The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-30 00:00:00

THE ARMY. (From the Limerick Chronicle, Jan• 25.) On Tuesday Sir Edward and Lady Blakeney gave • grand ball at the Royal Hospital, Dublin. Nearly the 'elite of the metropolis were present, including Duke and Duchess of Leinster, and the officers of garrison. Col. Yorke, Assistant Quartermaster -General at Cork, has proceeded to London on leave of absence. By the death of Dowager Lady Morshead, Sir Warwick W. Morshead, 15th Regiment, in this gar. rison, obtains a considerable accession to his fortune. A recruiting party of the 15th Regiment is ordered to Mar borough, to he stationed. The lion. Captain Forester has resumed his duties in the Military Secretary's Office, Royal Hospital, perfectly recovered from his late illness. Lieutenant-Colonel Michel, 6th Regiment, Rich mond Barracks, Dublin, is on leave of absence. Major Pottinger, brother to Sir Henry Pottinger, is commanding. A recruiting part from the 16th Regiment, at Cork, is ordered to hilrush, to be there stationed. A recruiting party, 54th Regiment Mullingar, is ordered to march for Cootehill, there to be stationed. The company 66th Regiment, Royal Barracks, Dublin, stationed at Drogheda, consisting of Captain Michel, Lieutenant Smythe, Ensign Benson, three sergeants, one drummer, and 62 rank and file, are ordered to join head-quarters in Dublin on being re lieved by same corps next month. The 73d Regiment, Royal Barracks, Duvlin, has received the order to march for Castlehar, as stated in the Chronicle. A Lieutenant of the 2d Dragoon Guards (Bays will shortly sell out of the service. An officer of the Lancers a few days ago touched 2,0001. far an exchange in an infantry corps The 6th Carbineers at York are the first cavalry regiment for foreign service. They are to wear a different and lighter uniform, accoutrements, &c. The departure of the 58th from Chatham is greatly regretted. The last division, under Lieutenant-Co lonel Wynward, embarked on Wednesday. Colonel Sir Michael Creagh and the officers of the 11th Regiment will give a splendid ball at Chatham, on the 31st instant. The elegant quadrille band of the 11th, conducted by one of the talented Crozier family, will be in attendance. The following arrived at the Cape of Good Hope between the 18th and 20th November :—Lieut.- Col. Reignolds and Captain Campbell, 18th Royal Irish, en route to China; Captains Hardy, Chester, Porter, f;eubbe and Cox, with 218 of the 58th for Van Diemen's Land : Colonel Camplsell and lady, 95th, for Mauritius ; Lieut. Smith, 22d for Bombay. The erection of military barracks at Graham's Tewn, Cape of Good Hope, has been commenced. l.e kaffirs, since the new Governor's visit to the -ntier, are remarkably quiet. The new post of Vic is fast attaining to order. Its position is an ad : rable one, and worthy of being called the " Key of effirland." The La Belle Alliance Government transport, with 200 male convicts, left Woolwich 0:1 Monday for Gibraltar. A detachment of the 724 formed the con vict guard. It is in contemplation at the Horse Guards to equalise the regimental strength of the heavy Cavalry, by reducing two troops of the Ist Dragoon Guards. Veterinary surgeons of Cavalry are in future to undergo a strict examination by the Royal College. .No person to be appointed under 21 years, and they must have served an apprenticeship of three years, and be complete in the various branches of the profession. The following corps stationed in Ireland have re cruiting parties at the undernamed places :-Ist bat talion Ist Royal Depot, Ennistymon ; 2d battalion Ist Royal Depot, Wi4seach ; 321 Regiment, hells ; 34th Regiment, Coventry, Leeds, and Charlemont ; 6th Regiment, Castlecomer, Newcastle, Magherafelt, Coventry, York, and Pontefract ; 82d Depait, Shrews bury, Abbeyfeale, and Killarney ; 54th Regiment, Dunbar and Thetford ; 60th Rifles, Ist battalion, Fethard ; 61st Regiment, Macroom ; 66th Regiment, Boyle, Mountrath, Bristol, and London ; 73d Regi ment, Portarlington, Kilrea, Derry ; 69th Regiment, Mare; 77th Regiment, Carrick-on-Suir and New Ross. 85th Depot, Londonderry—Effective strength under Capt. Blaekburne-1 acting sergeant-major, 14 ser geants, 4 buglers, and 196 rank and file. Recruiting —4 sergeants and 17 ditto. 46th DepOt, Beggar's Bush Barracks, Dublin. — Effective strengh under Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Robert Garrett, K.H.-16 sergeants, 6 drummers, and 362 rsnk and file. Recruiting-4 sergeants and 7 rank aia - 1 file. Ist Rifle Brigade Depot, Athlone.—Effective strength under Captain Rooper-1 acting serg'eant najor, 11 sergeants, 6 buglers, and 192 rank and file. Recruiting-2 sergeants and 16 ditto. 821DepOt, Tralee.—Effective strength under Major W. Slater-1 sergeant-major, 12 sergeants, and 216 rank and file. Recruiting -2 sergeants and 13 ditto. Captain Riley's company, 24th, from Carrick-on- Suir, joined head-quarters at Kilkenny, this day. Lieut. the Hon. Percy Egerton Herbert, 43d, second son of the Earl of Powis, has arrived at Powis Castle, Welshpool, from Canada, on leave of absence. Lieut. Manners, 37th, and Lieut. the Hon. A. Chichester, sth Fusiliers, have arrived at the United Service Club, Dublin, from England. The engineer establishment, stationed for the last tfteen months at Alderney, under Col. Emmett's orders, has been withdrawn ; Captain Alexander is appointed to Sheerness, a branch of the Medway dis trict ; and Mr. Hanley, the second clerk of works, is ordered for service at Hong-Kong. ROYAL ARTILLERY IN IRELAND. — Total —Five serjeants, '26 sergeants, one rough rider, 27 con ..orals, 38 bombardiers, seven wheelers, six farriers, 1k) trumpeters, seven carriage-smiths, eight shoeing smiths, 17 master gunners, 42 officers chargers, 398 oop horses, and 734 gunners and drivers. STATE of TRADE.—The yarn market continues ..:ceedingly firm ; and some descriptions, especially water twist, are rather higher than last week. l'he goods' market is generally steady, at full prices for all articles, with the exception of 27-inch print ing cloth, which is dull and rather lower in price. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JAN. 27. — We have had a very poor market to-day ; few buyers have attended, and the business tran ,, acted was very limited. The wool market has also been very quiet, having been done at the rates of this day week.—Man chester Guardian. CONSISTENT TO THH LAST !—Sir James Graham's Medical Bill purposes to appoint a " Council of Health and Medical Education," to consist of the following members :—Fotir from England, four from Scotland, and three from Ireland. Bravo ! Even this affair could not be arranged without some insolent and most gratui tous mark of inferiority for Ireland. Because we have a Medical and Surgical School which stand in European estimation much higher than any in these countries, Ireland is to have one member less in the Council than England, or even Scotland ! Bravo ! we say again. What matchless ingenuity these Ministers have in in venting arguments for repealers !—Dublin Pita. BRUTAL CONDUCT AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE. — The cutter Design from Terceira, with a cargo of fruit for London, was proceeding up channel with a fine breeze at S. by E. when, arriving off Exmouth., about one o'clock on Friday morning, the 10th instant, at a distance of about thirty miles from the land, she was run into with a most tremendous crash by a large barque, name un known, running down channel before the wind, and imme iately sunk. The perishing crew, at the utmost strength of their voices, resed one general cry to the barque for assistance. The mate, throwing off his boots and clothes, jumped into the sea, and swans away in hope of being picked up by the barque, and fearing the vortex would carry him clown. At the same moment the re mini:der of the crew, five in number, with the greatest perseverance and presence of mind, reached their boat, which was secured on the hatches, and with a very small pocket-knife succeeded in cutting through the lashing just at the very instant the vessel sunk from under their feet. •rhe phrls being both out, two of the men thrust their thumb: into the plug-holes, and partly prevented the water from rushing in, while the three other people were engaged in extricating the boat from the entanglement of the vessel's sails and rigging as she sunk to rise no more. This was a work ofgreat difficulty, as the boat got between the shrouds and the mast. The boat being clear, their at rention was instantly directed to the drowning mate ; they found him nearly exhausted, and struggling with the waves among a number of loose articles that floated from the wreck, and hastily pulling him into the boat, they imme d;atel followed the destructive barque, rowing wit h two e-,rs double banked all the time, and as from the first moment of the collision, helloing and calling vociferously assistance ; but the ears of the merciless master and the crews although long within hail and sight , were a like snsrto the cries of distress. The miscreants shivered their Lew minutes, when, seeing the boat approach them, stud detection certain, they in the most ruthless manner filled their sails and proceeding on their course, without Boat , iewering a or making the slightest She unhappy crew. The effort to save could judge crew rowed all the light as near as the sea running that f requen ' t j i utige towards the shore, with were threatened to fill the boat, ntil nine A.H., when the of Weymouth, y Jam e e re s 'ticked up by the smack re, master, by whom :.ey were kindly treated, and safely lauded at Wey :.outh.—Caeterbury Journal. SUICIDE BY A Doc.--On Saturday vandsorne and valuable black de, , of the last, a fine e Newfoundland i species, belonging to Mr. Floyd, solicitor, olmfirth, eommitted suicide by drowning Itself i n tileri r flows at the back of its owner's habitation. vFore which some days previous the animal seemed less animated than usual, but on this particular occasion he was noticed to throw himself into the water and endeavour to sink by iß e preserving perfect stillness of the legs and feet. B • - g dragged out of the stream, the dog was tied up for a time, but had no sooner been released than he again hastened to the water and again tried to sink, and was again got out. This occurred many times, until at length the animal with repeated efforts appeared to get exhausted, and by dint of keeping his head determinedly under water for a few minutes succeeded at last in oh taMing his object, for when taken out this time he was indeed dead. The case is worth recording, as affording another proof the general instinct and sagacity of the canine race.—Leeds Intelligencer. T n SIR CHARLES F. WILLIAMS The late Sir Charles Frederick Williams wa, senior Commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy, and many years have elapsed since he entered upon the profession of the law. It has been supposed that he was a person of humble origin ; at least so little knowledge was ever current in society with respect to his descent, that it was assumed he could not boast of very dignified ancestry; for most men take pains to make such advantages well known, and Sir Charles Williams was the least likely person in the world tc omit the publication of anything that could redound to his own honour. Nevertheless, the subject of this memoir was a man of respectable parents. His father was Richard Williams, Esq., of Duraley, in Glou cestershire, of which place •it may be presumed that Sir Charles was a native. He did not possess the ad vantages of a university education, and be came to the bar not very eminently qualified for the duties of the legal procession ; he managed, however, in one way or another, to attain a certain degree of success ; but the practice which he did enjoy was principally as a pro vincial counsel, his business at Westminster Hall being of moderate extent. He went the Western Circuit, and for many years practised at the Somerset and Bristol Sessions. That he displayed unbounded zeal in the support of every client's interests is universally acknowledged, and that if perseverance and care could command success no client of his would ever have been defeated. Sir Charles bad passed the mature age of forty before he found it prudent to incur the responsibilities of married life, but he thought that the time had then arrived when such a step could no longer be advan tageously delayed. On the 22d of April, 1822, he married Elizabeth, the fourth daughter of Ralph Broune Wylde Broune, Esq., of Glazeley, in the county of Salop, by Mary Anne Whitmore, sister et Thomas Whitmore, Esq., of Apley Park, in the sa me county. This event had of course a tendency rather to increase than to diminish hi s p rofessional zeal ; his business increased, and in the year 1828 it had reached so respectable an amount, that by the Govern ment of that day he was deemed worthy to be is - vestsid with the dignity of "one of his Majesty s counsel learned in the law ;" but as a leader at lasi prius he was not much distinguished. For one pc • culiarity he was however noted ; a solicitor might prevail on him to name the junior counsel with whom he liked to be associated, with high professional delicacy he always shrunk from the appearance ot making any such suggestion ; but even twenty years ago he was accustomed to say to his clients that there could be no better junior counsel in any cause than young Follett. Even then Mr. Williams had the se= gacity to discern the great powers of the present At torney-General. For four years after, having obtained a silk gown. Mr. Williams continued at the bar ; but at the end of that period he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy under Lord Brougham': Bill. In discharging the functions of that office, be evinced great quickness of apprehension ; but was rather ostentatious in displaying it. His judgments were therefore often hasty ; and his manners were no means distinguished for the dignity, or oven th decorum which ought to be observed by every maz.: who occupies a judicial seat. So eager was he ti_ show that he saw at a glance the tendency of question: put to a witness, that he would spoil a piece of evi dence by taking an examination out of a solicitor's ca counsel's hands, as well as putting ill-considered questions, and making extra-judicial observations; but he was perhaps one of the most obliging func tionaries that ever lived. If stopped in the street—i: called away from an agreeallle party—nay, if calk.) out of bed—he would kindly and cheerfully transact any business if required. He once met with an ex:- cident, when riding on horseback, which confined him some weeks, and so anxious was he to av oid encroach ing upon the time of his brother Commissioners, that his bed-chamber was converted into a court of bank ruptcy. He scarcely or ever omitted an opportunity of making a civil observation or paying a personal compliment : " He browbeat none, nor bore a being odium ; But fairly blazoned every man's eulogium." He received the honour of knighthood July lb . 1838; and was for some years Reco rder of Ipswich. but resigned that o ffi ce in 1842. Sir Charles attained to a good old age, but of the precise year in which he was born we have not met with any authentic trace ; it is believed, however, that he could not have been less than 75 or 76 years of age. The further he ad vanced in life the greater was the interest which he seemed to take in the causes and the influence et longevity. No elderly witness ever escaped him, and the most important proceedings were often delayed i_ order that Sir Charles might have opportunity of in. quiring into the habits of life and the constitutionsa peculiarities of any curious specimen of the last age who might happen to enter the witness-box. In tbls respect the columns of this journal would have been a great source of consolation to him. He was a ma gistrate for Hampshire, and for some years had a residence in that county. —Historical Register. SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING , .TA_NITARY 30, 1845. LAW IN T ELLIG EN C COURT OF CiI,4IVC;ER:I 7 , Jan. 29. (13i.fore the LonD CHANCELL3II.) His Lordihip was engaged during the morning with :he further hearing of a part heard patent case of " Tul loch v. Hartley." her Bs. a-week out of his earnings, but that this Llbwanee had, since the marriage, been di,continued, though some money had been remitted to her, as she thought, by her son, though she would not swear it had not been sent by the defendant. The witness had visited them since their marriage, and washed for them, but she had not been in the habit of endeavour ing to persuade her son to leave his wife and return to Canterbury. She had, however, done so since she had heard the first husband was still living. She positively denied -that she had ever promised her son that if he would leave his wife and return to Canter bury she would not appear before the Lord Mayor, neither had she threatened to prosecute them both if he did not return to his father's house. William Gurney Keele repeated his former testi mony, and added that this prosecution had not been instituted by his desire or wish. The letters pro duced were in the handwriting of his mother, who had repeatedly applied to him to leave his wife and return home. Since his marriage he had not sent any money home, but when he and his 1N ife left Can teroury to come to London, the latter, knowing the condition of his mother, gave her thirty shillings. Mr. Clarkson—Answer this question : Have you not stated since you have been here to-day, that nothing on earth should induce you to leave the defendant, though your mother has stated that you wished to leave her? The witness hesitated, but on the question being repeated, replied that he had no reason to complain of his wife's conduct, and that he should not wish to be separated from her in case her first husband was really dead. Mr. Clarkson submitted that the only question was as to whether the first husband was alive or dead. Of this important fact there was not a scintilla of evidence, and therefare the charge must fall to the ground. The young man, Keele, said he would become an swerable fur his wife's appearance in case she should be required again. The LORD MAYOR intimated to the prosecutrix that, if she could procure any evidence to show that the first husband was still in existence, the defendant could be brought up again—at present the defendant was discharged for want of evidence. The parties then quitted the justice-room together. GUILDHALL. DESPERATE OUTRAGE BY A CLERGYMAN.—The Rev. Mr. Hopkins, residing in Burton-crescent, New-road, was charged with violently assaulting Mr. Cole, a solicitor. Aldermen Hughes and Farebrother were on the bench. The Rev. Gentleman was defended by a solicitor. Mr. Cole having been sworn, stated that he had drawn up in writing an apology, and, on the condition that the defendant would sign it, and- that it should be inserted in the newspapers, he would not prefer the charge against him. The Rev. Gentleman expressed his willingness to make an apology, , and to sign that prepared by Mr. Cole, on the understanding that it should not be inserted in the newspapers. Mr. Cole was unwiling to concede that point. He would reserve to himself whether he should publish it or not. Ile then stated, that on leaving the Crown-office in the Temple yesterday, after taxing a bill of coats, in which the defendant was interested, he came up to him, and saying something about an explanation, raised a thick stick which be curried, and struck him on the head. The defendant was about to repeat the blow, when seve ral professional gentlemen, who were near the spot, pre vented him from doing so, and ultimately he was given into cust. , dy. The ALDERMAN strongly recommended Mr. Hopkins to sign the apology, as the further hearing of the charge might bring out matters of a private nature. After much conversation the defendant agreed to sign the document, at the same time stating that the assault was eommitted in a moment of irritation, and expressing a hope that the complainant would not deem its publica tion in the newspapers necessary. He was then bound over, himself in 80/., and two sureties in 40/. each, to keep the peace towards the corn plainant for the ensuing twelve months. CLERKEIV WELL. COURT 01 QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 29. (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUEEN V. CARTER. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved for the judgment of the Court up.:n the prisoner, wl:o pleaded guilty to two indictments preferred against him for misdemeanour. The prisoner was an officer of excise, and was stationed in Monte•omen shire, in Wales, where, in his capacity of excise officer, he committed a series of frauds in the years 1842 and 1843. It was the duty of the prisoner to give notice to traders of the amount of duty with which they were to be charged, hut he had no right to rec Ave any money. Having to deal with persons who were ignorant in those matt( rs, and who were not able to speak the English language, he obtained from them more duty than they ought to pay. He also received money for licenses, which he falsified, by giving the parties old licenses which he had in his possession. inserting the names of the persons from whom he received the money. He was guilty, therefore, of forgery, which he committed for the pur pose of covering his fraud, which might have subjected the parties upon whom he practised it to great inconve nience and expense. It was only after the prisoner had lost his situation that those circumstances b. came known. It was evident that the prisoner had pur.:ued this as a system, for he had been guilty of a series of offences of the same kind. Mr. Justice PATTESON—I find that there are some of the offences set forth in various counts. As I cannot pass judgment upon more than one, I suppose you will enter a nolle prosequi upon the others? The Solicitor-General remained silent for some time. Lord DENMAN—WeII, Mr. Solicitor, what do you propose to do? The SOLICITOR - G ENERAL—I cannot do so, my Lord; I am not the Attorney- General Lord DENMAN—Oh yes, you can. You are acting for the Attorney-General in his absence. The S O LICITOR-GENERAL —I cannot do so in my own flame. The Court having consulted fo • some time, Lord DENMAN directed that the prisoner should be brought up again tomorrow, and in the meantime they would consider wlitwas to be don?. BAIL COURT, Jan. 29. (Sittings in Banco.) LORD GIFFORD V. THE MAGISTRATES OF BERKSHIRE. Mr. S3trrar moved for a rule to show cause why a writ of certiorari should be issued removing certain recog nisances entered into by Lord Gifford and two sureties, before the Earl of Radnor and the Rev. John Francis Cleaver, two of the magistrates of Berkshire, into the Court of Queen's Bench. He founded his application on two grounds—first, that no sworn peer of the realm could be arrested by a warrant issued by the magistrates of a county ; and secondly, that his Lordship htd an undoubted right to remove the allegations against him to the Court of Queen's Bench, as the only Court having jurisdiction in the case of a peer. The Learned Counsel supported his view of the case by a reference to Blackstone, and to the authorities quoted by him. Mr. PASHLEY said that he was prepared to show that the Commission of the Peace authorised the magistrate to issue his warrant against ail who were supposed to contemplate a bresuah of the peace, and peers, he con tended,! were not exempted from its operation ; and he was also prepared to show that the e'xcumstances of the present case warranted such interference ; and that, thereftre, that Court, in the exercise of a wise discretion, should not accede to the rule sought for by his Learned Friend. The circumstancLs of the case were these. The Noble Lord kept a pack of fox hounds with which he hunted the county of Barks, and another gentleman, Thomas Thornhill Morland, Esq., also kept a pack and hunted the same county. They both claimed the privilege of drawing the Buscot covers, the first on account of some acknowledged right, and the second by permission of the owner, Pryce Pryce, Esq., M.P. This misunderstanding produced a corre spondence between the parties which only widened the gap, until at length the intention of both parties to meet with their friends at the cover in question seemed to the magistrates to justify them in issuing their warrant in order to prevent any aggression on either side. The warrant was directed to Lord Gif ford, and was served upon him by a constable at his re sidence, in Cirencester, two days before the intended meeting. Ilis Lordship, attended by two friends, Frederick Cripps, Esq., and Captain Jones, appeared before the magistrates, and were bound over in the sum of 1.000/., and two 5001. That this was a necessary measure, would appear from the remark made by Cap tain Jones to the unstable who had pointed out to him the Buscot cover, " Ah, that was where the horse-whip ping waz. to have taken place," and Lord Gifford said, when the constable expressed a hope that his waiting upon him on so unpleasant a business would be excused, " Oh, certainly, I thought it was some one to call the out.'" The Learned Counsel then at great length proeeeded to quote authorities in oppo sition to the principle of Mr. Smith. Mr. Justice WILLIA3IS did not see why the Court should interfere, because, in the first place, the Noble Lord was not then in custody; and, secondly, if it should be at any future time shown that the county magistrates had no jurisdiction in such a case, the recognisances would fall to the ground.—Rule refused. Two cabmen, named Battlat and Harrold, were charged with violently assaulting police. constable 205 G ; Bartlett with attempting to stab the constable. At four o'clock this morning the policeman was called into the Old Red Lion public-house, where there was a dreadful scuffle between thirty and forty of the lowestcha racters, who were fighting and shouting. The constable interfered, when the prisoners fill upon him and beat him in a very severe manner, and Bartlett, taking out his penknife and opening it, swore he would rip his b—y Peelers' bowels out. He was secured with the greatest difficulty, but not before the constable had sustained se vere injuries. They were sent to the House of Correc tion for ten days each in default of fine. BOW-STREET. POST•OPTICE Rounamr.---On Tuesday, William (inky, a letter-carrier, employed on the Islington district, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Jardine, charged with stealing a letter, containing a 51. Bank of England note, and 30s. in gold, the property of the Postmaster-General. Mr. Peacock, jun., conducted the prosecution. Mr. John Brooks Johnstone, a clerk in the Royal Exchange Insurance Office, Lombard-street, stated, at Christmas, 1835, there was a policy of insurance effected for furniture, to the amount of 1001., in the name of the prisoner, the address being 15, Regent's terrace, near Regent's Canal, White Conduit-fields, Islington, in the county of Middlesex, the annual charge upon which is 6s. On the 30th of December some person paid the insurance with the 51. Bank of England note produced, anti he gave him the change. Mathew Peak, a constable, employed at the Post effice, said he was present in the solicitor's office when the prisoner was brought in, and, being asked where he lived, he said he had resided in the same house during the last eleven years, at a rent of 211. an nually; that he paid the taxes, and had insured his furniture at the Royal Exchange Insurance Office for 1001., the charge for which was six shillings annually. On being asked who had made the last payment, he replied he had done so ; then, as if recollecting him self, he said, " Oh, there is some mistake about that payment, for I received a notice after Christmas, stating that the insurance would be due, but in a few days after I missed it." He then said he had spoken to Mr. Wood, the change-taker at the Islington posts office, about it, adding, he did not know what he should do without it, and that Mr. Wood advised him to take the number from the policy and to go to the insurance-office, which would answer the same pur pose, which he did, and to his great surprise he found the money had been paid by some person. In a few days after he received a receipt for six shillings in a letter, through the Post-office, which he showed to Mr. Wood andother persons at Islington. He was then told that a-51. note was used in the payment at the insur ance-office, which was sent in a letter on the 27th De cember by post from Dewsbury, addressed to No. 14, Upper Branshy-street, Liverp:ol-road, Islington, and he replied that he did not know who had paid the policy for him. He then said, " Can I see the gen tleman ?" and being questioned what gentleman, and for what he wanted him, he said, " The gentleman who lost the money, and I would pay him the money if I should pledge my bed." Witness then went to prisoner's house, and on making a search found the tile produced on the top of a hat-case in the front parlour, on which was the receipt fs.r six shillings. Mr. Peacock said he was not prepared with evidence to carry the ease any further for the present, and the prisoner was accordingly remanded. PISTOL PRACTICE AT A PICTURE.—A young man, described as a surgeon, named Edward Stanley, was charged with wilfully destroying a picture by firing a loaded pistol at it in the Artichoke public-house, in White Hart-street, Drury-lane, the property of Mr. W. Clark, the landlord. It appeared from the statement of the complainant's son, that about eight o'clock on Monday evening the defendant came into the parlour and called for gin and water, with which he was served by the waiter, but he had not been long in the room before the re port of a pistol was heard, which caused great alarm, and on witness entering the room he observed the defendant reloading the pistol with a bullet, and upon remonstrating with him, he said he would do as he thought proper, which alarmed the witness to such a degree that he ran out of the place, and directly after he heard the second report. Witness then rushed into the room, and on calling the defendant to account for such conduct, be said it was no harm, but on look :ng round the room he saw that the picture against the wall had beenpenetrated by the ball. The defendant said it was all right, at the same time refusing either to pay for the damage or give up the pistol. The picture was worth about a sovereign ; it had been in the house for upwards of forty years, and the only reason given by the defendant for such conduct was that he had been to Smith's shooting•gallery in Holborn, where he was insulted. The first discharge was without a bullet, but the second was near doing serious injury. The defendant ha I frequented the house for a consi derable time, and he never knew him guilty of any disorder before the present occasion. In answer to the charge, the defendant said he had dined with a friend ; and took more than he could well bear, and, as he was extremely sorry for the occur rence, he wou)d willingly pay for any damage he might have done. Mr. JARDINE said he could scarcely treat the of fence as wilful damage, and, as a loaded pistol had beav discharged, the defendant's friends should have come forward with a view to have bail taken for his future good conduct. In the course of the day the defendant's landlady attended, and in consequence of the good account she gave of the defendant, and his expressing his regret for what bad happened, he was mulcted in the sum of 205., which he instantly paid, and was discharged. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 29. (Sittings in Bunco.) The Court was engaged this morning in hearing mo tions, but as the points on which the decision turned were of a technical character, there was nothing to justify a report. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.) Three females, named Ann Buckley, Mary Kirwan, and Eliza Kent, wore indicted for stealing a valuable watch, the property of Donald Campbell Dawson. Mr. Clarkson defended the two prisoners Kirwan and Kent ; and Mr. Page appeared for the prisoner Ann Buckley. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, who was a wine and spirit merchant in Limehouse, that as he was passing through Rosemary lane, on the evening of the 17th inst., one of the prisoners walked up to him, and, laying her hand upon his arm, gave a signal, when the other two women came up, and they commenced hustling him. He endeavoured to got away from them, and having succeeded with some difficulty, he found that his watch-guard had been cut, and his watch taken away. After some time he found a policeman, who suc ceeded in arresting the three prisoners. Upon searching for the watch the constable found it lying upon a win dow-sill near where they were taken into custody. Mr. CL.utxsoN said that his clients were respectable married women, and endeavoured to show that the. pro secutor was inebriated, but in this he failed. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Kent and Kirwan, and of Acquittal in favour of Brickley. The ASSISTANT-JUDGE said those daring street rob beries must be put down. He felt inclined to transport the prisoners; however. he would give them one chance more. The sentence of the Court was, that they be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months, six weeks to be solitary. In every instance this day, in which the Learned Assistint Judge sentenced a convict to a term of impri sonment, he ordered that certain periods, varying from one third to one-sixth of its duration, should be solitary. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. hIANSIOIV-HOUSE. Yesterday, in the course of the sittings before the Lord Mayor, Mr. Lachlan Mackintosh Rite and his witness attended for the purpose of completing their depositions in support f of the charge preferred against Mr. R. Forbes, jun., or having publis certain false, malicious, and defamatory libels of and con cerning the firm of Messrs. Rickards, Little, Rate and Little, and particularly of and concerning Mr. L. M. Rate, one of the parties of the said firm. The particulars of the extraordinary case were fully de tailed in the journals of Tuesday's date, and the pro ceedings of yesterday's were limited to the mere read ing over and signing the depositions, and binding the witnesses, in the usual recognisances, to appear and prosecute at the session of the Central Criminal Court. The defendant, Mr. Forbes, jun., was in the justice room, but took no part in the proceedings. Mrs. Mary Frances Keele surrendered, in discharge of the recognizances entered into by , her husband on Wednesday last, fir her re-examination upon the charge of bigamy preferred against her by her mo ther-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Keele, of Canterbury. Mr. Clarkson appeared on behalf of the defendant, who, in consequence of her ill state of health, was ordered by the Lord Mayor to be accommodated with a chair in front of the bar. The evidence which had been given by the prosecutrix; and her son (the husband), as well as the s tatement made by the de fendant at the last examinat ion, having been read over, .John Dixon, City policeman 619, produced two marriage certificates f ro m the register of the parish of St. George's, Ilanover-square ; the one of a marriage solemnised between John Weller and Mary Frances Witham, on the 7th June, 1831, and the second of the marriage of William Gurney Keele with Mary Frances Weller, in the month of October last year. Mr. Clarkson remarked that the defendant had never denied or concealed the fact of her first mar riage—on the contrary, she had always spoken of it to the young man, her present husband, who had sworn that he was of opinion the defendant believed her former husband to be dead. ,If she had sought concealment of the fact of h er previous marriage, it was somewhat singular that she should have taken the young man Keele to the very church where the evidence of her first marriage existed. In short, so far from attempting any concealment, .she had afforded the only evidence which ex isted against herself. The LORD MAYOR (to the prosecutrix)—Are you prepared now with any further evidence in support of the charge ? The prosecutrtx — No, my Lord. I have written to the sister of the first husband, Weller, but she has refused to have anything to do with the matter. The Loan MAYOR _Then you have no further evidence? The prosecutrtx—Only that my son wants to get rid and clear of the defendant altogether. Mr. Clarkson—l rather think it is somebody else who wants to get rid of her. In answer to a series of questions put by the Learned Counsel, the prosecutrix stated that prior to his marriage her son had been in the habit of allowing The beautiful estate of Falloden, Northumberland, the proporty of tho late Hon. General Sir Henry George Grey, descends to his nephew, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., M.P. William Robinson Robinson, Esq., of Silksworth Hall, near Sunderland , at Ida rent day last week, in consequence of the depreciated value of agricultural produce, liberally returned ten per cent. to hia teatuits on the last half year's rent. ----.- .. _ • LLOYD'S SHIPPING. , N A LONDON, OFF MRG j T N , J 29 A N — . 12 1r 8 vv . i a r t s e y r. ta lt .. ht...., RAMSGATE, JAN. 28. breeze, and cloudy. ' l i d nsdw at liva ta : o t on ilsi v e t.r5:....,t15, so, vv. 11„ 6 a b A o r u r n d d . (,: o a i r , d e i n ff r ' i r o. a . cket, Yarmouth, with loss of 5 DEAL, JAN. 28.—Wind W.S W. to W" li g ht bret hc' ele: —Arrd. Scindian, Terry, Calcu tta; Clydesdale ic ,:iilat f a o n r d Leith; Penningham, Purchase, 'Bahia. Sid.,„ : 9, yk' David Luekee, Demerara; Prince Albert, P e ll a - 1.-" PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 28.—Wind W.N.Vir., si • OP s Sld. Her Majesty's ship Did.) eastward; h er n i , le tiO S u h p ip in A s in t. az H o o n l , en C , o s r it k •(;aldlsu.mber,'New Orleans, a nd yr° tafieldi COWES, JAN. 28.—Wind A rd. buil( Ches - 0 10h Cadiz, for Leith, with cargo shifted, lota of and other damage. Aa. IV "' OFF Batavia, 8 n noati, NEWPORT,T forA L ‘J R nIA A sN N t . ' e S r2 , dßa. JAN. — l3l. Sld. British Quee n ' -re itri - I LIVERPOOL, JAN. 28.—WiLd N.E., nioden"li bi boe ; Lancaster Field, Valparaiso ; Heloise, Thorne% °load), Charleston Wright, Demerara ; Columbiu,reilito, St• ; Ann, Scott, New York ; g a l , l heist' Ar.drew's. Std. Syren, Calcutta ; Woodstock, 'olDebt ton f ; Independence, New York. The Williani ." - ii et off and Galway, as h ore in Bootle Bay, has b ee , ~. fro. and Is:night in here. The Arcadian, POP; 0 11 Thomas, loosened, &c., sC „ for Halifax, leaky, and with 1131'w 5 6 9 14 the Lancaster, '"v a . r m riv sp ed ok h e e n r ' e lop, s from Boston to Havannah, 30th ult., hen. 7. St. Thomas, with loss of fore and mainmasts, -wbjcli SLIGO, JAN. 27.—The James, of lgargel4lrigblel 2 ; 9 wthnuoltalsolstsi2ol,7,oliiiTee :too; capsized at the Custom-house Quay , has bee n ~, with loss of topmasts and but little dam a g ed ' BELFAST, J AN. 27.—The Sarah, Mac ke ye Bte lu x, r vcrness, from Derry to Dublin, was run ash el l e , rre,‘ day in Ballyholme Bay, during a heaq gA nt iosal,l saved, cargo (herrings) expected to be. The brib . . - 16 10' of Chepstow, has put into Bangor harbour disn3'. anchor sl . p . iod in a gale. e,o A l lfie od To 10 1/ 1 1 GRIMSBY, JAN. 27.—The keel Commerc near Cltethorpe during the night of the 25th, .A • s bors become a wreck ; crew and part o f materials sa!'j Amonaki, Rhod e here last night. The Squirrel, of Whit* .1,4,0 s, from Goole to Wisbeach,clr°fie , m all e.- Glasgow, bound to Bordeaux, ar.d several 5 ashore near the Spurn. , EAST INDIA SHIPPING. ~. )/0 0 " Arrival—Scindian, Terry, from I3enoal, in the 6 st - .iled Sept. 27, St. HelenaDec.ll. ° pec .l2, f r o - ol arrivals at St. Helena—Cartha:gen ian Ikrabay; Emilie, from Bourbon; Dotigla,s, „,,0440.1„,a the. Cape ; Loise, French frigate, from Pe",.l 11°r;, Mtciagascar; Bother, Dec. 21;Herschel, Gllatiitits'7,,,-. Raehael, Three Sisters, Statesman, Mary, Jane, 22d; Czar, Golden Spring, ' el " - I.ls ll ' A 141 1 4 no tiot Margaret Littlejohn, Adolphus Yates, au- 0 1 ; ..-_;s Baron °, l „ v ett" 23d; Maria, Spry, Catherine, Nida, Janies.24'iotert,,:' John Brown, Caroline, Violet, 25th; DrY t , : t e ,W it 7;ii Bloride,26th; Ganymede, Elizaleth Hughe' 4 l; t ,, prs / ,, 0 0 27th—all from the coast of Africa; Clare lne- aist , "I, to 21st, from coast of Africa ; Unicorn, ••,;‘,li„ Mauritius, and sailed 21st to London; from Batavia, and sailed 22d to liehal er i Tio b o ; mas ter, or ge to Majsty's brig Rapid, 21st, from Ascension; ( - l i ed Ot ot Fourth, Parsons, 22d, from the Cape, and 0 1 yos° I(; , ,ondon; Jack, Taveuor, 23d, from Idauritiu64a tialto Mary Ridley, Sharer, from Calcutta, and s ,, mi c i 0, 1 o st) Lo. don ; Enze, fro i m Brravia and and Cs'‘,"a Amsterdam ; Tiniandra. Skinner, 23d, fr ° ;j r, ' e and Cape, and sailed 26th to London; c o " . g e d.: 9 , l ;i: pa.sed the island; her Majesty's ship I) ' t. r .,, n ' '. sbenroS l 2 ith, from coast of A t•ca; Ascension, Eau", Of. ) 3 0 240, , l i ors,, C ti ats til Calcutta; Inglewood and Sandersons, 9 5 ''' f f , . ~„- re , from Calcutta; Isabella Hooey, Reliacce, from Penang; Earl Durham, 26il'es; 07.,„t; Arrivals at Sydney, N.- w South WOO f i reir as o Norce, from Lon lon ; Mary White, 043 3 . r f" - 9 1 ' kanthe, from Boston ; Sultana, from Ow' t i 'IOW 0 0 1 1 : m o u d r . y , , Afrnonmie,Aplaontititlra.;anSrmlnaeid NoVflaivoth:; ii - o ki lge rg:' IV ° , y, 1 t China ; Giraffe, G. ant, and Eagle, 1 1 11, Launceston. Departures from Sydney—.llWer' Sifr 0 1 London ; S lit. n, 23d, to S a ,divi ,fr. !''':' a c t;. r li re ' Arrival at Hobart Town—Atbeao, -° Liverpool. APPALLING MURDER AT BETHNAL-GREEN. Tuesday an intense degree of excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green, in consequence of a rumour that a young woman named Emma Whiter, twenty-one years of age, had been shot dead with a pistol, by a young man named James Tapping, who had for some time past been paying her his ad dresses ; and from an early hour in the morning the vicinity of Worship-street Police-court, at which the case was expected to undergo invesigation, was densely thronged with persons of both sexes, anxious to catch a glimpse of the suspected murderer. Shortly before one o'clock the accused was brought to that Court in a cab, in the custody of Sergeants Shaw and Backhouse, of the K division, and was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham to answer the charge. The prisoner, who is a remarkably fine made young man, about twenty-three years of age, upon entering the dock, which he did with a firm step, looked around him with a placid expression of countenance, and did not appear at all affected by the critical position in which he was placed. The following witnesses were then called and ex amined in support of the charge : Thomas Auvache, a weaver, living in Manchester street, Waterloo-town, Bethnal-green, stated that ate quarter before one o'clock that morning he was pass ing down a turning leading from Sebright-street to South Conduit.street, Bethnal-green, in company with a friend of his named Harvey, when he observed a smouldering fire, resembling lighted tinder, at the foot of a brick wall belonging to one of the houses. He instantly proceeded to the spot, when he dis covered a young woman lying on her left side with her head resting against the wall. On looking closely at her, he observed that her face and person were deluged with blood, which was flowing copiously from a wound in her neck, and she had every appearance of being lifeless. Witness raised her from the ground and supported her in his arms, while Mr. Harvey ran to the top of the street, at which two young men were standing, to entreat their assistance for the dying woman. Witness then placed his hands beneath the arms of the young woman to further raise her, when he distinctly felt her heart beat, or rather heave, as though she were in convulsions; the heaving ceased, and she dropped her head in a state of insensibility upon the witness's shoulder, and although he thought he saw her once open her eyes, she did not utter a word, and on the return of Mr. Harvey, they together carried her beneath a gaslamp, the part of the street where she was found being very dark, that they might have greater facility for rendering her assist ance. A policeman having new arrived and looked at the injured woman, he instantly pronounced her to be dead, and she was as quickly as possible conveyed to the Duke of Gloucester public-house adjoining, where a shutter was procured, on which she was re moved to the London Hospital. In answer to a question from the magistrate, the witness added, that the smouldering fire he observed when his attention was first attracted to the deceased was one of the poor creature's bonnet-strings bullring like a slow - wateh. Sergeant Backhouse, 37 K, examined the spot where the young woman had been found by the first witness, and discovered a large pool of bl9o(1 extend ing three yards in length down the pavement, in the midst of which he found a woman's patten, about eight or nine inches further on another patten, and about twelve inches beyond that a large-sized and well-finished pocket-pistol, with percussion lock, the hammer of which was down, and which had cvi gently been but very recently discharged, as it sine!t very strongly of powder. About half-past two in the morning witness first saw the prisoner in the police station. He had then on over the dress he now wore a white apron, upon the right side of which Sergeant Shaw and the witness observed several spots of blood. On being called upon to furnish an explanation of these appearances, the prisoner replied, " Oh, I didn't. know there were any spots of blood upon it, and if there are, I can't account for them." [The witness here produced the pistol, the two pattens, and the prisoner's apron. The former was such as the witness' had described it—somewhat large for the pocket, and next in size to a duelling-pistol. The latter was an ordinary workman's apron, and the spots of blood spoken of were plainly visible upon it.] Sergeant Shaw stated, that he had that morning been at the London Hospital, where he had seen the dead body of the young womon. On exa fining the upper portion of her person, he observed in the throat a small hole, which was perfectly black in appear ance, and manifestly caused by the perforation of a bullet, which must have been discharged into the deceased's neck from the side, as it had completely cut through the jugular vein. There was no cor responding orifice on the other side of the deceased's throat, and from that circumstance the witness con sidered it evident that the ball must be still lodged either in the yocng woman's throat or head. William Slater, a weaver, living in South Conduit stret4, Bethnal-green-road, stated that he had been well acquainted for some time past both with the prisoner and the young woman he was accused of having murdered. At about half-past twelve o'clock on the preceding night, on his return home, he was standing on the door-step of his father's house, where he lodged, when he saw the prisoner and the deceived walking together towards the upper end of the street. They appeared to be in con versation, and the prisoner had one of his arms round the young woman's neck. Witness watched them in the same position as far as the first turning in the street, and then went up stairs to bed. He had not been in his bed-room more than six or seven minutes, and had scarcely undressed himself, when he heard the loud report of a gun or pistol, sounding "close at hand," and of such extreme violence as to shake everything in the place. The report was so alarming that he instantly hastened to both the front and back window of the room, and looked into the street and garden, but was unable to discover any thing, and therefore retired to rest, not imagining that such a tragical occurrence had taken place till he saw the pool of blood before spoken of on the next morning. William Whiter, the brother of the deceased, a respectable-looking man, keeping a beer-shop in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, stated that at ten o'clock on the preceding night the prisoner, with whom he was acquainted, in consequence of his paying attentions to his sister, came to his house in the company of the deceased. The latter went into the back parlour. while the prisoner went into the tap room, and both of them remained in the house until twelve o'cloek, when they left together. Mr. BINGHAM—Did they appear to you to be on good terms with each other? Witness—Yes, Sir, perfectly so; I observed nothing to the contrary. Thomas Whiter, the father of the deceased, an el derly, grey-headed man of respectable appearanc formerly a licensed victualler, but now a silk weaver. said he had applied to a policeman to take the prisoner into custody. Upon entering the kitchen of the pri soner's house, in Manchester-row, he found him seated at a table with his head resting on his hands and excessively pale. Witness asked him what he had done with his daughter ? and the prisoner posi tively denied that he had either seen her that niiiht or the night preceding. Witness then asked him if he knew anything of her? and the prisoner an swered in the same positive manner that he did not. Witness, however, replied that that was very strange, and taxed him closely with a knowledge of his daughter; on which the prisoner " recanted" all that he had previously said, and acknowledged that be had been in the deceased's company up to half-past twelve o'clock at night, and that lie had then parted from her at the end of Mape-street, .and that he knew nothing whatever further about her. Witness was so satisfied of the falsehood of this declaration that he determined upon giving him into custody, and having procured the assistance of two other policemen, the prisoner was ultimately carried off to the station. Richard King, a tailor, living in Becleford-row, Bethnal-green, stated, that he was acquainted w th the prisoner, and that one night last week, but the witness could not recollect which, he was in company with the prisoner in the Rising Sun public-house, in Waterloo-town, Bethnal-green, when a pistol, similar in size and appearance to that produced by Sergeant Backhouse, and which, though he could not poss sively swear to its being the same, he had very little doubt was so, was handed about among persons in the room. He did not, however, notice what ultimately became of the pistol upon that occasion, nor did he hear what remarks the prisoner made respecting it. At the termination of each witness's examination, the magistrate asked the prisoner if he wished to put any questions, and was each time answered in a ne gative. There being no further evidence to produce, the magistrate then formally asked the prisoner if he had any answer to make to the charge, and he replied in a hoarse half-choked tone, " No, Sir, I have not." Mr. BINGHAM made no observations upon the case, and ordered the prisoner to be again brought up that that day next week. The prisoner throughout the first portion of the examination treated the charge with great confidence, if not positive lightness, but during the examination of the witness Slater he entirely lost his sell posses sion, the muscles of his face worked with a convulsive twitch, and, rapidly turning his hat round between his fingers, he threw his head back and kept his eyes intently, but apparently unconsciously, fixed upon the Magistrate, to watch the probable effect of the testimony. A Coroner's inquest was afterwards held before Mr. Baker, at the London Hospital, upon the body, but adjourned, in order that a post mortem examina tion might be made. MARKET I NE WS.—.4 I " S °{l) CORN EXCH/11440 t• We a reit We bad a full average supply of e ;. ho 0 1 : 0 14 .1 e: the demand ruled steady, at tull Po „Ado* A fe Wheat, next to nothing was passing r e of were firm. The supply of Barley scriptions were ho-avy, at, in some iot a doliv . dueed ratei. In Malt next to nothing I; Beans, and Peas about stationary'. AnnivALs. oats: Wheat. B a rley , " - if ) I / 1,460 qrs. 2,570 VS. i,dl° - ---- .../ -..-- ' Malt, 2,490 (Ir s. I 3.,:t3t T eas h a er ; e ivie i t ;i i, onl iAril y a I n t .r o E d ,C r a at ji :r 3 ri l:l ; t cl or i‘fe;t.f'l l ie6l rail speaking, the dem si tu ruied r i i I :toil„„ llr. i 2 6d AP it j the careteie. irIT• t :le COAX. raisSZ , na rke , 4' Prices ter ton at the close of tlie -- ;8 6, 04; N ''l l• a s i in n , 18s 17 ; 9d das i t 3 i t t l i d g l s le' l s la W rtl e e s y t . fle ' nel w or 19. s ; PMrBirisbostf3iir"ss:llBHda2rattol6e:4,6l°s3d6sd; 61 : 31:1811irs:; : i c : , : ;; rirki. 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They enable me to heir he " eg ee 9 1 and at a place of worship most distinctly,. or y id , if io 0 {; Hand lass which you have sent tne sr of °of 44 1 4 suit my sight perfectly, the transpareocYtob l a ir o c y liant, that although I have passed toY A by C O O 1: 0 4 May last, yet they enable me to read. an"ire d l or t i , 0.4 the greatest ease and comfort to ture lf ' a nt, , roil' I thanks, and remain your obedient orl-otalc-.06•r/i, 23d June, 1839.—Telescopes. OP era -3 - Os r &c. of the same kind of Lenses.—Caution'toystoldelt. lomons, Opticians and Aurists, are Ant in 'dist° .00 a person of the same name in their ini pl o nt ? I 'm 1 Nor n any part of the country. To P re , 39, fl''' cl Of 4 tious, and Observe,—Only to be bad a' -OOP ( ,),4 1 Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. v v t i e. A pr THE DEATH FROM A L l 't?, E g int ir „, rl o l. NEwiNGTON.- -On Tuesday a ,- - .„, 1. o r .- r ro l ge i, b,.fore Mr. William Carter, the tilijoioires, f i e at the Duke of Glowester Tavern 'rot Joliet ) , I ton, i especting the death of Illargi,/ died 0 0 1 100 ei, three years, who it was alleged 1 0 l o c ,oo o o by her husband, who is n° // , 0 1 licrooN witnesses having repeated the so u ni- d a r . ,,c ) a 0 1 1 In•fore the Magistrate of Ltsu we l3ar r. O c ir" Friday, the Coroner called gr., 0 P:,000 1 Saville-row, Walwor th -road, " le d oacleotefglid gcons, who deposed that he 135 00 Y ,0 6 .,_e examination of the body. There Il i, rec e 4l l rei of violence, excepting the roarks o o f, lr they Of. deceased had died from an effasiol? h nrittolyf in the ventricles of the braio, whi , c ji 0 1 '0 lelf I. mg-standing disease, and not at all 1ar,91/4 thing like injury. The stato of ' The .1, from great mental excitement', ca use s ' il . verdict of--... Death from natura , Ac olf j ----- toi rer /f B.Lara s • ,Do r /4 0 ' P On the 21st inst., in Crescent•Piace_ ,tOO , 0 # Charles William Gray, of a son. ~ prig - ,t, i' On the 22d inst., at Western-roaul ~, Or d t f Oldham, of a son. 0 0/ ,tolt r i , e, ye' th e l TuOrnnert,hoef2a3ddaiungsht.t,era.t Chafford. rehs ,r , On the 23d inst., at Stock Wood Hoag ~.,01 Chit, V .' 0 11 C. Shaw, of a daughter. T•C hit " IP On the 24th inst., the wife of • e h 0,1 Temple, of a son. , tie° ' <GO 1' On the 24th inst. ,a tStoke Bisil. ~n , t• de Edward Barges, Esq. ,f a dauht',oooo.-- o sY 4 / On the 24th inst., a tMansfield vi if , Of 06 / of James Salmond ,Si. of a P D. the w On the 25th inst, a Tooting', o . o of ,t , Lord, of a daughter. B e verleY , the- 1 -011 4 "L io r d On the 25th inst., a herd, Esq., of a son of a son. t erra c e (0 7,0- at GNI ° arttl'" ,:( i On the 25th inst. ' , in St.George'B 'P iece' P -d 1.1 ; On the 26th inst., soil. P- i 7 r water, Mrs. Peter Boully, of a , esp..- ,d O. AI On the 26th inst., the wife 01 o w; v j i;e11 Light Infantry, of are ' to ot, 1/1 r e f a ir _On the 26th inst., in Bke - ifia Altai; . -,ker, Bart., of a son. 4 0 14 fif e On the 26th inst., at Norfolk o of Lieutenant-Colonel Maclean, Th-estlhfr 4 Blaca On the 27th inst., at Lee, fa 00' 4,, t William Francis Sims, ALA , 0 D. toove M t. 1 01 0° 0 11 0 4°°' d r At Lambeth Church , e.t . i n JO tto n 'hir nion, eldest daughter of the la 'St Isli t ai" Middlesex. M. a t r h ti e et 2 t, st t h o inst., at . S c t o • ib:rnile, gide' 611,6, - , u ffolk• N. Colborne, of Bungay , .- ri s PO ' 0 O P ' tit ° P e i° 4, . Oiotigoli, isp, On the 15th inst., at roll,' wit, ~,oeptit On the 10th inst., at TOY'' ~,,, .Of 11 ,11 . t oil: Edward Roberts, R. N . ,„. On the 24th inst., Iv On the 25th inst., at thorrouthey. 0. Si l ; db' second daughter of Mr. W. h r • h piten- -11113 4;1 41.139 Job j(erl_,tr"eigi,,,vol_ola- isaefor On the 25th inst., at L T, rierP.- ~,,f. i r . On the 25th inst., at Co;%_esce, on P" An tr Lindley, of the Adelphi-t r f p e ctorl' o rit• Sei r On the 27th inst. at the "„ ti tjof f es Abdy, Rector of St. inst., at t ' ej . On the 27th inst., -I I d 66. Linsey Holland, Esq., age English • • . • • Irish ...... • Foreign • . •.. fI V frx c/ a • (-) u Printed and Vi ,0 N;l°' 112, '.trend, lr;ntol% ' b d, rI in Thursd Mr. Sturges Bourne has received intelligence of the death of his sister, Mrs. Martin, mother of the Rev. (ieorgo Martin, Chancellor of the diocese of Exeter, who died at Torquay, on Sunday, the 19th inst. It is a sin gular circumstances that. the Rev. Chancellor should lose his mother and his father in-law (the Earl of St Ger manc) on the same day. The deceased lady was in her eighty-third year. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. HIGH TIDE AT DOVER.—DESTRUCTION OF rllO - JAN. 27.—This morning, about gait o'clock A.M., one of the highest tides ever remembered occurred here. At the entrance of the harbour the water was above twenty-one feet in depth, while the actual rise from low water was not less than twenty-five feet ! The quays and piers were almost all covered, anti the area of the harbour presented an uninterrupted sheet of w ater. At the height of the tide a portion of the new harbour works, now going on under the Duke - of Wel. lington and the other Harbour Commissioners, gave way, from the great weight of water in the pent. A strong granite wall, about sixty feet in extent and mar,) feet in thickness, was forced down, when a mighty rush of water, carrying all before it, burst into a large open space behind, which is being excavated for the enlargement of the harbour. Blocks of granite, and masses of brickwork, from two to six tons in weight, were rolled along ten or twelve yards ; and the Lord Sidmouth fishing vessel, that happened to be lying along ' side of the quay close to the beach, was torn from her moorings and swept into the space with great force by the resistless current, and laid up at the extreme end, where, in ordinary tides, she will be " high and dry.' An attempt was made at high water this afternoon te float off the vessel with casks, which proved abortive. as the tide did not rise so high as in the morning by several feet. She has sustained, it is feared, irreparable damage, by rubbing her bottom against the large stones she passed over during the accident. It is very fortunate the accident occurred in the night, for, had it taken place during the day, w hile the workmen were engaged in the eeccuvations, it must have been attended with fatal consequerces. Although fresh fish, such as flounders, cod, ling, haddocks, and whitings, are got in abundance on the west coast, still, soles and turbots are remarkably scarce, and apparently cannot be had either on the east or west coasts, which is altogether unprecedented in the annals of Scotch fisheries. A number of orders for these fish were received here by our principal fishmongers for supplies to any extent, for the Edinburgh, Dublin, and Liverpool markets, which could not be executed. — Greenock Advertiser. DEATH IN THE REGENT'S CANAL.—A PREDICTION IN JEST FULFILLED.—On Tuesday the body of a corpue lent and rather aged person, named Portington, was found in the Regent's-canal, near the Camden-town lock. Five-and-twenty years ago deceased was a master tailor, in extensive business in Tavistock street, Covent-garden. Latterly he held the situa tion of collector of rents and general over-looker on the Agar estate, Camden-town. A week since. meeting Lamb, an occasional summoning officer for the parish ef St. Pancres, serving summonses for an inquest on a person who had died suddenly, he remarked tha such a way of dying was the pleasantest, and -added. jokingly, that seine day or other the officer would have to summon a jury to inquire into the cause of his death The prediction has been verified, and Lamb applied yes terday to Mr. Wakley for a warrant to summon a jury. SUICIDE OF A WORKMAN AT NORTHUMBERLANI Hot;se.—On Tuesday Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Prince's Head, Buckingham-street,Strand, on the body) , John Henry Hollick, aged fifty-seven, in the employ o Mr. Hughes, upholsterer to the Duke of Northumberlant It appeared thatdeceased and others were engaged on Sa• turday forenoon in preparing the furniture and rooms c Northumberland House for the reception of its noble oceu pants. At half-past eleven o'clock he left the dining room in which he had been working, and, not returnini in half an hour, the foreman caused search to be mad, after him. In a few minutes afterwards ho was disco vered iu one of the water-clotets at the basement of the mansion, partly suspended (his feet resting 01 the floor, and his arms on the seat of the closet from a service water-pipe by means of a pieee of strung pack-thread tied round his neck. He was cut down, taken into the kitchen, and Mr. Bransb) Cooper called in, who said that deceased had been dem about a quarter of an hour. Deceased was a temperate and steady man, anti some of the witnesses consideree that his mind was affected by an attack of illness he has three months sinee, and others that it was affected by the breaking up of a benefit society, called the St. James's Union, to which he had for years belonged. He hay paid, at different times, 751., into the above society. Verdict, " Temporary insanity." INIORBING A SOCIALIST LECTURER IN EDINBURGH. —lt appeirs that an abandoned creature has lately pro fessed to deliver infidel lectures in a chapel on the south side of the town, which hive been attended by numbers mainly from curiosity. It is stated that the most dis graceful scenes are enacted within the building, one par of the audience indulging in veciferout applause, ant another in equally clamorous dissent. Last Sabbath evening this riotous spirit came to a head, the fe male ex hibitor being followed from the chapel by an infuriate~ crowd, some of whom attempted to lay violent hand upon her. She was ultimately taken under the protec tian of the police.—Edinburgh Pest. WRIT OF INQUIRY.—The writ of inquirv"at Penriti to assess the damages sustained to the CaltbWaite estat by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, was broughtt a close on Saturday, when the jury awarded the sum: 2,1501. for land taken, severance, and da As thi • s p u a n n ). Tyh 7 et a h s pe l e ud s ke s the fee nad a n n aan t tp h s uw e ci o hl m i e Is p i sa e vnoes of tott 1 o p,. n om ny o ff e r u e* the Con t r t the e i r haveown costs. arri‘ e in Belgrave-squsre, from his Grace'a sp ot imi . sea' Selby Hall, Northamptonshire. The Dukear aches are expected to remain in town until after er Orece approching confinement. Lord William Graham is sti staying on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Poveis,s Walcot, near. Lincoln. PRONE Tilt EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The correspondence between the secre t ries of the London Mission, and the French Government, forms a curious supplement to the dispatches and debates on Otaheite. Our opinion on this question has uniformly been, that whilst sound policy, and a comparative estimate of the in terests involved, alike forbade making its discussion a subject of unnecessary irritation between the two countries, it still less became Englishmen to hush up or gloss over manifest facts from a fear that their mention might be unpleasing to France. To those who hold the latter opinion, indeed, whether private individuals, journalists, or Cabinet Ministers, the cor respondence in question must be a most unwel come publication ' • for it puts strong truths in a clear light, and dashes aside, by a few pungent facts, a vast deal of diplomatic pomp and eloquent sophistry by which the question has been obscured. We will allow for the appeal of the London Mission being called an ex parte statement, for the short reply of the French Minister does not enter into any of the facts there detailed ; but it is one that refers to certain events and occurrences in Otaheite, the contradiction of which is easy if incorrectly cited. The Society's memorial of 13th December may be divided into three portions :-Ist. The Society s recapitulation of its missionary labours up to 1836. 2. A Narrative of the subsequent introduction of French influence, and its effects on the island. 3. A Demand for the relinquishment of the French Protectorate on the grounds of justice and humanity. The first cannot but be regarded as highly creditable to the London Mission. No reasonable person can doubt that the Otaheiteans of 1796—sunk in superstition vice, and ignorance, and, as we are there informed, verging towards extinction from infanticide, human sacrifices, and sanguinary feuds—were a complete contrast to the same people in 1836. This is fair ground for congratulatory reminiscence. A people of considerable physical and moral capabilities (their spirited resistance to the French during the last year proves the former, the latter is confirmed by the statements of all contemporary observers) gradually introduced to civilisation based on the foundation of Christianity, offers a subject of congratulation to all well-wishers to the human race, and is highly creditable to the So ciety by whose agency it was effected. In 1836 occurred the arrival of the two Catholic mis sionaries, and their expulsion under a law of the island, " prohibiting passengers from landing with out. permission from the Queen and governors." This trenches on delicate ground, for the French have always assumed that it was done at the instigation of the agents of the Mission : this the latter deny, or at least imply as much, and disclaim "all desire for a restriction on the propagation of relgious opinions by other Christian communities." We must take this statement with some allowance, for it is in the nature of things that these agents for the propagation of a strict form of Protestantism could not Lok with com placency on the introduction of Roman Catholic doc trines, to say nothing of the risk of diminished social and political influence, which weighs with all men from diplomates to missionaries included. In 1839 a fine of 2,000 dollars was imposed by Captain Dupetit Thouars, for injuries received by MM. Caret and Laval, the expelled missionaries ; and in 1842-3, the protectorate and sovereignty, following each other, led to the destruction of our influence in Ota heite, the abandonment of the missionary schools, and the other events of which we have lately heard much by speeches, correspondence, and diplomatic notes. Then came the demand for the withdrawal of the French protectorate, made formally by Messrs. Smith, Tidman, and Freeman, in the name of the London Mission, on grounds of justice and humanity. It is easy to smile at such a demand, the answer to which was certain ; for we are far enough from a state of society in which the expressed wishes of a body of religious teachers can outweigh the political designs of a powerful nation. But perhaps each party sustains its character herein—the Mission, strong in its spiritual functions, puts aside all po litical interests, and demands that the French eva-, cuate Otaheite on grounds of moral justice and for the benefit of the islanders ; M. Guizot, in his reply, strives with diplomatic finesse to turn his opponents position, and deducts from sentiments " of humanity and toleration" therein set forth, the startling conclusion, that "the mis sionaries will aid the authorities, charged to execu'e the protectorate, in the work of civilisation, &c." An emphatic disclaimer of this presumed co-operation on the part of the Society closes the correspondence. However ludicrous may seem this protocolling be tween a religious society and the Cabinet of France to the worldly wise, some serious matter for reflection is suggested by it to all thinking man. We will now only indicate three points, the last of which has been lately handled by some of our Contemporaries ; these are-1. The theory of protectorates as developed in practice at Otaheite. 2. The social prospects of that interesting island. 3. The policy of allowing re ligious bodies to conduct diplomatic correspondence with foreign Powers. On each of these heads we hope to say something at a future opportunity. MONEY MARKET and CITY NBW:S CITY, TITESDIT EVENING. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 12k per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100, per ounce for standard gold gives an exchange of 46 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 62k, it follows that gold is 0.65 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from llamburgh the price of gold is 434 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/.175. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 91; and the exchange at thmburgh on London at short being 13 101. it follows that gold is 0.57 per cent. dear( r in London than in Ilamborgh. The course of exchange at New York on London is 110/ per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.68 per cent. in favour of England. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be added to the above difference. The Railway Share Market is still very buoyant, and a good deal of business continues to be transacted. New projects are every day starting up, and the success of other Irish schemes has brought forward one called the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Railway, having for its object the connexion of the towns froin Blackwater right through to Portstewart, the ditance being 63 sta tute miles. It appears to be considered that the junction of this line with the harbour of Portrush will give a facility of communication from this point to Glasgow and Liverpool, as there are already steamers on the sta tion. The settlement in this market at the end of the month will give some evidence of the real stability of the quotations ; and should money, as there is reason to expect it will, command a high rate of interest, we shall then have the opportunity of judging of the clri meter of the late extensive operations. In some of the provincial markets it is asserted that they have even been on a larger scale than in London. If this be the case, the brokers of Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Hull, and Glasgow, must have been driving a profitable business. Her Majesty's ship I)ido has arrived from Singa pore, having made a quick passage, the run from the Cape being completed in the short space of about forty (lays. By this opportunity we have received files o f Cape papers to the 15th of December ; and these are about one month later than previous advices. They contain little information as respects the progress of affairs in the colony, except the mention of the im pulse given to industry by the estAi'ishment of agri cultural societies, and the subject treated at the greatest length, as most important at that period, was the ex traordinary state of the weather. Since 1820, when the district of Graham's Town was first established, there had not been known such heavy rains as those experienced within the last few months. During the last year scarcely a week had elapsed without heavy showers, the rain in many instances continuing for several days. The humidity was now felt to be super abundant, and the farmers were said to be anxiously looking for settled weather, required both for harvest work and for sheep-shearing. The rust had made its appearance in some of the corn-fields, but not till the crops were sufficiently advanced to protect them from the full ravages of that fatal disease. In some few cases the ear had been entirely destroyed, but on the whole the result of the harvest, it was expected, would be beyond the usual average. Tho country in the neighbourhood of Sneeuwberg was in fine condition, especially about Brumtjes Hoogte, Somerset, the Kegs, and Fort Beau fort. In Sneeuwberg the harvest had already commenced. TUE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND SIR J. GRAHAM. —On Tuesday a meeting of the general practitioners of the City of London was held at Radley's Hotel, Bridge street, Blackfriars, for the purpose of adopting measures in relation to Sir J. Graham's Bill. Mr. Smith, of Trinity-square, presided. lie addressed the meeting, briefly detailing the several objectionable portions of the proposed measure. The Bill, he added, instead of being elleulated to better the condition of the medical prac titioners throughout the country, was one which, if passed, would deprive the public of competent persons to give medical advice. He was confident that the Go vernment would never persist in passing so iniquitous a measure. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. Roberts, of Finsbury circus, who proposed a reso lution strongly condemnatory of the Bill. Mr. Reade se , e ended it; unanimously carried. DEATH BY FIRE AT THE SERVANTS' HOME. — On Tuesday an inquest was held at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, before Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, on the body of Ann Coates, aged 13, who was burnt to death at the Indigent Refuge or Servants' Home Institution in Princes-street, Red Lion-square. The deceased was ono of the inmates. On Saturday afternoon she was drawing off some boiling water, when her clothes caught fire, and th e poor girl became enveloped in flames. She ran about from room to room screami n g , and in the greatest agony, during which the who le establishment was thrown into the utmost consternation. After great exertion on the part of Mrs. Bridgeforth, the matron, the flames were extinguished, but not before she was frightfully burnt about her head, chest, and arms. She was removed to the hospital, wrapped in blankets. Mr. Parsons, the house-surgeon, stated that the deceased died at an early hour on Monday morning from the effects of the burns. ' Verdict, " Accidental death.'