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TRH trpitit, 14014p:071k!, MON:DAT EVNINGt_ NOVEMBNR 11% 1644. bulk, and of far greater value, which were quite as much within the prisoner's reach as the microscope. Mr. Chambers said he appeared on behalf of the lady, Mrs. Tyrwhit, who was charged with stealing a small article, the selling price of which was half-a crown. In such a fearful, terrific charge as the pre sent, against a lady in her station, it was indispens able that the evidence should be as clear as possible. The case attempted to be made out against the lady was one of the greatest improbability, and this had made him anxious to put certain questions to the witnesses, in order to elicit circumstances which a jury would always wish to be clear upon, before they came to their verdict, on a charge of this sort. It was always desirable to see whether a party, charged with a trum pery offence, even if in an inferior station, had an opportunity of committing an o ffe n ce o f a more serious nature in point of value ; and it was with this view that he had put questions and obtained informa tion to show that the lady had an equal opportunity of taking articles of infinitely greater value, and of smaller compass, than the trifling article she was accused of having stolen. In ordinary cases this fact formed a strong argument against the presumption that an accused person really intended to steal an article like the microscope produced, which was neither useful, ornamental, nor capable of being dis posed of. He could well understand how a person in a superior rank of life, forgetting what was due to herself and neighbour, attracted by ornaments of value, might be tempted to pilfer the property of another. Indeed it was beyond doubt that ladies hal taken articles of value from the premises of Messrs. Howell and James, but it was inconceivable to sup pose that a lady would stoop to steal an article so petty as to be procured for half-a-crown. In dealing with the charge, there was another matter to which he begged to direct the attention of the court, as it was certain a jury would look very closely into it. It was the situation of things at the bazaar at the time SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. of the alleged robbery—the time of day—the number FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. of customers at the bazaar, and the great improbability GLOBE.—By means of the income-tax—which that any party intending to steal would place herself at has produced nearly fifty per cent. more than he a counter, with many eyes turned towards her and in computed, added to a number of favourable contin- specting her actions all the while. There was also gencies—Sir Robert Peel finds himself in possession another part of the evidence which he must publicly of a large surplus revenue. Under such circum- remark upon. He was quite willing to admit the stances, the country has a right to ask and expect immense importance of this bazaar, but then he in two things : —First—that the odious impost upon sisted on it that public justice ought to be done there. trade and. professions be removed at the expire- If persons were charged with offences so serious as tion of the three years for which the tax was felony, he contended it was the duty of those who originaly imposed ; and that, if continued beyond were on the watch to give accused persons a fair that time, in any form, it be confined to tangible, opportunity of explanation, or, if the case was clear, ascertained property. Secondly—a total abolition, or to give the offender at once into the custody of the material reduction, of duties which press most severely police. It could not be tolerated that a suspected on the trade and industry of the country. Of such person should be led through the bazaar to an office duties, there is one which is peculiarly impolitic and to be searched, and that when, by this means, a crowd oppressive. Perhaps there is no tax a re d uc ti on or re - was collected round the part, something should be moral of which would he more advantageous to the picked up from the ground, by the help of which community than the duty upon Policies of Insurance. something only a charge was attempted to be sus- At the same time it might be effected without ulti- tained. According to the evidence not only the lady mately occasioning any material loss of revenue. snspected was searched at the office, but her niece The great comparative extent to which the business was obliged to undergo the same disgraceful cere of insurance is carried in Great Britain affords one of mony. He was, however, glad that in this case this the least equivocal tests of our superior progress in practice had been resorted to, for the result was civilization, and of the greatest diffusion amongst us to show that the ladies did not go to the bazaar of habits of providence and foresight. It appears, to take what did not belong to them, nothing from the official returns, that the gross duty received except what was their own property having been on policies of insurance against fire in the United found on them. There was one other point which he Kingdom, in 1843, amounted, in round numbers, was anxious to have cleared up, and he fortunately pos to one million sterling, independent of farming- sessed the means. In ordinary cases of shoplifters a stock, which is exempt from duty. As the duty strong proof of guilt was evidence showing that par is three shillings per cent., the property insured, ties went into shops to purchase a small article, and subject to duty, was valued at the immense sum of adopted this pretext to steal a larger one. But he ' eady 667,000,0001. But, vast as this sum cer- should show, in the case of Mrs. Tyrwhit, th a t s h e tainly is, it is still true th a t mos t b u ildi ngs , w i t h went to the bazaar for an expensive purchase. The their contents, are not insured at near their full lady had a fancy for paroquets. She had recently value. Evan in towns, many are not insured at all ; lost one of a pair, and she had gone to the bazaar to , and in the country the insurance of farm-buildi ngs i s replace her loss. It was when going down stairs, comparatively rare. It is difficult to imagine that after having entered into a dealing for one of these ex this d sinclination to insure can be owing to any cause HER AfAJESTY'S STAG HOUNDS.—The Royal pack Pensive birds, and after having stopped for a minute other than the exorbitance of the tax. It is especially this year consists of 53 couple, 36 couple of which are old to make a trifling purchase at one of the stands that the duty of governments to encourage habits of and 17 young hounds—viz., 1 couple, 8 years old ; 1 she was, to her horror and amazement, charged with forethought, and to contribute , by every means in couple, b years ; 2 couple, 5 years ; 7 couple, 4 years ; stealing an article of no real use or value. Ile men their pea er to the protection of property, and to 9 couple, 3 years ; 16 couple, 2 years ; and 17 couple, tioned - this circumstance to show that it was utterly 1 year old. Her Majesty's stag hounds in 1842, num- hopless a charge of this nature could be sustained be casualtiesthe mitigation of the disastrous effects of those bered 5 . 0 ; and in 1843, 52 couple. About 100 gentle to which it is exposed. But it men, including Lord Rosalyn, the master of the Royal fore a jury. If, on inquiry, it should turn out there would appear as if Parliament, when it imposed , was a real foundation for the charge, then the persons Lodge, were at the meet on 'Friday morning, at New this tax, had thought that the less security there at the bazaar did only their duty. But he was there Lodge, Winkfield, where an untried deer was uncarted was fir property and the more disastrous fires, between eleven and twelve o'clock, going away to Wink- on the part of the lady to deny the charge, and to ex and other calamitous visitations upon it, were ren field Park, on nearly to the village, where it doubled to press her indignation and astonishment at being dered, the better ! The pra c ti ce o f insuran c e has the right on the left of Hawthorn-hill. Thence it mrele charged with a felony at the bazaar, when she had grown up amongst us, not in consequence of encour- for Warfield Church, and was taken at Putt-bridge, merely gone there with her husband and niece to make agements by the Government, but in the teeth of near the residence of Lady Malcolm, after a run, over a a purchase. the most formidable obstructions. The duties im country of nine miles generally heavy, of nearly an hour. Mr. Ashton, a bird-dealer in Oxford-street, was posed on it do not really seem to have been imposed No fixture has yet been made for the by-day on Wednes- called. He said he had a room at the Soho Bazaar, for the sake of revenue, but that the business might day next. The meet on Monday will be at the Stag and where he sold birds. He knew the lady at the bar ~H o u , rids, Binfield ; and on F r id a y, a t Li tt l e t on , near very well. The lady had been to him on the day be suppressed. The premium ch arge d by th e dif- ot ane ferent offices on risks of ordi nar y h azar d i s , at s ' when the alleged theft took place, to get a companion this moment, Is. 6d. per cent.; while the duty is no . for her grey parrot. The parrot would cost Si. or 9/. less than 35., or 200 per cent. on the premium ; so POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Chambers said the lady's niece was in attend that an individual insuring 1,0001. upon a house, a (SATURDAY.) ante, but on considerati on h e wou ld s p are h er f ee li ngs shop, &c., pays the insurer 15s. to ind emn ify hi m este and not call her. against his risk; and 30s. of duty to Government, with MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. HARDWICK said, under all the circumstances, b. on each policy, whatever may b e th e amoun t i n - Mr. Driver, wholesale stationer, of No. 28, King- the evidence was of a nature that he could not do sured, fier liberty to enter into such a transaction ! street, Cheapside, and another respectable and exten- otherwise than have it submitted to the consideration We hesitate not to say, that the existence of such a sive tradesman, applied to Sir Peter Laurie, in con- of a jury, however extraordinary and incredible it duty is disgraceful to the country. To enlarge sequence of the active exertions of a gang of depre. might appear for a lady of station to-purloin an ar on its triscl ' iievoas influence is utterly unnecessary datora, one of whom was named John Simonds, who title of such trifling value, yet with the dire c t testi lts operation in lessening and preventing insur- represented himself as a d ea l er i n E as t an d West mony of the matron, who saw her take it, of the per ances is universally felt and acknowledged. We India produce, and whose office was at 13, Great St. son who saw her drop it, and of the proprietor of the are supported b y the authority of every one b es t a bl e Th omas A pos tl e . stall, who saw it safe just b e f o r e th e p u r c h ase , an d t.) form a sound conclusion on such a point, when we Mr. Driver, it was stated, had been victimised to missed it immediately afterwards, he did not see how express our conviction that the reduction of the duty the amount of 181. Mr. Simonds, who is a person it was possible to decide otherwise than that the case from 3s. to Is. per cent. would occasion such an of respectable appearance, called in the absence of Mr. must go to trial. extension of the business, that the loss of revenue that Driver, and gave an order to his son for two reams of Mr. Chambers applied for the prisoner to be ad would take place in the first instance would, in a paper, and for the engraying of two plates, with 1,000 mitted to bail. very short time, cease to be considerable, or be alto- copies of each. The order was executed upon the Mr. HARDWICK agreed to take two good bail in gether replaced. But though thi s an ti c i pat i on un d ers t an di ng th at rea d y money was to be paid ; 25 0 /. each, and the prisoner's recognizance in 500/. were not fully realised, would not the sacrifice of but, unfortunately, Mr. Driver's servant was pre- Bail was immediately put in. 100,0001. of annual revenue be compensated a hundred- veiled upon to leave the goods without receiving the James Smith, a clerk in the employ of Mrs. Parkes, fold by the security afforded to t wo h un d re d cas h ; an d, as m i g ht b e expecte d , a l l appl i cat i ons were in Golden-square, who recently had a picture raffle, millions of capital ? We incline to think that Mr. fruitless. There was the appearance of real business wa s cha rge d w ith having assaulted Robert Fisher, of Goulburn himself would pause before he determined in the purchasing counting-house, for there were No. 23, Clarges-street. to resist a proposition for the reduction of this im- several real hams about the place. The complainant said he purchased some tickets in politic duty. The extreme hazard to which property Sir PETER LAURIE—Are you sure they were real the recent picture lottery, one of which came up a at sea is exposed, renders its insurance of peculiar hams ? For these fellows have so much ingenuity small prize. He went on Friday, with a friend, to consequence to individuals and to the public. Yet that they cen stock their premises with all sorts of Golden-square, to exchange his tickets for prints. the insurers of ships and cargoes, as we ll as o f imaginar 3 goods.—(Laughter.)—The witness said The defendant showed him the pictures which were houses and the property they contain, are subjected there was, he believed, no doubt as to the reality of to be selected from, but these pictures appeared to be to very oppressive duties. All policie s o f mar i ne in- th e h og ' s fl es h. Th ere were , however, several so inferior that he told the defendant he thought the surance must be on stamped paper. Policies packages on the shel v e s very neatly arranged, which public had been imposed upon, that the pictures were on vessels engaged in the foreign or colonial corresponded with Si r Peter Laurie's description of not what they were represented to be, and that, in trade, may be its conveniently effected in Il a mburgli, some of the London swindl ers . Amster short, the public harl b een h um b ugge d . Th e de dam, or New York, as in London ; an d as Mr. Boyd, a very intelli gen t s t a ti on clerk, stated fendant instantly struck him from behind a blow, policies executed in these cities are either wholly that upon hearing the representation of the gentle- which blackened his eye. Complainant was staggered exempted from duties, or are subject to such man relative to Simonds, he went to the counting- by the unexpectedness of the assault, but having re as are nominal only, the duty imposed on them house in St. Thomas Apostle, and saw there a num- covered he returned the blow, and a scuffle ensued, in this country causes a large portion of that in- ber of packages, which upon examining proved to be which was put an end to by the interference of those surance business to be transacted on the Con- filled with chaff and sawdust. The owner of that wha were in the room. tinent, and in the United States. That such is property, however, had absconded, and the female A solicitor who attended for the defendant wished the case is known to every merchant. The insurance who had let the counting-house to him was in great the complainant to say in whose service he was. The of ves-els in the colonial arid foreign trade is gra- alarm. There were several persons, no doubt, in the complainant objected to answer the question, and Mr. dually, but certainly, leaving this country. The firm, which had been traced to Thames-street, where Hardwick, held the question to be irrelevant. duty is, in fast, driving a valuable branch of industry they had taken in all they could. The complainant was then cross-examined. Ac from amongst us. Even though it had no such effect, Sir PETER LAURIE declared that he would feel the cordin g to the terms of the raffle he was entitled to it is clear that a tax on the security of property at sea greatest satisfaction in coming in contact with every prints of the value of a guinea for his ticket. Nothing is not one that ought to exist in any country, and, individual of the firm. He, however, would have was offered to him to select from except what ap least of all, in a commercial country like England. the satisfaction of meeting Mr. Simonds out of the peered to him to be prints of little or no value. Was 'We do, therefore, hope that Sir R. Peel will avail City by means of the press, the exposure of such net offered a two-guinea print for his ticket, but was himself of the favourable condition of the public cases rendering infinitely more service to the public told he could have it if he paid the difference. Did finances to repeal these duties. The country, so deeply than the diluted trials at the Old Bailey. not call the defendant either a liar or a thief. interested in their removal, should, by deputations Mr. Boyd stated that every exertion should be John Richardson, cheesemonger, 41, Old Bonds from the various ports of the kingdom, press the sub made to secure the per Son of the accused. street, went with last witness to Golden-square. ject on his consideration. The Right lion. Baronet - MARLBOROUGH -STREET. While looking about the room he heard a noise, and will thus be prepared for having the subject brought Mrs. Jane Tyrwhit, the wife of a gentleman of for- on turning round, to his great surprise, saw his before Parliament early in the approaching session ; tune, residing at No. 1, Charles-street, Berkeley- friend and the defendant fighting. He ran to part when we hope the removal of the tax on policies of square, was put to the bar before Mr. Hardwick, them, and told the defendant neither he nor his friend fire and marine insurance will form one of the items charged with having stolen a microscope, value 2s 6d., had come there to fight; they had come there for their of the new budget. from a stand in the Soho Bazaar, kept by Miss Mary property. Parted the combatants, and would not let STANDARD.—A case of some importance was Ann Lewis. any further violence take place. Did not hear any argued in the Irish Rolls Court on Thursday last, Mr. Chambers attended for the accused, who was offensive words from the complainant to the defen which involved the question of whether or not a be- allowed a seat within the bar. dant. The only words he heard the complainant use quest in Ireland of money directed to be expended Miss Lewis said the prisoner came to her stand be- were, " Show us the pictures ; there are no pictures "in masses for the s ou l' s s a ke" b e va lid. Th e Bill tween four and five o'clock on Friday afternoon, and here worth anything.' Nothing could have been alleges that such a bequest is for " superstitious pur- made a purchase of a thermometer, which she paid more uncalled for or unprovoked than the assault on poses, and therefore against the policy of the law." for. Immediately after the prisoner had left the stall, the complainant. I'he facts of the case ar e th ese :—ln 1837 th e Rev. in consequence of a question put to her by the inspec- Edward Pearson said the defendant struck the corn- Mr. Kearns, a Roman Catholic priest, of Rath- tress of the bazaar, she looked over her stock, and plainant a severe blow on the face, but did not hear farnham, made a will, granting certain legacies ; di- missed a small microscope. The microscope was some any words from tha. complainant to provoke the blow. reefing a life annuity to be paid to his sister out of time afterwards shown to her, and she knew it to be Heard the complainant say something about having his property; and further devising that any residue her property, and it was safe on her stand just before been humbugged. accruing after the death of the annuitant should be the prisoner made a purchase there. She did not see The defendant's solicitor said the black eye which " expended for masses for his soul's sake." The the prisoner take the microscope. the complainant exhibited had been done with a stick Will named two executors, the Re v . M r . D ug i enan S ara h H ar k er said she was inspectress of the bazaar. carried by the witness Richardson. and Mr. Hodgens. Within five years of its date She was in No. 300 room , w h ere Mi ss Lewis ' s stand Mr. Richardson said this was quite untrue, as he Mr. Kearns died without having revoked his was, at the time the prisoner was buying something had neither stick nor umbrella with him. will, and the surviving executor (Mr. Hodgens) at the stand. While the last witness was putting the The solicitor then said he would admit that blows having taken out letters of administration, paid purchase in paper, she distinctly saw the prisoner take had been exchanged, but he would prove they had the several legacies, and continued to pay the microscope from the counter. As soon as the been provoked by the complainant calling those con the annuity up to 18-10, when the annuitant prisoner had left the stand she went to call one of the netted with the raffle cheats and thieves. died, arid Ee proceeded to dispose of the " remaining men belonging to the bazaar, and having met with A nephew of Mrs. Parkes said the defendant residue of the property" in accordance with the desire one of the door-keepers, she went up to the prisoner, offered the complainant a two-guinea print because of the testator. Two parties, alleging to be next of who had joined a young lady who was at another Ihe was dissatisfied. The complainant, however, was kin, have since disputed, not the general validity of I stand with a gentleman, and requested them to walk ' very abusive, and called the defendant a thief. the instrument, the insufficiency of administration, or ' into the office. A police-constable was sent for, after Lavinia Smith, the defendant's daughter, said she the manner in which the effects of the deceased were which the prisoner was given into custody. heard her father offer the complainant a two-guinea administered up to the p er i o d o f th e d em i se o f t h e Cross-examined—Was sorry to say that she had ;print, because he a pp eare d to b e dissatisfied. The annuitant; but the validity o f th a t por ti on c f t h e , made many similar charges against ladies; but could i complainant, howe ver , wou ld not accept the offer, but will which directs the " residue to be expended : not tell the number. I said they were all a set o f sw i n dl ers, and had cheated in masses " for the soul o f th e d ecease d ; a ll eg i ng b y I George Norris, door-keeper, said he followed behind , the public. The complainant afterwards called her their bill that the " bequest of th e said residue the prisoner as she was on her way to the office with ! father a thief, and then her father struck him. for masses for the sake of the soul of the said ' the matron. He saw something drop from the side The complainant declared, on his solemn oath, testator, was void and of no effect, as being a gift of the prisoner, which he immediately picked up. It i there was no truth in the statement that the defend an t for superstitio us p urposes , an d , therefore, contrary ; was a small microscope, which he now produced. I had offered him a two-guinea print for his ticket. to the policy of the law." Accordingly they seek to I Police-constable Mer c h an t, C 49, sa id h e rece i ve s !On the c on trary, the defendant was downri g ht saucy recover th e amount o f t hi s res i due from the executor. ' charge of the prisoner, and took her to the station- 'to him, and, in quite an off-hand way, said the public The arguments of counsel on both sides have been house. I were never satisfied. He (complainant) replied, they heard, but the case still stands over for judgment. I Mrs. Harker was re-called, and The Freeman' j been cross-examined-- had got the public money, anc . l that was all they permit a Roman an orral contends that, to refuse , The prisoner and the lady with her were searched at i wanted. lie thought the public had hum totrine of his Church —the priest to practice the doe- the bazaar. Their clothes were taken off, but no- ; bugged, and he thought so still. and wholesome thought to doctrine that it is " a holy thing was found upon them to implicate them in any ; Mr. HARDWICK said it was clear some litl le provo preparing for death himself,pray for the dead," when ' charge. Witness searched the prisoner, but not the ; cation had occurred on the part of the con plainant., repeal of the Emancipation Act, would whic be a virtual other lady. It was part of the orders from Captain) The complainant felt himself aggrieved and had used inorted per- Trotter's office, that persons susp ec t e d o f th e ft s h ou ld l s t rong l anguage , w hi c h h a d provo k e d a retor t. sons of that pe rsuas i on with the right superstitious a s th ey p l eased; and that thbeeing as be sear c h e d. M r . B ryant, t h e clerk, gave witness ' The defendant declared that a valuable Russell nition of' such an obita e l e wou ld b e to probiZt e6 cfc . order s t o searc h suspected parties. Had seen the print was offered to the complainant. 'Dais was rectly the free exerci se o f th e R oman Catholic reli-- wards identified by Miss Lewis. door-keeper find the miscroscope, which was after- ' peremptorily denied by the complainant. gion in Ireland, and render a new agitation for 1 I Mr. lIARDWICK said he could not see 'why tise de emancipation indispensable. The case was abl Miss Lewis, when questioned, said there were 1 fendant should take upon himself to be the champion y many articles of jewellery on her stand, of smaller .of the establishment. If the complainut had really s•-• • 0 avgasd oh both aidea, appeared to be whether the law which has existed in England since Ist of Edward IV., and which was intended to restrain such bequests can he considered as applying with equal force to a country in which so large a majority of its people are Roman Catholics. The question is certainly a delicate one, but precedents for disre garding such bequests in this country are numerous and unequivocal; and if the law of the land be ap pealed to to establish the validity of Mr. Kearn s will, why should not the supremacy of the Pope (a formal doctrine of the Roman Catholic religion) and the injunctions of Dr. Dens, be similarly vin dicated ? THE FUNDS-(C BRITISH 13:11e1 Stock ex div : 201%! 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent. Cons. )!,, per Cent. li ,- -1 New 3U per Cent. 10 2 ,,,i New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities to expire /an 1560.....«........ 12 1-16 Oct. 1859... ........ ... Jan. Indian Stock FOREIG Austrian, 5 per Cent ..... Belgian, 5 per Cent ...... Bras,Jim: Bonds Buenos A yres, 13 per Cent Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent...— Ghlllan, ,; per Cent — ...... Colombian, 6 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent — fireek Is 5, 5 per Cent Mexican, 5 per Cent Neapolitan Bonds,s per Ct — Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Ye ,, u ' , tan Bonds, 6 per Ct — Portugueie Bonds, 5 per Ct. SII :40SING PRICES). FUNDS. !Ditto Bonds £l,ooo — r^ . , Ditto under £I,(V 66 pin. !South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuitics Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I%cl Ditto 5004 ..... 64 pm. Ditto 5ma11........ Bank Stock for Acct — Consols for Act ...... 100 u a India Stock for Acct — FUNDS. Russian, 5 per Cent Ditto, Metallic...-. ..... Spanish, 5 per Cent., 1840 23.X, Ditto, 1841 Ditto ....... « — Ditto, Date, 184 i Ditto, 3 per Cent 354 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct — Fiench, 5 per —t -c. French, 3 per Cent —l. . exchange ....... —c. Dutch, 2% per Cent Ditto,;s per Cent RES. NOMINATION OF SHERIFFS.—A Privy Council will be held in the Court of Exchequer to-morrow afternoon, when the nomination of gentlemen to serve the office of Sheriff in the different counties of England will talc(' place. _ _ MILFORD.—The Berthally, Jones, from Portmadoc to Newcastle, has arrived at this port, having narrowly escaped being shipwrecked. It appears that on the morning of the 29th ult., she bore up for Ramsey Sound, in consequence of the wind blowing hard right a-head, where she remained till the next day; when, in endra vouring to get under weigh, she missed stays and struck on a sunken rock, where she stuck for five hours. The weather being moderate she came off, with comparatively trifling damage to keel and planks. It h av in g b een deemed advisale to get the sloop George, Shearer, from Newport to Dublin, laden with coals, under weigh, being too near the ground and striking heavily, during the gale of the Ist instant, it was accordingly done—but missing stays, she came ashore under the Old Battery, where she bilged and filled with water. The cargo has since been got out, and the vessel brouget into Ilubberstone Pill to be repaired.—Cumbrian. _ Caledon'an (5 pa;d) Cambr:dge and Lincoln, 1) paid 214 Eastern Counties (25 paid) .... .... Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Ely and Bedford, 1 paid l% Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 raid ... tii Great North of England, 100 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid London and Croydon London and York, 23% paid 3 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Manchester and Birmingham South eastern and Dover (33 2a 41 paid) ..... York and North Midland (50 paid) Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) Ditto Scarboro' B ranch, 10 paid Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid 78% Rstilogne and Amiens, a mid ...., 454 Orleans and Vierzon,2p,id 9% Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid .......„ 3% Rouen and Havre, 10 paid 22% APPREIIENSION OF A MURDERER.—This morning about nine o'clock, Mr. John M•Laren, sheriff's offieer, apprehended in Washington -street, Anderston, John M‘Lauchlane, lately a plasterer's labourer, the man who, in the month of September last, assaulted a person named Dunn or Dunion, with a reaping -hook, during a quarrel, in a harvest-field on the farm of Alton, in the parish of Campsie, whereby the weapon in question en tered the body of Dunn below the arm, and the point of which touching his heart, he died almost instantaneously. The prisoner, who has not been seen or heard of since the fatal affray, although every search has been made for him, was quite cool and collected when apprehended by Mr. IPLaren, and intimated that it was his intention at any rate to give himself up to justice. He was conveyed by the officer on his way to Stirling Gaol, by the eleven o'clock train on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.— Glasgow Saturday Post. ENGLISH AND IRISH WOMEN.—The Irish ladies have always been celebrated for their beauty. They are taller than those of England. I thought, when in Brighton a short time ago, that a greater amount of beauty, considering the number present, could not be anywhere met with, provided the ladies were brought accidentally together, than what I witnessed, evening after evening, on the pier and parade of that place. I will not say that among the same number of Irish ladies, brought by chance together, you would see a greater proportion of fine faces. The claims of the ladies in the one country and the other are, in this respect, so nicely balanced, that it would be difficult to say which of the two countries carries off the palm. But this, I am sure, will be admitted by every unprejudiced Englishman who has walked, on a fine afternoon in August, on the promenade at Kingston Harbour, that he never, in any part of England, saw, in an assemblage of women of the same extent, an equal number of fine figures. There is, too, in the carriage and manner of the better order of the Irish ladies generally, a marked superiority to the Eng lish women. There is comparatively little in Ireland of that cold reserve and distant demeanour which strike foreigners as so unfavourable a characteristic of our English women. The Irish ladies have much of the ease. gracefulness, and vivacity of the French, without any of their exceptionable qualities. There is not in the world a more modest race of women than the Irish ; a remark which equally applies to all ranks and classes among them.—lmpressions of Ireland and the Irish. used the expressions attributed to him, nil the de fendant had to do was to say he was only the servant, hnd not accountable for anything presumed to be wrong or objectionable. He could not see what right the defendant had to step forward and asiault the corit,liinant in ~uich a violent manner. The defendant said he certainly struck the com pLinant ; the complainant made some infamous re marks with reference to Mrs. _Parkes. IRELAND. ILLNESS OF CHIEF JUSTICE PENNEFATIIER. DUBLIN, NOV. 9.—T:le Chief Justice has not appeared in the Court of Queen's Bench since the second day of term. Ills Lordship is suff,ring under severe cold and an indumnyltion in the eyes. • Rumours are still afloat of judicial changes, foituded upon the supposition of the retirement of Chief Justice Pennefather.. ORANGE OUTRAGE IN TYRONE. We have seen a letter from Dungannon, giving an ac count of some outrages by iricendiarie.s. The victims are Roman Catholics, who had taken land from which Orangemen had been evicted. Some persons are in cus tody, charged on suspicion. Notices had been posted, that " No Papist would be a llowed to take the lands." Those outrages have occurred in the parish of Killyman, rendered notorious by the former proceeding of the " Killyman Wreckers. " STATE OF TIPPERARY. _ _ Mr. HARDWICK said the complainant had not seen his way clearly in his venture ; the parties had put their own value on the prints, and this had dis appointed the complainant's expectations. The com plainant had used some strong language previous to the blow, and this circumstance would go in mitiga tion of the punishment. The Magistrate then inflicted the fine of forty shillings and costs. Mr. Sergeant Howley, in addressing the quarter ses sions grand jury at Thurles, on Wednerday, thus alluded to the recent murders in this county • I. feel I ought not to pass over, without remark, the crimes—the many heavy and dreadful crimes—which have been lately per petrated within this riding of the county. If they do not carry with themselves a strong persuasion to the well disposed portion of the community, of the necessity, upon their part to awaken from their criminal in ditfireacc—l will not say sympathy with the murderers —and vigorously to co-operate in the detection of the guilty delinquents, I cannot think that any means I might employ could be more effective for that purpose. How many are there who would themselves shrink from the crime of murder, think it no harm to conceal facts which might help to the de tection of offenders if promptly stated to the official authorities ? Such persons may weakly imagine that it. tends to their own security not to mix themselves up with such matters—they are as foolish as criminal in thinking so. No man knows, if daring villians gain confidence from impugnity, how soon the blows may reach himself ; for every transaction of life, no matter how trivial, may lead to such crimes, and has been in this county a sufficient motive to the murderer to strike his victim and carry out his sanguinary proscription. Instances are well known of men who have refused to impart information they were capable of giving, failing in their turn victims to that system of crime which, if they had nut actually promoted, they did not at least aid in checking and putting down. It may, gentlemen, be very desirable, with a view to prevent the continuance of such violent crimes, to endeavour to trace the motives which may be supposed to have produced them—to ascertain what causes may have produced them—to see how far those causes (if proper to be removed) should be set aside, or be so qualified as not to stimulate to violence and blood the passions of the people. I will not say that those who enter upon such discussions may not be actuated by the best intentions, and with a perfect desire, by the modes to which they resort, to dry up or to exhaust the springs of crime ; but I can not help thinking that it is not quite wise, while the act of murder is still recent, to raise up collateral discussions on the general causes of crime, or the par ticular motive that may be supposed to have produced the offence in question. Explanations at such a moment are too likely to be interpreted .as a justification of the dreadful act, and not only to give additional boldness and confidence to the ill-disposed, but tend in some measure to keep back others from aiding in the detection of the criminal, by throwing round him the false colours of re tributive justice. Whilst the pursuit is hot, the only cry should be against the murderer—and it appears to me that clinical lectures on the exercise of rights over the mangled remains of the unhappy victim, are, to say the least of them, ill-timed, and may be very mis chievous." FEDERALISM: LETTER FROM MR. CRAWFORD —LOCAL LEGISLATION FOR IRELAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING POST. Sir,--It seems to me that the time is now arrived when it becomes the imperative duty of those who are of opinion that local legislation is necessary for Ireland, openly to state their opinions and their views, and the means by which that object can be obtained consistently with the safety of imperial connexion : the principal of local legislation, combined with imperial supremacy, is that by which I conceive both these objects can be effected. This question has never been raised before the public mind ; but it is misunderstood by many, and misrepresented by others, while its friends leave it in the hands of its opponents to be tortured and twisted at their will and pleasure, without seeming to have the moral courage to avow their faith, or to defend its truth. I am of opinion that those who hold that Ireland requires the application of this principle are doing deep injustice to their country by shrinking at this period from its advocacy. I conceive they ought to assume an independent position, supporting their views with honest plainness, unfettered by any attempt to acquire doubtful support ; but opening the question to the adherence of all sincere friends of their country, of every party and denomination, who can see in it a mode of ameliorating her condition or securing her rights. Desirous, then, to throw off from myself the stigma of now deserting a cause which I have long ad vocated, I respectfully submit to the friends of Ireland the following observations:— I shall, as a preliminary step, refer to the practical evils which have arisen, and which it may be appre hended will hereafter occur, from the existing state of the connexion between Great Britain and Ireland. I shall class them under the following heads :- 1. Violation and insecurity of civil rights. 2. Imperfect and ignorant legislation regarding our local institutions and financial capabilities. 3. The danger and the probability of an assimlation of taxation. 4. Expenses and difficulties in seeking and obtaining Acts for improvement. 5. Insufficiency of aid from the State for public works in Ireland. 6. Evils of centralisation, and probable increase of them. 7. Inadequacy of the Irish representation in the Im perial Parliament to express the wants and feelings of the people of Ireland. 8. Inadequacy of the Imperial Parliament to do the work required, under the present system of Parliamen tary business. 9. Difference of eircumstance4 between Eng'and and Ireland, rendering assimilation impracticable and inex pedient. 10. Proof of the foregoing, from the present condition of Ireland. 11. Present danger to the connexion of the two countries. t~~oikl"~'K",2~ , '.sf-:1x.4;+.• First—There is no security for civil rights. The union was based on the theory of identification, but that identification was not provided for by the Act of Union —that identification does not exist—that identification cannot exist between countries whose circumstances are in every respect so dissimilar as those of England and Ireland. From this cause separate legislation became necessary; must and ho expect to were b e we treated, tre atedand as ? Ju st every country say, deserves to be treated, who place the power of s e p ara t e w legislation in the hand- of the representatives of another country. By the means of an English majority in the Imperial Parliament the two great measures for the ad vancement of popular liberty—the Parliamentary Re form Act and the Corporation Reform Act—were cur tailed in all their important provisions when framed for Ireland, and the rights of the people of Ireland have been incessantly violated by a succession of ar bitrary and unconstitutional laws, passed on various oc casions since the union by the same power. In proof of this I may call to recollection the numerous Insur rection Acts, and Acts for the partial infliction of mar tial law, the Whig Coercioa Act, and the other Coer cion Acts which afterwards succeeded it, the Arms Acts, and more especially the last Arms Act, which I may designate by way of distinction, the branding Act. Disturbances have frequently occurred in Eng land, but never was she treated by her own representa tives as her representatives treated Ireland. I ask, do not such acts and proceedings as these prove that Ireland has no available representation against the danger of separate legislation by the Imperial Parliament, and con sequently no security for her rights if England has the will to invade them ? In such cases the representation of Ireland in only adequate to give to England a colour able pretext to say—" these are the laws of an Imperial Parliament." Thus Ireland holds her liberties at the will of England, " and to depend on the will of another country is the definition:of slavery—" (Grattan). in your happy state of inactions-slitliin every thought about your country's rights or interests ; but, mark, when the tax-gatherer knocks at your door, let u' hear no murmur of complaint. You will have no right to complain. If you shall suffer evil, you will only suffer the just recompense of your own deserts. Fourth—The enormous expenses and other difficulties in procuring Acts for local iruprosements in the Itwerial Parliament, are such as a poor country like Ireland can not compass—therefore, improvement, and its necessary accompaniment, employment, is virtually stopped by this cause alone. Fifth— The improvements of a poor country, where capital does not abound, would require some support from the revenues of the State. The riches of England enable the Imperial Parliament to refuse this aid to England, and, consequently, it is refused to Ireland, although the circumstances are so totally different. Sixth—l would put it to Irishmen of all sects, can they deny the evils which have arisen to Ireland from the centralization system, as far as it has been carried out, and the increase of evil which will be produced by its completion ? Do they not see the public boards and public offices transferred one by one to the metropolis of England, drawing away to that one great vortex the whole expenditure of the country? That great evil of Ireland, the absenteeism of its landed proprietors, has been immeasurably increased; not only pleasure, but the emoluments and duties of office, draw them away from their country. The public expenditure in every depart ment of the state thus becomes a source of exhaustion to Ireland. But this is not all; the centralizers will exert every poser to put down the demand of Ireland for local institutions by increased consolidation. They know that so long as any one separate institution remains to distinguish Dublin from any provincial town in England, the demand for a local legislature cannot be resisted by argument. Your Lord Lieutenancy will be abolished— the business of your executive will be done by some English-Irish secretary in London—your separate courts of law will be abolished—lreland will cease to have a metropolis. Dubin, without the stimu!ent of official expenditure—without commerce or manufacture—with out the means of support or employment for its popula tion—will sink into that state of wretchedness and de cline which has been the fate of many splendid cities, whose ruins are now the only indications of their former prosperity. Seventh—Conservatives talk of the evils of agitation ; they say that agitation is the bane of Ireland. I ask them what produces agitation ? Discontent. What produces discontent ? The feeling of suffering by the people, and the impression that there is no effective organ to declare their wants or wishes. Can any cne say that the representation of Ireland in the Imperial Parliament is an effective organ for that purpose ? I may here refer to the words of Grattan, so forcibly applicable to this part of the subject :—" What ! when you banish Parlia ment, do you banish the people ? Do you extinguish . the sentiment—do you extinguish the soul ? Do you put out the spirit of liberty when you destroy that organ, constitutional and capaciou-4, through which that spirit may be safely and discreetly conveyed ? What is the excellence of our Constitution ? It provides an organ . . . . through which the humour of society may pass away without preying on the vitals. Parliament is that body where the whole intellect of the country may be collected, and where the spirit of patriotism, of li berty, and of ambition, may all act under the; control of that intellect, and under the check of publicity and observation." I maintain this is what Ireland requires. Can any impartial person say, that the interests of Ire land have been properly attended to by the Imperial Parliament ?—and can it be denied that agitation has produced an attention to those interests which could not have been otherwise obtained ? I desire, then, a legiti mate organ of expression for the declaration of the people's voice—l desire a local Legislature in the two Houses of which full effect will be given to the voice of the people, modified by the moral weight of a resident aristocracy. Eighth—l would ask, can it be asserted that the Im perial Parliament is capable of properly transacting all the immense mass of public and private buSiness which is now imposed upon it, unless some new arrangement of that business be effected ? The establishment of local legislation for Ireland would be one of the most effective means of diminishing the laborious duties of the Impe rial Parliament. Ninth—Assimilation of laws, which is essential to consolidation and real union, can only take place where there is assimilation of circumstances. Are the circum stances of England and Ireland similar ? England, the highest country in the world in commerce and manufac tures—lreland among the lowest ; the former a com mercial country—the latter an agricultural. Can the identical same laws be suitable to two countries where the difference of their condition is so great ? Can the same system and amount of taxation be borne, which must be the unavoidable result of a junction of expendi ture ? 'Will the same laws and institutions answer for a country in the incipient move towards prosperity, w hi c h apply to the matured condition of England's wealth ? It might as well be said the same quality and quantity of food would be fit for the infant and the adult : the food which would be fit for the man would kill the child. Such will be the fate of Ireland if she be not treated with the indulgent care which her feeble advances to wards prosperity require, by giving her every encourage ment which is not inconsistent with the interests of the empire at large, and with that perfect freedom of com mercial intercourses between every part and portion of the United Kingdom which is essential to the peace and prosperity of the whole. Tenth—The truth of the foregoing positions will be proved by a reference to the present condition of this country. Ido not propose to enter into the hackneyed line of argument with regard to the advance in trade and manufacture, or in national rights, which have occurred at different periods, both under the existence of the Irish Parliament and the Imperial Parliament ; no candid man can deny that good and evil measures have emanated from both Parliaments, but good ones only la hen the external power of the public mind has coerced assent. I care not about statistics of commerce and manufactures as indexes of national prosperity, unless it be proved that the condition of the mass of the population corres pond with these indications. Now, what is the condi tion of Ireland after 43 years' existence of the union ? We have the statement of the poor inquiry commis sioar.rs, that in a population or about 8,000,000 of souls, there is an amount of pauperised population to the ex tent of not less than 2,300,000. This statement may be somewhat exaggerated in figures, but it is undoubtedly a true description of the general condition of Ireland : our people are unemployed whilst our extended natural re• sources are undeveloped—our waste lands unimproved, and our richest lands in a state of not so much as half production. We are without manufactures or capital of our own, and nothing but a scanty pittance of the super abundance of English capital has yet crossed the channel which separates us, whilst it is applied with such profuse extravagance within the limits of her own ter ritory. We have agrarian combination among the small occupiers of the soil for the purpose of procuring that justice by their own laws which the laws and insti tutions of the state do not afford them the means of obtaining. We have a general spirit of discontent against British rule, which rule is only at this moment maintained by the power of military Occupation. We have no identification of laws, feelings, rights, or inte• rests--all the great features of condition and social rela tions which can form characters of distinction between any two countries exist with relation to England and Ireland. The sea which intervenes between us, and which must ever check the freedom and speed of com munication attainable on land, still proclaims, as in the days of Grattan, that we are not, and cannot be identified as one country, and every reference to past and present circumstances proves that Ireland must depend mainly upon her own exertions and her own resources for the advancement of her prosperity. Eleventh—l would, in the last place, put this ques tion to the friends of British and Irish connexion. Is that connexion now in a state of security, or in a con dition which can be beneficial to either country ? Is it not a parchment connexion, liable to be torn asunder, whenever it shall be the object of any foreign State, hostile to Britain, to open the rent ? Does it not, hi its present state, render Ireland the weakness, instead of the strength of Britain ? Is it not wasting her own re sources to hold Ireland in this way, instead of adding those derivable from Ireland to her Treasury ? Is it not necessary that some means should be taken to strengthen the ties of friendly union, which alone can become strong when the connexion they bind together is founded on the basis of equal interests, and mutual benefits and con fidence ? Secondly—The laws passed by the Imperial Parlia ment for the regulation of our local institutions are gene rally full of blunders, and betray the grossest ignorance of our requirements. I need not enter here into a parti cular enumeration—l give one as a specimen of all : I shall name the Poor-law Act, and I know well that the strongest friends of the principle of a poor-law will unite in the assertion of the unsuitableness of its provisions to the wants of Ireland. In cases where this law works well, it arises not from the law itself, but from the guardians exercising a judicious administrative authority, which_ bends its austere provisions to the circumstances of the poor. The foregoing short review of the circumstances and condition of Ireland, will, I trust, bo considered sufficient to warrant me in the conclusion (and in calling on others to join me in that conclusion) that some change should be adopted to remedy the evils complained of. What that change should be I shall endeavour to point out in a succeeding section of these observations. Thii:d—The effects of the union, and of imperial le gislation, are manifested no less injuriously with regard to the financial relations of the two countries. The pro portion of debt and contribution to the expenditure im posed by the Act of Union to be paid by Ireland were so excessively beyond her powers, that in a few years she became bankrupt. England then consolidated the exchequers. An act of bankruptcy cannot again occur on the part of Ireland, separately from England ; but, nevertheless, the drain is still going on beyond the means of Ireland to bear. The revenue is drawn, not from the luxuries of wealth, but from the means by which an impoverished people support existence—not to be spent in Ireland, to circulate and stimulate indus try—but to augment the riches of England ; and thus this drain, drawn, I may say, from the blood of Ireland, produces the most injurious effects on the progress of improvement, and increases the poverty of her people. In consequence of the poverty created by these causes, Ireland is at present exempted from certain descriptions of taxation imposed upon England and Scotland, more particularly the assessed taxes and the income-tax ; but is it to be believed, that if we continue on a system of joint expenditure, that exemption will be allowed to ex exist ? Will the English and Scotch Members agree that the establishments of Ireland should be paid out of the imperial funds, and that she should not be sub jected to a like system of taxation with themselves ? Is it just or fair to expect it ? There is nothing but their mercy and the mercy of the Minister to prevent it. What could your puny Irish representation in the Im perial Parliament do to stem the evil ? You now plead at the bar of England in forma p au p er i—y our p l ea is at present admitted; but the moment Ireland `WILLIAM SHARMAN CRAWFORD. Crawfordsburn, Nov. 7, 1844. CITY OF DUBLIN REGISTRY. Yesterday the numbers admitted were—Liberals, 14 ; Tories, 13. The Tories are still unable to recover their lost ground. THE NEW WHIG JUDGE.—The grimaces, the contor tiotis, of the orange polytrashery press, on the subject of the late Whig appointment, are most comical to witness. They tell titi they should riot be surprised if Mr. Pigot were the next judge—nor should we. We promise our readers some amusement on this matter in the course of the ensiling week.—Dub/En Evening Post, DINNER TO MR. O'CONNELL IN KERRY.—A letter from the Liberator arrived in town last night, stating that until after the provincial banquet in Limerick he could not possibly accept the invitation.—Kerry Exami ner of Friday. THE MURDER AT BARNANE.—Yesterday (Friday) morning three men, named Martin Maher, the (elder, Martin Maher, the younger, and William Maher, were fully committed to the gaol, at Nenagh, by John Gore Jones, Rig., MM., and Major Priestly, to take their trials at the next assize, , , for the wilful murder of Ti- ix.othy Cleary, near Barnane.— Tipperary Vindicator. Lord De Mauley, Mr. Wellesley, and Mr. Drummond, are at present enjoying the hospitality of the Earl of Besborough at Besborough House. Mr. Norman Mac donald has left town for Besborough House on a visit to the Earl of Besborough. ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRINCE OF WALES'S BlRTH DAY.—Saturday being the third anniversary of the birthday of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the morning was ushered in by the ringing of a merry pe a l at the different churches throughout the metropolis. The royal standard was hoisted at the Tower, Somerset House, St. Martin's, St. Giles's, St. Margaret's, the Italian opera, and the usual public edifices. The chil dren bel.,nging to the Welch Schools in Gray's Inn-lane had a holiday on the occasion of the natal day of their Prince, and were regaled with a substantial dinner of roast beef and plum-pudding. At Windsor the day was kept by the different tradespeople who furnish the Castle. During the absence of her Majesty and Prince Albert this week the state apartments at the Castle will be open to the public. shows symptoms of rising prosperity, her progress will be crushed by these new inflictions of taxation from which you can only be saved by a new arrangement of the financial relations of the two countries. I ask, are the landed aristocracy, and the impoverished trading interests, prepared to endure the of the assimilation of taxation ? If you are prepared to submit to this infliction, then continue your slumbers—indulge WORSHIP-STREET. Charles James, alias Fitch, alias Thompson, who has been a considerable time in custody, was finally examined before Mr. Broughton, the magistrate, upon several charges of swindling. Different parties of an exceedingly numerous gang of male and female swindlers, who have been for many years in the habit of victimising landlords and tradespeople in all quarters of the metropolis and en virons, have been for several weeks under examina tion here, and in the course of this week no less than seven of them have been committed for trial, on charges of felony and conspiracy, and one of them for forgery. The prisoner now before the magistrate was stated to be the son of one of the others, named William Johnson Thompson, but the charges against him were entirely distinct from the rest, and they have been reported as they occurred. The following is a brief outline : The prisoner, who is a smart little fellow of im • posing address, hired a house at Notting-hill, belong ing to a gentleman named Gyles, resident in Burton crescent, and father-in-law of Mr. Ballantine, the barrister, and he signed a written agreement for three years' occupation, stating himself to be an individual of fortune, keeping a couple of hunters, &c., and de sirous of j ust such a house in the vicinity of London. The house being partly furnished, Mr. Gyles em ployed a van to remove the furniture to his own resi dence in Burton-crescent, but just as they were loading the van the prisoner arrived, and pretending to take a fancy to some of the articles, pro posed to purchase the whole, and they were accordingly left on the premises, the prisoner pro mising that if "his lady," who, he said, was then in the country, did not approve of them, he would send them to the prosecutor, free of expense. Having thus obtained possession of the house and furniture, he drove about in a hired four-wheeled chaise, accom panied by a confederate, who passed as his groom, and levied contributions upon the tradespeople about Kensington and the neighbourhood, the " groom " representing him, " in confidence," to be a young gentleman of good family and large fortune, just re turned from college and commencing housekeeping ; and having obtained large quantities of goods in the course of a few weeks (to the amount, it was said, of 3001.), they shut up the house, and absconded, stripping the house completely of the pro secutor's furniture, and even of some of the fixtures. The prisoner was lately apprehended at lloxton, by Brenan and Cole, of the G division, who found him in a poor lodging at a shell-fish shop, and in his possession an immense number of tradesmen's bills, a number of pawn biokers' duplicates, and no less than four written agreements for houses which he had taken in different parts, where he had played much the same game as above-mentioned. It was stated also that he had been previously convicted. He was now committed for trial upon five different charges. Mr. Vann, a solicitor, applied to the magistrate for an order to the officers to deliver up the duplicates, and other things not identified, but the magistrate de sired him to communicate with Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor for the prosecution, intimating , however, that such things as were not required in connexion with these charges ought to be restored. COLLIERS' CONFERENCE. During the week the colliers have been holding a conference in this town, which, we believe, has been numerously attended by delegates. The following are some of the resolutions which have been passed. Mr. Roberts, the miners' solicitor, was present at the proceedings : " That a Committee of five persons be appointed to elicit all the information possible respecting the real state and position of the miners and colliers generally, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature for an Eight Hours' Bill for mines and collieries. " That this Conference recommend each district to give a premium, for the purpose of procuring the best statistical information on the most vital points con tained in the thirteenth proposition of the programme. " That this meeting approve of the second clause contained in the thirteenth proposition on the pro gramme, viz., the working of coals by weight on the beam and scale principle, but that the size of the tubs be regulated according to the thickness of the mine. " That a petition - be presented to the Legislature, praying for a repeal of the duty on export coal. That a petition be presented to the Legislature praying that an improved system of ventilation be adopted ; also, that the various methods of ventilating mines as laid down by humane and scientific indivi duals, be thoroughly investigated, so that which may be considered best and safest for the protection of the lives of the working miners and colliers, be brought into general operation. " That a petition be presented to the Legislature, praying for the appointment of Government Inspec tors, for machinery, ropes, mines, &c., or with a view of seeing that any law which may be obtained for the safety and welfare of the miners, be fully and effi ciently carried into operation. " That each sub-district or county secretary, furnish the general secretary of the association each month with a balance-sheet of the number of members, good and bad, and with the amount of the moneys paid to the separate funds."— Wakefield Journal. The discovery of a very ingenious fraud has re cently been made at the Custom -house. It is known to our readers, that a duty of is. 6d. per ounce is paid on all silver platestamped at th e G oldsm i ths ' Hall ; and that, should such plate be afte rwar d s entere d f or exporta tion,t the exporters may demand from the Customs a drawback of duty ; in other words, they may claim the repayment of the 15. 6d. an ounce which had been paid to the Goldsmiths' Company, when the plate was stamped with the ball mark. The fraud to which we allude consisted in this : after the articles of plate had been stamped, they were enlarged by the addition of silver which had not been stamped, and which had therefore not paid duty ; yet, when-the articles were sent to the Customs for exportation, drawback of duty was claimed ' on the whole weight—that is to say, upon such por tion of the article as had not paid duty, as well as upon the . portion which had. This fraud was carried on to a great extent in silver knife handles, to which a large ferrule was fraudulently attached after the handles had been stamped; and thus drawback was obtained for the entire weight, although the ferrules had not been in cluded in the weight upon which duty had been pre viously paid at Goldsmiths' Hall ; so that the revenue was defrauded to the extent of Is. 6d. per ounce on such ferrules. Upon being brought to the Searchers' office for examination, Mr. Scanlan, searcher and landing waiter, acting either upon private intelligence or his own observation, detained the plate ; and it has, we hear, since been established, that no doubt exists as to the fraudulent manufacture of the knife handles. They have since been condemned ; but the other portion of the plate has been given up, as it appeared that the ex porters were not parties to the fraud, and had paid to the manufacturer of the knife-handles the full price for them.—Sunday paper. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF MR. SERGEANT AN DR.Ews.—Many painful rumours were rife throughout Friday and Saturday morning at the Courts of West minster Hall, that the above Learned Gentlemen, who was a leader of the Midland Circuit, had made an at tempt at self-destruction, which, on making inquires at his residence at Hampstead-hill, unfortunately proved but too true. From the statement of his medical attendant, Mr. Headland, of Guildford-street, it appeared that the Learned Sergeant had been for some period greatly depressed in spirits, and had passed most of his time in his library. On Thursday it was apparent that the Learned Sergeant seemed un usually depressed, and after breakfast he retired to the library, where, in the course of the morning, Mrs. Andrews had occasion to enter, when she was horror struck at beholding the Learned Gentleman de luged in his blood. Losing her presence of mind the lady gave a dreadful scream, which was heard through out the house, and the servants of the household were quickly in attendance. Mr. Evans, of Hampstead, was immediately sent for, and rendered every assistance which the emergency of the case required. Mr. Head land, the family surgeon, on being promptly . apprised of the melancholy transaction, lost no time in doing all that human aid could suggest or skill accomplish for his ttnhappy patient. At a late hour last night a long eon. saltation took place between the medical gentlemen, wiaen, we regret to state, the Learned Sergeant was not co nsidered out of dadger.— Observer. [ADVERIISEMENT.] A CERTAIN CUR/3 FOR ASTHMA BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Read the following case:—James Holmes, a cotton-spinner, residing at Ancoates, Manchester, had been asthmatical fur these last three years; he was frequently so bad, that when rising from his bed he could scarcely speak or draw his breath, and would cough arid spit for half-an-hour toge ther, and often thought he should be choked; he was much reduced in strength, and after every other means of cure failed he used these wonderful pills, which have removed every symptom of asthma, and he is now as free from it as when he was a child.—Sold (also Holloway's Ointment.) at Professor Holloway's establish ment, 224, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vendors of medicine throughout the civilised world. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, Nov. B.—There is no alteration to notice in our sugar market this week ; the demand still continues limited, but prices are about sup ported ; the sales since our last are under 500 hhds. West India, and 700 mats Mauritius. In rum there is nothing doing.—Bristol Mercury. or~~ipr.-:ss-r- _ -.v.,.. Y „e-~.. _,... „>:.,;;. <:6=-=rf.,a,~~,e+-w~sf iNCE/DIARISM Stiss'EX. BRIGHTON, t'ZITNDA een ten and eleven o'nlac kst night a light was observed in the north, ehich vv,s l . es - id, tidy the reflection from a large fire in the neir i booi hood, and half an ho u r a ft erwar d s n ,- ws arr i ve d tag a barn on Mr. Gorringe's firm at Withdean, two wil e/ and a half fr,nn Brighton, was on fire. On inq,,iry at the farm, this afternoon, we learn tbit the fire was seen by several persons about the same ii., 03e1 when intelligence w as i mme di ate l y conveye d to 0 Gnrringe. The villagers turned out, and Every Wi lli seemed to exert himself to the utmost to quell the flani, e* which in a few minutes had com pl e t e l y enve l ope d if barn, the roof of which immedi a t e ly f e ll i n w i t h a ntis' Owing to the extreme drought o f t h e summer , lit! water could be obtained, and the only thing to be d i °T, was to endeavour to save the co rn i n t h e b arn , a nd prevent the extension of the fire to the adjoining fa,r ls , buildings. The latter object wa s accom pli s h e d , hut t°' former almost entirely failed, not more than about ° waggon load of wheat-sheaves being saved, and the, ° : are so much scorched as to be n ear ly worthless. The fire made rapid progress, and no thi ng i s now l e f t o f barn but the stone walls. The whole of the contents ° the barn are now (six o'clock P.M.) a mass of smoulder ing fire. The farm belongs to the wife of Captain Ogg , son of Sir Charles Ogle, who h a d insured the premi se , / in the Phoenix ; the farming stock of the tenant wassif insured inthe County Fire-office. Th e d amage is tea. mated at 5004 We regret to add that no doubt exists that the 614 was the work of an incendiary. Mr. Gorringe's reaching the barn, discovered the flames throug t a gap in the door, where one of the planks of %hi e , it was composed had b een] wrenched off. A yen man, named Lidbetter, a wheelwright in the village, son of the bailiff of Mr. W. Stanford, in the adjoiaisp village of Preston, was on e o f t h e fi rst to carry the intel. ligence to Mr. Gorrin ge ; an d he stated, that havil gone out of the road to get und er some trees f or s helter from a storm, two men passed him in a direction from the barn to the high road a t th e moment h e discove.. the fire ; and that on se e i ng hi m t h ey t h reatene d DP . " with pistols, if he dared to follow them. It aPPea rh however, that there are no trees capable of affordhl o i shelter at the spot in que s ti on ; arid the strangeness bis story, the improbability of two men who had fired building going from it towards a frequented road, Wh ell s the downs in the opposite direction afforded an tal e certain means of escaping d e t ec ti on , toget h er with t circumstance of his passing several,cottages which stall, next the fire , to give the al arm a t t h ose more dists°: combined to raise a su s pi c i on t o hi s disadvantage. Tie of the East Sussex constabulary arriving during progress of the fire, Mr. Gorringe d'sired Lidbettet repeat his statement to them ; and tai his doing so, th e i took him into custody, and conveyed him' to Brighteth where ne is now locked up, awaiting an examination be fore the magistrates. Mr. Gorringe invited all the ;men who had render assistance at the fire to dine at hi s h ouse to -d a y ; after dinner explained to them, that if any one had fir e the barn out of malice towards him or the owner, be bi l entirely failed in his object, i nasmuc h as t h e whole the property was insured. A BATTLE WITH RATTLESNAKES.—RattIeso I I are proverbially abundant upon all these prairies; as there is seldom to be found either stick or stone which to kill them, one hears almost a constant poPr he of rifles or pistols, a mong th e vanguar d , to clea r t'j route of these disagreeable occupants, lest they sh °ll bite our animals. A s we were to ili ng up throug h , 0 sandy hillocks which border the southern banks • the Arkansas, the day being excessively warm, came upon a perfect den of these reptiles. I P i not say thousands—though this, perhaps, was neat, the truth—but hundreds, at least, where coiled or crap, ing in every di rec ti on . Th ey were no sooner u!,, covered than we w ere u p on t h em w i t h guns an d P t i o tols, determined t o l e t none o f t h em escape. 10_,,aj midst of this amu s i ng scram bl e among the snakes, mustang colt, which had, so me h ow or ot h er become ro( parated from its dam, came bolting among our relei ld loose stock, to add t o th e con f us i on. One of our evidently impressed with the impertinence of the truder, sprang forward and attacked it, with the stif f ' rent intention of executing summary chastisement ; s". O another mule, with more b en i gn i ty o f temper t h a n lt o irascible compeer, engage d most l ust il y i n defenc e a the unfortunate littl e mus t ang . A s t h e contest /1; carried on among the waggons, the teamsters eq t ) became very upro ar i ous , so t h at t h e whole, WI the snake fraca s , ma d e u p a cap i ta l scene of e°"., ir fusion. When th e mu l e s ki rm i s h wou ld have endeu'i, no one had interfered, i s a quest i on w hi c h rema i ne d 5. determined ; for some of our company, in view of consequences that might result from the contest, re P oo inhumanly took sides with the assailing mule ; and $° after they entered the li s t s , a r ifl e b a ll re li eved t h e _ ,4 colt from its earthly embarrassments and the comP l3 # from further domestic disturbance. Peace once m ore r e e i stored, we soon got u n d er we i g h, an d t h at even i ng pit our camp opposite the celebrated " Cache,"—e where some of the earliest adventurers had been c°"; pelted to conceal their merchandise.--Journal o f a Sao Fe Trader. THE CHILDREN OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY: ',J will be seen from w h a t I h ave sa id t h at nothing e°ll, be more extrem e th an th e p overty o f t h e I r i s h pease nt 4 l And yet, notwithstanding all the hardships throe which they h a ve to pa s s on th e ir j ourney t h roug h I never saw a set of finer-looking children than thy, you meet with in th e p oorer di str i cts of the count ry They far surpass, in the comeliness of their little c og% tenances, the children of this country. I saw hundr s e i tY of them who m , f rom t h e regularity of their features the symmetry of their forms, I thought perfect pictul a It is true, that as they advance in years, they lose singular beauty which characterises them in earlylire; but this is solely to be ascribed to their hard destiflr which comp e l s t h em to b e constantly employed in th; hardest outdoor labour without half the requisite s molt of food. It is only surprising that the Irish peasen tr l, can exist at all on th e i r li m i te d supp li es o f f ood, cons ide ing the great amount of l a b our t h ey h ave to go throogb, e j Englishmen would p er i s h i n masses were they com pe s to perform, for one sh or t mon th, t h e same amount o f work, without more than one or two scanty meals a 01 ; and those m e a l s c o ns i st i ng so l e l y of potatoes.— lmpre, sons of Ireland a nd th e I r i s h, b y t h e A ut h or of "Bandy' Recollections." REMOVAL OF BODIES IN THE TOWER.—During: t . 1 1 20 last few days, m uc h i nterest h as b een manifested in r Tower, in consequence o f the exhumation of the boc ho interred in the burial-ground attached to the church : I St. Peter in Vincula, opposite the White Tower, in t h o fortress, the gro un d b e in g requ i re d f or the capaciousivid barracks, which are to be erected on its site, and that ( the grand storehouse. A few days since the Bishop f, London attended and consecrate d a l arge vault to "he westward of the church, which has been made for 141 .0 purpose of rec e i v i ng th e d ea d removed from wo yard. Most of th e b o di es h ave, however, be% taken away by th e relatives, and re-interred different parts of the country, in their several falDtle vaults. The Board of Ordnance has directed t", ground to be compl e t e ly c l eare d b y t h e 14th install" and those r ema i ns w hi c h h ave not b een removed by ti:e relatives up to th a t d a y w ill b e di s i nterred and place d t¢ . the vault. Tho se w h o were l a id i n the ground WV, principally persons who had held civil situations in i t ( fortress. The barracks a re t o b e b u il t somewhat e'lli the style of the W e lli ng t on B arrac k s, i n St. J am es Park, and when co m pl e t e d t h e garr i son w i ll afford an3P!t accommodation for a whole regiment. THE BIRMINGHAM TRADE.--WE are much plea to state that our manufacturers generally are fully ° 11 ; ployed—several of them, to our knowledge, have W I months' orders in hand. We are also gratified to sti that two eminent fi rms h ave, w i thin the last fortn i g ht" voluntarily advanced the wages of their workpeopl°„ one employing upwards of one hundred pair of ha l ' —Birmingham Advertiser. PEMBROKE DOCK.—Mr. Brunel has v i s it e d frobq Point, on the subject of the Milford branch of the Son; Wales Railway. The share-list in Pembrokeshire ~/ steadily progressing. The result of the deliberations , the Committee on f or tifyi ng t h e N ava l A rsenal at Pei, broke has not b een ma d e pu bli c. It i s rumoured, b°;o ever, that an additional battery is to be constructed some of the adjacent heights.—Carnarron Herald. o p PRODIGIOUS POTATOES.—Mr. W ort hi ngton, f a rm' hli kin, has dug up several remarkably large potato es to , varying in wei g ht f rom 4klb s . to s lb s. each.— P r es- Guardian. BIRTHS. On the 4th inst., at Roehampton, the lady of D. B. chsr man, Esq., of a daughter. On the 6th in s t., a t W a lth ara - cross, H erts, the la d y 0- f Jearrad, Esq., of a son. rd On the 7th inst., at Salters'-hall, St. Swithin's-lane, Edward Thompson, of a daughter. On the 7tk inst., at Hanover-terrace, Peckham, the D id/ of A. Johnson, Esql of a daughter. TO , On the 7th inet., at Th orn t on W a tl ass, t h e w i fe o f the -- Reginald Courtenay, of a son. lids On the Bth inst., in D orse t- pl ace, D orset-square, the -- il of J. T. Blunt, Esq., of a son, still-born. MARRIED. On the 30th ult., William Daniell, Esq., surgeon, NeYg; to Emma, youngest daughter o f T. L. Tiffi n, E sq., or 9 cottage, Great Cornard, Suffolk. tO On the 7th inst., at Bow Ch urc h, H enry Walker, Estik'd Harriet Susan, only daughter of John Burnet, Esq., of mont House, Kensington „„ On the 7th inst., at St. M ar y Abb o tt' s, Kensington, o".b. Jenner, of Reading, to Elizabeth Lewis, the youngest &of; ter of the late William Fynmore, of Craven -street, Strand' e, On the 7th inst., at Cheveley, John Fairlie, Esq., of C h _ n o ► ley-Park, to Mary, eldest daughter of William Parr Isaac . '" Esq., of Newmarket. , Ire st On the 7th inst., at the Independent Meeting-house Yarmouth, the Rev. George Moir, Minister of the Free Cht l '" sb e lleit at New Maeh ar , t o Ell en , d aug h ter o f the late John Esq., of Great Yarmouth. On the 7th inst., at St. Peter's, Dublin Jolliffe Esq., 3d D ragoon G uar d s , to H enr i etta, re l ict o f t h e lara '— Fannin, Esq., of Dublin. F r ederic': On the 7th inst., at Hi g h wor th, Wil ts , G eorge Crowdy, Esq., of Faringdon, Berks, to Maria Kate, P un° daughter of James Crowdy, Esq., of the former place. DIED. T iidBo On the 31st ult., in Brunswick square, B r ighton, . 4 Blackledge Brackenbury, Esq., of Manchester. On the 3d inst., at Hackney, Mr. H. Parry, aged 64. v. On the sth inst., Elizabeth, second daughter of the B e J. Greenwood, D.D., Rector of Colne Engaine, Essex. On the 7th inst., at St rou d- green , H ornse y, Middlesex , " Pattinson, Esq. On the 7th inst., John Clarke,Esq., surgeon, of Dean- Southwark, aged 43. Blo l3 ' On the 7th inst., Anne, the wife of John Ilderton Esq., aged 70. On the 7th inst., at Bedford, John H. Gow, Esq. J. In York street, Portman- square, James, the son of Mr. Banks, aged 33. street, - . 0 London: Printed and Published by MURDO 1.0131111 Q No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sax Office, - 0 °•,., Strand, in the Precioet of the Savoy, iti the Cowlig Middlesex, Monday, Noveng or 11, 1844. S avPid ONE salt 1( 4 mut of tb to; Pae and her eXp the sin e IDer Prig ate Teti hot hrh o Pol ?01 CA ati, or , 't con, 11 Of ti 11 01 s6e., M e t, J. ttlaj i bt at a 3 tiara,