The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT .f th. PUBLIC JOURNALS. 7IION TEA 111111CINO PAPPIS OP TIIIITIRDAY. GLOBE.—The surplus revenue which is now at the disposal of the Minister, is regarded by the landed interest as a circumstance which may be rendered subservient to their own special advantage. The re peal of the malt-tax is now agitated by the land owners, and the aid of the farmers is invoked to press this relief to the agricultural interests upon the Government and the Legislature. Thus the surplus revenue which the income-tax has wrung from the community, and of which the agricul turists have paid a lesser proportion than the other classes, is to be at once swallowed up. The removal of a tax in which the agriculturists have an imme diate and special interest, and from the abolition of which the other classes of the community would derive only a remote and doubtful benefit, is sought to be procured by this enormous sacrifice of the general in terests. We must, however, guard against miscon struction and misrepresentation. We should be glad to see the malt-tax repealed, if the price to be paid for the repeal were not exorbitant in amount and unequal in its distribution. The income•tax—that iniquitous and . unnecessary imposition, still oppresses the nation by its unequally-distributed weight, and insults it by the inquisitorial investigations into their affairs, to which it especially subjects the merchant and the trader. The coming session will compel Sir R. Peel to develope his views and intentions respecting the moshfieations or removal of this odious tax—a burden for which, it is now made evident, there was no real necessity; as the deficiency for which it was to provide would have been made up from other sources. That Sir Robert Peel would be quite willing to purchase an extension of the term for which the income-tax was originally imposed by a repeal of a considerable amount of taxation, there is little doubt. The income tax is prolific—is collected with considerable ease— and Ogees at the disposal of the Minister so con siderable an amount of surplus revenue, on which he can rely, that there is good reason to believe that Sir Robert Peel would not be iadisposed to relinquish the malt-tax, or any other tax of equal amount, if he could obtain, as an equivalent, the extension or perpetuation of the income-tax. It is even probable that he would propitiate the agriculturists, and re enlist them in his support, by yielding to their wishes in this matter. For these reasons we deem it necessary to draw the attention of the public generally to this subject, and to state our objections to the movement among the agriculturists to obtain the repeal of the malt-tax at the present time, and at so great a sacrifice of the general interests of the cowl. try. If the surplus tevenue—as it appears in the official returns of the quarter and year ending October 10, 1844—be referred to, it will be seen that the malt duty is *early equivalent to that sum. Repeal the malt-tax, and the case of the Minister in his attempts to continue the odious income-tax is established. The surplus revenue is swallowed up ; and, as the re venue for the coming year would be minus the amount of the malt duty, the income-tax must be re tained to supply the deficiency thus created. The advocates of malt-tax repeal will remind us that the abolition of a tax is not necessarily a sacrifice of revenue. The sum remitted on one article of con sumption will, we shall be told, by red uc i ng th e price of the article to the consumers, find its way back to the Exchequer from other sources. The consumers of beer and British spirits, having less to 'pay for those articles, will be able to expend more on other exciseable commodities ; and thus the con sumer will be benefited, and yet the revenue will not sustain loss. That this argument is valid, and would, to a certain extent, be borne out by the result, we believe, and are willing to admit. But we must, in such a case, look not merely to sound financial principles, but to the general policy of the party in power. These princi ples were propounded by the late Ministry ; and, by successfully opposing their practical application, Sir Sir Peel managed to obtain the Government. Sir Robert Peel provides for present and prospective d e ciencies in another way. His plan is to meet financial exigences by increased taxation. The know ledge of this fact is sufficient to caution the public against indulging any expectation that Sir Robert Peel will relinquish the income-tax, and repeal the inalt-tax. At all events, let the former be removed before any appeal be made to Parliament for the abolition of the latter. STANDARD.—WhiIe we have to lament the Apot:tacy of a few fops and fribbles in our own Ci:urch, we tre happy to know that we are receiving in pi :`table exchange some of the elite of the Church of Ron;e—men who abandon their profession not in a thirsty rirsuit of suplice services, and an admira tion of absurd antics; but from an inward conviction that the faith arid practices of the fallen Church are not the faith and pzactices inculcated in the Gospel. We lately mentioned the case of Mr. Macnamara—a man ,to whom his neighbours, of all ranks and re ligious persuasions, give the highest character for probity and purity of life, and who declares that he has been led to the studies and convictions that caused him to abandon the Church of Rome by the beastly immoralities of the Irish Romanist clergy, and the protection extended to those beastly immoralities by the Irish Romanist bishops, one of whom sought to ' bribe him, Macnamara, to silence upon the point, by an offer of high promotion. This is not a proposition on a point of doctrine, upon which a limn may be mistaken. It is evidence in the matter of fact, by a compe tot Ond an unexceptionable vvitnesa. We have seen no attempt to answer Mr. Macnamara's heavy clihrge. In Germany, too, " the straw begins to move," as will be seen by the following extract from the Jowl des Debats of Saturday :—" A Catholic' priest, rector of a village of the upper Pro;tince ..of Silesia, has published a letter on the subjelst of the tunic of Treves—this letter has ap pearid in tniny of the journals of Germany, and an iinpresgon of no less than fifty thousand copies of iVlisci been taken from one publisher of Leipsic in eight days. The Chapter of Breslau has cen sured the priest, who will be probably dismissed. It has been proposed to open a subscription for the compensation of Mr. Ronge, the gentleman in question, his parish is called Laura llutte." The Journal de.s Debats gives a translation of the letter which has caused this great sen sation in Germany. It is an earnest and eloquent protest against the exhibition by Arnoldi, Bishop of Treves, of some rag which he offers for public worship, as part of our blessed Lord's raiment. The letter has a good deal of the plainness and vigour of Luther's earlier style, but with much more of classical polish. FREE TRADE IN ALL THINGS. (From the Struggle.) There are very few thabseem to understand, or are -willing to trace, the workings of monopoly. It always shields itself under the plea of supporting some feeble class whose interest the public should consider more than their own. "Oh you should stop French shoes, for if they are allowed to corns, whatever is to become of our shoemakers ?" " You should stop foreign gloves, foreign silks, and all that, or the people employed in making these articles wil be ruined." Free-traders, to be con sistent, connot lend themselves to stop any of these; for they maintain that it is the interest of the publio to " buy in the cheapest market," both as to grain and every other article. And if they cannot show that such freedom of imports is the greatest advantage to the greatest number, they ought at once to abandon their principles. Let us, for instance, take shoes as a specimen. Suppose that, quality for quality, we can get foreign shoes for eight shillings for which we now pay ten shillings. I don't suppose we can in reality get them any cheaper than the English shoemakers can sell them for, having the advantage of a market at home ; but, for illustration's sake, we vill suppose so. The shoe maker is a loser by this free trade, but all the shoe wearers are gainers, and they, of course, are the most numerous class. Nay, we shsn see that others are gainers as well as they. What becomes of all the two shillings saved at every pair of shoes ? These are not thrown away, but ex pended with other artisans in purchasing additional articles. The shillings will soon be converted into new umbrellas, new pots or spoons, new shirts or sheets, new books, or perhaps into an adtional pair of shoes in the year. Persons engaged in the manu facture of these articles are sure to get the difference. Free importation, which is nothing more than free competition, I believe is beneficial to all the parties concerned, and to the shoemaker among the rest. It is almost certain to set his wits to work, to enable him to make as good and as cheap an article as his Parisian competitor, who has to pay all the ex penses of import; and if he find out that one disad vantage he labours under in the contest is dear eating, lie will be ready, as he ought, to enforce the principle of competition in this also. To the purchaser of the article it must necessarily be an advantage. To the country at large it is equally so. Every country gains in proporion as it possesses itself of the greatest amount of necessaries and enjoyments by the least amount of labour. Whatever quantity of shoos are imported, they roust be paid for by something made in this country ; that is, the labour expended on shoe =eking in trance must be exchanged for the labour expended on something in England, say linen yarn, or whatever else it may be. Whether the linen yarn he sent direct to Franee,exp orted to whether it be le some other pla ce for go ld, and that gold paid to France, it amounts to thsam t et r hing. The cheaper eh bete oes can be got, and th e it must be to the • whole country. And it' the English genius st i b l ir av u s e oo la a teit to s. far shod-making this competition will their advantage 1 if not, they , w into other branches of lal;:icr whereto they rea ll- excel. I believe we want nothing but perfect free dom te, bring out the capabilities of every t.awitry—freedon; . to carry our labour to any part of the world we p l e ase--fraedom to the whole world to bring their labour to us--and freedom for every workman at home to apply his genius and talent in any depart runt of enterprise he thinks proper, without control. THE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY EYENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1844. If we are not prepared to go this full length in carrying out our free trade principles, wo ought never to complain of the monopolist landlord who interdicts the supply of foreign corn to keep up his own rents. Neither hearing nor seeing anything of them for three or four days, the landlord became alarmed for their safety, and on going up to their apartment found the woman and child lying upon the bed in a famishing condition, with nothing to cover them but the few rags they had on. Seeing that all the bed clothing and other articles had been removed, he questioned the prisoner about them, and she admitted that she and the male prisoner had pledged them to procure food; on which he took her down stairs and supplied her with victuals, and then gave her into custody, in the hope that something might be done to alleviate her wretchedness. The prosecutor, sympa thising in her misery, declined to press the charge, and the woman and child were removed to St. Luke's Workhouse. A great deal of benevolence was sub sequently excited in her behalf, from her un doubtedly destitute condition, and several subscrip tions of 101. each were transmitted to this Court for her relief; but in the meantime the wo man was subjected to a close examination by the parish officers as to her place of settlement, and in the course of it it was elicited that she had been abandoned by her real husband, a man named Wm. Ferrell, and that she had since been compelled to live under the protection of the prisoner Smelt. The woman's husband was thereupon apprehended on a warrant, and brought to the Court to answer for deserting his wife, and leaving her chargeable to the parish. It then turned out, on investigating the case, that the wife was a woman of most profligate habits, who had pledged and sold every article belonging to her husband that she could lay her hands upon, and finally deserted her home to cohabit with a private soldier, and that, after enduring the vicissitudes of a depraved life, she had at last taken up with the male prisoner Smelt. Conclusive evidence having been produced by the husband to substantiate his allega tions, the magistrate held that he had satisfactorily exonerated himself from all liability to support his wife, and ordered that the subscriptions which had been so benevolently contributed for her benefit should be appropriated to the funds of the poor-box for more deserving objects. It was a remarkable coincidence in the case, that while the real husband (Ferrell) was under examina tion on the above charge of desertion, the prisoner Smelt was brought up in the custody of an officer, who had succeeded in apprehending him on the pre sent charge of felony; and, the other case having been disposed of, the Magistrate directed the woman to be placed with him at the bar and included in the charge against him. In proof of the case, two blankets and other arti cles, identified by the prosecutor as his property, were produced by two pawnbrokers, who distinctly swore to the male prisoner Smelt as being the person who had pledged them. When asked if he wished to make any defence to the charge, the male prisoner, in a loud tone and with pompous action, said that he was a Socialist, and that in all his transactions he had been actuated by prin ciples the perfect rectitxde of which would, be felt satisfied, yet be made fully manifest to the whole world. Mr. BROUGHTON asked him, if that were the case, how he could establish the propriety of openly living in adultery with another man's wife ? The prisoner replied that he had Divine authority for the doctrine he advocated ; that at the day of re surrection there would be neither marrying nor giv ing in marriage, and that the ties of mutual and sin cere attachment would then be held as sacred as any bonds sanctioned by mere human institutions. He was proceeding at considerable length in the same strain, when he was suddenly cut short by Mr. BROUGHTON, who asked him whether he in tended to attempt a justification for having robbed a poor labouring man of his property ? The prisoner answered, that when he "borrowed" the articles, it was only for a temporary purpose, and that he was urged to do so by distressing circum stances, but that, of course, it was his firm intention to replace them again at the first convenient opportu nity. He then went on to say, that he had suffered the most grievous persecution, and that it was truly lamentable that "he a man of talent and ability, should be dragged to that bar, and stand there, an open spectacle of scorn to the world, with not a soul to pity him ;" and wound up with a sentence of mag niloquent fustian, the substance of which was, " that virtue and talent were all utterly lost, and that vice, and vice alone, ruled rampant and triumphant through the length and breadth of the land." (Some doubt might be entertained of the prisoner's sanity ; but his intellects, in reality, did not appear to be at all affected, except by the pernicious principles he hasl imbibed.) The woman offered nothing in defence, and Mr. BROUGHTON told the male prisoner that he had heard quite enough of his mischievous and destructive tenets, the practice of which would be utterly sub versive of every principle of religion and morality, and calculated to strike at the very root and foun dations of society. The charge had been established to his entire satisfaction, and he should at once com mit both the prisoners to Newgate, to take their trial at the sessions. The male prisoner said, "he should, at all events, hare justice done him at the Old Bailey," and was removed. THAMES POLICE. Two well-dressed children, named 'Edward Red dington, aged eight years, and Ann Reddington, aged eleven years, were yesterday brought before Mr. Broderip on a charge of stealing a pair of boots from the front of a boot and shoe warehouse in Bedford place, Commercial-road, where an immense pile of those articles, projecting over the foot-pavement, is always exposed for sale. Mr. BRODIMIT looked at the children, and asked Mr. Barton, the prosecutor, if he intended to proceed with the case? Mr. Barton replied in the affirmative. He had brought the case before his Worship in con sequence of the numerous depredations committed upon him. Frederick Peachey, the prosecutor's shopman, stated that at ten o'clock that morning he received information from a person who was not present, which induced him to follow the children, who were about thirty yards from the shop, and upon stopping them he found a pair of nailed boots under the girl s cloak. They were hanging up within reach of the children among a pile of boots a minute or two pre viously. John Blake, a policeman, No. 333 K, said he took the children into custody, and they said they came over London-bridge from the Borough for a walk. The children, who hardly appeared to comprehend the nature of the proceedings, were asked if they had anything to say in their defence ; and they were told that what they did say would be written down, and perhaps used against them in another place !— , They simply answered, " No, Sir." Mr. BRODBEIP again asked Mr. Barton if he in tended to prosecute the prisoners, who were children of very tender years. Mr. Barton replied that he would rather the magis trate would not send the case to the session. Mr. Ilitoremair —I want to know whether you in tend to prosecute the children or not ? Mr. Barton-- I would rather leave it in your hands. Mr. BRODIIIIP—You can't leave it in my hands. You said, at the commencement of the proceedings, that you wished to prosecute in consequence of the number of these robberies. Mr. Barton—l should wish you to dispose of the case summarily, and either reprimand them or send them for a short time to prison. Mr. BRODBRIP—I hare no power to dispose of the case summarily. Do you intend to prosecute these children or not! Mr. Barton—l do intend to pro secute. Mr. BRODUlP—Prisoners at the bar, it is my duty to commit you for trial for this felony. The children'were then taken from the dock crying. UNION-HALL. James Wilson, a well-dressed young man, belong ing to the " swell mob," was charged with com mitting an outrageous assault on a policeman of the L division. 178 L, whose face exhibited marks of violence, stated that on Thursday night during the dense fog that prevailed over the metropolis, being near the Surrey theatre, he saw the prisoner with two other men whom he knew to belong to the " swell mob" very busily engaged in hustling some women. The prisoner had a link in his hand walking before the women, while his companions were at the rear lousily employed in trying their pockets ; on seeing which witness went up, and having cautioned the wome n , and desired the prisoner and his associates to go away and not be loitering about there, was in the act of seizing one of them, when a struggle took place. At this moment the prisoner rushed to the rescue of his companion, and thrusting the blazing link into the policeman's face, burnt one aide of his cheek and his ear in a terrible manner. The prisoner and the rest of his associates escaped through the fog, but the policeman, knowing his haunts, soon afterwards took him into custody. The prisoner, through his solicitor (M r . R o b erts ) , denied that he had a link on the occasion, and said that it was not likely a man of his reputed bad cha racter would carry a lighted torch through the streets, which, instead of screening him from the would expose him to ob servation, commit an offence. rguseyeasndoleethadcee.toP°ce'hliisdetection, if he was about to The prisoner was committed for a month. We rejoice to hear that one of the first subjects to be brought before the House in the approaching session, will be the present state of the navy, es p e cially as re gards the six's, number, and capabilities of our men-of war steamers. This will be done by a distinguished officer and Member of the House, who is well qualified to undertake the task, and who fir some time has been collecting a mass of information upon this important subject, which cannot fail to interest, if not to astound, —Hampshire Independent, the c0m1..,. _ TTntal. General Sir It. Burke arrived at k arranee r o.4vr 13 , 1g:rave-street, on Saturday, from Ireland, MURDER IN FRANCE. The Court of Assizes of the Loir-et-Cher was oc cupied on the 15th, 16th, and 17th inst. with the trial of a man named Rougier, aged 29, a shoemaker, at Vendome, and a woman named Hogu, aged 38, wife of a person who kept a public-house in the same place, for the murder of the wife of the former pri soner and the husband of the latter. The act of ac cusation declared that a criminal intercourse had com menced between the prisoners about a year back. Rougier's wife was a pretty woman, a n d o f a cheer ful pleasant disposition, and he had been exceedingly attacked to her before he had got acquainted with the female prisoner. This woman was of a decided cha racter, and exercised a remarkable fascination over the men who became intimate with her. She had spent a dissipated youth, and had been spoken of in th e t own more th an once for the criminal irregularity of her conduct. Rougier's wife, it appeared, was completely ignor ant of the intercourse between the prisoners, and the husband of the female prisoner had never, as far as was known, reproached his wife with her conduct. On April 7, Hogu suddenly died, in the midst of dreadful convulsions and vomitings, and on May 21 similar symptoms attended the death of Rougier's wife. This second death excited suspicion, and on an application to the the authoritie s , th e b o d y b e i ng sub jected to chemical . analysis, a l arge quan tit y o f arsenic was found in the stomach and intestines. I n c o nsequence of t thin cliscovery, Hog u ' s b o dy was t a k en up, and a similar inquiry int o th e matter, t h at Rougier, after having invited some persons to come to Hogu's house to eat brioches, had gone to a baker's and procured some dough, of whi c h h e ma d e a oa k. himself, marking it with a cross, to distinguish it from some others, which he purchased ready made. He gave the marked cake to Hogu, and distributed the rest to the guests. It was after this repast that Hogu was seised with the illness which put an end to his life. On the trial, after the medical men had proved that a great quantity of arsenic had been found in both the bodies, 'toupees counsel stated that his client wished to make a statement to the Court, and that he had to request the temporary removal of the female prisoner. This being effected, Rougier, amidst marks of the greatest interest, declared that his con science tormented him so cruelly, that he had come to the determination to avow the whole truth. " I com mitted the crime alleged against me," pursued he, " in conjunction with the woman Hogu. She has been my destruction, but I was unable to resist her energetic language. She at first made me give her husband verdigris mixed in a dish of potatoes, but when it only made him sick, she persuaded me to purchase arsenic. We divided it, and it was agreed between us that I should put my share into a brioche, and she her's into some soup. It was in that way that Hogu was poisoned. My ac eomplice also insisted on my poisoning my poor wife. I refused at first, but she threatened to turn king's evidence, and inform against me, if I did not conform to her directions. I still refused, and she then con trived to drop the poison one day into a cup of coffee which my wife was on the point of taking. My conscience is now easier; do with me what you please !" This avowal produced a great agitation in the Court, and the sitting was suspended for some time. When the woman 'Toga was brought back, Rougier's confession was communicated to her, but she denied with great vehemence the truth of the whole allegation. "He has spoken no thing but a tissue of lies," cried she. " Rougier never communicated his designs to me. I never had any arsenic in my possession, and most certainly I should never have thought of using it to get rid of my husband, who was so kind to me. Had I known Rougier's plans, I would have done all I could to prevent them. Rougier was con stantly following me about, and persecuting me with his attentions. I never wanted him, and frequently prayed him to return to his work, as M. Joubert can testify." This Joubert was Rougier's most intimate friend, and his examination was expected with great impatience, from the fact of Rougier's having been in the habit of keeping nothing concealed from him. His testimony told against both the prisoners. He stated that, previously to Rougier's becoming acquaint ed with the woman Hogu, he had been a laborious steady workman, but he afterwards was l ike a madman. Rougier had confessed to him his improper intercourse with the other prisoner, and on witness remonstrating with him on his conduct, he replied, " Ah ! here's something that will put an end to all !" showing a paper marked " arsenic." Witness had been present at the party given to eat the brioches, and had seen Rougier give Hogu one marked with a cross, those distributed to the rest being plain. The witness concluded by declaring, that nothing would induce him to believe that Rougier had ever poisoned his wife, to whom he had always behaved most kindly, and to whom he was much attached before his acquaintance with the woman Hogu. The purchase of the arsenic by Rougier was clearly proved, he having procured an authorisation to obtain some, on the ground that the rats were destroying his leather. A number of witnesses testified as to significant and suspicious words which fell from both prisoners rela tive to the deaths of the two persons who had been poisoned. On the third day, when the jury retired to consider their verdict, tie excitement of the crowd out side the court was so great, that fears were enter tained of the doors being burst in, and 200 soldiers were obliged to be sent for to keep them back from the building. After an hour's d e l ay , th e j ury re turned into court with a verdi c t o f "G u il ty aga i nst both prisoners—against the woman Hogu, for the murder of her husband and of Rougier's wife, and against Rougier, for the murder of Hogu only. The Court passed sentence of death on both, and ordered the execution to take place at Vendome. Rougier appeared thunderstruck at the sentence, hut the woman did not evince the slightest emotion. ARREST OF BURGESS, THE ESCAPED FORGER. FURTHER PARTICULARS, Burgess, who was apprehended soon after Elder strangled himself in the gaol of Boston, in a most miserable condition, in a small island fifteen miles from Boston, is now on his return in the custody of John Forrester, the officer, to this country. Several private letters have been, we are given to understand, received in town relative to the whole of the trans actions of the two fugitives and those who pursued them. It appears from the statements made at the Man sion-house and about 'Change, that when Burgess escaped from the hotel at Nahant, a small peninsula joined to the mainland by a neck of land about four miles in length, he rowed in the dark for a consider able time, and at length, after having been tossed about, he landed and made the best of his way to a small cottage, in which a poor Jonathan and his wife and three children resided. From thence he sent to the waiter of the hotel at Nahant his keys, with direc tions to take possession of the money contained in his bags, and convey it to him. John Forrester, who managed the whole business, with the ready assist-- ance of the officers granted by the authorities, with consummate skill, took care to cut off the means of retreat or escape by land, and met the bearer of the money on his way to a place of appointment. The bag, which contained 126/. in gold, and in dollars and notes 4681., was directly sent back to the hotel, while the pursuit was continued. In the most wretched condition, with no more than a half-crown or a couple of shillings in his pocket, and half naked, the unhappy Burgess, after great ex ertion, reached another cottage, at the distance of about eight miles across the water, and there re mained under shelter for nearly a night and day. He then sent the owner of the cottage with a note to a Mr. Grant, who had had some transactions with him in the pecuniary way, requesting money. Mr. Grant, who had been duly informed of the forgery and robbery of the Bank of England, immediately gave the information where it could be made most available, and the person who knew the place of con cealment of the fugitive was prevailed upon, but not without a great deal of persuasion, and a reward of 300 dollars, to give him up to the police. It was evident, from the whole of the proceedings of Burgess and EldeV, after their arrival in America, that they looked with the utmost confidence to per manent security from arrest. Burgess had been lodging about a fortnight at the hotel at Nahant, and had purchased a piece of ground of Mr. Drew, the landlord, on which he was about to build a house, and it was odd enough that before the foundation was ' laid he purchased carpeting, bed-linen, glasses, and other articles of furniture. The most complete measures had, we have been told, been adopted by the Bank to render this first expe riment upon the convention between England and America successful. A gentleman of considerable experience belonging to the establishment was sent over to manage one portion of the business, while John Forrester contrived and carried into exe cution the other. Upon their arrival at Boston, they learned, almost in a n i ns t an t, from a sharel:roker, that the great bulk of the money which the fugitives had brought with them had been deposited in a mer chant's bank, of which he happened to be a director, but that as it was only a safety deposit, in all proba bility it was withdrawn. Upon further investigation it appeared that the fugitives had, about the Ist of October, called at the bank, and taken all the gold out, and placed it t o th e accoun t o f M essrs. Reynolds and Grant. Th e money was soon a f ter found to be invested in the joint games of Burgess and Ed er , with Mr. Grant as trustee, and the address of Elder proved to be No. 51, Federal-street, Boston, and that of Burgess to be about fifteen miles distant from that city. About 34,000 dolletra, another amount, as we were given to understand, invested in the Stocks, in the names of Burgess and Elder, by Messrs. Reynold and Grant ; and about 3,000 more were in the hands of the Marshal of the district of Massachusetts, and the whole of this money will be brought, vier by Joh^ Forrester in the next steamer, it, is is expected, till, legal proceedings considered necessary under the novel circumstances of the case ,be completed in time. The regular transfers have been regularly made, every facility having been rendered by the gentlemen who had been employed by the fugitive, to give effect to the new law under which the messengers from the Bank of England were sent to act. In fact, all the parties in whom any power was vested in America, expressed the strongest desire to aid the exertions of our officers, being determined to show that they were very far from wishing to see their country the refugium peccato sum of England, or any other nation. One of the communications speaks thus of John Forrester :—" The utmost credit is due to Forrester for his untiring perseverance, his devotedness, and his efficiency. Sleepless in his efforts, and straight forward in his demeanour, he secured friends where ever he went who were ready and anxious to stand by him, and also at once enlisted their good. will in his behalf. No one could hare discharged the re sponsible duties committed to him with more inte grity, zeal, or success." It was supposed that the death of Elder, who strangled himself in the gaol of Boston, would have been the cause of some delay and other inconvenience, but so willing were the authorities to give every op portunitty to the Bank of England messengers to ob tain restitution of the stolen property, that there ap peared to be no chance of the slightest procrasti nation. The purchase made in the names of the fugitives was, we believe, all good stock, and no doubt is en tertained that it will realise the prices given for it. An inquest was held upon the body of Elder before Mr. Pratt, at Boston, and it was stated before the jury that the deceased was found dead in the gaol by strangling himself with his silk handkerchief, the same handkerchief being fastened to the grate of the room of the prison. MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN THE CASE OF BELANEY. TO THE EDITOR OP THE MEDICAL GAZETTE. Sir,—Will you do me the favour of inserting this letter in as early a number of your journal as may be convenient; it is an answer to one I have just seen, and which appeared in the Herald of the 17th inst., purporting to be a review of the medical evidence given by myself and Dr. Thomson at the late trial of Belaney, and accusing us of having allowed ourselves to be directed by general evidence, of having assumed wrong premises, and drawn conclusious from them which were not warranted : three charges sufficiently grave and serious to call for a reply, especially as they are put forth by a medical professor under the form of a scientific dissertation. I can, and do, sympathise with the Rev. Mr. Belaney, and hope that no word or act of mine will give a tone to the general impressions which are everywhere formed respecting the unfortu nate death of his brother's wife ; and I assure him that I was actuated by the same feelings when I entered the Court to give evidence at the trial, being con vinced that general reports neither did, nor could, come within the scope of my inquiries, which had reference merely to the medical facts; and for the purpose of arriving at these, and removing every tittle of doubt or objection which ingenuity might raise against them, I had instituted experiments under every variety of form and circumstance, the results of which, and not of any readings or hearsay, I detailed honestly and as clearly as I could to the jury, never allowing myself for one moment to be swayed by a double-meaning question, or by any party feeling ; and it must also be remembered that I was not unac customed to such investigations, but that the circum stances of my position had for many years demanded an almost daily examination into them. Among the wrong conclusions with which Dr. Glover charges us, are the following :—lle says, I had no right to assume that the cry of Mrs. Belaney was a shriek, or that it was the effect of the poison. Now I do not know that I have anywhere made such an assumption. It is merely asked of me, whether animals, under the influence of prussic acid, do not cry out ? To which I answer—yes, that it is a con stant effect: and then it is inquired of me whether, after this cry, there would be a possibility of walking to bed and telling the cause of the disaster ? To which I reply, " Certainly not ! for after the shriek all sensibility and volition cease." And Dr. Thomson confirms my statement. This was no answer given hastily and inconsiderately, but sought for amidst multitudes of experiments and observations ; nor is it in any way invalidated by the case quoted from Christison, or, indeed, by any case within my know ledge that has ever been upon record. There can be no doubt, as this and other cases show, of a capability of speaking after the exhibition of the poison; but this is not the argument ; it is, whether there can be conversation after the shriek—which I maintain is impossible. With respect to the other question, whether Mrs. Belaney's cry was a mere call to her husband, or a scream resulting from the poison, I have never offered an opinion, although Mr. Garrett stated in his evidence that Belaney told him it was a scream. Again, according to the husband's statement, Mrs. Belaney called the drink hot; and I am asked, if prussic acid has a hot taste ? and reply, " No; that its taste is bitter." I have tasted it again and again, and on two occasions in quantities sufficiently large to produce faintness; yet Dr. Glover maintains, by an unnecessary, an inapplicable, and a most unlearned dissertation upon the chlorides, bromides, and iodides of cyanogen, that it must be hot,—though I cannot see how this affects the master of fact arrived at by myself and another, who is nearly the only individual who has lived to record that its taste is inexpressibly bitter. In next part of the review Dr. Glover pronounces our answers to be an outrageous piece of cruelty. It was known that Belaney, although he called himself a medical man, used no efforts to recover his wife, and we are asked whether the remedies for prussic acid are generally known in the profession ? To which we reply, that they should be, inasmuch as they are everywhere taught ; and I think that we were warranted in making such a reply, when it is re membered that for sixteen years or upwards they have been publicly and emphatically taught in our schools, and are constaLtly being brought before the profession in one form or another; that we have professed works and journals, and charts, to teach them to us; and if Dr. Glover's " old and young acquaintances, who are in active practice," do not happen to know them, it can surely never palliate, or in any way remove the culpability of the charge of g r oss neg l ect an d ig norance; nor can it be admitted as an argument of the universality of such ignorance : if it did, Heaven knows, there is necessity enough for reform in our profession ; but most singularly, when Dr. Glover finds it convenient to make Belaney a judicious looker on, he argues for the propriety of his conduct, and says, that when he stood by ready with his lancet, he was acting in accordance with the views of Orfila, Christison, Magendie, and others. And why, may I ask, did he not further act in accordance with common affection and common honesty, and try to save her ? To crown the whole of this part of Dr. Glover's review, he tells us that we do not .1(now the remedies ourselves; notwithstanding the whole tenor of our evidence, that she might have been saved. Lastly, as regards our opinion, that a smell would exist for some time in the room where prussic acid had been spilt, Dr. Glover expresses his dissent in tote, although it has been stated that my conclusions were drawn from experiments made under circumstances as nearly as possible like those of the case in question ; and in conclusion, without staying to comment on the pseudo-scientific character of the review, meant evi dently to catch the popular ear. I will merely ex press a wish that it had been written with a more "conscientious spirit." I am, sir, your obedient servant, HENRY LETHEBY, M. 8., Lecturer on Chemistry at the London Hospital. 12, Tredegar-square, Oct. 31, 1844. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. CAUTION TO MARINERS. Extract of a letter from Lloyd's agent at Workington. " Liverpool, Nov. 22, 1844. "Captain Trunion, of the brig Middleton, of Mary port, requests me to report that, on the 7th of March last, when on his passage from Buenos Ayres to Valpa raiso, in lat. 40 deg. 22 sec. S., lon. 55 deg. 13 sec. W., out five days (the latitude and longitude given as per chronometer), he discovered rocks, on whioh broken water was run for a quarter of a mile north and south—they were about that distance from them when seen. Captain Trunion, on his discovering them, was then taking an observation of the sun. He supposes they must be the Ariel Rocks, although there is a considerable difference in their latitudes and longitudes; that had his attention not been particularly drawn to that quarter whilst taking his altitudes, they might have been passed unseen ; and he can vouch for the accuracy of latitude and longitude of ship when these rocks were discovered." COOL bill'UDENClL—Rather mere than seven years ago, a light-fingered Irishman, nainad Sweeney, was convicted of stealing a box of tin ne d plates from a ship in one of the Liverpool docks. On his conviction he was sentenced to seven years' transportation, which punish ment was duly inflicted. A few days ago he again made his appearance in this town, and one of the first places he - visited was the office of the firm to whom the tinned plates had belonged. Neither of the principals were within, but he at once proceeded in the coolest manner to introduce himself as Mr. Sweeney, the gentleman who had suffered for appropriating the tinned plates. He said that his visit to Australia had not been either dis agreeable or unprofitable ; that he had soon obtained a good-conduct ticket, and a good place as a gardener, in which he had saved money. Haring non fulfilled all his obligations to the laW, he had returned home, and determined to• claim his rights, among which was the box of tinned plates fur which he had been sent to Botany Bay I This he considered clearly his own, and begged that it might be given up to him. We need scarcely say that Mr. Sweeney's story and his realm.* threw the whole office into a roar, Th. • • •- - ~.vraS not 'feel iiungattheeamhas,elves qatopetee_t ., • aecido on so curious a claim ,-,Lice of their employers, begged that the gen tleman would call again, which he promised to do, though be hie not yet (414.11 ed his prougm—Liverpool Chronicle. SUCCESS OF THE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM AT WIMESWOULD, LEICESTER. A very interesting meeting took place at this vil lage on Tuesday evening last. The allotment sys tem appears to have been carried out there on a rather extensive scale. There is a considerable quantity of what is called feofee land, and two or three years ago it was determined by the feofees, in conjunction with the Rev. Mr. Alford, the incum bent, who, we understand, was the principal mover in the scheme, to let it out in allotments of from a rood to half an acre. In addition to this, several gentlemen of the neighbourhood encouraged the system, and an allotment society was formed—the re sult of whose exertions is, that a great quantity of land, which before was almost a barren waste, is now fruitful and productive. It having been determined upon to celebrate the success of the Society by a supper, the meeting was held at the Infants' School room, which was tastefully decorated for the occa sion with laurel and evergreens. 'We noticed in the assembly the Rev. Mr. Alford, President of the So ciety (m the chair), Lord John Manners, M.P., Jones, Esq., Gurney, Esq., S. B. Wild, Esq., Messrs. W. Ella, Brown, T. R. Potter, Henson, Bos worth, G. Kilby, and several other landowners and occupiers. The rest of the company, mustering up wards of 130, consisted of the allotmenters and their friends. The Rev. CIIAIRXAN gave the usual loyal toasts, which were responded to with great enthusiasm. Mr. T. R. POTTER rose to propose the health of the Noble guest, Lord John Manners, and took the op portunity of entering into a statement of the " rise and progress" of the allotment system in Wimeswould. There was at first considerable opposition to the plan ; but he himself felt confident that it would be productive of immense advantage both to the rich and poor. He believed it would be fraught with benefits both to the giver and receiver, and he thought he could say that that had been the case there. He believed there was no poor man there who would not say that his situation had been much im proved by it ; and the farmers and ratepayers generally must indeed be short sighted if they could not see that the allotment system had in some degree diminished their burdens.—(Hear, hear.) But he would mention an allotment on his own ground. He let a field in portions of from one acre to half a rood ; it was an unmanageable piece of land, situate about two miles from the village, and with a shocking bad road to it. It was, indeed, in so wild a state, that he could not restrain his tenants from using the plough ; but having an adjoining field he put the spade into that, and dug up from thirteen to twenty inches deep, burying the twitch and rubbish ; and the consequence was, that he got the land completely subsoiled, and the surface, instead of being a heavy dead mass, was now a light spongy soil.—(Cheers.) That land, which he might say had never borne a germ of useful vegetation from the time of the flood, was now fruitful and productive. The speaker here mentioned, in terms of high com mendation, the names of several of the allotmenters, whose example, both as to industry and the quality of their work, he said, might afford a valuable lesson to many of the farmers themselves. He mentioned those men by name because they had not, as yet, tried the system of bringing them out by emulation. They had had no prizes—no perambulations of the allotment ground. He hoped, however, for better things another year. He hoped they should institute a prize for digging, which would be as interesting as prizes for ploughing matches, offered by the Agricultural So cieties. All those things, he had little doubt, would come in time, kind feelings would he induced, and all classes learn how much they depended on each other. There was another thing he wished to men tion ; their parish was half manufacturing and half agriculture. He thought there had been a consider able increase of right feeling, and a decrease of mis chief and disorder—(Hear, hear, and cheers)—and from year to year he hoped that would go on. There were other results of their Allotment Society—that meeting was a result : their noble guest was an other result—(Continued cheering)—himself a la bourer in a very wide field, one of the noblest that could offer itself to a scion of the house of Rutland— the renovation of the great mass of his fellow-crea tures.—(Loud cheers.) He would give them, them, the health of their noble guest, Lord John Man ners, with many thanks to him for his condescension —no, he would not call it his " condescension," his " good sense " in coming amongst them, to see how they lived, how they breathed, how they worked ; and if that nobleman wished to form a good senator he could not do better than acquainting him self, and identifying himself, with the wants, the wishes, and the rights of his fellow-men. The toast was received with very great enthusiasm, and continued rounds of applause, which having some what subsided, Lord J. MANNERS rose and said—Mr. Alford, Mr. Potter, and Gentlemen,—When I yesterday received your kind invitation to be present at this gratifying assemblage, I was most anxious, if possible, to accept it, because I have lately, in various parts of the country, attended meetings, which, in different ways, all had for their object the amelioration of the con dition of the people, and I was anxious to witness a similar scene in my own native county. —(Loud cheers.) Your kindness has enabled me to do so, and I beg to assure the gentle man who, much too flatteringly proposed my health, and you who have so kindly received it—l beg you all to believe that in coming amongst yox to-day, nothing could be so far from my thoughts as that which my friend would at first call a condescension— such an idea never entered my head.—(" Bravo" and cheers.) There may be some gentlemen to whom an allotment supper of this kind may seem only an unin teresting affair—l am not one of those ;tome it pos sesses an interest, and has claims upon our attention, such as I may safely say no other meetings can pos sess ; for, gentlemen, that which we have heard this evening, that which we have seen, and that which we are to hear, gives us—while it naturally places before our fancy the dreams which we may suppose were real ised in the merry days of old England—gives us hope for the future that our country will continue to pros per and progress ; and that the true old English spirit is still alive amongst us—(Cheers)—uniting the dif ferent classes of society in one common bond of cor dial good feeling ; and instead of self-interest predo minating, leaving us all to act ttpon, as well as to profess, our belief, that we are the common children of one common Father.—(Great applause.) To you, the allotment tenants, who have had now two years' experience of the benefit this system confers upon you, it is unnecessary to say anything in praise of it. You are all well aware of the advantages you derive from it ; how, when perchance hired labour may fail you have that savings' bank in the earth upon which you may fall, and into which you may deposit with a certainty of finding your contributions returned to you with ample and compound interest. You know what it is to be able to improve your children, and to give them an agricultural education—not only free of expense, but with a certainty of return. You know what it is to be able to keep out of the union workhouses, and to feel that owing to this sys tem, if you be only commonly industrious and honest, you need entertain but small dread that you will have to enter them. But it does seem extraor dinary to me that, while you are all agreed as to the benefits you derive from this system, there are par ties in England—though, thank goodness, not in Leicestershire—there are men, feeling the greatest interest in the welfare of the people, who deliberately set their faces against this system. They tell us it militates against the true principles of political eco nomy—that it makes us dependent upon labour, and then refer us to the results of the Irish cottier system. Gentlemen, in the first place we are told that the allotment system militates against the true principles of political economy. All that I can say to that is, that it would matter very little if it did. The only question we ought to ask ourselves is—does it work well or ill ?—(Hear, hear)—and if experience proves it to work well, then all the dogmas of political economy may be. whistled down the wind for what we care.—(Tremendous cheering.) Oh, but they say it prevents the labourer, who would other wise work for the farmer, work only for himself. Now, this system has been tried for many years in various parts of England, and I would ask, has it been found to work ill in any place ? I believe there will be but one answer to that question—it has not been proved that it has, and experience is totally the other way. But suppose, to show the complete ab surdity of the thing, that it be true. Now, we find this argument of the bad working of the Irish cottier system brought forward when we propose any system for improving the condition of the people, and re moving the weight from their shoulders. They say it is all of no use ; it is a surplus population, and until we get rid of them all the measures you can intro duce will be unavailing. Suppose this to be well founded; I say it is a most inconsequential and ab surd argument ; because, if the labour market be overstocked, that ought to be an argument in favour of, rather than against, the system. Well, then, it is said, Oh ! it makes the labourer dependent. Now, in another place I sometimes have to attend—the House of Commons—it has been my fortune to hear a considerable quantity of fustain talk all about inde pendence and freedom ; but I venture to say such nonsense was never talked on these two fruitful to pics as it must be to say this system makes the la• bourer a dependent being. The man who lives in some low cottage in a large village or small agricul tural town, who receives eight, ten, or eleven shillings per week, but has not the crop of cabbage or pota toes he can call his own, nor a garden to himself -4, e P is in a state of independence ; although, ifs labour fail, he has no resource but the Workhouse ; whereas the man who 1": .. th , 4 ' 4 tliese savings' banks, accordi ng t o . t neorists, is a dependent and degraded being.— (Hear, hear.) Dependent, gentlemen, he is truly, but it is on the mercy and goodness of Providence, and not on the mercy and caprice of his employers.— (Cheers.) Well, then, when all these philosophical objection. ere refuted, se refuted tin Inuit MI by snY man of common sense, the objectors adopt another course. They leave England, its diminished labour market, its diminished labourers, and take us across the channel. Oh (say they) but have the goodness to look at Ireland ; see the miseries which the cottier system has produced there, and which your allotment system must produce in England. Now, it is rather curious, we seldom have these Irish arguments intro duced upon any other subject. We are generally told that there is a great difference in the character of the people—that what is good for one would be bad for another, but in this particular point we are told if a certain system has failed and produces a bad result in Ireland, it will fail and produce a similar bad result in England. Now, I would say, though I think the argument of a difference between the two people is pushed beyond its due limits, that there are good reasons for concluding that even if the system may have failed in Ireland, it may flourish in England. Are those gentlemen aware of the rack-rents , and of the terrible competition for land ? If they are, I would say they are dishonest; if they are not, I would say they are ignorant reasoners. But it has been my fortune, gentle men, during the past week only, to receive intelli gence from Ireland, which would show that the sweeping accusations levelled against the occupiers of small farms is not just. I have heard lately of 30,00 0 acres of land whieh have been colonised by Lord G. Hill, and upon which a blade of grass six years ago was not to be seen. It now maintains no less than 3,000 people in comfort—(Hear)—small farmers, if you will—occupying from five to twenty acres, and there is no doubt that in a few years the population will be increased. Similar results may be produced by similar means. I say, then, let English g entle' men do their duty, and the peasants be actuated by that high and commendable spirit which has hitherto actuated them, and we shall have no reason to fear that this system will produce anything but good to the English people. It is no wonder, then, that you have assembled' here to-day to cele brate the successful introduction of the system into your parish. It is no wonder that, as we came down here, we heard the church bells ringing merrily. It was no wonder that, when I entered here, I saw tin' thing but smiling faces and happy countenances around me; nor is it any wonder that I can easily ap preciate the motives which brought you here. In con cluding the observations I hare ventured to obtrude upon you, I shall ask you to drink—l was going? say with three times three, but I forgot the restric tion—" The allotment tenants and success to spad! husbandry."—(lmmense cheering, which continued some minutes.) GEORGR Hsants an allotmenter, rose and said' Your Lordship and gentlemen all—l rise to return you sincere thanks in the name of every allotmen t tenant for drinking their good health upon the per' sent occasion, and I sincerely wish you all may enjoy a good state of health, be favoured with a long in e ' and prosper.—(Cheers.) Mr. W. ELLA had the greatest pleasure in drawing the attention of the meeting to the toast he was abou t to propose to them ; one which, he was sure, every one there would do justice to. It was that of a no ble', man who stood at the very top of the tr e e in thso neighbourhood. He did not go half way up, but to the very top, in everything he took in hand. He ws i a capital landlord, and a stanch friend to the poor' He begged to give them The health of the Lord' Lieutenant of the county, t he Duke of Rutland'''' (Continued cheering)-- and, if he might be allowe o t he should like to do it with three times three. -- (Great applause followed this sentence, which ws, s , increased by Mr. Wild rising and saying, e I thin* we must break through our chairman's regulations on this occasion, because we shall not do justice to Ou r feelings unless we do."—(Hear, hear.) Three time three vociferous cheers were then given.) Lord JOHN MANNERS returned thanks, and 1 5 ' sured the meeting that the breaking through the rille 9 in this instance in responding to tke t oas t, wa s by O r more gratifying to him than if it had been the 00 with regard to his own. His father was sincerely anxious to fulfil the responsible duties of the situatioll in which Providence had placed him as he ought k t° , do. No man had more at heart th e we lf a re of t"; labourer, and the success of the allotment system. a proof of this, he would state that at the present tin" he had not less than 1,000 or 1,100 allotment tenant s ' —(Loud cheers.) He should take care to convey t c him the intelligence of the manner in w hi c h his heal t h ) had been received; and he was s ur e h e spoke the fe e • ings of his heart when he said th a t th ere wa s no pisf o where he would rather have his health drank in the manner it had been than in a Leicestershire vilisc; and such, he was sure, would be th e case until t latest period of his existence.—(Continued cheering.) Lord JOHN MANNERS immediately rose again t° propose a toast, which, in a few words, be said, o n. veyed more meaning than all the philosophical theories, and political dogmas put together—" A. fair dell wages for a fair day's work."—(Loud cheers, g"' cries of "That's all we want.") Several other toasts followed, and many fi lCire interesting facts were brought before the meeting, which soon afterwards separated, every one apparel on the very best terms with himself and his Deig, hours, and looking forward with pleasurable pation to a re-union next year. ths We should add that the ver y best order and most respectful behaviour was observed by the bourers throughout the evening. QUALIFYING FOR TH E Cou NTY .—Th e f r i e nds Of the League are exerting themselves with great sacuei s inducing the free-trad ers t o qua lif y f or the count i e s.,,, et pecially for So u th L ancas hi re , N ort h Cheshire, lveg Riding of Yorkshire, and North Lancashire. A Ene7 o , was held at Mr. Caton's C ommerc i a l H otel, on Thum for evening, attended by a deputation from Manchester , , ri r this purpose at which resoluti ons were passe d i n fa r ' ne l of this object, when many agreed to get freeholdot! 4 , persuade their f r i en d s t o d o the same.--Preston Guaralf THE ECLIP SE OF THE M OON. — During the 01'05. hours of last night th e firmament was extensively do , scured with lazy-pacin g ," thin, flocculent ul °u bis through which the m oon was b ut f a i ntly v i si b le . ,r ifie must have prevented th ose w h o w i s h e d to make scieu observations from using their instruments, at the C° o° mencement of the eclipse, with all the effect that wa 9 ,01 sirable. Shortly a f ter ten o ' c l oc k t h e clouds de:o away, and from that tim e th e moon was uno b scur eu . by the earth's shad ow w hi c h passe d across its sur fs b• The appearance of the moon when about three part' ofi scured was beautiful. The progress of the eclipse ag r io t closely with the c a l cu l at i ons . I t commenced ted thirty-eight minutes past ni ne o ' c l ec k, an d te rmoo, b i i about twenty-eight- an d- a -h a lf m i nutes past o no morning. —Liverpool Albion of Monday. ( .. g S ll SIR EDWARD C ODRINGTON ON D RUNEINN .— A , FLOGGING IN THE NAVY.—The following iraP °l. of testimony as to drunkenness being the chief c'u' e d, flogging in the navy, is b orne b y t h e Gallant A4 nl to Sir Edward Codrington, in his tribute of prel o Father Mathew, accompanying a contribution t 0 2,1, fund now raising for his relief :—" Chertsey, No c to it 1844.—Dear have read of your b e i ng in th.F, c t ber at a meeting t o p romo t e a su b scr i pt i on for siooo Mathew, and as I very highly honour him for hio.z es for exertions, and no less highly value those exertl oo o ,l l the benefit they will produce amongst seamen, Yt i bicil oblige me by contributing five pounds for me, for " joi e I inclose you a cheque. But for the vice of dru n , nose, we should sc a rc e ly ever b e ca ll e d upon to t?. w isti lash in the navy, a d u ty w hi c h i s a l ways per f o rmed To y , disgust.—Very faithfully yours, EDWARD CoDsl l4° To J. S. Buckingham, Esq." 1 BIRTHS. Sol itb‘ On the 21st inst., the wife of George Walter, BK.' street, Greenwich, of a son. Oa the 21st inst., th e l a dy o f Ch ar l es M a i n Worth r, Upper Montague-street, Mont ague - square , o f a ding,,bdoltoA' P On the 22d inst., the l a dy o f D r . G o ldi ng Bi r d, M square, of a daughter. ido' On the 22d inst., at Recto r y Vill as , W ei t Hackne y' William Maxwell, of a son. Ent icing' On the 22d inst., at C am b r id ge - square , M rs . T. it jun., of a daught er . lIP P On the 22d inst., th e w if e o f G. M. G ray , R a g-, o f Bedford-place, i n sßussel-quare, of a daughter • ifs of Job On the 24th inst., Torrington-square, the W Hubback, Esq., of Lincoln's In n , o f a son . tt l° On the 14th inst., at Ab ercrom by- p l ace , Edinburif ti b i sad Lady of Sir William Listoa Foal* Bart., of Woo er Millburn Tower, ot a daughter. ~4 . , O filri lady ° f On the 10th inst., at Stoke Hall, Ipswich, the i...., ° Phillips, Esq., of a daughter. __.--/. MARRIED. gout On the 21st inst , at St. Mary's, Lambeth, Mr. High-street, Clapham, to S ara h, thi r d d aug hter ' Baigent, Esq., Kennington. ifi k° On the 23d inst., at St. Georg, Somersetshire, u es's, BloomsburY,t_p(l,, pfato'f Mathews, jun., Esq., o f Castle Cary , Anne, only daughter of the l a t e J o h n Buckisiglig im Broad-street, St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. ....... ••••••••••••••...... . ~, to DIED. ilt Ilson i ip On the 19th of August, on his passage from ,'''' -- bi o' - ' the Cape of Good Hope, Captain Thomas Palmer , 0 , Isabella, aged 27. 0 f 0 0 8 n u r joottehhhdnee. Broad-street, oe t s h nte teii,,nnßsEstti Esq., i , ma. a ,ti t eorfg E ahG d ra g ri mee b ,a a hasten : I : Bi n a:1 ; 0 1 1 : w: John Hem? ito4igsrit 0 I,ter o r ilj late On the 22d inst., at York -terrace, k el e d g e :t 7 : ;' 'lira° Ritchie, Esq., late of Bombay. On n n t th h e e 2222dd inst., j a o t h O n x G fo u r i d lie t m err er ac d, e, E W eg il ., lic v l o i h se i l l e . or Alien fl On the 22d inst., Andrew, fifth son of Mr. Nethercot. Oxon. 13e rt `piles Peacock, On. n the 2 E 3 e d q. i , n o s f t. N , Emma, ettipgh einmfa.notedoaeugli te r of Rn- On the 23d i ns t., i n L eman •Are t e g t, en g r:Gan'l4l4lclh V l cl' 1 Samuel Samuel, Esq., aged 82. p gr ckl ol, , ~r• On the 22d inst., at Southampton,(lo ,las v 6- On the 22d inst., at Ruthin, Arthur Ellis Robeit,,orys; viving son of the late Rev. Ellis Roberts, Vicar 01 i d, F e lto , On the 23d inst., Sarah Ann, the wife of Jon" Esg , of Upper Clapt on , Middl es ex. ors, 51111/' tin the 23d inst., at M e lt o n.street, Dorse t -1g 4 • 11°4 the wife of Samuel Hatnersley, Esq. Wick On the 23d inst., Joh n Watson, Esq., o ^ f Brighton, aged 72. 13 , ho ier,,„,, On the 24th inst., in Leather-lane, Mr. Job sir At l6ll°'' On the 25th inst., at Kensington Gravel-Plt24 ; Wall Callcott, R.A., aged 65. QG r , ------_ __--- 0 - yov s to, London : Printed and Published by liii:B l L l fi c e,l:: l , Ii No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Thg B" is io Strand, in the Preciact of the 8 1r44. Arldigkiga Tioidoy, Ifinatlear Ifs NEWSPAPER PRESS OF FRANCE, In this present year, 1844, when the several parties in the Chambers have their various echoes in the journals of the country, and when the principal func tion of the press is to diffuse the ideas which are dis cussed there, we shall be able to give the best general impression of the different portions of the periodical press, by classifying the parties of which they are re spectively the organs. Whatever may be the sub divisions of parties in the Chamber of Deputies, one broad line passes through it and divides the whole house into two sections. On one side are the dynasticsi or those who support the Orleans family : on the other those who are hostile to that family and who fovour the Due de Bordeaux or a republic. The dynasties, who occupy the centre droll and the centre gauche, are subdivided into doctrinaires, juste milieu, tiers part, and rninisteriel: of these the section most de voted to the preservation of the royal anthority, calls its members Conservateurs. The principal organs of ' the Conservative patty are Le Journal des Debats, La Presse, Le Moniteur Parisiert, Le Messager des Chan bres, La Revue des Deux Mondes, Le Globe, La Revue de Paris. This party also has the direction of Le Moniteur, the only jonrnal which gives a complete and regular report of the Parliamentary debates. The centre gauche, conductrd in an irresponsible manner by M. Thiers has its representatives in Le Courier Francais, Le Constitutionnel and La Patric The tiers parti—a moveable body, now voting with the centre droll, now with the centre gauche at the bidding of M. Dufaure, is alternately blamed and praised by the journals representing those various shades of opinion. La gauche, directed by M. Odillon Barrot, has its official interpreter in L• Sie,cle, of which the principal editor is another deputy, M. Chambolle. L' extreme gauche, or g aucheradicale, is sustained by Le Nationel, La Refome, La Revue Independante.The views of these three papers are very decided and uncompro mising, and they exercise at least as much influence upon their friends in the Chamber, as the latter upon them. La droite legitimiste, the different portions of which differ very materially in some respects, notwithstand ing their agreement in the general principle from which they derive their name, is represented in the press by La Quotidienrze, La Gazette de France, La France, L'Echo Francais and La Mode. Each party thus retains several counsel on its aide, who plead its cause before the bar of the public—a judge who some sometimes, indeed, appears to no amidst the most impassioned speeches, but who, at others, takes per haps only too lively an interest in the pleadings, and sums up and passes sentence with somewhat more of heat and esnpressemcnt than becomes the gravity of the judicial character. Of course these counsel are none of them paid : nothing could be more offensive than such a supposition. They are none of them pail: but some are feed—(subventione is the proper term as applied to a journal)—and this subvention, as far as the Ministerial journals are concerned, is avowed in secret according to circumstances.—Foreige and Colonial Quarterly Review. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. The morning was - principally occupied in disposing . of cases of petty larceny, which wore of the most unin teresting character. nonzas Robinson, a sailor, aged 17, was indicted for having, on the 30th of October, attempted to steal from the cabin of the schooner Mary Ann, lying in the River, a watch and chain, the property of William Gordon Brown, a Custom-house officer, who was asleep there. The offence was clearly proved. The RECORDER said there could be no reason to doubt that the prisoner was there for the purpose of com mitting the felony. He was: a stranger on board the vessel, and had boarded in the middle of the night. He had no account to give why he was there, excepting that he wanted a night's lodging. The jury found him Guilty, and The RECORDER, after informing him that the offence was punishable with fifteen years' transportation, and if transported at all, the least term was ten years; but there was a power of mitigation, and in consideration of the prisoner's youth, the sentence was, that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one year. Isaac Iligg s, aged 28, a paper-stainer, was charged with having assaulted Robert Collins, a City policeman, in St. Paul's Churchyard on the night of the 21st of October. Mr. WlLains appeared for the defence, and said that by his advice the prisoner threw himself on the mercy of the Court. The RECOADEA said that it might be as well to hear the evidence. The policeman having been heard, The RECORDER, in addressing the jury, said that this assault could scarcely be of that character contemplated by the statute, as of "intent to do some grevious bo dily harm ;" but it was left to their discretion to say whether the assault was such, or whether it was an un premeditated blow, induced by some premature exertion of power on the part of the constable. The jury found him guilty of a common assault, and he was, after a severe admonition from the Bench, sent to the House of Correction, to be kept to hard la bour for six calendar months. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Yesterday George Carter and Joseph Edwards, two well-known characters, were charged with breaking into the shop of Mr. Plowman, shoemaker, 9, Agar-street, Strand, on Saturday night, and steal ing therefrom boots, shoes, wearing apparel, and other articles, valued at about 101. Police-constables - 1? 62 and 119 were on duty in the Strand, in private clothes, when they observed the prisoners in Northumberland-street, trying several of the doors in a suspicious manner; witnesses kept a strict watch on their movements, and followed them into Agar-street, where, having concealed themselves in the cab-stand, they saw them enter the prosecutor's shop by means of a skeleton key, and shortly after wards come out again with a bag containing the stolen 'property. The prisoners were then appre hended, and, on being searched at the station-house, were found to have in their possession twenty-five skeleton keys, and others adapted for drawers, cup boards, &c., with a quantity of lucifer matches. A large number of pawnbrokers' duplicates was also taken from them. The prosecutor, who had locked up his premises and gone to a neighbouring coffee-house to take supper, identified the stolen goods, and stated that, although his own family were not at home, there were lodgers in the upper part of the house at the time. *est, of the F division, said that both the pritmers were known to the police, and one of them had been convicted of felony at the Old Bailey. The prisoners, who offered no defence, were com mitted fur trial by Mr. HALL, the presiding magis trate. MARYLEBONE. Yesterday a tall, thin young man, who gave his name George Cook, was brought up to the Court handcuffed, and placed at the bar before Mr. Rawlin son, charged with having stolen plate of different descriptions to a considerable amount, the property of Mr. Thomas Sydenham Clarke, a barrister, residing at 36, Gloucester-place, Portman-square. He was also charged with stealing a watch, belonging bo the footman. Mr. Clarke deposed, that on the same morning, at a quarter past 9 o'clock, his servants came up as usual into the dining-room to prayers, and were there about 20 minutes. Soon after they had gone down stairs the cook ran up in a great flurry, inform ing him that there had been a robbery in the house, and that the thief had made his escape up the area steps. He opened the front door and looked out, but could see no one running, and soon afterwards he found the prisoner in custody at the Harcourt-street station-house, where, at the period of his (Mr. Clarke's) entry therein, some constables were in the act of searching him; a quantity of plate which had been taken from him was then lying upon the table before the inspector on duty. John Himstock, a beer-shop -keep er , stated that as he waspassing along Gloucester-pl ace he saw the prisoner come out of the prosecutor's area-gate, having evidently something bulky concealed under his coat; witness, feeling satisfied that a robbery had been committed, followed the prisoner, crying 4 , St op thief," and he was speedily captueQd. Three constables were examined, from wieNs e joint evidence it appeared, that the prisoner was arrested in his progress along Baker-street, and that prior thereto he dropped on the pavement two silver knives and a silver slice. The whole of the plate, consistingoffor by Mr, spoons, ladles, dm. was produced and Clarke as hi identified s. A watch which was also taken from the prisoner was sworn to ley the footman as the one which he had missed from his room. The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was fully committed for trial. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday IVra. Smelt, a kurneyman shoemaker, and Anne Ferrall, a woman with whom he coha bited, was brought up for final examination before Mr. Broughton, charged with stealing various articles from their furnished lodgings, in the house of another shoemaker named Howse, In Blue Anchor-alley, St. Luke's. The facts of the case were of a rather singular de scription. The female prisoner was placed at the bar of this Court on Saturday fortnight in a most wretched condition, the only article of clothing she had on her person being an old tattered gown, and it then appeared that she and the male prisoner, who re , prose cutor's presented themselves to be man and wife, had, on the cQuitorZ.::.Z e, bir wh e e d r a furnished apartment in the November,itchoenldsetdoffromthe,,av reside years of em ale . plaee, leaving thef "5 d together until when the man “ b " and her child, a little girl four a g e , in a . state of the most abject destitution and misery, II I I