd m t k, r, by --C. tit.NIFRE.I" Never saw Mr. Forth 't 40 440 11 Pis, -cl "ece ) , % 4l iff , , eBl 'tta r to t arY to the Archbishops of York and Canter. etth is ek, 4l ° .'diri ition their dioceses, put in and proved the letters ti, to offl t'et l by • M 7st„Dar„iate, It ". HUMPREY—Had never known Mr. tklisolle_ain to was necessary for a clergyman in going t l . l .2th:r Le 4°olher to h ave a license from the bishop of the u l tft ea te r , l ; to en e fttkl officiate Had never known Mr. Forth re. s,-'l\p, rich ( itil'ela4 . ` r " l an, of the several bishops to whom witness Ilfseei cot I'. r ; a l set s, ph .-ot Westminster and registrar of the diocese ,tlit i tat o " , an d -t in and 1,,, tort 014)4,4 toptrhoved the plaintiff's licence as curate ',, ei.. 4 t r , e., eti„,p l, ,_ _.__ e P hilanthropic Institution. 1 sti ti .Ca t 7l , • vs, and Zotlff remained in tne Philanthropic n . . tr t t , t''rot ne e that time witness has not known him t i,,,, W i1Z5....1, 4 Calkt'tt h• - "este r r .' rorth might have officiated in any diocese ' , I, ea fran,Without witness knowing it. Knew of nothing 1,, ktie edier doi ng 'he duty in any diocese. 4 tt ' 4'4 k (1 ' D epot ' R e er,, r, Fo rth Yof Farringdon Ward, deposed that he :I'll/4,lltis'i'• 4014'1'11h since 1811 when that gentleman was ,:,4441813. chic s, Skinner-;trect, and regularly officiated l tli,„ tla t ; 4 , , faral_r, ;N g ls,,,,°ere ~,,: 'Y warden and Master of Dulwich College, ts._? s lr e l rn a n it rl b l'B',,,;th.;teie Ecclesiastical Fellows. in that College, . lit, 4 41 , • th e ,_ • Forth frequently did duty for one of , l es, 4t tietly nects_ }reacher. li 1. NI, Op 11 ti .,, e w from Mr Forth that there was some 04tt),. . P tort Onl y i',* ' o rth and the Governors on the subject of , h al b• k r. l i _iv it from a printed ~i'lla,Atlatto.na: konw%orkth either resigned dismiss se h d is a h t a t n h d at s t „ , St, to , i tn az...pi an. win to officiate since. '' 'an t 'ttls o . 4l ° kn o „,,`. lfr Might have officiated every day since Ik' I tii.t' a ells, - ..' n g it. Was not aware . of any imputation . ~ , alit, •atter i n th,hi q : bi4_,.n. ,relation to the disputes at the Milian ii,„,ll, ,e, for . k p 'tt, , witn:i'serlY steward of Dulwich College, gave simi. 'NI k,1,, I 'lk, e tti a „ arq,l ' never heard any imputation on Mr. Forth's 1, 5 t titi t 'I otti ar,, , : iti.,he,:ttati4t_elated in-knew—linew Mr. Forth when that 1 ,k 4 IN_ til e , 7 at th e _ t?t. George's, Bloomsbury. In 1816 vrs i ,:t ti k _ e in z i ,, __.: i. tat of witness's father. Witness had 1 . 1 4: 1 * 4 7 li i n .2-':no_ church but that of his own parish. 11 " 1 5t,, 1 t ..5k , : nliorn ""/ ther church, and lived now in the house r 4 t0,,,' p6, leL etr e ,, t , :Craillees::ntifr 4,',.lootrisbury, surveyor, stated that he had i„_l43,c I,v7ve „_"!geryears before 1816, and believed that no oti;.t. ~ 'Lliessh7, character as a clergyman and father of latisart at th°o read the articles in the Times, and was ~.14tt, j 'l vit oe _wit ne e : ; .. as he knew the plaintiffdi deserve , l iatli ie c k pea g„,,lleyv h t im up to the last ten years , k l, „,ed t h _ohn t; ' !Initia l . est i Vett ,itteitat pi.itti,,,?ske, Parliamentary agent, stated that he had htat,le opu.i:on the',. aPplication to Parliament on the subject ~.1t ~,, led th e es.e i 7 1 1° , 4g of the French Mr. Law, the Recorder, ;le the°l4l,"l:l Petition ' B4 O i but witness did not know whether 1,,, e r th e e lais ai °yea that not, t .,'llt y . ,Pea e , °r t r i ti , h ` the Commissioners appointed to investi i 'qv '4°lts °ll6 la '''' e" j e cta Upon the French Government, i s li,i ,, ,, :li h t ,l be-abtitoa, toiledl,)o4-o,4:var a large sum, sum, between fifteen and 4 4' a nd i Conrt, lr. korth. It was paid into the , at, ;. r 1..,,_ ti een,, That sum paid the creditors "03 in ' tot h 1,,, 'rlh, theyquerice of the exertions made on their - be. .rarn 4 t th k eV ~ allowed him 3 per cent. on their claims. • . l 'l peY basil" addressed r,erid heard ..,e, 6 s2cl the jury for the defence. Was ~. ~, : , , ,d tl, and the"i'n pleasure the eloquent speech of his •: ', 1:1, , t" 4) p i t , , it 1,,,..,,. :uhr,,,k,,..2lo.CagiLlv sisalld ently, I,lr,etfret _that such beau.tiful s,f Isis Learned Friend, I Z ie ll h. o ''nitats.",4 '"taiect But he (Mr. Ilurnfrey) would t% ' 'how - `oe brill' • k.., ,,,,,k4rt tl 48„„, 'ant display of his Learned Friend, .„... ' % , 44l si d , ltt l Y ttvi tail i but would confine himself to In.klAti !t were port ow th e ___ A TitE St N, LONDON, SATITRI)A Y EVENING, FEBRUARY 8 1 1845. jury should give the plaintiff a verdict for 405., which would enable the attorney to get his costs. That alone could be the object of this sedan; for it could not be imagined that Mr. Forth, who, in the former trial, blazoned forth to the world his misfortunes rind his claims, and after the jury had been locked up all night, and discharged in the morning by consent, should again desire to parade his distresses, if it were not to put costs in his pockets. Although the evidence given on both these trials did not in any way meet the statements against Mr. Forth, yet the defendant did not wish to prevent his deriving any benefit which might accrue to him from the statements made by the witnesses in favour of his conduct eve.and.thiity years ago. But the jury would observe that no desire to injure the plaintiff has been charged against the Times. On the comrary, it was admitted that the Times, in the first instance, regarded his case as in some degree of oppression, and that the sympathy of the public was enlisted in vonsequeace of what appeared there. but it wig the duty of a public jooroalist, wen hat. inducts the public to confer its bounty upon a parson who seemed to deserve compassion and relief, to make known any matters which might afterwards appear to prove the individual unworthy; so that the public might be guarded against a further misapplication of its bounty; and that is what the Times has done. With the excep tion of a single passage, to which he would call their attention— with that exception, there was not a single line of which his Learned Friend had made a shadow of complaint. He must be here permitted to say, that his Learn,d Friend and those who sup. ported him had adopted a very dexterous course. They had se. lected that part which was now admitted to be a mistake, leaving out all that which the. could attempt to justify. How stood the matter? Mr. Ford was a person to whom, from the time he was ordained by the Bishop of Winchester, in 1806, no license has been granted. Ile did for a time it was true do duty, but they were acquainted sufficiently with ec clesiastical matters to know that when a person undertook a curacy he must have a license, and the object of that was manifest. When the application was made for a license testimonials to his character would be required. The plaintiff—The ministers were all dead. Mr. HUMFREY—They were not dead then; and he would ask the jury, if the proper way would not have been for a clergyman, however bowed down by misfortune, if his character were clear from suspicion, if he came into a court of justice to vindicate his character, to bring some friends to speak to his good name. He was not seeking to throw imputations upon Mr. Forth, and the Times in the same spirit, said " When in the spirit of liberality we pointed out the plaintiff' as a fit object for the charity of the public, in the same spirit we, when the magistrate stated that he was an unworthy character, felt bound to warn the public against him." — (The Learned Counsel then read the extracts from the Times on which the action was founded.) The inquiries made by direction of the magistrate into the character of the reverend gentleman were most unsatisfactory. He would read what Mr. Clive said front the bench when Mr. Forth had failed to attend, although solicited. He publicly stated that he had received many small sums, and he would receive no more sums for his use, and in conse. quence of the inquiries he had caused to be made he (Mr. Clive) declined for tilt future to have any communication with Mr. Forth or his family. 1 hat was not, however, complained of; nor did Mr. Forth bring forward any one person who knew him to speak to character. If, instead of saying he had been suspended, the reporter had said that he had never applied for a license, would the observation have been a bit less objectionable ? Not one whit. But the reporter did make a mistake. The Rev. Gentleman was not suspended. His Learned Friend, Sergeant Talfourd, said why did the paper which inserted the error not insert also an apology ? Why, the article was inserted on the 26th, and the writ was issued on the 28th, just two days after. But would it not have been better if Mr. Forth had written to the Times and explained the mistake, which would no doubt have been inserted. But that would not have suited the attorney, for he in that case could not hays brought this action. Sergeant TA LeoußD—There followed an article on the same sub ject in a future number oi the Times. Mr. HumFact* was not aware of it, but of this he was certain that it contained nothing which could militate against the Times, or it would have been put into Court by his Learned Friend. His ...- Learned Friend said that the circumstances alleged to have caused the dismissal of Mr. Forth from the Philantropic Institution had no foundation in truth. That was very easily said, but why had not the Governor or some other of the officers of the institution been calltd forward ? It was essential that the doings of the courts of justice should be given to the world, and they ought not to visit a slip with a severe punishment, and he implored them not to gra. tify bad passions, but, by giving the smallest damages known in that country, further the ends of justice and defeat the objects of artful men. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE summed up. The statement which appeared in the Times newspaper was admitted by the Learned Counsel not to be true, and therefore it was undoubtedly a libel, ~nd the jury would therefore have to find damages for the plaintiff. What the amount of those damages should be would be left to their own good s, nse , and he had no doubt they would give the subject their best consid ration. With the remarks made on the eti.,racter of the magistrate Mr Clive, he did not agree. If he was in error at all, it was an error on the side of huma nity and kindness, for instei.d of going into the circum stances of the assault committed by Mr. Forth upon his landlracl, the magistrate hearing that he and his f•rnily ware in a state of great distress, remanded the mat ter in the expectation that a subscription would be made to relieve his necessities. He did nit, therefore, think that Mr. Clive's conduct ought to have been so severely remarked upon in this matter. The learned Chief Justice then briefly recapitulated the leading events of Mr. For:h's life, with the view of assisting the jury in their award of damages. He did not think that any malice had actuated the writer of the article or the proprietors of the paper which gave it insertion. The matter was, however, in their hands, to return what they conceived to be fitting damages for the injury sustained by the publication of what was certainly a libel. The jury, after very e hor tip consulting, returned a verdict— Damages, Is. Sergeant TALFULIRD applied for a certificate to carry cost°, bul :he application was refused by the Court. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD CoURT. (Before Baron PARKE and Justice WILLIAMS.) THE RUISLIP MURDER.—Charles Lamb was placed at the bar at ten o'clock this morning, charged with the murder of a young man named John Brill, in a wood at Ruislip, in the month of February, 1837, He is a heavy sort of man, about 35 years of age, and has the appearance of a labourer. The indictment having been read, ho pleaded Not Guilty in a faint voice. Mr Clarkson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Wilkins for :ha prisoner. Charles Churchill was, in the year 1637, a farmer at Ruislip, and had the deceased long in his service. He was sent on Thursday the 16th February to a wood to prevent the underwood from being stolen. The boy never returned, and at the end of three days his body was found. Hie front teeth were knocked out. James Lavender proved finding the body. John Bray met the prisoner Lamb on the day of the murder in a field, one mile from the wood ; and he accompanied him to the Six Bells public,-house, where the body of dc ceased lay. He was coming from the direction of the wood. Robert Norton, a surgeon, examined the body, The mark of a severe blow was behind the left ear, and on removing the scalp there was observed a severe contusion. There was effusion of blood upon the brain, and his opinion was, that the injuries were inflicted by a flat instrument, struck twice with great violence. George Sibley deposed to a certain confession made by the pri soner to the witness of the murder of the boy, and he described the place where the murder was committed (the whole of which has been given at length in the former notices of this case). Mr. WILKINs then addressed the jury for the prisoner, in a lengthened speech, and contended that no credit could attach to the evidence of the man Sibley. Mr. Baron PARKE summed up. He said the duty of the jury was a most serious one. The evidence in the case was of the most circumstantial character, for the question of the prisoners guilt almost entirely depended upon the credence they gave to the witness Sibley, and the confession alleged to have been made by the prisoner about four month ago ; independent of that, there was no evidence sufficient to cast anything beyond suspicion upon the prisoner. If they believed the evidence of that confession, it would be their duty to find the prisoner guilty of the crime of murder; but if ,they did not attach credence to it, then they would acquit the prisoner. The Learned Judge then commented upon the evi dence, and concluded by leaving the case to the consideration of thej ury. The jury then retired, and returned in half an hour with a ver. diet of Acquittal. NEW CO r7 RT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) At the sitting of the Court this morning, the following prisoners pleaded Guilty of the offences charged against them, and received the sentences affixed to their namt s ;—Georgc Smith, 9 months; Frederick Shepherd, 3 months ; John Williams, 1 year ; George Brown, 4 months; Charles Chapman, 3 months ; Robert Parker, 3 months; Ellen Conway (who had been twice convicted). 7 years transportation ; John Thomas, 3 months; Thomas Simpson, 2 months; Richard Townsend, 6 months. IVill iron ClPrd, a respectably.dressed young man, was con victed of stealing a box, containing 9a, It appeared that he had been tried in that C iurt, under another rare, -ix rears ago, v - hich he . . - .onritted, and that he had beer: lately summarily convicted. The ComISION SERGEANT told him that he had been too lenient on the last occason, and ought to have transported him. The sentence of the Court was that he be transported for ten years. On turning to leave the dock, he laid hold of the inkstand placed there for the use of the prisoners, no doubt with the intention of hurling it at the police, who Lad sworn to his having been pre viously convicted, but as it was fixed he could not carry his inten. tion into execution, and he left the dock exclaiming against them. It is expected that the sittings in this Court will terminate to-day. LLOYD'S "s I t-; PING. —.( THIS DAY.) LONDON, FEB S.—Wind at noon, Nor' herly, fresh breeze, and tine. RANISGATE, FEB. 7.—Acrd. Broadwood, London, for Middleborough, with damage, having been in contact. The steam-tug Sampson, be longing to this port, is ashore on the bank in Sandwich River. The Risk, Kidd, of and from Sunderland, struck on the Galbard Sand this morning, got off, and sank a mile from the Galloper; crew saved ; she was bound to Portsmouth. Dzar., FEB. 7.—Wind N.IV. by W. ; r. M. E.N.E.—Arrd. Tunan drift, Skinner, Calcutta ; Earl of Leicester, Bullard, Rio Grande ; Hortensia, Storey, Cape of Good Hope, loss of bulwarks, &c. Sld. Bussorah Merchant, Sydney, New South Wales ; Seringapatain, Ceylon ; Sophia, Rio Janeiro. CowEs, FEB. 6.—Sld. Sumatra, Sumatra. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 6.—Sid. Llangothland, Valparaiso. LANCASTER, FEB. 6.—Arrd. Aurora, St. John's, New Brunswick. DOVER, FEB. 7.—Arrd. Mary Hounsell, Ichaboe, for Dundee; crew mutinous. Off, Wm. Forster, Killick, Nassau ; Hastelling, Potjel, Charleston for Rouen. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. Wm. Shand, London for China ; Courier, London, for the Cape of Good Hope ; stern stove, &c., having been in contact off Ileachy Head last night with a ship unknown; Medway steamer, Southampton. Sld. Caroline for Mau ritius and Ceylon. . . CLYDE, FEB. G.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Christina, Pitcairn, Demerara ; Franklin, New Orleans ; Mary Ann and Rolla, Antigua, &c. DUBLIN, FEB. s.—Arrd. racket, (;111, Trinidad. Sid. Princess, Savannah. KINGSTOWN, FEB. 6.—Acrd. Culzian Castle, Ichahoe. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 7.—Wind N. to S.E.—Sld. Duke of Wellington, Calcutta; Bolivar, Bombay; Urgent, Rio; Elizabeth and Venus, Bahia ; Derby and Perie, Africa ; Melvina, Trinidad ; Brandon, Ja maica ; Enterprise and Wannau, La Guayra ; Araininta and Mary land, New Orleans ; Nicholas, Biddle, Mobile; Cumberland, Apala chiola ; Leonard Dobbin, Thomas Bennett, John Barry, and Sheffield, Charleston ; Medemseh, Philadelphia ; Liverpool, New York. Some sails, three compasses, three muskets, three pistols, and a few blocks have been landed here from the Thomas Laurie, from Ichaboe, aban doned at sea, by the Candidate, arrived here. " THE SUN " NEWSPAPER. —We were again favoured last night with an early copy of the third edition of The Sun, containing the whole of the proceedings in Parliament last night, together with the last report of the Board of Trade on the recently proposed railway schemes. This report will be found in another column.—Railway Timcs. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH —Northern Whig Office, Thursday Morning, Twenty minutes past Five.—We have just re ceived, through the Messrs. Johnston, Dublin, The Sun of Tuesday, containing the Queen's Speech, which we annex. We received it, in Lisburn, at ten minutes past five, and brought it thence to Bel fast, by a special train, in a little under ten minutes. EPRESF,NT ATION ('F SoUTIIW A RK.--ll r e believe we are correct in stating that, on Tuesday last, Sir William Moles worth, Bart., received a requisition from Southwark, to succeed Mr. Benjamin Wood as representative of that borough, and that the talented Baronet has accepted the flattering offer. —West Briton. MILITARY MOVEMENTS.— On Thursday morning the 74th four company depot, under the command cf Major Fordice, left Chatham Barracks for Sittingbournc, on route to Canterbury. We understand their place is to be supplied by the four company depot of the 40th Regiment, now in Ireland, and who are daily ex peeled to arrive here to do grarleOg fluty, 310NEY AND CoMMERCIAL S CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday remained quite firm, and a good business was done. Sales, 6,500 bales, of which 2,000 were on speculation.—Shares were not quite so brisk. Bristol and Gloucester, 55 1 4 2 ; Caledonian, 7 1 4 6 1 4 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 401/, Ditto and Holy head, 74 ; Churnet 874 . ; Eastern Counties, 17 ; Glasgow and Greenock, 13% 3 / 4 ; Great Western, Fifths, 40 1 ,4 ; Lancaster and Carlisle 291 / 2 1 4 Lon don and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 43 1 ,4; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 2914 % ' • Ditto and Bri g h ton, 5614 ; Ditto and York, 7% 6%; Direct Northern, 2 1 ,4 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 44 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 61 ; Midland Counties, 12914 ; Newcastle and Berwick. 17 1614 ; North British, 13% ; North Wales, 1114 ; Preston and Wyre, 213 a ; Scottish Cen tral, 41.. ; Sheffield and Man c h ester, 1041/4 ; Srewsbury and Birmingham, 6!/4; South-Eastern, No 1, 26 ; Ditto, No. 2, 21 : Trent Valley, 13N ; Ulster, 43 1 4 54 ; Paris and Rouen, 42% ; Ditto and Strasburg, 3 ; Northern of France, 5% ; Central Ditto, 11. The Bank of England averages give an increase of 104,175/. in the amount of notes issued, of 89,248/. in the rest, and of 78,758/ in the amount of bullion. The calculations are for the week ending the Ist inst. The greater scarcity of money does not arise, therefore, from any action of the Bank. The West India mail is still due, though it was yesterday reported on 'Change that it had arrived. The resolutions on railway Bills, agreed to last night by Parliament, are considered saisfactOry, and will be in favour of legitimate undertakings. The Caledonian line, by the accounts from Scotland, appears to receive unanimous sup port. Irish lines are also in good repute, and another im portant, though short, one is on the Lapis—viz., from Armagh to Coleraine and Portrush. The Funds are quiet, but, as regards Consols, were not quite so good as yesterday, upon a sale being made at 99 1 / 2, though now they are up again to 99%. Bank Stock has re ceded to 21314 and 213. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 1033/ ; and the Three per Cents., 100 to 1 4. Exchequer-bills have been 56a. to 58s. prem. There is scarcely anything passing in the Foreign market. Spanish Five per Cents. are 27%; and the Three per Cents., 407, being flat; Mexican are firm at 36 1 ,E to %; Chilian at 101 ; Brazil New Bonds have been 87 to 88. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. were 62% to 63 1 %. Shares in general are lower to-day, even South 'Wales and the Shrewsbury and Birmingham having receded. It is probable, however, that the reaction is only temporary. South-Eastern are steady. Trent Valley hare improved ; Birmingham and Gloucester are firm ; and also Brighton and North British. Caledonian are fluctuating. Eastern Counties are steadier. There are one or two other exceptions also to apparent downward tendency. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 21 3 1 / 47213 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities......... 100181/ loom 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 99% 1 34 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Annuties Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 12% Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. I%el. 1 1 / 2 d. 1,000/. 500/. Ditto Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 87 88 8714 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 44 Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent lOl Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent — Ditto for the Account. Ditto Deferred Stock l64' Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 11 9 3 1) Spanish Bonds, 5 p er C en t., 1840 27 4 Ditto 3 per Cent... Ditto for the Account Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates gii)o/ 2 % PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER. SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 132 131 1 / 2 to 13012 Ditto. Half Shares 3 Bristol and Exeter Ditto New Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Cambridge arid Lincoln Chaster and Holyh ea d. 5 Churnet Valley 2 2 851 4 ......... .... t tott o : —7 8814 4 .. Cornwall ... 3 I'irect North ern • 2 1 ,4 Eastern Counties Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3•,% — ...... t o ,/ Ditto, ditto, No. 9 `l; 0 %...... to Eastern Union Ditto Extension - Edinburgh and Glas gow 5 0. ....... 65 ...... to Great South and W. (Irish) Ditto Additional Great North of England 100 l7O 171... to Great Western Ditto 1 / 2 Shares 5O lO2 ...... to Ditto Fifths 5 . ... to 1 ~.1 ... to n th:2%rd, Farnham, Portms. 214 Lancaster and Carlisle... London and Birmingham ...100 Ditto eew Thirds ... . to Ditto Quarter Shares ...... 2 . London and Blackwall l6•;'. London and Brisiiton... Ditto Loan ::\ otes lO - London and South Western.. 41%...... 79_12 to London and York... ..... 214.- 6 3 / 4 3,414 to 6 Manches, , r and Leeds 73 .....141 Ditto Half Shares Manchester and Birmingham 40 Ditto Quarters Midland 100 1261,2 to 128 1 ,4 Ditto New Newcastle and Berwick 3 ...... to N No e r w t r h y ß a r i i i t d is E h nniskillen ...... 212 714 l 4 l/, to Northern and Eastern Norwich and Brandon 8 ..• . 14 1 / 2 to Ditto New Shares 1 ...... 4 .. ... to Richmond and West End June 1 ...... 31,4 to Rugby, Worcester. and Tring 1 ...... 4144 N to Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2i2„.. 7 South Devon lO ...... 16 1 /, ... to South Eastern and Dover Ditto New, No. 1 8 ...... 25 Staines and Richmond........ 1 ...... 14 1 4 to South Wales Stevenson's Portsmouth ...... t o _ Trent Valley Waterford and Kilkenny , 1 ... 3% 4 2,i to 3 1 / t York and North Midland Ditto Selby ...... to Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Great Northern of France to —;"'•• 1 Orleans and Vierzon •• 2 4 ...... 5%%... to .T to Orleans and Bordeaux ... 2 ...... 7 Paris and Lyons ...... 31 2 to Paris and Orleans 2O 44 4 to Paris and Rouen ... - ...... ..... 20 ......43 1 4 42% to 43 Tours and Nantes .. 1 ...... 2 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 7.—The market continues active, and prices are well maintained. Birming ham and Gloucester, New Shares, 5 4 1 / 2 ; Lancaster and Preston, 53 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 61 1 / 2 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 10 3 , :5712id7laln;dB, 401. Shares, South- Eastern, anci 50; Ditto, New, 26; Ditto, Scrip, 9 premium; York , s. Manchester, 9 lli i ; C an h d esl S li e r l e b3 Ju s n o c l. ti S on h , ar g; 7; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accring ton, 6%; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 3 9-16 11-16; 1 ,4 ; Cambridge and Lin coln, and Dumfries, c B lOl o . 1 ri 1 8 t ,5 0 . n 4 , 943d N . V 4t i g o; a ic n i ~ h 7ua s rn . nd ; e tH uv Liverpool, dadlleer3s,lie9l d 7; Gl and Manchester Railway and Canal, 4% 5 ; lluddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 4%; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 512 ~, ' • London and York, 714 6% ; Manchester and Buxton' 3 9-16 %; Scottish Central, 41,4 s 3 • Sheffield and Lincalnshire Junction, if. 13s. 9d. to 1/ 12s. 6d. ; Southport and Euiton, 3 3 A t Trent Valley, 13 1 / 2 ; Boulogne and A m i ens (English), 5% Xt Great Northern of France (English), 6. DUNCHURClL—lNcimpreuism.—On the evening of Wednesday, the 22d ult., a most atrocious attempt was made to burn the corn and other ricks of Mr. W. Blick, of the Dun Cow Inn, and of Mr. J. Bil lingham, of Tuft, in the same parish. In Mr. Buck's rick-yard were standing four large stacks of wheat and other grain, in one straight line, also ricks of hay, &c. About a quarter before nine o'clock at night, it was discovered that one of the middle ricks of wheat was on fi re ; an a l arm was immediately given, and it being so early in the night, a large num ber of the inhabit an t s s p ee dil y assem b le d . an d by th eir united and vigoro us exert i ons, t h e fl ames , w h ic h h a d done but little d amage , were i n a s h ort t i me su bd ue d, and the danger of further raischief removed. But whilst all were uniting their energies to stop the progress of the fire, an alarm reached them that a wheat-stack of Mr. Billingham, of Toft, was on fire. Very providentially, but liitlo loss was sustained in either case. On the Friday following, it was discovered that an attempt had been wide to burn a wheat-rick of Mr. W. Lawrence, of Thurlaston, in the same parish. A small hole was burnt in the rick, but (as it is supposed) before the flam e was sufficiently strong to extend without fuel, the l uc if er matches, which had been thrust into the rick, fell out, as several were found upon the ground underneath the burnt hole in the rick. Rewards are offered in each case for the discovery of the author of these diabolical acts.— Warwick Advertiser. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE AT DONNYBROOK.-- On Monday morning the house of Captain O rson, late of the East India Company, residing atllonnyb rook, was discovered to be o n fire, and notwithstanding every effort to extinguish them, the flames enveloped the en tiro house, which was soon reduced to ashes. At four o'clock in the day some workmen discovered the muti lated remains of four human bodies, supposed to be those of Captain Orson, his wife and two children. Captain Orson was reported to have been in gre a t pecuniary embarrassment, and he is rumourod to have said, a few days ago, that he had rather set fire to his house, and die in the ruins than permit his furniture to be seized for debt. Another singular circumstance is, that he gave his servant leave to go out on Sunday evening, but charged her not to re• turn till Monday morning, when she should receive her wages; and it is also worthy of remark, that the bolts of all the door-locks appear to have been shot. A walk ing -stick, with a silver top, and two silk umbrellas, which have been fully identified as Captain Orson's property, were found by the constable in front of the outer gate. Captain Orson was a tall, powerful man, nearly six feet in stature, and is said to have been remarkable for his excitable temper. He was seldom seen out, owing, it is said, to his pecuniary embarrassments. The deceased was an Englishman.—Pilot. PILOTS.—In consequence of a correspondence between the Earl of Morley, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of this port, and the authorities at the Trinity House, two of the Elder Brethren, Captain Wheeler and Captain Bar, visited Plymouth last week, for the purpose of examining the pilots. They were as sisted by the local Sub-Commissioners, Mr. W. W a lk er, Queen's Harbourm as t er , M r . W. Cuming, Lloyd's Sur veyor, and Mr. George Jones, Collector of her Majesty's Customs. The Elder Brethren expressed themselves satisfied with the general appearance and qualification of the pilots, two or three of whom are to be superannuated, through age and deficiency of vision. The pilots h ave sent in an applic a ti on f or an i ncre ase of pilotage from the Channel to the harbour of Plymouth Sound, and for a modification of the rates when bringing 'vessels in the second time.--,P4munth Journal. SUMMARY OF NEWS ANT) tintltt , te- ptitton. " Who runs may read." ronExam Mr. Ballantine committed a cabdriver, named Cohen, for a month, for striking Henry Male, the leader of the band to Price's equestrian company, a violent blow on the face, and injuring his nose. In driving through the streets eight in hand, in Mr. Price's van, the driver slightly touched the defendant's cab. Au obstruc tion shortly afterwards occurred; complainant, to prevent mischief, got out of the van and held the leaders by the head, and while thus engaged the defendant took the opportunity of committing a savage assault upon him. OTIMIT - --PAARZONAISIOII. The Marquis of Lansdowne has left town for Bowood. Th e marriage of Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice and the Hon. James Kenneth Howard, is definitively arranged to take place on Mon. day next. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are not expected to arrive in Belgrave-square until Easter. The Marquis of Tavistock is passing the season in town. The Duke and Duchess of Leineter and family are still at May. nooth Castle, and the period of their Grace's return to London is not known at present. . --- Lady Isabella Howard, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Wicklow, who has been seriously disposed at Stanmore, is con valescent. The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville entertained the Earl of Har. rowby and a select party at dinner on Wednesday evening, at his residence in Hamilton.place. imaksealli.X../I.I.IIIOrrIS. The Irish Land Commission Report will, it is expected, be ready in the course of a few weeks. Mr. Hutt, M.P., is expected in town next week. The Hon. Gentleman is, we are glad to learn, so much improved in health, that he will be able to resume his Parliamentary duties at an earlier period than was expected by his constituents. ~..,The Right Hon. G. R. Dawson, Commissioner of Customs, paid a visit to the St. Katherine Docks en Thursday afternoon, and visited the several departments of the establishment, inspecting the official books, &e. These inspections or official visits on the part of the members of the Board of Customs, have become very fre quent since the discovery of the extensive frauds on the revenue, which took place some time ago, in compliance with the expressed wish of the Revenue Inquiry Commissioners; and scarcely a day passes without the different deck establishments and other depart. ments, being visited by one or other of the Surveyors or Inspectors General. The annual meeting of the members of the General Theatrical Fund Association, established in 1839, for the granting of pen sions and temporary relief to aged and decayed members of the theatrical profession, their widows and families, was held on Ash Wednesday; Mr. Buckstone, the Treasurer, in the chair. It ap peared from the report, read by Mr. B. Fairbrother, the Secre. tary, that this fund differed in principle from those of the pa. tent theatres of Covent-garden and Drury-lane, for that it ad. mitted not only actors and actresses, but dancers, pantomimists, chorus singers, and prompters, who were excluded from the be. nefits of the funds of the larger establishments. The Chairman reported that the finances of the Association were in a highly flourishing condition ; that the receipts of the past year ex ceeded those of the former by about 3001., and that the funded capital of the Institution amounted to 2,615/. Thursday and Friday the tides rose unnsually high, overflow. ing most of the low-lying embankments on both sides of the Thames. Numerous waterside premises were flooded, but fortu. nately the damage done to property was not great. A petition to both Houses of Parliament has been prepared by the Council of the Metropolitan and Pro►incial Legal Association, and forwarded to every member, on the subject of the duty pay. able yearly on the certificates of attorneys, solicitors, and proc tors. The petition prays that the duty may be wholly repealed. The half-yearly meeting of the Hibernian Mining Company was heleba Friday, at their office in Austin-friars. The chair was taken by J. H. Bradshaw, Esq., when the Secretary read the report, from which it appeared that as the working approached the surface the coal was found less free from faults. The sale during the six months ending the 31st of December, amounted to 7,027 tons, which by the increased proportion of small coal had only realised the sum of 2,224/. Since that period an improvement had taken place both in the quantity and the quality of the coal raised, show ing a present Increase in the sales of upwards of 90 tons. The re. port having been adopted, the Chairman, Deputy-Chairman, and three of the Directors, were re.elected, and the meeting adjourned. PRINCE PUCKLER MUSKAU AND MEHEMET ALI. !These two celebrities have never been seen under cir cumstances calculated to excite so str ong a p ersona l interest as in the details of a j ourne y ma d e b y t h em, to gether, into Upper Egypt, narrated by the Prince, in his new work, entitled, " Egypt under Mehemet Ali." Neither has the " Napoleon of the East" ever been de scribed under so favourable an aspect. There is scarcely a topic of interest connected with his extraordinary and unparalleled career, on which he does not, in the confi • deuce of social intercourse, disclose his most secret thoughts and views, no less as regards the future than the present and the past. The narrative is, altogether, one of great interest. In pointing it out to the public attention, it is necessary to state that this portion of the Prince's new work is accessible to the English reader only through the translation published by Mr. Colburn. ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND.--A great sensation n te he e s 2 h 2 e d l d u for t in many years. consequencel u o has been p ro d uce d i n our city by the removal of Mr. Thomson fro m t h e s i tuation of cashier to the Royal B i k ‘v,ed w n h e i s c dh a hy f a It o took placereso • tion, passed unanimously, by the Directors (only one of whom was absent), and recorded in a minute, which was communicated to Mr. Thomson. He had the option of re tiring upon an allowance, but declined to avail himself of it. No charge, we understand, was made against him in the minute, but simply the purpose expressed that his connexion with the Bank should terminate. The grounds of the step taken will probably not be disclosed till the proprit tors meet some weeks hence ; and, till this take place, it is proper that the public should suspend its opinioa of the transaction. The office held by Mr. Thomson is the highest in the establishment, and we learn that he has been about twenty-eight years in the bank, in this and other situations.—Scotsman. EXTRAORDISARY AND SUCCESSFUL SURGICAL OPE RATION, PERFORMED BY MR. SMALL, VETERINARY SUR GEON, ARMAGH, UPON A HORSE, THE PROPERTY OF Mn. BOYLE OF TANDRAGEE, BY THE REMOVAL OF AN ENOR MOUS TUMOUR OF 29L8. WEIGHT.—The tumour above-men tioned was the effect of a collision with the shaft of a cart in the month of September last, which not only bruised and lacerated the pectoral muscles, but also fractured the sternum (breast-bone). The wound healed slowly, and as it closed up, the tumour formed and gradually enlarged in size, until the action of the fore legs was so much obstructed, that the horse was almost tri able to move, and his owner deeming recovery hopeless, had determined on consigning him to the dog-kennel, when Mr. Small conceiving there was a probability of effecting a cure by excision, undertook the trial of that operation, as sisted by Mr. Mallam, jun. It proved to be a most difficult and intricate one, and lasted twenty-seven minutes, the carotid artery as well as several ramifications of the pectoral arteries having to be secured. The patient, however, is sow doing well, and the wound consequent upon the ex traction of the tumour, although actually appalling to look at its size and depth, is rapidly healing.—Ulster Gazette. SHOCKING : AFFAIR.—A few days ago a young female from Borgue, gave birth to a child in a lodg ing-house in Maxwelltown. A rumour of the cir cumstance having gone abroad, and no child ap pearing, suspicion was excited, and search was made by the police officers about the premises, who in a short time discovered, in a dunghill, the remains of a new born infant shockingly mutilated, the head, arms and legs being cut off, and the body otherwise mangled in such a manner, that it was impossible to distinguish the sex. M'Cartney, the female who kept the lodging house, was immediately taken into custody, and the midwife who had attended at the delivery . of the mother was examined. She stated that the child was still-born, and that she had dressed it in grave-clothes before leaving the house. The mother also asserted that she knew nothing further of the matter than that the corpse was removed from the apart ment in which she lay. 151‘Cartney alleged in excuse that the grave-clothes were hers, and that, as the mother had nothing to pay for them, she had taken them off the corpse and disposed of the . body in th e manner above stated. The mutilated remains of the child were then taken up and interred in the Troqueer church-yard sad the female &Kati:ley ret4iaed in . custody. • The Paris papers of Wednesday and Thursday make no mention of receptions at the Tuileries for some days, but the reason is not assigned. The Cherbourg Journal says :—" We are assured that the Forte and Refine Blanche, which ;are now in this port, are to be imme. diatety fitted out to serve as the escort of the Prince de Joinville in the voyage which he is about to perform to Brazil. The Prince will, it is said, take the command of the squadron, of which the Mogadore of the line will form part. The object of this expedition is, it is added, the settlement of the affairs of La Plata. The Prin. cease de Joinrille will accompany the Prince, who will leave her in Brazil during the expedition to La Plata." According to a letter from Goritz, the ex-Rcyal family have determined to remove in the spring to Frolisdorf, near Wiener Neustadt, and to fix their residence there. Several of the Paris Journals state that the widow of General Michel has sent to the Minister of the Interior a petition against the inscription of—La Garde meurt et tee se rend pas, intended to be placed on the monument to General Cambronne at Nantes. These words, says the petitioner, were spoken by General Michel. It would be absurd certainly to attribute them to Cambronne, who surrendered himself prisaner at Waterloo. Accounts from the interior of France give melancholy intelli ' gence of the effects of a snow storm. Many lives bad been lost. Nearly the whole of the posts intended to support the conduct. ing wires of the electric telegraph on the Rouen railroad are fixed. They are about 5 metres high, and from 23 to 25 metres distant from each other. It is supposed that the telegraph will be in a state to work about the end of the month. The opening of the Chambers of Wurtemberg took place on the Ist. The King, in his speech from the throne, congratulated himself on the fact that, notwithstanding the extraordinary ex. pences of preceding years, caused by the construction of railroads, no deficit of revenue or augmentation of taxes is found in the budget. MAW AND In the Court of Queen's Bench, Mr. Hodgson, a commission agent, recovered 20/. damages against Mr. Gurney, keeper of the Market-house public-house, in Farringdon-street, as compensation for the injuries he had suffered in falling through a trap-door which had been left open through the carelessness of defendant's servants. Mr. Dotesio, late keeper of the Royal Hotel, Slough, passed his final examination before the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday. The bankrupt was complimented by the Court and several of his credi tors upon the accuracy of his accounts, and the ready assistance which he had afforded to his assignees for their full and entire inves tigation. In the Court of Common Pleas, Mr. Mansfield, the landlord of Oliver's Coffee-house, at the foot of Westminster-bridge, recovered 780/. from Messrs. Grissell and Peto, for damages done to his house and stock in trade by their operations in erecting the new Houses of Parliament. At the Central Criminal Court, Mr. Craucour, the surgeon, whose case has been so frequently befcre the public, was tried for burglary and acquitted. An alibi was distinctly proved. Haw. king, an engineer, who was tried with him, was also acquitted. In the New Court, John Lawrence Brown was sentenced to one year's imprisonment with hard labour, for bigamy. George Harris, a hanger-on at the Court of Requests, was com mitted for trial from Marlborough-street, for having fraudulently obtained one shilling from Charles Richards, by representing that he had been employed by a milkman, named Thompson, to collect the money under a Court of Requests order. At Hammersmith, John Paine, conductor to one of the Ham mersmith and Brantford Conveyance Company's omnibuses, No, 2,028, badge No. 2,219, appeared before Mr. G. Clive, on summons under the Act for regulating hackney carriages (6 and 7 Victoria, cap. S 6, sec. 33), for having refused to admit and carry at the lawful fare a passenger, for whom there was roon , and to whose admission no objection was made, He was convicted in a penalty of 20s. and costs. NEW PROJECTED RAILWAYS (1 4 `rom the Gazette of Friday Evening.) RAILIV.I.IY DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 7, 1845. Notice is 'hereby given, that the Board constituted by the Minute of tile Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, for Ow transaction of railway business, having had under conskieration the following schemes, for extending railway communication iu South Wales and Herefordshire, viz..-- The South. Wales Railway, The Monmotiuth and Hereford Railway (Great Western), The Newpor t and Pontypool, The GlouceaVer and Dean Forest, have decided oat reporting to Parliament in favour of the South Wales Railway, Monmouth all d Hereford (Great Western), Newport and Pontypool ; and against the Gloucester arad Dean Forest Railway : and the Board. having further had under consideration the following schemes, for extending railway communication to Shrewsbury, viz.:— The Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley and Birming ham Railway, The Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton (Grand Junction), The Shrewsbur.y - and Stafford, have decided in reporting to Parliament in favour of the • Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, and Birmingham; and against the Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton (Grand Junction), Shrewsbury and Stafford : and the Board having further had under consideration the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway scheme, have decided on reporting to Parliament in favour of the said scheme, DALHOUSIE. C. W. PASLEY. G. R. PORTER. D. O'BRIEN. S. LAING. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways ibr the past. week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the. receipts of the same week in the previous year;— Week ending 1 , = Last ...e, Week. zi,-; t> J .9 MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NEWPORT. Each hind of prime Meat was in steady request at fu; prices, while other qualities were somewhat inactive. GSGATE. W TiITECHAPEL. RAT M./MEETS. SmyrnFlELo.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 10s to 4/ 15s ; use ful ditto, 4/ 16s to 5/ 48; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to 5/ 108; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, It 12s to I/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Supply rather limited, and trade dull. CUMBERWM.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 10s to 4/ 16s ; useful ditto, 4117 s to 5/ 63 ; fine Upland ditto, Si 7s to 5/ 12s; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 5/ 18s; Oat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hav, 3/ 12s to' 41 16s ; useful ditto, 41 12s to 51 4s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 5s to 5/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4112 s to 613 s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1114 s ; Wheat Straw, li 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly at but little variation in prices. WAKEFIELD CORN 1 1ARKET.—FRIDAY. There is only a limited trade passing in Wheat at this market to-day, at barely the prices of last Friday. No altera tion in the price of tine Barley, common sorts very bad to sell. The demand for Baans is good, and they fully support late prices. We nute no alteration in the price of Oats. Per qr. of 60 lb. to the bushel. Wheat—Suffolk, Essex, and K en t •. • • Red.. 44 to 45 — EXTRA. to 46 Ditto ditto Norfolk • •• • • Red.. 43 44 45 Ditto ditto •• • White.. 45 48 50 Lincolnshire and Cambridge Red.. .42 43 45 Ditto ditto •• • White.. 46 48 50 Yorkshire ...... . ..... Ditto ditto •• • Wldte.. 45 48 AO English, Old Red.. •- 43 48 48 54 Foreign ....... •• • • Red.. •• 41 46 48 Ditto ditto •• • • White.. 48 50 52 Per quarter Imperial. Barley—Norfolk and Suffolk ••. 34 35 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire . Per qr. of 6313. to the bushel. 36 38 44 ••••• • • • 36 37 42 ••••• • • • 35 40 42 •••• • • • • 10(1, 11d —4 , 124 •••• • • • • 104, 11d —d,—d •••• • • • • 10,1, Ild --el, 12,1 ••• • • • • 255, 26s —5, 27s •• • •• • • 40 42 43 Per qr. imperial. Pease—Blue and White Boilers... ...... .•• • 40 44 Grey and Feed Rapeseed—English, per Last Imperial Foreign • 23/., 251. Beans—Small line Ticks .. Foreign • • . ....... .......... Oats—Mealing, per Stone Feeding • ........... ..... Foreign Shelling, per Load ............ ...... Malt, per Loaa of 6 8u5he15•........ SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAT. CHESTER CUP. 10 to 1 agst Semiseria 30 to 1 agst Zanoni 13 to 1 agst Obscurity 33 to 1 agst Eaton 20 to I agst The Era (t) 35 to 1 agst Pride of Kildare 20 to 1 agst Cataract 40 to 1 agst Extempore (t) 30 to 1 agst Strathspey (t) 50 to 1 agst Fitzallan 30 to 1 agst Pug 50 to 1 agst Trueboy RBY. 35 to 1 agst Ironmaster 40 to 1 agst Fitzallan Very little doing. 14 to I agst E edger 35 to 1 age Annandale The rest as before. OXFORD, FEB. 7. The following are the questions submitted on behalf of the Board of Heads of Houses and Proctors. respecting the proposi. tions to be brought before Convocation ill the matter of Mr. Ward; and opinion of the Solicitor-Oeneral, Sir Charles Wetherell, Dr. Addams, and Mr. Cowling " QUESTIONS. " 1. Whether the University has any power of depriving a party for any cause of any degree which has bees conferred upon him ? "2. Whether the extracts given in the notice issued by the Board of Heads of Houses and Proctors contain sufficient cause to justify the degradation of Mr. Ward ? "3. Whether the House of Convocation has the power of de. gradation in this case ? "4. Whether in proceeding to degrade Mr. Ward the Univer. sity will render itself liable to a writ of mandamus at his suit ?" "•tiSWES. "1. We are of opinion that the University has the power to degrade, and that that power is by no means limited or confined to cases of prior conviction of an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction, nor to those particular cases enumerated in the statutes to which degradation is specifically annexed. " 2. We are of opinion that the extracts set forth in the notice contain sufficient cause to justify the House of Convocation, as representing the University, in taking cognisance of them, and coming to a decision on the subject, with a view to the degra. dation of Mr. Ward : but whether, in the result, the charge preferred against him shall appear sufficient to justify the house in degrading him is a conclusion which must rest entirely with, and be formed by, the members of Convocation upon considera. tion of the whole matter. " 3. Provided Convocation shall upon consideration come to the conclusion that Mr. Ward ought to be degraded, we are aware of no ground for impeaching or questioning the validity of the degradation. "4. If the determination of Convocation should be to degrade Mr. Ward, and he should apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for a writ of mandamus to restore him, we are of opinion that it be an answer to it, that her Majesty is Visitor of the Uni. versity, and that the subject lies exclusively within the pro since of her Majesty as Visitor, and that any complaint against the proceedings of Convocation must be made to her Majesty in that capacity, and cannot be withdrawn from her jurisdiction. " FRED. THE S IGER. CHARLES WETHERELL. J. ADDAMS. JOHN COWLING." EXTENSIVE FIRE AT RICHMOND.—This morning, between twelve and one o'clock, a very serious fire broke out at the King's Head Tavern and coach office, situate at the corner of Bridge Rise. Engines from Richmond, Mortlake, Barnes, and Kingston, were prompt in arriving, but from a blunder on the part of some one, the turncock was not called up, and for the space of 20 minutes the engines were kept standing still for the want of water; meanwhile the fire continued to spread fearfully. Mr. Hen. derson, one of the officers of brigade, with Mr. Cennorton, super. intendent or the West of England Company, were both prompt in arriving with their engines and firemen from London, The mains at length yielded an abundant supply of water, but the fire was not extinguished until the upper part of the extensive:ptemises was destroyed, and the lower portion seriously injured. Captain Page, who was staying at the tavern, had a narrow escape; he had to be taken from one of the upper windows by the police and ladders. Fortunately the loss is covered by an insurance in the Phoenix office. The origin of the fire is unknown. THE MONEY MARE ET.—There is still a very ir regular pressure in the money market in town, and we find it ne cessary, to correct misapprehension, to repeat that it has arisen ex. elusively from the bankers holding the deposits of railway com panies providing for paying over the required per.centage prior to the introduction of the Bills to Parliament. We have been mi. nute and special in our inquiries on this subject, and can find no other mode of accounting for the demand in the best.in. formed quarters, and the conclusion, therefore, is that the matter is entirely temporary. There is no difficulty whatever in the commercial discount market, but, on the contrary, money has been rather less in demand in that direction than was generally expected by this period of the season. The money for the deposits for Railway Bills is in many cases not yet actually required, but the bankers have generally received notice to have the necessary amount in readiness, so that the effect upon the market is nearly the same as if the payments were required to be simultaneous. The immediate effect has been to raise the rate of interest fully one-half per cent., measured by first class paper; and, as we previously observed, there is no question but it would have advanced consi derably higher had it not been kept in check by the Bank of Eng land advancing on securities at the rate of two and a half per cent. per annum.—Morning Paper. THE LATE MURDER AT SALT HILL.—The paro chial officers of Farnham Royal, in which parish the unfortunate woman, Sarah Hart, met with her untimely death, having been bound ever by John Charsley, Esq., the Coroner (who presided upon the jury which returned a verdict against John Tawell of " Wilful murder"), to prosecute the accused at the ensuing assizes for the county of Bucks, they have re tained the services of Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Prender gast on the part of the Crown. Mr. Long, solicitor, of Windsor, has been engaged by the parochial authorities of Farnham to con duct the prosecution. The trial is expected to commence on Wednesday morning, the 11th of next month; but from the num bar of witnesses to be examined, both for the Crown and the prisoner, the trial is expected to last until a late period of the fol. lowing day. There will be nearly twenty witnesses to be examined for the prosecution. The promenaders on the Boulevards were yester day attracted by the sight of a huge truftied turkey, lying in the window of the well known Maison du Friand, at the corner of the Rue Choiseul. A ticket attached to this dainty intimated that it had been ordered for the Duke of Wellington, and that the price was 500 fr. The weight was stated to be 251b.—Galignani. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A MASTER OF A VESSEL. —On Friday a warrant was issued against Mr. James Simpson, master of the barque Thomas Bell, lately arrived at Swansea, with a cargo of copper ore, from St. Jago de Cuba, charging him, on the information of one of the crew, named John Edward Brown, with having, on or about the Bth of December, while on the passage homewards, violently assaulted a seam an on b oar d h i s vessel, named: Thomas James Graham ; " and that afterwards, on the 21st of December, the sa id Th omas James raham died on board the said vessel, while at sea." On the evening of that day the defendant appeared at the office of Mr. T. Attwood, before the Mayor and Starling Benson, Esq. T. Edward Thomas and Thomas Penrice, Esqs., county magistrates, were also pre sent during a portion of the examination of the first witness, but took no part in the proceedings then or sub sequently. When the matter became known to the public the interest manifested was considerable. Mr. Tripp appeared for the defendant. No professional gentleman was in attendance on the part of the prosecution. After a lengthened examination, the defendant was then committed upon the minor charge of assault, the effect of which will be that the expense of the prosecution will devolve upon the friends cf the deceased, unless they successfully pre fer before the grand jury an indictment for manslaughter. In that CRSQ th' jni.t can convict of the , minor charge should they not be satisfied that the other is fully esta blished. The defendant gave bail for his appearance.— Cambrian, COVENT—GARDEN. For the time of year we had a fair average quantity of Vegetables on offer, while the supply of Fruit was rather extensive. Generally speaking, the demand was active, and prices were steadily supported. I'iTTZWO.A.T2I3 AND ZEILDENHATaii Although the supplies of each kind of Meat here was somewhat on the increase, a full average amount of business was transacted, and prices were steadily supported.—Bed from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 8d ; and Pork, 3s to 4s 6d per Blbs, by the carcase. We had a very large supply of both Game and Poultry here, Owing to which the trade was heavy, and prices were with difficulty supported. There was a very plentiful supply of Fish, yet the demand was steady at late rates. Athough the supplies of Meat were rather extensive, a fair business was doilig at full prices. nuNGEuroan. For prime Mutton, Veal, and Pork we had a steady de mand at full prices, but otherwise the trade was in a very sluggish state. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are from 7d to 71d ; of Household ditto, 5d to qd per 41bs leaf RIMS NiliatZLET. Raw Hides, at per stone of 14Ibs :—Best Steers and Heifers, 5s 64 to 5s 10d; Middling Hides, 4s 8d to 5s 4d; Inferior ditto, 4s 4d to 4s 6d. Sheep and Calf Skins, at per skin : Market Calf, 6s 64 to 8s; Long-w•oolled Sheep, 3s 6d to 4s 9d; Shearlings, 6d to ed. NAME OF RAILWAY. Feb. 1 Jan. 31 Feb. 1 Jan. 31 30 Feb. 4 Arbroath and Forfar • . • . • Birmingham and Gloucester.... Brand Eng Junction . Bristol and Gloucester •••• • . • . Chester and Birkenhead ............ Dublin and Drogheda.. • • • Dublin vtd Kingstown • • • . • • • • • • • • • • Dundee and Arbroath . • • • • Durham and Sunderland •••• • • • • Edinburgh and Glasg,ow •• • .• ••• • .• Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and A t vr • • • • • • Glasgow and Greenock• • • • • • •• • • • • • Grand Junction . Great North of England • • • • • • • • • • • • Great Western . • • • • • • • LiTerpool and Manchester London. and Birmingham ..• • • . • • Lone -on and Blackwall.• . Lo'aclon and Brighton. • T aonclot and Croydon •••••• • • • • • • • London and Greenwich . • London and South Western. Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Manchester and Birmingham..... Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc Midland Counties. •••• • • • • • . • Newcastle and Darlington Newcastle and Carlisle Newcastle and North Shields.. • • North Union and Bolton and Preston Paris, Corbell, and Orleans • • • Paris and R0uen................... Preston and Wyre •.. • • • • • • • • • • • Sheffield and 3lanchester • . •••• • • • • South Eastern— • • • • Ulster . Yarmouth and Norwich • . York and North Midland . •• . 118 2,120 1,085 377 544 913 214 492 1,377 l, 3,872 3, 1,254 1, 637 7,157 6, 1,570 I,; 14,183 11, 4,329 3,1 )4,209 1,223 ; 3,281 2,' Jan. 31 Feb. 1 Jeri. 31 F.tb. Jan. 31 Feb. 513 1 4,768 4,1 793 3,044 2,' 6,088 5, 8,923 7,1 1,010 - 1,448 1,( 303 `. 1,311 1,1 348 577 3,799 2, 836 580 200 - 2,085 1, [A a SHIPWRECK OF DVERTISEMENT TH EDWARD ROBINSON EAST INDIAMAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Silt,—When we opened the extensive premises, No. I, St. Paul's-churchyard, we pledged ourselves to keep none but pure teas; to sell none but good teas; and, after exposing the average amount of trash annually foisted on the people of this kingdom, bound ourselves to protect them from this long-hidden grievance. We therefore feel called upon to bring under their notice a sale of rubbish, misnamed tea, that took place to day at the Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing lane; and to make known their pernicious properties, it is only necessary to state, that the teas were salved from the wreck of the vessel Edward Robinson (which perished off Sheerness, with 2,500 packages of tea on board), and that all, having been saturated by the sea water, are a fermenting mass of leaves. Nevertheless, in the face of this fact, every ounce of this decomposing trash passed the public auction, and was sold at the following prices :-171,360 lbs. sold from Id. to 21d. per lb.; 45,000 lbs. sold from 3d. to 4?sd. per lb. The incalculable injury to health that must result from the consumption of the above must be apparent to all ; and they will therefore see it their interest to support those who, se lecting only good and pure teas, supply them at an un paralleled smallness of profit. —We are, sir, your obedient servants, Feb. 7, 1845. DAKIN and CO., Tea-merchants, No. I, St. Paul's-churchyard. DESTRUCTION OF A NEW MILL AND Two THOUSAND POUNDS DAMAGE AT BLACKBURN.—At about a quarter• past nine o'clock on Sunday morning, when the wind was howling with great force, a noise was heard throughout the town, as of the sudden dis charge of distant artillery, which was speedily discovered to have proceeded from the falling down of an entirely new and unfinished mill at Bank-top, the property of Mr. William Dickinson, iron -founder, &c. The mill was what is called an " eight bay" mill ; the area of the spinning part of the premises being 60 feet by 80 feet in extent ; and the mill four stories high. Attached to the spinning mill was an engine -house ; next to that, a large boiler-room ; and then c ame an extens i ve foundry shed. The first floor of the mill was completed, the boards of the other floors were not down, all the window s were in, and the mill roo f e d over. The engine -house was arched over, and the boiler-room covered in. In these two latter places the buildings were partly iron ; great iron beams, from 15 to 18 inches across, were erected in the engine -house ; the roof, &c., of the boiler room was supported by iron pillars, stout iron bars, &c. ' It appears that at about a quarter-past nine o'clock, some men employed upon the premises, and living close by, observed one of the walls of the mill to bulge out ; and they were discussing the readiest means of propping it up, when the gable end of the mill, against which the full force of the wind bore, was seen to bend inwards ; and becoming thus loosened from the roof, the latter was lifted up by the wind, and falling back again with great violence, went to pieces, and carried down to the founda tion every thing with it. The destruction was instanta neous and complete ; part on'y of some o f th e wa ll s re maining. The roof, first floor, beams, supporters, and the walls that fell with the roof were all smashed to pieces. The roofs of the engine house and boiler room were destroyed, the thick iron beam ends being broken like glass. Part of the roof of the foundry shed was de stroyed; as also some premises adjoining another side o the mill, and belonging to Messrs. Livesey and Rodgett. The damage done to Mr. Dickinson's property cannot be calculated at less than 2,0001. Upwards of 300/. worth of glass was destroyed. It is said that the whole building was not to be surpassed for strength and compactness in Blackburn. In a short time the three upper floors would have been put in; entl than this dhactrz;us accident could not have happened. In about two months the mill would have been at work.—Blackburn Standard. STATE OF THINGS.—When the confounding and stupid additional Poor-law Act was passed, at the close of last session of Parliament, Mr. Lumley, one of the Assistant Secretaries to the Poor-law Commissioners, and a barrister, framed a set of forms to be used by justices' clerks under the bastardy clauses, and those forms were copyright. Last Thursday, in the Bail Court, before Judge Wightman, the form of orders in bastardy was declared, in several respects, bad. If justices' clerks prepared forms of their own, and had them printed (for Messrs. Shaw and Sons are the mono polist printers here again), the printer became liable— one was actually proceeded against! Is not this " a nice state of things?' Loss OF VESSELS IN THE NORTH CHANNEL.— On Saturday evening, and all day on Sunday last, a tre mendous gale of wind, commencing about south-west, and suddenly veering round to the north-west, swept, with fearful violence, along the north coast of Ireland. During the hurricane, two vessels went down, near Larne Lough, one laden with coals, and the other with lime. The crews of both are supposed to have perished. A large sloop, laden with iron, for Belfast. went down at Garron Point, near Cushendall, the crew of which escaped in the boat, and, after enduring much hardship were driven into Cushendun. A schooner was observed to go down between Ballintoy and the Giant's Causeway ; and on Sunday, about three in the afternoon, a large brig, bound from Sligo to Liver pool, laden with corn, was dashed on the rocks, at the Bull, on the west end of Rathlin Island. Three was w ith little horci of u pon it, broken,of the crew and otherwise drowned,t he dreadfully captain al lies on the island, for, unfortunately, there is not a me - Ball castle and to render him any assistance.h Between chests, ship's round-house, Portrush, feather-beds, l h n a j d u rheids recovery. tl h e ; sea p'n c te e d white ; Baltic planks, painted green ; p g which leads to the con clusion,articles, have been cast on sho re , has been witnessed twenty-one feet that t° th al le a n s g 4 th, al to ether with many other much more damage than gale. --Correspondent ry' 64 . has been done by this g Northern Whig. B A RNSTAPLE. —A melancholy accident occurre d on Friday l t ask e t in h i e ngto 3l a st ngp u tooi l u t. ,m , a a bo t olu, ki etrt r h . trh Pi wm dd hi l lo c esl o e m froo b f e m ' t s htah l t i is m pteao k rr il hn,: situate a h ai as rcad read , one of the men employed at the kiln, having i jw n oh ca hinc u h t F iously descended without the ladder, soon found that the sulphurous effluvia from the culm affected his respiration, and called to his brother-in-law, Richard Gayton, for help, who instantly lowered a rope, which, in drawing him from his perilous situation, unfortunately broke. Gayton then immediately descended to the poor fellow's assistance, but the exhalations proving too strong for him also, another man, named Shaddock, jumped down, and Taylor, a fourth man, stood ready to render immediate aid, should it be necessary, who, soon perceiving that Shaddock was overpowered, put a board and slid down. He happily succeeded in getting him up, and he ultimately recovered. By this time the neigh bourhood became alarmed, and Gayton and Fairchild being got out, medical assistance was procured, but life was extinct. They were men of sober and Industrious habits, and have each left a wife with a very large family. We are informed that eight of Gayton's children are under 15 years of PC 1 Y and . the. Dumber of children thus kuddealY bere4Yea is (r/ Y -1 DESTRUCTION OF TIL LAND VASE. \ Shortly before the closing of Bow-street did, man, about twenty years of age, and of delicat - 1 149.A a llesorsars - .t . - was brought before Mr. Jardine, in the custody _ ~, - i vision, and placed at the bsr, chard with wilfully n a th n e el ß rat! rpr e .2 4 licicionsly breaking the celebrated ortland Vase . : .. tish Museum. Sir Henry Ellis, the resident lib rar i a n of the establishment , was on the bench. The prisoner, being placed at the bar, appall(' Ter • sullen y and reserved, and seeme d regardless of the preferredcharge against him. Mr. Burnaby said—What is your name ? The i ns°lle ' -!.' (in a sullen tone )—I decline to give any name or addres:* „.. Mr. Edward Hawkins, being then sworn, said, hack hPard that the Poi tland Vase Lad been broken, and that if visitor had come down stairs since the crash was heard, h.i went up, and finding four or five persons in the apartment', he asked them what account they could give of the circuit. stance. They replied, they knew nothing of it, and comity '' to the prisoner, to whom he put the same question, he re-: plied, in the most deliberate manner, " I did it," without giving any reason for such extraordinary conduct. Wit.:•• ness saw all the fragments scattered about the room, and on looking about he found a large sculptured stone oif: the floor, with which the destruction appeared to ha ve been committed. Mr. Jardine—Was any attendant in the room at the'timei.: Mr. Hawkins —The attendants were then in a small room id- joiniog the Portland-room, in which the vase was situate. 31r. Jardine (to the prisoner) —Do you wish to say any• thing at this stage of the inquiry respecting the charge agzsial# you :- The prisoner (in a faint voice)—No. Mr. Jardine inquired if it was not possible that such an ne' currenee could take place accidentally ? Mr. Hawkins; its> plied it was quite impossible. Sir Henry Ellis said the blow was so severe, that the glen • shade by which it was covered was totally demolished, and .„ the vase, which seemed to have been stuck at the bottom, was dashed to pieces. .. Mr. Jardine, addressing the prisoner, said—Have you any friends in London, for it is probable I shall require you to find : , heavy bail for the offence of which you stand charged? The. ' Prisoner (in a faltering manner —done. : , Mr. Jardine—None at all? Prisoner—None Mr. Jardine said it would be necessary to bring forward at . . a future day the persons who were in the room when the oc. currence took place. I Mr. Hawkins said he would use every exertion to bring' ,S forward any person who could give evidence upon the subject. . Mr. Jardine told the prisoner he need not make any state-' went unless he wished, and as he thought proper to refuse" hiss name and address, or to give any account of himself; the inquiry should be adjourned for a few days. ~ . The prisoner was then re move d f rom t h e b ar. In the cours e o f a f ew m i nutes t h e landlady of the Euro , peen coffee-shop, in Long-acre, entered the Court, and in- . formed the magistrate that the prisoner, whose name 'was William Lloyd, came to lodge at her house about two months back, representing he was a scene painter, connected with Covent-garden and other theatres, and came frem Dublini where his mother and sister resided, his father being dead. He kept late hours, and she had no reason to doubt his state-' ment was correct. Mr. Jardine desired she would enter the cell and satisfy' herself she was not mistaken, and on her return she said she -42 had no doubt as to the prisoner's identity. . ..: 22 Mr. Jardine directed constable Neal, who apprehended the ;46 prisoner, to proceed to his lodgings, and bring any p a p er s h e , r 42 ill could find belonging to him, but nothing was found to lead to" 87 the prisoner's name or profession. 48 Before the prisoner was removed in the van to Clerken- 14 well, his landlady had a conversation with him, and he told 9 her that he did not commit the offence of his own accord, but I was persuaded by two others whom he would not name, as he sdid not wish t o b r i ng t h em into trouble. 6 (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) • 8 Just as this national institution was about closing yester.. 0 day afternoon, a miscreant seized a piece of granite front. one of the shelves, and d as h e d i t aga i nst the case containing , ) 5 the Barberini Vase, better kno wn as the Portland, from. • its having been purchased by the Duke of' Portland for the sum of 2,000 guineas. It was deposited by his Grace in the British Museum for security, as well as to gratify the public , . with a splendid example a ancient art. The vase In:Sa been dashed into a thousand atoms, almost defying the possiOlitY of restoration. • The Portland Vase was discovered about the middle of th• . sixteenth century, enclosed in a sarcophagus, within th e monument of the Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother, Julia Mamwa, commonly called the Monte del Grano,. '. about two miles and a halt from Rome, on the Frascati road: The sarcophagus . itself still remains in Ro me , an d th e vase . also remained for more than two centuries in the Palaceiit' the Barberiui family, in the same city, of which it was the ‘. chief ornament. It was ultimately possessed by Sir William:- ilarrtiltOn, Nvho about fifty years since sold it to the Duke of Portland. It is undoubtedly the work of Grecian genitis„ , and was, up to its destruction, as perfect as when it left the • hands of its fabricator. Its dimensions were small, being • only ten inches high; its diameter, at the broadest part, only • six inches. The shape was elegant. The material is a dark. but transparent blue substance, undoubtedly a vitrified paste- • - or glass. Upon this the figures, formed of a delicate opaque -. white substance, are laid in bas-relief, and so firmly muted • - to the groundwork, that they seem rather to be part of itself. than to be fastened on by art. • Of the scene represented, no sa ti s f ac t ory explanation like yet been given ; but we may say, in general, that the gUrevir' are fashioned with admirable grace and animation, and. are - full of expiession in every look and attitude. Every lover . Of ancient and classic art must reg re t th e destruction of..thit splendid example. ,4, , s f ~;~ !e d THE ROYAL VISIT to BRIGHTON; BEIGIiToN, FRIDAY EVENING, HALP.PAST SlX.—The special train, conveying her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the 4970 suite, was signalled as being in sight, on emerging .frein Patcham.tunnel, at fourteen minutes to five o'clock. At this time a large number of persons, who had been admitted by tickets, Were assembled at the terminus, and great anxiety was displayed to, catch the first glimpse of the royal carriage. A splendid and spacious pavilion had been fitted up on the arrival-platform, for her Majesty's reception, by Mr. Bridges, carriage -maker to the Londe* and Brighton Railway Company, under the superintendence of M. Statham, the resident engineer- The building was solidly Con— structed the temporary walls were lined in a tasteful manner with crimson drapery, fringed with yellow. It was lighted by an-elegant , bronze chandelier with three branches; there were two splendid glasses on the walls, and on a table were some groups of flowers, executed in wax by the Misses Packham, of East -street: An escort of the Enniskillens was in waiting at the station. The afternoon being delightfully clear and fine, the scene at the tee.; ', minus was most animated. Precisely at ten minutes to five the train stopped opposite the Pavillion, over which the royal attn. dard now waved ; and her Majesty was received by Captain Kelly. R.N., and Mr. E. Crowley (two of the Directors), and by Mr. Statham (the engineer), and Mr. Fountain (the superintendent ai traffic). The engine was driven by Mr. Benjamin Cubitt neer to the Dover, Brighton. and Croydon Companies). The ari. rival of her Illajasty was greeted by several hearty rounds of applause. Her Majesty in a few minutes left the station, and the royal cortege, escorted by the Enniskillens, proceeded at a foot pace down Trafalgar.street, and along St. George*. place, Gloucester-place, Marlborough -place, to the northern entrance to the Palace. Crowds of the inhabitants and visitors lined the route, and bursts of loyal applause greeted her Majesty during the whole of her progress to the Palace. Carriages lined the road for above half a mile northward of the Palace-gate, at which place her Ma'esty was received by Mr. G. Chlttenden., high.constable of the hundred of Whalesbone, and his head boroughs. The Scots Fusileers formed a guard of honour at thr Palace gates. The moment her Majesty alighted at the station was indicated by the hoisting of the royal standard at the terminus, from which place the signal was conveyed telegraphically to the various public buildings of the town. A merry peal at once struck up at the church of St. Nicholas. In the evening, her Majesty's tradesmen and many of the.inhabitaats illuminated their houset; Some of the devices were very brilliant. • THE LATE MR. STURGES BOURNE.—The deceased was son of the Rer. John Sturges, Chancellor of Winchester. He was born in 1769, and married, 1808, Miss Bowlee, daughter of Mr. Oldfield Bowles, of North Ashton, Oxon< On the death of his maternal uncle, he assumed the name of " Bourne," in addition to his patronymic. In early life he was educated at Winchester College, and then graduated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was brought up to the bar, htit retired from the profession on the death of his uncle abOve alluded to. In 1798 he was elected representative for . llastings. Ile wa s J o i n t- Secretary to the Treasury from 1804 to 1806, under Mr. Pitt ; but, on Lord Grenville corning to the Treasury, he went out of office. From 1807 to 1809 be • was a Lord of the Treasury in the Duke of Portland's Admi- . nistration. In August, 1814, he was appointed one of the Cont.. missioners for the Affairs of India, without salary, and wad, then appointed of the Privy Council. He became two Years. aftere-ards one of the three salaried Commissioners, and con, tinued at the Board of Control till 1821. In 1827 he was fot. a short time Secretary of State for the Home Depai - tmenti . and in July, when Mr. Canning resigned, he succeeded the Earl of Carlisle as Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forest., which office he continued to hold until January, 1828. He sat for a period of above 30 years in the Home of Commons, having represented Hastings, Christchurch, Bandon, Ash burton, and Milbourne Port. On the passing of the Reform Bill, he retired altogether from political affairs. The de• ceased was the author of the vestry statute which bears hie name, " Sturges Bourne's Act." He was Lord Warden of the New Forest, a sort of honorary situation, which he hxd held ever since 1827. He was also one of the principal meta hers of the Commission of Poor-law Inquiry, along with the Bishops of London and Chester, and M essrs . Senior and Chadwick. Of the merits of those Commissioners we shall say nothing in this lace. BATHS AND IVASHHOUSES FOR THE LABouRTNG! CLAssES.—Yesterday a numerous and important meeting of sh o f the clergy and influential gentry of the pan. f_ St. the par. cras took place at the Vestry-rooms: Gordon pose of carrying into effect the establishment e, ar of baths and washhouses for the labouring classes i n that populous a s and e extensive district of the naetro r metropolis. chair,lifr. J. Harris, o aid amongst the Hampstead-road, occupied th gentlemen present we observed the Rev, W. Dodsworth, the Rev. Dr. Stebbing, the Rev. H. Hughes,t r hlßey. D. Lang, Mr. J. P. Gibbons, Mr. E. Wilson,D ir. li fr . om o w ugl hi st e s h , Mr. R . p j .. H. Smith, &c. A report w as Presented, pears that the parish of St. Pancras contains at least 130,000 souls, the far greater proportion of which consists o f t h e labouring classes ; and that in consequence of a communi cation having been received from the Central Society for the Establishment of Baths and Washhouses for the Labouring Classes, recommending the formation of a branch association in that parish, a (committee had been appointed, who had c ome to aresolution, "That the establishment of baths and washhouses was highly d es i ra bl e for the comfort and clean liness as well as for th e h ealth of the labouring classes, and they therefore cordially approve the formation of a bra n ch society br ch society in the parish o f St. Pancras to carryout that ob ject." Baths and washhouses for the labouring classes had been already established in Liverpool and other populons towns with most beneficial results, and there was but little doubt they would prove equally successful in London. The Central Society had met with very liberal support, but when the extent of the metropolis was considered, it was manifest that in order to obtain for any particular district the advantages of such establishments, local exertions must be made. The Committee, therefore, felt it their duty to make an earnest appeal to the inhabitants to furnish them with funds necessary for the erection of public baths and washhouses on a suitable scale in one or snore districts of the parish. The report having been adopted, it was resolved that deputations should wait on his Grace the Duke of Bed ford, the Marquis of Camden, Lord Southampton, Lord Somers, and other great landed proprietors of the district, to solicit their aid and co-operation. CommitteeS having been also appointed to canvass for subscriptions in the respective districts, thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meet ing separated. THE GAME-PRESERVING MAMA.— Farmers are at last beginning to speak out respecting the destr u c tion m e.Let committed upon their crops by them go on in right g ood speaktns out, I l l o u j, s . t he disgraceful preserving propensity will es b e e_ a a b ated . re‘s‘t7ua they need not fear disch arges—even upon their ow - II bare e en farmsgrasping u landlords will not Lik e t o hands. Farmers have only to act independently to pro. test their own interests , not onl y as r e gards the in,inry game, but in other respects. Depend upon It they i m by shake off their bondag e if they will. L ll y Young ~-~ • I U