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liirittrZt 72bttton THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bask Stock 3 per Cent. Red I Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. ...... ...... 1 ., •7:i Ditto Old Annu:Les ... - 336 per Cent. Red IO2N Ditto New Annuities ... New 3% per Cent. Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1%d... 73 put. New 5 per Cent.... Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7l pm. Jan 1860 Bank Stock for Acct.... 203% Oct. 1859 'Consols for Act.......... 99% s Jan. 1860 l2 5-16 !India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ...... ... 114:,4 Portuguese, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent ....... ..... Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent , Russian, 5 per Cent............ Aillian, i; per Cent Colombian, 6 per Cent 2.)itto, 1824.... Ditto, 3 per Cent ....... ........ 34 94 Cub:. Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto, Deferred l39i Danish,:3 per Cent Greek, 18,5, 5 per Cent — Exchange .......... ........ —f. Mexican, 5 per Cent .. .... 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Diito, Preference or kriv ilege, .ZlB 17s 2d paid '24 London and South Western (411. 6s. 106. paid) Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) 1631 London and York, 2% paid 5)4 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto, Half Shares, 30 paid Midland Counties (100 paid) lOO% Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid 47 Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) Ditto New shares, 5 paid York and North Midland (50 paid) — Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) York and Scarborough Branch (2% paid) Rouen and Havre, 10 paid la% SPIRIT of tho PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE.—Burke said he did not know how to draw an indictment against a whole people. Sir Robert Peel, or his Irish purveyor's of judge-made law, thought they did know how to do this. Ac cordingly, they stuffed out a monster indictment, by way of being commensurate with its object. They seem to have thought that, if it were but big enough, it could not fail to overlay the whole bulk of Irish discontent. They made a mistake ; a single bullet, well aimed, may prostrate the king of beasts ; but the most capacious net that can be thrown round him may be gnawed in pieces by well-filed teeth. Plain coercion might have obtained over O'Connell the only sort of victory that can well be obtained over a man who is the organ of multitudinous aspirations and antipathies. But lawyer craft, when it knots its meshes with such exceeding complexity and subtlety, lays itself open, at every part of its texture of technicalities, to the operation of pre cisely the same faculty in undoing the whole of its work. The party exasperated by the LOrds' recent reversal of judgment make a mighty point of assert ing that reversal to have turned on mere technical points. Why, what did the judgment turn upon ? . If it was lawful to lavish technical constructions, for the purpose of accumulating a series of acts not singly criminal into crime, surely the same skill may equally be employed in unravelling the process. Nothing, in deed, can render legal refinements endurable, but their imeartial application. If the whole penetrating in genuity of the legal profession were devoted to rearing the fabric of constructive crimes at the bidding of a Government, and if no independent minds of legal training were exerted in the opposite di: estion, the Cusack Smith race would be even more useless tools of power than in this case they have proved. Men might not be able to unravel the web of legal sophistry, but they would burst through it. It is only the con fidence. that the rules of fence are available for both sides, that makes them respected on either. There is something absolutely ludicrous in the clamour °foyer refinement against the law Lords considering all the refinements relied on to eke out the case on trial. It is a maxim with architects to make the principal parts of their structure stronger than strong enough. It is a practice also of Parliamentary logicians to rely on a dozen bad arguments, rather than trust to a single good one. The conductors of the case against O'Con nell seem to have proceeded upon some such analogy. They.wanted to swell the slippery frog of repeal meet ings to the stalled ox of conspiracy. They caught the subject of their experiment, and inflated it at their leisure. We see the result ; instead of keeping their ox impounded, they have burst even their frog. The party in power received Ireland with nothing more than her chronic complaints. They were greeted, in the autumn of 1841, with the same Repeal cry, with which they had been greeted in the autumn of 1830. There was nothing new in the case; arid they had full time to study its symptoms. Indeed their first demonstrations appeared aimed at eclipsing the Whigs in laisse: Aire magnanimity. Sir Robert Peel has since made a merit of having begun by reducing the amount of force which the late Government had stationed in Ireland. Like Lord Ellenborough in India, though not with the open-mouthed absurdity of that delegate of his, he meant to demonstrate his peculiar mission for paci fying all that his predecessors had studiously been charged with disturbing. And like Lord Ellenbo rough's, his peace-making mission has ended its courses considerably different. The country has had to pay for setting Sir Robert Peel up in a new character. Ile was resolved to have matter to twit the Whigs with, in the administration of Ireland as of other things. If they had kept so many troops in Ireland, he was re solved to keep so many less; and ended as might have been expected, in bristling at all paints with horse, foot, and artillery. If they had once on a time pasaed Coercion Acts, he was resolved to " ask no ex traordinary power, though at a period of admitted danger, appealing to the law alone for a remedy to the evils with which we had to contend." Appeals to the law ngsinst individuals can only he success ful in a country where these individuals are in a minority in their sentiments and their conduct. To convict some half-duzei, men of conspiracy, for &s -plays dangerous by their immense publicity, was a - sort of practical Irish bull, however the lawyers might cook up the case. It the repeated and avowedly systematic array of numbers was dangerous, then Sir R. Peel was a fellow conspirator with O'Connell in bringing that danger to a head. Sir Robert had his new character to support, as a Liberal Minister; • O'Connell his old one, as a Catholic and popular agitator. It was necessary to each to " play out the play." Then why was only one brought to answer for it? Sir Robert Peel had the public force at command at first, as lie had at last. Why did he not stop the first meeting ? Or the next ?—Or the :next ? Or, if it was only the last one or two that threatened the public peace (and it appears to us ne cessary to Sir Robert Peel's exculpation to assume that this was so), why then the elaborate accumulation of charges deduced from the whole series ? All was equally public throughout. Either the procedure de served the reversal it has received—as swelled out with overcharges—or else Sir R,44,ert Peel conspired with Ir. O'Connell, and abetted the progress of a ov,n ptnposes—as Mr. O'Con nell STANDARD.--But for the dearth of other topics of interest, we should feel some reluctance to prolong • a discussion like tla:t which the result of the monstre proces has forced upon us ; but the impudent asser tion of the arch-conspirator and his friends, that the decision of the three law Lords in his favour was " not folifided on technicalities" (we quote the lan guage of Mr. O'Connell's late speech), for that his "success had been achieved upon the merits," leaves us no alternative. The Morning- Chronicle repeats this audacious falsehood, but with some slight modification ; averring that the verdict which the jury originally proposed to return " con tained no finding upon any valid imputation in respect to the multitudinous meetings, although it was in reference to those meetings that the whole p ro secution was or i g i na lly i ns tit u t e d, an d th e w h o l e punishment ultimately inflicted." There is some thing n ove l , at least, t in an argument on the hypo thesis of a verdict which the jury might have found, a verdicte whichno British court of judicature could have received, which overlooks the verdict which really w'a ' s returned, and on which all the our subsequent Contemporary have been founded. But no doubt, remembered the a d age, a r t a3 :' gwuitmheiait, neces sity has DO law We m j oi n gnt issue r !" with him even on this hypothetical at._ were worth while to occupy our space ifit repub lication of a part of the proceedings which is in everybody's hands; but we deny the statement o f our Contemporary most emphatically. The original finding of the jury, although technically invalid, con victed the traversers of the substantial charges which were brought against them ; enough and more than sufficient to have warranted an even severer sentence than that which was inflicted upon them. But to turn from the Oro/tick's hypothetical ver dict to that which was really recorded. It insists that the sth, Bth, 9th, 10th, and 11th counts of the indictment, which embody every part of the charge, amount to the imputation of nothing that ought to be considered criminal; quotes the opinions of the Irish judges, that the " exhibition of great physical force; for the purpose of overawing the Government, at the monster meetings," was the gravest of the charges the jury had to try; and ee e :Koceeds to assume that the entire penalty inflicted on a e ; '. - SU. O'Connell,was imposed upon him on the suppo- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER l6, 1844. sition of an offence "of which there was no legal or valid allegation in the record." We are reminded that thetlst, 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th, and 7th counts are gone ; and we are assured that the remaining five impute no charge of which there was a " legal or valid allega • tion." Now the simplest answer to this most impu dent assertion will be found in an extract from the speech of Sir Thomas Wilde, the leading counsel of Mr. O'Connell, setting forth his notion of the meaning of these very innocent counts. It will be seen that Sir ThOmas Wilde's ideas of the meaning and importance of the counts on which the verdict was found, differs essentially from that of our Contemporary ; and that they contained many grave charges beside those which the Chronicle affirms were not legally alleged llaving shown, on the authority of Mr. O'Connell's leading counsel, what the counts on which his client was found guilty do contain, and the degree of cri minality with which they distinctly charge Mr. O'Connell, we shall not attempt to follow the Chronicle through its elaborate exposition of what they do not contain ; neither shall we resume to-day a task in which the admir able article we have elsewhere extracted from a morning Contemporary, has altogether fore stalled us. Suffice it for us to have shown that the five counts pronounced to be good include all the criminal charges in the indictment ; and that a judgment upon any one of them would have been valid. To the complaint that we have treated the judgment of the three Whig law Lords with less respect than we ought to have done, we reply, that that judgment is common property, and that a question on which nearly the whole of the judges of the United Kingdom, including two law Lords, are at issue with the Whig triumvirate, forms an exception which would warrant the disregard of all rules of ordinary etiquette. Mr. O'Connell and the Morning Chronicle assail, in the most indecent manner, eleven of those learned and exemplary judges, whose qualificrtions for their office the people of England have hitherto regarded, and still regard, with the utmost veneration and respect ; and it is something too much to attempt to debar the public press from criticising the decision of the three Whig law Lords by whom the opinions of that very large majority have been superciliously set aside. But, even when a leading member of this close court of appeal differs not only from eleven out of thirteen of the judges of the inferior courts, but from four out of five of the law Lords themselves, we ought, ac cording to the Chronicle's notions of propriety, to refrain from the expressions of our belief that he is not the sole depository of the learning, talent, and honesty of the English judicial bench ; in short, whilst our Contemporary does not scruple to insult the overwhelming majority of the judges who have been consulted in this case, we are bound to refrain from any opinion at variance with those of the intrepid three who have thus boldly asserted the supremacy of their judgment. A decision from three political judges, two of whom at least had little beyond the vigour of their sup - port of a Whig administration to recommend them to the important offices they have respectively filled (one of them conferred after the Government of which the recipient was a partisan had been condemned beyond reprieve, with the corrupt view of giving him a retiring salary), is forsooth to he treated with the utmost tenderness and forbearance ; whilst the "vile judges," as O'Connell has had the audacity to designate those eminent men who decided against him, and who adminster nineteen-twentieths of the laws of England at the present moment, are exposed to the most groundless and virulent abuse. If such be etiquette, it is a sort of etiquette " more honoured in the breach than the observance." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 13. (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.) C. J. BANNISTERS' BANKRUPTCY. The bankrupt in this case was a draper, carrying on business at Derby. He has failed for about 4,0001., and his assets are said to be under 2,000/. He was originally connected in business with his brother, Robert Bannister, of Portsea, who, it will be recollected, decamped with between 2,0001. and 3,0001., but was captured at Aladeria. The fiat against C. J. Bannister was, in the first instance, issued in Birmingham, but removed to London, in order to work the two bankruptcies together, and thus thoroughly investigate the state of their affairs. The sitting to-day was for the choice of assignees, and the only proof upon which any discussion arose was one tendered by the trustees of the wives of the bankrupts, they having married two sisters, fur 1,1201., cash advanced to enable them to commence trade. Mr. M. Chambers supported the trustees, Mr, Young appeared fur the bankrupt, and Mr. Reed, as solicitor fur several creditors, opposed the proof. An examination of witnesses was entered into, to show the bona fides of the proof; at the conclusion of which, Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN said he was satisfied that the money was advanced, and therefore he should admit the debt. The only question was whether it was necessary, under the terms of the settlement, for the bankrupt to join in the proof. As, however, the wives had joined with the trustees, he did not think it requisite for the bankrupt to do so. Mr. REED then stated that the number of creditors for whom he appeared carried the choice of assignees in favour of Mr. G. Hitchcock, of St. Paul's-church yard, and Mr. D. Ainsworth, of Manchester, both warehousemen ; and added that they would require the bankrupt to give a minute and detailed statement of his affairs in his balance-sheet. Mr. Reed parti cularly referred to the deficiency which appeared in the bankrupt's stock and bank account between Ja nuary last and August, the latter the date of his failure. The bankrupt said his books would explain all, and give, he was sure, satisfactory information of the state of his accounts. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN urged the bankrupt to be assiduous and attentive to his estate, and distin guish his conduct from that of his brother, which had been exceedingly faulty. The bankrupt promised attention to the request of the Court, and the proceedings were adjourned till the 28th of September, when the two brothers will come up for their last examination.; INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept. 14 IN THE MATTER OF RENTON NICHOLSON. A petition from the above-named insolvent, who lately kept the Garrick's Head, in Bow-street, Covent-garden, was filed in the office of the Court as a preliminary proceeding to his appearance for hearing. It appears from the petition and the documents an nexed, that the insolvent, who describes himself as late of Exeter Hotel, Strand, out of business, was arrested on Friday and taken to the Queen's prison. He exdeditiously procured the necessary papers, and was enabled within twenty-four hours of his confine ment to petition the Court. By the description it seems that the insolvent had kept the Garrick's Head, which place he rented of Mr. Simpson, of the Albion Tavern, who had distrained furniture to 901. and books to 101., which were on the premises, for arrears of rent amounting to 250/. stated that on the 10th of August he received a clock between three and four o'clock in the after noon, but it was not pledged by the prisoner.—(The clock was here produced and identified.) Robert Vinson, of East-street, Kennington, said that on Friday fortnight he received the clock from a person of the name of Gould. The defendant was not present. Witness did not know that Gold was in partnership with the defendant. He had known Gould twelve months. Mr. 'Woolf stated that the two names of Gould and Goulding were used according to the necessity of the case, and that creditors never could find either, for the moment one was asked for the other appeared, and vice versa. John Appleton, of 119, Leadenhall-street, publi can, stated, that he had purchased the duplicate of the clock of Winson, for 1/. 10s., and he had taken it out of pawn for 1/. Mrs. Ann Harris was then called by the prisoner, who said that she was the lady from whom he had got the order for the clock, and she was examined at great length, by the Lord Mayor, who elicited from her the fact that the prisoner was her brother in-la w. She repeatedly contradicted herself and at length refused to answer any more questions. Mr. O'Brien cross-examined the prosecutor in a very ingenious manner, and proved that the poor man had, in his anxiety to get his property, or part of the value of it, so acted as to convert what was a dead robbery into an apparent debt.. The Lord Mayor and Alderman Wood very scrupiously examined the evidence, in the hope of being able to establish a case against the defendant. His LORDSHIP—I regret very much that we are obliged to discharge this prisoner; we cannot help it. You have been plundered, but you have, by the course you have pursued, been completely out•generalled by the defendant. We are sorry for you, and we hope the press will do justice to the defendant, who has acted in the most infamous manner. Here several persons came forward, and stated that the defendant had obtained goods fraudulently from them. The prisoner —Nonsense; the money has been lying at my house for you all these three or four days. There were several fellows, no doubt of the de fendant's stamp, in the Court, who was evidently de lighted at the decision of the magistrates. The de fendant put on his hat and strutted out of the bar. LAMBETH-STREET. William Kitigaby, a messenger at the Sailors' Home, Well-street, Wellclose-square, was charged before the lion. G. C. Norton, with embezzling va rious sums, amounting in the aggregate to upwards of 801., the moneys . of Captain Elliott and other Direc tors belonging to that Institution. From the evidence it appeared that the captains and owners of vessels are in the habit, on their arrival in the port of London, of sending their apprentices to the Sailors' Home, paying for them a certain sum weekly. Bills had been given from time to time to the prisoner to collect the amount due for these ap prentices, and, though he had received the money for them, he had never made a return of it. After a brief examination, the prisoner was re manded to a future day. Jahn Mitchell, a ruffianly-looking fellow, was charged with committing a murderous assault upon Mary Anne Murray, an unfortunate female with whom he cohabited. It appeared from the evidence of the complainant, whose life had been for some time in considerable danger, that on Wednesday week he, withont the, slightest cau se , a tt ac ked the unfortunate woma n , struck her with his clenched fist, kicked her all over the body, aril jumped upon her in the most savage manner, until he reduced her toa state of insensibility, and the very point of death. Mr. Brown, a surgeon, in East Smithfield, described the nature of the injuries inflicted. Mr. NORTON remarked that during the whole of his magisterial experience he did not recollect a more dastardly or savage case being brought before him, and committed the prisoner to .Newgate, to take his trial on the charge of wounding. CLERKEIVWELL. . _ A few days ago -- ;i woman named Stephens was charged at this Court with presenting a begging letter to Inspector Barton, of the G division, who took her and her two children under his care, with a view to ben e fit th em incase the distress which she pretended to be labouring under was founded in fact. On the following day she and her children were in troduced to Mr. Combe, and her tale exciting much sympathy, she was given over to the charge of the parish officers of Islington, that a full investigation into all the circumstances detailed in her begging letter might be made. The case, as one of distress, was duly inserted in the i morning papers, and fairly represented, and as is usual in such matters, the eyes of many benevolent individuals were drawn thereto, and subscriptions to be applied to her use have been sent anonymously to Mr. Combo. One sum of 51., from D. N., is requested to be acknowledged as received in the newspapers; but the humane donor will, on application to the above worthy Magistrate, receive that sum back again, or cause it to .be appropriated to a better purpose, it having been ascertained beyond doubt that the woman is utterly undeserving of protection--that she was drunk when her husband died, and that she has been a disgrace and outcast of society, deceiving every one that would befriend her ever since. Mr. ComuE, in a feeling address to the defendant, said that he would not, if he could avoid it, have and thing more to do with her, and left her with Mr. Hicks, the relieving overseer of Islington, to be passed to her own parish, believed to be White Chapel. On Saturday Mr. John Nicholls, a gas-fitter, re siding at 14, Leather-lane, was charged on an infor mation with having defrauded the City of London Gaslight and Coke Company. The information was founded on the 57th of George 111., c. 23, sec. 17. The penalty was laid at 201, and 1/. for every day during which it should be proved the fraud existed. The Court was crowded with professional and other gentlemen, and much interest was manifested in the proceedings. Mr. Hawes, father of the Hon. Mem ber for Lambeth, was on the bench. Mr. Clarkson was for the prosecution, and Mr. Charnock appeared as counsel for the defence. Mr. Clarkson said lie had been informed that a sys tem had been resorted to of late, in order to defraud gas companies, which was so ingenious in its nature, and so difficult of detection, that if not at once put a stop to, they would be ruined in a very short time. There were two modes of supplying gas, one by con tract and the other by meter. Public-houses were generally supplied by the latter. Now, it was mani fest that if by any means the gas could be turned from passing through the meter, the Company had no means whatever of knowing how much had been consumed. The gas-meter was then placed on the table and its construction explained, which was necessary to under stand the alleged offence. Two tubes communicated with it, the one conducting the gas from the main pipe into it, whence by mac hi nery t h e num b er o f cubical feet of gas was told on the index outside. The other tube conveyed the gas away from the meter and ramified it into minor ones, distributing . the gas all over the establishment. In fact, it was in some re spects like the human heart, supposing the first-men tioned tube to be the pulmonary artery, and the latter the aorta. The fraud was alleged to have been com mitted between n h y themcutting n short e away r portions of both tubes so as t tube both, lying on the top of th e me t er . The tube is which communicated with called a "Jerry. , The first witness called was Mr. E. Newbold. He deposed that, in April last, h e k e pt the Coach and Horses beershop in Cross-street,. Hatton-garden, and subsequently the Grapes, in Smithfield. On Saturday, the 23d of March, a few days before he became land lord of the Coach and Horses, the defendant was intro duced to him, by a man named Sullivan, as a gas-fitter. The defendant came on the 28th, but the meter and pipes had been then erected, and the inspector of the gas-works had been there. Defendant went down to the cellar where the meter was, and returning after some time told witn ess i t wou ld b e a ll r i g ht, and that the pipes and meter wanted to have a little job done to them, which he w ou ld d o " b ut i t mus t be taken into ac count." The defendant came a few days after, and having been in the cellar for some time, came back, saying he would complete the little job with the pipes. Witness went out, and on coming home in the even ing saw in the cellar Hammond, the prisoner's ap prentice. Th e next day Nicholls came again , ob tained a can dl e, went down to t h e ce ll ar , and wh en he came up told witness ho h a d now d one the little job, and that it was all right. The day after he came again, and asked witness how the gas burned ? Wit ness answered very we ll. H e th e n asked if he had looked at th e meter. Witness sa id h e k ne w no more about th e meter than the meter did a b ou t him. He said "Ju s t go and look at it." Witness did go and look at it, an d saw the jerry. O n re t urn i ng , wit ness said, " Wh a t the d-1 is that you have got there , the gas does not go into the meter at all ?" Nicholls said " Never mind, it is all right." Witness said he wanted an e xp l anat i on, b u t h e left and gave none. When prison er went away w i tness t oo k off the jerry and made th e Pipes communicate with the meter as before. He hid th e j err y fi r st in his drawer and then in the cellar. A t the latter en d o f M ay or the begin ningM of Jun e h e gave the jerry up t o r. Butler, su perintendent o f t h e gas company . The def e nd an t had repeatedl y as k ed him for i t, saying he wanted to make one of the same pattern, but witness refused to give it up. At one time Nicholls said to him that gas companies would be very well satisfied if they were paid for half of the not tell how many gas that was consumed. 'exami ne d —C public houses he h a d k ept. C ou ld no t sa y, but h e h a d k ept forty-nine. Cross Nicholls sued him in the Sheriff's Court for gas-fitting s , and obtained a verdict for 191. asaiest him. It was a f ter Ni c h o ll s b rou ght the ac ti on wit ness communicated with the gas company. William Hunt, a potman t o the _Twelve Bells ,in Bride-lane, was next examined—Was potman to Newbold. Nicholls came into the bar about that time, and said to Newbold, " Well, governor, how does your meter get on ?" Newbold said, " Take a candle and go and look." Newbold looked at it after, and said, " What the d—l do you call that ? It's not in the meter at all." Nicholls had a pint of porter and went away, and Newbold went into the cellar immediately afterwards with a screwdriver and brought up the jerry in his hand. Heard Nicholls say that he had put 47,000 cubic feet of gas back for one individual. Heard Newbold refuse to give the jerry up to Nicholls when the latter asked for it. Charnock having cross-examined this wit ness, but without in the least degree shaking his tes timony, addressed the bench on behalf of his client. He relied on the suspicious character of Newbold, — on the extreme unlikelihood of a respectable tradesman committing so grave an offence without any prospect of advantage,—on the length of time that had elapsed between the period of the alleged of fence and the prosecution,—on the probability of New bold being entirely actuated by vindictive motives, in consequence of having lost the suit in the Sheriff's Court, and on the supposition that Newbold, who was alone the gainer by the fraud, d:d it himself, or had it do le by some other person. James Hammond, the defendant's apprentice, de posed to having been sent fur by Newbold to do something to his gas-pipes, at the Coach and Horses, and found the pipes had been broken at the meter. Newbold came down, and said, " Have you done that ?" Witness said, " How did you break it ?" Newbold then pulled a " jerry" from his pocket and said, "I broke it screwing this on; what do you think of it ?" Witness asked him where he got it, and he said he found it in the cellar. Witness knew that it had been on before, for it smelt of gas. Wit ness refused to put it on, and said he would send his master. When witness told Mr. Nicholls he said that witness had acted very properly in not putting it on. Mr. Clarkson again addressed the bench. Mr. Comnz said, though he placed no reliance on Newbold's testimony per se, yet, confirmed as it was by Hunt, a perfectly disinterested witness, he felt it his duty to convict, and would fine the defendant in the full penalty of 201. and costs. Mr. Charnock gave notice that he should appeal from the decision. UNI ON•HAL L. Sarah Drew, - the wife of an aged man, the pro• prietor of a circulating library, in Castle-street, Southwark, was brought b e f o r e - Mr. Cottingham for re•examination, charged with administering a quan tity of arsenic to her husband, with intent to destroy him. The principal object, in remanding the prisoner, was for the purpose of giving Policeman 67 L an opportunity of discovering where the arsenic was purchased. The MAGISTRATE now inquired whether the seller of the article was found ?—Mr. James, the solicitor for g the prosecution, replied in the neative, and sid that his client still exhibited great unwilling ne ss a to appear against the prisoner, a feeling in which he was joined by his children. Mr. COTTINGHAM said that the charge against the prisoner was of so serious a character that he could not listen to such a suggestion as that just made; that it was- his bounden duty to send the case for inve,ti gation before a higher tribunal, and for that purpose should commit the prisoner. The MAGtsraATE said that in the interval of the trial, should it be ascertained where the arsenic was bought, evidence of the fact might be adduced before the grand jury when the indictment was preferred against her. During the time the prisoner was at the bar she trembled very much, and seemed to be labouring under the palsy. When told that she was to be com mitted she wept bitterly, and was obliged to be sup ported out of the dock. WORSHIP-STREET. George Oberhausen was brought up for final eaa• mination, upon a charge of robbing his employers Messrs. De la Rue and Sons, and committed for trial BRENTFORD. CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—On Saturday a person of respectable appearance, named John 7'olfree, an excise-officer, living ,at No. 6, Mary-street, Palace New-road, Lambeth, and also in Linkfield lane, Isle worth, appeared before Mr. H. Pownall and the Rev. H. S. Trimmer, the sitting Magistrates, to answer a charge of cruelty to his own child, a boy eleven years of age. Mr. Lewis, assistant overseer of Lleworth, attended by desire of the Board of Guardians of the Brentford - Union to support the charge; and Mr. Nicholas, solicitor of New Brentford, appeared for the defendant. John Tolfree, a good-looking, intelligent child, was the first witness called. He deposed that he was a son of the defendant, and was living in the house in Linkfield -lane, Isleworth, where his father had several times chained him up. On the previous Saturday week, as he sat at dinner, about half-past one o'clock, his father came in and immediately took him up stairs, where he went to a box. and pulled some chair m, out, with which he took him to a back room, and having nailed the chains to the floor, fastened them round witness's right leg with a padlock, and left him there. He remained there chained down all that day and all that night. At night his father's housekeeper brought him up a piece of bread and butter, and on the following morning (Sunday) he succeeded in getting loose from the chains, and went down stairs ; but on the house keeper seeing him, she called his father, who took him up stairs again to the back-room, and again chained him by the leg, that time adding, also, chains to both hands. On that day (Sunday) the housekeeper brought him up some breakfast about twelve o'clock, and about one o clock his father unlocked the room door, and unchained one hand, giving him at the same time a piece of dry bread. He remained in that con fined state until the following Thursday, when he again succeeded in freeing himself from the chains, and got out of the room. On the Monday he had no thing but dry bread and water, but on the other two days the housekeeper brought him some meat, and told him that his father had ordered him to have dry bread only. While in the back room he had no bed to lie on, but laid on the floor. On the Thursday, when he got the chains off, he went out into the street, and told Mrs. Russell and other neighbours the treatment he had received. By the BENCH—IIis father had often told him not to call him " father." While confined from the 6a turday to the Thursday had water once to wash with. His father had beaten him very much, but not so much lately. Had not at times as much as he could eat. By Mr. Nicholas —Had done nothing to deserve such punishment. The Bench then examined the boy's legs. The right leg bore evident marks of the effects of the chains, but the worst was the left leg, which was covered with bandages, and on their being removed there was found a wound above the top of the instep of the size of a crown piece, the effects of the chains, which excited indig►nation from all who witnessed it. Four other witnesses, neighbours of the defendant, were then examined, who corroborated the statement of the boy. The defendant, in answer to the charge, acknow ledged having chained the boy up, but, in extenua tion, pleaded that the boy was a liar, thief, and every thing that was bad. Mr. Nicholas proposed to call witnesses on behalf of the defendant to prove his statement; but The BENCH said they could not go into that part of the case, as it was one of too serious a nature for them to decide summarily. They had made up their minds to send the case to trial, and they should re quire the defendant to enter into his own recognizance of 501., with two sureties in 251. each, to appear at the sessions. The defendant immediately found the required sureties. Mr. Lewis was bound over in the sum of 401. to prosecute. RICHMOND PETTY SESSIONS. On Saturday, William New, a shoemaker by trade, was charged before Captain T. Price, Chairman, and a full bench of magistrates, at Richmond, Surrey, with having on the 22d of last month stabbed his wife. The wife of the prisoner, who made every effort to evade appearing against her husband, and who gave her evidence with considerable reluctance, was exa mined at some length. From her statement it ap peared, that on the 22d of last month, while at din ner, her husband and herself had some words, when the former made a lunge at her with the knife he was using with his meal, and stabbed her in the side near the lower rib. On observing her blood flow from the wound, her husband abiconded, and had not after wards returned to his home. During the examination of the wife she endeavoured as much as possible to exonerate the prisoner, declar ing on her oath that she did not believe he intended to injure her, and that the injury was inflicted in the heat of passion, during a quarrel between herself and her husband. The magistrates, however, took a very different view of th e c h arge , an d it b e i ng th e opinion of the medical gentleman who attended the wife, that if the wound had been a little more in front of her person it must have proved fatal, they fully committed the prisoner to take his trial at the Central Criminal Court, on th e ca pit a l c harge of stabbi ng with intent to murder his wife. HERRING FISHERY in SCOTLAND. FISIIERROW, FRIDAY.—Our port for the last fort ' night has presented a scene of unusual bustle and activity. The herring made their appearance off Itizhkeith on the 231 ult. Their whereabouts was made known to our fishing community in rather a singular manner. Two young lads, the sons of a widow, had been left behind on the departure of the others for the fishing ground, in the expectation of being enabled to catch haddocks for their own and their mother's support. All their attempts, however, had failed, and the old woman began to suspect that, the haddocks being entirely gone, some other fish had taken their place. She, acting on this suspicion, ferretted out two or three old nets from their repose in a garret; and sent out the lads again to try their luck. The next morning they returned, to the old woman's surprise and gratification, with five thousand herrings, which they sold at three shillings per hundred. This lucky capture immediately got wind, and the boats came in rapidly from the eastward, and a most steady and most plentiful take has been the consequence. The shoal was close in with the rock, awl very often the nets were shot in two fathoms' water. The sea around presented an oily appearance, and so nu merous were they that the nets were borne down by the weight of the fish as they went over the boat's side. From this plentiful take, their price was much reduced. At Dunbar they were selling at 11s. a cran. One of our most active curers has nearly filled a thousand barrels, and at Cockenzie 500 barrels were cured in one day. They have everywhere met with a ready market, and have afforded to all cla sses a cheap and plentiful supply of food. Other countries will also benefit by their abundance. Several French vessels from the ports of Dunkirk, Boulogne, Dieppe, Fecamp, Caen, and Gravelines, have been during the whole time off the Inch, fishing with their own boats, purchasing from our fishermen, and curing their car goes on board. It is not often at this season thit the herring have come so high up in our Firth. In 1793 a similar shoal made their appearance off Cockenzie, and about seven years ago another equally plentiful, in the hay of Kirkaldy. BERWICK.—The take throughout this week has been the best the fishermen have had during the season. The shoal from which our fishermen ob tained their supply last week, lying to the north of the harbour, at the latter part of it removed fur ther in the bay ; of this circumstance the Eyemouth men were apprised by the crew of a vessel, and proceed ing to the place on Friday last, were amply rewarded. This induced our men to proceed to the same place throughout the week, and with the exception of this morning there have been great quantities of herrings caught. While there are instances of boats having on each morning only one crap, others again have had as many as forty, and in some few cases as many as sixty. Last night the boats proceeded as usual ; a change of weather, however, took place, and the most of them thought proper to return in the course of the night. A thick mist, with an easterly wind, rendering it extremely dangerous to continue at sea, excited considerable anxiety for those re maining out. During the morning there were still three boats out, and as the thickness of the atmosphere prevented them knowing their position or finding out the harbour, guns have been fired by the Skylark cutter brig, in the port ; and the bell at Spittal chapel has been ringing throughout the morning to assist them in finding out their course. The fishing will in all probability close next week ; some boats have two hundred crans for the season, while others have below one hundred. WICK, SEPT. s.—The fishing may be said to be fairly over fur a season. The total catch for the week will not add much more than three-fourths of a cran to the general average for the season, which is about ninety-nine crans, or eight crans lower than that of last year. The highest take any day this week has been 28 crans, and the quality has continued to be of the finest description. Notwithstanding the amount of the general average, we do not remember of a fishing so extremely irregular; for, while many of the boats have exceeded 300 crans a considerable number have not reached 30. All the south boats have left for home—those belonging to the West Highlands and Orkney are rapidly leaving, and the home boats are being drawn up as fast as possible. It is not likely that any further attempts will be made this season. One hundred and twenty-four vessels have been entered at Pultneytown for exportation, and many more will be required ere the total quan tity caught be carrier' off. It may be safely affirmed, that the general take over the whole coast is far below an average one; for, while the fishing at Wick has been good, there has been a considerable falling off at other stations. The consequence has been a brisk demand for fish, in all quarters, at a rise in prices. 17s. 6d has been freely given in Wick for crown brand, and 17s. without any brand, and in several cases these have been refused by the curers, who seem confident of a further rise. FORGERY AT THE BANK. The discovery of a forgery on the Bank of England for 8,0001. has been a matter of general conversation since the event occurred; and as the chief party im plicated is a clerk in the Bank of England, it naturally turns the attention of practical men to the working of a system by which facilities are offered to persons connected with the Bank to effect such extensive frauds. It would be throwing a doubt on the cha racter of a body of the most deserving and assiduous men, the Bank clerks, to suppose that because in one case such a fraud has been perpetrated that others will follow; but nevertheless it is quite necessary that the Directors, in future regulations, should endeavour to do away with the plan of identification by Bank clerks, which, in the present case, has caused all the mischief. The following is understood to be the manner in which Burgess, the Bank clerk, and his accomplice effected the fraud. The former, by his intimate acquaintance with the Bank books, found ;hat a stockholder of many years standing, Mr. Wi Liam Oxenford, of the Long Room, Custom-house, had a large amount of money in Consols, and having obtained leave of absence for a few days, it was during this interval that the forgery was executed. Having obtained this knowledge it seems he obtained a party, his accomplice, to represent the bond fide holder of the stock, and they proceeded to the Bank, and there effected a transfer of 8,2001., Burgess identifying his friend as a holder, and hence lulling suspicion. Directly they obtained the stock, they sold it at the current market price, and changed the notes they received into gold, which in equal divisions of 4,0001. was de • posited in a carpet bag, and taken away in a cab by the accomplice. It was not till the absence of Bur gess continued beyond his appointed time that a doubt entered the mind of his fellow-clerks of the legitimacy of the transaction, but when inquiries were made for him and he could not be found, the matter was in vestigated and the result ascertained. The culprits having had a week's start of the officers, there is every reason for supposing that they embraced the oppor tunity for a Transatlantic trip, and up to the present time no clue has been discovered of their retreat, al though rumours from day to day have been circulated on the subject. So barefaced a fraud was never before committed, and the Slack conspiracy, notwithstanding its organisation was of a more complicated and inge nious character, was nothing to compare to the effrontery with which this forgery was carried out. The Directors of the Bank, it is understood, will in future not allow clerks to identify, but strictly en force comparison of signature, and take the word of the broker, who will be made to suffer the loss in case of forgery or fraud following. It is said Bur gess was originally introduced into the Bank by two of the Directors, who knowing his father to be an honest, industrious man, felt inclined to serve him and his family, and became sureties for the youth to the extent of 1,0001. This amount, of course, they will have to pay. The remainder will be made up from what is termed " the Clerks' Fund," which is specially raised by general subscription yearly, ac cording to the amount of salaries paid, for the liqui dation of such losses. SMUGGLING ON A LARGE SCALE.—Much excite. ment was produced at Hull on Wednesday by a startling discovery. While the Ellen Crawford, Captain Newby, from Hamburgh, lying in the Junction Dock, was de livering shoddy and " devil's-dust," a quantity of tobacco was found in one of the bales of the hold. On further search, two other bales,in the hold and ono upon the quay, which had passed the landing-waiter's scales, were found to be in the same condition. The discovery was made by a tide-waiter named Holmes, who gave information to his superior officer, Tide-surveyor Gleadow, by whom ihe vessel, cargo, and crew were immediately placed under seizure. The quantity of tobacco found was 4 cwt., 3 qrs., e4lb., the whole of which was, we under stand, manufactured, and of the finest quality. So badly had the concealment been made, that the first bale in which any was found actually fell to pieces in the hold. But for that circumstance, it is probable the whole would have escaped, as one bale had already passed the land ing-wai ter.—Hull Packet. PARE AYES.—TWO extraordinarily curious speci mens of freaks of nature amongst the feathered tribe have been—one captured, the other shot—in the fields hard by this town (Louth), during the past week. They are, although of different species, purely white. The first, to use an Iricisin, is a white blackbird ! which was discovered by Mr. Paddison, shoemaker, of this town, who, with assistance, succeeded in running down and capturing it. It is now in Mr. P.'s possession, a young and remarkably beautiful bird. The other, a milk-white. sparrow! which was shot by Mr. Would Elvin, of Leuth Park .buildings, in a field near the mansion of G. Hol land, E , q., at the Park. The shot did not tike fatal effect, and the pretty natural curiosity is now caged and doing well in Mr. Elvin's possession. The two have been much admired by those who have a taste bent towards such curious matters.—Lincolnshire Chronicle. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPT. 13.—Our market continues steady, but not'active ; about 350 hhds. and tierces West-India have been disposed of since our last report, at very full prices—.sss. and 68s. may be consi dered as the extremes of the market. In Bengals and Mauritius the transactions are unimportant. Refined goods have advanced ls. per cwt.—Bristol Mercury. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—It is with feeling of un common pleasure that we are enabled to announce to our readers, upon undoubted authority, that arrangements are in progress for the release of this magnificent vessel from her present untoward situation, and that she may be expected to be floated o u t o f th e h ar b our ei th er in the ensuing month of October or the early part of November It would be premature to state the nature of the arrange ments about to be made, but the above statement may be implicitly relied on.—Bristol Mirror. THE LARGEST STATUE IN EUROPE.—The summit of Danvraggie, in Sutherlandshire, is crowned by the c° lo ssnl monument erected by the Sutherland tenantry to the m emory of the late Duke. A str.tue thirty feet high, aad containing eighty tons of stone, stands on a pedestal seve nty-five feet' in height. The figure, we be sliteaTvtetii,emiinssArseEllent likeness, and forms the largest TN;: ° TIIE Ia CitOPS.—Very little of any thing in the shape of crops now remains to be got in in b this arioy neighbourhoodmay rimain; tianhfeoveusebda,ekbwuatrdthec3rro arepa ' there very oats rr3e a few. no:ri Second crops of grass have been cut here and also the first grass in the East-croft, which is always late. One or two nights . this week have been rather frosty. This change 1s described . in our locality by the frequent exclamation,. "It begins to smell Goose Fairish.' I I —ll °Wuhan? Betwe, SPECIAL HOLIDAY TRAINS. Within the last fortnight the following spf•cial holiday trains have been conveyed along the Midland Railway, and others immediately connected with it : A train of nearly 4,000 children, belonging to Sunday schools of the Established Church, from Sheffield to York and back. Scholars, Is. each; teachers, 2s. each ; there and back. A train of 4,000 children, belonging to the Lan casterian School, foul Sheffield to Hull and back. Children, is. 6d. each; teachers, 3s. each ; there and back. A train of the same number, belonging to the Wesleyan Methodists, from Sheffield to York. Chil dren, ls. each; teachers, 2s. ; there and back. A train of about s,soo—men, women, and children —from Sheffield to Hull and back. Grown people, 3s. 6d. each, there and back. A train of about 2,500, and another of about 1,000, From Sheffield and Rotherham to York. A train of 6,500, men, women, and children, from Leeds to Hull ; the latter trains at proportionately the same low fares. By way of experiment, some months since the Directors of the Chester and Birkenhead directed that double tickets should be issued, so that passen gers might go from Birkenhead to Chester by a train at twenty minutes past ten o'clock each morning, and return in the evening of the same day at half-past eight o'clock ; the fare there and back being only one shilling more than the usual fare one way. Some weeks after the same plan was adopted from Chester to Birkenhead and back, and at the same fares. The results have far exceeded anything that was expected.—Railway Chronicle, LLOYD'S SHIPPING. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.—Vixen, Heppcnstall, from Mauritius, at Cowes, sailed May 12, St. Helena July 6 ; Watkins, Whiteside, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed March 18, St. Helene. July 6 ; Euphrates, Christmas, from Ceylon, in the Downs, sailed May 4, St. Helena July 8 ; Active Reliant, from Bombay, in the Downs, sailed May 11, Mauritius June 10, St. Helena July 23 ; Narwhall, Baker, from New Zealand, in tho Downs, sailed April 12 ; Orpheus, Digby, from Ceylon, in the Downs, sailed April 14, St. Helena July 8 ; James Matheson, Cushing, from China, at Liverpool, sailed April 25, Ascension Aug. 1 ; Susan Crisp, Cocks, from Ichaboe, off Fal mouth, sailed June 28, St. Helena July 21. Arrivals at Sydney.—Augustus, from Adelaide ; Achilles, April 21, from London ; Sultana, 28th, from Otaheite ; United Kingdom, 29th, from Liverpool Elizabeth, from Cork ; Ganges, from London ; Tenas .serim, 30th, from Calcutta. Departures from Sydney—Gannett, April 24, to London ; Arad - me, to Newee,itle, to load, for London. Arrivals at Port Philip—Sea Queen, April 15, from Cork ; Johnstone, from Liverpool ; Arab, 25th, from London. 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The unfortunate vessel was sunk, i n i ng to the north for a week's shooting, meeting a fricnd, the darkness of the night by a steamer, on her passage asked him, " What news from the moors ?" Why, sail from Belfast to Liverpool, and the whole or the crew, kis friezid, I see a work is advertised, called, Algeria, seven in number "in the depths of the ocean buried." past and present, which contains a great deal about " the Four were married, and had families.—Manx i moors," , CITY OF LONDON SESSIONS (Before the REconuEtt, the LORD MAYOR, Mr. Alderman Gums, Mr. Alderman CHALLIS, and Mr. Alderman FARNCOMBE.) . On Saturday, William Bowes, George Jackson, William Robinson, Thomas trench, and Frederick Longhorn, were indicted for having, on the 13th of August last, created a riot in the West London Union, and violently assaulting Mr. William Thompson, the master of the union ; and James Kemble, John Daw son London, John Buckmaster, Thomas Phillips, and Henry Lamplough, the Board of Guardians. The master of the workhouse said that on Tuesday afternoon, the 13th of August, he received instruc tions from the Board of Guardians to have the defen dant Dench confined in the Refractory Ward. Wit ness ordered the door-porter to take him into custody. Defendant refused to go, when the porter took hold of him to remove him by force. He resisted, and wit ne,,s went to the assitance of the porter. As soon es defendant had got to the bottom of the steps, he called out for assistance, when Robinson and Bowes came to his aid, and they called out for other parties to come and assist them. Fearing that the whole of the in mates would help in the rescue, he closed a door leading from the yard into the union, to prevent their coining in. Scarcely had he done so, however, than another of the defendants procured a ladder, and was only prevented from getting over the gate by a chevaux-delrise. The whole of the defendants in their turn pitched into witness, and thrust him forcibly to the ground. Whilst on the ground, one of them called out, "D —n him, kick • him, my boys ! " They created such a noise that all the female inmates rushed to the windows in the greatest state of excitement, and the boys outside hooted, and threw showers of stones over the wall. The RECORDER—For what offence was he ordered to be placed in confinement? Witness—For talking and laughing during Divine service. Other evidence, showing that the defendants be haved in a most shameful and cruel manner was ad duced, when the jury were addressed by the Recorder; and, after a few minutes' consultation, a verdict of Guilty against all the defendants were returned. Sentence—Dench, who acted as ringleader, one month ; and the remainder of the defendants fourteen days each in the house of Correction. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Deputy-Judge WALESBY.) On Saturday a youth, named Burchfield, ten years of age, was indicted for assaulting James Todd, a lad of the same age. It appeared they were playing in a field, when Todd struck Burchfield, who told him if he did so again he would throw a bottle at his head; and, upon his repeating the blow, he did fling a bottle at him, which made the blood flow profusely. The prisoner was found guilty. The JUDGE inquired of the complainant's mother what expense she had been put to ?—She replied she did not know what the surgeon's charges were. Mr. Burchfield, of West Smithfield, came forward and said he was related to the prisener, who was a good boy. The JUDGE—I think, if you give Mrs. Todd 31., it will not cover more than her expenses, as she and the medical man have attended the Court three days. Mr. Burchfield—l really think, your Honour, it will be encouraging parties to bring charges of this kind here. The JUDGE—That is a very improper remark. Be careful you are not guilty of contampt of Court. You see in me the representative of the law, snd I must see that it is respected. Mr. Burchfield apologised, and said he would pay any sum the Court fixed. The JUDGE then severely admonished the prisoner, who is of a very violent temper, and discharged him with a caution,. on paying a fine of 9s. Two pickpockets, named Leivra and Blase, were sentenced to transportation for ten years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A man, named Chares Joseph Goding, who was said to have been a sort of Old Bailey agent, or getter up of defences at the school of morality and polite ness—the Central Criminal Court—was brought be fore the Lord Mayor and Alderman Thomas Wood, charged with felony. Charles J. Maciell, of Milton-street, Cripplegate, cabinet-maker, stated that he knew the defendant, who represented his name to be Joseph Golding, and called at his house, at about half-past eleven o clock, in the forenoon of the Bth of August. Witness had for sale a clock, for which he asked eight guineas. The defendant said he was building a row of houses at Haggerstone, and that he wanted to show this clock to a lady who owned the ground, and that he had no doubt of finding a customer for the article. The price was to be eight guineas. It was the de fendant's own suggestion. Witness took the clock to the defendant's house, in Cullum-street, and the de fendant said he should have either the clock or the money next day, but never since that day had the witness received either one or the other. Within a day or two after he put the clock into the defend ant's hands, he ascertained that it had been pawned in Sun-street. About two days after wit ness parted with the clock, he saw the defendant. The clock was then at Hackney. Eight days after the supposed sale of the article, the defendant called and said that he had not got the money for the clock ; that he had the night before been to Hackney, and that the lady was out of town, but the clock was quite as sate as if he had the money. Three days after that the defendant said he would take a silver watch witness had to the lady, as she had a daughter whom it would suit. Witness said thq price of the watch would be three guineas, and the defendant said he would have an answer for both on the same day. The defendant then told witness to wait for him at a cer tain public-house, and he would take an omnibus and be back in two hours. Four hours elapsed before the defendant came, and then he told the witness that he had not got an answer, but that be should in a day or two. Witness had not received watch, or clock, or money at all, and he had learned that the clock had been sold for half the price he had set on it to a pub lican in Leadenhall-street. The watch had not been traced at all. He did not intend to part with either of the articles without the money. William Underwood, shopman to a pawnbroker, WONDERFUL PRESERVATI o .' A young woman, named Mary Webster, 1 4° 0 1 sides with her widowed mother, near Mr. Sin° f pper works, in the Via Gellia, at Bonsai!, h er d cently had the narrowest escape from 21 11r) : 1 .0 death that w e ever remem b er t o have heard - 00 $ anything like. similar eircu'nstances. The l e i woman, who is 22 years of age, stout, and rath er lV looking, is unf o rtu na t e ly o f somew h a t weak W e i , It appears that shortly pr ev i ous t o Tuesday sc ee ,so was walking with her moth er on a foot-road , from Bonsai! to Ibl e , w h en , a t a p l ace c alled 0) 0 0 Lees, a common cotton handkerchief which 5 11 %0 was blown off by the wind, it being rather re% e f/ the time, and before it could be recovered it down the shaft of a deserted l ea d mine vbleb oi been carelessly left unsecur e d. The loss of the h t i r kerchief seems to have affected her in an el ti leet , nary degree, and on the night of Tuesdal hogi about ten o'clock, she left her' home, and, al t o!' diligent inquiries were made after her, n othinco , ever was ascertained respecting her until the Jotbet, ing Monday morning. On that m o rning her re roi o who was then seeking her, inquired of ° o ssi! named John Massey, who was working 01 ":. 0 0 Lees, if he• knew anythi ng of h e r daugh rru e '' trif' received for answer that he did n ot. _DO/ tracted mother went f o r w a r d on her o° ° Lo d' hopeless search, and being i n th e ne ighboti r ",oo l l the shaft into which the ha n dk erc hief had 5' " 4 0 she went to it, and shout e d d own , when, o f to say, her ears were greeted w ith the yok e wee k s ! lost daughter, who, at the expiration of a, or entombment without sustenan ce o f any i d° peared to recognise the voice of her parent%(lllo overjoyed mother now hastened back to 31 ' 1° 1 'ot miner to whom she had last spok en ) and be h - ro ttli time in obtaining the assistance of some miners, who speedily collected the necessary Oil for rescuing the miserabl e su ff erer from h er aril grave, and everything being adjusted to seolf° l o o o as possible the safety of the object of their. exertions, Massey and another miner, named io l4 Bunting, descended the shaf', which is twentiroolr' deep, and perpendicular, and found her insfneol ing position at the shaft f o ot, sensible, b°" o sof bereft of physical strength, and to use words, "as cold as a eorpse." She had ° l o w' :P in moments of delirium) unclothed hers elf p a waist downwards, and taken off her shoes g i t stocking, and she had actually recovered the l i t ! , kerchief, which was lying by her and in Sv P ' 7 tied up one of her shoes. Having been safely to the rope, she was drawn to the surface, an, her ascent she attempted to hold on, but "-pet' course, too far exhausted to do so effectualino tl haps the strangest circumstance connected ei l .ide strange tale is, that in a few minutes after to rt 5 10 the surface, shei told her mother that before opt!. tempted to descend the shaft in search of tt e .djeo i i/ kerchief, she had taken off her gown, 1 10 1 1 015 in a wall. The gown was found exactly to 'S e , r by her. She was now carefully removed h° 1 101 0 :, on putting her to bed it was found that sbe,,tifei ,ceived no external injury beyond COroP' tor ptil slight lacerations and bruises. Weak re s o af, were sparingly administered, and under th e Mr. Evans, surgeon, of Winster, there is eve if e 5 0; hood of her restoration to perfect health• f ree ).o. 7 r that she believed the shaft was only two or tu. lo t it deep, as she looked into it on the day s h e handkerchief, and thought she am thebot t°/9 . 0 :10 had descended apparently four or five fe et ' n, bre j i l ‘; peg which bore her weight, proving rot te d, per' and she was precipitated, as already descr ibe 0 0 111 ; twenty yards to the bottom, her fall being , f t he in some degree broken by the resistance e ir a ou* ( against her clothes. She complains of r t of ir f fered horribly from thirst, and had ea t en Pg l ses s d under garments, but does not seem to P ° , tirne?j knowledge of her own as to the length ° ',Jolv living entombment, had end ured.—Nottinglol- DUTCH MAIL.m. clack 0 11 1 ; THE HAGUE, SEPT. 11.—The Prince 01 r the Hague yesterday evening at eight e c ihe Amsterdam, from which place we understaa 6 go to pay a visit to the King of Hanover. ,; 0 0in We announced, some days ago, the seve a r6 fern ment inflicted by the police magistrate of u f li o forr 4 at London, on three individuals, for havtarb e s, coupons of the public debt of the Netherlanestto col interest at 5 per cent. We are now abl e " - A ll municate the satisfactory intelligence that 5 01' forged coupons, a s we ll as the copper-Plate ° tot making them, have been delivered, at Londe n ' o g, Meers, agent to the house of Vanden frcfr el3 ' , rerl in the possession of that house. Thus, all the sett that have been circulated, and repeated in ' f oll journals, respecting the supposed forged coupons, are proved 6 be fals . e. cu the 10 4 THE HAGUE, SEPT. 13. We niak e extract from th Java papers, received to -day • „of " BATAVIA, 111Ay 7.—Accounts from Macasssoi of nounce the arrival, on the 2Gth of February, ercili lation o boats, bringing the crew of the B?lgitle 111 , 1 ; 0 0 / brig the Charles, Captain Hoed, which vesseir r e from Singapore to Manilla, raft aground off the Cooty, on the coast of Borneo, in the Maass° and was attacked by pirates." tt [ADVERTISEMENT.] 4 t_ d , ANOTHER WOND E R !—C U RE EXTRAORDiIt: r - A , HOLLWAY'S PILLS.—MFS. Maguire, a F IN:Tee 6 4 ; O °_,,#" son, residing near Sunday's-well, Cork, was gl ie s in a case of dropsy, and was perfectly cured, / 1 00 cle",, n°unced to be at the point of death, by these " corr.; pills. Persons, either young or old, who hoof:00c% lent, pottle-bellied, bloated, or dropsical, ID s avoid apoplexy and other dangerous diseases P f beP o r, thereon, but also regain the highest state o s c o strength, and energy, and their figures becot a l. 0(1 , as light, and as good as in the days of youth. ( , ) s 9 1 ) Holloway's Ointment) at Professor 1: 1011° //taioll blishment, 244, Strand (where a dvice 032 / fe l " gratis), and by almost all respectable Med ici ' s° 6 1 throughout the civilised world. 1 10- 0 1 MURDER OF THE DOVER POLICENA'',/ibe OF WILFUL MURDER.—DOVER, SEPT. 1 4 . -- """ / OP:" on the body of Samuel Couchman, police - O d or e this place, who was savagely murdered on bile oteely ing last at Bridge-street, Charlton, Dover, W n p5 . ., 11 ing to quell a riot that had arisen atnortg,"ostlV broom dashers and poachers. principal ) ° e lf. an old man named James Clark and his ve: - ee g at if t der nated, after four sittings, this morning, b et :if t degs o and one o'clock, 1.31., when a verdict of P' l l l s l l ' was returned against James Clark, the f,at r ,' bee ''„,fs• Clark, Thomas Clark, John Clark, and 0 10,- 1 - 1 .1 # (his sons), William Smith, and other Pers ° "; 0 1d v d odi Frederick Clark and John Wood, who, Into 018 and one of his sons (Stephen) were taken on the morning of the murder, were diseli,„ c p g j old man and his son Stephen were conaga" - t ic r stone gaol, to take their trial at th e Vane ° es; stone assizes, and the witnesses were,., iver e fferr to prosecute. The prisoners in oustoo.ru 0,4,014 off to Maidstone this day. A reward has ', l to I ),'" r e. for the apprehension of Thomas Clark, W i t h-- tat ' s l' John Clark, and William Smith, who are t er r to e ll C° 11 .,,, It is reported that these parties were seen c the Ebet"' senden-wood, near Canterbury, the scene ai ns lea " tenay tragedy, and that they are still cc)se a ' a , ° P lc° The funeral of poor Conchman, the la ce r te 4)lCl) itt eh pense of which was defrayed by the b o rottg. l ',olo,. Ott, on Thursday, and was attended by the ci vic ,ed &c. A subscription has also been conle't otir' d iS benefit of the wife and the two children of ta oc v otre 0 e; man. No similar case of atrocity ) m oving w ed 11 ,tot e : Dover in man's remembrance, it has Pl'u t 'b be en bicP4 laneholy sensation unprecedented. It hat w e lt!' r o ile“ in some of the papers that the broom ban''oe) $5 Thomas Clark (one of the parties still at 11:0 1 1 his victim, and which the witnesses des ec k i 1,0 e have grasped with both hands, and " st rue a — at ci l : lt V like a butcher killing a bullock," was leadeL'itotil.coalf with a piece of iron, but this is not the fact. „ dog e; b eell home-made broom handle, without any a P e a;t o l 0 11 as the surgeou .stated, a tremendous blow rne"re given with it, for the bones of the nOO vv th e broken, but driven into the head. , tr eat 1 :' , 0 0 # The Earl of Winterton's annul" ' the ;4 1 0 labourers engaged on his estate to celebrste a t S b e vest home," took plaa.e on Tuesday las t o' l Park, Sussex. It was a day of pleasure, 0 140 te is f o b l° persons employed by the Noble Earl, bu t t it the families, who were liberally entertained a Earl's expense if ef RIR 'n-ts. th e On the 6th inst., at Strangways. terrace, Trar°' the•Rev.•J. G. Venal)les, of a daughter. bb elideiJe4 On the 7th inst., Mrs. J. Yeomans , At TU dy Of t" near Orpenton, Kent, of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at. Alvelev, Salop , the " r b s ' R. A. W. Considine, of a ( laughter. Ile l/3 On the 12th inst., at St. Augustine's Cottage, pav- Kent, Mrs. D. 11. Macleod, of a d au ghter. la° 0 0 1 . On the 12th inst., in Gordon-place , t he Bromley, Esq., of a daughter. 0 1 ' IP' .JI4RBIED. I On the llth inst., at Cheltenham, the Rev' a to P - D.D., President of Corpus Christi Collere O l for.; I , O P' .„ ‘ , 3 v, 3lary, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Jam gr. Rector of West Kingon Wilts. WOes, Es itttheq.l, to Emma2thinst t a Sophia, opPhiiatc,hfocoumrthb,dGaulgoulictecsrlfsthiroisto' Edward Hogg, of Pitchcomb. wifeo3fie.a3P tieen ;l l : _____--------- e DIED. 1 S. AdjutantOo n n t t h h e e 02 1 f8 3 ti t ht h iee o 7f f t Jh J u u un n ee, e gA , inin a l etenlitDaocAfilisTiiii,,auLtsiiveteltianfariaattry."l titiorfoir good, Adjutant A th f e lju 3 t o an th t ofof theJuno, tn 3 e sth I c .ight InbfaAnttar'.d:. lop, Esq., of the Bank oil a V t est a e i r c n u On the 16th ult., at Madeira,boill'- the ev a ii , velyan, Vicar of Milyerton. Andr e 1 I, i t Calcutta, ill . n R On N the 11th inst., at Haslar Hospital, Captaii,i i l7 ovi of 00 . ~ aged 56. On the 11th inst., at Leamington, Mrs. gook , " e get% IV , Very Rev. James Hook, LL.D., lute Dean of Vr,? r ,l l , ist e On the 12th inst., Mary •Duncombe, widow 0 1 ' i r. Duncombe. Esq ,of Bromsgrove Worcester. . 01° On the 12th dust ., . at Fleetwood, Sampson, infant iir 00 Lucas, Esq., of Temple House, 3lanchester. &st On the 12th inst., at Sydenliam, Fanny, otill, ter of W. Cowburn, Esq. °1 London: Printed and PublLh e d by 141.713Dv So. il ot No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The, Sus Oili e c e 'c o liA Strand, in the Precinct of the Sitvoy. Dlcmday, September 16, 044 b ei 1 St; 1 0 in t /101 4 ek ed el tir d ay 41)1! e a u kept Uhl of Seru m e l of G° 'the 40 4 444 83 4441 the 14,, rehan ite , i tlitte l `~' c B ,„ 44 7 co g~