The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. r 11.03: 7 .7TF-...41 DAILY PAP P. 115 OF SATURDAY. GLOBE. —Notwithstanding the vaunted numerical strength of its majority, numerous and formidable difficulties surround the Government, which seem rather to increase than to diminish. These have chiefly arisen from the party which placed Sir Robert • Peel in his present position, and are traceable, partly, to the tendency of his party to be dissatisfied with the measures of a Ministry which has been invested with , office through their means, but principally to the - raised hopes of the Conservatives. These the dis honest course pursued by Sir Robert Peel, ne leader• • of. the Opposition, contributed to inspire, which, as Minister, he finds himself compelled to discourage and disappoint. Ever since the present administra tion - was installed, each successive session has afforded fresh illustrations and proofs of the disappointments, distractions, and con sequent growing disaffection of the Conservative party. One or other of the interests into which' it is divided has been in alarm and agitation. Those who looked to the Minister their own hands had made for increased advantages, in the shape of added power, or more stringent proteotion to their exclusive interests, , by his means, have been doomed to deplore his 1 'broken promisee, and are provoked to denounce his breaches of faith with them. The new tariff, and the improved sliding-scale of the first session, dis pelled delusion from the agriculturists. Though -the benefits to the consumers of beef and bread were found to exist only in the fair speeches of Sir Robert Peel, whose sole object was to check the popular dislike to his income tax, the landed 'interest saw, with alarm, their corn-law disturbed, and the other restrictive duties upon the admission of foreign agricultural produce diminished. They heard in the House of Commons principles enunciated with _approbation by Sir Robert Peel, and his fidus Achates at the Board of Trade, which, practically applied, would accomplish the destruction of protective duties. They remembered the Premier's character for facile re nunciation of principle; and they dreaded lest he should be induced to betray the agricultural protection cause, as he had formerly that of Catholic exclusion. The following session saw the Canada Corn Bill, which would admit American cora, via Canada, at a small duty,.passed into law : thus, with characteristic chi chane, introducing the commodity by the back door, thus , opened, while the front gates were barred and bolted with au affectation of determination truly laugh- Able. These measures have sadly shaken the faith of the agriculturists in Sir R. Peel's sincerity of inten tion, and have induced the formation of associations for the protection of agriculture. The landowners thus hope to preserve their rents from the ruinous reduc tion, which they fear would follow the diminution or • entire abolition of the import duties of corn of foreign Frowth. They avow their renunciation of confidence an Sir Robert Peel. They make no secret of the course they will henceforth pursue. The Duke of Richmond's expressive threat is now the motto of the landlords :—" We made him; and, if he stir another step in the path of free-trade, we will show ourselves strong to depose and destroy, as we were to exalt and support." The declaration of Sir Robert Peel, in the present session, that he "does not, at present, con template any further alteration in the Corn-laws," though it has somewhat quieted the apprehensions, has by no means restored confidence to the alarmed landlords. A kind of armed truce is kept up ; which will be converted into open hostility upon the first indication of an intention, on the part of the Ministry, to legislate upon the protective duties. - STANDARD. The intervention of " Good Friday" has caused all our Contemporaries of the daily press to have the start of us in observing upon the auspicious revenue returns of the 4th of April, 1844. There is no aspect in which we can contem plate this index of the national progress in which it does not present occasion of pride and hope. The empire whose securities in Three per Cents. are within a shadow of par; whose revenues are largely increasing annually ; the nation, one section of which, and one section only—though that is the most impor tant—contains classes at ease, if not affluent, possessing incomes to the extent of much more than two hundred millions sterling the year (of this the income-tax of five millions and upwards is the proof)—the empire that affords such evidence of credit, industry, and wealth, has little to fear from war in a stage of the world's history, when war is made principally by money. We have rated the income of persons pos sessing 1501. a-year and upwards at much more than 200 millions; and upon that point the evidence of the property-tax is conclusive ; but is this evidence ade quate to the exhibition of the whole truth ?* By no means. The property-tax scarcely extends at all to Ireland (and, by the way, let this be recited in the next schedule of Irish grievances, that under the heads of property-tax and assessed taxes, which do not reach Ireland, Great Britain pays twice as much as the whole Irish revenue), and it certainly is not collected to its full amount even in this island. It was said of the income-tax previous to 1816, that Glasgow paid, as we recollect, six times as much as Manchester. Is there any reason to suppose that the Leaguers of our day are snore honest than their fathers thirty years ago ? Pre viously to 1816 the millocracy had but one motive to understate their gains—the desire to save so much tax ; now they have another, and if possible, a more powerful, motive, in the' necessity of showing that their profits are so low as to require the sacrifice of the happiness, health, lives, and morals of the labouring classes to save these profits from dis appearing altogether. We look with anxiety for the property-tax returns from the manufacturing districts—these -returns being general, and con solidated,• will cause 'no invasion of any one's privacy by their publication, and they surely will supply an important element in the discussion of the great question which now occupies the public mind—What is 'the income of the inillowners ? Surely this must be knoWn, before it can be determined whether the people ought to be sacrificed. As yet, the only dat a that the public have is their own boast, that in about twenty-five years they realised snore than the purchase money •of the fee simple of the United Kingdom. Now, if their - income 'be very great, though not quite so great as the boast referred to implies, it is plain 'that they are milder' no necessity of compelling women and young persons to work twelve hours, and to remain fourteen hours io the mill daily. If their income is not great, of what importance Is their pauper-making and misery-extending pursuit to the nation, to justify the sacrifice of, the health, happiness, lives, and morals, of the labouring classes to its . preservation. They may he like the person of whom the wise man speaks_ "Who think life a plaything, and time a market fir gain ; though it be by evil means ;" but whatever they may think, - the people of England will not endure such a code of social morals, except upon the ground of invincible necessity. We ought to have some know ledge of the ageere•sate gains, in order to determine as to the existence of such a necessity. , The ,considera • tion of the millownera' property-tax has 'led us away from the more general view of the subject. The whole rateable income of the United Kingdom can hardly be less than the enormous sum of three hundred millions sterling, a perfect security against foreign aggression, and a glorious means of softening the condition of all classes of the people—and that' condition will be softened. • England does not become less moral or less humane as she becomes more rich, thanks to the hieppy influence of our pure Protestant Christianity. The moral health of the country improves with its • " wealth; contrary, certainly, to the experience of all Pagan and Romanist nations. The very humblest will, edoner or later, share in the common affluence of the nation. It may be now ; it may be a few years hence ;- but the result is inevitable ' • unless what we trust to be impossible, the moral feeling 'of the country shall retrowade. " The blessed. .reform, said the excellent Michael Sadler, " can hardly hough be perfected in my ti me , I am not a • very old, man, but I trust to Providence that Lord Ashley's years may be spared—and if they are, ha will c (induct and com pl ete i t b e f ore h e arr i ves a t my age. , ' This prediction was pronounced by the admirable patriot and philanthropist thirteen years ago, when the speaker was about fifty years old. Whe deubts of its literal fulfilment ? Lord Ashley his ten years before him of the term allowed ; and if,ever the prayers of millions were answered, they will be ten years of success and happiness. POST.—It is curious to observe, that while in matters of mere discussion the French are much more given to abstraction than we are, yet, in the • a ffairs of government, they are precisely the con tester In these respects, it - - appears to us that our foreign neighbours have the advantage of us. In their common conversation, even about trifles, they are accustomed to use a kind of brilliant and expan siye logib which throws an interest around matters that, with us, are dull as ditch-water, or a Whig lec ture on education. -But when they come to thiek of mutters of government, they take into account the personal. feelings of the people concerned, and deter mine their' policy accordingly. The French have plenty of people who talk political economy with as much 'cool unconcern as any English disciple of Adam Smith, Ricardo, or Malthus. They have pro fessors at their colleges who lecture upon 'the benefits of machinery and of cheapness almost as well as Mr. Lsbouchere, M. Gladstone, or even Sir R. Peel. lint, isr . the Government, and in the Chamber, men place thestsselves in the situation of those who are to be affected by any proposed piece of policy, and they refusesei be charmed by. any abstract rules of right, h ow ever seductively scientific they may appear to be. 'lt - is an , undeniable abstract truth, that coal and cotton :thkeatrean be had cheaper from England than by the em pedyment of French lab our i n t h e i r production. DA the French legislators d o no t much trouble _ , thodelves with that consideration. They bear in - • • mug that a good deal of French capital and a great many French people are employed in pro v idi ng f ue l 'se' and cotton goods for French consumption, and they say to themselves, "We must take care of these French interests. We should have very little grati tade for making fuel a little cheaper and cotton goods, perhaps, five or ten centimes in the hundred lower in price than they now are. But the ruin of .the wood and coal men would be a very serious affair, and they would make a very angry noise about it and many villages would be reduced to ps• perism if the cotton manufacture were taken away from them by English competition. We will not be the destruc tion of these poor people, for they aro French, and have a right to protection at our hands." To us this appears very reasonable, because it is founded on good feeling towards those whom French legislators are under a natural obligation to befriend as much as they possibly can. Again, look at the difference between the respective Governments of England and France in regard to holders of the pub lic debt at IL larger interest than that which is current in the market. Our worthy Mr. Goulburn, who is really as good a man as can possibly be, nevertheless looks upon the holders of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. as mere abstract recipients of a larger interest than the Government need pay them, under the exist ing state of the money market. He troubles himself not with considerations of the inconvenience, perhaps the misery, which many holders of this stock may suffer from the reduction of their incomes. Probably this idea never occurs to him, nor was it so much as even hinted at by any one of the six hundred and fifty-eight legislators to whom the proposal for re duction was lately submitted. It is all the same to them whether the holders of the Three-and-a-Half, per Cents. be poor widows or opulent proprietors, or mere trustees, without any tie of affection to those for whom they administer their trust, or sticks and stones, which indeed have generally about as much feeling of their business as trustees have. The Go vernment and the Legislature care not one straw who or what may be the owners of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. ; they only consider that this stock may be paideaff, and another stock, at a lower rate of in terest, established in their place, and upon that ab stract fact they set to work, and the stock is reduced accordingly. But in France there is a large amount of stock, bearing the interest of five per cent., which the Government has certainly an abstract right to pay off at 100, though the market price is 120, or to convert into another stock bearing a less interest, and yet the Government will not do so, be cause it takes into account the circumstances of the holders of the stock, and the injury which the " conversion " would be to them. These people," say the Government, " have a stock which is worth 120 in the market. If we were to adopt a policy which would depreciate it to 100, it would be a revolution! These people could not bear to be thus deprived of one-sixth of their capital, and one-fifth of their annual income, by an economical stroke of policy." How opposite this is to the English govern mental mode of thinking and reasoning about the same sort of thing we need not say. In this country, between the governors and the governed, there is no such thing as sympathy or community of feeling. No one dreams of it. The relative positions—especially in regard to matters of finance and profit and loss— are rather antagonistic than co-operative. The Go vernment has no sort of feeling with the people, to prevent it having its work done on the cheapest pos sible terms, and the people have no sort of feeling with the. Government to prevent them from resisting all manner of taxation and payment so far as they may do so with safety. These are elements of the political status in quo which are worth the attention of the political philosopher. ADVERTISER.—The "Young England" party has made some addition to its strength by the recent decision in Cambridge in favour of " monasteries and similar institutions"—a decision to which we have already directed the attention of oar readers. The design of these worthies is to aid in Parliament ,the cause which Pusey and his disciples - are promoting in what is called the Church, and .both together are , longing for the return of those monkish institutions which nearly three hundred years since had ceased to • darken the face of England. Purblind as these men are rendered by the system of which they are the ad vocates, they seem to be ignorant of the change which time has wrought in the social condition of our country, and of the absolute impossibility of its ever returning to the institutions which "'Young Eng land" contemplates with such fond affection. Manu factories put monasteries out of date, and railroads traversed by steam-engines at the rate of thirty miles an hour will not very happily consort with sleepy monks, who "Soundly sleep the night away, And just do nothing all the day; Who eat, and drink, and sleep—what then? Why eat, and drink, and sleep again." That man must be strangely unobservant of the facts which are subjected to his every-day observation, or as strangely. ignorant of the facts of English history, wher needs, to be told that the age of monasteries, when the country had a spare population—when the alms of the baronial hall and the convent were suffi cient for those who had to beg—when the mind of the.whole population, with but few exceptions, bowed to the sceptre of Romish domination, differed alto gether from England in the present age, when the whole country is thickly peopled—when a spirit of independence animates the humbler classes, and ren ders them anxious to receive their support, not from the hands of some mitred abbot, but from the labour of their own hands ; and when the minds of men have claimed that freedom which is their birthright,' and irr the exercise of which they profess convictions strangely differing from each other, and from the ages anterior to the Reformation. The absurdity of attempting to restore the institutions of the middle ages to the nineteenth century, renders it unnecessary that we should offer any serious arguments against it. There is, however, in the present number of the Con gregational Magazine, a very talented article on the suppression of the monasteries, to which, on account of its appropriateness to the subject before us, we cannot avoid a brief reference. "Multitudes in this country (observes the writer), delight to contemplate the glorious remains of monastic architecture, as seen in such ruins as Netley or Fountain, Glastonbury, or Tintern, and moved by peaceful scenes and hallowed associations, are ready to say with Sir Walter Scott— ' Here have I thought 'twere sweet to dwell, And rear again the chaplain's cell; Like that same peaceful hermitage, Where Milton longed to spend his age.' This sensibility and taste have been wrought upon by the pseudo-historians and novelists, who describe these foundations as having been the asylums of learning, the homes of charity, and the sanctuaries of religion; Ivhereas, to use the energetic language of John Foster ' the proud piles were, in fact, raised to cele brate the Conquest, and prolong the dominion of the rower of darkness over the souls of the people. They were as triumphal arches erected in memorial of the extermination of that truth which was given to be the life of man.' " The writer then alludes to the documen tary evidence which is being brought to light by the ecclesiastical inquiriessnow going on, and which shows 1' how awfully retributive were the spoliations of Bluff Harry, and how truly he *as a besom in the hands of the All-righteous One to sweep frcm the earth those gorgeous .dwelling-places of surpliced hypocrisy and sanctimonious crime." Did the Cam bridge gentlemen who passed the resolution, to which we have referred, take in their discussion, the facts recorded in " The Black Book," made at the in stance of Cromwell, concerning " the vile lives, the abominable facts, in murders of their brethren, in sotlomies, in whoredoms, in destroying of children, in ibrging of deeds, and other infinite horrors of life," of which the monasteries had been the scenes ? If they did not, their judgment concerning the desirable ness of having monastic institutions restored, cannot be of much worth ; and if they did, they deserve the contempt and execration of the country to which they, are ionging to restore the institutions which our forefathers were compelled to uproot. In any ease these Cambridge monks ought to avow] their conversion to the 'Church of Rome, or else to make way for the return of the men whose places they most unjustly occupy. We make not these references to the abominations of institutions connected with the Romish Church invidiously, for it must be admitted that similar abominations in their most revolting phase occur in the history of our.pre sent religion. It is riot our ob . lect to condemn parti cular sects, but exclusive systems, with whatever sects they may be identified or associated. Recent exhi tions in the- Established Church of this country fall in character nothing short of the former pollutions of the church which it succeeded, though in extent they may he less enormous. This, however, is not to be attributed so much to the change of creed as to the progress of the civilising, or, we would rather say, of the humanising principle, or, yet, rather the increased facility of expos ure . H a d there been in former times the same wouldasui e thereh aris of avee tqitotennscyexists giving iesvt t er re present, a P c u h b e l d ic it y to clerical delin_ thatmonastic climax tions omi n whicha; now appals us, and were we now without a free press, or a least a press comparatively free, we should have the Established Church of th e R e f ormat i on i n a posi tion. as debased as was ever th a t o f t h e Church of Rome, and it is to this complexion—the, ascendancy of Church abominations—that the zealous disciples of " Young England" would now force the national sentiment. HERALD.—The sum of five millions three hundred and fifty-six thousand pounds has actually been paid into the Exchequer within the last twelve months as the pro duce of tho tax on the incomes of persons possessing from 1501. per annum and upwards. The levy is after the rate of 7d. in the pound, except on farming profits, on which it takes only 31d. But we fear that it may safely be assumed that a very considerable proportion of those engaged in trade and professions have lacked the conscientiousness to mako a return of their full and actual income. Ireland, too, is almost entirely ex empted. Taking all these circumstances into account, it will be evident that the actual receipt of so large a sum as 5,356,887/., clearly proves the gross income, of the higher and middle classes of these islands to be very considerably above two bundled millions per annum! Another gratifying circumstance requires to be THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, _1844 noticed. It was 4 predicted that the forcible levy of the income-tax, which upon all visible property—such as lands, funds, railroads, &c.,—cannot be evaded, — would very seriously diminish the produce of the other taxes; that people, in short, would save their income tax out of their general expenditure. Such, however, does not appear to be the case. We find an actual in crease in customs, excise, and almost every other de partment of tho revenue. The use, however, that we areilesirous of making of these important and gratifying facts, is a strictly practical one. We wish to shake, by their force, the fears and doubts expressed by several over-cautious speakers in the late debates on the ten hour's clause. It was often admittedlhat it would be in deed a very happy thing if we could excuse the poor labourers in the factories from more than ten hoursbf daily labour. It was not denied—it could not be de nied, that fourteen hours of confinement, which the twelve-hours' clause implies, is injurious to health, destructive of home habits and domestic vir tues, and incompatible with any kind of mental or moral cultivation. All admitted that a more moderate amount of labour was very desirable, all professed to wish that it were practicable ; but there came one difficulty in the way. However we might wish to be kind, and humane, and considerate, we must not attempt to indulge in such expensive sentimentalities, for "we can't afford it!" We are certain that none who followed the course of the late debate will charge us with misrepresenting or exaggerating that which was, in fact, the main argument on which the advocates of " twelve hours" relied. None ventured to assert that protracted labour was better than labour to a mode rate extent, in itself—none were at all backward in asserting, that they would gladly vote for " the ten hours' clause," if they dared—but one and all, on that side of the question, agreed in expressing their apprehensions, that so to limit the hours, in the present state of the national affairs, would prove, in a commercial point of view, a dangerous, and probably' a ruinous experiment. Now, surely the surprising fact with which we began this article should have some . weight in the question. The nation is wonderfully rich —is far richer, it is now ascertained, than she believed herself to be when she laid down twenty millions in one moment to purchase the freedom of the black inhabitants of her West Indian islands. Now, we say, not that another twenty millions is needed, or any similar sum ; but we do say, that in whatever way the freedom of our own factory slaves can be obtained, whether by remitting the duty on cotton, or by any other sacrifice that can meet the case, England is rich enough, and is willing enough, we will answer for her, at once to pay the price, and make the sacrifice. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, April 6. Mr. Commissioner Holroyd heard a number of in solvent cases under the new Act. IN THE MATTER OF JOHN SLEIGH. The insolvent, who has the charge of the telegraph illazelmere, applied for his final order. He was opposed on the part of a creditor named Bridger, and supported by Mr. T. B, Hughes. The complaint was, that the insolvent was in a con dition to pay his debts, and it was prayed that the petition might be dismissed. It was urged on his be half that he only wanted time, and would set aside 301. a year for his creditors. He required protection from law proceedings. Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD thought that, as pay ment was the object in view, the case should stand over to amend the schedule, and for the insolvent to make a distinct prdposal to pay a yearly sum. The case was adjourned till the 11th of May, and the " protecting order" from all legal proceedings enlarged until that day. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, April 6. Mr. Commissioner Law sat specially to hear the following bail case. He afterwards heard two short motions, and on its rising, the Court adjourned for the Easter recess, to the 12th instant. FRIENDLY ARREST.-IN THE MATTER OF JANB DIMOND. • The insolvent, who had been a tavern-keeper in New Ormond-street, applied from the Queen's prison, to be discharged on sureties. It was admitted that the insolvent had been " friendly" put into gaol, in order that her property might be divided among her creditors, instead of one creditor getting the whole under an execution. The insolvent DOW attended with her bail, and they were accepted in the sum of 1501. The discharge was issued instanter. _ This case affords an instance of expedition. The insolvent had only been in prison a few days • the schedule was filed on the Ist instant, and the libera tion-on bail obtained on the present occasion. SITTINGS OF THE COURT. The present sittings have been fixed to the 11th of May, and the Court is appointed to sit every day, two days being devoted to bail cases. There has of late been an increase of business; last week upwards of 40 schedules were filed. A recent decision under the 'nevi Act in the Court of Bankruptcy, will, it is ex pected, give an accession of business to this Court, as it has been held that a trader who has taken the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act must insert his former debts, and, as a trader, is only allowed to an amount of 300/., very few who have been relieved will be in a condition to avail themselves of the new provision. There are rumours in circulation respect ing an amendment of the law of debtor and creditor, and it is thought that the Government will shortly bring forward a measure on the subject, especially in reference to the law of insolvent debtors. LONDON SESSIONS. The Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the City of London commenced on Saturday morning, before the. Lord Mayor, the. Recorder, Aldermen Lucas, Fare brother, Gibbs, and Sir J. Duke. The business, beyond several parochial and other appeals, consisted prin cipally of cases of assault. A young man came to apologise for the absence of a gentleman who was summoned on the jury, and who was not in town when the summons was served. The Recorder said that this was the second time the gentleman had kept away ; the Court, therefore, ordered that he be summoned to attend at the Old Bailey, where he will have a fortnight's employ in stead of two hours. Thomas Moore was indicted for an assault. on Robert Cheil, on the 28th of November last. Mr. PAYNE said that this case verified the correct ness of the old proverb, " Two of a trade can never agree." The two parties keep booking-offices in Old Change, and arc rivals to each other. The prosecutor is employed to receive at his office plate and other valuable packages directed to the Castle at Windsor, to which place they are conveyed by a carrier named Gutterin. It appeared that the defendant received a quantity of iuggage, directed to her Majesty, and employed another carrier instead of the person whose name was on the direction. Words arose between the parties, and the result was that Mr. Moore kicked . Mr. Cheil, and did him considerable injury. The prosecutor said he had a warrant from the Lord Chamberlain's office to receive plate and other Taluables to be forwarded to Windsor when her Ma jesty holds her Court at the Castle. On the day named Lord Seaford sent a load of trunks directed to be sent by Gutterill through the booking-office of witness. Mr. Moore got hold of them by hailing and gammon ing the carman, and this he did often. On the day of the assault witness went to the King's Head, and lifoore stood at the bar. Witness said to him, " Well Tom Moore, you are not content with robbing me, but you must rob another Man." The prisoner then came up and kicked him on the hip, and he was kept from business several days. The jury .found the defendant guilty, and the Recorder adjudged him to pay a fine of 51. to the Queen, and enter into recognizances in the sum of 40/. to keep the peace for one year towards all her liege subjects, and especially towards the prosecutor. Sally Mouel, a young woman who has been before the Aldermen nearly 100 times during the last two years, on charge of " smashing the glaze," and some times of human kinds, was indicted for assaulting George - Crawley, the turnkey at Bridewell. The Common-Sergeant stated the case, and George Crawley stated that, on Lady-day, he was in Smith field-bars, when Sally came up, and gave him .a violent blow on the face. He had been in the police seven years, and frequently took her in custody. She had been fifty-eight times committed to Bridewell, and often forgiven without a committal. Crawley was ft!illy confirmed by a witness, who was saluted on his cheek with her "bunch of fives." The prisoner said that she never struck Crawley, but she called him a mean fellow, because he was having a love affair with a lady in mourning in a court, and she considered it not right. In answer to this, it was proved that there is no court in that thoroughfare, and that Crawley was walking alone. The, Sentence was that she be imprisoned one month, and enter into her own recognizances to keep the peace for two years towards George Crawley, and the consequence of a breach of them was fully ex plained. The prisoner is a well-behaved person when sober, but mad when she gets gin. She is scarcely ever out of prison a week together. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. _ T CI h I e A r R e GE w O as F a CONSPIRACY greaasse TO SINK mblage TofliE persons LIN ons e i O n A. the justice-room and the avenues to it, in consequence of the understanding that William Read, the shipowner, of Ipswich, and William Simpson, the captain of the Colina brig, which was the property of the former person, would be brought up for final examination on the charge of having conspired to defraud the Alliance Marine Insurance Company of the sum of 1,2501., by sinking that vessel off Holland. The examination was appointed to take place at three o'clock, in conse quence of the unavoidable absence of Mr. Clarkson till that hour. • The Lord Mayor and Sir John pirie sat upon this occasion, Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin attended upon the part of the prosecution; and Mr. Wontner, the_solicitor, appeared for Read. As it was generally' understood that Simpson would be ad m itt e d as Queen's evidence' against his employer,' neither counsel nor solicitor attended for that prisoner. Mr. Clarkson, in addressing the Lord Mayor and Alderman Pirie upon the subject, said that the pri soner, Captain Simpson, had voluntarily made a statement relative to the charge in which he and Read were involved, and that Mr. Wontner, the solicitor for Read, should be furnished with a copy of that statement as speedily as possible, in order that imme diate preparation might be made for the trial, which would in all probability take place in the ensuing week. .It was not the intention of the Counsel for the prosecution to read that statement to the justice room but he thought it necessary to intimate that it was their intention to produce it on the trial, and to accept the offer of Captain Simpson to turn Queen's evidence. Under existing circumstances, the prose cutors applied to the Magistrates to commit the two prisoners' to Newgate for trial. The necessary course would be subsequently adopted to take the deposition of Simpson, and Mr. Wontner should be furnished with copies of the whole of the evidence without delay. Mr. Wontner did not object to the proposition of Mr. Clarkson ; and the prisoners were both committed, Simpson for having feloniously sunk the ship Colina, and Read for having aided and abetted in sinking her. The statement of Simpson comprehends the whole of the statements made by the clerk of Read and Page, as to the conversation which was represented to have taken place at Ipswich on the subject of the wilful loss of the Colina between the prisoners, and the details of the plan of scuttling the vessel. The - captain declares that according to the suggestions of Read; who first proposed the projeot of doing the In surance Company by dropping the vessel, he took the opportunity wholly unknown to the mate and the rest of the crew, to go below with an augur and bore two holes in the Colina's bottom. He also confirmed the account given by the several boatmen who went to wards the Colina for the purpose of saving her from the destruction which threatened. It has been stated that there are several other cases in which it is believed Read was a participator in the profits of dropping vessels, but it did not transpire whether any of those cases were to be prosecuted. Mr. Page has been, all are assured, altogether ignorant of any transactions of the kind. The mate of a vessel, called the Diana, who appeared on Friday, the 29th of last month, in pursuance of his recognizances by bail,'to answer the complaint of Mrs. May, the widow of the deceased captain of that vessel, again appeared, the further hearing of the case having been adjourned to ttiis dal. Mr. Bozon, the solicitor of Mrs. May, stated that, since the last hearing of the case, he had. obtained further evidence, which would tend to add to the suspicion entertained that the ship had been wilfully set fire to at St. Helena; and he could prove, by the testimony of a respectable witness, that, in addition to the property taken possession of belonging to the late Captain May, the defendant possessed himself of a gold watch, guard, and chain, which the de fendant denied, upon a former occasion before the Lord Mayor, the captain ever had. Mr. Bozon further stated that the evidence which he considered most material would, in his opinion, clearly show that the defendant_ had acted most fraudulently to wards the widow, and that the case was one which his Lordship was bound to send for trial to the Central Criminal Court, as the whole of the cir cumstances were most mysterious, and required close investigation. Thomas Fitch, upon being called by Mr. Bozon, stated that he lived at Deal, and had been a seafaring man for 27 years. He was a passenger in the Diana in March last, and recollected the circumstance of the captain having been found shot in his cabin on the evening of the 15th of that month. The captain was buried at sea the following day. Before he was dropped into the waves, and on the evening he was found lying dead, witness requested the Tate to square the yards and run down to some vessels which were then close in sight, to have a doctor to see if anything could be done for the captain, which the mate refused. He also requested him to take the ship to the Island of Ascension, but to that proposition he would not agree, although within sight of the island, and that he insisted upon going back to St. Helena. There was plenty of provisions on board, and the vessel was quite seaworthy for the voyage 'to England. Witness well recollected the late captain leaving a watch, which he believed to be gold, and a guard chain, which the mate took pbssession of, and that after* the captain's death, and the blowing up of the ship at St. Helena, by which the steward lost his life, he saw the chain in the defendant's possession. The steward, Cox, who was killed by the explosion of the vessel, kept a journal of everything that transpired on board, and the defendant, after that catastrophe, broke open the steward's chest and took the papers from it. Witness further stated the manner in which the Diana was blown up . at St. Helena, and declared it to be his unshaken opinion that the vessel had been set fire to. _ _ _ The LOUD MAYOR, after having consulted with Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, said the case was rendered an exceedingly suspicious one, and that foul play had, no doubt, been perpetrated. He did not, however, consider that there was sufficient evidence to justify him in sending the case to a jury. It was certainly a case which Mr. Bozon was justified in bringing forward, but lie should be 'satisfied with the promise of the defendant to appear, if his presence should be required, upon a future occasion. The defendant declared that there was no ground for the charge ; that he had acted with firmness and judgment, and reliance upon the skill of older persons throughout; that the watch-chain was his own, arid that he was not aware of any unfair play at all in any of the transactions. Thus the case has concluded for the present. Two very dirty-looking vagabonds were charged pockets. with having picked Upon one of them, a most filthy red-headed fellow, a highly scented silk handkerchief was found. The LORD MAYOR—How did 3rou get this hand kerchief? Prisoner —I have had it these three months. The LORD MAYOR—nut how did it become so my hat, to be sure.—(Laughter.) easy enough. , W an h a V, I keeps my I much w a s y c e s n w t e e d a r ? • spent PrisP ris o n ;n r — m H y o h w a i ? r handkerchief in —Committed for three months to Bridewell. GpIL MULL. Thomas Howell, jtimes Mahon, and John Skinner, ev, charged with appearance of mechanics, l‘,pi eight pairs of coach traces, pincers. three er young e brought men, be h fo a r v e mg the Sir John K breaking into the harness - maker's room at the Oxford Inn, IV a k a rw n i i cfek: andlane , t andwo pair steali ng . The prisoners were remanded. BOW-STREET. John pearance,wearing mustachios, and who was stated to have been formerly an officer in the Cape of Good Hope Rifles, and Mail Ann Browne, a young woman, very fashionably attired, and who was stated to be the daughter of a clergyman, were brought up in the custody of Inspector Pearce, of the A division of po lice, charged with having feloniously uttered a forged cheque for 190/., purporting to be signed by . the Dowager Lady Nelthorpe, with intent to defraud Messrs. Smith, Payne, amt Co., the bankers, in Lom bard-street. Mr. Bush, of the Society for the Protection of Bankers from Forgery, attended on the part of the prosecution ; and Mr. AI. Chambers, the barrister, at tended as counsel for the prisoners. • Thomas Evison stated that he was a cashier in the house or Messrs. Smith, Payne; and Co. He recol lected that the cheque produced was presented there for payment on the 9th of January last, but he could not remember by whom. The. Dowager Lady Nel thorpe - kept an account with, Messrs. Payne, Smith, and Co., and the 'cheque purported to be signed by her. Witness could not tell by whom it was pre sented, but on a reference to the books he found that it had been paid in Bink-nates. The Dowager Lady Nelthorpe stated that she re, sided at River-hill, near Sevenoaks, in Kent, and had also a town residence in King-street, St. James's. She kept an account with Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., the bankers. The cheque produced was not signed by her, neither had she authorised any person to draw or sign it. She knew the female prisoner, who was introduced to her in the month of October, 1842, and she remained at the house of witness until the month of December following. During her stay there she had freqUent opportunities of seeing witness write, and had no doubt also seen her sign cheques. She represented herself to witness as friendless, hope less, and in absolute want of clothes. Elizabeth Mason, of Ranelagh-grove, Pimlico, stated that the two prisoners formerly occupied apart ments in her house for about five months, at a rent of 15s. a week. They lived together as man and wife, and went by the name of Francis • they left the apartments in February last. In the january previous the female prisoner told the witness that she was going to take some money out of the Bank of England, and soon after that she paid the amount of rent due with a 51. Bank of England note, which witness subse quently paid away to Mr. Cafe, the auctioneer, in Great Marlborough -street. Witness believed the body of the cheque produced to be in the handwriting of the female prisoner. Susan Luff, a milliner, in Regent-street, had seen the female prisoner write, and also believed the body of the cheque to be in her handwriting. Inspector Pearce stated, that in consequence of in formation he had received, he went to Kingston on Thursday last, and at ten o'clock at night succeeded in apprehending the prisoners at the lodgings they occupied there. The male prisoner at first said the female was his wife, but afterwards admitted that she was, not. The female declared her innocence, and expressed great anxiety- to know what account her companion had given of the transaction. Sergeant Kendall, of the A division, stated that after the male prisoner had been placed under his charge by the last witness, he said that he knew the cheque in question had been presented for payment at Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co's, but he did not know by whom. He had no idea it was a forgery. The notes were given to him by the female prisoner, and he afterwards paid them away. Mr. Bush applied, on this evidence, to have both the prisoners remanded for further examination. Mr. Chambers submitted that there was no evidence against the male prisoner.—Mr. Bush said there was ; and he should be prep.ired with further evidence 'against him on a future day. The prisoners were both remanded until Tuesday week, and an application to admit the male prisoner to bail was refused. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John Kebble and James Kebble, two brothers, very respectably dressed, were brought before Mr. Hard wick for final examination, charged with having stolen, at various times, about eight dozen silk scarfs, worth about 801., from the shop of Messrs. Higgins and Son, hosiers, at No. 21, Old Bond-street. From the evidence of William Owen, one of the assistants, it appeared that the prisoners about ten weeks ago came into the shop and asked to look at some scarfs. While they were examining a parcel, one of them claimed an acquaintance with witness, having, as he asserted, met him at a house in the neighbourhood. The prisoners did not buy anything, but they came again the ne x t d a y an d b oug ht a sear/. Shortly after this they again came to the shop, and got the scarf exchanged, paying the difference. The prisoners continued to call at the shop to see witness until about a fortnight ago, when, in consequence of some scarfs having been missed, stock was taken, and then a discovery was made that about eight or nine dozen, worth about a guinea each, had been stolen. Inquiry was made, and Pblice-sergeant Whall, C 16, was employed to trace out the thief. Having suc ceeded in finding one of the lost scarfs in the hands of a pawnbroker, he obtained a description of the party who pawned them, and this description tallying exactly with the appearance of one of the prisoners, the police-sergeant went to their lodging, and took them into custody. Police-sergeant Whall, C 16, said, when he appre hended the prisoners they were in bed. He searched them when dressed, and found nine duplicates, all of which related to podium of the missing scarfs. He was•enabled, by the help of the duplicates, to ascertain how between two and three dozen of the stolen scarfs were disposed of. The pawnbrokers came forward and produced the goods in their possession, all of which were identified by two of Messrs. Higgins and Co.'s assistants, Owen and Barnes. The prisoners said they would make no defence for the present.—They were fully committed. William Burgess, shopman to Messrs. Stagg and Mantle, linendrapers and mercers, Leicester-square, was charged with having stolen six silk handkerchiefs, the property of his employer. In consequence of a communication made to the prosecutors the prisoner was called into the counting house, and asked if he had sent handkerchiefs to any one in St. Martin's -court to be made up. Prisoner denied that he had, and he was then told his boxes must be searched, as he was suspected of having robbed the firm. His boxes were searched, and in one of them was found two pieces of riband, worth twelve shillings. Miss Jane Anthony, milliner, No. 18, St. Martin's court, said the prisoner called at her shop, and brought six handkerchiefs, which he wanted to have hemmed. One of them, he said, she might have for an apron. The handkerchiefs were produced, and identified as the property of Messrs. Stagg and Co. Police-constable Clarke, C 79, said when he took the prisoner into custody, he remarked to him he was a ruined man, as his character was now gone.— He was fully committed. Catherine Apperley, a young woman in a miserable condition, was charged with having attempted to de stroy herself on Thursday last. The prisoner was seen to throw herself into the Serpentine, about three o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday last. A call was made for the Humane Society's boat, but before it reached the place'the woman was dragged out. She was taken to the receiving -house, and after proper attention had been paid to her, she was sent to St. George's Workhodse. Mr. HARDWICK asked her what had induced her to attempt such a wicked act ?—The woman said she was the wife of one of the Grenadier Guards, now in barracks at 'Winchester. In consequence of her hus band marrying without leave, the commanding officer refued to let him sleep out of barrack; but as her husband was then on duty at the Tower, this was not so great a hardship, as her husband did contrive to allow her a trifle out of his pay, which, with her own earnings by 'her needle, sufficed to maintain her. About a month back her husband's regiment was sent to Winchester; and as his pay was reduced by stop pages for arrears, he had been unable to send her any money. She had, in consequence, fallen into a most frightful state of destitution; and after pawning every thing she had, she took the determination of ending her miserable life by drowning herself. She went out for this purpose on Thursday, but her unhappy design was frustrated by persons who accidentally witnessed her proceedings. Mr. HaßDwicK ordered the poor creature to have some refreshment provided for her, and sent for some one from St. George's Workhouse. The woman, in corroboration of her story, produced a letter which she had just received from her husband. The letter was couched in mo:4 affectionate terms, and the writer mentioned his determination to send for her to Wincheiter as soon as he could save a little money. _ _ Lacy, the Messenger of St. George's, soon after wards arrived in Court, and he at once took charge of the poor woman until she is in a fit state to be again brought up, when, no doubt, some temporary assistance will be afforded to her. QUEEN'S-SQUARE. Thomas Pyvis, a sickly-looking youth, was placed at the bar before Mr. Burrell, charged with havin g broken into the dwelling house of Major Thomas Henry S. Clerke, No. 4, Brompton-row, and stolen therefrom a large chest full of silver plate, a gold watch, three gold rings, a diamond bracelet, a suite of silver, including ear-rings, bracelets, brooch, &c., and other articles of jewellery. The evidence of several witnesses who were ex amined went to prone that on the evening of the 29th ult., about five o'clock, Major Clerke left his resi dence, giving the footboy orders to follow him to his club-house with his bag, that he might dress for a party. The boy did as he had been ordered, and the presumption is that the perpetrator of this daring and extensive robbery had watched the proprietor and his male servant from the premises. Shortly after they had left the place, the cook thought she heard a noise, but supposing it was caused by the kitten, paid no attention to it, but on hearing the hall-door shortly afterwards slam too, she became alarmed, and her suspicions that the house had been robbed were shortly afterwards confirmed. On the return of the footboy, at eight o'clock, she proceeded with him to examine the house, and on entering the Major's room they found that the plate chest, which was usually kept there, had been carried off, and that an attempt had been made to force open several drawers in the room. They also discovered that an upper sleeping apartment had been visited, the whole of the locks on the drawers forced, and a gold Geneva watch and other valuables stolen. On their return to the Major's room they discovered a hat which had been left by one of the robbers, a skele ton key' which opened the street door, and by which the thieves had effected an entrance to the premises, a small file, a jemmy, and a candle. The police were Called in, who, on examination of the place, were of opinion that the robbery must have been committed by some persons intimately acquainted with the pre mises, and they, as usual in such matters, directed their inquiries as to any servants who had been re cently discharged. They ascertained that prisoner, after a service of five months, had left the Major's service in January, being subject to fits, and was an inmate in St Thomas's Hospital, but they had every reason to believe, in consequence of some communica tion made to them, that he went in and out of the establishment whenever he thought fit, and had an ample opportunity of com mitting the robbery ; added to which, the water man at the coach-rank at Knightsbridge, on a visit to the hospital, said that he had every reason to believe that prisoner, with a female, hired a cab on the even ing of the 29th ult., and placed a large chest inside it. Under these circumstances of strong suspicion, added to others about to be detailed, the prisoner was taken into custody by Bradley, a constable of the B to whom he said, without any leading questions being put to him, " he supposed he was taken about the Major's spoons." James Milley, the - Major's footboy, proved that prisoner had been in the habit of coming to the house to visit the servants. He' never saw prisoner wear such a hat as the one found on the premises. • Ellen Measted, formerly in the Major's service, proved that prisoner knew where the plate chest was kept, and at the time he left the service abused the Major, and said he would serve him out. Benjamin Pelliss, 28 G-, produced the plate-chest. On Saturday week he was on duty in the Bagnigge wells-road, and saw a woman whom he knew to be a bad character pass, and in a moment afterwards, on crossing the road, she said to him, " You are wanted here," and pointed out the plate-chest, which was standing on the road side. The chest on examination was only found to con tain a few trifling articles, the others being gone. Major Clarke said that he had a character with the prisoner from Lady H. Chisholm, but he was so sullen and violent that he was obliged to discharge him. Tie had paid him for a-month before he entered the ser vice, and for a month afterwards. The prisoner declared that he was in the hospital on the 12th of March, and had only been out once during the middle of the day. He denied all know lhdge of the robbery. lie was reminded until Friday neat. UNION-HALL. William Dear, alias Howard, was charged with stealing a bay gelding, the property of Mr. Wheat ley, the coach-proprietor, of Greenwich. Thomas Rogers, foreman to Mr. Wheatley, stated that the prisoner was horsekeeper in the employ of Mr. Wheatley, whose service he suddenly left with out assigning any cause about a fortnight ago. On Thursday night last witness saw the bay gelding safe in his master's stable, and the next morning he missed it, and found the stable-door had been forced open. _ - Samuel Giddens, a horse-slaughterer, in Green street, Blackfriars•road, stated that on the morning of Good Friday, the prisoner brought a bay gelding to his yard, and offered it to him for sale. When questioned as to whom the animal belonged, the pri soner's answer was that it was the property of Mr. Archer, fishmonger, of Dorking, in Surrey, who sent him to London to dispose of it. The witness suspecting the truth of the prisoner's statement, pre. tended to send out for change of a Bank of England note, and detained him until he sent for a constable to give him into custody. William Harris, inspector of horse •slaughterers' yards, stated that upon being apprised of the circum stance of the prisoner having offered the horse for sale, and his assertion with respect to its being the property of a Mr. Archer, at Dorking, he (the wit ness) immediately started off for that town, to make the inquiry. He sent back his carrier pigeon with a note to Mr. Giddens, informing him of the falsehood uttered by the prisoner. On subsequent inquiries it was ascertained the horse was stolen, as already de scribed, from Mr. WTheatley's stables at Greenwich. The prisoner told the Megistrate that his character stood well at Greenwich ; that he had never been in trouble before, and that he would bring up witnesses as to his (prisoner's) good-conduct. Mr. COTTINGHAM said that he wag bound to send the case for trial, where evidence of prisoner's good character would operate on the minds of the Court and jury.—The prisoner was committed accordingly. EXECUTION of JOHN LAWRENCE FOR MURDER, AT HORSHAM. The sentence of execution passed upon Lawrence at the late Lewes Assizes for the murder of Mr. Solomon, the chief officer of Brighton, was on Satur day morning carried into effect, at the usual place of execution on the top of the county gaol. From the character of the offence, and the circumstances under which it was committed, there was not the slightest chance of any remission of the sentence, and from the time of his conviction the wretched culprit evidently prepared for the fate which awaited him, and ap peared anxious to make all the atonement in his power by a sincere repentance. Although the prisoner admitted the justice of his sentence, yet, up to the very last moment, he persisted in declaring that he was not actuated by any mali cious feeling towards the unfortunate deceased, but he says that, at the moment, a sudden and uncontrol lable impulse impelled him to seize the poker and give the deadly blow, and he said that, if he had consi dered but one moment, he should not have committed the act. He has all along declared that he could not tell what possessed him at the moment, but the thought to kill the deceased suddenly came across his mind, and he could not resist it. The Rev. Mr. Allen, the chaplain of the gaol, who has been con stantly with the prisoner since he has been at Hors ham, repeatedly asked him whether he was actuated by any feeling of malice towards the deceased, and the culprit in the most solemn manner always made the same statement relative to the melancholy trans action, and also said that at the time he struck the blow, he could hardly tell whether it was aimed at Solomon or any other person. The prisoner, although only 24 years old, appears to have passed his life in one long career of vice and crime. Although of respectable connections, at Tun bridge Wells, at an early age he was in the habit of frequenting beer-shops ' where he became acquainted with the most depraved characters. He then went to work upon the Brighton Railway, and the scenes of vice and profligacy which he there witnessed com pleted his ruin. After this he went home to his parents ; and being intrusted with a cheque for 251. he appropriated the proceeds to his own use, and set off is Brighton, accompanied by a young women, with whom he had cohabited ; and the money being soon spent he was reduced to distress, and then com mitted the offence of stealing the carpet, which even tually led to the murder of the unfortunate deceased, and the forfeiture of his own life. The wretched man stated that for three days before he stole the carpet he had been continually drunk, and that when he com mitted that offence he did not know what he was about. • The prisoner's mother, it appears, is married to a second husband. He has written to her, and received answers several times since his condemnation, but she was in such a state of wind as to render her quite unable to support the trial of parting with her wretched son. The prisoner's uncle and a younger brother went to the gaol on Friday evening; but, at the request of the prisoner, the parting with them was deferred until the following morning. The conduct of this brother during the time he has been in the town has created an universal feeling of disgust. Ever since he has been in the town he has been almost continually drunk, and on the Thursday night before the execution of his wretched relative he spent the evening at a beer-shop, where fiddling and dancing was going on. In answer to an observation made by Mr. Loader, the governor of the gaol, as to whether he intended to see his brother executed, he replied that he certainly should do so. Very shortly after the culprit's condemnation his fortitude returned to him, and he expressed an anxious and apparently sincere desire to atone for his past crimes by a full and sincere repentance, and on Friday he expressed a strong wish to receive the Holy Sacrament. The chaplain at first rather dissuaded him from so doing, but at length, believing him to be sincere and truly penitent, he acceded to the pri soner's desire. It was after this that the prisoner's uncle and brother called, but the culprit not being then in a state of mind to receive them, requested, through the governor, that they should not disturb him at that moment, but come to him in the morn ing. The brother at first said he should not come any more to see him, and it was only at the earnest request cf Mr. Loader that he at length consented to accompany his uncle in the morning. When not engaged with the chaplain, the culprit has almost incessantly occupied himself in writing, and he has sent letters to nearly all his old abandoned associates earnestly entreating them to avoid their present course of life, and to refrain from the conduct that lead to his destruction. The culprit had his sup per at the usual hour on Friday night, and went to bed about ten o'clock, and slept soundly until the next morning at seven o'clock, soon after which hour the . chaplain was in attendance upon him. Mr. France, the under-sheriff of the county of Sussex, had arrived on Friday evening, and, as a great crowd was ex pected, by his directions barriers were erected, in order to revent accidents from the pressure of the people. Saturday morning the prisoner's uncle and his brother came to take their last leave of him in this world. The culprit bore the scene with , great firm ness, and he appeared more concerned on account of his brother than for himself, and he entreated him in the most solemn manner to alter his course of life, and avoid the miserable condition to which he had re duced himself by his misconduct. The brother ap peared very much affected, and he promised to reform his evil way of life and go home with his uncle, who, at the dying request of the culprit, promised to provide for him. From this time the culprit prepared himself for the fatal moment, and he repeatedly expressed his desire that it had arrived, as he said he was quite ready to die, and he trusted he should be forgiven his sins. The officers of the sheriff arrived at the gaol soon after eleven o'clock, and about a quarter to twelve the culprit was pinioned, and he was shortly after wards led along the passage of the gaol to the drop which was erected upon the temporary platform made for that purpose. He-walked with a firm step, and mounted the ladder leading to the scaffold without any assistance, and then gazed calmly. round among the crowd. The Rev. Mr. Allen asked the miserable man whether he had anything he wished to say, and he replied that he had not, and at the same time again declared that, although he suffered justly for killing a fellow-creature, he had DO enmity against the deceased, and that he was not conscious of what he was doing when he struck him with the poker. He then shook hands with the reverend gentleman, and expressed, in the warmest terms, his gratitude for the kindness he had received from him, and also from Mr. Loader, the governor of the gaol. All the arrange ments were now completed, and at a given signal the drop fell, and in less than a minute the miserable culprit had ceased to exist. Although the crime of which Lawrence was con victed created a good deal of excitement in the-neigh bourhood, and, indeed, throughout the whole county, where the unfortunate deceased was generally re spected as an active and excellent officer, very few persons, comparatively, were present at the execution, notwithstanding there was a great cattle fair in the town, which, of course, attracted a number of strangers. Preparations had, however, been made to prevent accident in the event of there being so great a concourse of people as was expected; and Inspector Hughes and seven men of the A division of Metro plitan Police were engaged to superintend the arrangements. It is now nine years since there has been an execution in this county; and it is rather re markable, that the last man who was executed, for four daring burglaries, was brought to justice mainly through the exertions of Solomon, the unfortunate deceased, who, no doubt, at the time, little anticipated that the next execution would be that of his murderer. The body, after hanging an hour, was cut down and placed in a shell, and at ten o'clock on Saturday night, according to the terms of .the sentence, it was interred within the gael. . THE LATE COACH ROBBERY% OXFORD, APRIL 6.—Richard Elliott, who ge' scribed himself as a ci gar - merc h an t, res idi ng i n B . , • street, Paddington, and w h o h as b een i n c ustody since the night of Monday, the 18th of last month, ° ll , a charge of bein g concerne d, w i t h two ot h ers, n ot Yet in custody, in robbing th e D e fi ance O x f or d co ach . ° 1,500 sovereigns, was, for the first time, publicly (it mined in the house of the Governor of the prison, bJ Dr. Marsham and Captain Shepperd. The prisoner, who is a sharp-visaged man, of rather fair complexion s , and about thirty years of age, vi, a9 smartly dressed, and is evidently a sharp and actis l fellow. Previous to the examination being entered on, Mr' Ballantine, who appeared for the prisoner, applied to the Magistrate, and requested that some friends e i the accused, who had come from London, and wh ° were very anxious to hear the nature of the charg e against the prisoner, as they had been kept in tn,' dark about it, sho u ld b e p resent . I t was also b u t fa to inform the Magistrates that he, Mr. Ballanthlef also intended calling some of those as witnesses is t o speak to th e cha racter o f th e pr i soner, to show 'oll° and what he was. Dr. MARSHAM replied, that at present he did ne t -. see the necessity of calling witnesses as to character''' as the question before the court was one of fact. I le ' refused the application • but said he had no object' tion to the depositions taken at the former examT„'" tions of the prisoner bein g rea d over, an d i t would ,u; then open to him, Mr. B a lla n ti ne , t o make such- 4 ?`" - •servations on the case as he might think proper. The deposition of Mr. Robert Hair, clerk in banking-house of Messrs. Coutts and C u ., Strap (who was not present), was the first read. It wag A the effect that the witness, from instructions he in received, on Monday, the 18th of last month, count' t out 1,500 sovereigns, and, a ft er we i g hi ng th e m, it ,. them into a bag and delivered th em t o Robert Quili" a porter employed in the bank. The deposition of Robert Quint, the person allude d to by the last witness, was to the effect, that after r e ; ceiving the sovereigns from Mr. H a i r , h e pu t the: into a small box, which he deposited in a blue bag' secured at the mouth with a s t r i ng . H e t h en g ot ie , w a cab, and drove to the Gloucester Coffee-house, 0 1 : () ford-street, to deliver it t o H o b son , t h e d r i ver of Defiance Oxford coach. Wh en h e arr i ve d at the Gloucester Coffee-house, the c oac h h a d no t go t up, b...!t after remaining a few minutes in the passage, it rived, when he delivered the ba g t o H o b son , and 5 0 ,,, him put it into the front boot. 'Th e ti me h e had Lf wait for the coach was about five minutes, and all th o time the bag lay by his side in the passage. re ' Joseph Hobson, who was in a tt en d ance , w as be called, and being sworn, his deposition taken on 29th of March was read over to him. He depos e that he was coachman of the Defi ance O x f or d nee , f ip which travels between that place and London.• Monday, the 18th of last month, at about ten o'nhi e t t in the morning, he called at the banking-house, t Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand, and signed a reef for 1,5001. sovereign s . H e su b sequen tly r e t urn ed the. Belle Sauvage, on Ludgate-hill, and left th e e with his 'coach at twelve o'clock, when he had er h i e lady on the front seat. He then proceeded O t to Bell and Crown, Holborn, where he took, 0 1 another lady, who also got upon the if . ° o seat. He next drove to the Regent-circus, igu' o he took up a lad and a man, both of whom sat to the front with the two ladies. He then proceedek the Gloucester Coffee-house, where he saw Quint, the porter at Messrs. Coutts's, who gave him a blue and this he placed in the off side of the front set amongst other things, but put it near the hotter, He then took up a man (who took the box setr i who saw him place the bag in the boot. ' J o man was stout, about 5 feet 9 in. in h e i g ht, a nd an old-fashioned blue great coat, and had no luggf; Before reaching _Knightsbridge the man on the told him a person wanted to go w ith him, wu 4 Elliott, the prisoner, came out of a gin-shop, 5, up on the dickey, and said he was going to Bens,,a At Hammersmith he took up anotherenan, who Sg t on the back part of the coach, and a woman, an u o Cranford-bridge he took up another gentleman. de, Cranford-bridge he saw the bag in the boot 0 d and he did not think that anything was taken (O A , the boot till he reach e d B enson . H e changed- hon, first at Hounslow, next at Longford, then at Salt-wly when a lady got down ; next at Ealy Bottom, ehelyr, Henley Bottom, and next at Benson. Here Shrub, whom he had taken up at Cranford-bri e and the prisoner Elliott, got off. The former he eO 4 carpet bag, which was given to his boy, and wit' i o went into the Crown Inn, where he stopped to ree e ., o , the prisoner's fare. He gave him change for a soverVy and he pressed witness to have a glass of ale, vvbie: lo . (witness) took. Before thi s a l a d y go t ou t a t •P hill, and a passenger at Henley Bottom. Who to reached the Crown Inn, Benson, it was a quartef u t seven o'clock, and he on that occas i on , as well as op, places at which h e h a d c h ange d h orses , l e ft the A On arriving at th e Old Bank, at Oxford, he for the bag delivered' to him by the porter of Me Coutts and Co., but could not find it. He . then dr ° o to the Vine Inn, in the Hi g h- s t ree t , w h ere the °ILIAC finally stopped, and then ag a i n l oo k e d f or it, t found it was gone. He then a s k e d the passif,,bol ng e who sat on the box with him and th e o th er s, saw any person take it, and they all said they did the In his cross-examination by Mr. Ballantin! , , o s witness said that the m a n w h om h e d es cribe riding with him on the b ox , an d w h o h a d nbser i eir him receive the box an d p u t it i n th e bO o t, Was fic t tered as a " gent." on th e w a y -bill. H e did 4 0 know what became of him, nor h a d -h e see n i' 4 o since. He knew all th e f ema l es th a t were with 00 as passengers but one, and he believed they were tro ia respectable person s . At B enson h e was awn'', jbo% his coach about five minutes, and was, also off Ins a ed at the five other places he had previously ehe, i 'llit horses at, as well as at K n i g ht s b r id ge , w h en h e took prisoner up. H e did no t see th e pr i soner t a ke thing away from the coach at Benson. Mr. Ballantine here remarked on the el" t io singularity of the witness giving a receipt ferp 1,500 sovereigns at the banking-house of the 1 4 ° - Coutts' two hours before he received them. The other witnesses examined were William till, man, a servant in the employ of Mr. Shruho i 4i, Carr, horsekeeper at the Crown Inn, Benson, Carter, landlord of the same inn, and a female se, vent, named Pierce. fao' The prisoner was then rema n d e d till a future e l ! GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP.—The flow Of tide on Thursday night and Friday morning, 111 " 0 ' Cumberland basin gates, was t o th e h e i g ht o f f r om o l d 36 feet, . probably.higher tha n an y we s h a ll h a ve be o f the autumnal equinox. It was by the ticle ter a Thursday that the Directors -of the Great l i Ve 6 o oo Steani-ship Company. had hoped to have r i o t' the Great Britain down the river. At a 111 0 1, ing of the board of Directors of the Dock CoMP o pi on - Monday last, a resolution Was : passed that .11. , c of the correspondence which had taken place betr ti o" that Board and the Directors of the Gre't W es. die Steam-ship Company, respecting the.tesntys7ir o ri cip Great Britain, be transmitted to the• Board ;Of T . to with such explanations as may be deeMed neeegeelpe elucidate the positiOn of all parties.= By this•it w l flr eo, seen that nothing has yet been done to relieve the t " Britain from her 'embarrassing situation..oTb° Mercury states that the William Milne,s,, in p-,,-„po through the sm a ll er lock of Cumberland-basin, -'Ol l upon the walls, and, the tide ebbing, heF,bottoM f go , forced out, - and the greater pate 'of her valuable was lost. Thi; occurred in - the antnihif ot t oe! remained for some weeks, - wedged in, the-00140d successively flowing over, and• it was thought .1 she - I , 0 1 have to be broken up; atolength, •however, shelve re' tricated, underwent • very costly repairs, and . s te , moved to another port. r ' . 0 •THE DINER-ouT.—The diner-out must ' heir most passionate love for children.. He must so bo z° , o rt himself that when his name shall Ise sainoitneesti", child in the mansi o n s h a ll set up a yell —a;9er elt o 4 • rapture—shall rush t o hi m — pu ll hi s coat- tails-rel„ :1;;y 1 • his back—twist their fi ngers i n hi s bair—snao'l.aiort watch from his pocket ; an d, w hil st t h ey ren d his 10 Saxony —load his shoulders—uncurl his wig r i cer' W threaten instant destructio n t o hi s repea t er , ,'""icett out must stifle the agony at his heart and hii?" - t bill e : and to the feebly-expressed fears of the maintlA t the " children ar e tr ou bl esom e," t h e diner-out 111°.110 into every corner of hi s f ace a l oo k o f t h e m o s t se l l o o. delight, and with a very chuckle assure the ar1 7 ; 0 01 parent that "the little rogues are charming!"-- -- Meddows' Heads of the People. BIRTHS. r On the 2d inst., Mrs. G eorge P. Putnam, of Euston - " , of a son. tir k On the 3d inst., a t G oo d res t L o d ge, near Beld-i II lady of Bulkley J. M. Praed, Esq., of a son. $ 9°ll' On the 4th inst., Mrs. T. P. Turner, Bedford-rowy o f still-born. o f On the 4th inst., the wife of F. 11. Dickinson, E sl i'' Upperilarley - -street, of a daughter. _......../ . MARRIED. tt s ' e t On the 10th of F e b ruar y, a t th e C a th e d ra l, Cs.c ll lit licitly, Esq., Civil S erv i ce , t o A nn i e L y di a , second,( l2 " v,f of Samuel Tomki ns , E sq ., o f L om b ar d- stree t . stagOn the 2d i n st., a t S ou th w i c k, R an t s, Willi a m „ov i o ribi Raper, Esq., M. 8., t o M ar y, d aug ht er o f Ch ar l es Esq., Controller of her Majesty's Customs, Ramsgate. . DIED. eSt er' • f On the 29th ult., John Gould, Esq solicitor, of street, Queen-square, aged 74. ,„,.; , On the 31st ult. at Gainford-place, Barnsu.-4 4 . Islington, Mrs. P. Allan, widow of the late G. Allan .Ae . -- a ipif On the Ist inst., at Warminster, William Lye Esq., aged 30. th e On the 3d inst., at Eglinghani, Nortlunberlazisof: Venerable Edward Th omas Bi gge , Ar c hdeacon of Lin d ea On the 3d inst., at Worthing, John Bradley. Escl -4 ' gilt" On the 3d inst., F r a nc es M ar g a r e t Pavies, eldest 1 . 411 ' of Captain Chandler, 17th Lancers, aged 15. „,:iiiVicti" On the 10th inst., Ag n e s , eldest child of Mr. NY, • of Cheapside. Cheapside. On the sth inst., Emily Susan, only daughter Baker, Esq., of Endsleigh-street. London : Printed and Published by KURD() - Ni s No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, t y 0) Strand, in the Precinct of ' the Maroy, theC 9 7;; itiddleaex, Monday, April 8, 1844. : tA Ncitir . •( Or the I .IY, the Corn n 'Pon the ing of this C L c tonlnii w its 41 4. tztegalol SAC to.x ( 11 U4' R 4 C 7 1" b e p bu merett L l 'us Par - .lnitio u tifoidi ug GRA, by cht.. Needi e "`",, , 111 C Zb Of. at N o. I. 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